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jSMEPMTmUMIl I [The Bimetallic League Issues an Address to the People. (A CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT. JoMpb C. Sibler. of Pennsylvania. Recom mended by the League?Slg ners of th? Address Represent Sixteen States?A I National Organization to Be Form ed, A "With Representatives In Every State. / General A. J. Warner, President of thf [American Bimetallic League, announce^ that jthe league has prepared an address to the jpeople. outlining plans for a new bimetallic party. The address is signed by these forme: .'Congressmen and others representing sixteen States and two Territories: ( R. P. Bland (Mo.). W. J. Bryan (Neb.), H. A. Coffeen (Wyo.), George W. Fithian (111.), J. W. Cockrell (Tex.), John L. McLaurin (S. C.). James G. Maguiro (Cal.), George P. Ikirt (0.), Justin B. Whiting (Mich.), H. C. Snodgrass (Tenn.). George F. Richardson (Mich.). M. A. Smith (Ariz.), A. W. Ogdec (La.). J. Capehart (W. Va.), H. L. Moore (Kan.). H. D. Money (Miss.), R. W. Fyat ?Mo.Y B. F. Gradv CN. C.). Charles H. Mor Kan (Mo.), G. W. 8hell (S. C.)t Edward Lane jflll.), D. D. Donovan (O.). A. C. Latimer (S. fc.). Marshall Arnold (Mo.), W. H. Densor {Ala.). W. J. Talbert (S. C.), John S. Will(jams (Miss.), T. J. Strait (S. C.). A. J. Camlnetti (Cal.). W. H. Bower (N. C.), Antonio 'Joseph (N. M.). E. P. Howell, of the Atlanta ^Constitution; J. Floyd King, ex-member ol Congress, Louisiana. ! The signers of the address demand the immediate return to the constitutional standard ?f gold and silver by the restoration by this (Government independently' of any foreign Bower, of the unrestricted coinage of botli pilver and gold into standard money, at the ratio 16 to 1. and upon terms of exact equality, the silver coin to be a full legal tender equally with gold for all debts and dues, public and private. Further they say: i "We hold that the power to control and regulate a paper currency is inseparable from (the power to coin money, and hence that all ^currency intended to circulate as raonej ghould be issued and its volume controlled !by the general Government only and should be legal tender only. I "We are unalterably opposed to the issue J>ythe United States of interest-bearing bond? In time of peace, and demand the payment of all coin obligations of the United States a? iTM-nvirlnrt hw ?vl?Hnc late in either cold or silver coin and at the option of the Government and not at the option of the creditor." I They say there are silver men in both old [parties, but that both old parties are undei jgoldbug domination, and that it is high time the bimetallio men got together under a new W I Those in the conference assert that if they {had authority to name a candidate for Pre:,(ident they would name Joseph C. Sibley, ol [Pennsylvania, but not having such authority they can only suggest the name and invite Expressions from the people by petition, resolutions or otherwise, believing that nominations when made should reflect in the (most direct manner the will of the people uncontrolled by caucus machinery or by projfessional politicians. A committee consisting of General A. fJ. .Warner, President American Bimetallic League (Chairman); William M. Stewart, United 8tates Senate; Henry Jones, of Georgia; Francis G. Newlands. of Nevada; Anson iWolcott. of Indiana, and John L. McLaurin, ,of 8outh Carolina, has been appointed to select a Provisional National Committee, to consist of one member from each State anil Territory and the District of Columbia, to take charge of the movement in all the States and Territories. A BAINIV. ^Aanitrt onui. Seriously Wounded by Robbers Who Were Pursued and Captured. Cashier Leech, of the Bank of Adel. Iowa, was perhaps fatally shot by two bank robbers at Adel. They escaped with an unknown amount, supposed to be $15,000. C. D. Bailey, a merchant, was also badly shot. The robbers drove into town about nine o'clock in a top buggy, proceeded at once to the Bank of Adel. entered, and stated they wished to deposit a sum of money. The cashier, S. M. Leech, turned to arrange to receive the money, and on looking around was confronted by drawn revolvers in the hands of each man. The robbers ordered him to turn over the funds of the bank, which he refused to do and they shot him. 3Ir. Bailey happened to be in the bank and was shot. The robbers then escaped with all the funds of the bank they could lay hands on. Thev drove out of town, but befoni noon both robbers were captured. One bid in a barn at De Sota and was smoked oul and shot. The posse returned t:> Adel with the other one. While in the bank and during their retreal the robbers fired repeatedly at the citizen.) iwho were alter them. Following are th? casualties: Dead?Orlando P. Wilkins, robber, iron: Patterson, Madison County, Iowa, aged 30, shot by pursuers. Injured?S. M. Leach, cashier of the bank, seriously wounded iu left shoulder and neck I C. D. Bailey, merchant, shot in shoulder, i J. M. Byera, prominaat citizen, shot it hand and arm. { R. S. Barr. Postmaster, shot in left arm. 1 J. L. Simpson, citizen, and Cecil Dexter, a jboy, slightly wounded. The robbers, Orlando P. Wilkins and C. W. 'Crawford, were farmers, living in Patterson NEW CHWANG IS CAPTURED. 