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®ht .Simitnnnlt (Tribune. Published by the Tribune Publishing 00.1 J. H. DEVEAUX, Manager. > R. W WHITE, Solicitor. j VOL. 11. ST, PATRICKS DAY, HOW IT IF.4S OBSERVED AT VARIOUS PLACES. (innieime Procession nt New York—Largely Celebrated in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Detroit—No Disturbances. St. Patrick’s Day was very generally celebrated by the sons of Ireland throughout the country. Large pro cessions were formed an t rousing speech es made in many places. At New York, an the municipal and many of the city buildings the green flag was thrown to the breeze. Irish societies paraded in two distinct bodies, one crossing over in- Brooklyn joined the Brooklyn procession. The other formed on Fifth avenues and ifter parading through the principal streets was reviewed in Union Square by Mayor Hewitt. From thence they marched to Jones’ woods to take part in the annual picnic. The Brooklyn people celebrated appro priately by flying Irish flags on their pri vate and public buildings. A procession of about 4,000 men formed on Bedford avenue and marched to the city hall, where it was reviewed by Mayor Whit ney. Brooklyn had two parades. An other procession, composed of about 1,000 members of Irish societies, under Marshal Mulholland, paraded in the after noon. They were also reviewed by the mayor and marched through the prinei pal streets. Dr. Me Glynn made his first appearance since his recent illness, and made a rous ing speech, which was received with tre mendous applause. The one hundred and third anniversary dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Pat rick was given at night at Delmonico's: banquets were also given by St. Patrick's Club and St. Patrick’s Society, of Brook lyn. AT PHILADELPHIA tire day was appropriately commem orated. At all the Catholic churches mass and special services appropos of the day were held. At St. Patrick’s church pontificial high mass was celebrated by Bishop O'Hara. Archbishop Ryan was in the sanctuary during the service. In the afternoon there was a lengthy and creditable street parade of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. The streets along the route of procession were crowded with spectators and many buildings were profusely decorated with flags, the stars and stripes being copiously intertwined with the green and the golden harp. In front of Independence hall, the parade was reviewed by the president and mem bers of both branches of the city coun cil. BAD WEATHER IN BALTIMORE. St. Patrick’s day passed very quietly in Baltimore. The early morning was bright and pleasant, but early in the foiv ooon a regular blizzard came from the northeast and there was a slight lull of •snow for the remainder of the day. Ihe usual mass was sung at St. Patrick's church and the annual distribution of premiums at the Oliver Hibernian free school took place. There were no pa rades, and but for an occasional gm r emblem on the streets there was no out ward sign of ihe occasion. The banque; of the Hibernian society took place in the evening. AT DETROIT the celebrations were not very large, but were interesting; one of the most notable features being the speech of the invinci ble “Jones, of Florida," in which he took up the subject of labor, opposing any governmental interference between labor and capital. At Nashville, Tenn , Montreal, Canada, and many other places interesting cere monies were had. A notable fact i> the entire absence of any disturbances. THE ANNISTON LAND CO. Two Companies Want to Bear cite Name— An Injunct oil Case. A bill has been filed in the city court of Bitmingliam, Ala., by the Anniston l;.nl c a a any against Roden et al., who bought «-ut Oxanna land company some time ago, and organized another corpora tion under said name of Anniston land company, to enjoin the defendants from using their names on the ground that the name is the property of the complainants "ho organized under that name some three vears ago, and because such other corporation is not in fact an Anniston corporation, not identified at all with Anniston, and its putting off its stock on unwary parties over its actual values, is a: - injury to the Anniston land company and a deception and a wrong to the pub- I -*c. The complainants corporation is not the Anniston city land company which ■ "as recently organized in Anniston, but ■ n company formed some years ago by ■ soiin gent lemen of Talladega who bought ■ ‘•oiisiq.-ruble property in Anniston and so ■ a,v identified with Anniston, while the M Gxanna concern was bought and i.B still ■*uvaed chiefly in Birmingham. IMMENSE FLOODS. The Hirers nnd Creeks of Dakota Over flowing. A Northern Pacific train from the west, which was delayed seventy hours, by the floods, reached Bismarck, Dak., Wednes day evening. Reports indicate that the Missouri must break within a week, and there is great alarm among the people living along the banks. The Yellowstone. Little Missouri and Prioi rivers are free of ice, and are flooding their banks. Over thirty bridges on the Northern ' Pacific, between Bismarck and Billings, j have been swept away, and much damage has been occasioned by the floods. Pas ! sengers report that Miles City has been twice inundated within the last week, and a report says that the town is again under water. Water flowed in all the 1 streets and in one street, in rear of the j town, it wa3 over ten feet deep, compell ing the business men