—————— THE NEWS. i Western Railway. The accident I in Watertown, N. ¥ Fire broke out while all except Mrs, Bryan escaped, Rallroad float in the North River. work on the Fanwood's port crushed and her passengers were painful injuries. Tugboats were to disengage the Fanwood from the float. Prof. Williard B. Rising, dean of the Col lege of Chemistry of the University of Cal J*urania, has received the of Ap pointment as member of the American Con honor an famous chemists of the world will be ens, In Los Angeles, Cala., Ed. I. Parker tempted to kill C.J. Sheets and his pres at by blowing out his brains, the effections of Mrs, Sheets, and the shoot ing was the result of an attempt to effect a reconciliation with his wife. by A convention of United Mine-workers West Virginia, was held in allegiance to the national affirmed, An unsuecessful wreck F, F, V, train Merchants runswick, Charleston L101 Irgant fq nt at Ravens I'raders’ sad its doors, Che and B Ga. , It was reported that the fire in cago Coliseum was caused by a pet dog settlement of the National Trust The conferees af fairs of the Chestnut and the Chestnut Fund Company, of prietor of the Phila« president, su tors and creditors, J. Plerpont Morgan anc son have be Housat will develop fro: tric separators. Staphen V, White, broker of New York panic of 1883 made Statement on the Sto nge. At a conference of miners and operat Columbus, Ohio, it was decided to h joint conferenes in Chicago, January 10 adjust the wage scale, An explosion In a Cago brewery caused the death « and the probable fatal Isaac Miiton Kell, age fell down stairs at his home, in Va., and was almost {nstantly killed, Harry MeCallum, colored, wh self in the Caldwell, N. J alarm his keepers, died fron The Overman Wheel Company pee Falls, Mass, Liabilities, $539 000 Willlam Duolan w and killed at Haver Daly, his brother-in Marcus Nassaur sh committed suic St. Louis, Horace G presidency on the Bank and Savings Street street It img oh Ri 1H y River yal storage iry others i thirty-n Yours Alexandria, hung him penitentiary clad in heavy pect to suffer from Klondike. They will for a few days. Miss Company and pany, two of kind ig The new concern wiil, it $4,000,000 of gold-bearing bond iv The iri Electrie Li the Edison the largest St. 1. gtated, issue In Cleveland, O Company passed into t Shipbulidiog Company I company is capitalized at shares at #100. The Globe £250,000 worth of the stoe share, Robbers Sunday night bre of aged Mrs. M. 8. Kimball, at 10 miles east of Des M abiy dle. It is not bers secured any be Zina R. Carter Chicago Board elected lant Baker, who has been « lected 20 the Shipowners' Drydock hauds of the Globe shig he "Bs ae whners k ines snown William T the position presi re-election. R. 8. present vice-president, was fir dent, and H. O. Parker was ele vice-president, b Alfred G. Wilson, of ( Lyons, elected i 4 ted SEO hi wanted for 8c Chicago and Milwaukee Road in New Orleans, La. & Chicago detective, by al pe Increase in Train Hauls The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is now reaping the benefits of the improvements that have been made to the property since John K. Cowen and Oscar GO. Murray were appointed Receivers. It was stated by a noted critic of raliway operations a few months ago that if the receivers sucesedad in increasing the train haul per ton per mile to 300 that they could be commended for having spent so much money in buylag new locomotives, straightening eurves, lowaring grades and laying new rails. Since June 30 a carefal record has bean kept and the re. suits have been more than gratifying to the management. Before new Iscomotives were purchased, beiore teck improvements were made and before the tonnage system of load ing trains was adopted, the average train haul per ton per mile on the Baltimore & Ohio Raliroad was less then 225 tons, and some vl employes think it did not exeeed 200 tons. Thers are no figures for compari son, but in July the average was 334.76. In August 356.41, and In September 361.4, a very large and satisfactory increase. The average would have been still larger but for the fact that on several divisions, depending on coal for tonnage, but little or none was moved, owiog to the strike, HAITI SUFFERS FROM A FIRE Eight Hundred Houses Were Destroyed In Port au Prince, A fire, which assumed considerable pro- portions on account of lack of water to sup- ply the pumps, broke out end destroyed 500 houses In Port au Prince, including a num- ber of warehouses, a hotel, the Church of 8t. Joseph and its parsonage. About 3,000 were rendered homeless, At6.40 A. M. thers was an earthquake, the disturbances running from north to south, lasting bal! a minute, and ces light