Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1883 — Page 6

Rensselaer Republican. BY GEO. E. MARSHALL.

WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW.

THE EAST. Four men and a woman were killed and many persona were terribly wounded by the explosion of two boilers in a blast furnace at Bethlehem, Pa.... Patrick O’Reilly is in tail at Albion, N. ¥., for confessing his participation in the murder of Cavendish and Burke in Dublin. The death is announced of Lot M. Morrill, of Maine, three years Governor of his native State, and for nearly sixteen years one of her representatives in the United States Senate. He was 68 years old. 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 overdrew their accounts $40,000, thus leaving SI,OOO of the capital stock.... Amid deafena New York jury awarded Miss •Livingston $75,000. A wealthy merchant named Fleming will have to pay her that amount for refusing to marry her, after having promised to do so. At New Haven, Ct, Wm. Robanus presented a supppsedly-empty pistol at the head of his friend, Gottlieb Beck, and demanded his money or his life. Upon the latter replying that he had but a few cents, Bobanus pulled the trigger and Beck fell, mortally wounded. A telegram from New York hints that Wall street brokers are not making their salt Scarcely anything is doing in the Stock Exchange. The great holders of stock would be heavy losers if they were compelled to sell at present prices Gould, for instance, owns 850,000 shares of Western Union, and, as that stock has declined $lO a share in the last three months, this Item alone represents a depreciation of his property $3,5u0,000. Some of the big men of the street are talking about going away for a while THE WEST. Near Ulysses, Neb., Mrs. Thompson, while insane, put poison in the tea, and herself, husband and an adopted son died in a short time.... Near Mill Creek, Indian Territory, Alexander Hamilton murdered his wife and a man named Smith and then committed suicide. At a meeting on ’Change in St. Louis, $2,200 was raised for the sufferers by the floods in Germany. A gathering in Cincinnati subscribed $1,250. John Cody, of Manistee, Mich., 60 years of age, expired after a fast of 103 days, forced by ulceration of the stomach. The police of Cleveland have completed a census which shows the population of that city to be 193,300... .The Columbus, Chicago and Indiana Central railibad was sold at Indianapolis by United States Commissioner Fishback to the Pennsylvania Kail way Company for $18,500,000... .Southern Illinois ana portions of Missouri and Kentucky were seriously shaken by an earthquake on the 11th inst. 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 Hou E. B. Washburne was thrown from his horse and slightly injured at San Antonio, Texas. Miss Zerelda Garrison, 17 years old, one of the belles of St. Louis, while returning to the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in the suburbs of that city, was captured by two men, who chloroformed her and kept her hidden for six days, when she was returned to her family. Miss Garrison’s father says she suffered no violence at the hands of her abductors, but the young lady is still in a dazed condition. Tne affair caused the most intense excitement in that city.... Illinois had a judicial execution on Friday, Jan. 12, Philip Matthews, u young fellow hardlv arrived at manhood, being hanged at Belleville for the murder of Annie Geyer. The crime was committed last May, and was the outgrowth of unreasoning jealousy.... John B. Hoffman, a Cincinnati tailor, quarreled with his sou Robert, aged 22/ and the following morning the 'fathen. sheltered himself behind a door and shot his son mortally as he departed to go to work. ... .A passenger train from Cairo, HL, containing a number of Freemasons, was ditched near Olmstead, Pulaski county, HL Two cars were set on tire, and four or five of the passengers were fatally injured. The only lady occupant escaped unhurt, and rendered great service to the wounded. At 4 o’clock on Sunday morning, the 14th inst, the night watchman of the Planters’ House, in St Louis, discovered smoke issuing from the cook-house. He instantly gavethe alarm at the main entrance, and another watchman rang for the firemen. In five minutes Pine street was blockaded, and guests und employes came pouring out of the hotel by every" doorway. Two male servants leaped from a window to the roof of the coo K-house and thence into the alley, while fifteen chambermaids rushed shrieking down the stairway into the rotunda One guest and his wife were actually forced from their room into the corridor by an employe of the hotel. The shivering crowd was directed across the street to the office of the (,'lobeJkinotrat for temporary shelter. Theffi antes were confined to the kitchen and adjoining rooms. Investigation shows that three of the cook’s force were suffocated. The damage by lire is placed at $30,000. All guests were sent to other hotels until the cookhouse could be replaced... .A horrible catastrophe occurred near Elk Point, Dakota. The house of Henry Pierce caught Are while Pierce was at a barn some distance away, feeding cattle. Mrs. Pierce tipped over a lamp, und the whole room was instantly enveloped in flames. She endeavored to suve her two children, who were in bed. but fainted, and Pierce arrived in time to drag her out, badly burned. The heroic father then made a rush into the bnrnintr building, and fought madly toward the sleeping-mom t but wa* forced to plunge out into the snow very badly burned about the head and face. Both the children, Cyrus, aged 5, and Bertha, aged 2, were burned to death. The bodies were afterward recovered, charred beyond recognition....A fire which started in Gaffney’s store, at Neenah, Wis., quickly spread to the Pettibone Block, and later attacked the Russell House and postoffice, all of which, together with the national bank and several stores, were soon reduced to ashes, creating a loss which is estimated at $100,000... .Hom Greenbury I* Fort died at his home in Lacon, HL He had held several offices, including that of Congressman. He was Chief Quartermaster of Gen. Logan's corps, and participated in Sherman’s march to the sea.... The Mandt wagon and carriage Works at Stoughton, Wis., were destroyed by fire, and tne loss is estimated at ♦iod,ooa

