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A WAVE OF BITTER COLD. i Zero Weather Sweeps Over a Wide j Area of Country. ! SUFFERING IN THE WEST, j A Freezing Temperature in New York j Krln^n Serion* Diwoni'iirl to All rind j Much Distress to Jlie Poor? Knerjjetic ! Relief Measures in Clm-ago?-FricWl Rett KxtendM Aoiosh the Continent. New York City (Special).?The extreme oold that lias been heralded from Chioago reached New York in the early, sunless hours of Monday morning, ami when the city be^au to stir It found that the coldest day of the winter had arrived strictly on time. The weather alonj; the Jersey and Long Island coasts was tho most severe ) known tor many years. Added to tho low j temporalure there was a high wind that cut to the bone. Life savers had. to cut down their beats along the frozen sauds and seek warmth inside the stations, or themselves prove victims of the frost. Ocean liners came into port coateil with ice. Tho thermometer during the day ranged from 5 degrees above zero at 7 a. m. to 14 degrees above at 4 p. m.. the warmest hour. At night it fell steadily, marking G degreas at midnight, and touching the zero mark before moruing. Them was much suffering among :he poor of tho city, aul the charity organizations were taxed totLeir utmost for shelter, food and medicine. In tho suburbs tho cold was even inoro in1? " lJn.lo/\r* T> 5 ?o f PrtTUn rtt'rtr flf iruw, I un iiu isv/a xtivci o uwovu ? several points. Great South Bav is covered with solid ice. In mauy places in New Jersey the schools wore dismissed and factories shut down, and all the inland streams are froSbn over. CHICAGO COLD AND HUNCRY. \ii Army of Destitute People SufTerlnc: for Necesatirie* of Life. Chicago, 111.?With the temperatcre at 21 dejrrees below zero and 60,000 people actually i*> npnH nf fnol and food. Chicjiiro has on its hanils tho bluest task of chanty it has sern siuce tho great flra fa 1371. The aid 9oeieiios, the churches, the county acoLt and the police have exerted every enorgy to relieve the distress, but there are yet thousands of suffering people who havo not been reached. Teu thousand dollars a day b iv?! been spent since Friday through those different sources. Mayor Swift ha* intimated that $100,000 should be raised immediately to meet the situation. His estimate is increased to $400,000 and - e'500,000 by t^ose who are in the Held and who havi< a personal knowl odjre of the extent of tho suffering. The p?op!e of Chicago are aroused as they have uot 'uoen in a qnarler of a csuturv. Tii-j followingshows, ia brief, whal Ciieaso's distress means: Persons anemployed in C:\icacro, 75,000; persona who need assistance. either provisions or coal. 69,000; persons on verge or starvation, 33,000; porsons who 'uivf been relieved by aid societies, 18,''00; persons rolieved by churches. COOO; persons relieved by pDli^e, 3500; parsons relievo! by County Agent. 1500; persons relieved by private charity, 1030; destitute who have not yet been reached. 5000: people housed and fed in police stations, 1429; estimated total daily expenditure from all sources for relieving distress. $10,030; estimated daily expenditure by aid societies, #5000; e<timat"d daily expenditure by uuuruji'tg, 'ffi'/vv/^oo'.iatavcu u<?uj va|a'uuiiuiv. by County Agent, $150); ostiaiated daily expenditure by private individuals, 51000; estimated daily expenditure by police, $500. In almost every drus? store in Chioaso the proprietors and clerks art) kept busy thawing out frozen ears and noses. The motorman, conductors, street car drivers and toamstors are the worst sufferera. Pifty-ttires persons were overcome by the cold, and were rescue 1 In a partly frozen condition. Two deaths xvere due to the cold, and a number of peop'e are likely to die as tuo result of frozen limbs or exoosure. Most of tho suir ?rers succumbad to the cold while at their work, bat a number of the victims were homeless wander-rs. " a_:r. | 1U.UJVL OWiu i?5U?7U *1. [uyomiuuuvFu up- i pealing to all citizens who have the money | to spare to contribute at oaco money anJ i aupplios to prevent starvation and freezing among Chicago's 40,O(D destitute f oor. COUNTRY SWEPT BY COLD. People Are -'hiverlnie Fr.?m Cin.ida to ? -i i AU iibas. Sakatqa, N. Y.?The temperature in northern Xew Yor k reached the lowest of the season. Blue Mountain Lake reports 30 de grees below zero, tforth Creek 23 dogres bylow, Warrenburgh 29 doprees below, Lake Lonely 15 degrees below. Saratoga from 5 to 10 degrees below, Malone 26 degrees to 30 decrees below. Meochnm and i-nranae Lake 32 degrees below, and Watertown 16 degrees to 20 degrees below. St. Louis, Mo.?At noou 3 degrees above wns ind.cated, and at 5 p. m. 4 degrees above. The demand upon the associated charities for food ami fuel was never greater. The Police Department is doing everything possible to relievo the distress. Twenty-two frostbitten victims were treated at the City Dispensary, r.nd three amputations were necessary. Hundreds of homeless people are sheltered at the police stations. For the first time in man's memory ice formed for a short time over lower White River in Arkansas. Snow 19 reported in \Yest Ten. nestle and' Southern Illinois. The great I ./ruit suction of Southern Missouri awl Northern Arkansas h is especially auflere I and nothing can save the crops. A fall of snow ' that would havo s ive I tho wheat Holds of Mis-ouri. Iowa and Nebraska, did no. como with the cold wave, and predictions of disns? ! tor to the cereals were frequent on'Change. ; Omaha, Neb.?Pitiful stori sof want and rfcstituti in are comini: to the attention or the authorities, who had to provide coal for ' over 1000 families, in addition to food and j clothing. Tho charitable institutions of tho . citv >ire able to assist only a small propoition of iiiose in actual need of aid. The Missls, sippi Rivnr is entirely frozen over, and ice ; was formed a foot thiek on the lake3. Out J in tbe State the thermometer ranges from 12 degrees to 17 degrees be'.owzero. i. Ottawa. Canada.?Twenty-six decrees bo ""low zero was regstered here on Monday. Intensely cold weather hoi 's sway in the who!? Ottawa district. At Kazabazua, Quebec. H2 degrees below zero was registered. ' At 5Ianiwiki, Quebec, an I at Pembroke, i Oatario, it wa3 30 degrees below, and at ' A oannte 27 degrees below. Tobosto, Canada.?The coldest weather I of the season prevailed throughout Ontario. The lowest temperature reported is 52 do1 grees below at White River, iu the Ncrth1 >we9tf-m ] art of the province. SI3.151,000 (or I'enftions. Secretary Francis has called upon the Socrelary of th^ Treasury for $13,150,000 for quarterlyYay.nents of pensions at agencies, as follows; Tnpska. Kan., $3,873,000: Phila' d.dphia. $1,975,010: N;?w York City, $1,775,00f: Louisville. $1,023,000; Knosville, Teun., $1,800,000: Indianapolis. ?2 700.000. M'i'i avil Wife Murdered. A? Fren-L Lick 8.