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The sun., 1893-08-24
GENERAL.

Three Pennsylvania boys were killed
by a companion.
Badger & Co., furniture dealers at
Boston, Mass, have failed for 100000.
Six hundred Boston street laborers
struck against reduction III pay.
The Montezuma hotel at Hot Springs,
Ark, will be closed.
Judgments for $4,000 were entered
at Lebanon, Pa, against the Lebanon
Brewing company.
"Old Hutch has withdrawn from the
Chicago board of trade and has retired
from business.
The international labor exchange at
New York was opened with a great
labor display.
Switchmen of the Rock Island road
threaten to strike because of reduced
pay.
Fifty-three inmates of the Soldiers
Orphan asylum at Bloomington escaped
from the institution.
Archbishop Corrigan of New York
affirms his loyalty to the pope and to
Satolli.
Yellow fever has appeared in Bruins
wick, GA, the first person stricken be-
ing the government officer detailed to
enforce quarantine.
The Great Northern railway has
made a sweeping cut in salaries that is
expected to result in saving of $780,
900.
Six hundred miners quit work in the
mines of the Kansas & Texas Coal
company at Huntington, Ark, out Of
sympathy with the Kansas strikers.
A hundred Italian railroad laborers
who had been paid with checks ON
which they were unable to secure cash
seized the contractor at East Liver
pool, Ohio, and held him prisoner until
rescued.
Herman Wieberhaus, a German farm
er living near Harrington, Neb, was
missed from home and his body was
found in a field partly devoured by
hogs. How he came to his death is not
known.
Four hundred employees in Wood
ards casket works and furniture factory
at Owasso, Mich. have commenced
work ut reduction of 10 per cent in
wages. There is quite an unsettled
feeling among the men, and they may
strike.
At Jonah, Tex, q mass meeting of
Democrats, Republicans and Populists
was held. The speeches criticising
President Cleveland's message were Of
an incendiary character and the meet
ing wound up in burning Cleveland in
efigy.
Bridget Boyle of Philadelphia, twen-
ty-four years old, was sent to the Penn
sylvania hospital suffering from
strange injury. She had cut off nearly
the whole of her lip, broiIed and eaten
1t. She said she had been ordered to
make a sacriace to God and took this
method of abeying.
The sun., 1893-08-24
OnSTING SoONERS.

Arkansas City, Special Tho troops
of the United States cavalry which haye
been driving out intruders from the Cher
ckee strip preparatory to the opening of
that country to settlement have about
completed their work. livery one on the
strip has been compelled to move out.
Tbe only trouble encountered By the
troops was with the haymnkers, who
have been accustomed each year to gath
er immense quantities of prairie hay.
They at first declined to move on, but the
troops threatened to burr their hay and
machines as well, and .hey reluctantly
moved off. No one Ia allowed to enter
the strip even for the purpose Of crossing
aato Oklahoma. --.....- s.
The sun., 1893-08-24
Personal.

H1irei Butler Storey, editor of Har-
per's Young People, died in New York
last week.
DR.. Branham, of the Marine Hos
pital service, has yellow fever. He is
at Brunswick, Ga.
Judge Napoleon B. Taylor died at his
home in indianapolis He was serving
his third term on the superior court
bench.
Philadelphia has furnished three
fathers of the hOuSe"-Wilfam ID.
Kelley. Samuel J. Randall and Charles
O'Neill.
Theodore TiltOn is said by an Amerl-
can Just returned from abroad 10 he
the most distinguished looking man in
Paris.
The khedive has returned to Cairo,
and has had quarrel with his prime
minister, who was appointed through
English influence.
Ex-Vice President Morton denies the
story that he intends to make Paris
his future home. New York is good
enough for him.
Miss Elizabeth Green of Detroit is
said to be the representative Of Ameri-
can beauty III Europe at present The
emperor of Germany is among her con-
quests.
Mrs Alice Freeman Palmer, in 4
plea for co-educatiOn, asserts that Moth
ing will take the foolish and romantic
notions out of girl so quickly as to
set her at work with young men and
let her find out how little they know.
The Rev. Thomas Mcclure Peters,
D. D., s. T. D., archdeacon of the do
eese of New York and rector of St.
Michaels church, Ninety-ninth street
and Amsterdam avenue, Harlem, was
found dead in bed at Peekskill, \. Y.
The oldest living chaplain of war is
now being sought for by those curious
In such matters. The Rev. John Wal
worth of Wisconsin is claimed to be
he He was chaplain OF the Forty third
Wisconsin volunteers, and is uow
eighty-nine years old.
The sun., 1893-08-24
CASUALTY.

