Fires. .
‘Wilbur (Neb.) Opera ‘Honse burned
night. Loss, $50,000.
Capital City Opera House at Des
Towa, was burned. Loss, $90,000.
_ At Jolumbus, O., the McCune block, oc
McOoy Bros. & Walcutt, clothiers:
Koch, nmiusic dealers; Faulhaner's
Scott, hair dresser, and a
loan association. Miss ‘Cora
‘woman, jumped from a
window and was fatally in-
about $100,000.
Ezekiel & Bernheim’s
and storage warehouses; ware
of the American Oak
ir Company and the Commercial bank.
A destructive fire broke outin the Opera
. House ‘at Monmouth, Ill. caused by a gas |
explosion, and before it could be checked a
ww hole block ‘of brick buildings were totally
_ destroyed. Loss estimated at about $150,000;
_ dnsurance unknown.
: The five-story furniture factory of Charles
ZLeuch, of New York, was burned yesterday.
+ Loss, $130,000, fully insared.
At Findlay, O., the Chamber of Com-
: nerce building owned by 1G. L. Cusack,
Loss, $30,000; insurance, $14,000. &
‘At Monmouth, Ili., an explosion of gas in
the Opera House immediately after a lecture’
caused a fire which resulted iin the destruc
tion of fhe block of business houses. Loss,
ia 180,000; insurance, $50, 000. 3
nae Crime and Penalties. ~
"The official statement ot the amount of
John. ° Bardsley, as
of Philadelphia, Pa., was
in Cammon Pleas Court No. 2 by.
Thompson, together with
s bond, The ascertained amount
} has been determined by ‘the
be $553,908 62.
Morse stood before a mirror in
at Garrett, Ind., Monday and de-
‘puta bullet through her brain
is a mystery. ;
e United States Court at Milwaukee,
| M. Ottis, ex-postmaster at
‘Wis., who was found guilty of
letters was sentenced to five
nent in the State prison,
of James G. Wyman, mayor of
city, Pa., was ended Friday, and
of extortion.
held up at Fresno, QCal.,
"A passenger looked out fo see
going on and was fatally shot.
Oaks; 0. M,,. five Mescalero
were killed in a fight among them:
after drinking a quantity of whiskey.
: ‘have been made.’
James G. Wyman, ‘of "Allegheny
‘was convicted on two counts of
C for extortion in ‘ecclecting
There is an additional charge
? against him. For the
which he 18 guilty he is liable to
from office, a fine of $500 on each
‘count, or a year’s imprisonment, or both.
Hx- Mayor Richard T. Fearson i8 next 16 be
tried upon similar charges and evidence.
7. Catio, who killed a fellow Italian at
New YorkWist July, and was’ sentenced to
. death, butiobtained a stay, was resentenced
. to be electrocuted during the week of March
An appeal will be taken to the United
i courts,
| Jobn Molloy and bis wie, of Toledo, 0.
~ awere found dead on the floor in. theirhouse
Tis supposed that Molloy killed his, wife
‘through jealousy and then suicided.
= Near Monterey, Ala., Tom Traweek, 16
4 years ‘old, a white boy, shot and killed Bill
Thomas ‘apd Jim Jackson, two negro men,
"dn self defense. One of the men had knock:
bE
ed Traweek’s 4 year- ~old brother down ‘with
Sh a shovel,
HT Washington News,
0 | Mr. Stone, from the Committee on War
Claims, reported favorably the bill to reim-
‘burse California, Oregon and Nevada, for
Eoutyaespeaiios in the > suppression of the
The first volume of the ‘blue book” for
£2801 shows that there are employed in the
of the United States in all 'ca-
431 persons, and in all other de-
of the government : 62,863 persons
total of 247,294.
first adjournment resolution offered
the house this session made its appear-
Thursday. It provides for the final
of the first session of congress
May 31.
