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I rl 1 Volume VI. GREENSBORO, N. Thursday, September 25, 1890. Whole No. 258.

paid vp if as ire eanruji A IV I tV, It''' RAILROAD HORRORS. Fiftyeeyeir Killed and Injured in 'A the Beading Disaster. THE BIRCHALL TRIE The Celebrated Case Begun at Woodstock, Oat. rxaminatioa bv Blactoclc, cctin? sl tor lie admit tod Fi rd. burn A Co.

wrote that llircka.ll coia- I that McDonald was swindling Inglih farm par.ils. 11 faid tliai Birchall borrowed from him ror.vid t-able money and paid all bat J. Mrs. Birchall was not in court yc r-day. All witners except tho cno li-fymg are excludcil.

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Yearly advertisements quarterly. I The North State Is entered at the posl oSce in Greenshoro as second-class matter. 1890 September 1890 The United States shlp-of-war Swatara, now in Asiatic waters, has been ordered home, A fire at Alexandria, Egypt, destroyed a grain and cotton warehouse, causing a loss of $7 0.00 Head Chief and Young Mule, Indians who murdered Hngh Boyle, were killed near Miles City, Mont. Reports Jn San Fraacisco say that the family of the late Maj. Gen.

John C. Fremont is destitute, The print cloth manufacturers of Providence, R. have decided to unlta thoso of Fall jRiver to curtail production by ehuV ting down for sixty hours during October. Mayor Grant ent a letter to the police commission, suggesting that It was absolutely necessary thara recount of New York city should be made, and asking that policemen be detailed to do it. McKee Rankin, the actor, has been served with a summons and complaint at the instance of his wife, Kitty Blanchard, who al-: leges that her husband has not supported her in three years.

Mrs. Rankin does not seek a divorce, but merely demands that her husband shall support her. Satutday, Sept. 20. The New York brick war, it is thought, will be ended today.

The Cape of Good Hope bank has gone into bankruptcy and suspended payment. Cigarmakers' union. No. 97, of Boston, has ordered IU secretary to forward to the Binghamton strikers. The police made a raid upon the Hoxton club, London, and arrested a party of thirty who wer8 gambling there.

Lightning struck Benson's -flouring mill, and the building together with 9.003 bushels of wheat was destroyed. Loss, $30,090. Four burglars broka open the safe of Reiser, Newmeyer at Mount Olive, and stole its contents. The amount of the theft is not known. The bodies of the young German actress, Emllle Rossi, and her artist lover, Gnstave Koch, who committed suicide in a sensational manner on Thursday last, were cremated at Frespond, L.

No religious services were held. Monday, Sept. 21. The Oakland bank, Chicago, has suspended payment; liabilities, nominal assets, $73,0.10. tS Railway traffic has been stopped between Nismes and Alaio, in France, by the floods and a landslide.

The Austrian squadron, which attended the recent German naval maneuvers, has been ordered to Toulon. "William Purdy, convicted of the murder of Samuel Reininger, in Chicago, was sentenced to be hanged Oct. 17. The safe in the Sixth "Ward hotel, Allen-town, was robbed of $1,176 in money and gold watches valued at $600. The comptroller of the currency authorized the Union National bank, of Atlantio City, to begin business with a capital of $100,000, The officials of the government arms factory at Spandau, Germany, have given notice that women will.no longer be employed at night work.

Mieedle. Jolin. Philadelphia. Philadelphia and Heading engineer. Summers, Michael.

Makanoy City. Haseman, Frank, Mahanoy City. Unknown man, delegate to the state fireman's convention from Mahanoy City. Injured. Joseph South wool, Centralia, body cut and internally hurt.

James F. Merkle, Bethlehem, badly cut about head and internally hurt. John Thornton. Lees port, badly cut about head and body; seriously Injured. Joseph Noli.

Shenandoah, cut about head and left shoulder broken. Frank B. Hall, manager of Frank Myos Dramatic company, cut about head and body, bruised about arms and legs. John Carroll, St. Clair, back hurt and internally injured.

Joseph CtsfieUjUMahauoy City, bruised ab mt body and legs. William Glassmayer, Port Clinton, badly cut about breast. Thomas Cooney, Philadelphia, head and legs injured. Cotton, Pottstown. Injured internally.

