NEWSOF THE WEEK. While a freight train loaded with sotton was going into Paducah, Ken- wueky, soon after two o'clock on the morning of the 17th, one of the cars which had been taken on, locked, at Memphis, was found to be on fire. The train was side tracked and the destroyed, Inside were found four bodies, burned beyond recognition. It is supposed they were tramps who got into the car through & window in one end. A fire oc- surred on the 17th in the Langstros Chemical Dye Works at St, CAr was ing fite men. sxpected to recover. The Arlington House, at New Westminster, British Columbia, was burned early on the morning of the 16th, and three of the boarders perished in the flames. The Eliot Congregational Church, Newton, Massachusetts, was burned on the 16th, Xoss, $70,000; ance, $562,000, a defective chimney. house of the Hecla and The with five locomotives. Toss, 865,000, the pany. — About a week ago Aons” were heard Lincoln county, West ‘violent tremors of the “elt in the valley of the Bi “loud Virginia, and earth” were Jig Ugly run, a ributary of the Guyandotte river, A few days ago while lumbermen were down the run, they found the stream at one point obstructed by frag- nts of stone which had down 3 mountain side. “The top towar we 11 zoing the is 2 ¢ OL sear, and the obser column of steam ari -— A boiler in the dry ton Rider's stave fo vi Indiana, expl killing Henry Millin: Warner, and inju —A diseas as prevaile the | y Pittsbu made unfit for service aud sev died within ¢ ~—Tem] ported in ha Lat © Ley tra ary ERS ALNOnNg 100568 of Lh ransversa jlaliway at : have been roy Fe th Cid UAYD beloy West 1] oe i $ L iS5th as SAO, 10: S Milwaukee, 17; Toledo, 7; was zero at Cincinnati, St Leavenworth, and there w temnperature at Montgomery South, — Anthony Handy, 12 years « Wis arrested in Lapelle Island, Georgia, on the 17th, for the murder of Elsie Wal- ker, a girl of the same age. They dis- agreed at play, when the young ruffian got a shot gun and discharged its con- tents into the girl's head. William Dille, aged 45 vears, murdered his wife by cutting her throat, and then at- tempted suicide, in St. Louis, on the 13th, His condition is critical. They leave six children. —QOn the 22d of October last the house of the Poe family, in Knox county, Kentucky, was burned down, and in the ruins were found the bodies »f Mrs. Poe, Miss Carson, Miss Barnes and five children. It was ascertained that they had been murdered. News he follows: . ¥i Ummah and Springfield i Louls and as a freezing Charleston, and Pensacola neent 1d wa, of seven neighbors of the murdered family, namely: Amelia Worms, Brice Mills, Balmer Mills, Wright Smith, Elias Jackson, Mollie Samper and Pinda Hammond, charged with the murder. The Worms wgman is thought to be the leader of the gang and the instiga- tor of the crime, a woman of notorious character. ~Governor Green, of New Jersey, was Installed on the 18th. In his inao- gural He commends the principle of ex- smpting from taxation so much of the property of religious and educational institutions as may be necessary for thelr successful operation, but he thinks that corporations and individuals owning property for use, enjoyment, speculation or profit, should bear a just share of governmental expense, lle insists upon the protection of the honest working man from contract or convict labor, — Governor Diggs, of Delaware, was nstalled on the 18th, 1h his inaugural “! ia Sue is Constitutional Convention; says he will not exercise the pardoning power unless in very exceptional cases; regards civil the party in power;’’ advocates the con- tinued coinage of silver and the payment of Government employes in that coin, and favors a reduction of the tariff, ~A fie in Alliance, Ohio, on the morning of the 10th, burned out six three-story business blocks and dame aged two others. Loss, about $110,- 000; about two-thirds insured. The mansion of Jewett M. Richmond, on Delaware avenue, in Buffalo, was to- tally destroyed by fire on the evening of the 18th, with ita contents, fneclud- ing furniture, works of art and a valuable library. The loss is estima. ted at $100,000; the insarance is only $17,000. The fire started from a fur nace mn the basement, The round house of the City Railroad Company on Canal street, in New Orleans, was burned on the morning of the 19th, with eight dummies and sixteen coaches, Toss $50,000, covered by in- surance. A three-story