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WINNS130R0, a c., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1891. NO. 30. | V -X \ - - =z A CITY DESTROYED, j ? THE CITY OF YUMA WIPED OUT BY THE FLOOD. "Water Covers the Country for Fifty Miles j Around?Hundreds of IVojiIe l!cni?cr?-d , Homelen and Destitae?AppViiiti; Loss j nf TAfu Renorted. Yuma, Arizona. March 1.?Over 230 houses arc in ruins in ti..s place and 1,400 people are homeless, it is feared that hundreds of lives, have been losst in the Gila Valley. 2\'o reliable reports can be obtained from that locality. as the roads are impassable and ali the wires are down. Above Yuma the river is seven miles wide, and below ^the town the water covers the country in one grand lake over fifty miles across. Over 1,000 persons are being fed dailv at the Southern Pacific Hotel, and the town has pro! - visions sufficient for eight days more. ~ AP \UAfrf frame if. > XOe yiW&UUO-VI 11 yvum. uu.uu, -- | is expected, will be raised in about four | dajs, but it will be at least iVo weeks j t before they can go East. Reports from Jenkins, tifiecn miles above here, were to the effect that the flood drove the people into the tree tops. Many became exhausted trom cold and hunger before the flood abated and dropped into the water and were drowned. It is estimated that anywhere between thirty and 100 lives were lost in the valley. Desolation reigns supreme all along -the vallev. .Every nouse on ixju uiii: uu? wvu j thrown open to receive the homeless, and | hundreds ate quartered in tents and in the old government buildings. The ? Merchants have opened their goods ir the streets iu order to help the sutferers. ' * The water is still high for two hundred miles east of this point, and all this must pass here. Many fear that the worst is yet to come, especially it there should be any further rainfall. The losses in this county will foot up nearly .. $2,000,000, and the damage suffered by the railroad company will amount to more than $250,000. The common loss has brought all ~ C ~ orio oil llOVP I classes oi ciuzeus w-ctuci, auu ^ worked "with a will,- first in trying to save the town by constructing a rude levee, an&when that effort proved futile, in saving as much as poasible from the rums. The old town will probably not be rebuilt, as both merchants and residents will erect their stores and houses on the hills, in order to be out of reach of any further .damage: A boat which arrived from Mohawk, . sixty miles up the Gila River, brings re ports. of teirible" loss of life, all the country being under n-atcr. The greatest sufferers are the poor Mexicans, whose entire possessions have been swept away and who have so reserve to iall back upon. Their is yet a vast stretch of territory to be heard from, every one fears that when full returns arc iu. the loss of life will prove of appalling magiiHuue. mgoHeports from the valley of the Co!o-~4j3o, below this place, state tliat hundreds of the Cocopah Indians have been drowne&T'hey are located abut sixty thc-;r c is. about 5,000 strong, Their Tillages arc *11 on low land, and as there are no hills on which the Jndans could take refuge, sin immense number of them must have been caught in the flood and swept away. The waters rose six feet in twelve hours and camc on them almost rtifchout warning. In this city the ruin has been most ?& complete, the Catholic church being the |1 only building left standing on the main m street. The convent and adjoining school B stood the wear of the waves for many hours, but finally crumblcd into ruins. 11 The Yuma Sentinel moved its office four times yesterday, but finally suoH ceeded in setting out on time. The ? Times was less fortunate, and its oflice and material went down in the wreck. Fears were entertained that the line railroad bridge would be carried awav. but fortunately the piers stood the test, and unless some extra heavy wreckage should lodge on the superstructure and cause a jam, it will not be materially in [ jured. L The officers of Fort Yuma have done 1 everything in their power to assist the sufferers, and fortunately there was a good supply of tents on hand, and these were at once placed at the disposal of the homeless families and much suf fering thereby prevented. Should there be no further rainfall, it is hoped that there will be little further loss, and that with the restoring of communication with the West sufficient trains- w'.ll be brought ^in from "San Francisco and Los Angeles to prevent any serious troble. THE LATEST FROM FLOODED YUMA. Yuma, Arizona, 2Iar ;h 2.?The Yuma river has fallen to almost the level of the water before the last llood. Xews from the valleys say that everything is under water, and much destruction to property is reported, Giia River chaiged its course la several places. At Gila City the railroad track was covered for miles by water ten feet deep. The statement is made that the stories of the first loss of life are untrue. One man is, so far, known to have been drowned. Reports of the death of others m the valley are reported, but they have not yet been confirmed. A Swindler for Twenty Y?>j?r?. Savannah, Ga., Feb. 27.?After twenty years continued swindling, by which he has managed toilet rami arms in Georgia and otber States cut of | amounts aggregating SOO.OUO. A. J. k Dickson, of Mershon, is now on trial % in the United States Court for using gift the mails for fraudulent purposes. According to the testimony ne would send gjj? for a small bill of goods and refer to a S9gr fictitious firm at Mershon. where lie g| served as postmaster. When the M|gl| ters of inquiry came he would answer them ^iviDg himself a first-class busixicss rating. The first bill he would HH pay as a bait, then he would order a ill large lot of goods, for which the p;iy never cama HR Mnrrl?d to Get HIh Lcjai'v. ||| Ann Akboi:, Mich., Feb.-i>.?.Tames rju. jyHUVIJ^K, ?.IIC vuuiii; iiivili Iivcv -I.-Viv in 18SS left him a fortune ox ^~A* ?.(?