St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 12, 1892

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Are made to residents of St. Louis. | St. Lowis JOP 80-day arg The SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH reaches all of them. F2 R&S in St ESTATE AGENTS: The POST-DISPATCH selis more papers Louis and Suburbs than the Globe and Republic combined. “A WORD TO THE WISE,” ETC, # —— ; 2 Fit An ahi ; gis . es , £m 4 , ako ; is? Fe a eee ee a eee ee ae cab , 3! K -. ; or 5 * . 4 ed ae a ” » oo si warts oe Le) - 1 7 r ee ket. gee) eae oe. P 4 > ee, ata » Ss toe ee “ See a ee Net ae Se Tee, ye ee ie , 8S on. aft i ge Soe J 4 a 5 “tes tan Hays : = OP as oD: “Ss or one SO gee ae EL ee ad 7x ra Le oe a ee 4 3 eed : a if ; % oF Seal any ei a ‘ald re ee y Binge EES De ee pr gd ? = ag ele "4 Sie Pa 7 ae ‘ : EO ee 4 , ne See) 4 ¥ fk. ae 2 ‘en: > eae “" - Pod x oe @ ls bs r - * ae z ‘ é 7 . 4 ¢ + 7 . ¥ % 7 2 & . - f * : * _ . f ; 5 “ 5 . - ‘ ‘ ; ; ‘a ‘ ; . ; " ’ J . . . ~ 6 ” — ——eE©~«~C ——— during the cold VOL. 43, NO. 216, ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 12, 1892. FRICE, FIVE CENTS. BY CARRIER, FIFTEEN CENTS PER WEER, = a Lines of $25 HOSTS OF IDLE MEN. VERCOATS ; Opening of the Great English Miners’ | Strike To-Day. by Hats are in S. Good as & Co. 5 COR, . PINE. AN INDUSTRIAL ARMY HAS TAKEN A HOLIDAY. Trade Already Paralyzed and a Coal Famine Threatened—Far-Reaching Et- fects of the Movement-Gen,. Booth Hissed—Canada Interested in the Behring Sea Matter—Foreign News. Loxpox, March 12.—The great coal strike opened to-day. The Durham miners did not resume work and the collieries of Lancashire. cneshire, Yorskhire, North Wales and other Astricts areidle. The miners of Scotland, couth Wales and Northumberland are work- ‘og quietly. In Durham the men to the num- ner of 80,000 are on a strike against a reduc- son of wages, butin allother districts the nen have simply decided to takea week, fortnight or even three weeks’ holiday in ‘or fo restrict the output of coal, thus in- r prices being keptupand the rate of -ages maintained if not advanced. This movement on the part of the miners syses more disturbance in the British labor i and in the manufacturing centers,than been known since the American civil which threw so many hundred thou- cond ofthe cotton workers out of work, and + for charity they would have starved. t startling rumors are in circulation in -city. Acoalfamine is feared, the stock ‘large and the colliery owners for some mast have refused to bind themselves to A great many orders indeed been refused and the price of coal has leaps and bounds until it has reached which it has not Known since memorable strike of Northumberland Durham miners fifteen yearsago. Some s will be compelied to cease work week for want offuel. A number of have toclose the week following, if =: determine tocarry thelr experi- a second week, and ifit is pro- | a third week, the disturbance of manufactures will be general and ects so windspread that scarcely an nate can be formed to the terrific loss to nities which must ensue. The ation is startlingintne highest Many political economists deciare movement will result in rge portion of the work i into foreign lands. towns the poor are sufferers. Coalsto them in price, and as the | with them they feel Notices have been rms engaged in the Sppleby lron Co., the e Frodingham Steel rks and the Red Born ld the action of t supply of fuel the every proba- ig closed, as fuel is ming scarce and is Fising in nd around Kotherham no large are reported. TRADE DISTURBED. re has tr so much dis- i around o = te oraers. given in three sub-installments. MINERS! WAGES. rage wages paidin and about the reat Britain to all classes of em- abviy net far off from £50 per . say, newest ef- b.00. | 1891, It would mean that in-the : 602,517 persons employed in ‘r the coal mines act, must out £15,000,000 in the form of an they would have done at “, or about £30,000,0000ver the ftwo years. The full amount i.ms the exclusive honor of having | present | | THE SALVATION ARMY members as they are | alone. | ; au | | eyed Susanin the play of that name, federation has led tothe sfrike | has canceled her engagement. GEN. BOOTH HISSED. COMMANDER HAS ROUGH EXPERIENCE. Loxspow, March 12.