THE NEWS.
Rev. Dr. Simon J. McPherson, of Chi Hgo,
HL, was elected to the board of trust os of
Princeton University,
Judge Smith has called a granc jury at
Helena, Mont, and charged them to investi.
gate thoroughly rumors and charges of
bribery growing out of the recent se ssion of
the legislature,
The steamer Vancouver, from Liverpool,
arrived at Halifax, N. 8,, four days behind
time, She met with terrible head gales and
high seas on the passage, had two life be
smashed and received other slight damage,
The three eldest children of Frederick
Buxen, of Bowmansville, Ont , wera drowned
just outside their garden gate in a pond that
formed part of a mill
child slipped into the pond,
efforts to save it, the
drowned,
The
tiative and reserendum legislation was de
feated in the lower house of
ils
race. The youngest
thelr
iso
and, in
other two were
Populist
measures providing for ini
the Kansas Stat
Legislature, after having passed
Fhe resolution was defeated
ayes to 47 nays, a two-thirds
required,
Governor Bud has vetoed Bill 273
to the transfer of eivil sults, the
which by the ( rnin Legis
caused much se I'he Examin
that bribery was resorted to to pa
and the managing editor ¢
relating
Passe
iil Mure has
andal, harge
the Examiner have been ordered
by the
senate f
ir contempt,
ps of the Spr
at Walsess
his twin
walk 0
father
ministry
to the
Turkey
ports,
Eighteen
been returned by &
J. Dunn, a well
ae
indi
tractor
bv ha
Was
will be held until
After a night
F 1
ing, of Kansas Clty
ve 1 fa
AR
nself
leave
her
tinguished,
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ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
President Als
{ Mass,
Theolo
fol tof
tend f
d EXienaeq nip
5
¥ Land
1
+3
that
Dr. Atwoox
China, has not
It is sai
In Shansi
face, except those «
for 15 years,
The 834 birthday of
on March 18, apd the day will be ma
joston by a banquet, at which
promisent people willl
4. Gage's son, EH
v wifa popular in Chicay
yf his fello
Neal Dow will «
rked in
a number
§
we pride
£3 Ale
Are
ung Mrs, Gage I= an espe
with ber father-in-law
vivacious brunette, and &
siderable ability,
Prinee Henry of Orleans, who started
on his exploring
took with him a hand organ and
graph, which he expects to be a great aid to
him in winning the good graces of the save
ages whom he intends to visit,
Prof. Simon Newcomb, who bas had charge
of the Nautical Almanac for more than twen-
ty yeard, will be 62 years of age on March 12,
and will be retired then according to law,
unless Congress by a special act should ex
tend his term, which it probably will do,
It i= announesd that President Felix Faore
will visit Algeria. He will be the guest of
M. Cambon, governor-general, during his
stay at Tania, This will be the first visit of
a French President to Algeria. The last
visit of a sovereign was that of Napoleon
LIL
nas
expedition in Abysinis,
a phono-
WRECK OF A TRAIN,
An Opera Troupe Badly Shaken Up and a
Boy Killed,
A special train bearing a French opers
troupe of 100 people, bound for San Fran.
cisco, Wal wrecked about midnight nest
Casa Gram, Ariz. The train consisted of
three PuliSians. two tourist sleepers and
three baggage ears,
The accident was eansed by a bolt break.
ing in front of the tender, allowing the fix.
tures of the truck to drop down and spread
the rails. The following car remained up
right, but the wheels were buried in the
ground, cutting entirely through the ties
The second baggage car was thrown on its
side,
The “hird baggage remained upright
Unde #5: second baggage car a boy about
15 years old was found dead with one of hie
hands protruding from under the wrack.
There were about ten tramps on the train
and several were badly injured. One of the
opera troupe was slightly injured. A truck
was built around the wreck,
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LIFE CRUSHED 0UT.
A Woman Steps in Front of a
Railroad Train.
