A misplaced switeh at Staunton, Va, eaused a wreck on the C. & O. Road, In Which several people wers burt, A man who registered at a hotel in Rich- mond, Va., as E. N. Simpeon, ‘Savaunab, was found dead in his room. At Norfolk, Va,, Owen J. Cosgrove killed Wm. France, colored, and Policeman Edgar Holland killed bimselr, The report is again circulated that the Southern Railroad bas bought the Atlantic and Danville, George W. Blarer was shot and killed on the street at Eiizabeth, Colorado, The mur- derer escaped, Charles R. Badger, wanted at New York for embezziement, was arrested in Harrls- burg, Pa, Thomas Martin and his three children Were burned to death at Marion, Va, Arms and ammunition were sent from Richmond to Alexauvdria, Va., to equip a company of sixty-five men. More trouble is feared there, The verdict in the lynching case was that the vietim met death at the hands of parties unknown to the jury. A Big Consolidated street car was wreeked in Cleveland Ly nitro-giycerine. The off- cers arrested Charles H, Bond, charged with placing explosives on the track in June last, Testimony taken before the Mazet Com- mittee, in New York, showed that mapy rob- beries has been committed, and many offen- ders bad not been arrested. The Assoclutiou of Shoe Manufacturers, organized at Philadelphia, resolved upon an advance of from ten to twenty-five cents in the price of shoes All the yellow fever patients at the Sol- diers’ Home, at Hampton, are improving. No more deaths are expected. Georgia Jenkins and Georgia De Alvin, actresses, had a Nght with scissors at Park- ersburg, W. Va., and both were badly burt, one seriously. Six buodred cloakmakers In New York re- ceived twenty-five per cont. increase in their weokiy pay, aud resumed work. At Chatham, Vs, Dr, John C Anderson, indicted for seduction and attempted mur- der, was bailed in the sum of $12,500, Adolphus Brown, colored, was killed at Amita City, La., by whitecaps, who also flogged Edgar und Edward Barr, A lovers’ quarrel at Denver resulted in the death of Goldie McConkey, acd the fatal wounding of George Bond, Near Chicago Mrs. Edward Eckinger killed ber hustand and daughter, aod tried to kiil herself, Rack polson was found in some cheese shipped from Lewis cousty, N. Y., to Pbil- adelphia, Near Marietta, Oblo, Valentine Clark was killed by Miles Harper in Harper's house, Vineent and Eugeibert Jersioy were killed by lightning at Camp Douglas, Wis. Io West Virginia Starman Smith Levi Ramey, bis rival. Four firemen were killed Ly a live wire in Omaha, Neb, Secretary of War Root says 50.0 0 men will be sent to the Philippines Ly October, and, afterwards, ns may more as may be necessary to put a speedy end to the trouble, The coroner's jury at Bar Harbor at- tributed Sunday's disaster, by which twenty persons were drowned, to “igsuMelent con- struction of the ferry slip.” Riearo Arueant, a Havana editor, arrived at New York, on his way to Washington, to protest against the suppression of bis news- paper, John Jones, aged fifteen years, of York county, P'a., was dragged to death by a rus. Away horse, io the harness of which be be- came entangled, Ex-Governor W, ¥. Atkinson, of Georgia, died at his home, at Newman, in that state, after an lliness of ten days. He was forty- five years old. The Consolidated Mines Company, la whieh John D. Rockefeller is interested, bought property containing eight milion tons of Dessomer ore, Investigation showed that Charles A. F. Audenreith, who killed bimself a fow days ago lo Phiiadeipbia, was Onanciaily em barrassed, The Canadian gold commissioner says the output from the Klondike mines this year will be forty million dollars, An eugineer and a fireman wers killed by an accident on the Southern Pacific Road, near Dos Palos, Cal, Stinson Bros., makers of earpet, in Phila delphis, gave their men an advance of five per cent. in wages. State documents in Louisiana show that the Italians recently iynched fn that state wore nsturalized, A ense of smallpox was reported on the ship Keosingtoo, which arrived at New York from Antwerp. A radical