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m:~, f W? " m ?S FOR FREE C1J A Monster Mass Meeting Held New York City. BELLIGERENT RIGHTS DEMANDE Four Thousand Persons Gather In Coop Union in Memory o: Jo*e Marti and Express Sympathy "With the Cause the Insurgents?The Speakers Keceiv . V ; With Enthusiastic Applause. ! The memory of Joss Marti, the Cub: patriot and leader, was honored at a ma meeting in Cooper Union, New York Cil and his example was lauded. But moi the sympathy of the big audience with the who are struggling for Cuban autonomy w enthusiastically expressed, while the spea ers declared this country should recogni: the revolutionists as belligerents, was an audience that more than filled tl great hall. In it were very many thi showed in their swarthy complexion their k; to the race whose patriots are making the ga lant struggle against Spanish oppression ; their native island. The fiery Cuban ten perament lent to the meeting hair trigger e thusiasm, breaking forth at the least pr text. The outbursts began when th3 bai played the ,4Star-Span?led Banner," and o< Burred with such frequency and vigor thi the speakers were time and again forced 1 gp, chables a. dana, chairman of meeting. make loni? pauses, ending only with tl close of the meeting. The gathering was uj der the management of the Club Jose Marl Occupying the most conspicuous place o the platform was a fine bust of Jose Mart seen from the audience against a bad ground formed by the Cuban National coi or arms. un euner siae were America flags, and the speaker's stand formed tb centre of a circle of flags representing tb South American republics which have free themselves from monarchical rule. In tb audience were manv women, who seemed t be leaders in the enthusiasm, their voio< sounding high and clear above the deep* cheering of the men. Before the meetin opened petitions were circulated, which rea as follows: "Shall Cuba be free? Tn the Congress < the United States. We, the undersignec v petition your honorable body to take sue action as shall result in the speedy recoj nition as belligerents of the Cuban patriol now engaged in the struggle for liberty an freedom." ' It was said that more than 5000 signature had already been obtained. Before 8 o'cloc the band bejeaa to play, and when it struo up the "Star-Spangled Banner" the liberty loving Cuban sympathizers all but drowne it out with the fervor of their applause. , moment later they broke gut again at th less inspiring, if more enlivening, strain c "Yankee Doodle." On the platform were the orators, tb Vioe-Presidents and the guests. Amon them were Charles A. Dana, John E. Mi! holland, Rev. Thomas Dixon. Jr., Anthon Church, Father Ducey, Samuel Gompen Horatio S. Rubens, Estrada Palma, Gonzal de Qnesada, Juan Fraga, Buenaventur Portuondo, Emiilo Agramonte, Ater Flgueroa, Jose Villalon, General Jos Garoia.Dr. Menocal, Colouel Emilio Nunes Benos Rivas, Mr. Gerardo Forrest, Augustl Agramonte, Lawson N. Fuller. Judge i Bchuchman. Alderman Oakley and Dr. Er rlque Agramonte. The meeting was called to order promptl at 8 o'clock by Henry Lincoln Winter, th Becretary of the organization) known as th Club Marti, who Introduced Charles i pana as Permanent ChairmaD. Mr. Dana \va 1 Uioorted to the chair by Dr. Portuoudc President ot the club, and the Minister c the insurgent republican Government, Bene T. Estrada Palma. He was received wit applause that wa3 continued for some ralr utes. Mr. Dana respectfully accepted th chair and referred to the dead leader, Jos Marti, as a dear friend. He pronouneod eulogy upon him and said that wherevc Uberty dwelt there was the Cuban's country ' I cannot, however, altogether share the animosity against Spain," he declare< "which my Cuban friends bear toward he: Spain has,unfortunately, inherited her evil her selfishness and her poverty, aud b shamelftss robbery of the beautiful Island o Cnba she has fattnaed as does the wolf upo: lhe hapless Jamb?" In closing his remarks, Mr. Dana said th? /!nhn chmild ha fr^P. Editor Dana was followed by Willlai :3ulzer, Rev. Thomas Dixon, Henry L. I Zayas and Father Ducey. Samuel Gompere pledged the support < -the working people of the United State3 1 behalf of the Cubans. John E. Mulholiand hailed Cuba as tl young Republic of the Antilles and tl youngest of the century. The Seoretary then read letters expres3ii] warmest hopes for the future of Cuba, ac . confidence In her eventually winning her ii dependence, from the Hon. Amos J. Cun mings, Governor Mclntyre, of Colorad Governor Culberson, of Texas; Claren< King. Ethan Allen, General M. T. McJIaho the Rsv. W. S. Rainsford, William F. Ba John Fox, Rabbi Joseph Silverman, Russt A. Alger, Governor Allen, of North Dakot William E. Chandler, Augustus W. Petei Governor Upham, of Wisconsin; Gener Daniel Butterfleld, Patrick Egan and Andre Carnegie. This resolution was unanimously adopte "Resolved, That we extend our sympatl to the Cuban people in their struggle f freedom and independence, and we call < Congress and the President of the Unit' States and request them to grant belligere rights to the Cuban Republic." Prominent People. 1 The Emperor of Germany gets $10,00c day. Professor Max Muller can converse eighteen different languages. Rev. S. F. Smith, "America's" author, ti not die poor. He left $45,U00. David Plunkett is said to be the great* orator of the British House of Commons. Dr. Palmor Findlay, a young physician Atlantic, Iowa, has been appointed Surgec in-Chief of the Mexican Army. It is said that Queen Victoria prefers use the German language to the Engli< and that it is the favorite language of h court. Sc far ns ancestry goes A1-aerie Page, w married Hon. W. C. Whitney's daughter much more of a swell than the Duke Marlborough. They say that two ypars ago Ex-Pre3id< inwocmi 9.M10 in ?. South Afric gold mine. The mine has just been sold c to a syndicate, and Mr. Harrison pets $10 000 out of it. Six ol the South African millionaires I believed to own ?195,000,000 between the Alfred Beit Is the richest with sixty millio Barney Barnato has fifty, and Cecil Bhoc tweaty-flve millions. Now that Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth 1 practically stopped writing, Miss Braid may be said to hold the palm of being I most proliflo of all book writers. She 1 Just completed her sixtieth novel. i ' -V -V. . ' %*.. x . .. V . , . '< s - . > y * ' ' " { - '-{ " ..... . , V? . 