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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT.
TOESKAH E. HULES, Editor * Puto'r.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT
CANADIAN. - TEXAS.
THE WORLD AT LAEGE.
Summary of the Daily Newa
WASHINGTON NOTES.
At the White House on the 6th the Pres-
ident and a small party assembled in the
library and received the election news over
a special wire. Besides the President and
Mrs. Cleveland, the White House party in-
cluded Secretary and Mrs. Whitney, Mrs.
Dickinson, Mrs. Endicott, Attorney-Gen-
eral Garland, Representative Breckin-
ridge, of Kentucky, and Foran, of Ohio,
and Mrs. Lamont, Assistant Secretaries
Maynard and Thompson, of the treasury,
and Colonel Wilson.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
6th accepted $85,000 4>a per cent, bonds at
108%.
One hundred recruits have been ordered
to the Department of the Missouri for as-
signment and distribution among the com-
panies of the Se^euth cavalry.
The President has recognized Carlo
Zerra as Vice-Consui of Italy at Balti-
more, Md.
A Cabinet meeting was held at Wash-
ington on the 8th, all the members being
present except Vilas and Dickinson.
The Secretary of War has issued the of-
ficial order placing General Alfred Pleas-
anton on the retired list of the army, his
retirement to date from October 23 past.
At the instance of T. D. Riordan, attor-
ney for the Chinese Merchants' Associa-
tion, the Secretary of the Treasury has
instructed the Collector at San Francisco
that. Chinese merchants are not affected
by the Exclusion act, and that those now
resident in the United States who visit
foreign countries may be admitted upon
any evidence of identity satisfactory to
the Collector.
THK EAST.
The fishing schooner Goldsmith Maid,
with 300,000 pounds of fresh fish, was run
into and sunk in Boston harbor the other
night. Peter Landry and Howard Moti-
roe, of Shelburne, N. S., who were asleep
in the forecastle, went down with her.
The rest of the crew escaped.
Fire started in the City Hall at Haver-
hill, Mass., on the 6th. The building was
destroyed. Voting was in progress at the
time, but the ballot box was saved.
A boiler in the Lancaster (Pa.) Chem-
ical Company's works exploded with ter-
rible force recently, completely demolish-
ing the building and killing one man and
injuring five. John Riddle, fireman, was
killed outright.
The New York Evening Post places the
next Congress as follows: Senate—Demo-
crats, 37; Republicans, 39. House of Rep-
resentatives—Democrats, 1G£>; Republic-
ans, 160.
Philip Baer, aged twenty-eight, a sales-
man, tried to board an elevated train in
New York the other night after the gates
were closed and was caught between the
cars and the station railing, fell to the
street and was killed, He was hurrying
to join his family at a ball—a ticket to
which was found in his pocket.
W. H. Barnum, of the Democratic Na-
tional Committee, was seriously ill at his
home at Lime Rock, Conn., on the 8th. His
illness was due to overwork in the late
political canvass.
Switchmen on the New York Central
struck at Albany, N. Y., on the 8th.
The report that the Clyde steamer Sagi-
naw carried arms and ammunition from
New York for the use of the Hayti insur-
gents was confirmed by examination of
papers.
By a rear end collision at Fishkill, N. Y.,
the other morning between a freight and
an express train, a passenger car was
wrecked and one woman killed.
The wife of Jay Gould was reported dan-
gerously sick on the 8th.
Steve Bkodie, the jumping crank, re-
cently broke three of his ribs leaping from
the Poughkeepsie, N. Y., bridge.
The official count in the Fourth Con-
gressional district, New Jersey, shows
that Fowler, Democrat, is elected to Con-
gress by a plurality of 63 over Voorhees,
Republican.
In a speech to his neighbors at Utica, N.
Y., ex-Senator Warner Miller, referring
to his late canvass for Governor, said: *'1
never believed that I would be elected. I
made my fight for a purpose, and it has
been achieved by the election of our Na-
tional ticket."
