THE NEWS. Ex-Congressman Benjamin Dean, of Bow- ton, died at his home. He was 72 years age. Death was duo ton stroke of paralysis sustained several years ago, The Rome Opinione said, when discussing the subject of the American tariff, that there is no question whatever that the protests by the governments of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands are “merely {rlendly representa- tions." Arthur Quinn, of Springfield, Ill, who is at present an inmate of the poor farm at Bloomington, Ill, is heir to a fortune of $20,000 by the death of his brother, Frank Quinn, in Philadelphia five yoars ago, aud the latter's wife, who died recently in Penn- sylvania. The executive committee of the Nashville (Tenn.) Centennial Exposition has adopted resolutions inviting the King of Greece and royal family to attend the centennial and expressing sympathy with Greece in present crisis, The Poughkepsie (N. Y.) Glass Works were completely destroyed by fire. The only part of the factory that the firemen were able to save was the office and some sheds, under which new goods were stored. The loss approximats 5 about £100,000; insurance, £90,000, The Bathleh Company made a shipment for the United States Government to Bandy Hook, N. J., of loaded on 24 flstears. The shipment was made u principally of eight and ten-inch ing finished complete, ready for mounting on thelr carriages, At Bismarck, N. D., theice in the Missou began rt ag out. There of two and one-half fact, ah now running fall. There trouble unless a gorge forms. Thee onsolidation of three manufactories of of the 24 cannons #11 a has been a ri the stream wii bank ba those of Columbus, Syra use and falo, N. Y., has been effected by Organi- zation of the United Hame Company, with 0. P. Letchworth, of Buffalo President, A fire destroyed the buildings jan Park, on N. J., and $50,000, Small green bugs have made their aj f the largest apple ore Mo Ge will dest Will desire the as in Caledon. Springfield avenue, Newark, did damage to the amount ance in some in the Sedalia expressed that they of Central Missouri's apple « The National Mining Bureau eall for an “‘international gold-miners’ the 11 wion, and fears ya large part rop. has issued vention.” to be held In Denver on ine, The ex hibits will of refines and gold ores aud a mineral ddspl W. 8. mitted sulci amination of I made, Samuel Goetz, wh of the prin } shoe manufacturers in 3 York ( ity, i by falling through an the floor of his ! ago killed haft from Roosevait siroet bill has passed | of35to 14. It in 4 fallen three ine , and it is believed wigis has been passed, sending an abno the gr holding the su C.F. Kl» and Alexan six we the co with ¢ the window, The Hondu dicate o to build system, f Z.T has bean Henry | near F from drownis The water is of fst watermark h VErnT Vern f Washingt an ran? TANK great loss of grain and stock FORAKER BILL. Represents Several Years of Discussion and Negotiation. The following statement is made in ordes ngs that ap] so-called Foraker n the Senate to clear up misunderstandi Or ¥ to exist in respect to the bill, recently introduced This bill proposes various amendments the Inter-state Cor Law, It ls prepared in view of the anti-trust de in the Trans. Missa pleted before that would have been ‘ had not been made, The decision is to make the actment more imperative In its present form! result of severa gotiation, partici i Committees, the Interstate ( mission, organizations of | representatives of railways. variety of topics, It has twelve only one of which touches the question so-called pooling changes proposed were cl heratofore been recommended mission, and amendment section of the law is in the which heretofore has not been objected by the snd which bas been quite generally asserted to as expedient and safe, Ii prohibits pooling contracts in more eareful terms than those employed in the original law; but provides conditions under which such contracts may be meade, not to become effective if disapproved by the Com- mission, twenty days being allowed for pre- liminary examination, and to be subject to termination by the Commission at any time, all rates, ehinrges and facilities noder such contracts to be subject to the control of the Commission at all times, The measure does not vary essentially from what was known as the Paterson bili, which passed the House of Representatives ia the Fifty-third Congress, CS ——— Nu SLAVERY IN ZANZIBAR, The $altan Has Jssued a Decren of Emancipation, The Saltan of Zanzibar has issued a decres abolishing slavery. It provides that existing rights over concubines shall remain as be- fore, unless her freedom is claimed by a con eubine on account of slavery. Bat in gen- eral terns the concubines will be regarded a8 wives, The goverament will pay com- ‘pensation for all slaves legally held, If Zanzibar is unable to meet the full expense, it is believed that the imperial government will assist. The Sultan expiained the decree to leading Arabs before lssuing it, on the theory that the compensation and harem clauses would | reconcile them to the measure, No resist- avne is expected, as the Arabs have been