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k r •i i i ____ T H . 0 . 7FiS.AS.l-,.! ' NEW SIERII,; VO)L. ' ST. ,JOI&]Pit, LA.cUA. FE~y l'BRUtIV1,',(4 TELEGRAPH AND CABLE, The Latest Foreign and Do mestic News. CRUSHED ITS INMATES. Rallroad Bridge Collapses--Sixty An archists Arrested in Lisbon--Edltor e of tLb London Pall Mall ;azette i l)lsmllsed. Drummers Meet at Terre Haute. I The national Iboard of directors of 1 the Traeelers' Protective A~aociation has decided to hold the national cco vention at Terre Haute, Ind., on Tues- 1 day, June 2, next. .1 Mother of Oscar Wilde Is Dead. Lady Jane Franceca Soprauza Wilde, widow of Sir William Robert Wilde, M. 1)., surgeon-oculist to her 'Majesty in Ireland, and mother of Os car Wilde, is dead. Citizens' Bank Assignment. The ('itizens' Pank, of Connersville, Inud., owned by cx- Insited ,States Treas urer Thurston, assigned Thursday morning. The statement to the pub lie says that all de1poits will be patd in full in three mntnths. Wants IHer Marriage Annulied. Princess Marieo Louiie, of Bouron, li h:s asked the Pope to anntil hr mar riage with Prince F".rdin nd of Bull garia, on account of the latter consent ing to th, conversiou of their son, l'rince Boris, to the Greek Church. Dynamite O()ntrage in Lisbon. A bomb exllo(dld at I o'clock Tues- n day night in the resid,.nce of a physi- 1i cian in Lisbon, who eertticted to the 1 lunacy of the man bho threw a stone e into the king's carriai, a short time ago. iMuch damage was caused by the explosion. Ten arrestd have been made. Died While Shouting. At Tonkawa, a small town a few n miles north of Perry, O. T.. free Meth- I b odi(ts are holding a .revival, and it o seems the whole town will be turned r over t., religio,. The meeting goes on every day and night. Men and women faint in their enthlusiasnm, and a man anl woman have died while shouting. Woman Defeated. Miss Florence King. a bright young S Kansas womnn, nbout twenty-five years p old, who liBs graduated from the ('hl cago Law School. ns defeated Satur day by voters of Edison Park, Chicago, si in her candidacy for justice of the fi peace. ('ha. . L. Wheldon, her male ti oplponent, received 31 votes; 22 were lI cast for Miss King. e Summarily Dismissed. R Henry C. Gust, editor of the Pall k 5Mall Gazette, London,. and Mr. Miller, l assistant editor. having deelined to re sign their positions, Mr. Astor has sum marily dismianiissed them. They an nounoed that they will immediately rI publish a statement of the reason. The editorial staff, upon learning the action of the chief, resigned in a body. k Vill C'arton's Mother Dead. Mrs. Celeste 1. C(arleton, miother (of Will Carleton. the po'et. is dead. Sh"h A was born at Castile, N. Y., September tl i5. 1815. In IM33 shet married a young re New EUndlanler. John ('arleton, who ti went westwardl to seek his fortune, and t in the aildlhrness o, Miichigan they founded a hole, where her husband i (lied in 1872. Murdered by Indians. Serious applrehension is felt for the safety of four white meen and one woman who are he(eved to have been murdlered(l by Haunegah Indians of Ki ake Island. Alaska. One of that tbe was recently cnvicted ,f the n aler of a white miner, and was to have been hanged last "e k at Sitka, but at sentence was commutedl t, life imprie- I, onment. B Railroad Bridge ('ollapsed. N A Irioge on lhb. New England rail- p road, over the ctl'rceuck river, near cl Bristol, (onn.. c',lapseI abon)ut 9 tl o'clock Thursday nmghlit, carrying nith a it twenty workmen, ,of ,hom thirt4en e are believed to hive lIcrishel. At mid- L night t l, bodies Llhad len recovered, i and eleven are misting. Among the ft dead ir John O'Brin. foreman, ofa East Ilrtforid. The names of the 0 missing alret ntown. " Panic A.mon • ' A small tire,.whirh began in the dry ing-room of the 'iltey House, New Yrk, about 3 o'clock. Tuesday morn ing, and tillhd the halls with a dlense black smoke, caused a lanic amongst the female'p'lll ibo, prty dressmed, ran hither'and thither, una'le to find a means of escape. Asishtd by oool headed male guests and policemen they t all found places of safety. T'he