The business part of New Richmond,
Ohio, burned. The loss is 100000.
Several lives are lost in q Chicago
hotel fire.
August Utlant was run over by q
wagon at Gpeenville, Ala, and killed.
Seven persons are killed and many
injured by q railroad accident in Viz
ginia.
Two brothers named Fleener were
drowned while swimming in the Am
Draw river, near Oakland, Ill.
Seth Haskins and Harry Creaston
were overcome by poisonous gases
while cleaning a well near Chillicothe,
Mo-, and died before help arrived.
Richard Lappin, a switchman on the
Lake Erie & Western road at Upton,
Ind, was killed by falling underneath
the wheels of an engine.
Two locomotives, two engine-houses
and coal chltes. property of the Mag
ara Central railroad, burned at st.
Catharines, Ont. Loss, $4,000.
Grace Mcdonald, Fred Roome and
brother of Chicago and Carrie Ham
mond of .WaucOnda, H., were drowned
by the capsizing of a yacht on Bank s
lake.
Mrs. George BuIlard of Multonville,
Mich, was burned to death. She was
demented and, it is supposed, set her
clothing ON fire while an attendant was
temporarily absent.
Ora Shrout, the thirteen-year-old son
of ]. NJ. Shrout, a farmer living near
Oakland, ILL.,, was kicked OH the head
by mule. His skull was fractured.
In rounding a curve near Gunnison,
Col, n coach on q train on the Crested
Butte road left the rails. Express Mes
seger Cuthbert jumped among the
rocks and died from his injuries.
Hammond colliery breaker at Girard-
vile, Pa, burned. 1t had q capacity
of 210,0O0 tons of coal annually and
employed 700 men and boys. The lJss
will reach over $150,000.
Cora Fugate, thirteen years old, of
Brazil, Ind, has been stricken totally
blind. She has been suffering from a
complication of diseases since her mem
orable fast of thirty eight days, which
closed about a week ago.
Sherman HaFens, whose father is di-
rector of the First National bank at
Shelbyville, Ind, was probably fatally
injured by falling from his road cart
and being trampled on by his horse.
Capt. III. Vernon Russell, q retired
English naval officer of means, who has
been stopping for some time in Omaha
on O trip around the world, was found
drowned il the Missouri river at Oma
ha.
Joseph Anthony, a policeman at the
East st. Louis race track, died from the
effects of n fall into cistern q Weel
ago. He is the man who shot gurfmar
Jack Chinn when he had trouble will
Secretary e. G. Sinclair last fall.
The sun., 1893-08-24
NEGROES May RISE.

Birmingham, Ala, Aug. %. Last
week Monroe Smith made an unsuccess-
fnl attempt to Outrage Mrs. De Sears,
near Old Spring Hill. He escaped and
He'd to the swamps. He returned home
to-day and was captured. A mob in
tercepted the sheriff, and taking Smith,
hung him to tree and riddled his car
cass with bullets. The negroes, who
greatly outnumber the whites, are great
ly ncensed, and neigbboring towns are
asked to send assistance as trouble is
greatly feared.
The sun., 1893-08-24

DIR. Robert w. Buchanan. convicted
at New York for poisoning his second
wife, was denied new trial and Sen-
fenced to be electrocutcd
Miss Anna II. Rogers of Grand Rap
ids, Mich. committed suicide by taking
poison, She said i'll II farewell letter
that she felt she was becoming insane.
Pat Meehan went from New York to
Atlanta, Ga, to kill Robert Mcbride.
He shot him dead at the depot. He
refuses to say why he killed Mcbride.
Two highwaymen robbed Glen Keys,
merchant of Flora, Ind, of 500 and
his watch. He resisted and was shot.
His injuries are slight.
Henrietta Hamilton committed sui
eide at st. Louis by taking poison. The
act is said to have been caused by
the refusal of John Conley to marry
her.
w. T. Buchanan, president of the
Coke County and Sutton County, Tex,
banks that suspended IA few days ago,
has been arrested, charged with em-
bezzlement.
The gold brick swindle has been sue
cesSfully worked on farmer named
Fisher at Canton, Ill. Fisher is
wealthy. lie lost 81 1900, and the three
smooth men who worked the trick have
decampad.
Fred Tate, watchman at the Nickel
Plate freight house at Erie, Pa, was
waylaid, beaten by burglars, carried
into the freight house and bound to q
chair. The burglars then blew the safe
open and carried off the money drawer
containing $100 in cash and q large
number of checks.
The body of Harvey BeesIcker was
found on the Big -Four railroad track
near Farmland, Ind. 1t was cut in
two, and his head was badly bruised.
There are evidences that lie had met
with foul play and then been placed
on the railroad to hide the crime, as
the body had been robbed of n gold
watch and ut least 800 in money,
which he had when seen by some
friends there.
The Rev s. D. Roberts committed
suicide at Crab Orchard, Neb., by
blowing his brains out with a shotgun.
lie was formerly presiding elder of the
Beatrice Methodist Episcopal district
and president of the Beatrice Chall-
tauqua association. Several months
ago he began showing signs of despon-
dency, said to be caused by loss of
mental powers. lie was quite wealthy.
The sun., 1893-08-24
ROY KIIJ,En

