THE NEWS, At Shelbyville, Ind., Millard sey of thirteen, accidentally sunt, Miss Pearl Hilt, I'he New Cheatre at Niagara Falls, was destroyed Five members of the Frazier, io Bridgeton, N. J., are suf Thee f Bpring } by dre Jgiah ‘ering from the effects of will die, feld, Mo., committed suicide in Kngsas ( Mo, ~~ Maximillina Wileolm, the branch of the National Bank Yucatan, has been declare will poison. E. Argyio Campbell, o ‘nshior of Mexic ax st Meridia, of embezzling #160,000, and qeavy sentence, One man was killed ane ten others fatally injured in a lire house in Kansas City. A [reight train I a track near Marengo, lows, on | adly wrecked, besides some other dam Four tramps who were stealing a rile killed, Lawrence Cummings, who so eruelly mur a red wife, Elizabeth tried to murder his daughter, on of June 12, 1806 committed Seattle, Wash, Cummings, Aan. the his Sulcide 1 county jail at ; McKinley, road 3 r master of the Eva: Indisnapolis Rallroad, Ington, Ind Ihe Cinelnn in custody W. M. Wilkers sville an wns killed at Wash lumber dealer of Asheville, wanted at that place fo n ing i shoo curred of yore was a collision between nd the strikers in Cleveland, The e § i mm i declare a sympathetic Bland . fs pve. ina thres gery i f + rai election Shit at The wived a letter from ¥. Bruce, of a free. Ala. r has re direct ir of ihe Li TR Misa New York, enclosing pur. chasing needed apparatus for use at the ob- servatory, Concord, miles from Teun, consisting of nine stores, was de- stroyed by fire. The fire originated in the teiephone office in the center of the block, and spread to adjoining buildings, One of these contained powder and dynaa ite, which exploded, accelerating the spread of the flames about $20,000, partially In- sured, The house of Lucy Parsons, widow of Albert R. Parsons, the Anarchist who was executed in Chicago, was destroyed by fire, ~—~Henry, youngest pon of Rev. Mr. Colt, of Amberst, who has been camping with a friend near North Hadley, Mass, was shot in the breast and probably fatally Injured by the accidental discharge of his gun, He was in the act of putting the gun Into a boat, Boldiog it by the barrel,——A receiver was appointed for the Howe Pump Works, of In- dianapoiis, Ind., a concern engaged in ¢ buliding water-work plants. The liabilities 830.000, and the assets from $120,000 to H50,000, Inability to dispose of town bonds is given as the cause of failure, —Mr. Philip Abbott, son of the president of the Wiscon- sin Central Raliroad, was killed while mountain cifmbing in Manitoba, ——At Dun- low, W. Va., a freight train ran inte 8 work train, demolishing ten cars and twe engines, No one was seriously hurt, nino sn SA New Rifles For the Navy. The contractors for supplying the Navy with the Loe rifles have notified the depart. ment that they will begin the delivery of the pew arm in the course of a week or two. The first installment will be 500 rifles, r $1,000 to be expended in The entire business portion of eighteen Knoxville, Loas BRUTAL MURDER James. Irwin, of Allen's Fresh Killed in His Bed. GED. MATTHEWS ACCUSED. The Statement Made By the of the Murdered Man - What Happened at the FF xcuralon on Sunday Arrest of Matthews. James J, Irwin, a young i Frosh, Oysterman, un the from Cox Lhe murdered at Alles in Charles « Md., twelve milea from La Plats, ' sat, and seven miles Station, on the Pope's Creek Branch of Baltimore and Potomao Railroad, He murdered while sleeping in his bed, Matthews is | ‘haries © sked up in the ( jail on the murderer, | and theyoung wife of the murdered man is | under sury accomplice to the murder, Coming so soon after th Joseph Cocking and her si wns charged murder has creat is situated on the ' fag i ! i" hand is about a over the Wicomie tory frame neigh! Mr. Muir to While and asked also wired to dis i the v madman’s FAS Were n § killed 10 hope is | thelr recovery. Brown is of a feeble. indad i | family; he has an insane sister, who had been i liviog with him and whose connection cansed hia family so much alarm that i him. Brown then removed home of his brother and his wife returned, Nothing unusual had been experienced until this terrible tragedy was snacted, in custody a pitiful wreck, bewalling his condition, but divestad of sufMeclont reason to realize the enormity of his erifne, I — — his wife left Brown is THE ISLAND OF TRINIDAD, Eaglaad 8aid ® Have Agreed to Recognize Brazilian Bovereiguty. It is again stated at Lisbon in the news. papers that Great Britain has recognized the sovereignty of