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The Penn's Grove record., 1897-01-29
THE NEWS E~ProMlzEo'


The Senate uassed TIE Military Academy
Appropriation bill ane, defeating Il lanse
providing for the expgases OF taking west
Point cadets TO Washington to participate III
the Inauguration parade.
Melville W. Fuller, chief Justice OF the
United States Supreme Court, and David ].
Brewer. Associate Just Re, have been nomtr-
ated MS Commissioner to serve on the arbi-
trial tribunal to detert ne the Venezuelan
boundary line.
The Dawes Commiss ID, after years OF
labor, have finally sue seeded, as appears
from a report sent TO tb Senate. In securing
mn agreement with the, hootaw Indians oil
the civilized tribes for , division OF their
lands in severittr, TT" C~hickasaws, who
W the lands In cong 81 with the Choc-
laws, have not signed " agreement.
The House OF Repres entaiives has agreed
10 the report of tho Conference Committee
in favor Of the new Immigration bill.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr.. the New York
millionaire, has leased a home in Washing
ton. and the family will live in the city for
the present.
C.. +. Frederick Adam has been appointed
Secretary Of the British Embassy in Wash
%inItop.
A big mass meeting in favor OF the arbi-
tration treaty was held IN Washington;
Justice Brewer, John ". Foster and Other
made addresses.
The Spanish Legation has received a des-
patch from the Spanish Foreign Minister
giving General Weyier's report Of the
pacilcation of the western pro yinces OF
Cuba. Consul General Lee informs the
Slate Department that CUBS will be made a
6esolate land If the war does not cease.
President Cleveland has summarily re-
moved from office Collector Bowling, OF
Cincinnati, Mr.. bowling refuses to surren-
der The Office.
Mr.. Turpie, OF Indiana, addressing the
Senate on the Cameron resolution, declared
the author ty OF Congress to recognize new
nations. as well as new States of the Union
par mount and the functions OF the Execu-
tive ancillnry.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani paid a visit to
President Cleveland in the White House. 1t
was purely informal, and the doposed Queen
was kindly receive.
The President returned from his duck
shooting trip down the Potomac. He spent
the day ut Colonel Walters dueking ground
at Widewafers ar Quantico. Va, and had a
fair days luck. de made the trip in the
lighthouse tender Maple, the Commander of
tho lighthouse service. accompanying him.
LiliuokaIani, the deposed Queen of
Hawaii, who is travelling as Mrs. Lydia DOM
inis. visited Washington unexpectedly. She
left Boston without letting her intentions be
known. and made the journey to Washing
ton without stopping, and went Immediately
TO the Shoreham, where apartments had
been engaged for herself and those accom-
panying her. She registered as ''Queen
Liliuokalani, OF Hawaii
General Fitzhugh Lees son has been given
another chance at West Point, Representa-
tive Tucker. of Virginia, having reappointed
him MS a cadet. Representative De Almond,
Of Missouri, has performed q like office for
Daniel Bond. another cadet deficient in his
studies. Both boys will start Mt the bottom
again.
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TWO TOWNS LESS.
Poland, N. Y, and Pacific Junction, Neb.
Nearly Wiped Out.