change is being made in the Ap. Ppearanee of the Langage, mall aud expross ears on the Daitimofe and Ohio Railroad. The platforms aad hoods are being removed to Increase the element of safety and save weight. The favorite riding place of tramps is also eliminated when the platforms are removed. Ueoeral Manager Underwood bas also Issued an order to romove the numbers from locomotive tenders, so that in eases of emergency those of the same style will be interchangeable, Experiments made by the Agricuitaral Department may revolutionize the manu. facture of cheese, Irrigation of arid lands bas proved a par- tial faliure becanse 50 much water has been used that it bas brought the alkali salts to the surface, Rev. Dr. George W. Papper, prominent in the Methodist Chureb, and once Consul at Milan, Italy, died in Cleveland. Charles A. F. Autenrieth, a Philadelphia retired basker, committed suloide by shoot. ing bimsell, : Yaqui Indians bave plenty of money, arms and ammunition, nod a long snd bloody conflict Is expected, Two trolley ears on the Sea View road, at Narragansett Pler, collided. The motorman was killed nod one passenger hurt, Both ears were fired Ly the current and burned, Nearly 40 people were killed by the fail of a trolley car from a high trestie near Bridge. port, Conn. The ear turned upside down und the motor and trueks crushed In the floor and mangled the passengers, By the collapse of a gaogplank at Mount Desert Ferry, Bar Harbor, Me, at least & scorn of people were drowned, Beventeon bodies have been recovered Ly a diver, Most of those who were lost were excursion. ists from Bangor, who had come to ses the North Atlantie 8quadron, Benjaxin H. Buell, a special pension ex. amiser, murdered Lisa Wiessenberger, » 13-year-old girl, in Wasblogton by cutting her throat, President McKinley bas purchased the “MeKinley Cottage,” In Canton, for $14,200, Chieago union men sald President MeKig. ley might have to lift the corser-stonw of the new Federal bulldiog himself, killed HUNDREDS KILLED. Fatal Sweep of a Hurricane in the Antilles. DESTRUCTION AT PONCE Homacno in Ruins and Many Were Killed ~Montserrat Devastated ~ Two United Mates roldlers Injured at Kl Cayey and Muny Cavalry Horses Killed Village of Carolina Was Literally Razed. Ban Juan de Porto Rico, (By Cable} A hurrioune broke over the south coast Tuey- day morning and swept northwest. There was po abatement for nine hours, the great. et damage being done between o'clock A. M. The wires were communication with the time impossible, Itis now cbilefly carried on by couriers, At San Juan four pative® were drowned in the harbor, 80 houses were demolished and bundreds were ubroofed, to property is estimated st §500.000, Com missary stores to the value of §50,000 were destroyed, down und town was almost destroyed, Almost all the femme bulldings are down, the swept away, and there is no communication between the port and the elty proper. damage to the port Is estimated at $257,000, Two patives sre known to have drowned. The records and property o custom-~house are ruined, aod all the vessels are ashore, wen the vXeept the Cathedral and the Larracke. Four natives perisbed and three United Siates soldiers were badly fojured. As the town Is without food, Government relief bas been dispatebed thither, El Cayey was leveled, 200 houses being demolished, Two United Btnies soldiers were injured there snd many cavalry horses killed, At Catano the entire plant of the Standard Oll Company was rulaed. The loss on the property is £200,000, At Bayasmon a majority of the bh were destroyed and the rest wore flooded Iwo bundred esttie were killed, ratiway was seriously damaged. The village of Carolioa was literally razed. At Cagus four persons were kiiled. Huamaceao Destroyed, A courler from Humacno, csjilal of the province of that same, on the eastern const of the island, reports swful destruction there. The loss to property Is estimated at $500,000, but this is the irast item in the disaster, The courier brought an from Capt Eben Swift, of the Filth States Cavairy, who says Uses and