The Patton courier. (Patton, Cambria Co., Pa.) 1893-1936, January 12, 1899, Image 2

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    4% pans engers was ap-
West Dune! N. J. on the
#lley riflrond tant Monday,
W another train speeding to-
Bim on the same track. With
/ whistle and brakes grinding
rot the wheels the excursion
down to what seemed cer.
ruction. The passengers
at the continusd whistling,
id the windows, mothers snatched
children in their arms men
ia their seats, but before
; # time to find out what was
matter they were hurled head-
knocked senseless and many
outright. The two engines
which both crews had jumped,
together with an awful crash,
excursion train was probably go.
t about 15 miles an hour. The
i ax if tripped in its faster
turtied a complete somersault
: crashing down beside ita
ished obatruction, But fis
wan not ended before it had
Im the temler of the excursion
almont from one end to the other
first car from Shamokin, The
stopped a few seats from the
fe cnr. or what was left of it,
over, Fareying with it the em.
7 1 tron on it relentless course
the coach.
first car of the exrur-
that all the deaths and
ensualties socurred,
Enters x were killed in the
3 Yer ph injured. Among the dead
Bo WwW. A Markel,
filam Kinnill, oF
rh Carmel, Pa; James Jar.
ML Carmel. Pa: Jacch
| Carmel, Pa: Algyne Man-
Mt Carmel, Pa: A 8 Keifer,
Pa; Martin Keenan hotel
sunt Carmel, Pu; E.
46 years old, Mount Carmel,
kK Fischer, shoe dealer, Mt
Pa: Willam H. Leader. 24
L dry goods dealer, Mt. Car-
i Frank Marke), ™ Fears at
pity, FH the spot where the
ul ther is a sharp
Lehigh Valley tracks and
ting, but the avrblent was
the first place to some terrible
In train orders, and in the
another accident that
ft Bound Brook eariler in
; The scenes which aceompi-
A eollision, the sufferings of the
the panic that reigned
AG passengers wire well
fhable. The blood-stained
tungied and twisted iron and
bore witness to the truth of the
verltiet of raliroad men that
tne of the worst collisions in
C' BA NOT YET FREE.
. Maximo Gomez, from his camp
9 miles westward from Havana near
han addressed a proclamation
‘ubun army advising against
t until the proceedings at
on regarding the pay of the
troops have been completed.
December 29, and is in part
manent has arrived to give a
knation of my conduct and
8 which are always in ac-
ny sense of duty to the
serve. 1 believed it was my
move, for any political or
from the spot where 1
my sword so long as the
hg ns had not complete-
= 208 we about the
of the Iavse for Amer
pn = nesssary that
the liberators of t |
d in the top
8a hols and dyna
of the tar Be be-
i tisst against the high
Chicagy Wilam J,
‘that the Democratic party is arrays!
A D. Henrickeo n, of Janesville, W
a paralytic, has _ tasted food on io
days.
Poison and gas assisted five per-
sons in committing suicide at Chicags
last Bunday.
Lanrence Harrigan, one of the best
known police officials in the county,
died at 8t. Louls lant week.
Bwitt & Co. of Chivan. pork pack
ers, have {ncreased their capital
Flock from $15 000 0 10 $42,000 008
Admiral Bampson's daughter, Olive,
Wis married to Henry Scott of San
Francisco, last Wednesday svening
Secretary Alger last Saturday de
ed to send four regiments of infantry
to the Philippines by way of the Suez
Canal,
den. Bhafter has left Washington
tor Ban Francisco and will again take
charge of the department of Califor
nia.
George Tyler, while engaged in a
Prize fight with Thomas Foley of New
York, received a blow which broke
hix peck.
William Neeb, editor and proprietor
of the “Frefbeits- Freund” of Pitta.
burg, with which he was connected &2
years, dled, aged 18,
The Chicago University has just re.
ceived SI89006 in land value from
wealthy citizens and $204, 06 cash from
John 1. Rockefeller,
Commodore Watson has made ap-
plication for Admiral Dewey's posi
tion at.Manila as soon as the latter
retires from active service.
