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CURRENT COMMENT.
The W&ltham, (Mass.) watch fac
tory recently made another reduction ol
wages, creating great dissatisfaction
among employes.
. Genebai. Sherman is reported as
having recently said that he would
"sooner go to the Penitentiary than to
the White House."
Queen Victoria is said to be in good
health, with the exception that she is
unable to stand upon her feet longer
than a few minutes at a time.
It is estimated that during the past
year fully one thousand Chinamen have
crossed over from British Colnmbia into
the United States.
Senator Allison was recently re
elected by the Legislature of Iowa, re
ceiving the unanimous vote of the
Republicans of both branches of the
Legislature.
It was reported that a massacre ol
Christians had occurred at Khartoum.
It was also said that King John offered
a refuge in Abyssinia for the officials
and foreign Consuls at Khartoum.
The police of St. Petersburg are said
to be occupied exploring cellars, exam
ining basements, dragging alleys and
peering behind every box or other ob
ject that might shelter or hide a Nihilist
Paris is said to contain a quarter of
million of destitute people. Mechanic
are reported as having pawned theii
tools to procure food. They have nc
work if they had tools, and no tools il
the' had work.
Two young Brazilian dudes, of New
York, recently arranged to go to Canads
and right a duel, but a young lady in
formed the police and they were de
barred the pleasure of enriching
Canadian soil with their precious blood.
TnE House Committee on Post-offices
and Post-roads, recently agreed to re
port favorably the bill fixing the rate ol
postage at one cent for three ounces on
newspapers and periodicals sent by
others than the publishers or news
agents.
Henry Joiixson, of Iron County.
Mo., aged thirty, was recently married
to Charlotte Cooper, aged one hundred
and three. The bride's descendants to
the fourth generation attended the wed
ding, and there were great-grandchildren
present older ihan the groom.
Dell Asnccorr recently confessed,
at Chardon, O., that he, Ira Bidlake
and wife, thireen years ago, murdered
and robbed Mrs. Robinson, aged eighty
years, in her own house at Mungen,
where she lived with her imbecile son.
The murder had been a mystery since
its occurrence.
The Chairman of the House Commit
tee on Public Lands recently told a cor
respondent that the report of the com
mittee in regard to grant of lands to
railroads would contain "some mighty
interesting reading," and that in the
"next three months twenty million acres
of railroad lands will certainly be de
clared forfeited to the Government and
open to public entry."
Fred Douglass, the well-known col
ored leader, was married in Washing
ton the other evening, to Miss Helen M.
Pitts, a white woman of Avon, N. Y.
The wedding was quite private, only
two witnesses being present. His first
wife, who was colored, died about a year
ago. The woman he recently married
is thirty-five, and was emplo'ed as a
copyist in his office while he was Mar
shal of the District. Douglass himseli
is about seventy-three years of age, and
has a daughter as old as his present
wife. .
An examination of the accounts of the
late United States Marshal Hall, oi
Western Pennsylvania, discovered a
shortage of about $150,000. The busi
ness of his office was transacted in a
very loose way, and a dishonest deputy
discovering a shortage, attempted tc
blackmail him. Marshal Hall defied
him and refused to be bled, whereupon
the deputy reported him to the Depart
ment The Examiner said Hall was
very much affected by the discoveries
and "was apparently more astonished
than anybody else.- The matter sc
worked upon him that it was feared he
might commit suicide, and a watch was
set upon him to prevent any such unfor
tunate occurrence.
William D. Ringo, a wealthy bach
elor, of Newport, Ky., died recently at
the age of seventv-two vears. Withir
the last four or five years he had adopted
r5v ornhan children, whose aces ranp-pI !
i o e
from three to five years. He was pos
sessed of a fortune of over half a minion
of dollars, which by will he left to these
friendless little waifs. He was eccentric;
but very systematic even in bad hab
its. For years he had been addicted tc
"drink, but always drank at one bar and
never until after night, where he would
remain two hours. He kept two mer
under monthly pay whose business i:
was to see that he conducted himseli
properly when under the influence oi
liquor and to take him home.
THE WORLD'S DOINGS
A Summary- of the Dally News.
PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS.
In the Senate, the 21st, several petitions
were presented praying an investigation of
divorce legislation in different States, and to
arrange for the collecting of divorce statistics.
The Senate then took up the calendar. The
bill permitting' retired army officers to head
the civil offices of the Territories passed. The
bill establishing civil Government
in Alaska was taken up. It provides
for a Governor, to be appointed by the Presi
dent, with powers similar to those of Govern
ors of other Territories, establishes courts
etc. An amendment was adopted making the
laws of Oregon as far as applicable, the laws
of Alaska. A final vote was not reached
Many bills were introduced in the House;
among them one by Mr. Anderson (Has.) to
provide for the adjustment of land grants
made in aid of the construction of railroads.