Terrible Death of un Chicago Echool Teach-
er Who Was Visiting Her Sister in Read-
Ing The Locomotive and Five Cars Vass
Had
From Nervous FProsiration,
Over Her Body Bees Naffering
Mias
teacher,
Pa.
Chicago s shool
A despatoh from Reading,
Isabella Fulton, a
who came to this
her sister, committed
herself in front of a train on the Pennsy
Railroad, Miss Fulton was thirty
eight years of age. Her sister Is Miss Minta
Ful in the Reading Girls’ Higl
sehool, engine and four
the body bef
could be
rays
clty a few davs ago to visit
throwing
1
suleide by
vania
ton, a teacher
An
woman s
cars passed
over re the train
brought to a stand-s Bhe was
frightfally mangled, hor left band being cut
t
riuugstorn out
uiton had been suffering from
off at the wrist and be
wirall
CURRENT EVENTS.
industry In
lowed, whi
in the a
@ sirigers have
] imate
rostral
The
the strikers
i ferred
aver similar sontesta,
y be re
BURIED IN A MINE.
—
Detiaits of a Terrible DMsaster in an Arkan-
sas Coal Pit.
A despateh from Huntington, Ark., says
Mine 44, of the Kansas and Texas Coal Cone
pany, of this place, exploded, burning 35
men, ali of them seriously and some fatally.
Mine 44 is situated about a quarter of a
mile north of the main part of the town. It
was a shaft sunk six years ago, but aban-
doned for about two years, This summer a
slope was drived into the oid working, and
it again commenced to produce coal, Over
100 man, half of them negroes, were employ-
¢d in the mine. About 4.30 ‘elock a
muffled roar startled the people, and they
tarned their eyes toward the mine. A eol-
uma of smoke and debris shot up high
from the airshaft at the mine,
Over the open ground and network of rafl-
road tracks rushed men and women.
Many of the latter had husbands and other
members of their families in the mine, Ina
few minutes after the explosion the men
commenced to appear. Some were not
burned at all, while others appeared with
their skins hanging upon. their faces and
hands or hanging in ribbons, The work of
locking for those unable to walk up the
slope was at ones begun. Superintendent
Vail, of the Kansas and Texas mine, directs
ing the wows. One by one the injured were
brought ont and taken to their homes, How
many of them are burned joteroally the does
tors cannot say, as their efforts were employ-
ed solely in dressing wonnds,
Different theories are advanced as to the
causc, Buperintendent Vall says he helleves
that a keg of powder was exploded by care
lessness, but the general opinion among Lhe
miners appears (0 be that it was eaused by a
windy shot firing the gas aml powder
smoke, They say that the mine was very
dry and dusty, and that the furnace was not
sufficiently strong to create sufficient draft
0 Suery the dust out ot the rooms nod en-
Five hundred Iaborers have
Colon from Jamalea to work
arrived at
m the ennnl
The Richmond, Virginia, Locomotive and
Machine Works have resumed
with & large force,
aopusrations
and helps at the
Cleveland
The blnoksmiths
Bhip Yard at
strikers, and 1000 men
Au Ishpeming
that 200 families of
Norway
Five hundred employes of the
(ilohe
have joined the
are now idle
Michigan des
the striking
pateh says
niners at
are on the verge of starvatic
Globe
bullding Cloveland
struck against the employment of non
inbor
Company, at
Eight hundred men
the yard of the
pany, at Clevelnnd,
Are now on strike at
Globes Bhipbullding (
thers no
i
and nro signs
of u settiemont
v. Waleh Man
nn., witl
of
ners
actory
facturing Company,
start up the man
at April 1,
mt two
ab The
YOERrs
nt Cleveland
Shipvard
¥ Hgroe
y
ut
: Cogney v
ratians will vrs
: { + ios are
I.