the Melal offic report United burricave, Forty-six bodies have Leen re. covered, and thers are many more in the debris, Jured, two Iatally, Sergeant Kiang, of the Eieveuth Iolantry, was ifvjured, North, a dis~barged private, is missing, At the Port of Humaean 18 bodies have been recovered, Eigtit hundred propie are starving here,” Three persons were killed at Las Pledras and five at Juneo, routs from Mayaguez to Juno, was caught io the storm, Lut ber jassengers aud rew were saved through the herolsm of Mr. Single, the first officer, The coffee crop i= rulped apd the will reach Very great lojury bas been done also to the Orauge erop. No definite returns have yet been received from the southern section of the apart from Ponee. t is ecertaln, bowever, that the food suppiles io the stricken diss tricts have been destroyed, and, in these quarters, the quantity of Government stores vi band is small. tan 3 1 0s millions, island, FEVER DYING OUT, No New Cases Reported at the Soldiers’ Home, Hampton, Va, (Special) —As unebaoged report is the latest from the Soldiers’ Home, bere bave lwen no pew cases and bo deatls, and the fever, from all Indications, will soon Le a thing of the past, The 11th day's quaraatioe between this town and Newport News bas at last Leen lifted. The joint meeting of the various boards of health and elty aathorities settled the matter, meeting Dre. Pettus, White, Wasdin, Magru- der aod Donaldson, of the Marine Hospital Bouateile, of Hampton. Tuese physicians were prepared to report upon the excellent condition of Hampton and sanitary standpoint, and when they ox. to iit the quarantine, Toe resumption of business between Now. to both ofties, The next move Is to open up Baekroe, Old Poiut and Phoebus, which will be done fn a few daysat most. The quarantine lines wiil be drawn more closely around the Sol. diet's Home, and trafflo may be resumed, Business fs plekiog up considerably, and it is thought it will be normal within a lew days, Deputy Sheriff Shot by Burglare, Edward H. Burgess, of Monument Beach, was shot Ly burginrs hers asd his wound fs considered dangerous, Stillman Smalley, a watchman at Duszards Bay, who kad come to Bourne to nesist the deputy sheriff, also was shot, but was only slightly hart, Its Lelfeved that the two burglars who did the shooting were also wondaded, as Lioody spots were [ound on the road fa the vicinity, Sin ii Bloodhounds on His Teall, Kansas City, Mo., (Special )—It is re. rorted the sixteen-yesr-old daughter of J. 8. Perkins, a farmer liviog near Turner, Kan, has been assaulted Ly a colored mas, Bloodhounds were put on his trail, A Irnehing Is probable, Hussein Warns Chinn. Peking, (By Cable, JM. de Glers, the Rue. sinn Minister, bas addressed a pote to the Tenog-Li-Yameo, warning that body that the conclusion of an alllanes with Japan would give great offense to Bossin, and that the consequences to China would be most snrious, es SAA A a x 3 A Feud in Tennessee, Kuaoxville, Tenn, (Hpecial.} A fond has troken out betwonn the Robinson and Saye age families in the mountaine of Union county, near the Kentueky line, William Savage was shot and killed by Jack Robi. son, Savage fatally wounded Robineon, DROWNED BY SUORE, Coang Flank Falls With Haodrede of Excursionists, Bar Harbor, Me,, (8pecinl,)-~A seors of persons were killed Sanday Ly the collapes of tha gang plask of the Mount Desert ferry, Fully 150 persons were suddenly thrown into the water, and for u few moments it nppeared ns if ball of them would be drowned, The work of rescue was prompt. ly begun, however, and it is now belleved that not more than twenty perished, The Maine Central allroad ran exeur- tions to Bar Harbor from all sections of its ine In Maine, the attraction being the war ships. All the mornlug long trains packed with excursionists wore rushing to Bar Hur bor. The train whieh left Bangor at 8.25 consisted of twelve ears jammed with peo- ple. At Mount Desert ferry, the terminus of the line, the train is left for the boat, for an elght-miie sail to Bar Harbor. From the whbarl a slip, or gang-plank, forty