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CURRENT COMMENT.
Eionr men working in the Orrendorf
coal mine at Morris, 111., recently heard
:i rush of water; guessing what had. hap
pened, they hurried to the shaft and
were raised just as the mine tilled. The
water came from an abandoned shaft.
A St. Louis merchant recently re
ceived a letter from a country customer
who already owed him one hundred dol
lars the following cool request: "I
would be obligod if you would kindly
invest for me tho amount of myindebt
. edness in May oats."
The Massachusetts Historical Society
is preparing to bring out a volume of
Judge Samuel Scwell's letters. Many
of these are preserved, for the Puritan
magistrate was one of the most system
atic and methodical of men, and retain
ed copies of most of the epistles he
wrote.
Ax ingenious thief at Temple, Tex.,
recently stole three shoes, all belonging
lo the left foot, which a merchant had
displayed in his store window. The
right-hand mates to the stolen shoes
, were then put in tho same window, and
a short time after they were also
stolen.
Ik a local photograph .gallery at
Springfield, 111., an original photograph
of Abraham Li.icoln and his two secre
taries, John G. Nicola' and John -Hay,
taken just before lie started for Washing
Ion to occupy the Presidential chair
is on exhibition. It is believed no other
copies are in exist ance.
An improbable story comes from
Idaho. It is said that a horse-thief
was shot by his captors, and that when
they found the reward offered for his
body was too small to divide, they cut
his head oft', put it in a jack-pot and
played poker for it, the winner taking
the head in
for himself.
and receiving the reward
In a suit for damages against the New
York Elevated Railroad, General Mana
ger Hain said the passing of the trains
was beneficial to the residents along the
line of road, inasmuch as fresh air was
thereby puffed into the honses. Mr.
Hain also said he would like to have an
elevated railroad in
in midsummer.
A'competent entomologist has been
engaged in exterminating the tree de
st rovers in Central Park, New York.
There have been found not less than
three hundred and ten varieties of preda
tory insects, and over three thousand
lirecs affected. Thirteen bushels of co
coons and eggs were taken from the
trees at the first going over.
A new system for handling excess
baggage has been adopted by the Chi
cago & Northwestern and Milwaukee &
St. Paul. It will be known as the C. O.
D. system, and takes the place of the
way-bill excess-baggage system, which
is now in use. The advantage is that
it will obviate much of the delay here
tofore experienced in checking baggage
and making cash collections at the start
ing point, and delay (if any) will be
transferred to the point of destination
of baggage, where there is obviously
more time to collect the excess charges.
,,V, The average number of men em
ployed upon the railroads of the United
States is 418,957, distributed as follows:
General officers, 3,375; general office
' 'leiks,8,C55; station men, G3.380; en
. gineers, 18,977 ;-eonductors, 12,419: other
trainmen 48,254 machinists, 22,760;
k carpenj&rw, 23,202: other shopmen, 43.
p" -1746; trackmen, 322,489; all other cm
' ployes, 51,C94. The aggregate average
salary is 841.12 a month, the highest be
ing paid by the Central Pacific, G3.21
per month, and the lowest by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, $32 per
month.
Samuel II. I IciT.sk was recently bur
ied at Galesbnrg, 111. He went from
the Iowa Penitentiary to Eurekn
Springs, Ark., where he made the ac
quaintance of a Mr. Montgomery, an old
gentleman, from whom he obtained
$847 b- loans. House gave Montgom
ery notes on one of the wealthiest men
of Galesbnrg, 111., and when he fell sick
nnd died, Montgomery brought his re
mains to Galesburg and paid the funeral
expenses. On applying for payment of
his notes, Montgomery found that he
had been swindled by House even to
the hour of his death.
Thomas L. Thompson is under sen
tenced of death at Fort Smith, Ark., for
the murder of James (VHoleraud in
September last. The men were unmar
ried and lived in a cabin by themselves.
When O'Holerand was missing, Thomp
son made inquiries of neighbors as to
what had become of him. A man who
was hired U) fill up a dry wcfl "smell
something," which brought a few in
quisitive people around. To these per
sons Thompson said a dead hog was
down the well, but on removing
a. few ashes from the bottom, the
lody of O'Holeran was discovered with
Li3 head crushed in and a knife sticking
in his heart. The reason for the mur
der was because Thompson coveted the
few pcrsonnl effects of his victim.
THE WOKLD'S DOlJiGS
A Summary or the Daily News.
