THE NEWS,
It is reported that freight steamers have
been chartered to load grain at Boston at an
early date for the
ships were chartered by two prominent grain
Those
United Kingdom,
brokers, owing to their belug unable to ab
tain room io the regular liners and because
more advantageous rates were made,
The stockholders of
Bank of New York have voted to reduce the
eapital of the from #2000000 1
$1,000 000, Oge-half the par value be
returned to the stockholders
the Central Nationa,
bank
will
The funeral of Sir Joseph Vickson, for
merly general manager of the Grand Trunk
Railway, was one of the largest ever seen in
Toronto. A floral engine,
which cost 600, It tribute of the
Grand Trunk employes,
The Electele Grain E
Buffalo
stock of $350,000 to operate
The
falo; Ya'e Kpeeland, F. E. Kneeland, ¢
Nitehell and Buleman Maller, of New Yor
The Tia {
08 Of
exodus on accoun
fonturs was a
was the
levator Company ol
was incorporated with a capital
grain elevators,
Edward W. Eames, Bul-
directors are
lation of Bomba
hall.
and more shops are cl
rative quarter
The weekly mi:
The conver
Teingraphers has been called
Peoria, Ill, on May 17
John I. Webber, of
and his wile lies in a er
the result of Webber's att
lives of both, Jea'ousy was the
building
ment of th
and wil
The ex
of Amur
rotifled Dr, Ir
that ho
Ameri
has hboen
an Nenr
George Crocker,
bas purchased
the
Broadway, and ©,
York, frow Peter Ma
der Smi
erect u 1
Je
killed
saul
erimint
ary unding
accident
BD. Eddy
Con pany, of
Nswmark
committee at
facrease |
per cent
same as
Riates,
Canby
departicent of Cole
the age of 64 years
alter nn experier
United States arg
took piace
witness. d Ly
and were atten
Good pr
Bea OC
eompiste in
ME Tess
infos Cor
ward, Savwa
MURDERED FOUR,
Dagorads
Record.
At an emsucipation
th Carsiina
Mag
January 1, Simon
Cooper, colored, killed Henry Davis, The
A warrant
them attempiled to
He opened fire two
down «ix, all wounded
Cooper armed himsesif with a rifle and defled
arrest. The officials made no further aforts
at his eaplure,
Thursday Governor Evans was telegraph-
od by Citizens of Magnolia, saying Cooper
had kfiled four whites, and asking him to
tak# aetion. The Governor ordered the Bherill
of Sumter County to eap ture the desperado
al all Bazards. At daylight Cooper appeared at
the house of West Wilson, a farmer living
neat Magnolia, Wilson, his wife and father,
a man over 70, were the three gocupants, As
if ha had thoroughly determined upon his
sourse, the outlaw immediately shot and in-
stantiy killed the Wilsons, {ather and son.
Then with the probable desirs of saving am-
munition, be seized an axe and pursued
Mra. Wilson, who was endeavoriag to escape.
She was butchered in the most horrible man-
He
The marderer hal ridden to the house on
a stolen horse, This hie procesdsd to har-
ness to Wilson's buggy. He loaded the
vehicle with provisions and portable articles
of the most value and started off, taking the
bloody axe with him. Within a rod of where
bis three latest vietime lay, Cooper met
Preston Smith There is no evidences that
Smith made an oor to molest him, but
Jeopnr killed him, again usiog the axe,
which be left burisd fu bis skull. The coun
try is wild with excitement,
celebration at
molia, Sumter county,
anlored people immediately got
and a pussa of arreat
Cooper with pistols,
shooting Later
BIG CYCLONE
LIFE AND PROPERTY LOST.
Four Members of One Family Killed
A Boy, Seeing a
Train Approaching a Place Where
at Mooringsport
Trees Mad Been Biown Down, Gut
a lantern and Signaled to It
Southern Arkansas, Northern Texas and
Northwestern Louisiana were swept by
wind and raio-storm, eanusi
loss of a number of lives nnd the dest
f-a great deal of property
the
tion occurred at Mooringsport, La
%
‘0 far as heard from greatest dost
30 miles Ir Texarkana, where
were
In Arkansas the storm was se
£1 f a Rtn ta
riion of the blatle,
¢ 141 ,
RILISS O
cas
Der ck
All the towns betwy
suffered damage
give instar
1%
frees were {
and raged
western of the Btate, There is «
he storm is the worst ¢
ni———
FEET OF G
Or Joo
a long cherished trad sled with the
ast,
it is an old theory hich has
Faialll
nge
reed to
.:
limappeara after a cortain depth has been at.
tained This is a8 creed of vats uid pros.
pector from the Yakon to the Panama [sth
as,
The developments in the Kepasdy not only
topples over thia belivf, but may
lead to a revolution in misiag In this state,
for the deeper progrees is made in the Ken
nedy the wider grows th orn body,
ES ————
WASEINGTON NOTES.
