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,
|
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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