PROCEEDINGS OP CONGRESS.
ly the Senate, on tho 25th, Sir. Logan,
from the Committee on Judiciary. reported
the original resolutions, which wore ujrrccd
to. relating- to railroad hinds. one culling on
the Secretary of the Interior to inform the
Sijiiate whether uny ruilroad con: panics men
firmed in the net of May 7. 1S78, hud failed to
comply with the act. in what respect they
had failed, and wnethcr they subsequently
totnpliicd.'and, further, whether said com
panies had paid dividends, and to what
amounts and what steps, if uny, have
been taken to enforce Jthe provisions
or said act. Tho Runkimr 1ml was taken up
and passed hy a vote of 4t to 12. A hill was
introduced to authorize tho construction of
additional steel vessels for the navy In the
House, on motion of Mr. Poland, of New
York, a resolution was adopted directing
the Judiciary Committee to inquire whether
the act of the legislature of Dakota
to provide for the levy of tax on
property of railroad companies does not con
liict with tho organic act establishing that
Territory. A resolution was introduced by
Mr. MeComas. of New York, providing a con
stitutional amendment providingthat noState
shall be precluded, by the grant of any charter
of incorporation, from taxing the capital
stock of such corporation. After other busi
ness, the Pleuro-Pnciitnonhi bill was taken up
in Commltteeof tho Whole. Thebill was read
by sections and amendments were offered,
when thecommittee arose and the House ad
journed. In the Senate, on tho 2Ci!i, Mr. Sewell re
ported favorably the House bill for the relief
ot' Fit. John Porter. Mr. Wilson reported
favorably a bill to prohibit mailing news
papers containing lottery advertisements.
Mr. Allison offered a resolution (agreed toi
calling on the Secretary of the Navy to furn
ish the Senate information respecting the
ship canal at the Isthmus of Panama.
The Chair laid before the Senate the bill to
authorize the construction of additional steel
vessels for the Navy The House went into
committee of the whole on the Pleuro-pneu-inoniu
bill. Mr. Hopkins offered an amend
ment providing that the appointment of ex
aminer shall be with the consent of the State
Legislature, llejected. A resolution from
the Senate was submitted thanking Creat
llritaiu for tho Arctic steamer Alert.
In the Senate, on the 27ih, Mr. Dawes,
from the Committee on Indian Affairs, re
ported favorably the bill for tho allotment
of lands in Boveralty to the Indians on the
I'inatilla Reservation in Oregon. Mr. Van
WvcU offered u resolution for an Inquiry as
to" whether the Western Union had formed
a combination with the Raltitnnre: & Ohio
Telegraph Company. Mr. Itlnir introduced a
bill extending the time for the completion of
railroads west of tho Mississippi Uiver
to which grants of public lands have
been made, which in good faith are
prosecuting the work of construction,
without forfeiture of such grants. The Son
ate resumed consideration of the bill to pro
vide new cruisers for the Navy, und after de
bate adjourned In the House u resolution
was adopted mutiiringor the secretary ot tne
Treasury as to the extent of the funds in the
Treasury. The House went into committceof
the whole. Mr. Co.x, of New York, in the chair,
on the Plcuro-pneumonla bilk The debate
continued all the afternoon ami was rather
dreary. Consideration of the bill bcinir con
cluded, the committee rose and reported it to
the House.
Ix the Senate, on tho 2Sth, Mr. Ingalls
introduced a bill to. rcmiwe the injunction of
secrecy from the court- martial that tried
General Fitz John Porter, in order that mom
liers may give the details to the public and
testify to the caso if called upon. The Senate
resumed consideration of the bill to authorize
the construction of steel vessels. Various
amendments were offered and debated when
the Senate went into executive session and
soon after adjourned In the House Mr.
Dcuster. rising to a question of privilege,
eent to the clerk's desk and iiad read a resolu
tion adopted by the Executive Committee
of the Liberal Union of the German
Parliament, expressing its appreciation of
the action of the House of Hopresentatives in
adopting tln resolutions in honor of Kdward
Lasker. The House resumed consideration of
the Pleuro-pucumonia bill. An amendment
to recommit the bill was rejected, when it
passed by a vote of l.Vi to 127. Public business
was suspended and the House proceeded to
nay nu appropriate tribute to the memory of
Hon. I). C. Haskell, late Representative lrom
Kansas. Mr. Relford delivered the principal
eulogy, and after the marks of respect had
been paid the House adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 2!kh, Mr. Harrison
reported favorably on the original bill provid
ing for the admission of the Territory of Da
kota. Mr. Hansom rejKirted back adversely
the joint resolution providing for an appro
priation to aid sufferers by tho great storms
in the Southern State.'. Mr.Loiran rcimrtcd fa
vorably the Military Academy bill. The Senate
resumed consideration of the bill for the con
struction or steel cruisers. The bill passed
by a vote of thirty-eight to thirteen, when the
Senate adjourned until Monday In the
House the afternoon was occupied principally
with the question of the retirement of Major
General Pleasanton. Dilatory motions were
made and the bill -went over. In the evening
session about twenty pension bills were
pased.
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.
A St. PETKRSnuuo dispatch sa3's Minis
ter Hunt is dying;.
General Wimpffen, who was in com
mand of tho French army at Sedan, when
it surrendered to tho German in 1870, is
dead,
The Earl of Euston is figuring in Lon
don as applying for a divorce from his
wife, who was formerly a prostitute.
A very exciting and unfortunate contro
versy occurred in tho Senate recently, be
tween Senators Butler and Vest. It grew
out of a discussion on the pending Naval
bill. Senator Butler, whether intentionally
or not, cast upon Senator Vest what tho
latter thoughtunjustifiable reflections. Sen
ator Vest resented it, and in language
vigorous and pointed. At ono timo a per
sonal encounter appeared imminent.
