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' THE HOTEL HORROR. Terrific Explosion and Heavy: Loss of Lite in Hartford. The Kuins of the Hotel Catch Fire | After the Explosion. 11 The main portion of the Parts Centra j Hotel, a five-story brick structure, facing on j High and Allyn street, Hartford, Conn., fell j down the other morning a few minutes be* | fore five o'clock, burying in the debris at j least fifty people. Every window in the Earl House, right j across Allyn street, was broken and the wails j were smashed in many places. The noise ; of the fail aroused the whole city, and in a very few minutes a lar^e crowd surrounded the scene. It was a sight of horror, and one that will never be forgotten by the spectators. Flames completely enveloped the ruins, ana tne snrieus oc tne wounaeu ??u uj"?s i rose high above the hoarse notes of the tire- j men and police, who had been summoned by an alarm from the fire department. The first to arrive on the scene found thi9 building a heap of ruins, from which issued smoke and steam in dense clouds. The spectators were appalled by the shrieks and groans of many human beings who were imprisoned in the mass of timber and masonry from which flames were already bursting. A general alarm summoned the entire fire department, and an immense crowd, attracted by the explosion and firo alarm, soon packed the streets. The flames prevented any attempt at rescue. The ruins w-re flooded with water before any work could be prosecuted. A few dead or dying persons were taken from the edge of the"debris, however, within an hour after the explosion. The force of the explosion threw a bed with a sleeping woman upon it far into the street, while one of the heavy doors landed a block away. By 'J o'clock a. m. the ftames were so far subdued that the rescuers were enabled to get at the victims. Some were pinned beneath heavy timbers upon which rested masses of masonry, reudering the work of rescue extremely hazardous. The explosion was simply terrific. No i words can describe tae powerfully destructive nature of the explosion. A substantially built brick block five stories high was lifted bodiiv and crushed like an ecrr shell. falling in a tanglad mass of human beings, broken timber, bricks, mortar, bad ding and the like. Incredible as it seems, the whole structure when it fell occupied scarcely more space on the ground than it did originally. Tho first warning of any danger whicli the fifty or 100 guests had was a feeling of being lifted, then they experienced a sinking sensation, and tbey remember no more. Then there was a terrible crash, and lor an instant everythinz was still. Then came another smaller explosion and another crash. The first outsiders who arrived on the scene heard a few moans and saw three or four persons clambering out of the ruins, and then all was still. Tho ruins, dotted thick with crushed and struggling human beings, very soon began to smoke, and in a short time, before tho firemen could get to work, the bright flames began to show their forked tongues, and the horrors of fire seemed about to be added to the other terrible sight. Only the northeast corner of the hotel remained standing. The rest in a twinkling had been laid low, leaving bare the fivestory interior of that portion. This corner of tne hotel was occupied by the servants and other employes. They suddenly found one side of their rooms gone, the stairs biown away, and the only means of escape was by jumping into the smoking ruins or leaping out upon the 4 sidewalk on the Allyn street side. Two or tnree in tneir irignt aia jump, ana escaped with severe injuries, but the aerial ladder was soon on the spot, and the firemen quickly ran the life saving apparatus to the windows of the different stories, and the imprisoned servants were safely rescued. The southeast corner of the hotel fell soon after thu second explosion, carrying with it the sleeping guests in that portion of the building. The west and south sides of the Jjotel were blown out bodily, settling down into a level or nearly level mass ol broken timbers, stone, brick and mortar. As the daylight gradually came on, and the horrible sight was plainly brought to view, the fast increasing crowd, heretofore scarcely able to believe their senses, now began to realize what had occurred, a^d vent to work with a will to rescue thoss still ali ve. Governor Bulkeley, Mayor Root. Chief Packard, Captain Bell, the Street Commissioners, the Fire Commissioners and all whose help or authority was needed, were on hand giving orders and personally directing the work of rescue. The entire police force Wa8 ordered on duty, and t ha anfirA fi ra Hannrf wnQ there, the patrol wagon in roadiriess, waiEin? for its burden of bruised or dying humanity, and many went to work unasked, scores or willing hands tore out the broken timbers, threw aside the hot bricks, and, with bleeding fingers, worked for the lives imprisoned beneath. President Smith of the Board of Fire Commissioners finally succeeded in getting Section Master Lane of the Consolidated road, with his gang of men,used to work of the hardest kind, nnd when about 7 o'clock these fifty Italians,with picks and shovels, hurried down into the alleyway, back of tho hotel, and went to work at the southeast corner of the ruins, where they were heapel up the highest, the anxious crowd spontaneously broke out into cheers. "Hurry up with that line of hose," cried some one further up on the ruins, "the llames ara within eight feet of them." ""f There they were?five of them?a man and his wife and their dead child, and two others, all Jyiiisc beneath tho brick and timber: all alive but the child. One by one the suffering ones were dug out, first an arm, then the upper portion of the body, and at last the crushed remains but still breathing bodies of the unfortunate ones were tenderly carried down over the j broken timbers and heaps of brick to the 6tretchers in waiting at the foot of the ruins. Once in care of the physicians in waiting the bleeding bodies, if there was still life re- j roaming, were carried into the adjoining j houses or taken to the hospital in the patrol wagon, or if dead the remains were conveyed , to the Morgue. So the work of rescue went on, and ho ly after body was carried away from beneath the tottering walls of the remaining upright portion of the hotel. "Tl at wall is liable to fall at any minute," was repeated from many mouths, but still the men worked without hesitation under the cracked and crumbled walls hovering forty feet above them. No one seemed to think of any but the ones buried in the ruins. The finding of Louis H. Brouson and his wife was attended with the