Show BY PIM fsr UNION TELEGRAPH LUM 1 UCE uon AMERICAN NEW vork YORK 9 gov mul mui murray ray of utah said to a herald reporter yesterday 1 I never had a clearer or more forcible conviction in my life lire that that according to the law of the united states allen alien G campbell was the citizen who had received the highest number of votes and was consequently elected to congress all the side issues with which the people have sought to invest this question es tion and all the stuff about gesu gelu gentile ll 11 prejudice fade from sight in this clear and unmistakable atmosphere of facts and law judge mcbride who is with murray at the fifth avenue hotel says he can furnish evidence at the proper time that for five years preceding the of nov 1854 ten days before the date of cannons alleged certificate of citizenship was in the sandwich islands doing the work of a latter day saint it ap pears that when he came home homo in IN november vember the legislature was about to assemble and the mormons cormons wanted to elect gannon cannon sergeant at arms and as he had no citizenship citi citizenship zenshi he was forthwith furnished with te the document by which he now claims a citizens rights the judge says that gov woods who at present is stopping in new york refused in 1875 to 0 award the certificate to cannon on the ground that he was not a citizen of the united states A nire fire broke out this morning in an iron front building 62 new church street originating among a quantity of rubbish rubbish in the cellar the building was occupied by the western electric manufacturing company as a manufactory the fire gro rapidly gained headway and spread to the first and second secund stories about I 1 men and boys and 30 women wom en were employed in the building and the greatest wonder is that none mone were injured as the smoke was densely thick and suffocating some menbere men were slightly y singed in dashing down the only flight of stairs but a young man named herbert ran through the building giving the alarm to his fellow workmen calling them and guiding them to the fire escape and all were saved the fire was confined to the block in which it originated and extinguished gui shed with a loss of covered by insurance the loss to the western electric company which manufactures western union instruments and telephones is in stock and on the building fully insured PLANO Ills liis 9 A terrible and fatal accident occurred ten miles n northwest or th west of this city at owen county yesterday afternoon atter noon the can construction st ruction train on the ohio and mississippi railroad rall Eail road was backing towards owen county at about 12 miles per hour in to give tho the passenger train free passage northwest the workmen on the train had been laying new rails ralls and taking up old ones and had a flat car full of Iro iron fron just in front of the caboose the passenger train was coming at an unusual speed in order to make up lost time and the two collided with a fearful shock the engine of the passenger train ran through the caboose pushing the occupants along the masses of iron on the flat car and killing three autri outright lit and wounding the following lus conductor of passenger train seriously jacob hadley thomas bierden vierden Vi erden ome Gowan frank green owen glesson C keblis D donahue john herdman and chas locksmith conductor of the tho tr utu uon train is responsible for the tho accident ALBANY 8 dr norwin green and other meers officers off of the western westeri union were before the senate committee to warn them against legislation adverse to the consolidation they showed that telegraph service was better here than in an other country on the globe and cheaper than any except canada it was impossible to send a message to new york from chicago for without loss of money SAN frano FRANc iwo 9 news per city of tokio hong kong jan it is rumored that LI hung chung will shortly visit officially for the purpose of inspecting the arsenal there two master plate layers have been sent for from E europe drope to join eoin the stat staff of the arsenal where the work on iron vessels of war is soon to be commenced the forts near the mouth of min and along the river are being garrisoned the Vicer pye of tho the provinces on the eastern coast are still engaged in warlike preparations A russian descent in the spring is looked upon as inevitable admiral Lessoff sky is convalescent from the results of the accident in which he broke his leg and resumes command of the formidable russian squadron in chinese and japanese waters there will soon be argeneral rendezvous in Yok Yo kahama yet overland advices advises from peking to shan shanghai gr state that all is quiet on the tiye northwestern frontier railways will almost certainly be introduced into the home provinces LI hung chung has memorialized the government recommending their introduction american merchants do not think favorably of the rumored purport in the united states convention with china they think america gives too much and gets too little foreign newspapers in china and japan regard it with dissatisfaction and characterize is as a farce Yo kahama jan 22 the national agricultural and industrial exhibition will bo be opened in Toldo March native papers state that in the event of war between