E> | ‘deeming it unprofitable to continue its oper- |
Crime and Penalties.
Boise City, Idaho, two masked men
the postoffice, and at the point of a
, compelled Postmaster Leonard to
over $1,200in cash. The robbers es-
x: 2 years old, a Pittsburgh
shot and killed his 21-year-old
: rt, Ida Engle, at 151 Spring Garden
Allegheny, Pa. It is thought tobe
, and if so was a most peculiar
A. gir "of mystery envelopes the
air, -Ellk claims it was accidental.
G. Webster, of Baltimore; com-
cide at Charleston, W. Va., by
ig from a third story window in’ Hotel :
er to the ‘pavement below, breaking
* Tt was rumored that a sensation-
di conected. with the suicide. He
t6 have béen insane’ 2 :
ok Kelley, aged 55, a peddler, was
yn Sunday last on Little River, near
by a gang of eight negroes.
egrocs ‘werg caught and hanged,
hers are in ‘putsuit of i the Tes.
‘The killing was for the pur-
ting the peddler’s money.
anie Eno was shot dead by her
3 hasband, Peter Eno; a Boston &:
nionth ago owing Tow price of iron,
and is now being dismantled, its owner
ations. It has been conducted as an anthra-
cite furnace for 20 years, previous to which
it used charcoal, and was one of the oldest
furnaces in the United States.
. Disasters, Accidents and Fatalities.
The Tilinofs State building ab the world’s
fair grounds, Chicago, was struck by a
small cyclone. The tower and ‘half
of memorial hall were wrecked. The loss
is between $10,000 and $20,000. Two police
men near by were nearly kitled.
At Galtville, Va., two daughters of Wor
aged 24 and 17 years respectively, and ‘theif
little 4-year-old niéce, May White, wer
drowned in the Holstone river. They
attempting to cross the river to visit fri
: Leo Dale was instantly killed by Jightning
Land hisbrother - probably fatally” ‘injured.
The storm has caused seven washioutson the
Vandalia line between that town and Terre |
Haute,
Two little children - of a clonal. mar
named Miller were left alone in his House at
the Rouse eaughl Brand the elfldren mere;
TA small town in Pickens Sans, Chicka~
saw Nation, N. D., was wiped out by a cy-
clone. Twe persons were killed outright
‘and se injured. .
Atersific cyclone struck Olean, XY
| wrecking several houses and a church. One’
woman, Mrs. Shrader, was killed and a
"| mumber of people seriously injured. There
led his son-in-law, John With,
| his grandehild, two years old,
gun. Witt and his wife "had
‘and he was attempting to take the
father's house when the
ligt him, Davis is in cus
Bon. Jamies McCurdy, in hisowh
ot his employer, Louis L. ‘Walten-
1, then shot his wife, and with another
his revolver blew out his own
: McCurdy. had found ‘Walfenbaugh
g yvife m & Company, and the triple
t Norfolk, Va., Saturday snight
1 a colored man named Isaac,
ington D. C.. Howard T. Schnei-
vitted of the mtirder of his wife
rother-in-law, Frank Hamlink, on
hi-of January 31, 1892, The tragedy
Mrs. Schneider, her brother and
returning fromSchurch.
pital, Labor and Industrial,
(Pa) carpenters, after a short
granted $2.50 a day.
meeting of window glass manufactur
cago, who are members. of the
as decided to close the facto-
on’ painters in Toledo, O., to the
er of 175, strack for an hdvatice in |
from $2t0 $2.50 wer ‘day. The em-
sbenville, 0O., the mierohant tailors
d the union scale and the strike of 150
| girls is over. The merchants after
in banqueted the employes and the
erserenaded their employers.
mines in the Kanawha valley, W.
yhich closed recently on account of the
on of the West Virginia supreme court
the mining law ' unconstitutional,
resumed operations under the former
e otek ordered by the Board of Walk-
legates against the Pelham Hod-
oisting Company. New York City, was
: in favor of the'strikers, The agree
return to work.
in wages of 27% cents per day
the L. M, Morris. foundry at
ers of the ‘Messengers’ Brother-
Brotherhood mien are greatly
i April 2 amounted to 9,287 931
of 817,409 tons over the
or the same period of 1891. .
