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I [chief Hen- , K Orleaus. ling in the anged, i size, extraordirdinary in its de> in New Orlean?, nineteen Italians bf Chief of Police < ed by lawyers and wealth and high Ii2 that the Guthoripesistance and snoH the officers of the b and cheered the 3 o? those shot or ?ca, Antonio Mari, Rocco Geracci, Piofrn \fnn. prank Romero, Mangnetto. fore the jury brought ty against six of the agreed as to the other tion was heard. The lounced the verdict, ury had been bought, ilready found inaict men charged with ? jury, and other fnpoted. The iurors II the public senSri^ed at tne public inhan, the foreman, ex[had found its verdict L the State witnesses, I hailed with derision, b for the acquittal of I Matrazo, the two to, and nJne to three bo others garded with suspicion rora, and one of them lliat tbes<j jurors were t the trial they exto brinfr- a verdict of ment over the verdict night, and three or Irwere beia to consiaer^ pase had cost the city |r over a month, and yet fs had been convicted, assination of Chief Henrder committee was aplakespeare to take charge castigate the murder, and iated for that purpose by [*ho committee showed a to resolve itself into a , but better counsel preigh the influence of the committee agreed to let rse, but with an underse the law failed they bing. et after the yerdict. A v E. H. Farrar, a lawrthe Committee of Law IHUU11 H1JU 1 UlU IU 1BBW* k aro invited to attend a clock a. m., at the Clay to remedy the failureof Bssy case. Come prepared led by forty men of high Enmunity, including law[nd others. Among the [ Liche, Commissioner of :e city. the Clay statue on Canal ^promptly at ten. Just l that hour was heard p from tbe people stailes street, and a numlong whom were W. I 0. Wickliffe and others 1, came marching along T nrrmnH and round the IEr ument. There were fully In earshot, and more could h;;, pushing and running !" was the cry, and, with Bsion, which went around |l times, was swollen. Krkerson!'' iickliffe?" lie railing and give us a r cries made up tfee conEThe space inside the railing [the dense crowd. pom those steps," was the Mr. Parkerson and Mr. re!" >yed, and soon the speaker . rush was made for the nard a minute there stood a er the statue of Clay. Mr. flret cnnoVor fTo jq a IEraizer of the Young Men's Ivement, an independent orRb at the late election defeatbemocrattc party and elected Kit city government, in mounted the pedestal of the I spoke at some length. He fury which had acquitted the med Private Detective D. C. lad assisted in the defense, and i as a perjurer, a suborner and ies. He was repeatedly inter> of? ?he murderers !" ''Let's hang fegre, a wealthy real e6tate j [in a similar strain, and was Irn by John C. VV ickliffe. edits. Thetie three speakers are AI'ATrrl VIQH l 111 3 Liiliu IUO vivnu uuu 9H|HK^^Khly excited. !sAjC|B!g|Kthem!" "Hang them !" and BMBfflm^Bong were heard on all sides. ijKa^BH^^pad not lasted more than flfBKMUWoHThe crowd by this time numMNnBHa march was then given, and went down Royal street. gfflBS^etehter at the Prison. SgHHM^Bned determined on quiet work. '"id they started toft f/<0. dog trot. It was til < " carts in the jfiHHBfl^HHl^PBbber ladders to HMMR^Eon if necessary. There were ?QHfn|^kh which to lynch the prisoners. H9HH armed with riflesjnade their I men who proposed ig tako the i cost. arson was the Commander, J. ex-Criminal Sheriff and the I the Democratic party of tho I s, was First Lieutenant, and e, formerly District Attorney ;he States, Second Lieutenant, armed men the mob surged, four thousand strong. \ Here he crowd was a man armed a shotgun, but the majority [vers. eached the prison it was soon men were organized as a millhe 200 with guns drew up in nain gate on Orleans street, vent to Treme, Marais and St. completely surrounding the of the mob made a formal down Lem Davis, keeper of the aission. Be refused, and said xnwj^hiiu not uurrenuer iuo noja nuuuui the Sheriff. He called upon HHg^Eilisperse. His refusal was greeted nBgSflKrid groans. HuK. were Immediately dispatched crowbars and picks. These H|HgfiMh?ared from a neighboring and the mob set to work BBBpaB^Rlg iron gate in front of the HHSgjK!?a' massive concern, and the kS^K made no impression on it. In SBwH^Kime another squad attacked the on Marais street. This H^^Beasily have been defended gHHft Sheriff, but no attempt ; made for its defence. The door HU^Bved T?>th some of the beams on the ! finally broken by a colored man , BxHkl,. The leaders of the mob stood at | H^Kd only fifty men, the men who | ^ ^^Hagplunteered their services, were ! fctsr. the rest being kept out with The mob first broke into the g53?firoonj, where they were halted for a jH^Bds by the iron fence and railing. BH^Band was made for the key of the ks^H a doDUtv sheriff nretsenteu it to one gS^Beii w'ith'tbe remark that the mob Mjg^Hytible and It was folly to oppose it The inside gate was thrown HunFthe several deputies who were in hHHB^uvq way to the crowd. The door ^^Kto the white prisoners.' yard was ^HVthe mob crowded through. RflF at the door was open, and it was HK with prisoners, who were trembling Wry limb. A deputy stood in the door uforuied the crowd that none of those Bui evil way tbe priwaerj wanted, Tbw g4 . then the mob filed out into the yard, glancing 3D at one of the cells. On the second floor I i olanchod and ghastly face was seen at the bars of the door. "That's Scaffedi," shouted one excited iniividual, and immediately several shots were fired at his cell. The prisoner, whoever tie was, quickly disappeared. Several more shots were fired at tno door. "They are in the femalo department," shouted a shrill voice. "IVhera is the kev?" "Bring us the key," yelled another, and a rush was made for the door separating the two divisions. The door was found securely locked. "Batter it down," said one. ' Hold," said a young man with a Winches- | ler rifle. "I've got the key," and ho held a long key over his head. This announcement was greeted with cheers. The door was opened and the crowd made a break to get in. "Hold on, gentlemen," said Mr.Parkerson. "We do not want to shed any innocent blood. Who knows the assassius?" "I do," "and I," shouted a dozen mon. "Let me in. I know them," said ono determined man, and ho was admitted. Seven men entered, and the corridor was found deserted with the exception of ono person. This was an old colore t woman. "Dey are up stair.