THE NEWS. i was sentenced Emanuel Morton, colored, to eighteen vears in the penitentiary for kill- ing a white man at Clover, Va. A mob want. ed to take him from the officers and lyneh fim, Frank J. Columbaln was arrested {rn Rich- mond, Va., for false representations in con- nection with the sale of a plece of property. President Charles H, former presi- dent of the tilobo Nationa! Bank, in Boston, pleaded not guilty to the charge of glement, tole, ember Fred Reynolds, an insane woodchopper of Red Beach, Me, killed his wife and one son with an axe and burned Ris houss down, United States Senator Philetus Sawver, the muiti-millionaire lumberman, Hed at Lis residence In Oshkosh, Wis, I'he eorcner’s jury at Dover, N. J, viares that Mrs. Emma K, Sutton caused the leath of her husband by poisoning him, Mavor William J. Diehl decided that Mrs, Langtry shall not be permitted to play “The Degepoerates’ in Pittsburg. Henry M. Atherton, agent {or the National Vermont Life Insurance Company at New- port News, Va, is missing, fifty near Former Go miners of the Aruot, Pa. Seven hugdeed and Bilossburg Coal Company, went on a strike, Captain Peter C, nissary of subsistence, Deming, assistant com- was arrested in San Francisco, ! I'he . New York graud jury submitted to | Recorder Goff a presentment lemniong Distriet Attoroey Police Department and the Hailroad wreckers, Poties Captain Thomas was arraigned be. fore Judge Goff, in New York, on the charge of falling to suppress disorderly houses, and pleaded not guilty, A Pittsburg jury gave Assistant Distriet Attorney DBillows, colored, who uader | ‘he Fourteenth Amendment, a for | six and a-quarier cents. Iwo men were killed by an axplosion at a dynamite factory at Five-Mile Point, B. C,, which wiped out the factory I'he Columbian Theater ago, was burned, Le persons were injured, Ex-Prosidont Cleveland declared himsell ti favor of the ratifieation of the Hay-Paun- eelote treaty, i The art collection of the late David T.! Eurby was sold at auction in New York. severely con. Gardiner, the Third Avenue | sued verdiot Chi- Five | bullding, ia $190,000, ES, George W. Clark, of Macon, Ga., was ar- rested in Jacksonville, Fia., on the charge of | eseacking the safe of the Perry Loan sad | Ravings Company, of Perry, Ga. The southboand Louisville and Nashville | passemper traln ran Into & freight at Cave | City, Kr., and five passengers were hurt, | back, engineer, was killed at] Kreeden, W. Va, by the explosion of a loco- | motive, and David Sharp was fatally hurt, Ike constitutionality of the new valuation law of Virginia was argued before a full! eonrt and submitted, A man named Frum, living near W. ¥a., shot his wile and Limself, will die, i The Wilmington M, E, Conferance adopted | a resointion condemning the army canteen, and the use and sale of liquor in the new | possessions of this government was also adopted Samael Eikins, Both A robber who was shot at while attempt- | ing to rob a store in Lemont, Ii, dropped dead from fright. The Boston stonecn! tors wiil join the strik- | their torm of agreement with the manulacturers expires ers when One man wax Killed aud tw ally injured by binst of dyn near Nd la Chicago an lialian was stricken duns! after killing his partuer he Dr. Frask M has pub. ished a letter nssertiog that drunkenness is sentdalously prevalent among the officers and privates of the United Army io | the Philippines, Up to the ieveinnd © the mino-h demanded Ihe Building Trades bas taked up the fight of the unions a Mijated | with the Chicago Building Trades’ Council y probably fat. A premalire explosion of a amite in Allen & Hassel's quarry, | wa Waterioo, Iie Wells “lates jresen t time have wir dav w eoneerna in | the machinists ith 19 hours granted pay, as | National Couneil | The Republican Congressional Convention | suet in Athens, (). and nominated Hon, H. Grosvenor for Cougress for the sixth | trae Fhe Norwegian steamship Vidar, of Fred ertickshodid, Captain from New York to Norfolk, went ashore shortly after | midnight at Dam Neck Mills, tor of Cape Heury, Ya. The crew of men are safe on board