Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-27
The Frinl Of Stokes for Killing Fisk
The Irish-AndersOn Poisoning Case.
A steamer Burned-FaIling in of Roofs
Buffalo Without Water
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Several Persons Killed By the Falling
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frame building and uninsured.
| New YORK, December 26.-John Fl
! rata was sta bbed, and IOuisF his broth
Ell, was shot in fight in an Italian So
loon, last night.
The total loss by the fire in Cente
street was a quarter of a million dollars
4 Insurance, one hundred and eight.
thousand dollars. Eiye persons Wer
badly Injured at the fire,
a confirfhatiSn IS given to the denia
of the burning QIs he Palisade hotel.
! Inquiry into the cause Of the Cente
street fire confirms the rum0r that siI
girls and one boy, who were known q
be in the building At the tinle Of the fire
have not since been heard of. They
were employed by Dunn s, Barlow
They could have ksen saved had Their
| been proper fire escapes. The ruins ar
covered by q mass of ice, which render
4 a search for the bodies impossible.
The Keeper Of the Jefferson Marke
prison last night discovered an altemp
on the part of two inmates, Busey anC
Heston, to escape, they having made {
! heavy breach in the wall of the cell
After a sharp encounter they were safe
~ locked up.
New YORK, December o. II
the Stokes case to-day, Mrs. MsTy
Bissell, the new witness, testified that
she lives opposite the residence
lately occupied by Mrs. Mansfield
on Twenty-third street; that on the
day Of the shooting she saw Fiskis
carriage unoecupied drive up and
down several times, and afterward saw
the coupe supposed TO be Stokes stop al
Mrs. MansfieIdis house: that Mrs. Mans
field came to the window and looked
out; that the man got out Of the car
rage and got il again and drove away,
New evidence Of a startling char.
acter was offered by Andrew Parker
who testified that some six weeks be-
fore Fisk was murdered, he Parker
was introduced to Stokes, and in the
conversation which ensued, relative to
the trial then pending, Stokes said that
Fisk was a d-n blac6maileT, and he,
fStokest would shoot Fisk, and said he
Stokes carried s pistol. Stokes re-
peated that Fisk was q blackmaileT
twice. AT this point Stokes became
very much excited, and rose up before
he could prevented, saying, This ls
false, all false" On. crOss-eXamination
witness stated that he had been removed
by Fisk from running a hotel, at Mead
vile, Pennsylvania, owned by the Erie
Railway Company, and on stating the
facts TO Stokes, the latter made remarks
about Fisk's blaekmailing him, and
made threats to shoot Fisk. Recess. }
Alter the recess some additional testi-
mOny was offered, but nothing new be-
ing elected, the evidence for the prose-
cutiOn ceased, and Townsend opened
for the defense.
NEW YORK, December 26.-In the
Irish -AudeTson casa the Jury disagreed
1t is understood that they stood niue for
sequittal and three fOrcOnvictiOn. Both
Dr.. Irish and Mrs. Anderson have been
bailed.
MuLvIL E, n. J., December 26..-The
Helen Getty was burned to the
waters edge yesterday, while lying at
the wharf.
CLEVELAND, ONO, December GA
woman named Eliza Catlin committed
suicide last evening by taking laudanum.
Her husbands abuse was probably the
cause.
WHEELING, WEST VA, December 96
A slight fire occurred this afternoon at
the Norway Tack Company's works, in
this city. The fire was extinguished af-
ter destroying the roof of the building
occupied as an Office and stcrerOom.
l sOss small.
PfuLADEIPHIA, December 26.-This
lfternOon the roof OF Winches' spike
mills, corner Canal and Poland streets,
fell in, through the weight Of snow, in
iuring the following persons: John
Dougherty, back broken; Charles Til
ton, cut in the head; Andrew Meow
ern, head and shoulders injured; Alex
ander Kinney, arm and shoulder sprain-
ell; John Kelley, face and head badly
burned; Charles Coleman, arm sprain-
ed The roof took fire from the furn-
ace, but was soon eXJinguished.
BUFFALO, December 26.-The de-
of the waterworks here is
causing great anxiety among the eiti-
zens. The real cause OF the trouble has
not been Rscertained. Some think the
mouth of the tunnel is choked with ice.
The citizens in various localities have
into patrol companies as
against fire. Tonight the
and Courier printing offices
were obliged to draw water from the
creek to gel of their papers. All places
Of business requiring steam, and which
are supplied by the city waterworks,
have been stopped, causing a loss to
thousands Of operatives. The water
wheels of tie mills at Black Rock are
several feet ont Of water.
NEW YoRK. December ga serious
accident occurred on the Erie railway
this morning near Sufferns. A freight
rain ian into the rear Of the Orange
county express, WHICH was standing
still 10 enable another freight train to
get out of its way. The rear car Of the
express train was completely smashed,
and Lewis l.. Hermann, a very
wealthy resident of Kingston, was
injured. His legs were broken
n four places, and a bar of iron was
lriven into his thigh. OF some thirty
no Others were hurt.
WILLIAasPoRT, Pa, December e
Last evening" the Sabhath-schOOl at
aehed TO the Baptist Church at New
.urv, in she Seventh ward Of this city,
issenbled to participate in the cerenO-
mes of Christmas night, some three hun
ired men, women aud children were
NesenL The exercises Of the occasion
rad commenced and Mr.. Kinsloe, of
his city, was making an address, when
he floor gave way, precipitating the
whole sssembiage into the cellar below.
Tbe church was constructed with an up
ler audience room, and il was in this
hat the congregation had assembled,
Tie interior Dimensions of the floor
re twenty.six feet in width and forty
ID length. There was center girth
With joists thickly placed on each side,
md through the center from above were
NO bolts connecting with this main
firth. Evidently the weight of those
lssembled with the spring truss beams
md supports slipping out Of their place,
,aused this terrible catastrophe. This is
evident from the fact that the tim
Ders were not broken. The gas
nine. two inches IA diameter, which
vas beneath the center giTth,
)ent double by the immense weight.
When the crash came, there went up a
leart-rendiDg wall of mangled hu-
nanity. Children wildly shrieked for
heir parents, and the grOans of the
wounded and dying filled the air. To
add tOthe horror, the Oil lamps Of the
office knitted and bad fair to destroy all
n a general eOnfagratiOn- Those outside
worked with a viii, and every effort
was made to rescue the living. The
.hurch Nas now on fire, but prOviden-
tally the flames could be reached and
were speedily extinguished. Before the
floor sank, many Of those within We're
able to reach the windows and leap 70
he ground, distance of fifteen feet
AT eleven O'Clock last night the dead