Paul Philipson, a New York commis-
sion merchant, has failed with unknown
liabilities and assets.
The Anti-Saloon Republican National
Committee has been called to meet No-
vember 21 in New York City to consider
the future policy.
An unknown man committed suicide re-
cently by jumping into the Niagara river.
His body was carried over the falls.
The glass factory at Wellsboro, Pa., was
destroyed by fire recently, causing a loss
of $40,000.
By the burning of a steam gauge factory
at Genesee Falls, near Rochester, N. Y.,
on the 9th five men were killed and four
more fatally injured. It was feared others
were dead in the ruins. The loss amounted
to $225,000; insurance, $179,000.
Dr. Hostetter, the Pittsburgh, Pa.,
bitters man, was insured for $350,000 at the
time of his death.
A man and a boy were crushed to death
in a coal mine near McDonald, Pa., the
^ther day by a fall of slate.
The Boston sugar refinery at East Bos-
ton has shut down for an indefinite period.
the west.
William Parker, the register of deeds
of Nelson Couuty, Dak., has gone to Win-
nipeg. His accounts are said to be $10,000
ehort. His property is heavily mortgaged.
A striking switchman was shot and
tilled by a Burlington engineer at Cres-
tón, Iowa, on the 8th. The shooting re-
vived the bitter feeling existing over the
strike.
A. 8. Lauferty & Co., clothiers of Fort
Wayne, Ind., Lave made an assignment
lor the benefit of their creditors. Liabil-
ities about $50,000.
Whil* the judges and clerks were count-
ing the vote of San Rafael, Valencia
County, N. M., on the6th, DimaProvercho,
a Democrat who was assisting them, was
shot dead by some one on the outside, the
person poking a pistol through the window
and firing.
Archibald Pelon, a dissolute charac-
ter was lynched recently at Grayling,
Mich., for assaulting an aged widow.
Henp.y Koehler, recently, while under
the influence of delirium tremens, threw
himself into the north branch of the Chi-
cago river. His wife tried to draw him
out, but was herself dragged in and before
help came both were drowned.
Fire in Chicago the other night destroyed
Moran & Henly's packing house and 500
tierces of lard. Loss, $40,000.
A great demonstration was held by the
Republicans at Indianapolis, Ind., on the
8th, to celebrate the victory of General
Harrison.
Official returns from all the precincts
show that General Harrison carried the
city of Indianapolis by a plurality of 156,
the vote being Harrison 13,326, Cleveland
13,170. Blaine carried the city by 025 plu-
rality in 1884.
The paper and bag mill of the Indiana
Paper Company at South Bend, Ind., was
burned recently. Loss, $200,OOt); insurance,
$40,000 chietlv in Eastern companies.
Edward C. Carrigan, member of the
Massachusetts State Board of Education
and a leading lawyer of Boston, died on a
train near Salida, Col., the other day.
The down stage was held up on the 8th
at Downieville, Cal., by masked highway-
men and the express box, containing buU
lion and coin amounting to about $2,50if
taken.
Jacob Wellauer's wholesale grocery,
Milwaukee, Wis., wa3 damaged and his
stock ruined by fire recently. Loss, $100,-
000.
The large hotel at Long Beach, on the
coast, twenty mile* from Los Angeles,
Cal., was entirely destroyed by fire re-
cently. Loss, $90,000.
The Rawson divorce suit at Chicago
went by default. Under the arrangement
Banker Rawson would give his wife HO.
000 and she would get a- divorce on the
ground of desertion.
At San Francisco United States Circuit
Judge Sawyer has rendered a decision in
the test cases of two Chinese in which he
holds that insomuch as they are citizens
they are not amenable to the act of Con-
gress excluding Chinese laborers.
Thomas H. White was recently arrested
by the deputy United States marshal for
perjury in his official capacity while
deputy United States mineral surveyor
and held in $500 bond at Deadwood, Dak.
