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A oun has been invented by a Frenchman which fires cartridg'es loaded by a compressed gas. The gun is said to be noiseless and to emit no smoke. Thk average age of the assemblymen from New York is diminishing yearly, and the next legislature will show a body of young men averaging hardly thirty years apiece. Thk New York Sun building is provided with the largest thermometer in existence. It has a dial plate forty inches in diameter, so situated as to be in plain view of passersby. Costa Rica has already collected 8,418 Afferent objects, besides 5,000 birds and nearly C,000 pieces of antiquities, for exhibition at the World's fair. The collection of woods embraces more than 864 classes, and there are 197 samples of minerals, such as gold, copper, coal, etc. In the limited space between Worth street and the battery, New York, where there arc many large wholesale houses, it is stated that 15,000 women are employed as typewriters. A single typewriting machine company finds employment, through its various offices, for 10,000 women a year. Thk new postal card has made its appearance. It is simply like two of the medium-sized cards, joined at the upper edge. On one-half you write your message; on the back of the message you write the address, at the same time writing your own address on the other half, which is to be returned.

Thk subject of free baths is being agitated again in New York. Through the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor bathing in winter and summer has become possible for the poor in some parts of the city, but free bath-houses are too wide apart- The association just named proposes to expand the privilege. Somk new ideas have lately attracted attention in the matter of pavements. Among these is the paving of a bridge by a German engineer with India rubber, the result having been so satisfactory as to induce its application on a much larger scale, a point in its favor being that it is more durable than asphalt, and not slippery. Cornki.iub Vanderbilt is very much interested over the Niagara tunnel, which is to lx? soon completed, and has such faith in the development of a great manufacluring city on the banks of the Niagara river that he and his friends have invested heavily in the enterprise. Mr. Vanderbilt and Mr. Depew believe that before many years have passed the territory extending from the river to the city of ISufTalo will be built up with manufactories and perhaps a city ol 1,000,000 people be established there.

It is found that a photograph can easily be made luminous in the dark by taking a white mount, and. after coating it with starch paste, sprinkle over it luminous powder and press it down firmly to make it adhere. All that is now necessary is to make the unmount- . ed»silvcr print as transparent as possible by coating it on the back with castor oil and wiping away the surplus oil. l!y placing this over the prepared mounting card and exposing it to daylight a luminous positive is obtained. Anothk.k engine fitted with liquid fuel has been running on the Great Eastern railway, England—one of a class of ten similar express engines— and ns compared with the other nine engines doing the same round of duty is reported as doing efficient service: that is, the oil burner lias consumed about one-third the weight of coal per mile, and alanitas much oil as coal in weight, iier total fuel being thus about twothirds by weight what it would be if all .coal, and the liquid practically giving an efficiency of double its weight of coal Some parts of Texas are so infested with chicken snakes that poultry raising is practically impossible. T i e chicken snake feeds on the young of geese, ducks, chickens etc., and has a special fondness for eggs, which it usually swallows whole. The smart poultry raiser now procures a liberal supply of porcelain nest eggs for the special delectation of these prowlers,and leaves them around where he can easily find them. When a chicken snake relagates one of these porcelain eggs to his interior (-economy his days of usefulness are numbered. Thk Jewish population of America now numbers more than a million, it is said. At no time in their history, not even immediately after they had taken possession of the “Promised Land,” were the .h-ws more prosperous than they are to-day in America. All efforts, therefore, to attract them to Palestine seems to be futile. The Jewish Tidings, in speaking of this matter, says: “The conditions in this country will have to -change mightily before the Jews will forsake it for the land of the prophets. As for the Jews of the United States, it has no inducements for them.”

