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; EXECUTED BY ELECTRICITY/ Two Shocks Required to Kill Murderer McElvaiue. Experts Say Death Was Instantaneous and PaiDless. Charles E. McElvaine, the .New YorK Burglar, who murdere.l Grocer Christian W. Lucca, of Brooklyn, N. Y., August 22, 1SSD, has been officially killed by electricity in Sing Sing pr soa in the presence of the twenty-seven witnesses provided for by law. It was the first execution . by this method which newspaper rnjii were permitted to attend. Of the reporter witnesses four agreed that the hilling was more merciful than hanging. The other foar thought that it was brutal, but not so bad as the killing of Kemm.'er at Auburn. Of the invited witnesses. Warden P. J. Doyle, of Brooklyn, said that the means J of death was quick and merciful. Assemblyman Meyer J. Stein said: "I do not know whether death was instantaneous or not. I only know it was horri ble, and I shall do all in my power to have the law repealed. Tbe sight was cruel and unnatural, and it made me sicf Tbe condemt ed man, after partaking of a substantial brenkfast, arrayed himself in a rait of black, prison made clothes, and ongaged in praye:.* with Father Creden. He wax calm, though showing none of the symptoms of bravado that characterized his life. At 11 o'clock Warden Brown led the witnesses to the death chamber, where all were of/vilo tn m aomi.mpoka ohnnf. t.Hft chair. Behind it was the closet in which the executione was concealed. Prof. Laudy . took his place by the volt meter. On each ride of the chair were boxes filled with a solution of salt and water. Two rubber bags hung on either side of it with small pipes attached, and within them were concealed wires from the switchboard by which the current was to be conveyed to the subject's hands. The Warden announced that the execution was auout to taKo place, and thon said: "E. F. Davis and Professor Laudy will have charge of the execution, and any witnesses who take the initiative will be at once ejected from the room." The prisoner was ordered to be brought. He came behind two keepers, supported by Fathers Creden and Smyth. In his right hand McElvaine held a crucifix which he occasionally kissed, while repea ting responses to prayers, tie went straignc to me cnoir ana sank i.stlessly into it. The right leg of his trousers had been ripped up to tue thigh and the pieces folded np tightly about the thigh, leaving the leg bare. Patent leather slippers covered his feet. He wore a suit of blue and a black atin uecktie. His face was sallow. His eyes twitched. He winked rapidly. 'His legs were pinioued to the le^s of the eh&ii*. One electrode was fastened tightly to tue leg near the knee. Guard Jackson took hold of the crucifix. The murderer held it tightly, his voice becoming lower and more tremulous. Jackson eized the crucifix again. This time he' wrenched it from the fingers, plunged the hand that had held it into the water, and buckled the cuff about the wrist. The leather harness containing the head electrode was clapped down over the head. The murderer's voice died, out. "Oh. merciful Jesus, help me, spare me, prompted Father Smith. The murderer rer -* J Kio vaipa rivirw peiUXl LQB nuiuo 0 again until it was inaudible. ? The last strap was buckled. The praying lips bad been stilled perhaps five seconds, tiie silence 'was painful. The bared leg could be seen to tremble. The guard was just stepping back from the chair. Suddenly the murderer's lips parted again. In a voice loud and unnatural, half appealing, half bravado, plainly containing the last spark of energy that was left, the murderer cried: ,aLet 'er go!" The nervous strain had told. The man had broken down completely. The sound of the voice, the nature of the expression after the prayers of a moment before, startled the little company. The word "go" had hardly left /his lips when Dr. MoDonald signalled" to Professor Lauiy. * ^ * U.1J The lever tee rroiessor neiu was pulled down. Another lever inside th9 box, and which was operated by a convict, followed it. This let loose the current. There was a half shiver, perceptible only to the quickest eye. The body shot up an inch. The leather harness creaked. The body stiffened. Then for a second there was not a tremor. The lips parted slowly. Water came from the mouth and stained the leather. It looked like blood. The mouth remained half open. The little skin of the face that could be seen turned darker. The lips and ehin seemed set and stiff. Vapor and smoke rose from each water box. To the wit Besses it seemed ten minutes that the current held the body thus. It was really less than a minute. "Close," said Dr. McDonald. Professor Laody pulled another lever. The body sank back limp, all but the arms. They were rigid. The lips clcsed slowly, as they had opened. "All off?' asked Dr. Ward. [ 'All off," answered Professor Laudy. Dr. Ward stepped quickly to the chair and nixed one wrist to find a pulse. Then he poshed his hand up under the harness to feel the artery in the neck. Dr. McDonald took a wrist and then ran his haqd up under Dr. Ward's. Thirty-flve seconds had gone since the current was turned off, and there had not been a motion of the body. One of the wit2ie6se6 whispered. "He's dead?wonderful." He was cut short by a strange sound comin? t,hf? man's throat, a half moan, half sigh, that sounded loud in the stillness of the death house. Saliva seemed to be forced from between the lips, and then name another moan, half sigh. An exclamation was on the tip of every man's tonguo. The doctors stepped quickly back 'Repeat," exclaimed Dr. McDonald. "No, hold," said Dr. Ward, seizing a rubber tube that hung from a bag of water over the chair and pressing a stop that let down a stream of water into the leg and head electrode.'