Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1878 — The Metropolis’ Disaster. [ARTICLE]

The Metropolis’ Disaster.

Mr. Hawley, Acting Secretary of the Treasury, has transmitted to the subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce of .the House of Representatives to -investigate the cause of the Metropolis disaster copies of the evidence taken by the United States Inspectors at Philadelphia in their investigation of the case, and their report thereon. The report attributes the cause of the disaster to the rotten condition of the ship’s bow and stern, hastened by the unequal distribution of railroad iron comprising the cargo.— Washington telegram. Texas has 4,400 fugitives from justice, with forty counties yet to hear from. Seven hundred and fifty of these persons are murderers, and $90,000 in rewards have been offered for 300 of them. One hundred thousand horses have b«ep stolen in the last three years.