Brazil over the Island of Trinidad, off the coast of Brazil. Similar statements were made (no February last, and have been repeated at intervals, A telegram rocelved in Paris from Rio de Janeiro says that the Portugese minister there, Senor Thomas A. Ribeiro Ferreira, has informed the Brazilian government that Great Britain has agread to recognize Brazile ian sovereignty over the [sland of Trinidad, which was taken possession of by Great Britain early in 1805 for use as a cable sta tion on the ground that Brazilian sovereign. ty over the island had lapsed owing to non- oveu pation, A representative of Reuters Telegram Company was Informed fives a reliable sources that ali the statements made to that effect that Great Britain bas acknowledged’ the soversignty of Brazil over the Island of Trinidad, off the coast of Brazil are prema. tare, It was added, however, that a solu- tion of the Juestion in favor of Drazil ie not fmpoeiile. : Epitome of News Gleaned From Varloas Parts of the Btate Willlam Btone, who left home Aftyv-seven yours agogsurprised the elitizens of Bartville, un village in Coleraine He had for over thirty years, Township, by appear been mourned as dead When he left these pine brothers and parts, father, mother and sinters were lvilg, Now only one, a sister, ves to greet him, who lives In Harrisburg, Mr, Btone served as a private lu the United Mexican War. He was that war then Binoe states Army In the und the atl rea wounded in everely f fought iu the Rebellion. close of the war, he spent many years and be country on the gl buried by the side of visited nearly evgry Heo sald ho came to be his parents, The dead body of Mrs. Fannanp, of <len- fleld Her death is wis found Inn corn two miles shrouded in Allentown family of wn Mrs cane to ost of the yutery, Fannan 1 y week and was the gu Lal Bhe left Inst fuesduy evening to The every ef. John Murtagh, i did not arrive me, and neasires $0 eradi John Whitehead and taken to ate them, was arrested in lebanon Steelton on a warrant lssued by . of that place, charging smmitting an and battery ot to kill Henry Meyers, a resident of Bteelton Jobn Devers, aged 2), of Wilkes-Barre, wasdrowned in the river while bathing. With a aumber of friends he had gone t4 the v«th house snd boasted that he could swim from there to the first pier of the bridge. He tid nearly reached the pier when he cried for help, aad before his companions could reach Lim be bad gone down for the last time, The budy was recovered by Sergeant of Polies Kline after an hour's diving ihe large powder mill of H. A. Weldy & Magistrate Dun him with « assagit with int #is blown up by aa explosion, not a vestige of the buliding remaining. Noone was ia the ba lding at the time, a ——— A DAY OF MISFORTUNE. Drowning, Death on the Rail asd Sunstroke in a Kentucky Town. Georgetown, twelve miles north of Lec. ington was the scene of much misfortune Taesday. Miles Chapman, 15 years old, son of J. W. Chapman, of the Farmers’ Bank, was run over and killed by a Kentucky Mid- land train, Brasfield Smith, the 18-year-old wou of Mra, Rhodes Bmith, was drowned In Elkhorn. Circuit Judge and ex-Lisutenant Governor James BE. Cantrill »uffered sun. stroke, and the wife of the Mayor died from sickness, DAL WAVE. sweeps Away a Number of Chin ese Villages, ne HANY CATTLE PERISH. Four Thousand Persons Supposed Have Been Destroyed bv the Sulden and Extensive Inun dation -The Flalds Have Been Ruined to Rice we of a terrible disaster, involving great has ist Just reached Bhaoghal, timated to have been m the A tidal wave, ex » miles In width sen on ' NUnYy sna WHR Yery king an exter {the Fabyan w Hampshire ut Secretary of the Treasury Charles fn, has arrived from Washington at tage at Marion, Mass though lioyoie ames PP Coeke, of Bost yi, liad ne of the most enthasiastic tiders He rides a duplicate with Mrs, Cocke Mrs, Nixon, who bas the chair of English titerature in the college at New Orleans, is sojourning in Boston and Cambridge for a few weeks, William T. Richardson, of Cambridge Mass, left an estate of $100,000 and his old weariog apparel to “some poor worthy Bap- tist minister.” Colonel Heury Walker, commander of the Ancl-ut and Honorable Artillery, was the guest of the Earl of Denbigh during his stay in Bogiand. Mrs, Kate Buffington Davis, of Minneapo- iia, is the latest apologist for Madame Bia- vatsky. She says that the dead Theosophist was uot a plaigiarist, Probably the youngest and smallest bley- ¢lists in the world are in Cottage City, Mass, Master Corbin