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FATAL TEXAS MM NEARLY A SCORE' KILLED AND MANY INJURED. Part of the Town of Emory Destroyed ?The Cloud Came From the Southwest, and Resembled an Hour-Glass ? Great Hailstones "Weighing Eighteen Ounces. At 7. SO o'clock a. m. a tornado passed ver Emory, the county seat of Rains County, thirty miles south of Greenville, Texas, destroying the western part of the town, killing seven persons and injuring about fifty others. The ne<vs reached Greenville about 8 o'clock p. m., and an urgent request was sent by wire that all the physicians that . oonld do so would hasten there. A special train bearing physicians and rei?nrtflrs left Greenville at 9 o'clock and ar rived at Emory at 10.30 o'clock. The train was met by a panic-stricken body of citizens. The reporters and physicians hurried to the postofiice, where a dozen persons lay on stretchers. The dead are. Miss Esther Alexandra Bras Henry ; George Walker - the four-year ld son of Henry Murray, colored, and three unidentified bodies. The cloud came from the southwest, and resembled nn hour-glass. The bottom was forked, and it continually blazed with electricity. It had the rotary motion, and seemed about thirty or forty feet , wide. It struck the ground north of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas station, and its track extends about four or five miles north, and is about 100 yards wide. The wounded amber aboat fifty, and some of them are seriously hurt. Everything in the track of the storm was completely wrecked. A tornado passed over Longview, Texas, doing much damage. At Lansing Switch six persons were killed. Great hailstone* Jell, many of them weighing from fourteen to eighteen ounces. Others, whioh must have been very much larger, were found aext morning, after a heavy warm rain, with the mercury at seventy degrees. \ They sank from two to five inches in the ground near Longview. Many chickens, turkeys and cattle were killed. At Lansing BWltcn, six muea ease, cue ior?ado struck the graveyard, tearing up large forest trees by the roots. It struck the Maonch old house of Jfthn Cains, occupied by a family of colored people. The house ?.:>od in a grove of old oaks, every one of which was uprooted. Parsons who knew the house often spoke f the impossibility ot wrecking it by storm, but it is now entirely demolished. There are dx persons dead, three mortally wounded, and Ave seriously and painfully hurt. Old man Alex. Lester was found fifty yards from the house dead. Alex. Lester. Jr., eighteen years old, was dead, mixed up with torn bedding. mnrhur Sarah T.wrfor TTO? fmind against a tree, several yards away, dead. Robert Lester was under a tree dead, and Jasper Collins was found dead under a twoloot tree trunk. His wile, Mollie Collins, has many bruises, tat will recover. "Sissy" Lester, aged two ywars, was found several yards away in a irw top, dead. The storm swept on toward Marshall. Ira it trees and fences were demolished for 8k?ny miles around. A. Texas and Pacific ?winger train was passing at the time and ju?t escaped the funnel-shaped cloud. OUR GREATEST GUU". Successful Test of the New ThirteenInch R1 fle at Indian Head. The newbigthlrteen-inch gun, the largest ever made In the United States, was fired i twice at Indian Head proving grounds on the Potomac, twenty-two miles from Washington. in the presence of a company of distinguished officials, including Vice-President Stevenson, with Secretury Herbert and a full representation of the bureau officers of the Navy Department, and members of the Senate and House Committees on Naval Affairs. It had been arranged to first fire the star performer of the day, and the visitors were taken to examine It mounted and ready to receive its first charge. The gun itself weighs sixty-five tons, the brass saddle upon which it rests ten tons, and the carriage upon which it is mounted twentylive tons, making a mass of 100 tons. The first forging for a thirteenincli gun was made in 1890, so that the weapon may be said to have been four years in bailding. When Lieutenant Mason essayed to start the hydraulic machinery by which the enormous gun is moved a water pipe "burst, and the test was delayed until temunniri* r^nnirct cmild h? mndp In the meantime, the secondary experi- i ment of the occasion was undertaken. That wad to determine whether a Harverlzed ' nickel steel armor plate twelve inches thick i could be demolished by a ten-inch cast ] steel projectile. The first one fired was i what is known as the Johnson cast i steel shct. It weighed 500 pounds, 1 was propelled by the explosion of 171 > pounds ot powder, and struck the target l (about 300 feet from the gun's muzzle) with i n velocity of 1600 feet a second. About five inches o! the projectile was driven into the plate, the remainder being broken into frag- 1 meats, some ot which rebounded 200 or ' 300 yards. The plate was cracked, to the < two edges nearest the point of impact, to an < apparent depth of about five inches, The i second shot flred wss a Carpenter armor- 1 piercing projectile of the same weight and with the same charge as the Johnson shell. It 1 penetrated the plate to about the same i depth and was also completely shattered, but the shock opened the cracks made by 1 the Johnson shot clear through the plate, loosening the portion of that shot which had 1 been imbedded in the mass and pretty < thoronghly demolishing it. Then came the test of the thirteen-inch gun. A projectile weighing 1100 pounds was , rammed into the monster, and 403 pounds of hexagonal brown powder deposited in the eavity behind it. The purpose of the test was to determine at what velocity that quantity of powder would drive the mis?ile out of the muzzle. This information was secured by the use of an electrical < device known as the chronograph. The projectile was driven into a bank of earth I across the little valley in which the proving i ground proper is located, passing through two frames or screens thirty metres ninety- , eight feet apart. Across these screens were , Ave wires, which the shot severed as it passed. The difference in the time of breaking these wires was shown by the chronograph at the office on the grounds, where Ensign McCully watched the delicate instruments and made the necessary calculations. The ahot was found to have been traveling when it cut these wires at the rate of 1720 feet a second. For the second ahot the charge of powder was increased to 480 pounds, with the result of increasing the velocity to 1975 feet per second. 