>ringp I'nl., Samuel Kirbysinu hi- wife, pro uia 'Kt an ! highly roapeeteJ p w;.t:' 'oua I murder-d in their room. I'm'! snow showed two different footprints. A olooi-staioed axe was found OCtvlde. liig I'iivn irt Syrucu*l>. A big fl*e which bogati :u South Salina and Fayette streets, in Syraeu?>?, N*. Y . became practically unmanageable, and destroyed three large business blocks occupied by the New York Cloak House. Palmer's millinery house. Kimball Piano Company's Agency, Leiter -Brothers' piano aud jewelry house, andL. A. WitherlU's dry goois establishment. Manv other firms suffered extensive damage. Tfte los? will aggregate $ .'50,000. Kearney's Lrewefy valued at about $25,000 was: also destroyed. Unstuii'* New Kesulatlon. It costs $3 to swjar on the streets of Bosion. ' . 1 .. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. TTrshincten Jtemi. Th-* Sor.ate parsed the Military Academy Appropriation bill after defeating a clause providing for tho expenses of taking West Point cadet* fo Washington to narticinate in tho inauguration parade. Melville W. Fuller, Coiof Justice of the United State# Supreme Court, and David J. Brewer, Associate Justice, have been nominated as Commissioners to serve on the arbitral tribunal to determine the Venezuelan boundary line. The Dawes Commission, after years of labor, have finally succeeded, as appears from a report sent to the Senate, in securing an agreement with the Choctaw Indians of the civilized tribes for the division of their lands in severalty. The Chickasaw?, who own the lands in common with the Choctaws. have not signed the agreement. Tho House of Representatives hiis agreed to the report of tho Confereneo Committee in favor of the now Immigration bill. Cornelius Vauderbilt, Sr.. the New York millionaire, has leased a hem? in Washington. and tho family will live in the city for the present. C. F. Frederick Adam has been appointed Secretary of the British Embassy In Washington. A big mass meeting in favor of the arbitration troaty was held in Washington; Oustico Brewer, Joan W. Foster and others made addresses. The Spanish Legation has received a despatch from the Spanish Foreign Minister giving General Weyler's report of the pacification of the western provinces of Cuba. Consul General Loo informs tho State Department that Cubit will be made a desolate land if the wardoes not cease. President Cleveland has summarily removed from office Collector Dowling, of Cincinnati. Mr. jjownngreiusesio surreu- i dor the office. Mr. Turpie, of Indiana, addressing the Senate on the Cameron resolution, declared the authority of Congress to recognize new nations, as well as new States of the Union, panmount aud the functions of the Executive ancillary. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani paid a visit to President Cleveland in the White House. It was purely informal, and the deposed Queen was kindly received. The President returned from his duck shooting trip down the Potomac. He spent the day at Colonel Waller's ducking ground at Widewater, ueai Quantico, Va., and had a fair day's luck. He made the trip in the lighthouse tender Maple, the Commander of the lighthouse service, accompanying him. Lilinokalani, the deposed Queen of Hawaii, who is traveling as Mr;-. Lydia Dorainis, visited Washington unexpectedly. She left Boston without lotting her intentions be known, and made the journey to Washingwithnti* ofnnninr* nnfl wont" immfldintftlv to the Shoreham, where apartments had been engaced for herself and those accompanying her. She registered as "Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii.'' General Fitzhugh Lee's son has been given another chance at West Point, Representative Tucker, of Virginia, having reappointed him as a cadet. Representative De Armond, of Missouri, has performed a like office for Daniel Bond, another cadet deficient in his studies. Both boys will start at tho bottom again. Domestic. l'ue jvansas Legislature in joint convention elected William A. Hurri? United States Senator to succeed Mr. PefTer. The First National Bank of Olympia, Wash., closed its doors because of the withdrawal of $30,000 State funds, which precipitated a run. The liabilities of the bank are said to be $100,000. Arthur Palmer, of Mamaroneck, N. Y., who, it is alleged murdered his mother, brother and sister some nine days before and fled to parts unknown, was arrested at the Planters' Hotel, St. Louis. Mo. Palmer i3 a handsome, well-dressed man, about fortyfive years old, and had been at the hotel for a week registered as Paul Jones. Thousands of oattle and sheep have perished on the Western ranges in the last few days of cold weather. A concurrent resolution calling on the United States Senate to ratify promptly the. treaty of arbitration between the United States and Great Britain was adopted unanimously by both branches of the South Carolina Legislature. George A. Draper, Postmaster, and his soa; Charles W. Draper, Assis ant Postmaster, at Cheyenne, WyomiDg, wore arrested by Inspectors McMechan and Waterbury, of Denver, charged with the theft of a registered package containing $3500. Victims of the tornado in St. Louis last Blay are suffering severely from the cold, and unless prompt aid is given many may perish in their wrecked dwellings. Chicago's freezing poor were recipients ol prompt aid by officials and citizens. Lettet carriers were directed to report cases of destitution. The National Bank of Potsdam, N. Y., closed its doors. A young Cuban named Perez fell with a balloon into the sea off K?y West. Fla.. and was drowned. Pere* was not an aeronaut, and after going up about 10(10 feet he became helpless. The ropes weretangied, and