SIX MEN KILLED. 4 Terrible Fight Between Lyupchers and a Marshal’s Posse in Young County, Texas. Er. Louis, Jan. 20,—A special from Tort Worth, Texas, received here last night, says Sheriff Richardson, of this county, received a telephone message about midnight from Graham in Young county to the effect that while a Deputy United States Mar- shal with a posse of Graham citi. zens was escorting the four Marlow brothers, Buckbart and another man samed Pierce to the Parker county fail at Wetherford, the prisoner being indicted for four murders and eight cases of horse theft, a mob of 30 citi- gens attempted to lynch them. The Marshal and posse defended the prison- ers, when a terrible fight took place, Two of the Marlow brothers were killed and four of the posse at the first fire. The fight continued, and another one of the Marlows and Pierce were wounded and another one of the citi- zens mortally wounded. The prisoners, Pierce, Marlow and Buckhart, escaped, but all are said to be wounded. The fight took place two and a half miles from town. It is not known how many of the mob were hurt. A large posse has been made up at Graham, and are in pursuit of the fugitives and members of the mob, Sheriff Richardson has wired the Sheriffs at Henntta, Vernon, Wichita, Cisco, Abilent and Colorado City. The report says excitement at Graham 18 at fever heat. The fight took pluce at 10 o'clock Saturday might, It appears that the affair was a scquel to another that occurred Friday night. Doone Marlow, one of the brothers mentioned above, all of whom were of bad reputa- tion and accused of various thefts, killed Sheriff Marion Wallace, of Young county, on the 17th of last De- cember, while the latter was attempt- ing to arrest lnm, Marlow escaped, but his brothers were arrested as acces- sories, Later they broke jail but were cap- tured, and Friday mght a mob of about S50 men attacked the jail at Graham, with the purpose of lynching them, The mob failed in their object, however, and about 9 o'clock Satur- day, tbe prisoners, under a strong guard, were started for Wetherford for safe keeping. party was en route that the same or another mob altacked them with the above result. FATAL QUARRY ACCIDENT ONE MAN KILLED AND THREE OTHERS BADLY INJURED, PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 23.—About 3 o'clock this afternoon a number of quarrymen employed by James Mc Cappen at his quarry, on Princeton road, a short distance from Frinceton Station, on the Norristown branch of the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad, set fire to & cotton fuse to expiode a deep-drilling blast in one of the rocky ledges overhanging the road. After waiting abou* half an hour from the time of lighting of the fuse, the men concluded the fire had gone out and ap- proached the spot, where they began the work of removing the packing from the hole, A few minutes later the blast explo- ded with terrific feree, blowing four of the men a considerable distance, Oae of them, M chael O'Marra 65 years of age, who was stooping directly over the hole, was hurled down into the quarry and a large sizad rock fell upon him. When picked up he was still alive, but died while being carried out of the quarry. O'Marra was horribly burned about the head, face and breast, He boarded in the neighborhood and his body was The only relative he is known to bave in this country is & brother, who is said to live on Gray’s Ferry road. Michael Deshawan, an Italian, 30 years old, received a compound fracture of the skull. One of his legs and his body were badly lacerated and his left arn fractured, and he was also badly burned, He was taken to the Penn- sylvania Hospital, Joseph Olivelle, aged 35 years, re- ceived a laceraled wound of the chost, fracture of the left arm, general con- tusions of the body and burns. He was taken to the Episeopal Hospital, Taylor Wanamaker, 43 years old, residing in Montgomery county, oppo- about the head, body and arms, He was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital, The threes wounded men were buried beneath stone, sand and debris, and would probably have died had it not been for the timely aid rendered by the repairmen on the Pennsylvania avd Reading Hailroads, who immediately went to work to extricate them, The blast was an unusnally large one, the hole, it 13 sad, being dri'i-d 14 feet deep, and more than one-third of it was {ilied, is 1s said, with giant gun powder. It required more than au bour's work before the last of tue three wounded men wad taken from the rock and debris, | The news of the accident attracted a large