most pathetic surroundings. The father of the unfortunate woman, General Charles P. Graham, of the Connecticut Guard, watched the men with the deepest interest. The officers of the National Guard were at his side and directed the work. When Bronsou's body was lifted up the face was unrecognizable, being so I a lly bruised and tnsngurea. mrs. oroiisuu s umr ? ? juauuu with the mortar from the walls, and h?r face was shockingly crushed. General Graham stooped down and touched the head with the utmost tenderness, saying! "It is her hair." He was also able to identify his daughter by the earrings she wore. Her left hand was charred, and the right one was clasped in a death grip. Hie two bodies were side by side in the ruins. Their only child, a girl of six years, was not found until dartc. Harry Stifrel, of Philadelphia, who represents the Barnes Safe and Lock Company, was aroused out of a sound sleep by the explosion, and the next instant felt himself falling. He was pinioned by the shoulder and could not move. He was (o scious all the time. and directs 1 t'-e men liow to work to the best advantage in getting him out. He was exhausted bv the rain and exposure toward the last, but retained his self control, and I when finally removed was found to have escaped without broken bones. It was found ne; i s<nry to place those suffering from their in juries un ler theintiuence cf morphine. A curious feature is that very few of the injure ! were burned, although the fire was all around them. An impressive incMent occurrd about 12 o'clock. N^ar the center of the ruin a p-irtyof men were w< r'c'iij under the direction of Alexander Harbison. S'une one thought he heard a faint cry below, but could notiletermine the direction. Air. Harbison mounted the highest pile, and with waving hand shouted "Hush." The cry was taken up,and in ten seconds where there had been a iiabel of sounds and confusion, with 200 men plying picks and shovels, boards crashing and other noises, all became as quiet as a tomb. Every one listened, but the cry, if there had been one. was not repeated. , "Fall to. men," shouted Harbison, and in | an instant the men were at work. It was the most impressive incident of the day. Tha work of recovering the bodies was continued uninterruptedly all night, and eighteen dead wore taken to the Morgue. The hotel was built about fifteen years ago, and cost, with the furniture. $1:20.000. The soil was soft, and altliongh the building was carefully constructed. it i soon "ttied badly. Prominent builders have long held the building to be unsafe. It was, therefore, thought that j the disaster was not caused by the explosion : of the boiler. The question of the explosion j of the boiler was settled beyond question, as i pieces of the shell have been found scattered 1 the whole length of the building and | mixed with the debris. The explosion ia ; thought to be due to the night engineer, Alexander Thayer.going away at about midnight, | learlng a heavy draugnt on the furnace ana j little water in the boiler. He has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter Among those who perished were: Andrew F. Whiting, the actuary of the Hartford Life and Annuity Company, with his wife; Rev. Dr. Perrin and wife, clerical member* of the Yale Corporation and a distinguished Congrecationalist. He is the Treasurer of the National Congregational Council and the analyst of the Connecticut Congregational churches; Dwight H. Buell. a member of the Hartford Club and of the Veteran City Guard. He was prominent socially and unmarried; Max Galody. editor of the Hartford Herald, was in the hotel with his wife. Both perished in the ruins. Galody was a i prominent German resident. DISEASE DEFYING DIAGNOSIS j Jf'llty JLICaillH JI'UIU 11 lujstcriuus : Slnlady in Kentucky A di?patch from Marion, Ky., says: A terrible diseaso made its appoarance in Webster County a few weeks a^o. It raged disastrously for a time and it was though1 that it had spent its fury, as no new cases were reported f< r ten days. The disease, however, lias reappeared in more violent form than ever near Dixon, the county seat. Nine new cas s have also developed near Free Union. Four deaths occurred during one day, and the other live patients were not exp cifd to live. Five additional cases developed next da)*. The malady is confined to a strip of territory bordering on a small st: earn called Crab Orchard Creek. In one family of seven only the father escaped. I'pto this time but two persons attacked had recovered from the disease, one of whom is totally blind and the other a cripple for life. Thero have already been more than fifty deaths. At one cemetery on one day there were four burials. Doctors have not been ablo to make a diagnosis of the disease. The majority are inclined to the opinion that it is cerebro spinal meningitis of the congestive malignant type. The patient is taken with sharp pains in the spine, which soon reach the brain and are followed l>y violent cramps nnu convulsions, from which rienfh pn?n??. A NEW SENATOR. General Gilman Marston Appointed from Now Hampshire. General Gilraan Marston has been tendered and accepted the appointment of United States Senator from New Hampshire by Governor Sawyer from the 4th of March until the Legislature in June provides for the next six years' term. He succeeds the Hon. William E. Chandler. His political career began in 1S45, when he was chosen to the Legislature and was three times re-elected. In 1850 he was a member of the Constitutional Convention; in 1859 was elected Representative to Congress, serving two years. At the outbreak of the Rebellion he was appointed Colonel of the Second New Hampshire Regiment, and was promoted quickly to be a~ Brigadier-General. In 1665 He was again elected to Congress. Since 1872 his services in the Legislature have been almost continuous, and he has been a leader in that body. THE LABOR WORLD. KTtTTTT /At?V noraro A The seamen's strike is spreading. , The Rome labor riots are becoming serious. The year has opened with surprisingly few strikes. There are over 1200 baker shops in New York city. America* cast steel for tools is advertised in London. Ne'.v Jersey's Child Labor law is operating satisfactorily. Less than 3000 mon are left at work on the Panama Canal. Baltimore's forty trades-unions have a membership of o0,U00. ' Vermont factories turn out somo 600,000 sn^w shovels per ye sr. There is a general strike among the dock hands of Mumo, Sweden. Last January only saw 18,936 men go on strike in seventy-one strikes. Wilmington* (Del.) morocco factories need the hides of 30,000 goats ilaily. A movement is on foot for the formation of a new National Labor