esis THE NEWS. By a vote of 17 to 13 the Wisconsin Senate killed the Whitehead bill to force railroads to carry bicyeles as baggage. During a fight at Lapes, Ind. Jacob Leeds and Blanchard Thomas, was fatally statbed and Thomas was shot and Instantly kided, Near Woodhull Park, Jamaica, 1. I. body of an unknown man Was found, a wound on the forehead giving gr round for the supposition that the man bad been mur. dered. The dead man was about 40 yours of age, with dark complextion aud short curly hair, The Chicago Central W. C.T. U,, ata meeting in Willard Hall, has adopted a res olution against kinetoscope exhibitions of the Fitzsimmons-Corbett prize fight, The action was backed in strong speeches, The New York Boardiof Walking Delegates has decided to accept the invitation of Bishop Potter to arbitrate the difference bee tween the Steam Fitters’ Union aod the Plumbers’ Union, The Manchester (N, H.) Mills are making large quantities ot cotton goods for the Chinese trade, Five hundred bales of g were ship] ed t o China this week via eouver, B. C.. and other orders will as soon as possivle, between Louds i he ood yan- follow Governar Hol20mb Nab, ypropristing #100,000 for the At Lincoln, signed the bill Trans- Mississippi Exposition, The St. Louis Board of Election Commis- sioners has dded that the Democratic municipal ticket headed by Edwin Harrison for mayor is the legal one, Lee Merriwether, who was nominated for mayor by the other Democratic [a eision. In New York Mrs. Fmm Tucker, the wife of Frederick of the Salvation Army, formally declared her intention to bacome a citizea of the United RKtates. Mrs. Booth-Tucker come hare with her husband a ago. Hs» taken out his fir LPers, A special from a, C N. Y., says: ‘The postollice burglars, who blew tained #1.0 cash, 1 other valual This offlos been robed in two years At Lincoln, Neb, Ex-State Audito Moore was arraignasd for preliming before Judge Cochran guiity to examina District Court was furnished, The man named Milner for forgery is the Milner, formerly eashier of the Farm Merchants’ Bauk, of Los Angele . At Beaver, Pa, fire completely destroyed the Bachanan Buailiding, vu pied by the postoffice, Star Publishing Company, Western Union Tel goods store, dentists, Work on the hig Vicksburg at the progressing rapidly, and the engines are be ing set up in the he The the whieh Several al mada to fa boats, The Jowa Ho procedure law, mak it acrime pu by six months to three years in the tiary for 10 pers or un oq peuple fo ir support i style, A special to the from C nd, O under arrest here for incor to having set fire to 40 build The dwelling of Frank P. enrod at dale, Is, burned Tuesday night, and children were burned to death. The eldest was 12 and the youngest 2 years of age. The origin of the fire is unknown Sixteen apprentice Ub from the United States Adams, at San Diego. Calan. in The officers say that different tacties in training the boys raust be pursued or wholesale desertion in every port will result, A special from Hancock county, Tenn, states that Martha Bull shot and killed her paramour, Thomas McCrea, and shot herself. The Bull woman 30 vears ago was a leader of society in Camden, Va, fn Chicago the board of trade has decided to begin a crusade ngalpst violaters of the interstate commerce law, not only those who discriminate in the giving of rates, but also against those who accept them, At Omaha, Probate Judge Baxter gave his decision in the Briggs will contest, He sets aside the will of Emily J. Briggs and awards the entire estate of $500 090 to Clin. ton Briggs, the only child, At Haron, 8. D., property worth was destroyed by fire, including the Alliance Butlding, valued at #25 000; insured for £10 - 000. It was ooeupled by the government land office, wh The United States Weather Bur fastruments and wost of the records past 17 years. The Louisville ( Chair Co signed to Lytle Buachannan, are $60,000; asssats slightly sum. The failure was caus and threatenad suits, A special from Lima, O., says that Wm RB. Mott, freight clerk, aod William K, Jones, felegraph operator, were struck by light. Ming on the street and both fatally injured, + The Caledonian Textile Company, recently 4ncorporated under New Jersey laws, has aedded