.. It had been previously arranged that should a second shock be necessary it 3bould Joe given by these electrodes instead of those on the side boxes through the hands. Eight seconds only had elapsen Irotnthe time of the flnrt sign of life, or whatever it was. when again the body stiff :ne:l and shot upward, the straps creakei, the rfesh hardened, the lips remained tightly closed. Smoke or steam arose from both electrodes. "The flesh is not burning," said Dr. MoDonalc. "Stop," said he a moment later. The current was turnea off aud the body fell back agaiu. Dr. Ward examined first; the nulse, then the throat. Then the clothing was opened, acioiuwqs iuiv?u viw vuw ? akin. The doctor held his ear down close against it. "I cannot hear the heart beat," he said. The man is dead." The harness was taken off. A table was brought into the room. The body was lifted upon it. The lez to which the electrode had i>een attached was stiff, the other limD. The hands were clenched. The arms were stiff. The skin about each wrist was peeled off, and it hung in shreds, apparently scorched. "Where the electrode had oeen on the leg there was a mass of blisters. There were blisters on the face, under the eyes, where water had run from the sponges. Dr. McDonald said the apparent scorching on the wrist was scalding. It had been made when the contraction of the muscles lifted the body. The wet wrists were lilted clear of the water. The moisture was instantly evaporated, and the burning, or scalding, resulted. The autopsy was made at once by Dr. Von Giessen, assisted by two of the other doctors. All the organs were in a normal condition. The brain was normal. Prom a scientific Tvrvi#.r rtf uiaiv tka ont/tn?v uKnirarJ nr? m<M<a I V4 T ?v?? kuw xuv??vu uw UtUt O than had bean discovered in the other cases where autopsies were made. Dr. McDonald gave out the official time as follows: Entered the death chamber, 11:10 a. m., ready and first current applied, 11:11:49; broken, 11:12:30; ti ne, 50 seconds. Interval of 43 seconds. !'hen ?econd current at 11:32:2^; broken, II :33:5S; time, 3fi seconds. Ampareage, tirst coutact, 2; 2.01; 2.07; 3; % 8.01. Voltage, first current, 1600. Ampereage, second contact, seven amperes throughout. Voltage, 1500. This report shows that it required one minute and torty-nine seconds to fasten the murderer in the chair. After the exertion McElvaine's body was claimed by his brother-in-law, Henry Seville, and taken away. All the'doctora present, with the exception r of Dr. Robertson and Dr. Marrill, agfeed that death was instantaneous. Thess two physicians hai no hesitancy, however, in declaring that the criminal feit no pain, and that there was instantaneous unconscious' uess. BLAINE WITHDRAWS* He^Declines to be a Candidate for Presidential Nomination. I ' ' '' jjj? o. " I Secretary of State James Cr. Blaine has withdrawn his name from the consideration of the Republican National Convention, to meet at Minneapolis, Minn., in tha following letter addressed to Chairman Clarkson of the Republican National Committee, which was given to the press: Washington, February 6, 1893. Hon. J. S. Clar*soD, Chairman of the Republican National Committee: My Dear Sir?I am not a candidate for the Presidency and my nam; will not go befora the Republican National Convention for the nomination. I make this announcement in due saasoa. To thoafc who have tendered me their support I owe sincere thanks and am mo3fc fhnir s*nnfi<lanr?a_ ThflU" ?1 a^J.Ul AVi VUWik WU.A ttfMws ? ?.?J will, I am sure, make earnest effort in the approaching coatest, which is rendered specially important by reason of the industrial ani financial policies of the Government beinz at stake. The popular decision on these issues is of great moment, and will be of far-reaching consequence. Very sincerely yours, James G. Bla.i.ve. It has long been known among Mr. Blaine's intimate friends that he has no desire to become a Presidential candidate again, and that be has never in any way encouraged talk about the possibility of his selection as the nominee by the convention which meets next June. For many reasons Mr. Blaine feels a decided disinclination to undertake the burdens of another Presidential campaign, and the letter he sends now to Chairman Clarkson is in entire accord with the decision he reacha 1 and announced in his Florence and Paris letters four years ago. This new statement of the Secretary of State's purpose has been made necessary by the continued pressure upon hiai to consent to have bis name presented this cummer at Minneapolis. unvn txt nrnnr JUU -L U Xl\ UiliUUi He Refases to Take the Extendc Hand of #x-Governor Thayer. A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., says: At 2:39 P. M. the door of the official apartments of the Governor was opened by General Vifquain, who annoanced: "Ladies and centlemaD, The Governor of Nebraska" Everyone in the room rose and stood uncovered. Governor Boyd eutered, followed by the ladies that had accompanied him from Omaha. Governor Boyd walked dignifiedly to the centre of the room. Tom Cook immediately extended his hand and bade the Governor welcome. Governor Thayer came out at once from hia private roi+h iiioKonrl and AxeCaimed: flow do ycu do, Governor?" (governor Boyd made no reply nor offered to take his hand. Thayer spoke to Dim in a low tone an:l seemed to be pleading with him for at least recognition. He received none. Governor Thayer taen said: "Very well, if you will not shake hands it is as well. The clerk will furnish you with an invoice of the property." Governor Boyd answered: "I want no invoice. I am here to take possession of Che office to which I was elected " Thayer then turned and left. Tom Cooic then came up and said: '"Governor, you will find*fcwo penitentiary discbarges, unsigned, loosed up in the desk. The keys are hanging on a naii behind the door, and an invoice 01 all the effects of the office is in one of the drawers." Governor Boyd bowed and walked into the private clerical room, where the ladies were seated. The Governor's clerks removed their hats and coats from behind the door, after which the crowd was allowed to pass through and shake hands with the Governor of Nebraska. Ex-Governor Thayer then left and went home. At the end of the public reception the several State officers entered the private office in a body and paid their respects to the new Governor and were presented to his family. Auditor Benton announced that the janitors would at once bring in the Satuoset chair. The chair was immediately brought in and Governor Boyd was seated in triumph. BIG- RAILWAY DEAL. Three Thousand Miles of Road Under One Manairenifint. It has been officially announced in New York City that the Philadelphia and Head* ing Railroad has secured control of the Central Railroal of New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. The combination is one of the most important deals that Wall street has known in some time. It brings uuder one control* fully seventy-five per cent, of the competitive anthracite coal traffic of Pennsylvania and promises to assure a management of the ooal trade which will return millions of new profit to the companies engaged in mining and hauling coai." Looked at solely from the railroad point of view, the coalition will bring under one oontrol nearlv 3000 miles of railway. The Central of JJew Jersev will furnish about 700 miles, and the other two companies K if irann trrtm 1IVM1 +A U1U Ui v/'unv/i i/obn wu *? * www w 1600 miles of road. The effect on the coal trade, it may readily be seen, will be tremendous. The union places under one management three-quarters of the competitive