THE NEWS, Mrs. Harriet Holman, founder of the Hol- man Opera Company, died in London, The National Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statistics have elected Carroll B. Wright, United States Commis sioner of Labor, president; John T. Me Donough, of New York, first vice-president Joseph IL. Cox, of Michigan; Carroll B. Wright, Washington, D, C.; 8, B. Horne, Connecticut: J. M. Clark, Pennsyvania, and Charies H, Myers, Maryland, executive committee, Governor Black, of New York, has signed the bills making Lincoln's Birthday, Feb- ruary 12, a legal holiday, and amending the Saturday half-holiday act by making It a compulsory half-holiday for all purposes regards the transac office if the os whatsoever, as tion of business in the publie State, Justice Van Wy Brooklyn, has granted the order pray by Patrick J. Gleason, Mayor land City, asking that the charge of upon John P. Madden be taken before the Grand Jury, instead of being heard in lee court, Governor Bradley, structed State Inspec k, of the Supreme Court, tour of the counties where toll are being perpetrated, to the ofcers of ti law, f the Interior Titi alti enforeing the The Nv rele fzed a building in Michigan, to « contract for an at the Mt. Pleasant Indi st £40,000, Grovernor Atkinson deel the Ni The road was le who forfeited ment of rental. 21, and sealed bids that time. The A recent act of the the sale, A boller at Ward's Meteal! W Ges Brown, Si and his son. © hurt, legs broken and will die scalded. Fire dic building « York, occupied Company Grumbauer & Bros. wor & ing, eloaks an Epstein & Co., cloaks, T. Horr, asaignes of ti Paper Company, | and liabi at $210 though £510,000 pany are the presi which | recommends the store and or sell rtheaste connty and another has 1 TI Hill, threater buiit Years ag cently gro become 1 Careful Mont. have { W. H. Ha were recently nn Helena, It is learned that the March 1 for New Plymo ing has been he f and it is di ard fr The British steamer Hamburg for Philadel oft the south end of the medium-sized jeeborgs, Middlest &, TOD Banks, The British stean from wrough, May 10, passed 23 | of the Banks Mrs, W. F. ( has fleld 8 Strathdee, I resented to the destroye« for the summer, Mark W. Townsend, who was Adams county, Washington, and brou Lancaster, Wis., for trial or 3 murdering his wife about eight g was found guilty of manslaughter in the fourth degree, and sentenced to the peniten- tiary for three years, At Harrisburg, Pa., in the Senate the bill prohibiting the public exhibition of photo- graphle reproduction of prize fights was passed finally, The bill now goes to the House for final action by that body. A special from Owensboro, Ky., says: “*W, J. MeConneli, the noted temperance turer of Cleveland, 0., became suddenly de- ranged while speaking at Whiteaville, seven miles from this city Monday night. No cause can be assigned except overwork and nervous prostration,” Forest fires are burniog at many points in the upper peninsula of Michigan that may speedily become serious, Unless heavy rain- falls come soon serious losses in Jogs and standing timber as well as the wiping out of settlements may result, arreste years ag lec Sn Sn BEB WI— is ns W. N. Mitchell, Commercial Freight Agent ofthe B. £ O. R. R. in Atlanta, has just is sued a very unique calendar for the fruit and vegetable growers of the Houthern States. It is one of the cleverest methods of advertising that has been put out in the South, It is full of attractive illustrations, and also contains a complete almanac and pictures of the watermelons sent by Mr. Mitchell to Presidential candidates McKin- ley, Bryan and Levering. The B. & O. bas become a large factor in the handling of Bouthern produce and fruits for the eastern market, * ISSAGL. (1 President McKinley Recom- mends an Appropriation, NOT LESS THAN $350,000. Part of Which May Be Used to Bring Home Citizens as May Want to Come Estimates That are Destl- Much Consul-General Lee From 600 to 800 Americans tute ~ Resolution Passes the Senate, The President Monday sent message to Congress “To the Senate and the House of Represen f the United States from our const that a large in the island are in the following tatives « “OfMeial information Cuba establishes the fi ber of American citizens 6 state of destitution, suffering for food and medicines. This applies larly to the rural districts of eastern parts, are witho al auth PASSED BEY THE SENATE, A Resolution Appropristing 850.000 for the Hellef of American Citizens, assage © Side tracked in the House. he