THE NEWS, EE Notices have been posted at all the plants of the Thomas Iron Company, Allentown, Pa., stating that wages have been advanced 10 per cent, The Ohio prohibition convention in ses sion at Delaware has nominated De J. W, Bashford, of Delaware county, for Governor, Three miners are dead and several others sre slek at the Blanca minlog camp at Hooper, Col, from drinking wood aleohol, he dead are James Bowerman, John BR. Himer and John Anderson. John Krousi, ehief machanieal engineer of he General Electrical Company, died at jehenectady, N. Y., aged Ofty-six years, It vas to him that Edison gave the task of con- tructing the first phonograph. Governor Rooseveit, of Now York, oele- wated Washington's Birthday by affixing iis signature to the bill to prevent the dese- wational flag. Lieutenant Scott, charged with assaulting vith intent to murder Colonel Colson, both +f the Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, was iequitted on preliminary trial at Anniston, ila, The charges against Licutenants fackey and Phelps, of the Fourth Wiseon- in, were withdrawn, Colonel Colson is till confloed to his room by his wound. A snowslide occurréd at Silver Piame, Jol, earrying away all the bulidings of the jeven-Thirty mine and burylog four men, wo of whom have been rescued alive, The ither two have not been found and are sup- josed to be dead, They sre Besjamin §elson and Jobn Anderson. The miners vho were caught wire asleep in thelr sabine, | | i | i ! | | | lormed in Chicago, announced that plans and been completed for the erection of a $25,000 monument in Chicago to the mem- ory of Washington, Dr. George N. Simmone, of Lincoln, Nebr., unanimously elected editor of the Jouraal of the American Medical Association, A. L. Jennings, graduate of the law school of West Virginia University, acd a former prosecuting attorney o! Casvadian County, Okia., was convicted of tralia robbery in the tenced to life imprisonment, A box sent to the local express office, Bald- win, Ohlo, has been found to contain a hu man body. The box is addressed to Dr. Emerick, who has not lived at Baldwin for ten or twelve years, It bas been decided to postpone the sale ol the floating doek at Havana, ceived not being acceptable, KEPT ON EDGE. Sy Rebels Begin Worrying Tactics Along the Line. — a CURFEW ORDER ISSUED. United States Monitor Hurls Ten Inch Shells Into the Enemy's Ranks—Gen. Otis Insists That Streets of Maniia Must be Cleared by Night Two Americans Killed and Ten Wounded, " Manila, Philippine Islands, (By Cable,)— There has been fighting at poluts aiong the American lines again, The monitor Monad- nock threw shells over the American lines futo the ranks of the insurgents, dolog terri- bie execution. Fires started at various places outside of the city proper hed the effect of smoking out the rebels from their trenches and driving them toward the beach. Two men killed snd ten wounded make up the list of ecasuaities on the American #ide during the last twenty-four hours, With daylight the en*my began worrying tactics at various parts of the American ifne, apparently for the purpose of withdrawing attention from affairs luside the eity, An attempt was made to rush through our extreme left, near Calooean, but it was promptly checked by sa hot and effective masketry and artillery fire, In the meantime small bodies of rebels, evidently some of those engaged in the cow- ardly work at Tondo, spread out between the city and the outposts, Every available Ahislls Huried at the Rebels, From 810 10.30 A. M, the United States ers’ Union at Menlo, Ga., states that the The statement from iogist to the effect peach erop in Georgia had been destroyed did not apply to the mountaln-protected Menlo fruit district of North Georgia. Livus W. Dexter, aged eighty-six, wealthy resident of Plainfield, N. J., bis bome from He originator of ‘angel A expected, Entor pneumonia, cake,” baker by ness in New York, and Boston. The estimate of losses to in Colorado, made Charles Gresswell, reaches an total of $200. 