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WELLINGTON ENTERPRISE, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 24, 1884. J. W. HOtieHTOX, rr'r. If ELLINGTON, t : OHIO. NEWS OF THE WEEK. Gathered from All Quarters. .'..' A .CONCRES3. ' Sinatb, Decombor 17. A resolution u pussod authorizing the President to suspend, by proclamation, the extra territorial juris diction now exercised with rcg-ard to Amor tonii citlsons within tbo dominion of the Bey of Tunis and to aoeopt the Jurisdiction of the French Consular Courts. The Benate then .took up the Naval Appropriation hill, which Inrluili'd the provision for oonstructlaa; ad ditional steel cruiser, rams, torpedo-boats and puns, contained in tho unsuccessful bill ot last session. An amendment was made limiting the services of the Uun Foundry Board only to the present session of Con gress. The bill as amended was then passed, ' and the Senate adjourned. House. Consideration of the Inter-State f(immws bill was resumed, and Mr. Crisp f Georgia offered a further amendment that mil hi hit In the ant shall be so construed as to prevent any railroad company from providing; accommodations for white and colored persons. Mr. Ilrecknnrldire of Ar kansaa entered a substitute providing that nntlilnft- in the act shall bo construed to pro hibit railroads from classifying passenger as they may deem best for comfort and safely. J!r. Coif of West Virginia moved to add to Mr. Hiwkcnrldirc's amendment the words "no d scritnlnat ion shall be made on acoount of race or color;" agreed to yeai 141. nays KO, Pending a motion to reconsider and to lay that motion on the table, Mr. Reagan made a motion to adjourn, wbicb was agreed to. 8-katb, December ll. Mr. Vest Introduced a resolution doclarlng that the power to send an expedition into tho territory of Nicaragua for the purpose of surveying a route for aa Inter-oceanle eanal, and to expend thepubllo money for such a purpose, was not vested by law In the Navy Department, but should be referred to Congress, and directing tho Boo retury of tho Navy to discontinue the ar rangements entered Into by him for such an expedition until the ttnal action of Con (rose on flii resolution; laid over. A bill appropriating I.'pO.iiO for the creation of a statue In Washington to the memory of Gen eral Lafavette and his compatriots was rasscd. Mr. Cullom's bill to regulate Inter tata commerce was taken up, discussed and several amendments wore offered. Ad journed. Hons. A motion to reconsider Mr. (lolTs amendment to the Interstate Commerce bill was adopted yeas 140, nays HM. Mr. Barks dale then moved to amend by adding "and that furnishing separnto accommodations at the same charges shall Dot be considered a discrimination;" agreed to yeas 111. nays 124. Several other amendments were offered and rejected. Adjourned. 8cff at. December 19. A bill making Inau titration Day a legal holiday In the District f Columbia was passed. Mr. Hale reported that the conferees on the part of the Senate and House on the Naval Appropriation bill kad been unable to agree, though the Senate onferee offered to waive the provisions with regard to the new steel cruiser, thus saving the bill exactly as framed by the Bouse Itself, deducting only the fifty per ent from each Item already appropriated by the exigency ol the bill of ! season. The Won conferees Insisted that theSenute Bin st take the House bill of this session, aisklng a lump appropriation or none, and would not even go Into a conference. The conferees felt it their 4utr to recommend that the Senate should further Insist, and by a unanimous vote Insisted on an Itemlied ap propriation bill. The Senate then went Into executive session and confirmed a number of Dominations and soon after adjourned. Hons OTie Cnalr laid before the House a memorial from John (). Thompson, late Ser geant at-Arms of the Homo, asking for an appropriation to pay a Judgment rendered against him In favor of Ilallcit Kilbourn by the Supreme Court of the District of Colum bia, and to reimburse bim for the expenses Incurred and for a rcs..-i -oi..natln-for time and sorviees; referred to the Judiciary Committee, with leavo to report at anytime. The Inter-State Commerco bill was then taken up and discussed uulll adjourn neut WASHINGTON. The sub-committee of the House Com mittee on Military Affairs, which made tour of the different soldiers' homes of the country during the past summer, has not yet made its report, but General Rosecrans, the chairman of the committee, will, during th coming holiday recess, prepare the re port In time to submit it soon after the rs asacuilillng o( Congress. At the executive session of the Senate n the 18th, Hugh McCulloch was confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury. s -At lie close, of business qq the 10th the following were the balances in the United States: Gold coin and bullion, $Kl,000,71l5 silver dollars and bullion, $150,540,188; fractional silver coin, $,J9,14T,5; United Btate notes, $14 .VM8; Rational bank botes, &PX,.M1; deposits with National bank depositories, f 10,102213; total, $407,. 