THE NEWS, The Mexican government ls {inquiring into the case of a number of prisoners tortured sald to Le Mexicans, The transport Sherman arrived at San Francisco with the First California Volus- teers from Manila, who were given a grand reception, Bishop Coleman, ot Delaware, unfurled the ficst church flag fo the United States at Bishopstead, the of iscopal residence, A Big Consolidated motorman ip Cleve. land, who ran down a party fo a spring Wagop, narrowly escaped a lynching. K. Trenkaus and wife were shot by the former's lrother, who then committed sul- cide at New Miitord, Ct The drybouse of Samusi Debbles’ powder mill, at Pottsvilie, Pu, exploded, and two men were blown to atows, Mrs. George I. Dorneman, white, eloped from Newport News with George Waddell, colored. Five miuers were killed by an explosion of dynamite in a mill near Carterville, Mo. Allred A. Wireman was found drowned in his mili race near Arendtsville, Pa, Commonwealth Attoroey N, H. dled st his home, in Danville, Va, Josephine Engel, fifteen years old, and Jobn Landauer, twenty-fiva years oid, were found dead on a lot, at River aveoue*and One Hundred and Filtieth street, New York. The mau had shot ber, and then committed suicide, Reports of disasters by the storm down at Hatteras continue to come, It is reported that in Pamlico Sound about sixty persons bave been drowned. Many boats known to Lave been out have not been heard from. The Miss!ssippl Democratic State Conven- tion nominated Hon. A. H. Longino for governor, and passed resolutions reaffirm- log Coleago platform of 1896, and praisiog W. J. Bryan. A. L. Hiett, of Paw Paw, W, Va., has se- eured specimens of quanz froma lodge near that place, which promises to yield precious metals in paying quantities, John Peterson, night watchman at Mrs. Creightou's boarding sehool for girls, at Eaglewood, N. J, shot and Iatally wounded @ burglar fu his room at the sehool. A Dpegro who pursued a white girl near Barnwell, 8. C., received thirty-four Inshes, and was ordered to leave the place, which be did. One hundred grains of arsenic were found Io the box of candy lef: on the poreh of Mre. James G. Charsha, In Wilmington, Del, Three persons were killed and three were fojured Ly being run dows by a railroad train at Seabrighkt, N. J., while driving. Two negroes were killed and eighteen others badly shocked while repairing an dlectrie line in New Orleans. Alfred Molina, a college, student, died at Stoekton, Cal. after a boxing mateh, Daaisl Sehooleraft, a deserter, was ar- rested at Charleston, W. Va. Robbers held up a stage in Idaho, and got $5,000 in gold dust, Commissioner Powderly has decided that Mrs. L. M. Todd, a British subject, now at Sau Francisco sufferiog fiom leprosy, must be sent back to the Hawaiian Isinnds, whence she came, Harry M. Atkinson, president of the Georgia Electric Light Company, knoeked down Couoecilman W, 8, Thomson, who bad desounced bim at the meeting of the Atlanta City Counell, James H. Greene, who tried to kill his wife with a batebet at Alexandria Monday, dled in jall there of aleoholism. A passenger train was wrecked near Cle- cleville, Oblo, and twenty-five persons were injured, somo seriously, Sloce 1880 the total value of the miners] output io the United States has inereased nearly ninely per cént, Eight hundred houses, embracing the business portion of Vietor, Cal., were burned down, Two men were killed and eight Injured by t boiler explosion at Appleton, Wis, A tug combiae was formed Ly the towlug companies on the great lakes. Two colored thieves were shot and killed by officers near Urbano, Ohlo, At Bridgeville, Del, Miss Bissis Rash was badiy burned by gasoline, Heavy icefloes are reported along the Northern coast in the track of oeccan steamers, Miss Horlocker, the Hastings (Neb) candy poisoner, hus been placed in sa in- sans asylum, Prominent oMeials haviog just arrived ia New York City from Porto Rico say that the hurricane Is only one in a series of misfor- tunes which bas befallen the natives of the Island. No markets for the chief products sines the abolition of Bpasish rule, A prominent sider of the sect of Menno- nites explains that faith is used lo the