'flMpu dfe-ik-V ... ^ SWEPT BY A GREAT STORM. Tinmen** Da'najro Done by "Wind a iJalii on Lake and Lund. A widespread storm, one of tbe most { in vere the country has ever ha-1. and the 01 storm since the blizzard of March, 1888, which it was impossible for the Weatl Bureau to issue complete weather chai J) owing to telegraph line? being down a communication cut off, swept over 1 Southwest, West and Northwest, inflicti ,eP great damage. The storm apparently had its formati to somewhere on tbe West Gulf coast of Mex of and Te.xa'. It was first observed over i . extreme Southwest in a weak depression, began to move northward, and was first f in an area of low pressure in the Southwe extendinc northeastward to the TenD*s( an Valley. Next the storm showed very defln ^ outlines. covering all the country east of t Rocky Mountains, with rain or snow falli over the entire area. Rain fell from t re, Mississippi Valley and Southern Texas o^ ise all States rast to" the Atlantic coast, a snow generally over the western area of t storm from Michigan southwesterly to C< k- tral Texas. se The storm took a northeasterly course a jt passed very rapid! v to the Lake Regioi where it developed a trreat increase of no 10 er, the high winds attaining a velocity at from sixty to seventy-four miles an hoi in The hisrh winds extende l to the Middle J . . lantic and New England coast, where t ' velocity ranged from thirty to forty mi [n per hour. q- Preceding the storm centre thetempe: n_ ture was unusually high for this season e_ the year, averaging from twenty-five 1(j thirty degrees above the normal. To t 5_ west of the Alleghany Mountains the tempi ature fell rapidly, with the cold wave pui ;0 incr eastward. The heavy wind storm reache 1 the pi ? portions of a genuine hurricane in parts Ohio. Illinois. Michigan and Indiana, whe much damage was done. Despatches told of the destructive effei of the great wind in Cleveland, Cincinm and other Ohio cities and towns: Indis apolis, Ind.; Detroit and other Michig places; Chicago, 111., along the great lai and in New York State. The storm on Lakes Michigan and S perior was the worst known for years, a it was not thought the stanohest steam could live in it. Three large vessels went pieces on the lake shore at Glencoe, 111. Chicago the losses by the storm a gregate $250,000, the telegraph, ele trio light and street railway companl standing the bulk of itStreet car traf was seriously interfered with: trolley lin were broken with the weight of the sno1 telephone and telegraph wires were bon down, broken and crossed, until half tl wires in the oity were made useless. ] midnight all communication with the ou side world was entirely cut off. At Cleveland. Ohio, trees, chimneys, sigr telegraph poles and telegraph wires we blown to the ground and mingled in 01 chaotic mass. The telegraph compani were forced to go out of busine; The police telephone service was c most entirely destroyed, and the public e: J change was cut off from many portions j the city. It was one of the greatest wir " storms the city had ever experienced, tl . wind blowing at the velooity of seventy-tw miles an hour. Very great damage wi [: done to property all over the cit ** John Zimmerman, u laborer, was kille The storm did almost incalculable dan age in the Northern Ohio oil fields. A ^ along the field, taking in Oil Centr g Welker, Stony Ridge, Mercer fields, Lucf : fields, Sandusky tract and almost ever; , where else in the territory in which millioi of dollars have been expended this year i _ equipments, nearly everything is gon V . ? ? -it.? J_ AUJ j Cincinnati ana nearly every cuy ia uwum Valley was cut off from ail telegraphic at . telephonic communication. 8cores of buili i intra were demolished or unroofed over J wide extent of country. News from Indiana indicates that no se 5" tion escaped the storm. The big plate gla j factory in Elwood was partially wrecke and several men were injured. Indianapol was in the throes of the most powerful wlr k stona that has been felt since Novembe 1876, for eight hours. Residents ] . some sections of the city bsean Z panic stricken and took refuge in their ce a Jars. Much damage was done to propert; Many small buildings were overturnei Great destruction was done to shade tree Houses of all kinds trembled as if they wou! e fall in ruins. _ Reports from Michigan show that tt storm was general, and In many places wi Kw n haorr fo_lI r?f annw. Sftr _ a^uviu^aui^u wj a < v. ? ,. ? ? , ous damaee was done in Adrian, Modti * and Port HuroD. Nearly a foot of snow 1t a in the latter place. Heavy snow interfere IQ with railroad and street traffic in Muskego; (9 Grand Haven. Benton Harbor, St. Clair ar r other towns. Great damage was done i Detroit. C At Buffalo, N. Y., a sixty-eight mile ston .* prevailed. After the heavy rain subside the wind sprung up with startling result The water in the lake, which had bee ^ three feet lower than normal, was six fe [0 above. The Central tracks at the foot < Georgia street were washed away. Tt s Philadelphia and Reading road was stalle . by the huge waves and their terrible fore Tne damage to shippine was not great, bi )r throughout the city ruin was widespread, u The terriflc storm also visited New Jerse The rain fell in torrents, and It was accon " panied by thunder and lightning. T1 J0 wind blew at a high rate of speed, tearir a limbs from trees and upsetting and unrooflr (r the smaller buildings. The streets of mar ? towns were flooded, and railroad train3 wei [1 behind time. 1, 3, FOUR MEN KILLED IN THEIR BOA" y The Bodies Found Adrift, With a D< Q Guarding Them. tt A trading boat was discovered adrift up< Red River, near Arthur City, Indian Ten -31 torv. the sole living occupant being a hal famished vicious dog. A party of men, wl 3f got a skiff and pulled alongside the derelic Q were horrified to find the decks of tl ie craft covered with blood and tl le dead body of a man stretched aero the thwarts. The head had been all bi iar severed from the trunk, and the boat bo id marks of a terrible struggle. Owing tot! > swiftness ot the current and the pugnacit a- of the dog, the men were unable to secu o; the boat. Persons at p >ints lower down tl :e river were notified, and deputy marsha n, wera despatched to intercept the mysterioi II. craft. ill About thr^e weeks ago three hunters ai a; trappers purchased the boat in question s, the 'mouth of the Bois d'Arc Creek, an al with a hired boy, moved to a point two ai iw a half miles from Arthur City. For sever days the boat was seen anchored, without d: human being in sight. Several persons co ly eluded to investigate the mystery, and tl or dead bodies of the three meu and the b< >n were sean lying undressed in bed. A ferocio sd dog prevented the party from boarding tl nt boat. The victims evidently had been dei several days. Football Caused His Death. 