THE NEWS. of a batrel of 3 1 of the big sheds of An explosion naptha in ore the Btandard Oll Com. any near the water front on Chelsea sast Boston, started troet, destroyed wrage of oll, a fire which wo sheds used for the st nin im nense coal shed oce i} ted by the East Be on raslight Company and other {otal loss A cave in « Jueretaro, Mexi indoer earth and ste property, £35,000, ured wi ins tam Ri u i AL Mines nonr in were buried rd was brought 0 Queraturo from tl ne of ident hat fo the jeveral others injured the ace killed and Alfred C. Fields, :olored, convicted of murder in Chicago, was ir of were xecuted Fire destroyed about £70.000 Pa. during a evelone worth of property in Hazleton hurt which passed near Mound I'he Society of the Six sersons were badly Ridge Texas, Cincinnati, in session in Philadelphia, elected officers and adjourned A number of people were buried in Okla homa by the Mrs, H daughter Ook at an ated enry Soh were shot ad He ther of Chi Wester] James listance i MeQulre, « Ottawa. Lil. to pieces and then attempted suicide Mra. Irene Leopard vieted, in Wichita, Kan. ¢ bu 3 The First National Bank The tail an WAS her ed a . iraering v 2 Basa i ¥ band to secure Dis ins sitors will : bal no sooner 1d the tree whe it of lightning k it and killed ail four of them The Bixth instantly, As ns was begun in Annual Couvention of the sociation of Military Burge Phi kiilee Alexander was The ¥ * . the Cramps The adseiphia, Jack BR. i ar 8, inl iyv.. by John Steera erulser Drooklyn returned to shipyard after a suceessiol trial Southern Baptist Convention, in session al Chattanooga, concluded ts work and ad- foarnd, oresis on the North and Bouth Mountains were burning and the Cumberland Valley was filed with smoke. Bain checked the fire in the region about Clearfield, Pa In Cape May coun tv, N. J., four dwellings and several Larne were burned, Groat strete ies of issn — SPANIARDS DEFEATED, Four Hundred of Their Troops Killed ina Csban Engagement. Advices from Havana state that in the re. cent action between Antonio Maceo and Geno eral Yucian at Cacarajicarns, Pinar del Rio, 400 Spaniards were killed, while the Cubans lost 17. Socaras, the famous Cuban leader, was killed in this battle, : 1 | i i | i i GHTNINGS WO errible Storm in Delaware and Virginia, GREAT DAMAGE WAS DONE. Down Da~ Rain and Wind Work Havoc In I Fruit Cut and Crops stroyed the Wastaern Northwestern States, and F'wo persons met horrible deaths « heavy thunder storm at N 1 rs had a miraculous es he dead are 8, 1. D BnKnown, Un the ia e 1 At Marahail, , Mra, Jones was fatally blowing down lamaged in its to the as it northeast and The bere went lone was 40 miles east of ore] that several persons killed Were Kis near Dawson, 20 miles east « { Stillwater, but reports cannot be verified, I - TESTED AT INDIAN HEAD. An eight-inch Harveyvized nickel steel re- forged plate was tested at the Indian Head proving grounds, Washington, Wednesday, for the was en- Carnegiou Russian Government, and the test tirely satisfactory, The armor is intended for the first-class vessel Russia, bullt at Bt Petersburg. The dimensions of the plate were 7: by 12 feet, and nine shots in all were fired at it, the points of impact being not less than threo feet from each other, and at least two feet from the edge. Bix shots were fired from a six-inch gun ot a striking velocity ranging from 1.826 to 2. 100 feet, and three from a four-inch gun at a striking velocity of 1.950 feet, Halzer and Carpenter projectiles being used, None of the projectiles went through the plate, and 8o far as could be ascertained 5s greatest penetration was about five inches, Every shot imbedded itself, while the butts were more or less shattered. The plate de- veloped no material eracks, and on the show. ing made the whole lot will be accepted by the Russian gevernment, iiss ——————— Anti-mistlonary riots have occurred at Kiang-Yin, China, where the British mission stations were looted and burned, No lives were Jost, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. HOUBE. 12187 DAY. The session of the House was almos: satirely devoted to the consideration of District of ( Among the bills pnased was one to nuthorize the Bec retary of the Treasury to detail re tors to foree regulations ut 1220 Day. ~The Houss decided to ex; from the Record certain tables printed in a epacch made by Mr, Wheeler, of Alabama, which were not a part of Mr, Wheeler's original speech, The f the day wus devoted to the contested case of Rinanker va, Downing, from sixteenth Hilnols district, 1430 Day. The river and harbor priation bill was passed hy the B nate an unusualdy st y experience, many days. As finally passed the bill direct appropriations of #12 200 000 and an. continuing contracts of #54 030,000, an aggregate of ¢ $76,000,000, Mr tiormnan ught to s nent niting the ntras Xk pondita £10,000 000 annunily, was tabled, 124th Day The day to private pensi columbia business, venus cut regatias, tne rest o aioction the ARppro after lasting makes amendment belug favoral were s ¥ wit} with shells, to A GOD ‘ LO fire upon, LH heavy amoke wed where theit rocks and sh had come from had to enemy I'he vanguard of the or also {aon at attack from a lis of the the steep hills perched sx entrenchments on { hich faced ‘Gem, and to add to the damage and confusion, an atiack was veey » The and ¥ opened on the Jo flank of the troops first the cavalry battalion the company of the Seamore were ent asted with task « repelling the Sank afiwek ——————————————— BANK ROBBERS GET $11,000. Theft a a Tews. Cold Daylight Emall Tllizole The most daring bask robbery which has noon at Buffalo, thirieen miles east of Spring- field, the cashier being bound and gagged and $11,000 carried off by the robbers. The Bank of Buffalo is owned by A Al Pickrell & Co. Two masked men entered the bank jost as Carl Kioppenburg, the cashier, was locking up