7 This completed the official programme of the day, but in the interim an exhibition was make of the smokeless powder with which the naval officials are experimenting. A four-inch rapid-firing gun was used, and the projectile struck the water down the river abouttwo miles, being clearly apparent to all who watched it. The results of both gun and plate tests were satisfactory to the officials. N DA GAMA FLEES. - V Portuguese Ships Leave With the Insurgent and Companions. A dispatch from Iiio de Janeiro confirms l the report that Admiral da Gama and aboat J seventy of his officers are on board the For- ( tugu??se war ships Mindello and Alfonso du i Albuquerque, which left Rio. No protest or other opposition was made to the vessels leaving the bay with the insurgent leader and his followers on board. While it is not definitely known where da Gama and his officers are to be taken by the Portuguese ships, it is generally believed that they will be put ashore at Montevideo, and it is possible that they will proceed to Santa Catharina or Rio Grande do Sul to join the still active insurgents there. The success of da Gama and his companions in getting out of the bay is said to gratify their sympathizers in Rio, who were %*/ *' anxious lest they should in some way fall into the hands of the Government, in which vent they would undoubtedly have been shot, as the result of a speody trial by courtmartial % MOST POWERFUL BEACON. New lfork to Be the Best Lighted Port In the World. New York will soon be the best lighted port in the whole world, and the first move toward that end is about to be made by the Lighthouse JBo?rd. xne most poweriui ana largest electric search light ever made has been brought from Chicago, where it was on exhibition at the World's Fair, and will be '^SSfefa^ ~ ( jjftj mW FIBE ISLAND LIGHT AND placed in position in Fire Island Lighthouse, ' off Long Island, as soon as the machinery ! with which it is to be operated can be completed. The old light in this lighthouse, ac- : cording to the New York World, throws a i light which can be seen by vessels nearly ] twenty miles in clear weather. The new light will be visible by renecuon on mo any for more than 100 miles, and will be so powarful that ihe ordinary Atlantic seaboard fog TARIFF BILL CUM AMENDED WILSON MEASURE BEFORE THE SENATE. Sugar Duty Graded and an Increase on Collars and Cuffs?Reciprocity Sections of the McKlnley Act Repealed?Important Adminlstra* tive Changes. The Democratic members of the Finance Committee submitted the tariff bill, in its revised and completed form to tho full committee, Republicans and Democrats, and when me Senate met, Mr. Yoorhees, Chairman of the committees, reported the bill, Klving notice that it would be called up on April 2d. Mr. Morrill, one of the Republican members of the committee, stated that so far as the Republican members of the committee were concerned, they did not object to the * reporting of the bill, but were opposed to the Income Tax feature of it, and the change from specific to ad valorem duties. Among the changes are these : The duty on collars and cuffs is Increased from 45 per cent, to 55 per cent, ad valorem; the only additions to the free list are horn Btrips and tips and cocoanuts. Section 105, whbh provided that the President shall notify the Hawaiian Government of the intention of this Government to abrogate the treaty of 1875, has been stricken out. The sugar schedule is as follows: All sugura IWUUK uuw ttuuvc ou uegreua, x yeui , from 80 to 90 degrees, 1-100 of a cent for each degree; from 90 to 98, 2-100 of a cent for each degree; all sugars testing above 98, or about No. 16 Dutch standard In color, % of a cent per pound In addition to the duty on Bugar testing above 98 degrees. Whisky, iron ore, coal, lead ore and opiim aro unchanged. The reciprocity sections of the McKlnley act, sections 3, 15 and 16, are repealed and ' all agreements or arrangements made or proclaimed between the United States and foreign Governments undorthe provisions of said sections are hereby abrogated, of which Che President shall give such notice to the authorities of said foreign Goverpments as may be required by the terms of such agreements or arrangements. The most important change in the administrative features of the bill is the action of the committee in striking out the words, "highest duty.'as found in the House bill md regulating the rates of duty on all goods lomlng in under the similitude clause and substituting therefor the words "lowest Iuty." This was the subject of a long argument in full committee, in which Secretary Carlisle Lndorsedthe provisions of the House bill. The committee, therefore, has made the jhange, and all goods unenumerated or coming in under the similitude clause will pay :he highest instead of the lowest rate of iuty. TO PREVENT CONSUMPTION. Board of Health Issues Practical Information About Tuberculosis. The New York State Board of Health has Issued a circular detailing its measures to prevent tuberculosis. Local health officers are required to register the name and address of sufferers, and physicians are requested to furnish such information. Inspectors must visit and disinfect premises" vacated by consumptives. For the information of consumptives it is stated in the circular that consumption is a diseaso that may be taken from others, and is not usually fatal. It is recommended that the sufferer sleep alone, that his clothing be washed separately, and that the expectorated matter which contains the germ* of disease be at once destroys!. With these precautions, the circular says it is not dangerous to live with a consumptive. TRAGEDY IN A CHURCH. A Man Kills His Wife at the Altar and Then Himself. The Roman Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Oakland, Cal., was the scene of a murder and suicide. Mrs. Mary Brady, who recently secured a divorce from John Brady, a house painter, was shot by her husband as she was telling her beads at the altar rail, and the murderer then blew out hi3own brains. Mrs. Brady was an industrious woman who found life too hard with her dis(ipated husband. He could not find regular work because of his cranky disposition. She bad six children, and she finally decided to get a divorce, aa Brad)- abused her when irunk. 