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(i"'Y GREAT SHI FOR BONDS?" Big Scramble for the New Four Per Cents in New York. AIL TAKEN SN A FEW MINUTES. Utrelved for Mor?* Tlutu Tmi Times it-r* /iinonni 01 iui1 l.oait ?ti -an*-,.?w,OC-O?Forplijn Plmdivirm Showed Great Kagemeas to tiet tile ">e?v Yankees" "-Selling at a rrenihini. Subscriptions for the much-talked-of four par vent, boud issue, which Is to supply the j Um'led States Treasury with ?03,000.000 iu gohl. were opened simultaneously in New York City and London. With the opening and rapid closing of the new bonds, u brief vi*it from Secretary of the Treasury John G. i Carlisle and reports that Londoners had gone j wild in their efforts to subscribe to what > , they facetiously termed the "New Yankees." *he New York financial worid generally had J sufficient to occupy its attention for one day J at least. ( Long before the banking houses of J. P. Morgan A Co., and August Belmont <fc Co.. who received subscriptions. opened for business. messengers with blank bids filled out i stood in line ready to sulkK-ribe to one-half t of the 862.000,000 four jwr cents., which por- < tion the big foreign syndicate is under con- < tract to sell in this country. At 10 o'clock the subscriptions were re cplved. aud for exactly tweutv-ono minutes i all blanks oresonted were taken, ft was ex- 1 Hctly twenty-one minute past 10 o'clock when the big subscription closed. In that time every dollar's worth of the $31,000,000 bonds was subscribed for according to estimate, twutw times over, ami those wi!< s? subscriptions will In? received had the sold to pay for them either iu the ;8uL>-Treasiiry >r in one of the several hanks deputized to act as depositories for the Government. According to the announcement of Messrs. Morgan and Bcltnont on l>eha!f of the syndicate. the right was reserved by them to reject any applications, to allot smaller amounts than had been applied for and to apportion ;allotmen?3 between American and European applicants In any way that they might deem best. The amount of the .en tire issue of the new four per cent, bonds is 862.500,000 in coupon forto 01 >>:>u, tuw, !?iw?vt ana reg?t?iereu jorm > of ?50, 8100, $1000 mul ? 10,000 each. They i 'bear interest from February 1. 18l)5, when t tboy are dated, and are payable at tho pleas- 1 ure of the United States after 1925. when they -mature. Interest is payable quarterly on I February I, May 1, August 1 and November 1. ; The price of the bonds to the pubii<' is ] :1125^, of which 12% por cent, is payable on ? tho allotment and the remaining 100 per cent. I upon the delivery of the bonds with interest s at four per cent, a year from March 1. The bonds will be delivered as soon as they ^ are prepared and executed by the Treasury 1 iDepartment. It has been arranged that pur- 1 . "chasers who desire to complete their payments before the dolivery of the bond* shall receive negotiable receipts. The other half of the ?02,315,000, which, in a like prospectus to the one issued in this (Country, was offered in London by Jloth- _ schlkl & Sons and J. S. Morgan & Co.. it was * announced by a cable despatch has been subjjcribed for ten times over. A later cable des- *! :parch announced that the bonds wern at a * ? premium of fo-ir per cent. > Secretary Carlisle aud his sou. William K., I ?allod on Assistant Treasurer Conrad N. Jor- t dan at the United States Sub-Treasury in \ New York durinurthe mominv. Mr. Carlisle, t: when questioned by u reporter, declared that ibe had not a syord to say for publication on j, the question of the new loaD or any subject ? Connected with his office. He said, however, j, that he already knew oT the great over-bid- 5 ding for the bonds and of the success of the g Joan. j A NEW YORK VILLAGE BURNED. n b Jorty BmtincM Flacrs ici Hamilton Do- J s troy oil With a Lokh of 6^00,000. At 8.30 p. m. a fire started in the furniture rtore of Rowland & Deal, ia Hamilton. a vli- * lage twenty miles south of Utiea. N. Y.. ami t< the scat of College University. The one eii gineinthe village was frozen up. the water H . - pressure of a n-^w system of water works was L TOiserabiy smali and the lire swept the busi- 0 r\Avfl/\rt a? tK? 4Affr/! A uflfT tiPUu'/U fanned the ilames, niul in-fore aid could 1h> ( seat from Utica and the surrounding villages. s forty business places were totally dstroycd. The burned district includes the Smith Mock, crofted at a cost of 800,000; the Tripp. . s three-story' briok building; the Davit*.threcwtorv hriek building; the Tripp Opera House, the Shores brick building, the National Hhui- iJ ilton Bank, the Postoffice. the engine house, g the Ma? ;nl^ Hali. the Hamilton Sentinel <1 building, th*> Rowlands Suulding. the Matt 2)rick building", Dodge estate stone building, the Banning estate brick building, Bonney & ]< Meldon's bri.^k building. Haskelrs building, si the Kice building and the Smith estate building. * n These ar?? principal structures, and iu them w-:re many stores and offices. Practically nothing was saved. Merchandise and goods which were removed to the .street caught Qro and burned. A. conservative estimate places the loss at ri $209,000, with a nominal insurance. ... . .. CI ' RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT A SUICIDE. U 1ft r*l Sfcn?tarv of the Legation SluxiM ?J n:..t.?ir in \v??iiino-?nn fitv. v M. P. Bogdanoff, Fir it Secretary of the 7?ussiaa Legation, lei I led himself at 10.15 si o'clock a. m. by shooting himself in the head a at his boardiug house in tbe fashionable part of Washington City. He had been sick for two y or three weeks, and his suicide is supposed (( to bo attributable to the suffering he had un- M <i?rs?0E0. j M. Bogdanoff was between thirty and ? thirty-five y<ws of age and on married. He was first Secretary of the Russian Legatiou. and was highly esteemed amonir the meml>ers of the Diplomatic Corps. He ?! had Iwn suffering for several weeks with sever* i><iias in h!a lower limbs, tho result, probably, 6i a heavy eoid. which hail de- A veioped into grip. It is thought that ho bad become despondent over his illness, which did not satirise bo leaving him. and that in a moment of despair lie killed himself. t PATENT COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. 