Rb AN AER Dewgcrat, (HE KEYSTONE STATE. NCws TOPICS OF LOCAL INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANIANS, Facets and Fancies Gleaned from Many Sources and Dolled Down to Brief Paragraphs for the Benefit of Busy Roser GrrrYssuna, Pa, Jan, 9.—Thoe legal bat- tle coumomond somos weeks ago by the Sove enty-cocond Penneylvanin regiment has taken active shape Vesterday a bill was filed in equity, praying that the Battlefield Memorial association be enjoined from pre. | venisug the regiment from erecting its osument at the selected point in the “ieady anghl™ YThe swoviation holds that this 5 ound was nd hold by the regiment. & a continnatic { the trouble of last fui bs, when Capt, d, of the Seventy- POLL, was arrested for The Leg Hanmispura, Jan, Wet Lt noon. Several bills we vuuaother of new bills introduce i. 12 prevent the sale of liquor Jor day, {i tho house Speaker Boyer sunou lag commiitecs. The chairmen and Means -Geaham, Allegheny. ary—Gen 1! Mercer. priations-- Dearden, Philadelphia, roads Brooks, Philadelphia. ralture Heckman, Chester, wations— Dillivgsioy, Washington. ipal Corporations Passenger Rallways 1 “ary Loon ton Beda, «ance Baldw tutional Ro ud Imraorality lative Appoint sary--Jones, Blair rand Industry Maxey, Susquehanna, wines and Mining Hagan, Wayne rnufactures— MeCounell, Chester, suks-Fruit, Mercer Elec tions—Clapp, Lebanon Counties—Evans, Bedford Pubic Buildings Barnes, Dauphin Peustions and Gratuilios—Stewart, Philadelphia Geological Survey shoemaker, Philadelphia, Accounts— Brown, Beaver Retrenchment and Reform-- White, Allegheny Pristing Thompson, Warren Iroa and Coal-Stewart, Allegheny Bureau of Statistics—-Laferty, Allegheny Federal Relations—8hiras, Allegheny Library — Thomas, Philadelphia. Creutennial Affairs— Kidd, Philadelphia Compare Bills—H. J. Helfrich, Snyder The legislature adjourned until Tuesday night. ih legislature ferred and including Decora~ iy Keyser, Philadelphia, J 1klin, Lancaster, 24 , Beaver Raudall, Forrest : Pugh, Somerset wm Fought All the Afternoon. Suasokin, Pa, Jan 12 Matthew Wilk jams, of Lykens, and William McCarthy, of tiis city, engaged in a prize fight in the cut skirts of this city yesterday afternoon, Lone J ing out destruction in i { WM Conuell, Philadelphia.\ | Destructive Work of a Cyclone in Pennsylvania. OVER 100 VICTIMS AT READING. Grimshaw & Bros, Silk Mill, at Reading, Collapses Upon Several Hundred Opera- tives—A New Seven Story Building Col. and Crushing Adjoning Houses Lists of the Dead, Wounded and Missing. i Reaping, Pa, Jan, 10.-A cyclone struck this city shortly after 5 o'clock in the af noon, demolishing a number of buildings, cluding Grimshaw & Bros large silk m ' In the Intter were upwards of 200 opera who were buried in the ruins, and o killed, | When the cyclone first struck Reading the Philadelphia and Reading Rafiroad company’s paint shop was unroofed, and in less than ten minutes the entire structure lamas, Several gas ch the passenger cars exploded were killed and several ot {| The storm then contin underneath i four persons badly hurt. eastward, deal. th. Nine dwell- on North Eighth and Marion streets unroofed and otherwise badly damaged. ‘clone cut a swath of about 250 feet, and ; hing in its way was either leveled to i 836 ground or very badly wrecked. The next building in its track was the immense silk shaw & Bros, located at Marion streets, This building th soveral hundred operatives, single soul escapad uninjured { The stry®ture, which was four stories high and 200 by 70 feet, is one mass of ruins. Not a single brick remains of the beautiful build- ' ing except the stock and engine room. | The fire department was called out and 10,000 men, women and children quickly as sembled about the wrecked mill, The cries of the wounded and dying and their friends were heartrending. Willing bands, how- ever, quickly set to work and in a short time some seventy persons had been taken out. Twelve of these weredead, and many fatally injured, Those who were less seriously burt were taken to their homes, while those who received more serious injuries were taken to the hospitals Reaping, Pa, Jan. 11 These are the sad dest days that Reading has ever experienced. Everywhere there is desolation and mourn ing. The black crape, denoting death, is sus panded from the doors of nearly two score of houses, The ruins of the Reading silk mill disaster, by which over 175 young lady em- ployes were buried under an avalanche of don prize ring rules for a purse of $100. | One hundred and two rounds were fought, in which both men were terribly battered up. The battle commenced at 1 o'clock and ended at 6 pm. The referee decided the victory to Williams on account of a foul The fight was witnessed by twenty people. A Serenader Brutally Murdered, CraMSBERSBURG, Pa. Jan 12. —A horrible murder occurred pear Stony Point, in the northern end