The remains of Miss Kate Field were not sent ns expected on the steamer which arrived from Honolulu morning A special from Clyde, N. Y., announcies the death of Helen M. Saxton, wile of the Lisutenant-Governor of New York, Bhe was 30 years of age, Thomas Quigley's general store, the post- office and several dwellings at Miper's Mills, The will Thursday Pa., were destroyed by fire, loss reach $20.00), The Nebraska Beet Bugar Association, who are holding their annual declared for a continuance of the present bounties, as well as further national ald. Complete returns from every county in Wyoming give the Bryan electors majorities Van Meter, 15); Martin, 400: Osborne, for Congress, 30 convention, have as follows: Quely, 380, Gorn, for supreme judge, 503, 1 he Chicago Board of Education has de- eided to embody in its new rules the prinei- ples of the existing civil-service law. The triumph of the new after a sharp fight among the members, A special from Helena, Mont, says: “This state and ail of and inciuding part of Idaho, are shut off from the coast, owlog to the jandsiides and washing out of bridges on the Northern Pacific and Northern railroads, Both systems abandoned all their trains "' I'he California has decided to meet at Los Angeles, Cala, on rule was accomplished others cast Great have Deep Harbor Commission December J next, instead of they had previously agreed. Harry Mantzel, seaman the Otterspool, which arrived ia Galveston, was caught in the ropes off Key West and died in four hours, belog horribly crushed Mrs. Foley, a widow, aged 65 years, and her unmarried daughter, Fauny, were found murderad in their Liberty, Mo. No motive for known, The third annual n of the Ne- braska Beet Bugar Association was held in Grand Island, Neb, Vice-President Atkin- son opened the o« Mayor Thompson delivered the address of wele December 2, as on steamabip aged 40, the erime coaventi wmvention and ne, A well-dressed man, who gave the pame of A. H. Morse, Racine, Wis, , the International Hotel, Windsor, Ontario. Next day he was found dead in bed, bullet wound in his head. He sell, A Pomeroy eacaped from the Mount) with murder; the bery. Ble trail At Savannah, Ga |, ship the cargo was unloaded 2.50) od water registered at with a had shot him- 0.) special says [ jail I'wo of m, yy and Monroe Hunter, were charged others with highway rob wdhounds have been put on their the fire in is the two hol of the British stear Ripon City was ex- It bales ineniahad tinguished, and Was necessary to remove a more or less damaged by fire sm BI WORK AND WORKERS. rh 5 Illinois, has resumed The Illinois Wat fleld, r he ympany, at Sprio yparations shop ofthe 8 H $ H Bhoe Company, at Mariboro, Massachuse “Diamond O FH is to be reopened after a year's shut fr 100 hands The shop employes from 20 A Houghton, Michigan, despatch miniag companies at tain, Champion, Ishpening and } to Negaunee, Iron M other in that region ares adding to their ! men to the axtent last manufacturers, of Yi fhe Drees Of of 2000 man or more, Banford & S Amsterdam, in October ous, CArpe reducad the wages of cent the wages has been restored The people of Holland, MI #6000 to ald in buliding P. Hummer, the ail candidate for ( gress, which was burned a antaliing a loss of $150 000 thelr employes 10 This weak the flrm ansounced that the factory of Geo Be ver few weeks ago, He will employ 500 men. The exscutive officers of the rallway brotherhoods of the country are to meet in want to push before the coming session of Congress, and the best way to do iL” The strike of the employes of the Tador Iron Works, at 5t. Louis, which has been in progress for two years, was declared off, the proprietors having accedad to the de. mand for Increased wages. #00 men at work. A Toronto despatch says that representa tives of Barney Barnato, the Kaflirmioe king of Johannesburg fame, have secured control of practically all the mining properties in Lake of the Woods and Rainy River dis triets In northwestern Oatario. Belleving that a provisional tariff bill will be passed at ihe next session of New York city capitalists have subscribed $39,00) for the opening of a factory there for the manufacture of patent and enameled leather, employing 500 hands. Work will be begun at once, The Indians State Miners’ Convention haa voted to continue the strike for 6) centa aton. An effort will be made to get the II- linols miners to unite with those in Indiana in securing a uniform mining price in the two States, A despatch from Pasa, {lliools, says that the Illinois Central Raliroad Company is decreasing its force in different depart. ments, Depression in traffic is given as the cause. It is said ail departments will be af- fected, The Chicago and Alton Raliroad manage- ment have announocsd a reduction of hours of labor in the