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^ ilh^i y â- m- ^^. HOW OIOIIH DIED. The Story of the Murder as Told by Burke in Winnipeg. WHAT THE AUTQP8Y REVEALED. A Winnipeg deapfttch aayi ; Barkc, the Cronin suapoot, la Haid to have ooofesBed to his tellow-pria^nera while io jkil here hia connection with the Cronin crime. One ot these men ia Heffer, who has jaat been released on a charge of manalaogbter. Heffer's atatemeut ia aaid to be moat cir- oamstaiitial, giving name*, date and minnte details. Ue saja tinrke told him that Hi. Cronin waa mardered in the Carlson cot- tage on the night of May 4th, and that be wua present at the commission of the deed, together with a number of others, whose Dames he gave. Aflor the marder was committed the oonapirators pat the remains in a box and took them to the lake shore id ftn express waggon. They threw the box into the lake, bat it wo old not sink and drifted aahote, so they patii back into the waggon and took it to the city and hid It for the night. On the following night they set forth again, intending to sink the box containing the remains into the lake by mtaua of weights, bat beooming suddenly pamcstrioken with the fear of capture they dropped the body into a manbolo and threw the box into a vaoant lot, where it waa found on the fullowing day. burke mentioned the namtb of those ordering the commiaaion of the crime and those taking part in it, and he also told who it waa wbo paid him money to leave Chicago and go to Europe by Winnipeg. Those names BeSer gave to hia lawyers. The story throughout is moat oircam- â- tantial. This tact it ia that leada to the strong belief in its truthfalness entertained by those wbo are folly awjuainted with it. The story also corroborates exactly the statements by Oilielte and Mills, two other prisoners. Ueffor saya he is willing to go to Chicago and give evidence in the matter. The authorities here have noti&ed the Btate authorities at Chicago of these state, meats by Gillette, Mills and Urfler, bat have not as yet heard anything in reply. A last (Thursdajj night's Chicago de- •patoh says : The i ronin trial formally b«gau thia morning. The court-room was crowdod. Btate'a Attorney Longenecker at once began his opening address to the jury. He aaid â€" The evidence that we shall introdaoe will be to ahow a oooapiracy to marder Dr. Cronin. The evidence we shall introdaoe will be that in the conspiracy which was formed and carried into execu- tion, terminating in the killing of Ut. Cronin, all the conspirators are lisble for marder, and that the puniabiuent for con- spiracy ends in thepuniahment for marder. That is the position we take in this case. The same hidden band that worked and moved this ounspiraoy, that concocted this scheme, wis again working in this com- m unity to lead the people to believe that Cronin was still alive. Not content with having beaten out hia life, not content with having laid him to real in a sewer, the same oonspiralora that brought it about were again at work for the purpose of blasting the characier and reputation of tne man they had murdered. The btate'a Attorney proceeded to speak of the motive of the crime, uud said thul in order to ahow what that motive was it became necessary to examine into the history in this country of the organization known as the United Brotherhood, com- monly called the Clau-na-Uael. Before doing this be reminded the jury that they were not trying the Clan-na-Gael, but the prisoners at the bar. Mr. Longenecker then proceeded to sketch the history of the Clan-naUael in thia country, saying it waH made up of patrioiio Irishmen, Irishmen who went into it for politioal elleot and Irishmen wbo went into it for the money there waa in it, and that ita object was to free Ireland by force of arms aa aoon as a favorable opportunity offered. Uedeolared that the Triangle was eupremo ; that the oaths of the members made their com- mands superior to the laws of the nation. Mr. Forrest objected to this line of state- ment. Judge McConnell warned the State's Attorney that he was making these etatementa at his peril. The Blate's Attorney said he would prove what he had said, und he accepted the re- sponsibility. Be proceeded to say that when Bullivan, Feely and Boland got con- trol of the Kxeouiive Board they ohanged the plan of work of the organiication, iuaa- garated the dynamite policy and implanted in the oonatitution