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VOL. VL
A BLOOD! PAGE.
edof Almosi Unparalleled Horror
ilrraukee.
A CRAZED WIFE AND MOTHEF,
Children
agnients*
JIXU GHASTLY SIGHT.
tioual Particulars of the Wreck of
the Steamer Cimbria.
V OF THE SULTAN'S CAPTAIN
Relieving Himself and Crew From All
Blame in the Matter.
VIRGINIA'S LAST CONTRIBUTION.
Three Railway Trains Fall Over a
Trestle a Hundred Feet.
FIFTEEN TRAIN HANDS KILLED
\ Long Record of Other Casualties and
Crimes.
A Horrible Crime.
Milwaukee, Jan. 23.—A terrible crime
wa3 discovered at noon to-day. The wife
of John Zembrick, a laborer, living on
Sixth street, killed her three children, the
oldest seven years, the youngest eighteen
months, in the most brutal manner, liter
ally cutting them to pieces and completely
disemboweling them. The neighbors'^at
tention was attracted to the scene by the
woman's attempt fo hang herself in an
outhouse. They cut her down and took
her inside, when a horrible spectacle was
discovered. Mrs. Zembrick was at once
I cd. She took the arrest very calmly,
stating she had read to sacrifice her chil
dren °iv the good book. The woman is
doubtless suffering from religious insan
ity.
The name of the Bohemian woman who
:hree young children this
fort-noon in a horrible manner is not Zem
brick. but Zempirck. She is the wife of a
machinist, twenty-three years old, married
about five years, and came to this country
a little over two years ago. Tho children,
all three girls, were four years, twenty
months, and four months old respectively.
When a repoiter reached the dingy apart
ment where the deed was committed he
beheld a terrible Bight. Left of the door
stood a large, low bed. and on the scanty,
dirty bed clothes lay the prostrate forms
of the three girls, the oldest apparently
four or five years of age, the youngest a
babe of only a few months. They were a
ghastly group. The little bodies were
nude and cut up in a terrible manner. The
oldest girl had a large number of gashes
made with a butcher knife all over
her little body. The arms of the
second girl were cut off near
the shoulders, the lower extremities hung
to the body by thin shreds of flesh, and the
little body was completely disemboweled.
The small body of the babe was cut into
six pieces, the head and extremities being
completely severed from the body. Near
the foot of the bed a young woman, only
partially dressed, with dishevelled hair,
crouched on the floor, held down by strong
men. Upon the table near by were the
remnants of a frugal breakfast,
and carelessly thrust among the cups and
saucers lay an ugly looking butcher knife,
blood dripping from its blade, and a
cooper's knife or scraper, with two han
dle?, also smeared all over with blood.
The woman had been caught in the act; of
hanging herself to the knob of the door
leading to an adjoining room, and at the
same time the lifeless and bleeding forms
of the children were discovered on the
bed. The butchery was hoarible. Blood
dripped from the bed onto the uncarpeted
tloor, forming a large pool. xne
tvhole surroundings were exceedingly
squalid. The bare floor looked as if it
bad not seen a cleaning brush for months
rhe plaster on the walls was cracked and
had fallen in patches on the lloor, where
Lt had been trodden under the feet of the
inmates. Close to the door opposite the
bed an empty cradle with a few
dirty covers laid over in a careless man
ner. East of the empty cradle stood a
cooking range which, with the table and a
few chairs, denoted that the room served
as a kitchen, sleeping and sitting room.
From this room a door, standing ajar, led
into a front room whose
furniture consisted of a rickety table, four
cane-bottomed chairs, the white washed
walls adorned with a few cheap imprints
of Catholic saints. Poverty and unclean
ness alike gave the rooms a dreary look,
which was not improved by the bitter cold
atmosphere. The young woman held down
was the murderess. Her hands were
smeared with blood, and the front of her
dress was dyed in gore. A Satanic
smile played about her mouth, and her
whole appearance was that of an insane
person. She was fair haired, yonng, and
her featurers were not bad. She is about five
feet three inches high. Over her head was
a bed quilt, and when she had been placed
before the fire in the police station she told
part of her story in broken German.
When asked how she murdered the chil
dren, she said she stabbed one in the breast
and another in the shoulder. They cried
but little, as she made quick
work of the butchery. She
smiled as eho pronounced the
last words. The woman used a draw-shave
and two small carving knives. With the
former she shaved the flesh off the chil-
dren's bodies ana witn me latter stabbed
and disemboweled them. While their
bodies were shockingly mutilated, their
heads were untouched. When asked what
had caused her to do the fearful deed, she
replied, '"I read it in the book." Her in
sanity is of a religious form, and she
thinks she has made a great sacrifice
She kept smoothing back her hai.
with her bloody hands, looker
at the crimson stains and smiled. Her
eyes had a wild look, a sight so terrible
that the officers turned away, sick at heart.
