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Tm TTT i n i Tun TIT Ttftf 1 TVn IT WAS A filtr CLlZiMflil. SEA AND LAND SWEPT WITH AWFUL FORCE. A Vicious Storm Slakes Life Mlservl <" V??l, n ?/] Ma* ? nutu *V* ** * VA A *vuu Suburbs ? A Score of Lives Lost on Jersey's Coast?Desolation In the Wake of a Gal?. The storm which swept ever New York City and the North and Middle Atlantic coast for a night and a dry was the worst experienced during the mo^th of April in many years. The most disastrous feature was the loss of two schooners on the treacherous New Jersey coast. From eight to ten men were Jost In each of the wrecks. In the country trees were uprooted, buildinga blown down and dwellings unroofed. High seas encroached on the land, did great damage to small shipping and to other property. The heavy wind caused a hawser to snap on the steamer Puritan at New York and five men were injured. ? The tug Underwriter was forced against a pier in Brooklyn and sunk,her crow narrowly escaping. The gale was extremely Avona ond oivinnfl Vatr> Vai?L? Pifv . horhnr traffic was greatly impeded, and the high tides caused oonslderabletrouble to ferries; a number of minor accidents were reported, but no serious damage was caused; some small vessels were driven ashore on Long Island. The remarkable thing is that the storm was scarcely felt north of New York City. Albany was as dry as a chip. At night the storm center was south and the storm passed out to sea. At 8 o'clock in the morning the wind blew at the rate of forty miles an hour; an hour later it had subsided to thirty-six; it attained its greatest velocity between 1 p. m. and 2 p. m., when It reached forty-two miles an hour. At sea, off Block Island, it blew at flfty-slx miles an hour, and at Sandy Hook seventy miles. In New York City the storm furnished a fitting climax to tnt> atrocious weatner or the year. The storm was cut out for a blizzard. but lost Its icy edge in consequence of oming nlong too late In the season. New York' rs who heard the wind howl and saw wbw they woke up the roofs covered with snow, with the gale increasing in v'olence, naturally thought of the bli?K trd of March 12, 1888, six years ago. In roor* ways tha- one the storm resembled the N gr?at blizzard. All the conditions were prnctlcally the same, except as to the temperature. Had the weather been as cold as it was then the snow which melted as it fell would have piled high In the streets and been rendered for the time being immovable by the subsequent sleet. Bain, snow and sleet out the faces and chilled the hands, and dzaggled the skirts and trouser tope of all who had to out. Delays on the elevated roads n'l'l to the sum of misery, while the Bro s * .-ay cable road had one or two stoppages. Several ol the oity markets were practica!./ deserted, the storm having prevented most or the farmers from ooming in from Long Island and New Jersey with truck. Telegraph lines were crippled in all directions. Superintendent Humstone. ol the Western Union, said in the afternoon:, "Wires are disabled in all di/aetion, especially in the South." As if the wind, rain, snow and sleet were not enough of baleful visitants, there was a t>pr''o I of dense foffs in the mornihjr. The city was steeped Id misery. Umbrellas were turned inside out, bats skylarked under the impetus of unwonted frosts, and f*H?t trailed over slush-topped sidewalks. Collars were flooded, and South and West streets were covered with two feet of water. When the ferry boat? came into their slips they were so high that it was almost impossible to make a connection with the bridges whloh trucks and heavy wagons ' could go up and down. Th j ferry men said that the conditions were simply phenomenal. Ths wind raged around the river front and played mad pranks with ferry boats whicn were forced to brave its fury, while vessels at their wharves received such a shaking up as they had not experienced in many a day. Some were sunk, and there were one or two collisions. Five 1 - AVATIT Kir. memuoxT* ui iuo won vi ?uo KJAb wuuu steamboat Puritan received injuries due directly to the storm. The steamboat was warped into her dock and a big two-inch hawser was thrown ont to make her fast to the pier. The strong wind and tide made a very heavy strain, and the hawser parted with a report like the explosion of a cannon. The end made fast to the Puritan reoolled, and cat away the rail' ' and iron chock, and struck the mate and the hands who were adjusting the line. The five men were thrown to the dook. Second Mate Thomas Kelly had a lacerated wound of the head, William Condon's leg was lacerated, John Mahoney and Harry Hsussn had contusions of the leg and William Gattlngs slight wounds on tne body. A.U but Gattlngs were taken to the Chambers Street Hospital. Brooklyn suffered considerably from the elements. An unfinished house at Third avenue and Thirty-seventh street was reduced to kindling wood shortly after noon. The gale overthrew trees, unroofed houses and tore heavy signs from their fastenings. The ocean tugboat Underwriter was sunk at Martin's Stores, Brooklyn. Her crew of eight men had a narrow escape. A long stretch of scaffolding belonging to the Wild "West Show, at Thirty-third street and Third avenue, was blown down. Many small craft were driven ashore and buildings were damaged by the storm on Long Island. The wind reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour at the United States Engineer station at WQlet's Point. The Jong veranda was blown from the front of the Engineer headquarters and the building rocked so that the occupants vacated it, fearing that it would collapse. The sloop William Scott was blown against the rail. road trestle near Rockaway Baach and began pounding with such violence that she became a total wreck. Many boats lying in (Jravesend Bay oft the Brooklyn Yacht Club were badly damaged. At Bay Bidge many bathing pavilions were earried out on the tide. At Brighton B9acb, Coney Island, the Hotel Brighton was in danger of being washed away. The roof of lue P^VIUUU ttujumuij; luu uuici new k/iunu off and several shanties near the Brighton Beach race track were demolished. Mariners declare the storm was the most severe that had swept the Sound for many years. Not Bince the memorable blizzard had Long Island known such a storm. In the different towns on the coast the tide reached the highest point