THE NEWS,
The ore producers of the Gogebie range,
consisting of the Norrle, Tilden and Cinein-
nati mines, have formed a pool, Carnegie
and Rockefeller are excluded, as their ioter-
ests are purely in the Mesaba range.
Hugh Miller, the firebug, who was con-
victed of arson 24 hours after his arrest, was
sentenced in the Brooklyn County Court to
20 years’ imprisonment, Adolph Ntlenberg,
another firebug, was sentenced to 10 years’
imprisonment.
Nearly $12,000 has been raised in St, Louis
to aid flood sufferers in the South, The
Terminal Railway association, composed of
all the railroads enterirg St. Louls, gave
notice that it would transport supplies free,
A eyelone passed over the southern portion
of Cleveland county, Arkansas, destroying
12 or 15 country residences and wounding 10
or 16 people, Will Shirley was killed and
others are seriously injured,
incendiaries visited Temple, Reading
county, Pennsylvania, and burned a house
and barn owned by Dr. Perch Archer, of
New York, who had intended estabilshing a
sanitarium on the property. The loss is over
#6,000, The house was vacated on Thursday,
The Maltby breaker of the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company, Wllkesbarre, Pa., was de-
stroyed by fire. Loess, $60,000: insurance,
£50,000. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Three hundred and 50 men and boys are
thrown out of work.
CURRENT EVENTS.
Notwithstanding the recent law to prevent
selling Hauor to Indians, it is said that
scarcely a day passes that a drunken
Umatilla is not seen on the one
Oregon city.
The influence of the recent prize fight has
been seen in an unexpected way in Sedalia,
Mo. where two young boys have agreed to
fight to a finish for 350 marbles and the gate
receipts. The admission charged was fixed
at § cents,
North Dakota has recently experienced a
boon in all branches of industry, owing to
the large namber of new settlers which has
beun pouring into that State, It Is sald that
most of them have induced to immi-
grate by agents,
There Is a measure pending
Michigan Legislature to prevent abe
going into that State hereafter unless they
declare upon their arrival their intention of
becoming eltizens. ‘he bill is aimed prin.
cipally at Canadian laborers,
The lax methods employed in the jail at
Barnstable, Mass, have been
brought to light by a loeal paper. One pris-
ener, who is supposed to be serving 2 five
years’ sentence for stealing national bank
funds, was recently seen on the streets in
prison clothes teaching the jalle
ride the bicycle. Another t was allow.
ed to take a cow to Yarmouth while the
was bright and the'air invigorating, in
der to get a pleasant walk
Thirty-five Sioux Indi
whom have
at Standing |
the Custer massacre, hav
at the local Ge
homesteads,
to be (made
whose blood
streets of
been
the
IPRS
before
recently
rs wife to
onvie
sun
or=
ans, nearly all of
been confined on the reservation
for partici
made application
wernment land office for
Their applications are the first
the Standing Rox k Sioux
¥ MASSACTes
ating in
by
reated such terror
swenty years ago. It is bellaved that the
settiors who live near the desired homesteads
will do all mi their power to ent the
grants being made,
no
in
prey
I ——
WASHINGTON NOTES.
has introduced
the lega
W. Branham
rgeon of the
Representative Melutyre
the following bills: To pay to
rosentatives of the late John
£1000, Branham was
Marine Hospital service
while in the discharge of his du
infected with yellow fever. To
of Mrs Annie Dulany
William B. Steinmetz
I reg
a 8
and lost his life
ty at a port
porease the
¢, and also to
and Helen
pension
peasion
Larned,
Commander F. FP. Gilmore has been
dered to the New York Navy-yard i
ant-Commander F. Singer, from the Terror
to the laleigh: Lieutenant-Commander
Perry Garst, from the Raleigh to the Terror
na itive; Capt. H. L. Howison, to
amioation for promotion at Washington
Comptroller Eckels has acvepted an Inv
tation extended through John W. Faxon,
secretary, to deliver an address pafore the
Tenpesses Bankers’ Association, which meets
at Nashville on the 19th and 20th of May
during the progress of the exposition,
Senator Hansbrough, of North Dakota, has
introduced a bill to prevent inventors and
others from being deceived and defrauded
by alleged patent attorneys,
The bill making
2250.000 for the saving of
along the Mississippi River haa been agreed
fo in ( nd now
goes to the president for his signature,
axe) ox.
immediately available
life and property
nended form, ¢
ngress io Ls ar
introduesd & bili in
relate
yraker has
amend the inte
to
senator Fe
the Se
merce act 8
roads,
The Detroit has arrived at Port Said,
her way to the United States, The
Francisco has arrived at Alexaondretta, and
the Boston has sailed from Amoy for Hong
Kong.
