Show BY telegraph AMERICAN BOSTON ai uin kin min M in pursuance of or orders from washington a large number of workmen were discharged from tho the charlestown Charlest Charles town lown nay nao navy yard tonight to night ney NEW nev york 31 tho insurance ca companies m canles have decided on chang ingan in 9 an extra premium of one ono per cent on all business houses in this tilis city with wooden mansard roofs and on hotels and public buildings wit hsuch roofs one and a half per cent in the U 8 circuit court today to day judge benedict quashed the indictment it in the case of J X W norton charged with embezzling from the money order department of the post office upon tile the ground that the the counts did not amount to clearly specified sped nned fled charges the general term of the superior court today to day decided that thab where a party received a forged check or certification of a bank and not on trust in the simple check the bank so certifying Is is responsible for the amount NE NEW ALBANY ind 31 this morning john parker a carpenter shot his ills wife through the tho head and blew his own brains out parker died instantly his wile wilo wife is still alive but will not survive it ap pears peara thab that parker suspected the 11 delity of bis his wife providence 31 the tho atlantic delaine company will go into voluntary bankruptcy indianapolis sl 31 the engineers strike continues and the men say they are bound to hold bold out in the meantime however tho railroads are procuring new engineers gi and already claim that they carriun all trai trains ens ins regularly warren hussey president of the first national bank at salt bait lake today to day filed a bill in the superior court in a suit for libel against the tile indianapolis journal co claiming damages of or one hundred thousand dollars the alleged libel is set forth in a bill in the following editorial in the journal of ocl oct ath last mr warren marmen warren hussey the president of the first national bank of salt lake city issues a manifesto asserting the solvency of that institution A k man of that name was arrested and tried here in 1856 or 1857 on a charge of counterfeiting ter felting and embezzlement in the management of a it wildcat concern irn iri boone county ho he was shrew shrewdly illy hily defended by robert walpole since de eased and by a technicality nica lity escaped c going to the penitentiary tent iary this may not be tile the same man but an identity of names in such buch cases is very remarkable especially when it happens to le be so uncommon a name as warren hussey all of which hussey denies in toto asserting that no sueh such thing ahing happened in abdone or any other county in this state the rear coach of tho tile train due hero here at eight tonight to night on the cincinnati hamilton indianapolis IL 4 was thrown from the tho track by a broken rail while crossing some trestle work near broads ville the coach went down tep ten feet neet and turned over mr chesten chester and ana child of middleton Midd leton laton 0 and john idine of connersville Conners ville ind were killed and eight or ten others injured none seriously Elt eit irPa lepa 31 regj F spaulding bishop elect to colorado wy omin gand aud and new mexico was duly consecrated at st pauls church of which he was recter rector bishop kerfoot of or Pittsburg read tile tilo consecration ser Eer service service vice and bishop coxe ot of western new york preached the tile sermon the ether other bishops 1 besent esert besent were wore bishop talbot of indiana ana bishop mccoskey of michigan and Bishop Bedel of ohio and about forty clergymen CHICAGO 31 ail KII fears ora ofa strike orf on the leading railroads in this city are dissipated by the decision of the managers of all but three of or the tile roads not to reduce the pay of the englel engineers ers erg and bremen firemen the three roads holding to the reduction are the pittsburg and fort wayne way no and great eastern on which the strike began and still exists and the michigan southern 1 BRIDGE bridgeport pont POUT conn 31 the newly built hard bard hardware ivare factory factors of or hotchkiss sons was burned tonight loss heavy insurance ioa loa 31 hu I 1 ansons steam pump works and williams co as s pr printing pre press is factory both in one building werd were were burned tonight loss heavy and covered by insurance conto COLTO iBUS inus tile alie railway strike is looking worse the yard yardmaster master of the tho piqua liqua road was visited by a crowd of roughs boughs this afternoon and his ills life lifo threatened if he allowed more trains to go out tho the police dispersed tho the crowd the evening train for cincinnati was fired into near the city by unknown parties tho tile situation appears more unfavorable than ever for settlement BOSTON I 1 tho journal has a special despatch from horn concord N 11 which states that an irregularity in connection with the national savings bank of concord is an the t treasurer measurer rea surer W W storrs having misappropriated appropriated mis six ty five thousand dul dol dollars cullars lars on friday last while the tho trustees were looking over the notes and papers the treasurer confessed a deficiency in it his jils accounts of from fifty to sev enty five nive thousand dollars this was the first intimation