THE NEWS.
Unofficial advices received
from Rome declare that Menry Moeller,
chancellor of the archdiveese of Cincinnati,
has been appointed Bishop of Columbus,
Three more dead bodies
from the Red Ash mine, W. Va.
bodles of twenty-eight more victims remain
in the mine,
William F,
in New York. He refused to
tions,
Isaiah Gary, colored, was sent up for six
months for sttempiing to burglarize the resi.
dence of Mrs. at Port Norfolk, Va.
Captain B. (i. Patterson, member of the
Virginia House of Delegates from Rocking-
ham county, died in Richmond,
Adam Helipner, a wealthy merchant tailor
of Grafton, W. Va., committed suielde by
leaping into the Valley river.
The revenue services
left Norfolk to search for
ish steamer Minerva,
Philip Kuntz
Pa, of mansiaugh
Pierce W, Cope.
Thomas J, Williams
Staunton, Va., to three years iu the
tiary for attempted rape,
Fire did about $62,000 worth «
the factory ard wareh:
& Bons, in Iau Del.
R. Garnett Willis died in
Ya. from the effec
during the Civil War.
Three hundred n iiion
der police guard
ings in Chicago.
Resolutions were passed by the New York
Produce Exchange
Puerto Rico,
The conventl
land, O.,
Women,
The H. Kyd Doug
erans, was
W. Ya.
Fire wiped
in Leads, S.
answer ques.
Jowell,
On ondagn
iissing Span
steamer
the n
was convicted in Norristown
ing the de
ter in caus ath of
was sentenced in
peniten-
yuses of Samuel Bacon
rel,
Fredericksburg,
ts o! a wound received
workmen, un
work on bulld-
z for justice
asking |
ontinpued in Cleve.
. y ¥ ave tal
of the tional Colne Jewish
t!
Camp, Sons of Vel.
Shepherdstown,
in
organiz
property
the number of victims of
“ire Creek,
sixty.
twen-
sly in-
near |
and
e taken from the mine,
the Red Ash mine disaster
W. Va, vary between fifty
Thirty-four wer
ty-nine being dead and five serio
jured,
George W. Drake,
moonshiner detective, and a
Ford were killed near To
liam St Jobo.
A suspected case of
veloped in Chinatown,
that section of the city was guaran
The National Tabe Company, at McKees
port, Pa., advanced the wages four thou-
sand meu ten per cent
Smallpox is carrying off a large percentage
of the population inthe southern part of
Misslssippl.
Fire in the retail dry-go«
Philadelphia caused a loss of §
Charles Albright, aged
by a train near Meyersdale,
Two hundred and
strikers in Chicago.
two
the famous Kentucky
man bpamed
rrent, Ky., by Wik
de
and
* plague
San Francisco,
s 1
une.
’
«ds district in
700,000,
fifteen,
Pa.
was killed
thirty men
Over a hundred mh ad bn
an explosion in the Eed Ash mine Fire
Creek, W. Va., south branch of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway More than
thirty dead bodies have been taken out,
Joungressman Alfred C. Harmer, known as
the “Father of the House who has served
thirteen full terms in Congress as rep-
resentative of the Fifth Pennsvivania dis
trict, died In Philadelphia, at the age of
seventy-five years,
The grand jury in New Y«
indlotments against six men, holding them
responsible for disseminating the false ru.
mors that brought about a decline in Brook
ivn Rapid Transit stock,
Edward C. Flanagan, who
women, killed one man and
life of another, was tried,
sentenced numerous times,
Atlanta, Ga.
The strike of thirty electric crane men at
the works of the Pressed Steel Car Company
in Pittsburg, Pa., threw a thousand men out
of work.
Proseedings were instituted
against the Baltimore and Oblo Railroad
Company by Robert I. Cutting, on behalf of
ers were enlon
at
#
on the
wrk brought in
murdered two
attempted the
onvicted and
Transit Railway Company.
Police Magistrate Mott in
Olga Nethersole,
charge of presenting as immorsl
(“*S8apho’ ) at Wallack's Theater,
Cecil Lesile, advertising agent of the
Franklin Syndicate, was arrested in Brook.
lyn on two charges of conspiracy and grand
larceny, and plead not guilty
A broken rall throw a passenger train over
an embankment near Huntington, Pa. The
condumor was killed aud a number of passen-
gers injured.