UTICA, N. Y.-Fire broke out in a black
smith shop in the small village Of Poland,
Herkimer County, Tuesday night, and the
blizzard that was raging carried the flames
from one building to another. until almost the
entire village was on fire, The fire brigade
nf Herkimer arrived by special train and
soon had the fire under control. Ten build
ings were destroyed, among them Reeds
store, blacksmith chop, Willoughby house
and barns. Daniels house and buildings, c.
J. Seavey's residence and Carney & Nc
Mahon's meat store. Tho telephone station
was also burned. The local brigade had
only pals and LADDERS to fight the fire.
Water was taken from u mill pond 200 feet
from the fire.
OMAHA, Neb.-A telephone message says
that the whole of the business portion Of
Pacific Junction, Neb.. has been destroyed
by fire. The blaze started in a grocery, and
altogether about twenty-five or twenty
three buildings were destroyed, including
the Pacific Hotel n Odd Fellows Hall.
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In an exchange we find the following testi-
mopy Of n thoughtful policeman, b was
inclined to look belog the misery and crime
Which came in his yay to fint their cause.
He says:
was once standing In front of TUFTS
saloon, when the barkes9er set down a blue
bottle on the counteA aud said. There arc
lust four drinks in THAT" 1t occurred to me
I'd like to trace up them four drinRs-Wnere
thew went and what they did.
We'll, n woman g9t the nrst glass; She
wasn't an old womaIl, nor used to whisky;
about thirty yenrs oldt and been pretty once,
and accustomed to ht.Eing a gay time. l sup
pose. She was on mr. way home from hef
hard DAVIS work tired and cold, and the
whisky IVA. a temptation. 1t would take the
place OF the dance and theatre and fun. She
turned down the byslFeet and stopped at the
door OF a snug little hbuse,
knew her husband. Crafts, the carpenter,
n cheerful. Woodworking fellow. He opened
the door and her baby ran out to meet her.
She struck it down to the ground Win an
oath. Her husband pooked at her ana ieii
hack. as though he. (too, had been struck.
Then he picked I'm the child and carried it
into the pretty. WARM room. / saw the
mother living stretched across the hearth as
The second drink out OF the bottle, the bar,
keener fold me. was given 10 old Stacy. He
is nearly seventy and soaked with liquor
blood, stomach and brain poisoned with it.
There's NOT n healthy atom OF flesh left in his
body, not n good feeling in his heart, nor
manly thought in his Head. This drink only
helped, with all the river that he has drunk,
10 kill him surely inch by inch.
Buy this time / had got back to the saloon,
and IN n few nome. ss l saw a young man
named Waters stop for the next. lie mad
been drinking already. 1 ct He'd to him. L
used to know Waters, 70 young clerk with q
nletty wife aud babies. Hos quarrelsome
In drink. and n glnFs or two upsets him.
WATERS" l said, ''dont drink that; you
have had enough But he laughed. took
his drink. and went down the street. A lew
minutes LATER / heard a row and followed
him. He had pickedga quarrel with one OF
his friends and shot him dead. waters was
sentenced to len years. his home was broken
up: his wife takes iH washing TO keep her
children from starving.
There was one drink left t bottle. An
hour later a Young lad came inta bright
faced boy, the son OF Dr.. bunker. 9
about sixteen now, i've watched him grow
mn since he was u 9aby in his pretty lace
dresses, I know what he Is to his mother.
They have but this on4 child. / think they
never hear of n good&rgreat man that they
do not fancy Jim al be like him. He
tossed off the drink and went down the
street, with q red fafe and ieering, stupid
eyes. He is on the sisne o as waters and
old Stacy. They arc little amend Of !
1 only traced up thPse tour drinks; put 1
know there is not a ldrop of liquor which
goes ont of Tufts saloon which does not help
10 carry discomfort, ill-temper, misery, dis
ease, poverty and disgrace into some
wretched, unfortunate home.
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GAGE AND THE TREASURY.
The Chicago banker Undecided Whether
to Enter the Cabinet.

The Chicago Banker Undecided Whether
to Enter the Cabinet.
Lyman ]. Gage. President OF the First
National Bank. of Chicago, has been inform
ally offered the Treasury portfolio by Presi-
dent-elect Mckinley.
Mr.. Gage said that he was debating with
himself whether or not his personal obliga-
tions were paramount TO the demands Of
public duty. He added that it was moro
thar likely public duty would win.
Ii has been limited that Mr.. Cages appoint
men. would, ia n measure, be u to his
prominence in the ranks of the gold standard
Democrats. Mr.. Gage says he will not ac-
cept the portfolio If the the offer is made on
this condition.
Lyman ]. Gage rose from Office boy
through successive promotions as clerk,
~bookkeeper, paying teller, cashier and vice.
president, to be president of the greatest
bank west OF New York. He will probably
resign this position, which is reported to pay
him s25, 900 a year, to acytpt apfucs in the
Cabinet paying him but $4,000.
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TWO DEADLY EXPLOSIONS.


Two Killed and Three Hurt Fatally in
a Mine---Two Blown to Atoms.
At Union:own, Penn, IN explosion in the
Mock mines OF Hurst & Co., killed two
miners ant injured seven others. The dead
are: Peter Houser and Charles McQuister.
The injured are: Andrew Honzobod, Michael
Horonac, John Augustine, Michael kemblP,
John Mitchell, John Gillis and his son, Will
lam Giliis. Augustine, Horonac and Mitchell
were fatally burned. The explosion vas
caused by the liberating of gas. which was
ignited by the open lamps Of the miners.
By an explosion of nitro-giycerine in a
s%torehouse belonging to the Ohio and Michi-
gan Torpedo Company, near Bradnor. Ohio,
William Minison. of Toledo, and Edward
Dennison, of Rising Sun, were blown TO
atoms.
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There are 100, 900 wheelmen in New Jey-
sey.
In France the first patent for a bicycle was
taken out In 1918.
Convertible tandems are coming in for con-
siderable attention just now.
New Jersey wheelmen made u harl Ugh,
for their bicycle baggage bill before the State
Legislature.
Students OF racing have lately bsaD pre-
dieting that Unions hour record Of thirty
one miles $50 yards will never be oeIten.
Abicycle-making Aem in England is now
giving to every buyer insurance. poiicies
against death, disablement or loss OF mashiu ,
either by theft or fire.
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SALISBURY COMEDIES A POINT.

