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ESTABLISHED IN 1S( ASSAULTED BY A BRUTE. A BURGLAR DISSUADED FROM COM MITTING A GRAVE CRIME. A Woman's Flight Through a Window to Escape Assault?Helpless Con.lition of an Authoress Who Lives Alone?Locked in a Closet by a Scoundrel. A little hut which closely hugs the base of a hill on the farm of Oscar Purdy, 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. Kobinson, a writer of Sunday school hooks and Methodist tracts, and an unknown young man who broke into the hut to commit a robbery and an assault. Mrs. Robinson, 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 alfair, 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 year ago and built the cabin. She has been engaged in her profession for several years, h iving 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. Kobinson lives, is her father. The story of the assault, as told by Mrs. Kobinson, isas follows : She retired at an early hour Saturday night after having fastened the doors and windows. She lay awake until about '{o'clock. Then she heard a noise at the window of her workroom.and got up to 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. He 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 2'.i years old. He had a slightly hooked nose and a very brown l ice so brown, in fact, that she thinks he was a mulatto. As he came toward her Mrs. Kobinson ran to another window, out of which she leaped, aud started to run up the hill to J the residence of William L. Purdy,) which was nearer than that of Oscar Purdy. 'fhe 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. Kobinson became ex hausted, and began to argue with the, fellow about the enormity of the crime j 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 fastened the door. The fellow then ransacked the house, and stole a gold watch and chain and 835 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 stiff 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. Kobinson came out und ran to Mr. Purdy's house for assistance. She screamed for help, and aroused 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 hau" not been found. Mrs. Kobinson is about 35 years old, good looking, tall and graceful, with brown hair, and dark hazel eves, und bears herself like a lady of high cul ture. A Terrible Kail. Detkoit, Nov. 22. Tins morning, in the new Cyelorama building, on Lur nedstreet.aboul twenty feet of scaf folding gave way. precipitating four carpenters to the ground, i j i t > feet bo low. Two others saved themselves by catching the broken scaffolding. Michael <'regier was killed instantly. .7. Austin's head struck a niece of scaf folding, crushing in his face so that In died while on the wav to the hospital. William Header had a'leg broken, :>tul was injured internally. His recovery is doubtful. George Phillips sustained intern;;! injuries, besides having a broken leg and mashed 1r11i. II is thought he will recover. The accident was caused by the men crowding in one spot. An Attempted i'oisoni Chicago, November IT. An attempt has Icon discovered to poison the fam ily of Phillip I?. Armour by means of what appeared to be a sample package of buckwheat flour, heavily charged with strychnine. The attempt railed because the family make it a point not to use sample packages left lor advt r tising purposes. Philip Armour to-day confirmed the correctness of the report but refused to talk of the matter. Smalls to f?ntest Elliott's Seat. The returns from the Seventh Con gressional District having been can vassed by the Male Hoard of Canvas sers and the n'sult announced in favor of Colonel Elliott. Congressman Smalls returned Saturday to I lean fort. He says he does not propose to give up the fn;lit, and will wage a contest for Colonel Elliott's seat before Congress. OHA V/HAT WE ESCAPED. Th'e Will?! Storm of Lust "Week Does Con siderable Damage North. STAUXTOX, Va., November IS.? A wind storm of almost unprecedented violence prevailed here last night, I blowing down trees, unrooting houses, and doing a great amount of damage. ; ClIICAOO, November IS. 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 I foundered and a score of lives lost. TltOY, November 18.?The vitriol I works of the John L. Thompson Chem-1 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'840.000. A canal boat captain was blown into t(ie canal and drowned. Moorstowx, 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 the building. A number of minor eas ! unities are reported elsewhere in this \ section. reading, Pa., November 18.?