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ESTABLISHED IN 181 ASSAULTED BY A BR?TE. A BURGLAR DISSUADED FROM COM MITTING AGRAVE CRIME. A Woman's Flight Through a Window to Kscape Aitsault?HclpleKS Condition of an Authorens Who Lives Alone?Locked In a CloHPt by a Scoundrel. A little hut which closely hugs the base of a hill on the farm of C)scar Purely, in the town of Harrison, X. Y., was the scene of a fearful struggle at an early hour on Sunday morning. The principals were Mrs. M. S. Robinson, a writer of Sunday school books and Methodist tracts, and an unknown young man who broke into the hut to commit a robbery and an assault. Mrs. Robinscn, who is a lady of the highest respectability and education, lives alone in the little hut. It is set into the hill, so that the rear is against the earth. It is a one-story affair, built of brick, and is used as a sitting room and sleeping room. In front is a smaller wooden building, connecting, in which Mrs. Robinson does her literary work. She takes her meals at the farm house of Oscar Purdy, three hundred yards away. She came there about a vtar ago and built the cabin. She has been engaged in her profession for several vears, having formerly lived in a simi larly isolated place at Sandy Hook. She" is separated from her husband. Rev. Mr. Stevenson, who a few years ago was pastor of the Methodist Church at Mamaroneck, three miles from where Mrs. Robinson lives, is her father. The story of the assault, as told by Mrs. Robinson, is as follows : She retired at an early hour Saturday night after having fastened the doors and windows. She lay awake until about 3 o'clock. Then she heard a noise at the window of her workroom,and got opto investigate. She inquired who was there and the answer came : "Let me in !" The voice was that of a man. She said it was rather an early hour to receive visitors, and suggested that the intruder postpone his visit. The fellow answered her by smashing the window and crawling through it. lie advanced toward her, and by the light of the night lamp on the table she could plainly distinguish his features. He was of medium size, and apparently about 22 or 23 years old. He had a slightly hooked nose and a very brown face?so brown, in fact, that she thinks he was a mulatto. As he came toward her Mrs. Robinson ran to another window, out of which she leaped, and started to run up the hill to the residence of William L. Purdy, which was nearer than that of Osctir Purdy. The young brute leaped out after "her. and, overtaking her, caught her in his arms and carried her back to the bedroom. There a prolonged strug gle took place Finally Mrs. Robinson became ex hausted, and began to argue with the fellow about the enormity of the crime he was about to commit, and told him nobody but a coward would take un manly" advantage of a woman, unable to longer defend herself. The brute, after offering her much indignity final ly gave up his intention of perpetrat ing a graver offense, but in his rage he struck the woman several brows with his clenched fist, and then forced-her into a small closet under the stoop, and fastener", the door. The fellow then ransacked the house, and stole a gold watch and chain and $35 in cash. Then he bade his victim good-by and started to go away. She begged him to release her from her uncomfortable position, as she was clad only in her night dress and was almost stilt* with cold. He said he would open the door if she would promise not to come out until he had time to get a good distance away. She promised, and the fellow unfasten ed the door. After the ruffian had been gone about five minutes Mrs. Robinson came out aud ran to Mr. Purdy's house for assistance. She screamed for help, and arousei; Mr. Purdy and his farm hands. They started in pursuit of the rascal, but no trace of him could be found. Yesterday afternoon Constable Woldorf and a squad of citizens went out to make a systematic search of the tramp nests which abound in that territory, believing that the fellow belongs to a gang called the "Swamp Angels," some of whom have recently been sent to State prison for various crimes. At a late hour last night the fellow had not . been found. Mrs. Robinson is about 33 years old, good looking, tall and graceful, with brown hair, and dark hazel eyes, and bears herself like a lady of high etil-1 tu re. _ A Terrible Kuli. DKTKOIT, Nov. 22. This morning, in the new Cyelorama building, on tur ned street, about twenty feet cd' scaf folding gave way. precipitating four carpenters to the ground, fifty feet he low. Two others saved themselves by catching the broken scaffolding. Michael Geeglcr was killed instantly.; .7. Austin's head struck a niece of scat'-1 folding, crushing in his face so that he died while on the way to the hospital. William Reader had a leg broken, and1 was injured internally. His recovery is doubtful, d'eorge Phillips sustained : internal injuries, besides having a broken leg and mashed arm. It is thought he will recover. The accident Weis caused by