THE NEWS. Phillip Gibbons, a farmer of Livonia, N. Y., was murdered by two Italians during a quarrel, Both Italians have been captured, Paul Deplerre, formerly Vies Consul of the French Republic at New Orleans, killed himself in his apartments at New York by inhaling {Hluminating gas. The Governor of Pennsylvania has ap- pointed William W. Porter, of Philadelphia, to the Superior Court bench to succeed Judge Willard. Mr. Porter accepted, At Leo, N. Y., & farmer named Pratt made a murderoun assault Mrs, Cummings with an axe. He then out his own throat aad lived but a short time. A fire at Ironton Mountain, Cal., has de- stroyed property belonging to the Mountain Copper Company valuod as nearly $200,000, Two mea employed in the compressor room are believed to have lost their Hves, William Green, an fumate of the Essex County (N. J. asylum, was killed (n the institution by Joseph Haun, also insane, The two men were sweeping out the recop- tion room, there being no keeper present, George W. Judd, a lawyer of New York was arrested on a charge of embesxlement, Judd was in the employ of the Title Guaran- too and Trust Company, and is accused of having embezzled £13,000, Ae absconded In June, Mrs. George A. Smith, of Churchville, N. Y., who was shot gt nat week while she was sleeping, bas died of the wound. Her husband, who held on suspicion of having o assault, will murder, The three large cordage mills at Ohio, which have been idle since the tonal Cordage Company falled some years ago, bave been bought by Xenia ftaifsts and others, and all will be started at once ta Mil biast, The plants cost over $3 08, amd omploy many mes, Gov, Weloott has aces; of Maj. George 8B. M« er of Insurance f signed en account « Tha was decided by Francisco, The front is State of Californi A.C. Kriml er and ree turning fro from the and wes instants The Anu Schenker, Capt. Nie for Trieste want She has a eargo iron Frank Trothea was | rytown, XK. ¥ stiletto Lawrence with the assauit and wanted, The pre to harvest this 3 ious one to ti One em] Charles on lanatio Iunati in the head on has been mitted the now be formally accused eof Xenia, Nate six ted the resignation , State Cx i8sion~ calabirates taclare serastan via Gog ashore west f ni , and 1 wounds on hi Asapies are under arrest two other blem has pla os Tulare aie Five mem nrth ard arth ward convieted of and wore ser an into with which they Eugineers W. A. Pratt, of Delaware, and L. G. Janney, of Baltimore, w naspecting the Yuk surveying the ute for Save Deng ith a view a raliroad, are their way home, 1 ave cated a favorable te for ti Six of the sus; as leans have been aniry w practically & rosd. cases in New Or. #tale health the officials to be y w lover. A deve tase DAs aiso { the elty. A ped part of picious 2ases have led another " t swolored, kil and iay is that the i for the win- and that f of trail is strewn with dead horses. b F% URY « i customs is Kept A wooden stru office, posto New York, Phi road, at Kings ladalg Norfolk Creek, near was destroyed by fire, The wile of George A. pith, who shot while asleep, the crime, The the work of h Thirteen car were caught in Mountain Ratiroad #oven killed and Miss Myra Blanohs publie school teacher in Boller, Mo., horse whipped N, BE. Doud, a school eommissi weer, who had at- tacked her character, Princess Anne, WAS barges her husband with intter claims that it was yusebkreakers, men stealing a ride ia a freight a wreck om the Iron ab ansom, Kk T., and six In . Samuel Parker, of Ceell, Ga., was shot and killed on his way to church by Shelton Dampier, BEAGUAY FASS NOW CLOSED. Miles of the Trall Strewn With Dead Horses Conflecation of Whiskey. The steamer City of Seattle has just ar. rived at Port Towsend, five days from Skag- uay. Among the passengars are twelve men who started for the Klondike, but failed to cross the pass. A. C. Warner, of Seattle. an artist who has been getting views on both the Dyea and SBkaguay passes for the past week, was a retarnlog passenger on the Seattle, says the Skaguay passes are closed for the season, but that many men are still foundering around ia the mud in a valn attempt to get through. The first fourteen miles of the trail from Skaguay Beacti is strewn with onroasses of six hun. dred horses, Eleven saloons and three dance balls are doing business thers, but Mr. War- ner says there is no trouble, thers being no fighting or thieving. At Dyea the peop la are sil moving slowly for ard, though greatly impeded by mud and rain. With the exesption of two days rain has