THE NEWS,
Emma Betz, aged forty years, of Phiiadel,
pha, was
Altert Engel, aged twenty-three vears,
a distance of ten feet Fagel
bird gun at her, aad,
ma, I'm going to shoot
tion to the word, Th
love,
Henry Boesa, aged
artist, was found dead of heart
his room at the Park Hotel, New
Twenty years ago he earned ef
fame under the name MM Paul Ritter ns a
master landscape painter, many of his can-
and
2 ahant and
aiimost {instantly killed by
At
levelod a small
'
with the remark, *
you, s
seventy-five
nsiderable
vasses having sold for high prices,
many prizes at art axhibitions,
wan
i the Wes
wie derai
A southbound freight train ox
Jersey and Seashore Rallroad
Landiag, N. J. The box
1 I'he
near May's
and their contents were desiroye
carve, No «
eident occurred at a sharp
was injured and travel was but slightly
layed,
Miss Nora Reed,
struck by a passenger
killed that j
along the railroad track
of Musgrove, Pa. w
train and instantly
near Ince. Bhe was walklo
reading a love lei-
ter when the train struck her,
Ex-Congressman Augustus W, Cu
at his home in Morristown, N. J.,
effects of a surgical {
citis,. Mr
November he was
for
operation
Cutler was born in 1835
iefoated by Mah
Congress He was a
During a drunken quarrel among ® crowd
of miners at Hinton, W, Va., John Leg
killed, his broths
died a few 1 later, both ti
4
instantly and Richard
1e vielims
Mi
ments
of James Moore's shots
head by Ri
was dvi
revolver
was also shot in the hard Ley
while the latter
1. Legg bad beens
but summoned
his revolver and firet
probably end Moore's life also
The Russian Ambassador, M. Neii
warned the palaces and the Portethat |
revenues geeded f
ww of th
yr the servi
debt are touched Eure
pean finan
in Turkey will becor
The Windsor
clothing stores
Hotel, four sal
three restaurants,
cery store, two livery stables
og a large
10f P
ed by fire. Th
08,000, partially ¢
Fire destroyed
ber shops, composing a
%8 secti ttsdam, N.
e damage Is estimate
overed by insurance,
the repair shops of
Bushwick division of the Brooklyn Heigl
npany and
building used by Welz & Zerwicks, brewers,
as a storage-houss In
Ratlway Cor a four-story fr
Brooklyn. Total loss
$95,000, well covered by insurance. Cause
of fire unknown.
Thomas H. Fitzgerald, aged 50
well-known painter and musi
years, a
sian, was mur
dered in Meadow street, New Haven, shortly
before 1 o'clock a. m. He started togo to
Meriden, he
1230, and was dis
terward lying
covered
where bad been at
recently
covered hall an hour af,
on the sidewalk dying
with blood, There was
an inch
between the ribs
woun and a-hal! long
CABLE SPA
RES.
A landsiip at the v
Palago, Italy, demol
A meeting was
age of Santa Anns 4
shed 118 hb
Du
against overtaxation in Ireland
M. .
statesman,
FURNES,
held in ila to prot
Clemencean
is seriously HL
Sir Alexander Milne, a retired ad
the British navy, Is dead.
The destructive movement of
at Castle Island, Ireland, has esa
Mr. Gladstone's birthday
at Hawarden,
1509.
An American
rested at 88 Sebastian, 8
forgery.
The Havana papers are savage fa tone
was
England. He was
named Dasd has been ar
pain, ou a charge ¢
against the United States especially as to
filibustering.
It is announced in London and Berlin that
no communications respectiag Cuba have
been made to soy power.
mon and reg wears
drowned near Mal
ing of a fishing »
A meeting of |
at Quebec to
situation which
Twelve
Uy the Wreck
disou ico-religious
bas arisen in Canada
Julio Banquilly, the 1
citizen, was sentegced at Havana
lite f
Spanish government,
onment for ’"
A family of toa pers
eattle have been engulfs
of a bog of 100 acr
county Kerry, Irelar
Two of the men
M. Btamboulofl,
were convieted at
charged with assassinating
¢
ex-nremier of
Bulgaria,
Sofia and sentenced to
three years’ imprisonment. The i
acquitted,
Premisr Canovas, says Bpain would not
the
Cuba nor introduce reforms
long as the rebellion is not oe
Eastern provinces,
Princess Caraman-Chimay, formerly
Miss Clara Ward, of Detroit, Mich. who
elopsd from Paris last summer with a Han-
gacian gypsy musician named Janesi Rigo,
says she left her husband because of
neglect,
United States Consul-General Fitzhugh
Lee and family and Congressman-alect Hohe
bins and w.fe paid a visit to the palace in
Havana and were cordially received Ly the
Marquis of Ahumads, acting ecaptain-
general,
Atameeting in Limerick to protest against
overtazation ia Ireland Bishop O'Dwyer re-
called the words of Lord Castledown, who
suggested that the people of Cork imitate
the spirit of the peopls of Boston in 1773,
whea they threw a cargo of tea into the har.
bor as a protest against unjust taxation,
hird was
acoept intervention of United States in
!
in that ia'and so
utined to the
da
his
—— a —
Charles (. Rosa, surviving partoer of
Charles G, Ross & Co., drygoods commis-
sion merchant, of New York, has assigned
to John C. Hayes, without ;references. The
amount Involved? Is reported to be about
$50,000. :
mr nt Isso ims
Queen Victoria was crowned in Westmin-
ster Abbey: she was married at the Chapel
Royal, In 8t. James’ Palace,
PRESIDENT § DUTY.