4,003. Certificates outstanding, geld, 133,15120; silver, $111, 4:0,831 1 currency, $243O,0O0j internal revenue receipt, $403,044; customs, $1X1,127. Representative McAdoo, of New Jersey, has Introduced a Joint resolution In the Bouse, providing for th appropriation of 120,000 to be distributed by the Secretary f the Treasury, and expended under his direction by the proper local authorities of New York City, Brooklyn, Jersey City and Eoboken, to prevent by proper quarantine and sanitary measures the entrance of cholera to this country, and to prevent Its spread if it should take a foothold. The following nominations were con firmed by the Senate in executive session n the 10th: Klttredg Hasltlns, United Btatos Attorney for the District of Ver mont; Lewis E. rUanton, United Btates Attorney for the District of Connecticut; John O. Brady, Commissioner for Alaska at Bitka; Ceurge I. Ihrle, Commissioner for Alaska at Wrangelt Chester Ssber, Commissioner for Alaska at Ounalaska; Thomas A Cummlng, Collector of Customs for the District of Montana and Idaho. THE CAST. ' A few weeks ago Marion McFarland, farmer living near Geneva, Oa., was bitten by a dog supposed to be mad. On the 17tb he died most horrible death, after two days' suffering with all the symptoms of hydrophobia. The committee of the Philadelphia Coun cils who have had under consideration the question of loaning the old Liberty Bell to the New Orleans Exposition, made a re port to the Councils with favorable recom mendations on the 17th, "authorising th Commissioner on Markets and City Prop erty to take down the bell, and directing that a joint committee be appointed to at tend the Fair and take charge of the bell and band It over to the authorities of New Orleans." A care-in occurred on the 17th at No. 11 mine of the Lehigh ft Wilkesbarr Com pany, known as ths Lana Colliery, at Plymouth, Pa. A heavy report was beard and Hie residents rushed from their homes to fl.d that three acres of land hod sunk early five feet One bouse went down with the surface, but no one was Injured. ' Her. George W. Blogden, D. D., died at the residence of his son-in-law, E. C. Sampson, in New York City on the 18th. Dr. Blagden married sister of Wendell JPhillip and was himself In full sympathy with the Abolitionists. For many years he was pastor of the eld South Church, Beaton, and had a wide acquaintance in New England.. ... Captain C. L. Hathaway died at his resi dence, Brockton, Mass., on the 18th, aged seventy years. He was the founder of the. well-known Lynn and Boston firm of C. L. Hathaway ft Sons, the largest exporters of shoe dressings in the country. A broken rail caused the wreck of a pas senger train on the East Brandywine ft Waynesburg Railroad, near Reed's road, Chester County, Pa., on the 18th. William Barker, engineer, was killed, and the fire man was seriously injured. No passengers were hurt, Rev. H. Colcaser, a well-known Metho dist Episcopal minister, and one of ths founders of the University of Michigan, died at Philadelphia on the 18th, aged seventy-five years. The recent disappearance of Andrew J. Moore, of the firm of Shirk ft Moore, promi nent shoe-dealers of Lebanon, Pa., is ex plained by the discovery that he had issued forged notes against his partner. Business failures reported for the seven days ended Becember 10 were: In the United States, 307; Canada, 28; total, 393. This Is a marked increase over the previous week, when the failures numbered 843. The Western and Paciflo States furnish half the number. Rev. Jotham S. Bewail, late of Chicago, widely known preacher of the Congrega tional Church, died at Bangor, Me., on the 18th, aged ninety-three yonrs. George A. Proctor, who is bolieved to be the leader of the gang who in July, 1880, stole from the United States Express vault at Susquehanna, N. Y., a package contain ing between $30,000 and $10,000, has been captured. Proctor was a boiler-maker at Susquehanna, but after the robbery he went to Canada. Other arrests are ex pected. A freight train on ths Huntingdon & Round Top Road collided on the 10th, near Huntingdon, Pa., with a hand-car contain ing a party of trackmen, fatally Injuring Russell Rohl and William Clark. WEST AND SOUTH. The completion of the Inventory in the assignment of the J. I. Cose Plow Com pany, of Racine, Wis., shows the assets to be (440,000 and the liabilities $740,000. Of the latter $75,000 is due workmen. Dr. James Ewing, a pioneer physician of Hebron, Licking County, Ohio, died sud denly of paralysis of the brain on the 17th, aged eighty-five years. He was a prom inent Mason and well-known throughout the Bute. Ths Marquis of Choknondley died at London on the 17th. Judge Joseph R. Swan, author of Swan's Treatise, and ex-Supreme Judge of Ohio died at Columbus on the 18th, aged eighty two. At Brownsville, Ga., a few days ago, Atbos Crawford, a well-known citizen, struck James Davidson, who was abusing his wife, with a club, killing him instantly. Perry Harrington, a well-to-do farmer, on the evening of the 18th was seated with his wife at their home near Geneva, Ash tabula County, Ohio, when a man, his face masked with a white handkerchief, sud denly entered and