Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-12-24
LATEFE MOVE.

In the Senate, on tho 18th, the House
Joint resolution providing for an adjournment
from December - to January WAS disagreed
TO by "a to 81, Mr.. Wallace Pa) introduced
bill to establish uniform system Of bank
ruptcy. Mr.. Blaine offered a resolution di-
recting the Committee on Judiciary to inquire
into the eNpcdicncY Of increasing the mum
Der Of Judges of the Supreme Court to thir.
teen. Agreed to, The Pension Approprla-
tion bill was referred to the Committee ON
Appropriations, Consideration was then re-
sumed OF the Educational bill, and after
AOme debate the bill was read the third
time and passed-yeas, II; nays, q, Ad-
lourned until the 2lth, In the House the
morning hour was dispensed with aud
the House went into Committee OF the
Whole on the private calendar. After the
committee rose several bills granting pen
slond were passed, and the House then ad-
tourncd.
THE Electoral votes of all the States
except Oregon had been received by Vice
President Wheeler on the l7th.
Il. l.. FoRD, former publisher of the
Christian Union, Henry Ward Beecher's
paper, died at New York on the 18th.
TnE unfinished walls of the Middle
town, Pa, car shops fell on the night of the
18th, burying six worhmen. William Dasher
was killed aud the others received severe In
iurles.
A MOST disastrous conaagration oc-
CURED at Buffalo, N, Y, on the evening Of
the 18th, the sad and deplorable feature Of
which Is that II was attended by great loss
OF life, The building ia which the fire broke
out was iye-story brick structure, aud oceu-
pied by Birge & Sons, wall paper manu-
iAeturers One hundred and fifty men and
boys were employed IN the building An Of
the number were at work, and In less than
twenty minutes after the alarm was given the
building was a mass Of flames The walls
crumbled aud fell, and probably buried from
twenty to thirty OF the employees. The doors
20 the different rooms were hung to swing In
and each had heavy spring closing them,
thereby retarding the egress OF OCCUPANTS
The building was without FIRE escapes Of
any kind aud the terrified workm0n Jumped
from the windows and many Of them escaped
with broken bones aud bruised bodies, Those
In the upper stories, being unable TO escape,
appeared for a moment at the windows and
then sank back, sulfocatedi In smoke and flames.
The following Is a list OF those known TO be
killed: One OF the foremen In the hfth story,
badly burned, jumped 10 the ground and is
uurecognizable, HE head and body being
mashed to aIely, supposed TO be Thomas
Fields; john Malone, aged fifteen, jumped
from the nth story and Was killed; William
Berry, fatally injured In the head, spine and
inwardly jumped from the fourth story. The
injured are John Griffin, jumped from the
fourth floor, right arm broken and badly in-
jured internally; Moses Maloney, leg iract-
ured jumped from the fifth story; Patrick
O'Brien, badly burned about the head, back
and arm broken; Edward Mccormick,
jumped from the li,h floor, badly cut on the
tho head; Mike O'Brien right leg broken,
and the following known to be missing and
supposed to be In the ruins; Stephen Hockett,
Martin McGee, Peter Swarder, John and
James stoul, brothers, and Day Voltz.
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