'Japan Takes China's Big Town in Manchuria After Hard Fighting-. A despatch from General Nodzu, of the Japanese forces, daied at Hai-Cheng, China gives this information: ' As arranged, the army attacked New Chwang. The fighting began at 10 o'clock in jthe morping. Both divisions had entered thti city by noon. Part of the enemy had fled t<j ;Yingkao, but the greater part still occupied the houses and streets ana obstinately resisted the Japanese troops. j "Tne street fighting was desperate, but thy Japanese won their way gradually street by street, until by 11 o'clock in the e%-ening they had completely routed the enemy. "The Chinese left behind 1880 killed and wounded, 600 prisoners, eighteen gua* and great quantities of rifles, ammunition, banners and provisions. The Japanese loss war somewhat above 200 killed and wounded." Spain's Demand on Us. 1 Captain-General Calleja has demanded th? recall of the American Consul-General at .Havana, Cuba. At a Cabinet council al 'Madrid it was agreed to support the demand, USE OF THE KNOUT ABOLISHED. An Imperial Russian Decree in Behalf n! * Convicted Peasants. A despatch from St. Petersburg says that an imperial decree has been issued abolishing the use of the knout for offenses committed by the peasantry, who have been completely at the mercy of the local judges. Statistics, it is said, were submitted to the c.TAr showlne th?t durinir the last ten year> 3000 persons" died as the result of bciii;. whipped with knouts, and that the greatei number of thom were only guilty of having stolen produce from farmers. Fatal Election IJiots In Brazil. Advices from Rio de Janeiro are to the effoct that serious election riots have o<" eurred in the State of Pernambuco. Senhoi Jose Marie, manager of the journal La Pro vincia, was killed. The commander of t regiment at San Pablo attemptod to foment t rising in favor of ex-President Peixoto, bui the plot failed. The Government has iasuec prdere for the arrest of the leaders, and the.\ will be severely punished. Great Conflagration in Trinidad. The Spanish Colonial Office has received confirmation of the reports of the conflagration at Port of Spain, Trinidad. It la believed that $4,000,0f0 is not too high an estimate of the loss. . j CEORCIA'S NEW SENATOR ' "Major Bacon Has Lode: Been Froi*inent State and Local Politics. Major Augustus 0. Baoon, who was elect . to represent Georgia in the United 8ta1 Senate for the long term beginning Mar 4. 1895, is, like his colleague, in favor of ft silver coinage on th ) basis of sixteen to oi and this fact has imparted more than ori nary interest to his election. He had be 4.^' 1!!1 djjp^ MAJOR A. 0. BACOX. an active candidate tor fifteen months, and was his friends in the main who secured tl election of the present Governor of Georgi W. Y. Atkinson. Senator Bacon is a man of fifty and h been prominent in polities nearly all of h life. He was defeated for the Governorsh t once by the late Alexander H. Stepher again by H. D. McDaniel and again by Se ator John B. Gordon. Twice he seemed have the gubernatorial prize in his hand but it was wrested from him. He wasSpea er of the State House of Representatives se eral years ago, but after his defeat by Sen tor Gordon for the Governorship practical retired from politics until he entered tl Legislature last session with the express* purpose of capturing the senatorship. Maj Bacon is a successful lawyer and a man I fine ability. He at one time was general a i torney for the East Tennessee, Virginia ai I and Georgia Railroad, but resigned this p r sition and was a pronounced anti-corporati< I Legislator at the last session. He is a man I considerable means, comes of an old 3out ern family and probably knows more po I ticians than any other public man in Gee : gia. > EXPLOSION 0- NATURAL GAS. A Business Block in Anderson, In< Blown Up and Scattered Over Town. The most destructive natural gas expl ' jion in the history of the Indiana gas to occurred at Anderson, Ind., a few mornin ago. A seventy-five thousand dollar bui aess block on the Court House square w ' blown over all the central parts of the ci< In the building were the When clothii > stores, Prather's shoe store, Hadley's dri Btore. and a large number of business offlc and halls on the upper floor. i Fire followed the explosion,which was li i an earthquake, and the remains of the debi began burning fiercely. The entire fire d partment was called out and prevented t tire from reaching the new Court House. Attorney Ballard and County Commissio er Metcalf lived in rooms above the Wh 3tore, and it was feared they perished. The loss on the building and contents total, and will reach 8400,000. The fronts i all business houses in the neighborhood i the explosion were demolished, paved strec ripped open and telephone cables torn dow TEN THOUSAND ON STRIKE. Miners in the Pittsburg District Go O En Masse. Ten thousand railroad miners in the Pitl burg District struck for an advance of fou teen cents per ton, or sixty-nine cents, tl I Columbus agreement. A secret circular w sent out ordering the strike. The operato and miners held separate secret sessions. The action was unexpected, and bore o the threat of the district officials that t operators would not have twenty-four houi notice in which to prepare for the suspe eion. Ten thousand men were affected. When the convention adjourned every del i gate having telegraphic communication wi his constituency obeyed instructions, ai wired home that the strike was on. It was stated that not another ounce coal would be mined in the communities notified until the sixty-nine cent rate w recognized. The sentiment was for the abr I gated scale price, and no compromise. T i plan was laid in convention to notify or co fer with the association of operators, but t I demand for an immediate strike was i strong that it was ordered, and all other m? ters pertaining to it were lost sight of. TORTURED BY MASKED ROBBER Burglara Get 95000 by Koaftting a Mi and Wife Over the Flumes. News of a robbery*, accompanied by flen ish torture, inflicted on Mr. and Mrs. Jol Schonbrlch, residents of the little town Ai, west of Toledo, Ohio, has been receive Between $5000 and 86000 in cash was taki by the robbers. Schonbrich was suspect* of having a large amount of money hidd< in his house. The place wa3 entered by four mask* men. A demand was made on the old mi for his monev. and unon his refusal to t< the hiding place the robbers roasted his le, over the flames. When the agony became unbearable 1 told where $1200 was concealed. His wi was subjected to the same cruel treatmer and she finally told her torturers whe $4000 to 35000 could be found in a barrel salted meat. Tli* President Goes Duck Hunting. President Cleveland, accompanied by E O'Reilly and others, started from Washin i ton on his trip down the Potomac aft