feet long nnd ten feet wide, led up to The slip was hinged at the Inner end, the outer end being supported by suit the tide, The whar! extends on both sides flush with the end of the wooden gang Five timbers, four by twelve inches, Ing. Itis sald that there was no support Wher the excursion trala from Bangor arrived at the ferry, there was a rush for The firet few passen- gers had ecossed the gang-plaak safely, and it is estimated that 200 people were massed apon the plank, Suddenly they foit the The long middie. The hinges held up one end and other, while the broken ends dropped, and a struggling, screaming mass of humanity was plonged Into the water, fifteen feet below the whart, A few clung to the inclined sides of the plank, but at least 150 were straggling in the water, The plliug of the wharf par. tially penned them In on threes sides and the boat iying at the whar! ciosed the outer end of the opening, After the first moment of stupefastion, the work of rescue began, Ropes and ite pre. fearvers were throwa tothe erowd, but in the panic the people in the water clutehed one another, and many sank thus In groups in a death grapple, Many taken from the Waller were uncooseioas and were revived with diffeuity. Doctors were summoned from ail directions, but It was bal! an hour before the first arrived. The frolght bouss al the ferry was turned Into a morgue, the bodies belrg taken there for identification as fast as recovered, }¥Y noon seventesn had been recovered, Three other persons ware taken on board the Sappho, and died on the way to Bar Harbor, MURDERED A CHILD. Pension Examiner Sne!l's Horrible Crime in Washington. Wasblagton, D. C., (Bpeeial.}=~ A horrible murder was committed in the north-eastern section of the eity, The murderer was Ben. Jamia H, Saell, a special »xaminer in the Pension Offer, & man about 45 yoars of age, His victim was Liza Welsson berger, a gir. 13 years of age, who had beens em. ployed in his housebold until a few months Ago, when she was takes home by ber parents, who became susplelous of Soell’s conduct toward her, Basil seemed 10 be infatuated with the child, and paid her a great desl of attention, which, however, she resented. Boell went 10 Lis vietim's bouss, and, enteriog at the room, where the distag-room door. While standing at the door the mother ordered Lim out of the house, Knell staried 10 go, passing sgain through the room Where the child was, He bent over the sleeping ebiid and drew her from the bed. Awakened suddenly she screamed In terrorr. Twisting one heod fo the girl's balr and throwiag back Ler head, his pocket aud her throat, Twice he slashed ber throat, and ouce be missed, sul. ting a great piece of Sesh from her cheek. The bead was simost severed from the body, asd both the murderer asd bis vietim wers drenched with biood, Attracted by the ohiid's mother ran 10 the rescue, Biri was sieepiog, to the screams the In a frevzy she sinsbied ou the arm with tbe razor. The murderer attempted 10 escape, but was soon captured by ihe police and ivcked up ln the Nisth Preecloct Station, He re. fases to give any explanation of his nots, and says be remembers nothing about them, The murderer is a native of Vermont and Montgomery, Ala, He has a wife and two SPANISH-AMERICAN ISLANDS, Later advices show that the Aight at Cal. Lieutenant Love, of the Twenty-fizst In. fantry, was wounded during an exhibition The total number of American casualties The bodies of 16 insurgents were found la The insurgents have killed several natives st Laytay who were Irlendiy to the Ameri sans, An American force, aided by the Charles. ton's guns, routed Filipinos in the Island of Cebu, Eight hundred recruits left San Prancisco for Manila, The Tenth Pennsylvania Degiment, from Manila, was received in San Franelsoo, The hospital-ship Relief, from Manila, with 350 wounded and sick soldiers, reached Ban Francisco, Four Americans wore stricken with yellow fever in Santiago, Cobans have started out an investigation committee, A Maaslla correspondent sald that jittle sould be done until Novenber, when the taloy