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OUTLAWS ROB A BANK. |
Two Hall-Breed Indians Inyade
a Kansas Town.
In the Presence of Ten Men They
Secure $2500.
Tbree officials of the Caney Valley (Kan.)
TUnir W3re suddenly confronted by two ua ukad
roLberj, covered with revolvers
ad after a show at resistance the bank was
coolly robbed of $2330 in cash a few aftermooms
ago. The robbers were the notorious
desperado Henry Starr and a halfbreed1 Indian,
also an outlaw, whosa aims Is New*
comb.
In the bank at the time ware Cashier
Terry Hollingsworth, Assistant Cashier fl.
A. Schurr and Judge MeEnery. Vice-President
of the First National Bank of Coflfey flle,
where the Dal tons met their fate.
As the robbers reached the bank counter
each man pulled revolvers. Assistant Cash*
tar Schurr jumped backward into the vault
and dosed the door after him. The other
two men were at the mercy of the robbers;
who vaulted the counter. Starr ordered
Hollingsworth to open the door of the vault,
sajing that he would kill him if he refuse-}.
At this Schurr opened the door from the in*
side, fearing the threat would be carried
into effect, but was coolly told to wait a
minute.
Starr covered the two bankers with his
pistols and had Newcomb reach under the
cashier's counter and secure the two Winchesters
and a revolver lying there.
Then-Schurr was ordered to open the
vault door, and, at the point of a Win*
Chester, was made to place all the money in
the vault, $2000, in a wheat sack, and from
the monev drawer $503 was added. All this
was done very quickly.
Starr jumped over the counter just as a
insin&-s man came in to make a deposit.
Starr ordered the man to throw up hi?
hands, and was obeyed. Starr backed to
ooe skle of the entrance just as another customer
entered with bank boo i in hand.
It was nearly the cloain? hour, and in five
minutes, perhaps, the robber had seven citisans
in line, each with his hands up.
"The Daltons are not all dead," said Starr
to the terrified bank officials and citizens.
**I guess we'll pay the bank acros3 the street
a visit," he laughed.
It was 3 o'clock, and Starr calmly closed
the bank doorc, but without turning his
back to the prisoners. Then the robbers
marched the tea men back through the bank
ioto a yard surrounded by a nigh ooard
fence, locked the door, walked hurriedly out
at the front, mounted their horses and rode
rapidly southward. It was ten minutes before
the alarm was given.
When the alarm was finally given the
news of the daring robbery spread rapidly,
aad a posse of citizens was quickly organ*
iced "and started in pursuit. Before the
tart could be made, however, the robbers
had secured an advantage of fully thirty
minute*.
The bank was soon surrounded and the
till frightened bank officials wera too overcome
to accurately state their loss further
tfaas that everything in sight in the money 1
kne had been secured by their visitors.
Henry Starr is one of the notorious Dillon
gang, and only recently escaped from
Jail,
LATER NEW?.
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Joseph Bidge and wife, of Machanicavillf,
while driving across the railroad at
Beiples Station, Penn., wera struck by an
ngine and fatally injured.
Coxa's iron breaker at Oneida, Penn., the
?u y one Ol its Kina iu mo uuuuuj, uu >??
borne i. It cost 1250.000.
Commissioner oy Public Works Daly,
C New1 York City, bagan bis work in the
Croton watershed under the Webster law
by burn in; a dwelling house an 1 barn and
oodfmnlng many nuisances.
Thb Clothing Manufacturers' Association
obtained from Judge Lawrence, of the Supmne
Court, New York City, a temporary
injunction that practically restrained the
United Garment Workers from continuing
their boycott.
Tkk President his made the following
nominations: Herman Stump, of Maryland,
to be Superinten lent o! Immigration, William
P. Thompson, of Maine, to be Collector
of Customs for the District of Belfast, Me.
ARBITBATOES MEET. ,
First Session In Paris ot tbs Bering
Sea Court.
The Court of Arbitration appointed to adjut
the difficulties between Great Britain
r and the United States in relation to the seal
isberies in Bering Sea met at Paris
fe the office of the French Foreign
Ministry. All the member* of the Court
-were present. They are Justice John M.
Harlan and Senator John T. Morgan, apMinted
by the President of the United
States; Baron de Conrcelles, appointed by
the President of France; Gregera W. W.
Gram, appointed bv the Kinz of Sweden,
Marquis Emilio Visconti Veuosta, appointed
by the King of Italy; Lord Hansen
and Sir John 8. D. Thompson, appointed
by the Queen of England. Ex-Sec
rotary ot btate jo an n. rowr was prweut
m agent on the part o( the^Jnited States,
and Charles H. Tup per, Cauadian Dominica
Minister of Marine and Fisheries, as "
agent ok the part of Great Britain. The
present on the part of the United
' States were E. J. Phelpi, of Vermont;
? James C. Carter of New York; Henry W.