The remains of General Ord arrived
from Havana, and will be taken to Wash
ington. Prince Bismarck denies that Germany
has any idea to annex Holland; that the
Empire hnd already too many refractory
elements to assimilate.
The remains of General Ord have been,
interred at Oak Hill Cemetery, "Washing
ton MISCELLANEOUS.
.Ei.citeme.nt ran high in Hot Springs,
Ark. The citizens ordered certain of the
parties concerned in the late riot to leave
town. The slieill wanted them as wit
neesses and organized a posse. Both parties
were armed and there were fears of a col
lision. NEAn Sun Prairie, Wis., Lena Spaight,
aged fifteen, was outraged by two young
men, brothers, named Peckham. Sho suf
fered terrible injuries.
Yellow Calf, the Canadian Indian, who
recently revolted, has surrendered.
Measles have decimated the Zuni In
dians in New Mexico.
At Ozark, Mo., William Mogill was sen
tenced to fifty years imprisonment for the
murder of Miluin Dunlap.
Lydia J. Roberts has won her suit for
$62,855 against the Stuy vesant Trust Com
pany, of New York, being tho amount of
property the Trust Company allowed to be
seized and sold under a search warrant
while on deposit.
The British army k is lef t Trinkitat for
tho purpose of attacking Teb. There is
anxiety at Cairo as to the result
AN.application has been received at the
Post-office Department at Washington for
the appointment of Miss Lizzie Nutt as post
mistress of TJniontown, Pa She is a sister
of young Nutt recently acquitted at Pitts
burgh on the charge of murdering Dukes.
An inflamed state of feeling exists among
til lower class of Mexicans on both aides
of tho Rio Grande against Americans, con
sequent upon recent extradition proceed
ings. Robert Halence, of Rio Grando City,
is the last ono supposed to have Lean mux
dered because of his unpopularity with the
aforesaid class of Mexicans. .
Representative Brewer was directed
by the House Committee on Manufactures
to report favorably his bill to impose a fine
of not more than ono hundred dollars
or punishment by imprisonment for three
mouths, on any person interfering in auv
way with a commercial traveler selling
goods hy sample.
Lieutenant G. B. Harber, who has
just returned from Siberia after a search
for Chipp and party, of the Jeanetto crow,
has ieen tendered a reception by tho citi
zens ot Youngstown, O. .
James O'Brien, ona of the men arrested
for tho murder of William Pugh on the
night of the 19th inst., ut Philadelphia,
confessed that William Casey, another of
the prisoners, struck the fatal blow.
A fire broke out on tho third
floor of a frame building occupied by
Cornelius Van Ripen, his wife and threo
children, and N. Connelly, New York.
Van Ripen and tho three children were
suffocated and burned to death. His wife
jumped from a third story window and
was instnutly killed. The dnmage to the
building is slight.
Exceptions to the Master's report in the
case of J. N. Lusk et nl., against the Pitts
burgh & Western Railroad Company and
others, were argued before Judge Stow, at
Pittsburgh, Pa. A quarter of a million dol
lars is involved, the Master decreeing that
tho defendants pay plaintiffs that sum for
depriving them by fraud of their rights in
the New Castle & Lake Erie Railroad. The
decision is reserved.
TnE widow of John Brown, of Harper's
Ferry, is dead.
M. T. Polk, the defaulting State Treas
urer of Tennessee, is dead.
A steam pipe burst at St. Patrick's
Church, St. Louis, the other evening. Fully
one thousand persons were assembled. A
panic ensued, and a wild rush was made
for the doors. Only one person was seri
ously injured, a lady who had fainted be
ing badly trampled on.
A special from Franklyn, La., says: W.
Moore, colored, was hanged for tho
murder of Lao Arman, a Chinaman, last
spring. After Moore had been hanging
about half aminuto it was discovered that
the rope was too long and tho feet of the
culprit rested on the floor. He was raised
to the platform, tho rope shortened and
the trap again sprung. He died of strangu
lation. Business failures for tho past week, re
ported by It, G. Dunn & Co.: United
States, 1!)3; Cana'da, 42; against 210 the
previous week.
A bricge on the Grand Trunk Railway
near Montreal gave way while a freight
train was passing over it, precipitating
eleven cars loaded with general merchan
dise iuto the bed of tho river, seven of
them being mashed into splinters.
Passengers from Northern Mexico con
firm tho existence" of the so-called yellow
fever at Mazatlan nnd Manzanillo, and say
it is worse than last fall.
The R-?d River flood is at & stand at
Sureveport. For one hundred miltfs above
and below the city the river plantations
are overflowed.
The hard glove fight at Pittsburgh, Pa.,
between John Smith, of Colorado, and Wil
liam McDonald, of Liverpool, England, for
a purso of $1C0, resulted in the defeat of
Smith in the fourth round. The mill lasted
fourteen minutes. Both men were badly
punished.
The church trial of Rev. M. Spurlock,
charged with falsehood, immorality and
unduo intimacy with Mrs. George, until
recently a teacher in the Methodist Sunday
School, at Geneseo, 111., has been brought
to a close. After being out fifteen minutes
the committee returned a verdict of guilty.