Samuel Shollenburger. Hamburg, leg injured. B. W. Cibbler, Girardville.

foot and leg mashed. 1 John CoHck, Mt. Carmel, hurt Internally and hand mashed. W. Johnston, Shenanloah.

heal badly cut and le George W. Sowders, Reading, badly hurt about back and neck. Pr-fesor Henry C. Mitchell, of Lehigh Universitv. South Bethlehem, jaw dislocated.

Joseph Southwood, of Michigan, injured internally. Laurenca BrownPhiladelphla, head dangerously cut. John Riland, Philadelphia, leg broken and Injured internally. Was on his way to visit a daughter, seriously ill and supposed to be dying. John R.

Sonor, West Leesport, badly cut about th le and body. John McDonald, Shenandoah, severely cut about John Stranb. Schuylkill Haven, leg cut. Benjamin F. Beeche-, Shenandoah, left hip badly cut and leg hurt.

James Bernhard. Shenandoah, left hip crushed and legs hurt. John He, "Mahanoy City, lesrs badly hurt. David G. Youne.

Mahanoy City, head badly cut and legs sprained. Lyman Deck, Hamburgr. both legs broken. Dr. B.

F. Sallade. New Ringgold, right arm badly hurt. Jacob Ulmer. Pottsville, both Ieji broken Samuel Coombs, Mahanoy City, badly hurt about body.

William Simmers, Ashland, hurt about head and internally. James Carroll. St. Clair, badly bruised. Son Jhn Carroll also injured.

B. W. Eiteler, Girardville, foot and leg mahed. Edward lgan. Pottsville.

baggage master. bully injured in back and head; at first reportel kiled. Robert Cotton, parlor car conductor, very badly bruised. FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. Su.

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il 234 56 7 8 "9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28.29 30 I I ETES SE EXCmnmUT IfAKimiED Enterprise Displayed by the Tcle-irraph Companies Inllaving Wires Connected with All Parts of tho World Kan into tho Court Koom. Bircball Exhibits No Emotion. Woodstock, Sept. 23. The day of, the opening of the Birchall trial broke bright and clear, and the people were early astir about the court house.

The final touches to the arrangements the court room were given by the of ficials. Among the preparations show ing the greatest enterprise was the tele- A i Z. 1 1 4 grapn apparatus oi lao ureat orui-western Telegraph company run into the court room with connections to all parts of the world, so that messages can be sent direct from the reporters' tables to any newspaper. One of the public house keepers had a telephone just above the judge's bench connected with twenty instruments in his own place, so that the people there might hear the evidence as it progressed. A Large number of newspaper men are here from all over Canada and many from the United States.

The lawyers were early about. including a number from outside, who are here to listen to tha case and take notes of it for their own information. Birchall Arrives in Ccurt. Birchall was brought to the cooit room in a cab, accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Perry, Guard End whistle, and Chief Young, -of tails, lie was faultlessly dressed in dark clothes. and carried in his hand a neat Derby hat.

His pointed shoes were brightly polished -and he had shaved evidently with the greatest care, lie snowed no emotion, except that of a man who felt himself to be in new surroundings and nnder the scrutiny of a crowd. His face was pale and tne pupils of his dark eyes were dilated, but otherwise there was no sign of tremor. Birchall when arraigned pleaded "not guilty" in a firm voice, and on being asked if he was ready for. trial, Mr. Blackstock.

Q. rose and announced himself as the prisoner's counsel and ready to proceed. The first business was the choosing of a jury, which proceeded more rapidly than had been expected. The challenges were not many on eithsr side, and most of those of the defense were for "favor. in other words, because the juror had formed an opinion against the prisoner.

Tho Jury Secured. The result was that the last juror was chosen after about three-quarters of an hour of proceedings. The following is a list of the jurors: Albert Clare, Rob ert Murray, Alfred McCann, Donald Murray, Joseph Longheli, Augustus Buschell, George Christopher, J. D. Smith, Daniel McLean, James McKay, AI S.

