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DASTARDLY LYNCHERS.
A Partially Insane Man Hanged by a
Masked Mob,

Hans Jacob Olsen, aged fifty years, was
torn from his house at Preston, Wis, and
lynched by a party of masked men. Olsen
was partially insane and somewhat quarrel
.ome. and had been ordered by neighbors
TO leave the country. He was seized in bed,
nulled out and his hands tied behind him
despite his desperate struggles and the
screams of the family. Without even allowing
him time to put on his clothes the men led him
out of the house. Once outside Olsen learned
what was to be done with him. He caught
sight of q new rope hanging over the limb
of a large tree which stands not more than
twenty feet from the little cabin which was
his home. He struggled to free his hands,
tearing the flesh from his wrists until they
bled freely: but finding himself unable to get
loose submitted in sullen silence. The rope
was put around his neck and willing hands
drew him up to strangle. His legs were not
tied and his kicking and struggling were
fearful. The lynchers remained some time,
however, lest he might be cut down before
he was dead. Then, after shouting threats
of lynching any one who should dare
cut down the body, they dispersed.
The body was discovered in the
morning, but was not cut down
until the Coroner arrived. No evidence as
to the identity Of the lynchers was offered
before the Coroner's jury. In Preston it is
common gossip that the lynchers were led by
one of the most prominent farmers in Fres-
ton.
Olsen had served five years in State Prison
for loading wood with powder with intent to
blow up the stove of q family at Blair Arriv-
ing home from Waupun, he was shortly after
ward sentenced to the County Jail for six
months for threatening the lives of his
family, He had Just returned home from
the County Jail when he was hanged.
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LATER NEWS.

TWELVE persons were hurt, some it was
thought fatally, by a collision between an
express and freight train near Greensboro
Penn.
THREE Italian women were shot in
tenement-house fight in New York city and
one died
THE TEXT of the bill to be presented i'll
Congress for locating the international EX-
position of 1892 in New York city was agreed
upon.
In riot among colored men at Robson
County, N. c., three men were killed and
several others injured.
DAVID J. BREWER, of Kansas, nominated
by the President to be Associate Justice OF
the United States Supreme Court, was born
at Smyrna, Asia Minor, in 1887, his parents
being missionaries at that place. He
graduated from Yale College in 1856, and
in 1859 settled down as lawyer i'll Leaven-
worth, Kansas. After holding several
judicial positions President Arthur appointed
him United States Circuit Judge.
THE Board of Survey on the United States
steamship Brooklyn, now at Norfolk: Va,
has reported to the Navy Department that
she cannot be repaired within the twenty per
cent. limit and she will therefore be COR
demned and appraised for sale.
THE National Wool Growers Convention
which met in Washington called in body
and paid their respects to President Har-
rison.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Zanzibar states
that Henry NJ. Stanley has arrived at Bag
amoyo, on the east coast OF Africa. he Is
accompanied by Emin Pacha and TWO nun
dred other persons.
SErRnIsHEs have taken place between the
Turkish troops and the people oil crete III
which three gendarmes and five soldiers were
killed,
THE Turkish Government has instructed It's
delerates to the Anti-Slavery Conference at
Brussels to oppose any intervention IN the
trade in Circassian women.
THE publisher of the Munster E'pTesS' an
Irish PAPER. has been sentenced to two
months Imprisonment for reporting meet
ing at which boycotting was advocated.
THE editor of the Indepcndcate, an Italian
paper printed in Trieste, has been expelled
from Austria by the Vienna Government,
for publishing seditious and insulting artt
! clpS.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

