Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1883 — Page 1

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AMERICAN ITEMS. East. Ovington Bros.’ china-ware house in Brooklyn N. Y.,* was destroyed by fire. Loss estimated at #250,000. William A. Beaver, editor of “The Drawer” In Harper'*, died at Mount Vernon, N. Y. H. F. Gye claims to have been robbed, on a train between New York and Philadelphia, of #75,000 worth of diamonds belonging to Mme. Albani, beside a large amount of his own personal property and checks ’ - By affirming a verdict of I*6oo obtained by a" widow against an insurance company, the Supreme Court of. Massachusetts has established the light of an insured man to walk on a railway track without violating the conditions of his policy. F. B. Gowen was re-elected President of the Reading road, Vanderbilt’s agest giving him 75,000 votes Thomas Donahue, a fanner of Williamstown, Mass, has petitioned to be placed in a lunatic asylum, on account of a burning desire to kill somebody. A dividend of 25 percent, has been made by the Tribune Association of New York, It appears that Whit el aw Reid and his relatives own 143 shares out of 200. The inChmbrancQ on the new building Is only #IOO,OOO. A boiler explosion in a blast-furnace at Bethlehem, Pa-, killed four men and funded several others The auction, sale of pews in Beecher’s church netted #37,000. The mills along the river at Camden, Maine, are running on half time for lack of water—something never before known The -Hon. Dot M. Morrill died at Augusta, Me., on the 10th inst., at the age of 08 years. Mr. Merrill has served three terms os Governor'of Maine, and sixteen years, in the United States Senate. MSss Alice Livingston, of New York, who sued a merchant named Henry Fleming for breach of promise, was awarded #75,000. The verdict wpf followed by deafening applause, which the court was unable to suppr6B#T£; ' The City Bank, of Jersey City, has suspended on account of overdrafts by the President, cashier and book-keeper to the amount of the capital stock. West. Ex-Senator John B. Henderson and Tfo 31wygmssman Don Morrison Indulged in a knock-down and hair-pulling in a St Louis court-room. Bystanders palled them apart before any Serious damage was done. Nor thern Ohio was considerably disturbed by an earthquake The canal within the limits of Cincinnati has been 'declared a nuisance, and a bill will be reported in the Legislature to sell that portion of the bed, which is valued at #3,000,000, and reserve the proceeds as a fund to keep the canal system in repair. What was known as the 'Telegraph block in Detroit, on the corner of Griswold and Congress stieets, was ruined by fire. At the first alarm twenty-five employes of the Western Union Company found their means of escape cut off, but all were fortunate enongh to reach the ground by the firemen’s ladder* Near Ulysses, Neb., Mrs. Thompson, while* Insane, put poison In the tea, and herself, husband and an adopted son died in a short time 1 Near Mill Creek, Indian Territory, Alexander Hamilton murdered his wife and a-nian named Smith and then committed suicide. John Cody, a Wisconsin veteran, died at;Manistee, Mich., after fasting 108 , daja His disease was ulceration of the stomach, and during his fast he lost eightythree pounds Sixteen millions of dollars were expended in building in Chicago in 18821 The number of buildings erected was 8,113. A severe shock Of earthquake, lasting about thirty seconds, was experienced on the morning of the 11th in Missouri, Kentucky and Southern Illinois, rousing people from their sleep. The Pennsylvania Company bought at auction the Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central road for #13,800,000. South. Treasurer Polk, for whose delivery on Tennessee soil the Legislature offered a reward of #51,000, was arrested at San Antonio, Texas, and released on a writ of habeas corpus. He then started for Mexico, and was again arrested by a Deputy United States'Marshal just before reaching the Rio Grande. offered the officer #B,OOO to let him go, but the latter was incorruptible. Detectives,Price and Cameron, who accepted bribe# from Marshall T. Polk, to run their prisoner Into Mexico, were arrested at Ban Antonio, and will- be prosecuted as accessories. Cleveland papitalists have organized a company to' build, at Chattanooga, the largest stove factory in the South. The Hon. JE- B. Wasbburne met with a painful, accident, at San Antonio, Texas, being thrown from his horse while riding.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

A committee of the House of Representatives- hrns ascertained that the clerk of the inpreme Court had a net income of #29,000 last year. A recommendation for a reasoixsiMM) sal dry will be made. DffeksdS, who was foreman of the jury lii the recent star-route trials at Washingroh, has been held in #2,500 to appear before the Grand Jury for embracery. All of the Garfield doctors, including Bliss, have decided to accept the amount awarded by Congress A report Trill be made to Congress in favor of purchasing for #15,000 the house in which Abraham Lincoln died. At the residence of Senator Cameron in Washington, Lieut Alexander Rogers, of GameihiU TRrSenator, the reception heingftt.r.,- y , the prominent officials at the capitaL

MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.

The American expedition sent to the Cape of Good Hope to take observations of the transit of Venae has arrived in England with 880 photograph* - Gen. Longstreet has written a letter to ex-President Grant agreeing in detail with his findings in the Fitz John Porter case, and iciting an example where he disobeyed In order of Gen. Lee at the second battle of 801 l Bun, and made a movement which .helped in the defeat of the Union army, /’/ _ ‘ The New York and Western Press Associations are hereafter to be managed by 'Hrfe -1 % ' V. _ ~ ..

VOLUME VI.

William Henry Smith, who will make his headquarters in the former oity.

POLITICAL POINTS.

Capt. W. P. 'Black, independent candidate for Congress in the Third Illinois district, has abandoned his recently begun contest against the Hon. George IL Davis. John B. Manning, Democrat, the most extensive maltster in the United States, was elected Mayor of Buffalo by a majority of 3,510 votea The election in the Ninth Congressional district of Indiana, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Orth, resulted in a triumph for the Republican candidate, Charles T. Doxey. The National Tobacco Association has passed resolutions favoring a tax of 8 cents per pound on tobacco and #3 per 1,000 on cigars, with a rebate equal to the reduction, to take effect May 1. The Republican caucus of the members of the Illinois Legislature, on the fifth ballot nominated Gov. Shelby M. Cullom for United States Senator, in place of David Davis His chief competitors were ex-Sena-tor Oglesby and Commissioner Green B. Raum. A The Elections Committee of the House of Representatives will report in favor of seating Caine, the monogamous Mormon Delegate from Utah. By a vote of 6to 4 they decided to end the Buchanan-Man-ning imbroglio in the Second Mississippi district by deciding the seat vacant.

