The Somerset County star. (Salisbury [i.e. Elk Lick], Pa.) 1891-1929, December 31, 1891, Image 2

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    ATESH EAD, ENGLAND.
)eops & Burning Match and This
Incidant Lsads to Horribls Re®
on, Dec. 28—A frightful panic occur
Royal theater, ‘Gateshead, result-
the loss of a number of lives. Gates-
& considerable city in Durham, and
rly the whole population is engaged in
facturing industries during the week,
laces of amusem3nt ars usuilly
ned on Saturday, and owing to the
tmas season, the Royal theater was
onged with working people. © The aud-
ce, while not unruly, indulged in more
nse than is allowed in most London
eaters, and boys smoked in the balcony
hout any apparent objection on the
of the attendants.
ne of the boys smoking got so interested
the play that he accidentally droppsd a
ing match on the people below him.
match set fire to some of the theatrical
furniture, exactly what is not known; but,
any rate, the slight blaze communicated
partition. A woman noticed the fire
‘and shrieked that the theater was burning.
/ Lt once the audience, which had been all
attention to the play, was aroused, and, not
iprehending the exact danger, made a
) and simultaneous rush to escape.
7 aisle and avenue became packed}
‘and the audience, which was numerous
Jough to have make exit slow and difficult
there been no panic, became one pant:
, Struggling mass of cursing men, and
ing, half suffocated woman and children.
Ti stron hearty men from iron works
be haat no pity for ‘the weaker
. ita woman or child fell beneath the
n, she or it was at once crushed under
pahod ‘heels. Men climbed on each
er’s heads, and sought to tread over the
uwirming mass of humanity to safety.
Vomen pleaded for their little ones, hold-
g them above their heads as far as arms
reach, and the babies, with the breath
squeezed out of them were saved in
al instances by being grasped in the
ong hands of men able bo hold them, with
16 arm above the crowd. Down the main
aircase the multitude struggled and
panted. The janitor, Foster, h “rushed to
‘open the door at the foot of the stairs. The
lid crowd fell on him like an immense
rupp hammer, crushing the life out of his
dy, which was flattened to the door.
Down ih him went the eight or ten at the
‘head of the mass, and they, too, had tne
wes stamped out of them. Behind, the
rieks and load oaths, with appeals for
nercy and execrations against the Creator,
ade a hell; in front, at
‘the stairs, was the ramparl
dying and dead, over which
the escaping multitude had to climb.
Meantime those on the stage had not been
ddle. If was soon apparent to the players
that the panic had little or no cause, and
hey shouted appeals to the people ‘to be
zr One actor, in the attire of a magician,
mbed into the balcony from the stage and
mplored the audience to be calm. ‘*‘Return
fo nonr seats,” hecried, ‘‘there is no fire;
the only dangeris in your panic.”
Some of those in the rear turned ‘at his
words, and stopped their share in the mad
stru le to get out, but the large majority
ed not the warning and pressed on.
‘I'wo men, thinking they had no other way
of escape, leaped from the windows into the
“street and were severely injured. Many
slid down into the pit: by .the supports : of
‘the balcony, When the theater was at
gth emptied and the panic over it was
found that 10 were dead and thet many
‘seriously injured. The fire itself, which had
given occasion to the horror, was but a slight
however, to make some smoke, which git
gbout the ceiling, and the sight of the
smoke had much to do with perpetuating
the panic, when it might otherwise huve
pathetic incidents occurred in the
rush for the door. but it is also
—_ that the display of brutal selfishness
sovercame every other feature of the awful
va tise
HE CONDITION OF BUSINESS.
jports Show Much Lass Complaint as
to Collections.
R. G. Dun & Cos Weekly Review of
rade says: Trade this season is unusually
ght, merchants being engaged in taking
stock, but at many points it is reported
Jdarger thao usual and even larger than last
ear,
~ Reports from cities show less complaint as
collections, and a large trade in progress.
At Pittsburg trade is unusually good in
all lines with iron and steel manufacturers
ore hopeful, and the glass trade fairly
At Cleveland wholesale trade is go
ough the shoe trade is dull, General trade
win at Cincinnati and prospects very fair,
cigar ‘makers exceeding: last year's work.
At Chicago sales and collections of merchan-
year's in spite of soft country
Sond and the holiday trade is phenomenal;
xeceipts of wheat, corn and rye are double
ast v 8, O of dressed beef three times last
Increase in flour is a third, and in
barley and cattle larger notwithstand-
complaints of car famine throughout
; oney is easy and demand good.
