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BIG BLAZE IN BOSTON. Tlie Business Heart ot th( Ci y Ravaged by Flames. Several Lives Lost and Million in Property Burned. One of the most destructive fires tn ft' liistory of Boston, Mas#., next in magni tude to the famom one of Thanksgiving Day, 1SS0, and in the same district, brok out shortly after 4 o'clock iu the afternoon and before it was placad under control, three hours later, had burned over mors than a square, bad reduced to ashes severa of the magnificant new buildings recent)] completed on the territory burn9d ove: three aod a half years ago. had consumed propertv valued by a conservative estimate at ft,500,000. had been attended by a scenf of panic and distress never before equalec Tin the memory of citizens now living, anc had destroyed perhap?, it was estimated oi "the morning after the horror, a dozen hu man lives, and mangled or maimed at leasl thirty persons, some of them fatally. , The burned area covers a block bounle: on the north by Essex street, on the east bj Lincoln street, on the south by Tufts street, and on the west by Kingston street. In ad dition to this the tire leaped across the streets here and there, and destroyed build inps in a fringe around the burned area. Part of the United States Hotel was burned. One wing of the building had been used as an emergency hospital, and it was necessary to remove many wounded person1 who had been taken there. Among: the buildings - burned were th< Ames building, Lincoln building. Brown Durrell buildings, and a dozen or mor< smaller ones. So serious was the prospect that the fin wouli spread and that a panic would follow that not only was the entire 'fire department ordered to th< -scene, but those of Somerviile 'Cambridge, Newton, Waitham, Brocktor and Quincy came rushing to town. It alsc seemed best to call out the militia to assisl the police in preserving order. The Firs and Ninth Regiments and two naval bat talions were ordered under arms, but thi firemen succeeded in checking the fire and the threatened panic wa9 averted. The wind was blowing a gate before th< 'fire started, and as soon as .the flimes hat " toll sweep it increased to such violence thai -the firemen were in great danger of bein} blown from the tops of the buildings, whict were the only available places from whicl the tire could be fou ;ht- The wind. suckec the blazing contents from the buildings anc carried thom for b ocks, as tnese ure brands fell they started fires in a score o places, but the danger had been foreseen an the tire wis confined to the district in whict it started. When the fire wa3 discovered the street were filled with people and trading in the Ames building was brisk. The leading tenant was Horace Partridge, dealer in toys and small wares. His wholesale department was here, and tbe floors were packed to the rooi with toys. In one room was a lot of fire works. Those ' fireworks became ignited They went off with a rush. The fire grew hotter and hotter from 4U o'clock to 5. Reports of falling floors anc exploding stone sounded like cannon in th< 'distance. Bengal lights and other firework: flamed up in a rattling series of explosions, and flights of rockets sailed up over flames of brilliant colors. While this immense display of fireworks was going on the imperilled inmates wen crowding through the flames and jumping from the windows. The excitement in th< street was intense. The firemen spreac their fire nets and caught many, but met and woman dropped so fast that it was imnossible to catch all. Those who landed it the nets escaped with sprained limbs and a general shiking up. The poor fellows wh< -struct the pavement were either killed, tally injured or crippled for life. The pitiful cries of girls imprisoned in thi upper stories stirred tne pulse of 'very spec tator, but it was impossible to render aid The intense neat soon set fire to the Woon socket Rubber Company building, and thei the flames jumped across the street to thi Lincoln building. Both buildings burnei ' with such great rapidity that ten of th employes of the Woonsociet Company wen obliged to jump from the window.*, a?< were saved in the nets or the Protectivi Department. The firemen say there must be many wh< met death in the Ames building. The Cap , tain of Engine 26 says he saw rour girls fai back into the flames, and another firemai tells of two others who met a similar fate 01 the opposite side of the building. Th emergency hospital was locate! immedi ately behind the Unite! States Hotel, anc within fifteen minutes it had three dead anc twenty injured within its walls. For the first time in Boston's fire history overhead wires proved the means of savine -a life. When the fire in the Brown-Durrel buildiDg was at its height the form of a mar ?District Fire Chief EgAD, of tasc castoi ?was seen at an eighth-story window. H' boldly seized one of the large insulate* cables, which contain a large number o electric wire?, and proceeded to cross to th opposite building hand oyer hand. He hat gODe but a few teet when it became appar ent he could not l&3t long, and greatly to thi crowd's relief he threw both legs ove the half inch cable which slightly sagged and alowly and tediously made his way to ward the building No. 119 Kingstou street to