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
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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