200 MALAYS_KILLED. Tliey Were Defeated In au Attack Upon the Spanish Forces. The Government has received advices that a largo force of Mindanao Malays have made an attack upon the Spanish garrison on the island of Pantar, in the Malay Archipelago. The Spaniards defended their position stoutly and succeeded In repulsing the Malays with great loss. Over 200 Malays wore killed and a large number were wounded. The Spaniards had but one man killed, though many were wounded. will have practically no effect on it. This will be readily understood when it is learned that the new light is of 375,000 candle power. Up to this time the most powerful lighthouse in the world has been at Cape Heve, France. This can be seen by reflection sixty miles away. The Fire feiand li^ht has in the past flashed once a minute, rue new ngni will flash every ten seconds. As has been said, this is only the beginning of the improvements which the Lighthouse Board proposes to make in and about the greatest harbor in the New World. One of the twin lights of the Navesink Highlands, on the New Jersey coast, is to be fitted -ii THE BIO BEFLECTOB. with electrical apparatus similar to that at Fire Island, the shaft of light to be seDt ia vertical, instead of horizontal direction, h finger of Are pointing to the sky. The pras^ ant method of lighting channel buoys is td be changed, and instead of fixed red ancJ white lights there will be shown a series ol scintillating or twinkling electric ligiits. The power of the various range lights is to be greatly increased. LYNCHED HIM. A Colored Murderer Hanged by a Pennsylvania Mob. Richard Puryea. the murderer of Chris tian Ehlers, escaped from the County Prisor In Stroudsburg, Penn. He sneaked bahind Sheriff Kresge whil( that #fflcial was looking after some detail; of the prisoners' breakfast, and, jumping through the conidor, quickly bolted it, se curing the Sheriff a prisoner. The colored man then walked safelj through the outer corridor. The Sheriff! wife recognized him as he want by, and real in.g there had been some trouble, in whict the colored man had perhaps Trorsted hei husband, she rushed into the hall. She heard the Sheriff call, and hurrying tc ths door released him, but the murderei had got a good start and was out of sight. Down Main street Puryea fled, pursued by upward of a dozen men. who had joined Jan itoi Van Guder. As the colored man neared Palmer's slaughter house, Benjamin Burns, another colored man, saw the condition o! things and rushed at once through the millrace tothe island belonging to Palmer, seeing that Puryea was heading that way. Burns ran across the island, reaching the Pocomo Creek Junction almost at the same moment a3 the murderer. Here Puryea wavered for a moment and then plunged into the stream aad swam across it. He was almost exhausted, but reached the opposite side safely and hid in some bushes. Here Burns captured him after some diffl cultj', and the capturer, being a large anc _r~l *sv trrn/li puwenui IUUU. uuiiipcuou rui^ca iu vrttut back through the creek to the island. The crowd of pursuers had now reachec the island, almost exhausted from their rut of over a mile. Some one cried out; "Lynch the colored man!" and while ? wordy warfare was on between Constable Myers, who demanded the prisoner, and the crowd, a rope was secured from the slaughter house, and before the constable could realize events it was around Puryea's neck. He was rushed up against a white oak tree, the rope thrown over a limb about n dozen feet from the ground, and a score of hands gave willing tug to the line, and the wretch was quickly jerked off his feet; clulohing at the tightening rope, but unavailingly. The rope was made taut to another trea and the murderer left hanging dead. The crowds which visited the scene of the lynching carried awav bits of the tree as keepsakes. The limb on which the colored man swung was sawed up Into bits. Beu Knrnc wuc thft hftrA f>f tllA tflWIl. He took up a collection after the hanging, andgot $15. He said he then got the ropt; and peddled bits of that ud and down th< street all day at twenty-five cents a bit. H( had very little left toward nightfall. The crime for which Puryaa Wft3 awaiting trial wa3 particularly atrocious. He vlsitei; Storekeeper Ehlers, and after chatting witli him and his wife and stepson for some time suddenly drew a revolver and began firing at those in the store. Ehlers was killed and Mrs. Ehlers was supposed to be at the poinl ot death for som? time. The colored mail was positively identified by the stepson. Ht made a confession a few days aso. The character of the crime made Puryea's conviction certain and popular feeling wa? much excited against him. One cause ol this indignation was the sens9 of insecurity which had long pievailed because of a gang of Southern colored men who have been employed on a new railroad?the Wilkesbarrt & Eastern. Deeds of violence have been common and many robberies have been committed. in Anl*? fAim milao frAm f Vic OirUUUdUUlK 19 VUIJ 1UUI Uiiiw <ivu? VUV Delaware Water Gap, and is ona of the mos! picturesque spots in the Delaware River valley. It is only about thirty-flve miles in s straight line from Port Jervis, in the samf valley, where ubout two years ago a colored man was lynched by the citizens of that placeBALANCE OF TRADE. Increase of Cottou Exports Ha< Greatly Helped the United States. Inquiry at the Board of Statistics not only verifies the statement as to the favorable turn in the balance of trade, but makes the showing even more satisfactory than was stated u few days ago. The statement showed the balance of trade in favor of the Unit6d States on merchandise for the eight months ended February 28 to be $218,000,000, as compared with $29,000,090 for the same period of last year. The movements of specie are given separately, and, taking the specie into account, the balance of trade is still more largely in favor of the United States. For the eight months just mentioned the Imports of gold exceeded the exports by 653, 000,000 ; the exports of silver exceeded the imports for the same period 825,000,090. Tin difference between these amounts?