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PEACE TREAT! BEATEN. The United States Senate Rejects the Arbitration Compact. *?irnr in IIIX/O O f* TtA?> WtKL NATO, ZO. Two-Thirds Required to Ratify Could ?fot be Secured?Great Britain's Conduct Toward Greece and the Transvaal a Weapon for the Opposition?Spirited Short Debate Led by Senator R. Q. Mills ' Washinotos, D. C. (Special).?The Senate wtnsed to ratify the treaty providing for ike arbitration of questions in dispute between the United States and Great Britain. /Ob the roll-call sixty-nine Senators anpwered. Of these forty-three voted for Mtifleation and twenty-six against it. The treaty therefore lacked threo votes of tha aeoefisary two-thirds majority. The vote in detail was as follows: 1 Teas?Allison, Bacon, Burrows, Caffery, ??y, Cullom, Davis, Deboe, Fairbanks, 3Rralkner, Foraker, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, fizay. Hale, Hanna, Hawley, Hoar/Lindsay, bodge, McBride, McEnery, McMillan, Mtehell, Morrill, Nelson, Pasco, Perkins, Piatt, of Connecticut; Piatt, of N6w York; Jftitchard, Proctor, Smith, Spooner, Thurston, Turpie, Vest, Walthall, Warren, Weltogton, Wetmore, Wilson?total 43. Nays?Baker, Bate, Butler, Carter, Cocknil, Daniel, Hansbrough, Harris, of Kansas; Harris, of Tennessee; Heitfeld, Jones, af Arkansas; Jones, of Nevada; Hyde, Martin, Mason, Mills, Morgan, Penrose, Pettiktbtt, Pettus, Quay, Rawlins, Iioach, Shoup, Stewart. White?total, 26. Nineteen Senators did not respond. The yairs were as follows, two affirmative Senators being paired with one negative Senate in most instances: Chandler and Clark for, with Teller against. Tillman and Turner for, with Chilton gainst. Sewell and Earle for, with Mantle against. Senator George was paired for the treaty and Senator Berry against it. Pairs were not announced for the following: Aldrich, Cannon, Elkins, Gorman, Murphy, Wolcott, Kaony and Allen. "The vote was proceeded by a short, spirited debate, introduced by Senator wfiia nf Toma who made a stronc aDDeal ft* the Senate against ratifying the agreement. Senator Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations, attributed the defeat to the feeling of dissatisfaction at England's course in the struggle of the Greeks to liberate the Island of Crete from Ottoman dominion, and In the Armenian massacres and with the evident designs of ?* Great Britain upon the Transvaal. DEBOE_IN HIS SEAT. Kentucky Senator Taken His Place on the Republican Side. Senator W? J. Deboe, of Kentucky, visited file Senate Chamber at Washington, and vas Introduced to many of his future associates. He was the recipient of the usual W- J. DEBOE, 8UCCE880B TO "JOE" BLACKBUBN. , floral testimonials. His credentials were jrasented by Senator Lindsay (Dem., Ky.), 'sod when they were read, Mr. Deboe was ocorted to the Vice-President's desk, vbere the oath was administered to him. Ha took a seat on the Republican side, near -tbe eastern door. UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONCRESS OPENS Foctmaster-General Gary Delivers an Address to the Representatives. The Universal Postal Congress met In the kail oI the old Corcoran Art Gallery at Washington. About fifty-five countries, eomprislng most of those in the union,were represented. It is expected that the congress wfll last about six weeks. Among the questions to be considered are a proposition to tensmit the official mail of countries which are members of the union free of charge, the faestion of increasing the unit of weight to carried under a five-cent stamp f^om are-half ounce to three-fourths of an ounce, ?Bd also a proposition for a universal stamp. General Batcheller, the premier delegate of the United States, called the empress to order. The delegates were atttred in dres9 suits or full court costume. Postmaster-General Gary delivered the address of welcome. Congress has already appropriated $50, 00 for entertainment by the Government, it is probable that some of this money will ka expended in giving the delegates an exearsion to the Mississippi Valley and the Sorthwest. ?~ 3* FAMOUS BILL SICNED. ^ v. ' "<???? ? overnor Black Has Affixed His Signature to the Greater Xew York Charter. . It was officially announced that Governor i Black has affixed his signature to the Greater New York charter. 1 The pen and penholder used by Governor Sack in signing the oharter were presented to United States Senator Thomas C. Piatt and the blotter to H. C. Duval, of the I Sew Yerk Central Railroad, The pen was an ordinary gold pen which Governor Black had on hand In the Executive Chamber. Maine's Canadian Population. Baine has & Canadian-French population af 56,000. ' Horse Thieves Married In Jail. Ervin Shaw and Gertie Fisher, each sentenced to one year in the penitentiary tor joint horse theft, were married in the jsii parlors at Cincinnati, Ohio, by Mayor Gracfy. Gertie's mother gave her consent. Gertie is a beautiful little girl and her husband a handsome, beardless boy. A Sign of the Time*. A bill has been reported In the Massachu* jetts House of Representatives permitting the use of horseless carriages upon the public highways of the State, subject to the laws regulating other vehicles. Cycling Noten. A mile on the Rois de Roulogne, F&ris, is exclusively reserved for the use of yclists. It is claimed that cycle racing tracks are "* f- A In xott to be louna m more luuu Germany. The Australians call a half-mile bicycle xace a "flutter," while the Frenchmen call , ft a "scramble." The street cars of San Franoisco, Cal., are jjnovided with a holder on the rear platform ?a which two bicycles can be hung. Li Huug Chang now owns a bicycle, and She Czar of Russia is bicycling in Denmark. iThat sounds as if old empires were ready 'lot new customs. I THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Washlngrton Webster Davis, of Missouri, has been nomirated for th<* office of Assistant Secretary of the Interior. H. 0. Havemeyer, President of tbe Sngai m ?