remembered by anybody. At Greenport, L. I., the schooner Nevada, Captain Orlfflng. loaded with oysters for Norwalk, Conn., dritted from her anchorafro nnrt want thrnnrli a htilldimr in the shipyard, badly damngln^ her. The crew escaped. The schooner Lena R., Captain iUynor, went ashore near the lumber yard, and the schooner Anna T., tore away part of the pier. Bulkheads at East Shore were all carried away and houses on the beach wore surrounded by water. The sloop Carrie, loadea with oysters and owned by John Carle, of Rockaway Beach, broke her cable, drifted and sunk off Seaside. The old mill at Northport, L. L, whl ,h was more than one hundred years old, was destroyed by the wind, and the large flag pole in Main street, that place, was blown down. Many persons who were passing at the time narrowly escaped l?elng struck. The storm did considerable damaee on the shores of Staten Island. At South Beach the tide was the highest seen in many years : the surf broke over the piazzas of the hotels, threatening destruction. Popular seaside resort* alone: the New Jersey coast felt the effects of the terrific gale and mountainous waves, while the fall of snow in nany places throughout the State was the heaviest known during tha season. The coast had not known so severe a storm for eighteen years. The wlni, which blew at a rate of from fifty to seventy miles an hour, caused extraordinary high seas, which made serious inroads along the Jersey coast from Point Pleasant to the Highlands of Navestnk. About three thousand feet of the tracks !of the New Jersey Southern Railroad, between Seabrlght and Highland Beach. Jwere carried away. The rails were torn <from the ties and twisted into all kinds of shapes by the force of the waves. At Avon-by-tbe-Sea the surf washed up over Jnto 8hark River Inlet and completely inundated the road leading to Asbury Park. At Long Branch the new bulkhead near the merry-go-round was seriously damaged, big ravines were cur In the bluff north of the old iron pier, while the new iron pier suffered considerably. Just off the Beaoh House, at Sea Girt, In the early hoars of the morning, thethree-masted tohooner Albert W. Smith went hard and fast on the treacherous sand of Squan Beaoh and was wrecked. Every man on board was lost. The men of Life 8aving Station Five discovered her and tried to rescue the eight men who could be discerned on her, Several attempts were made to shoot the line safely across her. They failed several times. A giant wave finally lifted the schooner clear of the sand and landed her in the deep water. The line was immediately shot ucross her. The snot was true, and the lino rattled through the ringing and settled on the deck. This wns greeted by a cheer by the life savers, but the shout was stopped, for at the same moment the foremast snapped and fell, earring the others with it. The schooner went over on her beam ends and sank. None of the eight men on board was seen again. A Newfoundland dog swam ashore from the wreck. JijiETnr sanors were urowuou ujr iuo ? ictmun of the three-masted schooner Eate Markeeon the Jersey coast near Highlands. Captain Daniel Handy, commander of the schooner, was one of those lost. The names of the members of the crew were not known. When the storm was at the height of its fury, shortly before 8 o'clook a. m., when the atmosphere was thick with pelting rain and snow and the wind, blowing a hurricane, was lashing up great combers that beat with terriilo force on the Jersey coast, the operator at the Highlands Station of the Jersey Central Road, A. H. Bornadon, saw the Kate Markee off shore laboriously working along under trisails in the course usually followed by vessels making for Sandy Hook. ^n less than two hours after the sohooner went ashore only a portion of her bow, held together by the bracings of the forecastle, retained any semblance to a ship. This was thrown over on Its starboard side, and on the port side could be distinguished the name, Eate Markee. No bodies came ashore. Throughout New York State a heavy snow storm prevailed. The great snow storm In the Genesee Valley will go on record as the heaviest snowfall In twenty-five years. At 2 o'clock In the afternoon it was twentythree inches on the level. No wind was blowing, so the snow level was even all over the country. Business was suspended and travel difficult. The weight of the 6now on the trees was Immense, the limbs of fruit, shade and forest trees being bent nearly to the ground. Snow to the depth of twenty Inches fell at Corning. The roads were ' blocked considerably and travel impeded. At Canandalgua the fall was ten inches, and many small trees succumbed to the heavy weight of snow. The sleighing was fine. Nearly n foot of heavy snow fell at Buffalo. Street cars were badly blockaded. The saow packed on the telegraph and telephone wires, breaking many of the latter and demoralizing the service. During tho twenty-four hoars Warsaw saw the heaviest snowstorm of the Beason. Eighteen inches -?? -* ? i T>_ 11 ,1 mna 01 show mil HI AUULra. IUWII UUU uauiu IT CM considerably delayed and some of the electric surface roads were blocked and others badly crippled. Nearly a foot of snow fell throughout Pennsylvania. In the mountains it was eighteen inches deep. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, The Senate. 71st Day.? Mr. George introduced a bill to reduce official Incomes twenty per cent. Mr. Miils opposed an appropriation to exterminate the Russian thistle. Tariff debate was prevented by an executive session devoted to an unimportant Florida appointment. ' 72_> Dat.?The Senate adopted a resolution calling for information in regard to Samoa. The proposition to coin Mexican uil-cpr dollars was debated. Mr. Peffer spoke for two boors on the tariff. 73d Day.?The Senate discussed the Bering Sea award and England's attitude thereon. 74th Day,?Mr. Hill made an attack on the income feature of the Tariff bill. Mr. Walsh was sworn in as Senator from Georgia. 75th Day.?Mr. Lodge spoke on the Tariff bill. Walcott's resolution to coin Mexican silver dollars was passed. Mr. Cockrell reported the Urgency Deficiency Appropriation bill. The principal amendments "provide appropriations for United States courts; $5000 Is appropriated for Mrs. Barah B. Colquitt, widow of Senator Colquitt, teing one year's saliry. 76th Da*.?Mr. Hale delivered a long speech in opDosltlon to the Wilsm-Voorhees tariff bill. * The House. 