Show it 1 a liny mil a hi SETS FIFE TO A TOWN CAUSES death AND DE train from the kilis 11 ca A sim mints horii BERNE jan 5 the greater part of tho village of bransom has been destroyed by fire many cattle were burned to death the fire was ignited by a mad man A sinks BALTIMORE jan 5 tho british steamship montana captain williams which sailed this morning for london an assorted cargo and twenty four head of this afternoon in collision off newport with the north german lloyd steamer main captain was corn ing ia from bramen the montana was struck full in tho side and sunk in a few minutes chief engineer robert M young was killed but the rest of the crew were transferred to the main the latter vessel was struck in the side the montana was valued at her cargo was worth nearly as much more the reater portion of the cattle were browned turee killed pearn jan 5 A passenger train was blown from the rails near fluma today to day during a violent storm three persons were killed cincinnati jan 5 two freight trains collided oa the pittsburg western road tonight to night both engineers and one fireman were fatally injured A eldies El Gies conn jan 5 throe weeks ago the thirty year old wife of emanuel fratus eloped with the nineteen year old son of james barton superintendent of the richmond stove work leaving a husband and two children behind the people all lived upon tho west side and the fratus family were neighbors to the beardless youth their infatuation began when both devout members of the salvation army several years ago and was continued last winter while coasting together the couple are said to be living in providence where ake woman has set her youthful lover to work today to day fratus died suddenly and the report was rapidly spread that owing to the recent action of his wife he had been poisoned by her mr frastus was an officer in the trinity episcopal church the attending physicians claim that Fra tuss death was due to pneumonia ami AUCKLAND new zealand jan 5 advice from samoa say the german man of wi ola lost twenty men killed and thirty wounded party of men who went to assist Tama sese against mataafa the gar mans were compelled to retreat to their boats the commodores of the british and american men of war received an intimation of the german intension but they remained inactive alio hewttle SEATTLE W T jan 0 th brou trou ble which has been brewing in the new castle mine for some time culminated yesterday in a riot in chieh one man win boston was killed the difficulty arose over the employment of a man named boyle who the knights of labor claimed had no right to a place wednesday evening they refused to go to work and posted notices saying there would be no more work in the now castle mines the members of the miners onion however who greally outnumbered tho knights continued to work and thursday night a large force of knights camo from gillman and mcallister to clean oufa the camu they marched to the new castle mines assaulted and terribly bat a number of miners and then returned to new castlo at the depot thay attacked J L hugaas president of the union and ralph rowley young llewellyn james rushed out from his house with a gun and ran into the crowd he was knocked down and Kuston was trying to shoot him after he got up some one fired and kuston was katruck in the abdomen A general fosi lado followed the crowd scattered and no one was hurt euston was carried away and expired in fifteen minutes the riat I 1 ers dispersed after the shooting three killed tucson ariz jan 5 advises advices from Solo monville arizona says james lassiter foreman of the chir cattle companas Comp anys camp on the bonita a tributary of the ehla river has arrived and brings news of trouble between the companas comp anys men and some mexican sheep men from apache county which resulted in the killing of at least three mexicans on thursday he states that the mexicans had been grazing flocks of sheep near the companas comp anys range which brought on the trouble aad that the mexicans thursday ambushed some of the companas comp anys eien it seems however none of the latter wore killed while it is probable ala the sheep men met their deaths tho under sheriff and coroner have gone to the scene of the trouble arresting editor CHICAGO jan 5 managing editor jens J christensen of the arbeiter was arrested tonight to night on two warrants charging chiai with criminal cri libel the complainants are inspector bonfield and captain christenson Christen soa published hed tho charges and elaborated upon them in bitter editorials christensen was quickly released on bail warrants issued also for the city editor dews but he could not ba found murder will out ea jaa 5 michael be I 1 cosed mike arrested on suspicion of complicity in the of paymaster and his assistant flannagan and theft of a largo amount of money last summer has confessed he implicates cates three athars he claims not to have had part in the actual shooting ho told tho detective where the rilio used in conjunction with the revolver and the satchel in which the money was carried secreted near miners mill and today to day they recovered it is stated here tonight that two of the other three have been arrested in new york and will be brought to this city on the early morning train the arrest and the developments have created intense excitement throughout this section A fir i tei HARTI OKD jan 4 A firo at manchester destroyed the dang store and telephone exchange both aro frame buildings A telegram from manchester says the entire business portion of the town is in flames aid has been asked for from hero boe jan 5 the floods aro OS tending much damage in one house which collapsed twelve persons were killed twenty seven MADRID jan 4 in the explosion of fire damp in tho colliery in the province of oveida twenty sevea persons were killed and many injured 1 orty ano MEMPHIS jan 1 tho united states inspectors investigating the burning of the steamer kate adams have obtained evidence that forty two persons were lost instead of fourteen as they reported several days ago it appears that eighteen children among the deck passengers and ten of the craw perished in addition to the victims previously noted a cu BERLIN jan 4 seven skaters were drowned in ludwig canal at hamburg today to day l i ml driml jan 4 famine and drouth are prevailing in the interior and are increasing in severity causing terrial terr ibl suffering in the province of shan tung crops havo been destroyed by the overflow of tho yellow biver |