*, boss," sho said, in answer top question. The seven men ran up stairs. ' Before they got half way up a door was slammed and footsteps wer/heard running along the gallery "There they are!" yellei one enthusiast. "Hurrah, tiger P' said another, and the cry was taken up by those in the lobby. The door leading to the gallery was thrown open and tbe backs of the assassins were seen disappearing down tbe winding stairway leading into tne yard of the colored female department. Not a word was spoken then, but a half dozen men quickly ran tbe length of the gallery and quietly descended tne srairs. j These six men did all tho shooting. They | found the prisoners crouching in the woman's department. Sunseri and one of the other Italians saved their lives in a dog house, where they escaped attention. Sunseri weighs over 200 pounds, but managed to make himself small for this occasion. Gaspardo Marchesi, the boy prisoner, was savel by some of the mob, who took morcy on his tender years. He was concealed between two mattresses. The other Italians wero scattered around the yard. When they sa'.v the mob thev set up a yell for mercy. Suddenly a voice said: "Give it; to them!" and instantly three guns and a pistol belchel forth a rain of leaden bullets. Gerachi, who was lame and was the last of the fleeing men. received one load in the back of the head, and, turning a complete somersault, fell on his face ana never moved again. Then Monaster! and Jim Caruso fell. Their backs and heads were literally riddled with bullets. Romero, with a cry of anguish, crouched down on his knees, with his head almost on the ground. He was killed in that attitude. Ho was the only one who had his hat on, and, notwithstanding that it was riddled with bullets, it novar left his head. His black frock coat was torn to shreds by the bullets. The crowd on the outside heard the fiiiog 1 roitKnnt L-nnwmrr wlint, had been ttUU tUCCl CU *v ii/uvuv .. , done. Finally some one caine to the door and announced that most of th9 men had been killed, but that Macheca, Marchesi the elder and Bagnetto would bo brought from the prison and hanged. It had been intended to take Macheca, who was regarded as the leader of the Italians, outside and hang him, but in the meanwhile another section of the mob had broken into the cell where Macheca was confined. He heard the men coming, rushed from his cell, which was open and toward the chapel, but was finally cornered in a gallery of the condemned prison. Here a young man hit him over the head with a rifie, which made him insensible. It was reported that he was dead, and the crowd was about to leave him when some one suggested as an extra precaution that he be disCosed of. A bullet was fired through his rain. It being impossible to hang Macheca, it was decided to lynch Polizzi and Bagnetto. The mob on the outside had grown impatient and demanded victims. The streets *"* ? - ^ 1 1A/4 TTTIf K rvaAnlo lor squares uruuuu wcto uucu n,lu among whom were a large number of women and coildren. The angry crowd wanted vengeance on all the nineteen Italians, and showed some opposition wben it was announced that only four had been killed, according to the first information given to the mob. A loud demand was then made that the promise to lynch some of the prisoners should be kept. At 11 o'clock, a few minutes after the shooting, the side door on Marais street was pushed open and several of the armed men appeared pushing before them Polizzi, the half-crazed Sicilian who offered to turn State's evidence, but who went crazy while attempting to do so. tie was aghast with terror and was evidently mad. Ho was without coat or hat, wore a red flannel shirt and his black hair was dishevelled. The crowd called to the armed men to lynch him. and he was dragged down to the corner of Marais ana St. Anne streets. The crowd was so dense that it was difficult to force a passage through it. From th? h?ir*oiies near men and women watched the scene with opera glasses. At the corner was a lamp post; some one threw a rope across the heads of the men who were pushing the prisoner, and when the corner was reached a man scaled the post, and threw the rope around it. There was already a noose at the other end, and this was hastily and imperfectly adjusted about tha neck of the Italian. Then willing hands at the other end tugged at tbe line and the man was hoisted into the air, his white face being turned toward the bright sky. The rope did not hold at first, and Polizzi slipped down to the pavement. It was only for an instant, however. In a couple of seconds stronger hands drew the rope taut, and soon the body of the unfortunate man was dangling from the post. As soon as tbe mau was high enough to make the range of shots over tbe heads of the peoEle a dozen loud reports rang out and the lood gushed from rolizzi's face. Many shots had riddled his body. Then the rope with which he had been hanged was wrapped securely about the post, and Polizzi's body was left hanging. The body was still quivering when the cry went up that they were lynching another man on the other side of the prison in front of Orleans street, whereupon the entire mob surged in that direction. It was found that the man who was being brought out was Antonio Bagnetto, one of those asquitted. He was suffering from a wound, and was probably dead when he was lynched, or nearly so. Two men carried him to the park in the centre of Orleans street, on which are several rows of trees. Some one ascended a tree and threw another rope around a convenient limb. When Bagnetto was swung up it was seen that he was shot through the head and already dead. The mob wanted the others, but they were told that enough had been done. The whole affair occupied barely fortyfive minutes. It was 10:20 when the mob reached the parish prison; it was 11:03 when Bagnetto, the last victim, was strung np. Of the eleven men killed four had been acquitted by the jury, three had had a mistrial, and four had not been tried. The mob liugered around the scene for some time, and the tree to which Bagnetto was hanged was nearly cut down to carry away as momentos. Polizzi and Baguette swung to the lamppost and tree until noon, when the Coroner put in an appaarance and held an inquest on the bodies of all the victims. The Italians Aronsed. The Italian Cabinet sent instructions by cable to the Italian Minister at Washington, Baron de Fava, to protest vehemently against the murder of Italians in the prison at New Orleans. Baron Fava cabled in reply that he had presented the