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Show BSBSBBSKaBSBBSaSBkSSSBSBBSBBSSBSSBSkSSBSBlBBSSBSBBSSBBBSSi ANOTHER CALAMITY. A Poor-Ilouso Burned (Donn and hCTcn Inmates "Lose ' Their Lltess t ' J, . . . RESTAURANT WAITERS' STRIKE IN NEW YORK O'Dotwan I!osa Fined 100 for 'Criminal libel. O'Brien's Libel -Action. - Br TelecrardM theEsrs.l A rerun not si: m iim.i. Heteis Insane Inmsln I.osc Their Lives 1st ltirrlrr. Uinouajiitov, V., MayS. A sjiecial from Norwich, Chenango County, says the poor-houc was burned last night. Seven inmates wcru burned to death. The lire started in Uie insane department. The poor house insane department and a large Inm were destroyed. AH the departments were crowded. But for the bard work on the part of the keepers, the loss of life would havo been terrible. Damage $10.-000. $10.-000. The names of Uie dead discovered aro barah Mllb, Sarah Galaghbr, Sarah Bailey, liura Gray, Delia Benedict, Deborah Diddle, JIary Ann Diddle, Lucy Warren, Amelia At wood. All the departments ot the lustitutioii were crowded. The rescue of Uio poor creatures, minr of them old and feeble, others willl with terror, was no easv List, and the great wonder b that so many were rescued. People went at it haphazard, nppalleu by tho aw fulness ful-ness of Uie cries and moans of the inmates and the magnitude of tho catastrophe. Two women, idiots, were burned, but Uielr names cannot jet be given. A session of the supervisors will be held tonight In order that Immediate Imme-diate provision may be made forthe Inmates. Tho city marshal has sworn in a large number of deputies, and Is searching for tho missing. The number of dead may rossibly reach thirteen. It Vtns.-Vnl sm, 2Cirv Yomr, MayS. The JUrald sas: Richard Croker's rclaUvesand family phjsiciaii deny that he b dying at Ttiesbadcn.of cauccrofUic liver. WltsiiADfc.N, May S. ltleliard Crokerhas recovcicd from his late relapse, and is now able to take outdoor out-door exercise. n'Oonotitn Itosvn I Jnrst. ."rw Yomc, May,8. O'DoBovan Itossa, recently convicted of criminal crimi-nal libel, was today fined $100. 1 rer Ittliiacr. Kk.no, Xcv., Miy S. Tliomis Kiteli, vice-president of the national slher committer, has called a State convention for Nevada, to be held at Carson May 23, to favor free coinage. The strike User. Paris, Mays. Twenty thousand strikers at Jtoubaix have resumed work. Thu strike b practical! ended. Tnaiuc; X ore'encrs. Paris, May S. The cabinet lias adjourned the di-cus!on of the question of taxing foreigners residing resid-ing in Franco in order to ascertain whether the existing treaties between be-tween Franco and the various nations na-tions provldu against such tax. nrlrn I Ibel cllon. LoMxiv, May S. O'ltrien lias been refused a new trial in his libel suit against iyird Salisbury. On the first trial a verdict was returned agnlnst O'iirian. tlilensoTniiiier-toti MriUe. Chicago, May 7. Fie hundred tanners struck today for nine hours' work and ten hours' pay. The Kostats MriUes. Boston, May S. Tho building laborers hae decided to postono the contemplated strike until after tbc meeting of master masons, at which action is expected upon thu men's demands. The (avers voted to work but nine hours after Monday. Mon-day. The Mnmtart! Ull CompNUi'.. Colujibcs, May S. Atlonie-General Atlonie-General U'ntswn has lroucht suit to tke from Uie Ftaudird Oil Company Com-pany lb chart tr for violation of the law sin various waF. Thu petition refers to the general state laws against monopolies, and cites thu fectslhat the btandanl OH Company Com-pany liad forfeited its rights by going go-ing Into the Standard Oil Trust of New York. Temperature. Chicago, Mays. Xcw York 46: Xcw Orleans Gl; fat. Ioub4S; Cln riunati II; Chicago H; Vinnii-g 36. ItrstnnmuC 1snller.' MrlLe. Chicago. May S. Tho colored waiters in Kinsleysand other swell res'aunnb, and In a number of second sec-ond hand places struck at noon today to-day for a reformation In the hours of w otk art! wages. Nlilnlsht Xnrrlacr. Cim3.siati, May S. Shortly after midnight, last night, William U. BunJy, nephew of ex-Governor Forakcr, w as married in Covington, ICy., to MIki I a edom, daughter of the'ilon. John P Ieedoui, latu ser-geint ser-geint at aimsofthu IIoum- of lte-reentatlvcsi. lte-reentatlvcsi. It was an elopement. The story goes that the lovers met only four da s cgu iu a stage coach. A Snttslllallon. Toi'KKA, Kns., May S. At the annual meeting of the Atcbl-on, Tupeka and banta Feltallwoy the only chango In the board of directors direc-tors elected was the substitution of lucvi C Wade, prrsldcnt of tho Mexiiau Ccotril, for K. 1Z. Pea-hod Pea-hod v. .Senate Miter Illll. Washimituv, May S. Consideration Consider-ation of thesilver bill has by uuan-Imaiisconsentbeen uuan-Imaiisconsentbeen postponed until Monday, when it will lie taken up, not to bebidasldu until final nctiou b bad. ThoTorrltori.il bllb go over until afteraction ou thesilver bill. Jndsmeut AcalnstClilnamen. BctfaijO, X. Y MayS. United States Commissioner Fitzgerald has given judgment in the case Of tho three Chinamen, recently arrested for smuggling, held for coming Into tho country In violation of tbc exclusion ex-clusion law. He decides that they must be ent hack to Canida. sfomtantlou. Wasiiigto, May S. -r The President has scut to tho Senate tho following nominations: For the territory ter-ritory of Oklihcina, Geo. W. Steele, Indiana, governor; Robert Martin, of Oklahoma, secretar- Supreme Couit oluoIaU: Kdward B. Green, Illinois, chief Justice: Abraham J. Sary, Missouri, and John G. Clark, Wisconsin, associate Justices; Warren S. liurty, of Vir-i giub, U. S. marsba); Horace Speed, of Oklahoma, U.S. attorney. |