the officers had llad received the treasurer states that for fur the past three years he has repeatedly loaned the funds of the bank to friends who had become greatly embarrassed his bondsmen were promptly notified of the defalcation and have been in session every day since examining into ills liis at affairs fairs his bonds are and his ills sureties twenty five in number are all ail reliable and sound men tho the bonds of storrs secure depositors from all loss on liis his account the institution has deposits amounting to one and three ter million dollars storrs states that his liia position as cashier of the firs first t national bank and treasurer of tile the savings bank enabled him to carry on an account unknown to any of the officials als ais of either oither institution SAN FRANCISCO 1 it has rained rainea here hero iero lero incessantly since midnight last night and still continues the new year holiday was generally observed reports from various portions of the state show that tile the rainfall has heen been een very generally distributed there are fears of floods in the sacramento cr and san joaquin valleys RICHMOND va 1 L the legislature ture turo convened at noon today today af A f ter organization tile tiie governors message was received and read of the i relations between the races lie says 1 I do not hesitate to affirm so encouraging and decisive has been the progress during tho the past four years and so clearly developed by the past are the obligations of today to day that if we are but guided by prudence if we go forward with courage tempered with forbearance and if no federal legislation shall intervene to disturb the relations between the races we cannot fail to bring our great experiment to a successful and prosperous issue recent events prove liow how futile and how disastrous to its authors must be any further attempt to array armav the colored race as a political con combination upon any principle of antagonism between the races and further that non residents whatever their claims to eminence ability or philanthropy can never understand der stand the character and circumstances or wisely administer to the tho wants of our colored population ourselves and none others are idled fied to perform the task assigned is by providence and if not res trained rained and thwarted by superior powers we will perform our duty resolutely and efi actually by promoting the best interests of both raees races gracei and we intend to perform it by y scrupulously go arding guarding the newly ac acquired rights of tile tho colored man washington I 1 the president and mrs grant held beld the tile usual new years yearns reception today to day aided by the he cabinet officers and their wives after the reception the foreign representatives presenta tives and officials in the usual order and the veterans of 1812 were received and at 2 pm the doors were wele thrown open to the general public ar NEW V iab lab I lal lat at a meeting of the directors of the yorkville savings bank yesterday a communication en tion was received from ha harry harrs rry genet resigning the presidency no one ne present would admit that he knew where genet could be found NEW YORK 2 bradbu bradburys Brad burys rys piani manufactory and showroom with W 11 seymour sons silk hat ilat manufactory at the corner of 3 aiki and ami irony froby croby iro hy wre wo w re o burned early this it is s wm banta was found dead covered with blood yesterday on the stoop of warrens hotel at the corner of canal and elizabeth streets the tite 1 bar ar tender and five other persons have llave been arrested to await an investigation of the cause of death pa framen thais opera house was burned last night loss insurance there was a largo audience present when the fire broke ou out and many persons narrowly escape escaped suffocation owing to the denseness of the tit smoke and the difficulty of exit mrs niri langfield a miliner millner on thet the first finst floor sustained dined damage the firo fire was caused by the explosion of alamp a lamp washington TOr 2 the public debt increased during december CHICAGO 2 the strike of the tile railroad engineers appears to be broken theme themen naro nare aro are resuming work at most points and trains are again running regularly columbus 0 is the only place where any trouble still exists and it is sam sard this is on account of the indisposition of the railroads to employ the leaders of the strike washington 2 the public debt statement shows the total due deit t to be the total interest 05 cash in the treasury coin cash in the special deposits held for the redemption of certificates of deposit as provided by law total in the treasury the debt less cash in the being an increase during the month of bonds issued to tile the pacific railroad companies interest payable in lawful money principal outstanding interest accrued and not yet yat paid interest paid by the united states interest repaid by transportation of mails malls balance of interest paid by the united states an appropriation by congress Con giess gless of bf nearly two millions mil mii liona of dollars in god gold will be required iu in satisfaction of the claims allowed by the late united states and british commission DETROIT DETT 2 the grocery store and dwelling of geo alderton at saginaw city was