cure of diseass, and denies that any so-called “seietice” 1s used, Athlete Duryes, who 1s ia a New York hospital with a broken neck and paralyzed from bis neck to his toes, is makiog a won- derful fight for life, although his case is considered hog eiess, Mrs. Anna Rome, of New York City, while returning io a cab from a party, was beaten and robbed by the driver in the shadow of Graost's tomb, Gen, Juan Isidro Jiminez, the aspirant to the Presidency of the Republi of Santo Domisgo, salled from Cienfuegos, Cubs, for Manzanillo and Santiago, Before leaving he compiained bitterly of his arrest Ly the American military authorities, Dr. Beharman, one of the Philippine Com. missioners, arrived at Chiesgo ou his way to bis bome, at Ithaen, N, ¥, David W. avd George W, Boelman bave been arrested on the charge of attemptiog to delraud insurance companies, Thirty persons were injured, some fatally, in a colilslon on the Norristown Trolley Road, near Philadelphia, Mrs. Thomas B, F.oyd took ten grains of Massie the «fects of the dose, Thomas Downing threw a rock at Albert Anderson at Marysville, Mo., and killed him, Edward Rich, of SBohenevue, N. ¥., killed bis brother-in-law, William J. Haugh. drowned herself aud ehild In a elstern, At Ouray, Col, Harry Staminger, aged patel they were raiding, At Eloetrie, Ala, Peter Louln and his son, . hed on the eharge of overturning a boat which eaused the death of James Rolerison, A. J, Gooeh was killed near Ciarksburg, W. Vi.. by an exnlosion of powder. HEART OF CITY BURNED $2,000,000 Worth of Business Property Destroyed. HOUSES ARE BLOWN UP: Residents Foread to Abandon Everything and Flees for Their Lives— Dynamite Fails to Stay the Onward Progress of the Fire, Which Ruges All Afternvon—Crip ple Ureek Sends Assistance. Cripple Creek, Colo., (Specia!,)—Fire has entirely destroyed the business porticn of the efty of Vietor, causing a loss «stimnted at $2,000,000, Begioning shortly after noon, the fire raged until night, consuming every thing in its way. It had its origin, itis thoneht, {n the Merchants’ Cale, adjoiniom the Bank of Vietor, on the corper of Third #treet and Vietor avenue, A strong wind from the south fanned the flames, and ion few minutes all the surrounding houses were afire, Help was summoned from Cripple Creek, but the town had built In the early days of the camp, and was of pine timber for the most part, whieh burned like tinder. Efforts wers made to stop the progress of the flames by blowing up buildings in their path by means of dynamite, asd all the prominent Lills have roar-d with the explo- slopes, byt the effect was in vals, The fire burned the Bauk of Vietor, the post-cflice, apd the corner npposite; crossed Third street, and followed the row of blocks between Third and Fourth sireets to the north, taking in the Vietor Banking Come pany, the Western Union Telagraph office, and the office of the Colorado Telephone Company, the Hotel Victor, on the opposite side of Fourth street, and the great shaft houses of the Gold Coin Miniog Company and {1s ore bine, among the largest In the Cripple Creek district, From there the flames were swept north. ward by the gale which was blowing, and naver stopped until they bad taken the Fioreace and Cripple Creek depot and the filae new depot of the Midiand Terminal road, at the head of Fourth street, All the bulldings between these are a total loss, with all thelr contents, The soenes of the great Cripple Creek fire were duplicated, Hurrying before the roar- Ing flames went men, women, and ebildren, earrylog what they cou'd suatch from the flames, racing for their lives, The erash of bulldiogs torn asunder Ly dynamite and the erackle of the flames as they consumed the dry bulldiogs bastened their Oight, and the pall of smoke added a terror to the spec tacie, A special traln was placed at the com mand of the oity by the Florence and Crip- ple Creek Raliroad, and three companies of firemen, with apparatus, were rushed to the seane, They worked all afternoon in a vain endeavor to stay the rush of the flames, The residence portion of the elty has sul. fered comparatively iittle, but the bLusioess portion ls paralyzed and suffering Is bot