flourishing a revolver, demanded bis money or his life. Harring ton started for an adjoining room to get his money, when the handkerchief dropped from the robber's face and Mrs. Harrington recognized him as Lewis Webster, a well known young man of the vicinity. At the instant of recognition, ths robber fired at Mrs. Harrington, the ball striking her in the left arm. The terrified woman fled from the house and gave the alarm, and upon returning with assistance Mr. Har rington was found upon the floor uncon scious with a bullet-hole in his forehead. He died soon after. Webster was arrested the next morning, but donled all knowledge of the crime. There was strong talk of lynching, but be was safely lodged in the county jail. John Ward, believed to be ths oldest man in Kansas, wandered away from his home in Atchison a few days ago, and was found in the suburbs frozen to death. He was 105 years old and bad lived in Atchison ever since it had a name. He was somewhat given to drink. Advices from thirty-five counties In Ore-! COD concerning the ravages of hog cholera are published in the Omaha Jtrpublkntu Thirteen counties report an epidemic of the disease, ten its existence in a mild form, and twelve thus far are freo from the scourge. Sarpy County report that th hogs have all died. The loss in that county is estimated at $70,000. The nature of the disease is too little understood to permit of the cur of th animals. Prof. Blocuin, th schoolmaster who de fended himself against a mob, killing on man and wounding several others, at Horse Cave, Ky., a few days ago, was on the 18th discharged from custody on motion of the Commonwealth's attorney. Wbilo William Holt, a colored boy, was compounding a chemical mixture in .th drug store of Lamar ft Co., at Augusta, Ga., on ths 18th the mixture exploded. Holt -was instantly killed and th store somewhat damaged. It is said that Sergeant Bates, whoso fancy It has been to carry the United States flag over a goodly part of the earth, is nearly starring at bis home in Saybrook, lit. His army sabre, which was wont to clank at bis heels as he strode proudly along, was recently seized for a debt. Ills family are destitute. Albert Keyport and Fred Miller were In stantly killed by the explosion of a boiler In Plummer's planing mill at Jackson, Mich., on the 10th. Four others were badly Injured and may die. The mill was blown to fragment and many bouses ill the vi cinity were badly damaged by flying pieces of boiler. Rer. W. Doty, of Marshall County, V7. Va., recently received a pension, th ac crued payment amounting to $2,000. While th family was absent from bom attend ing a revival meeting on th night of th 18th th house was totally destroyed by fir. It Is supposed the money was stolen and th house fired by incendiaries. A Br at Flint, Micb., on th 10th de stroyed th elegant residence of Colonel William B. McCreery, ex -Stat Treasurer of Michigan. Loss, $.18,000; insured for $0,000. Th mansion was originally built by McCrsery's fttuor-in-law, Kx-Qdvernor Fenton. "Uncle" Peter George, th oldest resi dent and first settler in Hancock County, Ohio, and on of th -pioneers of that sec tion, died recently at th age of eighty flv years. He bad a large and valuable property, consisting principally of real state. Th employes of th Gould southwesterm system say they har Information that ft reduction of ten per cent, .will bo made January 1 In the wages of all employes ol the Missouri Paciflo systora from St. Lotiii to El Paso and Laredo, numbering 10,001 men. They assort that a gigantic strlka will follow. A wealthy farmer named Dunk Groves, living near Falmouth, Rush Conuty, Ind., suicided on th 10th br hanirlnir- Fvi sine th election Groves had Imagined i that the country would go to ruin under Cleveland, and he would lose all his property. '. 1 The extensl'r marble firm of Lyman Strong ft Son, of Cleveland, Ohio, made an assignment on the 10th. The trustees of the Indiana Stats Univer sity have elected Professor David S. Jor dan, professor of natural sciences, to the presidency of that institution, Tie Rer. Lemuel Megs, resigned. A Sault St. Marie dispatch of th 19th states that a fire broke out in th Quarter master's store rooms at Fort Brady ths other night, destroying all th clothing, garrison, stores, camp equipage, etc. Loss to ths Government $10,000. A soldier named Griffin was asleep there at the time and was dragged out by comrades when nearly dead. A New Orleans dispatch says th British steamer Victoria, from Galveston, collided on the 10th near that city with the steam boat Frederick A. Blanks, making excur sion trips to the Exposition. The Blanks sank in a few minutes. The passengers and crew were all saved. The Blanks was valued at $100,000. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The English document recognizing the In ternational Congo Association was signed and sealed at Berlin on th 17th. An investigation by direr below the water lino reveals ths fact that th London Bridge sustained more Injury by th dyna mite explosion on the 18th than was atflrst reported. A diver found in th stone of the second arch fissures an inch wide bo ginnibg at a point six feet under water and extending clear to the foundation. The mails passing between Kamloops and Victoria, B. C, have recently been ' robbed of $9,000 by unknown parties. Th post master at Kamloops loses $500. A Hanoi dispatch received at Paris on th 17th states that 3,000 Chines troops made a desperate attempt to capture Cbu, but after sever fighting were completely routed by the French garrison occupying the place. The Chinese loss Is put at 800 killed, and the French at thirty -four killed and wounded. Two shops of th Hoyle-Jones Manufac turing Company, at Martin's Ferry, Ohio, manufacturers of threshers and agricul tural Implements, were entirely destroyed on the 10th by an incendiary fir. Loss, $10,000; insurance light A Vienna dispatch say that Lucas Jauner, the defaulting and - absconding director of the securities department of the Lower Austrian Discount Bank, committed suicide in a churchyard near that city on the 1Mb. Only twenty-four florins were found on his body. He bad been connected with the bank for twenty-eight years. A motion to abolish the French embassy at the Vatican was rejected in th French Chamber of Deputies on th 19th by a vote of 293 to 108. In th cours of th debate Prim Minister Ferry took occasion to speak In ahlghly eulogistic manner of ?op Leo XIII's enlightened and conciliatory attitude. An attempt was recently made by Nihil ists to wreck the railroad train convoying the Czar to St. Petersburg. Three men bailing from America wen arrested recently at Mayence, Germany, with boxes of dynamite In their possession. England has failed to secure th exclu sion of spirituuos liquors from ths Congo and Niger basins. The Conference Com mute, however, have agreed upon a clause advising ths powers to limit the sal of liquor in those regions owing to tho bad results observable from the traffic, in ths past. - I-ATEIX NEWS, Uiil of tbo immense hotels being built tear the Exposition building, at New Or leans fell ou the 21st. Frank Green was tilled and two other fntullv wounded. The men were bracing the buililiug up, a it was thought to lie unsafe. Eleven nun were proboMy fatally burned and four others injured by the ex plosion of ens in a lnnip-bli.ck fnctcrv near Worthington, Armstrong t'ountv, ('a,, on the Kith. The lioiler was thrown fifty feet and the factory totally wrecked. : Six masked men burst in the door of H. Workeuour's homo, a short distance from Wheeling, W. Va.. on the morning of th 21st, and after binding Mr. end Mrs. ft'orkenour and their son, they ransacked the house and found g-l.lKtfj in a trunk, th tavlncs of a life-time. After entiiur break fast ill the presence of the hnpless victims, they coolly departed with the money. When the alarm was giveu it was too iat to trace the thieves. Thc wills of Willard Whistler and David C. Ralston, who died on the Oreely expe dition, hove been admitted to probnte in the court at Washington, and letters teatamimtarr were issued to Lieutenant A. W. Ureely on the estiito nf the first limned, with a bond of $'..""", end to Hereant D. U llrninard ou the estate of the latter, bond $14,000. Til- Georgia Legislature adjourned on the 20th to the second Wednesday in July, The general Local , Option Mil was post nnmd until the summer session. An ap propriation of IW.OtlO a year was voted for the new Capitol, and the work will pro ceed steadily. Till statement of the New York asso ciated banks for week ended December 20 show the following changes: Loan In crease, $4.11lM)"0; specie increase, $Ni,fl(; leuol tenders decrease, $ l,.VI,tltlil; deposits increase, 4-4,4!l,MHJ; circulation increase, j:iimh. reservn decrease. M.M 15.110. The I amount held by the bonks in excess of legal requirements was iu,uoo,uw. . At Chicago on the 21st Policeman Mach- owskt being Informed that his wife, who was ill. could not recover, went out and allied himself. His wife expired a fw minutes later. BT th collision of two freight trains on th Pan Handle road, near Dayton, Ohio, on the 21st, eight trainmen were more or less seriously injured and a number of cart badly wreckea. Tns dead-lock between the flcnat and House of lleprosniitatlves remained un broken at adjournment on the aith. Th Rnnai- Insists noon t'oiiHlderlnir the detailed appropriation bill prepared by the House last session and amended by tho Nmnle, while the House Insists upon tho piixo of a bill appropriating a lump sum lor the naval service lor the Imlnncn of the fiscal year, oa the basis or the Inst appropr atlon. Pending ao agreement on this question the House resolution providing for a holiday re cess uulll January 6 was held by th Senate without action, and th Senate adjourned until the KM. ...The House confoioiico conferees reported that they had been unable to avreo on any of the pi n vis- Ions of the Dili wnn inn penato committee, Mr. Kundall then offered a rcooliitlonexteud. ins; the provisions of tho present act pro rula for thlt i) one clays In January, which was adop'.eu. iue xiuus aujuumuv uuui uicosia. ORPHAN ASYLUM FIRE. Thf Charred Remain, of Thirteen Per . son. Hare Been Taken From the Euins. Of the 980 Boys In the Building at the Time r the Fir 658 Only Ar Accounted For IDS Ar Still MUslufc A TEHRIBLK SCENIC Brooklyn, N. Y., December 19.