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# T y"Y* "y K ' * * v > * ' '\ V - ilsw liiii A Bis: Cuban Expedition Founders Off New Jersey. MEN AND MUNITIONS LOST, j The J. X. Hawking, an Old Tab in Which They Put to'Sea From Sew York City, Goes Down?-A Terrible Blow to the Caban Insurgents---A Thrlllinc Rescue?Gnns Thrown Overboard. I The Ashing steamer, J. N. Hawkins, recently purchased in Baltimore, Md.. by the agents ol the Cuban Junta in New York City and converted into a transport to carry men, arms and ammunition to the insurr gents, sank off the New Jersey coast while on the way to Cuba. She had on board 120 volunteers, 5000 Winchester and Remington rifles, four Hotchkiss rapid firing guns, 4000 pounds of dynamite and raw material for use in the manufacture of high explosives, 2000 maohettes and 2,000,000 cartridges. The en tire outfit cost aDout asizu.uw, nname joss is the heaviest blow the revolutionary party has received. Reports vary as to the loss of life, but six or ten men were drowned. They nere Spaniards The expedition was commanded by General Calexto Garcia, and his staff co.-jidted of Colonel Carlos Gar cia, his son. / general Rosso and two other officers, said to be Americans who saw service in the late war. 0*-*' ? STORY OF A SURVIVOR. Terrible Scenes Aboard When u Storm Disabled the Boat. One of the survivors, Joseph C. Hernandez. told the following story: The Hawkins, he said, left New Y?rk at midnight. She had been purchased by the Cuban revolutionary party. The crew consisted of sixteen men. The captain was R. Hall, and the mate, C. H. Crowell. who belonged in Brooklyn. Tney leit jtast laoin street, wane in fort Morris, in the dead of night, and headed straight up the Sound. All went well until three o'clock a. m., when a storm came up. and the sea became rough. The engineer reported that there was a leak in the engine room, and that the pumps were choked. The engine room was soon flooded and Captain Hall saw that they were in a critical condition. Orders were given to throw the coal overboard to lighten the ship. It was done, but without effect. The Hawkins pitched and rolled, and began to settle in , the sea. The men had on board two Hotchkiss guns, 14D0 American rifles, about 1,000,000 rounds of ammunition and 300 pounds of dynamite. It was feared that the dynamite would break loose and blow them all to atoms, and it, with the arms, was then thrown overboard. Still the vessel was not relieved. The water gained on them, and soon the engine room fires were put out. Then the vessel was completely at the mercy of the waves, which broke over her. Sisrnals of distress were fired, and eventually the rockets brought three schooners near them. At this Juncture all hands were ordered to take to the boats. There were six boats, but one of them had been rendered useless in throwing overboard the coal and guns. The crew could not handle the boats with facility and the result was that nine men were drowned. Some say ten. AMERICANS rro THE RESCUE. Boat* Filled With the Unfortnuutes Picked Up at Sea. About 7 o'clock a. m., J. W. Brackett, master of the schooher Helen H. Benedict, sighted the Hawkins. Captain Brackett says the Hawkins was showing signals of distress. He bore down upon her and found her passengers and crew already in the boats. He picked up the first officers, steward and twenty-three of the Cubans, who ' were in an exhausted condition. Twenty j minutes after he said he saw the steamer ro down. Tho locality was about sevontythree miles south-southwest of Montauk [Point. The wind was blowing hard from the north-northwest and the sea was very I rough. Captain Bracket t landed his rescued men at Martha's Vineyard. The remaindei of the passengers and crew were picked up (from boats by the schooners Le.inder V. i iBeebe and Alicia B. Crosby. The men lost everything except two satchels, filled with greenbacks, which General Garcia and his son carrieJ. A Hard Blow to the Janter. The hopes of tbe Junta in the United States and of the army in the field in Cuba were centred in this expedition. It was be.lieved that when the carefully laid plans to i land the men and arms in Cuba had been carried out a blow would be struck which . would go a long way toward establishing ;the independence of tbe island. Maceo and Gdmez, who are practioall.v hemmed in near Havana, have been relying upon the arrival of Garcia and his cargo to enable them to attack the capital. LYNCHED A DESPERADO, Ksn Arnnck in a Train, Killed a Vontnaiter and Wounded Others. Alexander Jones, a colored desperado, ran amuok in a car on a passenger train in West Virginia, and killed one man and wonnded two others. He was lynched nest morning in Hemphill. Jones boarded the train in Keystone, W. Va., drunk and quarrelsome. When Conductor McCtillourn came through to collect fare he refused to pay and became very botsterous While the conductor was re monst rating with him, he drew two revolvers from his belt and b?gan to shoot indiscriminately through the car. The passengers crouched under the seats and tried to escape through the doors. Before any one could get away, however, the desperado had fired all of his twelve shots. The miscreant then tried to reload his weapons for further execution, but he was overpowered by the trainmen, who succeeded in disarming him. W. !H. Strattus. Postmaster of Elkhorn, was lying on the floor of the car breathing his last, with a bullet in his abdomen. He onl> lived a few minutes Peter Rice, a colored miner, was fatally shqt through the right breast. Conductor MeCuHough was wounded in the side, but hi3 injury is not serious It was decided to take Jones to Huntington for safe keeping. The officers boarded the train without trouble, although a great crowd had gathered to witness the departure. A short distance from Elkhorn the train wa3 flagged, and fifty men, armed with rifles, jumped aboard. They forced the ' officers to release the prisoner, and then took him out and hanged him to a tree od .the side or the roadbed. t ' 1 The President'* Outing. President Cleveland and Dr. O'Beilly, bis private physician, left Washington on another brief shooting trip. The President with his physician and his guns rode away from the White House at a little after midnight to tho Seventh street wharf, where they boarded the light-house tender Maple, which was lying there with steam up. '."he I nes were quickly cast off, the boat headed dowu the riVer and was soon lost to view. Calwn Amazons. Women have fought side by side wilii revolutionists in engagements in Cuba. Tat situation at JohannesburgiatheSonth Afr.caa Republic Is very dangerous. The Bo?r rorces are arrogantly dictatorial with their own Executive, and are deadly opposed to granting reforms for the benefit of the Uitlanders. The forces are still concentrated around the town. The Executive is choosing a site for a fort. A catastrophe can only be averted by the adoption of urgent measures. A Bis Thelt Alleged. George Krout, agent of the Wells-Fargo Express Company in Colorado Springs. Col., was arrested on a charge ot stealing from the company $35,000 whioh he said had been stolen from him. Xi * * . / ' 'A * THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. IVMhlncton Item*. President Cleve and, accompanied by Dr. OTHI'v. returned to Washington from his brief shooting trip to Quantlco, on the Potomac lUver. He shot a large bag of ducks. Adelaide Johnson, sculptress, was wedded in Washington to Alfred F. Jenkins, who took his bride's name. The ceremony was performed by a Thcosopbist. The Navy Department is making preparations for the trial of the torpedo boat Ericsson in Long Island Sound when the weather permits. Upon the results obtained during this trial will depend the enforcement of Secretary Herbert's decision to accept the vessel preliminarily. The Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was passed. Senator Hill objected to Senator Jones's request that a vote be taken on the free coinage bill in the United States Senate. The United States Supreme Court decided that the courts alone? the Knrf-harn Pacific Road are ancillary to Judge Jenkins's court, which gives his court jurisdiction over the entire system in the matter of receivership. The World's Fair medals. 23,857 in number, were received at the Treasury Department in Washington. The medals will be held until the Commission meets and adopts measures for their proper distribution. Secretary Olney decided to send a consul to Johannesburg, in the Transvaal, to look after the interests of the Americans under arrest there. Frank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown, the two new Senators from Utah, were sworn in. The new Senators drew lots for the long and short terms. Mr. Cannon drew the longer term, ending juarcn s, io??, wane Mr. Brown got the term ending March 3, 1897. United States war vesse's and revenue mfirine cutters have been ordered to chase and intercept a formidable Cuban filibustering expedition under the leadership of Calixta Garcia. The Senate Committee on Commerce ordered a favorable report on a bill of Senator Frye for the repeal of the law exempting certain vessels from tonnage taxes. Under this bill Germany will be made to pay this Government about $60,000 a year. '* F. C. Jackson, Superintendent of the Railway Mail Service in New York, has been superseded in that position by Victor J. Bradley. John Tyler, son of President John Tyler, died in Washington. The last diplomatic dinner of the season was given by Secretary and Mrs. Olney. The House met for the first pension session of the Fifty-fourth Congress at 8c'clook p. id. Thirteen bills received favorable consideration. Ex-President Harrison paid a visit of courtesy to President Cleveland at the White Hiuse. John A. Mason, of New York City, was nominated by the President to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of New York. The nomination was sent to the Senate. The Senate Committee on Military Affaire ordered a favorable report on the nomination of Colonel Coppinger to be Brieadier General. This action was taken by the unanimous vote of the committee. Domestic. Harry 31. Fowle, clerk for a Boston lumbe? firm, confessed he ole over 847.000. Daniel Long, of Lockport. N. Y., on parole from Elmira Reformatory. died from the effects of ill-treatment received while a pria oner. The State Board of PardoDS of Pennsylvania recommended the release of Hugh Dempsey, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment for poisoning non-union workmeB at Homestead, Penn., during the great strike of 1892. President La Grange made the declaration at the Fire Department that New York Citj had been imposed upon for years by the persons who bought supplies for the Depart* ment, and that if the Commissioners of Accounts should begin an investigation they would find frauds as great as existed in the Police Department. The Milwaukee (Wis.) Street Railway was sold to William Nelson Cromwell, of New York, for $5,000,000. A Long Island City (N. Y.) Coroner's Jury found Mrs. Minnie Lalor guilty of the murder of her son William. At Pittsburg, Penn., Mary Steele, five year? old. and her sister Norab, three years old. children of Mr. and Mrs. John Steele, were burnel to death, and Mrs. 8teele sustained probably fatal injuries. Their home waf afire. Mrs. Edmund J. Tucker, of Yonkers, N. Y., was murdere.1 by a tramp in her home in the presence of her fi ve-year-old son. Thfl CTiirlcnti TlivrtP iM nmr\ if <2 fnnrprl will be a failure. The New Jersey Legislature met in Trenton; resolutions iu memory of Ambassador Runyon wera adopted. The ice gorge in the Maumee River, about eight miles above Toledo, Ohio, broke, and in running out carried awnv two spans of the new bridge in cours? of construction. The loss is estimated at $50,000. .Miss Ida J. Hart, principal of the Centre School in Huntington, Conn., noticed a few days ago a 9light swelling on her faoe. A physician found it was a carbuncle. Sho became