The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-12-20
News by Telegraph ana Mails.

The senate Judiciary Committee Is In Ia
yor Of the House bill changing the time for
the meeting OF Congress.
Yesterday morning several large ware
houses were destroyed by fire on Broad
street, Philadelphia. The loss Is heavy.
One man IL missing.
A dispatch from Berlin, dated December
TO- says number Of Prussian officers arc
about starting for America, to look at our
navy yards.
Two companies Of United states troops
have been sent ffom Leayenworth to Lex
lngton, Missouri, 10 preserve order there
and put a stop to the actions of Governor
FLErcHER's Radical militia.
The Argonaut No. 2 from st. Louis to
Cincinnati ran into the bank Of rocks at
New Albany yesterday morning In the fog,
and sunk IN few minutes TO her boiler
deck. No lives were lost. She has load
of pig iron ore.
A widow lady, travelling Fast with six
young children, had her pocket picked OF
$780, all the money she had, in Chicago
yesterday. A subscription paper was at
once started and $500 raised. It afterward
appeared that she had lost no money. She
had been practicing the same dodge in
other cities.
The commissary building at 1T. Dodge,
Kansas, containing $4,000 pounds Of bacon
and a large amount of Government cloth
ing, was entirely destroyed yesterday.
A Philadelphia dispatch says: "A large
fire, on Tuesday morning, destroyed the
malt-house aud brewery Of j. 5. ALLRN, on
Broad and Race streets. The Insurance
was light and the loss heavy-estimated at
$4,000.
The Missouri freeman, published In Rich
mond, Ray county, havin&published an ar
ticle instigating the people to violence and
resistance, the State authorities at Mont
gomery sent squad of militia TO arrest
the editor and destroy the press, which was
done.
Ten distilleries in Jackson County, Mis-
souri,, were recently seizedby United States
revenue officers.
Gen. GRANT was Il guest at the Burnet
House, Cincinnati, yesterday evening.
The Quartermaster General of Kentucky
has been notified that S70O,000 has been
placed TO the credit of that State, in the
National Treasury. 1t is stated that the
State Treasury will hold nearly $5,0OO0oO
In cash within the next month. The entire
State debt Is between five aud six million
dollars.
The Pittsburg Brewery, in st. Louis, was
burned on Tuesday night. Loss $4,000.
Insured for $4,000 in st. Louis companies.
A new hotel, the Broadway, was opened
In st. Louis on Tuesday. 1t is six stories
high, contains one hundred and sixty sleep
ing apartments, and ranks third in size of
thehotels Of that city.
An Oil City Dispatch says u smoking ear
on the Warren and Franklin Railroad was
thrown down an embankment sixtY-iiye
feet yesterday morning, AID three Passen-
gers were badly Injured.
According to adviees received by the bu-
reau of statistics, dated Turks Island, No
vember 26, 1896, the silver half dollars and
quarter dollars of the United States have
been declared, by proclamation of the
Queen of Great Britain, to be a legal ten
der in the colony of the Turks and the
Caseos Islands.
The total number of emigrants arriving
at New York during the year 1896 will not
vary much from 2lO,OOO. This has been
exceeded by only -four previous years, and
that was during the Irish starvation ex-
odus.