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- *<• • y* - V^^cosstna, mm ILLINOIS 1L111-LL1UI J& WEEKLY KM KVKW. r>*:J ^5 ; . i v .• fA % 'V *' by fire were i ' * ' ̂ ' i_ l'i - 4 4.: hT WCN 3jSr. •M THK KAKT. THK stockholders of the Philadelphia \ 'Centennial Exposition are behind to the «monnt of #1,700,000. On the ground of : general benefits to the countnr, New York Itnkeni and merchants have forwarded to Ooaftress a memorial for an appropriation to eovertb<" deficit....At Oohoes, N. Y., Mor- . rteon, Colwell & Page's rolling-mill, O'Brien A Powers' knitting-mill and the Pilot mill, belonging to P. Gugertv were destroyed by ftre. The loes is about 1730,000. '"J* HERBERT F. OYE, one of the Maple- jfcbn Opera Company, left his seat on a train Bear Philadelphia to ascertain the cause of A slight accident, and when he returned his Sftchel, containing $75,000 in checks, #100 in trill* and some articles of jewelry, together With the gentleman who occupied the oppo­ site seat, were missing An accidental tire In the china-house of Ovington Brothers, in Brooklyn, caused its destruction in an hour. Their loes is placed at $250,000, and occu­ pants of adjoining buildings suffered dam­ age to the extent of #30,0uu. V ENGINEER MELVILLE and all the ^embers of his family appeared in a Penn- Igrlvania court last week, he having applied for a writ of habeas corpus to recover his Children. He testified that for three years his wife received #W> per month and a resi­ dence; that for thirteen months she had drawn $140 per month, and run in debt •1 ,500. Two servants of the family and thiee neighbors testified that Mrs. Melville drank a great deal of whisky At the an­ nual meeting of the New York Tribune Asso­ ciation it was ascertained that Whitelaw Reid and his relatives own 143 of the 300 ah area A dividend of 25 per cent was de­ clared. | FOUR men and a woman were Hilled and many persons were terribly bounded by the explosion of two boilers in S blast furnace at Bethlehem, Pa.... Patrick O'Reilly is in jail at Albion, N. Y., for confessing his participation in the mur­ der of Cavendish and Burke in Dublin. THE death is announced of Lot M. *-* Atorrill, of Maine, three years Governor of if Mb native State, and for nearly sixteen years one of her representatives in the United States Senate. He was 68 years old. •; 7"vV33 _ U / THK WEST. ,7 ^ THK Dewin Block at Peoria, In which Schradsky's clothing store and Colli­ de boot and shoe house, was consumed fire, causing a loss of 1100,000, on which ire is insurance amounting to #52,500.... He cashier of a national hank at Muncie, Ind. , received a package from an Indianapo­ lis bonk by express, supposed to be #5,000 in currency. It was found to contain slips of muslin and five #1 bills, the seals being in good order. IN a St. Louis court-room ex-Senator •' jfohn B. Henderson called ex-Congressman Hon Morrison a blanked liar, and was struck over the head with a walking-stick, Hen­ derson retaliating with a fist blow which ioaoeked his adversary over a chair. F 7 DETROIT dispatches chronicle the upside of J. Edward Monck and wife, be­ longing at Chatham, Ont, having left their . infant child with a ladv friend. The wife took morphine, after being locked in her room by her husband, ana he went to a strange notel ami killed himself in the same wanner. Relatives took their bodies to Onadafor buriaL EIGHTY citizens of Cheney, Washing- - #Mn Territory, lynched a Chinaman, accused •f murdering and robbing a woman of his #*u race. NEAR Ulysses, Neb., Mrs. Thompson, -ISib wit. iiwliinii hi twi awl "VSlt, btaaband and an adopted son died in a short time Near Mill Creek, Indian Ter- tmwms xttory, Alexander Hamilton murdered his ̂ L ' wife and a man named Smith and then com- ' aitted suicide. ̂ AT a meeting on 'Change in St. Lonis, • • #2,300 was raised for the sufferers by the v floods in Germany. A gathering in Cincin- nati subscribed #1,250. John Cody, of a ;3; Manistee. Mich., G0 years of age, expired vi after a fast of 108 days, forced by ulceration of the stomach. *" *«« SOOTH. . - SELECT committee of the Tennessee appointed to settle with the State Treasurer. M. T. Polk, found that he had been absent for two days at some un­ known point The Senate adopted a resol ci­ ttern announcing a deficit of #400,000, and ordering the Attorney General to attach all Mailable assets of the defaulter. The bond is for #100,000. Polk is a nephew of the ex- President, is 51 years of age, graduated at West Point, lost a leg among the Confeder­ al 8hiloh, and served on Gen. Polk's ... .A murderer named Isaac Scott was sally hanged at Paris, Texas. TREASURER POLK, for whose delivery «n Tennessee soil the Legislature offered a teward of #5,000, was arrested at San An­ tonio, Texas, and released on a writ of ha­ beas corpus. He then started for Mexico, •ltd was again arrested by a Deputy United States Marshal just before reaching the Rio dkande Polk offered the officer #8,000 to •W him go, but the latter was incorruptible. WASHINGTON. ; SECRETARY TELLER would like to see titknew Indian Commissioner in place of Hi- Price. Edward Fenlon, of Leavenworth, Confesses having cleared #56,000 on a con­ tract to deliver Mtt.lKiO pounds of flour at Los Pino* ajrencv. Mr. Price refused to accept of $'i54 per hundred or supplying beef, ti will n w be unable to make purchases less than #5. CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON, of Kansas, Introduced a bill in the House for the estaV Ifehment of a Government postal telegraph. Sis proposition calls for the issuance of #3,000,000 worth of bonds, bearing per Cent interest, the avails of which are to be devoted to the establishment of a main Sue from Portland, Me., to Topeka. Kan., 5*rith brahches to various points. Offices are |o lie first established in carrier offices only, "nd to be extended in the judgment of the ostmaster General to smaller offices. The It is fixed at a uniform rate of 25 cents ten words, GENERAL. THE death of Maj. De Gress, Vice President of Gould's Mexican railroad #cheme, was quickly followed by the seizure 1 " jOf that line by the Government, on the ground that the conditions of the grant had /"toot been complied with.... .J. H. Devereux 2*'as elected President of the new Board of "£> ' '; Directors of the Nickel-plate road. 4 - -- • A GENERAL convention of the bitu- tninous-coal miners of the United States is t i|v ^contemplated, the object being to effect a f - federation of all State