which the cable ran. Midway he stopped unable to go furtder. A squad of men rai into the building numberel 119 Kings ton street ani slowly lowered th< cable to which Egan was hanging At the same time Hook and Ladder No. 1' erected a ladder to meet th9 slowly descend ing man. Tue cable was payed out slowly and the szhaustei man gradually cam nearer the ground. His bo ly swung in clos to the burning budding, from wnich issue< dense clouds of smoke when ha was but \w< stories lrom the ground. In a tew sfc^nd i ? ' t ?? <ae swung inio mo aruis ui u-o wimauw, leased his hold, an', as wean as a cat, wa earned from trie scene. A shout of triumpl and applause came torch troin tlia thro&t of the vast assembly. One young man amployed at 83 Lincoli streer, Stepnen D. Sal-non, Jr., found ea caps t>y the stairs cut off, aud was forced fc jump irom the fourth story window. H gauged his jump so as to land on the tel egraph wire:-, and thare lie clung in tul view of the immens9 t&rons:. In a jiffy th crowd had spreat blankets to catch him and into these be dropped from a height o forty fest. His or?ly injuries were a spraiut* ankle and the loss of a tooth. The firemen of Engine 2S bore the brunt o t&s work of rescuing the employes of th Partridge building. One ol' the men caugh in his arms a woman who jumped from i sect.ad-story window. The office of the Metropolitan Sewerag Commission was in the building occuoied b] Horace Partridge, and separated only by i thin partition. One of the stenographer for tbe Commissioners. Arthur Carter, i31 cripple, < being unau!? .to walk a step Aiired Bridgeman and another den' earned i/ueir uoipmdb uju.ii cue uuwu tue stairs with the fl unas chasing tU?m to thvery door. This wns but oue of tne msnj acts of heroism performed in that briel period, when every second of time aliuo?1 was worths human Jiie. Tilly Hayues, of the United States Hotel, offered the Firemen's Relief Association $15,(X>0 if they would stop tae fir* and sav<; his building. They woa the purs?. A conservative estimate of the total losa is t4,3C0,(JC0. The insurance will amount tc about $4,<WU,OCO THREE EMPLOYES iliLLED, An Oil Train Breaks in l'wo and the Tanks lake l-'ire. A terrible accident occurred on the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad near Munnsville, N, Y. An oil train broke iu two while going up a grade, ths latter halt or cne train uruiaiu^ msjaueugma waica was close behind. A terriffio explosion occurred, setting fira to tbe oil tanks. 1 be fireman and engineer of tbe engine ware instantly killed, as was also tbe he* I bratcesmau of tbe oil tram. The bla;: coul'l be seen miles tvoai cha .scene of i.r accident. Thb Fire Brigades of England have iuv.ks i the fire departments in tb* United Stmes to participate ia a proposed ?aod in t '. national fire congress and cxhibimh ia L^uiwu naxt June. BUILDINGS AT > 8 p l ? j i ? ? l i t One of the most magnificent structures r renaissance. This building is put up very ne r Park from the lake. The building is 50Gx80T bold and heroic. The general cornice line is f [ 60 feet high and 5 feet in diameter. On each i , feet Equare. The corner pavilions are connec entrance leads through an opening 64 feet wid surmounted by a mammoth glass aotne 130 fi j agricultural industry. Similar designs are grt are surmounted by domes 96 feet high, and ab , figures, of herculean proportions, supporting To the southward of the Agricultural Buil Ball. This building is conveniently near one < j building, is located a bureau of information. . associations. On this floor there are also larg , the Assembly room, which has a seating caps fentlemen eminent in their special fields o( ustnea, ? '?V I f?. ( ? Grecian-Ionic in style, the Pine Arts Bui f ia 500x330 feet, intersected nortb, east, south a which is a dome 60 feet in diameter. The bui , type of famous figure of Winged Victory. Tb above. On either side are galleries 30 feet wide am [ of the nave and transept, and on the walls both sculptured panels In relief. The corners made j> Around the entire building are galleries 4< .' promenade and the naves are the smaller room * Ou either aide of tbe main building, and oonn various art exhibits. t Tbe maiu building is entered oy iour groa ! of steps. Tbe walls of the loggia of the colon J tbe arts. The frieze of the exterior walls and : bas-relief of the masters of ancient art. The general tone or color ia light gray stor ' Tbe construction, although of a tempora staff," architecturally ornamented, while the All light is supplied through glass sky-ligh The building is located beautifully in the n ) the lagoon by beautiful terraoes, ornamented the lagoon, where there is a landing for boat?. I neighborhood of the building is ornamented w | the "Cave of the Winds," and other beautiful \ proportions. t L I l 1 1 0 The Fisheries Building embraces a large * arcades. The extreme length of the building 1 Government Building. In the oentral portion is the general Fisi the Aquaria. The exterior of the buildiag f buildings. j To the close observer the exterior of th exerted all his ingenuity in arranging innume: 1 only fish and other sen forms for nis motif of t 1 The cost is about 1300,003. In the center of the polygonal building is t J which rises a towering mass of rocks, covered ' gush and drop