the men crowding in i one spot. An Attempted Poisoning. Ciiit Aco, Xovember 17.?An attempt has b^en discovered to poison the lam ily of Phillip I>. Armour by means of what appeared to be a sample package I of buckwheat flour, heavily charged ' with strychnine. The attempt failed because the family make it a point not to use sample packages left for adver Using purposes. Philip Armour to-day ; confirmed the correctness of the report but refused to talk of the matter. Smalls to Contest Klllott'S Seat. The returns from the Seventh Con gressional District having been can-; vassed by the State Hoard of Canvas sers and the result announced in favor of Colonel Elliott, Congressman Smalls returned Saturday to Beaufort. He says he does not propose to give up the ! fight, and will wage a contest for J Colonel Eliiott'sseat before Congress. I Col AI Mover ,/an 1, > 80 59. OHA WHAT WE ESCAPED. The Wind Storm of tust "Week Does Con siderable Damage North. Staunton, Va., November 18.?A wind storm of almost unprecedented violence prevailed here last night, blowing down trees, unroofing houses and doing a great amount of damage. Chicago, November 18.?The record of marine disasters during the gale is an appalling one. Reports up to a late hour to-night show over a dozen vessels foundered and ? score of lives lost. Troy, November 18.?The vitriol works of the JohnL. Thompson Chem ical Company, near West Troy, were demolished by a cyclone this morning. Six men were cut and burned bv vitriol, but none fatally. The loss is'$10.000. a canal boat captain was blown into the canal and drowned. moorstown, N. J., November 18.? During a very heavy wind storm; ac companied by lightning, this morning, the Chronicle building was struck and the upper wall shattered. The wind lifted off the roof and destroyed the walls above the second story, wrecking Hie building. A number of minor cas ualties are reported elsewhere in this section. Reading, Pa., November 18.?a heavy wind storm this morning created sad havoc in Oley township, in this county. For half a mile in the track of the storm fences, trees and small out buildings were destroyed. Kohn & Gresemer's large tobacco warehouse was wrecked and its contents scattered in all directions. The church atSwartz wald was partially unroofed, and many small buildings were wrecked. 1)es Moines, Iowa, November 18.? The storm continues. While a snow plough on the Panda I toad, of the Wabash system, was pushing through a drift near Panora, yesterday, three trackmen, Mr. Farrow and his son and .Joseph Davis, were struck and so badly injured that Farrow and his son died last evening. Davis had both legs broken and was otherwise severely hurt. The storm was so blinding that the men could not be seen by the en gineer. New YORK, November 18.?a terrific thunder shower broke over the city shortly before noon, and rain' fell in torrents. Over two inches fell. The wind attained a velocity 40 miles an hour. During the progress of repairs and additions to the Stock Exchange a temporary roof has been erected over a part of the building. The boards upon this became separated by the heavy rain storm this morning ami a small deluge of water poured suddenly down upon the heads of the brokers on the Uoor of the Exchange. Buffalo, N. Y., November 18.?The maximum velocity of the wind was reached about 9.30 A. M., when tire wind blew over sixty miles an hour. "Waves are dashing high over the break water and the wall is being broken up. It is expected that-nothing will be left of it if the gale continues much longer. Furious wind and waves have again swept the island, and had the former inhabitants gone back to their old loca tion the damage to property would probably have been as great as a month ago. ChAMBERSBURG.Pa., November 16.? A storm, beginning with a heavy rain, yesterday niorninpr. became a tornado by nightfall and lifted several houses from their foundations and badly dam aged several, but the chief mischief in town was to chimneys, shutters, &c. In the country the ends of houses were blown out, barns levelled with the ground, schoolhouses upset, trees torn out by the roots aud fences carried away." Much fear and excitement pre vails, .ml the lives of many at various times were in imminent danger. Up to the time no loss of life has been re ported. Kingston, Pa., November 18.?A new Catholic Church, 120 by 00 feet, with 12-inch walls, was blown down and totally wrecked here last night. At Parsons the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company are putting up a new shaft, and during the gale the timbers and planks were, tossed about promis cuously. Robert Johnson, a carpenter at work at the time, was struck by a Hying plank and instantly killed. The steeple of the Methodist Episcopal Chnrch. one of the biggest in tins sec tion, was blown down and completely demolished. At Mill Creek, the head house of No. 3 shaft, and the roof of No. 2 shaft of the Delaware ami Hud sou Company were blown down and de stroyed. The damage done at these two