The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1873-08-30


works ilioy wcfo nH0 lguofol Ilo
e. II tho demands offlo o0lmod ln.n
were tslaosscd IN the Philadelphia
Platform bd yoar lni that The plat.
form haf not hton Observed lie
thought now was the time Ia elnlm
redress.
llAmusmnG, August @.-A IRE
commenced Vt | o'clock IN the central
part Of Mlnlin, Pa aud aprcnd
rapidly, consuming one block aud q
portion Of another Estimated loss
slOO,OO0. The .Juniatn Sentinel office
was burned.
HELENA, Ark, August @.-rhc
steamer George Wolfe blew up at Cam
from Island about two o'clock ye-tcr-
day afternoon. Twelve persons ARE
known 10 be lost, and fifteen wounded.
The officers of the boat were all saved
except the second engineer who was
on watch at the time Of the explosion,
and Is missing. All the lady passcn-
gers saved. Mr.. Nelson, from ShrcVc-
port for Memphis, was drowned y
deck passenger named DAWSON WITH
his wife and two children, bound for
Tupelo, Miss, we're all Killed. The
cabin of the boat was blown to pieces.
The hull may be saved.
ST.. LOUIS, August 23.-Charles Mouz
said to represent l.owndes county in
the Mississippi, Legislature, was ar
rested here yesterday for stealing lot
of clothing from room in the Laclede
| House.
A gentleman just from the Indian
Territory says the Kiowa Chiefs, san
tanta and Big Tree, arrived at Fort
| Gibson, where they will remain until
the meeting ofShe Grand Council OF
| the Kiowas and Comanches in October,
when they will be taken to Fort Sill
and formally released from captivity.
WASHINGTON, August 23.--Thc p o.
ceelings of the Military Commission
to try the Modoc prisoners arraigned
Captain Jack, S'conchin, Black Jim,
Boston Charley, Bownche alias One
| Eyed Jim and Sloducl alias Crock.
The captives were charged, first with
murder in violation Of the laws Of war,
and second with assault with intent t,
| kill in violation of the laws of war.
The prisoners We're found guilty on all
the charges and specifications, and tho
Commission does, therefore, sentence
them-Captain Jack, Sconchin, Black
Jim, Boston Charley, Bownche alias
One-Eycd Jim and Sloduck alias Cook,
Modoc Indian captives-to be hanged
oy the neck until they be dead at such
ime and place rs the proper authority
shall direct--two-thirds of the mem
bcrs of the Commission coneurrine
therein. The President has approved
| he sentences and ordered that they be
carried into execution by the propel
military authority under the orders OF
the Secretary of War, Oh the Sd of DC
t2icr, 1873. The War Department has
issued n general order enforcing the
| lbovc sentences to be executed BY the
commanding General at Fort Klamath
The Secretary of Tie Treasury direct
the payment OF interest due on thc
| first of September amounting to about
five millions, on the 18th of Angus;
without rebate.
BAYoNNE, August 28.-The Carlists
say they are organizing for move
ment OH Madrid and will be ready IL
march in October.
| The Cmthagpna insurgents are Wig.
orously replying to the fire of the Span.
ish fleet. admiral Leoboshas has un-
der his con mand only the Saragossa
ironclad, and some wooden frigates
The insurgents are plcntifully supplied
with provisions and stores, and III,
sansuine OF asss lance from the Com,
nunists in other cities, so Il stout re-
sistapce may be expected.
MADRID, August 25.-'rhc Republi-
can army, numbering twelve thousant
men, has entered Bilboa. Tia Cariat
oYccs occupying the city withdrew
without offering battle.
LONDON, August 23.--Thc threatenef
lockout by the iron masters Of Man
chester of Il portion of their operatives
las been postponed for the present, :
proposition having been made to SUB
nit the differences between employers
and workmen to Il committee Of arbi
| ration.
BERLIN, August Cdr. Falk, Min
ster of Public Instruction and Ecelesi
astical Affairs, has ordered the Roman
Catholic Seminary ut Posen to IL
| ,losed.
PARIS, August 23.--At Il meeting O
the members Of the Left to-day, it wa
decided to seek the support Of the Lief
Center, to prevent the success of tn,
plans of the Fusionists and Legitimist'
for the establishment Of the Bourbon
monarchy.
LONDON, August pa collision oe
Cured this morning Oh the Grea
Northern Railroad, at Ryord, near Not
tingham, between freight and excur
sion train. The trains were badly
wrecked, and reports thus far received
say twenty persons were killed and ;
large number injured. There is grea
excitement at Ryord.
| The Dublin Irishman publishes ths
lnew programme of the Home Ruiz
tparty. Ii includes the establishment
of a newspaper in Dublin called thu
Faugh-a-Ballach, to be the official jour
nal of the party, and it is to agitateth'
question of the abolition of the Office o
Lord Lieutenant and the substitu
lion of a Governor, TO be elected b,
universal suffrage and TO have the nom
nal title. of king; and for a law au
thorizing the cohfscation of the estates
Of absentees.
BAYoNNE, August 2s.-Advicos from