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v4 ,v 4 a*** MUWER COUNTY TRANSCRIPT N. S. GORDON, Editor. AUSTIN. MINN. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Biua were reported In the Senate on the 90th to provide for the admission of the State of Wyoming into the Union, and to provide a tem porary Government for the Territory of Okla homa. Petitions were presented in favor of the Blair educational bill in favor of a service pen sion law to all surviving soldiers of the late war for the repeal of the limitation on arrears of pensions for the free coinage of silver for a law to prohibit speculations in grain and other farm produots. Bills were passed increasing the appropriation for a public building at Mil waukee to $3,000,000, and making Minneapolis a sub-port of entry and delivery In the House Speal~or Reed appointed the fol lowing committee on World's Fair legis lation: Candler, of Massachusetts (chairman) Hitt and Springer, of Illinois Belden and Flower, of New York Hatch and Frank, of Missouri Bowden, of ViMfinia Wilson, of West Virginia. Bills were introduced authorizing the issue of Treasury notes on deposits of silver bullion to organize the Indian Territory the Washington World's Fair bill appropriating 8100,000 for the erection of a mouument to the negro soldiers and sailors of the late war levying a tax on all persons dealing in options on grain, meats, cotton and other products. ON the 21st a'bill was introduced in the Senate to discontinue the coinage of the three-dollar and one-dollar gold pieces and three-cent nickel pieces. A number of petitions were presented praying for the passage of the Blair eduoational bill. Bills were passed to create the offices of Surveyor-General for the States of South Da kota and North Dakota, and granting to Cali fornia five per cent, of the net proceeds of the cash sales of public lands in the State....In the House a bill was introduced to Investigate the oauses of the present depressed condition of the agricultural interests. A discussion took place over the rules, and the Oklahoma bill was further considered A Bin, was reportod in the Senate on the 23d to increase to $3,500 the pension of the widow of General Kilpatiick. A resolution for negotia tions with Spain in regard to the establishment of a republic in Cuba was adversely reported. A petition was presented for the repeal of the internal revenue tax, and Senator Blair spoke on bis educational bill, the measure being made a special order for February 3.... In the House the Oklahoma town-site bill was passed. A bill was introduced making Des Moines, la., a port of delivery, and the bill for the erection of Gov ernment penitentiaries in various parts of the country was discussed. THK credentials of W. M. Clark and Martin Maginnis as Senators-elect from the State of Montana were presented in the Senate on the 23d and referred. Senator Ingalls (Kan.) made a lengthy speech on the bill for providing aid for colored people who desire to emigrate to Africa, in which he argued for justice for the colored man. Adjourned to the 27th in the House the report unseating Jackson (Dem.) from West Virginia, and declaring Smith (Rep.) entitled to the seat, was submitted. The "bill making changes in the laws affecting the collection of customs occupied the remain der of the session. DOMESTIC. A STEAMER and a barge collided in the Mississippi river on the 18th near Vicksburg, Miss., and four sailors were drowned. Ax Union ville, Mo., on the 20th the residence of Louis McCalment was de stroyed by fire, and Mr. McCalment's aged mother and his two little children' were burned to death. THK Associated Pioneers of California celebrated the forty-first anniversary of the discovery of gold in California by a dinner at New York on the 20th. AT the Post-Office Department in Washington on the 20th an application was received from Jefferson County, 111., for the establishment of a new post-office to be named La Grippe. OFFICIAL, announcement was made on the 20th that the loss by the fire in Bos ton tn Thanksgiving Day last was $3,841,888 that the insurance involved amounted to $5,395,533, and that the loss to insurance companies aggregated $3,173,438. MILS. DAY, arrested in Michigan on the supposition that she was the famous old Mrs. Bender, one of the noted fam ily of murderers, and taken to Oswego, Kan., for trial, had on the 20th become hopelessly insane. THK sale stable of Peter Padvant at St. Joseph, Mo., was destroyed by fire on the 20th, and thirteen horses per ished in the flames. THE large barn and stables of W. F. Hart, near