Mound Valley News from Mound Valley, Kansas • 6

CALAMITOUS. MOUND VALLEY MS, 0. M. BBOWN, Publisher. MOUND VALLEY, KANSAS.

Ex- A Terrible Natural Gas plosion in Indiana. PERSONS AND THINGS. Thirty-Five Persons More or Less Injured. Martha Washington, socoiid cook, colored, also was lost. Harry also reports tho loss of Captain Bird Floyd and the superintendent of the Vldalia railroad, with his wll'o and daughter.

Barry knows nothing as to tho number of passengers that were board, but thinks there were not very many. He bolicvea there were some women and children on the deck. Evidence is accumulating that there were many more lives lost than the story of Fireman Harry would indicate. Some people place the number at lifty. Several survivors of tho disaster reached this city to-uay by tho Mississippi Valley road from liaton Rogue.

They had been taken to that point by the stcamor Stella Wild, which critio along soon after tho destruction of the White. Colonel S. I. James, was taken to his home, No. 277 Prythlana street, ou ids arrival, where lie is in a critical condition.

He stated that the sight was horrifying and could not bo told, lie positively declared that there mast have been sixty persons lost, because of the slxtv-flve in the cabin he could only see himself and four others, among whom was II. C. An Old Man Stabbed. Leavenworth, Dee. 34.

Eatly this evening Ob Maudet, a Mexican cook in tho employ of Patrick McGraw, an old resident and keeper of a restaurant ou Seventh street, opposite the new market house, went out to milk the cow, and because the animal did not stand quietly, In a fit ot rago, ho picked up a spade and hit the cow a severe blow, inflicting quite a gash in her side. McGraw at once discharged him, paying him the wages due and at the same time requesting the key of the front door In Ids possession, as he alwayi opened the establishment In the morning. AHMINQ UIMSIC1.F FOB M18CIIIEF. The Mexican replied that they were upstairs and was told to get them and iu addition to bringdown all his clothes. The latter went there and returning to the kitchen took a sharp knife with a back spring, remarking to a boy named Frank Smith then present and in the employ of McGraw "I guess I'll kill the Irish As he had often made such a remark In the oreseuce of The junior male member of tlio Miin Blaine family hits succeeded in getting a position on Pittsburgh paper.

Cowed by Train ItobbcrH. Fort AVoimi, Dec.13, Partletdnwor the train robbery yesterday near Bellevuo station, show that the three robbers wore uumuskod and made no effort at concealment. They arrived at tho water tank a few minutes before the train, and when it pulled up one of them with a drawn pistol ordered Engineer Avers and his fireman and O. G. Miller, another engineer who was riding in the cab, to.

alight, which they did. He then marched them some thirty feet from tho train and went through them, taking all tho valuables they bad. While this was going on the other two men went through tho train. One of the passengers in tho rear ear was looking out of the window aud saw the operation with the train men, and, divining the situation, he went into-the forward cars and told the other passengers to secrcto their money. This they did, giving most of It and their diamonds to several ladies aboard.

Miss Kate Hass, of Fort Worth, took charge of $3,000 and other valuables. Mrs. Chambers, of Pottsdam, N. received $5,000 and some diamonds and Mrs. Wlttiek, of Carthage, took her husband's gold watch aud several hundred dollars.

Mrs. Wlttiek was greatly incensed at the proceedings, and boldly stood up iu the car and asked if forty men were going to tamely submit to such an outrage at the hands of Four Acres of a Pennsylvania Town Cave In. A "Whaler Goes Ashoro Hear San Franoisco Many Lives Lost. Mary Dickens, a granddaughter of the novelist joins Harry Sullivan's company in London at Christmas as leading juvenile. In the state department of the United States government many of the female clerks uso pens and pencils decorated with ribbon bows.

Natural tins Kxloslon. Kokomo, Im, Dec. 17. Gas was struek In well No. 2 to-day, find In running the drill the Drown, state engineer; F.

Denery, a barber: Fred Gray, a porter, and J. Collins, deck watchman. gas was by sumo means Ignited. A terlflo ex. plosion followed and thiity-flvo persons were Denery said lie would never forget tho sight he" beheld at the St.

Morris plantation the boy, nothing was thought of it. Ho then passed out of tho kitchen through tho restaurant into the street without leaving the keys. McGraw told the boy Smith to go out and get them. Mandet refused to give them up when McGraw steuned uo and demanded them more or less Injured, The seriously injured are Mllo Miindcn, Adolplms Hiekett, the Eon when the White was enveloped in flames, lie was sure one child had been rescued and brought into St. Morris plantation.