FOREIGN NEWS.

The funeral of M. Gambetta, at Paris, was tbe occasion of one of the most Imposing pageants w.tnssscd in modern time* The remains of the dead statesman were escorted to the cemetery by a procession estimated at 300,000 persons, and the procession was witnessed by a 1 Peris and suburbs, who had gathered along the line of march, some of them many hours before. Twenty regiments of the garrison were stationed along the route. Every Ambassador was present, and 6ent his carriage to Join the cortege. At the entrance to Pere la Chaise orations were delivered by eight leading spirits. Reinade, an intimate friend of Gambetta, declared that death arose from an accident in handling a pistol, and that the woman mentioned as an assassin nursed Gambetta devotedly for thirtyfour days. Over 1,000 lxonses were washed away in Frankenthal, Germany, by the recent overflow in the Rhine, and sixty persons were drowned A bloody fight occurred between Albanian and European members of the police force at Alexandria. Sagasta lias formed a new ministry for Spain, with Gen. Martinez Campos as Minister of War. Gilles, a Vienna journalist, was charged by the German Government with insulting Bismarck, and his extradition was demanded, but the Austrians decided not to grant the request The German Reichstag has been petitioned hv 6,000 persons to enact a law closing commercial and industrial establishments on Sunday. The police of Berlin broke up the largest public meeting of workingmen held since the passage of the Socialist laws, because of objectionable sentiments uttered by Stoeckel, a Jew-baiter. John O’Brien lias been tried at Cork for using intimidating language against land ords, and sentenced to two months in prison. Ex-suspects named Hodnutt and Gilho ly were convicted of the same offense and similarly sentenced. Edwin Booth inaugurated his Berlin engagement with “Hamlet” His impersonation created immense enthusiasm, and he was repeatedly called before the curtain. The floods in Hungary forced 6,000 persons to abandon the town of Raab, and many were drowned in attempting to escape. Michael Davitt, in a speech at Birkenhead, declared that the people of Ireland had had enough of ..futile agitation, and were going to fight it out this time. Lady Florence Dixie has expended her relief fund of £5,000 in relieving distress in the West of Ireland, and says that it has been the means of keeping the ropfs over 20,000 persona She claims that it is the duty of the Government and the Land League to help the people.

THE PRESIDENCY.

Th« Senate Bill to r-ovlde for the Presidential Succession. The bill which passed the United States Senate regixlattng the succession to the Presidency provides that in case of the removal, death, resignation or inability of both the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, or if there be none, case’ of his removal, death, resignation or inability, then another member of the Cabinet in this order of precedence: Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney General, Postmaster General, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Interior, Shall act as President until the disability is removed, or xxntll the vacancy is otherwise lawfully filled, such officer being eligible to the office of President under the constitution, and not under articles of iinpeachment by the House of Representatives at the time the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon him. Provided , That whenever the powers and duties of the President of the United States shall devolve upon any of the persons named, if Congress be not in session, or if it woxild not meet regularly within twenty days thereafter, it shall be the duty of the person upon whom said powers and dirties shall devolve to Issue a proclamation convening Congress in extraordinary session, giving twenty days’ notice of the time of meeting. Section two enacts that the first section shall only he held to describe and apply to those officers 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 Revised Statutes is repealed

An Accommodating Lawyer.

"I want to engage your services,” said a man to a lawyer. “All right, sir, be seated. What is the case?” "There’s a man in my neighborhood _pamed Alex. Hippen. ' i waat von to “Did the saddle belong to you ?” "No.” "Bnt then you are the prosecuting witness?” s “No, I don’t propose to have anything to do with the case.” “Then why do yon want me to prove that Hippen stole the saddle?” “You see, I stole the saddle myself, and if I can prove that Hippen stole it. I’m all right.” Ah, I see. We’ll fix tliat. Of course we can prove that he stole it.” — Arkanmw Traveler. The Goiilen Buie says congregations have the making and unmaking of good S reackers to an extent they do not ream of.

The Democratic Sentinel.

HOLOCAUST.