tire was extingiished' with lions of y As-ehlists Arrested. Si narclaigt have bee4 arrested in L as a result ,of the explosion of a b in the house of a physician who testified to the insanity of the men threw a stone at the king,but the p n who placed the bomb has not b soe sredi. Senor D'Azevedo, the e aof justice, d"clared in the chamn of deputies, that the govprn ment determined to adopt' the sever easures to suppress knarctk ist on rushed Its Inmates. Tw n rye killed and two injured Frida the falling .of a building in Third une, Brooklyn, N. Y. The builds as condemned nearly a year aco. as athree-story brick, 50 by 12". fe nd was owned by the H. W. .Johls facturing Company. The upp'er rs were vacant, but the first floor ented by James Quigley, who used it a cooperage shop. Quigley usuall ten men at work in his shop, iday morning there wore only h If and three others. M hy Gives His Reasons. Ju McCarthy has addressed a letter te secretary of the Irish par ty, i lon. He says that his ree sons fihg up the leadership are I Sholly onal, and due to his falling 1 health to the necessary attention to his ion, upon which depend- I ed his hood. He says that he is I still full confidence in the interest 4 of H ,ule5 which he does not be- 1 lieve is ed to l,e so long deferred as some to think it is. He sees hopeful ications that the fractional party oon be united. lOwn fromn the Track. The relar passenger train, which left I)en, Col., at 8 o'clock Sunday I mornin as blown from the track e lhalf a from the Denver depot at a .12:10. )d Van Sickler, of Chicago, editor growler Truth, a bicycle pa per, dly cut about the' head. Union bicturing Company, Tole do: S. illawd, of the Dunlop Tire Comp 1ofton, and .J. P. Dazey, of tihe , a bicycle paper, were more ess hurt. The train was blown at a point within 1,500 feet of wb imii4 accidents have occur red so timis before. -n an Embankment. Fifte persons were more or less senri) u iiund one cannot rdcover as the rt of a collision between an eastbou Wabash stock train and a St. Lo Keokuk & Northwestern. ,asuen train, coming south. The collisi curred near a tunnel one mile n of Hannibal, Mo. The sItock t , which had just emerged from t nnel, struck the passenger train, ing into the side of the ladies' h and throwing it over an emban t almost into the Missis sippi ri there were fifteen passen gers in coseh, and that none was killed is iracle. All were more or less bru S mbed to the Cold, Peter tkin, proprietbr of a wAgof repair a n lIddletown, N, Y., took r Maud to ae. 23 years, out driving Saturdiy ht. They crossed Wall kill riskr $ol*ins bridge and in the r darkness &e of the road idto the flooded adow. The water was nine feet tp and the two stood on the seat o4e wvagon, calling for help. A Frenchý named Bupre went to their assi ce, but when the water reached hf pe he was obliged to re tir~. Th yo s ecumbed to the in- I tense colds both sank beneath the , flood after hour's suffering. Search ing partie.Scovfred Atkin's body at noon and tgirl's body fast to a barb wire fence a mile down stream was t recovered i _ht I ('OTTOIPLLS FOR ALABAMA. Boston another Capitalists to Rreet 1 Plnats J.lasper and Oxford. Alabamar secured the location of another m*toth cotton factory. T. L. Long, dasper, Ala., acting for Boston caplists, who represent the Nashua Mqfacturing Company, of Nashua, Ni.. has secured from the pobate j of Walker county a charter fo e erection at Cordova, that conntsf a 40,00o-spin(lie cotton mill, to cos~(O0,O00. The site select ed is in the art of a rich coal field. 