of this county. A party of men and boys f om the neighborhood had gone up in the evening to serenade Mr. Charles Cressler, who had recentiy been married. A quarrel took place among some of the serena- ders, and afterwards, one of the young men, named Peter Rhone, wus waylaid on his way homie by Charles Meredith, After Meredith had knocked Rhone down be tramped and kicked him almost to a jelly, The crowd then interfered, and Hione was carried to his bome, where he died son after. Meredith was arrested ard lodged in jail, Death of Lous Vollmer, St. Magy's, Pa, Jan 12 —Louis Vollmer, founder of this village, and for many years a prominent banker and lumber operator here, died on Tueday last, aged 70 years A Well Known Journalist Dead, Lascaster, Pa, Jan 14 --J. M. John ston, for twenty years connected with The Intelligencer, of this city, died in C aged 64. He was well known in newspaper circles of this state. Mr. Johnston was a lieutenant in the late rebellion. Four chil <ren survive him, tig} arise, Financially Embarrassed. Laxcasren, Pa, Jan. 14 Executions t the amount of $13.600 were lmued again A. K. Hoffmeier, furniture dealer, of this city. Verdict In the Shehilling Marder Case. Puirapereia, Jan, 9 -~The coroner's in. quiry into the revolting murder of Antoine F. Behilling was heard and resulted in the rendering of whe following verdict; “We find that Anton Schilling cams to his death from injuries inflicted by some blunt instrument in the hands of Jacob Sehr op, and also find that Wilhemina Sechroop, alias Richter, was accessory before the fact, Behroop and his alleged ,wifs were both taken to prison. Backsliders Invited to Betarn, Prrrsovag, Jan, 9.--A circular signed by General Master Workman Powderly and the pneral executive board of the Knights of Labor bas been sent cut to the recording secretary of every district assembly in the rder. In a few words it is to the effect that ail Inpsed Joenls can be reinstated without tie payment of their back dus or the fees Lecessary to the procuring of a new charter, A Philadelphia Assignment, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. §. — Abraham Marquis en i Imac Marquis, jewelers, No, 146 North Fiz th street, trading under the firm name ol A. Uarquis & Brother, have msds an as sionment to Morris M. Newman They wo thelr liabilities between 895.000 and $4000. Their amots could not be arrived at, “Red Nosed” Mike's Conlession, pitiful cries would BEARCH ¥ brick, fi BODIES IN THE READING MILL mortar, timber and heavy machinery, were surrotinded by fully 10,000 people all day long. The Reading artillerists were finally onlled out to keep the crowd back. The total death loss ix not so large as at first reported, but it : : ug is bad « The business men of Reading subscribed 85,000 for the sufferers, and a great deal more is promised The storm cloud tore all through the Leba- non valley before reaching Reading. It laid low its path. Houses and barns were unroofed, and when it struck Eeading it was at its greatest fury, The complete list of the kilied is: D. K Becker, Balile Harrison, Annie Fisher, Daisy Hrecker, George Nigman, Millie Christman, Ella Ridnauer, He Krocker, Eva Leads, Annie Ridnauer, Lottie Sayler, Mary Evans, May Fitzpatrick, Ella Long, Wiliam Robe son, John Reber, Bophia Winkleman, Sallie Dickel, Barbara Bielheimer, Sallie Bickel, Sadie Shade, Willlam Snyder, Lillis Schaef. | fer, Sallie Faust, Sallie Harmer, Annie Kershner, Matilda Grow and Emma Nestor, The seriously injured are: Laura Wright, Rose Clemuner, Rebecon Pouss, Balin Tay ler, Eama Blumin, Mamie Kinsey, Katis Hepler, Howard Bricker, Annie Bricker. Sallie Young, Mary Heese, Kate Hartman, Sallie liasson, Ella and Jeanie Salome, Kaw Cacen, Bertha Kuser, Annie Leeds, Annie Fry and Emma Ranenzahn, About ninety others were slightly burt, principally brujsed by being thrown from the building by the wind, Those who escnpod early in the evening hurried to their homes, and as nothing was heard from them it was thought they had been burried in the ruins. All of them re srted to the superintendont yesterday, { When the crash occurred Foreman Raskop | was on the second floor. He told a reporter | that he heard the cracking ci wimber over | bead, nud then a lot of brick and mortar fell | on him. The next instant the floor beneath | him sank. His first impression was that an | earthquake bad occurred, and be did not sverything in 4 i When the cyclone struck the building some | of the girls were lifted up and carried bodily | throngh the air by the violenee of the wind. | esoaped without injury. 