1 ?f Cosnwrtirut l?ul th? I-lst in \ Sumhnr of I'atrnt* Granted. fi ComraixMon^r of Patents John S. Seymour submitted t-> Congress his rejxjrt of this work ?f His bureau 1'or tho y;>ar 18!>4. TIo ?ays thut -durintr th>? >v*r there were 20.80." patoats pranted and 1600 tr:vl'- mark* registered. and 12.920 patents expired. The total expenditures wew $1,100,047. Th? re viles nv;<r expenditures were $87,392. and tho total balance to the credit ot the Patent Office ia tho Treasury of the United States amounts to $4,:!60.i:!5. In proportion to population, mom pat?nts were issued to citizen.* of Connecticut than to those of any other BfcaN-. C?j>t?iin and Two Men I.o*t. Captain Thomas McLean, of the British bark Vaioua. left his vessel iu a small boat for Darlen, Ga. Ho was accompanied by two of the crew. Captain Patterson, of the tug Mallonre. reports finding the boat bottom up near Sutherland's Bluff. There is no longer any doubt a" to the party's being lost. family Froz?n to Death. The echoes of the blizr.anl of February C, 7 and 8 are just now boiag heard from the !far outlying districts in Missouri. From :Buford Mountains, eight miles southwest of Iroudaie, Mo., comes news of a woodohoppor j named John C. Warner, his wife and three children found frozen to death. Twenty-two Person* Frozen to Death. There 1$ yet no abatement of the cold weather throughout Austria. Twenty-two i persona have been frozen to death In Galloia, and several oases of death from exposure to the cold a re To ported from other regions. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. | In the Senate. 1 50tk Dav.?'The PostofRco Appropriates bill wm passed. The Agricultural Appropriation bill taken up. . 51 ht Day.?The Rev. Dr. H. H. Lunn, o! I London, England, offered the prayer at the opening of the Senate. A discussion was started on the resolution of Mr. Hill, declaring it to he the sense of Congress that the policy of the Government .. requires that its effort? be steadily direct- I ?.-d to the establishment of a safe system of bimetallism, wherein gold and silver may be maintained at a parity. Mr. Sherman offered j a substitute. Mr. Wolcott moved the reference of both resolutions to the Committee on Finance. Mr. Hill defended the course of President Cleveland. The remainder of the session was devoted to the Agricultural Appropriation bill. 52o Dav.?Nearlv th-"- whole day was do voted to discussion of the financial situation. The silver men forced aside all other pending business, including appropriation " bills, aud by a vote of 30 to 27 made the bill o for the unrestricted coinage of silver the un- y (Inishod business before the Senate. 53d Day.?After n fight lasting from noon J till y p. ra.. the silver Senator? abandoned '1 the Jones bill because it was demonstrated <J that it would not help the mine-owners. The income tax amendments were passed. 54th Day.?Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, do- ^ lined to press his Free Silver bill, and it and fl Mr. Wolcott's resolution weDt to the cal- a mdar. The Indian Appropriation bill was 3onaidered. * 11 In the House. 55th Day.?The Naval Appropriation bill ij ivas considered all day. The House then took t( i recess under the rule until 8 p. m. The p evening session was devoted to the consid- w >ration of private pension bills. 56th Day.?General debate on the Naval Vpproprlation uiil was closed. Among the g( niscellaneoua business transacted was the f( jassago of bills declaring it to ne tne sense 01 a Jongress that- Great Britain and Venezuela ^ should sett Id by friendly arbitration the Guiina boundary dispute. >iq<1 directing the Sec etarv of tlie interior to soli isolated and frac:ional tracts of public lands of less than a J Iuarter section at a minimum price of $1.25 j. in acre. The General Deficiency bill, the ast of the regular appropriation bills, was *, ilac.ed on tlie calendar. Tlie Postofflce Ap- t, >ropriatien bill was placed in conference. . Vt 2 o'clock the House suspended public, business and listened for an hour to the deivery ot eulogies upon tho life and character ji uio lute senator i.oiqum, 01 <t(.'<ji>cik. 57tk Bat.?Tho ro-;c;iiution of Represent- f itive Wilson, of Washington, Senator-elect, v ivas accepted. Three measures were iHKsed and two defeated. Thoso passed were >ills fixing tho minimum pension of pension- a :rs of the Mexican war and the Indian wars n xom 1S32 to 1842 at -?12 per month; equaliz- tl ng the pay and duties of steamboat inspoc- ri ore. and granting Mount Vernon Barrack*. 0( UubariM, to that State for publio purposes. ?Au hour was devoted t%> the Naval Ap>ropriation bilJ. 58th Day.?Consideration of the Naval Appropriation bill was continued. A coni'er:nco was agreed to on the Agricultural Appropriation bill. The income tax amendnents passed. 55>th J>a\\?The Naval Appropriation bill vas passed with the provision for the build- l ng of three new warships and twelve tor- u >edo boats. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washincton Items. President Cleveland has issued his annual ^ iroolumation in regard to fur scats. ? President Cleveland has signed the bill < or a life-saving station at City Point, Boston [arbor, Mass. The President ha* nominated Joseph R. SI Icrod, of Indiana, to be First Snoretary o( he Legation at .Tapau: William CrJehton, ol Vest Virginia, to be Secretary of the Lega- V Ion of the United States at Brazil. K Prewdest Ci.evei.and has named the folswing Consuls: Fred Ellicon, of Indiana, at P telize, British Honduras; Julio Harmony, oi P' lew York, at Corunno. Spain; William W. " lasterton. of Kentucky, at Aden. Arabia, amuel W. Thome, of Pennsylvania, at ' isuncion, Paraguay. fl( The I'resident sent to the Sen?te the nomi- p ation of Erskine M. Ross, of California, tc jj e United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth udieinl Circuit. g The Secretarj- of the Treasury, iu response ^ o a Senate resolution, said it would be desir- q bin for the Secretary of the Treasury to have _ uthority to issue and sell short-time bond? t> meet