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THE NEWS,
Lieutensnt-Governor Jones had a confer-
once with Ex-Governor Foraker at Clocin-
natl, and with Governor Bushnell in, Cleve
land, but would neither affirm nor deny the
Beopatorial story,
By the premature discharge of a biast in
the Roxbury district of Boston, James Keele,
a laborer, was iostaptly killed, and Patrick
Hopkins was badly (pjured,
W. K. Smith,
Hornellsville, N, Y., was arrested and taken
to Elmira by a deputy United States marshal
inte deputy postmaster of
$e is charged with defaleation.
In New Haven, Conun., Thomas F,
in the fi
The jury was out
Kippie
was found guilty of murder rat de
gree He Lilled his wife,
for four hours,
A bill has been introduced
House making it a felony punishable by a
penitentinry sentence of
warried wan to be found gullty of matri
monial Infidelity
whatever,
A resolution
House by Hepresentative Burk,
for an of the
warebouse commissioners, on
that they have
power in the reduction of
in the Missouri
five years for a
under any ele stances
introduced in the Missouri
providing
raliway and
the
exercised
invesligation
theory
not fully their
rallway rates, was
sdopted.
The Avery fellow servant bill, making rail-
way companies respousibie for accidents re-
sulting rom the carelessness of employes,
passed the Missouri Senate with bul seven
votes against it. As bill
passed House, it now goes 10 the
Governor for bis signature, with every
the has aiready
the
pros
pect of becoming a law.
daughter Mrs, ©
feil inte
A G-year-old
Himes
bolier filled
of Brookvilie, Pa.
with bol water and was
cooked to death.
be child beer
ing around the boiler
ter being removed fron
Capt. The
Militar
the two
tows
New
aebraska Senste has Lilled the Cans
resciution offered last week and adopted
ago free
fering to send rn to f
be ao0e
eariwright and H
sud other matisrs
J. A. Br
Christian (
Hey.
ihe
sou lo 120 a
the Prohibitic
Parsivsi
A
se Tie jeas
Aw
track at
“a Is KNOW]
ixedd train whi
Ariingt
ruins €'¢
Hosa
Harrisog
Secrelary of State that
si £ nas
United
nas been
been n
Ihe Bintes or Marblehead!
which New York Navy
Ya indergoing yme repairs, salied
t the North At
Hampton Roads
we} under Admiral Bunce,
adron
Fvans, the manuf:
Springfield, O,, shows no ill-effoct
attempt at suicide, His mind i
is still confined to the house
Robert lincoln,
K. Fairbank, Marsball Field
left Phoenix, Arie, for New
(sen Wesley
rieags,
will make thetlrip by easy slages
The cruiser Phi
the Southern Pacifle Coast
about thre: months ago oun a
Bhe left A
day bound north,
At Mass |
19, confessed to murder in the second
N. Strange, and
' i §
adeiphin, thal went
as far as Calin
her way back aj
Taunton, Herbert A
of Fred, was giv
sentence,
in the Sistas Distriot (¢
ward 8 O'Farrell, the
J.) postmaster, was sentenced, The
was & fips of #1 000 and one year
Jersey 8 ate Prison,
President J. J. Hill,
ed 1a an interview the
United
former Bavopne
sentence
3 the New
of the Great
Hallroad, deg
rently rrent of an impending traff
siliance with the Northern Pacific
yours oid, was fatal v
interests,
Ollie Bullivan, 16
shot at her home, ln Irving avenue "REO,
by Frauk J. Laver. The mu was the
resiit of wv lovers quarrel
ir vn
TROUBLE IN SIAM.
rider
ihe Ueited Brates Vics Conseil Wounded and
Elephants Seized
Special
from Banglok say that serious complications
Bare arisen Letneen the
ment apd the Eiates and
ministers,
Mr. Fdward PB. Kellet, the
viee-consul, was fired
Eamese soldiers, and
dispatehes received in London
Siamese govern
United German
United
upon and wounded by;
the German minister
was agsanited jn the streets of Bangkok and
resciied by Mitebell Innes, an American,
Another cause of trouble is the arbitrary
seizure by the Siamese goverament of sey
enty-five elephants and a number of teak
logs belonging to Dr. Cheek, an Awericas.
known as the “teak king.” Dr. Chesk made
a contract with the government to take out
teak logs from the interior, receiving an ad.
vance of $900.00 and agreeing to divide the
profits. A severe drought prevented the
trausporiation of the logs. Thereupon Dr.