Lunien of: that place, charging |’
i g to prevent. him Trom®
were 16 people in the church which was
lifted from its foundation ang carried 20
feet away.
At Fort Madison, I, seven people lost.
their livesina fire ‘which broke out in Me-
Intosh & Pease’s store. The family of 8. V*
Kitchen, living i in the building, seven in all,
were burned to death.
‘church social.
‘At Long Island city, L. LL, the boiler of
an engine while standing near the Long
Island Railroad shops, blew Yip’ with. a
tured, five of them fatally. : be
: Washington News, . | .
A bill was favorably. reported from . the
‘house postoffice and post-roads committee
which reclassifies the railway postal clerks
{and adds two new classes at salaries not
sexceeding. respectively, $1,600 and $1,800
besides in creasing the maximum salaries
tien. of ‘all other classes, except the first, by
about $100 a year.
whether the Postmaster General directed
the payment of the expense: ‘of the conven-
the Beaver river, (Pa.) under the direction
of the government. * i)
The President has approved the act to
protect foreign exhibitors. at the World's
Columbian exposition from prosecution ex-
hibiting wares protected by American 'pat-
ents and trade marks, and the act changing
the time for holding the circuit and district
\pourtsin the district of West Virginia.
Representative Dickerson, ‘of Kentc ky, re-
ported to the house from the banking and
currency committee a-bill to require the re-
| demption of bank notes which may have
been lost by or stolen from any national
bank and put in circulation before being
signed by the officers of the bank, or where
they were issued upon the orged signatures
of such officers. ;
The president returned from his snipe
1 shooting trip. He is in good health and re-
{ ports having a pleasant time and successful
hunt.
Fires
trouses on Main street burned. Loss, $50,000,
partially insured.
Fire destroyed nearly every house in Mil-
ton, Santa Rosa county, Ala.
Samer estimated at $85,000; insurance,
Ab Mandan, N. D., the Methodist church,
(Anti-Prohibitionists are accused of kindling
the fire. yo
At Missoula, Mont., the Northern Pacifi¢
most of the furniture was saved. Loss, $50,
000...
ing, owned by the town of Pullman. Loss
$50,000.
The Pittsburg Glass House at Beaver
Falls, Pa,, was destroyed by fire on Satur-
“| day, entailing a loss of $70, 000, The insur-
ance is $14,000.
At Nebraska City, Neb., ‘the Burlington
bridge over the Missouri river, damage
$10,000. Caused by a careless watchman.
Near Waterford, N. Ji, the most destruc:
tive forest fire for years inflicted damages
exceeding $30,000.
Miscellaneous.
All applicants for license in Charlotte, N.
C., were refgsed on the. ground of bad char-
acter. Then Thomas J. Wilson, a Method-
ist, applied and was granted license. His
church expelled him for it.
The Pittsburgh postoffice will, on July 1,
enter the first grade of first-class offices. For
the year ending: March 31, the gross receipts
of the office hage bean $609.963 20. Accord-
ihg to law whet® the receipts exceed $600,000
e# is pluced in the maxi-
heisalary of the postmaster
$6,000 8 year. The increase
was $180,992 70.
On Satnnday, Ww. - Watson and. 8. M.
five ‘miles
north of Readi wen on gn :
ley M. White, Misses Carrie and Mattie,
anfl when about half way over tae Dost be- ”
‘gan to leak and went down. ge
During a. thunderstorm st Effingham; m, {
| cases at Towel
St. Louis. ‘During their parents” ‘absence’
At ‘Nashville, Tenn., about fifty persons v
were poisoned by eating ice ream at, 2
tremendous report. Eight men were in Caton
The House adopted a resolution inquiring ;
tion of postmasters held in Washington, ‘and
: is so-by what authority.
