NEAR THE POLE Explorer Nansen Coming Home From a Marvelous Trip. PREVIOUS RECORDS BEATEN The Plucky Norweaglan Got Within Four Degrees of His Icy Goal Traversed an Open Polar Sea—~The Pole- Hunter Turns Back. Artie who sailed away in 1883, to find the North Pole, Island, Norway, on board the steamer Windward, Josef Land, to skson-Harmsworth expe Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, the June, arrived explorer, has at Vardo wntly wont to Fran the Jad dition. This is which rec bring be the ann the unecement in “Aftenposten, , 2 The aas Verdens Gang,’ roceived the following telegram f “Home a daily newspaper, r Dr. Nansen: safe after {« expedition A despatch fror “The newsps elved o and Lieutenant & land of Vardo, Malme fn wh in whi th Li ialisd to reach a point four degrees ne explorer has doae “They abandons L ip near Franz it the Fram woul fist fn 84 logroees no the Polar Sea board when Naz Nansen had eleven 1 ware Sigurd wegian Navy and Cal, meteor Jie lieutenant Peary ( Falco Et LYNCHING OF ITALIANS. Reme Urged Sasiols tin catigiaction. The Poy ing recalling the New Orleans no Romano, # Tenis in 4 { Italians at in 1 referring to the lynching in that city of three Italians en Bunday last, urges the Italian the European governments to the strange posi tion of foreigners in Ameriea mots the collective action of the The Don Chisclotte says that the government to demand satisfaction ia order to prevent the authorities of other « from tolerating attacks upon Italians, Washington. ~The attention of the Italian ambassador, Baron Fava, who is now at Bar Harbor, has been called to the lynching of three Italians at a place ealled Harnville, La., and in turn be has applied to the State Department for information upon the sub- Jeet. His telegram has been forwarded through the department to the Governor of Louisiana, thus following the same proceds ure us was observed upon the oceasion of the lynching of members of the Malls in New Orleans several years ago. It is presumed that the Governor will call upon the distriet attorney for a report for the information of the Department of State, and thus pave the way for the payment of an indemnity, if it is demanded, government to call attention of the and DoOWers, repetition events chiiges the Italian of horrible untries Lae Jewell casket of the Dowager Empress of Russia is the most famous in the world, from a gem polat of view. Hardly second i. it is that of the Empress of Austria, whose black pearis are noted throughout Europe for their extreme beauty and rarity, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS Epitome of News (leaned Prom Varloas Parts of the Otate Michasl Lundy, mining town of 8t Clalr, was instantly kille at Plus Forest ( mine an honored eltizen of the olliery. He was driving a breast fully fous tons of coal and rock fall upon him, crush Ing his bo Ho was well known all over Schuylkill county. an export , and while ly Into n shapoless mass, Wassar were of gas af They fired John Dunleyy and James badly burned by an explosion Packer No ware working ln a bre st 2 Colllery, at Lost Creek, and had shot, which ignited the gas D inlevy, it bs feared, will lose the sight of both eyes, {f not his life, The two-weeks- old child of Tho street, Ea ton, The Mr. and Mrs nas Elchlin, lving at 1631 N rthamptor died of mother and morphine poisoning the fo grave the mor Mrs child were sick and yin giving them medicin intoadad for Eichlin Captain Thoenixvilie, h arvanoce VE $4 15s Hug ro berry, who was working at the fountain and huried him ten feet over a rack and tab He was picked up unconscious and several hours afterward the Germania Park Independent District, Lebanon, by surglars who entered Hotel In foreing a window at an early } our for morning, were poorly rewarded labors, The rs was untouched, stock of wines mney i — a harles De Hart Was Killed from Ambush on Sus. picien of Informing. Advices from Evausville, Floyd County, Va., tell of an assassination by moonshigers Charles Da Hart went to his harvest field that morning to slttle daughter was sont for him aad found hits lying dead in the fleld beside his cradle, He had been shot fu the brain from behind an smbush of brush near the feild, Work ingmen in an adjoining fleld heard the shot and saw the stoke from the assasein's rifle They thought no more of it until the dead body was found, De Hast had long been suspected of re porting illicit distillers to the revenues of. cers, and it is supposed that the bail that crashed through his brain came from a gun iu the hands of a moonshiner whom De Hart had reported. A great many stills have been destroyed within the past month, and the feeling against informers Ia very bitter Herotufore the moonsbiners have been con tent with whipplag unmercifully the sus pected parties, TORRID WEATHER scores of Victims Succumb fo the Heat, ® SCORCHER IN NEW YORK. Sufferings of Men and Beasts Were The Am: bulances insufficlentjand Almost Unendurable the Patrol Wagons Called Into Use, he number of deaths caused by the heat Monday is about one in greater New York hundred, The prostrations were almost io- estimate of and numerable, and no accurate Am! busy all «¢ them can be made, Hances patrol wagons were kept igy, the of ngs woming ¢ mil Bireet oar horse CiRtnor thelr go ar sound