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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. The skeleton of Joseph McKane killed by Utes in 1878 has been found on the prairie about thirty miles from Wallace, Col. (Colorado). Algiers, April 2. - Four natives belonging to Colonel Flatier's mission of exploration for the Trans-Sahara Railway arrived at Ouarglo on Monday last, bringing the details of the almost complete annihilation of the expedition by natives. Omaha, April 1, - The repairs at the washed out track along the Union Pacific are effected, and trains will commence running over the whole main line today. The preparations made to escape the terrible rise reported coming down the Missouri River are not yet justified, but are continuing. Wilkesbarre, Pa. (Pennsylvania), April 1. - At 1 o'clock this morning Wm. (William) Hinely was making dynamite charges in the engine house at Heidelberg Slope, and had a string of them around his neck, when the cartridges exploded, tearing him into fragments. Wm. (William) Williams, engineer, was seriously injured. The house was demolished, and the machinery and hoisting apparatus were destroyed. Loss heavy. Washington, April 2. - A delegation of colored men of Baltimore waited upon the President, today, and presented an address asking fuller recognition of the claims of colored republicans of Maryland. The President replied briefly that he would examine into the matter; that in appointments to public office fitness and qualifications of individuals should be considered; the color, whether black or white, could in itself be neither recognition nor a bar. Norfolk, Va. (Virginia), April 2, - By the explosion of a saw mill at Berkeley, Andrew Brown, white, Thomas Creek, Moses Corwin and Luke Whitehurst, colored, were scalded to death; James and Robert Brown, colored, will die; Lee Mingo, Lorenzo Backes and Edward Morton, colored, were badly scalded. Denver, April 2. - A boiler in Cummings & Farnes smelter exploded yesterday afternoon, completely demolishing the building. William Collins, engineer, was probably fatally injured; Dan. (Daniel) Picket, James Keefe and Thomas M. Bomm were seriously wounded. Galveston, April 1. - News' specials: Wm. (William) Powell, Tenth Cavalry, killed a Mexican woman, Tobis Weir in Bario, last night. Frank Edwards, colored, convicted of wife-murder near Weldon, last March, was sentenced to be hanged. Chicago, April 2. - The recent announcement of the killing, at Las Vegas, of Currie, who murdered Ben. (Benjamin) C. Porter, at Marshall, Texas, was untrue. The assassin worked all summer at Vincennes, Ind. (Indiana), in his brother's foundry, but as everybody cut him he quit and went south. The Currie shot in New Mexico was a native of Illinois, who served in the Confederate army under Forrest, and at the close of the war opened a high-toned gambling den in Houston, where he made $50,000, of which his cashier robbed him while he was on a spree. With a purse of $200 he went west, being in several shooting scrapes in Colorado and California. He was well known all over the south, and often predicted that he would die with his boots on. |