Lo locate in Westerly, BR. I. The cor. poration will erect a plant of 65,000 spindles, 1,850 looms for the mannfacture of fine cot. ton plece goods, and will employ about S500 ‘hands, Fire, supposed to be of incendiary origin, destroyed the Ameriean House, in South ‘Manchester, Conn. and adjacent property, he loss age cegating #30 000, Hodiey Sutherland, 20 years 018, « color od walter, murdered his mistress, Sarah Moen, 21 years old, also colored, at Tels Jome In Brooklyn, N. ¥., by shooting kh ‘After the shooting Sutheriand tried 10a eape and fired at a pursuing policeman, but without effact, The shoo factory of Whitman & Keith Broekton, Mass., was opened as a “free shop, and at noon the flem sald that every department had been fillad exospt the tree fag and finishing departments, It fo claim. ad that many of the oid employes returned to work. The unions have plekets on auly Muar WEAR CLEAN FACES, Street Car Emp oyes in Reading, Pa., Or dered to Kemove Beards. Superintendent Pasamore, of the Heading ing and Southwestern Btreet Hallway, has tssued orders to ali employes that on and with their early all the mo- 3 ae has rejected the de- Rions, VAAL has already enango watly, antered ife and ob- was open the ss 3 as the charge of » fon and was in the §10,000, sum of arrested in ( the late son of egraph Ce 3 3 and a 1 ‘ in ers and £50,000, 1 dry Loss fully and Iron Works is ni oar gunboats Newport Bath (Me) y Yess ia workmen are construction of the I the Bath Me.) firm hold « the the tarations in vards ilitats Work o jue has passed the y ns to go together, « rganized, without means, depend IXOY ing Reily or ( -Army Datroit News “Wi Iogless, ad arism, conte sued ngs in Detroit’ Ladds TR his five levels , BR Ya ove have deserted ont gunt two davs, then 85, £70,000 Wo fn i mpany The Habilities sags of this dull times in ex¢ wl by SHELLED CRETAYS Foreign Powers Fire in De- fense of the Turks. CHRISTIANS ADVANCE. They Captured Turkish Forts and Blew Up nn Blockhouse- Desperate Fighting Continued At Day With the Advantage on he Sidaof the Chivistinng in the Sit wtion, ~No Change The fasurg: nts made a determined attack upon the bLlockhouse or fort at Malaxa, out- side of Suda Thursday. During the night the Insurgent foroes were pushed forward until they occupied convenlont yodddons for attack, snd about six A. M. the artillery pened fire upon the Turkish blockhouse, I'he pieces of the Christians wore served with such admirable promptocss and de- ision that in a short time nothing remain 1 to the turks but extermination or evacun- tion. The Mussulmans, preferring the latter aft the fort and commenced a retroat upon judo, relying upon the Turkish warships in ths bay to save them from the Christi The Sultan's fleet opened a badly fire upon the insurgents in order to retreat from mss, The Wns, judged Cover kh shells or far beyond the i: the Christians the the blo fell edther short surgent roe, Consequently vi forward adily, keepit Fue { HIKES an The insurgents the wey set {ire to me Bouses, «s far Ras I'aikalari I Progress arkish troog tthe garris uated tl vith a for the eV 1 Canea yded ¢ route followed ! iid be seen ihe fig Malaxa snl Su ops advanced half + h the i a Mal Turks Kare y Lhe ting tween I advancing tr Christians stopped the solumn, and the Turi up the best po ition ot the convoy and send "CRSATY. Deg pe rae fighting in the ’ Fsikalar house, While the sir vainly igeling RIOTE Nerakoure Akrotiri 1 (let Halepa t «= with attacked which was mountain ¢ Tarkish garrison uring the retreat £2 are numerot hash its in 1 ¥ baving ca fortresses, iyd fasurgen An far he vicigity of Canea erivolis, ptured the two last] ish : Ihe insurgents suncoeeded in blowing the blo ise at Malaxa with dynamite, The flests fired sloety shells upon surgents around Malssa, and some of these fail inside the biockbouse, Of the Tark garrison, numbering sixty-f ‘ to Nerokhuri aad eighteen others t It is beileved that the others perished The admirals of the internation addressed a general order to tional troops, waleoming them alding: We exhort you by yo an example bef whom the power: « prom; war. Politically there is no change in the tion. The Cretan chiefs have elded to refuse autonomy and will the struggle until the