A syndicate wishes to buy up all of
the Chicago street oar franchises and
offers to give a 3-cont fare Courcll
i* mow considering the proposition.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lucius, of De.
trolt, were seriously burned last Bun
day and their Z-vear-old son fataily,
by the explosion of a gasoline stove,
In deflance of Gov, Roosevelt's pros
salaries paid
some of the New York city laborers,
Mayor Von Wyck has incressed thelr
Wages,
On the charge of murdering her 13.
year old daughter Hennetta MeRea of
Bessemer, Alin, ix now awaiting trial,
The girl had a lover and the mother
id
olijected.
Juseph Leiter and the Rothschilds
of Europe have secured control of the
Rhode Island Locomitive Works, The
sent will manufac ture appliances for
creeloss tracks,
An unknown man took refuge in a
Hme kiln at Hrookiyn last Sunday.
Monday a fire was started and the
man's head was burned completely off
before the body was discovered,
Attorney General Monnett, of Ohlo,
was quoted as saying that the officials
of the Standard Off Company shoud
be sent to jail for contempt of court
in refusing to produce thelr books,
Pennsylvania oll men are now receiv.
inb $1.19 per barrel from the Standard
They claim that consumption exceeds
production and in fair speculation they
ought to receive $3 for thelr crude ofl
Elizabeth Jane Face the other
night, entered a Washington mission
pnd requested that she be prayed for
Just ws 1he service commenced she
fell dead of heart disease Aged &
yemEs,
At 5 meeting of the Okla centennial
comoninstoners 8 commitiee consisting
of ©, M. Bpitrer, 1 EE Knizely and 8
Behenk were appointed to visit
a and ask for $0 00h for
the Ohio centennial
The Ohio miners in convention at
Columbus Irvlorsed the attitude of
Governor Tanner, of Iitinnds, in the
recent mining troubles at Pans and
Virden, in which he declared sgainst
the importation of negro miners,
A number of Philadelphia wholesale
merchants have decided to refund the
tudlrond fare of the retail merchants
who come to make purchases from the
smalier towne, This move will keep
the retaflers from going to New York
H. Wurster, night telegraph opsr-
ator for the Philadelphia & Heading
Railroad Company at Bingen, Pa,
was murdered a few days ago by
Liewellyn Stout, 17 years oid, who was
traced Ly the tracks he jeft in the
HOW,
Hy a Supreme court decision the
town of Pullruan, HL, will in & few
days pres out of the hands of the cor
poration and becomes a free commun.
ity. The L000 brick residences and
public bulldings will be roid to the
highest bidder.
The life of County Attorney Van i
Brown, of Red Lake, Minn, was at-
tempted last Thursday, A dynamite
bomb was placed over his office door,
and fell when Brown entered, explod-
ing with terrific force, Hrown was
knocked senseless
At Eagle City, Alasks, on December
11, Jack Jolly, a saloonkeeper and
gambler, who had gathered around
him a gang of toughs and was terror-
izing the mining camps, was warned
by. a vigilance committee to leave. He
refused and the next day was jynched.
Andrew Jackson day banquets wer»
held in many cities. At the one in
Bryan declared
against expansion. The startling
growth of trusts under the MeKinloy
administration called forth many
warnings.
About 1.360 Cobans are now work-
ing on the new branch of the railroad
from the government dock at Havana
to ronnect with Quemados camp, some
500 Cubans are handling quartermas-
ter's stores at the wharves and else.
where, 200 Cubans are cleaning the
streets and 200 more are cleaning the
public bulldings
Three people were killed and several
others quite seriously injured in a fire
{at the Hotel Richelieu, Pittsburg, last
{ Sunday morning.
Tre list of dead in-
cludes: Amos 8. Landis, aged 28
be | Grapeville, Pa... suffocated; George A.
ay to the
is the result
{ Waters, aged 28, Camden, N. J. suffo-
cated; Mrs. Kate Boyle, aged 25, Pitts.
| burg, suffocated.
Husband Obeys a Cruel Wile.
come to light in Vienna. John Bra-
une recently lost his fortune in busi-
ness and his wife, Anna Braune, told
him she wax hungry and he should
shoot himself so she could get the life
insurance. Braune shot himself but
not fatally, and on his recovery his
wife told him to hang himself. He
was found dead soon after hanging to
a beam. Later Mrs. Braune hired a
workman to kil ther mother. whose
only heir she was. The workman
told the police and Mrs. Braune was
arrested.
car ng a ngs.
Bucconsiul Cha Preacher.