party. The freight handlers of Boston have resolved to ask for an increase of pay. The averatre weeklv earnings of working women are larger in Western cities. The Washington ordnance foundry when finished will be the largest of its kind in the world. A eifty thousand dollar paper mill is to he built soon in tatillo, State of Coahuila, Mexico. The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company, of Michigan, pay out each year over $5J0,0t)U in dividends. Is the large cit'es of Europe poor people sweep tho crossings, picking up a few pennies for tueir work. The united silk workers of New Jersey are about to form a State federation in i the interest of their trade. General Master Workman* Powderly has been spending some tiiuo among the miners near Heading, Penn. Tux great drawback to progress in the construction of the United States cruiser Texas is m want of skilled labor. Lowell (Unssi policemen hav6 a society that pays $7 per w. ek, twenty six weeks in the year, for sickness and $10J at death. Sydney (Australia) workingwomen have | opened a big hotel for themselves, where | Loard and lodg.n^s arc furnished cheaply. English swordmakers recently refused to I woriv for ten cents per hour, the scale that Germans accvpt. 'ilie lor.ner want iifteen cents. The standard wa^os for n?w York car drivers or conductors is per day, und the j law suys th.y shall not work more than ten j hours. I There are twenty-oight industrial schools i in this country which are attended largely I oy women. iu buiii? vi tutrae iii&tJmLivua women only are admitted. It is claimed that a Chicago street car conductor has stolen thousands of dollars by knowing how to turn back the register, he also sola the secret to other men for $25. In the city of Philadelphia are 172 carpet establishments, with 72 ?0 looms and 17,SuO workmen, fheir aggregate output in 1W8 was 72,000,000 yards of carpet vamedat $45,OOO.UiJU. After three months of idleness the 3i!0J stinking miners on the Alonongahela and j Yohogtiany in Pennsylvania have agreed to resume work at the old rate of three cents per bushel. The Window Glass Workers" Union of Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in the United States, an.i holds a reserve fund of $300,000, with which it has been decided to establish a bank. Since the stoppage of emigration to this country from China there ha-) been a doubling of the wages of Chinese cigarmakers, tailors, gardeners, laundryineu and other workers ou the Pac.fie toast. Cakpexteus in Los Angeles, Cal., receive $ ,'.7.1 to a da)-; Wilmington (Del) carpenters get $10 a week; Louisville, Ky., &J.51) a day: .Nashville, Tenri., ?-.2> a day; Inilianapoli<, Ind., a day. The most Important ejection ever neld In Utah has just tuken place at Ogden. It waa the light by the G en tilt s, or Liberal party, for a roothold in the Territory by the election of a Mayor and Council. Notwithstanding the attempted intinudation of Gentilas by Mormons, the former elected their entire ticket. The deposits in the Philadelphia Savings Fund amounted to the enormous sum of $3U,oOa.OOO on January 1 of this year. Nearly all the deposits are made by poor men. FOUR NEW STATES, j Both Houses Pass the Omnibus Territorial Bill, The Two Dakotas, Montana and Washington Admitted. After years of active endeavor on the part of its citizens the Territory of Dakota is to be clothed with Statehood. She comes into tho Union, however, as two States, and with Montana and Washington, whose admission was also permitted by Congress, the number of American States will be iacreased to forty-two. The conference report on the Omnibus Territorial bill has been agreed to by both Senate and House, and it only needed the signature of the President in order to become a law. In the House the adoption of the bill was greeted with applause, but in the Senate the provisions of the bill gave rise to some debate. n- l"?:?_r flm ' wr, ctpniiKer, ui liiiuun, pi cociucu bu? *w- i port in the House and Mr. Piatt in the Senate. The bill as agreed to in conference provides for the admission of the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana and j Washington. The attempt to induce the Territory of Washington to accept the name of Tacoma has been fruitless. The Territory of Dakota is to be divided on the line of the seventh standard parallel produced due west to the western boundary of the Territory. The delegates elected to the Constitutional Convention north of this parallel shall assemble at Kismarck and those elected south of the paralie ac Sioux Falls. The delegates to the Convention in each of the proposed new States shall be elected on the Tuesday after the first Monday in May next and shall meet ou July 4 and declare that they adopt the Constitution of the United States. They are authorized thereupon to form constitutions and State governments. It is provided that at the election for delegates to the Convention in South Dakota the electors shall vote for or against the Sioux Falls constitution. If a majority of the votes shall be for the constitution the Convention shall resubmit to the people of South Dakota for ratification or rejection the constitution framed at Sioux Falls and also the articles and propositions separately submitted, including the question of locating the temporary sent of government, with such changes only as relato to the name and boundary of the proposed State, to the reapportionment of the judicial and legislative districts and such amendments as may be necessary in order to comply with the provisions of this act; and if a majority of the votes cast on the ratification or rejection of the constitution shall be for the constitution, irrespective of the articles separately submitted, the OUIU3 11L OUUUI J./UJVUVU. ouuu ut Iiuimi/uu no a State in the Union under said constitution, as hereinafter provided; but the archives, records and books of the Territory of Dakota shall remain at Bismarck, the capital o.f North Dakota, until an agreement in reference thereto is reached by said States. But if at tbo election of delegates to the Constitutional Convention in South Dakota a majority of all the votes then cast shall ba against the Sioux Falls constitution it shall be tho duty of the Convention to form a constitution as if that question had not been submitted to the people. It is made tho duty of the President to admit the four new States by proclamation if the constitutions formed are ratified at the election to be held on the first Tuesday in October. Each of the new States shall be entitled to ono Representative in Congress, except South Dakota, which shall be entitled to two Representatives. Section 11 provides that all lands herein