Milwaukee open weather and bad roads
trade, but the holiday business exceeds
year's, though traders in country towns
ering.
uthern cities report less cheerfully the
ice of cotton raising dullnoss at Mem
d Galveston and a'so at Savannah.
at New Orleans business is more active
larger in volume, though cotton re-
heavy and sugar is fairly ‘active,
ioney in strong demand. The great
os © ose the year with more than
t
y-
usiness fiilures ecouring throughout
ntry during the last six days number
ed ~tates 257 and for Canada 35.
of 292, as compared with totals of
Week and 320 the week previous to
3t. For the corresponding week of
ear the figures were 333, representing
in the United States and 30 in
inion of Canada.
1 Cards in Three Sizgs.
ington, D. C., Dec. 28.—~The Post-
partment has commenced to issue
r postoffices two new sizes of
‘Thesmall card is the same
one now in use, but about one-
shorter. The large card is
ger and about threé-fourths
Cl wider than the present card. It
3 partment that the small
ger quality than the old
ight gray color, very strong
; of Gommercial yellow
0 be of gxsellent uality,
: eneral
Fe wark of the
Printing. All
12d and the
Poole ‘Whose Life Ended With the Day
of Great Rejoicing. :
‘Gettysburg, Pa. .—Joseph Shadle was shot {
F,
and killed and his brother, nk Shadle,
- was seriously wounded by Officer Krouse at
Littletown. The Shadle boys had raised a
disturbance and the officer tried to arrest
them. They resisted with the result stated
above. -
New York—A brawl occurred in Tomt
Gould’s dive, which culminated in the mur-
der of John J. Wogan. Joseph Selling an
ex-convict did the shooting.
Schribner, Neh.—C harley Behrenit, while
on a Christmas spree, completely disem-
boweled his brother with a buteher knife
and escaped. The wounded mau di
Jeorgetown, GColo.—In a row in the Ital-
ian settlement, Adam Ghiarotturi shot and
killed his brother-in- law, Guiseppe Peretti,
and his brother Marco. Tne murderer then
killed himself. e was only 19 years old,
The trouble started over a Christmas cele-
bration. ,
Chicago.—E. W. Emery, a Pullman
Palace car conductor, was stabbed by Martin
Badger, the well-known Wabash avenue
merchant tailor, and will Erqbably ¢ die. The
trouble grew out of Mr. dger's Jealousy,
which had been aroused by Emery’s atten-
tion to his wife.
Lowell, Mass.—Mrs. Alma R. Moulton
was murdered in a most coward!
and brutal manner about mid-
night by her husband, Frank. R.
Moulton, a dissipated barber, who beat her
brains out with a flat irno. Moulton and
his wife have had frequent quarrels over
family matters.
Detroit, Mich.—The body of Frederick
Shinden was found in a cemefery, having
been literally hacked to pieces. e had left
home Wednesday night to get some ever-
green for Christmas and the po lice had been
unable to find him until today’s discovery.
The only cause assigned for the murder is
that he had $14 with him when he was last
seen and nothing when found in the ceme-
tery, The police are searching for the
murderer or murderers.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Peter McAnally and John
Dougherty were struck at Swissvale by a
fenfissivania railroad passenger train and
killed on the spot.
Two ¢ To miners, supposed to have been
returning from a Christmas celebration, were
killed at Willow Grove station on the Pan-
handle railroad. They tried to cross the
track in the face of an express train and
were both struck down and mutilated badly.
Thor names were Peter Schmidt and Joseph
iller.
John Megraw, a watchman for the Pitts-
burg, Virginia and Charleston Railroad at
South Twenty-third street, was killed by a
passing train.
Patrick Kelly, 60 years old, died at the
‘West Penn hospital after a few - hours of
suffering. He was crossing the tracks of
the Pittsbure, Virginia and Charleston
Tailioad at Homestead, when strack by a
rain
James Carrigan, a widower, met death as
a result of too much carousing on Christmas
eve. He staggered Yo his bed about 1 o’cloek.
At daylight he was found at the bottom of
the stairs with a broken neck. He had
fallen down stairs during the night.
THE LAST OF BOB SIMS.
The Noted Moonshiner and Four of His
Confederates Hanged to One Tree.
Their Latest Remarkable Crim.
«> Shubuta, Miss., Dec. 28,—The noted moon-
shiner, Bob Sims, and his four confederates,
Tom Savage, Con Savage and the latler’s
two grown sons, were hanged to one tree
early Saturday morning, g
The last desperate act of Sims and his
gang was committed Thursday, when
they wiped out nearly a whole family.