The President has appointed D. P. Mannix
as a cadet at large at the Naval Academy,
the last of these appointments at his dis.
posal. The appointes is a son of the ate
Captain Mannix, a marine officer,
CO
nate to
as
permit pod
HOE DY ral
on
nan
mss rss cosa
POWDER MILLS BLEW UP,
Terrific Force in a
of an Explosion
Pennsylvania Town.
All of the buildings of the 8 hamnokin Pow.
der Company were completely wrecked by a
terrific explosion which occurred in the mill
of the company at an early hour Friday
morning. Fortuoately, there were no lives
lost,
The dwellings of David Haan,
Killinger and Daniel Osman,
the outbuildings and
damaged.
The powder mill is located about five miles
from Shamokin, but the force of the explo.
sion shook nearly every building, and many
persons rushed from their houses 10 ascer-
tain the cause of the shock,
The only person iujared was Mrs Hann,
who was badly cut about the face and body,
She is prostrated from the shock, The dam-
aged residences are located half a mile from
the scene of the explosion, but the sides of
the bouses next to the powder mill were
caved in by the foros of the shook.
Mr. and Mere. Hann and Mrs. Klinger were
buried in their beds beneath the debris, and
bowliders weighing 200 pounds were hurled
through the sides of the dwellings. ‘The
tiouses and furniture were badly wrecked,
Mr. Hann's burn took fire and his stock and
farming implements were destroyed. The
powder coapany's barn was redneed to
kindling wood and four head of stock was
killed,
The loss will amount to nearly $50,000,
Emanuel
together with
barns, were badly
SLAIN BY A CYCLONE.
Twenty-five Persons Killed at
Chandler, Okla.
A NIGHT OF HORROR.
After the Tornado Had Passed Fire Broke
Out in the Ruins and Added to the
Tortures of Those Thus Imprisoned
Then Came Rain, which Helped to
Extinguish the Flames,
A despatch from Guthrie, 0. T., says:
As yet it is impossible to state the actual
amber of persons killed and fojured in
I'uesday night's tornado at Chandler, in this
Ferritory. Intense confusion prevails there,
The death list is estimated at twenty-five and
the injured number fully 170. Already twen-
iy-one bodies have been recovered,
All the houses in the town except four
were wrecked. The population of Chandler
was 1.500. Sixty tents bave been sent from
Guthrie and over two hundred from Fort
Beno to shelter the homeless.
The night was terrible, With scores of
people dead or dying and the remainder too
panle stricken to render assistance in the
darkness, the rain poured down upon the
desolate and homeless population during the
weary hours and added horror to the situa-
Hon. Many of the injured cried unavaliiog
for help and lay in the wrecks of
houses, until daylight made it
them to help themselves or
rounding towns arrived.
their
possible for
aid from sur.
Wrecked Houses Took Fire.
Many of
themyelves
the wrecks took fire and burned
out, several still smouldering
when morning broke over the town. From
the fire's work may finally come the worst
part of the disaster, for itis believed that
nany of the missing were burned to deuth
Ihis phase of the situation will not be eleared
away until order has again
snd a eareful summing up of
Bavoe made possible,
been restored,
the stormn’'s
Awful Sweep of the Wind,
The eyelone struek Chandler without
warning about 6 P, Its work of carnage
began before the inhabitants zed
was upon them hardly any mea:
tseape was eft « Tearing through
were Jilted }
every direction.
ise, in which Chief Justice Dale
was taken off
nto the residence
2
what
8 of
the
reali
And
pn,
ness district, stores
the alr and tossed (n
was
Pasa ‘
wind ron
the
tinued its havoe, inl rushing
1htry finally spent itself
treil left was one of rain. Hous
their tops and streets were piled
debris,
open C01
Hain Fell on the Ruins.
