THE NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. The Comptroller of the Currency ap- pointed R. D. Garrett temporary re- ceiver of the Somerset National Bank- ing Company, Somerset, Ky. Receiver Daniel D. Wing, of the Globe National Bank, has paid to the Clearing House Association of Boston the last of the $3.000.000 which that institution advaced to the bank eight months ago. Boycotts in force against clothing manufacturers in Rochester, N. Y., were raised by the United Garment Workers, Charles F. Ruggles, of Chicago, for- merly of Manistee, began suit in the United States District Court to pro- cure a dissolution of partnership of the Buckley & Douglass Lumber Co.. of Manistee, Two thousand vestmakers are on strike in Manhattan. Their demands are for the payment of the same scale of wages which was in force last year for a 10-hour day and for weekly pay- ments, A passenger train on the Perkiomen Railroad struck a team of horses and wagon at Palm, Montgomery county, Pa., and instantly killed the three oc- cupants of the vehicle, Poison in deadly quantities has been found in the stomach of Edward P Herrick. The third-rail system to be on the Albany and Hudson road. Lake Shore train No. 3, was wrecked at Bay Bridge, dusky. Ohio, and injured. Charles A. stated, will open his campaign at Duluth within 10 days and will follow Governor Roosevelt, Two Italians, whom, it said, had planned to attack President McKinley, are deported, Forest fires prevail in the West and Northwest. is tried westbound, near San- were seven persons Towne, it is one of iz to be A deliberate wag made to burn and pillage Smithfield, IL. P. Huntington odlawn Ceme- attempt The remains of were laid at ter New York The International Union refused ers’ Union rest ypographical e Stere OtyD- made to Company Application h solve still America. the of San Francis- Ta ’ Pp } a paupe: Atl is side A large creamery was burned. Loss, $8000 At Charlestown W Young shot Mrs. Susan the shoulder. Mrs. C death in a chare Pa. Wm. H. Wagner's large barn at Mar- | burg, South Pennsylvania, was bur Several Morrison romer was bu Tio 1 peopie runaway accidents were injured at Hanover, Pa, A hotel will be erected R Top, Gettysburg battlefield. Woodstock, Va., was visited by a dee structive fire. The Episcopal church Geary's Hotel and the Burner bl were destroyed R. H. Ferrell, who Messenger Lane, was jail at Marysville. Ohio his sweetheart met both trated. Frank Atkinson, aged 24. a soldier In the war with Spain, committed st cide at Philadelphia. Mabel Bontou, the actress, is and will be sent to the Ward's Island, New York. A strike was ordered in the net fac- tory of Eugene Beunett & Co., Orange, New Jersey, Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls i« In a serlous condition at Las Vegas, New Mexico, It is estimated that 17.000 ten will be under canvas at the Uniformed Rank, Knights of Pythias, encamp- ment in Detroit on August 26. The United Garment Workers of America began a week's session at De- troit. San Francisco mill men have begun a fight for an eight-hour day. The Dakota elevator in Buffalo was burned. Loss, $300,000. The jury in the Powers trial went to Frankfort and visited the spot where Goebel fell. The Convention of the International Typographical Union opened in Mil. waukee, Thirteen are dead and sixteen in- Jured as a result of a grade-crossing accident at Benninger's Station, on the Lehigh and New England Railroad. Milwaukee has made an effort to secure Colonel Bryan, Governor Roose- yelt and Carter Harrison to speak on @ killed Express | committed to When he and were pros insane wylum on ). J. INGALLS DEAD. THE EX-SENATOR PASSES AWAY AT EAST LAS VEGAS, N. M. SUFFERING A LONG TIME. His Wife and Other Members of 1 nimily Were With Him It Was the Intention Than Was Expected. Las Vegas, N United States Senator died aut East morning. He family Senator Ingalls’ illness dated from March, 1899, when. af Washington. his throat begun troubling him. He worked steadily, writing political articles newspapers throughout the He was treated by several specialists, M. (Special). ~—Former John J. Ingalls Vegas Thursday surrounded by fas Wiis vice returned with his family to Atchi- son. At home he grew no better months ago he sought another change in climate, traveling through New Mexico and Arizona. to write occasionally for the new Spa pers. From Senator's lated, but time to of time reports iliness were invariably denied the serious were by case hopeless by any means, and only to Atchison, After a consultation physicians he decided, however, to