THE NEWS.
The funeral of Rev. Dr. Edward MeClynn
was conducted from St. Stephen's Catholic
Church in New York. Many thousands took
a last look at the face of the popular priest
befors the body was buried in Calvary Cem-
otery in Brooklyn. Tho mass was colebrated
by lev. Charles MeCready, and the eulogy
was delivered by Monsignor Mooney.
The American Steel and Wire Company
will refuse to sign a scale proposed by the
National Association of Rod Mill Workers
because only recently the pay of all em-
ployes was increased Ti; per cent.
District Attorney Andraws, of Wastchester
county. N. Y., announced that he would
have Prof, Morrison arrested on the charge
of murdering his wile,
Mr. M. E. Ingalls announced that he would
retire from the presidency of the Chesapeake
and Ohio, but will retain the presidency of
the Big Four.
Dr. Elizabeth J, French, of Philadelphis,
a prominent woman physician, died ut her
daughter's residence in Boston.
Pr. J. C Mulhall was found dead, shot
through the heart, in his office in St. Louls,
Supposed caso of suleide,
In a collision between ice vachts on the
river. near Red Bank, N. J, several men and
two women were injured.
It is reported that there will ba an advance
f thirty to thirty-five cents per ton On bitu-
minus coal [reight rates,
Two men were killed and
% quarrel over a game of cards in
tiger” in Kentucky.
A number of persons perished in the bliz-
sard which raged in the Sacramento Moun
tains,
General Dabney H. Maury, 8 noted Con-
tedorate offic. r, died in Peoria, IL
Miss Kouma Miller, who sold the silver bot-
ve-holder, stated positively on the witness
stand in the Molineux ease that the prisoner
iid not buy the article from her in the store
in Newark.
The Filipinos break up into small bands,
making it diMeult for our foroes conducting
the campaiga to the south of Manila to cap-
ture them.
The editor of La Lucha, of Havana,
General Ludlow, who continues to impose
fines on him for publishing maliciously false
stories.
The National Bank of Commerce and the
National Uanion Bank, both of New York,
pave issued official plans for consolidation.
four wounded in
a “blind
dalles
Julia Morrison James, the actress, on trial
st Chattanooga, Tean., for killing Frank
jeidenheimer, was acquitted.
Joseph L. Moore, seventy years of age, of
Astoria, Mo., shot his young wile, and then
committed suicide.
Judge W. B. McClure, of the Probate Court
of Lauderdale eounty, Ala., was murdered
by some one unknown.
Charles W. Pickel fatally shot al
ton Mrs. John J. Graham, and
witted suleide,
General Wood is expected to pardon about
two hundred persons languishing in Spanish
prisons,
lurnet Grinberg was arrested
girls in fur export to
Ktates,
At Frankfort, Ky., J. 8. C, jinckburn was
declared elected United States senator.
Yrs. Katherine Welrich died
burg, Pa., aged ninety-two.
Charles J. Sweeney fatally shot Mrs, Busan
Parker in New York.
Edward Watson killed hi
Pennsylvania.
Mr. Cleveland bas gone
to shoot ducks.
The residence of Joseph I'ulitzer, in New
York. was burned, and two women servants
their The property loss was
$300,000,
Dr. G:. W. Appieby, a leading pliysician of
iutler county, Iowa, kilied a ten-months-old
child while temporarily insane.
Fire at Williamsport, Pa. threw out of em-
ployment six hundred men in the Lycoming
tubber Works.
Cornelius Shew and James J. Eagan were
hanged at Montrose, Pa, for murdering
Jackson Pepper.
An slestrie raliroad will ba built to connect
Newport News, Hampton and other nearby
places,
William Wasco, a Hangarian, was hanged
at Pittsburg for murdering Anole Heatak his
sweetheart,
J. ¥. Weymouth, a carpenter, fell from a
senffold in Richmond, and broke his neck,
Bight new cases of the bubonic plague
were reported at Hono.ulu up to January 1
Miss Myra Morelia, an actress, died =
Archer, Florida.
The losses of the Planters and Merchants’
tobseso warehouse and adjoining establish.
ments. in Richmond, Va. from the fire, are
estimated at £400,000,
F. A. Newton, paying teller of the Fidelity
Trust and Cuaranty Company, of Buffalo,
embezzled funds to the amount of $48,000,
Hurlbert H. Warner, the patent medicine
man, filed a petition in bankruptey, giving
Lis liabilities as $2,000,0 0, assets nothing.