To his knowledge of the boat's employes, there were J. N. Leon. Mr. jllstoe, Blake Ream Martin Price, Ira Lime, John Daily, Walter liecuot, New Jersey negroes own $2,000,000 worth of real estate.

In Baltimore, Md nineteen colored men own worth of business property. two cabin bovs. two chambermaids, one fire from him saying, "I've discharged you. You have no further business with the keys and I want you to give them up." The Mexican placed his hand in his right side pocket in which he had placed tho knife George Stewart, Joshua Brown and David Franzee. The force ol the explosion throw eve man and one stevedore lost, besides Ed Jack rybody to the ground which probably explains son, Amos Moss, Louis Walker, finey Walker why the injured ere not lataiiy burneu.

and another colored woman named Lucy. obtaimed in the kitchen, saying: "If it's the In Philadelphia lives a man who "I do bolleve," continued Denery, 'that the lio.it burnt up fifteen minutes after the alarm Into tho Earth. weighs not more than nine pounds and was nrst given." The wreck was In charge of Captain J. F. SnrcxAxnoAH, Dec.

17. Between 3 and measures only sixteen inches in height Muse. Second Mate Tom Trimble and Watch He is 22 years old. lhe museums are 4 o'clock this morning tho people living along west Coal street in tho northwestern section man Tom Miller. after him.

of this borough were aroused by a creaking Mr. McCreery said that John Breerard, a pnsscnger, was also saved. One passenger was seen to throw a bale of cotton overboard noise, and the swaying of houses resemb It is said that Senator Jones, of Flor and jump on it. Parties went to his rescue but before reaching him the bale was overturned and he was drowned. keys you want, 1:11 give them to you." DRIVEN INTO THE BREAST.

Without further warning the madman sprang at McGraw like a wild animal and drove the knife almost the full length of the blade into the old man's left breast only one sixteenth of an inch above his heart. Withdrawing ft the Mexican made a second attempt, but the unfortunate man warded off the blow when he threw the knife into the street and ran, making good his escape. There were no eve witnesses to this tragedy except the little boy, but help was soon at hand and McGraw was carried into his place of business more dead than alive. The physicians say that the chances for his recovery are but one in a thousand. Up to midnight it was not deemed advisable to move him to his residence.

A LYNCHING QUITE LIKELY. As soon as the direction which the assassin ida, will surely be back in his seat when congress opens, as there 13 talk of cutting off his pay of $13 a day unless he returns to his post. ffrottknu Not the Xiibeler. Milwaukee, Dec. 13.

A letter was read in court this afternoon from Edward ling a scries of successive shocks of earth- 3uakcs, produced by a cave iu which took own fully four acres of that section of town upon which stood upward of lifty houses. The greatest alarm prevailed from 8 o'clock until after daylight. As the surface sank the houses swayed and tottered and the frightened people, many of them with children lii their arras, rati in search of places of safety, while tho men collected their most portable property and. conveyed it from the doomed district. The surface settled from two to four feet and damaged the pro-perty to the extent of from $50,000 to $75,000.

The cave-in was caused by the robbing of the workings of the Kohinoor colliery, which is Loew, Anarchist Grottkau's private secretary and the city editor of his paper, stating that two highwaymen. About $1,000 iu money and $4,000 orth of diamonds and other valuables were left by the robbers in their haste to got through the train and because they did not search the ladies. They were evidently novices in the business, and went away with the paltry sum of $105, three gold watches, ten silver watches, five revolvers and one goid ring. The robbers left at the rear end of the sleeper, mounted horses and rode rapidly away. The train was then hurried on to Bellevue-where telegrams were sent to Superintendent Frost at Fort Worth, who replied, offering $250 reward for each, and In less than an hour live posses of officers and citizens were in pursuit under Sheriff McLain of Montague.

Marshal Black of Bowie and others. Sheriff McLain says he knows the robbers and has. no doubt of his ability to capture them. 'Superintendent Conners was on the train, having in charge deserters with guard ot five nergo soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry. He ordered tho soldiers to draw their "revolvers and fight the-robbers, but several passengers opposed this so strongly and pleaded so earnestly in behalf of the women and children on board that the superintendent reluctantly yielded, and when the robbers reached the soldiers and demanded their weapons they quickly gave them up.

