In Peoria, Il., Unlon Elevator No, 2, with & ony acity of 1,000,000 bushels, the property of the Chicago, Barlington and Quincey Company, Wis destroyed by a fire of un known origin with its contents of nearly 900,000 bushels of grain, The loss is est mated at close to £350,000. The Newark, which arrived at P yrtamouth, ¥a.. received telegraphic orders to Innd all of her stores, preparatory to putting her out wf commission, is to recelve a general overhauling. The idea of using air as a motive power on the New York “L" roads has been practi- eally abandoned by the directors of the Man- hattan Railroad Company, and electricity is being favorably considerad, but no decision as to when it will be applied has at yet been reached, Speculation led tothe ruin of William C. walker, a trusted employe of the United Se curity Life lusurance and Trust Company, Philadelphia, who has confessed that he had stolen § The money was used to made ge in stocks, Marion H. Markle, assistant chief opera- tor of the Western ni pany, died at hi after an illness o ki» was country, and has been iu Western Un The strike New } City has been called off by the Ie commities I'he vessal 7.500 from the company sod his losses in Tele in Pitts Weeks, graph Com burg, Pa. Mr. Mar irs in the the Sm pio) of the var HM) vears, in irk masers wislative loakmakers, granted an inersase Jonathan Hand, Cape May ocuaty, N. J, disd su ideniy at his home, at Uape May Court House, aged 9 a prominent citimsg years The Rev. George 8. Mallory, editor of the Ohurehman, died in New York, aged 59 years The looms t in tl Laeonia and Peppersil Mills, Biddeford, Me, for the past tw soks are again in operat aad another lot This en- hat have bee lying idle eo ry n have been stoppo ables all the time while the curt At Bay City, sion of the P away the gua crowd of premises been sworn. The (acuity nounces the a dormitory There were no now the oming, Pa A nui their homes, The the opinien that no further damage wil cave-in at M are of Le done, MKINLE INAUGURATED, The New President Takes the Oath of Office. CLEVELAND PRESENT. y 4 Scenns In Senators the Were Swore the New Brilliant the Including Distinguished Army and Navy Officers, the Supreme Court Justices and the Di. plomatie in Thelr Inaungaral When In-A Galleries, Renate Audience in Corps Pleturesgue The Address De. livered In the Presence of Many Thon. The Procession the Capitol to the White House One of the Best Washington Has Ever Seen. Uniforms sand People from Propitious skies gave: uration and CASUTY who n eclat to the inaug nhanecd beyond measurs the ff th all quari~rs to and satisfaction « multituds gutherad from do h to the new President the eo do not ceases to Everything was a of San Praacisco of contraband opiam valued at $40 80 and a 800 later, the pri por pound All the of held at $15 per pound, and is expects ito advanes 10 $30, John Almmerman, i living Searea, Kan, hot al his son, Robert, | The further seizure worth $20, we of oplum has advanced §3 ium in the cily 8 now near 1 4 hie 1 lustanliy X by youth Look Lhe quarrel, ar father attem pl oth hb legisatare ing aca territory io tory as the indian ene does, for Irina and waa baullt at ba WORK AKD WORKERS. nhers The me conference Fhe NI Islan Le ' were in atl Lien about §1 he Q Hought erect a smells fake toe Work will will be ready An Indi Adams American Companies bare deelded to consol one office the business of the three com pan- fens in towns where no o making profits, Twelve hundred the 1500 locked-out tannery hands at decldod to return to work at (be old scale of wages and hours and leave their grievances fa the hands of the Stats Board of Arbitra- tion. ne company bas been of strikiog and Chicago have The four leather companies concerned the is fa the strike likewise decided to matter to arbitration, and thought to bs precticaily over. tris II tA. PEBRNBY LVANIA ITEMS. leave the strike Epitoms of News Oloassd Prom Varlsus Party of the Blala A monument to the memory of the soldiers formerly residents of the neighborhood of the Bagle School, West Cheater, who partici- pated in the war for the Union, will shortly Iw erected on the grounds of that jpstitution. The Schenley Park Amusement Pavilion, Pittsburg, containing a pleasurs railway, and which stood opposite the park entrance at Forbes street, was destroyed by fire. The loss i= $12.00). The buildiag was ownad by A. F. Bechwerd, who carried £2,000 insurance, Bdward Woodenfl, a Johnstown *‘Demo- erat” printer, was found so tadly frozen that he eannot recover, While walking home from Moxbam he was seized with an epileptic fit and feil to the ground, where he was notdis- covered un i a number of hours afterwards, Fire destroyed the home of Frank Beigh, in the Sevesth Ward, Johnstown. The Bre stove Robert Moore, a teamster, was killed near Coudersport by the breaking of a chain which held a load of lumber la position. Daniel Riley, of Reading, aged 35 years, was overcome by coal gas at his home, and, wising In a stupor, was sealded by boelling water, His skin bangs in shreds