The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1876-03-10

tlaJ the eueCb Oh u6IuutIS VI committees 90
ing into court and testif3ing would be to fright
en- and intimidate such witnesses as could ex-
pose guilty officials. Mr.. Hoar's resolution to
allow members of Committees to go before
| courts if they chose was lost and Lamar
| passed.
Senate, March S.-The only important action
in the Senate to-day was the disposal of the
Pinchback matter. After considerable debate
the roll was called and he was refused seat
by a vote of 90 in favor to 80 opposed.
House had long and exciting session. Inc
legislative and executive appropriation Dill was
INTRODUCED. 1t appropriates about Sl5'Ooo'ooo.
After long debate resolution was adopteo
exemptiDg witnesses who testify before COM
mittee of Congress from criminal indictment
Both sides voted for it.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Wirslow, the Boston forger, was brought up
| in the Bow street court, London, last week
when the formalities necessary for his extradi-
ton were gone through with. He was then
committed to wait fifteen days as the law re-
qures before he is brought to this country. He
is very anxious to get back.
A steam scow was blown to pieces in the Co.
lumbia River last week by an explosion of
giant powder One man was blown to pieces
and twelve are missing, supposed to have been
drowned.
Monday night, between II and II O'Clock,
while the freight train with passenger car at
tached was crossing bridge over narrow
passage on Harpe.'s Ferry and the Valley
branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 60
.lo, ~ 4In
gave way and the engine and tender fell
through and were wrecked. The following are
the names of tie killed: w. A. Wightman of
Edinburgh, Va, G. L. Noel and r. E. Ham
mond of Mt. Jackson, Va, r. L. Wood, sup
posed to be from Richmond, c. H. Hodgdon of
Berkeley Springs, and member of the West
Virginia Legislature, j. A. Baldwin Of Balti-
more, Mr.. Gano of Winchester, A. S. Bowen.
commercial traveller of Baltimore, T. Dono-
van. engineer of Sandy Hook, Md. j. Chapman
f. Jefferson, brakeman, of Winchester, Va.
Five or six persons besides the above were more
or less injured.
Snow slides in the Yuba Pass, California
have blocked the railroad and destroyed the
snow sheds, causing serious interruption to
travel
About four o'clock Tuesday morning fire
broke out in the house of refuge of the Little
Sisters Of the Poor in Williamsburg, N. Y, a
large four story structure with two wings The
fire originated in the south wing, and before
the aged inmates were aware of its presence,
the flames had made considerable progress. A
perfect panic was caused among the inmates,
who rushed to and fro through the building un-
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the smoke. The police rendered valuable as
sistance and carried out number of old people
who had become unconscious There were 1856
old people in the building at the time, and in
one part their egress had been cut off by the
smoke and flames, and SO they went up to the
roof. Their shrieks and cries might have been
heard for blocks around. The firemen and po-
lice rescued all who were on the roof, but there
were number who were suffocated and buried
in the ruins. When the fremen could gain the
upper stories of the burning wing of the build
ing, to their horror they found seventeen men
burned to crisp in their beds. The bedsteads
were of iron and rested on the yet unconsumed
beams which had remained in their places. The
bodies were totally unacceptable.
VARIOUS MATTERS.
The Louisiana House of Representatives
have abandoned the impeachment proceedings
against Gov. Kellogg.
BRIEF MENTION.
The attempt to put the District Gable into
the hands of the Anglo-American Gable Com
pany has failed.-The post trader at Fort
I.eavenworth has important knowledge con-
corning the sale of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the bel
fry murderer, got a new trial.-The Pittsburg
iron puddlers have declined to enter into any
combination as to prices to be paid-Ths Bel
mont Park Association whose grounds are near
those of the Centennial buildings will offer
$500, 900 in premiums the coming season.--A
Liverpool firm proposes to establish a fort
nightly line of steamers between Liverpool and
Boston.--The Massachusetts House of Rep.
resentatives are to investigate charges Of brib-
cry and corruption against its members
Gen. Burnside has been elected field officer of
the New England battalion Of the Centennial
Legion.-Mr. Leonard G. Bowles, the proprie
tor of the Unitarian Review died Thursday
evening at the Boston Highlands. 200 900
is the aggregate of porx packing in six prnc-
pal cities of the west against 3,500,000 last
year.--As result CT the suspension in the
coal fields 81 engines have been takeE off the
eastern division of the Erie railroad. Gov.
Tilden has respited Dolan, Mr.. Noes murderer,
till April 14.--The verdict of Maryland
court in favor of depositor who brought suit
for collateral deposited in bank which was
stolen, has been sustained by the full court
Both houses of the New York Legislature have
adopted resolutions requesting Congress not to
repeal the resumption act.
FOREIGN.
The Pail Mall Gazettes Copenhagen cor
respondent writes that the last mail
from Iceland reports that five thousand
inhabitants of the West Mama Islands, a
group lying to the south of Iceland and belong.
ing ito.Denmark, are probably dying of starva-
ton. The fisheries there last year were unsuc-
cessful and the inhabitants, fearing their food
would not last them through the winter, sent to
Iceland asking for supplies. Occasionally a
small quantity of supplies were despatched.
About month ago, however, a bottle was
found on the coast of Iceland containing let.
ter stating that the supplies on hand were only
adequate for one week, and famine was inev-
liable.
The Standards Vienna dispatch says that
horrible accounts of Turkish cruelties
continue to arrive from Bosnia. Twelve
hundred Turks attacked the Christian
inhabitants of the town of Crupo last Sunday
morning many plundering the shops.
The Carlists in France have been notified by
the Madrid government that if they do not
claim exemption before March 18th, they will,
if caught, be transported. Those who deserted
before July Is. 1875, and have been made pris-
oners, will be sent to Cuba to serve for prolopg
ed terms. Those deserted subsequently will be
tried.
The foundations from the floods in the rivers
of Eastern Prussia have been continued and
destructive. Along the Danube over 81 per-
sons were drowned. The Hungarian villages
on the Danube are 10 feet under water. The
inner town of Pesth is safe, but the new city is
In ruins.
The writ in the suit against Gen. Schenck
was withdrawn, Lord Derby pleading Schenck's
privilege. The Hour says Schenck's departure
without taking leave of the Queen is unprece-