Fredericksburg, Va., burned on the 20th, and twenty-one horses, a number of catttle and a great quantity of grain and hay were burned. ADVICES from Kansas colonists in Topolobampo, Mex., stated that the co operative colonization scheme had proved to be a great fraud and many of the colonists were starving. THK greatest snow-blockade in the history of Oregon and California pre vailed on the 20th, the snow being drifted in many places from ten to thirty feet high, and railway travel was entire ly suspended. TIIK new Brazilian flag came into New York harbor on the 20th for the first time at the masthead of a bark. THE visible supply of grain in the United States on the 20th was: Wheat, 32,540,631 bushels, a decrease of 637,790 tAishels corn, 13,215,207 bushels, an in crease of 382,172 bushels. THE Okanagan country in the new State of Washington was on the 20th covered over with two feet of snow, and tfee blizzard which lasted five days caused a large amount of damage to property, killed much live stock and caused the death of at least ten men. THE State Bank of Irwin, Kan., sus pended on the 21st. Irwin Hodges, the cashier, had fled owing the bank $12,000. F. DE CARDOVA & Co., commission and shipping men of New York City, failed on the 21st for $200,000. vaar nf 18RQ ttjpre were 109,140,917 pieces of coin ex ecuted at the mints of the United States, havfng a total value of $58,194,022. AT Wilmington, Del., a large barn be longing to the Du Pont Powder Com pany was burned on the 21st, and nine teen heifers and ten colts were cremated. CHINAMEN were on the 21st put to work as laborers at Pittsburgh, Pa., In place of Italians. TOE Comptroller of the Currency at Washington oo the 21st mide publio a statement showing that on Deoember 11 last there were 3,326 National banks in the United States with a capital of $617, 840,164 and a surplus fund of $198,508, m. R. M. LONG, a Guyandotte County (Ky.) oonstable, was murdered and his wife fatally wounded on the 21st by a band of ruffians who broke into the house. THK report that Mexicans had flooded the towns along the border with coun terfeit Amerioan dollars was denied on the 2lBt by Texas bankers. THE American Tobacco Company, sup posed to be the consolidation of a num ber of firms, was incorporated on the 21st at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $25,000,000. ISAAC LOCKWOOD and William Brad ley, two printers, were suffooated by coal gas in their room in New York on the 21st. THOMAS RAINEV, a ranchman, died in San Antonio, Tex., on the 21st, and his aged father upon hearing of his son's death went into an adjoining room and blew his brains out. THK express, car of a train on the Southern Pacific road was robbed of $25,000 by two masked men on the 21st near Tulare, Cal. MANY cattle at Eden, Pa., were on the 22d reportod to be dying from ca tarrhal pneumonia. ICE formed on the Hudson river in New York on the 22d for the first time this winter. THE bodies of three more viotims of the Conemaugh valley flood were found at Coopersdale, Pa., on the 22d, but none of them could be identified. THE Freeman Wire & Iron Company's works at East St. Louis, 111., were de stroyed by fire on the 22d. Loss, $100, 000. IN a Chicago court on the 22d Henry Bush, a fireman for the Northern Pa cific, was awarded a verdict of $40,000 for damages received in an accident— the second largest verdict of the sort on record. A FIRE in the lumber-yard of J. F. Paul, in Boston, on the 22d caused a loss of $250,000. IN a quarrel on the 22d Anthony N. Nelson, a farmer living in Abbey ville County, S. C., was shot dead by his wife, who afterward shot herself fatally. Aix railway trains in South Dakota and Southwestern Minnesota were abandoned on the 22d owing to a snow blockade. AN order was placed at the Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia' on the 22d for seventy-five engines for the Northern Pacific railway. THE negroes of Barnwell County, S. C., the scene of the recent massacre, at a meeting on the 22d decided to emi grate. JAMES BLACKWELL and his two sons while crossing in a skiff from Belleville to Providence, Ky., on the22d were cap sized and drowned. THE bankers of* Nebraska met at Omaha on the 22d and organized a State Banker's Association. FOUR boilers of the Mount Jessup (Pa.) Coal Company exploded on the 22d, blowing the engine and boiler houses to pieces, killing the night fire man and fatally injuring several labor ers. A PASSENGER train on the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway ran down two little girls named Walker at Yerner Station, Pa., on