associations and dis- IF0* associations. The proposal emanates -i, - from Pittsburgh, and the convention will be : '1 ̂ . .field in that city. the ira Uy looked Gambetta Is Srvoted against the tewas of tteaoe i» the Assen&hty of Bordesnx Hsis ail*«V>gi4vo- cafce of loosl ielt«ev«waenV W(t|e fa almost as popular in Pans is wis K Gambetta, though he tea not such a hold upon the French people at larce, while many doubt Whether he nasi the ability to become s leader..... A Milan journal which opened a snfisctfotton list for a monument to Overdank has been warned to withdgtog& or the paper will be sequestrated ...' (S& Chaoiy, a life Senator of France, and a prominent military figure in the France-Prussian war, is numbered among the dead. THE demonstration in honor of M. Leon Gambetta, upon the occasion of the funeral ceremonies of the deceased states­ man, was one of the most remarkable historical events in the annals of Franca It was not alone Paris that joined in making up the extraordinary funeral pageant: all France was represented by deputations from the various departments; all the liberty-loving world was present in senti­ ment and sympathy. A careful estimate places the number of people in the pro­ cession at 800,000, and probably 2,000,000 more were interested spectators' along the line of march and at the cemetery. The display of flowers, flags and funeral em­ blems is described as something perhaps never equaled Spain is once more in the throes of a Ministerial crisis, the entire Cabinet having resigned be­ cause of a disagreement between the members in regard to the K'le of some crown property. The steamer City of Brussels, of the lnmnn line, which left New York Dec. 28 for Liverpool, was ran down in Kt George's Channel by a Glasgow steamer during a den.se fog, and ten persons were drowned. THE City of Brussels was wrecked about three miles from the lightship at the mouth of the Mersey. Her masts and funnel obstruct navigation and will be removed. Divers expect to save a good portion of the cargo, which was valued at #350,000. The shipwrecked passengers passed resolutions expressing gratitude and admiration for the conduct of the officers. IN the anarchist trials at Lyons, Prince Krapotkine stated that when he had to choose between extinction and dynamite he wou'd employ the latter.. He was re- Eroached by the President of the court for aving violated French hospitality. THE British ship British Empire, from Shields for Bombay, burned at sea Ten persons were saved, but two boats, con­ taining the Captain, mate and four­ teen hands, are missing. Twenty- five persons have been arrested at Rome who were engaged in unveiling busts of Overdank in private rooms. The busts were also seized by the police.... .Gen. Devaldan. who led a leading part in the siege of Paris, di d from apoplexy on learn­ ing of the demise of Gen. Chanzy. CALAMITY iff GEN. LONOSTREET contributes the J|stest literature to the Fits John Porter case. ^ 4 "While acknowledging that from a strictly- " "r " snlHtary point of view the finding of the ' r TOurt-marti&i ought to be held as conclusive fee claims that Porter was entitled bv his auk to a - - of Ike Newlull Milwaukee. The Btoatar of HTM Lost Brtimated - at One Hnndied. ^ ADDITIONAL NEWS* DETECTIVES PRICE and Cameron, who accepted bribes from Marshall T. Polk, to run their prisoner into Mexico, were arrested at San Antonio, and will be prosecuted as accessories. Gov. ORDWAY, in his message to the Territorial Legislature of Dakota, states that the population of the Territory has doubled in two years, and now reaches 300,000, while the amount of taxable property is $50,000,000. The financial condition of Dakota is good, and its bonded indebtedness is very smalL In his annual message. Gov. Glick, of Kansas, pronounces the policy of prohibition a failure, diverting emigration, promoting litigation, inducing the clandestine use of liquor in club-rooms, and giving an opportunity to busy bodies to mag­ nify their own importance....Gov. Stoneman, of California, urges that railroad corporations be compelled to bear their share of taxation and submit to the ramyMon of fares and_freight... After a lively coutesfc Joe «*e jatiaoi* neaatcraMp, Gov. Shelby M Cullom carried off the prise, receiving the Republican caucus nomination on the filth ballots THE police of Cleveland have com­ pleted a census which shows the population of tl^t city to be 193,800 The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central railroad was sold at Indianapolis by United States Com­ missioner Fishback to the Pennsylvania Rail­ way Company for #13,500,000 Southern Illinois ana portions of Missouri and Ken­ tucky were seriously shaken by an earth­ quake on the 11th insb THE City Bank and the Fifth Ward Savings Bank, of Jersey City, closed their doors, creating much excitement. The City Bank had a capital of #50,000, and the President, cashier and' book-keeper over­ drew their accounn #40,000, thus leaving #1,000 of the capitat'stock Amid doafen- ing applause a Ne*fYork jury awarded Miss Iivingbton #79?00Q. A wealthy merchant named Fleming will have to pay her that amount for refusing to marry her, after having promised to do so. THE announcement comes from Washington that Gen. Grant and Senor Bomero have quietly agreed upon the terms of the proposed commercial treatv between the United States and Mexico. It permits the introduction free of duty of Mexi­ can sugar, leaf tobacco, hemp and some other products, while Mexico ad­ mits without tariff American agricultural and mining machinery and some other man­ ufactures The amounts allowed to Presi­ dent Garfield's doctors have in each case been accepted. Dr. Bliss sent a creditor with a power of attorney to collect the #6,- 600 at which his services were audited. Two THOUSAND cases of small-pox are reported in Baltimore. Health inspectors have been placed in the depots, and each turnpike is watched by policemen Hon. E. B. Washburne was thrown from his horse and slightly injured at San Antonio, Texas. THIRTEEN artists' competed for an op­ portunity to create a military statue of Gar­ field for the Hall of the House at Washing­ ton, for which the Ohio Legislature appro­ priated #10,000. Carl H. Ncihaus, of Cincin­ nati, was awarded the work, wliich will rc- Save Oar Woodlands. Upon the subject of denuding onr woodland of its timber, there should be more legislation; there should be some reward given the owner for its protec­ tion. Like