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EDWARD SCULls Editnr nd Proprietor.
WED5E6DAY... January iT,la.
; tel fire.
the vict
ued.
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Search Tor the remains of : latans, aud a vivid recollection oi we
treason that betrayed us last fall
into the power of our enemies, we
can win success, because, by such
action, we will destrve it.
Are postage stamps perquisites?
is a question distressing to the Re
form Legislative mind, and a com
mittee has been appointed to wrestle
with the knotty subject
Senator Longeneckeb has been
well placed on committees Consti
tutional Reform, Education, Mine
and Mining, Judiciary General, and
Legislative and Congressional a por
tionment
Fort -six Democrats in the
House v.rted against the Civil-service
Reform bill, and yet it was to in
augurate thix and oih-r rn'.rms that
induced the people to vrust the Dem
ocrats with power.
As is usual at every st ssion of the
Lpjsir-lHture a bill has lw-n introduc
ed forbidding theisueof free passe
by railroad coinpanit to ir.em tiers
of that IkkI.V and .tri-r. He is a
very cheap rooMer that can lie
bought with a railroad pai-s.
Ex Governor Plaisted of Maine,
has bmme editor of tlie Lewistown
Gazette. Plaisted always was an am
bitious fellow, and now that lie has
reached the top round of the ladder,
wesupjMise, like Alexander, he will
lie crying for other worlds to conquer.
When the gentlemen who are
bosMng the Indejiendent faction
have read a few more men like Sen
ator Lee out of their organization,
they will have a select little cxerie,
with a very minute amount of brains,
and will have very little trouble in
running their machine.
The Democratic House at Harris
burg is now holding the reform ani
mal out by the tail for the inspec
tion of a delighted public. That
party has actually reformed a few
Id scrub-women and page-boys out
cf office, and it is hugging itself with
delight over this monumental evi
dence of economy.
The pag-s and the scrub-women
can't vote, you know, and were
therefore tummarify kicked out,
but the election of the other super
numerary employes was only defer
red for thirtv davs. At the end of
that time it will be discovered that
they cannot be dispensed with. What
a gloriously reformed House it is!!
We commend the following short
story to our exemplary Independent-Democratic
Reform brethren: A
certain little Pharisee, who was
praying for his big brother, had a
good deal of human nature in him,
even if he was only six years old.
He prayed, "O, L rd, bless brother
Bill, and make him as good a boy as
lam."
Speaker Reyrurn has given the
Independents full and ample recog
nition on the committees in the Sen
ate. Some of the "Reformers," how
ever, are growling because their isn't
one of them on every committee.
The trouble was.the Speaker couldn't
make four fellows reach around, un
less the number of committees was
reduced.
Kiss. B. F. Butler made up his
mind to le Governor of Massachu
setts, and he captured the Demo
cratic nomination and prize, in spite
of that party's bitter hostility to him
for twenty years. He now has his
weather-eye on the Democratic nom
ination for President, and not a
journal of that party dare say
spoons!"
Practice of the law is an amusing
and exciting occupation in St Louis.
One attorney (ex-Senator Hender
son) a man past middle life, has had
two fight in court within the past
two months; has knocked a brother
attorney down, and hammered
another over the head with a heavy
cane. His practice is said to be us
lucrative as it is exciting.
Dcces, the Democratic member
of the Legislature frorn Fayette Co.,
who is under bail for murdering
Cashier Nutt, after, it is charged,
ruining his daughter, was in Harris-
burg last week and proposes to take
his seat in a few days. If he has the
effrontery to do this, we hope he will
be summarily expelled, as reputable
members should not be required to
associate with him.
A REsolctio.v of thanks to Senator
Pendleton for his services in behalf
of the Civil-service Reform bill, was
voted down by the Democratic Re
formers of the Ohio Legislature.
People will soon begin to understand
that the Democracy were onl y fish
ing for gudgeons last campaign,
when they baited their hooks wiih
Civil-service Reform. But there al
ways will te political gudgeons.
Ma. Charles S. Wolfe, who was
so very anxious for Pattison a enac
tion, expresses hitne'f as being
greatly discouraged at the outlook
under the Pattison adiuuiutration.
The trouble is, the Democrat tare
ithe chestnuts, the Independents
have burned paws, and the people
iiaveao sympathy with the singed
ats, and laugh consumedly at the
cool way they are beiiig ignored by
the men they helped to place in
office.
The Pension Appropriation pass
ed by the House at Washington, on
Saturday last, provides $S3,000,000
for army pensions; S 1,000,000 for
navy pensions ; 8275,000 for fees and
expenses oi examiRing surgt-ouo,
52yO,000 for pay and allowance oi
pension agents, and $10,000 for con
tingent expenses. The Pension
Bureau has $15,800,000 of last) ear's
appropriation to its credit, which
brings the sum provided for this
year's pensions up to $101,750,000.
To-day (Tuesday) Governor Pat
tison will be inaugurated, and
henceforth for four years, Pennsyl
vania passes under Democratic rule.
Governor Patti-on is accredited with
liting an honest man, a pious Meth
odist, and an extreme partisan.