Soon fire followed the
here A -
I
aark sky in &
tor
nado’s work and
bers and
Riared against
time a ;
As night wore on
and while
short heavy
t CAME uj
veloped into a deloge it »u
the dismal scene, the
1 #
probably pro the salvation the t
for in
many places it quenched the
nmed a conflagration that the
naeives iid never have hoped
Asking Help from Outside.
he first realiza
red we !
nate
i for
i
it wan found that all
munication the outside world had t
ent off. The talophone ofMloe was amoung
buildings destroye It was
bef ne 4 smmunic tion with Guat}
3 with
several
secured by line a mile and
a brief state
devastation, toge
wr ald, had
neighboring cities when
and Chandler was again it off
meantime a train beariog physicia
other helpers left for the scene, The
later and further appea
response, addiu
parities being sent out,
out f Chandler iI
the nature of the
an
ther
appeal | bean sent
the wires
were repaired
ald met prompt nal re
Recovering the Bodies
By midnight a plan of systematic resous
had been arranged and the dead sod dy
the prisons into whi
homes had been
hospitals were
ware released fron
their own
Improvised
unfortu
t
transformed
formed and the
nates ware cared for as tenderly a
possible, At 1 o'clock many dead bodies kad
been taken from the ruins, while doze
injured had been removed to
In addition It was known
it had been imposait
perhaps, had been incinerated before ths
deluge came to quench the fire in thei
homes, would swell the list of fatalities
FIRE SUFFERERS.
places of sale
that other
He Lo reach, or wh
"wh
Fifty Families Homeless and
Lost by » Blaze at Portamouth,
$100,000
Ya.
A fire that burned six hours occurred at
Portsmouth, Va., making fifty families
homeless and causing $100,000 damage,
The fire originated in Whitehurst's Hall,
on the corper of Green and Glasgow Strects,
and burned the block to London street A
high north wind swept the flames across
London rireet, and half a
on the south side of that thoroughfare were
destroyed, Huge brands were biéwn across
the city tothe southward and the steeple of
the Catholic church, three blocks away,
eaught fire. In less than half an hour the
edifice was in ruins,
The flames spread from the church to a
row of residences on High street, and while
they were burning the flying sparks caused
another blaze in Newton, about a mile AWAY.
it was six hours before the flre was gotten
under control. Assistance was rendered
from Norfolk, and while the fire was at is
height the militia was called out to protect
property and ald the firemen. The ocen-
pants of nearly all the houses destroyed lost
their household effects,
The Catholic Charch was orected at a cost
of $60,000, and the total loss on all property
destroyed probably will reach over $100,000.
Heveral firemen and a number of spectators
were more or less injured by felling timbers
and fying embers,
tn i AI soins
RETRISUTION OVERTOOK Hiv.
dozen residences
A White Farmer Who Tarned State's Evie
dence Murdered at His Home.
J. W. Hollingshead, the white farmer who
was one of the leaders in the osiebrated
Chambliss lynching eass in Washingtoo
County, Miss, last year, and who when ar.
rented turned State's evidence and brought
about the cgnviction of a number of his
neighbors and the fight from the neighbor
hood of several dozen others who partici.
pated in the lynching. was sssasioated in
his dwelling, near Waynesboro. He bad an-
dressed and was prepacing to get into bed,
when an unknown person outside of his win~
dow firsd a load of buckshot into his body,
killing him instantly. His death will be a
nile! to some fifty of his former neighbors,
CASUALTIES.
A fire in the oll warehouse of J. W, Austin,
caused a loss of £70,000,
M. Riegniman & Co.'s wholesale and retail
millinery store, in Des Moines, Iowa, was
damaged by fire to the extent of £150,000,
A saw mill bofler at Harsville, South
Carolina, exploded, killing Engineer Adam
Cartor and his wile, who had brought him
his dinner,
The wind storm near Tacoma, Washington,
onused the death of four persons, three by
falling trees and one by the capsizing of a
boat,
0. P. Erickson, a workman, was crushed
to death in Caloago, in the basement of the
old post-office, which Is being torn down, by
the falling of an embankment,
The magazine of the Roek Glycerine Com-
a mile and a half from Wellsville, New
York, exploded. H. H. Youngs was killed
and Dorr Clark and Thomas Myers were
badly iojored.