the clauae commanding perfect and un<iueBtlooing obedienoe to the oommanda of the Board. The defence again took an exception to this line of statement. '1 be State's Attorney then spoke of the adoption of the Triangle an the symbol of the Executive Board. The membership did not know wbo constituted the Triangle, 80 secret waa it, but nuvertbeless they obeyed ita orders, and were sent en various special miaaions io England in the way of active work and under naanmod names. Notwithstanding thia secrecy those men were betrayed by the Board to the English anthorities, and twenty of them are now in prison. This waa, be declared, to enable the Board to steal the funda, and wbon at lasl a showing wasmade the Board claimed that the Order owed tbem £13,000, while there was 9'2,'>0,000 in the treasury when they took charge. Heveral witneases were then examined. A Friday's Chicago despatch says: Dr. Egbert stated the facts revealed by the autopsy which he made upon Dr. Cronin's body on the day following its discovery. He described the wounds, and gave it as hia opinion that death resulted from them. All the wonnda were upon the head. The akull was not broken, except a small pieoe of bone was chipped off at the corner of the left eye. The witneaa deaoribed the condi- tion of the internal organs, and oxbibited the atomaoh and ita contents to the lawyers and the jury. Dr. Egbert said the stomach Meme<l to contain only vegetables. Among them be dislingaisbed corn, and there were others which resembled cabbage and car- rots. In his judgment the doctor was killed within three hoars after having eaten. The crosa-uxamination of Dr. Egbert developed that none of the wonnda on the corpse were such as would necesaarily oaase death. It was impossible also, the doctor admitted, to say whether the woands were indicted before or after death. Be bad tried to ascertain, bnt was unable to do so. Be bad not ascertained that the woands affscted any important nerves or arteries, and be could not swear that they^io any manner effected the brain. If death had resulted from the skull woonda, it would in all probability have been caused by coootU- sion of the brain. The usual fott martem evidence of such a reault, the heart and the lunga being filled with blood, wai not found Id tbia case. The question waa put â€" " Is it not [soien- tifioally true that you physicians foonii no evidences in that body that were certain and conclusive of the form of death ?" Dr. Egbert repliedâ€"" That is trud' Dr. Egbert waa of the opinion that death had occurred through excessive loss of blood, but there was no certainty of it, he said. Dr. Charles W. Perkins, who at the re(iue8t of Dr. Egbert assisted at the pott nuirtem, testitied that in his opinion death did not ensue from blood-letting, bat from conouaaion of tbe brain. The latter organ was too decomposed to afford any infor- mation. The last witness of the day waa the aodertaker who removed the body after the po$t mortem, and who testitied that it re- mained in his charge until buried. D&TUra DTHAMITE! That Was the Ezperiinent Montreal Bewer Workers Tried, CBaXKD 8&IL,OiiS, After Seventesn Uaya' Starvation, Bnucltha lludj of a l>cad Comrade. A Baltimore despatch says: Carl ' rravns, fireman, and Ludwig Loder, seam<. i, sur- vivors of the crew of the ateamshio tUca- moor, tell a horrible story of the way iiiey sustained life by cannibalism for dtys. Loder saya : The only food we hal t^e firat IS days in the boat was a dyiu;< ti ih and a few raw small birds divided am^Lig 11 men. Tbe sixteenth day Wm. Dawi, a seaman, caught me by tbe throat and made u dash at my bead with a knifu. He cut me on the right cheek, tbe scar from which still remains. He was told to kill me by August Flagge, a fireman. When Davis began to cut me, some of my com- panions caught him, while others shouted " Kill him I Kill him I We want some- thing to eat ; we are starving." Flagge, Davis and others in one end of the boat decided that I should die. Aa 1 was pretty fat, I Buppoae tbey thought I looked invit- ing. I'lagge waa placed on watch that night, but he was missing the next morning. No one saw him go overboard. On the I7th day Wm. Robinson lay down to sleep. When they called bim they found hewasdea'l. It waa determined to eat hia flesh, and William Wright, tbe oook, was ordered to carve the body. Tbe firat thing d ne was to smash in Robinson's skull, and from