Oil City, Pa, Aug. 22.-A s. Smith of
McClintockville went into camp with his
family oh the banks of the Allegheny
river near Oleopolis, Saturday Last
zverihg Paul Smith, one of the boys, dis
charged a load of buckshot from a gun
into clump of bushes near the river.
The younger brother, Albert, was missed
from the camp. A search resulted In
finding him dead in the bushes into which
the shot had been fred. He hal been
instantly killed
The sun., 1893-08-24
HANGED A HORSETHTEF

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. p. - Near
Milwood, this county, early this morning
the dead body of Silas Wilson. a aegro
ex-convict and horsethief, was found
hanging to \ tree near the roadside. The
rope that strangled him to death encir-
cled his waist and securely tied his hands
behird his back. Wilson was last seen
last night near Pleasant Ridge in cart
with two farmers, one of whom was
John Buchanan. That the negro wss
lynched is almost certain.
The sun., 1893-08-24
CRIMINAL.

BENJAMIN Allen was found murdered
at Piqua, iii.
A bag containing 1000 silver dollars
was stolen from the Southern Express
company's Office, at New Orleans, La.
The United States Express safe ut
Waterloo, Ind, was blown oDcR, but
the vault was. not reached.
Three men attempted to enter the cx-
press car In Big -Four train at Craw-
fordsvilie, Ind. Messenger Julian shot
one and the others disappeared.
Madeline " Pollard of Louisville has
brought suit against Congressman w.
G. p. Breckenridge for $4,000 for
breach of promise and seduction.
Antoine Kalhlsky and his wife were
attacked by striking miners near Leav-
enWorth, Kan, and severely beaten.
Mrs. Kalulsky may not recover.
The sun., 1893-08-24
RILRNED TO nEAHH

Charleston, Mo-, Aug @. - A negro
cabin five, miles north of here was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning. 1t
was occupied by an old negress and sew
eral small children. The old woman
was paralytic and was burned to a
crisp. An eight-year-old child was so
badly burned that she died three hours
later, and one child, ten years old, has
completely disappeared, and is believed
to have burned to death. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but foul play is sus-
ncctad
The sun., 1893-08-24
TWO FAMILIEs pOIsoNED

Minneapolis, Aug. 22-The family of
Mike Quinn, wife and four children,
and the family of James Nolen, living
respectively at 256 and 25S Second ave
nue. north, were poisoned in some mys-
terious manner yesterday afternoon.
Shortly tfter dinner every one was taken
violently ill. Several of the children suf-
fered acute agony. Medical assistance
was called and by night both families
We're reported as doing well Diseased
pork is thought to have been the cause.
The sun., 1893-08-24
l3LOGDSHED EEARED.

Leav"Dworth. Kan, Aug. 22.AMatters
were at standstill in the North Leaven-
worth shaft to-day. Fifty negroes who
arrived Saturday to work in the north
shaft were threatened and some left for
home. Bloodshed is looked for, as it is
asserted that mahy of the strikers are
armed. The tender of the shaft, under
threats of destruction TO his home, re-
fused to turn a wheel
The sun., 1893-08-24
KILLED BY A Rail-.

Chicago, Aug 22.-While playing base
ball yesterday afternoon Peter Hyland
was struck OIL the back of the neck by
q bail from the hands of the pitcher and
almost instantly killed. His neck was
broken and he died without uttering a
word. Edward J. Carter, the pitcher
who threw the ball, was arrested.
The sun., 1893-08-24
A PATENT POTATO DIccEp

Minneapolis, Aug. 22.-Fred Schaefer,
334 Twenty-second street south, is the
inventor of new potato harvester, run
ming on four wheels, and having a wheel
with long arms attached which carries
the dirt and vines to one side and leaves
the potatoes exposed. The tubers are
passed on to a scoop, which carries them
to an elevator. and they are carried into
a sack ready for marketing.
The sun., 1893-08-24
IAII. RIRD SHOT

Beloit, Kan, Aug. 22.-On Aug 10 w.
c. and Maurice Stevens broke Jail here
Yesterday Sheriff Cochran found them
at the house of James Griffis, north
west of the city. Early this morning the
sheriff and posse surrounded the place
and called on the fugitives to surrender
They answered the request with volley
from their revolvers. The sheriff 70
turned the fire with a shotgun, killing
Will Stevens
The sun., 1893-08-24
WANT VENGEANCE.

