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CANADIAN,
TEXAS
Algernon Swinburne says he doet
his best work after an early breakfast
It is said that Senator Hiscock is a
fatalist and believes what is to be wili
be.
Mrs. Marshall O. Roberts is the
eight-millionaire widow of a mining
king.
Baroness Bcrdett Coutts has just
received a bequest of $9,000,000 from a
relative.
Mrs. Joseph Harrison, the widow
of the man who built the iirst railroad
in Russia, has $4,000,000.
The queen of Roumania has written
a Christmas story for one of the news-
papers published in her capital
Charley Foster, who writes the
funny stuff in the Omaha World, ia the
soberest and most melancholy man in
that city.
TnE prince of Naples, who has just
come of age, is pronounced to be the
most accomplished crown prince in
Europe. %
Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria,
who practices as a physician last year
had 4,000 patients and performed 200
operations for diseases of the eye.
Henry Labodchere has received
10,000 new sixpences from some un-
known friend, to be distributed among
the poor children of London.
A patchwork quilt made by chil-
dren in the United States, and an In-
dian shawl, the gift of Queen Victoria,
were buried with Jenny Lind at her
request.
The prohibition candidate for mayor
of New Bedford., Mass, received
twenty-nine votes at a recent municipal
election in that city out of a total vote
of 4,567.
Fred McCrum, a Titusville tele-
grapher, made the fastest time on rec-
ord in New York lately, sending 58
words a minute for 46 minutes, a total
of nearly 2,700 words.
Ex-Secretary" Holcomb of the
American legation at Pekiii says that
out of the 400,000,000 inhabitants of
the Chinese empire fully 300,000,000
spend less than $1.50 a month for
food.
Canon Brock, D. D., president of
the King's College university, Wind-
sor, N. S., the oldest colonial universi-
ty of the British empire, is spending a
few days in Boston as the guest of C.
Winslow.
On Jennie Lind's coffin was placed
by Mr. Goldschmidt a wreath of myrtle
made from a tree planted years ago
by the great singor herself in the shape
of a tiny twig plucked from her wed-
ding wreath.
TnE hundredth anniversary of the
waltz occurred on December 20. On De-
cember 20, 1787, Vincont Martin pres-
ented an opera in Vienna which con-
tained the new dance which at once
became popular.
Gen. Lew Wallace will not lecture
this season though he receives bushels
of letters asking him to fix dates. His
time is entirely devoted to literary
work, closing up a new book on which
he has been working for some time.
The pedestal of Samuel Morley's
statue at Bristol bears these word ,
taken from one of his speeches : "1
believe that the power of England is to
be reckoned, not by her wealth or
armies, but by the purity and virtue of
the great mass of her population."
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania is
said to wear senatorial honors some-
what awkwardly just at present He
has always been firmly opposed to con-
ventionality in dress and manners but
now wears a silk bat and* kid gloves
and does not look pappy in them.
Col. William A. Hejipiiill is said
to be the real proprietor of the Atlanta
Loiistitutioii. Editors Grady and
Howell are only hewers of wood and
drawers of water, and both pay the
proprietor for publishing their prohib-
ition and anti-prohibition speeches in
the paper they edit.
At the wedding of Governor Alger's
daughter in Detroit Wednesday eve-
ning, the young people were married
at the bedside of Mrs. Alger, who was
too ill to leave* her room, and when
they went down to the parlors they
were husband and w.fe. The guests
had a good time, but they missed the
marriage.
Leopold of Belgium was recently
recieved by a rural mayor who offered
him a glass of wine, and, it being
praised for its excellence, remarked:
••But I have some wine in my cellar,
jour majesty, which is better still."
•*So?" answered the king with a twin-
kle in his eye, "tlieg I advise you to
keep it for a better occasion than this."
When Morgan raided Ohio, in 1863,
John Shenafield. a farmer, buried on
his place, near Youngstown, $3,000 in
gold and silver coin. After the war
the family never had need for the
mone}*, and so the treasure was left un-
disturbed. Mrs. Shenafield died first,
and a week ago Farmer Shenafield
himself died without revealing the
©
secret as to the place where the pot
was buried. But the son went out on
Saturday, and in a little while fonnd
the treasure in the fpundation of jtn
building.
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LUCKY MRS. BUBTON. |
.She Establishes, in Court. Her Eight to
Property, Worth More Than a
Million Dollars,
The Great Flour Town-The Judge Advises
a Deacon-Old Time Scandal-A Beer Seller
Sentenced-Other New*.
A Lady Win* a Million.
San Diego, Cal., Dec. 22.—A telegram has
been received here which says Mrs. Maria Bur-
ton has established in the courts of the City oí
Mexico her rights to land in Lower California
known as Eusenda de Todos Santos under an
old grant The question iuvolved a million of
dollars worth of property which-, it is nov-
ela lined, has been sold toothers by the Inter-
national company of Mexico and includes a
portion of the town of Ensenda.
Minneapolis Quite a Flour Town.
Mixnaepolis, Miss., Dec. 22 —The Xorth-
Miller's annual review of the milliner
industry in this city shows that the year's pro-
duct of flour will be 6,616,700 barrels. The re-
ceipts of wheat for twelve months to Decem-
ber 1 have been 45,577,190 bushels and the
shipments 12,337,700 bnshels against 32,832,-
020 and 5,729,750 respectíully last vear. The
storage capacity of the city is 14. Í77, 00 and
the northwest 85,300,000 bushels. The mill
capacity is 36,285 barrels of flour a day The
cooper sboDsmade 2,740,950 barréis during the
last crop year and 888,5JO in the last three
months.
The Deacon Soundly Lectured.
New York, Dec 22 —Anthony Nelson^ one
of the "creen goods'* men recently arrested,
was put on trial in the general sessions to-daV.
Allen Gilliland. the deacon of a chürch at his
home in Tennessee or "Sticker No. 82." as the
TSreen goods" gang termed him. identified
tbe letters he had received inviting him tó
"®re wheic be could purchase $10,(XX) for
*3a0. Counsel for the prisoner asked to have
the case taken from the jury and his client
discharged on the ground that there were no
proofs mentioned in the circular and the let-
ler that il was counterfeit money,
i. considerable argument Judge Cowing
held the point was well taken and discharged
the prisoner. Before letting him go he warn-
« i11 brought before him again and con-
victed he would receive every minute the
statute would allow.
Turning to the deacon, who had been lock-
i Ln house of detention as a witness
since he made, his complaint, Judge Cowing
lectured him severely. "The best thing you
can do," lie said, "is to hurry back to
lennessee and don't come here again. Go
back and leave the church and tell your con-
gregation how you fell."
