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MtlDEID TO JAPAN. t : Chinese Forts and Fleet at Wei-HaiJ Wei Given Up. j THE CRY IS "ON TO PEKIN." Official Advice# From the Japanese Commander?The Last Barrier Remaining I Between the Capital of China and Capture?The Japs May Delay the Advance Until Spring, ?* Intelligence was received at Yokohama, jJapan. of the surrender of the Chinese forte Sind war ships at Wei-Hai-Wei. The surrender is complete. V Captain Nuros, of the Japanese squadron, operating at Wei-Hoi-Wei, reports that on Ihe 12th one of the enemy's gunboats approached the Japanese fleet flying a white flag. When communication was had with her It was ascertained that she brought a mesaftge from Admiral Ting, of th8 Chinese navy. ^ offering to surrender Wei-Hai-Wei and his ?eesels provided that the lives of the soldiers, orews and foreigners were secured. Captain Kuros reported that a formal surrender was yet to be arranged. s The commander of tho Second Japanese army in an official report of the operations of that body before Wei-Hai-Wei says that its loeees from the 29th of January to the 1st of ttebruarv were eiehty-thrw killed, including five officers; and 210 wounded, including General Otera and three other officers. During the same period 700 of the enemy were killed. With the fall of Wei-TTai-Wei the last important block In the way of Japan's triumphal march to Pekin ha* been removed. There still remain? Chefoo between them and the capital, but that is considered quite a minor post, and is expected to fall readily into the hands of the conquering Mrmy. The only thing which will now prevent Japan'svictorious soldiers from marching on is the weather. The road is long and weary and the winter is severe. They may therefore content themselves with minor Skirmishes and await the spring before starting for the great goal. In the meantime China fully realizes the importance of the loss of Wei-Hai-Wei, and may choose peace at any price rather than suffer the indignity Of seeing her capital city occupied by the heartily detested Japs. AT JAPAN'S MERCY. the Situation at Wei-Hai-Wel Jnt?t llefore the Capitulation. The following gives a summary oi the situation at Wei-Hal-Wei just before the surrender: All the forts on the mainland have been taken by the Japanese, and the fort on this Island has been silenced. The ironclads TingYuen and Lai-Yuen and the cruisers ChingYuen and Wei-Yuen have been sunk, and thirteen torpedo boats either destroyed or saptured. One Japanese torpedo boa t was lost, and two were disabled. JAPAN BOUND TO ENTER PEKIN. ffo Peace Treaty Except in the Chinese Capital?What Japan Will Demand. , The Cologne Gazette learns from Japanese souroas that overtures for peace will not be , regarded by Japan until Pekin shall have been captured. Then Japan will demand possession of Korea, the Lian-Tung peninsula and Port Arthur, together with pecuniary indemnity. Japan's only fear is that England imd Russia may forestall this programme by bringing about peace in their own way. To Arrange for Peace. > ! The London Standard's correspondent at Tien-Tsin says that Li Hung Chang and Prince Kung, or Sir Robert Hart, will soon bo appointed high Commissioners and Envoys Plenipotentiary to arrange a treaty of peace with Japan. .This step will be taken In accordance with the advice of the Foreign Ministers in. Pekin. China's Latest Ofder for Arms. Fifty wagon loads of rifles, made at Steyr, Upper Austria, have arrived at Hamburg, Germany, for shipment to China. WAS SHORT $363,000. Claims Against the ?*tate of the Dead Treasurer of Illinois. J When Rufus Ramsey, who died suddenly inree momut- ago, ax vanyie, in., suypuseuiy of heart disease, went into the StateTreasury two years ago, he was thought to be the richest man in Southern Illinois. Within a week over ?500,000 in claims against his estate had boen nied, but the most startling is that ot the live Chicago hankers who were his surety as State Treasurer. When Henry Wolf succeeded the dead man he found a shortage of 8363,359.'JO. Tne information was communicated to his bondsmen, who suppressed the fact in the hope of reimoursement out of the estate of the dead man. F. M. Blount and Carl Moll, cashiers of two Chicago National banks, have Hied in the County Court claims for the full amount of the shortage. Mr. Ramsey was a banker in Carlyle, and his estate probably is worth $150,000. The I ? 1 i?ine AAA KJUIKJLSLUVU. IXUIV ijtJt I ?cl?l/irVJ Ul UKU. EIGHTEEN FEET OF SNOW. The Danish Penlniula Gets Its Share or Winter. A B-irlin dispatch says that the hnrbor ol Dantzic Is frozen oyer. The ice is 50 thick that vohiclos pass on it from shorn to shore. At Copenhagen people can walk on the ice to tlie ships that are icebound in the harbor. Near Kiel six large steamers are reported to be fast In the ice. In North Jutland, Denmark, the snow is eighteen feet deep. In the town of Hjorring tunnals had to be cut through the snow and the inmates of buried houses dug out. The Berlin prisons are overflowing with persons who committed misdemeanors in order to obtain shelter. FROZEN TO DEATH. Fata^'.tieft Attend the Unprecedented Storm In Maryland. Beport* from remote portions of Maryland continue to emphasize the fact that the late storm was almost unprecedented in the State. James Brunner. a colored man. of Charles County, was fonnd standing in a fenr*e corner on the public roadside frozen to death. Two men were found dead on the railroad traok between Oxford and Kaston. They were indentifled a? hands 011 a dredge boat frozea up at Oxford, and, being discharged they tried to make their way to Easton and perished in the attempt. A North Carolina I'luli Story. A special despati h from Pollockville, N. C., says that the excessive cold weather benumbed the trout iuthoNorth Kiver. Countlessnumthf> flsh i-oiild be seen lloatinir on the top of the water, and people picked them up in large quantities. One party secured one thousand and th?r- were 130 barrels shipped by express from Jacksonville, some of them weighing forty pounds and selling for six uad eight cents each. Firemen Killed In Lynn. Three firemen wore killed and nine others injured at a Are which destroyed three buildings in Munroe street. Lynn, Mass.. The list of dead is as follows: John Donlan, of Steamer 3: Thomas Murray, of Engine 3; Henry L. Skiuner. Captaiuof Chemical No. 1. The Hutchinson. Donnelly and Ready buildings were gutted. The total loss will La about $100,000. Aimed at Vale Students. Th<? New Haven (Conn.") Police Commission has under consideration a plan to hold every Yale student brought before the City Court (until he is identified by the faculty. This is to prevent th? practice of giving fictitious names. fACED DEATH PQR HOURS* I Onfy Two of Schoo^r Place's Cnif Of i Xlno Were Saved. Tvr? sailors, speechless from exhaustion, stiffened with cold, and all but dead with the P sufferings of a forty-hour flght for life in the rigging of tho schooner which went ashore near Fatohogue, Long Island, in the great gale, were rescued at midnight by the life- . saving crew of the Lone Hill station. 