>o on condition that he marry within live years, is about to take a wife. The bride-elect is Miss .Tames, a sister of C. S. James, a prominent merchant of Waukesha, Wis. Mr. lJabccck has been the recipient of more love letters and proposals probably than any other young man or woman of his time. Wr?ckfil?a Tybee. Savannah, Feb. 27.?An unknown small two-masted schooner went ashore (>n Th'i-iilsr IVUL 1 Vi til C'4.v<?rvv* ?v%. evening, in a northwest srile. ami sunk. The crew are supposed to he lost. Tin vessel is believed to be the Robert McCarrel, of Charleston, and was on a voyage to this port from Coosaw, S. with phosphate rock and carried a were of five men. THE MODERN ALARIC. So:ne Truths About the Vandalism of ' .Sherman's March to the Sea. Due West, February 24.?The memory o'l Gen W. T. Sherman is clearly net j without a stain. No one will question j his brute bravery, but everv ri?ht-mind- j m.irvi tuns'- rf>cy?r<1 li'.m 85 a Orllftl ! monster. A larjjeamount of the region j Oi country traversed by him in his! marui to the sea" was at the time 1 ?orcft ?if a!! its population except the old j men, women and children. The able- J bodied men were all in the C'onlederate ! army, and tLe force by which his progross was opposed was not adequate for the purpose. It is a fact beyond doubt that lie burned, or caused to be burned, houses of every description and destroyed property of all kinds. By his orders or with his full consent all the stock was destroyed. Ill all tins wholesale acsu-ucuon mere was not the shadow ofnecessity, viewed from a military point of view. The North may laud him as much as it pleases, but the soiemn truth is "Sherman's march to the sea" is a disgrace to the whole American nation andaloul blot on the civilization of the nineteenth century. The barbarities perpetrated by his army, and with his approbation, exceeded any recorded in moderin history, except it be those practiced by the Spaniards. His "march to the sea" was a St Bartholomew's Day repeated on a grand scale. Gen Wm T. Sherman had a spleneid opportunity to aispiay me chivalry of a conqueror, but he chose to play the part of a black-hearted murderer. It is to hoped that he repented of all his sins. If Gen Sherman had taken the horses and mules ot the country and used them this would, by the laws of war, nave been regarded as proper, but this he did not do. The horses and mules, m every section of the country through which he passed, were collected and shot. The corn and fodder and everything oa which man or beast could live were turned up. Everything was destroyed. Domestic fowls s.nd domestic animals?even the dogs and cats were killed. Houses, in , which there were none but old men and i ladies in humble circumstances, were entered, destroyed. Milch cows were ! shot down in the yard, the crockery was ' all- broken up; the pails and pots were smashed into pieces, the clothing of the I family was violently taken out of the houses and sometimes off the persons of I old men and old momen, of little boys j and girls and burned before their eyes. This was not all. Those who were j reduced to want were cursed and abused | as if they had not the feelings of brutes 1 Uen Sherman on bis "march t? the sea". (acted as if lie believed that the only good Southern man was a dead Southern man, j and the only mercy that the South dei tfrvpfl waf! tn be burned ud. The probability is that io the coarse of j [ a fevr months some book agent will be tramping orer the South endeavoring to sell to the people of Georgia and South Carolina the life of Gen Sherman. It is to be hoped that our people will hare enough of self respect neither to buy it aor read it. -4*nnvcboittiictti man ougri**cO~write tn i historyjof Sherman's "March to the sea," that coming generations might know the truth. All that is really necessary is to state unvarnished the facts?the truth; nothing bat the truth. tVe have no desire t o blacken the name of Gen Sherman. He is dead. But it is doing th? Souih a great injustice for the Northern 1 press, uuu cspwiauy tuc yicao j of the Xorth, to point to the march of Gen Sherwan to the sea as the pilgrimjai,fe of an unselfish saint.?Xews and Courier. An Iaterestiac Libel Suit Eadad. Augusta, Ga.. Feb. 27.?Aa interesting ease was tried in the City Ceurt of Augusta to-day?that of Jesse J. Whitehead, of Oconee County, vs. Augusta Chronicle, an action for libel. The Chronicle, last August, publishtd an item which alleged that Whitehead had become involved in a row in which a man named Shipp was killed and another named Atkinson mortally wounded. The Chronicle pleaded in defense that the article was copied into its columns from a reputable and reliable pa per in Georgia ; that no malice was intended ; that it offered to print an explanation, but that the only reparation asked by Whitehead was under consideration. Whitehead's counsel held that the article was entirely new and originated at the hands of some neighbors with whom Whitehead was in a feud. Judge Eve decided that the article did not charge any particular crime, and th? cast against the Chronicle was non-suited. The case attracted much attention by its novelty. This was the first libel case J tried here in twenty-fire years. Anna Dickinson Insxne. } Wilkesbariie, Pa., Feb. 2GAnna ! Dickinson, the once favorite lecturer | and female abolitionist, is now an inmate of the Danville asylum. She was tak?n to that institution last evening I by Dr. Ildeman, her family physician. I For six months it has been plain to Miss Dickinson's friends that she was losing her mind. At times she acted very"queer. Miss Dickinson is fifty years of age. She gave all her wealth I away to the poor. She bought property I for all the poor people for miles around. I At present sh-e is the prosecutrix in a [suit in the New York courts against i Matt Quay for services rendered the | Republican party in the campaign of ] lb>&. The gifted lady has lived for j ye;trs with her sister, Susan E Dickinj son in West Pittston. Tor some time j her health has been in a precarious conI tion and she has been constantly under th^ eves of her physician, who treated i ht-r for insomnia. This disease has ; been umlerminin? her vitality for some | time, ;;nd although she has been carej fully nursed t?v her devoted sister no ! improvement was perceptible. Senator Hearst Dead. "Washington. Feb. 28.?Senator Geo. Hearst of California died at his residence on New Hampshire Avenue in } this city at 9:30 o'clock to-night. lie had been ill for a long time, and in December last went to Xew York city to consult with Dr. Charles S. Ward in rei sard to his condition. The physician i found that he was alllicted with a com. plication of diseases, resulting primarily ! from a serious derangement of the i bowels, lie will be buried in San ' Francisco. Kit Blow at Jacksonville. Jacksonville. Fla., Feb. 27.?A i sale prevailed m this city yesterday iand considerable damage is reported, j The front of the St. James Hotel was ; blown out and about sixty !?et ot ttie warehouse root on the Clyde pier was ; | blown oft'and demolished. A hole fifteen by forty-live f?et was blown in the Sub-Tropical building and two houses in ' | the suburbs were completely wrecked, j Wires are down in all directions. Xo {loss of life is reported. ONE OF REED'S LAST RAIDSThe Shipping Subsidy Scheme Shoved j Thronsh Congress. ! Wasiiixgtox. Feb. 27.?The House J devoted the entire day to debate on the. j thipping bill and began voting on amend-; meuts to the measure at 5 o'clock. The i IIou3e substitute was finally agreed to, i yeas 144, nays 47. The vote then recurring on ordering j the Senate bill, as amended by the sub-1 stitute, to a third reading, the roll was j called amid intense