Hacked, and cut, and stabbed, and chopped,
legs and arms horribly severed from the
body, is the butchery described in the
shortest way.
The hutband stated that ever since their
arrival in this country they had trouble,
as there has been considerable sickness
among the children. In answer to a ques
tion as to whether or not his
■wife had ever shown any signs of insanity
previous to this morning, he replied that
she had not, but then recollected that about
Christmas time she had read something in
a paper that it seemed had a great effect
on her. Since then she has spent whole
days looking at a small prayer book in
ap, cooking no food and not even
heating the room. She is doubtless insane,
worrying because the sickness of the
children prevented her from attending
church.
The (imf-yin
Hahbubg, Jan. 2,). —According to the
ent of another survivor of the disas
ter to tho steamship Citiibria, as late as '2
o'clock Friday morning, C;i;>i. Hanson re
ceived a report that the Cimbria's lights
were nil burning properly. The breach
mule by the collision was so great that
the Cimbra immediately lay right over
with a portion of her deck under water.
The thirty-nine persons brought into Cux
Haven proved to be occupants of two
boats. The other seventeen persons saved
were brought in by the Thetn.
No more persons landed from the Cim
bria. Sailing vessels passing westward
may have picked up some. The four
steamers have not yet returned.
London, Jan. 23. —Proofs of Hamburg
papers received here show the Cimbria
was struck forty feet from her bow. After
making the breach the Sultan scraped
along the Cimbria and completely rolled I
up her iron plates. It is evident that the •
blow must have been a tremendous one. j
The papers also print a brief report of j
what has transpired of the statement made |
by the captain of the Sultan before the 5
British consul giving that part laying j
the blame on the Cimbria in large
type with notes of exclamation. One of
the boats rescued by the Theta contained
thirty persons, the other only nine. The
latter had been tossing about nine hours,
and was waterlogged. All the occupants
could do was to keep themselves from be
ing washed away by grasping the thwarts.
The statement concerning the death of
Captain Hanson, who was seen on the
bridge to the last, and of the first officer,
who was seen swimming after the Cimbria
had sunk, concludes with the words:
"Treu bis zuin tode" (faithful unto death.)
THE SULTAN'S COUESE.
Hambueg, Jan. '23. —The most searching
official inspection of the steamer Sultan j
shows the damage far more serious than at
first believed. According to the testimony
of competent seafaring people, the crew
of the Sultan displayed marvelous clever
ness and rapidity in stopping the leak, and
it is scarcely conceivable how the vessel
ever reached Hamburg. Besides the
smashed bow and holes in both sides, her
keel for twelve or fifteen feet was com- I
pletely split. The Hamburg Nachrichten
says the captain of the Sultan, in an official
statement, says before the fog set in he
had been going nine knots an hour,
and during the fog reduced his
speed to four knots, the lowest rate of
speed consistent with keeping the steering
way on the vessel. He neither heard nor
saw any kind of signals nntil suddenly, at
a distance of a little more than two ships'
lengths,the Cimbria's green light appeared.
He immediately, in accordance with the
rules of the road, endeavored to give way.
He thought he should be able to get clear,
when some incorrect steering ocenrred
aboard the Cimbria, and suddenly he saw
the red light of anether steamer. It should
be remarked here that probably the Cim
bria's red light was displayed by the altera
tion of her course. Almost simultaneously
with the appearance of the red light he
felt the shock. During the time the leak
in his vessel was repairing, he constantly
gave signals by blue lights and blowing
the steam whistle. When the repairs had
been effected he approached as nearly to
the scene of the collision as he could with
out endangering his own vessel. Owing
to the dense fog he saw nothing. He
waited about until 8 o'clock Friday morn
ing. As proof of the correctness of his
statement he points to the lateness of the
time at which he arrived at Cux
Haven. It is considered a great
point in the official investi
gation will be to prove the accuracy of
this statement according to the statement
of persons intimately acquainted with the
captain of the Sultan. Both he and his
first officer are thoroughly competent and
careful sailors, and specially noted for
the maintenance or strict discipline.
NIL DESFEKANDUII.
Two sisters among the passenger rescued
have written to relatives in a village near
Berlin, lamenting that they lost every
thing, even to their shoes, but in spite of
their sufferings, they add they mean to try
their luck in the next vessel and hope soon
to be able to send their photographs from
Omaha.
The following dispatch was received this
afternoon at the office of the company: All
steamers sent out in search of the Cimbria's
boats have returned. They report no trace
of survivors.
