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v,,,- y-or,, AnriI PA special dispatch to
tT.a V-,,,gs ..,z-s that at n meeting OF the Demo-
,.rafic State Central Committee NJ A!oany yes
far,I.,- 81 consultation was held on political pros
pects. Remarks were MADE Dy U0V seymour,
NJ T1doD and others. The feeling Of those
,,-osor. was decidedly unanimous in favor of
o,1os.ive policy and Of looking to the Cincin-
I'.tii Convention to initiate programme for the
,,grfv in the presidential campaign.
TEe tug boat Davenport, which exploded last
evening near Jersey City, had four canal boats
I'm tow when she exploded. Engineer Dexter,
fireman Stridcr, Charles Caulfeld and an un-
known boy belonging to the tug, and a boy on
90 canal boat were blown far off and falling into
the water were drowned. After the explosion
nothing could be seen of the tug except few
floating splnters and all the canal boats were
shatteTCd.
The strike of the journymen painters Of
Brooklyn has terminated, the employers having
auccdcd to the demand for eight hours work at
three dollars per day.
The plumbers and gas filters have resolved to
strike for eight hours and three dollars Il day,
They now get two dollars and sevGnty-hve cents
for ten hours work.
The lawyer who went to Montreal to bring
the dciaulter Conkling, of the Market Savings
Bank to this city, reports that notWlthstandlng
that he had eAtradItIOn papers, the case OF COnk-
ling was decided in court on Wednesday TO be
one not included under the eXtraditiOn treaty,
and consequently there Is no hope Of having
ConllLng punished here.
A large number called on IrumbulI and
~ChurZ to-day.
There was a heavy vote in the Methodist
Conference to-day in favor OF lay delegation TO
the General Conference III May.
ALBANY. April IA bill allowing the Pa
gihc Mail Steamship Company to reduce their
stock was defeated.
BALTIMORE, April l2.-Ihc Cotton Exchange
organized yesterday.
CoNcoRD, April l2-Two bridges across the
Nerrimack river, over four hundred feet long,
have been swept away by the flood
MATAMORAS, April l2.-Ihe situation Is un-
changed but very threatening. Gen. MCCOOk
has pckcted the river front near Brownsville.
ST LOUIS, April 12-Most of the reliable ad-
Aiccs put the lost by the steamer OceanuS be-
tween sixty and seventy persons. The details
are horrible.
DETAILS or THE.ocEANUS EXPLOSION.
ST. Louis, April 12.-The Belle of St Louis
arrived with twcnty-cight survivors and seven
bodies of persons who died during the passage.
The books and papers of the Oceanus are lost.
4 list of the loss Is impossible. Geo. Constable
and wife Of NoycS' circus arc missing. The
dead on the boat presented horrible appear
auuc their bodies being swollen and many OF
their bodies were Of the color of raw beef the
skin having been entirely sCalded of. Those
not otherwise designated are not injured. The
engineer said he went on watch but few mo-
wcuts before the explosion and tried i've gauges
and In all which he found plenty OF water; tneh
he walkedI back to get a cup Of coffee, and IN
five minutes the explosion occurred. Robert
Chew. one of the proprietors of the Atlantic and
Pacific Circus saved himself by means OF
nIank. lie thinks George Constable and wife
we're circus performers from California. Frank
Slate and Frank Williams, also circus men,
we're drowned. George keithley, the first en-
ginecr who was on watch when the explosion
occurred saws the boat had just struck bar.
The engines had been stopped and he glanced
at his watch to note the time when the eHP!qPs-
bniIors was blown back to the cylinders and the
whole forward, part Of the, boat including
pilot house texas and forward state rooms were
,cattered right and left The boat took fire in
-tantIv and startled the half nude pas
-cngcrs who were not killed awOke to the ter
ribIe reality But one boat was left and that
was badly broken. The officers did all they
could to assist the passengers. Capt ReedeT
and his clerk, Henry NJ. Worsham, gathered
together the life preservers that were left in the
back part Of the caban and distributed them, to
the half distracted passengers. There were but
two females on board, Mrs Constable and the
uhambermaid named Wallace