afasks ia the sarth. There , but the alarmed, ATAL CELEBRATIO Than Thirty Burned and Maimed, More POWDER CAN EXPLODES. Men and Boys Were Loading an Old Can: non When the Powder Became Ignited From the Heated Metal Victims, A despatoh from Asheville, N, ( says: A rrowd of one hundred more boys were firing a Christmas salute from an Christ or men and old cannon on the outskirts of town when a can of thirty pounds ol powder exploded in the thick of the erowd Ihirty or forty persons were in} none, it Is belleved, fatally I'be cannon was fired then Joseph Finch, an employe of the South ern Railway Company, picked up the pow der can and began to reload the piece I'he gun had not been swabbed, and the moment the tiny stream of powder struck the heated metal there was a flash and the powder ex earth mas day, ured, but varal tine and tremble nent later there was 4 8 whic ing from a nearby hill rose from the expl blindly here Am 1 made sick the hearts of those In the smoke wion I wateh hey saw i and there the and rising, onl 4 ily rushed al ti Wo me | was torn « | the skin | Charlies Farw MANY POSTOFFICES ROBBED, | Government a Loser to the Extent $6,000 by Operators in North Carolina Charl et sary Te seversi Jun ired i I'l PS WAS S600 red ile, where the robbers i the ‘ured a enna aira bberies in anni nes, la all ba red some #6 000 ty. Before beglaning operations postoffi tand this State they ve oe Vir '8 in and West Virginia. ABOUT NOTED PROPLE yf Teck, who stances was jeft in Alo ually feath of his Duchess, has had palace of n by the King of Wurtemburg vernor Wolcott, of Massachusetts is visiting the West, was recently bl at Colorado Springs, at Adams, of Colorado, pre ratiior by the Duke miortable cireun a wii given a reception (rovernor poed that Ex-President (le Secretary Gage will make address the Win Presbyter Ind, ne opening of at Warsaw, xt the only Britis} in Diy Britis The Duchess of York Princess who has ever given her name foreign town. Mavville, near Boulogne, was shristened after the future queen consort fir ‘Squire Bancroft, who was knighted at | the sage time that distinetion was bestowed on Henry Irving. is coming to this country to read from Dickens, He quit the dramatic stage five years ago. I'he reception tendered F, Marion Craw. ford by the New England Press Club in Bos ton recently is claimed to have been the most brilliant affair ever held by that organ ization, J. H Carroll, recently appointed Consul to Messina, Italy, is a descendent of Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, and Is said to be the only one of the family who was ever a He publican, Dr. Tristram, Chancellor of the Diocese of Canterbury, at a Copsistory Court, beid in St. Paul's, London, the other day, ordered that the crosses, the pieture of the Virgin Mary and the crucifixes in the Church of St Mark, Marylebone, be removed for the reas. on that they have been used for supersti tious purposes, Tamie David, the Hinda convert, who now in Chieago trying to “Christianize the Christians,” lost bis caste in India by enter- ing the liquor business and becoming a saloon-keeper in Ceylon Archileacon Willlam Montgomery Brown of the Protestant Episcopal Chureb, io Cleveland, bas decided to become coadjutor Bishop of Arkansas, and will be consecrated in Little Boek on Jangyary 25, A New Gun Made. , The army gun factory at the Watsrviieg Arsenal, N. ¥., has just completed, and {= about to sind to the Sandy Hook proving grounds, a new type of the Gordon rapid- fire goo. It is a five-inch gun using fixed ammunition, and If the claims for the new wool mechanism are realized at the test, is ft be the most effective type of secondary ordianes ever produced In this country. FOREIGN AFFAIRS The medal which was recently presented to Lieut. BR, E, Peary, U. 8. N.. the Arotie explorer, by the Edinburgh Geographies! Boclety, and which was subsequently lost, bas been found io a London theatre In view of the disquieting news from Island of Crete, two Freach bevn made ready to sall for moment's notice, the have at erulsers the island a The second Duleh chamber biil abolishing the export d BURY has adopted a ity on Java ned The Queon Regent Isabella has sig the appointment of Gonzalez Munor Captain-General of the Philipplue Islands I'he Berlin National that Wilhelm Joest, the cently in Australia, Gren as Zeitung announces exfpprer, died re. ‘on wd Charles Helmbold, who threatened ( sul General Osborne lo | io an insane gayvium., ndon, was plac Lady Millnls, wid John Millals, died in London, Italy is reported posal to act in the Chinese que tude of the powers is Ww sir to have declined a pro with England The of iree of common #tion, uitimate atti great anx lety tu