Mitehell, of Ri in his sermon at the Hecond Baptist Chareh on 8a Sorensen, miles south vighteen | Prof, 8. C, shimond College lay night, seathingly denounced Gos ernor Tyler tor allowing the lvachiog of the | two men at Emporis, Charies Scott nearly killed his wife and ber mother by gashiug them in the head and ! face with a chisel at their home in Owosso Mieh., and then committed Fhe Merchants’ National Bank of Rutland, ¥i., closed its doors, and its cashier, Charles W. Mursee, was arrested on the charge of misappropriation of funds, Fhe fast mail on the Atlantic and West Point Rallway was wrecked near Oplixa tal, aud Express Messunger Oslin was kiilend, Phe strikers of the Siemans & Helske Com. | pany, in Chicago, returned to work, a com. promise having been arranged, Hav, Dr, Isaac M. Wise, the eminent rabbi snd founder of Hebrew Union College, died at his home in Cincinnati, The battieabip Kearsarge loft Newport News, Va, on her first trip as a commissionad vessai of the navy, Pubile of inion in Virginia is divided as to the Governor's responsibility for the Em. jorim iynehings, but there is a gonkral un- dereurrent of satisfaction at the result, The bedy of the uegto Colton was taken to Norfolk, Thirteen young ¢irl students of the West. wru Seminary lor Girls, In Oxford, O., were suspended for indecorons conduct in holding ak inltiation lu a cemetery vault, Allert BE. Talbott, who was to hava heen be ot mn wt his brother's marrings to Miss Lucy Digsiafl, of Bath county, Ky.. changed dimes nnd beeame the girl's husband, The York Cotton Mills Company, of South Carolin, will deduct three per cont. from the annual dividend and add it to the wages of the operatives, After a quarrel with her iover fn Paterson, Nid, Miss Anne Volapde Inid her head on wu rabiroad track and allowed wu train to de vi plinte ber, Dre. H. A, Ward, of Da'timore, and R, W, Gutewood, of Old Point, had a narrow es. enpw trom drowning in Hampion Ronda, Iu Mount Kisko, N. ¥,, Mee, George Feline nitewpted to lash Frank Drowfoogile for Joking fun st her husband, Lona Cook, in Philadelr! (a, made s fourth wi ieide, usuceessiul wttemit to ki | herself, OLECISION OF THE SWISS (OU RT OF VAHRBITRATION, THE M'MURDO CONCESSION. The Portuguese Government Condemned to Pay Fifteen Million Frances, With Five Per Cent. Interest Per Annum IN8D, to the United States Great Britain, Over Since nnd Cali The announced It Berne, Switzeriand, By Swiss Court of Arbitration lecision in the Delagon Bay ease, Following is the text of the deecleion, which i8 In six cinuses “First The Portuguese the defending party, is condemned to pay the Goveenment of the United States and to Great Britain, the claimants, altogether, in addition to the £93,000 pald ou meeount in 1800, the sum of 15,314,000 Irgal money, with on this sum at the rate of five per cent, per aunum from June 25, 1839, up to of pay- ment of sald sum “Second The sum, after ded is nocessary to defray the cost of arbitration falling on the clatmants and in addition to the balance of £28 000 paid on account in 1890, shall be empioved {on the payment of bondholders and other creditors, if there is ted, of the Dalagoa lay Rallway Company, according to their standing. The cialmuants will draw up a scale of distribution for this purpose, The Portuguess Government will have to pay into the hands of States the necrae to Me (ravernment as francs In Swiss simple interest the dae sting what the govern ment of the United sum whieh according to said segle, shall her quality of bondholding ereditor of the first and second degeee, It pay the surplus to the Government of Great Britain wii ‘Third ~The delay of six months fixed by the arbitration “Fourth The-costs of the arbitration, a cording to a scale to be drawn up in accord the arbitration com promise, will be borne in equal parts by the sult, that is to say “Filth—~The conclusions of sofar as they differ from the above are set aside "Sixth- itheatie copy award will b ie through mediary of the Swiss federal counel the parties ¥ 32 An a dvered I'he award is unanimous, Lisbon, (By Cable, The Dearne has says “After deli follows “First The court re favor of a final fuguiry. It t judgment on the prineipal ol litigation from that dealing with the yr the territory In q the other hand, th court decides to deliver forthwith its de ree on the main question, and t beets published hers beration, the o« § ects all demands in leclines also t¢ ject of testion Second On nite de rmmuni eate to the parties an authentle copy of : points, the decree, feb its with fn short esaential complete recital « a ransons. to after ny 1 In 1860 the Portuguese governs inded a commercial treaty with \lrican repubs bay under a cone tained from a native chiaf by a British naval exploring ax pe] tion 4 | J Fo (Gireal I AT ession which TIORA: re A pa i MeMahion, ther sisted the cladn refarred to the arbitral ident of republic Fhroe years later he awarded the tercitory to Port Sinee the award there have been fro LL rumors ! that Great Feit pire the ry. but the I always prevented the sale 1383 lonel MoMurdo, as itizen, obinined from Portugal nstruct a raliway from | Marquez to Komatipoort on the 1 border. Ha pushed the work, but ore it was fNalshed, territs i sion to ures: rAnSYAN died by f Therenpon 1 aking advantage contract, hesauses the Morte Russa government sehnienl breach of iancompietion of the line Vretoria originally agreed upor confiscated the on June 24 18892 The protested, and after vig the part of the nieelled the econ his shareholder ceasion and raliway was wou ritialy as representa tions on Nate governments after long deiays, to arbiliralion Fhe Swiss count £ hia trae for this purpo he ruilr i : I in 184, PORTO Hico PROTEST. Many Noted Speakers Oppose the Pro posed Tarifl, New s ur thou th, Special} —Batween three and sand people gathered al § f Nrnagie Hail at a meeting called to express sympathy and 10 protest against th proposed tariff legisiation, 8 fred Porto Rien tended me three hun fhis Npeeches were made by the ohairman. ( , Bhayne; Ex-Assistant Secretary of ‘ Navy William MeAdoo; Senator William ¥ Mason, of lHlinols; Senator William V of Nebraska: Congressman John Ohio, and Ex.-Goy, James T, Ohio, Hanator Wellington, who was to have mad an address, was unable to attend Allen, Lents, of Campbell, ol BiG SAFE ROBBERY, Burgisrs Make OF With 815,000 of Jewelry and Diamonds, New York, (Special) -Bome time during the night the Grand.sireet jewelry store f Isidore Weinstein was burglarized of #15 000 worth of jewelry and diamonds, The big sale was practically destroved, The burglars flied the heads of the bolita ir ive bnek of the sale off. They then cut th. back plate and removed the nsbestos lining. Worth Killed His Brother in-Law. Parle, Tonn., (Speci Dr. P. MM. Mal. solm, of Owens Hill, shot and killed bi srother-in-law, Milt Perry, A dispute over nnd eased 8 quarrel between them. Mal soim surrendered, claiming self. defense Both men are prominent, JAPANESE LABORERS, heir Steady Inflax Alarming California Workingmen, San Francisco, Oal., (Hpoeial,) Working nen in this State are becoming alarmed at he steadily Inoroasiog nuatber of Japaness migrants, It ia stated that sinee January 1, 1800, no ase than 3,420 Inborars from Japan have a erwerd in this sonntry, d the Immigration Bureau is inform 1,400 more are due hers shortly, Avcording to Labor Commissioner North, 7.000 passports have been obtatued in Japan. me lor luborers in to come to this mauntry. Dreadial Deed of a Poor Woodehopper Killed His Wife and One Son With an Axe. Calals, Me,, (Kpecial wood-shopper at Had about ten miles from Killed his wife and one jared Fred Beach, o small town while insane, Bevnaolds, a hare, on with au axe, io sly, and burned the Reynolds then ran up his nxe; but finally offering no resist. Big He was brought to this place for sale Reaping, another son serio house to the ground, the street, fourishing Was tukon Into custody, Reynolds’ former life, ve married to Miss Pearman, an English girl, who had not been very long in Ameriea The family moved to Hed Beach three ago. The family consisted of Reynolds and his wife and two bet weer other about three years The fact that the family