While it will be idle therefore to ex
pect anything but that he will lie a
,ide-hound Democrat, the honesty ,
and integrity of character which ale
conceded to him, entitle him t the
personal respect and the best wishes
of h11 citizens who have the good of
the State at heart. He is not ubout
to lie down on a lied of rows. If tie
in true to himself and to his former
record, ns an honest, conscientious,
God ft ariitu man, he will soon find
the baser and perhaps the larger
portion of his own party arrayed
against him, while his choice of
counsellors will, in all probability,
estrange from him a numlier of the
lending spirits who labored for his
success. On the other hand, while
he owes his election to the Inde
pendents; his narrow partisanship
will prevent ail acknowledgement of
them except in words, and while
their mortified vanity may preclude
any open expressions of hostility, a
diet of husks will not have a tenden
cy to sweeten uieir vempeis, i in
duce them to address their energies
to an enthusiastic support of his ad
ministration. He enters upon his
new duties under peculiar circum
stances, and while his every action
will be jealously scanned, and he
cannot hope to escape a share of
that misrepresentatien which falls to
the lot of all public men of the pres
ent day, he is entitled to a fair trial,
and a verdict made up, not on spec
ulation, but from his ofhcial acts
and their resulting consequences.
Who does not remember how,
during the canvass of last fall, the
iieople were assured by the reform
ers and Independents, that the de
feat of the Republican State ticket
was the one thing needed to purify
the party and rid it of the bosses,
and that this accomplished, we
would stand united and stronger for
the impending Presidential battle of
1SS4?
Well, the Republican State ticket
was defeated by those Reformers.
The chariot wheels of time have
rolled on and brought m to the in
auguration of a Democratic Gov
ernor as a result of that defeat, and
the peace and harmony so often and
so loudly premised, are further from
us than ever. And yet the political
quncks keep talking of the "purified
and strengthened party that will
again lead in the onward march to
victory," while with the next breath
they denounce the "Stal warts," who
embrace more than four fifths of .he
party as men who cure only for the
'spoils aud office, whether obtained
by cajoling, fraud, jierjurv, brow
beating, bulldozing, lying, or direct
stealing."
These be lovely overtures for har
mony, and betoken with a vengeance
a united and strengthened party
forthecomitig Presidential campaign.
Is it not manifest that this class of
self styled Republicans are solely in
tent on keeping the breach in the
party open, and on playing into the
hands of the Democrats? Because
they succeeded in throwing the State
into the hands of the Democrats last
fall, they imagine that they wield a
power potent for evil, if not for good,
and being of the class that would
"rilher rule in hell, than serve in
Heaven," they hope to terrorize the I
party into subservience to their will.
Like the fly on the cart wheel, they
are continually calling on an admir
ing world to observe how they re
volve, apparently thinking like that
silly insect, that theirs i. the jwwer
that produces the revolution.
There is but one thing to be done,
in our judgment, to insure Repub
lican success in 1SS1, and that is to
fix our eyes on the end to be accom
plished, and resolutely march for
ward, totally ignoring all quack
panaceas for union and harmony.
Republicans ffant a continuance of j
their party in power, with all the
resulting blessings to the country,
that its administration of National
affairs will bestow, and they will net
risk the loss of these, because a few
political mountebanks may howl
and jibber and frantically try to di
vert them iropj the straightforward
path. The meu wfco jmagin they
hold the balance of power jn the
State of Pennsylvania are woefully
deceived. They were aided by innu
merable fortuitous circumstances in
the late canvas;, nd the very result
of their efforts, the j-eing of the
Democrats in power, is reaHiig on
the with fearful effect Men wii
unthinkingly listened to the catch
cries of the campaign, are humiliated
by its ending, and wita J.he bitter
tutM of Democratic rule in ti
mouth tspnot again be easily led
attray.
Pennsylvania Republican
State, without doubt, and its vole
will be cast for the next Republican
candidate for Presdent We require
no patent medicines to cure imagin
ary distempers. With good and Wye
candidates, a platform embodying,
not platitudes, but the fixed and de-
GLEAXING8.
A rt'BLicATioJf of the pension list
for the purpose of revealing impost
ors among the ensioiier8 is urged
by newspapers in many of the States
and Congress is advised to pass
swiftly a law authorizing the publi
cation. Gentlemen who thrive by the
misfortunes of others, and who have
a large stock of dull axes to be
ground at the expenseof people who
are thrifty enough to own a grind
stone, were not served by the organ
ization of the Senate. Hence Dog
Noble, as of old, barks at the foot of
the same old tree.
No young man can afford to begin
his political life witi the Democratic
partv. It promulgates no progrtss
ive issues, and its record in the past
is nothing to be proud of. Let young
men join the party of progress the
party that basso much in the past
to lie proud of and promises so
much in the future. Kansa City
Jourtud.
The Democrats in the Senate and
House who voted for the civil-service
reform bill are beginning to
hear from the back counties, and
find that in the face of the expecta
tion that they may capture the gov
ernment in ISS-i, they have not in
creased their popularity among con
stituents who are huner for office.
The destruction of property by
fire in the United Suites and Canada
during the year 1SS2 reached a total
of $90,250,000. Over ten million
dollars worth of property was burned
up in December. In so far as these
losses are covered by insurance they
are in the nature of a tax upon in
sured projierty throughout the
country. But the sum cf damage is
a total loss largely due to individual
carelessness.
The Legislature of Tennessee is a
respecter of persons. M rs. Polk, the
widow of a former President of the
United States, owns several thousand
dollirs worth of the repudiated
bonds of that State, and the Legisla
ture of that State passed a special
act for her benefit, decreeing that the
interest theron should be paid. An
attempt was made to amend the bill
by including a blind girl who owns
some of the bonds in the discrimi
nating measure, but it was defeated.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
authorized the coinage of a five-cent
nickle piece of a new design. It is
a little larger and thinner than the
one now in circulation. On the face
of the new coin is a female head sur
mounted with a fillet upon which
is inscribed the word "Liberty," the
whole being surrounded by thirteen
star8. The reverse side contains a
wreath surrounding a Roman nu
meral representing the denomination
of the coin.