000, covering 4,200 head of eattls and 47.50¢ head of sheep. A large pumber of sheep base an estimate, The steamer Rajterdam, which just arrived at New York, reports thaton February 6 she sighted the British steamer Rossmore, from Liverpool for Baltimore, In a sinking condi. tion, and took off all on board the Rissmore, forty-two ia all, lucisdiog eight cattiomen. Both houses of the North Carolina Legls~ lstare have passed anew election law, iu the form of a constitutional amendment, which, if adopted, will, it is estimated, dis. franchise 50 000 colored voters, Lord Charles Beresford was given & ban. quet in Chicago, at which he made a spréeh, pleading for ‘“‘everiasting friendship” be- tween Britain and America, ® The Texas raliroad commission asd th raliroads of that State bave made a coun promise on the question of rates, Juan G. Green and bis room mate, J. W, Funsten, was found dead In bed at their boarding house ig New Orleans, Ls. From best evidences the deaths were the indirect result of the eold wave, The gas meter was frozen and it is believed that the young men attempted to light the gas acd failed to turn off the cock. During the night the thaw came, and the room being tightly closed the #as soon accumulated in sufficient quantity to cause death, Dr. George H. Btone, a well-known yel- low fever expert, died at Savanoab, Ga. from henrt disease, Ho was born at Alblon, NK. Y., nod served ia th~ Northern army, lo- cating io Bavansah in 1873, Dr, Stone was for two years president of the Georgia Mea- eal Society. ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE, General Bir Arthur Cotton Is one of Eng- iand’s oldest soidiers, being In his 96th year, Congressman Johoson, of Indians, is a brother of Richard Underwood Johnson, the author. Major Clement B. White, of Selma, Ala. is the sole surviving brother-iu-law of Abraham Lineoly, W. T. RB. Preston, of Toronto, has been ap pointed Chief Commissioner of Immigration for Canada, Dr. Edward Murphy, of Now Harmony, fod,, has given $42,000 for the town's public fib , which was also a gift from him, Professor Blanton, of the Iowan Agricul. ira! College, has just presented to that in. station & chime of bells which be had cast abroad, » President Harper. of the University of Chicago, is a belisver in athletics and Is fre- juently to be found exercising in the uni versity gymnasiom, FP. Campbell Bayard, president of the Royal Meteorologieal Society of Loadon, res senitly sald that the statistics gathered by im showed the United States Weather Bu. rena to bo the best organization of its kind in the world, ’ Mrs, Benjamin Harrison will secompany her husband whea the Ex-President goes abroad this spring In the interests of the Venezuelan Commission, The Crown Princes of Slam will soon study soldiering with a British iofastry regiment at Aldershot, F. B. Loomis, United States Minbster to Venezueln, Is making a trip up the Orinoes, visiting wvery city on route to study the shance for exten commereinl relations, Bishop Thomas M. Clark, of fihode Island, who becomes, by the desth of Bishop Wile ams of Connectlout, preshling bishop of ihe Episcopal Chureh, was graduated from enemy as indicated by the signal corps, At eleven o'clogk theres were sharp en- drove the enemy back, From the high towers of the city fires can outside, Boms of these are probably due to the Monadnoek's shells, Clouds of Smoke, A cloud of smoke hovered over the oity, conveying the impression to people about the bay and in the ouiside districts that the whole eity is burning, The rebels betwesn the clty and the out. heavy smoke, Sharpshootars at various parts of the line tration of the morning's attack, THE PEOPLE WARNED, General Otis Orders Them to Keep Of the Strests at Night Major-General Otis lsrued a general order inhabitants of Manila, until their homos after seven o'clock in the even- The general also warns incendiaries Extraordioary predautions have been taken for the suppression of further trouble, perience will effectively quell the disturbing element, I is currently reported that the natives have threatened to burn Escolata and the walled city. Beores of rebels have been arrested In the Tondo district, The band of sixty rebels, having two carioads of arfhs and ascouire- ments, was eaptured In a house, Business is practically suspended tem por. arily. THE LAFAYETTE sTATUE, France Accepts the Offer of the People of the United States. Washington, Ib, C., (Special, )—M. Jales Cambon, the French ambassador, has re. ceived a letter from M. Leyques, Minister of Publle instruction and Fine Arts of Frane~, aceepting from the people of the United States the offer of a monument to General Latayette. The letter is as follows: Paris, December 17, 1808, Mr. Ambassador—1 have the honor to in- form you that in compliance with the desire expressed by the American committes for the Lafayette monument, the government of the French republio accepts the offer of the monument, 1 beg you to be the interpreter of our Bp preciation unto the members of the commit. toe, and inform them that the monument