church property, it should be exempt from taxation. The odious law of allowing road supervisors to cut the nearest timber with which to con­ struct corduroy bridges should be re­ pealed. A rigid stock law should be enforced; fields of growing crops should with safety remain open. A system of portable fences, only, should be all that is necessary for the inclosure of the farm, Herds of stock, while be­ ing driven along the highway to market, with some additional expense, could bo well guarded. Woodland should be nnderbrushed and converted into woods-pasture;then, with its exemption from taxation, the inducement to clear it off would, in a measure, be removed. --Cincinnati Commercial. frank to a certain amount of discretion _ '%> obedience of orders. This fiaim Geo. supports by a reference to •'WIJWs own experience at Manassas Junc- *tion, where, as he says, he disregarded iLee's order to support Jackson because he Jfouud he oould not reach Jackson in time to ;lbe of any service to him, while he could and check the Federal advance by his own Miles... According to a statement issued the united pipe lines of Pennsylvania ̂ were 32,850,088 barrels of oil stored in Sjtheir tanks on Jan. 1,18K3, POUl'LCAI,. * THE special election in the. Ninth M ^Congressional district of Indiana, to fill the vacancy occasioned by Congressman Orth's death, resulted in the success of Doxie, Re­ publican, by from 1,000 to 1,500 majority.... John B. Manning. Democrat, was elected V?:, ' fT" '" ' 1 Mayor of Buffalo, to succeed Gov. Cleveland, by <J,7iS majority. He received ll,0iMi votes. Aa Affertiag Seme. An Austin young lady, who lias en' joyed the advantages of a classical edu* cation at a Northern female college* happened to be at home when her aged grandmother was stricken down with a fatal illness. The entire family gath­ ered around the death-bed of the old lady, who, in a feeble voice, said: "(Jood-by to you all, I am gwine to peg out." "Grandmother!" exclaimed the young lady, in a tragic tone of voice, "please don't say that. Don't say you are gwine to peg out. Say you are goiug to ex­ pire, or that you contemplate approach ing dissolution. It sounds so much bet­ ter."--Texas Si/tings. Seenm la and lay Death-Trap--Heroic Walk •f the Reseners. A few minutes before 5 o'otook en VM morning of Wednesday, Jan. 10, the Newhall House, in Milwaukee, which sheltered at the time 300 souls, was discovered to be on fire In an incredibly short space of time the large hostelry was a mass of juins, and it is probable that 100 persons lost their lives. Many leaped from the windows, only to be mangled by the sidewalks below, or to be shockingly lacerated by the inter­ twined telegraph wires, while others sank ba<51c into the flames, appalled at the dreadful distance to the street There were sixty young girl servants in title bouse, and but eleven were rescued, some of whom were fatally injured. Many escapes from a dreadful death are recorded, and the heroic deeds of some of the firemen in aiding and saving the helpless make a bright spot in the dark tragedy. The totai loss, includ­ ing Injuries to adjoining buildings, will foot up #5o0,000, and the insurance is #102,300. A detailed account of the dreadful holocaust, gleaned from the reports telegraphed to the daily press, is printed below. The fire was said to have caught in the basement, shot with lightning rapidity up the elevator-shaft, and burst forth in terrific volume from the roof. The flames spread out in the different stories as they were reached, and, in a few minutes after the first alarm, the floors on the south end of the building were a sea of fire, all burning at once. Guests, awakened from their Bleep by the heat or the bursting of the flames into their rooms, were forced to the windows, where their heartrending cries rang in the ears of the va«t concourse of people gathered in the street, powerless to render aid. Men who in the daily walks of life have been accounted heartless and unfeeling wrung their hands in despair, running about utterly be­ wildered, exclaiming: "My God! my God, this is horrible!" Then a black object would appear on the outside of the window, driven out by the smoke and flame, a piercing scream rend the morning air, and a heavy thud would announce that a human being had dropped from the dizzy height to meet death on the pavement below. At one time there were six persons hang­ ing from six window-sills at the fifth story at the same time, crying in agonizing tones for the help that could not be asndered them, and one after another loosened their grip and met their fate. Vne man,by letting himself down at arms' length from a fifth-story window, put his feet tti rough the window below and reached the fourth floor in safety. The operation was repeated until the third floor was reached, each point in his perilous descent being greeted with encouraging cheers from the bystanders. As he was putting his feet through the top of the Beoond-story window his hand slipped from the sill above, and with a wild shriek of despair he fell back­ ward. turning over several times and strik­ ing the pavement on his head, and was man­ gled beyond recognition. Another man jumped from the fifth-story window, struck the telegraph wires on Mich­ igan street, bounded up, and came down a mangled mass of flesh and bones. A number of people dropped out of the different stories on to the jumptng-canvas, but, in a majority of cases, they were killed outright or sustained injuries from which there is little hope of recovery. During the progress of the tire two men appeared at a window in an upper story, and, as they looked down upon the Bcene below„ the floor of the room gave way, and, with an agonizing shriek, luef w back­ ward into the vortex of flames, Mr. Allen Johnson and his wife sprang from a ttfth-story window. He was caught in the jumping canvas, but sustained in­ juries from which he died. His wife struck on the telegraph wires, bounded over, and was also caught, but was so badly injured that she only survived her husband about an hour. In three-quarters of an hour after the dis­ covery of the fire the building was a total loss. At 5:80 o'clock the Broadway front of the building, unsupported by rafters from within, gave out, and came "thundering to the pavement Shortly after that the tot- terin<r walls of the southeast corner of the building followed, tearing a heavy telegraph pole to the ground, which felled Ben Van Haag, a truckman of Hook and