WHOLESALE POISONING
Alleged Marders Committed to Collect In
Euranoe,
44K, a promis K-inba
fused payment
agency of Mew York to make a
re
ive
in
and employasd a dolec
private
vestigation
Tas Geand ind
against Dr. W, H. Lipscomb and Gay
From farts by the
there is but little doubt, inoredible as it may
appear, thal there is au organized gang io
Kemper county wd of prominent and
woalthy people, wiry have heen traf king
in human life, Positives has
discovered, showing that the lives of more
than a doz farmers, mostly poor people,
who have bess insured without thelr know
iedge for large sums Ia favor of others have
basen taken,
'ralarnsd tmonta
Jack.
J ity
unsarthed anthorities
eon yi
asvidsgon baan
A
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ALABAMA CDAL AND COKE OUTPUT.
Increased Production in 1898 Owing te
Growth of Foreign Trade,
Stale Mine Iaspeotor. J. DD. Hillhoase com.
pleted the compilation of hig annual report,
which shows last year's output In Alabama
ta haves hosa 5.731.734 tons, aa increase of
28.025 tons over the year provious, and the
coke production, 2,630,740, an inorease of
800,000 tons. These figures, together with
those on pig iron production heretofors is
sued, show that Inst your Alabama broke ail
previous resords in coal, coke and iron pro-
duction. Thix result is a surprise becanes of
the widespraad trades depression prevailing
throughout the countfy last yeur, but it i=
accounted for by the widening of Ala
bama's market, a good foreign trade in coal
and iron having been bullt up within the
past twelve months,
WADBED GAVE
Fearful Wreck on an Indiana
Railroad.
Seven KiV'ed Outright -Traln Ban Into »
Holled Over
Cures Wore Washed Away
Killed All
pended,
Rome of the
A List of the
Trae Sas
Washout and
snd Injored
One o
oreurred nt
rend
Chileago and Ni
over the Evansvi
road, one n
rain was
charge of |
Joseph Bow:
baggage
i had been
on the Baltimore
i» Railroad, near Hills
rf in the rear
ar
Siation, Ohlo
Ur PRssen gers a ioe i
re seriously injured,
While workmen were raising the two-story
at New
Wer
frame» house of Ohristopher Mohan
Haven, Conn,, the building tipped over, Wik
lam Thomas, a mason, was instantly killed,
and Mr. Mohan's wife and ber mother were
fataily burned. They were fu the kitchen
and the stove fell on them,
The fast newspaper train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Bouthwestern, from Cincinoati for
St. Louls, was wracked four miles west of
Cochran, Indiana. The englae and tender
were hurled into a flooded oreek. Hix bus
dred feet of the track gare away beneath
the moviog train. The tralnmen all escaped.
sea.
CRUSHED 180 MEN,
Terrible Loss of Lifa by the Palling of »
Wall in Fes, Morveen.
By tke falling of a section of the old wall
of the town of Fez, 180 workmen have been
killed,
of the Mabammedan States of Northwest
Africa, and it fa still an important tows, the
greatest trading oy of the Barbary Sistes
Iinither caravans come from lar and near
aven from the Soudan across the Salirato the
southward,
It is beautifully sltanted on the slopes of a
pearshaped val oy, through which flow the
Wad-wl-jubar, or river of Pearls. This
divides the town into two quarters, on one
side the new town, Fesel-djedid, on the other
ihe old town, Fas-el-bali, where the terrible
accident has vecurred.
An old battiemented wall, long partly in
tuing, though still flanked with towers, sur-
tounds the old town, and in completing the |
demolition of this the 180 workmen were
The population of the town, once estimatad
at a million, is now about 50,000,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.
VRrROnR wi CP
ttl Hoeury Coll
alter being extricated,
The riowids and drag »!
Lathrop, of Miner
Fhe loss is 26,000, cov
Albert Haffev, a miner fu the
White (
rr
fe
Glen
work in Lhe
f ¢
while nt
ed by u fall
5 eollarios
1 of next
450
oiliery and
wi vient men
% owe Foch
aimosl
fits
of whow bave not
and bovs al tl
800 at the Jatter, who are nearly all resid
i
of Girardville, and many
worked since the collerios closed down, some
six months ag
By drinking a solatio Paris green and
then banging herasil, Mra John Schulte,
aged 45 years, committed salcide at 143 Third
ped, Allegheny.