. Bushnell of Wisconsin
a providing for the
a committee ‘of nine’ to
and report whether any articles
are sold abroad
at home and if so what are the
agent of the Treasury
is in Hamilton,
of investigating a con-
with Violating the Alien
) law. -
committee ‘on Blection of
President, “ete., will soon
providing that United States
all be chosen by the people in
in the same manner a8 '‘Repres
as the qushocationsiof the!
on commerce
a bill appropriat:
improvement. of the
the copStruction ani
. Not more than
turn : the .
The Treasury Depaitm nt balance Mon-
was’ $98,400,047, 6 lowest point
reached for many y This amount
includes $13:374,211 on deposit with national
banks, $14,673,673 of subsidiary coin, and
$402,442 of minor coin. The red balance
is due to recent heavy disbursements, in-
cluding $7,000,000 on account of pensions,
and $1,000,000 on account of refund of
direct tax collected from Kentucky and
Maryland.
Representative Stahlnecker, of New York,
introduced a bill imposing an internal
revenue tax of $10 per 1,000 on all cigarettes
wrapped in paper.
Legislative.
The New Jersey House has passed a bill
providing for _ political nominations to be
made ten days before election day, instead
of 20 days as heretofore. :
The Mississippi Lower House has passed
a bill ‘appropriating $64,200 a year for pen-
sions. This will give those now onthe roll
$50 a piece, :
A bill has been introduced: in the New
York Legislature to repeal the electrical
execution law and substitute the old: form
of the rope.
A joint resolution was introduced in the
Virginia Legislature to permit of the separ.
ation of taxes paid into the State Treasury
by the whites and negroes.
In the Massachusetts House the bill pro- ¢
_hibiting free railroad passes for members
was passed to be engrossed by a vote of 128
to 50. A
Judicial.
The United States circuit court ind jury
at Boston, indicted John A. Morris, Paul
Conrad and 11 other officials of the Louisana
Lottery company for violating the postal
laws, and warrants have been issued for
_their arrest.
. At Deadwood, 8. D., the United States
Grand Jury has indicted eleven Chinamen
for using the mail for transmission of lottery
tickets and literature,
Financial and Commercial.
The Rarig Iron Works, of Buena Vista,
Vai, made an assignment, with liabilities of,
$80,000.
Githens & Austin, lumber merchants of
Philadelphia, made a general assignment.
Their liabilities will reach $75,000.
John W. #fyers & Co., dealers in watches
and jewelry, New York, Hssigned to Willian
J. Nicholson without references.
Personal.
' Wm. H, Beers has resigned as President
of the New York Life Insurance company.
The company accepted his resignation and
voted him a. life pension of $25, 000 per
year.
. Joseph McKenna, a native of Philadelphia,
was appointed Judge of the Ninth’ District
circuit court of California.
John A. McCall way elected president of
the New York Life Assurance company and
will at once assume control,
‘Sarah Althea Terry, who gained such noto:
riety. by her divorce suit against ex-Senatot
Sharon and her subsequent marriage with
Judge Terry, has become insane over
spiritualism, :
Railroad News:
At Philad~lphia the great’ anthracite coal
deal was consummated by a combination em-
bracing the Reading Lehigh Valley, New
Jersey Central, the Lehigh and Susquehanna
and Deleware and Lacawanna railroad. The
roads interested expect to save millions of
dollars annually by doing away with agency
expenses and economies of traffic, Presi:
dent McLeod says that he wonld surround
himself with a strong railway organization
to assist in conducting the business of the
great ageregation of railways and for the
purpose would select some of the best men
in the various railroads now ‘coming under
his charge. In connsction with the Read-
ing’s gobbling of the New Jersey Central and
Lehigh Valley it is understood that the
Pennsylvania company has assented to the
coal combination and that the Vanderbilts
have agreed to abandon the South Penn
scheme, ;
Mortuary.
John Jay Knox, ex-comptroller of the
currency, died in New York of pneumonia.
Ex-Governor Scales, of North Carolina, is
‘dead. He was a Brigadier General in the
Confederate army. ’
While suffering from an attack of the
grippe, Assemblyman Harry A. White,
living near Pemberton, N, J., drowned
himselfin a stream a short distance from
his home.
