THE NEWS, Two men lost their lives at Dunsinane, N B., while fighting forest fires, which are rag. ing at many points along the Inter-colonial Railroad. While attempting to abduct hie child from its mother, Charlestown: Md., Edward Ritchie shot his brother-in-law, The child was serious. near and was himself cut ly injured, John Jarrett, a school boy Hv. ing at Bt. Albans, W. Va., was drowned while Kanawha River Grifith the hospital at Hazleton, injuries inflicted by Mellinger while bathing in the floberts died at Pa., from tho effects of gome unknown person. Jacob accidentally shot and killed out gunning in Hopewell township, Pa.—- Jordan Phillips, colored, was hanged at De- witt. Ark., for the murder of his wile, The committed spring.—- t and killed an himself! murder was last George Holt known burglar at Holtz, Pa.) Three m Fenton, Meyers Bteady, who are at work at Cedar Beach, Vt, left that place for K.Y..ina small rowboat with improvised sall. is believed that all three Dow, president of the Commercial National Bank of Denver, Col, charges of misappropriating funds and mak sh un- ringer en named and Fasex, an wore lost, C. has been indicted on A gas explosion in © edd Red ing false reports. feyville, Kan., wre ten bull one man and fatally injured two others Ellen LaPiant a y the weave-room of the J eton ( at Lowell, Mass. a ten-inch steamy women Dewitt, a Grayson, Ky. justice of the Buprem was acquitted of John I. Davids Ind., exploded were fatall ages were road rec ersburg, W. Va., by Mrs. Lucy woman employed in n Mill f ott was killed by the failing 4 » ‘ew the 3 ir ipe. wo other youn were seri . James injure wife mu hapged in jodgrass, chief Beasley yn Brothers sawmill, with terrific injure y brought against ivers in the Cir charges tl chil natior it. y Exce fasurance gun in —T he lothian mine Richm Carla UNS 000 are cul have b een sheri wreck of nen were Osage ( Coal 87 one, thr Mon ay shaft, N mite in out of w taken ir 1a. town tir Poydres ’ trai an freight artin the tramj at £15 , equipped with Northern forest fires were reg Pennsylvania and new mach largest in Mexi were killed and a tornado that swept the Kansas, —The eral Conference mises to no and report t Fire the American [oth at ansas pointed a com TT the catechism conference Opera House, residences of Willlar leatr H Halst mott and John Normar In Richmond, Mo, held three of Dr. ¥F. W. Fmker, swindler, but held t iny 1nd the nade in ( took an Af peal * Eleven bridges were was AWAY an miles f Bwarce and track are under water between Holdenville, on the Chortaw, Okishoma asd Gulf Road, as a result of the first night's through. sociated Presa was hel B steady growth in rains, Al train ran the As- and the showed a IOATY The annual ing { | in feporis of the mrd of Director the membership of the Pr. Thomas Rean injured by great news serv was shot and his wife on the street James Btephons Wheeling, W er on the steam fest wor Colum ler in Ya was aout Charles Rintelew, an oi pulp Wyanoke, who wi badly soa at the time of the ; with the era bia, died at St an se A gy 03h Pittubuiry Hospital io Norfolk, the city at #425 ix f the srcouttn of shows inAc wreoked tarney of caotunted for A [freight (ain was wt Lesman Piacs, a sss sent ion cs POISONED FOUR, TEEN DIED. A Demented Man Tried to Kill His Whole Family Before Committing Suicide. Bernard Koch drowned himsell in ths reservoir of the Penn Plate Giass Company et Irwin, Pa. after poisoning his brother-in law, his wife and two children, His wife will probably die, but the others will re cover, Koch was injured about a year ago bya train and has acted strangely ever since. It fs supposed that he was {osane when ue committed the deed, i 1 The Transvaal authorities seem to be in- elined to substitute heavy fines for the sen- tences of imprisonment imposed upon the members of the Johannesburg reform com- mittes, though no official announcement has yet been made. Kansas Towns Struck by Ter- rific Winds. FIVE KILLED IN KENTUCKY. Hundreds of Homeless People Sev~ eral Children Killed, While Others Are Saved by Cy~ cione Caves — Many Wounded, ¢ TORNADOES. | | Reports received in Kansas City indicate that a terrifle tornado passed over Marshall and Nemaha counties, Kapsas, covering ab unusually large territory, dealing death and destruction through the two counties, A despatch from Beru, Nemaha county, re ports that Beneca, the county real, Wis struck by a tornado at 7 o'clock P. M. One third of rtion of the U was destroyed and five were and fifteen badly injured, the wo residence po ersons killed The county's