deficiencies. The time limit having expired the United t( tates four per cent, bonds called for by th6 j,i (elmont-Morgan syndicate agreement were a] rdered to lm printed. The hnndredth anniversary of the birth o! nn ieorge Pea body was celebrated in Massa- tt etts. ti The second triennial convention of the Na- b< ional Council of Women began in Washing:?n. o] secretaiiv Cablisle issued a statement tfiv ^ ag a complete history of the Belmont-Mor an gold bond contract. Mr. Morgan withrow the bond contract to which Mr. Cle ve- I >. ind, as President, agreed. a( Senator Hii.l defended President Clew m ind from the attack made on him by the fc liver Senators. ij Gold Is pouring into the Treasury for the ew issue of bonds. The gold, or most of it, n ame originally from the Treasury. sc Foreign Notes. Guatemala and Mexico have practically jj, Bached a settlement of their dispute. C( The Khedive of Egypt has married a Cirassian girl who came into the palace when v< child as a slave. b< I.i Hcno Chan? has given up the ViceroyIty of Pe-Chi-Ll, preparatory to assuming ^ ae dtities of China's peace commissioner to " apan. German and French farmers are making n, n active campaign against American grains m nd meat". A despatch from Wei-Hai-Wei. China, an- af ounces the capitulation of that place and <lM lie surrender of the Chinese warship in port jM j the Japanese. The Chinese were repulsed m rith heavy loss in an attack on Hai-Cheng; (!I apan is "to have two battleships built in ' 'nr.lnnH . r.t Tkk resolution to call another silver con- sj arenee watt adopted by the German Reich- st ta^ and ha* the aj.proval of the Imperial roverninent. ? Ukt'obts of further outrages by Turks in irmenia reached London. rc Dotucstic. j.j Mr.?. W. S. Uajnsfoud, the wife of the w- y] or of St. George's Church, was road" ;i ; ! ehool trustee in New York City. fj A ?:aku)ai> of Chinese in bond from Hong ^ iong to Havana passed through Fort ?' Vorth, Texas. There worn about ouo huuIred and they have contracted to work on liantutions in Cuba. Couuelix Hii.1., residing at Iiippon, W. in., shot and instantly killed her father. He Kid unmercifully beaten one of his sous and it ,va* choking his wife when the daughter >laced tiie muzzle of a revolvernear tha hack )f her father's head and Jirod. Incoming fishermen report immense rpmut :?loa f)cl? rvn th.. ..n,l .m?:n vi uwu jiou "u iiir itoia atiu *?IVest Buy, Texas, killed by the recent cold. rhev were washed ashore by the ton. While engaged in boring 11 deep well on a ,r 'arm southwest of Rich Hill, Mo., John Marshall,a prospector. struck a line blow of v petroleum uta depth of 710 feet. The Faculty of Harvard College at a t, ?pecial meeting at Cambridge. Mass., decided A> recommend the abolition of intercollegiate k football. a Dissension* in the ranks of the American v Protective Association in Illinois has resulted n In the organization of an opposition society, tl known a? the National Assembly Patriotic h League. r Fike consumed the large breaker of William Connell & Company, at Connellton, Penn. The loss is $100,000. Six hundred men are boys were thrown out of employ- tl ment. The Boml Syndicate issued the prospectus j) for the new lour per cent. loan. The bond* j are o?foredat 112,V. ' W. S. Gcmmkue, of Trenton, was nominated r by Governor Werts to succeed the late Jus- o tice Abbett ou the New Jersey Supreme c Court bench. a By blowing out thegas in theirhotel room, at Springfield, III., George Harpool and Casey Gregory, of Fairfield, compassed their own deaths. James Douohue, of New York, engineer of ? the New York Central fast mail. No. 32, was " killed in a collision near RhJuecliff. N. Y. iaf.fiTJ.mnm 'he Feature of the Convention of White Ribboners in Washington. r IS OVER FIVE MILES LONG. , I'oljrglot Roll of Five Million Xaiuw That Hat Taken Years to Compile for Presentation to President Cleveland-? To Be Started on ? Voyage Around the Worm?Mounted on wmw diuhiiii. Tho grand Convention of ^Thite Ribboners 1 Washington wa? greeted by an audience f four thousand persons. T.ie Metropolitan lothodist Episcopal Church, where the conen tionwas held, was becomingly decorated, 'emperauce banners representing the ifferent NationB of the world rare hung around tho balconies, rhll? at the rear of tho pulpit two large ags were suspended, one of the British nd the other of the American, brought jgether at the bottom of a silken buner on which was inscribed the motto, For God, for Home and Native Land." ho principal object of the gathering was > call to tho attention of Confjress and tho tha nrtlvt'lflt nftHtlOll hiehbas arrived in Washington aftor a 5iiriioy around the world, and which bears io signatures of more tban 5,000,000 perjns of all nationalities. The petition asks >r total prohibition of the liquor traffic nd opium trade. Miss Frances E. ITillard and Lady Henry Somerset rere detained in Boston by an ttaok of the grip. Miss Anna Gordon read [iss Willard's address. At the close of the "ading of Miss Willard's address Miss Belle oarnov delivered an address to men. Sho us followed by Dr. Luna, of London, and tra. Bakor, the National Treasurer of the nion. Tho proceedings closed with an adreas by Mrs. Clara C. HoITman. HISTORY OF THE PETITION. ontaius Millions of Names Trom All Quarters of the "World. Hitherto tho largest petition ever framed, ad tbo only one approaching this in the umber of its signatures, has been that of le British Chartists, in 1841, .asking for the jpeal of tho com laws; this Ind nearly 1,)0,000 names, and it carricd its |?oint. MLss ?1 P0I.70r.0T TEMl'EItANCE IT.TITIONB. lovrir." tiie Er?.ct Proportion of the Monster Rolls to a Woman or Average Height. fillard orul her co-workers started out to fct 2,000,000 namoa in actual signatures to leir petition, and tho work has now been r&ctically accomplished. Indeed, from one oint of view, it haa been more than triply reomplished. For, whlln the actual signa ires thus far mounted on canvas number 121,200, the official indorsements of various xsieties raise the total to over 6.000,000 parens who have set the stamp of their aproval upoii the following remarkable docutent: For God and home