Ladder Com­ pany No. 2, beneath its weights Poor Ben, a favorite in the department, received fatal injuries. He died in a few hours later, faith­ ful to liis post unto death., While these scenes are being enacted on the Broadway and Michigan sides of the ill- fated building, one of still-greater horror was being enacted in the alley in the rear. The servants' quarters were in the northwest quarter of the building, remote from the place in which the tire was raging, but all means of escape by the stairways was cut off by the flames. As the terrible roaring and crackling of the flames struck upon their ears they became panic-stricken, and eight of them followed each other in leaping from the dizzy height to the ground in the alley. The jumpin^-canvas was on hand, but it was powerless in the conflict with death, and was clotted over with the victims' blood. At this juncture the cool-headed hero of the day appeared upon the top of the build­ ing, opposite the servants' quarters, with a ladder in his hand For a moment the long, unwieldy thing poised in mid air and then descended, with a crash, through the win­ dow of the hotel. It framed a bridge across the alley, however, and before it became steady in its position the man had crossed over into the hotel. Then, amid the cheers of the multitude below, the man dragged the helpless creatures across the slender bridge until fully adozen were rescued. They were all of the'm in their night-clothes, ana many were badly frozen before they could be taken to shelter. A woman in "a dead faint, and unable to help herself in any par­ ticular, was dra^ped across in safety, but at one time the whole of her body was hanging over clear of the ladder, while the brave man held her by one of her anklea The crowd below held their breath in suspense, expecting every moment to see the fodder turn over or break beneath the terrible strain. The man, however, was equal to the emergency, and, by a herculean effort, {mlled her upon the slender bridge and final-y placed her out of danger, while the crowd, which had endured the most painful suspense for fully ten minutes, burst forth with round after round of applause. As early as 6 o'clock the bodies of seven unfortunate waiter-girls, once blooming in youth, were stretched upon the snow and Ice, with broken limbs, writhing in ajrony until death ended their sufferings. After almost superhuman efforts ladders were stretched from the roof of the bank-building across the alley to the sixth story of the hotel, and the brave lire-laddies carried ten girls across the frail bridge, four of them dead. The maze of telegraph-wires en­ circling the building on tke south and east sides played sad havoc with the unfortunates who made the fright­ ful leap Several of the bodies were fairly cut deep into bv the wires, and then the torn and bleeding form/) would drop to the ground. Others would hit the wires crossways, rebound, aud be hurled to the ground with a dreadful crash. To the Soor unfortunate waiter-girls (all lodged in ie sixth story and the attics) the saddest lot had fallen. Of the sixty young girls only eleven were heard from as alive as late as evening. The dead and a portion of the wounded were conveyed to the American Express office. The wounded were cared for at the Kirby House and the stores on East Water street John F. Antisdel, the principal proprietor, was driven crazy over the terrible affair. He ran up and down Michigan street, moan­ ing and crying: '•Oh! Oh! My God, who set that afire?" Over his head was a black doth. He held his hands heavenward as if invoking divine aid When he came to the mangled body of one of his guests his rav­ ings were pitiful in the extreme. All efforts to soothe him failed His son and partner, James Antisdel, stood on the street, silent and undemonstrative, as if paralyzed by the horror. All of the landlord's family es­ caped. • Mr. Nash too, la almost wild with grief, r«» Mt fostf"<I^onVos» toss of the building, if rbsen saved." Hi was tWbniMiB ̂and son- tor ten years in charge department in T. A. upiod a room in one of . fronting on Michigan Surrounded by flames, she apMSfead at one of tha wtbdowa, and for an iabtant looked imptortaafcr down at the throng be­ low, and then tea back into the vortex of fire and perished. There was a fire escape within hsrraacbi hut the poor woman was so completely overcome by the horror of these these abMN tents. Miss Libbi« of the di Chapman's the upper her Kituatlon that she,was powerless to act. Judson J. HoujMi, of Peoria, III, who had both legs bronjt sad received other inter­ nal injuries 1w from a fifth-story window into the fianvas held bv the firemen, died at the « efttral Police Station Mr. Hough was visiting the family of Allen Johnson. He was a special stent of the Northwestern National Fire InioTance Com- panv of the city, and leaves a wife and four children. He was about 40 years of age. ' There was a toudjltfng scene when he tried to teil the bystaMlers where he lived He spelled **t tha words "P-e-o-r-i-a, w-i-f-e, b-a-b-y!" One of 4he saddest facts in connection with this awful catastrophe is the fate of Mr. aud Mm John Gilbert Mr. Gilbert is connected with, the Minnie Palmer Com­ pany. playing the part of the gambler in "Mv Sweetheart.* Monday, in Chicago, just before leaving for Milwaukee, Mr. Gilbert married a young ladv to whom he was de­ votedly attached, and who reciprocated the love bestowed dgpm her. Wednesday morn­ ing the fair young wife lay in the morgue dead, and at the rlankinton House, writhing in agony, lay the husband, but a step from death's door. There was a strange incident when Mrs Gilbert's body reached the morgue An Irishman identified the corpse as that of his daughter. He £t once proceeded to strip from the fingeas of the dead woman her sparkling rings and to wrench the ornaments from her ears. At that moment old Mr& Donahue reached the morgue, and, with a passionate burst of grief, reoognized the body as that of iter daughter-in-law. "It's my child," crietf the alleged father, still stripping the iswelry from the dead wom­ an's person. The grief-stricken old lady and the robber connronted each other, ana the painful scene snnd the ghastly surroundings created the greatest oonfuaton. The multitude by this time had swelled to thousands, who stood in perfect awe, but lew having self-possession .and resolution enough to lend a helping hand on the can­ vases stretched out to receive those of the despairing