“I! mhe house committee on rivers decided to
n “construct a movable dam at the mouth of
At Houma, La., two blocks of business
The total.
Hospital was burned. All the patients and
«At Pullman, Til, the market, house build-
’ Hon,
molished man: wellings, killed one
and injured many others. 4
ands, The bones of. the |
dead animals are
| being collected in great piles at every Mexi- |
can National. Railroad station. 2b Ls “the 7
worst drought foryears.
fell Sunday. :
‘Santtary Toma 5
\ Phere is an epidemic ofsmallpox in w
rn Schuylkill Sais. Pa. There.
The New York Bealth Boats fost
five cases of smallpox i ina tename Ten
families live in the Bouse; : Thr “other
cases were fondd nearby.
. The disease locally known as “black dite |
theria, "* because of the fact that the &hroats
of those attacked by it turn black within a
“few hours, has been alarmingly prevalent
for the past few weeks in some: parts’ of
Delaware and Sullivan counties, N.Y. Many
desths hive iBecuts ; those afilicted th it
usually dying within 24 hours after the frst
symptoms occur, «| Jon .
3 Judicial, 0 .
The United States supreme court, Justices
Field and Harland dissenting, dismissed’)
the write of errorin the cage of John O'Neil
| vs. the state of Vermont, hopes that at fiafe
liquor Taws ma
siders.
The South Dakota Supreme
Pierre decided that private parties ‘may’ do
banking business without incorporating. If
has also sustained the prohibition law in its
entirety. The banking law is declared nn-,
constitutional, and a mandamus was ordered.
‘issued compelling the | State Auditor to pay 2
"per cent. on the fees from , insurange com:
‘panies to fire Gempapies in. yatious'cities of
the State.
The Nebraska ‘gubernatorial controversy
is at lastended. The Supreme court ha
dowh a decision” denyin,
of John, M. ‘Thayer for aireo
ny
Convention News :
The Republican State convention at
and elected delegates to the Minneapolis |
convention. Although the platform adopt-
‘ed commends the administration of Presi
deni ‘Hatrison, the delegates are. not: ink
structed. 2 tie
Repblicans in State Convention a Py
land, Ore., nominated a State ticket ‘and se-
lected delegates to the Natio al Convention.
‘They ‘are Tninstructed, but are solid |
tion.
iRelizteas. y vp
The New York M, E. Conference, in sey
sion in Brooklyn: Be ided, withont discus.
sion, by a: vote of 188 fo 59, ‘against thie
mission of women in the, Conference,
ence voted 100 for to 37 against the presen.
tation of a memorial admitting. women del
egates to the coming i gener} ‘conference at
Omaha.”
“At Boston: the Southern : New. England
{“Methodist “Episcopal Confére- 108 voted 71
to 67 against admitiing women tothe Gen-'
éral Conference. ;
Legislative.
The Maryland legislature adjourned sine
sisted by a number of ‘Annapolis’ toughs,
celebrated the adjournment by firing can-
non crackers. Gov. Brown ‘appeared inh
16bby and ordered the ‘crowd to dispeie,
but as they would'not move he ordered the
electric lights turned off.
vetoed the bill legalizing the Reading déal.
Financial and Commercial,
Wm. Ki Hart & Co... iron merchants ‘at:
402 Walnut “street, Philadelphia, made an
assignment, The firm has been ‘doing a,
business of about $2,000,000 on. a. capital of :
$75,000.
Ga. Itissaid to bea. gigantic trust embrac-
ing all the milling firms in the State.
Crops.
The uottot crop of the Gulf coast of Mexi-
coisa failure. tai} 5 °F
Vermont has yielded only 8 quarter crop:
“>t maple sugar. this season...
® x pereenal
mar of the Supreme Court, that "there was
ho decided change apparent. in. his - conden:
Helis slowly cony alescin
ator ant | chanoello t
since !74; died suddenly-a
apoplexy, aged 72, oo
: Railroad News. :
The Lehigh Valley shops at “Easton, Pa., ’
will be closed three days a week until fur
ther notice. - The shops employ 600 men. 3
The Republicans carried: Pes Moines’ and
end the Democrats Dubuque, ows.