protest to tho Government of the United States, and received in reply the promise that full satisfaction would be given. Governor Nichols, of Louisiana, has received a formal protest from Secretary Blaine deploring the killing of the eleven Italians, and urging him to bring the offenders to justice. Tho news from New Orleans aroused a storm of indignation among the Italian colonies in Chicago, New York, Cincinnati an 1 Boston. The eighty thousand Italians who comprise the colony in New York were frenzied by rage over the death of their countrymen iu New Orleans by lynch law, and called loudly for revenge. What Led to Lynch Law. David C. Hennessy, Chief of the Now Orleans police, was shot dead near his house by Italians on the night of last October 15. The assassination was instigated by members of Italian secret societies, against which Hennery had collected evidence of the blackest crimes. The motive was the suppression of the information in bis possession, The history of the immediate aeries of events which culminated in the murder dates dock to last June, wnen a party Italians shot down in the street six mombe of an Italian organization unfriendly them. Forty murders of a similar natu had been committed by Italians in tl city during the preceding few year and the authorities, with the undivid* support of all English-speaking citizens, d termined to make all possible efforts to sb this incessant slaughter by the Mafia. He nessoy took active charge of the resulting i vestigation. He did this with full knowledj that his lifo would be in constant danger fro * 4 1,1" ertniafloa lanrn<vl V cue Diomeut uiu linum - .. intention. He had hardly begun his work when 1 was notified by dozens of anonymous lette; that every step in his investigation was nail in his coffin. At the instance of h friends he protected himself with a sm: body guard of detectives, who accompanit him all day and took him to his hou at night. Despite this precaution, h as well a3 all his friends, ret ized that he was constantly in imminent do gerof assassination. The June murdere were brought iuto court. Six men were tri< and convicted. Before the case was flnishei however, the principal witness against tl prisoners was killed by tho Mafia. Then new trial was obtained. With renewed enerj Hennessy set about collecting more eviden against the Stopaliagieri and other Italii associations of assassins in the city. By takii advantage of a feud among the members, secured an immense amount of sensational j formation which, he promised, would ha weight enough to crush all the Mafia societi in tfew Orleans. His success was his death warrant. Mei hers of societies against which he had e^ dence decided he must die. On the evening of October 15 a gang hired Italian murderers concealed thei selves in a vacant house at the corner an alleyway near his home. Heanes; unwarned and unsuspicious, 1< his office at the usual time, i connpanied by Police Captain O'Conni About two blocks from his house Henne? bade his companion good-night, and pi VirvmowArH. Although in the m< UDOUVU uv?uv***~. 0 populous part of the city, Hennessy w alone in the street 'or the night was black a wet. He turned the corner near hi3 hou and came into the glare of an elect light. _ A volley flashed from the hoi in the alleyway. Henne3sy sank wout od, but raised himself, drew his rev ver, and began firing back. He-vas answer with scattering shots from the Italians. Hennessy went down with a score of woun O'Connor, who had heard the firing, cai running up the street. The assassins r from the house and scattered. Three of t'ni in their terror threw away their flrearn As they fled they were joined by four otl armed men, who had waited apparently kill Hennessy in case he escaped the fl gang. Hennessy was found riddled with all and buckshot. He lay gasping in his blc at the foot of a doorstep, his revolv | clutched in his right hand. At his home J medical examination showed that his lui and stomach had been perforated, and tl two shots had beeu lodged in his legs, bullet was also found close to heart. Nine other bullets had pasi through his clothing. He was ratioi to the last but was too weak to say m than that he had been killed by "Dago Additional conclusive evidence or tnis i was found ia th9 weapons thrown away t^e fleeing assassins. All of them w sawed muskets, such as are used only Italians. The barrels were cut off sh< and the butts were on hinges, p that guns could ba folded and carried in pocket. FOUR PERISH, Thrilling Scenes at a New YorkTe ment House Fire. Terrible scen93 were enacted on a rec morning in the Hebrew district of N York City. In a fire that consumed thefi story tenement on the southwest cornei Allen and Hester streets, three of a fair of six, father and two daughters, perist miserably. Of the fifty-one persons in the house, sei lie dead or maimea. This is the list of I dead: Barnott Jartar, fifty-six years old, Pol Jew, tailor by trade, burned to death. Sar, his oldest daughter, nineteen yeara o tmrnei to aeac.i. oetsy, me youngest aau ter, aged thirteen years, burned to dea Philip Elschisky, aged thirty-four suffocat Tho tenants, Hebrew tailors, with tb families, roused suddenly to confront dei in its most t9rrible form, swarmed down 1 fire escapes on both sido3 of the buildii shrieking ani wailing a3 they called th lost ones. Ladders were thrown up hastily to h; them down, but soma, in the confusion a smoke, missed both wool and iron la ders. Tho iron rungs of the fire escapes w< turning white with heat whoa Jlax Go stei a reached for them from the third flc and recoiled in despair. He stoo 1 in a window holding his tit little children in his arms. From the street the police yellei to him throw them down. He threw first o Moses, aged five years, and Polioemau Rej caught tho boy. Rose, the baby, yei old, was caught next in the arms of Poli man Weis>. Abraham, three years old, followed quickly that though the policemen bro his fall, thoy were unable to catch him. J fell heavily on the pavement, and was picl up senseless, injured internally. The fatt himself jumped after and escaped unhurt The building was gutted, ana the tena: lost their all. In the fifth story, next to t roof, the firemen found Barnett Jartar a ms two aaugucers aeaa. They found him kneeling at the wind overlooking Allen street, with both hands the sill, as though he had fallen, ov whelmed by the flamos, on the very threshi of escape. His venerable beard was burned off. Unc him, where sha had