A resolution offered by Mr. Holman thutin
the Judgment of the House, all public lands
heretofore granted States and corporations to
aid the construction of railroads so far as the
same are subject to forfeiture by reason of
non-fulflllment of the conditions on which the
grants were made, ought to be declared for
feited to the United States and restored to the
public domain, and instructing the Committee
on Public Lands to report a bill to carry into
effect such views, was adopted by 231 to 18.
The bill repealing the laws prescribing the
iron-clad oath was passed.
lx the Senate, the 22d, Mr. Cameron,
Wis.) from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
reported adversely a number of petitions ask
ing the opening of Oklahoma lands to settle
ment. At the conclusion of morning business.
Mr. Anthony's resolution relating to prohibi
tion of American pork by France and Ger
mutiv was called up, and debated. It was
amended and adopted. The Senate then took
up the bill to provide a civil government for
Alaska, but before reaching any conclusion,
ivent Into executive session In the House,
Mr. Parker offered a resolution directing the
Committee on Agriculture to inquire into the
allegations that the manufacture of oleo
margarine and butterine was detrimental to
the dairy and agricultural interests of the
country. After the introduction of bills the
"House went into Committee of the Whole
upon the Greeley Belief bill, which passed.
The House then took up the calendar. When
the bills relating to public land grrfnts were
reached a spirited debate took place as to
whether they should be referred to the Public
Land Grants Committee or Judiciary
Committee. The House by a vote
of 111 to 38 referred the bills to the Land
Grants Committee. The bill passed providing
that no damages or profits shall Ik? recovered
from any defendant for an infringement on
patents when it shall appear that he merely
iised it for his own benefit on any article pur
chased in open market without notice that
the same was subject to patent. On motion of
Mr. ltynn, Thursday, February 2S. was fixed as
the day for delivering appropriate tributes to
the memory of the late Dudley C Haskell.
Ijr the Senate, the 2.1 I, Mr. Sewell, of the
Commute on Military Affairs, reported favor
ably the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter.
Mr. Logan presented a minority report. Mr.
Harrison presented a petition for the As
sembly of Knights of Labor lor Indiana, pray
ing for legislation to prevent the importation
of foreign laborers under contracts made
abroad. After other proceedings of minor
importance the Senate went into executive
?ession In the House Mr. Anderson offered
a resolution requesting the Secre
tary of the Interior to imme
Hatcly infonn the House whether or not the
Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston and At
chison, TojKjka Jc Santa Fe Railroads had leen
completed within ten years from the passage
of the act granting them lands, and if not. by
what authority the list of lands was certified
to the State of Kansas. The House went into
Committee of the Whole on the state of the
Union, which occupied the balance of the day.
- The Senate, the 24th, passed the House
Joint resolution for the relief of the Greely
Dxpcdition, voting down all attempts to limit
the expenses, a resolution was passed giving
Senators a clerk at six dollars per day during
the session of Congress. A bill was reported
favorably making all public roads post-roads.
The debate upon the bill provid
ing a civil Government for
Alaska was then resumed After the
introduction of numerous bills, the House
went into Committee of the Whole on the bill
making appropriations for paying the rebate
tax on tobacco, and the payment of the ex
penses of the New Mexico Legislature. After
Donsideration, the bill was reported to the
House and passed. The bill appropriates $3,
T.tO.000 for the rebate on tobacco, and S2i,!V
for the payment of expenses of the Legisla
ture of rew Mexico. The House non-concurred
.n the Senate bill providing for the relief of
the Greeley party.
Is the Senate, the 25th, Mr. Blair intro
duced a bill to provide for the free circulation
of newspapers and other periodicals and pule
lications within the State where published.
Mr. Hayard, from the Committee on Finance,
reported favorably on the bill providing for
the issue of circulating notes of National
tanking Associations. A Committee of Con
ference was appointed on the Greeley
Relief bill. A bill passed donating
a part of tho Fort Smith mili
tary reservation to the city of Fort Smith
for the benefit of public schools. The Alaska bill
was then taken up. debated and finally passed.
It provides a civil Government for Alaska
similar to other Territories, but prohibits the
Importation, manufacture or sale of intoxicat
ing liquors, except formedicinalandsclentiflc
purposes The House considered at length
in Committee of the Whole the Fite John
Porter till, but reached no final action.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
Samuel T. Glover, a well-known attor
ney and prominent citizen of St. Louis,
died recently, aged seventy-one.
John Frazek, a Liverpool lumber mer
chant, lately arrived in New York, was
found the other morning sitting on a
stoop, frozen to death.
The Legislature of Kentucky continued
at a dead-lock on the election of a United
States Senator. Senator Williams was in
the lead, with Blackburn close to him.
A resolution asking Senator Mahonc to
resign recently passed the Virginia Senate
by a vote of 23 to 10.
RIIKCBIXATVBODSr
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
has agreed to favorably report on the Wei
born bill, granting a right of way through
the Indian Territory to the Gulf; Colorado
& Santa Fe Railroad.
Lewis Boedicker and wife, living on a
farm near Fenton, Mo., twenty miles from
St. Louis, were recently murdered in their
house by unknown parties.
