The Elyria Democrat from Elyria, Ohio • Page 2

I f. t. KEEFY, Edttof ind Prop'f. XLYRIA. I OHKX General News Summary.

Jiiteresttasr Home and Foreign CONGRESSIONAL. SENATE; Dec. annual reports, including that of the Secretary of the Treasury, vere presented and appropriately referred. Numerous bills vrere also introduced and referred, including one for the construction of two steel rams to be armed -with heavy rifled dynamite guns, and one for the construction of tjco steel cruisers to be armed dynamite guns. The Tari3 bill was taken up, but with- the company sold at wholo- out spending much time in its consideration, it postponed until to-morrow, and the Senate range for short religious services In the churches throughout tho country on the morning: of ths inauguration at Washington.

George M. Seward died' at Florida, N. on the 7th, aged eighty years. He was a brother of Secretary of State William H. Seward and -was the last survivor of his family.

Business failures occurring throughout the country during the seven days ended December number for the United States 363; Canada 12; total, 805; 2S2 the previous 'week, 2S4 for the corresponding week of last year. George D. Brigps, the Buffalo (N. lumber dealer who failed reccr-tly for and assets of 6S5.000, has been arrested at the instance of tho Bank of Buffalo on account of an overdrawn bank account The effects of the Scotch Oats Essence Company, at New York City, were sold out by the sheriff on tho 7th on executions for 536,610. Sixty-three gross of Scotch oats adjourned.

The Speaker laid before the House the annual reports the Secretary of the Treasury aad the Comptroller of the Currency. which were appropriately referred. Among the of North. Dakota'-for the immediate admission into the Union of Korth Dakota and Montana and Jor constitutional conventions in North Dakota, "Washington and Xew Mexico. The House proceeded tothconsiderationof Mr.

Dudley's bill, laJd over from last session, for the erection of a monument to Major General Henry Knox, -of Thomaston, Me. Mr. Mansur offered an amendasem, locatingthe mcrunneni at Washington. A vote on the amendicent resulted yeas 66, nays 92-- no quorum-- and more calls followed. This procedure continued until the House adjourned.

SEKATE, Dec. 5. Dawes introduced and the Senate adopted, a resolution calling on the Secretary ol the Interior for information concerning the alleged outrages on Idiann einales and others Alaska, and the action, if any, taken sale at a gross, or altogether at reali'ied only SSS2, or about four cents a bottle. The retail price is SL a bottle. Henry X.

Tucker, a wealthy TTestflcld (N. farmer, was robbed a few nights ago of in money aad securities which lyx f'? in sitting-room. About $6,000 of the securities aro negotiable. George Harrison an employe, is suspected, and has disappeared. At TTilllamsport, on the Sth R.

H. Crusn pleaded guftty to from the R. G. Dun Co. Mercantile Agency.

He was sentenced to pay a fine of and be imprisoned fifteen months in the county jail. Sarah E. Howe, who it is estimated has swindled people out of at least by her plausible schemes, chief among which was the "Woman's was arrested at Boston. on the Sth, charged with swindling four ladies in 1SS6 out of ilrs. Howe has a Ions; record of confidence by the department to protect persons of females games.

in tliat territory from outrage, violence and restraint of liberty. At the expirstioa of the morning hour the Tariff bill was taken up. and Hr. Harris, to test the sease of the Senate, moved to lay the Finance Committee's amendment to the Eouse bill on the table. By a vote of yeas 19, nays-26.

the Senate refused to so dispose it. Tiie substitute -was then read by sections for amendments. Quite a number of amendments were offered aad rejected, aad after disposing ol th'rty pages of the bill the Senate "went into secret session and soon after adjourned. tae call ot States a large number of bills, -were introduced andre- lerred, among Tvhicb. -were the follovfmg: To regulate immigration: to divide the State of California into two States to establish a graduated income tax.

the proceeds of which shall be applied to of pensions; for the construction of a revenue cutter for San Francisco, CaL Mr. Paysoa. called up the DCS Aloices River Land bill, and after a short ffls- cussioait ivas passed. aadthe'House adjourned. SESTATE.

Dec. communication -was presented from the Secretary of State, -with a certified copy of the final ascertainment of Presidential electors in Kansas. On motion of Mr. Sherman, the papers were-referred to the Committee on Privileges The resolutions for continuing the select committees on. meat products and on the relations- -snth Canada were reported Jback from committee and adopted with amendments.

trofiuced 3 3omt resolution, which was tabled, proposing a constitutional amendment enlarg- ingthe Presidential term sis: years. The Setiaie then resaiaed consideration of the Tariff bill, and after about eight pases of the bill adjourned until thelOth. -usual resolution for the oistn- "bution. of the President's message to The appropriate committees -vras reported from the Committee on "Ways ana" Means and. adopted.

