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NAVAL REVIEW Magnificent Marine Pageant a New York, GREAT ifatt-aniro in lire President Cleveland Reviews th International Fleet. All the World Out to See?A Cit Afloat and Multitudes Watch th Spectacle From the [Shores?/ Night a Splendid Show?Searc Lights Rive the Mists and Colore Fires Outline the Anchored Wat Ships?The Grand Ball?Uniqu Land Parade. The Columbian Naval Review in New Yoi Harbor was a grand success. Our greate.' peaceful naval event, joined in by all th VAdincr naval cowers, is now a part of hii tory bigger than that of our country, marks an epoch in the chronicles of the glot itself. The collection of warships was tt greatest ever known. Ten Nations were re] resented and more than 10,000 officers an men participated. So large a number < steamboats, pleasure craft and tugboats wi never before congregated in the Hudson Rive while hundreds of thousands beheld tt magnificent spectacle from either shon The guns of the navies in the midst of it a paid honors to the President of the Republi< as, surrounded by his Cabinet, and standin * on the bridge of the Dolphin, he move through a double line of war ships overthr< miles in length. The salute to Presidei Cleveland was a salute to the United 8tat< of America through its Chief Executive, an history does not record another instanoe i which so many Nations united in doin honor to a sister commonwealth. The foreig States which joined in the historic event wei Prance, Russia, England, Brazil, Argentinj Germany, Spain, Italy and Holland. It wt a sight to stir men's souls, to send the bloo tingling through their veins, a sight to mat them feel that the brotherhood of man ; something more than an empty sound. BEAK-ADMIRAL GHEBARDI. Never before has the Port of New Yor been so generally decorated. By the Port c New York is meant not only the harboi fronting on the North and East Rivers, bi also Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey Cit; Even the ferry boats, unsightly a3 they usua ly are, were decked out in bright array an the great transatlantic steamships were a dressed in the vari-colored flags of the inte: national code of signals. The big storehous< and elevators had plenty of American nag flying from the roofs. 10:30 a. m. was the hour fixed for the ri view. It actually took place between 1 an 3 p. m. Bain began to fall shortly after o'clock in the morning and continued in steady downpour until noon. At 10^>cloc President Cleveland sent an order from tl Victoria Hotel postponing the review till o'clock. Two reasons were assigned for th act?first, that the Signal Service Bureau r< ported a hope of better weather in the aftei noon; second, that Secretary of the Nav Hilary A. Herbert's physical condition Wc such that exposure might endanger h health. The ships of war stretched up the Nort Biver in two parallel lines from the Brazilia ship Republica and the American monitc Miantonomoh, which lay opposite Twenty eighth street, on the south, to tl British flagship Blake and the Amer can flagship Philadelphia, opposite Nini tieth street on the north. A little wa south of this double column of steel fortresse and off Twenty-third street lay the Unite States dispatch ves39l Dolphin awaing the ai rival of the President. North of the assemble fleets and opposite Ninety-third street wei the facsimiles of the three world famed can vels. steel-protected cbuiseb philadelphia. Still further up the river, in front of tt Santa Maria and at the head of the who fleet, lay tho United States ship Enterpris to mark the point around which the people navy would be permitted to turn on its w? down the New York side of the channel aft having advanced northward along the Jers< shore. The warships were lined up in this orde Enterprise. Pinta. Santa Maria. Nina. PORT COLUMN. STARBOARD CO UNITED STATES. UMN. Rear-Admiral Gher- obeat Britain. ardi Commander- Vice-Admiral Sir Jo) in-Chief. H o p k i ns. Coi Philadelphia (flag) mander-in-Chief. Newark (flag). Blake ((lag). Atlanta. Australia. San Francisco. Ma?icienne. Bancroft. Tartar. Bennington. Russia. Baltimore. Vice-Admiral Koze Chicago (nag;. son, uommuoai Yorktown. in-Chiel. Charleston. Dimitri Donskoi (fla Vesuvius. General Admiral. Concord. Rynda. argentina. france. P.ear-Admiral Howard. Rear-Admiral De ] Neuve de Julio. bran. Command Holland. in-Chief. Capt. Arrieus. Jean Bart (flag). Van Speijk. Arethuse. Germany. Hussard. Capt. Buchsel. italy. Kaiserin Augusta. Rear-Admiral M; Seeadler. naghi, Commandi united states. in-Chief. Miantonomoh. Etna (flag) Giovanni Bausan. spain. Rear-Admiral Gon y Lono. Commai nr-in-Chief. Infanta Isabel (fla i'ein.i Regents. .S'u3va Espana. HRA7.II*. Rear-Adinirai de ! ronha, Command n-Chiof. , Aquidaban (flag). Tiradentes. Bepublica. Aro'i'. " hese forty vessels was formod. 