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POLITICAL.

The Minnesota Democratic State
Convention has been called to meet in st
Paul on Thursday. Aug. |.
The Iowa Greenbackcrs, in conven-
ton at Des Moines. nominated Gen. b
Weaver for Governor, Sanford Fitzpatrick
for Lieutenant Governor D. w. Church fol
Supreme Judge, and Miss Abbie Garfield fol
Superintendent Of Public Instruction The
resolutions favor q graduated income tax,
civil-service reform. postal telegraphy
temperance, and the abolition Of Railroad
Commissioners
The colored people Of Texas have
been holding q State Convention They
framed an address TO the eople declaring
that the white race throughout the South
has continually increased in friendliness,
even to surprising degree colored peo-
pie are recommended to keep sharp eye on
their teachers ana preachers, and to remove
ut once those found incompetent or i'm
moral
Samuel J. Randall, of Pennsylvania.
announces himself candidate for the
Speakership Of the National House OF
Representatives, and seeks no other office.
After three weeks unsuccessful
balloting for United States Senator by the
New Hampshire Leg stature, the Republican
members of that body received a note from
Senator Rollins, withdrawing from the con-
test, it being evident that he could not Sc
cure votes enough to elect him. The next
ballot showed twenty one candidates. Vim.
T. Chandler leading the Republicans
Gov Butler bulldozed the Massachu.
sets Legislature into reducing the tax levy
to 81, 5Ou,Uu
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FOREIGN.

The joint committee Of the British
Lords and Commons on the channel tunnel
has rejected the scheme--i to4
A bill has been introduced in the
French Chamber authorizing the sounding
for piers for railway bridge to England
across the Straits OF Dover
In u battle in Znluland Cetewayo's
forces defeated those OF ohaln who was
made prisoner.
Twelve soldiers were killed ut Tripoli
by the explosion Of a bomb which Was being
removed
Even the English newsgatherers adj
| nit that the paupers just sent back by the
American authorities are an undesirable lot
The agreement between DE Lesseps
| and the British Government for new Suex
canal provides that the latter party will lend
the canal company ts,OuOol for nifty years
| NJ 81 per cent, and that the work will he
completed IN five years England will en-
deavor to secure fresh concession OF land
from Egypt
Gladstone informed the House of
| Commons that the French Admiral, after
the seizure Of Tamataye, Madagascar. i'm
prisoned the Secretary Of the British Consul,
and caused the death Of the latter. indi-
rectly. and that an English missionary was
also thrown into prison He said they
awaited further details OF the alleged out
RACES, and expected such communications
from the French Government ~ The case re-
| CURED
A cable dispatch OF the 18th inst. Says
that cholera has appeared In towns thirty
| " forty miles from Cairo The British Gov
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QUEER STORIES.