J. R. Fair, Jr., eldest son of ex-Senator
Fair, died suddenly from heart failure, at
San Francisco, yesterday.
Katherine B. Field, daughter’ of Dr.
Matthew Field, and grand niece of Cyrus W.
Field, died in. ‘New York: last night of
meningetis, at the age of 6 years,
Rev. Donald Fraizer, M. A., D. D. died |
Saturday in London. For the past 20 years
he took an active part in the Presbyterirn |
church of England, and was twice Modera-
‘of the Synod. He was Vice President of the
British and Foreign Bible Society and was
prominently connected with many missions
and charities.
Hon. James C. Brown, ‘editor of the New
Wilmington, Pa., Globe, died at his home in
that place Friday night, aged 62 years.
Sanitary Items. i
The grippe in Southern Indiana fs very
sovere.especially at New Albany and Patoka.
In the wicinity of New Albany 47 persons
died of the disease in the last two weeks, all
under 60 years of age.
. Lima,0.,is greatly excited over a supposed
«of leprosy there.
outh 1, La grippe is ravagin’
. Beores are very ill and the situa-
is ing. :
Gazette, ape
and
ork
week the
It is expected that the dreaded typhus will
develop elsewhere during the week accord-
‘ing to the localities where the infected
Italians may have gone. Théy emigrated to
this country from the pestilence infected
districts of Russia, and eluded the New
York health officers on arrival :
Politicals i
A resolution ‘favoring | the eect
~United States Senators by direct vote :
people: will soon oo reported by the
House committee hay ting the ‘mat i
charge. Eh oh ?
The President appointed Ww. M. Giinnell,
of New York, to be Third Assistant Secre-
tary of State, vice John B. Moore, résigned.’
At the Salt Lake City elaction the total
vote cast was 8,782 of which 4,560 ‘were cast
by the Liberals, 2,766 by the Democrats. And
852 by the Republicans. 3
In bis newspaj the Haleigh' o.; 5 a)
ohn H. Williamson,
colored, announces himself as. a candidate
for Congress. His platform will be a coms.
pensation for ex: ‘slaves, 88 proposed. by
President Lincoln.
Walter H. Sanborn, of Minesota twas
nominated by the Président tobe United
‘States Circnit J adge, for the Eighth Judicial
Circuit.
The Grand Lodge oft; Knights of Reci-
procity—a farmer's | otganiaation: has
issued a circular stating that organization
will be effected in every State in the Union.
Capital, Labor and Industrial, he
rr
The Kansas wagon company, at ‘Leaven-
worth, has discarded convict labor. Farmers
are becoming preifdioed against jprison nade
Two: Hesvhieimor igtls! weighing 2,
pounds each were shipped fo San Francisco
by Carnegie, Phipps &Co., of rittsburg, Pa,
for the new war ship Monterey.
Union bricklayets at Zanesyille;0., threat 3
en to strike unless the ‘manufacturers sign
ists. %
One Hunfired and Fwenty-five men : have
been ordered 14id off in the car repairing
shops at Meadville, Pa., and enough at the
Kent O., shops to reduce _ expenses there
$1,000 per month,
"Phe 8t. Joseph, Mos,0at meal mills, owned
by S. J, Burns & Co., have been closed un-
der deeds of trust amounting t3:$60,000.
Seventeen collieries in the Lackawanna
and Upper Wyoming yalleys, Pa., haveshut
down, owing to dull trade. Hours of work
are curtailed at other collieries.
Owing toa shortage of help all of the
immense wheat crop of North Dakota could
not be threshed last Fall and threshing
has continued all Winter, 4 ‘and ig still going
on.
. ‘Bixty five mechanics in 3 the Peary ivinta
company’s shops at’ Indianapolis ‘are on a
strike because the piece system has been
introduced. The trouble will be compro;
mised,
At Indianapolis, Indi, 63 eclidnfoes in
the Pennsylvania company's shop are ona
strike because the piece system. has ‘heen in
troduced, The trouble will be compromised.
