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.
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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.