The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, March 11, 1896, Image 2
' SO SM MB TAW.
House Rejects Free Coinage and the
Senate the Revenue Bill.
NO FINANCIAL LEGISLATION.
Br :? Voto of 215 to 00 the Representatives
R?tu?cd to Concur in the Free
Silver Substitute Attached to the Bond
Bill In the Senate?The Tariff Side
traciced in the Senate.
Washixqton, D. C., February 15.?Sicrrxiflcaat
events happened at both ends of tho
Onpitol Thursday afternoon. Free coinage
oi silver was defeated, after ten days' debate,
for this Conscress at least, by a vote of
80 to 190, in the House, and by a vote of 21
to 29 the Senate refused to take up the Dineley
Tariff bill, which action probably ends
all attempts at tariff legislation by the Fiftyfourth
Congress. Four Republican silver
Senators bolted from their party and voted
against the motion to take up the tariff bill.
All of these four Senators were from silverproducing
States, and one of them was Senator
Carter.
in the House the silver men of both parties
mustered eighty votes for free coinage out of
a total membership of over three hundred
and fifty.
AlfKnnrtli rrollorinc ttrnrO thmilCfid. tO~
day, and thcro was a good deal of outside interest
in the closing of the debate. a3 evidenced
by the presence of Senator Sherman
and others from the other end of the Capitol,
the debate itself was only saved from ntter
stagnation by a very spirited and very personal
?neounter between Mes9rs. Dearmond
and Hatl, both Missouri Democrats, on different
sides of the financial question.
Propositions were offered during the day
to concur with amendments as follows: To
coin the American silver product, for the retention
of the seigniorage by the Government
and to open the mints to the freo coinage of
silver at the ratio of 15,W to t when Germany
and France should have'agreeii upon similar
action. All were defeated by largo majorities.
The last proposition, offered by Mr.
Towne, of Minnesota, muslerod fifty-three
votes, the highest number of any. Mr.
Towne had stated to the Houso that similar
propositions would be submitied to the
Reichstag and French Parliament at the
present sessions.
The mo?t significant statement came is
the form of an intimation from Mr. Dineley
that a bill might be reported from the Ways
and Means Committee looting to the initiation
by this country of a project for anothei
international monetary conference to meet
within a year.
Just before the close of the debate a very
spirited and personal encounter took placo
Kafmaon Vfi- Tinnrmnh/1 and Mr. Hftll. both
Missouri Democrats on different sides of tho
financial question. Mr. Hall took the initiative.
Tho debate on the silver bill was closed in
the House by Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, in favor
of free ooinage, and by Mr. Turner, of
Georgia, and Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsylvania,
against tt. When the vote was taken there
was a majority of 125 votes against the free
eoinage substitute for the bill to protect and
maintain the coin redemption fund and provide
for temporary deficiencies of revenue.
Kx-Speakar Crisp's motion to agree to the
substitute was lost by a vote of 90 yeas to
215 nays. Fifty members were absent. If
every member had been present and had voted,
the majority against the Senate substi,
tute would have been nearly, if not quite,
140. The affirmative votes were cast by sixtyfive
Democrat's and Populists, one silver
member and twenty-four Republicans. The
negative votes were cast by 184 Republicans
and thirty-one Democrats.
TARIFF BILL SIDETRACKED. '
Motion to Get Consideration In the Senate
Deieated.
Washikotojt, February 15. ?Senator Morrill,
against the adviee of his party associates.
made an at'erapt to get tho tariff bill j
up for consideration, and the proposition
was defeated by a vote of 29 to 21. In tho
opinion of nearly every one in the Senate, :
thi3 is the end of the Tariff bill, it goes
back on the calendar, from which it can bo
taken only by a majority vote. The detailed |
vote wa3 as follows:
Yeas?Auirich. Allison, Brown, Cameron,
Clark. Cnllom, Frye, Hawley, Hoar, McMillan,
Mitoliefl (Oregon), Morrill. Nelson, Perkins,
Pettlgrew. Piatt, Proctor, Quay, Sherman,
Squlro and Warren?21.
Nays?Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Brier.
Butler, Call, Carter, Chtlton. Cockrell, t
Dubois, George, Gorman, Gray, Hill, Jones.
(Nevada), Mantle, Morgan, Pasco, Peffer,
Pugh, Roach, Smith. Toller. Tnrpie, Vest,
Yilas, Toorhees and Walthall?23.
The pairs announcflJ were us follows; the 1
first named would have voted to take up i
the bill, so far as their proposition was ;
stated:
Elkins with Faulkner, Gear with Gordon,
Hansbrough with Palmer, McBride with
Daniel, Wilson with Lindsay. Shonp with
White, Wet more with Irby, Gallinger with
Mills, Hale with Jones (Arkansas), Cannon
with Blackburn. Burrows with Blanchard,
Lodge with Stewart. Chandler with Murpay,
Sewell with Mitchell (Wisconsin), Davis with
Kyle, Thurston with Tillman.
No announcement was made of the pairs
of Baker. Pritchard and Wolcott, Republicans,
or Caffery, Harris, Martin and Gibson,
Democrats.
The principal reason why tho silver Republicans
votel agains; consideration is said
to have been a fear on their part that by
hook or crook the uriiT bill might Anally
reach the President and r>e signed instead ol
vetoed. Thov saw no reason to run any such
risk and preferred to follow the programme
linnounced in the Wharton Barker circular
rocently published, that there should be no
prote-tive tariff legislation wmcn was not
accompanied by legislation for the free coinage
of silver.
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Decadence of a Time-Honored Custom.
The St. Valentiao*3 Day custom of sen ling
tender greetings or aggravating caricatures
to loved ones, friend?, or foes, seems to be
dying out, if Post office statistics coj^titute
a criterion. Superintendent of Mails Clark,
of New York City, says that the saint s anniversary
this year has caused no material increase
in the amount of mail matter handled.
while in previous year3 the increase
around 8t. Valentine's Day has been very
large.
Oue Town'* Splendid Record.