completely cowed by the recent bombard- ment. It is feared, however, that (he reven- wes will suffer, tu bo nmerce case, It troduced ontracts, The jefly such as have by the Com- to the Fifth precise form to +4 the Commission, ® IRE AT KNOXVILLE. Property Loss Estimated at $1,500,000, SEVERAL LIVES LOST. Many Injured by an Explosion of Dyna. mite—~Thrilling Escapes from the Hotel Ald Chutta- nooga Cannon Used to Blow Down the Walls of a Bullding. Knox Summoned from Tenn., says Knoxville A despatch from Knoxville, Never before In the history has the city suffered such alost by fire as it did Thursday, The of the in- Juding some of the wholesale and retail business houses in Routh was de stroyed, estimated at from one to one and a dollars, of heart city, Inrgest the I'he property loss is half with about sixty per cent, of insurance, The loss of life cannot be exactly stated, of the Hotel in which ns were sleeping when the fire broke i) i million Knox, t, being burned, says he had fly Some Exciting Vscapes, M. Dean m the burning of his of Kansas time a different SRIe Ald autll from Chattanooga. nent was wl to Ch was | wWaler, an ave f 3 When the engine arrived the fire was aby under control, yet the Chattanooga men did good work. To Rebuild on the Ruins. Rnoxville for eleven the destroyed bul received orders buildings. Nearly al idings are to be replaced architect for plans Ey BLAZE IN CHATTANOOGA. Prominent Men Lose Their Lives Many Valuable Papers Burned, from Chat en, Tenn. The Richardson building, the largest aud one of the largest int Two despatch ORS, otally destre ok Saturday morning. the farnace in the ip the elevator shaft. in turning in an companies ar uflding was a mass of Games, The watchman warned a number of gon. demen sleeping on the sixth floor, and all bucceedad in getting ut except two, These were Boyd Ewing, one of the woalthieat men in this section, and 8. M. Patton, one of the most prominent architects In the South. Mr. Ewing attempted to climb down the fire escape, but fell from the top. His body was badly mutilated. Patton wna cut of from escape on the stalrs, and his body is still in the ruins. About 100 offices and four stores were in the building. The total loss amounts to about $400,000, with In- surance of about $200,000, A large force is now at work searching for Patton's remains, but it may be several days before they are found. Nothing was saved from the buliding, ns the fire burned with startling rapidity. The loss on contents is distributed among about 100 people. A two-story building adjoining was also totally destroyed, The Third National Bank seross the street was badly damaged. Among the heaviest losers are the Amerioan Investment Company, owners of the bullding aid a large part of the contents; BR OC, Kingley, & Co, merchants; Chattanooga National Bualiding and Loan Association, Nearly all the lawyers in the city had offices in the buliding, and many valuable papers, whish eannot be replaced, were burned, Frank Carlock, a young lawyer, who attempted to save some papers from his office in the Third National Bank, fell from & ladder and was badly Injured. ——- syed by fires between Fire basement I Was slow n the fire vived the Sines the receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio decided to paint all the equipment Royal Blue, 179 passenger, baggage, express, postal and dining ears have been sent to the shops and bave been turned out adorned with new and distinetive color, are re-painting, on an average, t day and itis hoped | senger equipment will have overhauled and re-painted, The warrants for women's town meetings now take up more space than the regular articls in some of the Maine towns, One of the Moody revival meetings in Chi- eago was almost brokon up by the actions of a yellow dog, which suceeaded in biting one of the ushers twice before it was fuully thrown out. No one knows whore the dog enme from nor how it got in, and it was not seen until it attempted to get into one of the usher bitten was Blatchford Kavanaugh, who a few years ago was cousid ered an wonderful boy soprano, snd made several concert tours with Pattl, The Hebrews of the Chesterfleld (Conn) colony, which was established six or seven years ago by means of the fund given by the late Baron Hirsch, do not expect to derive benefit from the &1,500,000 just contributed Hirsch, his widow, for charitable and educational work among the Hebrews in America, In fact, they have not received what they expected from the orig inal fund, and have not found farm life on Connecticut hillsides the Utopia they were led to expect, boxes, The by the Baroness de Carson City was ich exelted when suggestions for the ost lottery papers, recently m ablishment of a in Nevada were made by some of the ts even went sa and some enthusin Sadler had that promised to eall an extra session of the Leg islature to consider the passage 1. 