THE SOUTH.

Treasurer Polk, for whose delivery on Tennessee soil the Legislature offered a reward of $5,000, was arrested at San Antonio, Texas, and released on a writ of habeas corp uk He then started for Mexico, and was again arrested by a Deputy United States Marshal just before reaching the Bio Grande. Polk offered the officer SB,OOO to let him go, but the latter was incorruptible 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. Dr. Samuej. A. Mudd died last week in Maryland. The deceased dressed the fractured leg of John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Lincoln, for which he was sent for life to the Dry Tortugas, but was pardoned by Andrew Johnson... .Near Bayou Goula, La., the boats City of Greenville and Laura Lee came in collision, the former immediately sinking. No lives were lost The value of the Greenville and its cargo is placed at $100,000... .Three men were slain in a shooting affray in Faulkner county, Ark. Within the past three weeks three Americans have been murdered and robbed at Neuva Laredo, Mexico... .CoL M. T. Polk, the defaulting Treasurer of Tennessee, arrived in Nashville in company with United States Marshal Hal L Gosling, Deputy United States Marshal Morrill, Detectives Pride and Porter and Officer Fields. The Grand Jury Indicted him for the emirezzlement of $480,000. WASHINGTON. The announcement comes from Washington that Gen. Grant and Senor Romero have quietly agreed upon the terms of the proposed commercial treaty between the United States and Mexico, it permits the introduction free of duty of Mexican sugar, leaf tobacco, hemp and some other products, while Mexico admits without tariff American agricultural and mining machinery and some other manufactures. .. .The amounts allowed to Presl■iont Garfleld’s doctors have in each case been accepted. Dr. Bliss sent a creditor with a power of attorney to collect the $6,500 at which his services were audited. The House Judiciary, Committee by a bare majority, decided to table Proctor Knott’s resolution, which provided for the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land grants It is thought this action kills the measure for the present session... .Clark Mills, the distinguished American sculptor, died at the national capital last week. He was born In Onondaga county, New York, in 1815. GENERAL. Gen. Longstreet contributes the latest literature to the Fitz John Porter case. While acknowledging that from a strictlymilitarV point of view the finding of the court-martial ought to be held as conclusive, he claims that Porter was entitled by his rank to a certain amount of discretion as to obedience of orders. This claim Gen. Longstreet supports by a reference to his own experience at Manassas Junction, where, as he says, he disregarded Lee’s order to support Jackson because he found he could not reach Jackson in time to be of auv service to him, while he could and did check the Federal advance by his own batteries... .Accordingto a statement Issued by the united pipe lines of Pennsylvania, there were 33,859,088 barrels of oil stored in their tanks on Jan. 1. 1883. Thirteen artists competed for an opportunity to create a military statue of Garfield for the Hall of the House at Washington, for which the Ohio Legislature appropriated SIO,(MX). Carl H. Neihaus, of Cincinnati, was awarded the work, which will require six months. A feature of the business situation equally unsatisfactory and threatening is the constant increase in the number of failures reported. During the week ending J an. 11, 262 were recorded, which is thirty-eight more than during the preceding week, and more than have been noted for any like period since 1879, when there was a great rush to take advantage of the expiring Bankrupt law. The West and South contributed more than half of the list. The Secretary of the Interior