re- main in New Mexico. Mrs. Ingalls went immediately to Las Vegas. John James Ingalls was born in Mid- dletown, Mass, December 29, 1833. He attended Wilhams College and i ated from there in 1855. The of LL.D. was conferred on hin college in 1884. After graduat college law and mitted t 1857. A year later he ison, Kan. In 1859 he the Wyandotte Convention and in he was t the State Senate. In 1862 he ran for office of Lieutenant-Governor ut lefeated., Ele ‘lected Republican Uni i ator from Kansas State in the Senate From 15887 to 1881 otempore of the Senate firrpr 1 he studied o the bar in to Atch member Was removed Wis a of 1861 sent to the b later States was VEN Years was «¢ Sen the 1891 He represented from 1873 he was and GOLD UNDER RICHMOND, ered by Workmen. Labor Dev FIFTEEN DROWNED NEAR Nis ME. Heavy Loss of Life ind FPropert Par. ing Recent Storm. brought wit Geta 822,000 After Kan. (Special) States 1 Yeurs sfiwortl After triais in the tL nited Circuit i years and 4 Mutual Life Insurance settled ite case E. Hilimon-Smith. this her oe 000 cash hi was decided poli v urt an a Geia } BG Sallie city, paying This amount by a jury Dy in toroat intereat to be due her on a IR79 The Mutual Life of New York is gecond of the three in the ginal insurance companies to settle, The Connecticut Mutual is still holding with judgment of 311.054 against or Out, a is Chile Will Buy Cars Here, Santiago de Chile Cable) Chilean Congress 000 Chilean cur Ti r a the greater i purchased Tenders have ing the great Maipu. The 82.500 - cargo of which will United States, invited for build. the Rive PO Gtegd ve i totiay cars be in heen iron bridge aver Big Grain Elevator Burned, Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). The Da- kota elevator was burned, entailing a! loss approximating $500,000, The fire | started in the machinery loft, and! within fifteen minutes the cupola was a mass of flames, working its way | downward through the machinery room to the bins, in which were stored | 500,000 bushels of grain, The elevator | was used by the Lehigh Valley Rail road. Sixty Lives Saved by Heroes Dubois, Pa. (8pecial).~The entire | works of the Berwind Colliery, above | ground, which belonged to the Ber | wind-White Coal Mining Company, were destroyed by fire, Sixty men who were in the mine at | the time were saved by the prompt and herole action of Fire Boss John | Harrison and a number of volunteers, | who entered the workings by the air! shaft at the risk of thelr lives and | warned the miners of their danger, The loss will approach $200,000. It was at this mine five years ago that 13 lost their lives by an explosion of gas. DEATH OF €, PF. HUNTINGTON, Pusnes nt Rac. i The Milllounaire Away gquette Lake, N. Y. | Racquette N. Y. | Coll | Southern Pacific Rallroad Company, | died ghortly before midnight at | Knot Lodge, his luxurious camp in the Adirondacks, near Racquette Lake. { He was in his 79th year, Death resulted from heart disease, Mr. Huntington, with Mrs. Hunting- ton, went Into the woods last { day afternoon and was in apparently excellent health, On Friday and Sat- { urday he was about his camp noting | the progress of the improvements { Which he had been carrying on this t year. On Sunday remained at his lodge quietly, receiving the calls of | several friends from the neighboring | camps, Apparently well on retiring, at 11 o'clock Monday night, he was taken suddenly with a choking spell, which Was quite common with him, and was not thought to be serious, but he became worse. As soon as the realized to the Lake, (Special). 1 8 messenger was dispatched for a without maore berry doctor, died not Mr. Huntington regaining conselousness than ten minutes between the attack and death, Mrs, Huntington and Mr. Hunt- ington's secretary, G. E. Miles, were at his bedside at the time of his death, which occurred at five minutes to 12 Early in the day Mr. Huntington ap- peared be enjoying the best of health, walking about his preserve and a trip on his private steamer, Oneonta, and he remarked that he was feeling unusually io the to friends well, CRASHLD INTO TRE "BUS, Killed and More Injured, Pa inst several Eleven Passengers as Many Slatington, person were eleven others, Were { Spec ial) Eleven tly killed and of whom will injured ade three miles i passenger train New England Rail Bn omnibus ntaining BONS All Al die in a x Crossing ae thi serious ais cit Lehigh road crashing Oa twenty-fi HESS WAS LAVISH 0.652.503 674.308 140.916 vr o40.230 360K 238 S60 G00 5.319.015 on 45 61 2.01.34 Os i G58 330 0) $710.1 ABOLT NOTED PREOPVLYL. % BWart