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
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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