to remain from their homes all night. At Wedora, water in the Little Mis souri has surrounded the extensive : slaughter houses and refaigerators of Marquis de Mores; and Mandan, five miles west of Bismarck, is preparing for the worst. The Little Heart liver, just south of Mandan, is now open about j twenty miles above its confluence with the Missouri.and when the ice in the lat ter stream b'eaks at Bismarck, Mandan i will then be inundated, as she is built on ; low ground. Dynamite shipped to Bis marck by th- Northern Pacific company | will be u<ed in blowing out the ice along I the piers of the massive iron bridge, and I every precaution taken to prevent disas ter. There can be no protection for set tlers along the banks for many miles south. Never in the history of the coun try has there been so much snow. It is now pouring into the Missouri in immense torrents, and every creek is swelled to the dignity of a river. 3 _ __ A TOWN BURNED. Htackville South Carolina is Visited by a it Destructive Fire. The entire business portion of the little town of Blackville, S. C., was burned Wednesday. The lire originated in the rear of the general merchandise store of P. W. Farrell and had gained considerable headway before it was dis covered and notwithstanding the efforts of the entire town to check the fire in a remarkably short time the flames had spread to adjoining buildings, and in less than half an hour almost the entire town was one mass of flames and at night the other portion of the town east of the rail road was one mass of ashes, twenty-sever houses having been consumed. Among the buildings consumed were: P. W. Farrell’s and Martin & Boil’s gen- I eral merchandise store; J. L. Buse’s large brick grocery house; D. K. Bngg's drug store; VV. A. Jarrell’s general store; Simon Brown's new brick general store; Martin Keeler’s grocery store aud bar; Brown’s livery stable and a handsome residence; the large warehouse of the South Carolina railroad; half a dozen small stores and many residences. The depot was one of the few buildings in town that escaped the flames. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Insurance about $30,000. CELKStfIAI, GA.HRLEKS. Lieutenant Walton, of the sixth police district of Philadelphia, with a squad of twenty-four officers. Sunday night raided six of the leading Chinese gambling places and succeeded in capturing one hundred and thirty-three Chinamen, to i gether with a large quantity of gambling paraphernalia, opium smoking outfits and other fixtures. All the places raided are in the immediate neighborhood of Ninth and Race streets, and the vicinity is the rendezvous of almost the entire Chinese population on Sunday. The fact that gambling having been carried |on so openly, and the nois; created by such a largo congregation of celestials, has been a source of frequent complaint to the authorities, and upon these, war , rants were sworn out and placed in the hands of the sixth district officers, with the result above stated. In one house I alone, on Race street, a two-story struc ture, ninety-seven people wen; captured, and in others various numbers, from sixty down. FI hi: at LACKENBIRG s. c. About four o’clock Wednesday morn- I ing, a tire broke out in Leggett’s hotel, at Laurenburg, and the building together with ail contents, was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $10,000; insurance $5,000. The Carolina Central railroad depot and a large cotton platform was 100 feet distant, and was for a while in great jeopardy, but by the determined exertion of the citizens was saved. No other property destroyed. There was ao loss of life, but the inmates of%e hotel barely hud time to escape in their night , clothes. The fire is said to have been in cendiary. SAVANNAH. GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 2(5.1887. IN THE FLAMES. APPALLING SCEN ES AT .1 EIRE l V BUFFALO, V. T. Over Thirty Live* Lost in the Fire—The March Winds Fun the Mml Flames— Fnrtinl List of those Killed. Fire was discovered at 0:30 o’clock Friday morning in the Richmond hotel, at Buffalo, N. A’. The building was sit uated at the corner of Maine and Eagle streets, extending through to Washing ton. The origin of the tire is not as vet known. Win. 11. Alpert, night clerk, says: “The fire started in the cloak room under the main stairway at 3:50 o'clock. There was nobody up but myself, Joe, the night porter, and Plummer, aud hell boy. I pulled all four of the fire alarms ou the different floors, and the people came flying down stairs in their night clothes. The lire followed the stairways and elevator, and inside of five minutes reached the toop floor. I rushed out of doors after doing all I could." The spread of the flames is said to have been frightful in its rapidity. The ele vator shaft served as a flue for the flames and they rushed up it to the top floor. The house contained a large number of guests, and their heartrending shrieks could plainly he heard. Ladders were raised Jand as many as possible saved. A large number of guests were unable to effect their escape. At 4 o’clock the en tire Richmond hotel, Bt. .Tames hull and other property in the block were doomed to speedy destruction. The whole place burned like a tinder box, the corridor in the center of the building acting as a great funnel and the flames streamed up wards. The guests found themselves IMPRISONED BY a WAT,I, OF FIRE. The screams of the guests could be heard for blocks. At many windows could