The News Condensed

The striking eDgineers on tho Boston and Maine railroad, on trial at Portland, Mc, have all been fouiid guilty of conspiracy and obstructing tho mails In the cafe of The Peo!il4 vs. William M. Tweed, to recover 983,646 paid by the city of Now York on fraudulent büls tbrough censpiracy wilh WatsOD, deceaek'd, judgment ag;;inst defendant has been cutered by confes.-ion in the Supreme Court. Gukat e xcitcmcLt was canscd tho other day in Keadiug, I'a., by the sinmltaneous cloing of tliree saviugs banks. The total iiabilitics of tho concerns are about $2,000,000. 'i'iiE office of tho Pittsburgh Dispalch has been dostroyed by firo. A sroKOHfeOT to Bishop Janes has jnst been unvciled in Boston. A Hautford (Ct.) telegram chronicles the death of Jonathan Ednards, tho eminent Presbyterian and theologian. Thk Borden City Mili No. 1, at Fall Riv r, ., was destroyed by fire Jast week. The loss is estimated at $450.000 Conrad Poppenhausen, the owner of all tbo railroads on Long Island, N. Y., has gone into voluntanbankrnptey. Ii'büitiea, $3,500.000; assets (on paper), $7,300,000. Asa Magoon, w if c-murderer, is to be hanged at Montpelier, Vt., on the fnurth Friday iii November, 1879, eightecn months of the interim to bc spont at hord labor and six months in Bolitary conftnement A sensatioual tragedv w:is i nacted in the city of Philadelphia last Kuaday. During services at the Ohnrch of the Aaceuiioii, Aloxuuder I!. S.iyres nalked np au lisie, drew a pistol, and shot bis wife Élizabeth, vfho occupied a pew pevcral feet in advance of wbere Sayres bad been sitting. The bullet enterad her back, lofltoting a mortal wotrad. 8ayre was arrested. Both parlies have been regular attendants at church, but have been separnted for two yoars... S. B. W. GUI, a prominent Pittsburgh lawy r. and roputed to be very wealihj, dwappesired very sud.ienly some weeks ago, aud his (rienda were unable to account for bis absence except on the thaorythat he lnd lx on fonlly dealt w tli. The nvj Bfsry has boen clc-ared, hi.wever. Au investiatíon of )iis aíTairs shows thst instead of possesiing a fortuno of 6500,000, as was generally believed, bis nssots amonnt to almost nothing, wbile bis debts figuro up about 4300,000. THE WEST. A nBE in St. Lonis, last week. destroyed Ktcinberg's hat-store and John Brunet's restaurant, on Fourth street. Loss, over $100,000.. .A San Francisco disi-atch announces the destruction by fire of the North Point waxehonse. Loss, $310,000. Chicago elevators contain 531,325 bushels of wheat ; 465,905 bushels of corn ; 160,072 bnehols of oats ; 92,036 bUBhels of rye. and 578,243 buíihcls of barley, making a grand total of 1,827,671 bushela, agaloat 5,140,285 bushel3 at tiiis pern d last year. Chicago has been the sceno of another dostiuctive coDflagratiou. At 8 o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, the 14th inst.,flames broke out in the palntial dry-goods store of MesBi-s. Field, Letter t Co., the third largest house in the United States and tho eecond largest iu tho retail business, and in a few hourd the raagniücent structure, with lts vast stock of goods, was reduced to a niíiss of ruins. During the progresa of the eonliiigration two firemen were killed aud four badly injured by the falling of one of the floors of the biu-ning structme. The total loss by the fire U estimated at about 1,000,000 The stock was valued at neaily $1,250,000, a considerable portiou of wliieh was saved in a damnged condition. Therc was an iusurance on the stock of f950,000. The business was eructed in the spring of 1872 by tho Singer Scwing Machine Cvnipany, at a cont of between $750,000 and $800,000. The firet story was mostly of iron, but the rumainder was of limestone. It had a truss roof. the girders of iron, overlaid with wood, and tliis sbeathed with tin. The center of the roof contained a skylight, and au open court or wel), KurrodDiled by a railing on each üoor, extended down to the main iluor. Duriiig the progres of its erection a scnffolding uponwhich a