to the masses of reeds, rushes a ? golden ides, golden Jencb, and other fishes disj 1 are ten in number, and have a capacity of 7001 Passing out of tbe rotunda, a great corrid) 9 of great tanks, and on the other a line of tanh r arcade is about 15 feet wide. The glass fronts t The total water capacity of-the Aquaria f pounds, or almost 600 tons. Of this amount tion, including reservoirs, there are about 80,0 of vulcanite. Tne pumps are in duplicate, an< 1 evaporating the necessary quantity at the V '* thus reducing both quantity and weight fc 9 density was supplied lrotn Lake Michigan. i 9 ! e 1 ; i fc * - - ?r - ?? i THE ? Notable fcr its symmetrical proportions, t Columbian Exposition at Chicago. It tneasi constructs?. within the building a gallery 5' 12 feet wide, from which visitors may survey 1 the main floor by 3) great staircases, the fligb the mammoth building longitudinally, and an : - glass and arches an area 333 by 1400 feet, and 1 acres of floor space. ' The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Build [ nearly all of the other edifices The long arr! 1 elaborate ornamentation. In thi3 ornaments c very attractive oarr. The exterior ot the building is covered immense arches are apparently of this beautil i , There are four great entrances, one in the < archway ol each being 40 feet wide and 80 feet eagles 13 feet high, and on each side above th< i figure* in bas-relief. At each corner of the mi with the great portals. The building occupies a mast conspicuous of it is the United States Government huildin separating it from the grpat island, whi^h in v ' j GKaND NAVAL REYihiW. j Rendezvous in Hampton Roads April j 17?Review in New York April 27. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Soley, ' Admiral Gherardi and Commodore Raoasay I hnld a conference at the Navy Department, | "VVashinston, reg arding the changing of th? date of the naval review. > It was decided that the rendezvous should take place in Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1 April 17. On April 21 the fleet will sail for New York, where the review will be held on the 27th of April. While watching a bull fight from Linares, Mexico, the building in which the battle was going on collapsed and eight. apootators were killed. TOR THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN FJ i ' * :" . ~ * ? THE AQBICDLTURAL BUILDING. aised for the Exposition is the Agricultural Bail ar the shore of Lake Michigan, and is almost stu feet, its longest dimensions being east and west. (.1 feet above grade. On either side of the main ei corner and from the center of the building pavi ted by curtains, forming a continuous arcade are 9 into a vestibule, from which entrance is had to t set high. All through the maiu vestibule statu juped about all of the grand entrances in the mosl ove these tower groups of statuary. The design a mammoth globe. Iding is a spacious structure devoted chiefly to a jf the stations of the elevated railway. On the fl This floor also contains suitable poaimittee and ;e and handsomely equipped waiting rooms. Broi icity of about 15(X>. This Assambly room furnu ! work, embracing every interest connected wi .JL THE ART PALACE ilding is a pure type of the most refined classic ar nd west by a great aare and transept 100 feet wid< Jding is 125 feet to the top of the dome, which is! ie transept has a clear space through the cent 134 feet above the floor. The collections of sci i of the grouad floor and of the galleries are amp! by the crossing of the nave anl transept are filled ) feet wide, forming a continuous promenade aroi is devoted to private collections of paintings and c eoted with it by handsome corridors, are very It b portals, richly ornamented with architectural sci nades are highly decorated with mured paintings the pedimjnta of the principal entrances are orm ie. rv character, is necessarily fire-proof. The miii roof, floors aad galleries are or iron. ts ia iron frames. orthern portion of the park, with the south front with balustrades, with an immense flight of step Tae north front faces the wide lawn and the gr ith groups of statues, replio* ornaments of classi examples of Grecian art The ornamentation als< THE FISHERIES BCTLDI.HO. central structure with two smaller polygonal bail is 1100 feet and the width 200 feet, it is located leries exhibit. Ia one of the polygonal ouuatngs is SpaaLsh-Romanasqus, which contrasts agreea e buildias: cannot fail to be excsedingly interestin rable forms ot capitals, modillions, brackets, corc iejign. The roof of the building is of old Spanish i rotunda 60 feet in diameter, in tie middle of wn with moss and lichens. From clefts and crevii nd ornamental semi-aquatic plants in the basin be ort. Pro.a the rotunda one side of the larger si ) to 27.00 J. jr or arcade is reached, where on one hand can t :s somewhat smaller, ranging from 750 to 1500 gall of the Aquaria are ia learta about 575 feat an l h ?xcluaive ot reservoirs, is 18,735 cubic feet, oraboi about 40,000 gallons is devoted to the Marine e: 00 gallon?. The pumping aad distributiag plant 1 each has a capacity of 3030 gallons per hour. T rood's Holl station of the United States Fish C >r transportation abont 80 per cent; The fresh w ~ MAMJTACTCRES AND LIBERAL ARTS BCTILDIVn he Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building is 1 ires 1687 by 787 feet and covers nearly 31 acres, bf 9 feet wide extends around all four sides, and pro, the va9t array of exhibits and the busy scene bt its of which are 12 feet wide each. "Columbia avenue of like width crosses it at right angles at has its ridge 15!) feet from the ground. The buil ins i" >n the Corinthian style of architecture, am ly of columns and arches, which its facades pres ition female figures', symbolical of the various a with staff," which is trested to represent mi ;'ul material. center of each facade. These are designed in the ; high. Surmounting these portals is the great j side arches are great panels with inscriptions, an iin building ara pavilions forming great arched et place in the grounds. It faces the lake, witn only 5, south the HarOor and in-jutting lagoon, and wi urt i? wooded and in oart resplendent with .1 GEKMANS VICTORIOUS. Natives in Ease Africa Sustain a Fa Severe Defeat. Advices from East Africa state that the I German troops have won an important vie- doi tory over the hostile natives at Uniang- a c wira. The German force was composed of dig white soldiers and native levies. The hos- wa tile natives made a stubborn resistance, but j were defeated after a severe conflict with me heavy loss. th? The German loss included a German ser- wa geant named Eittel and ten of the native Wa ? u; l.tll^rl anrl T.iontannnK Bother oiV? soillima ikiin^vA ?.v?w-w wounded. The defeat has caused general T consternation among the hostile natives, and sot it is believed will go far toward suppressing wa resistance to German authority. dr JB. CHICAGO. ? ] ~ ' b fl ding. The style of architecture is classic t< rounded by the lagoons that lead into the ti For a single story building the design is ttrance are mammoth Corinthian piilarp. tl lions are reared, the center one being 144 mad the top of the building. The main t< tie rotunda, 100 feet in diameter. This is n lary has been designed, illustrative of the p ; elaborate manner. The corner pavilions k for these domes is that of three female R TjI Live Stock and Agricultural Astembly f> rst floor, near the mala entrance of the is other rooms for the different lire stock p id stairways lead from the first floor into ri she? facilities for lectures, delivered by n ith live stock, agriculture and allied in- tl n d tl JT ai A Id 9 -3e.' S JJ ? ??>? *' * n flj g chitecrare. The building Is oblong, ana jj 3 aa i 70 feet high, at the intersection of ^ jurmounted by a colossal statue of the 0| re of 60 feet, being lighted entirely from q, upture are displayed on the main floor e araas for di splaying the paintings and ai with sai ill oictura galleries. ^ iad the classic structure. Between the be collections of the various art schools. iQ irge annexe-, which are also utilized by K ilpture, and approached by broad flights , illustrating the history and progress of ^ imented with sculptures and portrait* in 0) si a walls are ol solid briclc, cover el with in facing tha lagoon. . It Is separate 1 from 3 leading down from the main portal to m oap of State buildings. The Immediate c art, such as t&e unoragic mouumBab, > iacluias 9tatua3 of haroic aad life-size I Cl K 1? 6i fl tl diags connected w'.fa it oa either end by rr I to the northward of the United States u w ia th? Anglinsr exhibit and in the other w bly ia appearance with that of the other a at g. for the architect, Henrv Ives Cobb, o' ilcas and other ornamental details, using; at i tile, and the side waiis 01 pie&uug cuiui. u ri Ich is a basin or pool 26 feet wide, from to ces in the rocks crystal streams of water ilow. la this pool gorgeous gold Ushes, jrles of Aquaria may ba viewed. These >e viewed the opposite side of she series 1< oq9 each in capacity. The corridor or wo 8000 aqu*r<j teac of surface. it 140,000 gallons. This weighs 1,192,425 rhibit. In the entire salt-water oircula* n ; for the Marine Aquaria is constructed R he supply of sea water was secured by ^mmissioa to about one-fifth its bulk; ct a tar required to ..aCoreit to its proper B i . >. m i ii. .... y. u b: vi St p n h r* ^ ty ! * U the mammoth structure of the World'' d >ins: the largest Exposition building ever ,r fecting from this are 86 smaller galleries, ti llow. The galleries are approached upiou u [ Aveuue," 50 feet wide, extends through ? the center. The main root is of iron and ? Idine, including its galleries, has about 40 ? h i in point of being severely classic excels t| ent, is relieved from monotony by very fi ,rts and science?, play a conspicuous and ? irble. The huge fluted columns and the J-i i manner of triumphal arches, the central Q, attic story ornamented with sculptured id the spandrils are filled with sculptured fr itrances which are designed in harmony |e lawns and promenades between. North . ^ ist the Electrical building and the lagoon H cvnrj o" viria'i hllac. . j ... . . sa BOTH WERE DROWNED, iteol'l'wo Men Who Attempted to jg Save I'Jach Other. lans Carlson and R. Myers, w;>re riding ;vn a swollen stream at Hinckley, III., on ,-n ake of ice. After being carried a short f0 tance the ice lodged on a bank in shallow y, ter. rc Lt this time Henry Binder, seeing the in n fhnntrhf: ha could driT?n out and rescue >m. He had driven but a few feet in the