9 o'cloc i cordon of seventy-five tugs, r enue cu -s and launches, under the cont of the Iv..c onal, State and city governmer No vesst's except those which were to t? part in t.ie reviewing ceremonies were lowed v.iuin the cordon until the review w over. _'he patrol twrvioe was perfect By 1 o'clock toe. entire river between the western patrol lines and the Jersey shore, - and northward along the whole length of the fleet of war ships, wa3 literally covered by a compact mass of yachts, tugs, bargee, excursion boats, iron steamers and every sort of craft to be found in these waters. From the t decks of the General Slocum. as she steamed up along the line of war ships to her position between the caravels and the Philadelphia, bearing: Governor Flower, his staff and the State Legislature and Judiciary, the people's Navy looked like a floating Fourth of July. President Cleveland and his party took carriages at the Victoria Hotel at 1 o'clock and i drove at once to ttie root 01 west xwenty, third 3treet. In the party were Secretary Gresham, Mr. and Mrs. Bayard. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle, Secretary Lamont and Mrs. Lamont, Mr. and Mrs. Bissell, and AttorneyGeneral Olney. g Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland were accompanied by Private Secretary Thurber and Lieutenant Wood. At the pier three steam launches were in waiting, one from the Miantonomoh, one from the Concord and one from the Dolphin. The President and Mrs. Cleveland went in the launch from the Dolphin. Secretary y Smith went with them. As the President e z ^ UNITED STATES 8TE 2 stepped into the steam launch at 1:14 o'clock, ,e and at the instant his foot touched the boat 4 the President's flag was unfurled at the bow. ^ The Dolphin was reached at 1:18 o'clock, d and as the President mounted the gangway e and trod the deck the guns of the ship flred jg the National salute. "Up anchor!" was the next order, and as the vessel floated free with the tide she fired a single gun as a signal to the waiting Miantonomoh. Down under the deck of the great monitor stood a Lieutenant, hold in his hand a rubber bulb. As the Dolphin flred the signal gun an officer on the monitor's deck signaled to the Lieutenant below. Forth from a huge ten-inch gun sprang a pillar of fire and smoke that extended 200 fee* over the sea and hid the ship. A crash and a roar that shook all things on land and sea came over the water. It was a terrifllc concussion, and it took 250 pounds of powder to make it. That was the signal for which the multitudes had waited so long and that told them the review had begun. Behind the Dolphin came the United States \ Coast Survey steamer Blake, bearing the J Diplomatic Corps; the Monmouth, with United States Senators and Representatives; the General Meigs, bearing the Duke of Veragua, descendant of Columbus and in SANTA MARIA. lf,AC ie : i- vited guest of the Nation, and the W. C. Egerton, carrying the municipal government y and the Committee of One( Hundred, is The thnnder of the Miantonomoh's signal d had not ceased to rumble from shore to r- shore when the whole aspect of that noble d vista of north stretching snips was changed, e Up the mazes of rigging thatlooked like huge i- geometric spider webs against the sky, ran hundreds and hundreds of sailors, spick and span after a triple inspection of uniforms, and sure of foot aa Rocky Mounttain deer. Higher and higher they went, out on the long, tapering yard arms they ran. and in half the time it takes to tell it every ship that carried sails had manned the yards. There they stood, the picked men of the navies, arm locked in the arm, and looking, in the distance, for all the world like rows of ten pins, ready to be bowled over. ? , 5 1 :.x?v .? THE rHXCAOO, STEE As the graceful snow-white Dolphin move* fo- with dignified, leisurely pace along the gun er- guarded, steel-walled lane, ship after shi] shot out red tongues of flame and belchei clouds of white smoke across her path, flami meeting flame, and the smoke of the oppos ing broadsides blending its rounding cloud at into a dense rounded mass. ev- The familiar figure of the President was ii rol full relief as ho stood, almost alone, far af its. on the poop of the yacht, and those whi ike did not know him guessed who he was. be al- cause he alone lifted his silk hat a 'as he came abreast of each fire-belching ves seL Never, except in war, il even then was there heard such a stentorian expression of a human emotion. And never before in any land did any crowned monarch receive such homage of so many Nations as was thus bestowed upon this plain black-coated American, who, as the representative of the Republic, received the salute that is prescribed for royalty. Behind the lovely white yaoht fell in the white American Blake and then came the big Monmouth. Lastly followed the trim yachtlike ordnance boat General Meigs, having on board the lineal descendant of Columbus, the Duke de Veragua. The Dolphin was not decorated except with tne flags of, the President and the Secretary! of tho Navy and the glorious ensign of the United States. The Blake was decorated with a rainbow of color. The Monmouth had her own bunting and the General Meigs floated only a few flags with the Stars and Stripes astern. These five boats carried the official party. Brazil, on the New York side of the fleet, began saluting the uproar with Republicaand TlrariAntns n.nd In a moment more the heavy guns of her great battleship Aquidaban shook the