- -About three o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out In the drying room hi the build ing adjoining the right wing on the) south ern end of the Catholic Male Orphan Asylum at the corner of St. Mark's end Albany Avenues, and was quickly commu nicated to the main building, structure 210x150 feet, which was almost entirely destroyed. The part in which the fire originated contained the boilers,, beating appliances, etc, nnl an the third-floor was the dormitory in which were sixty of the orphan inmates of the asylum, whose age ranged from six to ten years. They were Buffering from various complaints end whether or not all were rescued cannot be known until the children, who are scattered about the neighborhood, are counted. The Impression now prevails that some of them have been burned to death. Sinter Josephine, who was In the dormi tory when the fire broke out, made herote effort to get the firlglitcned children out of the building and by so doing sacrificed her life. She remained In the room until the flames hid nearly surrounded her, when she ran to a window and climbed out upon cornice. Meanwhile the firemen had entered an other part of the building and began pour ing wilier upon the flumes. Foremnn Me Groarty, of Engine Company No. 4, saw Sister Josephine, and being unable to reach her with bis hands, extended his coat to her from a window In the wing. She caught It and loosening her hold on tlje cornice swung toward McGroarty. The coat slipped from ln-r grasp and she fell to the ground, strik ing upon her shoulder and head, and was conveyed In an unconscious state to St Catharine's Hospital, Joseph Ryan, a boy who was a pon the tame floor, attempted to descend by the lad der. When within ten fret of the ground, the ladtler broke, and he was severely In jured by falling. John McC.rath, eight year old, jumped from one of the third story wlmiows and wss also badly hurt. Sister I)e Chanlel, the Mother Superior, was in her ofliee when the alarm was given. She quickly dispatched her assistants to various pirts of the building and not i fled the fire department. There were 783 or phans In the institution, and the greatest excitement prevailed ntnoiig them. Th Sisters made every effort to get the children out of the building as quickly as possible, directing them to go to any l.ouse in the neighborhood and remain until called for. Hundreds of the little fellows ran out Into the storm screaming and crying, molt of them being without coats or lists. There were about thirty Sisters In the asylum, neatly all of whom went out with the throng of boys, but It was liniosilbI to keep the children together. About 100 took refuge In the Iivrgcn Street lUllwsy car stables, and nearly every house, stor end saloon In the vicinity was Oiled with them. Edward Hasslutt, the City Supervisor of nydrnnts, who was passing the asylum at the time the fire broke out, together witn several others who were in the vicinity. In cluding a llergen Street ear conductor who left his car for the purpose, rendered valu able assistance in rescuing the inmates from the burning building. Mr. Hasslutt is of the opinion that the (lie could hat been checked hail the fire department been more prompt in reselling the scene. It being fully twenty minutes sfter the alarm was given before the second engine came. Geonre Irish, twenty-two years of age, a truckman, living near the asylum, ran to the building when the fire was dicovred and procuring a ladder placed it to one of the second story windows. He mounted the ladder and handed down seven boys, when bystanders seeing his danger shouted to him to come down. The flames were then bursting out of the windows beneath him and it was with great difficulty that Irish reached th ground, his clothing being nearly burned from his body and his hinds and face burned and blistered, from other windows In various part of the building little boys were being taken out or brave men, while m my little fellows disregarding the commands or thir rescuers to remain wher they were for a moment longer, threw themselves headlonK to th ground. The most ot them sustained little or no In jury. (Several people wno waicnea tne progress of the flames, sy they are certain thai all ot the boys did nut get out of the burning building, and are also sure that they saw a woman who attempted to reach window (all buck Into the llauics. By the time the firemen reached the burning structure it was apparent that the building could not be ssved, and they con' fined all their energies to rescuing the In mates while the lire was having full sway, bister Anthony, through whose efforts at least one hundred boy wer enabled to escape, was badly burned about th face ami hands. One of the boys who escaped from the building said the lire was caused by one of the orphans going into the drying room witn a u.nted rannie, wmcn acci dently touched some clothes hanging upon a Hue. In an iustant the lire blazed up and the boys ran out as fast as possible. Two firemen