the 23d, killing them both. AT the coal dumps at Newark, N. J., on the 23d three boys set fire to the clothes of an Italian girl who was pick ing coal, and the girl was fatally burned. AN express train on the Chicago & Northwestern road ran into a carriage in a funeral procession at Rose Hill Cemetery gate in Chicago on the 23d, killing Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Payne, who .were burying their infant child, Mrs. Repregel, a friend, and Simon An derson, the driver. ON the 23d Mr. and Mrs. George Corn stock, an aged couple of Newark, Conn., were returning from the funeral of a relative when tbey were run down at a railway crossing and both fatally in jured. AT Hallowell, Kan., the boiler in the flouring mills exploded on the 23d, de molishing the mills and mortally wound ing two men. PRESIDENT HARRISON on the 23d ap proved the aot increasing the pay of supervisors of the census from $500 to $1,000. THE receipts from internal revenue the first six months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1890, were $69,077,832, being $5,766,266 greater than during the corresponding period of the previous fis cal year. AN explosion of powder on the 23d in Wilkes County, N. C., killed five men and injured thirteen others. THIRTEEN young men of Gynneville, Ind., were arrested on the 23d charged with organizing a White Cap raid on Edgar Elliott and his wife and wrecking their house. THE non-partisan convention of lady temperance workers in session* on the 23d at Cleveland, O., decided that the organization should be known as "The National Crusaders." Mrs. Ellen J. Phinne^, of Cleveland, was elected pres ident. NICHOLAS MEYER, of Chicago, shot and killed his wife on the 23d and then committed suicide. Jealousy was the cause. THE old Unitarian church at West Roxbury, Mass., occupied by the First Congregational parish, was destroyed by an incendiary fire on the 23d. It was built in 1773. THE Methodist Episcopal churoh of America decided on the 23d to build a sectarian college at Kansas City, Kan. HARDY'S mills and thirteen houses at North Troy, Vt., were destroyed by fire on the 23d. JACK JOHNSON and August Swanson, oi Cnestertown, ind., were—kliiuu by the cars on the 23d. JOHN GOOD, a young man living near Pulaskiville, Ind., while chasing a goose on the 23d fell and broke his neok and death resulted instantly. CLARK ADAMS, a wealthy farmer liv ing near Lima, O., was swindled out of $6,000 on the 23d by two men who worked the old gold-brick game. AT New York on the 2ud Henry M. Jackson, ex-paying teller of the sub treasury, who fled to Canada with 10, 000, was sentenced to six years' impris onment and fined $10,000. THE 23d was the eighth day of the snow blockade on the Central Paoifio 'Y ,V Vf^% Ut«3 1 4 1 'J 'y# "I if '•], and California qnd Oregon roads, and during the entire time no trains have been running. The blookadge extended a distanoe of about thirty-live miles, all within California. At Summit the snow was twenty-four feet deep on a level. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL LEON ABBETT was for the second time inaugurated Governor of New Jersey on the 91st at Trenton. In his message he favored reform in the ballot system. GOVERNOR LADD, of Rhode Island, in his message to the Legislature on the 21st suggested that the new ballot re form law be applied to all elections. JONATHAN LENZ, aged 83 years, junior trustee of the celebrated Econ omite Sooiety, died in Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 22d. MRS. POLLY OSGOOD died of the grip on the 32d at Amesbury, Mass. She was 100 years and 11 days old. FRANCIS BOWEN, one of Harvard's most eminent teachers, died suddenly in Boston on the 22d, agod 78 years. JOHN MCSWEKNEY, the most promi nent criminal lawyer In Ohio, died at his home in Wooster, O., on the 22d from acute pneumonia. ADAM FORICPAUGH, the veteran circus proprietor, died at his home in Phila delphia on the 23d of pneumonia, brought on by influenza. He was 68 years old. FOREIGN. THIRTY-NINR persons, chiefly Polish and German noblemen, were on the 20th banished from Russia. FRANZ LACIINER, the distinguished musioian and composor, died at Munich on the 20th, aged 90 years. CHOLERA was raging on the 21st with frightful virulence in Mesopotamia, Asiatio Turkey, and there had been three thousand deaths from the disease. FOUR THOUSAND merchants of Lis bon paraded the streets on the 21st shouting "War to England." THK house of John Gorley at St. Johns, N. F., was burned on the 21st, and Mr. Gorley and his three children perished in the flames. GREAT mortality