season would be over, The improve. ment of the Filipinos In markmansbip was especially noted, A prominent Caban merchant says that if universal suffrage Is granted ia Cuba it will soon be a binek republic, Toral and Pareja Fron Madrid, (By Cavle, )<Toe Supreme Courts martial before which Generals Toral and Pareja bave been on trial charged with sur. rendering Santiago de Cula to the United Btates foroes without baving exbhaget«d ali means of defense, has acquitted both oMoers on the ground that they meted upon the orders of thelr superiors and only surren- dered when It was Impossible to db other. wise, The t severely censures those in high command lu the colonies and in n, as well as the government's responsibility for the lack of resources for the defense o! FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Emperor William sent & wreath of laurels for Bismarek’s tomb at the memorial service ut Friedriobsrube, Bir Julian Puuneefote, British ambassador to the United States, bus been elevated to the peerage, Testimony given before the court-martial 0t Madrid went to show that Generals Tora aud Pareja could not def-nd Santiago. The Delgian ministry resigned because Parllameot rejected ull the government vloetoral Lille, Many arrests were made in Port au Prinee, Haytl, two former cabinet ministers being taken {nto custody, Wiillam C. Loveriog, 5 Massachusetts eon. Bressman, was robbed at Ostend, England, Two of the assassios of President Hereaux, of 8an Domingo, were enptured and shot. The Bbamrock sailed from Giasgow for Amerien, but had to return because of so aeeldent to her bowsprit, Two gatling guns and a detachment of ar- tillery buve been hurried to the scene of the Yuqul war {a Mexieo, Rusuits of the Peace Conference st The Huwue are said to Le gratifylug to the Czar of Russe Great Britain will appoint agents in America and other countries, Toere were riots in Bobemia against the ralsiog of the sugar tax, Canadians are offended with Amerleans about the Alaskan boundary, and the high officials declined an invitation to Chicago when the coroerstone of the sew Federal bulidiog is to be laid, The reported engagement of Lady Churebill to Lieutenant Cornwallis- West is ufMicinlly denied, commercial important Cecil Rhodes predicted that the Transvaal affair would Le peaceably settied, A reliroad concession was in Koreas to a German syndicate, Coosul General granted Goodnow, United States official nt Bhangnai, has rendered a decision Lo the efloct that China will be liable if arms are shipped to the Filipinos from Chinece ports, President Kruger notified Rir Alfred Milner of his willingness to listen to any frisudly suggestions from the British govern. ment, Becretary lddings, of the United BSiates smbassy, gave a Lauquet at Naples in bonot of Admiral Dewey, M. Delensse, the French Minister of For. cles Affairs, Inoehed with the Czar at Peter. bo! Paice, Ouse train telescoped another at Juvisy, uear Paris, Seventeen persous were kilied and 73 injured, A colored American eltizen was brutally treated by police officials at Jobannest org. The Yaki Indians are preparing for a long war with the Mexican government The supreme courimartial in acquits Generals Toral asd Pareja, The llgbiniog conductor on the Eiffel Tower was struck by lightnisg. The police foree of Havana ls growing in «Melency, Jiminer, who suddenly disappeard with ’ rh six Coban soldiers, has returped to Havann Madrid rap diy DREYFUS ON TRIAL, Jong-Looked for Conrt.martial Begins at Rennes, France Banner, France, (Dy Cabis, The court. martial of Captain Dreyfus began Monday the new trial order-d Ly the highest court of France alter months of patient endeavor, and after the submission of much ev. dance tending to show that be was the Innocent victim of a conspiracy of Frepoch army off glnis, Alter a long session, at which the famous prisoner was closely questioned, the court. martial decided by a vote of five to two to #it behind closed doors for several days, In order to examine the contents of the secret “dossier.” or reries of pate documents bear. lag