Milwaukee the Scene of a Fire Horror Never Equaled in the West. The Newhall House, a Six-Story Hotel, Burns in the Darkness. Shocking Loss of Life—Thrilling Expert* ences of Some of Those Who Escaped. About 4 o’clock on the‘morning of the 10th inst flames appeared In the basement of the Newhall House at Milwaukee, and with marvelous rapidity made their way to the roof, giving nearly 300 people the choice of roasting alive or leaping to the icy pavement The stifling smoke drove many to the window sills, where they clung desperately for a time, but were Boon compelled to let go their hold and be crushed on the sidewalk. Three fruitless attempts to save life by holding a canvas beneath the imperiled guests were made by firemen and citizens. The servants were cut off from the stairways, but a fireman with a ladderbridge rescued eight girls by taking them across the alley. One man slid down a rope of sheets tied to a sewing-machine. A din-ing-room girl rushed down the blazing stairways to the office. In ninety minutes the walls fell in with a deafening crash. The loss of life will probably reach 100, while there are twenty-two missing. The pecuniary loss will probably aggregate #500,00(1 A correspondent at the' scene of the holocaust furnishes the following details of the dreadful calamity: 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 Are, all burning at once. Guests, awakened from their sleep by the beat 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 bewildered, 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 therd were six persons hanging from six window-sills at tne fifth story at the same time, crying in agonizing tones for the help that could not be rendered them, and one after another loosened their grip and met their fate. One man,by letting himself down at arms’ length from 'a iifth-story window, put his feet through 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 second-story window his hand dipped from the sill above, and with a wild shriek of despair he fell backward. turning over several times and striking the pavement on his head, and was mangled beyond recognition. Another man jumped from the fifth-story window, struck the telegraph wires on Michigan street, bounded up, and came down a mangled mass of flesh and bones. A niluxber of people dropped out of the different stories on to the jumping-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 lire two men appeared at a window in an upper story, and, as they looked down upon the scene below, the'floor of the room gave way, and, with an agonizing shriek, they fell backward into the vortex of flames. Mr. Allen Johnson and his wife sprang from a fifth-story window. He was caught in tlie jumping' canvas, but sustained injuries from which he died. HLs wife struck on the i elegraph wires, bounded over, and was also caught, but was so badly injure i that she only survived her husband about an hour. In three-quarters of an hour after the discovery of the fire the building was a total loss. At .5:30 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 tottering walls Qf the soiitheast corner of the building followed, tearing a heavy telegraph pole to the ground, which felled Ben Van Haag, a truckman of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, beneath its weight Poor Ben. a favorite in the department, received fatal injuries. He died in a few hours later, faithful to his post unto death. While these scenes are being enacted on the Broadway and Michigan sides of the illfated 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 fire 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 jumping-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 buildirfg, 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 window 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 a dozen were rescued. They were all of them in their night-clothes, and many were badly frozen they could be taken to shelter. A woman In a dead faint, and unable to help herself in any particular, was dragged 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 ankles. The crowd below held their breath in suspense, expecting every moment to see the ladder turn over or break beneath the terrible strain. The man, however, was equal to the emergency, and, by a herculean effort, {lulled her upon the slender bridge and finaly 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 agony 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 fire-laddies carried ten girls across the frail bridge, four of them dead. The maze of telegraph-wires encircling the building on tke south and east sides played sad • havoc with the unfortunates who made the frightful leap Several of the bodies were fairly cut deep into by the wires, and then the torn and bleeding forms would g r °nnd Others would hit the the ground with a dreadful cr ish. To the poor unfortunate waiter-girls (all lodged in the sixth story and the attics) the saddest lot bad 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 Wat er street John F. Antisdel, the principal proprietor, was, driven crazy over the terrible affair. He ran up and down Michigan street, moaning and crying: “Oh! Oh! Mv God, who set that afire?” Over his head was a black cloth. He held his hands heavenward as if invoking divine aid. When he came to the mangled body of one of his guests his ravings were pitiful in the extreme All efforts to BootUe aim failed. His son and partner. Jumes Antisdel, stood on the street, sileni and undemonstrative, as if paralysed by the

RENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19,1883.

horror. All of the landlord’s family escaped. Mr. Nash too, Is almost wild with grief, and can only say repeatedly: “Oh, my God! If these lives were not fost! I don't care anything about the loss of the building, if these people had only been saved.” He was a one-third. owner of the building and contents. Miss Libbie Chellis, for ten years in charge of the dressmaking department in T. A Chapman's store, occupied a room in one of tiie upper stories, fronting on Michigan treet Surrounded by flames, she appeared at one of the windows, and for an Instant looked Imploringly down at the throng below, and then fell back into the vortex of fire and perished. There was a fire escape within her reach, but the poor woman was so completely overcome by the horror of her situation that she was powerless to act Judson J. Hough, of Peoria, Hi, who had both legs broken and received other internal injuries by jumping from a fifth-story window into the canvas held by the firemen, died at the < entral Police Station. Mr. Hough was visiting the family of Alien Johnson. He was a special agent of the Northwestern National Fire Insurance Com- . panv of the city, and leaves a wife and four children. He was abont 40 years of age. There was a touching scene when he tried to tell the bystanders where he lived He spelled out the words “P-e-o-r-i-a, w-i-f-e, b-a-b-y!” One' of the saddest facts in connection with this awful catastrophe is the fate of Mr. and Mra John Gilbert* Mr. Gilbert is connected with the Minnie Palmer Company. playing the part of the gambler ih “Mv Sweetheart” Monday, in Chicago, just before leaving for Milwaukee, Mr. Gilbert married a young lady to whom he was devotedly attached, and who reciprocated the love bestowed upon her. Wednesday morning the fair young wife lay in the morgue dead, and at the Plankinton House, writhing in agony. Jay 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 at once proceeded to strip from the fingers of the dead woman her sparkling rings and to wrench the ornaments from her earn At that moment old Mra Donahue reached the morgue, and, with a passionate burst of grief, recognized the body as that of her daughter-in-law. “It’s my child,” cried the alleged father, still stripping the jewelry from the dead woman’s person. The grief-stricken old lady ahd the robber confronted each other, and the painful scene amid the ghastly surroundings created the greatest confusion. The multitude by this time had swelled to thousands, who stood In perfect awe, but few having self-possession and resolution enough to lend a helping hand on the canvases stretched out to receive those of the despairing inmates of the burning pyre who risked the leap down to the stone sidewalk 100 feet below. At first there were .only Lieut Rockwood, Detectives Rieman 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 fifthstory 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 Live it the necessary resistance. The body fell, unhindered by the canvas, with a crash which sent a shudder through every witnesa The shattered body was carried'into the American Express office. All the while hundreds of people had been looking on, nobody responding lo the demands of the officers for aid Everybody seemed to be spellbound The terrible spectacle seemed to have paralyzed every bit of willpower. In the Hixth-stor'y window, right over this unfortunate, sat the figure of a man, crouched upon the window-till, 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 did not seem to mind it. Then the flames singed his hair, licked his night clothes. One despairing look he gave to the crowd below, and then tumbled back into the sea of fire. A man and woman appealed at a window of the third story. They were recognized as Allen Johnson and his wife. A- canvas was stretched below the windows of their apartments, formerly occupied by Prof. Haskins and lady, and a thousand voices called, beseeching them to jump. Mr. Johnson kissed his wife, then leaped into the air and shot downward 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 followed Her body struck the veranda and fell to the ground lifelesa Mr. Allen died shortly afterward in the express office, and 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 unfortunates at one time lay upon the icy sidexvalk i i 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 kindhearted people. 'Gen. Tom Thumb and wife, who were stopping at the hotel, had a narrow escape. They were awakened by a policeman, and hurriedly made their exit through a window and down a long ladder, Mra Thumb making the descent in the an'.b of the officer. They lost all their baggage Hon. William E. Craino-. editor of the Evening Whtconxin, and wife,’ who had rooms on the second floor, received serious but not fatal injuries, and he is now under medical care at the Plankinton. Mr. Cramer was badly about the hands and head. Mrs. Cramer’s' hair' was badly burned, as weie also her hands and feet Sixteen of the victims have been positively identified, as follows: Allen Johnson, commission man, Milwaukee; Mm Allen Johnson, Milwaukee; D. G. Powers, inventor, Milwaukee; J. H. Hough, traveling man, Peoria, III.; Mm John Gilbei-t, wife of the actor; Miss Libbie Chellis, dressmaker, Milwaukee; Mr. Huff, insurance agent, Iowa; Mrs. Kelly, servant; Miss O’Neil, servant; Bessie Brown, chambermaid; Thomas E. Van Loon, capitalist, formerly of Albany, N. Y., later of Milwaukee; Maggie Owens, servant. Milwaukee; Kate Linehan, servant, Milwaukee: Maggie Sullivan, servant, Milwaukee; Augusta Gesa, servant, Milwaukee; Mary McDade, servant, Milwaukee; Mitchell Hallan, servant, Milwaukee; C. -Hewey, conductor Wisconsin Central, Milwaukee; Marv McMahon, Milwaukee; Charles Kelsey, Tom Thumb's servant; Marv Conroy, laundress, Milwaukee; Ottillie WaJtersdorf, kitchen girl, agtfct 18; Catharine Monahan, pantry-waiter, Bridget O’Donnell, hall-girl, Sun Prairie, Wis. The Newhall House was built by Daniel Newhall and his associates in 1857. The original cost qf the structure, including the lot and fixrniture, was #‘370,000. It was situated on the southeast corner of Br> ad way and Michigan street; was built of Milwaukee brick; the dimensions were 120x180 feet. It was six stories high aud had 3IU rooms. The hqtel was a tinder-box, a fire-trap. Instead of brick partition walls, trestle-woxk of twelve-inch pine timber formed the main support and constituted the principal divisions of the entire building above the ground floor. A Milwaukee dispatch of the 12th inst says: There were 110 guests and sixty-seven employes in the building. 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 unaccounted for and supposed to be in the ruins. The tottering walls were torn down yesterday by a force of 100 men employed by the Board of Public Works. The Common Council indulged in a squabble as to tbe expense of rescuimr the bodies, three Alder--iaoxr opposing the prOfrecntlOtt’oT tne search. A week will be required to remove the debris.

