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A BBEAT CUBAN YICTOBY" Patriots Repulse the Force of Inclan, Who Beats a Retreat. THE ?RAINY SEASON SETS IN. Brails of the Cacarapiara Fijjht Show That the Insurgents Won and "Were Not Defeated, a3 the Spanish Official Report Stated?No Defence at I'unta Drava? Spanish Guerillas Turned Away. Havana, Cuba. May 7.?Details of the Cacarapiara fight have been received and show that the Cubans won a great victory and were not defeated, as the Spanish official report stated. Maceo was not present. The insurgents numbered 2000 under Delgado and Socarras, and occupied a strong fortified position. Their position was attacked by Spaniards under General Inclan, who were repulsed repeatedly. * Finally the insurgents charged and drove the 8p?kffi"ar3s"~th? tottw fe&eattng to Bahia Hootfa and being continually harrassed. The JSfcanlsh loss was about 200 tilled and nearly I BOO wounded. The insurgent loss was ,/ slight, owing to the protection of the hills, i J" General Bernell has been recalled and it is y said will be court martialed for failing to arrive in time to aid General Inclan. The fire at Punta Brava was very destruo- ; Hve. The entire town was burned. The giaro was seen in Havana and caused great excitement. Two forts surrendered to the Insurgents. The Spanish commander has \ been arrested by Weyler's orders, and it is , laid will be court martiaied and shot. Only smouldering ashes now mark the site ] pf Punta brava. Several persons perished I In the flames, and out of 200 houses, 166. all i in the centre of the place, wero burned. One feature of the destruction of the town made i It impossible for the Havana papers to print any details. THE WAR IN CUBA?I The forts manned by Spanish troops had turrendered to the enemy and had been tripped of their arms and ammunition. The soldiers were compelled to give even their clothes to the insurgents, and were turned out on the road praotically without covering to seek assistance in adjoning villages. Besides, tfte commander ot the local guerillas failed to respond to an appeal made for aid, turning with his men in the opposite i direction,and finally going to Punta Brava at noon on the following day, when the town was in ashes. The rebels were then far away. About half the whole body of rebels en- i tered the town. They were ? motley crowd, badly dressed and poorly armed. Some were on horseback, but more were afoot. Some wnr? infirm and acrtd: others were mere boys. There were no women. They left the scene at three o'clock In the morning, taking all the available provisions and many other things thrown Into the streets to save them from fire. The captain of the {guerillas was, It is said, ne*r enough to hear the firing, bat tamed directly aroand with his men aad went rapidly into the oane, where he remained till the following morning. RAINY SEASON IN CUBA. It Has Set In All Over the Island?Spanish ' Reports of Fighting. Havana. Cuba, May 7.?The rainy season has set In and heavy showers are reported ( Irom all parts of the island. ; An attaak has been made by insurgents upon the town of Esperanza, near Cienfuegos, and fourteen houses have been burned. ] The Spanish garrison made a brave de- i fence, driving off the insurgents and preventing the entire destruction of the town. Colonel Pareja, with a detachment of troops, ; pursued the patriots to the zone of Cienfuegoe. The insurgents lost nineteen men billed, and one of their number was taken prisoner. The Spaniards lost only one man failed. CUBA IN THE SENATE. Kegolutlon on Belligerency Referred to Foreign Affairs Committee. Washington, May 7.?The resolution heretofore offered in the Senate by Mr. Morgan, relating to the recognition of belligerent j rights in Cuba was at his request laid before that body yesterday. He moved Its reference to the Committee on Foreign Relations and expressed the hope that that committee would, before Congress adiourned, report some action that would be deliberate, firm, consistent and energetic for the solution of the question. He did not believe that Congress could adjourn finally leaving that question as it iow was. The resolution was. with a similar one which had been offered by Mr. Call, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The resolution offered by Mr. Call as to the United States citizens captured on Doara 01 the scbooner Competitor was also laid before the 8enate. Mr. Sherman moved to refer It to tho Committee on Foreign Relations. That motion was opposed by Mr. Call, but it *as so referred. New York Correspondents Eipellel. Havana, Cuba, May 7.?Captain-Goneral Weyler has expelled from the island James Creelman and F. W. Lawrenca, New York newspaper correspondents. General Woyler charges that they have attempted to hold him and the army ot Spain responsible for atrocities alleged to have been committed by the Insurgents. It is said that the correspondents have been ordered to leave Cuba by the first steamer. Will Build 7500 Houses Klgbt Off. What is no doubt tho largest building operation ever undertaken in America by one man will be begun in the Twenty-eighth Ward ot Philadelphia by James E. Dlngee. He is the millionaire brick manufacturer. Mr. Dlngee will build 7500 three-story houses on the site of his mammoth brickmaking plant, putting the entire number under way at one time. The houses will be of the same general style, and will be for one family each. Pennsylvania Prohibition Delegates. The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists' State Convention to elect celegates to the National Convention at Pittsburg was called to order by State Chairman Patton. of Lancaster, in Young Men's Christian Hall, Philadelphia, About 4( 0 delegates were present, of whom about one-sixth wer*? women- Jame3 Manse', the Mayor of Williamsport and the "flrst Prohibition Mayor in Pennsylvania," was Chairman. The following delegates-atlars-'n to tom Ka ionai Convention were eli?:ed; D. d. H *u Iricks. Delaware: H. L. Ca-ti". Aregufiiy: E. H. Mollev, Lebanon; >[..