Blodgett of Illinois, and assistant counsel
tor tbe United States, Robert Lansing, of
Raw York. The ooanael for Qreat Britain
resent were Sir Charles Russell, AttorneySeneral,
Sir Richard Welter, ex* AttorneyGeneral;
Q. C. Robinson, of tbe Canadian
Bar, and W. H. Cross.
1L Develle, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, made a short speech welcoming the
embers ot the Court, tbe agents ana tbe
oansel.
Tne meeting was purely formal. Credentials
were presented, and the Court organized
x < ky the election of Baron de Courcelles
as President. It was decided to
\ Met at 11:30 a. m. each day, and to sit for
flow hoars and a half daily, the meetings to
ka open to members of the press to whom
\ aards should be issued. The Court then adjourned
until April 4, in order to examine
the printed arguments of the United States
and Qreat Britain, which were presented.
AQlilCULTUBAL INQUIRY.
ftatvCominitteea ot the Senate A p.
pointed to Make Investigations. ,
In April last the United States Senate
passed & revolution directing the Committee
on Agriculture and Forestry to investigate
tbe condition of tbe agricultural interests in
tbe United State?, and if found depressed to
ascertain the cause, and inquire into the <
proper remedy. Sub-committees made a- 1
partial investigation in regard to the cotton
industry. The continuance of the investigation
was authorised. Toe committee has
appointed a sub-cooimittea consisting of the
Cnairman, Mr. GeoV^e, an I Senators Bate
and Proctor, to. inquire into the matter so
no mttnn i? eonc?rn-aJ. and S?nator$
Peffer, Roach and \Va?htmrn, to in vest:- I
gate the cultivation of wheat, oats, etc. It
is understoo 1 that each sub-committee will
go to work at an early day. and maka the
instigation as thorough,as practiciola.
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; A SHORT HONEYMOON".
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An Indian Who Had Married a White
Girl Murdered. \
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News -s been received at Dannison,
Texas, t t*. Willis Jordan, of\ Jackson
County, iJ t'icuiw Nation, w?i$ called to his
door tb> oihe.* nisjht and ridilei with
toilets. ! ?- kn, w 10 is a full blooi Indian,
, , tii marr.e I several months a?o to a white
girl Agp Ht the wuhee of his brother, who '
swore ta.i tbe honeymoon would be short.
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BUILDINGS AT
rJ
Among s great number of sketches subm
the Board of Lady Managers quickly dtacove
gracefulness of details which Indicate the arc
the execution of the design.
' Directly in front of the building the lago
landing ana staircase leads to a terrace six
four feet above, on which, aboutlOO feet bac
shrubs. The principal facade has aa extreme
is the style selected.
The first story is raised about ten feet fn
ing the main triple-arched entrance, with an
elaborate bas-relief. The corner pavilions h
ing Gardens.
A lobby 40 feet wide leads into the open i
ornamented skylight. This rotunda is surroi
whole having a thoroughly Italian courtyard
floor are located, on the left hand, a model
The whole floor of the south pavilion is d
Ization. Each of these floors is 80x200. The
In the second story are located ladies1 ps
whole second floor of the north pavilion inclo
stage for the accommodation of speakers. T
The building is encased with "staff," the
corated Walls bathed in the bright sunshine,
jj EPftfpfciLi
Machinery Hall, of which Pea body <& St
to the Administraton Building in the magu
Annex and Power House cost abr it 11,200,OC
Michigan and the west line of the Park. It
cultural Building. The building is spanned I
houses side by side, surrounded on ail the fox
taken down and sold for use as railroad trail
to end of the building for the purpose of moi
hibits beneath. The power from this buildii
The Forestry Building is in appearance tt
a remarkable degree its architecture is of the
is a colonnade consisting of a series of column
in diameter and the others smaller. All of t
the different States and Territories of the U
The sides of the building are constructed of s
as is the rest of the building. The main enti
being contributed by several prominent luml
no mistake as to kinds of tree-trunks which f
and scientific name, the State or country fro:
mate quantity of such timber in the region1
building are numerous flagstaffs bearing the c
TJniqm among the other exhibits is that
appearance. is a faithful fulfilled model of o
on the Lake front In the northeast portion of J
The structure has the fittings that belong V
anchors, chain cables, davits, awnings, deolc
mechanics and marines are detailed oj the 1
naval vessels are completely shown. Thede
gives certain drills, especially boat, torpedo,
The dimensions of the structure are those
from the water line to the top ot the main dc
mock berthing on the same 7 feet high, and
At the forward end of the superstractur
placed two circular "tops" as receptacles for
the water line to the summit of this milltan
The battery mounted comprises four 13
breech-loading rifle cannon; twenty 6-pounc
tubes or torpedo guns. All of these are plac
On the starboard side of the ship is show
and cutters ride at the booms, and all the o
prominent People.