I ducks, on the lighthouse tender Violet. T Violet is to make her regular tour of insp( | tioninthe lighthouse district, including t sounds of North Carolina. The Preside was accompanied by Dr. O'Reilly, his phy , cian: Commander George De F. Wilde. Na\ Secretary of the Lighthouse Board, and Coi mander Benjamin P. Lamberton, Inspect of the Washington lighthouse district. Tne tr [ was planned to last for a week or ten days. I ! Bills That Fulled. '< Fifty-six acts of Congress that reached t President failed to receive his signature t fore adjournment, and are. therefore, of effect. About 100 bills failed to become la ? because they did not reach the President time. A Revenue Cotter's Precious Salvage. One United States revenue cutter, t Crawford, has given a good account of itsi and proved its public usefulness. It w r cruising in Chesapeake Bay during ihe \ cent blizzard and it helped to save thirte vessels and 139 lives. The Labor World. Chief Naval Constructor Wilson work L in the Navy Yard when a boy. Seven lives were sacrificed through the cent trolley strike in Brooklyn. ' The New Jersey Assembly passed a I : abolishing the State Board of Arbitration. The convention in Columbus, Ohio, of t > United Mine Workers have adjourned si die. m m 111 nr. 1ue vc3wwu ^ xcauo) vunuu um*? v/^ atives, nearly 500 strong, have gone out 01 strike. The Parthenon and the Temple of These in Athens have been badly damaged by earthquake. 1 Manchester, England, has Toted, throu 1 its Town Council, a million dollars foi j technical school. The Brooklyn Firemen's Union has fir one of its members $5 for riding on a b< cotted trolley car. While the London artisan works only flf four hours per week, the London shop g 1 works eighty-one hours. Efforts are maki to reduce tire hours of the latter to at lei twelve per day. , .. CM IS ADJODRNBU. ed The Closing Scenes of the Fiftyvo Third Session. ie, ii25 THE ENDING WAS UNEXCITING. With Befitting Solemnity the Senate Completes Its Work, but the House Dies Amid Merriment and the Interchange of Compliments?All the Appropriation Bills Passed?Monetary Delegates. After an exciting three days' continuous session the Fifty-third Congress passed out of existence at noon. The usual formalities were observed. In the Senate, at 9.50, the last of the appropriation bills (the Deficiency) was received with the Speaker's signature to it, and it immediately received the signature of the Vice-President and was returned to the ^ House. The Vice-President announced his signature of the anti-Lottery bill and the bill amending the copyright law so as to limit the liability of publishers. At 10.25 a resolution was off erred by Mr. ; Voorhees for the appointment of a committee ?I of two Senators to join a like committee on it. the part of the House to wait upon the ho President and inform him that the two ia, Houses, having completed the business of the present session, were ready to adjourn as unless the President had some other eomlIs munication to make to them. ip The resolution was agreed to. and Senators is,: Voorhees and Sherman were appointed such n-, committee. to At a few minutes before 12 the committee Is,1 appointed to wait on the President reported k- that they had performed their mission, and v- that the President "congratulated Congress a- at ttyi conclusion of its labors." At this an li nouncement senators ana an immense auuihe ence in the galleries indulged in a loud 0(i laughter and applause. Then, at noon, the Vice-President made ?* his parting speech, in whioh he said that the t" magnitude of the questions determined by 1(1 the Senate and the ability with which those ?" questions had been discussed had been sur^ passed in only few preceding Congresses; o" and that this hour marked the close of long h* and honorable terms of service of Senators "" who would be borne in grateful remembrance ,r" by their associates who remained. He expressed his thanks to the officers of the Senate for the fldelity with which they had discharged their important duties, and to Senators for their assistance and courtesy 1., to the presiding officer, and said that the great debates and important legislation of , the Fifty-third Congress now passed into the ?" domain of history. sit He then let the gavel fall and declared the g3 Senate adjourned without day. si- ' as THE HOUSE ADJOURNS. j ttg Ita Closing Scenes Were Devoid of Any it? SiAnastlnnn.1 Fnatnres. es In the House, the closing scenes were date void of any sensational features. When the House reassembled at 11 o'clock a Senate [C. clerk announced the appointment of the he Monetary Conference members on the part of the Senate and also the resolution providing n_ for adjournment. The resolution was agreed en to. Speaker Orisp announced Messrs. Catchi3 tags, Outwaite and Reed as a committee to 0f inform the President that the House was of ready to adjourn, and also Messrs. Rusk, jt3 Meredith and Coffin, as the Committee on n. Accounts to serve during the recess. He also announoed the following committee to participate in the dedication of Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military parks: Messrs. Hatch, Culberson, Reed, Sayers, Talbott, Sickles, Wilson, Mallory, Boutelle, Alexander, Henderson, Hooker, Tarsney, Hender- ' :g_ son, Bingham, Draper, Kiefer. Harrison, ] English, Marshall, Van Voorhis and Lapham. Mr. Catchings, with Mr. Outhwalte and ' he Mr. Reed, appeared in the main aisle at this I as point and reported that they had seen the ra President, who directed the committee to in- | forji the House that he had no further com- i ut munlcatlons to make. b0 Speaker Orisp resigned the chair to Mr. ' ra? Hatch, who recognized Mr. Cannon. Mr. Q. Cannon made a noat speech, complimenting ' Speaker Crisp on his fairness and courtesy. < [q_ Replying for the Democratic majority ana < tjj for Mr. Crisp, Mr. Wilson said that the ma- < a(j jority was duly sensitive of the honorable J and courteous action of the gentleman from < 0f Illinois. / g0 Mr. Simpson, of Kansas, spoke for the ^ Populists, expressing their appreciation of 0_ Mr. Crisp's fairness and kindliness. be Replying to these, Mr. Crisp made an elo- * a. quent speech. He expressed his feelings not ' he only regarding the resolutions, but in re- 1 so speet to the courtesy and consideration with which he had been treated. The Speaker, on ' concluding, announced the appointment of J Messrs. Culberson, Hitt and himself (under ' c the resolution adopted the night before) as 3 members of the Monetary Commission. * The hands of the clock then pointed to 1 *n twelve. "I now declare the thira session of the Fifty-third Congress," said the Speaker. 