An Old-Time Scandal Revived.
CnrcAGo, III,, Dec. 22—Sarah C, Bond, a
young colored woman, attempted to establish
a claim for $7,000 to-day before Judge Tule}*
bv proving that Mrs. Elizabeth Bunch, a light
mulatto who recently died here aged 76, was
the issue of a secret marriage long ago be-
tween a Miss Curtis of Parkersburg, W. Va.,
and James Washington, the negro coachman
of the Custis family, dcscendalits of the same
aristocratic stock into which President George
Washington married. Miss Bond ii the
only living descendant of the begio
coachmau. She succeeded in showing that
Mrs. Bunch was really the daughter of Miss
Lustis, born while the latter was a school girl
and at once placed in an orphanage. Mrs.
Bunchc's career was traced to her death in
Chicago, where she left $3,000 worth of prop-
erty, mainly to the OliVc Street Baptist church;
lbe claimant failed to show that Miss Cus-
tis and the coachman were ever married, and
therefore^ was unable to prove her claim.
Judge luley consequently disallowed the
young colored woman's claim fóri the 53,000.
A Beer Seller's Heavy Sentence.
Garnett, Kan., Dec. 22.-C. A. Weiderman
of this City was arrested for selling beer, tried
last Saturday and found guilty on ten counts
out of twelve as charged. He was sentenced
to pay the costs, fined something over $1,300
and giveu 300 days in the countv jail. He has
taken an appeal to the district court, giving
bond in the sum of $4,000.
Sleep Causes a Disaster.
Sturgeon, Mo., Dec. 22.— James E. Jar-
man, living one mile north, got up at 4
o'clock this morning, made a fire and went
back to bed to wait for the house to get warm
before arousing his wife, but dropped off to
sleep, and when ne awoke he fouud the house
in flames. The family barely escaped with
their lives and a few of the household goods.
One of the children ran to the neighbor's in
its bare feet and is badly frozen. There was
no insurance, either upon house or contents,
the building belonged to Mrs. Belle Hughes
of Higbee, Ma, and is a total loss to her.
An Indiana Town in Flames.
Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 20.— At 1:30 this
morning a request was received from Zions-
ville, a town in Boone countv about firteen
miles northwest, for aid in subduing a fire. A
large portion of the town is burning and the
flames can be seen from the top of the court
bouse tower in this citv. A steamer was at
once started by a special train.
Negroes Attack a Country Store.
< Columbia, S. C., Dec. 20 About 2 o'clock
Sunday morning Henry Rfclitog, a store-
keeper on Turkey creek, near the South
Carolina railway station at the phosphate
mines, was aroused from sleep by a band of
negroes, who attempted to break into his
store and dwelling. He began a desperate
defense of his premises and finally succeeded,
after discharging his guns and pisto'.s, in
driving oil the men and probably saving his
life. The store is situated just about the
center of the phosphate works, and ihe im-
pression seems to be that the negroes who
were engaged in this business, but were dis-
charged from the mines, had become desper-
ate from the closiug up of the phosphate
business in that section.
The country about the station is said to be
full of lawless bands of needy negroes, and
the farmers and residents there are much cou-
serned about their lives and property.
a Fugitive's "Wife Under Arrest.
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 20.—The woman ar-
rested yesterday with thirty-nine $1,000
United States bonds in her possession which
she had vainly tried to negotiate, is still lock-
ed up. Her name is now said to be Sophie
Victorine. She said her husband was stop-
ping at the Crawford house in Windsor, but
ne could not be induced to cross the river. He
told snch a straight story to the officers about
having failed iu the cast that the detectives
were inclined to believe him, especially as no
report of any robbery liad l>cen received.
Habeas corpus proceedings wili probably be
taken.
J. H. Goldsmith, the well-known horseman,
has identified Hoffman as Isidor Cohnfeld of
New York, formerly the largest dealer iu
feathers and plumes in the United States, if
not in the world, who failed during the first
week of November, and at once took his de-
parture to Canada.
Francklyn In a Fresh Suit.
New York, Dec. 20.— In 1883 Charles G.
Francklyn of this city became president of the
Francklyn land and cattle company. September
1,1885, the company sold to Stephens & Lytie
of Kansas City a large drove of cattle for
$106,334, the payment being made in pro-
missory notes. It is now claimed that
Francklyn fraudulently converted the notes to
his own* use and gave them to Morton, Bliss
& Co. and others in payment of individual
indebtedness. The notes were subsequently
sold to the Traders' bank of Kansas City for
$53,625, and five of them were iu turn sold to
the National bank of Illinois. To-day
Radcliff Baldwin, assignee for Gordon Cun-
ard, brought a snit asking that the notes be
restored, all the transactions be declared void
and the notes applied to the payment of Con-
ard's judgment
Terrible Cyclone.
Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 19.—A special
from Cove, Polk county, reports that a cyclone
visited Armstrong Academy, I. T., and Ft.
Washita and Green early Saturday morning
causing great destruction of property and loss
of life. The following are the killed as far as
known;
French Adams, U. & A, Washita: A. B.
Lincoln. Washita; W. henderson Jack, Green;
Peter Reason, Green; two children, names un-
known.
The injured were: William Covington,
Armstrong academy, both legs broken: Hear)
Wait, WTashltsf arm and leg broken; Mrs.
Wit, Washita, arm broken.
A terrible rumbling sound was heard about
5 o'clock. It startled a few settlers from their
sleep only to awaken them to the horror of
impending death. A heavy black cloud, fun*
nei shaped, was seen in the distance and rap*
idly approaching. When about a mile north
of FU Washita it struck the ground and froth
this point south for miles the Work Of hiln
was continued;
ihe Cyclone traveled at abottt the rate til á
baile a mihUte. Iti au instant frtim the time it
struck the eai-th half the houses ih Ft; Wáftb-
ita were in iruins ahd light OUthdiisea and
dwellings were picked up and made inta
kindling wood by the fury of the wind. Arm-
strong academy Was nt>t greatly iniUred, but
ranches in the immediate neighborhood suf-
fered greatly.
At Green, a little hamlet six miles sotith of
Armstrong, the damage was very heavy and
many persons were injured. Seventeen
bouses and a general store were carried awav
while horses and cattle within the territory
covered by the storm were killed or maimed.
The damage at this time cannot, of course,
be estimated, aa the full extent of the storm is
not known.
The two children killed at Green were car-
ried about sixty yards by the wiud and
dashed to the ground, mangled so as to be
almost unrecognizable. Many cattle and
other stock were also killed by lightning. The
storm only lasted about six minutes at any
one point.