93d Day.?The House approved the journal without filibustering or objection. J. F. folar. the newly-elected mnmber from South Carolina, to succeed Representative Brawler, was sworn in and routine business wa? tatfln The Berine Sea bill was passed, as were also the Urgent Deficiency bill and Mr. Boatner's resolutions calling upon Attorney-General Olney for information regarding the action taken by toe Department of Justice to protect the interests of the United States in the Union Pacific receivership. 94th Day.?The bill was passed authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to lease hotel sites in Yellowstone Park. Mr, Dunphy began a fight to deprive the Bureau of Engraving of the postage stamp oontract. Mr. Livingston introduced a bill ;or an International Exposition to be held at Atlanta, Ga., next year. The Postoffice Appropriation bill occupied the attention of the House until recess for an evening session to consider pensions. 95th' Day.?Absenteeism on the part of Democrats and Republican filibustering resulted in the waste of another day. Mr. Springer moved to discharge the warrant issued two weeks ago for the arrest of absentees. The Republicans, led by Mr. Reed, UttCilU&U lu vuie, oau, no i/omuwow failed to master a quoram, after a few rollcallsthe House adjourned. 96th Day.?It was District of Columbia day and no business of general interest was transacted. 97th Day.?The House devoted the entire day to the Postofflce Appropriation bill. The attempt to Insert In the bill an amendment designed to prevent the Bureau of Engraving and Printing from manufacturing postage stamps under the contract recently awarded to It by the Postoffice Department was defeated. 98th Day.?Mr. Sperry introduced a bill to establish a Bureau of interstate Banks. The House got into a deadlock over a technical Parliamentary question and no business waa tronsacieu. A BUILDING'S COLLAPSE. A Number of Deaths Caused by the Wreck of a Tenement House. Tour persons were killed and Ave wounded, several fatally, In the collapse of a tenement building on the northeast corner of Desota and Beale streets, Memphis, Tenn. The collapse was witnessed by several persons. There was a creaking, a swaying of walls, then the collapse that came with a crasb. A great cloud of dust floated out, filling the street each way for a block. There wa3 a hurrying of police, firemen and citizens, and then the work of rescu ? began. The list of the dead Is- John Morgan, barber, aged thirty-five; Amy Simons, thirtytwo ; Will Cook, alia3 Henry Gtay, thirty; Lottie Marks, thirty. Of the five Injured the chances for tho recovery of Cora Murphy and Catherine Boyd were considered extremely doubtful. All the persons taken from the ruined building were colored. The building was erected thirtyfour years ago. It was of brick, three and a half stones high, with a slate roof. Men went to work on the debris as soon as the collapse took place. First an old colored woman shook the dust irom off her back, arose from the top of the heap and got away without assistance. Then the form of a woman was lifted out. 8he was still alive, and soon the body of a man, still breathing, was pulled out. These were sent to the city hospital. Then came a dead man, and so the work of rescue proceeded slowly throughout the day. There were about fifty rooms in the tenement, about half of which were occupied. Twenty-two people ware k nown to bo in the building a: the time of the collapse. Of these six escaped without serious injury, four were taken out dead, five woundeJ, and tho remainder were, on the day after the tragedy, missing Evebt oell in the Missouri Penitentiary is occupied, and the Warden Is at a loss to know how to provide for more. There are now 2002 prisoners in the prison, half of whom are doing nothing. The Japanese portion of the dwellers on the Hawaiian Island* are giving tho Provisional Government muoh trouble by their hostile attitude. i 4 " DEATH BY EXPLOSIONS. NEARLY A SCORE KILLED IN THBEE ACCIDENTS. Twelve Men Dead and Six Injured at Petersburg, Va, ? Three Men Killed by Powder at Brinton, Penn.?Three Perish at Lancaster, Ind., by a Boiler Explosion. ibout 3 o'clock a few afternoons ago an alarm of fire was turned In from Blandford, a suburb of Petersburg, Ya.( and this was I 1 Tr. HUUil 1UUUWOU uj a ivuu oa^iiusivuj. ^ Miteen minutes there was a second explosion. The explosion was caused by Are In the fireworks factory of C. N. Bomalne A Brother. Twelve men wore killed and six Injured by the explosions. The flames spread very rapidly and were quitkly communicated to the other buildings used for the manufacture of fireworks, and thereafter there were frequent explosions. The dead were Chas. N. Bomalne, John B. Bland, Captain James W. Tosh, Jas. W. Perkins, James Bowland, who was a spectator after the first explosion ; Robert Bowland, his brother; J. F. Harris, Edward Trayior, W. Parker, Qulncy Llvesay, James Bryant and Thomas Woodfolk (colored). The Injured were: Chief Engineer E. V. Farley, fatal, Charles Wells, injured internally; P. W. Redgray, probably fatally Injured; Walter Nunally, hand broken and flesh wound on left breast; E. Stlth Beaaley, struck on thigh by a flying piece of tin and slightly injured, William Parker, an employe at the fireworks factory, struck In the face by a piece of flying timber. William Trayior and Qulncy Livesay, who were employes of the fireworks factory, were also supposed to have been killed. The remains of Captain Tosh were identified by his knife, sleeve buttons, eyeglasses and watch. Captain Tosh was a candidate for Commissioner of Revenue, in opposition to the Dresent incumbent. James B. Blanks, | and some of his election tickets were found in his pockets. He was a member of A. P. Hill Carhp of Confederate Veterans. For some years he was engaged in the railroad business, both in Richmond and Petersburg. Up to a few months ago he was the auctioneer at the Tobacco Exchange. He had also carried on a dairy business. He was one ot Petersburg's most prominent and highly esteemed citizens. John B. Bland and C. N. Romaine were both prominent members of the City Council. Mr. Bland had been in the Council only a short time, having only been elected a few weeks a ago. They were both married, and leave widows with children. Mr. Romaine for many years had carried on the fireworks business here, and was also engaged with his brother and John 0. Bar ham in the man* ufacture of trunks-. Mr. Bland was a member of the firm of Bland Brothers & Wright, large manufacturers of tobacco. Mr. Perkins, who was among the killed, was a bricklayer. He had been engaged in the business for forty years. He was about sixty years old, and the father of Mr. W. A. Perclns. a well-known young merchant of Petersburg. Thomas Wooafolk, the colored man who was killed, was fireman for Romaine A Brother. nui-j T?av1a?