Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1877-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

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| in New York. A steam boiler in an immense
candy factory on Barclay street exploded on
Thursday afternoon. There were 200 or SOC
children in the building -employees- at the
,ime aud great numbers were killed out
right or burned to death the subsequent
f e. The particulars are heartreDding. The
oh 'dren were mostly girls, ranging from to
] ) years old and the force was much larger
il consequence of the approaching holidays.
Judging from the names given, we take them
20 have been mainly German and Irish.
Also several visitors and customers who
were in the building at the time were injured,
some of them fatally.
It has been discovered at the Postoffice
Depa1 Gment that immense frauds are perpe-
trated by Fourth Class postmaaters. These
have a large commission Oh stamps and so
they invent market for them. There are
not less than sc, 900 of this grade of offices,
and the illicit trade is something stupendous.
One Nasty II Utah furnished his house with
stamps. The mucilagipous knave! We
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The abuse will be remedied by law, unless
Rutherford the Adhesive is . in with it.
The present attitude of the Patterson bust
ness is that the South Carolina authorities
will transmit the evidence against him to the
Senate and that that will be the end of it.
1t is currently reported that the programme
is for Patterson to resign in favor of Wade
Hampton-which is why the latter is SO
fierce for "justice."
Old Thurlow Weed is about TO present his
view upon the silver question. He is an
argentiferous octegenariau and carries his
whitened hairs upon level head.
Everything is reported a" quiet on the
Rio Grande. The salt-works war was about
such an affair as the Pittsburg riots. A new
York firm had got possession of the works by
strategy and something like fraud, and so
there was a tumult and melee. That seems
: 0 be about all.
Ben Truman, who always seems to be get
ing into some sort Of Federal soup-house, has
been appointed Postal Agent for the Pacific
Coast.
The Spotted Tail aud Red Cloud Indians
are so situated as that they cannot with any
reasonable convenience reach their agencies 10
get provisions. Of course there is much dis
Sitting Bull has anchored his bovine hams
inside the lines of the United States and has |
surrounded himself with a squad of deluded
copper colored heather and means to raise
well, scalps, we suppose.
There will be a proposition to re-enact the
income tax Is this Democratic retrench-
nent Rutherford Rutherford Are
you in that job too
Mayor Ely's movement against the New
7 ork Police Commissioners is an Anti-Tam
many maneuver. Sammy Tilden is behind it.
Under the amended Constitution of that
State, South Carolina will levya tax of two
Mills on each one hundred dollars for free
school purposes.
Tramps have become such nuisance in
hat State, that the State Prison Association
lave called Convention to consider what's
pest to be done. Montgomery Blair is to
preside.
England is still making believe that she is
;oing to war over the Eastern question. But
he will enter into diplomatic relations with
herself and keep the peace,
The Turkish troops have been withdrawn
rom Bulgaria.
The workingmen of San Francisco are fight
ng among themselves.
Mills, the Elko murderer, (colored) made
u Intellectual attempt to escape on Thursday.
he was hanged.