maguificent new court house thet Church are am Five hundred of the citizens of Seneca are ywi's big school house and the Catholle yng the bulldiogs wrecked, ‘he property loss oe he ony reported to b is estimated at $100,000. The five dead are two children of M. E Mr, ( he tornadoes also Nemaha Marshall cot children of verhes, (Wo onnell and a son of Peter Assemacher, the towns of fort win bint b ‘rae Dobe Franksfort, Lia, that many suffered. ished, ie were § “it fences and amage in Tha " i hers Was partes of the county. Ihe damage npsonia it no Ving WHA savers 1 savere Hyes RI MR. CARLISLE'S SPEECH. The Secretary Writes that He Never Made Use A vocating Free Bilver A special to the Galveston News from lee The fk of wretary Uatlisle to Mr ville, Tex. says lowing is 8 copy a letter from Be Porter, of this county, beating on his speech in Congress Washing on, I CMe. BO Potter, Pat tus City, [Texas My Dear Bir. Your favor of eto send ie opy of the Mth inst. requestis the speech made by me in the House of Hep ~~ February, 1875, is resentatives of the 21st of received, and in respouse you are informed that the speech was not published except in the official proceedings of Congress, and that | canaot, therefore, copy The speech. was made in the free coluage of silver aud in favor of striking out the free coinage provision from the pend, ing Lili and inserting in leu of ita section requiring the Beeretary of the Treasury tw purchase not less than 2.000.000 worth not more than $4,000,000 worth of silver builion each month sad coin it into standard sliver doliars on account of the government The statement that is gow belag circulated 80 extensively ic Texas aud slsewhors that | made » free-colnage speech in 1878, of al say other time, is absolutely laise, aud maay of the people who are circulating the statement know it to be false, Yours, very truly, J. G. Canvisre. 4 DISASTROUS EXPLOSION, An African Palace Destroyed and 200 People Killed. An explosion at Bida, in the Nupe coun- try, on the Niger river, has razed to the ground the palace of the Emit Meleki and send opposition to you a has killed 200 people, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS HOUBE he House opterod upon lvbute of the immigration bills rep riod from the immigration committen, Mn W.A wud Mr. Treacowslil, argued for n re utrictive mensure, Mr Corliss, for bil lesigned to put an end to « snn com potion with American labor, apd Mr, Morse wud Mr. Bartholdl for the educations: test Lil 1277 Day il dt ope lin nn 12811 Day, The House passed the Dar thaldt-MeCall bi to restrict Immigration by Imposing an wduentionnd quaitliention I'he Cnrliss amendment applying ps Cunndinng y adopted 12% rn Day Bon h of the House wapied fo cousidering the Pres. ident’ veto of a Lill to pension Francis | Hoover, a private in the Sixty-fourth OV I, and in listening to a personal explanation from Mr. Grosvepor relative ton paper migropresentation of his pe sition on the sul ject of reciprocity, that the time for debate n the hit ommission bill was extend the nppointment mmis resentatives iitnre and 1 consider and re meet the re and prin Wins time non Wis O [ews od Fhe bil the Pres partisan ¢ I ven reg frot usiness ie problems sented by labor, sgricaitu apital ri Day nlerer which t. by the Aver, which The ach several hours j§ sinking schovuer Mary D was in stonmer City of Duluth been io collision, revivasd with the steamer Onoko At on the Lake Shore was pulling out, QO fast freight the air front brakes An middle of train was erushed like a paper box, [and of seven it and five more or lees severely | Afr Line Junction As 3 boss broke, wetting the empty stovk car in the the men who were riding in one was kilied jured Mieh , Edward Westfall, rowed out A despatch fron save that aged 19 and Il years respectively, inte Lake Michigan to Jift lish about four miles off shore A heavy sgaull same up and it is believed the boat was cap. St. Joseph reine Jones and nels a sized and both young men drowned, as they have eon missing =ines, ————— A I JIO—L 30 AND HANGED A BOY, The Victim Was Feund Alive Easy Easue. A dispatch from Gttumwa, In, says: Dee eauss James Sparbuck, 12 years of age, taunted them. Mike Evans and Fred Doud, fastened a chain around his neck, tied one end to a board apd threw their vielim over a fence, The ehild was found before death ensued, but it is thought he cannot secover. Evans and Doud are in jail EE ——————— The new Argentine minister to the United States, Dr, M. Gureia Meron, who {2 on bis way to Washington, sailed [rom Southamp- ‘ton on the