-328,090, 000?should be added to the difference o:i merchandise, $218,000,000. making the actua balance of trade in favor of the United State; on merchandise and specie for eight mouth* $>246,000,000. This change in the trade situation is due tc two causes?the large increase in cottoo ex ports and decrease in imported merchandise, In September of last year the value of mer chandi3e imported into the United States was the lowest in amount for very many years oniy $46,000,000, and was immediately followed. by very large exports, principally o cotton and breadstuff's, ranging from $72.000,000 in September to $93,000,000 in Decern ber. The statistics issued oy Lloyds show tha within the last three months twenty-eigb vessels have been abandoned in the Atlantic Nineteen of them carried cargoes of tlmbei and must be dangerous derelicts. 1 iTHE BLAWS BILL PASSED. THE SENATE FAVORS COINAGE OF THE SEIGNIORAGE. The Measure Agreed to by a Vote ot 44 to 31?Even Its Friends Surprised at the Large Majority in Its Favor ? The Vote i? Detail?Sent to the President. The Bland seigniorage bill was passed in the Senate, just as it cama from the House, by a vote of 44 yeas to 31 nays. When the re suit was announced there was hand clapping in the crowded galleries, which breach of order was rebuked by the presiding officer. The Republicans who voted for the bill were Senators Dubois, Hansbrough, Mitchell (Oregon), Pettigrew, Power. Quay. Shoup, Stewart, Teller and Wolcott. The Democrats who voted against it were Senators Brice, CaUery, Gormnn, McPherson, Mitchell (Wis.). Murphy, Palmer, Smith and Vilas.* The three Populist Senators, Messrs. Allea, Kyle and Peffer, voted for it. Mr. Hill Announced his pair with Mr. Dixon. As the bill passed without any amendment, its next stage was its presentation to the President for his approval or disapproval. Preparatory to the vote Ave short speeches were made?three in favor of the bill aad two against it. N? other business of public importance was transacted and thfe Senate at 4.10 adjourned. The majority in favor of the passage of the Bland seigniorage bill was unexpectedly large. Even the frieuds of the bill had uaderestimatod the number of its supporters. Senator Vilas, who is regarded as the spokesman of the Administration, indicated in his speech that the President did not favor the passage of the bill. Senator Lindsay, on the other hand, who is regarded as an Administration man, and who is at laast a mouthpiece for Secretary Carlisle, spoke and voted in its favor. The action of Senator Hill in recording his vote in favor of the seigniorage bill, for this is practically what he did do, being paired with Sanator Dixon, a strong opponent of it, created much comment, which is increased by the fact that his colleague, Mr. Murphy, voted against the bill. Mr. ainrpny says ne , voted against the bill because he was satisfled that It was objectionable to his ideas oa the financial question. i Following is the vote in detail on the passage of the Bland seigniorage bill. Yeas?Allen, Bate. Berry, Blackburn, Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke. Colquit, Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner. George, Gordon, Hansbrough, Harris, Hunton, Irby, Jones, of Arkansas ; Kyle, Lindsay. McLaurin. Martin. Mills, Mitcbell, of Oregon ^Morgan, Pasco, Peffer. Perkins, Pettigrew, Power, Pugb, Quay, Ransom, Roacb, Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, Test, Voorheea, White, Wolcott?44. k Nays?Aldrjch, Allison. Brice, Caffrey, Carey, Chandler, Cullom, Davis. Dolpii, Gallinger, Gorman. Gibson, Hale. Hawley, Higgins, Lodge, McMillan, McPherson, Man1 derson, Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Morrill, Murphy, Palmer, Piatt, Proctor, Smitb, , Stockbndge, Vilas, Washburn, Wilson?31. | Definition of "Seigniorage." ! ( The New York Recorder offered a prize or twenty-five dollars for the best definition of r the word "Stigniorage," so frequently heard 3 of late in connection with the silver question. A definition of the word given by i Senator Sherman, and agreed to by silver t Senators, is in these word? "The seignior ape is merely the difference between the i coinage value of the silver and its cost." The clearest, briefest, and, on the whole, be3t statement of what "seigniorage" means as applied to the existing financial condition of this country was that received from Mr. [ Fred. J. Herzog.ofNew York, towhomthere, fore the paper has awarded its prize. Mr. [ Herzog's definition is as follows : "Seigniorage consists of the difference be. tween the cost of an amount of bullion and the face value of the coins minted from it. i By the Sherman act the Government was i compelled to purchase 4,500,000 ounces of silver per month, at the market price. As I the price of silver fluctuated, so the amount of Treasury notes issued in payment of this bullion sometimes increased, sometimes diminished. The downward tendency having been greater in the last few years, there were 1 issued, from the time of th? passage of the ) Sherman act to its repeal, $154,000,000 in Treasury notes, t? cover an amount of bul| lion which should actually hare made 209,! 