The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-12-22
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Late News Items.

The temperance meetings still continue
in Wilmington, Del.
}. T. Farley, Democrat. was elected L
:. Senator by the Legislature of California,
Tuesday,
A very elegantly ornamented $1,000 fire
engine for Galveston, Texas, has lust been
turned ont at Bridgeport, Conn, iron
works.
Advices from Tucson, Arizona. report
the killing of a mail driver by Indians in
the San Simon Valley. Troops have gone
in pursuit of the Indians.
Secretary Evarts left Washington on
Sunday night for New York. He will be
joined in the latter city on the Goth by
President Hayes and several members of
the Cabinet.
Special Agent Baxtley, of the General
Land Office, who has been in Mississippi
looking after timber depredations, reports
that the logs and lumber seized by the Gov
ernment have an aggregate value of about
1894, 600.
The repairs upon the State House at An
napolis are rapidly approaching compile
ton, and it will be ready for occupancy bv
January 1st. The present building has
now been standing los years, having been
built in 1863
The ludian Commissioner has been adj
vised of the death of the leader Of the rene
gade Apaches recently depredating in Ari-
IONA, and the surrender of eight of his band.
The San Carlos reservation police are pur-
suing the remainder.
A petroleum well was discovered a few
weeks ago at point one hundred miles
south of Deadwood. Dakota. sample of
the oil, received in Deadwood on Tuesday,
was pronounced by experts to be supe-
rior to that of West Virginia.
The office of superintendent of public
stores at Baltimore. held by Mr.. John Lee
Chapman, salary So 900, has been abolished
by an order from Secretary Sherman, and
the duties assigned to Mr.. Ellington Full
ton, keeper of public stores No /.
A report comes from Sonora that Gen
eral Huerta, formerly Governor of that
State, is in Mexico, with 1000 American
hhbusteps stationed near the Sonora line
preparing for an INVASION and several
thousand troops are concentrated at MAJ
allan.
The names of Charles W. Wells aud
/
list of practicing attorneys of the Schuyl-
kill county courts yesterday. Wells, who
was Secretary of the Mutual Saving Fund
Association, is charged with embezzling
large sums of money and making false
entries TO cover the theft. Wright is
charged with having made collections of
money which he failed to account for.
The latest report from Ell Pasa is, that
| hn tntn Al,
! on Monday afternoon, their ammunition
being exhausted; and that, after the sur
rendered, two of them, named Atkinson
and Mcbride, were shot dead by their
captors Previous to the surrender only
one man, a Texan Ranger named Ellis,
was killed, instead of five or SIX as first
reported. 1t is probable that by this time
! the advance of the |. 5. troops ordered to
San Elizario, have reached that place.
In the early part of last spring quite a
number of Mary FLANDERS left the good old
State and went to Kansas, in the hope of
! lettering their condition. Last week about
a hundred and fifty of them are reported in
! the Cumberland and Frederick papers to
have returned home greatly disheartened
and quite satisfied to resume their occupa-
! ton in fields familiar to them They have
now learned at a cost they are not likely to
| forget how unwiSe it was to undertake such
an adventure impulsvely and without con
siderating how it might end.
An explosion occurred in New York, on
Thursday afternoon, i'll the immense candy
mandatory of Mr.. Greenfield, at No. G5
Barclay street, which extends in the shape
of an l. to College Place. The boiler,
| which was under the sidewalk on the Bar
clay street side, burst, tearing away the en-
tire front and scattering the wreck in all
directions. Over one hundred and fifty
girls OF all ages were employed at the time
in the building, besides number of men
and boys The walls fell within a few
minutes after the explosion. The police
man who was on duty near the building
says he saw the front of the building, five
stories high, fail into the street. The street
was filled with people. There were about
two hundred at work. | rushed to the
police station. | gave the fire alarm at the
box at Church and Barclay streets. Several
girls jumped from the top of the building
into the fire. Several boys were blown
through the roof Fifty-six wounded and
one dead were reported at Chambers Street
Hospital at G:45 o'clock the same evening
A number were also sent to Bellevue and
other hospitals. 1t is estimated the wound
ed will reach l2J of the 275 employed in
the factory; but few escaped unlnjured.
The number of dead is uncertain until the
wreck is cleared away