earth. Germany, across the channel, joined in with the Seeadler and the KaiserAM8HIP BALTIMORE. I in Augusta. Spain, on the other side, I rfttmondnd from the steel-throated cannon of the Nueva Espani, the Reina Regenta and the Infanta YsabeL Argentina, with the ,Nuevo de Julio, and Holland, with the Van Speyk, took it up. Italy continued it with the Giovanni Bausan and the Etna. THE VESUVIUS, D? A great pall hung over the saluting fleet, and through it, from the head of the columns and from either shore, could be seen the bursts of flame at each discharge, with now and then the hazy outline of a ship enveloped in a thunder cloud of its own making. In the ! ' ^ / ISHIP OF COLUMBU8. brief pauses between the firing there came rolling over the waves the cheers of the sailors as they clung to the yards. Through it all the Dolphin moved slowly, steadily, majestically. At first the unnumbered people who were the witnesses of this stupendous scene and the hearers of this still more stupendous noise made not a sound. Americans though they were, they were overawed, crushed into silence by the power of what was before them. But they rose to the spirit of the great occasion at last, and when France sent forth her first notes of the martial music from the guns of the Jean Bart, Hussard and Artheuse, the multitude along the New York shore set up such a mighty shout that for one brief moment its shrill sound ro9e even above the shock of the cannonading. Still the noise kept on. Our own white cruisers took it up. The Concord began; tho X-PROTECTED CRCISEB. 1 Charleston, whose decks were cleared for - action in the harbor of Acapulco, did ) hor share; the Yorktown passed it to the ? * * ? 1 ? 1 Chicago ; the famous Baltimore nejpeu; me a Bennington and Bancroft, with the llynda. - General Admiral and Dimitri Donskoi of s Russia pounded away, and finally the whole tremendous salute wound up with a grand 1 octet, In which the San Francisco, Atlanta, t Newark and Philadelphia had for their part) ners the British fleet, composed of the Tar tar, Magicienno, Australia and Blake. s The most t.'irilling moment of the review - was when the Doiphin cast anchor at the , northern end of the column and ''dressed ship," her bunting going aloft with the stagelike precision. Every pilot opened wide the valve of his whistle. The reports from the guns of the Blake and the Philadelphia were lost in the roar of jubilation. It was a pioturethat will never fade from the memory of those who saw it. For nearly two hours afterward the thousands of pleasure boats came dancing around THE CABTINE, STEEL GUNBOAT. I the pivotal vessel, the Enterprise. They were filled with humanity, brilliant witn every nue I of the rainbow and sending forth sounds of | joyous music. I In sight of the picturesque caravels, and between the floating fortresses of the American and English Admirals, the Dolphin dropped her white anchor, and the cheering of hundreds of thousands of men upon the land and water struggled weakly against tlie fiendish tooting of a myriad of steam whistles. When their smoke" cleared away the steel-sided passage between the war ships was seen to be dotted with the tiny gii?s and cutters of nine Admirals and thirty-five war Captains hastening to greet the President and his party. The beautiful mistress of the White House was by the President's side ty pifying the manifold charms of mind and person for which Columbia's daughters are world famous. The passage of the President up through the fleet had lasted from 1:13 o'clock to 2:15. or just fifty-seven minutes. Then for two hours the President entertained the Admirals and other dignataries on board the Dolphin, and mutual and sincere congratulations were exchanged over the unqualified success of the review. The cabin of the Dolphin was a pretty sight. It w^s crowded to its utmost capacity with men in gorgeous uniforms, and in great contrast to them all was the sombre clothing worn by the President and the members of his Cabinet. The foreign officers were introduced to Mrs. Cleveland. In her simple gown she was a striking figure amid all the gold lace and brilliant coloring. The Dolphin reaohed her anchorage a little after 2 o'clock, and the reception was over about 4:50. Immediately after the reception Mrs. Cleveland was placed in a launch, and with Postma3ter-General and Mrs. Bissell was taken to Jersey City, where she took a special train to Washington. Private Secretary Thurber accompanied the party. At 4 :55, the reception to the Admirals hav U AMITE CBUIBEE. ing ended, they took their leave of the President and departed for their own ships. A few moments afterward President Cleveland disembarked, and was taken in a launch to the foot of Ninety-eighth street, where carriages were waiting to convey him and the Presidential party to the Victoria Hotel. As the President's flag was lowered on the Dolphin the final honors to the Chief Executive were paid by the whole fleet at once, each vessel of the thirty-five firing twentyone guns. The tumult made by the 735 separate discharges all combined in an interval of abou three minutes, far excelled all previous noises, and is beyond words to