* 4a a Kanna /|aamnn V/U1C1 XiU^iU^ii fanoj ao a uiato aiouiau and popular with all who know him. As soon as possible after he had been Injured he was taken in a wagon to the Home for the Slok. A temporary morgue was established in a house near th? scene of the explosion. Mayor Collier issued the following proclamation "In view of the appalling calamity occasioned by the Are of this afternoon in Blandford, whereby many families have been suddenly plunged into the deepest distress by reason of the many lives sacrificed on that occasion, I invite a meeting of the citizens to be held at the Court House in the Council Chamber at 3 o'clock, to take such appropriate measures of sympathy and relief as the extraordinary occasion may require "Chables F. Collieb, Mayor." Killed in a Powder Explosion. Three men were killed and three others seriously injured by a premature explosion of giant powder and dynamite near the new works of the Westinghouse Electrio Company, in course of construction at Brlnton Station, on the Pennsylvania road near Braddock, Penn. The men were all Austrians. They were excavating for the foundation of a new electrio plant. A heavy charge of giant powder was placed in the earth. In some ? ?-??-? T-? tnnnf /iff VTOV iuo Ujuauiny va^/ wvut vu ouuuuuij The men were oalled back to drill for the powder, and\in doing so their steel drills ignited the explosive. Twenty tons of earth fell on the laborers. When the men were extricated, half an hour later, three were dead 1 and three were in a critical condition. The killed aro: Nick Sici.nowicn, nved it Port Perry, leaves widow and two children ; Mike Spabn, lived nt Walls, unmarried; Fred Ganter, lived nt Wall?, unmarried. The injured are Owijn Dugpn, fireman, skull fractured, badly bruised, 6everaf ribs broken, will probably die, David Livingstone, aged sixty, lived at Port Perry, limbs broken and badly bruised; Mike Bosser, legs cut and hands badly burned. Others were Injured ullghtly, but are known only by numbers, their names not appearing on the company's pay rolls. Three Killed In a Boiler Explosion. The holler In tbe mill l>elonging to Christian Weber at Lancaster, ten miles from [ Spencer, Ind., exploded while the employes were at work. Weber, 'lis son, Lewis, and Clifton Tlnehart, a lab >rer, were Instantly killed by the explosion. Two othor laborers, whose names were nol known, were mortally injured. SEAL FISHERS WARNED, President Cleveland Issues a Berlug Sea Proclamation. President Cleveland has issued the following proclamation warning persons against violating recent 8eal Fisheries act o: Congress, as applied to the Bering Sea: "Whereas, An act of Congress entitled, 'An Act to Give Effect to the Awards Rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration at Paris, Under the Treaty Between the United States and Great Britain, Concluded at Washington February 29,1892, for tho Purpose of Submitting to Arbitration Certain Questions Concerning the Preservation of the Fur Seals,' was approved April 6, 1891; "Now, therefore, be it known that I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, have caused the said act speedily to be proclaimed to the end that its frovisions may be known and observed ; and hereby proclaim that every person guilty of a violation of the provisions of said act will be arrested and punished as therein provided ; and all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture and cargo will be seized and forfeited. "In testimony whereof, I have hexeunto set my hand and caused tho seal of the United States to be affixed. "Done at the City of Washington, this tenth day of April, In the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-four, and the Independence of the United States, the one hundred and eighteenth. "Gboveb Cleveland." PEOMIffENT PEOPLE. Sekatob Stewabt, of Nevada, declare# that he Is no longer a Republican, but a Populist. Charles de Leshep'b name has been removed from the roll of tho French Legion of Honor. The only Methodist who has ever been a Privy Councilor of England is Henry Fowler, the new Indian 8ecretaary. Pbofessor Bbown-Sequabd, the eminent French physician and physiologist, the supposed inventor of the "eliser of life,"' is dead. Th5 grave of John Bovlo O'Reilly, at Holyhood. near Boston, will be marked by a stone which was brought from O'Reilly's native place in Ireland. Kixo William, of Wurtemburg.upon whom Queen Victoria is about to confer tho Order of the Garter, runs two hotels, one opposite his pahice and the other not a great distance from it. Pbixce Besolow, who is a student at Williams College, has receivod a call from his people in Africa to return to his native land and take possession of his kingdom, which has been under tho power of an uncle. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. Tee strikers In the coke regions of Pennsylvania committed no further serious acts or violence ; tne do cues 01 eignt mmgurxaua, supposed to have been shot by deputy sheriffs, were found in a wood. Eleven strikers in all were killed during the riotinj?. Many arrests have been made for Paddock's murder. Davis, the President of the strikers' organization, is in jail. A recount of the votes in Scituate, R. I., discloses the fact that Young (Democrat), for Senator, was defeated, and 8mith (Republican) was elected. This cuts the Democratic representation in the Assembly down to five in joint convention?two in the Senate and three in the House. All the riotous strikers in the coke regions of Pennsylvania returned to their homes to await the action of the Scottsdale association. The 81avs believe now they were led to violence for the purpose of their own undoing as the result of a conspiracy among the English-speaking miners. The Ferris wheel, which was one of the features of the World's Fair, is to be brought to New York City and set up. It will remain permanently. Mb8. Cornelia