THE NEWS,
Justice Hart, in Cleveland, decided that
Bishop Wm. B. Campbell, of the African
Evangelical Mission, is not gulity of embes-
glement, upon which charge he was arrested
gome time ago at the instance of a number
of elders and deacons of the church, The
big towboat Joseph B., Willlams, with her
big tow of coal, passed down the Mississippl
for New Orleans. On her trip down she ran
into the bank at Island 26, and sank six
boats of coal, owned by C, Jutte & Co,, of
Pittsburg. The loss will amount to £12,000,
we Mrs, Samuel D, Smith, of Detroit, Mich,
was sentenced to thirteen months’ imprison-
ment at Duluth, Minn, for uttering a forged
paper.—-—Nathan D, Clark, of the Clark-
Hutchinson Company of Boston, committed
suicide in a hotel in that city,
Tudor, during a quarrel with Abraham For-
shee, in Lincoln ccunty, W. Va,, attacked
the latter with a pitchfork, inflicting fatal
injuries, -At the meeting of the board of
regents of the West Virginia State University
at Morgantown, the purchase of
be used for practical experiments in connec
tion with the Agricultural
ratified.
eral store of his brother at Puente, Cal,, was
killed by masked robbers. - Marquis
gata, the Japanese fleld marshal,
Chicago. Arthur Schneider
in New Orleans
Methodist
favor of admitting
Marion
a farm
Department was
John Hays, a clerk in the gen-
Tala-
reached
was hanged
The Maine
voted in
ay delegate
to the General It was stated
that the children of murdered farmer, J. 1
Lanborn,
forced to confess to
for murder,
Episcopal Conference
women as
Conference,
Leavenworth,
near Kag.,, was
having committed the
murder to shield the gulity party. — George
Proutman, aged twenty-two years, shot and
killed his sweetheart, Blanche
nineteen years at St. Loui
broken thelr engagement «
count of his violent temper,
At Elizabeth, N.
ployed by the Singer
pany, was killed
way train. McGinley had been
than an hour before th
caused his death. His bride
when he was kille
of the Dayt
and shot while
Simson, aged
1
i
8, because she had
marriage on ac
J., Frank M>Ginle;
Manufacturing
by a Pennayivani
wounds are serion
of Rock! Mich.
The I it ®50.000,
by insurance. The
frame build and
Main street, The
convicted of fraudulent
rk,
#5 is alu
IDES,
ASO
Moines, Ia., was affirme
Court. He will
five years,
RO
commandant
ibany,
WAS Arresied
the mails, ——Miss Eliza
was married at Bet he
Phelpa, }
year-old child, were
Whetst
n Marti
dwelling at
Maude and May Can
their clothes set on Ore
stove in their home i
¥Ya., and both died
Executions %«
Heinltsoh,
fssued aiainst
dealer of Lancs Ihe assets
of his store property assess~d at £20,000 an
mn
encumbered with
823,000,
rigages am
American T
ill in Richmond,
of the throat. His con
Charles H. Larkin
two members of a
struck by a fast train 1
Railroad near Downing, Pa., sad instantly
killed. -A disastrous fire which occurred
in Halifax, N 8., destroyed the lumber yards
and feed stores of John Davidson & Son
burned the residence of the senior member
of the firm, and caused considerable damage
to several other dwellings Two deputy
United States marshals have captured @
gang of five outlaws near Coffesville, Kans.
after a hot fight, in which Oliver Rooks, ore
of the desperados, was mortally wounded
looks’ horse was shot from under h and
he was wounded before he would give up.
pA squall on Lake Mendota struck two
shells of the University of Wisconsin's crew
and swamped them. John D. Day, of
Janesville, Wis, was drowned, —Thomas
Bennett was arrested in Mount Holly, N. J,
on the charge of forging his father-in-law #
name,
At Eastland, Wis. , the boller SAW.
mill blew up, killing Mr. Eastland, his son,
and Mr, Keith,—A, C, Probert, mayor, and
a well-known banker of Washburoe, Wis,
has been arrested on a charge of embezzie.
