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24
Month
April
Year
1885
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Eight five-story ttnementj on the sonth side of west Sixty-xíooad strest, between tenth and eleven areuues, New York, that had rscentl y been pat a rider roof, feil the other attemoon while tfl r;s were belag made to brace them np, thu the yield'ng foundations might be male se3 ir. The wreek was complete. Not a Bticn rsmained standing, not a timber remaine whole in the estire row. Half a hundred wcrkrcen were at work in or around the hnildings at the time. At leaat thirteen of them wre injured, none fataJly. The bailder is responsible, A ST. LOUIS HORROR. The decomposinj! headless body of a man was found in a ttuok in arxira of ifce Southern Hotel in it. Louis, Mo The room was Jet on the 3Oth uit. to Waker H. Linnox Maxwell, M. D. of London, Eng. A few days later Maxwell was fjund by & man named Arthur PrelluraUo of L-ndon, a gentleman of mtnna, who appeared to be making a tour of the country. Preller had not been seen since Easter Sunday, and subsequent developments shawed that the headless body was that of Preller. Max mil his room-mate, ia uiider arrest chargtd with the morder. MAXWELL SKIPPS. Maxwell, the tupposed murdereroi Preller, whose body was d;s;ovf red in a trank in the Southern hotel in St. Louis, leít San Francisco íor AuckUnd, New Zaiand, on the 12th inat. Cables will bs bent to New Zeland and Australia for MazwellN arrest. A letter has been sent by the steamer Alameda to Honolulú, in case of his stoppitg there. The pólice think he will changa nis courae at Honolulú, taking a sailing ship to China or Japan, end that traces may thus be loet. MURDERED CELESTIALS. A Chinese wash-housein Anaconda, Mon., was blown np by giant powder a few dajs since. Jfoar of th six Cninamen who were in the building were kiüed, one was fatally wounded, ud the othw epoiped uohurt. Houees in the vicinity were badly shattered. The outrage was planned by hoodlums who were receutly in jiil on complaint of the Chinamen íor Ireaking their Windows and otherwiae molesting them. HORRIBLE DEATH. About fiye miles below point Pleasant, . Va., on the side of the hiil there lived an oId woman called Qranny öalloway with two Krndohildren, girls about 8 or 10 years old. For stveral days past no sinoke had been seen coming frem the ohimney. The neighbors finally l'oreed the door and fouud the old woman aad two children dead in bed and partially nawed by rata. The bodlea were much emaciated and the three had evldently siarved and f rozen to death during the last cold snap. CREMATKD CHILDREN. A three-story house belonging to George Dumoucher in Montreil, was destroyed by fíre a few days ago, and three childreu were burn. d to deetb. To wtra boys named Gravel, aged 3 and 4 years respectively, and the other a girl named Lizatte, 5 years old. Mrs. Giavtl had locked the door of her house on going out and yhva she returned found it it flamea. She was badly barned in attempting to rtsoue the children. DEOWNING REBELS. A epecial from the City of Mexico on the 17th jnst., saye: When the troops of the Colomb:an Government finally entered CoIon, after it has been burned by the rebels under the leadership of Preston, they caplured Eereral squadn of rebels. Buring the past ten days the number of these prisonen has been cousiderabl angmented by the receipt of stragjling rebels captured ia surroncding diotricte. It is not kuown just now how many rebels were thua held prisoners at Colon, bat good authorities place the number at about 500. Authentic information has been received that on VVtdneeday the officers of the Colombian Government selected 100 of the worst rebels imprisoned at olon and plauing them on ooard a steamer carried them out into the bay where the entire 100 were thrown overboard and drowned. PRCIOUS METALS. The pro i uot of gold and silver for the year 188i and its diaposition may apprczimately be stated as fohows: Gold BUyer. ProdocioD, etc , $30 80U.0OO $38,800,000 Disposition eposited, Iets foreign $30,000,000 $32,300,000 ündeposited exporta 116,000 16,400.000 UndeíKsiteil used in a;ts 681,000 100,000 Tutal $0,800,000 $48,800,000 Fiity-tkree incorporated companles working gold and silver mints paid daring the year in 27 dividends t7,567,698.

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