—————————— A w—— THE NEWB, Bishop W. D, Walker, of North Dakota has been elected bishop of the Eplscopal of Western New York, In Lo Ind., St. Michael's College burned ground Loss, £70000; o students had matricuiat diocesa gansport, to the insurance, Sixty-Hy Joseph Wickss, son of Judge Wickes, £55,000 od of Baltimore, has been awarded the contract nmittee Ihe Na » Underwriters held the Ariington plan by the highway « £2 400 eof nsewerag ol : I'h bid was f Lif at smbars ¢ man whosa hon nd dead in bed garetts smoxing is $ " % lerdth I'he man who mu last week at Maryville Ea He gives the name sel. A lynch mediately. The passen vawls, ‘he steamer £14,000 and #1 of the Mormon Church 3,000, all the chur of Ap } mitts 1 } h ware su stile Moses’ d jr ! Four te i VAS « nas! be broke shoulders The incandiary iad wrist sprained tigin of the fire is supposed to be as no one was occupying the room in which the fire broke out and there Lad been uo fire in it this season. Bua perin- tendent J. B. Jeter, who is in charge of the beard the flames popping, and hie got up the stalrway was on fire Hs ran on the outside asd awakened all the bors, and barely saved his own life, The boys threw their beds out of the windows and jumpad to the ground onthem. One ofthe boys who was burned to death was a eripple, and the other threes were In rooms where there were no windows. it is sald that their moans and groans wera heart-sickening in the extreme, Ihe ackdelly was built by the Choctaw Nation, aud 902 boys were there when it burned, Everything ian ‘otal joss, as the nation did not carry any insurances, Huper- intendent Jeter does not know whether the nation is going to rebuild, as it is Onaacia'ly sibarrassed and is awsy behind with the school fund, schools, when AINA BLOODY FIGHT REPORTED. The Choctaw Trosbles Said to Howe Fatally, Au nneonfirmed report from Guthrie, O, T.. states that a bloody battle between the full breeds and squaw men occurred in the Choctaw country on Horse Crook, In which several squaws and their white hisbands were killed, Resulted OUR COMMERCE ————————————————— co This Year's Figures of Exports and Imports Go Up. GRAND TOTAL FOR A DECADE The Bulk ¢f Trade in Buying and Selling Ils With the United King- dom Japan, China and India do the Least Business, The Imports United States for into and the exports fron 1890, 1804, 1895 nnd 1596 are tabulated statement nited States Agri tural Deg [he stater a reviewed in det st our total exports at imports for the sin 137,784, States, in lecnde, was #16 013,200 #1. 600 000 000, Compared with ano year period, the statement for 1806 show an upward The man the box, who was suppli would, the box, BH it with merchandise from the car, make good his escape, while the box would go to ita lestination laden with merchandise, but ahead of the box would go a message ord ing I's immediate return to Chicago, thus sent to Chicago frog Omaha was | to contain 8800 worth signed to Kansas by the Cincinnati Shoe Company. inti nan ARI Os TRAMPS KILLED BY TRAINMEN. in necessary tools when [Jar of stolen shoes con Brakemen Charged With Rethlemsly Murdering Ten Hobos. A special dispateh from New Haven says that the police of New York believe that brakemen of the Consolidated Railroad have been ruthlessly murdering tramps caught stealing rides on cars of that line. It is nsserted that 10 bodies, n'l mangled by betag ran over by tralos, have been found on the tracks of the Consolidated within the inst six months The dispatch states that a man named Molonsy, from Drookiyn, was shot twice and thrown from a train by the train bands, bul survived his injeries and has given information to the authoritie® which lad to the arrest of a brakeman named ean, The latter, according to the storys con. fessed to the superintendent of police of New Haven that the trainmon made it a practice to kill tramps found on thelr cars, WATOHING FILIBUSTERE. Determined That No Expe the Florida Const. Revenues Cutters dition 8lhall Leave has put a striet watch upon Jacksonville to prevent any fiiibuster- The Government ing expedition from leaving port The crujser Newark, which left Key under sealed orders, | off Bt. John's Bs view of the West last Baturday now anchored commanding is to Boutwell and entra: river had. The revenu Morrill stream at the foot of 1 of the fllin Friends and Commodore, re anoch Liberty 100 yar tering oa sume whar! he Merrill Wis fen he ats f 4 , @ slay of the river will be been attr was address y y 1) of reaching his horse, which was standi The dead robber was 1 by, amed Browy i The wounded robber is unknown. PTOMAINES IR FISH. milies Btricken From Eating the Poloned Meas Cases of poisoning from