BRIEF ITEMS OF NEWS I
INTERESTING HAPPENINGS OF THE
WORLD FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Developments of Each Day During:
the Week Caught Fresh from the llusy ,
Wires and Carefully Edited and Con
densed for Our Readers*
Thursday, July 28.
Maud E. Kittrtdgo, aged nine, and Lizzie
Kittridge, aged five, were arrested in Bos
ton for shoplifting.
The house of C. W. Whitman on Wash
ington avenue, Somerville, Mass., was ran
sacked by a burglar and then set afire.
Mexican rangers captured and put to
death six of the robbers who recently
robbed a car on the Mexican international ,
railroad.
The Hon. Wilfred Laurier has given nn ;
emphatic denial to the story that he intends ,
to retire from the leadership of the Liberal .
party.
•Stephen P. Ogden, an eighteen-year-old .
youth, shot and killed himself at Albauy
because a fourteen-year-old girl of whom he
was onamored received a letter from au
othor boy.
W. R. Sperry, appointed United States ;
minister to Persia, is the lending Repnbli- j
can nowspaper editor of Delaware, n man
of much culture and has for years been an
active worker in his party.
Friday* July 29.
John G. Stetson, clerk of the United
States circuit court in Boston siuco 1807, i
has resigned that position.
The Standard and Laffey wire works and
many othor factories in Newark have been i
compelled to shut down because of the heat.
Seven tramps attacked Annie Riggsby, a
house girl, living in West End, Ind. They
wore caught and barely escaped lynching.
The various societies of the Congroga- I
tional church are in session at Martha's
Vineyard. This mooting is the first in the
history of that denomination.
The foar of a water famine hangs over
Philadelphia. There is in all tho reservoirs
but one-fourth of a full supply and little |
more than enough to supply the city for
one day.
Michael Hughes, James Scanlan and
Michael Cassidy, throe of tho Hudson coun
ty (N. J.) ballot box stuffers, pleaded guilty <
and were remanded in the custody of their
bondsmen for sentence by Judge Lippin
cott on Aug. 11.
Saturday, July 30.
At Retto, Neb., Robert Frnzier attacked
Charles Stout and stamped him to death.
Stout had circulated a slandorous story
about Frazier.
The number of deaths throughout the
country caused by the terrific and prolonged
heat is unprecedented.
Texas fever is raging all through the In
dian Territory, and groat numbers of cat
tlo are dying from tho disease.
There is likely to be a big row at the
Stanford university when tho students re
turn noxt month, as the price of living in
tho college dormitories has been advanced
ten dollars per month.
At Somerset, Ky., Deputy Sheriff Grant
Somers, while attempting to arrest John
Coffee, a notorious character, was shot down
by the desperado. Somers drew his re
volver as he fell and wouuded Coffee. Both
will die.
Deputy Sheriff Wright, of Romulus, Mich.,
believes he has discovered an organized
band who are smuggling Chinese into the
United States.
Monday, Aug. 1.
The New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railroad company has begun a suit to shut
up the saloon of James McGlen in the town
of Cumberland, R. I.
Fire which broke out in tho blacksmith
shops of the Great Northern railroad at St.
Paul destroyed property to tho value
of $50,000. About 100 men aro temporarily
thrown out of employment.
A fire which started in the apartmeuts of
Princess Henry of Battenberg in tho Her
lingenberg castle, owned by tho Duke of
Hesse, destroyed one wing of the castle.
All the occupants were rescued amid much
excitement. Two firemen were injured.
A long, heavily loaded gravel car got
loose in Blast Manchester, N. H., and dashed I
down a steep grade into the crowded rail
way yard, going at a speed of fifty miles an
hour. Fortunately the track was clear
and a quick witted switchman ditched tho
car before it reached tho passenger station.
The car just missed crashing into a passen
ger train by two seconds.
Tuesday, Aug. 2.
Arthur Btrobel, an insane German from ;
New York, was shot and killed at Los An
geles, Cal.
The importation of rags from France has
been prohibited by the treasury department
because of the cholera.