traffic, and tbereoy reduces the chances of rate-cutting or quarrelin -. BURNED ON A TRAIN. Passengers Locked in in European Fashon and Could Not Get Out. Additional particulars of the railway disaster on the line from Bucharest to Brakilov, Roumania, show it to have been a scene of great horror. Twenty persons, belonging to the better class of the ciminu* nity, mostly merchants and others having interests at the pore of Brakilov, occupied a first-class carriage in the express train. As is customary on continental railroads, they were locked up. The interior of the carriage somehow took fire while the train was speediug along. The lire must have spread with rapidity, for as soon as the cries aud screams of tne imprisnn?H nassanzers attracted attention the flames see rued to be bursting from the windows. The unfortunates shouted to have the door of their fiery furnace opened, while at the same time they struggled to brjak it open. But the smoke and flames soon overcame them, and when rescue came all were dead but two, some having been burned to death and others suffocated. Ihuhsday, June 2 f, is the day fixed for idedicatiou of the High Water Mark Monument ac Gettysburg. The President and members of his Cabinet have accepted an invitation to be present, and the Governors of an Mates tnat have contributed to mark the tie! . veterans of the Army of the Potomac,State nonuinent committees,mem. bersof Congress aud otuers of distinction wili be invited. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. The steamer Venezuela, of the Red D Line, went ashore on Brigantiae Shoals, off New Jersey, in a snow squall. While trying to drive acro3s the track at the South Btach (Conn.) crossing Frank Adams and his nephew, Walter, were instantly killed. William McClelland, Adjutant-General of Pennsylvania, died at Harrisburg. By the explosion of a locomotive in Philadelphia, Penn., the fireman of the engine. j vjrwurg? rwtwii ouu, ana two unKaown ooys who were steal mg a ride, were instantly killed, and five other m9n wera injured, one fatally. Catcher Michajcl Logan, of the Scranton (Penn.) Baseball Club, made a misstep in ohasing some roughs. who bad stoaed him, and stumbled 100 feet from the D. L. & W. Railroad bridge into the gully beneath. He was dashed to instant death. President William H. Beers tendered his resignation,i n New York City, to the Board of Trustees of the New York Life Insurance Company, and he will be retained as adviser at $37,500 a year. John Jay Knox, ex-Comptroller of the United States and President of the National Bank of the Republic, died in New York City, of pneumonia. He was born at Kuoxboro, Oneida County, N. Y., March 19, 1828. Governor Bulkeley issued an address to the people of Connecticut asking them to meet at Hartford on Washington's Birthday to raise money for the World's Fair. South and West. At the head of Squaw Gulch, Cripple Creek, Col., at a depth of thirteen feet, a chimney of ore has been discovered which is a perfect mass of shining, gold. It is esti mated as worm irom suj.ujv to * io.uuu a ion. The private banking firm of Marcy, Greer & McCarn, of Raton, New Mexico, has made a general assignment. William Ptjckztt was hangei at West Irvine, Ky., for the murder of Henry Hall during an election in 1899. Robert Carleton was also hanged for murder at Henderson, Ky. An open switch causes a collision at Larabee, Mo., in which three lives were lost. The Rev. "George W. Kildow, a student at the Southern Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Columbia, S. C., committed suicide by cutting his turoat with a razor in the presence of his wife. The block bounded by Main, Union, Second and Monroe streets, Memphis, Tenn., was completely destroyed by fire. The block Is in the neart of the dry goods district, and the loss was estimated at about $1,000,000. Bertha Jacobs, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a rich farmer, burned her father's barn, near Liu>o, Ohio, causing a loss of $4000, theu ran away, and was caught while setting fire to a neighbor's barn. She as oeea suujwt wj ojjuo^bji ?ul jb. At England, Ark., Jonathan Ford, a Deputy Constable, undertook to arrest Haoop Bis<joa, colored, a well-known desperate character. Biscoe and others at his house resisted. Biscoe's son, with a gun given to him by his mother, seriously wounded Ford. A posse then were forced to kill Biscoe, wife, ana son. Washing ton. The Behring Sea negotiations have been intrusted to Hon. John W. Foster as the representative of the Administration, relieving Mr. Blaine of this duty. The President issued his proclamation promulgating a reciprocity treaty with the British (Vest Indies colonies, Trinidad, Windward and Leeward Islands, eta Captain W. 8. Schlkv has bean detached from tne command of the United States cruiser Baltimore, and Captain William Whitehead, from duty at the Boston Navy *T?3 K/>a? +j\ Aomm nnri hop X Ml U, uao uoou v?* MV? wu ?v . Captain Schley becomes inspector of the third lighthouse station, Stateu Island, N. Y. Rear-Admiral Andrew Brysos, United States Navy (retired), died at bis home in Washington in the seventieth year of his age. The President; sent to the Senate the nomination of Edward C. O'Brien, of Now York, to ba Commissioner of Navigation, vice William W. Bates, resigned. The United States Senate in executive 588-don confirmed the npmination of Mr Rathbunto be Postmaster of Eimira, N. Y., in place of Dr. Flood. The President gave the last of the official receptions at the White House. It was in honor of the officers of the Army and Navy and the Marine Corps. The three Canadian Reciprocity Commissioners arrived in Washington. Secretary Elkins has directed that the designation of the institution known as the "Post Canteen" be changed to the "Post Ex:hange." This action is taken because of a tendency on the part of the public to assojiate the word "canteen" with that article - ,Ji?I fr* norrxr nrafnp }Z EL soldier a uutut m?uu?? ?