granted for educat ional purposes shall be disposed of only at public sale and at a price of not Jess than $10 par acre.the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, tho interest of which only shall be expended in the support of said schools. But said lauds may under such regulations as the legislatures shall prescribe be leased for periods of not more than five years, in quantities not exceeding one section to any one person or company: and such land shall not be subject to pre-emption, homestead entry or any other entry under | the land laws of the United States, whether surveyed or unsurvejed, but shall be re served for school purposes only. All mineral lands are exempted from the grants made by the act. The two Dakotas ore to be added to Justice Miller's circuit (the Eighth) and Washington and.Montana to Justice Field's (the Ninth). It the anxiety ?f t!je people in those Territories Is as great as it has been Fcpfesenlea to bo, there is 110 reason why North and South Dakota. Montana, and Washington should not be States within nine month?, and also be represented by Senators alid Representatives in the first regular se.-sion of the Fifty-first Congress, while the people living north and south of the seventh standard parallel, which is to be the boundarjr line between the two Dakotas. are to have a chance to say whether there shall be a greater difference than is promised batween the two. FLOQUETS DOWNFALL, Defeat and Resignation of tin French Premier's Ministry. Premier Floquet, of Franc?,has fought an omer uatuein raris against uouiangisijiung been defeated ly a majority of eighty-nine When the question of tho Revision of thi Constitution caine up in the Chamber ol Deputies Count de Douvillc-Maillefeu moved that the debate cn the subject be adjourned Notwithstanding tho opposition of th? Government the motion was adopted by e vote of 3u7 to 218. Premier Moquet there upon announced that tho Ministry would immediately resign. Immediately after M. Floquet's announcement all the members ol the Ministry sent their resignations to President Carnot. M. Floquet's Ministry was organized in April, 18SS. His ministry represented thi Radicals mainly. M. Flo juet advocated Revision of the Constitution in his Ministerial programme. The President was to be deprived of tho right of dissolving the Chamber of Deputies; the SenaU was to have only a suspensive veto for two years in general legislation, aud an empty privilege of remonstrance in financial affairs collective responsibility of Ministers was t< cease, and each one was to be personally responsible to the Chamber: all measures wert to be submitted to a Council of State; Ministers were to be secure in office for a fixed time, and the Lower House was to be renewed by thirds every two years. Final action was not taken upon this mea9 ure. and M. Moquet evidently had no hope that it would pass tho Senate even if adopted by the Deputies. Ho hoped his measure would take the wind out of JJoulanger's sails; but in this he was disappointed when the recent Paris election was held. The collapse of the Panama Canal Company also weakened his Ministry, which sis months ago promis d to have a long lease of power. His duel with Uoulangor last year added to his prestige, but his bold attempt todefeat his opponents by turning their weapons against them only provoked dissensions among the Republicans and brought about his downfall. WOMEN AT WOKE. A Petition in Circulation the "World Over By 300,000 'Women. The Women's Christian Temperance Unions of all countries are circulating a petition addressed to the Governments of the world, asking that they raiselthe 'standard of the law to that of Christian morals, tc strip away tho safeguards and sanctions of the State from the drink traflic and the oninm trade, and to nrotectthe homes of ths world by the total prohibition of thest curses of civilization. The petitions are in the hands of nearly 300,000 women in this country, and great meetings in behalf of the movement are to bt he!d in every large city of the Union on April 2S. The women'm charge of the petitions are Miss IVillard in the United States, Mrs. Leavitt in South Africa, Miss Ackerman in Japan, Mrs. Gray in Australia, Miss Jessie AcKerman in India, Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge in England. Tho British Women'! Temperance Association, of which Mrs. Margaret Bright Lucas, a sister of John Bright, is President, is sending out petitions to all the countries which are under the dominion of England. Missouri has expended $45,000 in the Jatt two years in supporting an agricultural college with but thirteen studeats. i - | TEE NEWS EPITOMIZEa Eastern and Middle States. 'The keeney House an-1 the Bronson block were hurned at Pike, N. Y. A domestic named Jennie Mack, with her little niece, Pearl, perished in the flames. Hon. H. G-. Edwards, who will replace Sackville West as the British Minister at Washington, arrived at New York on the steamer "Britannic, from Liverpool. Herman J. Kriedel, the wealthy New York agent of William Knabe & Sons, the piano manufacturers, has committed suicide. Tin: Baron Li Yen Pang, a Chinese merchant said to b-j worth $4.?,000. has arrived n New York from China. He has two branch houses iu New York and two in San Francisco. Sonrli and West.' Ex-Sexator William Windom, of Minnesota, paid a visit to General Harrison at Indianapolis, at the latter's special request. The engineer and fireman of a locomotive were killed by the explosion of a boiler at Norristown. Penn. Sidxey T. fairchild.father of the Secretary of the Treasury, died at his home, in Caxenovia, N. Y., from apoplexy, aged eighty years. Robbers entered Pattison's store tit Elk T.M. A ?.