the balloon went out about a mile from 3hore and fell into the water. Ad overturned candle set fire to the shroud on the body of Ida Jasswin, In Putnam. Conn., and the remains w^ra charred before the family could extinguish the flames. In an interview former Lieutenant-Governor Suxton said he had President-elect McKinley's promise in writincr that he should be Collector of the Port of New York. This promise Mr. McKinley made conditional upon Senatof-ele-t Piatt's indorsement, which Mr. Saxton obtained. Professor John G. Dow, thirty-five years old, committed suicide at Ma 'ison. Wis., by takiug lau !anum. Until a'oout eight months ago he wasa professor in the rhetoric department ot the University of Wisconsin. He graduated from the E linbursh University with the highest honors, aud had always been considered a brilliant scholar. The World's Columbian Exposition Company. Chicago, has entered judgment for $81,000.75 against the Ferris Wheel Como&nv. A party r>f white farmers in Tennessee attacked n number of colored people who were aceusod of theft. One of the latter killed a farmer Darned Conn. Resolutions favorinir an extensive system of defences were adopted by the Coast Defence and Harbor Improvement Convention in Tampa, Fla. Miss Helen McKiniev. sister of the President elect. fell on a slipcory sidewalk at CantoD. Ohio, and broke her arm. The jail at Jeffersonvillo, Ga.. was broken c?t>en and the two colored men, Willis White and Charles Forsvth, implicated in the assassination of Mrs. Rowland at Adams Park, were taken out and banged to the same limb. It is proposed to employ convicts in making uniforms for the National Guard of New York State. Dr. Doty, Ilenltii Officer of tiie Port oi New York, is afraid the bubonic piague will aet into thin country at the Harbor of New York. He visited Albany to advocate an appropriation of ?60 0 for extra precautions there. The Rev. John Yanbost, who was taken tc Oswego, N. Y., from Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to the indictment for felony preferred against him. The man burst into tears and fell on his kneos. Dr. RaiLsford. a popular Now York Episcopal preacher, deprecated any display ol wealth, such as the proposed Bradley-Martin musquera ie ball, as beiuc dangerous to society aud affording a text to demagogue? who woul t amy the- class?- against the :n:isse~. Kovelen Nntoj. Emperor William oi Germany celebrated his thirty-eighth birthday. Senator Wo'cott left Loudon for Paris tc continue his mission regarding bimetallism. The insurgents blew up with dynamite a railway bridge in Santa Clura Province, Cuba Near Dorchester, New Brunswick, a passenger train plunged down a seventy-live . loot embankment into a pond. Two persons, were killed and ten severely injured. General Weyier is reported to have ordered his troops to burn all the Cuban canetlelds on their line of march. Europe iitakinc extraordinary measures to keep out the bubonic plague. DBOffSEE OK i LEE SHOBE I Crew of the Schooner Nahum Chapin Perish Off Quoeue, L. I. LIFE SAVERS' VAIN EFFORTS. Throw Their Linos Over the Wreck, But the Crew is Helpless?Cling for Life in the Kiggin;?Vossel Goes to Pieces and Not ft Soul on Board Survives the Crash?Drowned in Sightot Hundreds. Quogob, N. Y. (Special).?In tha ;loora and , Horror of the great storm that swept the I Long Island coast Wednesday night the Na hum Chapin, a large three-masted schooner I laden with 1300 tons of bituminous coal,Wu6 | hurled lllce a catapult against the sandy shores of Quogue, and pounding for three hours on the outer bar was ground into a thousand fragments. The men who went down in the wreck were: ^3. E. Arey, captain and part owner, of Maiden, Mass., leaves a wife and four children; A. E. Davis, first mate, of Maiden, leaves a wife and one child; L. A. Maldox, second mate and steward, of Cambridge, Mass., leaves a wife and children; Oscar Anderson, seaman; H. O. Anderson, seaman; Antonio Aucvaniob, seaman; Albert Lowe, seaman; John Neiber, seaman; Victor Strachan, seaman. it was trie swirtest wreck and most complete that ever befell la the fateful history of the Long Island shore. To those who saw the splintered fragments of this stanohly built vessel later In the day as they lay spread abroad for half a mile from the Quoguo Life-saving Station eastward it seemed inoredible that sand and pounding water oould work such havoc. How she came on no man will ever know. For the lips of every m^n aboard are sealed in death. Patrolman Charles Carter, of the Quogue Life-Saving Station, burst into the station at 4 o'clock a. m. with the news that a big three-master was on the outer bar, half a mile from the station. Captain Charles Herman and his men in two minutes wera i 1 ---- * 8T. PAUL'S ICE P , out on the sand drugging thoir wagon across the beaeh. It was 4.30 o'olock when the wagon came to a halt opposite the schooner, the outlines of which at that hour could scaroely be made (out as she rose and fell and twisted under the force of the waves. It would have been folly to have a:temptad to launch a boat, so a big fire was lighted on ithe beach. Rockets ware discharged at intervals biddiog the crew of the schjonerto :keep up their court,ge. At daylight the life saveo could see the nine men in the rigging of the schooner. A lifeline was fired S3veral times before the men succeeded in throwing it into the schooner's riggine. This time the line was well direoted and went over the rigging and hung there safely. The men in the rigging made attempts to reach It, but could not. They had lashed themselves with rope, and did not dare leave their places. , EvetV wave lifted the sohooner into the air clear of the sai d, and as ttie water rolled on shoreward the schooner sank back upon the sand With a thump. It seemed to thoso on shore that every time the schooner sank muct thMir th? m?n In thn piffcinir from i their places by the shook and hurl them into the sea. To leava their places of compara- ' tire safety woulil have been certain death. 