Show SAD SKATING AFFAIR MOTHER dadum KRS AM SON the terrible math roll from the laie cold A sad earns texas jan 18 seven persons were drowned today to day in sand lake about ton miles east of here two young women daughters of wm williams a farmer and a young man named ballou were skating on the lake when the ice gave way and they sank in four and a half feet of water miss babbitt and two little girls aged 8 and 14 years also daughters of william williams who were on the shore watching the sport were drowned in attempting to rescue their friends A very small child of mr williams also fell through the ice but was saved by one of the drowning young ladies by her catching and throwing it out on the ice young williams a brother of the young ladies drowned was a quarter of a mile distant and ran to the assistance of the unfortunate but was soon overpowered by those who were drowning and he too was drowned mrs williams his mother made an effort to save them but was palled down and would have met the fate of her children but for the timely aid tuf her two daughters aged 10 and 12 years these children threw her a rope and succeeded in pulling her ashore kauff victims st paul jan 17 reports of the loss of life in last weeks storm continue to come in the list numbers about it is probable that the final list will increase this to dispatches tonight to night say that sarah dolan a schoolteacher of goodwin near clear lake dakota and hugo scheff a farmer of altamont dakota have been found frozen to death so far four deaths have been reported in this county but it is feared there there are many more news reached jamestown dakota this afternoon of the freezing to death of M A byan a farmer living near windsor dispatches from alexandria minnesota say the frozen countryman was found this morning the death of ed W killing a farm boy has been reported from canton dakota it is reported that thirty one school children are missing in turner county three children of mr heince northwest of lennox perished while goin from school the lady teacher argued and pleaded with the scholars not to leave the and finally locked the door but they were too many for her and had their own way this makes seven children lost in the vicinity of Jaen nox from aberdeen dakota the pioneer press has tonight to night a report of two moro victims of the storm the report of the death of a school teacher and sixteen children at clear lake township in eastern edmund county at first discredited is probably true parties who came from warner dakota tonight to night state that the teacher and six of the children have been found highmore dakota reports that sister willameta Willa meva of i stephen mission twenty miles south of there was caught by the blizzard and frozen from wolseley comes the report of two more bodies found A yankton dakota correspondent says only two deaths are reported so far in the country nineteen deaths are reported from south dakota deaths are reported in bonhome county head of frozen cattle we counted in one place and in another dead cattle and hogs may bo seen all along the road from yankton to springfield the snow drifts are said to be thirty feet deep lincoln neb jan 17 A dispatch from oneill nebraska says fifteen persons perished in last thursdays storm in anster county alone the loss of stock is said to have been enormous particulars are not ob i lie onla took jan 17 A sensation in business circles was caused this afternoon when it known that charles E young for many years confidential bookkeeper book keeper of the michigan carbon works but more recently secretary and treasurer of the con cem had been arrested charged with embezzlement young has for years past reveled in the possession of a blooded horse a nobby turnout and n colored coachman on a salary of 1800 but as his father was known to be wealthy it excited no special attention last september young was promoted to the position of secretary i and treasurer and not long afterwards a decrease in the dividends to tho stockholders caused complaint this dissatisfaction led to an investigation it was ascertained then that somebody high in office had been pocketing the money belonging to the company for the last two or three years president jarvis lias boon active in the search of the guilty party and at a meeting of alie board of di rectors held a few days ago informed his conferees that young was the culprit ho said young even as i confidential bookkeeper book keeper bad handled money for the purpose of bones and had credited bone peddlers with many pounds of bones that they had not shipped and that ho had pocketed the difference between the truth and falsity this explanation was accepted accordingly Accordi ugly young was locked up last nights he was not shut up in the ordinary quarters at the jail but in a room of the sheriffs residence there a an air of mystery about the affair and when a reporter sought an interview at tho jail this evening helas told that negotiations were under way to settle the affair and that to could not seethe prison er president jarvis after consult g with his attorney stated this that us near ss it could bo ascertained the defalcation amounted to and had extended over a period of three years being accomplished in a very clever way so as to avoid suspicion most effectually alio action is one of trespass in the for and young is held m bail which he has not yet given nal forces berlin jan 17 the publishes with au dhority tho rity a reply to the invalid busses late comparisons of the frontier forces it says authentic estimates of the peace effectives stationed sta tinned in the frontier provinces of austria russia and germany show that drussia has men and field guns germany men and field guns the nest compares tho military situation on the russian side of the frontier with that on the german side taking the forces within the territories of about an equal area the russians