Several Paris papers report an attempt to
blow up with dynamite buildings in Ver
sailles, but searching inquiries fail to con
firm tho rumor.
Receiver Wilkinson, of tho defunct Now
ark (N. J.) Savings institution, began to pay
depositors of the new account their final
dividend of about 11 per cent. Almost
$700,000 will be paid out.
The case against J. H. Cross nnd A. G.
McDaniels, who wore arrested in Deuver
on the charge of having robbed President
Moffat, of tho First National bank, of $21,-
000, was dismissed for want of proof.
Governor Flower has appointed John
Berry, of Mount Vernon, one of the man
agers of the Reformatory for Women to be
established in Westchester county, in place
of ex-Senator Stevens, who declined the
office.
Dr. Talmage preachod four times in Glas
gow Sunday.
Boatswain Riggen's body is expected to
arrive in Philadelphia Aug. 10.
Wednesday, Aug. 3.
f The police of Providence, R. 1., have is
sued a circular offering SSOO reward for in
formation that will lead to tho arrest and
conviction of the murderers of Anthony S.
llaswell.
The state department has issued extra
dition papers in the case of John llarnett,
under arrest in Now York city for omt>ez
xlement in Ireland.
The Champion iron mine at Champion,
Mich., has closed down for an indefinite
period. Six hundred men are out of em
ployment.
Charles Findlay, nineteen, son of the late
state treasurer of California, has been ar
rested in San Francisco on two charges of
obtaining goods under false pretenses.
George Gage, a wealthy farmer living near
Dover, N. H., was persuaded by two men
to buy of them for $6,500 a "gold brick,"
which they told him was worth SB,OOO. The
piece of metal was found to be worth about
four dollars. The swindlers escaped.
The plans for the celebration of Columbiau
Day at New Brunswick, N. J., are likely to
fall through, owing to a wrangle about
precedence of the right in the line which
the firemen and civic authorities have got
ten into
CAL WOOD ELECTROCUTED.
Three Shocks Given—Ho Gravely Accuses
His Victim.
DANNEMOKA, N. Y., Aug. 3.—The first
infliction of the death penalty at Clinton
prison by electricity was on Joseph, better
known as Cal Wood. Wood, who is a
man of about thirty-eight years of age and
physically a good specimen of manhood,
passed his last night on earth as quietly as
he had previous ones, and aside from a
slight nervousness, apparont more particu
larly in the face, inet his death calmly and
without any evidont interest in tho mothod
of execution. Three shocks were given.
When tho straps were removed it was
shown that the body was in the same posi
tion and the face preserved the same ap
pearance as when the man sat down. The
lips were not drawn, the eyes and mouth
closed naturally, and the only indication of
CAL WOOD.
the current was a blister on the loft leg
caused by tho overheated water flowing
from tho sponge in the electrode.
During the execution Mrs. Wood and her
brother-in-law sat in the hotel parlor across
from the prison entrance, and when the
witnesses came out she burst into tears and
buried her face in her hands. After the
autopsy was finished they took possession
of the body.
The chaplain and warden are both in
possession of a statement of Wood in
which ho says that the murdorod man was
guilty of incest with his daughter, Wood's
wife, and that he killed Pasco because of
that. Mrs. Wood was asked by a United
Press reporter if this was so. She said Cal
was a good man and always told tho truth.
Just here Wood's brother Charles inter
fered and told her she must not talk.
Judgo Whitman, who was counsel for Wood,
said, however, Mrs. Wood confirms in every
particular Wood's story and says that her
father was immorally intimate with her.
THE ORDER OF THE IRON HALL.
Somerby Says That the Concern Is Solid
In Every Way.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. B.—Supreme Justice
Freeman Somerby, of the Iron Hall, in an
swer to a reporter's question said: "The
order is solid in every way and will bo vin
dicated in the courts. I did not hoar of tho
Iron Hall receivership until after 1 o'clock
on Saturday. In New York I made a speech
and paid out $16,00u to the members of the
New York branch. I have not tried to
evade anybody.