gj tor when his horsa plunged into deep tfc tf r, taking Binder, buggy and ail out of ai ht. or Jpon seeing the condition of things Carl- h< i took off his coat and plunged into the yj iter to rescue Binder. They were both p] owned, U] THE QUEEN SPEAKS. ~ jiliuokalani Makes Her First Plea for Hawaii. [he Hawaiians, She Save, Detest the Annexation Idea. A lengthy statement by LUiuolcUani, the eposed Qaeen of Hawaii, has just been jade public, which is the first statement 'hich the ex-Queen has made for publicaion since the overthrow of the monarchy n the islands. She states at the outset: "I had resolved to maintain absolute ilence throughout the negotiations, b?lievthat the question would be settled on it: olitical merits alone, but I am forced from ly retreat by the slanders and cruel calualios uttered against my person and charac;r by thoso who are bsliev ed on account o( leir diplomatic position, a nd who know etter than they speak. I do not mean to rente their utterances. I am a Queen." The ex-Queen then ra.'ers to her recent at3nipt to promulgate a new constitution and aviews a number of facts, which, she claims, ?dherto take this step. Among othsr lings she says: "Shortly after my accession I made & )ur of the islands. Nothing could be lore affecting than the loyalty at my eople. nut from every side petitions epc, pouring in imploring me to ive a new constitution. They contained aousands of signatures, tbe names of tho33 rom all classes who felt that by the exiting constitution the natives -were derived of their just and inalienable ights. I would not deprive one white lan of one legitimate right, but under Sis constitution any newly-arrived white tan without interest or intention ot resi< ence is placed as a voter over the heads ot lousands of my subjects, to wnom God has iven these islands and no other home. Bedee, Hawaii is dear to the Hawaiian as >.meric& is dear to its people." Lilioukalani next refers to United States Sinister Stevens as follows: "The position iken by the present American Minister as been constantly unfriendly and quarslsome. The address he delivered td ia on my accession would lead me > suppose that he considered an Ameran protectorate established at that day. It a lecture and not an expression of searaable sentiment I did think it a most inmsiderate speech. Not one of the other jpresentatives chose my coronation day as ii occasion (or threats and penalties. "At the time oertain men were being rosecuted for rebellion and treason Mr. tavens delivered his Decoration Day >eech. He ridiculed the political trials, [e drew comparisons most unfavorable > Hawaii; be sneered at royalty, speaking J monarch-cursed countries;, and the uestion seriously presented itself to the linds of many people if this speech did not institute a glaring infraction of the duties id courtesy pertaining to the represents re of a foreign power." The ex-Queen closes her statement as fol> iws: "Tne Queen of Hawaii raises hor ilemn note of protest. Hawaiians detest le very thought of annexation, it is not atagonism as yet to the CTnited States, it ic is the overwhelming grief with which ir native eyes shall behold any flag amounting our fair shores, except that le which is associated indelibly with the lemories of our glorious past?glorious not i might and battle, but in the noDle efforts ! our Nation to clothe itself with the fair >be of enlightenment, raligion and comierce." SHOT HIS SWEETHEART. )oub!e Crime ot a Jealous Lover a) Quincy, Mass, Jealousy and unrequited love were th< a uses of a probable murder and a suicide a fuincy, Mass., the principals In the tragedj oinop T7i/*fAWa T.a fa r*m ainkfaaM ^ "4, F kiA V Dl^UUUCU ears, and Joseph Massey. a?ed about thirty, he (jirl had been to 8 o'clock mass at St ohn's Church, and was returning home un ttended. Hassey, who had been waiting >r her, followed her down Elm street to rard her horns. A scofe or more other per>os returning from church were also behinc er. When the young woman had reached t oint opposite the entrance to the oM Miller itate, Massey stspped up near her, and ithout any warning, draw a revolver and red three shots at her in rapid succession. The whole affair came so suddenly upon le eye witnesses that they were for a mount apparently paralyzed, and paid no atmtion to Mass?y. He turned and had alked leisurely 203 feet when the crowd hich bad gathered ahoute.1: "3top that ianl He has shot a girl!" Several meu arted for him, but before he could be rartaken he placed the revolver, which be ;ill held in his hand, to his head and fired, te ball entering jiwt above and baci of the ghtear. Without a word he fell over on a ink of snow, dying in about ten minutes. BUBNED TO DEATH. iansas Farmers Killed. in Destructive Prairie Fires. Prairie fires raged in Western K-tnsis for earlv two days. News was received from ussell County that seven persons were lught between two fires and perished. Their names were: William Bailey, Dave [utchinson, Albert Moore, A. McDonald, [rs. Lefevre and two whose names ward nknown. Bailey was fearfjlly burned about the reast and died in awful agony. The men rere all farmers ani were out fuelling their ?ck. The prairie fire had been discerned aproaching in the distance, and t.ie uufortu ates bad made for an open.space where they