Batavia Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State December 21-1880 Telegraphic News. As Light as Day Broadway, New York, Illuminated With the Brush Electric Light Further Tests New York, Dec. 20.-Broadway, from 38th to 14th streets, was illuminated to-night by the Brush Electric Light Company. The lamps are suspended on iron posts, 20 feet high. The company is to estimate on the cost of one lamp to a block, in a district bounded by Third and Eighth avenues, and Fourteenth to Thirty eight streets. The lamps were distributed one to each block, and illuminated the buildings so clearly that the signs could easily be read at a distance. Broadway will be illuminated for two or three weeks from 5:30 p.m. until daylight, so that a thorough test may be made. The lamps appear to give general satisfaction. * Crimes and Casualties. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Dec. 20.-Four New York thieves, aged 18 each, were to-day sentenced to a year and four months at Sing Sing for robbing cars of the Hudson River Railroad. * A Bluebird Caged. For a day or so past a young fellow calling himself William BLUEBIRD has been calling at the residences of several Irish citizens of Batavia and representing to them that he was collecting money for a charitable work. His plan would be to call at a house with a book containing the names of several citizens and the amount which they had subscribed set opposite their respective names. He also stated at the house of James TUMALTY, on Hutchins street, and other places where he called, that Rev. Mr. McMANUS, of St. Joseph's Church, and headed the list with a large amount. From this fact it is evident that this ruse was played for the purpose of getting other signatures. Rev. Father McMANUS, hearing of the affair, made complaint before Justice JOHNSON, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. Officer ROBSON found him at the Blind Institution, where he was plying his vocation, and brought him before the justice, who committed him to jail to await a further hearing. * A Vagrant Arrested. Deputy Sheriff WINSLOW of Alabama arrived in town this morning, having in his custody an individual by the name of Richard GROGAN. GROGAN is charged with being a vagrant of the worst stamp. He was found, begging and brought before Justice JOHNSON. The prisoner states that he has a brother residing south of Le Roy, but refuses to aid him. He also stated that he had been arrested before, and at one time was an inmate of the Genesee county poor house. The bill of sale was made out, GROGAN donned his straw hat, and was escorted to jail, where he will remain to await a further examination. * Christmas pictorials at Mackeys. * For the finest line of slippers go to C.H. Hogan's. * The Buffalo Fire Bodies Thus Far Found The Search Among the Ruins Incidents The following particulars are taken from the Buffalo 'Express' of yesterday: The terrible fire of last Friday evening, by which M.H. BIRGE & Sons' wall paper manufactory, J.B. MANNING's malt house, and other property, were destroyed, proves the most disastrous to human life that has ever occurred in this city. To the time that our issue of Saturday morning went to press only two persons were known to have been killed, Thomas FIELDS and the boy Edward MALONE, who jumped from the upper story of the burning factory, but as then stated a number were missing with the probability that they had perished in the flames. Doubt in regard to these has now, however, given place to certainly one way or the other, and the death list has swelled to ten, most of them young boys. The rapidity with which the building containing these unfortunates was demolished by the fire, almost passes belief. In twenty minutes the great structure, three hundred feet deep, from sixty to eighty feet wide, and five stories high, was reduced to nothing but a bed of ruins. The announcement was industriously circulated about the city that the employes of the manufactory would be paid the wages due them Saturday afternoon about four o'clock, and at that time they presented themselves before the cashier to the number of about one hundred and thirty five. It was then definitely learned just who were missing. All Saturday forenoon a steamer continued playing on the ruins, which were very hot and emitting clouds of smoke and steam. About 11 o'clock the remains of two of the victims were found, near together, and but a few inches below the surface of the mass of debris in the front part, where the office had been. The bodies have no semblance of humanity, having more the appearance of blackened pieces of wood, for the limbs and heads were nearly all burned away. Identification was impossible. Yesterday, at half-past two o'clock, one of the men picked up an old shoe and a piece of wearing apparel, a fearful harbinger of something to come. A few more shovelfuls brought to the view of the spectators a black and solid mass. A sympathetic exclamation was given by the working party as they recognized what it was, and hurriedly they grouped in front of it. A sheet was procured, the remains were tenderly placed upon it and carried to the engine house. A few minutes after four o'clock another body was found, and shortly before five a third. All were boys, and but one retained the least semblance at a human body. It was the largest of the three. The legs and arms of this, as well as all, were gone and in two nothing remained but short stumps of the thigh bones. Two, and especially the last, appeared like mere masses of black cinders. Last night the men were kept at work at the ruins, three large lights such as are used on canal boats being employed to aid them in their labor. At last accounts they had made no further discovery. ** Burglars Around. They Enter Guiteau's Leather Store and Blow Open the Safe. For some time our quiet village has not been the place for burglars to operate in until last night, when they entered the office of County Treasurer GUITEAU on Jackson street, ostensibly for the purpose of cracking the safe, owing to the fact that they had several tools with them, they were prepared to do their work effectually. The thieves gained an entrance by breaking one of the large windows in the door and at once began the work of breaking open the safe. The dial was destroyed, and an effort made to work the lock, but in this they were unsuccessful. They then drilled a hole in the front door, filled it with powder and touched a match to it. They took the precaution however to cover the safe with leather to deaden the sound, but their efforts proved useless, and they gave up the attempt. The safe is of the Mosler & Bahmann make, and stood the severe test well. Becoming convinced that they could secure no booty they left, but did not forget to steal a few pairs of mittens which hung near the window. The manner in which they got their tools to work with was by breaking into Trumbull's blacksmith shop on the same street. One of the large windows was broken at the time the explosion took place, and other damage done to the office furniture. One of the men employed about the depot says that three young fellows were seen to get off the St. Louis express last night, and it is quite apparent that they are the guilty parties. As soon as the facts were made known, officers were instructed to keep a look out for them, but up to this writing, 2 o'clock p.m., no arrests had been made. * They Get Three Months. John BREWN and Charles BROWN, the two tramps who were arrested a week or two ago by Officers FOX and ROBSON, on the charge of attempting to steal a horse, were brought before Justice JOHNSON this afternoon, and each sentence d to serve a term of three months in the M.C.P. at Rochester. * Diaries for 1881 at Mackeys.' * Collector's Notice. All persons indebted to the undersigned, are requested to call and settle their accounts on or before January 1st, 1881. All accounts not paid at that time will be left for collection in the hands of our attorney. T.&E. O'CONNOR. * Christmas Tree Lamps for sale at Mackeys' Newsroom. * Cigar and Cigarette Cases, very handsome, at Vandusen's, 97 Main street. * submitted by L. Schmidt