In-GomTnititee of the "Whole an effort, was made to reach some agreement touching offering and pendency of amendments-to tie-Direct Tax but it proved An amendment was offered by Mr. Enloe refunding- the cotton tak End providing that such amounts as cas not oe paid to the persons who paid the tax shall be turned over 4o Hie school funds of the interested. Earker, of Miss's a speech in opposition to the bill, further debate the committee rose House adjonmeoL SEXATE, Dec. Senate was mot in. session.

JJivalid.Pensioii,,bill. was reported and referred to Committee of the Whole. The majority report on the South Carolina contested election case of Smalls vs. Elliott; was reported and placed on tiie Calendar; it-favors ISlliott. Tfie minorityreBoii in reported and placed The House then treat into Committee the "Whole oirthe private calendar; the pending- business The transfer steamer with the Boston express on.

board, caught lire and burned to the waters edge at midnight on the 7th, on the Harlem river. Two sleeping cars, one coach and one bagasrge cor of the express were completely destroyed. Twenty-four passengers on board barely escaped with their lives. Total loss is nearly Collector Eager. Duty amounting to $150,000 was paid on the cargo which is valued at $450,000.

Tho reason for seizure is stated to bo that tho quality of the sugar has been underestimated and, that tho Government has been defrauded oi' about $100,000 duty on ouo cargo. During a Sre in Northwestern lurni- toro factory at Chicago ou the tU an explosion Of mill dust badly injured fivo firetneu; two of them dangerously. burjdar; entered, the batTk of J. Lauferty at Fort'Wayne, by means of a duplicate key while the owner was at dinner on the Sth. After breaking open the sale and securing- about in currency, the thief coolly left the bank, locked the office door aad walked off.

The United States grand jury at Indianapolis, adjourned, on the Sth until December 17 without returaingany indict tneut against Colonel Dudley or any other person in connection -with election matters. August Keistedt, a merchant ot Sioux City, hns disappeared and is sxipposed to have joined the American colouy iu Canada- He was treasurer of tho creamery ation. and of the district school fund, which are short and Sl.OvO respectively. lie was also post-master of the viilago and several registered letters are unaccounted for. The new dymuiute gun craiser built for the Government by the Cramps, was tested for speed on the Sth over a course of 41 51-100 knots iu Delaware bay.

Thi distance was covered by the vessel in. twelve minutes and forty-four a speed of 2147-103 knots per hour. The contract calls for a speed of twenty knots au hour. Dr. Xathan R.

Garter has brought suit in tho Superior Court of Baltimore against Robert Garrett, to recover for professional services rendered Mr. Garrets during his trip around the world. Tho Press Club, cf Chicago, at an unusually large meeting recently, unanimously passed a resolution indorsing Captain William. E. Meredith, of that city, lor the position of Public Printer.

RIOT AND BLOODSHED. A Mob at Birmingham, Tried to Banff the Murder ot Wife 1--Tho Upon tUo Mob--Nlue KUle4 Number TEUKIMJ2 Dec. crowd which had been collecting on tho streets for several hours Saturday night advanced on tho county jail at midnight with tho intention of lynching R. B. Hawes, charged with the murder of his wife and child.

Many ot the best citizeas tried to reason with tha crowd and prevent trouble, and some lost their lives in this attempt, When the crowd was within a few feet of the jail door aud had failed to heed numerous warnings from tho sheriff, the officers inside tho building opened, fire, instantly killing three of tho mob, fatally wounding seven and moro. or less seriously wounding about thirty others. The following is a full list of those shot: M. Jt. Turookmorton.

uud a very prominent and popular eitisen. Ho leaves a wife and one child. An unknown negro, shot through the lungs; died Sunday morning. J. R.

McCoy was toward the front of the crowd when tuo firing- commenced. He fell at the first volSSj-fe- A. B. EVADING THE LAW. The Commerce Seeks to Flttd Out the True of the RtUlroaiU to the Ticket and With 1'oor Success CHICAGO, Dee.

principal objoct for which Messrs. Cooley and Morrison, of the Intcr-PUite Commerce Commission. camo to this city is to unearth the.illeRiti- mate practices said to have been resorted to by tho railroads to ovado tho provisions' of the luter-Stato Commerce law in regard to passenger traffic. "Tho methods pursued in this matter are fully as ingenious," says tho Tribune, "as those to on freight traffic, about which so much is said at present. Tho commission system affords tho the ilObircd opportunity to violate AFTER THE FIGHT.