'a At Charlottesville, Va., George R. Phelr ^ of Memphis, a player in the football gai between the medical and law classes of t j(j University of Virginia, is dead. His dea was due to rupture of a blood vessel^ whi Was 111 a aiseasKU uuuumun nuu us.oiy ^ burst from any violent exertion. ot IQ" Value of the Trade Dollar. to The despised trade dollar, which went c ,h. ol circulation several years ago, is n er worth but fifty-flve cents, or practically bullion value. ho , is 83,000,000 In Gold From Alaska. ?* The Alaska Mining Record estimates I jnt PutPut ?* Territory for the yi an at $8,0j0,030, of which $8J0,000 1 )Ut been obtained from placer workings on t 0 . Yukoii River. There are fltteen stamp m ' in operation, with a total capacity of I stamps. ire 1 m. England's Threat to Venezuela. na jeg Acting unaer instructions from the ] perial Government, the Administrator las British Guiana has made declarations to I on Legislature indicating that unless Venezu :he withdraws claims to disputed territory Ei las land is prepared to assert her rights by fo of arms. . ,v'A .. . .. ? ~ TWENTYYILLAQESB0RN1 nd Turks Inflict Slaughter and Pillage or in the Inoffensive Armenians. ipr rts ' f all the inhabitants slain, .he ng 0Q The Kurds Ready to March Upon Syria? ico A Demand From United States lllinlste; ^ Terrell?The Massacre at Maraal elt "hatched bv the Tarklsh Governor. ist. General?Threo Hnndred Killed. k(?0 A despatch from ConstantinoDle, Turkey 6ay3 twenty villages northwest of Aleppc he have been burned and their inhabitants mas'er sacred. The massacres at Marash, the ?~ patch says, took place in the presence of th( ;n. Turkish Governor-General, who did no): In terfere to stop them. Some 300 persons wen n(* killed. The Kurds, according to thiji despat oh. were gathering upon the Euphrate; of and preparing to march into Syria to mas nr. sacre Christians. V*" A letter received in Constantinople frorr Erzeroum, Armenia, supplies abundant proof that the massacres there were begun and ended by Turkish soldiers, acting undei orders, rather than by the poDulace. wh< ? followed the lead of the soldiers throughout J? The soldiers and their civilian allies plun *. dered 1000 dwellings and 2000 shops anc ?" killed 1000 men, women and children. Th( Government, the letter says, is endeavoring to restore to the people such of their property as is available and to distribute bread among the starving inhabitants, undoubtedly under instructions from Constantinople. . A telegram received in Constantinople said that bands of marauding Circassians were atl plundering the villages of Missis and Piaz, Ln~ near the city of Adana. in Asia Minor, and that outbreaks had occtfrred in two villages :e3 ntar Angora. Ton Albanian guards were executed in the UT ' Yildiz Palace in Constantinople. The Gov n ernment threatened to punish severely any persons found guilty of marking houses oc oupied by Armenians in Constantinople. One nun area ana any aoicas anu mvmuoia ui lu< JS* Young Turks' party, who have beon active !?" in fomenting disturbances, were deported p s from Constantinople. no The Sultan has appointed Manduh Pasha es Minister of the Interior; Rechid Bey, and ^ Kfefl Effendi, a special Committee of Super vision to record daily and nightly the results of the measures to restore order in Anatolia. The victims at Atntab number 200. lt" In view of the danger to foreigners at Marash, A. W. Terrell, the Amerioan Minisl3> ter, and M. H. Herbert, the British Charg< re d* Affaires, have demanded of the Porte thai ae it protect the Americans, Englishmen,, and es other foreigners there. >9' Lord Salisbury urged the Sultan to promise protection to the revolting . Armenians at x~ Zeitoun If they will surrender. Unless ?J terms are made they are certain to bo massacred. 10 A despatch from Constantinop'e says that ro the Embassies have be* n Informed that tri18 bunals with power of final decision will be formed Immediately in Armenia. These tribunals will exaroise virtually martial law and will try all persons, acoused of musing II disturbances. The despatch adds that une less the tribunals are supervised ouefullj is there will be bloody assizes. r- The Porte denies the recent report that is the Arabs of the Yemen distriot In Arabia, in headed by the Imaum of Sana, are in revolt, e. and that the Turkish forces are invested in lo the town of Sana. id A despateh from Constantinople says that i- the Bedlfs in the Kaiseriyen distriot and Ana gora have refused to Join the colors under the order recently issued by the Porte. The c- deapaton aaos tnat a panic exists at oeiouuu, S3 on the Blaok Sea. >d The Sultan has granted firmans to the is Powers allowing each of them to have a secid ond gunboat In the Bosphorus. r, [e TWENTY YEARS INSTEAD OF TWO. A Convict to Bo Severely Pnntnlied foi jj' Assaulting a Jersey Judge. s. Grant Keller, of Easton, pleaded guilty In 'd the Warren County Court at Belvldere. N. ie J., of horse stealing, and Judge Morrow as sentenced him to two years in State Prison i- at hard labor. Keller, learning when the je Sheriff had arranged to take him to >11 Trenton, made an effort to brenk jail, id He was a^ain brought before tbo Court a, next morning and his sentence was increased id to five years. In This so incensed Keller that hfi became violent and, with clenched fists, made a m move toward the Jud*e, calling him a vile id name. Keller was remove i bv the Sheriff, s. and at 1 p. m. was taken to the railroad in station, handcuffed to Edward Wertz, at colored, who had also been sentenced to of 8tate Prison for two years for highway robie bery. id Judge Morrow was also at the station, ine. tending to take the same train. As he was it steppiusr on the our Keller, in