given by them will Le placed In caw of the squares of the court of the new Louvre, which will be called by the name of the square Lafayette, {Signed ) G, Lesqguzs, SMALLPOX RAGING IN TEXAS, Reports From Many Towns Indiente the Disease 1s Spreading, Dallas, Tex., (Special, j—The smalipox situation has become 80 alarming that the distriet courts were closed and the Juries dismissed, Five deaths have been reported, There are ton cases lo the pest house and a number sisewhere, A iarge number of sus pected cases are under syrveilinnce, Reports from Cleburn, Weatherford, San Diego, Cor- pus Coristi, and other Texas towns indicate the disease is spreading. Wheeler May Go to Manila, Washington, D. ©. (Speelal,)—General Wheeler received an invitation fron the Michigan delegation in Congress, headed by Representative Smith, of Grand Rapids, to visit Miohigan In June aad attend the sg eam pment of Stats troops at P . Gen, Wheeler sald he would attend if in the cous. try at that time, This reservation, it is us derstood, was in view of the possible order- fog of the groeral to the Philippi FOUR Ki Finmes Envelop Thres Buildings Several : Pearsons lojured, Hartford Clty, lod, (Special.)—By & mys- terious expiosion following 8 fire in the Diek buliding, four persons lost their lives and three were injured, explosion Jit ed the third floor and dropped it down on the second. Fiames enveloped the Dick, the Willinme aud the Mason buildings, Four charted bodies were taken from the ruins, Bone and William Jon Ballard, No Ihe injured are * ———— Two More Regiments of Indian Fighters Ordered to the Philippines. Washington, D, C,, (Special.)—The War Department bas arranged to despateh fur- ther reinforcements to General Otis, st Manila. The regiments selected are the Ninth Infantry, at San Antonio, Tex, Both theao regiments will go by way of San Fran- olsco, It Is expected that the transports taking them will be able to leave March 15. By that date General Otis will have re- celved ull the reinforcements now afloat and bound for Manila, save those on the Sheri. dan, which sailed from New York last weok, This will give bim 0,000 more troops, made up of the lower of the United States army— regulars tried in Indian service, and most of them inured to the Cuban olimate in its worst aspects, having participated in the campaigns there during the last wet season. Every report that comes to the War De- partment goes to convince the officials that an offensive campaign must be immediately assumed In the Philippines, This fs no longer a matter of chofce, but of necessity, against which, the officials say, sentimental considerations cannot stand, In their opin. fun, the lives and health of American troops pow in the neighborhood of Manila depend upon the initiation of such a campaign. General Otis’ report of the big fire in Manila, while agreeing closely with the press re- ports, makes mention of a rather formidable demonstration by the insurgents near Caloocan, the seene of some of the heaviest fighting succeeding the first engagement with the fnsurgents on the 15:hb. taken as an Indication that the rebels have not yet been thoroughly impressed with the strength of the American arms. A disquiet. ing feature noted In the press reports is the presence of small bodies of armed [nsur- gents within the Ameriean outposts, possi- bly an evidence that our lines are too far extended and too thin around Manila, realized that it will be necessary to sweep the country clear of all hostile olements, The task will be difficult because of the re. semblance of the Filipinos 10 one another, ‘which would make it bard to distinguish between & non-combatant and an out-and- out rebel, Bometimes thers 13 no such dis- tinetion, the one resolving ots the other at short notles; for itis patent now that the Fillpinos cannot be counted upon to observe any of the rales of war, and must be fought on the same basis as Indians, A most serious problem confronts Genera Otis in the protection of Maulis and the sab- urban towns from fire, not only because of ness establishments the houses the flimsiest bamboo, hung with soresns, of bamboo, separated, s0 as to allow free olrculation of alr. It is power of almost any person to these houses [rom without or sot fire the ravages of a single fire in a quarter s« j lconstructed might easily reach the hall. million-doliar point mentioned by General Otis in bis despateh,. The foreign is of better construction, but still many of thoes | the older residents seem to find cooler thas bouses of more solid