union of with Greece is an soknowiedged fact, The biockade Is in progress all aloag Cretan but has not prevented anveral an (frank v fore oA » waals from Iaading ‘kh got ire the ( harge tly to save from the} situa to A definitely de- fala the island Soast all anmunition this and pros RAILROAD NOT S The the tonnare aystem for freight adontion of tha {34in and saving trains on Baltimcra Southwestern has r sulted st of transport Nawn stale stem are pull more loaded cars per train A very shnple but comprehensive sot of binnks has furnished the yard masters, and in making up the trains each locomotive fa given the number of tons which it has been demonstrated by experi- anos jt is able to haul, This system bas also rassiited in fewer comalaints of losomotives being stalled with their trains on grades, The B. & 0. Southwestern has adopted new specifications for gootion houses, Thess structures ara now being bullt with eliate roofs and cost about 865 apiser. The slate roof is found to be a preventive of fire Irom sparks, in gnile a neral Sage that loco in the eo ation Lr olives two to tion ever erintendent under the sy ng from grven twefore, * en sr I i KILLED FIVE PERSONS, A Missouri Farmer Nonrly Esterminated His Wife's Family. At Orrick, a village thirty-five miles south at Biehmond, Mo., Ib, Rainwater, a farmer, shot and killed bis wil+, his mother-in-law, Mra. Wo, artman, his brother-in-law, James Thurman, sad his little stepdanghter, Ethel tientry. Then, afler so nearly exterminat- fag a whole family, the murderer Lisw off the top of his own bead, dying fostantiy. The killing occurred at tae house of Wm, Artman, Hr, father of Mrs, Balnwater, The latter had recently lef: her husband, and with Ethel Gentry, the daughter of her formar husband, sought sheiter at the home of her parents, Bainwater ia reported to bays been in- sanely jealous of hin wife, and it is believed that he visited the Artman home with the : express purpose of killing the whole family, | | PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. Northern Chester county eltizens held a mesting at C+darville, discussed good rouds and affected an organization, Dr. Alfred C, Hersh, socretary, ander M. Byndeoer, sanitary Lebanon Board of Health, ins nainst the city of Latmnon to ench for salaries alleged to be in arrears and unpald, While a freight train Rallroad was passing a point n-ar Black- well's a hugs houldear rolled down the side of the mountain and ernshed {oto the train, knocking two cars from the track and wrooking the train, No one was injured, The Lanre]l Steam Fire Compan, of York, has just made a contract with tha Holloway Chemical Engine Company of Bal timore, for a combination nical engine and hose wagon, The new machine will have two 25-gallon tanks, about 1,000 fest of hos and all re sgquipments, Mika Dvino lies at his home in Pricebure ina very precarious condition as the resuit of wounds which, it is alleged, he reoe’ved at the hands of Joseph Kochino Knehino was arrested and is now fn jall to await the restit nf Botino's injnries, whinrh f two ugly cuts In the breast inflicted with a knife, 1 ho aud Alex of the quilts WINN ftuted recover £100 § Olde on the Fall Brook Engine che other necessary fl consist © $0 vo a args fa ras Miller, aged ahont ried and tha father « ing in North Annville T part ArH, hh mill yard Kuarmist and while standing attempted to lig ght Yer roads ’ mark was found ou tted stat ps sonal . Congressman George W xia it Philadel Are me gent {fpr inf mane aae Fran KX Bs 4 =f Charles after fatally Penn Aght he tut not ne 290 anid injured eanarily fatally. was fractured The condition o rke=s through- ut Sehuvlkill County is becoming alarming each day despite the earnest eNorts f the conl w more of Relief Committees {a nearly every town, fdie, and others janrter dave, In Girardville and vas are hard at work he of have been th eolileries are two Shenandoah, A number of working Mahanoy City, L«h are hres. land, relief associalic very day, and they means saving many families from starvation , ming alarming in Binekwood and down and relief i vis fe also hey Pottaville diierios are olossd fering intensely, no o situatio “dnity of in Creek Are sn Near Poltaville ia idie two ¥a are out ing