crept up close, in 1 hour of death, was the body of his youngi daughter and pet child, little Bessie. Over by the bed at the other side of 1 room they found the body of Sarah wrapj in a blanket All had been burned a smothered to death. Harry, the oldest son, was already on I steps, hastily arrayed in such clothing came to hand, when he thought of his mott and ran back iu the house. He seized her and bore her down all t the way to the bottom, the little brotl Abraham clinging to his coat ti and the mother's skirt. Flan leaped from the windows as passed story after story, scorching his hi and handi and catching in his mothe clothing and in the boy's, but he bore her until he stood upon the sidewalk with I burden saved, but almost at the cost of life Tue arm that held his mother was terril burned, and his mother scorched aim from head to foot. She was carried away the ambulance with all speed, but tho si geons had no hope of saviug her. Upon the fourth floor lived the family Mariano Riviello. Italians. AH others in I house were Hebrew?. The firemen had gait the windows 011 their ladders and helped t mau and his little daughter Bessie out. wb tho girl suddenly stopped and stepped ba into the smoke. In there was death. 1 firemen on the ladder knew it, and, stcppi over the sill, climbed after. "Come back," he shouted. "Come bat this way!" and groped his way across 1 room in the direction the child had goi Half way across he came upon her, gaspii nearly smothered, dragging a doll's tru over the floor. "I could not leave it," she said to the fi: man, thrusting it at him as he seized h< "ily mother " The fireman flung the box through t window as he took the girl down. It f crashing on the sidewalk, and busting op revealed no doll or finery, but the deed 1 her dead mother's grave. Little Bessie h not forgotten it. despite her thirteen yea] OIL TKA1JMS UULLiUii. Seven Train Hands Killed by the E suing Explosion. Two railway trains laden with petrolei came into collision at Oikusaz, Poland, at five train hands W3re instantly kilted. O of the engines was overturned and the fi from its furnacs ignited the patroleui which exploded, killing two men who h survived the shosk of the collision. T train caught Are from the burning peti leum and was wholly consumed. About 7000 of the contributors to 1 stock of the Columbian exhibition in C cago have not paid their assessments, s guits will bo brought to compel payment. 5 FOREIGN AFFAIRS. to ro a. Topics of Interest Transmitted < j? by the Cables. =>P < n- 1 Cruel Massacre of Wounded Sol- ? m diers by Chilian Rebels, lis j 10 A dispatch from Santiago gives an official j a version of the recent battle in Chili. From ' lis this it appears that Colonel Robles, who comdl manded the Government troops bsing short of provisions, rashly abandoned a strong po- j 1?) sition on Mount Sebastopol, and, with 1300 1 il- infantry, twenty-five cavalry and a few 1 in- guns, attacked a force of 2500 rebels. At a rs critical moment the enemy, by a decoy 1 3d truce for a parley, opened a fearful fire at i d, close quarters, killing or wounding twois thirds of the Government troops. Colonel ] a Robles was shot in the foot early in the bat- j jy tie. He secured another mount after tha j ca bul'et bad been extracted from his wouud; . an but he was again wounded, in the side, and ag was placed in an ambulance. The rebels i ha captured the ambulance, and their leader , In- threatened to shoot all who were with tha ( ve wounded man unless Colonel Robles was in- , ies dicatedto him. An attendant pointed out j Colonel Robles, whereupon the Colonel was n- fired at by the rebels, being riddled with ( ri- eleven balls, besides being hacked with baynnfitsanrl indescribably mutilated. of A general massacre of wounded officers 11- ensued. Of the wounded men, 364 were ' of allowed to proceed to Valparaiso, but per7, mission was refused to send the body of aft Colonel Robles there. The loss of the inic surgents is estimated at 300 killed and 400 sr. wound id. Their account of the battle can- 1 ?y not be procured at present. ro- President Balmaceda admits the gravity JSt of the disaster, winch places the province of j ras Tarapaca entirely in the hands of the insurnd gents. The President says, however, that se, the Government has 30,00'J troops at its disric posal. The Government also has an ample 190 supply of funds. The future scene of operaid tionswill probably be nearer Valparaiso. frL'? riAt-A??nmanf. Viae tfl wl" iUD I'iCUWU www ed the recent request of the Chilian revolutionAs ists, who asked that the Chilian warships ds, just completed at Toulon and destined for lie the service of President Balmaceda should an not be allowed to depart. am is. A Double Tragedy. A tragedy has been enacted at Toplitz, t Austria, which has caused a profound sensation among the aristocratic sojourners at that famous watering place. Lieutenant Reinisch, an officer of high standing In the Austrian army, had successfully a wooed the youug Baroness Schonau, but for ' ? some reason th9 parents of the lady refused to give their consent to the match. The Lieutenant urged his fiancee to marry him ,j clandestinely, but she declined. The officer . called upon the Baroness and in a final inlal tarview renewed his plea for an elopement. Finding her respect for parental mandates ? ? greater than her desire to accede to his act the Lieutenant, mad withdisappoint^ ment and grief, drew a revolver and shot the Baroness throOgh the heart. The mother Cl of the unfortunate lady, hearing the shot ?7 rushed into the room just aa the Lieutenant ^ fired a second shot into his own breast and tho I ucau ? * Twenty-Two Sailors Drowned. The steamer Roxburgh Castle was in collision with the British ship British Peer 120 miles southwest of the Scilly Islands. The Roxburgh Castle sank immediately and of ne- the twenty-four men aboard twentytwo were drowned. Captain Tyrer aud one seaman, the only one rescued, have iant been landed at Falmouth. The British Peer, Tew which was bound from Calcutta to London, ve_ was greatly damaged, and tas been towed . to Falmouth. The Roxburgh Castle was a r 01 screw steamer, of 1222 tons register, and waa lily owned in Newcastle. ieJ l'ho British steamer Atrato, from Batoum for Calcutta, has been sunk in a collision ren with the Turkish steamer Salonica. Her tha crew have arrived at Constantinople. lish France Names Arbitrators. *7* Tho arbitrators chosen by Franco in tha settlement with England of the Newfound" land