Edward Sinclair, enshier of the Deposit
Bank, of Russellville, Ky., was seriously shot
Ly Will Elliston, his brother-in-law,
Norman Richardson, five years
Partsmonth, Va., died from lockjaw, the re.
witlt of a Christmas Day accident,
A bill was introduced in the Virgiuis leg-
jsiature authorizing the consolidation of the
seaboard roads,
Mrs. Catharine Rippard, aged seventy six
Fas, w:s burned to death in Wilkes
sarre, Pa.
Three sons of William Stott, at Uniontown,
I'a.. were burned to death in their home,
Philip W. Bose killed his wife in New
York, and fatally shot himself,
Rev. Dr. Edward MeGiynn, rector of St.
Mary's Church, in Newburg, N. ¥Y., who be-
ame famous while rector of Bt Stephens’
Chureh, as a supporter of Henry George, for
his controversy with Archbishop Corrigan,
whisk brought bir in conflict with the Vatl-
ents, died at the rectory in Newburg,
Ywo ehlidron of Frank Martsoll, of New
Brighton, Pa, died from diphitheriagtbe
futher depending upon Christian Selenco to
effect a cure, Health antborities took the
family in charge agalost the parents’ protest,
In New Castle, Pa., Peter Varvade lay in
ambush for his rival, sinshed Lim with «
razor, end then shiot him through the heart,
Richerd W. Bormann, of Stapleton, 8. 1s
on learning that his brother had died ia the
Wilming-
then com-
for buying
Austria the United
at Chambers
mseif at Towanda,
South Caroline
host lives,
Barnes’ box factory, in
Mrs. Wood MeGlnn, of Mecklenburg
socidentally smothered
SUA her
baby In bed,
Ex-President Harrison has written a letter
advooating a national park at Atlavte.
Dr. Franklin W. Fisk, president of
death, two of them ou tue summit of White
THRILLING STORY TOLD BY LIBUT-
ENANT GILLMORE,
WEAK FROM STARVATION.
Gen. Tino Had Ordered That the Party
Should be Shot, But the Lisutenunt in
Charge of the Guard Had a Kinder
Heart, and Left Them Behind to sStrag-
gle for Themselves in a Savage Country.
Manila, (By Cable.)—Lieutensnt J. ©.
Gllimore, of the United States gunboat York-
town, who was captured by the insurgents
last April near Baler, on the east const of
Luzou, and rescued a fow days ago by Col.
Luther BR. Hare, of the Thirty-third Volun-
teer Infantry, sat in the apariment of his
sister, Mrs, Price, wife of Major Price, at
the Hotel Orlente, in Maaila, and told a re-
markablo story of his eight months in cap-
tivity, ending with his dramatic deliverance
from a death that seemed {nevitable,
The steamer Venus came into the harbor
from Vigan, province of South liooas, with
Lieut. Gillmore and nineteen other Ameri-
ean prisoners, including seven of his sailors
from the Yorktown, Lieutenant Gillmore,
after reporting, came ashore and hobbled
along, with the ald of a cane, to the Hotel
Oriente, where American officers and ladies
were waltzing through the balls to the strains
of “Aguinaldo's Mareh,”
Although tanned and ruddy from expos-
ure, he Is weak and nervous, showlog the
results of long hardships. He speaks warm-
iy of Aguinaido and very bitterly against
General Tino, declaring that while in the
former's jorisdietion he was treated splon-
didiy, but that after be fell into Tinos hands
he suffered everything.
Colonel Hare and Lieutenant Colonel
Howse, the latter of the Thirty-fourth Voi
}
December 18 near the headwaters of tha
Abalut river, after they had been abandoned
by the Filipiuos and were expecting death
from the savage tribes around them. When
the rescuing forces reached them they were
nearly starved, bat were buliding rafts in
the hope of getting down the river to the
coast,
Lieutenant Gillmore made the following
sintement:
“The Yilipinos abandoned us on the night
of Decuaber 16. We had reached the Abalut
river, near its source, and the Flipinos
rafted us over, We then went down the
streata along a rough trail, guarded by a
company of Filipinos, That night we were
separated from this guard and another com-
pany, armed with Mausers, was putin charge
of us, 1 suspected something, and ques-
tioned the lieutenant in command, Hesald
‘1 have orders from Geperal [iso to shoot
vou all, but my conscience forbids, 1
leave ; ou here,’
“I begged him for two rifles to protect us
trom savages, adding that I would give him
letters to the Americans, who would pay
him well and keep him from ali harm, ke
refused this, however, saying that he would
not dare to comply. Soon afterward he left
with his company.
