| Show BY TELEGRAPH alt axe ricia UNION LINE LIKE A AMERICAN X ae U 1 C A N ST louis 18 the national br bricklayers ick land masons association which has been in secret session here tor for several sever aldays flays past adjourned last night to meet a year hence in washington the eight kour hour law was the subject of a long discussion during daring the session and a compromise was finally effected by the adoption of nine hours for a days work this rule is to go into ef feet throughout the country the first of next may ST louis 18 an immense crowd the largest ever seen in the criminal court in this city was present in that court this morning to witness the opening of the trial of the chinese binders the chinese inhabitants of the city acre ere present in large numbers the opposite factions of tile the hong Kong tes and the cantonese occupying positions on opposite sides bof the room the morning borning session was occupied by the formal opening proceedings and the wrangling of opposing counsel over some tech technicalities of law are A recess was aken at I 1 until when it is expected the taking of testimony will be begun E ORLEANS I 1 18 A s special acia to the e picayune bite from vicksburg mississippi says in a shooting a affray ra over a game of cards at the pla planters rs club lub today to day J JH H cienna McKenn awas was killed by james marshall the proprietor jonas goodman is believed to be mortally wounded by b a stray shot marshall escaped unhurt the coroners jury rendered a verdict that marshall acted in self defense mckenna was out on ball bail pending his second trial for the killing of E wilson a gambling house proprietor one year ago today to day on ins his first trial he was sentenced to be executed but the supreme court granted min a new trial PITTSBURG 18 at the convention of miners and coke drawers of the region at scottdale scottsdale Scott dale pennsylvania today to day it was unanimously decided decided to order a general strike for a ten per cent advance on wages wage sand and committees were appointed to visit all the coke works and persuade the men to quit work at once over men are employed in the coke regions and it is expected by wednesday all these will be idle philadelphia 18 the steamer south carolina which watch arrived here today from st jago put into newport news for coal chief officer thomas reports that while heaving anchor at newport news on the dinst the crew hauled up th thi bowsprit of a man of war supposed to be that of the congress which was sunk exactly in that position by the merrimac in 1862 CRESTON iowa 18 TWEL this morning an explosion took place at short cooleys colleys Coo leys rendering establishment a mile eastok east of this city six men were in the building at the time of the explosion two of whom were killed outright and the other four were seriously injured PORTLAND and or 18 the cut in freights bythe by the transcontinental lines to san francisco which began a few days ago after weeks of truce has reached portland the union pacific today to day privately notified shippers here that any rates to san francisco would be duplicated by the union pacific to Dort portland ladd in many cases the cut cat is thirty per cent LITTLE ROCK ark 18 in columbia A county on friday night the dwelling of emanuel johnson was destroyed by tire alre and six children asleep in one room were burned to death WOODSTOCK out ont 18 recently a girt girl named colllns collins died as it was supposed here very suddenly A day or two ago the body was exhumed prior to its removal to another aurial place when the horrible discovery was made that the girl had bad been burled barted alive her shroud had bad been torn into shreds her knees drawn up to her chin one of her arms twisted under her head and her features bore evidence of dreadful torture MOUNT PLEASANT pa 19 athe the situation in the coke regions is growing serious last three or four guards at the morewood Mor awood works ven ved aured too close to the hungarian quarters when the alarm was given and nd the foreigners swarmed ol 01 out oat of their quarters and began a fusi fusillade lade of pistol shots almost instantly every striker r Joi joined in the auno cannonade nade and the guards broke for safe quarters no pursuit was attempted and the run hun gargaus returned to their houses after witnessing the hasty departure of the patrol no trouble occurred at the standard works up to noon this morning mornin the morewood strikers held a meeting and decided to raid the alloe alioe 1 18 A newcastle pennsylvania special says the safe in county treasurer hartmans office was blown open this morning at 2 b by thieves and in money and 10 N 0 1 in notes and in county warrants taken the notes were the personal property of deputy treasurer shaffer payable to his order and of no value to auy other person the warrants had lusts just been signed by the cou county fi t commissioners but as they had etli been recorded records d by the treasurer they are wort worthless bless the thieves gained an entrance to the building by forcing the shutters from the windows the explosion shattered the doors of the cafe and shook all the houses in the neighborhood but some time 1 elapsed before be fo re the cause of the c concussion 0 was known aud and in the meantime the safe re akers secured