- > II. Francis Jone.-, Philadelphia; the Kav. Wtliiam X. Ya.es. Philadelphia TJie Nutioaul Game. Trie New York Club has given to Pitcher German notice of release. Pitcher Pond, of thn B iltlraores, Is the pitching sensation of the season. Burkett, of C eveJaul, starts oUt as if he wa- coing to ie.i 1 the batters again this Ten:-. Pitcher Altrr.ac. of the Princetons, has don<i the best work of any college pitcher thus f sr. Connor is playinc like a colt for St. Louis, ail of which must ma*j New Yorners feel regretful. Corbett, brother o? the nugi'.ist, has been regularly signed for t'ju season by the Baltimore Club. "Bench-warming" takes the nerve out of a jlayer quicker than anything else. TWO NOBLE MONUMENTS. n Incidents of tho New London (Conn.) Anniversary Celebration. New London. Conn., had a One day of It observing its 250th anniversary. It has re- to ceived the handsomest soldiers' and sailors q{ monument, a granite shaft firty feet high, to gj be found in New England, through the gen orosity of Sebastian D. Lawrence. New London also honored the memory of Connecticut's first Governor. John Winthrop, who came from Groton, England, with a little hand of Puritans and founded the town. The Winthrop monument Is near the spot where Winthrop lived. Nearly 400 schoolboy?, drilled for tho occasion and sang "Our Flag is There," and Grand Master Walsh placed the cornerstone in position. Tho singing of "America" followed. The day was an ideal one, and tho city was at its best. Buildings, public and private, were adorned with tno Stars and Stripes. In the harbor a couple of warships, the Cincinnati and the Montgomery, were lying. The streets wore filled with people. The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was accepted by Mayor Johnson. Addresses by United States Senator Hawloy and President Smith, of Trinity College, foliowod. The singing of "America" by all present and a salute from the warships ended the ceremony. At 2 o'clock a parade, in which were de- . tachments from the Armv and Navy, the ^ Third Regiment of State Militia, companies of the Governor's Foot Guard, Putnam Phalanx, the Fire Department and civic organizations, took place. An elaborate display of fireworks was made In the evening. SWEEPING CIVIL SERVICE ORDER. Bt 30,000 Government Employes Transferred ? to the Classified Lists. wc on The President, by his signature, extended jJjj :he provisions of the Civil Service law to 30,- mi 300 Government employes, increasing the number of positions on the classified lists from 55,736 to 85,135. With a few minor ex- fr( septions between the extremes of?officials whose confirmation by the Senate is consti- en tutionally requisite, and mere laborers and ^ workmen, Government appointments are en withdrawn as far as possible from political ??.?- ch S Pii^i s NSURGENT SCOUTS. influence and Drotected in their tenure of office by the merit system. The new order cancelled all former orders previously issued and went into effect at once. From the moment of its signature the new order made all Government officials directly responsible to the Civil Service Commission for appointments and changes. The new rules divide the executive civil service into five branches, as follows: The departmental service, the Custom House service, the Postofflce service, the Government printing service and the internal revenue Bervice. In the departmental service are classified all officers and employes (except laborers and persons who nave been nominated for confirmation) in the several executive departments, the commissions, the District of Columbia, the railway mail service, Indian service, pension agencies, steamboat inspection service, marine hospital service, lighthouse service, mints and assay offices, revenue cutter service, sub-treasuries and engineer departments, and the forces employed by custodians of public buildings. The only exception made in the Treasury Department is in favor of those in the life-saving service. In the Custom House servicu are classified all officers and employes in any customs dis- ? trict whose employes number as many as five. i'] In the Postofflce ^brvice are classified all officers and employes in any free ?ielivery 00 postofflce. 1 In the Internal Revenue service are classi- *? fled all officers and employes in every inter- Dr no I roronna Hi'aMrtf av/ianf s\f aahmu no 4*> Oil UUI AVTVUUV IWk) VAVOJ/l, V4 VVUiJ&j uo 1U .. ' the other cases, mere laborars. The number of classiflei places exempted from examination ha* been reduced from 2099 to 775, which are mainly positions of C[ cashiers in the customs, postal, and internal ur revenue services. Indians e'mployed in minor capacities in the Indian service are Ai necessarily put in the excepted list. CALIFORNIA FOR M'KINLEY. wt da She Instructs for Him and Declares for af, Free Silver. s0, The California State Republican Conven- bo tion at Sacramento declared flatly for Gov- p? ernor McKinley and has instructed Its dele- ju gates to vote for him at St. Louis. This fla decisive action, which leave3 no delegate any loophole to escape, w*3 due to the elo- 1)11 quence of George A. Knight, a San Francisco lawyer. The platform as originally submitted oi' endorsed Governor McKinley and instructed BC1 Ko rloloCTflfaotA KnfUo lon?nn?a V6 w * vwv *V4 uiui, wui no mu^un^c was cold- Mr. Knight submitted a substi- ^ tute whion expressly instructed delegates to vote for him as long as there was any chance ** ot his success. This substitute wa* passed A* witti a whoop, and thus places California squarely in the McKinley column. J? The convention platform declares flatly in *r( favor ot free coinage at tbe ratio of 16 to 1. 