Pi rvpi nn h.i a wonderful
memory.
President Nunez, of Colombia, has refused
a pension of $30,000 a year.
Isaac Pusev Grat, the new Minister to i
Mexico, is six feet ten inches tall and weighs
180 poundp.
The full name of the Brazilian Minister
at Washington is General Dionizlo JSvangetistade
Castro Cerqueira.
Wilfred Young, a schoolboy, is paid
I6C0 a year for ringin? in the choir of All
An pels' Church, New York City.
Mrs. Lamost, wife of ths Secretary of
War, will remain in New York until the
close of the school year liberates the children.
Ex-Skcreta.rt Tract says that, in addition
to the bard tabor an1 constant anxiety,
his cabinet life cost Jrim about J30.000 a
year over and above his salarj.
Governor Roswell P. Flower, of New
York, got his first start in life from money
earned as a clerk in the Watertown Postoffice.
He reciived $700 a year.
Verdi received for "Falstaff," his new
opera, $32,000 down and will get forty per
c*nt. of the publishing and performing royalty
rights. Bolto got I2J00 for the libretto.
In many sections there is doubt as to the
way in which the name of Attorney-'Jeneral
Olney ought to be pronounced. In Rhode
Island, the chief seat of the family, they
call it Oh-ny.
The Russian oil kings, the Nobel Brothers,
are really enterprising Swedes, who are
said to dispose of upward of sixty million
gallons of kerosene annually, and always
for ready cash.
Senator Mantle, of Montana, is an
Englishman by birth and a telegraph operator
by occupation. Ho is only thirty-nine
years of age. and is the youagest member in
the Senate chamber.
THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN
TKX WOMAN'S BUILDING.
itted in competition for this building by wo
red in the sketch submitted by Miss Sophia (
hitectural scholar, and to her was awarded tl
on takes the form of a bay, about 400 feet ii
feet above the water. Crossing this terrac
k. the building is situated. The first terrace i
i length of 400 feet, the depth of the buildin
am the ground line, and a wide staircase lea<
open colonnade in the second story, is finishe
ave each an open colonnade added above th
rotunda, 70x65 feet, reaching through the he
inded by a two-story open arcade, as delicat
effect, admitting abundance of light to all rc
hospital; on the right, a model kindergarten
evoted to the retrospective exhibit; the one c
curtain opposite the main front contains th<
triors, committee-rooms and dressing-rooms,
ises the great assembly-room and club-room,
he south pavilion contains the model kitchei
same material used on the rest of the buildi
the women of the country are justly proud i
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THE MACHINIST HA.LL.
earns, of Boston, are the architects, has been
iflcenca of its appearanoe. This building i
10. It is located at the extreme south end of t
is just south of the Administration Building, i
by three arched trusses, and the interior prese
ir sides by a gallery fifty feet wide. The tru
1 -b ouses. In each of the long naves there is a
rinj machinery. These platforms are built t
ig is supplied from a power-house adjoining
THX 70RESTRT BUILDIKO.
te most unique of all the Exposition structui
rustic order. On all four aides of the build
s composed of three tree-crunks each 23 feet:
heae trunks are left in their natural state, wit
nion and by foreign countries, each furnishii
labs with the bark removed. The window i
ranees are elaborately finished in different k;
ber associations. The roof is thatched with
orm the colonnade, for he will see upon each
n which the trunk was contributed, and otbei
whence it came. Surmounting the cornice of
olors, coats of arms, etc., of the Nations and
THE XAVAL EXHIBIT.
made br the United States Naval Dipartmoi
Q? of the new coast-line battleship}. This ii
ackson Park. It is surrounded by water aui h
3 the aotual ship, tuoh guns, turrets, torpaic
fittings, eta, etc., together with all apppilauc
far/ Department during the Espoiltion, a:
tail of m9U is not, however, as *reat as the
and gun drills, as in a vasjel of war.
i of the actaftl battleship, to-wit: Length, 3i
>ck, 12 teet. Centrally placed on this deck i:
above these are the bridge, chart-house, au
e there in a cone-shaped tower, called the "a
sharp?hooters. Rapid firing guns are mouc
r mast is 76 feet, and above is placed a fiagsu
inch breech-loading rifle cannon; eight 8-inc
ler rapid firing guns; six 1-pound rapid-firing
?d and mounted respectively as in the genuic
rn the torpedo protection net, stretching th
utward d apearance of a real ship of war is it
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Cholera is gaining ground in Russia.
The British army in Egypt ia being
doubled.
Austrian crops have been greatly damaged
by Irost. '
The exodus of Illinois farmers to the
W est continues.