“We had seen some savages in war paint
around us, and we prepared to Aght them
with cobblestones, only weapons that
were available to us, The next morning we
followed the trail of the Filipino soldiers,
fecilag that iL was better to stick to them
than to be murdered by pavages, we
could not esteh with them. Then |
ordered the men to bulld rafts, in the hope
of floating down the river. It was a foriorn
hope, but 1 knew the river must empty lato
the sea somewhere,
that 1 did
bought some of
sliall
te
but
up
I was so Weak mysell
to get out, buil
the men could.
Yells That Cheered Them,
“On the morning of December 18, while
we were working on the rafts, the Amer
cans came toward yelling. One of my
men shouted, “They are on us!” He was
ashing a raft of bamboo, I, however,
knew it was pot the yell of savages, but the
yell of Americans. The resculag troops
thought we had Flilpino guards, and calied
to us in English to lie down so thai they
could shoot the Filipinos, Tuat was the
finest body of officers and men I ever saw.”
Lieutenant Gilimore cannot speak enthusi-
astically enough about the 140 pleked men
who had rescued him and his party.
The command spent the day in makiog
rafts. Colonel Hare thought Lisutenant
Gilmore too weak wo Hive through the trip,
but there was no alternative, hey stot
many rapids, the men losiog all their affects
and Lieutenant Gllimore some valuable pa-
pers, Ouly fourteen out of thirty-seven
rafts survived the first night's experiences,
and eighty men were practically usable to
walk when Vigan was reached,
Deseribink the flight from Besguet, when
the Americans approached, Lieutenant Gill-
more sald:
“The Filipinos, compleisly terrified, left
Benguet on December 7. Toey hurried the
prisoners from town to town, often retraoc-
ing the trail, not knowing woere the Amer.
jeans would stiack. After being almost
without food for three days, they killed
not ex pect
ns
for several days. 1 did not have a full meal
trom December 7 until 1 reached Vigmo.
Indeed, the rescuing party lved largely
upon rice, without sait. ‘There was one day
when 1 was reduced to chewing grass and
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
Susan B. Anthony is a vigorous woman
Mrs, William F, Cody, the wile of “Buffalo
Bill,” always travels about the country with
Honstor Beveride, of Indiana, has had Lis
Oudo’s inquisitorial tax laws have forced
tis permunent restdence at Thomasville, Ga,
genator Nelson Wilmarth Adrioh was
Uongress, on November 6, 1841,
Edwin Clawson, the owner of an ostrich
farm in South Passadons, Cala, has suc
eweded in hatehing ostrich eggs with an io.
cubator, The process takes 40 days,
The tradition that there Is always a Wol-
cott at Harvard is nt present well kept up,
oan son of the Governor of Massachusetis
boing in the law school aud two others in
the freshman class,
The secretary of the Treasury has dee
cided that Bloridge T, Gerry, woo refosed
to pay all the duly demanded on gowns aud
Mhdurwear Eubluiiod in some ¥0 trauks he
brought m Rurope, must
between $3,000 and $4,000, pny
. Frauk Steveaberg, Governer of Idaho, is
puven Zant bail
PAnce Pratebak, War Minister of
hast to the Cunr four
EXPANDING BULLETS.