—Gen. Booth invited 2 000 dossers and ex-criminals to meet last | night in the Grecjan Theater, City road, to | bear him explain the progress of his social ' booth | The £25 is added to this forthe not, however, continued over , that pertod. On the other hand, considerable upward move- scheme. The condition of admission was / the presentation of a ticket, to be obtained by passing the previous night in one of Gen. Booth’s houses of shelter. At the appointed . | ho crowd gathered in force out- | The last instaliment of the hour a motley & the concession of | little more than a year | singing ribald songs and Each person was pre- side the building, cracking coarse jests. sented with a meat pie on entering. building was soon crammed and Gen. was received with a storm of hisses when he stepped on the stage. crowd became s0 noisy that the General could not make himself heard and was obliged to give up the whole programme, in¢iuding the address of welcome on behalf of the social wing. There was a chorus of shouts of ‘*Go it, old sweater, out,’’ and similar expressions, the opinion being that the General hac been feathering | The police ejected many of | “op ‘the noisest, and finally Gen. Booth managed | ,.,,, his own nest. an accompani- to make a short address to | ment of hisses, cheers and derisive remarks nd the higher wages than the | -range, paid In that year,would ke up forthe fall of wages that | 1.+:. money gone, seemed to be organized by woodchoppers and | in the Jatter part of 1691 due to sed condition of trade at that —— _ —— Washington for . ou will not ay! ‘le most remarkabie phases of the play there for ® ry of the coal industry has been rease in the number of hands in v ll | AMERICA’S FIRM Between 1880 and 1890 the total | hands working under the coal advanced from 475,00 to increase is probabiy iess men em ployed surface, or auxiliary labor. The tf the coal trade shows that when wages is pretty good, men are tfromevery sortof outside in- scupation, not excluding tailors, rs, butchers and bakers. The work y, eXcept as regards the hewing, aracter that reguires much pre- rience, and a steady man will often very good miner with a few months’ There ils not now, however, so between the and New Orleans will take place Sat- The two club-rooms » for this purpose. ed simultaneously. irice Vignaux played is at Paris, France, was for 3,200 francs & e-cushion caroms. ere played, Ooates polnts. tic Club, which has heen organized with ighton. It intends between the big guns — unds with regula- Zers are endeavorin was ns and Ted Pritc _ . m i cr a. ~\- as 1 certain amount of previous ex- —— ® should be allowed to work at the ‘(hough skilled miners are allowed to Nexperienced assistants. AL TRADE DEPRESSED. isno Goubt that, after enjoying for ‘wo yearsa period of unusual pros- the coal trade of the United Kingdom ‘ered a relapse to its fopmer and more condition of keen competition and This circumstance is no doubt wing to the considerable falling off © laken place in some of the principal *s Of consumption, and notably ig con- 'D for industrial purposes, Que tothe Niraction of demand i the tron and gineering and other industries. Be- ios} apd 1890 there had been a total in- * in the production of British coal to ““Cclleat of some 24,000,000 of toms, within rices underground | the Behring Sea matter. ee A ey ES mR ‘ude allowed in this respect as there | ,as the last act for the regula- | 11 mines provided that only men | % made by the to the effect that his shelters teemed with vermin. ‘*We want tog@dand drink,’’ ‘‘Where has ** etc. The opposition others. The meeting dispersed in disorder. THE DOMINION INTERESTED. IN ONTARIO. OTTAWA, Ontario, March 12.-/There is great excitement here over the possibility of the American Government acting firmly over Thomas Earie, M. P. for Victoria, British Columbia, who ar- rived yesterday from the East, is largely in- terested in the sealing business. Speaking of the attitude assumed by the United states Government because of Lord Salisbury’s re- fusal to renew the modus vivendi of last vear. Mr. Harle stated that nearly all the Victoria sealing fleet were already away and expected to obtain cargoes before being mo- lested by Americans or British eruisers even if the modus vivendiisrenewed. ‘‘it seems >> gald Mr. Earle, ‘‘untti the arbitration has declared t States has exclusive over the Behring Sea seal it would be absurd for aor 8 2 8 enforcement of reguiations we ape s adnericen Congress lor ae pro- such fisheries. The people of the abled ment: must see that the position of that upon that point is aa- tenabie.’”’ GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS. aowetores by a bomb, | Charter Hawley | morning. | storm is fully equalin velocity to a Western he will | A } i had a most ee a | Vestments. declared. there wl be no union of the huge | engineer. | Case. ‘“‘chuck him | | Gibson. | mitted to await the action of the | on the charge of perjury. ; hais. ATTITUDE EXCITES ALARM | ‘ | 1oadea, probably with dynamite and scrap iron. Two persons were slightly wounded by being struck with pieces of the flying tron. In addition to M.Benoit,the magistrate conduct- ing the tnquiry into the theft of dynamite cartridges fromithe Seine quarry, another judge is resident of the house. It fs reparted that the miscreants who caused the explo- sion have sworn to annihilate all judges. The shock of the explosion was felt a great dis- tance, YOUNG BONAPARTE ACQUITTED. LONDON, March 12.