ih
I
AEC
works of th
‘that from De
puddlers would bx
75 per ton. In 186t
at. the works to pud
work that they are nov
the ‘Knights of Yabo!
are moved {from Phila
given by Secretary Hayes. It It
the stand taken by Chief Justict
the Homestead treason cases.
Iron Compuny blast fur.
Hellertown, Pa., wis blown’ ou
, throwing fifty men out'of cimploy
He lars limestone quay, employ
ry, Mass, has increased the
ployed, except the spinners, 7 pel
cent. The shiuners vere given 4n increase
bara “legislature providing for an annuity
$500 a year for Mrs. Davis. widow of Jef
{fetson Davis, during her life. | :
“Pervonai.
ExSecretary Blaine is araduall) I0oVeR: :
; from his recent illnesss,
+ Jros : i
At Raleigh, N. N. Ca eight. stares; were hum
ed. Loss, 340, 000; Lalf insured: :
= Folieal :
“ A Prohibition bill has been introduced in
he Bouth Carolina Legislature. §
i; AY GOULD DEAD, hid
% ——
EA of the Career of the Great Railway
Magni
Tay Gould, the. great financier and railway
magnate, died at his residence in New York
City, Friday moriing. Teath resulted from
hand r
which he has long. a the seri-
ousness of his condition being Kept from
the public. ?
sday-Gould was born in Ric ts
county, N. N: Y., May 2;
iyeals Were spent ¢ on his: atiary farm,
oil. The Joli 5 have been’ running wu :
for over 10 year ;
morning's session of the di
of the Circuit Court at St. Lows,
absolute divorce were granted
space of two hours. Thisis the Fi i
‘ever granted in s0 short @
A Railroad Conphin i
and the local jauthorities
will ‘begin a system of
in and about Wi ashington
‘cost in the neighborhood of 82,
they are completed.
Gourley, of Fitishors, ‘Pa,
Gowithi | the ise
i ministers,
of the Depeament
Him to
close all the city’s disorder. !
and char
ofall
insti
doors
show peni-
e to Sa
cof
Eugene
inaugurated in
Representatives.
d at Montgom.
‘gession of the
of office was
- Justice Stone. The |
his inaugural “ad
mad Faraiitiens.
London, ‘Gon.
rear of the Boston express
resulting in a complete wreck
Niles. stood at his post and
to ‘He was crushed be
wreck will die,
disobedience of orders twe
collided on the East Tennes
near Jackson Cily, Tenn. Both
20) stock vars. were wrecked, a
of cattle killed and one'or twe
lives.
Conklin and wife, Edward Blan:
wife, and Mrs. Maggie Pitls were
Erie Railroad at Elmira, N. Y.in
and were struck by the westbound.
rain. All'were instantly killed:
Conklin, who was terribly .in
Crime. and Penalties.
© Three masked robbers entered the saloon
of J. ¥. Vailz, in Chicdgo, Sunday night.
‘and after boiding up the crowd, ‘riled the
; money draner. They then proceeded tothe
saloon of Jobn- Campbell, which was crowd:
ed with customers, and repeated the attempt
but was attacked by John Cane, whom
‘they fired upon and fatally Somme ‘and
a then sade their escape.
5-year-old murderer was banged at Ma
con, Ga, His nsme was Thomas Ball, and
ot an “officer dead.
nie Adoms, of Little Rock, - has
confessed that she murdered her husband
b. She wanted to get him ont of
y 80 ‘she could marry George Wil:
the man. who { urnished the revolver.
an i
| Washingon News:
stat collections of internal revenue
first four months of the present fis.
p Jere $06,258, 020; an increase; of
; ; 15% compared with the collections
during the corresponding, period of the last
fiscal years. ¢
The Hecretary. of the Anterior has sent
telegrams of dismissal to 29 special agents
ot the General Land ‘Office, el action
Was s made necessary. because of, Indufficient
Pe iremon Ger Had ray sxtimed
4be duties of the Assistant. Secretary of the
Treasury. The President ha 3 delegated 10)
him the power to sign, Tres) r warrants.