Europe, Confliets between mans in Crete Christians and Mussel renewed, stand) Pi wrs engaged hinve been Hindu m The Allahabad Cises the British neer criti in the wi in India, I'he Bengal Chamber of it Commeres Bovernmes the Char Henry T les MABEY FEARED DISGRACE in Accounts Causes an Easpres Agent to Abscond With 810 _ 900 NO DEMAND FOR INDEMNITY Sen. sntional Story From Madrid Fo t heard hat have claims t estithaleo was At the SBpani d be made LAW AGAINST HIP POCKETS, A Billi to Pravent Pistol Carrying in South Carolina. A. Me2Callk jue OF Representa iv Ik, me i sept fr H is going lina by instituting a kind of drew He has prepared a bill that be one of many on the same legisiature, meen’ed stop the killings in reln will doubtless to prevent subject be introduced in the to carrying © The bil makes it unlawful to wear what is known as a “hip pocket” in the rearo! trousers or coat and fixes the minimum penalty for the vio- ation of the law al six imprison ment and $100 fine, Weapons, mouths Killed By a Falling Gun, David Cutline ! eighteen years old. and member of an influential mercautiie family in Sumter , accidently killed himself at Packsvilie, Sumter edunty, The voung man bad been bird shooting and re- wnrned to the store of his brother in the wvening., Leaning bis gun agaiust a post he started into Bis brother's house, The muzzle of the gun slipped from its resting place and fell. Cutline turned to cateh it, pat was too late, The hams rs striking upon the floor both barrels were discharged, the contents taking effect in his side and ranging upward, producing almost instant death. county, 8. Fowler Cycle Company Fallure, The plant of the insolvent Fowler Cyole Manufacturing Company, Chicago. which inventoried at $73,000, and the book ae eounts amounting to $73,000, were sold to Frank T. Fowler, for some time president of the company. The price Rid was #25000 Shot His Brother To Death. Will and John Livingston, brothers, of Blue Creek Mines, Alabama, quarreled over a trival affair and the formershot the latter to death. The murderer fe thirteen years old. Hels in jail at Birmiogham. i SUFFERING INDAWSON, Miners Insist That Provisions are Scarce, Returned SMALL HOPE OF RELIEF, Or Vassuge in Some Places as High as an Making the of Dogs snd Sleds Next to Impossibie Helief Yet to * Heard From dinary House, be Parties Wash on, says whe there mpd, Iw on there this i into the fo 1 winter, thor him surely He examine d situation ighly sift! he int there would itt, and in of Qlympla and kaya, and alter satisfying ber i starvation he sold with Tom Btory, of [ Beattie | drawing OI PAD Y Frank Bal Wash Bol Lrivnn, « " the Daws great am we Deen al Dave { ree lege wpe frye K, ther re Dawson 4 FIELD OF LABOR tank a kK ARRinsi a a Won r Unio stacy bh weial Dem twenty-five vhes in and at nk cag sit « Khansas City “trading pany has ng stamj been visited by the sheriff, Five hundred Italian isborers at Byron, N. Y., struck for 15 cents per hour, Bridgeton, N. J Biowers' Union Tha BRI (rinse Labor Union held a “municipal fran Central discuss Hartford mass meeting to chises,” Baffalo Board that all printing for the Union label, Fifiven hundred people attended York mass meeting in aid of the English engineers, New York Cleakmakers’ Union is discuss ing the advisavility of demanding the eight- hour day, The uslonz of Indiana will hold thelr State demonstration at lodianapolis on Labor Day next year. Mayor Quiney ol! Boston, who was re elected Inst week, established a municipa’ printing plant last year, the only place of the sort in America, The co-operative societies in what known as the Colne Valley, a district start. ing about nine miles from Manchester, Eng- land, are making an effort to start a woolen mii, Previous to the recent strike the United Mine Workers of America had less than 20, 000 members. Today there are 80,000 in the union. Hon. Martin Dodge wants a State Electric Rajlway in Ohio, and advocates the abolish ment of canals, The steam shearing plast put in at Wol ton, Wyo., has been taken out and shearing will be done by hand next season. orderad bear of Aldermon has city must a a New striking LATE INVENTIONS, penhoider, a sliding plece being set inside ihe barrel to clamp the pen in position for ane, aud a knob set In a slot in the barrel 1 ‘ores the sliding plece outward and relenss the pen To prevent the extinetion of the flame neyele lamps io high winds an sdditonsl tunrd Is used to cover the top of the #hie bie | Fens ean be quickly removed from a new b ¢ extends along the front and sides op aud prevents sudden renching the ght To d« with the MIrpets & new fastener is slocks Hwy of met which are inserted under the edge « and grooved ends of to CHE Pel