theresa places, jery, which has hoag 500 men and br York Farm ( months, and nearly of employment, Only four time, full Vine coll ioriea Thov are the Hill and William Penn. are working on Lytle, Srookside THE BELEASE OF AMERICANS, flecretlnry Sherman Said to Have Thanked Minister De Lome, Socrr lary of State sherman, it is semi-of- fieially wnounced, has thanked the Spatish minists + at Washingion, Senor Dupuy de Lome, {or the conduct of Bpsin in releasing from imprisotument the American citizens re- cently set at liberty in Cuba, General Abumada, who i= acting eapiain general during the absence from Havana of General Weyler, authoriges the correspon- dent of the Associated Press to deny the re- port published in the United States that the insurgents, under Calixto Garcia, have cap tured the own of Holguin, provines of SBan- tage de Cuba, He adds tbat a steamer which has just arrived direst from Gibara, the port of Holguin, reports shat no news of an stick upon Holguin had been received up to the time of her saillog, No news of any such affair is contained in the pewepap- ers, and the correspondence from Holguin makes no mention of any stiack upon the town, There are no means of communicating direct with Holguin as present, ssn Bs Hemarkable Yield of Olives. Five-yearold trees in the olive on chards of 8an D ego County, Cal fornia, yield thirty gallons of fruit per tree This 1s regarded aa the most remark. able production of olives ever heard of, NI BH A DEATH AT SCHOOL. Eight Children Killed By the Sweep of a Cyclone. TWELVE BADLY HURT. The Buliding Was Blown to Pleces by » Ktorm Cloand That Was Sald to Have Bern No Bigger Than a 1 nnket Mingled With Bis of Timbers Damnosge By the Storm, Bodies Other from Atlanta, Ga. disaster has reached this flange nud the bullding ns by A despatch News of an awful from Arlington, Calnoun ¢ A eyelone struck the y ton Academy, a frame G0 feet, HAVE; here Htate, Ariing about 20 by the death- ried to hb {reseng inreer than a bed bl In the building thirty-five pu tencliors had assembled, and shildren wlintly y Were mange na Pars ounty, wis Llown to alc uld, which is ret : bat Hts dealing cl ave tn ket ils snd two eight of the klled, Their bodies of the timbs remains. Twelve « The two teach and Walker, t were it rs were mixe hil dren were ally injured, nre MURDERED AND CREMATED, After Killing a Family of Five, the Assas- sine Fired the Baliding. bed Nash Ade, Nowa fas reg Iviiie Lh idence of Jacol fifteen bu Paradise Rid ire dies of J; Ade thelr YEAS, aged 20 orirer, aged 10 family, was { YORE ind la fing. Harry Ade Ade was a well i that the use bur nisning. ha suppose od and the hi family to econo investigat- ted ¢ authorities are ase foun oode the fire is growiog ding to this belief is the (an the girls faco wa tack of her head was whe wae struck by some The headla sand, Mr. Ade was over sixty years old, and was considered a rich man by the truck garden ers and small farmers among whom be lived, There 8 no clue to the gx urderer., A roll of money partially burned was found in an oyster can in the rules - IR A FATAL EXVLOSRION, that the ghtly burned, It is thought such instra- of two of the sea} Rony the missing As BO axe & were not { bodi walhf m UEngloser and Fireraan fug Baller Killed hy a Dorst- Passengers § ndistarbed, A desp hb from hicago, I, says: -The P baller of the Io yevsovt § eh was hauling wo and Boston special on the Lake shore & Michigan Southern Railroad blew up Saturday morning, instantly killing the engineer and fireman, and compictely de molishing the engine, The engineer was buried air, through a net work of we Chi yy f HD eet into the telegraph wires stretohed along the tracks, and bad bis right Jeg torn off, The fireman was thrown agaiosta cattle car and instantly killed, None of the remainder of the train crew nor any of the passengers were injured. The train to which the engine was attached is one of the fastest on the Lake Shore road, and leaves the Van Bareun Street depot at 10.80 o'clock In the morning. The sccident occurred about 11 o'clock as the train had just pulled ont from the BEaglewood depot and was running at the rate of twonty mii len anbou~, A peouliar feature of the explosion was the fart that although the