The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-01-07
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pied by families, destroyed many lives.
The fremen smashed in the skylights
and cut holes i'll the roof, but the fire
had already done its fearful work on
several victims, surrounded as they
were by the flames and cut off from all
access to safety below by the burning of
the staircase. Several persons sustained
severe injuries by leaping from the
higest stories to the ground. One man,
while crying frantically for aid to the
tiremen beneath, was all the while push
ing woman, who seemed to be resist
ing, from the fourth-story window
She finally leaped and struck the
ground on her feet with a sickening
crash, breaking both legs and arms and
almost crushing herself to death. OF
twelve or fifteen persons sleeping in
No 81, foRr burned to death and five
were injured. A little boy was burned
to a crisp. The others were either dead
when taken from the burning building
or died before they reached the station.
4 ST. Louis dispatch says: Near the
relay depot at East st, Louis, where
there are marshes and bitches almost
without number, the police think they
have discovered evidence which estab-
fishes the existence of gang OF muir
derers, and to q certain extent solves
the mystery Surrounding the disappear
ance Of several we'll known men. jude
Mayo, Of Omey, was last seen at this
place, on board of an outgoing train,
and since that time no less than a
dozen other travellers have vanished in
the ssslrse remarkable manner in the
vicinity. The theory of the detectives
is, that passengers are lured from night
trains to the platforms. knocked sense
less or killed, and robbed and barred in
the swamps at leisure. A thorough III
vestigation will be made.
Ex-senator Henderson, of Missouri,
is in Washington, interesting himself
in the anti-Grant movement, and he
and others who took para in the Fifth
avenue conference four years ago, are
going to try to initiate another scheme
for opposing Grant within the Repuh-
lican party. Strong efforts are being
made to induce Bristow and Schurz to-
come out squarely and in a public man
ner in opposition to the nomination. of
Grant. Henderson, like Schur and
Halstsad, is in favor OF the nomination
of Sherman. aud thinks that the Grant
men can be'convinced that Grant viii
lose the entire German vote if nomi-
mated.
Chief Justice Waite has announced
the decision Of the United States Su-
prenfe Court upon the motion recently
made b. Senator Edrnunds to advance
the case. of Augustus D. Gillsrd against
Thomas $ Greenan, generally known is
the illegal tender case," which now
stands No. 776 ON the calendar. The.
motion was denied. The chief Justice
said. the Court would refuse to grant all
motions to advance cases involving i'm.
portant constitutional questions, solong
as they could not be heard before full
bench.
Notwithstanding the peaceful pro-
LESSONS of Russia, she has ordered the.
War Office to prepare for the use Of the
army as many breech-loaders as posi-
BILE. A trustworthy correspondent,
who has Just returned from, visit to
the larger towns Of Russian Poland,
says those towns are full of troops and
well armed.
A locomotive and four freight-ears of
a train of the. Long Branch Railroad
fell through the fifty-foot draw at
Woodbridge. New jersey. yesterday.
The wreck took fire and six, cars of the
train were burned The engineer was
| slightly hurt. The draw of the bridge
had been left open 4
John $. Norton son of the late Sem
ator Morton, and now Consul at Homo
! falu, will be appointed Collector Of
Customs at San Francisco. The confir-
ma1icn OF Morton, viii, it is said, be
opposed by Sanator Booth on the