White is a Cornishman and the London
Times of September 9 distinguishes him
tor breaking a $10,000,000 deal of the Har-
ney Peak Tin Mining and Manufacturing
Company by his correspondence in the
Financial News of London.
Andrew Roesser's saw and grist mill
at S ster Bay, Wis., was destroyed by fire
the ot her night. Loss, $40,000.
The Winnebago Indians living near
Redwing, Minn., recently murdered a
voung squaw during the savage ceremon-
ies attending the opening of the hunting
season.
By a collision between freight trains
near Pueblo, Col., the other day one man
was killed and both trains wrecked. One
had broken down and the other ran into it
before a flagman could be sent back.
Ihe Chicago, Burlington & Quincy di-
rectors held a three hours' session at Chi-
cago recently and declared a dividend of
one per cent., making five per cent, for the
year.
A ferry steamer was sunk in a collision
at Calcutta on the 7th and sixty persons
were drowned.
Alexander Hogeland, president of the
Boys' and Girls' National Home and Em-
ployment Association, has issued a circu-
lar requesting ministers of every denomi-
nation to preach one sermon November 18
on the work of the association.
The Political Correspondence publishes
a Berlin letter commenting upon the rap-
prochement between France and Spain
since Senor Amijo became Spanish Min-
ister of Foreign Affairs. He says that this
is especially shown by the operations of
the two countries in regard to the Morocco
question and that the alliance is directed
against other Mediterranean States.
Three delegates from the Mormon colony
at Lee's Creek, N. W. T., have goue to
Ottawa, Ont, to secure a townsite at their
colony, which now numbers 1*25 sou!s.
A report comes from a town in Alsace-
Lorraine of a conflict between the German
military authorities and the French sym-
pathizing populace. It is said that the
people threw volleys of stones at an officer
and that he was compelled to draw his
sword in order to defend himself.
Moríarity, a Boston man, arrested at
Queenstown, Ireland, recently with a re-
volver and cartridges in his possession
was fined $25 by the Irish magistrate. •
Miss Anna Dickinson has sued the Re-
publican National Committee for $1,350,
balance of salary and expenses as cam-
paign lecturer.
Seven Anarchists have been arrested in
connection with the explosion of dynamite
bombs in the registry offices in the Rue
Boucher and Rue Francaise.
The Premier of Queensland has pro-
tested against the appointment of Gov-
ernor Blake, late of Newfoundland.
Ex-Queen Natalie's appeals to the Pa-
triarchs of Constantinople and Athens
have been unsuccessful. Both declined to
interfere.
Lord Mayor's day parade in London on
the 9th was devoid of the usual pageantry
and was a very tame affair.
Business failures (Dun' report) for the
seven days ended November 8 numbered
226, as compared with 275 the previous
week aud 245 the corresponding week last
year.
The Northwestern Passenger Associa-
tion is said to have completely collapsed
because of quarrels among the roads. The
general managers were reported figuring
on an agreement covering all the roads in
the West.
The amount of the new Russian loan is
reported to be £20,000,030. The Barings
and the Credit Lyonaise are the chief
members of the syndicate.
Premier Von Mattnacht has returned
to Stuttgart from Nice. His interview
with the King of Wurtemburg resulted in
the King acceding to the demand of the
Ministers that all Americans except Jack-
son resign from the service of Wurtem-
burg.
Seventy thousand followers of El Mahdi
attached the town of Wadai, west of
Darfour, recently. The garrison repulsed
the assailants and killed 3,000, but the
Mahdists reattacked and captured the
town. The Sultan of Wadai fled to Ghiri.
The Whitechapel fiend killed another
prostitute on the 9th, mutilating her in a
more horrible manner than he did the
others. He left no ciew by which he could
be discovered.
By the collapse of a house on Litchfield
street, London, on the 9th, six persons
were killed and twenty injured.
