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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern as,d Middle States.

Eastern shlu N11QuIe states.
ROBERT McCANN, seven years of age,
saved the life of his five-year-old sister at
Lynn, Mass, by pushing her from TIA tracs,
but he was struck by a train, hurled seven
ty-five feet and instantly killed.
The jury in the case OF Mrs Carrie Vande-
grift, on trial at Mount Holly, N. j., for
poisoning her son Frank G. Norman, with
croton oil, returneda verdict of guilty.
BY the falling of nav stack at the Brad
dock PENN Wire Mill, four Greeks Were
injured two of them fatally.
THE annual competition for the Boylston
prizes for Harvard students in defamation
was held in Cambridge, Mass. The first
prize was won by w. E. B. Dubois, 80. Mr..
DnBois is colored man.
SAMUEL SToDDARD and his wife were killed
at Rochester, N Y, by Detective Thomas
Lynch The tragedy was the outcome Of a
quarrel over line fence.
The great timber dry dock, which has
just been completed for the Government at
the Brooklyn IN. " Navy Yard, was for
mally opened. The United States monitor
Puritan was placed in the new dock amid
great cheering and enthusiasm. Tns dock
cost S56S, ,OOO
The New York Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
ENGINEER GEORGE PEARL and Fireman
henry O'Connor were killed by the e1-
o osion Of locomotive boiler at Buffalo, y. Y.
NEARLY a quarter Of the business portion
of Ellicottville, N. Y, has baen destroyed by
fire.
A FIRE in large building at the military
post at Willets Point Long Island, de-
stroyed valuable torpe1o-5oats, apparatus
and other Government property. The loss
is estimated at about 81, 10000
GEORGE P. WHITNEY, individual book
keeper of the Albany IN. " City National
Bank, has been arrested; charged with en-
bezzlement and making fraudulent entries.
The arrest was made at the instance of the
American Assurity Company, of New York
which is on Whtney's bond for $40, OO0. He
has misappropriated about SS0,0oo.
Ex-DISTRIcr ATTORNEY Ives, Of Essex
County, Mass, was sentenced to two terms
in the State Prison for forgery and embsz-
element.
Ex-MAyoR RICHARD VAUx, Of Phila-
delpaia, was nominated by the Democrats
to succeed Samuel j. Randall in Congress.
WILLIAM H. BIGELow, New England
Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service,
died few days ago at Waterville, Me. He
was born in 1885.
W. a. NJ. SIsrARE, the New York banker,
who failed recently, has been locked up in
Ludlow Street Jail charged with defraudins
a customer, Richard Hecksher, of Philadel-
phia, Of sl12, 900 worth of stocks and bonds.
ROBERT i. WALLACE, nephew and pros
pective heir Of John II. Wallace, editor and
proprietor of Wallace's Monthly and other
publications on trotting matters has disap-
peared after robbing Mr.. Wallace of s52, 600.
PATRICK HIGGINS died at his home in Eliz-
abeth, N. Y, at the age of 1Ol. Higgins
was born in Ireland in 1889, and came to this
country in 1920. Higgins led an active life
up to within a few years of his death.
ENGINEER HAGLEGoNG and Fireman
Kaufman were killed by the explosion of
boiler on the Reading road, near Shamokin,
Penn. George G. Yeager was, also, fatally
injured.
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LATER NEWS,

UNITED STATES SENATOR EDWARD o
WALcoTT, of Colorado, and Mrs. France
Metcalfe Bass, widow of Congressman Bass
were married few days ago in st. Paul.
Cathedral, Buffalo, n Y.
DoRAN G. WRIGHT, of New York city
''outside" Wall street brokers, announc;
their suspension. Liabilities 100000.
N CURTIcE HOLT, a leading citizen oi
Webster N. Y, was instantly killed at thai
station while attempting to board train
He was thirty-seven years old, and beer
School Commissioner several terms.
THE graduating exercises of the Yale
Theological Seminary were held in Battel
Chapel, New Haven, Conn. The gradu-
ating class numbered forty-one.
c. S. WILLIAMS, of the largest bucket
shop in Boston, has suspended. Liabilities
100000.
EVERY State and Territory was repre-
sented in the National Convention of the
knights of Honor recently in session in De-
troit, Mich.
TIE nomination of William D. Sorsby, to
be Consul-General to Ecuador, was con-
firmed by the Senate by strict party vote.
THE Presidenu mas nominated Samuel L.
Gracey, of Massachusetts,, to be United
States Consul at Cardiff, Wales.
THE Senate confirmed the following Okla
homa officials: G.. w. Steele, of Indiana,
Governor; Robert Martin, OF Oklahoma
Secretary; Edward B. Green, Illinois, Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court; R. j. Seay,
Missouri, and J. G. Clark, Wisconsin, Asso-
ciate Justices; W. S. Lurly, Marshal, and
Horace Speed, Oklahoma, Attorney.
FIVE of the persons injured by the explo.
sion of balistita at Avigliana, Italy, have
since died, making the total number OF vic
Tins nineteen.
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Washington.