collieries has caused a suspension of work for the present. Lock11.wen, Pa., November 18. a severe wind storm that swept over this city at t5 o'clock this morning did much damage to property. At the! Pennsylvania Paper Mills" two huge iron smoke-stacks, seventy-live feet high, wen-blown down. One of them fell on the evaporating building, com pletely demolishing it and injuring four men, w ho were buried P: the ruins. The other stack fell across the boiler house and crushed it. Fireman II. Dennett was badlv injured. Many buildings in the city are damaged, and a lar^e tobacco shed owned by Proctor ? Myers was totally demolished. The | roof on the new nail mill building was sligbly damaged. Itcports from the country are to the effect that the farm ers have suffered severely by damages to fences, fruit trees and buildings. A Story of llriltailty. Savannah, (Ja., Nov. 2o.- Georgia Baker, a colored woman, living a few miles out of the city, walked into the Court House this morning with her hands tied, and told the sheriff a story | which excited the sympathy and indig nation of every one. Her husband after beating her with a club until her, back and shoulders were torn almost | in shreds, tied her to a tree and left ? her all night without lood and nearly | dead from wounds. During the night she gnawed the cords with which she j had been tied until they broke, and | then escaped into the woods, reaching 1 tins city early this morning. The cords , were still ou her wrists and cid into the tlesh nearly to the bone. Warrants have been issued and search is being made for Raker. This paper only S1.50 per annum. I .^gebtjrg, s. c, thue TAXED TO DEATH. TARIFF REF?RM THE REAL BATTLE FIELD IN POLITICS. Farmern Especially Interested In Bring? lug about Legislation "Whereby the Con Htantly Growing Encroachment* of ' Monopolists may be Checked. To the Editor of the News and Courier : The apparent blindness or indiffer j ence of our people to the real cause of their troubles is almost inexplicable. It is true that during the last campaign i there were unusual manifestations of political unrest that developed into various schemes of reformation. But, unfortunately, the blows were dealt, to a great extent, in the wrong direction. I The whole burden of attack was upon I State and county affairs, while Federal J politics, the true seat of the dilliculty, escaped comparatively unnoticed. Here I should have been, and must be in the i future, the real battlefield for reform, i Doubtless there are some faults in our i [State and county governments that I could be corrected, but these dwindle I I into insignificance alongside of the | j enormities of Federal legislation. To 1 enumerate these enormities is entirely I too stupendous a task for the limits of : one article. The President's message j of December 6, 1881, states that the : revenues of the government for the (fiscal year were $360,782,292 57. As to j how this outrageous burden falls upon j , the people, it may be interesting to I ! read the following extract from a i speech made by Senator Coke in the j Senate February 7, 1882 : "For every dollar paid into the na ; tional treasury under the existing tariff, I six and a half dollars, at the lowest j calculation, go into the pockets of the manufacturers. If this vast sum of j money were collected annually from i the pockets of the people directly, to be I given to the already richest class of [people in this country each year, its monstrous iniquity would, of course, be so apparent as to defeat it. But it is collected indirectly, shough as sure ly, in an increased price of everything they consume, in everything they eat, drink aud wear; in every tool and im plement they work with; in every article which enters into the construe j tion of the houses they live in, whether I used for strength, or" utility, or orna ment; in every book or newspaper they read. This tax is as all-pervading as theat mosphere they breathe, and they have been so accustomed to it that they neither feel no appreciate its enor mity." lie then makes a list of the articles most heavily taxed, such as blankets, clothing, salt, soap, sugar, ixe, and re marks : "I appeal to t he tariff list in proof of the assertion that the poor people, the working people of the country, who are least able to bear it, pay more than double the amount of taxes under the tariff, in proportion to their consump [ tion than any other class.*' There are some who want to say that the tariff does not bear so heavily upon the laboring people, and yet, iii addi tion to the above, Mr. Spofford, in his American Almanac for 1H79, shows that where $29,097,288 were raised on such luxuries as diamonds, dolls, fans, feathers, silks, &c, 680,035,51)0 were ex acted from cotton and woollen goods, crockery, sugar and other necessaries of life. Another outrage connected with the system is the cost of collec tion. Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, in ! a speech in the House in 1882. makes j a list of fifty-two places at which the cost of collection far exceeded the amount collected. As a sample, at nine places in Maine it cost 620,928 to collect 84.217, and at live places in Arir ginia it took 610,032 to collect 61,074. The present system is kept upon us by the corrupting inlluence of rich monopolists to still further enrich themselves, and there, is no doubt that it will be rectified as soon as the eyes of the people are properly opened to the enormity. When this happens we will then see our Representatives step i ping more boldly, and the following of ! Randall ended. It is the people to ! whom we must appeal between now j and the next election. The last Con gress did substantially nothing in the l way of tariff reform, although there I was a good Democratic majority in the! i House; and it is a significant sequence that the party lost badly in the recent; elections. There seems, therefore, little . prospect for anything to be done in the j ' coming Congress with a greatly reduced j i Democratic majority. ' The only hope is for the tariff refor- [ niers to organize, and work with sys tem and energy to better matters in' . tin? future; and to this end they should I allow no discouragement or opposition j to bailie or impede their efforts. It is a \ cause in which the fanners especially, j all over the Inmn. outfit to unite. " : * S. R. M. Orangeburge, November 18. fatal Logging Accident. Moxtcomeky, A i.a., November 15.??' At Martin's Bridge, a party of ten men were rafting logs in a creek and had a number of other logs fastened with stakes some distance up an em bankment. While all were busy at work the stakes holding the logs u p on the enbankmeut gave way and the logs 1 came crashing down the embankment with terrible force, running over,ter ribly mangling and instantly killing S. L. Penney of Greenville, who was superintending the rafting of the loirs.! Thomas .Jones was terribly mangled and has since died. The others escaped , unhurt. Somebody's Lost .law. Asiu kv Pakk. N.J.. November 17. ' A sensation was created on the after-: noon train from New York to-day ! by one of the hrukcmeii picking up a package in the car which contained the lower jaw of a human being. The: brakcman hastily threw it from him and soon imagined he saw ghosts float- ' ing through the ear. The conductor bad to be summoned into the car to pick , up the worn-out jaw before quiet was restored. The jaw is now in the rail-' way office at Long Branch, where the owner can claim it. It is supposed to I have been left by some medical student, j who probably procured it in New York. I SD AY, NOVEMBER 25, AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN. Maggie Beadling's Trance and What She Alleges tlie Lord Kevcaleil to Her. Pittsburg, Pa., November 18.?For many weeks back, according to the statements of her parents, Maggie Peddling, the daughter of James Bead ling, ? fcoal miner, near this city, has been ina trance, during which she has only taken the smallest amount of liquid. : She has now awakened and scores of people daily crowd around her bed to hear the strange story she has to relate. ; Maggie does not admit that she has been sick. She insists she has "only been away," while her friends speak of her having "come back." "When I first lost consciousness," she said to a Herald correspondent to-day, "all seemed dark to me. Then a bright light suddenly burst forth, and then appeared twoangels dressed in white, with long wings and haying crowns on their heads. They were my grand mother and aunt. My aunt, who died three years ago, told me the other angel was my grandmother, whom I had never seen. They bore me on their wings to the bank of a river. This river was crossed in a boat which was moved by some invisible power. "When we reached the opposite shore we found the Saviour standing to receive us. He guided 'us up a narrow path to the gates of heaven; but I was not allowed to pass them. Sounds ot beautiful music burst irpon my ear, and angels, some of whom'J had known on earth, tlitted to and fro with harps in their hands." "Did-you see God?" "Oh, yes. But I must not say what He is like. I was told never to reveal certain things I saw, but God told me that when I returned to earth I was to write a book describing some of the wondejp of heaven. This I am to do in return for what the Lord did for me, and the book is not to be sold for my advantage." Many of the people of Banksville reallybelieve the girl has had a revela tion and that she met her dead relatives up in -'.'heaven. Her father says he in tends to get the editor of the Pittsburg Christian Advocate to write the story, which he thinks is too holy for a daily paper. r He, two disavows any inten tion of ^making money out of Maggie's visit'to^heaven. "Jf any money is made out of.the book," he says, "it will be de voted to some benevolent institution." Mrs. Beadling, on the'other hand, looks at the. matter from a more practical point pf view. She thinks that as they are poor, there is no reason whatever that they should not