>- 1 JLjilTft, A1K,, K J 1 JtXI lilO tlCI A. UilU lAJWtt. \TVUW in money and valuables and escaped. The Indiana Senate has passed the Election bill, embracing the principal features of the Australian system of voting. Masked men murdered three women and a child with an axe at Mount Olive, N. C. Jonx Lee has been hanged at Alexandria, Minn., for the murder of Charles Chelnie. Gluckman & Heller's block in Chippewa Falls, Wis., and three ad joining houses were burned. Loss f 200,000. Frank L. Silvers, a well-known horsebreeder, of Tecumseh, Mich., shot his wife and two daughters, Edith and Ada, age eleven and nine years, and then ended his awful act by committing suicide. The Polk County (Iowa) Grand Jury, by a vote of six to one, returned an indictment against Governor Larrabee for criminal libel. Albert and George Avery were trampled to death by stampeded cattle near Independence Rock, Wyoming. State Senator David F. Houston died at Roanoke. Va.. havine runtured a blood vessel by falling on the icy pavement. Edward Quixn killed his brother John by striking him on the head with a club during a quarrel at their home in Avondale, Ohio. The murder was committed in the presence of their mother. Both men were intoxicated. A cyclone in Shelby and Bibb Counties, Ala., catisxl a loss of five or six lives and much destruction of property. The path of the tornado was twenty miles in length, and crossed a rather thickly settled country. Forty houses were unroofed or blown down and several hundred head of cattle and horses killed outright. The damage is estimated at ?100,0C0. "Washington. Commodore George E. Belknap, at present in command of the Mare Island (Cal.) Navy Yard, has been ordered by Secretary "Whitney to command the Asiatic station, vice Rear-Admiral Chandler, deceased. The House Committee on Appropriations, by a vote of I) to 4--four Democrats voting with the five Republicans in the affirmative ?authorized Chairman Randall to report favorably a bill which includes the total repeal of the tobacco tax. and which reduces the revenue by about ?30,uuu,uuu. Secretary Colman received his commission from the President and immediately qualified as a member of the Cabinet The President has signed the acts for the relief of General William F. Smith and William R Blakeslee, and the joint resolution making appropriation for payment to the legal representatives of James B. Eads. The President's wife gave her last afternoon reception and closed the Saturday series of four. Life saving medals have been awarded by. Secretary Fairchild to Mrs. Mary Whitely and Mips Mina King, of Charleston, S. C. The Court of ClainiB has given judgment for $1,092,5*27 in favor of the Central Pacific Railroad Company in its suit against the United States for withholding dividends. The statue of Lewis Cass, presented to the people of the United States by Michigan tor a place in Statuary Hall, at the Capitol, has been uuveiled. Foreign. The Cossack expedition to the Red Sea littoral has hoisted the Russian Hag on French territory. Three blocks of buildings in Manchester, England, composed mainly of warehouses, have been destroyed by lire. The loss is $250,000. It is reported at Zanzibar that Tipnoo Tib's messengers to Stanley were abused by the Arabs and forced to take another route, hence the delay in hearing from him. Peck Benxig's rolling mills, tho McDougall grain elevator and the adjo'niug ~ > > J?. 1 U.. Urouici cranary were uwuujou n v mo Montreal, Canada, causing a loss of about. JG'JO.OOO. Fully 500,000 Chinese are on the brink of starvation by reason of lloods and famine, and an appeal to the whole civilized world has been found necessary. It is the first time that the Chinese officia's have nsked foreigners for assistance in their troubles, which must indicate how desperate is their misfortune. London and New York have started subscriptions. King Otto, of Bavaria, has been proved without a doubt to be hopelessly insane. M. Meline has abandoned the attempt to form a Cabinet for President Carnot, of France TRIPLE MURDER. A TVorthlesa Follow Kills His Slater, His Two Nieces and Himself. Mrs. Philip Chemileke, og2?l fifty, her daughters Mary and Hose, aged twenty and eighteen respectively, were murdered in a little farmhouse in London Township, fourteen miles from Glenville, Minn., by the woman's brotner-m-jaw, josepu tueniiiunc, nineteen years old. Young Joseph Chemileke went to the house of his half-brother Philip, a Bohemian farmer. Joseph had shown a good deal of attention to his comely nieces, Mary and Rose, but he was a auarrelsome fellow and the girls' parents dia not like to have him about. It is supposed that there was a quarrel during Joseph's visit at his brother's, and lie left the house in a rage. He started toward his home, but finally retraced his steps and hung about his brot her's house. Some little time after Joseph had gone Wary and Hose had occasion to go out of the house. Joseph, who had been lying in wait, drew a revolver and shot them both in the head and neck. 1 h?-y fell mortally wounded. The murderer, smoking pistol in hand, then rushed into the house and shot his sister-inlaw, killing her instantly. Philir- was absent at tho time or else he might hare shared the same fate. The only one in the house who escaped the murderer was a half-witted brother of the girls. One of the girls was not instantly killed. She ran to her brother's, a mile away, but she fell dead on entering the house. The murderer slipped ott' in the darkness. When al.out forty rods away he stopped, placed the muzzle of the revolver to his face, pulled the trigger and fell dead. When found a shotgun and a revolver lay by his Bide. THE COUNTRY'S CHIMES. ITclI Rmsrinff Fparnrnn nf tho Coming Centennial Celebration. The bell ringing feature of the celebration of the centennial of Washington's inauguration, -April 30, 17S'.?, promises to le genera] all over the United Statas. It is contemplated that every church bell shall set a clinging at nine o'clock in the morning, anil with loud vociferousnesi proclaim tho hundredth anniversary of the practical birth of the nation. On that day, J00 years ago, the church bells rang to call tho people together to pray for the success and prosperity of the country umler General W aslilngton's Administration. The successful experiment of a century of popular government, during which the United States has enjoyed prosperity unprecedented in the annals of history, may well set all the bells to ringing with joyful thanksgiving strains. 1 PHILADELPHIA'S BIG FIRE, j A Half-a-Million Dollar Blaze In the Business District. Twelve Buildings, Occupied by Fifteen Firms, Destroyed, The five-Rtory yarn and wool importing house of Rudolph Blankenburg & Co., at No. 13 Bank street, Philadelphia, exteuding through to numbers 18 and 20 Strawberry treat, has been burned out. The fire started in the basement, and the first intimation the employes had of it was when a fierce body of flame broke through the hatchway on the first floor. The men, women and girls were compelled to leave everything behind them to save their lives. The fire was so rapid that seven girls on the fifth floor were about to jump from the windows, when prevented by a workman, who compelled them to take the stairway, down which they fought their way through the flame and smoke, reaching the street in safety, although all of them were considerably burned and partially suffocated. In less than five minutes the huge structure was a mass of flame from basement to roof. The fire spread to thebuilding No. 11, the first and second floors of which were occupied by Thompson, Foust & Co., wool commission