Show by telegraph AMERICAN NEW trew YOEK 10 the court of appeals haying having reversed the decision that the board of excise cahl can 1 not legally grant licenses to persons other than keepers of inns or hotels to sell spi spirituous I 1 liquors and wines to be drunk on onabe the premises of those licensed james i liquor dealer for selling liquor under ajl all a license oense cense of the board of excise wai wag was today to day fined by judge buther buthen sutherland and one 4 dollar ollir the punishment was wa s made light because the dealer was not aware that he was violating the law this r created an intense excite me 11 tho tha liquor dealers de alors and district strict attorney phelps has had a consultation with the police commissioners on the subject meanwhile the temperance people are taking advantage of the situation and nned a temperance crusade with oliver cutler culer at the head for the wholesale arrest of liquor dealers should the police not no take action iu in the matter henry menry cooper hollander has heen been arrested as the person who jg jilted the clothing of luc lue luey lucy y freeman about a fortnight ago cooper asse asserts arti that it was aa an accident the girl de declared in the hospital that the act was wilful A good deal of excitement was caused fo day at the appraisers store corner of and west streets by the discovery dis covery coveri in a cask orwine orwin of wine pf af a large tin box allied ailed with dynamite cartridges which were attached to wires to gutta percha fuses uses the cask was one of a cargo from the steamer arisia frisia which were brought with a num ber her of others to the appraisers store it was invoiced as thirty i litres laitres of wine and is supposed to be from hamburg jt it was addressed to a person in huntington Illi illinois noli and is thought to be a foolhardy attempt of some person to ship dynamite to this port had an explosion occurred in the ap store the consequences would have been very disastrous as fully people are employed there and the property in the place is valued at COLUMBUS ohio 10 martin havens a 8 seven beven ven year old bov boy residing jn in orange township delaware county mysteriously disappeared on sunday bunday simultaneously with a negro named edward boo ker with whom he was I 1 list sst seen bookers him a farm servant also left and came liere there where she was arrested today to day wt but she disclaims any connection with the affair both negroes are hard cases and it is believed it ft is a case of abduction as the childs father is rich EAST MoNT montre lier LIEB vt 10 hiram arbuckle this afternoon j ahot george short and leaving him for dead then shot his big brother in law george bancroft dead and then going home borne put a bullet through his own beart heart insanity is supposed to be the cause CHICAGO 10 the the atef junior oceans washington special saya says the president will markedly recognize the services ser vices of spotted tail tall in bringing in the hosti lesso aw to make mako an example to the indians of the treatment of those whose promote peace secretary mccrary today to day ordered the removal of the troops from alaska and secretary sherman has ordered a revenue cutter to aia Ala alaska to supply their place the tribunes washington special says officer bauer of th secret service reports that he arrested six of the prisoners in the tennessee jail who were engaged in the manufacture of fifty and twenty five dent cent counterfeit silver sliver coins he captured the coins aud and mple ments CHICAGO 11 col A L king a i gentleman of considerable mining experience who has just returned from the black hills bays says there are large jarg e quantities of quartz in the deadwood dead wood region and the ore is generally easily worked the stamp mill process is all that is required and the cost of working per ton inc Juc including luding mining does not exceed aeed 5 col king is of the opinion that there are undeveloped ores in abo big nig horn and yellowstone country of greater wealth than are found lu in the mines aa as yet developed d in the black hillbo hill hlll and ud that they are an extension of the deadwood belt the placers which yielded 9 last year in despite of ee the indians and soldiers are ure only partially worked and mans many discoveries have been made e that a will wiil bo be worked this year if the government protects the miners miner sL NEW YOEK 11 the berald says the position promptly assumed by the herald in the question of the reliability of the ver version slon sion of john D lees leea confession given to the press by the united states district attorney at salt bait lake city proves to have been the right one from all quarters come evidences that the so called confession casgar was garbled and intended to further a sharp piece of speculation on the part of the law of figers officers of the united states in utah the aralds JI washington special says a strang strange sequel esequel to the tragedy of lees execution at mountain meadows contained in an boffl official clai cial paper I 1 was filed yesterday with the department of justice in washington this tills is no less than the affidavit of edwin gilman oilman of salt lake city lee was induced to make a confession to the united states attorney on a promise that in return