fallen oson- tinuously for three weeks, Collector of Cus. toms Ivy is doing a rushisg business in the epnflscation of whiskey, He has thirty in. spectors on the beach, and but little stuff gets through, Frank Cain, a Canadaln, was caught in a #loop a few days ago with an $8,000 stock of whiskey. The stock was seized and Cala was sent to Juneau jail. Whiskey sells at $36 per gallon at Laks Linderman, The Thorp party started across from Mis- sion to the Yukon Valley a few days ago with eighty head of cattle. They expect to snake the drive in thirty-five days, a STRIKE SETTLED. Convention of Miners Accepts Proposition of Operators. MEN GET AN INCREASE. They Will Be Pald on a Basis of 03 Cents a Ton, and They Had Been Holding Out for 60 Work Will Not Be Resumed for Ten Days, So as to Allow Time for Ad. Justment. ‘olumbus, OXlo, says — coal miners, which be. While the strikers they asked, the result sa A despatoh from ( The great strike of did not get all Tho sottlemont was made Satarday night iners {no session here, necopt the prop- osition of operators to resume the Pittsburg distriot work at 63 oents a ton, the distriets to be (n proportion, that a settiemaont uble—the Pittsburg by a general sot- prices the tr will be followed tiement olsew here, Tho miners bad district, the wera asked 69 cents in Thelr demands extract from the United wing proclamation by officials of Mine-Workers ordering the atrike: “At the last annual « on of the Uni ted Mine-W erica, hold iu C 12-~186, it was ale of prices should Peunsyl- mining, 1G. the nvent! riers of An Obda, J 1897, determined th be advanced to the following rates vania, (Pittsbur listriet, ) 69 cants per ton; Ohio, 60 cents per ton; diana, per ton; lll V cants per ton. Ma ) be pald for at the rate of { the price for plek min- where the plek ents ¢ mining Broa. fi 12 34% three-fifths per ing, exoept in the price shall price paid for pi sections a rros; bitumizous, Lifths per too of ining; for other mining pding lucresse a relative basis, It that the time for en aft 8 be jeft with the in price meat of the soals executive board and the when it would put thi ale [nto offe to determine tuna to t. Pittsburg district it is wow a ton and Ohblo HifTerential what be they Operators sald, ware paying 54 operators 51, the Ohl To make the perators sald It ought 6 ton, or 9 cents below Pitsburg. The dif ferences in wages in various looalities are due to methods of mining, freight rates, methods of weighing cecal and other lveal ciroumatanons The total pumber of strike bas numbered o Tas vote In the for and 317 against oepting the terms pent. Eleven votes were not man angaged in the nan average 125.000, nvention here was 49 set lis 1 "3 i i vot fu and ist resolution adopt “That we, the West Virginia, Obi Ohl rk and t reosive the BAVAT 8 Do ecalinus to resume the Oh ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Sir Henry Irvin sons are both possessed of terary abl John Howells Dean Howells, re fa architecturs fr he had been a stu ‘Mr. 1+ KY rapidly develop ines i slike M. | royad wom LATS plment that has eve her sox, In the fered to One Bre ited States Supren successor to Rev of Beookiyn, as presides f It is thought that water, sociate Judge of the Coart, will be Richard 8 of the American board of commissioners | foreign Missions at the annual meeting the board at New Haven in October. Prof. William Halloak, mbia Uni versity, er whose direction a shalt Ia bee ing sunk in the earth near Pittsburg, | to reach jepth of 10,000 feet by November I. The work is being done in something concerning the strata of the earth hossn Storrs, pos rder to learn and the comparative heat of its crust at var- fous depths, 8. R. Crockett is six feet four, and has had The Critie credits him with ‘the unusual faculty and 9 he bis stories.” He rises at 5 o'clock, when he comes down to breakfast at has 5.000 words nearly written out. Mme, Maretzek, the widow of Max Ma months ago, is threatened with becoming totally blind, She is living in the Mareizek homestead, in Pleasant Plains, Staten Island, and is nearly 70 yoars of age. The sight of one of her eyes is already gone, and she Is to undergo an operation with the hope of sav- ing the remaluing eye, on which a cataract bes formed, Some years ago W. W. Wiek, then of To- poka, was ruoning a country paper in Kan- street of the town. He gathered her up un- der bis arm and paraded around the square, Bhe kicked and squirmed, but he marched laughingly along, dMaplaying her to the crowd that gathered, It mortified the