THE NEWS,
The Beaver Dam Water Works Company,
of Beaver Dam, Wis, the
hands of a receiver, the
United States Court, appointed W. G. Masey
of Oshkosh, to take charge of the property.
J. F. Kelly, one of the largest
fruit dealers in Batte, Mont. ¢
eide by shooting himse
has gone into
Judge Seaman, in
wholesale
ymmitted sul
fin the head, Cause,
£63 000
Hfe insurance, By the explosion of a con-
domestic troubles, Kelly carried
verter at the works of the American Glao
John Hoey and a
killed
Joha
Five children
afilre in a fo
IN
Company in Peoria, IIL,
man named Burnps
John Wilson,
Dooley were badly injured.
were smothered to death by
ptory tenement block
~Emma Andrews, low, sixty
years of age, burned to death in a fire
fn a family tenement houses in New Britain,
Conn. It is supposed the fire was caused by
the explosion of a gasoline stove
were instantly
Mat Connelly and
urs
at Tarners Falls, Masa,
an inflrm
was
Reports
of an encouraging nature wero made at the
Winchester Presbytery, In at Mar-
tinsburg. arranged for
building a big shipyard and steel dry-doe
at Norfolk. I. H Harvey & Co., Rich
mond, Norists, failed; liabilities about
000, A. A. Austin, accused of
of Lena Olsen at Duluth, Mian. ,
ed in Seattle, Washington
At Ban Att
James D. Page has been found gulity
ament of £3,000 from
aessior
Plans have been
$10.
the murder
Was arrest
ex-Distrist
Francisco,
rey
hes an insane
of whom he had been
Page
caused 8
Hotel
bas been donein tl
Quebeo by water rising
At
app
was arrested in New
me danage t
at Asheville, N.
melting s:
States grand
8S. Jewett,
jury
against W,
with the embezziement
Lake Nati
The body
sing since
at Montgome
tern droppe
John W.
Longmead
tional cle
Fla, of heart !
five years,
Warrants
Marshal Mur
near Rush |
unterfeiting
»
burned to
w a } y
three ho
as to his recovery
and scrap leather manu
Ct., for over thirty
The
fluctuating prices in the
the bad failure of the | ag
ha sacred troaty srantlv ital
~The secret treaty recently negotiated
cause of suspensior
leather
brag
tween Hassia and Ch
2 i fA I,
ina is sald in Ta
Wash,, practically to make the la!
a Russian dependency.
colored, accusad
ing B. N. Reafroa,
Mathias of Warren, N.
rediscovered the
Hoste and Matilda
found dead in their bed in Milwaukee,
ing been polsoned.——John Shea cut
Cattenhead during a quarrel at Seottavilie,
Va, inflicting a serious wound.-
were rocsived In Boston of the massacres of
the Armenians by the Turks in Zille, in
Armenia Henry Edmunds, colored, killed
his wile, in Madisonville, Ky.
WRECK ON QUEEN AND CKESCENT
Washout Canses the (oll
jury of Eleven Pe
art of
John his wife were
Details
—
vse of & Bridge and In-
through
responsible
A heavy rainstorm which
Louisiana and Mississippl were
awept
for a very serious wreek , which occured at
8.15 A. M. on the Queen and Crescent road
thres miles above Vossburg, Mise A train
consisting of a combination baggage car, (Wo
day coaches and a sleeper, plunged through
a trestle at Mile 33, The tor was at its
height at the time and it is fortunate all on
board were not injured.
Eleven passengers were {ojured, one per-
fously.
The train crew escaped without lojury,
The wrecked train was the limited express
No. 1, and was running at a high rate of
speed when the accident cecurred,
Property valued at many thousands of dol-
lars wus washed away.
TWO HUNDRED KILLED.
South African Natives Victims of » Dysamite
Explosion.
Advices recfived from Gwelo say that =
terrible explosion of dynamite occurred at
the Eagle Reef store, near that place, and
that 200 Matabeles were killed.
