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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. St. Paul, Nov. 7 -- Major M. A. Penn, who two years ago was court martialed for indecency toward a woman, and whose sentence was mitigated by President Hayes, is again in trouble for a similar offence, the victim of his insult this time being the wife of a post trader name Franshaw? Penn was drunk at the time and very indecent, General Terry has detailed a court-martial to try him, to sit at Fort Meade this November 14th. CHICAGO, Nov. 7 -- One thousand men quit work at the stock yards this morning and received the advance they asked from most of the packers, and resumed operations. No further trouble is anticipated. BALTIMORE, Nov. 6 -- A Washington correspondent to the Sun writes, 'Advices received here from Democratic leaders of high national repute, especially from southern public men, leave no doubt that a broadly national and conservative course will characterize the Democratic policy the coming winter. Zealots will be made to take back seats. A passionate declaration of tropical? rhetoric and sectional recrimination, will be severely set down upon. The Republicans will be ???? no more campaign thunder in the shape of the foolish utterances of excited orators addressed to the backwoods audiences at home rather than the intelligence of Congress and the country.' The above sentiments are in the interest of the Bayard boom. A systematic programme has been in preparation lately in the southern states to secure their delegations for Bayard in the coming Democratic convention, and the result of the New York election will augment the ??? greatly. NEW YORK, Nov. 6 -- A Herald ??? from Greeley, Col. Edward Clarke, who was employed at the White River agency, says that Chief Douglass, a ??? of the Meeker massacre, was concerned in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Clark says one day this summer, Douglass and another chief quarreled. The chief, in his anger, said he could ruin Douglass if he told the truth about him; that he was a bad man, and participated in the crime at Mountain Meadows. The Herald has the following from Galena : The attention of Grant was called this afternoon to the statement printed in the Tribune to the effect that he had an important message to deliver to the United States. The general said, I have no special message to deliver to the people of the United States in Chicago? or elsewhere. Sherman says that he knows nothing of any such message and that so far as he is concerned the statement is a pure fiction? He is not ?????? who ??? his name so freely, and laughs at them in humour?. KENNET SQUARE, PA., Nov. 7 -- The residence of J.G. and G.P. ???, north of Kennet Kennett was entered last night by three masked burglars who rifled the safe, extracted the ?? money, bonds, and securities amounting to $100,000. The perpetrators were tracked to Kennet Kennett. The thieves threw away a number of bonds, ???, etc. which ??? were found and restored to the owners. NEW YORK, Nov. 7 -- Stanford? Newell of this city, counsel for ??? Penn, furnishes furnished a copy? of the charges filed? by Col. Sturges, from which it appears that Penn is accused of 'one fight and three drunks' instead of 'one drunk and two fights,' also of ??? ??? ??? instead of '??? indecent' in the trader's home during the trader's absence, and the fight was with Lieut. Nicholson instead of Sergeant B???. NEW HAVEN, Nov. 7 -- There have been found on Mary Stannards right cheek, which is pre??? ?????????, seventeen indentations which correspond exactly with the seventeen nails? on the heel of Rev. Mr. Hayden's left ???, which he wore on the day of Mary's murder. It is also claimed by the state that Hayden put his heel on the girl's face when he cut her throat. LONDON, Nov. 7 -- A correspondent at Berlin telegraphs that the American fleet? are considered here to confirm the report that Austria is co-operating with England in the endeavor to force the execution of the treaty of Berlin. Bismark's physician is just returned from Vienna. His report of the prince's condition does not allay the alarming rumors lately ???. LEWIS, DEL. 8. -- The steamship Champion, from New York for Charleston, was run into and sunk yesterday morning off the cape? Coast? Thirty-two lives are reported lost. Twenty-five persons are said to be saved. The collision occurred twenty-five miles off the cape? coast? at four yesterday morning. The ship is badly damaged and is being towed to Philadelphia. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 8 -- A terrible disaster occurred on Second and main streets ??? evening. The extensive ??? and candy manufactory of Carlo? & Sons, occupying the four brick, three story buildings tumbled down, and were completely consumed by fire. At the time the accident occurred, 107 persons, mostly boys and girls from 12 to 20 years of age, were at work in the factory, all of whom escaped alive except seven. The cause of the accident cannot be fully determined, but as an explosion occurred, simultaneously with the fall of the walls, it is supposed to be a repetition of the accident in New York last year - a starch explosion. NEW YORK, Nov. 8 -- The Austrian bark? boat? Rebus?, arriving in port this afternoon, brings news of the loss of the schooner Petrel?, with fifteen passengers and the crew, including the captain. She also brings six survivors, all that was left of a company of 21 persons. Captain ?? of the Rebus, reports that on Nov. 3, when thirty-four days out from Trieste?, he espied the floating hull of a dismasted? vessel full of water and waterlogged, in lat. 33 degrees north, long. ??? ??? west. The wind at the time blew a gale from the north and a strong sea was running. The weather was very cold, some persons were on the hull signaling for help with strips torn from their garments. Notwithstanding the danger attending the effort, a boat was lowered and after a battle with the elements and at great risk of the lives of all concerned, six persons on the wreck were saved. They were all that survived and they were all passengers. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10 -- News reached here at midnight that the west span of the St. Louis, Kansas City and Northern R.R [railroad] bridge, crossing the Missouri River at St. Charles, fell about half past eight tonight. A stock train of seventeen cars with seven men in it was precipitated into the river, and none of the men have yet been found. The telegraph wires were taken down with the bridge, and no particulars of the accident are received yet. A temporary office has been opened this side of the bridge, and additional information will be obtained if possible. There were five cattle droves from Malvern, Iowa, who boarded the train at Moberly, in a caboose, but their names are not known, nor can it be ascertained to-night how many of them were killed. RAWLINS, Wyo., Nov. 10 -- This afternoon Francis Murray, a government teamster, while intoxicated, shot and fatally wounded Charles Cap???, of Los Angeles, Cal. [California]. Murray then reloaded his carbine and revolver with the intention of cleaning out the neighbor of the government wagon corral? He had fired several shots at citizens and soldiers, when sheriff J.G. Pankin came on the scene, who seeing it was impossible to capture Murray without great danger to himself and others, fired o him with a doubled barreled shot-gun, killing him instantly. The coroner's jury exonerated the sheriff. EL PASO, Texas, Nov. 11 -- A desperate flight took place yesterday at Condoloria Candelaria mountain, fifty miles south of here, in the state Chihuahua, Mexico between a large band of Indians, about 200, and a party of fifty men from Cariza, New Mexico, thirty-two of whom were killed and eighteen escaped wounded. The Indians are the same party that Major Morrow is after. They came from the Florida mountains by Geo?'s lake to the Candoloria Candelaria mountains, where the party after them were ambushed by Indians behind the rocks. The fight lasted all day. |