general shops in Blooming- ton, IIL, from sight hours to seven per day. It was also announced that the shops would bo closed from the 25th instant to December 1, snd thet during the month of December the 1008 flan employed will be given thirty- two hours per week, General Baperinten- dent Gray stated that the action of the com. pany is caused by the decrease of the freight and passenger traflio, 5 MANY MINERS KILLED. Twenty-Five Bodies Already Takes From a West phalia Coal Pit, A fire-damp explosion has occurred in a colliery nt Recklinghausen, Westphalia, Ger. many. Twenty-five bodies have been re- covered, and 40 or 50 men are kaown to be still entombed, I It is sald that Madame Melba was given a reception at Music Hall, Boston, on Friday ast wifich recalled the psimy days of Jeany Lind and Patti. This will place Congress, { HARBOR DEFENSES of the Ordnance. WAITING FOR THE MONEY. The Present Inefficient Codnition of Our Ports Against a Forelgn Enemy Clearly Pointed Out Engineering and Ordnance Report Board of Departmunt Report, T'he work of placing our harbors in a state of defense is thus summed up in the report of the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications, signed by Geoperal Miles, Frank Haines, Major Phipps and Messrs Outhwaite and Ayer, just made public, “Under the appropriations of the present flscal year the work of placing our harbors in & proper state of delonse is Colonels anu increased making good progress, and {I only the same few a for- midable front to an attacking fleet, Only Common Pradenoe. “It is hoped, however, that even more An omer- In European for view 01 the present serious aspect of “yy f ‘ its guard, hid rudence ¥ 8 flict arise we are liable to be smbrolled pation to be on some power whoas navy, fensoieas condition of our « slroy or enact snormons rauso Waiting for the Money. “Our engineer department is ready with ie most modern plans for fort our ordnance departmen lesigns for guns an to any in the worl rreass the apg yi those yinfeal w st safeguard ag A Rapid Evolution. The report « : pits 1 nt, in which he points rreated at B was taking th ard was tot that “io to have jug sta Los Ga rapid evolatl pations had a: tervals ft war, Implements and Eagines of War his, the B 3 iw fa* i * owing lst of "img In answer to ard specifies th smeants and war for which satisfaor letermined Twelveine ustruction inch steal I. mortar sion] » inch singe %.6-inch field gan, mo gun, model 18% gun; 13 sappearing ‘arriage; S-inch non-disappearing carriage, 12-inch spring returt ii inch unon-4 barb MOriar ear riers Buffington type; 10.dnch disappearing riage, Crozler-Buflington type T-inch seige h rifle: onrriage for 3 6-inch feld gan for 3.2-inch fleld gun; fleld mortar; mountain gun; oalssons { bined battery wagons and forges for fleld guns; armor-piérclag projectiies for sea coast guos; shell and serapdel for fald gons torpedo casemates and cable galleries I'he work being dons at the various gan works and arsenals is reviewsd fn detail ss ET — oar carriage for witzar; rriage for S<dnch : PATTIARe earriago | sarriage for 3-in wr fleld guns: Exclusive Political Contrsl for Fifty Years Constitate Title Ww The London Chronicle reports that the part of the Venezuelan agreement First, an adverse holding or prescription daring fifty years shall make a good title, The arbiters deem an exclusive political control of a district, as well as actual set- tlement, sufMiciant to constitute an ad- verses holding or to make a title by pre- soription, The second rule empowers the arbiters to give effect to rights and ciaims based on any valid principle of international law which dots not contraveas the foragoing rules, Third, in determining the boundary line, where the territory of one party Is found to be oceeupied by the subjects of the other party at the date of the treaty, such effect shall be given to such occupation as reason, justices, the prineiples of interna- tional lww, and the equities of the case shail, In the opinion of he tribunal, re quire, KILLED BY H18 INITIATION. ——— An Eleotric Chair Ceremony at ss Elks Lodge Caused Blood Poisoning. Edward W. Carry, chairman of the Demo. eratic state commities, died at the Bavery House, De Moines, In, of blood poisoning, the result of initiation into the Riks Lodge a few weoks ago. Heo wea seated in an electric chair and horribly burned befors those operating it realized what they wers dolog. It was kept quist until given out at bis requsst that rholda, disd, It was had hemor THE ARBITRATION AGREEMENT. A Bummary of the Document in which the Verses nelan Queaticn Is to Be Bottled, Chronicle fume of between The London publishes a mary of the agreement of the the Venezaelan boundary dispute the United Btates and Great Britain, The agresment as published by the Chron. fcle