Mr. Olney Sustained .by State
Department Experts
EXECUTIVE AUTHORITY.
Mr, Adams Asserted This in Mr
Monroe's Cabinet and Maintained
that the President Shoull Not
Make Either House a Party to an
Act Which It Was His
Right and Duty to Perform.
Exclusive
oT i 3 .
I'he international law oxperts of the State
Deg artment have recs i Inve
stigating
the fssue raised by Becrets
to the exclusive power
recognize a foreign government, and
luded that preceden
In
and fac
tain th
@ Secretary, the departmen
nees at «
& som aang
gaonand
Mr. Clay's Contention
'n Mr. Clay began goading th
1818 into
Act of Executive Anthority
t the recognition of a new g
$ of t
ition an
Mr Adams assorted thi
i vs of
1d Mads
nreased the
i Instance
ire the atl
1 aad not weaken
naking either
an act which it
iuty
hed Mao
act references
pro
the Fren
in
vinees as Washis
gress or
General Washingto
teil him that he did
i not
: i and that
No sir; they left
vested in him by the
y exercise
the
Fv
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DYNAMITE ON THE ST
wo Women Killed Through the Careless
Quarry Owner,
Two wotnen wers killed by an explosion of
dynamite in the house of Elias Becker, ex.
Sheriff of Derks county, at Tuckerton, Pa
They wern his wife, aged fifty-four years,
and her step-danghter, Mrs. William Seldel,
aged thirty. Both were terribly mangled
Mrs. Decker met Instant death, and the
younger woman died within twenty minutes
The house caught fire and was destroyed
with all its contents
Becker is a quarry owner, and bad ser-
oral sticks of dynamite, which were to be
used for blasting purposes. He placed them
{n the kitchen stove to thaw out, aud then
left the house, A few minutes lator the ex.
plosion occurred, and he rushed back to his
home. The coroner will hold an inquest.
ROBBERS LOOT AN IOWA BANK.
They Blew Opes the Bafe and Carried OF $5,000
or More ia Cash,
At Bally, lowa, a small town near Newion,
Towa, robbers looted the State bank. The
bank was lacorporated in 1501 with 5,000
capital, The deposits were about $17,000.
A Smith is President, and IL A. Sherman
cashier. Details of the robbery are hard to
obtain, because the town has no Selegraphio
connections, It fs reported the robbers en-
tered the bank, Liew open the safe, and car.
riot away an amount of eash estimated at
§5,070 or more,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitoms of News Gleansd Fron Varloas Party ¢f
the Btate
Milton Keltra, who shot himself at Summit
Hill, died at the Bethlehem Hospital, Keltra
was infatuated with a Philadelphia girl, who
This fact
his come
iftorward refused him,
Ind to
which ended
Arey
preyed upon
his mind and
mitting the rash ac his career,
Edward Willa:
burg mill worker
Kk '
, aged 19 years, a Bharps
agreement
he
secretly
aligned
10 a month
Young Willlams
When his n
insisted that her son sign the agree.
an
be
ay. his mother & until
mes of aga, was
inrried last week, other heard
whe
ut in order tl ho might be cartain of
Hos No, 41 Ash
kitchen fire there
a Gantz, street,
the
yal
Reading, fixing
Wis
which blew off a
fluger and badly cut the
{the right hand
|
wounded that the sight will
den expl 0
thumb and finds
third finger « Her left oye
WAS 5 be
RE
ar yr tir
JAK A aw
ceiver for
burg, N
patties, mem!
partition and
ia in no fla
dettadness
In Austin, Tex., G. A. Baho, leading jew
£ J
naming preferred
want of $30 000,
fe distributed three national
banks being caught for some £10,000
there,
The
ted by real “state
full amount
to the
a ———— III
A COUNTY INSOLVENT.
i
Commissioners Direct a Suspension of Interest
Payments.