Ton Killed and Eleven Woundcj at Birmingham. The of Statu Troops HUH Intlml dated tins L.ITI-II-SH KU-uu-tit inul Further Trouble IK tho Demi. EXCITEMENT BIRMINGHAM, Dec. city recovering Iroia tho shock of night. No city in tho South has been Jo shaken siuco tho clays of tho war.

Thu citement which SimJay moruiuj: jaado fin.v tbe fourth section of the law, and this is tho white and drawn, gradually subsided olu reason why Uie perpetuation of this system sheer exhaustion. All thought of is so strongly advoc ited by many of the roads. In order not to affect their business between intermediate points, most of tho railroads now transact all their through business through scalpers' offices. The scalpers aru with largo blocks of tickets--on which they are paid eommis- sions amounting to nearly one half their i vKluo--which tho scalpers sell at greatly ro- 1 most instances are lower than the rates to intermediate points. In order to evade the long aud short haul clause the through rates at tho regular railroad offices are main- i tained, but travelers are giveu to understand that they can get cheaper rates by go- of ing any further attacks upon tin; juii Woro ubanuoucd wltlx the coming of tie troops although a crowd of curious peuplo boring several hundred stood yesterday formed a line ncrosi Twenty-lirst street Second avenue whoro tho imlitKi formed.

The following ia a con-cot li tho killed and wounded: Dead--Maurice 13. Throt'kmorton. McCoy. A. B.

Tarrant, A. 1). Bryant, C. Tate, Charles Jenkins, Colbert Smith, ty sheriff Brennau. of Gordon; Chun-s Bailey aud aa unknown negro.

This hsi was obtained from tiie different uudortui. ers, aud it is thought that, there arc others for whomcoilins have nytbeeu Chairman obtained, the avoiding; the Wlets. Wejtjrn Fate would not haveHt so, uWesel, and a Assort on, revealed tho fact that there J- ball struck him as he lay. oa hi a face and A 7 ranged up the back. Aflibra low minutes' i powts, Paul and Minneapolis t.io Montgotnerv.

I.i ai'iKim suffering he shot i a large number of thi-ough near the 6 A VAii i i 3 placed scalpers' hands from day to day. At Patersoa, K. on the Sth three brothers named Joiia, Blake and Reuben Reiif, milkmen, while driving auross a railroad crossing were struck by aa express train. John and Blake killed and Reuben probably tatally injured! A fire on the 9th destroyed the Central State Xormal School building at Lock Saven. Pa.

One hundred boarding students, most of whom, were in the baildingr at the time, were safely removed. The structure of brick, four stories high, aad cost insurance small. Forest Shepherd, s. noted mineralogist, formerly a professor in the Western Reserve College, at Hudson. and a Tale graduate of 1S2T, died at Norwich, on the Sth, acred eighty-eight years.

THE weekly statement of the Xew York associated backs- issued oa the Sth, shows the following changes: Reserve decrease, loans decrease, specie decrease, legal teaders increase, deposits decrease, "circulation decrease. 5240.9 The banks held in, excess of the twenty-five percent, rule. Alexander K. McHHlan, editor of the 3Tork Cowtiercial Bulletin, died at his home in Brookiyiu 3ST. oa the 9Ea.

For forty years Mr. McMUlan was the York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, and-was editor of the-Knnday 3Tercurj when that papsr started. He was born in Scotland inJISSS. Benjamin note'clerk'in the Second National Bank of Alleatown, has been discovered to be gi.OOO"short in his mile accounts na is relieved from Keck nt, is a icaa of good habits and declares tlrathe and the i is unjustly accused ofwrong-doing. The only Chinese store in'Hartford, was raided-by the police ou.

the night of the 9th and thirty-one Chinamen, "who were gambling in a back room, were arrested. Considerable money and an extensive gambling outfit were captured. William Armory, one of the oldest and best known merchants of Boston, died on the 9uh, aged eighty-four years. He was treasurer of the Amoskeag- Manufacturing Co.mpany, and was a member of FQREIQS INTELLIGENCE. The Cologne Gcztttc says that Russia, not intending aa immediate inauguration of hostilities, is making: colossal preparations for a contest which seems" to her inevitable, and may be precipitated at any time through developmetiis in Bulgaria.