3 Six of their shipmates died one by one under their eyes, either dropping into the Icelllled surf or freezing to death lashed to the 1 rigging. The survivors are William Stevens and S. J. Nelson. Their rescue puts eleven lives saved from the storm to'the credit of the Lone Hill crew. For a long time after their rescue the two sailors were unable to speak even enough to tell the name of their ill-fated craft. Stevens was the first to revive, and his story of the wreck and of the cruel struggle against cold 61 and exhaustion, during tiioso ion? liours, jl with life and safety literally within their grasp, though they had not the strength to ~ avail themselves of it; with their comrades dying one by one beside them, and finally of Ci the horror of the two dead bodies swinging d from the lashings which had been the hope ^ of the living men. and threatsning to knock the wretched survivors into the sea, is suoh " a record us is soldom found in the annals of a thesoa. 0 The wrecked vessel was the three-masted . schooner Louis Y. Place, from Baltimore to * New York, laden with coal, with a Captain P and crew of seven men. Of these the follow- J ing are dead: ? Captain William H. Squires, Bridgeliamp- " ton, L. I., fifty-live years old. married; |[ leaves a wife and two "children; Jaiby, a mate, Norway, forty-four years old, un- . married; Charles Allen, engineer, Providence, ? twenty-eight years old, unmarried; Charles 5 ' Morrison, cook; Gus Oelson, seaman, ^ Swedish, twenty-eight years old; Fritz Oscar P Ward, seaman, Norway, twenty-one years 5 old, unmarried. B ' - a BODIES ON THE WRECK. % ? ti Loss of the Schooner T. I*. Dixon Off n Martha's Vineyard, and tho Crew. ti ^ A ?? J-* ?""? Hin lnln iu OUU1U llliiC U ULIXl^ WHO AttliU 0I.V11U luv ntvv? ?j of a schooner, evidently engaged in the lime a trade, came ashore at Paul's Point; on the ii northern shore or Martha's Vineyard, Mass. Her mainmast was standing, with sails hang- 0 ing alongside, and on top of her house were 0 three dead bodies lashed to tho skylight. u The namo of tho vessel had been defaced t< by the storm, but a;> soon as tho ico was re- n moved from the dead bodies one of them was Sl recognized a3 Captain Joseph Boswick, which p proved the schooner to be the T. P. Dixon, formerly of New York, but lately hailing a from Rockland. Me. One of the other bodies 0, was recognized as that of tho mate, Martin g Lee. Tho third body could not be recog- | nized. a Tho captain" was warmly dressed, which would indicate that he was on deck at the q time of the disaster. The mate was in his (j stockings. There was a dead dog beside the c, bodies on the house. The belief is that in g trying to enter Vineyard Sound she struck tl i on Sow and Pigs reef or Devil's Bridge. The y Dixon was of 130. tons register, and was built in 1887. r ' R09BED OM A BRIDGE. d T Bi Two Thugs Get 81000, Escapc In a Sleigh T and Then Take to the Woods. ii A daring robbery was committed at 10 a. tl m. on the iron bridge between Derby, Conn.> H and Shelton. M. H. Spaulding. thirty years old, a clerk in the office of It. <fc H. e, Adams, cotton goods manufacturers, of w Derby and I'aterson, N. J., was robbed of o; 92000, the week's pay-roll, which he had just 1' drawn from tbe Birmingham National Bank and was carrying to the office of the con- ai oern. . U Spaulding had reached the west end of n the bridge when be was knocked down ci by a severe blow on the head. Theii a ti man jumped from a passing sleigh, e grabbed the bag containing the $2000, v< and sprang into the sleigb. followed by si the man who had struck 8paulding. They tl drove off at a rapid rate in the direction of tl Stratford, but after going a mile and a half p I abandoned the sleigh and took to the woods. t< I mi_ _ x 1?j% T T? A1 Unnt'a I J. lit? 1/WILLI IIAU W7C11 UlICU Ob X. mj* auuimq a livery stable in Derby at 9 a. m. ti ti Women Sold Into Temporary Slavery* tl At Georgetown, Ky., two colored women, jjj Sara Jackson and Bettie Pish back, were sold U at auction a few days ago. They were con- P victed of vagrancy in the Circuit Court and a; ordered to be sold into slaver}- for v' six months. The sale took placo 1' in front of the Court House. Deputy i* Sheriff ShufT was the auctioneer, and the sale el attracted a large crowd. The women werv P bought by two colo'red men. Henry Jackson a and Richard Coleman, and brought ?1.05 an<? ti $2 respectively. d THE LABOR WORLD. The British Govornment is considering a scheme under which ship owners will receive a subsidy conditional on their carrying in their ships a certain number of boys, apprentices and reserve men. ^ On account of the intensely cold weather _ nil (ho m**n omnlnvwd tiv thu flnvRmnr nn thfl i Hennepin Canal, Princeton, III., were luidoff Ii for two weeks. The men are living in tents a and much suffering is reported. p The American tin-plate factory at Elwood, ? Ind., has started up its uew addition of four mills and an equal number of tinning stacks . and set 250 more men at work, thus inereas- c ing its force to 750 men and its output to ^ 7500 boxes per week. According to tho Commissioner of Labor a for Ohio, the average earnings for chief en- fc Slneers on the Great Lakes in 1893 waa f T00.60, and for second engineers, $500.59. ? The latter is about equal to $1.50 per day and f< the former is under $2 per day. f< A Boston manufacturing company recently o celebrated half a century of existence by mak- t< ing a distribution of a fund of $30,000 among d its employes on the basis of $5 for each year G of service. Some of tho employes have been A ar\ lnntrthntfhoii*chiii>M:rAO/>hMl il 8150 each. r! To determine what time their day's work * begins, the East End Street Railway's motormen and conductors in Knoxville, Tenn., 8 struck. The amount of time in dispute was e three minutes, and the total wages of the P four men for that time was two and one-fifth *3 cents. Their places were filled. PROMINENT PEOPLE. J Dr. Talmaoe is sixty-three years of ape. Q The new President of France was once a ? tanner. The Shah of Persia drinks a bottle of brandy a day. The Prince of Wales Is Grand Master of English Freemasons. , Mns. Kate Chase Spbagtje, it