NEWS IN BRIEF, : The Commissioner of the rior for Porto Rico reports that the chief need of the island ig good roads. eran with an honorable record, has been sentenced to six months in ail for a violation of the pension laws. He made contradictory affidavits regard ing his support of a widow receiving a penshon. Leonard Day, a young Minneapolis millionaire, was stabbed to death in a drunken quarrel, and Frank H. Ham- ilton, the sporting reporier on a i newspaper, is accused of the deed, Austin Hamilton, an aged hermit, Chenango county, N. Y., died from the effects of inflicted by un- known. persons to force him the whereal money. The British steamer Adler, whici rived at New Y reported that her master, Capt. W. Reid, loca in torture some to reveal uts of ir- ork, h 1d die <1 1 4 yellow fever and was buried at sea. Phillip Goodman, a lad of 15 years, ras arrested Philadelphia on the charge of attacking Mrs. Mueller with intent to rob her. The Norfolk of Mrs. May- brick again stirring themselves to secure her from prison, The Buckhorn Portland Cement Company, at Mannheim, W. Va., has been placed in the hands of a receiver. in friends are release the President McKinley was the guest of honor at the Founder's Day banquet of the Union League in Philadelphia, Pearl Newman was convicted murder in the first degree in Hunting- don. W. Va., and sentenced the penitentiary for life, The United States was christened at Works, Me., Miss being the sponsor. The steamer Governor Ding into and sank ti Minette Breakwater, Edward a promi sinia LO monitor Nevada the Bath Iron Annie C. Boutelle lev fishing 8 Portland Lae En the divor York, pl fered to tu: Ot or ex John Da Joseph E. New York by swallow IEG ly, a lad Neamar, who then ing car Frank Hindberg was sentenced ten years in Penitentiary for empted assault in Newport News, on the daughter of John Lenz. Two old ladies—Violet J. Cooley and her niec Jane Cott —WOTe murdered in their home, Char- iotte, N. C., and thelr house looted the Cooley fiear A warrant was for the arrest of Assistant Cashier Brown, who loot ad the German nal Bank of New- port, Ky. Minister Harris sailed fr York for Austro-Hungary to his affairs there preparatory signing. The long gions of Pennsyl broken. Thom himself in tation g8Ueq we Lvl m New wind up 10 re- ania has at ley killed his wife ir flat in New York The widow of late Commodore Forrest died in Charlestown, W. Va Representative Hopkins, chalrman of the Committee Census, catimates that in membership of the new Hou<e under the new cen- sus will be between fifteen and twenty members. > The Chinese minister before the American Academy of Political and Bocial Science in Philadelphia, and ex- plained the ili-feeling of Ohinamen toward foreigners. At a meeting in Louis of repre- | sentatives of commercial bodies, it! was decided to memoralize Congress to modify the Interstate Commerce law, Chicago Methodist ministers will ask President McKinley to recommend to Congress the enactment of legislation to prevent lynchings. The House Ways and Means Com- mittee took up the consideration of a reduction In war taxes, Lieutenant Haeseler, of the navy, who was well known as an inventor, died in New York. The hulk of the wrecked Maine will be removed from Havana harbor, One case of heat prostration is re- ported in Pittsburg. City Detective Jerry Shea, of Bavannah, Ga., was shot and killed in that city by John J. Hart, In a quarrel over an actress with whom both men were infatuated. Bamuel Sheppard, convicted of wife murder, made a desperate attempt to escape while preparations were made to take him to the Penitentiary. Hoke Bumbaugh and Daniel Ressler were placed under $600 ball on the charge of conspiring Isaac Michaels to marry the Widow Bprenkel. A cat set fire to the furniture in the house of Charles Thompson, In Mar. tinsburg, Ww. Va. the on th the ¢ increase the yy Wp 8] ME canses of St Severe Storm Sweeps Parts of Tennessee and Mississippi. DOZEN TOWNS PARTLY DEVASTATED Big Blow Was Also Feit in Other Sections of the Country, But the Worst Damage wae Done in Tennessee and Mississippi, Where in Some Instances Entire Wiped Out of Existence. al).