ment preferred by Cashier Hutson, of the
Bank of Lodi. He gave bonds in the sum of
1,600 ——At Elizabeth, N. J., George Polet-
sohieck was [fatally stabbed ina drunken
fight with Michael Morris, Morris alleges
that he acted in self-defense, ihe Wel
land Port Flour Mills, in Weiland Port, Ont.
we re burned to the ground, with their con-
tents. Loss $125,000; insurance small-—-—
Judge Baker, of the Bupreme Court in Chi
cago, issued a stay ip the case of the Meadow
eroft brothers, who were convicted of re
ceiving deposits after they knew that thels
bank was insolvent. This will result in »
new trial —R, 8 Williams, clerk of the
Circuit Court at Carthage, Tonn., shot and
seriously wounded Clarence W. Garrett, »
lawyer and Populist politician, ——Radolph
Muller, a grocer of Louisville, Ky., fired twe
barrels of a shotgun into his wife's face be”
canse she had filed suit for divores from him
She will die, Their three child ren witnessed
the shooting. Joseph Willams was ar
rested on the charge of stealing copper bands
from the Ocean View Trolley road. ——The
sawmill near Bax's Postoffice, Va, owned by
D. € Jeremy, was destroyed by fire,
persons are reported to have
Va.
and
crew were
¢ Pennsylvania
fe
im,
in the
Mr: Gardner Williams, the American en-
gineer, who Is manager of the De Beers
mines, is among the members of the reform
committes who have been committed for
trial on the charge of high treason in partic.
ipating in the Transvaal uprising.
QUIET WEDDING.
Gen. Harrison Married at St
Thomas’ Church, N. VY.
THE FLORAL DECORATIONS.
Only a Few Guests Were Present
All The
Were
Not Accepted.
at the Ceramony.
Invitations
The marriage of Mrs. Mary Lord Dimmlck
to Gen, Benjamin Harrison was solemnized
at 8t. Thomas' Church, New York, at 5.45
o'clock Monday Dr, Wesley
Brown, rector, officiated at the ceremony.
The marriage of Mrs. Dimmick to General
the
relatives and select friends of the
alternoon.
Harrison, took place in presence of 20
bride and
The edifice
style that
groom, was & very select affair,
was not decorated in the
marked the nuptials of Miss Vanderbiit and
Miss Whitney, the two most
dings but the
lilacs and ascension Illes were arranged
lavish
important wed.
of the season; flowers used
in
MRS, DIMM]
exquisite taste and the
prettier and more ef
The altar was
he A'lar was pia
int pew Ot
ernor Morton
hind Mrs. Parker,
tor and Mrs
3 W, Foster
Mrs, ( AT
Mr
Ay
tor and
the Peannsvivania Railr
Mr. and
bride's relatives and
In the pews behind
gat the
hard Parker,
I
Rio
MoeGill
ga, Mr,
WK
the Misses
Mra
the Misses [oe ls
art.
fra
aad
wis and
iroughton and Miss Lam?
AT THE CHANCEL.
Ganeral
Fifth-Avenuse
Gen. Benjamin
Harrison left the
by
lose carriage,
the
accompanied
a
al 9 0 tion
Dr. Br
They passed
in b
Rev, wns
use on Filty-third street
Sf
GEN. BENJAMIN HARRISON,
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
HOUBE
Nixgrv-spvesta DAy.—The House spent
the day debating a Lil to fix the standard of
welghits and measures by the adoption of the
metric system after July 1, 1808 and a prop-
osition that the government share with the
District of Columbia the expenses of creating
and maintaining 8 publie library in the city
f Washington, The latter was defeated and
the fate of the metric bill still hangs in the
balance, Ona rising vote it was defeated,
but Mr. Stone, chairman of the committees on
colnage, weights and measures, secured the
ayes and noes, and, pending the roll-call, the
House adjourned.