Ex Senator Morrill, of Maine,
is dead. For nearly forty years he
has been in public life, as a repre
sentative in Congress, Governor of
his Suite, United States Senator, and
Secretary of the Treasury. Hs was
not a brilliant man, nor an eloquent
orator, but he possessed all the
qualities thst make men useful, and
was famous for his practical learn
ing and wisdom, his energy, and his
sterling integrity. He always was
poor in purse, but rich in the good
opinion of the people.
Iowa is overwhelmingly Republi
can, has a school house on every
hill-top, and owes a debt of only
520,000. Tennessee is overwhelm
inijly Democratic, owes a bonded
debt of over $20,000,000, and has a
Treasurer running away with half a
million of the people s money about
his clothes. A Democratic exchange
speaks of "the honesty and integrity
of the great National Democratic
party," and we give Iowa and Ten
nessee as references in illustration.
Liter Ocean.
A Cboerful View of IWjected Advice, j
Ffoa tha CtncinnaU Enquirer.
This is the time of year to write
columns of advice to the Legisla
tures; but, as the Legislatures do
not profit by advice, the space may
as well be taken up with able reports
of dog fights aud runaways.
The Bourbon Plaa.
Bo aton. Journal.
It is becoming more and more ev
ident that the purpose of Democrats
in the present Congress is to do all
that they can to delay and obstruct
business, in the hope that they , can
make the country believe that the
Republicans and not themselves are
responsible for the failure of legisla
tion. Reformers and Independents are
still exercised over the question of
uniting the Republican party, and
are sorely concerned about the
means of securing harmony. We
were told so often and so positively,
by the simon pure aud only origiuul
reformers, during last year's canvass,
that the defeat of the Republican
Slate ticket was the only thing nec
essary to "unite and purify the par
ty." that it is really a matter of sur
prise to hear, from the same quarter,
tli at there is now any lack ot unity
or purity in the party. Yet, for the
past month or so, the reformers have
been bewailing the divisions still
visible, and calling for prescriptions
warranted to heal all party dissen
sions. There is but little variety ia
the remedies proposed. They are.
in sulistance, that there must be no
more "machine management" "the
bot-ses must be deposed" "the pol
iticians must take back seats and
"the people should be given the
largest ireedom in the management
of primaries and the selection of
candidates.
All this has decidedly the aspect
of political quackery. The talk
about "no more machine manage
ment" is of the variety long describ
ed as rigmarole, aud, in the more
terse vocabulary of tne present day,
is known as "nun. N hat is styled
the "management of the machine"
consists in doing the work of polit
ical organization, and the nomination
of candidates. This work is oeguu
at the primaries, and finished iu the
conventions. It cannot be discon
tinued so long as parties exist and
candidates are to be nominated.
The question, therefore, is not wheth
er there 8hall be "machine manage
ment, but it is by whom and in
what interest the "machine" shall be
mt-naged. On this point there can
be no room for doubt. The political j
machine, like every other, will be
managed by those who t ike part in
the work of management, it will
be managed by that portion of the
people who attend the primaries and
the conventions ; not by those who
shout for reform, but who stay at
home. The talk about "giving the
people a larger control of affairs,"
also, is the rankest kind of "gull."
Siuce the organization of the party,
the people have had all the power
they have chosen to exercise. All
the evils complained of have been
the consequence of jiopular neglect
of political duties. Those who have
taken the trouble to attend to "the
machine" have managed it in their
own interest. It can be managed in
the public interest only by the same
degree of attention on the ptrt of the
people. It our shouting reformers,
instead of chattering about "giving
the people the largest freedom in the
management of primaries and con
ventions," could devise some method
of compelling the people to exercise
the freedom and power which they
already have, it would be vastly
more to the purpose.
JJo political reform can have any
stability unless it is enforced and
maintained at the primaries. The
people cannot depose the "bosses"
unless they do the work at the pri
maries which the bosses are certain
to do if the people neglect it. No
reform can make the ieople their
own rulers any further than the
people will do the work of ruling ;
and this work begins at the prima
ries. How little can be done toward
making an end of "machine man
gement"by a "popular uprising at
the polls," has just been strikingly
shown in the organization of the
State Senate. Senator Reyburn, of
Philadelphia, was especially obnox
ious to the reform element He
was nevertheless selected as the
"machine" candidate for Speaker;
and neither the Independent protect
nor the "lesson at the polls," last
November, was sufficient to prevent
his election, by the votes of twenty
six out of thirty Republican Sena
tors. It may be that the Independ
ents oversUtted the legitimate de
mand's of ''reform," in holding that
twenty -six men should surrender to
four. It seems clear, however, that
the twenty-six have not read the
Sfovririher "lessqn" as the Independ
ents, throughout the canvass, ns
sumed that it would be read.
Honesdale Citizen.
AS iPFALLLKEr D1SASTEB.
A HKART-REXDIXQ HOLOCAUST.
One Hundred Urn Luxa by the Bnrn:
tug of the whll Muuae at Mil?
waak.ee Hurriijhig Scenes Mr.
: Gilbert, the Bride or a Day, Among
the Victims.