A Tacoma despatch says that a terrifie
«storm lashed Paget Sound, DBualldings were
blown down and a score of persons injured,
but none fatally, At Portland, Oregon, the
wind reached a velocity of 55 miles an hour,
A Frankfort, Ky., despatoh says that it is
rumored there that the penitentiary hospital
is fail of small-pox patients, “Tae prison
physicians say it Is only forty of
measles, but the legislators are badly fright
ened.’
John Clark, a policeman, of Harrison, New
Jersey, was lostantly killed, by coming in
contact with a tele wire which had
and whic h in falling bad crossed
pany,
CLM
ph ine
been out,
an sleatrie light wire,
John Patton, chief
visor of the Monongahela
instantly killed at (
He stepped from a
fa front of a Baltimore an
engineer and
Biver Railroad,
Went
train on his
d Ohio
Ri Dar.
Wns inrksburg,
Virginia,
yw road
fiyer,
A vi nt storm {
ustin, Texts, and did
operty. A pumberof
jshed, and al Buda,
or two pers
nd and rain struck
great damage to
bulldings were de
a small
MAE Bre
of w
town near
tin. one ported to
bowen killed,
rts reovived from Bupervigh
Wyma Marine
show thal » Rlipox is
2 Inspec
Hosp
raging io
or General fini
Havana and isin iminiah-
ing. D
have been rec
th
reasing i
iring the inst week for which returns
BAER Wore res
Yolk
yw fever
ADDRESS BY MeKINLEY,
wil
tirnnt Monument
President Beview the Farade nt
New Yark,
water
reviewing
np the
t
ben south
west
past the reviewing
S000 ou the
vid eont
presetitatives of |
There will be sents for
reviewing stand Desides the Pr
shine, the re
other
diguitaries wii
i
A little sot
will be ar
Fromaj
stands a bridge will be «
height of
rable the holders ! Lickeis §
of the reviewing stand there
bold 7,000
between
onstruocte
twelve
TT $
stand t perenne,
t somewhere iw
{ Brooms
nt
“ala
stands aire
and also t
describe
18 the ne
rossitng the romd was On tl
oa
his bridge
here will also be station a band
who are {0 be
Opposite theses
ad a
horus of 1.000 singers,
Frank Damrosch,
will nother to he
persons,
ied by
tands
10,000
twos
he id at jeast
aI ———
HAWAII MAY ASK ANNEXATION,
Mr. Hatch and Attorney-General Smith
Have Broache It to the President,
iespateh from
is sald to be probal
saifon for annexation to
wili be made by the government of
Hawaii, through its Minister to the United
States, The application will be presented
to the State Départment, and it is expocted
will be transmitted to Congiess,
Ex-Mipister Thurston, Attorney General
Smith and Gen. Hartwell, of Hawali, have
been here ever since the Inauguretion in the
interest of annexation. Mr. Hatch, the
Hawaiian Minister, and Mr. Smith, saw the
President on Thursday, and Mr. McKinley
listened alteditively to the argument they
had to present in the favor of annexation,
Messrs, Hateh and Smith also have seen
Secretary Sherman in regard to the question
of annexation, and presented to him argu-
meats in ita favor, They declined to discuss
the attitude of the President or his premier
on the subject except to say that the situs
tion ia encouraging. “Everything.” sald
Minister Hateh, “is 18 yet in a teotitive shape
and nothing formal has been done,
on cm ———————
PFOISONED BY A DRINK,
Father Dead and Daunghter 111 by Tea
from a Metal Vessel,
John Gibbons, ape of the best known men
in Pittston, Pa, died at his home in that
place as a result of poisoning.
(Hibbons was in his usual heaith, and at.
tended mass at 88. Joba's Church. Later he
drank some fold tsa from a metallic veses]
that had been standing since breakfast, was
taken with violent cramps and suffered
greatly,
A physician was summoned. He suspected
arsenic poisoning, administered the usual
remedies and the patient grew better. At
Washington says: If
that formal appl
the United States
soon
sank rapidly and at midnight died.