unconscious and died in the night. It is supposed her brain was affected. John H. Goodwin, a rich Alabama planter, crazed by religion, killed his wife and himseir. The contracting tailors of New York City, who locked out their employes rather than submit to union rules, made a complete concession of every point demanded by the men. Albert Tollls, of Brook, Ind.. has been lodged in jail to prevent his being lynched. Tollis was aonoyed by the crying of his eight months1 old baby. Ho seized it and squeezed its head between his knees until the child died. William H. Raynor, of Rockville Centre, Conn., poor, in love, and out of employment, trPnt trt hit mnthofV rrravn L'nult thftrfl And shot himself dead. ? Mrs. J. H. WormaD. of New York, wife ol one of the owucrs of Outing, committed suicide by shooting. She was despondent because her son was a helpless invalids Voreien Noten. Germany has ordered twelve torpedo destroyer*, to have a 3peed of thirty knots, it i? renorted, from Thornycroft A Co., the British shipbuilders. in a spcial cable despatch from Caracas. Venezuela, it is stated that despatches announcing immediate action by Germany in collecting railway debts duo Germans havn caused excitement and alarm in the capital. The Cunard steamer Catalonia was towed to the Azores with a broken shaft by the German steamer Braunschweig. Many women at Caracas have organized for the protection of Venezue.an interests as against F.uropeau aggressiou. They announce that they have established a boycott against l-.njrlish goods. The employs of the Clyt'e (Scotland) shipbuilders, who have been looked out for severai months, owing to an agreement between their employers and the Belfast shipbuilders. whose employes were on strike, resumed work. The Ontario (Canada) Government has relinquished all i-laim to Coleman Island in Lake Lacroix, west of Port Arthur, an official survey demonstrating that it lies south of the international boundary Hue and in United States waters. The international chess tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia, ended, Lasker, the German, winning first prize; Steinitz won the second prize and Pillsbury, the American, finished thiro. The death of LordLeighton. the celebrated British painter, and President of the Royal Academy, is announced. Japan is piueing orders for ten warships and plauts for two dockyards with builderon the Tvne and Clyde. General Weyler, tho newly appointed Captain-General of Cuba, sailed from Spain for Havana, together with a cavalry force 1000 strong. A large crowd witnessed the embarkation of the General and the troops. A revolution of small but irritating character is agitating CaraboOo, Venezuela, and causing some solicitude at Caracas. The drawing in its legul aspects of-the Rritiah noeo in tKa /~Lninnn hrtlinHtirv rHaniltH Las been intrusted by the Government to Sir Frederick Pollock, Corpus professor of jurisprudence of Oxford University. ST.Pi0t8ISt6Wl" Accident to the American Liner Off t New Jersey's Coast. - < STRANDED IN A DENSE FOG. ! She Lost Her Bearings At Night While Racine With the Cuoarder, Campania and Was Driven Ashore at Lone Branch?Her Passengers Safely Tramferred?Fast in the Sand. The new American line steamer 8t. Paul, bound from'Southampton to the Port of New York missed her way in a dense fog and otorm and went ashore near Long Branch, N. J. Her commander, Captain Jamison, iwj it- - J J A. A# auriuuiou tilt) ucuiusui iu au ouui vi Litu leadsman, who, he says, reported heventeen fathoms of water when there were only seven. Her owners thought that she would be floated without serious injury, although ' it was feared that she would remain fast in the sand for a week or more. Her passengers were safely transferred in the life saving boat, and reached New York City twelve " hours after the accident. Campania and St. Paul, of the rival Cunara and American lines, two of the four greatest ocean passenger steamers In existence, had been hurrying towards New York almost side by side all day, and they plunged together into foggy and rhiok weather off the New Jersey coast. The Campania, fortunately beaten in the race, barely esoaped . a disaster similar to the one which befel ner < rival by a sudden anchoring. Both vessels 1 were miles out of their course. Both cap- t tains deny that they were;racing, and each denies that he was slashing ahead regardless of anything but speed and trusting to i the other, whose lights ne could see, to keep 1 in deep water.' < The St. Paul went ashore about half-past I one o'clock a. m. She struok about rour i hundred yards off the shore, almost in a < direct line with Seaview avenue, Ea3t Long 1 Branch, and right in front of the Grand i View House. i The vessel nad been running on dead reck- ( oning, and at first no one knew where she i had struck. The life saving station men at s Nos. 3, 4 and 5 flashed their signals and by j and by Captain Jamison and the pilot found 3 they were in the vioinity of Long Branch. ? i THE AMERICAN LINE The heavy seas struck the vessel again and I again, and It seemed for the time being that 1 some invisible power was holding her and I carrying her in nearer and nearer to the 1 land. The captain quiokly found he could t do nothing with his ship?she was held as in 1 a vise; she was helpless. It was high tide J when she struck, ana all the passengers were 1 asleep and remained unconscious of their ] ' " " 1- A t Ereaicament unm < o uiuu&. u uuui uiu ? ? alf after the life savers had got their boats t out, rigged up the breeches buoy and com- < munication with the shore was established, c The officials of the company were notified, t and their tugs, together with Merritt Company's wrecking tuss, were sent down from 3 New York. More lite saving boats went to 1 their assistance, and after working until four 1 o'clock in the afternoon all the passengers were transferred to steamers and conveyed I to New York City. ] There were a total of 266 passengers on ? the ship when she went ashore. Of