number of people to the .ocailty, many of them anxwus to lesin whether friends or acquaintances had - been tnjured, Book Konping. The Goverument, ever since Jack. son's time, has been carrying as cash on its books some $20,000,000 which it does not possess. It is troublesome to square the ledger without violation of red-tape accounting. It would ba in entire keeping with the time, honored treatment of the Freveh spolmtion claims if Congress were to appropriate this § pary cash for setiting them. It might as well be dooe us to keep the succeeding generations of claimants in AuSpense r, sod it would relieve Ihe Treasury bookeepers (rom further nt. —————————————————— The Este (Pa) Drivi Park As sociation had aeeided to weeting on My 20 and 30, NEWS OF THE WEEK, -A south-bound passenger train on the Reading Railroad on the morning of the 21st ran into the end of a freight train, near Locust Gap, The passen- ger engine was wrecked and the engi- peer, Weimer, fatally injured, The passengers were severely shaken up. but none, it is said, were seriously injured, ~-Michael MecGarrick was being whiped in Chicago on the evening of the 22d, when he picked up a shovel with which to hit his adversary, The latter fled, and McGarrick, who was wild with rage, made for an incoceut bystander. The yeung man ran, but just as he reached the track of the Chicago and Evanston Road McGar- rick overtook and struck him down. Before the unfortunate man could rise a passenger train, which was running rappidly into the city, struck him, kill- ing him instantly. The body has not yet been identified. McGarrick was arrested, -—The latest reports of the bridge disaster at Spottsville, Kentucky, con- firm the first statement that four men were drowned, Six others were in- jured, three of them fatally, The boiler of a portable steam saw-mill ex- ploded on the 22d, in Danville, Ver- mont, killing Ernest Comstock and severely injuring Albert Morgan and Carl White. A fly wheel, fourteen feet in diameter, and weighing six tons, in the engine house of the Northwestera Darlor Suit Company, in Chicago, burst on the 22d, wrecking the engine house, and injuring Wm Jabon, the engineer. —An ice “shove’ occurred in the St, Lawrence rive, at Montreal, on the evening of tho 21st, which broke down dyke promenade, a little west of Jac- ques Cartier Square, At noon on the 22d, the river marked 35 feet 2 inches, having risen seven feet since the 21st, but by evening all danger of a was past. The ice in the river bad be. come firm, and the work of making winter roads acrose it was begun. —Two freight trains on the Pennsyl. vania Railroad collided near Columbia, Penpa,, on the 224. John C, Ryan, { conductor, and Patrick W elsh, brake- man, were injured, the former fatally, A train on the Southern Pacific Rall- { road was wrecked near Box Springs, | California, on tne 21st. Fireman Thos. » arter wis badly scalded, but the | passengers escaped with a severe shak- ing up. — An cinnati express Southern boarded by robbers just Ludlow, Obio, on the evening on the 2ist. One of the masked men entered the +xoress car, but he was thrown out 1 v {lenry Carroll, senger, and assistant, down an emba nt, ber, who was euceavoring to get into i the car by another door, seemed to re- train on the Cine Railroad was made his escape, whether the man thrown off the car was hart or not. New Suffolk, New York, on the 132i inst., the day he was to have been {| married. On the afternoon of the 224. { Henry Koeeland, a farmer, near Mat- | tuck, going to his barn, found in the {hay mow a man who was insane and | nearly dead. He was identified as the | missing brnidegroem, After been attended by a doctor during the night, Conway on the 23d, recovered bis senses, and said that he bad been In the barn since the day of his disappear- ance, and that all the food he had had was what milk be got from the cows, He said he was unable to account for his strange actions, Nothiog was known of Conway's disappearance i until the guests bad assembled for the | wedding ceremony and the appointed {hour had passed, and when It was learned that Conway bad drawn £400 from the bank that day it was feared he bad met with foul play, The money was found ntact in the young man’s trunk at his bome. — Mrs, Sarah Brodbeck, 33 years of age, hanged herseif in Colden, New York, on the 21st, because she hal re- her not to marry a young man with whom she was in love, Daniel Des. | mond and Join Walsh, two deck hands on the steamship Iolbeln, lying at Brooklyn, New York, were found dead in their bunks on the morning of the { 234, baving been