McKay and John McKay. The inrors having been sworn Mr. Osier. O. counsel for the crown.

made the opening address, presenting the case which the crown witnesses would unfold. There wis nothing new in his state ment of facts, but the chain of evidence on his side was closely forged and a very strone case was made out. He dwelt upon the prisoner's career of deceit in Woodstock in lass, when he was Known as Lord Somerset. The Prosecution's Case. Mr.

Osier read a letter which has not ViitbTrt hfTi tnarlft rmblic- In it Tlirrhjill sars: "He fBenwelll has de cided, to join me, as he has found all satisfactory, thinK we snail maice a crv-wl lmnftss together. The books show a good profit last year. The best way is to place the money in our joint hands. Your son is, I think, writing by tills posv. onau eiiu you weeaiy pox imt.K rf rf all Vvnc4lli rtmifl Tbp.

lpttr nlv crave minute descrip tions how to send the money, and said subsequent letters would ue typewritten. Mr. Osier said this plainly showed -a i a motive ior tne muruer. aa vu. Ben well was to pay -00 if his son Kev-jma KAtisfied with the farm.

Mr. Osl vr aln claimed that it was Birchall' scheme to send typewritten letters to CoL Benwell as coming from his son to bleed the father. Counsel for Crown Osier finished his U4 COCii ia UUU v- v. Birchall at 2 o'clock and immediately called William Jdcuonaia as nrgs wit ness. McDonald said he became acquainted with Birchall when the latter came to him as a I arm pupu irom upland.

Birchall was then known as F. a eVvmT-Rt Tie Rtonned at McDon aid's farm one day, then went to Wood stock, saying he was not brongnt np io such woric Pupil Farming. McDonald's evidence threw considerable liht on the pupil fanning business. 'He admitted be was agent at Woodstock for Ford, Kathbnrn tc England, who sent pupils to places on farms, the farmer getting $125 bonu3 and the ag ent $33, the farmer receiving half that amount at the end of the first month, providing that a pupil was satisfied, and the balance at tho end of six months. McDonald said he first knew 2ie villa A.

Pickthall when tha latter came out as a farm pupil five or six years a jo, and him List on Snndav in Wood Long. Pardo E. Dudley and F. A. Eet.

The witness vrrj placed by him on PickthaH irzz staved a month only and QlZ't bcr.tL vrn rtftid icst tne same, iinz xo Dnd- lev. who went to troir, llich ccm- ciitteda robbery and LI to irjara i T'cDunald Cro .1 rr.3 triven a crurl cr, WA w- stock. The names of pnptU placea DT McDonald were given by him 3 Joseph Yrmri' Hfcrtlock E0BBEES OF DEAD BODIES CAUGHT. Passengers Pinned Down by Timbers Until They Drowned Noise of tho Crash Heard for Miles Harrowing Scenes and Incidents Five Persons Killed at Chicago Other Fatal Accidents. si- -Reading.

Sept. 21. A wreck oo currea on tne iteaaing raiiroaa, seventeen miles above this place, at about 6:45 Friday night. rTwenty-one persons were killed outright and thirty-six were seriously injured. The wrecked express carried about loO passQAgers, ana consisted of engine, mail and express cars, and three passen ger cars.

Above bnoemakerville, about fifteen i miles above the city, there is a curve, where the railroad is about eigh teen to twenty feet higher than the Schuylkill river. Here, shortly before 6 o'clock, a freight train ran into a coal train, throwing several cars of the lat ter on the opposite track. Before the tram hands had time to go back to warn any approaching train of he danger, tho Pottsville express came around the curve and ran into the wrecked coal cars on its track. The engine iwent down the embankment, followed by the entire train with its human freight. The scene was one of great horror, and can be better imagined than described.

The noise of the terrific crash was heard several miles. The locomotive headlight was hurled nearly across the river, while sections or tne wrecKea engine cab reached the other bank. The engine leaped 150 feet forward of the spot she struck the wreck and plunged into the river. The tank jumped into the air and fell right back of the engine. The mail, express and baggage cars were splintered into kindling wood, and dropped into- the current.

The heavy part of the ear Elwyn turned upward in the stream, drowning seven of its oc cupants. Searching for the Dead. From midnight to dawn the work of searching for the dead in the river con tinued slowly. Before midnight the bodies of David Angstadt, of Mahanoy City; William D. Shomo, of Reading, and Fireman James Templin had been found.