8r and favors making silver as well as gold legal tender in payment of all debts. There was no opposition to this, as the free silver senti- ou ment in California is practically unanimous. Pr Tho platform also contains a plank favoring de woman suffrage. to U. S. Granr. of San Diego, son of the late ofl President Grant; John D. Spreckels, George A. Knight,, ot San Francisco, and Lionel A. Sheldon, of Los Angeles, were elected delegates-at-large. John C. Lynch, of San Bernardino, was Ct nominated for Lieutenant-Governor by acclamation. . ; Mast Cultivate "Buruslcles.'' Tbe membere of Burnslde Camp, Sons of Tamrons TnWrmshfi. n&sisfld resoln- 1 tions of u hirsute order at a recent meeting. t0 The resolutions state that since the camp is named after the famous General Burnside, ^ the originator of the notable Burnsltfe cut in tjj whiskers, the members are commanded to a? put forth their bept efforts in growing Burn- t * side whiskers. The resolutions remain in force until after the next annual encampment at Holland June 23. The penalty of failure cc is any treat the successful members may de- re maud. 0j New Jersey Prohibitionists. The New Jersey Prohibitionists held their State Convention at Trenton and elected twenty-eight delegates to their National ? Convention, to be held at Pittsburg on May i8. About 250 delegates were in attendance, including half a dozen women. Mrs. Emma Bourne, of Newark, was elected ? I one of the delegates- at-large. Each of the j? eight Congress Districts elected two dele- tr gates. In the delegatlon-at-large aie four men who have been candidates for Governor on the Prohibition ticket, Messrs. Nicholson Lamoni.Solomon Parsons, of Paterson. and Henry VV. Wilbur, of Vineiand. The Kiv. " Chants II. Mead was the Chairman. n( gi Prominent Teople. The late Baron Hirsh left $5,000,00") tc charitv. Cecil Rhodes's income as managing direc of tor of the Consolidated Gold Fields Company o lust year wa3 more than 61,650.000. at Prince Bismarck Is said to earn about th S175.000 a year from tho various industrial of undertakings in which he is a participant. th T:ie fiftieth anniversary of Dr. William s0 Henry Green, President of Princeton (N. J.) Theological Seminary, was eolebrated at Princeton. Postmaster-General Wi'son is the most studious member of the Cabinet. He goes in Into society very little, and spends most of tic his leisure in his library. loi Dr. William Salmon, of Pennlyan Court, wl Glamr r^anslur^ Walej. has entered 00 hia METHOUIST CONFERENCE. io Quadrennial Seislon of a Month Begun at Cleveland, Ohio. The General Conference of thei Methodist plscopal Church, which will be In session r one month, was called to order in the mtral Armory at Cleveland, Ohio, by shop Bowman. Tlioro are four accredited JP5I! BISHOP THOMAS BOWMAN, D. D., . Louis (Mo.) Senior Bishop of Methodist Episcopal Church. imen delegates to the Conference, and the estlon as to their admission came up 1m:diately after the appointment of the co Dittoes. When the name of Lydia A. Trimble was lied on the roll the opponents of theadmis>n of women moved that the name betaken >m the rolls until it was ascertained whethor e was rightfully a member of the Conferoe. Bishop Bowman refused to entertain e motion on the ground that the Conferee was not yet organized. The announoe3nt was greeted with applause by the ampions of the women's oauso. A series of resolutions reciting the fact at the lay delegates were not being given aiFfnii nrivlWwes. and demanding that the y delegates be given the right to choose eir own members on the committees, was lopted. The debate on the woman question was laily precipitated by the F?ev. Dr. Buckley. New York, who read a challenge signed r prominent opponents of women, which ive twelve reasons why women should not i recognized, prominent among them being e refusal of previous conferences to recogze them. BISHOP EDWABD O. AITDBEWS, New York. It was moved that a Committee on Eligible r be appointed to determine the eligibility the tour women delegates and tbat the mmittee report Immediately. J. B. Grow, in a fervid speech, attempted amend the motion by inserting a clause ovlding that the women should not partiaate in the Conference until their eligibllr had been decided. The amendment was feated and the original motion adopted. APPLE CREEK ALMOST WIPED OUT. i Explosion Ellis Four Men and Injures Seventeen. Practlcallv all of Cripple Creek. CoL, that is not destroyed by the big Are of a few ys ago, has just been burned. Thousands e homeless. Four persons were killed and venteen injured, several fatally, by a iler explosion in th$ Palace Hotel. The flames started in the kitchen of the >rtland Hotel and communicated to a big mber yard in the rear of the hotel. The unes spread rapidly and the firemen tried inly to savo the remainder of thn town by Dwine up buildings with dynamite. In response to a request for help a spell > train carrying Are engines und a uad of police and deputy sheriffs left Denr for Cripple Creek at 5.80 p. m. At 6 p. i the Are bad burned Itself out, and Mayor eele telegraphed Chairman Webber, of the re and Police Board of Denver, that the emen and policemen were not needed. A. special policemen shot and killed an unlown man found carrying away valuables 3m a burning Dunaing. mayor aieeie leieaphed Mayor Murray, of Denver, as folws: "Thousands homeless. Send tents." There is not a building left standing in the isiness section of the city, and the loss is obably about $2,000,000." Only a few reslnces on the outskirts remain. The wire3 the town are all down and the telegraph Ice is rigged up in a freight car. VICTORY FOR REBELS. ibans Said to Have Routed a [Spanish Column. News of a bloody battle near Zanja, Cuba* a been received. General Munez tried to event General Calixto Garcia from crossg the Canto River. Munez organized a rong land column, and, orderiug gunboats proceed up the river to co-operate, left anzanillo to intercept Garcia. The latter, 1th Rabi's column, made a junction with e forces of Maria Rodriguez from Cam[uey. Tne combined insurgent forces atcked Munoz as he was advancing and deated him. Munez lost over 200 killed and 0 wounded. But for the gunboats Muuez's ilumn would have been destroyed. Munez treated to Manzanillo, and Garcia is now >eratlng without opposition. Suicide of a Young Bride. Mrs. Mary, wife