"I have not read tho complaint and only
know in a general way what the charges
are. My accounts aro all right aud lam
not afraid to have a thorough investigation
of them. The Philadelphia matter is an im
portant factor in this suit. I believe that
the assets of the Keystone bank are more
than enough to take care of any funds that
the Iron Hall may have on deposit there."
Mr. Somerby intimated that after a con
sultation with his attorneys he might have
a statement to make.
A Man Blown to Atoms.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 2.—Theodore Penny
packer and Joseph Hughes were in a boat
fishing and using dynamite for tho purpose
of killing fish. A pieco of the dynamite ex
ploded, killing Pounypacker and seriously
injuring Hughes. Pennypacker's body was
literally blown into atoms. There was noth
ing left of it except a portion of the breast
bone, which was driven into the body of
Hughes.
Knight Made No Requests.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.—The will of Ed
ward C. Knight, the late sugar refiner, pro
vides only for the appointment of the ex
ecutors and makes no bequests, so the prop
erty, worth $6,000,000, must now bo di
vided in accordance with tho interstate
j laws.
He Saved the Woman.
WILLI AMSPORT, Pa., Aug. 2.—While row
ing iu the Susquehanna river with Miss
Mary Eck, William Harinton, one of the
best known young men of Williamsport,
was drowned after saving tho young lady
when their boat capsized.
Kx-Senator Kennedy Dead.
ANNAPOLIS, Md., Aug. 2. Ex-United
States Senator Anthony Kennedy, aged
eighty-two, died here. Senator Kennedy
was born in Baltimore on Dec. 21, 1810. Ho
was educated at the Charlestown academy,
Jefferson county, Va.
He Dreaded Insanity.
('APE CHARLES,Va., Aug. 2.—Hon. Thomas
C. Parramore, of Drummondtown, com
mitted suicide by drowning. Ho loft a note
saying that he had long been suffering
from locomotorataxia and had a horror of
becoming insane.
Will Call Her llrooklyn.
j WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. —Secretary Tracy
will give the name of Brooklyn to the new
armored cruiser recently authorized by con
gress. The vessel will bo very similar to
the New York.
Delivered Up by Quebec.
MONTREAL, Aug. 3.-—The alleged mur
: derors Rosenzweig and Blank were do-
I livered to the chief of police of Towanda,
| Pa., who arrived here with extradition
papers.
Hepburn Sworn In.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—A. B. Hepburn,
the new comptroller of the currency, was
hworn into office and at once entered upon
the discharge of his duties.
Shot Hi Nephew.
! DANBURY, Conn., Aug. 2. —Michael O'Don
-1 noil shot and probably fatally wounded his
nephew, Michael Kelly, in a quarrel over
an invitation to drink.
Philadelphia to Sue Yardley.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. I.—Philadelphia will
sue Receiver Yardley of the Keystone bank
for $52,369.77, which llardsley received tho
day before the failure.
To Help Home ltule.
NEW YORK, July 27.—Mr. Eugene Kelly,
treasurer of tho National Federation of
America, cabled $2,500 to the National party
in Ireland*
THE POLITICAL FIELD
THE REPUBLICAN ADVISORY COM
MITTEE TO BE A SECRET ONE.
The Democratic Committees Appointed
by Chairman Ifarrlty Ex-Secretary
Blaine Will Take the Stump for the
Nominees of Ills Party.
AUGUSTA, Me., Aug. 3. Ex-Secretary
Blaine will take the stump for tho Republi
can natlonnl ticket. No definite statomont
can yet be made as to the number of
speeches Mr. Blaine will make nor the
places at which they will be delivered.
These matters of detail are, however, boing
arranged.
Mr. Manley loft here for Bar Harbor in
obedience to a summons from the ex-secre
tary of state. Before he left he announced
that the object of his mission was to consult
with Mr. Blaine with a view to arranging
dates where the speeches will be made.
It is expected that Mr. Blaine's voice in
advocacy of the claims of the Republican
national caudidato will first be heard in this
state. The campaign in Maine will bo
opened Aug 17. It will be a very vigorous I
one, Chairman Manley having arranged for
meetings to be held in every section and
corner of the state. Ho hopes to so manage
matters that Mr. Blaine will appear all
along the line.
