THE GOVERNMENT IS
Trip Westward, *
WARM WELCOMES IN VIRGINIA,
President Looked Well, and the Journey
Was Begun Under Agreeable Auspices-.
Beautiful Flowers,
a Fairy Bower.
The Presidents’ will
through 25 States
It will pass over 10,500 miles of
road tracks.
t will take 48 days.
It will be shared by 80 persons, 40 of
wh are servants,
The other 40 ude the Cabinet o
and other
four
elegraphers and
trip
rail-
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amie guests
tographers
neir
reporters,
Cials,
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Eight finely
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good nature
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Real Tragedy in a Play.
Burnsville, N. C ; l
the trag
in the
Ml or
ville, a real
N. Mc:
3 ¢
Gladys City
M Guffey £
other gushers
by the 1
ing Comp
chiefly be
being fur
gusher
€xXa
Josses Aggregal
robbers secured
Vill Make McKinley an LL. D.
Boston
the |
special. J—At a meeting of
f
wwerseers of Harva
}
nere,
woard of rd Uni
versity held the question of grant
ing the degree of Doctor of Laws
President William McKinley was taken
up informally, and the sentiment ex.
pressed was unanimously in favor of
the step. The matter will come up for
formal action at a meeting of the over.
scers just, before commencement
June, according to the usual custom,
of to
mn
37 Congressmen for New York,
Albany, N. Y. (Special). Governor
Odell has signed the bill reapportioning
the State for Congressional districts.
The districts now number 37. instead
of 34, as under the census of 1800.
Planter Shot by a Negro.
Columbia, S. C.
Watson, 25 years old, a prosperous and
popular planter of Anderson county and
i
i
ing that Charlic Owens, a negro tenant,
aged 18, had stolen a pig and was going
to move off the place that night,
Owens’ house. The negro boy's mother
gun,
shot him in the back, killing him,
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,
Domestic.
Judge lawrence, of the
{ Court, in New York, granted a divorce
to Frederick Allien, whose wife had se
| cured a divorce in Dakota, the judge
i holding that the Dakota divorce
| worthless
{ Mabel Strong. who ran away from
Cleveland with Charles W. Wildrick, is
{ dying in a New York hotel, while Wild
| rick 1s in jail on the charge of beating
| a@ hotel
At the Wynne Coke Works, near
| Uniontown, Pa., eight colored men and
| two colored women brutally assaulted
Hiram McMiller, white, and his wife
Henry Freeman was arrested in Sa
lina, Kan,, on suspicion of having mur
dered Frederick Kinney, { Salina,
Kan, who disappeared in
The Philadelphia del
Legislature adopted a
the removal of
from Harrisburg to Phil
The men employed
Lehigh Valley Rai
a reduction
10 10 ©
» Dorothy Coal
was d
Carte, filed i
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gion
London, leaves an estate
The International Art E
opened in Venice
Dr. Parker, in an address at the Con
gregational Union, London, expressed
sympathy with Roman Catholics under
what he called the insult”
inflicted on them by the oath of acces
sion
The London Court decided that the
Swedish Count Reinhold Edward von
was
Xp
“despicable
of Mrs. Bloomhbeld Moore
The flagship Brooklyn, with Admit-
able Remey on board, arrived at Syd
ney and was warmly welcomed by the
crews of the other warships.
financial,
Exchange. i
United States Government 4s, 1028
ever reached
Mr, Miller ix also secretary of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company,
Negotiations are said to be in prog.
ress looking to the consolidation of
Chicago and Eastern Illinois with\the
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BIG STEAMSHIP
LINES COMBINE.
Gireatest Ocean Deals.
HE IS AIDING THE STEEL
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HEAD SEVERED BY ROPE.
Unexpected Scene at Execution of
Robber Thomas Ketchum,
Clayton, N. M. (Special).—Thomas
E Ketchum, alias “Black Jack,” the out
law who had terrorized people of the
Southwest for 15 years, was hanged
Train.
port Company--A Step in the Combiaing of
Numbers About Sixty Ships,
London
int
The first step
he d rection
transatlantic ship
been accomplished by
some of the biggest
ping interests ha
he pus
Co
A dep
been paid
The «
mie
aien
by ]
Leyland Line of
on the purchase
of
steamers
money h
ft Line
an official
oMmce
understood
EXPRESS WRECKED,
The Fireman Badly lojured and the Eo-
gineer Scilded
GOERS STILL ACTIVE
Take 25
Whom Thes
Then Liberate
Prisoncrs
Disarm and
rE
His head was severed from the body
by the rope, as if by a guillotine. The
headless trunk pitched toward the spec
tators and blood spattered upon those
nearest the scaffold.
The execution took place inside a
stockade built for the occasion. There
were 150 witnesses, When Ketchum
i
mounted the scaffold a priest stood at
ual attendance at the last moment. He
declined to make a
“Good bye,” then said, “Please dig my
and as the cap
drawn over his face shouted, “Let her
1
oq
RO
speech,
When the drop was sprung the body
torn from the trunk by the tremendous
ie
quivering and bleeding. Some men
groaned and others turned away unabl
to endure the sight For a few seconds
the body was allowed to Lie 1bi
its rig
the
(i
‘ad
Thirteen New Factories Contemplated Through-
out the Country,
{ tment
mgton
~
FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH.
