Show SPORTING MATTIC corbett corat anxious for a bout aou with the Engl english slI bluffer AND HIS EIS BACKER jackson is i s second choice a and ad unless mitchell is prompt will gat the contract S alx lx rrt iNcisco feb 13 peter jackson today sent a letter to a I 1 new york sporting paper in which lie refers to the llie statement made by james corbut corbett in milwaukee a few nights ago that some people thought he was afraid to fight jack bon boll but that this was not the case is as lie was willin willing r toli to light M lit jackson or any other pugilist at the she close of his theatrical season in ill october lackson jackson then says 1 I am much pleased to learn that mr air corbett has decided to light me it is now over rive five months since lie ho defeated john L I 1 sullivan I 1 have not hounded liim him with clial challenges lemes 0 believing ho he should have a time to reap the financial benefits of tile the victory lie ile claims that heis lie is entitled to one years rest rein from the llie date of his contest with sullivan the terms of my challenge 0 will allow him mole moie than that time 1 I will fight 0 james Cr corbett bett to a finish marquis of Queensbury rules for the championship hip of the world arid and a side wager of 20 a side and the lar largest larest est purse offered by any club mutually agreed 0 upon the contest to take tak C place not sooner than six or later than ten months from the late date of tills this bhalla i ga my manar manager e mr charles charl e s I 1 E davis lias has enclosed you you his certified check lor for 2500 in evidence of my good faith in is issuing ming this challenge the balance of a side M to be deposited with the final stake holder when mutually agreed the date ot ol this challenge is feb I 1 10 91 1892 at tile expiration of this time should corbett fail to cover this amount within this specified fied vou VOIL will kindly return the same to mr davis the said 2500 to tie be held by you for thirty days from late date of this challenge feb 10 ISIS 1892 signed PETER JACKSON champion of australia and the pacific coast WILL ACCEPT MILWAUKEE wis feb 13 1 I 1 accept peter jacksons challenge challene F with a pro provision that it is void if I 1 succeed in arranging a match with mitchell said corbett coric tt tonight 0 my mana manager william A brady an and william willia in delaney Ue laney my trainer traine r will meet mitchell on his arrival in america this coming coining week they will have of my money which mitchell must cover in ten days or forfeit all right to match with me inc should mitchell Mit eliell fail to cover the deposit I 1 shall consider he lias has been indulging in one of his periodical bluffs and T will ivill then consider my acceptance of jacksons challenge e binding jackson 0 may put up his side stake in four installments if lie chooses as I 1 think him in earnest but mitchal and his alleged wealthy liae lacker 1 ker must post the stake in bull bulk if they mean business bu iness also ask jackson to appoint or send a depre tentative enta tive to I 1 now kew york at once empowered to arrange arrange 0 a match for him with me in case mitchel does not toe the mark the only stipulation which I 1 make in regard to tile fight is it shall take place next december AUSTRALIA ricI FIGHTERS LAKEWOOD N X J feb il 11 if physical condition and confidence can call lie bo taken as a criterion ot of ties jim hall should certainly win a victory on march 8 when lie and bob fitzsimmons Fil simmons will contend before the crescent city athletic club at new orleans for the extraordinary tra purse of no man inan ever entered tins the ring it is safe to say with mote moie hopes of defeating an ap than will jim hall on oil the night of the fiath liall hall now tips tile the beam at pound if lie should loze lose tills this fiath 0 hall says fays lie can yet make cc considerable money by whipping at least a dozen men of f his weight should lie ho win he e will 11 challenge corbett mitchall lell ackson for tile the 0 or r jackson championship of t the 11 e world gnirs DURN 1 D AT PEA ira lo LONDON don feb 12 L the british bark captain shaw from liverpool aug 12 for san franc francisco franceo eo burneil burned at lea L ea dec 20 in latitude 8 north longitude west the ship spronsa Str captain brooks from sun san francisco dec 0 3 for queenstown Queens town rescued 1 the crew of the above vessel and landed them at it valparaiso THE ASYLUM AT DOVER DOVEK N II 11 1 feb 12 the work of removing the debris from the cellar of the burned insane asylum was resu resumed nied this morning one more body and somo some charred bones were found this makes thirty six persons accounted for the inquest began today A STONE QUARRY HORROR RUTLAND vt fel feb 12 one of the worst disasters in the history of marble quarry quarrying ipg occurred A at west rutland t a little after 1 this afternoon in a quarry oper operal aled cd by the Verni vermont ont marble company A great muss of i tonu tone fell into the quarry and seven men were nere instantly killed and a number of others injured tile the victims were crushed cru bcd so some soine could not be recognized 1 As soon as the accident happened tile the electric danger signal nas as run rung in in ill at the companas comp anys and the mills Y were ere stopped at alonco once AlIthe all the doctors in west rutland were called by phone and responded quickly also scores of in men n w were c re sent down to the quarry guarr y soon tiff 07 news spread to the tand hundreds of men women and children cli ildren hurried to the quarry ond end by 5 the vicinity was crowded in ili the crowd were many man relatives of the dead or injured men and they were frantic with grief ex end of the quarry far under the hill the killed and aid some of the injured injure I were buried under to tons s of rock and the work of rescue was difficult the file cause calus e of the caving in is not po positively si known 1 B morse aurer of the company compan said paid th the cause bauge was not certain thought 0 scale or ill rt of the roof that fell was probably loosened by freezing A SANTA FE WRECK KANSAS CITY feb 12 the second section of pa passenger train no 3 on the santa fe fc leaving chicago at 10 last night m and due in kansas city at 1210 today was wrecked tills this ln morning orning at haring baring mo the train wen went t through I 1 a trestle near the station and the fust two coaches were precipitated through the woodwork and to the r ground a distance of forty or fifty foet feet the third coach and sleeper caught 0 by one end on the t csEle work in a vertical position not a passenger 0 on oil the train was killed and none were beriou seriously sly injured INDIANS OX ON till THE ItAM lAGE DEER RIVER minn feb 12 several hundreds of indians have been rioting M here for three or four hours using abing 6 knives and clubs many of then are arc wounded and probably two or three killed though nobody at the ag agency dares to go near them there are rumors of a massacre and none of tile the whites will sleep toni tonight t ht T L vance pos post t trader has lost all control of the savages A week ll 11 ago go the indians were notified ti that bat they would be paid loy by tile government here at noon yesterday ly when tile the reds appeared and found millrid that on agent 11 had appeared they furious the explanation that heavy snow storms bad prevented the a agents ants from deachin reaching deer ei aliver iver did not satisfy them and after filling up on oil bad whisky they tool took pos possession of the town |