THE NEWS. Train-wreckers ditched a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at South Willlamsport, Pa. The engine and pine cars were demol- ghed. The crew saved their lives by jump. img. Jeremiah Howard, a tramp, who was once deputy sheriff of Columbia county, was arrested, charged with being a member ol the gang that caused the w reck. The var. tous big gun and manufacturing soncerns effected a combine, Wililam R Bekhardt, of Marion, O., blew his brains put. ——The brig Water Witch wentashore at Sachuset Point, and was a total loss, The pody of Dr. J, H, Lyons, one of the Northern Pacific Coal Company's physicians, was found on the sidewalk within a fow steps of dis residence in Roslyn, Wash,, with his skull srushed in. He had left for home a few minutes before, As far as can be determined, there was to robbery. steamer City of Topeka left Seattle for Al ordnance no attempt srowded with searchers for fortunes in The steamer also could supplies, gold regions North. ried all the freight it sonsisting of miners’ fogs. — Internal revenud officers raided five stills in Virginia, and twelve men, ~—By the explosion of a keg of powder at Bellaire, O., a building was demolished and Jabob Wagener horribly burned. The I. E. and St. Louis tunnel, three hun dred feet in length, near Georgetown, Ind, caught fire and the entire wood was b irnsad accommodate, horses and captured days to clear away traffic the tunnel is Hotel, a Scott, thirty oce “The out. It will take several the debris, and through be entirely abandoned ready for use,——The two-story frame building in Fort burned to the ground and the pants barely escaped with their lives. freight will until Star out action of Governor Bradley in ordering out four hundred state trocpa to guard the Kea- tucky State Capitol aroused bitter com from the Blackburn men. Only one vote was east in the ballot taken for senator. Mayor Jullan presided at an indignation meeting held {an Frankfort to protest against the Gov ernor's -Edwin H. and Daniel W. Taylor, brokers, « ted of the charge action, Gayley { were ac priating Frank Ditworth, the head of the Africs was arrested | of emberz funds Pa backer, of bath-room with a bu Day Saints, at Independence, Clark predicted that Che the earth -A bli Arkansas, Kansas and Nebraska Wiillam A. Shoemaker, who H. H. Holmes subornation of the case, was Oyer and Ter pended from one year, zard raged was © and who was eitary perjury commands named forming ¥. { and Company, ¥ Quinlan y is short in the tempted to lace, in Peoria, 1iL Morris, 111, by a deputy sheriff nit . 18 8ul who murdersd hi Was 8h tenced to the pe being an access W. A. Cook, of growers of Berkeley as Virginia roads Mapes, p to escape arrest | { meant funds, committe W. L. Peaz and his 8t. Joseph, Mo., for co -Miss Alli D Ia., was outraged and abuses ~The church council in! quitted Rev, Dr. Brown of intir Stockton. E shot Fred Beipferiein freight train ran the Pennsyivaunia Railroad ns Two persons were killed and eight io Dany Vanviu hay ¢ arrested smtp bait The interfeitis I he confessed. - by a tramp. 1 Francise wy with Mrs Mioh, _ ac- mil de Faw, at Feesville, 8 Hi ie and his wife into a passenger Captain Wiborg and Mates Peterson and Johansen, of the Danish steamer Horsa, were sent to prison by Judge Butler, Btates District filibustering. adjourned sine die Court, in The Kentucky with | to succeed Senator Black! Bifert. a farmer residing forbade Andrew File to Carrie. Fife met Sifert and beat him with a <i from the effects o Indians belonging to the tribe in Northern Wyoming killed by three white men, who then sole their horses, They were ~The Solar Iron Hons & McDermott, of Wyoming. Works of Willian Clark's Co., in eutions aggregating $685,425, The conven tion of the American Association of Passen- ger and Ticket Ageits opened in Rishmond, ers in metals, Boston, was announced, A Louis and San Francisco Baliroad on a tour of inspection, was wrecked at Hogers, Ark. and a brakeman killed. ——The der of Hibernians in Philadelphia celebrated “Bt. Patrick's Day with a parade, in which several posts of the G. A. R. took part, T0 AMEND THE CONSTITUTION. A Bosolution Providing for the Event of Death of the President-Elect. In the House, Representative Boutelle, of Maine, Introduced a resolution amending the Constitution by making provisions there. in to meet the contingency of the death of the President-elect after the electors have east thelr vote in January sad before his in- suguration on March 4. It provides that in case the person elected as President shall before his inauguration die, decline or becomes unable to discharge the duties of the office, the same shall devolve on the person elected Vice-President, who ir such case shall be inaugurated as Presidzat and hold office accordingly. Increased Postoffice Reoripts. The gross receipts of the thirty largest postoffices in the country last month were $2,722,187, against £2,877,445 for February, 1895 . Five Men Lose Their Lives in a Powder Mill Explosion. THE BUILDINGS WRECKED in Houses for Miles Shattered $30,000, dows Around Loss A terrific explosion occurred at the Laflin. Rand Powder Mill, at Rifton, New York, Rifton is about six miles from Kingston, and the feh was losion, explosion, wh was that Five men diffloulty ould Hae ows: plainly felt in elty. with ation of the missing lst of killed f