describe. When it died away the great review was over. All thai was left of it was a ringing in the ears, a pall of smoke disappearing over the Jersey shore and a never-to-be forgotten memory. Then the flagship Philadelphia, the floating oSlce of Commander-in-Chief Gherardi, slipped silently from her moorings and stemmed the swift tide to apoint opposite the tomb of General Grant, and thery flreda *>11111 It? IU LUC Lli.KyUJ.KJL J \JL U11U tlUV^J vm.W4.umj it was. When night fell the war ships held the multitude upon the shores and on the steamboats by a superb spectacle with signal lights, flash lights, search lamps and fireworks. The proud English cruiser Blake led all the rest with a brilliant night dress of electric jewels, which flung her outlines in lines of fire against the sombre background of the cloudy night. At the end of all the Blake showed to what lengths the English Vice-Admiral was willing to carry his friendly feeling by flashing upon the deck which he commands a fiery figure of Washington, the man who led /.xese colonies in war upon his kingdom. For hours the sullen sky was criss-crossed with path*} of brilliant flame, and the horizon served as a bacKground for colored signal light3 and glorious pyrotechnics. The American ships showed the many ways in which the lights ar 3 used in acti ve warfare to protect themselves from attacks of those marine terrors, torpedo boats. At times the projected rays were concentrated THE CUSHINO, TORPEDO BOAT, at certain spots ou shore, then turned far up IQe nuaauu, urniuut; vujcluj uiiim,; .w.u.v at a distance of five "miles. Following came another signal and simultaneously every light in the fleet was turned toward the' ! zenith. Slowly the ray=> converged until j they formed the apex of a brilliant silvery pyramid of incalculable height. Experts said it could have been seen seventyI five mile3 away in any direction. It j was a sight never before seen and never to be forgotten by the land lubbers. In conclusion. the operators gave some examples of high art in ray-projecting and described various figures on the heavens. It lacked but an hour of midnight when the black night conquered and closed in upon the j scene, turning the glory of the day into treasured memory. j The ball at the Madison Square Garden j was the crowning feature of the day. Handsome women in beautiful dresses, brave men in glittering uniforms from many lands and distinguished citizens in. sober gari> were there. The company was reckoned in thousands and not an untoward event marred the pleasure of the evening. The City of New Itork was the host and the Admirals. their staff officers, and the captains of the squadrons of war ships sent here by. the great Nations of the world to join with Miss Columbia in the happy festival of the Columbian year were the especially honored guests. President Cleveland, Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United State*, was there. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua were present. ~ "? n-no!,., secretary huu mis, retary and Mrs. Morton. Secretary and Mrs. Hoke Smith, 8ecretaiy and Miss Herbert and others of the President's official family circle attended. Governor Flower and a host of State dignitaries, Mayor and Mrs. Gilroy. Judges of the United States Supreme Court. Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, and a number of other distinguished visitors from other States made up. with the cream of New York society, a gathering that would be historic in itself, "the American Navy w;is represented by Bear Admirals Gherardi. Ben nam and Walker, and by many officers of minor rank. Major Generals Srrholield and Howard and other distinguished officers represented the army. There were titled and honored representatives of the navies of Great Britain, ltussia. France, Italy. Spain, Brazil. Argentina. Germany and th<* Netherlauds. all resplendent in uniform. Fully 8000 people took part in. or beheld.the great spectacle, made magnillcent by the uniforms of the naval and military gu<;sts, the gowns of the women and by the glorious array of the nroducts of decorative skill. On the day after the naval review the land parade was held. It was a picturesque affair, with all the jolly jack tars in their vari-colored uniforms. The parade started from Forty-second street ami Fifth avenue. The route was down Fifth avenue to Washington Square, through Waverly place to Broadway, to the City Hall, where the entire command passed before the Governor of the State, the Mayor of the city and the visiting officers. A BIG CYCLONE. An Enormous Storm Passes Over the Continent. Fourteen Livetf Lost in the Milwaukee (Wis.) Crib. A terrific storm ragei orer the country cast of the Rocky Mountains; the lake crib of the city of Milwaukee was destroyed, and fourteen men lost their lives; many exhibits at the World's Fair buildings In Chicago were damaged. The storm ranged from the Gulf to beyond the Canada border and from the Rockies out over the Atlantic. A dispatch from Milwaukee, Wis., says: In a eafe which for years has not been " i it. IU equalled on me great mstta, we uw au tuo ead of the intake tunnel, some 3000 feet oat in