question are Professor Martens, of the St. Petersburg University; M. Rivier, the j" Swiss Consul at Brussels and President of the Institute of International Law, and M. l Grau, ex-Judge of the Supreme Court of ' TVio avitanooc <->f tho arbitration and tho arbitrators' fees will be equally shared by France anl England. A Hundred Dervishes Killed. ,d- A terrible disaster occurred at the arsenal of Omdurman, Egypt. From the reports rejra ceive<l it appears that about 100 dervishes Id- were killed by an explosion there, which de>or stroyed immense stores of ammunition, and shattered the arsenal and buildings and d3 everything in the immediate neighborhood. to "Wholesale Poisoning. A saloon keeper of Marseilles, Franca, ira named Moutet, has bean arrested on the ca_ charge of poisoning with arsenic his wife, : mother-in-law, grandmother, infant and a S3 | friend who had lent hiin money. ke S PARNELL'S MANIFESTOier An Appeal to tho Irish People ol ;he America. a(* A manifesto "to the Irish people of Amer3W ica" has been issued by Mr. Parnell. It Leon gins by ascribing the growth of the Land ?r" League into a groat national movement to 3 the financial support given to it by Amerii cans. Continuing, the manifesto says: u "When the victory was almost noar ' l enough to grasp, the meddlesome interference of English politicians in the complex organ.1 ization of the Irish party temporarily broke ' j up the unity so essential to final success. j "These politicians were aided by a few young law students, some malcontents, office the seekers aid other envious persons who had crept into the ranksarrayed in favor of Irisb ~ freedom." The manifesto goes on to say that it now .jj3 becomes the duty of Mr. Parnell, "to restore ' r unity, to lop off unsound materials, to take tjjs measures to keep out in future all the weak, aes treacherous and self-seeking elements. By jj good fortune there remained ample time to accomplish these results before the general election. ' ' "The insufficiency of Mr. Gladstone's proposals to secure legitimate liberty for tho Irish kindred of Americans had been disclosed by the break in the Irish ranks." jj_ Those who are about to corne to America in the name of the Irish people, tho manifes,j_ to adds, have Mr. Parnell's views in their ir_ possession. These are men of ability and character. They are commended to Ameriof can hospitality. .1 0 The concluding paragraph asks Americans to help Mr. Parne!l to quell "this mutiny ,jj0 and disloyalty to Ireland," to help him "in ' securing a really independent parliamentary -k party, so that we may make one more, even lke though it be our very last,effort to win fre> n<T dom and prosperity for our nation by consti? tutioual means." :k, ;he * ? ? PROMINENT PEOPLE, nk re- Jof.l Chandler Harris, the Southern )r. humorist, has the largest yam orchard in the Smith he is Darticularly proud of the ho fact that, be bought it with money accruing ell from the sale of bis books. Ex-Congkessman Martin, of Texas, says ' j that during bis lour years in Washington ha never allowed his expenses to exceed foO a month. He takes home quite a respectable fortune saved from his salary. Mrs. Hearst, the California Senator's widow, is yet in the prime of life. She is a In- handsome woman, and has become celebrated as one of the most elaborat3 entertaiuei's in the National capital. Her home tm 13 usually filled with guests. i* Mrs. Margaret Custer Calhoun, who in has been appointed State Librarian of Michrd igan, is a sister of General Custer. In that fearful massacre of the Little Big Horn she lost not only her brother but her husband as f*4 well,and two youDger brothers and a nephew ha besides. ro* I I Mrs. Frank Leslie, of New York City, has made a new will, by wmca tne duik ul . her fortune, amounting to at least 1600,000, p*10 will be loft in trust for the establishment of a great institution for the instruction of ^ women and the advancement of higher edu THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. ??? I Eastern and Middle States. 1 Lyman B. Goff has declined the Republican nomination for the Lieutenant Govern- i )rship of Rhode Island. i The pilot boat, Hope No. 1. was wrecked ' >n the point of Sandy Hook. N. J. Several 'erry boats were in collision and steamships i ma saiimg vessels were aeiayeci oy 100 taics fog on the waters around New Yo.k City. Superintendent Robert P. Porter, of I ;he Eleventh United States Census, appeared before the Assembly Census Committee in Sew York City, and defended his figures relative to New York's population. At the Morris Ridge colliery near Contrala, 1 Penn., Samuel Coak, a miner, and his labor- 1 ;r, Thomas Corrigan, were engaged in rain- 1 ng coal, when the ro jf suddenly fell upon them, crushing their bodies in a terrible 1 nanner. Fire in Syracuse, N. Y., destroyed thirteen buildings in the centre of the city, causJiga loss of $1,000,000. The United States corvette Galena, while being towed by the Government tug Nina, from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Portsmouth, N. H., to be fitted up as a training ibip, was wrecked near Gay Head, Mass. The officers and crew, seventy-seven in number, were taken off by the Galena's boats ind a breeches buoy. The navy tug Triana, an her way to the assistance of the Galena, ?l<3n wiwlrAfl was drivnn ashore near CuttV bunk, Mass. ' The private bank of F. R. Weed & Co., of Williamsport, Pa., closed its doors. The Walesville paper mills, located near Utica, N. Y., owned by Thompson & Hoffman, were burned to the ground. Almost the entira busine33 portion of Highland, N. Y., was destroyed by Are a few nights ago. Loss over $100,000. Clarence Ellis, eight years old, living in a tenement house, was burned to death. A terrific mine explosion occurred near Ashland, Penn. Two men were blown to atoms, another fatally injured and others seriously hurt. "While James Pollock and son were riding in a carriage from Dallas, Penn., they were overtaken by a whirlwind and the men and carriage were lifted from the ground and fKmmn Qoroinoh fKa f.rflAQ "Ray*H nf the men weighed more than 290 pouncfs. They were badly injured. The remain3 of the lata Major-General John C. Fremont were removed to Sparkill, Rocklaad County, N. Y.t where they were buried. Sonth and West. It is thought that one of the Mississippi crevasses was the work of discharged laborers who used dynamite. SETTLEng in Douglas and Lincoln Counties, Washington, ate greatly alarmed at the work of organized bands of cattle and horso thieves. No less than 12,000 head of cattle have been stolen besides several hundred head of horses. A fire broke out at the Central Insane Asylum, seven miles from Nashville, Tenn. It started in the rear of the male wing, which has been destroyed. There were twentyeight patients in the wing and six of them were burned to death. The jury in the Chief of Police Hennessy murder case at New Orleans, La., has ren - ?; j!.