More than one-fourth of the voters living
in Stoneham, Me., are pensioners of the Civil
War. But there were more enlistments from
3toneham than there were voters when the
^war was in progress.
John Bright'* Love of America.
In unfiling a statue of John Bright in
"the Central Hall of Parliament, London, the
Duke of Devonshire, Lord President of the
Council, referred to Mr. Bright as a great
friend of (ho United States, whose influence
wa* always potent for the preservation of
friond.viip between the two English-speaking
Nations.
Sunday Openioc a Popular Snccenn.
The popular success o? Sunday opening at
the Metropolitan Mum am ot Art. New York
City, is emphasize i ov mo rwura <n ium
y it. Of the 52C,4iS visitors lCb,loS weuc on
Sunday aftoraoous.
Industrial Notes.
Lace weavers will demand higher wages.
There are eleven unions of engineers in New
York City.
The tailors' lockout in Saw York City came
to an end. The employers were successful.
The Phoenix Labor Club, tho oldest organization
of metal polishers and platers in the
coantTy, has disbanded.
A. bill is before Congress to compel the licensing
and taxing of all factories and shops
where working people are employed
Probably the oldest railroad engineer in
New England ife Squire mis'jn. 01 .uyiiuuuyilte.
Vt. Ht> ha? been rnnnintr an engine on
the Boston nod Miuno system siuee 1852, ?ml
^ ,li ?t(ll making a daHy rue.
j LYNCHED IN ALABAMA.
The Murderer of a Policeman Takes From
;? Train by a Mob.
"Bob" Williams, a colore:! murderer, m
taken from tbo Western E:iilroa(l near Montgomery,
Ala., and lynched. Ho shot and
killed Policeman JohnL. Suggs and hail escaned.
Suggs was trying to arrest him lor
wife beatinc.
The murderer was arrested at Cowles station.
Three officers went for him on tbo 6
o'clock train. They started for Montgomery
with him on the train which arrived at 9 at
night.
Rumors of a proposed lynching wore soon
heard, and the police and tho local military
i 4-?-v nrn
acui iu iuu ailli u;u iu ia? ut ~
tect the prisoner. The mob, however,
had quietly assembled at the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery crossing, two
miles from town.
When the Western train reached the crossing
it stopped. The Slate law requires that it
should stop there. In an instant the coach
was filled with men, and the officers wero
overpowered. A plow liae was thrown
about the murderer's ne-lc, and he was
dragged across a field and hanged to a treo
half a mile away.
A hundred bullets wero flred into his body.
Ho confessed to the murder and tool* his
punishment without complaining 8uggs
was the third policeman killed in Montgomery
by colored men within ton years.
ST. LOUIS MAKING READY.
Plans Adopted for the New Republican
(Convention Building.
I TGenoral Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, and
Colonel J. M. Ewing, of Wisconsin, proxy for
Republican National Committeeman Henry
j C. Payne, met in the Bank of Commerce with
1 Messrs. 8. M. Kennar i, W. H. Thompson
and R. C. Kerens, representing St. Louis.for
thepurposoof deciding definitely upon the
: plans for a hall in which to hold the Republican
National Convention. The plans for the
j proposed ohanges in the exposition building
and nlan frtr n timi hiiildlnc were r?ro3ent0d
j to the sub-oommittee. Tae now building, to
I be called the Convention Auditorium, was
| selected.
The plans call for a structure capable of
seating comfortably 12,0 0 people. Threo
sites are in prospect. Tni south end of Washington
Park, facing on Twelfth street, Clark
avenue, and Thirteenth street, will likely be
ohoeen. The funds are in hani to prosecute
the work, which will begin when the site is
decided upon.
WEYLER DISCUSTED.
The Demoralization In Cuba Provokes the
Captain-General.
A despatch from Havana gives a report of
an interview with Captain-General Weyler in
which he expresses with great emphasis his
disgust at the condition of affairs which he
j found upon his arrival in Cuba.
' With the enemy only nine miles from the
capital, the courage of the Spanish drooping,
the armv uselessly split into small sections
and a powerful force of cavalry scattered
into minute detachments, things, he
said, could not have been much woreo.
General Weyler declared that while he migh t
meet wih momentary difficulties, he woull
nevertheless, conquer by constant work and
ceaseless activity.
It was his intention, he said, to close up '
the Infantry corps with reinforcements from
Spain, and to suppress all tho existing small
detatohments. A despatch from Havana
states that the Mayor of Managna and other
residents of that place have joined tho insurgents.
BIG STRIKES IN PRUSSIA.
Many Thousands of Tailors, Seamstresses
and Others Are Ont.
The strikes of the various trades union
men throughout Prussia arc spreading
rapidly, and it is now estimated that 35,000
mantle makers and women tailors aro out, ,
and all of the carpenters and hat makers of
Berlin are also on strike. The public have 1
very generously subscribed money for the I
support of the striking seamstresses, whoso ]
! long hours and wretched pay haxo excited
' general compassion.
I Dr. von Boettichor, Imperial Secretary of 1
State for the Interior, has made a promise in <
the Reichstag that the Government would ]
make an inquiry into the gri> vanccs of the
seamstresses, aud. inasmuch as a great part 1
of their work is done at home, the inquiry <
will without doubt extend to the possibility
of applying for legislation regulating the 1
work, hours,pay, etc., of the trades whose' I
labors are performed in home aoartment3. i
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SURGERY AND X RAYS.
An Operation Performed as a Result of tl?e ,
Xcw Photography. l
What is believed to bo the first surgical ?
operation in the United States as a direct re- ,
suit of the revelations of Ro?ntgon's rays, i
was performe l in Ward C of Morcy Hospital
at Chicago, III. The operation consisted fn \
removing a buckshot encysted between the ,
bones of the third and fourth fingers and about j
an inch aud a half back from the knuckles. J
The operation was performed by Dr. .Tam^s
Barry, assisted by Dr. J. S. R:inkin and Dr. {
J. L. Miller. The subj -ct wa3 Louis Burk- '
hardt. His hand was llrst "photographed." J
A buckshot whs discovered and Burkhardt j
assented to an operation. When the
aiisenthetic had produced the desired effect, c
Dr. Burry made an incision about an inch
long, and his knife struck the bullet at the 1
exact point indicated by the bromide print 1
taken from the Roentgen plate. The encysted 1
missile was extracted without difficulty.