wom engineer living ust given tWonty of i n ve 4 birth to her whom are living The known call Rev, James M Biblical scholas Gray, the has declined a permanently associated with the Rev. R. A. Torrey in the work of the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago. Siam’'s Crown Prince, who is study- ing at Oxford, is bound to be an up- to-date potentate like his father. He recently developed appendicitis and en- joyed the modern operation for that misfortune President Eliot, of Harvard, has dee ciared himself in favor of the shirt. waist man as student, bers of the faculty complained of the fatigue costumes worn to lectures hy students in June, but President Elliot did not sympathize with the complain. well toy hee Governor Roosevelt was taken hold of by a zolf enthusiast the other day, long exposition of the virtues of the game, “There is one good point abou tion,” he said finally. asked his persecutor, have to play it if one doesn’t want to,” replied the Governor, ON FIRE AT SEA, TERRIBLY CREW EXPERIENCE OF THE OF THE CYMRIC, DEADLY CHLORINE GAS. When Nineteen Hours Out From Ouneenrs town Fire Was Discovered in the Fore Ward Hold, Which Naged for Thirty. Six Hours - Heat Poured Out From the Hold, New White arrived York (8pecial).—The Star liner Cymric, which has here, had a terrible experience while crossing the Atlantic At noon on Sunday, August 5, when the big ves- sel nineteen hours out from Queenstown, fire was discovered among cargo In the forward hold, and it raged thirty-six hours, until midnight on Monday, when it was reported to be under control. Hold No. 1, where was had been flooded for the purpose of checking the flames. The water leaked into other compartments aft, damage to the general mer chandise stored there. The boat, how- ever was not seriously injured. The loss on the cargo was so heavy that Agent John lee of the White Star Line, notified the consignees of the cargo that they would be expected to pay their pro rata share of the loss, Captain Lindsay, of the Cymrie, told the experience of the men on the ves- #el in fighting the fire. In addition to the ordinary danger of such work, the fire could not be located, and deadly chlorine gas, which the hatches, made it possible the men to remain long at work. The officer vessel headed men, and man after man was lifted un. conscious from the hold time and time again The times poured out 111 fii of the tain was carried out once it appeared as though breathing had blegct Cag and the kh wwe hogsheads ing powder h. 1 f t and fire and soda as caused orine oy Ni yy i and this POUT As out at SOON as Lat an of upper deck indsay and some Ex-Congresaman Shonk Dead, ton Special Ex-R FiELD OF LABOR, rior has 2000 unionists are 798 Hard coal sells for City, Mo, City ¢ 1 ¢ “8 Of $9 ; sped roses, tou at Platte of Mexico cotton operators struck for higher wages. Dartmouth, England, gion to aged workmen. New York electrical workers mand $4 for eight hours’ work. The London cigarmakers sent over $243.50 to their New York brethren. gives a Side Early Closing Association held in New York. The Miscellaneous Trades hax adopted a church manner taking up a coliection at ng are that of hibits in the Exposition, but she ought to have more -Paris letter in Lake Tribune. The Dock Builders’ Protective Asso- ciation of Brooklyn secured for its members 37 1-2 cents an hour and a work day of eight hours. St. Paul Steam Fitters’ Union nated $5 to the the St. Louls street railway strikers, and also $5 to the striking steam fitters of Philadelphia. and the local cigarmakers’ unions are reported to have contributed over $170,000 to the New York strike. A Boston cigarmakers’ union is as- segxing its members 50 cents a week the benefit of the craftsmen focked out and on strike in New York The success which has crowned the efforts of the New York pantsmakers hours has tendered to arouse the cont They number over Many inducements have been made to families to come and live In the borough of Bronx, New York, in the i tion of weapons has been recently augmented by the gift from a South American politician of a sword worn in several campaigns by Bimon Boll. var, "The Liberator.” | | free and an occasional gift of a ton of coal, The planomnkers’ organization fs now recognized by all the large plano manufacturing firms in New York, and the wmica's scale of wages is generally paid. SEVEN KILLED, MANY INJURED, A Collision on a Rallrond Up in Mich igan. Grand Rapids, Mich, (Bpe« wreck occurred on the Grand and Indiana Railroad, at Pier miles from Grand Rapids The northbound