excitement. Every j response was anxiously awaited, and as j the call came to a close, and it was i known that the motion had been d?leat-! " . . - . _ c I ed. there were many manifestations 01 i pleasure on the Democratic side. At j the last moment Mr. Dingley changed his vote to the negative, and the Speaker announced the vole to be yeas 142, nays 148. The announcement was greeted with wild applause by tho Democrats, and then Mr. Dinslev mored to re consider a motion, which Mr. McMillen promptly m*ved to lay on the table. This motion was defeated?jeas 14G, nays 149?and the Republicans were jubilant. Then came the vote on the motion to reconsider. This motion was agreed to? yeas 142, nays 143?and the question asrain recurred on ordering the bill to a third reading. The third reading of the bill was ordered?yeas 147, nays 145. Mr. Cannon, of Illinois, moved that: the bill be recommitted to the committee, with instructions to report back, iurmwiUi, a um, . bill on the same subject, to provide for ocean mail service between the United, States and foreign ports. This bill is identical with the substitute which Mr. Candler, of Massachusetts, desired to offer, except that it eliminates the free ship clause of the latter measure. Mr. Bland, of Missouri, raised the point of order that the committee could net be directed to report "forthwith." The motion to re-commit was carried? jeas 143, nays 142 and the substitute having been, reported at once by Mr. Farquhar, of New York, a fusilade of points of order was directed from the Democratic side of the House, which were overruled by the Speaker. At 11:15 the postal subsidy bill was passed?jeas 140, nays 120. Mr. Farquhar, of New York, moved that a conference be ordered ; pending T. . A which Mr. ?5iana,01 jhissuuh, xuuvou adjournment. Lost?yeas 74. nays 111. Pending action on Mr. Farquhar's motion, the House, at midnight, adjourned. Unhappy Children of Israel. London, Feb. 27.?The friends of the ' Russian Jews are much stirred up :>ver j the growing disposition to prevent | further immigration of that class into England. Oswald John Simmons, the noted champion of his race, writes: "It is a fiendish invention to assert that this portion of the human family can be lormidable competitors in the labor markets of the world. They have the same right to live as any people on earth. I trust thnt an international arrangement may be come toby which the Jews of Russia may be distributed id countries where the^.canJje rMlxeimiidcr. thejgroI tection of the English, the French anc American governments." Mr. Simmons recommends that a pow^ erful committee be organized with this view, consisting of delegates from Lon don, Paris and the United States. Mean time it is said passages are being boughi bj the steamer load for the transfer o the Russia Jews to the United States. One of the Jewish families expellee from Novgorod has arrived at Willenberg, Prussia, near the Russian border They report the total number of families expelled from" the city of Novgorod as G17, and from the rural districts adjoin^ ing ninety-four. The family, whose name is Keplan, give a hideous accounl of the suffering caused by the enforce' ment of the anti-Jewish laws. One Jew ish merchant was found dead, with his wife and their five children also dead, ir '.heir house, where the}* had lived foi m.my years. It was supposed they bac taken poison. In the merciiaet's ham was o-rasned the notice of banisament. The property of the exiles is bcinf bought up for a song by Russian specu lators. Honoring Wesley. London, March 2.?To- day being the 100th anniversary of the death ot'Johr Wesley, the great theologian and foundei of the Methodist Church, a stalue erect ed to his honor was unveiled in the preS' ence of a large crowd in front of the Citi Road Chapel, the headquarters of tlx Wesleyans. Rev. Frederick Willian Farrar, Archdeacon of Westminster took part in the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the statue, and after ward, with Sir Robert Fowler, one o the members of Parliament for Londor City, addresssed the meeting in the Cih Road Chapel. The Archbishop deliveret - i 1 * T/-ilir a nuu eiui|ucuL v/i vv?ik Weaiey, during the course of which h< said that he regretted as a churchraar that the church of a hundred years a^( had not the wisdom to assimrailate with the mighty enthusiasm which give mo mentum to the Wesleyan movement It seemed, said the Archdeacon, shock ing and disgraceful in Christians bourn by common Christianity to treat eacl other with mutual coldness. Join W esley himself, he added, set an exam pie of splendid tolerancc. The Arch deacon, in conclusion, reminded the con gregation of the words of William I'eun that the humble, meek, merciful and jus are all of one religion, and will so reco gnize each other while m another worli with the mask on*. Ma*j Fonnd "Watery Graves. Norfolk. Ya., March 2? In form a tion from Newport News to-night i that the terrific gale of last Thursda: night played havoc on and in the vicini" ty of the James River, where propert; was destroyed to a considerable extent Among the losses reported is that of; large sloop, capsized at the mouth o Warwick River, about ten mile's fron New Port News, resulting in the loss o the entire crew, composed of fourteen At the mouth of Waters Creek, nea the James, a yacht capsized, and it als< went to the bottom, seven men beinj precipitated into eternity thereby. Two men in a canoe near the sann place were out in the gale, and no in I formation has been received of them j leading their friends to believe tliev, too 1 " * - ' T 4. 4-U iouna a waiery grave, x?. is muuxm m list, which has already swelled to 32, wil reach many more when fall reports fron the storm swept region are received. I is said that dead bodies floating bv New port News yesterday was a commoi sight. Two Miner* Killed. Chitwell. Tenn.. Feb. 28.?A cabl< of the Inclinal Coal Mines broke thi morning as the miners were going t< work, and a car dashed down the moun j tain. Two men were killed instantl: and eleven seriously hurt. The others | it will^j^^^j^^^^^^ (MGRESSREVIEWED. A SYNOPSiS OF THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY THE FIFTY-FIRST. A MomI Keinarkublc Session?The lusuvrtssM 3Ie:s.M?res ?"Mi** .\i'j?r<.pr!;tliou< Kxcocil T!io<e of Any "iVacu" CoavreM t*i?* Fi;U!i'i;ilii::t of (he Govern menu Washington*, March i.? iioo;: 1 o day !he Fifty-firs' O.'n.srtss (in th;j opinion of many veteran legislators the most lvmarkao'e Congri-ss since the war) came :o ail end ! y constitutional limitation. From th<; tirst to the last the session was interesting and even? ful and at no long periods were they ever c.IiaraoUTi/.-d bv the dullness, which, occasionally for days at a time, marked the proceedings of nearly every Congress and especially of those Congresses in which Lu?