president HARRISON has arpolnten
Samuel w. Backus Postmaster OF San Fran
cisco, CAL
CAPTAIN WESTON. of the Quartermaster :
Department. who has charge of the dlstrlo u
tion OF ratioas to the sutfere:'S from the re'
cent floods in Louisiana, Mississippi, ArEan
sas and Tennessee, reported by telegraph to
Secretary Proctor that lie has already eS.
nsnIed about s3S, 900 Of the $50, 900 placed tc
his credit. and asked that S5O,O0O more be
added to the fund. The total appropriation
is &l5O,0O0.
THE President made the following nomina'
tions. George W. Steele. of Indiana, to b.
Governor OF the Territory of Oklahoma;
Robert Martin, of Oklahoma, Secretary OF
the Territory of Oklahoma; Supreme Copr' 4lr
officials of the Territory of Oklahoma: Ed
ward B. Green, of Illinois, Chief Justice;
Abraham J. Seay, of Missouri and John G.
Ga Of Wseons4 &rsno As50ci95s Gifted slses state;
Marshal; Horace Speed, Of Oklahoma, United
States Attorney.
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In the House.

18TH DAY.-Mr. Rowel of the Elections
Committee, introduced bill amending the
Supervisors act of 1871. 4. The tariff debate
was continued-spaechs being made by
Messrs. McMillin, Bayne, Burrows, Flower,
Perkins, Dockery, Morse, Cooper, Pierce, En-
loe, Stockbridge, Stewart and Shively..
Hath DAy.-The pension of Mrs; Della ;.
Parnell was reduced to $50 month. Mr..
Caldwell introduced bill to prevent the
dissertation of the United States flag ;... The
Senate bill was passed increasing to $75 a
month the pension 10 the widow of Brigadier
General Ayres. The Speaker announced
the appointment of Messrs. Boutelle, Wal
lace, of New York, and Rusk, as visitors to
the Naval Academy. The debate on the
tariff was continued by Messrs. Gear, Payne,
Fitch, Cannon, Crisp, Walker, Kerr anu
Goodnight.
115rH DAY.--After the reading of the jour
nal the House went into Committee on the
Whole Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in the chair
for the further consideration of the Tariff
bill. Speeches were made by Messrs. Lam
ham, McAdoo, La Toilette, Springer, Ding
Ter and Cummings Mr.. Sanford intro
duced bill to appropriate SlS,4S for tie
completion and dedication OF the monument
commemorating the surrender OF BurSoyne
at Saratoga. Mr.. Dunnell introduced Il
bill to allow any township OF town organized
10TH DAY.-The Tariff debate was con.
tinued, and six paragraphs Of the bill We're
passed.
! 117TH DAY-The Tariff bill was discussed
by MesSrs Butterworth, McMillin, Hatch,
Biggs, and others. :. Mr.. Hansbrough in
troduced bill amending the Interstate
Commerce Act so as to provide that nothing
in that law shall be construed to prohibit
any common carrier from giving reduced
rates of transportation and permit to carry
a weight of sample baggage in excess of the
amount allowed the ordinary traveller to
commercial travellers and members OF the
theatrical profession.
1lSTH DAY.-The debate over the Tariff
bill was continued. Mr.. Flower presented
petition of citizens Of New York in favor
of restriction of immigration; also resolu-
ton of the New York Legislature asking 70"
the adjustment of the claims OF the State
against the United States.
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ATE THEIR GUESTS.
Invited to Feast and Then Toma'
hawked by Cannibals.

Four whites and forty-seven natives who
were going as laborers 70 Australia were
lost by the wreck of q schooner on the New
Hebrides.
The survivors say that about twenty ma
tives and one white man reached shore, but
the islanders after inviting them to feast,
tomahawked and ate the whole crowd, ex-
cept one boy, who escaped:
The schooner was the Eliza Mary, and she
had on board crew of eighteen, two pasSen-
gers, forty-four recruits and fifteen return
ing laborers During binding storm the
schooner was driven on the reefs at Malli-
colo.
A boat, manned by four white men and sew
eral blacks, was lowered, but was dashed to
pieces in an attempt to gain the shore. The
four white men and a number of the blacks
were drowned.
About twenty of the blacks succeeded in
swimming to shore and making their way to
Mission Station, ten miles distant. Here the
castaways were given food, but while eating
the savages set upon and began tomahawk-
ing them. OF the twenty only one, boy,
succeeded in escaping. In all four white men
and forty-seven blacks were lost.
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Foreign.