report was so fond that It was heard by residents a ball mile away and the foree so great that the en gine wis literally blows to atoms, none of ihe passengers in the rear part of the train heard the report, and none was aware that anything unusual had happened until they looked out after the train had come to a sud. dan stop, The train dashed along about 150 feet af tor the explosion took place, asd, sithough the stop was quite sudden, none of the pas- sengers was thrown from ihe seats, and pot one of the coaches was damaged by either the explosion or the sudden stop, The fores of the explosion was apparer tly directly ontward, as parts of the engine wera thrown into the air 100 feet, and Huge pieces of the bolier, weighing several tons, were tossed over the telegraph wires into aswamp, " a distance of 250 fest, while the baggage ear, directly behind the engine, was »ol Saeed op mn tomy Bt. Jon KF, ond thal were decided te por Fe spine: CABLE SPARKS. United Ptates Minister to Turkey, Aloxnn- der Terrell hud on private audiences with the Baltan, Gan, Carlos Roloff, who forfeited hin ball in Baltimore, is reported to have landed sale ly fu Culm, The Murquls of Salisbury, prime minister of Bugland, i» conflued to bis home bys mild attack of influenza, Violent storms, accompanied by bail, enused the loss of several lives and damage to property ln Germany, A speciul cablegram from Rio de Janeiro gays Brazil and France have agreed Lo settle the Amaps boundary question by arbitrs- tion, Rear-Admiral Thomas ©. Beifridge, com. manding the United States European sqund- ron, was received in audience by the Pope at Rome The report that the were defeated Ly the ince of Paysandu, firmed, government troops insurgents in the Uruguay, is offici Prove ALY con The Congress of Venezuela will take up the Gulana question at onee, the official voples of the treaty with Great Britain have bug arrived at Caracas, dispatch from Manilla, | Islands, that the anish A special Phi Prine BRYS atincked the aud pet Have fire to the Bj orts have been received «tf Constanti- very serious disorders sat Je t, in vinea of Arn menians ear for its foe ught gold regis mine i tor a Grex Years is expec mend Christian {reek | AYerag it iranso while sisefon wer with the work was a ower. In Fran e n a irks of also Pears iargely t Frankfort mediately nies [« the life of ox-Tres kept up for his daughter aw, Mr. and Mrs, Martin, The action does pot mean that there is news of the death of Kentucky's atweonding Tress. urer. but the sult will be based on the ground thet Tate has not been heard from for eight years, and the laws « f Kentucky man has disappeared [fur y oars, Buits are being prepared a aud will be filled in IGEUTAnOQ poll on which have and son-in-i Ky against Lhe Comm; amount of ries the Tate SL rer MT) presume | dead who even ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Rudyard Kipl Christie Murray, ing, $n a lelter to David ays he hopes the UUme will some when he will be able to write ‘a real, deosat, threes volume n Miss Eilon Hinsdale, Hinsdale, of Michigan roovived the degroe of tingen U the 1 vel” faughter of Professor University, has jus. Ph. D. from rst woman 0 rox logy atl Gotlingen generally known that it invent the bridge which at was first the shown io the ihe piversity, the degree in phil It may not be Whaeatstone did ne bears his name, described by Mr toyal Society of Englasd, as “Philoscphisal Transactions for 1833." Wheatstone redevisad it in 1843: he himeel! acknowledges in bis “Selentific Papers” that be did not invent it, a statement which will ba found in the “Philosophical Transas- tions,” 1843, page 501. The Chaleago “Times-Herald” thinks that Paul du Challla is likely to be the new Min- ister to Sweden and Norway, and it aids “His appointment would be a very popular ons with all the Boandinavisns in America, It was Du Challlu’s book, ‘The land of the Midaight Sun,’ that made Sweden and Nor way wall koown tO the remainder of the world, His enthusiastic deseriptions of the beautiful scenery and the simple hospitality of the people of the rugged peninsula of the North started the tide of summer travel Sow- ing along the coast of Norway, iato the won- derful fords and across into Sweden, and