Show byrele by telegraph 9 raph AMERICAN COLUMBUS COL UMBUS 0 18 nido kino prisoners in the county jail jall overpowered the she sheriff rinn rift this evening and escaped four of them were afterwards recaptured but the leader of the gang was waa shot twice by the sheriff before he would surrender nelv NEW YORK IS thomas milis ellis the defaulting teller of the national park bank was arrested this afternoon enst johns N B j ST louis 18 vm wm mckee mekee was released from jail this afternoon by united states marshal marshai leffingwell on a telegraphic order from actor ney general taft the pardon having been signed today to day theisac this action of the presidents meets with quite a general approval A large number of mr hie Alc 51 reea Keea friends called on and congratulated him upon his hia restoration to liberty wi 0 avery released from tho the penitentiary on saturday on a pardon by the president arrived here hero from 3 1 cf rf merson ferson city today to day and left for washington tonight to night D C 18 tonight to night about eight wm H hosford deputy collector of wyoming wa was red on twice by chas light bight ner ut ul omaha neither ishoi ahot taking tailing effect when hosford drew a revolver and shot lightner killing him instantly lightner was drunk and had haa forced his bis way into C captain a P Hos fords forda residence for which Hins hosford ford ejected him nev ney YORK 19 the T following is the summary of the political situa situation tiow confusion dail dall daily dally y becomes worse confounded in the knotty question who has secured the electoral vote of the three dis south carolina was provisionally scored yesterday for rayea hayea by the precise action of tho the state canvassers under the order of the supreme court which the day before was deemed sure to give it to tilden tabulated returns give part of the state officers to each party florida furnishes a 1 completo surprise in the proposal of governor stearnes Sl earnes to himself canvass the vote for el actors on the assumption that aa as the tiao state statute c creating and defining denning ning tho the duties of the stata board omit to charge body with counting the votes s for the electors and as it is his duty guty to issue to the electors their certificates of appointment he must make a compilation of the county returns to ascertain who are chosen to office by the popular suf frages this reasoning and proposed action pro consternation among the democratic leaders and was met by the most moat severe denunciation in an interview with a herald reporter today to day manton marble said that every county in florida not reported was under republican control ST louis louls 19 what has bas long been known as the hogan adoun i tain gang R B R train thieves who have operated very extensively along the st louls louis 1 I M and boil them thern B R K R between here and the arkansas line has been effectually broken up nine of their number including three women have just y been sentenced by the iron iron lioun mountain circuit court to from nite fite to eleven years in the Renitent penitentiary lary iary charleston 19 dennis 0 ono one ne of the negroes implicated by a coroners jury in the sportsman murder was arrested yesterday in columbia on information given by one of the persons arrested a posse of eleven went out this a m eleven miles to arrest two other negroes named wm and stephen anderson who were present at the murder william was arrested in town but stephen was at his house and refused to surrender and was only captured after being shot several times although not mot seriously six bix negroes are now imprisoned char charged gedl with complicity in the murder four more arrests under tho the ens act were made yesterday nearly all the prisoners were balled but some are still in jail district attorney corbin corbi n having instructed commissioner boozer to refuse bail ball for several and to post pone it for others cincinnati 01 oy 01 19 A party of fifty six persons left this city late last night in two furniture wagons to attend a german wedding edding Nr some distance out in tn the northwestern par part fart of the county about ten mi miles le s out at the c crossing of the west fork in the this darkness the wagon containing thirty sik six people was driven off the side of tho the bridge falling twenty live feet to the rock below louis louls bramlage aged 67 had his spine fractured and will go probably ba b ly die jose joseph h meyers s had hak his Is a skull skuli k u 1 I 1 fractured an and d nine or r ten others were less jess injured philadelphia 19 lt gov vice P resident of the japanese centennial commission mis slon sion leaves leave s for san francisco tomorrow to morrow en route to japan NEW nev YORK 20 blaine passed through this city on sa saturday in conversation with a tty try tribune rp reporter orter orten he said there was no foundation for the Wash washington logton rumor connecting his hia name with the presidency of the senate I 1 parliamentary r ar lia lla usage and his own personal wishes would be all equally against such a step it was a case in which he could not if he would and he be most assuredly would not if he could blaine seemed boomed a little sensitive lest any one should imagine agine he be could entertain for a moment the purpose imputed to him in regard to the presidential question blaine was very reticent showing an obvious desire to dis cuss the matter he remarked however that for twenty years he be had feared just such a crisis as is now upon us and the strain was co coming ming U upon the weakest p part pari art of th the I 1 mach machinery anery of th the e ade federal r al constitution ution he expressed the opinion on that both hayes and rud tilden wad bad exhibited remarkable prudence and propriety during these last eventful days and alid to their bearing he thought was dues due in great part the cessation of public excitement on the question if eiery ciery everybody body will follow their example said blaine a conclusion will ultimately be reached in which fair minded men of all parties will cordially concur the worlds columbia special says the democratic state ticket is elected if the goes for hayes it is believed that the throwing out of an illegal box will elect two democratic electors FOREIGN HAVANAs HAVANA 17 additional particulars of the seizure of the steamer montezuma Montez ioma iima have been received only the captain and three seamen were killed and eight passenger wa with th fifteen seamen were landed an at cape cap Hay ray ten tien teD whence t they be y were taken to han Ban santiago tiago do cub cuba a two spanish war ships hipa hate have gon gone ln in pur pursuit lault of ur Lo ledox don Dox 10 19 A calcutta correspondent of the times rimes states that estimates based bated on the official retarn retain from various police stations give the total loss of ilfe life as in three distri districts acts and it is probable that even this estimate Is too small A berlin special to the times reports that all the ships of the russian dlack black sea navigation co have been pu impressed n p essed into the service of the russian 1 lian sian government CALCUTTA 20 three la large tg islands namely Hat liar ilar sundee sandeep and dakhin and numerous smaller mands islands including Backer Bacher Nork holly and chit were entirely submerged by the storm wave of oct as was also the mainland for five or six miles these islands are all in or near the estuary of the biver biyer megua legua the largest lai gest dakhin sha was squares in extent it had bad a population pf af about and sandeep together had about population up to 11 on oil the night bight of the there were no signs of danger but before midnight a wave swept over the country to the tho depth in many mahy places of twenty feet surprising leks ing people in their thein beds the dense ise groves of cocoanut coco anut and palm trees around the villages enabled many to save themselves by climbing among the branches some took refuge on the tops of their houses but the water burst their houses asunder and swept them out to sea some were carried thus across the channel ten miles to Chitta ngong district but a vast majority mijo rity were never heard of again the country is perfectly ilat flat and aud almost every overy one perished who failed to reach the trees there is scarcely a household in these islands and on ion the adjacent coast but lost many members the cattle are all drowned boats are swept away and means of communication ni with other districts destroyed there is much distress among the survivors which the government is relieving the government gazette says where ever the storm wave passed it is believed not a third of the population survived the islands lands is have bave baiely barely one fourth of their former inhabitants and the stench from putrefying putrefy ing bodies is insufferable and a general outbreak of cli eli cholera olera 1 Is 13 3 expected A correspondent ays says this fear is happily not yet realized except in Nork Tork holly where the disease has baa ap appeared p eared news drem frem the famine fa min threaten ed districts cf of madras is somewhat better rain bain has come in time to do some good in bon la a t i prospects are still g gloomy I 1 I 1 actual famine in two or three districts districts seems probable and great distress in four or flicmore nive five more |