The notorious Joel A. Fowler, who in
November murdered James E. Cole, was
recently taken from the officers by a mob
at Socorro, N. M., and hanged.
Over one thousand tobacco factory em
ployes at Petersburg, Va., recently struck
against a reduction of wages. The strikers
subsequently held a meeting and appointed
a committee to solicit aid to enable them to
hold out until employers consented to pay
the former wages.
BcsHRon A. Mahox, a wealthy broker,
was murdered at Mount Carmel, 111., at six
o'clock the other night within a few feet of
his own gate, on the most public thorough
fare of the towu. No clew to the murder
ers. Henrietta Chadwick, wife of Frank
Chadwick, a traveling man, recently com
mitted suicide at Chicago.
The falling of a portion of the roof of a
school-hose on Eat Broadway, N. Y., the
other day, created a panic araong'the chil
dren, which resulted in the injury of a
number none serious.
At eight o'clock on the morning of the
24th a fearful explosion took place in the
Colorado Coal & Iron Company's mine at
Crested Butte, thirty miles north of Gun
nison, Colo., in which there was reported
to bea great loss of life, as fifty-seven men
were imprisoned in the mine, and it was
thought perished from suffocation. They
were mostly men of families.
The bill prepared by the late Cattle
Breeders' Convention, far the extirpation
of diseases among domestic animals, wan
recently favorably reported o the House,
the appropriation being $250,000.
Mr. Sterrett, a farmer, seventy years
of age, left his home near Mount Pleasant,
la., the other day, and was told by his wife
that she would spend the day with her
sons, but would leave food on the table for
him on bis return, calling attention to some
strained honey of which he was particu
larly fond. The old gentleman returned
and ate some bread and butter, on which
he spread some of tho honey, which his
wife had poisoned. He was instantly taken
with spasms, but succeeded in attracting
attention. Immediate antidotes saved his
life. It is thought that his wife, who is
about the same age, had become insane.
A BILL has been introduced in the House
of Representatives providing for a national
series of text-books to be printed at the
Government Printing Office for use iu the
Territories, which, if it becomes a law, the
author thinks, will result in a saving of
over fifty per cent, to tho purchasers of
books to the country governed thereby,and
probably result in the general adoption of
such a series throughout the States.
The highwaymen who robbed the stage
carrying the United States mails, near Lam
pasas, Tex., a few weeks ago, were arrested
at Austin recently. Some of the stolen
property was found upon the robbers.
Master ship builders at Aberdeen, Scot
land, have notified their men that wages
would be reduced ten per cent.
At Liberty Mills, Ind., the other nigh
the twin babies of Isaac and Rebecc
Martin were frozen to death in their crib,
which had been placed in a fireless room.
The babes were three months old.
Later accounts placed the number of
killed by the mine explosion at Crested
Butte, Colo., at fifty-one men and boys.
Ox the 23th aheavysnowstorm prevailed
in tho New England States. In Canada all
trains were abandoned.
The Pullman Car Works, of Detroit,
Mich., recently discharged a large number
of men.
Frank De Walt, defaulting President of
the defunct First National Bank of Lead
ville, Colo., was arrested recently at EI
Paso, Tex.
A mixed train on the Lake Erie & West
ern Road was wrecked near Bluffton, O.,
the other morning by a broken rail. A
passenger car was turned over and took
fire. Several passengers were seriously in
jured, and it being very cold several train
men were badly frozen.
The House Committee on Post-offices and
Post-roads recently agreed to report favor
ably Mr. Money's bill fixing the rate of
postage on second class publications de
posited at letter-carrier offices at two cents
a pound.
Two lads, Jim Anderson and Zack Sny
der, were hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind.,
for the murder of young Van Way, in
August last.
As Ignatz Puslejotsky, a farmer, was re
turning home with his wife, near Schulen
burg, Tex., the other day, his horses got
frightened, upset the wagon and both were
mangled so that tho woman soon died. The
man would also die. He was too drunk to
manage the team.
At a late meeting of the House ComiAit-
tee on Education a committee from tho Na
tional Colored Convention, held at Louis
ville, were present and urged that the col
ored people should bo aided by an appro
priation for educational purposes.
In his statement to the House Committee
on Commerce lately, a prominent Eastern
railroad official took the broad ground that
no power of Congress could" regulate rail
road inter-State commerce in the sense-proposed
by the bills beforo the committee. He
asserted there was no such thing as com
merce between the States by rail in the
constitutional sense of the words. He ar
gued that tho roads are chartered by the
States, are understate control, have rates
regulated by States, and it is only thrdugh
agreements between railroad companies
terminating at State lines that inter-State
commerce is now carried on.
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
The Mormon press and church are jubi
lant over a special dispatch sent from
Washington by Elder Caiue, Mcftmon Dele
gate from Utah, announcing the discovery
of charges against Governor Murray.
Every effort is being made by the Mormons
to get the Governor out of the way. The
Governor telegraphed to Washington that
be was ready to meet and refute all
charges.
