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