Wetmore, aged 6 years, and his sister, Margare: Wetmore, aged 4 years, They had wheels specially made for them, Miss Maude Daniels, of the Wilbur Opera Company, was painfaliy injured while alight- ing from a trolley car in Buffalo last week, 8he stepped on a stone, cnnsing her to fall and break several of the tendons of ber right eg. William H Chapman, for twenty-five years & member of the Bosion firs department, was promoted to a Heutenant. The same night at 11.45, while answering an alarm of fire from Box 134, be was thrown frow his engine and instantly killed, CABLE BPARKS. The Armeninn patriarch resigned and the Bultan secepted his resigustion The editors of two newspapers in Havana fought a duel, One was wounded Emperor William Is reported to be ing from a slight eatarrh of the throat Forty n nin Bryncoch were enton i by Bn ex LW. vr Mies ners nenr Neath, finances of Tu Y Are low that nis hiave Lig urrent that Faring of Brazil LHumo 5 nre £ agreed to the sovereignits Island of Irinidad Uruguay has given notice fo to terminate its treaty of gation with Germany The government sulle House of Lords, was being con The riots where Lhe red in thee BOrious the preapie war in Cuban IA H ng Chat JASUALTIER J EA Ad DIBABTEES A A fire in Chicag Parsons NEAR A HALF-YEAR'S Eas Passed Kourskmest Mrs, Henry Ingham, of Calhoun bas pow passed 160 days witho irishment of od or po any kind, be without rece. dent in medical anpals, and they say it is fonger without food, When she was Ort stricken she weighed 210 pounds He, weight is now given at 110 pounds The progress of emaciation has been slow, but unless relief Is afforded by means of some human or supernatural agency, death will inevitably result from starvation, though Mra. Ingram declares she will not die from starvation, belleving that this fast is a crue cial test of her feith, and that she will live to perform her Lies work, which is not yet ac. complished. Fifteen years ago conditions de- veloped which caused her to enter upon & fast, which continned for 360 days, when, as if by some act of Providence, the dedire to eal returned, and ber recovery was rapid and complete, and until five months ago she enjoyed perfect health, Her lips are mois tened at intervals, but no liquids have been swallowed, and no food has been taken, nor has pourishment been given her by any of the artifices known to the men of medicine, Mrs Ingham says she bas no craving for food. The feeling is peculiar, but pot un pleasant, and while she gufiers at times, there are long periods when she is free from pain. Mrs, Ingham declares she will live to enlipse her former last of 160 days, and # daily becomes apparent, as the spark of life Hogers, that her prediction may be ful filed, S———— Bir Martin Conway's expedition has ae complished the first crossing of Spitsbergen from onst to west. They found a vast fee nlateau in the centre, NEW BILVER CERTIFICATES. Rext Week. 1rer has received and printing Dxoesd Returns from State nfirms the first vie- fory, reports of a sweeping Democratic Oficial and estimated returns based on the refurns of a majority of the precincts in the counties shows that Johnston and the Democratic ticket have carried forty-five out of the sixty-six counties certain. The Demo crats are claiming four other counties not yet heard from with the probability that they bave carried them Goodwyn and the fusion ticket bave carried fNliren countios certain, and probably two others, ioturne from sixty-five counties give John ton A total majority of 49,821, and Goodwin, 7.068, making Johnston's majority to date 42,952 Its probable that returns from the other six counties and official figures from those which are now estimated will increase Johaston's majority to 45,000 or 4£,000, Two years ago Kolb, fusionist, carried thirty-three counties, and Oates, Democrat, thirty-three This election the Democrats carried fifteen counties certain that went for Kolb in 18504, with the probability of the official returns showing one or mote, whiie they lost sone that Oates carried. in the Legislature the Democrats have gained at Joast 14 members of the House, give ing them 78 out of 100 members, while they have elected 11 out of 17 Sepators, which ad- ded to their 13 hold-over members will give them 24 cut of 53 members of that body. Thas they will bave three-fourths of sil the Legis lnture, Fire in Rusds de Medina, a Spanish towa of about 4,000 inhabitants, rendered many people homeless,
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