———— THE NEWS. The Citizens’ Bank, one of the oldest banks fn Union City, Ind,, closed for want of funds, The last dollar was paid out, and the auditor of state notifled. Liabilities, $75,000; assets, £135,000, lect and scarcity of money, —- Gamble Droth- Cause of fallure, inability to col ers & Co., extensive lumber dealers at High land Park, Ky., Trust Company. No sta Habilities was made, have assigned to the Fidelity tement of assets and De utianws, who has beer laylor Ik, leader of a notorious gang of « wanted for several weeks for tho the sheriff of Pike County, Ga near Senola by Detective Looney, of the At lanta police force, Romulus Cotell self-confessed murderer of the Btone in Akron, O., before Common Fle: J. A. Kohler, and pleaded not gulity, judge appointed Attorneys E. F. Harvey Musser to Heiser com George Youn his brains. ference passed u resol oriations t« Homer Judd, of the Worth Packing Com Fort Worth, on the Interstate ( the head of ti ceeded, with the feotin D. Mi Seminary at y sectarian Indian sel Rev, Hen were {rottiied German re suicide hy Tenth and H nacribed t ties, — naut cago, wit was tweniy was hurl, steamer 3 § Virginia Norfolk Ir and Tangier lags Bettis ment t the state { and five in of timgton, ware I adapted pr taking apprent class pilots is redu The schooner Norma, Francisco | 10st. eide club, poisoned himself with in Ban - Patrick J. Chicago lias the federal grand jury. The charge is con- spiracy. Father Kolaszewski, of the Inde pendent Catholic Church, of ready to transfer the church property and to the Methodist Church. Redgers, a colored desperado, fatally injured at Sybene, O., while burglar fzing the postoffice ia J. C. store, Fred Crawford, did the shooting. Hoary Felpel, an em- ploye of the Laucaster Pa., Caramel Com- pany, was orushed to death, ~The 1,200. Yon foor-master schooner Danlel B, Fearing, with a cargo of coal, went ashore about a mile north of the Highland Light Station, in Massschusetts, The crew of nine men were paved by the lifesavers. The vessel will Probably be a total loss, -—The Pennsyl- vania and Cumberland Valley Rallroads are ®t work on the proposed extension into the coal regions, — Fred Crawlord shot and killed Kintley Bogers, ons of two men who was tryiog to burglarize his store, James Juenci and his wife were arrested fn Wheel. jug, W. Va., on the charge of robbing the Maxwell Mansion. i —— a ———— The United States cruiser Minneapolls, cy ger way from the Mediterranean to Crone stadt, where she will represent the United States Navy upon the oceasion of the Czar's soronation fetes, anchored at Bouthampton snd exchanged salutes with the warships and Ioy's. wr the South Be George G. Haag, n member « aE rv Francisco, Dexton, millionaire, been indicted by congregation Crawford's sixteen years old, HOLMES BANGED. PROTESTS HIS INNOCENCE Went Fody He ills Neck Through 3roken An Trap Carted Away Accompanied by the the Poundings on the Wapon of a Crowd of Eovs, Herman W. Mudgett, alias H. H. E<imes, Moyame ideiphia, at 12% hat is the tims hanged in 10. 000 Benjami ther in erime an August this man Caliowhili iher 4, Pite- r root of this house rented a hot at 1016 Perry, street, Philadelphia. On Sapte 'H zol was found in an ip dead. It arranged hetween the two men that Pitezel or Perry, as hie to the neighbors, should be burned by an ex was was known plosion, from the effects of which he shoul i apparently die, but instead a o purchased for the cecasion should be palm ed off on the insurances company as his, This was the plot as Pitezel knew it. Ho in- tended, the hot only should burn but also kill his e nfeder. ate, Dead men no tales, and would be one less to share the 210 000, It was throogh the determined efforts of the defrauded insurance company that Holmes was finally brought to punishment. Holmes had a long and fair (rial. He made a sensation early in the court proesed- ings by dismissing his conus] and attempts ing to handi» his ows ease” Another lawyer was assigned by the court and the case went on. A large number of Ww. tnesses came from nll parts of the country to testify. An at tempt to get a new trial after the jury brought in a verdict of gulity in the frst de- grees was unsuccessfiol, While Holmes was convicted of murderine but one person, Pitezel, there Is not the shadow of a doubt that he subsequently mur dered three of Pitezel's children and plotted to kill thelr mother and the other two, Af ter he became convinced that he could pot eseape the gallows, he confessad to the kill- lug of several other people, but his alleged jmes however, that explosion teil there “oonfession'’ has proved to be largely a sue of falsehoods, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRERS, HOUBE. 