THE NEWS, Agents of Russian patriotie socletles are trying to prevent George Krosnow, who was implicated in & plot that resulted in the as I, of in 1881, from leaving thiz country, he having sassination of Caar Alexander Russin disappeared from Chicago, and, it is believed offered to enter the Russian secret servies and give the government valuable faforma tion. Sheriff W, O, Gywne was killed and ohn F. Madden, Plke ed at Concord, of inty, Ga wounded, a mountain town, by the Deek gang burst on Little Sexton Cr of outlaws, In a cloud on k, near Boone ville, Ky., a dozen or more people wer runbter committed William Haley by whitecaps Ir Andrew Altoona, drowned. Pa. beaten suleide in colored, was badly De Soto county, Miss, \ cave-in wreck on the Baltimore and Ohio nenr Graf ton. 1% aaptured Charles Filer, stmaster Tomlinson wounded and he detected ing the postofll Shiloh, N. J. f Friend, Neb,, cut off his he had phobia whom robl tofMes at Richard Ringer, « head when he found hydr Kirsch manufacturer ! Herman builders’ materia in eago, felled, Thot story window in Philadelphia and was kille nas Wharton dr fourth Sylvanus Stokes, colored, while working on a pile-driver gt Nor Va fell and broke his neck. Frank nviet and Michael Murphy, who, i claimed also done time, when in the at of robbing a safe in the res dence of Mrs, Kathe Michasl » notorious safe bl Swift, ¢ by the police, has were arrested in Chies rine Johann, at 140 South street, Healy, brothe wer and robber shot in the back vd wily, was in Chicago by Patrolman «l the lumber, coal the Waterbury Seven teen The ®ilt Wilk ¢ Hagration. § 150.000 bee! ‘a } mpany's a4 is Lilley, Co., packers and dealers, loss $40,000, and Valentine Bohl, eher also loses $10,000 wholesale but- aaid to bes been arr 's National Det yf the American Bankers Co. — Mrs, nvalid, was 1 oe, near Danville, and Kentu ball train {a4 un, Mo., sad she Wells, robbed, Two Mill at Greenville, Miss, , exploded, killing five men and = . Burke and Harry Bean by an explosion of g t 8 road was riously in agar Noteh, Pa, aries C aged twenty, a i clerk in RE TRAP. Four Persons Suffocated in a Tenement House Blaze, FIREMAN BADLY INJURED. Margaret Ryan, Sixty Years 0Oid, Leaped to the Ground Died on the Way to the Hospital The Others Were Stified in Thair by Smoka. Four people were killed and two injured in and Rooms a fire which started early the other morning three-story building, 874 Hudson street New York, The burned bulld in the business and tenement ingisone of a row the Trinity floor dealer upper three-story structures, owned by The Eggors, a Church corporation. ground is secupled by John IH. in onfectioners’ supplies, and the two floors were oscupled by several families nas The ond fl ywwer the confectioners’ quarters dwelliogs. #e wor fmmediately | pled by the most part by the family i | McManus, The McManus family « | Mr. and Mrs. ) 5, tWG ¢ laughters, Twelve othe are used by the MeManus ns, rooms in the rear portion of | secupled by a Mr, and Mrs, the irding with them, steamship Qu the t] imber of families, In was in the apartmen fire i firemen HOH AL b \ Kes vs2 Nicholas MceManu il An KRiarn It g RY iv Was ap} was MoeMar they wer» abi TRAIN ROBBED IN MISSOURI Three Masked Men Took $1.2 Bale and Escaped from as The east-bound Cannonball St. Louls and Frisco Rallroad, was held Ing by three masked men train, ou the and the sa fe bic a store, aster Yirginia Doek No. 5, of foot of Pavona avenue, was 0 ered in RT county, | » Erie B at the v, burned, the ri iway, Jersey Cit i Rin The Patrick Hagan, one of the |i together with three lighters, arty of the Erie Railway. $50 000, the prop loss is about | ghter | burned that he may die, Ohio was destro kands, was so badly The South Atlantic depot at Gate City, Va, lightning. the Holst by the bi; y Is omen, names 1 and tailroad | vad by Tha bridges of the road crossing n River were was it of line in- 1 known, were 4 I Me, was shot | Harry Boston, as boarding-house Tam- | pico, Mexioo. I'he Harrison Elevator, the property