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Killed Two Women and Himself. (
At Centerville, Iowa, George Jones shot {
and killed his sweetheart, Leah Martin, her E
mother. Mrs. W. H. Martin, and then put a i
ballet into his own head. The reasons for ^
the deed are unknown, but it is supposed the i
parents of tho girl had objected to his atten- i
tions Jo their daughter. t
A Hold Kobbery. |
Bnrglars broke into Dennett's Park Row 1
restaurant, in New York Cify, Sunday, and
wrecked the safes, carrying away 81375 in
cash. One of the safe3 was in full view of
the stretrt and undt-r an electric light.. The
proprietor is sucb a strict Sabbatarian that
he would not employ a watchmau on that
day.
Died Protesting Hli Innocence.
Erail David was hanged in the jail yard at j
Linn. Mo. Death was almost instantaneous.
Just before going through the trap ho shout- .
ed: "I am innocent. Yon are hanging the t
wrong mun." Two years ago David pols- \
owed Frauk Henderson, a laborer on his (
'arm. t
Mhcco l.earilH the Spaniard.
The insurgent General Maceo has rei
entered the provinco of Havana, Cuba, des- j
| pite the presence of a largo force of Spanish {
troops stationed along the boundary for the j
purpose of watching his movements and (
resisting his entrance into tuut province. ,
Mordered Wife and Niece.
T.oii'rhlin finrl hor ni^n \fnre
Tows, were killed ami thoir bodies crematod '
in their hoii?(?. nsar Ausrusta. Ky. Robert ,
H"iiry T/uighlin confa.-^od that lie murdered
iho women, who wuro his wife* and his nitv:. ,
Out nf tlie Common Kun.
Boston is said to havo the crookcdest
streets.
Mrs. Hunt, of Mcrrimae, N. H., celebrated
her one hundredth birthday a few days ago.
The deepest English ooal shaft is at' the {
Moss Colliery, near Ashton?depth 2320 feet.
Olympia. Wash., has a woll with a bottom
that is gradually rising to the surface of the
earth.
The longest paved street in the world is
Washington street, Boston, which is.seventeen
and a half miles long.
Hlrum Laster, who died at the poorhoiise
at McDonough, Ga.t the other day, was reputed
to be 123 years old. His youngest son,
who is ifso In the poorhooae, is nfnety-two.
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CECIL
JOHN RHODES, SOUTH
Behind tlie troubles in the Transvaal am
hand of Cecil John Rhodes, ex-Premier of Ci
in reality, lord of the dark continent. Mam
Company, his uncompromising ambition ha;
Be3sion9 of the company northward to the Zi
est of British possessions abroad. Born of n
South Africa at sixteen for the sake of his he
crowned king of the country, and has, by sh
ability, built up a fortune of $75,000,000 or n
panies in the mining districts he advanced tl
mama on.l thr/MToh hia IndfiffttlirAble effort 8
lUIUlt., CV. ?
h?9 slowly but surely marohod northward In
thrusting her great, conquering foot on the 1
Rhories's ambition has been larger than mert
found a grand republic of 3outh Africa and t
are the possessions of Germany anil Portuga
reach the Zambesi. But Rhodes has beaten 1
State and the Transvaal, cutting them off fi
through hi3 land. When Jameson was defea
VICTIMS OF BLACK DAMP
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Terribly Fatal Explosion in the Vulcan
Mine, Colorado.
NONE LEFT TO TELL THE STORY.
Not a Sound of Warning?Colliers Hard at
Work When Overtaken by the Disaster
That Canted Tlieir Death?Rescue Farties
Useless?The Victims Were Nearly
All Italians.
New Castle, Col., February 19.?The Vulcan
coal mine, in tho Hog-Baok just below
town, was completely wrecked and set on
fire by a terrific gas explosion shortly after
11 o'clock yesterday. About Dfty mea, including
firemen and coal operators, were in
the several rooms along the slope when the
explosion occurred., Not n man could have
survived the shock, the gas, or tho Are which
immediately ensued. With
the exception of a fow bosses, the
billed are Italians, but in the confusion and
excitement it was impossible to make a complete
roster of names of the unfortunates.
Tho town of New Castle was shaken as if
by an earthquake, and a dense black cloud
obscured the site of the Yulcan mino and
workings, indicating only too plainly what
liad occurred. The entire population rushed
to tho scene, to behold the surface workmen
In the midst of a thick cloud of dust, trying
In vain to start the work of rescuing their
unfortunate fellow laborers below.
The earth had settled perceptibly near the
tiillside, and tho donso volume, of black
jmoke issuing from creviccsiu the npheaved
mass gave evidence that the coal vein had
mrely been set aflro bv the explosion.
Women and children rushed shrieking and
screaming to tho tcene, adding to the con:usiou.
The mine owned 'jy the Colorado Fuel and
[ron Company, two and a half miles away,
ivns promptly closed down, and all hands
hnstoned to assist Superintendent aemcK 01
ho Vulcan in the work of rescue, but it was
julckly seen that liltlo could be done. HerIck
and several men had torn away the
)rokan timbering at tho landing and had
rushed into the slope soon after the explosion
lad occurred, with wet sponges over their
lostrils. only to be driven back again by tho
leadly fumes.
The force of the explosion may bo imigined
when it Is said that the buildings
md trestle at tho ra^uth of- the slope
ivere completely wrecked, a hole 100 feet
square earvod out of tho hillside at
he mouth of tho iiicllne, wh'.lo timbers
wo feet squaru were blown into tho
Irand River, 400 feet away. One miner was
ra his way down the slope whon the oxplotion
occurred, und his mangled body wa3
mbsequently found several hundred feet
iway from tho mouth of the slope. There
vere 140 men employed in ana about tho
nine at the time, and about fifty were at
work underground at the timo of the accilont.