> .. _ , . out sometimes used for carrying spirituous liquor. t Foreign. Emperor William personally urged large German manufacturers to send exhibits to the World's Fair in Chicago, 111. At a meeting in Dublin of the McCarthy* ite section of the Irish Parliamentary party Justin McCarthy was re-elected President, Minister Egan's house in Santiago is still guarded by Chilean police; the sentences of the assailants of the Baltimore's men have been made more severe. Count de Launay, the Italian Ambassador at Berlin, Germany, is dead. Joseph Chamberlain was formally chosen to succeed Lord Partington (now Duke of Devonshire) as leader of the Liberal-Unionists m the British House of Commons. The British Parliament was reopened by the reading of the Queen's speech. The Norwfip-ian Storthimr was also opened with a speech from the throne. Evangelist Spurokon's body lay in, state at his churcn in London, England, and was viewed by 50,000 persons during one day. BEKING SEA_TE0UBLES. France, Italy and Sweden Agreed on as Arbitrators. * A cablegram from London, England, sajfc* In reply to a question asked in the House of Commons by James Bryce, Member tor the south division of Aberdeen, in regard to the j Bering Sea negotiations, James Lowther, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, said that GreatoBritain and the United Scates had agreed that France, Italy ( and Sweden should act as arbitrators of the fterine Sea dispute. Mr. Lowther added, however, thai,although ( France, Italy and Sweuen had been agreed , Hnnw tKarr hoW wnf- wof Kaon aclroH fn nn? -f point the arbitrators. Great Britain and the United States, he said, would each have J two representatives before the Arbitration J Commission. The Department of State at Washington ' confirmed the statement from London that Great Britain and the United States had agreed to invite the Governments ot France, Sweden and Italy each to designate a person to serve ns a member of the tribunal to be selected to arbitrate the Bering i-ea controversy. This tribunal will have seven members, two representing the United States, and two Great Britain and three representing neutral Government6. THBEE DROWNED. A Schooner Sunlc by the Savannah Near Cross Rip Liffht. mi.. -A. nil f Pawfnrn J. Lie btcaujer UL V ttliuau, Lewis, from Boston for Savannah, with merchandise and passengors,and the schooner Lucy Jones, Captain Gross, from New York for Buckport, Me., collided near Cross Hip Lightship, Mass., about midnight. The Lucv Jones tank almost immediately. At the time of the collision one mail was asleep in the forecastle. The remainder of the crew were on decs. The man in the forecastle rushed on deck, succeeded in ciirabin? into the rizging and caught the captain just as the vessel sank, thereby saving his life. The other men, consisting oI the mate and two seamen,were washed overboard and drowned. w m BMil A DEATH TRAP. A Terrible and Fatal Fire in Blew York City. Thrilling Scenes at the Destrnction of the Hotel Boyal. The five story Hotel Royal, at the southeast corner of Fortieth street and Sixth are* nue, New York City, caught fire at 3 o'clock, a few mornings ago, and in less than two hours was a heap of debris, while a large number of people were burned, suffocated and crushed in the ruins. The bodies of five of the victims were taken to the Morgue. Fifteen persans were injured, some so badly that it was feared they would die. The scenes were heartrending and appalled even the most nervy and experienced policemen and firemen. The fire broke out a few minutes after 3 o'clock and never bad fire better food. The building was composed of several very old buildings, amalgamated into the Hotel Royal some years ago. The flame kindled at the front of the elevator shaft, in the basement, at about the middle depth of the building. , It swept through the building like lightsine;. The guests had no warning of tneir danger until awakened by the crackling of the flames and by the suffocating smoke. They ru?hed to the halls and were driven back bv the fire that even then was burning through the walls and the doors of their rooms. They ran to the windows. There was but one stationary fire escape. Not all the rooms were furnished with the rope escapes that the law requires. Because of almost criminal slowness in sending out the alarm there were no firemen with ladders to aid the frightened people when they came to the winlaanwl nilt 171th wprfl UU*TB. A1UIUWMB ? killed instantly outside the walls. Dozens more were hurt. In fifteen minutes the whole of the sixstory structure was ablaze. Flames shot out at every window in the front half of tho big hotel, and people in the street could see persons rushing frantically to and fro on every floor of the burning building. One, two, three alarms were sent out in rapid succession, and the streets and avenues were soon filled with fire-engines and trucks. Other alarms brought ambulances from every hospital in the city. From almost the very start the staircase was impassible to the panic-stricken guests. The elevator occupied only u part of the shaft, the rest furnishing light to the staircase. This was the only staircase rnnning through the house, so the imprisoned inmates bad to go to the windows and the fire escapes. When the firemen and the police arrived there was a man, a woman, or both, at nearly every window. They were crowding, too, to the fire escapes, and many were using the rope's, which were hanging in many, if not all, tho rooms of the house. The women were screaming and shrieking and the men shouting. They held out their bands appealingly. They leaned out and over the sills, clutching at the air. Here and there was a cool one, probably a dozen all told. They knew enough to use the rope escapes that were in same of the rooms, and they clambered out and slid down them. Here and there a m?n or a woman leaped up on a window sill and stood a, moment and then sprang wildly off. Two men dived head foremost from the third floor on the Fortieth street side. One fell fiat on the pavement, and was picked up with every bone in his body apparently broken. The other struck sidewise on Ids head, and his head was mashed and crashed shapeless. ** Two women leaped from one window on the third floor on tne same side. They had stood a ^moment clasped in each other's arms. They jumped, still clasped together. They fell apart, one dead, one unconscious, on tne pavement The flames were burstinz fiercely oat of most ot the windows at tSe Sixth avanue and Fortieth street corner of the building. At one of them in the third story appeared a middle-aged man of fine appearance, shouting at the top of his lungs for help. The walls around" him were cracking with the heat ai>d threatened to give way at any minute. The flames were all about him. "Jump for your life I It is your only chance!" yelled a policeman who saw him. "Good-oye all! It will be all right in the morning," was the strange answer that he yelled back. A cloud of smoke then enveloped him, and he was seen no more. One woman with a child iu her arms was stepping out of a third-story window on the Sixth avenue side. She neld on to a ropa and let herself go sliding down, and clinging with only one hand. As she reached the second-story she lost hold of the rope and fell. On the Fortieth street side there was the coolest man in the building. He was fuiiy dressed and wore a silk hat. He let himself down by a rope escape hand over hand an i landed