~The lat- the Tenn. (Speci est 1 eived from of Central and Wes Northern Mississippi swept by a tornado show 65 persons were killed and Jured. Telegraphic communica region visited rupted, and it details are known the will be lengthened, The storm Northern Mississippi in a northeasterly damage is reported from eports re sections Tennessee which Lorn we that at least Over 0 ine inter when full the dead entered the State fr acre BR the counties Columbia, on Maury sufferer. Lavergne, unty, is he Cumberland against range Columbia's casualties number yards wide and was through the no western town, In it Naot 7ven © Arsena of the path everything is wrecked the iron and stone fence grounds is standi: Captain Avdelott other large suburbs houses ished Ww MEE Most tims being proper SWOT he northwest The cyclone minutes and ita path 10060 wide, which Mis 1 extended abou font fea la FEET CIear marked by the devastation Immense damage was done to farme | % ts 4 | ¢ - {eos ’ 1d hundreds of head of livestock wWIouE:l dian Creek Dallas, Ala 'molished, but at OnE the resi estroved., Mi 3 oh ww . IRCCS Were Boxley's, Tenn. and three negre a storehous troved d rE SENT TO CAPTURE AGUINALDO. Mixed Expedition of Filipinos and Americans to Northern Luzon. Manila (By cable) the former Filipino chief, to start in pursuit of Aguinaido hundred picked natives, suppor American Other ox f with he YY b Fil troopa Their offers have not nade yet, hint they are authorities will t in the country. been formally ready i the thelr services. Aguinaldo, it Is supposed, northern Luzon, according to ments made by ex-rebel leaders in Manila, confirmed from |0oUrces, Aglipay, a renegade native prieat, long an insurgent leader In northern Luzon, has written to friends in Ma- nila, asking for election news, and re- questing to be informed whether a de- cision has been reached concerning the relations between church and stale and the diaposition of church proper- ties. The replies sent him contain the inormation that church and stale will be separated, and that entire religious freedom will be allowed, in is other AA, SN HA SHAAN Thunder Storm in Chicago. Chicago (Special) ~Claring flashes of lightning and loud peals of thun- der, sights and sounds general pecu- Har to midsummer in Chicago, accom- panied the storm that burst upon the city shortly before midnight. Rain fell in deluging quantities and the ele ments displayed all the characteristics of a summer thunderstorm. Telegraph and telephone wires were affected by the electricity In the atmosphere. The streets in some sections of the city ran like rivers. There was enough wind on the lake to endanger the safety of light craft, TRADE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Reviews by Dun & Co. and Bradstreet's Show Marked Steadiness ln the List of ! | Quotations, ! New York | Co.'s "Weekly "With rea NEES Mo rocoy tone, and lely without | { sharp rise It wi was | gaen in the Spring nnd h was fol- | lowed 4 ition (Special). ~R. G. Dun & | Review of Trade" says: mable prompiness busi- both vity and {he i 10 i range BiRg In Manu~ | ponge | id from d of | mono there generally from JOYE the same freed om si fans weeks Rallrog rolling nr the unusual | forms of iron | no quarter inflation of | during the { cumulation In anticipation prices that h: f most 18 heen ar encouraging feature, companies compe stock Export, ordors with diffien : 21 i lines filled | § : demand ¥ *™ # 1 pO Bi but ome and steel products; any such in there sonable unm Ces as WES #6 ascent last year. 1 strongly in militate and Mild i'wo facto girengtlh vather na vg 23 762 n 1 WARSHIP SENT TO TURKEY. May Enforce the Demand of the United States for lademaity for the Outrages in Armenia. Washington charac fruiticss iSpecia $ oop 1 States to se