A HEAVY wind storm has blown down five
arches of the aqueduct, and the City OF Mex
leo is without drinking water.
THREE men were executed in Matanzas,
Cuba, for kidnapping.
THE use Of the Russian language in the
schools Of Finland has been made compul
sorry.
The Home Rule candidate in the East
Bristol (England Parliament election was
returned with an increase majority.
A DESPATCH from the city of Mexico say;
the rise in real estate and rents there is in
credible.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH, the American
burg.
The ball given by United States Minister
Reid in Paris was the largest OF the season
The guests numbered 1900.
SEVERE floods have caused great damage
along the River Darling, in Australia.
The Senegalese King has basn murdered
by some of his subjects. He had tried to
impose upon them European ideas which hs
had imbibed at the Paris Exhibition.
AT the Allsizes Fort, near Namur, Bel
gium, where rebuilding operations are being
carried on, a portion Of the work collapsed,
and twenty persons were buried IN the DEBRIS
Five corpses were recovered from the ruins.
Twelve other persons were injured.
The village of Tiefenasten, il the Canton
of Graubunden, Switzerland, has been al
most completely destroyed by fire. Only q
hotel and q few houses are left.
The Alexander Prison ut Irxutsk, Russia,
has been burned, and three convicts per-
ished in the flames.
GENERAL SIR FREDERICK MIDDLETON,
commanding the Canadian Militia, has been
convicted by COMMITTEES OF members OF
Parliament at Ottawa, Canada, of lootlng
furs valued at $4,000 or $4,000 in the late
Northwest Rebellion.
A HOUSE occupied by family named
Wynn was burned at Campbelford, Canada
William Wynn, thirteen years old. and his
grandmother, Mrs. Catherine Soules, were
years old and helpless. The boy lost his Life
in attempting to save her.
THE Emin Pasha Expedition into the in
terror of East Africa has met with disaster
in the death of many of its porters. The
total loss of porters by death and deserton
amounts to one-quarter of the whole num-
ber engaged to accompany the expedition.
A DISPATCH from Kotonou, Dahomey, At
TlCa, says. Dul IlS al eACuduSoO u - AiooH~i''
nine Dahomans committed suicide by throw
ing themselves into the waters of the har-
Dor.
A QUANTITY Of balistite, the new explo-
sive, exploded at the factory for the manu-
facture of arms and munitions at Avigliana,
Italy. Fourteen persons were instantly
killed and many others were injured, some of
them fatally.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND persons witnessed the
last performance of the famous bull fighter
Frascuelo in Madrid, Spain. Afterward the
retiring matador was escorted through tae
streets by an immense crowd.
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MANY DEADLY TORNADOES,
Great Damage in Kansas, Missouri,
Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Great loss of life and property by tor.
nadoes is reported from various Western
points.
The storm originated in the western part
of Wilson county, Kansas and bore almost
directly eastward, passing through Prairie,
Guilford and Pleasant Valley townships, but
did not cause serious damage until it reached
the last named, ther the funnel shaped cloud
dipped downward and whirled into frag-
ments houses. barns and other objects that
came within its scope.
Four or five miles northeast of Altoona
. the farm, residence and barn of Joseph Wiltz
were torn to pieces, and Harvey Witt, aged
sixteen years, who was in the barn, was in
stantly killed. The house Of Frank Glidden,
one mile east of Wiltz's. was torn to pieces,
and Mr.. Glidden and an infant child were
killed by flying timbers.
Quite number of other farm houses were
totally destroyed and great damage done.
The tornado passed north Of Blythedale,
and as many barns and outbuildings The
family of Henry Young were all injured,
Mrs. Young fatally. The storm passed in a
northwesterly direction.
At Akron, Ohio, hundred buildings lie
in ruins. Not stick or stone is standing.
Piled in confused mass, they attest tie
awful fury of the cylone.
Hundreds more are badly damaged. The
tornado swept through the city, cutting a
swath from fifty to $50 feet wide and two
miles long. Everything in its path was de-
stroyed. Buildings were hurled to the ground
like paper houses.
Of the eighteen persons who were injured
all will probably recover.
Seventy-fve buildings including residences
and barns and outhouses were damaged by
the wind, and not one escaped that was in
the direct line of the tornado.
A terrible cyclone passed over Franklin,
Penn. Two people, Noah Jackson and wife,
were killed outright, and large number of
persons dangerously injured. The storm was
general throughout the county, but the deadly
cyclone, only about 300 feet wide, extended
about twenty-five miles. Everything in its
path was demolished, trees uprooted and
houses and barns completely demolished. In
one instance house containing an invalid was
struck, and the bed containing the sick man
was lifted up bodily and carried out on to
the yard, where it fetched up against tree.
The sick man was badly injured.
A large number Of cattle were killed. The
part of the cycloEe extended from near, the
county line to Allegheny River
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KILLED AND EATEN.
A Frenchman Falls Victim to Can
nibals in the Congo Basin.