to follow, Tues bLuroed area may be scribed as the spare between the head of North street and Victor avenues, extending from the Gold Cola mine building on the west to a point near Second street and down Third street almost to Diamond avenues, Conservative estimalos place the joss at 2,500,000, been ind de. NEARLY FORTY DROWNED, Campers In South Carolina Lost Their Lives in a Storm. Charlotte, N, C., A mpecianl to the Observer from DBsaufort 8 C., says Sixteen fishermen were camping ou Swan Isinnd, near the mouth of the Neuss river, during the recent storm, he lsiand was overflowed, compelling the men to seek the mainland, In the attempt all of thelr boats were eapaized except one, drownlog 14 men, They were the four Smith acd four Salter brothers and six others, All were married and leave args families, They wore resi. dents of Piney Point, Carterst eounty. The {wo survivors saved themselves by eutting awsy their boat mast, throwing their eargo overboard and drifting ssbore, They witnessed the drowning of thelr com. panione, but were powerless to sid, A erew of four men who were camping on another island are missing and are gndoubt. ediy lost { Rpecial, Norfolk, Va,, (Special). A especial from Washiogton, N. C., says that the reennt storm played havoe on Ocracoek [siand, de. stroying 8) houwses and two churches, wash. log nway the Norfolk and Southern Rail. road plers, groundiog ssveral steamers and schooners, wrecking smaller eraft of flasher. men, drowniog not less than 20 men and all the horses and cattle on the Island, It was the most destructive storm that section has sver known, The sland was under water three days, BOMBS FOR LABORE Infernal Machines Filled With Guan Cet. ton Sent to Dreyfus’ Benlor Counsal, Rennes, (Dy Cable, )—M. Labor! reosived two mysterious parcels, teileved to be in- ferual machines. The police are examining them, The infernal machines were deposited In the artlliery powder magazine, One fs a eylindeienl tabe-shaped Lox, four inches high and one and three-quarter Inches in diameter, The other is a parcel four inches square, It was given out that the contents of the toternnl machines had been found fithy but not dangerous, Fought Over Craps, Ruasseliville, Ky., (Special )-Two men were killed and four wounded at Parsons eamp ground lu a Aght over 4 game of orng+, The game was in the woods with 15 or 20 players, mostly colored men, A di 1 tite arose nnd about thiry shots were fired, Jolin and Jay Baoders, colored, were killed snd four others were seriously wounded, GEN, WHEELER AT MANILA, “Fighting Joe* Arrives There on the Transport Tartar, tar, from kao Fravelsoo July 24, with Ges | real Joseph Wheeler and his daughter, rived here, ty-fourth lutantry, under Captain Crane, | was crossing the Mariquina river on a raft the hawser broke. The current, swift at that point, enused tho raft to capsize, drown- ing nine enlisted men, EX JUDGE HILTON DEAD, Passed Away After a Long liness st His Surntogn Country-Sest, saratoga, N. ¥., (Special) Henry Hiitop, of New York, died Thursday ut Woodiawn Park, his Saralogh country-seat, He bud been fu au unconscious stato sey. eral bourse, and bis last moments wore with- out pale Atl Lis bedside were Mr, and Mrs, Albert B. Hilton, Mrs. Horace Russell, n daughter, and the mitending physician, The Judge's body will fanidly pot tn Greenwood, Le buried In the Career. Judge Hilton's h years old. He Henry Hilton was 55 aiways decliued to discuss bis early life or 10 tell who bis parents were, [tls probable that he was born lo New York, Some time before 1540 be was wu iad in the law offies of Campbell & Cleveinod, (o Grand street, New York, Campbell uot long afterward becnme a master In chancery und register of bank- ruptey. In whieh positions he found enough employment for all his workiug bourse, Young Hliitop, then the managing clerk, found most of the business of the firm in bis bands. He was shrewd aod bis capacity for work was enormous. About this time Alexander T, Stewnrt used to call at the oflieo to cousult the lawyers, He found that they never advised him oun avy msiter uotil they bad consuited someone, He lo- vestigated aod learned that the someone was yousg