-A heavy wind storm this morning created sad havoc in Oiey township, in this county. For half a mile in the track 1 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 at Swartz wald was partially unroofed, and many small buildings were wrecked. Des Moixes, Iowa, November IS.? The storm continues. W hile a snow i plough on the Panda Road, of the ' \\ abash system, was pushing through ja drift near Panora. yesterday, three j trackmen, Mr. 1-arrow and his son and , Joseph Davis, were struck ami so badly injured that Farrow and his son died 'last evening'. Davis bad both legs broken and was otherwise severely ' hurt. The storm was so blinding that the men could not be seen by the en : gincer. Nkw York, November is. -A terrific thunder shower broke over the city shortly before noon, and rain'feil in ' torrents. Over two inches fell. The I wind attained a velocity -in miles an hour. During the progress of repairs 'and additions to the Slock Exchange a t temporary roof has been erected over a part of the building. The boards upon {this became separated by the heavy I rain storm this morning and a small I deluge of water poured suddenly down upon the. heads of the brokers on the : lloor of the Exchange. Uri-talo, N. V., November 18. The maximum velocity of the wind was reached about 11.30 A. M., when Un 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 tin; former inhabitants gone back to their old loca tion the damage to property would probabiy have been as great as a month ago. I CiiAMitKitsniito, P.\v November 18. A storm, beginning with a heavy rain, yesterday morning, 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 and fences carried away. Much fear and excitement pre vails, and the lives of many at various times were in imminent danger. Up to the time no loss of fife has been re ported. KiNiisToN. Pa., November is.?A new Catholic Church, 120 by ?? 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 plunks were tossed about promis cuously. Robert Johnson, a carpenter at work at the time, was struck bv a living plank and instantly killed. The steeple of the Med hod ist Episcopal Church, 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 and llud j sou Company were blown down and de |stroyed. The damage done at these two collieries has caused :; suspension of work for the present. Lockhavkx, P.\.. November Is. A severe wind storm that swcpl over Ibis city at i) (.'(dock Ibis morning ilid much damage to property. At the Pennsylvania Paper Mills'two large iron smoke-stacks, seventy-Jive feel high, were blown down. Om; oi them \ fell ?Mi the evaporating building, com 1 phdely demolishing it and injuring ! four men. v, ho were buried in the r lins. The other stack fell across the boiler house ami crushed it. Fireman 11. Heimelt was badlv injured. Many buildings iu the city are damaged, and a large tobacco shed owned by Proctor Myers was totally demolished. The roof ou t he new nail mill building was slighly damaged. Reports from the country are to the effect that the fann ers have suffered severely by damage to fences, fruit trees ami buildings. A Story of ISruialit.v. Savannah, Ga.. Nov. 20. Georgia Hak er, a colored woman, living a low 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 alter beating her with a club until her back and shoulders wer" torn alimvsl in shreds, tied her to a tree ami left her all night without lood ami nearly dead from wounds. During the nighl she gnawed the cords with tvhich she had been tied until they broke, and then escaped into the woods, reaching this city early this morning. The cords were stili on her wrists and cut into the ilesh nearly to the bone. Warrants have been issued and search is being made for Raker. This paper only 81.50 per annum. NGEBURO, S. C, TIIUl TAXED TO DEATH. TARIFF REFORM THE REAL BATTLE FIELD IN POLITICS. J Fanners Especially Interested in Itring lug about Legislation Whereby the Con stantly Growing Encroachment* of .Monopolists may be Checked. To the Editor of the News und Vomier: The apparent blindness or indiffer ence of our people to the real cause of their troubles is almost inexplicable. It is true that during the last campaign there were unusual manifestations of i political unrest that developed into 1 various schemes of reformation. But, unfortunately, the blows were dealt, to 1 a great extent, in the wrong direction. The whole burden of attack was upon I State and county affairs, while Federal {politics, the true seat of the difficulty, escaped comparatively unnoticed. Here should have been, and must be in the future, the real battlefield for reform. Doubtless there are some faults in our State and county governments that I could be corrected, but these dwindle j into insignificance alongside of the ; enormities of Federal legislation. To ' enumerate these enormities is entirely too stupendous a task for the limits of one article. The President's message ?of December 0, 1881, states that the revenues of the government for the f fiscal year were ?300,782,292 57. As to i how this outrageous burden falls upon the people, it may be interesting to read the following extract from a speech made by Senator Coke in the Senate February 