Elias Peterson, John Jones, Er The Korman Decker and 8 About fifty 1 many « me were "mn if them were hurt, It was a few minutes after 11 alamity occurred, The glazer and dry- house terrible I went up, shattered to atomns with the ree of the explosion Only five men were engaged at work in that depart the 1 the explosion w ment, and those were five who were killed, What cause {li never be known. Almost immediately ing building took fire, and it, to pleces, The terrified of safety, by fying tio he wind ITAL Preparing for Aller a week ver Lhe terri at last pettiad ir forward The new cabins and the finsr than anti 11s is inter may that Italy, friendiess, verge of bankruptoy encumbered by a ttering throne, ia of Germany, backed by Great *v. That the sald that Genoa Em. is semaded in grandson, Furope, itis hoped, w and the possibility be driven further and ground There is a str military men to have the co of General Ler i 7 Ne wwement among cartaln urt-martial trial Jaratiori conductsd In sderet, as which will not tend to strengthen the ease of Italy before the world, but the general pub. authorities will have to bow to the popular will Every fresh report from Africa only tends made public it Is admitted that ove 12,000 The Abyssinians cap- ition and supplies, Disinterested judges still hoid that the real be found in the almost unceasing clamor of cer tain newspapers of Rome and other parts of Italy at the alleged inaction of General seem to have goaded him to push forward when good generalship would have avoided such a step until the plans for the advance were completed, The Italia Militaire asserts that it has good suthority for stating that Emperor Menslik’s proposals of people are honorable nnd ad vantageons to Italy. The Tribune fears that the proposals con teal a snare and assert that Menelik Is sim Pyoniing vo quinn, A duel with sabres has been fought bear Budapest, Hungary, between Baron Josika and Baron Kiebelsburg. The latter was mortally wounded, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOUBE. Branry-secoxn Day, The House devoted the day to the bill to amend the administra. tive tariff act of 1890, and passed it without substantial nmendment, The bill was drawn after extensive hearings apd the advice and assistance of the Treasury Department, the board of general npprafsers, importers and others with practical experience on the sub ject, One of the most lmportant changes makes increased duties and penalties for un- dervaluation commence at the point of un- dervaluation and not at 10 per cent, above the undervaluat as provided by the pres. { ent law, Eronry-Tunp Dav.—Ths House entered {upon the consideration of the resolutions | consuring Mr, Bayard for speeches delivered | by him before the grammar school at Boston, | England, and before the Edinburzh (Brot | band Philosophical Institution last fall, i Mr. Hitt, chairman of the foreign afsire | commiltton, snd Mr. MeCreary, | chairman of the committee in the last ( | gress, opened 1 ( ly for and inst the resolu Draper (republican, of | Massa hose announced his foability to { bring hi vutions of erat, of Ar of Mr, tion, and is iro 8 inter- in ¥ bat the Mohinley OMCs who Was UE uw for the res ensure, dem | 4ansas bayard as 1 { read extra | view alleg | were le Eioury | Bavard reso who mi tion, « senat YVviug utterances, and alerview catl BERD of Mr. WAS bir ’} UTOuRh ded to Bayar: ¢ Bar. COrris 0h } i rett ana A resoiull altereation Ie f the against the res feery rats vole and reno) BENATE Dax RWI it triad Doctor father's empl The United Ramon O. Williams, } band, and ans ag it for 4 ad yes were killed, was | States consul-general, Mr, as taken the matter left y #tone will be burned the fleids of Dolores, The insurgents have in the flelds and splendid buildings of the Lab Rarabas, in neighbor died recently in the vietuity of the Remedios distriet, in which for supplying vegotables to detachmenis of Spanish troops. The eelebrated bandit, Insurgent captain and incendiary Enrique Aleman Hernandes has been captured in a woanded condition »* i “ WANT BIX BATTLESHIPS. Bs Made Humber, There is a probability that the question ¢ the number of new battleships to be author zed by this Congress, which was passed Uy the Naval Committee Wedpesday, may b fought over again In the House when th bill comes up. Several of the enthusiasts fo the new navy are dstermined to appeal fros the decision of the committee to the Hous in their sfforts to socure six battleships in stoad of four, When the vote was taken § Commissioner Cummings and Mr. Hand As Effort Will to lscrease th both gave notice that they reserved th right %o offer amendments “n the House, ROENTGEN X-RAYS. Three American Consuls Report on the Discovery, Four miners were killed and two injured by an explosion of giant powder in the Centre Btar Mine, ut sritish, Columbia Roseland, and J. conductor, was killed {nn a freight wre James Hand, an engineer, Daly ' Kun Bailroad POT TO PRACTICAL USE. Consul Army Surgeons Studying I! Monaghan Tells How an Accl- dent Led Keen-Eyed Professor Roentgen to Success, Three United Btates warded to the State Department at Washiog- on consuls have for. ton reports upon the Roentgen discovery in do ut Beaks of the discovery AE One's photography. Counsul-General Kuy, Berlin, may profoundly eflact surgery and dingnostog 7 betanoces it Ir likely examine i