nibals in the Congo Basin.
The news is confirmed of the killing of
Mr.. Musy, the commander of the French
post at Bangui, on the Mobangi branch of the
Congo in Africa. He is the second white
man who has been killed by the natives in
the Congo Basin. The first was the comrade
OF Captain Trivier in his trip last year across
the continent. 1t was not concluslvely
known till about three weeks ago that
Trivier's comrade was murdered.
Mr.. Musy was killed, with twelve men OF
his station, on January 3. He had left his
post with many native allies from the Bo-
tambi and jacob tribes to chastise the vii
lage of Salanga for making slave raids upon
villages that were in friendly relations with
the French During the fight which followed
his arrival at Saanga all his allies deserted
him and he and the twelve men of his station
were left alone, surrounded by the enemy in
overpowering numbers. Musy kept the saw
ages at bay until his ammunition was COM
petely exhausted, and he was then killed by
an assegai. All his men perished with him
and their bodies We're eaten by the cannibals
who overcame them. The station at Bangui
was re-established by the French twenty
four days after the lamentable death of its
commander.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

PRINCE BISMARCK has l03 decorations.
CHAUNcEY NJ. DEPEw began life as story
writer.
POET TENNYsoN's hair now falls below his
shoulders.
EXPLORER STANLEY threatens to become
an Englishman.
ADELINA PATTI the opera queen, is an ac-
complished linguist.
JAMES WHIrcoMB R1LEY's poems bring
him from SIS to $50 each.
QUEEN CHRISTINE, of Spain, is thirty-one
very pretty and very popular.
Dom PEDRO, ex-Emperor Of Brazil, is
writing for the scientific magazines.
IT is said that Bismarck and the Emperor
are reSuming their friendly relations.
BILL NYE's income from his humorous
writings is not less than $50, 600 year.
MRS. FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT is said
to have made $500, 900 writing novels.
THE King of the Belgians is thinking of
visiting America in the interest of Congo
loan.
SENATOR BLAIR, of New Hampshire, is an
azure-eyed, sandy-haired man with flowing
beard.
MRS. VIRGINIA L. FARRAGUT, widow Of
Admiral Farragut. draws pension OF S2OO0
year.
JoHND. RoCKEFELLER the Standard Oil
king was a newspaper reporter quarter OF
century ago.
Ex-MAYoR ABRAM S. HEWITT, of New
York city, has something like S5,OOO,OOO in
vested in the South.
BLowITz, the Peris correspondent of the
London Times. gets the biggest pay of any
newspaper man in Europe.
ALLEN w. THURMAN, the son of Allen q.
Thurman, is gray haired man, about forty
years OF age, and has only one arm
JUSTICE FIELD, of the United States Su.
preme Court, will not make his usual visit to
California this year, but go to Europe IN
stead.
KING CHARLES, of Roumania, has salary
of 5000, 900 year. He is tifty-one years OF
age, and military affairs abSorbS his atten-
| tion most of the time.
ACTING GOVERNOR TAGGART, of New
| Hampshire, who was born in 1888 and gradu-
ate1 from Harvard i'll 1913, Is the youngest
| Chief Executive i'll the United States.
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES is the most indie.
| fatigabe traveller among women authors.
She has recently completed years tour OF
| the world and is now going to Alaska
JOAN DUSHAM, who has just been ap-
pointed consul to San Domingo, is colored
resident of Philadelphia of ability and Char
acter. He is at present engaged on the edi-
toral staff of the Bulletin.
THE young Kaiser of Germany is rock
| less horseman, and it is said that many chill
dren have been knocked down by MS charger
on the thoroughfares of Berlin: great
part of his TINA spent in the saddle.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN W. L. SCOTT, of Penn
syivania, has tried buttermilk that has been
| heated to the boiling point without boiling,
and then permitted to cool, and enthusiastic
1 ally recommends it as cure for dyspepsia.
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TEMPERANCE.
WRITING TO MOTHER,