8ix of the crow ware in the forerigging on the port side. The oihor three were on the flying jibboom, There they clung with j desperation, and there for two hours more . they remained. i It was a couple of minutes nfter 7 o'clock When the 9choouer made the last plunge. She was lifted on the crest of a giant wave {for a moment and then hurled back upon the hard beach. Her ribs were crushed in, aud In a minute she was a mass of wreckage. .The mizzenmast tottered Rnd then fell to port, and as it went down the foremast followed. Beforo the foremast had struck the water with its six men, the aftermast had :gone by the board and the nine men were lost. Once more a wave lifted the schooner, and when the last blow came the vessel went to pieces. The crowd had little more to sea The wreck was complete, for it would seem that not a timber remained attached to another. The nine human beings in the rigging had not the faintest chance for tbeir lives after the masts went, so me villagers, wuu a?u remained (or three hours on the beach, started homeward. The ltfe-savera dug up their anchor, reloaded their cart, and, leaving a guard to watch for bodies and wreckage, started back to the station. It was about 8.30 when the first body camo ashore. It was caugnt before the waves could reclaim it, and it was dragged up out of the reach of the waters. It was that of a man of powerful built, with a reddish beard, apparently the captain of the schooner. The ship's papers drifted in. but her log did not appear. Later on there came floating in a doll, and a short time after tho doll a child's chair was buried upon the beach. Canovag Talks Keforra. * i iU? aK?ni'aK PitKinaf r*ririnnl1 Pnflmiflp ?LL LUC kJ{;aLUOU uuwiuuk v/wuuv.. Cauovas declared himself confident of the speedy success of the Spanish military operation? in Cuba and announced that he would soon submit to the Council of State a plan of reforms whioh it is proposed to institute in that colony. Fatal l>uel Between Rivals. In a duel between John Dairy and Ben S. Drymfa, which ocourred near Cynthiana, Ky., Dairy was almost instantly killed an i Dryman died a few hours afterwards. The men were rivals for the hand of Misfi Jennie Hillery. Work of tke Cabnn League. The Cuban League of the United States, of which Colonel Ethm Allen of New York City, is President, is organizing a branch league in every town or oity in this aountry of 5000 inhabitants and upward. There are 750 such towns and cities in the United State?. The object of the league is to call forth an expression of the unanimou-j sentiment of the American peoplo in favor of Cuban independence. Gold Output of British Guiana. The oflicial returns of the output of the ,~old mines of British Guiana for the year I8?G show that it was in excess of ^2,250,000. Prominent People. The late Shah of Persia left $200,000,000. Harry A. Garfield, son of the late President, is being boomod for Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Messrs. Moody and 8ankey are to begin a sorles of revival services in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 5. W. D. Howells is to make his first appearance as a lecturer this winter. His topic will be the modern novel. Governor Pingreo, of Michigan, has deolared himself in favor of laws limiting the value of individual holdings of property. The only surviving British peer who was in possession of his title at the time of the accession of Queen Victoria is Earl Nelson. HORRORS OF THE PLAGUE, A Britiflh Ofllcer I'eocrlbes tli? Scene* i the Stricken IDUtrlct of India. Major Edward J. Turner, an English arm officer stationed at Bombay, now on hi way to England on a furlough, gives graphic description of tba horrors or th plaerue now deviating Bombajr and othe citiep of India. "The natives are so wasted by starvation, said he, "that thay have no power to resis the plague, but panic-striken, they fall prey to the horrible death. In the outlyin, districts I round the bodies numerous lath roads. On the b inks of the Ganges, wher tho Rhats are all located, hundreds of bodie are lying .1 waiting their turn to be buried The ghats are small, raised, burning piles made of stone. The victim is brought t( the river, if possible, before death, that hi may die by the st;cred stream: then when hi dies his body is dipped in the stream, takei out and laid on tie ghat with a pile of wooc under and above It, and is soon reduced t< ashes, which are iwept into the river. "The natives :ook upon the plague as: scourge of their j?od that cannot be helped and will not tolerate any Interference witl their religious rites. "I look for some outbreak, and do nol expect to more than reaoh homo before be Ing summoned back to my post. The 9ltua tion is becoming alarming. The proposltloi is being seriously considered of setting flr< to the entire native quarter of the city, a< well as the barracks of the native troops, ir the hope of thereby burning out the con< tagion. "I don't know what will be done, for th< Trrhnltt aaar.ia In Hon rtHfrh fhtt nniann and it Is crirr ?d ?<y rats and other vermin everywhere. Nothing except a furnace heal can purify the quarter when) the plague ho? raged." ST. PAUL'S ICE PALACE Modeled After the Parthenon and is o Great Architectural Boauty. This season's Ice palace at 3t. Paul, Minn., outstrips in beauty any former structure o( the kind. It is modeled on the Parthenon at Athens and is therefore of singular architectural beauty, which is enhanced by the fairy-like material of whtch it i9 built. More than 10,000 tons of ice were used in the building. The area covered by the Parthenon Is 6610 square feet. The floor plan is 110 by 230 foet, and the height of the build ijb eaSfe AliA.CE FOR 1807. ing from the stylovate to the top of tho pediment is sixty-five feet. There are sixty oolumns, eaoh thirty-two feet high and. and six feet In diameter. The walls stand nine feet behind the pillars and are three teet thick ana forty feet high. The inclosure measures sixty-four feot in length. The Building Committee places the cost of the ice palace at $7000. The eld palace cost almost $9000. The walla on the outer side are fringed with electric lights. The idea of storming the ice palace is discouraged this year. It is an old notion and wa3 appropriate enough when the building was In imitation of a' castle. The idea of sformincr a Parthenon is too barbaric even for consideration. The ice palace this season is to be admired simply for its architectural beauty. There will be no bombardment. TRAIN ROBBERY IN ALABAMA. The Robbers Get C125 and a Jug