for buch euch con confession he should receive a reprieve reVrie vo and eventually a full pardon this alleged was made to lee by the district attorney in furtherance of a plan to implicate expose and punish all the mormon leaders from brigham young down who were believed to be conceited conce concerned ined I 1 in n the mountain meadows massacre oilman alleged that he was engaged as a go between by the district attorney to make overtures to lee ee for fok the confession and to E promise 6 mise eventually immunity to lee iee in consideration af the disclosures he should mahe make c in bia hia capacity of guard at the penitentiary at beaver he hadi hadJ ree ac access ceste to the cell ceil and lee and occupied quite a while in conducting the negotiations before a mutual understanding had been arrived at between leeana lee bee and the di attorney gilman oilman saw the confession of lee and it was at ht variance with the one given to tile the public by y the district attorney the merald further say edito tori torl ally of course the suspected i officials deny the truth of all the statements tate ments charging them with collusion with the church a and suppressing evidence aoa aaa against dinst brigham young and his hia c hief chief priests yet a feeling of deep uneasiness pervades official circles and feverish protests of innocence are heard beard in salt lake city from the united states district attorney the following telegram 1 is s ad dressed to the merald herald salt lake city 9 to J G bennett new york leer leet ald if one gilman oilman hiis has made a statement regarding me you that itis false the mormons cormons have used and concealed him agne signed V HOWARD U 8 district attorney desperate efforts are made to conceal the facts the accused Oa parties arties are believed to be cap capable abier abler of resorting to violence olerice if necessary it is therefore considered unsafe for any one knowing the details to utter a word regarding them in utah territory tweed still lies iles in jail because he hag has failed to make theu the unconditional conditional n surrender of his property and vouchers some of which have already been exhibited and confirm his confession of Ini improper proper dealings with legislators judges editors and others his friends say that he has lost possession of many of these vouchers but if he falls rails to produce them he is likely to 16 rema remain i n a perpetual prisoner as ag placing them beyond his control was a violation of the compact agreed to wb when en they were admitted to be in his hands ST LOUIS mo 1177 11 the most frightful calamity calamity that has ever befallen St stlouis louis Louls took place at a very early hour ilour this morning involving the destruction of the southern hotel by firmand fire and the loss of a large number of lives ilves the exact number cannot now be given but it is feared that some forty or fifty perished either by being burned directly or first smothered by the smoke and then consumed the gire fire caught naught in the store tooms looms in the basement and was first seen coming through the ground floor just north horth of the office and in ten minutes it had bad ascended the elevators and rotunda and spread itself over the sixth floor under the roof this thib floor was occupied entirely by the employ employees ees of the hotel the largest part of whom were women the fire spread rapidly filling every room and hall with fla fia flames PCs and esmoke and the scene was of the knost most terrible description frantic france men I 1 women ancl aud children fail ran th through roub M the tho halls balls shrieking in the most heartrending manner in their wild and desperate efforts to escape the smoke was so dense in some home of the halls balls that the gas jets were extinguished which rendered egress to those most familiar with the building a matter of i great difficulty the density of th the e smoke in balls drove many guests and boarders board back to their rooms and they rushed to the windows as a means of escape ladders were raised as bosn soon as possible and women and children with nothing on but their night clothes were taken from the burning building some of them fainted from fright and others sank exhausted to the ground from nervous prostration the ladders were generally too short to deac reach h the fifth and sixth by hoisting some on the one story balcony on the east side and the two story balcony on the north side of the building these flors were reached and all those at windows were rescued the tle skinner fire escape was waa brought into service and was the means of saving many lives while this work was going on some frightful scenes occurred one man who had been occupying a window on the street in front of the hotel became desperate at the seeming delay in effecting his escape and with nervous hailds hands he tore the sheets from his bed into strips tied them together and fastening this ink improvised rope to the window sill and disregarding the fact that it did not reach more than 1 20 10 feet he let jet himself down hand orbr over hand ilind themen below who who saw his position turned away their heads to avoid witnessing the sickening event that was inevitable finally lie he reached the end of the sheet and then for the first time he seemed to realize his bis