*. a?i aerea toe rouowiug voi uiuu. u^uusu*, and Monasterio are adjudged guilty. The jury failed to agree as to Bagnetto and the two Marche3i3. Incardona and Matranga wore acquitted. The verdict was hissed by the spectators. The telegraph oparators employed by the Onion Pacific Company have been notified . that they must either quit their order or its service. The two Houses of the Kansas Legislature finally got together on the various appropriation bills and adjourned sine die. A. Minor Griswold, the humorist, who is widely known as "The Fat Contributor" and the editor of Texas Sittings, died suddenly at Sheboygan Falls, Wis., of apoplexy, aged fifty-six. Ten thousand people are suffering from the grip at Minneapolis, Minn. Fifteen Scandinavians were arrested at Sioux City, Iowa, for an attempt to lynch one of their countrymen. Two young women were killed by a train Dn the Norfolk and Western Railroad near Roanoke, Va. _At Sterling, Ky., a mob^ lynched a Mrs. \V lgginton, wnosa nusuanu auu suus tuo charged with poisoning two of their neighbors. Owen Garry, aged sixty, and his wife, iged fifty-six, were burned to death in their hom9 at Rockford, 111. While Officer James E. Penn was attempting to arrest two colored men in a danc? house in Houston, Texas, for carrying concealed weapons, he was shot and instantly killed, ind a bystander named Frank Michaels was nor tally wounded. James Hklmick, ths Town Marshall at Lynnrille, Tenn., attempted to arrest Turner Alexander. Alexander struck tho marshal with a stick, knocking him senseless. Wheu Helmet recovered he shot his assailant, instantly killing him. M. H. DeYoung's nam3 was withdrawn from the California Sinatorship contest. The town of North Washington, Iowa, was almost totally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $60,000. The fire is supposed to have bsen the work of incendiaries. Washington. Bra Trrr taw Va TTvnwirrvrE was In confer- I ence with Secretary Blaine iu regard to the proposed arbitration. Senator and Mrs. Stanford left Washington for California, intending to make the journey by leisurely stages. Attorxey-General Miller has rendered an opinion that the President has the power to appoint the nine Circuit Judges created by the last Congress during the recess of Congress. Land Commissioner Groff has resignei his office by a letter to the President. Acting Secretary Nettleton issued n warrant for $2,213,330.80 in favor of the Governor of New York, as payment in full on account of all claims arising in that State un'ler the Direct Tax. This is the first payment made under authority of the Direct Tax act. Secretary Blaine received a telegram from Governor Nicholls. Louisiana, saying that all is quiet at New Orleans, and that he will reply to the Secretary's telegram by letter. The Department of State is informed that the rumors that the Brazilian Government does not intend to carry out the recent reciprocity agreement witn the United States are discredited by the action of the authorities at Rio de Janeiro in issuing instructions to the officials throughout the country concerning the free admission of merchandise from the United States. Orders have been sent to the various receiving ships of the Navy to discontinue all enlistments, because tho legal limit of 8250 men and boys has been nearly reached. It is now impossible to give the vessels ol the United States Nary in commission their full complements of men. The new cruise" Newark is about 100 men short, and there i9 scarcely a vessel in the Navy with ita fulJ complement of men. The Bureau of the American Republics has information that overtures recently made by the Government of Canada to the Government of British Guiana for a reciprocity treaty were rejected by the latter, on tbe ground that an arrangement of this char' AL iL - TT?U?1 acter wnu iub umwu uwii/co km y/ <? ferred. Foreign. The French ship Frere ft Soeur has been wrecked on one of the Scilly Islands. Three of her crew were drowned. Mccn distress prevails in England from the heavy snow, and many villages are still isolated; disastrous floods have occurred in Spain. Floods have destroyed one-half of tli9 winter crops in Southwest Russia. The Vistula has inundate! "Warsaw, Poland. Colonel Robles, the Commander of the Chilean Government troops, was killed in the defeat of March 9. The Revolutionists have destroyod Pisaqua, Iquique and other ports. Dr. Ludwio TVindthobst, the leader of the Centre party in the German Reichstag, died a few days ago in Berlin. He was born January 17, 1812, at Kaldenhof, in the Principality of Osnabruck. Smallpox is prevalent in Vienna, Austria, and suburbs, accompanied by an outbreak of measles. pnrtmeats. rinaujr an w?ro huslou uh and drowned except four stokers. Tbese men were afterward washed ashore and had to climb a precipitous cliff. One of thorn died from exhaustion. The three survivors were terribly battered by the hear7 sun\ anl wore half-dead. The first conversation by telephone between London and Paris was exchanged a few days ago and was highly successful. Daniel McLea.it, wholesale leather merchant, of Toronto, Canada, has made an assignment. His liabilities amount to about 8200,000. Hon. W. E.Gladstone made two speeches at Hastings, England, declaring that the Liberal party would never support Parnell. The Queen of Hawaii, being upheld by the Supreme Court, has announced a Cabinet, with Samuel Parker as Minister of State. Prince Napoleon died at Rome, Italy. Napoleon Joseph Charles Bonaparte, popularly known as Plon Plon, was the second 9on"of Jerome Bonaparte by tee laixers second wife, Princess Catharine, of Wurtemberg, and was born at Trieste, lllyria, September 9. 1823. On the same day the Princess Marianne Bonaparte died at Ajaccio, Corsica. Colonel S. Moutkouboff, Bulgarian Minister of War, died a few days ago in Naples, Italy. William Keable, an agent of the Chinese Custom House, and nis wife, both of whom were British subjects, have been murdered by the Tonquinese. The Spanish Ministers of Foreign and Colonial Affairs have drafted a scheme for a treaty of commerce with America in response to the Washington Government's proposal. The shortage of hay and straw, resulting from the short crops of last season, together with the severity of the winter, has caused a fodder famine in Prince Edward Island, ?J ?