on the case, and upon which the formes conviction was largely obtained, isterhazy, Da Paty de Clam snd Mile Pays were not present when the list of wit. nesses was called, and this caused a delay in the proceedings, as the members of the court-marilal fied out to disenss in secret what action should be taken, It was deta mined to go abead with the trial, asd Mu jot Carriere, the government's representative, said he thought the sbwenoe of Eterbazy ought not to prevent the trial proceeding. Direyius was known to be a good deal ex. cited, but be has been keeping a stiff lip and be refased 10 see the last set of photo. graphs of his children brought from Paris by his brother-in-law, He bad remarked to his brother, Mathieu Dreylos, on the strangeness of his Inte, 80 strange that he himsell could not yet reals ize it. Nothing, be said, ssionfehed him more than to find factions disputing furl. ously about bim and 10 learn that be was an object of hatred to most of the officers, He eaid It grieved him to think that i! there were an acquittal it would not ebange thelr minds, ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE, Jerome Hall Raymond, the new president of the University of Virginia, was a news. boy in sarly life, # Gen. Lew Wallace is something of an artist, and amuses bimeell with sketches, meatly marines, io water color, Albert Plerre Levy, a resident of Atlanta, Ga., was a classmate of Dreyfus, and says the intler was the most popular lad in the school, John D. Rockefeller recently doziared that many men missed thelr chances for making a fortune by thinking too mueh about their neighbor's wealth, Count Casini, the Russian Ambassador, owns s jeweled snuffbox presented him by the Buitan of Tarkey for preserving the latter from the hand of an assassin, Jerome K. Jerome takes bis vacations on 8 larm, where he becomes one of the day laborers, He has studied sericuitare both from a theoretical and practical point of view, The brary of the late Congressman I. I, Biand, of Missouri, numbering some 159 volumes, of an estimated average cost of $2.50 wach, was lately sold at auction in Boeiblas, Mo, for $11. Mrs, Langiry's racing establishment at Regal Lodge, Keatlord, Is beautifully deco. rated Miss Eilon Terry says that in her youth she “wanted to keep a baby linen shop, or a cbemist’s, or to be a salior,” Frank Chapin Deay, who has succeeded Dr. Theodore L. Food as editor of the Chautanquan, is only 83 years old, The North China Herald losists Li Hang Chang Is the richest mao In the worid, esti, mating his wealth at $300,000,000, Lord Kitchener bas lseued a series of 4%, without u licesss of VIOTIMS OF A LIVE WIRE, Four Firemen Killed While Doing Thely Duty in Nebraska. Omaha, Neb., (Special )~—Four firemen of the Mercer Chemlenl Company's build. ing, at Eleventh aud Harney streets. The Fireman George Farmer asd Albert Liv- fered soverely from shock, control the flremen set to work to the big extension truck, upon which they bad Leon working. Suddenly there was a sputtering and sucerssion of flashes such as occur when a eontegtion is made with a live wire currylog a bigh voltage of eiectrio current, I'he men who were working at the erapk lowering the ladder writhed in agony A moment nod then fell to the pavement, imp nod apparently itfeless. In lowering thousand volts, Known to revive them, a few minuter, nod saying be was all right, started to walk away, He bad only gone About fifty feet when Le dropped dead, Gelko showed signs of reviving, Lut when only partially ruilied sank back and ex. plred. The other two pever at showed any signs of animation, doubtiess desd when pleked up. Waiter Gearbard!, anemploye of the firm, was Knocked dowa a flight working in thet buildisg during the fire, aud was not noticed for some time, When found he was unconscious the smoke, and was revived aud from with difficulty, ACETYLENE PLANT BLOWN UP, Town of Wabash Gets n Severe Shock and Is Left In Wabash, Ind, (Special, )—The gas works of the 1 wanspors snd Wabash Valley Gas Company were destroyed Ly a terrific ex- piosion, which shook