suffocated by coal gas from a small stove in their cabin, During the trial of a new locomotive turned out of the Pennsylvania Rails Penns. , on the 224, the boiler exploded, killing Hugh Cannell asd injury two other men. ~A terrible explosion of gas took place in No, 1 shape of the Susque- hanna Coal Company's mine at Nan- ticoke, Penna, Five mining englueers were engaged In surveylog, assisted by Fire Boss Thomas Morgan and James O'Reilly, laborers, The gas took fire from a light carried by one of the er gineers. Engineers Wm. Sharpless and Chet Owen were instantly killed, and Morgan and Reilly fatally burned’ The others, whose names were not ob- tainahle, were severely injured, ~l1a Memphis, on the 24th, Henry Overton and Thomas Swerning, swich. men, quareiled about a lantern, and the former shot and killed the latter, Overton is the son of a prominent citi« zen of Bt. Louis, As a freight train was passing Pittsburg, Kentucky, on the evening of the 23d, James Bate # brakeman, was maliciously fired upon by two Tom and Sam Gregg. Ramnes re- Suriod he fire, no bulls takiug Sheets ng regg, one ug the heart. Rai tinge At ball strik n, ing in the hl alu was ery to Stanford, in a oritical condition. The at the rails way station at Cliftonville, Massachu- setts, discovered two burglars atlempte ing to fores sn entrance earl morning of the J in Shut th Natchitan dangerously nded, burglars esoaped, cide. No cause 18 known for the mur der, -Two men went into a new and un occupied building on the Kingsbridge road, New York, on theevening of the 234, ‘seeking shelter, On the morning of the 24th, one of them Henry Ed- wards, 21 years old, was found dead, having been suffocated py gas from a coal fire kept burning to dry the walls, The other man is yet alive, but uncon- scious, He 1s not known. An old shed attached to the freight house on Main Central Railroad, in Gardner, Main, was demolished on the 24th by a freight car. Leroy Weymouth was killed, Otis Grover fatally and P. H. Ward severly injured, J. A. McGaw, a carpenter, was thrown from a scaf- fold in Boston on the 24th, and killed. — President Green, of the Connec- ticut Mutual Life lnsurapes Company of Hartford, announced on the even- ing of the 24th that Joseph A. Moore, a leading citizen of Indianapolis, and the company’s financial correspondent in that city, is a defaulter, The ex- treme amount involved is about $500,000. He has restored to the com- pany property which may reduce the actual loss to about $400,000. Moore had been speculating, It is stated that the loss will not affect the com- pany’s solvency. ~ While a building was being taken down in Cincinnati on the 24th, a wall fell, burying John Wilson, George Barrett, John Hope and Henry Nolte. They were all badly injured, Wilson, it is feared, fatally, A passenger and coal train collided on the Lestugh and of New Jersey, north of Wilkesbarre, I’a.., oun the morning of the 24th. The engineer, Frederick None of the passengers were hurt, eo BEN TBENATE. In the U. 8, Senate on the 21st, the Mr. Allison reported to 8 cents, In the even- ing session Mr. amendments offered by and woollens, Ad- journed, Inthe U, were agreed to. 8. Senate on the 224, the was finished and passed nays 30-—biy a party vote; all the amendments offered by the Democrats in the interest of " he eleventh and subsequent censuses was sommittes on Foreign to the Diplomatic Appropriation bill to interests in Samoa, Mr. Saulsbury, from the same com- regard to the Guano On mo- the first section the thereof, “in due course of The bill was then laid over, to allow Mr. Hoar to offer some Funding Mil was taken up and HOUSE, In the House on the 2lst, a num- ber of bills and resolutions were Intro- duced under the call of States for reference, There were occasional spasms of “flibustering.” led by Mr. Payson, of Ililnols, whose object was to compel the foends of the Oklahoma bill to yield to certain amendments to that measure, and also to prevent the consideration of the Union Pacific Funding bill under a suspension of the At length, the call of States having been concluded, Mr. Warner will, and in lieu thereof adopt a reso- iation providing for a final vote on the bill on the 24th, with permission to Mr. Payson tv offer an amendment in regurd to town sites, The resolution was agreed to. The Naval Apuropria- tion bill was reported and placed on the calendar. The rules were sus. pended, and Lille passed aulliorizing the five civil zed nations of Indians to jeass lands for mining purposes; also increasing the maximum amount of international money orders to $100, Adjourned, In the Houve on the 22d, the River and Harbor bill was considered In Committee of the Whole, pending which the House adjourned, In the House on the 23d, the Sundry Civil bill was eonsidered in Committee of the Whole. Pending discussion of amendments to the clause providing for a royalty for the use of steatn presses in the Printing Bareau, the committee rose and the House adjourned, PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE. BEVATE, TE pe os ab te evening ® were duced us follows: By Mr. MoCrenry, extending the ¢ime for Soldier Ofpusust Schools anti 1000, By My, aires, providing do the further extension for a period of years of the charters of ban in provident associations, By Mr, Hines, regulating the liabilities of mine owners relative tr employes, Slving the work- men the same right of compensation if the employers are directly or indirectly responsible as if the workmen had not been in thelr employ. The bill providing for the submission to the popular vote of the proposed Prohibition amendment to the Consti- tution wae received from the House and referred to the Committee on Con- stitutional Reform. Adjourned, In the Senate on the 23d the bill pro- viding for a special election on June 18th was reported and passed first read- ing. The bill for the election of asses- sors for three years passed finally. A bill to prevent the sale of liquor on Decoration Day, passed second reading. In the Senate on the 24th, a bill was introduced by Mr. Macfarlane to de- fine and punish bribery at elections, The Prohibitory amendment resolu- tion passed second reading and was made the special order for final sage on the 30th, The Building In- spection bill passed finally. Adjourned. HOUSE, In the House on the evening of the 21st bills were introduced by Mr, Tag- gart giving constables §24 a year for work done under the High License law, and by Mr. Krebs to regulate beneficial and protective associations, adjourned, In the House on the 224 the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution prohibiting or manufacture of intoxicating liquors was taken up on third reading and passed finally and sent to the benate t without a word of debate, The vote {| was: Yeas, 132; nays, bd, i | and appropriately referred: Dy, | Hindenach, providing for the pur | chase of the Willlam Penn farm, in { 200 for that purpose, By Mr. Rose, | appropriating $50,000 for the purchase Erle, By Mr. i equal distribution of { the Courts among the members of the | Bar, The Judges are directed make appointments of auditors, ters, ete., from an alphabetical previously prepared, containing | nsmes of all reputable members of the Bar. By Mr. Marstall, authorizing the Board of County Commissioners Lo levy a tax of pot exceeding one mill for the IAs fiat fin ly lef of indigent Union | their wives, widows and children, and making it the duty of assessors to make jout a list annually of such indigent | persons, The House then proceeded to the calendar of finally passed the bill to prevent sale or attachment on judgment Adjourned | the 224 when the bill for an election on | the Prohibition ameosdment was passed | were allowed to record their voles, | lively debate occurred on the bill for schools and all institutions supported i by the State. twas passed to third i eading. In the House on the 24th. | for a special election on the Prohibition | amendment was reported. Bills were { introduced to provide for the main- | tenance and education of poor orphan | children and regulating elections, mod- | eled on the Saxton bill in New York. ! The bill regulating the taking of | ground for schoo! purposes was passed to third reading. Adjourned. mA 55 A PHILADELPHIA HERCULES, 300 Pounds, Philadelphia can boast of a modern Hercules in the person of George man, a giant in muscle and stature, es around the chest, pounds, scarcely an ounce of which is superfluous flesh. admirable, and he has amazed many an athletic expert by his displays of strength. Soptman recently paid a short visit to a gymnasium on Arch street and gave an exhibition of what he could do. The pupils eyed him curi- with a bamboo cane, When he stretch. sibly could do so to jump on his back, arms, shoulders, and head to take a ride, eight sturdy and strong men com. plied with the request, and holding on bore their weight upon him, He car- ried them without much difficulty, and the gymnasts who saw the performance were almost inclined to think contemp- tuously of their own comparatively puny physiques, Not satisfied with this, the young giant went to the strength-testing scales and pulled up the 