1 "adjourned without day." Amid cheers and cat-cails from the gal- i leries, a rush was made for the doors. The 1 of aewspaper correspondents sang the doxology, ' d. ''Praise God from whom all blessings flow." < Ehe spectators paused to listen and applaud. 4 3d j an THE APPROPRIATIONS. t sd A Total Outlay of #493,932,534 Pro- ] Jjj vided for by Congress. ( gjs The following figures show approximately the total appropriations made during the tie last session of the Fifty-third Congress: Agriculture $3,303,700 Army 23,252,908 < , Diplomatic and consular 1,575,073 * District of Columbia 5,916,533 1 Fortifications 1,904,557 f Indian 8,796.948 I )r Military Academy 424,261 i Pension 141.381.570 t S- Postoffice 89,545,997 I :er General deficiency 8,600,000 t he Sundry civil 47,140,000 i >c- Urgent deficiency bills passed earhe lyin the session 2,357,321 1 nt Legislative, executive and judi- < si- cial 21,900,000 ' al Naval 29,100,000 t m- Permanent annual 113,073,956 1 or Miscellaneous 500,000 < -iP - \ Total tiikvjdz.us* 1 i Seven Day Adventlsta for Africa. , he One hundred missionaries were given < ,e" credentials and fifty persons were licensed J ^ to preach at the session of the general conin ference of tlvj Seven Day Adveutists, at , Battle Creek. Mich. The missionaries will j go to South Africa. h9 THE AEROLITE MADE THEM DODGE. 1 ft Exploded With Terrific Force Over Reno 1 ,as Nov., Shaking Buildings. At 5 a. m. an immense aerolite shot out o^ < en . * cho northern heavens and soemingly passed aver Reno, Nev. It exploded with terrific ' force, shaking the ouildings and awakening ' ed -he people. Those who saw it describe it as { i magniffcent sight, lighting up the heavens ind earth in all directions. It was accomhv a niahlnir whirrincr noise. like that of a tornado. People on the streets tnvolun>ill tarily dodged. The explosion was not hoard for about twc minutes after it had disap- i ;he pearod. ine ~ ' Zinc Production. or~ An official statement of the United States geological survey shows that during the calU3 endar year 1894 the total product of zinc ' au (spelter) was 75,328 short tons, a decrease of j 8504 tons from the previous year, due to in- . gh dustrial depression. Kansas shows an in- j r a crease of 2773 tons, while al! other States ] show decreases. i ied ? i )y_ German Exports Increase. j German exports to the United States conty tinue to Increase. From January 1 up to ^ February 20 the exports from Berlin alone ? nearly doubled those of the similar period of I Mt 1894. - ... I i > WTTXTAM L. WILSON. THE NE WILSON IN THE CABINET! Cleveland Nominates the Tariff Re- 9 former for Postmaster-General. a ii SENATE PROMPTLY CONFIRMS. I i h The President Sends to the Senate the " Name of the West Virginia Congress- I man?He Was Chairman of the House u Ways and Means Committee?Sketch ^ of His Civil and Political Career. tl A The nomination of William Lyne Wilson, a of West Virginia, as Postmaster-General, to c succeed Mr. Blssell, was sent to the Senate j by President Cleveland on the day after the o pesipmation 0f the latter was filed with him. ^ Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia, was ^ presiding over the Senate when the nomlna- t< tion of Mr. Wilson was received. He spoke tl in very complimentary terms of Mr. Wilson, ? 19 did Senators Voorhees and Vilas. In ex- c scutive session the nomination was referred G to the Committee on Postofflces and Post- J' roads, and immediately reported baok favor- " ibly. " Mr. Wilson will not assume the duties of n iis new office until April 1. He said he had ?. iecided to spend the time between March 4 01 ind that date in seeking a needed improvement in his health. Ha still suffers from the jevere strain incident to the preparation and passage of the Tariff bill, and after a rest at Si lis home in Charleston W. Ya., he will go ;o New York as the guest of his intimate [riend, Congressman Isidor Straus. Mr. Wilson has for years been on intimate (? ;erms with the President, and his speeches 8j in the House have always been accepted as voicing the sentiments of the Administra;ion. 2! On the day following Mr. Wilson's nomina- T tion it was confirmed by the Senate in exjcutive session. The motion for conflrma- F rrrn r. Kt? Qano^A?. fnilllmn*" frt wKAm I W .juu itao mouo uj ucuaiii/i a ?uumvi( iv nuwu* :he privilege waa conceded on account of the c< fact that he represents Mr. Wilson's State in tl the Senate. M r< Sketch of His Career. C< William L. Wilson, of Charleston. W. Va.. h was born in Jefferson County. Virginia, May tl ),1843; was educated at Charleston Academy r< ind at Columbian University, District of Co- F lumbia. where he was graduated in 1860, and d; it the University of Virginia. He served in gi ;he Confederate army. For several years N ifter the war he was professor in Columbian c< university; but on the overthrow of the law- 6( ^ers' test oath in West Virginia resigned and n jntered upon the practice of law at Charles:on. tl He is best known to the country in con- 0( lection with his recent tariff work in Con- If /ress. He has been a tariff student since he 6C Irst entered Congressional life in 1883, but it a' vas not until the present Congress that he e: became Chairman of the Ways and Means di Committee, and as such the official leader of in ;he majority in the House. But at all times $ kiring his twelve years in Congress he has ai seen relied on by his party as an advocate of P< ariff revision. ai Prior to bis first election to Congress in oon U ~ 1 3 [oo? ut3 imu u&nrcu nibiu puti iu puunuo, c.