BUFFALO BILL is said to be worth 4,O0o,.
700.
GovERSoR-ELEcr CAMPBELL, of Ohio, is
all inveterate smoker.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has written letter favor
ing local option prohibition.
INVENTOR KEELY, of the motor fame, be-
gins to show the marks Of age.
SECRETARY RUsK is making a collection
Of orchids and chrysanthemums.
Mrs. HARRISON says that the stare of the
crowd is one of the trials of her life.
Mrs. Quay, wife of the Pennsylvania Sen
ator, was a great belle in her girlhood.
ELIJAH HALFoRD, the Presidents private
secretary, has taking to horseback riding.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, the novelist,
will remain in the South Seas this winter.
Hon SAMUEL J. RANDALL is reported to
be much improved in health and strength.
EXPLORER STANLEY will he able to eat his
New Years dinner in London if he feels
like it.
Mr.. AND MRS. EMMoNs BLAINE have taken
for the winter one of the finest houses in Bal
timore.
THE new biography Of Roscoe Conkling
will contain 600 pages. The author is Alfred
R. Conkling.
SECRETARY PROCTOR occupies the largest
house in the Cabinet circle in Washington
It contains thirty rooms.
VICE-PREsIDENT MORTON has already
achieved the distinction of being the best
dressed man in Washington.
Mr.. PHELPS, who was recently our Minis
ter to England, has determined to take up
his permanent residence in New Haven Conn
JOHN B. ALLEN, United States Senator
from the new State of Washington, is ma
tive of Maine who went to California in the
forties.
A FUND for the benefit of the family of the
late Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer,
has recently been started in London by
Grant Allen.
ISABELLA, of Alcau,ara. until the recent
revolution Princess Imperial of Brazil, is
very devout, charitable, self-willed, eccentric
and unpopular.
WILLIAM HENRY CILBY, who died re-.
Gently at Lima, Peru, was one of the best
known railroad projectors and constructors
in South America.
ONE of ex-Emperor Dom Pedro's last
official acts was to confer the order of the
Rose of Brazil upon NJ. Naudin, IN expert
enced horticulturist.
If General Boulanger wants to make
money, all he has to do is to accept the re
cent offer made to him for a course Of lee.
lures in the United States
SIR BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, who died re-
Gently in London, was descended from the
famous Rabbi of Padua, Meir Katzenellenbo-
gen, or Maharam. one of tho influential Jews
Of the sixteenth century. -..-----
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Foreign.

ANAN belonging to the Bombay Lancers
ran amuck in the camp of the regiment at
Bombay, India, and killed Commandant
Heyland and two other officers.
THE Canadian Minister of Patents has sus
tanned the Edison patent for incandescent
lighting and quashed the petition of the
Royal Electric Light Company of Canada.
MEssRs. KFNDLER, the famous bankers Of
Vienna, have failed, with liabilities of =, 800,
600 forms
ABOUT 1000 dockmen and lightermen went
on strike at Bristol, England, causing the
trade of the port TO be paralyzed.
NJ CoRvIL1AN, the proprietor of the Ant
werp Cartridge Factory, which exploded las,
September, and engineer, NJ. Delaunay, have
been sentenced to terms of imprisonment, the
former to four years and six months, and the
latter to one year and six months.
An explosion took place in a colliery al
Bochum. Germany, by which fourteen per
sons were killed and four injured.
A PLOT to assassinate Premier Tisza, oi
Hungary, was discovered and frustrated.
MARTIN FARoUHAR UPPER, the poet
died at his home in London, aged seventy
nine years.
THE draft Of all Irish Land bill has beer
submitted to a committee of the English
Cabinet by Secretary Balfour and Lore
Ashbourne.
W. H. HARVEY, who in March last mur
dered his wife and two daughters, wa!
hanged at Guelph. Ontario. The execution
was one of the worst pieces of bungling thai
was ever witnessed, the man being tortured
to death.
FRANCE has recognized the Brazilian Re
public; the old flag has been readopted by
the new Government.
The steamer Alagoas arrived at St. Vim,
cent, Cape de Verd Islands, with the exiled
Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, on board.
TWENTY people were killed and one hun.
dred wounded by the fall of theatre gallery
in Japan.
MoUssA BEY, the Turkish official accused
of murder, arson and pillage in Armenia,
has been acquitted
SPECTATORS at bull fight in the City OF
Mexico grew angry because the bulls refused
to fight and demolished the plaza.
CHICAGO gentlemen resident in London
had big banquet to boom the Lake City fol
the Worlds Fair.
A TERRIBLE disaster has occurred at Vein
helm City, in the province of Shantung,
China, where a platform which had been
erected to accommodate spectators at a
theatrical display suddenly collapsed killing
two hundred persons.
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WATSON G. SQUIRE.

Watson C. Squire was born at Cape VIM
cent n. Y, on May 1s, 1888, graduated from
the Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn,
in 1859. He studied law at HerAmer, N. Y,
hut was afterward elected principal OF the
Morayia Institute. At the breaking out OF
the war he enlisted as private and went to
the front. He was promoted to First Lieu
tenant of Company T, Nineteenth New YORK
Infantry. in which regiment deserved, on the
Upper Potomac until 1862, when ne was vas
honorably discharged: In the 1ali
Of that year he raised a crack corp corps OF Of
sharp-shooters in Cleveland, where ne 9,
then lived. He participated IN al
the battles of the Army OF the Cumberland.
During the latter portion Of his term Of ser.
vice he was Judge Advocate OF the Dlstr1ct
of Tennessee. At the close Of the war
he was appointed managing agent OF the
Remington rife makers, and in that capacity
visited the capitals Of Russia, Spain, Turkey,
Mexico and other countries. Later he was
made business manager for the Remlngtonss,
and during 1871 and 1872 he negotiated WIN
the French Government, selling that na1on
over sl5 600, 900 worth Of arms. I'M 1879 ne
removed to Washington Territory, and d III
1884 he was appointed Governor OF the Ter
ritory by President Arthur. With Mr.. Allen
he was elected by the Republican majority In
the Legislature Of Washington to represent
the new State in the United States Senate.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