State Coal Mioo Inspector Griffith was
lore on February S and pronounced tho mino
n better condition than it had ever boen before.
An immense fan in the slope, which
vus about 500 feet in depth. Beamed to afford
complete ventilation, and every possible
precaution was taken to prevent au exololioc
of the gas known to' exist in the mines
>1 IIIIS uisinui. it u umioi ou vuui < ?n?
ighted fuse ignited the gas in one
)[ the iww rooms whilo the men were
>lastiug down coal. The old Vulcan miue
jas been abandoned for several years and
Ufas in no way connected with the present
property, a now slopo having been driven
nto the hillside.
The Vulcan Fuel Company operates the
property, which is owned by the Atchison,
Popeka and Santa Fe Ilailroud Company.
The mine wa'? beinc worked to its full capacity,
the output being from seventeen to
wenty cars per day.
Deserted Husband's Crime.
Franz Michael Schwab, fifty-six years old.
D Brooklyn. N. Y., shot his aged wife, his
?ldest son and a grandson, the woman dying
rr.mediately. and the others' wounds being
considered fatal. His wife was uot living
vith him.
Tollit Dillon the Irish Leader.
Tht: members of tho Irish Parliamentary
larty hold a sitting in the British House of
Commons for tho purpose of electing a new
hairman lit succession to -Tn.-itin McCarthy.
JniMi Dillon was elected chairman by a vote
I 37 t'j 21.
I'rominont I'fo|)lo.
England's now poet laureate, Alfred Austin,
is the llrst Catholic to hold the place
sinco Drydon.
President Kroner, of the Transvaal Republic.
holds his public receptions between
B and 7 o'clock iD the morning.
A full length portrait of Senator Voorhees.
of Indiana, has beon placed in the
Corcoran art gallery at Washington.
A curiou3 allowance mado to President
Kruger, of the Transvaal, is the sura of
$2000 a year for "eoffce money.'* Coffee is
the National drink of the Boers.
Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Premier of Canada,
began life as a printer's devil, worked at bis
trade for many years, bought a newspaper
with his savings, and ao got into politics.
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AF^A'S^NCROWNE^ KING. - |
i behind tho Jameson expedition Is the master
ipo Colony, richest man in South Africa, and,
igiug Dirootor of tho Imperial Sooth Africa
$ ever been to extend the power and the posiinbesi
and to establish tho grandest and rtch.
poor Easilish clergyman and immigrating to
mlth, Cecil Rhodes has grown to be the unrewdness,
foresight and matohless executive
lore. By consolidating all the diamond corale
price of preoious stones in the world's
,nd comprehensive management Great Britain
Africa, until now she is in a fair way of
ittle Dutch Republic of the Transvaal. But
i conquest. His ultimate idea is, perhaps, to
o be himsolf its President. To the east and weet
I. whose agents have been for years trying to
:hom and ha3 crept around tho Orange Frea
om communication with the north except
tted by the Boers, Premier Rhodes resigned.
THE HALLS OF CONGRESS.
Boston is trying to porsuade Congress to
deepen tho harbor to thirty feet.
A bill making Jackson's Birthday a legal
holiday was introduced by Senator Hill, and
I referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The Department of the East has asked
Congress for 10,0DC headstones forthe graves
of honorably discharged soldiers and sallore.
Rapresentativo Walker, of Massachusetts,
addressed the Committee on Immigration in
favor of the bill introduced by him to restrict
immigration.
Tne Senate Committee on Judiciary authorized
a favorable report on Senator Hanabrough's
bill to prevent the use of the American
flag for advertising purposes.
The House Committee on Pensions ordered
a favorable report on the bill of Mr. McCorrnick,
of New Yortc, granting a pension of
*50 per mouth to the widow of General T.
W. Swoony.
On account of troubles in the Transvaal
the sulary of our Consul at Capo Town,
whose jurisdiction Includes the Transvaal
ivuu viuuk" xiuu oiavc, will uu uiucu jluiu
*2000 to 83000.
A consulate, with a salary of $2500, wil|
be established at Tamsui.in Formosa, as that
island has been acquired by Japan, and ltd
business with the United States amounts to
$50,000,000 a year.
Representative Skinner, of North Carolina,
has introduced a measure which is of sentimental
and historical interest even beyond
the borders of the United States. It is a bill
to provide for the commemoration of the
landing of the first British American colony
on Boanoko Island, North Carolina, cn or
about July 4,1584.
General Miles 1ms been telling the Committee
on Coast Defonces that New York,
San Francisco and Boston are the only placed
on the coast that there has been even a pretense
of fortifying, and that wholly inadequate.
Ho says that it will take $80,000,000
and years of time to put the country in any .
sort of a condition of defense. '
Senator Hansbrough has introduced a oui I t
to create a National Art Commission, con- i
sisting of live persons eminently distln- j
guished in literature and fine arts, to examine
all works of art offered for sale and f
donation to the United States, and to ex- .
amine annually the Government art collections
in the Capitol and Congressional Li- ,
brary. . ]
Ex-Secretary Tracy, of Now York, be- j
fore th? Souate Committee on Naval Affairs 1
making a statement on tho investigation i
under way relative to prices paid for armor
plate, alleged overcharges, the ownership of i
patents, etc. Mr. Carnegie and several of i
his employes are to appear before the com- t
mittee. The hearing "is conducted behind i
closed door?.
HELD UP THE BANK EMPLOYES. ,
Three Men Force;! the Citnliler and Bookkeeper
Intuit Vault unil Stole STOD.
Three men. one of whom wa3 masked, en
tored tho Market Strnet Baal:, at San Fran- 1
cisco, Cal., at 10 o'clock a. m. Immediately '
on entering one of the men closed the onter
door of tho bank, adroitly fastening it. The |
other two drew pistols und commanded
Cashior W. S. Hopkins and Bookkeeper J. A. J
Hayhursi to throw up tneir hands. Hopkins '
not immediatoiy complying, a shot was fired,
which, however, missed him.