On the Sth three men left Gasps, Quebec, in a small boat for their homes on Dartmouth river. The next moruiag their bodies -were found in the boat, which, -was full of water. Death resulted from exhaustion, and exposure. Recent advices from Constantinople state that the prospects for the Babylonian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania are not considered particularly favorable at present. The warehouse of Lyrnan, Sons druggists at ilontroal.

was darnasred by fire on "the Sth to the extent ol" "When endeavoring to subdue the flames four firemen were badly iurt. The house of ilicaael Dwyer, near Blyth, -was burned on the (5th, and Mrs. Dwyer, her daughter and her three grandchildren were "burned to death. The British steamer Hartiepools has been at Hgersund, Korwav. Only four of her crew of twenty-one weie saved.

The subscr'ption to the fund to aid ilr Parneli in liis litigation the Times amount to A company is being- formed, at Ottawa, with a capital of S3 WJO.OGQ to underlay ing of a telegraph cable' from fell at the first volley and died instantly. C. C. Tate was shot through the hip. thigh aud loin.

He is dying. He is about fi.rtv-flve years old and bad a familv. Colbert Smith (colored), shot through the right lung, died Sunday morning. Lawrence Fitrhugh, a civil engineer, was badly wouuded. Charles Bailey was shot through the head, it is thought fatally.

A. J. Schiede, a mechanic, was shot in the left side and shoulder. It is thought that he will die. He came recently from Kalamazoo.

ilich. Several of his companions were wounded, but less seriously. Charles Jenkins was shot in the back of the head, the ball coming out in the center of his forehead- Ho lived until ten o'clock Sunday morning, ilr. Eranden, at the hospital, wounded in the thigh and abdomen, died yesterday morning. Just after he was shot he told his attendants he boarded at the house of the sheriff of Etowab.

Countv at Gadsden and was here on business before the United States Court J. "vV. Montgomery received a slight wound in the left- jaw. Mr. Berkley was shot through both legs below the knee while sitting on the rear porch of the residence of Mr.

Siddons, on the corner of Twenty- nrst street and Third avenue. Charles Bailey, a brakernan on the Louisville Xashville railroad, was shot in the right side just below the nipple. His home is in Boston. His wound, while uot necessarily fatal, may prove serious. John H.

Merritt is at the hospital, shot through the calf ol the left leg. Matt Kennedy is also at the on which they receive a large commission. During the last two days a number of managers aud many of the local ticket agents of the various Western roads have becu examined by the commission regarding these practices, but just what evidence they gave could not be learned, as the inter-State commissioners conducting the examination Of the womuii'l hoped that all rc across his forehead, hospital, it is iiow cover. Yesterday morning Coroner Babnitt so- cured a jurv of six woll-known mon for ine purpose of investigating iho riot, kil'muanil causes thereof. The jurors were sworn ia over the body or A.

D. Bryant. C'oronc 1 Babbitt then ordered an st unul of the leading scalpers i this morning Every man that can bo Jour, i v. who was present at tho time thu shooting the city, who has branch offices la nearly wiu 5amtnoned to testir everv prominent ctti' in the country, -as before the commissiou Saturday afternoon, and it is learned from good authority that neither entreaties nor threats could inriuca him to answer the questions of the commission as to the roads that furnished him with tickets and at what prices or upon what conditions ho obtained them. Mr.

Mulford was, it is said, given until Monday to answer the questions of the committee of be committed for contempt. I I I I A I Sheds Ja tiie Rear of Tenement IJlocJr In Troy, X. Set "irc lu Twenty-seven IMfTerent flares-- Narrow Escapes from Cremation. Tuor, N. Dec.

bolder incendiary work was ever done in this country than that discovered in this city about four o'clock Sunday morning. The flames when first seen were in E. Harlow's livery stable on Glen avenue and soon appeared in tho extensive sheds in the rear of tha old Bull's hospitaL shot in bofch legs below the knee, Head Hotel, a large three-story structure Canal Company. Several amendments and adopted, and pending- furtner action tiie committee rose and the House took a recess until evening. At the mgat session the liouse passed ten private pension bills and adjourned until "the 10th- WASHINGTON.

The Comptroller of the Currency has authorized the following banks to begin business: Second National Bank, of Ashland, theBerwyn National Bank. of Benryn, and the Grundy County Katioual Bank, of Trenton, Mo. Each has a capital of The President has pardoned W. T- Ellington, convicted in the district of Kentucky, in October last, of violating tbe internal revenue laws, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a. fine of S500.

