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Show TELEGRAPHIC: CASUALTIES. LONDON, Nov. 27. --A heavy gale prevailed throughout the United Kingdom on Saturday and Sunday, doing serious damage to property. Nearly the whole of the new pier at Folkestone was washed away. There are many wrecks along the coast. -The dockyard church at Shernes [Sheerness] has been burned. Nine persons were injured. -There are eleven deaths daily from cholera at Jeddah and twenty-two at Mecca. -LONDON, Nov. 18. - About forty persons injured in the late gale are being treated in London hospitals. It is feared some cases will prove fatal. Fifty barges sunk in the Thames. Extensive floods are reported in the upper Thames valley. -CHICAGO, Nov. 28. - Charles Schanch? Schauch? and Louis Dorman?, while skating on Sunday at Lansing, Iowa, were drowned. A BIG STRIKE. VIENNA, Nov. 27. - Colliers in Ostran mines belonging to the Northern Railway, the largest mines in Austria, are on strike. At last accounts, the strike was becoming serious; 12,000 men were already out, and it was feared the miners in large neighboring pits would join them. The strikers, besides claiming an increase of wages, demand the dismissal of all overseers. Two companies of infantry were sent to Ostran from Frofean. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. A terrible tragedy is reported form [from] Waterloo, Iowa. A widow woman named Miller, at Union Township, killed two of her children, aged three months and three years. The tragedy was discovered accidentally on Saturday by Mrs. Miller's brother, who found her in bed with one dead child on each arm. She has been insane since her husband died two weeks ago. $155,000 FIRE. CHICAGO, Nov. 20. - A special from Decatur, Texas, says: The county court house was burned to the ground yesterday. The loss is not accuratly [accurately] known but believed to be not less than $155,000. The criminal and civil docket papers, indictments, etc., were entirely destroyed, also many other papers. The safe in the county clerk's office with its records and $3,000 in cash are believed to be destroyed. The fire was incendiary. No insurance whatever. Individual losses on books, furniture, etc., are considerable. The question of a new court house had been warmly discussed, and it is supposed that this means was taken to decide the matter. SENTENCED FOR SEVEN YEARS. KENOSHA, Wis. [Wisconsin], Nov. 29. - H. M. Thiers?, the swindler, was sentenced yesterday, making no defense, but pleading guilty to forgery. He received a seven year's sentence. A STRANGE STORY OF A TREACHEROUS NIHILIST'S CAREER. PETERSBURG, Nov. 27. - A great stir has been made in the Nihilist camp by the following discovery. About a year ago a Jew, named G. G., was denounced by some person who had a private score to settle with him and was arrested. After he had been asked a few questions, it became known he was one of the chief members of the central revolutionary committee. He made a clean breast of it and denounced over sixty of his accomplices and took the police to his laboratory on the banks of the Neva, where six men were captured in the very act of manufacturing dynamite, and a large supply of explosives were found in the laboratory. As a result of this treachery, several persons were sentenced, and two men named Twiatesky? and Porschnickif?, hanged on October 8th. A few days afterward the authorities announced the death of G. G. The body was horribly mutilated and disfigured, and was handed over to some Jewish friends of the dead man and buried in the Isane Cemetery. The affair made a great sensation at the time, and it was believed that G. G. had been murdered in prison, either by the authorities or by some avenging nihilist. When the body reached the Jewish burying ground, the rabbi refused to receive it without a certificate of identification. The guard of six gendarms [gendarmes], who had escorted the body, went back to town, and presently returned with a death certificate filled up with G. G.'s name, and apparently perfectly regular. The rabbi was convinced thereby that the corpse was really that of the Jew, and the funeral was allowed to take place. Astonishing revelations have been made to the Russian police lately; numerous arrests were made in consequence, and the certainty that Baronoff and his successor, Kislow, were operating, set the nihilists to work to find out the man who was proving so destructive to them. Investigations were fruitless for a long time, but at [a] last chance put them on the track, and their denouncer turns out to be no other than G. G., who is alive and well, and in the pay of the Russian police in New York. It is now known that he turned traitor on these conditions: First, that he should have free pardon; second, that his death in the fortress should be proclaimed and fully attested; third, he should be given 10,000 roubles to get to America. The police executed these conditions to the very letter. A body was procured from the hospital and cleverly mutilated, so as to be unrecognizable, and as already explained, was buried. G. G. got his money and was quietly shipped to America. Before leaving, he wrote a confession of faith, declaring he had made this disclosure for the nihilist's cause, which ought to have nothing in common with terrorism and was destined to triumph only by the force of its principles and by the united action of socialists all the world over. G. G., stimulated by the hope of more roubles, is still in New York, giving the Russian police invaluable assistance. MASKED HIGHWAYMEN. GALVESTON, Nov. 28. - The News San Antonio special says: The stage between San Antonio and Corpus Christi was robbed last night by two masked men, three miles from Oakville. The only passenger, Frank Hay, of Echo, Texas, was relieved of a small amount of mony [money]. The mail was rifled of everything valuable, and the stage allowed to proceed. A MISSISSIPPI HORROR. ABERDEEN, MISS., 28 - On Saturday, four men with a wagon passed through here, stating that they were from near the Alabama line, and going to Arkansas. They camped three miles west of here, and on Sunday evening, persons passing by found them lying on mattrasses [mattresses] covered with quilts, each with his head split open, as though with an axe. No evidence of the robbery was visible. |