has requested the military authorities to remove the barb-wire fences constructed in the Indirtn Territory by the Standard Oil Company. ... .Fire swept away four locomotives and a round house at Uxbridge, Ontario, and Crossley's paper-mill at Bangor, Ma POLITICAL. iSiE special election in the Ninth Congressional district of Indiana, to fill the vacancy occasioned by Congressman Orth’s death, resulted in the success of Doxie, Republican, by from 1,000 to 1,500 majority.... John B. Manning, Democrat, was elected Mayor of Buffalo, to succeed Gov. Cleveland, by 3,715 majority. He received 11,036 votes. Gov. Ordway, in his message to the Territorial Legislature of Dakota, states tL w the population of the Territory has doubloa in two years, and now reaches 300,000, while the amountof 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 elub-rooms, and giving an opportunity to busybodies to magnify their own importance..., Gov. Stoneman, of California, urges that railroad corporations be compeUed to bear their share of taxation and submit to the regulation of fares and freight... After a lively contest for the Illinois Senator ship, Gov.' Shelbv M. Cullom carried off the prize, receiving tne Republican caucus nomination on the fifth ballot An indignation meeting has been held by the citizens of Camden, Me., over the removal of Postmaster Alden Miller, Jr., a wounded soldier, for refusing to pay the assessment on his salary. FOREIGN. In the anarchist trials at Lyons, Prince Krapotkine stated that when he had to choose between extinction and dynamite he wouid employ the latter. He was reproached by the President of the court for having violated French hospitality. The British ship British Empire, from Shields for Bombay, burned at sea Ten persons were saved, but two boats, containing the Captain, mate and fourteen hands, are missing. Twentyfive persons have been arrested at Borne who were engaged in unveiling busts of Overdank in private rooms The busts were also seized by the police.... .Gem Devaldan, who led a leading part in the siege of Paris, di d from apoplexy on learning of the demise of Gen. Charney. ’Many persons perished at Raab, Hungary, and adjacent villages, by falling through the ice in attempting to escape

from the floods. The Inhabitants abandoned the place and took refuge in distant, but higher locations. About 400 houseshave been destroyed, and 10,000 people are homeless. .. .Lady Florence Dixie received and expended £5,000 for the relief of the small farmers in the West of Ireland, keeping a roof over 20,000 persona She throws all further work of this kind upon the Government and the Land League... .Edwin Booth had a crowded house in Berlin and was repeatedly called before the curtain. Prince Frederick William was delighted with the impersonation of Hamlet A deep sensation was created in Europe by the Milwaukee calamity. The Daily Newt, of London, finds it difficult to understand how people can sleep night after night in a place known to be dangerous. Knives supposed to have been used by the Phoenix Park kssaadns have been found. They fit the cuts in the clothes of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Burke. The authorities are confident they are the identical weapons with which the murders were committed. Efforts have been made to procure descriptions of the purchaser of the knives in the Strand, London... .Michael Davitt attempted to address a meting at Oldham, Lancashire, when an organized gang of roughs hooted and yelled themselves hoarse and finally made an attack upon the platform. This was repelled by force, and after much trouble the disturbers were ejected. During a performance at a circus in Berditcheff, Russian Poland, fire broke out, and itefore the spectators could escape the whole structure was ablaze. Three hundred persons perished in the flames.