benelit by Mag gie's 'alleged adventures. DIED TO SAVE HER FATHER. Mr. Bess's Daughter Springs in Front of thetv^i that wits Leveled at Him. St.Lows,November 16.?Four miles East of,-Bonne Terre. in St. Francis C<oiu>'~T^ds-#t3te, at Big Mills, a little hamlet, was the scene to-day of a deplorable tragedy, the victim being Miss Minnie Bess." Robert Stock well is a big landowner and farmer residing with his family at Big Mills. Jonathan Bess, also a farmer, is a tenant of Stock well. The families have been neigh bors and good friends for years, and a son of Stock well was generally consid ered to be a lover of Miss Minnie. He went away to college a year ago, and it seems, though he never wronged th? girl in word or deed, that she or her family thought the young man had not done just the right thing. Out of this matter bad feeling grew up, and last Spring there was a bitter quarrel, re sulting in Stockwell ordering Bess to vacate his land. Bess had a lease, and refused to be dispossessed. The bitter feeling grew until it culminated to-day in a tragedy. About 7 o'clock this morning old man Bess and his son, about KJ years old, went into the timber for the purpose of cutting wood. A younger son of Stock well saw them, and called his father. Then the two Stock wells started after the Bess couple, and on overtaking them forbade them cut ting any wood on the land. A quarrel followed, and words led to blows. See ing the Stock wells were getting the best of it, young Bess ran to the house, a hundred yards away, and got a dou ble-barreled shotgun. " When he return ed be was followed by his sister Min nie. The two fathers were fighting, and young Stockwell met young Bess and undertook to lake the gun. A light for possession of the weapon resulted in favor of young Stock well. On get ting the gun away from Bess he raised it and fired both barrels at old man Hess. The girl noted his action as he leveled the gun at her father, and sprang between her father and the weapon just as the trigger was pulled. The contents of both barrels took effect in her breast and stomach, killing her instantly. This stopped the light. The dead girl was carried to the house and voting Stoekwell was taken into cus tody. A Botitwn Mmu'h Curious Suicide. Boston. November 15.?Edgar Lom bard, of Brainlree, and a member of the well-known linn of A. C. Lom bard's Sous, steamship agents, commit ted suicide at. Young's Hotel to-day while laboring under a fit of despon dency, caused by family troubles. About a week ago he engaged a suit of rooms at the hotel, where lie has spent the greater part of his time alone. .1 ust before noon a porter passing by his door delected the odor of gas. Mr. Lombard was found in his bath room lying on the llnor. He had taken a rubber pipe and had fastened one end over the gas burner and putting the other into his mouth, lay down and in haled the gas until he was asphyxiated. He leaves a widow and three children. Boycotting a Tag.tu Governor. CON'COKD, N. II., November II?. Gov ernor Currie's Thanksgiving proclama tion is to be boycotted by the ministers throughout the State because it makes no reference to the Supreme Being. His proclamation last year was also boy cotted because it was not sufficiently religious in tone and made no reference Lo the churches. The majority of the ministers have decided to read Presi dent Cleveland's proclamation on Thanksgiving Day instead of the Gov ernor's. MUT 1SSG. PBIC A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. Dr. Dauer of Yale Nearly Killed by tho Ex plOHlon of an Ostrieh Egg, New H?ven. Nov. 20?About 9 o'clock this morning a terrible shaking was felt in the Peabody museum at Yale College, and alter a thorough search had been made Dr. George Dauer, the entomologist and assistant of Pro fessor 0. C. March, was found lying in sensible in the basement, covered with blood and the most obnoxious smelling stuff that a chemical laboratory can generate. It seems that in November, 1880. a friend of Dr. Bauer's in .South Africa had shipped him a box containing four ostrich eggs. This parcel was shipped on board the bark Aurelia, which was j wrecked near Trinidad on her way to j New York. A few things were saved, j and among them this box of ostrich eggs. A few days ago the doctor, re ceived notice of their" arrival in New York after their year's journey, and sending on money the package was sent him, arriving here early this morning. With the ardent interest of a scient ist, as soon as he received the box he took it into the basement to examine the contents. Taking a pointed in-1 strument. he cut small, circular holes j in the ends of the. eggs, and set cut to j remove the contents. Two were dis emboweled. Taking a towel, he placed i it round the third and began to plunge che file through the shell. This towel probably saved the doctor's eyesight, for when a small hole had been made a hissing sound followed, and the next the scientist knew was several minutes afterwards when he found himself on the floor, having been