-first ~The Sfc*5^I0Il p i yji * *. xu\ actual working time of the Fifty lirst | Congress exceeded I hat of any of its predecessors and the nominal working: time of all except the Fiftieth Congress, and in the number of measures brought to its attention and the number, variety and importance o*' those acted on.it likewise surpassed ail previous Congresses, i hree measures, any of which in intrinsic importance and popular interest would be. suf'icient fur a national issue, stand forth pre-eminent among all others: The Mclvinle.y tariff bill, which became law. Second, the silver bill, on which in the lirst session a compromise was effected. based on the monthly purchases of 4.oOO,C?UO ounces of silver, which >'n turn was tol lowed bv a more radical measure that failed of passage; and third, the Feder al elections bill, which, after a protracted. bitter, hotly fought and intensely exciting preliminary struggle, failed in the Senate to reach a decisive vote on its merits. The radical innovations in the ' ules of the House added interest to its proceedings, r:nd the determined but fruitless efforts to adopt the most vital of these innovations, the former part of the history ol' the lost part of the session of the Senate. Even in its mortuary records Comrress was remarkable, the call of death having summoned no fewer than twelve of its Representatives and three of its Senators. Mirny of the bills enacted into laws appropriated an unusually larg6 amount of money, and the expenditures authorized will exceed of those any '"peace" Congress since the foundation of the government. The total appropriations by the Fiftieth Congress - ' - r.". vr'oo* were, during ms nrs[. session mw.ooi,510, and during tlie second session ?122,020,343, or .m aggregate of 8817,905,859; uhile the appropriations lor the lirst session ol' the Fifty-first Congress were 8460, 027,007, and those of the second session will probably bring the total appropriations for this Congress to one thousand million dollars. A comparison of the work of the Congress just ciosed with that of its immediate predecessor makes the following exhibit: Jiiils introduced in the House in the Fifty-first Congress, 14,033, against in the Filtieih Congress 12^054; increase, 1,370; joint resolutions ' 27UfinereaSCof tell." SenatiTbiji'sVi-l against 4,000, or an increase of 1,1211 joint resolutions 109, increase of 24. > The number of bills passed by th - House were 1,748, of wnicii 1,513 be . came laws, and by senate 1,305, o I which 072 became laws, making a tot;i f number of laws during the Fifty-firs Congress 2,180, against l,82f iii t;< /"v,? .i ti i ?,<' Vl J X ilUCWI V^uu^irw, <wi 1 v.- A. The Senate also postponed indeiinitel GIG Senate and 18 House lull?, this be ; ing equivalent to their defeat. Darin 5 the Fiftieth Cougress 101 i-ills wer ! vetoed, and during the Fil'ty-tirst Cor gress 14, the most, important of whic i were the Act establishing the recor t and pension ofiice of the War Depart ment, and the Act providing tor a pul . lie building at Bar Harbor, Me., Dalla: . Texas, Hudson, Xew York, and Ti:sc:i ! loosa, Ala. Out of the eighteen contested elei j tion cases the House seated eight o > the Republican contestants aii:i dt clared the seat of Breckinridge of Ai kas vacant. Two cases, Goodrich v: Bullock, from Florida, and McGianis " vs. Alderson, from West Virginia, i which the committer recommended th seating of the Republican contestant: } were not disposed of, ami the Election J Committee itseif never acted on Eato r vs. 1'helan, a Tennessee case. The Ser ate disposed of its sole contested elec tion case l>y seating two llepublica: senators irom .Montana. As the result of the work of Cjngres i a great number of measures wliic 1 have for years occupied more or less o , the attention of the legislative branc I of the government will be transfer re. - to the Executive and J mi ici^I Depart f ments of th* government?there, pei i haps to become equally familliar a( j quaintances. Among the "ok! stagers ] which are now laws are the copyrigh j bill, the private Land Court bill (10 set s tie disputes arising over the Mexicu ' grants in the Western States ami Tei 1 ritories), the subsidy bill, the India ) depredation claims t?ilJ,the timber in i pre-emption law repealed (making " general revision of the land laws), th . />n?frtms admin fsf.ra!i.ve the ffenei - al land forfeiture bill, the bill to rt 1 lieve the Supreme C.?urL by rh r -$tal i lishment of Inter-State Circuit Couri i of Appeals; the UniTed States Jud>rt . salaiies bill and the district tax rt-i un . bill. The lilair ' duetTion.tl bill. t;-* . uiII for the appointment of art a'c: holic liquor commission and the "eiirr 1 hour''-claim -ijiiis are measures whic were -defeated on te.^t votes, whi] " among- those which, after passing on * house failed of action ia the other an will doubtless be wrestled with by su< ceeding-Congresses, are ihr; bankrup . cy bill, the- Conger lard bill, and tli s! army reorganization.bill, the Paddo.p {pure food bill, "thr, .Nicaragua C?r.; . bill, the Pacilic Railroad funding bl ^ I and the Inter-State;Commerce bill. < t _ I perron; jimiiiDg pooling i-i c.u um^ I j railroad companies) art* anions tb f measures which failed to icach a vol II in either house. ? \ Among., the measures on wliic I neither House acted. exeepl in sou: p I cases by committees, weie the sui 5 treasury and l'arm mortgage l?i!!.- . ti T | service pension bill, trie-Canadian r< ciprocity resolution, the bill to e;;co:t e I age the construction of an Inter-Con t . jncntal Railway, the postal wiving , bank and postal t'fieijraph bills, it: | Butler bill to aid n; gr^es to i;nmigr:H p to Africa, woman suffrage ;>it 1 ;>roii 1 bition Constitution.-.! amendment. 11 A income tax bill and various o;!i?-r rad t' cal iinaiiv'ial and poi-t'cal measures. Vatul 1 rn:i<! Arirlilpiit. 