000.000 silver dollars. In other words, there is now an amount of bullion (in excess of the k ressrve necessary to cover the $154,000,000 , Treasury notes) in the Treasury which, if , coined, would make 55.000,000 silver dollars, against which the seigniorage bill is to issue [ paper currency, and so put $55,000,000 in the Treasury and help the Government out ; of its financial difficulties." NEAL DOW'S BIRTHDAY, P i llie Great Prohibitionist Honored by ! Meetings at Home and Abroad. GENERAL NEAL DOW. 1 The ninetieth birthday of General Neal n^TTT *r?na anthnclocH/>Qllr poltthrflfm! nf Ma home in Portland, Me., and congratulations ! came to the venerable temperance advocate from all parts of the world. Early in the i day callers began to arrive and General Dow , received them in person. Several bushel[ basketfuls of telegrams and letters were received and clerks were occupied all day in opening and arranging them. The veteran temperance advocate arose at an early hour and ate a hearty breakfast. In the forenoon ho held an Informal reception in his parlor, many of his friends and neighi bors calling to present congratulations. Ho was in high spirits, evidently being greatly elated over the congratulations and messages which poured in on him by mail and i telegraph. During the day General Dow's house was crowded with people coming to extend congratulations. At night in City Hall there was a great i meeting. Addresses were made by General > Seiden Connor, the Rev. Matt 8. Hughes and Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman, of Missouri. General Dow made a speech la response. > Letters and telegrams were read, and a presentation was mado of a portrait of Gon eral Dow for tho State House. A poem written for the occasion was read by Caroline Dana Howe. > Tho ninetieth birthday of General Neal Dow, tho American temperance advocate, > wns also celebrated in all parts of England. At Exeter Hall, London, a meeting was held at which Lady Somerset presided. A cablo t message of congratulation by request was I forwarded to General Dow, to be read at tho > celebration in Tortiand, Me. More than two > hundred meetings were hold in various parts of the United Kingdom. A WEEK OVERDUE. A Train From the Kast Snowbound In ( tlie Cascade Mountains. A Great Northern passenger train arrived J nt Seattlle, Wash., tho other night from the t East a week overdue, having been delayed by the snow in tho Cascade Mountains. Its t progress was first stopped bv tho derailing of t the engine. All the suowplows were blocked # by the wreck aud the snow got a start-Snow j fell continually and was piled up about the tops of tho cars. ' THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Ttmm enal handlers, fill Poles. WerO in stantly killed by ft runaway car in No. 3 mine at Edwardville, Penn. Employes of the Hunter's Point, N. Y., and Steinwny Trolley Railroad struck and rioted. The Superintendent was shot and slightly wounded. Traffic was resumed upon an agreement to arbitrate. The Rhode Island State Republican Convention renominated Governor Brown. Kenneth F. Suthebland, the convicted Gravesend (N. Y.)JustiCd, failed to appear in court for sentence; his bail bond was forfeited and a warrant was issued for his arrest. W. STErNiTZ, the chess champion, lost the first game of the match in New York City for the championship to Emanuel Lasker. Maetha J. Fuller, a typewriter, employed In the Jaw office of William M. Mullen, New York City, was shot through the head a few days ago. She die! in a few minutes without regaining consciousness. A young man, James T. Magee, managing clerk of the office, who was there at the time, was arrested. Whether the girl killed herself or was murdered was a matter of doubt. Edwabd H. Bennett and Charles P. Spencer, two students at East Greenwich (R. I.) Seminary, were drowned in Greenwich Bay while duck hunting. St. Patbick's Dat was celebrated in cities of the Greater New York with parades, picnics, banquets, speeches and enthusiasm. The green flag waved on the City Hall, but in Brooklyn it was missing from the Municipal Building. Isaac PboutyA Co.. of Spencer, Mass., the biggest boot and shoe manufactures in the world, have failed. There was absolutely nothing to indicate that the Arm was unsound financially. The French Line steamer, La Bretagne, from Havre, with passengers and a general cargo went ashore opposite the Patchogue (N. Y.) Life-Saving Station, about twenty miles east of Fire Island. " General Ferdinand P. Eable, of the Hotel New Netherland, New fork City, and his two hundred wealthy guests, have beeD dispossessed through proceedings brought by the lawyer of William Waldorf Astor. Kenneth F. Sutherland, the convicted Gravesend Justice of the Peace, failed to appear to receive his sentence of one year's imprisonment and $500 fine, the extreme penalty. His bonds of $9500 were declared forfeited. Constable Jamison's trial was begun and as a precaution he was turned over to the Sheriff's custody. South and. West. John Hart was hanged at Bockford, lit, for the murder of his two sisters last September. Oreoon Populists nominated Nathaniel Pierce for Governor on the Omaha platform. Governor Waite, of Colorado, agreed to submit the Denver Police Board matter to the Supreme Court and to abide by the decision, thus ending the war. Citizens of Denver have held meeting to consider the advisability of having Governor Waite declared a lu* ?ric. The Federal troops have been withdrawn from Denver, The Union Depot, at Denver, Col., was destroyed by Are, the loss being $300,000. A tobitado swept a pathway through the little village ot Trickham, Texas, destroying several houses, killing outright four of the five children of W. D. Watson, and fatally injuring him. The jury in the Ratcliffe-Jackson killing case at Kosciusko, Miss., brought in a verdict that Radcliffe is not guilty. A gang of counterfeiters have been making full-weight silver dollars in Omaha, Neb., to the extent of $500,000, and reaping a profit of fifty-one cents on each dollar. Govebnob Waite has withdrawn the troops from Cripple Creek, Col. t Ex-fbesnent Hahmson addressed Stanford University students, Palo Alto, Cal., upon the legal aspects of the American Revolutionary struggle. Washington. The demand for tariff literature seems more general this year than ever before. Heretofore the demand for tariff speeches has been confined largely to the granger States and outlying communities rather than to the populous centres of the East. The demand for these speeches this year has greatly increased from the manufacturing districts. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: Captain ?. 0. Matthews, to be Chief of the Bureau of Yards and iJocks, Navy Department; Oliver E. Branch, United States Attorney for New Hampshire; Edward J. Donovan, Collector of Internal Revenue, District of Massachusetts; L. H. 8hlelds, Collector ot Customs, District of Norfolk and Portsmouth, Yo. The Army bill appropriates a total of $23,577,284. The expenditures of the Governmont for the eightmonths and a half of the present fiscal year have exceeded tho receipts $52.000,000. ' The President ha9 signed the amended East River Bridge bill. The structure is to be erected at or near the middle of Blackwell's Island, New York City. The effect of the amendment is to reduce the height of the bridge above mean high water from 150 to 135 feet. This removes the last legal obstacle, and Mr. Corbin and his syndicate promise to begin work without delay. Secretary Carlisle has asuea uongress for $10,009 more to be used in enforcing the Chinese act. It is said that the Chinese allowed nearly the whole of January to pass without offering to register. The total Internal revenue receipts for the ( past eight months were $95,351,811, a decrease of $12,463,730. Congressman Sherman, of New York, introduced a bill to create a National Board of Health, to consist of nine physieiaus. Foreign. A bomb carried by an Anarchist named Pauwels accidently exploded as the fellow was entering the Church of the Madeline, Paris, France. Pauwels was killed and several other persons were hurt. President Peixoto, of Brazil, has paid off the Nictheroy'a men and sent them home with thanks. The dynamite gun will be mounted on Santa Cruz to command the entrance to Rio Harbor. Admiral Ben ham has been ordered to Bluefields with the San Francisco. The most exclusive Tory club of England, the Carlton, which has limited its membership heretofore to Englishmen, has open its doors to William Waldorf Astor. The Russian treaty pas3ed its third reading In the German Reichstag ; there was a tilt between Chancellor von Caprivi and Count Herbert Bismarck in the course of the debate. QUEEN Victoria has arrived at Florence, where she will make a sojourn of several weeks. Oxford easily defeated the Cambridge crew on the Thames, at London. Provisional President Lorexa, of the Brazilian insurgents' government, sent a note to all foreign Powers asking for recognition. Rio de Janeiro has ceased to interest foreign countries and their warships are all withdrawn. Yellow fever continues epl- i demic. GREAT BRITAIN EXPLAINS. The Landing of Troops at Bluefields ' Was a Perfectly Innocent Step. 1 Danger of the Bluellelds Incident assuming j an important international aspect has i vanished, as the State Department 1 has received satisfactory assurance ' from the Government of Great j Britain that the landing of troops from H. ( M. S. Cleopatra at Bluefields, Nicaragua, ( was solely lor the protection o? the interests there of British subjects. Secretary Gresham's report to the Senate on the BlueQelds incident shows that English troops wore landed to protect property I md not to establish a protectorate. ] ? - ' ( Lobsters and Smelts Scarce. 1 Lobsters and smelts have been so scsrse along the Maine coast this year that "hard times" prevail in the industry of catcciag t them. 3 DEM IN A MOIL FEDERAL ' TROOPS CAI1ED OUT TO PRESERVE PEACE. A Bloody Conflict Between State and City Forces Only Prevented by General McCook With 600 Regulars From Fort Lojcan?The Gov LATEK NEWS. Justice R. V. B. Newton, indicted in connection with tho Gravescnd (N. I.) election frauds, turned State's evidence. While the police of Davenport, Iowa,were pursuing two counterfeiters one of tho fugitives placed a pistol to bis bead and killed himself. The other escaped. There was no clew to the dead man's identity. Two Condon brothers, living near Dwight, I;!., started in to wrestle. They became excited and one threw the oth* in such a manner as to break his neck. The Hatfleld-McCoy feud in West Virginia is reported to have broken out again. Two men have been killed. Govebnob Rich, of Michigan, removed three indicted State officials and named their successors. Many persons were killed and much property destroyed in a cyclone which swept over Louisiana and Texas. Commander Heyerman will be tried for nogllgence and culpable inefficiency in the Kearsarge case. Robebt 8. Jobdan was nominated to be Postmaster at Jersey City, N. J., and Frank D. Lalor at Trenton, N. J. A blizzabd raged in the Northwest and piayed havoc with the moving of trains on the Burlington systems. Frank Watts, seventeen years old, was dhot and killed by Mrs. Henry Hugo, in Norfolk County, Virginia, for wronging hei ilftoen-year-old daughter. The shooting occurred at Lee's store, on the Ocean View Railroad. Bcbolabs pried open the door of the vault of the Centrevllle (Iowa) National Bank with a crowbar and carried off a coal scuttle full of silver dollars, amounting to .-B3000Washocts in Idaho have caused great rl/imafff*. Cattle are dying on the ranges of Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota from tho effects of the blizzard. . James Mulligan' was confirmed as Consul at Apia, Samoa. "Pawnee Bill" has been loaned thirtylive Sioux Indiuns to exhibit at the Antwerp Exposition. The estimated revenue from the Tariff bill is $381,000,000. While a boat load of persons were crossing Patzecura Lake, Mexico, the boat sprang i leak and sank. Six of the eighteen persons aboard were drowned. 