and native land?Polylot petition of the World's Woman's Chri'san Temperance Union.?Address to the ovemments of the world: honored Rulers, Representatives and Brothers: We. your petitioners, although belonging > the physically weaker sex, are strong of eart to love our hornets, our native land, nd the world's family of Nations. We know that clear brains and pure hearts lake honest lives and happy homes, and lat by these the Nations prosper, aad the mo is brought nearer when the world shall 3 at peace. Wo know that indulgence in alcohol and plum, ana la owiur wuivu uutgrauo )dal life, makes misery for all the world, id moat of'all for us ana for our children. We know that stimulants and opiates are >ld undor legal guarantees which make the overnments partners in the trade, by jcepting as revenue a portion of the profits, id we know with shame that they are often treed by treaty upon populations, either fnorant or unwilling. ' We know that the law might do much, ow left undone, to raise the moral tone of >eiety and render vice difficult. We have no power to prevent these great liquities beneath which the whole world roans, hnt you have power to redeem the ?nor of the Nations from an indefensible )mplloity. We therefore come to you with the united sices of representative women of every land, jseechlng you to raise the standard of the w to that of Christain morals, to strip away le safeguards and sanctions of the State om the drink traffic and the opium trade, id to protect our homes by the total prohition of these curses of civilization through at all the territory over which your Governient extends. The miles on miles of written names and ldresses ap[>ended to this utterance have )en mounted on white muslin by Mrs. Re>cea C. Shuinan. of the Evanston (III.) Woan's Christian Temperance Union. The lormlty of the task which Mrs. Shuraan has ndertafcen may be imagined from the fact lat the aggregate of time she has already >ent at it amounts to about two yeara of oadv work. King'x Daughter Dies in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Harriet A. Eskins, whoso father 'ignod as King of Guinea, died a few days n? at Lebanon, Penn., aged 111 years, tie leaves two daughters. Francis J. Eskins, F Willlamsport, and Mrs. H. A. Baker, of ebunon, besides forty-four grandchildren, drty-soven great grandchildren, eighteen reat great grandchildren and fourteen great rcat great grandchildren. <'nl>l Vlll.,1 lino ?k>ot. News has reached Helena, Montana, of the jtal extermination of a band of '2500 sheep elonginjj to Helena men and the death of ,ugene Watts, one of the herders, in a bliz:ird near Oka. M?t 14 Terrible Fate. ShephonLs on Mount Maasico, in the north f Mondragone, have met r. terrible fate' 'here ia a large f-avern in the mountain rbieh they were in the habit of using as a ifuge for themselves and their flocks in time f bad weather. Eleven shepherds from the awn of Sora had gathered together in the ave whwt a large quantity of earth, which ad been loosened by the recent heavy rain.nd in which huge stones and ploces of rook ,'ere imbeded, fell upon tlietn. Eight of the ten were terribly injured and either died on tie spot or succumbed to their injuries be for;' elp arrived. The three survivors lost their eason. The Cattle Hange*. Reports from the cattle ranges from Monamt and North Dakota are much more favorbio than were expected, cousidering the c.\essivoly cold weather which has lasted since anuary 30. Iu Montana thore has been loss now than for many years, and most of the anges are now bare. The losses have mainly ceurred because of frozen streams. Ia the V?.llatia aud Milk River Valleys the cattle ,re looking bettor than for three seasons. North Carolina Wants Immigrants. North Carolina now expeot? to get an inrea3ed number of Immigrants. The State's lanlfold advantages in the way of soil and reductions are becoming knowu everyrhere. KOREA IS INDEPENDENT. ( Notice to That Effect Served on the Chi- J neae Minister In Washington. The Korean Legation has served notice on the Chinese Minister at Washington that f Korea is independent, a fact that he had Ignored in sending the Korean Charge d'Affaires a copy of the Chinese almanac for the ourrent year. Ordinarily the presentation of a calendar might not be considered a matter ; af great Importance, but tho Chinese years aro arbitrarily managed by t&e limperor Kwang 8u, who has arranged for this year to havo thirteen months, including an addi- , ' tional month of May. This calendar is ananally distributed to the subjects of tho Emperor and to the rulors of vassal States, who are commanded to govern their dates by the Emperor's system. Heretofore the Koreans have used the Chinese year, most of their transactions being with China, and this has been considered by China a satisfactory proof of vassalage. When Yang Yu. the Chinese r Minister at Washington, sent the Koreans an 11 official calendar several days ago it was 0 promptly returned to him with a notice that they had no use for it, as hereafter they in- 11 tendod to count time as other civilized" Na- & tions. ii It Is understood that the Korean Legation g has hitherto accepted this annual gift from tho Chinese Minister who has thus been able to declare that the Korean representative in tl America was subjoct to his authority. After ^ this, however, he will have nothing to base his claim uoon. 0 FATAL MINE EXPLOSION. J Fire Men Instantly Killed and Six Others Terribly Injure<l In Fennftylv&nla. By an explosion of mine gas in the West u Boar Ridge Colliery of the Reading Coal and n Iron Company at Mahanoy riane, Fenn., six miners wore killed and five were burned, four of them probably fatally. Tho dead are: 0 Thomas Durkin, of Girardville. Joseph S Glibe, of Crescent Hill; Pctor Greenback, of St. Clair; Peter Kline, of Ashland; Anthony F Myers, of Ashland; Benjamin Reaber, of Mahanoy Plane. C All but Myers wore probably instantly killed, and it was some time beforo their 1 bodies were recovered from tho workings. Myers was taken out alivo and died while N being carried to the ho3pltnl. The injured are: & Edward Davis, of Girardville; William Minnich and William Goff, of