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STATE HOOSETOiS !c Fire Destroys Pennsylvania's Capitol ^ at Harrisbure. 1 e 1, LAWMAKERS FORCED TO FLEE. ' f \ Flame? Broke Out the Lesialiitnre was fc A!>ont to Meet ami Quickly Heducecl ? the Building to Ashes-?Many Valuable c Kecords Destroyed?K-timated at S 1,000,000?Origin ot the Fire Unknown d Harribbdbo, Penu. (Special).?a fire [ which started in tho rooms of LieutenantGovernor Lyon shortly after noon Tu&sday ? swept through the ancient Capitol of g Pennsylvania, and, within an hour and a a half after the breaking out of the flames, tho a structure was in ruin?. Tho Sonate and j House were about to reconvene for tUeir afternoon session when the Are burst through the walls, and the lawmakers wore driven for their lives to the open air. Quite a num- ^ ber of people were out and bruised, or half f smothered by smoke. The most valuable of t&e State and legislative records which tl were in the building were saved, but the c, records and statistics of the Department of Pablic Instruction, which included much _ valuable information bearing upon the pub- * 11c schools or the State, were destroyed. The Legislature will And a temporary home, the Senate in the rooms of the "Supreme Court, and tho House in the United States District b Court, in the Postofflce Building, and the P Legislature will at once take steps to have B the Capitol rebuilt. The Senate was well flllod when news of tl the impending disaster yas received, and it w sprdkd"rapidly prnong the Senators and spec- h tators that the fire was of a itaost serious na- k tare. Then there was a scrambling for overooats and hats, an 1 under the ohief clerk's s direotion tho Senate records were carried to ^ , places of safety.: k In the House the first intimation of the ?, Are was the discovnry of smoke in the n upper corridors. The word was quickly passed around and much excitement pre- ? vailed. Rapidly tho members left their ? seats and there were but few represeuta- ?f tivea in the hall when two or three shout- Q. ed out motions to adjourn. Representative J Voorhees, of Philadelphia, not realizing the seriousness of tho situation, moved that the 5 calendar of second reading bills be proceeded with, but after the motion to adjourn had w been made there was a rush for the doors. a( TXTJAV tl>A utmloal aF flt?A /?nr\nmanf Trim mo iiirnai ui iuu ulu uupmiuivuv came thousands of spectators, and the Cap- Q itol Park in the vicinity of th? burning ai building was soon a mass of struggling hu- m mantty. Before the firemen could direct a Sg^K stream on the burning building it was |QH( found that the fiamea were beyond control, Many firemen were posted on the root. fa HwB There they fought the flames through w SSflV holes until they were compelled to retreat. hV Hardly had they retired when the entire Senate chamber roof fell in. When the flro ^ jS was Anally gotten under control, the Senate P1 and House chambers and the headquarters . of saveral executive departments were in ruins. ia The total loss will probably reach $1,000,- tt 000. Of this sum about $500,000 ia covered tfc by insurance. The Senate and House will 8I probably meet in two of the large halls in cc this city. The origin of the (Ire is unknown, as Tho Capitol whs regarded as one of the M handsomest specim^as of Ionic architecture D in the country. The building was of red briok with white trimmings. It was sur- Pi rounded by a park of tea acres, and stood on C< an eminence almost in tbe centre of the city. The main structure wa3 two and a half ca stories high, surmounted by a large dome. (jj ct SENATOR PEFFER'S SUCCESSOR. J* ar W. A. HarrU Will Sit In tbe United States ^ Senate After March 4. W. A. Harris, whom the ruling Populist Si legislators in Kansas have nominated to sue- C< ne W. A. HARIUB. C< W o?ed Senator Peffar in the United States ^ Senate on March 4 is pictured above, * C. / s TREATY SIGNED. 1? Arbitration Agreed I'pon by Great Britain er and Venezuela. J0 10 The treaty submitting the boundary dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela w; to arbitration was signed at 4.30 p. m. TuesA1 day in the Department ofState, Washlugton, ^ hv Sir Julian PRuneefote. the Tiritish Am bassador, and 8>*uor Jose Andrade, the jn Venezuelan Minister to Washington. In H( Februnrv, ten years ago, diplomatic relations between the two Nations were severed. r Mr. Cridler, the chief of the diplomatic bureau of the Statu Department, hail pee- rp pared I wo copies of the treaty for signature, both being in English aud printed on thick, red-edged paper. Sir Julian signed both of " them. Senor Andrado placed his uamo after ^ 8ir Julian's, and Mr. Cridler affixed the seals. fc The signatures were written with a pen made for the occasion, a beautiful gold fli bolder ;>nd nib, tippad with an engle feather tc and ornamented with a gold heart, studded et with diamonds. This was sent from Vene- w ?ueia, and will be the property of Senor An- T drade, brother of the Minister. H William L. Scruggs has been appointed to represent Venezuela beforo the tribunal. It fl is understood that the agent for Great Britain wdl bo Sir Frederick Pollock. T The Venezuelan Commission will not now tt dissolve, as has been stated, but will remain 0( intact until the tribunal co.npletes its organisation. t] JUDGE M'KENNA CHOSEN. The Califori.ian Wilt Be Next Secretary of p the Interior. Judge Joseph McK una, of San Francisco, N Ca!.. has accepted the portfolio of Secretary 0 of the Interior in President McKinley's ? Cabinet. This information was given n by the President-elect to a dele- f< gat ion of Mlasourlnns. They were given to understan I that alter the inaugura- |j tion there w.is likely to bo a vacancy in the c Cabinet, caused by the expaeted resignation s| o. Justice Field, of th Supremo Court, and "fo the anpointmeut of one of tbe new Ca'.inet officsrs 10 his place ou tlio bench. ^ Fayn's Appointment Coi filmed. The nomination of Louis P. Payn to be Superintendent of the Insurance Depart- ^ af New York State was confirmed by the r 3enate at Albany, with one vote to spare, a tnajor.ty of the entire body being requisite. I Twenty-seven Republicans voted for con- i tirmation. Nine ^publican* and eleven t Democrats voted against confirmation. r Three Senators, all Democrats, were absent. t t India'M Troubles. The bubonic plague has appeared in new t places in Iudia. The famine situation in the 1 Koirpur district of Indlu is reported to be of 1 the gravest ciwraotor. W THE NEWS EPITOMIZED WMhlnet?o Items, T.'