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'f MwrnMiE Men, Women and Children Trampled to Death at Baltimore. STARTED BY A CRY OF "FIRE!" i It Was Only a Flare, But It Set an Immense Audience Wild?A 31 ad Bush for the Outside?Awful Crush at the ^ Narrow Exit?Most of the Victims n Were Tailors. | A panic in the Front Street Theatre, Bal gV;. timore, Md., following an alarm of Are, reSjjpt jenlted in the loss of twenty-two lives and the J Id jury of fifty or more persons. AU the victims are Polish Hebrews, who assembled in the tfceatre to wirness a penormauco. as the play was popular, the attendance was unusually large, the playhouse being packed to the doorway. The curtain was about to rise at eight o'clock p. m., when one of the gas tips fell from a burner. One of the audience promptly turned off the gas. and an employe went np stairs to mend the jet, and in order to determine which tip was missing lit all the lights. As the flame shot from tho open burner one of the gallery spectators lost his head and, screaming ,4Fire!" dashed wildly in the I ON THE YURUAN RIVER, IN ' (At thto point it was that the arrests of J Venezuelan soldiers. England resents these a; direction of the entrance. The orowd caught up the ory and became panic stricken. There are only two stairways leading to the floor below, and these are narrow and rickety affairs. As the men, women and children In their mad flight tried to force their way down they met the crowd below that dashed from the lower floor. A jam and a crash followed, and in an in stant a shrieking mass of humanity was tnunpled under foot. They fought desperately to save tneir little ones, bnt the surging mass came piling on. crushing the life out of the unfortunates who were caught under loot t Tho36 who had reached the open, anxious to help those within, returned and blocked the doorway. Just about this time the Fire Department, whtoh had been called out, amved. The ohlef engineer, finding the crowd increasing, ordered his men to turn the hose on the mass and washed the crowd out of the doorway. Bat for his prompt - action the loss of life would have been far eeater. As it was it required more than a If hnnr's hard work to clear the stairway and get at the victims. The scene was horrible. Men, women and children were iying on the stairway and flooring, orosoed out of all semblanoe of human shape, while those who woto injured rent the air with shrieks. Ambulances were in demand. From all the station houses patrol wagons were hurried to the scene of disaster and the bodies were carried out. i JPhe news soon spread and the people hurried from all sections to the scene of the disaster. The police has a time of it keepling the crowds back. By midnight all the injured had been taken to various hospitals. Quite a number of these were fatnlly hurt. Belatlves and friends surrounded .tne Morgue and City Hospital, and the lamentations were heartrending. All the victims were tailors. , .r, SWITZERLAND'S NEW PRESIDENT. K. Adrian Lachenal la an Able Lawyer and a Splendid Orator. M. Adrian Lachenal, the new President of the Swiss Bopublic, was born in Geneva, in 1811. He was educated in the gymnasium, and afterward graduated from the university with high honors. He entered the profession of la w. and from the beginning achieved success, the proceeds of his practice affording him a start in llfo. He is a splendid orator?a eood voice, classic features and X. ADHIAN LACBEKAL. splendid figure contributing to his success in this uirection. He first became a member ol the Government in 1892, when be was chosen by the Federal Assembly to succed Numa Droz, an illustrious statesman, as Secretary ol the Department of the Exterior. The Labor World. An Eastern conductor, having been "blacklisted," has brought suit for damages. The oommeroial marine of Canada gives 4 employment to some 60,000 hardy sailors. Laborers in the shipyards of North Ireland realize no more than $3.77 for a week's hard work. The Federation of Labor indorsed a proposition for a National organization of anskilled labor. . A proposition to settle the streetcar strike in Philadelphia, which had been accepted by the strikers, was overthrown by the President of the Union Traction Company. The Federation of Labor has electec President John McBride aDd Adolph Strasser, ex-President of tdo Cigar Ma leers' International Union, as delegates to the British Trade Union Congress to be held in 183o. Letter-press machinists are about to form a local unionin New York City, to be affiliated with the International Association of Ala ohinists. I The striking housesmiths of New Yorl City have given in and asked to be takei back, but the Iron League will disturb none of the new men. The strike of carpenters and other work men on the Beat Estate Exohange Building Buffalo N. Y., has been settled and the mei have returned to work. Tne oontraotor agree to emplpy only union men. f HfiEl,: LATIN-AMERICA'S VIEWS. The Southern Republics Discuss tl?e Mon. . roe Doctrine. > A from Caracas, Venezuela, says: The annals of Venezuela do not contain any record of such a pageant as has just occurred here. The whole city was en fete and every house in it was decorated in honor of the great event, thu demonstration organized to show Venezuela's appreciation of the attitude of the President of the United States in the boundary dispute with England as it affects America. The procession was reviewed by President Crespo aud his Cabinet. One of the most striking incidents in the programme was the signal honor pafd by American residents to the statue of Bolivar, the