The holder of one share of the stoe
Blackweil-Durham Company prevents
sale to the American Tobacco Company.
One hundred thousand dollars was given
to New York University for the buil
Hall of Fame for Great Americans,
Miss Alice Connelly was found uneonseious
play
k ofthe
its
tacked by somes unknown burgiar,
Edward RB. Holder, a New York broker,
fafled, his Habilities being $279 .455.
The Governor of West Virginia pardoned
Henry B. Chrigtie, a His prisoner
The Independent Window Glass Associa
tion has given up the struggle.
strikers in Chicago,
The Democrats,
their differences as to the State offices and
get together for the State campaign
President Jordan, of Leland Stanford Uni-
versity, in a lecture in Chicago, expressed
the opinion that the century would witness
the downfall of Great Britain,
aire lumberman of Stillwater, Minn., eloped
with Albert 8, Franklin, a negro, and mar.
ried him in Chicago.
Incendiary attempts to burn the house of
Rev. Cornelius Hiyasevits, of 8, Paul's Uni.
ted Greek Choareh, in Wilkesbarre, Pa, drove
the minister insane,
Some unknown person mixed an seid with
the holy ashes in 8t. Rose's Catholic Church,
Meriden, Ct., and the worshipers were badly
Mrs. Dertha Boyoee Lankford, who divorced
one husband and killed two who had been
unfaithfol to her, died at her home in Dallas,
Tex.
James Maoson Is dying in Putnam, Ct,
from mercurial polsoning. There are soma
mysterious ciroumstances connooted with the
cane,
Differences ns to the efficacy of faith as a
cure of disease caused the divoree of George
While, ex-Congressman, from his wife at
AGUINALDD'S MOB.
SENOR LALA BLAMES ANTLIMPER
IALISTS FOR BLOODSHED,
MEETS LEAGUE OFFICIALS.
War Prolonged hy the Documents Sent
Out to the Islands - The Hebel Chieftain
Reads Them to His Soldiers and Declares
That the Want Him
the
Americans to Con
tinue War.
Boston, Mass
Lala, nn natiy f Manila,
on the Philippin
Anti-Imperiniist
retary
who is lecturing
ited the office of the
i uest of Me
gue by
rey
Irving nslow, Wi t Lloyd Gar
“OL WAS §
The t after which Mr
i formed ac
inint on a single
uring the cet
that
uneducated,
these people with stories,
believe that if ti I
ent they
gion,
n Mr. L
rainaldo’s |
snd that
making
merican
return to
L al t further sa
do is asalsted }
alin Lol
Boston mu
among the
wiki
Mr.
a
*Aguinnl
this country
or the bloc
OLD TROBYS RETURNING.
Those Longest in Philippines
Relieved
Waszshingto:
ent has taker
ovating the nt
by returning insmall de
who
placing
Lave seen iongest
TROOPS CALLED FOR.
and Mood A 4 for
Rebels Attack
Aparei Tow:
Generals Young
forcements
r several
retail
tacked Aparel f
finally driven
are lacking
The !
Province of North lisecos, and
punan Cross, sympolic of resistance, is aga
Appearing among the natives,
that the insur
have been
General Hood's district
The fact that
owing to lack of tro
sons in all the
eflect
rebeis are holdin
is believed
Rent generals, |
driven by Gep
General }
§ ., t
IWHS 000t
on the natives,
General Dates has returned
leaving garrisons in the provinces
and South Camarines. The expedition lo
seven men killed and ten wounded. On an
tering New Province of South
Camarines, General Bates learned that 2 00
insurgents had departed the same day. The
Americans Immediately sent out tl ree par
sulng columns, encountering t! enemy in
three small engagements and ng na tota
of 40 men.