from the grip was reported on the 21st among a band of1 eight hundred Indians on St. Peter's re serve, a few miles out of Winnipeg. NATHAN MARCUS ADLER, D. D., chief rabbi of the United Hebrew congrega tions of the British empire, died on the 21st in London, agod 97 years. ADVICES of the 21st say that a Rus sian Government schooner and the poaching schooner Rosig Yokahama, which she had captured, were wrecked off the coast of Japan, and that the thirty or forty men on the two vessels perished. THE powder-mill at Roslyn, Scotland, exploded on the 22d, and five men were killed and many injured. A. W. MORRIS & Co., of Montreal, proprietors of the Dominion cordage works, failed on the 22d for $569,000. It was the largest failure ever recorded in Canada. THE National line steamor Erin, Cap tain Tyson, from New York for London, was on the 22d given up as lost. She carried no passengers, but had a crew of sixty or seventy men and about fif teen cattlemen. AT Vienna on the 22d the journalist Palkowitz shot the popular actress, Stericher, and then killed himself. Jealousy was the motive. ADVICES of the 23d say that another revolution had broken out' in Costa Rica. Central America that the Gov ernment was overturned and the revolu tionists were supreme, and that there were horrible scenes of bloodshed. THERE was a great storm of wind and rain in Southern England on the 23d, and enormously high tides as a conse quence, causing immense damage. LATEST NEWS. 8wept ky Storms. LONDON, Jan. 26. —The GULES continued with increasing strenth and velocity in the southern portion of England and Wales to-day. Uenai strait in Wales I* rendered impass.tble by the fury of the gale. Many sailors have been swept over board and drowned. 'lhe parade at 8a nd Gate is partially destroyed. Tbe ship Irex, bound from Greenock to Rio Janeiro, was wrecked off tiie Needles. Several of the crew were drowned. The survivors clung to the rigging all day Saturday and part of Sunday, it was impos* ble to send a 1 fe boat to the rescue, as no boat could live in the turbulent sea but a life liue was finally ah across the vessel by means of a rocket, and in this way the men were safely landed. Capt. McMickan. of tbe Cunard steamer Umbria from New York, reports that the passage was tbe roughest that the vessel has ever experienced. Several passengers were injured by being thrown violently upon the decks, and it was finally found necessary to usue an order prohibiting passengers from coming on deck. Nellie Biy's Journey Ended. NEW YORK. Jan. 25 —Nellie Bly, the New York World's globe circ'er, stepped from the train in the Jersey City station of the Pennsylvania ruiirund this after noon. Her actual time in muking the cir ouit of the world, as computed by the offi cial takers aud verified by the World's an nouncement this evening was seventy-two days, six hours and eleven minutes. When she alig ted she fouud herself in the midst of »n enthusi istic crowd which lhe po ice had hard work to separate. On tbe trip across to Mew York every tug boat aud steam craft saluted the ferry boat At Cortland street another tremen dous crowd had gathered and Miss Bly's way to the World offl.-e was one of cheers and flowers. Millions at Stake. HELENA, Mont, Jan. 25.—A sensatiqn was created in Helena to-day by the dis covery of an, alleged flaw in the title to valuable realty in thU city. Great Fall* and Anaconda. The prop rty in question —i..^ «•. •wvprni millions of dollars. and includes two valuab additions to Helena, th town site of Great F..lls and also part of the town site of Anaconda. DDRINO service* at St. John*s church, Philadelphia, on the 26th, a young man arose from his seat and deliberately fired a shot at Bistirp Wh taker who was in ths pulpit Upon arre the young man gave as a reason for hoot ng, that the Bishop had preached a distasteful sermon. JOSEPH G. DITTXAN, a Philadelphia banker, disappeared Deo 11th. On Janu ary 26th his body was found floating in the ISchuyikill river. FIBB at Sheb yg n, Wis.,, on the 2Bth, destroyed a blook of three stores causing alosiof ICOLFFN r-c "*& SMf \V *«V fjy •-1- N- *«5I O.—Their Pl'itform Guarantees Freedom of Religious and Political Views. CLEVELAND, O., Jan. 25.