liberator, whose efflgy was covered with flowers by a delegation from the American colony. A reception was held in the evening and many speeches were made. That delivered by the Minister of the Interior Department, Dr. Francisco Castillo, attracted much attention. Dr. Castillo said that not an inch of Venezuelan territory would be surrendered until the Republic had been conquered by armed force. \f. A 1?ami 4-lin A? i-U? T iXJLi IUO twncapuuucm ui IUD -uuudon Times, has left for La Guayra. The press of Caraeus insists that the Government should expel him for wrongly quoting President Crespo, as is alleged, but Mr. Thomas, the United States Minister, has advised the Government not to send him out of the country. The Government has accented thi3 advice and Mr. Akers will not be forccd to leave. The United States Minister received as gifts some beautifni flags and many flowers. * " -=? THE DISPUTED TERRITORY. British Guiana police officials were made by rrests as "having been made on British soil.") They were sent by residents of Los Andes. Several South American Republics are reported to have signified their desire to assist Venezuela. Jose Raphael Ricortl has been appointed Ganeral-in-Command of the army on the west coast of Venezuela. The 8ooiety for the Defense of Venezuelan Territory has elected Cleveland and Cre3po honorary Presidents. It offers the Government 60,000 men ready for war. Students of the university at Caraoas have forwarded to President Cleveland resolutions thanking him for his utterances in behalf of Venezuela. They called upon Minister Thomas in the United States Legation and. after a speech full of enthusiasm, presented him the elegantly engrossed resolutions and requested that he send them to the President. This the Minister said he would do by the first tnwuior. It is generally believed in official circles, and by the people generally, that Colombia will join Venezuela in resisting England should war result from the present trouble. Venezuela has seat Ministers to all of the South American Republics. All the LatinAmerican Republics, it is said.are in a secret league and will join Venezuela, it is expected, in case of a war against England. Colombia has responded to Venezuela's request, it is whispered, by promising to contribute80.000 troops and agreeing to cive the British Minister his passports unless England consents to submit the Guiana question to arbitration. Brazil is to send 100,000 men, armed and equipped. Mexico is counted upon to aid with a fleet. By calling out her militia Venezuela can place 250,00J men in the field. Jose Raphael Ricorti, President of the Yaracuy Company, an American organization, has been appointed to have charge of the defences of the northwest coast. President Zelaye, of Nicaragua, when asked for the expression of his views upon President Cleveland's message to Congress respecting England's dispute with Venezuela, said that the action of the United States Government was what was to be expected from the Executive or tne nation in waicu im Monroe doctrine was bom. In an interview concerning the Venezuelai question. President Barrios, of Guatemala, said that the United States deserve the applause an?. rc3[?ect cf all America for the attitude taken. President Gutierrez, of Salvador, expressed himself forcibly upon the Anglo-Venezuelar , queition. "From now on," he said. "Cleve land ceases to belong exclusively to th< United States, but will be considerec hereafter by all American Republics as th< pal-idin of their liberties, protecting then from tbe aggressions of all European Power! which might try to dominate them as Na r?rvlt?r?r? f In Bis Diamond Robbery. The residence of L Townsend Burden New York City, was robbed of what is s*l< to be fuUy $75,000 worth of diamonds an< jewelry. Mrs.'Burden possessed some of th< most beautiful jewels in this country She kept the most valuable of thea jewels,' principally diamonds, In i small safe in her own apartment On returning home from the open Mrs. Burden discovered at once that sh< had been robbed. She notified the polio and detectives were placed at work on th< mysterious case. A Princes* Nearly Drowned. While skating with Baroness Colmar a ffaonsee, Germany, Prineess Louise Sophie wife of Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia fell with her companion through the ice, ant for ten minutes both ladies wnreinimminen Deri I of drowning. After several ineffective attempts had been made to rescue them, lad decs were placed across the ice and th< Princess ana the Barouess were rescued. Schools In Alaska. The United States Commissioner of Educa tion has issued a report on education it Alaska, from which it appears that during the last year there have been maintained | there sixteen day schools with twenty-foui [ teaohere. They have also been maintaine< seven contract schools with forty- nine teach ; ers and employes. The Comratesioner reoommends an appropriation of $50,000 fa the ensuing year for education in Alaska Venezuela in Paragraphs. Eight States are in the Union. Population of Venezuela is 2,121,998. Venezuela contains 566,000 square milee Fifteen per cent, of the population an [ pure blooaed Indians. The territory in dispute i9 aDout tne siz< of our State or Maine. British Guiana was acquired by Englanc through treaty in 1814. > Slavery in the Republic was abolished bj ' the decree of March 24, 1854. Venezuela's export trade with New Yorl reaches $5,000,000 a year. ' It is estimated that seventy-five revolution have o.