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STATE HOOSETOiS
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Fire Destroys Pennsylvania's Capitol ^
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LAWMAKERS FORCED TO FLEE. '
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Flame? Broke Out the Lesialiitnre was fc
A!>ont to Meet ami Quickly Heducecl ?
the Building to Ashes-?Many Valuable
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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
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SENATOR PEFFER'S SUCCESSOR. J*
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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<
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W. A. HARIUB. C<
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o?ed Senator Peffar in the United States ^
Senate on March 4 is pictured above,
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/ s TREATY SIGNED. 1?
Arbitration Agreed I'pon by Great Britain er
and Venezuela. J0
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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,"
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Growing: Districts.
BUBONIC PLAGUE EXTENDING. \
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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.
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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- \
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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. ; ]
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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},
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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