Show RV BY D n fi bi s la bk f aa a EASTERN dispatches EUFALA ala igi 12 one of the flues of the boiler of the a steamer teamer leamer julla julia shant clair collapsed near here jast last night scalding 13 mostly y colored deck hands and firemen three fa farlly fatally tily new VEW HAVEN 12 11 mrs lydia sherman the reputed pol of three husbands and two or three children but who has only been convicted of for poisoning her last hubband was sentenced to the state prison for life yesterday she received the sentence with the utmost indifference and at the conclusion gracefully courtesies courte sied her confession will be published tomorrow to morrow it admits the polso poisoning ning of eight persons the details of mrs mra Sher mans con feb fee will fill ten columns it shows that she murdered eight persons and two others lost their lives incidentally I 1 by her poisoning the texas frontier commissioner will leave for the frontier in a few days judge moore of illinois has hah been a appointed secretary secret ary try the president b has se caused such instructions to bo be issued as to render the commission more efficient besides which cavalry will be sent to the several beveral expo ekpo fed points to guard against mexican raids private advises advices say that general cortina is raising a stronger army than ever and will on the ee h of march issue a mento taking poss possession eslon of the mexican frontier independently of the mexican government the treaty for the extension of the mixed commission has failed through the adjournment of the mexican congress before the return of minister Nel nei it will terminate in march or april leaving many eases caseb unadjusted the new york journal of commerce editorially calla the attention of the press of the country to the covert attempt to again revive the patent straw paper swindle in congress the di dge now being attempted is ina inn in a apropo aad amendment to the patent laws now before congress which is contained in the following clausie cla cia usie arld anid and arid no extension granted prior to the passage of this act shall be held invalid by reason of the fact that the certificate of extension was not annexed before the expiration of such patent the jog Jow nalof cam corn merce says there is no other case to which this amendment will apply except to revive the old french mellier patent straw paper swindle which was vas defunct five nive years ago this amendment has been read twice and in a few days will be put upon its passage the t of its passage will willoa be to add one con cent ernt to the edt oot coat of very every pound of paper purchased by newspaper publishers ST PAUL minn 12 the great storm ot of last week resulted in a good many fatal in the state it was entirely unprecedented in its severity and was so blinding that persons perished within a few rods of succor if they had known in what direction togo logo three brothers Charle charie Cb arlea 8 john and stophen stephen oniel with thomas and michael holden hoiden fl olden each with two horse teams started for hillmor with wheat on Tu tuesday aday they were found on friday about ten miles out two of the oneila and one of the holden holdens were frozen to death in the sleighs the others were alive but will scarcely survive five ox teams in the vicinity were found frozen to death the drivers are supposed to have abandoned them and perished A man was frozen to death by losing his way while going from the depot to the tank house at herman station on the st paul and pas pad flab B E R A school boy near new ulm um undertook to go home but lost his way and his dody body wab was found eight miles dystant distant A man wati was found yesterday near st sc paulb frozen to death many other cases will doubtless be heard off NEW york 13 the bill by counsel tor for stokes will be presented probably today to day it holds that the court erred in not sustaining the challed ge against ono of the juro jurors rr in IL hermitt ug ng the hearsay evidence of francis curtis lu iu permitting allusion 10 the normer former trial by the prosecution in not admitting the offer to show that thai the prisoner was wab anxious to disclose his dereuse before the coroners inquest in permitting the proof of threats to be introduced at jhb end of the trial in iti ruling out the otter offer to show enow that the prisoner was under apprehensions of fliska violence and in excluding the proof t at stokes was watched and dogged by unknown parties also that dim dic persons persona were on th the jury ejury 0 ou the 80 point they athey will ask for a ne new w trial CHICAGO 13 mail accounts of the recent storm in iowa and minnesota L how it t to have hava been the most severe known since the settlement of the country the sr paul press of the ath instant says its effects on railroads rail roada hardly y assume the shape of subjects for discussion cu cus sion slon it has hab been the most disastrous which has occurred since the beginning of railroad history in minnesota there were neither arrivals nor departures yesterday and some of the trains leaving on the day previous have been heard from struggling or shackled in the snow drifts |