- j . 1? t? Onnflaa a Qa^ratanr irusi, una j ouii u. uw.x.?j, have been ordered to appear, with others, in the Federal Court at Washington on May 17 to be tried for refusing to furnish information to the Senate investigating committee in 1894. President McKinley says that further Consular appointments as a rule will be deferred until after the adjournment of Congress. The President decided not to interfere in the case of Joseph Dunlop, proprietor oi the Chicago Dispatch, who was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for sending improper matter through the mails. An agreement was reaohed between the Republican and Democratic members ol the Senate Financo Committee by which the report on the Tariff bill will not be delayed. Secretary of the Treasury Gage issued new regulations aimed to prohibit the importation of adulterated tea. Secretary Gage called for the resignation of W. M. Aiken, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, Secretary Gage has determined to cancel the new one-dollar, two-dollar, and flvedollar silver certificates outstanding as they come into the Treasury. The total foots up .$16,2S0.000 ones, 38,144,000 twos, and $30,000,000 fives?$54,424,000 in all. It may take years to wipe out the entire Issues and substitute bills. President McKinley nominated Robert F. Patterson to be Consul-General at Calcutta, Tndia, and Stanton Sickles to be Secretary of Legation at Madrid, Spain. Mr. Chandler Introduced in the Senate a measure to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to issue certificates of indebtedness in anv vear to nn amount not to ex ---* ceec! SoO.OOO.OOO, wnenever a uuucit m mo public revenue requires it. Domestic. The United States monitor Terror was in collision with the yacht Penelope in the Narrows, New York Harbor, and the City of Fitchburg ran down and sank the yacht Teifer in Long Island Sound. * Eibridge Gerry Spaulding, of Buffalo, N. ?., is dead at the age of eighty-eight. He was known as the "Father of the Greenbacks," and left upward of $12,000,000, A jewelry store in Newark, N. J., was mysteriously robbed of goods valued at $25,000. Commissioner Frank Moss was elected President of the Police Board of New York City on motion of Colonel Grant. The bicentennial jubilee of Trinity Church, of New York City, reached its climax when Bishop Henry C. Potter delivered the inaugural address. Carrie Volz, an eiphteen-year-old girl, committed suicide in New York City on account of throat trouble. The Manhattan Elevated Railroad, of New York City, is considering the use of the Keely Motor as an aid to rapid transit. The New York Produce Exchange dis ?overed that commercial Domes m uostuii, Philadelphia and Baltimore are backing the Joint Traffic Association in its fight before the Interstate Commerce Commission to prevent a reduction in grain rates to New York City. Dr. Von Hoist, of the Chloago University, announces the discovery of Professor Von 3chroen, at Naples, that rock1? live. Photographs showing the birth and growth of crystals have been taken by the discoverer, who has devoted his life and fortune to proving his theory that matter heretofore regarded as inorganic is organic. Jacob S. Johnson, the former Methodist exhorter, was executed in the Somerset County Jail at Somerville, N. J., for the murder of Annie Beekman. The crime was ?ommitted on September 14,1895, and Johnson has been in jail since a few days after the murder. He met death bravely and pro- j tested his innocence to the last. Governor Black has approved a bill to permit the New York Central Railroad to | reduce interest on $100,000,000 of bonds. I Judge Toney has decided that the issue ef $588,000 worth of city bonds of Louisville, Ky., bought recently by the New York 3ecurity and Trust Company is unconstitu- j tionai, ana Das granted an mjuuuuuu ?.v prevent their sale. The assets of two of the three New Bedford (Mass.) mills that recently failed exceed the liabilities. A Chicago workman who was intrusted with the key to his employer's safety deposit box stole $9800 in money and jewels. William Dill, the seventeen-year-old son J of the Rev. James Dill, of Forestburg, N?Y., walked out into the woods, and when a i mile away from his home shot himself. Despite his wound, the boy crawled back | through the undergrowth on hands and | knees, until within a quarter of a mile of j his home, where he died. No reason is j known for his suicide. Louisa Matilda Johnson, four years old, of Hoboken, N. J., was playing in front of her home with an old pair of scissors. Standing on the edge of a flight of stairs, she lost her balance and fell, with the shears in her hand. One of the blades Eierced her breast and the other penetrated I er heart. Dr. Clarkson was called, but j | [when he arrived he said the child was dead, having been killed Instantly. 