I Solomon Hoover's body was taken out I at 3:30 a. in. He is from Pottsville, 40 years old. and was found in the water nnder the Pullman car drowned. The body of Mrs.

Edward J. Fox was taken out at 5:50 a. m. She was the first lady taken out and "vas found drowned under the Pullman car. She lived in Pottsville and was 39 years old.

i i Edward J. Fox, husband of Mrs. Fox, was found I drowned alongside of his wife. Both had drowned together. George R.

Elaercher's body was taken ont at 6:20 a. m. He was badly cut on the forehead and about the eyes. He was drowned in five feet of water in the Pullman car. His arms and lower limbs were drawn np.

Harry Loughlm, So years of age, con ductor of the express train, was found dead nnder the Pullman car, in the water. 'His hands were on his face, as though he had anticipated danger. He was badly mangled, and leaves a wife and one child in Pottsville. John Beck er, chief burgess of Mahanoy City, a prominent member of the fire department, was' found under the smoker. crushed to death.

He was in a heap of seven dead. Mr. Becker was serving his second term as burges3. A Terrible Scene. John Osborn; from Philadelphia, on his way to Pottsvillo to visit his wife, was next found.

He was a fine looking man, six feet about "50 years of age, and was drowned in the Pullman car. One of the firemen who was taken out of the wreck at midnight has since been identified as Frank Hoffman, of Mahanoy City. He was 33 years old and a member of the Citizens' Fire company. His chest was crushed in. A.

A. Greenewald, the mail agent, leaves a widow and two small children in Pottsville. Mrs. J. E.

Fredericks, of Pottsville, 40 years old, was found drowned in the Pullman car. J. E. Fredericks, her husband, was found dead by her side. N.

C. Vanderstice, of Phcenixville, was found dead under the smoker. He was a candidate on the Republican ticket for -the legislature. John Shadle. a Philadelphia and Read ing engineer, of Philadelphia, was found dead nnder the smoker.

Michael Summers, of Mahanoy City, member of the Humane Fire company, was found dead under the smoker. He was one of the bosses of the fuel plant near that place. Geoge Lambert, aged 45, of Tain aqua, was' found dead in the smoker. John L. Miller, of Cressona, a coal train brakeman.was found drowned in the smoker.

John White, engineer, found under his cab. ltobbing Dead Bodies. I Franklin M. Kershner, aged 42, who claim ed Shoemakerville as his was brought to this city and committed to prison in default of bail. He was arrested at the scene of the wreck on the charge of robbing the dead bodies.

Shomo. WilUam D- aeed 6 Keadidg. Kaerclier, George Ii aged 4 Pottsville. Becker. Joseph, chief burgess of Mahanoy City.

i Fox, Edward aged 41, Pottsville. Fox, Mrs. Edward pged S3. Pottsville. Hoover.

Solomon, aged Pottsville. Jacoby, Hurry, stonecutter, foreman, Pottsville. 1" Miller. John F. Cressona.

Greenawald, George, mail agent. Pottsville. "White, John, engineer. Pottsville. 1 Templin.

James, fireman, Pottsville. LougLin, Harry, cenductor of express. Osburn. John. Philadelphia.

Fredericks. Mrs. J. E. Philadelphia- J.

IL, husband of the above, i Pauseman, Joseph, Philadelphia. Vndrli V. CL. PhrniYill Still They Come. Washington, Spt.

23. During August past iminigrantj rar.ic the United States, against 31,4 IS in An-gust, lb. Germany during tho jo month furnishel 7.57U; England and Wales, Russia, Ireland. Sweden and Norway, I tidy, and Poland, FIVE KILLED AT CHICAGO. An Excursion Train Wrcrkod on the B.

Q. Iloml. ClllCACK). Spt. 22.

At o'clock last night a switch engine on tho Chicagxj, Burlington and Ojuincy nvul ran into the rear of an excursion train on tho Illinois Central road near Eighteenth street. The collision resul Ui in a frightful disaster. For a time the confusion was so great that even an approximate idea of the loss of life was imjKsible to obtain. Within half an hour, however, five mangled corpses had lxn drugged ont of the heap of broken timbers and twisted iron that marked the ppot where the collision had taken place. By this time it liad also been ascertained that at least three people were seriously injured and three others slightly.