New Yobk, Jan. 23. —There were many
inquiries to-day at the offices of the agents
of the lost steamer "Cimbria" after rela
tives supposed to be on board. A woman
who did not give her name called to ask
about a man named Compoles. She was
told he was among the saved. A member
of the firm of Rahe <fc Co., general provis
ion merchants of this city, says they had a
dispatch from Hamburg that their agent
Alfred Forgl, a first cabin passenger, was
saved. Charles Strauss, also of this city,
has a dispatch from Darmstadt in
answer to his inquiry stating
that Maurice Strauss did sail on the Cim
bria. Hermann Graff, a shoemaker of
Brooklyn, inquired for his sister-in-law,
Coroline Schuldt. aged fifty, who was on
the lost vessel, with three children on her
way to Buffalo. No information can be
given him. Max Newman, also of Buf
salo, inquired for Clara Belin, his sister-in
law, who had been on a visit
to Germany and was expected to sail in
the Cimbria. Nothing is yet known about
her. Mrs. Irene Meyer, of thi3 city, in-
quired for Meta Meyer, her sister-in-law.
She Relieves that Martha Meyer, in the list
of the drowned, is her relative, but as it
was learned that the latter would come
from Bremen it was thought hardly possi
ble that -«l:e would sail from Hamburg.
The sister-in-law of Oscar Ette called to
state that her brother expected to remain
in -Germany until spring, and Bhfl thinks
the person reported as lost must have been
an other of the same name.
Several persons were killed by the col
lision itself owing to the flying about of
splinters and planks. A passenger in the
shrouds begged his neighbor to push
him into the sea, he being too much chilled
to move himself. They refused, when he
let himself fall into the waves. An elder
ly woman holding a babe in her cramped
hands and singing loudly, funeral hymns,
was washed away from the
deck. Two girls belonging to
the Suabian Singing troupe having se
cured life belts, swam about frantically
Daily
calling "help! help! save us!'' The peo
ple in the ringing replied, "come to the
rigging; we cannot move." The girls,
half-benumbed and no longer able to
swim, cried out for the last time, '"we can
not come,"' and disappeared beneath the
waves. •
Hahbcbq, Jan. 23. —Tweuty-Cve thou
sand pounds is demanded as the surety for
the steamer Sultan. The national courts
have taken the case m hand. Another
passenger was seen to cut his throat when
the Cimbria was sinking. The German
press combined to violently attack the
Captain of the Sultan for deserting the
Cimbria.
The terror on board was indescribable.
A married couple cut their own throats, in
order that they might die together. The
ship's surgeon encouraged those in the
rigging to hold fast, telling them the
Sultan would soon rescue them, but several
became delirious and let go their hold.
The surgeon subsequently leaped into the
sea, saying ho would limake an end of it.'
Anotlter Train llerror.
Kbyseb, W. Va.. Jan. 23.—One of the
most terrible and fatal railroad accidents
that ever occurred in this part of the coun
try happened on the George's Creek it
Cumberland Valley railroad, running from
Cumberland to Lonaconing to-day. It
seems that three coal trains, consisting of
three locomotives, fifty-two hoppers and
seventeen gondolas, all loaded, started
from Cumberland about 2 o'clock this
afternoon, all coupled together, one en
gine in front, another in
the middle and one in the rear,
this being the safest way to get
down grades this bad weather. In going
down one of the steep grades, about ten
miles from Cumberland, the train started
down the steep incline at a fearful rate of
speed. The train kept the track until they
got to a trestle work having a reverse
curve. The front engine flew the track,
dragging all the men, sixty-nine cars and
locomotives after it, all going rolling and
tumbling down a steep hill, which was be
tween 80 and 100 feet high, onto the
tracks of the Renbart branch of
the Cumberland & Pennsylvania railroad.
The loss of life is fearful, seven dead
bodies being found mid the wreck, and
more were missing. Each train consisted
of a conductor and brakeman. fireman and
engineer, in all fifteen human beings, not
one of which can be found alive to tell the
tale. It is supposed the other bodies are
either among the wreck or have jumped to
save their lives and are lying down
the mountain somewhere, either j
dead or badly hurt; and if
exposed to a night like this will surely j
freeze to death. So far we are unable to
give the names of the killed. The loss
will fall heavily on this road, it being re
cently bnilt.
Cumbebland, Md., Jan. 23.—About 2
o'clock this afternoon a wheel broke under
the car of a coal train on the George's
Creek & Cumberland voad, near Pompeii
Smash, seven miles west of this city, throw
ing about sixty loaded cars and two
locomotives down the embankment.
Harry Baldwin, fireman, and William
Lyons and James McGettigen, brakemen,
were killed, and Martin Welsh, engineer,
died soon after from injuries. Daniel
Bradley, fireman; Jas. Dolen, engineer, and
George Focken and Solomon Gross, brake
men, were injured. All the killed and in
jured resided in Cumberland. The body
of Baldwin has not yet been recovered
from the wreck, which is of such extent as
to block the road for several days. The
loss to the railroad company can not now
be estimated.
The XewJiall Inquest.