'I"he victims were al young women. Ueuqcay has finally chosen Senor Borda, the Government candidate, for President. The Emperors of Germany and Austria met and embraced in Vienna. TEENT0N DEADLOCK BE0KEN The Supreme Court Decides Against the Democrats. Chief Justice Beasley at Trenton read the opinion of the New Jersey Supreme Court in the Senate deadlock*cose. The opinion declares that the contention of the Republicans that the court has no jurisdiction in tho cas3 is not good, and then decides that Senator Adrainhas no title to tho office of President oT the Senate, but that Senator Rogers wa3 elected by a majority of those legally entitled to take part in the organization of the Senate, and therefore his title to the office of President is constitutional and valid. The Chief Justice said that Justices Van Syckle, Depue, Dixon, Reed, Garrison and Lippincott concurred in the decision, but that Justice Abbett held other views, which he would formulate and file hereafter. After hearing the decision. Allan McDsrmott said that he still held to his opinion that the Senate is a continuous body. Senator Adrain also declared that his views had not been changed by ths court's decision, but he said he would join the Republican Senators and take part in the work of legislation. He thought all the Democratic Senators would do so. me court's decision manes vaua as laws all the bills passed by the House and the Republican Senate and deposited with the Governor. There are sixteen of them, all ot which were filed with the Governor and with the Secretary ot State. Among them is Senator Voorhees's bill providing for the appointment of the Secretary of State as the custodian of the laws. A repealer of this is to be introduced and passed at once. The other fifteen are all House bills. They repeal last year's race track laws; repeal the Camden, Paterson and Trenton police laws, which gave the Democrats control of the police forces in those cities and made the Police Commission Democratic by permitting the Governor to appoint a Police Justice as a member of the Commissions; revoke and annul all licenses heretofore granted to race courses, repeal the law providing that bookmaking and pool selling r\n annlAOa/1 r?r/Mi r? rle ahull nftl PAnQtihlfA fhp VSU VlAViV/OOlk {jlVUU\iO uvk wuv?*kv..v .... keeping of a disorderly house ; abolish the Soard of Eleclrical Subway Commissions, of which Allan McDermott, Miles Ross and George R. Gray are members; repeal the law giving the Secretary of the Board of Prison Inspectors $500 a year salary; repeal the law under which John P. Feeney was appointed Chief of the State Police, with $2500 salary; repeal the law creating County Boards of License, and the amendment thereto; repeal the law making bookmaking a misdemeanor, punishable by $25 fine : repeal the law permitting Boards of Freeholders in second-class counties to illl vacancies in the Boards, and repeal the law giving the Governor power to approve and pay bills for which there is no rfpecifle appropriation. POISONED HIS HOSTS. A Discarded Lover Kills His Sweetheart, Her Father and Self. At Cacaria, Mexico, Rafel Lopez was engaged to marry Miss Toiina, the daughter of Marteo Parenzo, a wealthy ranchman. Having recently heard reports derogatory to the character of Lopez, the young lady wrote him, breaking the engagement. Shortly after receiving the letter Lopez called upon the girl and pleaded to be reinstated in her affection, but she refused. The father of the girl invited the discarded lover to remain for dinner and the invitation was accepted. The three sat down to eat and Lopez put poison into several dishes of food and then part'ook of the fatal mixture also. In a few minutes all three were taken ill and died before a physician could bo summoned. FROM THE SAME ROPE. Two Lovers Whose Parents Were Cruel Hang Themselves. The bodies of John Reed and Etta Shaw, son and daughter of farmers, were found hanging from the limb of a troe. eight miles Irom Oscaloosa. Iowa. Their parent* refused to permit rhem to marry ou account of their youth. The deed ivas probably committed on Sunday ui^lit, arheii they \v;?re last seen driving in thi;neighjorhoo I. They unhitched the horses and, standing n the buirgy, threw a rope across alimbandyintf one end to cacii of their necks, swung >ff into eternity. Chief Arthur is quoted in a St. Paul dispatch as having said that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers had for six years been paying S50 a month to twenty-live former Chicago, Burlington and Quaey engineers, vho had been unable to get work elsewhere. It is now believed that the deficit in revalues for the current fiscal year will fall conIderably below Secretary Carlisle's estimate. ernor's Effort to Remove omciais. The political fight waged by Governor Waite, of Colorado, culminated at Denver in mo9t exciting scenes, and mob violence wa? imminent many times during the day, but ati 6 o'clock p. m. the intelligence that the Governor had called upon General McCook, 1 of the Unites States Army, to preserve the peace settled all fears of a contest between the militia and the police. "Soap" Smith's crowd of "sports" had / been sworn in as deputies, and thevwere; placed at the City Hall to await orders..! From 2 o'clock until long after dark a dense mass of humanity was packed in front of i - ill*? TT-.11 J otMAffl IUO V>Ujr uaii, auu upuu iuo o^uuw jacent. On Fourteenth street the First ! Begiment of the Colorado National Guards stood flanking the Chaffee Light Artillery, i consisting of four Gatling guns, with! caissons filled with solid shot, grape and cannister, and Gat ling ammunition. Their position commanded the entire front of the hall, and at one time the militia' was under motion to attack the hall when1 the arrival of Secretary Lorenz with a message from the Governor stayed the attack. This was for a half hour's delay to permit another conference looking toward a peaceful settlement. From that time until the United States troops were called out the most intense anxiety prevailed. All sorts of rumors floated about. The Sheriff issued an order to attest the militia and take their arms away. A. friend of the deposed members of thft Fire and Police Board went out of the City Hall to apply for a warrant to arrest the Governor. i The Governor declared he would order the militia to flre upon the City Hall, regardless of the crowds of spectators and the Police Beard within as solidly maintained their position to resist attack. The police stood with guns in hand, ready to charge, if necessary, and Chief of Police Stone said he would die befote he would surrender. Meanwhile business was practically suspended and the crowds gathered on every corner and upon the tops of adjacent buildings. I Soon after 6 o'clock p. m. Chief of Police Stone received a telephone message from General McCook, stating that he had ordered troops from Fort Logan to protect the Chief and aid him in preserving order. 