-?tT?niv1ln?rc r?ll?f msasuresarn auu UUiwg taken large numbers of cattle will die of starvation. THE LABOR WORLD, Piq iron Is slack. Denver, Col., has "5000 idle." Omaha, Neb., has a labor palace. Boston contractors are organizing. St. Paul (Minn.) carpenters want eight hours. The West is taking the lead in labor legislation. New York has 40,000 Russian-Hebrew workers. The Indianapolis Trades Council has 6000 members. Pittsburg's Trades Council holds open meetings. Brooklyn wood-workers will demand eight horn's. Union retail clerks at San Francisco, Cal., wear a button. There are 28,200 unemployed workmen in Boston, Mass. Australia sent $70,000 to the London dock strikers. A machine threatens to throw hundreds of stonecutters out. The organized shoe trades are coming rapidly to the front. The girls' shoe fitters' union of San Francisco has 300 members. Boston paper workers want the State to prohibit Sunday work. International bakers and confectioner! will meet at Indianapolis. Over 80,000 people are connected with the stage in London, England. Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, recommends tebor legislation. ) San Francisco shoe bands want forty-llvfl cents a pair for turned work. A San Francisco shoe strike secured thirty-eight to forty-nine cents. There are in the world 1,500,000 coal miners and 4,000,000 metal miners. Butte (Mon.) claims to be the best organized union town for its population. Trade union statistics show that 2,000,090 workers average $150 a year wage?. The Brussels (Belgium) Co-operative Bakery will supply the city firemen. Indianapolis colored plasterers won forty cents an hour and the eigat-nour day. Typewriters and stenographers are organizing unions throughout the country. It is thought few foreign delegates will attend the World's Fair Labor Convention. New York painters insist on the enforcement of 13.50 and eight hours on April G. There are now over 1500 carpenters and planing mill employes idle in Indianapolis. New Tore slipper makers working from sixteen to eighteen hours a day get $1.25 to $1.50. Fines were imposed on 330 miners at Durham, England, for leaving work without giving notice. The general fund of the International Cigar-Makers' Union amounts to about $300,000 at present. A bill to distribute $50,000 among th9 unemployed of San Francisco Is before the California Legislature. A cut in wages of from thirty to sixty pei cent, has been made in an Akron (Ohio) mower and reaper works. On the British railways 314 women were employed in 1889, and 15,463 were working in the coal mines of England. By the efforts of union men $1.50 will be the lowest pay for unskilled men on th< World's Fair work in Chicago. The average salary paid to men clerks in Washington is $1321 a year, while that paid to women in the same departments is onlj $809. _' DEED OF A BUT0HER, .Tompo nhaiiwiok Mnrders a Woman and Then Kills Himself. A horrible tragedy occurred at Bury, England. For seven years James Chad wick, a butcher, and Mary Stott lived together as man and wife. A short time ago the woman left Chadwick and took apartments in another part of the town. Chadwick repeatedly requested her to return to him, but she steadily refused to do so. Chadwick went to Miss Stott's lodgings and in the presence of her landlady renewed his appeal for a reconciliation . Miss Stott again refused to yield, and Chadwick left the house in a rage- He went directly to his shop, where he procured along knife. With this weapon concealed beneath his coat he returned to Miss Stott's lodging. Without a word Chadwick seized Miss Stott by the throat, and, drawing his knife, slashed the woman across the mouth, the sharp blade cutting back to the ears on each side. He then drew the knife across her throat, and, making another thrust, plunged it into her heart. As the unfortunate woman sank to the floor dead the frenzied butcher attempted to cut his own throat, but, though he managed to inflict a severe wound, he was not successful in severing an artery. He then dropped the knife, and the horrified landlady seized it. Chadwick rose to his feet and glared about him. His eyes fell upon a table knife lying upon the dining table in the middle of the room. He seized it, and with one sweep of his hand drew it across his already gashed throat, nearly severing his head from his body, falling dead within a few feet of the victim of his jealous rage. FOUR REACHED LAND, The Wreck of the Steamer Mirama, off Start Point, England. The steamship which was wrecked off Start Point, near Dartmouth, England, during the severe gale which swept over the southern part of England, was the Mirama, of Liverpool, from London for Colomt;o. When the steamer struck upon the reef off the Point the crew took to the boats, though the heavy sea and the huge breakers made the attempt to reach the shore a desperate one. One of the boats, containing the Captain, the chief engineer,the three ct-flwnrH was struck bv a heavy sea and foundered, and all the offlt'ers were drowned. The lifeboat, containing tho sailors and firemen, twenty-two men in all, capsized twice and twice righted herself. ISach time she went over a number of the men were drowned, while others succeeded in re-entering the boat, which was almost filled with water, I at which kept ailoat by reason of her water-tight com ?.?i.