British War Offices Intends to Use the
Desdly “Mark IVY Said to be
Temporary Plan.
ondon, Eng., (By Cable.) ~Cartridges for
the Loo-Metford rifle, which the British Army
uses, are running short and the War Office
has decided to use the “Mark IV" expand-
log bullets,
These bullets spread on striking, and pro-
duce wounds mors than twice as deadly as
those caused by the Mauser, which thes Boers
use. Itissald that the “Mark 1V" will be
used eblefly for practice, and it may not be
employed in actual hostilities,
The first statement of the losses in the
106r aseault on the British garrison at Lady-
smith, Natal, was received in London. Ae
cording to this report, which is unofMeial,
the British losses were 14 ofMcers killed, 34
wounded and over B00 nopeommissioned
officers and men killed or wounded, The
Boer losses, nceording to British estimates,
were between 2.000 and 3,000 in killed or
wounded,
The London Standard has the following
dispateh, dated Monday, from Frere Camp,
Natal: “Our patrols have searched both
flanks of the Boer position, They found a
large camp five miles east of Colenso, evi
dently fu anticipation of a British attempt at
a turning movement.”
This dispatch indicates that General Buller
has been seeking to flank the Boers, Gen.
Bir Charles Warren's division bas not re-
cently been mentioned in the dispatches, and
it was reported to be attempting 10 flank the
Boer position at Colenso by way of Weenen,
on the east, The Standard's dispatch would
seam to indicate that the movement falled,
though this is not absolutely assured,
It is reported in London that Gen. Lord
Paul Methuen, British commander at Mod-
der river, Cape Colony, has become insane,
The War Office denies that be has been super-
seded, General Buller is reported to be sick,
Gen, Yule, who has returnad to Eugland, is
known to have been physically and mentally
wrecked by his experiences in the Dundee
retreat,
Queen Vietoria has prociaimed the next
meeting of Parliament for January 30, when
opponents of the Government are ex pocted
to ask soms awkward questions about the
War,
TO USE "MARK IV” BULLETS
British War Office Issning this Projectile
to Troops.
Lee-Metford car.
hort in the British mag
and, according to sffleial state
ment, the War Office to fall back
temporarily upon 100,000,000 “Mark IV" ex.
panding bullets, most « tf which are slready
London, (By
tridges are running #
Cable,
nines, & wend
intends
%
uth Africa.
however, has issu
in storage in HB
The War Off« ed a striot
order to the volunteers that the 50 rounds of
“Mark IV
be used io
taken 10 Bd
After the
7 o* Piet ile
such Dulist Wwe
bullets already given then
practice
th Afr
hi
pubiia
must
at home, nope being
ion,
sonouncement that no
uld be in this war, is
the Dally Chronicle thinks,
would be 8 strious breach of faith, especially
ax the British commanders have complained
that the Hoers bh pre
used
employment,
asionally
uss 0
jeriiies,
NICKELS SOLYE A CRIME
Gin Girl
House
feo a Ont
Barglar.
Speoial, Mise Daisy
white wou
Folouts the Bishop
Washington, Gias
ROW, & YO Hf good family
Harry Baker, a youdg maa who lives across
the strwet from cone of the robbery
and Lawren sald to be a dangeroos
house-hreaker, wers arrested for stealing
diamonds from the house of William Lishoj
All the jewelry has been ree
ia an
the
wa Fadl
vered,
When the pose jearond that Ball was in
the city they at onoe plased him under sur
velliance. As a defiance of their walchiui
ness the young man report vd to headquar
ters and asked why he was wanted, Tuaere
upon the officers Look him into custody
t was learned that Miss Glasgow
was at least an acouaintance of Ball, and is
him candestinely., The
potice arrested her and learned that she asd
sail had been together near toe Bishog
Ball had given her $1.10. The cents
were represented by two “eagie nlekels
The latter were among the rare ocins aken
from Mr. Bishop's Hall confessed
that he had broken into the Bishop house
slope, had given the pluader to Baker tu
keep and tad afterward od Miss Glasgow
The last named has besa released. Bak
on & charge Of receiving stvies
then
said to have met
Louse,
house,
fs to be held
goods,
SUICIDE OF NAVAL OFFICER
Lienteaant-Commander Greene
Ends His Career,
Washington, (8peeial.) The
Faahily
following
Mowrevipso, Jan, 11
To the Secretary of Ue Navy:
Lisut.-Oom. ¥. E. Greens commitied sui
Arrangements
is ordered to examine the circumstances of
the ease and report,
The officer's friends at the department Are
His
bad habits,
FILIPINOS MAKE A STANIL
Caplured.