Murdered by Negroes. Baltimore, Dec. 12. The case of supposed body snatching reported lust night turn out to be one of the most brntid murders on record. The gliaslly wounds found upon the body which was brought to the Maryland university for dissection puzzled the physicians and aroused sus-p'cion of foul play, so great that notified the police.

The police and detectives worked upon the ease all night and to-day, aud this, afternoon they Anderson Pern', colored, tho assistant janitor nt the Maryland In Cedartown has been organized an association for the purpose of holding a perpetual county exhibition of native resources, by which the town may be advertised. he alone was responsible for the libelous a-ti- cles directed against Judge Sloan and that Grottkau had not written them. Judge Sloan had taken was learned pursuit was given, not only by the police, but by mounted citizens, and there is very little doubt that if caught dispatched the sheriff in quest of Loew who had been in court all forenoon and it was as certained that he had taken the next train to located under that portion of the town. Chicago. The case against Grottkau was ad Mandet will stretch hemp, and even if confined iu jail he will be forcibly taken from it and hung to the iirst lamp post.

The feeling is very strong and there are many citizens here who have become tired of the numerous journed until next Tuesday. David Dudley Field, who is preaching a crusade against legal verbosity, says that the people of New York pay annually over $100,000 for recording surplus words in mortgages. Lost In a Wreck. San Francisco, Dec. 17.

At 2:30 murders committed recently, and tho knowledge that the laws in Kansas deal so leniently with the murderers. Celebrating a Prince's Majority. Athens, Dec. 13. The king and all the o'clock this morning the whaling bark Atlantic was driven ashore a mile and a half below the Cliff house and went to pieces iu a few McGraw took the Mexican into bis etnulov members of the royal family, at the head of a grand procession, attended the cathedral to when he was almost starved and claimed to have had nothing to eat for nearly three days.

minutes, not a spar remaining standing. The day to assist in celebrating the coming of age of the crown prince. The day was observed as wreck was strewn along the beach for three feet six and a half inches in height, is very dark for a Mexican and has a black mustache general Holiday. ihe cl was tlirongeu Rev. Dr.

Chappelle denies widespread report that Cardinal Gibbons has been in Washington on business regarding the establishment of a Roman Catholic bishopric in that city. or lour miles. About twenty-iive men were lost while the captain and mate with eight or ten men were saved. with people and much enthusiasm was and some scattering hairs on his chin. McGraw was for a number of years in the Captain AVnrreu told the following storv of employ of the government and his residence for a number of years in New Mexico enabled him to speak Spanish fluently.

He has a son An Iowa Law Upheld. Des Moines, Dec. 15 The Iowa su the wreck: "Wo were towed out to sea yesterday. There was a heavy head swell and no wind. The currents were so strong we could in this city who is also well known out west.

preme court this morning passed upon the having lived in Colorado aud New Mexico. constitutionality of what is known as the not get out of the swell. We let go both anchors, but the sea swept the decks and the heavy anchors could not hold. We dragged Sweeney law, enacted by tho last legislature, W. Holmes" is the way Dr.

Oliver Wendell H. signs his name, and he makes the "1" so small that it looks like a part of the His handwriting is almost as clear as that of a good bookkeeper. Three Trains In Collisions. ashore and struck at a. m.

Men were being washed otf during all this time by the compelling foreign corporations to incornor-ate under the state laws. To make a test case Lynchburg, Dec. 14. A freight and a immense waves which dashed over us. The material train on the western division of the vessel went to pieces an hour and half after she struck.

There was very heavy fog and it was pitch dark. We the attorney general several weeks ago, caused the arrest of tile local freight agent of the Chicago, Burlington and Quiucy railroad, who in turn applied for a writ of habeas corpus, alleging the unconstitutionality of the low. The opinion affirms the validity of the succeeded in lowering two bouts but they cap Norfolk and Western railway collided this morning about 8 o'clock near Pulaski City and immediately afterward a train on the Cripple Creek extension of that road, ran into the disabled trains. The three engines were complete sized before two lengths from the shore. The iirst boat contained J.

II. Dopy, first mate, Anton Perry, third mate, and four or five of the crew, that was the last wo saw of them. Henry M. Stanley is remarkable for a broad head, very thick: through the cheek bones. His hair is still dark and thick, covering the temples.

He is of middle size, weighing about 180 pounds. Ho looks like a man of about 50 years of age. Iu the second boat were myself, the second mate, King and live men. When we were ly wrecked, and tour cars containing merchandise were destroyed by fire. Fortunately no lives were lost, "but one engineer was injured.