Northland which left this city at 4.05 head on with passenger train due here at 6 a. m. Beven people killed, one was fatally hurt, and many PAskengers were more or less According the railway the collision was the fault of Wells, stationed at Mil miles north of this eity usually meet at Band south An sued that they meet at four miles north of Operator Wells was a press had passed his answered “No.” He countermand former orders to No. & Lake, Similar orders given t« No. 2. Train No never got the or der, having already passed Mill Creek They collided, therefore, while both were going at full speed When Op- erator Wells discovered his error he tried to stop the express at Plerson, but was half a minute too lat The forward cars were The baggage, mall and « No. b saved and the passenger were saved by thro happened to attached gine, There wee 2 and ten o remained on gines were 1it The injured city and taken The dead were Rapid son ad 1 In . i CXPres collided No Were inure officials Operator Creek, The trains to Lake of Fieison, was Woods Later the vet tald Oorder 100K Hi to station was then orders, and No - Were 10 meet i telescoped ting cars on in the COAChes in freight car reat he eleven No ba rammrds ti BORpItais also brought The caught at Lhe | ne nerd etecot several railroad a ives thieves at work the dis- aster, CONGER FIRST, THEN PEACE. The Conditions Prellminary Negot) ution, Washington tures for Special peace will Government Pel Wash PLIGHT OF THE MINISTERS th They a He Murdered Fears Entertained at the honest make the if it wet a hideous ! fight desperately at Tung Chow wheni the Chines: the CiLy, defeats alll 0] e forei back into by the fall the scenes whe ith the the fanaticlam may ensue in t 0 troops, are incited by of the ministers, own troops, who too late to save naturally War ed for Maes Ie their arrive an hour of ma them, sSUE- gested themselves at the m the pre. valling gloom. From the roofs of their legations the ministers can sce the advancing allies in too, his d: the night he could see the lights American camp. But he saw food supplies almost exhaust around the legation hs the ters is a matter of hours—a race be. advancing allies, Health in the Philippines. get down at 3868. and in quarters at 1261, making a total of 5129 sick sol. army in the archipelago. SITUATION IN CHINA. The aggregate force of the allies In the province of Pelchill is 28,000, with 114 guns. United States Consul Wildman re. ports that three more Baptist missions near Swatow have been destroyed, A French report states that seven thousand native Christians have been massacred at Pao Ting, east of Pekin. The French naval commander in Chinese waters reports that mission to Hankow from Pekin are In great danger, PEKIN CAPTURED, CIETY RESCUP LEGATIONS, HAD 10 FIGHT CHINESE. | Grave Qaestions AND Bettie The United | States 1s Expected to Withdraw Its Troops, But Rome of the Vowers of Europe May Not Be Disposed to Give Up the Prive. to wrtant facts "#i reporis 1 from the he evenin gations, whose Japanese loss { the other gu ( lies will be it has the Washington Chaffee, baving ger, shall return Tienisin, : E not give their impe- 0 S10 ~ h of- rman, The {34 Special) t = y au0 A e1 th ef isen minister day Dem minist , threw intter % gun, i Clark will surr Murder and Suicide In Kentucky, Ky Ww ille coming 1} Lavi i er over a discussion of a fight he pnonth ago with another Edgar Connor shot and killed paster. With his last breath paster Edgar, you have down and let me die. Tell bye.” Hearing these words Conner shot and killed himself, Goodpaster and Conner were room. mates and had been the best of friends, Owingsv {Snecial) th Gon MOWER p had man. Good Good- killed Je or A YR Rood FOREIUN Arr asin Djevad Pasha, formerly grand viz.es of Turkey, is dead The Shak of Persia terminated his visit to Paris and left for Ostend, The firemen of the Transatlantic Steamship Company decided to strike. The French torpedo-boat destroyer Framee was sunk in a collision with the battleship Rrennus during mane. vers off Cape Bt. Vincent and some poodle have been by floods in Many homeless Wales, It was reported in Pretoria that Lord Methuen had arvested General De Wet's march. Lord Roberts reports that the Boers are fleeing before Generals Kitchener and Methuen. General MacArthur reports the sur render to Colonel Freeman of Colonel Grassa and his command, King Victor Emmanuel IIL of Italy took the formal constitutional oath be- fore the Itailan Parliament and deliv. ered ap address. 2 a rendered New South
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