—The con vention to organize a non-partisan tem perance union met again in Music Hall Friday morning. The ladies decided that ('National Crusaders" was not a good title and changed the name to to "Non Partisan Women's Chris tian Temperance Union." President elect Phinney notified the convention of her acceptance of the office. Further officers were elected as follows: General Secretary, Miss F. Jennie Duty, of Cleveland Recording Secretary, Mrs. Florence Miller, of Iowa Financial Sec retary, Miss Shortleage, of Pennsylvania Treasurer, Mrs. C. Cornelia Alford, of Brooklyn. It was decided to pay the president and general secretary salaries of $1,200 each. About $2,500 were raised at the afternoon session to help maintain the expenses of the new organization. The question of the place for holding the next annnal mooting was referred to the executive committee. Mrs. M. C. Hickman, of Ohio, Mrs. General Dural, of West Virginia, and Mrs. Anna M. Edwards, of Ohio, were made National organizers. After adopting thef^eport of the committee on resolutions th6 convention adjourned sine die. The reso lutions are as follows "Woman's Christian temperance work in this country his been a providential agency for the abolition of the drinking usages of societies and the final extinction of the liquor traffic. It ap pealed to the hearts of American womanhood and was justified by its pledged protection to American homes. No movement of the century promised more for Christian civilization. For ten years this Organized work justified the hope and fulfilled the promises. Since that time dazzling political theories, mistaken ideas of individual and organization rights, through misguided zeal and a consciousness of power, have brought the confusion of partisan alliance and the disas ters of party limitations. Defects in organiza tion work—the result of the same conditions which produced the party allianoe—have brought other complications. "We fully and freely recognize the right of every member of this organization to their own individual and religious political opinions and preferences and their exercise according to the dictates of individual conscience, and declare that no majority in such organization should ever in any manner interfere with these indi vidual rights. "We gladly recognize the fact that the non partisan principles of Christian temperance work are rapidly gaining adherents throughout the Nation. Wo want all the strength of a united Christian womanhood to be brought against the oombined power of the liquor trafllc. "We cordially invite the aid of all States and local organizations under our broad banner of political freedom, where every woman—what ever her party preferences or individual party work—may unite with us in efforts against the common enemy of the home, the State and the Nation. "We recognize, believe in and are individually related to many moral and political reforms of the age which are the outgrowth of the Oospel of Christ. These reforms are directly, indi rectly ior remotely related to the tem perance reform, and their success will hasten the triumph of the principles to which we are devoted. Nevertheless we believe that our work In this National organization will be more effective if wholly free from any alliance with those movements upon which our mem bers widely differ in opinion. "We declare the fundamental importance and greatest need of the temperance reform to be the broader education of the individual mind and conscience in the religious, scientific and eco nomic truths relating to the effects of alcohol, in order to secure the ultimate triumphs of this re form in the overthrow of the drinking habits and customs of the country and the legal pro tection of the home and redemption from the ravages of the liquor traffic. "We urge the careful preparation of non partisan literature and the prompt distribution of the same." RIDDLEBERGER DEAD. The Ex-Senator Expires at His Home at Winchester, Va. WINCHESTER, Va., Jan. 25.—Ex-Sen- ator Riddleberger died at bis home at 2:30 o'clock a. m. yesterday. At 10 o'clck Thursday night his condition changed for the worse and it was seen his death was only a question of a few hours. His end was painless. Harrison H. Riddleberger was born in Edin burgh, Va., 1814. He received a common school education and had a home perceptor for two years. When the war broke out he enlisted in the Confed erate army and served three years as Second and First Lieutenant of infantry and Captain of cavalry. For two years after the war he as a I E a a to and was twice elected to the House of delegates and once to the State Senate. Mr. Riddleberger combined the profession of law with that of editor and was connected with three papers in that capacity—the Tenth Legion, the Shenandoah Democrat and the Virginian. He was a member of the State com mittee of the Conservative party until 1875, was a Presidential doctor on the Demo cratic ticket of 1870, und the same .on the Read Juster ticket in 1K)0. In 1881 he •was elected to the Senate as a Readjustor. His term expired In 18S9. Mr. Riddleberger was an orator of no mean ability and a man who could have won a brilliant reputation but for his fondness for al coholic stimulants. ROBBED BY MASKED MEN. Thieves Secure a tjarge Sum from the Albuquerque (N. SI.) Post-Office. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Jan. 25.—Two masked men bound and gagged Night Clork L. L. Roy at the post-office here early Friday morning, pounded the com bination knob off the safe with a sledge-hammer and robbed the vault of $500 in money, $1,900 in stamps and several hundred dollars worth of jewelry. All the regis ter bags were cut open and the first class packages taken. The amount of those is not known, but Postmaster Walker thinks the robbers secured from them several thousand dollars more. The robbers were in the office several hours. After they left Roy freed him »elf and gave the alarm. MUST SERVE HIS TERM. Ills Sentence to One Year's Imprison ment Affirmed by the Supreme Court. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—The general term of the Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction of Johan Most and his sentence to one year's imprisonment in the penitentiary. Most waB convicted of using language tending to incite riot during a speech at an anarchist meet ing held in November, 1887, to express indignation at ^he hanging of the Chi cago anarchists. An appeal was taken and Most was released on bail. 4 --.Vs! 1 S 1 I a A *1 '.•T v**- ky? 1 WAR ON THE TRAFFIC. Xfon-Partlsan Temperance Women Com plete Their Organisation at Cleveland, A DEADLY BLAST. Frightful Etiect of an Explosion of Nat oral Qas at Columbus, O.—Six Persons Killed and Thirty Others Badly Hnrt. COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 25.—A few min utes after 5 p. m. Friday an alarm of fire from the corner of High and Main streets called th^ fire department out. An explosion of natural gas occurred in a one-story dwelling at the southwest corner of Wall and Noble alleys, at the middle of the square bounded by High and Front and Main and Mound streets. .Patrol No. 1 was on the scene, but no rope was stretched and the people crowded by hundreds into the narrow alley and pushed up close to the house from which the cries of injured people within could be plainly heard— moans and shrieks mingled with the hoarse calls of the firemen, the clang ing of the alarm bells on the engines and. the murmuring of the crowd. A whisper ran through the throng tliat a natural-gas main ran east and west through Noble alley, but this was soon changed into a rumor that the blaze was due to a gasoline explosion in tbe house and the people did not heed the warn ing. The fire was almost under control. The people were standing around laugh ing and talking. The alley was crowded with lookers-on, many of whom were turning to go home. At that moment a terrific explosion rent the air. A sheet of flame burst from the building at the north west corner of Noble and Wall alleys. A great mass of bricks, beams and stone that thirty seconds before had been a two-story brick building flew with terrible force through the air. The scene that followed was terrible. The people fled shrieking in all direc tions. The alley was instantly covered with a mass of debris from which the moans of buried men came. Pallid, trembling women tottered and ran across the alley and streets moaning or shriek ing. Men with foreheads and shoul ders dabbled with blood staggered from among the debris. A woman enveloped in a sheet of flame, bareheaded and frenzied, ran shrieking from the house across the alley. A man dashed off his overcoat and ran to throw it around her. A fireman who held the nozzle of a hose saw her danger and turned the stream on her. It knocked her down but saved her life. She was lifted from the ground and hurried into a neighboring house. Every inch of clothing had been burned from her down to her waist. Her name was Pet Merrotte. An old man, venerable, with white hair and beard, was dug from the ruins and hurried to a place where medical assistance could be given him. His beard was covered with blood and he seemed to be dy ?. But saddest of all, a tearless mother, with her heart frozen by fear and grief, staggered from, the ruins holding tight to her heart the seemingly lifeless form of her 8-months old babe. Six lives were lost and thirty people were injured. Five dead bodies were taken from the ruins, two of them those of an unknown man and an unknown babe. The infant child