4 WOMAN in Milan, Tenn. died in "A few
moments after having hecn stan. In the
nuse by Il bee.
Az Englishman beYueaihta his two
dlu.ht rs their weight III Il hanA notes
Tn. OF the girls received ~, 10, anu the
other tSt.5ii.
TIE reason given nv a Camden Oneida
county. man, for not marrying again is that
his lot in the cemetery Is now full he having
ret entity buried his sixth vile there.
IilE wife OF l. w. Wise, Of Spullington,
Ky is Il grandmother AT II wears of age
She Was ma red AT the aye of Ia. and her
daua liter u a. married al the sam. age
10Y in Wilmington, \. e. Was bitten in
one of h myers ns a rattesnake lie
seized "A Ratchet aud rat OIL his finger fore
the poison had TIME u spread through his
systeIL
ALIVE mule was blown twenty yards Ly q
h.i.er explosion Ii, ar tiareaaon. = T. The
hrate lit IN its fee and toak Il kicking posi-
tina prepared IL resent any further dis
/ rlanee
Is "a r.l,les in snit al Steyenssille. Montana,
relating 10 ali aF r.lns boaa ht At action
| 10 - cent the unsuccessful 'itttaat paid
in mere than saG over itaMitnss es NJ ID
| examined
Letters depo ited in the 8ltuanwa iowa
| postaIfiee III lssa has. Just cnlue IL iis lit
| Trey We're discovered Ina tealn. aaAn the
| building. They bad hsel 10 through Il de.
| feet in the slide
/ THE lightnin knocks the razor out OF til,
| hand af u female barber while she MA shay
| ing a customer in GIoacester, Ma :. which
| m>piles contemporary to ienlara that ie
| male BARRIERS are too magnetic,
| JOHN HErsE. oi eadino, Ia Was in til,
| South when the war broke out aud be- wrote
| to his wife that he had leen forced 60 10 i
/ the rebel army Nothing more Was heard
| from him and he MAS mourned ;ls dead
| Recently he returned home lie SAYS thai
| when the rebel army marched to aeltss.
| burg he one night made his escape. Bul
ssas Tecantnred and put on board a war Yes
| Sci, where he renamed for some time un,
| then made his cape. He Travelled west
| ward, was taken prisoner by Indians. an.
| Was held captive for fifteen years LII.
| learned number Of Indian dialects and 10
came member OF tribe. lie made hii
escape ut last, went ~ France aud returned
| 70 America Ella Cuba
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eminent will send to Egypt Surgeon Gen.
eral who has had long experience In India
France will dispatch Louis Pasteur the
chemist, toinvestigat ate the nature and origin
Of the disease
De Cassagnac has invited the French
Premier, Ferry to fight duel, owing to the
heated debate on the Tonqnin question, but
Ferry declined
Sexton, member Of Parliament for
the County Sligo, has made q speech vote
ing the glee Of the Irish over the peremptory
action Of the American authorities In re
turning the paupers recently deportcd by
England on the Furnessia and other vessels
The British consul at Zanzibar il 10
sponsible for the sensational statements oil
the acts Of the French In Madagascar made
by Mr.. Gladstone for which Lord Granville
has demanded an explanation. In an inter
view at Paris Prime Minister Ferry ridi
culed the idea that any French Admiral
would insult the British flag, and expressed
the sincere belief that the occurrences ut
Tamatave were exagg Grated
A telegram from Lisbon announces
the loss OF bark near Fayal with the
drowning Of several people.
III the course Of debate on the policy
Of the Government in the Spanish Chamber
Of Deputies, CASTELAR,, the Republican leader.
declared TINT his views remained I'M
changed, and he was confident they would
ultimately prevail. He maintained that de
mocracy was incompatible with monarchy.
and he attacked the monarchy and defend
eel republicansm amid great com motion
Anarchy prevails in Tonquin, and
many marauders who hover about and fire
ut the French outposts have been captured
and hanged
An American horse, Idea, from the
stables Of NJ. H. Sanford, OF New York, Won
the sweepstakes and 900 crowns ut Colen-
hagen The rider was given the Kings prize
Of honor.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Nine Cinnamon, who were recently
struggled into Washington Territory from
British Columbia, will be sent home by order
of President Arthur
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has adopted u rule that days work Is
to be nine hours actual service without
Sunday labor. or seven hours labor at night.
Sundays included. all service in excess to be
paid for rs extra
A heavy storm has delnged sections OF
Ontario. At London the river rose to an
unprecedented height Bridges and houses
were carried away, and seventeen persons
drowned, while live stock persisted in large
numbers Crops and fences were ruined,
and miles Ut railroad washed out
Gen. Moore, American Consul at
Calao, whose residence was at Decatur, Ill,
died ut his post Of yellow fever,
Domestic money-orlers can now he
obtained for any amount from cent to slOl
The international systeG is being extended
throughout the civilized nations
A national convention OF colored ed
itors was held in st Louis last week. w. A.
Pledger, Of Atlanta, TIA, presiding Eeso-
lu,ions were adopted favoring co-education
OF the races; rledyint themselves To en-
couraging the opening of machine hops.
factories and indus rial schools in
which colored youths may lie ap.
prenticed; advising negroes to pre-
empt public land: fayo,iny the inn
provement of the Western rivers, declaring
it detrimental t, the interests of the colored
race to be made tools of by any political
party, and demanding recognition proper
tionate to the number OF amy party to which
they may ally themselves 1t was resolved
to spell negro with a capital N"
The Illinois Department Of Agricul.
ture reports that corn promises better
crop than last year. although the season has
been unfavorable
A surveying party, acting under the
authority OF the United States and Mexico
is about to survey the boundary line between
the two republics
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SOUTHERN.