8 Secretary
is ! Ganioreiat i
we 1 City bank,
‘one of the
Fish
Iv ds
came
and
and stocks until he own-
ed more miles of railways
than any man inthe United States.
By purchasing railways at low faures,ex-
tending them aud improving their facilities
Mr. Gould likewise increased their x alues,
and this was the secret of his rapid increase
in wealth. 'At37 yearshe was estimated to
“be worth $5,000,000. ‘Last year his wealth
was put at from $110.000,000 to $150,000,000,
DIVISION OF THE ESTATE, !
The valuz of Jay Gould's estate is various
ly estimated at from 4 $75,000,000 to $115000,-
000. ‘Jobn Terry, who bas. been: closely al-
lied with Jay Gould for many years, and
‘whois therefore perhaps best able to give
authentic information on the subject, told a
reporter that the estate at the present ‘time
was worth $100,000.000. Washington Connor
estimated the te at $75.000,000. ‘Jay
Gould's annual income was estimated at
000, He stated, some two years ago,
at it was a seriony business. matter with
im how to invest his annual income.
.In disposing of his estate, Mr. Gould put
his Missouri’ Pacific, ‘Western, Union and
Manhattan interests into a fund for the ben-
edt of his family; George Gould: is’ one of
the trustees for the division of the property.
It is estimated that from 000
000,000 huve been appropriated in the will to
be distributed for charitable purposes; 4
per cent, of the entire estate will go to
George Gonld and thie balance is distributed
equally among the réniaining children.
By Mr. Gould's ordersy the estate is 80
Bouna up 1s to forestall afl interference
with his late interests in the three principal
holdings mentioned, which, according to his
own statement made about six months ago.
constitute nearly ofie. halt of his entire es
FINAL ELECTION FIGURES.
[+= ILLINOIS OFFICIAL PIGTIRES.
SeaikeripLD, ~The State poard of canvas.
sers complet ed the canvuss of the official
vote of Iilinoisas follows: President, Cleve-'
land, 426,281, Harr son, 399,988, Weaver,
22,207, Bidwel', 25.807, Kor governor, Alt-
geld (Dem.) 425,497. Fifer (Rep) 402 659,
Link (Pro) 24, 684, Bainell (Pop. ) to. 247;
.ONE HARKISON ELECTOR IN KANSAS. .
" TopekAa.—The State board of cunvassers’
count shows the election of nine Weaver
electors by majorities RYeraging 4,387, and
ohe arrison electo by <1
<majority. C.bbell. Tie defeated
‘elector, ‘was beaten | on _ account
of a typographical errordn the certifications.
The ¢ount shows the election of the entire
People's party State ticket by majorities
ranging trom 3,800 to 8,
“~~ OFFICIAL FIGURES FROM TEXAS,
GALVESTON. —A heels) from Austin to the
Galvestjon News says:- The official count of
the Presidential vote in Texas gives Cleve-
land 239,148, Hafvisan 77.475, Weaver 99,688,
Bidwell 9, 28a Po Harrison's vote should
be added 3 Republican ballots for the
“lilly white” Tm, being representatives
of the white man’s faction of the Republi-
cap party. |
i | ————— nm cr,
; Squeezing Pimples Killed Him,
John Harris, a young man of ' Philadel:
phia, died Thursday under mysterious cir
cumstances. The coroner's physician in: |
vestigated the case. He found that Harrig's
faca had been filled with small pimples
‘which he wag in the habit of squeezing un-
{il bis face was in a mass of sores. The
autopsy revealed the fact that blood poison.
saperinduced by the constant squeez-
of the pimples ‘on the face, was the
lo
bot.
a
for
for burg-
the State
arly |
At
. and
the
0 be on the
‘| A TRAIN FATAL TUMBLE,
A Passenger Express ss Goes Over an Bra.
bankmient, Injuring Several Peor
1 ple, Three of Them Fatally,
The Northbound Missoari Pacific passen-
ger train jumped the track about one and a
half miles from Arkansas City, Ark. The
y ‘baguage car and 1wo corches left the track.