of James B. Clark, comitted suicide by hanging, at Lynn., Mass. le was twenty-nino years old. newly mared, and despondent from 111 health. She red in the same house with William E. lerce, a bridegroom of a week, who had st attempted suicide by jumping from a ain at Revere. Striking Servants Win. The strike of the servant girls of Superior, is., which had i.een ou several days, i? >w over, as nearly every employer has von in to the demand for $15 a month. Suicide Aft^r the Fire. Robert Campbell, a prominent society man Cripple Creek. Col., ex-ilnyor of Central ,ty, who was impoverished bv the great fire Cripple Creek, his extensive properties ere being uninsured, killed himseif in a fit despondency by shooting himself through e heart. His wife subsequently attempted lf-destructlon. Newspaper Men at the Conventions. The Washington newspaper men are warng the managers of the National conven)ns that they should make provisions for at *st 6u0 reporters and correspondents. Thare ill be no less than 150 from Washington. PATENT OFFICE REPORT." i Commissioner Seymour Details Oper- , afions for the Calendar Year. ' ? FERTILITY OF AMERICAN GENIUS, The United States Gives the "World Over Half Its Contrivances?Thomas A. Edison Easily Chief of Inventors?21,008 New Patents Granted Last Year?3Ien With More Than 100 Each. Washington, May 5.?The report of Commissioner of Jfatents John 8. 8eymour for the year ending December 31,1895, was submitted to Congress yesterday. During the year there were issued 21,998 patents and designs, exclusive of 59 reissuos, and Inclusive of 2049 issued to foreigners; 1829 trade marks and 3 prints registered and 16,859 applications filed for patents, trade marks, labels, nrints. eto? reauirinr invest! gation and action. i There were also 12,345 patents which ex- i pired, and 8423 patents forfeited for nonpayment of final fees. As an index of the comparative genius of foreigners, the four foreign countries leading In the number of patents issued to its citizens by this Government are: England, $14; Germany, 639; Canada, 302, and France, 202. All the others fall below 50 each. In the United States the States leading In the number of patents issued to its citizens are: New York, 3539; Pennsylvania, 2270; Illinois. 1876; Massachusetts, 1793, and Ohio, 1423. while Arizona Territory is at the foot of the list. In proportion to population, however, Connecticut leads the list, with one to every 927 people, theDlstriot of Columbia, one to 1047, and Massachusetts, one to 1248, while Mississippi is at the foot with one to every 34,854, with South Carolina, on the basis of 28,076, next. Reports nave oeen received from thirtytwo foreign countries, including Great ^Britain, Germany, Russia and France, and the total number of patents issued by those Governments from tne earliest period up to December 31 last aggregate 981,961, against 562,458 so far issued by the United 8tates. Prior to 18(0 the United States issued nearly half as many patent* as all foreign Nations combined. Sinoe 1870 the United States has issued more than half as many as all foreign Nations combined, and in the aggregate of patents issued in both periods the United States issued more than half as many patents as all foreign Nations combined. uunng ine past iweniy-nvo yearj 10 iwen;ty-flve Inventors have been granted 4894 patents. "Wizard" Thomas A. Edison, of Orange, N. J., leads with 711; Elihu Thompson, the 'electrician. coming next. Following are the names: Eaward J. Brooks. 116; George D. j Burton, 128; Luther C. Crowell, 147; Peter C. Dederick, 107; Thomas A. Edison, 711: Rudolf Eickemeyer, 158; Louis Goddu. 181; Rudolph M. Hunter, 228; John W. Hyatt, 198; Hiram S. Maxim, 181; Arthur J. Moxham, 144; Lewis Hallock Nash, 119; Edwin Norton, 125; Freeborn F. Raymond, 2d, 144; George H. Reynolds, 101; Francis H. Richards, 343; Cyrus W. Salades, 148; Walter Scott, 109; Charles E. 8cribner, 248; Sydney H. 8hort, 111; Elihu Thomson, 300; Charle3 J. Van Depole. i 244; George Westinghouse, Jr., 217; Edward Weston, 274; William N. Whitely, 118. CRASHED DOWN TO DEATH. i Explosion of a Gasoline Tank In a Clncinnatl Flat Honse. < A flve-story briok building on the east slde c of Walnut ttreet, ju9t south of Fifth, Cincin- 1 nati, Ohio, collapsed, and before the wreck- ( age oouid be cleared away some placed the < number of dead as high as forty, others as ] low as fifteen. ' The lower floor of the building was occupied, by Drach's saloon. The upper apart- < ments were rented out to lodgers. People < for several blocks around were startled by a . terrific explosion o4 a gasoline tank at about 7.45 o'clock p. m. . A fire alarm was turned In and In a few moments halt the fire department were on :the scene. One force of men took the front, and a second took the rear, and both began at once the work of rescue. Besides the victims who were buried beneath the building it was estimated that fully 100 persons were more or less injured by the ooncussion, falling electric wires, and fragments of shattered glass, stone and timbers. Twenty of those injured in the streets were taken to the Gibson House, just across the way. and their wounds were dressed. Among r\t PaK/io TrtOfinK Pnffh nf IU030 TT LXJ VUIOI VI A VUVU vvgv^/u A UQUf w? Covington, Ky. At 11 o'clock p. m. seven bodies bad boon taken from the rains. SILENCED BRITISH SNEERS. General Collins Shows Some Gennulne Americanism to an English Audience. Consul-General Collins, in the face of a rather impudent English audience at the inaugural banquet of the Hotel Cecil, London, displayed bis genuine Americanism in a genuinely effective style. He had said something pleasant about President Cleveland s good will toward England in responso to the toast to the President of the United States when there were some groan3 and ironical . laughter. . General Collins stopped a moment and * then exclaimed, in a voice which silenced c all interruption: 8 "There is no antagonism between the * United States and any well meaning State ^ on earth. If the rest of the world under- c stood the United 8tates as well as the United States understood the rest of the world E there would never be any danger to peace c between oy country and other Nations." c There was no more interruption and no J more sarcasm, but a buret of genuine ap- 1 plause. I TAI e r\C TUC GUAW'C AQS4CCIM i I rtuu vr II- uiinnu r<ww..