1 i Macon, G;i., Feb. 2S.?The Xort I bound (Jeorgia .southern and Florid j passenger train run inio an open switc s i at Titton this morning;tncl coiidfci wit sia freight train on the siding, and w; d I badly wrecked. Fireman Adam Arnol - colored, was killed ar.cl several passei r I gers were injured. Alter the accidei i, | it was found that the switch had bet locked opeh?it is believed with ma] cious intent. TILLMAN IN WASHINGTON. How Our Governor Looks to The Habitues of the Capitol. Washington. Feb. 27.?Governor lien Tillman, whose remarkable cam- [ paign in South Carolina is familiar [ ; throughout the political world by reason j ; of the novel methods he employed 011 j the hustings, is in Washington for the j : first time in his life. J le visited the city j to-day with his venerable brother, Geo. j : i>. Tillman, who represents the 2d Con- j : gressional district of South Carolina. f-ArLrnur Tillmon rittraf?t?fi Cfllf-rJll I I o I attention 0:1 the floor ot the House and 1 : was presented personally to a large num- j I ber of the Democratic members. He is j j a typical farmer in appearance, but in ' conversation he is quick, direct and plain | ! spoken. Ilis words How freely, but there 1 is a cautiousness about him which indii cates shrewdness, but fully justifies his ! reputation for being one of the greatest i rough-and-tumble political campaigners ; in the South. Referring to the political situation in j South Carolina, lie _ says there is not the p^lsit'tranger of his friends (the Tirr-t maa faction) breaking away from the j National Democratic party, and he pro! poses, to try and make his administration : of State affairs-60 pure and clean that even his political enemies will be oblige eu to admit that they did him an injustice in charging that he was seeking to destroy the Democratic party in the old Palmpt.to Sfatft. He does not heritate to say that there ! is still hostility to him in various ssctions i of the State, "and he supposes a certain | element will continue to oppose him at | every point. Notwithstanding this op| position to him andhismethoas, he will jendevor to administer the affairs the State in accordance with the wishes and ! desires of an overwhelming majority of ! tlio people who cast their votes for him ! last November and placed him in the ! Executive Mansion at Columbia, j Concerning the report that he has aspirations to succeed Senator Butler I when the latter's term expires in 1895, | Governor Tillman is non-committal. J He simply says that the election of Senj ator .Butler's successor is too far off for speculation. 'Senator-elect Irby, who succeeds Senator Hampton, is expected to join Governor Tillman here to-morrow. Governor Tillman's visit here is in connec- J tion with the phosphate beds in the navigable waters of South Carolina. He wants the superintendent of the coast survey .to send an ollicer down there to make a survey for the State.?News and Courier. A Daring Diamond Kobbery. Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 28? A diamond robbery of unprecedented boldi ness is the sensation of Birmingham tonight. Rosenthal's jewelry store is on the most prominent corner in Ihe city, * L - ? ?* nn/1 On me II1HIU uiuiuu^maic aiiu numbers of street cars and dummy lines centre. One front is composed of two large plate glass windows, at least ten feet square. Before "one of these windows several trays of diamonds were displayed. About 7 o'clock tonight a man suddenly threw a thirtypound rock through the window, shat' teriDg the glass to fragments. Quick i as though ihe dashed his hand through the opening, picked up the tray of4 diai monds and dashed up the street. By, stirrers and passersby were numerous > an pursuedJiinYinstantly. He turned , down t;>e first"alley he came to, and in .-.-ft^darkness and rain made good his | escape"*^11 gh several shots were fired ' I at him roir lar?e diamonds and a e handfui of "pisft"1 cartridges were ,,nn t!1?l *11ovd^^saJiiei^bber f j had dropped them. It is not known ill what the loss is, but it amounts intc t! thousands. Rosenthal and one cusejtomer were in the store at the time. 5. The former made a dash through the y broken window after the robber, but i- cut an artery of his wr:st on the broken g{ glass. The daring highwayman was e J white. fj An Important Decision, d Ciiakleston, IS. CM Feb. 28?The > United states Court to-day decided the >. suit of the Massachusetts and Southern j, Construction Company vs. the Towni-1 ship of Cane Creek, in Lancaster I Countv. A bill was brought to enforct 1 the delivery of SI9.000 of bonds of th< i" | Township issued in aid of the Three C's -I itoad. The refusal to issue the bonds >! was based 0:1 the ground that the 5. i amount was in excess of the 8 per cent h | Constitutional limit affixed to the inn I debtedness of municipalities. It was e | submitted in proof that 8 per cent, ol : the assessed vaiue of the taxable props er?y in the Township is .$18,570 or S43C -i j less than the debt incurred. The Court i- dismissed the suit on that ground, taking the valuation of 1888, the date ol n | the Act of the Legislature creating j the debt. The Court rules that "the s ; Act having created a debt obnoxious h j in amount to the provisions of the Con if j stitution, the whole debt is invalid h *nd it is not competent for the Court il to declare ao much valid as come? within the Constitutional provisions.' . This throws out 619,(XX) of the bonds I issued in aid of the Three C's Road. ,, I 1 ! Axi Alliance Tmst. ! Topeka. Kan., March 2?A new Alii a | ance move completes the formation of ? j huge grain and'live stock trust, includ n | inj; Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri anc (i j low a. Frank McGrath, President ol a j the .Farmers Alliance, says mat tat ? i project is one of the results of the fail ~ ure of the Alliance to pass certain bills ^jMcGrath says "that district Alliance; J ; are being formed in every Congressiona " j district and provisions are being mad< ,s ! for building a cold storage and graii "j: depot. The new scheme is modeled ir Jpjtail after the whiskey trust. Of coarse J^c.i will say that our principles will no admit 01" that, but we have decided tha' we must light the devil with fire?thai ' i is we must light trusts and combina e I lions. While this scheme will reverse ^ ' matters by putting stockmen and grain j men at our mercy, we do not think an] IM injury will result. The scheme look; - visionary, perhaps, but will surely be; I- j great one. d j Southern Melon Fields i The South Georgia Melon Grower! j Convention was held in Albany, Ga. * ; the iSLh of February. The object o e | the meeting was the consideration of in "; <ttea&ed acreage in melons this year, am h i to provide methods for the promp e handling and movement of the crops ?-! Mitchell pud Lee Counties, Georgia, wil ;e : increase their acreage by one-fourth ove c*-1 last season. Thomas County will hav t"-! twice the number of acres. It is though i*! tie entire crop of South Georgia will b s , fully double that of li?90. Georgia an ie i Alabama had 21.000 acres in melons las e | year. This season there will be at leas ~! 