the custody of the Sheriff, was brought up behind. Keller v was still in a race. He kicked the Judge, a- and at the same time, by a violent effort, atle tempted to force him under the wheels of ig the starting train. The Shriff and passenig gere succeeded in rescuing, the Judge, who iy ordered the desperado returned to the coun:e ty Jail. The Judge then announced his intention of increasing the sentence to twenty years. Keller was in a frightful rage at being de r feated in his purpose, and vows that he will ' take the life of the Judge if he himself lives to regain his liberty. >* FIRE mad; a death trap. )n Four Firemen and a Gtrl Killed in a Chicago Blaze. A Are, disastrous to life and property, 10 iwept through the Dry Goods and Woolen Exchange Building, on Franklin and Van 10 Buren streets, Chicago, 111. Five firemen 10 were carried through a floor and buried unss dertons of wreokage from the five floors it above. Four of the men were killed. The re fifth was not seriously injured. le One girl fell from a window and received y Injuries from which she died. A dozen other re men, women and girls were hurt or overie come by smoke, and many were rescued is from danger of death. The property loss to us the building at 215-217 Van Buren street and 276-8 Franklin street, and contents, Is estiid mated at $400,000. at The dead are: Patrick J. O'Donnell, 'J. Lieutenant of Engine Company No. 2; id fhomas J. Prendergast, pipeman; Martin al Bh^rreck, pipeman; John Downs, pipeman; a Kate Landgraf, employed in A. Stern & Co.'a n- garter factory. tie The others who were injured wen girls iy and spectators who saved taam. All the dead us and injured firemen were members of En~ XTrv O firms UU Kiuo wuipciujr AIU-. tt% A VAKJ W?0? ? id were burned oat The building had an L, and was considered fireproof. Internal Revenue FijfnTes. LD The annual report of the Commissioner o! Ee Internal Revenue shows the receipts during be the last fiscal year as follows: From spirits, th 4)79,362,627; decrease for the year, $5,896,ch 624. Tobacco, $29,704,907; increase. $1,t0 087,009. Fermented liquors, $81,640,617;'increase, $225,829; income tax, $77,139. Oleo . *.+ iftn rtii GQtA OCU margarine, ci,* .<?,an; uootoiiao, <uu,?uj. Miscellaneous, 3551,583; increase, $398,554. The total receipts from all sources, 8143,246,077, a decrease of $3,922,571, The total >ut cost of collecting was $4,127,601. Commisow sioner Miller estimates that the revenues foi the present fiscal year will aggregate ?165,' Us 503,000. Noted Landscape Architect Drowned. ;he The body of Calvert Vaux, the landscape ear architect, who disappeared from the home ias of his son at Bonsonhurst, Long Island, wa? the found in the bay near that place. He was ills born in London on December 20, 1824 50 J He came to this country in 1848 and became the architect for the grounds that surround the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. A1 ;m_ Mr. Vaux's suggestion public competition . was invited Sot the plans for Central Park New York Cltv, and with Frederick Law the Olmstead, Mr. Vaux designed the plans thai ela were accepted. He was afterward associated iK- with Mr. Olmstead in designing the State rce Reservation at Niagara Falls. jl MADE A HERO OF DEBS. Great Demonntratlon of His Admirers on His Release From Jail. Eugene V. Debs for Ave .minutes was liter- | ally "In the hands of his friends." It was just at the arrival of the train load of admirers of the leader at the little town of Woodstock, 11L, near Chicago, where he had been in prison for six months because of his con- f ' nectlon as leader with the strike of the American Railway Union. I ETJGEJre V. DEBS. ! They had marched from the ratlror-d depot to the jail, and Debs stood upon the steps L awaiting them. Without giving him a chance to speak theorowd rushed upon him, draggel him from the steps, and in a few mome its [ had htm high in the air. He was passed > from hand to hand. The hand played "Sue, , the Conquering Hero Comes." Debs took it as if he were a hero in fajt, i and when he was put down began a handshaking that lasted until the train wa3 nearly ) ready to start for Chicago. Among those who went to WooJstock was ' ex-Governor Waite, of Colorado. He came all the way from Denver to be present. When > he and Debs met Debs threw his arms around > the Governor's neck and Waite said: ? "God bless you, my boy." 1 The ex-Governor seemed overcome. The march to the train was like the triumphal k entry of a raler. The music was the '"Slarl seillaise," and the streets were crowded. Hundreds of citizens of MoHenry County i stood ankle deep in the snow to catch a glimpse of Debs. Fully half of the spectators were women, and one or two of them i brought flowers and threw them to him. Cominar back to Chicago on tho train, > Debs was obliged to walk twice through all : the cars and shake hands with every occuI pant When the delegation reached 'Chicago another orowd was waiting at the North west? ern depot and the scene at Woodstock was : dn plicated. i From the depot, the line of march was taken up to Battery D, and although a miserable rain was falling, the streets were filled with spectators, who joined thf> maroh era. ' Debs mad'? a speech to thousands of his 1 admirers at Chicago. His theme w is "Liberty." In bis speech he said: "I have had time for meditation and re' flection, and I have no hesitancy In deolar' lng that under the same circumstances I would pursue precisely the same policy. So far as my acts are concerned, I have neither apology nor regrets." TREASURER MORGAN'S REPORT. Gradual Retirement of Treasury Notes? Redemption of National Hank Vote*. The Treasurer of the United Slates, the Hon. D. N. Morgan, In his annual report on , the operations and condition of the treasury, after giving figures as to receipts and expenditures, says: s "Aside from the variations in i he total stook of gold In the country, waioli are dependent upon the domestic production Hnd ' consumption, as well'as the impor s and exports or tho metal, the most important ? L change now going on in the composition of the money supply arises from th s gradual retirement of the Treasury not<8 of 1890, through their redemption in silvor dollars. I Bvthis drot-ess, which began In August, r 1893. and hag continued since, the <;otal Issue _ of $155,931,002 of these notes wait reduced J by September 30. 