Hiltor, Thereupon the mer chant fog eugaged Heopry Hilton ss bis private counsel. About this time Mr, Hilton married wn slster of James HH. Baoker, aftor- ward president of the Bunk of New York. Hovry Hilton was 8 judge of toe Court of Common Fieas from 1857 unui] 18C8, Judge Hilton, in 1869, formed the law flrm of Hilton, Campbed asd Bell, whieh endured uoutil 1874, During this period he used to spend two bhours every alternoon at A. T, Btewart's stute and then go uptown to disper with Lip, After 1874 Judge Hil ton had no office save at Nlewart's store. For years belore that he bad beon Blewart's chief adviser. The merchant 100k no ime portant step without first consuiting Lim. From the development and extension of his business 10 the p of great edifices, the splendid cathedral and schools st Gare den City, working women, which is sow Park-Avesus Hole], dry goods milliounire did notiing without Hiitop, Stewart bLe- trusting submitted 1 anping the home for the Lie the advice of Judge Hesed io Hilton, Lis Judgment In everyibiog, A. T. Btewart April 10, When Lis will was opened It was found that be bad left a specific of §1,000 to Heury Hilton, a short time Henry Hilton mppesred to be la control of the business of A TT. Biewart & Co, Tuen began the long Bauils against Legeak tbe mililonaire’s cropped up fia ali Hiates 10 lay claim to the Hi, died on inn bequest £00 Wituin aleaviule great sucoession of as. the altempis to wiil, Vers of the United the esiale us juariers wigues 3 ie Mlewari Lonst thet Wan of his Lrasedh of It wus niwaye Btewari's the last surviving member the Slewarts, break the wi inily defendant, hundeeds of thousand defend A. T. Biewart's dissipation, Claimants io all parts « Ia ail the suits to Hii nnd dollars to from aliip and the fortune came from the world, Stewart's widow died, The next the worid knew was that Judge Hilton had in Lis posses sion simost the entire fortune jeft by A. T. Stewart, I Was Vir the edlale BIT HER BEAR OFr. A Big Dog Severely Maotllntes a Little Girl Hanover, Pa., (Special, A distressing accident belell » twelve year-old duugbter of Albert Wentz, n farmer livisg six south, of bere The giri was workiog at some Hower beds siong a bill ia frost of the house when whe sudd ‘nly awoke a large dog sienping ia the grass above her, The Least, angered, sprang upon the ehild acd Lit off one of ber cars, The fiber picked up the severad wrapped it lo jeper and brought the child 10 a physician beer, who sewed the ear fast to its place. Owiag to the length of time between the ocourrence of the accident and medical trentment there is Lut slight hopes of the ear uniting. Bins ear, TRIED TO BUKN A FAMILY Incendianries Fire Richard Kelly's House «Inmates Barely Escape. West Uston, W, Va, Special j-The res. idence of Richard Keily, In New Milton dis triet, was burned to the ground, The family retired early, and about midoight Mr, Kelly was awakened by the barking of bis dog. He found nothing wrong, and soon fell asieep again, not awakening until his shot. gun exploded from the heat and the bouse was filed with smoke. H+ immediately roused the family, and they bad hard work inp making thelr ssonre from the building, which bad been fired at ali the doors, The parties dolog the fendish work were tracked to Toms Fork, Two Men Hlawn 10 Atoms. Pottsville, Pa,, (Special, ~The dry house of Samuel Debtbles’ powder mill, near Sbeppton, this county, war completery wrecked by an explosion, and William T. Betenborger, of Wainut Port, one of the proprietors, and Harry Jones, a powder. maker, were literally Liown 10 atoms, There ware several tons of powder in the building. The other Lulldings were wrecked, The rause of the explosion has not been as. certained, A SA AH Confesssd on the Gallows, Charlotte, XK. C., (Special, )-Julius Alex. ander, colore), was baaged hers lor ansnu't. log a whita woman last February. Ha showed no signs of nervousness, confessed the erime and sald the penalty was a just one. A colored preacher in a talk on the scaffold sald Alexander's orime was “one “" Bank Ofcints Charged whith Fraud, Crede, Colo, (Hpeecial.)