block, in Ko- homo, Indiana, the first floor of which was occupled by sforeg and the upper ‘floors by society halls, was burned early on Lbe morning of the 19th, Loss, $50,000; insurance, about $25,000. he shops o. McHoee & Lyons, found. ers and machmists, in Dayton, Obilo, were burned on the evening of the 18th, 128s, $35,000; insurance, y 000. foo stone supply store and wooden storehouse of Coventry Cotton Goods Manufacturing Company, at Anthony, Rhode Island, were burned on the evening of the 18th, Loss about $120,000. «The baggage car attached to the New Jotv limited exp was almost Blown to stoma by dvnanite. which was in a trunk, a few miles east of Al- toona, Pa., on the night of the 18th, was in the car at the time was severely hurt, at Duncannon and checked to Pitts. burg. Mingus threw the trunk, which was a small one, on top of some other baggage, when an explosion followed. | transferred to another car, The owner of the trunk was arrested when he pre- gented his check for the trunk at the coal He said he was a Hungarian Kagman, work, and sald his trunk —A boller in Swift's rolling mill in | the morning of the 10.h, and levelled the newly built portion of the mill, | causing a loss of $25,000, No person was injured. A similar explosion hap- { pened about a year ago. , —A vein of silver has been discovered i in Glenridge. A load of ore was assayed and | yielded about $20 worth of silver, | sey. — Wednesday morning, the 19th, was land and Central New York, In Mas- sachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine temperatures were reported from 14.to 40 degrees below zero, A | ~Silas Philbric™ and his wife have st dled at Stevens’ Po’ Wisconsin, eased pork, i Killing three men. Dy the bursting of a fly wheel in the South Chicago Roll- killed, Tbe boller of the grain at Newport News, Virginia, oa the afternoon of —John McLane and Patrick Aber- deen were murdered at a ranch near Hudson, New Mexico, a few days ago. Robbery was the object of the mur- derers, bleeding from a wound in the throat. The woman died almost imme’ tely, | buy Mitchell 1s expected to recover. Both were drunk at the time, and Mit. chell denies ai knowledae of the affair, ~A passenger train on the Louisville | and Nasbville Railroad was wrecked | early on the morning of the 23d near The fireman and engineer killed, and several passengers ~ Three men— Alfrad Claggett, Com- Pelerson— the 190Lh, supposed to be William E. Meade, 27 years of age, was evening of the 20th, ing, the men, who were both young, Having mistaken their road, they re- registered, and at pots in the Mohawk Valley 26 to 35 below, entire suspension of railroad travel in Southern Minnesota in consequence of snow. In Wisconsin, snow ploughs were engaged all day —There is an tt 5 Lit trains, One train on the Lake She and Western road was released from a 't in which it had snow dri Luck ig at Wellsville, O a number of boys ar's wagon, and Eb: d his | broken CAIs were was badly injured, ~k 1 persons named Litherly, fatl sother and daughter, were poison. « by eating canned corned beef in Eliot, Maine, on the evening of the { 20th, and they were in a critical con- dition on the 21st, damaged, No person was Lirea Dennis MeceGurl, proprietor of a soap factory, In Chicago, his son, Den- nis, Jr., and five of his employes— Au- gust Henry, Alfred King, Farrell O'Reilly, John Ragan and Thomas Sullivan—were arrested on the th on the charge of stealing from trains on the Chicago and Ni { western Railroad. It is Lsserted that no fewer than 3500 hogs, valued at over ' $18,000, have been stolen during the last two years, for use in McGurl’s fac- tory. “The plan of robbery was to board a stock train at a railroad cross- ing or other stovping point, and, enter- ing one of the cars, remain there until the train was under headway. Op the doer of the car, three or four could be thrown off in short orde unobserved, and i thieves would themselves alight. Thecountry through which the road passes on the western outskirts of tl y 18 s0 deserted that the scheme was never exposed until the detectives had t for some time.”’ The store of Lisle Price, at Beebe, Arkansas, was robiw of $1200 in currency and a valuable papers the 2uih. young men who over | heard the burglars and, attempted to drive them off, but were foread upstairs ! into. their rooms and locked in, Mi ~ . hogs srl ie ening hog Tr and tl i 1 2 é cit worked he case upon and wl number of Two “$4 re store On glept the ~The wife of Vaclav Cobalek, in i Cleveland, Ohlo, on the moming of | the 20th, killed three of her cltidren and mortally wounded two others, { using shears for the purpose. She then hanged herself in the nellar. She { had shown bad temper at brerkfast, i Her d is sald to be a drunkard, i The police think she was insane, % x Yoo . ausoan | John Kagman, whose trunk i ploded in a Pennsylvania Railroad bag- | gage car on the 15th, was liberated at { Pittsburg on the 20th, the authorities | being convinced that he had no inten. | tion of doing any damage, An attempt was made to rob a | train on the Chicago and Allon Railroad | near Independence, Missour:, on the { 19th, The bell cord was violently pulled { and when the brakeman and conductor | rushed to the forward part of the train to ascertain the cause of stopping, they were fired upon by a man standing on the front platform of the smoking car, and ordered back into the cars, They barely escaped Injury by dodging back Into the car. The engineer was also fired upon, but not injured. Four or five shots were fired, The ruffians then jumped from the car and esqpped. August Boorman, having no home, was found frozen to death in one of the streets of Brooklyn, on the morning of the 10th. He was sitting on a stoop. ~Thursday afternoon the 20th, a party of ‘boys, playing on an open lot Jersey City, adjoining the yards of the Delaware, Luckawana and Western Railroad Company, began to flout and jeer at the Pinkerton men on guard, and, finally, encouraged by the strikers, threw snow balls and other missiles at the detectives, The Pinkerton leader ordered the boys to stop, but they did not obey, and three ‘were fired from a revolver. Thomas Hogan, aged 16 years, a looker-on, fell dead. Four men, Patrick Sheehy, Daniel Cahill, Samuel A, Neff and srl Moriarty, have been arrested for the shooting. James Durl at the Columbia Ro Penna. , fell int alternoon of th employed . al rollers on the af- and was drawn ied soon after, into the office 18 In New XY « t, handed the Collector a nvelope and disappeared. The itained $470 1n bills and the **Eoclosed please find sh 1 have been hands © --A man walked wor of ston Cus Eo wh us OF ric} ili Hed David Her WB LALINE OF glruck Kk 8&eCOU threw and thirty are belie 1 was tl threes men named Plummer into feet | w. H feet bel to be ved Horiadl -Foreat ireka Springs. Arkansas, (inn the © ith 1 ill - fires have been raging near for several spread town ye. gale the flames to the and 1 frame buildings the wind, yurned Te q it 4 nd burglars who at White Plai Sith worn 1 4 4 and committe Their faces were blac Near Agnes, Dickey su Texas identy triking her In wood, He old ehil moih lat! sanity. Kershaw : Aarolina, destroyed a few days ago by an in¢ diary fire, Bass’ wife, who was in bed, and her two small children, ished in the flames, T. oer Per. Callahan and a woman were arrested at Worth, Texas, on the 20th, on a charge ~gJ ohni A man named Cargill and were arrested in Alvarado for passing -— A sewer 8 quarter of a mile in length, running under the village of This river was “running fifteen when Dertha Farrell, aged 4 years, who was seated in a hand-sied, slid info it, Her sister, Blanche, aged 10, jumped in after Ler, and both were swept into the sewer. A rush was made for the other énd of the sewer and men secured by ropes jumped into the water and waited for the children to appear, Bertha came {irst, under the water, and Blanche followed on op. When taken out both were apparently lifeless, but after much difficulty they were resuscitated, The childrhn were in the water ten minutes most of the Lime submerged. «Two hundred and fifty feet of the Union Railroad bridge, at Toledo, Ohio, was demolished on the ofternoon of the 23d, by an ice-break on the Maumee river. The ice piled up against the Pennsylvania Raliroad bridge, threat. ening that structure, ~<A man named Walcott went into an opium den in Livingston, Montana, on the 20th, smoked *'a dozen pipes or "and died ina fit, A committes of citizens waited on the Chinese and ordered all of them out of the town. They left fa the next trald, «+The wife of Peter Tyler, a dissipated woman, was found lying in her yard, in Lynn, usetts, on the evening of the 22d, with her throat cut, while near her lay Samuel Mitchell, colored, river near Annapolis, Maryland. Clag- | gett broke through the