Cheek 's property was seized,
ei st
Niates
The Dominion eabinet at Ottawa bas Ap
pointed a delegation to go to Washington to
discuse the question of reciprocity and the
wiles labor law,
Maund-Why did Mabel give up Clar-
new wheel and she objected to the
make New York Commercial Adver
User,
Pennsylvania's State Building
in Ruins.
THE HOUSE WAS IN SESSION.
Secenes of Excitement and Confu
Both
and
as the Members of
HiUses Removed the Desks
Left
Sion
the Burning Structure.
The Penneyivania State Capitol at Harris
burg was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday,
£1.500000, The Insurance
Sey
it seriously
Lhe loss will be
is comparatively small, aboot 100.0) 4,
eral persons were slightly but ne
new and
State building, it is
injured in fightiug the fames, A
much more handsome
sald, will be erected at once, The sessions of
ie at Harrisburg,
rst that both Ben
1id bold thelr future meet
the Legisiature will conti
wRithough It was stated at |
ale aud House wo
fogs during this session In either Philadel
phia or Pltisburg, to both of which they were
invited when the destructive character of
the lire became Known,
The Sepnte will meet in the Supreme
com and the House will meet in a
the second} ficor of the poste
tings is expected
« [0
foster
gr : ' re
isla *
Kerat
8 Dd
i Gere
ogisiatl Was 1
ih
In addition to this thers is
the Nate t
1 he State eapito! war a plain b
tial brick building, the cornerstone
was aid seventy-eight ye
faal tract of four acres | apitol Lui
from John Harris,
#1 hewn
ings was a donation
’ ’
founder of Harrisburg
wore
1 rt
y
and belag resold in 1829 for #412
ots adjoining
a small
4
that the original iraet «
The constru
will be seer
only eost the State 8] 658
of the capitol bulldings cost #135, 000, the cor
nerstone being ald In 1812, and the fiest Leg
islature meeting in it in 1832. When the
nerstone of the capitol was Inid by Governor
Findlay, in 1812 be broke his mallet in per
alt
aR
forming the csremonies, which was ¢
ered by maoy a bad omen.
BOUND AND ROBBED.
[umates of a Columbia County Farmhouse Roughly
Treated
The Cripple a Victim
farmhouse of Charles Betis, on the
road from Chatham Centre to
hatbham, in Columbia county, was sutered
The
onely East
ov masked burg ars about 7 o'vioek Bunday
svening.. The occupants, Mr.and Mrs, Bett and
Mr. and Mrs. George Flint, were compeiied
at the point of the robbers’ pistols to enter
me room, where one of the intruders stood
guard while the ransacked the
He secured an overcoat, $175
sash, 12 silver spoons and a suit of clothes,
Mr. Flint is a cripple apd Mr. Betts an in
valid; hence they were powerless to make
sny
meres
others
house, in
defense and were comnietely a: the
of the robbers. Their pockets ware
searched, apd a few cents and two silver
watches were gocnred,
The ilomates of the house were then
bound to chairs with ropes and the burglars
helped themselves to a meal, It was then
pearly 11 o'clock, the intruders having been
fn the house nearly four hours, They toid
Mra Betts that thers must bs more money
somewhere in the house, and threatened to
burn both the house and the inmates auless
more was produced. The threat did not
have the desired effect, and they inqaired
if there wns =a horse sad cutter in
the burs. Upon being told that there
was a horse, but po cutter, they inquired
who in the neighborhood had such a team
as they wanted. Mrs. Betts refused to tell,
0 all were more securely bound to door
kpobe, the plano and bedstead, while the
marauders took the horse and made their
erenpe toward Bast Chatham, :
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS,
senate,
G8tn Day. ~The Niearagun cannl bill oeen
pled the attention of the Benate, but no pro
gress was made toward a final vote. Mr.
