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THE NEWS,
The Home for Aged and Infirm
Women, at Chicago was destroyed by fire,
Lorenzo W, Barnes has been sentenced to
be hung at Cambridge, Mass,, for the mur
der of John Dean, >
The steamer Al-KI has sailed for Alaska
from Tacoma with 100 passengers and a full
cargo of miscellaneous freight,
CO. W. Merritt, of Mansfield,
way postal clerk, was arrested at
for robbing the mails,
Mrs. Christine Behrens has been convicted
by a jury at Davenport, Iowa, of the murder
of her husband, and the penalty fixed at
imPrisonment for life,
Because, as hoe sald, they teased him, John
Yuscaviez shot and mortally wounded
eph Markwa and Mrs, J. M, Sclomon,
Wilkesbarre., All are Hungarians,
Charges against t DY,
Colored
rall
urg
Ohio, a
'ittsl
Jos
at
President Rieger
and Cashier D. R, Covington, of the defunct
Missouri National Bank, will be considered
by the grand | at Kansas City,
Jacob Miller and Miller,
and son, were fatally scalded aud
Neely and M. B. Dunham seriously
by the explosior ty engine a
ville, Pa.
Miles and Higbee's ¥
was pntered by flye
to b gw open the safe but were uns
In tifir rage the burned
vaipable securties and then departed,
The death of Mrs, Rice, wife of Dr. G. H.
Ride, of Sandoval, Ind., has rise to
sensational OTS, to the fact
her life was insured in favor of her hus
for 7.000, Dr d ied an in-
vestigation
ury
Charles
k, at Milford,
They attempted
obbers
given
owing that
band
Rice has demanded an
+
Hamilton Guvot, 48 Aj
William Beech Abbott, of Bos
arrested nplaint
French, a wealthy s
charge of defrauding he
alleged worthless minin
Mr. Willlam E.
Cgath at Oakland, Cal, ) 3, and
Foroner’'s jury rendered a verdict of suicide,
irs. Hawley left her valued at #40 -
000 by will t« husband. Her relatives
charge that the will is a forgery,
thought they will try to prove
Hawley did not ¢
William E
with cffieces
the custody «
grand larenc
bave appropriated £3 500 belonging to
car Welsner, who alleges a intrusted
this money to Mitchell as Marg
The Indiana Society of tl!
American Revolution, at a meeting,
mously approved the proposed
tion of this organization with the y
the Sons of Revolution, The Indiana bran
{ th ns of
‘
:
on
wr of 810.000 pal
g stoci
Hawley
Sepler i
estate,
her
and
nmit suleide,
a Brooklyn
charge
alleged tc
Os-
a SN
Booed
of tb
® Soolety « # Bo
solved, however, to oj
consolidation.
Dr. C. H. Alden, Assistant I
eral of the United States Army, no
Naw York Health Department
to supply vaccine virus to
out t country has
contract made is or
aa
he been
A cable dispa
that the sale
Works at Wi
foreign parties, will
The thread company
and employs several
option on its whole stock
share of $25 par expires on
The New York Evening
result of recant conferences
Rping among the soft coal «
raffle rates on that comm
ent. The new agreement is
but will probably be arranged
acts f« next season's shi
has
thou
p
Is Are NOW
wrriers to ad-
wdity about
$111 fr
still in
[
*
or
and Maggie Godire;
mmitted suicide togeth
They were penniless,
n of the bus
arberry, Man
. $50,000,
fork, Benjamin E. Sims, colored,
at Atlanta, Ga. on the charge of
Bg canoaled postage stamps upon letters
as held in $2,500 bonds for examination be.
fore United States Commissioner Shields,
y, of
t
1
os
ness
in
was destroyed
Among the passengers who arrived on
board the Atlas Line steamer Alene, from
Jamaioa and Central America at New York,
was Herbert F. Bingham, British Consul at
Graytown, Nicaragua
The exports from Philadelphia the
past week have been very large, amounting
to over 2.000 000 bushels, the bulk of which
wascorn aod oats. The largest shipments
bave bean made during the past two days.