Two led and One Injured. i
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. April 9A disastrons
piace on the : Pittsburg, MeKoe-port ‘and
Youghiogheny railroad, in which the fires
man, W.'T., Hetteman, anda brakeman
named W. E. Lazell were instantly killed,"
The wreck was caused by a loose tire on
of the drivers of the eafine. Engin
Richard Martin was also seriously injaf
and may die.
|'s It was proved at the Coroner's fnquest
that the angie had been ©
: probable loss of "three : y sie the crews,
d cattle are dying by thous
Ab Hagerstown, Md., two incheye of § SNOW
court at
Portland . nominated presidential electors |
Ed
Harrison men. The completion of the Nic 1
caragua Canal was urged by the donven-.
The Newark Methodist JSprecopal confer.
die Tuesday. The house of delegates, as
' Governor _ Abbett, of New Forcey ows
The Sambement s'exchange; with'a $20"
“1 000,000 capital, has begn organized in Macon,’
It Was stated at the residence of J dg Ta
Polittoal. = 3 1
wreck occirred four. miles north of this |
sd property to the
some he in on e :
>. AT LEAST. 14 el) I
{ BIRMINGHAM, ALA, April 11,
astrous flood news is coming. i
higher than ever in its
3 ing ook Tholas and
BEYOND OUR BORDERS, 3
The body of a girl has been discovered n-
derneath the floor of a cottage near Bandon,
20 miles souvent of ooh Ireland, The.
{ body was burned | hen Sovered with ce-
fight at San Migtel,
dians were. killed.
known as “Phe Suicide e Club,” have’ com-
mitted suicide recently” by Steoting them
selves. 3
Ina prison revolt”
A ppies
in nt Spit,
poisoned his family of ten, 470° of ¥hom
died.
have agreed to prolong the modus vivendi i in
| regard to Newfouhdland fishertes:
The Persian Government will pay the’ To
baced Corporation $2,500,000 indemnity for.
the’ abolition of the tobacco monopoly,
The sentinel wh 0 Eki
front of th
year.
At El Borvenir, a colony. near. Clsnfugos,
“been destroyed by fire! oii
“the expenses of the French: ‘exhibit at. the.
Chicago World's Fair,
the Chamber of Deputies Thursday. # =
hammer and a razor, and ‘attempted sui-
ent and illness.
A BOY BURNED TO DRATH.
His Father. Becomus Violently Insane
and Tries to Kill Himself.
MipwAY, PA., April 11.—The residence of
scape with Gitflenity ih their night elothes.’
ed to:death. ‘When Hawley found that’ the |
} boy had perished, he became violently in:
sane. He rushed to his hot-beds, and,
“throwing himself on the glass, windows, at-
a post and tried to jump into the burning
building. ' Finally he was bound ‘and ‘held’
‘by his neighbors. Hawley's barn was burn-
ed some time ago by incendiaries, ‘and this
‘fire is believed to have been of Seonndliarf
| origin.
: TWO Furie FpIRONED: | $4
: Drank : Buttermilk 1 Which
Ap
Wittieamrio, CONN,
en nch families at North: Windham, seven
8 in all,
aking. buttermilk which had fermented
atin can. . One of the Bamber, Mis. |
| Dewey, is jn a critical conditions. + ©
eee en winds
A Triple’ Murder in Texas.
t& history, d qui
night has fallen only six feet. The town is | business Mr.
full of people who come from the. surround- rr
] by the | pri
‘ed that the Ho
5 Tn
three con¥icts werd. killed: by'gendarmes.