Early on the morning of January 2G a
fire broke out in the Stato Prison at Still
water, Minn., and in spite of nil efforts the
buildings were destroyed. All the prison
ers, including the notorious Younger
brothers, were taken out and placed under
a Btrong gunrd in the yard. The loss was
probably $300,000.
It was recently reported that orders had
been sent out from New York to reduce ex
penses on all Gould railroads in Texas fifty
per cent. The train and traek men had not
been disturbed, but a large number of sta
tion and yard men were discharged.
The other night while John Massey and
William Jones were walking on the rail
road track near Coal Valley, W. Va.,
Massoy, who was drunk, called to a negro
woman to stop. She refused and Jones
fired at her, tho ball striking the heel of
her shoe. Four negroes emerged from a
cabin, near by, fired on Massey and Jones'
and fatally wounded Massey, who died the
next morning.
Ttson, who it was reported was asked to
resign as stenographer of tho House on the
last day of the last session by Speaker
Keifer, in order to make room for Keifer's
nephew, was before the House committee
again tho other day, and reasserted his
former testimony to the effect that he was
compelled to resign by the ex-Speaker.
He supported his testimony by letters al
leged to have been written by Keifer.
A man who gave his name as M. F. Lay
ton, of Iowa, recently shot himself on the
train from St. Louis to Pittsburgh. From
his actions and expressions the passengers
were convinced that he was insane and was
probably the murderer of the Bodiker fam
ily, who were found slaughtered in a farm
house near St. Louis a few days previous.
The Senate was not in session the 2Gth.
The House was in Committee of the Whole
debating the Fits John Porter bill, but
reached no final action.
Since the Senate adopted a resolution
giving each Senator not Chairman of a
standing committee a clerk, a disposition
is manifested by members of the House to
enjoy the same privilege.
It is understood in Washington that the
office of Assistant Surgeon General of the
army will be abolished. The Secretary.
War, in speaking on the subject recently,
stated that while he did not know who
proposed the bill to that effect, still such a
movement met his entire approbation.
HORTICULTURAL.
The Mississippi Yalley'Hortlcultaral Socie
ty Meeting at Kansas City Officers Elect
ed and Other Busiaess Transacted.
Kansas Citv, Mo., Jan 23.
The Mississippi Valley Horticultural So
ciety reconvened this morning at ten
o'clock, many delegates arriving by the
early trains from the Middle and Northern
States. Over two hundred delegates are
now present from twenty States, three be
ing from Connecticut, The display of fruit
is very fine. In addition to the horticultu
ral display proper, there are on exhibition
various specimens of wood indigenous to
the different soils lying between the Atlan
tic and Pacific slope. One of the specimens
is a small slab cut out of an Osage orange
tree which was reported to have had a
growth oi-ibree hundred years and to have
lakt buried upwsxd of two centuries.
Tho first paper this morning was by Mr.
Ohmer, of Dayton, O., on the culture of
raspberries, after which irrigation and
fruit-raising in Colorado was discussed, D.
S. Grimes, of Denver, leading. At the af
ternoon session Colonel D. S. Twitchell
welcomed the visitors on behalf of the city,
and tho annual address was delivered by
President Earle, of Cobden, 111. Ex-Governor
Morton, of Nebraska, alluded to the
death of Dr. Warder, a well-known horti
culturist of North Bend, O., and a resolu
tion of respect was adopted by the Associ
ation. At the evening session Oliver Gibbs, of
Minnesota, read a paper on tho future of
fruit-growing in America, and was fol
lowed bv ex-Governor Furnas, of Nebras
ka, on "Forestry on the Pacific Coast."
The meetings are largely attended, and
more delegates are arriving by every train.
Kansas Citv, Mo., Jan. 24.
The most important business transacted
by the Mississippi Valley Horticultural
Society to-day was the election of officers
for the ensuing year as follows: President,
'Parker Earle, Cobden, 111. ; Vice-President,
tu. a. ituuson, JNew urleans, La.; secre
tary, W. H. Reagan, Indianapolis, Ind.;
Treasurer, J. C. Evans, Harlem, Mo. State
Vice-Presidents: N. Ohmer, Dayton, O.;
J. L. Lyon, South Haven, Mich.; E. Y.
Teas, Dunreith, Ind.; Prof. T. J. Burrill,
Champaign, 111.; George P. Peffer, Pewau
kee. Wis.; M. Pearce, Minneapolis, Minn.;
ex-Governor R. W. Furnas, Brownsville,
Neb.; Prof. E. A. Popenoe, Manhattan,
Kas. ; D. S. Grimes, Denver, Col. ; Prof. J.
L. Budd, Ames, Iowa; L. H. Nolan, Little
Rock, Ark.; V. Munson, Denison, Tex.;
Prof. J. S. Colmant, Agricultural Col
lege, Mo.; Dr. Chas. Meier, Mobile?
Ala.; Elisha Moody, Lockport, N. Y.; E.