cRanot whi formed he carpet ort the the Insects have sections | Upp sthed rods, which old in Faw. lulo a recentiy pat ¥ 1 i nied beg fohas a frame with a CANO} 6 the eentre of t} wound the cords rauk aod chain ndjust its helght esigued flour blo and w | sifter bottom turned 1} the bi nas in al the sped wire sersen rests a | 4 crank and t wing of such shag to prevent flour iter except when turned 3 the & Foy a bolt f tha WILL NOT STOP SEALING. Lard Salisbury Declines To Enter Into the Agreement Proposed Lost a Torpedo Killed by a Deputy Sherift. to the Cincinnati Et The German Governmnt Willing mal government has «x reser Rrant an &x4 ¢ Tikie iin isturt res ally at Bresiau ited Erdman, of K United States { 1 transis Hiates Faerth, Charles W was apf ted erth being rie ires.a A Brave Littie Giri ¢ and Annie Neale whose parents were jeft near Fraskiin, Pa in thelr home Fhe foro fell ints fire and her was ignited death, alone a | grate Khe was In in trviag to nie also was severely burned 16 CADDO recover raed to And ve save the life of her sister it is belix that s! Soothern Coal Miners Strike the Dayton and iron mines, Chattanooga, are on a strike ecause of a dispute over wages for mining Both the miners and the operators have so far refused all overtures looking 10 a coy ference, It Is stated that several of other mines along the Cincinnati Southern Hailroad will be affected, About 400 employes of COR lw For An American Naval Station, A despatch from Copenhagen to the Loo don Datly Mail says the Washington execu tive has made overtures to Denmark for the sale of a narrow but oarefully defined sireteh of land in Northwestern Greenland, where the Americans intend to establish na- val and coaling stations, Run Down by an Express. Peter Piuter, aged 5, was instantly killed on the railroad at Stesiton, Pa, asd bis playmate, Henry Teapemaski, aged 9, was fatally injured. Tuoey were playing on the Pennsylvania Railroad track while a freight train was passing, and did not hear the ap- proach of the Niagara express, which strues them, They Broke Through the lee. While skating at Rifton, on Walkhill Creek, N. Y.. Miss Mary V. Van Barber, aged 23 years, broke through the jos, Edward McMichael went to her rescue, crawilsg along the fee, but the foe broke under him, and be was precipitated into the water, Both were drowned, Gon George 8 Batohelloer, of New York, will sell for Cairo on this week where he will resume his piace as one of the Judges of the Eygptian Mixed Court, upos whieh ' pench he has already served ten years. : THE KEYSTONE STATE Latest Gleaned fro Various Parts. KILLED THE CONDUCTOR News Robbers Hold mit Murder Upn Trolley Car and Com Death Hodes the Engine Two Brothers Siruck on = Crossing and Killed Resented Husband's Fjection and Caused Panic in a Street Car Another daring bold up robbery and ler was commitited near Awedelas ia distance below N/ ristown, Ir ar Conductor Ma was shot and instantly Kilie after which they rot wes Ww hier liey ( rt i Bn pel him, re ¢ L~049 reached thie a short 4i W As LT the i Lhe slarted rear piatform tent ¥ Genuy ha ding under the 7 was well IBRves tw lors, scons — cn Making a Throwing Stick. 3 ’ # f nof Au lia has a wax wl 4 Rit spear that our boys w i de usually ma i Young tree in fits the end with two fingers nk and fin b around the throw he make An expert bushman ean ards in Iwo » thon is ready to throw hori a spear several way, often bird on a distant limb An American boy could make such a thrower, using only his jackknife, and ith it he could have any amount of fun. The picture will show how the thrower is used, asa. ——I A — i ic Oldest Crocodile in the Word, One of the most interesting speci- mens in the British Museum is a crove dile more than 2.000 years old. It isa big, well-preserved specimen, and on its back there is a whole family of lit tie crocodiles. Years before the Christian era the Egrptians worshiped crocodiles among their animal deities, and many speci mens were kept at great expense in their parks and royal gardens, where they were attended by priests and giv. en all sorts of dainty morsels of food When these crocodile gods died they were embalmed and plsced in the tombs slong with the mummies of oth. er sacred animals, This particular croc odile was prepared by dipping it in wax and piteh, which rendered it hard and shiny, and it lay in one of the pyra- mids century after century, until the Egyptian government dug it out and presented it to the British Museum. ie este et——— nor It appears there is as much faith to be piaced in the stories told of Klon- dike fortunes as there is in most for SS hundred » accurately 80 as ix w on NA A
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