Masila, (By Cable, )-~Colonel Bullard, with
the Thirty-ninth Infantry, moving in three
columns from Calamba, with two guns, at
tacked 10 companies of Filipinos strongly
intrenchied on the Santa Tomas road,
The natives resisted stubbornly, making
three stands, Twenty-four of them wen
killed and 00 prisoners wero taken, The
others retreated, carrying their wonndod
toward Lake Taal,
One American was killed and two offleers
were slightly wounded,
fights of Coban Vessels.
Washington, (Special. }~The bili entitling
Cuban vessels to the rights and privileges of
the vessels of the most favored nations in
United States ports was favorably reported
to the Senate,
— AAS 5 SA,
THE ALBANY HAY ENDURANCE,
Made Average Speed of 10.54 an Hour
Under Natural Draft,
Newoastle, England, (By Cable.) The
new United States orulser Albany, which
was given an offfefal trial off this port Janu.
ary 9, has com her endurance trial,
eonsisting of & continuous ran of alx hour
under natural draft,
The test was pacoessial. The ship behaved
well in a heavy ses, : A
The result of the trial wis as follows:
Average sp per hour, knots; revo.
lutions, 149; horse sy § ool oon
sumed at the rate 144 tons for J hours.
¥
4 FIRE IN JOSEPH PULITZER'S HOUSE
IN NEW YORK.
TWO WOMEN ARE DEAD.
Mrs. Morgan Jellett, Housekeaper,
Miss Elizabeth Montgomery, Governoss,
Lose Their Lives-They Were Asleep
When the Fire Started Mrs. Pulitzer You
caped to the Street with Her ( hildren.
wand
New York, (Special, )—The handsome resi-
dence of Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the
New York World, at 10.12 East Fifty-fifth
street, was destroyed by fire, and two women
servants were suffocated or burned to death,
The total loss Ls estimated at about $300,000,
The insurance is $250,000,
The victims of the fire were Mrs, Morgan
Jellett, the housekeeper, and Miss Elizabeth
Montgomery, 8 gOverness,
The dwelling was a four-story vuliding,
The
dining-room was famous for its handsome
There was a conservatory adjoin-
ing, aod here the fire originated, The origin
of the fire is variously ascribed to electric
It
started about 7.30 A. M., while Mrs. Pulitzer,
her daughters Constance and Edith, twelve
and fourteen vears ol age, respectively, and
Herbert, a boy of three years, and the house
Mr. Pul-
{tzer and his son, Joseph, Jr., were at Lake-
There were sizteen servants in the
of
The servants in the house and passers-by
he fire about the same time,
but the flames
of their purses got them
He sald that he saw Mrs. Jellett on the
When the
fancy articles. The woman's body was part-
iy burned,
The body of the governess, Miss Montgom-
with a pair of slippers,
Her body was
showing that she had
before she
badly
was Oversome,
burned,
While the firemen of engine 40, in charge
Lieutenant Harry Hauck, were at work
on the third floor after the fire was out al
af
fall to the
io-
one
t a dowen men
All but HaneX
sstained as laceration of
jet them all
oR a ved]
jury, aod bes
leg
I'he fire spread rapidly after its start, The
firemen sent in a second and then a third
aginrm. brisging a great number of engines
and other apparatus to the scone, Heserves
of poles were called out to Keap in order the
big crowd which had come to see the flames,
which were spactacalar, because of the wind
fanning them fereoely.
Mrs. Pulitzer, who is a niece of Jefferson
Davis, bad a number of jewels ina sale in
the house, which was buried in the rulos.
Hise said that ev-rybody had time to get out
of the house after the fire started, as there
was smoke only for somes minutes before the
flames
Ihe bullding was completely gutted by
fire. none of the stairway belug left and the
rooms being burned out. The contents wore
an sotire loss, and those alone, it was oslb
mated, were worth #1500,
CRIME IN WEST VIRGINIA.
John Baller YVound Unconsclions and Dy-
ing in His Own Yard.