the lake, was washed away, and of seventeen men who were employed there in the shaft which reaches tc the shore, but three were known to be alive. The balance were believed to have been drowned. Bone were doubtless washed off by the huge billows which have been tumbling on the shore.and others perished in the air-shaft, where they sought shelter, and which is now filled with water. The people living along the shore were horrified at daylight when they could see no vestige either of the crib or the house that surmounted it. The entire property, as far as the eye could reach, was one spectacle of seething, boiling, roaring billows, that teemed to unite with the clouds. On the beach were two lumber-laden rafts that had vainly sought shelter behind the breakwater, and the shore was strewn with the wreckage. Another fear was that the leak in the bottom of the shaft would soon fill and drown the men. Foreman Barbour aid he knew that there were at least seventeen men in the crib. At 13 o'clock an effort was made to reach the wreck of the crib on a tug boat, but it was unsuccessful. An hour later the tug Welcome took a lifeboat in tow and steamed out to the crib. Only one man was toana auve at me crib and he was brought ashore in an unconscious condition. Mis name is John Miller. A search will be made for the bodies of the drowned men as soon as the lake becomes a little safer. A telegram from Chicago says: Ths storm was the worst experienced for years. At the World's Fair Grounds the east lagoon bridge, leading to the naval exhibit, was undermined bv the waves from Lake Micmgan. The Government building looks as though a volley' of mu?^etry bad been fired at its eastern front, the glass being shattered in countless places, through which the rain poured. The great dome, with its elaborate and costly decorations, is water-soaked, and will require much work to put it in condition. again. Books and pictures in the education department were found lying on the floor water-3oaked, and in the engineering department of the war exhibit many models are badly damaged and rendered useless. The Patent Office Department, too, fared badly, a large number of models being fonnd wet and rusty. The postoffice on the west side of the i hnJWinc had a crood soaking. The Manu futures' building sprung levies in scores of places and much glass is missing from the roof. The built of the damage is in the gallery, which, in a measure, protected the main floor. The bulldingct, on the whole, stood the storm fairly well,, but much of the decorations were blown away. High winds, approaching tornadoes in severity^and accompanied by rain, snow,and hail, hare again played havoc with telegraph wires throughout the West. Neither company had a workable wire fur* ther west than Des Moines, and it was difficult to do business with that point. Throughout Iowa, Wisconsin, western Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri the wires were practically useless, and communication was cut off from Mississippi and Louisiana. East of Chicago, also, the wires were either down or largely useless and heavy wind storms were reportad from Ohio and western Pennsylvania Advices from Detroit say: One of the heaviest gales ever known on tbe Likes has just occurred, the wind atttaining a velocity of over seventy miles an hour. The damage done along the river front is quite severe. In the neighborhood of Belle Isle bridge, steam and sailing yachts and catboats anchored close to the docks were smashed against each other, roofs of boat houses were lifted off, and floating docks lifted up on the land. The boat houses and contents of the Detroit Boat Company and Hermann Schmidst were wrecked, and a number of small yachts belonging to the same firm and other firms were driven high on the land and suffered severe damage. Property in Ypsilanti, Mich., has received Injury by rain. Stocks of goods which had been left uncovered by the unroofing of the buildings by the tornado of a few days ago were wet and rendered almojt useless. The postoffice was afloat, and it was almost impossible to get into it for the mail. It is estimtaed that the loss will be 170,000. While the wind was blowing at the rate of sixty miles an hour the workmen in the Big Four car repair shops at Br.ghtwood, IncL, noticed the roof and walls snaking, and as a precautionary measure they all climbed into box cars which were in the" building for repairs. Tne next instant the wiole build* ing collapse-*, but the cars were strong enough to support the big timbers and not a man of the twenty at work was injured. The building was 600 feet long and 150 feet wide. The Big Four freight depot at the same placo, an immense building 690 feet long and fifty feet wide, was razed by the wind, and the debris scattered xor a great ' distance. News was also received of a fearful cyclone that swept down Fourche valley in Arkansas, a few days ago, leaving death and havoc in its wake. The town of Boles, sixteen miles north of Dallas, Polk County, was almost swept off the map. Building3 and outhouses and fences were blown half a Oile and shattered in fragments. Trees were uprooted and blown iu the roads. It