-curred since the establishment of thi Republic. Previously to 1836 hsr public school sys t?rn was vijrv unimportant. only 1312 pupil being in attendance at the public schools ii } the year mentioned. Now the attendanc 1 exceeds 100,000. ' The Constitution makes Presidents in eligible for re-election, and it is the earnes 1 endeavor of Venezuelan statesmen to estab 1 llsh the Dolitics of the country on a Arc ' footing of peace and order. Ex-United States Minis'.er Pile, of Vlt " ginia, once ventured to present himself to th i President, minus a necktie. Presiden 1 Blanco very sharply reminded him of hi 9 forgetf ulness of etiquette, and shortly aftei ward sent him about his business. _ ] TEE CflHISSIi NAMED. I: hi ol i Five Men Appointed to Inquire Into & the Venezuelan Dispute. d ? be ALL ARE DISTINGUISHED MEN. U ?' ? di Justice David J. Brewer, Chief Justice Richard H. Alvey, Andrew D. ;"White, be Frwiorir R. Cou:lert and Daniel C. Gil man the Onei Selected?Public Her- Q vices and Character of the Men. 1 P1 The President announced the composition jjj of the Venezuelan Commission, whioh will b< consist of Ave members, as follows: David J. Brewer, of Kansas, Assooiate Jus- ^ tlce of the Supreme Court of the United ^ States. j( i Rlchnrd H. Alvey. of Maryland, Chief Jus- A tice of the Court of Appeals of the Dlatrlotof ^ Columbia. ^ p( i Andrew D. White, of NewYork. cl i Frederlo P.. Coudert, New York City. ^ ; Daniel C. Gilman, of Maryland, President of Johns Hopkins University. ; The law authorizing the appointment by the President of the Venezuelan Cotnmis- ision was passed by the House of Representatives on December 17. On December 20 it : was adopted by the Senate without amendj. 'ment and without a dissenting voice. The u. ' text of the bill was as follows: i "A bill making an appropriation'for the exj penses of a commission to investigate and ti' j 1 report on the true divisional line between :the Republic of Venezuela and British j 'Guiana. I una If ana*+Arl hv tho Son atd and House of : | .Representatives of the United States of j j iAmerlca in Congress assembled, that the 'sum of $103,000, or as much thereof as may ,be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the expenses of a commission, to be appointed by the President, to report upon the true divisional line between the Republio of Venezuela and British Guiana." MEN WHO WERE NAMED. i | Sketches of the Members of the Venezu- . elan Boundary Commission. i David Jo9lah Brewer was born in Smyrna, ' Asia Minor, in 1837, and was the son of a J missionary. He was educated at Wesleyan I University, Connecticut, and at Yale Col| iege, where he was arradiiated in 1866, He studied law in the office of his uncle, David y ! Dudley Field, in New York City, and (i at the Albany Law School, and was ij admitted to the Bar in New York t City. He finally rdhoved to the West, ? ana began the practice of his profession in Kansas City, Missouri, afterward removing to Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1861-64 he served as a United States Commissioner; in 1862-65 as Judge of Probat* and Judge of ti the Leavenworth County Criminal Oourt; in hi 1865-69 as Judare of the First Judioial Court of S! the StAte, and at the same time was Superin- n< tendent of Public Schools. In 1869-70 be filled 6] the office of City Attorney, and in 1870 be- ai came a judge of the Supreme Court of Kan- Ji !sas. He was twloe re-elected to thatDOsl- it tion, the term of office {being six years." He to also filled the office of Vice-President, and 8e subsequently that of President, of the State Board of Eduoatlon. In 1881, in .when Judge Brewer had entered up- d< on his third term m Supreme Cdurt Judge, th ,and held the portion of Chief Justice, he p< : was appointed by President Arthur United o) States Circuit Jud^e for the Eighth Circuit, ti comprising the States of Arkansas, Colorado, to Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota. Missouri and Ne- to braska. In 1889 he was nominated to the se Supreme Court of the United States byPresl- d< dent Harrison. tt 1 Judge Biohard Henry Alvey is a native of o1 Maryland. He was on the Judiciary Com- oi mlttee of the Constitutional Convention of hi 1867, and was elected Chief Judge of the ;Fourtb Circuit under the new constitution, {and was re-elected in 1882. He was designated by Governor Hamilton as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland to & succeed Judge Bartof. This place he 'resigned to accept the office of i 'Chief Justice of the Federal Court | .'of Appeals in the District of Columbia. This G I court has just been oreated by act of Con TJaannl J An4> /"llotralun^ offAntflv ijresw. Oliu C 1 WJlUOUl Uioiomuu ti urped Judge Alvey to take the place of " Chief Judge and organize the new court, sc 1 Upon the denth of Chief Justice Waite, ti during Mr. Cleveland's first term, some of tho Justices of the Supreme Court n urged the President to appoint him d< ! Chief Justice of the United States. This the la 1 iPre3ident was disposed to do, but, it is un- ce ideratood. was deterred by the fact, so It has Pi " been said, that Judge Alvey is a Southern " j man, and it was feared that for that position tt ' to go to the South might create animosities. a: Andrew Dickson White is distinguished as m 1 an educator. Ho is a native of New York, 1? > having been born at Homer, in November, vi 1832. He is of New England parantage, ana u! 1 a graduate of Yale. He was President of Si ? ? ANDREW D. Wull'lS. H ?? ri the Republican State Convention in October. J' 1861, and was United States Minister to Ger- " i many from 1879 to 1881. Mr. Wlitto was also 9l' . one of the United States Commissioners ?] [ to San Domingo, and aided in preparing the u r report of that oommission. He was the first " 1 President of Cornell University. Soon after " . his graduation he became attaohed to the * United States Legation at St. Petersburg. A D * few years later he became professor of history and English literature in the University i e " ,t FttKUEttIC S. OOUDEBT. 