Charleston, W. Va., (Srecial )— What will
probably prove to he a horrible murder on
the west fork of Coal river, Boone county,
West Virginia, is alxut to brought to
Hight, It appears that four weeks ago, late
at night, George Bailey went to the home of
his father. John Balley, and asked him to
assist in killing a bear that had gotten among
Lis cattle. The old man started with his
gun, but next morning he Was found in his
own yard unconscious and dying. The back
part of his skull was « rushed in, twa teeth
out and the gun broken in two atthe breech
Pools of blood were found in the yard, on
the floor of the porch and dwelling and walls
of the house inside, The body was mutilated
sod at the coroner's inquest, which closed a
few days ago, the evidence was so strony
that warrants are out for several persons,
who are alleged to have taken a hand in the
marder,
jw
MONEY TO BUEN IN BRAZIL.
Fisance Minister Will Destroy Two
Millions a Week.
tio Janeiro, ( By Cable.) The Minister of
Finance has been ordered to burn #3000.
000 of paper money every week until $10,
000,000 is destroyed, [Its place will be taken
by metallic money,
Senlior Boverino Visira, who bas been
pominated as a candidate for the Governor.
ship of Bahia, has resigued ‘he portfolio of
Agriculture, He is sucoseded by Senhor
Epliacio Possoa, the Minister of Justioe,
The President has requested Senhor Crovis
Bovilacquin, a noted jurisconsuil, to accept
the vacant office,
General Mallet, the Minister of War, has
been promoted to the rank of field mar-
shal,
Sam Jones Not an Altralst,
Toledo, O., (4pecial.) Mayor Bam Jones
dented the Cincinnati dispateh counecting
him with the Moorestown (N. 1.) Altruistio
Association. I was asked to Jola the asso-
ciation,” he said, “about two weeks ago, but
declined absolutely and positively. donot
polleve that reliel will come to the people
through isolated altruistic settlements,”
i SARE A ST
FOREIGN AF FAIRS.
The German Meat Inspection bill will soon
some up in the Reichstag, and the Agrarian
bas, in consequence, the
fight on American meat,
The British steamer Glasgow was sunk in
a colliston with the British steamer Ormus,
She Makes x Dramatic Speech to the Jury
When the Yerdict is Announced, and
Thanks Them for Thelr Action.
Chattanooga, Teun. (Kpecial.—The trial
of Julin Morrison James for the murder of
Frank Leldeahelmer, of the “Mr. Plaster ol
Purls” Compnuy, of which they wers leading
man and lady, on the stage of the Chatts
noogn Opera House, on the night of Beptes-
ber 23 Inst, ended at tour o'clock, when the
jury returned a verdiet of not guilty.
Miss Morrison, upon hearing the words
which {insured her freedos:, advanced to the
speaker's platform and made a most dramas
tie speech to the court aud the jury. Bhe
said
“1 wish to thank you and the gentlemen
of the jury and all who wore instruments
in my acquittal for your just amd generous
decision, May God in His mercy be ever as
just to you aud yours as you have been Lo
me to-day. For the prosecution, 1 wish to
say that I fully forgive them, and bear them
no malieo for their strenous efforts for my
conviction,
“AS to my persecutors,’’ she continued,
turning towards Mrs. George J. Antz, the
boeantiful sister of the murderbd saetor, who
was overcome with emotion and suffused in
tears, ‘1 leave to thelr consciences
and their God, To the poor bereaved sister
1 say that God knows that, were It in my
power to restore her brother to her, I would
sortalnly do it.”
When Miss Morrison bad finished ber
speach, which she hind rendered in & drama-
tie style, Attorney General Donsidson made
a demand that she be held for carrying a
pistol, and the case was entered, bul no bal
or other formal court recogoition
sorded the action.
The verdiet was wildly by the
spectators in the courtroom aad by hundreds
outside, Miss Morrison remain io
Chattanooga for several when she
will begin a lecture tour, Ber subject belog
“The Other Bide of the Stage,
wiil point out the dangers that mifront the
young giris who follow the stage a# an occu
pation,
them
Whe ao
rhoeered
will
Werks
in which she
ONE KILLED, FOUR INJURED.
Fatal Accident at the Maryland Steel
Company's Works.