The Comptroller of the Currency has declared a first dividend of forty per cent, in favor of the creditors of the Lowell Isa- tional Bank of Lowell, on claims proved amounting to This Dank failed September last. The President on the Sth issued an order extending the civil service rules and regulations to the railway mail service. A report has reached from Atlanta, that Senator Brown Trill soon retire from the United States Senate on account of declining health, and will be succeeded by Grady, editor of the Atlanta Senator Brown has not been in "Washington this season, and may not return at ail. The committee having in charge the arrangements for the inauguration ball Uuve fixed tbe price of tickets for at each. The sum of S4S.700 has "be-u suo- scribed to the inaugural fund and v' organizations with a membership of have announced their iatentioa to participate.

Owing to serious defects in the English plans recommended bv aboard of ofu cefs and adopted by Secretary Whitney for the battleship Texas, work on this vessel lias been entirely abandoned until new plans, which are now being prepared by the Government, shall have been completed. The Dominion government has granted the Canada' Atlantic Rarroad Company power to bridge the Lawrence rtrer at Coteau. This will complete a through, line to Boston and Xew York from Ottawa. Tbe bridge win cost over 31.000.000 It is said that the German troubles in Zanzibar have already entailed a loss of upon tiie German East African Company and ruined many of its members. Dr.

Carl" Peters, the explorer, is rendered absolutely psrmiless, but neither he nor his associates abandon the objects upon which the company was founded. A Madrid dispatch of the Oth says whole Spanish ministry has resigned. the retiring expressed entire confidence in Senor Segasta. oder of kerosene was detected, and as soon as tha firemen had extinguished the flames in one place, a blaze wonldJiash out at some other point. Proof of incendiarism fas to be found on all sides.

The police and firemen swarmed all over the buildings and had to do desperate work to save the inmates. Annie Lightbody, who lived with her husband in one of the third-story suites, was found nnconscious. Her hands were terri- the vicinity of tha All Senate bill to incorporate the Nica- the board of overcsexs ofHarvard CoEege of many years. The exports of specie from the port of Sew York for the week ending December amounted to 8328,285 of which S54 547 was in gold and 73S in silver. The imports of specie for the same period amounted to 121,705.

Michsel J. Sullivan, an ex-special agent of Anthony Comstock's Society for the Suppression of Vice, in Kew York, has made affidavit to serious charges -which he brings against the society and its officers. Among other things, he claims that one of its agents, with the knowledge of Comstock, receives 5130.000 a year from gamblers who are accorded the of the society. WEST AKD SOUTH. Samuel S.

Ford, aged nineteen, son of a prominent Kaukakee (111.) farmer and stock raiser, Has absconded after swindling local banks out of 82,300 and Champaign and TJr- bana bankers out of $2,000, by means of forged checks. The United States district attorney has entered suit against various corporations and individuals of Eureka, aggregating S3 000,000, for cutting wood and lumber off unsurveyed government land. IV number of leading Republicans of East Tennessee-have shipped to S. Qnay a beautiful span of blooded horses in recognition of his able services for the party during the campaign. A fire in the yards of the Globe Ship Building Company, at Cleveland, O-, on the Sth destoycd a large plant of valuable machinery, entailing A loss of nearly of the vessels ia process- cf construction at iV.e yarcU were damaged.

The plant well insured. A ilarquette (ilich.) dispatch says the Calumet Hecla Company has offered SlO.OOt) for information leading to the arrest of the incendiary who started the fire in No. 3 shaft of the Calumet branch on the night of Thanksgiving day. The fire has since been constantly growing worse. Iso new cases or deaths from yellow fever were reported at Jacksonville, on the 7th.

There was a heavy frost in the morning, and it is generally believed that no more cases of the disease will occur this season. On tho 7th, during the absence from home of Edward H. Sheridan, who lives at Fay- ctte, two masked men entered the house, bound and gagged his wife, and secured about seventy-five dollars. A call has been issued for a meeting of the millers of tbe United States to be held at MiLwaukee, December 17, to consider the state of the trade. A large attendance has been guaranteed by millers 'from all paries of the.country.

take the laj ing of a telegraph cable' from tne nght leg being badly shattered, the left that was recently converted Blanc Sablon. at the straits of Belle Isie, to a flesa WO und. also shot in the left occupied A stron- a point on the coast of Scotland or Ireland, i arm 3USt below the elbow and the bone is eas aU ol tllese ere occu iea slron broken. He is fifty years of age and has a wife and seven children. Owen is at the hos pital, shot entirely through the right thigh.