is known that seven persons were killed. At noon a terrific clyclone passed through the valley just south of Fayetteville, Ark. Its path was 300 yards wide, leaving a barren waste behind it. It swept over everythin?, uprooted trees, tore down fences, destroyed houses. Many home* were utterly demolished. Out of one familv, whose name is "Wright, consisting of eight persons, not one escaped injury. A frlgntful tornado crossed Jasper and Clarke counties, Mississippi. The cyclone originated in Jasper County, thirty-five miles south of Meridian, and traveled in a northwesterly direction. A settlement of colored cabins was destroyed and many of the unfortunates perished. A cyclone strucic Midland City, Ala., and destroyed a dozen houses, four stores an i two warehouses. The cyclone lasted but a few minutes and no one was killed, although & number of persons were seriously bruised. a destructive nau-storm visicex Arjmore, Indian Territory, tearing dowu growing vegetation and crops, A cyclone struct Kaney Hollows, near there, tearing down several homes and injuring several persons, some probably fataily. The storm cut a 1 - " VA 1, anA laid r.ha hi* swam aoouc ouj varus niuo uuu ? timbers to the ground. It is reported that one mail was killed by hailstones. The rainy fringe of the cyclone of continental diameter passed over New York and brought down from the northeast a gale thut attained at times a velocity of forty-nine miles in the city, and, down beyond banJy Hook, in the op?n, reached the dignity of a hurricane. Little damage was done. Snow fell to the depth of threi inches in Sullivau County and parts oi Oranze and Pike, in New York Slate. In some parti of Sullivan County the snow banks piled up during tha winter had not yet melted, and near Libsrtv there were highways impassable on account of the snow. Some damage was also done along the New Jersey coast by the storm. According to the Weather Bureau, the cy?' Uaf hoH clone was the most extensive 1/lACkU U??v? vrv? | swept across the country and got on the record?. Its westerly edge was away out in the Pakotas, while its easterly limit wa3 conjectured to bo far at sea on the Atlantic. It extended northward from the Gulf of Mexico beyond the Canada border. Cholera dott exists in a larger number of towns in Europe than when the epidemic was at its heisht last SeDtemhar. ^ v THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern $nd Middle States. A fire broke oat in the tins tore of Julia Mathieus at Beaver Falls, Pena., anaspreac to the store of M. A. Corbet & Co., and thi dwelling of John Wittenberg, all of whicl were destroyed. Mr. and Mrs. Mathieu1 slept in a room over their store and wer< burned to a crisp. Much damage was done by the late storm in New Jersey and in^ Westchester County, and on .Long isiana, new x orx. The Pennsylvania Steel Company, in volving the Maryland 8teel Company, went into the hands of receivers; the combinec liabilities being 15,000,030. The big safe in the postofflce at Lake wood, N. J., was blown open by professions cracksmen and rifled of about f3300, o which 12000 was in stamps and the remain der in cash. The coal barge Plymouth was swampe< oft JBarnegat, N, J., and Mrs. Wyman, tb Captain's wife, and two sailors wer< drowned. The Spanish caravels, the Santa Maria Nina ana Pinta, fac similes of the vessels it wnich Christopher Columbus crossed th( Atlantic 400 years, accompanied by th< three Spanish men-of-war, reached Nev York Harbor in safety, from Hamptoi Roads. South and West. The entire business portion of the towi of Warden, Idaho, has been destroyed bj fire. Loss, |tt50.000. Firry lives were lost and hundreds ol thousands of dollars of damage caused ii the late gale which swept over the (Vest. Ray Shout, the Union Pacific agent a' Salina, Kan., was fatally cut with a razoi by a colored man of the name of Dm Adams. Adams was sentenced to sevei years in the penitentiary. Shout's friend were not satisfied with the verdict. The took the colored man Irom the omcara au without giving him a chanca to say a word threw a rop<j around bis neck and struni him to a tree. At Lawiaton, 111., three French lumber men, scuffling ou a - raft, fell into the rivei All were drowned. Thk famous John Bull engine and it complement ol two fifty-seven-year-old pa: senger coaches arrived at Chicago trot Jersey City on schedule time. Jack Beady, colored, was hanged a Hendersouville, N. C., for the murder, i last August, of L R, Taylor, a white man Brady confessed his crime. All the ships in Hampton Roads, Va were decked in bunting aud salutes wer fired in honor of the silver wedding of Klin Humbert of Italy. Secretary Herber arrived In the Dolphin. In Jackson Township, Indiana, an easi bound express train struck a wagon con taining the family of John S. Smith, cor sisting of himself, wife and three ama children. All were instantly killed. The international flotilla sailed fro: Hampton Roads, Va., for New York Hai bor. , Washington. General Edward Kitzoeraxd Beal died in Washington a few days ago. ? was born in Washington February 4, 1S2S Be served with distinction in the Mexica War. Titfc Dake of Veragua and party arriv? in