Show telegraphic NEWS wa NEW YORK april 12 the hydrographic office report Ived today states slates 1 that hat large quantities wf ice off the newfoundland coast were rapidly drifting into the ste steamer anier routes route s kaptain captain dawson of the st steamer eaner portia which arrived yesterday from newfoundland found land via halifax says that he was blocked in the lee ice at newfoundland with other vessels for three weeks continuous strong east winds packed pack e d the ice so close to shore that from signal hill at the entrance to the harbor arbor giving a range of view of over sixty miles no open water could be seen and during that time the lee ice was so solid that he walked over four miles to another vessel his vessel was set free by a westerly breeze and it passed thirty icebergs in as many miles the steamer austria got wedged clust just as the portia cleared out her captain re ported upon arrival in boston yesterday having passed forty icebergs between st john and cape ape race CHICAGO CAGo april 12 the master brewers publish an advertisement today quoting the resolutions adopted tuesday to the effect that it if the boycott placed on them by the workmen of this city Is not removed before the instant they will proceed to reorganize their working force inviting the men who desire steady work in the breweries to register their names at headquarters hed quarters at ten tody today applicants for work registered their names and addresses the secretary of the master brewers said if the boycott was not removed by monday they will proceed to weed out ont the malcontents and fill their places the men who work to ia the breweries show symptoms of alarm at the action of the employers and many manifest a disposition to rebel against ainest the central labor union and take the disposition of the trouble into their own hands the master brewers yesterday received a dispatch saying the resolutions adopted opted by the united states brewers brewer s association will be upheld and carried out to the letter it was aligned by the chicago and milwaukee brewers association NEWARK april 12 A labor mass meeting was held tonight and aud the journeymen brewers were pledged financial aid in case they are locked out by the boss boas brewers ST louis april 12 the jury in the case caselt of david walker chief ot 0 the bald Knob bers that has been ou on trial at ozark missouri returned a verdict this afternoon of murder in the first degree james matthews ani stanley amos ames jones janes and C 8 C simmons were sentenced by the court stanley and jones got twenty five years in the penitentiary simmons Si ramons fifteen years and matthews was released on 1000 ball bail pa april 12 the passenger train on the erie railroad which left here at this morning collided with a freight train at a point six miles below the city the cars care of which the freight train was composed together with the two engines piled up in a shapeless mass the igi gi and firemen of both trains syed their lives by j jumping but the passenger engineer was severely tho though h I 1 not fatally injured none of the passengers sustained fatal injuries j juries FLAGSTAFF A T april 12 A chinaman wee yung was fatally snot shot at fairview station on the atlantic pacific railroad this morning by the accidental discharge of a pistol as he be alighted from the train his valise in which was a 4 44 colts was thrown on the lie platform the concussion discharging a the pistol the bullet passed through rough ag his bis abdomen the co coroners aury ury rendered verdict of accidental leath death ST petersburg april 12 an explosion occurred today in a powder factory on the line of the st petersburg moscow railway seven men were killed and many In injured jared ST PAUL april 12 the water in the mississippi passed the danger line for the people living on the flats fiats on OB the northwest side of the river at 2 ok thia morning one or two families moved out yesterday but before daylight this morning a number found it nic necessary essary to vacate the water rose two feet between 2 and 9 look this morn morning tag A at t 8 the stood thirteen feet at the signal service gauge it rose this afternoon at the rate of three quarters of an inch per hour boar danger from athe flood on the flats west of dakota avenue Aveni ie is also imminent YORK april 12 mrs diss lie de barr her husband general diss de barr benjamin lawrence and his son frank lawrence who were arrested last night for conspiracy to defraud the septuagenarian lawyer awyer luther B marsh 1 through throng pretended spiritual manifestations nit s thoas were ere arraigned in the tombs 0 1 M be this morning lawyer william S howe owe appeared against the prison bg on behalf be 0 all of the relations and bends e ads of marsh he said he appeared for the prosecution in the interest ol of public morality and also to protect that chat heretofore respected cit citizen en luther B marsh from the delusion under which he be is now held by this adventuress and swindler who calls herself the daughter of princess editha lolo 1010 montez and countess ot langfeldt but who was no more that person than he was marsh he be continued had said that it it can be shown that she is not the person that she pretends to be the spell apela would be ended 1 I hope he concluded that mrs diss de