wae very poor had become known to tha townspeople, and a foews days ago assistance contributed by the oitigens placed shove immed! Little is known of i yours ago he was months anhout SONS, one six and seven years of age, and the Old the family ale want, Reynolds appeare eariy hours, At abo during the , bowever he entered the nil AXE AS. istantiy outright, ily out gnulted his wife killed, The three. veuro al mos and the elder son was killed d boy belong anti He rely {orn his seal) is fatally ! t. i from the axe set fire to the he the gro the sn slroet « arryving the Rie, wWiieh De fourished wilgiy that ne A time, Al waned, and he wa one dared isngti, pinced brought to innt by loud, in a cell fury ! raint, this city and his str When he was Ix Reynolds again beos WHEN 50 H+ lear m panied riries Ig inarticulate eries was place and manacied, for he might some injury to bimsell drank liquor, inoffensive Reynolds never nnd man iis years of age CHICAGO THEATLH BURNED. Break Out the Flames in the Apartment Huilding. 1 dropped The within ten stove fo fiatnos spread with great rapidity, and Gf the fre the minutes alter theater was b rmployes iriven t Oecupa if the bullding and of the theater were in “GIN e the street in su the excite. ment three w the fire was extinguished ibe {ols injured Helore wing were Frances Milier ove ) by smoke apd her face cut; take: : jiohu Crilly. a Burns t about t ohn Courties ing cornles and glass; bruised PHILETAS SAWYER DEAD, Former United States Senator and Mal Millionaire Lumberman. Oshkosh, Wis, ( Sperial Former Uniied States Senator V7 fietas Sawyer died at the residence of his sawyer, In this ¥ ye Hine resulting in bis death bx serious nt 4 esday afternoon nitack at Hirst 5 : Toe ister other organs became i andition snALOY vend his had been ¢ “Grad ieath was gn I at halimast all Mr. Sawyer was Ene Man of Oshkosh nounesd fags wero over the cily and general, Ex-8enator » ounty, Vermont, first politien! honor was his oleetion as an Aldermen of this ¢ity., In 1964 he was sivcted to Congress, where he remained for 10 vears, and in 1881 was elected to the United State: ate and sorved inthe upper § nose, september 22, 1816, His hie THE OUEEN TO MES JOLBERY. An Expression of Sympathy tothe Widaw fhe Feneral, London, (By Unable Queen Vietoria has abled to Lord Boberts asking him to con vey to Mrs, Joubert, widow of General Jou- bert, her syn jathy at the loss of her hus. band, and to tell her that the British peopla always regarded the dead general as a gal- Innt soldier aod honorable foeman, The funeral of General Joubert took place aod was attended by all classes, The for. eign military attaches, In uniform, were aniong those present, and the British oMoeers who are prisoners in Pretoria sent 5 wreath, There were universal signs of mourning. Vather and fon Killed, New Martinsville, W. Va, (Bposial Wil Ham Smith and son were killed hy an ox. plosion of glycerine, They were Lringing givoorine down the creek ina skiff and when about three-quarters of a mile above the city the explosion took place. ARCHIBALD FORBES DEAD. the Noted War Correspondent Passes Away at His Home. London, (By Cable.) Archibald Fortes, ths well-known war correspondent, dled iu thie city, Ha had boan in bad health for some yonrs, and daring the last six months bad been un. ahle to write or to do anything, owing to eomplieations arising {rom theamatism apd parniyasis, He spent most of his time al his home in London, His wile was a Mies Melgy, daugh ter of the late Quartsrmastor-Ganorad of the United States Army, Gon. M. ©, Melus, MOB'S VENGEANCE. LEWIS HARRIS, COLORED, LYNCHED AT BELAIR, MD. STRUNG. TO POPLAR TREE. Crowd Replied io Sheriff's Resistance With mn Fusilade of Bullets Miss Meltvaine Urged the Mob On With a Revolver in Her Mund the Vietim of the Assailant Stood by and Witnessed the Tragedy. Lewis Harris, the is alleged, brutally as- satited Mise Annie Mclivaine at her home aear this place, was lynched bere shortly Mter 11 o'clock. He wasstrung upto & pop- ar treo and made short work ol. The jail was attacked, several shots were fired and one man