Rome, Aug. 22.-Crowds shouted in
the streets of this city between and IL
o'clock last evening. In Genoa anti
French demonstrations were in progress
throughout the evening. The rioters
burned an omnibus and many street
booths. Many of them were arrested.
The efforts of the police to restrain the
crowd was only me0surably successful.
In Naples several collisions between po-
lice and anti-Freneh agitators have taken
place. The people We're marching in the
streets at 10 o'clock shouting for ven-
geanee on France.
The sun., 1893-08-24
WEEKS IS IN COLUMBIA

west Superior. Wss., SpecsaI The
Evening Telegram has this from New
York: John ID. Lindsey, deputy assist
ant district attorney, said there is a
treaty between the United States and
Columbia, where Francis H. Weeks Is
now stopping, under which Weeks might
be brought back. District Attorney
Nicol has charge of the case, and will
act promptly. There is some talk Of
suing Mr.. Weeks nephews, the De
Forests, who are well known in West
Superior.
The sun., 1893-08-24
JUMPED FROM A TRAIN.

st. Louis, Aug. 22.7Tohn Albert,
United States army deserter, escaped last
night by jumping through the window of
a west-bound Missouri Pacific train
while it was running through the city
limits. Albert was in charge of two of
ficials, and was being taken from Wash
ington, D. c., to Fort Supply, Ind. r.,
for trial
The sun., 1893-08-24
WRECKED

Louisville, KY, Aug 22-An Ohio &
Mississippi passenger train from st.
Louis and Chicago, was wrecked by
defective switch at Thirty-fst and Mont
gomery streets at 7:30 a. m. A day
coach, a Pullman and Wagner sleeper
were thrown in the gutter Pullman Con-
ductor Brown, G. B. Wilson, Of The Mis-
souri, Pacific; G. T. Elliott, transfer
agent, and child were slightly bruised.
The sun., 1893-08-24
RJTSTNESS HOUSES pTrpN

Thayer, Mo-, Aug. 22.-Fire yesterday
destroyed a large part of the business
houses in this city. Among the buildings
burned were Westfalrs hotel. Garwood's s
drug store, Woodward's saloon, Keys
grocery, Tribble's law Office postoffice
and barber shop, together with several
vacant buildings. The loss is over $780,
600, partly covered by insurance.
The sun., 1893-08-24
KILLED IN A RUNAWAY

Usage, Iowa, Aug. 22.-Amanda, the
sixteen-year-old daughter of Carl Swan
berg, was killed in runaway near Cedar
river, south of town. A horse attached
to a buggy ran into a wire fence and
the girls head struck post. She lived
four hours after the accident. She was
a member of the Methodist church, loved
by all, and her parents are almost crazed
with grief
The sun., 1893-08-24
STRIKE IN DENVER

Den"cr, Aug. o. One hundred men
employed on the sewers of the city have
struck because Contractor TTindey re-
duced their wfges to $1.20 per day.
Special meetings of the city council and
board of public works have been called,
the symrathies of those bodies being with
the men. 1t was not deemed that wages
would be cut so low when the city let the
contract
The sun., 1893-08-24
DARING ROBBERY,

City of Mexico, Aug. pa daring and
successful robbery was perpetrated in this
city Friday night. The jewelry store
known as the City of New York was
entered and robbed of several thousand
dollars worth of goods. The clerks have
been arrested ON suspicion.
The sun., 1893-08-24
SHOT HIMSELE.

st. Louis, Aug. 22-Maj. John G.
Lullman, we'll known real estate dealer,
and a director in the German-American
Savings bank, committed suicide this
morning by blowing out his brains with
revolver while standing in front of
mirror at his residence.
The sun., 1893-08-24
SERIOIES CHARCES

Columbus, Ind, Aug. 22.-Charges of
immoral conduct were to-day filed against
William J. Griffin, county superintendent
of schools, alleging improper relations
with an unnamed woman. Griffin says
it is a conspiracy to ruin him.
The sun., 1893-08-24
BANKS REOPEN.