This suspends Spurlock from the minis
try. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
George II. Mills, lately convicted in
Brooklyn of tho murder of his wife, was
sentenced to be hanged April IS.
The election for member of Congress in
the Second Kansas District resulted in the
return of Funston, Republican, over Riggs,
Fusion, by a majority of nearly six thou
sand. The Senate was not in session on the 1st.
lu the House the Naval bill was debated.
Cattle in the Indian Territory are, from
latest reports, in fine condition, with abun
dant feed.
Six persons accused of selling pistols to
I beys in the Tiiaddeus Stevens Public School
in Philadelphia have leen arrested and
held for trial.
The Pennsylvania Society to Protect
Children from Cruelty, with headquarters
in Philadelphia, has sent out agents to
every large factor in every town in Penn
sylvania, in an endeavor to compel factory
owners to discharge children who nre at
labor. A circular letter sent out to five
hundred factories has brought about the
dismissal of two thousand children from
employment.
Town Marshal W. H. H. Riimauds, who
was shot down on the streets oi'Cheraw, S.
Con February 23 by W. B. Cash, son of the
notorious Colonel Cash, after lingering in
great agony for nearly a week, died from
his wounds.
There has been no rain for weeks in tho
vicinity of Brownsville, Tex., anil a failure
of the crops in that region is feared.
TnE English troons. under General
Grahair, have defeated Osmau Digma's
forces in tho-Souduu and have taken Tokar.
The .British lost a hundred killed and
wonmled, tho enemy losing over a thou
sand. Among the wounded wore Baker
Pasha and Colonel Burnaby.
Frank Ranue, the Wabash, desperado
and murderer, in tho penitentiary at
Joliet, 111., made a terrible assault on the
Warder, Captain John McDonald, with an
iron bar and a knife. After a fearful
struggle, Rancle was shot through the head
and secured. McDonald's skull isfractured,
and it was thought he would die. Rande
may recover.
The Treasurer of the United State3 has
prepared a statement showing that tho
total coinage of standard silver dollars
under the act of February 28, 1S78, to March
1, 18&t, was 160,125,119; held in Treasury
oflices and mints, 12!),822,399; outstanding,
39,302,720. Of the amount held by tho
Treasury, there are held to redeem out
standing silver certificates, 390,2ti,i21,
leaving owned by the Treasury 530,574,078.
The following is the reported condition
of Missouri State finances: Balance in
Treasury February 1,1,773,402.SS; receipts
during February, $3S8,79L08; disbursments
during February, W,7S9.53; balance in tho
'Treasury, 2,0(3,-f 07.40.
SOUTHERN OUTRAGES.
4 Review of the Testimony Taken by the
Senate Inveiiticntliic Committee An
Organised Conspiracy to Kill or Lush
Kepubllcan Voters Tito Situntioh Worse
Than the Committee Kxpected to Find
It.
A New Orleans special of February
21 to the Philadelphia. Press gives the
following review of the evidence taken
up to that time by the Senate Commit
tee appointed to investigate alleged
political outrages in Mississippi:
In the six days' testimony which it has oc
cupied in listening- to some tUty witnesses the
Mississippi Investiiratlnjr Committee has as
certained a stutc of facts worse than its mem
bers expected to And. It has been amply
proven that last fall the elections were car
ried by the Bourbons only after a rehrn of
terror by mobs, headed by Democratic poli
ticians and abetted by Congressmen and
State officials fio:n the Governor down. ,
In some counties the Independents were
counted out; in others they withdrew their
tickets the week before election. In Copiah,
where a few brave men were at the head of
the opposit'on, the Democrats drove tho ne
jrroesto'the woods by murdering some and
whipping others, broke up Independent meet
ings, patrolled the county by nljrhtand by a
reKularly-orjranized and armed mob. disre
garded all the appeals of peaceable people for
the punishment of these crimes, held public
meetings approving1 the use of foice. picketed
the po'ding-places with armed men. drove
away Republican ollicers of elec Ion. and no
Mtied their leaders notto go to the polls.
I'OtiH MA1THEW.- l'ATK.
The strongest and best Republican in the
county, a man whom every witness, including
Democrats and c.crgynien. has testified was
an honorable, peaceful and wealthy man, was
notified not to vi.te. He expressed His inten
tion of doing ro. The mob under the lead of
the Chairman of the Democratic Committee
drew lots to sec who should murder him at the
polling-place. Knowing that he was in dan
ger, but persisting in voting, he was unresist
ingly murdered by the chosen assassin, an old
personal friend.
No sooner was it done than the news was
telegraphed alt over the country that Mat
thews was killed, and the victorious Democra
cy drove off Republicans, threatening them,
with Matthews' latel A lew weeks later tho
murderer is chosen City Marshal, sent as a
delegate to a Prohibitory convention, and pe
comes a prominent candidate before the Leg
islature lor the position of Commissioner of
Railroad 4.
None of the criminals arc punished. Grand
Juries, ministers of the Gospel, Sheriffs,
Mayors and practicing attorneys are silent.
Arson and mmder are not considered crime.