was wounded in the shoulder, It is sald that the lynebing party was made up of men from Churchyilie and Aberdeen, both places within riding distance J Belalr, The night was dark and #ainy. After breaking into the jail the miserable aegro was dragged down the main sireet to the residences of Dr. Wiliam 8, Archer, where he was hanged and swung into eters dty., Before being pulled up Lewis made a partial confession, saying he was drunk when he committed the crime, The lynehiog party left immediately after ie banging and at 12 o'clock the town was quiet, Belair, Md, (Special. tolored man who, it id A sensational feature of the iynching was Miss Melivaine, Bhe was party, revoiver in hand, urging the presence of wih the them on. It was nearly 11 *k when the mob as- tembled shout the Courthouse Directly opposite Is the Bheriff's residence and In the tear of this Is the Harford County Jail, where the prisoner was incarcerated, At the time there was Lut ove deputy with Sheri Kinshart, The Iatter's was the first 0 elo wife, who was In the house, the unusual o: >wd, Bhs called the attention of ber hustand and bis assistants to the throng in front of the Courthouse and hinted of the peril that laced thelr prisoner, to notiee and enter, There was soon a knoek A mans voles asked on the door permission to He merely said that be wanted 10 er with his friends, “I guess 1 kne ur Sheri Ris me iL i errand said il An cab { ieRYe ihis jadi t him yo undertake 10 take i do wo at th of your The only response was a shot, loll fives, wed by The bullets penetrated the pansis of the bolted ora trough the glass lights on ie of the barricade, Eberiff Rinehart reached | and returned the shots, the door, Robert 1. Bull, a tallor in the He is lously wounded. When the shot was the man was but 40 feet from the door, Another bullet found way into band of an unknown IRE man Aberdeen, door and ke either 3! r bis firing nlso thre of Belair, was shot belinved 1« shoulder Le per. fired its the from from Ibe sound of the shooting was the signs r the mob, which to close in about the jail It gq ited and began to pound the from the house Lo the nll, between the panels of and as the lock was forced from its the crowd rushed in, Then was 8 wwement as the Sheriff and Mr. Kine. " y the hog f onsisted of 200 perso: HPL iekly organ door leading There is a bail Sheril's house and the Iie this were quickly smash fe ¥ place thers nank art rushed binok t ise and began y Argue with the me William 1. Cool pl Be Be He argued with By ie Niate at with the Sheriff a: pie them the * v | her pe take its course, et humanity and of wail for the jaw ¢ op Hav vetigeance-bent moh, Nherif! had armed the prisoner and that he would shoot d first to enter, I know you all,” he said, “and you wil all be arrested and all prosecuted Mr. Cooley is a criminal # was the « uly is LR no effect oa the bie warned them that the win Lhe iawyer here, and to } oni shown aid the prisoner, From the hallway the mob broke into the ail, It was but the work of a moment t« prize off the staples of the {nner door, ionds to the upper part of the jall, In here they quickiy forced thelr way to the cell of the crouching criminal, which EVYER-BURNING FEET, Isabella Kane Died From the Effects of Polson From Opiates, Trenton, XN, J. [sabelia Kane, the 12. vear-old girl who gained much notor. ity because she had feet that were econ. #antly burniog, died at a hotel in this city. She was under treatment by whi were having good results, Lut the cause of her death was convulsions, caused by the poison from opiates, which she was forced 10 take to allay the pain, Tho girl for the past two years was troubled with a burning sensation of the feet, and was foresd to remain In a sitting position for months, with her feet in a vessel of hot water, Shortly before 4 o'clock, she was taken With a convulsion, which, like others she had experienced, was brought on as a result o | the polsoning of her system with laudanum and opium, given her during the two years | of her suflering to relieve her pain, When the girl was brought out of the convulsion she fell into