the f raolnre each one sucked the blood aa long as it lasted, which was but a little .vbile. Then the cook atripped tbe flesh from the ribs. The next day the fiesh in strips was placed on tbe top of water-tight compart- ments and dried in tbe son. After taking out Robinson's liver, heart and other parts which would furnish blood to be sacked, they threw his mutilated body into the sea. Two days after Robinson's dnath third engineer Thomas Bunt died. His body was also cut op for food. " In about three days," said Loder, " tbe limbs and feet of all began to swell, and several have since broken out in ugly sores. We think it is poison from the human flesh and blood." Graves and Loder say toey have no recollection of the taste of human flesh, so great was their mental anguish at the time. TUB LA9T UK LUIS. Funeral of the Lata Blue »' Portaxal. A Lisbon despatch says : The funeral of King Luis took place yesterday. The cortege started at 2 30, and the funeral car waa completely covered with beautiful wreathe. Another carriage was devoted to floral offerings. Following were carriages containing the representatives of Oermany, Englsnil, France and Turkey, and the royal mourners. The last carriage was oc- cupied by King Carloa, the Duke of Aoata, and the Duke of Montpenaier. Tbe cortege, which was followed by a large number of deputations from trade and other societies, arrived at the Pantheon at 4 p.m. The Papal nuooio, the diplomatic body, and the members of the royal household were in waiting in the St. Vincent Charcb. The remains were bleaaed by the patriarch, and 101 guna announced that the body had been oonaigned to tbe tomb. Queen Pia and the Duchess of Aosta, accompanied by maids of honor, visited the Pantheon and remained a leng time in silent prayer. The widow placed on the coflin a wreath inscribed : " A souvenir of the soul and heart and of the eternal love of thy inconsolable wife in death and life, Maria." The Duke of Kdinbargh was unwell, and was forbidden by his doctors to attend the funeral. He therefore sent an nSloer to represent him. Towards evening the Duke improved. Probably a Cnse of Revenge. A Montreal despatch of Kunday says : On Monday night last a freight train on the Canada Atlantic Railway bound east ran into a siding at Kt. Justin, and eight earn wt^re badly smaahed, entailing a loss to tbe company of 915,000. Investigation showed some one had misplaced the switch and Uxed the light signalling the road was clear. Private Detective Urose, of Mon- treal, waa sent for by tbe company for tbe purpose of ferreting out tbe perpetrator of tbe outrage. Hia inquiries have led to tbe arreat of A. Beaouhamp, a discharged employee. The evidence shows that Bean- champ, since his discharge, has been in- dulging in threats against the company, and it will bo shown that he waa in the vicinity of the place of the accident on Monday night. He waa arrested at Oaasel- man and lodfjed in jail. WITH STABTLIRO KKSULT8. A Thursday's Montreal despatch saya : A terrible dynamite explosion occurred in St. Jean Baptists ward early this morning. The city is constructing a sewer on Panta- leon street and considerable blasting is necessary. About G o'clock •the blaok- amith'a aaaistant, Jules Chartraud, went to light bis fire, and at the same hour Qodefroi Filion, tbe inao in cttarge of tbe explosives and blastinf^ also went to kindle a small furnace or hall stove in bis shanty for tbe purpose of drying two cartridgea which had not been used the previoua day, bnt had the exploder and fuse attached ready for use as soon as the operations com- menced at 7 o'clock. What occurred is told by Pierre Filion, foreman of the works : " The fire waa kindled to soften and dry the two cartridges, which were placed at some distance from the stove. There were forty cartridges besides in the ahanty, each about ten inohes in length and an inch and a i|uarter thick. When the fire was fairly started I opened the atove to put in more coal, and my idea ia that at that moment a apark must have fallen upon the fuses. Anyway, I suddenly per- ceived that the fuses were all ablaiia, and, seeing that an explosion bad got to come, I ruiibed out for my life, and had hardly gone a few yards from the building when tbe awfal explosion took place. Aa already stated, Jules Chartrand waa then in the blacksmith's shop, and the unforta- nate man was hurled into the air, to what I Thomas