^wi>.. Slollab Rcza's Confession and Denuncla- t tlon of Accomplices. c The man who shot and killed the Shah of * Persia, Nasr-ed-Deen, is a middle-aged fol- E lower of a well-known ngltator named 1" Djemal-ed-Deen, who was exiled from Persia $ In 1891 for subversive teachings. The assassin, whose name is Mollah Reza, was, subsequent to Djemal-ed-Deen's expulsion, f imprisoned for similar practioes, but was released by order of the Shah und Anally ? pensioned. . He has confessed that he waited two months for a favorable opportunity to kill ? the Shah. ? The assassin says that it was his inten- , tion to commit suicide immediately after i shooting the Shah, but he was seized too : quickly. He has given the names of eight J persons who, he alleges, were his accom- 5 plices. J Tale's Crew Invited to Germany. * An invitation was received at New Haven. Conn,, by the Yale 'Varsity crew to row in Germany during the summer. The invitation comes from the Hamburg Regatta Committee, and is the first ever tendered to an 1 I American crew. The Hamburg regatta comes ' on July 18 and 19. Punta Brava Burned. ' Tho insurgents have burned the town of Punta Brava, Cuba. Sevoral of the residents of tho place were killed. A detachment of troops afterward ongaged the rebels and ( routed them, killing and wounding fort}-. t c Killed TTlfe, 15aby and Himself. S Edgar Cccil Plant, about twenty-two years old, shot and killed his young wifet whom he was forced to marry less than three weeks ago, stabbed his infant child I and put a bullet through his own heart ia t Clayton, Mass. The murdered woman's S maid#n name was Ada J. Stanford. 4 c Young Girl Murdered In the Outskirts ol ^ Washington City. E'sio Kreglo, sixteen years old. was mur- a dered in a ravine near tho National Zoo- 3 j logical Park, in tho outskirts of Washington f I City, within three miles of the White House. Tho body was found in a small creek about 10 J yards bom tho giri's bo ma THE HALLS OF CONGRESS. The House has passed the bill (firing a tension of $75 a month to Brigadier-General iVilliam Grosse, of Indiana. 8enator Hill introduced a bill amending * aws relating to contempt of court. The bill 3 illows appeals to the Supreme Court. ^ Congress passed a bill appropriating $60,- * >00 to improve the New York Postoffice >ullding and furnish certain rooms theroin. In Congress the General Deficiency bill, ?] ho last of the gre&t appropriation bills, has jeen passed, showing a very unusual rec- Q )rd of promptness. a Speaker Reed has announced the appoint- C nent of Representatives Payne (Rep., N. Y.,) a ind 8ayers (Dem., Texas,) as Trustees of s< he National Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Under the special order adopted the vote p in ^he passage of the Plckler Pension bill v ivas taken In the House immediately after :he reading of the journal. The bill passed ^ ay a vote of 187 to 54. w Senator Peffer's resolution for "an investl- v nation of the bond issues was opposed by 3enator Hill, of New York, on the ground h :but it is not the method of issuing bonds, c jut the policy, that the Populists really op- e pose. " ii The appropriation for fortifications is 3 511,884,613. of which the sum of 35,842,237 Is for expenditures during the next fiscal g pear and contracts are authorized to the ex- 3 tent of 85.543.276. The Naval bill appropriIted $31,500,000. n Mr. Lewis, of Kentucky, introduced in the : House a bill appropriating $100,000 to pro- E vide for the purchase of the birthplace of tJ Abraham Lincoln and the erection thoreon of a home for disabled soldiers, to be known 5 as the Lincoln National Home. a Senator Vest offered an amendment in the a 3enate to the Sundry Civil bill, whiuh wsa b ndnnf-fld wlthont division. dirficHncr the flee retary of the Treasury to consider and report to Congress upon the best plan for a e publio building to be erected In Washington tor the storage of public documents and un- ^ :urront flies. ^ Mr. Payne, of New York, has prepared a J report on the bill which amends Section 4216 )f the Revised Statutes, which permits F foreign yachts to enter United States ports fi without the payment of a tonnage tax. so p hat it shall not extend to any foreign built pacht owned, chartered or used by a citizen 5 )f the United States. a The retirement of Mr. Cobb, of Alabama, t< 'rom the membership of the House, reduces ft he Democratic representation in that body T 0 ninety-three, the lowest since the Forty- E :hird Congress, when they had but eightysight. In the Fifty-second Congress the Democrats had a total membership of 230, rhe Republicans have reached their high water mark in this Congress, having 250 numbers. p JOHN HAYS HAMMOND. J 3 rhe Remarkable Career of an American 2 Mining Engineer. * J Tho he.ilrh nf .Tohn Hflvs Hammond, the American who was sentenced to death for 3 lompltcity In the Transvaal raid, continues a :o cause uneasiness. He is in prison at ;] Pretoria. The Boer Progressist party appear :o be unanimously in favor of clemency to- ^ *ard the prisoners. They consider banishnent and a small fine sufficient punishment. Tadge Gregorowski, who sentenced the 1 prisoners, was hooted upon his arrival at Elloemfontein, on his return from the Trans- C raaL t< " i Jobn Hays Hammond, whose sentence of leath for high treason against the Transvaal o Jovornment was commuted by President J ?ruger, la forty years old, and is the son of tfayor R. P. Hammond, of San Francisco, i ffho was formerly Vice-President of the !