a light doze and quietly passed Away, Deceased was the daughter of Mary and the late Thomas Dane, who lived just out side of Morrisville, The amily were in poot cirgumstanond, and benevolent persons were providing her with shelter and treatment, Mrs. Kane is now In St. Francis’ Hospital, suffering with pneumonia. { Rpocial, eX pe Tie, Robbers Dynamite a Hank. Hardy, Neb, (Special. )~The State Bank of this piaco was visked by burglars. They blew open the safe with dynamite, and se oured $4,000, No trace of the robbers has been secured yet, To Study the Bubonie Plague. The Italian government has decided to sa tablish a bacteriologleal laboratory for the study of bubonio plague in the island of | Planosa. = i The Supremo Court decided that the antl trust law of Texas was constitutional, nc a a TE FROM WASHINGTON. The Senate ratified the Anglo-Ameriean | treaty bearing upon the disposition of the | estates of the citizens of one country who | die in the other, : The government of Mexico accepted the i FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The dispute resulting from the complaint of Morocco of French encroachment is becoming quite serious, and Hulten two French warships have been sent, A Paris newspaper publishes a despateh, purporting to have been receive by Agon- cillo, announcing that the Filipluos had rcuted the Americans near Cabal, Arthur O'Connor's motion in the House of Commons, that the government take steps Lo remedy the overtaxation of Ireland, was rejected, Galvin B. Clark, de. The constituents of member { of Dr. Parliament for Caithness, mandod his resignation, A German was launched at Kiel and given the name Prinz Helarich, At a luncheon Berlin to the for- eign diplomats m discussed the open-door p Ambassador White, cruiser given in Emperor Willl iiiey with A Berlin report of a proposed joint naval demonstration in Chinese waters was denied in London, The price of coal Is rising on the conti nent, and factories in some places are being closed, A druggist tried to murder a judge in Paris by shooting at him in court. Combines are the order of the day in Ger. many. Only four per cent, of the sugar manufacturers are lacking to complete the syndicate, The Corman ziue rolling mills have combined, The seal eateh this season. as estimated by steamers arriving at 8t. Johns' N. F., will reach 350,000, against 247.000 jast Your. The Dowager Empress of China is shower- ng decorations up raising to distine- tion prominent members of the anti-foreign powers, i and Chancellor Bir Michael Hicks-Beach an- nounced that 39 800 applications for the war oan subscribed for 1.677,500,000, The 200th anaiversary of the Berlin Acad- emy of Selences was The Em- peror made a speech, oxlobrated, Chevaller de Bouza Corre), Brazilian min ister at the Court of Bt. James, was found dead in bed in London. In the suit at London of Daly ws Ed- wardes, for the possession of Daly's The ater, Kekewich decided for the plain, In German Reichstag the Prussisz government was taken to task for the anti quated system of yed. Bir Edmund D voy at Copenh the ling emplo iging Velteh Fane, English, agen, is dead, aged sixty- OTIS SENDS EDITOR TO PRISOR. Publication of Articles Inimiecal to the Military Government at Manila. Mani! La Patria and Liberal, Spanish organs of the extreme Pili. party recently been publishing articles inimical to the military government, General Otis has suppressed former Jourasl for sedition, and imprisoned the editor, at the time fssuing & warning party that Hy Cable iA] Lave pino the Bane to the members of the extreme they should observe greater moderation Senor Paterno, sat one time president of the Filipino cabinet, having ceived perinissdon the authorities to come to Manila, is expected fo present bim- soil this week at San Fernando, province of Union sn-onlled re from The rebels In General ¥ becoming aggressive, The American bai talion garrisoning the town Namagapa- oan was attacked on four consecutive nights recently there, ung's district are of General Young proposes to pursus the rebels aggressively belore the rainy season gots in