Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 28, 1875, Page 2

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES.. his former position, and Butler for the third time proceeded td'the Clerk's desk. Blaine this time turned excitedly to Ceasna and told him to make the ruling, remarking that ho would not be insulted again. Cersoa ruled that the Speaker hed 5 right to be in any part of the hall, and WASHINGTON. The Civil-Rights Bill Passes the ee aee rat Trike trons, Hie Beek qe “| iS latter suilenly obeyed and took his seat, but Senate Without Amend. - 80cn afterwarwards went over among his Demo- ment. - cratic friends, with whom he filibusters, fights, aud bob-nobs by turng, as suits his purposes, A ‘ further and more-exciting outbreak was threaten- ing, but Butler conc!uded to bottle up his wrath and reserve it for another occasion. wv 6 ip careying & chip on his shoulder all the time, ahd it will strange if the day of adjournment passes withont somebody accepting his chal- lenge. Passage of the Force Bill in the Lower Mouse. oe THE PACIFIC MAIL REPORT. CONCLUSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE. Special Dispatch to The Chrcago Trioune. Wasurxctos, D. C., Feb. 27.—The Ways and Means Committee to-day presented tothe House their report in the Pacific Mail investigation, -It is a weak and cowardly document. It adopts, at Jeast by inference, the theory of Rufus Hatch, that the corraption fund of nearly $1,000,000 was lost in the gigantic stock speculations of A. B. Stockwell, whilom Presi- dent of the Pacific Mail Company. The Com- mittee, of course, has a right ¢o adopt this view, The Habeas Corpus Clause Limited to. Louisiana; Arkansas, Missis- sippi, and Alabama, The Ways and Means Committee's’ Conclusions on the Pacific Mail Fraud, i but. when a large bulk of the fund They Turn Over Schumaker and King has been traced in olose proximity to to the Tender Mercies of Congress it seems peculiar that the Committee should have adopted s thecry which few ontside of the proken jobbing Pacific Mail directory believe. Some of the fund may bave been lost in the Waill-street vortex, but when nearly half a milion dollara has been ab- solutely traced to the doors of Congress, aud sirong circumstantial evidence corruborates the Presumpuion, the conviction is inevitable that some of the thieves’ polf WENT INSIDE THE DOORS OF CONGRESS. ‘This every fair-minded mon who bas heard the evidence believes. Yet of this the Committee give nointimation. On the coutiary, whether Intentional or not, a silent havd seems to havo stretched over the history of the fuud after it had been traced tothe doors of Con- gress. The Committee admit that they havo found the names of parties to whom payments were made by Irwinto the amount of $703,- iw, Few persons who have heard the evi- devee believed that any considerable portion if spy at all, of this sum bes found its way back to Stockwell, and few believe that the thea Di- rectors of the Pacitic Company are the immacu- fate innocents which their testimony would bave us believe. They, on ‘the contrary, bave o very different code of ethics, a3 shown’ io the evidence of one of the principal Directors, who eaid thattwhetber or not he would ba hon- est with hia stockbolders would depend upon the fact whether he was long or short of the stock. DICK PABSONG 15 ENTIRELY EXCUSED the Grand Jury. And Recommend the Censure of Nameless Newspaper-Men. A Stringent Bill Proposed for the Gov- ernment of Lobbies. THE CIVIL-RIGHTS BILL. INCIDENTS OF ITH PASSAGE IN THE SENATE, Specrat Dispatch to The Chicace Tribune, ‘Wasnixoron, D. C. Feb. 27,—Ihe Senate to- day passed the Civil-Rights bill in the form in which at was passed by the House, without amendment, and now it goed to the President for. his signature, The debate was opened thie morning. by Senstor Carpenter, who spoke egainst the bill, His speech is characterized as one of the most briilisut that he Las ever mada in the Senate, and isa fitting termination toa somewhat remarkable Senatorial carcor. He spoke from copious notes, and devoted hia argn-. ment mainly to the legal sspects of onthe 2 , 3e ground that the money paid him was for the question, He evidently endeavored | professional services and expenses. ‘The theory to outline the probable decision of the | of the Commitzee seems to bo im ibis sentence: “The whole transaction was a reckless robbery of a corporation under the temporary coacrol of sreculators.? Bill King and Shumaker are turned over to the tender mercies of the next Congress, This seems fair evough, but in view of the fact that Congress has alreaiy established an immutable precedent that no Congress has jurisdiction over the acts of auy memoers of the preceding Congress, this evasion of reaponsibility is not courageous. Dill King is beyoud the . juris- diction of this House, but John G. Schinnacker satin lux seat to-day, when it canvot be doubted thathe ought tobo expelled. This Congress cer.ainly -lisa jurizdiction over him, while the junisdic-ion of his offocee by the yext Congress i cenied. Tho Commitree, however, do mildly eay that King's testimony has **1eveated contia- dicticns of the most pamful character,” and tuat Schnmiaker's testimony * crested a painful impression.” 48 TO THE CORRESPONDENTS the report is couspicrously unjust. The name of uo correspondent is mentioned, but the gpu- eral statement is made that persons entitled to the privileges' of the correspondents’ galicries aye been engapediathesa practices. The odium of this nefarious business seems to be left by the Committee upon the correspondents, apparently a8 a class, without distinction of persone, while whatever guilty persons thers may be are mado in appenrance to suffer no more than the entire community ‘ of journalists. Donn Piatt, who is supposed to know 28 thing or two about Pacific Mail, im the Capital to-morrow says: “\Ye have not yet seen this bill of Congressivi.al liberature, for it is not yet in print, but we know its contents. It is s - United States Supreme Court againat the con- stitutionality of the measure. His speech com- macded the univereal attention of the Senate, nearly every Senator being in bis seat, aud fol- Jowe? tho argument of Carpenter with mariud attention. He was follcwed by Hamilton, of ‘Maryland. who alco oppcéed the bill, and occu- pied the floor until 2 o'clock, the hour at which itwasagreed the vote etkould be taken. At thie point Patterson, or Somh Carchina, who bad. Prepared a speech iu taver of the Ul, asked unanimous conseni for an extension of ume tor reneral debate. Several Seusturs ubjected, aua the vote began. ‘ THE FIRST AMENDMENT voted on was aubmitted by Mr. Thurman. provided that the fourth section in rel the selection of jurors shall uot ap: State Courts, but it was defeated by a vi to 40. Bicwers, Carpenter, Ferry (Conn.), 1 ton (Tex.), Spragne, Schurz, ond Tipton voted with the Democra‘s in the afirmative. Then ful- Jowed three amendments offered by Messrs. Thurman and Bayard, one of which proposes to reduce the peualty for a violation of theact. An- other proposed to repeal the existing law inregard to_chullenges of jurors for participafing in a aiding the rebell‘on, and prescrib.ng the form of oath to be taken by jarors. They were all voted down, and Mr, Edmunds was allowed an hour to close the debate. He severely characverized THE RECORD OF THE DEMOURATIC PARTY and ite persistent objections to all measures to evolish slavery or give equal rights to the col- ered man. ie maiutained that the coustitn- tional objections raised against the bill are with- out weight, The vote upon the bill was 38 yeas it : to 26 hase, Carpenter Ferre (Coauectioat), | Hand. In our | next isto we will pub- Hamilton (Texas), Seuurs, Niregue, end Tipten | ish the real pepers | and tise voted in the negative with the Democrats. —_—_—_ a THE FORCE BILL, . PASSAGE OF THE WEASUBE IN THE HOUSE. Sreciel Dispatch to The Chicago Trbune, Wasurxatos, D. C., Feb, 27.