In the House the bill
loadopt the metric system of weights and
measures was sent back to the committee on
wolnuge, weights and measures for further
wousideration, The remainder of the day
wis devoted to debate on the Lill to exempt
snflingg vessels engaged in the constwise trade
from compulsory pllotage laws, Mr, Cum-
mings charged that Mr. Chamberlain, com.
misstoner of navigation, had
favor the tdi), The conference report
19 agricultural appropriation bill was
Nixgry-graura Day
been lobbying
House,
ating the | to alu MO puisory
n sailing yess fn the
rade, defeated by a large
rity, The District of Colomida appropria-
tion Lill, » recommitted early In
March, wi up in amended form, It
pakes an ag wriation of a lump sum for
harities to b spded under the directic
ond wit the
of the appropriation s35¢
colesiastion] or sectarian
i. A resolution
Hecretary Olney for
nfter de-
pHotage
is engaged const wise
the measure ma
Was
4
y way efforts made b
{
the liberation
EENATE
i Day
B.
Busan
awaited the coming of the bridal party.
The bride left the home of her sister, Mrs,
John F Parker, 40 East Thirty eighth street
at 5:10, Bhe was accompanied by her
brother-in-law, Lieutenant John F. Parker,
who gave her away.
They arrived at the church entrance at
5:20 and proceeded to the tower-room where
the bridal procession followed in the follow:
ing order: Mr. E. P Tibbott, Mr. Daniel
M. Ramasdell, ushers; Mra Dimmick and
Lieutenant Parker, and proceeded io the
chanosl, where General Harrison, accom
panied by his best mau, General Tracy, re-
celved his bride, The ushers, standing to
one side, faced the altar ae the bride and
groom stepped forward to the altar rail,
where the rector, Dr. Brown, was waiting.
Dr. George Willlam Warren, organist of
the church, plaved the bridal music from
Lohengrin, and during the eatire ceremony
played very softly Mascagni's Intermezzo
“Cavalleria * That portion of the matri-
monial service known as the marriage ser-
vice proper, the recital of which lasts only
about 15 minutes, was used, and immediate
ly the blessing was pronounced, General
and Mre, Harrison, followed by Mrs John
F. Parker and General Tracy, Mr. Tibbott
and Mr. Bamsdell, Lisutenast Parker and
Mr, and Mrs Pinchot walked down the aisle
to the strains of the Taanhauser march of
Wagner, and entering the carriages waiting
at the entranos the bridal party wae driven
to the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Pinchot, 2
Grammercy Park, where light refreshments
traveling attire for the tip to Indianapolis
receptio
the
y bulid himself a palace in New York
Herr Liobknecht, the
people at his last
George Cracker, Western milliogaire,
socialist m f
i visit England in
ember
May.
{yoy
eto and
collection of hymn Lo
to be that which Mr. Gladstone has accumu
lated a* Hawarden
Mrs
handsome umbrella by
of Atianta. The
shell, with gold moun
Daniel Baugh, of Jeffersonville, Ind., is
107 years of age. He celebrated his birth.
day last week by a dinner, at which six gen-
erations of the
table,
J. W, Kirk, of Kansas City, bas twenty
completes suits of clothes a year, flve over-
coats, and truaks full of hats snd shoes,
All of his clothing is made by Kausas Ci y
tal ore
Joseph Cowles, at one time engineer of
the Grand Central line, at Tombstone, Ariz
has struck it rich in dado. Last week he
sold his bail interest in a mine to an Euglish
syndicate for $150,000,
The Dayer brothers, the weli-knonn
Brooklyn horsemen, have returned from the
South, where they have spent the Winter in
Florida. They had a small naphtha launch,
which they used om hunting expeditions
after alligators
Bashford Dean, professor of natural
sclence in Columbia College, New York, will
with a party of students «f Columbia Cole
lege, visit the Northwest the middle of June
for the purpose of studying the character.
istics of marine life in Pu.et Sound.
been presented
the Po
handle is
Sam Jones has
joe Iie part.
ment tortoise
tinge
family were seated at th
Fresioent VIR as heen presented by a
committee representing foreign business in.
terests in Mexico, as a slight testimonial of
scription, costing $80,000,
Missionaries Will Not Be Mo-
lested in Turkey.
MUST CONFORM WITH LAWS.