OVER 850.000 SEALS TAREN, Catch Estimated to be Greater This Ses son Than for Twenty Years. Bt. Jo N. F., (By Cable, }—The sealing steamer Leopard, which took shelter at Wesleyville, in consequence of the storm, is due bere Tuesday morning, and other stes mers are expected to arrive during the day Judging from reports thus far received, the total number of seals taken by the fleet is about 296.000, and the prospect Is that, as four weeks of the flashing season have yet & run, this total will be increased by some sixty thousand, As the entire catch last vear was only 47,000, this year's figures promise to be the best within twenty years, hne NO MINES WERE LAID. Kentucky's Capitol Only to Cause a Sensation, Frankfort, Ky., (Special) The Republi ran adjutant general—Collier—denled that mines are being nid around the arsenal and capitol grounds, and in an explanatory com. munication to the Democratio assistant ad jntant general-- Murray-—General Collier said that some indiscreet men al the arsenal bad dug trenches, and made a pretenss of laying mines to create a sensation, but the work was entirely without the sanction or knowledge of General Collier, and the men cugaged have been sharply reprimanded, Trenches Dug Near Jealousy Canses n Murder. New York, (Special) Edward Leasure, 22 years old, killed George Crotty, 383 years of age, an electrician, in Brooklyn. Leasure boarded at Crotty’s home aad bis relations with Crotty’s wife were such as to cause ap fil feeling between the two men. Crotty met his wile on the street In Leasure’s com. A quarrel ensued and Lessure drew A revolver and shot Crotty twice, Crotty Murdered His Wife. Oil City, Pa., (Special.)—~Amos Eider, an oll-well driller, shot and killed his wife, Elder was Intoxicated at the time, and the shooting occurred after a terrible struggle, in which the woman sought to save her life, The murderer sseaped, FIELD OF LABOR. Debs wilh go to Paris, Austria Sad 256 strikes in 1899, Jerusalem has fifteen hospitals, Kansas has fifty-one daily papers, London stores have Japanese clerks, New York broom-makers use a label, America bas 70,000 union brickiayers, Massachusetts has 116 street raliways, English collieries employ 85,000 people. $t. Paul has but two non-union lathers, Boel costs $1.50 a pound in the Klondike. The war has diminished our exports to Alries. Cleveland painters want 22.40 for the States to hold a second Pan-American Con | gress, i Representative Fitagerald, ranking Demo. | erntic member of the House Merchan! Mar. ine Commitieo, explained the attitude of the minority on thee Ship SBabsidy blk é Haw Yous stopits wast (us sine lion: day wn Muy : Toledo carpenters refuse to work on jobs John C. Viester., of Reading, Tries te Kin Wife and an Officer Quinter Gots Twelve Years in Jail and Fine for Killing Wife Attorney Awarded 855,~ H00 as Result of Raflroad Accident. and Varamony John C. Fiester, a Reading inventor of considerable reputation, went erszy and tried to stab Officer Squint, who tried to are rest him. It took four men to disarm bis, and he was gotten to the station house with great difficulty. A telephone message came Lo the police station saying that an officer was badly needed at 317 South Eleventh St. where John C, Fisster resides. Officer Squint and Officer Qualntances hurried to the sense, There they learned that Mr, Plester had be- suddenly insane, Mrs, FPiestor had been driven up stairs her husband, who had threatensd to k She bolted ber door and he battered on it and tried to get in, The officers entered by a second-story window es Fiester was in full possession down stairs. It was decided to send for Dr. Ammon, the family physician, While he was coming Mr. Flester grew quiet and on the Doctor's arrival found sitting at the kitchen table eating supper. He appeared as well as usual, but suddenly ran into the back kitchen, saying he had sows work to do. There he seized a chisel and made aa attack on Officer Bquint. The officer tried to protect himself with a chalr, but Fiester's lunge cut his cont, The blade struck a sus. pender buckle, saving him from injury, Four men