Show LAT LATEST EST TELEGRAMS A mother and five Oh children ildren perish in tho the flames louisianan Loui lowlands threatened with inundation by nv W U Telez to tho the if an embezzler CHICAGO jan 19 C G robinson confidential clerk for alie the chicago packing and provision Company with a salary of 1160 per month has been living in an unusual bayle lately w fact winch which aroused suspicion and anti led to the examination of his accounts tho the result was his arrest last niI night it at the stock yards ile II 11 made a sturdy stin denial at first but confronted with tile facts confessed to serious elbez clements elisei ilia employ ers say that they have no data as to the amount taken but that it ia is probable it will amount to thousand dollars A F family in ri names anies CLINTON mo jan 19 the house of geo smia smith at lewis five miles north of here was burned at three this morning and five of the wnm inmates a t es peris perished b d vis ti elizabeth rachel aged 23 ellen age aged 16 theodore aged 16 and the mot kotlier her lier aged 43 the firo fire is supposed to have bave started from r m clothing clot liing hanging by tho tile kitchen stove or from a coal oil explosion mrs smith was ivis tile first to awaken when she aroused her bus husband band who made liis his escape with a little girl ofa of a neighbor who was staying there for the night and one of his own daughter aged eight smith and hia his dan daughter h vero severely burned the ho lionso uso was a astor st yanda orrand a half and the tile family were all sleeping in the second story A mr white who was the suit r of elizabeth smith was at the house until after I and thinks tho the fire caught in tho the kitchen kit clien from frow clothing by tho the stove miss smith was to have been beer married in a few weeks an inquest was held bold and a verdict rendered in accordance with the facts sir mr smith was employed by the theO osage sago coal and mining co inundated jan 10 19 the flood of water waters from thle big black river is spreading in every direction about 30 miles of the chicago st louis lottis new orleans railroad are under water much damage being done travel will be suspended for some weeks the tile lower part pait of tho the town of is inundated the turn piko pike road ia is destroyed struck by an lial nf CHICAGO jan 19 two bricklayers names tin unknown known while going to work at irondale grondale ten miles south of tile city this morning were struck by a sw switch itch engine their bodies dragg dragged eti a ion long dis distance and so frightfully mangled as to be 16 unrecognizable sizable land ditl litigation gation BELFAST jan 19 commissioners and vernon bitting sitting as a court of appeal yesterday delivered a judgment in tile first appeal from the decision of the assistant commissioners under puder tho the land act who reduced the tenants improved improve d fixed f rent lease from ag 13 G to the question decided was whether the he rent should bo varied ano court air affirmed armed the decision of the assistant commissioners Commissi commissioner vernon dissented great importance import anco is attached to this judgment as it settles the point in the land act known as heal Hc alys y s clause the case will bo be carried to the court of ao appeals p cals A town terrorized jan 19 A party of ten cowboys wags from the country upcountry up rode co in into t long pine on tuesday night and too took nf possession of tho the town they shot out the lamps anias in the saloons riddled tho the windows fixtures and walls and terrorized the inhabitants by firing fully a thousand shots finally a part of bf the gang boarded a departing train shooting from tho the rear platform tho tile inhabitants aro are too glad to have escaped personal injury to think of bringing the ruffians to justice Surp lugi lusi BERLIN BEnm sTan jan ID 19 kierr bitter ritter min ister of Finan finances cos in in presenting tho the budget in the landeta Land tag announced the surplus from 1881 1831 would be devoted to the tile reduction of the taxation of the poor and income tax eighty cents a day QUEBEC jan 19 the government reduced the pay of laborers on the quebec montreal ottawa railroad tho the men refuse to work or allow others to take their places A disturbance is threatened at calumet police has been sent ant thither i egyptian Exel excitement ALY ALE jan 19 tho material support of england and F france ran is is necessary to support tile authority the minister of war has visited the tile military station at Aff mies to ase ascertain ertain its capacity to receive new regiments re imenes of egyptians to be created an old letter cincinnati jan 19 gen jacob D C cox has furnished the following answer to his fitz john porter letter for publication HOUSE OF washington feb 18 1880 my dear coy cox in our oar twenty five years cars of ac ae and friendship you have never dono a greater service to the truth or given me so valuable a help as in in your letter of the dinst which I have just received I have been so stung by the decision of lie tile scofield board that it is very liard hard to trust my own mind to speak ot of it as it appears to me inc I have haye made a barong effort to myself from look at it intelligently as though it related only only to tho the pieces of a chiess board an and not to tw livin living men or men who had ever lived and nd all my best efforts have brought me out precisely to the conclusions of your letter still I haye have not yet made it the light of the new now test testimony a careful study of the field and map as you have done but how curious it is 19 that what you T r say Y naw now with the be ioro y you ou in in exact the field beld and porters conduct upon it which glowed in strong colors in the mind of the court martial seventeen years ago and now my dear friend I need your help still further and need it more in in our acquaintance overwhelmed wh almed as I am with current daily daiy work of the house it is almost in in possible for us to get the time to go minutely through all the lapof map of this new evidence as I ought to do with kindest regards I anias am as ever yours I signed I ned J J A GARFIELD |