of Whisky untl Then Escape. Passenger train No. 83 on the Southern Railway, west bound, was held up by three ma3l:ed men about 8 o'clock p. m., near North River Erldge. sixty-six miles from Birmingham, Ala The robbery was on the same plan as the one two months ago, when threi! men robbed the same truin at the samo place. The robbers attacked the expresn car, and aecured SI55 and a jug of whisky. The train was fall of passeugers, but none of therr. was bothered. W. 0. Agee, route fagent of the Southern Express Company, was in the train, and he got off at Bankston, t&e next station, and telegraphed to Birmingham for detectives ani dogs. SENATORS ARE AROUSED. Three International Questions the Subjects or Debate. In the United States 8ciinte on Friday, the Cuban question, the General Arbitration Treaty between England ami the United States, and the Nicaragua Canal bill were the subjects of a series of the liveliest debates that have been heard during the present session. Senator Turpie sprur g the Cuban queetion and force i a denial from Senator Sherman that he and Secretary OlJiey have an understanding that no action on it snail be taken this ses3ion. Senator Boar then precipitated a debate on the Arbitration Treaty by rebukine his constituents for urging the Senate to hurry to ratify it. Great Britain's interference ia the Ntcuragua Canal question also provoked a bitter speech from Senator Morgan which may sound the death knell of the Arbitration Treaty. Two Shocks Needed to Kill. John Hoch was electrocuted in Auburn (N. Y.) Prison, for the murder of Minnie Ingersoll at Martinsburg, near Lowville, Lewis Omnty, July 10, 1895. Ho did not evince t^feslightest emotion when in the chair, currents of 1800 volts had to be turned flflHgore the man was pronounced dead. xJk Sawyer, the prison physician, said tho reason for having to use an extra current was that Hoch had more resistance than the ordinary man. At 12.06 p. in. Hoch was led into tho electrocution room. At 12.21 he was pronounced dead. A mysterious Hold-Up. A package containing |!5600 was mysteriously stolen in broad daylight from an expressman in front of the Pacific Bank, Broadway, near Graud street, New 5fork City. Earthquake Kills 2500. Two thousand flv? hundred persons have perished as a result of the earthquake January 11 on Kishm Island, a despatch from Teheran, the capital o! Persia, reports. Kishm is the largest islanJ in tho Persian Gulf, and is situated about fifteen miles from its entrance. Its population is estimated at 5000. mostly Arabs. Department Store Goes Under, The Golden Rule Bazaar, a San Francisco (Cal.) department store, lias gone into liquidation. It Is owned by the Davis Brothers. The liabilities are placed at $250,0u0; tho assets are over $400,000. France Wants ? I'ence Treaty. France is preparing to enter into negotiations with the United States, for the conclusion of a treaty of peace arbitration, following to some extert the lines of the arbitration treaty recently agreed upon by the United States and Great Britain, and now pending for confirmation before the United States Senate. Chicago Families Starving. Chicago has eight thousand families who are aotually starving to deathL It has ten thousand wives, husbands and children begging for bread?begging for a pittance of food to keep body and soul togetherhuddled into single rooms and freezing in the blizzard. ???mi ii aj ?? ? ! MRS np PATAT. FIRER MAJAIJl UK# Vi L JUlJUbU X lllJJUf J J Freezing Firemen Fight Destructive Flames East and West. f A BIG BLAZE IN PHILADELPHIA. John Wanamjker'i Department Store Was Badly Injured?Sixty Buildings Were Either Destroyed or Outted?Firemen Hurt in Chicago?->[or<> Than a Hundred Alarms Occur in One Day. Philadelphia, Penn. (Special.)?A fire, which started at 6.45 o'clock a. m. from aa overheated oven in tbe basement of the aixstory iron building, 1330 to 1317 Market street, burned over the block bounded by Thirteenth street. Juniper, Market and Filbert streets, destroyed or gutted sixty buildings and consumed property valued at a million and a half dollars. Many small storekeepers lost their all and several thousand working people were cast out of employment. The fire was the largest in Philadelphia iD a generation. It was- in the very heart of the city. Many of the properties destroyed, especially on Thirteenth, Juniper and Silver streets, the latter a small thoroughfare runj ning between Market and Filbert streets, ! TTPro amnll .-\1 rl-f mqVi i nnwi! rl xxrul H n rr h nn Surrounding these buildings are many handsome wholesale stores, and on the south side of Market street, directly opposite where the fire raged the fiercest, is the department store of ex-Postmaster-Gnneral John Waua' maker. It was invaded by the flames, but here they were confined to the high clock tower and the Market street front, and the , former Postmaster-Ganorat will escapo with ' a loss of of less than $100,000. caused rnaiuly by smoke and water. He had no insuranc. ' The principal building in the burned block, Nos. 1309 to 1317 Market street, belonged to i the estate of the late Henry C. Gibson, and cost in the neighborhood of $250,000. It i was six stories high and contained tho grocery store of Hanscom Brotners, Deni oect's lunch cafe and the salesroom of Hirah & Brother, umbrella manufacturers. Hirsh & Brother were the tenants of the live upper stories of the structure and eroployo 1 about five hundred persons. Alfred Ourtin Hirsh pluce3 the loss of his firm at $125,000, which Is covered by insurance. The loss on the buil-linsr is placed at $500,000. When the fire started the thermometer was near zero, and this seriously handicappe I the firemen. The ground was covered with j Ice and hundreds of trolley and other w>ros broke down, hampering their mov ments. The flremon labored zealously, however, and prevented the flames, which were fanuo I by high winds, Irom doing far greater damage. 100 ALARMS IN A DAY. A. New Record Made by Chicago's Fire Department. Chicago, 111.?Vimost 100 tires wore r5pr.rced up to midnight for the twenty-four hours of Tues lav. Tii?; racorJ of last Fourth of July was bsateu, an 1 a new nighwater mark was established in the history of, the Chicago Firo T>:>p;irtm?nt for a winter day. On account of the extreme cold the flremon juflVred severely, and there were many cases }f the men having their oars, noses and hands frozen. 