The damage to the company has not yet been ascertained, though it is thought to be very heavy. The loss "is $50,00 Juw without going into the merits or tne case. It holds that if the law was decided agaiust, there could be no appeal to the state, hence in order to bring the case before a higher tribunal on its merits, the writ of habeas corpus was denied. An appeal will be taken to the United States supreme court. swamped the sea carried us in till we touched bottom, when we dragged ourselves ashore.

We made no signals of distress as it was too foggy for any to be seen." Congressman-elect Yost, of Vir As soon as the captain reached the shore he made his way in an exhausted condition to einia. is the sou of Mai. Yost, of The the life-saving station, a few hundred yards away, and gave the ularm. Apparatus was Staunton Valley Virginian, and will probably be the youngest man in the immediately got out, but owing to trie dark university, merely as a feeler. He became frightened and imparted such information as to cause tho arrest to-night of John T.

Ross, and Albert Hawkins, lioth negroes. The three men were placed in different cells at the western station, and late this, evening Ross made a full confession of the whole flair to Chief of Police Frye. The -facts are as follows: The woman whose body wild brought to tho Mainland university on Friday night was Emily Brown, a respectable. white woman 56 years of age, whom dire necessity compelled t. take lodgings with a lored woman on Pig alley.

The men who brought the body to the university were Ross' and Albert' Hawki us, who lived in the same house with Emily Brown. Ross met Anderson Perry, the university janitor, on the street last Monday and told him that lie was out of work and had no money. "Well," said Perry, "you needn't bo out" of money; kill tlie old white woman up at your house and bring tho body to the university and I'll give yon $15." At first Ross was horrified at the idea, but the $15 was too great temptation. was afraid to attempt tho job alone, so he Hawkins into the secret. Who assented Lathe plan proposed to deliberately murder poor helpless old woman for $15.

The two fiends watched their chance. The colored woman who owned the house left homo Friday morning to be gone until Suturdny and Friday afternoon Ross and Hawkins went to Einilv Brown's room. Ross striieK the woman on the head With a brick and Hawk. ns stabbed her. Ross continued to beat her on tlie bead with a brick and Hawkins pounded her client, with his heel unt.l she was dead.

They then went to the university, and after telling" Perry what they had done, got a sack from hitu ill which they brought the murdere 1 woman's, body to tlie university that night. Ferry at onee took the body to the pickling room where ho shaved off tlie lmir from the woman's head, washed tlie body and so disfigured the face and head as to give out the idea that it had been eatun by rats. The three men, Perry, Ross and Hawkins, are locked tip to night at the western station aud will bo transferred to jail to-morrow. Riotous Russian Workmen. St.

Petersburg, Dec. 15. Three thousand workmen iu Hubbard's cotton mills at Alex-androvsky, a suburb of St. Petersburg, atruck work to-day and made an attack upon the buildings, smashing windows and pelting members of the firm with brickbats. Fifty rioters were arrested ness and fog it was some time before the wreck could bo located.

A line was then shot liftieth congress, as ho is only 33. He Hebrews In l'avor of Reform. Pittsburg, Dec. 14. The spirit of Hebrew reform has taken a strong foothold in this city and the question of inaugurating Sunday services at the Eight street synagogue is now being discussed by some of its members.

Even some of those known as orthodox Jews are also in favor of holding services on the Christian Sabbath aud a convention will be held in a few weeks to take definite action ou the question. It is the intention to continue Saturday services for the benefit of the orthodox Hebrews. over her. but proved of no service, as it is a republican, and is now mayor of came entangled in floating wreckage and the Staunton. vessel shortly went to pieces.

The vessel was valued at $10,090 and her outfit at The insurance was The captain and crew numbered forty-two persons, ana up ro now omy eleven are Known to be paved. Only one body has thus far been recovered. A cousin of Charles Dickens, who is said to be living in New York under very straitened circumstances, absolutely refuses to sell valuable autograph letters of the great novelist, though handsome prices have been ofl'ered by collectors. The Riot's Victim Dies. San Francisco, Dec.

14. Bernard Heins, who was mortally wounded in the melee at the terminus of Sutter street railway yesterday, died from the effects of his wound to-day. John Kelsey, who was alleged to have fired the fatal shot, was charged with the murder as soon as Heins' death was an-tounced. Cars were run on both the Sutter and Geary street roads during the entire day aud no disturbance of any kind occurred. Still Solid for Alexander.