.n TTou-e dccided the contost of O. W. lornett (Rep.) against Clauae A. Swanson l^eia.j rroni idp rum tir^ium l/imhui, m avorof Swanson, who has occupied the seat, 'he claim of the contestant was that a fair lection could not beheld under the Virginia aw. Mr. Swanson's title to the seat whs ontirmol by an overwhelming viva voce ote. The President has granted the application or pardon in the case of Moses Ross, convicted of profanity in the District of Colum>ia, nnd sentenced on December 29 to pay !20 and serve ninety days in the workhouse. President Cleveland has nominated Colnol John M. Wilson, Corps of Engineers, to ie Chief of Engineers, with rank of Brigalier-General. Attorney.Qeneral Harmon instructed the Jnited States Attorney at Jacksonville, Fla., o proceed against the Three Friends for ilracy. The peace treaty b?tween the United Itatas aDd Groat Britain was taken ap by the ienate. Senator Morgan opposed iinmedito action on the ground that the tieaty conlicted with the Nicaragua Canal project, 'uriher action was deferred. Domeattc. Otto Selpgon, of Paterson, N. J., was sent a jail for thrae months for cursing his dying ather. Frank Thomson was electoi President of ie Pennsylvania Railroad Company, to sucaed the late Georgo B. Roberts. H. F. Coleman, a Government clerk, was rrtwtftsl in Vaw York Citv on a chanre of eing connected with a big theft of stamps. It was said at Canton, Ohio, that J. Addi3n Porter, of Connecticut, who wanted to e Ambassador to Italy, had aooopted the ost of Private Secretary to Major Mckinley. James Bonner, while cleaning a window on ie seventh floor of the building at Broadray and Bieecker street. N w York City, lost is footing, fell to the pavement, and was tiled. A railroad wreck occurred at Arlington, outh Dakoti, in whioii four persons were illea and a large numbar injured. The tiled were: R. Addington, conductor; F. i. Hosac. brakemtm; John Loftu3, of Ku>let: Samuel Harris, of Arlington. Clifton Knorr, who triod to kill Levi E. tailor, of Bloomsburg, Penu., by blowing p his home with dynamite, and who conned, imDliciting Lloyd S. Wintersteen, )nf03se3 further that he tried to kill his epmother with poison and diphtheria arms. It was reported that the expert engineers ill favor ruunmg elevated and trolley cars :ros3 the Brooklyn Bridge. It was repotted at Columbus, Ohio, that overnor Bushuell would appoint Lieuteaat-Governor Jones to succeed John Sher lan In the Unites Stute.i senate. Robert Treat Paine, Edward Everett Hale, homaa Wentworth Higginson and others ititioned the Massachusetts Legislature Id ivor of municipal ownership of street railays. The New York Police Board formally ao.lifted Captain Ohapmnn of all charges rowing out of his interruption of the Seey dinner. The Mlohigan Supreme Court refused to sue the mandamus applied for directing le Common Council of Detroit to declare le office of Mayor vacant and order a >ecial election to fill the vacancy. Tne >ntention was that Mayor Pingree, by bis isumption of the office of Governor of ichigan, had vacated the office ot Mayor of etroit. The funeral of George B. Roberts, late resident of the Pennsylvania Railroad 5mpany, took place in Philadelphia. A large syndicate of English and Ameriin capitalists is affecting a "combine" at [ncinnati, Ohio, of the wood working mailnery manufacturers of the United States, is said that twenty of the largest manucturers of the country have agreed to join, id have given options on their plants to e syndicate. The report submitted by State Treasurer mpson, of Maine, to the Governor and! >unoiI shows that the State has a deficit of >arly a quarter of a million dollars, and mservattve members of the Legislature say at the sums above aotunl needs appropried at this session must be smalL Theodore Von Horn, or Veherao, wounded s wife Emily and her employer, Samuel :hulhafer, in New York City, and killed raseu who a revolver. At EMod, Iowa, Bra:lley's Bank was bbed, the safe being broken open with tro-glvcerine and all the funds stolen. Tne ,nk officials refuse to tell the amount taken, it the bank usually kept $3000 to $5000 on m<i. The burglars escaped with ? stolen am and bugcry. Tbe United States cruiser Brooklyn was und to' have been badly damaged by riking Schooner Ledsje, iu the Delaware' ivor, and Secretary Herbert accepted the fer of the Cramps to repair the vessel. Louis F. Payn was nominated by Governor lack, of New York, for Superintendent of isuranoe. The nomination was referred to ie Sfnate Committee on Insurance. Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, announced s acceptance of tbe position of Comptroller the Currency under McKinley. His term office will begin in 189S, when that of imes H. Eckels expires. Fire destroyed almost the whole business >rtion of Centerburg, Ohio. H. C. Smith <fc ? grocers; A. W. Hawkins A Co., drygoods; . Steora, clotbiDg; John Harvey, meats; >1. A. Wrieht, restaurant; W. A. Jacobs,, ikery; C. W. Boarck, undertaker; owners; the Armstrong Business biook, ana or. a. Lewis, whose residence burned, together *e $75,000. By a decision of tho Stock Exchange Gov- I nors, New York City, against the employentof solicitors by brokerage Arms 500 men st remunerative positions. John Connors, fitly years old,a boilermaker, as roasted to death in a boiler on board e steamship Eastern Prince, lying at the :lantic Dock, Brooklyn. He went Into the >iler for the purpose of repairing it. Some ie, not Knowing iniu uounors win ut wurs the boiler, started a fire uuder it. Con>ra, when found in the boiler, was dead. Mrs. Anna Allen, the richest woman in St. ouis, died at rittsfl.dd, Mas*. She is sup>sod to have left 810,000,000, but no will, hero are twenty-nine hoirs. Fireman Thomas Llddeli, of Jersey City, . J., who was injured at a fire. died, and ouis Mann, who started the fire, was held ir murder. W. J. Bryan has retired from the lecture ?.ld, his final lecture being given at San Anmio, Texas. He announced that he had mcelled his lecture contract and that ho ould return to bis home at Lincoln, Nob. hecoutract with him called for fifty lectures, e delivered eight of them. His friends, he lys, prevailed upon him to quit the lecture eld. The Watauga Bank, of Johnson City, enn.. had an assignee appointed to look af>r its internets. The assets amount to $91,30, while the liabilities are $28,00o. Unknown persons exploded dynamite in Rebuilding of the broken bank of Gardner, [orrow A Co., in Hollidavsburg, Penn. The steamer Mohawk went on the rocks hile trying to make New London (Coun.) [arbor. Gertrude Palmer died at Mamaroneck, f. Y., of the effects of bullet wounds inflicrrt by her brother, Arthur Palmer, on the vening of January 18, when he also shot nd instantly killed his bro;her Leonard and lortalty wounded his mother, who died the allowing day. Albert Cunning, a coaehma'n. shot and illed Mrs. Mary Panning at her house in Ihicago, attempted to kill her two boys and hot himself, falling across Mrs. Danning's ody, fatally wounded. Senator Hi?hie has introd* ced a <*orrprcleusiv; Good Boads bill at Albany, N V. Fovslcn >fote*. The Indian Government has adopted the forsin serum as a remedy for the plague aging in Bombay. In a cable despatch from San Juan, Porto Uco, it is stated that the Autonomist party n the island i3 dissatisfied with the reforms ecently granted by Spain and will therefore efuse to vote at the approaching municipal (lections, the first practical application of ho new law. A dispatch from Buda-Pestb says that the irtist Munkacsy, who was recently reported ;o have been stricken with spinal paralysis, las become insane and been placed in au isylum. GENERAL WEYLEB OUL Azcarraga To Be Cuba's New Governor-General. GOMEZ READY FOR BATTLE. It li Announced In liladtid that General Azcarraga, Minister of War of Spain, Will Be Appointed OoTernor-General of Cuba, General Weyler to Remain in Command of the Forces on the Island. Madbid, Spain (By Cable).?It has been decided by the Cabinet to depose CaptainGeneral Weyler, of Cuba, an i in his stond appoint General Azcarraga, the present Minister of War. Weyler will be continued, for the present, f lntao+ aa nnmmiinHflr of the militarv forces. and will, therefore, be subordinate to Azcarraga, whose title will be Governor-Genera! of Cuba. The Spanish Ministry has come to recognize that General Weyler is a failure, and has even less confidence in his administrative ability as Governor-General than in hla military skill as Captain-General. General Azoarraga is looked upon as the 8QUA.D OP CUBAN 1N81 best man to put the proposed reforms in execution In Cuba, because, aside from his executive capacity, he Is familiar with the whole history of the negotiations between Spain and the United States in regard to ending the war. It appears to be determined to let General Weyler down easy by superseding him flrot as Governor-General, leaving him command of the army. But he will have to go back to Spain ere long. The new Governor-General, Don Marcelo De Azcarrago y Palmero, Is the present Minister of War, and is also President ot the Imperial Council of War, a body composed of the most distinguished Peninsular generals. He is fourth on the list of Spanish lieutenant-generals, and is ju3t above General Weyler in rank. His military career extends over a period of fortr-six years. Azcarraga was born in Manilla, in the Philippine Islands, in 1S32. WEYLER SCOURGES CUBA. Peaceable Men Driven to Saicide by the Craelty of His Troops. Havana, Cuba.?A serious engagement is expected to take place aav moment at Santa Clara between Weyler and Gomez. Up to the oresent, aside from the slaughter of defenceless non-combatants, Weyler's only triumph has been the destruction of the bannna trees on the border of the province of Mantanzas. In his march to Santa Clara Weyler has destroyed all of these productive trees. Details of the outrages committed by the Spanish troops in Weyler's march to the east have been learned here. Every day brines fresh reports of 8panish cruelty. Despite all the official denials and the mild statements given at the press censor's bureau in the office of the Captain-General, the truth is that neither sex nor ago has been respected by Weyler's soldiers. The rural noncombatants flee in dospair to the towns to escape the weapons of the Spanish soldiery, and there they bear living testimony to their sufferings. In many towns the poor havo committed suicide by the dozen rather than die of starvation after being deprived of all their means orsupport. A foreigner who 9ees the Spanish barbarity of this war cannot fail to recall the slaughter of the Indians In the early years of the Spanish conquest. At Gulnes a sergeant