is said, is reduced to almost absolute want. Felix Faure is the first President of ^ France who has been a conllrmed smoker. The Ameer of Afghanistan, who is going to ^ visit England in the spring, will probably ? come by way of Japan and the United . States. : Jobs B. Tabb, tlie poet, is a Catholic priest c living in Amelia County, Virginia, but holding a professorship in St. Charles College, c Maryland. t The King of Greece gave orders to have the Chateau of Smiddrup. in Denmark, prepared for his occupancy in case he should ( abdicate. ^ In* a letter to the army Emperor William,of Germany, ordered the guns and standards J which took part in the war with France to bo decorated with oak leaves. William Waldorf Abtof. cancelled the order for a blanket of llowers on his wife's grave every day for a year, because he was ' annoyed at the publication of the fact. Ex-Governor Nortiien, of Georgia,has be- ' come an editor of an agricultural paper. Ho acted as flagman the other day at Atlauta i when the Georgia train for Nebraska was I sent out on its errand of mercy. Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, re- ] tires from office in March after twenty-two i f years of service in the Senate, at the ago of; seventy, poor and with no profitable employ-; i ment he can full back upon at that time of j life. Qtoes Yictoiia has not opened Parlia-' | ment in person for nine years, and her phys- ( ical disabilities are such that she Is never1 likely to open it again, as she could not as-, oend the staircases. She is now restrioted to; functions whloh do not require any exertion, or to which she can be carried In a Bath ctalr< , ? ? ' mo nil BID ISSUE? I Aessage of the Presidents Congress j Giving Details. ? ; 562,400,000 FOURS TO BE SOLDv ! nterest Rate About 3 3-4 Per Cent?The ( Amount Received From This Sale Will Be Over 965,000,000, and Will More Than Restore the Reserve?Ten Days' j G race for Congress. i '1 The President has sent the following mesige to Congress: J 0 the Co ngress of the United States# J Since my recent communication to the ongitas calling attention to our financial ] Dndition and suggesting legislation which I 1 eemed essential to our National welfare and ( [ edit, the anxiety and apprehension then exiting in business circles have continued. As , precaution, therefore, against the failure f timely legislative aid through Congression- j 1 action, cautious preparations have been < ending to employ to the best possible adantago, In default of better means, such ex- i cutive authority as may, without additional f )gislation, bo exercised for the purpose of i iinfoxcing and. maintaining in our Treasury 1 n adequate and safe gold reserve. 1 In the judgment of those especially < barged with this responsibility, tho business < [tuation is so critical and the legislative ituation so unpromising, with the omls- ( Ion thus far on the part of the Congress to < eneflcially enlarge the powers of tho j ecretary of the Treasury in the premises, < a to enjoin immediate executive ac- , ion with the facilities now at hand, 'herefore, in pursuanco of section 370 of le revised statutes, the details of an arrange- 1 lent have this day been concluded with par- J es abundantly able to fulfil their undertaklg whereby bonds of the United States au ? ---?- - * T..1-. i a i one r aonzoa unaer tne sot ui <i uiy tout, yt*jble In coin thirty years after their date, with i lterest at the rate of fourper cent, per annum, ) the amount of a little less than 562,400,000. t re to be issued for the purchase of gold j oin amounting to a sum slightly in excess t f $65,003,000, to be delivered tothoTreasry of the United States, which sum, added ( > the gold now held in our reserve, will so j jstore such reserve as to make it amount to 1 smethlng more than $100,000,000. Such a remium is to be allowed to the Government pon the bonds as to fix the rate of interest pon the amount of gold realized at per ent. per annum. At least one-half of tha old to j>e obtained is to. be supplied from ] broad, which is a very important and favorble feature of the transaction. ; The privilege is specially reserved to the j Government to substitute at par within ten , ays from this date, in lieu of the 4 per cent. | oin bonds, other bonds in terms payable in old and bearing only S per cent, interest, if . lie issue of the same should in the mean- j jne be authorized by the Congress. The arrangement thus completed, which 1 fter careful inquiry appears in present cirumstanoesand considering all the objects 1 esired, to be the best attainable, develops "" >? n HifTArpne.n in the estimation of in- i estors between bonds made payable in coin ud those specifically made payable in gold 1 favor of the latter, as is represented by iree-fourths of a cent in annual interest.* In le agreement just ooncluded the.annual savig in interest to the Government if 8 per ant. gold bonds should be substituted for 4 snt. coin bonds under the privilege reserved, ould be $539,159, amounting in thirty years, r at the maturity of the coin bonds, to $16,14,770. Of course there never should be a doubt in ay quarter as to the redemption in gold of le bonds of the Government whioh are Lade payable in coin. Therefore, the disrimination in the judgment of investors beveen our bond obligations payable in coin id those specifically made payable in gold is ery significant. It is hardly necessary to iggest that, whatever may be our views on le subject, the sentiments or preferences of lose with whom we must negotiate in disosing of our bonds for gold are not subject > our dictation. I have only to add that in my opinion the ansaction herein detailed for the informaon of the Congress promises better results lan the efforts previously made in the di- i jctioa or effectively aaauing 10 our goiu re- , j srve through the gale of bonds; and I be-^ i eve it will tend as far as such action can in " resent circumstances to meet the deterrm-' ation expressed in the law repealing the sil-" ar-purchasing clause of the act of July 14, 590, end that in the language of such repeal- . ig act the arrangement made will aid our ! Torts to "insure the maintenance of the ' arity in value of the coins of the two metals, j nd the equal power of every dollar at all ( mes in the markets and in the payment of ( 0bt8." GbOVER CLEVJLA.MX, J Executive Mansion, February 8,189o. 1 AMERICANS CONDEMNED. j .10 Death Sentence Passed Upon Ha- t wailan Revolutionists. ' The President sent to Congress the follow- j ig telegram just received from Minister j riiiis, and Secretary Grosham'a instruction^ t i reply, showing a more serious condition of (fairs than was reported In the press dls atches. The despatches arc as follows: tr. willis's teleoeam to mb. ohesham. Honolulu, January 30, 1895.?