8ewral were severely frozen and are In a serious condition. Most of the 3res were small affairs, and in nearly every ease was due to efforts to thaw out frozen water pipes or to explosion engendered by tho bursting of water backs. The large grain elevator of the W. H. Purcell Malting Company was destroyod by Are. The firemen were handicapped by the ia.. -1 It ?i.. t.ia_ junruuy in ?iro iwnuuuouk ?,v,ojph Guickenheimer estimated the loss at ibout $359,000, which is almost entirely covered Hy insurance. During "a .iestructive Are in a six story rtructure at Nos. 196, 198, 200 and 202 Monroe street, occnpied exclusively by wholetale Qrms, ten person* wore seriously injured, ?even of whom were fireman. Three of them wore fatally hurt. TWO TOWNS LESS. Poland, N. Y., and Pacific Junction, Neb., Nearly Wiped Out. Utica, N. Y.?Fire broke out in a black?raith shop in the small village of Poland, Herkimor County, Tuesday night, and the alizzard that was raging carried the flames 'rom one building to another, until almost the sntire village was oa lire, The Are brigade Herkimer arrived by special train and soon bad the fire under control. Ten buildings were destroyed, among them Reed's store, blacksmith shop, Willoughby house and barns, Daniel's house aud buildings, C. J. Scavey's residence ana uarney * jjicMahon's meat store. The telephone station was also burned. The local brigade had only pails and ladaers to fight the Are. Water was taken from a mill pond 200 feet from the fire. Omaha, Neb.?a telephone message aays that the whole of the business portion of Pacific Junction, Neb., has boon destroyed 5y fire. Th^ blaze started in a grocery, and altogether about twenty-two or twenty:hreo buildings were destroyed, including the Pacific Hotel and Odd Fellows' Hall. Four Colored Babe* Burned. Clearfield, Penn.? Four small colored 5tuidren nnmea wbdd were uurueu iv uwui I In a Are which destroyed a double dwelling douse at Curwensville, near here. The house waa occupied by the Webbs and anjtber colorod family, all of whom escaped In jnfety, except the little ones. The building wis owned by tho Elk Tanning Company, which lost a large tannery at the same place by Are. Frozen at a Fire. Mcncie, Ind.?While fighting a Are at tho residence of C. E. Wiley, with a temperature at 15 degrees below zero, seven Ilremen were severely frozen and their clothing had to be jut from their bodies. Mrs. Wiley, while trying to escape from the burning house with her baby in arms, fell down stairs and was fatally Injured. Fatal Farmhouse Fire. Bexleville, Mich.?The farmhouse of A. F. Yandawater, three miles south of this place, was destroyed by Are and four persons were burned to death. They were Mrs. Vandawatar and her two children, a boy a?ed eisht and a irirl aired fourteen years, and Miss Annie Vandawater, a sister of Mr. Vaudawater. Bijj Battle With F?n?tic<i. A battle took place between Brazilian troops and religious fanatics in the State of Bahia, Brazil. The loss of the combatants on both aides was 250 killed and 301 wounded. The fauutios lost forty men killed. Banquet to Thoinns C. Plutt. A banquet to Senator-eleot Plait was given in Albany. N. Y., under the auspices of the Loague of Republican Clubs. Governor Black, Mr. Flatt, Cbauncey M. Dupew and others ^poke. There were more than one thousand guests. Uesouinc Party Drowned. \Vhile th<; crew of a lifeboat woro trying to rescue the crov* of a fishing bjat in the North Sea, off Haarboore, Jutland, tho lifeboat was* eapsiv.oii and ail hands ou Jjourd, twelve iu number, wore drowned. Children Poisoned by Ap;iIos. Mrs. Georgo Madison, of Jefferionville. j lad., bought apples for her children. Immediately after eating them Artie, nineteen mcuths old; Jame?, fcur year.? old, Lulu, eight years old, and a boy of five, were taken severely ill, with signs of strychnin j poisouirig. Boforc a physician could arrive the first two named children were dead. Lulu died during the night leaving the boy and Mrs. Madipon very ill. No Woman Suffrage in Oklahoma, j The Woman Suffrage bill was defeated in the House of the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature at Guthrie by a decisive vote. ' " ' . ' - ' t n >" "*:* y/ -.< . > I WHAT CONGRESS IS DOINC. There is no Indication of any intention to a !all no thfl Camftron flnhan resolution. A bill appropriating $50,000 for a statue of ibraham Lincoln at Gettysburg, Penn., was massed by the House. " The Ohio delegation in Congress will Rive 0{ i banquet in honor of 8enator Sherman dur- ci npthe last week in February. pi Senator Allen reported to the Senate that pr rross frauds had been practiced in the hand- bi Ing of the Osage Indian funds. al In the the House, the bill to pension Jona- ce :h.in Se.nft nf ?h? TifJ-h Iowa HftYalrv was bt passed over the President's veto c* Republicans at Washington have about jjj despaired of controlling thi next Semite. P1 A.bout the only party measure which they J*' ix^ected to be able to pass was the Tariff The Senate passed the bill for a new $5,300.000 custom house at New York Citv. The w bill was introduced by Senator Murphy 3a j j^Dcm., N. Y.), and provides for a new build- ra ! ing upon the present site. D Erastus Wiman and others were before the yt Souse Inter-State Commerce Committee m urginpr the adoption of an amendment to the m Inter-State Commerce Law, which would prevent lighterage charge* in New York at Harbor- or Senator Cannon, of Utah, introduced an ^ amendment to the bill for an International 119 Monetary Conference providincthat the conferenoe must be called by McKinley within 8t ninety days after he assumes office, and that -J the basis of any agreement must be a ratio rt of coinage between 15 to 1 and 16 to 1. co Senator Lodge announced that the Chicago agents of the North German Lloyd Steamship Companv have been flooding Western Congressmen through their constituents with ? despatches urging them to vote against the 1 Immigration bill and adding that a vote for it means defeat for the member at the next election. Senator Chandler offered a bill providing "a that no person or persons 3hall be indicted, tried, or convicted in any. court of the United ;a States for the doing of any act or acts what- w ever in aid of the Republic of Cuba, or of the ft bo ly, by whatever name known, now en- ot wag-id in military conflict in the Island of Onba against the Government of Spain. |0 which would not be unlawful according to re the laws of war. Congressman Morse has introduced a bill jj to build a bronze statue to Majot Peter at Charles L'Enfant, the French engineer who jli lHid out the city of Washington, the statue ir to cost net exceeding $50,COO, and to be m ereotod on ?