insensible about ten minutes. Happily his wounds proved to be only flesh ones. The egg that exploded weighed three : pounds and a half and was eighteen ! inches aud a half in circumference. Its ! contents were equal to that of twenty five hens' eggs. The first two eggs had been previously punctured and treated with sulphate of mercury, which pre vented their fermentation, but this third one was neglected and its con tents generated a terrible gas which, when the slightest indentation was made caused the. shell to weaken and explode. The shell was so hard that it took a heavy hammer to crush pieces of it. This is* an unparalleled scientific phenomena, and has created great ex citement in this city. A BAD PREACHER. Who Sent His "Wife to an Asylum Uccuuse of Her Liberal Views. Minneapolis, November 15.?At to day's meeting of the Orthodox Clergy' Mrs. K. P. W. Packard, of Chicago, ap peared and asked the endorsement of the association for a bill which she pro poses to bring before the Legislature, providing that every patient in any asylum shall be permitted to write one letter a .jaealcto any individual he chooses, without being subjected to the Superintendent's surveillance. She said that she had been convinced of the need of such a law by a bitter experience, which she related. Mrs. Packard is the daughter of a Massachusetts Congregational clergy man, and married a minister of the same denomination, who became pastor J of a Presbyterian Church at Manteno, ill., and was a member of the Chicago j Presbytery. In the course of time her j religions views changed, and she no! longer adhered to the creed of the Con gregational Church, she represents that her husband became alarmed at her liberal views and their possible el- J I feet, and, as a means of defense, got her j committed to the .Jacksonville Insane! t Asylum. She insists that there were j I no evidences of insanity about her, and j I that she. was not examined. She left at i I home six children, the youngest au in-1 ! fant of 18 months. An effort was made j ! by her friends to secure her release, but I ? it was frustrated by the refusal of her \ husband to give his" consent. Her only other course was to make application j to the court by letter. She wrote the application but claims that it was in ; tcrcepted by the Superintendent, who j was in sympathy with her husband. She was "kept in the asylum for three J years, as she believes, simply because she could not send that letter. She 'finally managed by strategeui to get I the communication sent, ami a /(?/??/? I corpus was obtained. The result of a | 'long (rial was her release. Shi- added that uer husband had left the country, j taking all the property and the minor; children, and leaving her helpless. The pastors appointed a committee to investigate the matter. An Electric Storm. GiUAitD, Ks.. Nov. si A cyclone, or an electric storm, struck Girard at s o'clock this morning, ami passed through the residence portion of the town, from the s mthwcsl to the north west. The path of the storm was only from fifty lo seventy-live feet wide. All of the lighter building were de molished. Inil the hn-ger and more sub stantial buildings stood the shock with much damage. Tin' Presbyterian Church is wrecked. A number of per sons were injured. .Inn. \V. Ilerrouj was blown out of his house, cut about the head and internally injured and. may die. His wife had unarm cut.and ] their child was bruised. Jno. A. Ken nedy had an arm broken .and Mrs. Ken nedy was injured, but will recover. Mattie Goodsiitg. aged 115, was injured internally, a part of the roof failing on | her. She is in a critical condition. I '?Villiam Smith, tin aged man, was in : his house when it was turned bottom ' side up. A vinegar barrel fell on him; his injuries are slight. Outside of Gir ard the damage was slight. Must Foully .Murdered. New Oi:i.lan's. Nov. 22. A special I t<> the Picayune from Menden says:' About midnight last Saturday Charles Simmons, a law abiding and peaceable negro, was most foully murdered in his I own home, two miles from Menden. A j party of masked ne u broke open his door and shot him to death while he I was sleeping in his bed. The whole affair is wrapped in mystery. The coroner's jury was impanelled" Sunday morning and is still in session. No ar rests have yet been made. E $1.50 PET? ANNUM. A TERRIBLE DISASTER. LOSS OF THE STEAMER LUCERNE WITH ALL ON BOARD. .She Founders In Ijikc Superior During (Tie Gale of Wednesday Niglit?Summary of Marine Disasters on the Lakes in the Rc cent Storms?Thirty-Seven Lives Lost. Chicago, November 20.?The Inter Ocean's Washburne, Wis., special con firms the loss of the Lucerne, with all on board. The special says : News has just been received here that the steamer Lucerne, which left here last Monday evening with a cargo of ore for Cleve land, has gone to the bottom of Lake Superior, with all on board. .She is not known to have been seen :ufter she left here until Wednesday, when the captain of the steam barge Fred Kelly saw her turn