safely. A flne-looking young woman, apparently Dot mors than thirty years old, was seen at a window on the Sixth avenue side. She creamed for help. A fireman started for her. She was about to jump from the window when somebody in the crowd below told her not to. She seemed to be completely out of her mind through fear. The fireman bad nearly reached the woman, when, with a shriek, she darted back from the window and did not again appear. Tht flames had not reached her, and she must have gone eraay to hava thus fled from escape. Her body was afterward found in the ruins and taken to the Morgue. - There was nothing about it which would lead to nrnont; enma iawfllrr While this tragedy was going on, a man about thirty-five years old appeared at a window on the top" story of the house. He looked down into the street for a moment or two in a dazed sort of wav, but uttered no sound. The crowd saw him climb out of the window and sit on the sill. A moment he lingered there, and then he deliberately pushed himself off with his hands. Some men with a fire net tried to reach the soot where he would fall, but his descent was too rapid, He came down feet first for about half the distance. Then his body turned, and he struck squarely on his head in the street. He was instantly killed. His body was taken to the Morgue. Police Officer Daniel Glenn clambered up a ladder to the windows ot the third floor and rescued a woman who was at the window. As he was descending the ladder with his burden, the crowd looking on breathlessly, another woman who nad been crying in an agony of fear from the wiudow directly above, clambered out of the window and bun? with ber hands to the sill till, exhausted, she released her grip and fell, striking Glenn and almost knocking him and his charge from the ladder. The woman herself was killed by the fall There were 165 or 175 persons in the house when the flre started. Not all their names are known, because a thief stole the register when the flre first broke out. At 4 o'clock the Sixth avenue wall for sixty feet from Fortieth street fell outward with a crash and a deafening roar, and Portv-Svo minutes later more than half the Fortieth street front wall collapsed and made a tomb of brick, stone, mortar and k.imhar* fop tha unfortunates who had been caught in the burning building. When the ruins had been codled off sufficiently by streams of water to allow the rubbish to be handled, a detail of firemen was set to work to search for the bodies of those who had perished. On the second morning after the fire this estimate was made: With five corpses in tha Morgue, eighteen reported as injured, forty as missing and fifty-two as known to be safe, there are fifty persons still of whom nothing has been heard one way or another, if there were 165 persons in the house. It was probable that nearly all of these fifty escaped. As fast as the injured people ca.-ne down the ladders or ropes they were bundled into ambulances an 1 driven* to a hospital. Many were taken to a drugstore. No record was kept of them, and it was almost impossible to say how many had been thus saved. Those who escape 1 vritnout injury, for the greater part, avoided observation as soou as they possibly could, and it was impossible Ul LOU JU3t liun iuau; ljuwwj escaped an i bow many were killed except by finding the bodies of the latter. The total loss will not be over $300,000, most of which falls on the guests. The loss on the buildiug and turmtare is about $70,000; fully insured. TwrifTT-i'OUR grain elevators are to he erected at railway junctions throughout Russia in connection with tbe relief works for the benefit of the starving peasantry. . ' v. ;' " '-v "Fifty-second congbess. in the Senate. 28th Day.?The chair was occupied by Mr. Manderson, President pro tem Among the bills reported from committees and placed on the calendar were the following: To constitute Newark, N. J., a port of immediate transportation; allowing thirty days' leave of absence annually to the employes of the Bureau of Engraving and Printinc Thn Nbw Vnrlr KriHcra hillo were unfavorably reported by the committee. 29th Dat.?Mr. Stewart made a statement regarding bis position in tha Idaho Senatorship contest Among the bills reported and place! on the calendar were the following: For the appointment of representatives from the United States to the Columoian Historical Exposition at Madrid in 1892; to define the grade of medical officers of the army; increasing by (60,000 the limit of cost for the public building at Camden, N. J.: and for the Sublic buildings at Bridgeton, N. J., $75,000; oplin, Mo., 150,000; Bedford, Va., $25,000; Fortress Monroe, Va, $15,000, and Laredo, Texas, $75,000. For a municipal building iu Washington, D. C. 30th Dat.?The President sent to the Senato the nomination of William M. Grinneli, of New York, to be Third Assistant Secretary of State Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United StatesMr. Squire reported back the bill appropriating $300,000 for a monument and statue to General Ulysses S. Grant, on ground belonging to the Government in Washington. Calendar The Finance Committee reported unfavorably three Free Coinage bills which were placed on the calendar Mr. Sherman offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement as to the advisability of tran:*ferring the Revenue Marine Service to the Navy Department. 31st Day.?The Public Printing bill was discussed Mr. Vance offered a resolution to pay $1200 to Mr. Davidson, the contestant of Mr. Call's seat Bills were placed on the calendar as follows: To increase the rate of pensions in certain cases of deafness. To amend the Total Helpless Pension acts. To amend the act of relating to those who, having participated in the war, have since enlisted in the army or navy of the United States and become disabled. To provide for a permanent system of highways in the District of Columbia outside the city of Wash-, ing ton. In the House. OC^tt T\ A TT TVia fTrtilca o rl nnf fu? fUa rnilao Win 1/Ai? JkUO 'IVUSO OMUpvOU IUD iuiog with a few unimportant amend meats, as reported by the Committee on Rales Mr. Mayers reported a bill carrying aa appropriation of $203,000 for continuing the work of the Eleventh Census. 29th Day.?Speaker Crisp being sick Mr. McMillin took the chair The Census Deficiency bill was passed The Pennsylvania Border Raids Claims bill was reported. It appropriates $3,447,945?Mr. Bunting introduced two tariff bills. One placed a duty of one cent a pound on tin-plate or taggers' tin, and 1 tf-10 cents a pound on terne plates, with a drawback less five per cent, of the duty paid Mr. Outhwaite reported a bill to establish lineal promotion throughout the artillery, cavalry and infantry. 