News from tor of war has taken introducing the dis surgical department of the army, that it may be thoroughly stu lied for use in | negatives alread; time of war. A series ol accurate impression of the jes y deters ine and enabled the surgeon U precision the exact location of the sraeatiie. ——————— ds SHOT WIFE AND HER BISTER. Divorce, John Moss, a wealthy brick manufacturer of New Riegell, Ohio, shot and fatally wounded his divorced wife and her sister, Miss Kate Smith, Mrs. Moss secured a di- vores from her husband Inst week, and he went to her house and demanded that she come back and live with him. This she refusad to do, when he shot her three times apd Mise Bmith twice Mose defies the village Marshal to arrest him, RE ——— VIOTORY FOR FARMERS. Bill Authorizing the Beoretary of Agricalters W Distribute Beads, The Senate joint resolution directing the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase and dis- tribute seeds, bulbs ete, as has been done in the preceding years, has become a law with- out the Pr sident's signature, the resolution not having been returned to Congress within the cone itutional ten days’ limit, Secretary Morton refused to carry out the old law and vigorously opposed the passage of the present more mandatory act. Michael O'Brien, Jr,, of Conshobh was killed by being run over by a lo aut the Ridge road crossing over the it-off,"’ At Fayette, O,, Wm, and Archie the Beharg feot from hurch in course of erection Huttle C, Winans, 40 years oid, a boarder Rev, Dr. Horace \ suflo- Orange, N. J... was at the § Hand P completely f #30 000 po {f ths Arsonnge, and wder Works, , Were wrecked inds of git Lo the Units ¥ ye man of al was Known as Mr, Albert ¢ eecded to the peerage granduncie, about eighteen months agos EE INSURGENTS’ GREAT LOSS. Wounded. A bot battle between the forces under Col the insurgents under the pelghborbood of Bandelaria, in Pinar dei Rio been 300 killed and wounded, Of the troops, Captain Torrojs Guersero was killed and Lieutenant (omas wounded, report also gaye that five soldiers were killed and fifty-six wounded. Colonel Buarez Yuclan left Las Mangas Monday. Colonel Hernanden was ordered to march to Candelaria. The made in torrents of rain The insurgents to tge number of 400 were awaiting the ad. vance of thetroops. As they came upin a gallop the insurgents opened fire from be- hind the bushes along the road, The battalion of Tarifa in the vanguard with a section of the cavalry squadron of Vitoria and the artillery became engaged. The columns in the roar coming into action, the whole lipe of troops was Involved. The artillery threw grape shot over the insarg. ents, who advanced machetes in hand, The movement of the insurgents was thus held in chock, but new forces coming to their rid they fell upon the Spanish columns in a Serco attack. This attack also waa checked, give ing the vietory to the Spanish troops and terminating the engagement after two hours’ fighting. A bayonet charge, assisted bya ooncentrated artillery fire, dislodged the In- sutgents, v9 3 fled in great numbers, | | PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. the Blats “Paddy” McGraw, who murdered “Tiny” fn Pittsburg nine years ago, snd after. the Bilonn, ward made a sensational escape from yenrs' sentence for his crime, has at ated in Bavannah, Mo, Buper- ved & letter ug MeGraw's O'Mara recel photograph, It was immediately indentified f McGraw. An officer will go after chief Rio I Pie He was shot by MeGraw early one morning in a “Tiny” Bloan, bis vidtim, wes ‘jerk in the Police Department, and tary of the Republican City Committee, BRAOOT, aged 906, one of oldest ownship, is Joseph Fittery, the Cornwall Wood {f North dead st his home near after & brief {liness, the first perious on { bis life, The deceased had been ¢ blind for a number years, Years gor ¥ - a member of poming~ gin abot in the Ur on April 6 ppear Hanapolis An explosion sacurred in the Cambria lron ' pen hearth furnaces at caused by a lotof slag dropping into Noah Fid< the bead, back Tey and David Beig- he report wae very joud and the jar was fit for a consider- About sixty fet of the roof and the remaining part was The loss is several thou Johns Comg ANY & i gome water on the cinder bed. aren] about and hips, and James La geverely hurt was blown off Iv the sudden explosion of a pipe, two in pile of serup iron at the rolling mills of the Pipes and bars of irom of the explosion. A dozenol the smployees were injured by flying debris, but none seri ously. Itis believed that giant powder was secreted in the pipe by one of the numerous tramps frequenting the vicinity of the mills, and that this caused the explosion. The old anthracite farnaces at Cornwall, erected by the late Rober: W, Coleman, ia 1552, are being razed by the present owner, the Lackawanna Iron & Steel Company, of Soranton. The furnaces have not been in op- eration for a number of years, Jacob Brown, a prominent citizen, and for fifty years engaged in the mercantile busi wess in Lock Haven, is dead, aged 76 years, Local business men have organized a sore poration with a capital of 810,000 for the man ulacture of underwear and other knitted goods. LL —— A prairie fire in Deaver county, Okla, cov ered an area of 16 miles and canced a loss estimated at $200,000. Two lives were Jost.
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