i Re ne nai A ‘ A . > 4 as a mii | SRK * LAWLESSNESS COMMON. THE REPORT COMES FROM BEN TILLMAN'S STATE “TONS OF EARTH FELL UPON SIX MEW. Two Ware Killed and Four Seriously Iu. Juréd ~The Pince Provonnced Safe’ Corvupia, = C, Pee. 31 - Lait Fri day night a= State Constable Davia was returning to his boarhiuy bouse he was | attacked by sa moh of Negroan and ssvere ly whipped with rubber hose. Patel) was made to take off his hat gad eddress “the Negroes as gentlemen and wear be wonid quit (Governor Tilloaan's aervice apd po home, A pumber of white meu | witnessed the aseanlt bat refgesd 40 Jn 1 nese been constant and growing rostisssness; » one ontrage has followed another and the | orderly people are ade ‘to risk their . lived to reginre roanant for peda and safety. EARTH FELL ON SIX MIXERS Throe Experienced Mes Pronaunced the Pockel Szlz Place lo Work. Doyen, XM. J, Der a musa of earth amd roe yesterday James Madden, and Joan Brew, aged 17 3 , killed, ‘and four others © badly jared. ‘The men had been trying joceen 8 hinge piece of grin wig twerty five tons, bat found it myposaible | withoni blasting, Three expegenced | # miners prononneed it safe to work nnder | | show. The venue for import danty in but the men bad hardly begun “dni when the entire mass fell Rics, who ia among the injared, Ge the father of John Rica, ope of the two killed, “apd was ooo of the men who propounced | the gre yand safe. THE BERLIN PLOT RVEALED A Dizcharged Policeman Connived With Anarchists ta. send the Dynamits. pYeight by Unis oy Pr Beuers, Deo. 31.—=The Biystery of the dynsmite casa gent to the Emperor and Chancellor Van Cdprivl a ebnrt time ago i has been solved. Norman: Wahlgren, a discarond Berlin police agent, went to Paris in November and arranged with |, two French anare send tha hoyes His plan wan to révea: the plot at the | proper moment andl wa a reward for CL WILSON ON IMPORT ounes. : 0 +5 There aed 52 no Apprehension of 2 Depit- | ed Stock of Gold. i Wasnixerox, ‘Dee. 31. — Chairmen | Vea, af the Ways and Meaps commit | i= looking up date for hie turiff | 3 4 re aty . | Mr. Wison was asked if the new turf Lilt woald make toe balavee of | truce agsiust this conutry so large as to! Jisturs the gold balanees and muke the! demand on the reserve so great as to canes any apprehension oconcerving it. He repliad that apy 10 years of the! country’s hist ary would show that the! | baiknea of the trade ran about even. ‘It is a matter of barter anyway,” he added. {te balances age not paid in gold, bat (in eXchange. There need be no appre- Henson of depletion of the goid reserve.’ Membera of tha majority of the Ways ‘and Means committees assert that the terfere, Farmers are organizing ail overt, the coantry to put down such !awless- | unjiortations of former years, while being the only basis apon which estimates ; : pav be mad a, will pot by any means be! Under the Tillman regime there hoa a fir eriterion for the actual reven nes andar tis Wilson bili. The decrense of the import revenues, based on the im. wirtattons of 1843, ia shown to ‘ba abont! PORTH O00 C00, while the estimates shnw E, Pthet it will not be resily more than R40 060,000, The valnes of inrportations ING were KIBO C0 and an [Rag are ZR44 000000. It 1a believed ‘that 3 > :3 ~. — ! » »Jecrene tn 15M will be very large, foe the receon that nutil the new tanfl roves into effect every mmpo ster and buyer ail fry to dispose of present stocks and as Ite alroad mw possible, Jno order take advantige of the reduced duty. Lhe ame reason 38 given by the mujor the comiittes for the beriefl thnt the revenues uuder the pew Bill will be mach larger than the figures 1843 wads FPR GOGH and its be! aged that ior 1794 