oped they might be enabled to light off the irrent of tire. Quickly getting ,to work-, ley cleared off the ground for several ards around them, and as b>st they could uga trench around the spac?. Their efforts, however, were futile, for as le fire approached the wind "arose, nnd, banging just as it reached tieir frail corod. whirled in one awful torrent and uraed the poor victinu' lives oui before aoy had hardly realized their daugar. SINGULAR ACCIDENT. l Circular Saw Flies Up and Kills a Man. Hbrman Meinke and Amo3 Coan were sing an old-fashioned machine saw at Wyodotce, Mich., converting a lot of timber ito logs anl stiek3. Meinke plac.nl an ex a heavy ani knotty piece of wood on the ibis. W nile tie adjusted it, he and Coaa, ho stood directly back of him, were enaged in conversation. When the blade had duz its war about alf through tha wooi it strucic a suag, aad 19 saw leaped from in aearings. la its ight through the atr it took a slightly upard direction and the blade struck Meinke }uarely iu the oi'aast. The saw severed th9 03 as it tney were made o? paper, and, irikin? the .ieart lull ia the centre, cut that rgan iu two. Aleinke wa3 thrown backward by the >rce of the blow, and the saw, thus reased, fldw over cue dead uiau's shoulder, 3d, striking Coan on the left arm, cus that lemoer off aoout four inches batow the toulder. Tha accidaat was cause 1 by tho realcin^ of a woo leu screw witfl whieh the iw bait been fastaned to the traaae. KILLED BY A FANATIC. ,e Strangles a Girl to Show His Power to Bring Her to Lile. An Anabaptist fanatic has been arrested ? * ^ i. -C C?_ tT LiRtrig, uoverninenc 01 ouraiuu, iau.vmo. r hav.ng murdered a girl o? fourteen jars. He had been preaching before a oinfui of people in'a private house concerng his power to raise the dead. At the end of his sermon he strangled th? rl with the consent of her parents, in order tat he might demonstrate his pretended )ility to bring her back to life. After pray s and exhortations had continued for two >urs the parents of the girl became conncadthathe was an impostor, and combined to the authorities, who locked him P. . ? '-.x \ LATEjaNEW?, Secbetaby Off this Navy Hilabt A. Herbert made his first visit to the Brook lyn (N. Y.) Navy Yard in his official char aeter. He was received with all the honor?, and a salute of seventeen guns from the bati tery at the Gob dock. He made a tour of inspection and was dined by Commandant Erben. ( Two persons were killed and several injured by the fall of a building in Chicago, IU. Samcei, \V. AllertOiY was nominated for Mayor by the Republicans of Chicago, 111. The Alabama National Bank of Mobile Vina fnilpil and it.? Pr*>sirf?nfc F. H. Cllersup. it ia said, used from 150,000 to $60,000 of the | bank's money. Jakes Howard and Will Morgan, two troopers belonging to the Fifth United States Cavalry, were drowned while ford ing a creek south of Caldwell in the Cherokee Strip, Indian Territory. Secretary Hoki Shith has appointed M. Cooper Pope, of Washington, Ga., Chief of the Division of Lands and Railroads in the Secretary's office of the Interior Department. Secretary Morton has been compelled, on account of insufficiency of the appropriation for the seed division of the Department of Agriculture, to sign an order dismissing ' about sixty employes of that division. The President made the following nominatious: William McAdoo, oi New Jersey, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy; E4! ward B. Whitney, of New York, to b9 As' sistant Attorney-General, in place of Abraham K. Parker, resigned. Poatmaeters? Robert B. Brown at MeadviUe, Pen a..- Dale J. Crittenberger at Anderson,* lad.; Stephen Smith at Tama. Iowa; Charles H. Long at Tipton, Iowa; Joseph E, Swindlehurst at L.vingston, Moat i Oekjcials of the Anglo-Australian Banlr, which (ailed at Melbourne last year, were found guilty of frauland'sentencei to penal servitude. THE LABOTWOBLD. The clerks' onions of Chicago, III., will amalgamate. Dbnxabk pensions all working peoplo over sixty years of age. The State of Colorado has a labor army of 9670 workmen in 115 anions. Pattern-kaxers have adopted a national Insurance on their tosls of trade. The Governor of Colorado favors com* pulsory arbitration in labor troubles. Seven thousand shopmen on the Uaioa Pacific road have secured eight hours. The preservation gang oa the Panama Canal line has struck against a reduction of wages. In the State of New Ycrtrk daring 1S92 there were 1768 strikes^ involving 25,762 persons. Bank clerks ot ftiladelphia waat the State Legislature to pass a short-day law for them. The deaths from explosions in mines last year numbered 120, against tit'ty-one in 1891 and 290 in 1890. Gladstone recently told British laborers that the establishment of the eight-hour : system is practicable. The Homestead iPenn.) Relief Committed > announces that no more money is needed for Homestead sufferers. 