The amount given includes parcel lots by
regular line steamers and full cargoes.
The most destruc ever witnessed
in Escanaba, Mich. when Dock No.
4, owned by the Chicago and Northwestern
allroad Company, wae totally destroyed.
The fire started int id of the steamer
Nahant,
The Portland (Ore) Chamber o om -
raerce has telegraphed 10 President McKin-
ley appealing to him to urges upon Congress
ti¥heceasity of sending immediate relief to
thd Yukon miners, many of whom, it Is be-
Heved, will perish from starvation unless
supplies are placed within their reach dur
iug the next three months,
Fhree train-robbers, Jess Willams, Tom
Anderson and an unknown mas, who had
been in jall at Fronteras since Thanksgiving
Pay, have bought their way out from the
Mexican officials, and are at liberty in the
Ajo Mountains. A posss is in pursuit,
The work of Engineer John Frits, o
Dethishem, Pa., the expert appointed by the
Naval Board to draw plans and prepare an
esiimate of the cost of a proposed ordi-
nance plant for the United States Govern-
ment, is done, and a special carrier has
been dispatched to Washington with the
work. Mr. Fritz refuses to discuss his plans
aad estimate,
Becretary Draff, of the United Brother.
hood of Cloakmakers, stated that not more
than 2,000 of the 9,000 organized cloakmak-
ers in New York City are in actual employ-
ment. The dull season will continue until
about March 1, and only a small proportion
of these 2,000, ho said, would be permanently
ployed during the winter.
Dry A. OC. Mendenhall was arrested at the
bowme| of his sweetheart, near Clanetts, Ind,
He resisted arrest, making a bad fight. He
jo charged with bigamy at Jackson, Mich.
It fs mlleged that he has four wives in that
State, Lu
Roswell Hart Rochester, treasures of
Western Union Telegraph Company, d
suddealy in Englewood, N. J,
Five lives have been lost the past week in
the lakes and rivers on the route to Dawson
and the Klotdike,
Henry Hadricks, aged sixicen years, bad
bis neck broken at Downlagton, Pa., while
playing hanging.
Mrs. Hattlse A. T. Collins, of New York,
died from worry over attempts to have her
declared lusane.
ir
81
uve
fire
occurred
be bh
APPEAL OF CIBANS.
Secretary of Their Legation
Calls on the President,
AUTONOMY A DREAM.
The Duty of the United States, They Suy,
Belligerency of the
Republic nnd Later ita Independence
The President Promises Careful Consld-
is to Recognize the
eration.
A despateh
Mr. Berkeley
Legation, appuared
Kinley and presented
1 Washington, D, C., says
, seoretary of the Cuban
before I'resident Me
the following argu-
ment In behalf of the Cuban Insurgents.
“Mr. President: We appear before you in
the name of the
cause of freedom in
for those who are
Hyves, to-day or t«
h Ave
the Island of
iy
iy
se who
Cuba
glve
this
Bjorn
still read to
morrow, for
also representing, .
of the United States, who believe
ise, and demand that thelr wishes
'W be transiated into eMelont action |
entatives,
as we claim, a o
the people
in that ea
shall ne
by thelr chosen repre
“We submit to you these
r your consideration
“Firet— The
century are pro
for the extensio
ten
propositions |
i
three wars In Cuba within this
A genuine movement
n f demo i
1d the attainment of
rati
sail
i tw fo »
iberty fre
nical, ng
orrupt and alien government.
Without the indir
by this government to Spal
would
‘Third
present pe
Second
be further advanced In t!
has lost
aver she is
work
may po
island
Revolution in the Next Generation.
urth--If with our pas
is in
suecesds In
ive ald she un
i
when |
enerat!
nl olution |
verping
Spain of & I oH regarded |
+ ¥ an or
rihree h An orange
aalder |
nex
Lut Yai
fet
A
a
h
r fut
on
the
Spain
never be
apoan i
has never been
“Tent! The friendship
of Cuba Is worth vastly me
of Spain, for reason
fense, It duty s
recognize belligerency
followin indepen
publie, and to econcl
offensive alliance,
v
a
is our
the
this, the
id
ites
with a continued friendehiy
% is
no
with
compalibi
®
pain, ao
much the worse for Spain, If Spaln attacks |
{ us we can take care of our o
| “Out of the experience of our w
| from the study of twenty yoars
league asserts that these
are true, and that their right
ieads t action whie
problem.