7, 1882 : ; '"For every dollar paid into the na tional t reasury under the existing tariff, I six and a half dollars, at the lowest calculation, go into the pockets of the j manufacturers. If this vast sum of money were collected annually from tin' pockets of the people directly, to be . given to the already richest class of people in this country each year, its 1 monstrous iniquity would, of course, j be so apparent as to d >i it. But it I is collected indirectly ugh as sure ly, in an increased price of everything they consume, in even tiling they eat. drink and wear; in every tool and im plement they work with; in every article which enters into the construe ! tion of the houses they live in, whether j used for strength, or utility, ororna ; ment; in every book or newspaper they : read. This tax is as all-pervading as j theat mosphcrc they breathe, ami they I have been so accustomed to it that they neither reel no appreciate its enor I mity." I He then makes a list of the articles ! most heavily taxed, such as blankets, clothing, salt, soap, sugar, &c, ami re j marks : 'i appeal to the tariff list in proof of the assertion that the poor people, the I 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 eonsump j tion than any oilier class." ; There arc 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 bis American Almanac for 1879, shows ! that where 829,097,288 were raised on I such luxuries as diamonds, dolls, fans, ; feathers, silks, &c., S80,035,?0<i were cx : acted from cotton ami woollen goods. ! crockery, sugar and other necessaries of life. Another outrage connected with the system is the cost of collcc i tion. Mr. Thompson, of Kentucky, in In speech in the House in 1882.makes i 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 820,928 to ! collect 84,217, and at live places in Vir i ginia it took 810,032 to collect 81,074. The present system is kept upon us by the corrupting influence of rich monopolists to still further enrich themselves, and there is no doubt, that it will be rectified as soon as the eyes I of the people are properly opened to , the enormity. When this happens we . will then see our Representatives step ping more boldly, and the following of liamlall ended. iL is the people to : whom we must appeal between now ami the next election. The last Con gress did substantially nothing in the i way of tariff reform, although there ; was a good Democratic majority in the House; and it is a significant sequence I thai the party lost badly in the recent elections. There KCClllS, therefore, littlli prospect for anything to be done in the coming Congress with a greatly reduced J lemoemt ic majority. The only hope is for the tariff refor mers to organize, and work with sys tem and energy to better matters in . the future; and to this end they should allow no discouragement or opposition to battle or impede their efforts. It is a cause in which the farmers especially, all o\i :? the 1 'nion. oughl to unite. * S. It M. t irangeburge, November 18. I al.il Luring \eeideni. Moxt<:?>mki:y. A i.a., November 15. M Martin's llridge. a party of ten !!:??:! were rafting l<-gs in a creek ami bad a number of other logs fastened with slakes some distance up an em bankment While all were busy at work the stakes holding tho logs up on the eiibnnkmeiit gave w ay and the logs came crashing down tho embankment with terrible force, running over, ter ribly mangling and instantly killing s, L. Penney cd' Greenville, who v,.is superintending the rafting of the logs. Thomas Jones was terribly mangled and has since died. The ol hers escaped unhurt. Somebody's Lost .faw. A-i-.t i:\ I'ai:k. N.j.. November 17. A sensation was created on I he after noon train from New York to-day h\ one of the brakeim-n picking up a package in the car which contained 1 he lower jaw of a human being. The brnk -mm( hastiI; threw ii from him and soon imagined he saw ghosts Moat ing through the car. The conductor had to be summoned into i he car to pick up the worn-out jaw before quiet was restored. The jaw is now in the rail way otlice at Long llranch, where the 'owner can claim it. It is supposed tn have been left by some medical student, i who probably procured it in New York, {SDAY, NOVEMBER 2,5, AT THE GATES OF HEAVEN. Maggie Deadline's Trance anil What She Alleges the Lord Revealed to Her. PiTTSBuiio, Pa., November 18.?For many weeks back, according to the statements of her parents, Maggie ? Peddling, the daughter of James Head ling, a coal miner, near this city, has j been in a 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 I relate. I Maggie does not admit that she has j been sick. She insists she has "only lieen 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 i appeared two angels dressed in white, ? with long wings and hayinS crowns on their boads. They were my grand-! I mother and aunt." My aunt, who died | I three years ago, told me the other angel I J was ray grandmother, whom I had never seen. They bore me on their I wings to the bank of a river. This | ; river was crossed in a boat which was j I moved by some invisible power. When : I we reached the opposite shore we found j the Saviour standing to receive us. He ' guided us up a narrow path to the gates j j of heaven, but 1 was not allowed to j ' pass them. Sounds oi beautiful music burst ?pon my ear, and angels, some of! : whom J had known on earth, llittcd to and fro with harps in their hands." "Did you see Cod?" "Oh, yes. Put 1 must not say what lie is like. I was told never to reveal ' ? certain things I saw. but God told me [ that when I returned to earth 1 was to I write a book describing some of the; i wonder?-of heaven. This 1 am to do 1 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 Panksville i really believe the girl has bad a revela ; tion mid that she met her dead relatives j up in heaven. Her father says he in j tends to get the editor of the I'ittsburg Christian Advocate to write the story, which he thinks is too holy for a daily I paper. He, two disavows any inten | tion of making money out of Maggie's ; visittofteaven. "If any money is mad:' j out ofthe book," he says, "it will be de i voted to some benevolent institution." j Mrs. Peadling, on the other hand, looks ! at the matter from a more practical I point of view. She thinks that as they arc poor there is no reason whatever i that they should not benefit by Mag j gie's'alleged adventures. DIED TO SAVEHER FATHER. Mr. Bess's Daughter Springs In Fron I of thcfc?i that was Leveled at Him. St.Lot/is,November 1(5.?Four miles Fast of . Donne Terre, in St. Francas Ooo.nt-^iis State; at feig Mills, a little hamlet, was the scene to-day of a deplorable tragedy, the victim being Miss Minnie Pess." Robert Stock well is a big landowner and farmer residing with his family at Fig Mills. Jonathan Pess, also a farmer, is a tenant of Stock well. The families have been neigh bors and good friends for years, and a son of Stockwell was generally consid ered to be a lover of Miss Minnie. lie went away to college a year ago, and it ; seems, though he never wronged the 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 Hess to vacate his land. Hess had a lease, and i refused to be dispossessed. The bitter ' feeling grew until it culminated to-day in a tragedy. About 7 o'clock this morning old man Pess and his son, about Hi 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 Dess 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 I less 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 fa!hers were lighting, and young Stockwell met young Hess and undertook (?? lake the trim. .\ lighl for possession of the weapon resulted in favor of young Stockwell. On get ting the gun awav from Hess he raised it and tired both barrels at old man Hess. The girl noted his action as he leveled the gun at her lather, and sprang between her lather and the weapon just as the trigger was pulled. The contents of both barrels took cfl'ccl in her breast and stomach, killing her instantly. This slopped t!ie light. The dead girl was curried to the house and young Stork well was taken into cus tody. A Muslim .Ma n's furious Suicide. IJoston. November l">. Kdgar Lom bard, of ISruiulree, and a member of the well-known firm of A. C. Lom bard's Sons, steamship agents, commit ted suicide at Voting's Hotel to-da\ while laboring under a tit id'despon dency, caused by family troubles. About a week ago he engaged a suit of rooms at the hotel, where he has spent the greater part of his lime alone, dust before noon a porter passing by his loor delected I he odor of gas. Mr. Lombard was found in his bath room lying on the Moor. He had taken a rubber pipe and had fastened one end over the gas burner and putting the other into his month, lay down and in haled the gas until he wnsaspln xiated. He leaves a widow and three children. Itoycoltinga I'agan Governor. CnXi'iM.'D. X. IL. November lit Hov ernor Curries Thanksgiving proclama tion is to be boycotted by the ministers throughout Hie"state because it makes no reference to theSupreuie lleing. His proclamation last year was also boy cotted because it was not siltlicioutly religious in tone and made no reference to the churches. The majority ofthe ministers have decided to read Presi dent Cleveland's proclamation on Thanksgiving Day instead of the Gov ernor's. 1SSG. P11IC A SINGULAR ACCIDENT. Dr. Ilaucr of Yah- Nearly Killed by the Ex plosion of an Ostrich Eng. New Haven, Nov. 20.?Almut 9 o'clock this morning a terrible shaking was felt in the Peabody museum at Vale College, and alter a thorough search had been made Dr. George Dauer, the entomologist and assistant of Pro fessor O. 