—At the Old Batley to-day Prince Louis Clovis Bonaparte, son of Louls Lucian Bonaparte, was acquitted on the eharge of defrauding Rosalie Clovis Bonaparte of a diamond necklace and other articles of jewelry, claimed to be worth some £20,000. The prosecution offered to withdraw the charge if the jewels were returned to Mrs. Bonaparte an1i the law Costs paid. Sir Charles Russell, who appeared for the defense, accepted these terms, At the same time contending that there was no evidence to warrant the charge of criminal conspiracy. A verdict of not guilty was then formally rendered. William Alexander Thompson, who had been indicted with the Prince onthe charge of conspiracy to defraud, was also acquitted on the same understanding. INSURRECTION IN BOLIVIA. LAPAZ, Bolivia, March 12.—The Insurgent Indians after experiencing defeat at the bands of Gen. Gonzales retired and have now been reinforced by the natives from the Grand Chaco District und the country along the Brazilian frontier. Five thousand Indians are now threatening the town of Panabamda and the frontier province of Tauga. The Government is sending forward troops as rapidly as possible to drive the Indians away and relieve the threatened points. TO ISOLATE LEPROSY. OTTAWA, Ontario, March 12.—The British Columbia Legislature has passed a resolution calling upon the Canadian Government to establish and maintain a lezaretto in the province forthe care of Chinese lepers, who are becoming numerous on the Pacific coast. From what can be gathered from members of the Government here, however, it is not provable the Government will accede to the request. DISTRESS IN PORTUGAL. LisBON, March 12.—Great distress prevails among the working classes in this city, and the situation grows worse daily. Many of them are absolutely penniless and every day bread is distributed to a great number of them. The Government is about to start public works to afford employment to the poor. SNOW IN SPAIN. Lowpox, March 12.—From reports received in this city it is learned that very heavy snowstorms are prevailing throughout Spain.. In consequence of the stormy weather telegraphic communication be- tween France and Spain has been inter- rupted. BLIZZARD IN AUSTRIA. Vrexwa, March 12.—A blizzard is raging in has made the roads impassable, and rall- way trains are imbedded inthe snow. Traf.- ficin Vienna Was suspended a few hours this American visitors declare the blizzard. BRIEF MENTION.- In the parliamentary election in the Kirk- caldy District yesterday Dalziéi,.the Glad- stonian candidate, won. . : The report that the British East Africa Co.’s.troops had sustained a severe defeat in Witu proves to have been incorrect. oe eS BREWING POOL. All the Big Concerns of Chicago to Fight the Syndicate. Cuicaco, March 12.—Within forty-eight | hours there will be incorporated under the | laws of Illinois, with a capitalization of $£20,- 000,000, a concern under the fitle of the Chi- cago Brewtng & Malting Association, which will pool under one general head the interests of twenty-eight of Chicago’s biggest brew- erles. It is tne most stupendous business scheme ever undertaken in llinols and its formation will end the bitter war between the brewers which has been waged here since last September. The pool embraces every one of the twenty-eight breweries outside the | English syndicate and has an output of 3,000, - The war which is thus ended has r barrel, and has ecton brewing in- lle competition is ended, It fs 000 Darrels. caused a cut from %$% to $4 Ww new company with the English syndicate for | Chicago breweries. COMMITTED FOR PERJURY. | A Witness Confesses That His Testimony Was False. Sr. Pari, Minn., March 12.—A most unusual and remarkable incident occured in the Dis- | trict Courtin this city to-day when Judge The | Brill summarily committed a witness to the County Jail to await trial for perjury. Frank | Gaul was the witness in question and the case | was that of Charles Gibson against the Sault Ste. Marie Railroad for $50,000 received in an accident on that road,on which he was an This was the second trial of the Frank Gaul was Gidson’s fireman and his testimony had been the chief point for To-day, while on the stand, be coolly announced to the jary that his former testimony was false, adding: ‘‘I wanted to Charlie out.’’ Juage Brill waited to hear no more, but at once ordered Gaul com- Grand -jury Such a summary procedure as this is very unusual tn legal an- Such a case has never occurred before in Minnesota and ts without parallel in a court of original general jurisdiction since | the days of the star chamber. eee THE FINAL SLEEP. | Peculiar Case in the Bellevue Hospital, New York. New York. March 12.—Another remarkable medical case has come to light in Bellevue Hospital. Charlies Krantz, a butcher’s journeyman 19 years old, slept almost contin - uously for five days and five nights and then died withopt awakening. He walked into Chambers Street Hospital saying that he felt sick and that he had no friends or relatives in this country. His symptoms looked like typhoid fever and he was transferred to Hevue Hospital. There, as he was bein ath. asleep all the time,’’ said Dr. Holder, who bad charge of the case. ‘**\\e could shake him awake and he would speak balfa sen- tence, yawn and be asleepagain. We couid e the rest of the sentence out of howed that death was ~~ Otherwise Krantz was phy y S case will be laid before the medical society. Merket Price of a Wife. Mriax, Tenn., March 12.—Hezekiah Loomis, a countryman of Henderson County, traded off his wife to Tom Planky. The contract is as follows: | **Witnesseth that I, Hezekiah Loomis, of the first part, for the consideration of three frearlings and ope half acre of bottom iand ind one-half acre of timbered land do —_ issign and transfer all my right, title mterest in and to my wife, Mary Loomis, to fom Planky, of the second part. Signed and lawyer drewup the docu- FORTY SHOTS FIRED. Mountgineers Settle a Feud Kentucky c With Winchesters. THE FACTIONS MEET BY AGREEMENT AND ONE DEATH RESULTS. J. lL. Asher Shot by his Mistress’ Hus- band—The Scene of Many a Bloody Vendetta—Murdered Her Riva!—Burg- lars Winged—Coney Men Caught—The Criminal Caleudag, NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 12.—The startling news has reached Here from Whitesburg, Ky., a small mountain town twenty or thirty miles north of Bristol, thata pitched battle had taken place, It seems that four persons were engaged in some manner inthe fight. On the forenoon of yesterday J. L. Asher, a well-known man of that section, anda Mr. Polly had a dispute which resulted ina fight. Neither was geriously injured. Mr. Polly’s wife had been for some time the mistress of Asher. Threats have been made and trouble has been anticipated recently. The forenoon skirmish did not quiet mat- ters, but tended to add fueltothe fire. Asher called to his aid one Combs and Polly called Dick Williams, his brother-in-law. Each re- ceived word from the other that matters must be settled. Armed with trusty Win- chestersthe four started from their homes toward the same spot. When 200 yards apart a halt was made, but soon they closed up the space. The signal was made and the firing began. Forty shots were exchanged anda bailfrom the gun of Williams finally went home. It struck Asher on the left breast, an inch above his nipple and penetrated his body. Hedied instantly. Combs, his part- ner, was captured. Much excitement prevails in that section. That portion of Kentucky is wild and is in- habited by such men as Talton Hall, the murderer of ninety-nine men, the Frenchs and Eversois, who have QBeen at war so long, the Howards and other noted characters. Whitesburg, Ky., is the county seat of Leicher County, of which somuch is known. A murder or shooting affair is almost a weekly occurrence, Duta fight like this is something new. ‘MANIA FOR MURDER. VIENNA’S FIFTH VICTIM OF A HOMICIDAL MAD- MAN. VIENNA, March 12.—This city continues to De shocked by mysterious murders. The latest victim is Leopold Buchinger, who was stavbed to the heart Dy an undetected assas- sin in one of the most public placesin Vienna. This makes the list of tragedies five in num- ber, anc there is@ growing feeling of terror among the public. Theimpression is gain- | ing ground that Vienna harbors some mad- man witha homicidal mania, and cunning enough to gratify his appetite g@ithout being discovered by the ordinary methods. police are devong them earnestly to the work of detection, wor leading streets at night are ‘ OfGecers in citizens’ attire. MERDERED HERB RIVAL. CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 12.—Eliza Hackney, the divorced wife of Lewis Els- | wick, was arrested yesterday on Slacks Brapch in this county and brought tothis | city to-day and lodgedin jail, charged with the murder of Bettie Moore, whom she killed py cutting ber throat last Wednesday. The evidence is altogether circumstantial, but it was so strongly brought at the inquest, that there is no doubt but that sbe Is the assassin. Mrs. Hackney’s divorced husband has been visiting the Moore girl for some time and | the murder was the result. She importuned ‘her divorced busband to remarry her, but he refused. Jealousy caused the murder. CONFESSED THE THEFT. New York, March 12.