A sale of coins took place in Phil
adelphia last week. The coin that
brought the highest price was a
chain cent dated 1793, for which the
United States mint paid $85. It was
a handsome uncirculated specimen,
sharply struck, exceedingly rare and
one of the very finest impression of
its kind. A half cent of 1801, scarce
ly marked by circulation, very fine
specimen, brought $12 y0. A silver
dollar bearing the date of 1339 sold
for $2o 10.
II. B. Payne in his speech at
Cleveland sajd: "The declaration
favoring a tariff for revenue only lost
the Democrats several elections.''
The Courier Journal reads Payne out
of the party for that sentiment, and
declares him no Democrat Mr.
W'attcrson is right. Free trade is the
Democratic motto. "A tariff for
Marriage
of Senator
DauKhter.
Cameron's
Washington, Jan. 11. Miss Vir
ginia Cameron, daughter of Senator
Carnerqn of Pennsylvania, was mar
ried this evening at her father's res
idence in this city to Lieutenant
Alexander Rodgers, of the United
State army. The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. John R. Pax
ton, pastor of the West Presbyterian
Church, of New York city, formerly
of Washington, D. C and Harris
burg, Pa. The wedding reception
was attended by President Arthur,
nearly all the members of the Cabi
net, wi,h their wives and daughters:
a large representation of the United
States Supreme Court, Senate and
House of Representatives; General
and Mrs. Grant, Wra. M. Evarts,
General Sherman, and a brilliant
concourse of other gentleman and
ladles prominent in Washington so
ciety. Hon. Lot 51. Morrill.
Augusta, Me., Jan. iO.IIon, Lot
M. Morrill, aged seventy, died this
mAminff it 11 a'I..aI. IT,. if l
In . tit iik n a J Vl'nJrV. lie hUHtrt?ll
m.j -u. 8fc U1BS nu very uie amj hig list ramneflU
a man who believes ia probing were without pain or struggle. The
American industries and doea it by '' merjijjere of his family and the at-
voting with the Democratic party tend4n8 physimns were present dur-
shoi.y be sent to school.- ,n b,B la T :, Tlifl
Ocean man recognized bis family, and with
his last breath attempted to bid them
Is the Senate the Democrats W uh!!'. l,he worJ on
. . , , .JCI""t- "W jjjrti, n)8 ppint passed away.
shown their hands on the tariff re- 'Waswsoto.v, Jan. lO.-Informa-visifm
b;II. They do not intend to , tiori was received at the tressury de
lift or permit ta e lifted what they P'rtment to-day of the death at
have all along so violently &nounc-! Augusta, Ma ne, this morning of
ed as burdensome to the peopleJTH1: A,lornH' : ',io. wi"8e?
. . ., , - IT1 retary of the treasury under Prtsi
Jhay will leave the people to stagger dent Grant from June, 1876 to
alonaew years longer, acting as ! March,1 1877.' The flagg on the
the dog in ;the pfaxer, while the' building' were hung atbalf maL,
House ia Republican, and as ihe and the PrinciPal entrances draped
into their control. AortA America, of his funeral. '
Milwaukee, January 10. The
Newhall House, a six story brick
building, corner of Michigan street
and Broadway, which cost $277,000,
was burned to the ground this morn
ing. Thej fire was discovered at 4
A. M., and iu less than half an hour
the whole building, long designated
as a death-trap, was tnveloped in
flames. Scenes of the utmost terror
prevailed. The inmates of the doom
ed building jumped by dozens from
the upper stories, covering the stone
sidewalks with lifeless bodies. The
shrieks oft he unfortunates filled the
air in a heart-rending manner. The
people below "were unable to render
any aid. Quite a number of the
terrified guests and employes of the
hotel appeared at the windows, and
seeing the distance to the ground,
fell back to perish in the flames.
The employes of the hotel, which ac
commodated eight hundred guests,
numliered eighty-six, mostly lodged
in the sixth story. Exit by way of
the roof was cut off by the fire, and
the two stand-pipes with the fire"
ladders were not available for the
same reason. A very few were saved
fey jumping on canvas. The stores
and offices on the ground floor were
entirely restroyed.
A number of wholesale establish
ments in Water street were damaged
by fire and by the falling walls of
the building. Among them were
those of Win. Cramer, banker; the
Goodyear Rubber Company, Ixiuis
Schadegg & Co., wholesale wine
merchants; James Morgan, drj
goods, aud Zimmerman Bros., cloth
ing. William Candee, cashier of the
Manufacturers' Bank, carried the
cash box of the institution, contain
ing money and pajiers amounting to
$GU0,O0O, out of the flames. The
insurance agencies and general office
on the first floor saved scarcely any
papers. The insurance on the hotel
is stated by C. D. Nash, president of
the Newhall House Association, at
$125,000, all held by Cincinnati
a-encies. The loss is scaicely to lie
estimated at this hour, but it will
reach $500,XX). Telegraphic com
munications will be interrupted for
traffic North, as about fifty wires are
down.
A BKIUE HCBXED TO I'EATII.
Mrs. John Gilbert, of the Minnie
Palmer troupe, married only yester
day, was (turned to ueath in sight of
the multitude.
Tbe scenes at the morgue, where,
at an early hour, thirty-two bodies
were lying iu a ghastly heap on the
floor of a.small roo:ii, were heart
rending beyond human jiower of
description. A strong police force
was necessary to keep the anxiou
inquirers in line. Mr9. John Gil
ben's body was positively identified.