Tho robbers forced the two bank employes !
into one of tho steel vaults of the bank, closing
the door on them, but not locking it. {
They then rook away a tray containing a
lur^e quantity of sold coin and ono tray of J
silver. Tho bank officials refuse to disclose
the fxact amount taken, but Cashier Hop- 1
kins says it will not exceed $700.
Chief of Police Crowley says the bank
puopie tywrr mirut-u mu wuiv iu?
Hoy wero in dauber.
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Moving For Arbitration.
At the resldonco of William E. Dodge rep- J
rcsentativo citizens of Now York Gltv and j
Brooklyn took stop3 to co-operate w:th citi- 1
zojds in other cities in the agitation for u high i
court of arbitration to settle disputes tie- <
tween Great Britain and the United States.
To Bar Out Illiterates.
In lien of the various bills before It on the
subjoct of restricting immigration, the
United States Senate Immigration Commit- 1
too reported a bill adding to the classes of <
aliens exolnried from admission to the United l
States: *'A11 porsons >ver fourteen years of I
age who canuot road and write the language 1
nf frhf>ir nnfirp ( niintrv ('VfiODt that an Jltrod !
parent not ho able to rond and write, wl>o is
tho parent or grandparent of an admissiblo
immigrant, may accompany or be sent for by
euch immigrant."
Strawberries ar? Kijio.
Strawberries are ripe aad being shipod in 1
Hillsborough, Fta.
Knclanil Boycotting German Browrr*.
An instance of the anti-German sentiment t
in Great Britain is given in the publicans' 1
papers, which report a cessation in tho sell- 1
ing of lager beer. Travolers for German Anns 1
statft that their orders have fallen oCf sev- 1
enty-flvo per cent, since Emperor wiiiiam
sent his famous message to President 5
Kruprer. tho ordors now going to English [
blowers. t
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A Blcyelo for a Dwarf.
Count Magre, the dwarf husband of Mrs.
Tom Thumb,, has ordered a blcyolo. His
height Is thirty Inches, and the bloyole,
which Is to be made to order, wlfl weigh leas
than t?n pounds. *
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MLS PERISH B FLAIES
\n Awful Disaster in a Shirt Factory at
Troy, N. Y?
.EAPED SIX STORIES TO DEATH.
[he Tragedy Caused by a Careless Boy
With a Match?rou?<r Women Tram
pled Underfoot in the Mad Eu?h of 200
Employes Down a Narrow StairwayTerrible
Straggle for Llfq
Tbot, N. Y., February 18.?At a few monents
before the closing hour in Stetheimir's
shirt factory, on the corner of Broadway
and River Btreet, in this city, Lillie
Ireiger, one of the fifty employes on the fifth
loor, who were hurrying to finish their
Fork, called a little boy to light the gas for
ler In the cutting department. He climbed
)n the table and lighted the gas. Then he
hrew the match, still burning, to the
loor and jumped down. Shortly afteryards
some ono at the farther end of
:he room noticed a tiny flame in a heap
>f scrap cambrio piled on the floor. One of
:he men hurried to a water faucet and drew
i bucket of water. It took him not over
:hirty seconds to do this and to run baok,
Out the name, ranoea Dy a oreezc inai crept
up the stairway and feeding upon the inflammable
material whioh was littered everywhere,
spread with terrible rapidity. When
tie reached the Are the time for action was
passed. There was a fierce crackling of
flame3 and the air of the room was dense
with smoke.
Miss Kreiger, the anly one among the
mass of frenzied girls to preserve her presanco
of mind, rushed, at the risk of her life,
through the different departments of the
building and warned the employes.
Within twenty minutes after the fire started
ihere were three dead women laid upon the
Hoorof an adjoining storo and nt least a
lozen burned and maimed girls and women
taken to the hospital or to their homes.
Following are lists of the dead: Those who
ire known to have been in the building, and
whose bodies have not been recovered, are:
tfamle Banks, Miss Herberscher, Katie
3'Connor, Miss O'Neill.
Killed jumping from windows: Mrs. Marjaret
Carroll. Mrs. Foley, Mrs. Robert Kune,
In addition to these eleven ofher girlswere
njured, some fatally, so that it was believed
hat the dead would number nine. Nine
nen employed in the factory were aiso inured.
The scene of the catastrophe was in a porion
of the city characrtorized for its imnense
business buildintrs. The structure is
cnown as the Burlctto Building. The bulldog
is six stories in height. It was occupied
jy J. Stotheimer k Co., manufacturer of lalies'
shirt waists, whose factory was on the
Ifth floor; Yan Zandt k, Jacobs, manufac:urers
of collars and cuffe, who occupied the
:hree floors below, and a restaurant and saoon
on the ground floor. There were also
leveral other minor enterprises carried on in
;he building.
When the employes in the fifth story realzed
that the fire was beyond control and
,vas likely to "prove disastrous a sceno of
jreat panic immediately eu3aed.
The girls rushed about' the room. Some
>f them found their way down the stairway,
)thers succumbed to the dense smoke anil
lank to the floor, and others jumped from
he dizzy height of the River street windows
:o tho pavements below.
About half of the girls who were employed
>n tho top floor did think of tho fire escape,
md found their way to the ground in safety.
?or twenty minutes after tho fire started the
iceno was the most exciting ever witnessed
n Troy.
During this time there was a continuous
)anic, and in tho rush for a place of safety
nany wore injured. The crush on the stairvuy
was something frightful. About 200
ncn and girls attempted to make their estape
by this exit at the same time. Many
yore trampled under foot, those who were
n front were knocked from their feet and
hrown to tho landings, and some are said
o have been left unconscious on tho stairray.
Tho sceno was a most exciting one. The
rirls fairly threw themselves down the ladlers
to reach tho ground quickly, and the
Iremon had their hands full in carrying the
rirls down the ladders from tho terminus of
he escape.
Probably the most heart-rending scenes
vere those witnessed on the streets. Tho
nothors and other relatives of the girls who
vcre at work in the factory soon learned of
he disastrous tiro and hurried to tho scene.
They gathered around tho burning bulldng
distracted with grief and fear, making
mx ous inquiries for loved ones. Some of
nttemnted to rush up into the burning
milding, and the officers and bystanders
ound it difficult to restrain them.