DURNED TO DEATH. Trains ('oili<l<> Near Ottumwa, la.—The \Vr«*rk Tak«>rt i no and Four Fi&ftsengora IVrisli In tho IHazlng Car* — Several Ollier* Hurt. Ottimwa, la., Nov. 11.—A fearful accident occurred on the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul road Wednesday night at Highland Center, a small station north of Ottumwa. A fast freight train dashed into the caboose of tho local freight, which was standing on the track, telescoping the caboose and four cars. The caboose caught lire and with several cars was burned. The scene was heartrending. Four people perished in the flames, and a number of others had narrow escapes. The ealnxise was split in two by a car of grain, wedging in four people on the right side. The most pitiful sight was that of Miss Lizzie ISutler, of Ottumwa, who got her head out of the window, and piteously pleaded with those about the wreck to save her, but her body was pinioned by the freightcar and it was impossible to extricate her. Mrs. Samuel Jones, also of Ottumwa, tried to escape through a window, but she was an unusually large woman and could not get through. The other victims were an unknown woman and Joseph Thornton, a butcher at Sigourney. The injured are Mrs. Clyde Millisaek and Mrs. C. D. Hickey, of Ottumwa, and Miss Lizzie Corey, of Sigourney, who are badly burned, but not fatally. A curious incident of the accident was that one of the passengers was disguised, and. in the crash, his disguise came off, revealing a noted crook. He quickly disappeared in the excitement. The cause of the accident seems to have been due entirely to criminal carelessness on the part of the crew of the fast train. The local train was standing at the station unloading freight. For 4 miles away the track is perfectly level and straight, so that the danger lights of the standing train could easily be seen by the engineer and fireman of the fast train, and everybody saw it approaching, but never dreamed of a collision. In fact, the company’s rules are so strict that when trains enter station yards if they are not under such absolute control as to be brought to a stop before striking another train, even through accident to switches or anything else, heavy penalty attaches to the employes guilty of violating them. The conduct of Engineer Richardson and Conductor Wood, who had charge of the fast train in this instance, cannot be accounted for by the officials of the road. No report has been made as to whether they were placed under arrest, but an investigation is being made. In the fire one earload of barley and two carloads of merchandise were burned. The responsibility for the accident is not yet fixed, before the coroner’s jury Thursday Engineer Kichardson, of the fast freight, testified that he could not see the lights on the caboose until within 75 rods. Two of the lights were out, and the third wassobadly smoked that he could not see it farther away, although he could see the switch lights. He called for brakes, reversed his engine and jumped. Chippewa Falls, Wis., Nov. 11.—A collision took place on the Wisconsin Central road at Summit, 16 miles west of this city, between two freight trains at 6 o'clock Thursday evening. William Witzing, fireman, of this city, was instantly killed and John Lynch badly scalded. Both engines were badly smashed and the ears piled up as high as telegraph poles.

WEAVER IS CHEERFUL. FndUiiiHyeii l»y 111* Fate Defeat—-Ho Sm.va That tin* I'opuIiAt* Succeeded Far lieyon d His Ileal Kxpectatlou*. Di;s Moines, la., Nov. 1. — Gen. Weaver came out of the presidential campaign in excellent health and with cheerful spirits, and is just as sanguine of the future success of the political movement he is now identified with as he has ever been. He believes that democratic ascendency will be short-lived: that the republican party will never enter another contest; that there is no relief in tariff reform; tiiat the financial question is the great problem, and that relief cannot come ex- j cept through free coinage of silver. Said he: “The populists succeeded in the late election ; far beyond their expectation, and have demon- ‘ strated their strength ns a political factor In American politics. We have carried almost as many states as the rspublievn party has carried, and have been defeated in a half dozen states by very thin ; margins, which amounts to a practical victory. The populists hold the balance of power in a large majority of the stales of the union, and. better still, will hold tho balance of power in the senate of the United States. This will enable them to act as a breakwater against vicious legislation and will equip them to force the great economic issues to tne front. “The populists will now commence a vigorous campaign and w ill push tho work of organization and education in every county in the union. The organization is now national, extends into every county in the union, from sea to sea and from the lakes to the gulf. A conference of the leaders will doubtless soon be held at some central i>olnt for the purpose of thoroughly marshaling the forces of the new party throughout the country.” Washington, Nov. 16. — Senator Peffer, of Kansas, was iu the city Tuesday, on route for Chicago, where he will help Senator (iallinger’s committee to investigate the I’inkertons. i The senator said that so far as the tariff question was concerned the pop- j ulist members of congress would vote with the democrats in their efforts to modify tho McKinley law, believing that tariff reform means a lightening of the burdens of the people. Said he: "It should be understood, however, that we do not support ellher one of tho old parties, but, standing on our own platform and not having as yet snfllclent strength to carry out our views In their entirety, wo vote for such measures brougnt forward by either republicans or dem- ; ocrats as seem to us to tend toward the end at which we are aiming. It appears to me somewhat uncertain as to whether we shall be able to vote with the democrats on many other questions than tiiat of the tariff. Hath the old parties differ with us on tho other measures of reform which we are anxious to Institute."