Washington from New York under th chaperonage of Commander Dickinso; United States Navy, and attended pontiflci high mass at St. Joseph's Roman Cathoii Church. The President in an interview said tha the Cabinet and ha were united in favor c gold payments of all paper,and are suppor mg the Government's credit by all means i their power. Secretary of the Interior HokeSmtt returned to Washington from his nome i Atlanta, Ga., where he had been sufferin from ttfe grip. He has sufficiently recovere to attend to his official duties. Attobney-General Ulnet delivered a address before the Bar of the United State at Washington in memory of the late Jostic La tear. The Duke of Yeragua and his party vrei driven to different points of interest aboi Washington. They were received at ti White House by President and Mrs. Clev land at three o'clock in the atternoon. Foreign. The Earl of Derbv, a distinguished Eos Iish statesman, is dead. He was born i 1826. Coust Kaiaokt, the Austrian Premie: [ gave notice to Minister Grant that an exi : quatur would not be granted to Max Jud I as American Consul-General at Vienna. The Irish Home Rule bill passed the se< ond reading in the British Parliament by vote of 347 to 304; Mr. Gladstone md M I Balfour closed the debate. The Belgian Senate approved the extet sion of the suffrage voted by the Cham be of Representatives. The Norwegian Ministry has resigned b King Oscar refused to sanction resolution of the Norwegian Storthing i favor of appointing Norwegian cohstusl represent the shipping and commercial ii terests of Norway abroad, instead of No' way depending for consular representatioi | as at present, upon consuls represents both Sweden and Norway. The&e was a long and desperate strugg] I between police and strikers at Hull, Enf land; a nre there, supposed to have bet started by a striking docker, caused the loot $2,500,000. Neab the Taichow Island, China, a wa junk disguised as a merchantman capture a formidable band of pirates. Of the titty one pirates only eleven were captured aliv< the others being killed. Twenty-live of th capturers were also killed. Emperor William, of Germany, an Empress Augusta were received by Pop Leo XIII at the Vatican, Rome, and tb Emperor and the Pope had a long intei view. Kino Humbert's sil ver wedding wa3 cel< bra ted in Rome, Italy. The stone copings of seve>al four-stor houses in Peel road, Kilburn, Englant " " ?' ** - ? n 11 /%# rionj ren waue me sueoi/ woj mu puu,..., Four persons were killed and fifteen wer I injured. i Sir William Yerxo.y Harcourt, Chai cellor of the Exchequer, introduced the ne< budget in tha Britisn House of Commons; shows a deficit of $7,870,000, which it is pr< posed to meet by increasing the in con tax. Emperor William and King Humbei reviewed the Italian troops in Rome. APPOINTED BY CLEVELAN] A Catch of Nominations Made I the President. The following appointments by Presiden Cleveland have been announced at th White House: L. F. McKinney, of No Hampshire, to be Envoy Extraordinarv an Minister Plenipotentiary of the Unite States to Colombia. Thomas L. Thompson of California, to be Envoy Extraordmar and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Unite States to Brazil. Georee VVilliam Carutb of Arkansa?, to be Minister Resident an Consul-General of the United States t Portugal. John M. Wiley, of New York.t be Consul of the United States at Bordeaux Owen T. Rouse, of Arizona Territory, to b Associate Justice of th? Supreme Court c * * 3 a nv* ka a tfafnaw ttie lerncory ol *in<uuuu. xu uo uvj of the United Stases: William E. Shutt, o Illinois, tor the Southern District ot II linois; John W. J add, ot Utah, for tb Territory of Utah. To b9 Marshals of th United States: Richard C. Ware, of Texas Jor the Western District of Texas; Georg M. Humphrey, of Nevada, lor tho Distric of Nevada. Luther F. McKinsey, of New Hampshire was a candidate on the Democratic ticke for Governor of his State last year, but wa defeated. I Thomas L. Thompson is the editor an publisher of the Sonoma Democrat, at sant I Rosa, now the center of a great fruit an< wine producing section. I Johu M. Wiley is a native of Ireland, bu cauie to America when four years of age He is a wealthy citizen of East Aurora, N Y.. but has recently puchased a fine hom in Buffalo. A bald-headed maa'9 powers o reflection are greatly increased unde anjjlectrio B^^a^ra^crigt 1 lATEE NUWF* ^ " /Meaobi detailj received! Immediately | after the accident said that at le&ft tea , persons were killed in a collision between a i runaway passenger train and freight train j near Somerset, Penr. *v SupjtBnrrETOKNT Lathbop made an inl qniryinto the escape of the murderers,' Roe hi and Pallister, from Sin; Sing (N. Y.)j Prison, and decided that Hnlse, a guard,: * and Maher, the yardman, were solely to' [ blame. 