The Carnegie Company offers to sell lis
armor plant to the government at cost
The President has sent the nomination of
loonaed C. H Behlem of New York, Consul
of the United States at Cape Haytien, Haytl,
to the Benate
The grand jury has returned an indictment
for eriminal libel against oz-Representative
Charles G. Conn, of Indiana, the former pro-
pristor of the Washington Times. A bench
warrant for his arrest was issued,
The President has sent to the Benste the
correspondence between the Becretary of
State and Consui-Genorsl Loo relative to the
death of Charles Govin, a newspaper cor
respondent, "Tae correspondences conialns
nothing of Importance that has not been
made public heretofore,
Commander A. T. Iverson, lately on duly
at the Boston Navy-yard, bas beon retired
on acecunt of age.
old-time
WHITE HOUSE RECEPTION.
The Interior of the Mansion Lovishly and Prettily
Decorated
The annual New Year show at the White
House took place according to long-estab
lished custom, It constitutes the year.y or-
deal of the President and the mistress of the
White
with many bundred
fact —of their fellow-citizens
number of
House, for they must shake hands
gover! thousand, in
and ao lnrge
1 hey
smulled and bowed and beamed through it all
aly
Ne young
distinguished foreigners,
Jay and stifled the wincesthat unconscie
foliowed the hearty grasp of
subaltran fresh from the frontier or the grip
of some horny baad that had dons service in
the late nolitieal campnign It was one con,
tinua! round of hand shaking and e
thie
lo not realize the terrible strain
‘haug-
ing the compliments of season. People
on
mind aud Lody that the President and Mra
and
nerves,
wers requ tional
ueir part
ns frosh at
ent to undergo,
, however, and |
Le 11
naing
kad
as they did ot the beginning
As on inst New Year's Day the crowd that
art! the re
fo and witnessed
ge, It
pated
was th
sigoal to play
baton and the
hint
or
Presi
f the
pw gv] :
ing the origiosl §
he lands was debated, but
had
an
astre. The
denial
the
y i ¢ vis
8!) of meri
wal per pound
i book j ii ns Bi
and toppage
rivilege.,
the
PRper sample :
to amend the
t il matior was
by the House after t days of de-
bate bya volta gf Mito 15 The most Ime
portant provision of the Lill denies the seria
publications adm the mails at ope
ant per pound rates. The Bill «iso denies
the “sample ' privilege
ihe I,
i mecond-clnes
pass t
anion to
¥
io newapapers SOY
returning unsold puslications al the second-
class rate,
13te Day The Pacific Railroad funding
till, which is considered the most Important
pleco of regisintios that will come before
opngress at this seesion, was discussed in
the House und: r a special onder which al-
iowa two days for general debate, with pro-
vislon Tor a final vole next week,
THIRTEEW
——
MINERS ERTOMEED.
Fire is a Mexican Silver Mins Cot off Their
Mesa: of Bscapa
A terrible disasior has ocourred in the
Santa Geriruel mine, at Pachuena, ona of Lhe
most famous siiver mines in the City of
Mexico, From some cause not kvown fire
broke out in one of the levis of the oid
Bonthern workiops, shutting off the exit of
thirteen Mexican miners. Miners on the
outside went {o work 10 try to pat out the
firs and save the jsen. Ope Englishman,
Ned Richards, an experienced miner, went
down in ehargo’of thy rescie operations, bat
per shed frogh suffocation. All the Mexicans
Peliigrini a enndidato for the presi
of Ar ention
Eight Persons Believed to
Fave Been Lost
LOSS DUE TO ENEMIES.
Thrilling Escape of Stephan Crane
and Several Others In a Small
Boat Which Was Tossed High by
the Waves They Used the Cap
tain's Overcoat as a Sail.
A special dispateh from Jacksonville, Fina,
BAYH slenmsr
The which
from this port for Cienfuegos, Cuba
Commodore,
cieared
with a cargo of arn and
Fe
foundered
morning
I'wenty-eight men were on t
stenmer,
Eig
have been glver
I'he ven
{
hand beer
Friday night and
ut the steamer
nu the eng
Trew Napll
the steamer when the
wreck
ssying thal so » as il was
ihe vegas
i WAS
found to bave
ieaking the
t wers
Rod Ware uasieoss
3 AOL Bl Ww
(nak thai
% #24
“YE A ile
ia X Laka
farms and
as pot present
ales, and they
to ins
ing tha as
will bw procs aga nxt according
ction received
regnoers enguged in cultivation orf pur
£ way industry under the conditions
bove requi. od must prove their uationsiny
as well a4 show the number of employes
under thelr control, and must guarantees all
origin musi
uments the
¥
nformation as {hinir aad
1
stuw heir police du under
sane tering f= above roguired
An owner of livestock mast pres st does.
ments proviog his owaersalp aud the locas
tion of the siovk,
- -
RIVAL OF THE BELL COMPANY
Bt. Lonis is to Have a Telephone Bystem Constracted
en a New Pisa.
