THE NEWS. Louis August, the Fort Monroe artillery. man, denied any knowledge of what he did at the time he is accused of having killed Annie Benedict, He admitted that blood- stained clothing found in his box at the fort was his. Ellery P. Ingham, ex-United States dis- triot attorney, and his law partner and for mer aasistant, Harvey K. Newitt, were sen- tenced in Philadelphia to {imprisonment for two years and six months, The new battleship Kentucky in her offi cial speed trial off the Massachusetts coast, made sa record of over 16 knots an hour against tide, wind and heavy head sea for half the course, Sergeant Bill An announced the sinking of the mitted suleide ia New York, William Hammell, accused of the murder of his wife and children, was arrested near Wi linmsport, Pa. John Tates, a walter, was fatally stabbed with an umbrella in a Chicago restaurant. John G. Skelton, founder of the Richmond Mica Works, died in Richmond, Va. Ed Lucky and Tom Mitchell were executed ie Darlington, 8, C., for rape. Rev. Edwin A. Schell resigned as see of the Epworth League, The city of Tucson, accepted Car- negie's offer of a library. The Anti-Trust League in Albany, N. Y. The General adopted resolutions tions and trusts, and dent MoKinley as the bor.” Miss Mary Campbell Quinn, daughter of James Cecil Quinn, and Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., son of Governor Lowndes, of Maryland, were married in the First Presbyterian Church at Chillicothe, O, Thomas Giffe, a pension attorney of Chat- tancoga, Tean., who was disbarred for al- legged crookedness, sued Oc Pensions Evans for £25, 000 damages. The motion to throw out the vote of LL ville in the Kentucky State electio referred by the Jefferson county to the State election board. Louis August, an Monroe, Ya., conlessnd dered and mutilated two the tenderloin district of The women of South Carolina have ten- dered a gold medal to Lieutenant Vietor Blue for his gallant services during the war, The monuments and markers erected on the battlefields about Chattanooga by the State of lllinols were dedicated Jogeph Richards, aged twenty-three years, committed suicide in Macon, as the re- sult of religious mania, Willlam Hay, was held up, Staunton, Va. Mary Racket was forcibly aunt, Mrs. John Eagan, in C napped. Ex-Postmaster Willlam H. arrested in Oakfield, Pa., for public money. A woman and her three children were mur- dered in their home, pear Montgomery, Pa Ground was broken at Chelsea, Atiantie City, for a mammoth hotel to be bulit there, One man was killed and six injured by an explosion in a trench In New York. The deed conveying the by the peopls to Admiral Mildred McLean Dewey to Dewey, the Admiral’s only on record in Washingtor 3¥ 8 rear-end colilsion Station, Ind., on the Engineer Bradford, passenger train, was killed, Engineer Sauber and two fire- men were injured, The General Labor, in session at Boston, adopted a reso- lution favorable to the orgasization of women's district assemblies, A delegation from the Pamunky tribe of Indians paid the tribe's annual tribute—a slain deer and wild turkey-—to Governor Tyler, of Virginia. D. W, Pope and D, M. Perdue, two Georgia countrymen, blew out the gas in thelr room at a Savannah boarding-house, and were asphyxiated, Four hundred and fifty Sac and Fox In- dians are reported to be ready to go on the warpath on account of their alleged griev- ances, The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America was incorporated at Trenton, with au authorized capital of 810,000,000, The solid silver loving cup presented to Admiral Schley by citizens of 8t. Louis has reached him on his flagship. Martin V. Bergen died at Prineston, N. J. from the effects of a hazing at Lawrenoe- ville, The lower house of the General Assembly of Georgia passed the Prohibition bill, The window-glass jobbers, at their meeting in New York, organized an association, to be known as the Window-Glass Jobbers' Asao- elation, which, it is sald, will avert a war between the American and the independent glass manufacturing companies, Osear Fleming, the Virginia magistrate, accused of murder, and who killed a man in an attacking mob, visited Norfolk, and while in a hardware store was arrested on a technical charge and locked up to keep him out of the hands of the crowd, A pitched battle occurred at Fort Ring- gold, Rio Grande City, between a company of colored cavalry of