( Southern Pacific Railway. He is a graduate . >f the 8heffleld Scientific 8chool of Yale Uni- j feralty. While In collage he was the life or srery oompanv he was in. He spent a vaoalon in the White House, the guest of Gen- 21 sral Grant Having completed his course at P ?ale, Hammond went to Germany and .a Itudled mining engineering at Freiberg. i1 Returning to the United States, the young mgineer was placed in charge of the mining o ensus survey for the census of 1880. Then a JOHN HAYS HAMMOND. A te made a practical study of mining methods J if Colorado, California and the other gold J, ind silver producing States. Then he went c o the Sonora mines in Mexico, and his fame, vhich had extended to the limits of his own I :ountry, spread to Europe. Hammond went to 8outh Africa In the ? ervlce of Barney Barnato. He had a letter t >f introduction to Cecil Rhodes. When he lalled to present it Rhodes was Riving a din- 1 ler party. As soon as the guests had gone ! Ihodes turned abruptly to the expert and t aid: 1 "Mr. Hammond, I should like to have you 1 nake me a proposition." t Mr. Hammond's salary up to that time had ' >een *25,000 a year, but he raised the figure iheeriully to $60,000, and Rhodes saw the j aise. He thereby became chief engineer of \ he Chartered English Company. As Ham- 3 nond becameRhodes's ri^ht-nand man rumor j ias it that the salary has been swelled to 1100,000 a year. . Mr. Hammond introduced American a oethods and really disclosed the marvelous 0 vealth of the African gold fields. He has t he reputation of being the first mining en- j flneer in the world. He refused some years ^ igo a flattering offer from tho Chinese Gov- -y irnment. Mr. Hammond is a man of most agreeablo . tddress and has a host of friends. Senator f Tones once declared he could neither be f 'bulldozed, bamboozled nor bought." He 1 las traveled all over the world and done en- c jineering work wherever therfc are mines to )e worked. His home is at -JohannesberR. a lis wife was Miss Natalie Harri3. whom he <3 narried at Hagerstown, Md., in 188X They I lave two sons. Half a Million Fire in Tarls, Texas. The entire south side of the business part 1 )f Paris. Texas, wa3 destroyed by fire. The < lames were fanned by a high wind, and the ire department was unable to cope with thu :onflagration. The estimated loss is nearly J lalf a million dollars, and is only partially :overed by insurance. Among the buildings * lestroyed are the telegraph and post offices. J A Cloudburst Causes a Train Wreck. 1 A cloudburst at Raymond, Iowa, washed jut the track and derailed the Illinois Cen- j. ral fast limited train for Chicago. Two 1 loaches were overturned, and several pasengers injured, none, however, dangerously. ^ Public Debt Statement. The monthly statement for April of tho c rnblic debt issued by the United States Trcas- | iry shows that on April 30 the debt was !918,287,670, an increase for April of So,945,17. This is accounted for in part by a de- J reasoof $1,551,087 In the amount of c;ish 1 q tho Treasury, and an increase of nearly 15,000,1)00 in tho amount of bonds delivered e inior tho last sale. Thodebt is recapitulated r s follows: Interest bearing debt, $842,- t 12,140; debt on which interest has ceased luce maturity, $1,651,790; debt bearing no ? iterest, $374,414,400. Total. $1,218,378,330. 'j c Five Baby Boy* at One Birth. i Mj^^^oM^ln^Qraves^Cminty1 Kentucky, THE NEWS EPITOMIZED" TVaihlnjrton Item*. The resolution reported by Elections Comilttee No. 2. confirming the title of John G. haw (Dem.) to the seat occupied by him 5 a Representative from the Third District f North Carolina, contested by Cyrus hompson (Pop,), was agreed to. When the bill to pension the widow of the ite Secretary W. Q. Gresham came up in ie House Mr. Crowther (Rep., Mo.) moved 5 reduce the amount from $100 to 850 a 3onth. This motion was lost after being utagonlzedby Messrs. Pickler (Rep., S. DA urtls (Rep.. N. Y.), Cannon (Rep., I1U), nd Evans (Rep.. Ky.), who eulogized the ervices of General Gresbam to the country. The Senate amendment to the Naval Appropriation bill, striking out twolbattleshlps, 'as non-concurred in by tho House. Populists combined with the Democrats in he Senate to rirevant the seating of Duoont. rho claims election to the Senate from Delaware. Ey request of the State Department the Soicitor-General has moved the Supreme lourt to deoide speedily the appeals in the [orsa filibustering expedition case, Involvag clear definitions of neutrallly and what onstitutes a military expedition. An attempt to side-track the bond-investiation resolution was again defeated in the enate. By a vote of 5 to 1 House Elections Comilttee No. 2 decided the contested election nse of Mitchell avainst WaLsh, from the lighth New York City District, in favor of he contestant. The Senate passed the Naval Appropriation 111. It reduces the number of battleships sked for by the House to two. Chandler s mendment calling for twenty nnre torpedo oats was defeated. After a debate continuing over five days lie House, by a vote of 157 to 81, passed the lankrnptcy Bill. Senator White, of California, accompanied y Mr. and Mrs. Jewell, of the Transvaal, nd Mr. Truslow, the New ?ork attorney for obn Hays Hammond, called on the PresieDt in relation to Mr. Hammond, The 'resident manifested deep Interest in me ite of Mr. Hammond. He expressed a high a;?ard for President Kruger. The Japanese Minister in Washington, Mr. hinichiro Kurino, has received notice from is Government that he wil J be transferred o th^ Italian mission. His successor will be Ir. Hoshi Tori, a distinguished man in apan, and formerly President ot the Lower louse of the Japanese Diet. Domeatlc. BECOBD 0? THE LEAGUE CLUBS. Per Per Clnb?. Won. Lost, et Club'. Woo. Lost. ft. 