THE NEWS, A fire which started fn the basement Morris & Co.'s four-story block, in Quine, LiL, completely destroyed that structure and also the large building of the Tonk Hardware Company. The Ironclad Overall Company and the F. T. Hill Carpet Company were al #0 badly damaged. The total loss will reach £300,000, mainly covered At a sawmill camp In Aree miles from Henshaw, Ky by insurance, ninty, about Bob Ward thot and fatally wounded his wife, Ella Ward Unlon e« and then placing the pistol to his own head Mew out his brains. Ward was a quiet f good habits, but was very jealous wife, who was comely and respected, anusual heavy sounty, Va , property, »uts on the —The J. L, Detroit, with smmbarrassed Louise Adams, age Anna Baimp, drowned in the Philadelphia and Camden, N. J,, by the The West § rafafall In Mecklenburg did great damage tc farming There were a number of wash- tiantie and Danville Railr Hudson Con branch pany, ole stores, n five years, an f aged fourteen were YEAars, Delaware river, betwee Cay sizing of a boat, irginia G, A R. State Encampme at Clarksburg, and year at Wheeling. of the National Society American Revolution ¢ Va. Beott Jackson behalf at his trial Pearl nt conclu deeclidad The at Newport, murder of Bryant General The Alken, 8. ( den, now in cus bills of { making mas I. Jan , to Mre, Jeann inuel Ninger, ly in New X Somerset charges hi: denomina ver, gh sess| y tb Helen Dauvra) M. Ward, the t San France terhaite, B. &O. 1 near Washingt Bill Taylor, murdere fly, was hanged Iilinois Republic delegates to Louis to vote for McK It is claimed by el sity of Missouri theria bacteria, appeared fron the amount of Guatemala, a hack dashe wore Behool littin injured and two After soveral City Treasurer Be emerging ones we a sen weeks, discharged, beir stood nine quittal. He appropriatin The bx in her r presented been 1 Chinese lived, is su deed, He F'anley by In cable ¢ at Point Plea Eugenes Cambu Tipton, Mich, by Heary Luce, dead Luce, tions to Camb re he admission to t Camburn, and shot the house, aud then A cut of five e« Hamilton and Dayton yard: Union Depot, strikin bound Pennsylvania al cars {rom Cleveland, was killed, anc New York, had his leg broken at Mannington, W. Va. were forged checks i rooks, whe 1 wo DAT cangh assed upon banks burg by « this Bherman was kill room fightin P of Pemberton Brothers, and Boston, and B. 1. fat: line for irtsmout - Sam Brumle Louisville, and theg eut hi Charies Ku agent who clients, has left no clue Hainst braska did consi Bowe, of the Weslevan Macon, Ga, has Leen Martha Washington College, Va., Vice Prof. Bearborough, Lucinda berry were killed by a cloudturst 0. Damsge is reported In other quarters ~The Virginia Court of Appeals upheld ‘the validity of the Maupin anti-raciog law of the state, but discharged from custody Lacey whose case was brought to test the law on a technical question of jurisdiction, — Strik- log cloakwakers attacked noa-unionists in Cleveland, -A ¢yclone struck North Da- kota, wiping out the town of Epiphany, kill- ing a pumber of persons and destroying much property. In the ease of Brott Jask- son, at trial at Newport, Ky., for the murder of Pearl Bryant, Dr. Edward Freeman testis fied that she had been decapitated while alive, General B. P. Hammon i, dr, brother of John Hays Hammond, was pros- trated upon learning in San Francisco of his brother's sentence. —~Jephtha D, Howe, the lawyer who was indicted with Holmes fo1 conspiracy to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Lite Insurance Company, went free in Phil. adelphia on an agreed verdict of not gulity, w~(leneral Fitzhugh Lee qualified as con. sul general to Cuba before Commissioner Adkins in Richmond, A number of dis- tinguished guests will attend the banquet of the Bons of the American Revolution in Richmond, —C. V. Clash committed suicide in Richmond.——Governor Hastings, of Pennsylvania, refused to grant a respite ig the case of H. H. Holmes. Prof. M. A. Schlechter, of the Botanical Museum, Berlin, is about tostart on a col- Jecting tour in Bouth Africa, emt OTT rms in Wisconsin, lerabile damage Female ( elected presid at at jarker, resigned, Joseph Williamson and iogdon, William , Mra Gran Heidelbranch Charles at Waldo, Sentence Commuted to Reform Committee Members, CLEMENCY SHOWN DEATH PENALTY REMITTED Seven Americans Among the Rank | and Fille Who Have Recelved Heavy Sentences. Tho death sentences impose John Hays Hammond, the Francis 1 upon Messrs, | American engl | Lionel members neer, Col, Rhodes, I'hillips Johan and George Farrar, nittes At TORNADO IN KANEAS, fi - Mach Five pers Peo as gt least vastated di The viet most of them had retired, & were in their houses and the The stor: Peter Anderson's house at 9.30 o'clock, the demolished i #lruck This | was about a mile from The house was starting point =f instant | Every member of the Ande=son family was | injured, When they had extricated them seives from the debris they discovered