Frances Coster, who died a few days ago in New York City, left a will directing that her entire fortune of S 1,000,000 be devoted to building a mausoleum in Woodlawn Cemetery. If her instx-uctions are carried out her memory will be perpetuated in the costliest tomb ever erected in this country. Southampton (N. Y.) boatmen captured a big whale, Two were sighted and five boats set out in chase. One escaped, but the othpr was killed after a lively fight. It was | thought that 82200 worth of bone and blub| ber would be realized. The prediction that the big coko strine j would collapse within a few days was not verified. The convention of district delegates at Scottdale, Penn., decided by a unanimous vote to continue the strike. Mabtin Wycroff, banker and financier, of Asbury Park, N. J., has gone away, leaving large liabilities. John Gbahah, the famous criminal lawyer, died a few days ago in New York City. The bark Belmont, from Trinidad for Boston, went ashore on Beacon Hill bar, Mass., in a storm, and is a total wreck. Six of the crew were lost, and three were saved by drifting ashore on a spar. The heaviest snowstorm of the season prevailed in Maine with drifts four to six feet deep. The Belfast stage went out on runners, the first time eo late in the season for over thirty years. South and West. Well Rede ham, Will Lavender, Will Adams and Milt Driggs were drowned in the Chattahoochee River, Columbus, Ga., by the capsizing of their boat Two little children of Mr. and Mrs. Clark were burned to death at Glade Springs, Va.. during the absence of their parents from the j house. The Exchange National Bank of Eldorado, I Kan., was robbed of $15,700 a few days ago. | There was no force used on the vault, and it j was supposed to be the work of some one who understeod the combination. I Art?fmn?nn Trrrwi leonn/l a nrArtlnm ntlnn VI Ul ?ia^ua -? ' UJJUWU ( U4VVIUU4l*k*VU restoring the civil statu? In Florence and Darlington Counties, 8. 0. The troop3 have returned home. A obeat victory was won for organized labor generally In a decision of the CJnlted 8tates Court at Omaha, Neb., forbidding the Union Pacific receivers to cut the wages of the engineers, on the ground that an agreement made with the labor unions must be kept inviolate. Miss Mabietta Petty committed suicide I at McAdensvllle, N. C., by drowning. She | was to have been married that night to C. P. ; Heffnor. She left a note in which she said her health was so poor she feared that she would be a burden Instead of a help to him. The three train robbers, J. L. Wyrlck, Thomas Brady and Albert Mansker, who killed Conductor W. P. McNally at Oliphant, Ark., November 3 last, were hanged a few days ago at Newport. 8ionob Maxcinelli, conductor of the Abbey-Grau Ooera Company, was arrested at Chioago. Ho was suspected of being the I leader of a gang of pickpockets, but the po[ lice soon discovered their mistake and discharged the director, with profuse apologies. Judoe Jekeiss, of the United States Clr| cult Court at Milwaukee, Wis., despite the ! threatened Congressional Inquiry, practically reaffirmed the celebrated order enjoining heads of labor organizations from advising I tne wortnern i'aomc employee to uiriKu. Ben Kino, the Michigan poet and humorist, making an entertainment tour with Opie Bead, was found dead la bod at Bowling | Green, Ky. Thbee students of the Baptist Mission Col| lege at Wewaka, Indian Territory, killed an unpopular mate. The J. B. Watklns Land Mortgage Com| pany of Lawrence, Kansas, the pioneer land mortgage company of the West, has been put into the hands of a receiver. The total assets are estimated at $7,000,000 and liabilities $5,500,000. MIllioxs of chinch bugs have appeared in Pettis County, Missouri. The bursting of a steam pipe in the basement of the Humboldt Pars School, Chicago, 111., caused a panio among the pupils, and in the rush of the children to escape from the building one boy was killed and more than a score were crushed and trampled, some fatally. Washington. The Breckinridge-Pollard case at Washington was closed, as far as the taking of testimony is concerned. One hundred and fiftt Democratic Representatives asked Mr. Holman to call a caucus to consider bank tax repeal. The President received the Baring Sea bill from the Senate and Immediately gave it his approval. Ma. Holhan oailod a caucus of Democratic Representatives to consider the proposed repeal of the State bank tar. The Chilean Claims Commission awardod $9137 In the Gilbert Borden claim against Chile and 840,791 to the Central American Telegraph Company. The design of an eagle for a warship figure-head which was rejected by the Navy Department because of a lack of feathers, was made by Mr. McMonnles and not by Mr. St. Gaudens. Captain Edwin M. Shepabd, of the Navy, has been sentenced to be reprimanded for criticising a superior officer. The United States and Chilean Claims Commission erpired by limitation after awarding damages to the amound of 8240,000 against Chile. The President nominated Edward H. Strobel, of New York, to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to Ecuador; William Rockhill, of' Maryland, to be Third Assistant Secretary of I State, vice Edward H. Strobel, nominated Minister to Ecuador. The Supreme Court decided that laget beer was not a "splrituou3 liquor" within the meaning of the statute prohibiting tho introduction of spirituoos liquors or wine into the Indian Territory. Foreign. Seventeen of Samoa's native mlers have L.