woman 80 much that she (aft town on the first train and never bothered the editor afterward, HA I ——— DEATH IN A WIND STORM. Three Men Fatally Injured by Falling Bricks, A sovers wind storm swept over Fort Wayne, Ind. doing considerable damage and fatally Injuriog three men, The men wera Injared by failing bricka from demolished chimneys, Telegraph and telephone wires were prostrated and consid. erable damage done to plate glass windows, barns and outbuildings, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, JacoH F, Wall, the proprietor of a hotel In Phoenixville, was given a hearing in West Chester, charged with throwing Mrs, But. oliffe, of the Balvation Army, out of his bar- room. The prosecution was [pstituted by Captain Sutcliffe, husband of the woman, who testified that his wifo had gone into the hotel to sell the “War Cry." The testimony of Burgess Ditting and a number of other witnesses examined showed that Mr. Wall did not ejecting the woman, and dismissed the caso, use any violence in Naglstrate Rupert his life “y cutting his throat, Thomas J. Dasher, of Columbia, stabbed himself over the heart, but will re- cover. He Is probably lusane, While William Bechtel and his son, Henry, aged 15, wore wagon drawn by mules near the Pennsylvanian Raliroad, at Reading, the mules became frightened by the shriek of a and dashed upon the track In coming train, The locomotive wagon, killed one of the mules and cut the wagon in tw earrving the wreck for me distance, 1 1 out of the wagon He 1 nloed | Prove hited Falling to end driving an fice locomotive whistle the path of an on- struck the boy was jerks en the mules, appeared unhurt, as was als Mr. Be still and dead, but verre of ag ide by sh A charter John * { Ww Letter Ce arranged te at the ralire ¥ pleked, th Uakota ala except the parlor furnit jowtr Vilkes-Barre, was Madden, of She being struck ear ¥ men were irrest (it Taixing we confused Oy trains ps opposite directions, Henry J. Snyder, of Marietta, a sect the Peanevivania Raliroad struck by a freight train just West of ( bia, and instaotly killed. His body frightfully mangled, / boss on wan Mum was John Bryan. an employee vania Railroad Company, was train at Huntingdon and so badly injured that he died in a shor: time. Nathaniel Weikel, of Helfenstine, was in- stantly killed by the premature discharge of a biastiat Locust Hpring mine, Shamokin, His head was crushed to a pulp, Mr. Wei- kel is survived by a widow and seven daught- ers, the oldest of the later being only 13 years, Two tramps assaulted and terribly whipped the 18-year-old daughter of Calvin Bromley, a farmer, residing at Big Bun, Moroer County. The girl isin a serious con dition, The Council has ordered the Cumberland Valley Traction Railroad Company to re move their poles, wires and tracks from the streets of Carlisle. The removal must be made within sixty days. The order was caused by a neglect of the Trastion Com« pany to comply with the ordinance granting its franchise. of the [Pennsyi- struck bya TWO PRISONERS ESCAPE. Out of Fenitenitary at the Point of the Revolver. Three prisoners appeared In the gaurd room of the penitenitary, at Columbus, Ohlo, and leveling revolvers at Captain Sax- be, attempted to escape, A fight ensued, Two of the prisoners, Botts and Clark, got away, but Lincoln, the third prisoner, was held, Benjamin James, sub-guard, was shot twice, Botts Is from Lucas and Clark from Cuyago County. IVE MEN LYNCHED. An Indiana Mob's Vengeance on Burglars, TAKEN FROM THE JAIL, The Community Had Been For Some Time Terrorized by Outlnws, Who Had Grown Bold Thelr snd Had Cru- olly Maltreated Thelr Vie times, by Bucoess, some of to} terrorized the were stru in the fet wera | wht teen Terrorized Rabbers Canght in An Preartang marched into th The jail was In Bheriff Bushings rk and Leonard Woenpsl Al Was Quickly Done. rt time before 2 : tw jail wed | » breast, while and Schulter were erushad with a stool. Ropes were in read and, adjusting a n« around the neck of each prisoner, their feet and hands were pinioned, and then the mareh began. KR The men were not carried, but with several Iyuchers at the end of each rope, they were dragged 200 feet to an elm tree, where their It is believed that Levi, Jenkins and Schulter were dead before they reached the place, Rustained by Public Sentiment. Justios Charles Loswell will hold an In- quest over the five bodies, None of the Peo. ple seam Lo deplore the action of the mob, but, on the contrary, the banging of three or more members of the gang is