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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. Bradford, Penn., July 14, Last evening an oil pipe line burst near Salamanca, N.Y. and the spurting oil by some means caught fire. A daughter of John Washburn aged 5 years was playing at the spot when the rupture occurred. Her clothing was saturated [unreadable lines] Bravely accepted it will temper the [unreadable line] <br><br> TANK ? BELONGING to the Acme Oil Co., about half a mile up Kansas branch, McHenry county, was struck by lightning early this morning, and is burning furiously. The tank ?? feet down the stream is in danger. Supt. Snow with a gang of men are digging a trench and daming the stream to save more tanks. Two 25,000 barrel tanks near Custer City are now burning, also struck by lightning last night. Both belong to the United Pipe Lines. About 180,000 barrels of oil are burning. Four wells at Custer City are burning. <br><br> LONDON, JULY 10. An explosion occurred at 1:30 this morning in the London and South Wales colliery company's new blockin? pit, at Risca, six miles from Newport. The shock was very violent. 110 men were in the pit at the time, and all perished. <br><br> While the men were at work yesterday evening the atmosphere was noticed to be heavy and overcharged. the colliery is the property of the London & South Wales Colliery Company. The scenes about the mine are reported heartrending. There is a large throng of people present composed in a great part of relatives and friends of the imprisoned miners. Among them are many women who are bewailing the fate of husband and sons, while little children are asking anxiously concerning their fathers. Everything possible is being done to expedite the recovery of the bodies. <br><br> CHICAGO, JULY 17. -- The Times has a special detailing exciting events in Carroll county, Arkansas, by which a thievish tramp and two citizens lost their lives. John W. Myers, a farmer living in that county, found upon returning to his house from the fields that is had been plundered in his absence. He immediately gave chase and ran the thief down in Scott County, Missouri. He soon had him covered with a rifle and the tramp smiling said he would surrender, but five seconds later drew a pistol while his captor was off his guard, and shot him through the heart. The tramp then escaped back into Arkansas, where the sheriff and eight men finally ran him down at the house of an old man supposed to be his father. They surrounded the house and when he appeared in the door opened fire simultaneously, causing dust to fly from his clothes, but not fatally wounding him. He returned the fire with a pistol in either hand, and while they were reloading took to the fields. The posse followed and fired another volley and brought him to the ground apparently dead, but when one of the party, a Mr. Jones, went up to take a look at "the most daring man that ever lived," the fellow pointed a pistol directly at his head and fired it, Mr. Jones falling back dead. The desperado, wounded in several places, soon after expired. He is believed to have been concerned in many dark deeds of late in this section. <br><br> NEW YORK, JULY 20. The Herald's Boston special says Russell H. Conwell of Summerville, Massachusetts, is writing a campaign biography of Garfield, which will be issued in a few days. Conwell prints what he claims to be an official statement from Garfield on the Credit Mobilier,? back pay, an ??????? pavement? affairs, in which he undertakes to establish his absolute ignorance of any discreditable connections with them. <br><br> CHEYENNE? , JULY 21. - G. T. Dressor has just returned from the scene of the September massacre, White River. He reinterred the remains of Meeker and eight employees including his two sons, which had been hastily buried by Merritt's command. Dressor found a chain about four feet long around the neck of Meeker, proving the story that the Utes had dragged the body about the agency after the massacre. Colorow with other head men and Douglas' daughter said they lived on ponies, last winter, and were very hungry and peaceable now. <br><br> DENVER, JULY 21. -- General Grant in an interview said: "I can say without hesitation that I will give Garfield my hearty support. There is no reason why any republican should not vote for Garfield. I know him to be a man of talent, thoroughly accomplished and an upright man. I have nothing against General Hancock, but Garfield is the man for the office." He denied the report that he had complained of Conkling and Logan having deceived him. He had no letter from either of them either before or after the convention, or since his return to America. He said of all men Conkling and Logan were the last for him to find fault with, and he felt more proud of the 312 that stood by him than if he had received the nomination by unfair means. <br><br> VIENNA, JULY 21. - Fifteen hundred riflemen are here from every part of the monarchy to celebrate the first schooling contest of the United Riflemen of Austria. Al? o? crack shots from all parts of Germany and Great Britain and a few from America are present. The prizes are valued at $10,000. <br><br> NEW YORK, JULY 21. - Fifty-three children under five years of age died on Sunday in New York City. <br><br> THE PRINCESS LOUISE, Prince Leopold and their maid? sail on the 31st for the old country. <br><br> Dr. ??? fourth week of fasting has begun; his weight is 125, pulse 78 and temperature 98. <br><br> PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON'S son Victor was 18 years old on Sunday, thereby becoming ??? of age. <br><br> The Marquis of Lorne will probably resign the governorship of ??? on account of the ailing health of his wife. <br><br> JOHN H. CHRISTIANCY, son of ex senator Christiancy from Michigan, was sent to the Brooklyn home for inebriates at his own request. <br><br> GARFIELD HAS SURRENDERED to the Grant crowd, which will have the control of the next administration, if Garfield be elected. <br><br> THE HOUSE OF COMMONS has passed a resolution prohibiting the creation of a monument for the prince imperial, in Washington Abbey. <br><br> THE SECRETARY OF STATE will call together an international commission with a view to an international exhibition in 1883, at New York. <br><br> NEW YORK, JULY ?? - Cleopatra's Needle now in the Lower Bay, will be launched with appropriate ceremonies. The programme for unshipping and erecting has not been completed, but the Masons in all parts of the country have expressed a desire to share in the programme. The unshipping will be accomplished by the same means employed in placing it on board the Dessouk. The steamer will be first lowered on the dry docks and then the obelisk slid upon two floats, one under either end. The machinery made in Trenton last fall and used at Alexandria for lowering the columns, will be employed again for its re erection. The site selected for the obelisk is in front and to the southwest of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a little to the north of the Graywacke Arch, Central Park. <br><br> [unreadable] PETERSBURG, JULY [unreadable] dispute with China [unreadable lines]……… warfare the only Russian weapon against England. [unreadable] to warrant the undertaking. |