ro FORTY YEARS SERVICE Justice Stephen J. Field Will Now Retire. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED tte Has Court of of Resig- President Yor Thirty-four of Those Years Been a Judge of the Supreme the United His Letter nation and of McKinley. States the Reply SOMO Cal comber H. Richards The Becrotary recoustru holders at Mor South Shrewsbu n Monmouth ¢ Third Assistant Secretary A partment of State, has returned to Washing ton from Europe, where he spent a me Holland and Northern inith's vacation in Belgium, France, There were app intr nis of fo class postmasters W urth- TRAGEDY'S AWFUL SEQUEL. Would-Be Wife Slayer and Murderer Found Dead, Willtam Timmons, who shot and killed his wife's stepfather, William Hinton, fatally wounded his wife, Elizabeth Timmons, and shot Mrs. Jobn Hintoa in the shoulder near Ednor, Montgomery county, Md., was found dead in Baltimore county, two miles enst of Ellicott City. He was discovered lying in a slump of tushes, with a bullet hole through the right side of his head above the ear. No explana- tion of his death is given, but it Is generally peiieved that he committed suicide, NICARAGUA WANTS GOLD May Use United States Coin Pending the Change. Advices state that Nicargus is endeavoring to establish a gold stacdard and will use temporarily the gold eoln of the United States until its own coins ean be substituted, The Governmey, will discontinue the use of THE NEWS. {tis proposed to lay off in Alaska a new territory of Lincoln, and El the Secretary of the Treasury, is named fo governor, rage, 50n « f An attempt was made to wreck a train on the Pennsylvania Rallrond at Newton Ham. iiton, Frank 2 f the Four mon were tween the Toron train on the Nuitisy near Huntington, a, misoroants, My, ONG was arrested, a collistfon be and a freight Rallroad at killed In tiie Fdward M silver temporaidly to induce importation of sold. used of a party in Island the head America, 1, publisher of the written a letter , Bheehan, resigning as member of any Hall executive « h came LO secure Woodmen of York Daily News, has ymmittee, Kentu« the Biver Yellow leans, ARRESTED AT THE ALTAR, Two Members of a Gang Captared Under Peculiar Clreamstances, Charles Hysell and Bert Wines, members of a gang that has been terrorizing the in. habitants of Meigs and surrounding eoun- ties in Ohio, were arrested at the wedding of Hysell to Miss Georgia Mansel, Wines, who was 6 guest at the intended wedding, starts ed to run, but was captured after a spirited chase, Rewards aggregating £2,000 have been offered for the capture and convietion of theses men, Murdered by a Cripple. William GG. Miall, of Buffalo, died at Emergency Hospital, Detroit, Mich, as the result of 8 murderous assault made on him by Chas, Wojdeck. Miall was in Detroit looking for work, and it appesps he became fnvolved in a dispute with Wojdeeck in a sa- loon, The latter, who is a cripple, followed Miall ont of the saloon and struck him over the head with his crutch, crushing Miall's skull, TAGUE SPREA! Many More New Cases Yellow Feve GALVESTON IS EXCITED. FORKIGNX NEWS onstrati RITES THAT igh with flowers Ir nati wanty in Ireland, No crape was displayed but in its and the bund Mr, Balfe n of Parlle place lv y and shamrock played lively irs, Being Taken Down An Iufirmary, GALVESTON Disco Yello ras The Plague in Other C11] for Yellow A Carative Berum 5 that TROLLEY STRIKES CARRIAGY Heim Instanty Kijed In a Terrible Accident , while her bus badly injured. accident occurred at 1st 1s re re. and were returniog from outaide the rporate limits of The victims were in an track when a lidated Hoad who was driving, k in time to av upon him in ng the the air. The occupants and Mrs, Heim fel front of the car, just crossing the f the ( ng. Mr. Heim, mpted 10 clear the tra The latter was however, hurl vahicle was trolley car « Ons came oid an in- arriage high in were thrown out, on the track, directly in She was carried along an- der the wheels and dragged for some dis Jy the time the car was stopped she t * ~ the car. tance, mangled and it was found nec was terril t her essary to call jackecrews int mutilated body could be extrieated, The other occupants of the carriage were more fortunate, although they were preity badly injured. y tse before ATCHISON FIRE-SWEPT. A ggregate Loss Caused by a Big Blaze is 875,000, Fire, which started at 2.30 o'clock in the morning, destroyed the flour mili and ware. house of John M. Calo, together with the Central Mill, the Cain Block and five small frame bulldings at Atchison, Kan. The ag- gregate loss is $75,000, insurance about one- third, The Cals warehouse contained 3.000 bar rels of four, and the mills several thousand bushels of wheat, Cain's total loss is &562.