inmates of the burning pyre who risked the leap down to the stone sidewalk 100 feet beloat At first there were only Lieut Bockwood, Detectives Bieman and McManus, Officers O'Brien and Campbell, and a few Sentinel men stretching the heavy canvas, which required fully thirty strong men to handle successfully. A poor fellow stood on the cornice of the fifth- story corner Window for twenty long minutes not daring the fearful leap. Finally he became bewildered, to judge by his actions, or dumbfounded by smoke, and slid off his perch to the canvas below. The few who held it could not tjive it the necessary resistance. The body fell, unhindered by the canvas, with a crash which sent a shudder through every witness The shattered body was carried into the American Express oflice. .All the while hundreds of petple had been looking on, no­ body responding to the demands of the officers for aid. Everybody seemed to be spellbound. Tgts terrible spectacle seemed to have paralyzed every bit of will­ power. In the sixth-story window, right over this unfortunate, sat the figure of a man, crouched Upon the window-sill, gazing like one absent-minded into the fiery abyss below, motionless, but from time to time sending up a heartrending shriek. Steadily the flames encroached upon him. He dill not seem to mind it Then the flames singed his hair, licked his night-clothes. One des­ pairing look he gave to the crowd below, and then tumbled back into the sea of fire. A man and woman appeared at a window of the third story. They were recognized as Allen Johnson |md his wife. A canvas was the windows of their apart- occupied by Prof. Haskins thousand voices called, be- to Jump. Mr. John- wife, then leaped DI A COAL iff. Terrific Explosion of Ftre-Dantp In a Mine at Cevltorvllle, 111*--Tea Mea fatten Uy An espldtfcm of fire-damp in Jones * Nes- tttfs ooal mine, nesr Coulterville, III, caused the death of ten persona A osnespondent a* tha scene of the exploskm furnishes the following particulars of the sad disaster: The excitement in view of the terrible ex- in the Jones & Nisbet mine has sub- stretched bel< ments, formei and lady, and seeching th< son 1 ' into tin ' and shot aowum^ into the canvas; but his weight was such that the canvas was pulled out of the hands of the few who held it, and he landed on the ground with deathly force. His wife fol­ lowed. Her body struck the veranda and fell tp the grouufl lifeless. Mr. Allen died shortly afterward in tne Express office, ana his dead body was laid beside that of his wife until they were borne away. About a dozen jumped from the Michigan street front Each leap meant death or shattered limbs, and not less than four un­ fortunates at one time lay upon the icy side­ walk in front of the Chamber of Commerce, clad only in night-shirts, blood and brains oozing from the wounds through which the bones protruded. Some were carried to the express office and others to the ground floor of the Mitchell Building, where cots had been hastily arranged, and from there they were carried off to the houses of kind- hearted people^ Gen. Tom Thumb and wife, who were stopping at the hotel, had a narrow escape. They were awakened bv a policeman, and hurriedly made their exit through a window and down a long ladder, Mrs. Thumb mak­ ing the descent in the arms of the offioec, They lost all their baggaga Hon. William E. Cramer, editor of the Eveiiinif Wixconxlu, and wife, who had rooms on the t-econd floor, received serious but not fatal injuries, and he is now under medical care at the Plankinton. Mr. Cramer was badly burned about the hands and head Mrs, Cramer's hair was badly burned, as were also her hands and feet. ! Sixteen of the victims have been posi­ tively identified, as follows: Allen Johnson, commission man, Milwaukee; Mrs. Allen Johnson, Milwaukee; D. G. Powers, inventor, Milwaukee; J. H. Hough, traveling man, Peoria. Ill; Mm John Gilbert, wife of the actor; Miss Libbie Chellis, dressmaker, Mil­ waukee; Mr. Huff, insurance agent, Iowa; Mrs. Kelly, servant; Miss O'Neil, servant; Bessie Brown, chain bermald; Thomas E. Van. Loon, capitalist, formerly of Albany, N. Y., later of Milwaukee; Mairtrie Owens, servant. Milwaukee; Kate Linehan, servant, Milwaukee: Maggie Sulli­ van, servant, Milwaukee; Augusta Gesa, servant, Milwaukee; Mary McDade, servant, Milwaukee; Mitchell Hallan, servant, Mil­ waukee; C. Hewey, conductor Wisconsin Central, Milwaukee; Marv McMahon, Mil­ waukee ; Charles Kelsey, Tom Thumb s ser­ vant; Mary Conroy, laundress, Milwaukee; Ottillie Waltersdorf, kitchen girl, aged 18; Catharine Monahan, pantry-waiter, Bridget O'Donneli, hall-girl, Sun Prairie, Wis. The Newhall House was built by Daniel Newhall and his associates in 1S57. The original cost of the structure, including the lot and furniture, was #-??0,000. It was situ­ ated on the southeast corner of Broadway and Michigan street; was built of Milwaukee brick; the dimensions were 1^0x180 feet It wsis six stories high and had 300 rooms. The hotel was a tinder-box, a fire-trap. Instead of brick partition walls, trestle-work of twelve-Inch pine timber formed the main support and constituted the principal di­ visions of the entire building' above tV ground floor. A Milwaukee dispatch of the 12th Inst says: There were 11 'f fruests and sixty-seven employes in the building1. Of these "twenty have been so far identified among the dead, forty -eight are missing and sixty-seven are known to be saved, leaving- fortv-two unac­ counted for and supjwsed to be in the ruins. The tottering walla were torn down yester­ day by a force of 100 men employed by the Board of Public Worka The Common Council indulged in a squabble as to the ex­ pense of rescuing the bodies, three Alder­ men opposing the prosecution of the search. A week will be required to remove the debris sided. Ten strangled and burned bodies, lie ta the public hall dressed and arranged for buriaL Their names are: Nicholas Kohl, Frank Brown, Henry Fury, Thomas Hanson, Henry Starr, Sr., Robert Dunla*<, James W. King, A. H. Combs, Frank Shanford, Henry Btsxr. Jr. Eight of them were married. Among than they leave torenty-five orphans. The explosion was heird at the top, and when the hoisting cage was pulled up a few min­ utes later a man and boy staggered from it blackened with smoke, and so exhausted that they had to be supported The man was Sylvester Mason, the foreman of the mine. Ten other men were known to be in thepit The details are mtfager, the, clearest