were severely Injured by fall ing from ladders, one being knocked down by a piece ot cornice which fell from tb roof. At one time It was thought that the front pert ot the building might be saved, but at eight o'clock at night tho flames had reached 'the cupola and the tall, ' guilt cross surmounting it A their supports weakened, they swayed to and fro for a short time and then came down with a crash. The scenes In the neighborhood of the burning building were heartrending. Men and women, crying aloud, were running In every direction anx Ions for the safety of relatives. Yesterday was "visitors' day" at the asylum, and number of ladies were In the bulldlsg when the fire broke out. At midnight the fire was still burning nd the entire asylum was In ruins. A por tion of It would have been saved but for the Insufficient water supply, there not being enough force to throw the water to the top nf the bullillnir. Sister Josephine died In the hospital at lx o'clock last evening and it Is believed that three others have lost their lives, it can't yet be . ascertained whether - all the children were gut out of the building, but It Is thought that all escaped. Judge Andrew Walsh, the treasurer of the asv urn. says the total loss on me diiiiu Ing, I m ulture and appurtenance I 1500, 000 and the Insurance 9300,000. Th struct ure was begun In lS88and finished In 1870. The fire was still burning at two o'cleck. TUB LATEST DETAILS. BnoOKLXN, N. Y., recomber 19. The blackened walls and smouldering ruins were all that remained this morning of th h mdsome structure known as St. John's Home, or Male Catholic Orphan Asylum, Notwithstanding the severity of the weather groups of spectators gathered about th place and watched the firemen in their work among the ruins, searching for the bodies of the victims. Last night Sister Superior Da .Chaute.1 said; "1 think they got out all the children; end Indeed, I hope so." But the Sister was not In a position to speak positively, for when the lire broke out she was In the oir.ee In the main part of the building, and that was almost a block from the lire. Those who were on the outside of the building and were first to assist In help Ing some of the little one to escape, as serted that there were many lives lost They said they could see children In the rooms on the third floor over the laundry, where the smoke and flames had made their wav to It and they knew that nil avenues of escape had been cut off. Now the as- sertions ot these people are found to be correct for as soon as the fire among the ruins had been inlllclently subdued for the police and liretneu to work, they began a search for the bodies, and were not long In, coming upon the charred remains of a little group of four, who were huddled: together before their cries for help had been stilled. In the dormitory directly over the laun dry were sixty boys who had been sick and probably thirty who were too ill to lenv their beds. Sister Anthony went to them and carried out all she could, but as far as, can be learned, she Imd very little help and It seemed only a few moments when it be came access try for all tliose who were in that part of the building to seek a place of safety. Sister Josephine remnined so long In the dormitory that all avenues of escape were cut oir. There were also others about her at the time and it Is evident she hesitated to leave them. Some she had watched and nursed upon their sick beds. When the flames and smoke were sweeping about her she climbed nut upon the cornice and her black dress looked as If it would Ignite from the flames which were sweeping about her. Tho crowd below appeared paralyzed and could not see how It was possible for her to escape death. Fireman X. C. Greeulty aV J reared at a window on the right wing, ten feet distant, and threw his coat for her grasp. A shout went up from the specta tors for they supposed she would be saved. But her grasp slipped and she came down upon her head and shoulders. She died shortly after being removed to the hospital. At half past eight o'clock three more bodies were discovered near where the passage to the main building was located. Some of th bodies appeared to be those of adults. The police, llremen snd others continued their search and shortly after nine o'clock they discovered two more bodies. They were all burned to a crisp, and their potaMIe Identity destroyed. It all thou who escaped from the building were together, some definite Idea could be i formed of huw many perished, but the ! little ftdlows were scattered all over the city. The police of the Tenth pre cinct picked up about twenty. Some were found by the police of the Fourth precinct wandering on Myrtle Avenue at nine o'clock at night and nearly frozen. Sixteen were picked up by the police of the Ninth precinct, which Is about mile from the institution. 