of the National Linseed Oil C pany, in Barllagton, 14. has buraosd to the ground. Loss, $50,000; $27,000, William his son were overcome by gas kilns of the feesburg (Va) lime man, a shipmaster of P and instantly American killed by Kesper, in Off insurance, red, Powell, col and at the i Mrs, Martin killed her husband in San Franciseo, ~~Some thief stole a team belonging to James Lutz of Laurel, Del, and threagene ite do dire things if he tried to recover his stolen property. The Fiorida flyer, on the South. ern Railway, collided with a shifting engine in the yards in Salisbury, N. C., badly dame aging engine and cars, juring no passengers, and erew, Engineer Bradley and Woody. itt t 3 (quarry. Joho but, fortunately, in- of the Clerk two Postal only EIGHT EXPLORERS LOST. sl. Naf and Party Fell Through the Ice on Canadian Boundary. A special to the Minneapolis Journal from Crookston states that letters received there from Rainey river, on the Canadian boun- dary, report the death on Hainey river of Col, A. F. Naff, a United States deputy mar- shall, and their entire party of explorers, in all probably eight men, They were on thelr way to Investigate reports of the timber steal ing by Canadians along ths boundary and tributary waters and were ascending the Rainey by sleighs, They are reported to have broken through the ice and to have been lost. The letter bringing the infelligents came from the War Road river, near the mouth of the Rainey river. The he 12.50 the the engineer and fireman, st the engineer in marched to the express car. robbers boarded A. M., and robbe train at Lebanon at after ¢ The m tenta removed, Saveral packages of valuable papers were the track and some m *ound beside ney departure, The Wells-Fargo of money secured by the robbers $1,277. About one hundred are in pursuit of the robbers, officials say the amount i Glas Was mounted men The robbers took Engineer Price and Fireman Meyers up steam again, and the train arrived at Lebanon more than two hours late. While none of the passengers were mo- lestod there was great excitement among them, occasioned by the frequent firing of pistols by the robbers, evidently for the pur pose of intimidating them. sisson IIs mii RAILROADS MAGNANIMOUS. They Refuse to Take Advantage of a Pavorable Virginia Tax Decision. Mr E. M. Ingalls, President of the Chesa- peake and Ohio Rallroad, has just written a letter, which has been sent to Gov, O'Ferrall, in which he declines to take alvantage of the recent decision of the Court of Appeals in the district school tax ease. In this decis- fon it was held that railroads, telephone and telegraph companies could not be made to pay the district school tax This decision would have deprived the schoois of the Commonwealth of about 850,- 000 annually, President Ingalls, of the Chesapeake and Oblo, promptly declines on behalf of his company, to take advantage of this decision. Other raliroads sre expected to follow the same course, This Lberality upon the part of the rail. roads may or may not show their anxiety to be on friendly terms with the Virginia publie Just at this times when a constitutional cone vention Is lkely to be assembled. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOUBE. Nixgry-srcoxn Day, The House spent the Jay considering the sundry eivil, Lill, No smendments of importance werd adopted. A lotermiined effort was made by some of the Southern Representatives to strike from the All the appropriation of $050,000 for the pay of Internal revenue (nformers, Mr. Aduing republican, of Pennsylvania) undertool te arrect some of the false reports as to thy al eed compact between cortaln free-siiver rn publicans and some Philadelphia manu ia urers, Mr, Hartman, of Moutana, and oth or free-silver republicans in reply charged Jat they had been persistently and oad fiously misrepresented by ‘wold<bug press, The they asserted, had aot been of thelr seeking. Nixpry-Tminp Day I'he He rompleted the consideration of the dvil bill, Mr. Cann hal appropri tons commi tee wade an {or economy on the ground that the tion of the treasury was such that wo oroject should be entered upon by this Con gress. Baveral amend were adopted ivapite Mr. Cannon's appeal, Nixgry-rovnrn Day, The q priating pubile money for private or sed arian fastitutions was again i ft over in ‘he Housw, The bone of contention was th Howard University, a col t Washington, for which an a Lie conference, ise practically sundry of the appeal ndi new wn, Lhe « man i ments ’ 1estion of af nr bh ire 0 $452. 