~The debate upon the Force bill to-day, and the dilatory motions connected with it, lasted from 41 o'clock in the morning until midoight. At the latter hour it seemed that the dilatory motions still possible ander the new rale might continue for an almost indefinite period. The debate throughout the aay was very animated and bitter. The Repub- Herne were not uvited. The most brilliant speech in favor of the billwas made by Bur- youghs, of Michican, who took the extreme honest public, laboring under the delusion that this collection of feeble-minded men meant business. Wo baye gone throng the Cummittea with a dark-lautern and a pair of India-rubber shoes, and ‘when wo publish the full report ‘the opinion will bo hearty and unanimous that an investigation is needed. {10 the 2 zzociated Prese.) Wasuxotos, D.C., Feb. 27.—in the Honse this mormng Mr, Kasson eubmitted a report from the Wa's and Means Committee in regaid tothe Pacific Mail Investigation, accompauied be resolutions to the effect, first, that a copy of the evidence taken before the Ways and Means Committee upon the question of the corrup: me of money to procure the passage of the biil giv- ing a subsidy to the Pucitic Mail service be de~ livered to the Clerk of the Rouse, tobs by bim laid before the House at the first seasion of the Hadical view. The votes in the course oe sa; Forty-fourth Congress, to the end that they maj of the: “eveniag: indlested: thet. che a further inquiries sod take ‘euch action 26 bil, if passed at ail, would be | they may deem proper in regard to William paecd ty asmall majority. The only zmend- mont that was adopted was the moilitcation of Lu:ler's amendment, propored by George F. Hoar, which restricts the territory withiu which the habeas corpua may be suspended to the States of Arkansas, Locisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. The bill has been go mod.ticd that the suspension shall not coutinue for a greater period than two years aud one session of Con- Eters. “The occasion of the dilatory motions is ‘tho fact that, at every stage of the bill, the new rules permits two motions to sdjoura and one to reconsider on each of them. There arealwass forty Democrats present, which is enough to compel a roilcall upon each of these dilatory motions, so that at everr stage of the bill, trem the ordering of the main question to the final paseage, from two to threo hours sce occupied in roll calls. The Democrats towards midnight, repeatediy offered a compromise, and to agree to an immediate vote upon the bill upon condition that the House should immedigtely adjourn, bat the Republicans, conscions of ihc few remaining hours of the session, were anxious to bning up the Louisiana report, to which the Democrats would not agrec. THE PILL PASSED, Ata litHe past uidaight the compromise indi- cated was agread to, aud the Force bill, 2a amend- ed, passed—yeas, 135; nays, 114. BUTLER AND BLAINE. Gen. Butler's fightiaz-blond hus been up ta fever heat all the time for the last two days, and be bus been more quarrolsome than ueual, He bas appeared particularly anxious to pave @ con- test with Speaker Blaine. About half past 6, while ihe vote was being -taken on the motion tw strike from the bill the hsbers corpus section, an opportunity was seiza him to offera mean and public insultto the Speaker, which the latter excitedly and promptly resented. The roll had been called through, andthe Clerk was calling the names of those who desired to be recorded but had not anaweied fo the drat call. The number of them was large, becauss the Democrats bad in the first instance refused to vote, boping to break up a quorum, A score of members trom both sides of the House thronged sround the Clerk's desk, Which is not an anususl proceeding, though there iss rule which forbids it. Some member called attention to the rale, aud made the poiut of or Ger, which was sustained by Mr. Cesgua, who was in the chair. As a relief to Mr. Biaine, whose dctics in slong and excitiug session are terribly exhausting, be was standing before the Speaker's desk, aud nearly behind the tall: clerk, watching the progress of the rall- When the other members, in obedience to tne rule, bad retired to their seats, Butler went de- liberately over to the Clerk's deat, and standing below it, spread bis are upon the edze of it ai- rectly before the Clerks, and rested his chin on his hands, bis eyes beinz but a lew inches from the tally-book, which the Clerk wae marking. - The inient was not apparent till some member referred to the poist of order to which, it was presumed, tutler had-not kstened. He paid no ‘attention to the repetition of the . but re marked, ins very insulting way, thet he had as a nghtat the Clerk's desk as the Speaker fea, "The Speaker stepped bebind bis desi and took the gavel, Butler st the same time starting tov: his own seat, Blaine said Butler had no right to make such a remark becanse the Speaker, when not presiding, had a right to be in any part of the hall. Butler said, tho Speaker, when out of his chair, hed only the same rights sa avy other member. Mr. Blame resumed his place between his own and the Clerk's desk, and Butler at once came back in front of the Ci chs desk, Sieplss~ iog & great deal of temper, and acting in such = ‘way a8 toimpute impro ‘ermotivesto the Speaker 8. King and Schumaker. Secondly, that the Cierk of the House transmit to thie United States Dietrict Attorvey for the District of Columbia Acopy of the evidence taken before the Ways Soi Means Committee, with a request to lay so Mach of it as relates to the truth of tho testi- mony yiven by King aud Schumaker before tho Giand Jary. Thirdiy, that any reporter or corre- spondent who. occupies s seat in the reporters’ gallery of the House, and who received any por- tion of the money used in procuring a su be cengured and be deprived of hig sest i gallery, The reaolution and report were ordered Printed and recommitted. ‘The report concludes as follows: “In order that another Congress may have it in its power to pursue this inguiry until the guilty parties, if sny, are discove: aud thatthe sineace belonging to such discovery may attach exclusively to the individuals imvolved, and not rest upon the Forty-second Congress as a body, they recommend that the evidence, and expecially that relating to the money paid to these two parties (King and ‘Schu- maker) and to the action of Alden 8. Stuckweil, be delivered to the Clerk of the House of Re; rexentatives, to be laid by him before the next House, of which body J. @. Schumaker and William 5, King are members-elect. Mr. King is not a member of the present House, and not within its jurisdiction, and the Committes is not Prepated, taerefore, to make any recommends- tion affecting bim except as embraced