Clothed in Electric Fire.

A correspondent of the New York Evening Pont gives the following account of an electric storm ou the summit of Pike’s Peak, 14,174 feet above the sea: “For over two hours everything was tipped and covered with electricity. Spanish pack mules, left ou the. summit for the night, appeared to. be all on fire; the clothes of the men seemed ablaze; electricity streamed from the tips of the fingers, from the nose and from the liair. The anemometer on top of the building spat fire at every revolution. Every rock on the summit was covered with flame.”

THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

A Gnest’s Story of His Remarkable Escape from the Newhall House. Perhaps the man who had the most ex. citing experience in the Newhall House fire, at Milwaukee, is Mr. T. J. Anderson, a salesman in the einploy of. George H. Taylor* Co., wholesale paper dealers, Chicago. “I eat on the window-sill of my room,” said he, “and I saw the flames take my bed, my clothes, the floor sink in the mass of flame before I escaped by sliding down the rain-spout which ran along my window. I had a room on the corner of Michigan street and Broadway, on the fourth floor. I had played pool with Mr. L. A Brown, of Philadelphia, until nearly 1 o’clock in the morning, when I went to bed. And, poor fellow, I saw him afterwards go down to his death in the mass of flame,without being able to help him. It was awful! I walked up stairs to my room, as the elevator stopped running at i2:30. On my way up I met the only watchman the hoxise employed, and I asked him how I could escape In case of fira He said easy enough. There were two ways—one by the back stairway, and the other by going through a labyrinth of hall to the front. Brown’s room was opposite to mina I went to bed after that, and I was awakened by the horrible shrieks of burning women and the groans of burning men. It was hell itself, so terrible seemed the Bounds. " The flames were crackling all around, and I opened the door. A great mass of smoke and flame rushed in, and I became stifled. I was unable to again shut it and the smoke almost killed me. I had nothing on but a gauze undershirt I felt my strength leaving me— I was choking. I' sank to the floor. I thought I was gone. But my senses had not altogether left me. I gathered myself up as best I coxild and made toward the window. By a desperate effort I succeeded in getting there. I sank again to the floor. But I rallied and attempted to raise the window. It was so well balanced that it yielded at once to my puny effort and went up. I leaned out and the fresh air revived me. I was strengthened and consciousness returned I looked down below and saw the firemen and police holding the canvas. They shouted for me to jump on the telegraph wires, hut I refused. I saw the ladders up against the building. I sat down on the window-sill and I saw everything go dow-n, my clothes, valise, everything, unable to save a thing. I shouted, I begged, I implored for those below to save me. They saw me, but gave me no help. I saw my friend come from his room and attempt to come to me through the mass of flame, but I saw him go down in the vortex of flame to his death. Oh, such a sight! It was too horrible to' imagine. I saw the tin spout. It was in part covered with ice Three women and one man had tried to descend it, aud they landed in the Valley of Death. They lost their hold and fell to the street below. It was the only means of escape left I seized it with the frantic effort of despair. Everything inside of my room was gone. I caught it in a vise-like grasp and I commenced to slide. Sometimes I slid six to twelve feet and at others a few inches. But I kept going down, using the ice made by the hose as a foothold and catch for my hands, which axe terribly blistered I went clean down to the cellar, fifteen feet below the street, but I was alive and clad in only my gauze undershirt On my way down I saw'two little girls standing in tne window of the third story, and they asked me to save them, but I was powerless to give them aid. and I had to see those innocents not over 0 years old swallowed up by the heartless flames. I saw Kelsey, Tom Thxxmb’s colored servant, go down with the walla 'He was clinging to a window-sill in the fifth story, I walked out to the front and went up-stairs to the 'office, where I found a roman who was tearing her hair. I could not see her face and d;d not know who she was. I spoke to her. but she took no notice of me. I seized her by the ankles and dragged her dow ri bodily, thus saving her life I went across to the express office where I saw An--1 tisdel, who was leaning over Mra Johnson. He said: ‘I am crazy. You rub this woman. I want to go and save my children.’ I was in a position to bexrubbed myself, being naked and chilly. I said to a fireman standing by: ‘I have lost everything.’ He said ‘You’re alive.’ Pointing to a man who was clinging from a fifth-story window, he said: ‘How would you like to change places with him?’ Somebody gave me a coat, and I walked in my bare feet four blocks to the Plankinton House. I was beside myself. On the way I met a woman who threw a shawl over me, and said, ‘Here, poor .boy, take that’ I got clothing, such as it was, from strangers at the Plankinton. I never want to go through such an experience again. ’’

DOINGS OF CONGRESS.