Ashland; John I Lamey and William Davkj, of Mahanoy Plane. It was feared that the first four of E theso injured men ware fatally burned, but William Davis was only slightly hurt. Tho cause of the explosion wus supposed to bo that a naked lamp ignited a large body of gas that had been let loose from a blast that was made in tho gangway. The ex- ? plosion sot flro to the timbers or what is called the "monkey airway," cutting oft the C escape of th? five men killed in the mine. E F1CCAT FILCHED FOR YEARS. Q nis Huge Defalcation Caused the Bank of I.exington, Va., to Collapse. The defalcation of Cashier C. M. Figgat, G which has practically put out of existence tho ^ Bank of Lexington, Ya., and the only flnan- j oial agent of the entire community and county people, has fallen with a tolling effect. Over 0 twenty thousand people are victims of this 3 financial collapse. r The liabilities of the bank are $198,402.42. ^ The assets are ?133,202.32. This leaves a r; shortage of 865,200.10, not including the * capital stock valued at $80,000. It is said L that Figgat used up the $80,fW0 and 865,- R 200.10 of depositors' funds, leaving a cash & balance of $6573.12 to meet the cash deposits of 872,000. It Is given out that the period of defalcation covers twenty-three years. The Virginia Military Institute had nearly ({ 82P,000 deposited in the bank. A large 1 amount of the County Treasurer's funds was c uwu iu iuo unun ARSON FOR FIREMEN'S PRACTICE. V An Entire Company Discharged for Com- N pi 1city In Incendiarism. The entire Fire Department of Ypeilanti, Ii Hich-, is in commotion over tho confession ^ of ex-Fireman Charles M. Walker, who has g sworn that he, Captain Graham and Archie Harrison, now somewhere in Ohio, sot Are to many buildings daring 1892 and 1893. He says that Captain Graham was the chief ? conspirator and that he supplied the kero- 0, sene oil to start the flros. j, Their motive was to rid the town of old buildings, to give the members of No. 2 compauy opportunity to be at the Are first and * to get some needed practice. Tho firemen ~ were then paid so muoli per fire. He further * swears that the company was notiflod when ? tho flres were to occur. All the members of ? No. 2 have been discharged and Graham and ~ Walker are boih under arrest. * FARMERS' COMMON ENEMY. State and Federal Aid Aslied to Kill thr 0 Ku?Mlan ThUtle. t] The Interstate Russian Thistle Conference, j callod by the Governor of Minnesota to dovisw ways and means for the suppression of that o weed, met at the Capitol, St. Paul. Resolu- t< tions were adopted setting forth that the Rus- ? sian thistle has extended from the Dakotasto g California on the West; to New York on the ? East and from the thirty-fourth parallel on the South to the fiftieth parallel on the North, J rendering valueless for purposes of agricul- E ture extensive areas, and that the conditions prevailing in some of the States afflicted are such that the National Government must render direct assistance to the people in connee- o tion with their State governments by appropriation of public moneys, if deoisiye battle 1 is to be begun against the common enemy. l: THOUSANDS STARVING IN CHICAGO, o $ Fully. One Hundred and Fifty Thousand ^ Persons In Need of Immediate Assistance. ? According to a report made by the Outdoor Iielief Committor of the County j Board there* are 150,000 persons in r Chicago who require immediate assist- 1 ance to avoid starvation; 50,000 per- ? sons have already been supported ? at their homes at public; expense. Many are * said to be industrious persons who have been ; out of employment until their credit and re- 1 sources an: exhausted. Many more are in ? danger of being evictcd from their homes. ? Drowned Under tho Ice. Lillian McMullen, aged fifteen, employed ( at the stock farm at North Haven, near Sag c Harbor, Long Island, N. Y., was drowued in ? an air hole in tho ice at South Ferry. Tho j girl was walking on the ice with two j, children, daughters of the superinten- q dent of the pond. She slipped when near j the air hole and fell into the water. The two children hastened to her assisteuue, j nml thnv tnn full thrrmorh. Lillian. instead of trjing to get out herself, bravuly grasped the rough edges of the ice and hold on until the children climbed to her shoulders and thence on the ice. Then she sank to her death. Killed by Her Hatpin. Carrie Pelsgrove, a pretty girl of seventeen, residing near New Castle, Ivy., went r skating with her sweotheart and a party of 0 gay young friends on a pond near her home. Some of the youngsters began a race, and S Miss Pelsgrove, becoming entangled in the s crowd, foil, driving a hatpin into her brain, v The pin broke off, leaving part of it in hot t: skull. The girl died before sh? could be b taken home. t< h Starving In Oklahoma. An appeal for aid has been issued by settlers in the Cherokee Strip. Hundreds of families are absolutely starving, eating prairie dogs and horses. The suffering is unparalleled. Cattle have been dying iu droves, as a result of the unprecedented c "northers" which have visited Indian and n Oklahoma Territori&s and Texas within the h [>nst few weeks. P v Never Ilodo On 11 Railroad. " T.. G. Robiason, a wealthy farmer, who wont to Monmouth, 111., in 1829, is dead. He was noted for his eccentricities. Although over three score and ten he was never out of the county since he went there except to Galesburg. He never aet foot on a trim of t( oara. . 0 STATE OF THE TRBASPB secretary Carlisle's Special Report National Finances. SENATE'S QUESTION ANSWERE riie Rcpl.r to the Gorman-Alllaon Reno " ?? n- -r?it.? TVT nun itoen i uuy inui hid puujcit ui ter of the Inquiry?Anset* of the G< ernment January 31, 1805?Amount Cold Applicable to the Redemption Fu Secretary Carlisle has sent to the Sonat eply to the Gormnn-Allison resolution et ag for information as to the conditi f tho Treasury and the Treasury Sii ig Fund. The reply is very voluminc nd goes fully into tho subject mattor of < lquiry. After quoting the resolution t ecrotary says: The original gold reserve, augmented tie gold proceeds of the sales of bom ras diminished during the period of twon ve months to the extent of $172,674,315. f which $105,002,148.25 was directly or in ectly devoted to current expenses and 66 72,172.22, which had been converted ii oies uy me process 01 reuempnuHf was si 11 hand. That the assets and liabilities of the Tre ry in excess of certificates and Treasu otes outstanding were: ASSETS. July 1. 