be seen the guests in their night clothes, calling loudly lof help. At third story window two guests were seen by the crowd to fall back into the flames. One man jumped from the fifth floor to the roof of a two story wooden building adjoining. He was seriously in jured. The wife and daughter of Mr. Mann, one of the proprietors, were badly burned, but are in private quarters. A mini’or of other injured persons are also being cared for at private houses. There were many narrow escapes and a number of instances of personal bravery and self sacrifice by both inmates of the hotel and firemen rescuers. The following is a list of those know’ll to have perished in the flames: Katie Kent, servant; Minnie Kelly, servant; Katie Fierce, servant; Wilson Purcell, of R. G. Dun & Co.; Mark Os borne, day ederk at the hotel; Johnson, a Toronto, railway man; Kate Wolf, of Lock port, servant. The dying are: Jacob Kahn, New York; Henry 11. Rumscv. New York: Maggie Muhlacli, Buffalo; .Mary Nolan, Buffalo; Edward Whelan, Newburgh. Many others were lost, but it is impos sible to get a full list of their names. It is an undoubted fact that at least thirty persons perished. The total damage to property is estimated at about $401),0U0. IRON BRIDGE WORKS. Another Industry Going to Locate in Decatur, Alabama. A large and very important contract has been made by the Decatur, Alabama, Land Improvement and Furnace com pany, by which capitalists from Chicago and Birmingham agree to erect at that place a manufactory for the purpose of nu king all kinds of bridge iron, etc" Tii- company has just been incorporated and expect to have their works in full opeiatiou within four months. They have a cash capital of SIOO,OOO, all the sto k being taken by parties in Chicago and Biimingham. This industry from the -.tart will give employment to from 150 to 200 skilled laborers, an early in crease in the capacity of the works is contemplated. VIBUM \s INDEBTEDNESS. At Richmond a caucus of the demo cratic members of legislature of Virginia was held Monday night and spent three hours in the discussion of various meas ures presented at this session, looking to a settlement of the state debt. The cau reed not to take a vote oi question till al! who wished had an op portunity to express their views on the subject. A majority of those who spoke Monday night favored the constitutional amendment proposed by Senator Rhea, which provides that ail bonds not funded in new threes by the time such amend ment is ratified by the people shall be forever barred, and prohibiting all future • legislation looking to their payment. The caucus adjourned till Wednesday. » A WEALTHY CELESTIAL. Ho Wears $1,000,000 Worth of Diamond* While lieuiK IHiutoarn plied. Mr. Chung Yen Hooti, Chinese ministei, sat for some photogaaphs Thursday, lie was accompanied by his interpreter and two or three lady friends who were anx ious to see the operation. His servants carried up to the photographer's room two or three trunks and several smaller eases, in which were ten or a dozen changes of costume. The minister was “done” in each of these and in as many different positions. He wore a silk cap. in the center of which was a large dia mond, about the size of a hazel nut. The cap fitted so closely that the diamond looked like a huge star set in his skull. From the cap floated a long peacock feather. Around his neck was a necklace of three chains, each of which was about a yard long composed of precious stones, every sixth of which was a diamond. His interpreter, one of the party, said the aggregate value of the jewels which adorned the person of the representative of the “flowery kingdom” was about a million dollars. The different costumes were composed of the richest silks and satins embroidered with solid gold and trimmed with the richest, furs. Mr. Chang Yen Ifoon is said to be the richest man in China. DEFYING OFFICERS. Three Men Ucslsl Arrest aud Are Shot Down. A speciaf from Montgomery, Alabama, last Sunday to the Atlanta Constitution says: Further particulars of the bloody tragedy which occurred at Mount Meigs, Friday morning, have been received. The sheriff's posse of six officers went to the home of James S. Sidney, colored, who was wanted for grand larceny, and who had previously openly defied the officers The posse found Sidney and his two stepsons barricaded in their house and armed with shotguns and axes. Deputy Parks, who led the posse, called Sidney and told him to surrender quickly as the officers were determined to take him. Sidney replied that lie would kill or be killed before lie would surrender. The officers then forced the door open, and the shooting began. Two of the officers shot Sidney and he fell dead. The two stepsons were both wounded, one in the face and the other in the thigh. Alter the melee ended, it was found that the negroes were armed with two shot guns and live axes. Neither of the ofli cers were hurt.. The boy shot in the ! face will lose an eye, and the other’s ; wounds are various. An inquest was | held and the officers released. Sidney's j family was a tenor to the community where they lived. TIRED OF BEING INSANE. Jansen, ihe Wife Murderer, Given In and nnd Asks for n Warm Meal. Henry Jansen, of Chicago,who was re cently sent to Joliet for life, for the brutal murder of his wife, has been con fined in the crank cell at the prison ever since his arrival, constantly under the eye of a doctor. Jansen stood it for thir teen days. Tuesday last