It was a touching scene to see thu
bride of a night utton the cold mar
ble floor, charred and bruised, with
a look of anguish depicted on her
delicate features. It is said she was
a Miss Sutton, of Chicago, before she
marrid Gilbert,' who is inconsola
ble. WORK OF THE FIREMEN.
The fire department called for as
sistance from the Soldiers' Home;
but General Sharp refused to send
the engine, at which ther-fis general
indignation. The firemen made su
perhuman efforts, and eleven waiter
girls were brought safely across the
frul ladders stretched, across he
alley from the sixth story of the ho
tel to the roof of the adjoining bank
building. The "jumping-cloth"did
little service. About a dozen unfor
tunates attempted to jump, but re
bounded from the telegraph wires,
a perfect mass of which surrounded
the twa fronts of the building. The
appeals for aid were piteous, but lit
tle could be done.
HOW GENERAL AND MRS. THUMB ES
CAPED. Tom Thumb got out through the
front entrance, and his wife wa
brought down the fire escape by a
fireman. H.Crompton, the Misses
Herbert and Dunlap and W. T. L i
velle, of the Madison Square Com
pany, arrived by the midnight ex
press, and the whole party, only
partially dressed, were saved by the
fire escape. The building has long
been known as a death-trap, and it
only required half an hours time to
completely envelop it in flames.
Ben Hall, a fireman, was crushed
under the large, heavy cornice, but
was quickly got out from under the
red hot plates of galvanized iron, se
riously, but not fatally, hurt. In the
American Express Office Allan
Johnson ai.d wife lay stretched on
the hard floor, evidently dying
(both since dead.) They were forced
to jump from a window on the third
floor.
DISTRESSING FATE OF MISS CHALLIS.
Long after the flames had taken
possession of the interior, MjssChal
lis, head dressmaker at T. A. Chap
man 4 Co.V was seen at a window
on the fourth floor. She was recog
nized by friends below, ami implored
to leap upon theoanvas; but she re
mained standing at the window of
her burning room until the flames
enveloped her and she sank back, to
be seen no more. In three quarters
of an hour from the discovery of the
fire the building was a total loss. A
deed of heroism was recorded worthy
of unqualified praise. Ed. Rymer
and Herman Strauss, of truck No.
1, appeared orj ihp rpof qf the bank
buildfiig aj, a pritical juncture, U
rectly opposite the servants' quarter,
ladder in hand. For a moment the
unwieldy ladder was poised in mid
air, and then descended with a crash
through a window of the hotel. It
formet a bridge urtrusii the al ley, and
before i became 6teady in position,
men had crossed, into the hotei.
Then amid the cheers of the multi
tude below, they dragged the help
less creatures across the slender
bridge until fully a dozen were res
cued. Alt were in their night
clothes, aud many were badly frozen
before reaching shelter. A woman
in a dead faiut was dragged across
iu safety, buj at ope time the whole
of her body hung over tlear qf the
ladder, whilt a brave man held her
by one ankle. The crowd below held
their breath in suspense, epecting
every minute to see the ladder turn
over aud break beneath the terrible
strain. The man, however, was
equiil to the emergency. By a her
calean effort he pulled her upon the
slender bridge, laid 'finally placed
her out of danger, while the crowd,
which had endured the most painful
suspense for several minutes, burst
forth round after round cf applause.
Twelve waiter-girls were rescued by
these brave men. The two brothers
jLlaytoii rescued lour women, carry
i ing them out bodily. The police res
cued a dozen persons.
WAS IT AN INCENDIARY FIRE?
There is loud talk of incendiarism
and in this theory the chief and the
police first on tiit ground concur
No tangible ground tor such a theo
ry can tie found, however, beyond
the fact that the tire broke out near
'the foot of the elevator, and spread
so rapidly that tne building was de
stroyed in nail an Hour, iieganiuig
the origin ot the tire, Mr. Anlisdei
said:
"The night watchman saw the
fire first; but before he could do
anything, the flames shot up the el-
evutor, igniting every uoor. i am
confident that the tire started in the
elevator, but how 1 cannot say. 1
was awakened by the noise aud
rushed out to find the building fill
ed with flames and smoke, and peo
ple flying for their lives. After sav
ing my wile, I tried to save others.
1 met my father and mother in their
night clothes, and tried to get them
to leave the building, which was fast
becoming a furnace of names, but
father was apparently out of his
head. He said he was bound to go
into the flames to save those in the
building, but by force I got him to
the street, and being afraid that if 1
let him go he would again enter the
flames, conducted him by force down
Michigan street. When near the
alley some one fell from the upper
floor to the ground a few feet away,
and caused him to become frenz
ied." A number of the rescued guests
say the fire started in the basement
and went through the elevator to all
parts of the house before an alarm
could be given. A man employed
in the baking department, who ar
rived on the scene about 4 o'clock,
states that at 5:30 he passed to the
third floor aud assisted in rescuing
a number of lodgers. It is stated
on good authority that there was no
fire in the rear portion of the build
ing, where there was a wide flight
of stairs, by means of which all those
quartered on the upper floors could
have escaped. However, the smoke
was dense, and those who were not
suffocated lost their presence of
mind.
MORE NARROW ESCAPES.
W. II. Crompton. the old Rogers
in "Esmeralda," of the Madison
Square Theatre Company; Miss
Herbert, Mrs. Dunlap and W. A.
Laville arrived on the midnight ex
press from Waukeegan, and went to
the hotel. Mr. Crompton was arous
ed by an indistinct sense of a terri
ble noise outside. Before he realized
what was going on he was startled
by the knocks of Miss Herbert at the
door of the adjoining room. He unb
locked the door, and she came in.