He was ‘gaken to St. Joseph's Hospital, i the ho own I'he Seene in the Se iors show evident fatigues venrd HENERAY Gand Marshal of HORACE PORTRE. inauguration Parade.) | two. The Cleveland seats remained vacant, | neither Mra, Cleveland nor any of her friends being present, Entrance of the McKinley Party, At 11.25 the MoKinley party ent red under the escort of M%®. Ball, chairman of the in- augural committee, It was a large party, occupying all of the seats reserved, Mrs McKinley and Mother McKinley were, of course, the centres of attraction. Mrs, Me. Kinley did not look strong. Hhe walked with effort, leaning upon a gold headed cane. She wore over her dark gown a pur ple velvat eape and carried in ber hand a Jong-stem American Beauty rose, She show- od animation aod gazed around with a cur fous interest, while nll eyes were directed to- ward her, Mother McKinley, with her ami. | able affectionets expression and the old- fashioned side curls of our grandmothers’ time, excited as much notice as her son's wife, Arvival of the Ambassadors. seats when the fornnal made at the main door of the presence of the foreign embassadors, the representatives of Great Britian, Italy. As embassadors to preference the diplomatle corps France, Germany they were of the over remainder The Suprema Court, swung wide open and the heavy tread of the members of the Court thelr attendant ofMelals echoed on ble floor capes wrapped around their forms from head Rupreme nnd rectly opposite to those of the ambassadors four fest, The clerk of the court, Mr, Mo moroceo Bible on which Mr. McKinley to take the oath of office Chief Justice Faller is short of slender in build, Behind ourt Wis f bim came two bh and at Justices Harlan and ring giants farny frames tices | am wilh » | diately nt the right of the Vice-president, | At last, the bustle apd stir among the | Benate officials in charge of the ceremonies | betokened the coming of those for whom every one was looking. Mr, Cleveland and Mr. McKinley, “I'he President and President-elect,” sung cRiEy CETICE FULLER, He administersd onth of den \ FEAT %h i Til TATES CATITOI ED § ue AP tL AI a seat by his side. It required some minutes for the House to file in and take the seals assigned for its accommodation, This time there was certainly more than a quorum of { the house present. It was remarked that the membership must bave bean largely in- eronsed, Probably a hundrsd persons bad by hook or by erook marched themselves in under guise of being House members, Mr. Cloveland’s cabinet modestly and une obtrusively walked in from a rear door and took seats, Two of them did pot come Modars. Olney and Lamont, Two of the jus. | tions of the Supreme Court wers also absent wud ustives Field and Shires, Vien-President-elect Hotart was announ- ood and entored on the arm of Senator Elkins, Ha wore a violet boutonniere in his button- bole. He took a seat just below and imume- INAUGURATION GOWN, dnb ———————————————— looked remarkably well little heavy, but no limp was perceptible. The Vice-President swore in his sue essor and then deliverad his farewell address, Vice-President Hobart Takes Charge. The new Vice-President at once showed his legislative training. Taking the gavel from the hand of the man who had wielded it for four years he, with a steady and pronounced rap, marked the period which transferred the Renate from the Fifty-fourih to the Fif- ty-ffth Congress, At his bidding the chap- lain, Rev. Dr. Milburn, stepped forward and Atier the reading of the proclamation of the President, convening the Senate in extra session, the Their names were called in ¥ desk and were sworn in Hobart, by Vice-President The Parade, The parade moved from the Capitol by way of Pennsylvania avenue west to Wash- | ington Circle, thence east through K street to Vermont avenue, where the organizations was reviewed and dismissed From the stand in front of the White House the President reviewed the parade On the return of President McKinley the White House a lunheon was hastily served before he went to the reviewing stand, At night there was an Humination and a display of fireworks in the Washington Mon ument grounds, Taking the Oath. President McKinley made bis feaity to the Amerienn people on the east terrace of the Capitol in the presenocs of a gresl i ultitude, The people massed on the plaza had waited patiently for hours to see the President, and it was eminently fitting that he those whose should take the oath in view of he A ut before him as he A giorious 4 fr augury for hi servant was to become, dazzling and lnspiriog soene spread appeared of the steps of the Benste wing golden Bouthern spring st ings in while g freno whiis a Qren ana les cain i fs 4} a SRS ID Ra ua against the sian terrific, that omen screamed wit and several fainted An Imposing Throng. Meantime the procession fre ate continued, The Benalors, dressed and imposing, followed by the more nonde- seript members of the House, gifted in their seats. Thea came the dignified and pomp. ous diplomatic corps, rigid with gold braid