ARMENIAN HORROR
Christians Butchered By Turks
at Marsovan,
NO QUARTER WAS SHOWN.
the City and the
Army Officlals Alded the
Bloody Work-Martyrs for
Thelr Religion,
of
in
Waestern
Boston,
has reached th
that
A letter from Marsovan,
Just
Turkey,
been rece in and It
i
massacre In
vicinity,
Zille is a of | |
nde ’
sent ]
the crowd of Circassians, Kourds and villag
ng the city to its
Armenian fear in
vernd
ment, saying
“The governs
for
nent
pense ur pr
show fear is an insult to
which 1 will treat
mine your j
Hen
hopkeepers
ard andl J
hn Gaughan, bt
miner and
ok shalt, Boranton,
by a fall
ers general mer He bu
inting to ove
ie were injured, Syd
Ill.. caused a |
$250 000, Raveral peoj i
ney Swark fatally,
A Raleigh N , (
est fire in Cumberland oc
from inhaling smoke,
, despatch says that a for
inty hoefplestroyed
the long
The Joss is over £100,000,
ten thousand acres of finest leat
pine timber, One
house, many barns, miles of and
lain checked the
fire, which threatened to reach the
Fayetteville,
tI
AMERICAN CITIZEN SHOT DOWN.
State Department Demands Investigation of »
fencing
many cattle are burned.
town of
Murder in Ban Baivador,
Robart Bonney, an American citizen, was
murdered in San Salvador March 27, and as
a result the State Department has demanded
the fullest Investigation. The cass was
brought to the attention of the United Hiates
officials by Congreseman Marsh, of lilinols,
who had received a letter from Cireuit Judge
Bonney of Qainey, 111, saying that his neph-
ow, Robert Bonney, was engaged in business
near Bonsonate, San Salvador, and the state
ment had reached him that his peyhew had
been killed, Judge Bonney requested Mr.
Marsh to look into the matter. The laller
immediately presented the fasts to Becrelary
Olney, who cabled the United Slates Consul
at Ban Salvador for his knowledge of the als
fair. Through Beeretary Oloey Mr. Marsh
rsoeived a copy of a esblegram from Consul
Murchmeyer of San Salvador, which reads na
follows:
Bonaey shot March 23. Found dead pear
Bonsonate. Parties unknown, Supposed ob-
jeot, robbery. Thorough investigation de
wanded,
MORCEMEYER.
FIFTY-FOURTH OONGREBR
HOUSE.
1020 Day.--The House pe
amendment the fortification ag
bill, earrylog approprintions and
tions Involving an expenditure of &11,55%4,-
614 Fhe legislative, executive and judieal
appropriation bill ent to further confer
un oo ye critics the alleged ex
truvagancee of the Senate in the matter of
pay of its employes
assed without
propriation
authoriza-
Was
after n of
The House heard nn bitter
Gen, Wm, B. Franklin, of Conne
of the Board of Manager
the National Bold nes, and Gov
f ie Leavenworth Home,
in with a resolution for the appoin
! Gegeral Franklin and others
hip on the board, Mr Blue
charged that General Frankiio w
saly negligent nnd Incompetent or
His malo assault, however, was
sl at Governor Bmi bh, whom he charg
with drunkenness, cruelty and favoritism
Mr, Blue's fight against the
reappointment of Gen, William B, Franklin
4% u member of the board of f the
vitional Home for Di
which was the feat
1031
SAGIL on
feat, president
anne
nent
§
1041 Day
MALKRECTS «
ire of
terminated
the
unsucee
} substitute
Howard for that
in was rejected. The
tinued u
quite spirited,
6 0
Frans
sabiect was
wae al tines
The net
private
fr
faye Of 1
105 Day
%
nraise, and say that Mr, Willis
nesular service with the reg
tthe
United States
a model naular officer «
He b
been ap{
ars in this
1874 vice-o
ted to be
} years ater. He was b
of Columbia,
His family lives in Brook
as boon 22 ¥ sorvios, h ing
inted in
at Havana, and prom
ral 1
fora. i
District nd was appoint
from New York,
iY
tons sc
FIVE MEN KILLED.
Tuey Went Down With a Brokes Trestle Asd a
Train-Load of Bone.