he Consents to VenezueIa's Naming One
of the Arbiters.
The London Daily Chronicle publishes q
dispatch from its Washington correspondent
saying that Lord Salisbury has removed the
last obstacle to the signing Of the Venezuelan
treaty by consenting that the Venezuelan
Government shalt nominate one of the MEM
beers of the Board of Arbitration.
1t is agreed that the member nominated
by Venezuela shall be an American, AMI
Venezuela will ask Chief Justice Fuller to
serve as her representative.
The name of Justice Brewer, OF the United
states Supreme Court, is also mentioned as
Venezuela's representative.
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There arc $4,000 non-German residents in
Bcriip.
The gold reserve is now over il4l 900, 900,
audstiil growing.
1t cost Great Britain nearly Sli0, 0G0, 0O5
last year to maintain her navy.
Sanitary conditions iu Havana, Cuba, ac-
cofliuI to all reports, arc horrible.
The Elcatric Spsiags Railway, OF WSrrens-
iurg, No, has been sold for scrap iron.
MAILMAN ear porter was Iynched for as
sAult the Other day near Colum5ns, Miss.
strong muyemeoi T. now belus male IN
Texasto establish a state industrial school
or gir,s.
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ABANpoNs HER GYPSY.

Princess De Chimsy Leaves Rigo After a
Fierce Quarrel.
A cab!egram from Milan, Italy. announces
that the Princes&De Chimay, formerly Clara
Ward, of Detroit, and Janos Rigo, the
Hungarian gypsy musician, who recently
eloped with her, have quarrelleI violently.
At the end of one OF these quarrels the
Princess Dc Chin y packed her trunk and
quilted the hotel. leaving at once for Monte
Carlo. She paid her own bill, but left RIGGS
bill unsettled. Rigo is said to be in an
awkward position since the departure OF the
Princess, for he is without funds, and has nc
immediate prospects OF securing employ
ment.
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100 ALARMS IN A DAY.
Anew Record Made by C~hicago's Fire De-
partineht.

CHICAGO, Il.-Almost 100 fires were re-
ported up to midnight for the twenty-four
hours OF Tuesday. The record OF last Fourth
Of July was beaten, and Il new highwater
mark was established in The history OF the
Chicago Fire Department for a winter day.
on account of the extreme cold The flremen
suffered severely, md there were many cases
of the men having their ears, noses and
hands frozen. Several were severely frozen
and are in a serious condition. Most of the
fires were mail affairs, and in nearly every
case was due to efforts to thaw out frozen
water pipes or to explosion engendered by
the bursting Of water backs.
The large grain elevator OF tho W.. ii.
Purcell Mailing Company was destroyed by
fire. The firemen were handicapped by the
scarcity of fire plugs. Vice-Presldent JOS
eph G~uickenheimer estimated the loss at
about $3.50, 900, which is almost entirely
covered by insurance.
During n destructive fire in a six story
structure at Nos. 1876, 1888, 200 and 202 Mon,
roe street, occupied exclusively by whole
sale firms. ten persons were seriously injured,
seven of whom were fireman. Three of them
wore fatally hurt.
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LIKE HIS GRANDFATHER DIED.
eGrge Ii. Scheuck Dies From a Carburcle
mn T4fa utarE-

George B. scheuck Dies From a Carburcle
on His Back.
George B. schenck, thirty years old, son
of former Senator John r.. schenckr OF
Neshanic, n. j., died at the home Of his
father a few mornings ago. A large car
cuncle made its appearance on Schenck's
back about n week before. He was forced
10 return to his home in Neshanic, where
skilled treatment was administered. He
grew rapidly worse until he succumhed He
was a graduate Of Rutgers College, and at
the time OF his death was employed by Dun
ham, Buckley q Co., New Yors.
His grandfather, runis Hon, died thirty
years ago at the age Of seventy from a car
buncle in exnctly tie same spot.
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DIED FOR HER CHILDREN.

Mrs. Croyle Saved Two Before Perishing
in the Flames.
The house OF William CroYle, at Bedford,
Penn. was destroyed by fire ami Mra. Croyle,
with two children, were burned to death.
While the fire was ra2ing Mrs. Croyle
threw two of the children from the second
story to her husband aud then returned TO II
back room for the remaining two. She was
not seen again. IND when the ruins were
searched all that remained of the mother
and two children was their charred trunks.
One of the children thrown from the win
dow was fatally burned. The father also was
badly burned.
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FIERCE BATTLE WITH INDIANS.