-en convicted of Inciting rebellion. By the cavlng-in of one of the shafts of the Koscheleu Mine, near Brasluu, Germany, eleven men were killed and a larga number injured. The killed were nearly all burled beneath the falling earth and debris. Paris has come to the conclusion that it is at the mercy of bomb throwers, in spite of all its law makers and law enforcers can do. Seven New Foundland steamers have captured 82.000 seals,notwithstanding tho Bering i Sea decision. E no land has seized Pondoland, South Africa. It is a fertile country of 3900 squard miles, with a native populatton of 200,000. Vasqcez, driven from the Honduras Presidency by Iionllla, is to be surrendered by Costa Rica to Nicaragua, which country wllf turn him over to Bonllla to be shot?if the programme is carried out. Da Gaxa and a number of insurgent Brazilian officers have quit the Portuguese ships at Buenos Ayres, Argentina, on which they took refuge, and will join Mello at Elo Grande. The Rosebery Government has sustained defeat in consequence of the inopportune absence, if not indifference, of Irish members of tho British House of Commons. Veitige, Italy, was ablaze with illuminations and gay with decorations In honor of Emperor William especially and King Humbert Incidentally. The worst storm of wind and snow in^hall a century has stopped all traffic at 8t. John, New Brunswick. Choleiia of a malignant typa is prevalent in Constantinople, Turkey. LATER NEWS, TffE charter elections In New Jersey r?s eulted in Republican victories la almost every town. Johh Sykdeb, of Clearfield, Penn., woa burned to a crisp by an oil lamp falling on him. His wife was fatally burned in trying to extinguish the flames. A thbee-stoby apartment house at Brooklyn, N. Y., collapsed, burying ten persons In the ruins. Two dead bodies have been recovered Fire followed the collapse, and oi lho3o rescued all were more or less badlj burned. Employees of labor in the building trade? in Chicago, 111., have voted to lock out 50,000 men. Robbebs tried to hold up a Rock Island train in Oklahoma; the express messenger shot one of them dead, the trainmen captured another, and thereat fled without having secured any booty. The War Department ordered that a troop of cavalry be kept In the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country to prevent further Indian troubles. Admiral Benhaji retired from active service in the Navy under the age limitation. The caucus of House Democrats adopted a resolution in favor of the repeal of the tax on State bank circulation. The King and Queen of Italy visited Qu'een Victoria at Florence. Admibal Da Gaka refused to leave the Portuguese war ships with the other BraA A I..n1 &i.lcui roiugoca. guinuai iuouv uuo tapiuiou S*n Jose del Norte. Th* Bank of St. Hyacinths, at Farnham, Qu-.bec, Canada, was blown up and $12,000 stolen from the vaults. , Mobe violence was committed by the strikers in the coke regions of Pennsylvania. Sarah White, one of the belles of Atlanta, Go., threw herself In front of a train and was killed. She was melancholy because her aftlanced husband, who is in the United States Army, went away on a furlough. Govebnob Tillman's military court, which heard the testimony at the Darlington (S. 0.) Inquest, reported adversely to the dispensary constables, especially MoLendon. The United Mine Workers' Convention at Columbus, Ohio, ordered a general strike on April 21; this action, it was believed, would throw 300,000 men out of employment. Commodore Ramsa? was promoted to be a Bear Admiral. Senator Vilas suoceeded the late Senator Colquitt as Chairman of the Committee on Fostofflces and Post Roads. Stbieino brickmakers have kindled innnnrllnFv at Rnom. Bftlcrlam. Gen'rbal elections In Holland resulted in defeat of the Government by a large majority. The Newfoundland Governmant resigned after passing tn advance what is practically a vote of want of confidence In the Opposition. THE INDIAN OUTBREAK. Very Serious Trouble With the Cheyenne? in Oklahoma. A dispatch from ?1 Reno, Oklahoma, says: The military authorities at Fort Reno have received further Information of the Indian outbreak in 0. County, Oklahoma. William Delesdenier, a trader at Sener, a point thirtyfive miles from the origin of the trouble, came in to purchase ammunition to take out to the settlers. He says that the Indians purchased 3000 rounds of ammunition and took it to the band. The settlers began collecting at Sener, and at that time they had a company of about 175 men under arms, and several bands of settlers had gone to tne scene of the trouble. The Indians engaged are followers of Bed Moon. Tne flsrhting is on the \vashlta River, about 115 miles west of El Reno. Delesdenler and a party of settlers went to the scene of the fighting, and found that fifteen of the Indians and about as many of the whites had been killed. It was impossible to get the names of those killed. The Indians are all armed with repeating rifles, and have plenty of ammunition. Indians from other parts of the reservation have hastened to join Red Moon in his contest, and he at this time had about 150 men in his fighting band. A skirmish occurred between a band of Indians and some white men about thirty miles from Cantonment, the Indians being on the move to join Red Moon. The bodies of two white men were brought into Cantonment. They were killed in the encounter, but the number of Inlans killed or wounded was not known. This information was brought in by Clarence Trent, a horseman, who had just arrived from that point, having ridden ninety-five miles to bring tho Information. The scene of tho Indian trouble is nearly 100 miles lrom a railroad or telegraph station, and full details are hard to obtain. SWORN IN, Senator Patrick Walsh the Successor of Colquitt, of Georgia. PA.TBICK WALSH. 8enntor Patrick Walsh, who was appointed by Governor Northern to fill the vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the deatb of Senator Colquitt, of Georgia, was sworn in upon his arrival at Washington and will participate m the tariff fight. He walked down trie Senate aislo on th? arm of Senator Gordon to take his oatn of office as Senator, FAIR BUILDINGS SOLD, Chicago at Last Disposes of Her Immense Structures. All of the big World's Fair buildings at Chicago were sold at private sale a few days ago, by the South Park Commissioners. L. C. Garrett, a St. Louis contractor, bought the lot for $75,500. This purchase includes the great Manufactures Building, Maohinery Hall and the Buildings of Administration, Electricity, Mines, Agriculture, Fisheries, and Transportation. The only structures not named in the purchase are the Art Building, now the property of the Field Columbian Museum ; the Convent La Rabida, the two service buildings, into which the exposition company has gathered its effects, and the Forestry Building. The purchaser expects to begin the demolition ot the buildings at the north end of Jackson Park at onca ... MtiU % FELL INTO THE FLAMES." NINE FIBEMEN KILLED IN A BURNING- THEATRE. The Blazing Roof of tho Davidson, at Milwaukee, Wis., Drops In, Carrying With It Those Who Were Fighting the Fire?Noble Deeds of Heroism. The Davidson Theatre and Hotel, the finest playhouse in Milwaukee, Wis., and one of the handsomest and costliest theatres in