Mr. John McMillan, a merchant of
Choctaw county, was receiving a
load of merchandise from the landing and
Bob tims leveled a Winchester rifle on the
driver and made hin: unload them ' at Sim's
house, and sent McMillan word he would
burn his house and kill him. McMillan’s
house was guarded that night, but the next
night at 11 o'clock seven of the Sims gang,
all armed with Winchesters, fired McMillan’'s
house, and shot the occupants as they ran
out. Charley Utsey escaped unhurt. Flu-
ellen Utsey was shot, but not mortally
wounded. John Kennedy, McMillan’s
father-in-law, was killed. John McMillan
was shot three times and will die. A 12.
year-old nephew was shot in the house and
burned up. Miss Belle McKenzie, a school
teacher boarding at McMillan's, was shot
twice in the neck. They then opened
McMillan’s store and robbed it of what
goods they wanted, and left it lighted up
and open, scattering shoes along tlie
road.
Three months ago Bob Sims, who was the
leader of a band of religionists’ in Choctaw
county, in the neighborhood of Womack
Hill, was arrested for running an illicit
distillery, which he claimed he had divine
authority to run. Two of his brothers,
fellow-believers, rescued ' him, killing a
bystanders and ‘wounding the deputy in
charge. One of the brothers was killed.
Sims and the other brother escaped, and
have been hunted vigorously ever ' since.
John McMillan had been a member of the
Fosse pursuing the Sims gang, and it was
or that reason they attacked his house.
Nine of the Sims gang were injured, at the
time of his rescue an have gone west.
LONDON’S FOG SHROUD.
The Metropolis Plungad Into an Impene
trabls Darkness—Many Persons
Wander Into the River and
Are Drowned.
London, Dec. 28.—This city is hidden be
neath a fog of phenomenal blackness and
thickness. For 70 hours has London, to all
intents and purposes, been plunging ip
darkness. The entire police force has been
on duty day and night to protect proper'y
Throughout the day the street lamps, to say
nothing of the lights within doors, have been
alight, and link-boys are making small
fortunes by piloting cabs and other vehicle
through the streets by the aid of torches o:
lanterns. © Regular traffic and trade are ats
standstill, and navigation on the rives
Thames has been completely stopped.
Some faint idea of the density of the fo,
may be gathered from the fact that several
people have been drowned and a number of
others nearly drowned by wandering into
rivers and canals after having lost their
way. Eight bodies of persons supposed to
have been drowned in this manner have
already been recovered, and many people
are inquiring for missing relatives or friends
who are supposed to have met death
thion h the fog.
eeds ee. according to a dispatch
te that place, three men walked into the
canal and were drowned.
Many Killed and Injured.
Lisbon, Dec. 28—Advices have been re.
ceived from South Africa, that while the
¢ Coutinhos expedition was en route from
Quillimane to Maghamba an explosion of
gunpowder occurred, by which 60 persons
were killed and 170 wounded. Coutinhos
much | himself is among the wounded.
| who poisoned herself at Battle Creek,
.yietims being a man named Smith, his son-
Happenings From Oooans to Ocean Told
in a Brief Way.
A year ago three girls and two yoang men
of Ionia, Mich., formed a Suicide ¢lub.’
Three have already perished by their own
hands, and one has married and changed
her mind. The last to die was May Shell,
Mich., Sunday.
Mrs. B. B. Stevens, of Chicago, who was
visiting her daughter at Joliet, Ill,
burned to death by her clothes patching, |
fire. A
Five children of James Harris. have! die
within a week, and the surviving boy is :
death’s door. >
William S. Parsons,an old and well known
market man.and August" Booning, were
found dead “in their respective residences:in
Philadelphia, their death’ being caused by
escaping illumination gas.
An insane women created great excite-
ment on a train near Neb
the porter, riddled the
bullets, shot at the po iceman and was
finally captured:
Robert Stevens, of Mercer, ' Mo.,, made a
wager that he could eat four cans of salmon
in 30 minntes. He finished the fourth can
in 281-2 minutes, lighted a cigar and dro
ad y 11g Kar PP
The cottage once occupied by the novelist
Nathaniel Hawthorne at Winthrop, Mass.
was burned. Loss, $7,000.
‘wo burglars secured $1,000 worth of booty
from the residence of WW. 'M. Searle at Lan-
singburg, N. ¥. Mrs, Searle saved her valu-
able diamonds by jumping from a window
and breaking her arm.
William Rhoades, of Augusta, Kan., mor-
tally wounded his divorced wife and then
shot himself. He wanted her to marry him
again, but she refused.
W. H. Dunham, proprietor of a road house
at Belleville, N. J., was instantly killed by
an unknowm assassin Wednesday night.