A duel was fought near New Orleans
between two Mississippians.-an editor and
Z county otficial-in which the latter was
slightly wounded
Four prisoners We're lynched in the
South in one day-two in Tennessee, one In
Louisiana and one in Texas
The bark Berna, with six persons i'll
of yellow fever has been sent to quarantine
below New OrleanA
The Governor Of Arkansas urges the
Sheriffs Of Garland, Yell, and Montgomery
counties to summon aid and hunt down the
outlaws In that mountainous region
Part OF y train on the Jackson road
fell through bridge fifty feet high near
Natchex, Mss Conductor Jennings Was
killed and seven passengers injured
4 young man named Hollingsworth
died Of hydfophobia Ut Sherman, Texas
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NEWS CONDENSED
Telegrapnic Summary
EASTERN.

John 8. Prince, the American cham
rion wheelman was defeated in twenty
mile race ut Rochester. N. j., by h W.
Hieham, an English bicyclist
Boxes have been placed in the hotels
and police stations of New York to receive
contributions toward monument for Peter
Cooper Mayor Edison will act rs treasurer
Of the fund
A bitter contest occurred the other
day, during the Tewksburg Almshouse in
yestigation, between the members of the
committee, the majority refusing to permit
DR.. Macarthur to answer the question of
whether there was practice ut the Harvard
Medical School Of sknning cadavers
Two hundred assisted emigrants
reached Boston by the steamer Austrian.
None Of them are Of the pauper class. most
Of them having money to reach points in the
Western States.
The Captain and Lieutenant Of the
Salvation Army were fined at Bridgeport,
Ct, for disturbing the peace and were com
PEELED to give bonds not to hold street meet
ings or parades In the future. They ap-
pealed
Orange Judd, the noted New York
phianthropist and ex-pnblisher has made
m as .isnment for the benefit Of his credit
ora
Edward Banks, colored hotelM alter
in New York, recently gave eight ounces of
his blood for TRANSMISSION TO the veins Of
man who nearly persisted from gas poison
ing, for which he was promised 10 cents y
drop Not receiving that amount Of money,
he has brought suit for $50
Phinny 4 Jackson, merchants, Of
Portland, Me-, have suspended with liza
bilities to the amount of saOOOa
In the Tewksbury Almshonse investi-
cation at Boston. the other day, Gov. Butler
made o speech six hours In length, declaim-
ing against his enemies in vehement and
sensational manner
One Bockelman, . private, who was
sdrummed OUT of the New York State mill
tia ut Peekskill by Col Austin, sues the lat
ter for ZOO damages
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IN MALE ATTIRE.
A Chicago Girl Who Successfully Person.
ated the Jolly Tar.


