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| NAShlNGION, MSFCl on. - Thurman
called up the message announcing the action
OF the House on the Senate joint resolution
| appropriating SIC, 900 for the contingent fund
| Of the Senate.
| The amendment of the House, which pro.
vides that the money so appropriated shall
be used for Investigations already ordered.
was read, and after general expression of
| views, the Senators unanimously condemnine
the amendment of the House as an uniusti6.
| able interference of that body with the indie.
pendence Of the Senate, vote by ayes and
noes was taken. and the Senate unanimously
decided not to concur in the amendment and
a committee, consisting of Sherman, Wilson
and Butler, was appointed to confer with a
| like committee of the House on the subject.
The Senate went into executive session,
| and when the doors were reepsned proceeded
TO the consideration of bills on the calendar.
| and soon adjourned.
House of Representatives.
| WASHINGTON, March 6sh.-The Speaker
announced the appointment of MsDzanares,
of New Mexico, upon the Committee ON
| Coinage, Weights and Measures.
| The morning hour was dispensed with, and (
the House went into COMMITTEES of the Whole
! Converse of Ohio in the chair) or the navel
| appropriation bills.
| In the course of the discussion, Henley re-
| fected severely on the present Secretary of
| tuC Navy AOr tAaSiShSAts, oS ne bCAicNSI,
methods by which the employees at the Mare
Island Navy Yard were compelled to vote
the Republican ticket at the last election.
Reed inquired whether any one had been
murdered tor not voting right to which Hen
| ley replied that it would not be much loss to
the world if the men who required such
methods were murdered, and Glascock inter-
| jected the Information that employees were,
| If not murdered, at any rate discharged, if
| they did not vote right.
Randall denied that the Committee on Ap-
preparations exhibited the least hostility to
| building up the navy. lie did not believe
there was any considerable number of Repre-
sentatives who did not esteem the navy and
| lis brave officers, and seek to make it what il
should be but with the money already ex-
pended and appropriated in this bill, aggre-
| eating 1854 600, there was no immediate De.
cessity for adding to the amount for guns in
case ot an emergency, which he did not an
| ticipate.
! After debate and the adoption Of several
amendments the committee rose and re.
ported the bill to the House, and it passed
Ayes 259, noes l White of Kentucky
! a motion of Randall to request of the Sen
| ate a conference on the joint resolution in
crossing the contingent fund of the Senate |
was agreed to, aud Randall Holman and |
| Ryan were appointed such conterees.
Adjourned.
The Manly (?) Art"
New YORK. March 6.h.-Four hundred |
persons, including leading sporting men and |
| politicians, at 2 o'clock this morning wit |
messed har1-Rloye fight at a well-known re- |
sort on Coney Island, between Billy Gracey, |
of Green Point, and Jack Dempsey, of New |
York. The flhs was for the light weight |
championship and $500 stakes and gate
money. Gracey is % years of age, well !
| b,,ilf he IL,
weighs 13S pounds, and is % years of age. |
| The men were very evenly matched, and /
punished each other severely. Gracey threw !
up tie sponge in the ninth round.
DANvILLE pa, March CHA prize fight |
with hard gloves took place here Wednesday |
night between Tom Jones and William Z. |
| Speiser, two local pugilists. They fought |
savsgely for fifteen rounds. and both mems
faces were terribly 6ishgured and their bodies
torn and bruised. In the fifteenth and last
round the msn were barely able to walk to
the scratch. Jones was the stronger, how.
ever, and planting mis- left on Speiser's
mouth, clinched him, and the meu ham.
rered each other and finally fell together in
| leap. Jones claimed that Speiser struck
him foul, and general row seemed immi.
nent. The referee, however, decided tnat
no foul had been committed, and called time |
for the sixteenth round. Jones did noe come
winner. The fight lasted one hour ard |
twenty minutes. 7
Desperate Fight in a Cave.
READING (Pa) March 6th.-John Gala.
CHER Of late has been figuring prominently in
police circles, and was in jail SINE time ago
TO answer a charge of having criminslly as
ssulted a young girl named Blumm. To-day
the girls mother Swore out warrant against
Gallagher for criminal libel, charging that he
sent her threatening postal cards. Two otii-
cers went to Tuckerton to serve the warrant,
and as they approached the quarry where
Gallagher was working he saw them and ran,
closely followed by the police. The chase
continued for three hundred yards, TIL finally
Gallagher disappeared in cave. The ofii-
GERS jumped in also, and found themselves
in large, dark cavern three hundred yards
long. They had no sooner entered than Gal
isgner fired at them, the ball striking the
rock nearly back of them. The fash was
nearly fifty feet away. The officers dropped
on their knees and returned the fire. A brisk
fuslade followed, Gallagher firing rapidly,
but with bad aim, owing to the darkness.
One of the officers continued firing, while tine
other felt his way on bis hands and knees
until near enough to Gallagher, when he
knocked him down and disarmed him.
FriGhtful Mining Disaster-Twenty Men
Killed.
Ell PAso (Fex). March 5.h.-News has just
reached here of terrible accident yesterday
at the Preetess mines, Sonora. Only the
most meager details are yet known, blt it is
known that twenty men disd, buried in one
shaft, which is said to have csved in without
moments warning. None of the bodies
have yet been recovered. There is no hope
sustained that any Of the unfortunate miners
at work In the shaft at the time OF the scci-
dent may yet be alive, as the cave.in was SO
instantaneous and complete as to cut off every
chance Of escape or any kind Of preparation
on the part of the miners to protect them.
selvas until they could be dug out. The
greatest excitement prevails here pending tha
receipt of the names of those known to have
been at work Ia the shaft when the accident
occurred.
The Georgia Riots.
NEW York, March 6th.-Tbe Sun'S ALA
pahs, Ca, special says A riot here was
brought to on end by compromise with the
mob. Dan Farmer, white Desperate, was
arrested for repeatsd acts of violence. Twen-
ty-ive of his comrades came in from the
country and took possession of the town, de.
flying the Mayor and judicial officers. On
the release of the prisoner the understanding
was that he would sppsar for trial on the
15th The mob retreated from the town fI-
ing farewell shots as they departed. A re-
newai OF the difficulty will almost certainly
occur at the trlsl
Kentucky Senatorial Election.
NV York, March 6th.-Specials from
Louisville say: A resolution has been passed
by the lower House of the Kentucky Legis-
lature ordering the appointment of commit
tee to investigate the charge that bribery had
been resnrted TO in the recent Senatorial con-
test. The investigation is awaited by the
people with great interest. and unless it
should prove white-washirg" affair, as
tonishing Developments will probably be
made. 1t is alleged certain followers Of Black.
burn and Williams used money with the ut
most lavishness.
A Notorious Criminal.
New York, March 6th.-The polics of
Lawrence, Mass, nave captured John Irving,
the notorious bank robber. Irving has spent
much of bis life in prison in New York and
Philadelphia. He wss once in San Francisco
and very anxious to get back t. New York.
He had no money. but as the detectives were
securing the country fer the Nathan mur-
derer, he made what purported to be con-
fession, and forthwith was taken back to New
York, when he retrscted his confession and
bade the authorities defiance.
Mackay and His Cable.
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