FIBB afloat: Tbe Btaamer Qnlnte Destroyed and Four Urea Kioat. A Deaoronto despatch of Wednesday says ; The steamer Quinte waa burned about three miles from Desercnto on her way to Pioton about C o'clock thia evening. Four persons are supposed to have been lost, Capt. Christie's mother, hia young brother Charles, the ladies' maid and her young son, named Davern, of Trenton. As far as can be ascertained the paaaengera were all saved. Three or four have severe burns, but the doctors report none seriously injured. Many were chilled by being in tbe water. All the survivors have been brought to Deseronto and are being pro- perly oared for. The fire, it is supposed, etaried in the furnace room and spread quickly to tbe whole boat. The captain ran her aahore only a abort distance away, where she lies almost entirely deatroyed. All the freight, baggage, etc., were burned. The steamer belonged to the Rathbon Company. The Quinte was the largest boat of the Deseronto Navigation Company. She bad been, three years ago, made nearly new. She was valued at 918,000, partly cov- ered by insurance. The steamer is barnt to the water's edge, leaving tbe bull and machinery in fairly good shape. She lies in shallow (rater. Capt. T. Donnelly said he never inspected a boat that had such a fine fire apparatus aa tbe ateamer Quinte. He inapecied her last May. Capt. Chriatie'a mother and his 12-y(ar- old brother were unable to leave tbe ladies' cabin, so dense was the smoke and rapid the flames. Mrs. Btacey, the helper to tbe cook, and her little son were in tbe dining- room and were unable to get oat. Fireman Hart bad his right leg badly QAHBI.INO AMD DBIHK. height no one seems to know, and fell a I sprained and bones broken. He waa also InTentlgatiuK an Vnlaoky Find. A Franklin, Pa., despatch of Friday evening says: A number of schoolchil- dren found a bomb loaded with dynamite near the Bohool-boaao on the Galloway farm, near here, thia evening. While at- tempting to open it with a knife it ex- ploded, with terrible results. Two children, named Fitzgerald and Roger, are fatally hurt, while eight others are in a serious corpse to the ground about thirty feet off Dr. Jette, who was first on tbe ground, found life extinct, but the body atill warm. Hia impression was that death was inatan- taneoua. The body was completely naked, nothing remaininK but the hoots, and the stockings themselves had been torn off at the junction of the boots. The shook was distinctly felt in the upper part of the oily. Uousea ahook, windowa rattled and people were awakened from their elamburs. A number of pe^^na received serious injuries from broken glasa and debria thrown by the exploaion. Along Laval avenue and Pantaleon street there ia not a single boose bnt nas window glass broken. Tbe damage increaaea as the acene of the diaaater ia approached, and the blocks forming the corner of Laval avenue and St. Jean Bap- tists street have hardly a single pane of glass left. The same may be said of Pan- taleon street, but where the destruotion is greatest is in a large block at the corner of Pantaleon and St. Jean Baptiste streets, immediately facing the scene of the accident. This houie, which belongs to Mr. Plouffe, butcher, looka as it it had been andergoiag a bombardment for several honra. Not a single pane of glass is left in the windows, the blisda have been torn off, some of the doors almost wrenched from tbeir binges, the ineide walla are falling in in many places and the whole preseota a moat dilapidated appearance. There are about eight tenements in this block and the occupants had to seek new lodgings wherein to pass the night, aa it did not seem safe to remain on the pre- mises. The spot where the dynamite shed stood is now marked by a large hole, some ten feet in diameter and six feet deep, instantaneously dug out by the exolosion. The spot where poor Chartrand fell is marked by a small pool of blood, in which lies a pieoe of torn clothing, probably a vest. As to the abop and shanties, with their contents, all that remains of them can be seen in the shape of almost imper- ceptible fragments, acattered for aorea around the aoene of the explosion. A pieoe of the bellows in the blacksmith's shop is the only thing to which a form can be ascribed. Jules Chartrand, the unfortunate victim of thia accident, waa a young man only '.21 years of age. He had been married two years, and leaves his wife