Tho best men in the community swore that,
while they did not approve of tnese proceed
ings, they did not dare to object on ac.-ount
of universal terrorism. They adopted a more
civilized plan in Hinds County, as testified to
by L'nited-States-Attorney Ware. "Wha:"
demanded Senator Saulsbury. " Over there
they counted the Republicans out. Do you
call that civilized.-" ?' Yes, compared with
deliberate murder, as it was ia Copiah," was
Ware's reply.
No one can doubt that there was intimida
tion. Thomas Sinclair, a very iutelligeu. col
ored man, who was a candidate lor Secretary
of State in 1SC0 as a Democrat, did notdare le
main mine county, and went to Jackson at
election time. He had been a Democrat until
two years ago, but he left that party because
he thinks they mean to exterminate the ne
groes. " I was a slave." he said, "and by hard
work I havo accumulated money enough to
buv 1.000 acres of land with stock, with asteatn
mill, but had to tell for hair the assessed value
and leave the county." He has taken t.o part
in polities of late, but he does not leel safe.
A thorough system of terrorization pervad
ed, the armed mob driving the colored men to
the woods, and on election day formingacor
don of men with shot-guns about the pel's, so
that many Independent Insj.ectors refused to
act nnd hardly any of their party voted. The
murder of Matthews was telegraphed and
sent to every pollins-place. causing great joy
among the i.'cmocmt'i. and convincing th'-ir
Opponents that it was no use to vote. "We
are going to carry this county, no matter if
we have to kilt men, as testified by a dozen
witnesses, was the current talk among the
Democrats. Matthews, the most prominent
independent in tne county, was selected to
be butchered us an example for the rest.
Kichurd Cogswell, Inspector of the Election,
testified that he saw Matthews shot. He was
in the room with live Democrats. The monn'tit
lie deposited hi- hulh.t Wheeler shot him dead.
Wheelr"s son-in-law. also arined.was keeping
guard at the do lr. All the testimtny shows
that the killing was a deliberate plot. Cogs
well had heard some one say that Matthews
carried a pistol to shoot Democrats with. "I
don't blame him if he did." blurted out Sen
ator Fryo. Hut that is nil the evidence so far
in that direction. On the other hand, Noah
JCamsey. a young white man, swore that he
heard Wood. Democratic candidate for Cor
oner, say the day before election that Mat
thews would be killed anyway, and so
would his brother if the latter was elected
Sheriff.
Henry Hodges. said, at Tailhola. when the
news of the murder came: "I have known for
a week it was going to he done." Walter P.
Ware, a Democrttic store-keeper at Hazlc
hurst. swore that Mead. Chairman of the Dent
ccratic Committee, told him that, in accord
ance with agreement with a Democratic club,
he had ordered a cannon tired as soon as Mat
thews was shot: tie had advised Matthews to
leave, but the latter ha.l been promised pro
tection by the Sheriff. Sheriff Ifurgravf has
been accused of trying to deputize Matthews
too.uietthe mob, in order to have him shot.
Williamson, the Democratic Mayor of Ifazlc
hiirst, testitled that he does not think that
Hargraves did it solely for that purpose.
J. T. Dameioti. a well-to-do merchant at
Jackson, saw Wheeler in a street-car Febru
ary 14. and heard him say to a young man:
"Hoar's committee is coming down here. If
I get a crack at hi in I'll kill .hun, too. I told
Matthews not to vote, but lie'did, and I killed
him. I diil not doit of my own accord, but
for the Democratic party. It fell to my let,
and I am the mati who did the dirty work"
Finally Dr. A. 1. Pitts, a cousin to tVhccler.
after a long series of questions, admitted,
though reluctantly, that soon alter the elec
tion Wheeler acknowledged to him that he
killed Matthewfe simply because he ha i been
chosen bvthe Democratic regular.
When a Baptist minister or Hazlehurst,
named Loma.v, was on the stand he said he
was a Democrat. Nothing could turn him
from his devotion to his fellow-Democrats.
He had heard of Matthews leing killed, but
was not prepared to call it a murder. Ho
found it was not safe to express an opinion in
public, and would not do so. At a meeting of
Prohibitionists the present month, the major
itv being Democrats, they had voted to send
Wheeler to Jackson as a representative to in
duce the Legislature to grant a Finhibitory
law to Copiah County. Ho thought Matthews
a fair representative citizen, although a Dem
ocrat. He sa.d he would not vote Tor an in
fidel. Uow about murderers?" asked Mr. Hoar.
The question was evaded. The committee
was anxious to ascertain the popular feeling
in Lopiah. Ljinax said: "I think the mem
bers of the mob are generally law-abiding,
orderly citizens. It includes the most respect
able und influential Democrats, as a general
thing. I think our people may be Opposed to
the mob rule. I never heard any one de
nounce Matthews' killing much: some disap
proved it. Ex-Kepresentativc Miller told mo
privately he thought it best not to do it."
UAKKSOAI.KS SPEECH.
Congressman iiarksdulc is shown to have
madi;u speech advising the mob which parad
ed and then attended in a body to carry the
election, no matter what the issue, and ex
pressed his hope that Frank Iluffln, an active
ttepublican. would be hanged so high the
birds of prey could not bury their beaks ia
him.