all the Scandinavians have held him 1a gratelul remembrancs.” The Queen has always bosn soeompanied to the Continent by one of the Ladies of the Badoshamber, and hitherto either the Dow- ager Lady Qaarchill or ths Dowager Lady Sonthampion has been ssiected to go abroad with her Majesty. This year, however, a new arrangement has been made, and Lady Antrim, who ia the youngsst of the Lalies of the Dadchamber, has gone to Cimieg, the fact bing that neither Lady Churchill nor Lady Southampton is equal to the fa igue wialeh the Continental expadition now in- voives to the members of the household in waiting. AS Cimies there are almost dally receptions of royal and other personages after luncheon, whils in the evening there are nosrly always gaests at dianer, which makes life there much more exacting than it was al Floranoe, or Grasse, or Alx-ies-Dalns. | i An, 4 The arrangement Hanter « aristie at part Oubas A STRANCE TOMS, Tribute Over a Womai's Grave. 4 Bucharest has, perhaps, the straog- est tomb ted in a civilized land. {t gtanas over the embalmed body of Julia Hasden, a young author- eas, who qed mix years ago. Her father, wor Has of the tUni- of Bucharest, believes, says the ‘ork Tribune, that he able to communicate with his Jost child. He ts every aay for ours by the side of her coffin, and occas surprises his fellow selentists by gravely quoting some remarks that she has made to him, ‘The tomb is claimed, in accoruance lined to the father by after her death. it is in cemetery. The structure is of marbie, Over the entrance and under Lhe name +ulia Hasden is a filled with well-worn school As one he is greeted strains of meloay entrance a marble bears an in- translated as not A Father's GVYer ere Profes aen, Gn: airy contructed, so it i= with plans out- the daughter he Greek niche books with At the Ler enters inearthly lab of black De which may “1 0t those Who but y this gravis : s i {hie secre of fe viplLions according rks cull- as had Julia urither mAr- carved ydy of the arranged le the brok- gaze on a8 a , atiired A while ver it to preserve {t from waist nestle a in place to the uy ground that uth bed, eyes large Com- Geath, tones, in an echo produces the Lia mentioned is appar- table Visitors their names pages are of sym- the cribe and its expressions language. nothing grewsome in tomb The fresh irougu the the perfume of fic of the this open doors, CArrving and the Professor Hasden his spare time it is ange thong to see him taking his here of a morning and smoking besides his child's coffin, comes in the afternoon and il late in the evening m alone,” the old porter at the gate will tell you. He speaks of Ju though she were alive, Poor {"s a comfort to them and harm us People's given on it long ago.’ it is in Bucharest that den’s mind iz deranged itualism. On all other matiers OnE as ever coffe She a Hasden as foulles . it don't 2 wlieved Professo wr on spit 3 i A Romantic Story. story, savoring of the mantic, is told in the French press the German Kaiser. Recently his majesty went io the Berlin barracks alone The corporal on guard recog- nized the naiser immediately, and luted him sue Kaiser was pleased, and, approaching the soldier, said: “Why do you look so sad, corporal?” The corporal did not reply. The Em- peror then asked if he was disappoint- ed in love. Al this the corporal found his tongue, and replied that he wished to marry Marguerite, the daughter of his Sergeant-Major, but that her fa- ther would not consent until he haoame a Sergeant. “And do you love her very much?” asked the Kaiser. "Oh, yes ™ was the reply. “Then,” said the Bm- peror, “go and tell your future father- in-law that William II makes you a Sergeant.” el A BAL AO, Queer Cave Dwellers. Even the most barren parts of the earth manage somehow fo acquire ine habitants. One would hardly expect that an animal win any choice jeft to it at all would care to take up an abode at the hem of the Alps's eternal skirt of snow. Yet the marmot seems rather to enjoy such A habitat, and does pot mind baling shut up Ju its under- ground winter quarters the groater part of the year. Its winter dwelling is a habitation of some pretension, to be sure, consisting of a pantry and a parlor. A Loudon Jandiesy ips , FO ROG Re