The ITaymarket Monument Assured.
Chicago, III., Dec. 20.—The first meeting
of the Haymarket committee was held to-day
and it was decided to stop the inflow of
money, as the $7.000 ott hand was deemed
ample to etect & suitable memorial Of the
heroism of the police. It is probable the
monument will not be located on the exact
spot where the bomb fell, but will be raised
not far away in the tenter of the gfreat
square;
PAclflc L.iüés i)o Nothing.
St. Louis. Mo., t)ec. 20.—The representatives
bf transcontinental lines continued their meet-
ibg here to-day, but after spending some time
discussing matters, adjo urned until after the
holidays, or 6uch time as J. S. Leeds, their
chairman, might cali them together. They
accomplished nothing of public interest.
Commission Men Victimized.
Sedalia, Mo., Dec. 20.—Several days ago a
man giving his name as W. G. Ellis opened a
commission house here. Associated with him
were two men whose names are unknown.
Large quantities of butter, poultry, fruit of
all kinds, vegetables, cider, etc., were order-
ed from St Louis and Kansas City houses,
and for a time "Ellis «fe Co." did a land office
business. Suuday night the trio disappeared.
Webster Bros, of Kansas City and several
other parties in St Louis and elsewhere are
supposed to have been victimized. The head
of the firm always displayed large sums of
money while here and is doubtlesss an old
hand at the business.
Bold Check Forging in Wichita.
Wichita, Kan., Dec. 20.—To-day thirty-
one checks were discovered iu the banks
drawn by Peter Walsh on A. Flagg, each
calling for $15. All bore date of Saturday
last and were put off ott business men, Walsh
making a small purchase of goods and pre-
senting a Check, getting the balance dhchim
in casti. It is thought that a number of other
checks of the same origin will appear. Walsh
worked for Flagg iu a foundry and since
Saturday has not been heard from. His
family are in the City, but claim to know
hothing of his Wbereaoouts.
field as tUghwaymen.
MahsMall, Mo., 19.—Henry T. Boyle, á
surveyor on the Pacific extension, was robbed
here Friday night of $140, and three negroes
Will Yantis, Hubert Ware and Robert Lee
were arrested and about $100 of the money
found in wood piles and other places where it
had been jjoncealed. To-day ou preliminary
examination by Justice Johti Miller Ware was
ordered to jail for twenty-one days, Lee and
and Yantis were sent to jail to await the action
of the grand jury and John Hill, a white man
also arrested ou the same charge, was dis-
charged.
A Fine Scandal in Illinois.
Flora, III., Dec., 20.—John Kiley, a promi-
nent merchant, church member and Mason,
has been arrested with Earnest Jones, son of
the proprietor of the hotel here, ou the charge
of attempted outrage on a Mrs. Livingston.
The two, it is charged, went to Mrs. Living-
stone's house and demanded admittance. On
being refused they smashed in a window, and
while attempting to get in were both shot and
slightly wounded by her.
Chicago's Liquor Law Unconsltu-
tlonal.
Chicago, III., 19.—A few days ogo Oscar
Matthia, who keeps a concert saloon, was ar-
rested for selling wine to Linuie St Claire, a
16-year-old girl, who was abducted by a young
man whom she had met in concert saloons.
He applied for a release under the habeas
corpus act and to-day Judge McAllister held
that the portion of the act which revoked a
saloon keepeer's license on a second offense
was unconstitutional. Among the grounds
for this opinion we're that the general in-
corporation did not give the city council pow-
er to pass such an ordinance, and that
the dram shop act provided a punishment to
saloon keepers selling to miners except in
cases where the minor brought a written re-
quest from the parent. The ordinance pun-
ished the seller or giver away of drinks re
gardless of such request, thereby contraven-
ing the state. Matthia was discharged.
Blockaded by Snow.
Reading, Pa., Dec. 19.—Freight and coal
traffic on the Reading road is still delayed,
owiug to the recent fall of snow, which is the
heaviest in several years, measuring twenty
inches on a level. About twenty coal trains
are sidetracked between here and Tuckerton,
and as many more south of Reading. Trains
will be moving again to-uiirht
Easton, Pa., Dec. 19.—The snowstorm here
Saturday nurht caused the greatest blockade
on the railroads experienced since 1872. By
6 o'clock the Lehigh Valley road was blocked
with trains from Easton to Redington. All
the laborers on the road between here and
Mauch Chunk were working from midnight
Saturday to 9 o'clock last night shoveling
snow, which was two feet deep ou a level and
from three to five feet deep in drifts. The
coal trains were blocked on the Susquehanna
road between here and Allentown.
Three locomotives coupled togather started
from Hampton, N. J., to open the Jersey Cen-
tral road, but jumped the track after going a
few miles. Five coal trains were snow bound
on the Bclvidere Delaware road several hours.
Three passenger trains, eight freight trains
and twenty coal trains were,blocked on tne
Morris and Essex road between Hacketts-
town, N. J., and: Washington, N. J., from
Saturday evening to yesterday noon.
At Soinerville the snow was 6 feet deep and
at Perth Amboy 8 feet deep and drifts were
15 feet deep. All the roads are now open,
but trains are behind time. The roofs of
several buildings at Phillipsburg were crushed
in by the weight of snow.
Politics Cause Three Deaths.
Opelousas, La., Dec. 20.—A desperate af-
fray took place in a saloon here late last night
in which three men were shot and all probably
fatally wounded. Stephen McGaffry, colored,
the only eye witness, received a stray bullet
in the regiou of the kidueys from which he is
dying. In his antcmortem statement he says*
"Mark Finnberg. proprietor of the saloon a'nd
myself were sitting at the front door of the
saloon, when George Lastropes, the town con-
stable, cam? up. The two men got into a
dispute and after Lastropes had struck Finn-
berg both commenced firing and in endeavor
ing to ret out of the way I received a shot
Eight shots were fired." Lastropes and Finn-
berg are both shot through the breast The
doctor attending them thinks all three of the
wounded men will die. Politics were the
cause of the trouble.
An Old Terror Found Shot.
Redston* Junction, Pa., Dec. 20.—Word
has been received here that Elihu Gregg, who
for fifty years had been the terror of the
bonier farmers of Pennsylvania, West Virginia,
Ohio and Maryland, lias been found dead ou
the West Virginia mountains with s bullet hole
in his breast Gregg, who was over 80 years
old, bad been releaseu from a term in prison
in this eouutry for horse stealing and had
gone at once to West Virginia, swearing he
would kill certain persons whom he charged
with treachery, and it is supposed that he
met death at the hands of one of those moun-
taineers while striving to carry oat his
threats. He was a desperate character sod in
his long career as a horse thief, he managed
tyjehide justice with r§r$ cunning and cldlL
. FOREIGN^
_
In Case of War, King Milan Says That
Servia Will Remain a Spectator*
"United Ireland's*4 Conlments-A Nationalist
Leader Bent to Prison-A Priest Locked Up !