Is very short, covering only two of printed matter, as given out, and entitied : “Heads of the proposed agreement bet ween Youezuela and Great Britain for the settle ment of the Venezuela boundary question as agreed upon between Great Dritain and the United Biatos,' There are four separate hoads to the agree ment, The first head provides for the appoint. ment of an arbitraticn tribunal to delermins the boundary between Venezuela and British Gulana "he second head provides for the appoint. two, to be Bupreme be nomi- settlement Pues ment of a tribunal consisting of the to nated by the British Bupreme Court, and the fifth, a jurist to by the four, In the avent of nominated by the Justices of Court of the United SHiates, tw: be selected other thelr failure to agree, Oscar I1, King of Sweden and Norway, is to select the fifth This fifth be a judge of the sald courts, and he wi preside over the tribunal as its head, The third head of that the tribunal shall member, member may i the agreoment directs invectigate ail the the of territory knd Ne Dr OU OVOrEY BS facts necessary to decide { to the extent wn to belong, ress sotively to the United theriands and * WoL pain at the date Great Guiana Ihe fourth heal provides that the arbiters shall ascertain all the rive at A proper decision facts necessary to ar and shall be gov 1 erned in their findings by three short rules, the most important of which provides tha ’ actus: holdings or a prescription vears shall make good the title, The arbite are empowered to give effect” to setilers rights fu establishiog facts; the ordias f law shall prevall, nt is dated N is signed by Mr, Olney and Bir Jullan Pa TUR ¢ Tha A LF AR ream vem! colon, The agreement will be the bs lauded between Creat Britain at In fact, It wi requiring yoed ure, to be cone FEOOIA, clauses to isting t s pr ths yma routios mattars nbers of the tribunal an sie has a dispatch from Was Mr OO The Chron ington which says that bas urged Benor Andrade there to gO %0 y and the Yenerusian © ney the Veunszueian Mister Caracas to get President Creap Eress 10 AO cept the agreement {his dispatch also says that Mr. Olney advised relations with the resumption } {iplomatio Great Britain I» Venezuela ER —— KIAGARA HARNESSED. Pas Great Fal Farah Buofale i A Bew ora falo, N. Y., was In ganoratad by Falls was bro will be used The transmission of slestrisliy is the realize fon of the dream of eloctrionl and mechan . foal sugineors, who bave studied the pr ism fer many years fA © a Hundreds of thousands silars have been spent in the 1 he electricity will bo frst used in of {the } ifTalo street railway, use uitimalsiy the current in ’ ther establishments of The great dynamos in sowar-house st us in their power §% Each of the four has a capacity of 5,000 horse an efficiency of only ¥5 per cent. The system phase alternating current avatem, Bach gon. erator delivers an alternating ourrent to The two currents are 180 apnrt, that is, sach current aftalos its maximum value when the valae of the other Ia pero. The direction versed 3.000 Umes por minute, its | thus produced Is conveyed through heavy house on the other side of the canal the wires enter what are ca'led “step-up’ transformers, whers the current is convertad into one of bigh potential rent heavy wire and is fairly launched on ita Then the our ieaves the ‘ransformerhouss on a Io journey. This is the process until the “step-down point Is reached, the oity line of Buffalo, Here is another power house, twenty-six the potential Is reduced and the current is again pul on the wires and earried into Buf. faio to the railway company, WRECKED BY TRAIN ROBBERS. Louisville and Nashville Express Bmashed Up and Beveral People Hurt The 2.30 A. M. train on the Louisville and Nashville Raliroad, bound for New Orleans, was wrecked four miles from Montgomery, Ala, io a very wild country, by train rob, bars. The engineer saw an obstruction on the track, but too late to stop the tralia, which wont crashing down a steep embank- ment. A rail had been torn up snd nalied down again three or four inches out of line, The train, comprising two mall coaches, bag gage car and two first-class coaches, was somplstely wrecked. Thetrack was torn up for fully 200 yards, Three persons were seriously injured, Mr. John Thwatt, of At. innta, bound for Dallas, Tex, and W. MeGover, of Monroe, being the most sors ously hurt. Two other passengers were pin- foned under the smoking car, and only after an hour's bard work were they extricated Their names could not ba ascertained, but both same from Louisville, + Blood hounds bave been sent on the trail of the wreokere by raiirond detectives, but as ¥ot no clew has been obtained to the guilty partion, Buapielon, however, rests on a eol- ored track walker, who was captured near the