Troops Defeat Ratding Yaquis. killing
Twelve and Losing Five Men,.
There was a hard battle between troops
and Indians in Rosales, Mexico, in the heart
of the Sierra Madra range. A large force of
Yaqui Indians have started 1T on ihsIr
winter raids of pilIage and murier against
the farmers and miners OF that section.
They had already murdered all the MEMBER
oftwo families and vera about to attempt
to sack the village OF Rosales. when the
State troops arrived at the place in response
to a message and made the attack on the
indians.
The fight was desperate one and resuiieiin
twelve Indians and i've soldiers being killed.
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CLEARFIELD, Penn.-Four small colored
children named Webb were burned to death
In a fire which destroyed Il double dwelling
house at Curwensville, near here. The
house was occupied by the webbs and an
other colored family, all of whom escaped in
safety, except the little ones. The building
was owned by the Elk Tanning Company,
which lost a large tannery at the same place
by FIRE.
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Advices from Foo Chow report a disas.
trous panic in a temple at Kwdng Fou.
China. A theatrical performance wa being
given for the first time in the place and was
attended by q great number OF natives and
IL few Europeans. One of the temple lamps
was overturned, firing the building. The
panic-stricken crowd tried to force a way
through two small doors. In tho crush 800
persons were tramplel TO death, principally
women and children.
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WESTERN TRAIN ROBBERS.
Precautions Taken by Express and Rail-
road Oficials.

Express and railroad managers in Chi
cago are in~structlng messengers and train
guards to shoot to kill in cash aud every
Ease, where robbery is clearly the intent of
any one who interferes with tho running OF
q train, and a cash reward of $3.50 is he'll |
out for each rob5er shot, but not killed. aud
$1,000 for every robber killed in an attempt
10 hold-up. The most improved pattern Of
repeating rifles I'M riot guns have been sub
stituted for arms OF less deadly and rapid
execution. Cars ara also being built with
an eye to mora resistance against the on
slaught OF train robbers. Floors and sides
are reinforced with Iron plates and doors
made heavier with stronger fastenings.
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Mrs. George Madison, OF Jacksonville,
Ind, bought apples for her children. Imme-
diately after eating them Artie, nineteen
months old; James. four years old, Lulu,
eight years old, and a boy of five, were taken
severely III. with signs OF strychnins poison
Ing. Before u physician could arrive the
first two named children were dead. Lulu
died duriug the night leaving the boy and
Mrs. Madison very i'll.
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Emperor William of Germany celebrated
his thirty-eighth birthday.
Senator wo!cott left London for Paris Ia
continue his mission regarding bimetallism.
The insurgents blew up with dynamite q
railway bridge in Santa Clara Province,
Cuba
Near Dorchester, New Brunswick, a pas
senger train plunged down n seventy five
foot emhankment into a pond.I Two persons
were Killed and ten severely figured.
General Weyler Is 4 nave OF.
dered his troonslo bul 4lhan Gang.
fields on their line ON "
Europe stalking exA Ia measures
to keep out the bubonV y,
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TROOPS LEAVE uRuAN POST.
Salisbury Orders Vacation of Disputed
Venezuelan Territory.

BY direction of Lord Salisbury, the British
military post of the Uruan, in British
Guiana, which led to acute trouble with
Venezuela, has been discontinued. An
Indian post holder has been substituted for
the police garrison, in obedience to dlrec-
lions from the Colonial Office in London,
and one OF the greatest thorns in Yenezuela's
side is thereby removed.
The news OF the abandonment Of the post
reached the State Department, Washington,
through the Demerara newspapers. which
made the announcement January &. Tho
colonists are philosophical over the setback,
and claim that the Indian holder will con-
stitute as effective q nlaintainer OF their ter
ritorial title as the soldier, who will not be
exposed to the frequently malarial influences
OF the locality.
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To Foree,ose on the uo,ds.