\ Government reservation under tbe direction of a commission of Ave, two to be appointed by the 3peaker of the House, two by the President of the Senate, ind one by the Secretary of War. H Fourteen of the seventeen members o! Congress composing the House Committee j on Rivers and Harbors, many of them accompanied by their wives and others of their di lamiueg. ioie wasmngtoa ior new uriBnus, 3g j Mobile, and other places, to inspect Governj ment Improvements on waterways. The la party traveled in a special car in charge of tr Captain J. W. Bryanr, representing the com- G mercial. shipping and railway interests of b< New Orleans. b* TROOPS LEAVE URUAN POST. wjj Salisbury Orders Vacation of Disputed g| Venezuelan Territory. 7i By direction of Lord Salisbury, the British military post of the Uruan.- in British Gaiann, which led to acute trouble with Venezuela, has been discontinued. Ad m Indian post holder has been substituted for the police garrison, in obedience to directions from the Colonial Office in London, p and one of the greatest thorns in Venezuela's side is thereby removed. The news of the abandonment of the post reached the State Department, Washington, tt r?K fho rinmoro ?*o natranfl nara vhlnh a# made the announcement January 6. The bi colonists ire philosophical over the setback, ni and claim that the Indian holder will con- b? stltuto as effective a maintainor of their ter- m ritorial title as the soldier, who will not be exposed to the frequently malarial influences di ot the locality. bi TWO DEADLY EXPLOSIONS. Two Killed and Three Hurt. Fatally in * a Mine?Two Blown to Atoms. At Unlon'.own. Penn., an explosion in the Mock mines of Hurst A Co., killed two al miners and injured sevpn others. The dead 01 are: Peter Houser and Charles McQuister. * The injured are: Andrew Honzobod, Michael * Horonac, John Augustine, Michael Kemble, " John Mitchell. John Gillis and his son, Will- A iatn Gillis. Augustine, Horonac and Mitchell ? were fatally burned. The explosion n&s caused by the liberating of gas, which was * ignited by the open lamps of the miners. t( By an explosion of nitro-glycerino in a 11 storehouse belonging to the Ohio and Michigan Torpedo Company, near Bradnor, Ohio, " William Minison, of Toledo, and Edward L/KllillHUU, VI OUU, WUIU UlUtTU IU atoms. ABANDONS HER CYPSY. ?r C Princess De Cliimny Leaves Ki^o After a ff Fierce Quarrel. a' a A cablegram from Milan, Italy, announces w that the Princes* De Chimay, formerly Clara pi Ward, of Detroit, and Jauos Rtgo, the " FT'inrrnrinn rvnsv mnsininn. who roofintH' I! elopoil with her. have quanelled violently. At the end of one of these quarrels th? Princess De Chimny packed her trunk and quitted the hotel, leaving at once for Monte Carlo. She paid her own bill, but left Rigo'? tr bill unsettled. Rigo is said to be in an " awkward pos tion since the departure of the j* Princess, for he is without funds, and ha< no ?! immediate prospects of securing employ- ? meut- ol F A SECTION CANC KILLED. tt 91 Five Won Step Out of the Way or One Train an<l Are Run Over by Another. A. section gang of five mon were killed on the Consolidated Road at East Norwalk, ? Conn., by a westbound freight train. The ie killed are: J. J. Powers, foreman, of South T Norwalk; John Griilln, Norwalk; John Shea, m East Norwalk; John Callahau, Daubury. and * ?nlvntt>r SrinnH. The men st?nned iisi'lo to e" avoid tho Colonial express, and smoke aud ? steam enveloped them and obscured the ap- d proac-hing freight train on tho next track, a while th6 noise of the passenger train drowned tho whistleof the freight engine. Killed by Amateur Hypnotists. C( Spurgeon Young, a colored lad. died at c, Jamestown, N. Y., after a few days' illno-t. G It is now asserted that death resulted from E injuries received while under mesmeric influenee at the hands of amateurs iu t'als ? science, to whichthe lad was easilysubjected. Coronor Hower9 has summoned a jury and will make a thorough investigation. " The Inaugural Train. President-elect McKinley will bo aecompaaled upou his inauguraliou trip to Wash- tt ington by his elderly mother, his wife, tl brother and nieces. The special I rain beir- ei iug the Presidential party will leave Canton P at 3 p. m. on March 1, arriving at tho Capital ei before noon the next day. Use oi Liquor Fines. In Tenobscot County, Maine, the flnos- irr.- t< posed on dealers who violate the liquor law R pay all the county expenses. The fines are U collected with as much regularity as il iliey w were liccnse*. a Cycling Notes. There are 100,000 wheelmen in New Jersey. In France the first patent for a bicycle war taken out in 1S18. Convertible tandems are coming in for considerable attention just now. New Jersey wheelmen made a liar.I fight for their bicycle baggage Dill before the State Legislature. Students of racing have lately boen pre" dieting that Linton's hour record of thirtyone miles 582 yards will never be oeaten. A bicycle-making firm in England is now * giving to every buyer insurance policies against death,disablement or loss of machine il either by theft or Ore. [ ti ?1 GEORGIA'S COLO FEVER. 