1895, to $143'.666,280." e Unourrent gold and silver coins <>f the face o value of $4,578,647.36 were transferred dur- h fng the year from the Treasury to the Mint g for recoinage. The loss thereon, arising from a diminution of weight, was $201,157.05. Up 3 ' to the end of September last the sum of a $826,730.50 in Columbian half dollars had v been exchaged for gold coin. The amount il of counterfeit coins and paper currency de- s tected during the year was $9180.70. The amount of National bank notes re- i ceived for redemption was nearly $87,000,- P 000, of which $35,000,000 fit for circulation e were returned to the banks of Issae. Inclu- S sive of charges for transportation, salaries, b stationery and contingent expenses, the I total cost o? the redemptions for r the year were $100,352.79. which I have been assessed upon the banks at H the rate of $ 1.15 per $1000 of noteii redeemed. c The deposits on account of the reduction or s retirement of National bank ciroalation v amounted during the year to $12,056,172.50, li and the redemptions on the same account or C $13,068,369. d V Korean Queen Was Buried. Chinese newspapers blame th9 Japanese ^ for the death of the Sorenn Queen. They state that the Queen was hung up by the hair, and after boing otherwise abused was tied, hand and foot, ii soaked in oil and burned in the rear of the fj palace. According to the Chinese reports, ~ therd were fifteen women of title in the court, the Queen, her mother and 130 ladies a in waiting. They were nearly all soaked in s nji nn<i humeri while the men's throats h were cut. ' v d Canada's Foreign Trade Fsillg OX. 1< The total foreign trade of Canada for the n year ending June 30, 1895, was $3224,422,000, V compared with $241,000,000 In 1891, a de- ? crease of more than #16.000,000. The im- * Sorts declined $12,000,000, und the exports I( ecllned *?4,000,000. Itannock Indians' ltlghts. ^ The United 8tates Court In Cheyenne, ci ' Wyoming:, decided that the Bannock Indians f< had a right under their treaty to hunt game ^ | in Jackso n's Hole. > Lynched In Georgia* A colored man named Balim Hancock g. I was lynohed at Gibson, In Glas jock County, p Georgia. He had tried to assault Miss Dessle tt Shelton, seventeen years old. New Comet Discovered. ' A new comet was discovered by Professor ta ' Brooks, director of the Smith Observatory, q i Geneva, N. Y., in the southeas :ern sky. The m comet is moving northerly and is large and moderately bright. This make:ithe twentieth comet discovered by Professor Brooks. To Ta* Bicyclists. j* Bicyclists in Tacoma, Wash-, have peti* [ tioned the City Council to impose a tax of $1 r year on bicycles, and to devote the fund thus raised to laying out and maintaining a ai certain roud in the city as a bicycle path. ;u Tiie Council has agreed to the proposition. j A. Novelist Accused of Murder. > j The irife of a notary named Wermeskerke, Ci ) [ residing at Krommenie, Holland, north- Pj i I east of Haarlem, has been arrested on the w * - rtl I charge c f poisoning her husband. Tnepris- : ^ oner is 8. culturod woman. She is the author ) si; of several novels and the editor of a ladies' th j newspaper. ci w t Portugal's Minister Dead. 1 Senhor Augusto de Zeguiera Thedim, r Portuguese Minister to the United States, ' died at his residence in Washington of con- ? ' gestion of the lungs, after a short illness. ' Two troops of United States cavalry escorted w his remains during the funeral. ol in ... v - .. ' f ''' . . " '* '. [s i i TERRIBLE AC Results of a Powder Explosion at th Old City of Palma. 30DIES BLOWN TO ATOMS Sighty Women an! Men Were Employe In Emptying Cartridge** Oatslde th Wall of the Chief Town or Mnjorca? One Ignited and Scorcs Perished-Thirty-Seven Womefi Killed. A terrible accident resulting in a sad los >f life occurred at Palma, chief city of th 3land of Majorca, 130 mile3 socth of Barce ona. Spain. Eighty persons, most of whoi pero women, were employed in emptying o! art ridges outside the walls of the tow r'nen one of the cartridges exploded i ome unknown manner. A large quantity o iowder that had been taken oat of cartridge ras lying about over a considerable area Jid this was ignited by the dissharga of th art ridge. A tremendous explosion followed whio] hattered the masonry of the town walls 7hich are extremely thick, and did consider ,ble damage to houses. A number of peopl srere killed, but it was some hours before th iTiaot loss of life was ascertained. The bodies of seventeen dead were founi mmedlately. and many more were killed heir bodies being blown to atoms. Fort; iersons were seriously wounded, and som >f them fatally. Many of the dead am rounded were found at considerable dls ances from the scene of the accident, havin teen hurled bodily through the air by th orce of the explosion. Some of the dea< eera terribly burned and mangled, so mud o in a number of cases that identiflcutlo: rill be extnmely difficult, If not impossible in official inquiry Into the cause of the di? ister will be held. A later despatch from Palma say3 that th oss of life through the explosion was fa freater than was announced in the first re >orts of the accident. It is now known tha birty-seven women and fourteen men wer nstantly killed. Thirty-five women an Ive men were seriously injured, and of thi lumber twenty have since died. This tragedy occurred on the largest is! ind of the Balearic group, in the Meditei anean, off the coast of Spain, and belongin o that kingdom. Palma is one of the mos hnving towns in the kingdom, and its pro? >erlty is largely due to the rather exception illy fertile soil of the island and its very fin ilimate. Perpetual spring reigns in Majorca ind it, and the other little islands of th fro up have about 250,000 inhabitants. Th? nnn+rfi of n.11 that is most attractive 1 he islands is Palma, whioh is the capital c he whole island province of Baleares. ] ias about 75,000 people, is entirely sui ounded by walls, and is fortified by thix een bastions. The beautiful harbor is s ipacious that it would befit a continent >ort of the first class. A mole 1500 feet Ion s lined on both sides with drydocks. an lere many of the vessels of Spain are Dull' The city contains many elegant public an >rivate buildings, not a few of them c rreat age. The Gothic Cathedral, whic vas