wh
rk and |
over
th
is
ten prog tion
inderstanding |
e
will solve th
Ri # |
hh
“a
the only
Enlisted for the War,
w, Mr. Preside
reg reasnt Wr
‘And
those we
opportunity to
hope for such
bring a correct solution.
that this league
ne nt, i
thank you for this |
views We
your part as will |
We desire to state |
present their
action n
and our sympathizers have |
enlisted for the war,” or until such :
the repubiio of Cuba shall bec
history.
The President said be would give the ar
gument careful consideration.
time as
2 4% fact in |
DRANK SPLISTERED GLASS,
Conviet’s Unique Method of Sef. Destrae-
tion Wanted to Die,
In his cell In the jail at Liberty, Mo., Wil-
liam Carr vader sentence to Le hanged
next month for drowning his 3 year old
child in the Missouri River, tried to commit
suicide by swallowing a quantity of pounded
glass, The county physician thinks he will
recover because of bis giant strength,
It appears that Carr had stolen a bottle of
medicine from a fellow prisioner, spilled the
contents on the floor and pounded the bottle
into amall particles. These he drank In a
wginss of water, When Deputy Sheriff Cave
and Dr, Sevier tried to administer ag emetic, |
Carr fought like a flend, threatening to brain |
Cave with a chair and was only conquered |
by being choked until he was black in the
face. When finally overpowered, Carr begged
the jell ofclals to choke him to death, He
will be placed in ehafne,
Flood Caused Famine
The destruction of nearly thirty miles of
the Everett and Mofite Cristo Hallways by
the recent floods threaten to canes a famine
in ithe small mining town of Monte Cristo,
Wash., which is cut off from the outside
en, just reached Beattie, having walked a
distance of 10 miles. Mr, Biggers said that
there was already a soarcity of food In
Monts Cristo, and that the only salvation
for ita 500 people was for them to get out as
quickly as possible. The storekespers have
restricted the amount of sales to each Indi.
vidual,
Wilbur 8. Glass, of South Dakota, whe
was recent] ted United States Cone
sul at Kiel, L appointed, bis exequator,
KILLED IN THE CONGO,
Horrible Butchery of Two Washingtonians
by Navages.
A despatel from Washington, D. O., BAYS
A startling and horrible story of the killing
of two Washingtonlauns, and the mutilation
of thelr bodies by the natives of the Congo
Free State, has just been received here in a
letter to Leo Harmon, of No, 1728 Ninth
street, N. W, The men were memberg of a
purty, who, during November aud Decem-
ber, 1504, and January, 1805, went from this
citmto enlist in the Delging army for ser-
vicelin the Congo state,
Mr.
fifty
a
Harmon
natives,
band of
The Informution received by
is that Burke und a party of
who were sent out to dislodge
dwarfs who had revolted, wers ambushed
and killed, An Arab, who was with the
command, but who was some distance off at
the time of the ambuscade, states
dead before
that the most hideous.
saw walked up
and cut Burke's head off with one blow of &
knife,
his followers,
many of the flends that the
There wer
i and before they had
were vers .r Wi
1ded thers was 1 free
remnainiog. In
became siarmed,
the place fellow
The Arab
yas Winday
little
mavper the dwarfs and
one
of
irker, who
ent of sol
paw the
Ye
ry
aro, cause
rn New
n
1
$
ar
nand of another tach
wnt out on the same
urs after the natives departed, W
Burke
isarned the
errand, arrived a
fow hie
os
When Winday
of the rebels h hurried k to
fed
pmmandant of th
them.