congiruetion, NEGHROS ASK FOR AID, Istnnd, Manila, Philippine Islands, (By Cable.) on board the ships of Hear-Admiral Dewey's fleet in the bay fired a salue in honor of Washington's Birthday, four commissioners from the Island of Negros had aa interview with Major-General Otis and informed him esptany preposition the Americans might offer. The insurgents bave been from the island entirely, Although the llolio rebels have given the people of Negros much trouble, especially in gros have persistent'y held aloof, snd now, through the eommissioners, announced that they wanted the advice and help of Ganeral tls, Tae latter assured them that the Amer- cans would provide an acceptable govers- ment, and, in the meantime, be dasiructed them not to pay tne rebels acythiog., The Negros Commissioners were delighted with thelr reception, Agninaide’s Ontburst, issued a manifesto scoepting the situation caused by the “unexpected provoestion of the Americans,” while lamenting the hostii. every means’ In his power, “makiog bumil. iating concessions and tolerating losults and cutrages of the army of occupation agains the people of Manila, He adds that he Is prepared to sacrifice everythiog to maintain the “integrity of the national honor,” ealls upon all “to wii. ness the good faith and honesty” of his in- tentions, and eompiaios that he has been treated as a rebel “because | defended the national interests instead of becoming the tool of the American preposterous preten- stone,” The rebal leader further alleges that the eouniry is uoasimous in his sappori, that the peoples “will perish rather than accept the odious American dominion,” and alieg. ing that “even the corrupt Spacish domia- ion is preferable.” To Avenge the Vallen, Washington, D, C., (Special, )~The auth. orities here are giving close attention to the daily deve'opments in the military situation in the Philipploes, and have decided to push the eampaign against the rebellious follow. ers of Aguloaldo with energy. Every casualty report that eomes from General Otis notes the wounding or killing of some of the American troops by what are practically sharpstiootears oa the other side, The main body of the insurgents have pow fallen back well out of the llue of effec tive range of the gunboats, but as the Ameri ean troops have been obliged to extend thelr Hues in order 10 protect the waterworks and ®iso to take advantage of the natural topo. graphical defenses of Manila the troops are exposed to the fire of these gueriling without au opportunity to retaliate, for the enemy flee belore an sdvance in foroe, dave learn The insurgents, apparently, ed that they hope to cops with American troo) ov floss Fig like even terms in & roguine sot bate. GEORGIA HEAVY LUSK, ——— Recent Cold Wave Cost Her Poople Nev. eral Million Dollars, Atiata, Gn, (Bpacial.)~Fuiesnstar Mars i A FIRED, conn mn Market Place and Many Houses Burned, ———_— DONE BY INSURGENTS. Hundreds of Inhabitants Rendered Home: loss and Huddied in Terror in Streets Rebels Take Advantage of Confusion to Instigate Uprisings—Fire on Americans Through a Window, Manlls, (By Cable) ~Wednesday night was one of terror to thousands of the in- habitants of Manila, the rebels making good their oft-repeated threats to tha extent of burning acres of bulldings, wounding an officer and three men by firing through win. dows during the excitement, A large market place was among the first to burn, and between siz and seven hundred residencesand business houses have been destroyed. Files were started at several points simuitancously, and spreading with great rapidity, resisted all efforts to control them, At oight o'clock an incendiary fire oc. curred in 4 block of brick bulidings oecy- pled by Chinese on the Calle the Santa Cruz distriet. A stiff breeze was structure caused the blezs to spread with alarmiog rapidity. The eity fire depart. ment was hopelessly incompetent, and the English volunteer brigade from Banta Mesa Was summoned, and, with a modern engine pumplag adequate streams from the canal, succeeded, after four bours work, In getting the blaze under control. Meantime, the entire bloek and the greater part of the others across the street were compietely gutted, Hundreds of lnbabitants were rendered homeless, The Chiness and natives Hued the ad- furnitare and other portable g direction, mile, when the alarm was first given, Gen, police arrangements, thoroughly patrolled and doubled, Every avaliable man was the was way of men, and the hose eut five times, ale vielnity of the blaze being lots and guarded