_. At'the convention of the. United Mins
Workers of America, at Columbus, O., it
was decided fo abolish the defense fund and
assess a per capita tax for She support of the
organization.’
The Pittsburg & Braddock Wire éompany
will employ 400 men in their = new copper
wire plant at Braddock, Pa. Braddock’s
population will thereby be increased 1.000.
At Grand Forks, N: 1x, ‘the chamber of
commerce held a special meeting today and.
instructed Secretary Alex. Mather to organ-
ize a labor bureau and secure, if ‘possible.
npward of 5,000 laborers for North Dakota
the coming season.
A. C. Elliott & Co., of Bellofontatns, 0. 5
the Andrews School- Furniture Manufactur:
ing company, of New. York, and the Blooms*
burg School Furniture company of Blooms-
burg, Pa., have joined the United States
School Furniture company:
Disasters and Accidents.
Benj. Fritts, a wealthy farmer of Sunny :
side, N. J., while wandering about his house
in a state of somnambulism; fell down stairs”
and broke his neck, dying instantly.
John Metzen and Julia Maundlev were
fatally hurt and ‘about’a dozen other per-
sons seriously injured in ‘a street car
accident at Chicago.
& Chicago passenger "train collided with the
street car.
The second section of an:
freight of the IL. 8. & M. 8. R. R. was ditch-
ed at Kendallville, Ind., the engine and six
cars being completely wrecked,
Eldridge, braketuan, of Toledo, was
killed.
At Saratoga, N. Y., February 13, Nathan
Phelps, one of the ’ oldest residents here, 1, 2
wandered from home last might and was
frozen to death in the street.
way about three fourths of a mile from his
home in Minneapolis, Minn., frozen to
death. He had been drinking, and was’
evidently unable to get home.
Mrs. Gregory, who lives near Welltord,
Ga., while making soap had her tlothing to
ca'ch on fire and she was burned to : death.
Her sister who tried to rescue her was so
badly burned that. she * died a few hours
later.
The Weather.
Huron, 8. D., is byried under sn ow drifts, :
with thie witid blowing a hurricane.
‘ Miscellaneous, !
James Donnelly, alad of 16, who lives at
Lockport, N. J., made a wager of $2 that he.
could eat:24 raw eggs within 15 minutes and |
“drink 20 glasses of beer., He succeeded in
his attempt and won the 82 but two hours
later was taken with convulsions and died.
The receiver of the Bay State League, an
is spreading at Costa Rica.
are at Washington
the grip, most J
ho E#:Msyor Pearson, of Allegheny, Pa, w
endowment order, made a report in Boston
ptatipg that startling evidence of fraud and
dishonesty on the part: ory Fhe
officers had been found,
Bn agreement nok to sell prick to pon-uaions )
A Pitts., Pt. Wayne:
east bound
“Joseph
| a tree and hanged them,
Martin Neugard was found in the road:
i served a term for horse
the old! mh
supreme f
the rubber gas pipe while’ ‘making ‘his
examination.
of Saratoga, ‘wandered from
Saturday night and was frozen to
the street. ’ esl
x
‘his home.
to death in
BEYOND OUR BORDERS,
New Zealand floods have ,
traffic and ruined
~ A manin
ened from a
and a half.
Ona
& coach
who
months
the other
18 of the passengers
in,
alive.
bark
Chile, after |
was laden with
her
with
were destroyed.
“roads are so
relief
they can’t
ey
Bl
N Z., nas been shaken by.
, which are supposed. to
a violent eruption : of
; ‘from the volea) no
‘reach pet a grand
The : a
into and
near Cardiff.
of five men, :
and the other two
Heayy snows have
The Argentine rebellion has
‘pressed,
~The owners of the stogmehip Eider Nope
to save her." Lo
“Another below zero cold wave is raging 1 in
the Northwest. SPAR LE
: Eight thousand coal porters on the ‘Lon:
or Tarl of
crey consisted
the potloe ere obli args th
Many people were killed and ‘more injured:
Petroleum has ‘been struck (700 ‘barrels
a day) in. India by: | the Assan
company.