that Anderson's grandohild was missing, The dead body of the child was found in a ravige haif a mile away, A large number of kilied and fruft in ruined Many of the injured lay all night planed down by wreckage, while others crawled or hobbled across the country to nsighbor's house, In several instances [eople were lifted into the air by ‘he wind aad enrried for a distance, - TR - AN INFORMER THRASHED. de Was Lashed in Torn by a Husdred Men Bot Will Recover. While on his way home Lee Pinkston, a respectable white farmer, living near Brad- dy’s distillery, four miles from Salisbury, N. C.. was held up by a hundred or more masked men, taken from his wagon, pisced on a tree-stuomp and cowhided, Every man in the party administered one or more lask- es, and Pinkston waa left, thought to be dying. Revenue officers had seized twenty-five barrels of whisky at Braddy's distillery and Pinkston was charged with having given the information. After being cowhided he was told that if he did not leave the county in ten days he would be hanged. Pinkston will prcbably recover, horses were storm's track was oattie and the FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOURE. 111th Day, The House passed the Plekler deneral pension LI by 8 vote of 187 to BM The republicans and populists voted solidly ln favour of the measure, and the democrats, with six exceptions, solidly against it, The section to which the bulk of the opposition was directed provides that persons otherwise entitled to pensions shall not be disqualifted on necount of prior service in the Confeder- they joined the Unlon forces ninety days before General Lee's sur render, 121i Day. The House spent the in discussion of the Bankruptey bil, A. Btone and Mr Connolly spoke in favor of the measure, and Mr, Newlands and Mr, Broderick in opposition to it Before the Bankruptey bill was taken up there was discussion of the Treasury situntion in mpection with the approvriations for thi session, Mr. Dockery charged that 1 by this Congress, including ntracts, would reach #605 - Mr. Ding the leader of the is floor, defended appropris- ution to the fact that the bill to increase the day Mr, W HOT the inbiiities create TUS. 000 (0) for o« gley, rity on the 3 the WANE atle had passed Us, 113m Day } bill was ed lo the House are ) ire EENATE IRL @ in the epartmen ei pt “ JU roes, d The re however, have prisingly low, and there does not seem material ———II—s 18 MONTHS IN ONE POSITION. A Maz Whose Only Motion is $5 Breathe Whose Case Posies the Doctors REG Edward T. Danbar, aged 29, is in the hos Harbor, New York. wition for Boug in the He bas just ended a jour pital at Ballor’s He has remained eighteen months, ney of 6,000 miles, About two years ago, on the way to Pern, he began to suffer from acute pains in his joints, He noticed tha! his joints began stiffen and gave him great pain when be moved them, Within six months Dunbar was selplesa, Beyond breathing be has nc control of any muscle in his body, If one lays a finger on the stiffened joints the map screams w th pain. If his bed is jarred it al most sends him Into convulsions. The doe. tors have not yet diagnosed the disease, In Peru they said he was suffering from cerebro. spinal meningitis as well a2 from rheama tism. The English doctor in Callas said the disonse was rheumatic arthritia. When not moved he saffers little pain and has a hearty appetite, IO same Pp The Banh of Persia keeps the jubilee of his accession very shortiy with great festivities at Teherav, His fellow sovereigns are al ready sending presents, the Czar leading the way witha very practical gift of a whole battery of Krupp guns, STEAMSHIF SUNK. The Wyanoke Goes fo the Bottom, RAN INTO AU. §, CRUISER Captain Jenney, of the Wyanoke, Who Was the Bridge, Says He Was Confused by the Electric Lights. on Bhortly belore 8 o'clock in the morning the Old Dominion steamer Wyanoke, 2,200 tons, md to rk, col- cruiser Colume- bound from Richme Now Y tided with the Unite bin, which was anche in the James River, opposite Newport News, and went to the bots tom in 30 minutes afterward, lenney and the crew of the Wyan- the Others wers *r with a number of pasesen- gers, came ashore in rowboats, removed to the ( crow of the tug Wanderer ren assistance re Captain Jenney just relieved the pile [here was when the urred 1 Bays (1 v armed no Minnvii ee, arceratesd avil iM and without mud mpeile the jailer cell where the murderers were confined, the and srs with bound The men fought Mary of pinced on horses and thelr but the'r legs tied beneath capt desperation, were and thus secured was conducted to a point five miles away over a mountainous untry. Here they wore given short grace to confess their crime, for the men had been once sentenced to the gal lows, but secured a new trial, and no doubt existed as to their guilt. Ropes were thrown aver convenient limbe of trees on either side of the public road and with the dawn of day the bodies were found