H purpose shoul f x the recognition of the 1 ian insurgents, WORLD OF LABOR. England has two eloctr Denver Chicage has 81.600 union plu An slectrie serubbe Paper fi Paris has a so » railways, insterers got §4 50 a dav. mers, uneed. Is are a German novelty. y drivers, pas 11 06 0 1 rablin has a « perative « foria, Australia has seveuly All Minneapolis Machinists 1808, Iowa unionists will hold a tion, Brooklyn clothing cutters average 820 a week, Bt. Louis carpenters now get 35 hour, Duluth hour, n cooks are em plo} urs on un want eight he State conven« centa An ‘longshoremen get 25 cents an hours, Pittsburg hasn't an maker, Wages of Belmont (N. IL.) textile workers have been cut, A National Union of Railroad Agents has been organized, Denver will make improvements that will employ 1,000 men, Toledo barbers prosecuted a man who worked on Sunday, Madison (Wis.) plumbers struck for the wages paid in 1504, Denver printers pay 114 per cent. of their earnings to the union, A co-operative apartment house is to be established at Cleveland. Minneapolis stone cutters work hours, 30 cents per hour, New York union waiters may establish home for disabled waiters, Detroit Trades’ Council will give a sacred concert Sunday, June 20, Milwaukee hod-carriers struck for 22 cents an bour and accepted 20. sin —I i idle union pattern. nine Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, who for six months, between the death of her father and birth of her brother, was Queen of Spain and will be Queen again should Alfonso X11 die before he bas children, is now 17 years of age. She rides an English bleycle, the gift of her stepmother, Queen Christina, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. A. B. Powell, a veteran of the late living in Kingsman, near Sharon, was per haps fatally hurt and his wife seriously in- jured by being thrown out of a buggy near Orangaville, His skull was fractured nearly all torn off one leg. an embankment, a distance of horse was killed outright, A 4-voar-old Wesley Hollingshead, of Grovania, moet with a fatal aceldent while playing with a dynamite cartridge, The boy found the eartridge in a tool box, aud plac with another, It exploded, shattering the lower jaw and tearing away the chin, teeth and part of the War, and the flesh They fell over bo feet, The son of ing it struck it on ons stone tongue, Miss 8, Belle Welster, of East Fowunship, entered suit for breach of prom 1 negnl ise of marriage against Michael F, Myers, of the same township, Hhe claims damages in the Hp the loss of prospects in life, in £5,000 Mra, Merrilles Kk fed mi Township % and IX davs, from ge ntury inl damages for f the sum of in of #14.000, and at her home, in s age of 100 years, neral debility, celebration birthday ANNDIVErsary was 1 10iday In the . home nttend versation am . in length, The three fire companies of Clearfield held t nan meetings and i against the tions protesting firemer yusly passed resolu- attack law in Section 1% as No. 502, and ealling upon the representatives of Clearfield Coun ty in the Legisiature to sortion A number of small eave. Intely over the workings of the Laurel Hun Colliery, at Parsons, Mra, William Hall, who lives near the colliery, had some clothes tosoak in tubs just outside her kitchen door. She went into the Kitchen fora fow minutes to look after some cooking, When she went back one of the tubs filled with clothes had disappeared in the earth, The second toh started in search of ite nom. panion, Mrs, Hall became frightened back in the house, Summoning courage a few minutes later, she looked out of the door, to find that the coal house had fol lowed the tubs, To top it ail off, a cherry tree that wae not only valued for the fruit it bore, but for the shade it afforded, dropped in, loaving only the top sticking out. The hole is twenty feet deep and fifteen foot wide. on the pension amended to House bill vote against said ins have oconurred and went EE ..