position he stopped threw his big head back revealing a ghastly face and swung low to and fro swayed by the breeze which the roaring flames above created his limbs swinging around convulsively aa as though to catch around something then he let jet go and groans went up from hundreds as he whirled round and round and finally struck on the stone flagging he died in a few minutes two other men jumped from the fourth story window one of whom seemed not to be dangerously hurt while the other ether expired in a few moments A woman in the fifth story became stricken and jumped out she alighted on her feet and was carrio carris d to st james hotel st still ili III alive her hu husband ba n d w who ho had bad been stan standing dint dink b by he her alde aide de then tore up his big bedd bedding didgo and let the strip so made out blat of the window to this the firemen attached a rope which the man inan hauled up makin making fafel it fast to the window sill and safely descended by it A man named J T E wilson jumped from the fourth story window and was killed andrew ens nan xian and mrs scott met their death in the same way ahe mortality among the female help of the hotel is feared to be great there were some of them all of whom were lodged in the upper story of the building the panic among them was perfectly terrible and a number of them jumped from the upper windows among those known to have been killed inthis in this manner were bridget mead marv carey bridget white ellen elien bielly aej and several others who were carried carrie d away by their friends and whose names have not yet been ascertained miss rate kate claxton the actress had another narrow escape and is unharmed among those known to have been saved are K baeltz of texas mrs A mccoy of altoona I pa ia a mrs gott of syracuse N 9 Y W B Cogg coggswell swell and family and E J kimball of mine lamotte lia iia motte mo dr gerlach german consul jumped from the window and broke a leg his wife 1 is 1 8 unhurt charies charles teenan lost his bis ilfe life in attempting to save others phillip gerold a boarder at the hotel was brought out alive but entirely bereft of reason about half an hour after the fire was discovered the entire roof was ablaze and the flames were rapidly descending to the lower stor es half an hour later the clyois and interior walls began to fai fal the roof fell in ana and there is now nothing left of one of the tho finest hotels in the country except the walnut street front and parts of the fourth and fifth street faces the loss jos on the building and con coni monts will willbe be from to sis insurance ranco unknown later the engines are still playing on the fire and a force has been organized to search for the dead bodies several bodies have already been taken from the debris in a more or less jess burned state but the names are not yet ascertained there are also aiso several bodies at the morgue awaiting identification mrs morans berv servario servant atit aril was killed by jumping from a window george frank leonly grand secretary of the grand lodge of freemasons Free masons of missouri is ii supposed to have perished six other persons names unknown were killed either by jumping from the windows or were suffocated by the smoke and dragged out of the burning building Is difficult to procure procure the names of the killed tut but it is hoped that nearly a complete list will be obtained this afternoon ter noon neou I 1 COLUMBIA S C 11 11 the papers and other property were transferred to general hampton today to day and he is now in peaceable possession of the state house washington II 11 for severa months past the question of withdrawing the troops from the territory of alaska and turning that territory jy over to the control of the treasury department has ha 8 been discussed at cabinet meetings and numerous letters on the subject passed between the secretary of var war major general Mo mcdowell Dowell commanding the military division of the pacific and the secretary of the treasury department one reason urged for the withdrawal of the troops was that cases of conflict of authority frequently arose in washington territory en on account of arrests made by the military in alaska of persons who were brought to the last fast named territory tor for trial there being no civil authorities in alaska and besides the expense of keeping a military force there was greater than at amy aay other point recently a fire destroyed a portion of the baracks and ic it was estimated that it would require to repair the damage companies G and M ar of the fourth artillery numbering seventy three men have been stationed at hleba and Cord company pany A of the same regiment numbering thirty five men has been stationed at making a total of soldiers located in the territory it has finally f been determined that the troops shall be withdrawn alad and the control of the territory transferred to the treasury department the secretary of war has accordingly sent the following letter to general sherman who will direct general mcdowell to withdraw the troops war department washington lith to general W sh sherman efman eiman united states army general by the direction of thie the president of the united states the troops now in garrison at certain posts in the territory of alaska will be withdrawn |