these i sixty-five were in the first cabin, seventy- I one in the intermediate department and 120 ? in the steerage. Her officers and crew were ( 400 in number. She carried 200 bags of mail 1 and had $1,300,000 in gold aboard consigned 1 to W. H. Crossman & Company. She also oarried 11.000 tons of freight. While the transferor these passengers and the mail.bags was going on the waves were I smashing against the side of the ship and curling and breaking around her bow and stern. It was critical work for the brave life savers. When pulling off with a load r they had to dodge, so to speak, the enormous f breakers, which seemed to lie in wait for them around either end of the vessel. But 8 the men pulled magnificently and the boats & rode the waves like corks. The news that a big steamer was ashore j had spread rapidly. Soon after daybreak l..._j??? hnnr?h Tn tha After- I UUiiUioua nwio v** iu? ? neon there wure 6000 persons viewing the stranded vessel and the fleet of tags bobbing at a respectful distance from her. These spectators came by train from all the neighboring towns and villages, in carriages, in buggies, on bioyoles and in nondescript vehicles. Men. women and children were there. The sun came out for a time to light np the picture, the wind had gone down, the air was almost balmy and the sunlight reminded one of the coming of spring. But yet the sea would not abate its anger so quickly. It sullenly swept over the beaches, dashed in mighty spray against the bulwark, setting the laughing, chattering throng running from a bath. THE WRECKERS AT WORK. The Steamer Pull* Herself On* Hundred and Sixty Feet. A strong effort was made to float the ship on the morning after the accident and, as a result of it the stranded steamship was tugged about 160 feet further to the northward, but as the shift in position was 1 in the direction of the Bhore line, it did not 1 bring the vessel any nearer to deep ' water, and did not Improve her ( chaaoes of being floated. Three ( Chapman and three Merritt wreck- j ing boats tugged at the vessel during the ' early hours. There were fifty powerful tugs ' opposite the St. Paul ready to give assist- ' aace, but they were not utilized. 8ix lm- I mense kedge anchors were planted in the ? sea about 1000 yards from the stranded vessel. The kedge anchoris a huge mud hook, which, deeply imbedded, is pulled upon by the two force? in opposite directions. The cable that connected the kedge anchors with the steamship was made fast to the drum of the St. Paul's heaviest hoisting engine. This permitted the St. Paul to wind up, or draw in, the cable, while the tugs, wltn opposing strength, gave a purchasing power. Little by little she moved, until about a third of her length in distance was traversed, and then she came to a final stop, and not another inch could she be moved. The strain pn the hawsers was not relaxed, in order to keep the vessel from moving inshore. The St. Paul's Captain. Captain John Clark Jamison, commander of the St. Paul, was born in Brooklyn about forty-seven years ago. HU father was a ship nnH Twoa lnar nr qfln Wlion the boy was about tweve years old he went on the pilot boat Isaac Webb as an apprentice und stuck to it lor twelve months. Then, after a year in school, he went out in the bit? clipper Dreadnaughi around the Horn for 'Frisco. He stuck to the Dreadnaught for several years, and was a boatswain when he joined the United States service. He wa* mate of the Mohican for three years from 1869, and after that he went into clippers again. He wa? on the 3 Caro us Magnus in a gale which swamped * the ship. The crew were saved, but Jamison J got a broken leg and a broken arm. In 1876 ^ Via ininari t-h? nf thn old American 1 - line as second officer. The ships of that line, ' niimedafterStates.pliedbetweenPhiladelphia ( and Antwerp. When the Inman line absorbed 1 the Red Star and American lines Jamison stayed with them. He was promoted to command, and he has commanded the Rhynland. Switzerland, WaeslanB, Westernland : and New York, with occasional trips in other ships. It is said of him that until he took ' the 8t. Paul there had never been an accident ! on any ship that he had commanded. Captain Jamison livee in Montclair. His family consists of his wife, two daughters and two sons. : . -;3B* ; ?s:v ^ THEODORE RUNYON DEAD. American Ambassador to Berlin Suddenly Expires of Heart Failure. Theodore Runyon, the American Am)assador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary o Germany, died of heart failure at Berlin. Hr. Ronyon's death was unexpected. He lined a few nights before with the Em-i seror and others, and appeared to be in! THEODOBE BUKY05T. ;ood health. The Ambassador went to Berln nearly three years ago, and was exremely popular there. Theodore Bunycn was born at Somerville, n Somerset County, N. J., October 25.1822. Se came ol a Huguenot iamuy wuicu wtu> Iriven out of France by the revocation of :he edict of Nantes. In early life he lived n Bound Brook. He received a preparatory education at Plalnfleld, and finally entered ?ale College, from which he was graduated n 1842. He began the study of law in 1842 n the office of Asa Whitehead in Newark, md in 1846 he was admitted to the bar as an ittorney, and three years later as counselor. In 1853 he was made City Ittorney, and in 1856 City Counselor in Newark. After serving eight years as counlel he wa3 elected Mayor of Newark in 1864 8TEAMEB 8T. PAUL. Tor a term of two years on the Democratic Jcket. Mr. Bunyon was appointed in 1866 )y Governor Price a Commissioner to evise nnd codify the militia laws, and In he following year he was appointed a Brigadier-General and soon afterward Maor-General, commanding the New Jersey National Guard. In 1860 he was ohosen a Presidential Elector, and cast his vote for Stephen A. Douglas for President in the Elecoral College, When the Civil War broke >ut in 1861 General Bunyon was placed iu :ommandof the New Jersey brigade of voluneere. Mr. Bunyon practiced law in Newark from 1887 to March, 1893, when President Cleveand appointed him Ambassador to Berlin, dr. Bnnyon was a millionaire. The appointment of Mr. Bunyon as Am>assador to Germany was a great surprise, le was pleased with the unsought honor md promptly accepted it. He was one of the nostpopular men whoever represented the Jnited States abroad. A widow, two son9 md three daughters survive Mr. Bunyon. )ne of the daughtera is the wife of a New fork banker. One of the sons also lives in Jew York. TWO NEW UTAH SENATORS. 