the regular drmy and a body of citizens, The easualties are as yet unknown, Miss Hattie Smith, the eighteen-ysar-old daughter of a farmer in Wiscbnsin, has been chosen by her granduncle la Seotland as his heir to a million dollars, The Southern Raliroad bas completed and is now operating a new link between Coe lumbia and Gerry, 8, C., which parallels the Seaboard Alr Line, There Is great excitement in the Georgia legislature over a bill providing for state prohibition, The organization of 8 new patriotic society, ealled the Bpanish War Veterans, has been oompleted, The Democratic National Executive Com- mittes ended its sessions In Chicago, Only seven jurors for the trial of Molineux fn New York have been secured, The Kentucky Dermsoeratio state campaign sommitte es soncedes that Taylor, Republican candidate for governor, has a majority on the face of the returns, but bope to elect Goebel by throwing out the vote of Louls- ville, The Democratic National Executive Com. mittee met In Chicago, thus inaugurating the tial campaign. Benator Jones sald the silver plank of he Chloago plat form would be reaffirmed The Delmarvia Telephone Company, of Wilmington, and the Maryland Toho. Company have made a combination to se. eure long-distance service on the peninsula, marine who Maine, com- thony, the ¥ th retary po rated Knights of Labor condemning combina- characterizing Presi. “bitter enemy of la- Assembly, nmissioner of ouls- un has been canvassers artilieryman at Fe that he had mt women living in oehus, Ya. Ga. son of Congressman Hay, assaulted and robbed near taken from her bleago, and kid- Callahan was appropriating home presented Dewey from Mrs. George Goodwin son, was placed near MeCool's Baltimore and Ohio, of the Assemby of the Knights of WILD FLIGHT. AGUINALDO IN A A DIL APIDATED COXN- DITION SEEKS A REFUGE. AMERICANS ARE WOUNDED. Hatloss, With Hix Clothing Torn and Mud Spattered, He Rides Into Dayamban, Changes Horses and Dashes OF Again The American Forces Continue Their Rapid Advance. Manila, (By Cable.) guinaido, accom panied by several of his followers, have been seen in full flight, A Spanish corporal, enp- tured by the Filipinos, Basarrived here from Tarla:. He says he saw Ag gulbaido, COM panied by a prominent leader and five man, arrive a: Dayambaimn, ducing the night of November 13, hatioss, his elothes torn aud spatterad wit , and his ed, Aguinaldo, {3 apienrs, time, soeined duxious companions and the villag of the roa ls, secured fros ceeded immediately toward Mangalaren Pangasinan provines, west of Daye The corporal tells a stralg minute details, He is mistaken, mii horas rested Oo sons ited ih horses and pre yi, Wonvinoed Arguing mitha, having seen times during recent mo appears, would have had time yambrn November 18, and Goneral Wheaton's lines Novembe American Officers Wounded. Severe fighting ia the gan Tuesday, November 21, : were killed apd twenty-five were wounded including three ofMoors, The (nsurgen retreating to Santa Barbara, but the ing continues, General MacArthur has returned to Te ina, and has esta! ished his he former residence, north of Iloilo Four Awerioa: aclquarters at During the ment from Gerona to Dagupan was fired, srios met the Amer formerly attached to the insu the alealde (mayor), with General MacA and Colonel Bell, in a riage, procession through thetown, G Arthur received an ovation. Americans’ intentions, he they futended to garrison all n the rallr Hu the fleld, harvesting ri z he foreig the I'he inhabitants of with rent not a shot San OC wos a band srmy, aud neral Mao Explaining announ the oadds, ners in Aguinaldo was 1 advance fora have part « finished, f his army to » the har hidden th flow this is tr brought io, atier tO vesting, The mh RTS wit Many rine to secures the A Brilliant Stroke. Captain Leonhauser’s of O'Donnel was a remarkable apture of the stro qommand consisted of three the Twenty-filth Regiment bright and Lieutenants commandiog., He st night nnd marched fifteen miles in the The only regular approach was alot aud Bates arted at ol ig 8 road over a river whose bridge was strongly fortified. The entrance of the town was on hed, The soldiers left the road and lowed a eattle trall to rear of the town. At daylight the cor nd one company advan town and the gent foree was asl outposts, who were cag ag toa tre ing on fl r flanking | it The tusur- weit those tured without ahoot othe feop, ex at the One piatoo u down the m sch and the other dets of the b ' wibing the soene, said 8 quick search Jew ihe every ho Filipino warrio them into the strest, [It which company w pinos. The women and children the stories told that the negro soldiers were cannibals, shricked fright! After all the rifles had been secured negro soldiers wern pouring out ase, draggiog sie frightened re by the ¢ ir and Wha 8 race uid corral the most Fill. balieviog ily. Filipinos to thair he the wero mes and attend to work.’ BATTLE NEAR BELMONT. General Methaen Reports That the Bri* ish Were Victorious A Number of "Officers Were Wounded. London, (By Cable The Seeretars of received the following gh Gen, Forestior-Walker, [rom Methven, dated Delmont, November 23 “Attacked the enemy at daybreak. was in a strong position. hres were carried in succession, the lsat being prepared by shrapael, “The infantry behaved splendidly, and received support from the naval brigade and artillery. The enemy fought with and skill, Had I stacked later, have had far heavier loss, “Our vietory was complete, Have taken forty prisoners. Am burying a good num ber of the Boers, but the greater part of the enemy's killed and wounded were removed by thelr comrades. Have captured a large number of horses and cows, and destroyed & large quantity of ammunition.” The situation in Natal remains olecure, Fighting is reported at both Esteourt and Ladysmith. It was at first reported that beavy firing had been heard in the direction of Willow Grange, leading to a belief that General Hildyard had made a sortie, Tater despatches announce that Gegeral White sartied from Ladysmith and {oflicted s dom oralizing defeat upon the Doors, It would be premature to give fall ered. enos to either report. What is quite certain is that Ladysmith, Esteourt and Mooi River Stations are all isolated, and the Boers seem able, after detaching enough troops to hold three British foroes aggregating 17,000 mon, to push on toward Pletermaritzburg wiih some 7.000 men, A disquisting featurs of the whole cam. paign is the fact that all the advancing British generals report meeting the Boers in foros, General Joubert in partially paralyzing the relisving columns, the question is belog naked, what would have happened had he at the ouiset of the war, Instesd of sitting down before Ladysmith, pushed on to Ph termaritzburg ? General Gatacre’s report that the Duteh are rising Increases public anxiety, ns it tends to confirm rumors that have long been current, Ea a ATRANSPORT'S QUICK RECORD, —-—_—— The Elder Arrives Bolgian King Brings the Body of Major Howard, flan Francisco, Cal, (Special, The record for a round trip to Manila is held the United States transport George W, 5 Ider, having made the round trip in sixty-one days. 8he salled a few hours abead of the Belgian King, which ls now dus, The Bok gian King is bringlog the body of Major Guy Howard, son of General 0, 0, Howard, ne tired, who was kilied last October, He was passing up the Rio Grande River, near Araya, ib a dnuheh, when he was shot by a native concealed stream, despateh, Chon, He ridges attack COUrny ¥. 3 I should along the MORE ARMORED CRUISERS. Secrotary Long Believes That the Navy is in Need of Three Ships of This Class, Washington, (Hpecial,) Secretary Long will recommend to Congress a program for new naval construction, which will be in ae- cordance with the policy that has been pur- sued for the past three vears, He will ask for three armored cruisers of about 13,000 tons displacement; threo protected cruisers of about 8,000 tons, and a dozen gunboats of 00 tons, making eigteen ships in all, The armored erulsers will be enlarged Brovkiyns, improved un many details, and will be the biggest ships in the United Btates navy. In the opinion of experts they wil be equal to the battleships of several naval powers iy strength, and will have great speed, The od crnisers will be of the Olympia type, fleet, powerful sea boats, with nun : call ber f rapid protection r= protect rous butler { guns of medium elying for gun fire entirely upon a tective doek and coal bunkers, The gunboats will be Hitie Marietta, and will ba of ngal curved j about the size of the their heht draft the shallow walers Vers, possessions of +f f from servie of the gulf ports and in the ited Btates, for police duty int peace, The program reference to what has ized in the way of words, the ship 8 will