9 Ua?h to Open Mines and Pally On* Hundred in Operation. ^ Thore Is a revival In gold mining about '< ahloaega, Ga.t folly 100 mines being in )erauon. juuring tne iasr two weess iao . ty has been fall of prospectors from Grip- ' e Creek, who are taking options on the '" 'i operty. Among the n Is James Doyle, the g Cripple Creek operator. Surface ore is I that has been previously worked, but reintly, In experiments, Mr. Frenoh,of Pittslrg, Penn., has demonstrated that the ilorinatlon process is a successful way of eatingsulphuret ores. Betz^ihe PhiladelII a brewer, and Christian Wahl, of Milaukoe. have obtained very rich assays, the tter having bad ore to run as high! as LOOO to the ton, while Judge Murray} of snnessee, who Is tunnelling a mountain jar Dahlonega, struck three rich vein* hioh run from (29 to $500. All this orajis .prolite, or decomposed, and is easily ined. The Creighton mines, southwest of" ahlonega, yielded 68,000 penny weights last ?ar, while the owner* of the Holly Springs ines have taken out $40,000 in the lost few \ onths, using a ten-stamp milL A The whole region is excited. Veins whiob S e mere ribbons on the surface, run togeth- [ at varying depths and widen out to ten, k :ty and 100 feet with increasing richness, I i they go down. One company is being or- f inized to put in a large plant with a 200 \ amp mill, and another syndicate is getting > ady to put in a 200 stamp mill with a ohlo uauuu piaui lar^c cuuu^u \\J ii-oai au mcontratea from 500 stamps. ;vV- I WESTERN TRAIN R03BERS. recaatiom laken by Express tnd RtU> road Officials. y< Express and railroad managers in Chi* .go are instructing messengers and train iardB to shoot to kill in each, and every\ ,se, where robbery is clearly the intent of \ " ly one who interferes with the runnlngoC \ train, and a cash reward of tSQOls held V it for each robber shot, bat not killed, and S L000 for every robber killed in ah attempt ] hold-up. The mo3t improved pattern of / peatlng rifles and rlotgnns have been sab- ; / ituted for arms of less deadly and rapid JL :ecutlon. Oars are also belnz built with i eye to more resistance against the oninght of train robbers. Floors and sides e reinforced with Iron plates and doors ade heavier with stronger fastenings. SALISBURY CONCEDES. A POINT.," c VUUROI11B Ul f OUCAUOia ft nwuMug vwv of the Arbiters. Tho London Daily Cbroniole publishes * spatch from its Washington correspondent ,ying that Lord Salisbury has removed the st obstacle to the signing of the YraeaueUm* eaty by consenting that the Venezuelan overnmeDt shall nominate one of the mem>rs of tho Board of Arbitration. It is agreed that the member nominated 7 Venezuela shall be an American, and anezuelawili ask Chief Justice Puller to irve as her representative The name of Justice Brewer, of the United ates Supreme Court, is also mentioned as enezuela'a representative. DIED FOR HER CHILOREN. /, \ . ... ' / ' T .'nu Croyle Saved Two Before PerisMrfjc . In the Flame*. * t .>. The house of William Croyle, at Bedford, snn., was destroyed by fire and Mrs. Croyle, 1th two children, were burned to death. VaSa While the fire was racing Mrs. Croylo^H trow two of the children from the secon^HK ory to her husband and then returned to \ck room for the remaining two. She wan^H 3t seen again, and when the ruins wore arched all that ramamea 01 cne moiowH nd two children was their charred trunks^| One of the children thrown from the win-j^H 3w was fatally burned! The father also waa^H idly burned. FIERCE BATTLE WITH INDIANS. roopn Defeat Raiding laqiii. Killlof P Twelve and Losing Fire Men. There was a hard battle between troops ad Indians in it9saies, Mexico, m <uh anta r the Sierra Madre rang a. A large force ol aqui Indians have started ont on their inter raids of pillage and murler azainst le farmers and miners of that section, hey had already murdered all the members (two families and were about to attempt. > sack the village of Ros&Ies. when the 'ate troops arrived at tho place la response > > a message and made the attack on the Kliana. The fight wasa desperate one and resulted in reive Indians and Ave soldiers bains: killed. ' Three Hnndred Trampled to Death. Advic.as from Foo Chow report a disas ous panic in a templo at Kwang Poa, hinn. A theatrical performance was being iven for the first time in the place and was ttended by a great nu-nber of natives and few Europeans. One of the temple lamps a3 overturned, firing the buildings The anic-strieken crowd tried to force a way irough two small doors. In the crash 30? arsons were trampled to death, principally omen und children. Ljrnchlnsr in Tallahassee, Fla. Pierce Taylor, a colored man, wa? hanged a mob in the Tallahassee (Fla.) jail yard : 2 o'clock Sunday morning and riddled by illels for an attempted assault upon Miss, main Apthrope. the daughter of the late rfi!i.am T,(w> Anfhrnne. ex-Survevor-General f the State and Secretary of the famous lorida Returning Board of 1876, which gave le Presidency of the United States to Rutbrford B. Hayes. Krcitemont Killed Him. Joseph Bloch, Amerioaa representative of ' loch & Hlrsch Fur Company, Germany, >ft his office at Kent avenue and North hint street, Brooklyn, to stop a light among lembers of the "Rainmakers" K'anj. He J ras hurt in the scuffle, and the shock aad icoitemoat affected his heart, which was j!j oak. He staarRered back to his office and led a few minutes later. Nearly twenty rrests wero maile. nn- ?!.. IPas.U AU r Oi OtIUBt VII IMO ! ?< >?? Attorney-General Harmon, through special sunsel. filed a bill iu the United 8tatea Oiralt Conrt in Omaha, Neb., to foreolose the rovernment'a second mortgage on th? nion Pactllc and Kansas Pacific. The Govrament Directors of the Union Pacific Ailroad oast and individually approved the ^organization Committee's plan to buy oat ie Government for about $43,000,000 and ike the road. Victims of Earthquake. A dispatch from Tehoraa, Persia, reports lat 1400 bodies havo been recovere.l from le rains whioh rasuito I l'rom the recent irthquake in the Island of Klshnu, In the ersian Gulf, tho inhabitants uf which were stlmated to number 5000, Tiostly Arabs. He Died Saving; Others. At Treuton, N. J., Isaac Slack, a conduo>r of a freight train on the Pennsylvania allroad was instantly kiile 1 in a heroic at>mpt to stop four runaway freight cars that 'juld havo crashed into a passenger train nd probably caused tho loss of many lives. The Labor World. Machinists havo 400 unions. England boasts boy "housemaids." Quarrymeu will form a National union. In Mexico minora get sixty oent3 a day. A National strike of miners is talked of. > In Spaiu street car drivers get $3 a week. v Buffalo (N. Y.) unionists want a free city brary. Ohio master plumbers will hold a Stat* onvantion. New York City Italian laundry workers rill organize. A Brooklyn electrical workers' union ha? eclded to disband. New York building rades unions are blamed tor the disruption. .. v-f-: J&ti - i