1 Engineers in the freight service of tha ' New York Central Railroad hav? been notii fled that they must reside in AlDany. Over one hundred thousand working . women in New York are self-supporting. Three ouc of every Ave support whole f ami ; lies. Seattle, Washington, wilt' furnisli the ; necessary tools to idle men who wish wor?c ' and win pay mem uxn-iy iur <ut ?m & wus 1 for the city. Arkkd peasants and unemployed work: men ore making demonstrations in t ie citv of Lombardy, Italy, carrying flsgs with thj inscription: "Bread, Work or Blood." * It to said that there are 30. COO idle workmen in Chicago, UL, and that the number ia constantly increasing. The various union* of the city have spent thousands of dollars i in helping the unfortunates. i Trades? unions of Nebraska have formed i a State Federation,'to be known as the Ne> braska State Labor Congress. It prjoojes to establish central and local unions m every i town and city in the State. 1 A nsw association of railroad?emp!oy?s has been organized at Chicago. It is composed of all classes of railroad employed, and Is formed lor mutual protection, the ad- J vancement of wages and shortening of hours. I In the Grand Duchy of - Luxemburg, persons desiring work or help have now only to Bend a postal card to the Director of tne Postal Administration in order to have tue wants advertised in every p 3s:offlse if. the Grand Duchy. THSBK.is great suffering among the cotton spinners and operatives of Oldham, En x land. There are i?,uuu uuempiojeu. iuuusands of these are withouc fool ani fuel. The local authorities ara overburdened with demands upon them, aad private charity hqa been exhausted by the coatiaual aad increasing drain since last Novernoer. FLOODS EAST AND WEST. Rivers and Creeks Overflowing Their Banks. Floods caused by the melting of ice gorges have caused an immense amount of da mage to property and some loss of life in many States, East and West. Prom Fort Deposit, Md., comes a story of a night of anxiety followed by a day of flooded streets aad houses. Ail day the people of the little Maryland town watched the muddy waters of tne Susquehanna as they swept by, and hourly expected the river to overflow its banks and find a channel for itself through their streets. An ice gorge at Conotvingo, a few miles above Fort Deposit, was holding in check a great volume of waters. The breaking of this gorge was dreaded. At 2 o'clock the gorge gave way, aad the aooa let loose swept down, leaping the hanks and spreading through Fort I>ep03it. For a time the inhabitants did not know whether or not their town would be carried away and themselves drowned, but when the water had reached the height of eight feet in the streets and houses, it ceased to rise, l'he flood remained at ths same height and out* 1 houses and everything not securely fixed were swept off. There was a general thaw in the Mohawk Valley of New York. The small streams were greatly swollen, and the river was high. In nearly every village in the valley the cellars were filled with water. Ttia country roads were in a bad condition, and some wore impassable. Tnere was a sudden rise of the waters of Tonawanda Creek, Batavia, N. Y., and the result was an unprecedented flooding of many acres ot land west of the city. The western portion of the city was under water, and nearly every cellar on ttte south sido of VVesc Main street was full. The Genesee River at Avon, N. Y., overflowed its banks, and oa tno western side the flats | were completely covered with water from six to eighteen inches deep. Large cakes of tha fr*ar? x q maHa t.no nasqajra I lUO glHUJ UIO' ? I Oof trains difficult aad dangerous. Much damage was caused by melting ice gorges in Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna, ScbuylKill aud Delaware rirars. The loss of property by swollen streims was enormous iu Michigaa, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Ork.it excitement is reported from vvmfleld. Lake County, Xnd., wbere workmen en gace l iu digging a well struck a deposit of iilver and iron ore ten feet below the surface. An expert, to whom a sampl# of the ore was submitted, says that it contains sixty per cent, of pure silver. The bed is about ten feet thick, and the ore is mixed , with clay and rock. 1 THE MOM CAPITAL Affairs of the New Administration at Washington. The President Makes His First - Batch of Appointments. . ISAAC KJgrr 03AT. * f ' ;: j President Clevelan 1 seat *? fee United States Senate tfaesa nominations: ' To be Ministarto Mexico? Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana. To be Consul General at Ijondon?Patrick A. Collin?, of MassacHuiftts.To be Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gen* era!?Robert A. Marv*al\ of New York. To be Assistant Sacretary of State.?Jo* iahQulncy, of Massic'ametts. Isaac Posey Gray U <\n Ohloan by birth and at present lire* at Union City, lad. Be was a Republican until 1372, when he joined the Greeley movement, in 1874 he was nominated for Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana bv the Democrats as a renrt seatatire of the Gfreeley fo'W>ra on the same ticket with Bias Jeans Wildtms. and was elected. Toward ttw close of his administratis Governor Williams <U?d and Mr. Gray astamed the duties of Governor of the State. In 1880 he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor, bo* was defeated by Frank Landers, of Indianapolis, and put upon the ticket with him for second olace. This ticket was defeated by one headed by Albert G-. Por- ' ter, late Minister to Itiiy. Four yt are later ' . v$ 1 Mr. Gray was nominated for Governor by ' the Democrats and was elected, and would have been renominated for a second term . but for the fact that tUe Constitution of Indiana prohibited a Governor from filling two terms in succewioo. Daring the late ; campaign Mr. Gray was a candidate for .