—Webster C. Hill, 2 years old, a graduate of Yale College, waser- rested at the Hotel St. George, Brooklyn, this evening by Police Captain Campbell of the Adams Street Station on a charge of stealing $150 worth of jewelry from the residence of Miss Alice M. McElvaine of Princeton, N. J., where he attended a reception. Hill came from Chicago about two months ago with his mother, Mrs. J. W. Hl, a wealthy widow. They went to the Hotel St. George, where Mrs. Hil) bas since stopped. Hill confessed. REGULATORS’ WORK. PITtTsBUrRG, Pa., March li.—Seven masked men visited the house of Frank Meiniauer hour. Aftertying himtoascantling he was stripped and beaten severely by whips until he became umconscious. Itis alleged that the visit and punishment inflicted on Mein- laueris forthe crueltreatment of his wife and three children. THE DAVIS CASE. MOBERLY, Mo., March 12.—The case of Ed. H. Davis and his stepmother Delilah on the charge of murdering their alleged lilegitimate 6-months-old child last July, is on trial at Huntsville, Mo. Itis thought the State will failto convict. Davis wasa fireman on the Wabash, and his father had only been dead a ear, itis stated, when the alleged intimacy tween him and bis stepmother began. JUDGE BORGFELDT DYING. Liycota, Neb., March 12.—Judge Borgfeldt of the Police Court, who was shot last Wednesnay on the bench by a prisoner, is sinking rapidly, and will die before Sunday morning. Anumber of murders have been committed of late and noone has been pun- ished. There is talk of lynciting for this rea- son, but the Sheriff has no fears. KILLED A BURGLAR. TamMPaA, Fla., March 12.—A New York burg- lar named Wilson was shot and kKllled about dayUreak this morning by Officer Raines of the night patrol. Wilson had made two or three attempts to enter different houses dur- ing the night, but had been frightened away. | He finally got into close quarters and crawled / under the nouse of Mr. Minch near the r- 'rison. When forced to leave there the officer drew a revolver and Killed Wilson instantiy. GuTurtiz, Okla., March 12.—Charies Gill, a ' notorious outiaw, went to the hotel of Geo. |W. Rollins at Catoosa, I. T., Thursday nignt, |and demanded admittance. His request not being complied with he kicked the door in and started to rum things to suit himself, — the landiord appeared and shot him a | ONE MESS OUTLAW. CONEY MEN ARRESTED. Crectxxati, O., March 11.—A telegram from Bridgeport, O., reports the arrest to-day of three men for passing counterfeit sliver dol- , are Cub Bolan, a! iiler; Sekt Sonaingham. alias Sex" haves and M Sixteen silver dollars were foundjon om KICKED A INDIAN TO DEarTu. ‘Deapwoop, 8. D., March 11.—Jack Whip. ple,a cattleman, isin jall here, charged The | was engaged to be married to her, and when | she found it out she swore vengeance and | living near the city line last night at an early | seriously wound the other. — MUBDER SUSPECTED. EVANSVILLE, Ind., March 12.—Thomas J. Stevenson, watchman of the Louisville & Nashville vridge at Henderson, Ky., was found dead on the track on Thursday nignt with his clotheson fire, and it is suspected that he was murdered, CRIME MISCELLANY. Jaccb Reinhardt, a farmer living near Ver- mont, Mo., was arrested with his daughter esterday on a charge ofincest. It is said he ne had ioe children by her. and fired at ek Ny aye wounding one and | mashed Drew's skull with a rock, fatally wounding him. Mrs. Sallie Hannible, widow of Samuel Hannible, who was shot and killed trom am- bush last fall at Hamburg, Ashley County Ark., died of poison yesterday. Ben and Omer Carpenter, who were charged with killing the husband, are suspected of poison - ing the wife and a posse in pursuit of em. THURMAN FOR CLEVELAND. The Ex-President Is the Most Representa- tive Democrat in the Country. CoLumBus, O., March 12,—Ex-Senator Allen G, Thurman has recently expressed his views on the question of the Presidency to an old friend. It is stated that Mr. Thurman thought that, ‘‘beyond ail doubt, Mr. Cleve- land represents the best interests of the country to a greater degree than is enjoyed by any living Democrat.’’ Continuing, he presented his views substantially as follows: ‘It is not necessary at this time to give rea- sons why Mr. Cleveland should receive the nomination for the Presidency at the hands of his party. **These reasons are to a certain extent ex- pressed to us every day, and occasionally in &@ manner more forcible than might be de- sired, by men that have been born and brought up in the Democratic faith. **‘Mr. Cleveland has given the Democratic party an issue—an issue which still exists, and upon which the party is united as one man. While it is true that Mr. Cleveland was defeated for re-election, he was not beaten because of his stand for tariff? reform, but other causes that are not necessury to refer toatthistime, That is clearly demon- strated by the fact that although Mr. Cleve- land went down in defeat the issue lives and will continue to lve until the evils com- piainea of are corrected, which can never be until that party, pledged toareform of the tariff, is again in control of the Government. ‘“*There is tomy mind but one course for the Democratic party to take. Its duty is lain. Intheevent that Mr. Cleveland al- ows his name to be presented before the Chicago convention the right thing to do would be to nominate him by acclamation and leave the result to the people, for by them mustthe victory be won. he logic of the situation points in that direction, and it is manifest that with the ople, regardless of party, Grover Cleveland is stronger than he was four or eight years ago. WARNING TO TAMMANY. WASHINGTON, D.C., March 12.—Dan Dough- erty does not relish the idea of having the |, Convention Hall at Chicago packed with | Tammany heelers for Hill. He has writtena letter to Senator Brice, Chairman of the | Democratic National Committee. The Senator | refuses to make public the letter, but it is | upderstood that Mr. Dougherty argues thata ‘hall would merely furnish accommodations for notsy friends of candidates who might try by their applause and yells to influence |the action of the convention. The audience thus ,ft is argued, might misrepresent the sen- timent of e country and dereive and in- fluence the judgment of the delegates. Mr. Dougherty thinks the convention should be regarded as a committee and the }accommodatiogs for the public should be limited. It is not thought that he will attain | his object. The belief nere is that the Hill | boomersin Chicago and New York have de- | termined toconstruct an enormous hall, in which they can give frequent demonstrations of the enthusiasm for the Senator. ANTI-HARRISON SCHEME. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 12.—A strong effortis being made Dy the opponents of President Harrison in the Senate to have as | many State delegations sent to Minneapolis uninstructed as possible. Someof the Sen- ators who are favoring this plan hope that | by so doing they may De able to prevent the President from securing votes enough to | succeed himself and thus enable some of the | outside candidates to win the prize. ; Senator Manderson of Nebraska Is the last |of these gentlemen who is talkedof as a | presidential pussibility. The Nebraska Sena- _toris very popular in the trans-Mississippi country, and I am told that his own delega- tion will be a unit in his favor if be so Gestres. |Mr. Manderson himself ridicules the sugges- tion and says he has no ambition in the direc- ,tion. His friends insist that there is good presidential timber in himandare talking seriously of making a concerted effort to bring him out. THAYER NOT SATISFIED. Lincoty, Neb., March 12.—Ex.-Gov. Thayer last night stated that he had determined to contest anew the right of Gov. Boyd to hold office. He said his attorneys had sent to Washington for a copy of the recent mandate of the Supreme Court, and u receiving it | would decide upon the proper line of action. |Mr. Thayer professea to believe that there wasa — in withholding the mandate, which has not yet been received by any one in this State. and said he was sure there was a loophole therein fora renewal of the con- test. CLEVELAND ACCEPTS. VALPARAISO, Ind., March 12.—President Cleveland has accepted an Invitation to de- liver an address here at the formal opening of the new college chapel, May 1. ALMOST READY TO SAIL. The Missouri’s Oargo for Russia About Completed. New York, March 12.—Every bag of the 5,000,000 pounds of flour to gotothe starving Russians will be on board the steamship Mis- souri this morning. It is, however, Dy no means certain that the vessel will sail to-day, for W.C. E r, who has been assisting Wm. James, she Central's foreign traffic agent, in completing the big cargo, discovered that four car loads of meal had pot arrived from the bilis the money. ‘*We shalitry to get. the, Missouri off on .”* said Mr. esterday, **if it is at time Edgar y ; ae ‘DEATH IN THE MINE Twe Hundred and Fifteen Lives Lost in the Belgian Colliery. FLAMES BURST FROM THE PIT’S MOUTH AND CUT OFF ALL RESCUE. Thirty-Three Blackened and Unrecogniza- ble Bodies Brought to the Surface—The Corpse of a Fourteen-Year-Old Girl Discovered—Crowds of Grief-Stricken Relatives—Casualties. BRUSSELS, March 12.