Her apartment was so full of smoke
that they could not return through
it, and they started for the fire es
cape. Mr. Crompton managed to
throw on some clothes; but Miss
Herbort had no time to save any
thing, Mr. Crompton carrying her
down with nothing on but her night
dress. Miss Herbert was taken to a
boarding houenear by. Mrs. Dun
lap and Mr. Laville escaped in a
similar way, but were more fortun
ate in both getting partly dressed.
The persons holding the canvas up
on which thosein the burning build
ing were called on to jump, were so
few in number as to be unable to
stand the shock caused by the fall
ing bodies, and many more might
have been saved by this device had
there been more ' persons on the i
street at that early hour to assist it
holding the canvas. Several wh
jumped from windows fell upon
mass of telegraph wires, and wer
terribly mangled.
SCENE AT THE MORGUE.
One of the most trying scenes was
at the morgue. At six ocloott fifteen
bodies lay on the marble slabs and
the tlor. One of the first to be rec
ognized was that of Mrs. Gilbert,
wife of John Gilbert, of the Minnie
Palmer Company. They were mar
ried yesterday morning in Chicago,
and the bride of a day lay upon the
cold marble charred and bruised al
most beyond recognition. It w said
that she was Miss Sutton, of Chicago
The Minnie Palmer Company and
the Tmn Thumb Company have
cancelled their engagement at the
Ojiera House and academy of Music
owing to the deaths of memlters of
their companies.
Wm. E. Cramer, editor of the
Evening lVioniii, and wife, who
roomed on the second floor, received
serious injuries He was burned
about the hands and head, and Mrs.
Cramer's hair was burned and also
her hands and feet. Li.zie Augland
ami Mollie Connors, dining-room
girls, on being wakened bv the noise
jat4A M.. hastily dressed and tried
j to descend the stairway. They found
j themselves ficirtg a sheet of $im,e,
j Miss Connors was terribly frig hum
eri and, scroaitttid out that they could
not get . tiiroujjh the thmes. Liz.ie
replied, "we must get through or
perish," and she rushed through
the 11. lines and re:iched the office
floor, where she fell insensible, ter
ribly burned about the necli, L.ie,
legs and arms, bi;; p.r.i ta tally inj'ir-
jed. She says that when they started J
' through the flames she turned to see j
if Moilie was coming, and she saw
her fall un the stairway, and there is
no duul that she perished there. A
' titan, whose ame could not be lear
d, was seen swinging from the fifth
Ho r of lite building until his leet
touched the window below. Kick
ing iu the glass hedropjied and grub
bed the sash. This was repeated
until he reached the balcony, where!
he was rescued, with bis liunds had
ly cut.
THE "NEWHALL" A "FIRE TRAP."
DrvrtopinK Clrarflrld Couatjr. j Quf citAens dej
re always read
truth.
CLEAKFiKt.it, Jan. li Tbe Clear
field Bituiiiioous Coal Company, rec- j .oo DwtMor ;
entlv tharteied bv the State Depart-, dD' nUun
men't. with a capital of S",0U0, XJO, TUfilUt MWl!r v
wus orgiipizi-d at a meeting held here ,eisef o wbui wli.N
yesterday. C J. L iag l.t.i,;of Elmi
ra, was elected president aiid S. K,
Peale. of I,tck Haven, vice president.
The Susquehanna and Southern
Raiir ad Company was reorganized
at tl'e s;mie tune. The direction was
eidiiii;eil sua- to include Cornelius
Viiiiderhilt. Senator William A.
WmILich W:is e!etril iir.ilfr.iif mikI
it is reported un me street mai jr Vanderbilt vice prtsidei.t and
uierc wcico-guesia in wic uuuse tlVil!.urt.r. The Ctili p iny will build
I lit rtl.rht It II.I.J I... tniu t l.u . -, . .
ndlMMf,Me. !Hr I).
7
Early Imc ipiliwlu "
bxpMty of tb bWpey,.
liTr. uhI ib kklMj 4u
uuUIJ MAC ttO- '
' ' " "lH
UMt It WM With T aiK
thai I ai aU to walk u, 1
truableJ by being ,b,r,
HUM .1
alnuat to aibaa,, ,
wfcta I retired aighu u at "
- a.
kad a . ry towmn aerr. '
MOM K DO Bur, i.
utbar time, and wuaM freqa,, "
ly m to aruoM tnm tlJ"
I. st nignt. 11 tins be true, toe Hor-.one hundred miles of road and form
rors that will be revealed by the re-colll.tclillg wj,n lhe leading and
uiuibiui lucucuiis urn uciuuuitiiu-i Pine Creek Ko-ids
ful to contemplate. The Newhall: '
was known to every traveler in the Pasttenuer vn on Fire.