There is not a church of any sort In
Taney Connty, Missouri.
Prolonged drought is causing much
damage in the North of Africa.
News from Hawaii is that Royalists are
forming And-American Leagues.
The San Francisco (CaL) police have declared
war on the Chinese highbinders.
The indications are that North Carolina
planters will not reduc9 the cotton acreage.
There are 7000 families along the Kansas
border ready to rush into the Cherokee
Strip.
An Indian Gfirl, a?ei tea, was carried off
and eaten by cougars naar Tilden, Washiogton.
All Hebrew bankers of Europe have
been urged to boycott Russia in the loan
market.
A strange disease anion; cattle in Central
Illinois is believed to b? due to the feeding
of millet.
It is now assured that President Cleveland
will pre?s the button at the opening ol
the World's Fair.
The total shioments of bananas from
Nicaragua to this country during 1892 wen
1,484,775 buQcben.
A mysterious underground river hai
been discovered four and one-half miles
northwest of Augusta, I1L
A cattle plague has ravaged Africa
millions of cattle having died between thi
river Niger and Lake Tehad.
m CHICAGO.
men from all over the land, tha President o (
li Hayden that harmony of grouping and
le first prize of a thousand dollars, and also
i width. From the centre of this bay a grand
e other staircases give access to the ground
a designed in artistic flower beds and low
ig being half this distance. Italian renaissance
is to the centre pavilion. This pavilion, formd
with a low pediment enriched with a highly
e main cornice. Here are located the Hang*
ight of the building, and protected by a richly
a and chaste in design as the exterior, the
>oms facing this interior space. On the first
, each occupying 80x60 feet
>n the north to reform work and charity orgaus
Library, Bureau of Information,records, etc..
all leading to the opan balcony in front. The
The first of these is provided with an elevated
^refreshment rooms, reception rooms, etc.
njs, and as it stands with its mellow, de?
of the result
pronounced by many architects second only
measures 830x600 feet, and with the Machinery
be Bark, midway between the shore of Lake
?nd west and across a lagoon from the Agrlnts
the appearance of three railroad train*
sses are built separately, so that they can be
n elevated traveling crane running from end
10 that visitors may view from them the exthe
south side of the building.
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res. Its dimsnilons are 230 by JSOO feet. To
in; is a veranda, supporting the roof of whioh
in lenztn, one of them from 16 ^ to 20 inches
h bark undisturbed. They are contributed by
lg; specimens of its most characteristic trees,
rames are treated in the same rustic mannetinds
of wood, the material and workmanship
tan and other barks. The visitor can make
a tablet upon which is inscribed the common
r pertinent information, such as the approrithe
veranda and extending all around the
States represented in the exhibits inside.
it It is in a structure which, to all outward!
nit\tioa battleship of 1893 is erectei oa piling
lis the appsaranceof being moored to c. wharf,
i tubas, torpedo nets and boomt, with boats,
jm for wonting the- gam?. Qffcars, seamen,
ad the discipline and mode of life oa oar
complement of the actual (hip. The crew
> feat; width amid ships, 63 feat 3 inches; and
3 a superstructure 8 feet high with a ham1
the ooats.
lilitary mast," near the top of which are
ited in each of these tops. The height from
iff for signaling.
>h breech loading rifle cannon: four 6-inch
; guns; two Gattling guns, and six torpedo
le battleship.
e entire length of the vessel. Steam launches
nitated.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Knights or Labor in 'New Zealand are
; going into the co-operative business.
Hod carriers hare forty-six unions and
will soon organize an international body.
Farmers are beginning t? complain of a
i scarcity of farm hands. They will pay |2 a
day and more.
The New Labor Lyceum in Philadelphia,
Penn., has just been opened with a public
demonstration.
Waqes in Massachusetts average $1.70 to
tl rk*i/t In Rncrlfln^ whilA thft of thft
same mode of living is $1.17 here to $1 in
England.
James Hillhoime, Jr., recently appointed
Mine Inspector of Alabama, was not
man? years ago a common laborer in the
Shenandoah (Penn.) mines.
The operative cotton spinners of Manchester,
England, offered to resume work
1 forthwith if the reduction of wages be limited
to 2% per cent. The Federation of Master
Cotton Spinuers' meeting practically refused
to accept the off or.
Before: the English Labor Commission
i the fact was established that when tho hours
i of the men employed ia tha gas works were
reduced from twelve to eight, or thirtythree
per cent., it was found that their ein.
ciency was diminished only twenty-two per
cent.