He is a carpen- i ter and about fifty years of asfe. J. Gilmore is fatally wounded through the bowels. He is forty-six years of age and has a wife aud five cai dren living at Green Springs. Frank Childer is dead.

Albert Smith (colored) was shot in the back and seriously wounded. Mr- William Youngblood, Mr. Alexander and Ed 5. Cooper, re- ported as killed or wounded, are not burt. TWA.

Bird was shot in the right shoulder, the ball passing entirely through him and coming out near the spinal cord. Great excitement was caused yesterday by the funeral cortege, through a principal street of one of the victims of Saturday night's affray. The lengthy procession was headed by a. brass band playing solemn dirges. The post-office building is draped in mourning and makes mute appeal to every passer.

At five o'clock last evening a citizen went before a justice of the peace and swore out a warrant for the arrest of sheriff Smith and his deputies on the charge of murder. This was served by the coroner, who found Smith in -jail and the coroner himself took charge of the jail. Colonel T. G. Jones, of the Second regiment of State Sunday morning with five companies and is confident that ho can prevent any further attempt at mob violence.

The excitement has somewhat abated. Governor Seay telegraphed SheruY tilth as follows: "Any citizen has a riziu to make an affidavit charging anyoae i murder. You have only to demand a fml nud fair investigation. You have pro.oJ your ability to hold the jail against a ani vvant to s03 ou iu aar il asraip. I scut the troops you requested them, and because I tha mob aud their friends to understand that the entire power of the State will support you." In an interview yesterday, Colonel Jones.

who is in command of the military, said that he had not telegraphed Governor to remove Hawcs andSiieriff Smith, as that matter was in the hands oC the civil authorities here. He said that he had telegraphed the Governor that the troops were suffering, and also the condition they were in. "I certainly expect, 1 said the Colonel, ''to be here several days, and have made ni" arrangements accordingly." hilo many people feel very bitter towards the sheriff and condemn him for firing on the crowd, the feeling is not strong enough to result in auy personal violence to him. Chief of Police Pickard. who was also arrested on a charge of murder, was released yesterday on a bond of He was on the streets all day and there were no threats of personal violence.

Sheriff Smith is still in jail under arrest. He repeats his previous -statement that least a dozen shots had been fired by the crowd before he ordered his officers to fire. Several of those who were shot have m-ndo statements to the effect that they went to the jail merely out of ciin- Two freight trains were wrecked on the Boston Albany railroad near Ashland, on the 10th, causing the death of three trainmen. FRANK SHORT, fell dead at- his home jn Guttencerg, N. J-, on the 9th.

His death reduces the Democratic majority in the next New Jersey Assem bly from four to three, and may make a difference in the Senatorial contest. ELISTA ATKIXS, one of the most widely known business men of died in that city on the 10th. He had served as vice president of the Union Pacific laiiroad since its organisation up to within a year ago. His age was seventy-five. THE RIOTOUS STRIKERS.

THE House Committee on Invalid Pen sions has authorized a favorable renort on More Trouble Expected From the Miners the Senate bill granting a pension of 83,500 at iSevie-, Mo. per year to Irene Rucker Sheridan, widow ST. Lorns, Dec. now seems a settled of the late General Sheridan. fact that the disturbances at Bevier THE boiler in the feed mill of Hehman wliere the serious not occurred on the night THE EAST.

By the collapse on the Oth of the walls of Diehl's malt house, a six-story brick structure, at Buffalo, K. Flood Meyer, a malster, -was instantly killed. The, xvere 100,000 bushels of malt on the top floor. Loss heavy. -Thomas Thompson, aged ninety-four, a pensioner of the war of 1812, died at Rockport, Mass, a lew days ago.

He was a priVateersman and was captured and sent to Dartmoor and Halifax prisons. For the past twenty years he has followed'his occupation as a master mariner. The'pfficial vote of the State of Maine is: Cleveland 50,481, FJsk 2,911, Streetor 1,344, scattering Tofcal vote Hanson's plurality A- number -of prominent clergymen and, i act in Now York oa the to ar- Strohl, at Trowbndge, exploded on the 10th, instantly lulling Engineer Henry Hehman and Albert Alene. a farmer, and seriously injuring- Walter Strohl. REip.

ADMIRAL LEF.OT, U. S. died at New York City on the 10th. He was a native of'New York City and entered the nary as'- midshipman in 1S32. He served of ohe 5th, are not being settled that the future must develop more serious disturbances.