be ne authorized by the last Congress, the latter have not been « atuse of the armor limitation, ein in the Chinese ri Kreat as woll pew insular the Un made up without been author. ther inl 10 those aithot ontractaed already new ships, In tdithe aid gh most of for, be BEAR AND HUNTER DEAD, Desperate Conflict that Ended Fatally Mau and Brute, Pa spocial, ) ten! Wilkesbarre, . hu Was the I near this for Siroudsburg, Harps, nu found Stan horribly lacerated huge Ph wil ter, on Tors, untains, and fond Gena a A hunt- iny XE bear, furpa tried on his ing-trip on ay his dog returned to th with blood, y inen started Fatal Bear-End Collision. causing a bud rd of the tase i, OF Lhe Dass gineer Nar pred du passenger train was Engineer Bradford. Wiped Out by a Tornade. wt Smith, Ark, (Special from Paris, L wn of me gan Magazine Magan Road, sizsty miles aw oast of reach Magazine wire . neville, ten mies Magazine, being hic severe storm, wh down aed eattie lied, Macon's Mavor Dead. (in » lied Weds State, How r federate with the exonpt} when he was legisiated 5 yoars he served as post Bodies of the Maine's Victims, Washington, (Special, The Xavy Iw pariment hos al concinded arrangements for bringlog to this country the bx 166 sailors of Maine pow interred ' Colon , Havana, It is now pro assign » warship to this duty be tween December and February next, The bodies will be brought to Washington and interred in Arlington National Ce with suitable honors, out dics of the the Comotlery posed {o melery Fell Over a Thousand Peet. Mahanoy City, Pa rae Townsend, aged twenty-one years, employed at the Gilberton near bere, fell down the water shaft a distance of 1,080 feet, and was instantly killed, This is the greatest {all ever chronicled in similar mining fatalities in the southern anthrasite coal fields, (Special, Gey ecolilery, mine Fatal Resnlt of a Hazing. Princeton, N. J., (¥pecial. )-—Martin ¥ Bergen, son of Coaneliman Peter V. Bergen, of this place, died from receiving s hariog at Lawrenceville, Ho died of inflammation of the bowels, Young Bergen was twelve years old, and a freshman at Lawrenceville, He was being put through the initiation, when ons of the hazers accidentally feil u pon him, Lived to a Ripe oa Age. Martinsburg, W. Va, (Special) Miss Elizabeth Jones died Friday night on Camp- bell's Creek, aged one hundred and three years, Bho would have been one hundred aud four years of age had she lived until January next, Her death waa caused by the Accident to Secretary Ades, Washington, (Special. ) Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee sustained a palnfal, He sustained a sovers dis fine him to his home for a fortnight, at lonst, on tor the Philippines. New York, (Seecinl)- With flags flying and soldiers cheering, and with the band of the Forty-first Infantry on her deck, playing “The Girl I Left Behind Ma” the United Cos my, and out to sea, on ber way to the Phil. ippines, « ion for Spanish Prisoners Madrid, (By Cable. )~ An official despatoh trom Manila says that two bundred Spanish prisoners have been sent to the Provines of Punay, and that the Americans have cone sented that a vessel with food and clothing shall be sent to get them, A 0 OAS Yellow Paver Has Ran His Course, Washington, (Special, )- Reports received by Burgeon General Wyman, of the Marine Hompital Service, show that the yellow fever han about run its course at Key West, Pia, where ht waa 40 severy during the sid of the summer, Es ~ HOBART IS DEAD, HIS LONG TLLNESS ENDS AT RIS HOME AT PATERSON, DIED OF HEART DISEASE. Surrounded by His Family and Physician, He Lapses Into Uncofsclousness Mes. sages of Condolence from President MeKinley and Other Distinguished Per- sons Received by Mrs. Hobart. Paterson, N. J., (8pecial.)