Domestic troubles and ili-heaith are sup.
posed to have weakened her mind,
the adyiee physician, the
daaghter, Minnie Sehnite, Kept a close watch
upon her mother, but while she was washing
the dianer dishes, Mrs, Schultz escaped her
vigilanoe., Mrs Bchaltz eft her property to
her seven children, cutting off ber hasband,
with whom she refused
The boller« at W. J. Rainey’s Mount Brad-
dock Ooke Works, Dunbar sxoioded, scom-
plately wreoking the plant. Robert Haxen-
baugh, engineer, was instantly Lille! and
Pireman Robert Mende fatally injured,
Harry Bodey, 23 years. residing in West
Conshohocken, is alleged to have held the
muzzle of a gun to his mouth and killed him.
pelf. He had been out of employment fon
some time, and was despondent. He Las
also suffered for several years from a nervous
affliction.
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NEARLY BURIED ALIVE
A South Carolina Parmer Comes to Life in
His Coffin.
Edward Goddiags, formar, was nearly
buried alive in Sumter, 8. C,,
After ua long tliness he was pronounncsd
dead, prepared for burial und put ia a soffia,
He was heard to speak, and when the coffin
was opensd sat up.
He is sald to be recovering and theres is
great excitement in the sommunity,
’
Upon
the eldest
to five
>
10 BLOCKADE CRETE.
Powers Have Agreed to En-
force Their Demand.
Now an Fle
Mi
wt BEajonien
te Al
King George Bays Greece is
ment of Power in Earopenn Affairs
tary Preparations Golng on
to
Mussulman Hefugees Beg
owed to Lenve Crete
pat CR PE times from
Vienna says that the powers have practically
d SO ~
pel the retirement the Greek 1 p= from
ns will be
thant tue pow
reli os the
will be
re the
BOE
agreed to blockads ste in order to
who
london
=
ut Cn
wave the
SENATORS APPOINTED.
of Vierids,
of Oregon
John A. MH
mad + HH. Co
Calonel nde reson,
eit
Wil
asing
{endeg.
until Apri, while
asses Lhe Legis.
faliad Yo ele i
ring the sdvisa-
Mr. Henderson,
fow works to
Legislature wii elect, it is
mn over the base will
ROTrve
not
be either
likely the coutentd
Dtter or proiot
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APLUCEY WOMAN.
a Robber Whe
tHashand,
News from Apalachicola, Fia ot
tragedy in that town in which a lady bravely
defended hor husband
William Hinzgsy 14 the tax the
pity, aud was kept after dark in the
performance of his duties, While retursing
home a burly form was following “hoely
upon his foolsteps. Just as Mr, Hinsay
reached his doorstep his pursuer sprang
upon him. A lively struggle followed, bat
as Mr. Hinzey has only cone jeg and ops of
his hands is cat off at the wrist, the fight
could not have issted long bat for the un.
expected appearance of Mrs. Hinses, who
was attracted by the noise of the struggle
and who, with rare presesice of mind, seized
a stout hickory stick and inflistéd » Mow
across the head of her husband's assailant
which brought him to bis knees, and left bis
unconscious,
Ofeers came and took the prisoner to the
guard house, where in a few hoarse “Nerward
he was found lying stone-dead o& the foor
from the effect of the blow,
MUN BEECHER PASSES AWAY.
Kills Attacks Mer
She
telis
alioctor of
mt
Widow of the Clebratied Divine Dies of
Stamiaod, Conn,
Mrs, Henry Ward Deecher died Monday,
the tenth anniversary of the death of her
famons hashand, She was 85 years of age,
since Saturday noon, and, during the twenty.
four bours preceding her demise, had boon
unconseions, :
At the death bad were gathered the family
of Rey. Samuel Scoville, Including the slergy-
man, his wife, who is the rof Mes
Beecher, and Mrs. Scoville's two children.
aud Mrs. Dollard, of Massachusetts, a niece
of Mrs, Bowcher, 5 hays