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Show WAFTED ON THE WIRES. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-A telegram from Madrid asserts that Gen. Martinez Campos will resign the premiership, and will be sent to Cuba with 15,000 men to pacify the island. He will have the right to declare a state of seige. <br><br> AT DEWBURY, in Yorkshire, two persons were killed and thirty injured, by the fall of a gallery at a political meeting, last night. <br><br> THE HERALD says of the southern Grant movement: We do not like the intelligence we receive on this subject, but that is no reason why we should withhold, or disguise, or color or distort it. We need not say that we deprecate the nomination of Grant as dangerous to our free institution, but if the Southern Republican delegates should be solid for Grand, this danger will have to be met and parried by the people after the nomination is made. <br><br> BERLIN, Nov. 20-The St. Petersburg ??? ???, discussing the prospects of war, says that neither the Russian people nor the Russian government wish war, because the bad financial state of the empire enjoins peace. But every day and every hour the conviction deepens that a great struggle is soon to break out. <br><br> CINCINNATI, Nov. 20.-A dispatch from Brownsbury, Indiana, says Mrs. Mary Jones, who was imprisoned some days ago for administering poison to her infant child has been pronounced insane and will be taken to the State insane asylum as soon as she is able to be removed. <br><br>GRAND HAVEN, Nov. 20.-The worst gale of the season has been blowing here from the southwest, since midnight. It is now blowing forty miles an hour. The propeller General Payne, from Chicago, struck on a bar this forenoon, and went to pieces in the river inside of half an hour. The schooner Holmes, and the Margaret Dall and Maple Leaf, loaded with lumber, the Scow Rose, and the Bargood, went on the beach this morning. The Maple Leaf is going to pieces, no lives are lost. The schooner Hamlett is anchored a mile outside, with her foresail gone. <br><br> NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-The body of a man was taken from the bay at the battery today. His hands were securely fastened behind his back and a bandage was bound tightly over his eyes. <br><br> LONDON, Nov. 21.-The accident last night at Dewsbury political meeting occurred just as Sergant Limon was about to address his constituents in a skating rink at Batchy. About three thousand persons were present, the ?? having excited great interest in consequence of Simon's refusal to submit to a decision of the liberal three hundred, concerning the future candidature. The gallery extended around three sides of the hall. A part of the end fartherest from the speakers on the platform fell, the extent of the disaster being unknown, Limon commenced his speech but discontinued in a few minutes when the casauties [casualties] were announced, and the meeting dissolved. Two persons are dead, one is dying and thirty or forty injured, nearly twenty seriously. <br><br> CHARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 23.-Two colored criminals were executed in this state to-day. One was Edward Holmes, a boy of 16, convicted of outraging the two-year-old daughter of A. B. Hampton, in Union county, four months ago. He was hanged at Union court house. A large crown of country people were in town, but the execution, under the state law, was private. Geo. Garry was hanged at Beaufort for the murder of a colored man named Brown. The clergymen attended him to the gallows in the jail. He made a full confession, and said he was ready to die. <br><br> LEADVILLE, Nov. 22.-At 1 o'clock Thursday morning a party of five masked citizens forced Sheriff Watson to surrender to them a prisoner named Charles Stewart, a notorious footpad, who had threatened to kill the man who had him incarcerated, as soon as he should get out. Stewart was 20 years old, and begged piteously for life, and for time to write his mother at Connaughtville, Penn., but was only allowed to say a brief prayer, and was then hanged. The mob then took Ed. Frodsham, and although he struggled furiously, hung him in a workmanlike manner, that indicated familiarity with the hangman's trade. Frodsham had been jumping lots and driving off the occupants by force, and conducting himself in a generally objectionable manner. The following note was pinned to his back. "To all thieves, bunko steerers, footpads and chronic bonds-men for the same, and sympathizers of the above class of criminals. This is our commencement, and this shall be your end. We mean business. Let this be your last warning; particularly to Cooney Adams, Conner Collins, Hogan, Ed. Burns, Ed. Champ, F. A. Kelly, and a great many others who are well known to this organization. We are 790 strong." <br><br> VIRGINIA, Kane Co., Ills., Nov. 21.-One of the most unprovoked and cold-blooded murders ever chronicled was committed on Saturday, at a farm some 10 miles north of this place. The victims were two German brothers named Tichenand, who were husking corn when John and Robert Taylor, also brothers, came along on horseback; dismounted and saying they were now going to settle an old feud which had existed between the families, immediately began stabbing one brother who fell, with a knife thrust through the lungs. They then turned upon the other Tichenand who, bring unarmed, attempted to escape, they caught him and plunged a knife into his neck, severing the jugular vein. One brother died soon after and the other was dying last night. The murderers escaped and the officers are in pursuit. <br><br> LEADVILLE, Col., Nov. 23.-Matters are quieting down, but guards patrol the city still, and a conflict between the Vigilantes and the "Plug Uglies" may be resumed on the slightest provocation. Twelve masked men last night entered a ball room, singled out a man and examined his face, but released him saying, "this is not our man." None of the parties warned to leave have gone. |