| Show BY TELEGRAPH pen ren UNION LINE USE AMERICAN H E it 11 C A N CHICAGO 10 the daily news mattoon ills an atrocious double murder was committed near randan coles county last night an aged agea couple named Fleetwood leing the victims they were found in their beds this morning with their throats cut no trace of the perpetrators is yet discovered and no cause is assim assigned d for the crime unless it be that of robbery A mattoon ills special gives the following additional details of the double murder murde of the aged Fleetwood couple near randon the olk folks sa s1 slept siept e p t on t the he f first rs floor A married da daughter u eghte r a sin small smail a 11 child and a hired in man aa J james c s W kleback kieback slept up stairs st a irs all retired early carly the daughter was awakened later lafer by hearin bearin hearing bearing going down stairs but bu t dozed off and was again awakened by hearing a sound as of blows being struck in the room below but went to sleep again and again was aroused by the smell of smoke she called to the hired man that the house was on fire ile he told her to jump out of the window she ran down stairs and found the bed in which her father and mother lay on fire at her request went reluctantly to the house ot of a neighbor she extinguished the flames and found the aged couple with their throats cut and their heads beaten in was suspected ile he had blood on his trousers and wore a clean shirt though he had not soiled the one he had on when he retired at night the well was pumped dry and his axe covered with blood and and hair was found fauna at the bottom stoutly asserted his innocence the coroners jury held him for murder the sheriff started with him for the jail at charleston A crowd of men who had collected at the scene threatened to lynch him before morning morn lug ing the theold old oid couple had no money in the house and the reasons for the crime are unknown charleston special the sheriff succeeded in getting the supposed murderer of the fleetwood couple away from the crowd at the scene of the tragedy and landing him safely in jail here A revolver which acknowledges Is his was found with two chambers empty it is believed he shot mrs fleetwood with it before crushing her head with the ax as philadelphia 10 george hughes who had bad been separated from his wife some time was arrested for threatening in to kill her and during the trial w while ile lle the wife was giving her testimony he stabbed her louisville I 1 10 news reached here tonight to night of a brutal outrage in marshall county ky perpetrated b by a father on his daughter in law will wili while c frank boyd was away from home his father john boyd his house and ravished lavished ravi shed his invalid wife almost killing her because she offered resistance old boyd left for parts unknown before his crime was discovered galveston 10 A netos richmond special says A double murder was committed this morning near here it is supposed by jack thornton colored of his wife and baby thornton was under indictment for seduction and married his victim niarie manie glenn the dai dat day previous to escape the legal results su ts ile he is still at large little rock lothe 10 the Gazz gazettes ettes tex arkana mike blike berry a barkeeper was shot and killed by deputy sheriff J C clark oark berry frequently threatened to kill mark clark on sight and when they met this morning clark mark opened fire there were several shots from both sides when berry fell dead clark was arrested R delmr delmi N C 10 an explosion of dynamite it at the stone quarry at F rank lfrank lington killed dock robinson Eo binson and edwin strang and wounded four men all colored pensacola Pensacol ala aia fia fla 10 afire A fire this morning destroyed deb troyed the louisville nashville ville freight depot the galay mills the transfer stable the hoffman house restaurant two stores the masonic build building and several minor buildings loss lo 10 northampton 0 n mass blass 10 lo therlisha the ellsha Elisha grav graves house over years old is burned gloucester mass blass 10 the schooner axelson Q G mcfarland was lost at sea and five fishermen drowned los angeles 10 A perfect deluge of rain has fallen the last 36 hours j three inches fell during the nl night ht trains cast and west are blocked by washouts shouts wa columbus 10 A disastrous wreck occurred on the panhandle railroad at beaver station near dayton 0 tonight by the spreading of the the rails the ane engine and tender plunged into a creek and the passenger and baggage cars turned tamed over in a neap heap engineer thomas was killed fireman connell received probably fatal injuries baggage master crawford was badly injured as was also smith supposed to be a postal clerk the passengers were all badly shaken tucson 10 gen geo W dietzer formerly a member of the famous stubbs company during the freestate free state war in kansas was thrown from his buggy today today and killed new MEW york YOUK 10 senator sabin saban of minnesota and hawley of connecticut made speeches at ille ilie the meeting of tile the union league club tonight to night 1 held heid id to consider preparation for the c coming orning presidential campaign A majority of the delegates f from rom Bio blo brooklyn oklyn to the republican state convention which chooses