iiumber o men were standing at woik on the fky light gave way, and they were precipitated thiough the court, a disranee of eighty feet to the lirst Hoor. Three of them were killee outright, and a fourth escaped by clinging to a portion of the BoafloldiDg thatrömained unti he was rescued. Short ly Bef ore Stessrs. Fielt fe Leiter took possessiou of the building, a fir broke out It was extinguished aftor abou $50 OfiO damago had been done. The origin o: the last fire will perhaps ever remaiu a myt tery. It comiuenced in the sixth story, nea the roof, and is believed to have been tho wori of an incendiary. Hon. WÉCLttH F. Cooi.baugu, President o the Union National Bank, aud an old ant hiKlilv-estecmed eitizen of Chicago, committed suicido on tho night of the 13th inst. Hi body was found at an e.irly in the mom ing at the base of the Douglas monument in the southern portiou of the citv. A bulle hole through the head and a i stol Ixside tb body gave certain proof of the manner of dcath. Doniestic infelicity is reported as the cause of the rash act. The sad event ereated n profouud sensaticn throughout the city of Chicago. The Coroner's jury, in the case of the Hou. W. F. Coolbaugh, of Chicago, rendered a verdict of suicido while in a state of temporary intsanity. That tho dead banker was insane at the time of oommititig the deed is undoubtedly trae. Insínity, it appears, wa s hcreditary ia the family, and a brotner and sister of the deceased ure now nfllietoj witli the dread malady, tlie latter bung an Lómate of an asylum. The TJnion National Bank, of whlch 'Mr. Coolhangh was President, is the leading national bank of the West, and is in a sound condition. The deceased leavcs an estáte estimated at $1,000,000. Eis Ufe was insured for $100,000 Portions of Iewa, Nebraska, Kansas and Dakota experieneed quite a)i earth(luake shock on tlio ÏSÜX inst. At Omaha and other points in Ncbraska the shork was quite severo, produeing quite a paulo among the peoplc. The dur&üon of the shock at Feit Bandall, Yankton Ageucy, and Spriogfleld, Rak., was abont ono minute, and the direction west to east. At the ludían agencies the tepea were overturned. and goods on shelves in trader's stores shaken off. There was great excitoment among whites and Indiana. At Vaukton the glasa in many of the windows was broken by the ehock, and many people rushed from their honres in great friglit. Neakly 1,000 people were employed in the great Chicago dry-goods house of Field, Leiter & Co., many of whom wero women c'erks and sewjag girla. All of the femalo help are tcmoranly thrown out of employmint hy tho buruiog of the ebtablishment. " Thes wiil not long temada ídle, however, as tho firm lias secured new quarters, and wil] in a few days have a!l their old employés at work again Frank Bande, a noted desperado, who kUled two men and woundedanother in St. Elmo, Hl., last August, was arrested in St. Lonislast week, afttr n desperate strnggle. With a companion lie went to a pawnbroker's to redecm a sachel. He was reengnized. and the pólice were c:illcd in. In the hght that eusued everybody took a hand, aud at its elote one of the" oflioers was fouud to ba shot dangerously, white Rnndn had overal buüots in hiin and a pair of haudcuffs ornamentwl lus wriflte. Ho was taken to jail. The arsenal he carried with liim coutained two largo revolvers, a knife, a pair of brass kuuokles, and a billet Ihe President the other day cqmmunicated to the House the amounts received from tho Spanish Government for the killing oí Gen. Hynn and other Ameiicans at Santiago do Cuba, on Nov. 1, 1873. Somethiny over $30,000 of this money still liei in the hands of the Government benanne the heirs have faikd to prove tho men killed wero American citizens. The largest claimant still unsatisfied is the mother of Oen Hyan. 8he ia a resident of Chicago, and, it stenis, has not yet proven her son'b citizonBillj), The policeman who was shot in St. Louis by the outlaw Rando, while resisting arrost. has sinco died of his woutul. Amono the