place. Hoolalms to have been posted to watoh for train wreckers by the company He has bees held. The damage Is [ally | 950,000, NEW SENATORS. Mr, Clay to Succeed General Gordon in Georgia, GEN. PETTUS IN ALABAMA. Fight Clay Ceorgla Narrowed Down to Mr, Mr. Howell Friends of the Success~ ful Candidate Jubllant Over His Victory. and A from Atlanta, Ga, says: — Alexander Btephons Clay. of Cobb county, demoecratio Btate executive committee and ex-president of the Biate Lt for United Btates Benator to Gordon by the despateh Benate, nominated sucesed John BB democratic legisiative caucus Tuesday after- noon after 8 long and bitter tent, The selection was in the pature of a compromise after the withdraw al of Gy The n vearnor Atkinson mination was made on the thirty 161. M. The ve 18 first baliot at itn was: Clay, lLoewis Norwood, § ' ’ Walsh, he mediately Ciarard, 4 candidate for escort frivads of the successful in began his preparations idm to home, in Marietta, twenty left ast 5 o'clock The result is what has been expected since i he race narrowed down to Clay and Howell Heerotary Hoke Smith, Hon. F. G. Dubnig ‘“Tileves be is y worked ay, as the new Bonator i hout Ge ’ gh and se He he bar and made his appearance in rein. as al na farg ured an education by his ris, studied law, was admitted tis t 1 i J intter "0's, when he was returned b county as a member of the Legls- He served some years, an Was a WAS 8 ulest geners! heiweesn 3 end] ne-ar ex Lh ever made rin capt mm ninsting a can MM WAS made LY Mr. Clay In It earried the membery overpor Atkinson of the State ex ALABAMA'S 8 ENATOR ire SAUCUS W. Pettus comed nated Gen § Hiates Sennior } BO Senator Pettus, €7; Oates, was Dorn n i therefore, [ age, wrous mentally and physically mestone panty, Al 3 1832, and, he is w ssvonty-Tour years bot is still vig The election of Mr. Peitus will lisappearance from cause the publie ile of Benator Pugh, who is one of the best-known {the Benate and a prominent fig- ngton official and social circles last Congress Mr. Pugh was » He inimical to President Cleveland Pugh A TRAGEDY IN NORFOLK. wae the administration of Mr. Pettus will n Mareh 4 next Bago eed Mr ots His Wile Times and Then Himself Tuesday afternoon Fred. Martin, s& saw. filor, who lived at 24 Fenchurch street, Nor- folk, Va. It belong Mrs Crawford's boarding At They found that the trouble was in He was found to sound. He died within a very few minutes after the desper- ats dead, bavidg taken his own life His wife was found to be shot three times through the body fa the region of the stomach, and ber condition is most critical, No cause for the tragic affair has developed. They lived with Mra, Crawford up to a short while ago and then went to Newport News Mra. Martin returned to get her trunks, saying that she was golog back to Newport News. He was about thirty-three years old and she about thirty. It was not known at Mrs Crawford's that they lived otherwise than happy. They were both attired at the time as if they might have been ready to go out. Physicians were immediately um moned to attend the wife and the coroner was notified as to the death of Martie, Mes Martin oan, it Is thought, survive but a short while, LOCKED IN AND BURNED. em —— Teo Babies Most a2 Terrible Death © Virginia. In the northern portion of Greenville County, Va., Wyatt Meeks lost his barn by fire. Just after the fire the discovery wes made that two of Mr. Meeks’ children, aged 8 and 5 years respectively, had perished in the fames. The elder brother of the two little ones ad- mitted that In a spirit of mischief he had locked the two little ones in the barn end PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, ipltoms of News Glennsd From Varisas Pars of the Btate A party of thieves operating in East Ear Township, were surprised Ly armed clthzeni he i | vho gave ehase ig vello ios thisves i ' Tho oecnpind two Wagons, | ushed in the di ection of the Welsh Mo ridge the intain, and when loss han a mile irom the nxie wagon of the They under to the other wagon their this Gar robbers broke, rausforred thelr § ned { helr pursuers ind unhite horse, but by time gun-shot and Fiadiog that | were within iad several shots at them, | yas getiing une ! Jbapndoned one horse and wagon with dunder, and then took to the | heir pursuers, left Arm | William Davis was shot in { vhile he Anthony dwelling he and Christopher wore thelr Beranton. ng Apthony fled over the t jusrreliog in front of After the shoot taking his | yi Kelser avenue flelds inter in the night and Patrolman rrest svolver with him, but | Jdoutenant Williams him N. Stadfelt, a ¢ | arod under a and Alderman Mil miner, ‘oski called at the office of in and desired to be 1 W Pittsburg, biie the Bquire was ud groom-elect became ins § (334% oui 4 ’ . neal regarding (he , and Btadfel