1895. Jan. !, 1394 Wd $95.485,413.59 $80,891,600 ilver dollars and bullion.. 6,707,135.31 5,965,201 'rnctional silver coin 11,855,944.30 11,639,466 United States notes 13,870,333.00 5,0^,202 'reasurv notes of 1890 6.528.533.00 1,194,884 rational bank notes 3,981,733.13- 12,357,628. [inor coin and currency.... 601,331.85 939,084 oposits i n banks 16,093,220.97 15,201,044 ionds and interest paid... 5.233,036.74 14,105 Total 3160,450,681.89 $133,297,277 LIABILITIES. lank note .1 , porcent fund $3,071,102.25 $6,817,595. uteta n d i n g chocks 3,200,181.85 4,253,180. isbureing ofti cers balances 24,240,051.58 26,980,670, ther doposits and accounts 4,570,155.83 4,870,474. 'otal agency accounts.... 37,988,391.51 42,921,721 rold reserve... '.>5.485,413.59 80.891,600 [et balance.... 26,076,876.70 9,483,055 "1 liabilities..$160.450,681.80 $133,207,277 The receipts of the Government fexclusi f postal) from'January 1, 1804, to Decemt 1, 1894, were as follows: iustoms $131,670,760 aternal revenue 156,010,034 [iscellaneous 17,507,123 eposits for redemption of National bank notes 10,175,051, ale of $100,000,000 live per cent, bonds 117,171.795 Total reoeipts $441,534,774 The pxrmnditurfis of the Govornm( exclusive of postal) from January 1, 1894, Mcember 31, 1894. were as follows: ivil and miscellaneous (including $5,299,285.30 for public buildings) $101,809,341 far (includiag $19,291,308.95 for rivers and harbors) 52,320,215 avy 31,984,374 adians 9,888,135 'ensionsv 140,104,521 aterest on the public.- debt.... 28,874,363 ledemption of National bank notes 12,575,510 inking fund 88,202 Total expenditures $377,764,663 The balance of cash in the Treasury ocember 31, 1894. available for the cum xpenses of the Government, but not incii lg the gold reserve fund: ilvor dollars and bullion.... $7,650,305 Pactional silver coin 14,483,636 fnited States notes 34.914.157 'reasury notes of 1890 28,369,950 fational bank notes 4,759,972 [inorcoin I,104jl96 eposits in banks 15,081,275 ionds and interest paid 12,247 Total $106,375,740 The actual amount of gold in tho Treasu nJulyl and January 1, 1894, applicable ae redemption fund was as follows: uly 1...., 564,878,024 anuary L 80,891,600 The amount of gold received from tho s f United States bonds from January 1, IB > December 31, 1894, both inclusive, w 117,380,282.74. The amount of Treasury notes and Unit tates notes redeemed in gold between 1 imo dates was as follows: reasury notes $17,804,045 'nitod States notes 123,941,059 Total 5141,745,104 The actual balance of gold on this accov n December 31,1894, was 586.244,445.05. The amount of United States notes a 'reasury notes in the Treasury January 894, exolusive of United States notes h< >r the redemption of currency oertiflca utatanding, was $6,289,086. Adding to t 111.745.104, the amount of such notes eemed,to December 31,1894. as above stat nd $45,117,738, the amount of like reden [one during the following month, gives otal of 8193,151,028 of such notes availa uring the whole period, exclusivo of inary receipts. The amount of these no emaining in the Trfrasury on January 895, the date of the resolution, was $8 27,989, showing that of the total of $18 62,842 redeemed in gold from January 894, there had been paid out the sum 1107,523,939, and there was remaining in 1 treasury a balance of $79,338,903. Of i mount paid out, 857.985,453 was for cum xpenses, and 839,538,486 was in excha; or other kinds of money, including gold. The unexpended balances of the va us appropriations and available for exp liture Januarv 1, 1895, foot up $255.9i >39.94. The condition of the sinking fund \ is follows on January 1. 1895: balances July 1. 1894. 8101,732,383 impropriation, fiscal year 1895. 48,750.000 total available 150,532,383 2xpenditurosix months ending December 31. 1894 25.545 Jalanoe unexpended. .January 1, 1895 130.306,?38 HUMAN HEADS AS TROPHIES. ?ivo Cartload* of TliPin to Be Pve?en< to th? Sul tun of Morocco. A detachment of Moorish cavalry has ived at the town of C'asa Blanca, a seap if Morocco, on its way to rcz, witu so haatly trophies of war for the Sultan, c< isting of two cartloads of human he* ?hi<:h were obtained during a recent expe ion against the Itohamna rebels. They h sen salted in order to preserve them, and s?r being presented to the Sultan will bo i ibited on the walls of Fez. A Living Duntli. Mine. Joniaux. the Belgian poisoner, 1 ntered on a term of life imprisonment, rhieh death would be far preferable. She onflnod in a cell to which a ray of light oi ot penetrate. She will never so much ear a human voice. Her food will aased to her through a slit in the wall. 8 rill probably go mad before many montl [ death does not come first. A Popular Pilgrimage. The rooort of Colonel J. M. Wilson sho liat 1,045,009 persona have ascended to t }p of the Washington monument since it v pfned to the public. >Y MINISTER CRAY IS DEAD. Onr Representative to Mexico Snccumbi There to Fncumonl*. The Hon. Isaac P. Gray, United States OH Minister to Mexico, died in the American Hospital at the City of Mexico, very suddenly. Minister Gray had been on a short visit to his homo in Indiana, and had hurriedly klli ISAAC P. OHAT. ^y started South upon the report of threatened hostilities between Mexico and Guatemala. When the Mexican National Railway train reached the City of Mexico at 2 a. m., i. the Pullman car conductor found Mr. Gray* ,o lying unconscious In his berth. Dr. Bray was hastily summoned, and pronounced ?