is the ac- companying reso‘utions. It is evident that the testimony of Stockwell may be-of vital importance to the credibility of Mr. Schamaker's evidence. The Commities, therefore, think that it may better tend to a just disposition of his case to give au opportunity for further evidence, with the strongest motive on the part of this witness to furnish woro satisfactory explana- tion of bis connection with these die- bureements. The enormout vil attend- ing the existence of an irregulated lobby, with license to sppesr before Committees and urge moasures upon members upon the fradu- Ten: pretense that they are privately retained by interested parties, calls for further legislation.” BILLS RECOMMENDED. The Committee, in concluding their report, deem it necessary fcr the protection of Congress againstfuturetraneactiona as discreditable as thoee they have now brought under review, that alaw should be passed requiring every person appearing ard advocating measures for a pri- vate interest to appear in his own capacity as a retsined attorney or agent. They presenta bill designed to throw some guards around Con; and the public in- teresta in this respect. ‘Cho facts of tins case, aleo, they eay, disclose that sums have been paid to influence action, or in reward ot two em- ployes of this House, and of persons entitled to the privilege of the reporters’ gallery. Such practices, they say, merit the condemaation of the Hoase. They also present in the bill s Measure to prevent in future this class of persons from using their positions corruptly or for pay to defer or procure the passage of any measure pending before Congress. The Committee do not recommend further action in the case of the two employes of this House who, after the passage of the act, received reward, a5 sbown in their evidence, as they are informed that both of them bare resigned. ge, NOTES AND NEWS, ‘MB. CAULFIELD EXPLAINS. Special Drepatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasuinetox, D. C., Feb. 27.—The action of Bernard Caulfield, representing the yote on the Tax bill, has been misunderstood by the Chicago. press. Some weeks- ago he, in watching the roli-call. Afr. Blaine again re-} Ti snother Congressman, ‘was chosen i and Butler marched = = a eumed cab Pagie idst a brief and| judge in « hterary contest at George- town College. Unfortunately it happened that that day was the very day on which the ‘vote on the ‘Tar bill was taken, Caulfield con- sequently paired with Farwell. His pair ap- aré in the record, but not in the aye and nay ist. Through bis pair he voted against the bill. AN AX TO GRIND. | Gardner Hubbard is here giving big dinners for an express lobby. . The object is to secure billia the Conference Committee which increase the'postagé on merchandise packages 1 cent 4 pound. aye ¢ ee s A MISSTATEMI BCTED. * "Phe statement tuat the President hassafd thag be in no event will call an extra session is con- tradicted by a Cabinet officer to-night, The latter eatter says that the President has: taken such ‘ition, ‘The publication si panceds Thonld the Sundry Civil bill fall, two departments of the Government would be com- pelled to suspend operations. It would be im- possible for the arene arent to furnish any y winch to collect revenue. nemest 110 the Associated Press.) D. Gas Feb. 37. In the general Wasutxatox, D. C., Feb. 27,—~1 term of the District Court to-day, Judge Mac- Artbur announced the opinion of the Court aftirm- ing the decision below in favor of defendants in the cases of J, B. Stewart against Speaker Blaine, and the same against Sergeant-at-Arms Ordway, for false arrest under the order of the House of Representatives. —— “GOD IN POLITICS. 2 The Case of the Quaker Thorne, Ex- pelled from the North Caroline Leg- isfature for Not Sclieving in the Or- thodox Idea of God. From the Raleigh (N. C,) Neus, Feb. 24. It willbe remembered that about one month ago Mr. Means, of Cabarrus County, offered a regolution in the. House of Representatives io- quiring into the constitutional right of J, Will- iam Thorne, the member from Warren County, to ascat on that floor. Butfowmembers of that body had ony ides as to what charges would be preferred against the member, and did not eare enough about it to inquire. The resolu- tion was: referred to the Committee on Priv- Hleges and ‘Elections, who considered’ the matter in private sessions, sent for persons and paver, obtained all the evidence they could get, and on Saturday last, through their Chairman, Mr, Moriug, submitted a report of their action without making any recommendation. Mr. Mor~ ing asked for the reading of tho evidenca, where~ nyon the clerk firet read’ a pamphlet written by Thorne, in which he denounced the Evangelical religion au tending to evil and the caase of all the crime now extating. God a8 a Shylock, aud the Trinity and Resurrection as mystical super- stitions, ‘s Then followed the sworn evidences of Thorne, in which he stated that he believed in a God, but not the characterizstions attributed to him by Christinng, etc.. Also the evidence of others that he was member of good standing of the “ Progressive Order of Friends,” etc. Resolutions of expulsion were offered by sev- eral members, and the further consideration postponed ull yeuterday. Befors the hour of 12 o'clock yesterday, the geljeries and lobbies commenced to fill up, and when the special order was called, quite an audi~ ence had gathered to hear the ecclesiastical dis- cussion. ,_ THE ECCLESIASTICAL QUESTION. At 12 o'clock the Speaker announced as the special order the considoration of the regolntion offered by Hughes, colored, and ao substitute therefor oy Mr. Moring for the expulsiou of J. William Thorne, of Warren, from a seat on this floor. , Tko substitute of Mr. Moring was adopted, after which the Speaker announced that the gen- tleman from Wairen was entitled to the floor, Mr. Thorne camo forward to the centre of the aisle (having s weak voice), aud took the floor in bisown defense. He said he felt a delicacy in taking s stand on this floor to speak in his own bebalf, but St. Paul bad passed “through the same ordeal, and ho could staud it. Mr. Tnorue arserted that he neter denied” the existence of God, and bed cow in his possession thirteen let- ters from prominent men in Pennsylvania who had known him well for masy years, coitifying not ooly tiat he was a member of the Progresa- ive Order of Friends in that State, and a trustee of ite church property, but that they hud uever heard him deny the exlstenca of a God. Ae be- heved ina Gud, but not all the charactorizations attributed to Him. in ee PS ‘He thea referred to the existing differences of opinion pervading all the Evangelical churches of the preacnt day; that all differed as to the construction of the Bible and its teachings. He referred to tho fact that not until 1643 was any Catuolic permitted to hold office, but, through the wisdom and instrumentality of those great men, Gaston, Macon, Bryan, Badger, and others the reatriction was wiped from the Conatitation, and it was vot the intention of theae great men that any. religious test for office should ever appear on that sacred instrament again. ‘ ‘The Constitution as it was, he continued, did not reach eyon the charges against him, asgert- ing that the Hindoo, Nortn American. Indian, or Mohammedan, alt of whom believed in as Supreme Being, could