Jacob Newmann, a “laborer ‘of Dantzig, 3
The British. ‘and Reerich Sovernionis
O00 PO Lp T
with those for 1 the corresponding month last th
‘Cuba, 18,615,000 ponds of sugar « cane have d
The French Senate unanimously adopted BS
the credit asked for by. the Goyernment for |
"THe ‘Credit passec D
~~ At Belfast, Allen. Spiller; a: gunmaker; | 3;
killed his wife and two children with al
cide. He wasinsatie from loss of employ- J ¢
James Hawley was burned to the und | gnohy
Bunday and he and Hisiwife. Babiaged to
e
An adopted son,” Joseph Linton, a boy of 10 | ngs
years, who slept in the third story was bum- |
th em, iron or
frustrated in this he dashed his head against ‘punched
Had Fors |
mented in a Tin Can. ;
April © 11.~Two
have been poisoned by |
i | letiof the Griswola Manufacturing=Company
Helin Which yas don
Inthe House i
en’ or
Hakone 5-minute nile,
taken when the Hotise ad
WEDNESDAY. At]
rio yi
e Senate then esiver bi §
‘being on M wes’ motion to
the Provisio {
ficers to 0
cies occur, 4 ree h
moion was ¢ ®d, ve 2
Pettigrew offered an amendment appropriat-
ing $187, S55 for compe nsatin dians of :
the Crow C BE Resraton
oy Loy Toss
ed reservation than was received by. the
pying ther. dim; ‘
a agreed
w also off an a
fog te rt of of the Inter
$50,000 in the gonstru:
Indian industrial EE vy He
8D ,, and the other near
City, B. whi ch as
ion
{ Indians occup:;
: SO whic
pogo
42
the to
iE for fhe ex-
Ly
She ashington —the ny oe
oF ashi ‘by the citizens’ eae
ies of Walhihgton, having in inde |
of he Sroceel:
of the ho a today. After a Brief:
passage at al arus bets eta the speaker and
e
corns on the
bagging bill, Mr, Turner, of Georgia, in.
chars of & bill, moved ‘fo strike ont the
l 0 ales: *h + band
Mr, McCreary . | impnngel
a bill ary ant the poling of an
‘national monetary 0 An ae
thing was ac
H. Ford, ‘ol ol mel, 3 ies
essrs. on
Ei eth
Belknay. and 1 a es a’ IAT of
respect x the mem deceased, the
Hose adjourned. -
foe Five Were Drowned. Ae
GRANTED, Mdass,, April 5—A% the ham:
Willis Place, Oolaraine: located on the pons 9
pranch of G ;
fy were’ xs 0 igh
water carried their bot er the ‘dam and
the Indian morta mi, hes estion
in thejr :
receiving less ss land d per capita in, their dimin-'| |
Tap y
|
eh
whole stand tie, on the Rotten {thus
! a With decrease in
i4 days ‘number for the United 8
> 1a od
the |: Week and 231 the week pre¥ior
five were drowned. Those who lost. hele]
Ege 80,
i ared to
ne dg this ex- t other
Sah
ackness at a few ise
by causes :@bviously local and fer
Extreme low prices for cotton still
the South, and production of i iron in
of demand has caused the aT
markets contindie uit supplied
eusy,: with no trace of the pressure
seen about April 1, and: ‘while,
1 points, the denxand
| some of impo ance: “840 increas
: 1 is reported.
The reports from other ‘cities
whole are favorable. Boswn
further improvement. Western
favorable and Sonthern Better,
At Philadelphia the failure 0
ouse, following that of the
mpany, ‘depresses th
gods trade js better With
a. Ab Pifts _stoe
‘there iS no improvement in Sige
‘ments of Soke ping the. ride fort
e glass trade is ‘ste
rdw, thier. + 06
it year, of
hn ae
tte
cheese and especially cnr :
| neapolis thers 1s a ye miata At
meiner seen in
| ed
im | onusual Dioepests ‘for the or
Hour i is abil and low.
e business fail yres during the last se
ada 31, total 208; hp it!
‘and 243 for the ¢
ws i orresponding
Bast. Louis, Was. “struck hb; ligh
yesterday. afterfloon, as: lie was
through the doorway of a’ brewery
Be is omy joyed. {The bolt struck
p of his head arid passed
through his right side fo hig. feet;
| boys about 15°01 46, their
Pand a girl named Bugenig
: age. Only two bodies ha