There was a large crowd in Mt
Olivet church New York last Sunday
to hear the 5S-year-old negro evange-
list, Lawrence Dennis, who has re-
cently been astonishing New Jerseyi-
tes with his precocity. Lawrence is
atill in dresses and wears curls, He
preaches a vigorous doctrine of sal-
] vation by faith and leads the singing.
After the services he brought out a
bunch of his photographs and ores
them at 25 cents apiece. church
authorities interfered with the sale.
A story of horrible inhumanity has |
STUBBORN NATIVES.
Filipinos Have Saturated Their Boilldings at
iollo Wan Kerosene United States
Soidier Killed by a Rebel,
tha Uinited
th
Tie
The proclamation of
Bister government made publie to
Filipinos last week has pot tween
ceived with favor by the natives, Ab
though they were promised all pos
sihie Hibherey and advan: sd Lhe Tebhols
fnzist on indepe wi née,
Follock, the special embassy
(rtm between Manila and
#158
nl
of Genera
fais,
he ivf:
Th:
The situation when
Hotle was practically anchange dt.
Bireate were barricaded, and It
reported that the principal bail
had bean keromened ” the peu
threatened to destroy the whois
nime section by fire at
of benbardrrent
2 aul
ure to the IDinited Siantow
Newport and other veosn
of the American vice fons)
on board the Newport
Colonel Potter reports
dent MoKindey's prs
be typewriteen aboard ship, xa
printers an shore declined tn 4a the
work, and when the taxt of the pro
that
the nition that concilistion
sible,
Privates Harry 8
WhE pos
fivey and Fra k
Kirkpatrick. nf the SRiyrh Tinted
States artillery, while guarding « wa-
tir bant astern of the Newport, wers
attacked by the natives of the craw
Private Silvey's skull war fractured
fatally, and Private Rirkpatelok fell
overboard, but escaped with a #esh
wonnd
The United Sistex gunboat Petre)
arrived at Holle Friday, and Colonel
Potter reports that the United Siates
troops wil probably land on Guismnar-
as island, about midway between the
isiand of Panay and the lsiand of
Negros, where a camp will be emiab-
Hshed,
Both siden. Colomel Porter ways have
heen impressing the local shippi-g
for military purposes. and the bn
cisco Reyes had landed 5590 natives
The foreigners were taking refuges on
the British raise Bonaventura
There ts no change in the situation
In Maniia. On Friday night public ds.
monstraticns were held in PP mpangay
provines in ratifleation of Aguinaido’s
proclamation, and the excitement was
intenss,
All natives wha enter the city in the
night time are searched and every
precaution is taken,
The newspapers at Hong Kong pub-
lish the following dispateh from Holle,
evidently from a Filipino source:
“When the Americans arrived at
cemduct of any Kind anworthy of
flized peaple, In conformity
their agresment with the
the Filipinos entered lisila in an ore
derly manner and formally hoisted
the Filipino fag. The Americans
and meting with the complete ap
proval of the foreign restdenis. The
pontalios, castoms and other depart
mens were working srvwathly under
the entire control of the Fiilpinos
This disposes of the allegations of the
kill
the same humand principles
have guided their act ane
thelr Bpanish oppressors’
The correspondent adds tual the re.
porte of ap oppreition republic Raving
been established are refaled by the
facts that the governor snd general
tommanding at lloilo have
the American delegates from the war-
ships that they could settle nothing
without ardors from the national gov-
ernment at Malcolm”
A dispateh to the Manila Indepernd-
which
against
called Pilipino government, says the
governors of all the provinces of Lau»
zon have aseermnbled at Malolos for the
purpose of offering their lives and
property in sdhexion to the policy of
the president and government They
say they fought only for the inde.
pendence of the Filipinos and ars un.
willing to surrender to strangers
Commenting upon Presblent McKin-
jey'e proclamation to the Pilipinos, ts.
sued on Wednesday by Gen Otis the
Independencia, which fo a native pa-
per, says the problem presentéd in
most grave. It admitx that thers are
only twa solutions possible, pamely,
the American abandonment of their
arnesation policy, claiming that the
people here mre not desirous of abe
gorplion into thelr nationality
prolonged and Bondy war It
the examples of the “noble patriots of
Hoflo defying Ceoneval Miller” ex
presses hope for a pacific termination
of the crisis, but hints of trouble
The official organ, the Republica,
less aggressive, but is Indisposed
socept the suggestions of Ceperal
Otie in thelr entirety. The Spanish
papers are evidently afraid to coms
ment on the situation.