swinging like sonrce- crows in the w. nd. The lynchers are supposed to have come from the adjoining counties of Van Buren, where the murder was committed and was unknown to peopls of McMinnville, The ride over the mountains with the unwilling brothers was a wierd scene in the moonlight alopg the forest road, but the deed was done quietly and swiftly, and the party “dis persed to their homes. The bodies were cut down aod t«ken to the morgue at MeMinn- ville, where they were viewed by thousands, The crime with which the men wera charged was the cowardly murder of Car- roll Martin, an old farmer living in Van Buren county. The men stopped at the farmbiouse and asked to remain all night, During the night they attempted to rob their host, and on his refusal to tell where his money was hidden slew him in cold blood. Though sentenced once to hang the Su preme Court reversed the case and it was to come up for retrial at next term of Clreult Court. the animals bellies, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitoms of News leased From Various Parts the Btate HANY HOMELESS. A —— pleted by the the popuiation at 84,735, The Behuylikill Madical Boclety held its Mnhony Clty, publishers, gives County Homoeopathi Beventeen doctors were la at tendance, A plecs of track of found the Lancaster and dynamite was tric rallway at Lancaster, It Is and an investigation will be made, Reuben was destroyed The large Bwiss barn of near Fleetwood, quantities of hay and #4500 An inerrant LArn gave the jive stock, Charles Miller, a tinsmith while repairing the roof o pped and fell to the gre 1 BAVInZ { gr wt Lt Wo ie library, t} Bidney, f Irish Valle and was in) Sheridan Crumiey bert far Li bus 6 bal; fal killing released « The State's Snax again. t the A T aid taxes, . foun ve feast unkards or { was attended by A con Arroil’s ¢ ansacked v 1 . wh took a juantity « jewelry and other valu. ables, and ten-in mills and Fhe eight-inch ling Nut suspended operations, owing t« The departments usually smploy fifty workmen, The following verdict was gas explosion, the Allegh ay Heating Com pany being the defendant: nah I. Clayburny 2675: J. W, Dunlan, $400; Amelia Schiffaner, #050. W, Eenderson, 1.500; RL. H. Lo- gan, §50. of Ackermanvilie, sinte When George Krimp, employed at the Columbia-Rangor quarry, quit work, he harnessed his horse to drive home, Just as be got into the wagon the horse reared and backed into the quarry, both falling a distance of thirty feet. The horse was killed instantly, and Mr. Krimp was seriously injured about the head, face and back. An order has been issued by the Sate De. partment of Agriculture that all vegetables colored by any process must be distinctly inbeled “artificially colored,’ or the person offering or selling them will be Hable for the fall penaidien of the pure food law, At Dingman's Ferry, Pike County, hail. stones as big as walnuts are reported to have fallen. At Milford for a short time hail. stones se large as marbles fell, making the ground white, While playing around a turn-table, May, the 12-year-old daughter of John Emerick, at Karthaus, was caught in the cogs and had both legs broken and erashed. A bar of iron pierced the little girls body, She was so tightly wedged between the wheels that the ligaments of her limbs were torn out. She died alter five hours of terrible suffering. Cripple Creek Wrecked by In cendiaries. PALACE HOTEL BLOWN OP. of Shivering About Camp-fires Shot Whenever Caught. Thousands Homeless People Firebugs Down ‘nile the fire Was raging at Apociai trains were run I niners ihe where Supports The most terrible mining disaster thay ever occurred in Northern Mexico happened ut the Vieja mine, about twelve miles from Chihualiua. The mine is very rich in silver and has been worked for the last hundred years. The roof of the mine bas been sup- ported by great plilars of ore, and a few weeks ago P. Prieto, the owner, began tak ing out these supports. Prieto urged the miners, who are Mexicans, to continue ut work in spite of protests, it is said, and the terrible accident resulted. Eighty-five men were at work when the oave-la ocourred. Of these eighteen escaped. Rixty-seven were buried, and of these thirty-seven have been taken out, seven of whom are dead and thirty seriously crushed, and many will not live, There is very little chases of recover Ang alive the thirty men yet under the earth. —— I — THE TOWR WIPED OUT. Epiphany, ins South Dakota, Completsly Destroyed by the Cyclone Additional particulars of the recent eyalone in South Dakota, are received. Epiphany was wiped out of existence Not a buliding was left standing. No estimate of the damage to crops, live stock and property has been given, but it is known to be large. The storms was headed for Madison, but on its arrival had spent it- self and the damage was light. The list of people injured is rapidly growing and will probably reach thirty.
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