Milwaukee. Jan. 23.—The inquest in
the Newhall house case commenced this
forenoon. The first testimony read was
that of Bleeker, manager of the Tom
Thumb company, who escaped from the
burning building. He had sent in a writ
ten deposition which, however, threw no
light upon the cause of the fire or condi
tion of the building. Landlord Antisdel is
now on the stand. He can give no
explanation of the cause but
that the fire was the work
of an incendiary. When aroused the fire
had got such headway that all .he could do
was to save himself and family. When
the latter was safe he wanted to return I
into the building, but was prevented by J
his sons. He noticed a very strong smell
Of gas, and unbearable heat. This leads
him to believe that somebody who set the
fire had turned on the gas, and that an ex
plosion of the latter spread the fire with
lightning rapidity through all parts of the
building.
Landlord Antisdel's statement at the
coroner's inquest, on the Newhall house
disaster, contains the following main
points: When he went to bed on the night
of the fire there were about forty guests
in the house. Two pages of the register
•were filled. I retired at 10:30. We had
in the house probably fifty or more female
employes. Our clerk, his son, or Mr. Tice
always paid the help. They slept on the
fifth floor on the west side on the alley
way. There was a door across the servants'
hallway at the south end. It was
kept locked until the elevator fire of March
4,1874. The door was thin, and could be
pushed down by any girl. On Dec. 1
there were all told eighty-one employes,
but business had been light and many had
been dismissed. There were thirty males.
Most of them slept at home. We had one
night clerk, Tom Delany, and one night
watchman, McKenzie. The latter's duties
were to make the rounds through the
halls and see that everything was right. He
was supposed to go through the house
every hour and oftener. When late trains
came in he took care of the baggage and
occasionally took a man up in the elevator.
He was night porter and bootblack, but
while occupied at the latter De
lany made the rounds. The watch
man carried no stop watch or
clock. There never was an alarm bell on
the premises. There was no fuel m the
room near the elevator. He discovered ;
rubbish in the room back of the elevator j
and had it removed through Mr. Nash, and i
the room locked. The elevator was in- j
closed in pine lumber and had not shrunk j
apart. There was no grease at the bottom j
of the elevator. The open court was not j
used for storage. A person coming in on \
Broadway could go down into the basement j
at any time. The Michigan street tenants i
on the ground floor leased from C. D. !
Nash. There was not a particle of fire in {
the basement except in the engine room, j
There was a fire plug in the latter room, j
Most of the stores and offices on the ground j
floor and the hotel were heated by steam i
from the hotel boilers. George Scheller
had charge of the bar and billiard room
since it was fixed over a year ago last May. j
< A person could, from Michigan street, go I
into the bar room and billiard hall, and j
j down in the basement to the foot of the j
•levator. The fire escapes were the same
ST. PAUL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1883.
as at the Plankinton house. There were
no signs or indicators to show where
the fire escapes were located. The house
had been afire since he had been there up
wards of thirty times. Autisdel said any
part of the house that he had charge of
could not have produced such a fire un
| aided. The occupants of the fifth floor
i were nearly all lost because the hot air and
smoke poured up as if ?hot out of a gun
and they were strangled. Could not tell
whether the occupants on this floor
lived until the floor burned under them
or not, as two of the girls were taken
out in a helpless condition and could not
tell how many girls had been saved, as the
head 3of the different departments hired
their own help.
The testimony of the two son? of Antis
del followed, bat did not differ mate
rially.
After that an adjournment was taken
till to-morrov.
The district attorney says he wants to
show that the first ones that tried to escape
had a harder time than those afterwards.
The first ones seemed to be suffocated with
burning gas.
Terrible Minn BaeploMon.
San Fkancisco, Jan. 23.—From the Syd
ney Herald the following details of the
disaster at the Australasian mine on Dec.
12 is obtained: The accident occurred at
5:30 a. m., in the drift from No. 2 shaft,
which .unexpectly broue into the old work
ing of No. 1 shaft. The water rushed
through with great force, and in a few
minutes the lower levels were flooded and
the flood rose thirty feet in the shaft. The
men employed at this point fled for their
lives along the drift to the station where
twelve reached the cage and were
hoisted to the surface. Twenty-seven men
in another part of the new workings were
unable to reach the shaft, and the only
hope was that they might be able to reach
and ascend a distant winze leading to the
| upper level. The scene at the top of the
! shaft was pitiful. Mothers, wives, children
and friends gathered there, waiting, almost
without hope, for news from below. The
pumps were at once started, throwing 44,
--000 gallons per hour. All the miners
in the district assembled to lend assist
ance. The body of water was so great
j that the pumps lowered it very slowly, and
: a diver was sent for to attempt to penetrate
i the mine to learn the fate of those below.
jme project was iuuuu iiiijuiiuiiuiiuie. m
the afternoon of the 13th, the water was
only breast high in the drift where the men
were supposed to be, and an attempt was
made to reach them by wading bat bad air
| drove back the relief party, and several
I similar attempts were made during the
! night, and about 7 o'clock on ,the morning
!of the 14th the two searchers came
up the shaft cheering and reported
that near winze No. 11 they heard the
words ''Its all right; we are all right."