\:ept in being a deiegateto the Democratic Na;ional Convention at Cincinnati and subse- . luently an Elector-at-Large from West Virginia. Early in 1882 he was chosen President )f the University of West Virginia. This would have fixed Mr. Wilson's sphere jn >f work, had it not been for political ruction ind party split at his home in Charleston. st iV. Va., which was settled by the opposing 03 actions uniting on Mr. Wilson. The cam- & jaign was a hot one, Mr. Wilson Anally win- cr ling by nine votes. He was then re-elected jn ;o six successive Congresses. He received ae ;ood committee assignments from the first, p( joing on Judiclary, Appropriations and Ways $( ind Means. C? His experience shortly after tho war as a jn jrofessor of law in Columbian College gj >quipped him for the work on the Judiciary 0f Committee. It was in tariff work, however, t hat Mr. Wilson found his forte, and he w nade an exhaustive study of it. In the four T1 Congressional eras of recent tariff changes? ;he Morrison bill, the Mills bill, the Mo- CiI EClnley bill and the Wibon bill?Mr. Wilson th :00k a leading part. He did much of the 0j ivork of constructing the Mills bill, and he $] ind Representative Breckinridge started on 0j i tour of platform tariff speeches through- n >ut the East in indorsement of President a< Cleveland's tariff revision message. ^ During the Mills-Crisp contest for the speakership Mr. Wilson cast his lot with Mr. Mills, and when Mr. Crisp won he designated Sir. Springer as Chairman of the Ways and B Means Committee. When re-eleoted Speakir, however, Mr. Crisp named Mr. Wilson is Chairman of the Ways and Means, and in :his capacity he framed the measure which was the basis of the present tariff law. He ? ivas defeated for re-election to Congress at the last election. K Mr. Wilson has been in poor health for P some time. He married in 1868 a daughter di sf Professor A. J. Huntington, of Columbian w College, and has six children. ni a Katlnc Horse Flesh in KnnsAg. al B. W. Hyatt, of Western Kansas, who is soliciting aid for sufferers in that section, f.| jays the people of Montgomery and neigh- ki boring counties are eating horse flesh, not ki beiug able to get other food. c? Cuban Rebels Captured. f\Atraimmnnf frAArva I r? ll O T'Q POfl. 1UO UUYWUUJUUl CI VVJ/O ?u v/uvu vu^. tured tho wholo insurgent band under the "iommand of Antonio Lopez Coloma, who J tieuded the uprising at Yburra, in the Matansag district. The prisoners have been conveyed J* to Matanzas. Antonio Carbelo, a Havana tai- w lor, was overtaken by troops at Yaguaramaa, c< aear Yagtfey-Grande. He was carrying arms jnd displayed revolutionary emblems. As tie refused to surrender, he wa9 shot dead. Car Fender Problem Solved. ' M Baltimore, in January, obliged its surface C1 transit companies to adopt a car fender se which has already been instrumental la w lag the lives of ten wdestrlanfl. I" vN^ * f W POSTMASTER-GENERAL. | TWO BUILDINCS COLLAPSE. 'Ive Men Killed and n Score Injured lit !j New York City. ] The Ave-story tenements in process of con s traction at Nos. 151,153, 155and 157 Orchard treet. New York City, collapsed and fell into ; mass of rains, killing three meu and bury- c ng ten or a dozen workmen. several ol irhom, upon being rescued, were found tc T e seriously and perhaps fatally injured. c 'he wreck of the buildings is believed to I ave been due to faulty construction and the 1 ae of unfit materials. The owner of the ? roperty and his contractors were arrested. r 'ollce Inspector Williams said the mortal 1 sed in the masonry was of a dangerous fi uality. The killed were: Hugh Cullen, * ody at the Morgue; John O'Connor, aged c tiirty-two. 427 West Forty-sixth street .ngelo Ticcor, aged twenty-six, 638 Eleventh venue. j By the fall of a wall in a building in proess of demolition at Forty-third street and 'hird avenue, also in New York City, a score . f laborers were buried under tons of debris. ? fhen the Fire Department had worked at the j uins for a little while they took out the ead bodies of two men?John Wilson. As J )rie, bricklayer; Frank Thornton?and a * lird man was extricated who died J rhile being taken to the hospital. Il * i charged that gross iguorance and I arelessness were shown by the contractors * reorge O'Keefe and Patrick Keegan. and J ley were arrested charged with manslaugh ? ?r. A floor of the building which was over J elghted with the debris removed from the j oor above collapsed, bringing with it pari ' f a heavy brick kiln, and this did the misilef ! FEDERAL FINANCES. J ? Ince July 1 the Expenditure* Have Ex- j ceeded the Receipts by 836,298,000. 8 ? For two-thirds of the current fiscal yeai * >xeluding the amount due the Treasury c nking fund), the expenditures of the Gov- S mment have exceeded the receipts by $36.- j )5,000, as shown by the United States reasury official statement of receipts ad expenditures issued at Washington, or the month of February the expenditures i ere in excess of receipts 32,803,000. Th^ rejipts were light, being only $22,838,000, but ley were $500,000 in excess of February, 1894. [arked improvements is shown in customs c sceipts over February-. 1894. the ex- ? ;ss being $3,000,000. These figures. t owever. almost . exactly tally with j le loss of receipts from internal svenue as compared with February. 1894. t or the eight months of the fiscal year to ] ate the receipts aggregate 3210,876.000, a g ain of $12,000,000 over the last fiscal year. c early all this gain is shown in increased re- q siDts from customs, which asrsrreKate $106,- r 15,000. against $92,657,000 for the eight ? lonths of 1894. r The expenditures for the eight months of fc lis year foot up $247.171,000. about $250.- c >0 less than for the eight months of j !94. For February, 1895. they are $25,>6.000, or $1,250,000 less than for Febru- j ry, 1894. As compared with 1894 thf a cpendlturee for the fiscal year up tc t ite show increases of nearly $2,300,000 c i oivil and miscellaneous expenses, nearly t 1,000,000 in pensions. $2,225,000 in interest, t id a decrease of nearly $4,000,000 in warexjnses, $1,000,000 in expenses for the navy, id $50,000 for the Indians. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. a Net Decrease During February, Less Treasury Cash, of S34.033.327. The public statement shows a net decrease * , the public debt, less cash in the United a ;ates Treasury, during February of $34,- J 13,327. The interest-bearing debt increased j ?20,150, the non-interest-bearing dalit de- t eased $1,159,196, and cash in the Treasury c creased $33,594,281. Th>-> balances of the veral classes of debt at the close of business v ?bruary 28 were: Interest-bearing debt, a 385,043,860; debt on which interest ha-> v sased since maturity. SI,779,390; debt bear- 3 g no interest, 8331,787.366. Total. S1.0SS,- b ,0,527. The certificates and Treasury notes p Tset by an equal a:nount oi! ca3h in the y reasury outstanding at the end of the month d ere 8572,755,539, a decrease of 86,022.331. d he total cash In the Treasury was 8798.090,II, The gold reserve was 887.085,511. Net ish balance, 891,112,075. In the month lere wa3 an increase in gold coin and bars ! 841,239,503. the total at the close being , 136,593,280. Of silver there was an increase ! 81,772,523. Of the surplus there was in I ational Bank depositories 816,534,017. 0 jalnst $16,156,715 at the end of the preced- C ig month. F ? a CHINESE DEFEATED AGAIN. 1 eaten by the Japs With Heavy Lom at ^ Ta-Plng-Shati. A despatch from Tokio, Japan, says"Field Marshal Oyamu reports that the ) irst Division of the Japanese army about aiping, China, defeated the enemy near Ta- E ing-Shan. In the afternoon ??f the saintly a force of about 13,00!) of the enemy, 8 ith twenty guns, began an attack from Pel- r laitaz, Tonchaotz, and Faoymamaim. Aftf r heavy cannonade we attacked their centm I t 3 o'clock in the afternoon and repulsed 1: lem, driving them toward Kingcow. Our 9 >ss was twenty killed and 250 wounded, in- 3 udinir seven officers. The enemv lost 200 Y Illed." The number of their wounded is un- t dowu. The natives state that tho Chinese c iuiu (a full force. 20,000 strong." Chicago's Incompetent Folic*. Chief Brennan issued uu order discharging ] 11 patrolmen from Chicago's poliiv: foren. his wholesale dismissal was tho result of ( le finding of Messrs. John Yv. Ela, Harrv f ubens aud John W. Hamline. who compos!' } [ayor Hopkins's Police Commission and who jnducted a civil service examination. (j A Cure for Insanity. Professor Wagner, of Vienna University, is expounded a cure for insanity to the E edical Society. He injects Koch's tuber- i| lline, causing a fever, after which tht> in- j" inity crrminished. He repeated thn treat- ? eat a few times, each injeotion lessening 10 Insanity until eventually it vanished. SHOOTS THREE; KILLS TWO. 7. B. Shortls Commit* Marder to Get Twenty Thousand Dollars. John Loy, clerk, and Maxim Leboeuf, watchman for the Montreal (Canada) Cotton Company, were shot and killed at Valley Field, Quebec, and Hugh Wilson, another :lerk, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded, rhe assassin is C. R. Shortls, formerly private lecretary to the manager of the company, )ut recently discharged on account of irreguar habits. Between 10 and 11 o'clock p. m., while Paymaster Lowe, assisted by Clerks Loy and Wilson, was making up the pay envelopes in the office, Shortis :ame in and vfas ordered to leave. Becoming enraged, he grabbed a loaded evoiver irom tne paymasters aesK ind began firing. Wilson fell, wounded. Lowe called loudly for help, and Loy stepped ;o the telephone to summon assistance. Sight Watchman Leboeuf rushed in lust in :ime tg see Loy fall, shot in the back, and Co we slip Into tne vault with the money tray in his bands, pulling the door shut after him. When Shortls saw two victims writhing on :he floor he looked for a third and, taking leliberate aim at Leboeuf, shot him down. He died shortly afterwards. Then the murderer threw up his hands and surrendered to the police who had arrived jn the scene. It appears that robber}-, and lot revenge, was his principal motive, rhere was over $20,000 in the office which he loped to get, but he was balked by the quick iction of Mr. Lowe in entering the vault and urning the lock. Shortls is an Englishman. BIG FIRE IN TORONTO. I Business Block Partly Destroyed, Possibly by Incendiaries. At 12.30 o'clock a. m. fire was discovered seuing from the windows of Robert llmpson's six story dry goods store, >n the corner of Queen and Yonge treets, Toronto, Canada. The flr<> nrlgnated in the packing room, and the i!a aes, ushing up the elevator shaft, communilated instantly to every flat. The Fire department was almost useless in the ace of such a raging fire. The lames destroyed Jamieson's large tailorag establishment and reached that >ortIon of Eaton's dry goods store tvcin# \JU. yuoou ofciorri, uui woio < >ut of the main building. Sutcllffe's dry ;oods store, part of the Imperial Bank build* ng, Mllness s hardware store, Henderson's uction room, Duffield's tailor shop, the Jlack Horse Hotel and Wanless's jewelry tore were bumod, as well as the spire of Inox Presbyterian Church. Incendiarism is inspected. It was the third disastrous flre fhich has visited Toronto in less than two aonths. The building in which Jamieson's store pas situated was owned by the Ontario Agricultural and Arts Association, and in the up>er portion of this building was Agricultural lall. In the archives were some valuable collections of cattle pedigrees and other oficial stook-breeding records, all of which fere burned and cannot be replaced. The ascertained losses foot up $1,140,000. leveral smaller losses among tenants and oomers will increase the loss to $1,200,000. A WESTERN NIAGARA. Lrtlflclal Falls to Be Made to Secure Hydraulic Power. An immense electric power house - next In lize to the Niagara Falls plant is to be built ;his year in the Stuck Valley, ten miles east >r Tacoma, Wash. To