begun in the thirteenth century an vas nearly 400 years in building, is one c he most conspicuous structures. The E: ihange dates from the fifteenth century, an n the Church of St. Francis is the tomb c laimon Lull, tho famous poet and pnllosc >her of the thirteenth century, who wa >orn in Palma, and was one of the mo! iroliflc writers that ever lived. The caves of the Baleario Islands are rreat natural curiosity and, together wit) he antiquities found on the group, attrac i considerable number of tourists. Palm a a noted educational centre, and has als arge manufactures of silks, woolens, jewelrj oap, brandy, and glass. "MANHATTAN DAY." few York City Entertained at Atlanta' Exposition. "Manhattan Day," at the Atlanta (Ga. Exposition has come and gon9, and it was esplendent success from every point of view 'he attendance was gratifyingly large, th nthusiasm great and the weather propiti ius. Mayor Strong, of New Tork City, an lis party were escorted to the Expositio pounds by the Governor's Horse Guard nd the Gate City Guard, of Atlanta, an Squadron A, of New York?a brilliant oa\ Jcade. Tbe mounted band of Squadron . ras a novelty and caused muoh comment a t led the black plumed troopers through th treets. The formal exercises were held at th ludltorlum. When Sousa's band opened th rogramme with the " Star Spangled Banner, verybody stood up and cheered. Then J leaver Page, the presiding officer, made i appy little speech and introduced the Rev )r. D. Parker Morgan, chaplain of Squad on A, who made a brief prayer. Mayo 'orter King, of Atlanta, welcomed the Net 'orkers to his oity in an address of grea ordialitv. Mayor Strong responded in i peech, by turns humorous and serious rhich was warmly applauded. He was fol awed by President Beth Low, of Columbi Jollege, who delivered the oration of th ay KILLED HIS TWO CHILDREN. lorman Hattenhorst Adds Suicide to th Crime of Double Murder, Herman Hattenhorst, who gave physica astruction to sons of prominent Brooklyn les in the academy at 1295 Broadway Filli&msbiirtfh. was found dead in hi cademy a few mornings ago. Close by hi Ide were the bodies of his two children. A1 ad been shot. They had apparently beei ead for hoars. Hattenhorst lived with his wife and thei wo ohildren at 1103 Greene avenue. Hi jft home with the children late the after oon before. His wife searched all througl niliamsburgh, and, failing to find him, go policemen. They went to the academy 'he door was locked. They forced it ani jund the three bodies. Theie was nothint j indicate why or how the father had sho" 30 children and himself. He had been de pondent lately. The wife went into hysterics. No'.hin: ould be learned from her. Hattenhorst wn )rty-ilve years old. Fourteen years ago h< 'as a pugilist. Since then he had been the rainer of the Brooklyn Athletic Club. Re Was a Friend of Napoleon's. M. Barthelmy Saint Hilaire, the distin uished statesman and literateur, died ii aris. He was born in 1803 and was one ol ie last living men who knew Napoleon. Plain Talk to ihe Saltan. United States Minister Terrell told the Su".,n of Turkey he will have th9 heal of the overnor of Htidjlm if any American woman issionary there is harmed. Bank Thieves Secure 31709. Sometime betwean midnight and dawn, ?bbers enteral tlio State bank of Alpha, 1., securing $4700. New Order From KuH*ia tor Armor. The Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company has lother order from Russia for 1126 tons o' mcr-plnte, >cliool Teachor Lynched. A despatch from Ailev, in Montgomery junty, Ga., repert3 the lynching there of rofessor Perdue, a school teacher. Perdue a? in custody of Sheriff McGreggor on a large of ruining Miss Willie Grady, an as staut in his school. A mob overpowered e Sheriff, took Perdue from him and then it his throat and riddled his face and body ith bullets. JPerdue leaves a widow and tree grown children. Two Skaters Drowned. The first skating fatality of the season in aw England occurred in Burlington, Yt., hen Eugene E. Beaufre and a twelve-yeard lad named RueJl were drowned bybreakg through a hall-lnoh of ice. ' . - w-f????^??? | THE NEWS EPITOMIZED: r YTashlncton Items. The Navy Department announces that & silver service was presented to the battlea. ship Maine by the citizens of the Pine Tree State. The revenue cutters Woodbury, Dallas, Dexter, Hamilton, Crawford and Colfax have been designated by the President to patrol the coasts of the United States during the season of severe weather, to render service to vessels in distress. Minister Terrell reported from Constantia nople to the State Department that the outlook for restoring order in Armenia was ime proving. The correspondence between 8ir Julian Ponnnarrttn oml 'RrlHah T!V>rfil<rn"Offlcft. relative to tbe Bering Sea damage claim) was made prMic. Charles 1 Iwards, a colored laborer In 13 the United ,.ates Treasury Department. Is e under arrest for destroying papera. The papers destroyed were the records In customs and other cases of the war period. He Q sold the stamps to collectors. d The Nicaraguan Government has decided a to abolish its legation at Washington on acn count of financial reasons. >f Captain N. M. Brooks, Superintendent of * the Foreign Mail Service, submitted a report showing the valuable service rendered by his bureau in conducting the transportation of e foreign- malls during the past fiscal year. The aggregate weight of mails despatched by sea during the year wa3 5.758,608 pounds. The Poatofflco Department and the steam? ship compahies have failed to agree upon the amounts to be paid for the transport6 lng of foreign mails from Quarantine to th? 0 railro&d stations of New York City. So the . project of facilitating the transportation of 1 foreign mails to the interior falls through. y The Nicaraguan Government has wlthe drawn the Nicaraguan Minister to the United [j States, Senor Don Horacio Guzman, i- Hiram Hitchcock, President of the Marlg time Canal Company, of Nlcaragaa, sube mltted his annual report to the Secretary of i the Interior. It contains no new features, h The United States Attorney-General rec11 ommends the building of a penitentiary at ' Fort Leavenworth, Kan., for civil convicts. The annual report of Eugene F. Chamberlain, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation,' ? shows that the tonnage of the American merchant fleet for the year ha3 been nearly j stationary. e ??? d Domestic. 