Morgan, in charge of the measure, sought to
pocure an agreement for a vole tomorrow or
Thursday, but the opponents of the measure,
led by Mr, Vilas and Mr Duaolel, resised any
agreement. Mr, Vilas opposed the bill, se
veroely criticising Its various features and de
elaripg that it would expose our western
const to the attacks of the navies of Europe
20rn Day Saw feature of the Senate was
a debate on the conference report of the im
migration bill, Mr. Gibson, of Maryland,
opposed the report, and Mr. Lodge defended
it. After two bours' struggle the report
went over and the Nicaragua canal bill was
taken up, Mr. Vilas continuing his remarks,
Mr, Teller, of Colorado, algo enterad the de
bate fo opposition to the measure,
S0rm Day, After ns brief parliamentary
struggle In the Beuate, the [ricads of the
Nicaraguan cans! bill were unable to hold a
(quorum and sit out the obstruction to that
measure, Mr. Vilas continues to hold the
floor. In bis remarks he asserted that the
Claytop-Buolwer treaty was in full force and
that the American people would insist upon
a full and hoporable adherence to its terme
[he Benate agreed to the House resolution
fixing February 10 for the ceremony of
counting the vote President and Vice
President before two houses of Con
gress
for
the
iisy Day in the Senate Mr. Morrill
deavored to pags the bill prohibiting the use
of intoxicants in the Capitol bulldiog. Thi
aroused the opposition of Mr, Hill, of New
York, who depounced the busybodies and
mischie! makers lpapiriog this class of legis
intion. The immigration bill was recom
witted to conference, Before this was done
bowever a warm colloquy o irreed between
Mr. Chapdier and Mr Gorman Mr Vilas
added auother day to his speech agniost the
Nicurag bill and had pot concluded
when the ad i
irned
en
in cann
Neunte
House
He
’
phe
Lilie
Im poOrian
ners
ons
iiar approg
fair progress
de pos
ie headwaters
nt dats
Were gooura (Oo meiat
gold bell 300 miles ig eng?
eniers the 1
Mile
se the Yukon
srritory pear
Forty Creek and
Valley
paris
Its fu: ther eatent is
ion is ex} resend by the goolog
# practical
minis
aie quart g througlio
Yokon region. Large areas of ¢
were 6s
vered along the river
save (he interpational line
Arctic i
Ocean to Mount
He
tthe gold belt
adds
th
considerable
It is kpown
iat
Hisian ese
Thera can be itl
the British possessions
crosses the beit
js from Mount Raipt bi
the head of Portiand
nel
Professor Woleoll asks for
tion of #25000 to enable a more complete
Burvey And & reconnoisan = map o tiie re
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Mussuimans.
to the Loadon Dally News
rays that serious news has
is sinted
A dispatch
f Athens,
rom
that 10 Chris ians were murdared while cut.
bands of Massulmans leave the town daily
for the purpose of plundering and burning
the villages of the Christiane,
The dispatch adds that thess outrages are
evidently in accordance with hints reowived
from Constantinople. The situation
serions that Lhe foreign cotisals have wired
the governor-general of Canea, calling fot
the adoption immediately of stringent
measures looking to the protection of the
people.
Foreign warships are now arriving at
Heraklion, with a view of offering protec.
tion tn the Christians there. The Christians
in the districts in the vicinity of Heraklion
are arming snd occupylog strategic piaces
for the purpose of preventing an influx of
Mohammedans to the town and a serious
collision is feared In the near future
IN 5 ANS.
According to official reports just issued
there have been 4,390 cases of the plague in
Bowbay apd 3,250 deaths,
i% Ry
BURNED T0 DEATH.
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oeven Persons Perish in Early
Morning Fires.
SIX WERE OF ONE FAMILY.
Midnight Blaze Discovered In Ram
shackie Dwellings Occupied by
Scores of Men, Women and Chil-
dren The Majority Were Rescued
Ey Heroes,
During the early hours of Sunday two
fires occurred at Hoboken, N. J which re
silted in the loss of mapy lives Many poor
propie were made homeless and even had
narrow escapes for their lives, The fires of
curred in different parts of the city, and ope
to have
started in Lhe
at least i» believed wen of
origin,
frame |
of then
fncendiury The first
three-story
Street,
ullding of 410 Newark
mother and five children
Al
urned to death,
Thers a
lose their lives the other fire a little
girl was}
| Are was at Nos, 15310 159 FV our,
ttle Mabel Man
The se Ont
teenth street, Il was there
gels perished, Her sister Florence was
urped, but is expected Lo recover
the fire was
iding of 410
ed in The
4 3
ft mianight when
the ramshackis
several families |
of which were used
rpanier
CABLE BPARKS,
MACK is
we
1 he
aries in
+
tes of
Bure
represeniat filieen sugar
ormec 8 trust
’
(rermany
I'he selection of Lyman J. Gage,
i Seorels { the
{in London
The sue
photograpbiag
the Loudon
A dispateh from Mass
fecgive
eR Oo
i'aris,
tounced | Vimes
wah, Egrpt
TT)
SATE
fisher who tom] loved be al
uk on Agordat
Right Hou
gecrelar tr Ne
the Dery
were
ar
Pf Lae
Wan otiand
Bossbhery s cabinet, has resigned from
innent on account of Hli-beaith
Fhe British House of
$15.49,
one featare
Riv
00 tor a scheme of
Commons has
horiged a loan +
of which is the
the bills arotind Loudon.