effects of the bloody outlaw Frank Iïande, captuied at St. Louis, was found a diary showing that he had at one time been an inmuto of the Illinois peniteutiary, and the resolution to beoome an outlaw, with a sworn and doadly hntred afainst all peacc-oflieers. ivas formed while thero. Acuording to his diary, the cruel and inhuman treatment received fr m officersof the peniteutiary incited the convict to a uesporate vow, that If he ever got jh; of prisonhe woukl devote his life to crinw and to the killing of ony oflicer of the law who should nudertake to arrest him A'.lvices from Lincoln, Neb., report a terrible baltic between a lot of riotous railroad men and citizens of the town of Utica, Neb., in which several ]orsons woie killed and wouuded. THE SOUTH. Ex-Conorfssman Smalls and ex-üevenue CoUector Carpenter, on trial at Columbia, S. f!., the former for brilery and tise kttor for fOrgery, have been found guüty. By way of Galveston we get the following new f c om tho Texas border: evoral large partios of Indiana, one of them compo.sed of thirty-live bucks, have oroased into Texas to raid. It is rumored that Ooi. Villaroal has inv:i(led Mexico, forty-five milet, abovo Jliituinores, in tho iuterest of Escobed" aud Lerdo, aud tu stir up H revolution in TwaMilipa?. Lienl. Bullía dtru;.i'i q [udiini i'üinti al Bangoufti larty of Mexicana and Indiann from Chihuahua ip.d Northern Mexico havo crosKPd iuto Toxas n the war-path in rovengo for the invacion by Jent. Bullis. Tho latest from El Paso county s tliat tho ontire veion is un Ier tho control of Mixican mob backed by Mexicana BOntb of he river, defying thu United States anthoriies, and clainiinu allegiance to the Mcxican ai?. The trial of Gen. Kscobedo, at Jirowusille, for violationof theUniied Statea neutrrüty laws resulted in his acqnitta). GENERAL. An agent of tlie IUmsian Government, now D Philadelphia, is ompowered to make a conract with partios i this country for tho construction of a bridge to be thrown acrosti the Janube into Roumania. The requiremonts are sueh. however, that tbc leading company in L'hiludelphia distrustfl ïtri aLility to meet theni, and has deelined the contract. A coKKEsroNDENT of a New York journal recently intcrviewed Sitting Bul], and from hlm learnod the truc story of the Clister massnere. Besaid: "The flght was heil A thousand levils - the squaws - were like Uying birda : the 3ulloti liko hnmming-beoH. Wo thought we were whipped - not at first, hut by-andjy. Afterward no. Your peoplo were killed. [ tell no lies about deact men. These men who camo with the Long Hair (Clister) were as good men aa ever fought. When they rode u their horses were tirtd and they were tired. When they got ofl" their henea they could not stand fumly on thoir feet. They swayed to and fro, 80 my young men havo told me, iko limbs of cyprcBses in a great wind. Some of them staggered under the weight of their guns, but they began to fight at on e. By this time omcampa were aroused, and thero wel'o plenty of warriora to meet them. They fired with ncedle-gun. We replied with magazine guns - repeating-rifles." Sitting Bnll illustrated by pattuig his palma togother tho rapidity of á fusilado. " Onr young nien rained load aeróse the rhor, and drovethe wliite braves baek, and (hen ruhed acrosB themcelves; and then thoy fouud that they had a good deal to do. The trouble was with the BOldiers. They irere fo exhausted. and their horses botbertd them so mocli, they could not take good aim. Some of their horses broko away from them, and left them to stand and drop and die. Allthumen feil hack, fighting and dropping. They could not jiro fast enough, though. They kept'in pretty good order. They would fdll back acros a gylly, and make a fresh stand beyond, on higher grountl. There wero a grent many brave men in that fight, and from time tO timo, whilo it was goiug on, they wero shot down like pigB. They could not help themnelves. One of the ofiicers feil where the last tight took place, where the lattt stand was mude. The Long