About G p. m. word came up the shaft that
the lost were found. The news spread like
wildfire, and the whole neighborhood
flocked to the shaft. Tanks were impro
vised as carriages on which to raise men to
the surface and half an hour later ■ John
Manby was brought out alive. He had
been caught ,by sing to warn
his comrades of danger
when he might have escaped. Soon four
others were brought up, all greatly ex
hausted but in a fair way to recover. The
cage rose . again, when the terrible truth
was learned that the twenty-two remaining
in the mine had perished. The whole
party had been caught^,in.. the,jdj:ifi, the
water • raising so high that only by
clinging to the timber could they keep
their chins above water. One by one dur
ing the sixty hours' struggle they had
dropped off exhausted and drowned in the
flood, the strongest only holding out until
relief came. The bodies were found scat
tered about the floor of the drift. The vic
tims were interred on the 16th, the day be
ing observed as a holiday funeral. Sub
scriptions were taken up for the families
of the deceased.
Ciltir Casualties.
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC ACCIDENT.
Los Angeles, Dec. —Yesterday after
noon Dr. Ross . commenced the work of
carefully examining for the first time the
bodies which had been picked up at the
wreck, a handful of whitened bits of bones
being, in many instances, all that re
mained of what had been a body. Dr.
Ross made a thrilling discovery. Some of
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the boxes in wnicn were piaceu wnai was
supposed to have been human remains
contained charred and cooked flesh
either of beef or mutton. After careful ex
amination he concluded that six of the bod- i
ies possibly contained no human remains, j
and of one more they were in such doubt
that he and Dr. Krutz this evening made
an examination of all the human remain?,
resulting in pronouncing seven more not of
human flesh. A duplicate of the chart of j
the passengers' sleepers shows that every j
one who took passage is accounted for ex- j
cept four bodies. Chas. R. Pierson, Wright
Porter and the men who are killed,
named Ferdinand Brumford and Thomas
Kegan, ex-soldier 3, were killed without any
disfiguring mutilation, and hence readily
identified. The remains of Col. Larrabee
have been positively identified, as have
been those of Miss M. E. Squires, Mrs.
Downey and Lawrence Porter. Of the
through sleeper enough has been brought
to light to identify the remains of L. Web
erel, and those of H. A. Oliver, and these
addod to the recognized remains of Mr.
Schlinghyde, who boarded the doomed
train at Fresno, make the number of dead
accounted for twelve. Two bodies still re
main unrecognized and the clues for
I identification ?re so slight that
j it is possible they will never be known.
J The remains may have been those of
tramps stealing a ride. At all event?,
; every passenger on the chart of the sleep
i ers has been accounted for as living or
i dead. The supposed bodies of seven per
' sons have been pronounced to be burned
! flesh and bones of non-human animals,
j and what strengthens the position taken
|by medical men is the fact that the re
! mains pronounced human were taken from
j the ruins of baggage and express cars.
San Fbaxcisco. dan. '16 —As a result or
some of the evidence taken at the inquest
on the victims of the Tehachapi disaster,
and of inquiries by detectives, the railroad
officials state they are now convinced that
the accident was not due to carelessness on j
the part of the employes, but was the re- !
suit of an attempt to rob the express car.
They claim that the hand brakes were
properly set by the brakemen before get
ting off the train: that one brakeman
escorted a lady to the station
and returned towards the train, which
was still in position; that his light went
out, and after he re-entered the the sta
tion and lighted it he found the train gone.
It is held that on such a grade the train
could not have stood a moment unbraked,
and that, furthermore, the engines and air
brakes could not have been disconnected
unless the train was held by hand brakes
to ease the strain. They express the belief
that the brakes were properly set and
the train tampered with. It is known that
(Elnbe.
when the train drew into the
station two men were seen there
who r^will subsequently be found
dead in the wreck, and who are as yet un
identified. These men, it is thought, were
part of the gang that attempted to rob the
train, and in order to effect their object let
off the brakes and started it down the
grade to get it away from help, and in a
position where the freight car could be
robbed. Being inexperienced, they lost
control of the train and the accident oc
curred. Further evidence then adduced
the fact that no tramps were on the train
before reaching Tehachapi, while two men
were found in the wreck in that portion
of the train which kept on the track.
DISASTBOUS FIBE AT SELIGMAN, MO.
Skligman. Mo., Jan. 23. —A fire yester
day noon destroyed the Exchange hotel,
Wichita house and several frame buildings.
Tho loss is not stated.
DYING IN WANT.
St. Louis, Jan. 23.—Major Geo. Calbeck,
at one time connected with Governor Hunt
and others in railroad and other enter
prises in Texas and Mexico, died in an old
stable at San Antonia Sunday night, unat
tended by anyone except by a poor woman
and two small children who lived in the
hovel. The papers on his person show him
to have been a major on General McPher
son's staff during the war. He was greatly
reduced in his circumstances and entirely
out of money when he died.
THEY WEBE LOADED.