2,000-pound weight with ense. He then wrapped two straps around his shoulder and back, and fast ening the ends to 2 300 pounds of iron, he calmly raised the weight and took a promenade around the hall with his load. As a last act, instead of wrest. ling with a Numean lion, as Hercules, of mythological fame, did, he caught hold of a Lear, which a friend had ex- pressly Lrought, and hugged the animal 80 hard that it grunted for mercy. Soptman has yet to perform even mois difficult tasks and then he will poe bh meell as a modern Hercules and the hero of twelve unparalleled feats of strength, =. Loud sold the thoroughbred Al Powers to au agent of Baruuw's cire cus, : ~The 3 year old colt Coma, on of Kautioky x MAX O'NEILL: ON WOMEN, AMERICAN M. Blouet Discourses on Their Plumpness, and the Gallantry of the Men, That which struck me most in absence of stupid-locking faces, All are not handsome, but all are intelli- gent and beaming with activity, In my opiuion, it is in this that American beaaty mainly consists. In the large cities of the East the fist thing which caught my attention was the thinness of the men and the plumpness of the women, This seemed to me that the former lived In a furnace of activity and the latter in cotton wool. This impression deepened into a conviction. It seemed to me that her lot was as near to being perfection as an earthly reverence is shown for her, and appears to be the chief aim of her prc- tectors to surround her with luxury one, Bo far as adding to ber mental and physical grace goes, this plan of mak- has answered completely. cultivation of America’s daughters, them so attractive and render Ameri ger. to the men of the Old Word, even to the Frenehmah who, in the matter of politeness, lives a good deal, [ am afraid, on the reputation of his The respect for women in America teemed to be perfectly disin- terested, purely tplaonic. In France this disrespect almost always borders on gallantry. A Frenchman will but he will generally profil by the oc- casion to take a good look at her If an outsider be competent to form an opinion, I venture to say t American women does not render to man a tithe of thedavotion she receives The French wife repays a busband’s devotion by protecting h's interest—an American oné too oflen 1al Lhe ns m———— Tr The Man “Who Had the Idea” What could we do without the man who “had the idea’ before everybody else? We all know him and love him gays the London Globe. You get on the topic, say of the pl and you find be had the idea long bef Mr. Edison was heard of. If you press him, ask him why ever he did not ward, be tells you that it was too much trouble, If some great composer astonishes the world by setting “Paradise lost’ as a comic opera, you find it Is no new him, be had the onograph, ne and notion to idea long ago, and had often thought of suggesting it to that very composer. Should an BR. A. come before the world with a startling clas. sical picture, he always had the idea of that very subject for a painting, and now rejoices to see his idea carried out, Is a new statue put up in an overbur- metropolis? That very man, and no other, was the man he always had an idea should have a statue, Is a new remedy proposed by an eminept for seasickness, say pork chops before sailing, or a solution of cut cavendish on the voyage? He him- self always had that idea, If a popular novelist thrills the reading world with the idea of as a good foundation for plained, he always had the idea that that was the true explanation, nn A Fogs in London. Fogs of great density have prevailed in London, and have frequent- Great Britain and France, those residing in the suburbs that on many occasions lately. while the fog has lasted, moisture has poured down from the leafless branches of the trees {ull of rain, and the various bygrome- ters have shown the air to be complete. ly saturated with moisture, Under such circumstances the fogs in Loudon are always less injurious to life than those of a drier nature, and it will be observed that we have had no reports this year of cattle being suffocated ut the caitle show by London fog, as they were a few years ago. What the differ- ence may be between the two condi. tions would be an interesting subject for inquiry, A Japanese | loating Fort. The Japanese Adwiral Akamatsn je said to have invented a new foating fort for const defence. The fort isto bs bu'lt on a kind of vessel made of steel amd 150 feet in length, The armor is to be 12 inches toick, and the Lridge will be speciaily protected with a steel bulwark, The vessel Is to have a dou- ble screw aud