1 how they the landed were witnessed dur. bodies. between i i Cinjuradatt i § } § lapses at Pittsburg, Killing Workmen | way saved her life, oilowin, list of the killed and shia and Reading paint by a cyclone, and the mes by the explosion of Nn nine passenger cary: Landenbarger, head, logs ing; John Foreman, crushed to death; Jofin U. Kahler, carpenter, head eridan Jones, burned to death; haeflor, logs burned off, ~Cleorge Koabb, seriously; Aaron arm broken, Thofoes to the Philadelphia and Reading shop, which men envalo . Railyfond company by the burning of its paint veloped in ' shah and passenger crs is probably $65,000, il to the silk mill and machinery about 10,000, Reaping, Jan. 12--Everything Is quiet around the silk mill. The debris has been thoroughly searched and the last body taken out, The dead by the storm in this piace number twenty-three, eighteen killed by the falling down of the silk mill and five burned to death in the paint shop. Besides these the injured pumber about ninety. Some of those will probably die, DISASTERS AT PITTSBURG, A Big New Bullding Falls Upon the Work- { Dr. James la men and Neighboring Houses, Prrrspona, Jan, 10.~There was an awful catastrophe at 12:8 yesterday afternoon, The high wind that struck the city at that hour completely demolished the large brick bullding in process of construction in Dia- mond alley, immediately in] the frear of Weldin & Co's store. The building had been completed to the seventh story. Itisa complete wreck, and as it went down it crushed the barber shop next to it. The fall- ing debris was thrown against Weldin & Co.'s store, the front of which was knocked out. The floor of the store is full of debris Five men are known to have been killed and ten to fifteen injured. There were at loast twenty men working on the new bullding The rear of all the stores on Wood street as far up as the hat store of Paulson Bros were wrecked Bix men were in the barber shop. Two have been recoversd alive, two are dead and two are still under the debris There were at least fifteen printers in the rear of Welden & Company's store, on the floor, and many of them were badly injured. As {ast as they could be brought out they were carried various hospitals man on top of the new building fell basement. His skull was fractured and both legs were broken, The firemen and polics at once went to rescue the victims or their dead bodies from the ruins At the time the whirlwind struck the building most of the men were on the first floor, it bedug dinner hour, and were sitting around the fire eating The whole rear of J, A ware store was crushed in Every few ssoonds daring the afternoon come from under the mass of wood and brick, and encouraging shouts would go up from the crowd The sight was beartrending, and moved many w tears in the midst of thelr work of rescue There is nothing left standing but the rear wall and part of the side toward Market street, Toward Wood street there bs nothing left but a mas of broken brick and shatte timbers The signal offiosr hurricane w he m in this section Its suddenness made it particular and barder to withstand than bad ths wind risen gradually The v ty was forty m and the storm lasted PIrispune cord of the Willey's hurricane Takon ou 2: fatally injured, 7; serio injured, 15; kn demd, 14; total num!t upposed under ruins, 2 peor the ruins. The list of dead fo Jones, aged 20 years, bri legheny ; Goorgs Mason, skull crushed; John Hill, 13 years old, colored Lov, « } bootbiack in barber shop; Charle years old, employed in barber standing in the shop with a sponge hand Samuel Stringer, 16 printer in Juergen's office, lived Allegheny; Dr. James LL. Read, yours old, lived Alleghony, tombed in ¢ w groaning in the alte sibde to years leather second on stretchers to the One Gallinger's china red the wind severe UNE stor oF " we have had Yoni witructive Hom An ur but ten minubes Jan. 10 This dissstrous oollapee story busing boa von SN end, 9: dead still an sons had been remov " 18 Kinyor, singles, lows as A mployed as Fritch, 16 EW P few wi his old, wm 51 on heard 5 Poe 41 homes’ walls; i gheny Castle Samuel egbony: John wry Hill; Richard eg! Leonard Loe body of Samuel was taken His lly, his bexdy up to his bead A wheelbarrow which had been using was alongside of him, A young man was at the spot where hoe was kiliel when the body was taken out. Said bo, with the tears trickiing down his face: “I just mised what my brother Bam got, beonuse | was sick. | wasn't working, and that's bow I escaped.” In addition it is stated by Assistant Chief Steel, of the fire department, that as many as twenty others may be still under the fallen sructares, Others express a lear that sev eral lad®s who wore in Weldin's book store when the crash came did not escape, while sonte entertala a fear that some unknown men are lying dead in Spencer's alley, which is filled with great piles of brick and timber, Prersporo, Jan, 12 «Five dead bodies were yesterday taken from the ruins of the build. ings wrecked by Wednesday's tornado, Just before daybreak the remaing of the venerable Head were lifted from the thnbers and debris of Weldon & Co.'s book store, By his side was the chair