'hilade1..11 4 .733 Washing'n.8 7 .683 'ittsburcr..9 5 .643 Baltimore..8 7 .533 hlcago.,10 6 .625 Brooklyn..7 8 .467 ioston 9 6 .600|9t. Louis..6 10 .875 lncinnati.9 6 .600iNew York.4 11 .267 ieveland..7 6 .538 Louisville..2 14 .125 A mob at Elllston, Ky.. lynched a physloian amed Farrell for beating his wife. George Cannon and Thomas Atherton, two liners at Whit well, Tenn., were killed by lie premature explosion of a blast. The National Municipal League held Its nnual conference in Baltimore. Four vessels went ashora in a gale on the Inssachusetts coast. . Only S10,000 of the 340,000 promised by Ihicago to the Democratic National Commitse to obtain the convention has been raised nd only 826.000 has been subscribed. The celebration of the 250th anniversary f the settlement of New London, Conn., by onn Winthrop, Jr., was held. A broken rail at New Haven, Ohio, caused freight wreck, fatally Injuring two persns, and seriously wounding a number of ther*. Eighteen loaded freight cars were emolished. A team of horses drawing three tons of oal took fright at an elephant in the circus arade at Paterson, N. J., dashed into the ense crowd, killed a boy and seriously inired a number of persons. About 2600 men are on strike in the yards f the Newport News (Va.) Shipbuilding nd Dry Dock Company. The swarm of prospectors in Alaska are ndlng encouragement in the indications of old in the Cook's Inlet region. Sates Stokes Stetson, widow of the milljuaire theatrical manager, who died a few1 reeks ago, expired suddenly in Bcston. The Franklin Sugar Keflnerv, rnuaaeihla, which nas been idle for four or five lOuths," started again in full operation. Iver 1000 hands are employed at the refinry, ana a majority of the old men returned o work. Love Alford, ex-Speaker of the Iowa House f Representatives, shot himself in the head t Waterloo, Iowa, while suffering from Qpomnia. Evidence has been obtained that an ortran?ed fand of firebugs is at work in.New Britin, Conn. Lawrence Farley, an electric light trimier, was struck dead in the Bowery, New 'ork City, by his hand touching a live wire. On Morningside Heights, N?w York City, he new site of Columbia University was edicated with imposing ceremonies. At Ellsworth, Me., the residence of Senaor Eugene Hale was burned. Loss, $75,000; nsurance, $45,000. The United States gunboat Petrel, which ias been five years on the Asiatic station, arived at San Francisco. Isaac Williams, colored, was burned to leath in the town Jail at Claxton, Ga. Villiams is supposed to have fired the ouildng in an effort to escape. He was the only iccupant. Andrew Carnegie has bought for $25,000 a >lot of ground at Duquesne.'Penn., on which le will erect a public library, a gymnasium md a natatorium. The estimated cost ol h? hiiJIrtlnff-i la SlfSfl OOf) "Bill" Taylor, one of the murderers of the leeks family, was hanged at Oarrollton, lo. The crime for which Taylor was muged was the murder on the nifcht of May 1, 1894, of "Gus" Meoks, his wife and two Ittle children. George Taylor, "Bill's" litle brother, was to have been hanged with 'Bill," but he escaped from jail. Warren Fisher, who came into prominence n 1876 through his connection with the investigation of charges aimed at James G. Maine, died at his home on Fisher avenue, toxbury. Mass. The National Society of the Sons of the Lmerican Revolution met at Richmond, Va., ind observed the anniversary of the first induration of Washington as President of he United States, General Horace Porter; 'resident-General, called the meeting to otter. William Wirt Henry, President of the Virginia Society, welcomed the delegates. Hamilton Disston. the well known manuacturer and politician, died suddenly at his lome In Philadelphia, Penn. His life was nsured for over $1,000,000, he being the secmd largest insured man in the country. Louise Adams, twenty-seven years old, ind Annie Shemp, fourteen years old, were Irowned in the Delaware River, Philadelihia, Penn., by the capsizing of arowboat. Foreign Notes. The inquest held upon the body of Colonel forth, who died suddenly in the office of the hiano Syndicate, London, has shown that lis death was caused by syncope. Copious showers of rain fell in Madrid, Spain, f.aa tnrougnout roe adjoining provneeg, a oircumstanoe which is ascribed by he people to the beneficence of St. Isidore, ladrid's patron saint, to whom fte popuace had appealed for rain and tor the supiression of the Cuban rebellion. It i? announced from Johannesburg, South Lfrican Republic, that the couvicted mem>ers of the Reform Committee will be reeased on payment of nominal fines. The Italian forces havo withdrawn from idigrat. This indicates that the Italian garrison at Adigrat and the force which lasjust relieved it will fall back on the oore northern posts occupied by Italy durng the rainy season, when military operaions cannot be carried on. Rebels in Leon, Nicaragua, before they led tortured prominent citizens to extort unds. Cecil Rhodes has placed himself unreservedly in the hands of Mr. Chamberlain. He asignod as managing director of the Charered Company. Muzaper-ed-Din, the second son of Nast id-Deen, was enthroned Shah of Persia in rabriz. The new Shah received a telegram >1 congratulation from his eldest brother, vbo was expected to contest the succession. & ; ^^Hj DEATH OF COLONEL NORTH. H The Nitrate KIdr Dies Terr Suddenly ts His London Office. Colonel North, the "Nitrate Zing," died suddenly at the office of the Gaano Syndl- HB cate in London, England. He was seized. H|H with an Illness after partaking of some oys-' ters, and died within half an hour. The shells of the oysters were taken possession BBj I COLOXZL WORTH. CT I of by the police for the purpose of ascertaining if the oysters were fit to he eaten, though Hb the general supposition Is that Colonel North , died from heart trouble. -x The story of John T. North's life reads like I o folfl f*r?m <(l?nXtan Vlnkta " T^nWnty mTlrtfl of his life be had been obliged to work like, a slave. Els labors would have exhausted less robust men, and the difficulties he encountered would have daunted less courageous men. At the age of fifty he was reput-s |H ed to be worth $100,000,000. He began life- H as an apprentice with a firm of wheelwrights and engineers in Leeds, England. Here he remained from the age of fifteen until hn was twenty-throe. At this time he married; Hfl Jane Moorhead, the daughter of the Town- , Councillor ana Conservative