Pine Hill, Ky., Jan. 23.—Yesterday
men engaged in railroad work attempted
to dry Hercules powder cartridges, when
they exploded, blowing the blacksmith
shop to pieces, killing Albert Reeves, Louis
Fortner and David Brown. The bodies
were thrown fifty feet in the air. Of the
shop only four posts remain standing.
The cartridges contained forty ounces
each of nitro glycerine. The men had
been cautioned as to the danger of hand
ling them.
FIBXS.
Andebson, Ind., Jan. 23. —Nathan Arm
strong's planing mill burned yesterday.
Loss $20,000; no insurance.
Newpobt, R. 1., Jan. 23. —John G.
Weaver's villa burned this morning. Loss
$35,900, exclusive of silyer ware, diamonds
and jewelry; insurance £20.000.
Coshocton, 0., Jan. 23.—The Coshocton
steel and axle works, owned by Houston <fc
Hay, were totally destroyed by fire this
morning, throwing out of employment
eighty hands. Loss estimated at $40,000;
insurance §15.000 in Ohio companies.
THE GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.
San Fbanoisco. Jan. 23.—The latest news
from the scene of the gunpowder explosion
is to the effect that the total number of
bodies recovered from the ruins is twenty
six. So far as known this number includes
all who were killed.
FIEE AT HAETFOBD, N. C.
Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 23.—Ten houses, an
entire block, except one house, torn down
to prevent the spread of flames, were
burned in Hartford to-day. Insurance
light.
JUMPED THE TBACK.
St. Thomas, Ont., Jan. 23.—The Canada
Southern express jumped the track near
this station. One sleeper rolled over on
its side. Wm. Lee, of Albany, North
Carolina, and Mrs. Howell, of Lansing,
Michigan, were slightly injured. The
others escaped.
KILLED IN THE KITCHENi —
Chicago, Jan. 23. —Celia Goetze, a do
mestic, was killed this morning by an
explosion of a stove; she built a fire in
the kitchen range, the pipes leading to the
hot water tank were frozen, the water in
the water font was converted into steam
and the explosion followed.
TJie Criminal Record.
TOO THICK A SKULL.
[Special Telesrram to the Globe. |
Dayton, 0., Jan. 23.—Martin McCowan,
a negro desperado, attempted to assas
sinate Clark McClung, a colored saloon
keeper. The latter's life was saved by
his thick skull. McCowan fired several
■ hots, one of which hit McClung on the
back of the head, and the ball of 44 calaber
flattened against the skull and glancing,
came out a short distance from where it
entered. McClung experienced no ef
fects t:om the wound, not even a head
ache.
THE CABSON HIGHWAY EOBBEET.
San Fbancisco, Jan. 25. —The following
dispatch from Candeloria puts a different
face on the robberies reported from Car
son: John Cheatorichs store at Silver
Peak was attacked on the night of the
21st inst. by two men named Rockwell and
Tex. They were repulsed by the inmates
of the store, who sustained no injuries.
The robbers were pursued by the Indians
and killed the next day at Tule canyon,
about sixty miles south of Silver Peak.
There wa3 no disturbance at Gold Moun
tain, as far as known. Rockwell was a
son of the notorious Porter Rockwell of
Utah. Tex had a bad reputation as a cow
boy.
A POLICEMAN SUICIDES.
Boston, Jan. 23.—Albion G. Emery, a
police officer, killed himself to-day, at his
home. He was thirty--oven years of age,
and leaves a widow and three children.
BOBBEBX AND MUBDEB.
Cabson, Nev., Jan. 23. —lutelligence is
received here to-night that on Friday a
most horrible murder was- committed at
Gold Mountain, Esmeralda county, a place
I about thirty miles from Candelara. It is
said five men rode into camp, entering the
store of a Sclavonian named Cliderich,
and without a word of warning began fir
ing at the proprietor and his assistants.
The firing lasted for two or three minutes,
resulting in the death of Clidench
and his clerk, severely wounding an
! other assistant, and the death of two of the
robber.?, the latter having the appearance
of cowboys. The store was ransacked by
i the surviving robbers, the booty amount-
ing to considerable. The wounded man I
crawled a distance of eight miles, and gave
the alarm. A posse of men started for
the scene of the atrocity, but before they
arrived there the three surviving scound
rels had been at Silver Peak camp, three
! miles from Gold Mountain, where they en
tered another store, killing the proprietor
and two clerk 3, the name 3of whom are
yet unknown. Here they also got away
with a large sum of money and other val
uables. These robbers are well mounted
and armed. Further details are not yet
to be obtained. That section of country
is being scoured for them by determined
men, who will make short work of the rob
bers, if caught.
ALABAMA LAW BBEAKKBS.
Montgomeby, Jan. 23.—A dispatch to
the Advertiser says that Dunbar and others
were arrested before day and are out under
bond. Dunbar defied the marshal and
posse yesterday, but i 3 very submissive
now and offers assistance in getting the
rioters arrested. It is feared if the mili
tary leave to-night it will be
worse yefc Over 1,000 shots were
lired last night, but no one was hurt.