russia and china japan will observe strict neutrality tra lity paper currency is still at a heavy discount but the pr price ce of government bonds is increasing iner easing washington 10 secretary schurz in an open letter to senator dawes denies that gent lemans statement in the senate that he had bad complained to the secretary of the interior of the wrongs of the doncas and says you to understand clearly whatever speeches you have made elsewhere you never approached me personally on the subject the only matters for which he had bad made a written or personal application at the interior office were requests for official positions in that office he did not mean to blame dawes for soliciting favors but when he comes for that only he must not tell the public that he came with implorations for the poor pon cas and that schurz coldly received his appeals in reply senator dawes remarks that the recent methods of treating the indians is un american and says there never was an indian unjustly killed in this country until the german born american citizen became secretary of the interior all has been peace love and fraternity the red man alan has for three centuries reposed upon the gentle bosom of his white brotherto brot herno man to make him afraid until this dangerous foreigner in an evil hour for the republic was clothed with the authority to disturb that harmonious accord and to disgrace the american name wi with mth ith despu espionage nage in indian camps and the blood cf slaughtered victims and all this he did jn in his efforts to naturalize on american soil the dark and cruel methods of the imp imperial erfal governments of which this foreigner notoriously is and has always been a faithful and ardent worshipper wor shipper and champion harris HAuRis bora Buna IO 10 the senatorial fight last night was on the verge of settlement the grow men held a caucus at which after a hearing a paper from the oliver men suggest ing the names of W H armstrong al S quay and james A beaver as available candidates they decided by a two thirds vote to endorse thomas 11 bayne of alleghany Alleg liany hany about forty oliver men went into the caucus after oliver withdrew and decided to support gen beaver the choice of the balance of the republicans public ans is of a general character no election is looked for today to day unless several ballots are taken i grows growls letter to the republic cans of the assembly says the senatorial contest ims has been so protracted that he must express his idea of matters it is an honorable ambition to represent depre ent pennsyl pennsylvania in the united states senate senaie and with that ambition he became a candidate and received the republican noni nomination and was waa entitled to every republican vote as the caucus nominee Doubt doubtless lessall all ali his big opponents in the party are actuated I 1 y bright and consecutive motives and in so far they have his endre en tire respect although he be disapproves such a 11 course certainly there are many men in the state worthy the bib bih honor and recognizing owing to the refusal of a iare lare large and respectable number of republicans to join in the support of the caucus nami nominee his election ia is impossible and he is no longer a candidate ho he thanks them for their manly and steadfast support and believes that time will demonstrate the approval of the states naw EW yore YORK 10 the tho times washington describing the scene in the joint convention today to day says there was a quite a long interval between the close of the reading of the certificate and the announcement of the vote by loy thurman and it was noticed there appeared to be some confusion among the tellers after the convention had adjourned it was learned that the delay was occasioned by the fact that the tally sheets did not agree and that only one of them had the correct footings the tally lists made by hamlin it is said g give i the vote of vermont to hanc hane hancock 0 crand and the votes of florida and nevada to garfield and that of louisiana was omitted entirely from the sheet it is also said that the footing of hamlins hamkins Ham lins tally list elected hancock by about 30 votes the list kept by thurman is alleged to have contained inaccuracies quite as great as those contained in the list of his colleague fortunately the list kept by one of the tellers on the part of the house contained a correct footing which enabled the tellers to make the proper announcement the inaccuracies were corrected by the tellers after the joint convention had dissolved CHICAGO 10 an ottawa dispatch says in the house of commons pope minister of marine and fisheries said the charges of hinds are so outrageous that his correspondence pon dence will convict him of acting from an improper motive I 1 am happy to see that the american government has not taken this matter up and the british government has not thought it worth while to take notice of the charge you will find that the errors he complains of effects injuriously the interests of canada sir A G smith late minister of marine said there was no foundation for the charges what motives hinds has cannot be ascer bained bebas he has hns suggested no solution of the difficulty the motion by mcdougal for investigation was carried NEW york 10 rone kone of the