—There has been little ifany abatement in the excitement in and about Charilero!, near wiiich place the ap- palling explosion occurred yesterday morn- ing in the Anderlues colliery. All night long hundreds of men, women and children have kept their dreary watch at the pit mouth, hoping for the best, yet almost knowing their hope was without reason. Many pitia- ble scenes have been witnessed, as wives and children have recognized among the bodies recovered the features of some dear one, dis- torted and blackened by the sheet of scorch- ing flame that had enveloped them. The fire caused by the explosion is still burning in the lower gallery where the acct- dent occurred. The shock.of the explosion detatched huge masses of rock and earth, and the galleries are so blocked with debris that it is impossible to approach nearer than 100 yards of the place where the great body of the miners were working. Besides the dirt and rock the carcasses of forty horses are inthe approach, and these will have to be cutupand removed before the rescuers can proceed anp further inthe direction of aa gallery where the bodies are known to The gendarmes have great difficulty In pre- serving even the semblance of order in the vicinity of the pit mouth. The crowd of relatives of the miners are so distracted with grief that the orders of the gendarmes fall upon deaf ears, and the latter are cofhpelled to use gentile force to compel obedience. ‘Ihe police stationed at the office of the mining company, which has been transformed into a temporary morgue, was not so gentle in their dealings with the crowd. Many ofthe mourning relatives made an attempt to enter the office and were forcibly re- pulsed. Some of the more Geter- ined in the crowd insisted upon being ad- mitted, and the result was that several sculies occurred between them and the police. Finally, as it was feared that serious trouble might follow if the police persisted in refusing admittance to the building, the doors oftue office were barricaded to pre- vent ingress. BRINGING OUT THE DEAD. The bodies recovered were covered with a thick, black dust, which in some instances had been blown deep in the skin. As they were taken into the office they were placed upon stiaw that had been spread on the floor, and the faces were then cleaned as far as possible to allow of identification. Many of the faces, however, were entirely un- recognizable. The fact that some, if not all, of the women employed in the mine have met their death by the explosion will offer the unanswerable argument for those who oppose female iabor in underground employments. Among the | bodies recovered is that of a 14-year-old girl. | That she suffered indescribable agony is shown by the young face, which is so hor- ribly distorted that it cannot be recognized. The Diackened features are swollen almost beyoné all semblance to a human being. It has been ascertained that 270 persons were workinginthe mine at the time of the explosion. Most of them were at work in the two galleries where the greatest damage was done. One of these galleries is 450 and the Other 550 yards below the surface. Mining experts acquainted with the Anderlues colliery say that every person who was work- ingin the lower gallery must be dead, and few are expected to be rescued alive, asthe upper gallery is filled with deadly gas. Alto- gether thirty-three bodies have been re- covered. The fire in the mine grew flercer and flercer and since 2 o’clock this morning the heat has been so intense that it has been impossible for the rescuing parties to remain inthe pit. They have been compelled for the present to abandon all their efforts to reach the gal- leries. After it was found that the fire wn gaining in strengtha consuitation was heid etween the mine-owners and the engineers and it was decided that as there was not the slightest doubt that everybody in the mine was dead the only course left open for them to follow if they hoped to recover the bodies, was to flood the mine. ALL HOPE GONE. Preparations were being made to carry out this plan but, before any water could be pumped in, cries of ‘‘fire’’ were heard on all sides and, at3 o’clock, flames ascended to the pit’s mouth and sparks were scattered in every direction. A few minutes lateran im- mense column of fame shot through the ven- } tilating shafts, piercing the thick clouds of sinoke that were overhanging the shafts. The sight was grandiy magnificent es the mass of fame shot upward but it meant the certain death forevery person in the mine, This fact was fully recognized by the on- lookers, and the walling and shrieks of those near the pit’s mouth increased in violence as the lurid fame tore their last faint hope from them. For a eat distance around the country was filluminated to almost the was so intense that the crowd was driven back some distance from the mouth of the ventilator shaft. line. The engine and other buildings near by began to show the effects of the heat. they were wrapped firemen had been working heroicall of the fire, but chele S 4 it E Summit yesterd a snow morning. At Gainesville way - gineer, man were seriously injured. VICTIMS OF THE BLIZZARD. WILLOw O1rr, N.D., March 12.