XLVITTH CONGRESS.

A resolution was adopted by the Senate, qn the 9th inst, requesting the suspension of daily mail service between Fort Niobrara and Deadwood and between Chamberlain and Rapid City. A joint resolution was adopted authorizing Ensign Reynolds to accept a decoration frpm 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 telegraph 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 particulars before being put upon its passage, and, as it no w stands, the Cabinet officer who may succeed to the Presidency wiU 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 within twenty days to provide for permanently filling 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 looking to the repeal of State laws imposing taxes upon merchant vessels. Mr. fipjjnger 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 passage of the Lowell Bankruptcy bill Mr. FYye 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 estublisn low and equitable telegraphic rates between the States of the Union and foreign countries. Mr. Aidrich introduced a bill providing for the exportation of distiUed 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 Clerk of the fftouse, John Bailey. Mr. Cameron presented a memorial in the Senate, on the 11 th inst., from the Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce,against a reduction of the tariff on bituminous coal. The biR 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, 83; nays, 26. Messrs. Cameron of Pennsylvania, Sewell 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 discussion 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 be paid to the laborers employed in the construction of any vessel, was rejected. Mr. Ingalls introduced a biU 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 the land-grant roads had complied with the laws in regard to the maintenance of telegraph lines for the use of the Government and the public. The Shipping bill was taken up, ana 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. Mr. Ingalls introduced a bill in the Senate on the 13th inst for the appointment oi seven Commissioners from civil life to investigate and report on the subject of railroad transportation, at a compensation of $lO per day and traveling expenses. The House passed the Pension Appropriation bilk which sets aside $86,575,900, beside an unexpended balance of $15,800,000, and the Fortification Appropriation bill, which covers $325,000. The Sneaker laid before the House a letter from tne Clerk. calUng attention to the necessity of making some provision for the in. creased representation in the next Congress. Remonstrances were presented in the Senate on the 15th against a reduction of the duty on tin plate, against an increase of the duty on china and against the interference with the duty on cotton-seed oil Mr. Voorhees offered a petition from Indiana favoring legislation to end the monopoly of the regular school in medical service under the Government Some work was done on

the Tariff MIL In the House, a petition was presented from shareholders in the Centennial Exposition, asking for an appropriation topay the deficit A Mil was introduced to convene the next Congress on the first Monday of March. Mr. Belmont offered a resolution asking the Ways and Means Committee to report forthwith whether any class of industry requires support from the Federal Government, in the form of bounty, subsidy or charity. Mr. Geddes Introduced a bill allowing newspapers to be sent free to actual subscribers. The Speaker presented the report of a naval advisory board in favor of completing tow ironclads,

THRILLING EXPERIENCE.

A Guest’s Story of His Remarkable Escape from the NewhaH House. Perhaps the man who had the most exciting experience in the Newhall House fire, at Milwaukee, is Mr. T. J. Anderson, a salesman in the employ of George H. Taylor & Co., wholesale paper dealers, Chicago. “I sat 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 12:80. On my way up I met the only watchman the house employed, and I asked him how I could escape in case of fire. 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 mine. I went to bed after that, and I was awakened by the horrible shrieks of burning women ana the groans of burning men. It was hell itself, so terrible seemed the sounds. 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 floon I thought I was gone But my senses had not altogether left me. I gathered myself up as best I could and made toward the window. By a desperate effort I succeeded in getting there I sank again to the floor. But I raffled 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, but I refused. I saw the ladders up against the building. I sat down on the window-sill and I saw everything go down, 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 ana 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, and they landed in the Valley of Death. They lost their hold and fell to the street below 7 .' 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! 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 are 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 the 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 6 years old swallowed up by the heartless flames. I saw Kelsey, Tom Thumb’s colored servant, go down with the walla He was clinging to a window-sill in the fifth story. Iwalkedouttothe front and went up-stairs to the office, where I found a woman who was tearing her hair. I could not see her face and did 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 down bodily, thus saving her life. I went across to the express office where I saw Antisdel, who was leaning over Mrs Johnson. He said: ‘I am crazy. You rub this woman. I want to go and 'save my children.’ I was in a position to be rubbed myself, being naked and chilly. I said to a fireman standing by: T 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.”