While Mr. Manley is absent he will call
on Mr. Hale. The congressman will also
take the field. The Hon. Henry B. Cleves,
candidate for governor, will also take the
stump.
The corps ot speakers from abroad will be
as able a one as ever entered the state and
will include Major McKinley, of Ohio; Mr.
Burrows, of Michigan; Hon. J. P. Dolliver,
of Iowa; Hon. Joseph Hawloy, of Connec
ticut; Senator Wolcott, of Colorado, and j
General Goorge Sheridan of Washington.
A SECRET COMMITTEE.
The Republican National Advisory Board
Not to Be Made Public.
WASHINGTON, July 29. J. S. Clarkson ;
and J. N. Huston, of the Republican nation
al committee, joined Chairman Carter in !
Washington. With Senator Felton, of Cali
fornia, they called at the White House and
spent some time with President Harrison,
discussiug tho political situation and the 1
necessities aud probabilities of tho cam- '
paign. One thing they talked of with much 1
interest was the work of the literary bureau \
of tho campaign, which is to be under Mr. '
Clarkson's management, and the character 1
and number of publications of political mat- '
ter was discussed. I '
Another thing that was discussed was the |
organization of au advisory committee.
Chairman Carter said that tho names of j
this committee would not be made public J
by him, even after it had been decided
upon. I I
The opening of branch headquarters in *
Chicago under a subcommittee of the na- *
tional committee was under consideration, f
and President Harrison and Chairman (Jar- *
ter are said to have united in a request to 1
Mr. Huston, of Indiana, to take charge of "
the Chicago branch. Mr. Huston is said to 1
have stated that he could not devoto so '
much of his time to the campaign as tho
chairmanship of that subcommittee would I
require, but announced his willingness to j
take a place on the subcommittee. Messrs. i
R. G. Evans, of Minnesota, and E. H. Bose
water, of Nebraska, are mentioued as two
other members of the subcommittee. Mr.
Evans is also spoken of as possible chairman |
THE DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEES.
Chairman Harrlty Appoints Ills Lleuten- (
ants —He Says Harmony Rules. ; t
NEW YORK, July 30.—1n accordance with C
the resolutions adopted by the Democratic 1
national committee on July 21, Chairman i
William F. Harrity announced the executive <
committee of twenty-five members and the ,
campaign committee of nino members. !
The names of those constituting the ad
visory board will not be made known until
after the first meeting of the campaign
committee, which probably will bo held on '
Thursday next, Aug. 4.
The executive committee is as follows: '
M. F. Tarpey, California; Charles French,
Connecticut; Charles 8. Thomas, Colorado; |
Samuel Pasco, Florida; Clark Howell, Jr.,
Georgia; J. J. Richardson, Iowa; Charles
W. Blair, Kansas; Thomas H. Sherley, Ken
tucky; James Jeffries, Louisiana; Arthur
Bewail, Maine; Arthur P. Gorman, Mary
land; Daniel J. Campau, Michigan; Michael
Moran, Minnesota; Charles 8. Lowry, Mis- I
Bissippi; John G. Prather, Missouri; Alvah |
W. Sulloway, New Hampshire; Miles Ross, !
New Jersey; William F. Sheehan, New
York; M. W. Ransom, North Carolina; Cal
vin S. Brice, Ohio; Samuel R. Honey, Rhode
Island; Holmes Cum'mings, Tennessee; O. j
T. Holt, Texas; Bradley B. Bmalley, Ver- |
mont, and Basil B. Gordon, Virginia; Wil- I
liam F. Harrity, of Pennsylvania, chairman '
ex-officio; 8. P. Bheerin, of Indiana, secre
tary ex-officio.
The campaigu committee consists of Cal
vin 8. Brice, of Ohio; A. P. Gorman, of i
Maryland; William F. Sbeehan, of Now
York; B. B. Smalley, of Vermont; M. W.