ice, and Wells and Petersoa--both colored-—perished | in trying to save hum, —An epidemic of whooping cough | prevails in Hookset, New Hampshire, | and two deaths from the disease have occurred, glandered horses were shot | a veterinary inspector in New | Brunswick, New Jersey, on the 22d. | Measures will be taken to prevent the spread of the disease, -—A double TWO on which boys Massa - runner, Somerville, fryers Lan. killed, another One of the | dangerously | ran into a railroad boys vas injured. STATE LEGISLATURE. ENATE., $a Nenate committee from the Lieu- Lieutenant At noon on under the escort the Hou tenant Gover 4 1 thie 15th. the 3 ceded and & al oy bled, when Lieutenant duced by S committee appoint a Jie i 8 upon property thereon. gomery, for an additional whet Hirde HIAy~€i 8 By three. Watres, repealing borrowers to contr of all taxes upon tin, appropri alin monumen Generals Meade and battietel fA nif L101 Of two Hous election of Uni and upon retu i amber adjourne { the bH procedure an Ls ¥s in He married in the Sanate on the 20th, simplify | lessening the costs in ‘courts and bill giving | women cqual rights with their hus- | bands in the control and disposition of property, ete., were reported favorably { from the Committee on the Judiciary. | By Mr. Brown, of Montgomery, amending the act of 1834 relating to executions and administrations, # ig the course of 1 a actions t the | frage amendment. By Mr, | to restrain and regulate the sale of | vinous, spiritous, malt or brewed {liqnofs,. By Mr, Taylor, to preserve | the purity of elections by requiring the { rooms In which liquor is not solid, and i declaring drunkenness on the election officers and assessors of poll | tax a misdemganor. By Mr, Penrose | {by request), foposing an amendment { to the Constifution exempting small | holdings of lapd from taxation. Journed, The Sena session, , on the 21st, was not in ¢ HOUSE, In the House on the 18th the Phila delphia Magistrates’ Court Lill came up on second reading, and, after some dis cussion, a motion by Mr. Mackin to postpone its consideration for the pre- sens was voted down--yeas, 81; nays, Upon the conclusion of the inaugural ceremonies the House adjourned until 3 o'clock, The House, upon reassembling, pro- ceeded to yowe for U. 8, Senator Lo suc ceed John I. Mitchell, whose term ex- pires on March 4th, The vote resulted as follows: For Quay, 151 Republicans and one reabi Labor iE: Tabi The Ho then proceeded to the regu- lar order, the further consideration of the secodd reading of the Philadelphia trates’ bill, The measure was ! finally passed a second reading after a | debate of nearly twohours, The House | then adjourned. The House, on the 19th, procecded to elect a Chief Clerk in the place of Greorge Pearson, who had resigned. and | accepted the appointment of Private Secretary to the Governor Samuel A, Losch, of Schuylkill coun- ty, was elected, The vote resulted: Among the bills Introduced was one by Mr Seott providing for the retire- ment of judges of the Supreme Court who have served one full term and are 65 years old, and the judges of the other courts of the State when the judges have served twenty years or oyer and are 65 years "of age. The judges thus retired to receive a com- equal to three-fourths of Dy Mr. Scott, a bill providing for an amendment to Section 1, Article 1X, of the State Constitution, so as to make “All taxes shall be the same class of sub- uniform upon authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under the general laws; but the General Assembly may, by general laws, exempt from taxation every farm not exceeding twenty acres on which the owner actually resides, and which is not situated ina city oi borough; every building lot not exceed- ing 20,000 eqnare feet in area, on which the owner ally resides; i iy, act naces of religie ius aces of i er corporate Al INMINAOAREQe. nD 46th CONGRES! 