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

Telegrams from Constantinople state that some Circassians tried to assassinate the Sultan The Albanian body guard, having been informed of the plot, fought the intruders in the vicinity of the Sultan’s apartments, killing several of them.... PatSlick Higgins, one of the murderers of the Hdddys, was executed at Galway by Marwood. Flames swept away the Chicago smelting works and the nail department of the 7 Calumet Iron and Steel Company, at Chicago, the loss in each case being SIOO,OOO. ... .Nelson Ludington, a venerable citizen of Chicago, has passed away. He was a native of New York, but in 1844 went to Milwaukee and founded a mercantile house and a lumber company. For the past thirty years he has resided in Chicago, having of late been President of the Fifth National Bank, and ranked among the millionaires. ~. .Bishop Talbott, of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, died at Indianapolis of paralysis. Gov. -Elect Pattison, upon arrivingat Harrisburg, Pa, to be inaugurated, declined an escort, and walked to the residence of a private citizen who had asked him to be his guest... .Samuel C. Lewis’ fine residence at Tarrytown, N. Y., containing some valuable paintings, was reduced to ashes, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO. It is reported from Panama that $50,000 in gold coin, the property of the United States, and designed for the fleet in the Pacific, has been stolen in transit The money was shipped from the sub-treasury in New York through Wells, Fargo A Co., and was stored in the Panama Railroad Company’s vault..?. The Supreme Court of the United Spates has decided that bottles in which ale and beer are imported are subject to a duty of 35 per cent aa valorem in addition to the duty of 35 cents per gallon on the ale and beer contained in the bottles.

DEATH IN A COAL PIT.

Terrifle Explosion of Fire-Damp la a Mino at Coulterville, HL—Ten Men Instantly Killed. An explosion of fire-damp in Jones A Neebit’s coal mine, near Coulterville, HL, caused the death of ten persona A correspondent at the acene of the explosion furnishes the following particulars of the sad disaster: The excitement in view of the terrible explosion in the Jones A Nisbet mine has sub-, sided. Ten strangled and burned bodies lie In the public hall dressed and arranged for burial Their names are: Nicholas Kohl, Frank Brown, Henry Fury, Thomas Hanson, Henry Starr, Sr.. Robert Dunlap, 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 smoke, ana 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 the pit The details are meager, the clearest account of the catastrophe being that given by Sylvester Mason, one of the survivors. Mr. Mason said that the shaft was 320 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 the seven-foot vein of coal It is customary to fire the biases 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 wefe ready to be fired. He told the men to light the fuses. After giving the order he started for the foot of the main shaft, 200 yards away, accompanied by William Starr, a boy whose father and brother were at work in the pit “I stood at the foot of the shaft," said Mr. Mason, “waiting ror the men to come out, so that I could check them off and see that none would be left I heard three shots a few moments apart, and then a fourth, followed in an instant by a terrible explosion in the gallery, where the ten men were. Next came a rush of air, followed by a great volume of fire that filled the whole corridor. I was blown against the side of the shaft, and my leg bhdly hurt The boy Starr was stunned. First I thought I would wait 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, dragged the boy, who was insensible, after me, and rang the hoisting bell When we reached the surface I was almost strangled, and th* boy was apparently dead. Three of the men were badly burned; th* other seven were dead from suffpeation. One of them, Frank Brown, was found crouched upon "jis knees, his head close against the F«or, to get away from the smoke, and hfc> clothes and his flesh were burned trertu his back. The corpses were hoisted up two at a time. At the top of the shaft tie bodies were washed, the legs were tied together, and the victims were carried in spring wagons to the town, where they were laid out in the assembly-room of the Coultervi le Band. It was midnight before the work was over. The town to-day 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 all Nesbit & Jones opened the mine about ten years ago.