Too Basntol to Marry.
Two days ago Henry Hanmond of
Spencer,
Prouty, Since the suicide Mrs. Maria
Teal Prouty, the mother of Miss Iris
Prouty, brooded over the death and
yerterday committed suicide by srtan-
fling herself with a #ilk bBacdkers
chief. Miss Prouty is prostrated and
she may die, .
Britian Exports Increased.
The exports from Great Britain dur-
ing IDeoetnber. showed an increase of
£16680 ax compared with the ex-
ports of the carresponding month in
1897. This fact has been weloomed by
the press, though It has not quite re-
dressed the adverse balance for the
Year.
tc Bt at
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS
et
All Bpanish soldiers have now left
Havana.
Gen. Ludlow has compelled Cuban
bums to work on the streets of Hava-
a,
American soldiers, the other night,
legia, Cuba.
The gunboats Princeton and York
town were ordered to join Dewey's
fleet at Manila
“The navy department has shipp 4d 10
the new naval station at Guam, the
equipment for a brass band
in Havana prisons will be released by
Major General Brooke, The chiefs of |
decided to disband the annoy,
Aguinaldo’'s treatment
prisoners has been horrible,
have been marched through
streets, led by cords attached to rings |
through their noses, and others have
been employed literally as beasts of
burden. A thousand have died of ill
traatment.
“lamation was read to them ridiculed |
found a good government established |
inclination of the Filipinas 16 loot ard |
The Pillpinos ceoapied Lailo on
aswured |
encin from Malolos, the seat of the sos
oF a
“item |
cause he was too bashful to undergn | ooo ou
the ordeal of the marriage ceremony |
with his prospective bride. Miss Irie
iynched a notorious burglar at Lomo
ban army held a mestd and |
the Ov : ng ! propriation of $12.0068 for naval charts
haz arrived at Manila with Jie |
Lato hes
i department
denoting
Prog |
amatinn had to |
the |
Hello they found abwolutely no footing |
upan the part of the Filipino forces or |
oh 5 den |
with |
Bpaniards ) ;
the letter to General Mayia Rodriguez,
I Banpuliy's superior,
Ewen
{the evenies of the day
i revoivad hin
Mass. committed suicide be: | con 10 whistle,
A PN
A NA So ASA
i Tragspry
the frat xhot
i thar
The banks were shipping their freas- |
tranEpors |
P stator that no real property ;
grid that his prracnal |
i nose waw broken,
iterad, Aa great hale in the Back of the |
city eonapicusus in a white
; and
Ete
i der the former
Cad place,
: pany has abi
fw
tes 3
Puerto Rizo yesterday
fernor Bmith, of Vermont,
the fate Senator Justin Smith Morrill |
Two hundred Spanish officers and |
soidicrs and $00 other convicts found |
of Spanish |
Monks |
the |
| fers who have seryed outside of the | 1pat the military has had to be called
NEW SILVER CERTIFICATES.
oa in
First of Secretary Gages Unilorm Des'gn Put
in Circulation.
Four thousand $1 sliver certificates
of the new uniform design that Becre.
tary Gage has arranged shall apply to
exch deviomination 7 bil, whether
sliver certificate, treasury nota or
United States note reached the Dnited
States sub-treasury at New York
Tuesday, They were nuickiv distri.
buted to Individuals and banks. The
new notes orn hoth face and back
show mach white paper. On the face
the central design Ia an American
cagle with ayteiretebisrd wings guard.
ing the fag the bas Kr sired being a
view of the capitol Below are small
portraits of Lineoin and Grant
Each nite has printed in bine on ita
fare a large Dgures § nd tha treasury
peat The fAxures
‘he denomination of the pote
ave all inrpge and Berid Treéargry
Hae and 1 ni eg 8 THis NOTES Are each
to have th ninatim and meals
printed ia swt tive onlay Sub
the naw
nhey
.
Xp ott ay
I be rors difflenlt fa comnterfoit
the last jreve whi was Bihed
up with an RErAYE 3 work,
BRICE WORTH $600,000.
Bev
5 3
Wil
hy
It Was Generally Thought Thar He Wana Muli.