H. Hart, Federal Point, Fla.; A. D. Webb,
Bowling Green, Ky.; S. Ragan, Independ
ence, Mo.; Dr. Samuel Hape, Atlanta, Ga.;
A. W. Campbell, Wheeling, W. Va.
During the afternoon and evening ses
sion interesting papers were read, as fol
lows: "Market Fruits of Kansas City,"
by L. A. Goodman, of West Port; "Best
Fruit Packages," by E. T. Hollister, of St.
Louis; "The Value of Careful Packing and
Handling," by E. H. Williams, of Indian
apolis, Ind.
The Committee on Nomenclature,consist
ing of Messrs. Sylvester Johnson, T. E. J.
Burrill, L. B. Pierce, J. H. Halo and J. H.
Mesters, submitted the following report,
which was adopted:
Your Committee on Nomenclature beg
leave to report that we indorse the recom
mendations made by Hon. Marshall P.
Wilder, President of the American Promo
logical Society, as well as those of our
President, Mr. Earlp, looking to a simplifi
cation and uniformity of the names ot the
fruits of America, and recommend the fol
lowing rules to-wit:
L Every fruit should have one, and but one,
authorized name.
2. If tenable, this name should be the earli
est one published as herciualter pro ided.
3. Each name should consist .f one word,
and for all new American fruits such word
should be readily prououncable in the English
language.
4. No name should be considered authorized
until published in some reputable and gener
ally accessible; horticultural periodical, accom
panied with a clear and full description of the
fruit; such published name and description
shall be sent to the Secretary of the American
Promological Society and to the Secretary of
the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society,
5. In ease of doubt as to tenability, priority
or authority of publication, appropriateness
as a good English word, special action by the
above named societies, or by a State Horticul
tural Society should be considered valid and
final.
ti. No variety of fruit shall be named by a
society which is not esteemed practically valu
able and worthy of cultivation; this report to
be considered as recommendation to tho
American Promolo'cal Society.
The Committee on the Horticultural Ex
hibition at the World's Eair in New Or
leans next December made a report;
first, approving of the exhibition and
of the action of President Earl in the mat
ter; secoud, recommending that the Gov
ernors of States be requested to appoint
commissioners to aid the scheme; third,
that it be made known that all appoint
ments must be made before February 10;
fourth, that all States be asked to place
their products on exhibition; fifth, that
pomological organizations be informed that
the earlier varieties of fruit can be carried;
sixth, that a general meeting of the direc
tors and commissioners be held as soon as
possibl ; Seventh, that the States be asked
to vote aid to the exhibition; eighth, that
the States wanting emigration be especi
ally urged to advertise their States by
sending their products to the exhibition. A
comparison was instituted between Kansas
and Minnesota at the Centennial Exhibi
tion. The former spent $40,000, the latter
nothing, and in four years after, the popu
lation of Kansas had increased 503,Oo5; of
Minnesota, 18 ,GGG: the wealth of Kansas,
$120,0JO,0OO; Minnesota, W,000,000. .The
report was adopted as read.
At the session on Friday the Committee
on Forestry proposed a resolution, which
was adopted, calling upon the Government
to establish in the West experimental sta
tions in the interest of horticulture and for
estry, for the purpose of solving the prob
lem of adaptation of trees and plants to the
climate and soils of the Mississippi basin
and the best methods of cultivation. The
resolution further recommends the creation
of a Board of Forestry and Horticulture in
the West, which shall establish sub-stations
at each climatic belt; that agents be sent
to foreign countries having similar climates
to obtain seeds and recipes for the propa
gation here, naming especially Russia and
China; that the President of the Society ap
point a committee to frame a bill for sub
mission to Congress embodying the above
points, and that the Canadian Government
bo invited to join in these foreign researches ;
that President Earl act as a memberof this
committee. The committee was then ap-
S Dinted, as follows: J. Sterling Morton,
ebraska; ex-Governor R. W. Furness,
Nebraska; Oliver Mobbs, Minnesota; Pro
fessor Bubb, Iowa; N. 'J.Colman, Missouri;
G.J.Johnson, Kansas; S. H. Newlin, Ar
kansas; Robert Douglas, Illinois, and Par
ker Earl, Illinois.
1 he remainder of the session was occu
pied by the discussion of topics of interest
and reading papers,
The Society concluded its labors after a
a very interesting four days' session and
adjourned to meet in New Orleans during
the third week in January, 1S85.
4
Frozen to Death in Sight of Home.
Dallas, Tex., Jan. 25.
Yesterday morning the dead body of Mr.
W. R. Douglass, a farmer, who resided fif '.
teen miles northwest of Dallas, on Grape
vine Prairie, was found frozen stiff within
three hundred yards of his house. He
started out the evening before with his
team to go to the Trinity bottom after a
load of wood. The weather being so bitter
cold, he had started on his return home and
was overcome and frozen to death. One of
the horses was so badly frozen that it soon
died. The deceased came to this city in
1871 from Gallatin, Tennessee. He leaves
a wife and three children. Wednesday
night was one or tl c coldest n glits this
winter.