1 Local capitaecured the mill by giv- I ing 600 acrjf coal lands with a five foot vein. is estimated that there a will be a s4g of $15,000 a year by 1 owning the l land, as the company will mine ir coal. ant it will oost only the pr of mining. Work is to commence the buildings April 1st. , The plant fe known as the Indian Head mills Oxford. -. has alab'seu-dl a cot ton milL W. Cooper an1 others will erect a ,O00 plant at that ploa. Drojd While Skating. Arthur Bles, 13 years of age and I alto soloisti . S. Ctleveland's minstil I company, lrowned at noon Siuay at GOardinerj, while .katin ° OUR ATIONAL CAPITOL ed Iteresting and Newsy Itemsu on frozý Was giutz. a an , .1' ·. as TO PROHIBIT FIGHTr he - U- Morgan Syndicate Gets Two-thirds of is the Bond Isme--The Bonds Faultily Printed and Will Have to be Re- w printed. P i - A Postal Xppointment. t P'oomasnter-General Wilig has ap- is er pointed W. A. Burwell, of Georgia, o! chief of the division of postoffieelhp- si V plies, poatoffice departmept, lice B. h, • W. Taylor, of West Virginiavg tl atiw (o Good News for Boomers. tz .y The Red Lake and White Earth In- 1 is dian reservations, comprising a million o re acres and forming part of the old Chip- b pews reservation in Minnesota, will be opened to settlement on May 1 by ,a L proclamation to be issued shortly. r- Senate Oflcers Nomlaited. a- The Republican senators in canucuse re Friday nominated A. J. Shaw, of 8po- p, ig kane, Washington, for secretary of the o1 sn senate; H. L. (rant, of North Caro- R d- lina, for sergeant-at-arms,' and Alonzo bi is Stewart, of Iowa, to ucee the late B at Capt. Rassett, as assi tan doorkeeper. F e- It was decided to retain . W. H. t )d ,Mftburn as chap!ain. Pension Clerk Commits Bulclde. t] John Shea, a first-class clerk in the d record and pension divisia of the war department and a veteral of the late 1 h war, committed suicide in a closet at se ry the department Thurs tay mornin# by . sk shooting himself in th b he ad, .l g it almost instant death fle ev' 4 was unbalanced mcnta.llyfroman bin_. - received during the war. e rover WIl Sl~. I -. e- The Catron biM, to prohibit' fighting in Federal Territories, will6 probably be sent to the president this bi re week, and it is considered almost cer- fr tain that it will be signed promptly by oI et him, thus making it a law and opera- at r- tive immeliately. With this law on the statute books, the whole govern ment authorities-judicial, and, if necessary, military-will be invoked to as see that the prize-fight is stoppfed. TI er - " 7f m Where the Bonds Go . to La ate Friday afternoon Aslidtsnt See n fetary Curtis announced that he was 1 able to state that from a complete.an- * e alysis of the bids fgr bondatbat they 1e showed that bids aregting $66,7t8,- =s 520 above l10.6877 had been received, to er and the 780 persons making those bids i te would be awarded bonds. The Mor gan synditate bid of 110).6877 for p $100,000,000 bonds or any part thereof ce S ould be accepted for $33,211,850. SAll bids below the figure 110.6817 are therefore rejected. A Chippewsttan Piotest. - The contentions of .the. various bands Ak of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota w ere submitted to the Indian bureau II- Tuesday, in a hearing, given by oom- a 2e missioner of Indian affairs Browsl p and Assistant Commissidner Smith, to a I as delegation from the tribe. The In- a n dlians made a vigorous protest against l the employment at the expense.of the to Indians of three commissioners to make allotments to the tribe and against the u e- maintenance of a corpasof estimators or a_ land examiners. " i N- ominations Confirmed. t it The senate in executive saesla Tues- A - day confirmed the following nomina- ; 'e tions: Ignatio Sepunlvida, of Califpor nia, to be secretary of the ]egatio of d the United States at the City of Mex ico; John A. Marshall to .be United a! States didtrid) judge for the diatriot of b at Utah; John W. Juda to be attorney P of the United Statee for the district of n Utah; Nat M. Brigham United States t of marshall for the distrigt of Utah; Mar- ' . tha Brown to be poeimistrbs at F-r( or Valley, na. United States Supreme Court Adjournr. The October term of the United is States supreme court was concluded STuesday and the court adjourned untila t March 2. During the term 217 oases have been disposed of as againsat 165 '' v- last year:. Before adjournment the .