bold office in this State. He referred to the free Constitution of Virginia, first framed by Thomas Jefferton, otc. He said that if be had erred in the pamphlet reforred to, be would like to ke;convinced, and was open for conviction, He, was in search of truth and that was his only object. (Here he sructed from Milton on the aubject of truth.) He concluded by saying that if this House at- tempts to find out every, idea af. God, as con- ceived by all who differed in religious faitha and creeds, it hada stupendous job before it. He would here rest his case, but reserved the right to reply when the argument was concluded. Mr. Oaksmith then moved that the House go into the Committee of the Whule to consider the resolutions. Fs Afr. Patton objected, aud the motion was voted own. Wari, colored, read a speech in defetiae of Thorne, iu which he claimed that the House did not have the Constitutional right to expels mem- ber on account of his relimous belief, etc. ‘Mr, Green favored expulsion. He said it was with exceeding regret thatin this enlightened period of the World's History the House of Representatives was called upon to expel a mem- ber for infidelity, or, more appropriately speak- ing, atbeiem. tir. Green proceeded to read from extracts from his published pamphlet, showing that it was clear that he was an atheist, eto., and for one, though it waa painful to his feelings, bo would vote for immediate expulsion. Mr. Mendenhall said ho did not rise to defend the man, but tho princijSe, if carried out, was antagonistic to our Constitution. As this dis- cussion bad assumed so wide a scope. and the Houee was now eitting as ‘an ecclesiastical court, he would proceed to speak of the church in which he was born and raised, the Socie:y of Friends, which embraced every word and gonn- ment of the Holy Bible, and yet differed as to certain characterizations of the Scriptures with other religious creeds, He referred to Gaston's language, iu which he stated, in effect, that no mao ehould be deprived of holding an office or oatracised on account of his religious faith, He hoped the Honse would pause and act slowly on this matter. Bir, Patton said it was vory clear that this man did not believe in the God of our Constitution, or be would not bave issued such an infamous, blasphemous circular, that he was unfit to min- glo or aesociate with membera on this floor, and should be summarily expelled. On motion of Mr. Gleun, the farther consider- ation was postponed till 7:30 o'clock. 5 __NIGHT BESEION. ‘The discussion was resamed at 7:30 o'clock, when Ar, Thorne came forward and romulgated the following additional creed: ‘There is but one living and troe God ; everlasting,{without bods, or parts, or passions ; of unlimited poner, wisdom, and goodness ; the maker of all things, Visible and invisible.” Mesers. Gudger and Walker, armed with the odious Pamphiet, made a funous ‘attack on the disbeliever. Woe. were somewhat surorised at finding these young representatives 90 familiar With the Bible, and 80 apt in the application of some of its difficult passages, We have fre- quently heard tho first effort of theological grad-- uates that would not begin to compare with the Speeches of thoge young barristers last night in the way of s sermon, Afesars. Mendenhall, Norment, Finger, and Pionix opposed the resolution, and Messrs. Pat ton, Erwin, and Spears favored, Amendments were offered by Messrs. Foote and Spears, but pending action on the game, at 80 o'clock p. m. the House adjourned. ——_—___. OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS. New Yous, Feb. 27.—The Cunard steamship Parthia ran ashore last night on Bedloe’s Ieland, in this barbor. Her cargo was partly discharged, pad. ber pasmeugers ron sahore go morning. e succes in gé of png rea |AN Francisco, Feb, 27.. 1—Pacifi steamer Montana, for Panama. eda THE DIVORCE ERA IN UTAH. Sanur Lane, Feb. 27.—In the case of Reese, the polygamist, whose firat wife sued for divorce and alimony, it was ordered by Judge MoLean to-dsy that the defendant psy attorney's foes e filin, the final decinion bythe Courts name i t to the Post-Oftice the adoption of an amendment to rl June $0. LEGISLATURES. Change of ‘Sentiment on the Railroad Question in Minnesota. _~ A Bill to Repeal the- Present Law Passed in the Lower House, Provisions. of the New Measure In- - tended to Take'lts Place. Appropriations for Diinois State Charitable Institutions, ©: MINNESOTA, : PROVIBIONS OF THE NEW RAILROAD LAW. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, . Sr. Pauz, Feb. 27.—Tho}Morris railroad bill has passed the House by 67 to 28; and will pass the Senate with leas opposition. ‘The following are the provisions of the Dill: First—It provides for one Railroad Commis- sfoner to bo elected avery other year, the Gov- ernor to appoint until the next fall-election. Second—The Commissioner shall have bis of- fice in the Capital, receive a salary of $3,000, and may have 2 secretary.at $1,200 salary. Third—The Commissioner shall inquire into the neglect or vidlation of the laws of the State by the railroad companies’ officers, agents, or employes; shall from time to time carefully in- spect the condition of each road, its equipment and managoment with relation to pout sofcty and convevionte; alro ascertain the pecuniary condition and‘ finnocisl management of every ratlroad company doisig business in the State. Fourth—The Commissioner shall, on Dec. 1, of cach year, report his doings for the preceding year with the facte,statements, and explana- tions disclosing the working of .tho xallroad transportation system in tho State, its relation tothe general business and prosperity of its citizens, and make suggestions aud recémmend- ations seeming to, him appropriate; also as to each railroad company doing “business in the Btate, the amounts of capital stock, proferred stock if any, and conditions of the’ preforment, funded debt, and rate of interest, and Suatiak debt; cost of ‘road equipments, and all business property; estimated valao of a1] other property, with & schodule not . including laod-gratits ; number of acres of original land- grants ; nbmbér of acres remaining unsold ; list of officers and Directors, with places of real- dence ; such statistics of the roads and trans- portation business as in his jadgment aro neces- sery for the information of the Governor and Legislatura ; the report to exhibit the condition of the companies July 1, and details of the trans- portation business of each for tho year ending Fifth—To erable the Commuesioners to make reports, tho managing officer of eagh railroad corporation doing business ia the State shall an- nually, in October, make retarus in the form prescribed by the Commissioner, verified by oath, each company to be liable to a penalty of $100 for every day acter Oct. 31, if such return ia willfully delayed or retuaéd. F Sizth—The Commissioner is empowered in the discharge of hia duties to examine any books, ete, or oxamine under oath ‘or otherwise any officer, agent, ar emplose. Ho may. issue sub- peenas and administer orths with power to en- force obediouce in the performance of hie du- ties in courts of law. Any person obstructing him or refusing to give information, may be deemed guilty of misdemeauor, and liable to s fine not oxceeding $1,000. Seventh—No Company shall charge, de- mand oF receive from avy