5 C of Michigan. He was appointed Minister to A __ Russia in 1892, but resigned two years later. B] Frederic B. Ooudert wks born In New York c' V/" V ; : ' : k.'.. ' A ;>:> -:-.<:V* ; - . . . ty In 1832 and was educated In Columbia )llege, which he entered at the age of fouren years. He wa9 admitted to the bar on s twenty-flrst birthday He served us one 1 the American counsel in the Bering Sea 'bitration, and ten years before that was a ilegate to the International Congress on e Laws of Nations. He was one of the emocratic lawyers commissoned to present his party in the returniug >ard controversy at New, Orleans. 1877. Mr. Coudert was mentioned last immer as a possible candidate for the 8u eme Court Bench. There was some talk iring the early part of the present Adminisation of tendering Mr. Coudert the post of inister to France. There has hardly >en a case in the New York courts r a quarter of a century, involving question connected with a foreign overnment, with the exception of Great ritain, in which Mr. Coudert has not apsared as counsel. Mr. Coudert is a man of rge wealth, accumulated entirely in the cercise of his profession. He has always jen an ardent Democrat. Daniel C. Gilman was elected the first resident of the Johns Hopkins University, l Baltimore, in 1875. Among the many orks that he has written is a memoir of unes Monroe, whloh was prepared for the merican Statesman. His fame as a soieust and^historian is world-wide. Mr. Gllian is'said to be not affiliated witn any Mitical party, but his tendencies are in mea xo 1x10 nspuuuu&ii orKuui^uuii. uo a native of Connecticut and Is in his sixtyEth year. MORTON A CANDIDATE. ormal Announcement That He Will Be in tbe Presidential Race. The dinner given at Ohanncey M. Depew's jnse, in New York Olty, at which the canidacy of fiovernor Morton for the nominaon for the Presidency was dteoussed, and LEVI P. MOBTON. ie plan for lte formal announcement made, is excited mucn interest in the city and :ate. There -were present at the dinar, besides Mr. Morton and Mr. Depew, c-aenators Warner Miller, Frank Hiscock id Thomas 0. Piatt, Benjamin F. Tracy, imes A. Roberts and Edward Lauterbaoh. : was decided at the dinner that Mr. Mcrin's candidaoy should be announced in a iries of simultaneous interviews. The news of the plan, however, leaked out l some way, and several of the guests voided to make the news public. Among 1656 was Warner Miller, who said to a reDrter, in answer to a question: "I know ! no formal announoeipont other than iat his friends are authorized > state that Governor Morton, yielding i the solicitations of his friends, has ooninted to become a candidate for the Presisnoy. He will receive the full support of ie Republicans of New York State, and of hor Rtntfts as well. I believe, and from now i a thorough canvass will be made In ill of his candidacy." ATLANTA'S FAIR, OVER. oat the City &200,000, and Visitor* Spent 5,000,000. The final day of the Exposition at Atlanta, a., opened clear and bright, and tha rounds were thronged. Many of the ex* bitors had a large harvest in the sale of luvenirs, while the Chinese village auooned off the brio-a-brao. 1 Mr. Inman, Chairman of theFlnanoe Committee, said the Exposition, when all the 3bts are paid, wilt have cost the city of At.nta about $200,000, or less than ten per :nt, of the money expended on the enterrise. This includes the original subseripon and tbe appropriation made by le city. The result is regarded j very satisfactory. It is initiated that the immediate benefit to Atntain money expended there by Exposition isitors amounts to $5,000,000, and that the Itimate benefits to the city and the cotton :ates are immeasurable beyond this or any ? - jj a*V*nfr AAnM Ka an_ :ner conservauva usiuu w? wuu uw roxlmately stated. The following is a detailed statement of ie attendance: Adults, paid admissions, 58,116; ohildren. paid admissions, 79,813; asses, 431,933; wagon gates, 35,000. Ae>rding to the best reports obtained ie Exposition Company had real;9d from the paid admissions $364,J2.95. The percentage received through ie concession department is figured : $115,654.32, and this, added to the ate receipts, makes the total receipts from lese sources since the Exposition opened 179,727.27, but there are other sources to ear from. According to the statement of Mr. S. M. iman, who handled the flnanoial departlent of the Exposition for some time, the >tal receipts of the Exposition Company ill approximate a million and a quarter of ollars, while the expenditures were not tove these figures. REVOLUTIONARY WIDOW DEAD. ldest of the Eight Pensioners of the Bevolutlon. Mrs. Fatty Richardson, the eldest of the ght widow pensioners of the Revolution, led a few days ago at her home in East ethel, Conn. Patty Flint was born in onnectiout February 1, 1801. and was rst married to Samuel Vintou. by hom she had four children. ,'e died, and in 1830 she mared Godfrey M. Richardson, of Cambridge, [ass., who, at the age of sixteen, ran away om nis father's home in Cambridge, Mass., ad helped throw up the redoubts on Breed's [ill the night before the battle of Bunker iiil. Her husband received a pension as a linute man by speoial act of Congress, and lis devolved upon Mrs. Riohardson. Mrs. ichardson was twenty-nine and her husand fifty-six when they were married. Prominent People. The Pope has contributed 910,000 for the | allef of the Armenian sufferers. The body of 8ergius Stepnialt, the Nihilist, ras cremated at Woking, England. Representative Miles Crowley, of Texas, is genuine cowboy. Lord Dunraven Is eswnel in England j bo very American in speech, manner and imperament. It Is said that in his eirly days Da iaarler's greatest ambition \v;i5 i i bayome a ratei-solor painter. Henry Russell, of London, t'ie author of Cheer, Boj's, Clienr!' "A Li h ou :ha Ocean 7ave," etc., is eighty-'ou:y.;arj o'd. A monument is to b? < to President iaz. in the City of }[ex>i>. X: will be an rch. designed after tin Are <!