PRINCETON defeated Yale by score Of 10
to O. winning the intercollegiate football as
sociation championship.
JACOB Fl. HALDERMAN ex-Minister to Swe-
den. has died at Harrisburg, Penn, III MS
siXty-ninth year
FIFTY-NINE persons comprising the ere"
and passengers of the steamer Santiago,
burned in mid-ocean, arrived at New York
on the American ship a. j. Fuller. Ihey
had been compelled to abandon the steamer
in four boats, which werepicked up next day
by the ship.
WHILE the Lehigh Valley coal train was
entering the tunnel at Pattenburg, N. D., a
landslide. from the side of the mountain
wrecked eight cars and a boiler house, ana
killed the engineer, William Blgley.
TIE large three masted schooner Germanla,
of Bremen, from Stettin to New York, Went
ashore off West End, Long Branch. The life
saving crew went to her assistance, but she
broke ND in the surf. The mate and three Oh
tbe crew were saved. Captain Windhorst,
EIGHT sailors and the cook were drowned. Inc
captain is said to have been drunk: Inc
schooner was very old. The bodies Of four
of the lost sailors were washed ashore near
Sandy Hook.
THE three-months- s-old daughter of w. A.
Reyburn at Atglen, Penn, was found dead In
he'd with the family cat on the chllds mouth
and nose. Death was eaused by suftocatlon.
AT the Merrimac County Farm, in North
Boscaween. N. H., woman named Bennett
seized slight delicate woman, from chester,
Sarah c. Wood, carried her to bathroom
threw her into tub, held her down, ana,
turning on the cold water, finally drowned
her.
AT the investigation of the wreck of the
Germania at Long Branch, N: j., one OF the
rescued seamen swore that IN his OPINION the
vessel was purposely lost.
One Italian laborer was killed and another
fatally injured by bank OF earthcavlng III
en- them at Brookline, Mass.
LATER reports put the number of build
ings burned in Lynn, Mass, at 33O, and the
losses at about 81, 300, ,00O
THE New York Worlds Fair guarantees
fund of s.. 000 600 has been completed.
CHARLES H. TURNER the young iceman OF
New York city, has been elected to Congress
in the Sixth Congressional District
THE new steam ferryboat Gratin OF the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, while
being taken to New York from Baltimore,
burned at sea. She cost $50, 600. All the
crew were rescued.
An explosion from the bursting of an am.
monia pipe connecting with a patent ice
machine, blew the inside out Of Charles
Trefz's three story brick brewery in Newark,
y. j.. wrecking fifty huge watts, flooding the
neighborhood with beer and causing loss OF
$4,000.
EARTHQUAKE shocks which occurred at
Alton Bay. N. H., and vicinity caused stop
page of clocks and breakage of glassware.
A FISHING boat, in which were Charles
Hovt. John Batchelder and Robert Bridges
was capsized off Norman's Woe, Mass, and
Hoyt and Batchelder, who lived in New
Hampshire, were drowned.
A DOZEN Connecticut Postmasters have
been fined $50 and costs for selling stamps on
credit.
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MUSICAL ANg DRAMATIC.