Nouth Alriean
Republic, says he would iike a definite state
Me to what
promises the President has veiled to keep,
forts ot
i
Presidegt ruger, of the
went from Chamberiain as
for
bimetailism in France, Germany and og
land published in the National Review, in
London, show u favorable outlook for the
Artigles by lenders of the movement
doubles standard
itis rumored in Rome that Cardinal Sa-
toili will be appoinied prefect of the Propa-
ganda, repluciag Cardinal Ledochowsky,
who suocesds the late Cardinal
pro-datary of the Popa
Pdward J, Ivory, who was recentiv ac
gqoitted in London of conspiracy lo cause a
dyunnmite explosion, asilsd for New York,
with counsel, John FF, Melptyre, and
three Amerwan witucsses,
It is announced that jn consequenes of the
U1 henith of the Czar and Cearins of Rossin
their visit to Home and london and the
visit of President Vaurs, Emperor William
and BEaiperor Vranvis Joseph to St. Peters.
SME have been deferred
Hon, Joseph Chamberiain, British secre.
wary of state for the colonies, in a speech at
Birmingham, Kugland, said that even though
he United States Senate rejected the arbi.
ration treats with England, the negotiations
hemeeives could not fail to have 8 benef
dnl effect,
Biauohi as
fils
&
lL IN 3555.
Lattimer E. Jones, an American, proprietor
of the Eskdale stud-farin near Searborough,
England, was sreested there ou charge ol
forgery, for which he was indicted in Now
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PENNEYLVANIA ITEME,
Epitome of News Gleaned From Varlons Ports (1
the Bate
Furbut
antive of
Mrs, Knoebe died at ber home ip
ville, aged 93 years, She wes
Berks county.
The twely
Heading Iron
sumed operations after a month's idiensss
A Bussian Pole, track
near Boar Creek
ight te
the Poor District
trains of the
re
oe and sixtesn-inch
Works at Dagville, have
while wilking the
wis Killed by a train he
body was bro Weatherly and w be
tukeu care of by
Unknown thieves entered the cellar of Dr
samuel P. Hellman, near Hel lmandale Sts
tion, on the Labanon & Trenton lslirosad,
and carried away large quantities of pre
visions Lhasre is no olue
Mercantile Appraiser Adam Barpbart and
3 trafning, ss Barnhart A
{ Apunville, have made a dead of as
signmeont ti eneiit if ereditors
0H
Diphtheria is raging sai
Henry, al } 1v lle,
Kelly Cross ;
it four miles neross the river from Mi
Rome thirteen cases
aly
ieveloped within the past week Ihe
rites have Deeg ynpelied Lo close Lhe
# | by reason of the epidemic
}
After ap idiegess of nine GAYS Ril Coleries
throughout the JVaother Creek Valley, owned
and operated Ly the Lehigh Coal and Navi
tosumed ¢ perations
Fhe Oneida Col by Coxe
Bros, & Co, at Hazleton
eraled on reduced time for
Hers
operated
een Of
¥
monihs,
has }
wh
NEUE
Wiki work ten Lours per day, wnmencing
this week, and six dove per week
ve Hupgariane created a
RO siectiric raliwny far al
reirestimmnetils we
ist al (he
turing bis ss
South De
ita,
obn Wilson, a
erived injuries on id
which rem ted i is
by a log which jumped
Henry Wade, 8 yous
item plios
train, slipped and f+il bees he wheels,
wel 20 badly tha! one [ont and
talsd
the
wningion
part of nsolher were at
of
snd stole
ied the
Edge, in (ain
& AR new
Horse thisves visiieg premises
the, in Ik
bie bs hey then
bis most yainus rae,
animal to the n of Jacob ¥
Fownship, al which piace hey sic
hargess
Squire Miller, of Darby, gave a
McVermott, Th
Charlies Southers
hearing to
George mas Graven snd
« nrregted in Baltls
ght to Chester by
the boy
more for Iarceny and bre
Ofcer Mol
Darby, admitted taking #120 belongion to
hii» mother Rasiire Miller
$800 euch for court
A -
DRIVEN TO EAT HORBE FLESH.