buried
igth
Micha
port,
I'he
” bn
un and notified the a
nian who lost his life
ch 1, when the troops us-
of Baron Dhanils ited
Kaban aud assassinated a r
of the officers of thelr regiment
ng Mellie The body of Mellin was
st beyond
ut out I burned bat his
ther Was? ings
ir
der the command revs
DRrTY,
AL
best
ree
be used against the
as it is thelr beilef that
ped,
{
win
asbios scat
{ the man
and the
is, the spirit
his brethres
is said to be |
y at Hasaka
8 Dean sent to hi
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE
VERA ag
Haosebheres
eveland
# winter, be i
Year
oS
every
ing w
gyernor O Ferral in
virginia at
taking jours
nen would
tight re
ang var
pg G
the ba
was ha
» Bulaway
snd the
The magn!
and there
work a
rail
here
sen the
ir Hfetime
Sargent, the Ameri ainter in
Acad
Daisy
Acad.
anf
Roval
Miss
the
f the
and a
is nishing a
formeriy of
orirait
YTV f 1868
i
Chicago,
Washington
said
Admiral James E
jscussing the poseibility of war
fa
ita
he United States, | bwileve, the
country that sould depend on
! own
f war.”
re.
UFP-TO-DATH RAILROADING,
Road beds are sprinkled with ofl
ths dust,
to
Passenger
SMoKe consumers,
engines are
equipped with
Fast passenger trains are scheduled at
witie a minute, »
Electric locomotives are being used
switching purposes,
Experiments are to be made in Alaska
with snow locomotives,
Locomotive turn tables are to be operated
Gravel is put between double floors
cars to deaden the noise,
Railroad bridges are entirely reconstruct.
ed without delay to tra ios.
Colored maids are employed on compart
ment cars to assist lady passengers, —
High-speed alr brakes stop a rapidly mov-
ing passenger train in almost fs own
length,
Passengers on observation cars dictats
their correspondence to stenographers, and
mall is dispatehed on routs,
Bteam used at high pressure in one eylin-
der of a componnd englrs Is used the second
time In a lower cylinder.
The exhaustiogialr from the alr brakes
escapes through a pipe on the top of &
sisaping oar to prevent the noise from wak-
ing passengers.
Elvetrie lighting, electric bells, elsctrio
fans in passenger cars, and electric head
light and electrio brakes are the uses mad.
of electricity on trains,
FOREIGN NEWS
The Depeche Tunislenne intimates that
Frauce will shortly ask for the denunciation
of the treaty of 1797 between the United
States and Tunis,
The fire In No, 1 hold of the British
mer Wistow Hall, from
eten.
New Orleans, which
out again, and the Havre fire brigade was
sailed out, which extinguished it, The
bulkhend was slightly injured
The Norwegian bark Agathe, Captair
Bjonuess, from Pensacola, September 28, for
Anrhuus, which put into Falmouth, was
towed in with a heavy list to starboard, and
her bulwarks slightly damaged,
The German steamer Calabria, ( aptain
fromm New Orleans, November 6,
while proceeding up the river to Hamburg,
ran aground at Kratzsand.
The German police confiscated lust week's
issue of the Kiandderadatsch, because it con
cartoon ridiculing Emperor Wi
Dispatches from members of the Austrian
Helchsrath say Emperor Francis
tends to demand the
indeni, the Austrian Premier,
HRefchsrath, and to order new elections,
Joseph in
resignation of Count
dissolve the
Herr Norman- Schumann, a correspondent
Prussian sub
been sinted, a former em.
Pollee, has
r slander ngainst the Berliner
The paper promises an in
Witnesses called
ng the highest German ofclais
Herr P Hamburg
tor, Ix dead,
The Welch
has found
result of
Her
if, after having
§ hie
The
for American newspapers, a
ject, and, it bas
yo of the German Secret
brought suit f«
be
trial, wiil
oilini, the theatrical
fre
Arrouers { Car
Head,
Ro L
Labs
ff Trevose
steamer
ered na the
8 dsion with Kuown ves
ed at Car
b for
srew of 18 has hee pod
i Deel ID AD open atl
)
© irs
Austrian-1.