MM Lanaire,
A petition for letters of adovinistra-
Hon on the estate of sx -Benator Cals
vine B. Brive, wha died on December i
New York, was filed in the surrogntes
aMee By attorneva., for Mra Caivin
Cilivia Brice the widoy, The petition
was jeft
by the decadent
estate Sx valued at $605 ey,
Mrs. Brice gave the name
Beira as Stewart MM. Helen O,
ret K., Walter Kirkpatrick, and John
Francis Frivce who are all of full age,
and reside with their mother in New
York city, The petition was granted
Mre. Brice was appointed adminis.
fratrix
If wax the helinf of many financiers
that Mr. Brice wits a multi-mililonaire
Many beltoved that
of the
dotlare. and the comparative small
amount of the esfate proved a general
Surprise. Mr. Bri * ett no will
CUBAN LOOKING row TROUBLE.
Gen. Sangally Defer the Order Which Forbide
Him to Appear in Uniform.
Major General Lodiow, military gov
eran of the department of Havana,
recently recuested the Cuban General
Julin Sanguily to satay outshie the city,
or In the vent of his entering it not
to wear hig uniform in public Ban.
gully was informed in writing that be |
wont be
| event
Cruels as sovurred at the Albisu theater |
; when with a party |
severely Jest with in
of provoking any muae trouble
a fow nights ag,
of friends he alfnost provoked a phy
sienl comfiet with Deo members of (5
mianicipa police wha Bad fot saiate
him. General
4
ard ir is under.
thal feneral Holvigues
eat ionesd him,
Fut Tussday he was seen around the |
duck suit | 3
: £4, wih
white JIelvamed panama Bat,
wegring the three gidd stars of 4 Ms
or genaral
friends, curling his
tarts and twisting his
hase heen omtentatiousty
eng ETAy
imperial
posing in
directions Eanguity
Waking for
with the
al Ludiow's
wrens fo be
Thonigh unpopular
lower cipsseis The
General Rodriguez wil be
this obstreperous behavior, amid
STANDARD DRIES HE COURT.
i Not Produce Its Books and May br Ousted |
Prom One
In the arguments before
rome catart atl Colombas.
the
£5. &
ney general to Siwsias the
cdgnmisstoner and contings the inves
tigation of the Btandard Ol Company |
Kine of |
! Streets
tthe Kaness City,
in open court, Hon, Viegit P.
Cleveland, attorney for the ofl com
pany, was forced into making some
very positive statements and admis
sions, He declared in the first place,
in response to interrogatories of the |
that the company will net un- |
| ery the police identified the bandits
her than these al as they boarded the Ht
the sec.
that there are
$27 00 060 |
the |
the conry |
but which |
court,
order of the codrt pro
duce any books
ready given in svidence.
he adnutied
wiiil onutata nding about
worth of trast certificates
Hiandard Cul trust. which
grdered dimioived in 1999
the prevident of the Standard rom
along been ying (Oo get
0 Irying.
in
wt
in and ia sti
Wi asied While Din ag.
Charles Memberger., 21 yours of age,
who was {dund
Contral tracks last Friday with
pkuil fractured. died Wednesday.
infuries Memberger
inet, te whistled RID morte
Boura and never cessed until
twtore he died,
A Ramarkadle Cha Player.
At the Dsentacher chib Miwaukes
jax: Maonilay Harry N. Plilsbhury,
champion of the United Biates,
formed the remarkable feat
twenty -nve games of chess simultane
ously and coming out victorious ia all
but one, He was aiso*sucosseliul in an
exhibition of “blindioM™ playing
arsinst half a dogen well khown local
playemt
po a Ee
AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
Bia.
of Justice, to cost 31000000, is projects
edd at Washington.
Brigadier General T. H,
Paymaster General of the army,
retire Janunry 08.
General John
Btanton.
wil
mailed
undertaks
in the
Eaton
ter
the supervision of education
island,
BF
tev
Repor Agvneille, Agulinsido's re
presentative at Washington is talking
toes much and officials
rid of him.
The house refused to consider an ap-
of the Philippines They were still
considered forsign territory.
Congress has passed a bill which
| grants two months extra pay for sold.
country and one month's extra pay to
those who have ssrvei only in the!
country,
§ five
Marga |
‘dozen cuts and braless on
his fortune would |
| be valoed at from five to ten milion |
a ne rm dosent
SAFE ROBBED.