40.Cu0 acres. South Carolina shows ai j'_ | increase of nearly 50 per cent, over he j 0.000 acres oi'1800. The Louisville an Nashville and the Cincinnati Kords car ' ric-d 35.000 carloads of melons last vear h With 500 new fruit cars, they expect t . double the record this year. :h j ? li Xwenty-four Drowned. is 1J lcinioxi). March 2.?A special to tli J.! Dispatch states that in a terrible gal a- which swept the lower James Rive it Thursday night twenty-four oystermc-r -Ti mostly colored, were drowned at point: i-: just above and below the mouth of th j Warwick River. THE COOSAW WAR. GEN. POPE'S CONTRIBUTION ON THE! SUBJECT. Au Kshauttive iieview of tils Contest lie- ; tvveeu the I't'opUi xml the Corporation from the Origin ol' tlie Latter Until the i Present Time. Columbia, March 5 ?As the Coosaw j company and the phosphate cxnrais-! sion are still prominently in print be*' fore the State, Attorney General Pope; was called upon this morning and j asked it" he had sufficient leisure to give ! an expression of his views in regard to \ the recent events connected with the Coosaw Mining Company. "I cannot say," replied .Mr. Pope,"that I have time in the mid3t of the legitimate demands upon me as Attorney General, still I am not unwilling to state my impressions of the recent events that you refer to. The agitation monopoly of the State's phos- j Chisolrn's Island,! in the Coosaw Hirer," Mining Company, is not a new thing. I Nearly fourteen years ago our people I were startled to find the inroads made ! upon their rights of every kind, made j by the Legislatures that had made laws | from 18G8 to 1STG inclusive. So we find i that on the 9th of J une, 1877, the Gen-1 eral Assembly, by joint resolution, re- j quested Attorney General James Con-1 ner to investigate and report upon the charters heretofore granted to the! phosphate companies,so that the rights j of the State might be delined and pro- [ tected. In December, 1877, General | Conner made his report, it was in his best slyle; clear, logical, convincing. Right here it woulcTbe * e!l to remember the love the peopie bore the splendid lawyer and the wonderful conli; dence they felt in any work of his hands. j "In this report he stated that the Coosaw Mining Company was a joint stock company that had no charter from the State, but enjoyed a certain portion of the State's phosphate te;ritory as the lessee or assignee of the River and Marine Phosphate Company, which latter had received a grant from the State therefor on 1st March, 1870, for twenty-one years; he also stated that this Coosaw Mining Company after having mined nearly six years received additional privileges under an Act of the General Assembly approved 2Sth March, 1870, but General Conner stated that after 1st March, 1891, this Coosaw Mining company would have no power over such phosphate territory, and the State has acquiesced in his judgment ever since that time. Gen. Conner, with almost prophetic eye, saw and foretold the trouble this company might cive the people of this Commonwealth by reason of certain words in tfte tbird section of the Act of 28th March, 1870. "I suppose it would be hardly fair to enter into any extended reference to the objections Gen. Conner urged against the construction certain friends of the Coosaw Mining Company even now urge in their defence as to the construction of the Act of March, 1870. One was that the section referred to was clearly unconstitutional because the power Claimed under the words there used was in direct violation of that section of our "state Constitution - ? * + n tn nna that requires e\try xxtu subject, and that subject to be expressed in its title. Another objection was that the canons of construction require that all statutes bearing on the same shall be so construed as [ to g i v e eff'ectllcH?Sfe j'4^ss- ^1 e e^rlie^ were plainly and manifest ^epealt-d ; by the last, directly or by imp??^^n> and that inasmuch as this CoJiSjis, Mining Company was by the terms ol 1 the Act of 1870 limited to an enjoyment of its mining privileges lor twenty-one years, and as the Act of 187(5, ir question, did not repeal this provisior i directly or by necessary implication, it > was bound to abandon its use of this ( territory after March 1, ISfll. unless th . State should renew its power. 'Our people, and all free, liberty-lov ~1 l"ifn mnnnnaliBC ThPT > lUg pcu jJJC, 110.00 UlUllUf.Vl.VU. J ; perceive instinctively the danger tc j their rights lurking in the wake ol ; such creations. Hence at the last Gen > eral Assembly this question was considered and an Act was passed creating . a board of phosphate commissioner.-: i and by the terms of that A:t such com; missioners were directed to take po.s . session and control of the phosphate ) territory in the Coosaw River latelv ; occupied by the Coosaw Mining Com . pany, and to grant licenses to mint ' therein, just as in the other navigable r streams ol' the State." > "Then 1 understand you to maintaic i that the State, having accepted the re. port of Gen. Conner, in 1STT, on this , subject, limiting: the Coosaw Mining : Company to March 1.1891, in its occu5 pancy ot' the Coosaw River, all that the ' Legislature did under the Actcreatin.s ; the phosphate commission was to pui that former construction into propei legislative expression?" "You understand me exactly, foi - that is precis-ly what 1 maintain i Xow, therefore, when the phosphat( - companies are criticised for their re I fusal to recognize the Coosaw Mining I Company as having any rights in th? i territory of the Coosaw Jiiver after th? - 1st March, lS9l,thfir reply is that youi . criticism must not be directed at us 5 but at the Commonwealth of Soutt 1 Carolina, whose servants we are in al i that we do. Hence I 'esteem such edi i torials in the newspapers tnat cast re i proach upon the pliosphnle couimis , sioners for executing the provisions o t this Act as unjust. Remember I holt fc that, as officers, we are amenable t< t criticism for our acts when outside o - the pale of the law. but being under < ? I afilomn iv.ith tr> :i(!ir.ini^ter the law. it i - is harsh or unjust the law making pow J er is responsible. JJut I do notconside s the action of the General Assem i blv either harsh, unjust or illegal. Oi i the contrary, 1 maintain that its lejjis j lation on this subject was entirel; ^ j proper. 1 might have wished a litti 31 larger discretion as to the powers o *| the commission, but after .all, even i: f | this particular, sometimes the appear i ance of sternness is salutary. i j "The Coosaw Minintr Company am t! its satellites were not denied a license . i to mirie for phosphate rock in the C >o 11 saw iiiver. The commission wouh r | have gladly given to them a license un e j der which every dredge could have beei t! kept and every employee retained a _ I work. It only did what ihe law re , | quired. That every one should hav 1 | 'air piay was their aim. i do object t jjany attempt to instill such ideas a 1 j that the English capitalist is being pre 1 j ft-rred over the owners of the Coosav r! Mining Company stock. ami i as! J | what, nativity is assigned to the owner -jot'the Farmers' Mining Company? .! always understood that the I'inckney o | and the Greggs, of the Farmers' Com panv, were to 'the manner born,' s with the stockholders in other con: panies e "Can you tell me anything as to th e probable legal procu-dines that rumo r 'says are in store for us?" 1, "1 prefer not to anticipate troubh 5, j The truth is that all these companie e now associated with the Coosaw woul d& well to remember 'that a bird in th / DMnnL hand is worth two in the bush' and apply for license. It be wel' for all to" remember that the State of South Carolina is our common mother, and that an expression of the will of this mother requires th;it \vc should listen respectfully ;:n<i yield obedience!"