>q | the case one of double pneumonia. A stretcher was nastily seat ior ana ro the unconscious patient was placed thoreon, and at once conveyed to the American Hos22 pital. Mrs. Gray, who attended him, was heartbroken to learn that he could not live 00 the day out. Mr. Gray remained unconscious antil death came. 44 Isaac Pusaey Gray was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania," October 18, 1828. on His ancestors were Quakers. His parents moved to Ohio in 1836. He was Colonel of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry in the Civil ' " War up to 1864, and later organic Ized tho One Hundred and Forty-sev; enth infantry. He began his political oaQo reer as a republican. He was elected to:the | State Senate in 1870. He became a Liberal Republican and was a delegate to the National Conyention that nominate Greeley. He 42 was elected Lieutenant-Governor of Indiana by the Democrats in 1876 and in 1884 was made 89 Governor. The Indiana delegation at the St. Louis Convention supported him as a candi77 date for the Vice-Presidency in 1888. Ho was mentioned as a candidate for the Presidency 53 at the Chicago Convention. He was nominated to be Jlinister to Mexico in March, 61 1893, and was the first man to receive dipiomatic honors tho present Administration. ,29 I A r> MIP AI TIMfi KILLS HIMSELF. .03 ? He and the Chinese General Couitnit Suiclde After'Surrender of AVei-Hai'-Wel. Admiral Ting, the Chlneso naval com.80 mander, and the General commanding the Chinese forces on the island of Liukungtao. In the harbor of TV'ei-Hai-Wei, Is said to have ,00 committed tndcide. 'y. admiral tixo. .fijj The State Department at Washington re Oj| ceived a dispatch from Minister Denby con 1J firming the report that Admiral Ting offered *- to surrender fleet and forts at Wei-Hai-Wol ?j? to Admiral Ito, of Japan, on conditions of 92 amnesty. ~ The Central News correspondent in Shang J? hai says that after the surrender of the last iry forts and the Chinese fleet Admiral Ting and t0 the Chinese General committed suicide. ^ PROMINENT PEOPLE. !lS aje MnxioSAiBE RocKEFELLER.the Standard Oil yj celebrity, invested :u a bicycle the other day. rus The Emperor of Russia and his wife are planning a long tour of their dominions for ed this year. ha JtTDor. Charles E. A. Gayabbz, the venerable historian, litterateur and statesman, died ,0C lately in New Orleans. He was born in New .00 Orleans on January 9,1805. ? The Princess of Wales and her daughter .00 have taken up wood carving as a means of ? a. ?1rt?nani anrtiirvo^lan illl ptot?aub uLV/uyanuu, Hilton Greaves, the largest cotton manuad faeturer of the world, dlod reoently, at OldIt ham, England, from cancer. ^ Senator-elect Bakes, of Kansas, is the . ja sixth Senator elected from that State since the war who was not in the army. 9d John L. Wilson*, the new Senator from jpj Washington, was born in Indiana in August, e 1850, and was tho first Representative in Cont,lt gress from tho State and is a member of the or. present House. to* Minnesota's new Senator, Knute Nelson, 31. is only a trifle ever five feet high. He will 15.- be the shortest man in the Senate. It is again reported that the Sultan of Mo* rocco has appealed to England to place his kingdom under a protectorate, as he does not feel able to hold it himself. 9ui William Waldorf Astob is desirous of | parting with the Pall Mall Gazette and his magazine, and intends to make a protracted ri. sojourn in the United States. i.-n General Montgomery Corse, veteran of iu. the Mexican and Civil Wars, diod several day# since, at Alexandria. Ya., from old age and ra- general debilitv. He was born in Alexandria In 1816. George Q. Cannon, the leading spirit in the Mormon Church, will probably be the 3* first Senator elected from Utah when the Territory achieves Statehood. His sou, 0' Frank Cannon, now Delegate-elect, has a pood chance of becoming iii.-j father'* Sena' 3f torial oolleague. "dan" exmett, author of "Dixie" is to ' have a recaption and testimonial soon from the Confederate veterans of Washington. Hi' will be eighty in Slav, and first saug the song tec In 1843. ( gexf.ral barkios. President of the militant State of Guatemala, is a professional r*r soldier and a West Pointer. His ambition is on said to be boundless, anil he comes of a lleree m> and warlike family whoso name la dreaded )n throughout Central America. ] .j. charles robeutsheuvinton, Commander- ( j,' in-Chief of the Malagasy army, is an Eng- , ^ lishman who failed to got au army coramis- ) af sion in 1877 and embarked for South Africa. fti - (laix.rol unh He naa tn?? r?un m jiiniuruiuu-nuiivi..., for tun years has beeu Military Secretary to the Queen of Madagascar. ( 8tili.io.v Hi.*ti hish. of New Ilampsliiro, has ' received $225,0'00 from the National Typoj graphic Company as a commission for nego- ' . * | tiatiug the type-sotting machine pr.tonta fox * t( I England in 1889. i' . By accepting the Chancellorship of the ' ' in Gorman Empire Prince Hohenlohe lost money. ? as I The Chancellor receives only about ?12,000 b< I a year, extras included; the Governor of Al- < ihi! J sa'ce-Lorraino (the position formerly held by 1 ' the Prinuo) receives $36,000. The "Emperor offered to make up the deficiency, but Prince . Hohenlohe refused to accept. Flobknce Nightingale, at the ripe ago of seventy-four, is enjoying excellent health, t W: | She is a rich woman, having, besides some I hf private means, the #'250.000 publicly subra? scribed for her by the English people at the \ oloao of the Crimean war. ( I ~ ' - LATETELEGRAPBICTOKS | Dispatches Relating the News of thrf Country at Large. 