TERRIBLE CALAMITY.
Frightful Goal Mine Explosion at
Pittsburgh Kan.
THK SOUTH.
At Birmingham, Ala., recently while
four minors were down in a pit thirty-five
feet deep the sides caved in, completely
burying them. AY hen reached, John
Wheeler was dead, James Jones and Frank
¡Smith were dying and William Moore was
struck on the head with a pickaxe and
fatally hurt.
II. C. Hyman, of Ashland, Ky., fell from
a bicycle on a street of Gainesville, Tex.,
recently, striking his head on a stone, and
died in less than an hour.
In Portsmouth, Va., on the 7th four
hundred negroes marched through the
streets singing "Hang Grover Cleveland
on a sour apple tree." They encountered
a party of whites and a free fight
occurred, between forty and fifty pistol
shots being fired and three white men
wounded, two of them seriously. The
negroes were finally dispersed.
There were twenty-five new cases of
and three deaths from yellow fever in
Jacksonville on the 6th.
The returns of the recent Gubernatorial
election were opened before the Georgia
Legislature on the 8th, Governor Gordon
received 122,785, with not much more than
400 against him.
At Raleigh, N. C., the other morning
negroes burned the house of the chairman
of the Democratic county committee and
broke into a railway warehouse and took
a number of dynamite cartridges. Serious
trouble was feared.
United States Commissioner Pleasant
has arrested the city Board of Commis-
sioners of Elections of Richmond, Va., for
refusing to allow United States supervisors
to be present at the count of the vote.
At Livingston, Ky., on election day,
during a political discussion, revolvers
were drawn and an indiscriminate shoot-
ing took place, the result being the death
of five prominent citizens and the serious
wounding of another.
A trestle gave way over French creek,
near Jasper, Ala., on the Memphis route
the other morning, wrecking a stock train
and killing one man and injuring several
others. All the cattle and sheep were
killed.
The King of Wurtemburg denies that he
has been under the control of American
favorites or has in any way impaired his
estate, as reported from Berlin.
It is reported in Berlin that the Czar will
visit Germany in the spring.
Italy is negotiating to take part with
England and Germany in the naval block-
ade at Zanzibar for the purpose of sup-
pressing the slave trade.
Eight additional members of the crew of
the steamer Saxmundham, which was re-
cently suuk off Cowes by the Norwegian
bark Nor, háve been rescued. Fourteen
were still missing on the 6th.
Heavy gales were reported off the Brit-
ish coasts on the 6th.
Nearly Two Hundred Men Entombed With
But Little Hope of Rescue — Frantic
Women and Children Vainly Seek*
lng for Lost Ones.
THE LATEST,
The French steamer, Iberia, was beached
near New York on the 10th, after being in
collision with the Conard steamship, Um-
bría. A dense fog prevailed at the time.
Thirty-three persons perished in the
recent fire at the steam gauge works at
Genesee Falls, near Rochester, N. Y.
* A DisPATcn from Rome says: The Va-
tician authorities express satisfaction with
the election of Mr. Harrison, at whose
hands the Catholic interests of America
are not expected to suffer.
It was stated at Washingtou on the 11th
that returns indicated a very close divi-
sion of the House. Either party would
not control it by more than one or two.
The second blast furnace of the Brooks
Iron Company at Reading, Pa., has started
up.
Senor CaSTiLLO, on his arrival at Mad-
rid from Seville, was stoned in his car-
riage by a mob of Republicans. The up-
roar lasted for a long time.
McCue's carriage factory and other
buildings were burned at San Francisco
on the 11th. Loss, $100,000; insurance,
$30,000.
Clearing house returns for week ended
November 10 showed an average decrease
of 6.6. In New York the decrease was
10.4.
The Democrat has been consolidated
with the American, both of Nashville.
Tenn.
The dam question at El Paso, Tex., by
which it is claimed Mexico has over-
stepped the boundary line of the Rio
Grande, has been referred to Secretary
Bayard.