sprang at Plester and un- armed him, He was bandeuffed and taken to the police station. Mr, FPilester has been mentally unsound for some time, Insomnia and worry are sald’ to have brought on his present sad cond He is an expert wookworker and is the patentee of the puliey manufactured by the Reading Wood Pulley was released and went bome quietly with his wife, come by her, was then Non Company. Fiester DQainter Sentenced, omon H. Quinter, who was eonvieted al the December term of Criminal Conrt for mansiasughter on August 12, 1899 was sen- tenced at Reading. On the first indictment, killing bis wile, he was sentenced to a fine of $500 and solitary confinement in the East. ern Penitentiary for nine years, Os the sec. ond il, the killing of Kitzmiller, his wife's paramour, he was fined #500 and sentenced to solitary confinement for three years, oi Big Damages for Injuries I'he second largest verdict for damages ever awarded in Pennsyivania was returned al Scranton in favor of Attorney John T. Martin, Itls in the sum of #55500, Mr. Martin and Hodson Canal Company for damages for personal injuries sustained in a wreck on the defend. Rut's rond on April 4, 1899, As 8 result of the accident it is claimed that his mind as wail as his health ls permanently shattered, sued the Delaware Robbers Sought Revenge. Beveral burglaries perpetrated in Pottsville, The gr yoery store of D. G. Smith, was entered and a large sum of money and because they find as much cash as they expected, wantonly burned the ledger containing the ie Philadelphia and Head ts at New Philadelphia and tickets and other were T™% book accounts, 7 ing Rallroad de; Gliberton were va ¢ i at oted of UR Dies, Industrial Boom in Bristel. Within the last few months three pew dustries have in Bristol. The rolling mill, after an idienees of several yoars, was the first to get under way, the large wallpaper factory was later put into operation by Campbell & Co., and the Bris- tol Knitting Company has took possession of the Appleton mill, ir ili bean established Montgomery Digscontinnes Bounty. At & meeting of the Montgomery County Commissioners it was determined to discon- tinue the payment of bounties for minks and foxes, At the time the law was passed these animals were abundant in this sonnty, much to the detriment of the farmers, but now they are almost extinet, Policeman Killed at Railroad Crossing. While attending to his jaties st the rail. road crossing in the Bethlehem ERteei Com- pany's yards, Bamuel DD, Cortright, aged 55 voars, one of the company's poilce officers, was run down by a shifting engine and killed, Found Coal Vein in Digging Well While digging a well on his farm, Dewitt F. Beach, who lives a mile northeast of Williamsport, cut through a threefoot veln of coal eighteen feet from the surface. He intends to develop it, Nowningltown Knitting Plant Rurned. The knitting plant of the Evans & Walker Co., at Downingtown, was destroyed by fire, together with all the valuable machinery and stock. Met Death Under Car Wheels While making a coupling at Lansford, Brakeman Herbert Lypn fell under the sar wheels and was so badly erashed that he died several hours later, He resided at Summit Hil, In Briel. Adam Marsukivite, a 7-yearold boy, ran in front of a trolley car on Capouse Avenne and was killed. Sheriff Samuel F. Gates raided the alleged gambling house kept by William Leary and Philip Leary, at Bedford, capturing the pro- prietors and their outfit, During the abeenee of the station agent a burglar broke into the office of the Helle fonte Central Nallroad Company, at Siste College, and completely rapsacked the sta tion, taking among other things $30 in eash, William Kelly, of Centralia, and William Howard, of Roxborough, were arrested in Shenandoah, charged with committing a burglary at the Lebigh Valley Rafirosd depot in Centralia. They were taken to the Bloomsburg jail, Muardered Wis Wife. Oil City, Pa, (Special. )-<Amos Eider, ar oll-well driller, 3hot and, killed hg ite Elder was Intoxicated a time, oocurred after a terrible in
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