The new French law relative to the em?
ployment of children and women in fac*
UJf.i fUa amnlnirmanh Cif
tones, eiu, pivmuib^ vuw j
children in workshops, factories, mines,
. quarries, etc., unless they have received a
certificate of physical fitness for the work
from a medical man authorizad to grant
' such certificates. The inspectors of labor
> can always demand to have caildren in such
establishments under the age of sixteen
, medically examinei, to determine whether
b the work they are called on to do is beyond
their strength.
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SWEPT BY WmDSTORMS. '
Great Damage Done in the
South and West.
Several Towns in Mississippi Reported
Nearly Destroyed.
Scattering reports coming to Memphis
from points ia West Tennessee and Northern
Mississippi indicated that a terrific tornado
had whirled up the Mississippi Vallej
from the sonthwest, crashing and sweeping
away everything in its mad path.
Telegraph wires In every direction were
iwutea idk) tangies tuia wuiuuiuuiwuu
with the storm-swept localities was exceedingly
difficult and unsatisfactory.
Trains from the East reaching the city late
in the afternoon and evening brought reports
of widespread destruction. Passengers
on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
train told of the destruction or Tunica,
Miss.
The Birmingham train due in Memphis at
5:50 o'clock could not get to Memphis until
alter S o'clock, men being compelled to chop
and remove trees off the track between
Memphis and Kelly, which is situated about
thirteen miles from Memphis.
The swath of the storm as it crossed the
Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham
road seemed to embrace a territory between
Cooperville and Olive Branch. Dozens of
houses, huge trees and barns were rased to
the ground by the violence of the storm.
Tha damage at Tunica, Miss., was very
great. Houses were crushed like eggshells.
The ruthless visitor lingered over the town
scarcely two minutes and yet in that time
the greater part of the town was destroyed.
The Knights of Pythias' and Masonic Hall is
now only a heap of timber. The roof of the
Court House was carried away.
When the storm subsided cries and
screams of children were heard from the
colored ;cbool-house( where 150 children
had been gathered at their lessons. The
building, a two-story frame, had been blown
down, and beneath the ruins was a mass of
struggling children. None was killed, but
there were many maimed and bruised, some
with broken arms and some with fractured
skulls. The loss to property will go into the
hundreds of thousands.
Trainmen on the Kansas City. Memphis
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ana oimnngaam namum ic^iuiku
Kelly, Miss., was wiped off the face of the
earth, not a soul being left to tell the tale.
Cleveland, Miss., was severely damaged
by the tornado, losing a floe church ana a
number of dwellings. There was no loss of
life.
A special from Crawfordsville, Ark.,
states that a severe wind blew down several
houses in that town.
It was also reported that a tornado had
devastated Bowling Green, Ky. All wlrea
were down to that point and nothing definite
could be learned concerning the disaster.
A wind storm of remarkable violence
visited Indianapolis, Ind., doing about
1100,000 damage and injuring two
persons. The Brown-Ketcham Iron Works
were partially uoroofeJ. One of the big
mills of the Cerealine Company was an*
roofed, and the roof in falling struck Charles
Myers, a workman, breaking his leg. The
third story, of the Indianapolis coffin
factory, three blocks away was blown
off. Next to this factory la a boarding house
and saloon owned by Charles Benhke,
which was unroofed, and Mrs. Benhke had
her foot crushed. Mr. Benhke was bruised.
A number of sheds, stables and two frame
houses in course of construction were demol*
ished.
Despatches from Kansas and Missouri say
that a severe storm raged generally over the
two States. The rainfall was very heavy
and generally benefited the crops. At Oklahoma
City a number of buildings were
blown down and several of them were
burned by lightning.
The slate roof of the' State Insane
Asyldm at Nevada, Mo., was damaged and
* ~m a# fha natrium
IDS no use Ol UIO ciujuim Ui ??V <~J
blown down. Ia Kansas the rain was
general all over the western part of the
State.
The eastern part of Charlton County,
Missouri, was visited by a hurricane, killing
live stock anl destroying a great deal of
other property. The dwelling house of Mrs.
Samuel Ounn was destroyed. Two persons
were killed in the same neighborhood.
Later Details.
Additional news of the tornado in north*
era Louisiana and southern Arkansas has
been received. Near Shaw's Station, Miss.,
the house of Drury Sumral, a prosperous
colored farmer, was levelled to the
ground, killing the entire family of
nine persons. The storm passed within a
mile of Clarksdale, a town of 2000 inhabitants,
and next struck Tunica, the
county seat of Tunica County. Nearly
every building in the place was wrecked.
The newly completed Court House went
down before the wind's fury. The colored
school building was wrecked and over thirty
children injured. As the cyclone left Tunica
it divided, one portion traveling in a north*
easterly direction, while the other took a
northwesterly course ahd again crossed the
Mississippi River into Arkansas where
it spread ruin through three counties.