Instructing a soldier in the use of the Mauser rifle made him aim and fire at a harmless countryman seated under a tree. The countryman was killed instantly. At Banaguises, which Weyier passed on Friday, a Spanish guerrilla, in or der to prove to people in the village that the Spaniards now were able to use the machete with as mttoh skill as the Cubans, killed the whole family of Trebejos, composed of two women, one man and one child. AS WASHINGTON VltWb II. The State Department Believes | Weyler Delayed Keforms. Waseiwtok. D. C. (Special).?The advices which have been receive! from Madrid that Weyler has been supplantod by General Azcarraga show that the reign of terrorism and corruption, of blood and robbery, which the "Butcher" inaugurated and carried on in Cuba, will soon be over. The advices indicato that hv or before the 1st of March bis successor will be on the way to Havana. Marquis de Apezteguin, leader of the Cuban conservatives, convinced Cauovas, whose patience was well nigh exhausted, of what Tvas already suspected, namely, that Weyler and his policy wore worse than failures and that his reports of military successes and of bloody pacification were utterly unreliable. The State Department is in an optimistic frame of mind over the intelligence. It believes that Weyler was mainly the cause of delay in carrying out the proposed reform laws. With such a strong, just and coolheaded Governor as Azcarrago, it is possible that peace is not far distant?a peace that will be ussuring to the United States, satisfactory to Cuba and honorable to Spain: ELEVATED ENGINE FALLS. Smoker Carried With It and One Man Killed and Six Injured. Motor 74 of the Brooklyn Union Elevated Hat I road, and the smoking car of the loaded train which it drew, were knooked off tho structure at Bradford avenue and Fulton street by Motor 67, which was drawing some empty oars on the storage track laid between the tracks used for passenirer trains, early Thursday evening. They fell to the street. The engineer was killed, and several of the passengers In the smoker were cut and bruised. The firemen of both engines wore seriously hurt and one lost a leg. The accident was caused oy an open switch. Prominent People. Twenty-five years ago Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, was a printer's devil in tho office of the Jonesboro (Tenn.) Tribune. President Faure intends to visit Algeria. No previous French President has doue so, and the last royal visit was that of Napoleon HI. Maine's "grand old man" is ex-Senator James Ware Bradbury, of Augusta, who is ninety-five years old, wiioh makes him eight years the senior of Mr. Gladstone. Japan's Emperor has the varse-writinc: habit worse than Emperor William of Germany, for he penned 4200 couplets during 1896. He has oomposed over 25,000 couplets in all. p CAGE l-OR THE TREASURY. The Chicago It anker Accepts a Cabinet Office. Lyman J. Qage, President of the First National Ban): ot umoago, win } secretary of the Treasury after March 4 next-. He announced this during a visit to Presidentelect McKlnlesrat Canton, saying: "Major McElinley has offered me the Treasury portfolio. X told him I would accept the high honor, and fill the office to the best of my ability." Lyman J. (Jape wa3 born at Delluyter, Madison Cou.ity, N. Y., on June 2f!, 1836. His parents, who both were born iu the State of Now York, were of English stook. When Lyman J. Qa.so was ten years oi l his paront* moved to Rome, N. Y., wliera he entered the Rome Academy, remaining four years, this practioally constituting his entlra school education- His first position in business life was as a olcrk in the Romo iroBtoflice. In 1854 he went to work in the Onelria Central Bank of Rome at a salary of $100 a year, and rem iiued with tho bank eighteen months. He went to Chicago in the fall of | 1R3K anrl nnMMii ;iq n. hnokkaeDef b? H I lumber firm. Then he got a position "as Bookkeeper for the Merohanta' Saving Loan and Trast Company. In thesprinsrcf 1860 he had worked his way up to the position of assistant cashier, and later to that of oashier, whicri he held until 1808, whiin he acoepted a position with the First Natlcnal Bank, with which institution he has beon identified until the present time. The old charter of the bank expired in UBGBMTS UNDER GOMEz! 1832, aud upon its reorganization he was chosen Vice-President and General Manager. About this time his financial ability wii3 complimenfcxi Dy his selection to tne Presidency of the Amerloaa Bankers' Association. On January 24. 1891, he was eleoted President of the First National Bank, and otill holds that position. He was prominent In all of the work that made the World's Fair a great success, and was one of the four aion who practically guaranteed that Chicago woula oany out its pledge of raising $10,000,000 for the building of tho fair. Mr. Gage has been married twice, his first wife being Miss Sarah Etheridge, of Little Falls, N. Y., whom he married In 18G4. She died In 1874, and in 1887 he married Cornelia Gage, of Denver, Col. He is a member of tho Commercial and Union League clubs of Chicago, and personally is a popular man. ALCER FOR WAR SECRETARY. He Accepts Major McKinlejr'i) Offer of the Portfolio. General Bu9sell A. Alger, of Michigan, came out from a conferance of two hours' duration with President-elect McKinley at Canton, Ohio, and his face was wreathed with smiles. "I have been tendered the portfolio of War," said he, "and I have accepted it. My interview with the Presidentelect was in every way a delightful and satisfactory' one," general sdsszll a. alqeb. Rassell Alexander Alger wa9 born In Lb- i fayette, Medina Conwy, Ohio, on February 27, 1836. Being left an orphan at the age of eleven, he workd I