until the excites In many instances the ns. compaliod to use harsh measures. The The danger trom reuit in the + 80d the only light in certain the city was burning regio: parts of Shortly after midalebt was started in the Tondo district, where the thickest, and when the firemen aad soldiers attempted to work a» regula fred from the baiidings, The firemen, escorted tv esvdod to clean out y fire was unbesded, the windows i and roofs of The Thirteenth Minge- Third Artillery and the Tenth Pennsylvania, Bullets flew in every direetion, every street In the Tondo and Binonde dis. Captain Robinsop teenth Minnesots, wounded, Many timid persons, Imagining that the and three men American lines and were advancing iato the corper by a guard, The sounding of a na- firing lent color to the story. Chisess crossed the bridges and plazas un- der fire, hurrylug with their bundles 10 the Chinese consulate, All night long the fire AWRY tows of houses and devastating acres of tereliory. The damage was inestimable, With day light punitive measures wers decided upon snd the Americans, though tired after thelr Heopless night's work, soon cleared the district of every sintive alter a slight resist. ance, INNOCENCE OF DREYFUS, Statement that M. Manan Will Ask Court to Annul the Conviction, Parts, (By Cable )—Toe Soir AnBougons will sabmit bis report dn the Dreytos affair uwexi week. The report wiil ask the Court of Cassation, it Is said, to asoul the convie- tion, without ordering a retrial If this be correct, it shows that the evi. dence before the court not oniy proves Drey- fus innocent, Lut that the crime for which be was punished never existed, as the Frenen law allows the Court of Cassation to quash & sentence withoat retrial only when there is proof thet the offense alleged was never perpetrated, General Miles Has a Claim, Akron, 0. (Special. )—Gen, Nelson A, Mites bas find exception 10 the COW Mine sloner’s report of the sale of the property of the Wegmer Printing Company. Gen, Miles has a claim szainet the Werner Company tor $25,000, whion the sommissioners refused to allow, The Werner Company pubiisted Gen, Milles’ book, and he alieges the work was not done according to contract, He presented a claim for damuges for the above amount, to Death’ J-~The dead body of Who was frozen to the recent cold soap, bas Just ear Havover, this county. Mes, Largont was a widow, nearly 80 years of age, and lived alone, ec ests FOREIGN AFFAIRS, A Woman | GUMEZ IS HONOBED, A Grand Banquet In His Honor at Masten a8p~Given in the Thestrs. : Matanzas, (By Cable.) The banquet ten. dered here to General Maximo Gomez wes a brillient affair snd well attended, The Junta Patriotica, which had charge of the entertaloment, refrained from inviting Bpaniards which displeased the Cuban com- mander, The banquet was given at the theatre; the guests numbered 200, und 4,000 spectators were present. The boxes were crowded with Indies belonging to the best clreles of soclety, and the publie generally crowded the four tiers of galleries, Gen, Wilson sat on the right of General Gomez, snd the Cuban General Betancourt was seated on bis left. Among the occupants of the boxes were Goueral Banger and his staff, the Cu- ban Generals Vegas, Boza, Garelas, Carlile, Bojar, Renus, Ciement and Gomez; the Mayor, the civil governor of Ma.sszas, the members of the Junta, the Clty Counell, the prominent merchants of Matanzas, the members of the bar, Mes. Wilson snd Mr, snd Miss Banger, A pleture of George Washington was prominently dispianyed on the wall, General Gomez, during the banquet, left iis seat, snd gallantly offered some flowers THE KEYSTONE STATE News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest a ——— AN AWFUL TRAGEDY. Mrs, Cora Fahrenkamp, Two Ohildren and su Friend Asphyxisted—FProbably Pend for Three Days Mystery Sure rounding the Murder of “Honest John" Blevins. In a pretty little cottage at No, 1416 North Fifty-second Street was uncovered ons of the most distressing tragedies ever known io West Philadelphia. In s small bedroom on the second floor four bodies were dis. sovered that showed sevse-shocking evie dence of having been lleiess for probably three days, They wera those of Mrs, Cora { Fahirenkamp acd her two small children by a former husband, Fiors Thomas sud Willie Thomas, and of & woman of middie age, whose identity is as yet masked in mystery. There was no sign of violence, Death is | believed to have been due to asphyxiation by gas, loliowing the intoxiestian of thetwo women, The Fabrenkamp family bas occu. pled the