of Charles Berry was dashed from its mother's arms by the force of tbe explosion and almost immediate ly was run over and killed by a fire department team which was running from the building. Tbe names of the identified dead are: Charles Bech, a bar ber Frank Seymour, a colored boy Mrs. P. Merrotte, her body was taken from the cellar Berry, an infant. Two others are dead, but have not yet been identified. The wounded are: Dr. T. K. Wissinger, William Brady, William Neil, William James, Mrs. William James, Blankinger, Theo. Shonting. Officer Lynsky, Charles Licklighter, Gambler, William Riley, Bell Smith, Elmer Qates, Mrs. Corn, Ed Keemer, Elmer Orach, Charles Lowery, Westlander, Pet Merrotte, Thomas Doyle, Flora Bowers, Emma Bowers, Aaron Been, Benjamin Morgan, Shawnee, Marshall Kilbourne, Berry, Wolf, Peter Mer rotte. It is thought that Pet Merrotte will die. The injured have been taken either to the hospitals or their homes. Many of them were injured by a team running &vay with a truck and Knock ing people in every direction. The explosion, as near as can be ascer tained. resulted from an accumulation of natural gas in the cellar of tbe house occupied by Michael Bowers and Mr. Merrotte. No natural-gas pipes were ever put into that house, but there was a natural-gas main in Noble alley which leaked. The ground was fr&zen and the gas, seeking its way out, went by the easiest way and of course entered the cellar. It has no scent and its presence could not be detected. It saturated the buildings. The force of the explosion in the Merrotte and Bowers house took a westerly and northerly direction and scattered bricks and lumber and lathing for a distance of twenty feet. The side of the Mer rotte house was blown out, and the roof, freed of its support, fell over and lay hanging from the top of the house to the yard below. The exploding vapor after doing its terrible work on the south side of Noble alley leaped over to the north side of the alley and completely destroyed the house at 34 West Noble, occupied by Edward Otstot and Mr. James. This house is similarly constructed with the one op posite, being a one-and-one-half-story brick with three rooms down and two up-stairs. Here the terrible force of the exploded gas was shown. Every thing was blown to chips. A force of work men at work for a week could not reduce the house to kindling-wood so thorough ly as did this explosion in one short mo ment. C!o. Forced to the Wall—Liabilities of 910,000,000. NEW YORK, Jan. 25.—Merchants in the South American trade have received cable advices that the jobbing house of Repetto, Paepaglioni & Co., probably the largest hardware and provisions es tablishment in Buenos Ayres, have failed, for 96,000,000 and that a number of other firms are involved in their em barrassment. The total liabilities con nected with the suspensions are placed at $10,000,000. Repetto, Paepaglioni & Co. had branches throughout the Argen tine Republic and had large shipping interests in Europe. -, ',/*" -*v rv A if --p^-«. j: cVj^jSgs, ADAM FOREPAUGH. The Career of the Famous Showman Enden—He Passes Away at Philadel phia—Pneumonia, Brought -on by Attaolc of Ls Grippe, the Cause of Hie Death—His Fortune Estimated at Over •1,000,000. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 24.—Adam Foro paugh, the veteran circus manager, died Wednesday night at his residence in this city. Mr. Forepaugh had been ail ing for some time past. He was at tacked a week or two ago with tho pre vailing influenza epidemic, which three or lour days ago developed into pueu monia. Mr. Forepaughk was 68 years of age. His funeral will occur on Monday. Tho dead circus manager leaves property valued at more than 91,000,000. Bo sides bis show property he owned quan tities of real estate in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. Circus and real estate were his favorite investments. [Adam Forepaugh was a native of Philadel phia. He was of German descent, and followed the butcher business for some years. To the meat-selling business Mr. Forepaugh added later the occupation of horse dealer. In 1800 he made his fimt venture as a manager. In that year be put on the road a small wagon show, of which Mrs. Dan Bice, then divorced from the great clown, was the star. Forepaugh called the aggregation "Mrs. Charles Warner's Circus." He continued this show, increasing it from year to year, till 1885^ when he and John O'Brien formed a partner ship and bought out Maybee's menagerie. They engaged Dan Rice as manager and star attraction, and paid him 895,000 for his sea son's work. The show