being talked of. No troops have been asked for, and the citizens say militiamen are not wanted, Lyle Levi was an old soldier, and bore on his face wounds received during the civil war while fighting for the Union. The lynchers are not known. came from a distanos, Previous Indiana Lynchings, The Reno brothers were iynched together at Semour, Ind., twenty years ago, and the “Myer gang.” three in number, were strung up together at shoals, Iod., twelve years ago. There have since boon Iyuchings of one per- #on st a time In this State, but five at once breaks the record. Levi, Jenkins and 8 and Level was shot thr skulis of Jenkins nen They all smn AAAI isos. “look out for counterfeit dollars™ shricks a Wisconsin contemporary. That's a bad policy; botter look out for good ones, WORK AND WORKERS, Nashville elerks organized, A Klondyke moal cost £1.00, Paper pipes give satisfaction, Blam is to have a cotton mill, Detroit boss bakers organized, North Carolinas has two slik mills, Russia owns half the world's horses Toledo oliworkers will get together, Wo make 400,000,000 tin cans a year Minneapolis sheemakers will organize, Callloruls has Japanese grape plekers, Brooklyn Furriers' Unlon le eighteen years old. : Now York sirike, New York cigaretto girls may establis co-operative shop. Milwaukee Lakers have ro al of bread compressed alrworkers won a luced the of al ning the K. « All Grand closed on Colorad cigarette deal I FORT ARTHUR IN RUINS The New Texas City “weapt by a Violent Toruando graphi pied, i erper, a pr ii! and Interstate his way to Deaumont, Baliroad when + one a0 i Lhe wi ' this section an i ught we would tx he sald It and the win before, was i was ALYNCHING NEAR MACON, Colored Mon Confessed a Felonlons As. sanit and Was Strang Up to a Tree, ited ir i Mae Over Lhe anil Charles Gilson and red, quarreied steniing S50 aed bot Then the because Smith ace siteon of cants. Smith, inclined to Oght, turned to Gibsor drew a pistol and shot away, him in Gibson fled. The sheriff and posse were soon in pureuit, and kept up the chase un. tid PP. M., occasionally exchanging shots with the fugitive, Finally the murderer was run to cover and surrounded by the depu- ties Being well armed, Gibson gave shot for shot until he was brought down by three ballets from Winchester rifles. He had been suspected of having feloniously assaulted a Miss Chapman a few sights ago, and this suspicion was confirmed by a confession which he made after his capture, A large crowd soon gathered &l the sone of the shooting. The sheriff and his depu. ties returned to the iy to get a vehicle to convey the wounded man to Macon, and while they wore alwent Gibson again eon fagsed to havieg asssaited Miss Chapman and also confessed befts and burglaries, The erowd got a rope and swung him from ts limb until be was dead. LT ———s. FORTY PERSONS DROWNED, Danstrons Hesults of a Collision of Bieamers in Rassia. Two steamers, the Teareviteh and the Malpitk, collied In the river Volga, near As trakhan, The former sank and while she was going down the passengers, panio-strio en,’ jumped into the river. Many of them succeeded in reaching the shore, but forty persons were drowned. CABLE SPARKS, ¢ tarif ir Cuba subjects duties, nying that leadership nor The new euston nearly all American Prices Bismarck | neler priveipies, It is reported in Lima, Peru, that 260 Pare Chiguotos, Whole companies of Brazillan troops wero at Canudos, Fifty-nine reported Lo Belgian officers are Lave been killed in the Ong itinous native troops, Uy m 6! a boller in a Austria, eleven ire ‘ brewery persons explosion hepstaed! were killed and many io ihe sent of the In official circles at Sluis, i Ceileved the Up. A ramor of Lhe sul nposar of “Cavalier! ann,” whish iblished Lu iaily denied ULOss the Uruguayan aril Based SF dag ol Wow Uuited for an raer that ibe Ler gover TRADE TEEATY WITH FRANCE Negotiations for Heciprocity Expected to Proceed, HOGS PRODU Cioar ribs Hames Mess Pork, per LARI Crud Best refined UTTER North Carolina LIVE POULTAL CHICEENS-—~Hens. , 8 Ducks, per ® TORAOOO, TOBACCO-—Md. Infer's..$ ound common . Middiing Fancy 150 50 600 1000 LIVE s7TOCK BEEF Best Beeves SHEEP, Hogs. Baas 2RE8 438 MUBRKRAT LAteo0n 22183 KEW Yong FLOUR-S8cuthern....... 8 WHEAT-«No. 2Red..... RYE--Western........... EENERSS pEpheegs THILADRLIRIA. FLOUR-—-8outhern.... ..8 260 WHEAT No. 2 Red. ..... wing CORN—No. 8............. 35 OATS-No. 2............ BUTTER--State rene annnen EGOS—Penna BB. 9 - ® SEE
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