merchants, and the upper floors Kr Pnrlnlnh filAn^AnhiirO' & Co. This building was speedily consumed. Meantime the fire ate its way into the four-story iron building No. 15 Bank street, and in a twinkling the entire structure was a mass of fire. Additional alarms were sent out, and fresh firemen were put at work. In thirty minutes after the fire started seven large wholesale houses in Bank and Strawberry streets were on fire. In the latter street the houses of James Doak, Jr., wool merchant; the Jewell Knitting Company; M. R. Raleigh & Co., yarns, and Philip J. Walsh, notions, were burning. William Murphy, colored, and Joseph Atkinson, who were working on the fifth floor of the Blankenburg building,made a rush for the fire-escape, but before they reached it they were hurrounded by flames. They finally got out on the fire-escape and called to the firemen below. Edward Donohue, of Engine No. 22, raised a sixteenfoot ladder, down which th; men climbed in safety. While the firemen were battling with the fire in Bank and Strawberry streets, Philip J. Walsh's store, Ncs. ^2 and 34 South Second street, which extends through to Strawberry street, caught fire and was badly damaged. The drygoods stom of F. S. V. Hall & Sons, No 2tt South Se ond s'veet, was also partially destroyed. Rcdriph Blankenburg said: "I think the fire ?as caused by the explosion of the gas engine which runs the elevator, as a loud re- | port was heard, just before the lire was discovered. I am insured for $227,000, but I don't think that will cover my lo?s." A rough estimate of the total loss placed it at $500,009, wnich was covered by insur ance to a two-thirds extent;. I The origin of the fire is a mystery, but it was stated by one of the employes of Rudolph Blankenburg & Co., after the Are had been got under control, that a bag of waste paper | in the engine-room in the basement caught fire and communicated to the woodwork. There was a strong draught through the basement at the time, which carried the flames to the elevator and set the upper floors ablaze. all quiet in samoa. No Fiffhtins Since the Laat Report ?A Consuls "Warning. The latest advices from Samoa say there has been no change in the situation since the last report. There has been no fighting, and Tamasese and Mataafa remain in their strongholds. The British Consul has warned British subjects not to supply natives with arms, and to maintain btrict neutrality. The British warship Calliope has replaced the warship Royalist. The German and American warships remain stationary. Herr Brandero, the leading partisan of Tamaseae, has been rocalled to Berlin. ' prominent' people. to > rtiTTw Mtt.tm in writinc a noveL Senator Beck is tarrying in Tampa, Fla. Mr. Parnell's health is very precarious. John Ruskin, the art critic, is again seriously ill. Governor Hill, of New York, is getting very stout. David Dudley Field is making a trip through Egypt. Emperor William's ear complaint is again troubling him. In spite of tempting offers Lord Tennyson refuses to write his memoirs. Senator Vance, of >"oith Carolina, is a profound student ot' the Bible. Queen Victohia contemplates writing, or rather dictating, her memoirs. Chari.es A. Dana, editor of the New York Sun, is worth two millions. Mrs. Cleveland will receive ?120,000 as her share of the Folsom estate in Omaha. Senator Morrili, of Vermont, has been in public life longer than any American xow living. General Harrison has withdrawn from several important cases in which he was counsel. The Czar of Russia is arranging for the establishment 01 an imperial residence in the Crimea. Dr. Franklin Carter, President of TV illiams College, is tall and thin, with iron-gray hair and whiskers. Vice-Admiral Watson is the new comfha P.rlHch snuadron in IHflfKlCl "iU~L'UlL"i U1 UUO a/i tvwM 2\"orth American waters. Robert Ljuis Stevenson, the novelist, writes from one of the South Sea Island! that he now goes barefoot. Mr. Fkocde's book on Australia has given birth to a new word in the Assembly House at Melbourne. It is "Froudacity." Loud Salisbury bas purchased an estate at Villefranche, in the hiviera of Italy, and will build a splendid mansion there. Cyrus Fillmore, a brother of President Fillmore, and a farmer of La Grange County, Ind., is reported dying at the age of eightyseven. Preparation are making for the coronation of King Milan, of Servia, at Monaster in May. The ceremony will be conducted wilh the utmost pomp and formality. A. M. Cannon, the Washington Territory millionaire, was peddling sewing machines in Portland, Oregon, nine years ago, and today his wealth is estimated at between ?4,UUJ.OUO and $0,000,000. General Harrison will take his daughter, ' Mrs. McKee, with ber husband and children, to live with him in the White House. Mr. McKee is a prosperous boot and shoe dealer in Indianapolis. The Queen of Madagascar is said to get all her dresses from Paris,and so.ne of them are very gorgeous. She is twenty-three years old. a small, slender woman of light color, and is very popular with her subjects. Congressman S. S. Cox is said to have a remarkably accurate memory. He has n wide knowledge of literature that is always at his tongue's end. and he is able to repeat off-hand many long pieces of verse. Chief Justice Fuller is frequently roused from slef-p by messenger uyys ?uu bring him special delivery letters from cranks containing gratuitous advice about the disposal of casus before the Supreme Court. By the terms of the will of Mr. Edward Siirtoris. father of Algernon Sartoris, thii husband of Nelly tirant, his entire fortune, valued at is bequeathed to his son during his life, and at his death to his son's wife absolutely. Thh: Peruvian Senate has passed a law to the effect that the paper money which was issued for the war. ami forced upon the peo file at the point of tho baj'onet, shall be rt-gua ted by the same standard as the old internal debt, and bear an interest of only one per cent, per your. The season has been an especially favorable one for fattening hogs, and the average weight will be considerably heavier than last year, the average now ceing eighteen to twenty pounds' heavier than ior the entire taason last year. ? . LATER NEWS. The deadlock in the Delaware Legislature, which had continued for three weeks, has been broken, the House sending to the Senate as nominations for State Treasurer anl i Auditor the names of the present incumbents, William Herbert and Jame3 H. Boyce, whose nominations were at once confirmed by the Senate. In response to an invitation of the Na tional Tariff Reform League, in session at Chicago, Mr. Cleveland declared his inability to attend, but expressed himself as heartily in