(San Fran- j isco, February G, 1895.) Itevolt over 9tli. , Casualties: Government, l; roytuisr, ourt martial convened 17th; has tried lirty-oight cases; 200 more to be tried, ad daily arrests. Gulick. former Mlniter, and Be ward, Minister, Major in 'ederal army, both Americans, and Rickard, Inglishman, sentenced to death; all bereto>re prominent in politics. T. B. Walker, urmerly in the United States Army, imprisnment for life and 65000 fine. Other senjnces not disclosed, but will probably be eath. Requested copies of record for our rovernment to determine its duty before nal sentence, but no answer yet.- Bitter feelig and threats of mob violence, which arIval of Philadelphia yesterday may prevent, .iliuokalani made prisoner 13th. On 4th relinquished all claims and swore ilegiance to republic, imploring clemney for Hawalians. Government relies to Liliuokalani: "This document canot be taken to exempt you in the slightest egree from personal and individual liaility" for complicity in the late conspiracy. >enies that she had any rights since January 4,1893, when she attempted new C'on^tituion. '"Fully appreciates her call to rlis.ffected to recognize republic, and will give nil consideration to her unselilsh appeal for leniency" for participants. Aleebt S. Willis. secketarr obesham's in8tboctioxs. Depabtme::t of State, I Washington, February 7, 1895. ( Jooper, United States Despatch Agent, San r??i xnjuui5cu, vau. , Forward following by first steamer to A. S. Villis, United States Minister, Honolulu: , If American citizens were condemned to , [eath by a military tribunal, not for ictual participation in reported revoluion, but for complicity only, or if conlemned to death by such a tribunal or actual participation, but not after ?pen, fair trial, with opportuuity for defence, lemand delay of execution, and in either iase report to your Government evidence elied on to support doath sentence. Gbesham. The message and despatches were referred o the Committee on Foreign Relation# in the ienate. In the House the correspondence vas referred to the Committee on Foreign V flairs. THE LABOR WORLD. Tne new President of Franco was once a ianner. In Great Britain the yearly loss in wage* ;itrough ill-health is 655,000,000. It is denied in Pittsburg that there has beer i consolidation of tho plate glass mauuiac:urers. Reports from Swansea state that the depression in tho Welsh tin plate industry is assuming a serious aspect. Collieries in Pennsylvania of the Lehigt ind Wllkesbarre Company shut down, throw ing 8000 men out of employment. Unemployed persons in Bada-Pesth. Hun gary, marched through the principal street1 md were dispersed after a serious flght. The Bussian Government has placed or J era in Berlin for 300 locomotives asn othei railway material to the value of $2lto0,0C0. 4. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washington Item*. The President approved the act to establish \ National military park at Gettysburg. Penn.. and the act onanging the name of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia, vhlch proyides that it shall constitute a part )f the city of Washington. Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle gave their innual Cabinet dinner in honor of the Presiient and Mrs. Cleveland. Those outside of ;he Cabinet invited to meet the Chief ExecuAve were Mrs. Perrine, Mrs. Daniel Manning ind Assistant Secretary Hamlin. Secretary Carlisle sent to the House of Representatives in reply to a resolution, a statement showing that the share of the CTnited States in the expense of maintaining i protectorate over Samoa up to the present ;ime has been $71,346. The President sent to the Senate a bulky package of documents in response to a resolution calling for information about sealing in Bering Sea. Secretary Gresham suggested to the Brit!avi Minister t.hn* thA TTnitflrt Htfitfta F.norland. Russia and Japan unite to preserve the" seals >f the North Pacific from extinction. The President appointed J. NeUon H. Patrick, of Omaha, Nob., Government Director >f the Union Pacific Railroad. The Secretary of State and Mr?. G res ham fave a dinner in honor of the Diplomatic Corps. The President has approved the act amending the Inter-State Commerce law relative ;o the issue of joint interchangeable 5000nile tickets with special baggage privileges, setter known as the Drummers' Baggage Mil; the act providing for an additional Circuit Judge In the Seventh Judicial Circuit C 3urt (Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin"). Secretart Laxokt took General Schofl?ld'? sommission as Lieutenant-General to the Cabinet meeting at the White House, where t was signed by the President General Jchotleld. who was ill, took the oath of office it his residence in the afternoon. The President, in response to a Senate resolution, transmitted to the Senate a nessage in regard to the enforcement of the r a riff act. President Cleveland decided the bounlary dispute betweon Brazil and Argentina, n favor of Brazil. The rebellion in Colombia is so formidable ;he Secretary of her Legation at Washingngton has been called home to command hfi fifwftrnmfint nrmv The Rellly bill to fund tho debt ol the Pa:iflo roads to theGovorment was recommitted )y the House by a vote of 177 tc 108. This tills the bill. Foreign Note*. The Radicals and Socialists were defeated [n the communal elections in Italy. Famine was threatened in the district of Hungary southeast of Budapest. Tho Socialists took advantage of the situation to incite rioting. They were dispersed with fixed bayonets. A despatch from Wei-Hal-Wei says that ;ho Chinese General Tai committed suicide n a fit of anger at the desertion of some of lis inferior officers. The revolutionary forces of Tolima, Coombia, have surrendered. J. Cbanston, A. Muller and J. B. Johnston, Tho were forcibly deported from Honolulu >y tho Ropublican Administration, arrived in Victoria, British Columbia, by tne steamer lYarrlmoo. An appalling story comes from Liverpool, Sova Scotia. The Gloucester (Mass.) ichooner Clara F. Friend has been lost near ;here and her entire crew of fifteen have been Irowned. Three more Chinese warships at Wei-Ha i EVei were sunk by Japanese torpedo boats. Tubkibh attacks on foreigners are so rrement the American Minister has asked the Porte to inorease Constantinople's police force. Ten men, all the crew of the British brig STelson Rioe, werejirowned by the wrecking >f that vessel on the rocks oil Douglass, Islo >f Man. Seven* men were killed by an