—Mrs. Lokken and Torgen Thompson, a boy, who lived twenty miles east of this city, lost their way during the biizzard Thursday and wandered BURNED (tN HIS BED, PORTLAND, Ind., March 12.—Fire broke out in Fred Axle’s restaurant at Red Key, Ind., early this morning, destroying the building in which it was located, together with two adjoining houses. Wm. 8, Rowe, who was asicep in a room over the restaurant, was burned to death. Loss $10,000. . KILLED IN A FRIENDLY BOUT. BLUFrTon, Ind., March 12.~—Yesterday two young men, Charles Lesh and H. A. Sweltzer, were en in a friendly boxing contest when Sweitzer struck Lesha powerful blow onthe neck. Lesh fell and ex minutes. ee DIED OF HIS INJURIES. LANCASTER, Pa., March 13.—Bdward A. Bush, Jr., of New York, who was kicked in the head by a horse in this city last Wednes- rm he died at 8t. Joseph’s Hospital last even- THREE CHILDREN DROWNED. BownaM, Tex., March 12.—In attempting to cross Red River near here, Wednesday, the team of William Briscoe took fright and three of Briscoe’s children were ones and eldest child and Briscoe wy ashore. ootting ante KILLED IN A WELL. TAcomMA, Wash., March 12.—W illiam Ame- ler was killed yesterday while digging a well by the bucket fallingon hishead. The news of hisdeath soshocked Mrs. Malvin awe of a neighbor, that she died last 4 > —_—— --- THE PIT COLLAPSED. BeRLin, March 12.—A fatal mine accident is reported from Saarbruck, Khenish Prussia. The Reden pit collapsed and two minerswere Killed and several injured. ; VARIOUS MISHAPS. Thursday evening an electric car, ranning between South Bend, Ind., and Mishawaka ran into a freight train on the Chicago Grand Trunk Raliroad at the crossing, a Frank Stevens, the conductor, was killed. The brakes of the motor would not act. The 4-year-old daughter of Joseph Diehl, living at Urbana, near Wabash, Ind., wag fatally burned yesterday morning in the ab- sence of her mother. - A young man named Miles was fatally shot in Camden County, Mo., Thursday night, by — ears Gischarge of a gun at a cha- rivari, SUICIDES. A Life Prisoner Makes an Unsuccessful Attempt. MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., March 12.—Van B. Baker, confined on a life sentence in the State Penitentiary for the murder of his wife and motber-in-law, Mrs. McWha, one of the most atrocious crimes in recent years, at- tempted suicide in his ceil last night. He was 6 a handkerchie apbary - when discovered. Baker, whose fight for liberty in his several trials was re markably persistent, is believed now to be insane, madeso bythe recent death of his mother, brother and son, who were aii his near relatives. MADE AN END OF IT. BERLIN, March 12.—A tragic event is re- ported from Lieban, in Prussian Silesia. Herr Eckerd, the Governor of the District, a man of high standing and supposed large wealth was lately discovered to have been enga in extensive forgeries. It appears that for some time past bas been bankrupt and has only kept up his credit on forged bills of exchange. Finding that his guilt was be- coming known, he committed ‘suicide by taking poison. Since his death additional forgeries have come to light, andthe aggre- gate issaid to be enormous. Financiai in- stitutions and individuals whohave cashed forged paper are seriously embarrassed. BLEW HIS BRAINS OUT. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 13.—Oscar Ab- bott, colored, 2 years old, shot and slightly wounded Celia Bass, also colored, and blew aan eee out. She had refused to marry TOM GAFFEY WILL DIE. Fr. Dop@rt, Io., March 12.~Tom Gaffey, in jail here for murder, tried to commit suicide by battering his bead against the tron of the cage. Doctors say he will die. CHAUNCEY TO LA@. “we Have Robbed You-Go Those and De Likewise.’’ New Yorx, March 12.—Chauncey M. De- pew, whohas been spendingafew days at Old Point Comfort with his family, visited the Hampton Institate and while there was introduced by Chaplin Turner and said: ‘‘We found the Indian in the possession of the soil and we took it away from him. We have a wnry beng to rob and the shoot them. hi done for yourselves you will do np must