A great pumber of cianvassers have peon
engaged by the Kinloeh Telephone Company,
which was recently Incorporated with a cap-
ftal of several million dollars by prominsat
Si Louis business men. They will solicit
telephone subscrivers, Ma pager H. J. Han.
ford says:
“We expect to have our plaat in operation
within 18 months, The system will be dil-
ferent from the one now in use at 8t Louis,
It will be necessary only to take the receiver
from the hook and eail the number wanted,
“The were ant of taking ths receiver from
the hook ealis the cential oTice, The rates
of the Kinloch Compasy will be $60 a year
for business houses, $50 for physicians and
#34 tor private restJences,
FEENBYLVANIA ITEMS.
Epitoms of Wows Gleans! Pron Varivas Party Of
the Etate
Ernest Zantelnger brought sult inthe Com
dan
yar
mon Pleas Court at Medias to ree
RECs against the Waynes Lisctrio Light Com
the i
pany, for sles In
frous of
erection of wleven pH
his country sent, nt Wavne,
irt fustructed the jury to give s
the plalgtff and
Urpin the dR
lof
ympany to file a
to
Hes
onte: the vndant
within teu days In the sum of 82,000
ull damages trom
erected, and
the time the ju
ipon failure to do this a
triad will be granted
Tuberculosis has broken out among
sunty Almshiouse, which ne
#itated the slaughter of
Pottsy
0
Hera
the eutirs
iia, Bo rows wars killed
rection of tls
W. Ballade, of Pottsville
der the Slate
JT ROTED PEOPLE
Relway, editor
Ly watch aad soft ca The «
Fireeis,
The Prinses of ales silent
fil
aid + + Ae
Joha Ambulance Association, bas sanctions
demoadiralio
Mas
n of the Queen »
a grand ambulance fole and
1
y be held at the crysial Palace fa
June next, incommemorati
ong reigs.
H. Helin CI observer ln charge
of the Dlae HiY Meteorological Ob
, Fergu
¢, and his assistant Mr. 8 1°,
yion, ths
{ Masa,
BOTvAtO?
son recently performed 8 novel feat of in
to aeronautists and ornithologists
While making eimaitaseous
cloud heights they took measurements of a
fight of ducks and by means of trigonome
try discovered the ducks were flying 358 feat
above the ground at the rate of 47.7 miles an
hour, .
Uncommon manilestations of honor were
given to Frases von Leatach, the German
porirait painter, in Munich, on his (Oh
birthday. The Munich Boeiety of Artists
unauimously elected him to membership
congratulations were received from Prince
Bismarck, whose portraits by Leabach are
famous; the Prince Regent Lultpold, of Ba-
varia, also sent his congratulations: the Clty
of Munich deputed ils two Burgomasters io
greet him, end fleally Leobach received
visits fn person from the Grand Duches
Yietoria of Hesse and the Crown Princess of
Houmania
{eres
obssrvalions ol
— a sin
The Madrid Dpoea publishes a formal de
pial that the government bas aay intention
of supers ding General Weyler as captain-
gonoral of Cuba
SUICIDE IN A CHURCL.
George Wilkins, a Belma, Als, Packer, Lilie
Himself
A despnteh (rom Montgomery, Ala, says: ~
I Wiikins, Vice President ofl the
Commeraial National Bank of BSeima, which
£500,000 Wednesday,
suicide by shooting himsoll through the head
in the Chureh, at
o'eloek in He had
for years, and was
Gisorge
failed for committed
Episcopal Belmu, at 4
1
i
the morping been Vien
the
one of the best known 2
Mr. Wik
pal Diocess of Alabama, and & devoted church
President of bunk
Hlate,
en in Lhe
ne vas treasurer of ths Lpiseo
In his distress he scught refuge in
t, and
friends ay
bh, where he rewained all nigl
pearance of searching
his
are
the
r, he fired the bullet into
brain. His asoccounts with the bank
ought to be all right, aad distress at
ascribed as the cause of his sell
destruction,
Mr. Wilkine was tress f 1
rer ha priae
a8 prio
% Parish, of
i Fei
6g to
Hocese of Alabama, of Bl a
the BL. Audrow Brotherhoo
of the Od
inde belo
der
when
of thens societies wers mited in the
known that crash
ihe
withe
IgEerind
funds
thers was 8 report
ew peron ater Lhe
a4 passed
YERTS
tween!
TODACCO-
Nesta g ai
Middl
Facey
£03
100)
14VE BTOCK
BEEF —Dest Dooves $
SHEEP
H we
FURS AND FEIRS
MUSKRAT
Heosoon
Bed Fox
Bkunk Bisck.
Opossum
Mink
Uller
XEwW Yomg
FLOUB~Routhern
WHEAT-- No. 2 Bed
RYE Wesistn
CO No, 2
OATY--No. 3
BUTTER State
EGOS Bats
CHERSE Mate
$ 300 @
wi id
3% aw
S08
23g
17
19
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WHEAT Na, 2 Bad.
CORN--No, 8.
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The newspaper presa of Bolivia continues
its Bitter commest and attacks upon Pera.
The nsscrtion is made ia the press that Chili
will provide the Bolivian Government with
40.00) Mannlicher rifi=s in case of an oul.
break of hosti ltles with Pera.