cottage since Iast October. Its members wera only slightly ksown to the | aeighbors, Charles Fahrenkamp fs a trave sling salesman, at present absent on & busi- jin Cuba, The speaker referred glowiugiy 10 oess trip. He was formerly 8 commission , Washington and was loudly oheered, | broker on South Front Btrest. As his pres Benor Julle Orltz, president of the Junta, [ent whersabouts are unknown to the Phile- | welcomed General Gomez to Matsozas, The | delphin police, bis first knowledge of the { Cuban commander answered, thanked bie | distressing desth that bas overtaken his | bosts und referred feellngiy to the dark family will probably come through the { days of the revolution, He said bis grati- | newspapers. The room where these cold | tude at the welcome accorded him coud not | forms lay dead was io a state of grest dis. | xpress the deep feelings of his beart, He order. About the house were many empty { onde no reference to pelitics, and was 80 | and bal! empty beer botties, and a large | hoarse he could hardly articulate, | quart flask of whisky, with perhaps two has been ll for several days, sud looks tired | fingers of the Hguor, was found in the parior {to Mrs, Wilson and Mre, and Miss Sanger. Benor Labostida, in the course of Lis re { arks, sald the authorities at Washioglon | would pever govern this country against its | wihil, 8 remark which was loudly eheered, | The house also cheered President MeKin- { ley. Senor Rivero sald General Gomez would { never leave Cuba, Heo was to bring his fam- | lly here from San Domingo, and stay always Gomez out, The banquet wus over at 11 o'clock. | First Vietim of the War. ! 0., (Special, )}—-The remains Meeks, the American killed in the Spanish-American War, arrived | bere, haviog been brought from the Nationa! Cemetery at Key Wost, where they were buried last May, The body was placed in & | bere, and will i Ciyde, of leat rss vault Le Luried proprisie ceremonies, Members o Ohio acted as pail-bearers, and an i | throng gathered at the depot to receive the { the Sixikb ITI | body. i To Kieet Dingley's Successor, i Augusta, Me., (Special, }-Governor Pow. | ided to L 10 oh eiegil of th of { dig a fo | ers has dec June 19 OB 8 special G8 B SUCCERSOT o lute Jr... us member ¢ Becond district of Maine, gress uid ar ite! i Nelson Dingley, or exXira session th of Congress Le enlied to Al an early dale, the present intention i be reconsidered, Mr. Choate Starts for England. New York, N. ¥., (Special bh HH. { Choate, the new ambassador to the court ol | St, James, sativd Wednesday on the Ameri | can lner St. Paul, Many | the dock to bid him farewell, and there was | | mueh tooting of whistles and waving: of | i fags. J ome; persons wers al “ i Becretary Bliss’ Farewell! Washington, D. C,, Necr-lary | Bliss took final ieave of bis : ciate, and jell at 10 o'clock over the Penne ayivania Raliroad for New York, He accompanied to the depot by his successor, | Beeretary Hitchcock, and by Assistant Secs | | retacies Byan and Davis and other friends, i {Bpecial, ) od official asso. Was * FIELD OF LABO & i i We export oysters to Europe, i Spain eontalus 461 coal mines, ! 8°. Paul dairymen will organize, ! Franoe bonsts women letter carriers, i St. Paul steamflitters will reorganize, Ht. Paul baso't an idle unlon brewer, i Alabama may establish a State printery, (irenoble, Fravee, has a municipal res. | taurant, . i Delaware printers want the uaiou label on | 2 i i i i 1 | | : ail Siate prioting. Atlanta (Ga. ) railroad shopmen have been conceded the eight-hour day, The Indiana Legislature has been asked to ereate a iabor commission, Alabama unionists want tea hours to cone stitute a day's work in mines, Muncie’ (Ind.) tulldiog trades want the sighi-hour day on and alter April 2, A Bt, Paul union clerk addressed the Mip- isters’ Association ou conviet labor, The Hartford City (Ind.) Glass Company did something that merits praise. There was glass Jost in the fire. The workmen bad no legal right to receive pay therefor, but the gins company made ita point to get at the value of the rollers, flattened and nafisitebied, and paid the workmen. The iil amounted to about #1,000, The New York Furniture Workers’ Tool insurance Fund bas 710 members. Over #53,0.0 worth of insursace has been writ. ten, The Dablin (Ireland) Mill Bawyers and Woodeuttiog Machicists' Union gave $500 to a member who bas been disabled for lite, The Ohio State Arbitration Board in its annual report recomm nds that isws be Cigarette stumps lay about The entire house was 1urned topsy turvy., The