.Miruiwesi, anu every person uviugi in doetured and !nin..,,.
ia Milwaukee, as a "fire-trap" of the! A passenger tram un the abash ' thi wpuiat ui u,k 1W T
worst description, and wonder pre-1 road which left here at 5 o'clock this ; uwi parpuM, emu M tUm
vails that any traveler or resident morning, consisting of an engii.e, j urii au,.BewhM
could he ve been found to take up (baggage car and two passenger c,wc,,-tl1"h71 Jt"'w'-"'c
his abode in its walls.. It should es, containing about forty passen-j, uau? k!?
have been condemned long ago. A jgers, mostly Masons returning home j daya.aoaambappiiy,!,?'!
meeting of citizens has arranged frwm a meeting held here last night, bef. i bad Md a botal
to place a large force at work tore-lwa9 ditched one mile south of i,'
cover the bodies. Traveling men, I Olmsted, Illinois, throwing the two: !h""r """" ia.r .
passen-rer coaches down an eight- hMacb9 ua4 ZZT
loot embankment and setting them better mn
! T ami BDeuuturtal-le ell u,. '
I lair doeturatl anil
resident and non-resident, have met
and adopted measures for the relief
of such of the fraternity as suffered
from the fire. The network of tele
graph wires around the building
prevented fireman placing ladders,
and made it impossible to hold can
vas ia such position that the unfor
tunates would not "trike the wires
first There were frequent shouts of
"Chop down the poles I" but no
movement was made to take them
down.
POSSIBLY ONE HUNDRED LIVES LOST.
The loss of life is larger than at
first believed, and may reach one
hundred.
The Tall Sycamore or the Wabaxb.
FATA I, DISASTKlt IX IHE II ION
WORKS AT ItKTHLKIIAM.
At Lratrt Five l'ersons Killed.
The special correspondent of the
Indianapolis ( Ind.) Journal, em bod
1 ied in a recent communication the
following from Hon. Daniel. W.
Voorhees : I consider St. Jacobs Oil
a splendid remedy. I suffered from
an affection of the back aud kidney s,
with some rheumatism in fact, it
was rheumatism of the back I used
St. Jacobs Oil, and found it very
efficacious. It gave me instanta
neous relief, and finally cured me
com pletely.
Old Iloreaut on Ihe Itanipixe
The night wind whistled around
the chimnev tops and steeples, and
blew briskly down into the street,
scaring the people who walked be
low. Snow, sleet and hail drove
into the face of those who dared ex
pose themselves, and made them
buUom their coats tight around their
throats. Of course there were sore
throats and colds and coughs and
rheumatisms the next day. But
what were these to men and women
who could step into any drug stoie
and buy a bottle of Perry Davis's
Pain Killer?
IjFwiNburg I'niTPi-Hitj in Luck..
Bethleham, Pa. Jan. 9. Shortly
after two o'clock this afternoon a
frightful boiler explosion occurred
at No 1 blast furnace of the Bethle
ham Iron Company, resulting in trie
death of four men and a woman.
and in the serious injury of several
others. Ten boilers were located
over the engine-house nt an eleva
tion of thirty-five feet Five of these
were torty inches in diameter and
thirty-six feet in length, and the
others were smaller, atni were used
for heating purposes. Two of the
largest boilers exploded with terrific
force, wrecking the interior of the
engine-house. One of the boilers
was carried through the ventilators,
and broke through the roof of the
old mill and fell to the ground. Of
the ten buildings only three were
left in position ; The scene that fol
lowed was one of alarm and con
sternation. The workmen rushed
to and fro in their excitement, and
it was at first believed that the loss
of life was much greater. The inte
rior of the engine-house was filler!
with debris, aud men were at once
put to work to search for those miss
ing. An hour or so after the bodies
of George Gready aud Jesse Bright,
the engineers, were lound. At the
time of the explosion they were en
gaged in repairing the machinery
jtnnected with the boiler. Samuel
McCandless, one of the boiler tei -lers,
was scalded to death. Anoth
er man was taken from the ruins
vho was not recognized. The wife
if a puddler, named Graft, who had
irought his dinner, was passing
hrough the engine house on her
vay home and was killed, her IkkIv
M'ing picked out of the debris.
vVilliam Burch and 11. Clewell, pat
tern makers, were badly but not
:'ahlly injured. The search in the
debris continues to-night, as it is
reported that one or two employes
ire still missing. The boiler thrown
through the roof of the old mill was
hurled a distance of .K"K ft nrl .t.. mr Pmt, in Jen.,,
tell among about a hundred vork-,,5tb- ,'v",i-"M "" iue epotoaibe
men. The damage to the mill and XSXXtf fSfiSir.
machinery is trrfut. I-ist. we.lr ih b? P""in pniporty awl pin eherai.
h..;io l...l . J CHRISTIAN KEIM.
oohvip v. i v vicai iru aim
and
have
teen
on fire, completely wrecking them. ! iwnin bMdiappeere.ifh,Ba,
The accident was caused by a broken j 1 " " bl to do my b,,
rail. Nearly all the passengers were nd Hunt- umeii7
mnr nr In in'urul nrnhhlv ! ',Ddr
fabtllr. Simrpon wpr Bpnt fnini I OEu
Chicago on a special train and the
wounded were provided for at Olmsted.
A. W. Brow.. M p..of p
"I aaTo iwj Hon Bmt x
tbe poet flxteea yean, and tt',
it w betnir a (are and relii,i,
Hoofe Remedy to purely.,,
Kiemiaally prepared by!,
Phriaclt, and will nnly
the kbloryi, bladder, liter 14,.
Co.
SEE! 1
The Finest Assorts.
Sp2ct:cles & lp
AT
Boyd's Drug
Philadelphia, January 11. Mr.
Wm. Bucknel!. of this city, a gei.er
ous supjHirter of many public insti
tutions, to-day handerl to the hoard
of trustees of the University at Lew
isburg Pa. a Bapti-t theological sem
inary, his check for $10(),)l)O includ
ing his own subscription of SoO.OOO,
which was made on condition that
i-'iO.OOO more should lie secured.
The Snow Down Kouih.