Ransom, of North Carolina; B. T. Cable, of '
Illinois; E. O. Wall, of Wisconsin; Josiah
Quincy, of Massachusetts, and William F.
Harrity, of Pennsylvania.
Justice Daniels' Opinion.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3.—ln a letter to Sen
tor Hiscock retired Justice Daniels renders
an opinion in which ho holds that the late
extra session of the state legislature had no
authority even to attempt to reapportion
tho senate and assembly districts and pro
nouncing the legislation unconstitutional.
The opinion is a lengthy one, and in it :
Judge Daniels says that the courts have
full power to restrain elections by the now
districts, the reapportionment boing uncon
stitutional.
Michigan's Special Session.
LANSING, Mich., Aug. 2.—Governor Win
ans issued a proclamation convening the
legislature of the state in special session
Aug. 5 for the purpose of rearranging tho
senate districts and apportioning anew tho
representatives among the counties and dis
tricts, the last reapportionment law having
been declared unconstitutional.
Knute Nelson Nominated.
ST. PAUL, July 29.—At the Republican !
Btate convention tho name of Knuto Nelson, !
of Alexandria, was the only one presented
for the governorship and he was nominated !
by acclamation. David M. Clough, of Min
neapolis, was nominated for lieutenant gov- |
ernor without opposition.
Rawlins for Governor.
ROCK SPRINGS, Wy., July 29. —At the
Democratic state convention Dr. Osborne, of
Rawlins, was nominated for governor on the
thirty-seventh ballot.
Merlden'g Car Strike.
MKRIDEN, Conn., July 29.—N0 more cars
lave been started on the street railroad
Aid everything is quiet
CYRUS W. FIELD'S WILL.
The Estate and Life Insurance Will
Amount to About 90.10,000.
! WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., Aug. 3.— A peti
! tion was filed in the surrogate's office ask
ing leave to file tho will of tho late Cyrus
! W. Field.
| The will sots aside $50,000 in trust for the
! dead man's insane daughter, Alice D. Field,
of Pleasantville, N. Y., and directs the re
| mainder to bo dividod fn five equal parts,
! ouo to become tho property of Grace E.
| Lindloy, the second to go to Isabel Judson,
the third to Fannie F. Andrews. The
fourth part is to be invested by the execu
tors for the benefit of Edward M. Field, the
insane son. The fifth part is to be invosted
I for Cyrus W. Field.
j The estate is ostimated to be worth $350,-
i 000, and tho life insurance policies for about
$300,000 will make the total estate to be
i dividod about $050,000. The writ is return
; able Oct. 2 and a contest is not probable.
| ALICE WEEPS ON FREDA'S GRAVE.
; Then Miss Mitchell Is Taken to Her In
sane Asylum Home.
MEMPHIS, Aug. 2.— Alice Mitchell was
taken to the insane asylum at Bolivar,
Tonn., at 5 o'clock. Previous to her de
parture she expressed ft desire to visit Elm
wood cemetery and view the grave of her
victim, Freda Ward. Her request was
granted, and in company with her father
and mother, under guard of the sheriff, she
was driven to the cemetery. She displayed
; great emotion, and as she gazed upon the
little mound of earth tears flowed in pro
fusion.
Before leaving she gathered a handful of
flowers from the grave, which she seemed
I to treasure and which she pressed to her
bosom and carried them with her to her
secluded home at the asylum. Her father
and mother were her companions to Bolivar,
where she was conveyed under escort of a
: deputy shoriff.
Aeronaut Hobe's Frightful Fall.
ST. PAUL, Aug. I.—Five thousand poople
at Inver grove, just south of this city, were
the horrified spectators of a terrible fall to
death of Professor Hobe, the aeronaut.
When the balloon reached the usual alti
tude Hobe could be seen tugging at the
valve cord, which would not work. Before
he could manipulate it the balloon was at
least 3,000 feet above the earth. In the
regular way he cut IOOBC the parachute and
shot rapidly earthward, but to the horror
of the crowd the parachute did not expand,
and the unfortunate aeronaut fell like a
shot toward the ground. So great was the
force of the fall that he was driven in the
soft ground to a depth of ten feet and in
stantly killed. It required the work of an
hour to reach the body.