A new kind of paving is about to be tried in Chicago. It consists in laying ; solid steel plates that reach from curbs to street-ear tracks, one-half inch thick, and laid on a thick strata of sand. Kising from the solid steel plates to the height of two incites are steel tongues securely bolted to an underlying plate. (Grooves are sawed into the bottoms of wooden block: by which they are fitted snugly over these tongues The wooden blocks are oblong with sharp corners tiiat admit of being fitted closely together. The pavement will be aim ist as noiseless as a floor coveiv' with liu-

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FIRE IN A POOH HOUSE. Narrow Karaite of Inmates—Complete Destruction of a 1'uhllr Infirmary at Franklin, I'a. Demented Paupers Eight Against llelng Driven Into the Cold and

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Franklin, Pa., Nov. u.—At 1:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon the county almshouse, situated at Sugar Creek, 4 miles north of this city, took fire. All the means at hand were used to handle the fire, but without avail, and ths fire departments of Oil City and Fra n It 1 in were sent to tho scene by special train, but the fire had gained such headway that they could do little. The building was almost totally destroyed, together with its contents. There were soiniaterrific scenes. About 100 inmates were in the Institution. Many of them were helpless or worse, and the rescue of these poor creatures was accomplished with gi eat difficulty. Had it not been for the prompt, vigorous and courageous methods adopted in many cases there would have been- lives lost. The ground was covered with snow and a bitterly cold wind was blowing, enough to chill the people, who were warmly clad and able to resist it. The ill-ciad paupers, many of them feeble and ailing, suffered dreadfully. The tire was first discovered in the second story and its origin is unknown. When the alarm was given and the peqnle wlto came early to the rescue rushed into the building to begin the removal of the initiates many of theunfortun ites resisted fiercely the attempts to take them from their warm quarters out ini > the winter weather. They could not be made to understand that they would be roasted alive if they did not get out. and there were struggles to overcome some of the more ablebodied inmates and carry them out by

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The building was valued at 8800,000 and was insured for SaO.OOO. The fire is believed to have been incendiary. Thrt-f Miners Lose Tlielr Lives by a 11. wt'p at Pekay, la. Ottimw a, la., Nov. 11.—At Pekay. a mining town I t miles north of here, three miners were killed outright Tuesday evening and seven others injured. They hod made ati overshot, which, when discharged, ignited several keg- of powder, killing the three men instantly. Seven other workmen, who wen* fortunately in the cross entries, were prostrated but cot seriously injured. After-damp followed, and but for prompt acton they too would have perished. Ity a fortunate circumstance all but ten of the. 8UU miners had gone above to vote. •

SALVATION ARMY CONGRESS, i Commander Booth and His Otticera Are Making Klabnrate Preparations. New York, Nov. 10.—Commander Ballington Booth, of the Salvation Army, and his staff officers in thiseity are making arrangements for a continental congress of delegates from all of the Salvation Army posts throughout the country. The congress will assemble on Monday in Carnegie music hall and will last three days. As the army has posts in 1,100 cities and towns in the United States and Canada, the congress will be one of the largest the Salvation Array has ever held in this city. On Monday, November 21, ; and Tuesday, November 22, there will be two torchlight parades of the delegates through t lie city before the meetings in the music hall. On Wednesday, November 28, a consecration convention will be held in Association hull. Twenty-third street and Fourth avenue. The features of the celebration will be a noonday parade through Broadway of the commanding of- I fleers of the United States forces, the public commissioning of the 1,500th officer in Hie United States fjrec by Com- ! mander Booth, and the dedication of | their infant daughter to Salvation ' Army work by Commander and Mrs. : Ballington Booth at one of tho meet- * ings. DASHED OVER A CATARACT. I\IooiiHhinnr a Violent Death While Fleeing from ttuppoitml Olllrern. Boise, Idaho, Nov. 16. — Wilson Garber, long suspected of being a moonshiner and whom the federal officers of Idaho had long suspacted of supplying th§ scattered Indians of Big Creek county with illicit whisky, met a violent death while fleeing from a party of men whom he thought were oflicers of the law. He was crippled with rheumatism and had two Indians place him in a canoe and paddle him up Big creek. The Indians, however, were drunk and started down stream. The eanoo entered the rapids above a 40-foot fall, when the Indians quarreled and both fell out and were drowned. The canoe was dashed over the cataract and Garber also drowned.

