Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-01

Shocking CoiIiery Disaster.
ASHLAND (Pa.), April 30th.-A fearful ex-
plosion has just occurred at the Keystone
collisry mines, by which several lives have
been lost and number of miners seriously
and probably fatally injured. The explosion
was caused by a sudden collapse of pillar,
causing an immense fall of coal. The rush of
| coal forced down the gss with such velocity
ss to cause an explosion. The full extent Of
the disaster cannot Jet be learned. Great
excitement prer ails at the mouth of the mine,
| bers. Charles Tyler, Patrick Regan and
Conner Walter have been taken out more
dead than alive. The dead body OF Andrew
| Jones has juss been taken out. Three others
are known to bs killed. A number Of others
ara also badly burned. Physicians and priests
are hurrying to the scene of the disaster.
SECOND DIsPATCHI
AsHLAsD, April 30th.-The explosion of
gas in the Keystone collieIy killed August
| WeIcher, Patrick Reagan and Andrew Jones,
and seriously wounded Charles Tyler and
| Cooney Walters. The explosion was caused
by the sliding OF q pillar, which pushed large
| body of gas in contact with the lamps of the
minerp The force Of the explosion wss
! terrific.
A Wen-Descrved Fate.
| CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), April 30th. = A
| specisl from the Government works at Mus.
| gel Shoale, near Florence, gives an account of
the lyncbing of George Ware (colored), who
murdered white boy. aged Il. to secure
So. The boy had just been paid. After
| robbing the boy be threw him eight times
! into the river, but the boy swan bacl, to the
! shore. After amusing himself by throwing
him in the river ne tied him, beat out bis
brains with stone and threw him in again,
| a man on the opposite shore witnessed the
murder, but the river was too vida to make
| his presence known. A description of the
negro was given 10 the jailer, who arrested
| him Saturday night. A mob visited the jsil,
| took the prisoner, hung him to beam in tie
depot building, and riddled his body with
| bullets.
The Great Storm.
| NEW ORLEANS, April 30th.-A Times Demo
crat, Meridian, La special says: A terrible
cycone visited this parish. leven or eight
miles above here. Saturday evening, from
northwest TO southwest. The length of the
| track VAS fifteen miles. The wind had such
terrific fcree that rot a single louse, tree or
| any obstruction is left. Cabins and barns
ars utterly demolished, while rails from
| fences have been blown for miles. The quar-
| ters on S. j. HaSvill's place we're utterly de-
moiished. OF forty acrss Of heavy-imbered
land not o tree is left standing. Not vestige
OF corn or fodder is left. Mr.. CANDLES placs
was badly damaged. Miss YouDgb'ood was
seriously and several children slightly hurt.
| Several negroes were blown across the field,
but lit uniniured. None were killed or NOR
tally wounded. but few dwellings being di-
rectly in the track Of the tornado.
The tar Route T.ial.
WASHINGTON, April 3Osh.-When the sssr
route trial opened to-day Ingeraoll an
ncunced that he was willing to submit the
case 10 the jury for Dorsey, provided the
Government counsel would agree to proceed
no further in the argument. The Court then
wished to hear from the Government. Mer-
rick answered that the Government had not
yet completed opening the case. "That is
enough, said Judge Wylie, and Bliss began
his address TO tie jury.
The Chic Lquer Law Declared Uncor-
stltut.onai.
STEUBENvlILF April 30th.-The Scott
| LIQUOR law was decided to be unconstitutional
By Justice May this afternoon. A sslooniss
selling without the written consent Of his
| landlord was arrested. The defense was that
| the law is unconstitutional because it i'm.
paired existing contracts. The Justice gave
au opinion that the law was unconstitutional
because the tax was unequal, and impaired
| existing contracts.
TIE Labor Troubles ut Pittsburg.
PITTsBURG. April 30sh.-The tanners
strike in Allegheny will probably not last
much longer, as signs Of weakening are ap.
parent on all eides. A number OF strikers
returned to work to-day, and it is thought
others will soou follow. Tomorrow is the
day set for several strikes among the coal
miners, plasterers and cigarmakers. The
miners clsiun that the strike will be general,
and that about 6 600 men will come cut TO-
morrow, as ordered by the Convention. A
popularity in this strike is that for over
week the majority of miners concerned have
| been working for the rate against which they
strike tomorrow. The strike of c;garmakers,
| it is thought, will be a email affair. 1t is
stated that out of ninety cigar factories in
this city only FIVE will refuss to grant the
| increase demanded, and that only forty men
will be Obliged to strike.
Rssulfs OF the Recent Theatrical Season.
NEW YORK, April 30.h.-The Mail and
Express, summing up the reenlts of the the
atricsl season, says: The failures OF thu sea-
son have been numerOu7, fully one-hslf of the
| ZIG combinations that started cut in Sep
tembsr having joiaed the majority. Tho
most successful combination WAS that playing
Romany Rye" which took in S201, ,297 in
| thirty -one weeks. Mary Anderson has made
500. eco; Barley Campbell the same with
lis "Galley Slave, +" White Slave" My
| Geraldine, and Siberia SamI. OF
Poser" with Curtis in the tile roll, aud
| "One of the Finest, with Gus. Williams as
the star, hsve coined money. Williams re.
Gently paid his partner Rickerly. Sl0,000 for
his share of the play. J. K. Emmett has
been very successful During his engsgs-
ment in Brooklyn the receipts for three nights
footed up 81, 1895 81 440 and 81 AGO respect
lively. Johu McCuliougb's season was the
b;ss he has eves known. Tha same may be
said of Modjsska. Caheacer's Minst-sls,
under this management of Frohmaa, have
turned in clear profit Of $50, 900 thus far.
Esilwaukee's spitiire Female Lawyer.
MILWAUKEE, wis J, April S0h.-Ths de-
cision Of United States Commissioner Ryan
releasing Katie Kane, the female lawyer on
| habess corpus pr3ceedioss because Judge
Msliory of the Criminal Court committed
verbally for contempt in throwing water in
| his face, was this forenoon reversed by Judge
| Hamilton OF the Circait Court, who reviewed
| the case on writ of csrtiorari. Kate was
| remanded back to Jail. Bail was offered,
but Judge Hamilton decided the case was
not bailable. The prisoner hiss said she viii
never pay the fine Of $50 if she has TO stay in
Jail ell her life
A Kind OF Submarine Balloon.
NEw YoRK, April S0th.-Captain Boyton
| ia experimenting with q kind Of submarine
| balloon. It is made CT sheet ircn, and go ar
ranged with pulieys, weights and air cham
bers that it will navigate the ocean at any
depth below the surface. BY the aid of some
newly discovered chemicals, the baliocnist is
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