he fell upon his km vs and begged for something warm to cat, saying: “My blood is so cold. Give me a warm meal.” A few questions from the physician ! caused Jansen to confess everything and j own up that he was not insane. He stated that he lmd not meant to kill his wife, but that when the learful deed was done his only thought was to save himself by playing the insane dodge and possibly he might escape the penalty of hanging. After bis conviction and sentence to the penitentiary he determined to. keep up the idea, thinking that possibly he mi ght be transferred to an insane asylum,where he would be better treated and from which he might make his escape, but the medicine and diet he had been forced to live an was too much. Jansen fairly danced and tears of joy when a bowl of hot coffee and some warm meat and potatoes were given him. He will be placed in the prison shop tomorrow morning and be made to labor. A WAREHOUSE BURNED. The warehouse at Ziegler's Station, on the Sylvania railroad, was burned on 1 tie-day morning, about seventy barrels • J rosin and ten tons of guano being con sumed in the conflagration. The rosin belonged to Mr. R. Eastman and the guano to Mr. Z. M. Ziegler. The house aught from a small lire that a negro had • lilt upon the ground near by. 'There was a Height ear standing on the track near the platform,which would also have been destroyed by the flames had it not been for Mr. Ziegler’s daughter, who re moved the chocks from the wheels and .-cut the car flying safely to the other end of the switch, where it ran off. There was no insurance upon the warehouse. ( $ 1.25 Pt-r Annum; 75 cent* for Six Months; J 50 cents Three Months; Single Copies j 5 cents—ln Advance. BOLD ROBBERS. A Texas Itailroud nnd Express Office D] lloved ol Over 83,000. ; $ Sunday morning the Gulf, Colom«l| and Suite Fe railroad office at ColemsiyW ’’Vxas, was the scene of a “hold up,*JH j suiting in a loss to the express ana rgjflfl road companies and employes of $3,000. James Muse, the express measoßl ger, Henry Brent, the night operatlwß and two men were in the depot. Mujyl had occasion to go out about 3 :4mm o’clock, and came running back and saiuH; “Some one is robbing the ears.” party started to the cars, when Brew told Muse to run back and get sometlnß to shoot with. Muse went back towaiS the depot to get his six-shooter, three men jumped out from the soniH door of the depot, thrust six-shootersjß bis face, and told him with oaths to the safe. Muse opened it, and the hers got two express packages, and 500 and the other $360, and another SOO of railroad money, and the book of Muse with $135 in it, and hjfl gold watch, worth $125. While this lifH going on lbent aiid the yardman Were uriK the road a few hundred yards, at the caw which Muse saw the man get out of, smS which they found had been broken Opeil and a load of bran set on tire. Altai some trouble they succeeded in puttinM the fire out. It is believed that the robl hers do not live far from Coleman. Ail the men wore long black masks that coni cealed their faces. 11 THEY MEAN BUSINESS. The Cottonseed Oil Mills to Bo Built, Con trary Reports Noi withstanding. The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record slates that it is officially authorized t<» announce that the new cotton seed oil mills about which there has been inouU discussion will positively be built, all re ports to the contrary notwithstanding. Henry C. Butcher, of Philadelphia, pres ident of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil company, telegraphs the Manufacturers? - Record as follows: “You can assure the press and people) of the South that this company means! business in its broadest sense. We have ( taken but one position since the start and will maintain it. We have all the funds ) in hand necessary to accomplish our pur pose and have no favors to ask on that score. Oar company proposes to build mills at the most desirable points as fast as the machinery can be turned out and in go into business on a purely legitimate mercantile basis aud develop it as it. should be. Large contracts for machinery have already been closed, and the work ■ J building the mills will proceed as rapidly as possible. 'The mills will be of not less than 150 tons capacity pel , i went.y four hours. ABOLISHES CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. A repeal of the capital punishment law of Maine has been effected,and imprison-" merit for life has been substituted for death in all cases of murder in the first degree. Such convicts, however, are to be kept in close confinement, away from all associations, and no pardoning power h left to tlie governor and council uules* the convict is proved innocent. ‘November, 1880,” wrote Jos. P. Murphy. • pringlield, Tenn., “my wife suffered eighteen months with no ralgi i and paralysis. By ns* of St. Jacobs Oil, she could walk.” October 7th, ISBO, he writes- “My ulfu recovered en* j t rely.” Price liftV cent-i. A man who edited an agricultural journal for fifteen years, and devoted many hours • to i i-l It UK farmers ho w to cu ti vats their crops and prow rich, purchased a farm and it himself a vear ngo, and las: week he wo®' sold out by the sheriff. -Norristown Herald. Charles Tie!, Philadelphia, Pa., was in » hopeless condition fiom throat trouble ami a ilnna, lied star- Cough Cure cured Uia. I 'rice twenty -five < ents. At drug? Sts. ' „ ___ <jf', V 'U M r*. 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