cighteged b v the prou erued who were we Miss Freeman J Hev, Mr. Fitegersid us offense srder, BEeinst re i inm Freeman and ing town , 8 fght slarted danger andertakiag wes in the counter gangway of shalt report that the { They + 3 ue th ris are pow being 4 flames by shutting off from the al- fi ar ton fected portion of the mine so as not i the 800 men and bove employed thers into A year g idleness Hix vears ago the Nellson breaker was destroyed Ly fire, and three VARIES AZO similiar fire, the mine was flooded } when eight lives wars lost Ly & and laid idie for twelve months. Jesse O, Thomas, secretary of the Bristol There is but one fever, and that one is cou | of diptheria at present. { conse of typhoid | vaiesoent, At 8 meeting of the Coatesville ( it question of bor | rowing §20,000 for the purpose of increas | Ing the borough's water supply to a vote of | the people at a special election to be held sun { was decided to submit the | next month Judges Ehrgood has made perpetual the in- | junction resirsining Thomas | from erecting a dynamite plant at Bunker {| Hill, near lebanon ihe complaint was { made by residents of that osality ee ——— { ROBBERS MURDER TWO WOMEN. Widow and Daughter Killed vo Ost Possession of $50 in Cash Mra. Foley, a widow, aged sizsty-five yours, and her unmarried daughter Fannie, aged forty, were found murdered in their home near Liberty, Mo. No motive for the crite is known. William Foley, aged twenty-five, a son of the murdered woman, had visited a neighbor, and returning home after mid- night was first to discover the dead bodies. Mother and sister wore found in their bed. room dressed in thelr night gowns and be- spattered with blood. They had both been shot, the mother through the head snd the daughter in the back. The assassin or As sassing had fired at Mra. Foley through one of the front windows. The bullet lodged in the bead of the bedstead. Both women evi. dently became frightened and rau Into the bedroom in the rear. The door was then foreed and the bloody work completed. The son gave the alarm to neighbors and a party was soon gathered and sought for traces of the perpetrators. Finding no clus they rode to Kansas City, fifteen miles distant, and re- ported the murder to the local police, Ds tactives were immediately sent to Liberty, The murder appears to bave bosn som mitted for the sole purposs of robbery, The robber or robbers ransacked the house Fifty dollars, ali that was ssoured, was taken from the foot of the bad on which the women had slept. . a Complaint Is made that in the Cape Cod cranberry bogs the native pickers have been supplanted by Italians, Finos and Sweds, and that thus another American industry going off, forgot about them. 4 base passed lato the bands of foreigners. ———————————— Damage By Floods and Stow in Washington. Hard- innumerable Prospector a Maniac From ships Endured Washouts and Landsjides Witt IOUS. Loss 36 Enory Beattie, Wash. Hegidents of fer and vieinity, wh reason of the fl ow, have been virtually prison fastnesses of the fn Cascades mountains » in. They tell harrowing devastiati has not There sildes Hn DE "oa being swept down slides they lashed ramping the 186 P. where the N files nA ades, & kent and ICKY, f Ulpcinnati, both killed in beiwoeen un architect, « by & train, apd {Whi ICWh The men were caught s running in opposite directions, dale two train SAWED THROUGH JAIL BARS, Bight Pisces of Heavy Iron Were Out by » Tole do Prisoner, Who Escaped Frank Crawford, alias Harry or Harvey Davis, broke jail at Toledo, Ohio, at an ear. iy hour the other morsing by sawing his way through the iron grating at the top of the jail and then Jetting bimself down to the ground by means of a quilt Davis was held for trial on the charge of murdering Marshall Baker, of North Balti more, Ohio, last August. He was transfer. red {rom the Bowling Green jail to this place for security He evidently had accomplices on the out. side, as the sawing was done both from with- in and without. Eight iron bam, each two by eleven and a hallinches, were out throagh. The iron was soaped so that the saws would make po noise. The escape was made while two guards were on duty. ANOTHER HUGE WAR LOAN. Bubseription of $30,003000 w Be Asked of Bpsnieh People Ssnor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish Minis. tor at Washington hae word from Madrid to the effect that the Government will ask for pablic subscriptions on a loan of $50,00,- 000, While the Minister said that the loan was not for the immediate purchass of muni tions snd equipments for war, yet it was probable that the bulk of the money would be used to defray expenses of the conflict in Cuba, Minister De Lome has received a tele- gram from an official source, saying that
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