-—- Warrants were J. B. Maben, president, and RN. G. Penale- RA OH SS ASD SASH FIBRLD OF LABUK, Clileago bins thirty breweries, There are 21.5 0 union pricters, Germany has 25, (0 physicians, Glasgow bas 5,000 union clerks, 'Friveo hins n far] oll exchange, There tre 1,500,000 cont miners, There are cast steel billiard baile, Germany hae 8 tool machine trast, Beattie Lins an anibenioon league, Hounolula hse thirty-five mblionaire., Knnsns Clty bas a uogro barbers's ualos Euglish coil rine ems lov 380, CUBANS FIGHT, They Mave a Collision With Gendarmes Near Buntiage, Santiago de Cubs, (By Cable.) Five men fe dead and ten wounded os un result of 8 Cuban soldiers at Cueviias, three miles from Buntiago, where the payment of the Cuban troops Is progressing. Fivethousund Cubans bad gathered there to receive pay, and after thres days only 580 had been paid. Thous- ands who had been disappointed at other poluts had come to Cuevitas, as the last piace of payment in the proviuce, The imperfect Jist causes great dlssatis- factiop, and a rumor circulated that the paymasters would leave alarmed the men who had pot been paid, They began to eol- vet in groups and to show thelr annoyance, Finally, their threats Locame serious, Capiniu Ballat, with twenty gendarmes, Was present 10 preserve order among the applicants, and the United Btates troops protected Colonel Monle, the officer having churge of the payments, Buddeuiy, Captain Lallat, who was mounted, was surrounded Ly a mob, struck by stones and bottles spd shot in the arm. His men prompily fired a Yolley into the mob, three persons being io- stantiy killed and thirteen wounded, two of whom died, Col. Moale's guard promptly the nioney office, but tock no fighting, For a few minutes there was a lively cop- flict, enrbines nnd machetes Lelng used freely, Capitulo Balint was the only gen- darme wounded, A!l the dead were colored Cuban soldiers, Payment was resumed guard. Tbere are rumors that a force is belog organized to nitack the pay office, Lut these are probably unfousded, Cas- tiilo, civil governor of Santiago de Cubs, was nt Cuevitas at the time, and soon re- plored order, There 6 doult that the ioaccurate list will eauso a great deal of hardship. Mauy veterans have vainly fol- lowed the United States commissioners for tix weeks, only to find that thelr umes are not listed, Gen, Leonard Wood, military governor, does pot, however, serious trouble, surrounded part iu the under a heavy Gen, no anticipate WHITECAPS WHIP POSTMASTER, Had Offended the Feople Ly Appointing a Colored Deputy, Tampa, Fia., (Special )—Editor W, C. Crum, of the Fiorida Republics, was bruteliy beaten by whitecnjs at Peck, He is postnaster at that place, nud has been golug out stlending to thes mall st night and returniog to the city in the morn. ing, Bome weeks be appointed Dan Morrison, mn colored man, bis assistant, 80 that there wouid be a wan in charge ail the tis there ng ne, Morrison was wade to give y A nows, and Mr, tend to the « the cMMce fire op commities of citizens who Crum bad to go out asd Mos bimeell, Afier he kad ta pieted his work, be started 10 5 be Hh eu short distances away, where he « eepr. When hear thers bs was held up on the rond by a mob of masked men with guns and made 10 dismount, Ms was tied binod and foot and given =n He severe brulses about the head asd shoulders from the kicks adn Ly the moh Alter they fonished beating him they eut off the Whiskers from one side of his {sce and ap- plied carbolle acid to the gashes in bis fest made Ly the whipplog. Mr, Crum uot know who attscked him, He bas closed the office and will deliver Bo mail His resignation bias been acceplod at Washiogton, « beating. susinined intstered doesn to the Peckitos, BATTLE IN THE MOUNTAINS, Tromp and Friends Have Fierce Conflict With Moonshiners, Chaltanoogs, Tese., (Special) Details of aterribio and bloody tattle with Win. chester tifles and shotgues reached bere from Ogelds, Tenn... in the moutinine, eighty miies north on the Cincinsail Sopth- ern Haliway., The dead are: Charles H. West and David Akers, who were Intally riddied with rifle Otbers were dan- gerously wounded, Lut on aceount of early closing of country telegraph office, thelr names cannot be learned, It appears a ramp