The Spanish
Caceres,
prisoners report that {
my has divided into small bands in th
mountains under the leadership of
Legnspl. The town of Iriga has been burned
ny. Both proviness were thor
oughly scouted. The inhabitants of the dls
trict of Libmanan, {necly fing bella,
provineial Governor, and other officials,
returning to their homes, Abella
sued a proclamation calling uj
to submit to the Americans,
Liberated 1
he
ene h
tiener:
Liy the ene
are
bas is
On Lhe natives
riests from New Caceres report
that the it surgents killed 88 Chinamen and
40 Spaniards at the town of ( ‘sinbangs,
It is estimated that there are 100,
of hemp in the Camarines provinces,
Twelve hundred well-armed insurgents
formerly of Cavite Province, with a Chinese
general in command, surround the towns of
Albay and Legaspl. They bave effected
three night attacks and contin ually harass
the Forty-soventh Regiment, which has lost
8 men killed and 20 wounded in de ending
those towns,
00 bales
COMMITTED SUC,
Tragic Death of v. a Reynolds at Pas
sons, W. Va.
Parsous, W. Va., (Special) —F, M. Rey
nolds, a prominent Jumber dealor of this
town, committed sulelde in the oes of his
mill at Thomas, He out his throat with »
knife, and only lived a shiorttime, No cause
is assigned for the deed,
Clireuit Court is In session, At this term
will come up the celebrated Kerns case
Fred D. Kerns was tried at the June term of
the Cireuit Court here for the murder of Miss
Luey Dey, in Davis, last April, He wae con.
victed of murder in the first degree and
sentenced to the penitentiary for lite, The
Bupreme Court reversed this verdict, And
now the case Is back for a new trial,
Fatal Explosion,
Pompton, N. J.. (Special) The Rmith
Fuse Manufactory at this place blew up and
four persons were killed and a number more
or less injured,
The killed are: John Bhodn, Willlam Cad.
mus, Williams H. Talmage, John Merritt, »
bay.
They were at work In the factory with
about 30 other men and girls. The bodies of
the four persons killed were badly mangled,
and some of them blown to pleces,
Percy Jacobus was blown into the river
and badly hart,
i
BOERS DRIVEN BACK.
Lord Roberts Reports Successful Oporn-
tious~Gen, French Did the Hardest
Fart of the Fighting.
London, ( By Cable.) The War Office has
Just posted the following advices from Lord
Roberts:
“Poplar
very successfal
routed the ane my
Wednesday. —We had »o
day and bave completely
, who are in full retreat,
‘The position which they occupied Is ox
tremely str ng and cunningly arranged with
a second line of intrenchments, which would
caused us heavy loss had a direct attack
Grove,
been
"
Rit
made,
turning
owing to
alry and
Noon
py
movement necessarily
ture
rugs
was
of
artillery
wide
nnd
the ground,
the
the og horses
are m
confined t«
\ ns usual, did ex
General French reports
did great
tho cavalry «
wodingly well
fh
. and
artii
ition among the enemy.
“Our e
at the horse ery batleries
asunities were about fifty, 1 regret
10 say that Lieutenant Keswick was killed
und LisutenanWBalley was severely wound.
ed, both of the Twelfth 1. Lieutenant
De Crespis Guards,
ArH
Wis inverely w
Lies will be telegrapt i :
“Generals Dewet and Delarey
the BB
Earlier in
or forces,
tol
intended at
had
| v
Ges
a a i
given
f the lorves
i a position four
uth
iver, Col
nihe ne
Fuel
1 placed General
rth bank and Ge
Vivi
ers divi
neral
and h
A MILLION LOST BY A FIRE,
nx Conflas the
ict
ation in
ia Irian in Philadelphia
ANOTHER STEEL COMPANY.
at Charlestown With »
Million.
sted
Capital of One
*
Ancarpnt
rribed
000
Ja:
10rs are
pABY will begin o atacture of
stool and ir
sued to the Ideal M1 itua
pany, of Hu
f S50
bere fo
impr
niinglor with
a} ital o (Ci 1] The
P. Q Payoe and XN. H
authorise
incorpor
an
Morgantown,
& 250 000
fantown
AT ELIZABETH.
teach Fifty
Dollars.
Parkersburg, W.Va, (Special, The tow:
of Elizabeth, Wirt county, narrowly es
being wiped out by fire Buanday,
About 4 o'clo ek AM. fire
rear of Mre 4a
spread saphlly’ t
ings opposite the
Fline's jewelry store, the Elizabeth Prog
Company's establishment, the general stores
of G ay Bros, and the grocery of RK. E. Would.
hard, These structures, fogether with thei:
contents, were destroyed. The bulidings
were the property of Mre, Kendall, Theres
no fire department at Elizabeth, and the
flames were fought by a bucket brigade
Just after the fire | out the authorities
of this elty were telephoned for and had the
city fire engines and men all ready to start
for the scene on a special traln on the Little
Kanawha Valley Hailroad when word was
received that the fire was under control.