1 | A
Hson «
passengers and 40
the Disun were saved
Ht. Hon, W
Giadstone arrived
no /
Bl Cannes
{f Lord
$
el ween
they are the guests «
The differences
Costa Rica, which threatened
two republics in war
been ami
Ave
anf
fi {
Bank ag 3 Jat
Mr Milt
EA
Al
¢ Recretary
e8, was appointed private
tary to 1 of the Treasury
ited Hintes Bear
for the Arct
revenues cultler
Konttie ios to farnist
whaling fleet Imprisoned (nice
ow, northern shore of Alaska
of Revenues fu
the
athe of the present fiscal year will exosed
d Inst year by abo
the Internal
w that the receipts for five
r the sane peri ut
H Smith
steamer of
W
has bean ordered
4 -
or
detached
Decem 27: Chint
fs
t
Dungas,
py ard and retired December 29;
$ ster, from irg to
N.H Navy-yard; Capt
uty as president of the Board
a
i
a
the Vieksh
F. Rodgers, t
&
$
Naval
1x ague
of Inspection an Assistant
§ ¥
urvey
the
A
Isiand Navy-yard
FATAL STREET DUEL
One Man Killed and Another Fatally
Wounded lu a Shooting Affray.
A terribi
Ark. In
street duel occurred at Horatio,
killed
whicl ne Man was
ounded
The dead man fe Dy. Smith, a prominent
{ Horatio, apd the man fatally
inded is J. J, Smith, a prominent
an of Horatio, and a brotner of the
dead doclor. The killing was dons by W
W. Millwee, also of Horatio, one of the
wealth lest in town, and a man
noted for his fearlessness and bravery,
The tragedy was the culmination
feud of long standing, and owiog to
utright
w
physician «
we busi.
men the
of a
the
the feud will be continued bysome of their
numerous friends and adberents, and that
more blood will be shed before the affair is
finally settied,
Miliwee and Dr. 8mith met in front of the
Locke Hotel. Both men promptly drew
taneously, Several
Miliwea's first fire. He continued the battle
however, and only gave up the contest when
bie sank to the ground with a buliet through
tls herset,
J.J imith same to his brother's assistance
fast as the fatal bullet was fired and drew
tis own pistol to fire on Miliwee, His wea-
gon snapped, however, and Miliwee, turn.
mg his attention to the brother, sent a bul-
fet into his head,
There is much axcitement over the terri
bie affair,
Lynched in Starks.
Hicks Price, the negro charged with as
sault was taken from jail at Starks, Fis, by
about one hundred quiet but determined
men, and hanged to a Hmb of a tres, and
about fifty shots were fired into bis body,
The mob gained entrance to the jail by pre.
tending to have another suspect to imprison,
then overpowering the jailer. The work
was done before the town reaiized the pres
ence of the mob. The town is quiet and ne
further trouble is anticipated,
1
dy
THE KEYSTONE STAT
News Gleaned
Various Parts.
Latest from
SURVIVES 5,000 VOLTS
Chester Elec
Killing
Others
Officers
Remarkable Escape of a
trician Boller
and Injuring Two
Thieves Trapped by
Town Red,
Explodes,
Giang of
Five thousand volts of electricity passed
through the body of John Harrison, of Ches
ter, mand he still iy In
are insignificant, John Harr
trician in the employ of
He
urih
4
Mi
ee fact his injuries
nis an ele
Eleetri
the
Etreets
the Beacon
war fixing
and Crosby
Company ar
Hght at Twenty. {
ing
of the carbon he bad 1
is for and
the
fifteen
He
fact
®
'
w threads
fewt
owes his
that he
Both band
were
current escaped through
He» was knocked ful and lay
"
in death to the
nding on a giass lnsulatar
bis fc jend
1 } * .
: iL ©
WABI Wise
ieft elb
Ww and
Ie
rehied and burne
non go for
i
i
Jones & Laug!
8,500 {ron workers known #
ing this week the wages will be
vores the
ag 1
ni
had
Pain
Inesnsed
fais
es with the
he affair has
¢
the police
}
meeting of Ku
i
At
fecid rRAL Re
requisite $50.00) baving
Thess directors were chosen
Je BR Wi
Bieber, Daniel P
James 8, Heff
Pullip E. H
Angetadt, of Dryville, and Wil
{ Breinigaviile
7
ung Men's «
Scranton, at
ciation was ©
rtown eilizens
national
beer
lor Gonser lian
er at
of Maxatawny nok.