—The long ill- ness of Hon, Garret A, Hobart, Vice Presi- dent of the United States, ended at 8.50 o'clock Tuesday morning, when the distin- guished sufferer passed peacefully away st his home, “Carroll Hall." Around bis bed- ¥ide durlag the waning hours were his wife, his son, Garret A. Hobart, Jr.; his family physician, Dr. W. K. Newton, and Mrs, New- ton and Private Secretary Fred Evans, Jr. Mr. Hobart's death bad been expected for some hours, The beginning of the end on Monday afternoon, when thers was a sudden fallure of the heart, and om this attack Mr. Hobart never rallied. Ho bad been sis for a long time and had suffered ily from heart failure, and his strength bad been undermined. Gradually the fallure of the heart's action became more apparent, and soon after mi Bnigh it Mr, Hob mrt became unconscious, He remained iu that con until his death, Mr. Hobart's death was ging pectoris, complienting myocarditis, The services were held in the Chureh of the Rodoemer, here, the interment In the family lot, at Cedar the onl ly daughter of Mr. Hobart was buried Dr. Magee me frequ 4 ts @alion dus irectly to and Lawn, where Mrs. ; Rov, and KIX wvears ag preached the Noarly all the niatives of foreign nations in this country sent messages of sym- pathy to Mrs, Hobart, first to ex press his sore at the de loath of the Vice President was President McKinley, who had been notifted by telephone iy Private HRecre. tary Evans, who was in i In DG sitrinon, reprose Ones of the Attorney General Griggs, Washington, went to took charge of all Among « ent messages of con. were ir Julls Pauncefote, the G. De Lichter and m unt asin, Paterse the detalls of the funeral. thers wi ene inister Vice President w Jersey New Busse or Fairban 100. Lian are demoraibvation, and American yell. Aguinaido’s ly ¢ { Gen insurgents retary, an d fami Sr88 Are pris g, The showing sympto ms of x they hear the Justioo Chambers bad a Hay Tutuila. offer of Cu Hecreiary about the s island of declines the nd for him. y erdiser New Orleans d, on her way to Manila, rieston, which str coral reat of the Fi coast, Is & total wreck. Major John A. Logan, Jr. ines while reached Port The cruiser Ch irk an uncharted Hippine was killed i: leading a charge, North Luzon capt iigaldo’s wile it of s Philipg Americas 1 . 1 - the wardrobe of eS i i € il troops in srod Again danger neel! § Hevel to le © jire went, Major J S010, Mania Discussion in £ plete Cr tively | for the wRe an independ n the Havana press, General MacArthur continues bis advanes northward on the Island of Luzon. At Gerona be found a beter class of natives ho welcomed the Americans, At Moncada the insargenis on advances was tem. flere js going Of Be a irain was wrecked by the main track, and the porariiy che ked, Lobel trenches at one American company. my were killed, Jaro were attacked by Three of the ene One American was killed, The President refused to accept the resi. nation of Mr. Damon, the Hawaiian Minister of Finance, HEIRESS TO A MILLION, A Farmer's Danghier to Brighten the Last Years of a Rieh Unele, Stevens Point, Wis, Miss Hal tis Bmith, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a retired farmer, Thomas Smith, has been chosen ns heiress to one million doliare, Miss Bmith's grandusncle, Richard Smith, a wealthy business man of Glasgow, Reotland, has signed a contrast to seitle one million dol ars on Misa Smith when she arrived at twenty-one, in consideration of her going to Glasgow to live with the old gentleman and brighten his last years, She will go to Glas gow in August. Her uncle ix ninety-two yOars oid, {(Special.) LADY SAL inl RY DE AD. The Wife of (h» Prime Minister of Eng and a Victim of Paralysis. London, (By Cable) Lady Salisbury, wife of the Premier, who has been in {i health for a long time past, suffering a see. ond stroke of paraiysis in July last, died at Hatfell House, She was a daugh- ter of the late Sir Edward Hall Alderson, a baron of the Court of Exchequer, and was married to the Marquis of Salisbury in 1887, A Noted Southern Woman Dead, Jackson, Miss, (Bpecial.)- Mrs, Ben 6G, Huamphries, honorable president of the Mis slesippl Chapter, Daughters of the Confed- eracy, died at hor home in Greenwood, aged peventy-thres yoars, Khe was the widow of Benjamin G, Humphries, the war governor of Mississippl. Shot His Aceaser ina Cemetery. Kokomo, lad. (Special. )~In the eily comotory hora Wiliam Clubs shot and killed Jam~» Horn, Horn had applied for divores, secusing Clubs of wrecking his home, They met in the cemetery by chance, Clube waa arrested, CABLE SPARKS. Emperor William, the Empress and two of their sons embarked at Kiel on the mporial yaoht tor England, The burning steamer Patria was abandoned at sea by the captain, after desperate efforts to bring her to land, The Khedive navelled at Port Bald a mon. ument 10 the late Count Ferdinand de Les. eps, Sir Richard Moon died in London. TRANSFERRED TO HIS WIFE Admiral Dewey's Action a Surprise to His Friends, Who Consider 1t ns Show ing a Lack of Tact. Washington, (Specic).)