——————— One thousand box cars, stencilled “B & 0. Fairport Line,” have been bulit for service between Fairport and points east, and an order has been issued that these oars shall be used exclusively in this line and in con nootion with the new Great Northern-—-B. & 0. trans-continental traffic agreement, ONTILITIES ENDE Turkey and Greece Hoist the the White Flag. CZAR TO THE SULTAN. Fall of the Last Citadel of the scription of the Last Fight Domokos in the De- Made by the The Attitude of Europe in Re. Hands Ottomans ~- Graphic Greeks gard to a Settlement, An official statement 18 published which, after briefly reciting the Turkish side of the war up to the battle 3 “Thy CRTARM EXP of Domok« BYR Czar affirming tl and noting wit! EE — TE BR —— TORPEDO BOAT LAUNCHED The Bubmarine Vessel Faters the Water at Elizabeth mstitute the crew i tions have bid for the aly that Mr. Holland ted States, will se ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. on, C. W, Walton, Justice Court of Maine, will soon retire af period of nearly 40 years’ service, Verdi has plcked out the j Agata where he proposes to of the Su; ince at Sant be buried with and haz arraigned to have Onoe, his wile, tomb On t of June a gallery « by Gijebert De Clercq will be sold in Amsterdam. It is said to be soliections extant of the works of H especially of the haleyon period of art, Dr. David Starr Jordan, president of Stan. ford University, San Francisco, has, with a number of prominent men of that city, suc. ceeded in raising the funds necessary to establish a zoological garden in San Fran cisco, Mr. Sidney B. Everett, of Boston, who has been nominated for United States Consul at Batavia, Island of Java, ia a direct descend- ent of Edward Everett, the distinguished orator, Although only 280 years of age, he kas been prominent in polities for some time and has served in the common council, Rev, Ih. David 8, Schaff, of Jacksonville, Iil., who has been called to the chair of church history at Lane Theclogical Semi. nary, Is known as the father of Rugby foot ball in America. He was the AP of the first Yale foot ball team when it played its match with Columbia in 1872--the first inter- collegiate foot ball game in this country. The Duke of Portland, who is a patron of the living, has promised to defray the cost of restoring the chancel of Bolsover Church, near Chesterfleld, Engiand, which was recently destroyed by fire. Of two alterna. tive schemes, one has been selected which provided for the restoration of the church and its enlargement =o as to accommodate 220 additional worshippers, the cast of the work being about £9000. A committee has been formed to carry out the necessary are rangements. f 120 pictures t owned Duteh mI Frost in the department of Yonne, Franoe, is estimated to have damagad the vines, fruit and vegetables to the amount of $4,000,000. ONE OF CRETE'S NEICHEORS Corfu isa Corfu ol Geographical Mosaic are sald by a Most He the f + the the Ionian Isl , and been deseribed as "a which all contributed cunguered habitant sLrong ynths i r the which that removal of in nection he relates some most ing experiments with the X-i gecms that there are many thin may be swallowed gurgeon merates twenty-five that have and more than half of them are stances that can be discerned by the aid of the X-rays, hence he considers that “this addition to surgical resources cannot be overestimated. ”-—New York Independent. he successfully operated interes:- ays. It ts thai anu i, one bee #1 b- A Fad for the Crewsome. There was a queer scene in the Parig Catacombs the other day. Some forty musicians and a rather more numerous audience assembled there to indulge in their taste for the grewsome. Sit. ting on damp chairs, which had been placed at one end of the crossways of the intricate and interminable gal- leries, lined on each side with skulls and human bones, a concert was given, which will long be remembered by those who participated in it as musi cians or listened to it as the andience, The programme comprised Chopin's “Funeral March,” Beethoven's "Fun eral March,” Saint-Saens’s “ Death Dance,” ete. The musicians were from the Conservatoire of Music, and the andience was composed of people of position. ~New York Tribune. (BAN RECOGNITION. The Morgan Joint Resolution Passes the Senate. AN EXCITING DEBATE. The Vote Shows the AMirmative Was Cast by Eighteen Republicans, Nineteen Dem crates and Four Populists, and the Nega- and Two tiveby Twelve HRepablicans Democrats, A WAREHOUNSE FIRE AT NASHVILLE. Warren Bros. Dealers in Paints and Olls Burned Out, ? LOGR North Carolina State LIYE POULTRY HICKENS--Hens $ Ducks, per ib per Ib PUrkess, TORAOOO, TUOBACCO-M4. Infer's..$ Sound common Middling Fancy 150 203 &00 we LIYE STOCK. BEEF —PBest Booves, .... 8 FHEEYP, Hogs 420 2 50 350 FURS AXD ERING, MUBKRAT io 10 Waccoon 0 Red Fox Opossum Mink. .... FLOUR-—8outhern WHEAT--No. 2 Red CHEESE—State. ......... Wi FRILADMLPETA, WHEAT No. 2 Red. 7 oy” ‘ CORN~No. 8............. ® mi 0 OATS—-Ro 2............ UTTER--8tate 0 Prana nnns B ROGH—Penna ft RE
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