The firing was not at persons, but the
result of the general lawlessness of the
mob. Gen. O'Neal has requested the judge
of the circuit court to hold a special term
to. try tho lawbreakers. The solicitor went
with the military last nig!it and prepared
the affidavits on which the warrants were
issued.
QUACKS ABEESTED FOR MALPEACTICE.
Cassteb, Pa., Jan. 23.—Samuel Gast, of
lowa, and his nephew, David Gast, of Ohio,
traveling cancer doctor?, and Jame3 E.
Haines, a student of Rising Sun, Indiana
have been arrested, the two first mentioned
at Bellefonte, in this state and the latter
at his home, on a coroner's warrant, charg
ing them with homicide, in having caused
the death of Mrs. James Armstrong, aged
seventy-three, of this county, whom they
treated for cancer. W. J. Perkins of this
city, who harbored the cancer doctor?, was
also arrested as an accessory to crime.
BED FIENDS ON THE KAMPAGE.
Matasiobas, Mex., Jan. 23. —A strong
body of Indians have been murdering and
robbing in the vicinity of Hermosillo. Four
customs guards and twenty ranchmen
passed them yesterday. The Indians forti
fied themselves behind breastworks in
the Romero mountains. The ranchmen
assaulted the works, killed five Indians and
wounded many others. Several of the
ranchmen were wounded, but none killed.
Eleven soldiers in Guadalijara yes
terday murdered the guard and deserted
THUMPEBS BEADY FOB BUSINESS.
Chicago, Jan. 23. —The pugilists are not
all in here yet, but quarreling has already
begun. James Elliott is looking for Harry
Hill on occount of some remarks made by
the latter in an interview referring to Elli
ott.s courage. Elliott also expresses the
opinion that Richard K. Fox does not
propose to match Slade against Sullivan
for a square prize fight.
A BOW IN A COUBT.
Montbeal, Jan. 23.—The body snatching
case came up in the police court to-day,
when a mob of medical students attempted
to intimidate the court. The magistrate
sent for the police, who, after a hard fight
cleared all but the prisoners out of court.
Oix siuueuis were Kiresicu lur tissuuiiiug
officers. Those accused of body snatching
were dismissed.
HELD TO BAIL.
Boston, Jan. 23.T0w1e, charged with
complicity in the alleged misappropriation
of the funds of the Pacific bank, arrested
together with Eager, was arraigned in the
United States court. Towle was held in
$15,000 and Eager in $10,000 tail.
CBIMINALS KILLING EACH OTHEB.
St. Louis, Jan. 23.A dispatch from the
Indian Territory says that a party of men
who have been selling liquor in different
parts of the territory in violation of law,
while in camp on Leeis Creek a day or two
ago, got into a row among themselves, and
Hawk* Pete, a, desperado, was killed, and
Geo. Maxwell mortally wounded.
A $50,000 BLAZE.
Nashua, N. H., Jan. 24, 1:30 a. m.—
Spaulding's four story brick block burner
after midnight. The total loss is ove
$50,000; insurance $30,000.
OFFICES KILLED WHILE MAKING AN ABBEST.
Wihfield, Kas., Jan. 23.—A. L. Shinne
man, sheriff of Cowley county, while at
tempting to arrest a man named Cobb,
alias Smith, to-day, was shot twice and
mortally wounded. He captured his man,
however, and is now dying. Cobb killed a
constable in Butler county a few days ago.
Who Will Enter the Lists as a "Dirty Crea
tures" for Windom?
[Pioneer PressWindom Organ—Jan. 18. J
If Mr. Windom's friends have the firm
ness and tenacity of purpose to hold to
gether to the number of fifty, or even for
ty-five votes, there is still a good fighting
chance that they may win. * * *
There are probably some one or two dozen
of these ineffably dirty creatures in the leg
islature ivho have been waiting tobe bought.
THE LEGISLATURES.
West Virgin
Wheeling, "VY.Ya., Jan. 23. —The election
for United States senator took place in the I
two houses of the legislature this forenoon. ■
Following is 'the result: John E. Kenna
Democrat, 17; Geo. E. Loomis, Republican
7; John T. Jarney, Greenbacker, 2. House
—Kenna, 36; Loomis, 21; Jarney, 3. The j
result will be declared in joint session to- j
morrow at noon.
Indiana.
Indianapolis, Jan. 23. —The legislature
in joint convention to-day elected Mifs i
Lizzie O. Callis state librarian, Dr. W. D
H. Hunter and Dr. H. V. Norvell, directors
of the state prison south, Geo. J. Magoors,
John C. Shoemaker and Henry Morning,
directors of the state prison north, all
Democrats.
Maine.
Augusta, Me., Jan. 22.—The judiciary j
committee of the house will soon report a
bill re-establishing the death penalty for
murder.
