Show telegraphic INE NEWS birmingham ala dec 19 tl tic a coroners inquest is endeavoring tu to get at the bottom facts in saturday THE excitement still runs rubs very high the people we are divided over the action of tae the officers ill p m the town is still in a state of excitement A very remarkable tea tore tare is that nearly every man killed was shot in the back showing that the crowd turned away when the firing be gan several funerals took place this afternoon the lake is it being drained in search for little adas body the brotherhood of locomotive engineers g gi i r aers of which hawes is a member te telegraphed ae X ra bed thai they have engaged detectives tec tives to work up the case they believe hawes is innocent and that the colored woman fannie ant and albert patterson murdered and robbed mrs halves and then killed the children many men are on the streets but it is thought the trouble is over it is reported that hawes has made a FULL confession of his bis crime in addition to the injured whose names were given last there are a large number of people who received alig slight tot t but not dial disabling it ling wounds and are hot therefore reported at the hospital he certain prominent officials in the city have telegraphed governor semy seay that they consider it necessary nea essary for him to be here and have asked him to come at once the governor will no me doubt investigate the situation personally and make arrangements for the removal of hawes and sheriff smith and for the relief of the soldiers many telegrams concerning the situation passed today between governor seay and the authorities governor order to dismiss the troops will not be given until babbitt now acting sheriff says saya they are no longer needed 0 the funeral of postmaster Th throop rook morton and other victims took place this afternoon with impressive ceremonies SHERIFF SMITH still holds to the statement that he did not give the word to fire are until shots were fired on the outside and that at least a dozen shots were aired fired by the crowd before the offie officers drs fired NASHVILLE tenn dec IO 10 A special to the american from birmingham says saya governor seay arrived here to te night and is now in conference with colonel jones he says from the reports he has received me he thinks sheriff smith did his duty BALTIMORE dec 10 last night a man and woman engaged a room at a small east end hotel nothing was waa seen of them till this afternoon when the roo room in door was broken open the man was dead and the woman nearly so from asphyxiation they were identified as chas E el elcona life on a young mrs lime ray may ellason eliason ellas elias so his I 1 s sister in iii law noc c CHICAGO ago dee dec 11 an explosion occurred at the the oatmeal mills at the corner of halstead and fulton streets at 2 this morning and the building is now burning it is reported at the police station that several lives are lost particulars soon LATER shortly before 2 this morning i ng an explosion took place in olivers oatmeal mills a three story brick building on halstead 8 street treet near pulton fulton the mill was surrounded by a number of frame buildings and the roof of the mill was raised in the air and fell upon several of ef the buildings crushing them no lives are known to have been lost however outside of the night force employed in the mill of these charles miller engineer and john smith and ernest caster millers are known to be in the ruins john nimes hollest a another other miller was blown out of 01 the second story into the street and picked up fatally injured cip the fire which ensued lasted an hour the greatest damage next to the building itself will be in the destruction truc tion of window glass in the I 1 ity t y athe the ent entire ire fronts of buildings t tor 0 a block 0 k on OB either side of the mills av are crocked cracked and windows broken A rough estimate places the loss at AT WORK ON THE RUINS CHICAGO dec 11 A battalion of twenty firemen and over a hundred volunteers are at work clearing away the ruins rains of last nights explosion ernest aper casper one of ef the three known to be dead was at work in the engine cupola at the time the cupola was lifted almost entire and thrown a distance of sixty feet upon the south side aide of the street the mutilated form of casper is somewhere under the wreck john christensen a kiln is the tae second known victim victim his body has not been found charles miller the engineer was also buried under the debris the proprietor and m manager na ot of the abe mul mill were on the ibe ground early this but have been unable to learn positively the cause of the explosion each think oatmeal dust may have caused it but the terrific force is unprecedented it this theory be accepted no other reasonable explanation is oft offered ered however no weyer plate glass was shattered and buildings were shaken a mile away loss logo lo A BODY supposed to be that of Enz engineer ineer miller was unearthed at 11 badly burned and mangled it bad been thrown a considerable distance the boilers were uncovered and found intact so BO the explosion was certainly of will mill dust the police say no dynamite was used CHICAGO dec 11 two mysterious wll well dressed persons are under arrest supposed tor for complicity in the dynamite explosion jest