600 was Inserted, After ute, the Honee voted 12010 | i : in. An analysis of 19 deme amendn ‘ruts 107 republicans ted for the 47 demo The sundry « lint Hiss v NINETY he ngitati IFTH report Boutelie, pr ator Ge Dupont the IRN & prow and ga It exactly L13Y in the aflernoon when the last away and the The launch was entirely war block was knocked marine monster began her brief journey, § Mr the beribboned bottle, and as the might Cramp's instructions, Miss Drake gras ya began to glide down the ways ashe crash wa slipped grace The pped wn into the mi ¢ of the stream and ' neadous crowd jet out mighty roar an " ithe eralt which whislios, informal lun tories an jotted the river opened their shrill After the Isunch there was an heon in the mold loft, but no speeches were made, The Ic foot long, 72 feet 2 inches wi and In services she will wa is practieally a floating fort ie, 11.410 ton nt, will draw 25 feet of lapinceme water, arry 49% officers Along both sides of the alip is a section of stool armor 14 inches thick, backed up by 12 inches of heavy, yellow pine, and this in turn backed by a great pad of water—ex eluding material called cellulose, At each end of the main deck rise great re volving turrets, made of 14daeh armor plates diameter. These great guns ean hurl ascurately steel-pointed shot weighing nearly 1,000 pounds a matter of seven miles or an, consuming at each shot about 300 pounds of powder of a kind that looks like huge prismatic lamps of egg coal They are fired by electricity, and so nice is the mechanism by which they are controlled that they may be almost as readily aimed ae a sporting rifle. The guns ean be trained over either side, and the forward one dead ahead or the aft pair dead aft thus sweeping the sea in any direction. The lows contract was awarded to the Cramps on February 11, 1893, the priee being $3,010,000, Bhe is guaranteed to speed 16 knots an hour, and for each quarter knot ad- ditional the builders will get $50,000, VENEZUELA TO BORROW, 4 Loan of $10,000 000 Autharized to Baild gs New Bailread. The National Congress has authorized the President to negotiate a loan of 50,000, 000 francs 810,000,000) to buy land for new rail ways and extond those alrealy in operation. Dr. Esequisl Rojas, Minister of Foreign Af. fairs, denies the report that the Yuruan fnel- dent has been settled, | : { WORK OF A FIEND Akron, Ohio. TOUNC GIRLS STRUCK DOWN Man the Brute~There Mide- Daughters and a Hired Attacked by is no Clue to the night Invader, mask oc M. Bt from At a late hour in the night a sntered the farmhouss of Alvin Akron, i miles near Tallmadge, a fow Ohlo, an hour When wife, both and in the brief space of half rommitted a horrible butchery, he his in and foal Irn Ht took his departure Blone bed, horri the ol iving hired ated, and Himan, { Emma Stone, the bly mutl three eldest : daugulers, wore uncon us from blows dealt by the murderer, 1 the houses by means ised to ihr I'he murderer entore ier, which he ry an upstairs He first pasead *hh Hatt igh the room is and Flora Btone were sleep. them, Coin quielly ywnstairs to the room in which Mr. and jione siepl, ho weapon of so They were pro s and posail ered anys he the wa ng in and the on 1 sireols of Kent, a 4 ge, aw Visit Confiazration FIRE Georgia IN City BRUR Again -» 1 aerrible SBeveral vears ago Brunswick by a conflagration whirh deetr i st pr pero is f Drunswick and f was feared the whole town woul The total t $200,000 6nd the 1nsur loss ls conservativel A strong wind fannad the flames and local fire department became p for ywearieoss, A