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