Chicago liankn Robbed.
CHICAGO, Aug. 3. The dischnrge of
George Cartels, paying toller of the Central
Trußt and Saviugs bauk, and his subsequent
flight with $3,000 of the firm's cash, has un
earthed a gigantic conspiracy to defraud !
five Chicago bauks. Tho scheme was partly I
successful, and over $50,000 was secured i
from Cartels' former employers, but was
made good by reputable men who had '
vouched for tho integrity and business '
ability of tho young men who bad engaged i
in the deal. Another bank is said to have |
lost $20,000, which amount was also made
good by the same security.
The Horrors of Cholera.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 3.—A Russian
newspaper correspondent who has just re
turned from the Russian Caucasus says that
tho deaths from cholera in that region in
the last thirty days number 50,000. In the
villages the people are unable to bury their
dead, and the bodies lie in the houses for
days, polluting the air and spreading the
disoase. Whole families die without care
of any kind, and the first knowledge of
their illness is often communicated to their
neighbors by tho odors from tho decomposed
corpses.
Ex-President Bogran .Shot.
PANAMA (via Galveston), Aug. B.—ln
the Honduras revolution General Leonardo
Nuila has been completely successful and
ex-President Bogran has boen shot. Dr.
Bonilla is provisional president and tho '
country is fairly tranquil.
Biggin's Doily to Lie in State.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.— Mayor Stuart
has granted the use of Independence hall
for tho purpose of having the body of
Charles W. Riggin, who was assassinated in
Chili, lie in state on its arrival from Val
paraiso.
Chief Renville Dead.
SISSETON AGENCY, S. D., Aug. I.—Gab
riel Reuville, tho venerable chief of tho
' Siesston and Mapcton tribes, the best i
known of the Indians of the northwest, 1
died at his house at this ageucy.
Once a Famous Actress.
■ NEW YORK, July 28.—Mrs. Carrie Jami- j
son, who supported Edwin Forest, Char- |
I lotto Cushman, Davenport, Murdoch, Booth
and Barrett, was buried from tho Church of I
the Transfiguration.
A Bullet In Ills Head.
HASTINGS, Neb., Aug. B.—D. 8. Cole, a
prominent and well known citizen, was
found dead in a little old house two blocks
from his residence with a bullet bole under
his right oar.
De Mores to Be Tried.
PARIS, Aug. B.—The Marquis do Mores
was committed for trial for manslaughter,
and the four seconds concerned in his duel
with Captain Mayer wero held.
An Extra Court Term.
ALBANY, July 29.— Governor Flower has
appointed an extraordinary general terra of
the supremo court for the fifth department
to be held at Buffalo Aug. 16.
The Wire Drawers' Scale.
! PITTSBURG, Aug. 3.— The wire drawers'
scale has been settled for the coming year
and the mills will start up within a week.
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THE KEYSTONE STATE
ITEMS WHICH ARE OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST TO PENNSYLVANIANS.
Brief Mention of Matters Which Every
body Should Know About —A Week's
Accidents and Crimes Accurately and
Concisely Chronicled.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2.— The death is an
nounced at Germantown of Mrs. Caroline
Hyde Butler Laing, the authoress.
Escaped to Meet Death.
READING, Aug. 2.— While escaping from
an officer George Hudick, a Hungarian,
aged twenty-two years, jumped into the
fichuylkill river and was drowned.
The Cornerstone Laid.
MANHEIM, Aug. 2. The cornerstone
of Grace Lutherun church at Manheim was
laid.
Killed by a Street Car.
CHESTER, Aug. 2.—Hannah R. Galvin,
aged two years, was instantly killed by be
ing run over by a street car.
Eight Thousand at Wilkesbarre.