Denver, Aug. 22.-The Union and Peo-
ple's National banks which suspended on
July 1S and 10, respectively, opened
their doors for business at the regular
hour this morning, they having complied
with all the requirements of the con-
trOllcr of the currency.
The sun., 1893-08-24
CHINESE MUST GO.

Tulare. Cal, Special-Last night a
mob of white men went to Chinatown,
broke into houses and marched about
thirty Chinese to the railroad depot.
Shots wefe fred to intimidate the Chinese
but none of them were injured. All
the Chinese captured in the raid were
sent north on train.
The sun., 1893-08-24
SERVED HIM RIGHT.

Tiftin, Ohio, Aug. 22-W'illiam Ensel, u
wealthy farmer living five miles north of
this city, drew $400 from bank and
placed the money in an iron safe in his
home Saturday night. During the night
masked robbers broke into the house and
compelled him to surrender the cash to
them
The sun., 1893-08-24
STORES DFSTRDyED

Sioux Falls, S. D., Aug. pa fire de-
stroyed two of J. T. Gilbert's store build
irgs. Loss, $1:,4OO; insurance, $1,000.
l.. Beecher, tailor; Kuehper, furniture,
and George Nichols, rotions, occupied the
buildings. Their less is about total.
The sun., 1893-08-24
DELIBERATE MURDER.

Monticello, Ark, Aug. 22.-Manager
Whipple, of the Nelson County Lumber
company, was shot and instantly killed
yesterday at Allis, Ark, by ]. c. Dob
inett, The murder was deliberate and
is the outgrowth of feud sof long stand
ing.
The sun., 1893-08-24
Mo pI.Acn mop vAGS

Redwood Falls, Mimi, Aug. o.
Tramps now give this city wide berth,
the city council having established a
chain gang, and every drurk and vagrant
il put to, work on the street.
The sun., 1893-08-24
low WAITER

Gallipolis, Ohio, Aug. 22.-The Ohio
river is lower now than has ever been
known in its history. Steamers are un-
able to run and hundreds of men are out
of employment in consequence. People
can cross the river in horse and buggy,
something that has not been done in fifty
wears,
The sun., 1893-08-24
ACQUITTED.

Trenton, N. j., Aug. 22.-Mrs. Matte
Shann was this morning acquitted of the
charge of numbering her son John Shann.
She was accused of having caused his
death by administering mercurial poison
to obtain the insurance upon his life
The sun., 1893-08-24
TOOK POISON

Newport, Ark, Aug. 22.- Saturday Lee
Bentley, youug farmer, seeing that his
wife was about to die, swallowed lalida-
mum with fatal effect. His wife breatled
her last soon after he had expired. They
are to be buried togeTher.
The sun., 1893-08-24
-
TNJT1RED IN A ETGHT

Piyesrone, MINI, Special Beck
er, of Altoona township, was arrested
charged with assaulting Manager Brown,
of the Percheron horse farm. Brown was
rolghly handled, and it is feared he il in
ternally injured.
The sun., 1893-08-24
STTIC1DE OF A MERCHANT

Portage, Wis, Aug. 22-Paul Schu-
man, a wealthy merchant of this city,
fatally shot himself last night. No cause
is assigned for the deed.
The sun., 1893-08-24
WELCOMED HnMR

st. Paul, Aug. 22.--Nearly 1000 people
assembled at the depot yesterday to
welcome the victorious crews of the Min,
nesota Boat club, and the reception was
a vigorous and chct ring one.
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Leaped to Death.

BALTIMORE, Md, Nov. ia most
sensational suicide was committed in
| the North western section of the CITY
this morning. While North EutaW
street was thronged with early rsers, a
scene at the fourth story win
dow OF a handsome brick build
ing near the Triangle of Eutaw,
st. Mary's aud Madison avenue, at
tracted the attention of the passers by.
Au entirely nude man was crouching on
the window sill preparlngto jump. A
moment later he plunged headlong to
the ground. The man was Senior Carlos
Dlez Gomez De CadiZ, the Consul of the
Kingdom of Spain at Baltimore. The
body struck the earth with terrific force.
The skull was crushed and death was
instantaneous. There is no doubt that
Dia8 committed the deed while in fit
of insanity. Diaz had been the s panish
Consul at Baltimore for two ye -. He
was 46 years old. lie came from a dis
tinguished Spanish family, and had
been In the consular service of his ma
tive country twenty-five years. For
twenty years he was stationed at Tunis,
Algeirs. Many decorations were be-
slowed upon him by the Spanish and
Portuguese governments and the Boy
of Tunis. Senior DlaZ married an Eng.
lish woman. She with her two children
we're asleep in an adjoining room when
the Consul leaped to death.