the safes preparatory to going to bis dinner. Kloppeaburg was the only person in the bank at (he time. The robbers sdized him from behind, bound and gaged him, and then took all the money in the bank, amounting to $11,000, William P. Dawson, who entered the bank sometime later, saw Kloppenburg lying on the floor bound, and released him. Kloppea- burg could give but a meager description of the robbers, It is thought they are experts at the business, The country has been scoured by mounted men without success. PARDONED. Pretoria ~~ Prisoners Released on Parole, ONLY THE LEADERS HELD. The and Report Recsived In London Berlin—-England Protests the Russian Oc of the Foo, Against cupancy Che After h maneuvers for thres b Iwhaved beautil irving M. Reott, fron Works, ‘The trial makes the Oregon abe h time she HES of tha President Union in speaking of result, said slutely ft ironciads of the world. for defence and y needed a trial to prove that than any of spool of 16878 rivainl among the 3 iris nf anes Bhe beats the Massach and onl she cas a'taln a speed greater The Kno's praciically for six houra shows beyond her rivals Averaze a questioa her ability of sustaining great sposd for long prriods In ongiae wae equal ’ Soon after her return every respect her performance without an to Ban Francisco, presented with sot by the State of Oregon in honor and appreciation of the grandest battleship In the world, The Oregon left immediately for San Frascisco alter sending telegrams ashore, TORNADO IN NEBRASKA. when complete, she will be a $1000) silver digner Lm People Driven Into Caves Panic in a Bchool- Houses Demolished, A tornada swept over Lincoln, Neb, A funnel-shaped cloud shot down from the storm centre and a general stampede of citi zens for cellars and caves snsued, At the schoolhouse the children fled panie- stricken to the furnace-roo n amid the wild. est confusion and many of them were burt The storm struck the ground north of the town, Its course was northwest. The path of the storm was from 200 to 300 yards wide, and everything in this path was razed to the ground, fnc'uding several houses. After traversing a distanoe of about two miles the eloud arces and at a point five or six miles farther to the porth dropped again to the PENNBYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of News Gleaved From Various An Helghis fro inknown mm fn Media, by Crushes in a fey t W. H. Jones, a tinsmith die the effects of 8 pe wis standing upgpn the payn from iar section of spouting which was being Trstend to the } of a caused CRYEN bullding when him to It fell, striking hin wind threw him in the gutter Int irty and he sustaine be paid back I this year, After the su Innes a will was saving his property to cepsed. The will was probated in « that the estate may be ad and divided fmong the helrs.at-l found, dated April vained at 216.000, to wile, who bad occupied appartments in the with Mr Innes was A bachelor, et ——cs ssn MASSACRE OF TRADERS. Bea sacond will was , 1PAVILE Lhe estate Tits ant Lege Riegel same house Innes {or a number of Mr YOLIR Islanders Resort to Aca of Canribaliem. Benth The steamer Monow just arrived at San Francisco bring news of the wholesale mae gacre of traders and missionaries by natives of the islands of Manning Straits and the Solomons. Malayta savages butchered a whole boat's crew of men from the brig Rio Loge at Rabiana, two Fresch and one American trader being slaughtered. The mission on the island had been attacked and the missionaries escaped with difficulty, go- ing back to Sydney by the first ship. The murders on the island of Maaniag Straits were followed by acts of cannibaliem, A small trading schooner owned by a French trader was attacked and the owner and his American assistant and eight peace ful natives were lured ashore and beaten to death and the trading station was sacked. Two Eoglish missionaries are missing and it is supposed they were also murdered. The mission on the Ousan Island has been aban doned as the result of the airocities of the natives A ——— Captain-General Weyler has no “intention of resigning his post in Cabs because of the present s ate of the Competitor affair, THIRTY KILLED. Death Dealt Out fo a Texas Town. MANY BURIED IN THE WRECK The Injured Fast As cated Taken als As Extri- to Hospi Could the They He From Ruins of the Demolished Bullding. tothe Fort A Epecial the annex fT and de- 1 Car amaged (3 i Rial wera pnework of several i wers ts in several siores were bod - ) had , and trains wore wrecked Lion y damaged by water CAS { per the Chesapeake th delaved on account The siresls are « 1 gether the storm was the worst in the of the oldest ‘inhabitants. So far as asper- tained no one was seriously hurt, SCOTT JACKSON GUILTY. Death Fined sz the Pesslty fn Pear] Bryas. Killing Mus Scott Jackson was found guilty of murder in the first degree st Newport, Ky. The jury fixed his penalty st death. The crime was the killing of Misa Pearl Bryan, of Greesoas tie, Ind., with whom Jackson had been inti mate and who was induced to come to Cine cinpati for the purpose of haviag a erimigal operation performed On the morning of February I her headless body was found in a lomely piace on the Kentucky side of the Ohio river. Alonzo M. Walling, a fellow student of Jackson, will be tried for com- plicity in the murder. Jackson received hile doom with po mani festation of emotion except ashen paleness of the face. None of his reintives were present. The aged father of Pearl Bryan and her brother, Fred Bryan, were present when the verdiet was rendered, The usual motion for a new trial yas made and then Jackson was taken away to jail He had been surrounded by a hall dozen or more officers when the jury came in, and went out under their protection, although there was no demsastration to indicate a necessity for so much care,
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