3 that effect, When whether there the aout It, and far as to state {iovernar asked by interviewer was any truth in the report, #4 INETrno ing heard Banyo he wo thal ether to ANOS of fire Woman OH Nihon this woman first moved nto nelghborhood the fires began, She moved from house house, and the fires followed her. Hecer she moved away from the neigh the residents are hog for rel her departure there ne fir eloven houses were ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. kalani was invited to estoration at the meet ys League of Hanson Place, it her Majesty de § CDgagement, bee ry Italian Government 1 tome having, after { altrant the (irace called & vehi To his pod “There you Bure pers sii into add: + reel! a glass of known, on his Agr Lat { german i for oak ORKS all quarters of the Fatherland, known as “‘Blamarek » has now been obliged to publish a tice informing his oc imirers that he able to asosde to the numerous requests that , as his stock of young oaks Is ex- sapplings nd these have been H and are oaks Ths is un THE IOWA'S GREAT RECORD, British Battleship Henown Alone Excels Her In Speed. = f ir yy Washington hors 12.000 horse power, while 11.350 tons and has 11,000 therefore per ton ywer as the Renown, driven by Iowa is but Khe he horse power, haa about the same horse p it is not surprising, therefore, the experts say, that the Dritish vessel should have secured greater speed as her size enabled not only more powerful machinery, but better arrangemens of it The Iowa vy her performance, the officials say, proves hersell to be the fastest vessel of her type afloat, and, had the recommenda- tions of Eagitieer-in-Chiel Meiville been carried out, they claim she would have bad 1000 aditional power and would have attained 18-knot speed, IRIs ROOSEVELT CONFIKMED. fis Nomination as Long's Assistant Ap- proved hy denate, The Senate in executive session confirmed the following nominations: Theodore Roosevelt, of New York, to be Assistant Mecrstary of Navy: Thomas W, Cridler, of West Virginia, to be Third Assistant Secretary of State; Fenton BR, Me- Creery, of Michigan, to be Secretary of the Mexican Legation; Captain A. 8 Crownin- shield, to be Chief of the Bureau of Naviga- tion: to be Collectors of Internal Revenue, Park Agnew, of Viggnisia, Sixth District of Virginia; Alonso J. Tyler, of Tennesseo, Second Distriet of Tennessee. Brigadier General Frank Wheaton, to be major general in the army; William G. Cassard, of Mary- land, to be chaplain in the navy: Captain Hobert Craig, signal corps to be major; Rev, CO. 8. Walkley, of Ohio, to be post chaplain, —————————— It is slaimed by the Spaniards that recent vietories of thelr foraes over the insurgents in the Philippine Islands bave practically sanded the uprising. AID FROM CONGRESS. The President's Urgent Appeal for Flood Sufferers. SITUATION CRITICAL. The Citizens’ Relief Committers, of Mem phis, Which has Taken Prompt Action’ for From 0,000 to the Flooded Already Cared From hus 5.000 Districts, lefugees The President sent the snd House which LHovernor following of Representatives recent ease the Hen “Infor: has ui and Loulsiav: warrants the distress, nvoivi am ' Water De stage Marion, Ark. Local Hesources Frhausted, ran foroe the ates named, { the 8 work of the i WILLIAM McEINLEY Exscutive Mansion, April 7, 1897, a —— FPROVOSED CHESS MATCH Between Our House of Hepresentatives and the British Commons, House of chess ent mbers of the wahoo are isjancs, Jord rinal moeting sonsider the sition {rom the English Hoftse of Commons {or a chess match between representatives of the two bodies, Several days ago Repr.- wntative Pearsons, of North Carolinas, wrote, in reply to an lavitation from Henni- ker Healen, the member from Canterbury, indicating that the House will accept a chal enge. Mr. Pearson received a cablegram “Many thanks, written. House of Commons very The chess players of the House decided to eam of seven will probably consist of Pear- won, of North Carolina; Shannon, of New fork; Wheeler of Alabama; De Armond, of Hissouri; Swanson, of Virginia; Cousine, of iowa; Henderson, of lowa. The substitutes uay include Foote, of New York; Beach of Jhlo; Parker, of New Jursey: Meyer, of Lou- siana, and Willams, of Mississippi, A ca A GIRL SHOOT « A BURGLAR. fle Wakes Her Up and Demands Money She Gives Him Lead, Early Tuesday morning Mrs. James Laughead and ber daughter, of Uniontown, Pa., were awakened by a man in the latter's room, who said ‘We want money; get us some.” The daughter said, “1 will give you some.” Coing to a bureau drawer, she seized a revolver and pointed ii at the man and fired. With an oath be seized her, but, loosening his hold, ran down stairs, followed by a shot from the girl's revoiver, He had entered through the transom over a down stairs door, and had to beat a retreat this same way. As the upper portion of his body same out of the transom the girl, from her PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. The Allentown Board of Behiool Cantroliers has fixed April 28 as Arbor Day for the city sehools, Zook Post, No. 11, G. A. R., of Norristown, wre endeavoring to have two guns placed In the court hou se squares, John H. Prowell, of New Cumberland, has made an assignment of his estate for the benefit of creditors. Lewis B. Sadler, of Carlisle, is the assignoe, Thieves broke open the ticket office at the tending base ball