W ILKESBAKRE, Aug. I.—One of the most
notable gatherings ever held in this city
occurred here in the grand joint meeting
in the armory of members of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, Order of Railway
Trainmen, Order of Railway Conductors,
Order of Railway Telegraphors, Switch
men's Mutual Aid association and Ladies'
auxilliary of the B. L. E. and O. R. C. Mem
bers of the above orders to the number o 1
B,(XX), from all parts of the United States
and Canada, attended the meeting.
Coal Goes Up.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. I.—Beginning today
the circular price of coal for this city is ad
vanced fifteen cents at the mines by the ;
Reading and Pennsylvania railroads, mak- i
ing an increase of about fifty cents since
the first of the year.
Furnaces Shut Down.
PITTSBURG, Aug. I.—The Dunbar com
pany have shut down their two furnaces
indefinitely, owing to lack of orders. Three
hundred men were thrown out of employ
ment.
Death Came from the Clouds.
PITTSBURG, July 31.—Solomon Richardson
and William Castle, employed as laborers in
Highland park, were struck and instantly
killed by lightning. A half dozen others
were stunned but not seriously injured by
the same bolt.
A New Pennsylvania Railroad.
HARRISBURG, July 81.—The state depart
ment granted a charter for 999 years to the
Alleghany and Lawrence Railroad compa
ny. The road is to run from Bryant, in ;
Alleghany county, to Moravia, in Lawrence I
county.
Robbed of His Savings.
ALLENTOWN, July 31.—The house ot
Joseph Anthony, a farmer near Allentown,
was robbed of $482 while the family were
in the harvest field.
A Reading Contractor Missing.
READING, July 31.—Henry M. Wagner, a
Reading contractor, is missing.
Doth Sisters Are Ninety.
KENNETT SQUARE, July 31.—The Stack
house sisters, twins, living near Kennett j
Square, celebrated the ninetieth anniver
sary of their birth.
One Effect of the Coal Combine.
PHILADELPHIA, July 31.—The mining em
ployees of the Philadelphia and Reading
Coal and Iron company for the first time in
three years wiil be paid at the full two-fifty
basis rate for the last two weeks of July and
first half of August. The rate is based on
the selling price of coal, wages fluctuating
accordingly.
Destructive Pennsylvania Storm.
IIARRIBBURG, July 29.— York was visited
by a severe storm. Houses were unroofod,
buildings wrecked and one man was killed.
In Lancaster county great damage was
done by lightning. Near Reading six barns !
wero struck at once.
A Young Philadelphia Borgia.
PHILADELPHIA, July 29. —Because of an
upbraiding for lettiug loose a parrot, Cath
arine McCurdy, thirteen years, of Nine
teenth and Christian streets, attempted to
kill Charles Zellor with poison. Bho was
arrested.
Scranton Took First Honors.
READING, July 29.— The state sanger
bund held a monster street parade in
Reading. The prizes of Tuesday's singiug
contest were awarded, the Scranton society
winning first honor, the Wilkesbarre san
gerbund second and the Williarasport turn
verein third.
Hit Him with a Hatchet.
PHILADELPHIA, July 29.— Edward Com
fort, sixteen years old, struck his father,
Winchester Comfort, of 1413 North Seven
teenth street, on the head with a hatchet,
causing a compound fracture of the skull.
He claims to have done it in defense of Mrs.
Comfort.
Diamond Cut Diamond.
PHILADELPHIA, July 28.— For working
the badger game on Milt Davis, a notorious
bunco steerer, and relieving him of a roll of |
I money, Edward Keown, Nellie Keown,
John Betz and Anthony Hauley were held
in SI,OOO bail.
The Fifteenth Victim.
| POTTBVILLE, July 28.— Tho fifteenth body
J has been found and removed from York
Farm colliery. A citizens' meeting to raise
funds for the families of the victims has
been called.
A Women Accused.
j PHILADELPHIA, July 28.— Mrs. William
Wood, daughter-in-law of ex-Chief of De
tectives Charles Wood, is charged with em
bezzling $4,000 from C. J. Heppe & Co.
Pattison Gets the Protest.
