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