the country, was destroyed by Are early a few mornings ago, and eight firemen lost their lives by the falling in of the roof. The scenery carried by the Lillputians, who were playing a ten days' engagement at the theatre, is all gone. Manager Rosen feld, of the company, says it was worth 825,000. The roof was a sheet of flame before the firemen arrived, but ladders were run up, and the mon rushed on the TO*t. six stories from the ground. In doing so, Ollie Ries, one of the men, slipped and fell to the ground, being killed by the fall. All the men from No. 4 Engine were directed to the rear of the roof, right over the stage, where the fire was the worst. Some men from other companies were with them when, without warning, the roof gave way, precipitating eight of the men eighty feet into the fire on the stage. All of them were either killed by the fall or burned to death or suffocated. J ? -? * ?vii?ia 1U6 (itttd ttrtj ; arumuniu vaui^uQu( v/aptain of the flreboat James Foley; James C. Freeman, Lieutenant 4 Company ; John Cai> roll, 2 Chemical; August Janssen. Third Assistant Chief of Department and brother ot Chief John T. Janssen of the Police Department ; Frederlok Kroeachmuer, 8 Chemical; Frank McOurtt, Lieutenant of 4 Truck and Acting Captain of 14 Company; Thomas Morgan. Company No. 1; Ollie Bies, 3 Company ; Frank Wlnne, 4 Chemical. The four other firemen went down with the roof, but were rescued and taken to the Emergency Hospital. Fireman James Crowlev was rescued soon after noon after having been pinioned down under a mass ot timber for several hours and after having faced death in three forms? ( fire, drowning and suffocation. An engine was kept pumping away the water that steadily rose ana threatened to { drown him, and air was forced through a hose to keep him from beinsr choked to death by the thick smoke that filled the building. The large building was used for a .theatre on the ground floor and the rear. The part I above tne ground floor was the Hotel Da- | vidson. The hotel was well filled with guests, but they were all warned in time and escaped without injury. < The fire originated apparently on the stage under the roof. The stage was a very large one. and the fire had made great progress in tne oily soenery and was a perfect furnace when discovered. The Liliputians. with an immense amount of scenery, were filling a two weeks' engage- 1 ment in "A Trip to Mars" in the house. The stationary soenery, which was large, and that ot the Liliputians gave the flame3 advantage, and the thing went like tinder. When the roof fell in the members of the i Insurance fire patrol were covering up the seats of the parquet. They ran back just In time to escape the falling roof, as portions of it dropped Into the parquet. I Immediately after the roof fell the firemen went at the work of rescue. Streams of water were thrown into the blazing heap of debris from the walls, and the men of the insurance patrol ran into the pit and began to drag away the timbers that pinned down the men who had fallen with the roof. The work progressed slowly and an hour passed before the first body was recovered. As soon as the injured were taken out ambulances conveyed them to the hospital. On , either side of the blackened walls of the theatre are the words: "Absolutely fireproof." Michael Dunn, Captain of the fire tug Cataract, was on the roof wheu it fell, but did not go down with it Other firemen rigged a rope, making it fast to a part of the hotel building, and dropped it over into the awful hole through which their comrades had fallen. Seizing the rope. Dunn 6lipped into the furnace. Soon there was a cry from below to puU the rope up. Dann had found Pipe- | man Yao helpless, tied the rope around him, and ordered it raised. The total money loss occasioned by the fire is about $225,000, as follows: Theatre proper and stationary scenery about $175,000; Rosenfeld Brothers, proprietors of the Liliputians, who were playing at the theatre, I $45,000; Joseph Clauder, orchestra leader, $3000. j SENATOR HELL'S VIEWS. An Epitome of His Speech on the Wilson BUI. Senator David Bennett Hill, of New York, has oome out 9quarely against the Income tax, and what be calls the "un-Democratio tariff" 1 lis ot Wilson and Voorhees. He condemns the Senate bill as unsparingly as ; the House bill. Both are denounced as contrary to Democratic principle, political expediency and public policy. His speech in the United States Senate was the longest he ever delivered. It bore evi- i dences of unremitting toll, deep purpose and settled conviction. It was delivered as ' dellberatly and colli bloodedly as a judge's charge. Jhere was neither passion, nor eloquence, nor feeling In it. His repudiation of the Administration and of the tariff policy of the majority of his own party was as calm as if he was not a participant in the strife. 1 Never since the days when an announcement that Senator Ingalls expected to speak used to fill the galleries of the Senate has there been such a ..rowd attracted to the Senate end of the Capitol to listen to a single speech as thronged to listen to the senior 8enator from New York define his position on the tariff question. Long before two o'clock, the hour fixed for the speech to begin, every seat was oocupled and standing room was at a premium. The step3 In the aisles i of the galleries were used for seats, and every available foot of space against the walls was occupied by men and women willing to stand for two or three hours to hear I what was expected to be the most important speech of the tariff debate. Practically every Senator In the city was in nis place, aua every vauiui umu wvupled by a member of the House of Representatives, while all the apace In the rear of the seats on the floor was occupied by Representatives sitting on chairs brought in from the cloak rooms and committee rooms, while scores stood against the wall. The burden of the Senator's speech was to the effect that the tariff bill is framed on the lines laid down by the President and Secretary of the Treasury at a time when thero was a surplus instead of an empty Treasury and at the dictation of ] the Populist element of the Democratic party. The income tax proposition, he said, was never a tenet of Democratic faith, but was stolen from the Topulist party by the disciples of the new Democracy, who desired now to make it the test of the loyalty