has men horses and guns of all kinds while germany have only 81 men horses and guns the garrison of warsaw consisting of men horses and 50 field gun bunsis sis contrasted with tho garrison of koenigsburg Koen isburg consisting of men 1400 horses and 50 field guns and the garrison of breslau with men horses and 32 field guns A novel airily if true Jew York jan 17 special to the tribune two men were arrested for the murder of lyman S 1 brooks of brooklyn one has been centon ced to be hanged and the other is still to bo tried both are in jail last friday night the police arrested a gang of thieves one of these now tells the police that he has learned of a plan arranged between the two persons accused of murdering brooks which is that the one first to be hanged should exonerate the other on the gallows the police credit the story that this bargain was agreed upon wa only botne to spend the winter denver jan 17 oliver gratton was arrested at the union depot this evening as he stepped off the train from beckenridge colorado on a warrant charging him with stealing in the neighborhood of in gold nuggets from the victoria placer mine near breckenridge the mine belongs to colonel ware and win hudson who had employed work the property for the prisoners trunks were searched and nuggets and mint certificates amounting to or found besides deeds of several farms in canada gratton denies his gulic and says he is persecuted by ware hudson with whom he had trouble before he loft the mine he declares he wag on his way to canada to spend the winter and intended to return in tho spring lne killed cleveland jan 17 A passenger train on the lake erio western railroad was wrecked this morning near bluffton ohio by a broken rail the locomotive and baggage car ran over the break all right but the smoker and ladies car turned over on their sides and were dragged a long distance before the train was stopped albert gilbert a traveling man from fostoria jumped from the front platform or the smoker and was crushed to death nine persons were more or lees injured tho most serious being edwin of a theatrical company whose left hand was so badly crushed that it had to be amputated three meu to death mount carmel pa jan 17 A fire this morning consumed a row of seven frame houses occupied by hun carians ga rians three men were burned to death and a woman and one child were missing the fire originated in a house where a hungarian christening was being celebrated and it is supposed was caused by the drunken inmates upsetting a stove st petersburg jan 17 general grasser prefect of st petersburg on the night of january ordered that numerous houses in the city be searched the result was the arrest of persons one house was set on fire by the occupants and several nihilist printing machines and a large number of revolutionary pamphlets were burned the occupants themselves were unable to escape and were arrested another killed rochester N Y jan 17 A collision occurred early this morning on the erie railroad between acoca and Kanona an engineer was killed and a fireman seriously injured several passengers aro reported injured but the facts are unobtainable me got six cents now york jan 18 A verdict for six cents was awarded to amelia gregory in the city court today to day under peculiar circumstances mrs gregory sued her divorced husband herman for slander she sued for 1000 mr kes counsel that he intended to prove that the plaintiff had poisoned people committed arson been indicted for bigamy and was a general immoral person upon this announcement counsel for plaintiff held a hasty con agreement an was speedily entered in which mrs gregory was to six cents Sch afterwards said ho agreed that the woman should have some kind of a verdict for if he had not she would have thrown ditrol in his face kin wile new york jan 18 frank bouck ner a young austrian living in south brooklyn this afternoon fatally wounded bis wife and killed himself with a revolver insane jealousy was the cause tie death koll st paul jan 18 it is figured out that there jiahe been deaths by the blizzard the remains of many of the people who are reported missing may not bo found until the snow chawa in the spring the bodies being covered by deep drifts that formed over them forfa worth texas jan IS ahrea additional deaths from freezing are reported unknown tramp near henrietta and two near waco no reports of loss of live stock in the pan handle are ye received although it is known to be great hillsboro texas jan IS the loss of live stock in the hill country from the recent blizzard is not less than 1000 head thirteen men drowned liverpool jan 18 the british toronto from portland january ath for arrived in mersey today to day she reports that during the fog off sherris Sk erris ireland she collided with and sunk the norwegian bark I redis from liverpool for savannah and that thirteen of the barks crew were drowned only one man being saved pardoned by ci eveta ui washington 18 the president has pardoned william walters convicted in utah of unlawful cohabitation and has commuted to three the imprisonment sentence of thomas henderson convicted in utah of the like offense denver jan 18 colorado springs special to the beius minnie bay daughter of a prominent citizen of this place threw herself in front of an engine of the midland empress which passed near the house at 11 last night and was instantly killed her head was crushed and torn from her shoulders and her body horribly mangled she left a letter to fsr parents saying she was a great sinner and would rather die than disgrace them it is learned that a few days ago she rented a cottage belonging to her father for 20 and spent the money the thought of this so preyed on her mind that she concluded to take her life the coroners jury verdict was suicide while temporarily insane the girls parents are at present visiting new mexico and have been telegraphed for |