to Be depart ments promptly responded 30 the fire was under © Charles Smiih, of the Brunswick and Western Raliroad, was over wy of were num but come by the heat and died, A sailing vessels ware in danger, saved, The flames started on the Western Rallroad wharves, and within an hour the wharves, two large warehouses, a number of cars, inciuding their contents, were consumed, the loss being $200 000; par tially insured. The extensive property of the Downing Compasy. dealers in naval stores, was burned. Their loss is estimated at $200,000, aimost covered by insurance. The flames then swept up Bay street and a large portion of the business section of the city was in danger. As it was, some thirteen stores, including the stock, were demolished, the loss on these being about $100,000; in surance $70,000 The fire spread to the Ocean Hotel block, but did not make much head. way there, the loss to the hotel being sbout 320,000, and Irunswick Prunswiok is on St Bimon's sound, eight miles from the oooan and eighty miles south. west of Savannah. It has a large harbor and is the sent of lnmber manufactories, Much lumber and cotton are shipped annually from its harbor. Its population is about 12,000, PENNBYLVANKIA ITEMS. Parts of the plats tion was by the Iwo men were killed and o2 spond the explosion ( Milford, Five men were killed and six or seven 'n by portable saw mill near O. Mississippt, by the ex- the Planters at Greensville, of two boilers at Dn persons were is jured in a wre ok Butler branch of the West Penn Haliron Monroe, Pa, Spreading rails threw tw off the track. The schooner Belle Hardy went ashors fone Shoal, in Nantucket Scuad, duting thick fog and heavy southsasi gale The crew wore taken off, The barge Imperial from Boston for New: sort News, Va, went ashore off Cedar Craek Station. N. J.. The crow of five was saved in the breaches buoys Three miners wers fatally and three others were seriously hurt by the fall of a cage in which they were being lowered, at the Silver C reck shaft, near New Philadelphia, Pa There was an explosion of gas in a new goction of a conl mina at Sugar Notch, Pa Thomas Burk, a door boy, was instanliy killed and six workmen were injured, one fatally. Alexander Dodson was instantly killed and Joseph Scarrio was badly injured a! Roach's shipyard, Chester. They pore crashed between a boller and the side of a vessel, Ten persons wore burned to death in a tenement house in Brooklyn, occupied by three Italian families. Of the 17 persona in the building only soven escaped. John Cal abria, whose was among the victims, Is under police surveillance pending an inves tigation. . on | BY THE GARROTE Prisoners. WERE STRANGLED. Executioners by the Soldiers Fainted Work FIVE Unnerved Task Pr Officials Almost Before the T Was Awful ioute, anc rrible Done. returned e men will 8 wages and the wise being assigned, i he fjerharges dae to the {a ed the United Mine Work erstood that the men in the other mines sm RET — CRUSHED BY A BOULDER. Virgisin Three persons were instantly killed and two others badly injured at Echo, a mining town thirty-five miles west of Hinton W.Va, by a huge mass of stones, trecs and earth, loosened by recent rains, which broke loose from the mountain side, and a iarge bolder crushed down through the house of a miner named Tillman, The dead sre Frank and James Tiliman and Lucy Law, Their bodies were mangled and the house was completely demolished, The accident occurred just before daylight while ail the family were siecping. The house was situated on the banks of New river, st the base of the mountain. The mass of stone first passed over a row of coke ovens and the Chesapeake and Ohio track before striking the housa, The coke ovens were badly damaged, and the raliroad tracks displaced, Henry Law, one of the occupants of the bouse, whic sscapad, had the pressnos of mind to rush oat and flag an east-bound ex press train which was just due, and would have otherwise been wrecked un the rocks f
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