ac­ count of the catastrophe being that given by Sylvester Mason, one of the survivors. Mr. Mason said that the shaft was 3>30 feet deep, and at the bottom a corridor seven feet wide leads eastward for over 200 yards. On each side of the corridor are the mining rooms where the men work during the day, drilling into tbe seven-foot vein of coal. It is customary to fire the blasts all together late-in the afternoon. Each man lights his fuse, and then all hands run for safety to some niche, the blasts all being fired at a time. Foreman Mason said that he went down the shaft shortly after 4 o'clock and found that thirteen charges ware ready to be tired He told the men to light the fuses. After giving the order he started for the foot of the main shaft, AX) yards away, accompanied by William Starr, a boy whose father and brother were at work in the nit. "I stood at the foot of the shaft," said Sir. Mason, "waiting for the men to come out, so that I could check them off and see that none would l>e left I heard three shots a few moments apart, and then a fourth, foil-wed in an instant by a terrible explosion in the gal­ lery, where the ten men were. Next came a rush of air, followed by a great volume of fire that tilled the whole corridor. I was blown against the side of the shaft, aud my leg badly hurt The boy Starr was stunned. First I thought I would wuit and endeavor to save some of the men, but the flames were coming up to me very fast The fumes became almost stifling, even in the shaft, and I felt that it would be suicide to remain any longer. I stepped on the cage, draj&ed the boy, who was insensible, after me, and rang the hoisting belL When we reached the surface I was almost strangled, and tha hoy was apparently dead. Three of the men were badly burned; tha other seven were dead from suffocation. One of them, Frank Brown, was found crouched upon his knees, his head close against the floor, to get away from the smoke, and his clothes and his flesh were burned from his back. The corpses were hoisted up two at a time. At the top of the shaft the bodies were washed, the legs were tied together, and the victims were carried lfi spring wagons to the town, where they were laid out in the assembly-room of the Coultervi le Band. It was midnight be­ fore the work was over. The town to-djjiy is in mourning. The explosion was evidently caused by fire-damp. The mine was extremely badly'ventilated, there being but one opening and no air-shaft at alE Nesbit & Jones opened the mine about tea J8MTB XLYHTH C05GBES& The Foolish tfooae. • A Goose having been placed in a Pen and fed • until she could scarcely Breathe happened to catch sight of a loan old Hen on the Fence, and called out: "You can now see which of tls stands highest in estimation of our Master. Here I am provided with a Warm Pen and fed until my Crop is bursting, while you have to roost anywhere and have not an Ounce of Fat under your Feathers." "That's all right, mv Friend," re­ plied the Hen, "but while your Goose will be cooked for Christinas, I live to see inanv Months vet " The Senate devoted the principal part of the Say, at its session on the 5th inst, to the discussion of the Presidential Succession bill Senator Garland, of Arkansas, made an earnest plea for the passage of the meas­ ure, declaring that "after the 4th of March next, the life of President Arthur is the only life between order and anarchy." He faVored a Presidential term of six years Messrs Jones, of Florida, and Mor­ gan, of Alabama, opposed the bill Mr. Ingalls presented to the Senate a petition for the admifuinn of Dakota fM a state. Mr. Test Submitted a report in relation to Yel­ lowstone Park. President Arthur nominated to the Senate Gustavus Goward, of Illinois; to be Secretary of the American Legation in Japan. The House took up the District of Columbia bill, which appropriates #3,443,847, and passed it The proceedings of Congress on the 0th Inst were tame and uninteresting. In tha Senate, petitions from Wisconsin were pre­ sented for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the side of intoxicating liquors, as also a memorial from Oregon for the im­ provement of Columbia river. A House bill was passed to permit the free exportation of tobacco and cigars A bill was reported to grant right of way through public land In Alabama to the Rome and Decatur railroad. Toe House listened to a communication from the President recomm -ndlng an ap­ propriation of $100,000 to complete the cen­ sus. Mr. White, of Kentucky, offered a res­ olution as to the n cessity for -the presence of Commissioner Baurn in Illinois, where enormous quantities of distilled spir ts now He In bonded warehouses, and whose owners are petitioning fur extension of the bonded period. The Presidential Succession bill was dis­ cuss- d at some length by the Senate on the 3th inst, : nd Mr. Beck, who has heretofore '>pp'.ecd the'measure, gave it his support A bill was passed to prohibit the use of the Capitol for other than legitimate purposes. Mr. Pendle: on presented a memorial of Cincinnati merchants against the proposed national bankrupt law. In the House, bills were introduced to create a postal telegraph, to reduce letter postage to 1 cent, to bridge St Croix lake and Ni­ agara river, and to limit the coinage of standard silver dollars to the requirements or the people. A resolution was adopted for the appointment of a cominittee to in­ vestigate the charge that John Bailey, Chief Clerk of the House, is an agent of the Wash­ ington Gas Company. The Shipping bill was disoussed. A resolution was adopted by the Senate, on the 9th inst, requesting the suspension of daily mail service between Fort Niobrara and Deadwocd and between Chamberlain and Rapid City. A joint resolution was adopted authorizing Ensign Reynolds to ac­ cept a decoration from the Emperor of Aus­ tria Memorials were presented from the Georgia Legislature in favor of the Educa­ tional bill, and from the Kentucky University for an appropriation for the support of schools in the Statea A favorable report was made on the bill to grant to a railroad and tele­ graph line the right of way through the Fort Smith military reservation. The bill to provide for the Presidential succession passed the Senate by a vote of 40 yeas to 15 nays The bill was amended in several par­ ticulars before being put upon its passage, and, as it now stands, the Cabinet oflicer whp may succeed to the Presidency will hold of­ fice but a