HORRIBLE MINE ACCIDENT.
fifty-Seven Men Imprisoned in a Coloradc
Mine by aa Explosion of Fire Damp
No Possibility of Escape from. Death
Full List of the Victims.
Gunnison, Col., Jan. 24.
A fearful explosion occurred at eighl
o'clock this morning in the Colorado Coal
and Iron Company's mine at Crestec
Buttes. It was one of the most appalling
that ever occurred in a coal mine in thit
country. Crested Buttes, near which thi
mine is located, is a coal mining town thir
ty miles north of Gunnison City, on tht
Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. Th
cause of the explosion is not definitely
known, but it is supposed to be from fire
damp. The explosion occurred either iu
chamber one br two, just half an hour af
ter the day force of sixty-seven men had
gone to work.
There were ten men at work in chambei
four. These escaped unhurt except one
man, John Angus, who was in the passage
way just outside the chamber. He is badly
burned but will recover.
Fifty-seven men were at work in chain
bars one and two. These are thought to
have perished. The explosion was of such
force as to completely barricade the main
entrance, and the appliances for supplying
air located near were badly wrecked, and
the roof of the tramway blown off. Tne
men at work on the anthracite mesa are the
night force of the C. C. & I. company's
mines. Citizens were generally working
hard all day to rescue the men. although
it is thought none can possibly escape alive.
The Town Hall has been prepared for the
reception of the dead.
As soon as possible the fan was repaired,
put to work pumping air into the mine, and
men set to work to remove the obstructions
so as to reach tho chambers and get the
bodies out to-night if possible.
Following are the names of fifty-five of
the unfortunates; the other two are not ob
tainable: Henry Anderson.
John Williams.
W.T.Stewart.
John Mar.in.
Thomas Hogcrs.
James O'Neill.
Jacob Lan.
J no. Anderson.
James Walsh.
Fetor Baker.
William Bar d on.
Richard James.
David Hughes.
P. McMtnas.
W.T.King.
Jno. Creeiman,
John Hular.
Thos. Williams.
John Shune.
Patrick Barrett.
John McGregor.
John Myers.
F. W. Smith.
G. li. McIIalson.
Wm. Maroncy.
Nick Probst.
Thomas Laffey.
James Driscoll.
James Couglilin.
Henry tteu art.
B. Hctfrcn.
Lv. P. Hettron.
W. L. Jones.
John Donnelly.
Carl IJodenwald.
Chas. Merlinjr.
Thcs. Roberts.
Jim McCourt.
Fred Bccht.
IberKing.
Joseph eisenberg.
H. Doncgan.
Joseph hraust.
James F. Stewart, Jr.
William Neath.
Morgan Neath.
Thomas ulancey.
John Hutherford.
Wm. McCowitt
A.M. Godfrcd.
Dan Mclionald.
Wm. Aubrey.
Hen Jeffries.
Thomas Stewart.
Jonn fnnec.
Many of these are married men and leave
families, many living here. At this hour
everything is in such confusion that it is
impossible to give details. A special train
left Gunnison at two o'clock this afternoon
with surgeons and a large number of citi
zens to render all the aid possible. The
town of Crested Buttes is in mourning, and
crowds of women cluster about the entrance
to the mine praying and wringing their
hands and crying piteously, presenting a
scene most heartrending.
It is said at the time of the explosion
there were ten kegs of black powder in
zhambers one and two, where the men were
working, and where the explosion is sup
posed to have taken place. Tho mine has
three miles of drifting and so it is impossi
ble to definitely locate the accident until
rescuing parties can gain admittance.
At eleven o'clock to-night no bodies had
been recovered.
Denver, Col.", Jan. 2f.
Crested Buttes mine, where the great dis
aster of this morning occurred, has long
been considered dangerous by those ac
quainted with it. While one of the best
producing mines in the country, its opera
tion has always been attended with more
or less apprehension and real danger.
"It is a fire damp mine," said Superin
tendent Cameron, now in Denver, "and
3eems to constantly generate the most
deadly gases. The seem to generate in
the coal or under it, and pour out of the
scams in the walls of the tunnels and
shafts; yet the mines are the most perfect
ly ventilated iu the world. Air is forced
in along the shaft by machinery. No less
than 58,000 cubic feet of fresh air is forced
into the mine every minute. This is quite
sufficient to fully supply the wants of the
miners and keep the air perfectly pure un
less some accident happens to cut off or in
terfere with the supply. This is a greater
amount of fresh air than is furnished to
any other mine in the country. We send
a mine reviewer through every chamber
every morning before any of the men are
allowed to go in. Ho must have returned
this morning before tho workmen started
in, and everything must have been all right
when he passed through the workings."
John McNeil, State Mine Inspector, left
for the scene of the disaster this evening.