Hair stood like a i-heaf of corn with all the ears fallen around him." S.tting Buil says the brave Clister iras the last white man to dio on the bloody field. Thk schooner Kate L. Bruce, with all on board, has been lost on Lake Hurón. Georok L. Baños, General Superintendent of the American Express Company, formerly Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service, and lately U. S. Sub-TrenKurer at Chicago, diec a few days ago iu Washington, of Bnght's diíease of the kidnevs. WASHINGTON. Federal appoiutments : Alexander Reed, Po8tmaster at Toledo, Oliio ; Manuel Govin, of Florida, Uuited Statea Consul at Leghnrn ; Effingbam Lawronce, Collector of Customs, District of New Orleans ; Chamicey I. Filley, Postmafter at St. Louis, Mo. Indlan Agents- Samuel S. Ely, Otoe Ageuny, Nebraska, ; Inaiah Lightner, Saute Ageucy, 'Nebraska ; John E. Pyle, Navajo Ageney, New Mexico ; William II. Danielson, Fort Hall Ageney, Idaho ; Edwin A. Howard, Ponca Ageney, Iudkn Territory; F. A. Weaver, Uto Ageney, Colorado". The United States Treasury Department is imitating the precautions adoptcd by Europeaa Governments, in prohibiting the importation of cattlo or hides from diseaee-infected liveBtock regions. The present object is to prevent the rinderpest from reaehing our ores. On tho lst day of tho present month there was on hand in the uational treasury $116,267,363 in gold and ailver coin and bullion. Thia amount is Hablo to be rcduced, by draf ts for sundry purposes to;$65,913,586. Of tho $116,267,363, there i in i-ilver coin and entimated silver bullion $84,775.14. Tlie net amount available in gold coin and estimated gold bullion is 857,436.071. POUTIUAL. The following is the oflicial vote of Pennsylvaui cast at the recent election : Supreme Judge- Stcrrett (Republican), 244,480; Trunkey (Dcmocrat), 251,000 ; Bartley (Greonback). 51,5S2 ; Winton (Prohibition), 2,89e ; Trunkcy's plurality, 6, 520. Stato 'lYeasurer- Hart (Republican), 241,816 ; Noyes (Democrat), 251,717 ; Wright (Greenback), 52,854 ; Cornett (Prohibition), 2,827 ; Noyes' plurality, 9.901. Auditor General - Paawnore (Republican), 242,288 ; Schell, (Democrat), 25L.256 ; Emernon (Greenback), 52,988; Barker, (Prohibition), 2.997; Schcll's plurahty, 8,968. Axother caucus of liepublican Senators was held at Washington last weok. The Senator who waited upon the President to acquaint hinv with the commonts of the previous caucus gave au account of what took placo. Tlioy reportcd that the President, in response to the statement of the widespread uneasip.ess and di.-sati-tfaction which had been created among his party friends by his appointmeiit of Democrats to Southern oflices, etc., has argued that his poücy in tbis regard was not prejudicial to the inte'.ests of the Republican party, and eertainly was net adopted by him from any want of earne.st desire for the perpetuation and maintenance of Republican power and principies. On tho contrary, it was his expectation aud belief that the pursuance of tbis poliey would proraote tho coalition !' the old Whig and various other element s oppotcd to the Democratie party in the South, and evontnvlly secure six or eight Southern Staten tor the Republicana. A iroe discusión followcd as to the propriety and probable effects of the Pretident s poliey, in case it should be pursucd by him and 'acquie-ced in by the Sonate. The interchange of views developcd tho almost unanimous opinión that tb poliey of appointing Demócrata to offieo in th South is not wise or sound, and Senator known as friends of the administraron x pressed doubts whethcr its pursuance woulf liavi; the effect of which the President is san guiñe. Oi'FiciAL vote for Governor of Wisconslu a the recent elcction : Smith, Republican, 78, 753 ; Malloiy, Democrat, 70,482 ; AUis, Green back, 26,1G3. Smith's majority over Iallor 8,271 Col. Robert G. Ingersoll positivo] declines the Berlin mission. THE TURKO-KUSSIAN WAK. An attack upon Gen. SkobclefTs new positio in the rear of Plevna by a strong Turkinh co umn found the