SLEW THEIR FATHER. That In the Crime with Which Two YounK Men Arc Charged nt Morrison, 111. Morrison, 11)., Nov. 15.—One of the most atrocious crimes ever committed In Illinwis was perpetrated in Lyndon township, this county, last. Thursday evening. For cold-blooded treachery und brutality it is doubtful if it lias an equal in the whole country. The victim, A. M. Swarthout, residing about 2 miles west from the village of Lyndon, was one of the most prominent and wealthy farmers of the township. He owned a large farm of two or three hundred acres of fiut land, and was considered one of the irost well-to-do farmers in the county. He drove to this city Thursday afternoon, and after attending to some business matters started for home, arriving there about 0 o’clock. His two sons, John anil Ernest Swarthout, were engaged at work around the barn when their father returned, but no words were exchanged between them. Mr. Swarthout unhitched his horse and put him in the stable. After he had unharnessed his horse some one stepped behind him and shot him through the head. His body was then placed in a cart and wheeled about 100 rods to a straw stack, carried on top, and then the straw was set on tire. A daughter of the murdered man was the first to discover the fire and gave the alarm, when the two sons rode to the stack, but made no effort to quench the flames. Upon their return to the house they inquired where their father was, butas he had not entered the bouse after his return the daughter and Ernest’s wife had not seen him. They ate their supper without making any search for their father, and when neighbors called and made inquiries for him they were informed that he had probably gone to Lyndon. No search was made for the missing man until a neighbor, a Mr. Sturtevant, had called for the third time upon the scene and insisted that a search be made for Mr. Swarthout He could not be found. Friday morning the ashes of the straw pile were examined, when portions of the skull and other bones were discovered. In the afternoon a coroner’s inquest was held. The two sons and the one son's wife were the only witnesses. Nothing could be learned from them which would solve the mystery. The jury’s verdict seemed to be unsatisfactory even to the jurymen themselves. Saturday morning the case was placed in tiie hands of State's Attorney Stager, who bggan a systematic investigation and soon discovered clews which led to a startling result. The place where the murder took place was found and each clew followed up, thus finding the path in which tiie body was conveyed to the straw stack. Then, returning from the stack, the curt wheels were traced to a place in the slough between the barn and stack, where a portion of the skull, through which the bullet passed and to which one ear was attached, was found. Here also one of the thighs was found. Following up the clews other things were found which produced the greatest exeitemeut among those who were making the search. Clothing covered with blood was found in shods, and these belonging to tho sons, suspicion was at once aroused that they were the guilty parties. On their revidenee before tiie coroner’s jury they testified tiiat they had seen no one around the premises and heard nothing that would lead them to suspect any prowlers around. At the time of Swarthout’s death he carried a valuable gold watch and quite a sum of money. These have not been found. Saturday evening tiie two sons were arrested and taken before a jnstiee of the peace at Lyndon for a hearing. Demanding an attorney to assist them and there being none there, the preliminary examination was postponed until next Friday. The fact that Mr. Swarthout intended to marry again was something that was displeasing to the children, as it might interfere with their interest in the property and turn Ernest and his wife away from the farm. Swarthout's wife died a year ago last October and the children thought he should not be in such undue haste in choosing another wife. Mr. Swarthout was 51 years old and hale and vigorous at the time of liis death.

Flection Cause* a Failure. Virginia, 111., Nov. 16.—The imple- | ment house of Weaver & Treadway, of I this city, has been forced to suspend { business. Their suspension is due 1 somewhat to the recent election. The firm sold buggies, wagons and farm implements to parties here payable upon the election of Harrison. The heaviest creditors, so far as known, are I’eoria houses: Rouse, Hazard A Co., $600; Peoria Implement Company, •1,000. All Cared For. Milwai kkk. Nov. 16.—The work of reliev ng families who were left destitute after the big fire has practically come to an end. all having been properly cared for for the present. Up to this time $68,724.75 has been expended for till classes of relief. The total relief fund amounts to 8135,800.98. The balance on hand after everything is settled will be placed iu bank to be used only as a loan to fire victims. IiiHuraiM’e Money Stolen. Saranac, Mich., Nov. 16.— One of the boldest and most brutal robberies ever perpetrated here has just come toligliL Mrs. E. A. Kinney, a widow living alone, was burned out October 4. Her property was insured with the Ohio Farm- j ers' Insurance Company, and the loss | was promptly settled. Thieves finding out site had not deposited the money in 1 bank, broke into her dwelling during the night and choked and pounded Mrs. ' Kinney until she revealed the hiding place of all that was left of her insurance money, over 88.000. The men then made their escape. There is uo clew to the crooks.

