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in, were withdrawn, Colonel Colson is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,
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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.
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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,
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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
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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,
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Recent Cold Wave Cost Her Poople Nev.
eral Million Dollars,
Atiata, Gn, (Bpacial.)~Fuiesnstar Mars
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A FIRED,
conn mn
Market Place and Many Houses
Burned,
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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.
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To Kieet Dingley's Successor, i
Augusta, Me., (Special, }-Governor Pow. |
ided to
L 10 oh
eiegil
of th
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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
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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
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FIELD OF LABO & i
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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.
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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-
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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,
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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