The loss is estimated at $50,000
A World's Record Rroken.
Minneapolis, Minn, f(Specinl.} Charl s
Hanson, a Swede, lifted 560 pounds with one
finger without a harness, The accomplish.
ment of this feat breaks the world's record
for one-finger ft, 5531; pounds, iifted In
Chicago, May 7, 1896, Ly Lonls Cyr, a French.
man,
The wit
f.oss Thousand
tr
Afed
broke ¢
re’'s millinery sto
roughout a row of bull
courthouse, ine
5
fo
rake
Hansen now claims the world's cham.
plonship for the one-finger [ft, and will de.
fend his title against all comers,
Ee A AR
KILLED AT LAST,
George Drake, Famous Mountain Detee.
tive, Shot by Old Enemy.
Lexington, Ky., (Special )—George W.
Drake, the famous mountain detective and
ex-deputy United States Marshal, and a man
aamed Ford were shot to death near Tore
rent, Ky., by William St. John.
It is reported to be the result of bad feel.
ing of long standing between Drake and
st, John,
Draco is sald to Lave run down more
moonshiners and eriminals in tho mousutaing
of Eastern Kentucky than any Othae offany
in the muvies,
50 PERISH IN MINE.
FRIGHTFUL Vine
CREEK,
BODIES BADLY MANGLED.
The Wives and Children of the Victims
Crowd About the Mines, and Many of
Held Back by the Re
lief Parties From Risking Thele Lives
to Find Their Loved Ones,
EXPLOSION AT
WEST VIRGINIA,
the Women are
Fire Creek, W. Va., (Special)
explosion of gas that has ever oce
the New River Valley happened at
Tuesday morning at 7.30, The force
explosion was #0 great that cars standing
200 feet in one of the entries fyere blown out
to the mouth of the mine, and a hole 12 fess
in diameter was blown in the mountain
one fourth of a mile the m
The first
urred in
ted Ash
of the
Bla
uth of the
the Rush Hun
from
mine and was clearly felt in
mine, one mile distant.
Nearly BO are killed
Shirkey has ordered thar num!
Tho mine is con wreek
Manager
of coffe,
ni
nen
pletely
3 of the ex wion cannot be read
Nine Bodies Recovered.
nly nine bodies have been re
ne those of
Quarrels, lia
fore t
work 1
it
hey ure hardly
it p few min
ent is great, |
might be imagined
Fxperience of Eye-Winessos,
ke Doss, said he
wry urs and other
rhage,
of the mine, and Knew
ker sald he
and
whe sin
Mine
ontgome
d ventilation, »
& Inspect offi
What the Superintendent Save,
I when
_- Suan ¢ OF
ave Lhe ex 3
s wore |
Had
§ have
3 tagen I
p were burnt
on, and a white man ¢o
tingidabed from a hisck 1
Heseners at Work.
é resoniog
party is workiog
shifts, but ean do
Jiesd,
tes
are working beroil
holding
walks out
gasping to the |
the man, cold
nd then a litt
SAKEars ont
hour he goes ba
ally
and
then taek,
ina few minuls
ght. A
aler
ied 1
i= appl
MANGLLD BY (BASHING TRAINS
Miners in a Bad Wieck
Twe Killed
Brazil, Ind, (Special A
carrying 4 U workmen at the
here to £2 mes in thi
Foor Hundred
air he
y freight train on
Fa y Rild 8 Raliroad,
ere smash
and Charles
and more than
vin Ee
instant y Ki 2
sons severely injured,
fously injured, many of
Thomas Barrowmas, botn legs
Will Dodwell, injured internally
fumsoen, arm br ken, injured
Ham internal
, lek broke "he
ken: John Little
intergal it
The wreck vecurred in a deep the
The ratiroad com.
pany at once sent a special train and brought
tho wounded to this elty. All the yubi
stables and from
private homes were secured to take the men
to their homes. Engineer William Mels tab
an the freight
tralia, were injured by Jumping when thes
observed the impending dasger. The wreak.