Times from
Five men were instantly
that
Louisville
Mitchell, Ky., says
killed and two others 30 badly injured
they will die, in a bridge aceide. t,
It happened a from Bedford
Junction, on the Belt Railroad, on which the
stone from the Bedlord quarries is trans.
ferred from one road to another, sbout 9
o'clock A. M, The train broke through a
trestle,
The train consisted of an engine and two
gravel ears and was runniog at a high rate
of speed at the time of the accident. While
passing over what 8 known as the Standard
trestie, the last span from the diretion of
Bedford coliapse L
The locomotive was at the time beyond the
trestle, and had it not been pulled from the
track by the weight of the cars behind it, the
men on the encine would have escaped.
A it was, the two oars went down with the
trestle into a ditch 75 feet deep, and the en.
gine pulled backward in spite of the momen-
tum of the train, rolled over and plunged
down the embankment 75 feet high.
All the men who were on the train were
employes of the road, and were engaged in
ballasting the track with gravel between
Mitchell and Bedford, The bre king of the
trestle will blockade the road for several
days.
half mile
GT DROWNED.
VIRGINIA BEACH TRAGEDY.
They Had Gone Out to Seta Fishing
Net Were in the
Herole Efforts Made
to Save Them.
remarsable
and Caught
Breakers
One of the
game ti
most at the
cases of drowning that
ever gecurred off the Virgioia const happened
the after.
apt, Je
and
and
me disastrous
at Virginia Beacl
faht 11
Eight Ii
1 at 2 o clock in
were
n Percy
noon,
yas
iost, hn
Faunce and his s white six
colored men,
Lis
, nad siartea gut
It seems tha
pon nud six J
to set a fNshing A their fishiog pond, a
in Princess Aun
mile and a-haif
mil
Hotel, when a Uf jek thelr boats
endwise, turning it over and drowning tb
entire crow,
The t
ORL was atill breakers
the, capsizing oceurred not 75 feet
shore,
+ was al the rudder en
} 4
nedd
am gr
ttod he
here, which
vented his aceon
Holmes thus telis
own son
t was shortly after |
declared, ‘and our boy was bul a youngster
playing about with other boys of
size and age, that I was seized with a wild
I ealled him in the
road, where he was frollicking about like an
other and
him out to the rear barn.
“f don’t know what It was that possessed
me, but I took a surgical lance alopg with
me, I noticed there was a terrible look of
fear on the little fellows fare as 1 took him
to the barn, and he trembled as I took the
knife and told h m to undress. I have often
thought since that it was like the look of the
scared rabbit laid on the operating tabie, as
its pitiful eyes search the group about him,
and see that all intent only on the anticipat-
ed incision.”
With the utmost abandon and with here
and there an expressed sigh of regret
Holmes then tells how he went through the
operation of muitilating bis own son. He
tells how kis own flesh and blood was made
to submit to the barbarous blade, and there
and then was mutilated to pacify the crav.
ings of a murderer's heart. “Finished with
that, Moimes felt # tisfled, and did not mur.
der his boy outright”
was married. bh
his own
desire to destroy, trom
innocent with a lot of nds {ook
Another life was sacrificed in an endeavor
to rescue the sevan men entombed in the
Hope Mine at Basin, Montasa., Albert Boul
ware, one of a party of men who attempted
to go down the shaft to rescue the men, was
overcome by foul air, and expired before he
could be taken cut.
CABLE BPARKS,
The Bpanish troops recently suffered a ge
vere reverse nt the hauds of the insurgents,
under command of General Muacen,
It Is stated
Government has peremptorily
Propo
in and about
in Bhanghal that the Ju
1 Op
fortidden the
| Japanese industrial unde
that city
Melting snows in the
the Province of
river to overfl
ben done t
Miss Eva B
William B«
of the
Gren,
commandant Bualvati
adn and Newloandland,
Owing to irregul
Aritie
the
Lhe iherals
tion in
fined,
Madrid
and
been ki
PHS ns
the disast
I'he fun
Britain has
perity. The
Geld reduct
Minchall
which is
ail his «
ow demanded
Min
bis extreme love
Oe
n, and hall was
He sald
family prompted him to kill them
rather than ses them suller.