—Admiral Dewey transferred to his wife the bouss whieh the people of this country presented to him. The legal papers were filled, Two papers figure In the transaction. The first is & deed in trust, by which George Dewey ot ux, transfer to John W, Crawford, the consider ation being #1, the west 27 feet of lot 00 and part of lot 51, square 158, in Lathrop's sub- division; also the chattels at 1747 Bbode Isiand avenue, in trust. to convey to Mil. dred Meleau Dowey The second paper is a deed by which John W. Crawford, as trustee, conveys to Mil dred McLean Dewey, the consideration be- ing 810, the west 27 fest of lot 80, and part of jot 51, in Lathrop's sub-division of square 159; also the chattels at 1747 Rhode Island avenue, A despatch one day last week announced that it was believed that Admiral Dewey was about to take this step, and that his friends were dismayed at the mers sugges- tion, A member of Cabinet who had taken a deep interest in raising the funds for the house vigorously denied the truth of the story, on the ground that he could not belleve it that Admiral Dewey i 8 thing. The story Is widespread that a threat of legal action by a former sweetheart of the Admiral Is responsible for the Admiral’s act, It is said that was employed in the Treasury Department when the Admiral was a commodore stationed in Washington, The altentions of the gallant sallor to the Treas. ury clerk were 20 marked as 0 gen- eral comment, When the Olympia steamed into New York harbor on the 20th of last September one of the thousands who erowde «d ¢ over the Viole] & side to greet the some bil the possible % t WOOL G0 Fo} she CHRUSA bero of Manila was a baud. onde, 8 adie her way quarter deci, 3 faithful standing ers were close by, Vario: the wherns the and aide, Lieutenant Brumby, A number of newspap nd the next iS papers gave a pretty des bewitching blonde who ng the band of the sallor and raised her lips tempt- ingly to his. Dewey hesitated, and mas have been about to press a kiss but Brumby intervened, and the 1 slayer of the Bpaniard was not Hobme At imiral wer day ert INITIATION KILLED HIM. Civil War Veteran ceived During Carbondale, 111, (Special, son, of De 8 of the C4 is dond from | juries received while being initiated into the Select Kr» of the Boyal Arch. fs fee of men in- terested in Hes from Injary Re- Ceremonies. Lafayette Dea- the Ho, a veteran il War, I rel society, com the sale of liquors. In the testimony given ner's Jury, it appears that among ftruments used in initation which resembles a Itt a a barrel four inches in jength ining & 32.cal cartridge. The « arizidge used is blank, is exploded by a against object, before the Coro other in- the iss device ihre and sharp tap wn had some Gie- Gus Giesek, a snlesmar charge of the Throug unknown csuse the instrument in Mr, #ek’s hands turned and the wad and powder webt into Mr. Deason’s right hip. The in- Jury was at first thought to be trivial, but next day (last Monday), Mr. Deason’s hip began to swell, and he died in awful traveling ceremonions, agony. HI% BODY IN THE SPRING. of John Near Newville. Carlisie, Pa. ial.) ~The body of John Huriey, 8 young man aged twenty.six, siding near Newville, found floating in the Big Spring. The body had been in wa- ler sevenioen days and presented a ghastly appearances. It was greatly discolored and swollen, The finger tips were caten off Ly the fishes In the stream. The was a mason by occupation, After he quit work he started for his home about two miles away, it was raining ard. There is a steep clay bank about the stream, where be is supposed to fallen in. This was evidently slippery fro the rain, and in the darkness he must ow made a misstep, precipitating bim into the water, Accidental Drowning Hurley { Spec re. wee young man when very o have TRIUMPH OF THE Symbeolized in Stxine t fvelled by French President. Paris, (By Cable, President Loubet un- veiled in the Pisce de ia Nation Sunday a statue symbolizing the triumph of the Re publie, Premier Waldeck-RBoussesn and all the other members of the Cabinet were present, The ceremony was witnessed by an immense crowd, There was an imposing procession of municipal officers and labor delegations, M. Loubet was grested with choers REVUDLIC Funston Heturning to Manila. Ban Francisco, (8peeinl jw Gen, Fred. erick Funston, accompanied by his wife, has arrived at Oakiand, en route to Manila, where he will report for duty to General