the nrea will be far taliow C that, infact; the present defleit shows a large faliing off, due largely, it 19 claimed. to the desire to take advantage of thei new bit 2 With Murderer, Mim, Pa, Dee. 41-8. (L Shorthd ys proprietor of ‘tha academy for the haye fired six shots to his wife's ‘head thi morpiog while walking on the slrasts killing her instantly, This was his see ond wifes, he havire married six weeks He wus nphalianeesa his supposed kerinnees seenra his old 1. employn ment bere. : A TIMBER BEAL PENDING B Will Resull in the Building uv! a New at Anta, Poxxsorawsey, December pe ww jambering deviv opments pending In this sation 1: 18 stated day ou the suth: ray of parties in interes! is dazignated as the Sandy fract, the big gest tract of timber idnd 10 this part of | thé conntry. It contaius aboat 6000 ° acres, on which there is T0.00C,000 feet of | hemlock, 20,000,000 fest of pine, and very | valuable hardwoods in lesser quanities, They propose to put a large mii on the | tract at once and mavalactars ths lumber | on a big scale, The mill will be placed rg in the neighborhood of Anita. The price | : Ba ; ; F house by masked nico and after being paid by Clark, Keyser & Kipp 1s given as £200,000, The will will have a capacity ber fully one hundred wen, : NOTICES OF REDUCTIONS IN WAGES. * Machinists and Laborers in the Carasgie Milfs | Wii Work for Less Pav. HoxestRaD. Pa., Dec. 20-- As the! . : ! ‘hilnd . XY ivi 3 : notice of the scale of re-wdjastmest sp- | between ’hiladelphin and Liverpool many plied only to the tour.age men employed in the Carpegiec Steel works it was thought that the mechanics’ snd laborers’ wages would remain undisturbed. Noticee, however, have been issued in- formiag the machinists of a reduction of 214 cents per hog# while the laborers are formerely earned from $2.25 to 22.75 and laborers 81. 40! for a len Boar oe . ; Walling Disposal of Tari¥ 8:1, Paivirsevro, Pa., Dec. 31.—-RB. B. Wigton & Bons who own extensive fire brick woris in Caotre eoanty, have sgut down, disemploying a large number of men. Thé soperintecdert annonnees _ the works will pot reenme nati! final dis. position is made of the Wilson tari bill which proposes to rodass the tariff oop . brick two dollare per thoasand. A Slats Trust Disbanded. ArrLEsTOWN, Pe., Dee. 29.—The Black- | | becuse his family preferred it for sever: pamber of slate companies and prominest | * ease. The committee had nol {bard coal. Then he. wonld take board Slate association, compceeed of a individaal operators with compaoy head quarters at Slatington, met yesterday and | ' bat toft coal, bat that be did not want, 1t | waa tho dusty. ‘Tue committee volan. | teerad to ask if i* wanted ything to eat. Well he dw t know, buat if they wound ap its affaires. The “combine” bad a prosperous year, the profits were Jd1. vided and the orgamzation disbanded. ‘Floating Logs, The ruin of Thursday night was enough to raire the streams to the log tloating stage. Ihe Snequebanna and its tribata- ries are all np. J. M. Troxell & Co. bad men at work breaking landings on Lick Rap Friday. Mayor Harrison a ‘Murderer Must Hang. Cmicaao, Dec. 29.—The Prendergrast jury rendered a verdict of guilty of mur- der and reccommended that the prisouer be baoged. Back at the Capital. WasHiNGTON, Dee. 29. — President Cleveland and party have returned here. { conrt directed a re-nrgninent that Clark, Keyser Kipp, a firms from | rt directs | : 4 the eastern end of the Ntale, have practi- | i $hes wren ga Xs svicd Ragin vay) 4 i» Vio pl a dail ) : ir thie Padadelphis and Rasding ratlrasd in cally ciodad a deul for the tiubar on what & adelphin 2 A> nite in tte New Zsland trade. TIAN ID a iP, a onl egn, Las recently | uny iodiesticns of mental sffigbon New Orders in an Old Case Prin 1a, Dee. 31, Ht # ANDEEMS Bs AIL fall bench iu the cose thie-appes! from the eimmen pleas doart 2 ee y¢ Lycoming eooanty. Thies was a pro- sending to test the validity of the com- ’ I bation contract of the Lehigh Vailey and Central railroad stud the Reaadiug. Whipped Ont of the County Waco, Texas, Dac. 31.