explosion in ;he Timsbury colliery, near Bristol, Engand. Heavt snowstorms prevailed throughout Sreat Britain, and gales swept various other portions of Europe. An envoy from China has landed in Franoe vho is said to be charged with the mission of isking the great Powers of Europe to intervene in tho war in the East. Dome?tlo. A number of appointments were announced >y Mayor Strong, of New York City, among ;hem William Brookileld as Commissioner of Public Works, F. M. Scott as Counsel to the Corporation, four Civil Service Commissionirs and three members of the Park Board, the new officials being taken from all the reform parties. While John Burke, of Sedalla, Ind., was honninir wood his brother. Willie, stooped ;o pick up a stick and received a blow from he axo on his bead. His skull was split open md fatal injuries were inflicted. At Fort Smith, Ark., the notorious outlaw. Sill Cook, was sentenced by the United States 3ourt to lorty-five years in the penitentiary it Albany, N. Y. Fire destroyed the car barns in Chicago. The loss to the company will be fully $130,>00. One hundred and ten cable cars ^ere turned. An explosion of natural gas at Meadville, ?enn., wrecked two buildings. One person was killed and three others injured seriously. By an explosion of natural ga3 at El wood, [nd., the building occupied by the Elwood Fruit Co. and C. C. Henze Co. was wrecked, ind three persons badly injured. People in North Georgia have had a novel sxperience. Snow fell to the depth of about Ive inches and sleighs were hastily improvised by placing buggies on runners. Business was almost suspended in Atlanta. Cattle in the Indian Territory are dying in large numbers, because of the cold. People are in a destitute condition and starvation is staring them in the face. At Pittsburg, Kan., the safe in the oftice of ;he Long-Bell Lumber Company was burglarized of $120,000 in notes and mortgages. John Bcbke, living nearManersville, Utah, rtabbed his brother-in-law fatally and then borrowed a gun from a neighbor and blew Dut his own brains. The Bank of Superior has been closed by [he State Bank Examiner of Nebraska. Gensrai business depression was alleged as the 3auso of failure. At Fayetteville, Ark.,?J. L. Dickson, a prominent young business man, committed 3uicide by taking strychnine. He had been jashier of the Mcllroy Banking Company. An Investigation of his books showed a shortago of 821,000. By an explosion on the drainage channel at Qualey Brothers' cump, at Joliet, HI., three men were killed and one fatally injured. Two locomotives that were bucking snow drifts near Far Iiockaway ran on a dead switch, and were wrecked. Engineer Patrick Mahoney and Fireman Daniel Lavelle were killed. At Brownstown, 111.. Ira Pnyne and Richard Laws, young business men, while crossing the railroad track in a buggy, were run down by an express train and instantly killed. The steamship Umbria arrived at Now York with three survivors of the Elbe disaster and fourteen of the erow of the French bark Jean Baptists, rescued in mid-ocean. After one of the most stormy passages on record the White Star liner Teutonic arrivod at New York. During the blizzard she rescued the crew of nine of the wrecked fishing schooner Josie Beeves, of New York, from drowning. It is estimated that the damage to the fruit ami vegetable crop of Florida by the storm will reach >'15,000,000. William Callahan, one of a g;;ng of men WUrKiUK Uil mo uiwauHji^ (.uuii: xw?n?, York City, nearly killed his foreman. John Barry, with a chisel, uuil Eilward Murray, who had interceded for him when Barry discharged him, was killed by a cable car. Three men lost thoir lives during the etorm at the intake crib in Lake Michigan at Milwaukee, Wis. Edwin P. Brown, a hermit, was found dead in his hut of field stones which he occupied in the woods about a mile from Westport Harbor, Mass. The body was frozen stiff and had been nibbled at by rats. Fibjb has destroyed the Deniaon Hotel in Indianapolis. Ind. BLIZZABD EASY AM) WEST 1 All Sections of the Country Suffered by Snowstorms. A REGULAR WINTER CYCLONE. It Spread North, East, South and "West? Rivers and Harbors Cholted With Ice and Navigation Impeded ? People Frmnn to Dmth In Varlons Places? Ice Gorge In the Ohio. Despatches from all parts of the United States showed that the intense cold, from which New York City and the East suffered, was widespread. In many places raging blizzards, the worst experienced in years, developed, and the luffering caused was intense. Trains to all the large cities ran ten and fifteen hours behind time, and a large number of towns were storm bound, and business was practically suspended. On several railroads, notably the Union Pacific, trains were stalled, owing to great snow drift?. Numerous deaths from exposure, especially in the West, were reported. Serious trouble has been caused in Ohio and other localities where natural ga3 is generally used by the diminution in the supply of that fuel and the Impossibility of. securing an adequate supply of coal on short notice. From all the largo centres of population news came of the mobt iii'.ense suffering among the poor. The ordinary bureaus for the relief of the destitute were practically paralyzed by the unprecedented demands made upon them. In the northern part of New York State the thermometer fell to an unusually low point, reaching 34 degrees below zero at the Thousand Islands and Alexandria Bay, 26 to 30 below In St. Lawrence County, and 10 to 15 below in Watertown and vioinity. 8ome of the cities of the State set idle mechanics to breaking stone to prevent widespread starvation. In New England the thermometer ranged from two to thirty-five degrees below. New London (Conn.) Harbor is frozen to the mouth of the Thames Biver for the first-time In twenty years, and at Portsmouth, N. H., the Piscataqua Biver is also frozen, a thing which has not occurred since January, 1857. The blizzard struok Chicago before it was expected, and early in the morning the thermometer registered several degrees below zero and continued its downward courso all day, reaching ten degrees below late in the aftertoon. The wind blew from forty to sixty kniles an hour, and a fine snow which fell obstructed street car traffic. In St. Louis, at nine o'olock, it was seven degrees below and the thermometer fell all day. in Milwaukee the day started in with the meroury at eight degrees below zero and a four inch snow fell. The 8outh and Southwest had their full share of the blizzard, Texas and Arkansas being the worst sufTerers. In Texas the wind blew at the rate of fifty miles an hour and the thermometer fell below zero. Thousands