11711 Day. —The opponents of four battle. ships sustained an overwhelming defeat fn the House on the proposition to accept the Benate amendment the naval appropria tion bill reducing the number to two, Mr. Bayers made the motion and supported his plea for economy with lgures as to the con- ditlon of the treasury for the next [scal year, 118th Day.—The House passed without division a resolution for final adjournment on Monday, May 18, and then proceeded un- der a special order to consider private pen- sion bills and acted on them at the rate of about one every five minutes, In five and a half hours seventy-two bills were favorably acted upon, among them bills granting the widow of the late Secretary Walter Ellza- Gen. Phil month; the widow of the late Benator George E Bpencer, of Alabama, Gen, Jar C. Parrott, 50 wi yf Gen, James H. math, and Gen. t to Kearney, 825 per tes the Hunt, of Kansas, #756 per m Nat nball, £100, 1 of a three a-hi us fl put res Mr. Crockett, the novelist who returned from a holiday in Holland, is no much impressed with that country as a set- ting for a story. His Intention was to locate the principal scenes of his next novel in Hol the idea, 4 AM. « of his appeal against the Societe de la Comidie- Francalse, and is again forbidden to plav at any theatre in Paris or the provinces with- wut the permission of Comedie-Francaise sathorities, The penalty for disobedience a 500 {rapes or £100 per night. welin, the celebrated actor, has lost — sts A FIVE-YEAR FAT B07. A Mar ood Infant That Tips the Scale at 131 Pounds. Deal's Island, Md., has a prodigy in a b- year-old boy who tips the scale at 131 pounds, At the boy's birth he was not of anu wal size, but he rapidiy grew until sow at the age of five years he stands four feet high, weighing 131 pounds, The { ther of the boy is a very small man, weighing soven pounds less than his five. ssar-old som, and his mother is a little woman, ¢ Mr. Renler a Belgian, bas bequeathed to the Belgian Treasury the sum of 2 000,000 francs, to be applied to the foundation of a ‘medical institute to be called the Institut Rommelaere, BY GASOLINE, A —————— B—— A AAA A Terrific Fatal Explosion In Cincinnati LIGHTING PLANT ELEW UP. Two Bulldings Almost Completely Blown to Pleces by the Force the Explosive Gas Ons Wiped Out, of Family was The five-story building at 430 and 432 Wal { nut street, Cincinnati, Oblo, was blown to pleces Ly an explosion of gasoline, ong are known to be dead and Bix per lend, but two have y 8 pAme ia fs a traveling saicsman Mr. MeCan the Fouear bar, filess was The ! Liew the gas register the explosion sideboard, bar, ¢ nek MeCandiess Mr at the Monroe Bath House, on Seventh street it across the king him down Candless boards in Giutches, the barkeeper st Foucat s was aisd hfirt. His bead was cut quite severely, and ie was removed to the Gibson House, Mr. Moyer says that after he discovered the na ture of the accident be ran directly for the box at the corner of Fourth and Walnut. He reached the piace just as Robert M. MeClay, of Hook and Ladder Company, No. 6, pulled the alarm, Clem MeCanaba, 1 clerk at the Palace was walking on the opposite side of the street in front of the barber shop when the explosion oeeurred. He described the sensation as al most paralyzing The force of the explosion fitted him about three feet off the sidewalk and then deposited him in a heap on the ground, He arose, feeling that he was ine jured, and walked unsteadily to the hotel An examination showed that an artery in his lower Jeg had been severed some way, But an exaraination of his Derby hat revealed the fact that be had bad a very narrow os eape from death, A silt about two inches long gaped open in the Crown of