, 1877-05-02

VIZ S O06O wa
very great. The causes are said to nave
been heavy rains and the rapid melting of
the soow during q few days of warm wea-
Their.
Mr.. Hall, the runaway Mayor of New
York, is said::to have turned up in Liverpool
and again in London. At least a gentle.
man calling himself SutIiffe was followed
by the interviewers under the impression
that he was the man. They lost sight Of
him IN Liverpool, but believed they had
found hun again in London under the name
of Garbett. Messrs. Subtitle and Garbett,
if their names are their own, must sadly
deplore their unfortunate likeness to the
ex-Mayor.
In the West, preparations were making
for another campaign against the miserable
Indians. A chief named Spotted-tail had
volunteered on o mission Of peace, and
proposed to visit the camps of Crazy Horse
and other hostile Indians, and endeavouP
10 induce them to enter the reservations.
The Government had allowed him to 90,
but would take no other stepin the mat
ter.
A sad loss Of life had occurred in St.
Louis by the burning of the Southern
Hotel on the 18th uIt. The number of
persons who persisted is supposed to be
between thirty and forty, and the value
of the property destroyed is given as
$4,000. The HeraId publishes the fol-
lowing account
"Some time between one and two o'clock
this morning fire broke out in the Southern
Hotel, the largest in the city. Ia less than
ree.qnarters of an hour the greater part
of the building was wrapped in flames,
and a multitude OF struggling and terrified
people were shrieking for life, looking
vainIy for help from fourth aud fifth story
windows. with a horror stricken crowd on
the sidewalks below utterly incapable Of
assisting them
E" The entire Fire and Police Departments
were s9on at the scene, but the flames had
made such Roadway at the time OF their
arrival that there was nothing to be done
but 10 save The inmates. There was great
officially in reaching the fourth and fifth
STOKES, Oh account Of the saOrtness of the
ladders.
Many Of the inmates escaped by tying
sheets together, fastening them inside the
no ms and descending the ladders below W.
Several women jumped from wiudo VS.
to the pavement beIov v, all being killed
instantly,
Miss Kate Claxton was an inmate and
made another wond ,rfuI escape.
She had sufficient presence Of mind to
wrap her face and head with wetted towels
aud walked and rolled down stairs, and
except having a few bruises, she is safe.
The motel is a mass of smoking ruins"
On tie day following the st. Louis fire.
New York was startled by a fearful deed
of violence. Mr.. OrvilIe Jewett, a junior
partner in a wealthy firm Of whitehead
manufacturers, having quarreled with the
other partners, entered the Office Of the firm
in New York, and threw down a hand gre.
made, which Immediately exploded, killing
one of the partners on the spot and injuring
another. The injured man then drew his
revolver and shot the junior partner, caus-
ing his death on the evening Of the same
day.
The Telephone continues to excite great
interest. The sounds are not sent along
the line by any mechanical vibrations, as
might be at first supposed but are repro
duced by electric currents. The wonder Of
the Instrument lies in the ingenuity with
which the vibrations produced by a musical