The proceedings of Congress on the 6th inst were tame and uninteresting. In the Senate, petitions from Wisconsin were presented for a constitutional amendment to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, as also a memorial from Oregon for the improvement of Columbia river. A House bill was passed to permit the free exportation of tobacco and cigara A bill was reported to grant right of way through public land in Alabama to the Borne and Decatur railroad. T e House lis ened to a communication from thi President recomm nding an appropriation of .SIOO,OOO to complete the census. Mr. White, of K ntucky, offered a resolution as to the n cess ty for the presence of Commissioner Baum" in Illinois, where enormem qu" ntities of distil ed spir ts now lie in b nded warehouses, and whose owners are pet tioning for extension of the bonded period The Presidential Succession hill was discuss d at s6me length by the Senate on the Bth inst, fnd Mr. Beck, who has heretofore opposed 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 Niagara river, and to limit the coinage of standard silver dollars to the requirements of the people A resolution was adopted for the appointment of a committee to investigate the charge that John Bailey, Chief Clerk of the House, is an agent of the Washington Gas Company. The Shipping bill was discussed. A resolution was adopted by the Senate, on the 9th inst., requesting the suspension of daily mall service between Fort Niobrara and Deadwopd and between Chamberlain and Bapid City. A joint resolution was adopted authorizing Ensign Beynolds to accept a decoration from the Emperor of Austria Memorials were presented from the Georgia Legislature in favor of the Educational bill, and from the Kentucky University for an appropriation for the support of schools in the States. A favorable report was made on the bill to grant to a railroad and telefraph line the right of way through the ort 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 particulars before being put upon its passage, and, as it now stands, the Cabinet officer who may succeed to the Presidency will hold office but a very brief period. It is made his duty, if Congress is not at the time in session, to convene that body w thin twenty days to provide for permanently, idling the vacant position by. an election under the present law. The House devoted the entire day to the cons deration of the Shipping bill The burden of several of the speeches was opposition to any provision looking to the repeal of State laws imposing taxes upon merchant vessels Mr. Springer enljghtened the House on the legal questions involved. As Mr. Springer rose to speak oh the bill, a colored man stood up in the gallery and commenced an oration, which was interrupted by the doorkeeper. Mr. Lapham presented a pe.itioniu the Senate on the 10th inst from members of the New York Board of Trade for the passage 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 Tariff bill was considered in committee of the whole In the House, Mr. Crapo offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to report what legislation is necessary to establish low and equitable telegraphic rates between the States of the Union and foreign countries. Mr. Aidrich introduced a bill providing for the exportation of distilled spirits on giving one bond. Mr. Mills offered a resolution inquiring of the Attorney General the amount paid to special counsel in the star-route

] cases. A special committee was appointed ] to investigate the charges against the Chief I Clerk of the House. John Bailey. Mr. Cameron presented a memorial in the on the 11th inst, from the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce.against a reduction of the tariff on bituminous coaL The bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter was passed, with an amendment providing that no pay or allowance prior to reinstatement shall be granted The vote stood: Yeas, 33; nays, 2d Messrs. Cameron of Pennsylvania, Bewell of New Jersey, and Hoar of Massachusetts voted with the Democrats in the affirmative. With these exceptions, the Republicans voted solidly against the bill, the Democrats all supporting it. Mahone and Riddleberger dodged the vote. The House of Representatives resumed disexxßsion of the Shipping bill. Candler's free-ship amendment was agreed to by 125 to 104. Holman’s amendment, providing that 50 per cent, of the drawback shall lie paid to the laborers employed in the construction of any vessel, was rejected Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill in the Senate, on the 11th inst., to provide for determining the existence of inability in the President. Bills were passed to extend the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Idaho, Washington and Montana, and to grant to the St. Louis and San Francisco road the right of way through the Fort Smith military reservation. Nearly four hours were spent in executive session on the Mexican claims treaty, recently signed by Secretary Frelinghuysen. In the House, Mr.. Butterworth reported a bill authorizing the Southern Pacific, Chesapeake and Ohio, and connecting roads, to form a transcontinental route. A resolution was adopted calling for information as to whether the land-grant roads had complied with the laws in regard to the maintenance of telegraph linos for the use of the Government and the public. The Shipping bill was taken up, and a committee substitute was adopted limiting the amount of drawback tonnage tax collected in any one year. The section exempting from State taxation vessels engaged in the foreign carrying trade was stricken out, as were also the drawback, free-ship and free-material provisions, and the bill was passed.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A feature of the business situation equally unsatisfactory and threatening is the constant increase in the nxlmber of failures reported Duri g the week ending Jan. 11, 202 were reported, which is thirtyeight more than during the preceding week, and more than have been noted for any like period since 18?.), when there was a great rush to take advantage of the expiring Bankrupt law. The West and Bouth contributed more than half of the list. The city of St. Lohis has had a sensational case of abduction. Miss Zelda Garrison, belonging to a wealthy and aristocratic family, was the victim. She was kept concealed for a week. The affair is wrapped in mystery. Philip Matthews, who murdered Anna Geyer, his sweetheart, last May, was hanged in the jail-yard at Belleville, HI., on the 12th •inst The culprit said he was going straight to heaven. Mr. Geyer, father of the victim, was indignant because the execution was not made more public. A broken rail-threw a - Wabash train down an embankment near Olmstead, IIL Five passengers were fatally injured arid nine others seriously. Two coaches were consumed by fire. A party of masked white men went to the house of a negro named Lindsay, in Faulkner county, Ark., intent on mischief, but Lindsay and his friends were prepared, and fired on the intruders, killing a man named Hubbard and an unknown individual, and mortally wounding another party. It is believed at Denver that the Burlington road is soon to absorb the Rio Grande lines. S. R. Calloway, general manager of the Grand Trunk road, has been elected President of the Western Indiana Company. “Drunken Jake Sheehan,” a St. Louis character, killed his son James, aged 17, by striking him a heavy blow on the chest as he lay in bed iIL A shin-kicking match for $250 a side was fought at Camden, N. J., by a coal miner and a saloon keeper, the latter giving np on the twenty-third round At Fainnount, W. Va., Mrs. Hettie Cunningham threw her young son from the suspension bridge into the Monongahela river, and leaped off herself. * Both floated over the dam, but were rescued and resuscitated Clark Mills, the sculptor, died at the national capital at the age of 67 yearn The Assistant Secretary of the Interior has prepared a new lease of the Yellowstone Park for the Rufus Hatch syndicate, avoiding the monopoly feature of the old contract, and fixing the compensation at #2 per acre for 2,560 acres Lord Duflhriti has informed the Egyptian Ministry that Great Britain withdraws from the treasury' control, and suggests the appointment of a European financial adviserThe depreciation of Irish crops in 1832, in consequence of bad weather, is placed at £5,118,167. The loss on the potato yield alone is placed at £4,317,687. Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, who served a term at the Dry Tortngas, charged with harboring John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, died near Bryans town, Md