—No Present to the Pope From Either King
br Czar-Foreign Intelligence.
——
ttussla Still Active."
Vienna, Dec. 22.—The Warsaw correspon-
den t of the J'olitical Correspondence which
was the first to announce the military move-
ments In Russia, repeats his former state-
ments and gives precise details regarding the
various bodies of troops which have arrived in
the various Lubtin district since the autumn.
If his statements are correct the Invalide
Jtusse version of the movements was intention-
ally misleading.
It is semi-officially stated that no communi-
cations whatever have been exchanged by
the Austrian and Russian governments con-
cerning the present situation in Bulgaria, nor
has Russia made any intimation regarding
the movements of her troops on the frontier.
It is considered still possible to arrange for
the resignation of Prince Ferdinand, aud for
the subsequent appointment of a regent in
Bulgaria who will be agreeable to Russia.
The New Free Pre** says that King Milan of
Servia, rcplyiug to an address of congratula-
tion presented to him by the chamber of
deputies said the present moment was fraught
with danger to Europe. If a conflict between
Germaus and Slavonists should occur, Servia
should not participate but should remain a
spectator. It would be impossible to Ger-
manize Servian individually, but it miglit be
Slaviciscd.
. Theh it would disappear. The Obreven-
itzcb family (his family) lived only for the
Servian idea. '4My desire," he continued, "is
to follow my family traditions, which arc the
secret of my foreign policy."
Beri.in, Dec. 22.—Military circles here are
anxious to learn whether the long furloughs
ordinarily granted by Russia on January 13
to her army officers who are longest in the
service will be given next month. Letters
from Moscow state that a number of officers
have already been warned not to arrange for
leaves of absence.
St. Petershurg, Dec. 22.—It is semi-
officially denied that Russia has informed the
powers that the movements of Russian troops
in Poland have ceased. It is a fact, however,
that no further displacement of troops is ex-
pected during the present winter. Russian
diplomats seriously expect some action on the
part of Germany, Austria and Italy to induce
Prince Ferdinand to withdraw from Bulgaria.
A Nationalist Leader Maltreated.
London, Dcc. 22.—A telegram from Clon-
mel received to-night says that Mr. Sheeny,
M. P., who was sentenced yesterday to one
month's imprisonment for inciting resistance
to evictious, Was to-day Ihrown to the floor by
the jail wardens, who tied his bauds and re-
moved his clothes.
"United Ireland's" Comments.
Dublin, Dec. 22.— Unite I Irelatul censures
the language contained in the letter which
BishopO'Dwyer recently sent to the papers
as that of the London Times. Chief Secretary
also announces that Sir Miclncl Morris, lord
chief justice of the court of common pleas of
Ireland, has started for Rome to assist in the
conversation of the pope to an approval of
coercion.
A Priest Sent to Prison.
I)ublin, Dec. 22.—Father Matthew Ryan of
the town of Hospital, county Limerick, oue of
the projectors of ttie plan of campaign, has
been sentenced to a month's imprisonment
without hard labor, for inciting people to
commit Illegal acts.
Father Ryan declines to divest himself of
his clerical attire in prison and the Catholic
warders sustain him in his refusal.
No Present From Czar or Kins:.
Rome, Dec. 22.—It is now stated that the
czar has decided to send an address to the
pope on the occasion of his jubiiee, but will
present him with no gift.
King Humbert will make no present to the
pope and has ordered the members of bis
family to refrain from sending gifts to his
holiness.
Warrants Out for Fenians.
London, Dcc. í.2.—A warrant baa been
granted in the Bow street police court for
General Mi lien, the head of the Clan-ne Gael
society, and several of bis associaies in Lon-
don who are charged with being connected
with the dynamite conspiracy in which Callan
and Harkins are alledued to have been en-
gaged.
Investigating Germany's Pelzure.
Washington, D. C., Dec. 22.— Senator
Dolph has reported from the committcs on
foreign relations and the senate has adopted
in secret session a resolution calling on the
secretary of state for the correspondence and
records "of ttie state department relating to the
German occupation of the Samoan islands aud
U tapa.
Mrs. Melville Very Foolish.
London, Dec. 22.—It is stated that Mrs.
Melville, the wife of the Rev. Henry J. Mel-
ville, who was shot at at Dublin bv Captain
Dunne, whose daughter he bad "seduced,
assigned to her husband the sum of £20,000 a
fortnight ago. Miss Dunne arrived in London
to-day in company with Melville.
Four Persons Killed by a Train.
Mount Sterling, Ky., Dec. 21.—Yesterday
evening Ernest Stone and Dudley Mays of
Owingsville, who had been attending court,
got into a carriage with two negro women.
All were intoxicated. When they reached the
Newport News aud Mississipi Valley railroad
crossing they paid no attention to a coming
train and the Engineer was unable to see
them, and the carriage was driven directly in
front of the engine. One ot the men and "one
woman were killed instantly and the others
were fatally Injured, the man dying iu a few
hours.
A Midnight Blaze In Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 22.—A fire broke out
on Market street street shortly atter midnight
In F¿eichman & Co.'s dry goods establishment
and was soon raging with great fierceness and
fears were entertained for the MeClintock
block adjoining and one of tbe finest blocks in
the city. Firemen Gus Dalte and Emil Spahr
were in Fleichmau's when one of the floors
fell and both were seriously burned, and
Scott Ward another fireman, fell from a lad-
der and was badly injured. None of them
were fatally hurt, but it was rumored that a
man was in tbe burning building.
At 2:15 a. in. the entire department was at
work and in fifteen minutes it was thought the
fire was under control. The loss including
damage by water is estimated at $209,000;
two-thirds insurance.
Bad Collision Between Trains.
McGregor, Ll, Dec. 21.—Two Passengers
trains on the St Paul road collided at Jack-
son Junction early this morning, and the en-
gineer, fireman and baggagemaster of the
west bound train were fatally injured, but no
passengers were hurt Owing to the heavy
snowstorm ail trains are delayed and particu-
lars of tbe accident arc not obta:nabic.
Terrible Fxploslon.
' Bochxstbr, N. Y., Dec., 21.—Just before
half past 3 o'clock this afternoon a terrible
explosion occurred st the Jefferson A Clinton
(or pool) flour miils on Mill street in this city,
end they were speedily enveloped in flames.
