THE NEWS, A destructive fire visited in Page county, Va. and Western Road, Heorge nt, W. Ya, to barrow to San Francisco, Shonandoah, the § Norfolk Wilson start. s. OR ed from Falrm push a wheal. Sites have been galeoted for the dams on the Monongahela river, to secure slack water York W. J Redgat, with whom he was In love, and Falrmont, navigation. In New killed Rose A. between Morgantown Koerner shot and Alex- ander Sullivan, of dent of the United Irish Societies of America arrived in New York from Europe and pro- ALO, The Department of Justice will protect the interests of the gov- ernment in if Terry & Co. st Agricultural Department, Chicago, formerly presi- coded to Cule again to the people of the i states through Yancouver, I, C, rovalls in Leadville, of the Miners’ the charge o our commercial Martial A number of the officers law stil Col. Uni inciting ri Associat BL Loui Ga, n have been arrested on The Ameri ors Army navy. I'he Poo pany has fies ria and 8¢ in Springfle and botl appa road, signed number | Hamiit Ind, cide in killed ar NY spent 8 i hos y STRUCK BY A WILD ERGINE Fatal Accident Four men were killed y others badly injured in a wreck on th olnnatl, Hamiit ville, Ind. The accident was o happened in this part of the The paycar foliowiag the regular freight train, No. 95, eastbound runtisg as extra trains. The freight stopped at Longweod and put part of the train onto a siding, taking the rest to Balter's switeh The crew took the engine of lhe freight and started back to Longwood. When one and a-haif miles east of Longwood the wild engine met the payear. It was down grade and impossible to stop. The two engines eamd together with a terrible erash and the payear was thrown onto lis side ia the ditea, . Paymaster Jansing is se badly hurt that { he eapnot possibly live HAVOC IN JAPAN. un and Dayton, near Conners ne of the worst that has state for years was Joth were Fire, Ficods, Btorms and Barthgoakes Canss Death sad Widespread Destruction, The eity of Kobe, Japan, was wiped out by a conflagration on Aogust 25 and fodds od storms and earthquakes caused the Joss of twenty-five hundred lives and the de struction of millions of dollars’ worth of property in Northern Japan, The steamer Dorie, from the Orient, brought news of a series of catastrophes that have befallen the Mikado's realm and are unprecedented in its history. In Gifu prefecture 4,300 homes wero blown down, and along the Haji-Gawa 400 persons Jost thelr Hives, The severest storm occurred on August 30. Alon the Isatsugawa 84 lives were lost, BURIED ALIVE. | Bratal Outrage Practised on an Ohio Farmer, CHILDREN BADLY BEATEN. The Affalr Happenad September © and None Dared Tell the Author ities THI Now-—~The Shariff In vestigating the Matier. A despatch from Toledo, Oblo, says Whitecaps have created a the iensation in report of nly by the man named Huntsman, who n, ten miles from here, } him alive, i Lunt A man may i half dead, buried and taken from and again strung up by the heels wuipped and he country within twenty but suc Missouri mile southwest of The about one Military Academy, situated Mexico, was of §75,- 009 to the buliding aod a beavy loss ia per- When Cadet Ulopton was awakenad by the smoke he sounded the fire call on his bugle Cap the room (0 room at the peril of their lives getting out thestu- been awakened by the bugle call. Cadet Captain Rolla Melatyre was taken out by Lieuteanat Good, who we compelled to jump with him from a third. story window. Both escaped withoutinjury. When the boya sleeping In the second and third stories of the bullding realized that the structure was on fire all escape by way of the stairs was cut off and they were come pelled to jump from the windows, Twenty. one were Injured, but none fatally, Col. AF. Vieat, principal of the sahool, says thera Is £37,000 insurance on the bulld- ing. a I ss EXPLOSIVES IN A PILLAR. {reat Btors of Cordite Pousd is » Bikiliss Quarter of London, : It was jearned fa London that enough of the explosive known as cordits to blowup a house waa discovered hidden in the hollow ‘of a pillar on Blandford Street, which is in- habited by Russian Hebrews who are sus pected of Nibillsm, The polos are searching the premises in that neighborhood. NASHVILLE EXPOSITION. to Bo in Readiness on the Grand Opening Day, Rapid progress is being made at Nashville in the sition that the the exhibd Tennvasee the Centennial Exp uitldings, ane assurances Is given svorytbiug will be in complete order by pening day, something very unusual in Hatory of expositions, Requests for wdy coming ln from all see ions of the country, as well as from abroad, warranting the belief that it will be the most ompiets exposition ever bald io the Bouth, \ Muacoh!, foreign writey commissioner, rom Cardiff, Wales, that he was officially sculved September 11 by sutive nittes of the Cardiff Fine Art, Industrial and Maritime Exhibition, t the exe yurtoen of the seven mitleamen being present, ir an idea of the id be and Mr. Ma ilitia Is anxiously pparent osim, s have buen sent to the hills, ns are patrolling the streets ft and decided to aid the ers in apprehending the rioters, At a mass-mesting of citizens the Tha ety counell n stato « lawless anes) and it was demanded that the troublesome men leave the camp ent was depo A FLYING MACHINE TESTED. It Is Pattersed Like a Bird snd Flew Grace fully for Ons Handred Feel The first pubiie test of Octave Chanate's albatross soariog invented and constructed by William Paul, was made as Millers, Ind, The machine was heavily loaded with bass last so a8 to prevent it from fiyleg any machine, under favorable conditions, ropes, each 200 feet long, but the three points which the trial was to decide-firet, as 0 whether it would leave the chute evenly: second, whether it