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Show CENTRAL TELEGRAPH NEWS. THE FIRE FIEND. Old Orchard Beach, Maine, Aug. 31.-The Hotel Brunswick, the Pleasant House, Central Hall and a dwelling burned this morning. Loss, $25,000. The fire was the work of an incendiary. The flames spread very rapidly. The guests, when aroused, found it impossible to escape by the stairway, and jumped from the second and third story windows. A lady from Toronto was badly injured. The guests escaped in their night clothes, losing their wardrobes and other effects. MILITARY MATTERS. Washington, Aug. 31.-The Secretary of War has approved the record of the court-martial in the case of Col. Joseph H. Taylor, assistant adjutant general, and forwarded it to the President for his action. By direction of the President, the military department of West Point will be discontinued to-morrow, from which date the United States military academy will be under the supervision and charge of the general of the army. Washington, Aug. 31.-Guiteau's skeleton is now at the National Army Medical Museum in this city, but not to be exhibited to the public. The final disposal of the bones of the assassin has not yet been determined upon, and cannot be until Judge Hager decides as to the validity of Guiteau's will, in which he bequeathed his body to Dr. Hicks. Experts engaged on a microscopical examination of Guiteau's brain have completed their work, and it is understood that they have already disagreed on conclusions respecting his insanity, and there will be probably two reports rendered. DIRK LITTLE ON TRIAL. Huntsville, Ala., Aug. 31.-In Huntsville to-day, there was a most interesting attraction in the trial of Dick Little, which begun before Commissioners Boone and McCullough. The prisoner came in early, evidently in the best of spirits. The court room was filled to overflowing. The first witness called was Mrs. Jesse James, who was examined at length, and developed in the first part of her testimony that Frank and Jesse James, with their families, lived in Nashville from November, 1880, until the latter part of March, 1881. Her statements were not at all damaging to the prisoner, and so far as the Muscle Shoal, robbery was concerned, Mrs. James exploded a pretty little story that has been going the rounds of the press about her returning a watch to Mr. Dooly, in Philadelphia. She indignantly denied doing so, but claimed Little stole this watch and returned it in her name. Alex G. Smith, the man robbed, was next examined and gave his story of the robbery, which the public is familiar with. He did not recognize Little as one of the men who committed the robbery. Other witnesses were examined, but nothing important was brought out. Six other witnesses will be examined. YELLOW FEVER. Galveston, Aug. 31.-An Austin special says the Governor has received a telegram from the county Judge of Hidalgo, stating that the yellow fever is spreading in the ranches above Brownsville, on the Macon side of the Rio Grande. Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 31.-There are sixty new cases, and two deaths, both Mexicans. Doctor ?? was taken down. Many cases of fever have extended along the ranches towards Corpus Christi. Three deaths are reported in Matamoras and a few new cases. The weather is very hot. Pensacola, Fla., Aug. 31.-Six new cases of yellow fever are reported to-day. The total cases to date are eighteen, and deaths two. A number of persons who left the city have returned, not able to find an abiding place elsewhere on account of the rigid quarantine against Pensacola. The people of Greenville, Alabama, are so alarmed that they threaten to tear up the railroad tracks. The postmaster of this place has received a communication from the authorities of Birmington, Alabama, requesting that no mail matter be sent to that point from Pensacola. The Pensacola & Atlantic Railroad has discontinued daily trains to Milton, which place has been quarantined. Steamer communication is also suspended. The Moline mills, fifteen miles distant, have established pickets around that settlement. The people are cheerful, and there is no desire to leave the city. Washington, Sept. 2.-Additional particulars from Brownsville to Dr. Hamilton, Supervising Surgeon General of the Marine Hospital Service, show one-fifth of the population of the city are down with yellow fever. The precautions taken by Dr. Hamilton against a spreading of the disease from Brownsville, are almost perfect in character, and there is little to fear from the progress of the epidemic beyond the limits of four counties included in the outer cordon of guards. The affected district includes the counties of ?? with 3,500 population, ??, with 8,300, Hidalgo, with 4,000, and Cameron, in which Brownsville is situated, with 1,500. The cordon of guards protecting the outer world against emigrants from these counties is composed of 125 Texas rangers, stretched along the 124 miles of railway running between Corpus Christi and Laredo. The inner cordon is composed of a like guard, smaller in number, thrown around the northern and western sections of the city. Persons desiring to leave the city can go out into the district above spoken of, and having their baggage fumigated, and their more contagious effects destroyed. Beyond the cordon on the Corpus Christi & Laredo Railroad, however, no person is allowed to go on this road. To all intents and purposes it is a dead line and any person attempting to cross the limits is liable to be shot down. On each of the innumerable wagon roads running from the railroad into the district, for the distance of seven or eight miles, there are well armed relays of guards whose duty it is to notify the outer cordon of the approach of persons from the infected district throughout the counties of the inner and outer guards. DENVER FREIGHT RATES. Chicago, Aug. 31.-A private dispatch received here to-day from Denver states that the Union Pacific is cutting rates on freight from seaboard cities to Denver, and offering inducements to shippers in the way of passes. This course is said to have been taken to punish the Burlington road, because it refuses to agree not to build any more roads in Nebraska. A war on rates is predicted as a probable result. The Union Pacific, Northwestern, Rock Island and Burlington auditors and general freight agents met here to-day and practically decided on a uniform system of through way billing to points of destination in Nebraska. The custom heretofore has been to way-bill to the Missouri river, and re-bill to destination. This caused much annoyance and frequent overcharges. The completion of the Burlington lines and then billing through to Denver rendered this action necessary. ARIZONA INDIAN TROUBLES. Tucson, A. T. Aug. 31.-The Star advices from Lubac, A. T., to-day say the following are the facts in regard to the Indian troubles in this section. A band of ?? numbering about two hundred, has been operating in Sonora for about two months, and about the last of the week met the Mexican troops at San Antonio Pass and whipped them. They then camped near our line and divided up into three or four bands, each taking different directions. One band struck the upper Santa Cruz near ?? and crossed the Patagonias to the Santa Cruz road, striking it at a point two or three miles above Ciciro Marthinezes. Here they are said to have killed three prospectors. They then caused the San Juan Mountains and struck the Magdalena road about three miles above the Custom House at Frontenanza and when last seen were making for the Ponchos de Plain. Tombstone advices say: Wm. Johnson a cattle man, near the head of the Sonora river, was killed by the Apaches in Sonoma, near the Custom House. Four Americans and one Mexican were killed last Sunday near ??. Mexican troops are in close pursuit of the Indians. |