There was a noise and hustle, and busy feet,
And glare of light in the grand hotel,
As men were hurrying to and fro,
With many joke and story to tell.
Busily writing young man sat-
As his friends passed by: "Are you almost
They asked as they gathered by his side.
Its rather long for a billet doux,
To whom are you writing? Come, tell us,
Il am writing to mother, boys he said.
A hush fell over the noisy throng.
In the bar close by glass was near
To the lips of wandering, wayward boy.
He lowered his hand. With look of fear
The drinker stopped as the holy word
Of mother" reached his startled ear.
He turned and left the merry crowd,
As bis thoughts went back to mother
dear
With bent, and throbbing, and aching head
HE is writing to mother" he tenderly said.
And far away, in her little home,
The mother watched for the postman's
ring,
With eager ear and anxious face,
For the letter she knew the post would
bring.
And over and over she read each line
In which he told his doubts and fears,
And when he wrote her Of his success,
Rer eyes were filled with happy tears,
And, bending and kissing the dear word,
Fred"
"He has written to mother" she lovingly
said.
Albert H. Hardy in Detroit Free Press.
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FIRE DESTROYS A TOWN.
Many Persons Saved by Brave College
Boys-Loss 100000.

Boys-Loss 100000.
The business portion of Grove City, Penn,
has been wiped out of existence by de-
structive fire. The flames originated in the
Fosters barber shop at two o'clock in the
morning, and with inconceivable speed swept
through the town down the main street, de
vouring everything in its path. The absence
Of extingushing apparatus and strong
wind thwarted the efforts to extinguish the
fire. Hundreds of brave students of Grove
City College fought the flames with heroic
energy, but in vain. They aided many per.
sons to escape who would otherwise have per-
ished.
Imperfect means Of communication pre-
vented assistance until about daylight, when
fire engine from Greerville arrived just in
time to save an immense livery establish
ment, and to finally bring the fire under con-
troll.
The bank, which stood next to the house
first burned, and the college buildings were
saved. Besides many stores, the Chenango
g. Allegheny depot, beautiful new struc-
ture, was destroyed. Thelossi is estimated at
100000.
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MURDERER AND SUICIDE,
Abel Bcrgerson POisons His Two
Children and Himself

News has been received of the suicide at
Spraugueville, N. Y, of Abel Bergerson,
who first poisoned his two young children
with rat poison and then took the stuff him
self.
Bergerson belonged to Eboulements, in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, and was
accompanied to the United States by q
ments as Lucie It was her desertion that
apparently induced the commission Of the
crime for he left letter. in which he said:
II have nothing now to live for My
blonde Lucie is dead to ME forever. I am
satisfied to end my days. for nobody can have
more trouble than I have"
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Horrible Triple Tragedy.

A horrible triple murder was committed
in Bentleysville, Penn. John Crouch q
wealthy farmer aged seventy five years, his
wife aged seventy, and his son Andrew, aged
thirty-ive, were found by neighbors at an
early hour in the morning in their beds with
their throats cut from ear to ear. Andrews
head had been mashed with a club. The
bodies were cold and had evidently been
murdered some hours. The house was stand
ing open and the attention Of one of tht
neighbors had beec attracted.
The murdered persons were the wealthiest
in that part of the county, and the theory is
that the murder was committed to get the
money which was generally supposed Crouch
kept about his house. Searching parties
were started out in all directions, but no
clue could be found to the perpetrator.
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Big Forest Fires in Wisconsin.

The great forest fires which have been
raging in northern Wisconsin at intervals
for two weeks past have been gaining ground.
The greatest loss has been sustained in the
neighborhood of Kingsbridge, where the
tents, and large number of buildings have
been destroyed. Thousands of acres Of val
liable timber have been burned, and nothing
but heavy rains will save other timber
tracts,
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Three Fatal MishapS.

Maggie O'Reagan and Pauline Gonzales,
10th aged about five years, while playing
near pile of lumber in Galveston, Texas,
were struck by some beams which were
knocked down by Peter Petersons. dray;
Maggie O'Reagan was instantly killed and
Pauline Gonzales was fatally hurt.
Shortly after this accident CORONER John.
son was caught between two freight cars and
crushed so badly that he died shortly after.
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Serious Riots in Spain

Mining riots are reported at Ortuella, Por.
tugalete and Desierto, in Spain. At the last
named place the miners stoned the troops,
who fired in the air. The strikers continuing
on the offensive, the soldiers sent volley
into the crowd, killing several and wound
ing others. Renforcements of troops were
constantly arriving. The whole province Of
Biscay has been placed under martial law.
Business was at standstill and railway
traffic was almost wholly suspended.