? Xfrws and Courier. BURNcD TO DEATH. XI.<s Horrible i'<*tc ol h Prominent Florence Lawyer. Florence, S. C.. Feb. 27.?A few minutes after 10 o'clock to-nbjht an i alarm of fire was soumlcd. The dwelling of B. O'Xeale Townsend, a prominent lawyer, in the extreme western portion of the town, was on fire. In an extremely short time the building, a two-story cottage, was enveloped in flames. Theory went up, "Townsend Is in the house!" Several firemen entered the burning building in search of him, but to no avail. One went to a room where Mr. Townsend was supposed to be, but the room was one mass of' llame. ?TFrre-'engm<?rtJnaTiy t'xln^^'Iied the c1 nAiiM rrr\ 1 n fr% f lil 17. OU UiAl> O^T Ciai iiiwatu V V/U1U 1UWV the ruins. Alter fishing around in the burning embers for soma time, one. of the negro firemen lound the body, and a mass of burning, sizzling human flesh was pulled out aud laid upon the garden walk. There are many theories about the a flair. Some persons say that Mr. Townsend was seen on his porch in the afternoon, and that he seemed excited, as though something was worrying him. Others seemed to think he committed suicide and set the house afire himself. His waiting boy says that he left Mr. Townsend lying on his bed, reading, at G o'clock this evening, and that he was perfectly calm and rational. Still others hint at foul play, and think it probable that he may have been murdered and robbed, and that the criminal set fire to the building to conceal the crince. Mr. Albert Theime, the nearest neighbor, says that when he went to bed he noticed a light burning In Mr. Townspnrl's hedroom. Tie had hist <?ot in bed when lie beard a report like the explo J sion of a lamp. He ran over, but by the time he got to the bedroom door the room was nothing but llames. He seems to think the lamp exploded while Mr. Townsend lay asleep, and before he could wake he was stilled with smoke. Belton O'Xeale Townsend was perhaps one of the most prominent young lawyers of the State, lie was originally from Society Hill, Darlington County, j but has been practicing in Florence for ! the past eight years with marked success. He leaves a wife and two little girls, who were at the time of the lire on a visit to relatives in the couutry. The remains were careu for .by relatives and friends, and will probably be interred at his old home in Society Hill. The building was owned by Mr. Townsend, and valued at $1,500, but was not insured. The furniture was insured for ! M 4l?/^ TTIra or*/I "YTovino ^'JUV? AUL LIIV^ X UVrf UUU -rjLtCi. iM.v | Insurance Company.?State. A Xorth Carolina Holocaust. Monroe, 2s". C., March 5.?Fiie was J discovered in the Monroe Iligh School | early this morning:. An alarm was at | once sent in and the students of the J school were aroused as soon as possible, but it was too late to save the building and two unfortunate young men,TIios. E. Pemberton of Little Rock, Ark'., and Albert Post of Post's Mill, X. C., perished in the llarnes. At the first alarm the young ladies who roomed on the around lloor made their escape. The young men roomed on the third Ntfoor'and when the alarm reached them of e?caPe were partially cut nfv building filled with smoke I tkn^Sll^1 Post and A. C. , j and ^lame^T***^ toother. Al 11 lcnoae were in a rooir^N^jM^vn ; J bert awaked first, and disS^lsg^^ s | fire awoke lihodes. In trying toesSR i j Albert started for the West entrance which was in that part of the building . where the tire originated. He was sufr focated by the smoke and overcome by > the heat and went down with the build: ing. Khodes sought the East entrance - and managed to escape, after being . severely burned about the neck, head r and arms. Thomas Temberton was not j seen at all and his remains were found on the wire springs of his bed, leading to tue belief that ue did not awake at I all. The head, arms and legs of the ! oodies were burned off, leaving a mass | of charred ilesh. The building was completely destroyed together with the | school furniture, four pianos and the j library. The origin of the lire is not 11 known. Loss 315,000. I j j Explosion of a Fly Wheel. r j D anbury, Conn., March o.?The [ I breaking of a governor belt.on an en;! gine in Green & Fenton's hat factory j caused the engine to "run away" about : (> o'clock this evening, and the increased | speed caused the three-ton lly wheel to burst. The explosion was so terrilic r that nearly every one in the building ] was thrown down. Flying iron shatterI ed the lloor and roof for lit'ty feet, and a ^ piece weighing half a ton fell on the r factory of Davenpart and Vogal and \ broke in twenty feet of the roof. Sev> eral pieces went through the trimming r room, wliere sixty girls were at work and caused a panic. Two girls leaped I out of the window, twenty-live feec fron: 1 the ground, and received serious inju. ries. Snow ISlockaiie in the West. r j Dexvkic, Col., March o.?A Duraago i i Col., special, says: "The'snow blcckaclf is still on, but the rotary snow plows ex f pedt to have the road opened by Satur , day next. No mail has been receivec t for seventeen days and business i: almost paralyzed. The telegraph wire: " to Silverton "are down and under th< _ snow in many places. No trains will b< " able to reacli there for many days yet The town is out of Hour, fresh meat anc * and sugar, unless relief goes to then ^; soon there will be suffering for the wan f | of provisions." Lucky "Ray i>ousla>a." 1 ilKMPins, March-.!?The will of Mrs 1 Catherine A. Thompson, wifeofthelati l;Jacoo Thompson.- Secretary of tin eITreasuarv under rresident Buchanan : has been "admitted to the Probate. Tin * bulk of the estate goes to her graGd " daughter, Mrs. Kirkman. and to Mrs 1 Montgomery, another grand-daughter 1 | known to the stas:e as "Kay Douglass, ?is bequeathed a "naif interest in a hote 0 i at Oxford. Miss., and about SwO.OO 0 j worth of jewelery and platp.and S50,0l) s is set aside to be" invested for lier benq lit. The estate is valued at -SLUO'IM >. j The Chicago !)yeainit<; I'lot. si Chicago, March 5.?