Drew the WlnnltiB; llaml and Died. Omaha, Neb,, Nov. 15.—Good luck was too much for Charles F. Haggles, a laborer on the new bridge at East Omaha, and he dropped dead from joy during a game of cards Sunday night. A number of laboring men were playing a quiet game in the boarding-house office on the island and nearly every one had put up his pile. Haggles staked his last cent. He held three aces, and on the last round drew the fourth single spot card. One glance at tiie card was enough. Without a word he fell o\er on to the floor dead.

For Flirty Appropriation.. Washington, Nov. 15. — Chairman Holman of the committee on appropriations of the house, of representatives lias issued a call for the committee to meet in Washington at 12 o'clock November 28. It is the intention of Chairman Holman to prepare the appropriations bills us fast its possible with a view of securing early consideration

by congress.

Found Doad In ilio Wood*. Council Bluffs, la., Nov. 15.—Monday afternoon Peter Enix, aged 16, went hunting at Mynster Springs. At 5 o’clock his body was found in the woods with a charge of shot in his head. His gun was found at his side loaded, and it is believed lie was killed by a companion or was murdered. • I0I111 ilney Dead. New York, Nov. 15.—Mr. John Hoey, for many years president of the Adams Express Company and founder of Hollywood at Long Branch, who lias been lying ill at Delmonlco'a for several weeks, died at 10 o'clock Monday night

PAID THE PENALTY. Dr. Kelli Crc'am, tho Noted Fulsoner, limited at London. London, Nov. 15. — Thomas Neill Cream, the poisoner, was hanged in Newgate jail this morning. At 9 o’clock the drop fell and the body of the poisoner was dangling from (the gibbet The execution was private, only the jail officials being present. The black flag was immediately hoisted. Tho crowd which had gathered on the outside of the jail looked at the suggestive flag and disappeared quietly in the fog. An extra detachment of police surrounded the jail, but was not necessary. [Neill. thouKh he was described as an American—which in Kn^land is held to is* synonyraems with a native of the United States— wl. really a Canadian. In the course of his life he had been in close contact with the police of various cities in the United Staten and Canada. In Canada Neill—or, as be was known there, "Dr. Thomas Cream”—had an unenviable reputation. He studied medicine at McGill collet?:', Montreal, and was graduated j n 1876. He took up practice at Kingston, Out., and had been there only a short time before he was suspected of illegal practices. The body of a young woman was found in a shed back of Neill’s offlee, and a post-mortem examination showed that she had died from the effects of a criminal operation. Though the people were morally certain Neill had jicrformed the operation there was not legal evidence enough to 'warrant his arrest. Public opinion, however, forced him to leave Kingston, and he went to Hamilton. Ont. He was shortly afterward arrested on a charge of killing a woman, but tho charge could not bo proved against him. He removed to Chicago in 1887, posing as a doctor and making his living out of the practice he obtained. He entered into partnership with a notorious woman, Hattie Mack, and entered on a course of jnalpractico which resulted in the death of a woman. The Mack w.man confessed, but Cream got a separate trial and was acquitted. He was indicted in November, 1880, for sending obscene mattej- through the mails. He escaped prosecution by jumping his bonds, but he returned in 1881 when the affair had blown over. He then murdered Miss Kllen Stock by giving her strychnine in capsules which had been filled by the druggist with some other prescription, and tried to blackmail the druggist on the ground that ho had made a mistake. The coroner's jury found that Miss Stock came to her death by Indigestion and colic. Cream next formed the acquaintance of Mrs. Stott, wife of a station agent at Grand Prairie, 111. The husband was 78 years old and his wife 83. The woman employed Dr. Cream . to treat her husband, and with such good effect that tho old gentleman died suddenly. He was killed with strlchninn capsules A coroner’s Jury implicated Cream and Mrs. Stott and the woman iinally conlessed that she had been intimate with the doctor, and that after suing the prescribing druggist for I1U.UO0 damages for false proscription they were to be married. Cream was sentenced for life to Joliet. Gov. Filer pardoned him. On being released tho fiend proceeded to London, \vt*ro he murdered five women in as many months. Ho would in all probability not have been found out had he not tried to blackmail a druggist. His scheme did not work and he w as arrested. Several women whom he supposed he had murdered testitied against him. The evidence was conclusive. TERRIBLE DISASTER. Five Men Killed and Another Badly Hurt by the Kxplosioii of a Locomotive