RusTcncK, Dec. 15. Stoianoff, a supporter of the regency, publishes a letter in the Slavi-arrfne newspaper urging the Macedonians to rise against Turkish authority aud join the people of Eastern Roumelia and Bulgaria in constituting a state which shall be "Great Prince Alexander as King; otherwise to join in proclaiming a Bulgarian republic. Money Asked for Walt Whitman. London, Dee.

15. The Hatty Kews commenting on Consul Underwood's statement that Walt Whitman is sorely in want of money appeals to Englaud to secure for the poet a certain income to satisfy his few material needs. A Minnesota Hotel Ablaze. Pipestone, Dec. 15.

Tho Calumet Fireman and Kiisineor Killed. Gunnison, Dec, 17. As the Salt Lake express on the Denver and Rio Grande road was rounding a curve approaching tho bridge across the Gunnison river, at 3 o'clock this morning, the engine struck a cow lying on the track and was derailed, tumbling over and over into tho river below. Engineer Welsh and Fireman McConnell were instantly killed. The coaches all remained on the track, aud no one else was injured.

The Public Land Strip Bill. Washington, D. Dec 12. Congressman Peters has secured tho passage of Congress Train Hands Crushed to Death. Cincinnati, Dec.

17. Last night as an Stanley Not Ready for a War. New Yoyk, Dee. 14. Henry M.

Stanley was asked to-night whether the report that he had Dffered his services to the British government to lead a non-military expedition to Uganda hotel burned this morning and David McCuI- engine was returning to Somerset, on tho Cincinnati Southern road, from a freight wreck near Smibright, an axle of the tender broke into and the engine whs thrown Mrs. Sarah A. Kelly, of Hones-dale, well known as the "Bard of Shanty Hill," and prospective "Bard of the Nation," has gone to Washington to push her claim for the laureateship. Mrs. Kelley has written some things which she considers incomparably better than anything ever penned by Tennyson.

In Greenfield. G. M. Yacu-bian, a young Turk, is trying to obtain the necessities of life by selling oriental goods. A few years ago his father was one of tho richest men in Turkey, but lost his fortune in the opium trade.

The young man is trying to prepare himself for college. He is a diligent student and can talk fluently in four languages. lough was fatally injured, the Rev. A. J.

Or- cutt, a Baptist minister, was killed, a little to rescue Emln Bey and 3,000 Egyptians who were holding Wadey against a hostile chief, over an embankment. Christopher Toole, the colored boy had his back broken and Virgil engineer, of Ludlow. Kv and John Rhodv, Trendergast was seriously hurt, all by falling walls. The loss was Siu.OOO: partly insured. the brakeman, of Danville, were crushed to death beneath tho engine.

man Ryan's b.ll to extend the laws of the United States over tlie unorganized territory King south of Kansas aud Colorado, between the Indian territory and New Mexico, known as "Tho Public Strip," or "No-Mau's. Land." The bill annexes th.s strip to the stats of Kansas for judicial purposes, and to the southwestern land district of Kansas for land entry. The secretary of the interior is authorized to cause the snbdivisional town lines to be surveyed, provided that the lauds shall be tubject to entry only by actual settlers under the homestead law's, end no patent will be issued for any lands so entered until after five years' actual residence. Nothing was saved. Lew Ellesworth escaped by a rope lrom a secpnu story wmuow.

was true, and whether it had anything to do with his recall, and replied: "A man came to nie three weeks before I sailed for America and made that proposition and I said to him: 'How can I tell anything about it? Why, no funds have been raised and I have been spoken to about another Mr. Stanley will sail for Europe to-morrow nd go directly to Brussels. A Steamer Burned. New Orleans, Dec. 14.

The steamer J. M. No Escape from Justice. New York, Dec. 13.

George Brown, assist White, from Vicksburg, to New Or ant postmaster at Hamburg, was to-day leans, burned at 10 o'clock last night at Blue Store Point Coupe, thirty miles above Baton Rouge. She had quite a number of passengers aboard, 2,100 bales of cotton and 60,000 sacks of seed. arraigned before United States Commissioner Shields charged with robbing the mails. When arrested he said that he had left Hamburg in April last and had traveled nearly around the globe. He was tracked by detectives and this morning he was arrested at the offices Several lives are reported lost, but Captain On Trial for Poisoning.

Pittsburgh, Dec. 14. The trial of Mrs. Runnell, charged with the poisoning of Eddie Thaw, who recently died under suspicious circumstances, was begun In the criminal court this afternoon. The work of impaneling a jury consumed the entire session.