yesterday erday nothing dennite definite is to be learned lea loniuk LoNi ux dec 11 the star says general warren lately chief of metra polita to rp police olice is going to suak auak in to settle affairs there after the between the british forces and and the arabs is ended coded HALIFAX N 8 dec 11 A fire occurred last night in deputy warden diefes quarters in dorchester penitentiary tent teat iary tary diefe was suffocated and his wife hao haa a narrow escape asbury PARK N T J dec 11 A heavy storm of raging wind is blo blowing inshore crews ot the lifesaving life saving savins stations are patrolling the beach it considerable consider aole damage will be done at high tide this afternoon A large quantity of cocoanuts cocoa nuts came ashore this morning supposed from wrecked vessels L I 1 dec 11 francis ashbery hawkins was hanged this morning tor for the murder of his bis mother because she opposed his hii marriage with IL a young woman to whom he was engaged ha i tie Sc the deed was committed in October 1887 hawkins was connected with many prominent people here birmingham BIRmIN GITA ala excitement over the affair of saturday night has abated alie troops are still here and will remain several days gov bruor seay came up from montgomery last night he says this morning that he be will keep the troops here as long there Js is any evident necessity for them the coroners investigation will begin this afternoon or tomorrow there ire are no new developments of importance in the hawes murder mystery te washington A SE aNGTON dee dec II 11 orders were issued by the navy department forthe united states steamers galena and to sail from new york to morrow lor for port au an prince hayti to enforce the demand of this government for the release of the american steamer battien republic they will sail in company and oe be under command of rear bear admiral luce who has been instructed to transfer the flap from the rt richmond to the galena the owner ot of the haytian republic Ke public by ape special Cs permission ot of the secretary ot of the na navy w will ill be a passenger on the galena hylt it is therefore expected the vessel will vill be restored to him aim as soon as it gets into the possession of the naval officers secretary whitney dec declined ined to talk about the haytian troubles on the ground that there is nothing to add to what has already appeared in the newspapers NEW YORK dec 11 no orders had been rec received elvea at the navy yard at 11 this morning for the gadna to sall sail but we may go at any hour said admiral luce LONDON dec II 11 athi ata meeting of the parnell carneil commission today inspector ot of police ardle testified in relation to the disturbed condition of con county n ty mayo he said the outrages increased increase el after the issue ot of the anti rent reut man banim festo on cross examination he said he knew that secret societies existed but did not know the government sup ported such society as a to the league david freely testified that because he paid rent moonlighters moon lighters visited his house bouse and shot snot his hie son CROSS he had been a member of the local league until it was suppressed had no reason to believe the league implicated in the murder toe the league and priests belon belonging glaT to it denounced his sons BOBS murder the he league did not object to the payment of rents where a 25 per cent reduction had bad been made ANNAr ANNAPOLIS oms md dee dec 11 there has been an engagement between the state steamer governor mclane and the fleet of oyster dredges in chester river biver two of the dredgers boats were sunk and another was taken one of the crew an the he steamer sop gop mclane was wounded this la 11 the first fight between the state ahery fishery force and the dredgers dred gera sin since the steamers were provided with cannon captain howard telegraphs that the fight was severe and the steamer wali wag riddled with balls captain howard requested that help be sent at once the steamer thomas captain laker w was sent immediately to his aid the Ne neavene aVane stclare carries a twelve pound cannon CHICAGO dec ii 11 it is ia sold the interstate bomm commerce e ace commission have never before unearthed as much crookedness as was revealed by the present investigation it appears that all the reads have been employing sc alpers to sell their through tickets much below regular rates thus taus permitting roads to quote higher proportionate rates tor for short distances the commissioners decided that this must be stopped it is said they will render a decision that chat the roads which cut rates through sc alpers are guilty ot of violation of 0 the law the managers of the roads will be called before the commissioners today and will have the riot act read to them ANNAPOLIS ind dec 11 last nights fight at tho the mouth of chester cheater river may have resulted in a considerable loss of life as peter mullen cook on board the schooner ua A jones says he be was the only man out of t a crew of eleven to escape the state vessels were hotly attached by the dredgers who were heavily armed with repeating rifles and did not return fire until compelled to the steamer mclane was thoroughly riddled with bullets and captain howard determined to resort to extreme measures bucking backing the steamer off from the flet