: More bomb explosions are threatened at
Xeres, Spain, in revenge for. the 4 narchish
executions.
Funeral services over the body of the late
Rex, Mr. Spurgeon were held at the
Metropolitan ‘Tabernacle, London, ‘and the
interment then took place ab Nor "
etery. Immense rowds i
the services, eA
A
resigned and it is
Government i8 “breaking up.
are likely to occur at any in Rio
Grande de Sal, where Hie neople; are muck i
excited,
i Captain Cavenangh and all of the crew of
the British ship City Camp were taken sick
with yellow fever: just af ér' her arrival at
Santos three mohths ago. The. Captain and
Seaman Hurly died, and the rest of the y
ship’ scompany were taken to the | Hospi
The vessel, which awrived dt New York
harbor with a new skipper and a new crew,
was detained at Quarantine for fumigation,
At London, Admiral Sir Provo Wallis, K.
id C. B., died, aged 101 years; ‘He was admir:
‘of the navy, born in April, 179%, and foughf
on H. M. 8. Shannon in her historical battle
off Boston harbor on June 1 1818, with the
United States frigate Chesapeake:
HANGED FOR HOUSE BURNING,
Typical Southern Justice Meted Out to
Incendiaries. Negroes, of Course,
Tuscaloosa, Ala., Feb; 15— Within | the
past few weeks there have been several fires
at Sylvan, Ala., 13 miles below Tuscaloosa.
A few nights since D. 8. Robertson’s store
house was ‘broken into,goods stolen and 4]
building fired.
A searching party was ir stituted and,
finding a trace, the fire fiends were pursued
| and finally caught 'A preliminary trial
| before a justice was granted the men, who
| were negroes, and they pleaded: not
but confessed fo the burning of
buildings. - A guard was placed in charge of
the prisoners for the night. During, the
‘still hours an armed mob of 30 men over
powered the guards, took the Risoners lo
of
HUNG HIMSELF IN. JAIL,
Ed. Kehoe, a Prisoner Confined for Ate
tempted Murder aml Recently Re-
leased from a Termiat Biverside. ;
Bradford, Pa., February 13-Ed wan
rd
Kehoe, of Bradford, committed shicide at
county jail, “Bruethport, last night. He
took a sheet froma cotin. his cell makings
rope, which we attached to a bracket, and
was discovered this morning quite dead.
Kehoe was confined on dccount of an at
tempt to kill a prominent mewspaper man
{0f this city. He had recently returned from
the Western penitentiary, where he -
stealing. It js
thought he was demented. This js the third
attempt he has made at suicide mince his
confinement,
Tragic Death of. an Aged Couple.
“Columbus, Ind., Feb, 15,—A tragic oteur-
rence is reported from . Napoleon, twenty
miles éast of here. Two aged peop'c, Mr.’
and Mrs. Bonchard, remded alone. Mrs.
Bonchard had a severe case of the grip and’
the doctor said she must die. This affected
and he wept bitterly, and, going
out into the back yard, he put a pistol ball
throtgh his brain; causing instant death.
“This soshocked the old lady that she, too,
died. They were natives of Fraucs, but ad
8 ved bere for years. |
Mra AR Clesveland. of
and
she
to
“day, reading about Hood's
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monument to. commemorate. the battle of
Princeton.
‘Mr, Gallagher, of New Hampshire, offered
a bill to erect an equestrian statue, at a cost
of about $50. 000, to en. John Stark, of New
Hampshire, 00 Voorhees, of Indiana,
introduced ‘a similar resolution for. a statue
to Gen. Zach. Taylor, at a cost of $40,000.
At 1:55 p. m, the Senate went, into. secret
session, ‘and soon - after * adjourned until
Mohide
The he Mouse resumed corisideratioh of the
i itary Academy Appropriation bill. | | Ad-
® Fapav--The Senate was not in session
today.
In‘the House a resolution wag adopted
copies of
for
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combina-
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wearing apparel. The att
rs slim, and little other business
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