Berean. ote, for transportio, jon or property 8 greater gam: i tha ae shall at tho game time ckarge, demand, or receive from snother person, etc., for Jike service from the same place, and upon like conditions and circumstauces. All concessions of rates, drawbacks, and contracts tor special rates shall be open to all persons, etc., alike, uader similar circumstances. Eiqhth—No company aba}! charge an unreas- enable price fur the ‘fansporting Of persons or property, for handling or storing freight, for the use Of cars, or apy privilege or service offered in the transaction of. its railroad business, Ninth—It shalt be the duty of any company, when within ‘their power, upon. reasonable no- tice, to furnieh ruitable cars to all persons ap- plving for the traneportation of the usual kinds of freight, to recc:ve and traneport such freight witb reasonablo dispatch, and to provide and koep suitabic facilities for handling and receiv- ing it at any depot. ie Tenth—Avy company violating any provision of this act, 28 to extortion or unjust discrimina- tions, shall forfeit for every offense to the party aggrieved three times the actual damages gus tained or. overcharges paid, with costa of suit recoverable in civil action. Elecventh—In all cases, under this act, the rules of evidence and practice shali be the same as in other civil actiong and-appeals may be gravted either party in thesame manner and up- on the same terms. - ce ear Twelfth—Tiris act repeals the Commission and Retes law of fast year, and all acte incon- sistent with this, except asto penditg suits un- der the acts repealed. Thirteenth-The act takes effect on and after its passage, _—- WISCONSIN. NO ACTION ON THE RAILBOAD BILIS, Spectal Dispatch to The Chiceao Tribune. - Maprson, Wia., Feb, 27.—No farther action on railroad bills was taken in either Houee this morning. The Senate postponed action on the Commissioners snd Quimby bill amending the Potter law till Monday afternoon, till which time it adjourned. : The Assembly devoted ita time to other mat- tera, with the understanding that the evening ses- sion would be devoted to the railroad question. The Granger members bad a meeting this afternoon, and appoisted a Committee to confer with the railroad represontatives with’ a view of seeipg if an agreement cannot be reached. ‘Drmwavrer, Feb; 27.—The Asaembly lat even- ing took up the Railroad Commissioners’ bili, which removes all restrictions until ,the compan- ies earn 10 per cent of the appraised value of Property. Ata late hour the Agsembly voted to strike out all after the enacting clause, and in- sert the Quimby bill, which is virtually the same as the Potterlaw: At the samo time the Senate ordered the Quimby bill to # third reading, To-day the Senate postponed the maiter tll Monday, and efforts are being mada for compro- mise. LATEB. : Special Dupatch to Lhe Chicago Tribune, Mavison, Wiz., Feb, 27-Evening.—The rail- Toad question isin statu quo. ‘This afternoon the opponents to the Commissioners, bill held a meeting and appointed Senators Potter and R. E. Davie, Assemblymen Welch, Comatock, Lees, and Angus Smith, and Jobn C. Gault as 3 Com- mittee of Conference to cook up proper amend- mendments, state grievances, etc., aud arrive at an amicable settlement. ‘ ‘The Grangers say there is no doubt now about the harmonious passage of some bill, giving sat-- isfaction all around. i The Assembly met this evening, Mr. Welch moved the postponement of the railrond question until Monday at 11 o'clock. Carriod. Se ILLINOIS, BEADING OF PILLAR IN THE HOUSE. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Trioune, Srntxorrern, I., Feb. 27.—Pursuant to ar- Yangement made yesterday with the opponents of the Copperas Creek Dam bill who went home, the business of the House to-day was confined tothe first reading of bills snd reception of Committee-reports. 2 5 SALARIES OF COOK COUNTY JUDGES. The bill introduced by Mr. Halpin, ; of Cook, rednoing the salaries of Judges of the Supreme and Circuit - Courts of Cook County from $7,000 to $6,000 Per annum, was reported back fom the Commit-" tee on County and Township Organization, with the recommendation that itpass. he bill algo’ reduces the salary of the State's Attorney of Cook Conuty to $6,000, but does not affect his fees. Under the Constitution, the bull; if passed, would not affect the ealaries of tho present Judges, and could only be operative as. to ealaries of Judges and State's Attorneys here- after elected. d eo Sie be STATE CHARITIES, The Committee on State Institutions reported back the appropriation bills for the several chari- table institutions, cutting down the appropris- tions as follows : institution for the Blind, to defray increased expentes for 1878, reduced from $8,000 to 87,000; for building engine and boiler house, and dising: room and kitchen, reduced from $23,800 to 38,009 ; ordinary expenses, from €27,500 per an- pam to $25,000, * Normal Schoo! at Carbondsle—For salaries and . ordinary expenses, cut-down from $22,000 to $20,000 3 for purchase of library, ete., from $2,~: 500 to $2,000; and ‘for additional furniture, -from $5,000 to’ 33,000. EES hs Scts + , industrial’ Universitify—For experimental farm, from $1,500 to $1,000 per annum. = -Institution for the Deaf and Dumb—For ordi- nary expenses, cut from 991,250 t0-875,000 per ,snnum.; for completing the. school building, from $23,173 to $10,000 ; for hestiug-apparacus, from 25,850 to $5,000; for erection of workshops, from $19,931 to 810,000. NEW BILLS IN THE SENATE. ~-In the Senste Mr, Archer introduced »~bill making devisees and legatees under a will com- petent Witnesses 1n cose of contest... Mr. Steelo introduced a bill appropriating $10,000 to defray-the expenses of the Mlinois Commission to the Centennial Exhibition at Pbiladelphia. . FOREIGN. > SPAIN, ARMY NEWS. - Mave, Feb. 27.—It is belloved here that the campaign against the. Carlists will be terminated @uring the spring. It is asserted ihat 300 of Navarrez troops recently deserted from the Carlist army. Five were recaptured and shot, GREAT BRITAIN. . BURIAL OF SIR CHARLES LYELL. LLonpon,-Feb. 27.--Sir Obarles Lyell was buried to-day in Westminster Abbey, with great pomp. ‘The grave is next to that of Ben Johnson. LOUISIANA. Speculations Concerning the Pre= posed Compromise Specta! Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, New Onirdns,’ Feb. 27.—The compromise re- mains in about the same condition as before. ‘The tact that Mr. Wheeler will require the sig- natures.of tho Conservative Logisiature to the agreement will not prevent those who favor compromise from carrying it out. Neither will the intimidation meetiug held last evoning. ‘In- formation received here from a relisble Source represents that Judge. Whecler, as well as Messrs. Hoar and Frye, were disgusted with the manner in which Mesars. Burke and Zacbarie caved their slonbering let~ ter of acceptance on the pert af the Conserva- tives’ caucus te be sent all over thecountry by the Asecoiated Press before being sent to them, and declined to confer with them: as representatives, and stated that they would only treat with mem- bers of the Conservative party over their own signatures. There is 4 strong disposition in the Legistature to break loose from the ** last ditch” teaders, and act for themselves. : 420 the Associated Press. New Onceans, La., Feb. 27.