EDWIN BOOTH is only fifty-six years old.
BRONSON HOWARD will begin work on
new play in January.
Mrs. JOHN DREW is to remain with the
Jefferson-F Florence Company next season.
Mrs. kendall the English actress now in
this country, is the mother Of eight children.
FoRTY-NINE theatres are now delighting
Italian audiences with operatic performances
IT coo,,.TN Nv has had brilliant successin
Hamburg, where he play.c: =, S'"t enee
ment.
MRS. POTTER will begin professional tour
in Australia next spring, supported, as nefe-
tofore, by Kyrle Bellew.
THE eossips have it that Henry Irving VIII
retire from the boards a year hence, naVlhs
accumulated fair sized fortune.
NINE. MopJEsKA has never seen Lady Mac
beth PLAYED. Her conception of the role IS
therefore said to be something remarkable
MADAME ANNA MEHL1G, the celebrated
pianist, has once more appeared in public at
one Of the London Crystal Palace concerts.
ONE Berlin Germany piano. factory,
during 1883, shipped 800 grands and $50 up
rights to Mexico, Brazil and the Argentine
! Republic.
who won fame in Europe, has made her debut
in New York at the Amberg Theatre IN
"Mignon."
Miss ANNE PATTERSON has been awarded
the first degree of Doctor Of Music which
| any lady has yet gained at the Royal Uni
versity of Dublin.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American singer,
is at present in Paris, where she is preparing
| for her winter tour, which commences at
| Barcelona and finishes at Madrid.
CHARLES WYNDHAM and Mary Moore are
under engagement to play ''The Headless
Man in Germany, and in German, after
their return from their American tour.
S1EGFRIED WAGNER, son Of the famous
| composer, has determined to devote himself
to music, and has entered his name upon the
roll of the music school at Frankfort -on-the-
Main.
Mrs. PEstBERToN-HINKs is one of the few
professional singers who prefer to 60 before
an audience empty-handed. She hangs her
arms at her side, with her palms in and her
elbows out.
HUBBARD SMITH sold his song 'Listen to
Ny Tale of Woe" to a publisher for s15. A
few days ago a British house offered him
10000 for the exclusive right to publish the
song in Europe.
| Miss ELIZABETH ROBINS, q talented young
! American actress, has recently appeared in
4, London with marked success at an afternoon
performance of new play by DR.. Dobbs,
entitled ''Her Own Witness"
The union of Joseph Jefferson and W. j..
Florence as joint stars has proved so success
ful this season that these two actors have de-
citled to continue partnership, and contracts
have already been signed between them for
| next season.
THE fire scene in 1.-THE Streets of London: "
as Dion Boucicaults play is known in Eng
land. has been fatal to theatre al last. The
! Royal Victoria Theatre, Staleybridge, was
destroyed the other day by flames which
owed their origin to this realistic stage pict-
| ure.
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John B, ALLEN.

Ind. NAV is, 1S43. He lived at or near ms
native town until 1864, when, although no1
yet nineteen years of age, he enlisted IN I'm tne
i3Sth Indiana Infantry, and served IN len
nessee and Alabama until mustered OUT: IN
1855, with his parents, he became resiaehe Io
of Rochester, Mimi, where for year ne
served as agent for a firm OF gram men:
Next he read law in the office OF Judge
Wilson, of Rochester, and soon entered aee 5ne
law school at Ann Arbor, Mich. In leo9
he was admitted to the bar, ana IN
1870 became a resident of Olympia,
the present Capital of the new State; wnere
he opened a law Office. He soon became
popular and obtained a lucrative Prectlce.
In 1875 he was appointed United states
Attorney for Washington Territory; IN
1881 he made the city Of Walla Walla ms IS
abiding place, where he has built up what is
probably the most lucrative as well as tne
most successful practice Of any attorney oa m
Eastern Washington. In 1857 he was cnosen
to represent Washington in Congress oy
majority of 1871 over his Democratic op-
ponent, Charles S. VOORHEES,, who for Two
terms had been the Territorial Delegate.
When Washington Territory became a State
he rsas elected to the United States Senate
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FRANK Macarthur, son of an ex-Judge o1
The Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia jumped from an express train near
Washington and was instantly killed. He
vas insane at the time.
THE public debt statement shows that the
reduction of the public debt during Novem.
ber amounted to s4,S69,612 The total
cash in the Treasury is sG11, ,224, 505.22.
THE United States steamer Enterprise,
in English waters and under orders to come
home, has been ordered by the Navy Depart
ment to proceed to Antwerp to receive the
remains of ex-Minister Pendleton, and to
convey them to the United States for burial.
GOVERNMENT receipts in November were
$50, TIC a67, and expenditures aggregated
s25, 334, 75S.
THE Civil Service Commission in its an.
nual report says that about $4,000 Govern.
ment employees now come under its Jurlsdlc'
ton.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THERE are over 10000 coal miners in
Wales.
THREE more cotton mills are to be started
in Georgia.
THE tile layers of Pittsburg want to form
q national union. .=
The ironmolders of Boston propose to start
sick benefit fund.
THERE are 10000 men and women emT
ployed in Ohio's factories.
THE English Board Of Trade reports 5Os
strikes during 1888, with Sc, 600 strikers.
A GOOD number of the Key West, Florida,
cigarmakers who struck have gone to CUBA
The Commoner and Glass,rorker, of Pitts.
burg, says that organized workmen are Wild,
the Brotherhood Of Baseball Players.
THE American Federation of Labor has ap-
pointed T. NJ Gruelle, Of Indianapolis, oit-
ter enemy Of the administration party OF tne
K. of L., a general organizer.
The green-glassworkers Of San Francisco.
have requested Congressman Morrow TO nave
the duty on beer bottles increased. Iney say
it is necessary to save their trade.
SAMUEL GoMPERs, William j. Cannon,
John S. Kirchner and j. F. Mahoney repre-.
sented the International Cigarmakers Union
at the Convention of the American Federa-
tion of Labor.
IT is proposed by the Knights OF LABOR,
Farmers Alliance and American Federation
to unite in memorial to Congress request
ing the passage of bill restricting lmmgra-
ton, in the interest of the eight-hour law. u
JOHN BURNS, the leader Of the London
dock strike, has been prevailed upon to visit
this country in the interest of organized
labor. He is expected to arrive early IN
February and will deliver series Of lectures
under the auspices of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
A CHARTER of incorporation was recently
refused to the employing horseshoers OF
Pittsburg on the ground that their purpose
was to regulate the prices and methods OF
work. Judge Ewing, who so decided re-
Gently. refused to order a union to declare the
strike at O'Hara's Glass Works to be at an
end
THE Seamen's and Firemen's Union IS
making giant strides in organization IL Is
said this is done to secure the ehectiVe CO
operation of the American sailors and nremen
in case the Britishers are compelled to go on
strike for the eight-hour day next May; A
recent attempt to organize the German sailor
failed absolutely.
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HEMMED IN BY FLAMES.
Seven Deaths Caused by Fire i'll
Philadelphia.