The towns of Crawforasville and Vincent
were nearly wiped off the face of the earth,
and the storm thee took a northeasterly
course, reaching Kelly, Miss., about four
o'clock in the afternoon. Here the greatest
damage was dona. Six people were killed
outrlgnt.
DTTDfLT AUQ BflU A "R A WIT
JJ U XI>UXJ?kJJlU JJIWJJ J3.
They Get $10,000 at Pawling N. Y.,
and Escape on a Hand Car.
A daring robbery occurred a few morn*
lags ago in Pawling, N. Y. The robbers
entered the savings bank in the Dutcher
House and secured $10,000. Twenty*
five guests were in the house,
but none of then were awakened.
The safe was forced open and everything in
it extracted without noise. After cracking
the safe the robbers made their way to the
railroad station, where they xtole a hand*
car belonging to the Grand Central Railroad
and rode to firewsters. There they
ditched the car and walked to C&rmel station
to wait for a train.
At that point they found the station
locked, but they broke in the door and rested
until the 7 o'clock express arrived. This
they boarded without exciting suspicion.
They had their booty in a large valise.
Soon after the train left the
station a deputy sheriff rode into
B re waters, bringiug news of the robbery.
There It was learned that tbe burglars
had. tcken a train at CarraeL. ana al?
though it was a fast express it was decided
to stop it at an intermediate station. This
was done and the burglars captured. They
gave their names as John Walters and Henry
Cary. The stolen goods were recovered ana
the robbers given into the hands of the New
Tork officials.
IN A FLOATING BARN.
Remarkable Escaoe of Farmer
Price's Pigs and Chiclcons.
During the recent big freshet in the Susquehanna
River the barn of VTilliam Price,
who lives near Wilkesbarre, Penu., was
carried away when the ice gorge broke. In
the bain were ten pigs and seven chickens.
Price gave up all hope of ever seaing his
j-tock again, expecting that the barn would
break up and the pigs and chickens drown,
but the animals and birds were born under
a lucky star.
The barn held together and floated down
upon the big cakes of ice until th9 flood subaided
and left it stranded on a small islaud
near Selins Grove, Penn., eighty-live miles
down the river.
There was a barrel of corn in the barn,
and this had been upset by the pigs and furnished
good living during their trip. The
animals and chickens were found by a party
mnn onrl WAPfl in POOd COEl'i i t lOI). The
men found something in the barn with
Price's name on it, and wrote to him. Price
went to Selins Grove, and shipped his Jive
stock home.
JT is estimated tnat more boomers are
squatting along the borders of the Cherakej
Strip than can be accommodated with
quarter-sections when the laad shall bare
been opened for settlement
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NOMINEESOONFIBMXD.
Pictures of Tlire? ot CleTeland'e
New Appointees.
J AXES B. ITTSTD3.
James B. Euatia, appointed Miaiafcer to
Prance, is a native of New Orleans, La., and
is Of ty-nine years old.
THEODORE BUWTOIC.
Theodora Runyon, appointed Minister to
Germany, is sixty-two vecu's of age and a
resident ol Newark, N. J.
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WAD* HAKPTOIT.
Wad? Hampioa, appointed Railroad Commissioner,
was bora in Charleston, S. C.,
March 28,1813.
THEEE BANKS FAIL.
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cial Circles.
Three banks in Nashville, Tena., which bad
been regarded as substantial failed to open
their doors on the morning after the failure
of Dobbins & Dizsy.the big cotton broker;.
In oonsequence there was a panio in commere
1*1 circles and confidence in the stability
of other institutions was shaken.
The first announcement was that the Commercial
National Bank had failed. This
was soon followed by the reports that the
Mechanics' Savings Bank and Trust Company
and the Bank of Commerca were in
difficulties. A run on all the banks was'
feared, and to avoid this the banks made
assignments, thus protecting equally the interests
of all the creditors.
Tbe Commercial National Banc had enjoyed
tbe utmost confidence of the paople
of Nashville. The suspension is tbe direct
result of the failure of Dobbins & Dazsy,
cotton brokers. The amount stated as the
indebtedness of that firm to tbe Commercial
was $80,000. It has since been learned that
the bank's total loss on Dobbins & Daisy's
paper, their foreignexchange and overdraft
amounted to |i63,C00.
Tbe Bank of Commerce made assignment
naming John T. LHlyett as assignee. This
action was precipitated by tbe general apprehension
of a run on the bank, which the
| officers believed would be made. The depositsjvere
not large, aggregating only about
The Mechanics' Bank suspended with*
drawals by depositors for sixty days.
The three failures will break aoout thirty
small banlu in the country towns And the
losses in all will reach on a million and a
half dollar.'. Two small State banks failed
that day. Tha failure will stagnate business
and the loss from that sourca will be
equally as great.
SUNK,BY EARTHQUAKE.
Many Killed by the Falling in ol
Colombian Mountains.