Assurance Given Sir Phillip Currie
and Mr, Riddle that
Wiiit Not Be Mcolested
Sald to Be Interested In the
Project
Missionaries
Russia
of Expulsion.
The steps taken in behalf of the missionar
fos in Asin Minor have had a beneficial effect
Ibe Turkish government replying to the re
newed representations on the subject made
by the British Ambassador, 8ir Phillp Cur
d'Affalres
fit
dipl
rie, and the United Stat
Mr. John W. Rid:
that the miss
not be
s Charge
the
MRLs
iid
assured
naries in Asia Minor we
molested ‘so
they
with the laws of the
Aries are no
the
{ cienrin
have been lo
agalost the g
of the Armegian
Minister to Turkey, wi
State Departmen
ican citizes, ns
arrested by
the Uni
Our
tion
that un
to exercise
nand the re
LOVE, BULLETS AND DYNAMITE.
An Irate Father Kills His Dang
Her Sweetheart.
Tex,
morning
few minute
John
Miss Mallis Broo
A.
At Millican,
the
a
yeloek in Broo
and Killed his daaghter,
seriously wounded her sweetheart,
Wotrels, and then rommitted sulelde
lovers and
iad made up their minds to marry, in oppo.
sition to the of the
father. When the northbound Central train,
lue at Houston at 2:02 A. ¥,, stopped at the
station, the young people were there ready
to got aboard and ran away.
Worrsls helped Miss Brooks upon the first
step of the platform, and jost as she got up
her father, who stepped from the other side
of the oar, fired upon her, shooting her
through the right breast, the bullet passing
through her body. She fell back ward in the
arms of her lover with the word: “Oh!
Arthur, father has killed me,” and immedi.
ately expired,
As Worrels bent down to lav her on the
platform, Brooks fired upon him under the
oar, the ball passing through his neck and
making a serious and probably fatal wound.
After the shooting Brooks, who has been
employed at the rock quarry of Green &
Olive, went to the quarry and tried to bor
row a pistol, but could not get one. He
thea went to the powder-house, secured n
box of dynamite, and, going away about 100
yards, sat down upon it and appiled a
mach. A terrific sxplosion followed, which
tore him to pieces, not enou th fragments
bot outed up 40 0 tyme box, _
Captain-General Weylor has postponed the
execution of Jose Caorera Roque, the fous vr.
Worrels and Miss Brooks were
wishes vodng
lady's
Havana, and recommends | 6» pardon
¥
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS
Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts of |
the Etate
Citizens of Rockville,
miles
fn small te
WHE greatly ex
wn five |
west of Harrisburg,
cited over what is supp sed to have been an
attempt to
by putting poisonous
well frout of the
Tibbens, the son of
the
ind
“rn.
poison the people of village
MH mo in the
Lock Tas
thie
in J as
Hage biacksminh
ut ® o'clock and «
from the cup He
wine
went to the pump ab
coplousl
diately
Was
Rito
J
be deathly sick,
quickly summoned,
and,
stomach pump, saved the young man's life
There is no suspicion as to the perpetrator
of the malicious deed, but the matter is be
Ing Investiguted, There was a ru that
others were poisoned, but Tibbens was the
only vietim,
Fhe poison was put in the
wel
after night or early in the mornlag, as water
was taken from
An « iderly lady,
Miss Willing, the f
rived in Chester
for the
in the
CRS the i
glates that
Friendic
near fut
vif
Diy
i yoR irom (eg foe
Thieves stole 8 horse, carriage and
Henry |
harpe« fo
fr
le on Dr. sher's pr
¥
| 3
i JERKIDS
formerly proprie
miter
himself 5 5
hured After
fa the rear of his
brother, William a0
Ko
. jo
n afterwards William handed
requested hin
“N
as he (ook
p stairs and put it
wad
he ravolver and began
bead,
AWAY. w, |
I'll have some fun, homas,
waving it about his
Suddenly thers was an expio<ion and
He
into the house and a physician summoned, |
but the young man died before he arrived,
the bullet hav ng penctratsd his brain
Louis Morinor, ated 31, employed at the
MeCoy limo juarrios, while walking on the
Trenton cutoff raliroad bridge over ihe
Schuylkill River, on his way home, was |
struck by a freight and knocked ninety leet
in the water below, and he sank from sigh.