Attorney General Harmon. through special
counsel. filed a bill in the Unitel States Cir
cult Court in Omaha, Neb., to foseclose the
Governments second mortgage on the
Union Pacific and Kansas Pacific. The Gov
eminent Directors o; the Union Pacific
Railroad met aud individually approve | the
Reorganization Committees plan to buy out
the Government for about Si5, 900, 900 aud
take the road.
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Pierce Taylor, a co,orei man, was hanged
by a mob in the Tallahassee (Fla.l jail yard
at Q O'Clock Sunday morning and riddled by
bullets for an attempted assault upon Miss
Emma Apthrope, the daughter of the late
William Lee Apthrops, ex-Surveyor-Generai
OF the State and Secretary of the famous
Florida Returning Board OF 1875, which gave
the Presidency of the United States to Ruth
erford u. Hayes.
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A banquet to Standardized Plat was given
in Albany, N. Y, under the auspices Of the
League of Republican Clubs. Governor
Black, Mr.. Plat, Chauneey NJ. Depew and
others spoke. There were more than one
thousand guests.
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SIMPLE APA

The use of intoxicatfAs liquor brings no
benefit whatever to hiY who uses it, said
Archbishop Ireland, bq how much money
is constantly spent fortit by the working
man! know tho neeahe has for these dol
lars, and yet in the country. at large the
amount spent yearly 2 simply appalling.
How many would be II comfortable circum-
stances but for this money spent in drink
Ear better indeed did they burn the sums.
The saloon. keeper is ~ hardest taskmaster.
Tie momen people take the pledge they
learn the value OF mcIey, n afterward
learn to work for them elves and not the sa-
~loon-keeper.
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MAchInlsts nave 4UU unIons.
England boasts boy ''housemaids."
Quarrymen will form a National union.
In Mexico miners get sixty cents a day.
A National strike OF miners is talksi OF.
In Spain street car drivers get sS a week.
Buffalo IN. " uuionIsts want a free city
library.
convention.
New York City Italian laundry workers
will organize.
A Brooklyn electrical workers. union has
decided to disband. New York building
trades unions are blamed for the disruption.
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Sturgeon Young, a colored Lad. died at
jamestown, n. Y, after. a few days lime :.
1t is now asserted that death resulted from
Injuries received while under mesmerlc In.
1nence at tho hands Of amateurs in this
science. to whichth the lad was easily subjected,
Coroner Howers has summoned a jury and
will make u thorough investigation.
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Joseph Bloch. American representative OF
Bloch &c Hirsch Fur Company, Germany,
left his office at Kent avenue and North
Third street, Brooklyn, to stop a fight among
was hurt in the scufle. and the shock aud
excitement affected his heart, which was
weak. He staggered back to his ofiee aud
died a few minutes later. Nearly twenty
arrests were made.
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Whisky that will eeef aa egg Will COOK a
stomach.
FIN man with whisky aud be can give the
pig points.
When women In higi ire give wine parties
the devil examines hi4coal bins.
The moor drun&ard, leeing double, thinks
himself rich wheik he dunts his money, but
he soon discovers his Prerty.
Man is said by Ane ofour exchanges to re-
semhle a fish inAthis hat, like a fish, he
would never get Ito Wy serious trouble II
he kept his mouth sh@
The old duestloA sd lch Is tho mightier,
the mem or the swc . fast becoming OBJ
soIeie. The fact her seems to DO I'm
it, with the whisky ssthe Index
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MUNo1E, Ind.-While fighting q fire at the
residence of G. L. Wiley. with temperature
at 10 degrees below zero, seven iireaen were
severely frozen and their clothing had to be
cut from their bodies. Mrs. Wiley, while
trying to escape from the burning house
with her baby in arms, fell down stairs and
was fatally injured.
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Fatal Farmhouse Fire.

BELLEviLLE, Mich.-The farmhouse OF A.
+. Vandawater, three miles south OF this
place, was destroyed by fire and four persons
were burned to death. They were Mrs. Van
dawater aud her two children, a boy aged
eight and u girl aged fourteen years, and
Miss Annie Vandawater, a sister OF Mr.. VAN
dlWater,
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onIck conversIon OF a jan.

Secretary Aklyama, OF the japanese Lesa-
ton In st. Petersburg, Russia, picked up a
Bible in the Sturtevant House, New York
CITY, read it with interest. became convinced
OF its truth, consulted n clergyman, adopted
the Christian faith. was baptized, and then
left for Yokohama.
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He Died Saving Others,

At Trenton, N. J., Isas, Slack, a conduc-
tor OF a freight train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad was instantly kilie 1 Ia a heroic at
tempt to stop four runaway frnight cars that
would have crashed into a passenger train
and probably caused the loss OF many livesA
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A dispatch from Teheran, Persia, reports
that 1900 bodies have been RECEIVERS I from
the ruins which resulted from the recent
earthquake In the island OF Kishnu. in the
Persian Gulf. the Inhabitants VI which were
estimated TO number 5000, mostly ArIbs.
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Rescuing Party Drowned.

While the crew of a lifeboat were trying to
rescue the crew OF a fishing bout in the North
Sea, off Haarboore, Jutland, the llfeboat was
capsized and all hands on board, twelve in
number, were drowned.