It is "said 3 that when any of the strikers at BeVier go elsewhere to work, irfey are refnsedif known that they cdine" from Bevier andVjbelong to the labor confederation there. AsJ.ong as the strike is'contlnued at Bevier th'e strikers receive i iK i i JU.U i i V- a with distinction'during the Mexican and sopportfrom the State Confederation. i A4-n "IT isWihj.oat4f tbe-State refuses-to interfere, armed-men" and tie people will soon have more men billed, there than they will be willing to buy coffins for. The. disarming- of both sides at Bevier a hard thmjr to do.

General the only way it can be done is for the Goueraorto declare the town un- 3er martial law. It has been su Tested that the sheriff con Id keep tho pi-nee with a posse of ten men constantly on the ground, bnt hn says there is no use to talk about this, as tie can not get men to to stay, aud that xvould amount to nothins if an outbreak occurred. There arc two armed bodies of men. many in barricades and if anyone on either side fires off a gun, acci- 3entally or not, it is a war signal, aad tho war begins. More- Roy Hellweg and Frank Middaugh, aged ten aixl eight' 'years respectively, were drowned while skating 1 on the river at Owa-.

toona, on tho 7th. The steamer- and her cartro of sugar, which arrived at 8an Fran cisc6 from a days consigned to the American Sugar Refinery, was seized by civil wars. Ax attempt was made to blow up tho Shufeldt distillery at Chicago on the 10th with dynamite. The explosion shook every thing in the vicinity. Glass was broken for several blocks around and much damage was done.

The poition destroyed was a one-story Seven sticks of dynamite, fulminating caps and fuse -were found in another part erf the distillery, a deliberate attempt to destroy the works. COSSIDERA of the Tariff bill was re- sumel in the Senate on the 10th. After several amendments offered by Senators had beea rejected. Mr. McPherson said the Democratic party might as well cer.sc its op- position: that the Iemocratio members of the Finance Committee had ha3 no opportunity to examine the substitute before, it was reported to thi Senate, and CITT, Dec, Governor that they were not familiar with it- He moved house ajrived nt Bevier last evening-and or- to postpone consideration of the bill until f.o tfcfi dis- January TO; rejected.

Mr. Sherman then addressed the Senate at some length on the Tariff bill, and tit conclusion of his remarks the Senate adjourned Under the call of States a large number of bills were introduced, among them the following: Grnntir.g a pension of $12 a month to honorably -discharged soldiers and sailors who are sixty years ol age; to repeal the Tnter-Statc Commerce law; reviving the grade of Lieutenant- General in the army for the erection of a building for the geological survey in Washington; for the ndmission'of tho State of Idaho proposing a constitutional amendment for uniformity as to the day for choosing Presidential forbidding voting for any other offfcerHhiin Representative 4n that day. In bly cut -where she had broken thi to get air. After the fire had been extinguished tbe firemen and police began an investigation. Twenty-seven different points found where the torch had been applied, and preparations had been made to touch off twenty more piles of shavings, cracker boxes, soap boxes, in each of which was a tomato can full of kerosene.

Combustible matter was brought to light in every conceivable place, two piles being in the bed room occupied by Ira Smith, tho owner of the building. The police decline to disclose the evidence found, but they took Smith and Alvin Vanderpool, an employe, into custody yesterday morning, Mrs. Smith was made a prisoner last night. They have been placed in different cells in the jail and will not be allowed to communicate. Smith is connected with some of the best families in the country.

His property was heavily mortgaged and insured for more than its real value. Some of the tenants had no insurance and say that Mrs. Smith has been very importunate of late ia endeavoring to induce them to insure. Air Tested. "STOKK, Dec.

balloon ascension under the direction of the Novelty Air Ship Company was made Saturday afternoon at "Coney island in the presence of about 500 people. The new air ship, which is worked by electricity, is the invention of Peter C- Campbell, a BrookljTi jeweler. It is cigar shaped, fifty feet long and forty-two feet in diameter in the center. A car and flying machine is suspended from the balloon by means of a bar and a propeller is provided by which the device can bs raised or loiv- er.ed,~or moved in a horizontal direction- air. James K.

Allen, the professional after the balloon was filled with pure oxygon gas, took his seat in the car and ascended to'jthe height of 500 feet where after going through a series of evolutions propelling the machine hither and thither he landed safely at Sheepshead Bay. The experiment was pronounced a decided success. The inventor has formed a company with a capital of osiry and that they had no idea of taking part in the attempted lynching. The funeral of postmaster Throckmorton took place yesterday afternoon, interment. being at Oak Hill Cemetery.