their plunder wd and es two strangers who were lurking in the vicinity of the court house last night are believed to have been the thieves BALTIMORE 19 the ice blockade in chesapeake bay still continues and no DO attempt lb ib wade made toi to get to or from the port I 1 except by heavy vessels A large number of sailing craft are reported last in the ic ice and many of the oyster fleet have been kept so long away that there is much suffering among the crews the ice extends down to the mouth of patuxent river and is very solid the milder temperature which now prevails it is hoped will let loose the large fleet of coasters and other bay craft washington 19 the president today approved the ahe act legalizing the election of the territorial legislative assembly of wyoming NATCHES miss 19 the mail boats on the mississippi river are detained by running ice which to is the heaviest known for 53 years washington 19 the finance committee of the senate this morning agreed to report an amendment to hoars haars resolution already reported looking to the investigation of f frauds in in the port of new york th the amendment enla enlarges rees the scope of tte the resolution so as to include all ports of the country which the committee may see fit to investigate A subcommittee committee sub consisting of senators allison aldrich miller beek beck and mcpherson have been selected to carry on the investigation it is reported that the finance committee of the senate at its meeting this morning determined upon a LOW lew form of inquiry to be sent to the heads beads of departments to solicit information with respect to nominations which may be under consideration the reasons 89 s for makin making reja ovals will not be fused bat all tle the removals papers apers relating both to appointment and removal will be called for the house committee on judiciary devoted their meeting today to day to the hearing of arguments by representatives ot commercial bodies upon bankruptcy logi legislation the hearing was opened on behalf of those who favor the enactment of a national bankrupt law by bym M attorney of the new york board of trade and transportation and other mercantile bodies he was war followed by J waldo smith of new york W WT T steele secretary of the philadelphia phia textile association and J W gayne gay ne of st louis representing the chimber chamber of co commerce ame mme ree mr hurst of baltimore and mr woods of the boston mechanics association the hearing adjourned until thursday next the tenor of the arguments was in favor of the enactment of a general bankruptcy law and the bill now before the committee introduced by collins and commonly known as the lowell bill 9 the president today to day approved the act providing providing viding for the berf performance armance of the gro duties atteson of the president in case of the removal death or inability both of the president and vice president the democratic senators held a two hours caucus this thib afternoon t to 0 pare views with regard to the antrel issue between the he senate and the administration over the matter of information about removals senators harris maxey and vest a committee appointed last weekly beek beck chairman of the caucus to consult with the president and members of his cabinet about the matter made their report stating the individual views of the members of tile the administration but outlining no definite policy or plan of action individual senators expressed their individual opinions at length bu but no motion was made and nothing occurred to indicate in any way the opinion of the majority ity Vi finally nally a Rug suggestion was made that tle the subject be more discussed after the republican position had bad been more developed and the caucus adjourned subject t to call odthe of the chairman with the understanding standi Dg however that it should be called very soon possibly tomorrow to morrow amon among the MIS bills introduced in the senate today to day was one by senator aldrich aidrich to prevent fraud in the alie customs revenue it provides for the seizure of undervalued goods n u certain cases caless for additional methods of ascertaining the actual da dutiable value of imports imparts and for or the forfeiture of goods coming in lender false tu invoices Provis pro vision ionis is made for extra to such officers of the customs or consular service as are active and successful in the detec tion of frauds upon the revenue ana and for the repeal of the act repealing moieties the house Commit committee tae on foreign affairs today to day informally Inform aily bisp assed that part of the presidents message aae re relating tating to the 0 fisheries Asik eries the general senti sentiment meat of we committee seemed to be alveree to the consideration of the fisheries butt bat rather favored a broadening of the subject so as to include a careful inquiry into existing relations between this country and canada the TrOa treasury sury department is tn in receipt of information that the government of the netherlands is considering the proposition to assess a duty on petroleum and ship timber articles which have hitherto been on the free list la in the tae senate today to day ingalls from the on rules reported a seal for the use of the senate hawley from the committee on indian affairs