Negotiations for a Turco-German treaty
have been concluded and a draft of the
convention has been submitted to the Sul-
tan.
The first through express from Paris
arrived in Constantinople ou the 10th.
The Auarchists had a demonstration on
the 11th at Waldheim cemetery, Chicago,
the anniversary of the execution of Spies,
et al. Several thousand persons were
present. Demonstrations were held in
various other places, but they were with-
out exciting incident.
A Washington Sunday paper intimates
that the National Republican is to be re-
vived and that Washington is again to
have a Republican morning paper.
FrederickNorr, his wife and daughter,
were burned to death in their bouse at
Vernon Center, near Utica, N. Y., re-
cently.
Money was reported abundant in Lon-
don during the week ended November 10.
Lord Salisbury's cautious remarks con-
cerning foreign affairs somewhat checked
boll operators. In Paris money was easy
and the bourse dull. Vienna, Berlin and
Frankfort reported money matters quiet.
Fire in New York City recently caused
$20,000 damage to Cornell, Bingham &
Co.'s paper warehouse and $50,000 damage
to the stock of Benedict & Valentine, book-
binders and printers. Five persons were
injured.
Jmz- '•
Pittsburgh, Kan., Nov. 10.-—At 5:15
o'clock last evening an explosion awful in
the horror of its results, occurred at the
Cherokee and Pittsburgh Company's coal
shaft No. 2 atFrontenac, three miles north
of this city, and the report wTas distinctly
heard here. The working level of the
shaft is sixty-five feet below the surface
and at the time of the explosion 164 men
were down in the awful traps of death.
A few minutes later one man escaped by
the air shaft and since then twenty-four
have reached the surface by the same
means.
There can be little doubt that the re-
mainder have perished, as the main en-
trance to the shaft is piled full of debris
and dead mules, and those escaping re-
port crawling over dead men at every step
in the depths below. At least two thou-
sand excited men, women and children are
gathered round the mouth of the shaft and
the cries of those whose husbands or
fathers are known to be below are heart-
rending. Men are driven to desperation
by pitiful appeals from weeping women
and girls to get "the boys out before they
all die."
Entrance to tho mine is being achieved
as fast as within human power, but the
main entrance is absolutely blocked and
imminent danger attends every attempt
by the air shaft. Among the anxious
crowds at the mouth of the shaft are
crowded every doctor from this city and
many from Girard, Litchfield and other
places in the county. Snow and rain have
been falling since the accident and the
shivering crowd of half-dressed women
pleading for some one to give them tidings
of loved ones it pitiful.
The cause of the explosion can not be
now determined. A blast had just been
put in and a good deal of powder is known
to have been in the mine, but whether this
or a flame from the lamps ignited the gas
and did the deadly work no one yet knows.
No such horror has ever shocked the peo-
ple of Southern Kansas and a thorough
explanation of it will be demanded. At
least 137 men are now lying dead in the
fatal shaft.
another account.
St. Louis, Nov. 10.—A special from
Pittsburgh, Kan., to the Republic gives the
following account of the coal mine explo-
sion there last evening: A terrible explo-
sion that broke windows in this little vil-
lage and spread consternation among its
inhabitants occurred at dusk to-night.
The violence of the shock was so great as
to hurl dishes from shelves and demolish
chimneys. Half an hour after the ex-
plosion the villagers, who were pre-
paring to go to the mines, were
startled by a ragged, bleeding man
wTho almost staggered into the arms
of the searchers. He said that No. 2 shaft
at Frontenac, a mining suburb of this
village, had been destroyed by an ex-
plosion and that all the men in the mine
at the time, except himself and a Dane,
whom he left bleeding at the mouth of the
pit, were undoubtedly dead. Horses were
quickly harnessed to wTagons and in a few
minutes tho villagers were hurrying
through a fierce snow and sleet storm
which was raging.