'rank J. Cannon and Arthur Brown Are Added to the Republican Side. Arthur Brown and Frank J. Cannon, the lew members of the United States Senate rom Utah, have increased the Republican trength in the uppei branch of Congress. A hort sketch of their careers follows: " p1 ;i /pvyw ARTHUB BBOWy. (United 8tste9 Senator from Utah). Arthur Brown is fifty-three years of ape, ind was born near Kalamazoo, Mich. Ha #as graduated from Ann Arbor, and praciced law in Michigan with muoh sucsess from 1863 until 1879, when he nme to Utah and at onoe took a position a3 )ne of the leaaers of the bar. He wa9 one of :he founders of the Republican party of Utah, and has been active in politics since. 3e is aggressive and fearless, and will chamlion the coinage of free silver at tne ratio of lixteen to one. \ \ry 7 y FRANK J. CANXOX. (United States Senator from Utah.) Frank J. Cannon, the junior Senator, is .1 Mormon, the son of George Q. Cannon, of he Mormon Church. He was born in San Prancisco, but spent most of his life in Utah, aetookun journalism when ayounj?man, ind was connected with the San Francisco Dhronicie. Afterward he became editor of :he Ogden Standard, and his home is in that Jity. Favor of German-Americans. The Imperial Court at Leipsic, Germany, \ ruled on a case which affects the rights of many German-Americans.. J. W. Boehine, of Brooklyn, N. Y.. wna fined, in September last, the sum of $50 for evading military jerviceby emigration. The court quashed the sentence as not being in accord with treaty rights. Cf J ' ' ABHENIA'S Cfil HEARD, Congress Warns the Turkish Sultan to Stop the Atrocities. SENATE AND HOUSE CONCUR, By ? Heavy Majority the Lower Body Parses the Resolution* Sent to It by the United States Senate?Hepburn Favored the Terminating of Diplomatic Relations With Turkey. . . After a lively debate, which larted nearly four hours, the House of Representatives at Washington passed by a vote of 143 to 26 the United States Senate concurrent resolutions on the Armenian outrages. The House Committee on Foreign Affairs had already adopted and reported similar resolutions, but when the Senate resolutions wore received, Mr. Quigg, of New York City, who had made the report from the House Committee, asked and obtained unanimous con* sent for their immediate consideration, and the resolutions from the Committee on Foiv eign Affairs were not taken from the Speaker's table. The opposition to the Senate resolutions was not strong In numbers, nor was it united, but it contributed sevtral vigorous speeches to the discussion. Colonel Hepburn, of Iowa, was opposed to the resolutions because they did not go far enough, in his opinion, and he offered an amendment providing for the immediate severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Turkey, an amendment against which Chairman Hitt protested. General Grosvenor attacked the preamble to the Senate resolutions and took sides with Colonel Hepburn, whose amendment was finally rejected by.a vote of 19 yeas to 121 nays. Mr. Adams, of Pennsylvania, who is a member of the Committee on Foreign Af-, fairs, also spoke against the Senate resolutions, taking the ground that they committed Congress to a position which was utterly inconsistent wttn its, attitude In regard to the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Turner, of Georgia, delivered an impassioned speech, in whioh he not only attacked the resolutions?which he characterized as an act of impertinence?but opposed any action whatever by Congress in regard to the subject. He especially condemned the last resolution of the 8enate, which pledges Congress "to support tha President in the most vigorous action he may take for the protection of American citizens in Turkey and to obtain redress for injuries committed upon the persons or property of 'such citizens." By virtue of that resolution, Mr. Turner said, the Executive might send a fleet of war vessels to bombard aud destroy Constantinople and lay waste the coast of Turkey. The speeches in favor of the resolution were tempetate, considering the nature of the subject, and it was evident that at least seven-eighths of the members present sympathized with the speakers. In the course of the discussion. Chairman HUt, of the Committee on Foreign Allaire, said that so far as the State Department had been able to ascertain. not a single American citizen, native or naturalized, had been murdered sinoe the I Armenian outrages bep,an, and, moreover, that the Turkish Government was not only willing and ready, but anxious and even eager to pay for the losses of and damages to the property owned by American citizens in Turkey. The concurrent resolution as passed reads as follows: This Senate concurrent resolution declares It to be an imperative duty, in the interest of humanity, to express the earnest hope that the European concert brought about by the Berlin Treaty may be speedily given Its just effect in such decisive measures as shall stay the hand of fanaticism and lawless violence, and as shall secure to the unoffending Christians of the Turkish Empire all the rights belonging to them as men and Christians and as beneficiaries of the explicit pro-, visions of that treaty; requests the President to communicate these resolutions to the five signatory Powers thereof, and declares that Congress will support the President in the most vigorous action he may take for the protection and security of American citizens In Turkey, and to obtain redress for injuries