Ss ——————
NO MORE EPIDEMICS.
Are Bald to Kill All 8
Disease Germs
Prof. W. P. Pratt and Hugh W
tro-therapeutist of DBennelt
har
2
RAY Pre vel
dem
ex will b
that Asiatic oh
eared than earache,
glanders and typhoid 1
new remedy-the Roentgen ray.
Various germs were grows
proper media, Magnetic lines ©
the Crooke's tube were then passed
foree {rom
through
them. The application lasted two hours
The cholera germ appears to have been wiped
out entirely. he diphtheria bacteria have
been treated tenderly and favorably,
bat after eight days have failed to show ihe
very
slightest signs of life,
There has been no activity in
of the other classes, and, with certai: modi
fications, the doctors are now realy to ane
nounce that the ray, properly applied, wik
destroy any form of infections or contagious
germs. This « isdorsed by the evllege Tac.
uity,
the bacteria
SLEW TOTS AND HIMSELF.
A Chicago Father's Way of Keepinz His Three
Children from Want.
John Lehman, a stroet oar driver of Chi-
cago, while brooding over the jdea that his
family would suffer from want, shot and
kilied his three childres and himsell. Leh-
man first attempted to end his own life by
banging, but failing in this he tarned the re-
yolver upon himeell and sent a bullet
through his heart, killing himsell Instantly.
The chi dren were aged three and five years
and four months,
Two older children who were not at home
escaped. Lehman had saved $1,100, asd
PENNBYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts of
the Etate
William Hafner, a miner, 2%
was killed by a fall of «
FORTS ( {
nge,
sii 88 North Mahanoy
Colliery,
i
ndrew Konitz, a car loader at
Brox
Beaver
k breaker Hazleton, was killed by a trip
fr ¥
5 4
's 40%
ning under the chules
Was r
of Dan Burnett a
John Barnett, son
well known lumberman, Clear i, who was
kicked on the head by a |
Mrs, Mary A
of L
banging
Erismae Erie
an caster by
had
Hn cunt
When ber hust
work he f
erseif in an
been despondent for some
of her sister's
death, and
came home fron her hangiog
nge,
A Bp-
Was Zl years of
Work,
z tree
ng and was kilied
ir Cave wil
was aged
W.H
46 yours
Harter, a paint
{hes pew 1 ‘ i Ba
banon, on a narrow scafloid, lo
and was «
Altho
ty-five feet, Harter
pelied to leap fron
igh ibe distance to the gr
; Whi Ub Ura,
After searching for George Foss
country for three years the Feder
arrested him in the Allsghen;
house, where he had slipped
fense., Foss and confederat
section of
three voars ago.
A serious explosion of mine
at Wii
one man was fatally injured and
§ ric Ali of
were working on the fourth life
driving a gangway when a gas
struck by Samuels, who was barriceg dowa
some top coal, it Leing near the bottom of
the slope. Naked lamps were need and one
of these ignited the gas, The timbering wae
badly damaged by the explosion
Pittsburg with
lames colliery at Potter
'
usly burned the injured men
They were
feeder was
asd some
ONG
iit to
loose coal was ignited, This burned for
time for the reason that it was dif
Lght the fire, owing 10 the prevalence of
black damp. It was not extinguished uatil
the Jift was Booded to the depth of three fect
Ly 8 hose stream
TWO BANKS SUSPEND.
First Nations and Liberty Savings Banks at Bed-
ford City Close Doors
The First National Bank of Badiond City,
Va., suspended, and a short time alter the
Liberty Savings Bank of the same piace alse
closed its doors. Since January 1, there has
been 8 continuous ran on the Yirst National,
during which time about 850,000 of deposits
have been withdrawn, The bLank officers
have made a brave fight, but were unable to
realize on the ussels sufficiently to meet the
rapid withdrawals, The actual status of the
pank is not knows, but it is believed that al.
ter some delay depositors will be paid in full
The First National Bank bad a capital of
$50,000, The Savings Bank is reported to by
in very bad shape.
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The Buitan of Turkey hes repealed the
frade for the expulsion of Christian mission-