his hat, showing that a sharp plece of glass had pene- trated it and glanced off sideways, The doe tor who was called says’ Mr. McCanaba will probably not be able to walk well for some aays, Rev, George P. Knapp, the Amerioan mis” siopary who was expelled from Bitlis by the Turkish authorities, has arrived in Constan- tineple in good health. PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. Epitome of News Oleaned From Various Peru the Etats. Governor Hastings has appointed David T. Caldwell, of Tyrone, to be coroner ol Beaver county, to fill a vacancy caused by the resig- untion of James Foust, to police of Alt Gencral Joseph F, of Harrisburg, i has been (An ated by Grounds, on appointed night watch at the | Blate Departn sit. i fice or the | Board of Public Bull the ‘retary Miller, from « ings and request of Be i Mra, Issa parr Header, W eRCH pe The stron she pereamed ve i tent fh LOL her hu frave Grapes wido wore married tl monial burean and had iat Lie directed that her A penn Handre Halifax, N by forest fires A fire at RKingst ¥ Yigg i & Rigney 8 hots Kux, in Bar ingt | by a train The i Va, was struck | building at Barrackville, W. by Hattie Youst was killed and thres others were io- soho lightning Mins | jured, one probably fatally ; | Ranslowe A. Boone, a prominent merchant | of St Clair, Pa., ki led by being thrown from His wile, was instantly carriage. who was with him, was serious y injured Another body from the rulus of the building on Walnut street, Cincinnati making the death roll seven. The list of missing now numbers 16, but may be less, Samuel Bissell, aged 37, trave er for a New York dry goods company, fo | from a third-story window of the P ant- ers’ Hote , in 8t. Louis, and was fata ly in- Jjured The steamer Miowoca, brought to Victoria, B. C., the particulars of the explosion in the Brunner Colliery, near Wellington, New Zea and, on March 27 Of the sixty miners entombed not one escaped death. Mrs Minnie Hue s nan was burned to death and her infant son fata iy injured, at their home in 8t. Louis, Mrs. Huelsman was 0i - ing the tank of a gaso ine stove, when the flaid exploded. The Erie mall on the Pennsy vania Ral - road ran oto & andside 35 miles north of Harrisburg. The .ocomotive went over a stoop embankment and three cars were de railed. No one was serious ¥ hurt. John Potnlny and A. Purski, two well known saloon keepers of South Chicago, were found dead In bed from asphyxiation at a Chicago hotel. The two men were drunk when they went to bed, and it is sup posed one of them turned out the gas and then turned it on again. his was recovered wrecked a commercial Cleveland Extends Civil Service, NO MORE SPOILS OF OFFICE Nearly Thirty Thousand Places are Added to Classified Made Laborers Alone the List Removals Can be Onl For Cause are Excepted, nlIETY Wi mn. CIVIL SERVICE ORDER. 1 resident and Brings 30000 More Employes Inte Service, xpected order of the President civil service most of the class fad The order will include within the civil sor most 30,000 additional Goverpment em- the belt service assistant in a few The ployes, Practicalls outside the only perscas be secretaries, heads of bureags and oivn wii order is to take effect immediately. which are been re The number of classified places excepted {rom examination has duced from 203 to 775, being mainly posi tions as cashiers in the customs, postal aad internal revenue services, ladians employed in misor capacities in the Indian service are necessarily put in the excepted list. Almost all of the positions in Washinglon which have heretofore besn excepiad have bees Ine cluded in the competitive list, The only ciasaified position is Washington which will be excepted from examination ane der the pew rules will be private ssoretaries or confidential clerks (hot ercesdisg (wo) to the President and to the bead of each of the wight executive departments. No posi tion will hereafter be subject to nop-Come petitive examination, except in the cases of Indians employed in teaching capacity in the indian service I ——— The university riding school at Heidelberg was burned, Four persons were sullocmnd aad several others had narrow escapes.
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