fiet of seven dredgers which were tied together I 1 he singled out the julia A jones and putting on a full fall head of steam aade made directly for her stern striking her fairly and the SCHOONER BASK BANK almost instantly mullen escaped by chiming up the steamers anchor chain but says the rest of the crew were in the and could not have gotten out As soon as the melane mclane got cleared from the afa wreck she was again backed off and a acain ain heard for the fleet striking schooner schooner J J G calony squarely in the stern she at once commenced to sink and the remainder of the fleet got away as fast as possible poss iole some of the crew of the maloney aloney Sf escaped by climbing on board toe tae mclane cLane SI and as aa each one came aboard tie he was put in the hold bold A white man named colman and a negro named bramble of thi I 1 crew of the maloney amaloney are believed to have been drowned as they were not seen after the vessels were struck A large fleet of dredgers are reported to be boon on unlawful ground tonight and it is not unlikely there will be another tight fight before morning PITTSBURG dec II 11 miss motile mollie ross boss an aged lady living biving near union town was HORRIBLY TORTURED last night by burglars for the purpose of securing money she was supposed to have in the house the rascals bound her with heavy cords andea and ap plied lighted candles to her feet and inflicted severe bruises upon her bier bod with clubs CHICAGO dee dec 11 two mysterious well W e 11 dressed persons are under arrest it is supposed for complicity M the dynamite explosion yesterday nothing definite can be warned learned CHICAGO dee dec IL 11 A times special from rockford illinois says mead holmes an alderman from the second ward of this city who has been fighting the liquor interest and who is the projector of an ordinance now pending which absolutely prohibits the sale of liquor here today received a communication ni sigu edWhite caps of illinois asking him to resign his position in the city council and threaten iq ilg him with bodily injury in caso caad he did dia not do so the police are investigating the matter TWENTY SIGHT YEARS 1 11 dee dec ll 11 P F henderson a veterinary surgeon was sentenced cea today to 28 years in the penitentiary for torturing 45 horses with sulphuric acid and croton oil during the progress of a political meeting held gere here nov ad henderson made a confession in court there was much excitement when the sentence wag was pronounced henderson Hend ereon ergon was herric off to chester this afternoon a ST LOUIS bouis mo dec 11 A lies acs ics special I 1 from bevier mo kosaya says saya the striking miners are becoming comins be ug ugly tonight and further trouble to is antica anticipated they threaten to build stockades and defy the militia only 45 of the latter are in town and considerable uneasiness prevails up to 1 2 a M mi however all 1 is 8 quiet ulet and it is hoped heed no collision W wilf occur tonight A FAMILY ST louis dee dec 11 the special from mount pleasant texas says news was received from cook ville tonight that the dwelling of john B king was burned early this morsing moraine together with kloe kinz his wife and six ch children dren it is relieved all the family were murdered and the house set on fire to conceal the crime BERLIN dee dec ll il count herbert Bis marcks expected exposition of the government policy in east bast attica was made to the foreign committee of the reichstag today despite attempts tempts at secrecy it transpired that count herbert declared the government would take measures tor pr the permanent security ot of possessions in east africa but was oot not in a position to submit a positive plan demanding the ake attention fon of the committee he trusted that the abe reichstag would show sympathy with germ german L commercial enterprises in east africa afric an an expression which was waa taken to mean that the government would incline to the support of the east at rica companas Comp anys volunteer land force project reject the impression left by count B li erberts er borts statement Is that the governments ov ern ments plans piano are not matured and aad that prince bismarck As Is still corr corresponding es with lord salisbury regard regarding ing land operations lieutenant Wis omans preparations preparation r will be completed in ID a week he proposes r 0 to start tor for zanzibar in a fo fortnight r t and has bas pres preheated ested a report to the bm emperor eror on the route and pros pacts of of the expedition THE CZAR through his bia ambassador at berlin count Schon off has bias expressed irritation at the german hostility to the abe russian loan count was specially called to Gat schim last week to explain why the semiofficial semi official press attacked the loan in we course of the interview it in ie reported the czar said the efforts to defeat the loan would be stopped ll if friendly relations between himself and emperor william ivere were desired that the language of the german papers was personally offensive sad and t that not he be won would id hold bold the berlin government responsible for or it in the reichstag today ehg the bill for t the he erection of a national monument to william I 1 passed its second 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