ormici Craven, who lives in
beid the bovs in
Destitatics
BL. Louis
A despatel from BL Louis, says Driven
to desperation by the pangs of husger which
dire poverty prevented them from relieving
Richard Giesen stole a borse, and made =»
feast from the spimal » Caroses,
I'he cass attracted the attention of the po-
tee, who investigated the matter and
savered one of the mos pliable instances of
destitution beard of during the winter,
here are six in the family father and
mother and four children, the eldest a child
o! 6 years and the youngest a Labe of 18
months, The father, Richard Giesen, is 36
voars old, and has been io this country about
four years, three of which have beeu spent
in 8i Louis
Neither he nor bis wife ean speak English
wifficientiy to make themselves clearly un-
ferstood, and the husband, who is oaly a
sommon laborer, wae, he says, injured while
working ia a briekyard about eighteen
months ago, and has not had aay regular
or steady employment sines that time,
Thers was nothing to eat iu the bouse, and
thers had been next to nolliag for several
days. Determined to prevent his eblidren
from starviag Giessa weal forth to secure
tood, and took the horse.
When the officers entered bis home they
found Glesen standing over a boiling pot in
whish was a shoulder of the animal ‘He
waived a indie at them, and deciared that
Lis children should have & meal if be had to
bang for it. They did pet molest him, but
repor ad the case to the Provident Associa
dis
BUTCHERY.
Christians Killed and Wounded
While Fleeing,
HOUSES BURNED AT CANEA.
The King of Creece Opposes a Po
ley of "Watchful Non-interven-
n'' and insists that More Armed
Véssels Be Sent tothe Scene of the
Fighting.
Three fourths of the Christian riers
jus
the oily of Canes have been burned to the
Bre
from
ind, sceordis advices received
island o
“RoR pe 10
An
injured
£ to]
the Crete The Christizye
fps
popuiatiot
The
thé warsh were
while trying t«
nitacked by the Mussa BL
many were klied and tote!
f result of the
"yy
number of victims as reser
fighting is estimated at
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bikouses bas
pald a visit to the representatives of the
powers stationed at Athens for the purpose
f the palfilic nature of the
mission of the Greglap warships ordered 1
s selected for
isd H
500 men and the cruiser
Crete hie vesse his #xpe
tion ir de the Iron dra, with a crew
Mykale, with =
rew of 500 men
argepumber of won
iidren reflugess Linve Already been
an # RR
lances re
the Island of Milo by
Nash;
wig t
Chicago of
Yer irigs snd thaw
Hn dArenses
herealler ail
i i, and
i of the com
te pinced on the bil
some soCident
of the Pearce al the
negie wierl &
we prescribed by Ew
There is no law on the statutes books
viding for such an emergency,
jresent J ite has bean asked
in office » ext election.
iow t of Toled
wn as Iichfleld Center
teenly families are down with 8 disses
which they gil claim ix caused by 2a pha in
pal which haunts then Al fBrstihe te ivan
men of the vieinity thought il weak caused by
pe
$
BUG
Lad water, but there ate ys familiar ses
toms. The patient fades uwnay
lives of dies x
does pol care whether hin
explanation Las vel been given
authority thet
more people write poelry in indians hac je
any other Stale in the The “Kid.
land Monthly says in the last two
ecades lndinna bas seen a hundred or
men and women who burasd the midpight
of becoming
Apd ths
strength, ‘al =
literary atmosphere, which is pot appreciztied
vor understood. © They are breeding slogvrs
and tale-tellers in the State of Indiaps ond
the twentielh century will have the leisfi
of a literary atmosphere that has po pares]
on the globe,”
It is sisted by 8 Hoosler
Union,
es
eh
oll in the noble ambition
tributors to Ameriean
has pot only bred a great
Oh
tlerature,
COASTERS BADLY INJURED
Crowded Bled Crushes Tuto a Tree With Distrensing
Results,
A bad sceident happened tos party of
soasters in Bellefonte, Ps, Five persons
were badly injured, one probably fataily.
While coasting down Allegheny Bill st =
rapid rate one of the sieds crashed with aw.
ful foroe into mn tree. Fred Thompson who .
was guiding the sled, was hurled Seiam
the tree aud sustained severs injuries to his
bead, besides having bis left band broken
aod mangled and being injored internally.
The others who were injured are Broce
Barshart, Shep Achenbach, Blanche Jasots
and Gertrade Irvin Ten others who were
on the same sled escaped without sericus te
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