- court changed the assignment of the re sugar bounty cases from the first to the J' y third Monday in March, and also re Vy ceived a motion from the attorney gen t eral to advance on the docket the eoe io o of the steamer Coquitlam, whilch in-ai . qolves questions of international im-.'cJ Lfl portance. -- 0o N4- National Farmers' Alltance. : S The supreme equncil of the NationaL il . Farmerd' Alliance Wednesday nigMt disposed of all the.mnatter~eooming be fore thbeunalnmeeting. Ofiosi were tl ad eleced as follows: Mann Page, Vir- s 1 gini, preidenut; H. C. 8ively, Peno . y stylvania, vice-president; I. A. South- it worth, Colordo, secretry sh tress- f urer; H. L. Loaek, Bo utk DkboMk . P. Bricker, Pensylvsnist J. PF-. W etts, Kansas, and W. L,. Bie, gia, exeutive costaitteel Mr. I is aid to be a strong free aels eate. The nanoee, eommitte r protraet d 'earing befiido tib committee on bankin:g sa Bonds aislylI Frhtdim The treasury offeais eaed tl I . covery Friday evening that the Sissaue of new bosds upon whyi~el force of employees of 1s Bre engraving and printing -,h Ias ow Sw r-k for several weeksis not h4i4I& paper upon whieh they are pri*l' This is due to the fact that tob4 . in the bonds have been impslebl. distributed, or, in pse.(teiona lance, have been wrongly b officials of the treasury are keeping the matter yry henee the diffiBecnlty of leazsag t w the negligence is due. Thir" will only temporarily h troeanry Uepsrtmpnt, q the be put to work upon the new once, and will further edx t by working night and day. .The4l'_ to the government is about$l 0O0. Leasselae sand e B D1I Among the Louisien and&1 banking inititutioUs . wnose bie fa bonds, greater than than 6 the Morgan syndicate of 'tl.t ' 1 probably ooniskered lty the &m of the Trpuary, are the foloq New Orlea National bank, 10kN bid 114.0506; GermanaeIsm Bi Bank of 1Nei Orleess, $25, 1U First National Biak 820,000, fid 112. ,. tin 4 who were belohwthe synlR whose bids willoAotj eoh the following: 1 t ander.' S11. Beer, New - a teco rte bids of P1,O00 .hlg National Bank of New Othda, separate bide of 0100,000 e.nd $ 0 DT Banking and avings 0oo; Vlckjbtrg 6 Dist! se bids ofered for, gi from which it appears thithe of bids ablove that ok J. P. and his assocIates; 110.818 788,650 and thbt theb'amb"aW will be awurded to: temhI syPdis .therefore be $33,211,850,'-or appen mately one-third of the'" wholeI .e., The number of "sucoesful ba 781. ' Jn arriving at this qo iia the officials haye throw doj ' bids, obvionaly fiotimts; • ad a J er number hiC were rpgrtant pqtiua T Tlo ever, are nqt supposed -n '1 ý (y considerable sum. F(et two-thirds of the entif ie a ` I to hava beetd at rates t ea $10.6877.is .osaething of a est ir' prise. It is the intention of th) eoS oers to have the revded list of t ian ceesful bidders ready for pubsrti. t morrow afternoon. ANTOR'4 AMK8KtA ..fe. Fired '1s Edter for ' , Eae,. at the Laa.f.t b •. The London Times, of last M y morning, prints Henry J. O. Ouat'se planation of his hdmissal. om the p sition of editor of the l Mall, s-, gette, in the form of a orrespoadha e between himself and W. W. As~ the proprietor of the Poll Mall 0 Mr. Astor gives s a ream s ing Cnst to seeig ti0 sioa ,sa and dipra9g oolmm'ioAs id" printed in t Panl Mal 0 :snd the habitual dtre rd r ir. As tor's instruction by the editor. Mr. Asta wrote to Mr. Cast on Feitra-y S ord, 4owa: "'We ]r suddenly searonte! with a daCrops ceshoversy beyeses U land a4 the Unitel SWttes ug wtihb 1' am deiy intesested. I manot' l4is be'reepodsible forlbe uterasn of a , pape over whieh exercise e"ly a nomtiwl control. P tlle&tre that I am oonstrained to Ak you tp J sign. I sincerely regret the preeipi whictany of this action, ih is dau to the political situation." The London Chroniel4 understd. ;Douglass traight 'ho ha beeat mn editor of tFaII Mall Gasette, Sis odly a temporary spltnltIRn*)" -r. Astor intends to eeuse n A~set ' can editor for the paper. FATAL FAMILY Ja. Joe. Merrifeld tKills mIts e c~ mt sautie. Joe Mergifield, the 12- esla1o of Pruk Merriteld, of stot his 7- old brol aw a chi ester ride'sturday'moi hilled himself, blowia* the of his head sawy. "T1 the Slet the boys tethr *hes.. ' coene was preseated. The lay dead on the &our, i"al Ssqnslor, ad the ~irai* flr.. were scath e os the*.er fanlly until theyr v e J 7.. 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