1 hey wer underiiig about the streets, shivering In the cold. Citizens, who hav sympathized with the poor unfortunates have taken them In, and it will pnib.ibly be a day or two before they are all gathered again. Fireman Mathews, who was Injured, Is slowly recovering. Great sympathy Is ex pressed on all sides for the orphans and the Si.tte.rs, and the special appeals which will be msile during the Christina week in their behalf will, no doubt, meet with a warm re sponse. AKOTIIV.lt ACCOUNT. Brooklyn, N. Y., December 191 a. c Firemen were at work all night at th ruins nf Ihe St. John's Asylum, and at elKht o'clock, while dlcging In the masonry and debris under the laundry and Infirmary they discovered a lot of charred bones and two headless trunks, also th sknu ana bones of an adult These were put into a blanket and taken into the store-room ot the niiburned part of the building, wher they were sorted and found to represent the bodies of eight children and one adult There are supposed to be more bodies buried under the ashes nf the infirmary, lauudry, bake-house and wash-house, where the fire broke out, and firemen ar now at work throwing water on the hot masonry to expedite their work, and as soon as practicable will ben In the task ot recovering such other bodies that may be ther. Inqulrlei being made as to the adult whose remains were found, it was learned that two ladies, Mrs. McCarrcn snd Mrs. Halligan, whose ad dresses are unknown were, at the time the fire hr ke out visiting the Institution and wrre In the section of the building where the lire commenced. But oue of them is supposed to be burned. Theie were 780 boys in the asylum, 0.11 of whom so far are accounted for. This leaves 149 to be found. The police are looking for the boys, and up to noon to-day but seventeen have been found. The sur vivors will be sent to St Joseph's Home for a Iris, and the girls will be removed from that institution to St Paul's Horn until steiis are taken to provide snother home for the unfortunate boys. Coroner Hess has taken charge of the bodies found. and will await further developments. TUB LATEST. The search-for bodies smong the rntns ol the burned St John's Orphan Asylum ll still being pushed vigorously despite the In tensely cold weather which necessitated frequent changes of the men enitaged in the work. A portion nf the building was saved anil Ihe loss will not be as heavy as first re norted. The loss of life, however, I larger than was supposed by thoso connected with the Institution. Up to six o'clock last nliiht the bones and mutilated remains of 18 per sons had been taken out This rnlses the totsl number of lives lost, s far as known, to fifteen. There are yet Vii boys not accounted for, but It is believed that nearly all of them have wandered away from the neighborhood and ar safe. Nearly all of the bodies found were In that part of the building in which the dormitory was situa ted, snd as at least thirty of ,lta occupant were too ill to leave their beds, II proba ble that others will be discovered. The re mains were all taken to the sewing room In that part of the building saved, where they now lie. Coroner Hesa Impaneled a jury but adjourned the Inquest until Unlay. Some of the trustees of the asylum vis ited the building Inst evening to learn how many bodies hail been recovered. Some of the men had stited that thirteen bodies had been taken out and placed In the sewing room, but the trustees In looking over th charred remains which had beeu gathered, found that there were oifly ten. It has been ascertained that th body of the woman found smong th ruin Is that of Mrs. Mary McCarron who was visiting her son at the asylum. The trustees of th asylum are In receipt of numerous offers of buildlne In which to quarter the orphsns and It is likely thai thf asylum will shortly b rebuilt NICARAGUAN TREATY. Fall Text of ths Propose Treaty Ths Canal ts be the Common Property ( Doth Oovernmants Can be Completed In Five Years at a Cost or H0,0O0,O0O.' New Yoiik, December 10. The Trlbunt publishes the full text of the proposed Nicaraguan treaty, together with President Arthur's message In transmitting it to th Senate for consideration, h which he points out the necessity lor , slim. er water com munication between our eastern and west-' era coasts than that offered by the passag around the Horn, end points out the ad vantages of the Nlcaraguan route. Tho treaty provides that the canal shall be built by the United States and owned by them end the republic of Nicaragua. There shall be perpetual alliance between the Unltett : States and Nicaragua and the former ngreo to protect the Integrity ot the latter' ter ritory. , The canal follows the most available, route to be selected by the United States,) Nicaragua giving the free nse of all landsjj waters and places wlihln. her borders r quired for the construction and maintenance! ot the canal, and of a railway and telegraph) line, which the United Stales may bull substantially parallel to the can il. A strip- -nf territory two and one-half English mllesl In width, Its centre to coincide with tliaj centre of the canal, shall be set aside for the work snd owned by the two constructing f artles under Nlcaraguan civil Jurisdiction.! It will be observed that the synopsis of the treaty recently published erred In sta ting that any laud was to b ceded to th United States. No customs or other due shall be levied by Nicaragua upon