Nie, FIELD OF "LABOR. Toledo sign writers are organized. Minneapolis has a hackmen’s union, ‘Friseo has a Latin carpenters’ union, Syracuse has a municipal lodging house, Tug firemen at Nafalo demand $50 a month, Grand Rapids has a Ladies’ Union Label League, The weekly payment of rent is the rule of England. There are 83.5% union patiernmakers in the United States, The initiation fee of the Frisco painters’ union is $10, Seotland blast furnace men have been conceded an advanes of b per cent, A Toronto druggist was fined for selling soda water and lee cream on Sunday, The copper mines of Upper Michigan are now giving employment $< 13.561 mes, Tho State rallways of New Zealand cone tinue to show signs of increasing prosperity. Kansas Olty joarpeymen horseslioers get #8.5) for nine hours. A sot of shoes costs the owner of a horse from 3 to 825°, The Barbers’ Union is waging war upon the alleged barbers’ schools of Boston, against which serfous charges are being sande, Colored carpenters of Nashville, Tenn, wave organised a union, Atants, Ga, now baa two colored organisations of this eralt, At Boston the enforcement of the Banday law by the police is due to the agi- tation in progress by the barbers and gro- KEYSTONE STATE. LATEST SEWS GLEANED FROM VARE- OUsS FARTS, TWO TRAINS IN COLLISION. Disaster Near Lebanon, but no One Seri ously Injured President of Bradford County Commits Suicide Beenuse of Affliction Fred Miller Charged With Stabbing His Brother at Chester, The see tion of the passenger train due at Lebanon at 7.01 from Reading on the Philadelphia & Beading Bealiway, ran into the first section ut Richland, Luckily only a few passen in the car that was struck, and front end. The tive into the car, de molishi and blocking the road. The wre clegred away until mid- traffic was held wers injured, but Bmith, yard mas- lalirosd, the the ond sec FATS Were these were in the Income crashed ng it, Kage wae not id all enstbhound be: re. Boeveral passengers Bons ously, Iiul ter of the in Ww, Cornwall & Lebanon badly burt in jumping off r was hysteri- had his jeg wr, and Mrs. Ja Cai when she re imsnerfield, pro. suffering 28 voars old, On nds te Satur #0 Jeweler Repulses Robbers, illed in Boarding Train. t Norker vise L Worker IViBR fostantly who is en bakery, was » Hoad, S$ team he Wagon be horse wut and seversly inlured and rem i 10 lhe y Hospltad, was siru WAR COM Jowis} {ailroad Conductor's Safcide Whitefield W. Welsh, of the oldest econdactors on the Penrevivaria Railroad, ard one of the best-known raliroad men in thes part of the State, committed suicide in the American House, Columbia, by taking jandanum, Welsh was a Civil War Veteran and served in the Fifth Pennsyivania Be. Rr ves, one tailroad Employee Crushed to Death. Paul Seorits, an aged car repairer, in the New York Osutral Raliroad shops at Jersey Shore, was caught between the drawhesds of freight cars and badly crushed. Death resulted in a few hours, Landanum to End Life. William Haggerty, & farmer, living at Rieng!, committed suicide by swallowing dose of Isudanum, He was 55 years of agh and leaves a wile and a number of children. State News in Brief. In attempting to stop a ranaway horse, Paul Harman, of Bloomsburg, was struck on the bead and breast by the borse’s hoofs, The blow rendered him unconscious, and it was some time before a physician sucoesded in resuscilating him. To obviate a dangerous ford and a partly submerged road, which followed the bed of the Perkiomen Creek, a Jury laid out a new road and a bridge in Upper Salford at a cost of $4000, awarding Mrs. Jeremiah F. Ehelly $300 damages, Mrs. Hughes, wife of Frederick Hughes, of the Armour & Co.'s offices, at Mt. Pleas ant, was probably fatally burned by the ex- piosion of a lamp. A Little Too Engiieh, Chom-—*“What! You are not ene gaged to Miss Hightone! Well, I de- clare! I thought surely that would be & matoh.” Young Tremolo—"'I backed out She was too much & slave of fashion too English, you know." “You amaze me." “Fact. She wanted me to go by myself and ask her father's evusent. Goll Lileks on a Mistorie Dattlefeld. ia elation hae just purchased the farm on which the battle of Princeton was fought in 1777, and will lay it out in golf links. At the battle of Prince- ton Washington commanded the con. Huwtal tiwops in PSTD and wou decisive victory. Gen. Hugh who led one
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