Knew What He Wanted.

An old colored man with patched coat and faded overalls stepped into one of the lah-de-dah-est book stores on Woodward avenue and asked: “Hez yer enny antelopes?” “This is not the market,” said the exquisite youth who presided at the stationery counter. “If you wish to purchase game you will find it there.” “Look-a-heah, young man,” retorted the sable customer, “yew is jist a leetle tew fresh; and yer needn’t triter make game ob me! I knows wat I wants an* —here he pulled out a folded sheet of letter paper, soiled and crumpled—“yew jist tote out a antelope to fit that ar noat.” He got it immediately.— Detroit Post. On the bill of fare in a restaurant of Rio Janeiro is a dish called “Arista. * It is intended for Irish stew.

THE MARKETS.

NEW YORK. • Beeves ♦ 5.20 & 6.60 Hogs 449 @7.7 s Cotton 10 @ .1014 Floub—Superfine. 3.35 @3.85 Wheat—No. 1 White 1.18 @ 1.11 No. 2 Red 1.12 @ 1.14 Corn—No. 2 67 @ .70 Oats—No. 2 .45 @ .47 Pork—Mess 18.25 @18.50 Lard io&@ .11 CHICAGO. Beeves—Good to Fancy Steers.. 5.50 @ 6.50 Cows and Heifers 3.25 @4.40 Medium to Fair.. 4.85 @5.40 Hogs . 5.75 @6.70 Flour—Fancy White Winter Ex. 5.'0 @5.25 Good to Choice Spr’gEx. 4.75 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 2 Soring. 97 @ .98 No. 2 Red Winter 99 @ 1.00 Corn—No. 2 58 @ .59 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .36 Rye—No. 2 . 59 @ .60 Barley—No. 2 79 @ .so Butter—Choice Creamery. 36 @ .39 Eggs—Fresh 25 @ .26 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.59 Labd 10%@ .loM MILWAUKEE. Wheat—No. 2 97 @ .98 Corn—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—No. 2 35 @ .36 Rye—No. 2 56 @ .57 Barley—No. 2 74 @ .75 Pork—Mess 17.■ 5 @17.50 Lard < io*ji@ .1054 ST. LOUIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red ...... 1.02 @ 1.«3 Corn—Mixed 47 @ .48 Oats—No. 2 . 38 @ .39 Rye 55 @ .56 Pork—Mess 17.00 @17.25 Lard 10 @ .10J4 CINCINNATI Wheat—No. 2 Red. l.oi @ 1.02 Corn 54 @ .55 Oats., 40 @ .41 Rye. 63 @ .65 Pork—Mess 17.25 @17.50 Lard io}s@ .iou TOLEDO. Wheat—No. 2 Red 1.01 @ 1.02 Corn.. 53 @ .54 Oats—No. 2 38 @ .39 DETROIT. FLOUB 4.65 @ 5.00 Wheat—No. 1 White 99 @ 100 Corn—No. 2 54 @ .55 Oats—Mixed .- 38 @ .39 Pobk—Mess ... 17.50 @17.75 INDIANAPOLIS. Wheat—No. 2 Red 98 @ .99 Corn—No. 2 59 @ _<jo Oats—Mixed... 31 & .38 EAST LIBERTY, PA Cattle—Best 5.75 @ 5.00 Fair 5.26 @ 5.50 Common 3.50 @ 5.50 Hogs 6.20 & 6.60 Sheep 2.75 @ 5.50