demanded tion of gent to N C. M 1 1 KY on his ¢ 4 question erful «iop at t £ hore 116] d ore be overlook Freight Trains Wrecked and Born 4d. Sav ah, Ga (Special). ~ Two freight trains on the Plant System thirteen miles out this city aud W m Smith, colored, of Sa- vannah, was killed. Engineers Dell and Broome and their colored firemen jumped and were severely injured. The wreck took fire and was burned. The traing were laden with cotton, turpen- tine and rosin. Five Washed Overboard aud Lost. Detroit (Special). ~A special Newberry, Mich, says: Word has been received here by D. N. McLeod, lumberman, that one of his scows, used in transporting freight from Sault Ste. Marie to Deer Park, where he has a number of lumber camps, was caught in a storm on Lake Superior, off Deer Park, and five of the six men on board were washed overboard and drowned, Student Falls 110 Peet. Princeton, N. J. (8secial). While attempting to elimb an iron ladder running up the side of the high water tower on Mercer Helghts, just outside of Princeton, Leonard M. Nash, of Bradford, Pa. a student here, lost his hold and fell about 110 feet. He was instantly killed, He ann collided of from Manila (By cable). ~Capt. Bowman i Rio he! Be a by or owark, is undergoing : courtmartial convened by Admi Secretary Hay Suggests New Conference at The Hague or Washingion. NEGOTIATIONS AT PEKIN A FAILURE A Note to that Effect Sent to the European Powers-—Mr, Conger's Apparent Persistence in an Attitude Toward the Chinese Govern: ment Which His Goverament Refuses to In dorse~-Trying to Goad China Into War. Presi coming to Co 15 must there condu China ad upon unavoidable ers per toward government which HEge be fae i mphatically and 1 i in de Pekin for of high C i ma four in of a number Great Britain minisier in that <1 present ‘hina i league at St. Petersburg coun iplomatic se offic i i alread its 5 ANNOUNCE Minister succeeded by his Both d that the has relieved Pekin, and 16 Japanese O88 been thes trios hav , $ ries nave recogni Zi usefulness of in Ohina has awful sufferings went while pre i their itatiy ¢ Of Iw the shortly “x warm invita- Aingion gltuation LANDSLIDE AT THE MINES. Many Frame Houses Were Torn Away, Bat No Lives Were Lost. WARS Changed, the finde a ndd he ah 8 of filled w Has wind yee} mines were appearance « ? ’ 0 i pledy INDUSTRIAL CONVENTION, Will Be Held at New Orleans and Discuss Various Live Topics Orleans fnEements New The ax Indus- in all uthern ill open y omipleted fimost and these of the are among Fled to Escape Arrest. Middlesboro, Ky. (Special). ~It is re. ported that John Powers and Berry floward. under Indictment for the as. saseination of William Goebel, have left the mountains where they sought refuge from arrest. Powers was at Harlan and Howard in the mountains of Bell county, both places being 20 miles from any railroad. The men, it is zaid, left two days ago accompanied by several mountaineers and started through the mountaing fo Weat Virginia. Famous Woman Spy Dead. Detroit (Bpecial). «- Mra, Hiram Hinsdale, who distinguished herself by her heroism during the Civil War and who rendered valuable service to the government as a «py, is dead at St Mary's Hospital, at the age of 94, Fatal “Side Swipe.” Savannah, Ga. (Special). ~~ The northern fast mail train on the Plant System collided with a freight at a gliding at Green Pond, 8, C. It was what Is called in rallway circles a “side-sawipe” The freight was pars tially in the siding when the mail train struck it. Engineer T. N. Jones, of the mall train, was killed, and his fi man, Thomas Lester, was seriously in. jured. A number of the freight care were wrecked, The 400 striking miners at the Malt. by colliery of the Lehigh Valley Com- pany returned to work. ; * TWENTY-SIX PERSONS PERISH. Steamer St. Olaf Goes Down With Crew and Paseengers~Not One Person is Saved. (Bpecial), the glteamer EL ing between Aux Erqgulimai Quebec here that has been and Point lower 51 News reache