was known as "Daa Rice's Menagerie and Circus." This show traveled by wagon. For eight years the earn ings of the show were invested in its enlarge ment. When Mr. Forepaugh Increased his menagerie cages to twenty, older managers declared that he was on the road to ruin. In the last year of his career he had three times as many cages. Up to 1876 the show moved by wagons. Then he had constructed two trains of sleeping, pas senger, flat, box and stock cars, and since then the show has moved by rail. Every year the menagerie was Increased in size, until Mr. Fore paugh boasted that be owned and controlled more animals than any man in the world. Of late years he had paid a great deal of at tention to his menagerie. The herd of ele phants alone cost a fortune. The elephants are all trained and performed by Adam Fore paugh, Jr., the proprietor's only son, who of late years has practically been the head of the show. Mr. Forepaugh had been twice married. His seoond wife survives him.] SHUT IN BY THE SNOW. From Eight to Twenty-Four Feet Deep on the Central Pacific—Two Thousand Men Working to Xtalse the Nine-Days* Blockade. SAW FRANCISCO, Jan. 24.—This is tbe ninth day of the snow blockade on the Central Pacific and California & Oregon roads. During this entire time no mails have been received from the East, nor have any passen gers or freight got through. East bound traffic is not so badly inter fered with a/ it was sent over the Southern Pacific as soon as the block* ade became serious on the regular line. The blockade extends from Summit, on the east, to Towles, on the west, a dis tance of about thirty-five miles, all within California. At Sum mit the snow is twenty four feet deep on a level, and at other portions of the blockaded track averages eight feet for miles. Some portions of the track for miles between tbe points named are comparatively open. Tho most serious difficulties exist at Shady Run, Emigrant Gap and Summit. A rotary plow,, a number of other snow* plows and about 2,000 men bave been engaged in trying to open the road since the blockade was first an nounced. Superintendent J. A Fill more, of the Southern Pacific Company, said that this is the longest and heaviest blockade in the history of tbe Central Pacific road, and never before was there such deep snow. The effect of the blockade in this city has been to inter fere considerably with commer cial interests, caused by tbe delay of the mails and stocks of merchandise. In the mining districts in the northern portion of the State, which tbe heavy snow-fall has isolated, food supplies are running short and a famine is threat ened unless tbe situation changes shortly. In Nevada cattle and sheep interests have suffered severely, and large numbers of animals are dying daily. IN FAVOR OF AMALGAMATION. Progressive Union Miners and Knights oC Labor Joins Forces. COLUMBUS, a, Jan. 24.—The joint con vention of the Knights of Labor and Progressive Union Miners convened Thursday morning. Mr. Roe, of the Knights of Labor, was elected temporary president John McBride, of Progressive Union, vice-president, and the remainder of the temporary officers were divided* At the afternoon session the miners agreed on four points, which practically settles that they will amal gamate into one organization, having one defense fund, with equal taxa tion and one set of officers. A commit tee was appointed to draft a constitu tion, which must be ratified by three fourths of all the members of both or ganizations. NEBRASKA BANKERS. Their State Convention Declares lit Favor of the Knox Bill and 9 Per Cent, ltonde. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 24.—The State Bankers' Association concluded its ses sions after adopting resolutions in iorsing the Knox .bill for a permanent National-bank circulation, and urging Us passage when amended to reduce the semi-annual tax when circulated from to per cent., and recommending the parage by Congress of an act allow ing the repeal of the present issues of bonds by an issue of 2 per cent, bonds, redeemable at the pleasure of the Gov ernment. A COAL FAMINE IN ||l|f: .0: IUW«. Miners Suffering from the Grip and Deal' •rs Can Not Fill the Orders. FORT DODGE, la., Jan. 24.—Northern Iowa is threatened with a coal famine which, if the present cold weather con tinues, will entail suffering. Tbe Fort Dodge and Lehigh ooal fields are the prin cipalsourceof fuel supply for this region. At present more than half the miners are suffering from the grip and unable to work. The others a.te working night and day, but oan not supply ths mand. S"' n*£j&SA K.^i