30th Dat.?This being District day, Mr. Hemphill called up the bill empowering the Commissioners of the District of Columbia grant respites or pardons in certain cases. Passed Th& Speaker then made the following committee appointments: Banking and Currency?Mr.Busey,of Illinois, and Mr. Russell, of Kentucky. Interstate and Foreign Commerce?Mr. Caruth, of Kentucky, and Mr. Coombs, of New York. District of Columbia?Mr. Hallo well, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Busey, of Illinois. War ClaimsMr. Cadmus, of New Jersey. Xlth Census ?Mr. Fithian, of Illinois It was decided that the Appropriations Committee should conduct the World's Pair investigation. 31st Day.?Mr. McMilian reported favorably the resolution providing for a full investigation of the Keystone national Bank, the Bnrine Garden National Band of Phila delphia, and the Maverick National Bank of Boston Mr. Dockery offered a resolution directing the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the right of tbe Secretary of the Treasury to employ the $100,000,000 gold reserve tor current expenditures. Referred The House passed the bill placing the Secretary of Agriculture in tbe line of Presidential succession after the Secretary of the Interior The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole, with Mr. McCreary in the chair, on the Military Academy Appropriation bill. Mr. Wheeler (in charge of the bill) briefly explained its pro 33d Day .-The Bland Free-Coinage bill was favorably reported??The resolution providing for a special committee to in Yestfgate the Pension Bureau was adopted. THE LABOR WORLD. Chinese gold miners in Nevada get $6 a day. t Great Britain has 217,606 union mine workers. American looms are on the increase in England. Tennessee will have a State Federation of Labor. Baltimore (M. D.) bricklayers work eight hours. New York Hebrews will parade on May 1 for eight hours. Abound Oldham, England, there are 101 cotton spinning mills. .Several thousand glassworkers are on strike in Pittsburg, Penn. New York granite cutters will hare a $5000 mouument at the World's Fairj Chicago. Two labor can -id&tes have been elected recently to the School Board at Derby, England. In Boston, Mast., bricklayers' apprentices are not full journeyman until they become of age. James Lowbie, who recently died, wove the rirst American Brussels. He gave it no distinctive name. The Laundry Girls' Union, of Louisville, Ky., has established a co-operative laundry with a capital of $3000. In 1858 only eight trades had the eighthour day in Melbourne, Australia; to-day over sixty trades are working only eight hours. The average annual wages of farm hands In England is about seventy dollars. In tbis country the average is about two hundred dollars. A "fijioro?rnrir CAhman's BOcietV hflS been formed in London, England. The first to take shares to the amount of $250 was a tramway conductor. The Spanish Prime Minister is endeavoring to secure Sunday rest for the workmen and to prohibit the employment of children under ten years of age in factories or mines. A?r English syndicate is alleged to have purchased over thirty glass factories in Germany on about the same line and terms offered some years ago to American flint glass manufacturers. Two thousand railway employes, representing different organizations, met in the Academy of Music, New York City, and discussed matters of interest to them, particularly the proposition of practical amalgamation, which was generally favored. The Empress of China is establishing a large silk weaving factory in the park of the Imperial gardens of Pekin. This is done in % ~ ^ ? i rt A 11 Of n\T oruer to encourage tue native an* and also to provida employment for a number of women and children out of work. BATTLES IN SENESAL, Colonel Humbert Del'eato Kins Saint\ry Ju Two Ensasemenis. Fuller details of the attack of Colonel Humbert on King Samory, in Senega!, have been received. Colonel Humbert met a most J determined resistance on the part of the eu- j emy. After being defeated in one battle, Samory retreated and reformed his forces, making a desperate stand. Colonal Humbert again attacked him, and dup^rsad his men atter a severe conflict. In the two battles Samory lost 150 killed and 300 wounded. The French lost ten killed aud fifty-throe wounded. It is stated that Philip Armour,the provision packer of Chicago,carries on the heaviest individual business of any man in the world. During the past year his Chicago jobbing business amounted to $06,00;), 000 and big elevator business to $9,000,000, making a total of $73,000,000. / ' / / ~AMRCEISTS GABOTEDT Four Suffer the Death Penalty at Xeres, Spain. The Horrible Scenes Whioh At' tended the Execution! S _ Tll3 four condemned Anarchists were cw roted a few mornings ago at Xeres, Spain, in the plaza in front of the prison. A formidable forca of troop3 was massed in the plaza and kept the crowd at a distance from the spot at which the execution took place. The condemned men accepted the ministrations of the clergy. The Anarchists were executed separately and in successive partitions. It was at first proposed to execute them together, but, there being only one executioner available, it was decided to execute them separately. The platform upon which the garrote was erected was surrounded by a rough wooden railing, inside of which Jwas a strong detachment of Eolice and troops, who nad no trouble in eeping the people back. Upon the scaffold there were four wooden partitions, in each of which was placed a chair, behind which was a stake. Attached to each stake there was a metallic collar, which is put around the criminal's neck. Behind the collar is an iron screw, which is tamed until its point crashes into the spinal column, causing almost instant death. The names of tne four Anarchists were Busijrni, Zarzuela, Lebrijano, and Lamela, the first named havinz been the leader of the movement in refusing to leave his cell for the scaffold until compelled to do so. Thej presented a horribly frightened appearance as they were forced, trembling and deadly pale, protesting and praying, blustering and imploring mercy, into their respective partitions, from which they could see the populace, police and troops, but could not witness the death agony of their companions. Zarzuela was nearly too drunk 4a ?? ~ II. V>n MOM f /> n/vn rl ^ / v TT* ? i-l fVtA IAJ WCtXIL VT lieu ULO Wtt5 IVVWU WITM U VUO stake, and kept shouting: 4 'More wine! More wine! Iatn innocent I I am innocent! But we will not act cowardly! We die for the social cause P' Busigni shouted: "We are innocent! Ob, my mother 1 My mother 1" and straggled desperately to escape. So terribly did he struggle that it required the