Fish Food.

The Fish Commissioner has done much toward increasing and disseminating this class of food throughout the country. The trouble has been to get a flsh adapted to the necessities of all sections. The evidence is accumulating to prove that in the German carp we have a food-fish capable of furnishing almost unlimited supplies at very little cost. This fish is of especial value to farmers, as it will live in ponds which become so warm that no other fish can exist in them. It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the added comfort it would be to a farmer if he could go out and take from his pond a five or six-pound carp which would give him and liis family a good dinner. Any ordinary pond will do for a carp. An excavation in the course of a creek, dammed at the lower end with a grating, so that a flood will not carry the fish away, answers perfectly. The carp will eat almost anything, and a pond of foul square rods in extent will furnish all the fish-food a family wants. Carp grow from the egg to three pounds in one year. They multiply rapidly, a single female yielding half a million eggs in a year. They spawn in May and June. In the winter they burrow in the mud and remain dormant, neither making nor losing growth. In the spawning season they must lie fed, or they will destroy the spawn. At other times they need not be fed, unless there are so many of them in the pond that the aquatic vegetation and supplies brought down by the feeding stream are insufficient. There is scarcely a doubt that a carp-pond would be a profitable adjunct to nearly every farm. —lndustrial Review. An Australian sheep raiser, who boasted of paying $2,0U0 for 200 pounds of British butter, further exploiued that his purchase was a first-class imported ram.