Witliam Slevine Finds His Pathe Dying in Hin
Office at New Cantin Large Reward
Offered for the Awsassing,
as i
‘ity Treasurer John Bliving of Naw
Pind Pa. was Sathrday night foul.
Iy murdered in his office in Uity hall
The funy of the oWce wan covered
with blood. whild there was plain ovis
dence on every side that after commits
fing the orims of murder the gullly
ones had rarsscoked the place
Mr Hisvins had been to a merchant
tailoring eslabilehment to ave about
an averoont he Was having nde The
coat was not fnighed and he was told
ta come baok in half an hour Me then
Walked fo the atare of Ale son, William
J. Hisvins and was there a mingle or
twa. He had not returrsd fo his home
when his son Wiliam reached thers,
a fow minutes of 1! Ssturday, and hie
Remy wtirted out fo find him
The young man went direcily th the
treasurer's ofive, found the done une
sonked and the electric leht burning
He saw his father lying in a podl of
bids, apparently breathing hix inst
Almdast fainting at the sight, hie rashead
outside. found a policeman and wr
Follewk, and rhe three entered the of
Dy. Pollock ratsed Mr, Blevins
head and at that inmtant the jatter
breathed hin tase
The (Wen was
private FORTY WHR ©
algtht. The
w ith Blows}.
an awful
pil
and Mr Hisvin's face » an bartered ale
semblaries, Th»
the lower jaw shat.
most ot of Buman
ios than
tis head. |
He had sveidently made =»
struggle, for there were blowd pools |
In a score of places about the roomy
and xpinshen on the walls His hans
ware tors and bBlesding One Band
was almost severed, showing that he
had endeavored to retfin the tin
money boxes whith were in the vault
It is not known just Rew meh
money wid taken but it is thought the
chisers got abibut 3000 The two tin
ah boxes had disappeared. The po
Hee are of the opinfon that the crime
was commitiad hy some ons who was
well soguainted with the offices and
with whom the dead man was also
well arguainted, The wire porven and
Goor which divides the private offica
from the public department where the
business is conducted was always se.
curaly fucked, and that, tos, from the
head, and there wore no
the |
Lunliow sent. copy of |
IWR Pe
i
Pee terroriged and made the murder.
ini |
Attended hy oipght or dan in
ue |
Be 3
the :
§ cafes tery without regard to Gener |
tronhie. |
Unban
chiefs, Be has a Inrge following among |
attention off
cm bie ti |
it ix
considered better to let Bis own peo |
pie handle die
up |
faw | OF
days sgo of the motion of the attor: Neuse,
master |
: with rare coolness. Betud up and robbed
I Kansas (ity,
dopant, New Albany,
PC jured
Jesse Bwxin, who i» ander nd}
i¥ing by the New York |
Buin
On
uf which he |
be
though he was wholly |
and remained so tS the
of tanes
and without cessation far ninety-five
ahaortly
{ the Presch
chess |
per. i
uf plaving |
mide, 3othat & person Whe Wis enter.
ng the office could sot reach the vaults
inlews the man inside unlocked the
door, which wan lorked with a spring
Mr. Blevins, ta the best Knowledge |
of those who wees acquainted with his
BaDits, never perpiited anyones when
very well to po inside
why the cers think that
was cranmiit ied by someone
weil, Thedw remsow that the
HE. OAR Sa ad Be Renew that he
oRnitzed by Mr Hievige be.
under
Ris axasmait
The ity cogrel]l apd county commis.
loners met Sunday after nen iknd each
ws afferedt $500
far the arrest and conviction of
the murderer or prurderere The city I»
# Atgte of excitement bevond belief
for thers Was ne mars popula man in
the county thas the dead man and 1*
Mis murderer ia caught f(t
muh to say he would spesdeily met
Bis end
Mr Blevins wan born in Jounty Te
rine, Ireland, Felraary 5 109% hat
catne to Lawrence eotnty with his par.
orate in INSEL. He was elected freaemrer
af the connty in 1870 snd served three
years and was appointed city treasurer
to BI an gnexpired term in 1584 Since
[then he Bas been elected term Sfter
term and was the only candidate for
a
FP te-sjection al the coming spring elee.
i len,
domain
Pies inpossds oft re Policeman,
Tw masked men early Tuesday
morning capturad a policeman at Fort
Ran, tock him a mile Inte a
winds, bound and gage him ans
nine men in the Cottage and the Say
rev hetels, on proasniient | business
Alfred Mende, an engineer an
FE Seott & Momphin
ane of the vivtime was shot hy one of
the robbers, white George BH. Youre
& Hegre. wae mistaken for one of them
and shot, Several hours after fhe rab
Loute bound
M_ K &T passenger train and Bad a
pitched datsie with them, bug they got
AWAY.
infernal Machine injores Pive Blea.