committed upon the persons or property of such citizens. . FUTURE OF THE RESOLUTION. Considered Probable That the President Would Comply' With the Bequest. It has been the uniform practice for many ycura IU [Dgiiiu I;UU^ULL^UI dependent acts of Congress, not requiring the approval of the President to give them force and effect, and hence there was some doubt about sending the above resolution to the White House. It was not regarded, however. as probable that the resolution would meet with the disapproval of the Administration. Neither the President nor Secretary Olney has publicly committed himself to any line of poltcy in regard to Turkey and the Armenian situation, but it is known that befor "the resolutions were drawn up Senator Cullom had a long conference with Secretary Olney on thesubject, and the impression was given out that the resolutions had the full approval of the Administration. It was. thus, the uniform expectation that the President would comply with the request contained in the resolution, and would communicate the aotlon of Congress to the Gov eraments of Great Britain, Germany, Austria, France, Italy and Bussia, the six signatory Powers, besides the Turkish Empire, to the Treaty of Berlin. Looking for American Aid. The passage in the speech delivered In Birmingham, England, by Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, inviting the United States to co-operate with England in Armenia, strengthens the report that Lord Salisbury has asked President Cleveland to join in a note to the Powers protesting against the treachery of the Porte and askin'g that united action be taken to the end of obtaining genuine reforms in Armenia, and has also asked that the United States join in a demonstration of the English and American fleets In Turkish waters. The Daily Chronicle advocates that the Powers who, owing to their respective interests and mutual suspicions, seem powerless to act, invite the United States to send a fleot to force the passage of the Hellespont and compel the Sultan to stop the barbarism prevailing in Armenia. Vloleut End of a Family. In a family altercation at Kyle. W. Ya., Thomas Burns shot his stepmother mortally with a revolver, and then committed suicide by lending a bullet through his breast. Burns's wife, overcome by grief and horror, attempted suicide by taking poison. She was revived, but is a raving maniac. Pensions for Five Widows. Amcng the pension bills passed by the United States Senate were $50 per month to the widow of Rear Admiral English; $75 per month to the widow of Major-General Carroll; $30 per month to the widow of Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka, the Arctic explorer; $50 per mouth (increased from $30) to the widow of Colonel Frederick Dent; $100 per month to the widow of Major-Gen?*...! Ft/%.? Widens Kaiser Wilheliu i* Thirty-Seven. The thirty-seventh birthday of Emperor Willv.'lm of Germany was celebrated with yreat ceremony throughout the Empire. l'atal Mine Explosion. Explosions occurred iu two coal pits at Pout-y-Pridd, Wales. The pits aro on flro aud the shafts have been destroyed. According to the latest estimate of the number of victims, forty-three men have been killed. Forty-:wo of the entombed miners in the Pont-y-Pridd pits were rescued. National Finances in a Nutshell. Ia 1835 the publio debt of the United States was only 137.513. Not quite hair of our revenue last year was received from customs duties. In the year 1904, only eight j-eare from now, $100,000,00:) in bonds must bs redeemed. . DESPONDENT PATRIOTS. ( Cab?n Sympathizer* Cast Down by 1th* ^ Wreck of the Hawkins. The American sympathizers with the Cuban insurgents are much cast down by / the wrecking of the J.' N. Hawkins just as she was starting from New York with the men and munitions that General Gomez has been so anxiously awaiting in order to move on Havana. ' 1 minister plenipotentiary palma. (The Representative of the Provisional Government of Cuba in the United States.) In Junta circles in New York City the folly of sending (such a large expedition out in such a worthless vessel as the Hawkins proved herself to be was openly and severely, commented upon- It was charged without 4Uo*. Tnnfa icdcjlio iuai oumcuuuj nuum iuo vuum organization bad speculated, and trade money In purchasing the Hawkins. It la known that a very heavy price was paid foi her, and that a representative of the Cubans, alleged to have been an expert, had passed upon the vessel, and had pronounced her a staunch and swift boat, perfectly seaworthy and able to float an expedition of. any size.' Members of the Junta say that a rigid investigation will be made into the matter of the purchase. Senor Tomas Estrada Palma. the Cuban Delegate and Minister to the United States for the rebel Government, made a vigorous denial of all knowledge of the disaster to the J. W. Hawkins, and most stoutly protested that the Cuoan revolutionary party was not cognizant of any expedition. One Cuban said: "The Hawkins was an old boat known as a'bunker.' 1 wouldn't go outside Sandy Hook in her. She certainly was no good for an expedition of that kind. Somebody has been guilty of a great crime. It was shameful to send such a large bodv of men and such a load of arms out to sea upon suoh a craft. She was rotten, unseaworthy and a veritable floating coffin." IN BEHALF OF THE CUBANS. i Spain Will Be Asked to Recognize Her Foea as Belligerents. A concurrent resolution was reported to the United 8tates Senate from the Committee on Foreign Relations requesting the President of the United States to use hid good offices with Spain to have belligerent rights extended to the Cuban revolutionists. The resolutions reported by Mr. Morgan, representing the majority of the Committee on Foreign Relations, follow: "jcieaoivea, uy iuo ooauio uue auu^o ui Representatives concurring), That the present deplorable war In the Island of Cuba has reached a magnitude that concerns all civilized Nations to the extent tbat it should be conducted, if unhappily it is longer to continue. on those principles and laws of warfare that are acknowledged to be obligatory upon civilized Nations when engaged in open hostilities, including the treatment of captives who are enlisted in either army, due respect to cartels for exchange of prisoners, and for other military purposes; truces and flags of truce, the provision of proper hospitals and hospital supplies and services to the siok and wounded of either army; be it further ' Resolved, That this reoresentation of the views and opinions of Congress be sent to the President, and, if he concurs' therein, tbat he will, in a frendly spirit, use the good offices of this Government to the end that Spain shall be requested to accord to the armies with which it is engaged in war the rights of belligerents, as the some are recognized under the laws of Nations.