carry out the project he White River Water Power Company, rith a capital of $2,000,000, has been incor>orated under the laws of New Jersey. Water >ower is to bo secured by tapping the White hnlnw Tln^lrlAW from whlnh hv a slm >le conveyance of an open ditoh it will be arried to Lake Tappa, near Sumner, which rtll be utilized as a storage reservoir. The ake is three miles long and a third of a mile ride and 100 feet deep. From the end of the lake, by a flume over i natural grade, the water is to be diverted o the edge of the bluff overhanging Stuck ralley, giving a fall of 400 to 500 feet to the >ower house, where will be located a generitor capable of developing 25,000 horse jower without counting the surplus power tored in Lake Tappa, by the use of which >0,000 horse power can be developed. It is calculated that Tacoma and Seattle an use 5000 horse power, and other towns 000, leaving 12,000 horse power to meet the vatural growth of the two cities. An expert laa pronounced the scheme feasible. A CREAT PUBLIC LIBRARY. Phe Aator and Lenox and Tllden Trust Combined In New York City. The final disposition of the Samuel J. TiU len Trust Fund has been decided upon, and innouncement of the plan, which involves ha creation of a are at DODular library in lew York City, has been made. This plan provides for the consolidation of he Astor and Lenox Libraries, the Tilden i'und and the private library of the late lamuel J. Tlldeu into one great organization, omprising a collection of more than 450.00 bound volumes, an immense number tf rare and valuable pamphlets, and Includng property and endowments amounting to nora than $8,000,000. The new library will >e known as the "Public Library of the City ?f New York, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations." The union of the two most important ibraries of the city of New York, and the .lliance with them of the Tilden Trust and he funds and library under its control will :omplete, perhaps, the greatest educational novement ever attempted In the interests of he citizens of New York. VALUE OF OUR FORESTS. rhey Are Worth More Than the Gold, Sll ver and Copper Deposits. Professor Fernow, Chief of the Division of Porestry of the Department of Agriculture, appeared before the House Agriculture Comoittee and advocated the passage of the bill or the creation of a college of instruction in orestry, and to require a course of instruclon in the Drinoiples of forestry in all agriultural colleges. The forests of the United States, he said, rare more valuable than the silver, sold .nd copper resources of the country, being alued at $1,000,000,000. From fifty to erventy-flve per cent, of this great domain tad already been exhausted, and unless the leople are educated within the next twenty 'ears to use the timber properly and not le3troy its reproduction, the land would be lenuded of timber. Hawaii Commute! Death Sentences. The most important news brought to San Prancisco, Cal., by the last steamer from lonolulu, Hawaii, is the commutation of the entences of R. W. Wilcox, W. T. Seward, 3. T. Gulick and W. H. Rickard (who ilanned the revolutionary movement md who were condemned to death) to im>rlsonment at hard labor for thirty-flve years ind the payment of a fine of $10,000 each. Fheir penal terms date from January 25. Old But Lively. T. B. "Williams, of Fort Scott, Kail., has ust been admitted to the Bar at sixty. The Rev. John McCloud, of Remsen's Corlers, Ohio, is still preaching at ninety-tive. The mother of D. L. Moody, the evangelist, is 3till living inNorthfleld, Mass.. aged linety. Uncle John Walker, of Pipe Countyi Uinois, is dead now, bat he was lively a i tundred years and more. He was born a lnv? hnnchf- hi* freedom in 1835. moved to lissouri to follow his wife and children, who lad been taken there by their master, bought hem three years later, and died a wealthy nan. Out of the Common Kan. Three "wild men" are reported by a fright sned sheep herder in Brewster County L'exas. An oak tree has been found near Junction "ity, Ky.t whose bark at a point, twenty-ttve eet above the ground, forms a likeness of ibraham Lincoln. In the sunny South?in Mayfleld, Ky.. to ?e more precise?Dr. JohnDotson has recenty had qne arm and leg amputated because bey were frozen. Walter Wright, an inmate of the Soldiers' lome at Waupaca, Wis., was thrown down n a scuffle with another poor old vet. 'he jar displaced a silver plate set in is skull during the war and he became inane at once. r,. ? .. ft . ' " ' AN AMERICAN (5&UNTESS. v Miss Anna Oonld Weds a French Kobw man In New York City. In New Yoric City, Miss Anna GonldJ second daughter of the late Jay Gould, andf 1 ?1K IWl (VIA nf hi. ?a UCiTOM IU UYW Vi.y,vw,www vt uw n^CUbU^ IT QD united in matrimony to Count Boniface d? Castellane, son of the Marquis de Castellane,! of France. The ceremony was performed" at * the residence of the bride's brother, George Gould, at Fifth avenue and Sixty-seventh1 street. anijtook place in the presenoe of the 33 lamilies'of both the high contracting parties and about 100 invlieif guest?. The religious' ceremony w&s rollowea, a few hours afterward, by a civil marriage, performed at the ' / Gould mansion by Judge Andrews, of the Su-1 t -<% preme Court. ^ ^ j COTOT AND^OUSTESS DE CA.8TELLAKE. Archbishop Cbrrigan, of the Catholic} Church, assisted by a priest, conducted thereligious ceremony. The wedding party; formed tn the library on the second floor,?just) '.'J over the East India room, where themagnifl-' ' cent array of presents was on exhibition. The orchestra was stationed In the hall be* hind a bank of palms and ferns. It rendered / 'i "Largo " by Handel, and then Bosa Sucher ' :.t sang "Elsa's Dream," accompanied by a string orchestra. u . The wedding was, to a certain extent, a< > private function. The invited guests, outaide of the immediate family circles of the: Goulds and Castellan es, were few. and the1' " entire number of persons present did not ex-j ceed 100. The bridegroom's family were rap* '< . resented by his father and mother, the