1 Dootob William Everett, Democrat,! j was elected to Congress from the Seventh I f District, Boston, Mass., to succeed iHenry; * Cabot Lodge; by a plurality of forty-one over Speaker William E. Barrett, Returns : I from every ward, town and city in the die-1 ? trict give Everett 9716 and Barrett 9873. Members of the Daughters of the Amerf-' , can Revolution, G. A. R. comrades and 1 1 rtt-.Vior (nHmna fchn Hi/ph I lands of the Navesink, New Jersey,; r to attend > the flit; raising on II the National fli? staff in front, of the two lighthouses located there, i The firing of a National salute of twenty-J one guns aboard the United States steam- I * ship Miantonomoh. and the responsive can- * nonading by the New Jersey Third Ragil ment National Guar 1, officially announced { x the hoisting of what is ciilid the PjiuI Jones I flag. r The bronze monunent to Christopher 3 Columbu?, erected by the World's Fair on 1 the lake front at tha foot of Congres3 strset, j Chicago, 111., was unveiled with appropriate' d ceremonies. The height of the statue is ? twenty feet. Its pedestal o! Maine granite; ? is thirty feet; making a total altitude of fifty feet. The magnificent new armory of the First Regiment, Illinois National Guards, C M~a tii i j -j k. A.. 1'vn tXigU) lil?9 OU UCOU UC3WVJDU W/ UIC* *nw n men perisiied in th9flim9s and others were rescued from immediate death by the heroit ism of th9 firemen, bat not until they ware a badly injured. The Union Loan and Trust Company, ,2 ,t capital $1,000,000, one of the foremost flnaae cial institutions of Sioux City, Iowa, made 8 an assignment and cloied its doors. * 4 Tax Danish steamer Gorm, con tain tag the t- Russian exhibit for the World's Fair, arl* rived at Baltimore, M i. The captain of the , A |i steamer stated that thsvalu9of his cargo was 15,000,000. & Two htodbid Zulus bound for the ; ? World's Fair took possession of a train just , Y'J outside of Chicago, and imprisoned the con- ' ductor and a brakeman in a car. The Zulus K held the trainmen responsible for the loss of [a some property. ^ Bkcattex Miss Carrie Wilson refused to marry him the Rer. Claude Wilson, of ^ Shawnee, Ohio, took rat poison and died. 9 Thx President decide 1 not to accept the ^ resignations of the delegates to the Intarc national Monetary Conference. The com* mission will therefore remain unchanged, it unless some of the members decline to ? serve. The conference will me<t oa May 80. '* Q j Thz Cabinet decided to reject the offers of New Tork bankers to supply gold to the n ^mry. " , i^ll ' ?? :m ? THE CARAVELS ARRIVE. M ? 18 The Santa Maria, Nina and Pinta Anchor in Hampton Koada. re .':i it The three Columbus caravels arrived saf^ g? ly at Hampton Roads, Va., from Havana In tow of three Spanish warships. They were received with thunderous salutes and die plays of flags of th? countries represented by the fleets, and dropped anchor at the >* end of the American line of vessels. The n . >M 1, THE NINA. S day was beautiful, an 1 they came down the Roads decorated from jibboom to taffrail a with bunting, including the old flags of Cas5 tile and Aragon. The little veisels were a tumbled about off the Virginia Coast on tha a day before in a lively fashion by the northeast wind that blew all day, but they txnaa* x aged to make the capis and, after firing d pilots aboard, came in. At the head of tha fleet was the unprotected cruiser Infanta * 1 > Isabel towing the flagship Santa Maria, -J e which displayed the flag of an admiral. Be- - 1 hind and a mile astern came the toipedo , vessel Nueve Eupana with the Nina as her r ? charge, and in the latter's wake was the big . g black protected craiser Riiua rlegente with it ^ ?;=s=ap^ * THE PDTTA. the FInta. Th?y wera towel by at least a > [) quarter of a mile of hawser and looked like so mauy ducks sitting on the watar with the feathers of their tails plucked. W "Wden oflf the fort the Stars and Stripes were broken out and saluted by the leaaer, . the fort quickly re.-pending. Before the Santa Maria was ai-reast of the Philadel* e phia the Dutch frigate Yap Speyk ran up it the Spanish colors and saiufrjd them with lfj thirteen rounds. Inen the Russ^n ship " General Admiral began to salute, and later every flag-ship in toe harbor oaid honors to ' the curious-lcoking c.'afts and tlie country ^ they came from. ' ' i COLUMBIAN GUARDS BESIGN . ' 0 I 3 They Strike ir?r More Pay at the g "World's Fair. 'f Columbian Guards at the World's Pair, 1 Chicago, 111., just before the opening, to the ' |. number of 195 sent i;i their resignations, and e Colonel Rice realizsd that he had a full- ? ? 0 sized strike on his hands. The men who re'< signed comprised ten First Sergeants, I " ~ SafTaantB flftff Dllfro J twemj -aro wcvuau NJGt ?*?. vj ' Sergeants and 110 of the privates. The trouble had been brewing for some '? time, but the wnolesale resignation of the c men was an unwelcome surprise to Colonel 5 Rice. Nearly two months before the men applied for a raise in salary. Thev were d paid 560 a month; they demanded $70, but ? did not get it. 1 "They were not inclined to discuss the scale of wages." said one of the men, "and 6 so we decided to quit. Then, besides, we ! were not fairly treated in the matter of promotions. 1 jolnei the Guard at its in* 0 caption, and I am just where I started. Young aristocrats from the East, sons of army officers, as a rule have been put over 1 my head, not from merits, but from pull. ? r Our work nas increased 100 p9r cent., but ' < our salary has remained sUtio.-iaxy. L