any yea sels passing through the canal. i The canal Is to be constructed wholly at the expense of the United States. Tb management shall be entrusted to a ' board! of six members, three appointed by eacb Government, the chairman to be one of th appointees of the United States snd to hav power In case of a tie on any question. Th lolls fixed by the board must affect vessels, ot all nations equally, except that vessel entirely owned and commanded by citizen of the contracting Governments, and en gaged In coast trade, may be favored. Kevenues from the canal, railway and tele graph lines shall be applied first t the m iinteiiauce of the works, th balance to go, one-third to Nicaragua and two-thirds to the United States. Th United States disavow any Intention to In jure their sovereignty. On the Contrary, they desire to strengthen tho free republic on this continent and will aid by their good offices, If desired, In securing ths union of the five Central American repub lics under one representative Government. Th United States further agree to lend to Nicaragua $4,000,000 with which to extend Its railway and telegraph lines and Improve th navigation ot the Klver San Jnanj which enterprises will be of aid to th canal. This money shall be repaid out of Nlcar agua's share of the canal tolls, and until s repaid the United Stales shall collect thq entire revenue of the canal. The treaty i signed by Mr. Ftellnulmysen, for the United States, and Si. nor Zavala, for Nicaragua. Signnr Zavala, In an interview last night, named the following advantages presented by the Nlcaraguan over the Panama route: The cllmat is healthy and temperate. Th length of the canal will be 145 miles as against forty-seven vli the Isthmus, but Lake Nicaragua will form ISO miles of th route, leaving only twenty-five miles of canal proier. The cost need not exceed (50,000,000 and the work be completed la flv year. London Bride Disaster. London, December IS. An examina tion of London Bridge by divers below th . low water line reveals the fact that th bridge sustained more Injury by th explo sion of Saturday last than was at first re ported. A diver yesterday morning found In the stone of the second arch fissure an Inch wide beginning at point six feet under water and extending clear to th foundation. The diver thinks, from appearances, that the explosion took place several feet below the water line and that the force ot th dynamite was exerted downward. Some of the fissures are several Inches wide, and th massive block of tlmlwr bo I tod Into th masonary era b idly shattered. The mud v dines of the water made a thorough ex ploration impossible, and another descent will be mail In which an electric light will b used. The diver reports that it will b Imperatively neccessary to construct a cof. fer-datu around the pier and to repair thf breaks In the masonary or the eurrent ot the river wilt gradually widen the cracks and finally dislodge the stones and weake th bridge. Disastrous Cave-In. Wilkepbarhf., Vt., D eembeT 19. A disastrous enve-in took place at ths Lnne colliery of th Philadelphia and Reading Coal Company at Plymouth,' near her, Wednesday morning. The ground for a area of about eight acres settled down from two to five feet The rave was accom panied by a cnu-h that was heard for miles, and the ground was covered with fissure and gaping cracks from six Inches to tw feet wide. The house of Walter W. Lanca, paymaster of th Plymouth Company, was wrecked, the walls being split ud cracked In every direction. The houses occupied by Patrick1 Trainer, Thomas Collins, Wm. Nolan and Joseph Buvcliam wore also de stroyed. .' When the shock came many of th In mates were still In bed, and they rtihed In U-iror from their trembling dwellings out upon the snow-covered ground in their night clothes. The colliery also sustained considerable damage, tle second shaft being choked wiih debris, and the engine snd fan houses were much cracked and Injured. The cave In was caused by the falling of tit roofs of abandoned seams about liO feet be low the surface. Died Under Peculiar Circumstance. New Hav-x, December 19. Wllllsm A. Kane, formerly an employ of the Nauga luck llallroad Company, bas Just died under peculiar clronmstanoe. Some weeks ago passenger train on th Nsogatuck Mad was derailed by an open switch and travel was Interrupted for three hours. Th fault wa that of Kan, whe was discharged with the mild reprimand from Superintend ent Beach, you outht to be more careful. The word haunted Kan and continually -rang In lit ears, and to mak mutters worn th enmloves of the road began to pester I him with the remark, "You ought to b mor careful." . Oue day at dinner li drcp ' ped and broke a rup, and without thinking toonenu mm ins wne sain, "Willis, jo ought to be more careful," whereupon h sprang upon her and gave her a savag beating. From that lime until he died h was a raving maniac, tending switches, , twisting brakes and waving frantic signal, nd for the last few day of bis life th const int attendance ot thre tueo was nec essary to restrain him. Th reduction In window gjaa workv wages at Pittsburgh Is denied.