NUMBER 51.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

The question of etiquette between the two houses was settled on the sth inst. by • the Senate receding from the position it had assumed and concurring in the appointment of a committee to wait upon the Oovernor. Resolutions were adopted setting apart Thursday for a service in memory of the late Senator Chapman, of Marion county. The question of the legality. of the adoption of the Prohibition amendment by the last Legislature was brought up bv a resolution of Senator Smith, Republican, directing the Secretory of State to furnish a certified copy of official records in his office concerning the constitutional amendments adopted in 18S1, and also the one in relation to tlie Wabash and Erie canal, *nd as to whether the constitutional provision has been complied with requiring such proposed amendments, with the yeas and navs thereon, to be entered on their journals and referred to the next General Assembly. A spirited discussion resulted, the Republicans favoring it, but the Democratic majority finally referred the matter to the Judiciary Committee. The Senate refused to appoint a special committee on the subject or woman suffrage. The House, after the consideration of unimportant matters, adjourned until Monday, Jan. 8. Both houses met In joint session, Lieut. Gov. Hanna presiding, and Gov. Porter delivered his message. A resolution of Senator Spann, providing for a committee to investigate the affairs of the new State House, was defeated on the Bth inst., by the Democrats, who want the investigation to be placed in the hands of the regular committee on Publl ■ Building. A large number of bills were road a first time and referred. Among the most important of these was one by Senator Benz, repealing the present Road law and re-enacting the one in operation previous to the last session. Senator Campbell, of St Joseph county. Introduced a bill providing for a commission of three members to be appointed by the Governor, who shall regulate the railroad traffic of the State, fixing freight and passenger rates and making contracts between roads. The bill is similar in its provisions to the Georgia law. Senator Hutchinson, of La Porte county, introduced a bill for an appropriation of $.13,000 for the construction of a sewer from the S.ate prison at Michigan City to the ' harbor, its passage being requested by all the and officials of that place. In the House Speaker Bynum announced the Standing Committees: The following are the Chairmanships: Judiciary, McMullen; Organization of Courts, Patton; Elections, Ham; Ways and Means, • Jewett; Banks, Chandle ; Education, Graham; Prisons, Smith, of Blackford; Bwainp Lands. Montgomery; Milatarv Affairs, McHenry; Claims, Grit enden; Trust Funds, Greene; Fees and Salaries, Moody; Sinking Fund. Woodbury; Bights and Land Privileges, Mauck; Railroads, Schloss; Manufactures and Commerce, Smith, of Perry; County and Township Business, Bryant; Agriculture, Roster; Benevolent Institutions, Wilson, of Marion; Temperance, Gibson; Mileage and Accoun s, Sutton; Corporations, Nave; Canals. Spain;, Public Expenditures, Gordon; Federal Relations, Barr: .Affairs of ihe Ci yof Indianapolis, Wlntsett; Cities and Towns, Honfron; Engrossed Bills, Fmlter; Roa K Ely; Statistics and Immigrate n, Stucker; Insurance. Williams; Printing, Akin; Reformatory Institutions, Howland; Drains and Dikes, Williams, of Perry; Mines and Mining, Robinson; Apportionment, Robertson. The remainder of the day was devoted to the introduction of bills, the most Important being that of Mr. Jewett, appropriating SOO,QUO for the completion oi the female department of the Insane Asylum, and by Mr. Wilson, reorganizing the benevolent Institutions and giving the power of appointment of members of the boards to the Governor. Mr. Whiwett sent in a bill similar to the Ohio law making it a felony for one person to point a firearm at another. Bills were introduced in both houses repealing the law creating thd State Board of Health! A preliminary tilt was taken in the Senate, on the 9th inst., at the fee and salary matter, which promises to be the most important question before the present session. After much discussion and the defeat of several substitutes, a resolution offered by Senar--tor Bundy was carried by a vote of 24 to 23, authorizing the proper committee to make a thorough investigation of the subject of fees and salaries of county officers; aiso to send for persons .and papers and get all the evidence possible on the subject so as to be able to report an economical and just bill. An intention was manifested by Senators on both sides of the house to effect some reform. The appointments made by Gov. Porter for the benevolent institutions were referred to a committee, which will report against their confirmation. The most important billa Introduced were those by Senator Blschowsky to appoint a commission to secure a uniform system of text-books for the schools, of the State; and by Senator Henry to reorganize the State prisons, placing both of them under one bo rd of five managers, to be appointed by the Governor. In the House, Mr Frazier introduced a bill for an appellate State court, with five Judges, to be elected as are the Supreme Court Judges, and having appellate jurisdiction from Criminal, Circuit and Superior Courts. Mr. Patton, Irom the special committee to w hich was referred the resolution instruct mg our Senators and requesting our Representatives in Congress to aid in securing pensions for the survivors of the Mexican war, etc., reported a substitute to the original resolution, which report was concurred in, with an amendment so as to read, “all soldiers of the Mexican war, except Jefferson Davis and other persons not now loyal to the United States.” In both houses resolutions were offered commending the Pendleton Civil Service bill A memorial was presented to both houses by Hon. J. H. Wmterbotham, of Michigan City, late candidate for Congress in the Thirteenth district against W. H. Calkins. He alleges that in his district the employes of numerous large manufacturers are hot allowed to vote their real sentim uts, but are intimidated by their employers into voting the Republican ticket, and in various other wavs a full a d free expression of opinion at tbe ballot-box Is prevented Wherefore he prays for a law to remedy these evils. The memorial was sent to tne Committees on Election. Political matters consumed much of the time of the Senate, at its session on the Kith inst, resolutions being offered favoring and opposing a protective tariff, which, after dieenssion, were referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. The contested-election case of Johnson vs. Oveestreet, from Morgan county, was referred to the Committee on Elections, and the Senate refused bo order printed 1,000 additional copies of the report of the Kankakee survey. From the tenor of the discussion of the latter proposition, it was evident that a very strong feeling exists against the appropriation of #600,000 asked for to drain and reclaim the swamp lands bordering the Kankakee and Calumet rivers, In the northern oounfcles of the State A number of minor bills were introduced, the most important being that by Senator Foulke, removing the disabilities of married women. In the House, a resolution was adopted authorizing the appointment of a committee of five to thoroughly investigate all matters pertaining to the new State House, with instructions to report as to the advisability of making further appropriations. Mr. Copeland offered a bill making it murder in the degree for persons to place obstructions on railroad tracks whereby an accident and loss of life resulted, and Mr. Hndson Introduced a bill taxing the gross receipts and property of foreign corporations doing business in the State, having especial reference to Bell Telephone monopoly. In both houses temperance bills were introduced to do away with tippling-shops, the provision being to grant licenses for saloons, bnt not to allow ih a liquor to be drunk upon the promises. Both the Democrats and Republicans were in canons in the evening, planning a lftre of action in rega d to thp constitutional amendment. Mr. Magee offered a joint resolution in the Senate, onthellth inst, for the ir.provement of the harbor at Michigan City, requesting Representatives and instrncting Senators it Congress from Indiana to favor an appropriation. Referred to the Committee on Federal Relations. A resolution offered by Mr. Reiser, ordering the Secretary of State to transmit to the Senate a copy of the record of the constitutional amendments, was laid on the table by a party vote. The afternoon was devoted to appropriate services in memory of the late Senator George H. Chapman, of Marion county, speeches being mode by Senators Willard, Brown, Bundy, Graham, Spann, Ristine, Van Vorhis and Fletcher, and as a further tribute of respect the Senate adjourned until to-morrow. In. the House the Speaker announced aa the State

THE DEMOCRATIC SERTHfL ora job ranmm omca Has better facilities than any office in North* western Indiana for the execution of all branches of 708 FH.INTTING. asr PROMPTNESS A SPECIALTY. Anything, from a Dodger to a Price-List, or from a Pamphlet to a Poster, black or colored, plaJaorjanc^^X9rSatisbicti«u^oarsnt*|wi^

House investigation committee, Messrs. Hefron of Washington, Moody of DeKalh. McCormick of Bartholomew, Stock ney of Randolph, and Huston, of Fayette. The most important' measure introduced was the Metropolitan Police bill It provides that a board of three Police Commissioners shall be appointed for each city by the Governor, Secretary, Auditor and Treasurer of State, and that this board shall have exclusive control of all police matters. As the State officers are now Democrats, th« bill, if passed, would place the police force of the Republican cities, such as Indianapolis is, under the control of the Democrats. The House refused to order 500 additional conies of the report of the Kankakee survey printed.

Senate Standing Committees.