A detachment of artillery, of which deceased was the capt- ain, and a local military company escorted the remains to the cemetery and fired a sa- I lute over The Birmingham lodge cf the Order of Elks also attended inaboay Telegraph Company Railroad. O.MAH\, Dec. the United States Circuit Court yesterday the Western Union Telegraph Company applied for an injunction restraining the Union Pacific people from abrogating the contract now exisline: between the two corporations by- operating its own line. The Western Union: claims that it has recently heard that t'ie railroad Compaq- was contemplating violating the contract, and would at an early seize the lines between Elansas Citv and Denver and those between Oaialia and Oc- den; also that it. would take the wires now used by the Western Union, or some of them, as well as those used by itself, and cut them from connection with the complainant's offices and run them into its own offices for commercial and other businc-s.

The-Western Union also avers that the railway company will exclude its-operators and employes from its offices; that tbe telegraph company's business will be gronily impaired by depriving it of the profits from line, -which amount to much more tbai 3100,000 a year. The case will be called at, JLeavenworth. December 27. mitteepf, tjie.Wha'o tho District of Columbia Appropriation' b'nl and tne-'Pension Approprfa- -and the committee rose both bills were reported to tae Houy? apd passed. 'Adjourned.

dered out the State militia to quell disturbance among the strikers at that place. Scries of Railroad Collisions. Shore freigh was run intc ICHICAGO. Dec, Lake train box cars by-a switch of tho Nickel plate road near Gratad Crossing last night. Both engines and-several curs were damaged to the extent of SS0.001.

The tracks of the tw roads run'iHuiiallel and.are by switches, which was left open after the accidet 4 itand a Michigan Central passon- train "was transferred thereby; 'to the Plate track, colliding witlrthe wreck before it'could be, checked. Fortunately train was running only about ten miles an hour; 5 P. en- tho latter, jumped "b'ut' sustained onjy slight Tho wreck blocked h6 track for about three hour's. Tosting tho Oynamite Cruiser's Speed. Pim.ATHTLrnn, Dec.

dynamite gun cruiser Vesuvius, constructed for the Government by the Cramps, left their ship yard in Kensington Saturday and proceeded down to Delaware Bay, where a test of her speed took place over a. measured course of four and a half miles. This distance was covered by the Vesuvius in twelve minutes and fourteen seconds, a of 21 47-100 Unots par hour. Tho contract calls for a speed of twenty knots an hour. An old black man from the was beguiled into making a visit to the middle country of Georgia after the-war, returned home at the -earliest opportunity.

He couldn't live in a country, he. "whoso full of'snakes instead of fish, and where it was ebb tide all the --4g physician, hastening tq a pa- met 'by an acquauitanco, who; noticing a hole ia coat-sleeve, remarked that the was peeping "And foblifhnesa peeping replied the doctor, coolly Peddler Stubbed to Death. Niw YORK," Dec. peddler, used twenty-five; stabbed ard killed yesterday by Giovanni Genoa, a worn- man in a. shoe which -Nowak had entered, and who had got into a quarrel witn the pjddler.

Kowak was an inoffensive man. Genoa had for some time been regarded as partly crazy. He became enraged because Nowak spoke to the twelve-j ear- old daughter of Genoa's employer, ami chucked her under the chin, saying: "YoJ are a pretty child." Genoa seized a. ha n- mer nnd at-tackecl Nowak. Then, throwing away the hammer he caught up a shoemaker's knife and stabbed Nowak three times, twice in the neck, severing the jugular, ami once in the heart.

Nowak raa out of the door and fell dead. "While a crowd was gathering Genoa walked away in fan shirt sleeves, wer.t to a former emp'oycr, borrowed a coat and disappeared. The police are hunting Jpr him. His former employer says he-Ttad to get rid of him because of his crazy actions, fearing that he would do some violence. A Hasher Covrhided.

PITTSBURGH, Dec. William enbinger, who lives at 280 Spring Garden avenue, morning cow' hided Hon. C. O. Lappe in front of her house, inflicting a number of welts- across his shoulders and a deep cat on his cheek.

husband. 4 has for some time annoyed the woman by trying to flirt her. He determined to put a stop it, upon learning of which Mrs. 'Simeii- 'bingor forestalled him. Tho-lady got a whip and when Lappe appeared yesterday in his window; opposite the butcher's house, beckoned to him to como out and then she thrashed him.

Mr. Lappo is an ex-member of tho Pennsylvania Leg 13 lature..