(leo..T. (Jibsor IJ secretary of the Whiskey Trust, arrive* s! from I'eoria, this morning and gav i-1 bonds on four new indictments turned ii o j by the last grand jury against him. Th I- l mdin+mont rvriorino 11v rBfiimpfl \V3S di? i j muivuKviiv j missed. The new ones charge conspii e ; acy with some person or persons un >r | known to destroy the property of Shu | feidt Distilling Company, and havingi; ?. i his possession dynamite, gunpowde] s ! nitro-glycerine or other explosives, fo d j the pusposc of destroying life and prop e ] erty. THE PHOSPHATE WAR. -sv! THE COMMISSION TAKE POSSESSION OF THE COOSAV/ TERRITORY. Tiie Company lo Appeal to the United Stutes Court for an Injunction?All Work Stopped?Over 1,000 Hands Idle. l.antl Phosphate ^liners Jubilant. Charleston, March 2.?The war between the State and the Coosaw Phosphate Company was inaugurated to-day, vvllfen the Phosphate Commissioners, WUU nuil/uunu tv X/gaiUiVlU JWWVIV4MJJ embarked in a tug chartered by the State, and -with Governor Tillman on board went down to Coosaw and took possession of the territory to which the Coosaw company claim exclusive right. Possession was taken by each member of the Commission dropping a lead line overboard ana sounding the bottom. The Coosaw company has shut down its machinery and is now idle with its 1,000 or more employees. ~ It is understood that in case any person or company attempts to move rock in their territory the company will <ipply to the United States Court for an injunction,' as the river now is a navigable stream--and un ler the jurisdiction of the United States.- It is understood that it is going to be a war-of freeze out. The Coosaw company will not-siine any rock itself and the United States^OurW*^'^ will be invoked to prevent anybody else from mining phosphate in the disputed iciTiiury. The Coosaw company last year shipped 100,000 tons of rock to Europe, and if the litigation is prolonged this much rock will be withdrawn from the market The land phosphate miners are jubilant and already talk of raising the price of land rock to S'J a ton. The litigation also is expected to boom the recently discovered Plori da phosphates. Xo process has yet been issued by the United States Court here.?Register. A PHOSPHATE MAN'S VIEW. A well-known phosphate miner, not connected with -Coosaw, has this to say of t he action of tfie State commission to-aay: "The phosphate commission took formal possession of the Coosow territory this 'morning. At least they say they did. They took a tugboat and went to Coosaw River, expecting, of course, to find all the Coosaw dredges in full operation, but they were mistaken. Air. r j.1 ALUSea ivjptiz, LUC SUpCiiniCUUCiiU Ui. iuo Coosaw Mining Company, had quietly given orders that all the dredges should remain idle, not a pound of rock being mined from the waters of the Coosaw. The commission were no doubt greatly surprised, but they had come to take possession of Coosaw, and this is about the way I understand they did it A . meeting wps held aboard the tug Britannia in the cabin. Capt. Walter was -J called to tbe chair, then a resolution jb was passed by the board declaring that fl Coosaw River was open to general rights. mt A lead line was thrown overboard, the . ~ lead touched bottom, and the people of South Carolina are told by this wise and great commission that the Coosaw territory is no longer under Exclusive r;ghts. Was there ever sucharediculous.sight before? The Coosaw superVi*e? Atrrn fnrr TTrin_ j IJJ.ICUUCHO ? clo ILL U.AO VYVJJL I/JL-LV aiuu ?, hoe, within hailing distance all the time M when this was happening. Not a word JB was said to him and no formal notice was given the Coosaw Company. The whole scene would appear nonsensical to a set of school boys. Yet these are H the men to whom is entrusted one of the greatest industries in the State. TIIE LOSS TO TIIE STATE. fl "The shutting up of the Coosaw Mining Company is a much more serious H matter than "most people suppose. The company employs about three hundred JHH laborers, eighty of whom are whiten^n^_^^^P with families to support. pay roll of the comnaaja^"?T3^^y aaa is mor6 tll&Il ta; rQ3^pM?juie lo-day alone lost 8500 A jiirflitv this hmn<y about the daily [?5P?luction of the dredges under the ^Control of the Coosa w Company. How long can the State stand such a loss as this ? The State counts on $223,000 per annum from the royalty. I will venture to say it wont get 3150,000 this year unless some compromise is made, and that soon. "The Coosaw Mining Company have the tinest plant invested in the phosphate business, has always paid its royalty regularly, and has contributed to" the State's treasury in the past Sl,300,000, and is certainly entitled to some consideration at the hands of the State.. Instead of this, it appears as if it is the policy of the State and its officials to wreck and ruin this company. I believe if the Coosaw Mining Company had been properly approached by the phosphate commission that a satisfactory adjustment could have been agreed upon~_ .JIr.Kobt Adger's dignified and^tf \\ Cll'l/lUiCUvlCLtCl . LV I I r I iMiir 11 I : Columbia certainly would lead^JI^P^^^ supposition. The commission in its pride has seen fit to take no notice of ' Mr. Adger's letter, which certainly would seem to have called for a cour| teous reply." Scattered to the Winds. Xew York, March 1.?The com. raittee of four from the Staten Island ! Schutzeu crops, appointed to carry out ! the request of Henry Meyer, proprietor " ot the Puck Hotel, at Port Richmond, > that his remains be scattered to the winds ' from the top of the statue of Liberty, on Bedloe's Island, fulfilled their mission | to-day. Wnen the top of the pedestal was reached bv the committee, the metal urn that contained the ashes of Meyer was . opened ana eacu committeemen put a i portion of the contents, which weighed - about four pounds, into'' a paper bag. " The delegation then climbed the stair\ case leading to the crown of the statute, 3 where a brief address was made by the * master of ceremonies, after which the 1 four committeeman, each holding one of the bags containing the ashes in his right { hand, pronounced these words together: x "Here goes the last of Puck Meyer's t happy days." and then scattered the ashes to the four winds. The ceremony ] was concluded by the opening of two .j bottles of champagne and drinking to the ^ j memory of "Puck" Meyer. 2 j Unavailable. : j Ci ncinnati, Feb. 28.?Senator VoorB j heefi, in a published statement,declares i that Cleveland is unavailable as the > } Democratic candidate for President bei cause of his attitude on the stiver quesj tion. lie mentions Gorman and Chief j Justice Fuller as possessing the neces ^ | sary requisites ror success. j. j Storm Swept. Galveston1,Feb.28?Advices from j the City of Mexico say that- the port of . ! San i -elipe has been visited by a bad storm. Much shipping has been wreck1 ed and eighteen houses destroyed. Many e families \vere made' homeless. Anum ber of lives were lost and a great deai of e live stock has perished; i- ( . . . /? ''t - ' Forty-Six JSelow Zero. __ . t- St. Favl, Minn., Feb. 28.?The coiaest weather of the winter is sweeping a down the Northwest. At Prince Aluert yesterday the thermometer regis- r tered 4H degrees Mow zero. Quappelie,^^ )- had a temparature of 40 degrees belora^j and Winnepeg 38 degrees. ?