<> i'riomphe, In aris. Paul Bourget is one of tbo youngest mnn ver admitted to the Frenah institute. He ia handsome man, with a clear-sat, nervous roflle. Frau Charlotte Embden, a sister of the oet Heine, is still living at Hamburg, where tie celebrated her ninety-sixth birthday on ctober 19. Miss Braidon, the novelist, has trained erself to reportorial accura cy in the ob?rvation and description of drass and the Jterior of room?. Rev. P. T. Rowe, whom the Episcopal hurah has sent out as missionary bishop to laska. is said to be the most expert snow106 runner among the white men in that ountry. :oW _ : A REPDBLICAN 8EHATB. F ! . N ; ^?^ Democrats Lose Control of the Upper House at Washington. A POPULIST BALANCE OF POWER. Free Coinage Men in Control, But They Allow the Republicans to Beorganiie the Body, With s Majority of Silver Men on the Finance Committee?Scene* Attending the Change of Control. The reorganization of the standing com aittees of the United States Senate and -the resultant transfer, of nominal power and responsibility in that body from Democratic to Republican hands was accomplished when the joint work of the two "steering committees," which reapportioned assignments, was accepted by a vote of 30 to 28. Practically, the reorganization was effected by o. w. k'beide. c. d. clmk. (New.Senators from Oregon and Wyoming.) unanimous agreement, for the Democratic managers offered no genaine opposition, and only voted against the reorganization resolution submitted by Mr. Mitchell because they knew In advonoe that their assistance was not required to secure Its adoption, while the six Populist Senators, Mr. Kyle excepted, refrained from voting in order to insure an apparent Republican majority on the decisive roll-call. It was a Held day for the peoDle who thronged the galleries in the hope that the reins of power would not be relinquished by the Democrats without a struggle. ;The most Interested persons in the Chamber were the Democratic clerks and other Senate attache;, Who occupied the sofas and chairs In the rear of the Senators. They were hoping against hope that the Democrats would effect a combination which would prevent the carrying out of the reorganization scheme. The debate started when Mr. Allen, of Nebraska, undertook to explain why the Populists had agreed to let the Democrats ana Bepubllcans fight out the question of reorganization. The new committee - list was submitted by Mr. Hitchell, of Oregon, on behalf of the Bepubllcans. and It was adopted by a vote of 3d to 28, Mr. Kyle, who now styles himself an "independent," voting with the Democrats. A dispatch from Washington gives the following review of the situation: "The vote taken shown clearly that tne ttepnouean plurality In the Senate oannot reasonably nope to convert Itself Into* an actual majority at anyperiod In the life of the present Congress. The actual division on the Mitch?11 resolution was SO for and 28 against, counting the P&lrs. The full Republican strength in the Senate waashown to be fortytwo votes. The Democratic strength, including Mr. Kvle, who is as often a Democrat. apparently, as he Is a Popnllsc, was. forty votes. Five Populist Senators, holding the balance of power, declined to go on record for or against' reorganization. Forty-four votes are now a majority In the Senate. The BeSublloan side will probably be reinforced 1 a few weeks by two new Senators from Utah. Bat the members tup or tne Doay wui then be inoreased to eighty-nine and the quorum to forty-five. If Sir. Dupont is seated from the vaoant Delaware seat, the Republican strengthwill rise to forty-five; but the necessary quorum of majority will at the same time go to forty-six. The only reaV, working majority discernible in the Senate is the freo silver coinage combination, which was revived immediately after the passage of the Silver Purchase Repeal bill of 1892. and has since then materially Increased its strength. To consolidate their strength on the niore important committee has been for some time past the chief aim of the free coinage leaders, and through their predominance in the Senate they have been enabled to turn to account the natural demand arising this winter for committee reorganisation by forcing a larger recognition of their influence tn shaping legislation.'