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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. <br><br> Louisville, Feb. 6. -- The legislature is now investigating the state prison report. Its condition is shamefully bad. It is overcrowded, the sewerage is defective, unclean, the diet is improper, scurvy prevails among the prisoners to a fearful extent; at one time over 200 were in the hospital with it. There was a total of cases during the year of 775 out of 1,010 inmates. The sole cause has been improper food and treatment, and is wholly inexcusable. The mortality has nearly doubled over the preceding years, and yet the number of prisoners is not much, if any greater. Flogging the prisoners is carried on to a cruel extreme. <br><br> Spring Lake, N.J., Feb. 7 -- A large iron-tank supposed to be that of a steamer foundered at sea and bearing the inscription McKeagh Brothers, Liverpool, has come ashore. <br><br> Rochester, Ohio, Feb. 7 -- A seventeen year old boy to day fired a ball through his sister's heart from a pistol which he hadn't known was loaded. The name of the boy is John Campbell. <br><br> New York, feb. 6 -- Official dispatches are received giving further details of the recent hurricane on the Philippine Islands. Twenty five vessels of various kinds were wrecked, including four foreign frigates, a large number of other vessels were damaged. Forty-six persons were drowned. <br><br> New York, Feb. 7 -- The Daily News says Jim Keene, it is announced on good authority, is preparing to send to the distressed people of Ireland a ship load of grain as his contribution to their relief. <br><br> Washington, Feb. 7 -- The charge that Secretary Sherman is issuing the patronage of the Treasury department to further his candidacy for the Presidency has attracted a good deal of attention, and no little comment among senators. One of the most prominent Westerns republican senators said to your correspondent that he had gone to the considerable trouble to get at the truth of these stories, and he is forced reluctantly to admit they were feel founded. He thought it was a remarkable spectacle that three of the most prominent officials in the Treasury Department were engaged at this time trying to use the influence of the Department to aid them in their struggle to secure higher offices. <br><br> London, Feb. 7 -- The fund of the Duchess of Marlborough for the relief of Ireland, amounts to [pound sign] 14,713, the expenditures to [pound sign] 1,358. <br><br> St. John, N.B. [New Brunswick] Feb. 7 -- by the upsetting of a schooner at Cheney's Cover, Grand Mauan?, five persons were drowned. <br><br> Lima, Jan. 13 -- A rupture is expected bwteen Chile and the Argentine confederation. Chile was to call for 50,000 men, and heavy bounties were offering in Argentine; it was said they purchased the Italian ironclads, Reina and Venicia. <br><br> Denver, Feb. 6 -- A disastrous fire occurred at Fort Collins in this state. Two persons were burned to death. Loss, $50,000. <br><br> Chicago, Feb. 7 -- The house of representatives of Iowa legislature this morning adopted, by a vote of 57 to 31, an amendment to the constitution to be submitted to the vote of the people, making free white women eligible as members of the legislature. <br><br> [Unreadable line] .. Bulletin says: Australia?, New Zealand, and Chile have all an unusual surplus in their wheat crop for export. This with the prospect of a large yield in India, will likely effect [affect] the English market for wheat from this country. <br><br> Dayton, Ohio, Feb. 5 -- Julius Padke was arrested last evening, charge with the death of his child, an infant of four months. He came home under the influence of liquor, and seizing the child, dashed it to the floor then kicked it across the room, crushing its skull. Another child, six years of age, was in the room and testifies to the crime. <br><br> New York, Feb. 9 -- In a recent editorial the Herald depicts the suffering of the Irish people and calls for contributions, giving the example by subscribing $100,000 for their relief. <br><br> Chicago, Feb. 9 -- Times Las Vegas New Mexico, S: The cowboys Jim West, John Dorsey, and Tom Henry, implicated in the shooting of Carson, two weeks since, were dragged from their cells this morning by a mob of seventy-five armed men, who broke into the jailor's room and forced him to give up the keys. They were dragged to the central plaza, and ropes thrown over beams of the wind mill pump. West was hauled up and strangled. The impatient mob soon began firing, and in short time Dorsey and Henry were riddled with balls. There was no resistance to the mob. <br><br> Bradford, Pa., Feb. 9 -- Howard Hockett and James Keene? were driving to Collville with a hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine, when the sleigh was upset; an explosion followed and the two men and horses killed. The sleigh was demolished and two houses and barn, one house five rods away, were wrecked. |