Juseph airiy, OI rolmOWD, BR ewer)
man, dreamed pursued by In.
dians and springing from a bed jumps!
through a third-story window ani fell on a
brick payment. [His injuries are a broken
thigh and ankle besides a 1 umber of cuts
He frequently suffered from nightmare,
Fire destroyed the following business
places in what is known as Hennigan's
block, on lower Main street, Honesdale:
Julius Molle, tailor, loss, #2000; Coristian
Kuber, shoe store, loss, $2,000; Charies Loer-
cher, furniture, $3,000; James Morris, restau.
rant, loss, $500; Joseph Kratz, saioon, loss,
$3,000; Willinm Kane, saloon, loss $1,000. On
account of the high wind, it was with dif.
culty that the two steamers stopped the
ames. The building had a frontage oly
$07 feet, being a three-story frame strocty
The entire joss will be $20,000, tosure doe,
5,000.
mass II sms.
There has been an outbreak of cholera at
Alexandria and an English merch ot and
several natives have died,
nd. was carried |
ah ok Buin wi
taal ne Was
CARLISLE'S LETTER.
He Wii Not Enter the Contest for the Presidential
Nomination
I ——
Becretary Carlisle has written the lollowing
for the
Presidential nomination at the Chicago con
vention, to Charles I. Long, chairman Kepe
“My Denar Bir
“Your fuvor of March 30, in which you say
in substance that many of my friends in Kens
and elsewhere desire mo to betome 8
didate before the appronching National
Democratic Convention for nomination of the
offices of President, and roquesting me Lo give
‘some authoritative or definite expression
pon the subject, was duly received, aud has
4
BN maturely consi
“Many «
jered,
munications upon the same sub
f similiar lmport have been received
is in different parts of the country,
very grateful for these numerous
in the future, depend
t
takes or omits aie
f BOW
engaging Lu
“ED
¥
YETY AJ ¥ :
“JOHN G. CARLISLE.”
TH 2
r Ar
J A AJ
JJ
7 # I
nd asked Capt
wish 3
1
Mean:
Gh
bay
prone on junrier ihe
The
the
rushed lotc in torrents
Wl
as the
rat
_p
escaping air from the b lew waler
i
founiain-like
The men scrambled wildly
as high
ladder
with vessel] in
pes and bie
aaother tow
speed
A boat wes
Toor Cay»
A passing tag
dropped her w for help
the rescue, t il was
Yeoman, 1.0060
sent fron
three
had struck out
by the British
Ked ui BEY.
ti
u
HOUSE.
god Bens
4
" ¥
We RTI AOR
all j
availad to prevent its spread everywher
Private 8 « petary’s Thurber s chiidren bave
iihe
discnws in recalar course aml to
prevest the vosstidiity of fis transmission 0
the White House, Mr. Thurber had abssnien
fyi nasi from his own domicile for the past
2. : and bas made his residence In the
However this sacrifice was
2ii Us
House,
of uo avail
To prevent the spread of the disease among
the fami es of the Cabinet officers word was
sant Ly telegraph to the various departments
that there would be no meeting of the Cabl
wet, and then steps were taken to oamoat the
disease in Mr. Cleveland's household, Oe
ders were vent to Woodley, the President's
suburban residence, to put the place in shape
for ie immediate reception of the family,
and Mrs, Cleveland, accompanied by ali of
the children, left the Waite House to make
their home at Woodley until the disease has
ran its course,
Little Esther was taken away in & separate
carriage, and in the hope of conflaing the
diseass as much as possible, she will be se
eluded at Woodley from the other children.
Monn while, the President and Mr. Thurbur
measies has run ita course in the family, aad
the mistress and children are back.
A
Gotham's latest census shows that
there are 1,154 women in New York city
who dont know bow old they are. Prob
July there ale not wo yany who Wi ;