would right itseil in the air. and third, whether when it commenced to deweend it wonld move downward slowly and alight easlly-~weore al determined ina manner gratifying both to its Investor and ita owner. The flight was less than 100 feet, but the desoent and final alighting on the sand were as graceful and even as those of a bird, from which the machine was patierned ARMENIAN DEAD ARE 6000. Beported Results of the Latest Massacres in That Country. The Constantinople ecurrespondent of the “Berliner Tageblait” telegraphs that he has received private. reports stating that the number of persons killed in the disorders in the laterior of Armenia & week ago numbers od nearly €000. ® FALL OF DONGOLA. The Dritish-Egyptian Expedi- tion Successful, BLOW T0 KEALIF'S CAUSE The River Forces Will Try to Hold the Place Until the Land Contin gont Comes Up -Dervishaes Retreat with Heavy LLossas, Dongola lias fallen and the n tive point of the Dritish-Egyi tion has been reached the Nile fr Dongola ag Dervish forces i Fil Hatir Evacuated, Ig every Will am : AD Natives AL 63 a troops t began or gade was i i BY mel with U ited about jelight ins the naling se captured dervish freasi od manner and da wii ir pa, singing anid shouting ike | The § boats was to tragsport the second brigade &o rst use made of t El Hallr, which is a very ile spot, offer. ing plenty of green horde the animals -a pleasing contrast to the rough rocks and desert sands of much of the march Some Hot Pighting The losses of the expedilion, so far known, were only five wounded, despite the enemy's The field borss battery and the Daring the en gagement the mes Lunshed behind any Lagty shelter that could be devised. The Maxim guns were maanad by the Connaugh! Rangers, and tenth battallion was ranged along the bank of the river faciog the Dar, veh position. They fired throe rounds at the snemy, Ouse of the most strikiog things noted dur. ing the fight was the long range of the ens mys Romington riflles. At a distance of 1,290 yards they were abla to doa deal of damage, and some of their ballets strack at jenst 2,000 yards from the point of firing. The weather for the last few days has been rather hot. The wind from the north bas brought pearly all the boats up the river, bearing suMcient sapplies for the wants of the expedition. Dervish Resistance Broken. it is the general Impression here that the dervishes will not make any farther stand, it fx evident that Wad Dishara had brought ap ail bis effectiye force from Dongola, in- tending to make asiand at El Hafler. Even if he is able to recover Dougola from the river foros of the expedition, whish has on cupisd it, It is not considerad possible that be ghould make a stand there against ihe ad. vanoe of the combined land and river fore, A RIO 5 Don't ron around 1a the wat tee long trying to find out where you can buy | an nmhreila the cheapest. TRADE OUTLOOK IMPROVED. Volume of 8ales Lerger ~Bearly Revival in De. mand Expect yderate lmprove. sontin speculative Bradstreet's gnys: The n ‘ ment in trade the past few wooks 108 emphasized by further purchases « IViig UY WO i y with ered and LAYY Flas he Hazardville Connecti up. The expiosi was caused by lightning A passenger train on the Michigan Central Raliroad was miles south of dieh , by train The sndine, mail and bageage and smoking cats aft the track, Lut no one was injured Three men were arrested on suspicion of having caused the wreck, ’ feraliod thres Grayilag, wieckers LOCOMOTIVE BOILER BURSTS. Pieces of Iron Were Herled a Thomsend Feet sed the Plremun was Killed The boiler of a ninety-ton jovomolive on the Big Four Railroad burst at Pekin, HL, hurling the locomotive more than one bund. red feet, damaging a large factory, kililog the firesnan and breaking oearly all the glass withic a quarter of a mile of the scone of the remarkable accident Pieces of the locomotive were picked up one thousand feet away. One of the big driving wheels was hurled four kundeed {ent from the track. ' Jamea Long, the fireman, was throws many feet futo the air, bad an iron bar driven through Loth his logs above the knees and was terribly scalded He died in a few hours, . The lovomotive was one handred feet from ihe Cummins Header Works whon the ex- plosion occurred and one hundred end fifty feet of the wall of Ibe factory was crashed, No one was at work in the bulldiag or there might have been more fatalities, The car® and the track were not Injured STRAETT (fA THD PERRSY L VA N I a A TEM i News Glonns! Pron Varioas Parts of the Etats Ausirian, ting at chasod a keg of beer. In cross ley track, be stambled ani fell, and the keg fell on his bead and crushed bis skull, Bog cholera fs prevaisnt to extent in Lebanon, W upward of 150 head of the suburbs, and the total 5% 500, By a strange yeidonos two sudden deaths occurred at Eris. Mra, Joseph G Davie, an aged lady, was at the grave of a relative in the Erie Cemelery and sank un r siarming thin the past week bave disd In will excond co der heart fallare, a corpses, Just at that time Paelp Zurn and a party of hunters on the pepinsuia started up =» flock of birds, Zurn fired both barrels oF his gun at the Sock. The recoil of the gun was great and Zara fell over dead, from heart dissagn GREAT GIFT FOR EDUCATION. Ere. Jalia Bradlvy Badow the Chioags University With Over §2.000,000. The Universally of Chicago bas just res eceirnd another endowment, the richest perhaps, ever made in Diinols. The money i= not to be expended in Chirago, but Peoria, Mrs. Jalls Bradley, sn aged woman Peoria, bas bestowed all her fortune, mated at mors than $2,200 000 upon a sehool to be built in Peoria fn consection with th university, Active work bas begun in carrying out Mra. Bradley's plans
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