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IT WAS A filtr CLlZiMflil.
SEA AND LAND SWEPT WITH
AWFUL FORCE.
A Vicious Storm Slakes Life Mlservl
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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
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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
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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.
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" 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
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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.
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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
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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
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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. , <
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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.
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