accord with the purposes of the League. The machine shops, round house and car Bhops of the "Big Four" railroad at Cincinnati were destroyed by fire. The loss is about $200,000. High winds caused a fire at Rock Rapids, Iowa, to spread very rapidly, until nearly the entire business part of the city was con- I sumed. Twenty-one firms were burned out. The totfil loss reached $75,000. Jesse Calhoun, a descendant of John C. Calhoun, and one of the wealthiest residents of Pike County, Ark., committed suicide after hearing that his only son had been arrested in Texas for murder. Ignatz Lederer, City Tax Collector of Bloomington, 111., and his assistant, Harry M. Leehr, have been arrested, charged with forgery and grand larceny. r??: r\ ~ rI vllv?.la;>i; was aucvucu ujr nervous prostration, brought on bv overwork. In the evening after his attack, 'how ever, he was better and resumed work. Many persons have recently died ol famine in the Province of Orenburg, Russia. Editor William O'Briex, the Irish patriot, after refusing to permit his counsel j to apologize for calling Colonel Turner a sneak thief ia court, was sentenced to six months in ja:l without hard labor. This added to the former sentence makes his term of imprisonment ten months. Two thousand five hundred men were discharged a few days ago from the canal works at Tavernilla, Panama. The contractors continue to curtail the work on all the sections. There is a strong military force on the line of the canal to maintain J order. Governor Gree.v, of New Jersey, has nominated Edwin 0. Chapman as State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to take the place from which Colonel Fuller was deposed by the Legislature. A laboreb named Joseph Brogan, at Upson, Wis., killed his wife and two children, aged five and seven years respectively, and , then committed suicide with a dull razor. i "While Harry Brown, Jobn Williams, and a third man, name unknown, were crossing the Kanawha, at Rush Run, W. Va., the boat was overturned and all were drowned. Late returns indicated the election of Charles F. Booker, Democrat, and R. P. C. Wilson, Democrat, for the Fiftieth and Fiftyfirst Congresses respectively, to succeed the late James N. Burnes, of Missouri. Chinese coolies are being constantly smuggled from British Columbia into the United States by way of coast steamers from Port Townsend, Washington Territory. The President has uigned the Nicaragua Canal bill The President and Mrs. Cleveland were entertained at a dinner by Secretary and Mrs. Vilas. Hon. Edward Phelps, United States Minister to England, called at the White House and had an interview with the Presi- | dent The House adopted t&e conrerence report on the Direct Tax bill by a vote of yeas 168, nays 8S. It was then taken to the Senate, signed, and five minutes afterward sent to the President. The President has sent to Congress all the correspondence which has taken place between this Government and Great Britain in regard to the dismissal of Lord SackvilleWestas Minister of Great Britain to the United States. Secretary Bayard has received a cablegram from Minister Hubbard, at Japan, announcing that a treat}' of amity, commerce ! and navigation between the United States i and Japan bad been signed by the representatives of the Governments. Thirty thousand people witnessed the gsme of baseball at Naples, Italy, between two professional teams from this country, the Ail Americas and the Chicagos. Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,bas summoned the heir presumptive, Archduke Franz, to Pesth to in;roduce him to the leading political men and members of the aristorracv. The Cologne Gazette (Bismarck's organ) says that Germany will demand of the I'niLed States Government that it arrest and punish Klein, the American whom Germany charges with having led the Mataafaites in Samoa at tho time of tlie repulse of the Germans in L'ecember last. MM. Fkeycinet and Meline have undertaken to form a Cabinet for President CarDOt of France. The Puke of Newcastle has been married in London'to Miss Candy, a famous English beauty. A terhible famine prevails in the southern portion of Corea. The Sultan of Morocco has ceded a piece of the coast near tho Algerian frontier to the Germans, who will use it for a naval station. TARIFF LEGISLATION. Four New Revenue Reform Bills Presented in the House, Four new Tariff bills have been introduced in the House of Representatives. They are fathered respectively by Messrs. McMillin of Tennessee, Breckinridge of Kentucky, Randall of Pennsylvania, and Forney of Alabama. The McMillin bill, reported from the Ways nnd Means Committee, stands earliest in the calendar. On that the. Democrats of the committee Jar? agreed. It is the Mills bill, with the cotton, metal and chemical schedule of that bill omitted, excent that it makes tin plate and cotton ties duty free and reduces the duties on iron beams and other structural iron and on steel rails. This McMillin bill is estimated by the committee to reduce the revenue ST^.OOJ.OOi). In co.se the House shall not like this bill well enough to adopt it Mr. Breckinridge, of Kentucky, with the consent of his fellow Democrats on the committee, has reported another. This reduces revenue and taxes l>y making wool and tin plate duty free, repealing the tcbacco tax and reducing and equalizing th?* duties on woolen and worsted goods as the Mills bill did. This Breckinridge bill will, it is estimated, reduce the revenues nearly S4\!.000,I)0D. Next conies the Covvles bill, reported by Mr. Bandall after the preceding two bills. It repenlsall the internal taxes on tobacco and its manufactures.and is estimated to reduce the revenue over thirty millions. Finally conies a bill, or a recommendation for a bill, by Mr. Forney, of Alabama, which leaves a small tax on manufacturers and ilealers in cigars and tobacco, but otherwise repeals what Mr. Bandall does. All these measures were referred to the Committee of the Whole. The sum of $79,173,000 appropriated for pensions at the last session 01 Congress will | be insufficient to meet the demands for the current year, and a further appropriation of i 000,OoO is necessary. I SUMMARY 01 I 'llllllllI III B The Senate. r.oth Day.?Mr. Spooner introduced a bi^^H which in substance applies the same systez^HH now so successfully in operation in tfa^^H State of Wisconsin upon a larger scale to th^|H whole country. The bill provides that i^HH connection with the Department of Agrlcu^^H ture there is to bo maintained a system Farmers' Institutes to be held annually ear uniformly as possible throughout th^^H several States....Mr. Coke continued speech in reply to Mr. Evarts's remarks the alleged