of cattle died of exposure. In Little Bock, Ark., the coldest weather on record there was experienced, the mercury registering three degrees below, and in Memphis, Tenn., the aero mark was reached. Eastern Colorado reported a blizzard with great suffering among destitute on isolated farms. The'thermometer was below zero for two days. t- Throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware a fierce snow prevailed. At midnight the wind shifted to the northwest and the snow ceased. The thermometer was ;*ear zero. i Blinding snow storms raged all -along the line of the Fort Worth and Denver Ballway. Snow which fell in Northern Texas eleven 4ays before was still upon the ground. A l howling blizzard, with the wind blowing fifty miles an hour, prevailed throughout (Northern Texas. ' The blizzard is the worst storm Oklahoma Territory has experienced in twenty years. The thermometers register from ten degrees jto fifteen degrees below zero. i A cold wave Btruck Atlanta, Ga., and the the thermometer fell from forty degrees to fsit degrees. A blinding snow feu. Washington City had a heavy snow storm. fThe thermometer registered five degrees above zero, The Potomao is frozen. I At Jeffereonville, Ind., the ice in the Ohio stopped, forming a gorge slxt" - lies long. SPRINGER'S BILL KILLED. 2Fo Farther Hope for Financial Legislation by Thlt Congress. -Teeidazt Cleveland's revised plan of currency reform was rejected by the House of Bepresentatives '07 an overwhelming vote, leaving the Administration at liberty to announce & new saje of bonds. It was nearly noon when the House, in Committee of ifco Whole. took up the Springer bill authorizing the sale of $500,000,000 of jgcld bonds ic maintain the gold reserve and to retire the greenbacks. The pending question was Mr. Bland's appeal from the ruling cf Chairman Richardson that his substitute was noc in order. On a voto by tellers the decision cf the Chair was sustained?130 to 62. When it came to considering the substitutes pending, the Speaker ordered a vote to be taken first on that offered by Mr. Reed, which authorizes the issue ot two-yoar tnree per cent, certificates oi indebtedness to meet current deficiencies in the revenue and bonds to cover the deficiency in the gold reserve. The vote on Mr. Reed's substitute resulted: Yeas, 109; nays, 187; present aud not voting, 2. This was nearly a party vote. Messrs. Cannon (Cal.), Craln (Texas). Davey (La.), Geary (Cal.), Griffith (Mich.), Lawson (Ga.), Pendleton (Texas) and Shell (8. C.), Democrats. voted with the Republicans for the substitute. The Populists voted with the Democrats against it. The vote then recurred on the engrossment and third reading of the Springer bill as amended in the Committee of the Whole, which, on a division, the House refused to order by. the decisive vote of 97 ayes to 159 nays. The announcement of this vote was received with applause by the opponents of the bill, in the midst of% which Mr. Springer was seen rather than &eard demanding a vote by yeas and nays. This was ordered, and resulted: Yeas, 135; nays, 162; present and not voting, 4. Mr. 8pringer. having changed his vote for that purpose, moved to recousider the vote, and that motion, on motion of Mr. Hatch (Dem., Mo.), was laid on the table, yeas 135, nays 123, which Anally disposed of the matter. TWO BIC IRONCLADS SUNK. The Chinese Envoys rmiy Liu[iuHcim iu Treat With Japan For l'eace. A correspondent at Wei-Hai-Wei telegraphs that the Chinese ironclads Chen-Yuen and Ting-Yuen have been sunk. The Ting-Yuen and Chen-Yuen were struck with torpedoes in three fathoms of water. They were sister ships and the most powerful ships belonging to au Asiatic power. Each had a displacement of 7430 tons and 6200 horse power. Both vessels were engaged in the great battle at the mouth of the Yalu River early in the war, when so many Chinese ships were sunk, but escaped with slight injuries. The Chinese pea^e envoys have been fully empowered to treat, and will remain iu Japan. lJoth countries are auxions to conclude the war. but Japan does not mean to leave China a loophole for backing out. Russia to Aid Agriculturists. With a view to remedying the present stagnation in the grain market, the Russian Government has sanctioned the purchase of rye and wheat, on behalf of the State, direct from the fe-rowers. The grain will bo used for feeding tie army and sold to the populace. Bales to private persons, however, are to be limited as to quantity, and the grain will only be cisposeii ol a' Duusn rate's. rioted Desperado Killed lsj 3 Woman. Dr. J. S. Baeder, the notorious Kentucky mountain desperado, who was recently pardoned for the attempted murder of John Eursh, In Lexington, about eighteen months ego, was shot and killed while in bed in Widow Catherine MoQuinn's home, fourmilea from Jackson. Mrs. McQuinn gave herself bp to the Sheriff, saying she did the killing. J LA CASCOCNE SAFE. She Vu Swept Far North or Her Coarse While Disabled. La Gascogne Is safe. The big French liner, g eight days overdue and 16% days oat from c Havre, dropped anchor at the New York J Harbor just before midnight of the 16th day, , all well on board, and a sigh of relief went j up from two continents. Delay was due to a ] broken piston rod and to the terrific gales which swept the North Atlantic for a t week or more, and brought disaster to j many a stanch craft. Captain Baudelon and 1 the officers and erew of LaKJascogne brought >< the ship and passengers through the gales , < and made port without help. f From the time they left Havre on January ^ 26 until the day she reached port they spoke no transatlantic steamer and saw only a four- < masted schooner, the one which reported at | St. Pierre Mlquelon, Nova 8cotia, having j seen a large steamer oft the Banks apparent- < ly in distress. < It was the third day out, about 10 o'clock 1 Ik OASCCGNE. in the morning, when a violent shock made the big vessel tremble throughout her 490 feet of length. Immediately following 1 was a series of violent concussions. The women fainted and men bit their lips, for all knew something had happened. The Gascogne came to a full stop. The passen- , gers congregated in the saloon, disoussing the accident, but they were relieved when ! one of the ofilcurs informed thom that it was ; nothing more serious than a break in the J piston rod of the Intermediate cylinder, which could easily be repaired. The hatches were battened down, and ex- _ eept for the intolerable pitching and tossing . and the confinement to the saloons and i staterooms the passengers suffered little. They were all well behaved, and there was ' MAfcL.MM m 1 