An infernal machine exploded in the
Memphis & Birmingham
Minw, Jaw Wed
powday and five men wore seriously fo
The machines wax shi ta
"Pent
for killing » man several months ago.
Swain and four friends gathered
arcand the box and pened it. There
was an «xpioston and the five men
were hurfed in all direetione and the
depot was partially arreched
BO trace of the suelo
t — I Laswes.
Ss NO el
Drroyfun bad answered queries
graph,
being nvar La
the
Aemt Alonso's forces
Paz, the capital, whers
tionists are.
With the portrait of a lady at
side Count Franz Karolyi of Austria
ags. He had committed suicide.
Dreyfus has nat yet been brought to
aris. The authorities fear kx disturh-
ance, His testimany may be tiiken by
A new building for the Department Madagascar and Eaypt
for i
Fifield was sppointed by Gove |
sucveed |
desire to get
telegraph and the expense will prove
i 158.
Congress has APDropristed $7 000.63 | DET IROS
for the care of the District of Colam- |
§
It was hell by the European press
that Englasad and France ars nearer
war than ever because of disputes in
It Is as
! sumed that England intends to make
| her “protectorate” over Egypt perma-
nent and will not yield an inch,
Italy and Celumbia decided to settle
i the Cerruti claims by a board of ar.
hitration. This is the case in which
| px President Grover Cleveland, as ar-
pitrator, awarded the house of Cor.
rut & Co. $200.08 dumages An Fal.
i The restrictions imposed by
| many upon the importation of ment
| are producing the results whieh might
| be expected, says Conwal Alert at
; Brupswick., There is 5 load
from ail parts of the country
|
Mail advices {rom Sg
FB
§
torrific ;
rai na & foetal of |
not tong sheep deal,
and after being arrested jumped Me
There is
of | the skulle and
court of Jassation bY tele
i
Cvlomely tagether aw if
A erinie is at hand in Bolivia, Presi. y
was found dead ip London a few days |
Cehoiers epideinic here n 1540,
jan crulser ® an its way to Columbia |
t
Ger- |
the Maine?’
Crime,
stantial evidenve and
ta pisevs in Ris cabin,
= wn aaknown
where she sald
itl all forms of bacilli,
nihilating the patient. AX New
A Cotas Newspaper Craceens Page Havas ;
Judge with Destroying the Ship.
A dispateh from Havana 8 aye: ®t
iooks aw if the question “W he Saw r
Is about to be
Zacariax BEresmes a Spanish judge,
now a fugittve from Havana, in accuse
#4 by a Cubiin newspaper of being ave
tive in a plat for the destruction of the
hatitieship.
A good deal of excitement has been
cavsed by the charge, which is made
in El Reconcentrado, the organ of
Cuba libre. The paper says that
when the Maine came into Havana
harbor Hresmes openiy declared that
such an act of audacity could pot pase
without stringent punishrent “His
threats where direct” the paper con-
tinues “ard boded destruction the
American ship, His associates were
Felipe Gonziler, Dion So Vege and
Fusalin Asitvuge violent WB
hers with him were De capuniards
volunteers
“These men hasted that the Yan
Kevw were about to get thelr doe.
though no charge can be directed
awainet any save Rresmes. He and
the hot-hended Spaniards met nightly
Bt A house near the corner of Muralio
ars Habana strects where the public
know the slit against the Maine wae
oncocted and all arrangements com
pleted When the sxpiosion took
place FHresnies wax in the Tacon
theater with friends At the sound of
the explosion he dried: Theres goose
the Maine!” Champagne was drunk in
honor of the terrible svent at the mo
ment when others wire vaguely ine
auiring of ove another what had bape
poried
Bresmes' same wis mentioned Des
fore the American court of inquiry,
but not sufllaient evidences wan then
fortheoming, and all reference tn him
wan suppressed in the report
Capt. Rigalwe, who is here with the
| Texas, said, when told of the charges:
“1 hope te see those punished who
gent my good ship and Dolores men to
the hottom of Havana harbor
Hresmes is sald to be in hiding in
Spain.