The shot was fired through a window.
The grip is becoming epidemic in New
York City. There were twelve deaths in
one day making a total of ‘thirty-six since
December 15. Four of the city officials are
laid up with it.
John George Roth, who fired three shots
at the Rev. John Hall in New York, was
found not guilty on account of insanity. He
will be sent to an insane sylum,
Christmas morning a natural gas explo-
sion wrecked the three story brick house of
wi. F. Pritchard, Pittsburg. Mr. Pritchard
and his wife were severely injured. Their
three small children were also badly
hurt, aswere two other inmates of the
house.
For the first time in half a century Canada
celebrated a green Christiias, the _ Weather
being as mild as June.
A 3-year-old child of John Moeglin, of
Canton, Ohio, died from an overdose of
cough syrup, in which there wasa quantity
of opium.
Colonel William Pearsall, a prosperous
farmer near Goldsboro, N. C., his wife and
two children were fburned to: death with
their home. It is suspected the family were
murdered and the house fired.
Mrs. Annie Kelly, a widow, aged 45 years,’
was burned to death in Albany, N. Y:, by a
kerosene lamp exploding.
While chopping a Christmas, tree. in a
cemetery at Detroit, Mich., Frederick
Spinden- was hacked to pieces with his own
hatchet, weilded by an unknown person.
Henry A. Kifmire, Meriden, Conn.,
swallowed a chicken bone on Christmasand
died.
A 2-year-old child of W. A. Howard,
Lincoln, Neb., was smothered to death by
smoke,
One man tried to hold upa train at Eau
Claire, Wis., but the passengers got the better
of him.
Frank BE. Williaa, of Orange, N. Y., was
instantly killed by coming in contact with
a highly charged electric wire.
One hundred and forty seven head of
cattle were drowned while penned up in
cattle cars on a float which sank in the East
river at the foot of Tenth street, Hunter's
Point, N. Y.
J.B. Bayre, manager of a shoe factory at
Norwalk, Conn., gave a check for $2,500toa
stranger who threatened to blow him up
with dynamite if he refused.
AREANSAS JUSTICE.
Three Prisoners, Charged With Murder,
Riddled With Bullets by an
Excited Mob.
Stuttgart, Ark., Dec. 23.—A triple murder
occurred in the Dewitt county jail, the
in-law, named Gregory, and a negro, Mose
Henderson, pccused of murdering a woman.
A mob brokeinto the jail and riddled the
three with bullets. Smith tried to save the
lives of his companions by declaring that
he alone was responsible for the deed, but
the mob would not baed him and killed all
three.
2,000 - REBELS KILLED AND 50
LEADERS BEHEADED.
Official News of ths Late Fighting in
China.
Shanghai, Dec. 28—Officials decrees,issued
in the Pekin Gazette, admit that between
the 3d and 7th of the month there was
sanguinary fighting between the Imperial
troops and the rebels, and it is claimed that
2,000 rebels were killed, and the rebel forces
entirely routed.
Fifty rebel leaders, taken captive, were
beheaded. .
ITALY TO BE PAID,
Uncle Sam to Pay the Indemnity for ths
New Orleans Mob Murder,
London, Dec. 28.—The ‘‘Chronicle’s’’ cor-
respondent at Rome says that the United
States Government has agreed to pay the.
indemnity Italy demands on account of the
New Orleans affair, in order. to settle the
dispute. The indemnity will be paid only
for the deaths of those known to have been
4 | Ebock for an earthquake. 2
Diphtheria is raging at Deér Cree CH 2
4 felations between she Freneh Go
“tand the Government of Madagascar has
eolifion FRAGMEN TS.
- Interesting. News By Cable Boiled Dowa
to Brief Notes.
The British steamer Cavaliés, from Gib-
raltar for Fastnet, has been lost, and it 1s
feared all on board were drowned. .
“+A dense fog prevailed in Yorkshire, (Eng
land), All traffic had to be suspended.. In
Leeds two men lost their lives, one of them
accidently walking into tie river and the
other stepping off a barge into the water,
‘both being drowned. ;
Yellow fever is growing worse in Brazil.
- A French vessel nnloading a cargo of dy-
namite atAntwerp blew up. The ghip w
| blown to atoms, but only twa lives Were lost
| The 'inhdbitants of the city mistoo
Tt is announeed at Paris that all ne
finally been rupiured, owing to the long
dispute as to the right of granting exequa-
tures to foreign representatives in Madagas-
Car: :
The chief acting general of the Chinese
Imperial army has been thrown from his
horse, and hisineck wasbroken. He was the
finest ‘commander in the Chinese army and
was greatly admired.