A tremendous and destructive phenomenon
has occurred in the Department of
Cauca, in the Republic of Columbia. The
rolcano of Sotara had been unusually active,
and the people in that region were greatly
excited by tne rumbling ot the earth and the
extraordinary violence of the volcanic eruption.
Suddenly, while the volcauo was belching
forth flame and smoke to a great height, the
earth began to shake as if a most violent
convulsion were in progress, anl tne mountain
ridge called Cruz Loma suddenly sank
along its entire extension. The inhabitants
in the vicinity who had a cjance to escape
fled in terror from the scene, and not toa
soon, as the sunken ridge dammed up three
rivers and added devastation to the terrors
of earthquake and volcano.
Twelve persons are known to have perished.
and many cattle were destroyed, and
more destruction in feired, as the rivers,
whose usual channels have bee.i obstructed,
are risiug radidly.
Great suffering prevails in Cauca. usually
the most flourishing department of Colombia,
and many people are starving, owing
to the failure of the crops, and this new and
uuexpacted calamity has added greatly to
the general wretchedness.
The volcano of Sotara is 17.031 feet high,
and is but a few miles south of the city o(
Popayan, the capital of the Department of
Cauca, which is the largest of the nine departments
into which the United States of
Colombia are divided. The city of Popayan
has a population ot about 30,000. It is
situated on an elevated plataau 'J5W feet
above the level of th9 sea.
Secretary Morton has discharged fortyseven
and furloughed 121 employee of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, thus saving
110,550 a month.
AT IOK m ABROAD. ^
Important Happenings as Told
by Telegraph and Cable.
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Singular Double Traeredv in &
New York Gun Shop.
One of the saddest tragedies ia the polio*
annals of Now York City occurred at 5:25 i
o'clock, a few aftera-vm* ago, In the big, ^
gun store of Hartley & Graham, 813 ancl 315
Broadway. William W. Reynolds, who for
thirty years past had b?en at the head of the
exoort department of the firm, shot and
killed Miles V. Kellv, head bookkeeper oC
the house, and then turned the pistol"
against himself, inflicting; a fatal wound.
Absolutely no motive can be assigned for,
the action, and all th* persons acquainted 4
with the principals azr?e that Mr. Reynolds , l
was crazy.
The men had been friends for nearly a
quarter of a century, Mr. K?Uy haying i
served in Hartley & Uraham's establishment
' 1 -? 1 II +<? *?
ior twenty years, ?nu nunux ?? hm? ? ?
they myw once had a quarrel as far as any
one knows.
Not a word preceded the shooting, and'
that Mr. Kelly was satectel as the noting
was probably due slmpiv to the fact th?t he
had the misfortune to be the person near-1 V;;
eft at hand when the insane impulse to
kill seized Mr. Reynolds. For a month! '
or ao the letter's friends hare noticed; .
certain peculiarities in his actions. He
would frequently ma-a mistakes in his cor* respondence,
something formerly unknown;
he was absent-minded and hesitating in his " fe
speech, and was seizel with periods of the
most intense despondence. He was fifty
years old and married. He had no children, - >
and lived at 155 Hewes street, Brooklyn. /
Mrs. Reynolds got to Naw York City about v-,
8 o'clock. She found her sister-in-law at the . ;/'
hospital where her husband had been taken.,
They remained with Mr. Reynolds until it
was a certainty that h<? could never recover jEM
consciousness,and went away at 10:30 o'clock.' ' .. p.
He died at fifteen minutes of midnight. ; .<; ~
No writing was fou't i which could suggest yLM
a motive for either murder or suicide, nor is %i
5* mnnnuH thp wpra nremeditated, v
by Mr. Reynolds. H* never carried a pistol, J ijF/T
and the revolver whicd ha used was a new
one, taken from one of the showcases.
It still had the tag attached on which was
marked Its catalogsi nu?nb?r, its cost, and'
selling price. It is b-lfov-jd tbuat it was taken ' y'
from the case after 5 o'clook, when the clerks'
had left the store. After it was taken car* m
triages had to be got from another depar' - M
ment before it conld be loaded. fl
The Famous Alica Mitchell Case,
Judge Dnboee has beau deposed from the ' '
bench at Memphis pending the impeachment V- -'
proceedings in the State Ssnate of Ten- 4'j.
nessee. and the members of the :
bar. as prescribed by law under j
such conditions, elected Thomas EL ;
Scrum temporary Ju l?e of the Criminal
Court. Judge Scrujrzs'g first official act
was in reference to Miss Llliie Johnson of ' ,J/
the famous Mitchell-Ward case. Llliie ifv",
Johnson was oat driving with Alice Mit- i?S
chell on February 25,1392, when Alioe killed ,
Freda Ward. iilJie remained in the boggy i-'at
the top of the hill, and said she
knew nothing of the crime until after
its oommjssion. Nevertheless she was ar> ' 'w
rested as an acoeesory and confined in jail
until her health gave way. Then she was
admitted to 9^000 bat Jadge Dubose >
In a brutal manner told hi* .in open court
that he betiered her guilty. ; *8E!