on a farm till he was eigh-' teen, attending suhool in the winter. He then taught school, studied law and was admitted to tho bar in 185 ). After practising his profession for a timij in Cleveland, he moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., and engaged in the lumber business. He became a Captain in the Second Michigan Cavalry at the beginning of the Civil War. On July 11, 1865, he received the brevets of Brigadier-Geueral and Major-General of Volunteers. After the war ho acquired a fortune in the lumber business in Detroit. His pine forest on Lake Huron . .1 comprises uiuro iutui uud uuuuiuu ,t|u,uv miles. In 1884 ho was the Republican candidate for Governor of Michigan and was elected, serving from 1885 till 1887. Cleveland Talks to Doctors. The semi-centennial celebration of ihe New York Academy of Medicine was held in Carnegio Hall, Now York City. President Clevelaud made an address, as did a number ot Drominent phya clans. Mr. Cleveland spoke of the duties of doctors as citizens, and also af the importano* of physicians seeing to it that sound laws for the welfare of the people are enacted. He made a number of folicitious and humorous sallies from the standpoint of a patient, which caused great merriment. His reception was enthusiastic. Turner, Washington's New Senator. George I'urner was eleoted United States Senator from Washington by the Legislature at Seattle. Turner is a Silver Republican. Senator-el act Turner was born at Edina, Kuox County, Mo., in 1850. He was United States Marshal for the southern and middle districts of Alabama. He wa^s a Republican and a personal friend of Grunt and Arthur. He was one of Grant's 306. In July, 1884, bo wont to Washingtoa as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the I Territory, and resigned in 1887. He received twenty votes for Unltea States Sona* i tor in 1889. Turner has made a for'.uue out of mining ventures. Smothered In A Fire. At Bay City, Mich., tbw Vau Emptor Block, jj a frame building two stor.es high, was gutted j by firo. Theodore During, aged sixty-eight years, unmarriod, who occupied oue ot the rooms on the second floor, was smothered. Florentine J. Van Emster, the ploueer druggist of the city, and a tnwnbor of the first State Pharmacy Board, was fatally burned about tho head. An Appeal for tho Arbitration Treaty.. The British and Foreign Arbitration Association h?a cabled to Washington a petition to tho United States Senate iu favor of the ratification of the Anglo-American Arbitration (reatv. CHANCES IN THE TREATY, Foreign Relations Committee Amends the Arbitration Convention. rue united states aenato (jongmittoe on Foreign Relations decided to report favor ably, but in a considerably mangled condition, the general arbitration treaty arranged by Secretary of State Olney with Lord Salis* bury as Great Britain's representative. The committee made a number of amendments to the draft of the treaty, as submitted. The first and more important one amended the first article by inserting the following words: "No questio* which affects the foreign or domestic policy of either of the contracting parties or the relations of either with nuy other State or power by trea'y or otherwise shall be subject to arbitration under this treaty except by special asreement.'' This ameni'ment received the unanimous support of the committee and means that under no pretpretext can Great Britain interfere with the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal * that under no pretext can she demand of us that we arbitrate any question relative to our attitude toward the Hawaiian republic, or the Cuban insurrectton. It means that we still maintain and are prepared to defend the Monroe dootrino at all hazards. The other amendment was the elimination of the name of King Oscar of Sweden and Norway as the person who should nominate the final umnira in case the arbitrators failed to agree. In place of naming the King it wa9 determined tc leave the selection of the final umpire to the two parties to the treaty, if such a selection should ever become necessary. The amendment was adopted by a vote of 9 to 1, Senator Gray, of Delaware, voting no. The surprise of the day came when the votfl was taken on ordering n report of the treaty as amended. Tho vote was taken by roll c.tll and resulted as follow?: Favorable to ordering to the amended treaty reported?Sherman, of Ohio; Fry<\ of Maine; Dav.'a. of Minnesota; Cullom, of Illinois, and Lodge, of Massachusetts. Republicans, and Gray, of Delaware, Democrat. Total. 6. Against ordering a favorable report. Morgan, of Alabama:. Mills, of Texas, nnd Daniel, of Virginia, Democrats, and Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Republloau. Total, 4. SHOOTS HIS RIVAL. Then Fires a Ball Into His Sweo'.heart's SMA and AttamntA Snlrldft. Morris Jackson, of Little Falls, N. Y., shot Fred Mcintosh and Mls3 Ella M. Ausman, at their boarding hou3e on John street, in Little Falls. Ho thon attempted to kill himself. Jealousy wa3 the cause. Jackson kopt company with Miss Ausman for some months,' and Mclntosb, who is a boolckeeper at the Victor Mills, also paid attention to her. Jackson went to the flat and asked for Miss Ausman. 