Baltimore, Md. One
killed nod four injured by a
steam chest weighing 1,200 pon , slipping
while being lowered into a vessel which isin
the ceurse of constzuction nt the Maryiand
Steel Company's Works, al Hparrows Point
The dead man 8 Francis M. Arnold, a
painter, living al Orangeviiie
The { jured are Howard nd
Highiandtown, and three others whose
names are uaknowsn, one of whom was taken
to the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The socident occurred at nine
atl the time Arnold was standiog on
besms painting. The steam
heavy, and was being
Rpescial, MAN was
wers heavy
am living
ul
eloek, and
#OTHe
chest WAR very
y lowered,
some ropes slipped, and it fell with » crash
into the botlom
slowly when
of the vessel,
Arnold was attracted by the noise, and
is supposed, turned to see what had
pened, As he in some
slipped and fell a distances of twenty-nine
foot. His left arm was broken, his head
cut, and several ribs and his hip were als
broken. He died almost instantly
The other men were at work, asd the fall
of the heavy mass of metal jarred the vesse
and threw them down. They were more O1
less injured about the body. Osmund and
two men were removed to thelr homes, in
Highisndiown, while the other one was
taken to the hospital,
Arnold's body was alterwards removed 4
his home, He was thirty-five years old, and
leaves sa wife and four children. He had
best working for the company about six
months,
The coroner at Sparrows Point heid
inquest, at which the jury rendered
diet of neoidental death,
hag
did so he, WARY,
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Bn Yer
FIGHT WITH PISTOLS,
Three Men in 3 Little Hamlet in Mis
sissippi Killed.
Vioksburg, Mise, Oak Bidge,
a little hamiet eighteen miles northeast of
this city, was the soone of & pistol fight, in
which three of the best-known residents of
the county were killed, The dead are A. D
Holland, BR. Stephenson, Dr. Otho Austin,
Only meager detalls of the encounter are
obtainable, but it is jearsed that Dr, James
Austin, his son, Otho Austin, and his son-in.
nw, BR 8 Stephenson, bad been arrested or
an affidavit aworn out by Holland, charging
them with whipping one of Rolland’s negro
tenants. THe trial was set for Justice Gril
fin's court at Oak Ridge. The trial had
hardly opened when the shooting began
When the smoke had cleared away Holland
Stephenson and Otho Austin were siretehed
on the floor dead, and Dr. James Austin and
a young son of Boliand were seriously
wosnded, :
{Rpecial
Suicide in Harrisburg.
Harrisburg, Pa. (Special James Col
boun, until January | manager of the Har
risburg district of the Equitable Life As
surance Company, committed suicide in his
room by shooting himsel! in the bead with a
revoiver. He had been 1 sinee jast August
and recently resigned his position on ae
eount of his impaired health, His act Is at.
tributed to a fit of despondency over his
physical condition. When found he was
iylog on his bed, with blood streaming from
the base of the brain, Mr. Colhoun was 45
years of sage and came here a few years agc
from Albany, N. Y., whore he was connected
with the freight department of the Delaware
and Hodson Company.
i AS DBA SRB
To Ald General Roberts,
Beattie, Wash, (Rpecial)-¥F. Y. Burn.
bam, the American seout, who has been ap-
pointed a member of the staff of Lord Rob.
erte, commander of the military forms
operating against the Boers, bas arrived
here from Alaska, and will procesd at once
t» South Afriea
5 AMO J AHN
Pecember Breach of Promise,
Han Francisco, Cala, (Bpecial. )- Ellzabeth
Aged Woman Burned to Death,
Wilkesbarre, Pa., (Special) Mrs. Cath.
arine Rippard, aged seventy-six, was burned
to death in ber home, in this
oi
LATEST NEWS GLEANED FROM VARL
VOUS PARTS,
LOWER MERION ROUSED.
Vigilance Committees to be Organized to
Stop Midnight Visits of Thieves—Shots
Exchanged with the Maranders—Pitis-
burg Jurist Asserts that Boer is Far More
Harmful than Whisky Other News.
From Narberth to Merion slong the ine of
the Pennsyivania Railroad the residents of
the towns and countryside sre arming and
organizing for & war of extermination of
thieves. The entire locality is under the ban
and the erstwhile peaceful residents are ub
dergoing & reign of terror that will only he
broken when the last of an evidently well
organized gang of burglars gets bis full
billet of lead. Vigilance committees are in
order and in 6 few days each borough will
have a well organized system of protection.
