Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-01-02

are reported in different sections. Four ex-
plosions of kitchen ranges occurred In Gin
cinnati on the 21st, one in Chicago and one
In Cleveland-an caused by the freezing Of
the water in the pipes.
Portland, Oregon, had q $3.50, 900 fire on
the 23d.
Recent Washington dispatches contradict
the statement that Postmasters were to be
held accountable for the loss Of registered
letters. Postmaster-GeneralC Creswell is now
reported as saving that no such ruling was
ever made by him, and that in no case will
the Post Office or its officials be responsible
for such losses.
Barnum's Museum and Menagerie, in New
York City, was burned on the morning of
the oath. The large collection of curiosities
and all the animals lover one hundred, ex-
cept two elephants and one camel, were
burned to death. The building was similar
to Talmage's church, destroyed a few days
before. 1t was vast framework of pine
covered with corrugated 'sheet-iron. The
flames enveloped its interior in q surprising
ly short time. The dying agonies of the
motley congregation of animals are
vividly described by the spectators.
The cages containing the four giraffes
were opened, but the terrified creatures
seemed paralyzed, and would not bulge.
Some Of the keepers wept on finding that
they had to abandon their charges. The
immense elephant that played the hand
organ also refused to leave, but got on his
kness and persisted, rubbing his head against
the earth and roaring Ia anguish. The fierce
banging of the lions and tigers against their
cages could be heard above all the din. The
Academy Of Music, directly opposite, was
saved by the favorable direction Of the wind.
Among the animals destroyed were eight
camels and dromedaries, one leopard, one
yak, one Gland, one llama, two sea lions,
boa-constrictors, apes, gorillas, ostriches,
etc. The loss by this fire was variously es-
timated at from $500, 600 to 81. .OO0, 900.
On the afternoon of the 25th, a mail train
on the Buffalo, Cory & Pittsburgh Railroad,
when within about eighty rods of the sta
tion at Prospect, was thrown off the track
at a trestle work, and one passenger coach
and a baggage car fell off the bridge, dis
tance of twenty feet, turning over and strik-
ing the ground bottom side up. A dispatch
of the 25th gives the following particulars:
"When the cars struck, the trucks crashed
stoves of the passenger cars were directly
under the trucks they were crushed to pieces,
and Immediately the woodwork of the cars
took fire. OF forty-six people known to have
been in the cars, but one escaped unaided,
namely, the brakeman on the passenger coach,
who jumped clear off the cars as they were
falling. The woodwork of the passenger
car, thickly coated as it was with varnish,
hrr ha
done by the force at hand to prevent 1t, the
flames enveloped both ends of the car, and
crept rapidly toward the center. Penned
within at this time, with no possible chance
to extricate themselves, were forty
three adult passengers, the conductor and
one child. OF those seated In the ends of
the car, none escaped, but, help arriving,
about twenty-five dead and living were taken
out Of the center of it, and the flames were
extinguished, or, more correctly speaking,
went out for lack OF anything further to
feed upon. The roll foots up as follows:
Saved, all more or less injured, 10; dead, 10;
missing, s. The dead, with four exceptions,
were burned so as to be unrecognizable
from the features, and there are but three
that could possibly be identified from the
shreds of clothing adhering to the roasted
flesh. Five were headless and without
limbs, and the remaining ones had the flesh
all burned off the extrmities. The eight
missing are supposed to have been COM
pletely consumed, and there are pieces OF
skulls, watches, and the like, sufficient to
partially justify such belief" The cause
of the accident is supposed to have been
broken fange on the tender.
The entire block on the west side of Gen.
tire street, between Leonard and North, New
York City, was burned on the evening of
the 24th. Among the establishments de-
stroyed was that of the New York Newspa-
per Union. Seven persons perished in the
flames, and five others were more or less in
iured. Tho total loss by this fire was esti-
mated at s25O,ooO.
satanta and Big Tree, the Kiowa Chiefs
who had been confined in Jail in st. Louis
for three months, left on the 23d for the
Texas Penitentiary at Huntsville, in charge
of United States Deputy Marshals Newcomb
and Morgan.
servant girl in employ at W. f. Flagg's
residence, Bloomington, ILL.,, in trying the
virtue of kerosene as a fire kinder, was so
badly burned that her recovery was doubt
full. The stove was demolished, scattering
the girl, oil, can, ETC., proniscuously around
the room. In Sprinfiield, H., on the same
day, Miss Belle Wallace, eighteen years old,
was fatally burned while trying to light
fire by pouring coal oil on it. The can ex-
ploded and set her clothes on fire.
Intense cold weather continued through
out the West and South on the morning of
the oath. A woman and her three children,
living in a log hut on German Prairie,
near Springfield Ill, were found in bed
frozen to death on the morning of the oath.
A Cedar Rapids Qowa) dispatch of the
23d says "Several towns west of Boone
are reported suffering from want of coal,
and have to burn furniture to keep from
freezing. This is especially the case in
Carroll, Iowa"
large amount of business property was
burned at Helena, Ark, on the sd. Loss
about scr, 900.
VIM. NJ. Harrison, Reform candidate for
Associate Justice in Arkansas, filed bill of
complaint on the oath, asking for an injunc-
tion to prevent NJ. L. Stevenson and E. J.
Earl, the Republican candidates, whose
election had been announced by the State
Department, from exercising the duties of
Office; and also asking for a restraining
oEueI W PISNenS ACtLnS uoNcTuOT I1auicy
and Secretary of State johnson from
altering or changing the original re-
rurns, and asking for a mandamus to COM
pei them to produce in Court the original
returns, statements, etc, in reference to the
election. The bill charges the Governor,
Secretary of State, Registrars, County
Clerks aud Judges of Election with confed-
Grating together and fraudulently depriving
thousands of citizens of the right to vote; of
changing and altering the returns, and pre-
venting the returns from being made from
four counties, by which the complainant
AYERS he was deprived of the benefit of 10000
votes.
The President on the 24th signed the bill
to reduce the expenses and offices of the
Internal Revenue Bureau, which passed
Congress few days before, and the work