8he went to the door and talked with Jackson for about Ave minutes. She then returned to the supper table. Jackson left the door, but returned, and entering thedlnins: room shot at Mcintosh across the table, the bullet passing through his wrist. He then clasped Miss Ausmnn around the neck, and pressing the revolver to her chest fired. Her corset stays turned the bullet and it ontered her left side near ihe heart. The other boarders then seized Jackson and threw him to the floor. Curing the struggle he tried to shoot himself through the heart, but the bullet only grazed hte side. He was soon in the custody of the police ami tha revolver wiw tnken from bim. Mcintosh, when wounded, ran from the flat and haa not been found. The parties to the affair are connected with the leading families of the county. Jackson, until a few weeks before, was one of the proprietors of the C.lnton Park Hotel in Little Falls. Mcintosh's home is in Ohio, N.Y., and his father is a Rspublican leader. Miss Ausman's home is Ilion. She has been employed in the Eagle Mills, Little Pulls, abcut ono year. The Recorder and Ooroner took 'he ante-mortem statement of Miss Ausman. WESTERN TRAIN HELD UP. Robbers Blow Open the Express Car Which Takes Fire and is Destroyed. Ti.nJ? Wa nAi^hKminH amwwa ftf iha Southern Pacific, was hold up at Shady Point, two mil's south of Roseburg, Oregon, by three robbers. Two of the robbers !el the engineer to the express car and uncoupled it. The engine was then backed, leaving the express car separated. Meanwhile the express messenger left his car. Tho express cur was blown open wirh heavy charges of dynamite, and two small safes looted. The messenger thought the robbers did not understand getting into the big safe, and consequently they could not have secured much money. The mail car was also visited by robbers and registered letters taken. The explosion set fire to the express car. and vhen the robbers left it was a mass of flamea DEBATING THE TREATY. tlTussat liuselts Legislature Approves, Bat Illinois Holds Alouf. In the Massachusetts Home of Representatives the resolution offered by Mr. Myers, of Cambridge, indorsing the proposed treaty of arbitration between England and the United 3tates was adopted after a long debate by a vote of 141 to II. In the Illinois House, when the resolution of Representative Busse denouncing the pending treaty between Groat Britain and the United States for arbitration oame up, several members attacked and others indorsed the resolution until it was finally referred, by a vote of 90 to 37, to the Committee on Federal Relations. It will probably sleep there for the remainder of the session. ARBITRATORS APPOINTED. JnstlceA Fuller and Brewer Chosen by V>neitie!a. Ju9tico Brewer, of the Uaited States Supreme Court, practically confirmed the report that Chief Justice Fuller and himself had been selected as arbitrators on behalf of Venezuela in the matter of the settlement of the boundary-dispute between that oouatry and Great Britain. The selection of Justice Brawer, who for a year or so has been the head of the Commission appoiuted by Pr^ 'd'-nt Cleveland tc make an investigation of tho boundary question, is accepted as proo; that the conclusions reiiohed by the Commission are that Venezuela's claims are wel' founded. If it were otherwise, it la said, Venezuela would not commit her case to an unfriendly arbitrator. Auti-ICast Demonstration Fails. The movement started by Colonel D. R. Anthony, editor of the Laavenworth Times, to hold mass meetings all over Kansas on the thirty-sixth anniversary of the admission of the State into the Union, for the purpose of defendiug the State against the adverse criticism of the Eastern prca?, was a failure. For a Monetary Conference. The bill for the representation of the United States on any international monetary conference that may be culled was flnaliy passed in tho United Status Senate by the majority of 46 to 1. Senators Allen, Pettigrow, Roach and Vilas cast the uegative votes. The bill authorizes the President to appoint live or more enmmisskmers to any international conference, with a view to securing a fixity of relative value between gold aud silver as money, by means of a common ratio between the metals with free mintage at such ratio: and It also authorizes tho President to call. In his discretion, such con ferine t to as -omble at such post as may be agreed upon Tlif L.'*bor World. Japan has one leather shoo mill. Maine's woolen m'lls are starting. The Panama Canal employs 3000 men. Hurley (Wis.) miners called on the Mayor of the town to give them work. More than <500.000 wotueu are in Germany engaged in the textile Industries. The printers' union Ls the strongest labor organization in Washington. D. C. The Boston (Mass.) Central Labor Union wants the proposed elevated railroad operated by the city. The Detroit Builders' Esohange deolares that experienced mechanics should compose the Be *"*of Public Works. " IBM'S AWFUL MIE," ( - ( u Food SuodIv Exhausted in the Rice- < rr j Growing: Districts. BUBONIC PLAGUE EXTENDING. \ ______ < Many Dead, More Dying of Huoser?The British Government Slow to Realise ' the Real Situation and Measures of ' Relief Are Inadequate?Scenes of Horror That Greet the Kescue Workers. Kaibpub. India (By Cable).?The famine situation is grave in this district, jvhich has a population of 1,500,000. This is the centre of the rice-growing industry. Rice is the only orop grown, aod as it has failed thore is a total extinction of foodstuff in this locality. About 1300 villages are affected. Fifty thousand persons are employod on the relief work. The worst part of tlie district is Dharinapara, thirty miles from here, where the conditions are lamentable. Many have already perished from hunger and many are dying. The staff employed in relieving suffering is inadequate to cope with the large area. If the relief worlc had been properly arranged earlier the mortality would have been smaller. The Government was late in realizing the situation. The rain3 are spreading THE FAMINE IN INDIA.?A FAMILY C (From a photograph disease and it will take three years to recoup 1 the losses la this district. A fair criterion of a condition of the people is found in the poorhouses which, in ad- < dltion to