r?Vi+ Ka AOlla/i on annv/wi)i fA n * UUbJLULUg IUUI miguv mo v?mw? hm wy|/*vvu ?v m panic. The passengers all united la saying that ' they were not alarmed, and had a good time ; aboard. The ship was out sixteen days in . all and both coal and provision held out to i the end. The repairs to the piston rod were made ! by splicing it with steel bands. These ; worked loose or broke after a day or two's steaming and had to be made over again. On this trip La Gascogne's cabin passen- j gers numbered forty-four, and there were about 125 steerage passengers. Most ol the passengers were French. I NEW SWISS PRESIDENT. ! Dr. Joseph Ztrnp Now CUlef Executive of the Sturdy Little Republic. Dr. Joseph Zemp, the new President of Switzerland, has for a long time been a conspiouous figure in the politics ot that country. He was born in 1834 in Entlebuch, in the Canton of Lucerne, where he received his primary education. After graduating from the home grammar school he entered the law school at Munich, where he remained some time, after which he went to the University of Heidelberg. Here he distinguished himself for his excellent scholarship and finished his studies, taking his doctor degree with very high honors' at a compara DR. JOSEPH ZEMP. tivoly early age. He now returned to his beloved , Switzerland and settled in Berne, where he enjoyed an extensive law practice. In 1863 he was elected to represent the Canton of Lncerne in the State Council of the Federal Assembly, and since that time he has held a number of prominent politioal positions. Dr. Zemp belongs to the Conservative Catholic party, and Is recognized as its leader. He is a man of great firmness, but without animosity, and his conscientious fairness toward everybody made him the unanimous choice of both the chambers of Federal Council. In personal appearance the new President is a very handsome man. He does not look so much like a lawyer as he does like a soldier. His presence is easy and dignified. i Canada's Increased Debt. Canadian Dominion finances show a deficit of $3,000,000 for seven months past and an increase of $3,473,000 in the public debt. Memorial Services for 123 Lost Fishermen. A memorial service for fishermen lost from Gloucester, Mass., the past year, was held at the University Church, and most of the local clergy assisted in the exercises. The Rev. Mr. Charlton, of the Fishermen's Institute, read the names of 123 men who had been drowned from Gloucester the past year. Only twenty-three bodies were recovered and buried on shore. Canada Seeking Immigration. Rev. Father Parailis, a missionary, is at Lake Linden, Mich., arranging for the transportation of 572 families to Canada. The Canadian Pacific Railroad will give them free transportation and the Government will furnish employment in making roads to all who wish to work. An Ignored Oriental AVar. Latest advices from Kashkar, India, say that the Chitralis repulsed Umra, the Khaa of Jandol. pursued him and killed over 100 of his Baajanie troops. The Chitralis also suffered severe loss. A Snoeklnj; Confession. % William Brusseau.arrested at Detroit.Mich., charged with the murder of Dr. II. E. Pop?, has confessed. lie implicates Mrs. Pope and says thai sin* vas present wh -n he beat the ^ t-rx il^nH) with .1 h?Lt.i'Ill?l. Their Lox Shark Collapsed. Johu Thomas, colored, and his wife and iwo children wore instantly killed at Din?raore, Fla.. by the falling of a lo? aback iu v;hicn th?-y were sloepiug. Goveesok Evans, of South Carolina, has found that nearly every county and sub-disponsary in the State is short in its accounts, and lias begun to make things lively in consequence. Some of the dispensaries have been found to have shortages ranging from $800 to $1500. A pan-American eongresa cf religion ana education will be held during the coming summer in the United States, to which the people of all religious beliefs?Catholic^ Protestant and Hebrew?In every country of North aad South Amerloa will be Invited nmr.THiRD congress In the Senate. - v*-44th Dat.?The President notified & ] -?> lenate that he had arranged for the pwW w'ffl hase of 8.500,000 ounoes (about $65,000,000)1 if gold with thirty-year bonds bearing p?oJ ically 8% per cent interest. A message) > vas also received announcing that three) loyalists had been condemned to d^pth in) ? la wall. After debate it was referred. i 'Ai&Km 46th Dat.?By a vote of 88 to 25 the Senate" idopted an amendment to the Diplomatic* Appropriation bill, appropriating $500.00? 3 'or commencing the work on the Hawaiian/ >. v; / J jable. The day'B session' closed-with the . 11 lelivery of eulogies oa the late Senator'. Jtookbridge, of Michigan. The adjournment! M nrasat4.05p. m. 1 46mDat.?Mr. Hillintroduced a resolutioal jj ieclaring that coin bonds shall be payable ixb ; 3 told if the Government cannot maintain the. 7 'Jf parity between gold and silver. The crfr- j: .d iential? of Mr. Hoar, of Massachusetts, for an- S jther term beginning March 4 next?the ' ? Fourth term of Mr. Hoar?were jpresented bjr, viSH lis ooiieague, air. jjoage. xne rimueav . sent in documents containing the inform*- ' tion about sealing in Bering Sea asked/ - . ? tor by the resolution adopted January 8U 47th Day.?All the private pension bills oni the calendar were passed.??Conaideratiod j t>( the Postoffloe Appropriation bill was eon- . Unued. Finance Committee reported m J tree coinage bill. The question of eleo- - \'1S tion frauds in Alabama was discussed atj . muoh length by Mr. Allen, Messrs. Morgan! t and Pngh replied. A resolution in rwa^ . .'.'.V' tion to Presidential appointments of po6tana?-\ ters in the State of New York was offered'byj Mr. Hill and was agreed to. 48th Day.?The Senate spent the day dfcK ; i sussing the Postal Appropriation bttLthei , j flebate being on the section giving the Po?t- j master-General the discretion in using the1 I appropriation for railway car servioe.?? , 1 rwo bills authorizing three per cepfc. gold' . I jonds were introduced. j la the House. I 4i>TH DAT.?Messages were received fromj > J fnrfhiVHninffhAnn IiUD X ICOiUVUk ouuvuuv<u() , ( ?M?a Issue, and transmitting information that/ -1 three Royalist conspirators in Hawaii had: | seen condemned to death. The messages 1 were debated and then referred to the usual. . committees. j 60th Dat.?The House made some progress* '* vrjjl prtth the consideration of the Legislative^ , \ j Executive and Judicial Appropriation MIL; I The amendment to make the personal; C :lerks of members of the Housej ;J innual employee, instead of s#?-> .','j jional, was agreed to in Committee! I of the Whole by a vote of 121 to 59.?