Daring the alternoon Gibbons’ daughter,
Catharine, would not believe that her father
had been poisoned by deinking tea, and she
drank from the same vessel, Shortly after
ward she also was taken senonsly 1, but
recovered,
I
Swept by &
bY THE WI
Towns in Texas
Cyclone.
MANY PEOPLE KILLED.
& House at Austin was Lifted from Its
Foundations, Twisted Completely
Around and Then Set Down Again in
the Same Place Story of HKuin from
the Country Districts,
A despateh from Austin, Texas, says:—The
rentral part of Texas was visited Bunday
sfternoon by a eyelone that did great dam-
ge Lo property, The storm was the worst
shat has visited this vicinity in many years,
and it lald waste everything in its track,
I'he sun came out brightly afterward,
The wind was from the southwest and blew
sixty miles an hour here for nearly twenty
ninutes, Beveral large electric light towers
wure blown down and a number of houses
n the residence portion of the city were de-
troyed, In several cases Darrow escapes
from death are reported,
A new and unooceupled residence, the prop.
arty of Mr. Burt McDonald, was hurled
weainst the home of Mr. Wm, Vining, knock
lug in one sides of the building. Two little
shildren, who were playing in a room at Mr,
¥ining' s home, narrowly escaped death,
Plies of lumber were blown in every diree-
tion. The rools of
torn off and blown a great
State University the force
lifted the roof of the dormitory, permitting
the rain to drive with fall effect into the
four-story bullding, Great damage
lone to the building and the property of the
two hundred many of whom fled
for thelr Hives when the crash came
Toe rool was earried a hundred yards
falling on and erushing {no the top of a cot
tage in which were fo
the four were aven injured, aith
them were bu
The
a number of houses were
distances, Al the
of the elements
Was
students,
ur persons, Nons of
gh
debris
all
ried in falling
of Dr was [ed
vietely
resid (iraves
twisted oom 3
plase, so
ths same
that nons of the doors could
mit the escape of tha fright
rR ———
A MAN BLOWN TO BITS,
Explosion from Melting Nitro
Glycerine,
Was 3
heard § flew ur
k and
Sout nc
r Mans
engine house
I Wa
derri were
The
ietely demo being
debris
Not
whos
¥ the
i
tere] for nearly aaniie
of any portion of Bre
found
Hamsey's dws
feet from the scene
also wrooke
the hor
ving
a, white aii
filsin story was Al
§ wher
bad stood
ng in the
if the ex piosion
gine house
fled
and many who
roof the
were hors
Bway mis
WORK AND WORKERS,
wodlen mills of Richviile, Con
time,
Nast (
req med
The 400 employes of the H, P
pany, at Cleveland, Ohio, struek {
cent. advance in wages, The co
fers to grant 10 per cent,
The Chisago tanners who went
work pending arbitration of their
are likely to go out again. The men all ge
bad faith on the part of the employers,
A Topeka despatch says that labor jsaders
ticut, operations on fall
mpany of
aek 1o
by Attorney-General Boyvie that the Anti.
Trast law just passed by the Legislature is
applicable to labor organizations,
The Master Steam and Fot Water Fitters’
Association, of New York, bss cancelled the
agreement with their employes, The imme.
diate result will probably be a lockout of the
1100 steam fitters and their helpers, who will
demand increased pay.
An Ishpeming, Mich, despatch says that
the newly formed pocl of Michigan mines
producing Bessemer ore will probably fix a
base price fifty to seventy cents below last
year's figures, Any further reduction io
wages is not contemplated for the present,
The Chicago Federation of Labor has de.
slared a general boyeott on ali beer brewed
in Chicago, unless the local and Milwaukee
Brewers’ Association agree to “anionize” all
rels and kegs exclusively,
FRANK W. PALMER,
The New Chief of the Government Print.