beggars, are crowded with laborers ! reduced to skeletons. The stomachs of some of them are hollow and the skin is banging j in large folds. Others have swollen stomach*, j the sign of acnte privation. The cattlemen and the ryots, or field-workers, usually stalwart men, are unable to do anything, and : the women are in the same condition. The better classes among the people of j India are beginning to feel the pinoh of the j faminei Many are selling furniture and ornaments at ruinous prices. In the Deccan district even the farmers at*e applying to the Government for aid. People of the lower J 3aste, it is asserted, are at the present time living on the "fat erf the land." The explan- 1 ition Is made tnat taey are gorging iuam selves upon the carcasses of cattle, which 1 are dying by the thousand. One woman, lately a mother, has been at.acked with rheumatism, caused by exposure, ' and Is paralyzed. Her babe is horrible to ! look at. Its legs are about the size of pipe items and its sanken eyes have a piteous look. No provisions has been made for these jasee, and the minimum dole of food is only ?nough to keep body and soul together. * ! It Is useless to try to send the natives to lospitals. They prefer to die. Some horrible sights were witnessed. A man, with both legs eatea away, was a mass or wnite scabs. Others were nearly as bad. This la the worst district yet seen, bat the iorrespondent hears that the Jubbulpore district is worse. It seed is not sown the people will be incapuble of procuring food, *na the condition next year will be too aw.'ul to contemplate. Lord Sandhurst, Governor of Bombay, - ablos that the bubonic plague is being suppressed in the section where it had its strongest hold at flr3t, but appears to be ex.ending to new parts of the Presidency. In Bombay City the numbor of deaths diminished during the week onding January 29. and the feeling there is more hopeful. In Poonah flfty-eigbt cases were reported, but a ate account is that there were torty-eight aises in a single quarter. The deaths from the plague at Karachi .-eached 203 for the week ending January 22, limlniahing to 178 ror rue next w?hk, ue- i ^reasinsrin the two worst quarters ol the :owa, but increasing in two sections form- 1 srly least infected. It is estimated that one- < fourth of the population has left Karachi. < The only plasms deaths reported from Sind, < just outside Karachi, are said to be those of 1 travelers. UTAH'S NEW SENATOR. i Sx-CnngreiHuinn Joieph T*. Rtwllns Klected by a Sin?U Majority. Ex-ConDfre?sman Joseph L. Rawlins was j wtarf I7nita<? States Senator at Salt Lako , Dity by the Utah Legislature, receiving: f airty-two votes, the minimum number necwsary to elect. Mr. Thatcher, the next i eadlng candidate, received twenty-nine , votes. , Mr. Rawlins is ft Frae-sllver Democrat and jtauds squarely on the Chicago platform in> jvery particular. As Dalegalo from the Tar-' t ritory, Joseph L. Riwlings, dissatisfied | >vith President Cleveland's course in re- i sard 10 Territorial appointments, re- \ * 1 * YT l r, TtT Ofl 3tgD0CL nis Q19 tDoi^umtvu TTIIO refused by the Legislature, and he sub- i ' lequently withdrew it. Ho was bora in Utah j aearly fifty years ago, and received his adit- i nation there and in Indiaua. While teaching ichool he studied law. Married in 1876, he ' Has an Interesting young family. He is said :o be a Morman, but not an extremist. Bayard Gives a Dinner. United States Ambassador Bayard gave a j linner in London to tho Prince of Wales, and j imong the other guests were Lord Salisbury 1 ind Cardinal Vaughan. Toasts were drunk I to Queen Victoria and President Cleveland, i tad complimentary speeches were made re- < yarding each. 1 Wiping Oat Posttnafiterablps. One of the results of a Greater New York will be the wiping out of flrty-four postma9jerships, most of which pay a good salary, i Probably more men will be needed to handle , !lie mails in the same territory, but many ( towns and villages will miss their old-time political dignitary. Philadelphia's Last Horde Car. Tho last horse car in Philadelphia was run over tho tracks of the Callowhill street line a | few days ago, marking the close of a period i of thirty-nine yeara during which this i method of transportation lasted in that city. 1 Cycling Notes. Arizona Indians are buying bicycles. Pneumatic tires for the bicycles used in the French army are now made of leather. ' Verdi, the composer, if trying to eclipse Cato's feat of learning Greek at eighty by riding a bicycie at eignty-two. ' The bicycle has reached such a state of perfection that most of the improvements noted in tho wheels on exhibition in Chicago ' may be truthfully described as minor ones. ' An Englishman with a stiff leg, due to au old accident, has had a bicycle built for him 1 with tbe right pedal crank loose, the pedal 1 on that side acting as a stirrup; He declares that he is able to ride long distances without J fatigue. ; ] t j i J WHAT CONCRESS IS DOING. VB The Senate Committee on Tinanoe faror^H ibly reported the bill to permit the bottllng^H >f spirits in bond. flfl Senator Chandler has Introduced a recolo^H -ion protesting against recognition of thflHI single gold standard. The Senate Committee on Privileges and ? Elections Indicated Its Intention to treat tne Da pont case from Delaware as closed. E A lively debate was precipitated la the d Bouse over an amendment to stop the free 9 distribution of seeds to Congressmen. The amendment was defeated, 70 to 42. 