of men who are Democrats of the most radical kind, .but who will not submit to engrafting into a Democratic tariff measure this new doctrine, whose provisions are undemocratic and whose tendencies are socialistic. Incidentally, he embraced the occasion I to get in as many hits at the Administration , as possible, but the burden of his speech was against the Populist income tax rider to the Democratic Tariff bill. The conclusion of Senator Hill's speech ] was largely a statement of his own position on the Tariff bill. Ho virtually declared he would oppose the bill to the last if it con- j tained the Income tax feature, but that he { was willing to make concessions upon other points for the sake of a speedy settlement of the tariff question. ' When Senator Hill concluded with an im- ] pressive question to his fellow Democrats as to whether it was the part of wisdom to thus imperil Democratic success, there was a rip- 1 pie of applause on the floor of the Senate j Chamber, but it was confined almost entirely i to the Republican side. ^ Tt Is learned from prominent farmers of j North Dakota that the acreage of flax an I J other small grains other than wheat will bo more than double that of last year. The i low price of wheat has discouraged the farmers in that line, and tbey have found it I necessary to raise something else. As a < consequence the wheat acreage will be comparatively small and the acreage of other grains correspondingly large. ThLj will also be the case in Minnesota. , < mmg i ! ' A SPRING SONG. 0 dear and gentle spring, I sing I With gladsome, mirthful glee To see ' / Yon on the wing. My mind ' . 1 Hath pined / ft For yonr return? , _ A yearn X Ull 10 K&raio ruuug? Proportionally long. Not that I love the lassitude, With which my spirit is imbued When yon come on the scene, With grasses green; \ Not that I love your most unpleasant way Of sprinkling hoc and cold throughout the J day; Your beastly plan Of aggravating man By sending blizzard's when he's dressed for heat, And rrmHnfl things red-hot when he fears sleet i Not that I love one of your fads untold j But I rejoice because you bring me gold. For I'm a druggist keen, and o'er the counter take A dollar for a pill it costs a cent to make, Whleh tired-feeling people buy when you appear, Which neither harms nor cures, but much allays their fear. And so, 0 spring, I sing With gladsome glee , To see You on the wing. ?Harper's Bazar. PITH AND POINT. The girl who laces merely does it as 9, matter of form. ?Philadelphia Record. We could stand prosperity much better if we only had the time to enjoy it.?Puck. "Strange," said the actor, "that the ties should seem fewer as I get nearer home 1"?Plain Dealer. It takes a sharp man to find ont ft woman's failing; but xvhen a man fails the whole town echoes with the news. ?Puck. A woman asks?"How am I to treat my husband that I may have absolute confidence in him?" Kill him.? A.tchison Globe. .1 It is nothing to brag about when a homely person says with a air of selfapproval, "I'll be plain with you." ?Boston Transcript. Tes, he's my dog. He answers to the name of Jowler." "How can he answer to it? You've cut his tail clear off."?Chicago Tribune. The most serious trouble in some towns is that there is nobody to enforce the ordinances against the officials.?Galveston News. How well the coarse of time attests The truth of pastorals or sonnetsThere are no birds in last year's nests. There are no heads in last year's bonnets. ?Detroit Free Press. If two men who are mortal enemies meet in society, they ignore each other; if two female enemies meet, they kisa each other. ?Fliegende Blaetfcer. Soak?"Do you always pay as you (70?" Freshbv?"Always." Soak? "Why?" "Freshby?"Because they won't let me go without."?Brooklyn Life. Jillson says he has noticed that some men are a great deal like rivers. When their heads are swelled yon realize it from their mouths.?Buffalo Courier. "What," cried the orator, fiercely, "What, I ask, causes poverty?" And from the back of the hall a hoarse voice answered, "Lack of cash."? Harlem Life. The man whose return from dinner you have to wait for before going to your own, never has poor health as the result of eating too rapidly.? Atchison Globe. "I declare, I don't kr.ow what to 3o," mused Dr. i'izzick. "Here's old Mr. Goutley kicking about my charges, and he's too good a customer to cure." ?Philadelphia Record. He (who prides himself on his bluntness)?"I say, Miss Newton, let's get married." Miss Newton?"Oh, all right; I'm engaged to Mr. Goodwin. Who'll you marry?"?Vogue. True Hospitality: Jones (who's been roughing it lately?to hostess)?"1 assure you, this is the first decent meal I've had for six weeks!" Hostess (genially)?"I am so glad J"?Punch. "I have always had a presentment," ? -v?"j ? T>-1 T BftlU llLl&y raustl^ j tuai a. ouuuiu Uio young." "But you didn't have to, did you, dear?" replied Miss Ahtless, stroking her pale-brown hair tenderly. ?Chicago Tribune. "So you are determined on a journey to the North Pole?" "I am." "Going out with the next expedition?" "No; I shall go out with the party that is to rescue the next expedition." ?New York Press. Employer?"Why were you dismissed from your last place?" Servant ?"Because just once I got drunk." Employer?"How long were you employed there?" Servant?"One day!" ?Fliegende Blaetter. "What on earth has come over Fitzgoober?" muttered Pullett. "He is developing into a first-class liar." "Ob, nothing, except he's in training now; fishing season nearly here."? New York Commercial. Hicks (in the graveyard, reading a tombstone) ? "3acred to the memory of Thomas Slendermind." Wicks? "Yes; isn't it ridiculous? Slendermind was the most forgetful fellow that ever lived."?Boston Transcript. Ralph?"Suppose a fellow's best girl gets mad when he asks for a kiss?" Curtis?"Take it without asking." Ralph?"Suppose she gets mad then?" Curtis?"Then he's got some othei fellow's girl."?Brooklyn Life. Briggs?"Did you know Spicerly tiad proposed to his cook, and be^n rejected?" Griggs?"Gracious, no. What did she reject him for?" Briggs ? "She said she didn't know where they could get another one."?Brooklyn Life. Missouri Judge?"Stand up, sir. Have you anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be passed jn you?" "I'm not the prisoner, yer Honor, I'm a detective?" Judge (fiercely)?"Is that any reason?"? Cleveland Plain Deaaer. k a