The coach next to the bapgage car roiled
‘dows the enbankment of abut 20 feet, and
turned overa total wreck, injuting I 10 or 12
> injured who were from
Porter, Judge |
A hh Ais, Drwfillar, “of
* probaoly. fqtally hurt; Mr.
Page, of Greenville, Mass, /
ored men, names known, were
bruised consiaer Th They. were
10 the Missouri ‘Pacitic Y at, St.
Louis and are considered’ probably fatally
others’ received ‘sume
hurt. ; Buveral,
scratches?
I'he cause of the wieok is su pposed fo be
ithe giving away Of ues, allowing jue rails
to spread, i
Eo hE
SEVEN COMETS AT A TIMER
are Now Visible, Aorording to Prof. & a-
* coby, of Columbia. }
According to Prof. Jacoby. of colambis.
College; there are mow rio less’ than seven
comets visible. This; he says, 5,80 far as he
has had any information or experience, the |
largest nitmber on’ record. ‘They are all
telescopic comets, however,” he said. “They
are the Holmes comet; which has received
so much attention of late: Freeman’s comet,
which is the latest dis¢overed;8wift's comet,
dicovered last summer; Winnecke's ‘comet,
&n old one which appears regularly atinter-
vals of five to eight years: Denning's comet,
anotliér new one; Brook's comet, ahd-Barg-
ard’s comet, which ig still another new one
and so indistinct as to be barely visible with
the large telescopes. it was discovered
throug): the'agenecy of pliotography by
Prof. Barnard:
‘Astronomers are watching Freomati's
comet with great interest. At first it was
gery closé to Molnics' comet, and traveled
in the same dirzsction. It was discovered
November 24 by Prof. Barn at Brizhton,
Evgland. Cloudy weather has so lar pre
vented us frem faking an observation of the
new comet. Astronomers surmise that Free
man’s comet iS a fragment of Biela’s comet,
whi ch disintegrated about bU years ago.
We are anxiously awaiting a clear. njeht,
so that we may take an observation and
termine whether its orbiv is the same as that
laid down for Bien s. The comet at first
supposed to be Bie'a's, and which was. dis
[orered by Prof. Holnies, has been found
be elitirely new, aud bas been christened
after its discover, Itis now diy cutal gued,
and its oront is established. I think a great
deal too’ much was said and written about
the Holmes comet. © It is now moving stead:
ily away from usin an orbit that will take
it at least seven years to travel around the
earth. It will neyer c me near us. We
were unable io take observa’ions last Sum
day hight, when showers of meteors were
expected, because of the cloudy weather.
The metecrs seen last Week are wadoubledly
A
. ‘deuris of the Biela comet, such as is met
with eacly time the earth ¢rosses the orbit of
the lost comet. The new cumetdiscovea by
Fréeman, isiraveling in a southerly direct
tion, 80 Tar a8 we have received reports. At
the last observation from which we have
heard, it was still in tie constellation of
Andromeda, and, 80 far a8 could be delur
minded was traversing the indentical track
laid down for Biela's comet.
x pas
EVEN CORPSES UNSAFE
From the ‘Ravages of the Thieves Who
Now Beem to Own Chicdgo, .
| The thieves now infesting Chicago have
Thursday night they entered the office. and
carried off a big cl Then they got into
where the bodies are laid and took a pair of
trousers off the corpse of a negro, who com-
mitted suicide a few days ago. They "also
took the shoas off the feet of gnother corpse
and carried away a large amount of clothing
which had been taken from the unknown |
dead, and which was kept for the purpose
of ‘possible identification. There is no
clew to the thieves. =A daring gang of burg
begun to rob the ge in the City Morgue,"
k.