Napoleon Demar. colored, testified to hav
ing been visited by armed men before the
election. They threw a roije over his neck
and made him kneel down und swear that he
would vote the Democratic ticket. He did
vote it. because he l eared violence if he failed
to do so. William Kobcrtson, Coroner at Hazlc
hurst when Matthews was killed, testified that
Dodd and Ware adyhed him not to hold an in
Quest, as it was unnecessary, it bcinir well
known who killed Matthews. loiter in the day I
l,A aim. U-KaaIa. tt-kn nHmlttArl ,!. I... I....I '
m .uf. fiucvtVlt "i.f uiiiiui.u tUCtb tlU I1UV1
done the kiding. Ware is related to the
Matthews family.
Perished in the Blizzard.
Minneapolis, Minn.. Feb. 20. A spej
cial to the Journal from Valley City, D.
T., says: "The body of Fred Xelson was
found five miles from the place where he
started in the blizzard. His two children
have not j'et been found. While lookiug
for these bodies the remains of Thorwald
Gunderson were found. Gttnderson had left
Clark City for his claim just before tin
blizzard, and finding of his body was the
first known that he was lost
A TERRIBLE FATE.
Cud Tragedy Atteudbtc the Barnins '
Kickety Tenement-House ia 3irw York
A Family or Five 1'ersons Lose Their
laves.
New Yohk, Feb. 29. Fivo persons in
one family lost their lives in a tenement
house fire on Stanton street yesterday morn
ing. The family of Cornelius Van Itiper
occupied two front rooms on the third lloor
Df :-2G Stanton street, one of two frame ten
ements densely crowded with poor families,
Frank Weaver, a single man living in the
rear rooms was aroused by smoke about four
o'clock yesterday morning. lie rushed out
into the hallway and there found
Van Itiper and asked him what was the
matter. " My God ! my God ! the house Li
afire!" exclaimed Van iciper. "and I must
save my wife ami children." Saying this,
he ran into the front apartment, while tho
Uanies burst out in the lulfway, only giving
Weaver time to tumble down-stairs. Van
Riper was never again seen alive. Mean
time the ilames had burst through the roof
3f 3-26 and were licking at y4.
A great crowd assembled in Stanton
street, and when the cry was raised that
people were still in 3J0 many he rote efforts
were made to reach them by the stairway,
but in vain. The Ilames and smoke deiicil
entrance to the building by that means, and
the lire-ladders hail not yet arrived. Sud
denly the window of the Van Itiper apart
ments was raised, and heartrending shr.eks
came from it For a moment the crowd
could see nothing. Then a gust of wind
cleared away the smoke from tho w indow,
and tiie form of a woman, clothed in her
night-dress, stood like a ghost.
"Save my husband, save my children?"
she screamed. "For God's bake save mj
babL-s!"
The crowd in the street mo me:!, and sent
back cries of d-spair. "My children art
burning up!"' the woman shrieked, evi
dently undetermined as to whether site
should go back to Iter children or jttmr
from the window. Another cloud of smoke
obscured her for au instant and all was still.
lit another instant sin: gave a despairing
shriek and jumped from the window, laud
ing on the sidewalk on Iter head and shottl
ders. The crowd ran to her and picket!
iter up. She gave two or three weak moan.
nnd tfied jttst as the po!i.e ambulance
d;shed up. She was within a week of con
finement. By this time the entire upper part of 32
was in Ilames, and the fire department wai
hard at work. Just at daybreak the fire
was extinguished, and tlte firemen and io
lice forced tfieir way to the rooms of the
Van ItiiH-TS. The family had evident!
been half suffocated before they wen.
aroused to find escape ft out at:
awful dcatfi cut off. The bodies
were all found in different places,
showing that the unfortunate?
rushed wildly and blindly around the room:
in their efToits to escape. In the rear room
was found the girl Jennie, with Iter night
clothes burned off. iier arms and hand;
were terribly burned. Her hands were held
to her face when the body was found, show
ing tint she had made an effort to keep the
flames from her eyes and mouth.
I The skin from the hands and arms of the
boy Albert hung in shreds, nnd his left artif
I was raised across his face. He was found ,
t doubled up in a corner, and one side of his
j body was badly burned.
The little child Frankie, charred and
blackened, was found near hL father";
j Uo(ly ; the front rooK
., , ., ,,.., , .f
I 'e. fac.e aml. head of
Riper wen
Tan
iiommy Durned ana ti
scarcely recognizable.
horribly burned and the features we
scarcely recognizable.
j The remains of the family were gatherec
In blankets and conveyed by ambulance
wagons to the station house, where the
were laid out in a row. They were: Cor
nelius Van Uijier, aired forty; Uebccca Vat
Riper, aged thirty-two; Jennie Van Riper
aged ten: Albert Van Riper, aged seven.
Frankie Van Itiper, aged two.