—Ihere is much dissatisfaction among the compromteers in refar- once to the mode of adjustment. It is snid that Members not passed upon by the Retuming Board will refuse to sign the agreement demand- ed by Wheeler. ‘ 2 mes FIRES, AT VHCHITA, KS... . * Szexal Dispatch to The Chieaae Tribune, _ Kawase Crry, Mo., Feb. 97.—An extensive'fire occurred at Wichita, Ks., at 1 o'clock this morn- tug. It originated m the Southern Hotel, on Main street. A strong wind was blowing at the time. Within on hour geyen buildings were destroyed. The following is 8 summary of the losses, as far as can be ascertained: George. Harrington, $1,600; George Sabstury, 1,800 5 Cheneworth &: Co,, grocars, €2,000 ; ames McCulloch, $1,400; Hope & Richards, $2,800; Royal & Clengston. $1,900; Thomas Behan, £2,800; Tucksberrv.& Chandler, of-Man- chester, N. H., $1,200; Higby & Co., €400; W. G; Woodman, $300; A. Naebet, 82,0003 0. Moyer, $400. “The above bad no insurance. M. Kobna, stock, $5,400 ; folly insured. ©. W. Hill, 3250 ; J. Noble, 2200 ; J. W. Allen & Co., 2250. The risks are covered by the American and Cential, of St. Louis; Brewers’, of Milwaukee ; Phonix, of Hartford; Globe, of Chicago; Kan- sas, of Leavenworth. Total loss, $25,000, It was the work. of ‘an incendiary. During . the progress of the fire, Mr. Goodrich in jumping from the second-story wiudow, ‘broke his leg, and his wife was badly burned. AT COLUMBUS, Oo. Cotumnus, O., Feb. 27,—At 3 o'clock this morning, fire broke out in Wolcott's building, on High street, and rapidly spread to the adjoin- ing buildings. The Fire Department were promptly on band, and while they put ont the ro very effectively, much damage was done by water. se The estimated losees are as follows: R. Wol- cott, loas on building, $39,000; furniture. from $10,000 to 15,000: fully insured in a large num- ber of Eastera companies. Barker's Joss on building, €620; the damage was settled this morning. Préston, shoe-store, damage to stock by water, $3,000; insured in the Knox Mutua and Home, of New York, and the Westchesterl Walter Mahony, loss in: adjoining building. $2,000; insured in the National, of Philadelphia, and the People’s of Newark. Parties rooming in the three damaged buildings will ron the amount of damages up to about $20,000. Two deaf avd dumb men eleeping in the room where the fire originated were not aroused till the fur- uiture of ‘their room took fire. They then be- came nearly mld with fright, and could hardly be restrained from jumping to the pavement. ‘They were finally saved by the firemen, by means of long ladders. ‘ * AT SCRANTON, PA, Scrantor, Pa,, Feb. 27.—The Clif? Locomo-~ tive Works, south of the Lackawanna passenger depot, in this city, owned by tho Diokeon Man- ufacturing Company, was this morning com- pletely bummed. The building contained very valuable macbinerv, three new locomotives juat completed, and materials to put together eleven others. The'loss -is 3500,000, on which there is* 485,000 ingurance, principally in New York companies. Two hundred and fifty men are: throwa ont of employment. IN CHICAGO. * A still alarm of fire was given at 4 o'clock yes- torday afternoon to Engine No. 3, for a fire dis- covered in a cottage at No. 63 Fry street, owned and occupied by Henry Wagner. It waa easily extinguiehed. An alarm at 11:90 Iast night from Box No. 51 was for s fire in the residence of Mr. W. H. Mead, 689, Michigan avenne, caused by the bura~ ing of s window-curtain which ignited froma gas-jot. It was extinguished before the engines arrived. The loss was about $30. - AT CHATTANOOGA. Cuartanooaa, Feb. 27.~The Lookont flouring mills of J. E. Whitney & Co, burned to-night. Loss, 250,000. Insured for $33,000. The new Union Railroad Depot caught tire, but the flames were soon extinguished. Women and children who bad taken refuge in the mill from the flood were rescued. : The -firemen worked up to their waists in water, A DEPLORABLE VISITATION. Hupsox, N. ¥., Feb. 27.—A second fire in the Shaker village destroyed tha harb-house, chief source of revenue of the Shaler community. Loes, 250,000. The fire was the work of an in- cendisry. . 5 IN PHILADELPHIA. . Paruapevrat, Pa., Feb. 27.—All the smoke~ houses of Washington Butcher's Sons’ packing Firehouse burned,to-day. Loss, $80,000; in- sured. is . * RIVER FLOODS. THE TENNESSEE BOILING OVER. Special Dispatch to he Chucaao Tribune, ' Nasavize, Tenn., Feb. 27.~The Tennessee, River. is sweeping over the bridge weighted down with loaded cars, st’ Bridgeport, on the line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Rail- road." Chattanooga . is surrounded. by water, which rushing throngh’ the ‘passenger depot at that place, and inundat- ing the lower parts of the city. Telegraphic communication is cut off between Nashville and Chattanooga by the flood. The river has risen nearly two feet since last night, it is. thought the losses by the flood will reach half s million. THE MISSISSIPPI CLEAR AT ST, Louis. Sr. Lous, Feb. 27.—The ice shove the bridge broke loose last night, and great masses have been running outeversince. Most of it is com- ing from the Lower Missouri: All the gorges below here have been carried away, and the river is open to Cairo. Navigation south will resnms on Kionday, DAMAGE ON THE SUSQUEHANNA. Hanzsora, Ps., Feb. 27.—The ice moving in the Susquehanna River, which was gorged three miles east, has not yet been broken, At Sunbury and Williamsport the river is filling. Two of the county brid, Eee plore af, the : ige at Millerstown, Some fear of damage to the AicVeytown. Michael McCarthy, aged 20, of No, 42 Park street. eI Diary A. Conners, aged 25, of No. 87 Park street. Catharine McGinnis ed 50, of No. 22 =r Hall place, Cee sae) A boy pamed Feany, about 5'or & years of age, i iiving wittbis Parents at Ree ee City Hall place. None of em apoke or any signs life on being found. : - - 7 ay -_ {The whole number of injcred was ovor fifty, —only » few being seriously burt.} : . MINOR ACCIDENTS. . , BOTH ARMS BROKEN, Special Dienateh to The Chicage Tribune, 4 New Barrorons, O., Feb. 27.—This attern when the east bound express of the Baltimore & Ohio etopped at this place, the fireman, Mr. Je. ant Potter, got off the engine for the purpose of Oilingthe machinery. The engineer rang the bell and started, and did not know thas ‘Mr. Potter had got of the engine until he heard the ory of distress from the Unfortas nate man, who had beeu caught in the machine. ry, and both arms broken. The right arm wag broken and mutilated so badly below the elbow that amputation ws necossary. The left arm was broken above the elbow, and, it is thonght . CASUALTIES. ‘Detailed Account of the Church Calam- ity in New York City. Record of Minor Accidents. . + THE NEW- YORK DISASTER, ; SEVEN PERSONS KILLED, AND ABOUT FIFTY Mt. yURED. _ ‘ New Pork World, feb, 28, A little more than six weeks ago tho immense brick five-story crockery warehouse fronting on Dasne and Obatham atreats, and inclosing Swee- ney’s Hotel upon the corner, was destroyed: by fire. The went wall was left standing at nearly its fall height, overbanging on its west side St Andrew's ‘Roman Catholic Church, a natrow alley- ‘way running between - them. The church stretches back from Duane street sbout two-thirds as far as the wall did, and beyond the eburch a tenement-house fronting on City Hall place. is next neighbor to the rtin. The night after the fire