with twin babies only a few months old. 8MAI.LPOX AT PKLBK. The Inhabitants of SarroandlncTownahlpi Oetllag Alarmed. Kingaville, Gosfleld, Leamington and Mersea have issued proclamations calling npon ratepayera to get vaooinated. Medical men have been hired to go to each achool- houae. MoKee, the school teacher, who nursed Bnyder, ia down with the disease, and according to hia own statements he was in Windsor on Wednesday last. The evening previous he escaped from the island in a small boat and landed in Bar- row. Wednesday morning be took the early train for Walkerville, nucl then crossed to Detroit. That evening he went to Windsor, took the Michigan Central train for Amherstburg, and then hired a rig from Albert Fox, of Amberatbtu-g, and drove to Harrow, returning with the boat to the island. Another case developed yea- terday, and tbe inbabilanta of the island are panic stricken. Captain McCorniick, who, died, has been sickly all summer, and he Attended Dr. Snyder. Hia father, A. M. McCormick, and brother, Norman UcCor- miok, are also down with tbe diaeaae, an j it ia feared that it will break out in some of tbe villages on tbe lake front. France's Underground RIvrr. A London cable saya : The subter- ranean river recently discovered in France, in the Miers District of tbe Department of Lot, baa now been traced a diatanoe of seven miles to a point beyond which the three daring explorers wbo undertook the task did not dare to venture, as the river there takes an abrupt plunge into the bowels of tbe earth to a depth impossible to fathom. It took throe days and nighta to accomplish tbia journey of seven miles and return, the greater portion being done in a folding boat made of sailcloth. Miera ia in the heart of a wild and mountainous country, in the deepest recesses of which oaves and grottoes are found, some of which appear to have been the abode of our troglodyte ancestors. Tbe subter- ranean river was first discovered a month ago at the bottom of an abyss known aa the pit of Padarae and waa then traced a distance of two miles. The whole seven severely burned. Engineer Short lost 9200 in money in his trank. One of the passen- gers, Mr. Hart, of Belleville, lost his over, coat and a parse with 940. The crew lost everything. Mrs, Christie waa 50 yeara of age and a resident of Picton. Her son, tbe captain, is aboat 24 yearu of age, and has beien on ateamboata for acme time. Another name may have to be added to the hat of the loat, as a man named George Robinson, of Picton, was to take the biat for that place last evening, and nothing can be learned of bim. The fire leaped rapidly from deck to deck and, although tbe firemen were quickly out of tbe fire- hole they were compelled by the advance of the flames to hurry to tbe promenade deok, then to the hurricane deck, from which they were forced to jump into tbe water. The steamer Deseronto was soon at the scene of the disaster and conveyed the remains of the dead to Deseronto. She afterwards made tbe Quinte'a trip to Pioton. Mr. Ralston said : We were about three miles from Deaeronto a half a mile or ao from shore ; we were at tea, and heard someone calling out " The beat is on fire " ; I rushed to the cabin and put my coat on ; the u moke was intense; heard a woman cry out " Will somebody aave me and the baby " ; I then caught hold of a chair and with it smaahed three of the windowa in the cabin, and got oat, I don't know bow ; the first thing I realized waa that I was outside of the cabin, climbing between tbe windows,- with the chair in my hand ; some one said to me, " Give me the chair and I will throw it in the water "; I told them that I required it, as I could not swim; I crawled along near the water wheel, caught bold of a rope and let myself down, band over hand, until I reached the water ; the flames had made such rapid headway that the rope that was auatainiog me waa burned through, and I was preoipitatod into the bay ; my chair then stood me in good atead, as with it I managed to paddle along to a brace under- neath tbe boat ; I caught hold of that and held my chair underneath me ; I called out loudly for help ; fortunately my cries were heard by the captain who, with another man, came in a row boat ; they came within 30 or 40 foot of where I was, but the heat from tbe burning vessel waa ao intense that they coald not come nearer ; the flag pole of the Quinte had burned off and waa