At the mouth of the mine the tremendous
force of the explosion was apparent. There
were huge seams in the earth, and the
timbers of the hoisting apparatus were
shivered and burned. Foul gases were
escaping. The Dane who had escaped
with the men who alarmed the
villagers lay in the mud with his
face covered with blood. For a long
time it was thought he was dead, but
he regained consciousness in a few hours
and is now at his home. He can nojt speak
and does not know what caused the explo-
sion. His clothes were in ribbons.
The man who reached this village with
the first tidings of the disaster and who
accompanied the rescuers back to the mine,
said the men were about to quit work for
the day when the explosion occurred. To-
gether with the Dane he had ridden in the
car to the top of the shaft when the earth
seemed to snap beneath him and the next
thing he realized was the splashing of the
snow and water upon his face as he lay
with his comrade in the wreckage above
the mine. There were 160 men in the mine
at the time of the explosion, and as they
were at work 112 feet below the surface, it
is believed that no one survived the shock,
as the explosion must have destroyed
every thing in the pit.
Big fires were built near the mouth of
the pit and beside these blazing piles the
women of the entombed miners placed
their children, while they themselves tried
by all means of entreaties to induce the
miners from the other shafts to enter the
pit and rescue their relatives. One
rescuing party started down the shaft
at seven o'clock, but was forced to
turn back owing to the foul
air. Another attempt was made at nine
o'clock, but the plucky rescuers again
were forced to abandon their work. They
could hear no sound from the chambers
below, and this leads old miners to be-
lieve that all the men in the shaft have
perished. Other attempts will be made to
reach the entombed men before morning,
Those who started down the shaft early
in the evening say that the shock has de-
stroyed whole drifts and that it is possible
that the men in the lower levels are buried
beneath tons of slate. Black damp is
supposed to have caused the explosion.
Most of the miners at these shafts came
originally from Illinois and Pennsylvania
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Democrats Concede California.
San Francisco, Nov. 9.—The count of
166 precincts in the city out of 176 give
Harrison 24,980; Cleveland, 27,693. The
Republican State Committee claim the
State by from 10,000 to 12,000. The Demo-
cratic State Committee concedes the State
to the Republicans, but with a small ma-
jority. The latest figures indicate Ihe
election of four Republican Congressmen*
Three of the Congressional districts are
very close.
WHITECHAPEL AGAIN.
A
Another Victim of the Mysterious London
Fiend—Futile Efforts to Discover the
Monster.
London, Nov. 9.—The murder fiend has
added another victim to his list. At
eleven o^clock this morning the body of a
woman cut into pieces was discovered in
a house on Dorset street, Spitalfields. Tho
police are endeavoring to track the mur~
derers with the aid of bloodhounds. The
appearance of the remains was frightful,
and the mutilation was even greater than
in the previous cases. The head had been
severed and placed beneath one of the
limbs. The ears and nose had been cut off.
The body had been disemboweled and tho
flesh was torn from the thighs. Several
organs were missing. The skin had been
torn off the forehead and cheeks. One
hand had been pushed into the stomach.
The victim's name is believed to have
been Lizzie Fisher, but to most
of the habitues of the haunts
she visited, she was known as
Mary Jane. She had a room in the house
where she was murdered. She carried a
latch key and no one knows at what hour
she entered the house last night, and
probably no one saw the man who ac-
companied her. Therefore, it is hardly
likely that he will ever be identified.
He might easily have left the house
at any time between one and six
o'clock this morning without attract-
ing attention. The doctors who have
examined the remains refuse to make any
statement until the inquest is held. Three
blood hounds belonging*to private citizens
were taken to the place where the body
lay and placed on the scent of the mur-
derer but they were unable to keep it for
any great distance and all hop^of running
the assassin dowrn with their assistance
will have to be abandoned.