*' The minority report upon the Cuban question, submitted by Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania, presents to the Senate the follow-, ing brief and simple resolution: "Tbat the President i3 hereby requested to interpose his friendly offices with the Spanish Government for the recognition of the independence ot Cuba." The majority resolution was accompanied by a report which, while it regrets the unhappy hostilities in Cuba, insists that security of life and property and the establishment of peace and of a satisfactory Government demand the recognition of the fact that a state of war exists in Cuba. This demand is enforced by the proximity of Cuba to the frontier of the United States and by the fact that the island is identified with the political and commercial welfare of our people. It is further made needful, the report says, because of the sympathy of sentiment in this country with the insurrectionists and because of the hospitality whioh, in accordance with the laws of Christianity, has been extended to Cuban refugees and has caused suspicion from Spain, a friendly Power, as to connivance with violation of the neutrality law*. The report also points out that there is no cartel providing for the care of the wounded or sick or the recognition of flags of truce. The matter was placed on the cal Robbed Yale's Hnienm. It has become known that articles valued at $10,000 had been stolen from the Peabody Museum of Yale University, at New Haven, Conn., and that Albert H. Verrill, son of Professor Addison E. Verrlll, professor of zoology and curator Of the zoological collection of the university, had confessed that he was the thief. The thefts have extended over a period of two years, and the exact amount of the loss will probably never be known, as the young man has -forgotten the number of piece: he has taken from tbe museum. One estimate places the amount of the thefts at 850,000. Revolt at Khartum. A despatch from Cairo, Egypt, says that a revolution has broken out in Khartum, and that the tribes from the interior have uome to the support of the Mahdi's former followers and overthrown the Mahdist rule. Good Outlook for Spring:. The New York Herald has obtained the views of leading business men in principal cities of the United States on the spring outlook in the various lines o? trade. Many o.' the statements note encouraging conditions, and others are hopeful in tone if not certaiii is to present indications. Ithrvoli of Xeiv Photograph. Dr. Neusser, Professor of Medicine in the Vienna University, showed by means ol photographs taken by Roentgen's newly discovered system, the presence and position ol j calcareous deposits in the bladder, liver and kidneys ot a suDjecc. PROMINENT PEOPLE Princess Beatrice realize* $500,000 from Prince Henry's life insurance. Sir Joseph Barnby, the ceiobrated English musician, died a few days ago in London, Colonel George W. Baiu, the teraperanco oratot. is a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky. Galdo*. the great Spanish novelist, Is a bachelor of tlfty and leads a very simple, retiring life. President Cleveland will lack fourteen days of beinsr sixty years old when his present term eadi. Miss Estelle Reel, State Superintendent ot Education in Wyoming, is seriously talked of for Governor. W TiE ASM Mil In Inmate's Attempt to Bum the B Matteawan, N. YM institution. 'flH DEED OF A DESPERATE MANIAC.1fl Wild Panto Among: the Terror-8tricken I Maniac*?Remarkable In the Worid'l Criminal Inuse Hlgtory. Fire started by a madman wa8 discoveted-^^B|J In the New York State Hospital for the Coa-'^B vict Insane at Matteawan ? "<* - q>wffA thfl'V'^^M! neatest excitement, not only in MattisawiBk^^SH and FiahkiU, bat throughout Dutflb?0<?^^H County, and even across the Hudson Blvatp^^^H Into Orange County. |^H The fires, which were five In number, woHmH started by a convict named 0. 7. Mitchell,* '^^H| pyro-manlao, sentenced to life lmpdv^'^^^H onment from Oneida County in 1891; ' and transferred from Auburn Prison in IB9L His crime was arson, In which two Hve* HI were lost It was only because of the. excellent discipline which Is maintatned in the asylum that the flrevMQiW.! attended by fatality. The moment the/ smoke began to fill the corridors theW* <-.H patients in the asylum were driven Into* various wards and corridors like sheep In! shambles; the lights were extinguished, and<1 a force of fifty armed men stood guard over the desperate people In their charge. . r : > The story of this conflagration Is unique in the orlminal Insane history of the wond. ! M Dr. Allison, the Superintendent, says no' similar event has ever before occurred. .fl| With the proverblal cunnlng of the lonatio Mitchell prepared to burn the osylom. He B knew the building was splendidly equipped! for the fighting of a fire and that he Could! nnfhnnAtndAimTnh rtamase with a ShUtSfl)- , PI blaze. So be planned for five simultaneous*., V ones at widely separated points, hoping to' scatter the forces of the fighting brigade and thus Insure n conflagration. He laid In a store of straw nndshaving*' , and small sticks and hid