the city. Supt Cour Her and Lis assistant, Doscan Edwards, bad just completed obargiog the tanks with cal cium carbide and walter, from which the gas fcelylene is manufactured, add bad stepped of the door. Edwards noticed as omiuoss bubbling is one of the tanks, acd shut There was a flame o gUly leet Ligh, sure log which was the fron roof of the w and then the bricks and roofs settled 10 the groind jo sa mass NO veri sft In position, The company Is pliant less than a yen ver put ia for llluminatiog a eity new light, Boores of pi by the shock In the t Darkupess. Courtier ous vil the water, column of ind ras, bnek £ Was ale glass worn | Csivess part of 1 braised Awards was scorched a: The loss is SERTY. Bot seriously burt, ONE RIVAL KiLLs ANOTHER A Deadly Fight on the Line Hetwesn Lin: colin and Warne Counties. Hamlip, W. Va Rpecial, A tragedy oecurred at Fourmile Bidgr, near the Hue, between Li i Wayne ec For a year past Levi Namey and Bherman Smith bave been rivais, both og the bhinnd of a eo uniry belle who resides In that loeality. Sunday nigit the woman gave Smith the marble heart, and be then swore vengeas They met, Buta they were engaged in Ramey being Bmito is yet at large. sons of well-to-do nthe ¢ horritile aeoin al Lies, foe yg young on his rivel, few words paswed until ombst, which ended h %h ign lle in shot thr Doth young men were parents, and wan: heart were well liked | The young w griel, nad is taking berows life i with pt her as stirred reve up the Four.mile community, and a 1 on & search for the murderer, that be Is beaded toward Gallls as he bas inaoy relatives liv see is It is bellpved ccunty, O., BE there, FATAL DUEL IN CUBA. Young Kansan Killed in an Honor by a Native Officer Fort Scott, Kane, { Special, has been received here that J. 1. Green. a well. known young coliege student of this ety, who for the last two years has been In ( abn, first as a major in the Cutan army aod later as an officer in Roosevelt's Hough Liders, was killed is a duel at Sane Spiritus, Caba, by an officer In the Cutan army. Aflaly of - NONE officer originated In Havana last Mareb, The Coban was the aggressor and challenged Green to a duel, Green, whe challenge, Lut the Coban refused to fight. Early inst wevk the men met at Spiritus and the quarrel was renewed. received a bullet wound, from died nimost immediately, KILLED IN A RAILROAD WRECK, Cauveed by Spreading Raila Ottaws, Oat, (Special. )—The Ottawa ex- press, which left Montreal at 0.80 o'clock road, was wrecked near Coleau while rusning at « fast rate. Junetion car and a second-class conch, The fret the track. Beven people were killed. A number were jojured, but sone of them seri. ously. The passengers wore brought bere on a special train. It Is not known what caused the accident, but It Is belloved thst the ralis spread, Cause of the Bar Harbor Calamity, Bar Harbor, Me., (Special)—The ocor- oner’s jury impaneled to bold an Inquest in tonoection with the asceident at Mount Desert ferry, completed ita sitting, floding that “thess peoplo cums to their deatns by drowning, caused by the insufficient con struction of the slip.” A Train Wrecked and Burned in Tunnel, Somerset, Ky., (Special)-—-A train of twenty freight cars was wrecked In tunnel No. 4 on the Cisclnratl apd Southern Hail way, by the explosion of a tank ear louded with naphtha, a Hurled 150 Feet by Foree of Explosion, Beranton, Pa, (Special. }--An explosion of gas in the Pioe Brook colllery of the Seras. ton Coal Company seriously burned five men, The explosion wns caused by a naked wioer's lamp. The force of the explosion was #0 great that one of the men was plokd up 150 feet from where be was working at Latest News Gleaned from Various Parts. RURAL FREE DELIVERY. Those Who Opposed the System in Deln- ware County Are Friends A Binireviile Mynterionsly the Now Its Munufseturer Missing -Avtomobile Figures in Capture of Two Burglare. free in Delaware spite to stay iu fH rEons Rural mail deilvery eouuty bas evidently come of the fact that there were some who said ts life would be short. W.liam G. Taylor, carrier