ated the Jolly Tar.
A young woman with history was locked
up ut Chicago police station the other
tight She was dressed In mems clothing,
and her disguise was the most deceivins the
police ever met with She was arrested on
the docks, where she mingled as q sailor
without her sex being discovered by even
her nearest associate For three years she
has acted rs cooks mate aboard various
lake vessels, always passing for boy and
mingling with the sailors rs one of them
She could give no other name than Frank
Chambers. insisting that her real name was
too sacred to divnlgc in apolice station, She
said she was born in Newark Ohio seventeen
wears ago, and donned male attire the bette r
tn get along. There was not one chance in
twenty of getting employment as woman
where she could succeed rs a man, and. n
the latter had the better OF it through life.
she concluded 10 disguise her identit. and
engage in labor performed by the other sex
She liked the change She liked the sea, and
took TO II to the manner Torn Though mix
ing constantly with the very toughest Ut
the sea faring element, few ever discovered
her secret She drank with the rough sail
ors, but Was wise enough not To take to
much, and she never be anne intoxicated
She accompanied them in their roisterny
tours when in port bu; always had . ready
excuse to offer when any frolic was proposed
that might disclose her sex She believed
in woman's rights and smoked and
chewed with the ease OF an old
tar All her movements were
masculine and her conversation was plenti-
fully interlayed with expressions character
istic OF the Steiner sex When prosfered n
cigar, she lit the match ON her trousers aud
when il went cut her disgust was expressed
in terms more emphatic than elegant She
seemed to be u lad of eighteen, anu thong b
her features were regular and pleasing
there was nothing etfeminate in her look.
Her hair was cut close to the scalp as il hy
n machine, and she were frock coat and
black trousers "A chesiot shirt and a nohhy
derby.
Some one gave me away" was the reply
she made when asked how she came to be
arrested Il have only been i'll the town u
few days, and behaved myself the best
eoald No one would suspect who | aa,
and WAS never found out until | got in a
roa with a fellow once got "A black eve,
bat then there is ALWAYS black eye ahoard
aship, II the Captain hasn't got il, some ol
the crew have.
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Fully eighteen months ago he was bitten
by dog No other cause for his death Ia
known
A bank ledger which was expected to
furnish evidence for the conviction Of
Marsh 7. Polk has been stolen from the Of
foe OF the State Treasurer at Nashville, and
q reward Of $3.50 In offered for It's return
The iron propeller Niagara, which
cost $3.50, OoO, took FIRE of the coast Of Flor
ida Her passengers and mails were sent
on board the Commandery, after which the
Niagara was run ashore of Indian key
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petion for the abatement of the evil was
drawn up by Frank Siller. It lay upon
the desk near the entrance
to the chamber during the day, and
obtained numerous signatures. Alex.
Mitchell, who was among the signers, ex-
pressed to Mr.. Siller an intention of using
his personal influence to the utmost to
forward the work of securing the reform.
The meeting of merchants at the cham
ber OF commerce was called to order by A.
K. Shepherd, first vice president of the as
sociation Mayor Stowell stated he had
taken the liberty of calling the meeting
to take appropriate action over the great
est calamity known to Milwaukee. He
suggested the advisability of the appoint
ment of a committee to secure 100 men to
aid in the work of extricating bodies
from the ruins and assist in other
ways; the mayor thought money should be
raised and relief committee chosen to
aid the sufferers. 1t was decided to appoint
committee of twenty to be appointed by
the president of the chamber of commerce
and the mayor. President Gordon. of the
Humane society, requested those present
to report the names of male nurses, who
can be secured to nurse the sufferers, VIII o
are strangers in the city and need care.
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A HUMAN PYRE.

A Horrible Catastrophe at milwaukee,
Yesterday Morning.
THE NEWHALL HOUSE BURNEr.
And Nearly a Hundred Human Lives
Sacrificed.
4 SICKENTNG TALE OF TERROR.
Men and Women Leaping from Windows
to the Pavement Beneath.
MANGLED BEYOND RECOGNITION.
Many Roasted Alive in Full View Of the
Spectators.
PITIFUL PLEADINGS FOR HELP.
Heartrending Scenes Among the Dead
and Dying Victims.
NARROW ESCAPES FROM DEATH.
A Few Instances Of HerOism in the Res
cue Of the Imperilled.
THE LOSS ABOUT HALF A MILLION.
Belief That the Fire Was Caused by
Incendiarism.
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senger agent Chicago, Rock Island s Pa

j. w. Maxwell, Cincinnati.
M. Cohen, New York.
M. Weber, Laporte.
James S. Wardrobe, New York.
THE SCENES AT THE 1roEGUE,
where now thirty two bodies are lying in
a CHASTITY heap on the floor of small
room, are heartrending beyond. human
power of description. A strong police
force is necessary to keep the anxious in
quirers in line. Nineteen bodies are iden-
titled, and eight bodies are burned beyond
recognition. Mrs. John Gilbert's body is
positively identified. 1t was a touching
scene to see the bride of night upon the
cold marble, charred and burned, anguish
depicted in her delicate features. 1t is
said she was Miss Sutton, of Chicago,
previous to marrying Gilbert, who
is maddened beyond control.
Appeals for aid were piteous, but little
could be done.
Shortly before the Newhall house alarm,
part OF the department was called to
small fire about three miles distant, and
before the department was in working or
der, the hotel was one blazing pVre.
Tom Thumb got out of the front en-
trance. His wife was taken down the fire
escape by fireman. W. H. Compton,
Misses Herbert and Dunlap, and w. A.
Lavelle, of the Madison Square company,
arrived on the midnight express. The
whole party was saved by the fire escape,
only partially dressed. The following dis
patch is received just now:
The Board of Trade of Chicago tender
sincere sympathy to the people of Mil
waukee on the great calamity befalIen
them. If we can do anything to assist
you or mitigate the suffering let me know
R. W. DUNHAM.
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THE HOTEL