The British steamer Springhill, was in
collission with ‘the seHooner Gladys “off
Hartland Point at the entrance of the Brit-
ish Channell, . The schooner was cut .com-
pletely in’ two, and three of her crew of seven
persons were drowned. ;
The latest famine item from Russia is or |
an act of cannibalism. Three peasants had
murdered a shoemaker to rob him, but find-
ng no money they cut upthe corpse and
attempted to burn it. The charred flesh was
found by other peasants, who greedily de-
youred it.
Cll aay
DELIGHTS OF CHRISTMAS.
The Graat Day of Gladness Passes Off
Pleasantly.
Pittsburg, Dec. 26 — Christmas of 1891 has
come and gone, leaving a universal feeling
of joy and comfort among the great masses
of the people of Pittsburg-and Allegheny.
The weather was as soft ‘and = balmy ' as
springtime. It was really pleasant enough
for a picnic. It was | distinctively the
festival of children. Old, middle aged and
youngcombined to make the little ones
happy, and that they succeeded needs’ no
elaboration,
The third annual dinner of the Newboys’
Home, on Old avenue, was given, and a
royal, merry Christmas time was bad.
Gusky’s made their tenth Christmas tour
of orphans’ homes of the two cities and pre-
sented gifts to alli the inmates thereof and!
the memory of the day will forever be cher
ished as most dear by the more than" 2,000
ple who were made glad by the
presans they received from their: generous
eneéfactors.
The inmates of the different alms houses
and penal institutions were gladdened with
plenty of Christmas cheery ¥ arden Wright.
of the Wes Penitentiary, had the con-
victs served/with a splen ate rkey dinner,
and gifts flowed in from the friends of the
convicts. A
iven at the City Poor Farm. At the county
jail and at the county workhouse the inmates
were remembered with a Christmas dipper |
and treat.
Chicago—So far as the weather was,
COR oy it might have been Christmas in’
New Orleans. Although the sky was filled
with racing clouds the: air was ialmost
summer-like. ‘In spite of theun-Christmas-
like weather the holiday was nerally
celebrated as usual. ln AI at
prisoners and the afflicted ones from one
end of the city to the other and inmates of
every institution dependent upon ‘charity
were feasted with the proverbial good things
of the season.
Cincinnati. —The Christmas festival given
under the auspices of the Cincinnati Post"
for the poor children of the city, proved one
of the greatest events in local history. Five |
thousand children were given a dinner in
Music hall, each one receiving a box of
candy and a useful present. One thousand
five hundred were fed at a a tims, and while
others were waiting a baud of music and
various specialty performers were amusing
them by a continuous program. A. feature |
was thesinging of ‘‘America’ ‘by 10,000"
voices, accompanied by the big organ. The
‘‘t ost’’ raised $5,000 to meet the expense of
the dinner.
OF ‘OHIO.
The Flint and} “Pare ‘Mavquette Road |
Leaves the Buckeye State in order
to Avoid Heavy Damage Suits.
Toledo, O., Dec. 26—The recent disaster
in the Lake Shore yards in this. city, in
which ten persons were cooked to death, is
the cause of a bitter war between the Lake
Shore and the Flint and Pere Marquette
roads. The decision of the coroner in the
case of the wreck has not yet been made,
but suits. aggregating $85,000 were commenc-
ed Saturday against the two roads by sur-:
vivors, who were injured. Service was,
made upon the Lake Shere, but not an F,
& P.M. official or employe could be found
in the State when the Sheriff tried to serve
summons on that road. Itseems that last
night every Flint & Pere Marquette ticket
seller, freight or passen er engineer, con-
ductor or other employe living In Toledo or
n be found, who has the
ction with the road. It has! a
S$ its vast business interests here and
make its future terminals Monroe and
troit. It turned an ayerage e of 26,000 cars St
freight per year over to the Lake Shore,
which will now goto the Michigan Central.
This is ostensibly because the F.& P. M.
would not sign an agreement which was
declined by President Newell and on which
he insisted after the accident occurred. The
roads have been running on a verbal agree-
ment for 12 years, and the great haste of the
Per Marquette people to leave the State is to
save that road from paying probably $2
000 in'damagefo injured passengers and
relatives of the 10 dead men.
son
A'BIG YEAR FOR RAILROADS.
the United States in 1891,
Chicago, Dec. 26—The forthcoming issue
of the Railway Age and Northwestern Rail-
roader will contain a statistical review of
railway construction during 1891. New track
has been laid in 43 States and Territories on
248 lines and branches, to an aggregate of
4,168 miles, . This increases the railway ‘sys.
tem of the United States to / 171,000 miles.