on the route through Biothyn and Bethel, says tha in his district the people showed Ly their aetions when be started four weeks ago that iu favor of rural delivery. “I was ufrald” the system would be aban doned after running it a week, but now I fled nothing Lut encouragement, The pec. Pie are now wondering why no ons ihought of it before.” Mr, Taylor says be carries ten times as much mail sow the first week, and serves everybody ou bis route, He says it Is a great convenience for Who wast a morulog Le- tide what papers go through arrier Las the privilege of selling a: lug thom from door 10 door. ave put up mall they vere pot Lie sald, “that as he did 1 ' these naper. {or paper, , the i perv Lhe mn Many persons frout o! thelr Reis permanently the pec pe Le that two deliveries a day will be provid boxes In ! pinces and as the tyslem eslubibed with itis Epidemic of Barn Borning v oof ie i in und Lars burning sud uvearby, J 8 of the barn on the Febert ie A Week Rgo the large stone un of David HOW. id frame of the Ia: din's Street 1 48 tepantsqd ot of ihe owner, who the Lara wy of ehicd Her witli 3 of w beat, 303 Oats, Ix of hay, a new o & Yera WaARONDSE Wealthy Man Disappears # mysierd mes Dovey is Qisappoarac os of a3 nwenithiy brick manafaet Lee caused a genection He i relurs in 16:0 rer iTEY i 15a orhood mising ¢it home a week evening. He , and it is now lied I fouliy deat with ago, Le was Leg The detectives aver been reports i - 8 tag Las MGEis Lace Las Lev $id arded ui Gp pearance Automobile Aids the Law. assisted iu the are iin lias 1 & rise atbog . a ¥ ow on 24 Bis in Pillsbury A walchman die. ‘ i ver«d Lurgiars about nidaielt in tbe Tes. BE ote the Tem. idetice 0 who gave joe Cap for base § family tent, The Ten pie INTE Rib & : fei Th 5a r fn Bie ve o fieDa, Was 5 it wa LRERE Eh blie was asked Lo Bway, awis 1 s RO The autos tmobile was the used Pp speed pea rest teieg $02 ihe Hide Were at and then scene of the rieaded the bad a revolver Latiie with the the dark, bot the latter were fina to be wh and proved brothers, Lseorge Nerpie have a record. To Reopen Big Colliery. The Natalie Coal Company, résume Operations as the Shamokin Coal Company. Boston and New York Snanciers are the reorganizers. N. ©, Taylor, repre capitailets, enginerred the deal, The colliery Is one of the largest in the Lituminous region, and 12% men will bas employed with an average pay roll of #28000 per month. The plant Las been closed since June 1, 1897, ttsbare, wii James Fank James Fank, one of the best knows oithe zens in Central Pesseyvivasian, died a: his home in Hollidaysburg of Bright's disease, aged 76 years, Mr. Fank served three terms as Commissioner of Diair county, and was the candidate of bis party for a fourth term ut the time of death, He bad also flied the offices of shorilf and coroner and bad ran for the legislature and the Associate Judge ship. In early lile be was a conductor on the old portage ralirond. He alierward en enged in the business of lime burning and was the proprietor of the largest limekilns in America. He ls survived by a wile and twelve children, Me, Carmel Votes for Hood Tesne, At a special election beld at Mt. Carmel, it was decided to increase tbe indebtedness of the city and to Issue bonds for that pure pose, The vole was a light one, but deeid. edly in favor of the lucrease, 11 being 290 tor and 69 against, Laborer Killed by » Train, Motora Dervl, an Italian employed in building the new water works at Cewonton, was struck by the Diack Diamond Exess at the Lehigh Valley Ratlrond crossing at Cementon and iostastly killsd, The skall was crushed snd the brains scattered wll around. a —— Saw Son Crushed Under Car Wheels, Frank Minnieh, 10 years old. of Stalag. ton, fell in alighting from a Central Rai. road coal train at Parry ville, six miles south of Mauch Chunk, and bad both vgs cut off, The vietim was sn route to visit bis futher, Lehigh canal employe, at the soens of the uccident. He was plexed up by his parent. a ous tan Shamokin, a large body of gas
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