Tbe fife department was summoned and soon
after a gehefftl alarm was turned in.
feefore the depai-tííietít had reached the
Itatibn at the fcornfer of Mill ahd Piatt streets
the entire fcít^ iras alarmed ahd shakeil by a
¿timber bf Explosions. 1 mined lately follow-
ing huge clouds of smoke arose frofaaf a dozed
points on mill and Piatt streets, and flames
burst from the windows of the Clinton mills
just north of the Woodbury eneine com-
pany's building on Mill street The flames
soon spread to Washington mill, which ad-
Saved by a Woman's Bravery.
Stanrtead, Can., Dec. 19.—About 1 o'clock
this morning a bomb, to which a lighted fuse
was attached, was thrown through a window
into the diningroom of Dr. Canfield's resi-
dence. Mrs. Canfield, bearing tne crash and
the hissing of the burning fuse, sprang out of
bed and succeeded in detaching tbe fuse.
The bomb contained enough giant blasting
powder to wholly demolish the house and kill
nil the inmates. Dr. Canfield's father, who
is a bailiff, had been engaged lately in serv-
ing processes for violations of the Canadian
temperance law and had been threatened with
violence if he did not desist
Still After T>e*perado Vorce.
Denver, Col., Dec. 18.—Word reached here
to-night from Deer Trail that the desperado
Newt Vorce and one companion had been hid-
ing in a dugout twelve miles northwest of
there for several days, and that yesterday a
couple of officers ana several citizens left that
place to surround the dugout and, if possible,
capture the n en. To-day Vorce's companion
pnt on the latter's hat and, not knowing the
officers were in the vicinity, started to a spring
for water, but had gone but a short distance
when he was fired upon and instantly killed.
Word was telegraphed to Denver and to-night
several officers left on a special train for Deer
Trail. ,
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flames.
While the firemen were laying a line tit hose
to the burning building half a dozen man-
holes which had been covered with ice and
snow blew up in Mill street
explosions in all dibections.
Thousands of people bad been attracted by
the explosions aud as they pushed through
State and Piatt streets to the scene of the fire
they were brought to a halt by other explo-
sions in Piatt and State streets and thrown
Into confusion end fled in every direction, but
wherever they went they met with a repetition
of the same scenes. The explosions continued
at such frequent intervale that there was no
telling when the horrors would cease. The
sidewalk of the old furnace on Piatt street
between State and Mill was blown up, but for-
tunately ho. one was injured. The building
was immediately fired, however, and flames
issued from half a dozen holes in State street
Where the pflvement had been blown Up.
By 6:30 o'clock the fire was practically un-
der cohtrol as far as the mills were concerned,
btit the sewer mains were sending up columns
bf flames and at frequent intervals explosions
totik place in the cellars of buildings on Mill
street and in the Congress hall cellar, one
man was hurt All along the other streets ad-
jacent to Mill street explosions also took place.
Shortly after4 o'clock an explosion occurred
near a new sewer which is beiug dug on At-
kinson street and two workmem were tbfOwfl
violently to the ground and one was severely
bruised. Slight explosions are reported to
have occurred on Adams and Tremont streets.
There was also an explosion in West avenue
in front of the Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts-
burg depot and the paving stones were
thrown high in the air, and many windows
in residences near the scene were broken.
LEAKING NAPTHA THE CAUSE.
To-dav 14,000 gallons of naptha were pump-
from the Vacuum oil works through the pipe
line iu the bed of the old canal. It was in-
tended for the Municipal gas company,
but one or more breaks in the line allowed the
naptha to escape into the adjoining sewers.
When these became surcharged with the gas,
it escaped into the mills and exploded there
or elsewhere, and the fire made its way
through the mains in the middle of the streets,
throwing out the mauhole covers and tearing
up the roadways. In the vicinity of the fire
and up Mill and State streets as far as Market
street a distance of about three quar-
ters of a mile, people were running in
every direction and frequent explosions
terrified them the m^re. The explosions
continued at such frequent intervals for
the first half hour that the people were
deterred from getting anywhere near the fire,
women and children around crying and scream-
ing, thinking their brothers, husbands or oth-
er relatives were in the mill and had been
burned.
It is not known how many persons were at
work or how many escaped. One man jumped
from a second story window of one of the
buildings to the river bank below, a distance
of fifty feet, and his right leg was broken and
he received severe internal Injuries.
The walls of the Jefferson mills fell about 4
o'clock, and it is feared there are several men
buried under them.
Tbe engineer of the Clinton mill and two
companions were standing near the front of
the mill when the exploslou oecured but they
retained sufficient presence of mind to shut
off the steam and get out of the mill. There
were six persons at work in the Clinton mill,
four of whom escaped through the water
heeL
GREAT DAMAGE DONE.
The explosions ceased about 6:30 and no
more danger is apprehended from them. The
explosions covered a wide extent of territory,
manholes over sewers on Mill, Piatt, State,
West Main. Tremont. Smith, Jay, Furnace,
Factory, Brown aud oiher streets being blown
nff and a great deal of the paving around
them torn up, windows shattered in many
buildings in the vicinity, and the shock was
felt over a large area. The tunnel through
which the burning naphtha flowed for several
hours is the largest sewer In the city, and is
the outlet for the sewers on the West Side.
How badlv damaged this is can not be esti-
mated. The lire must have extended a dis-
tance of several hundred feet iu the sewer.
The killed, so far as now known, are Fred
Wilson and E. A. Webster, but John Lee, an
employe of the People's mill, has not been ac-
counted for, and it is thought that he is dead
in the ruins.
The losses, so far as can be ascertained, on
the burned flour mills are as follows: J. A.
Hinds, Washington mill, loss $30,000, insur-
ance $22.000; Davis «fe Son, Shawmut mill,
'oss $30,000, insurance $20,00 >; the Clinton or
Poole mill, Jo.*s $50,030, insurance unknown;
Wells & Co., tool makers, $10,000, insurance
$600; Kinsbury cracker lactory, loss 7,500, i>"
insurance.
The destruction of the mills it is feared is
but a small item comparatively as the entire
sewerage system of the city is believed has
been affected, and that section connected
with the municipal gas company and the
Vacuum oil works almost completely destroy-
ed.
THE Kit LED AND INJURED.