The only portions of the country in which
no new track was laid this year are the
States of Delaware, Connecticut, Nevada and
Mississippi, the last named showing in strong
contrast to the other Southern States, in
which the activity bas been notable. The
States which added the greatest average are
Pennsylvania (leorgia, Washington, South
Italian sulecfs:
Carolina, New York, Montana, Virginia
! and West Yoginia.
~ | worka
eneral” dinner and treat was |
? ionists, ‘yrith
& to a len ;
pe viva?! came
Ohio was summarily discharged. Bi “a 18h
About 4,200 Miles of New Track: Built in |
Caussd By a Careless Plasmas, Who
topped and Talksd Too Long.
~ Yonkers, x. Y., Dx 23-A shocking
accident occurred Ohristmas eve on the New
York Central, betwsen the St. Louis ex-
press and the Niagara Falls spacial tezin.
collision which occarred earlier in “the
evening in the tunnel at Sing Sing. The
accident blocked the road, and the thick
weather prevented the trainmen i on the : St.
th blooicde,
SEiL
the wr :
The disaster was dua to the carelessness of
Brakeman Albert E. Herrick, of the Buffalo
-express, sw hich waslying still below" Hastings.
Herrick fled and has not yet besn found.
citizen’s clothes.
From the official report of third Vice
President Webb; of the New. York Central
Railroad, ‘train No. 92, which left New York
at 6:40 a, m., stopped at Dobb's Ferry to
make some slight repairs on the engine. The
danger signal was thrown out and the fol
lowing bain, th
of" i ely mile
Pony station. The rr of the
AR eae]
proceeded as far as the station 8 ina
eu ist talked with the station-
for! ‘waitl the Cincinnati and St.
i express. While Herrick was standing
near the door the 8t. Louis Srhizeed 2Xpress
past, running at a rate of 40 miles an hour.
eer J.Donohue, of the £t.Louis express |
Pow iy received no warning whatever of “the |
presence of the Buffalo express on the track
ahead until he was almost upon the ,
He reversed his engine,put on the air rakes,
and jumped for his life. The engine crashed
into the rear s'eeper Gibralter, of the Buffalo
special, with terrible force.
The total number of those who Tost their
lives reaches 11... The official list of the dead
is as follows: Mrs. Aun Baldwin, of New
York; Thomas A. Polly, Boston; Abrabam
Knight, Wagner car conductor; Mis§ Libbie
Vanarsdale, of New York; Miss Mabel
Slocum, of Lockport; Miss Gertrude Moore,
of Medina; Miss Lizzie Ford, of Brooklyn;
J. W. White; ablonsd; Miss Lillian’ Baldwin,
of New York; M "Ebert, of New York:
YT Edwin W ilcox, L New York. Of the 22
passsenger who were in the ill fated car, but
| six escaped serious injury
The injured are Mrs. HR. Baldwin, New
York; Annie Ford, , Brook n; D. B. Murphy;
Nex York; Harry A Jaco son, New York;
Je Bagnelle, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. A dist
oe acl was revealed during the eéxami-
nation of the bodies by the undertakers.
The ockels of several of the victims were
found to haye Leen eithér cut or torn. from
their clothing and all their valuables, includ-
ing thy jewelry, etc., apg th os
uiry at os ¢ injured
hem 38 Mn hospital) them, $060 Jong , had “b
robbed. A number of strangers Or hat heer
their services in the work of rescue at the
wreck and it is belic¥ed that the vandals are
among these.
AUERIOR BL BLOOD SHED.
‘United ‘Stat Tooche! Battle with
‘Mexican Tevoiutionists,
«Captain John#@&. Bourke, “of the United
i Asmy, with nineféen cavalrymen and
infantry, met sixty Mexican revolutionists
o a place called: the Retamal, in Starx
e: seven miles from where
Gi Fr crossed into Mexito, |
Ho Rt t Corporal Chatiles 8, Edstro
lies di rh. Ringeold with t vo Ton
in his ns anomaly n his ils boats, while Lien-
Hayes as Srtacked trom his
TC! across hest.
that evenin De
ty, informed
bana
Captain | a ‘that a , body of revo-
was rendezvousing - below ‘and
would make a crossing at the Grulia Ranch
the same night to attack Camargo.