The dead are: Lily Diener, aged 23; Martha Dlener, aged 21; Otto SchloefT, aged 17; two men. identity unknown. The fatally injured are: Lena His wig, aged 17; Minnie Pilgrim, nged 15; Eddie Torpe, aged 10. I In addition to these were the following: Tillie Burke, left shoulder broken; Henry Lutz, ileg fractured; C. II.

Pieman, right leg broken and left arm crushed; Charles Marose, arm broken. Through a Burning: Trestle Omaha, Sept. 23. Freight train No. 97 on the Wabash from St.

Louis, due at Council Bluffs, was wrecked by going through a burning trestle fifty feet high, about ten miles southeast of this city. Twelve cars loaded with hardware and other merchandize, ono tank car of tar and two cars of beer were totally destroyed. The engineer, Martin Eskridge, and the fireman, Joseph Burke, of Stanbury, wero killed. sBlg Freight Wreck. COXNELSVILI.E, Sept.

23. One of the biggest freight wrecks in the hi.torv of the Pittsburg division of the ikUti-msre and Ohio railroad happened yesterday at Bc-nning station, twelve miles west of here. Engineer James Shields was killed and Fireman Harry Cyphers probably fatally injured. Three other trainmen were injured. Locomotive Boiler Explodes.

Ciiattanooqa, Sept'. 21. The boiler of an engine attached to a freight train on the Last Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad exploded at Sherman Heights, five mile from here. The engineer and the fireman were blown to atoms and the brakeman was severely injured. The names of the victims have-not been learned as the wires are prostrated.

Dion Bouclcault Dead. New York, Sept. 19. Dion Bouci-cault. the veteran adror and playwright, died at 13 last evening after a lingering illness.

New York, Sept. 23. The funeral of Dion Boucicault, the -dramatist and actor, took place yesterday from "The Little Church Around the Corner." At the conclusion of the services the remains were taken by special train to Wood lawn Ce inetery, he re hey we re temporarily placed in the vault. Buchanan Ilenomlnatcd. Atlantic City.

Sept. 19. The Socond district Republican congressional con vention met in this city yesterdav and nnanirnously renominated Judge James Buchanan, the incumbent, fur congress. The nomination was recci ved with the wildest enthnsinsm. Fremont's Famtl Destitute.

Los -Anoeleh. CaL, Spt. 2,5. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of the late Gen.

John Fremont, quite ill at her residence on Twenty-third Etreet, this city To a reporter who called at her residence to inquire concerning Mrs. Fremont's condition, her daughter stated that the family were in very straitened circumstances, that there was not a dollar in thy house, and that they were on the verge or actual destitution. A Trusted Employ Commits Theft. New York, Sept. 23.

Henry Cruse, 42 years old, who reside with his ily at 242 Grove street, Jersey City, s.r. 1 who was for many years a trusted tzl man with William Hiker, r.vtlry nfacturer, of fcCO Broadway, v.t.i arrested for stealing property to his employer. He had got Cj.OOO worth of jewelry during tl tin: he had been with the hrm. Part of tha jewelry has been recovered. CaL Wood Taken to Danncmara.

Faixs, N. t. 20. Wood, the murderer cf x.l.-y was on Friday lost rentenc ito tli by electricity, waj tacn xo ur.nr.c rri-n to f.rait th3 cf event is x.r i tlarir th; i actcrd at tbe tl: tenco v.T-i rc I red. cf tLe i rrr-ilent Alrat.iT.! L'sr! ti-j 1 cf tL A' THE HISTORY OF A WEEK Tuesday, Sept.

10. The Cim.us bureau announces the population of Lyr.n, to Ce 55.031, again in the hurt ten year of Newton Case, an old plate printer, and the head of th Case, Lock wood Brain ard com-X'uny. died iu Hartford. Conn. A freight train on the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley wiu wreck ex I at Reed's ftatlon.

Tho enjineer was killed and fire man badly hurt. The Chinese government has commenced the construction of a railroad from Kaipine to Guivine with the aid of British capital and British engineers. Maj. II. C.