was built by Daniel Newhail and associ-
ates in 1857. The original cost was
$155,0OO; the total cost, including furnish
ing, S277,ooO.
William..E. Cramer, Of the Euening WIS
consin, was saved through the heroic eff
forts of Charlie Griesing, Sentinel typo
Chief Clerk Tice, who had a narrow es-
cape, says there were 110 boarders and
80 employees in the hotel. So far Sc
are unaccounted for.
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THE LOSS ABOUT HALF A MILLION.
Belief That the Fire Was Caused by
Incendiarism.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 10.-Long before the
usual hour for business the clang of the
fire alarm and the lights of the burning
NewhalI house had aroused the majority
of our citizens to the realization OF the
fact that terribly destructive fire was
raging. By 8 o'clock the entire city had
learned of
THE GREAT CATASTROPHE,
and on all of the streets leading from the
residence quarters throngs of excited citi-
zens were seen pouring toward the loca-
tion of the disaster. By this time the fire
had accomplished its fell work, and with
the exception of an occasional portion of
wall the vast building was completely
razed to the ground, and clouds of smoke
from the debris and steam from the vol
umes of water poured up, cloAding the
space once occupied by the handsome
structure. The greatest excitement pre-
vailed, and it was with difficulty that
the police, even with the Gordon
placed about the fire, could keep
the people away from the danger and away
from interference with the work of the
fire department. Expressions of sorrow
and horror at the great loss of life were
heard on every hand. Crowds of ques-
tioning people lined the walks in the
neighborhood of the scene, alternately
watching the fremen at their work and
plying each other for the latest facts.
Whenever could be heard an assertion as to
how the disaster occurred, or any word in
dicating that the speaker knew considera-
BILE about the loss of life, there would q
knot of interested people gather and the
speaker would hold forth as long as he chose
to an attentive audience. Throughout
the entire city the great fire was the one
theme. A number of people were seen to
tumble out of the windows in an appar-
emily insensible condition. Many women
and children tainted as they were being
removed.
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MILWAUKEE. Wis, Jan. 1o.-Newhall
house, a six-story brick building, corner
of Michigan street and Broadway, burned
to the ground this morning. The fire was
discovered at 4 o'clock in the mo rning,
in less than half an hour the whole. build
ing, long designated as
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A SCENE OF TERROR

reigned during the whole time the build
ing was burning. Old men stood motion
less looking at the vast building, so fast
being reduced to ruins, the tears streaming
down their cheeks. "My God"' said one,
Il have been expecting this for the last
twenty years, and it has come at last.
Think of the poor mortals being roasted
alive in the building" On all sides the ut
most confusion prevailed. The
wild, heartrending shrieks of women and
the means of men were heard as they were
taken from different portions of the build
ing. Many escaped without any harm
through the bank building in the rear of
the hotel.
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THE SERVANT GIRLS

we're cut off from all escape. When they
discovered that the house was in flames
their screams could plainly be heard by the
people on Michigan street, and the scene
when they began leaping from the top
windows, about 100 feet from the ground,
was terrible. The south part of the struc-
ture was one mass of fire, the elevator
shaft presenting a lurid and terrible as
pect as the devouring element shot from
collar to dome in the draught-giving fur
mace. John Antisdel, Jr., was in the Office at
the time in an almost distracted condition.
He had evidently been hurriedly driven
from his bed, having nothing on his per-
son but a fragment of carpet. The young
man exhibited considerable presence of
mind, however, for he quickly secured all
the Office books, including the register, and
locked them in the safe. W. A. Rowell, q
wealthy merchant of Freeport, H., is miss
ing and undoubtedly perished in the
flames. Jas. McAlpine and a roommate
escaped with difficulty and were taken
to private house. The servant of
Tom Thumb is missing and was probably
burned.
James Antisdel said the fire
ORIGINATED IN THE ELEVATOR SHAFT,
and spread SO rapidly that it was impossi-
bic to give the alarm. B. Z. Tice, the day
clerk, as soon as awakened, rushed through
the halls calling upon the guests to get
out, and remained in the building until he