Later in the day the bodies were removed
io the home of Mrs. Van llipur's brothers,
, Charles ami Edwin Carpenter, from whence
. they will be bur lea on Sunday. There were
sixteen other people in liUti and eighteen
people in -J4, all of whom escaped un
harmed, but lost their outfits of clothing
and household goods. Frank Weaver
says that alter he left V an x;:ier
he returned and pounded at the door, but
it was locked, aim ms snouts guneit no
response. Tlte houses :24 anl 826 Stanton
".. k 9 m- hLA . w 9 . itmi fluvrillln rh dIfl
t.-iii uiiw-siiuj H.UHO tim.-iims.-s "
ricicety, nun dilapidated, an i naruiy in ior ;
unman habitation, having no means oi
escape from fire save two tumble-down i
stairways. Cornelius an Kiper
t-.. ti ....... i
an ikiiKT mu a :
baker, and an intelligent man, and his fam
ily was much respected by their neighbors.
At one time they were comfortably well off,
but buiness reverses made tho husband
and father poor, and landed his family in j
ine mtserauie iirc-irap mat became men
crematory.
MONOPOLY IX NEWS.
A Ittnglng Article from a Lending News
paper Againit the l'roposed Measure to
Copyright News Matter.
Cixcisx.vTi, Feb. 23. Concerning the I
proposition to introduce a bill in Congress
to provide for the copyrightiir; of-newj'
matter, tlte Ennuircr has the following tc ,
say editorially: "A bill is pending before the
House of Representatives to copyright news
items, or, m other words to copyright
daily newspapers for forty-eight hours.
The bill was drawn by the General ,
Manager of the Associated Tress,
anti .
the corporation aforesaid lias au attorney
at Washington to press its passage. Should
It become a I.w it will cripplo every coun-
try newspaper in the land. These paper;
largely uepeuu ior uio news icaiures oi , general, it organized oy electing Auditor
their weekly bsues upon the metropolitan , Walker Vice President, Mr. WmT G. Mc
dailies. So far as the Enquirer is concerned, Carty, of this city. Secretary, and Mr. J. II.
the rural press Ls welcome to all it con-1 Davidson, of Hickory Countv, Clerk. Each
tains. e want no legal inhibition,
against anv one to help himselt . to the
good tilings we offer three hundred and
sixty-five days in the year. The New
York newspapers, or a majority of them,
favor the proposed law. The com
plaint is made that the New York cor
respondents for newspapers in Chicago
nnd other points west to San Francisco,
by the reason of difference in time in
their favor, can, without credit, tel
egraph all there is worth telegraphing from
New York to their respective journals.
They not only can, but tlo. One or two
San Francisco newspapers, because of this,
have given notice ot a tlesire to withdraw
from the Associated Press. This Is why
the latter corporation favors the news
copyright
"The proposed law would be the worst
kind of a monopoly. It would be withhold
ing for forty-eight hours 'the intelligence
of the land. It would tend to dwarf rathet
than enlighten the people as to current events.
It would lead to endless litigation and vex
ation. It would be a step backward rather
than forward. It Is not asked in f
the interest of the people, and is
in fact, pgainst their interest. It would
strike at the poor rather than the rich, for
the latter class are largely within the reach ,
of the metropolitan press. When a monop
nlr of the Intelligence of the enmifre 5 cen
tered in a circumscribed space and kept bot-
tied, as it were, for forty-eiht hours, it is
about time to give ud the fast mails and the
telegraph. The bill omjht to be defeated, I
anel doubtless will be."
HOT AT HOT SPRINGS
A State or Anarrby
Celebrated Health
Out or the Late
PreTMIs at th 7
Report Kronrliis;
IHurxlere A Bed.
Condition of Affairs.
Hot Spisi.vos, Auk., Feb. 23. The con
dition of affairs in this city is most deplor
able. Doran, Fntitt, Landing and Allison,
the four assassins committed without bail
for tlte murder on the street on the !th. wen
taken to the Fenitentiary at Little Rock, atf .
were tendered an ovation by a num
ber of citizens before departure." The feel
ing of bitterness and its intensity cannot Im
described. The committee of fourteen,
some of whom are ami some arc not citizens,
virtually control the city. The law N
practically suspended, and the committee
have tilings in their own hands. They
are controlled in a great meaMtre 1 a
man known here as Chas. Watson.
hut.
whose real name is Chas. r oulk
and who r
luiitci unni.imt.-iii. at. viriiste. i a., lor imtr
der, arson and burglary. Foulk fnmihes
the names to the committee of oliject.ott
able persons, who invariably consist of l.i.n
who are witnesses against Doran and h:
accomplices. It was rumored this ai'tcr
noon that M. C. Harris, editor of the .,
Slioe, who has denounced the minders, and
tlte action of the committee, would be noti
fied to leave the city in the morning. Har
ris expresses contempt for the hof(
party and continues to publish tlirt
true facts in regard to the assa.. n-
ation. About twenty additional men were
made to leave the city by order of the
committee at the point of the bajonet.
Every one forced to leave was a mater
ial witness against Doran ami Ins
accomplices in the bloody work of the 0th
The assertion is openly made here
and it is not denied, "that member
of the committee themselves will U- irj
plicated in the butchery, ami are tints en
deavoring to hide all iidence by driving
off all the witnesses. Drunken rowdies pa
rade the street and fill the saloons armed to
the teeth, and openly make threats that they
will run the town.