was siopping with man in a house out from Oneida This tramp spoke to several parties about a moonshine distillery, and was warped to stop talking or isave the country, He re. fused, nnd a band of men assaulted the bome with ihe Intention of whiteeapping the tramp. The tramp and his friend Jortl. fied themeelives in the building, firing on the mob with rifles and shotguns, Firlog be. came geoeral, snd continued foriy.five minules, West and Akers, who wers in the mob, were found on the ground dead alter the melee, The tramp and ble friend es. caped in female ature, and bave not Leen apprehended, bliss, BOERS YIELDING, Make Slight Concessions to Great eft ain's Demands, Cape Town, (By Cable, )~From ab exosi- lent unofficial source of information it ie aecertained that the substance of the Trane. vanl's communication to the British goverp- ment, In reply 10 the latters’ demands, is a concession of a five-years' (retronctive) franchise, a share in the election of the president, and an fverease in tbe represen tation of the gold fleids, probably eight ad. ditional seats, and a stipulation that ail other questions are to be submitted to arti- tration-—-bnt not to a foreign power—that Great Britain shall not use the recent in. terference ae a precedent, and that the Brit. ish government shall relinquish all suger. sinty rights, The Mateking Horeo Regiment is mobiliz. Ing rapidly. Boveral hundred recruits bave arrived, and been equipped here, and have joloed Vivian's camp, Every trala is bring ing fresh recruits, It is ramored that 50) Boers have formed AH A BSAA Stage Conch Hobbed, Washington, D. C., (Special, )— Chie! Post. office liapeetor Cochran received a tele. gram stating that the stage ronniog from Salmon to Red Lodge, Mou, was held up, SB Ss Young Lady Killed by Lightning. Bedlord, Pa, (Bpeelai }~During a revere killed, The house of W, F, James was struck by the same bolt and was Lurned to the ground. OA FI AOA. Llewellyn Stout Execnted at Easton, Esston, Pa, (Speelnl.)—Liewellyn Stout, who killed Harvey H. Wurster, 8 talegraph operator and station agent, on the Phiias deiphin and Teading Hallway, was banged in the jul bere. He bad confessed his & FOREIGN AFFAIRS, M. Guerin, the anti-semite, still holds out in Parls agains: arrest, Three of bis priv. ers wore arrested and released, A priest was arrested io Villelranche, accused of plotiing agninst the government, Herbert Herkomer Las been appointed a foreign knight of the Order of Merit for Arts and Belenee, The insurgents in Ven: zuela were defeated by the goverpment Livope, alter a bloody battle, It is expected that a Latin republic will be formed fu Bouth America, A storm on the Scoteh siderable damage. const caused con west Hassin, Avarchists pilinged fought the police the fashion of the Commune, archists were arrested. polles was stabbed, General churches In aud created a Mercier expressed the opinion that the court-martial would certainly sgaly conviet Dreytus, were reported from Oporto, Portugal, and the town bas been quarantined, It is reported that Prines Henry of Prus- #in may come to this country sud probably visit President McKinley. Alfred Behrend, an American bas been created a Kolght of the Legion of Honor. The cotton crop in Egypt Is threatened on fceount of the low condition of the Nile, Professor Hobert Wiillam Dusen, chemist, died in Heidelberg, Germany, Precautions agains: the iiague in Portu. gal are belog taken in Eoglaud, Mr. William H. Perot, who traveled to London 10 secure custc dy of bis grandeblic * the by ber mother, Mrs. 1 wou bis fight, The the eblid, provided extradition proceedings nxalost ber are quashed, apd through Guversor Low: der, has petitioned the Washisgton authorities 1s that « oer, There have been plague and eleven deaths at Oporto, Portu- Bal, Cases resembling tte bubouie pisgue bave been discovered in Pe and Bpauish cities have UErAL~ tine, ; Ten thousand robbers attacked poidiers at Cotkon whole kody, Preparations for war are in progress Pretoris, iu the Transvasl, ~titia A, RR, Perot, has mother will surrender riugal, eslabilsbed a Chinese « Killed 250 and routed the Fool-apd-mouth disease is prevalent Egypt. A fresh