He says he has no donbt that every man in
the mine at the time of the explosion was
instantly killed. He said d visited this
mine five weeks n?o and then found it in
good condition. He considered it a dan
gerous mine unless properly worked, be
cause there was more or less gas constant
ly exuding from the mine. Ho said he
found every appliance for ventilating the
workings and considered that the manag
ers understood how to run the mine, and
were fully aware of the danger attending
if the mine was not properly ventilated.
The Wrecked Steamship.
Falmouth, Mass., Jan. 24.
Divers visited tho wreck or' the City ot
Columbus to-day. They report all the
works of the vessel gone, not a single state
room remaining on deck. Even heavy iron
rods used as stays between houses ou the
port and starboard sides wero bent and
torn from their places, while the deck itself
w s broken and open. Heavy timbers lay
in various shapes beneath the broken sur
face of the deck, preventing divers from
going into the hold No bodies were seen
By tne divers. No attempt was made to
find bodies in the steerage, the oiSy descent
of the divers being in tho after pare of the
vessel. To-night a terrible gale is blowing
across the sound, and vast quantities of
wreckage are coming ashore at Falmouth.
It is expected that bodies will come ashore
to-night. Seafaring men say Lodies now iu
the water or in the wreck, i. no- recovered
in a day or two, will be completely de
voured by sand-eels. Soundings establish
the fact that the can-buoy was set as least
a quarter of a mile toward the inshore and
the ledge of Devil's Bridge extended 43J
yards outside of where the can-buoy was
originally set, but this fact does not relieve
the officers of the City of Columbus, as the
boat lies near half a mile inshore fiom the
can-buoy.
Justice Forestalled.
Chicago. Jan. 24.
Four weeks ago Herman Koerstefn, re
siding here, was arrested for embezzle
ment in Broinberg, Prussia." An officer
bearing extradition papers from the Ger
man Government arrived in Chicago this
morning. This afternoon, a, Deputy Sheriff
went to Koerstein's cell for the purpose of
bringing him out for transfer. As the
prisoner was about to lewre the cell be
drank what appeared to be a glass of water.
Accompanying the deputy to the office the
prisoner staggered and dropped into a
chair, shaking violen'ly. He whimpered,
"I am sick," and expiie-t in twenty min
utes. Koers'ein i.ad drank a, ueudlv- solu
tion of cyuni e or potassium.
SHOCKING DOMESTIC TIIA(JEI)1
Tragic Ending of a Life of Marital lnr-Uc-ity
An Elgin (III.) Woman's Story of lion
It Happened A Shadow of Doubt Knv.
opine the Affair.
E1.01X, III., Jan. 23.
Shortly after noon to-day the famil . jqI
B. R. Buzzell, living four miles west ot vZ
gin, wero horrified at the appeara'e ir
their midst of a bloody apparition."' Tl.U
proved to be Mrs. William Combs, the wi.'t
of a neighbor. The woman had stamen
from her home, about 100 yards ditanr
leaving a bloody trail on the su. u . SLt
was frightfully mutilated about the necl
and shouldir;. The fingers of her left hanc
were severed and her arms badly gashed
In one of her mutilated hands the woman
carried a butcher-knife with an efcht-ii.h
blade and both edges sharpened. She Ja
exhausted and incoherent, but managed t
tell the Buzzells that her husband had as
saulted her, and when he supposed he had
succeeded in killing hr had cut his own
throat. Coombs was found lyin,; on tht
floor in a chamber of his house with hN
head nearly severed from his body. Tim
room gave evidence of a fearful struggle.
Tables and chairs were tipped over, shretU
of cloth were strewn about the walls,! 'at
bed-clothing and furniture of the apart
ment bespatterrd with Hood, and the en
tire surroundings unusually horrifying.
William Coombs was a well-to-do farmtr
forty-nine years old. He was an English
man by birth and the father of e en chil
dren. Ho had been married three tiinos.
His first wife, by whom he had lour chil
dren, died in England. Coming to Aim n
ca, he was shortly afterward inarnei
again. Three children were the fruit r
this alliance. Three years ago Ccnmbs wa
divorced from his second wife. One y$ r
ago of the present month, agaiiwtthe conn
sel of his friends, deceased married a wu
man twenty-nine years old, calling heix.II
Mrs. Green and claiming Clnc-igo as hei
home. The woman had a child and was
looked upon by those coming m con'aet
with her as an adventuress. The nni n
proved an unhappy one and ttien have
been bickerings for months, although w
open quarrel occurred until now.
now. Tlit,,
ziig pol ek
Kiiibs mill
neighbors say that the tantalizii
cutions of the woman drove Coonil
anil that he has been insane for two months
past. To-day while the children living at
home were at schoel the trouble that cul
minated so tragically transpired. TIV
woman's story is not credited by the neigv
bors, and several important circumstance
are at variance with it, which lead main
to suppose that the woman killed her bus
band.
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ANOTHER LONG ISLAND TRAKEIrT.
A Farmer Murderously Assaulted anil Left
for Dead by n Xegro, who then Attack
ed the Farmer's Wife !ud Kolil( tht
House The Villian Captured.