—2dwacd Murcker, a negro, and his three sons hy ing near here, were takan ant of their t =i to trees were given 30 lsshes exch ® . 5 i i y wits ns sie x ger oO of 81.000 feat of sawed [amber a day, and | wis llekmy hes and -orderad the woodsmen sod mill heads will name | i of msiming jive stock. leave the connty. They were suspected Steamer Chariery Revoliad. ParLapgreuia, Dee. 32.--The chirters o! the British steamers Lord Olive aud | Lo:d Gough, which have besn rouning yes rs, have been cuncelled by the Amen car ling compauy. They will now es- Sats. 0 of a Pioneer Coal Miner, Poermevirre. Pa, Dec. 31.—John Shay, one of the pioneer coal operaters of this | district and Wilkesbarre, died ests d redgced 2 cents per boar. J sehioien | ql jes aay from gnp, aged 72. Pennsylvania Stale antlding Seid. Harrienuzra, Pa.. Dee. 31 —Ezxecutive | Commissioner Farquhar telegraphs Gov- | ernyr Pattison Erom Chicago that the! Permsylvania ‘state building has been sold for 825 i The Poor Man, [lie ladicerons as well as the pathetic, | cores to the fron? uo the work of the i aulek charity committess. The other day |'a man of large proportions’ applied to one. [of the dommittees of the town for some hard ecal. He said he wanted dard coal coke. The committee had nothing. bad & sack of four they might deliver it. The nommittee had no meaps of diliver-. ing the tour and asked if. he woald pot earry it. © No, be would not carry the flour. He was not sable. How mauvy of a | family had be, the committee questioned | the twlpless man. Ob, he had two sets’ of twins to begin with, when one of the! committee promptly asked it be didn't, think that a man who could afford two sets of twins shoqld also be able to oarry | one sack of flonr? Bat the man did not! wait to explain and the flour was left: for *3 r for na SEADEK pEELED ) OFF 1800... MILES AND IS CHAMPION LONG DISTANCE WHEELMAN GIVEN AN N INPRALLELED OVATION, Greater Excitem- int Than Ever Before in Madison Svjusre Garden, : NEw York. Dec il Toe bicycle rice st Madison Square Garden was won by Schock with a gcore of 16) miles anid 1 lap. Tue other scores were Waller, 1454 miles, 5 inp: Martin, 1430 wiles, 1 lap; Albert, 1419) miles, 1 lap: Vin Embnrg, 1401 miles, 1 inp; Ciblden, 1313 miles 1 lap: Meixeil, 1190 miles: Barton, 1006}. i worth of property. miles, “three lupe. Tle foepe at the fie was mot sxoiting Schock was de termined to mike 1188) miles Lap after D { i lap was was reeled (fF and when the elec- trie balbe apd balletin showed he had only one more mile to muke the) horng, belie and drums were epongh to! ‘drive wn army crezy. © With fits aps to wo the cfficisls tio be OR e excite anid when 1 600m ty his credit ihe excitement w led; never was there such Onp= lap more and wir d=monnted Towser next ten minntes nrapar Foy iran neh sali raatae t. } Ld hd Wa thet Eribarg After the expenses? thar : © 5 Seti? fonrth. an > 3 to the Sith SOCIETY LADIES SNUBBED 4 Washirgion [ilends Hefaliond a party haa Hoed mvitation: at fies wil ” f . 