A number of women were soon on their
cnees on the ico-covered pavements, crying
)iteouslY to heaven for assistance.
Tho Ore oxtended into the big structure
lorth and gutted it; the Western Union
Juildlug was burned out, and it was not until
ibout four hours after the flro started that
t was under control. Tho loss will probably
reach $400,000.
The three girls who were killed by jumpng
from tho windows wore almost unrecoglizable
when picked up, so fearfully were
heir heads crushed. M >uy of the injured
were those caught under falling walls.
STARVED TO DEATH.
Two Aged Sisters of Kusli, N, T., Left
Alone td Their F?te.
Hannah Rosenbush, aged eighty-foar
roars, was found dead, and her sister,Sarah,
nrith life almost extinct, in their humble
:ottage at Rush, near Rochester. N. Y.
The two sisters had been town charges for
some years, and had few friends. A neigh)or
who found thorn says the house was deroid
of furniture, and tnero was no flro in
ho building and no foou.
Sarah', who was revived eufficiently to tell
)f th?lr troubles, said that they had had
lothing to oat since the supplies fro n the
own officers ?avo out. Haunah, who had
lot beon well during the winter, gradually
jecatno weaker and was at last obliged
:o take to her bed. The woman ate
ho last morsel of food and then
etired in the hope that some one
,70uld visit them tho following day and
>ring food, but no one oamo, and the fuel
?ras exhausted. They burned all tho furni:ure
and then wrapped themselves in elothng
and sat down to await the coming of
iome one.
They went to bed cold and hungry on tho
lext nigl)t. Not a morsel of food had passed
;he lips ot Ihe women for forty-eight hours.
During the night the elder woman died, and
when hor sister awoke In th-> morning and
realized that her sister was don I, she lay
;almly awaiting the same fate wlion found.
Sarah died a few hours later.
Wat .tpaln.st th? Coal Trust.
Tho New Jersey Legislature unanimously
instructed a committee to prepare a bill uni...
?:?thp oomblno inav Ik> over
brown. The New Vork Legislature passed
:hu Bobbins rmoluliou diroeinu tho Attorney-General
to investigate the affairs of tbe
illeged C'onl Trust.
Gold Urviorvr. SI00,999,000.
Assistant Tp%.-i.-<ttrcr Jnrilr.u made formal
inuoii:x; moot as tho nsmlt of actual <v.ant
h:it lh?* ico! ! P.wrvi- uow ex"I SlOO.-.
Ou.O t..
I>rff ('old Wave.
Tho cold wave i:auM'd re -urd-i.rcaUiug
omperuturo in Northern Now V~>rk, New
Lnjrlaud and tho West. The voidest place in
bo country was Northlield, Vt.. whoru the
h'.Tuiomclor showed twenty-two degrees beow/.nro.
In Now York City, according to
iiimuI iiniwr Dunn, it was the noldost day
linco thu usUbiishtuiwt of the Weather Buu.iu,
twouty-flvo yours ii?u. thu lowest tomjerniuro
bi'iuj; tj.4 degrees below nero. Ono
nivn wu.s frozen to ileutb ia New York City.
Wcyler Begins Hi* Method*.
Geaerai Weyler, the new Captain-General,
53urd proclamations threatening death or
ife Imprisonment to tfaoae who assisted rho
Daban iasurgonts.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
Washlnctan Items. *
All the bonds of defaulting bidder.^
amounting to about $4,700,000. were award*
ed to the Morgan syndicate by Secretary (
Carlisle. t
Tho Diplomatic and Consular Appropr'f1- (
tion bill was passed in the Senate; Mr. Hill
criticised temperance reformers for sending
petitions to Congress.
The Agricultural Appropriation bill, with'
a provision for free distribution of seeds, wa?
passed by the House.
The Military Academy and Pension Appropriation
bills were passed in the Senate.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, urged in tho
Senate tbe adoption of his Monroe dootrine
resolutions.
President Cleveland sent in the name of
William Woodward Ba'dwin. of New York.
to the Senate as Third Assistant Secretary of
State.
Mr. Mitchell presented in the Senate the
majority report in favor of seating Colonel
Dupont, of Delaware
Mr. Qtrigg introduced in the House a bill
appropriating $5 000,000 for a new custom
house in New York.
Several Irresponsible bond bidders who
failed to deposit the twenty per cent, instalment
required have forfoitod their bonds,
among tbem being William Graves, of New
York City, who bid Cor $4,850,000 at $115.
The bonds will be allotted to the next highest
bidders. . ,
1 communication was received at the
House from Secretary Morton requesting the
allowance of a "director-in-chlpf of scientific
bureaus antf investigations." with a salary
of $6000 per year.
The Speaker laid before the House a communication
from Secretary Herbert, requesting
an appropriation of $50,000 to ennbto the
Navy Department to test methods of throw
ing mgn explosives rrom guns on Doara snip
with ordinary velocities.
Pom Kwan Soh, the new Korean Envoy
Extraordinary, accompanied by his secretary,
Bong S?n Pat, arrived in Washington fortyseven
day3 after leaving Seoul.
John, alias "Patsy" Harris, was hanged
in the jail at Washington for the murder of
Matthew Spruoll, In Georgetown on July 4,
1895. Botn men were colored. ,
Secretary of the Navy Herbert stated to |
the House Naval Committoe that this soun- ,
try could construct her vessels cheaperand
better than any other country, except Groat <
Britain. i
The National Poultry and Pigeon Association
exhibition opened its doors at the Central
Market Hall. There is a largo colloc- 1
tion of fowls of every description.
At their regular weekly meeting the mem- '
bers of the Venezuelan Commission expressed
themselves as highly gratified with assurances
that Great Britain would submit its '
evidence for consideration.
Tho President and Mrs. Cleveland enter- ,
tained at a reception to the public at the ,
White Honaa from nine to eleten, assisted ]
by the ladies of the Cabinet.