very brief period. It is made his duty, if Congress is not at the time in sess­ ion, to convene that body within twenty days to provide for permanently tilling the vacant position by an election under the present law. The House devoted the entire day to the consideration of the Shipping bilL The burden of several of the speeches was opposition to any provision look­ ing to the repeal of State laws imposing taxes upon merchant vessels. Mr. Springer enlightened the House on the legal questions involved As Mr. Springer rose to speak on the bill, a colored man stood up in the gallery and commenced an oration, which was interrupted by the doorkeeper; Mr. Lapham presented a petition in the Senate on the 10th inst from members of the New York Board of Trade for the pass­ age of the Lowell Bankruptcy bill. Mr. Frye introduced a joint resolution for the termination of the fisheries treaty between the United States and Great Britain. The Tan ft bill was considered in com- mittee of the whole. In the House, Mr Crapo offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to report what legisla­ tion is necessary to establish low and equita­ ble telegraphic rates between the States of the Union and foreign countries Mr. Aid- rich introduced a bill providing for the ex- '-"onof distilled spirits on giving one Mr. Mills offered a resolution inquir- of the Attorney General the amount canca?" "pecial 00,1,1861 10 ̂star-route to investigate the charges acaTnst'tShe0 Clerk of the House, John BaSey. mm Senate, ea the DtfciXMt Chamber of {U>iiniiMWe,Mgslihi aradaottenof once prior to refr'ftiiriieiWent «hafn»e graated. The vote stood: Yeas, Jfl); nays, 20U MSMjrs. Cameron of Pennsylvania, Sewell qf Sew Jersey, and Boar of Massachusetts srhtcd with the Democrats in the affirmative With these exceptions,the Republicans voted solid­ ly againM. the bill, the l/emocratsaU support­ ing it Mahone and Biddleberger dodged the vote. The House of Representatives re­ sumed discussion of the Shipping bill. Candler's free-ship amendment was agreed to by 125 to 104. Holmaa's amendment, providing that 50 per cent of the drawback •hall be paid to the laborers employed in tha construction of any vessel, was rejected PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION. Provisions of the BUI PMM<1 bjr tlto Senate. The hill which passed the United States Senate regulating the spccessiea to tha Presidency provides that in case of the re­ moval, death, resignation or inability of both the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, or hi case of his removal, death, resignation or inability, then another member of the Cabinet in order of pre­ cedence: Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney Gen­ eral, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, shall act as President until the dis­ ability is removed, or until the vacancy is otherwise lawfully filled, such officer being eligible to the office of President under the constitution, and not under articles of im­ peachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the oflice shall devolve upon him. Provided, That whenever the powers and duties of the President of the United States shall de­ volve upon any of the persons named, if Congress be not in session, or if it would not meet regularly within twenty days thereafter, it Bhall be the duty of the person upon whom powers and duties shall devolve to issue a proclamation convening Congress in extra­ ordinary session, giving twenty days' notice of the tune of meeting. Section two enacts that the first section shall only he held to describe and apply to those omcers who shall have been appointed by the advice and consent of the senate to the offices therein named. By the third section, section 146 of the Re­ vised Statutes is repealed. is * ^ ... .. ' ! V , A:* When You Are Host Likely "Have the hours most fatal to life ever been ascertained ?" "Yes, to a certain extent. I have the data here of some very interesting conclusions ascertained in 2,880 in­ stances of death at all ages. The ex­ amples are taken from all conditions of life and during a period of several years. If the deaths of the 2,880 had occurred indifferently at any hour during the twenty-four hours, 120 would have Occurred at each hour. But this was by no means the case. There are two hours in which the pro­ portion was remarkably below this-- two minima, in fact--namely, from mid­ night to 1 o'clock, when the deaths were 83 per cent, below the average, and from noon to 1 o'clock, when they were 204 per cent, below. From 3 to 6 o'clock a. m., inclusive, and from 3 to 7 p. m;, there is a gradual increase in the former «of 23f per cent, above the average, in the latter of 5$ per cent. The maximum of death is from 5 to 6 a. m., when it is 40 per cent, above the average; the > next, during the hour before midnight, when it is 25 per cent, in excess; a third hour of excess is that from 9 to 10 o'clock in the morn­ ing, being 17| per cent. alw>ve. From 1A - ̂ A -- A _i1 J i.l._ .1 A. iii. w o p. ui. iire uettvns are KSSS numerous, being 16f per cent, 'below the average, the hour before noon being the most fatal. From 3 o'clock p. m. to 7 p. m., the deaths rise 54 per cent, above the average, and the fall from that hour to 11 p. m. averages 6£ per cent, below the mean. During the hours from 9 to 11 o'clock in the even­ ing there is a minimum of 6$ per cent, below the average. Thus the least mortality is during the midday hours, namely, from 10 to 3 o'cloiok, the greatest durifcg early morning hours, from 3 to 6 o'clock. -- Philadelphia Presx. A Youthftil Financier. An old stove had been standing for some time in the wood-shed of an Aus­ tin gentleman, when it occurred to his boy, Henry, that the old rusty Btove might be converted into a well-spring of joy by selling it to an old junk man, aud advantageously investing the avails in such things as boys like. The pre­ liminary negotiations and the transfer of property were made without any power of attorney from the boy's fath­ er, the (le jure owner, and the money was invested in jack-knives, fishing- lines, candy and like bric-a-brac. The parent soon after happened to go into the shed, and he noticed that the old stove was not in its accustomed haunts. "What has become of that old stove, Henry?" "What old stove, pa?" asked Henry, his face wearing that look of calm inno­ cence that lias become so scarce of late years, except on the faces of saints, paiuted by the old masters. "Damiino what has become of that old stove," continued the honest lad. "It was here not long ago," said his •father. "It was all covered with i%st, wasn't it, pa?" "Yes, it was very much eaten by rust." "Thent" exclaimed Henry, triumph­ antly, "I know what Itecame of that old stove. The rust ate it up." The ravages of the teeth of time have become proverbial, but that rust will chew up a second-hand stove, if it is not watched, is a new revelation that should be made the subject of scientific re­ search.