The list of casualties is a long one, but only
two deaths have been reported up to 11 o'clock
to-night, viz.: Frederick Wilson, head miller
of the Whitney mill, aged 30 years, leaving a
wife and two children, and Edward A. Web-
ster, who died in the city hospital. It was
believed that Miss Alice Poole, who was in
her father's office when the explosion occurred,
was killed, but she turned up but slightly in-
jured. The injured are Louis llarpt, Jeffer-
son Mill, burned about tbe face and bands and
inhaled gas, recovery doubtful; Aaron liarri-
Bon, right leg broken by jumping into the
river from the third story of a building, also
internallv injured; William Ritchcy, driver
for the Clinton Mill, left ankle broken and
calf of tbe leg torn open; William Q. Wal-
lace, Jefferson mill, badly burned about the
head, face and hauus.
It was believed atone time that a number of
girls employed in one of the mills paeking In-
dian meal had beeu caught in the fire and
perished, but this has not been verified, and it
Is now thought that no girls were in any of
the mills.
Mr. Beach, secretary of the
Vaccumn oil company, believes that the
catastrophe was caused by the breaking of the
pipe line between the oil works and the gas
works and promises a thorouirh Investigation
into the cause. Another representative of tbe
company said he was sure that the pipe must
have been broken by violence. He was not
prepared to believe that workmen on the
drain on Atkinson street which is nearly a
mile away from tbe scene of the disaster, had
broken it.
West Indian Vessels Wrecked.
New York. Dec. 2L—The steamer Sarnana
which arrived to-day from Cape Haytien re-
ports that a heavy norther swept over the
West Indies December 6, 7 aud 8, causing
much damage and wrecking some seventy
vessels. A coasting schooner, name unknown,
capsized while making Cape Haytien and thir-
teen of her crew of fifteen were drowned. The
British steamer Viola was caught in the gale
snd eight of her crew were washed' overboard
and drowned. Two others were washed over-
board, but were swept back by another wave.
The vessel was badly damaged. The British
wan-of-war Wrangler arrived at Turks island
on the 7th instant badly damaged by the
storm. t
Wrecked by a Huge Wave.
Havana, Dec. 2L—A huge wave struck Bar-
acoa December 4 as the result of a three
iavs' blow or norther. At 4 o'clock p. m. it
ivas seen approaching and the people fled to-
ward the hills. It struck the beach, broke and
flowed inland about four hundred feet
Nearly 300 huts and houses were destroyed,
but no lives were lost Tbe beach was swept
clear of every habitation that stood upon it
The coral rocks which previously were cov-
tred with earth were washed clean. The gov-
ernor of Baracoa telegraphed to the captain
general for aid for the houseless. It was not
s tidal wave.
Four Miners Fatally Injured.
Wilkes Barre, Pa., Dec. 2L—A terrible
explosion of gas occurred iu Nottingham
mine at Plymouth this evening. A party of
tlx miners flocked abreast where the ventila-
tion was defective, and a naked lamp caused ;
tbe gas to explode and the six men were bad-
lv burned. Their names are John Rowland,
James Davis, Richard Davis, James Kelly,
Davis Hnghes and David Davis. The first
four sre fatally burned and the last two are
Badly injured.
DOTS AND DA8HES.
Three steel steamers of 3,000 tons each are
to be built in England to run in the Canadi-
an Pacific railroad company's Japan and
British Columbia line. ^
Wallace Ross and George Bubear have sign-
ed articles to row for the championship of
Fngland and $1,000 a side, February 13, over
the Thames course.
Hrs. Cleveland's Saturday afternoon recep-
tions will begin January 7 aud continue alter-
nate Saturdays throughout the season.
The estimates of deficientes sent to con-
gress by the áecíetsry of the treasury Include
$5 580,978 for tbe time up1 to June 80, 1887,
and $3,078,044 for the the present fbwrt y ear*
Secretary Lamar has modified his order (rf
December 15 for the restoration of indemnity
railroad lands so as to put them under the
terms of the orders of August 3 and 15. The
Chicago, Milwaukee and Bt Paul railroad is
«IceptedL
The ameer of Afgbanistsn has offered to
grant amnesty to and restore the property of
all refugees of tbe past nine yesfs, except the
Barakzai tribes, who return to CubaL
It is reported that the university of St#
Petersburg has closed because of trouble
amoug the students.
Tbe Berlin boerce was 6trong yesterday
under extensive rebuying by bear operators.
A supply and a work train on tbe new Cner-
okee and Dakota railroad collided at the end
of a long bridge near Rock Rapids, la., and
an engineer and a fireman were fatally in-
jured .
Tbe eigarmakers of New York are preparing
to resist in every possible way the project of
tbe manufacturers to re establish the tene-
ment house system. Ten thousand men are
expected to strike.
It is reported in tbe City of Mexico that tbe
government will run the mints Itself after
next March.
The Mexican government proposes to levy
a duty ou exported ores in order to protect
domestic reduction works which will also be
aided by the government
During a fight between negro and white
miners at Glen Mary, Tenn.< Tuesday. 200
6hots were fired and two persons were killed.
The stockholders of the Continental life in-
surance company of Hartford, Conn., have
consented to the appointment of a receiver.
Ives' iron foundry at Longueville, Can., was
destroyed by fire yesterday.
Clem & Wenger's large patent roller flour
mill at Harrisonburg, Va., was destroyed by
fire yesterday. Loss, $35,000.
A V. Nylen, a real estate clerk in Louis-
ville, Ky., was arrested yesterday charged
with having robbed the postottice at Bridge-
port, Conn., of $705 while money order clerk.
The races at New Orleans yesterday were
postponed on account of rain.
A Louisiana lady of aristocratic rearing,
who was once famous for her wealth and the
number of her slaves, now earns a few cents
a day by picking cotton on the plantation
that was her own before the war.
A daughter of Joseph Mullen, living in
Cabell County, West Virginia, shot and killed
a colored burglar Monday night, who was
trying to enter Mr. Mullen's house. He fell
dead on the poarcb, shot through the head.
A solid lump of coal containing eighty-
seven cubic feet and weighing 6.351 pounds
was exhibited at the Texas State Fair recently
held at Dallas. It was the largest block of
coal ever taken from a mine In the United
States.
At a recent entertainment in Philadelphia
admission was not by ticket, but by vegetable,
each person being required to band Over
to tbe door-keeper a potato or some other
vegetable product The net proceeds were dis-
tributed among the poor.
The Insurance Commissioner, having se-
cured access to to the books of the Continental
Life Insurance Companv, finds that tbey
show on December 1, 1887, $97,000 additional
impairment since January 1st, or almost 50
per cent, altogether.
A citizen of Fremont Neb., who got drunk
and froze his feet t>o that they had to be am-
putated, has just recovered $2,000 damages
from the man who sold him the liquor.