~.a ^oo ??????? <f DESTRDmMT 1 M-flj If "I Fire in New TorJt <?t?c<m. sumes Four Huge Buildings. The Loss Estimated at Several Million Dollars. * Two millions of dollars went np in fire and smoke or sunk into water-soaked and picturesque wreck a few nights ago, in New York City in a Are that swept from Street to street on the Bleecker street end of >; . the block bounded by Bleecker, Houston, Mercer, and Greene streets. * The fire started in the sub-cellar of the Cohnfeld Building, at Bleecker and Greene streets, and raged below the level of the sidei%a?w1w ?? Iiaiii* Wawa A d w on/1 HttlA 1U1 UOM A J OU UUU1 WOIVIW v l I ?ff WW was permitted to gat beyond the control of the firemen. Later the nine-story structure went down like a house of cardboard in the flames. Three adjoining buildings caught Ore and were destroyed, and the loss of property exceeded $1,500,000. Tne building in which the fire originally started was owned by Mendel Brothers, real estate men of Chicago, and occupied by Alfred Benjamin & Co.,-probably the largest manufacturers cf fine ready mode men'* clothing in this country. It is a stock com' panv, comprised of Isaiah Josef a, A. Hochstader, Eugene Benjamin, David Hochstadef, and, as special partners, Jesse and Samuel Rosenthal. - -" - ' *5 ?' The first alarm was turned in at 5:30 P. M., ft second at 5:25 and then three others followed in rapid succession. Engines came clanging from all directions to the scene, and when Chief Bonner arrived and .saw the leriousness of the fire he sent out innumerable ipecial calls for additional engines, until Anally the greater portion of those in the lower part of the city were at the spot At first it seemed as if the firemen would have an easy victory over the flames. There was no appearance of fire, but a thick, blaqk smoke poured out of the basement and rose In volumes about as high as the mansard i'nr\t flion Vitonr rlnnrn in f.llA otrAflfa Bflflin. staking it an heroic task for the firemen to work at all. Suddenly, with hardly a moment's notice, , 'vthe flames forced their way up through the building and burst through the roof in a blaze that could be seen for miles. 'Then every floor was attacked by the element, until from sub-basement to roof the magnificent building was a fiery furnace. The firemen in the streets below were like pygmies battling with a giant. It looked like the beginning of a conflagration that would only end when it had no more to feed upon. A six story building adjoining the giant on the east, and occupied by M. H. Rosenstein, i strich feathers, was the next to succumb to the flames, which then moved on to the doubiejbrick building owned and occupied In part by Hammerslough, > Saks fe Co., clothiers, on the third, fourth fifth, sixth and seventh floors, and by E. V. Connet & Co., hatters, on the lower Boors. The fire meantime had extended on the Greene street side to the six story brick building, occupied partly by Rosenstein and partly by Sylvester Levacher & Co., manufacturers of hats, caps and furs. This building extended through to Mercer strert. The Ore speedily forced its way out on that side of the structure, and it looked as if th? [ wjjole block was dooms! < At almost 7 o'clock the roof of the building in which the fire started fell in with a crash, carrying floor after floor with it-la its descent. A fow minutes later the front wall toppled and fell into Bleecker street, A and the firemen had to scurry in a lively manner to save their Jives. A* it was one of them?E. J. Worth, or Engine No. 80?was struck l<y a falling brick on the leg, but was not seriously injured. Finally,"but one, the eastern wall of the building, was left standing. Then the roof of Hammerslough's building fell in, but the other wails remained intact. * Although the ruins blazed fiercely until nearly midnight the fire was practically under control *t 9 o'clock. The water tower I and three or four more nozzles poured a deluge into that portion of the flames I which was nearest the abutting property' for an hour or two more. No attention was paid to the ruins of the great building where the fire startecT' The flames there were allowed to burn themselves out. What they fed upon was a mystery, for everything ordinarily inflammable was devoured before the walls fell. W mall cacmAH tA KA.^TA EJVCU UX J.U&3 ill luo itu^u if uu WW?MV?> ^ ww, v been cleared of mortar. , j Not for years has there been a Are in New York by which the destruction was so complete. The great corner building was as completely destroyed as though not a finger had been liftad to oppose the progress of the flames. Nothing but the bare bricks and some portion of the iron covering of the walls remained. Nearly the entire loss is covered by insur- , ance in many companies. One conservative . estimate places the entire amount of damage at not less than $3,000,000. LATEB NEWS. ' ~'M An explosion at the Crescent Steel Works Pittsburg, Penn., killed one man and fatally injured four. General Peter J. Classen, convictei3f embezzling the funds of the Sixth National Bnnk, was sentenced by Judge diet, in New Tork Uity, to ail yeaTS in tne Erie County Penitentiary. The Elizabsthport Cordage Works, the second largest industry of th9 city of Elizabeth, N. J., were completely destroyed by 8re. throwing 600 operatives out of work, and entailing a I033 of over $800,000 on th? National Cordage Company, which owned the plant. Tite wholesale boot and shoe firm of J. & A. Simpkinson Company, of Cincinnati, j Ohio, made an assignment. The liabilities are $400,1)00. A blast was fired on the side of Lockout Mountain, in Tennessee, which dislodged 100,000 tou3 of rock. One hundred kegs of powder was the charge, and a ledge of rock was broken up and thousands of tons rolled down the mountain side. The railroad track was destroyed for 200 yards. At Chattanooga, Tenn., Judge Joseph Dobbs, of the Ninth Judiciary District, 8hot and killed his dissipated son-in-law, Bud Qossett while he was insulting his wife, the Judge's daughter. "William H. Hern'do.v, Abraham Lincoin's law partner and author of a "Life of Lincoln." died at his bome naar Springfield, IU., of the grip. He was seventy-two year? old. His youngest son, "William, died six hours before him from the same disease. The work of constructing guns for th? vessels is progressing rapidly at Washing ton Navy Yard. There are now seventytwo guns in various stages of construction. The two ten-inch guns for the armored cruiser Maine at New York are almost comAnd the two twelve-inch cuns for the t"??< coast defence vessal will be finished in threa months. Mr. CankosT, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, made a statement of the appropriations of the Fifty-first Con gress. Nazif EffejOx has been appointed Turkish Minister of Finance in place of Agop Pasha, who has resigned. The Wilkes Linen Works at Kirriemuir, Scotland, were partially destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $250,000. Chancellor von Capriati, of Germany, has removed the embargo on American cat tie landed at Hamburg. The Norwegian bark Imperator, Captain Hoie, was totally wrecked on March 16 to the eastward of Boavista,the easternmost of the Cape Verd Islands, Twelve of the crew wen drowned. Texas, in a population of 2,235,325. bar ' 1,741,190 white inhabitants, 492,837 colored, 760 Indiana, 737 Chinese, and three Japeuiettw