The murdered woman told a compauion
last evening that she was without money
and would commit suicide if she did not
obtain a supper. It has been learned that
a man respectably dressed accosted her
and offered her money and they went to
her lodgings, on the second floor of the
Dorset street house. No noise was
heard during the night and nothing
was known of the murder until the
landlad3r went to the room early this morn-
ing to ask for her rent. The first thing she
saw on entering the room was the woman's
br easts and viscera lying on a table.
The opinion of Archibald Forbes and
Mr. Winslow that the assassin was a
homicidal maniac is confirmed by the
latest murder, and the prediction has be-
come general that another murder will
soon follow.
FATAL FACTORY FIRE.
A Number of Women ami Children Lose
Their Uves in a Conflagration at Roches-
ter, N. Y.
Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 10.—The most
disastrous lire ever experienced in this
city occurred last evening at the works of
the Steam Gauge and Lantern Company.
It was located in a buildingof seven stories,
with two basements. It was situated near
the Genesee Falls. The tire broke out at
7:35 o'clock. About forty people were at
woi k, mostly on the third floor. The smoke
was very dense, and the men could not
reach the fire escapes, and they were
forced to jump from the third storv. Four-
teen jumped ou the west side <-f the build-
ing, and were frightfully injured, six of
them dying within an hour. Four others
will die before morning. The names of
the dead are: Joseph Darner, John Grem-
our, Joseph Webber, Harry Schneider,
John Gall. *
The fatally injured are: Richard Pasch.
Frank Siddous, David Watkins aud J« lm
Gern. It is thought that five or more
bodies are in the ruins, including one or
more girls.
Among those saved was John Platte,
who escaped by sliding from the sixth
floor. He says there were thirty persons
at work on that floor, and three were
saved—Robert and Horatio Hall and Jo-
seph Smith. He thinks that about ten
others escaped with him.
The lantern works with stoek and ma-
chinery is a total loss, estimated at about
$2-5,000. The insurance is $179,000.
The cause of the fire is a mystery. The
men went to work after supper, ami a!l
seemed to be right then. Soon afterward
Jacob Diehl, the watchman, while mak.ng
his usual rounds, discovered flames mak-
ing their wray up through the floor, lie
had barely time to give the alarm when he
Was surrounded by the flames, but suc-
ceeded in making the danger known to
the men on the fourth, fifth and sixili
floors. Those at once realized their
position and made their way from
the building, but before they all ^ >t
out the structure was a seething mns-i
of fire. There was not the slightest
chance of escape by the usual doors
of exit and windows were at once u'ilizjd
for the purpose. The majority of the
working men lost their heads and b?gun
to jump instead of taking the fir - ladders
that were attached to the buihbn
iS*
It is believed that a number of men are
buried in the ruins, but at present i is im-
possible to be sure of this. All may huye
escaped, but the probabilities a:« decided y
against it. As soon as the ruins are
sufficiently cool work will be begun search-
ing for the bodies.
SEVENTY-FIVE ^THOUSAND.
The Republican Victory in Kansas Aston-
ishing To All.
Topeka, Kan., Nov. 10 —The latest re-
turns received at Republican State bend-
quarters give the following surprising re-
sult:
Harrison's plurality — Seventy-seven
counties heard from, 59,177; twenty-n ne
counties to hear from (estimated), 15,*97;
total, 75,074.
Humphrey's plurality — Seventy -seven
counties heard from, 56,294; twenty-nine
counties to hear from (estimated>, Vi 922;
total, 72,216.
The Union Labor vote is falling far
below all estimates and will probably not
reach 26,000.
It is hardly necessary to state every bo ly
was surprised at the result. The figures
in Kansas, especially, are a never-failing
source of wonder to Republicans and
Democrats alike. At first the Republican*
were pretty well satisfied with an f?sti-
mated plurality of 45,000 for Humphrey,
then they wanted 60,000 and now they can
scarcely believe it when the returns show
about 75,000.
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1888, newspaper, November 15, 1888; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183586/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.