warrant was lisned the arrest of MM, Guerin, of tbe | ite League, aud Max Begis, who delying the police, August Hoseting, an Austrian ofMeis arrested for pints 10 French and German agents, cImmunticaling m The people In Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Were panic siricken, the gained mueh ground. Hamiiton revoinlion bavisg Bmith, whiise descending the Blemon woutitaine In Swiizerlapd fell flown a precipice, and was killed, The Transvaal government is sald to be purchasing arms asd ammunition, CGetiersl Jiminez jeofi Domingo. He 4. been unjustifiable, It was denied at the British Colonial offles that an ultimatum bad Leen se Cent 1008 cinred Lis for San arrest io LHYe Lito Kruger, Fishermen reported having been driven off the Dacks of Newfoundland by leebergs, Two French officers, are reported to Lave beet assassinated in the Soudas. General Davis estimates that 2 000 people were Killed outrigtt in rorio Rico by the orm. Many more aie dying daily from 1o- Juries sod on accvuat of privations, General McAribar attacked 2.500 Filipinos near Augeies, avd routed them, them uwonth, A Domivican revolutionary expedi was captured at Baracoa, in Cubs, Lieut, Joseph B. Mors, Ninth fafantry, died of typhoid fever iu ibe Pouippiues, He married Miss Ida McKinsey, the Presi. dent's ulece, It bas besa reported that Lieutenant Gil more and bis men, now teid by the Filip. nos, have beet badly treated, Mr, Mills, a clerk at General Brooke's headquarters, in Havans, sas siricoen with Yeilow Jever, A liberal response Is being made to the appea: lor suppiies for the suflering Porte Ricaos, The editor and sesistant editor of the Reconcestrado, recently suppressed in Hae vaus, promised 10 be good i adowed 10 ree warn, First Lieutenant Alfred W, Drew, of the Tweiits Infantry, was kilied durisg an at- Lack near Angeles, Tuere were several small engagements in the FPbilippines, in which the lusurgents were routed, Major Russell B. Harrison, Inspector gen- eral ’i Bantiago, Is eritioally 1 with yellow fever, Two transports leit for Manilla wih borses and mules for use lu the Philippine service, A band composed of policemen is Lelng orguuized in Havana, liom ABOUY NUTED FEOUFLE, General Lawton is a constant smoker, even while under fire, Major Rice, of the Twenty-ixth Infantry, was a college chum of Admiral Dewey, It is sinted that Mere. Mary Ellen Lease, the Populist speaker and writer, hus Le. cote a convert to Spiritualism, Mre, Rathbone, wife of Ma). Estes (. Rathbone, director of the poris of Cubs, was one of the orgunizers of the Daugliers of the Revolution in Oble, The statoe erected to Dr, William Pepper has been placed in position in the garden of the University of Penosyivauin It will be unveiled in September, Bir W, H. White, K. C. B, director of onval coustruction and assistant controller of the British Navy, was thrown upon bis own resources When but 14 years old. Mere. C. W. Goodinnder, wile of the Mayor of Fort Soot, Kan, is proving a great belp 10 het husband in relieving the city's poor. Bue makes persouni visits to all asking help, Dr, Richard Kandl, the German traveler, fs to be paid an annus salary of 7,000 marks by the German Forelgn OMoe to enable bin to continue his explorations in Alriea, Ex-Gov. L. Bradford Princes, of New Mexico, bas a colieciion of over 1,000 stone idols once worshiped by the Pusbio Indians, Gen, Luls BE. the Governor of the Mexican inset whers i” 2a so Tudinne sre now trouble, spent four years as an altache of the Mexican Legatios ia Wasblogton, ‘ THE KEYSTONE STATE. Latest News Gleaned from Various Parts. OIL WELLS IN YARDS, Drilling Craze Breaks Ont Afresl tn Of) City ~Elephant Fevcapes from » Clreus and Dashes Through Clty Premature Explosion in Delaware Coonty Powder Man's Death Other Live News. Canaen Men, women and children on their way to church mud Bunday Nehool were frighitesed eleplant st Head It appears thet “Charis y, the Luli ciepbant belonglog 10 8 eireus which ¢x- bilited in that city, broke loose at the show ana Hireels, run culree Union fully tour miler, taking a southern in Tenth Sureet 10 Walou!, up Walnut, ibrough the elty park, thes pp over Mit Penv. His regular