reported a joint resolution appointing general john F hart i unit of pennsylvania as one of the the directors of the national soldiers home in place of general mcclellan mcclelian deceased the resolution passed bwy ORK 19 A washington ape cial to the post says last week senator voorhees introduced a bill to admit washington territory as a st state te and yesterday he introduced a bill bill i to admit montana as a state the senator was asked if he intended to make the admission of dakota conditional on the admission of montana as it had bad been reported that democrats were disposed to do he replied 1 I can speak only for myself I 1 think the best arrangement we can made is to admit dakota montana and washington together they must all dome come in soon and they might as well come in now I 1 I 1 do not see how we can prevent dakotas coming in she has a voting population of and is certainly entitled to admittance I 1 thought at first that a t I 1 should oppose the division of dakota a k oah but I 1 do not see how I 1 can the territory has an area of five times my own state and south booth dakota will be about as large as ohio and indiana montana has a voting population of and washington a voting population of there are not it 15 congressional gressional districts in the country with the population of washington and not with that of is republican montana is democratic and andl I 1 am confident will remain so go washington is close and may be won b by 1 either party if she comes into the union wa tou by democratic administration our oar chances in the new state will be so much the better it seems to me the best plan they are entitled to it and politically it will be as fair and as useful an arrangement as can be made several prominent democrats are reported to agree with mr voorhees mr springer expresses the opinion that the house committee on territories will report favorably on the division and admission of Dakota unless the party shall hold bold a caucus upon the subject in this case it is his opinion that the dep decision ision would be adverse TROY 19 porter the noted cracksman was arrested in new york yesterday te r day and bro brought here lasi laar night he he is charged with bobbing the store of E H marks son of this city on feb the safe was cracked and about worth of diamonds watches and other jewelry stolen porter fled to europe where he lived until january ath when he landed in anew york GALVESTON 19 A dispatch from f row Mata matamoras moms mexico to the news says i advices advises from camargo carnal go state that the authorities there have captured the man who murdered mil lo 10 tomas gar cia last sunday at magrulla La grulla texas and who fled to mexico he will be delivered to the american authorities if they ask for his bis extradition general estrada bay bao been appointed to succeed general camma in the a command of the federal troops 0 on I 1 frontier caracas Is known as a of ex president gonzales gonales and is unpopular SAN IQ 19 david davidr dr P nish son ot J S mish miah the he well known proprietor of the principal retail mi millinery establishment in this city was shot and killed by dr 8 H mcdonald tonight to night as he be was fleeing from the lat house no new montgomery street where where he had been discovered in the room of the physicians wife dr mcdonald surrendered to the police and is now in jail TUCSON arizona 19 but bat one mail has been received here from the fast east since the ath hist no cause assigned business has suffered greatly by this occurrence the people ot southern arizona will bring the matter to the postmaster generals attention for investigation vesti gation DENVER 19 an aspen special to the t N news ew says 8 snow S no has been falling continuously ti for t three me da days S and it is now dow almost three f feet w t deep beep this afternoon as the 4 shift was waiting togo the aspen mine the mefi men heard a noise looked up saw saw a snow slide coming dogu the aspen mountain and ana made de a rush for the dump getting un der ae it and thereby saving their the alde c lae struck the shaft and engine kan bouse se completely lately demolishing them killing john hn eose the mine carpenter carpenter wo the e engine and bouer boiler were badly damaged and the engineer e ineer was thrown under the boiler aad na burled buried und erten feet of snow he was 4 afterwards recovered alive john leonard phe one af pf J ithe he owners of tue mine I 1 e and several others near te AF wit henap esca escaped w with 4 a few hul bruises sev at five aej t e are bel bea announced the occurrence of another S slide I 1 on washington mountain investigation revealed the fact that two ore wagons and the mules and drivers were buried tinder fifteen feet of snow near the acquisition mine saven men who started from here this for or the Sf aroon pass to have apt yet been boog h e y frai T opposed apposed to be buried 4 ire r e tn the bams about noo there was another slide near neap camp bird mine toda today to day da tle but no damage is reported all of the avalanches followed tile the track of the one three years ago that killed five men at the vallejo mine NEW YORK 29 shortly before 2 this afternoon three alarms were sent out for a fire which had broken out in the tha brewery of 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