-A joint ^ HI I resolution, extending for this year only the , l time within whioh returns may be made un- '-^1 ier the Income Tax law from Haroh 1 to; jftSfl ipri! 15, was agreed to. The House pro-'' seeded at 6 o'clock to listen to eulogies upon' ' '- fjl the life and services of the late Myron B. ' Wright, of Pennsylvania. B 51st Dat.?Among the executive docu-i' I ments laid before the House was one fromi I the Secretary of the Treasury giving addi-; J lional information respecting the Bering) J Sea seal herd. The consideration of the1 I Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro-1- , 1 priation bill was resumed in Committee ot the Whole. An amendment offered by Mr. :fl Hartman was agreed to, directing the Seem-'. I tary of the Treasury to arrange for the re- > 9 fining of gold and silver bullion at thei 1 Helena Assay Office and melting it into bantj I 62d Day.?The Legislative, Executive and} . I Judicial Appropriation bill was 'passed. As 9 If noaaa^ f>i? fnfrn.1 urna ?31 R25.97fi.08. j- ' ?sd Dir.?It wa3 District day in the HooMj and only bills of interest to the District oi? ' . Columbia were taken np. Mr. Wilson^ I from the Committee on Ways and Means, re- j S ported a resolution indorsing the ebktraofc with the bond syndicate. The Houa? Joint , resolution, extending from Maroh 1,1895, toi .1 ' April 15,1895, the time for making returns of income, was passed. 9 FOR COLD BONDS. Farorablo Action af the Way* and HeauS( : Committee of the House, ? The Committee on Ways and Means. J vote of 8 yeas to 5 nays, decided to the House of Representatives the foiloir* 'v* ing resolution, practically as agreed uponby^ the sub-cemmlttee: ff "Rssolved, by the Senate and House <? I Representatives of the United States in Con- I gres3 assembled- That the Secretary of the Treasury be ana is hereby authorized to to-' H sue and"dispose of. at not less than par in gold coin, bonds of the United States with1 the qualities, privileges, and exemptions]. -i\ of bonds issued under the act approved July 14, 1870, entitled Ian act authorising 'v, H the refunding of the National debt, ';< to an amount not exceeding $65^116,075, VjB bearing Interest at a rate not exceeding three ' '.H per cent, per annum, principal and interest* - H payable in gold coin of the present standard! ; }a ;; :B| of weight and fitness, said bonds to be made payable not more than thirty years afterdate.; H Provided, however, that no part of the pro- -;:VW ceeds of the sale of such bonds nor of Um> jH notes redeemed with such proceeds shall be available for the payment oi the current ex- pensesof the Government.'' U The vote of 8 to 5 on reporting the bill M showed party breaks on both sides. Among 'V-'M the Republicans, Messrs Reed, of Maine, ana; M Payne, of Now York, were forthe bill, Mr; Hop kins, of Illinois, voted against It, and Mr. GroiH - i venor, of Ohio, refrained from voting. Among* M the Democrats the division was even greater,: HI Messrs. Wilson, of West Virginia; Turner, oil Georgia; Tarsney, of Missouri; Montgomeryj ifl of Kentucky; Stevens, of Massachusetts, ana Cockran, of New York, voting in the affirm*- VHP tlve, and McMillin, of Tennessee: Whiting,1 *^H| ofMtchigan;Bryan, of Nebraska,and Wheeler, of Alabama, in the negative. Mr. Bynurn^ IB Intl., was on the floor of the House while the fl vote was being taken, but did not appear to B register either way. Dalzeil, Penn., and' M Gear, Iowa, were not present The vote la ; KM full was as follows: For the bill?Wilson, Tarsney, Turner,' HQ Mnntunmonr Rf-nvPim lind Cocktun. DeQUH' crats; and Rood and I*;i -v. Republicans, 8J ' Against the bill?. -Millin. Whiting,1 Bryan, and Wheoler, L> nocrate; Hopkins, JB Republican, 5. A minority report wis male by those who voted against the bill. It was decided that Chairman Wilson, for the majority, should' ' HH report the resolution to th? House. i . The report which Chairman Wilson sub* mitted for the majority of the Ways and W Means Committee says: |H ''From tho reading of this contract it will/ HB be seen that the arrangement of the 8ecr?tary with the parties to tbls contract af- B fects the purchase of 3,600,000 ounoes of standard gold coin of the United States AH (amounting to $05,116,275) at least one-half of which snail be obtained in and shipped* 1 H from Europe. For this gold coin he .na4 I contracted to issue to the parties furnishing. it, under authority of the act for the resump- H tion of specie payments approved January 14,1875, 4 per cent, thirty-year bonds of th? United States, at a price which realizes to KB them interest at the rate of %% per cent., but ' j^H the Secretary of the Treasury has reserved the right, if authority be given him by Con* gress, to substitute at par any bonds of the HB United States bearing 3 per cent, interest, of BUI which the principal aud interest shall be specifically payable la United States gold coin of the present wolght and fineness, said sub- HB stitution to be made within ten days from the IB date of the contract. MM "It is the object of the joint resolution herewith submitted to give to the Secretary of the Treasury authority to substitute such H| bonds to the amount of the contract. The .. IH saving to be effected by the Government, as Si . forth in the President's message, will be NH $o39,159 per year for every year the three1 Hfl per ^ent. bonds run, and of the amount of $16,.70.770 should they run thirty years. aWB 4,As it is not believed by the committev that the issue of bonds specifically payable in HO gold will impose any additional burden of liability upon the Government tlmn if they are made payable in coin under its pledge Wfl and policy to preserve the parity of the coins HK in the two metals, the saving of this large amount becomes a matter of substantial mo- nj^H meDi and advantage of the Government, and' H as the particsto take the boadsare under con- 'HH tract to furnish gold coin for them, It seems no hardship on the Government to contract' to pay them back in the same coin that they BH furnished to it." | ^1^9 Tht; report of IIr. Wilson included a cop7 SB of the President's recent message to Congress.^ bearing upon the subject, and also a copy off EH the contract made by the Treasury Depart- HI ment with the European syndicate for the' jHH purchase of the new bonds. The text of the bond contract shows that the bankers drov? IHfl a hard bargain with the Administration. In addition to the rate of Interest agreed upon. the bankers are given an option on all' future issues up to October 1 next 9H9 Bills providing lor the three per oent gold.1 mna bonds were also introduced in the Senate by! HBWi Senators Vilas and Sherman. , ... j REBfl