barr will go upon the stand and let me have an opportunity of cross ex amiling her he then produced a copy of an affidavit made by mrs diss de barr in 1870 in a complaint made by her against victoria woodhull who she accused of retaining hioco M worth of diamonds and bonds she had bad entrusted to tier her for safe keeping in this affidavit mrs diss de barr calls herself editha G lbert montez and it is for the purpose of proving she claimed this to be her name that it is offered the examination was adjourned until this afternoon to enable the prisoners to secure counsel when the case was called this afternoon it was again adjourned until wednesday next on account of the illness of tier her lawyer judge kilbreth fixed the bail of mine diss de barr and her husband at each and the lawrences Lawren ces at 2000 each in default of bail they were loc locked ked up in the city jail lawyer marsh did not appear at the hearing inspector byrns says mrs diss de barr has in her possession letters from many prominent business and society meo mea iu in which she Is termed angel annie and similar terms the letters if published he be says would create the liveliest sensation birmingham ala april 13 the construction train on the kansas city memphis and birmingham railway was wrecked sixty miles west of he here re at last evening four faur workmen were killed one injured fatally and nine others seriously hurt the train was backing at a high rate of speed when it struck a cow and was ditched WARSAW N Y april 18 robert van brunt was hanged in warsaw jail yard this morning for the murder ot of his sweethearts halt brothed broth efi 1 will roy october 6 1886 he was a member of the salvation army FLORIDA N Y april 13 two swellings pw ellings were burned last las night mrs bird and her babe who occupied one of them perished FERGUS FALLS falla minn 13 nels olson bolong was hanged banged here at two this afternoon tor for the murder last may mav of his employers daughter NEW YORK april 13 dr agnew A gaea is still seriously ill with dr sands who performed the operation on conkling will today perform an operation on agnew who was one of the consulting physicians in the conkling case dr sands said this morning that agnew is now much nearer to death than conkling Conkli og WAS washington HIN april 13 18 urs Mrs grassle Grassie G bulkley balkley committed suicide last night by taking I 1 poison mrs bulkley balkley was the only daughter of judge curtis J hillyer and her elopement with young bulkley some months ago caused quite a sensation she separated from him after the marriage and went to her fathers honsa ate A few days ays afterwards she went to live with him im and after a short time returned to her parents ST april 13 the first national Bank was robbed between 12 and 3 tula tais morning entrance was effected through the back window the burglars blew off the vault and safe doors and carried off not less than ten thousand dollars in cash eight hundred and twenty dollars in unsigned bielsa gold watch and chain valued at one hundred and seventy tive five dollars together with other jewelry left at the bank for safe keeping no trace of the burglars has been discovered louisville ky april 18 lee mcelroy a colored youth 15 years old this morning stole the three year old child ot of bobert hoskins a well known business man while the little one was playing A search was instituted and the ne negro ro was found hiding with the child he said he be intended to hold the childe fori a ran ransom sm the neighborhood was greatly excited over the event and aad but for the extreme youth of the offender lie he would have been lynched b ed FALMOUTH mass april 13 A disastrous forest fire started this noon it is burning very fast with a strong 11 9 wind and fhe the village of teaticket Tea ticket is in great danger ava at rpm pm the fire was not yet under control NEW naw YORK april 13 at I 1 this afternoon while two longshoremen were employed in unloading jute from the ship olen glen quin lying at the foot of harrison street brooklyn the ship suddenly and also ignited the pier the fire gained tined considerable headway before th the firemen a arrived rived but at the fire was under control the origin of the fire is unknown nor can it be learned who is tho owner of the vessel the damage to the pier and contents Is estimated at three firemen fireman were slightly injured BOSTON april 13 at a fire in IL 0 0 and high street this morning an explosion of gas occurred burning three firemen probably fai fatally lally and three others seriously NEW YORK april IS 13 the following particulars were received tonight from health officer smith concerning the steamer N newport from aspinwall with eleven cases of smallpox on burd baard arrived this morning seven days from aspinwall with 70 cabin and 23 steerage passengers 11 persons were re moved to the hospital some with smallpox all persons on boad have been vaccinated vaccina ted the exposure has been such hsuch that the detention of the crew and steerage passengers and a portion of the other passengers will ae be necessary the surgeon of the steamer having caving been one ot the first persons attacked the supervision and detection of subsequent cases was necessarily imperfect SAN FRANCISCO april 13 at emery ville today louis hansbu whose wife recently secured