In August last A ice Mitchell was seat to
an insane asyluns, where she still la Al- '. t
though in the Mitchell trial and in the in- sanity
proceedings nothing showed that ' ^
Lillle Johnson was aware of Alice's inteo- '
tions, Judge Dubose was so prejudiced that
he refused to entertain the motions of At*
torney-General Peterj to discharge her, and
Insisted in keeping her under bonds. He said
that he intended to try her for murder if -
ever Alioe Mitchell recovered her sanity.
General Peters moved to acquit, and Judge " jbg
Scruggs promptly acquiesced.. Miss Johnson
was not present, but was represented by , .v
counsel. She has nut recovered her health
fully since she broke down under the aocusa- ;
tions against her. .
Stricken WbUe Fighting Fire.
The Misses Swain, three sisters, living at
Townsena'j Inlet, N. J., were recantly mads
{lad by the coming noma from Washington,
>, C., of their only living brother, Henry
Clay dwain, for a short visit.
?us sisters had the meadows on their farm '??
burned off next day. Tne fire was burning
well when the wind cianged and the flames 'J
turned towards the ho nestsad. Mr. 8wain!
joined the workmen wao were fighting the
advancing fire. The violent exercise brought
on an attacK of heart trouble; and he felL
Before he was foun 1 the smoke and flames
had passed over him. He was suffocated
and his body was burned in many places.
The clothing was almost burned off. He was
carried to the mansion and efforts wers , .
made to revive him, bat he soon died.
Mr. Swain was associated with the firm
of Jay Cooke & Co. at the time of their
failure. He was w*U known in Washing*
ton society.
Senatorial Confirmation*.
? o..i? t... mflllMMl
ine UD1HM OHHca UOUIH .
the fallowing nominations: Mix Judd, of ,
UUogri, to be Consul-General at yianoa;
William fl. Sim ma, of CoJumbus, Miss., ,to be
First Assistant Secretary of tne Interior;
John 8. Seymour, of Nor walk, Conn., to
be Commissioner of Patents: Edward
A. Bower*, of Washington,
D. C., to be Awistant Commissioner oC .
the General Land Offi ^e; Henry C. Bail, of
Marshall, Ul_ to be Second Deputy Coomi*?ioner
of Pensions; George Pfefffer, Jr., ? --j
of New Jersey, to be Marshal of the United 4
States for the District of New Jersey. J
Cholera Again Baffin*. ??
It isstated in an official report just issued
in Russia that an average of 150 new oases
of cholera and fifty deaths from the disease
are reported every week in the Government
of PoaoUa.
Cholera has appeared at Zalosce. a market
town of Galicis. Every attempt haa
been made by the authorities to che^k the
disease, but despite their efforts it is spreading.
Three deaths from cholera have ?
already occurred, and several new cases
were reported, i
The Girls Will Attend to the Lamps. ,
The Young Women's Christian Temperance
Union propose some practical temperance
work in Ejrota, Minn. The village r&>
cently voted "No liceuse," and the liquor
men have said that without license fees tnera
would be no public lighting of the streets.
The young women obtained charge of tha <
street lamps, raised money for oil by subscription,
and allotted a lamp to each girl,
whose pleasure it will be to ksep it trimmed
and burning.
Tobacco and Cotton Crops.
The acreage in tobacco will be from eighteen
to twenty per cent, lees than it was last
year. Prices have not been good and there '
is an oversupplv.
Notwithstanding that the crop of last
year's cotton is nearly 3,000,000 bales short,
the price has not gone up. Yet the acre- ,
age will be increased from tea no twenty pw
cent. j
Perished in Flames.
The raining towa of Ksernten, near Blelberfr,
Germany, has been almost destroyed.
by Are.
When two churches and sixty-flve houses
bad been destroyed the fire was still spreadin?.
Fifteen persons were known to have, perished
in the flames, an J sjveral others were #
missing.
KILLED WIFE ASP CHILD.
The Awlnl Crime ot a Pennsylvania
Miner.
Barney McFadden, a^niner, living near
Leggett's Creek breaker, Scranton, Penn,,
some time during the night murdered his
wife and child.
The scene in the home when neighbors
mnr?n thn discovery next mornln? wasater*
rible one, bearing evidences of an awtul
struggle on the part of the woman to escape
the murderer.
Ministzr Joxks, of the Finanoe Depart- ?ments
has announced that the total deb: at *
the Hawaiian Government is t8.321.000.