3 John D. Rockefeller's daughter was married to Harold F. McCormick at the Buck-; , Ingham Hotel, New York City, the bridegroom being too 111 to go lo ohurch. ~ A ninfl In TTammarafntn'a notp PI Ana. rt ure Palace. New York City, burst, killing j. two workmen and badly burning 'several others. e John B. Bonner, a banker and broker, and l, vestryman of the Episcopal Church at Aue rora, N. C., was shot-and killed in his yard by an unknown person. [1 I fHarry Hayward. under sentence of death : for murdering Catharine Ging, the Mlnne~ apolls (Minn.) dressmaker, confessed. I. The Polioe Board of New York City dls0 missed Captain Joseph B. Eakins. on the charges preferred by the Parkhurst Society. K James B. Skehan, a New York brokerj d committed suicide in his home at Upper t. Montolair, N. J. He was a partner of A. C.' d Bernhelm, whose peculiar financial dealings if were made known In Wall street three h months after Bernheim's death, d Senator Hill, of New York, began his lecture tour in Milwaukee, Wis. A blizzard prevailed In the Southwestern Stntes. h Revenue agents captured two illicit dis3 tillers In New York City and seized the plant, it Evacuation Day was fittingly celebrated In New York City with parades, flag raisings a and banquets. Tne Sons of the American a Revolution and the Sons of the Revolution t held dinners in honor of the day. ft Many Brooklynites celebrated Brooklyn ? Bay at the Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition. ' Brentano's establishment, in Union Square, New York City, was broken into by burglars, and a safe robbed of $2500. The south front of the Poland Seminary at Poland. Ohio, fell, seriously injuring Axle >a Reed, Margaret Reed, Maggie Simons and Lizzie Simons. There were thirty-eight pupils and five teachers in the building at ) the time of the accident. a Owing to the prevalence of diphtheria in r. Portland, Me., tne public schools have been e closed. , Twelve young men of Wabash College, at Crawfordsvllle, Ind., sons of leading PresbyJ: terians, have been expelled because they ^ were '-Red Dragoons," a disorderly soolety. j Charles Hurd, the colored man who murr. dered Jasper Keeley near Harriman, Tern., ^ was taken from jail at Warlburg by a mob 3 and lynohed. e Mr. Morton, the Secretary of Agriculture. appeared unexpectedly at the abattoirs of e St. Louis; he was said to be on a tour of ine vestigatlon of the Beef Trust !' Judge John A. McGrath, of Jersey City, acted strangely on the bench, and was taken ? to the Trenton (N. J.) Insane Asylum. 1 Warren Springer's business block in Jaokr son and Canal streets, Chicago, III., burned. v Plants of twenty firms, worth $1,200,000, t were destroyed. Four hundred girls were in a imminent danger, but were marched out of the place unharmed. Foreign Notes. The Powers'which are acting in concert In the Turkish difficulty decided to send additional guardships through the Dardanelles, It is said, with or without the Saltan's consent. The sheep taken to Liverpool by the British steamer Scotsman, from Montreal, ,1 have been found to be infected with scab, . and an order has been issued that they be slaughtered. * ' Sharp earthquake shocks were felt at Ath ens, Greece, and also at Chaiohis, Livadie, 9 Thebls and Corinth. ' The extensive French mission in LuihSiang, China, is said to have been destroyed by the natives during the absence of the French gunboat. A remarkably beautiful diamond weighing x 655 carats has been found at the Jagersfont tein Mine, in tbe Orange Free State, Africa. Instructions, it is announced, have been I sent to the British Minister at Rio de Janeiro ? to invite Brazil to submit the question of the t ownership of the Island of Trinidad to arbitration. The Grand Duohess Olga. of Russia, who * was born on November 15. was baptised 3 with tbe usual ceremonies at the Tsarskoe 5 Selo Palace. The ex-Czarina, mother of the ' Czar, and other members oj the Imperial family acted as sponsors. Salutes were'flred in honor of the occasion. The town was handsomely decorated, and at night was brillinntly illuminated. i The Emperor-King Francis Joseph of Aus, tria has accorded permission to women to study medicine in the universities of Hungary. The houses of many German Socialist leaders were searched and documents seized by the police of Berlin. > The Sultan of Turkey recalled the Governor of Hadjim, whose head Mr Terrell declared he would have if any of the three American women in his jurisdiction was 1 harmed. Heavy snowstorms prevailed throughout the provinces of Piedmont and Liguria, in Italy. R iilway tr ifllc is completely blocked j and trains are imbedded in huge snowdrifts. Japan has decided to renounce all pretensions to a continental policy in A9la,_ and to | recognize Russia's un-ionittionai ri?at to influence the destinies of Korea and Manchuria. Cuban insurgents destroyed a largo amount of surar-canS and other propertyowned in New York and Boston. The $20,000 bail of Louis Stern, the New York City dry goods merchant, has been declared forfeited in Bavaria. Notwithstanding the Sultan's orders the inhabitants of Ave more Armenian Tillages have been massacred. A missionary, describing himself as an American and an agent of the Biblo Society, was expelled from a department of Peru on the ground that the fanatacism of the natives endangered his life. Flavel Scott Mines. United 8tatee Vice* 1 Consul at Crefeld, Germany, died suddenly 1 at that place ot heart failure. He was 1 thirty years old, but was widely known as a writer of yoree and abort storiea , MTOFFICE BEPOjl Revenues Reflect the Country's Gen- 11 eral Returning Prosperity. ? CAUSE OF TH^EARLY DEFICIT. Postmaster-General Wilson Ascribes the;. Gross Abase of Seoand-Class Bates as ^ the Chief Reason for the fihorts|?~i^] He Approves Placing tetter Carrier*! Under Civil Service Boles* * //.( V'' $8 Postmaster-General Wilson, In his iMaqg^ nWaj report of the operations of the Postofftoe llbpartment, says that the financial and Industrial depression which has seriously affeote'4 the revenues of the postal service tor the - . ^ past two years and disappointed the estl^ .. mates of his predecessors extended far' enough into the fiscal year 1895 to ma^ean ; T. unusually wide gap between revenues and * expenditures. It Is gratifying, however, to . ?