missing steamers have been heard from today to day and some are undoubtedly lost the two which attract greatest attention are the Pa batavia taufa tavia of the cunard line and the bristol city the batavia had bad a large passenger list largely new yorkers the companas comp anys agents are unwilling to believe she has gone down it was thought the steamer bochnia would have some news but that vessel reports that she didiot did not see a sail from the time of leaving queens town until off fire island une names of the shin ships 1 9 passengers are in the london office and with the purser of the steamer josephine foundered on blila ship island it is said that if nothing should be saved of the ves vessel or car go gothe the loss will be about it has been raining heavily and the water famine is evaded the streets are in a lamentable and disgraceful condition sidewalks are flooded the whole width water backing from accumulated snow in the road ways and all crossings are ponds of water A backwater back water down town flooded cellars and basements many leaden pipes are bursting on roofs rendering uncomfortable pilots could not see half a boats length the streets near the ferries were hopelessly blocked by vehicles waiting to cross A dense fog and heavy ice on the sound with difficult difficulty large boats reach neach the city eity there is some danger to the pier a at t long branch the storm extended over the greater portion of the state fresh ets carried away bridges in duchess county the culvert on the poughkeepsie ke epsie hartford and boston railroad was carried away and travel interrupted fears are entertained of a disastrous ice gorge at the delaware water gap houses in the suburbs of elin ira lra are much damaged by the overflowing of creeks at fredericksburg icks burg there are fears of a great freshet A bill which has been introduced to the legislature gives in incorporators corp orators the ri night right bt to form a company with a capital of oooo for the purpose of supplying up plying drinking water to the city it is understood that lake george will be the source of the thesus sup ply CHICAGO 10 some days ago government detectives discovered that thefts of mail matter were being bellig committed on mail mall cars between rochester and huron on the lake shore and michigan southern trains and several arrests were made last night the police made what they consider the most important arrest for five years in the person of jqhn john P F leist a young man of good appearance who has been assistant at the post office on his person pirson were found documents and money to a large amount and under his lead the officers discovered in a house of ill fame a large amount of valuables some of them original envelopes the total amount recovered is to his method was to cut a slit in the mail pouch and abstract the letters his arrest was not made until about midnight and the officials both of the city and postoffice post office obstinately refused for some unknown reason to give any information about him these facts are obtained from sources outside but are reliable when captured leist attempted to bluff the officers but was taken to the station and when examined made a full confession he is recognized as an old crook CLEVELAND 0 10 A frightful explosion occurred today to day at P 0 maur cos coal mine at robbins bobbins on the niles and new lisbon railway with an appalling loss of life A lerald JE special says fifteen men and one boy were in the mine at the time of the accident and eight escaped at the side shaft the boy was entering the mine at the time and was hurled forty feet he is shockingly mangled and will die the mules were hurled thirty five feet and killed the mine wa was s known to contain a deadly gas and the men had been warned of its presence in a particular place but the place of danger being good to pass the mule teams the miners disregarded the warning the killed are james logan Log anand and son james mehan william haley george henshel wood and Ed Smith the man who caused the explosion was badly mutilated and his body burned to a crisp the wounded are james crouch robert haley ed craigan Cr eigan john acken peter wilson and two brothers nearly all are badly hurt and some will die mrs griffith had gon gone e to the door of the mine to call her son when the explosion occurred chesaw she bhe saw the mule shoot out of the mine and found her son injured george Hen Hens belwood died in his cifes arms the scenes were heartrending in the extreme RICHMOND va 10 at muse ville Pitt silvania county a negro convicted of a trifling offenses offense abused the magist magistrate being remonstrated with by another negro he became enraged and assaulted all the whites with a bludgeon killing J C arthur and seriously wounding two others the negroes escaped to a club room with friends who resolved not to allow their comrade to be arrested they held an all ali night nj session marching with the prisoner at the head and beating a drum twelve men well armed secured becu red their arrest and safely lodged them in jail the citizens with difficulty prevented lynching lunching lyn ching them NEW NEV ORLEANS IO 10 the damage by sundays storm along the mississippi sound from pascagoula Pasca goula to the bay of st louis louls is I 1 s the portion of the city |