furnishings were modest but not poor. Framed engraviogs sod crayons bung vpon the walls, sa piano stood agaiost the wall, Above it bung a large crayon portrait of the unfortunate mar whose home lies wrecked, Deputy Coronel Woodrow arrived an hour after the discov. ery. By letters a the house sod by the word of neighbors the identity of all but the dark, heavy woman was established, The boy on the bed was Wille Thomas, the gir was Flora Thomas, the blonde woman wa their mother, Mrs, Cora Fabrenkamp, wils Lelow stairs, on mantels, Boarders Seek Their Cash. Mrs. Anna Mattes, of Shamokin, is alleged 10 be insane. The local Oversvers of the Poor decided to take her the Danville State Asylum, and a number of boarden who gave the woman $900 lor safekeeping are disturbed, because she declares she dow not know where the mosey fe, Mra. Mattes l.ved at Excelsior, and for years kept board. She ls worth a few thousand dollars, The mer frequentiy placed large amounts io ber pos. seasion aod always found her accounts oof. rect when a seftiement wae demanded. Early inst week a depositor asked for funds, and was astonished by ber laughing and saying tecome of if; that all of the boarders’ money was some- t 0 member where she bad placed it, Sines then the mind of Mrs. Maites bas apparently grown more usbtmianeed., The depositors - bave searched the bouse and yard and dug ap the cellar. Lut can’t jocate the hoard, IAved Over an Century. The fneral of Edward Melaroy was held n Charleston Towaship, Mr, Mcloroy was sue of the oldest citizens of the county. He was Dorn in Cleveland, 1798 and was in bis iUlst your. He setiied in Charleston Town. wip in 1887 and took up 1 600 acres of lund, He was twice married and Is survived by a amily of ten children, the oldest 71 and the roungest 17. He bas liviog forty wo grand. sixiy-two great-grasd-childeen wd ix great-great-grandehiidren, He rode rom Albany to New York on the first steam boat that ever plied In this country. The lecensed bad been a member of the Metho- He was able © read and write without the uss of his tinsses and possessed a full set of patural meth, His hair was Ji tie gray and bis face yore few wrinkles, A Treasurer's Shortage. The apparent shortage io eity and school wecounts of Johu Blevins, the murdered Jity Treasurer of Newcastle, whieh is about 167.000, bas caused the special Auditing sommitten of Councils to determios on a nore complete audit of the Treasury books, sn expert accountgnt to direct the investi. tation, The lotegrity of the dead treasurer and never been doabted, and he was known “Honest John Blevins.” There Is a grow. ng belief that the deficit and the murder ire in some WAY connected, It Is remem. sered that certain papers, the exart nature »t which is not known, were removed from de vault Ly the murderer. Many believe ‘bat notes given for loans were among those Japers. Bled at Break fas. Death came swiltiy and without warning to Miss Elin Irvin, st her home, 217 East Washington Sireet, Chambersbure, Miss labor unions, Russia exports more than 1,500,000 000 eggs every year. Iron furbaces with a capacity of 4,001,000 tons a year are idle be cause they are out of date, The Central Federated Union, of New York, passed a resolution desouncing the tion to have biennial instead of an. nual sessions of the State Leglainture, According to reports that are going the rounds of the press there are 4, 251 Mergen. thaler linotype machines now tn use in this country, This means, save an exchange, that in the pristing oralft alone at least 21,100 men have been displaced by this ma. chine since its lotroduction, Organized labor in Colorado bas introe duced bills in the Leghilature providing for the payment of laborers of thelr wages Jin inwial money of the United States; also a bill vo protect union labels, The Ohio Valley Trades and Labor Ase sembly, of Wheeling, W. Va, Is golsg to als who vote against or only bor bills before the 1 Irvin arose appacent’y in good health, She A partakes of breakfast and was sitting at the table, when she suddealy fell from the thalr to the floor. For stepmother hurried to her side only 10 nd ber dead. A physic tian, who was bestily summoned, pro- nounced the couse of death heart disease, S—— Killed at Wis Post, Anthony Rhoades, flagman at Bethayres, west of Yardiey, was siruek by an eastbound tra'n and instantly killed. He was stand ing on the track fagging a westbound train and did not wee the other (rain approaching, Doth arms and both legs wore ont
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