Daily globe., 1882-12-20

| the police arrested VIM. Edwards. Eighth
avenue and Fifty seventh street. He was
! identified as one of the party of swindlers
Clock was unable to locate the house in
| which he was swindled. He is seventy
years old.
FATAL sTARBIyG,
WABASH, Ind. Dec. 19.-Last night
man named Sharp fatally stabbed John
Stout. at Somerset, while going from a
te nperance meeting. The quarrel began
W tn playful stroke of buggy whip.
BURNED TO DEATH.
LACYGNE, Kan, Dec. 19.-The farm house
John Clark, Linn county. burned Sunday of
night and three small children perished in
the flames. Clark had removed two chill
dren, and while he was searching for the
third the other two wandered to the house
and all were consumed.
RAILWAY sMAsHUPs.
Troy, N. Y, Dec. 19.-Two freight trains
telescoped to-day at Melrose. on the Troy
g. Boston railway. The locomotives and
thirty-five cars were wrecked. John Rear
don, of Pittsfeld, brakeman, discharged
and riding to Troy in the caboose to get
his pay, was killed; Frank Brundage, of
Pitts6eld, brakeman. is dying from Orok
en- back. The engineer, Charles KEELING
beck: and Geo. Gross and Dennis VBriel,
brakemen, are injured but WI W.. recover.
MAI1R 71LLE, Que, Dec. ia collision
south Of Richellin station. between pas
senser express and a Locomotive backing
up, occurred. The express was running
at regular speed, forty miles PEI hour. TIE
driver of the locomotive backing up eTi
IDENTIFY forgot about the express, ,assW Was no.
seen on account of snow until the collisio t
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, Dec. ia col
lision. caused by q misplaced switch. &C.
corred at Charleston, n. e., on the Sullivan
railway this morning caused considerable
dumage to rolling stock and injured two
brakemen, Michael Mack and Dennis
Crowley. A freight train bound north
went on the siding to allow a mixed tram,
also bound north, to pass. The workmen
failed to set the switch right, and the
mixed train crashed into the saloon Of the
freight train.
FIRE AT SEA.
SAN Francisco, Dec. 19.-Tle ship ST.
Nicholas arrived to-day from, New York,
having on board Capt. Doughty and por
ton OF the crew of the British bark Leu.
nox. The St. Nicholas reports that Oct.
II, at o'clock in the afternoon. in Is de-
grees south, 81 degrees west,she fell in with
the Lennox from Glasgow, with coal for
San Francisco, the crew discharging the
cargo from the main hatch and sending
down water by means of donkey engine
and buckets. Dense volumes of smoke
were rising from the main hatch.
At he request of Capt. Doughty
the St. Nicholas was ordered to
lay by her. At the flames rushed through
the main hatch, ascending to the main
yard. At the next morning the captain
and crew, twenty-five in number, aban-
doned the ship and boarded the st. Nicho-
las. Almost day light they sighted the
British bark Hindostan from Liverpool for
Valparaiso and transferred ten men to
her.
PENNSYLVANIA PARDONs.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, Dec. 19.-The board of
pardons tonight refused the application
for pardon of David Monat, the we'll
known Philadelphia politician, convicted
of altering election returns. The case of
Silas Grey, of Westmoreland county, under
sentence Of death, was held nnder advise
ment- The case of Israel Erb, one of the
Kinstler murderers, was left to the next
board. In the case of Haines & Clement,
highway contractors of Philadelphia, con-
victed of conspiracy, a rehearing was re-
fused. Pardons were granted in a number
of minor cases.
EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS.
BosToN, Dec. 19.-An explosion of gas
caused a tire in the five story brick building
at New Washington street and Cornhill, oc
cupied by John P. Lowell & Sons, dealers
in firearms, powder and sporting goods.
A series of small explosions of cartridges,
ETC., followed and in short time the
building was ablaze in every part War
rem Lowell, one of the tirm,and Oscar Peavy,
watchman, we're badly burned
about the head, throat and arm
Lowell had $1a5, 200 worth of stock in the
building, of which he occupied the portion
facing the square. He has not even $1,000
insurance. The building is probably dam
aged $10.O00. As soon as it was known
where the fire was, three ala, ms were sent
out, bringing out large force of 6remen
and apparatus to the scene. Occasional
fusilades of cartridges stampeded the
crowd gathered. The fremen removed
Adrko can OF powder. In1S 1re, Wn1cn
looked SO threatening at first, began and
ended in an hour.
DIAMOND FRAUDS.
PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 19.-Benj. Green
wald, diamond dealer in this city, held
upon the charge of conspiring to defraud
certain dealers in precious stones in New
York, made confession at the prison that
conspiracy existed between himself, Nor
ris Rosenberg and Jacob Myers, the latter
two constituting the firm of Rosenberg &
Co., which obtained Judgment
against Greenwood. Rosenberg and
Myers were arrested. The
firms said to been defrauded are: Grin
berg, Goodman g. Pollock; Kuhn, Doer-
finger d Co.; N. Van Mappe; Marx & Co.:
Hess & Schlessen, and L. Strassberger d
Co., all of New York, whose claims aggre-
gate $2S,OO0. Greenwald's affidavit is to
the effect that he entered into an arrange.
ment with Rosenberg & Myers to buy
goods, dispose of them, announce failure
and offer settlement at 10 per cent.
KILLED EY HIGEWAYMEN.
AUSTIN, Tex, Dec. l9.-Postmaster
Darr, at Mahomet, Tex, was halted on the