* Six Republicans, six Democrats and one Populist have beea assigned to' places on the Finance Committee, and the general belief Is that the views ol a majority 01 me committee are in favor ol free coinage. TWO LIVES TAKEN BY A. MOB. Sirs. West Burned Alive and ,W. A. Dever Shot to Death. A mob burned Mrs. T. J. West alive and killed W. A. Dever at Mrs. West's house, three miles north of Lebanon, Ky. The mob numbered about seventy-five, and it was 12 o'clock at night when it appeared at Mrs. West's house. Mrs. West, Dever and his little daughter were the only persons in the house, and when the mob ordered Dever to come out, Mre. West and the little girl responded, but Dever remained inside. Just as Mrs. West reached the door several shots were fired at her, and she ran back into the house, but the child remained on the outside. After several attempts to get Dever to come out the men fired the building. Dever ran out, and, with a pistol in his hand, went to a oomfleld, where ne tookshelter.benind a oornshook and was shot to death.1 Mrs. West perished in the burning house, and her remains were found in the chimney, where she had taken refuge. Dever killed T. J. West, husband of the woman, at Beaver Creek, December 7. He had a preliminary hearing, and was released on tho ground of self-defense. It is said Dever had been warned that he would be killed if he did not leave the oountry. Tennessee'* Chlef-Jnstlce Kearrested. Chief-Justice Snodgrass, of Tennessee, who shot Lawyer Beasly in the arm two weeks ago at Chattanooga and was under bail on a oharge of malicious shooting, has been rearrested on a charge of shooting with Intent to kill. The second arrest was made on a warrant sworn out by Beasly. Strife In the Transvaal. The Transvaal Government in South Afrioa has ordered the Boer burghers to hold themselves in readiness to be called upon to suppress rebellion. The trouble between the foreign residents of the Transvaal and the Boer Government is inoreasinw in intnnalfv- Tha leadlncr mines are olosing and the prioe of breadstulTs in Johannesburg has risen greatly. Trains leaving there are filled with refugees. The difficulty lias reference to the status of aliens In the South African Republic. These aliens number trom sixty to seventy thousand, or at least two-thirds of the whole population. They are nearly all British subjects. Boys Try Train Wrecking. Throe boys, none of them over fourteen years, are under arrest at Bridgeport, Conn., oharged with attempting to wreok a train I on the Berkshire division of the Consolidated Road at a point about three-quarters of a mile north of North Bridgeport Station. The boys implicated are Fred Hasbrook, William Nagle and Fete Graham. Washington in Falrmount Park. The Falrmount Park Commission, P hiladelphia, Penn.. granted a permit to tho Oraer of tho Cincinnati for the erection of a Wasnington monument at the Green street emraaoa to the park. ^ if y ' f&'V"' %-V4;'! ' ' ' ... ,.; - ' > i HARD FIGHTING IN CUBA." i ' J 1 |oona?j and Macro Dli1oi((d With tlu' Lo*i of 200 Killed and Wounded. . Two thousand insurgent cavalry who war# ambushed on. the Godlnez eitate,:nOar Gallmete, Province of MatanzaSt Cabar?itaeked a. Government column Of 800. men; commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Perera. _ Though taken by surprise. the fxoons made a brave resistance. The Insurgents charged on them twelve times, but the. trooos held their ground and.the Insurzeuts: finally retired. 1 A strong ln?ur?ent force under Gomez and I Maceo was attacked at Batev by Government i troops. The insurgents had taken no a po? . Bltlon which they had barricaded with rail* and boilers from plantations. They made a desperate resistance, but were dislodged after a fight lasting three hours. The Gov- j eminent loss was two nfflnpra and fllehteen privates trilled nnd one officer and thirteen privates wounded. The insurgent loss was 200 Id]led or wounded. The Insurgents retreated: Colonel Navarro's column had an encasement that lasted one hour with an inaareent band. The insurgents were dispersed. They left five dead on the field. The loss on the Government side was one sergeant wounded. The insurgents oh retreating to the oemeterv nt Manquito met the column of Colonel Yaldes. which was countermarching, and found their line of retreat cut off. The Spanish army also has lately received a severe blow. Colonel Marias, who left San Luis tor Palma Sorrento with 900 men, had ( a disastrous engagement between the two. towns with the insurgent leaders Demetrio Castillo and Panoho Sanchez, commanding 600 men. The insurgents' attack was so impetuous and they used "*? maohete so fiercely that the Spanish Colonel ordered a hasty retreat; leavinsr forty killed and 114 wounded on the field of battle. The Spaniards also abandoned ten mules laden with provisions and munitions. Seventy Spanish soldiers deserted to the Cubans.' The Spanish wounded were cared for by the insurgents, whose loss was insignificant. The burning of sugar estates in that neighborhood and Guantanamo is increasing ta a moat alarming manner, and the planters have abandoned all hopes of grinding sugar THIEF STRUNG UP IN ST. LOUIS; Ho Took > Knife From HIg Pocket, Cat ' the Hope, and Got Away. A colored thief was strung up In Union Market, in the Heart of the downtown business district of St. Louis, Mo.. For some time petty Jhefts hare annoyed stall keepers at the market and a secret watch was begun. At 5.46 o'clock a. m. Martin MaeMahan and! Pat McOlenchy saw a colored man' with two blankets slipping away from the market. They raised the cry of "Stop". thief!" The colored man dropped toe Manners and ran and they gave chase and captured . him. The cry of "Lynoh him!" went up. There Is a block and tackle fastened to the oelllngof the market used to swing Ice blocks, This caught the eye of the mob. The rope wasadjusted about theman'sneok. His wrists were boond with a cotton cord. He quit straggling and began to pray. A score of hands caught the other end of the rope. There was a pall, and the man's feet left the floor. He suddenly -broke, the cord that bound his wrists, his hand went to his pocket like a