Boiler.

I’oTTSvn.LE, Pa., Nov. 15.—A most distressing accident occurred on the Philadelphia & Reading railroad at 2 a. tit. Monday at Conners Crossing, a short distance north of Schuylkill Haven, when tho boiler of Mogul engine No. 50:5 exploded, killing five men and probably fatally injuring another. The dead are: Henry C. Allison, engineer of 563, residing at Palo Alto, leaves a wife; William Mackey, tireman of 563, Port CurtoiKw Ife and one child: William Cowhey, an engineer on bis way bomb to Mount Carbon, leaves wife and ten children; William Kendrick, conductor of Port Carbon, wife and four children: William Moyer, Cowhey's tlretnan, Palo Alto, single. Besides the above, Michael Dobbins, of Mount Carbon, a brakeman of Engineer Cowhey’s crew, was badly scalded, and will probably die. Engine 563 was north bound with a ’ heavy train of empty curs. William Cowhey, with his crew, had brought up a train of empties, and after running them into the Cressona yards, boarded engine 503 at the mine hill crossing,with the intention of reaching their homes in that way, and, as is customary, took possession of the cab. Dobbins, who escaped instant death, was crowded out of the cab and was sitting on the tender. The men had hardly been on the engine two minutes when, nearing the wagon-crossing at Conners, a half mile north of | Schuylkill Haven station, without any warning the terrible explosion occurred, throwing tho crew into the air in all directions and to eternity. The boiler aad firebox were blown clear off the trucks, and j the tracks were so badly damaged that j traffic was considerably delayed. The | north and south bound midnight Buffalo trains were compelled to run via | the Little Schttykill branch from Tam- | aqua to Fort Clinton. SECURED $35,000 IN CASH. | Jloaldonc* of a Wealthy Family Kutihed During Their Almenee. Sr.a Isle City, N. J., Nov. 15 —The whole county of Cape May is greatly excited over the robbery of the residence of Capt. Elijah Wheat* on at Tuekahoo, some time during the early part of the week. The 1 amount taken was 835,000 in cash. Capt. Wheaton and his family left ; home last Tuesday for a short visit to j friends, and upon their return discov- ! ered that money to the amount of $35,000, which had been kept in a bureau : drawer, was missing. Other sums of money in the house were left untouched, the thief evidently being satisfied with his first haul. A prominent | Philadelphia detective has been at ! work on the case but has thus far failed ! to find the slightest clew to the robber ! or the money. Yellow Itlver Jtuging. Pan Francisco, Nov. 15.—The City of Peking arrived Sunday, bringing oriental advices to October 29. The Yellow river has broken loose again, inundating the districts of Chang Chin, Chi Tung, Chiug Chen, Chang Ghang, Chou Ping, Pea Siting and possibly : others, embracing a large area. The devastation is frightful and the loss of life terrible. It Is said that half of tiie •population perished. Six hundred houses have been destroyed by lire in the city of Tokio. Japan. The houses were mostly of the cheap native variety, and while much privation has been caused the loss of property is rot great.

BLOWN TO ATOMS.