--Texm* Siftings. A New Proposition. It is related of an up-town resident that, after the butcher bill had grown to such figures that the butcher could no longer carry the debt, he gave his note for ninety days in settlement. Three or four days after the butcher had received the note he called upon the creditor and said: "I have vonr note for #215, dike in three months." "Vou-have." "What • should be .the discount on such a note?" "Well, you ought to be able to real­ ize at least $205." "Would you hand me $200 and take the note?" "I should only be too glad to," promptly replied the cre<Jitor, "but for my pride. To ask a man to discount his own paper is simply to humiliate him." "But I have tried all the banks, sir, and none of them will take it." "Ah! I see! It's too small a matter for them to handle. I owe the grocer $190.50. Suppose you pay it and let me tear up this note, and give you one for botli amounts combined!" The butcher is still holding the orig­ inal note.-- Wall Street News. \ Tmmtmm. lb may be a general priaaiple that meeVfish or poultry in a stafa* of decay cannot be eaten wftfe sa&ty, since symptoms of .irritant- poi­ soning have so fiMQUently arisen from . thiseause. But a little comrideratiofti will show us the impossibility of drawl­ ing a hard and fast fine upon thispointl. : : We relish venison that has partiaUtS i undergone decay, while we at once res^ ^ ject beef or mutton in a similar eondi^ tion. Again, poultry to be palatably must be fresh, yet we do not scruple t|t» eat game far advanced in decomposi­ tion. There is no doubt that in many- cases we are guided by our palates in? determining what food is wholesome foff us; for while many of us eat moldy cheese a Chinaman will swallow badfe eggs, and some races enjoy fish wliiclfc „ we should consider putrid. Even oa» regards oysters, which are generally relished in proportion to their fresl% ness, it is sometimes a matter of tastew For example, it is recorded of the firsi : = monarch of the House of Hanover thai he objected to the English native oyst* ter as being-deficient in flavor. It wai* privately suggested by a shrewd court* ier that the native oyster should be aSC'-TJ lowed to become somewhat stale before' being brought to the royal table. The King at once recognized the flavor* ' which had always pleased him so much at Herrenhausen, and gave orders that in future ̂ he should be supplied froni that particular bed. The absence of', evil consequences after eating food: which has undergone a certain amount of decay is doubtless due in many cases to the completeness of the cooking: . process; but this does not militate- agfinst the general rule that food in any ; stage of decay is unwholesome an#, should be avoided.--Good Words. An Uncerstanding Wanted.̂ *"™ He entered the library with a 20-cent cigar in his mouth and his hat on his ear, and called out: "Say, Guv'ner!" ^ "Sir," answered the father, as he< wheeled around, "who are you speaking; ^r-I-that is, I'd like a $20 "What of it, sir?" "I shouldn't want to give my note." "Give a hundred of them, and they wouldn't be worth a shilling." "And I shouldn't want ono of my creditors to come to you." "If they did, I'd throw 'em out of the* window. "How can I sustain my position without money?" inquired the son. "You have none to sustain, sir." They looked at each other for a long moment, and then the young man re* moved his hat, threw away his cigar* and humbly said: * "Say, father, let's come to an under­ standing. Lend me $5 and take it out * of my next month's allowance, won'i ' yotr* . Profit on Cabbngeg. That some profit may be made by th® j culture of cabbage is shown by the fol« lowing statement of the results ob« tained frem one acre: Plowing and har­ rowing cost $10.50; planting, $6; cul­ tivating, $15; marketing, $20; total,, $45. The rasults were 5,400 marketable heads and 400 heads which did not fill well. Sales amounted to $145, an<f enough cabbages were left to supply the stock and for home consumption,. The 400 imperfect heads were wortht sbnni on® and one h^lf maki g total receipts from one acre-, $151; or, after deducting expenses^fi<' $106. This does not include cost of' plants. No other vegetable respond# more promptly and satisfactorily to good treatment than does the cabbage. A sprinkling of salt on the leaves will help to obtain good, solid heads. The. soil should be very rich and mellow to> give the best results, light loam or- sandy soil being the best for the pro-* duction of cabbige. A Sixteen-Story Gardes. William G. Freyman's garden, one of the finest in Mauch Chunk, is typical 0} the "Switzerland in America." It re* quires a good deal of engineering skill to lay out a garden on a hill 200 feefc high, and so steep that one could ciimla it only when armed with an alpenstock^, and evvn then only by firmly inserting the toe-nails in the crevices of the red • rock that formed the precipi ous bluff,, and Mr. Freyman has accomplished the- difiicult task. By a liberal outlay of ' money and labor, he has built a garden containing nearly an acre of ground, and separated into fifteen stories by walls built across its entire breadth- The ascent of the stories is by means of a long flight of steps, several hundred in number, and from a rustic arl)or, somewhere up in the tenth or eleventh story, a splendid view of the borough Li to be had.--Matu h Chunk Gazette. "Ma," he asked at dinner, "who waa Charlotte Russe?" "Oh!" said ma, "she was one of them old Queens what,, made trouble duriug the liestouition.*' THE MARKETS. Bacvss. HOGS... COTTON. NKW YORK .*«.» 0t 6.30 & f>.80 wiivn. .yi FLOUB--Snperflne. S.S8 WHEAT--No. 1 White. LSI LM M No. 2 Red CORN--No. 2 OATS--No. A PORK--MEAT 18.34 I«ABD. . < CHICAGO."'"' Basra--Good to Fancy 8teera.. Cows and Heifer* _ Medium to Fair. FLOOR--Fancy White Winter EX! Good to Choice Spr'gEx. WHEAT--No. 2 Sorintr No. 3 Itcd Winter....... CORN--NO. 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