completely demolished moli molls polished shed bed this afternoon by the explosion of a can of powder a little daughter of alderton was instantly instantly killed and his wife and clerk seriously injured it is supposed that the child was putting lighted matches into the can NEW YORK 2 the spanish frigate arapiles arafiles dra Ara piles after being released renewed from the dock today to day grounded while being towed to the cast side of the yard where she Jn intended tended to ship her guns and she is still hard and fast the following is the mso resolution lution adopted bythe plymouth church in the bowen case 11 Re soled resolve that the report of the examining committee and the statement of tho the clerk of tho the church concerning the case ofero of brother henry C bowen the be entered upon the minutes andin and in view of the facts therein set forth that the tho charges be dismissed and the examining committee commit teel I 1 e discharged from the further consideration of the case at the conclusion of the prayer meeting at plymouth church brooklyn tonight to night the clerk of the church read communications from tile the joint committee of or the church of the pilgrims and the clinton avenue church in reference to the recent action of or tile tiie plymouth church in the tilton beecher matter at the request of mr beecher the reply which he be had writ the committee wa wai then read it admits a dinn diff difference brence between the congregationalism of plymouth church and that of other con congregational re gat ional churches and claims hat that t the foundation of the plymouth was effected to protest against the domination of congregational al ministers which had excited pro profound round indignation amons the tile members of or the congregational chur churches clies cikes in the city of new york at the ibe same time it says that plymouth church bw has been governed by a majority of the members while in rl neither of or the other two churches church eq has ever been heard tiie the voice of the brotherhood in an ait open or called ealim assembly MILWAUKEE 2 the boiler of 0 distillery Ps tillery exploded today to day the engineer was as scalds to death louisville ky 2 this tills actor attar noon nooh thomas thomaj cook a young illan rilan man fatally stabbed his wife wire and stabbed and killed bia hia mother in law who sought to protect ier her ter daughter lie then cut his own throat he and lii lil his wife are still alive butare but bul are wre fac fas fast s t sinking i I 1 ali an unknown villain removed a L rail on the fort scitt abd abil ahil gulf railroad near dear te le cague cygne yesterday yest erda y and ditched a fre fro freight ht train killing tile the fireman aid and injuring two others NEW NEAV 3 the tipe entire n number um of railroads iu in default defa is more than represent representing ink an indebtedness on the interest account of than twenty seven million dollars nathaniel french a prominent member of the masonic fraternity eternity fm tern ity its in nassau N H has been missing since his arrival in in this city nearly six at months ago afdera careful inquiry by his ills friends and the authorities ties the discovery disco very verv has been made that within twenty hours bours noula nouis after french reached this tilis city lie he was brutally bv beaten a ten robbed and carried to tile the bellevue Belle belie vue vuc hospital where 11 ills his injuries and being ui recognized unrecognized ind lud and iud unclaimed was buried in the potters field cincinnati 3 B 0 roger rogers for several years ye r a i rs bookkeeper book keeper at samuel davis jr ar coys co s pork house in this city was arrested yesterday on a charge of embezzling money from his employers employ ew the tile amount amoun t is not known but it is supposed to be ba over it 1 t is understood der stood that the money will be re rei 1 funded to the firm by rogers father CHICAGO 3 awa A washing g t on sp cial elal says col thos A scott in answer to inquiries from san diego authorized the sending of the following in his name yesterday prospects for legislation good no extension exten sion bion will be asked for ilis ibis it Is understood that no definite form of action has yet been agreed upon but a number of bills are in course courso of preparation to be submitted him for approval tb tho the 0 main object in ili the east being to pi provide i ovide oyide means and to io obtain government aidin aldin aid ald in disposing of railroad bonds and to secure the government for all nil of th disbursements it is authoritatively stated that the northern pacific has agreed to leave the nield field to the southern pacific of lease for the present season FOREIGN 31 captain general jovellar has ordered a strict inq inquiry int into 0 the circumstances connected connect bliz blis with the disappearance of ralph keller the tribune correspondent the vose and ciarlo comment bitterly on fm the sinking of the virginius and release of the nilso ners they charge that the tim united states government sank the in order not to bo be compelled to deliver it ta Spain andis and is guilty of perfidy jn an releasing the tho survivor survivors a tile tho 5 says that nor for the great wrongs of the spanish nation terrible atonements atone 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