a divorce from him and afterwards married J C gardner went to the ane hotel where they were stopping and in a fit of jealousy shot them both he then turned the on himself and fell to the floor dead gardner and his wife may live louisville ky april 14 mrs eliza thornburg aged 74 and quite wealthy was found dead in her room at jeffersontown Jefferson town this county this morning la in attempting to start a fire with coal oil her dress caught fire she was so badly burned she died before any one learned of the accident gloucester mass april 14 the schooner james A garfold from the banks reports lost tour four of the crew named john goodwill Goodw ln joseph martin alexander jameson and john currie curne while they were tending trawls brawls CITY OF covia galveston april 14 one of the walls of the be former convent of san in this city which was in process oat 0 demolition fell in yesterday burying many workmen in the ruins so far three dead bodies have been recovered fifteen or twenty persons were wounded more or less seriously MOORHEAD minn april 14 the red bed river still continues to rise stead lly fly at the rate of one inch and a halt half an hour hoar several houses on the point are submerged and the ocea occupants pants forced to leave the river has risen twenty feet in all it is reported that the railway bridge at dakota was carried away this morning morn lne HURON dakota april 14 news was received this morning that a prairie fire did great damage daf flage miles south yesterday afternoon several farmers lost loft their barns sheds cattle grain and bay minneapolis april 14 the big sioux river has overflowed its banks and done considerable damage in the vicinity ot of sioux falls dakota the lonois central railroad bridge east of tio city has been baen carried away also so ta taij milwaukee bridge at keyes el eighteen h miles north over 2000 feet of milwaukee track at elk point hive have been carried away entirely cutting that place ott off from communication with sioux city the river is still rising and it to as feared much mach more damage will be done KANSAS CITY april 14 A times special from albuquerque new mexico says it is reported that a train con daining ta inina thirty horses of lucky baldvins baldwins Bald wins stable has been wrecked near peach springs arizona and several ozithe of he most valuable horses badly injured washington april it 14 ay a unanimous vote today the house committee on elections decided the contested election case of nathan frank vs john M gloyer glover lathe in the ninth missouri district in favor of mr glover the sitting member two republican members of the committee were absent from the meeting an order authorizing the most extensive movement of troops ot the regular array army that has occurred since the close of the war was issued from the headquarters of the army yesterday it involves a change in station of troops from no less than ten of the forty regiments and in most cases full regiments are to be moved all the troops that have not had bad a change since 1880 are involved the main object of this extensive change is to concentrate cen regiments at larger posts washington april 15 the weekly weather crop bal bulletin letia says the weather for the week has been favorable for crowing crops in all agricultural districts reports from the southern states sh show ow it t was favor favorable able for cotton and cane and that small grain crops have been affected favorably the season is probably ten days late in the middle atlantic states and from 15 to 20 days late in the northwest where seeding is progressing slowly washington april 15 the train which left new york on the pen pennsylvania us road at 1230 this morning was wrecked by a collision with an engine in the philadelphia yards the engineer ineer ana fireman and several passengers were badly injured the collision occurred on an elevated track in the philadelphia yard and I 1 was caused by a misapprehension of the engineer of a light engine who understood that the passenger train had gone gene by and started out on the main track both engines a and nd I 1 four our passenger cars were turned over a and nd badly smashed none of those I 1 injured are in a dangerous condition F fred red K hayselden Hay zelden honolulu received a severe cut on the head BERLIN april 15 it is learned through reliable sources that emperor frederick wanted ito extend amnesty to all socialists and to recall those who have been banished but that bismarck dissuaded him from doing so CHICAGO april 15 A special from creston iowa says the last fast mail on the burlington road collided with a freight train near are here this morning the fireman of the freight train was instantly killed engineer bo bouch uch I 1 brakemen gibbons and miller and engineer carpenter of the mall mail train were badly bruised two mall mail cars were thrown down an embankment and totally burned tog to getner with a bridge near which th the accident ant occurred the mail clerks were ies rescued cued the wreck is said to have been caused by the freight train running past a station where it should have side tracked LONDON april 15 A dispatch from calcutta says that the damage caused at dacca by a recent tornado amounts to rupees and that bodies have been recovered 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