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Show LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS. FIREMEN HURT. Pittsburg, Aug. 6.-McKelvey Bros. carriage factory burned this morning, with a loss of $26,000. While the fire was in progress twenty-five firemen entered the building, and ten who ascended to the second story, were precipitated to the bottom by the falling of the roof. All of them were more or less hurt, four (John Green, Chas. Little, Robert Keinam, and Philip Maguire) perhaps fatally. The remaining fifteen who staid [stayed] on the first floor escaped unhurt. POKER CHIP ROW. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 7.-As the result of a row over some poker chips, James Meek fatally shot Albert Darby and then blew out his own brains, last evening. ARMY WORM. St. Louis, Aug. 6.-The army worm is said to be very bad in Arkansas and Tennessee and is damaging the cotton. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 6.-The army worm is making heavy ravages in the vicinity of Pine Plains. The farmers are compelled to harvest their oats before fully ripe. It is feared the worm will attack the corn crop. The extreme drought is proving disastrous to the corn and potatoes in Duchess county. YELLOW FEVER. Galveston, Aug.7.-Cases of suspicious sickness on the schooner Henrietta from Matamoras, at quarantine, developed into yellow fever. One death has occurred, thus far. BOERS BEATEN. ??, Aug. 7.-News has been received here that the Boers with a native contingent were defeated on the 28th of July by Motavi, with heavy loss. RAILROAD ACCIDENT. Chicago, Aug. 7.-The bridge across Finbarras river on the Peora, Decatur & Evansville R. R., near Greenup, yesterday evening, gave way under a freight train and the engine and eighteen loaded cars went down, killing Chas. Allen, a coppersmith, and seriously injuring M. Conlin, engineer, and Geo. Fortin brakeman. The bridge was defective. AN EXCITED MOB. Macon, Ga., Aug. 7.-At a colored camp meeting of Eastman a deputy marshal shot a fleeing poisoner named Jake Tanapy, killing him. This infuriated the mob, who ran the deputy into a house where an innocent white man, ?? Howard, was shot and beaten to death, they thinking he was the deputy. IRISH CONSTABULARY TROUBLES. Dublin, Aug. 6.-The constabulary are determined to have their grievances remedied or else they will resign. Clifford Floyd had the Limerick men paraded, yesterday, and upbraided them for their conduct. He said if they were soldiers they would be shot. The men replied that they were not acting disloyally. They refused to withdraw their circular to the force. The Inspector General had them again paraded, and told them that they were acting badly, that the government was losing confidence in their loyalty, and they were playing into the hands of the enemies of the government. He asked them to withdraw then circular and promised that if they would do so, their claims would be represented to the government, and certain allowances be made them. The men again refused and threatened to resign within eight days if they did not meantime receive a favorable answer to their memorial. In consequence of Clifford Lloyd's language the officers intimated that they would not parade for him again. FRANCE MENACED. ?? says: Poor France is, to-day, as much menaced by Germany as Egypt by England. To sum up, your correspondent finds France largely opposed to England but for fear of Bismarck Gladstone would have to call off his war dogs immediately. Politicians of all shades ask me why it is that the American press published such one-sided reports of the doings in Egypt. Several correspondents of Paris journals-writers whose reputations stand unquestioned-bodily denounce many items in the London papers as lacking in truth. DEATH FROM LIGHTNING. Kansas City, Aug. 6.-The ?? Kickapoo special says, Mrs. Huber, with a 16-year-old son, a little child, and colored girl, were on the porch of her residence, yesterday, when lightning struck a tree several feet away and ran down the trunk, then followed on an exposed root of the tree to the porch, instantly killing the boy and the colored girl who were at opposite ends of the veranda, and severely shocking the woman and child. |