Advices from Honolulu are to tbe effect
that tbe newly elected Legislature has cut
down the salaries of all State officials, and
also materially reduced the King's salary.
A dispatch from Galveston, Texas, saya
that the new-born infant of Mr. and Mrs. L.
W. Giddings, of that city, is the first girl
vouchsafed to the Giddings family for over
120 years.
A hotel with sixteen inmates was blown
down at Crescent, Cal., on Tuesday during a
wind-storm. Mrs. Clementina Arnold and her
ten-year-old daugbtar were killed. All the
others were injured.
Joseph H. Hunneman, tbe largest manu-
facturer of fire-engines in this country, died
at Rosebury, Mass., ased 6eventy-five years.
His father," William Hunneman, was tbe ori-
ginal maker of fire-engines.
Herman Hochkoch, a Finlander, was mur-
dered at the Yeuk Hotel, Milwaukee, Wis.
He was a railway laborer, and arrived there
with about $100. Robberv is supposed to have
been the motive of the crime.
Edward Brown and John Kerrigan were
crushed to death at Philadelphia by the fall
of a hoisting-machinge.
A man and a woman recently picked cotton
in Yazoo, Miss., on a wager. Their day's
work amounted to 609 and 601 pounds respec-
tively.
While handling a supposed unloaded gun
Wm. Young, of Matinicus Island, shot and
fatally wounded his brother-in-law, George
Hunt.
Panthers attacked a party of men in Quit-
man County, Miss., recently, but were driven
away after one of tbcm had been 6bot with a
revolver.
It will take $326,530,793 to run the Govern-
ment next year says Secretary Fai rchild.
A gas-well was shot Tuesday eighteen
miles morth of Greenville, Ohio, which prom-
ises to be a good one.
A daring burgulary was committed at the
Post-office in the village of Norwood, Ontario,
by which a loss of $11,000 in cash, $500 in
stamps and over $10,000 in notes and securi-
ties was sustained.
Leitcb Brothers miils at Oak Lane, Monta-
na, burned Sunday nigbt together with 10,-
000 bushels of wheat Loss $20,000; insur-
ance $12,000.
Unconfirmed rumors are current that a re-
volt broke out on the convict ship Orne,
bound for Cayenne, and that eleven of the
ringleaders were shot
Tbe President has 6ent to the Senate tbe
names of Wesley Merritt of the 5th Cavalry, to
be Brigadier General and a long list of army
appoiñtmeuts. v
Crowds of people from all part of Maine
visited the remains of4be late Gov. Bodweil
at the State House yesterday. The floral dec-
oration were elaborate.
Tbe President has decided to appoint
8tepben A. DeWolf to be Associate Justice of
the 8upreme Court of Montana, in place ol
Judge Galbraith, whose term has expired.
John Hooper, member of Parliament, has
been sentenced to two months imprisonment
for publishing reports in his paper (the Cork
Herald) of meetings of tne suppressed
branches of the league.
At Farmersville, La., Judge J. F. Timble
and .¿ames A. Ramsay met on tbe street
Tuesday nigbt, and there being bad blood be-
tween them, both drew tbeir pistols and ex-
changed shots. Both were killed.
Secretary Endicott, Adjutant General
Drum, Col. T. F. Barr and C'apt D. M. Tay-
lor, the Secretary's military staff arrived at
.Leavenworth Tuesday morniug. The Sec-
retary was received with a salute of seven-
teen guns. He is there to inspect the military
prison.
Wanted for a Bad Offense.
Kingston, Mo., Dea 19.—Sheriff W. W.
Cievenger left here to-day with a warrant for
William Fleming; who was indicted st the
last term of the circuit court isg-e for attempt
to procure an abortion on a woman in this
countv, snd hss been arrested st Csrthsge,
Mow, snd Is being held until tbe srrival of
fberiil Clsvenger. A racy trial is promised.
Washington, Dec 3fX—Senator Quay In-
troduced s bill to-day to farrease to $72 pel
month the pensions of those who i
$50 per month under the law * granting
pensions to soldier* snd sailors of tbe lata
wsr who are totally disabled. Senator Plumb
introduced a bill to grant one mouth's extra
pay for eseb yesr of enlistment to all oAc er
of tbe volunteer army in the late war who*
served the full tens of tbeir enlistment
were honorably d scliarged. Senator Blsir is*-
trod need a billdeclaring that tbe act of June $
I880,reiativc to peusions,should be so constitu-
ted as to include all officers and enlisted men
in tbe srmy, tbeir widows and minor ehildren.
Senator Beck introduced a hill to provide that
cverv person who carrricd on the business of a
fetsil dealer in liquor, manufacturer of tobac-
co, sft&H or cigars or denier in tobacco, with-
out havlug pa id a special tax therefor, sbookl
be liable to a fine of $500 or imprisonment in
a county jail without hard labor of not more
than one year. The senate committee on ap-
propriations this morning agreed, though not
unanimously, to a favorable report on tha
house resolution for adjournment for tbe holi-
days from next Thursday. The senate com-
mittee on finance to-day adopted two addition-
al sectiona to tbe under-valuatlon bilL Tbey
repeal certain minor features of existing laws
Which are found to conflict with tbe principles
of the new bill.
WasüI*8Ton. Dec. 21. —Representative#
Bulterwortb of Ohio and Moffatt of Michigan,
who have l)een very 111, were better yesterday.
Secretary Fairchild of the treasury has order-
ed the closing of all offices under his control
December 26 aud January 2. The internal
revenue receipts of the first five months of
this fiscal year were $3,854,742 more tiian In
the corresponding time Isst year. Secretary
Fairchild has ordered the collectors of customs
at all the principal ports to be extra vigilant
in preveuting a.:'V violatlou of the alien
contract labor (ttf* This was because
of the report that 2.(X*l Belgian miners
were to bo imported tur the Lehigh vslley
mines of Pennsylvania. Ex-State 8enHor
Crane of Topeka Jeft to-day *or home. Ex-
GoVernor Osborne of Kansas
from New York. The following i^urth-class
Kansas postmasters were appointed tu'anioru-
ing: Johu Squires at Jennings, Willla.*^ ®-
Ctine at Ilordilee, J. O. Hackett at Mo^O1"
Hiram Berger at. Reeder, George N. Paige
Wetmore and John McChristie at Wllhurn.
The following postmasters were commis-
sioned to day: In Kansas, Frederic M. Adler
at Riley center; in Missouri, John W. Wright
at Chillowic, Edward R. Adler at Dunfc*burgr
William H. Violet tat Kenmoor, Smith G.Wfl-
born at Moundville and Charles C. Dixon >at
Berwick. A postofflce has been established
at Berwick in Nehauin county. Kansas....