- 000: insurance, $21,500, The Central Mill contained s large amount of grain. Both mill and contents were fully insured, FIELD OF LABOR nto y because of the Theatri- the high in- {tiation fee of that organization The hat firm Boston unions them mbed, begins to that imposed upon certain on Lavor Day by suppiying hats bearing a bogus s what a boycott means aking advances for peace, goes a begging in the demand, In several seo. in fact, the demand is re- ported to be greater than the supply. The rate of wages has risen, The work Is seek. ing the worker. Employers are bidding against one another.—San Franciseo Call, The Early Closing Association of Newark bas adopted a badge with the name of the association and “6 P. M.” ia the center, The eighth annual congress of the Beot- tish District Councils of the National Ragis- tration of Plumbers was held in Perth re- cently. Theres wers about 150 delegates present, representing many different bodies throughont Hsotland. A reception of the delegates by the Lord Provost and Magis. trates of the city took piace in the Corpora- tion Chambers, At a meeting of the Pittsburg United Labor League a motion was passed that in the coming election the eandidates for Judges be asked to give their views on injunetions against labor and strikes, and that organ- ized labor indorse and sapport such Judges as are opposed to this method of fighting the strikers, willfully with reall pow, and i Labor no ionger market, Itisin tions of the State, > IN TEXAN. gers in Daylight. PORTER SHOWED FIGHT. Thin Miles of hrough the ( the uw Bullet Vourteen Filed BRitop With Within he ars When ODecurred Conductor Anked but Was Brought Down Austin to Train NOTED VEOPLY Grand Duke Michael making a round of visit England, has adopted home. Senator ( { Louisiana, said recent Iv in speaking of the water hyacinths which are such a pest to the people of and Florida: “If I don’t get rid hyacinths the people wili never elect Congress again, Sir Ralfh Knox, K. C. B., the new British under Secretary of State for War, has been n the war office for over 40 years. He has been Accountant-Oeneral since 1882, and was appointed Assistant Financial Secretasy in 1895, affrev. Gov. Lon V.Stephens, of Missouri, will ride a bicycle at the head of a great bicycle parade to be held soon iu 8t. Louis. Govern- or Stephens and bis wile both ride a great deal, OSCAR WILDE A WRECK. fie Reaches Naples with His Heatlh Broken Dorn, Oscar Wilde has arrived at Naples from England, with his health broken down. He bas taken up his residence in a villa, owned by Lord Alfred Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensberry, who became prom- inont during Wilde's prosecution and re mained the prisoner's friend throughout. Lord Douglas has lived here for a Jong time The fear that our kind acta may bo receiv. ed with ingratitude should never deter ux from performing such acts, TIE KEYSTONE STATE. IL.atest News Gleaned from Various Parts WAITED FOR HIS DOOM. With Foot Fast in a Fine, M | Blavit A Laburer Hefused to Work Une lehine Was Hun Down Meets With a Horrible Denth Tews the Hend Waiter Maude to Was Helnstated A A tt in Attempt Dernil an Express 108 AS entirely a KILLED IN A MINE, Three Men the Victims of a Terrific Ex- plosion in a Pennsvivania Coal Pit. A heavy expiosion glope of the Parrish t yaa vg wt ti » {ive th. at which three en lost thelr lives, mou The foree of the explosion was piainly felt rescuing party was at mine, but they worked on the surface, and a gent into the under great difficulties, as the brattice work was down and ventilation was poor The cause of the accident is yet a mystery. One theory iz that the men came unexpected. iy upon a pocket of gas and set it on fire with thelr lamps. Another is that somebody enrelessly left a door open which sent the gas in large volumes into the piace where the men were at work. once Four Killed in This Collision. The Toronto express, On the Canadian Pacifle, due at Ottawa at 6 A.M. collided with a freight train st Ktitteville at five o'clock in the morning. Eagineer Rondeau, of the axpross train, was killed outright, BR. Peden, mail clerk, was carried out of the wreck living, but died ia a few minutes. A tramp who was stealing a ride was also killed, and Brakeman Hastey, of the freight, received Injuries from which he has since died. Engineer MeQualg, of the freight train, had his leg broken, Itis «aid the ace cident was due io tha carclessnoss of the operator at Stittaville.
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