|S report that a large part or this deficiency oo? ^ curred in the first quarter ot the year, and j . POSTKASTSa-QlSSEBAI, W. l. WILSOX. that since then the revenues ot the depart*" ment have reflected the general returning Of ' ..fri prosperity to the country. He ascribes thft gross abuse of second-class rates ot postage as the chief cause ot the yearly deficit In postal revenues. He repeats and endorsee -j j the recommendatictaa of his predecessors, Blssell and Wan&maker, for an amendment of the law in regard to the transportation of second-class matter, and saya^ Jt:" 'QS&b "It is the estimate of the deoartnbftnt that l?*'M two-thirds In weight of all the matter carried] ?|fl In the mails Is, under existing laws and v'mi classiflcations, carried as aecond-clase matter at the rate of one cent a pound, ojKS where it is not actually carried postage free. The aggregate weight of seoondclass matter in the year 1804 was 299,000.000 i&J pounds. During the last year it increased*#*? to oyer 813,000,000, a growth of over 15,000,000 pounds. Deducting the weight of that which is known as 'oounty free,* being the matter which is circulated among subscrlb* ers free of postage in the respective oounttta of publication, estimated to be 46,830,188 :^X pounds, there remained 265,814,381 pounds, which returned, at the rate of one cgota C i^jg pound, a revenue of $2,653,143.82. 9Hv? average cost to the department of transport- ; ;i-g ing and handling this matter Is estimated at eight cents per pound." Speaking of the extension of civil service i rules to letter carriers, he says: "An Indispensable basis of good service was laid by placing the carrier force under the civil servioe system, and no effort* ' A should be spared by the department to insure a high morale in this force and to familiarize the idea among Individual carriers that as they enter the service by the merit ' t system alone, so likotvise they remain in It by no tenure but that of the faithful! ' and efficient discharge of duty whiota. demands self-reepect and honorable living; It is inevitable that a few individuals here and there should Interpret this stability of em{iloyment as a personal privilege, enoouragng slovenly servioe and insubordination to, superior officers, rather than a reform | based on considerations of a better] ' ' i Eublio service; and such instances j ' -it ave occurred and ^ will ^ doubtless,1 continue to oocur, even auer ins mn uw ing of the civil service system is understood and accepted. But it is gratifying to report that as a whole. and by such overwhelming predominance as to make the exception mors . ? prominent, the army of letter carriers is alert, faithful, efficient and honorable. 'The Postmaster-General desires olvll serw j vice methods to be carried still further and! ! higher in the Postofflco Department, Ho' recommends that at least three of the As-! sistant Postmasters-General should secure; their office by a a ciyil servioe or merit ten- wf ure, and not by apolitical tenure. Store., frains from offering a like opinion as to the' it Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Guneral, because the fourth-class Postmasters, whoso J appointments are primarily allotted to him, H are yet outside of that tenure. "The question of extending civil service. ] methods to the selection of fourth-class Postmasters," he says, "has naturally received i my attention since I have been at the head; y. of this department It is beset with diffi- s. / cultles, which my experience as a represent*-f ,v tive in Congress of a large country district j ':} during three changes of Adminstratiott; brought home to me more clearly^ than they might appear to a' theoretical; ?*3 reformer or to the representative of a city constituency. I have studied various bills ^ introduced in both branches of Congress in , fij recent years, and welcomed suggestions from: other quarters, but I do not And myself able to make as vetany speciflo recommendations' /: on this important subject in the llneof legis- , " '; lation which hag^een proposed. "The order recently approved by tho. < . r President providing that when the Postmas-' ~ ter-General shall consolidate with a free do-; livery office any other postoffloe such cod- i solidation shall carry into the ciassioea ser- >. vice at the free delivery office the Postoffice, Department roster of employes of the offloftt , consolidated, including the Postmaster, mar' be accepted as the beginning and foundation; < not only of a better postal service of the public and a better and more business-:ike ac- < : counting to this department, but also a wise extension of the oivil service systemj . j to Postmasters. It is my purpose to pro- | a ceed under the authority of this ordor as I *? discreetly as I can, and in the long runtef, far as experience will justify, so as to secure ' WJ these commendable results." * The other points discussed in the Post-.. master-General's report have been substan-, , > I tially covered by reports of the Assistant1 ' Postmasters-General and bureau chief* heretofore made publio. J * >' The Labor World. ' t Butte, Montana, is to JjSe a tannery. The painters have a union label. New York City icJHfiftal cartmen are "N Reod and rattan organizing a National union. tp The oil mills of are novr running night and (uHH There are 360,000 ^BuKAloyed in business houses in Lond^tySK^ The Machine Wood ^Hrers and the Furniture Workers' International Unions are about to be consolidated. ? J 1 ' .tJk. In Uaw , rne nm ana rasp uua&cra smA.oiui.iun York City has been settled. Attempts are being made by the screw makers to form a National union. : The United States Leather Company shut) J down its tanneries for sixty days. > The iron ore miners of Southern Miohigaaj are rapidly affiliating with the A. F. of L. n Trades unionists' wives fn Chicago have, organized the Dorcas Federal Labor Onion i for educational purposes. Waitresses in certain restaurants in San, Francisco, Cal., St. Louis, Mo., and Neirj York City are in bloomers. Wisconsin's State industrial scfiool Is to be( squipped to teach the inmates a trade, ortoj make them proficient in suoh work as en-i gineering, millwrighting, etc. The number of workmen benefited by th?i wage advances since the beginning of t&ft year is estimated at orer 300,000. . / ('