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. Uauer's in South Africa had shipped him a box containing four ostrich eggs. This parcel was shipped on board the bark Aurelia, which was wrecked near Trinidad on her way to New York. A few things were saved, and among them this box of ostrich eggs. A few days ago the doctor* re-1 ceived notice of their arrival in New York after their year's journey, and' sending on money the package was sent him, arriving here car!;, 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 strument, lie cut small, circular holes in the ends of the. eggs, and set out to remove the contents. Two were dis emboweled. Taking a towel, he placed it round the third and begun to plunge the file through the shell. This towel probably saved t lie 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 Moor, having been insensible about ten minutes. Happily his wounds proved to be only llesh ones. The egg that exploded weighed three pounds ami a half and was eighteen inches and a half in circumference. Its ' contents wi re equal to that of twenty five liens' eircs. 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 I tents generated a terrible gas which, j when the sligiitest indentation was j made caused the shell to weaken ami i explode. The shell was so bard that it ' took a heavy hammer to crush pieces of jit. This is an unparalleled scientific : phenomena, and has created great ex j citement in this city. A BAD PREACHER. ! Who Sent His Wife In an Asylum llccttuse of iler Liberal Views. j Minneapolis, Nuvendtor l">. At to idav's meeting of the Orthodox Clergy I Mrs. I). P. W. Packard, of Chicago, up I pcared and asked the endorsement of tin; association for a bill which she pro poses to bring before the Legislature, ? providing that every patient, in any ? asylum shall be pcrmUted to write one ! letter a \weulr to any individual he J chooses, without being subjected to the J 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 I Massachusetts Congregational clergy i man. ami married a minister of the saiiiedenominalion. who became pastor of a Presbyterian Church at Mantcuo, i III., and was a member of the Chicago i Presbytery. In the course of time her ! religious views changed, and she no j longer adhered to the creed of the Con gregational Church. Shi; represents j that her husband became alarmed at 1 her liberal views and their possible ef ; feet, and, as a means of defense, got her committed to the .Jacksonville Insane I Asylum. She insists that there were 1 no evidences of insanity about her. and I that she was not examined. She left at home six children, the youngest an in fant of is months. An effort was made . by her friends to secure her release, but. it was frustrated by the refusal of her 'husband to give his consent. I Ter only other course was to make application j to the court by letter. She wrote the application hut claims that it was in tercepted by the Superintendent, who was in sympathy with her husband. She was kept in the asylum for three years, as she believes, simply because she could not send that letter. She linally manage?I by strategom to get the communication sent, am I a hntnus ! tw/?/s was obtained, 't he result of a long trial was her release. She added that ner husband had lefl the country, taking all the property and the minor children, and leaving U>-v helpless. The pastors appointed a committc. to investigate the matter. An Licet rle Storm. Cu:.\i:i>. Ks.. Nov. 22 A cyclone.oi an electric storm, struck DiVanl at v o'clock this morning, and passed through the residence portion of tin tow ii. from ! he s nil hw esi to i \u- north, west. The path ol the storm was only from fifty to seventy-five feet wide. All of the lighter building wi re de molished, but the larger and more sub stantial buildings st.i 1 he shock m itli much damage. The Presbyterian Church is wrecked. a number <>f per sons Were injured. -Iiio. W. Ilerroti was blown out o| hjs bouse, cut uhoill the head and internally injured and may die. His wife had unarm cut.and their child was bruised. .Im?. A. Ken ned) had an arm broken and Mrs. Ken nedy was injured, bill will recover, Mattie (ioodsilig. aged 10. was injured internally, a part of the roof failing on her. She is in a critical condition, William Smith, an aged man. was in his house when it was turned bottom side up. A vinegar barrel fell on him: his injuries are >li:rhi. Outside of (!Ir ani the damage was slight. Most Foully Murdered. Nr.w Dim.lan's. Nov. 22. A special to the Picayune from Menden says: About midnight Itisl Saturday Charles Simmons, a law abiding' and peaecjiMi negro, w as most |'oull\ murdered in lib own home, two miles from Menden. a party of masked ne e broke open hfc door and shot him to ile.ith while In was sleeping in his bed. The wlmh affair is wrapped in mystery. Tht coroner's jury was impanelled Sunthn morning and is still in session. No ar rests have yet been made. E #1.50 PET* ANNUAL A TERRIBLE