Edwin P. Uhl has qualified as Ambassador
of the United States to Germany, and va- |
cated the office of Assistant Secretary of
State. William Hayward, bis private secretary,
administered the oath of office. \
Domestic.
Edgar W. Nye, widely known cs "Bill"
Nye, the humorist, was stricken with apo-. 1
plexy at his hotno neur Ashevilto, N. C. ExGovernor
George D. Robinson, of Cbicopec,
Mass., was also stricken with apoplexy.
The new Mining Exchange for tbo listing ,
and selling of Colorado mining securities
was opened in New York City with appropriate
exercises.
Municipal elections were held in many of
the cities of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia
went Republican by 60,000.
Hildreth, Bristol, Plato and Hibbard. tbo
boys arrested for wrecking a passenger train 1
near Rome, N. ?., in November last, were in- i
dieted fox morder in the first degree. ,
Amelie Rives Chanler, the novelist, was i
married at Castle Hill, Va., to Count Pierre
Troubetzkoy, of Russia.
William P. Adams, alias Mason, a boy of
eighteen, confessed that he blew open the
safe of the Metropolitan Insurance Company
at Newton, Mass.
St. Lawrence County reports tho coldest
weather on record in -New York State?llftyfonr
degrees below zero. ,
At the trial of the Brockway gang of
counterfeiters, in Tronton, N. J., a subpoena
was1S3ued fcr Secretary of the Treasury
Carlisle.
Ex-President Harrison has refused to bo a
candidato for delegate-at-!arge from Indiana
to the Republican National Convention.
Rufurf W. Peckiiam took his seat as Associate
Justice of tho United States Circuit
Court of Appeals fcr the Southern District
of New York.
Bernard J. Ford, cx-Superintendent of tho
'New Jersey State House, pleaded non vult
to five indictments for malfeasance in office.
Dr. Kolle, of Brooklyn. N. Y., succeeded
in vetting a shadowgraph of a boy's brain ,
by use of tho Rooutgen X rays.
.!T ? n it - XT /~lMiami.
" lorry ixirutui, u now. lum unj yu^t.ist,
was arrested, charged with oausing tho
deaih of Joseph Foinberg by tripping him
when he was carrying a keg of beer.
William 0. Hughttt, twenty-one years old.
son of Marriu Hnghitt, President of the
Chicago and Northwestern Railroa<J. was
found dead on the floor of his room in the
family residence, Chicago, having a bullet
wound in his head. He killod himself owing
to ill heaith.
During the absence of Judgo W. T. Morrow
at Frankfort robbers entered his residence
at 8hepardsville, Ky., and made off
with a box containing notes, bonds end
othorsecuritles valued at $30,000.
Mrs. E. K. Nicholson, widely known by
her nom rie plume. ''Pearl Rivers," owner
of the New Orleans (La.) Picayune, is dead.
Her husband, George Nicholson, the business
manager, died a week ago.
Minnie Edson, n beautiful girl of Passaic,
N. J., was asphyxiated in the house of
Andrew Bahe, hersweetheart,
A fatal boiler explosion occurred at J. R.
numtnerskiwiuui, i?u ujim wuunc? u>
Ashboro, N. C. Three workmen were killed
and ihree fatally wounded.
A boat containing fivedead bodies and six
liviusrmou, members of a fishing party who
bad deserted a sinking smack, drifted .ashore
a: Carrnbcllo, FIs.
Th:> New York i'acht Club mot for further
consideration of Lord Dunravon's lmsc. but
adjourned for two week*.
Allen T. Dodworth, for many yearn conductor
of th? celebrated Dodworth Baud. r?f
Now York, died in Pasadena, CaI. , of pueumouia.
He was soventy-eight years old, and
leaves a widow and two sons.
Andrew As per. of Chicago, got a prescription
from a physician, which ho was in3trucled
to tako iu three doses. Thinking to
sav<> trouble, he swallowed it all at once, and
his funeral occurred the next day.
John Pur.-.oll, the driver of a peddler's
cart in Bennington, Vt., received notice a
few days ago that, by the de.itli of an uncle
in the East Indies, he has becomo one ol
-even heirs to about $ 1,500,000.
Foroien Suto*.
M. Hicard, French Minister of Justice. In
order to settle theCabiuet crisis, has resigned.
A London despatch to Caracas reports that
England has decided to accept the Guiana
boundary as the American commission shall
flx It.
t. ij frftti* f.nrwlnn that evorv
oftleer holding the Queen's couimi.-wiou who
took part in .Jameson's raiil will I):) tried by
court-martial.
Gladstone hit* written n letter to the Pari*
Figaro, in which ho says that the cordial
utt'ou of England and France assure- thu
po/'-rt ?i Iviropi-.
A iivnarnltf explosion killed many and
wreekifd the poor quarter of Johannesburg.
South African Kupubllo.
A severe attack was inaOoou the Canadian
Administration ii? the D')ininion Parliament.
The people of Venezuela do not desire to
arbitrate with Great Britain in regard to th?
Yuruan incident.
Sofia und the other cities of Bulgaria were
en fete in honor of the recoptiun of Prince
Boris into the Greek Church.
General Woyler, the Cuban Car tain-General,
savs ho Is particularly anxious to Impress
Americans favorably.
Four balls and tsevexai horses wore killed
in the presence of a throng of spectators ti
a bull fight tn Cindad Juarez, Mexico.
President Dole, of Hawaii, pardoned <*
Queea Ltttnok&lnni.
WEYLER TELLS THE NEWS. I
Saba'* New Captain-General as a He- I
porter.
The following-ia ft copy of a despatohrt* H
:elved at Washington by the Spanish Minis- H
er, signed by General Weyler, the new H
Commandant of the Spanish forces In Cuba; fl
A BEVOI/tmONAnt OCTPOflT IN CUBA. fl
"The reports of the last military opera- J
;tons are as follows: Macao baa crossed tne
tine between Havana and Butabano by the
village called Vapor with sixty horses. Later '
other troops joined him. in namber of about . fl
BOO, but tho enemy was'under tire of the \
troops commanded "by Colonel Segura.
which killed three rebols and wounded
twelve.