On Eleotions—McCullough, Bell, Fletcher, Vovlos. Sayre, Spann and Lockrldge. On Finances—Rahm, Magee, Willard, Davidson, Smith of Delaware, Henry and Sayre. On Judiciary—Bell, Brown, Voyles, McCullough, Graham, Bundy and Van Vorhis. On Organization of Courts—Compton, May, Faulkner, Richardson, Overstreet, Van Vorhis aud Youche. On Education—Johnson, Duncan, Mclntosh, Ernest, White, Blschowsky and Campbell. Oil Corporations—Magee, Hutchinson, Null, Rahm, Graham, Overstreet and Campbell. On ltoads—Ernest, Johnson, Hilltgas, Marvin, Ristine; Hostetter and Lockrldge. On Benevolent and Reformatory Institutions—Marvin, Fletcher, McClure, Bell, Spann, Ristine and Yancey. On Agriculture Davidson, Hoover, JkCorvin, Hill, Lockrldge, Smith of Delaware, and Macartney. - On Ranks— Hutchinson. Faulkner. Benz, Johnson, Macartney, Lindley and Adkinson. Cm Public Printing—llilligas, Howard, Duncan, Hoover, Reiser, Blschowsky and Henrv. i On' Public Buildings and State Library— Willard, Smith of Jay, McClure, Hill, Adkinson, Foulke and Linc Hey. On State Prisons—Benz, Hutchinson,Hoover, N all, Foulke, Campbell aud Lindley. On Canals Internal Improvements and Swnmp Lands—Hoover, Hutchinson, Null, Magee, Youche, Adkinson and Bundy. On Fee? and Salaries—Vayles, Howard, Brown, Richardson, Sayre, Henry, and Smith ot Delaware. On Claims and Expenditures—Richardson, DaVlrtson. Duncan, May, Overstreet, Hostetter and Fleming. bn Military Affairs—Howard, Benz, Johnston, M Intosh, Hostetter, Henry aud Van Vorhis. On Phraseology, Titles,, Arrangement of Bills and Unfinished Business—Smith of Jay, Faulkner, Willard, Ernest, Henry, Reiser and Foulke. pn Federal Relations and Rights and Privileges of tlie Inhabitants of the Slate— Faulkner, Hill, Marvin, Davidsno, Locuridgq Youche and Fleming. % On Temperance—r- Fletcher, Compton, Johnson, Mclntosh, Ristine, Bischowsky and Srbith of. Dolaware. On County and Township Business—Hill, McCullough, Ernest, HilUgas, Muoortney, Ristine and White. Public Health,' Vital and Other Statistics— McClure Fletcher, Howard, Smith of Juy, Vaneev, van Vorhis and Fleming. On Insurance—May, Benz, Willard, Compton, Spann, Graham and White. On Railroads Brown. Bell, Compton, Vovlos. Spann, Graham and Yancey. Gn Mines, Mining and Manufacturing— Corhptpn, Johnson, Rahm, Ernest, Bundy, Reiser and Lindley. On Congressional Apportionment—Null, Richardson, Johnson, Hoover, Hilllgas, McClure, Hill, Overstreet, Foulke. Adkinson, Youche, Macartney and Vaii Vorhis. On Legislative Apportionment—Mclntosh, MciJuliough, Fauuuier, Wulard, Smith ot Jay? Davidson, Null, Spann, Reiser, Lindley, Yancey, Hostetter and White. On ‘Supervision and Inspection of the Jourualof the Senate—Johnson, Hutchinson, Magee, Overstreet and Youcha On Executive Appointments—Dunoan,Willard, Brown, McClure, Bundy, Graham and Foulka ,

DEATH IN A COAL PIT.

Terrific Explosion of Fire-Damp in a Mine at Coultervllle, Ill.—Ten Men Instantly Killed. An explosion of fire-damp in Jones A Neebit’s coal mine, near Coultervllle, 111, caused the death of ten persons. A correspondent at the scene of the explosion furnishes the following particulars of the sad disaster: The excitement in view of the terrible explosion in the Jones A Nisbet raine has subsided. Ten strangled and burned bodies lie in the public hall dressed and arranged for burial. Their nmea are: Nicholas Kohl, Frank Brown, Henry Fury, Thomas Hanson, Henry Starr, Sr., Robert Dunla , James W. King, A. H. Combs, Frank Shanford, Henry. Starr, Jr. Eight of them were married Among them they leave twenty-five orphans. The explosion was heard at the top, and when the hoisting cage was pulled up a few minutes later a man and boy staggered from it, blackened with sinoke„and so exhausted that they had to be supported The man was Sylvester Mason, the fore’man of the mine. Ten other gien were known to be In the pit The details are* meager, the dearest account of the catastrophe being that given by Sylvester Mason, one or the survivors. Mr. Mason said that the shaft was 320 feet deep, and. at the bottom a oorridor s,even feet wide leads eastward for over 200 yards. On each side of .the qorridor are tbe mining rooms where the men work during the day, drilling into the seVen-foot vein of ooaL 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 alt being fired at a time. Foreman Mason safd that he went down, the shaft shortly after. 4 o’clock and found that thirteen charges were ready to be fired He told the men to light the fusea After giving the order he started for the mot of the main shaft, 200 yards away, accompanied by William Htorr, a boy whose father and brother were at work in the pit “I stood at'the foot of the shaft," said Mr. Mason, “waiting for the men to come out, so tha£ I could check them off and see that none would be left I heard three shots a .few. moments apart, and then a fourth, roll wed in an instant by a terrible -explosion in the gallery, wheie the ten nu n were Next came a rush Of air, followed by a great volume of fire that filled the whole corridor. I was blown against the aide of the shaft, and my leg badly hurt The hew Starr was stunned. First I thought I would wait aud endeavor to save some of the men, but the flames were coming up to me very fast The fumes became almost stilling, even in the shaft, and I felt that It would be suicide to remain any longer. I stepped on the cage, dragged the boy, who was insensible, after me, and rang tne hoisting bell When we reached the surface I was almpst strangled, and tbe bot was apparently dead. Three of the men were badly burned; the other seven were dead from suffocation. One'of them, Frank Brown, was found ctQitohed trpon hie knees, his bead close against the Moor* "to, get away froimthe smoke, and his clothes and his flesh were burned from his bock. 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 to spring wagons to the town, where they were laid out In the assembly-room of tbe Coultervi le Band. It wis midnight before t.e work woe over.. The town to-day is in mourping. Tha explosion was evidently caused by fire-damp. The mine was extremely badly ventilated, there being but one opening end no alr-sh ft at aIL Nesbit A Junes opened the mine about ten years«ga

Hew a Georgian Made $3,000.

There lives a man in this town who claims to be the boss swapper. Ten ,years ago he bought a pocket-knife for $2. He swapped this for a pistol; he. swapped the pistol for a shotgnu, the gnn for a eow, the eow for a horse, and Sold tiie horse, for SSOO. He invested tlie SSOO for the first five years and drew out- $2,000. He lias had the $2,000 ont at interest for five- years at 10 jxr cent., and he new has the result of his knife trade —$B,oooa Canyere Weekly. . t , , I, _ . , ! ! ■ - | nn An iron fence is being built along the banks at Niagara Falls. This will head off suicides, as no nym witli tight trousers, or a woman with a hoopakirt can <dimb t a fWSSe.—-Boa (on PoeL