Kussiaiis stiougly iutrenched aud, after the assauhing party had cuduret for a ahort time the flro of seventy cannon they concluded to abandon the undertaking and retired in confusión and with great slaugl ter. Servia has replied to the Porto's demand fo a with Jrawal of Servia's troops from the frou tier, that it is impossiblo to leavo tho inhabitanta of the frontier without military proteo tion. A Yienna conespondent estimates the Russian forco before Erzeronrn at 25,000 men, whieh is insumcient to invst the place. Mukhtar Pasha i now confldect of his ability to hold out until reinforcements arrive. Batoum also eeems as safe as ever Reports aro recoived through Constantinoplo of slight Eussian reverses in Armenia - one near Kais and the o'her in the vicinity of Erzeroum. A heavy snow has fallen in Asia Minor, but the Bussians are used to that sort of thing ut homo, and know how to fight in all kinds of weather. The Russian losses in killed, wounded and missing, from the commencement of the war to Nov. 7, aro 61,863 The Montonegrins have taken by assault all the dofensos of Anti vari, except the principal fort, which is dam aged by bombardment Cable dispatchea in dicato that tho fortune of war is agai turning in favor of the Turkish anus. a least i the operations in Asia. Rcssian dispatches report the capture o: Kars after a severo engagement lasting twelv nours. Tiie roported capture of Kars is fully con tinm-il. Tho fortross wa captured by abon 15,000 RusKians, who climbed tho stoep rockp the rampartH, and wulls, and stormed an equi mmiber of desperately (ighting Turks, in heac long tlight over their ditches and parapet conipeiling them to die or surrender. Tlirt hundied eaiiudii, and largo mipplies of prov siou8 and amnmnition, together with all th treasure, feil into the hands of the Ilus siaus. The Turks loMt 5,000 in killed an wounded, 10,000 prisonors, and many llags The Rinsian Ioíb was about 2,700. The Kus sian soldiers made but trilling bootv, anc spared peacefnl citizens, women and clnldrei The brave Moutenegrins are again makin lliings lively for their auoient foes. They ha stormed aud eaptuied tho citadel of Spitza wliich givos them possosaion of tbc coast fron the AiiHtrian frontier to the Boyana. (.imi: l. FOKKIGX NEWS. The several Governmeuts of Europe hav advisod tho Marshal-President of Franco I pursuo a poliey of conoiliation- vhich mean that they deprécate an open rupture in tha country betweon the republicana aud mon archists. Pu.voo, Londou'u pot gorilla, ia liead , , , , Ua usual e-otivity prev&ilB sgaiutt the ailhoiouin o 1 rd' on Uie Tm border . A!Mit 80 U sian Monnonltira loft Berlín, on tilo 9lh inst., for the United States Borrowdalo V Sílúller. morchantR of Calcutta, havo failedi Liabilities, 1,000.000. In the Frenob Chnmbor of Üfputiss, on Thursday, the Ünlo do Ihoglife dedared himself and his oolleagucs ready to meet ÜM impeaohiuont, but warnpd t!io Chftïnljpr tl at thb iroposerl ono-tided intjuiiy VuiiU not be oiibniittcd to. Hb bitterlv reproached tho on for ppreading falso reports among tlio leople dnring the elecüon. A uggeBtion for compromise eabinet, with Louík Blane as one ' itts memborp, wan thrown out, but met with ttle favor. The Chamber adopted the reso'uon for an inquiry by a mnjority showing bout tho full foroe of the dominant party. Pakis telcgrams of tlio 17t) announco that ie members of the MacMahon Cabiuot had onderod their rcnignation, to tako effect upou he appointmeut of their sücCeSBOrS-. A Polk has been ftiftated in Berlín on uscion of Intending to attemptthoassaasination f Bismarck and tho Ëmpefor William The ar lietneeil Egypt and Abyssinia íb at an end, be Abysinniaii liing hftving aecepted the ennB of peace propoaed by tho Ivhedive. A Home dispatcli says another surgeon ii;ia eeu summoned to givo hourly attention to the ores in the loga of the Pope, as the suppuraion continúes. The phyaieians consider the ta,to of his ücliness' health decidedly pre;irious, but declare that the symptoms n.n not ggravatcd.