combined strength of five men to force him into the seat, and even then they had much difficulty in get* ting his neck into the garrote. Finally, the executioner was two full, minutes turning the screw of the iron collar powerfully enough to break the neck of the unfortunate Anarchist. This terrible scene worked the people into a state of rage and indignation terrible to behoid; men shouted and cursed at the authorities, women wept and moaned as they buried their heads in their aprons and dresses, and several people, male and female, fainted outright; but there was no attempt made to attack the police or military, for the latter have tanghtthe Anarchists of Xeres a lesson which they are not likely to forget for many a day. The other two condemned Anarchists, Lebrijano and Lamela, died more quietly, death, apparently, being instantaneous after the first two or three turns of the screw. All the executed men were either cobblers -t>r bootmakers. Out of avmnnthv for them, the dbodIs in many of the outlying towns and villages closed their little stores or else refused to go to work. The outbreak, for taking part in which the four men were garrotea, occurred at Xeres, sixteen miles from Cadiz, daring the evening of January 8. A FBEE COINAGE BILL. A Favorable Report Made by the House Committee. The House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures, by a vote of eight to five, ordered a favorable report on the Bland FreeCoinage Bill. Chairman Bland has made " #11 * f-Vio mode. cne lojiowiujj siAiKuouniv^uu,, ure: "It contemplates the converting of all our silver money,silver certificates and Treasury notes issued on bullion and gold certificates into coin notes redeemable in coin, thus converting our paper into bimetal papar, instead of keeping up the distinction between gold and silver in our paper issue?. This conforms to the idea of coining both metals on an equality, gold and silver free. The coin notes are redeemable in coin, and, of course, in whatever coin it may be most convenient for the Government to redeem them in. Tha depositors of gold and silver bullion have the privilege of waiting until their bullion is coined, and having the coin returned to them, or they may deposit the bullion and receive notes at the ooin value of the bullion deposited. The bullion then becomes the property of the Government, and is coined as fast as may be necessary for the redemption of any notes pre* 1 ** 1??Akwiatoo tha OT? sell tea xor reaeiuptiuu. *v uV>?.^, pense of coining all the bullion at the time it is deposited. The people seem to be desirous of using paper money instead of coin itself?to prefer paper to coin, and for that reason coin notes may be issued and bullion held for coinage, to be coined only when necessary for redeeming notes. A man holding a coin note will not know whether it is a gold cote or a silver note; for if he deposits gold bullion or gold coin he gets a coin note, and if he deposits silver bullion or solver coin he g?ts the same kind of a coin note. It abolishes the present distinction between our coin notes. My bill also differs from any other* bill that has been introduced, in providing that whea Fratocs may resume the free and unlimited coinage of silver at her ratio of lo% to 1, and the President makes a proclamation to that effect, that ratio shall then become our legal ratio and our coin 6hall conform to it. We wish to ?"r ciivAr monev as well as our gold coin, hence there is a very good reason why our ratio and that ot Eurupean countries should be the same." LATER NEWS. A distinct shock of earthquake was felt in East Burlington, N. J. 'Houses shook and trembled as if about to fall, clocks wen stopped and the people ran wildly and excitedly into the streets. The duration of the shock was about ten seconds. A grand military funeral was given the late Ad jutant-General MoClelland in Pitts burg, Penn. Marion C. Hedspeth, one of the leader) of the notorious gang that robbed a train al Glendale, Mo., has been arrested at Sai Francisco, Cal. The House Committee on Rules dtcide<J that there should be an Investigation of th# management of the Pension OSlce. The President sent the following nomina-' tions to the Ssnate; John H. Burford, oI Oklahoma Territory, to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of M-l-i ? IS tfinrMnta whiauuuia* t? cliiazi u. uau wi u, vi. to be United States Judge for the Eightb Circuit. Joseph Bu fflngton.of Pennsylvania, to bo United States District Judge of the Western District of Pennsylvania. William A. Kelly, of Oregon, to be a Coraaiissionet in and tor the District of Alaska; to reside at Wran gel. A conflict occurred at Landsberg, Russia, between a body of Russian gendarmes aud a band of emigrants. Three emigrants were killed and tan were wounded. Anum ber of emigrants were taken prisoners. Eight thousand coal porters went on strike in London. England. The strike was caused by a dispute over the wages paid by one firm to its men. Howard Murphy, f> Missouri Pacific engineer, running oecween Kansas City, Mo., and Hiawatha, has invented a coat of mail for use by express messengers when attacked by trair. robbers. The coat of mail is made of pen orated iron, and has a contrivance by which the wearer can discharge a gun at the robbers while his hands are held up. I TEMPERANCE. B WHO BIDS TO B THX CSlLDRIIf? B| Not children of color, in slave-days HB These, grouped by the auctioneer's staflfl Bnt children of every nation? MB Children of every land. n&l "Who bids? who bids for the children? 9B The world will soon be their own. H From the laborer who digs in the ditches, To the monarch who sits on the throne^ None but will give place to the children Hfl As he lays by his shovel or crown." ?HB Then a man in his Maker's image SB Rose up with a brimming bowl, Asl And cried, "I bid tor the children- MB Bid for them, body and ton!, RSH In behalf of Satan's kingdom, SM With its stains. and guilt, and crimst BB I will lead them into the darkneei . Through lanes of sin and slime. 9H Then up rose Temperance workers; A mas ?ith a kingly air; flB And?each bearing a glass of Water? HB A woman sweet and fair. PHI "We bidl we bid for the child ?"en! In behalf of the kingdom of Light. 