them in different' parts of the basement and the cellar, to which* ne had gained access by means knows only' to himself. And then he "set" the fires, one underneath J the Kitchen, two underneath the dining-j room, one in a particularly large pile of inflammable stuff under the Infirmary, ana! the fifth in the cellar of the north wing, ft considerable distance from the othen. Mitchell worked with the utmost seorecy, . *, and doubtless chuokled to think of the glorious blazes that he was about to kindle. Then ^B he kept his eyes open for a ohanoe to light ' the fires when lighting would do the most BB good or harm. H That opportunity came soon after 4 p. m. B When no one was looking Mitchell unlocked B a* door and crept down to the heap of stray* - r underneath the kitchen. Haying put the torch to this he visited hi* other plies and' speedily fired them. Fire was first discovered in the cellar under - MH the kitchen, which is some distance from fl where the patients are confined. No sooner. ' fl was the effort made to extinguish the flam as fl| than tt was discovered that the north wing . : H was also ablaze, directly under where over a H nundred patients Were located in the warda^ ,-M Smoke was fast filling the building. The patients were terror-stricken, especially the 'M women. '' I Meanwhile several other scattering blazes H were discovered in various sections of tha asylnm, and soon the fires were beyond the H control of the hospital attendants, even with fl| their excellent facilities to cope with anemer- fl genoy of thattind. Help was at once summoned from Flshkill Landing, about two >/'MM miles distant ? The Beacon and Tompkins hose companies arrived ih a short time, and' .BH it took the combined forces of the hoepital attaches and the others until 7 o'clock to g*t Bj the fire past the danger point. N |H The men patients, a dozen or more Ql ;(<? whom had every opportunity to escape, B worked heroically, and it was doe in some instances to their exertions that patients - - who were terror-stricken were assisted to a * place of safety. fl| Dr. Allison, the Snperlntendent, says the . . fl| men patlentB throughout the building acted in a manner so cool and courageoas as to ./.fl) Ka /In/ifAM wliA flraf fpATfld'A '' OOIVUUU tuv UVVkVM) n?v ?? ??w. ?. panic, with all Its terrible consequences, among the insane. After the outbreak, and when It was found HI that the total destruction of the asylom was 7 threatened, attendants were placed on duty . In all of the departments ready to remove* Bf the patients. Particular attention was paid. to the female inmates, who were greatly ex-' cited, and who pleaded with the keepers to; save them from the flames. No one was in jared, and the damage to the building waa CRAIN CROPS IN THE SOUTH. H Farmer* L,e?s Burdened With Debt Ttuuc Since the War. The Southern States Magazine of Balttmore, Md., publishes reports from oyer flte flH hundred correspondents in all parts of the ' MJfl South as to the flnanaial condition of farm ens 1UOBO ra^UllOOUVTT ere-as a class are leas burdened with debt than H they have been at any previous time since the war; that the? are now more and more every year producing at home their own pro visions and beooming leas and less depend- - ent upon the West (or oora, floor, pork, bay and like supplies; that growing these things 10 themselves they are saving the enormous profits on them formerly paid t3 supply mer chants, and that living thus on their own resources they can oount largely as profit whatever they may receive (or Hflf such cotton as they grow. An advance report of the corn crop o( 1895 In the South from the United Status Agricultural Department is published. It shows that to ^Hj the great yield of 483.000,000 bushels in that year, the South has now added 124,000,000 bushels, the total for 1896 having reached the unprecedented figures of 607,600,000 bushels, a gain of 172,000,000 over 1893. Addlnp to the corn crop the yield of wheat and oats, the exact figures of which are not yet obtainable, Rives the South a total grain HI production in 1895 of 740,000,000 bushels. VENEZUELAN COMMISSION MEETING. H Valuable Documents In the PoMeeeloa of j^H the Eoandary Board. IH The Venezuelan Commission, all its members attending, held practical y its first formal business session in its temporary quarters at Washington and made matters of reoord the result accomplished by its members acting independently the last two weeks. flfl ConsidoraDlo information?geographical, hist or I ca 1 and of a legal nature??as been a?- HH cumulated through the efforts of the com- |H missi oners working in special lines, and documents bearing on the commission's work, now in public and private libraries, M will be made accessible whenever desired. A great mass of material has already been accumulated, and the commission has no |H doubt now that sufficient evidence will be forthcoming. Justice Brewer, said that the commission was making excellent progress, and that |M while the great interest taken by the pubUo H in Its proceedings was fally recognized and nniM.nmuta,l if nrnnM h? ftrtromelv iniudi- U eiousto attempt to make publics bills of evidence in a haphazard way, whloh might be exceedingly misleading and injurious to the work in hand. To Coin Standard Sliver Dollar. Secretary Carlisle has directed Mint Director Presrc a to prepare to coin standard silver dollars at the Philadelphia and New Orloans mints. It is probable that not more than 7,000,000 standard silver dollars will be coined. Two things will happen as the result of this decision to coin standard silver dollars, viz.: The re-opening of the New Orleans mint on a small scale, and the continuance o' coining operations at the Philadelphia mint. The Last of the Watuppas. Dr. B. W. Perrv, the inst of the Watuppa Indians, the tribe which refused to join King Philip in his war for the extermination of the whites, died suddenly at Fall Kiver, Mass., at the age of seventy-five. He was a great athlete and skater.