3 fs 3 - » TO 1adies, manly Fainting, ostlad., One is Tithe wife of 4 niember from the sonth.iong prominent in the honse ‘of represents tives, and (he othar the wife of a western niember of large wesith asd usbonnded caitality, and whe, during ‘he career if cripgress has achisved a national ripo- tatiog the ladies on entering dropped their cards into the extended tray of the bingy, and naturally, of conse, started for the drawing room. Ihe man 1ater said with the semnurk that be wonld see if hie mistress was atl home, This was cous "thi enllers had © fher aiternativa hint . to walt in the hall wials the servant went in with their cards, Perplexed at ahat pe an nusceonntablie inciviity their mrrassment was not lessened when | tiiey overheard tho eabipet oflicer’s wife giv to her servant to tell the ladies she was uot in. They wera more amazed ut | {this for the reason that no-one c¢onld mistake the meaning of the reply! Linasmuch as: 8 meeption was evidently then 1n progress and tbey henrd the! voices of other ‘winitors. They. returned to their carriage, abocked at such treat ment. Ope of the indies informed ber | husband of the affair. He was so [arious| | dre nenr Eagle P | that be directed Lis wife to write to the | wits of the cabinet officer and demund | | ‘that her carda be returned. They were sent beck with a terse note saying that the lady of the cabinet conld not ander- | ; ladies will not probalbrly eall again at.the | | same Louse daring the next three und : bait youre: FOUR OF A FAMILY CREMATED Burned In Their Soniie Through the yan Hard Drinker. Dee. 31. Fire this ing, 1p the sottage owned hy John OMA, Neb, i mings, reanited in four fataiiies. Cnm- mings, his wife, three year old e¢inld and Mrs. Margaret Fox, his wother in-law, were burned to death. The story told by Tommie Fox, n grandehiid of Margaret Foz, is that Cammings was sick in bed ‘and the child wan with bis father. Mrs. Cammicgs and Mrs. Fox entered the bed. room when Cumanugs knocked over the lamp which set the room atire; Com ‘mings closed the bedroom door snd beid |it tightly shat. The fire was soon «xtin- guished bat the four bodies were found. burned to a erisp. Commings was a eavy drinker and it 18 sopposed he was | snffering from delirium tremens when he [committed § the deed. Mine Fire Extinguisher Grex Carnox, Pa., Dec. 31,—From all indications the firs 1n Richardson colliery | | has been etiingulshad, An Asalgnarent in Easton Easton, Pa., Dee. 31.—C. & F. Seitz, malaters assignad yesterday. The ssign- | =a Be CONDENSED recorn oF 1 DISASTERS. 1 rs mn Sa i Much in a Little of the Histsry of the Coming Year : Natarday last the Commercial Gazette | of Pittshnry, pabhsihed a st ol. d:sasters | of tha year jnst closed. [twas prepared | with care and at the expense of some time, ard in its complete form was too long for these columns, bat 12 bss been | reciaced to thie most important property joeses and to mention of aceidents where mere than one ware killed and 1pjarsed, Gd 1&8 given below: : : Jannary 10. Fiy wheel burst iu a Sonth Side £1! killing two men. Explosion in Un- 1100. Pacific minea near Denver, Coli! twanty fonr lives jost 11. Fire in Chicago destroyy 22 50,000 | 12. Destructive fire at Brawsters, N Y.; i fos, S100 a): Fire in Chey ago; loss | x00, 16 Collision on Pegnsylvania railroad | near Latro e; firetaan Billed : $2. Pasesuger train ¢othuled. with oil train dear Alton Janetion, ul: twenty. vi were KLied anid fifty six sarionsly ins 3 « on Salishary sirset, Santh Lives (ost, i Velifuary: the Pirttshnrg & West $6388 Fire int rittin co suf Powder Saversl ty etolosion at Whitset! mine | near Latrobe station. Threa ives lost, 23 Five women cremated in a Cleves | Iand apartmeut bonse. Csyelone in Miss- 1s23 nin: - 4 ith, br. Pd onee of the Rapid -lransad eh, destroved | hurped in South Chiesgo with a loss of i solision ot: the Long Island railroad, DEBT “road goes through a bridge. and thirteen | high bridge near Milton, va. and seven persons are killed. 