DISASTER. LOSS OF THE STEAMER LUCERNE WITH ALL ON BOARt?. She Founders in Luke Superior Durini; (he <Jule of Wednesday Night?Suniniary of Marine Disasters on the Lukes in the Re cent Storm*?Thirty-Seven Lives Lost. Ciiicaoo, November SO. The Inter I Ocean's Washhurne, Wis., special eon I 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 hoard. She is not known to have been seen .after she left i here until Wednesday, when the captain of the.steam barge Fred Kelly saw her I turn about and head for this" port for shelter. She not arriving here yester i day morning tin; captain of the "steam barge Raleigh, who had bought the Lu cerne, telegraphed to Rayard for a tug to go in search of her. The steamer Marker immediately started out. She I had only gone a few miles when the I 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 I 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 id' nine I men, all of whom are supposed to be ; lost. The tug llrown of Rayard search ed about the wreck all day for more ; bodies, but found none. The bodies I were covered with from one to six I 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 t he Northeast. . , t nu Aiio, Xov. 22. The terrible gale that raged with unabated fury for j 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 iron- to pieces or been buried beyond recovery, ami it is bc j lioved that quite a number that now I are on the beach will prove a total loss. I The loss of life is appalling: IT persons I are known to have perished, and the [crew of an unknown steam bark that i went down oil' Dunham's pier has not been heard from. I f they are lost the ! list will be swelled to nearly 00. The i ioss in dollars on nine of the eleven I vessels that have gone to pieces aggre gates $:tS$,0D!>f but partial losses will bring Ine amount up to fully s |i k 1.1 w:). 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 CX ! istence will not exceed tl.'KJO. All A hnttt a ?Irl. I'nLrMWA, November 22. This morning Python Williams, charged with the murder of Uesekia'n (Jreen, was committed to the Richl.ind County 1 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 ell'ect that on Saturday evening Py thon Williams went to Fastover with I his gun and bought shot and powder, lie loaded his weapon, a rille resembling a small cannon, which probably figured 1 in the Revolutionary war. and then in vited one of the witnesses to join him, saying that he was going a short dis : taneeaud might shoot something. They had gone but a few steps when they I met llesekiah (Jreen, who also had a , gun. Williams asked Oreen to accom pany him for a little way. and then i suddenly turned to him. saying, "1 am going to try a shot at you." and dis charged the contents of his gun. The load of large shot penetrated the ahdo , men of Green, who died shortly after wards. Upon (jreen's falling to the j ground Williams is slated to have said that he had a spite against him anyhow for being on a familiar fooling with some girl of their acquaintance. The two men had quarrelled a few Sundays ago about the same girl. All parties, I witnesses and principals, were colored and comparatively young. Over a Precipice. I)i-:nvi:u. Cm... Nov. it. Late last evening a stage containing nil.'- pas sengers that left Leadvil'.e yesterday morning for Aspen, was cttiig it in a snow-slide on top of ri mountain lift ecu : miles from Aspen, ami the entire outfit !carried over a precipice two hundred feel high. A relief party from the Home Si age Station saiecee'ded in dig ging tie- passengers out of tie- aval anche. Four wen- uninjured but Robert Owvcr, Chris. Odin. Ihiucan C. Robertson." I. A. Rerkw ?!! and Lillie Mcl'hcrson are oxpoclo i die. As tite telegraph u in .? L>> Aspen are down o]l aceoiuil id' tin1 severe storm last night, further particulars rammt be had tor some < hue. Seven Men llrowned. Mll.w vi'kkk. Nov. it. A special from Creeli Rn\ says two burger, nam ed 1 lixon ami Kmerald. in tow of the steamer .lustice Fields, broke loose and foundered off Kev. uniiec lid < morning. Two im-n of the Dixon and live of the [ Ktuerald were drowned and the mate of tin' breakers is unconscious and has remained so: hi* will probably dm. A I bird barge of the same tow i-, riding in llie breakers, living signals of distress, ami will probably go tu pieces. Two schooners are ashore on (indium's I'oint, four miles from Detroit, with slender chances for the vessels or those on board. A l.ndy llmwiied ?1 ^.-u. Ni:w Voi:k, November ?!. .Mrs. Kl ' rose L. Christum, fifty years old. of Richmond. Va.. was a passenger on the 1 steamer Wvauoke. of the < >ld Domin ion Line, that rmne in Ibis morning. When tie- steamer was off Atlantic Cily yesterday she t ell overboard and was drowned. (Mirers of the vessel report I that, despite all efforts to save or recov er her body, she was carried away by I the swiftly (lowing tide