Chairman of, 1^D| the city. Not satis fled with his outjook In England, Colonel North decided to seek his fortune In South America. His search was not at first very successful. In HH the Chilean city of Tocopllla he was obliged to go to work at his trade as machin1st and content himself with the meagre In* corno of three dollars a day. But young I H North had heard of the wonderful nitrate daposits in Southern Peru, and, thinking that be might find better opening there, he left Tocopilla. His anticipations were more than realized. With the little money that he was able to accumulate as an engineer for a railroad he speculated In nitrates. His yentures were successful. t He bought great tracts of nitrate property; he built extensive works to reduce the nitrate; he constructed railroads to transport supplies; he establlshed steamship lines to extend his business to all parts of the world. In a few years he HH was one of the richest men in South America. aHI His racing stables are among the best In IBS England and a number of his horses have, token part in this year's racing. 1 TO RAKE THE OCEAN'S BED. |B| Invention of a Boat That Can Walk onj the Bottom or tbe sea. : The Lake Submarine Company is being; formed in Baltimore, Md., to bulla a submarine boat with which it is proposed to go ^H| to the bottom of the sea and bring up the MM millions of dollars' worth of wreckage that the storms of years have sent there. Simon Lake is the la7entor. He is about thirty Hfl years old. ^^B The boat will be oigar-shaped and will be ^^B built of steel. If will be propelled by steam, on the surface and by electrioity from stors ^HB age batteries on the bottom of the sea. It^ HH can be worked at a depth of 150 feet, which will allow it to go in some places as far out ^^B as one hundred miles from the coast. It ia^ within this distance tbat the wrecks occur. ;^H|| The trial vessel will be about forty feet|HflH long and ten or fifteen feet in diameter. will carry a crew of six men, and wlU be^B^B capable of staying on the bottom forty houxs^^^l without renewing the air. , B Monster electric lights will illuminate tha^HA ocean bed for two hundred or three hundred^^^B feet around the vessel as it goes hunting fo^^^H wrecks. There will be a propeller, and wheo^^^H the vessel strikes bottom it will run on threeH|H wheels, two of which will be furnished wlth^HH claws so as to act as additional propellers. ^^^B OPENINC OF THE VOLKSRAAD. President Kracer Expects to Assist li:^H Restoring lie it and Peace. The Volksraad of tho South African public was opened at Pretoria. Presldenl^HH Kruger, in his address to the Chambers, re^^^H viewed the events of the year. He began b^^^H deploring the death of N. J. Smit, Vice^^^H President of the South African Bepublic^^^H who died about a month ago, and contlnue<^^^H bv saying that recent events which had been^HH due to malevolence and selfish objects hadfl^EH Interrupted the rost and peace of the coun^^^^H ''It has ever been my object," he said, promote the development and prosperity the Republio in a peaceable manner, and expect with the fullest confidence that dur-^^^H ing this session tho Voiksraad will assist in^^^H restoring rest and peace, so that through our^^H| united co-operation the country may flourlst^^^D and become prosperous to the benefit of all^^^H Despite its troubles the couatiy continues be in friendly relations with foreign Powers.'^H^I President Ernger also expressed hope a closer union with the Orange Free State, and declared that the mining Industries offl^H the country were prosperous, the natlva^^^H affairs peaceful, and the financial condition. of the Bopublic sound. Foot Barned to Death. Two women and two children who lived^^^H at Bushwick and Johnson avenues, Brootf^HJH lyn, lost their lives in a fire which was causod^^^H by one of the women igniting the gas in aHH n otrtvA nvor which she had ignorantly^^^H thrown a quantity of kerosene oil. Two^^^M other children were fatally injared^^^H The dead are: Mrs. Rebecca Cohen, Kar^^^H Cohen, fourteen months old; Mrs. Esthe^^^^H Pustanack, Solomon Pastanaok; eight yearsM^^H old. The injured are: Solomon Cohen, threo^^^fl * years old; Isaac Euschaw; thirty-three years old, wounded in the head; Bosie Pastanaok, two years old. | Tbe Venezuelan Dispute. In his speech at the National Liberal Clab^^HB London, Sir William Harcort said that great majority of the people in the United^^BB States md Great Britain were eager for an^H^B early and peaceful settlement of th^^^^l Venezuela question. He confessed that was Impatient that a settlement was so loc^^H^H delayed. It was to settle suoh questlon^^^^H that diplomacy existed. No personal prid^^^Bl nor diplomatic obstinacy should be allowed^l^H to prevent a settlement. [Cheers.] Drowned Her Two Children and Herseli^^^^H Mrs. F. X. Sailer drowned her two childr^n^^H and herself at Sturgeon Bay, Wis. She woi^^^H down the bay shore, a distance of thrd^^^^H miles, and wvidently walked out into bay with her ohildrea and held them und^^^^H the water until they were dead, after whio^^^^H she drowned herself. Mrs. Sailer was aboi^^^^H twenty-five years old, ana was the foart^^Hfl wife of her husband. Matabele Kevolt Ended. Earl Grey announced that in his oplnidHH^I the Matabele revolt against the British South Africa was at an end. Lost #400,000 in Speculations. Nothing is known of the whereabouts Theodore R. Graham, a member of tho of Young, Smyth, Field & Co., tmporfd?^^^^^H hosiery, notions and white goods, PhllaB^^^^M phia, who disappeared a few days ago.^H^^^HJ Kailawa^ that- ftrohflm'Q QhrirfRCA jq t ween $300,000 and $400,000, and It Is that all of this was lost in stock spoculatloia^H^HJ Killed at a Rifle Range. Frank Ackermann, flfty-two years old, ooss oarpenter, was shot and Instantly klll^^H^H in New York City by Jallus Balker, a coo^H^^B The shooting, which was accidental, occun^^^^^H in a rifle range, wnere the members of C^HH tral Company No. 1 of the New York Sohu^B^^H zenbuad were at practloe.