Fire broke out about 2:30 A. N. in the
three-story brick building at the corner of
Second and Huntingdon streets. Philadel-
phia. The basement and first floor were
used by Gustave Gross as a bakeshop
and store respectively. The second floor was
occupied as a dwelling by Gross, his wife
and four children, and on the third floor
dwelt Joseph Bitner with his wife and six
children.
The flames, which started in the basement,
burned quickly through the upper floors,
and the following persons were burned TO
death: Mrs. Minnie Gross, Mrs Annie Bit
ner, Ida Bitner, George Bitner, GustaTe
Gross Bruno Gross, Matte Gross.
As soon as the firemen learned that there
were people in the house, they turned their
attention to rescuing them, but the flames
had already made such headway that their
efforts were almost fruitless. Truckclan
Hugh Smith climbed up the awn-
ingepost and into the second story
window. He made his way through the
smoke to the bed on which little Gustave
Gross lay, and picking him up, got him safe
ly out of the building. The lad had, how,
ever, inhaled so much smoke that he died
half an hour afterward.
The wife of Bitner and two OF their
children, Ida, aged six years, and George
a babe of nine months, were In the
third-story front room and were
suffocated by the smoke. When found by
the firemen after the flames had been sub
dued, the mother and her children were hud-
died together on the floor. Mrs. Bltner was
clad only in her night dress, but she had her
shoes on, as though preparing to escape when
overcome by the smoke.
Mrs Gross and her children were asleep on
the second floor She clasped her two-and-
-half-year.old daughter Matte in her arms,
and, hurrying to the third floor, Jusnpeo
from a window to the street
below. She was immediately con-
yeyed with her child to the Episcopal Hos
rifal a short distance away. where the cll!ld
died soon after being admitted. Mrs. Gross
was horribly burned, and in addition suffered
q compound fracture of the arm. She died
shortly after o'clock in the afternoon.
After the fire the firemen found the dead
body of Bruno Gross, aged five years, in the
| bathroom on the second floor, burned almost
to crisp Freda Gross, aged seven, and Clara
Bitner, aged fourteen, jumped from second
story window, and were caught in the arms
of Nj. Gross. These two escaped without i'll
jury. Fritz Erdman, an apprentice, aged
fifteen, also jumped from the second story
and escaped unhurt.
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Washington.

THE annual report Of General Hepburn
Solicitor of the Treasury, shows that during
the last fiscal year 4S66 suits were instituted.
of which twenty-nine were for the recovery
of $685. 515 from defaulting public officers.
p. D. ARMOUR the big Chicago pork
hacker. testified before the Senate Committee
on the dressed-beef monopoly.
A COMMITTEE of the international Marine
Conference reported that the establishment
of permanent International Marine Com
mission was not feasible.
JUST before the opening Of Congress the
Democratic members of the House held
caucrs and adopted resolutions in favor OF
tariff reform as outlined by Clevelands last
message.