delegates to the chicago convention are lothe 10 the congressional republican convention elects a blaine delegate to chicago one of the alternates favors edmunds halifax IO 10 the rhe nova scotia legislature ha has s extended the franchise in municipal elections sections to widows and unmarried women lawrenceburg Lawrenc eburg ind 10 john 0 cravens and eugene chay guay are elected delegates to the republican convention from the fourth district their personal preference Is for harrison harriso n poughkeepsie poughkeepsie N ylo yio the republican congressional on gressional convention erected hamilton fish jr and B platt carpenter delegates to Chi chicado caco cazo and vo voted ted down a resolution endorsing blaine eort eor wayne tWayne ind 10 the republican convention of the twelfth congressional g r ess lonal ional district chose 0 A simons and 0 carver delegates to the chlea chiea chicago 0 convention they go uninstructed t ed carver will support blaine blame and simons has no preference troy N Y 10 the seventeenth congressional district has selected I 1 martin J townshend and henr henry y G burleigh delegates to the republican national convention Covent Coven tion lon all are for arthur indianapolis 10 the republicans held heid conventions in all the congressional districts of the state toda today to da day to select delegates to chicago thenie the delegates almost without exception favor indiana with a strong preference for senator harrison for ake the second choice blaine leads and his name always goes oes with lincoln for vice president stanton J peele was for congress in the seventh district and gen thomas al browne in the sixth the state convention to select four delegates at lange iange is to be heid held in this city on the NEW YORK youk 11 1 business failures the past week in the united states canada 39 compared with for the previous week the certificate of incorporation of the mcdonough Donough He telephone and telegraph company was filed today to day the company has a capital stock of which can be increased to the companas comp anys lines are to run from N new york to california florida and maine malno washington 11 information has been received herr lerr here of the arrest by united states authorities at keywest of a cuban named aurelio macoll who arrived at that point yesterday the arrest was based on zi a telegram tele ram froin from the governor general of anada guada canada to the spanish consul at key west saying that macoll was coming to america to kill him A tel egi egl agram am has been received by the secretary of state f from rom adam badeau tendering his resignation as consul consul general of havana NEW york 11 special engagements are made for the shipment to europe tomorrow to morrow of one million dollars washington INGTON 11 dr norvin green made an argument before the house committee on post offices and post roads today to day in opposition to postal telegraphs if however government is determined to enter into the business he thought it ought to buy out existing lines and manage manage the work exclusive exclusively li in its own wap way lie he also said if the senate committee bill became a law the western union would be omea tome a bidder for the contract for which that measure makes provisions cincinnati lithe 11 the strike of coal heavers at harpers TO rolling mill newport ky for the resto restoration ralton of wages paid last fall will cause the mill ini lito to close tonight to night about sixty strikers enforce the idleness of six sik hundred empio employees ees ST THOMAS 1 ilo iio MAS ont ll 11 abight A night fight occurred this morning between aga a gang n of 1 70 0 italians and an equal number of irish labo laborers reis on the canada southern railway it was caused by the irish objecting to the employment of italians the police with the assistance of citizens succeeded in stopping the fl night fight ht after several on both sides had b been en severely wounded ST LOUIS 11 latest advises advices from the city of mexico say that the trouble over the stamp act is practically settled government having agreed to a modification so that oay only goods actually sold shail shall shall be stamped stam ed A correspondent of tte the globe demo crat gives the following suni summary mary of af of presidential preference to delegates 11 in this state to tile the republican national convention blaine 11 arthur atthur 9 logan 7 edmunds 5 6 none of the delegates are strongly pronounced in their preferences however and will doubtless be governed largely by the views of delegates from republican states washington WASHING tor TOX 11 the president attended the ser services rices vices of st johns church this morning and spent the remainder of the day quietly at the white house receiving no visitors the state department has no confirmation fir mation of the cabled report that minister langston demanded of the hayelan government W M indemnity for american losses in the the september riots or the surrender of the mole st nicholas as a guarantee that the money will be paid the latest communication from lan langston ston on the subject is dated dec 17 U 83 va 11 after everything was got in readiness at the pocahontas mines yesterday evening the police force placed a guard at the main entrance of the mines in order to keep back