flash, brought out a knife, and in another moment he had out the rope. He dropped to the ground and "lit out" for safety. TO OPEN FORFEITED FARM LAND. There Will Be a Buhlor 18.000 Acres In lows, February 27, -Next. Register Evans, of the United States Land Office, at Des Moines, Iowa, has fixed the day of the opening of the 21,000 acres of land in O'Brien County, for February 27. This land has been in litigation for years. It was originally oeded to the Sioux City & Minneapolis Railroad, upon condition that they would complete the road to Sioux City. They struggled along with it until they reached Le Mare, and after that not another tie was laid. The Government Land Office at Washington recently1 declared the land forfeited to the Government, and apDlications are dally ' reaching the Land Office for it The railroad was granted every odd numbered section within a radius of ten miles on eaoh side of the right of way. This land was sold, and about 8000 acres of it will go to the purchasers from the railroad by an act of Congress passed in 1887. This act gives all lnnooent purchasers from railroads the first chance at their own land if the title, even reverts back to the Government For the other 18,000 acres there wilt be a regular. Oklahoma rush. \ HAVERHILL THE SHOE KING. * ????__ i * more man it,uuuiwu rim mug !?>? Last Tear. The shoe year of Haverhill, Mass., whioh endfid a few days ago, j shows another record breaker, and makes the dty still the largest, shoe producing centrp in the world. The record of shipments for the year is 866,910 cases, an increase of 19,107 over last year. The shipments last year were an increase of 11,163 oases over 1893,.and the figures of the Increase this year are most surprising when the labor troubles and the big strike of last ' January are considered. During that time the six largest firms in the city were doing comparatively Uttle business. In spite of unfavorable circumstances the yearly shipments are a record breaker, and the general belief is that, if the strike had J in/iMoao WAllM , llOVO not OCCUITCUt IUD lUVi tugw nvw>M, m*. , w reached 80,000, as when the strike began the largest factories were doing a rubhlng business. The total, with the estimated average of forty pairs to a case, shows the enormous production of 14,676,400 pairs of shoes, against 13.912,120 for 1894. NEW BRITISH TERRITORY! China Hu Ceded to England Foar States Lying on the Bnrmo-Chlnese Frontier. Sir Nicholas O'Connor, ei-British Minister to China, Is spending a short holiday at London prior to going to his new post at St Petersburg, where he suooeeds Sir F. C. Lascelles as British Ambassador. It has been learned that before he left Pekin Sir Nioholas procured the assent of China to the cession to Great Britain of four States on the Bunno-Chinese frontier, giving British trade direct aocess to Southwest China. The territory ceded is in area eight times greater than the territory recently ceded by China to France. British diplomats therefore chuckle and congratulate Sir Nicholas upon his acumen. An Anglo-Chinese comr**laalnn 4a nhmlt tn meet for the Duroose of delimiting the new frontiers connected with. the cession. A special commercial mission has gone to Yunnan and Bzechnen. and arrangements are being made for the establishment of British consulates In thoso Chinese provinces. An Expensive Labor Contest. The loss to the city of Philadelphia by the late strike can never be known exactly, but [ approximately It Is estimated at $2,000,000. The loss to the car company in receipts Is estimated at from $32,000 to $35,000 a day, a I total 6t from $230,000 to $245,000. The employes loSt In wages about $9000 a day. The damage to cars will perhaps reach $8000, the 3xtraordlnary expenses of the city about $50,000, making a loss to the company, the strikers and the Municipality of about $288,G00. The heaviest loss was sustained by the merchants, whose trade was interrupted durj? ?-? <a iiaim11v thuir most Drofltable i iuk wuai .o -j . week of the year. The World'# Wheat Crop. Official calculations made in Russia and ' transmitted to the State Department by United States Consul-General Karel at St. Petersburg show that the present season's harvest ot cereals in the whole worl 1 is much smaller than last season's, and compared with 1894, the decrease is, in wheat, 150,476,1 000 bushels, and rye, 123,971,OOU bushels. Other grains turned out better. Encllnh Capital In Mexico. Large English capital is going to Mexico for investment, in Englishman has taken An option on fjf street car system of the City of Mexioo for J7.000.000. boandarycommtoiM.^ .; S^tM^Hvy, now on. d^^^ Nbr^k. . - MR p Howeliasoomm^anit#t^ Petrel ?W ^ -'CaL > ^ & The American Consul nt Matanzia w?? M alarmed bv Gomezes mid that he agfc^jfogvVJH! protection irom Washington.- 81 Secretary Oarlisle in an authorized itjwfcr Ml lew says the Rouble with the not on account of revenue, and MM ,00use bill will not furnish any relief. - In the House Mr. Daniels (Rep. N|^^H made a unanimous report from OomrngBW BS on Elections No. 1, declaring Mr. Belti??| '(Ren.) entitledto the seat for whlsh '9h|H Mcdann (Dem.) holds the certificate fri>82|fljH the Third District of Illinois. 7:&| The Senate confirmed the nomination ot Henry H. Rolapp, of Utah, to be Associate i W Justice of the supreme Court of. Utah. ' The Interstate Commerce Commission held fl ,the railroad combine to be illegal and has taken ateps to dissolve it Navy officials are considering the avails I abiJity^ot fast steam yachts for use as tor*^^H the newly adapted;magazine army rifle haaHJ not met expectations in the Department of#! the Colorado. An official report by an spector ot target practice condemns it (1 Domestic. 