aye Sau fire, and the rescuers were fore
to make a heroic Aght to prevent those
a in the wreck trom being cremated,
fo
vr
uel Lynch, juries; Joht
mas Dave bo ¥ i
broken; Wil lam
arm
1 » for rian
Vesper, juries,
cut in
jo
Medals for § Sallors,
Washington, (Special, j—8ecretary Loog
has returned to the House Military Come
mittee with his approval the draft of a Lil
submitted to him and latrodaced by Ropre
sentative Ball, of Connecticut, appropriating
£20,000 to provide medals for the sailors who
participated in the battle of July 3 off Sau
ago,
The measure 1s so framed as to avold ine
vidious distinction and the resewal of old
spimonities
“Guarding the Cear.
Petersburg, (By Cable.)
5t. The recent
plots have Jed to rebewed police precautions,
exercising extrome vigilanes and are guards
ing the Crar's movements,
The entire routes of the Canr's visits to |
LEAVING CAPE COLONY.
The Bocrs are Revronting From All of
That Section Gen, Brabant
Attacks Them.
London, Eng., (By Cable )~The
are evacuating all of Northern Cape Colony,
carrying thelr guns and supplies with them
A force remains at Norval's point, presumes
bly to oppose a Brit advance aeross the
Orange river there, General Brabant, o«
manding a division of colonial troops, at
tacked un fores ol Boers at Labuschagnes
nek, on the road from Dordrecht to James.
Labuschagnes nek is about
northeast of Sterkstroom, General Brabant,
it is stated, gained threes positions, as
night el d was Iacing Doers posted ou an
op} hill, The Dritish wns six
killed and 18 wounded,
has
. in the (
Lord Hoberts' mal
Foers
ish
Fe {1
bo miles
and
OB®
ORite loss
run to the eastward of
ngs Vree Btate, where
n army is stationed, Gen-
eral French, with a large mounted foree,
found Boers intren in n strong position
on a kopje and fighting was In progress when
the last message was sent, Reinforcements
Are reaching lord Roberts dally, A Lon-
dom eablegram says his army must number
between 50,000 and 60,000 men, if not more,
General Ballers forces in numbers
40.000. Good
the total
Fighting
Osfontein
red
Natal
ndon now pia
foree of Be the fleid at 59,000,
of the Transvaal Boers who re-
eontly faced General Baller in Natal are
treating to Blggarsberg, 88 miles north of
Ladysmith, A British will mar
Zululand and try to intercept tl
north of RBiggarsberg. of the
Btaters have retired to Van Reenen's
and the mass of tr MW
in belie
judges in 1,
ers in
All or part
re.
foree
Rome
& ’
miles n
it is of
that
'
patch st
at P
Aire
Ales Lh
asrdebierg make
rence in the fig
igure no
for
aeant not
Febru
if the Cape Tos
only 1h
¥
wv 7
wry 27. 1
nyeror's bl
8 increasing in th
Wales op
dings in Lor
sxyed
i bythe rus
Interior were thal 1
about the eon
n inw she
1iraven-
ud iw
inidve
irder of tw
nighern district, Burmat
A burned 2,000 he
The Bussian government,
a Persian harbor
those of the lease of Port
Lady Lx
aAvTeng= Lhe i
the M
villagers and uses
it is
on terms simi
Arthur
tise Madeleina Tighe, who danced
at the famous ball in Brussels, died at Wood
stook, County Kilkenny,
The German Reichstag passed the third
reading of the motion to repeal the so-called
“dictatorship paragraph’ {a force in Alsacs
Lorraine,
Major McBride, who raised
ga de lor the Boers,
test to succeed Mi
ment,
The Ger
near Kiel,
iets
an Irish bri
was defeated In his con.
chanel Davitt in Paris.
nan bailissh
%
ALG in
p Sacheeon stranded
altempting to lighten the
warship one of her guns was lost,
ring a carniva
im, ani
1 procession at Caracas,
neffectual attempt was
shool President Castro,
miade
Deschanel, president of the Frenne!
Deputies, In a speech in Paris
spoke warningly against demonstrations o!
glophobia,
Paul
Chamber of
Ring Oscar of Sweden expressss the hope
that the wars in South Africa and the Philip
pines wiil soon be ended, The new Swedish
Minister of Foreign Affairs stresuously op
poses the demand of the Norwegians for »
separate minister of foreign affairs and a
separate representation abroad,
FIELD OF LABOR.