23. Hurricane rages on the Atlantie| { sonst, Many vessels lost and forty per BODE perish. 24 Five blocks of dwelling houses 81, oon, 000. . Fourteen persons are killed by & Berlin, L. L 2%. Georgia 1s swept by a cyclones and 100 pergons killed. 31. Train on Boston and Albavy reil- persons lose their lives. : september. . Twelve lives lost in 5 railroad colli. | sion near Colehear, Ili. - i 15. Porest firee in Wisconsin deetroy 86,000,000 worth of property. 18. Collision on Big Four raiiroad near! | Kankakee, 111; eight are killed snd s x- teen injured. : | 21. Five men perish in gers explosion. in! a mine near Wilkesharre, Pa. 4 _ Collision on the. Wabash railroad, near Ee Ill: twelve persons in- | sia ty Kile. | . St. Joseph, Mo hae a 81, 500,000 | { fire. . T'wo persons killed 11 a collision on | the . Sroad Trunk railroad near Beilegne, | Mich. A mine near Crystal Fallz; Mich J barying twenly.-el ight persons. October ID EWeeps over the gull states IH : sand fives loet aud - 30. worth of propirty. arved sod S800 horses cremated, 13. Coilision on Mishigen Central ratl road near Jaekson, Mich, i which twelve persons lost their lives. : 14. Steamer Dean Rickinond beached off | Dunkirk anid eightden persces perish, Seheoner Minshaha lost on Lake Mieki. gan anid six lives lost, 16. Steamer Woeocken lost off, Long Paint; thirteen drowned. Dypamite ex. 3 % a plagion - at Emlugton, HL, kiis Use Ie. - iA. Wallp ager tory in New Yor i stroved | by fire: jose, 83 GH O00, gl Brad- New on. Exenrsion trains collide usar Bat. tle Cres=k, Mich,; twanty.e1x pers od and twentv-geven ininred. Nove aber. 3 3 0 000 | ; Streetcar rallway etables at Chicago SYLVANTA RAILROAD IN EFFECT NOV. 8, mel Philadephia and Erle Ratirosd I i Time Table. Trains jizave Driftwood EARTWARLD. 9:04 AM. Trait §, dally exept Sor sSanbury, Harrisburg snd interiwdie tions, arriving at Toit his, Gry New York, 10% p, : Bal HERR, 7 75 x Washington, 537 pn, a imtiman k tron Willian BPEL 1 rd erssEnEeT fran Kane to Phiadeizhia. 3:39 FP. M.~Tralni x, dat'y ereept Ra Harrisburg and inte rirtinte stat ; ving at Philadoip ¢ nT TRY fh. 1m, Threas mmsport, Poflman Bleeping on ristasre to Phitadeipbia and Plifiaded ky PeSSenZers Cn rer Shing wet until Ta a, in 9:33 P.M Train 4, v for Sl rishureand Intermed ate <0 Hom, & Philadelphia; 69 LoNew York, week dave and © . + V5 aye? ti.nore, 45 RB. IN; Pallmsn cars and I ¢ econches frog Ete arnt Willitnspart to} set pbia Pas. sengrers in sieepwr fOr Haltineoors ard Wash ingtoh will be tran sferped nie Washington sheper at Harrisbuarg, Dassenger iomches from Erie to Philadephia amd Willnme. 5x at tor Baltimore, WESTWARD, 7:32 A MM. -Traln 1, daily »x&ept 2anday, for Wdgway, DuBoix Clormes it and ingere med inte stations, lasves Ridgway al $00 Ps mm. for birte I 0.50 A. M Trin 3, daily for oie and inter md inte pan ta {0.27 P.M Tain 1, dally a” Sunday, Gx Kane and intermediate Lots 1 I THROUGH TRAINS POR DRIFTWOOD FROM THE EAR ; i tiadel pile to ‘orm Phi Sn EYE Ih vit #2 Drift a Rr i Wake spurt ated i * Liiadel pin port angi Wik. Mh. cally wrand a re ALN riving FELD KR. SDbAYy. NORTHWARD, ¥. P.M, 8 = 6 17 & 6 5. Steamer collision: on Lake Michigan: twenty.fonr drowned, R Three persons Billed io a collision oo Hoek Island ratiroad at Chica To Storm aukes L HRN, ronrtaen pegs RA LUA. Lao pervons . YES 5 ' on Collision on braveh railroad FROgmarest. Pao saven per ona kriled gaveral injured. “A.cpsione in Oklabma kills $i} ervons and wonnds man: “Mav ’ ids in the Set property ai Willow Grove explode iw} unar Lafayette, | ad sixteen said 14 Ten mivers shaft near Hoag }3, (ereat iloo Clevelapa, OQ. 850d Uno: [pradus loss ther | then iivas by the expiosi i (Genava, Ii. 21. F Drest fires near Laks C { dnstroyes a lamber camp, and gearsons parish ro the Hawes. 