IN A COLORADO SHAFT.
littii.o iiiJi.ii..,.i . " ; i i j
A Well-Ktown Engineer While Wnlh
lug on tho -Miow Suddenly Coe
iroivn to Ilia Death.
Dexveis, Cot-, Feb. 29. Another arv-
palliug accident, occasioned by an open
shaft, the month of which was covered with
snow, has happened. The victim was James
R. Milhttrn. a well-known surveyor of this
city. Mr. .Milburn and Mr. George I lolland
were surveying a lease on Fryer Hill, and tho
former left his companion for a tuoinentjfo
procure a stake. The snow was perfecth
smooth, with no sign f danger apiareut
and nothing to indicate that there was an
open shaft in his path, w hen all at once he
sank down through the snow and went out
of sight. His assistant. George Holland,
who was some fifty feet away, saw him g
down anil ran to the snot, thinking at first
that he had only fallen into a snow bank,b!yt
the delusion was soon disiielled when he saw
the yawning mouth of a shaft more than
two hundred feet deep before him. Mr. Mil
burn not knowing of its presence, or elso
forgetting that it was there, had walked in
to tlte fearful pit without a moment's warn
ing. Where lie W 'lit through lie made a
hole through the snow just large enough U
tulmit his body. It is still h
those who live in the neigliliorliood that t'ie
shaft had been covered up. but the boys had
stolen the lumber and left it entire! un
I covered. 3Ir.
Milnuni was
surveyors in
here some six
one of
the city,
year? ago.
I the oldest
having come
He was a native of Marv's Countv
MiL,
and was unmarried. He
had
, many friends who will deeplv mourn hii
, terrible and untimely death, lite remain
were recovered and taken to the Morgue.
There were two or three sculp wounds, but
no other outward marks of injury. It is
supposed death was caused either by drown
ing or concussion of the brain.
Missouri Murder.
Mexico, Mo., Feb 20. Calloway County
has again been called uion to chronicled .i
murder, and one in its nature plan and exe
cution, cruel and dark :is death itself.
Robert Craighead, who lived three mile
I south of Fulton, and was one of their best
( citizens, as well as an intelligent, industrious
and honest gentleman, as he was enioy-
nir himself
in the midst of his fam
ily, some one hallooed at the front
gate. Mrs. Craighead raised a wniii-
0w ami inquired who was there; a voicfc
. aa
rcsponeleil giving the name of Collins, and
reiptcsting Mr. Craighead to come and help
cet a tenm nut r the mud. inst
: . - -
,i,..,
down the road. Mr. Craighead got
his hat and hastened to the man's relief. As
the man and Mr. Craighead jiassed down th
road to the north from the house," Mrs.
Craighead took a seat bv the window to
jj.
Very soon she heard two pistol shotV
in rapid succession, and again two more be
fore she had time to get out of the house
On leaving the house she heard Mr. Craig
head call for help, and running down the
road about one hundred yards she found her
husband in the agony of death. Shesnatched
him from the ground to her bosom; he
gasped once and was no more. A number
of clues have Iieen discovered which,
tin flniiKf will ffi'itt tfi tt,i f,Htltrft tf flu.
i, '. -vr.. r.-,:,.i..,...i ..... .. A, .
Dest citizens in the county, and held thJ
office of county assessor for years.
Missouri stTUo!.
Jct:i!sos ClTV Mo.. Feb. 29.-Tlfc
Swte IoanI of Equalization is in session.
The board consists of Governor Crit-
tendon, who
is ex-oflicio President, Hon.
John alker, btate Auditor; Hon.
Phil E. ChappeH, State Tre:tsurAr:
Hon. M. K. McUrath, Secretarv Sf
State, and Hon. I). IL Melntyre, Attorney
member of the board is required bv law to.
take an oath tliat he will, "to the best iA his.
knowledge and ability, equalize the valua
tion of real and personal property
among the several counties of tho
State," as prescribed by law. At the
last session of the Legislature the law
relating to the meeting of the board wm
changed by striking out the j'ear "1873,"
from the clause fixing the elate of meeting
ind inserting the year "1SS4," so as to make
.tread, "on the last Wednesday in Feb
ruary 18S4." and every two years thereaf?r,
thus changing the time of meeting from tho
odd to the even years. The board will meet
for the assessment and equalization of rail
road property on the thirel Monday of Apsil
next
Crooked Kuha.
Detroit," Feb. 29. Joseph Kuhn. tho
private banker whose failure for Sfoijyooo
was announced a few elays ago, has been
arrested here on a charge of embezzlement
Several complaints were made against him,
and the one on which he was arrested is
signed by Mrs. Christina Payment She
charges that on Sept. 13, 1883, Kuhn teV
ceived from her 52,050, which was to be
loaneel out at interest on mortgages, and
that of this amount she was defrauded by
Kuhn converting it to his own use insteaJfTif
investing it as agreed. When arraigned in
the Police Court Mr. Kuhn pIeadsrfnBt
Ruilty, and gave bail in the sum of Sa,000.
Tliete are also serious charges preferred by
other parties who claim to be victims.
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