IIICKSVILLK, L. I.. Jan. 23.
At about half past six o'clock this morn
ing Selah Sprague, a well-to-do farmer U
East Meadow, went as usual to the barn U
milk his cows and feed his horses. He hat
just reached tho barn when a mulatto ar
tacked him with a fish-plate used as a ciup
ling for railroad tracks and, striking hnr
several murderous blows on tho head, left
him for dead and made his way to tht
house. Here he saw Mrs. Sprague uutk
kitchen, struck her one blow secured whir
money he could and left. Some neighbors
hearing Mrs. Sprague's cries, hurried t
the spot and found Sprague lying in a poo
of blood near the barn. A gene a' alam
was sounded, nnd the fanners of link i".lt
Hempstead, estbury and l-ariiiiuilale
hitched up their horses and started in al
directions, scouring the country for the as
sassin. Tho man, is supposed to be the
same who attempted fhe burglary at b'outt
Oyster Bay Wednesday night.
The barn presented tho appearance of a
slaughter-house. The body of Sprague
lay against a bag filled with grain. Tht
bag was bloody on one side. Sprague i
not dead. He seemed to recognize the voic
es of the men. thouirh he could not speak.
There was blood everywhere. Near the
double door there was a irreat pool J i
blood frozen into ice. Snra"ue lost
much blood in this spot it ran over the door
jamb and discolored the ground outside.
There was blood on the tub u iler the
wagon and on the right hand wheel of the
wagon. Sprague was covered with hlooit
There is great excitemetit ah throu'
Queens County, in consequence of tne third
and similar outrage following so quickly
upon tho Maybee and Townsewl allairs.
Mr. Sprague and wife were about filty f
years of age. Physicians give no hopes t f
the recovery of Sprague. While terrible
wounds on the head of Sprague were iieni
dressed, he suddenly rose up ami v iiii'hI
a full pint and a half of blood. The doe', r
said they were glatl of it, but still have h'
tle or no hopes of his recovery.
Mrs. Sprague in her statement says: 'A
I stepped into the kitchen a dog barkil S
is a very small dog), and but for thv v
strange thing I might not have noticed tV
man so promptly. He said: 'I want nun
ey.' I supposed my husband w in tht
barn, and mv first impulse was to si-reatn.
I did so. I" tried to rush by the coi jryd
man into the yard, and got as far a the
stoop when he laid hold of me. He lute! ed
me by tho hair and pulled a haiul.ul ouf
by the roots. I struggled, but it was n
use. He dealt me a blow in the mouth w.th
his fist, which loosened mv teethand I saw
fire. This brought us back into the kite!
en. He was a powerful colored man, nft I
tall, but very stout. He said again, 'Grv 1
me the money or I'll murder you.' I re
plied, 'You can have all the money in the
house, but tell me, have you hurt my litis
band' 'No,' he replied, 4I have not -een
him.' I thought it strange my husband bar!
not been attracted by the incessant bark
ing of tho dog. I went into the sitt.nj;
room and took my purse from the bureau
drawer and handed it to the man. The
purse contained S. When the man was
gone away I ran out to summon help and
fell on the ice. I hurt my side badly."
The negro, whose name is Chas. A. Sinitu
or Chas. H. Rugg,was subsequently cap
tured and fully identified by Mrs. Sprague.
He resided at Poverty Hollow, Oyster Bay.
He was captured at a" store where he had
purchased a complete new suit of clothes
and had called for some crackers andW
cheese. The excited farmers would have T
hung him immediately but for the deter
mined stand taken by the officers of the
law. It Is almost certain he was the as
sailant of Mr. and Mrs. Townsend of Oys
ter Bay. The officers had much trouble in
getting tHeir prisoner aboard the trainJ-J
take him to jail. There were between 30j
and 400 men with torches and ropes howl
ing and shouting, "Let us getathim.
"Let us bang the murderer!" He was final
ly locked in a freight car. AtWestburv
the train was boarded by 2"J0 men with
ropes and lanterns, who demanded to know
where the man was. They did not give up.
the search until the train started, some
even remaining on board and swearing
that they would hanghim. The samesctne
was enacted at Mineola. The prisoner was
finally landed safely in the county jail.
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The Sluffgers in San Franclen-
San Francisco, Jan. 25
Fifty policemen were detailed this morn
ing to preserve order on Sullivan's arrival.
HL reception was a tremendous ovation.
Six thousand admirers greeted the great
'slugger. Fully 10,0 JO men and L-oys fol
lowed the carriages up the street trying to
keep pace with the horse-!, cheering all the
way. The Palace Hotel wa b.-sieged with
a crowd desirou of paving resp t to the
muscular Bostonian. The attend nice this
evening was spoiled bv ticket speculation.
Only 4,001) were preent. Tie combination'
sparring was a di-sappointtn nt. 'i'h-y
leave Wednesday fo.- O.von. O.i the re
turn they play at tne Grand Up--ra-Hous
e week.
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