"The insurgents joined their foroee at San *.a
Antonio de las Vegas, abandoning their,
route toward Matanzas, that bad been to the
south of tho railroads of San Felipe to .
Guinea, fearing the columns whioh were
closing the lino between the railroad and
the sea. *
"A train conducting General Echauge,
who, with his command, was going to plaoe
himself between San Felipe and Gulnet, met j
in UoUna, between the railroad station of I
Helena and Palenque, 800 cavalrymen of the j
enemy, which approached the train, think
ing tbat it was a freight train. The oolumn
fired on them without alighting and arrived
safely at Guinea
"Tne oolumn of Colonel Seguera, forming
the extreme left, came upon the enemy in
Ban Felipe de las Vegas, where it found aad
dislodged Maoeo. Mlro, Diaz, and Castillo,
with 1500 mounted men. The cavalry troop j
of Camajuanl charged and defeated them in
the Gulebra and Oulebrite hills. The enemy I
retreated* toward Navio. Several columns;
followed them In a combined movement,
encircling them.
"General Lineras has also defeated Maximo
Gomez in Looms del Porvenir, capturing
four horses. The troops had three wounded.;
Reconnoitring the camp after the engagement,
they saw the rear guard of the enemy,
taking them for Spanish forces, but seeing 1
that they bad no answer to the countersign,
opened artillery and Mauser rifle flro, killing
3lx and wounding twenty-seven. The column
kia/t #/>?!* toAnn/laH T)ia tmnno aril I fnllrtW
UCMA IWUk 1VVUWUVU* JL. UU UWJW IVIU kVMVn
and encircle the enemy.
"In the province of Santiago do Cuba the
(ruerrillas of Oobre defeated on the 11th, on '
Paso Lejas, a small band, Idlllag one and v
wounding another. The snme guorriila8 in
Loma Noruelo defeated on the 16th the
rebels in Potrero Cruz. Wkyle*."
The places mentioned in the above details
arc insldo a triangle formei by the railroads
of Havana to San Felipe and Sao Fetfpe to
Guines and the road from Ouines to Havana
by San Josede Los Lajoa.
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ROENTGEN RAYS OEAOLY.
Inventor Etlison Has a Theory That They
Have Dlimtn Germs.
Thomas A. Edison has succeeded in taking
m instantaneous photograph by means of
the Boentgen rays and fluorcscont tubes, the '.
rays having penotrated a heavy cardboard
ind vulcanized Qbor plated holder. A. sharp- a
iy defined imago of a metal strip was made
TUOMAS A. KPIfOX. ,
(Uo thinks tho ltoentcen rays rony provo
deadly disease xorrpx )
on a Dlnte with four and one-half inehes of
wood between the plato and tho fluoroecent
tubes, and after an exposuro of twelve minutes
tho photograph was taken.
Inventor Edison says that ho found the
rovs to hare an irritating effect on ?be ey?>s,
nDd holieves his theory, that tba rays may
provi; deadly disease germs, will provo cor*
rcct.
MISS BARTON SUCCEEOS.
-- * ??f-A." PAoinltiatAn #n niwf^Ilinla ''.A
IIP ncixitvi* > inw - ? Kelierin
Armenia.
A cnblo dispatch ronoivod at tbe State l?e- /
partmont, Washintfon, from Mr. TorrclJ.
United State* Minister to Turkey, dated at
Para, tho European quarter of Constantinople,
contain*! th? intelligence that thoofforts
of Miss Clara Uarton. President of the
American Jfationnl Red Cross Society, to obtain
tho permission of the Turkish Government
to cILstriNur* relief rn th? suffering Armenians
had l>i?on successful.
Tue decision of the Porto n?t to allow r?)fof
moasures to ho oxtendt?l l?y the ftod
Cross as an organization or by its ofiieern m
such rnadu it donhtfnl w*??thr>r Wis* Barton
and her party would huw.hwJ in their objoet.
It appears from Mr. Torro l's dispatch that
Miss Carton had hoen presented l-y the Minister
at th? l*.'?rt? and had "vrrived renewed
assurance* ot ?m1 prut^'ion .-in.1 aid for Iter
agents in dispensing charity. / '
Ilor assistants, Mr. Turret nap-i. at onc?t
to the interior. Mi.v? l.arroa's lnvi(it|iiariors
wilt ho at I'ara Tin* dispaMi ends with
these wr-rds. "Thudoor Utlit<& ?>;>oaod wido
for charity."
?
I'lxKiilialo 1'iiok in I'emiftvl
The L'nitoil Stales Survey lia?
received samples of tli?? p.ii^'jnlo ifiAk roccnlly
found near I??' d's f!ip..fiioiara 0?uuty,
I'.-an. Analyses show (mm iwhI?? to
fifty per cent. phosphoric aei.l. The hitrhftM H
is fort nil in node essoucwhat riwetuMiiii; Hit j^H
cojirolitic fornw found in South Carolina.
Professor Ihlseng, of tbeStnt??('?>l|i:got Peimsylvanin,
has visited the locality and mad*
over 1 f?0 analyses with varying result*. Vfl
Much more prospecting will he done In thf
spring, and it is saiil that if rhe b?ds prove *9
large it will bo a matter i>r sreat importaaiM
to this fertilizer factories; in New V.?rk. I'lnU- BB
dolphin. Wilmintfouund IJultiroore.
Sail I'lmt <>f llif Carnival iji I'ortntal, My
During thu progress oi a i;:asJ:c<l ball given
by tho ArtiatV Club, of Sautarom, a town 9|
fifty mi las from Lisbon, Portugal, tit thn
close of tho carnival there, fire hroko out In
the building anil tho flames spread with
frightful rapidity. A tornblo paoio ensued.
and many of the dancers and several out*
siders who wont to their rescue wero either
burnod to Ileum or mniiijroriwrau hum iriuupled
in tho rush to taoup* from the burning
building. Forty bodies were recovered. i
Mncker?l Catch a Failure.
l<adt season's mackeral catoh irtw almost* j^9
failure, and few of the many vowels engaged I
In tha fishery paid expenses.
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