*< the nomination tor the Presidency, and had the delegation of his Slate behind him; bat he withdrew. Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, was bora near Fermoy, County of Cor?r, Ireland, i March 12,1844; came to the Unite! States In 1848; received a common school educa- { tion; was in early Isf ?an upholsterer; load law in the Harvard -Law School-Had in Bos- ' . ton, where he has practiced since his' admission to the Bar in 1871; was a member of -y&j the Massachugatts Soma of Representatives in 1838 and 1869, and of the Massachusetts Senate in 1870 and 1871; was Judge Advocate-General of Massachusetts in 1875; was elected to the Forty-eight Congress and was re-elected to tbe Fort?-ninth Congress as a Democrat; re-elefctea to the Fiftieth Congress. Robert A. Maxwe 1 is a retired ma later, of Batavia, N. if. For twenty years he has been prominent In tbe politics of New York, and is recognfzad as a Democrat of the old > ' school Mr. Mar Well if as one of the leading spirits in the "anti-snapper" convention and has long been .the warm, personal friend of Mr. Cleveland and PostmasterGeneral Bissell. About a year ago Mr. Maxwell was removed <trom ' the office of State Insurance Commissioner by Governor Flower. ,'#2 Josiah Qaincy is one of the politicians of the younger school vruo has woa the confidence of President Cleveland. He is about thirty-four years or as* an 1 en joys tbe distinction of being the last of tile historic Qaincy family, of Massachusetts He was in charge of the literary bureau of the last campaign. ? Hawaiian Treaty Withdrawn. President Cleveland sent to the Senate a message withdrawing the Hawaiian treaty which has been pending in the Senate. Tbe message was snor; and to the point, the President simp.y requesting the Senate rjs to transmit to tno Exs.-ntive the propotad treaty with Hawaii, l'ae message was received without coalmenc on the floor of the Senate. . Republican Senator* regarded this action ~r f.ha PrMirlent as in line with the course pursued by Mr. Cleveland in withdrawing ' the Nicaraguan treaty swat to th9 Senate by Mr. Arthur in the c osiuj days of his administration. Democratic Senators looked upon the act from a tiro-fold point of view, some taking the ground that it showel Mr. Cleveland to be against annexation or American inter* ference. Others h-?ld that he would send in another treaty more to hu< liking. It was understoo i t lat the reas jn for the withdrawal of the treaty by President Cleveland was because hi was opposed to the treaty in its present form. 'Whetheror not he would favor the mitring of another treaty, and whether it would oe an annexation treaty or not, could not be said on authority. I but a person wno had talkel wita the Presi( dent on the subject said that another treaty would be maoe. * \ It was estimated thaf the President -would I suggest either by nws*a?e or personally to I Senators, that a co nmittee be appointed to ' visit the Hawaiian Islands this year, during the interval between the adjournment of the special session of ths Senate and th9 reconvention of the nexc i Congress. President Cleveland heretofore, has been quite solicitous on this point, and made inquiries as to whether or not the resolution providing for sucn a co umisiion had gone through. He had hem apparently under the impression that it luw been adopted, do lont-naH that it ha.i not been, but that '.he Senate had authority alone to provide for such a commission, probably to consist of Senators, and that the contingent fund of the Senate could bs dr ivu on for tuia purpose. Bill Call-* o i Cleveland Senator David B. Hrll. of New York, a few days ago visite t fr^i'ietit Cleveland at the White House by appointment, presumably arranged by uon^ressmau R >ckwell, of New York, during a visit to Mr. Cleveland. I That his visit was more than a mere per- . functory call is atteste 1 by the length of the interview ? twenty minutes?and during that time Mr. Cleveland received no oards from the waiting uoiitictans in the Cabinet room. Mr. Hut came early. The great flood o! office seekers had not yet begun to flow into , ' *V r\i/l I (T the wmte House. no pa-Krau. K?piuij through the ballwiy'ii the public pare of the mansion into the roo n of IVivatd Sacre- , tary Thurber, wno evidently had been . posted, for he usher41 Mr. Hilt into the adjoining executive o01:e without a mojaaat's delay. A MtffiDEfitfi LYNCHED. He is Taken From the Sheriff by a , Colored Mob. Rufus Kay wool, a colored planter, was assassinated by Lie Walton, a notorious colored desperado, at Nit tar Yuoia. Miss. After robbing his victim Walton fled, but was run down by bloodhounds and captured next morning. He was taken to Nitta Yuma, where he was guarded by the Sheriff until the arrival of the train for Rolling Fork, the county seat. Just before the train arrived a mob of 500 colored men overpowered the Soeriff and took the murderer to the scene of his crime, where he was hanged to a limb and his body tilled with bullet*. Gekmant baa announced through Chan* cellor yon Caprivi a thoroughly oonoommit- # tal attitude on the currency queetioa. J