9 Mra^Catoerl^ Hatch^om p^d, calls forwS^'?to18to ttfeSSjf I taxes, or $6,519;611 more thaa in 1896. Ex-Governor Edward J. Onrtis died at Boise, Idaho, after a brief illness. |9| The Court of Oyer and Terminer. theContt fl of Common Pleas and the Superior Court, New York City, went out of existence. . 9 Governor Morton, of New York, appointed Irving G. Vann. of Syracuse, to. succeed 'Judge Peekham on the Court of Appeals. H In his annual message Governor Morton : to the New York Legislature upholds the Monroe doctrine, but deprecates any thought' of war between the United States anil Great Britain. He favors such excise legislation as ' flH will reduce the number of saloons in the State. Both Houses of the New York teghK lature convened. Hamilton Fish was re- -_ MS elected Speaker of the Assembly. , At Victor, CoL, George Smith and Tom V^D Paaooe were killed and W. Ferguson moiy. tally wounded in the Union Theatre during I a drunken flght : v B The budget of New York City. for 1896; as - I The cittzens of Marion .County, Kentucky, ... I held a mass meeting to false money for a . M reward for the capture of members of the mob that burned to death a woman and H | K3U0Q ner p&wuuur. iiua u> uvw have been composed ol only fire men. I Burglars chloroformed Mrs. Wlernan at PortJervlfl, N. Y.. and stole $6000 worth of Edward Hallenbach. of Brooklyn, seriotwly I wounded William T. Robinson at thelattis?) H home, in New York City, firing seven shots;, f'.? a* htm.^of^ which three too^ effect The Three free silver organizations Vera com- fl bined In Chicago under the name of fchfe' I American Bimetallic Union. H at a banquet, charged ttw 'corruption^&e fl City Council to "prominent citieens." - fl LordDnnraven sailed from new York for ?^fl England on the Umbrla, after giving hbi testimony before, the committee InvestigAt- fl Ing the. .charge 'of fraud against the Itefender syndicate. ^Albeit A Nellis^real estate dealer^inNew ner Hoebe'r on Suspicion of having ^caused, fl ,the death of Mn. John A. Bunnett, whose " body was fopnd in the area of his residence. , u Matthias Oeitner. a helper in Noedlinger* fl Sons' malt house, New York City, was found, fl beaten terribly, in the street a jcwminutne after he left the works, and die! a few hours' The final count showed that twenty-seven fl persons were killed and flfty-two injured in. flH the panic in the Front 8?eet .Theafare.'JfeltW more, McL The Coroner's jury in the in- I ence was to Disme iortnepamc. - . Recent Investigations of tho condition of I ,tho Mississippi 8tate Capitol at Jackson have, BH demostrated {>>?>< It is in1 an uns&fe coadi- H tion. Experts say that it Is Ilfcely to cot- KB ,lapse at any time. 1^1 Alfred N. Tripp, a wealthy resident of | Poughkeepsle, N. Y.f hanged himself in his The State Prison Commission of -WW York decided to recommend to the I/flgifl*-. ture that convicts be employed in making- n supplies and doing work for pubDo lnsflrn- - Bart Tormey. a miner? Andrew Lawrene*. I*1""" O"'1 WUUnm ftirard. flrflmBO. MBit Hfl 4QUV1WI WUU f Instantly killed by an explosion of dynamite at Milnesville Colliery, Hozleton, Pena. There was no other person in the vioinJty at IH the time and the cause of the explosion will never be known. , H Thomas Potts, charged with murder at Point Pleasant, W. Va.. after being released on bail, fatally slashed a witness against him. H Made crazv bv the sight of his barn bun- B lng, Leroy Mills, of near Akron, Ohio, a. farmer, forty years old, rushed into the flames and met his death. He had been soverely injured in escaping from the bam when the fire broke oat. flfl Bussia has ordered 1300 tons of heavy fiarveyized armor plates for battleships from the Bethlehem Iron Works in Pennsylvania. IB* The four-story iron front building at Bal timore, Md., ocoupied by the Arm of Oehm A Co. as a clothing store, was destroyed by ^^9 Are. A rough estimate places the loss at-^BI 1300,000. A blizzard prevailed In the country east of the Mississippi Biver. An extremely high wind storm did some damage in New Tork City. Edward Mill, pursued by a mob in Peonsylvania, Jumped Into the Lehigh Biver asdHH was drowned. Thirty-seven indictments found agstist policemen in New York City aftor the Lexow Committee's investigation were dismissed by Justice Inpraham. Foreign Note*. B A despatch from Berlin, Germany. says^^H that Kaiser Wllhelm will intervene If Eng-BHJ land threatens the independence of theSH| Transvaal. Outbreak; are reported again in Oriab^|^| Turkey. Minister Terrell learns that allH^H missionaries in Anatolia are safe. The Cunard liner Oephalonla ran aground^^H near Holyhead, England, but was floated^E^B ' and ultimately beached. H Venezuela Is negotiating in the United^^^B States for war supplies. Advices from Rome are to the effect that^HH the ItaliaQ troops have evacuated Adowa,^^^N , and that the place is now occupied by tht^^^H ! Abyssiniaos. flHH A strong earthquake) shock was felt at ciano, in Cast-rfii. Italy. Several person^^^H were killed and a number were injured. H H From Docember 20 to December 27 ther^HflH were seventy-nine coses of oholera at S^BI Petersburg, Russia, and fifty deaths by thsH^H disease. jH|^B Venezuelan army officers ar6 drilling dall]^|H| on the hilltops around Caracas in the useo^H^fl heavy artillery. Ex-Primo Minister Rosebery. of Orea^^^H Britain, wrote a letter to the press sayinfl| H that the Salisbury Government U solely r^H^H sponsible for the condition of affairs in taenia.