Chicago may export coal,
Puliadelpbia bas 185 anions,
Japan cooks earn $2.5) per week,
Austria’s 80 000 coal miners strack
New York is to have a ple trust,
Japan cotton mills are consolidating.
}omton has 12,600 municioal smployees,
Alabama is to have a St=is federation
New York ate last year U77,280, 120 eggs,
Griffin, Ga, is to have a $20,000 knitting
mill,
Amerien has seventeen cleomargnrine fac.
tories,
New York bas a cooperative cigarette
makers’ union,
The United States and Canada contain
400, 000 eonl miners
Providenes carpenters will demand the
eight-hour day,
Now York unionists want a “labor-daw an.
During the past four years 120,000,000
The Iron Molders’ Union of New York is
worth $85,000 and has 8,000 members,
Ohio's lnglsiature killed a paper that re.
quired equal pay tor men and women,
Tarnpool, Austria, has a manielps] bak.
guards about the wivter palace and along |
the Neva Quay are particularly numerous,
Ths United Hintes eruiser Pealrle arrived
8) Hodun With tie Amsriosts sabi for the
Paris Exposition.
eng
y pu a dally
all Profits are spent on public
Leeds, Eoglacd, has of ip of
Sh Sa Le Cre
| paper, and
KEYSTONE STATE.
LATEST SEWS GLEANED I'VOM VARI.
O's PARTS,
WAYNESBORO'S BIG BLAZE
fwo
ty
tusiness Houses Oceapled by Twen-
Destroved The Heasdagnar
ters of Ten Neovet Orders Were Burned
ut the Western
Hazleton
Tennnuts
Sevious Ontbhreak in
Polversits A Murder near
loss is in-
unting =.
insurates
are Val
ve $14,000
nsuranoe
th an
ECT
tH0 Students,
boa
in His Body.
overed the }
at the
lying
f
wing out
was for four
ny K Pighth
per of the 82
He was a member
i Faroe wae 4
idow and eight
Two Persons Accidentally Shot.
ear Boshkill, as Fred 1
smnining & res
passed thr
wnsend was
iver, it went off. The t
igh his left hand and then en.
dy of hfs i= brotherds-law, Ti
othy Miller, a lad of 1! who was bend.
ing over 1 Miller was sho
the 1 ond ribs
ap, avoiding heart
8
1ider
Uset
tered the tx
Yeurs,
gt between
uilet Passing
iodging iu the
ret the b
sho
Nrakeman Crushed to Death,
Alexander Clune, a brakeman, was srashod
tos death while at his work at Carbondale.
H# was riding on the engine and was caught
between the cal and breaker chutes, and his
He leaves a family
file was crashed oul,
Noo Exhibit at Paris,
At a meeting of the Pitsbarg Chamber «
ommoerce manufacturers’ committes re.
ported adversely on the proposal 10 have the
hamber make an exhibit at the Paris Ex.
position. The report was approved by the
‘ham ber
Lhe
in Briel.
Weatherwax Manufacturing Con-
pany, which was started in Bloomsburg two
CORES ago, bas moved Hts entire equipment
te Boonton, N. J
Cyrus 8, Shaeffor, a freight conductor on
the Penunsyivatia system, stopped his train
for orders near Greeusburg, and as he
stepped {rom the train he was struck by a
fast express train and instantly killed,
Cornelius Sharp, aged 24, of Palllipsburg,
N, J.. was admitted to the Eastor Hospital
with voth legs cut off, Sharp Jomped from
a Lehigh Valley freight train asd rolied
under the wheels. His condition Is eriticsl,
The
A Telling Yostaoript,
Judge: Miss Jones was ill and ia
great haste to go out of town. She
wrote to the proprietor of a mountain
farmhouse that had been recommended
to her to engage board, This is the
reply: “Miss Jones My terms are $5
a week each, where two occupy a
room: $6 when occupied by one
House is very near the river and a
large brook runs through the place.
Table of the best, with milk and
cream in abundance. Plenty of shade
about grounds. Horses and wagons at
disposal of guests.” Dut it was the
postscript that went to the beart of
the matter (and of Miss Jones). It
read: “I could not accommodate you
this year, as my house was
the ground