Michigan.
Detboit, Jan. 23. —The opening ballot
in the legislature for senator stood Ferry
43; Stout, 42: scattering, 24, for fourteen
different candidates. ..
ytw Jersey.
Tbenton, N. J., Jan. 23.—The house and
senate voted separately to-day for United
States senator and McPherson received
one more vote than necessary to secure his
election.
Colorado.
Denvee. Jan. 23*—The senatorial
prjblem still continues unsolved. The
following is the last ballot of the caucus to
night: Pitkin, 17; Hammil, 12; Routt, 2;
Tabor, 17; Bowen, 5, scattering, 6.
I'enn.stflvania.
Habbisbueg, Pa., Jan. 23—In the senate
a resolution was introduced favoring the
passage by congress of a woman's suf
frage bill.
Xehrnska. •
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 23. —On the eighth
ballot for United States senator, Boj d got
32; Connor, 22; Millard, 16; Thayer, 11;
Saunders, 13; Manderson, 8; Morton, 4;
Crounse, 2; Lake, 12; Dorsey, 2} Stiekel,
1; scattering, 5.
Masaachuaett s.
Boston, Jan. 23.—The house, by 97 to 95
rejected a resolution to print 10,000 copies
of the gorernor's message.
NO, 24:
•; i i >),->■ V ■■> D >:• n.
[Pioneer Press—Windom Organ — 18.]
. If Mr. V.'indom's friends have the firm
ness and tenacity of purpose to hold to
gether to the number of fifty, or even for
ty-five votes, there is still a good fighting
chance that they may win. * * *
There are probably some ONE OR TWO
DOZEN OF THESE INEFFABLY DIRTY
CREATURES IN THE LEGISLATURE
WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING TO BE
BOUGHT.
The Manitoba Election*.
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Winnipeg, Man., Jan. 23. — The elections
to the provincial legislature were held to
day. The legislature consists of thirty
members. Twenty-two constituencies have
been heard from. Of these sixteen have
returned government supporters and six
oppositionists. The remaining eight con
stituencies •will probably divide about
half and half between the government and
opposition. One of the opposition candi
dates is a supporter of the dominion gov
ernment's railroad policy. The govern
ment railway policy will be thus sustained
in the new legislature by about a two
thirds vote.
Theater Changes Hands,
r Boston, Jan. 23.—The Herald says: The
Park theater and International hotel
property on Washington street have been
purchased by Abbey and Schoeffel, man
agers of the theater. The terms of Bale
were private, but they are understood to be
in the .neighborhood of $300,000. Im
portant alterations and improvements are
expected.
Pbovidence, R. 1., Jan. 23.Prof. Greene,
of Brown university* who had a stroke of
apoplexy yesterday, was not expected to
live through last night.
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Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Sole Shipper to the Northwast of
Philadelphia and Beading
Anthracite Coal,
And Dealer in all Grades
BITUMINOUS COAL
Support the only competition to the FUEL
RING by sending me your orders and getting
FULL WEIGHT, CLEAN COAL and PROMPT
DELIVERY..
OFFICE REMOVED—32B Jackson street, on
der Dawson's bank.
Retail —Cor. Fourth and Broadway.
■: ■ AMUSEMENTS.
OPERA HOUSE.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
and Saturday Matinee, Jan. 25, 26 and 27.
The Distinguished Emotional and Tragic
Acteess,
Miss Ada Gray
SUPPORTED BY
Chas. 1 WatMns 1 st& Aye. Combination.
An entirely new version of the famous story, in
five acts, entitled .
BAST LYNNB;
Or THE elopement.
Prices—Evening, 50c, 75c, and $1. Matinee, 50
and 75c.
Reserved seat sale commences Wednesday, 9
a.m. 24-27
CHICAGO MUSEUM.
12 East Third Street.
A WORLD OF WONDERS!
The Transparent Human Head.
The monsters of the Deep.
The Zulu Warriors.
A Matchless Collection of the Rarest Objects in
Creation. Unprecedented freaks of Nature.
Over Six Hundred in Number.
THE FIRST, THE ONLY ONES,
And the last you will see in a life time.
OPEN FROM 1 P. M. UNTIL 10 P. M.
Admission 25 cents, Children 15 Cents. 23
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WOOD'S OPERA. HOUSE.
Seventh Street, Near Jackson, St. PauL
COL. J. H. WOOD Manage*
JANUARY 22d,
AND DURING THE WEEK.
Wednesday and Saturday Matinees, at 2 p. m.
AN EXTRA STBONG OLIO.
Engagement of the German Comedian, Geo.
W.Thompson, supported by Miss Effie Johns
; and Wood's Popular Stock company, in the
highly sensational drama entitled,.
Yacup, or the Peddler's Story.
Jan. 29th, engagement of the dashing sensa
tional actress, Miss Fanny Herring, in Little
Buckshot. -^
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