grou with a erowbar and gtole carpenters’ tools valued at $20, hey also secured a number « John B., Davis, of ¥P pointed inside ware and Hudson SON YEArE of bass balls en the beset iymonth, has ape superintendent of Dein He for superintendent of the has assistant Plymouth Coal Company mines, Bharpsville, three miles north of Sharon, wins visited by fire, J entailing a 1 bulldings wer consumed, jut #25 000 The place is without fire protection Was only was fil $ ana i yy the hardest efforts that the town saved, T with thelr lives, Addison Buy da { 4 famiii years, a well-u farmer, I bn ind dead in bad, sh s his right hand was a revo it thro y lay his 1% st asleep, its face father's Lis with the Bonyder wa they were unprofilal that worrimeni over and Was Was Crossil walter, As the vleris Hirsh's N ber it rth was qd Vere hat an outside sh and that about 1 jewelry had | have 3 th # grgnd was Larcny 3 window bad Fa) wort Blind i Gli ust been tack on Recuring a hand chase Lu oar the animal a mile below 1 hogs were also Killed The large saw mill on the Schraeder farm, in Overton Township, owned by KE, Quislan, was totally destroyed by fire, logether with a barn and 300,000 feet of valuable hard- wood lnmber, The mill contained a plant for making lath and tool handles and was oninsared, The fire is supposed to be of in- cendinry origin. own, A BLOODY WARFARE. Nelghbors Fight to the Death Over a Dis puted Plece of Land, A dispute over the location of a divisional line btwoen thelr estates caused a bitter feud to exist for several years between the {amilies of Robert Harvill and Jack McCombs, prominent Culman County, Ala, planters, Hearing that MeCombs had encroached apon the disputed land. Harvill and a friend named Jolin Atwell, started for MeCombe' souse to obtain satisfaction. When fifty yards from the place they es- pied McCombs and his 15-year-old son, Alex. sauder, armed with Winchester rifles, await ing in the front yard for the attack. Harvill and Atwell, one with a shotgun and the oth- or a pistol, opened fire, to which the Me- Combs responded, A Bot battle waged until both sides had ox- hausted thelr ammunition. It was thea found that Atwell bad received a bullet in the brain and been instantly killed. Both MoCombs and his son were fatally wounded. Harelil fled, but friends of MeComls have gono after him, and if he is overtaken, more Bioodshed will result. The Chamber of Commerce has conts per 100 bushels for the Col, A. E. Buck, Nominated by the President, OTHER NOMINATION S. Who Was PresliGeng MeKinley's Private Secretary, Is { Named for the Lucrative Fosition of United States Consul at Liverposi Englaad., Mr. James Boyle, s President Monday sent the following natious to the Beuale State, Alfred BE. Back, of be Eavoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary Gaorgia, to United States to Japan, Boyle, ul of the United Averpool of of Ohlo, t { Lay Interior. # Malone, to be pension Rant agen 1 Justice. x Of the Alabama, for Wm. Midas ailed Slales Lae for the ris, for ae regia , for the South Wa kiey, of rR — AGAINST TURKEY, A Vigorous Policy to Be Adopted by Pres- ident McKinley. ormer y, with the m the Bui hich have o! those cliarges BH a special purpose, and, by the mes- ravied with the ngress gives to desires, y seked to under he was at ly con- he ditions, under consider ets the approval ries who i yong th Senators {oar and Lodge of Massachusetts, and Proe- tor of Vern nierestod them- | wolves in the matter: Senators Morgan, of Ad ad Mills of Texas; Speaker Dood Ritt, the leader in the matiers, have boan sonsnuid a o have abam sentative nse in dit in Gipi atic ——— POWDER MPLLS BLEW UP. of an Explosion in = Pennsylvania Town, Terrific Force f shun i Lh buildings of the Shamokin Pow. mpany were complelely wrecked by a | terrific explosion which oocurred in the mili the company at an early bour Priday | morning. Fortunately, there wore po lives lost, The dwellings of David Hane Fmancel Klinger and Daniel Qaman, together with the outbuildings and barns, were badly damaged, The powder mill is located about five miles from Shamokin, but the force of the axpio- sion shook nearly every buliding, and many persons rushed from their houses to ascer- tain the cause of the shook, The ouly person injured was Mrs Hann, who was badly cut about the face and body. 8he is prosirated from the shock. The dam- aged residences are loonted ball a mile from the scene of the explosion, bul the sides of the houses next to the powder mill were caved in by the force of the shook. Mr. and Mre, Hann and Mrs Klinger were buried in their beds beneath the debris, and bowlders weighing 200 pounds were hurled through the sides of the dwellings. The houses and furniture were badly wrecked. Mr. Hann's barn took fire and his sock and farming implements were destroyed. The powder coapany’s barn was redneed te kindling wood and four head of stock was killed, The loss will ameust to nearly $50,000. TWENTY KILLED, Awful Results of an Explosion in» Fire. works Factory at Lisbon, Twenty persons were killed and many Dn Tel NY wSglodiot Wh
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