swimming oiote to me ; it waa being pro- pelled towarda me by the captain and tbe other man, and I asaiated in guiding it towards me by means of tbe chair; I caught hold of tbe end of the pole ; they called out, " Have you a secure bold?" I replied in the aflirmative ; they pulled me shoreward aa fast as tbey could row ; 1 waa very much exhausted, and taken at once to Deseronto, where 1 waa attended by tbe phyaioians; my opinion is that the fuel being used on the boat was not what it should be ; it consisted of light pine oat- tings from saw mills in that section ; a pile of tbia atnff in the fire bold beoame ignited and bofore it oonld be extinguished the ateamer was in flames. I believe that not more than five minutes elapsed between tbe time of the breaking out of the fire, until the vessel was doomed ; nobody said a word about life preservers ; not a cabin passenger knew of the existence of such an accommodation ; had they been reminded of them by the orew, I think tbe result would have been different. A Former OliaUiamlte'a Devotion to 1 I.eada to a ttad Knd. A Butte, Mont., despatch of Bonda^ saya : This city was shocked to-day by this aensational suicide of N. W. Wilson, tickak agent in tbe Northern Pacific Railway office here. Wilson was a popular yoanc man in both business and social circle*. He waa a Canadian. In November, 1886, Wilson came to Montana at tbe instance oC Major J. E. Dawaon, of the Montana Cen- tral. Before coming here Wilson waA Grand Trunk ticket agent at Windsor, Onk. He has also occupied a position as tickafe agent and station master at Woodstock and Ingersoll, Out. For some years he waa relieving agent along the line of the Graak Western before ita amalgamation with tb» Grand Trunk. He was a man of unutoal bility, and until recently of very correok habits, bat he fella prey to prevailing vioea in this city. Wilson bad been drinking forth« past three days heavily, and wbiie doing so had gambled at different places in the city. He bad the entire confidence of General Agent McCaig, and it waa hia habit to take the ticket rsoeipts from the office each day and buy drafts at (he bank, to remit to the Northern Pacific at St. Paul. Wilson made bis appearance at the office every morning in his Udual condition and McCaig suspeoted nothing. He dis> covered thia morning, however, that for tbe last three days Wilson had not remitted as usual. Last night 'A/ilson played faro and loat about 9600. Be bad played in th» house before and his cheques were ao- oepted. This morning Wilaon went to the Northern Pacific office as usual and was at his desk when Mr. McCaig . came in. Shortly after tbe arrival of McCaig at tbe office a representative of tba First National Bank came in and told Mr. McCaig that a number of cheqosa had come in signed by Wilson in favor of gambler Dowd, and they had been thrown out. Wilson heard tbe re- mark and turned pale. Mr. McCaig called Wilaon'a attention to tbe fact and Wilson said be would go out and buy the drafts aS once. Thia occurred at 10 o'clock. Mr. McCaig knew Wilaou had no money to bay the drafts, so be went and informed Wil- son's friends of the deficit, and they readily agreed to endorse his notes and square binx with the company. P. L. Foster, wbo roomed with Wilson, beard of tbe troabla and went to bis room about 7 o'clock. The door was locked and Wilson inaide. Wilson, evidently thoaght tbe officers were coming to arrest him. He swallowed four ounces of chloroform and shot himself throogh the head, and died in twenty minulea. The jury returned a verdict of suioida. The remains will be sent to Chatham for Darial. condition. I'ii^igerald'a arm waa blown off and bis face waa terribly diafigured. Roger's ; miles so far explored are in utter darkness right eye was blown out and hia face hor- | except at the point where tbe river waa ribly lacerated. The othera are cat about the head and body by the fragmenta of the bomb, which bad been made by some one for tbe parpoas of killing flab. discovered. It abounds in cascades and paaaea through a succession of grottoes sparkling with stalactites. Preparations are being made tor farther explorations. Tlia Baker Heln' Foollali Bunt. It has ooat twelve hundred or ao peraona of Western Pennsylvania and Ohio an average of ten doUara apiece for tbe privi- lege of finding what a hollow mockery waa their beirahip in 9600,000,000 worth of land, nioatly lying in