Sprea, but Dest ———— FALLING WALLY. People Killed and Hurt by @ Building Collapsing, BIG BUILDING TUMBLES. The Will Crashes Downon a Bare per Shop, in Which Were a Nums= Ona of Killed, per of Barbers the iarbers ym A despateh Ire Foepecn street sid former Western apsed, kKiIDLR other wit} ni Fhe ny un few weeks ny Western biock began the work il slrength ening Bouecs streel side w Kien were sugaged in 4 Vi'e OW Fon COIUMUS anG DERIMS » of un section of i fiug Hike fLiose whose oa Year Are on je, Jan Greet names [requent ev, 1. B testant pastor, Ar in 19 Mont iy app Pro- than Methodist Epis. at Willow Creek. Hiateier nas first who had labored more 30 years for the cause of the copal Church, died recently Alexander Agassi son, Max the distin Agas. Professor guished naturalist, and his siz. with two professors of Harvard College, Dr. W. MeN, Woodsworth, Dr. A. G Mayer, were passengers by the mall steamer M for Sydney, N. 8, W, on its last trip. Mrs In and nowail sniap Hopkins, founder of the New York School of Applied Design for Women, who i4 now in London at the invitation of Princess Christian, to assist in establishing a sehonl of design fn connection with the South Kensington School, reports the most gratify- ing results concerning the work, Alexander Pittinger, of Shelby, Mich., who voted for William Henry Harrison and every Whig and Republican President since, thinks he will have some especial claims on the next President if it be MeKinley or Allison. He was born in the same county and State a, the former, and in the same town as the lat- ter, with whom he wag a schoolmate, A touching scens at the funerai of Chris. tian Dennett, at Mt Pleasant, Mich,, oe curred recently, when Emma Ywba, aa aged Indian woman, who bas for years been with. out support of any kind, says that received by charity, passed down the room and gan. ing steadily into the casket murmured: “Oh, my son, Dennett,” and then with streaming eyes lifted her hand and pointing heaven ward, muttered a prayer in the Indian lan gunge. The dead man bad never refused to help the old woman, and she had practically lived on his bounty. PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Gleaped From Various Parts fhe Plate Epitome of News Namuel Bhellhawmmer Was serious 11 Mine, Ope of the brick butldings « Foundry & Ma famuged E2000 by 1 figured Hazleton Inmngun fthe Bethichem hine Companys pian was fire wudapun A Wars. trolley of Medin Clr “ 1thpequentiy Py the breakin three Joad ORl CATR Were VERTE Benlend f inf the n horse bn 8 T vehi roaan, Fy ge the ITAEESG # broken ¢ Amendu by Mr of 3% nesl prosj Senate defeated a ition The | Gorman for the prop | gin O00 (R30 1 r io 1 smilie « wer [reasury certificates Jv This was foliowed by Mt greenbacks to meet oop | tive icisncies fefeat of the Peffer, of ano proposition by fe Kags the appro Lill issue of ptia Both propositions were offered as amendments 10 { tions made Ly the fortifications rifleations bill, which was passed, thus the ! tenving bal oue of the appropriation bilis gh- acted on by the Senate Mr. Gorman's amendment an animated fNoancial debmte, with Mr. Sherman and Mr the main participants Mr Sherman resisted the amendment and arged that the proper step was to pass the Dingley emergency tari bill Mr. Gorman made an offer to Mr, Bhermas ‘hat both sides of the chamber join in & Don: partisan reliel measure, imposing A lax on ten and coffee and repealing the rebate onal” sohiol used in the arts, which would, he said, sdd £4.5,000,000 to $50,000,000 to the revenues, ad would reduce rebates by $15,000,000, Me. Sherman did not respond 10 the sugges. fev eloped Gorman as tou A motion of Mr. Mills to lay the Gorman smendment on the table prevaiied—yeons 43, anys 8. Mr. Peflor's greeaback uwmead ment was defeated without debate—yons 43 nays 12. The fortification Sil as passed carries $10,763,888, or $4.918051 more than the tiouse appropriated. Archiluke Charles Louls of Austria, eidest brother of Emperor Francis Joseph, is dead 4t the age of sixty-four years CABLE BPARKE There were twenty-four deatl LWEnLY ern in Cairo, The Bermuda bas run ug man 3 Genoral ¥axin CHERRE CHEESE —NX. Y. Fapoy... 8 N, XY. Fiats Skim Cheese Riate EGGS North Carolina POULTREL 8 LIVE CHICKENS. Hens Ducks, per iH TOBACCO, TOBACCO-MA. Infer's.. § Sound common LIYE BTOCK. PEEP Best Deeves # tHEE?.... ig Hogs Ty A FURS AND SKIN RUBKPAT. ..ocovns Basooon ..... Red Fox Skunk Black Opossam Mink. FLOUR-Bouthern. WHEAT-No. 2 Rad...... RE- Woeslert. .....coinm OCORN-No. 2... 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