Captain Bourke at ones moved: out with
Lieutenant Hayes and nineteen men, half of
whom were monnted, to prevent it. They
ha the Gralla ak 9p. M. and placed un
2 Dee United States Marshal’
ue 0 gave information of the
a rendezvous, and with him
marched for the Retamal, a. sesllection of
spring within one mile of that
At 12:20 next morning the ae States
forces ' dismoun Captain Bourke'’s
Jrdets and advanced carefully on the
orders 0 make no Feply
ickets, and #0 from Hoe Shes
Cc an answer et
1068 ca by the Perini
ae
Then Ca tain Bourke gave the order,
“Pire kneeling.” and this was: followed by
threes volleys, ion made the revolutionists
break and.run.
Deputy Toma# Garza ssvaped Ldming the
confusion: Being very Captain
Bourke, not knowing the ay did not
bar but returned to the river, where he
resiy Jue 9 \yeviintionisie ‘had’ three skiffs
Sige a short time he took
giles ¥oiy dare i again for the Retaale
Ba where the Tevolutioniste were wall
They As on him at once,
Kiting Cor Bistro and wounding
Lieutenant Hayes.
tain Bourke’s flankers being driven in,
his handful of blue jacket at once advanced.
ed four to one, and in
i Yan.
é
emys:
k r rifla,
nds of wh s £ad dle, bridle and
te badge, his hat, with
Libres frontiorizos Are frontier) on it in
‘large black letters.
gallant and timely attack upon them
undoubtedly ‘prevented the sacking of
Camargo, as was intended that night,
i These men came from the coast counties
of several hundred, one
Section bess: ordered to rendezvous near
Angeles, near Laredo, to cross above
Tonk a tosh, the second to cross at Car-
dizo, to draw Mexican troops from Guerrero,
Mier'and Camargo, : so as to leave the latter
placs So aguarded for an attack by the body
n ‘Bourke and men defeated.
CHILI SORELY AFFLICTED.
‘Her Enemies Now Are Fire, Earthquaks
and Influenza.
® Valparaiso, Dec. 23—A large fire occurred
in Santiago, in tHe Ualle San Diego, on the
property of Senores Gaudarillas and Lucia
Cuadra. Several buildings were gutted.
The damage was 800,000 pesos. Several
firemen were injured. = An earthquake
shock was felt at 11:35 a. m. yesterday at
Los Andes and Limache. It lasted 30 sec-
onds. The influsnza has broken out at San
Fernande and is making rapid headway.
ne Ae smenesntm——
Sixty Men Blown to Pieces.
Lisbon, Dec. 24{.—Advices haye been re.
ceived from South Africa to the effect that
while the Coutinhos expedition was enrout
from Quillimahe to ‘Maghamba, an explosion
This accident was directly the outcome of a | Arkansas
He left his unitorm in the train and put: on Ge arrows,
‘neart 5 Posto
Bp eh
that ttee by the he
to serve. :
The chairmanships have been divided no
among the States as follows: Alabama 3,
32 Connecticut 1, Georgia 2 1
8, lov Kentucky
1, 50 h en o eX.
ir, ia Wisconsin LL Total 56. 3
committees of the House
te
on, Wout 3
ain 4% :
| Shively, digo; Ww. i Ba
York; Moses T Stev JMassachusotts
- Bryan, Nebrhskar 1. B.
n; Josephs Ne aa.
yne, New
Bae
Bred®enrid,
Buffdloand ERT ston, D.
a team
ped hobs Bi « “De
T J.
inage, Weights and
Piand, ERE ales, Tra
illiams, C. Eo Kil
Rice Brace RE
husstts; wl
Line, A fi
ennsylvania; oy
Dakota.
Baten, Me Charle i Paige Sa :
oc A. Jones, Ss 2, Samy
Byrnes, T. J. Henderson, Illinois; Binger
Herman, 8. M. Stevenson, W. R. Stons,
| Pennsylvania; J. A. Quackenbush.
Merchant Marine and 'Fisheries—Samuel
ia; Robert E. Do Forest, T. :F. Magner;
larmun Stump, H. H. Wheeler, Michigan;
Josiah Patterson, J. J. O'Neill, Missouriz
Charles O'Neill, Pennsvlvania; John Lind,
C. 8. Randall, Belldnry | Borer, J. H. Ketch
um.
Elections—Charles T. O'Forrall, Yirgius,
Chairman; L. W. Moore, Texas; J. E. Cobb,
Alabama: T. H. Paynter Kentuocity: Jason
B. Brown, Indiana; D N. Lockwood, New
York; T. G. Lawson, Georgia: N. P. Gilles:
ie, Penns lvania; George Johnstone, South
arol Hangen, piseonsing A. A.
Taylor, Nenpesoe: R. BE. Doan, Ohio: H. U.
Johnson, Indiana; "John E. Reyburn, Pena-
sylvania; C.D. C Ay oming.