An enthusiastic od citizenship meeting
¥ x
Ansools
reform
bh riatiny
Grisiliag
it which
fa n
war declared
Ww posters, Sunday liqgu«
aud plane were
Mis
i 3 or
UR ALG ini
noeived
§ ®l tr sail
hines {
vigor
paign
Foe meeting was under the agspio
Washin
and was addressed by its super
lev. Wilbur F. Crafts
) Men
g Women's Chi
dent
u
hristian Endeavor
League, Baptist }
church officers
and Christian
The attendance was so
able t BACON
ail Strong resoiglions were gd pred
One of the largest Lill posting firms in the
erate with the "Good Citizens’ in
“
Condemned Murderer Facapes
frank Lajoy, who killed William
son, a deputy sheriff, near Paradox Lake,
N.Y..on feptember 17, and who was after.
ward indicted for marder in the st degree.
escaped frowa the county jail at Eiizabeth-
town. Lajoy was one of the three bre
whom Jaokso . was attempting to arrest for
violation »f ths game Jawa,
A Workman's Idea of the Drame,
Walter A. Wyckoff, in Scribner's
tells in bis narrative, “The Workers”
what one of them thought of Rhak-
gpeare: “When I go to the theater | go
to laugh. 1 want to see pretty girls
and lots of them, and 1 want to see
them dance. 1 want songs as | can
Jack
thers
Jokes, and horse play. You don't pet
me to the theater to see no show got
up by Shakspeare, nor any of them fel.
lows as lived two thousand years ago.
What did they know about us fellows
as is Hving now? Pete, you mind that
Tim Healy in the union, him that's full
of wind in the meetings? Onct he give
me a book to read. and he says it's a
theater piece wrote by Shakespeare, and
the Dest there was, 1 read more'n av
hour on that piece, and I'm a-a #
here was a joke Into it, nor any sense
er.”
nti ——— i
A returned traveler says that the
Crow Indians have forsworn war aud
are tilling the soil.
A HOP SALE,
of
to un Grower,
Unexpected Hesults Lane's
Advices
Begulre
This hop story is “too good to keep,”
| and it is true to i A few
ago a Pu hop grower
{ came into the ollies Jr ne ighbor,
his hops,
ked if
the
etter
VEeRrs
*
| A. Lane, with a sample of
:
st hars
and
hops
ested
buying
He war
and the ques.
Market
acceptance,
jay or two after.
wy #3 Ja 4
3 Ae el
i Tr
mtribution
No Taxes There,
ym mani ming the British
of the Falkland Islands shonld
ry bappy one. From the latest
{ report of the administrator it seems
that there are no direct taxes—unless
| a trifling levy on houses in Stanley,
| the capital, to maintain a fence round
the town, and ome on pastoral land to
eradicate the scab disease amongst the
| sheep, can be ealled by this name
the assets are much in excess of the
liabilities, society is enlivened by the
frequent presence of Her Majesty's
ships, and the climate is so excellent
that there hasbeen complete immunity
from all diseases, whether of an
epidemic or an endemic nature, and
the colonial surgeon thinks that such
a satisfactory state of things, due “to
the health-giving qualities peculiar to
these islands,” may induce health
seekers to visit these happy lands “‘on
| the fringe of the Atlantic to recuperate
their shattered energies.” The im-
ports last year amounted to £60 885,
and consisted mainly of clothing, pro-
visions, coal, tobacco and the other
things that « community of about 2000
British-born people wonld require.
The exports amounted to £182,194,
and consisted wholly of wool, sheep-
skins and tallow. Practically the
whole import and export is with the
United Kingdom. Sheep breeding is
the business of the islands; hence the
importance of eradicating the disease
aiready mentioned, and of maintaining
and improving the breed.—London
Times.
COiony
be 8 v¢
i
Land Values in Cape Town.
A bit of waste land at Town,
000.
fot ‘boa aed a 100. di