in the warehouse the wall was found out .of. plumb, and tie tenement-honse was omptied. Since then work at rebuilding the wareholiso on the old wali has been begun. - - ‘The wall fell last night over upon St. Andrew's Ohureh; «here eervicea were going on, and breaking through tho east side of the roof, from the middle toward the ‘northern end, crushed it down upon the esat gallery, where from 100 to 150 people were sitting, killing 7 people and injuring many more severely. Lhe Lent services had crowded the church more than usual, although the weather was very rough and wet, and probably s thousand wor shipers were present. Father Curran, the pas- tor of the church, was acting as’ celebrant, and with his boys occupied his near the pulpit, on the east side. Father Carroll, of St. Sce- pheu’s, preached tho evening eermon, taking ** Now is the accopted time” for his text. He had-not been speaking loug when tho crash came. In the high wind that prevailed during the'first quarterof an hour after B o'clock the wall, weakeoed by the froste and thaws of the last month, bad given way. The noise was accompanied by a stifling and blind dnat from the shattered plaster of the ceiling, and for a time i¢ was impossible for those who bad es- caped the ruin to sea what or how great the disastrous. ‘The honge was filled at onco with the cries” of the hort in the gallery and the shrieking of the terribly frightened crowd balow. Fathér Carroll sprang from the pulpit, and was Jost in the crowd upon the floor, which made cae united rush for the three doorways opening on Duane street. Asis usaal in a church conere- gation, the women far outntmbered the men, and thongh the doors will, when fastened open, empty the church in five minutes, the crash wad so strong that it lasted fifteen or twen can be saved. 1OWA RAILROAD ACCIDENTS, Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, * Des Morvegs, Is.. Fob. 23.—A freteht train ny the: Ohicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, broke a rail Inat night near Malcom. The tran was ditched and badly wrecked. - A freight trainon the Keeknk & Des Moines Railroad, going east, this morning, when ¢ miles from toe ity, broke through & bridge, The engine pi over, bat the next three cary went down. THE NEW YORK CHURCH DISASTER, New Yous, Fob. 27.~fhe Mayor and othed. city officials and the Coroner and his jury visite ed the eoene cf the late disaster to-day, and two Inspectors of Buildings were arrested and held in $3,000 bail each, LOST A LEG, : Camo, Ill,, Feb. 27.—Peter Conant, » switch. man in the employ of the Llinois Central Rail- road, fell on the track while switching here this afternoon, and had one lez ent off below the knee by the driving-wheel of a locomotive. CRIILE. -» LAWLESS _ PENNSYLVANIA MINERS, ? Huazzxtox, Pa. Feb. 27.—This morning the ‘miners, who are on a strike to the number of about 300, drew the fire from under the boilers, stopped sil the pamps, set fire to the engine honse, aud shot the eugineer, at Brick Moun- tain, 11 miles from bere. The man was not || rendered at all dificult of one, and there ig | Rem tian, ed 50 years, ant ero n havin; Bridge. | residence af 18 Vandowsier atrect’ .* minutes, and was as great a calamity as the f: of tho wall itself. ay The crowd from the floor, reinforced by two streams from the galleries, fought for the doors. ‘The throe doors open inwards. Two of them— the main door and the east door—luckily were fastened wide cpen before tle crowd reached them, The thira door, which was beset the more strongly because the disaster on the east side of the church had sent many frightened peo- ple hurrying over to the west side, bad one of its two leaves shut, and left onlys very narrow exit. The police ontside, gathered in some force by this ti 1¢, endesvored to force open the other leat of the door, but the thrust of the crowd against i¢ was so creat that the attempt, two or three times repeated, succeeted only when the other doors had relieved the church of the ex- treme preasure.- In: the terrible crush within women snd men fainted and fell and ‘were tram- pled upov. Tho breath was fairly ground out of others, and they were lifted along insousibly in tho press. “ - Blinded and choked with dust and ecreaming with fright aud pain, the 900 odd people who Were able to move found thomeelvas in the street, mingimg with ctowd of borror-struck spectators as frightened as anybody, families separated, children lost, no one certain except ot individual safety, aud no one knowing how preat or how little the disaster might. be. ‘They wére a» torn, braised; and bleeding crowd whom the police had to clear from the flags with the other crowd that filled the street froin sidawalk to sidewalk, aud was pressing up to ee what had happened. Without, the church showed no signe of the disaster... The front wall was.uninjured. iWhen the.crowd waa nearly out. ® company of firemen and policemen forced their Wayin. They found-the -aislea littered with sleeves, clonks, coats, bats, and rags torn off.in the straggle.and found alson few men around tha insensibio bodies of s woman and boy who had- fainted in the presa, and others assisting those Who had been too much injnrod to walk. The roof overhead broken through. and’ the ‘almoat entire absence of debris upon the floor, sent them to the east gallery at once. Thera they fonud a ‘few’ heavy timbers from the roof. Iviog smong the remnants of the pews, and the whole nortbern two-thirds of the gal- lary strewn with broken and splintered boards, bricks,{slate, and mortar, all wet by the dreuching rain. -One woman lay under'a beam, with her leg broken, and under another timber 2. man was crushed ‘fatally, but still breathing. The charch wall. bad not given way, though it was driven out of plumb and bulged inwards, and only 8 portion of the roof, close to the wal seriously wounded. almost impossible to: get men to keep the pumps going. The police aro assisting in this work st Eckley and the Upper Lebigh. Pina —There are apprebensions of rough times around here. The men are gathering in large numbers. At the Highlands, 3 miles from: here, serious disturbances have taken place, and two men ware badly besten. Report ssys that one of them cannot live. Police bave been sent to Brick Mountain to start the pumps. Prrrssuna, Ps., Feb. 27.—A disturbance oa- curred yesterday at the Loyal Sanns Mfinea, about s mile east of Latrobe, Westmoreland» County, in which firearms were freely used. The mioers employed at these minea struck about two weeks ago, aad the trouble yesterday. originated from an attempt on the part of the Company to supply their places with new men. President Baker sna Secretary Watt were both koooked down and disarmed. ‘Two minors wera reported wounded. A Deputy-Sheriff arrested ten miners this morning avd longed them in the. Greenburg Jail, and it is stated that depaties are at the mines this evening making more srrests.- ‘THE CLAY COUNTY, IND., MINERS’ TROUBLE. Svecial Dispaich te The Chicago Tribune, Trans Havre, Ind. Feb. 27.