Ing OfMes,
The President Tuesday sent the followloag
nominations to the Senate:
sitate — Frank W. Palmer, of lilinois, to be
Public Printer; Alexander M. Thackara, of
Pennsylvania, to bs Consul of the United
States at Havre, France,
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS,
Cambridge Springs, the famous health re.
sort, is In ruins, Flames completely gutted
the town, and the cremated body of one of
her merchants was found in the remains of
his store. The fire originated in & novelty
store just below the tracks of the Erie Hall:
road, and although neighbors made every
effort to subdue the flames with kets of
water adjoining bulldings were goon A mass
of fire. Bparks flew in every direction and
building after building was swallowed up
the raging flnmes, which spread in all difve
tions, The drygoods store of Fellows &
Hayes became ignited, and Mr, Hayes en-
deavored to save some of his property. be
fore he could return to au place of safety the
bullding was op fire from top to bottom and
his body lay in the ruins,
While two boys were fishing in the Sehuyi-
kill River, below Reading, they found in the
water the body of a male infant with a rope
wound tightly around its neck, The child
was apparently about six months old and of
robust appearance, It is thought that it
was strangled to death and the body thrown
into the river,
lobert F. McDonald,
Easton, has disappeared and bis
greatly distressed in consequence,
to New York pee bis brother,
He did not tell his family he was going. He
left the train at Jersey City and has not been
seen since, Mr. MeDounald bas bad various
troubles of iate and took them
1eh at heart, He has always been
lar and has many friends,
the Grand Army members
A nurse girl in the family of mini
neer John Pott, of Altoona, filled a bucket
with hot water preparatory to giving Mrs.
Pott's S.year-old daughter a bath, The
water was left standing in the and
the little girl fell into it, Bhe
bue
the last Burgess of
family is
He went
ostensibly to
business
en ped h J among
ng engl-
haliway
was scalded
#0 badly that she die
More than 100 cases of
reported at Hazleton to the Board of Health
The discs apidemie at
where ely
measles have heen
oes 1s Beaver mend
tht deaths have cecurred
Bchrack and Milton
Providence, were de
Mr. Bohra
cows perishiad
The barns of John
Upper
stroyed by fire, In k's barn three
1orses and seven party ir
sured There was nec LEU rancoe
While a !
freight train
In, an
nxie
the eriter {the
for 10068 feet Mix
Sarah Der
nants
oustruction
i of ex-Renatos
Blane a x1 nt al
my, in New Hampshire
ike
Ml issinsi ppl is
ipression in the oh
the other day
i Garfield
President McKinley's el
Vetraary 1 143
Wi On
received and answers
al de number received sinoe
or MeKindey arrived in Washingt
witon,
On 38 my
(reater in prop
Miss Colum
Mexico 10 be licetised as
«ian, has bev
Ward of San Ar
has studied medicine f«
her examinatioss with grea
i
i the Brat
vera, the fired w
a practicing physi
1 appointed to the Woman's
ires Hospita Mins
r fs
hia RB SAD
Nansen as an
the E
ern i
Lime
t
artis
nglish studies
ghts, of Arctic nights
subjects done by the explorer in
water-oolor showed Bim the
wr aud the artistic
Arrangements have been co
authorities of the Massachusetts Institute o
Technology for holding a memorial meeting
in honor of the late president, Gen, Francis
A. Walker, Governor Wolcott of Mussachns
etts, will preside, and the memorial oration
will be delivered by Senator Hoar,
Count Tolstoi is at present staying in St
Petarsburg. At the recent celebration of the
founding of the University of 8t. Petersburg
a body of about 100 students happened
mest him on the street, They at once recog
nized him add gave vent to the most dem
onstrative indications of thelr regard for
him, kissing his bands and his garments
and would have carried him in triumph
through the city had he not decisively pro.
tested,
{rom Rao
fine sense of col touch
AMBASSADORS,
Draper for Italy.
The President sent to the Senate the foils
lowing nominations:
State Andrew B. White, of New York, fo
be Ambassador Estraondiosry and Plenipo-
tentiary of the United States to Germany:
William ¥. Draper, of Massachusetts, to be
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipoten.
tiary of the United States to Italy: Chandler
Hales, of Maine, to be secretary of the Em-
bassy of the United States at Dome, Italy;
Samuel L. Gracey, of Massashusetts, Consul
of the United States at Fushan, Chine: An
son Burlingame Johnson, of Colorado, Con-
wil of the United States al Amoy, Chiba,
Withdrawn Anson Barlingame Johnson,
10 be consul at Fachan,
Interior Benjamin Butterworth, of Ohio,
to be Commissioner of Patents,
Traasury-- Oliver L. Bpauidisg, of Michi-
gan, to be amistant seeretary of the Treas
INTO ATO}
[BLOWN IS.