3 Walter IL, Mun's iorailed near Tyrone, Pa; killed. Jane 3. I'wenty six men burned i uss, Tex. i. Fira at Fargo. Mion sens burned and $8 (000 000 worthy proper. | ty destroyed 9. Od Ford's theafres st Washiugton, ID. C, collapses; (#Fenty two peracis | | stand why the request wis made. These , i vir lives apd ty gre sanicns) or + Xow Yolk «! by swentera bing The auity of foes UK) KK) 6 lIewa swept In Ritlod avd 108 injured MN hy fives noid i story on Lake Mic 10, Cold aturage war=honse bian exposition destroyed he f sid neni ly two seore Chico Bremen fost the Hyves, : 15. Wreck on the Test Shore mifond gear Nowburg, N.Y ; five pesons fustant ly killed and twenty five 1ojared Aagust. 3. Steam yacht amks mn Laks George! . acd nine persons drowned. 5. Passenger train cn Lake Shore rail road leaves track near Fremout, OO ; three partons Killed and twenty-five injured. houses: loss, $1,000,000. 1:4. The Senate hotel, Chicago, burns, some ore who vould carry it. —Punxsu- | man: was cansed by the dullness of trade and seven persons perish. tawniy News. | and difficulty to obtain ready cash. 13. A passenger train goes throtigh al 9 Collisior on. Hoekiog yy alley rail near Rising S:au; foar persons’ DEVEL persons perish in a hotel fire Me lr 8 «dsm, Beaver connty, Pa Eldan, Muo ro & (o's drygoods sbhishment of detron dos tryed by STON (R £1 worth of pire the Chitten: Co'anibae, UR Mother av od ti ree 2 olnldrén it Oity fire. December. L3THer Lad, Aileglieny, LEE 0M ‘ i motbier and ber two chuldnpt rhe Ha Prop on the Wigtern New York tia { goes throagh Yo might pee aniding Lionisvi ie, Ky, lulls ihicg twenty Mee: Swit uth WOTAlgel 19 Uollission twenty tro hs hs ful rile Fags Austra : nuts an a Trolley Cas }.—Jaeoh Hert ind st death manner. Ther: {he troiley win Hartiuan was leaping over the front aashier lcakiog ap st the wire wi 3 vo wwiteh mod hide i aur orushing tis Bead agRIneS spd EBUNng hun alin O.e of the First Repub jeans. BrookuyN, Jan. 1. —Wiilism Rithar i son, & ratroad magnate kncwn here | Deneon Hishardson, died yesterday In gestion of the bran and Mronoh re born in England an Governor Pattis'ao and the Nt Hannispond, Pa, Jan. 1 ~~’ att1800 ate his New Years 204 howling, enthusiastic newsbo wis the apnual dinver Ziven by the Fa rishorg Tetegraw, [oa speech the go ernor connseilad the b wa and fold ibhem the secret Gif snec =3 was in Jioiug the ght thing and ! maniy bys; Fax on Theatrical Companies, Judge Doty hus decided, at Greens. bury, that the theatrioni companies must | pry to the treasury oi the. county & license of 850 before Ww performance ean be given therein, anless a state 1censs | 81,000 is first pawl. This law applies to all connties in the state except Aliegheu 4 | and Philadeiphia.--Ex. A Fatal Celebration. Priraprrruia, Jao, 1.-- While. cela. Kcehier, eged 1 wae shot, and kiiled Geo, Kehler, aged 15, was arrested on suspicion of firing the fatal stot. The { shooting in believed to have been aco dental. 14. Fire nt Minpeapolie destroys 112 | brating the new year in Keasington, John Phiisdeiphis at 10.16 2. Ra he Useunoa ell 1 ni train wegen with Prfiadeis: da : Adder Sore with the Fall oiiie in New York Ste and the . Mune with traits vo tind Trome Phiipe. burg and with plage Tor Kyrtowie AR Phillipe with Trrome snd Cleneticid Division of Penns. K T At Clearflesd with Gudiaslo, Hoclwstor and Phish neg Ry. At Slam with stages for Atsonvilleand ape winsdale. At M abafleg with C3 Cambie and Clearfieid Division of Penna. R. with Pepoa. and North western R. HL rte blr gpl a 28 hs A. G. PALMER, y EE MAN, Superintendent : = Prilipsberg, a.