Texas political outrages.... A bi^Hfl was passed authorizing the President to plac^^H General William S. Kosecrans on the retire^^H list as Brigadier-General of the regular armj^^H 51 kt Day.?Mr. Coke continued his speec^^H in reply to Mr. Evarts on political outrap^HB in Texas ? The appropriation to pay uJHM citizens of Beaufort. S. C., for real estat^HB seized and sold by the United States Goi^HS eminent was reduced from $?00,000 to$450^^S 00). An amendment offered in conferen^^H by Mr. Harris was agreed to, providing tb^^H in cases where the United States has sei/e^HB land and resold it at a profit, the profit sha^flfl be returned to the owner. It is estimate^^H| that $120,000 will cover cases of this cbara^^H ter. Tho reDort was aefeed to. Vfl .V2d Day.?Eulogies were pronounced b^^H several Senators upon Lewis Cass, who^B statue was unveiled in Statuary Hall... .TlflH House Census bill was passed with chang^^H .... Mr. Coke finished bis speech on the Texi^HI election outrages....Mr. Cullom reporteH back the House bill to organize the Territor^^fl of Oklahoma, and it was placed on the ca^H| endar. The bill proposed by Mr. Butler as substitute for the Springer Oklahoma bi^^M authorizes the President to appoint five ConfljN missioners to enter into negotiations ao^^H agreements with the Cherokee Indians fo^H| the relinquishment of all their title toth^^H Cherokee outlet to the United States. 5 'Id Day.?Mr. Vest's motion to reconside^^H I he vote by which the conference report o^^B t e Direct Tax bill was agreed to, was r^^H jiected by a vot; of eigbt yeas to forty-eigh^^B nays.... The Senate then considered the Saa|H| dry Civil Appropriations bilL Among th^^Bj Items is an appropriation of $41.00? for a k^H \vall at Staten Island depot, New York. an^^H one of $00,000 for the Sandy Hook Ligb^^H khip. The amendment to pay Mrs. \V aitfl 1;S745, the remainder of one year's salary oHI the Into Chief Justice Waite, was oppose^^B by Messrs. Gorman and Berry as unwise, bu^Hj the amendment for Mrs. Waite was lln&U^^H hereed to; yeas. 28: nays, 1G. The amend^HS ment opproprating $40,000 eaoh for statue^HP i>f General Sheridan and General John Logan in Washington was agreed to. 54th Day.?Among the executive doci^^H xnents presented was one from the Treasur^BBj Department, with a copy of testimony take^DI by Special Agent Byrue as to frauds in tWH Xew York Custom House....The resolatio^Bj offered by Mr. Hoar as to John S. McElwed^H in charge of the Sugar Division of the AjMH praiser's office in the New York Custoi^^H V-r fPl_ O K II | House, was asreeu to....me acww ? the relief of settlers in Hettinger CountjB^P Dakota, was explained and passed. The bi^^H authorizes an exchange of loans (on whic^^H homestead settlements were made bymU^HB takei for other public lando with the Norti^Hj ern Pacific Railway Company.... Mr. Sten^^B art offered a resolution (which was referre^^B to the Committee on Contingent Expense^^B continuing the select Committee on the [ citic Railroads until the indeb'edness oi the companies to the Government shall adjusted The correspondence relating t^HI the dismissal of Lord Sackville was tran^HI mitted to the Senate ...The Conference rfll port on the Omnibus Territorial bill Wl^HI agreed to The Direct Tax bill was aigne^^H by the presiding officer and then transmitte^M| to the President. 9H r, The Hoqda. :-Jj 54th Day.-The Mills' Tariff bill. wjt^H Senate ameudments, was reported backfroi^^S the Committee on Ways and Means by Mi^Hj Mills. It was referred to the Committee the Whole?The House, by a vote of to 101, sent back to conference, with instru^^H tions, the Dakota bill.... The Senate bill a^^H propriating $2o0,000 for the protection American interests in Panama was passed. "tit Tliv_Mr MnHrftArv snhmitt?l conference report on the Diplomatic and CotHH sular Appropriation bill. Under the agree^^H ment between the two House3 the families the Japanese who were killed and woiuid^^B by an American Admiral at target practic^^P are to receive $lj,000, and ?500.000 is a^HH propriated for use in Samoa. The Uou^^H agreed to the report ...Four Revenue bill^Hj were reported by Messrs. McMillin, Breckin^^H ridge, Randall and Forney....The Postoffic^BB bill was discussed. 5Gth Day.?The House by a vote of 144 62 ordered to a third reading the bill t^^H authorize a new lease of the Seal Islands Alaska, and to provide for the better prota^^B tion of the fur seals and salmon fisheries o^H that Territory. The bill was recommitte^^B with instructions Chairman Crisp, of th^^B Elections Committee, called up the coateste^^D election ca<w of Sullivan against Felton, o^^B the Fifth California District, but no actio^^H was taken. '* 5S H Day.?The House discussed the FosflHB office Appropriation bill, and after a livel^^B debate an amendment reducing to $*00 ^^B year the minimum salaries of stenographera^H and postmasters was defeated.... Mr. Caswel^^B from the conference committee on the Direc^H| Tax bill, presented the conference report... Mr. Lafoon reported a substitute for th^H^ bill providing for the creation, in tho Wa^^B Department, of a bureau of barboi^^B and waterways. to undertake a^^H river and harbor improvements...m Mr. Eutterworth introiueen a joint resc^^fl lution authorizing the President to invite tbHM members of the Parliament oi! the Dommio^aB of Canada and the Cabinets of the seven^^B provinces to visit the United States as th^^l guests of the Nation, and appropriated UOOforthe purpose ? A night session, held. It was called for the consideration o^^B I K?cii,occ ponnrN>H from the Committej o^^H Military Affairs. Objections to "no quorum^^H stooped all legis'ation. HM ")9th Day.?Immediately after the read^^j I ing of tbo Journal the contest over the Directs! j Tax Bill was resumed, Mr. Caswell caliinj^^J : up the conference report as a matter o^^H privilege. Mr. Crisp raised the question o^^| consideration against the report, stating tha^H he was willing to give precedence to appro^^H priation bills. The House determined?yea^^B i:n, nays !M?to consider the conference rtJ^H port. Mr. Kelley moved to table the motioi^H| to reconsider. Carried, The House adopte<^^B the conference report on the Direct Tax ....The House agreed to the conference port on the Omnibus Territorial bill. MB Alexander JJeighborgall met forth^JE first time Miss Ella Howe, a young lady good fam.ly, at an entertainment at Parker^^H burg, W. Va. One hour liter they wer^H married and started on a wedding toor ^HD few minutes afterword. ^HD THE MARKETS. H 8 NEW TORE. Beeves. 3 7) @ f? 15 Milch Cows, com. to good...25 00 (a'45 00 Calvee,common to prime.... 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