The commissioners of Lane county, Kan ,
have formally declared the county Insolvent
and issued instructions to the treasurer to
refrain from further payment of Interest op
the conntly's bonded indebledness
The fanded debt of the county is £125,000,
The londs are held Ly about forty different
corporations asd lodividuals in New York
snd New England and bave been quoted al
most at par. *
Edward Helmie, chairman of the county
board, states the county could pot raise
money enough by taxation to meet its obli-
gations. He says the settiors in Lane are
not repudiators and pay their taxes prompt.
ly, but that such is not the case with non.
resident land owners,
About $108,000 of the county's indebted.
ness is rapresented by bonds tesoed to ald in
the eonstroction of the Great Bead branch
# i
TWENTY LOST.
Passenger Train's Awful Plunge
From a Bridge,
FELL OVER A HUNDRED FEET
A Rall
Coaches to Leave
Tracks Fall
Shallow River
Villains Removed Causing
the the
and Into a
Far
Below,
Birmington, Ala. says
kod
ham Mineral passenger train No. 40 at Caha-
A special from
Filends in human form wre the Birming
ba River bridge, 27 miles from here, at 7
ning and 20 lives wers
hava been
recov
and further search
Mostly Miners
Was a Local Passenger.
id the
mud. Ripe
ers had
}
La
OURRENT
‘orest fires wave cstroyed 42.000 wcres of
ber in New York State in the past threes
TUTEne
da ¥ Lad¥ A 0
akes thirty-saven specially constructed
the sub
the world in re-
and « quipped steamers to keep
mariage telegraph cables of
fait
It Is estimated 0
Southwestorn
that over per cent. of
the potato erop of Michigan
was jell in the ground by reason of the low
price in the fall, !
Throughout Weslorn Florida the outlook |
for immigration this Winter excesds any- |
thing of the kind known before in the his-
tory of that section.
All the previous fire records of Atlanta for |
ono year have boen broken this year. So far |
this year the Fire Department has made 373 |
runs against 353 runs last year,
Instead of his usual Sunday evening ser. |
mons a clergyman of Chapman, Kan, is i
reading to his congregation a continued |
story, ealisd “Jake the Merchant,” which he |
wrota himself,
A White Pigeon, Mich., resident has a fam-
y which is something remarkable in the
ray of weight. There are six of them, the |
lather and mother, a daughter asd three
sons, and their average weight is 202 pounds.
The Btate of Maine furnished ons-eleventh
ol the Governors chosen last Fall in the dik
ferent States of the Union, They are
Liewllyn Powers in Maine, Hazen 3 Pingree
in Michigan, Frank B Biack in New York,
and John R. Rogers in Washington.
Al Trisnt in the Tyrol, a few weeks ago,
the Italian residents unveiled a monument
ie Dante, who ls supposed to have lived for
tome years In Trient after bis banishment
from Fiorence. One hundred and twenty
wreaths wore laid on the steps of the mony
ment,
FLOATING FACTS.
Thy
fda
longest electric railway In the world
per Mo
sad of measuring IL
Bid wind
aunty,
Apple growers in
el on
Lheir Trait fast
#1 your 49 Cari
waters
minis
and his fife Appears to
day's purchase
The Marquis de Montealm,
represeptative of the family
He
iegal
the last
of Qaebee,
recently at Montpellier
title
tranemitied
spams and by process to
adopted son,
The Duke of York is the only member of
ihe British royal family who can dance a
sillor's horapipe. He is said to take ¢ id
erable pride in the accomplishment, which
he learned while a eadet in the navy.
Sardou’s bobby is building Louses, In thie
way he delights in spending bis wealth. On
|
prevented from completing It because it
would interfere with the view from a fort
Mme, Nordica possesses several {laras, bo?
the last one, which was recently presented
in size from one aad a half to one-eighth of
fatant There are about a dozen of the
arger stones, and the total weight of the dia-
monds in the tiara le about 200 karats, lis
sosts Is in the neighborhood of $5,000,
MM. Nelidoff, Russian ambassador to Tar
key, bas notified the Sultan that the agreo-
ment of the powers upon the question of the
enforeement of reforms is Tarkey is perfect
and that they demand that thers shall bs no
delay in giving desent to he proposed
forms,
HOW KEROSENE IS REFINED,
Something About a Remarkable Amer.
ican Industry,
Bionise odes
the water to drink.
Wi satisfying its
all
with exe ‘ slic was only
ww feet from the baleony, on which
of her great foes was sitting watch.
The little one having finished
drinking. it wax replaced in the pouch,
apd the old kangano started of at a
rapid pace.
When the natural timidity of the kan-
garoo is taken into account, it will be
recognized what astonishing bravery
this affectionate mother betrased. It
i# a pleasing emiing to the story thas
the eye witness was #0 affected by the
scene that from that thuee forward he
could never shoot a Kangsron—Our
Pumb Animals,
The Canadian Government is consid-
ering the advisability of deepening the
St. Lawrence and the canals from Mon-
treal to Lake Erie to twenty-one feet,
Grain then may be sent by sivamer
from Duluth to Montreal and thence to
Europe at a great saving of time and
vis quivering
iteient. ay
¥ hig
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