Foreign Affai loun
J. B. McCrear;
~Chairmans
F. Andrews, 3, T. Ca
ples Isador Rayn 3. Geary, R. Ri :
Hitt, A. C. Taner, aries 0'Donnal, John: |
‘| Sanford.
in 14 Affairs—J. H, Outhwanse, Tain
i Joseph Wheeler, Alaba Ww. Cc:
1 Newberey, . Hs. Patten; H. H.
J.: L.. Mitchell, Oscar Lapha!
Donald, J, C. Crosby, H. HL.
Belkna os W. Bowers,
Nav:
William Sitios ‘A. Cummings,”
Seisgenlisimer, 3
Law:
lo. Henry Page, Maryland #C AY
telle, H. C. Lodge, P.: ‘Doiliver, J.
Wadsworth.
: and Post Roads: Toiin 5.
. Chairman; J. EL Blount;
Nev Oh aT RP *C. Wilson; E. J.
Dunphy. ¥ D. Alderson, E. V. Brookshire,
J. C. J. M. Pattison, Ohio; J.
Crosby, A Ty Hopkin, J. A. Caldwell, J. Lo
‘Wilson, Washin Son; Ci, A. Bergen, "
Loud, John T.
Invalid Demise A, N. Martin, ee
Chairman, T, F. McKinney, R. W. Fyan,
George Van orn, H. W, Snolv, G. F.
Cribbs, A. J. Pierson, W. H. Harries, E. F.
MeDonald, Wo H Butter, J.P. Flack," AA.
Taylor, Tennessee: N. 'M. Curtis, J. Je
Jolley, J Robinson. ! >
Pensions—R. Wilson, Beant
Chairman; John 8! Headorson, J. H Ban
head, R. H. Norton, F. Parrst, Che
Barwig, W. A. Jones C. I. Moses, Louis
Stewart, Wa Dan Wauga, J, Ce
Houk, Teunesses; W. W.. Bowers:
lg pei
CAN: FIELD Now NOW A FREE BOY:
A Verdict of Not Guilty. Was Brow
in By the Jury,
New Lisbon, 0. Dec, 26—The- trial
“ed; a jury of citizens has
prisonment of 83 days and’ nights, ‘and this:
despite the schemes of the’ Perkins detec
tives to gain a reward,” and ‘the “ceaseless
labors of the prosecution to’ bring about a
verdict in its behalf. An alibi was: clear}
proven. It is highly’ probable that suit will
be entered by the friends of young Canfield,
but against whom, for what amonnt and on
what charges could not be learned, but it is
thought the Perkins detectives might: be
arrested for'conspirucy.
ANOTHER BOY, CHARGED WITH TRAIN
x REI, GOES FREER.
ew Castle, Pa., Dec. 26.—Harry Ti
the lad whom ‘the Perkins iT re
ehagel with attempting to wreck a train,
und not guilty by a jury. It was
while the detectives were cam ping at Morayis.
that they worked up thisand a number of
similar cases and they are themselves indict-
ed for furnishing liquor ‘to “minors and on
Bundays to visitors at their camp. Pood
Work, one of the detectives is now on trial.
In the Wright casethe prosecution alleged 8
tonlession, but an alibi was proved.
eters pie.
A THOUSAND MASSACRED.
China. ' Cause of the Riotu.
Brussels, Déc. 23—A dispatch was Teceivad
at the Catholic mission at Ghent from Father
Rutgos, the vicar apostolic of. . Mongolia; +
stating that Father Minn, a Chinese priest,
and 1,000 native Christians were massdored
by the rebels during the recent troubles gn
Northern = China. The dispatch stated, -
however, that all the Belgian missionaries
in the disturied district and all the Belgians:
connected with their work are safe, and
that assistance had arrived which wou'd:
prevent further danger for the present. at:
least.
San Francisco, Dec. 23—Advices b;
Seamsbip City ‘of Pekin state that fos fe.
been definitely ascertained that Chon ih Dae a
retired taitai' of Shang Sai in Hunan,
issued 800.000 vile books assailing Christial
ity and scattered them through the provin
along the river. The contents are mE
as too vile for belief. They contain all
worst charges ever made against: “hei
Although five people in
punished for seliiug the bo
and his friends have not
and they ih at any rd
of gunpowder occurred: by which sixty per
| sons were killed and 19 Wounded.
to bring th t
i ha em to a he or
Butchery of Christians in Northern :
Se bi
ie
i. Hooba B. Chip i
irs—H. A Herbert, Chica; pr
hah big
William Canfield for train wrecking is end- - :
innocent, and he is now free, after an 1m
ee orm REE