Daxter, for many years a well known he tel proprietor of Boston, died In Seattle of Bright' disease. He was a brother of Dr. J. M. Baxter, surgeon of tho United Stea army.

E. A. Tatt, president of the New York and Boston" Dispatch Express company, denies anr knowledge of the consolidation of that company with the Adams and Earl Prew Exnress companies. The Itev. Father W.

R. Miles, S. of New i Orleans, died suddenly of heart failure. After service he complained of a pun In the region of the heart and retired to his room. where ho was found dead a few hour Jater.

"Wednesday, Sept. 17. The cholera has broken out at Aleppo. Count Tolstoi, the Russian Author, is seri- cudyill. The floods are receding at Budapest, and no farther dinger is feared.

New rnttnn of unrxrior nualitr is ar rivinz at Cairo in large Herr Drpe. conductor of the Silesian music festival, and a fellow student of Brahma, has died at Pyrmont, Germany. The 2G)tU anniversary of the establishment 'of Boston was celebrated simply by the dls- illay of flags from the public buildings. E. I Crandall paper makers aj Newton, Upper Falls.

have made an assignment. Liabilities, nominal assets, I The English brewery bavin sr prndicate has inade its flrt payment of $35 on its purchase of the Philadelphia brewery at San The government of Roumania has agreed to financial proposals of the Blelchroders. the Uisoonto gesellscraft. of Frankfort, and the Bothschllda. for the conversion of the Roumanian loan.

Thursday, Sept, 18. I "Work on all the docks at Southampton has Leen resunfled. I Italy has sent troop) to the Swiss frontier to protect the St. Gothard railway. I Charles Whalley fatally shot his and then f-hot himself dead at Portland, Oreg.

Masked men shot Timothy Carroll, at La-tnont, Ills and robbed him of $12,0 JOi Ex-Governor Foster was nominated by acclamation for congress in the Eighth district of Ohio. 1 A female patient in the Southern Illinois Insane hospital stabbed three nurses with a i ase knife. Mrs. Hester Reed was shot and killed by her husband, who afterward committed eul-ride, at Kansas City, Mo. Elixa Webb was sentenced to the peniten-tiary for ninety-nine years at Mt.

Vernon. for murder in the second degree. It is officially stated in Rome that four car-llnals will be created at the December con- istory. two of whom will be foreigners. 1 The Russian government has declined to accept the terms proposed by Gen.

Butter--leld for the construction of a railway to Si- eria. i Fire at Hanford, CaL, destroyed twelve business houses and damaged several others vnd also the postofflce. Lo33 estimated at Miss Nellie Lillies, aged 2 A. was found nn-onscious and bruised In her room at Oneida, with the gas turned on. "Whole aUair nlte a mystery.

The Confederate Society of the Army and avy has decided to nlace headstones at tha amarked graves of Confederate soldiers in oudoa Park, Md. Mormon Bishop Budge was Indicted at olse City, Idaho, for, as alleged, advising the lormons to sham a withdrawal from the Uurch in order to vote. Fridav. Sept. 10.

The Pensacola has arrived at Funchal. Ma-ira. In a cyclone near la-, twelve were killed and forty injured. THE FIGHT OFF. i Slavin and V-XcAuIiffe.

tho Prize Fighters, Arrested. London, Sept. 23. Slavin and Mc- Auliffe, the principals in the prize fight which was. to have taken place nnder the auspices of the Ormonde club, have been arrested.

McAuliffe was arrested at his lodgings in this city, Slavin has been arrested and placed in custody with McAuliffe. Upon his arrival at the railway station Slavin entered a cab and was immediately placed under arrest. He was conveyed quietly to the Lambeth police station, where both tha prisoners were arraigned and bound over in 2,000 each to appear before the court today. ilcAuliSie and his backers declare that Slavin, knowing that he was not in proper training to fight, allowed the time of the proposed contest to become known to the police. It is supposed by many, however, that the Pelican club set the machinery of the law in motion, in revenge for Slavin's refusal to fight in the club's rooms.

The postponement of the affair has profoundly disgusted the sporting fraternity. The folying -vrs received at The Police Gazette oSice in New Yor "London, Sept. 22. At a meeting at the Pelican club today Lord Lonsdale and Richard K. Fox decided that should Slavin and McAuliffe fail by interfer ence of authorities to brins off the fight in the Ormonde club, rather than see the match fall through they will each put up the original purse offered by the Ormonde club, o00 each, and bring the fight off on the Continent witn a lim ited number of spectators on each Mr.