Young Thaw was a nephew of Mrs. Runnell and a relative of William Thaw, the millionaire railroad official. James F. Muse, who was in command, telegraphs that only one life the porter of the boat is known to be lost. The boat and of the snipping commissioners.

He left Liverpool a short time ago and shipped as a sailor De Witt Talmage is quoted by The Pittsburgh Chronicle as saying: "I prepare my sermons usually by walking the floor or on a railway train. I can think better when in motion than when stationary. I sometimes jot down notes on a train though I generally carry them in my head. When I go off on a journey, by the time I get back home I have sermons blocked out for 150 years. cargo are a total loss.

The J. was built in 1878, at a cost Tlie Drill Will Surely Occur. Wasuin'gto, D. Dec. 12.

Tho citizens' ot Washington having subscribed a guarantee fund of to ensure the payment of prizes and the" expenditures for the national drill and encampment, the executive committee now give notice that such drill and encampment will begin in Washington May 2ii and will end Decoration day. Entries will be open to 1he regularly organized volunteer mil-lit ot the United fetatcs lor the competition as regiments, battalions or companies, infantry, artillery, cavalry aud zouave tactic, and also to regular organized corps of cadets, from military and university schools. The prizes offered the competitors aggregate of which $1.0,500 will be distributed among the best five companies of infantrv as follows: First prizes, second, third, fourth, fifth, $500. of $3:5,000 and was the finest and fastest boat ever run on the Mississippi. The boat was owned by John W.

Tobin, and was valued at 100,000, aud the cargo at The in surance on the boat is and the cargo Is doubtlessly fully covered by insurance. Bavitt Stands Up for McGlynn. New York, Dec. 14. The next number of the Irish World will contain a long Interview with Michael Davitt on father McGlynn's ease In which he says that Father McGlynn ought to go to Rome and defend his stand taken in the Henry George campaign and that the priest's friends should not allow him to bear all the expense of the journey from his slender means.

rulier particulars are at this time almost impossible to be had. When the White took tire she was lving at under tne name ot Jackson ttorousn. crown wns turned over to United States Marshal Bernhard, who started west with him this evening. Negroes Murder Two Collectors. Augusta, Dec.

15 Many colored tenants in Lincoln county are in arrears with their supply bills, and efforts to collect them have -produced great indignation. Monday, Tom Leverett and McCabe Ramsey went to the eastern side of tho county to enforce a Erocess. They found the house surrounded negroes who at once opened fire upon thera and they were so badly wounded that their lives are'in danger. Yesterday an armed band of a hundred white men proceeded to that section where it is reported the negroes are well armed and fully prepared to fight. News of the outcome is awaited with interest.

One tmndred white men rode to the jail in Yorkvi'le at 7 o'clock this morning and demanded Ihe four murderers of John Good. The sheriff, however, had already sent them to Columbia, thus avoiding a lynching. Point Coupe, taking on cotton. She had on board 3,500 bales ot cotton and 8,000 sacks of Schwartz Held for Bigamy. Chicago, Dec 14.

Schwartz, the The moonsionc holds its own with Strong tenacity, and will prove a first class selling article during the hol-day trade, says The Jewelers' Circular. These stones are set both in gold and silver, the latter being the newer of the two, and perhaps the most popular. The finer specimens of Ceylon moonstones, those in which the chatoyant reflection is most marked, are set in rings, line brooches or studs with and without small diamonds. A nevolt Against Assembly 49. Brooklyn, N.

Dec. 13. At a mass meeting of 4,000 Knights of Labor of the Long island local assemblies to-night it was resolved to demand of the general executive board the issuance of the separate charter 1 seed. This makes the cargo valued at I Thomas Barry, second engineer, was on duty when the "lire broke out in the cotton amidship. For a time it was thought they had the fire under control, but it finally gained headway that nothing could be done with it Harry states that the fire then spread so rapidly that the boat was wrapped in flames iu a short lime.

He thinks there were ten or I twelve lives lost, including the colored fireman breakman suspected of knowing something about the great Rock Island train robbery, was held to the criminal court this morning in bonds of $3,000, on the charge of bigamy. granted by the Cleveland convention for the Long island assemblies. It was further resolved never to return to allegiance to district assembly 49. It is asserted that the railway company is pnshing the charge of bigamy against him in order to keep him in custody. I end two colored chambermaids; one named.