| Iamvisited the little town of May Fair, siz
miles out, and robbed the residence of three |
wall-knowg, citizens, the. postoffice and ‘the
village store. The {otal
ies, it is believed isin the neighborhood. of
$5,000. The thieves used n wagon to ear,
! , hel inboory, HEA
"ana, bicause of the bourty. an
. water for
dmount of robber: ©
were by his side; : The invalid
fovurite
first riser of
was usually
were
ona
tamily,
INTERN AL
Gauging Kields :
. Weighing
A of the
Mr. “of
report just 8
Lagt year:
it yielded $15
ibn bas been 2.80 per . Was
2.88 icra
There hias been
tilleries, and the relaxation of
reganl to these has given much trouble and
facilitated rand
The adoption b of his | ‘recom:
; y Congress
- mendation to Riepénise’ with the regauging
of spirits after. Teciincation, J bas effected 8
Distusing the angen a in the method of
taxing spirits by weighing them, instead of :
gauging them, he says: "The fact has been
demonitrated that gauging “by ‘scales has
yielded an average of one fifty-sixth of
Mote Ber gutlon package than gauging
weig
‘the producto of o of oleomargarine has in-
crease l from 3
over 400,000 000. oe oelomargarine progue
ing States sre IUinois, which paid taxes dt
the rate or 2 cents per pond to the amount
of $368,000; Kansas, $142,000; Connecticut,
$106,000; Ohio, $78,000; Nebraska, $45,000;
and Pen nsylvania, ;
The nirmber of licensed sngar growers, i
under the bounty law last year, were 4,
of whom 727 made sugar from. cane, 4.240
+from map. le trees and 13 from. heets. and
sorghum,
The mapel sugar prod Je
chiefly con
ned to the a Fn Sean
though there are several hundred ror:
Boa >
, b iriofuass nithe number
of sbiiers, operating principally small dis-
the law with.
unds a month to.
‘an increase
that at the'end
908
valid
“The Novem-
ber and t
3 Mr
‘ble rep conference have
markets.’ B
diminish
mewhat affected all
lliere are
ed activity in
Boston
registered in New York, Pennsylvania and |
Ohio.
The Commissioner states ‘that many-:
thousand dc!lurs have: been jnteed in im
mn Louisis
e licenses
jssusd for maple Sugar pking next year
having increased to 6,1 He estimates the
amount of ‘bounty that ai ‘have to be paid
proved sugar naking machin
out next year for sugar of al nds | 8b
0
CLEVELAND'S GAME BAG FULL.
The President<Blect Brings Down 128
Snipe and Four Ducksin an, Hour’s
Shooting on the Beach. :
Having been forced by bad weather to
abandon gunninz for duck, President-elect
| Cleveland went, out upon the beach at Ex.
more, Va., \ Shortly “before noon
Tuesday to yshoot snipe. “The
birds were found itn n great nmbers, and Mr.
Cleveland succeeded in bagging 126 ina lit--
tle over sn hour; Of these 53 were brought
down at-one shot. Four black ducks, which
left the water and. flew ower the beach; also
tell victims to his fowling-piece. |
While
land WR an
taclel! ‘Five res] Island ‘were
on their ‘a to Broad-
re-
and
Life
~OWwIrG
wells inthe
! as to
wreck
James Dunley and Charles. ‘en.
the beach, Mr. Cleve:
a'thrilling specs
by £
and 330 for the
year. hl g
ie a
LOOSE ON A STEEP GRADE.
RUNAWAY CARS CRASH ANT INTO x RGR, En
ING TWO MEX.
At Shenango
ona sleep. grade
station at a i
piece of track two.
engine on
‘ears
cab co
with
gait,
and engine was ete.
gineer and fireman on the Switcher, ‘were
both killed. ! /
CHICAGO
A Bevere Epidemic Would Likely. Kin
Half the Populatio: mn,
Congressional Investigator, Shafford: nds.
Chicago in ue bad sanitary. condition,
Would Hikes i}
x? This is no grour
- stores, but is
at only 0 cents, fall
by
CoPLAND, the
: et ER
amt
adi
p50 £9
SRR LN
Pd pd
5
19
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$2 50@ 83 5
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