99 From the siren snare of the tempter BH We will lead them out from the night* "By paths full of all life's sweetness, Hfi By rivers deep and broad, KM They shall walk in ways of honor, Hoj By the arch-fiend never trod. And when we rest from labor, BH And the world becomes their own. HBj They who fought as temperance children Shall cast down Baonhmte throne." H| ?L. A. Obear, in Temperance BannerJ|B WHISKY IS BAD FOB, TH? OBIP. .11 4? AlT. * _ ? --a v/l ou uip pauoum huoiuuuoiv treat and cure are those who at the flJH symptoms of the disease take the badadr^Bj of some bf their friends and proceed to Ic^H up with whisky," said a prominent N4^B York physician, whose list of patients guff ing from this cause is particularly larflfl "Not only will whisky fail to efltoct a cur^HS he continued, "but a person who tries it a^H fails as a role, puts his system in soch a staM| that the usual remedies we prescribe tail act, and we are compelled to redort to mu^H more severe medicine, and even then t^M disease fails to yield to treatment in anHH thine HIta aa ehnrh n. t.Im a na if va treated it in its first stages." WINK-DIUKKIXG AT DIXUCR. In an article in the North American Z view, the Hon. Ohauncey H. Depew sa; " Within the last teu years a great ehan has come over dinners in the number m variety of wines served. This Is especial the case in the United State* and in Bn land. Formerly there was a succession wines, one with each course.. Anyone w went through with snch a dinner, after t tonishing his dilution with white wines ai sherry, with claret, champagne, Borland Madeira, brandy and liquors, became < easy subject for Carlsbau maters and ajpf mature grave. I have noticed in London ? last two seasons that at the English dinn they now go almost to me other eztren 'serving claret and champagne, according the preferences of the guests for one or t other, through the whole meal. We have n come exactly to that yet, but at-a Naw Tot u inner, while you still dnd several varietf of wines, champagne is the one which served mainly through the entire ovenin The amount of wine waioh is consumed i> head j constantly diminishing at all di ners. and the number oi men who absta altogether is decidedly oa the increase. TH sparkling mineral water is largely perfonHJ ing the functions formerly filled by t^H stronger beverages." THE ITZBVES AKD NAHCOTICSk The American Analyst has reproduce^! from the Deutsche Revue a suggestive art^H cle on the nerves and narcotics, in which aijH pointed one the deplorable resulteof afeofaaK as affecting the nervous system. It sayifl "Long before delirium tremens or other ? rious Drain disturbances appear, they ai^H preceded By manifold nervous disturbancuM the real cause of which is not often undeJ? stood." The writer adds: "1 have frequentl^JI found that rheumatic pains that were a^B cribed to a cold were nothing bat ataoh^H neutritis, a mild form of infl&mation of tiJH nerves, resulting from the use of alcohoH| which disappeared when the habit was give^B up, only to return with the slightest repetH tion of the indnlgence.n It is farther af^H firmed that "moat habitual drinkers, anH some of them very early, are subject tfl coanges in the vascular organs, such as f&ttO degeneration of th9 neart and arterio-sclax^B iosis, which lead to grave affections of thH nervous system, like apoplexy and softeriinlH of the brain. Finally, it may be taken proved, that the childrea of drunkards, Jfl they are not carried off prematnrdv JbH brain troubles, are frequently afflicted wftfl serious nervous ailments,, such as epilepajH idiocy, and the like." This is corroboratifvfl testimony from a scientific authority of hagS tnndino'. to which all who are addicted! the use of alcoholic beverages of any din will do well to give heed.-"National Ten perance Advocate. BIO BUSINESS IN DRUNKARD MAKING-. The Pabst Brewing Company, of Miltrai kee, in a little advertising pamphlet whic was compiled for them by the present Gov ernor of Wisconsin, and of which at laai three editions, one of 20,000,000 copies, an another of 17,000,000, have been gratuitous! distributed, thus boasts of the magnitude c its business in'drunkard making; "The annual output of this company fo 1890 exceeded 700,000 barrels; 21 700,000 ga Ions; 173,600.000 pints, or 530,800,000 glasstt that is, one for every human creature in a the earth, excepting only Asia. If all th rain, snow, hail and mist storms which ha* occurred in the Northwestern States in tfc last three years were condensed into one tre mendous deluge and rushed to their sorfao in a single day, the annual product of tb Pabst Brewing Company would equal wha would tall upon ten acres in the full four as twwity hours and continue the flood fori a hour and thirty minutes longer. Theflbo spaoa occupied by the Pabst Brewing Cpa pany is over thirty-four acres. The dail output of beer is more than forty carfoadi The output of bottled beer was 7,000.00 bottles, and the corks alone cost $314,000 1 1890. They pay tne Government $7pj,000 ii taxes each year." / This one brewery, according to Ahe39 fig ures, sold last year au amount eqtfal to nini glasses of beer for every mm, ^oman ant child in America, and Undo Sam took a his portion of the swag $700,000? The con sumers paid for this beer (reckoning ai average of four cents a glass) .nearly $21, nnil Th?r ernt hank on? dollar onfc O thirty in taxes, and bad to pay for an enor mous amount of crime, pauperism and dia ease engendered, it pays tne Pabst Brew ing Company; does it pay anybody else Even the number of employes could be ami tiplied by at least tbrea if this money vn into other lines of trade,?The Voioe. ? TZXPXRAXCK NEWS AND NOTXS. For bringing a jug ot wins into the jar] room in Columbus, N. C., a graai jury max was lined $50 and costs. Thirteen million children are being taught ? xi k?u Zi* scientific temperance m hmkiwuis ul j.uivj four States of the Union. Wisconsin has tha credit of organizing th first State Loyal i'e npe ranee Lagion. Iti composed entirely of graduates. There has not been a murder in Johnaoi County, Ky.t for forty years, and there i not a drop of liquor of any kind 9old in th county. Many women are seekin? the cure for io temperance at the Keeley Institute, and 01 a recent week over 150 were numbered amonj the inmates. a coroner's jury in Philadelphia one day recently found that iliclnel Mc Jl03^ey,eigh years old, died of heart; disease, accelerate: by his drinking whisuy. In Norway public housas have bean practically aoolisded in the rural districti and greatly diminislvad in numoers in the towns, .bergen, with a pooulation of 60,000, has onl; fourteen licensed jouses. Perhaps the worst (eature of the plan tc sell intoxicating liquors at the World's Fall is t- 3 probability tnat under this guise thi dreaded and demoralizing barmaid will h introduced into our country as a permanent institution. As a result of Miss Burnett's active work organising in Utah Territory,the W. C. T.U. there has grown from thirty to 231 in the lasl fifteen months; 760 chil Irea are enrolled io the Loyal Temperance Lagions. Miss Burnett lias given twenty-sight lectures and ad dresaed fifteen meetings, besides iavinj charge of press and prison work.