Narberth took the lead, discussing plans for
a mutual system in the meeting of the Town
Council, and as soon as all the citizens can
be communicated with a constant patrol will
be maintained. Ever since the winter began
the robberies have been of nightly coeur.
renee, and there is enough similarity in the
method to show that the same gaog is st the
bottom of it all, That the burglars are des-
perate the citiz ms know, for a half dozen
times the raiders have been detected and
fired upon, and in some of these exciting in
cidents the unwelcome visitors have stopped
to return the fire. Thus far range and dark-
combined to render the alm ob
both sides ineffectual, so there have been DO
casualties, With the citizens on regular
wate and the element of surprise elim-
inated they are confident that they will bag
their game, In every case where the robe
bers have been seen the deseription tallies,
There is always & tall man and a sbort, thick
set companion. Both wear long rubber boots
aud seem to have more or Jess contempt for
the bird shot and revolver bullets sent their
way, They are believed to always have a
wagon close at hand 10 make their escape,
and a strict watch fe to be kept for all
strange vehicles, Narberth folks buve
an ides that the plans for all the robberies
are carefully laid in the daytime by men who
find ms for visiting the
houses and thus arin chance to fully
observe the surroundings, They say there
flux tuners, traveling
plumbers, umbrelin menders and other ftin-
erant workmen, and strangely enough, a de-
Sded similarity has been noticed in the ap-
nn appearing in different roles.
ness have
The
sae
plausit ie exXOuUS
has Deen an in
pearance of m
Judge Himes Heer.
Judge J. W. ¥. White, sitting in the Crim-
inal Court, Pittsburg, entertalos a very poor
ypinion of the beer brewed in America and
sakes every opportunity he sees of express.
ing it. Friday be told those who must drink
beer, they had better drink imported beer,
snd be said that the beer bought in this
t only intoxicate bul makes
brutes of men who drink it. That is doe, the
sped jurist sald, to the drugs in the baer.
Judge White concluded by ssserting that
sore crime results from beer drinking than
from the drinkiog of other liquors. These
remarks were called forth by a story toid by
Thomas Chapman, who pleaded guilty to a
charge of aggravated assault and battery
and biamed the trouble on beer. “It is bet
ter to drink whisky than beer io this coun-
try,” said the Judge, “snd 1 suppose it is
worss than ever sinee the consolidation of
the breweries. That is always the way with
monopolies. The only remedy the people
Lave Is to quit drinking beer.”
sountry does no
Negligence at Mine.
The coroner's jury in the Braznell mine
horror, after three hours’ deliberation, ren
Jered the following verdiet: “We find Irom
the evidence that the foreman of sald
mine was negligent in ailing to ses that the
mine was in a safe condition before permit.
ting workmen to enter it We also believe
that tise fire boss of said mine was negligent
the mine loreman, and we believe both the
mine and fire boss to be incompetent 10 per:
form their respective duties” No action
bas been taken as yet toward prosecuting
the ineriminated officials. This will be de
sided upon by a conference of the inspectors
with Chief Inspector Roderick at an early
date,
Yarmers' Tostitala
A Farmers Institute was held at Cedar:
ville, Chester county, in the Farmers’ Union
Hall, John H. Haldeman presided, and
John J. Deiffenbache was pocretary. Nev.
George H. Milier offered prayer. The ad:
dress of welcome Was made by John B, Hot
tecker. and responded to by Dr. E. M. Cop.
rad, of West Grove, The locturers repre
senting the State Department of Agrieulture
were Dr. Conrad, Gabriel Heister, of Har
risburg; W. A Hutohinson, of Warrior's
Marl, and William H. Thompson, of Bate
Coliege.
Carpentars’ Deadly Plovge.
While working about the dormer windoe
st a new building, at Harrisburg, the pont.
folding on which John Arbagast and Harry
Sperow, CArpenters, were standing, gave
way, precipitating them to the ground, »
distance of at least twenty-five feel. Arle
gast waa killed aod Sperow badly Injured.
Arbegast resided in Mechanicsburg and
Sperow In Harrisbarg. Sperow bas both
arms and legs broken and is internally in:
jured.
Media's Semi-Centenninl.
The committee having in charge the prepa.
rations for the celebration of the golden an.
piversary of Media's fseorparation ass bon
George E. Darl :
of the committes, and Thomas J. Dolphin
and Dr. Linneus Tussell were cloctod soc
agreed to hoid the oslebra
on on Saturday, :