engines of 200 horse. power, capable of attaining a speed of thiree miles au hour, On the frst bridge will be placed 12 15. centimetre meter and on the second eight 20-centimetre, crew wil mie pn —_ — ss Sr Tue estimated output or {he Colorado gold and ellver mines for the year 1888 is $26,001,546, of which $3,105,510 was gold and $17,025,628 silver, $5,770,602 lead, and $153,847 copyer. A CORRESPONDENT of the New York World makes the discovery that the letter A appears in the name of every President the country has bad, It also figures in the name of the Presi A A Anis More than 150 languages and dias lects are current in India and British Burmah, with their 206,000,000 of people, and the distinct alphabets of three countries, wany of which are very elaborate, out-number all others in the world, AMOx0 the incidenis of the annual meeting of the Paris Academy of Belence was the carrying off of the grand prize In mathematics by a woman, Mme, Sophia Kovaleveky, a professor in the Stockholin University, to 1490, A nnepenen Tre young German Emperor wants his salary increased from $750,000 to $1,000,000 a year. The general impres- sion is, however, that the young man’s pervice will not prove to have been Germany than er and his grand- father, who worked for th which he is now rex el ir I, Portions of the Pennsylvania of) g exhausted and ber of large ved Lo Ohio, lu COVER #1 1hies abandoned; a great nun whose oll territory is the largest area of any oil fied word, barrels of oll COhlo fiel There are now 1 held in d alone, n—————— GENERAL ALBERT Commander of the Supreme C the Scottish Rite, and the nent Mason in the Just celebrated his seve day. He received a great many callers, including grand represental various jurisdiction iu this e abroad. He is in excel I Mae. iLy- from inlry and lent bealtl, IVES saa ——— Tne cattle men of Montana, make allowance in their busi culations for a percentage of loss through animals freezing to death, are in great luck so far this Winter, There have been no losses from the cold as yet and the prospects are that there will be none. Incidentally the cattle are lead- ing a more comfortable Winter life than usual, ttn mmmmae— For the period of 111 years the figure nine will appear as the successive years are written down, and it will also be 111 years until another year comes along which will contain three consecu- tive figures that are allke—1999, It is an extreme probability to suppose that any one of the 1,400 000,000 of people pow living on the earth will be alive when this just-mentioned period comes along. who ness cal- A WEATHER PROPHET named Wiggs His name is so suggestive of that Canadian meteorological Mahdi, “Professor” Wiggins, that his prediction that we are to have the coldest Winter on record will meet with few believers. Wiggs bases his assertion on the alleged fact that the moon is 5,000 miles further north than it ought to be. The force of all this, however, is cancelled by the certainty that Wiggs is a good deal more of a crank than he should be, Tne Agricultural Department crop report for the year verifies, but does not change, what was already known, The competition of Russia, India and Australia has kept prices so low that for the first time in nearly twenty years the advance in the price of wheat per the loss in the amount of the total crop. The corn crop is the largest on record, but the yield per acre is below past returns in fruitful years, and taken as a whole the report does not show that the year bas been a prosperous one in the grain states, Tue latest defaulting in New York a little money at frst, intending to pay it back soon, but was unable to do so, Then he went from bad to worse, This is of course the same old story of dis. grace and ruin due to weakness of char- acter, At the same time it shouid be remarked that the pitiful sum which he was paid for onerous and responsible services (although offering no excuse for his crime) may at least suggest why Lie so readily yielded to temptation, ————. ANS Tie London Hospital notes that it would be interesting to learn how many children whose parents are conpara- tively rich are starved to death, not from under-feeding, but from wunsuile able food, “In some cases it is all meat and no milk, in others it is all milk and no meat, and in either case the child lacks some of the constituents of flesh, biood and bone. Many parents seem to think that sameness in food is jdentical with simplicity, and pnde themselves on the virtue of » courss of action whioh Is nothing less than murs
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