I IIARRIBBURG, July 28. —Governor Patti
son has received a communication from the
Pennsylvania newspaper correspondents in
Washington protesting against the punish
| ment of Private lams at Homestead. The
: governor has not yet taken any action on
: the protest and simply acknowledged its
! receipt.
Lightning .Strikes Three Brothers.
I PHILIPSBURG, July 28.— During a heavy
storm tho three Runk brothers, living
I near Philipsburg, were struck by light
ning and one of them was fatally injured.
Conductors as Freight Robbers,
I MEADVILLE, July 28.—Conductors Ed
ward Jones and Alfred R. Gould and
Brakeman Edward Coglan, of the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railroad, were
arrested at Meadville for robbing freight
cars. Stolen carpots were fouud on the
floor of each of the three houses in which
| they lived. Joneß confessed.
Ex-Governor Hoyt Very 111.
WILKESBARRE, July 28.— Ex-Governor
Henry M. Hoyt is seriously ill at his resi
dence in Wilkesbarre. A professional nurse
is iu constant attendance. His malady is
said to be a complete destruction of the
nervous system.
Signed by Governor Pattison.
IIARRIBBURG, July 28.—Governor Pat
tison signed the application for the par
don of John and EVederick Williams, of
York county, they having boen recently
convicted of larceny.
Don't Miss This!
For if you do you will lose money by it.
WE NOW BEGIN
Neuburger's Annual Clearing Sale.
We will offer our entire stock, whicli is the largest in
this region, at prices that will astonish you. Call
early if you are looking for bargains as this sale will
last 'f
For Tih Days Oyly !
During this time we will sell goods at prices lower than
were ever before heard ol'.
In the Dry Goods department you can buy:
Handsome dress gingliam-print calicoes, 0 cents per yard; re
duced from 10 cents.
Apron gingham will be sold at 5 cents per yard.
All the leading shades in double-width cashmere, which was
sold at 15 cents is now going at 10 cents per yard.
As handsome an assortment of Scotch and zephyr dress ging
hams as you have ever seen, which we sold at 2<> cents, will
now go at 12J cents per yard.
Lockwood, best sheeting, we will sell at 17J cents per yard,
reducing it from 25 cents.
Fifty different shades of Bedford cord, Manchester chevron
and Henrietta cloth, which were sold at 45 cents, will now
go at 25 cents per yard.
Hosiery department quotes the following:
Men's seamless socks, 5 cents per pair.
Boys' outing cloth waists, 15 cents each.
Men's outing cloth shirts, 20 cents each.
Ladies' ribbed summer vests, 4 for 25 cents.
Ladies' chemise, 25 cents.
We have just received an elegant line of ladies' shirtwaists
and will sell them from 35 cents upward.
Shoe department makes the following announcement:
We have just received a large consignment from the East,
and have not yet had time to quote prices. But we will
say that they will go at prices on which we defy competi- .
tion. Call and examine them.
Clothing prices arc marked as follows:
We are selling boys' 40-cent knee pants at 25 cents.
Men's $1.25 pants are now going at 75 cents per pair.
Boys' blouse suits, 50 cents.
Men's SO.OO suits reduced to $3.00.
Men's Custom-made $9.00 wood-brown cassimere suits re
duced to $5.00.
Men's absolutely fast-color blue suits at $0.50; reduced from
SIO.OO.
We have lowest marks on all goods in our lines of
Ladies' and Gents' Furnishing Coods, Hats, Caps,
Trunks, Valises, Notions, Etc.
Utitgfc llti'Hif s%?*'§
BARGAIN EMPORIUM,
P. 0. S. of A. Building, Freeland, Pa.
Wi
FOR
03 "
And Hardware of Every Description..
REPAIRING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE.
We are prepared to do roofing and spouting in the most
improved manner and at reasonable rates. We have the
choicest line of miners' goods in Freeland. Our mining oil,
selling at 20, 25 and 30 cents per gallon, cannot be surpasssed.
Samples sent to anyone on application.
Pishing' Tackle and
Sporting' Goods.
BIRKBEGK'S,
CENTRE STREET, FREELAND, PA.