the city of Philadelphia. Somehow the report atarted that Colonel Henry Baker, a Philadelphia revolutionary soldier, left 000 acres of land all now inside the city, and these twelve hundred people satisfactorily proved to themaelvea and ta each other that tbey were beira to the pro- perty, to get which they hired certain lawyers at a coat of $12,000- Search re- vealed the fact that Philadelphia had never furnished tbe revolutionary army with a Colonel Henry Baker, and that there wasn't any Baker estate. T'hia ia about tbe way all the claims for fortunea in England turn out, though tbe claimants of alleged Eng- lish estatea do not get off ao cheaply aa did the Baker beira. â€" Bochuter Herald. Time Would Tell. Patientâ€" Great heavens, young man, that's pretty strong medicine I Young Doctorâ€" Yes ; it's very powerful. Sometimes it cures and sometimes it kills. Patientâ€" Wellâ€" I savâ€" here, young man, is there any danger in my case? Young Doctorâ€" I can't tell for an hoar yet, Mr. Moneybags. Now calm yourself . WBISKKT AMD THK PIPE L«ad aa Old Penaionar to a TerrlbU I at Wladasr. A Windsor despatch of Wednesday says: Wm. Brown, an aged British penaioner, waa burned to death in the Essex Honaa stable fire last niiiht. About U o'clock ooa of the boarders of the hotel saw a small flame in the loft of tbe barn. An alarm was turned in, and in an incredibly short space of time the fire department waa oa the spot, but tbe fire had gained such headway that the whole upper part of tha barn w»s in flames. Daring tbe progreaa of the fire tbe question what caused it waa often asked, but no one could give the slighiest clue until about 7.30. When a fireman was going through the homing builiiing be stumbled over something, and looking down he saw it was the body ol a man. Grabbing the body be dragged it to the open air, where, upon ioveatiijation, it waa found to be Wm. Brown. Nearly all of hia olothea were burned off, and tbe faoa and one aide of hia body wag burnt to a oriap. The dead man baa for yeara earned a precariona living in Windsor, and has often figured in the Police Court as a com- mon drunk. Last evening, shortly befora tbe fire, he was ssen near the barns oon- aiderably under tbe influence of liquor, and it ia auppoaed that be lit bis pipe and lay down on tbe hay, causing the conflagration, and being too drunk he ooald not ssts himaelf. WITB WINOBKSTBB RIFLES. Kentnoky Factions attempt the 8«ttleu«at of an Old jreud. A Louisville, Ky., despatch of Wednesday saya: An engagement has occurred be- tween the Howard and Turner factions near Harlan Court House. Jamea Deane, of Howard's party, was killed and five othera were wounded. Three of the ' urnar crowd were wounded. A correspondent at Pineville telegraphs as follows : Wilson Howard and one of his principal heuobmen named Jennings are among the wounded, and it is said Howard's injuries are pro- bably fatal. Tbe Turners have been ia possession of tbe town for more than a week. Their leader is John Tarner, aged 17. Howard's forces have been in camp one mile from town. There are about forty men in each crowd, all ei|uipped with Win- obeatera and revolvers. Yesterday morning Tarner led his followers in an attack on the Howard camp. The attacking party got in the first work, but were fioally driven baok to town. A report reached Pineville to-day that the Howard forces in Harlan, euraged by the battle of yesterday and tbe probable fatal wounding of their leader, left camp last night and started for Harlan Coort House, intending to kill every boiy that belongs to tbe opposition and burn the town. Big strike of Itlnara. A Columbus, O., despatch says : About 700 miners employed by the Columbus and Hocking Coal and Iron Company in the Hocking Valley have struck. They are progressive union men. About 400 KniKhta of Labor remain at work. The union man refuse to work unless their organization ia recognized in the oommittee and the oheqos for mine expenses granted aa before May Ist. Mb. Bti!ven8, who circled tbe globe on hia bicycle and then set out on a fanut for Stanley in the heart of Africa, haa returned to Zinzibar a sadder and a wiser man. He diatributed loads of cotton gooda and other atuff he took along with bim to bribe his way tbsough the country, and brought baok with him malarial fever, but no news of the man he waa in searoh of. He did not even hear Stanley's name once men- tioned. 11 f /h