Mai1-. : JqSfj quls and Marquise de Cast el lane, and his1, brother, Count Jean. The guests assembled In the East India* room, in which the ceremony was ^r- : & formed. This room had been decorated with) flowere, the prevailing colors being plnk,| white and green, the flowers used beinad white Japan lilies, pink and white roses ana! q palms. ; Just before the noon hour the wedding; -V jjfj party left the library. The ushers, Prince* de Drago, Baoul Duval, Brockholst Cutting; and Howard Gould, led. The bride, supported by her brother, George Gould, folk lowed, and close behind them the pages^ Klngdon and Jay Gould, George Gould's . young sons. Then came the bridesmaids, the Misses Helen Gould, Catherine Cameron,! Beatrice Blchardson and Adelaide Mont-' ' * gomery. \ The bridal procession passed down the1 wkfrlh von rtanAllivi vi^h nalflMJ jJl lilies an<i pink and white roses, under a dome V $? of asparagus feAx, Japan lilies and roses, to the music room, on a path laid out by smilax!' and white ribbon, to the East India room.* There, under a canopy of imperial purple,' the bridal party met the 'Archbishop, the bridegroom and his best man, Count Jean do' Castellane. i .-<}u The ushers and bridesmaids stood on either, J /. side of the raised dl&s. George Gould plaoedj his sister's hand In that 'of the groom, who' had advanced to meet her. j When the time came for the placing of thai ring on the bride's finger, the bride handed! the bouquet of lilies of the valley that aha carried to her sister. The pair were then declared man and wife and the benediction pro* ', nounced. During the ceremony M^as Sachaa ; . .j* sang ,4Ave Maria." j >11 The Countess received first the eongritu- tf-1 lationsofher family and then retired to at flower-banked alcove, where she received the ' '-,'>s guests. After the ceremony the guests sat down to an elaborate wedding breakfast, which was served in the three rooms on the lower floor, /' A tables being placed in the rooms while the guests were upstairs inspecting the presents.! While these fortunate and happy folk were > partaking of this sumptuous feast 1000 poor children of New York City were making merry at a banquet given them by the bride.) j Of these 500 were little orphans, who had ? ' bountiful repast served them at 226 East Eightieth street, and nearly as many more sat down to a dinner in the lecture rooms of / the Allen Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Churoh, 89 and 91 Bivlngton street Late In the afternoon the Count and Conn- - - tees de Castellane left for Irvington, N. Y., where they decided to remain at the house of v,. George Gould until they sailed for Europe . on the steamer New York. It is stated that the bride settled on the, v *~ Count $2,000,000, and agreed that any heirs . V should be brought up in the Catholic faith.< t PROPOSED MONEY CONFERENCE.' - .'j-vJ All Delegates Appointed by Congress Save One Are Silver Men. The text of the amendment to the 8undry Civil Appropriation bill relating to the Inta^> national Monetary Conference, as finally passed by both houses of Congress in its closing hours, is as follows: "That whenever the President of the United States shall determine that the Uhlted States should be represented at any interna* tional conference called with a view to se- 1 cure, internationally, a fixity of relative value between gold and silver, as money, ja /v# ? AAmm/.n vaHa hofVAAn ?] Uy UlCOiiS Vl O VVmm?/u luvtv hrwwrw* those metals, with free mintage at suoh I ratio, the United Slates shall be represeated at such conference by nine delegates, to be selected as follows: The President of the United States shall select three of said delegates; tbe Senate shall select three members of the Senate as delegates; and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall select three members of the House elected to the Fifty-fourth Congress as delegates. If at any time there shall be . any vacancy, such vacancy shall be filled by the President of tha United Statee. And for the compensation of said delegates, together with all reasonable expenses connected therewith, to be approved by the Secretary of State. Including the proportion to be paid by the United States of the joint expense of such conference, the sum of 8100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated." The Senate selected Senators Teller (Rep., .' Col), Jones (Dem., Ark.), and Daniel (Dem., Va.), as delegates to the proposed conference. All are friends of silver coinage. The House of Representatives without a dissenting voice and with great enthusiasm, adopted a resolution offered by Representa- /" tive Bailey (Dem., Tex.) asking Speaker Crisp to designate himself as one of the three dele- /' iTAtHs to the conference on the part of the House. The Speaker later in the" day designated himself and Messrs. Culberson (Dem., Tex.) and Hitt (Hop., 111.) as the delegates for the House. The last-named is the onlj one of the Congressional delegation not in favor of free silver. : ''i/d >'e? Insults Offered the Coir. State Food Commissioner McNeil, of Ohio, is taking steps to stop the making of artificial milk at Conneaut. He has obtained the formula of a preparation consisting of saleratus, glycerine, saltpetre, common salt, sodium phosphate and sugar, which, added to a gallon of water and a gallon of milk, makes two gallons of the artificial stuff. Horseuaeat In Indiana. Representative Dlnwiddie, of Indiana, introduced a bill to prohibit selling horsemeat for food, which is said to be a common prac- ~ tice in that State. A Novel Lawsuit. Etienne Esperance and his wife, an aged San Francisco couple, have brought suit against their five sons for enough to support them. Twenty-one Nominations Failed. A Out of a total of nearly 800 nominations \| send to the last session of the Fifty-third Congress tho Senate failed to act upon 1 Concisely St?ed. These are said to be 30,000 sufferers in Munioh from Influenza. Mast Rkoima Holi, daughter of Prinoeea Marie Reglna. of Spain, Is dead at the Hawaiian YlUaare of Kooiauala. i