—Your corre-. spondent has just returned from the Brazil Centre coal-district, Society is ina greatly divorgan- ized condition. There is intense excitement. over the attempted incendiaries of yesterday, Last night the Union minora were discovered carrying straw aud ail on the roof of the Bartlett shaft, owned by W. W. Rusher & Co. The flames were already started when. the guards arrived and drove off the incendiaries. All other mine owners are greatly alarmed. Strong are on duty over the entire district. Molly Maguire uotices were posted during the night warning colored men not to attempt to work under pain of death. More colored miners have arrived from West Virginia, They keep well together and are uo- dér'guard.- The miners are desperate, and an attack ia feared. Prominiut citizens fear thet the calling out of the militia will be necessary. Several weeks since the body of a colored man was found at the bottom of a cosl-shaft. “Tha. man bad been utveriogpnti-union sentiments. His murder is now attributed to the strikers. ‘THE CAPTURE OF OLD SENDER, Torrga, Ks., Feb, 27:—Dispatches. from Flor- ence, Arizona, to Gov, Osborn, state that old thy “break beginning in the middle of the roof] John Bender has~ been captured there. and spreading both ways, further to the north | A © man . answering his" .deacription than to the south. 4 was arrested . ag Bender, sad since his arrest he has admitted that he is the veritn. ble old Bonder, The Governor has rent » PRe I~’ sition to Goy. Safford, of Arizona, for the deliv. ery Of the allezed Bender to tae authorities of Kansas. Ho is expected here in a few days. From the first point reached by the falling debris, along the gallery and down to the doors, an irregular line of bodies was found. In soma few the life was extinct; others were Bo badly hurt.as to. be. unable to move, while not a few: were found in a state of syncope, the result of fright. The debris was light enongh to admit cf the easy extrication of the twenty or more who Isy uvable to move, The large force of police and firemon made short work of carrying out the dead.and injured, —. i . The policemen, who were .canght between the two crowds, say that the crash was a terrible one, The fall took place at 8:20, or within a moment or'two théresfter. The noise of the crash at once brougnt a crowd from the neigh- boring houses au‘i-streets, and they attompted to pags into the cbnrch.. Qne policeman on duty in the neighborhood and a fireman were-aloue in front of-the door, ‘and for some time they worked hard and at tramendous odds to fieht back the crowd. The outcoming crowd had trodden down some of. those in front and was trampling them. Aided by several ablo- bodied citizens who took in the situation at a Blance, they tried to save thore already down hy shouting to the crowd to wait a moment and hold back, at the same time ‘pulling out those from below. But the cursent was too-strong, and but, little “contd be dono by attempting. ROBSERS MEET A ROUGH CUSTOMER Spearat Dispatch to Tha Chicaco Tribune, Naswyitix, Feb. 27.~Three negroes asagulted. an express agont at McKenzie, at 2 p. m. to-day, with a club, for the purpose of robbing his safe. The agent shot at the robbers without effect... One negro was captured. A party of men) chased and fired at tha two other fugitives, but ta this hour they have not been captured. . SAFE ROBBERY AT TROY, 0. Special Dispatch to The Chicaae Tribune, Taox, O., Feb. 27.—Burgtars entered tha store of Coates & Son, Inst night, at Pleasant Hill, O., and proke open their ‘safe, and took’ 9900 in cash and some valuable papers. : FATAL STABBING AFFRAY. » « New Yors, Feb. 27.-In a fight this morning between Joseph Jordan and George Huffer, st- their residence, No. 603 West Thirty-eighth street, Jordan stabbed Huffer in the heed, ile x totem ttn fis way, |The blood-besmeared, ing bum iastantly. ‘aces of thdse who received slight} ‘ head or ecalp-wounds gave freah alarm to those ¢ ‘THE WEATHER, who had not received the slightest injuries. One Wasuixotos, D. C., Feb. 27.—For the Upper stalwart young man, who had been in the church attending service, kep: his presence of mind af- ter the accident, He pushed. the crowd back as well ag he was able, and managed to pick up sey- eral who were prostrate and set them on their feet, The berd behind becoming more frantic, he dealt with them in detail, seizing those who were moat Mississippi and Lower Misacuri Valleys and the Northwest, falling bsrometer, warmer, easterly winds, and increasing cloudiness. = For the Upper Lake region, rising, follow by.falling, barometer, cooler northwest winds, , veering to northeast, with partly cloudy weather. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. urgentand dashing them back with more force r than politeness into the body of the church. ‘He | — Ceieoe, FoF vary ably seconded the forte of those without, | Time, Bare Daal Wind, | Rain’ W'ther. and for a time held complete contro! over one of | “say ows ange SR ony D the three narrow passages. An alarm of fire had-| 1S 3" Petry ny lw non Fare been eent out, and the body of tiremen and police | 2:00 p. m.30.20 41,W,, fresh...) hac arrived by this time, and econ reduced mat-| $:53p.m.|30-21 15| GlW? freehc ct, ters to something approaching to ordar. Ag far-| 9:00 p. m.,30.29, 11] 79)W,, fresh.. a8 possible thoag fojgred were picked from the.{ 10:18 p. m,30-30| 121 61|W. fresh. floor before any others wore. allowed to come ont, and further trampling was prevented. The firemen, as ax extra means of relief, had placed ladders up to the windows jooking ovt frum the west gallery on to City Hall place, and by break- ing in the windows, tearing from them the wire- gauze, by which they were Protected, permitted the escape of a large number,-and also entered themeelves to look: after the wounded, prevent any spread of firé from the ruptured @as-pipes, and take precaution against any farther fall of additional timbers or slices of wall. panes all regoamnaate of the church had emoved, the Were extinguished and the clfurch-doors shut to Prevent the entry ofany Ventureaoma persons who might fall victims to & Bupplementary crash. “Timbers from a pile in front of Shaw’s burat building were arranged to form a barricade, ‘ropes were stretched, and everything made secure for a reat until morning, when daylight would permit an inspection. The five desd found upon the gallery were conveyed from Sweeney's to the Sixth Precinct Polico Station-House. They were ull of the humble class which made up the body of the worshipers. They were laid ont. in » row on the floor of the sitting‘room. Here they re~ mained until Coroner Eickhoff could be called, and after viewing the bodies he &8¥e permission for their removal to their homes, a Privilege which was at once taken advan’ tage of, The station-house was crowded. by friends and relatives, whose sobbings and lamentations could be heard far out into the streets, where a tous. crowd looked and listened for a long 2. None of the dead were badly disfigured or identification. The Maximum thermometer. 15; minimum, 5 GEXEBAL OBSERVATIONS. * : Cutzaco, Feb. 3%. Fort Garry, Ft Gibson, Leavenw'th | LaCroese.. Marquette , lwankee 2 Omaha Brieke: ¢luacE LOTTERY DRAWING, Lovrsvriie, Ky., Feb. 27.—Tho Library lok tery drawing is in progress. Last night the managers announced that.only $8 per cent of the tickets having been sold, the prizes would be: scaled in the same proportion. The capital’ prize of $94,000 was drawn by ticket No. 69°24. The second prize, $30,000, was drawa by ticket No. 10,074. The drawing was concluded this afternoon. Is ia known that one-fifth of the capital prize Was ld in Montreal, one-fifth in ae one = ‘Cost anid