about and head for this" port for shelter. She not arriving here yester day morning the captain of the "steam barge Raleigh, who had bought the Lu cerne, telegraphed to Bayard for a tug to go in search of her. The steamer Barker immediately started out. She had only gone a few miles when the spars of a vessel were seen just above the water, about a mile South and about ten miles from this city. The bodies of three men were found lashed in the rigging. They were immediate ly cut loose And brought to this city last night. One was recognized as be ing the second mate. The vessel is lying in forty feet of water. The Lu cerne left this port with a crew of nine men, all of whom are supposed to be lost. The tug Brown of Bayard search ed about the wreck all day for more bodies, but found none. The bodies were covered with from one to six inches of-ice. The Lucerne is suppos ed to have gone to the bottom some time "Wednesday night. The wind blew a terrific gale that night, with a blind ing snow storm from the Northeast.. Chicago, Nov. 22. The terrible gale that raged with unabated fury for three days last week was one of the most disastrous storms that have swept the lakes in many years. Thirty-six vessels either foundered or were driven ashore, and several vessels are missing; eleven have gone to pieces or been buried beyond recovery, and it is be lieved that quite a number that now are on the beach will prove a total loss. The loss of life is appalling: IT persons are known to have perished, and the crew of an unknown steam bark that went down oil' Burthain's pier has not been heard from. If they are lost the list will be swelled to nearly 00. The loss in dollars on nine of the eleven vessels that have gone to pieces aggre gates 8328,000, but partial losses'will bring the amount up to fully SfoO.OCO. This estimate is not so large as some tnat have been printed, but is probably more accurate. The aggregate ton nage that has been wiped out of ex istence will not exceed i>,<)00. All About a Girl. Columbia, November 22.?This - morning Python Williams, charged with the murder of llesekiah Green, w as committed to the Biellhmd County jail by Trial .Justice j. W. Taylor. The killing seems to have been a clear case of cowardly murder, prompted by jeal ously. The substance of the informa tion gathered from the witnesses was to the effect that on Saturday evening Py thon Williams went to Kastover with his gun and bought shot and powder, fie loaded his weapon, a rille resembling a small cannon, which probably figured in the Revolutionary war. and then in vited one of the witnesses to join him, saying that he was going a short dis tance and might shoot .something. They had gone but a few steps when they met llesekiah Green, who also had a gun. Williams asked Green to accom pany him for a little way. and then suddenly turned to him, saying. "I am going to try a shot at you," and dis charged tin; contents of his gun. The load of large shot penetrated the abdo men of Green, who died shortly after wards. I*p(,n Green's falling to the ground Williams is stated to have said ? that he had a spite against him anyhow for being on a familiar footing with some girl of their acquaintance. The two men had quarrelled a few Sundays ago about the same girl. All parties, witnesses and principals, were colored ami comparatively young. Over ii Precipice. Dkxvki:, Col., Nov. IT. Late last evening a stage containing nine pas sengers that left Lead vi lie yesterday morning for Aspen, was caught in a snow-slide on top of a mountain fifteen miles from Aspen, and the entire outfit carried over a precipice two hundred feet high. A relief party from the I lomo Stage Station succeeded in dig ging the passengers out of the aval anche. Four were uninjured, but Itnhert Dwyer, Chris. Conn, Duncan O. L'ohertson.' I. A. Herkwell and Lillic McPherson are expected to die. As the telegraph wire.; to Aspen arc down on account of the severe storm last night, further particulars cannot be had for some ! line. Seven Men Drowned. Milwafkkk, Nov. IT. A special from Creeii Hay says two b?rge? nam ed Dixon and 'Kmerald, in tow of the steamer.I usticc Fields, broke loose and foundered oil Kewannec this morning. Two men of the Dixon and live of the Kmerald were drowned and the mate of the breakers is unconscious and has remained so; he will probably die. A third barge of the same tow is riding in the breakers, living signals of distress, and will probably go to pieces. Two schooners are ashore on Graham's Point, four miles from Detroit, with sh inier chances for the vessels or those on board. A Lady Drowned al Sea. New Vokk, November 22. Mrs. Fl rose L. Christian, fifty years old, of Richmond. Va.. was a passenger on the steamer Wvanoke. of the Old Domin ion Line, that came in this morning. When the steamer was olf Atlantic City yesterday .she fell overboard and was drowned'. Ollicers of the vessel report that, despite all efforts to save or recov er her body, she was carried away by the swiftly (lowing tide.