Terriffc Explosion of a Nitro-
glycerine Factory.
KILLED AND INJURED.
The Welghing Hovse and the Separating
House of the Hepauno Chemienl Works
Were Blown Inte Splinters Because of
an Excessively High Temperstare-
Killed In Previous Explosion,
Three men were blown to atoms and ten
other persons fpjured by an explosion of
nitro-glycerine at the Repanno chemienl
works, near Philadelphia
The injuries were sustained maini
the concussion and from broken glass,
Bre not serious,
The works are situated on the New
side of the Delaware River, one and one-half
miles from Gibbstown, and the injured live
in Gibbstown, All were employed io the
works, the women in the casing house,
The explosion oocurred in either the
weighing or separating house, both of whieh
were biown to splinters, It was at 12.24
o'clock when the workmen were returpiog
from dinner. Most of them had not yet
reached thelr posts or the loss of life would
probally have greater, The eoneus
sion was or miles around, and a plasterer
scaffolding not far from the
jusrters of a mile Wn
hie windows in nearly every
grounas were
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ascertain the
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were gathered into two back
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Mr. Morgan, of
ion requesting
of the letters said
(romez, the Cu-
leveland and Mr.
f the Senate Wednesday
another Cuban resolution
of Texas aliing
ne f on
wil by the United States
ha should not be anpex
power and should re
The Morgan resciu-
President for General
went © the
exscul Bb on the ar
«jai
jetiers ver The rest of
ive sessio
nit in
House.
leaders in the House
sir tari® bill Tuesday with vigor.
Means Committee held the
floor with their amendments from 10 in the
morning to 4 in the allernoon. About thirty-
five were offered and adopted. Among them
was one admitting “books.
sojent apparatus, charts, maps, ete,’ for
sofent and educational purposes, Five
more pages of the bill were read, making 20
pages in all of the 162 pages. Wednesday the
Wl will open for amendment until 1
y clock, after which an hour on a will
be allowed to The voting begin
at 3 o'clock
The B
tariff bili,
ae
[he Ways and
free of duty
be
side
close, will
mse Wodnesday passed the Dingley
The vote on final passage was
ayes 205, nays, 122, present and hot voting
21, a majority of 83, Speaker Reed directed
the clerk to call his name st the end of the
roll-eall, recording his vote for the bill. An
amendment was adopted fixing April 1 asthe
date on which the bi i should go into effect,
i5t the protests of the Democrats, who
led that it was retroactive and une
ww cn RI
TOBA CO IMPORTERS
ages Unused By the Recent Order.
The closing chapter of the correspondence
whi*h bas passed between the United States
and Spain respecting the prohibition of to-
bacco exports from Cuba, as shown in the
volume of the foreign reistions correspon
dence just published, will be very comfort
ing to the tobacoo importers. Secretary Oi
ney has been complaining without much
avail of the detention in Cuba of tobacco
{hat had been contracted for or was even in
the possession of would-be exporters before
the decree was issued suspending the me
ports. Finally came this nitimation on Feds
ruary 12 last. in a note to Minister Taylor ad
Madrid:
There being now no reason to believe that
the promised relief will be granted, you are
instructed to inform the Spanish minister of
foreign affairs that his government will be
held responsible for the indemuification of
oitiz .ns of the United States in every in
stance, whether heretofore specially present
od or not, in which tobacco owned by such
citizens or contracted for by them prior to
the promulgation of the order of May 18
i896, prohibiting exportations of tobacco,
bes been detained under that order,
J am. ote. Riomanp Ouvey,
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SIX WERE DROWNED.
Mrs. Grath Fecaped, bat A'1 of Her Chile
dren Lost Their Lives.
Hix children of John MeGrath, a farmer,
residing in the northwestern part of Nemeha
County, Kan, were drowned near thelr
bome while attempting to ford Pole Creek.
The six children with their mother were
in a heavy lumber wagon, A lé-yearoid
boy who was driving turned the team Jute