9 The Secretary of the Interior has seat to I Lhe Senate the report of the Klamath Bound- 1 ary Commission, showing that $533,270 was 1 due the Indians on that reservation. I The House passed the Diplomatic andCon- J Bular bill carrying $1,673,708. Resolutions arranging for the formal canvassing of the electoral vote on February 10 were aldopted. The House Committee on Pensions I has or- ' dered favorably reported the Senate bill increasing from $17 to $30 per month the pension of the widow of Lieutenant Calhoun.' Mr?. Calhoun is a sister of General Caster. The estimate of appropriations to b? made at the present session of the Flfty-fourt Ih Congress is, la round numbers, 9E30,000,C(X& Af $515,000,000 was appropriated at the prlecedlng session, this raises the outgoing Congress far above the biltion-dollar mark. J I During the dissusslon of Indian attains In I the House Mr. Hartman, of Montana, offeWed j an amendment for an appropriation ofJ billion dollars "for the education and etvflt* 1 izatlon of the Seelev savages on the Manha^^fl tan reservation."1 It was ruled out on th^HH point of order that it was new legislation. The Secretary of War sent to the House JHH report of a survey of New York Harbor from^Hj the Narrows to the sea, with a view of. ob-^H P DEAD AND STARVING PEASANT8. taken in Madras.) . J}, ?\ ?. 'J talning a depth of thirty-five feet at low \ water. It la estimated that such a channel 1000 feet wide woutd cost $1,740,000. 4 channel 15Q0 feet wide would cost $2,272,000) 2000 feet wide, $4,180,000. Representative Hurley, of New York, hat introduced a resolution to appropriate $100,- . 000 as a contribution to the monument to Revolutionary soldiers which the Sops and Daughters of the Revolution are to b?ttd la Fort Greene Park. Brooklyn. The resolution proposes that $100,000 shall b* raised by private sabeorlption before the Government appropriation is available. f Mr. Cox (Dem., Tean.) offered In* the House a bill which reoitea the ciroumstaiioet d" Lee's surrender at Appomattox andltha written guarantee that tne artillery and <^av %ilj uiuuora ui mo t/uuiounnuj suuuiui w permitted to retain their bones, side artos ind baggage. After the surrender the Fad-^^ aral soldiers despoiled the Confederate*-JHH :hese effects, ana they were nerer return^^H to their original owners. The bill approp^^H ites $200,000 as a compensation (or th^nH losses. SPAIN'S REFORMS. ' . Some Features of the Measure are at taiv Outlined. / At a meeting of the Spanish Cabinet la aaana, ine auuiaiera aisousseu. lor sotbrh lours the sohome ot reforms for Cuba prepared by Senor Canovas and Colonial Mia* ster Castellano. The reforms include much' jroader municipal and provincial adminarrative decentralizatfon than the recently ' j Formulated reforms for Porto Blco. The principal feature of the plan la the creation of a local assembly, styled the Conn-. " , :il of Administration, consisting of twenty-' jne members, part ot whom shall be elected! ay direct limited franchise Hud part by cor-i Derations and commercial interests, in a iianner similar to that in which the Spanish: Senate is elected. Thtx nrtmorfl rvf fha am nuch cfevelope t under the scheme, but the Duban Chamber will ba empowered to make i colonial tariff on the condition ot always wearing a high protection for Spanish imjorts. Apart from this concession, the Chamber .<j will only have the control of local affaire, :he Cortes continuing to vote the budgets md conclude all legislative treaties. The Cuban representation in the Senate and Chamber of Deputies will remain unaltered. NATIONAL GOOD ROADS CONCRESS. General Roy Stone Chairman of a Permanent Organization. The National Good Roads Congress assembled at Orlando, Flo., and after a two days' session adjourned. Eighteen States were represented. , J General Roy Stone, of the road improvement bureau or the Agricultural Department it Washington, was made Chairman, and T. J. Appleyard, ofS mford, Fla., Secretary. " The time was occupied in discussing the various phases of road improvement work ind the Congress adjourned after deciding , to print the papers read, for general ciroula- ) lion. The following Executive Committee, r | to act in conjunction with General Boy Stone, H teas selected to fix the time and place of th^.^1 next meeting: Dr. Henrv Foster, of Clifton . V 3prins?s, N. Y.; 8. V. Pickens, of North A Carolina; H. W. Anderson, of Ylrginia, and 9 H. W. Ohipley and W. L. Palmor, of Florida, v The Florida members decided upon a State fl organization. 1 Pneumatic Postal Tubes. The contract has been signed for furnishing pneumatic tubes between the postoffioea In Brooklyn and Now,York. The tubes must be competed within niue months from the beginning of work on them. The contraut is for four years, and calls for the manufacture of $14,000 worth of eight-inch tubes each year. . ... . Made Bald by the X Ray*. The location of a bullet in a Bellevue Hospital (New York City) patient's head was recently found by means of the X rays, and the bullet was extracted. The patient has re- *~ covered, but the side of his head which waa exposed to the rays is now as bald as the proverbial billiard ball. Accuned of Murders* Frank Butler, the Australian murderer, was arrested on the Kwnnhilda when she ar? rived at San Francisco, Cal. He is accused ol many murders in Australia, whore the olaim is made that he can be convicted of at least five. Personal. Nansen claims to havo made $100,000 from ' bis recent trip to the North Pole. It is announced that the Emperor of Austria will visit St. Petersburg, Russia, in April. Governor Tanner, of Illinois, with fifteen unices to dispose of, has 3500 application* ^ for them. \BI M. Nobul, the inventor of dynamite, who aas just died, was a singularly gentle and! nltd-mannered man. Sir Donald Smith, Canadian High Commissioner in London, ho3 donated $2500 to ;he India famine fund. In the course of two days' shooting at Buckeburg recently, the German Emperor tilled twenty-nine stags. 4