and aflame with ribbons, headed by the British Ambassador. The gold plate, red coats, horsehair plumes, high boots and shining swords were enough to pale the spiendors of any spectacular drama. The governors of the states, the general of the army and the admiral of the navy, with the officers who had received the thanks of Congress, ali resplendent in full uniform, made 4p the rear, and were closely followed by the distinguished assemblage of men and women who had crowded the Senate gal leries, All this time 40,000 people were straining to keep up the constant and tremendous applause, while Mr. McKinley surveyed the crowd, occasionally looking aioli st the boys on the dome. He smiled and bowed, Then Mr. McKinley arose and uncovered, while Chief Justice Fulier, in bis flowing robes, administered the oath in the presence of that tremendous maltitude, The new | President kissed the jarge, gilt-adged | Bible presented by the Bishops of the | African Methodist Church, to seal his oath, i wm the Sen weil Cabinet Confirmed, | President McKinley sont to the Seaate his Cabinet appolatments, as follows : | Secretary of State John Sherman, of Ohio. | Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. | Gage, of Lilinols, | Secretary of War—Russeil A. Alger, of Michigan, | Attorney-General—Josoph McKenna, of California. : ot Postmaster -General -Jomen A. Maryland, Becretary of the Navy John D. Massachusetts, HBeeretury of the Interior Bliss, of New York, fecretary of Agriculture James Wilgon, of lowa The appolutmonts were all confirmed by the Benste practically without opposition. There was for a time a threat of opposition to Mr. Gage as Secretary of the Treasury, be- cause of his views on the silver question sod because be is a banker, but Lhore was mors of this among Benators in the cloak rooms thao (n the Benats, The Benate went into wenni on promptly upon the receipt of the Bomins- tions, u few minutes before 1 o'clock, sod as soon as the announcement was made of the appointment of Benstor Bhermas, whos name headed the list, he was confirmed, It is the practice to refer all nominations to committes, but was the desire of Mr. Sherman's friends to signalize their regard No oy ns wont throughs Gary, of Long, of Cornelias MN. executive it for him by immediate action, fe a position was m and the nominaiio without comment Theres was me reference of re form the the olhe than reality in a ominations i held a mille formal tne « floor of Pha SFL on v DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES. A struck Athens, Ga, and sn- rocfed a number of | An lamaged Aq Gould ruado gidings, zg W i$ Ziyoerine si {peendiary fire in Wheeling, Va, 10,008, near , kKLlag two { others, ne § operty to the exiont pantity of ¢ red station, exploded men and io) A gravel pit iring » number o premature sxpiosion of dynamite in & at Murray, Ky., killed Ove labor- ed five others, two probably 4s fatally. A Fresno, ( Mull Bequ al., despatch savs that William I at ralis and Wa igerw i residing jest Lo in , were fr in ther flail rossing Wool aches of a train road were derailed sod Masa. Five . H. Robie, peel burne Fails, passenger of Hawivy, - ly Intaily A colilsl New York Central and 8 occurred at the juncti an of . the Geneva, Water i100, Benecs Falls and Cayugs Lake Traction mpavy Hoads, near Geneva, and five prer- sous wee jujured Richard Magee, 24 vears old, and Thomas id makers, at ork on the top of Blogs s were Lostaglly nore, years old, bolier Eas tank xe road, New York City, liled by the ex} n of the tank, bert C. 1 Hoover, 1 Peansyi- irper and George D ACW Turner n their Senntor in advoest ted only nel incomes, alms abcd sist al he ft would not be troubled by iL The act becomes ( perative Jan ATY i nevi. he tax begins with 1 per cent a ipconies of #1..00 a year derived from any Lind of property, rents, divi fends, profits or sal- aries. For incomes between three and five thousand dollars the taxis 144 por cenl con- stantly increasing until fAfteen thousand is reached, when for that Agure and ail above il the tax is 8 per cenl Returns must be made, asd the income tax assessed as other property is now returned, the same county officials doing ths work. Heavy penalties are imposed ior attemplis to evade the law, This tax is one of the meas ures intesded to pull the administration out sf the deficirney bole futo which six years of “reform” have gottep 11, at the same Ume keeping the load off the farmers. snes IRI MINING DISASTER IN MEXICO, Nearly Two Hundred Men Perish by Fire While 8t Work Under Gromnd A terrible mising catastrophe occurred at Sombreretex mine, st Zacatecas, Mex. oo casioned by the breaking out of fire in the working of two of the company's mises, in which 175 miners were employed at the time of fire. Every effort has been made to save | the mes, and fresh alr has been forced into | all the workings by great steam ventilators, and water has been turned down the main shaft in torrents, © na It issxpacted that every miner is dead. T
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