Babe Bern During the Fire
its Mother.
NOT A CANDIDATE.
ryan Says He Would Not Be Editing a Paper
If He Had Farther Aspirations
mpan nere,
watchman asleep gagged
and escaped with 30,000 francs
burglary carried out
him,
The was
American experts.
Manager Dalliba,
finds that
of
books. 30.000 francs were
manner in which the burglars
proceeded indicates that they were fa
miliur wih the arangements of the of.
fice. The street door was opened with
tie groper key, as the lock, which is
equal to a safe lock, was not scratched
An astounding feature of the bur-
Burglars Dynamite a Bank.
Toledo, Ohio (Special) ~~The bank at
Pioneer, Williams county, 40 miles from
here. was entered by burglars durin
The vault was wrecke
Mail Carrier Arrested,
Chattanooga, Tenn, (Special.)~Post-
office Inspector Keyes has reported to
the department the arrest of Archibald
Free, a Star route carrier, charged with
enn,
burglars, in
latter worked
of the explosions was
neent to awaken a porter on the top
story of a building across the street and
that
house for intruders.
Ihe street door of the express com-
burglars for over three hours, without
the police noticing it. , Yet the office is
located in the center of Paris and is sur-
rounded by business houses,
John Munroe’s American bank is only
a few paces distant
The express company's office has a
long frontage facing the opera house.
It was opened about a year ago. The
reading rooms are much used by Ameri-
Four Men Buried Alive.
Frederick, Md. (Special) Michael
Kearns, Michael Coyne, two foremen.
Frazier and Douglass
Hicks, two colored laborers, wor ing
on the Baltimore and Ohio improve-
ments near Ridgville, while working on
Airy tunnel ‘were buried alive
thus far three of their dead bodies have
been recovered. The body of Michael
Kearns is still in the debris, and it is
thought that several other men have
beta illed, as they cannot be accounted
or.
CHINESE ROUTED BY
Men Wounded.
BATTLES NEAR SHANSI
Storm a Bastion.
Berlin (By
War Office |
advices fr
| ed
The
the
14%
Pekin,
“Three engagements
and a fourth
all between nu
| 23
| W
| eral Kettler and
| der General Lou
everywhere defeated
| born
| the
kuan
wounded
resistance,
wall
Our
were
being pursued as
1aities were |
and three men kil
| wounded, The French tr
engaged
Sub
POWERS MAY AGREE ON $200,000.000.
Upon the Instalment Plan.
ELEPHANT DROWNS TRAINER
Then the Beast Ran Away.
—
Dr. Browning's Big Bil,
Pittsburg, Pa al).-Dr. WW, C
Browning, the physician who attended
| the late Senator C. LL. Magee,
whose bill for services rendered to
| Senator totals $100,000. was here
nection with the matter. The Doctor
| says many the newspaper reports
| have been sensational and claims that
| his fee 1s in no wise exorbitant for the
| service rendered His attorneys say
i the claim will be settled without suit
| The relations between the executors
| and Dr. Browning are cordial, and there
is no thought of taking it in court.
A Belgian Mise Disaster.
Mons, Belgium (Special). Eighteen
miners were killed and seven injured by
an explosion of firedamp in the Grand
Buisson coal mine at Huronu, six miles
from this place.
Alleged Counterfeiters.
San Francisco, Cal. (Special). —- -Unit-
{Speci
and
he
in con
¥
!
of
: has arrested George Taylor MeDonnell
in this city on a charge of having in his
possession appliances for making coun.
terfeit money. It is charged that Me.
Donnell has promoted a scheme
from
dollars made
with counterfeit
Mexican coins
cated with the Bidwells in robbing the
Bank of England of $5,000,000 by means
of forged checks in 1873.
LIVE NATIONAL AFFAIRS,
Cubans Are Satisiied,
The Cuban delegation completed its
labors in Washing Saturday. In the
morning the Secretary
Root, who escorted the White
House, wal and de-
Cisive dent Then
they to each of
the imiet. and
York,
proceedings at
13
delegates met
them t
where they had a
Pres
riesy
taik with the
paid a visit of
officials
3
th
ney
et «
whom they have
started for New
homeward bound The
the Wi were interes
Yv hite
Presidential Appointments.
Minister Buck Seriously II
Our New Posszasian
Sedgwick sailed
Porto Rican y
o the United State
educated
Commissary Sergeant John Weston,
charged with complicity m the com
mssary frands at Mani, has been dis
honorably discharged and sentenced
two years imprisonment
Cuban Democrats will hold a masse.
meeting in Havana, and their platiors
will favor acceptance of the Plas
amendment and indorse the course o
Governor-General Wood.
Polloc, on the west coast of Minds.
nao Island, Philippines, was wrecked by
a cyclone. The barracks of the United
Stices troops were destroyed. Loss,
2000,
Owing to his illness, the appointment
of Brig-Gen. William Ludlow to be
the Visayas has been revoked A
board of surgr-_.. has made an exami
nation and reports that General Ludlow
eveloped
into a dangerous case of tuberculosis,
General Ludlow will return to the Unit.
The trial of Captain James C. Reed,
former depot commissary at Manila.
for alleged participation in commissary
frande, was begun at Manila, ®
sensational testimony was taken,
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