the crowd which had been attracted by the notice posted that the bodies must be claimed the mining engineer in charge of the rescuing party entered the mines to note the situation of affairs when they emerged f from rom the mines they announced t the ta e dama damage e less than had been supposed and little trouble was experienced peren perien ced in recovering the bodies of 0 the victims the two bodies recovered ed yesterday horribly mutilated were those of boon maxey the white boy and jim crim the negro the work ork was resumed this mornin morning still sti wa a large crowd congregated ri at the entrance and ropes were stretched to prevent a too near approach the I 1 crowd however observed proper decorum and there was no undue excitement A spirit of great solemnity seemed to pervade the crowd the bodies as they were recovered ered were placed in boxes on the inside of the mine and several were brought out together on the pole car A number of miners well acquainted with the victims were placed at the entrance for the purpose of identifying the bodies 1 I of 10 16 recovered so far only six were identified these were james crim 1 recognized by the belt he wore isam maxwell axwell Bl by his bis boots geo maxwell axwell 31 by being found with his brother win wm slusher by a patch on one of his boots young jewell e e 1 by y his hair and the location of the body od A german was recognized by his wife many of the bodies were horribly mangled some with their heads ds blown biown off others with arms and legs torn from the sockets and still others with their entrails torn out entirely an arm and leg were found in the main entrance but battha the body to which ther they belonged was not found A thrill chril of horror passed through the crowd as the rescuing party brought out the disfigured remains of a miner with his dinner bucket clasped in his arms who was probably just partaking 01 of his ns midnight meal when the explosion hurled him into eternity several sae fae tenal miners were found with the their picks lk I 1 in their hands bands and their positions maiv mal mai v bated that death was instantaneous to all in the mine at it was bel i announced no more bodies would be removed before saturday morning the balance of the time was occupied in getting out the carcasses of the mules which were too heavy to be carried and had to be halved and quartered and i hauled out very little excitement S prevailed the large crown of men and women stood near the ehi ebi entrance trance hoping by some familiar feature to recognize their dead relatives but as the announcement was made that no more bodies could be taken out until saturday the crowd withdrew CHICAGO 11 ite lle publican primaries were held in this city this afternoon to elect delegates to nominate con congressmen ress in the farst second and fourth districts and to elect delegates in all ali four of the districts to the national convention the issue in all of the districts is clearly defined as between the ad berente and op posers of senator logan for the presidential nomination and the choice of delegates to the district conventions the balloting was characterized by an unusual amount of turbulence bu lence the struggle in the third congressman davis district was particularly excited and many personal encounters and several free fights resulted but as the only weapons used were no serious consequences followed asa As a result of it all there was a divided victory the first district chose 80 delegates to the congressional convention 40 of whom were for logan and 40 against an anex exciting alipe is anticipated when the convention meets tomorrow to morrow to choose delegates to the national convention ven tion III in the second district the logan and anti logan managers agreed to disagree and held two sets of primaries and will send two sets of gi delegates el to the national convention in the third district anti logan delegates were chosen and in the fourth those in favor of lodyn were chosen cooperstown Coopers town NY 11 the twenty fourth congressional district republican convention composed of delegates from Sc harle harie herkimer and otsego counties elected titus sheard of heri kimer and hobart krai kral of schoharie Sc 1 delegates to the national convention david wilbur of otsego was appointed presidential elector the delegates are anti arthur with preference divided between blaine and lincoln harrisburg pa 11 the republican conference oi of the fourteenth congles dional district which elected delegates to chicago required them to sign a pledge to support blaine as long as he should be before the convention philadelphia 11 the republican convention of the twentieth congressional district selected delegates dele gutes to the national convention today to day and instructed ted them for blaine aua aub and lincoln wit wim as long as they thet remained in the field fiela the twenty sixth congressional district also selected delegates with instructions to support blaine new york 11 the wolard of saturday will publish replies from governor oadley hoadley ll of ohio and governor jackson of of west virginia to inquiries concerning the issues ol of the next presidential campaign gov hoadley says the issues upon which the presidential campaign are to be 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