eating smoked whitefish continue to be reported. Three deaths thus far have taken piace at Merrill, Wis, where Albert Hadloff, Gus Krueger asd 8 man whose name is not given, sue- eumbod, Radios father and two children of the family are very ill from eatiog the fish, Several others in the town are In a critical condition, nod although 50 eases of poison ig are reported at Merrill, Following so closely after the prostration of all the students in Concordia College, In Milwaukeo, and the similar affliction of over 80 people at Oshkosh, the news from Merril! is enusing quite a panic among fish eaters nod dealers, Twenty additional cases are reported from Brotherion, on the east shore of Lake Winnebago, the family of George Weber, conslating of himsel!, wilo and five children, being in a serious condition. The analysis by the Milwaukes health au- thorities developed the fact that the fish par. taken of at Concordia College contained the polsoncus germs called ptomaines, Ths Stato Board of Health will inyestigats the Many Fa cases at Oshkosh, Brotherton and Merrill AWHEEL T0 ROB. Masked Riders Dash Into 2 Bank and kill Two Men. ESCAPE WITH $1,000 CASH. They Swoopad Down Uponthe Little Town of Sherburne, Minn, and Walked into the Bank, Shoot ing the Cashier on present who have sought refuge on bo of French vessels have been protected by the which they had sought refuge sailed sss I — ois GUAYAQUIL'S SAD DIBASTER. Twenty Thousand Persons Homeless and Millions Lost, Later information from Guayaquil, Eeun, dor, states that it is estimated that 20.000 persons are deprived of their houses and homes by the destructive fire. The losses to foreign insurance companies are placed at over P500,000 sterling ($2,000,000 The fire ia said to have destrovad fifteen squares of the town, including the most im- portant bulidisgs in it, and is still ragiog. Among the bulidings known (c have been destroyed are four banks, all the foreign consulates, all the hotels except one, two churches, all the principal business houses, the military barracks and the arsena’, Ilis further stated that Guarsaquil has been burned from the post-office to the custom nouse, the Rames extending from the bank of the river, & Uuay to the Front, Quay is always a good and great Re- publican in campaign times. All Re- pabiiean candidates love him then as Henivisydosinow, — Now York World, A BIC NAVY, a i's Fleets a Hegvy Draln on Job Bull's Pockets. t H every part of market Rome of the shells ficent ign in c6lor gud enormone in sige. There i= one at least fifteen which, if not destroyed, would £5,000 in Franciseo Tires all been spoiled by the nails which the builder sent in position outaide Nan have home to keep the shells Were it not for that, the the bouse would bring a email fortune, The smalier ones would easily bring £3 apiece, and there are many among them that would far mor of awhng Trees Lightning Likes. than half the trees strock by For tan men thar the poplar most an excellent con ductor of liglining in Consequences it has been stiggested that agricaltur fatx shoud plant trees in the vicinity of their farm buildings. An additional | suggestion ix the attaching of Heh | ping rods to two or three of (he tallest | SLOTS, Mare Azhining on i are white poplar rod ix eld hy selentiti Tas A queer pig story i= 90 by the Lon. | Fan Telegraph, A sow that lost her fall by an aceident bad a litter of ten | plan, but seeing that they all had tails, | placed them in a pow amd bil off their | tpi ce hy ane. : Caught by a Dream. fis Higied Dress poy ntion to ong ne atl seed any of io be slo ind dome stie thing i if 1 Hes hey would Hs spoken cxmeting to capture them avs disappeared, munch to the ad disappoir 1 nureners Thin hn nm fhe told down through leweribed wr lil] on which vam of chaly. i as joe. This destined to bee resort been nave i 43 16 eaxily jHIsN ad i ang made Ns Os At thie winnie as Alm Above {foot of 1} the rock heate water rock Coie a iz a that is time us 1 fa at spe great summer African Superstition In Routh Africa 1 and my bhiack com- two and a half hours at a place on a fairly open forest path, Docause across it, In front of us about {hat time in the afternoon, the of a spear flew, and a touch from it Wak Decess sarily fatal. And there is a spring } of, in the Kacongo distries, # host you sev a very handsome pitcher stand. Many a lady, seeing jongs, has picked this up and left her own, but ax soon as she got it within sight of the village it crumbles Inte earth and the water fa spilled on the ground. On returning for her own dis carded ove that is always found woe ken, Cornhill Magazine, %
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