A THIPLE MURLERER,
Wite's Contemnion. May Releant an ianocens
Man From Prison.
Sheriff Gedwrge A Storrs of Utah
county, Utah, left New York a few
days ago accompanied by Mra Jennie
Wright. They are en route to Utab
in oan endeatwr to clear up a murdes
mystery. and to free if paswible, a
man fom a life sentence,
At the Pollan Point ranch, Utah, in
ISH three young men were shot down
ane night in thelr ranch house. The
stepfather of nne of the Boys named
Hayres, had had trouble with the men
and was arrested. charged with the
» Bodies of the men were
found sunk In Utsh fake and the
premises they Bad occupied were [oot
af. Haynes was convicted on circum-
was Rentenced
te be Banged, But a stay wae secured
and the sentenes commuted te lle im
prisonment
A short time after the crime re
W. Wright eft that locality and
in various pisrts of the West. fine
drifiing to Fresh Water. Col He i.
a gradants of Kaismasoo nw college
He soon became prominent, bearing
the sobriquet of "King of Fresh Wa.
ter” Ome morning & man with whons
Wright wis at odds was found shot
Wright sssist-
ad at the coroner's injuest and wrote
aut the verdict of "murder by & pers
fater Wright became
invialved in a guestionable
hail and fled He visited Ate wife at
Res parents’ Rosas al Gouversewr. Wo
Y.. and then disappedred
After he left the West svidence of 8
positive chardoter relnting to the murs
der at Frosh Water is said © have
been found against Wright. and after
working on (he case for over & year
Chivf Harder elicited & confession
from Mrs Wright to the effect that
her husband Lad goods which figured
in the Pelican Point murders
The Utah asthorities were commun-
ated with and found articles Just
Mrs Wright said she
was willing £0 testify apsinst her Buss
sand for the triple crime, providing
he can be caught. She saves Ber jips
have previewsly been seafod ar.
fear of him
Nisctre ty to Assihilste Germs.
wonderful discovery of sieotrlio
i* anmdunced, whereby the ine
A
foros
ventor claims that be can send a mil-
fon volts through the human body,
tereulonts, without Encientally,
York
attorney is now In Washington fing
with the patent office the papers nee
conpry to proteet this remarkable dte-
covery. He is wry reticent :
frankiy admits that he fears ridicele
From what was divuised, =
take advantage of the fact that |
4 not an a
conductor, but that a
#lectrieal current atrt
Klnes case. in which is
an body. is diffused aver the wide ew-
panes of glans plates. and hence per
meten all parts of the human |
inside the gins “ase,
larger —
The skeletons were
buried
Dark stains and
collins
‘whole,
iarge grave, shap-e
in the earth show where
revaiu- | o ‘
his | seven feet wide. How the bodies sot
there fo & mystery. An oll citizen
suggented that they were victims of &
Found a Depleted Treasury.
When the United States ,
San Jean Porte Rico's capital, |
in November JuMan Hlanco was
ceeded an secretary of the
insular treasury held mR cents
per. $18 in Venezuelan
about $M in American bank |
oll was greatly surprised to
coamdition,
the treasury he has learned that over
300.000 pesos, about 200.000 ars
outery |
about |
io 3 ac Sn named as follows.
the high prices and scarcity of meat | shall he known as “0 0
Petersburg |
say that a hig strike 3 on among the !
strikers have |
attacking pragp- |
2
textile workers. The
reanrted to viclenee
| arty and assaulting substitutes,
i out.
£4
A strict rensovship does not al- i
low the newspipers to mention the
strike.
ing, from thiv fund, and it Is probable
that the full amount, which has been
done away with, amounts tv nearly
500.000 pesas. This money was taken
to Spain; of this ne one has any doubt.
Transports Will Honor Generals.
The War Department lgsued orders
that the three transports now being
prepared far the Philippines shall be
The “Mohawh™
honer
af the late General U. 8 Grant; the
“Mobile” shall be known as “Shor
man.” in honer of the mite General
| Willlama T. herman, amd the “Mas.
sachugetts” ps “"Bheridan” in honor
of the late Guneral P. HL. In
addition it has been decided to
two other ¢t
including boty ih