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,