dy Lraces, BOOrvs It has been ald not get along. state that he had Bhorifl? ften th from Washington, D. C., nents are progressing for the recep- Li Hung couniry on BRAVE: Chiang when be arrives in this August 25. The ( hinese Earl, by which title Li Hung hiz countrymen of Ex-Becretary John W, Foster, who is now in the Adirondacks, will be in New York Besides the visits to Washington and Phil are being made to have his trip extended to Joston, where a reception will be given him, The first arrangements were such as to make visit Impossible, but it is felt here that after arrival the Boston trip. General Miles and others, representing various branches of the government, will confer with the Chinese minister as to the arrangement for the reception. It is prob. abie an officer of the army and one from the navy will be assigned to meet the Chinese siatesman and accompany him on his trip, A detail of troops from Governor's Island may take part in the reception at New York, and a troop of calvary from Fort Meyer may assist in the exercises here, At first it was intended to rent an entire house in Washington and equip it for the ac commodation of the Earl aud his numerous rotinue, which embraces twelve secretaries and many servants, Owing however, Lo the shortness of the stay bere it bas been decid. ed to quarter the guests at n hotel, - ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. W. M. Foree, of Lansing, Mich , lot printed for the election Fined and Hamlin President and Vice-President, has a bal of 1860, when in wore candidates for Governor Richards, of Wyoming, has re ceived numerous applleations from Eastern people asking for a permit to hunt game in Wyoming. In each ense the Governor malls the applicants a copy of the game laws, Drigadier Major Arthur Pole Penton, the new commandant of the New Zealand mii. itin forces, has been engaged for a term of threes years at the salary of $3000 Knnum. G00) per of upon as a curiosity by the bikers of Alameda Oakland, Cal., Is looked 'ounty. He races with ral'rond trains. rides his wheel on a railroad rail and does jueer tricks, other Francis Ruggles and an ' rem MARKETS, TOBACCO. Sound comm Middling Faney Best De Hogs. Raseoon Red Fox aan BRunk Biack, ... Opossum, Mink.......... ROE. oc ovens ¥Ew yong sen 63% a8 wy Xi 10 i3 bly Western «No, 2 No. 8 State Ee FHILADELYIIIA CEE inn 10 DEATH BY MOB Lynchers Mete Out Speedy Pun- ishment in Lonisiana. EXECUTION OF ITALIANS. Avenging the Cold Blooded Assass] nation of Jules Gueymard, a Rich Planter, Who Was Shot Down by a Worthless Sicilian Against Whom He Had Testifled, Craelly Murdered a dderable oss of at least twenty Howard Lowe, aged fad of } ine Irophobia in Bay City, ) » was bitten va cat while walking a the sireet, Frank Yerrington, James Buterick, W. M Marke and Morton n Harbor, Mie of * irom a sulky, and, his foot catching George Walters, Columbus, Was hrown n the step, he was dragged for five blooks by he frightened horse. He was fatally in- ured, A Colon despatch says that the American fiver steamer Bridgeton hss put into Santa dlarta ia distress. Her boller {as damaged, fhe schooner Plonesr, owned in Blusfields, sas been wrecked near Bocas del Toro. Miss Marion Burnham, aged 14 years, of doston, was accidentally drowned in Lake hamplain, near West Port, N. Y., while scathing, Miss Maggie Moulder, a nurse, who weompanied the young lady and who went © her assistance, wee ales drowned It is believed that fifteen or twenty people sore burned to death ina fire which rurred in a six-story building in New York, socupied by the A. EK. Warren Eleotric Re. pair Works and other firms. Five persons were injured, two probably fatally. What *aused the fire is not known. By & head-on collision between a passen- i train and a yard engine onthe Toledo and Ohio Central Hallway, at Columbus, Jhilo, Charles Yance, engineer of the yard of. tagine, was killed, and Charles Callison and William St Clair, engineer and fireman of ihe passenger tral, were fatally injured. 8, T. Boal, the train despateher, and R CO. Friesner, signal operator, who are alleged to have been responsible for the accident, were arrested on charges of manslaughter, ok miy ope 11a pov aSregs « woayem sogrod DATS of) Wo] Jem pro-awal-pr vw ‘mmong s8i0er) waww) ey ‘cospamuag veg jo wpdoam A STRANCE PIC. With the Fece of a Fleasant-Looking Old i Cantieman. in the | posse Saminis No, 4 { | is one I's Vip Nature, vied In a trangely human point 1ixers wewhat Giher imber of ) + insten, knowy » shank of are pipes, where * PIPES, eircilia tos Detween the soles igh the perfor: This keeps th the natoral heat It is lain edd by inventor these that ventilated cobler In snmmer and warn made. Ancient Cince Discoverad, J. Walford, Jr. while working in a cedar swamp near Mammonton, NJ ay covered with brush and fastened by an tree, Cation, oss and chain te a in the canoe were found stone Enives and tomabawks apd an earthen pot. A hatchet was found. which was shaped like a butcher's cleiver., The knives wore carved in fantastic shapes, and the pot had the appearance of has. ing been hollowed out of some soft stone, and wad of a dark brown color, Traces of mounds were found In the higher grovnd, and will be dug up in search of bones,
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