keeper, Henry Hoffman, belong down town at the time of bis « BUApE was notifled and, getting a Loree as soun as thie suimal rusting. Fivally, at Lauterbach Springs, nloug the Mt Venn gravity, Mr Hollman succeeded io Yeriakiog the al Like recied around, acd followed | possibie, rode ju was direction the wind, The elephant recoguized Voice, WMineler 5 in Wotie Mr. Hola an the show grounds, been Lud altsent, the staking of the srimals , CAD Lar. OFe BLA 4 was left ip charge of y « ouines Mackey Yas man, ey, When Le put 16 the stake, 1b the viephiant, “4 e Least tore wo and bruising him in a terrible wanuer, three Shot a Detective, Jobn Leib, eis lircad detective, whiie atiempti ug flealiog a ride « ‘6 from nu oul COLA rain st York was shot but Lot se riously wounded Ly one party. Toe Lall entered Mr. Leil's cont near ibe arm pit passed through a inrge std a package of the ou Dis lesiber poe of papers, struck nb, ginuced snd plowed its way out, he first ied v Mivd Hu yurd be complying 3 raid, Wile Zicked him lo the bead and kno off, imdb of the cu saw LLy ue Pouusyivania (reigut off, aud tury not wtngt 0 bonid the eked bh Mr. wl 20 the Lapdie videntiy t file nen aud tar wake tuen oH aoer Bicngsids BLOlLer diew a elie 1, Fe¥V0i¥eld pulied Lis own revoi ihe Dak who shot, I bis shots oue of ahs i On Welis In Back Yard. With the adv: nt of big riilleg or riiilug cr or prices {« oli, the bard, and Ze Las slruck Of in the Third Ward at wells | been drilied yards, stuck in among mat ianbiishments, or perched Wilh these new derricks ali distance of bai! winded of tbe apjpearavce of that part of the town durisg the early ex. cltement back io the sixties. A notable fact iz econsection with wove is that this same territory bas been dril over three or four times during the past thirty years, Ar It costs about 86.0 ¢ drill the first weil ihe others proportionately cheajer predecers say with tbe present price Jor crude oll Ris a first-class investment, He ceutiy a weil driiled along tbe river bLauk, ob the South Bide, surprised the drillers by starting off at a ten-barrel-s-day guit, at a lepth of only forty feet, then the production bas declined perceptibiy, but it stimulated the drilling movement and gave ® an additional impetus, Another singular fase in connection with the bLack-lot drilling is pot a single “dry hole” has been struck, all the weils producisg from One to eight barrels a day. wit jorty ack ulacturiug eo» ou the hillsides, visible within a a mile, the oldtigiers are re- ave ocated in the days of the ed being Ripoee To Ger Nid of His Wile, Simon Anderson, of Bast Greensburg, is charged with adopting a unique pian to get rid of his wile. Heocently the man displayed strong symptoms of insanity, be was away Irom home, strangely enongh, be was not effected, His wile sod chill, fear- ing the mad man wight do them harm, fed it is a When elt Anderson, and be was just as save as She swore oul a warrent for his now Anderson is in jail, Killed by Quarry Binst, The premature expiosion of a blast at the it seems that Whaa the fuse thé fuse and while were blown off, and both eyestorn from their sockets, He was also horribly mane gird about the face and body. Rast was taken 10 the Chester Hospital, but died soon after arriving there, Vietimised the Girls of Ironbridgs, A stranger claiming to be Lewis Leighton, agent for John Gripe & Co., Phoenixville, visited Iron Bride» and juvduced six giris to pay bim $1.5) each for lesons which were to ba given In the art of making artificial flowers, The man then disappeared, and inquiry at Phoenixville revealed the fact that no such firm existed there, asd bo teacher appeared to lnstraet the victims, et Woman Burned by Gasoline Explosion, Mre, Dortha Guaston, aged 40 years, wife of Jobn Gooston, of the Fort Pitt Gisss Works, Greensburg, was taraed simost to aorisp, A gasoline stove with which she was working exploded, 01d Ore Mines to be Charles Kichlloe, of Williams Township, and Robert I. Richards, of Easton, have lensed the oid ore mine in Williams Town ship belonging to Mm. Hannah of that plaoe, and will soon open and begin to take owt ore, For
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