A Powder IIoiiMe at Niagara Fall* Demolished by an Fxplogion — One Man Killed and *everal Hurt. Niagara Falls, N. Y., Nov. 14. — A fearful explosion startled this city shortly before 10 a.m. Saturday. Houses, business blocks and hotels were swayed and windows shattered. The powder house of Douglas & Johnson, tiie canal and tunnel contractors, had exploded, killing John Hoban, master mechanic of all the immense works of the contractors. William Weir, an engineer, and Sherman Dismuth (colored), a fireman, were badly cut about the face, head and body. Search was made In the ruins for the bodies, which it was feared were to be found there, but none was discovered, and it was believed that all of the other men at work escaped. Hoban was found lifeless at the foot of a large pile of rocks with a fearful gash in his throat. He had started to run from the boiler house when the explosion occurred and was picked up and hurled some 50 feet. It is thought his throat was torn by a sharp piece of rock. The other men, Weir and Dismuth, were fleeing for their lives when struck by flying pieces of timber and rock. Their condition is serious, but not necessarily fatal. How the ticcident happened no one knows. Weir, tho engitreer, happened to look out of the engine house window and saw smoke issuing from the east side of the powder house. He turned to Hoban and excitedly exclaimed: “The powder house is on tire.” The men made a dash for the open air, giving the alarm as they ran. The explosion took place as they fled, those who were in the various buildings on the canal escaping injury except from the terrible shock. For the distance of 1 mile around windows, sashes and all, were blown out. Dishes on shelves were scattered, and in one house a baby was rendered unconscious from the shock. The employes in and about the canal and tunnel works had many narrow escapes. W. C. Johnson, one of the contractors, says that there was only 103 pounds of blasting powder in the house. This was 43 per sent, dynamite. Tho damage to buildings and houses is extensive and will foot up into thousands. All the windows on the west side of the Niagara Falls Paper Company’s plant were torn out. Th fronts of stores and houses on Buffalo street were badly shattered.

OHIO.

The Democrats Sine of One Electoral Vote, the Head ol the Ticket KeccivLig a Majority. Columbus, O., Nov. 14.—When the republican quarters closed Saturday « night they had received official information from all the counties, Hamilton county being the last, which showed a plurality in the stale for Taylor (rep.) of 1,054, and Danford, the head of the electoral ticket, 8,728. Danford runs several thousand ahead of the other republican electors, and Seward, the head of tho democratic electors, runs four to tivt* thousand ahead of his colleagues on the ticket. The general opinion is that Seward will be elected by defeating the elector who receives the smallest number of votes on the republican ticket. The figures received up to date undoubtedly show that the republicans will save their state ticket, elect twenty-two of the twenty-three electors and ten of the twenty-one congressmen. The democratic committee is doing nothing, but claim the official count will show who is elected or defeated.

ROASTED ALIVE BY A TRAMP. A Fail of Coal Oil Uourc-d on a Boy mid Ills Clothe* Set on Fire. Bradford, Pa., Nov. 14.—Sunday afternoon a tramp, giving his name as Anthony 11 union or Quinn, took shelter in a small shanty on the bank of the Tuna creek, near the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh railroad shops, used by the small boys in the neighborhood as a playhouse. | A number of boys were playing round the shanty and requested the tramp to get out. This enraged tho tramp, who seized a pail of crude oil and threw it on John Leggett, aged 14. It is alleged that lie then set fire to the boy’s clothes. Young Leggett was frightfully burned all over the body, his face and head | being literally cooked. The villain was captured and handed over to tho police and is now in the lock-up. Young Leggett died after lingering four hours j in great agony.

THE INAUGURATION. VrcparattoiiK Being; Made Already for th« Great Event of March 4 Next. Washington, Nov. 14.—Already preparations are under way for the inaugnratior of Mr. Cleveland on March 4 next. It is the intention of democratic organizations in the larger cities to make it more notable than any similar event that bus preceded it. Tammany Hall of New York, the Harrity club of Philadelphia, Iroquois club of Chicago and other similar organizations have already sent representativea to Washington to secure accommodations for their members who will be present and participate in the event. Estimates are beard fixing the number of marchers iu the procession to celebrate the return of the democratic party to power at 50,000. A VICTIM OF APOPLEXY. Death of Dr. A. Kcovc* .lacknon, One of Chicago** Most Eminent Pliyxlchui*. t iiicago, Nov. 14.—Dr: A. Reeves Jackson, one of the most eminent physicians of Chicago, died at the Hotel Metropole on Saturday morning. He had been ill for ten days. Dr. Jackson’s death was caused by apoplexy, with which he was stricken teii days ago. II3 had been in good health but was so prostrated by tiie fatal strohs that it was not fr->tn the first believed that he could rally. The remains will be taken to Janesville, Wis., for interousut