When the house inet to-day, Mr. Randall,
from the committee on rules submitted a par-
tial report recommendiug the adaption of tbe
rules of the Forty-ninth congress until further
orders, with the following changes: A stand-
ing committee is established to consist of
thirteeu members to be known as the com-
mittee on merchant marine and fisheries; the
addition of the representation of
a (delegate on the committee on
private land claims is reconimended, and
private bills are to l>e presented through the
clerk and given proper reference bj that
officer. The following select committee ara
provided for: On reform in the civil service,
to consist of thirteen members; on clectldO*
of president and vice president and represent-
atives in congrí-es, to cousist <ft thirteen mem-
bers; on the elevcuth censu*. to cousist of
thirteen members; on Indian depredation
claims, to cousist of thirteen members;
on the alcoholic liquor traffic, to cousist of
eleven members.
Washington, Dec. 22.—When the senate
met to-day, Mr. Dolph introduced a 1)111 to
provide for the payment of claims for damages
by Indian depredations. He said there were
some 4,500 such claims, aggregating some
fourteen or fifteen million dollars. It was a
burning shame that for thirty years congress
bad declined to take any action on these
claims. The bill was referred to the com-
mittee ou Indian affairs. Mr. Eustis from
the committee on epidemic diseases, reported
a bill authorizing the removal of the ouar-
antine station from Ship island, Missis-
sippi, to some other island in the
Gulf of Mexico, or to some pass In the Mis-
sissippi delta. The Senate then took up the
joint rcsulution introduced b}' Mr. Dolnh
proposing a constitutional amendment on tuo
subject of marriaire aud divorce aud pro-
hibiting bigamy snd polygamy in the follow-
ing words: "Congress shall have power
to legislate on the subject of marriage
and divorce by general laws applicable
alike to all the states aud territories;
and neither bigamy nor |>o!vgamy shall
exist, or be permitted within the United States
or any place 6Ubjcct to their jurisdiction."
Senate bills to establish two additional land
offices in Colorado and remove the political
disabilities of Abraham C. Meyers were taken
up and passed, aud the presiding officer an-
nounced the appointment of tbe special com-
mittee to investigate the condition of tha five
civilized tribes of Indians as follows: Messrs.
Butler, Morgan, Dawes, Cameron and Teller.
Mr. Teller introduced a bill to provide for
the compulsory education of Indian children,
and the senate, on inotiou of Mr. Allison,
proceeded to executive business- After
half an hour the opeu session was resumed,
when a message from the house an-
nounced the death of Representative Moffatt
of Michigan, and on motion of Mr. Palmer the
usual resolutions of regret were adopted and
-i committee appointed consisting of Mesera.
Palmer, Teller and .Tones of Arkansas to at-
tend the funeral at the dead member's late
home iu Traverse City, and as a further mark
of respect the senate adjourned to meet Jan-
uary 4,1888 When the house met today
thedesk recently occupied by Mr. Moffatt off
Michigan, who died iu the Providence
hospital this morning, was draped in emblems
of mourning aud decked with flowers. Mr.
Adams of Illinois offered a resolution to pay
a month's salary to house emploves who
were on the rolls December 2, but who had
been discharged, and Mr. Bland of Missouri
moved to refer the resolution to the committee
on accounts. This was agreed to—yeas 93,
uavs 91. Mr. Herriuan of Oregon offered a
resolution increasing the membership of the
committee ou rivers aud harbors to seven-
teen. Mr. Burrows of Michigan said it be-
came his painful duty ou liehaif of ihe Mlchi-
an delegation to announce to the house the
eath of Hon. Seth C. MolTatt. In his death
the delegation felt a personal iH'reaveinent,
and his state liad lost a wise aud able con-
gressman. He then offered a scries of resolu-
tions, which were unanimously adopted, and
the house adjourned to meet on Wednesday,
January 4, 18S8.
A Fucltlve's Wife Under Arrest. '
Deikoit, Mich., Dee. 20.—The woman ar-
rested yesterday with thirty-nine $1,000
United States bonds in her posscs-ion which
she had vainly tried to negotiate, is still lock-
ed up. Her name is now said to be Sophia
Victorine. She said her «husband was stop-
Eing at the Crawford house in Windsor, but
c could not be induced to cro*s the river. He
told snch a straight story to the officers about
having failed iu the cast that the detectives
were inclined to believe him, especially as no
report of any robbery had l een received.
Habeas corpus proceedings nil! probably be
taken.
J. H. Goldsmith, the well-known horseman,
has identified Hoffman as Isidor Cohnfeld of
New York, formerly the largest dealer in
feathers aud plumes In the United 8tates, if
noi in the world, who failed during the first
week of November, and at once took bis de-
parture to Canada. _
Politics Cause Three Deaths.
Opelocbas, La., Dec. 20.—A desperate sf-
fray took place in a saloon here late last night
in which three men were shot aud all probably
fatally wounded. Stephen McGaffry, colored,
tbe only eye witness, received a stray bullet
in the regiou of the kidneys from which be Is
dying. In his anteuiottern statement be sayst
"Mark Finnberg proprietor of the saloon and
myself were sitting at the front door of the
saloon, when George Lastropes, tbe town coo-
stable, cams up. The two men got into %
dispute and after Lastróos had struck Finn-
berg both commenced firiug and In endesvor-
ing to tret out of the wsy I received a shot.
Eight shots were fired." Lastropes snd Finn-
berg are both shot through tbe breast Tbe
doctor attending them thinks all three of the
wounded men will die. Politics were the
cause of tbe trouble.
Franciclyn in a Fresh Salt.
New York, Dec. 20.—In 1883 Charles O.
Francklyn of thia city became president of the
Franekíyn laud and cattle company. September
1,1885, the company sold to Stephens & Lytle
of Kansas City a large drove of cattle for
$106,334, the payment being made In pro-
missory notes. It is now claimed that
Francklyn fraudulently converted the notes to
bis own use and gave them to Morton, Bliss
6c Co. and others fit payment of individusl
Indebtedness. The notes were suliserfuently
sold to the Trsders' hank of Kansas City for
■"Id
$53,625, and five of them were in turn wild to
tbe National bank of lliiuoi . To-day
Radcliff Baldwin, assignee for Gordon Can-
ard, brought a suit askiug that the notes he
restored, all'the transactions be declared void
snd tbe notes applied to the payment of (¿09*
trd's judgment-
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Harm & Ludwick. Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 28, 1887, newspaper, December 28, 1887; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183630/m1/2/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.