8oon afterward T. M. Patterson asked on behall of the Governor for a committee of arbitration, but the City Hall people declined the offer, saying that they made a similar offer early in the day, and it had been refused. Then the Attorney-General, for tha Governor, made a similar request, and it was also declined. As early as 9 o'clock in the morning the curious spectators began to assemble around fiitir Hall Bnildinir. and bv 11 o'alock Larimer and Fourteenth streets' for a block in eacn direction were packed. At 10 o'clock two wagon-loads of breech-loading shotguns and ammunition were unloaded at Police; Headquarters in the City Hall. The department was now equipped with a shotgun and1 two forty-five-calibre Colt'3 revolvers for each man, In addition to the regulation club. A quantity of dynamite cartridges was also stored in the police vaults in readiness for an emergency. By noon tke crowd around the Armory was nearly or quite as great as that assembled at the City HalL Adjutant General Tarsney was in command, assisted by Brigadier-General Brooks, who at 8.15 p. m., accompanied by four aides-de-camp, rode up to the City Hall and stated that the Governor's orders must be obeyed. Governor Waite remained in his private rooms at the Douglass all day and admitted no one but his closest friends, until a committee of citizens from the Chamber of Commerce called ?-- u'"" tho Hnv The result waa a upvu """ iaiv V.?J . _ failure to get him to eonsanJt to anything. "I shall order the militia to fire, he reiterated. "The people may assassinate me If they will, but I propose to have my way." This was the situation when General MeCook asserted his position and prepared to preserve the peace. The trouble dates back some weeks. Soma ' years ago the citizens of Denver obtained a new charter taking the Police, Fire and Public Works Departments out of the hands of the municipality and patting them In the hands of boards officered by appointments made by the Governor. Governor Walte has tried to All all of them with Populist followers. The Board of Fire and Police has been changed repeatedly. Two resisted but the Governor won his cases before the Supreme Court, which declared he could remove for cause. When he demanded recently the removal of members Martin and Orr they refused to go until the courts should so decide, and obtained a temporary injunction to restrain the Governor, the Mayor and the four members from taking possession of the office or me rouce ana Fire Board by force. This was objected to, but Judge Graham declined to remove the injunction. Then, after several days' deliberation, the Governor decided to ignore the injunction and so issued his order to the militia. During the excitement around the City Hall a man named Hyles fell from his perch on a storm door entrance to the hall, striking head first upon the pavement, fracturing his skull. The United States troops, 600 strong, arrived at the Union Depot at 8.15 o'clock by a special train from Fort Logan. The militia were sent back to the Armory at 9 p. m. and at 9.30 General McCook ordered the troops to bivouac at the depot until morning. The monster crowds then slowly dispersed and the police returned- to their regular beats. FIFTY-THIRD3 CONFESS, The Senate. 59tti Day.?The Bland seigniorage bill was passed. 44 to 31. COtu Day.?A. raessago waa racalced from the President inclosing Secretary Gresham's report on the Blueflelds incident. The Vice-President signed the seigniorage bill. Considerable routine business was transacted. CIst D.vr. ?The revised Tariff bill was reported from the Committee on Finance. The Senate, after disposing of the Tariff bill by placing it on the calendar, listened to a speech on the Hawaiian question by Mr. George. / 62d Day.? About twenty-five bills of little public interest were passed. A modified immigration treaty with China was sent to the Senate. The House. 7Gth Day.?Further consideration of the Sundry Civil Appropriation 1)111 was held. 77th Day.?The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was further discussed. 78th Day.?The House spent the day upon the Sunday Civil bill. 79tii Day.?The consideration of the Sundry Civil bill was continued. 80th Day.?The House consumed the day discussing the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill. The bill was passed. The Republicans filibustered against consideration of an election case and the House revoked leaves of absence. AGED COUPLE MURDERED. Killed, Kobbed and the House Fired to Conceal the Crime. Twenty miles from Elbe, Ala., Antonio Thomas and wife, a wealthy couple, resided j alone. A few days ago the house was found in ashes. Near the door the charred bones ) o-the old man were found. Where the bed had stood were the burned remains of his wife. A close examination indicated that the old couple had been murdered while they slept, their money stolen and the house fired. ( Gladstone, fn addition to $500,000 left him by his father, has a rent roll of the Hawarden estate, which came into the posssssion of his wife on the death of the last male Glynue. Added to royalties and his salary as Prime Minister of $25,000 his annual Income is $125,000 a year. Money is all nominally one per cenr. Time money can boast of a longer period of inactivity than has ever before bean notinad.