Richmond, Jan. 10. The snow
storm of yesterday and last night
did not abate in violence until this
morning. It has continued to fall
lightly all day, and the snow is now
sixteen to eighteen inches deep.
Reports fn m some points on the
line of the Chesapeake and Ohio
raiiroad make the depth of the snow
twenty inches totwo feet. All trains
are more or less delayer!. It is un
doubetedU the heaviest snow storm
since Jan. 1S57.
SAY NOTICE.
inspected,
were pronounced safe. Theyj liM INISTRA TOR'S NOTICE,
been used prctbablv ten or fif- -
Tl .,.u -4- r . , I Estate of O I II Ian Walter, late of Jenaer Twd
years. 1 he authorities of th Sumereet county, Pa. dec-uu T9
works are unable to account for thi
explosion and refused to be inter
viewed.
Coal Mine Disaster.
letters or a.lailnUt ration rn the ahora eetate
bavInK tw-n aranieri to the ladrrelinmi br the
proper eu!b..rity. notice U hereby itleea to all
perD IrwtebuM to aaiil eeuto to ake lmme.lt.
ate payment and tboee bavin elairae avtlnt the
mine to present then duly aa beotlcated lor eet
tleuwint. on Thursday. February , ISM. at tbe
late re-ideaee ot deceased.
, , JOHN C. WALTER.
J"3 Adniuiatmior.
Sr. Locis, Jan. 9 The exnlosion
in the coal mine at Coulterville Ill !
yesterday, seems to have been caus-1
ed by ignition of fire-damp in blast-1 - ol Heorysipe. uteof Joe township.
ing coal. Iliree blast were fired ,,....,.,., , : .
, , . , Loners of adminlatn ao aboro estate
When the explosion OCClim-d, crea- lhii- been Knitted to U oo.ler-slimed by the
ting gre,t havoc in the min-. and , P-Klwlffl
killing all the men in it except Ma
son, the foreman, and a boy named
Starr. There were aboy,t twelve per
sons in the rine. Several attempts
were ttarfr to descend the shaft, lut
the smoke- wassodei.se that noth
ing could bedon- until nine o'clock,
when a party of miners eff'-cfed an
entrance, ami after two hours' dan.r
gerous worK, the bodies, n i,rti.
wer recovered and. brought to the'
surf.ee. 1.vt victims are hadlv
hurneil, but the rest were simph
suff tcated, and not mutilated in an v
way.
Do not wait nn;
sight is gone, bm
pair at once; allstj
prices.
Near Sighted fc
Shooting (J lasses, fi
Spectacle Cases, Ac.
Kespectfullj,
oln.be.
A DMINISTRATOR-S NOTICE.
lIKut w tawe haema claims or denumls
prrwni Qm iulv authenticated for
etiteinut.tihlai resi-lrnce nt the d-el
on Saturday, the :th day of Febroao
M Ii 'H A EL S IP-it.
MICHAEL. 11. S1PE,
A-luKatetratora.
Jan 19
pVXECCTORs NOTICE.
Esta& ill kMhorCaaeheer. late of Somerset bor
MipTh. Somerset Co., Pa., dee d.
lue testamentary on ibe abort sn.ts
harinir been routed to tbe uuder'ed. by
the proper aburuy. wot Ice is U.y glrea
to thoM iiHlchuxi te it to m-fco iwueluts iat
oteol. a oil thoee harii.ir ettus or demands will
plxase present thenj .fit uiaeatk-ated for set
'.Li?1" T1 J the liih .lay or February.
H- U ' ri,
a H.UB4EB.
3". IU-Clieapest ami k
in the county to bu y Drv
always Fresh.
JJEGISTER$ NOTICE-
Notle Is hereby rlreo to all m
aaletrateea.eredliors.or MVxw '
kiwio accounts bar. passed rfinr.
same will be presvnte.1 tor mtint:
kiwanee at an Orphans' Coon U
erset. January 2a .ssa
1. Flr-taid tsnalao-ouatof Din
administrator ot John J. Mrrli.--
X. First ami anal aceountf M-a1
air x of Mrs Susan Riffle. ilct '
i. First end final arx ii. rr
executor ot Ann Maria Bwstetrr
e. Second ami B,.al aecoutii-'
ley, administrator of AeaniMSul '
a. Account of 1. J. BrubaSer, k
Frederick Swop, deceaa-d
. Aneoant of Jacob Tsosux,
Christina K-arrv
Kuuis un a Oe-eu-s, ( A. A. STH
ilecembern MSI. J
UDITORS N0TIC
Somerset County, s:
At an adjourned Orphans' Catri r
set. la and lor Somerset mioii a
December, -Kt, beam Ibe HW'
thereof. In Uw matter of tie ex" .
Fleeulo. i nsnsiiil. ou motion i t ' -fcs
. tat!owrtappiin J. a t '
tuiiiat Ibate tbe tuoos in tbe msf .
wirator W aial amou- ltw
thereto. ,
By the Owrt ,
A .HT.''
By Tirtue of the aoo.e fu a
rlK -e-l hereby aives notice ib "-
tend to the outirs of his appieis.
of .1. H. E.lle, in Komerfl. f 4 -January
In l l when ami wOm-
Uiws:ed eaa,attend If ihey iinr
jant
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below a jus rate, according to the meaning and intention of an act of Assembly paset-d the 15th dav of May, 184t
ADAMS. SHAFfp-
4tTt tt JOSEPH HORSEJ '
Clerk. Co1