he used, indicating that be must have been sitting at his desk. west ena Senators Who Succeed Themselves Liscorx. Neb, Jan. 15. «The Republicans of the stale legislature In caucus unani mousy nuinloaied Senator Mandorson for ro-clection to the United States senate, Hon. John A. MeShan, present member of con gross Coos tie Fast district, received the unanimous vole of the Democrats, Nasuvinie, Jan, «ldbam OG. Harris wits nominated Da logislative caucus to hooself as United States senator, masini le Ninel’ Inaugural, mn Yours Tr butiding rnoon, but ii was mve him; William Gosttman, il, employe clerk in in fading wld, onl Shannon Brown Donnelly, Carroll, b bricklayer ickiayer Bhiffhnuer, bricklayer Brown, Jr ott of the oc bend doubled, iy «+ B FOUNE OnRrjanier, Har of the Willey building crushed to a with his hands was he into the | a er AFFAIRS OF THE NATION. Important Action on the Pan- ; ama Canal. THE HOUSE DEADLOCK BROKEN, Wenver Yioids to His Colleagues—¥Fresh Fish Taken Off the Free List~Nomina- flons for Pestmasters—~What the Wool Growers Desnand of the Tariff Revisers, the reconstruction of the system of elections for members of the house of representatives The bill is very long and is made up of detail ete, Wasnmxarex, Jan. 12.~The house spent most of the day in filibustering. A strong effort was made to transact business, but Mr. Weaver continued to interposs dilatory motions, The senate spent a good portion of the day in debating the proposition to put fresh fish on the free list, The attempt was not suc cessful, At the close of a long discussion Mr, Hale's amendment was agreed to—veas, 28; nays, 1i-and fresh fish was placed on the dutiable list at half a cent per pound. The house vommittee on invalid pensions agreed to report favorably twenty-six pri vate pension bills There are now 35 pri vate ponsion bills on the calendar and about 5,000 waiting the action of the comumitioe, Among the nominations for postinasters saat to the senate by the president were the following: Massachusetts, 1. 1, Raymond, Athol Centre; H. I. Patrick, Hopedale; E KN. Nash, Newton Highlands; J. F, Robin- , Vineyard Haven; C. H. Btacy, West u; Julia E. Seely, Great Barrington; Wright, Lyon. New York, A. F Willmott, White St George Baker, Phil { mont; G, E Plitt, College 'oint; J. J. Byrne, Flatbush: Barah A. Graoger, Cillton Springs New Jersey, Williaa Carpenter, Clinton; Patrick Burns, Raritan: 8. P. Harned, Wood bridge; W. B. French, Woodstown, Pennsyl vania, Eva RB. Weistling, Middletown; K C North, Belin's Grove Wasmixgrox, Jan, 15. —~In the senate Mr Allison brought forward the long expected amendment 10 the sugar clause of the tariff bill. A number of important amendments to the bill were considered The senate took up the consideration of be tard! bill at the conclusion of morn ing business, Mr, Allison, from the finance committee, offered an amendment giving a bounty of one cent a pound on all sugar produced in this country, providing for licensing all sugar producers. The amend. ment of Mr. Gray offered on Baturday last, was again taken up, It provides { One we for the ad mission free of duty for the condruction and equipment of vessels built in the United Stats for foreign account and ownership or for the foreign trade of shoots, angles, beams and bolts, deck and bulb beam, together with { all structural shapes of iron or steel and | copper and composition metal, forgings of iron or steel, castings of iron, steel or com position, flues and tubes of Ir stowl or composition asd parts of chinery, and product FHOODRSRATY an Wa, machinery Ga articles of foreign for the construction equipment of steamers or other vessels After remarks by Messrs Gray, Teller, Frye, Aldrich, Stewart, Chandler and Plats the vole was ifaken snd amend ropent od by a el party oof 24 to BB al amendments offer Mr. Allison oy tangd od by SNALOrS Were I ud, 1 all other the re Siw air and others off Demo were short aad animated debstos over several of the proposit 8 Da salt free In tie house the rule 4 ynent ald o'clock each ds cularly that t . asf aan y de 1% deba ferred f ldaba, settin posed sn iesio; ory ol Uta caly to every UO the g o states am tert tut to Pp “to t ¥ ont to Utah” In the su; the chief ju $0 advance the case of the Bay rome court of the ited States Lice announosd that ; wition Chas il was the fHinAman { Chan Ping, was granted i | a i ase ay sei for the argument Whe Chinaman who was nol fo ant Fras br of ti oad a bill 1d the that no sieamer arry fs as bengine, carrying { an explosive prssongors slamii « gut character, such L naphtha, eto baled cotbon unless o mpactiy prosmed , or HARRISON IS PRESIDENT The Presidential Electors Cast the Formal The electoral colleges of tl Monday and formally si .im of i various states their bal summarized in Cat FOURATTC BET ATES et} Maine . 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