Olaf, Coax this of glands } Atle Seven I O ! aipwi impossib vei ongoed from are 205 at Por yw in 1BKYZ ned at about $40,000 and about $20,600, Before between lands, and (Co. re wrecked on Years ago Sunday ng las to Esquimaux Point ment CATED Crilanggi to morn BAUR, DAs ing Feared in Texas, fd 100 More Galveston Storm Victims. Iveston Tex it } uno way pi RG Nol YIihE P - a Tramp's Turn Next. Washiy {3pecial) trial Cot : John R. Comm Economic Research, a8 an «oxpert my of immigrs the unemployed, ’ view to the study of the tion in ted urea York a 75% App the — $s 4 Has ne of Dec i Tragedy in West Virginia, Cumberland tion J. H. guson {Bpecial) reached here of the ; Madigan, an official of the Construction Company, ing the Greenbrier railroad, by C. J MeGinty, paymaster the company, at Huttonsville, near Elkins, W. Va Treasurer Gone With $25,000, Robert J. build- 133 of Chicago (Special) socretary-treasurer of the ican and Investment Company, disappeared. It la sald his ghow a shortage of $25,000 FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Boers continue to cut the rall- ways in South Africa. Lord Rosebery was installed as lord rector of Glasgow University. The Relchtag will soon take steps to man possessions, Parlimment are preparing to make bit- ter attacks upon the government The German Bark Vidar, from New- port News, Va, Is reported to have archbishops of the Church of England it was decided not to prosccute the rit- ualists, and thus another threatened crisis in the history of the Church of England is averted, Mail advices from Tien Tsin, China, state that there has been considerable friction between the American and the French soldiers, The theory is advanced in St. Peters. burg that the Cear contracted fever from eating quail or drinking diseased milk. Rumors that the Czar is en epi leptic are denied. A Chinese imperial edict sentencing Prince Tuan to imprisonment for life means that his son, the heir-apparent, can never be emperor. Princes Chwang and other RS. AMHR BOERS WILL NEVER YIELD Only With Death of Last Man, Woman and Child Can Struggle End. KRUGER'S SOLEMN DECLARATION. Ex+President Tells Citizens of Marsaifles that Complete Extermination Alone Will Termi nate the South Africen War~Impressive Reception of the Distlaguished Visitor af the Mediterrencan Port. BANK ROBBER CHIEF CONFESSES Down With 60.000 Tons of Ore. N. ¥ Spe A t re ( situated arbor, #0. 000 tons and one ial) weet YOKE on on ¢ + aad in 3 Chi ~ eetimated at ame without dock disap- the vat pile of ore, erity-five [ high owing above the by Pickands The dock fitted with th 518 » machinery face of ty. pet Engincer Killed and Five Persons Hort. A pas- d Lake Ohio ling an into open wrecking the engine 18 yin Somers, of thi Pe but fell under eels and Four tralnmen were hurt by jumping, and 3drs. Sarah Schaing, of Louisville, Ky., was thrown over a badly bruised gor trail switch . The 2 city an badly i the wh was killed goat and More Riots Reported. (By who antis in cable) Refugees ved here report that riots have broken out the Province of Kiang-Si The non-Christians are wearing badges, aad all person: nol so dee are in danger of death. The Viceroy of the province has aps pointed a deputy to seftle the dis- turbance, and French gunboats will accompany the latter with the view of enforcing his orders. Feud Ends in Tragedy. Cheyenne, Wyo. (Special) ~—~John and Albert Alderice and Tobias Bore ner, cowboys, fought a duel in the mountaing near Otto, Wyo. Three horses were killed and the Alderice brothers were seriously injured. John received a ball in each arm and Al bert was shot in the stomach. The two families have been at war for some time. Further trouble may en. ne. Cas have r BE fon Sts BA Ur se There are 3500 union barbers. Japan claims 3000 union printers. Japan has 2000 newspapers; Russia, Chicago has an automobile drivers’ A A 1400 union post-office will join the Federation ot
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