The state herald., 1895-05-10

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In thA Flat Top coal region, Virginia,
1900 miners have gone out oi a strike
on account OF twenty per cent. re-
duction In their wages
The LGs Junta Home bank closed
Thursday, Assets $4,000; no liabili-
\ ties. II n a voluntary suspension. ow
Ing to duh business
Captain Beck has abandoned his in.
tent!on of evicting tenants from the
Omaha Indian reservation, unfit the
courts settle the matter.
Six hundred coal miners employed by
the Laurel Coal association Kentucky,
struck yesterday FOR 40 cents ton in
stead of 90 cents ton.
Two thousand miners in the Yorkvillc
and Wheeling and Lake Erie mines,
ONO, struck yesterday, pending the
siGning1of a scale of wages.
Half dozen persons are dying ut
Hiattville, Kansas, from poison put up
on their gums by n travelling woman
dentist giving her name as Dr. Alberta
Oberlin.
During a severe STORM Friday night,
Rudolph Schwerdefeger was killed by
lightning near sutherland. Iowa. Peter
Stlrmer. farmer near Laurcrs, was
also Killed In his house by lightning.
AT Tacoma, Wash. the sale of land In
the Pusallup Indian reservation was
begun Yesterday despite protests from
the Indians, who threaten to make
trouble II any of the purchasers take
possession.
The Chickamauga Park commission
has completed the purchase of Gener n
Shcrman's battle ground al the north
end OF Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga,
| ana 1t now becomes a part of the ma
tional military park.
The official report of the Investigation
concerning the alleged forgeries OF
Chinese certificates issued at Boise
City. declares that an organized money
making conspiracy has existed fer sev.
cral years
NORTON Reed lies In the norgue nt
Hartford ms result OF the "Trllby"
craze, having committed suicide hy ar
senic while harboring the Authorization
that he was under the hypnotic inilu.
ence Of Svengall, the bad man of Du
Maurler's novel.
"A dispatch TO the Standard from Bcr-
lin says that Germany has concluded
contracts with leading German ship.
| ping companies for ten steamers 10 act
as cruisers In time OF war. Among the
vessels there are the best line Of steam.
crs running to New York
There was contest before Commits
sloner Seymour Friday as to the owner.
snip OF patent for cigarette maxim;
machine that is warranted TO make five
miles OF cigarettes per day. The tobac.
co Is run out In an endless rope and nit.
ted into an endless roll of paper and Il
then cut Into the proper lengths.
John Hun. who is said 10 have fallen
heir TO 100000 by the death OF Chas.
Lasthofr, n wealthy Californian, In
1888, has died at Ma,awan. New Jer.
sey. Hun nursed Eastoff twenty
years ago through m attack OF ~
phoid fever when no one else would
20 near him. and the entire estate has
been his reward
Princeton defeated Yale In their first
Joint debate. The question debated
was: "Resolved that Under the clrcum
stances the Income tax Of 1884 was jus.
tinnblc." Yale took the negative. II
was decided that il, NJ. McEiroy. of
Princeton, presented the best argument
Of the evening. and that Frank Rail-, OF
Yale, made the wltticst speech.
News has been received from Kodiak
Island, Alaska, on steamer Alkh I'm,
the steamer George H. white Of Sc.
attic was wrecked In u gale on April
II. Seventeen OF The crew were either
drowned or frozen 10 death. Eight
reached shore and still survive. The
schooner Kodiak was also wrecked IN
the same gale near the same place, but
no lives were lost
A dispatch TO the Times from pck,n
says: No decision has yet been reached
In regard 10 he ratification OF the treaty
OF peace III Hung Chang. the senior
Chinese peace envoy. has arrived IN
Pckin and been given an audience by
the emperor, but what action was
agreed upon. II any, Is n court secret.
No edlct has yet been published con
cernlng the result OF the deliberations.
II Ia officially announced In London
that the British government has agrrod
II the Nicaragunn government ad,
dresses note TO Rear Admiral Ste,
phcnson. accepting the terms OF the
British ultlmatum and undertaking nm.
der the guarantee Of the republic OF Sal.
yndor that the Indemnity be- paid In
London within fortnight. that the
from Nicaraguan waters.
Night express No. 3, on the chlcaro
4 Alton railroad, nor,hbound. was NJ.
tackled about twelve o'clock about two
miles from Cnrllnvlllc. by three masked
men who Ind climbed up on the plat.
form OF the blind baggage ear, sun
poscdly nj Cnrllnylllc, The men climbed
over tho tender and ordered Engineer
Frank Holmes TO stop the train. aud
Immediately began hrins. Holmes was
killed at the first FIRE. Fireman Frank
Tugglc escaping. The arsnllantS. after
shooting the engineer. Jumped OF the
train and escaped. Fireman Tugsl,
then ran the train back to Cnrllnyiiln
Forest fires nrc raging IN pcnnsyl
vnnla. Between kctilcr ana i.nssio.
along the line Of she Erie road. III,
woods ARE n mass Of flames. IN tim,
Vicinity there are millions OF feet of
!. hemlock logs and large quantities OF
timber. Near Crawford Junction n
IRE II burning ncrcrly aud threaten,
destruction Of oil property, Another
iirc X raging between McAmblcy'.
nnd Mount Jowott and In the vicinity of
llazelwood on the H.. H. 4 X, thf
woods are Oh fire ON either side Of ia,
track The fire IA Spreading with great
rnpldiiy aud II IN almost impossible 10
check the ilamcs,
Officers belonging TO the british neot
wero ashore Tlursdny NJ snn Juan De-
sur. the small port near which the IA
tlilc entrance OF the Nicaragua cana
IN to be- built. II was noticed that the,
were making measuromcbts and iop0
graphic sketches OF tho land md the,
. all al
tlona along the route TO be- followed by
the canal along tho line from the PA
ellie 10 Lake Nicaragua. The oillrprs
also made sketches nnd took note,
about Brlio, and although ordered 4
dpalst by the Nicnrhriinn ruyprnor thor.