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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.
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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
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The university riding school at Heidelberg
was burned, Four persons were sullocmnd
aad several others had narrow escapes.