11 KILLED BY A BURSTING GUN; Lieutenant reck, of the. United State* ..J Army, Hit by Fragments of a Cannon! Which Exploded' Daring a Test andJ 'I Killed, While Several Others Were .] Wounded-?Armor Plate Trial*. Fremont P. Peok. First Lieutenant of thai Ordnance Corps, United States Army, wa^ killed on the proving grounds at Bandy! j Hook, N. J., by the bursting of the brccch ofj a Hotchklss gun. The test of a 4 7-10-inch rapid firing gum' was under way, and two rounds, with flxedl ammunition, had been successfully fired by ' Lieutenant Peok. When the third round was :' fired the breech of the gun burst and frag* ments struck the Lieutenant on the face aad back, causing injuries which resulted in/ his death in a tew minutes.. ,, hi,f? 8ergeant John Thorp, who was assisting; i Lieutenant Peck, was slightly injured in the> log. The others presont, among whom were .3 Captain Frank Heath, the oommandlng officer of the proving grounds, and Major Sj Frank H. Phipps, the President of the Ord- ' '* nance uoara, eacapea urmurt. Many had narrow escapee from serious 1 injury, however, as the fragments of the breech went In all directions, and the breech' f look, after striking several obstructions, .'j:; landed about 100 yards away to the rear. JR Major Phlpps was greatly shocked by the occurrence and after doing what he oould ha started for Washington. An official inquiry} into the explosion will be made. A defect in| the breech block is thought by the ordnance! officers to have caused the accident] The pieces whioh could be found have been gathered with a view of subjecting them ?o. fi an examination by experts. This was the first serious accident that hag V3 occurred on the proving grounds since 188<L v ia On October 21 of that year First Lieutenant! ' William M. Metcalfe and Private Joseph King] were killed fn nearly the same place by thej explosion of a twelve-Inch shell, which waej .>^*9 being filled tor a test- Several other soldier* were injured in that'explosion. ARMOR NOT EVEN CRACKED. i ? , fu| A Remarkable Test or a Fifteen-Inch Toiw " ret Plate. A curved armor plate of Harveyized nickel) steel. fifteen Inches thick and representing ,'j, ' nearly 500 tons of armor for the tarrets of the baltlo ships IndianW and Massachusettts was tested the proving grounds of, the Bothlehem Irori Company, at Bedington, six miles below, <% South Bothlehem, Penn., with remarkable . " results. Two shots were nred at it at a *dla-' tanoe of about 250 feet One shot was to trjj to crack tho plate, and the other to try to pierce it. Although the' toughest projectile! that could be obtained was used: tA in the 10-inch gun that was flredJ ;, > not the slightest orack appeared liy '"""tM. the plate after either shot Both Drojectilesj $ t were welded Into the plate and flattened out; like tho smudge of a wet snowball;' The armor beat the gun with ease, t and the ex- > i ports present said that there never was a more successful armor test in this or in any) :'$S other country. TEN RAFTSMEN DROWNED. Rolled Off Their Kuft and Were UnablW to Swim for tbe Cold. A report from 8herley, Oa., says that tea colored men were drowned in the Sattllaj 1 Biver, at the bridge of the Florida CentraS and Peninsular Railroad. The men were! raftsmen, and were on a raft of cypress timber, when they became almost frozen. Theia faces, hands and feet wore frost-bitten, and v .their limbs were so benumbed that they werei _ powerless in-steering the raft. The freshet ^ had reached the highest marie and the raft became unmanageable. The men were weald j and hungry and could not stand up. I Finally they grew desperate?nd rolled off the raft into the river and tried'to reach th?f shore. They were unable to awlm. sc numbed and frozen were their arms andlegsj fThey soon sank and their bodies were foundl floating in tho wator a few days afterward, j 'OLDEST LIVING ODDFELLOW." . j v^jj He Died at Fiahltill Landing After Flftyeigrht Years of Member*hip. Amand Miller died a few mornings ago at ' Flshkill Landing, N. Y., ngod eighty yeatsJ He is believed to havo been the oldest Odd'allow in tho country. He waa a native of Lorraine. France (no^ a German province),' and ca&e to "thft country when a boy. He was initiated into Odd-*' fellowship in New York City in 1837. Heflrat joined Manhattan Lodge. In 1884 he, with others, withdrew and organized a new lodge ?Mechanics' No. 133, of New Yory City, ol which be remained a member, to the time o! , his death. i For a long time he was the only living! j oharter member of this lodge. He was 9 A member of the State Grand Lodge. H?| jB served several terms as an Assessor of the V town of Flshkill, aud held other local posW ^ tions. BOY DROWNED BY A DOC. ' Thomst Tried to Save His Playmate mnil the Latter Turned on Htm. Clarence M. Thomas, twelve years old, % son of James Thomas, was drowned^ under the ice on Lake Tataauassee, .Long Urancn.i N.J. Young Thomas took a big-shephferd dog) out for a run upon the ice. When the do? tried to pass over a place where the ioe had! been cut he broke through. The boy at-! tempted to pull him out and fell in himself.! < The dog "fought in the water with him until the little fellow slid under the ice and!1 was drowned. The body was recovered bjj the life-saving crow. ( i ' >,Vr3jj Frozen In the Bliiznrd. Reports have been received of a severe blizzard in the hills east of Aberdeen, Soutl# Dakota. Mrs. Neiving and four children,j living near Webster, attempted to go to] neighbors during the storm, but became be-' 1 wildered, and when found they wero leaning) against a wire fence. The mother and two / children wero dead, and the other two chil- fa dren badly frozen. "Cil Kobbers Shot the Cashier. H A bold but fruitless attempt to rob tha H bank of Aziwa, C'al., was made about mid- ? night. Cashier Daniels was in the bank when the two men efTocted an entrance. A 9 lively exchange of shots followed, and Daniels fell with a bullet in his shoulder; kU. ..-oo VUO fliw VUpkV4i\<U. rf Killed by ? Falling Tree. John Brablts and his son James, of Mont- I [jomery. Minn., were struck and killed by m | falling limb while felling trees. *" Thirty Student* Drowned. While students wereskatiag on the Moskva River, Moscow, Ilusaia, the ice gave way and1 :hirtv of them were plunged Into bhe water, ?nd drowned. None of the bodies have been' recovered. The Labor World. Boston Jotter carriers are to bo allowe<L 5172,440 for working overtime. The first ship-plate and boiler-plate plant! n the West has just been completed at South! ':liiua?ro. i Thk word ""ostler" has given place to1 'stableman" in the vocabulary of the large' itable*. i John Wanamakeb is being su'- l by a dia- ad 'barged employe for violating tuo contract abor law. H A North Dakota schoolmaster has been ar- ^ ested and deported to Canada under thel 1 contract labor law. 1 Cottok and woolen goods are so cheap hat anyone who makes living wages can al- \ lord to be passably dressed. EaiB PlSSKNOXB OONDUCTOB OiBBIEL W. iVhitzb has been running a "local" out of) horsing, N. Y., forty-two yew. _ J I . :&