4 SENATE, Mr. NANCE, the deposi- Bank, and it Mr. Haw- eLUal. sly ud eight x pedi- 3 v4 ¥ irra nwerna- Senators ar nsider the « nis, and Adjourned, , 8 Senate on ti from the C slations, reg Presi the 1 8 CO gsels. American and in cortain cases,’ . Mitchell, ‘enna, , from the Pensions Commit. reported back, favorably. the House bill for the relief of dependent parents and honorably discharged sol. and de- pendent on their labor for support. Mr, Hampton introduced a bill, which was referred, to promote the efliciency of the civil service by establishing a re- tired list. The Senate bill, appropriat, ing $300,000 for the completion of the Charleston jetties, was passed. After a secret session the Senate adjourned. Inthe U. 8B, Senate on the 20th, a $4 Lee, to Willlam Dickens, The ground of the veto 18 that a pension had been already in December, 1880, given the beneficiary through the Office. Referred. Mr. Blair gave the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to authorize woman saffrage. Mr, merce, reported a bill for the relief of night inspectors at the Custom Houses in New York and Philadelphia. The conference report on the Electoral Count bill was taken up and agreed to without a division, After a secret session the Senate adjourned. In the U. 5, Senate on the 21st, Mr, Colquit presented a petition from the Women's Christian Temperance Union of the District of Columbia, ch the Commissioners of the District with “disregarding the purity, safety and moral interests and ts of the peo. ple,” and asserting “in direct violation of the law, they have been, for months past, permitting and pro. tecting bling halls, pool rooms and drinking establishments, as well as dens of vice.” The petition gives nu- merous particulars and charges that ‘a house owned by one of the Commis sioners is used as an office by the agent of the Louisiana State , and that Frank Hume, the P of the Liguor Dealers’ Association, is a i of one of the thorough investigation of the facts, and for the proper enforcement of law and protection of hpmes wit the District.”” After sowe discussion, the petition was referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia Aller an executive session the Henate file House of Diets ie LU. © In the tives on the 22d, the 0+ wil : lie The hr. eg the and (i and referred to the Commit bill for the forfeiture of the New leans, Baton Rouge dy land grant was reported back iis, bill passed--yeas, 147; nays, Ol. Mr. Wallace, of Lousiana, offered a resolution, which was adopted, reciting hiave agreed to and ratified a convention by which the terms of the treaty helween the United States and the Government of the Hawailan Islands have Deen ex. tended seven years longer, and (hat the treaty contains provisions for the ad- mission of certain articles free of duty, and intructing tbe Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into these facts, report to the House whether a treaty which involves the rate of duly to te imposed on any article can be valid and binding without! the cond rence of the House of Hepresentaives, The il increasing the owed U wnth was d on of the mo and Harbor Committee of the ® nd I= id ale of pietision } {for iH 7 i al deafness wl t 3 1 i 4 L ported a $100 the pensi sailors who have | mont, of New { Foreign $11 Te bill for the pitted la MONS sees and on ris invest ures a i to Iga ory 2 ws Deogmber ~tales © lantic fisheries, were referred the out the Pa onsidered. deveral reasing the scope wens agreed to, 1 without report iil was was passed conference Commerce nts, Int« discussed, adjourned, Ia the House, or ference report i ¢ in Commerce bill was passed--yeas, i nays, 41. ‘Among those voting in tha negative were Messrs, Ielley aud O'Neill, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Del mont offered a resolution requesting the President “*to tran: to th trademarks and r-aiale 1 nding Tul P F-alid 14 WAS was House copies of such correspondence { up to the present day between this | Government and the British Governe ment as he may decide can now prop. erly be made pablic in regand to the | deprivation inflicted iu Canadian ports wis Pid | on American fishing vessels, having the ! right to touch and trade, of the Liberty | heretofore enjoyed by such vessels to { enter Canadian ports open to foreign { vessels, and to buy and sell and to transmit merchandise therein, ang which is permitted In such ports to American trading vessels and tt» vessels of all other nationalities.” A conference report upon the bill for the allotment of la in severally to Indians was agreed to. The remaine der of the uession was davoted to pris vate bills.” Adjourned, In the House. on the 20th, bills were reportel for the admission of the State of washington, fur the sup. pression of tro opium traffic, authorizing alture lo make a + think Kind of each other is goo To Ee kindly one towards another
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