O'Brien's Startling Charge. Dublin. Sept. 23. Mr.

William O'Brien writes to the secretary of the John Daly amnesty committee of Tip-perary that he has been for some time communication with an Englishman of much eminence at Birmingham, who has discovered startling proofs that Daly was the victim of an organized plot on the part of the Irish police and their emissaries. This statement is based on the authority of the chief constable of one of the principal cities or tne King dom, whose confession has been sent to Home Secretary Matthews. Daly is serving a sentence of life imprisonment for dynamiting. A Very Serious Charge. LuvERNE, Sept.

23. Miss Nettie D. WUloughby was arrested just as she was about to board a train for Florida, charged causing tne fire of the barn of John Cameron Jan. 17 last. Miss Willoughby is an author ess of some, note and is very prominent in certain circles here, one has also lec tured on "social Duritv." It seems that a girl named Owen confessed that her mother and Mrs.

Freeman, a sister of Miss Willoughby set fire to the barn, and that Miss Willoughby -paid them $30 for the deed. Every fairly lare house in Tokio hsa its own bath room; but besides tnu there aro no lcr3 than 600 "baths in tho city of Toio, where 00,003 persona bathe daily at cost per header ono ten three rin, or about a half penny. Four Men Killed and One Injured Near Wilkesbarre. WiLKESBAREE, Sept. 23.

A terrible explosion of gas occurred in No. 4 lift of the Murray mine. The colliery has not been in operation since Aug. 19, when the big cyclone wrecked" the breaker and did much damage about the mine. The victims were: The Killed.

James Bos well, fire boss. Alexander Jennings, a fire bo3S. 4 Lawrence Casey, Sa laborer. James Sullivan, a laborer. Injured.

El ward Buttston, head fire boss. Lawrence Casey and James Sullivan, laborers, went to the bottom of the elope to bail water. Shortly after Fire Boss James Boswell and his assistant, Alexander Jennings, went down into the mine to make an examination. Their object was to make a thorough survey of the mine and get it in shape for today, when it was proposed to resume operations. One of the men carried a naked lamp, which one is not known.

xo one now remams to tell the story, but the supposition is that the fire bosses struck a large body of eras when thev least expected it. The explosion followed and Boswell and Jennings were blown almost to pieces. Alter a i'vo Years rigtit. Greextowx. Sept.

23. The temperance people of this town, a placa of 1.500 inhabitants, have finally driven the last saloon from their midst. They have kept up a continuous fight for two years. Three weeks ago the only saloon reniaininer in the town was destroyed by dynamite. The owner soon resumed business, and was immediately arrested on twelve affidavits, and court costs were rjiled no asrainst him until Satur day, when he surrendered his place to the Ehenn, who closed tne saloon.

A Jury Fails to Agree. Buefalo, Sept. 23. The jury in the case of ex-Superintendent of Mails Al len came, into court and reported that thev were unable to agree on tne sen tence as to one or nve years. Juuge Cox told them 'tney had nothing to do with the sentence and were only to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused.

They were sent back for. further deliberation. The jury came in asain and reported that they could not possibly agree on a verdict. The judge thereupon discharged them. List of Killed Swelling.

Chicago, Sept, 23. Minnie Pilgrim, aoWl vftiis. died at noon vesterdav. making the sixth fatality resulting from the collision between tne Illinois yen-d Chicatro. Burlington and Coiner t-min The bodv which was identified Sunday night was recognized as that of 1lvi.4 frr vw 1 rpira r.ld Till? Bart.

who was supposed to be not dangerously injured, is now in a critical condition. Lena Reswig. who wa3 thought to be in danger of death, getting better. Word has just been received nere rrora Point Barrow, Arctic ocean, that Joseph George, a Portuguese in the employ of the Pacific haling company, was n'r- dprrnl there June 1 bv an who had grown jelons cf Gcorja's at tn-ntirvri tn TClH2n- A 9 murderer was condemned by a court of inquiry and Ehct within twelve hour3 after the mnrder..