1 The Gilbert Manufacturing Company, for years one of the largest dealers in cotton I dress goods, made an assignment in New I York City without preferences. The liabilities are estimated at 8500,000 and assets ! about $400,000. Dean W. Richmond, a member of a well[ known and wealthy family, died in a I "Raines law hotel" in New York City with?TKQ pAMnop'o in. I UUt LUOUIL'UI UCI/CUbiUili JL UO VVAVUV4 u *?a | vestigation indicates that death was the I I result of an accidental fall. The J. B. Wheeler Banking Company's J institutions in Aspen and Colorado Springs, Ool., have failed. : Henry A. Lewis, a retired merchant, j jumped" or fell from the fourth story winJ dow of his home in New York City and was I killed instantly. The police think he com- I ; mitted Buicide. Two men dressed as laborers were struck ' | and instantly killed by a north bound West J Shore train a mile south of Harrington j Park, N. Y. The men, who had beeu going toward New York, were warned by a flag- | man to get off the tracks. They refused to j do so and told him to mind his own affairs- j Foreign* j The Spanish Government ordered the i | immediate trial of the Competitor prison- j era. Ninety-four victims of the great Paris fire have been identified. Nineteen bodies are still unclaimed. But one American waa among the lost. The Spaniards captured Naic, In thq Philippines, the insurgent loss being reported at 500. Cable despatches from VoIo.Thessaly, say that the Greeks have repulsed the Turks with heavy loss in a fierce battle. A desEatch from Corfu says that a great victory qb been won by the Greeks at Valestino. Advices received from Tokat say that the court which is trying the Mussulmans implicated in the massacre at tk?t place has so far sentenced six men to death and has condemned others to imprisonment for from seven to fifteen years. The Government of Chile has offered a premium of $ 100,000 yearly to any person or persons who may discover a new use for i nitrate In large quantities. Chile produces j a groat quantity of nitrate, and a market j which will use more than a comparatively I amall auantitv has never been found. According to Turkish advices Prince Con| stantlne of Greece was threatened by .\is i troops and sought refuge on an Italian war i vessel. Colonel Wahis, the Governor General of the Congo Free State, in dispatches just received from him, reports thaf a column of native soldiers at Ndirflwelle mutinied In February last and killed five white officers. A special cable despatch from Bombay says that the plague Is decreasing there and in other parts of India. A cable despatch says that the revolution In Ecuador has gained new strength, and a fierce battle is being fought at Rlobamba. The new North German Lloyd steamer Kaiser WUhelm der Grosse was launohed at Stettin, Germany. j JUBILEE IN TENNESSEE 1 Forma! Opening of the Centennial Fynnsitinn at Nashville. M 'Kl N LEY STARTS T.H E MACHINERY A Parade, anil Patriotic CeremoniesSpeeches Made by Governor Taylor and Others?All the South Taken an Interest i in the Exposition Which is the Most Ambitious Effort of the Kind Attempted Nashville, Tenn. (Special).?As the city ! clock struck noon on Saturday an electric j ourrent, started in Washington, D. C., by I the pressure of President McKinley's fingers j upon the button, started in motion the machinery of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. With that act, though far distant in the National Capitol, he formally opened the exposition. Forty thousand visitors were present on the grounds at the j time, and there was a large representation j of guests from all parts of the United States. This exposition, as all the country knows, I Is in celebration of the admission of Ten! nessee to the Union, one hundred years i ago. The inaugural ceremonies last year I h?? o mlllfnt-TT nn.o>oanfc hilt WWO iiUCUUCU UJ a, Iiiiiivu*; l'"0 _ , there was no similar display at the opening of the exposition. The ceremonies were exceedingly simple. The procession formed on the public j square and marched through the streets to j the Exposition grounds. The public buildj ings and hundreds of business houses and I private residences along the line of march j and every other portion of the city were handsomely adorned with the National colors and other decorations, and presented I a very beautiful appearance. Former Vice-President Stevenson, Gover| nor Taylor, of Tennessee; Governor Stevens, -L " 1 TE of Missouri; General Garfla, of Mexico, and the members of the Legislature, with their familes, occupied conspicuous places during the formal ceremony of opening. The members of both Houses of the Legislature and their wives were conveyed in special trains to the terminal station at the west side of the Exposition Park. The place of rendezvous was the Administration Building, whence the officials, the I legislators and distinguished guests, escorted by a vast concourse of citizens, proceeded to the Auditorium; which in a few moments was filled, while a perfect multitude was unable to obtain admission. The ceremonies were opened with prayer by Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, Coadjutor Bishop of Tennessee. After the singing of "America," Major J. W. Thomas, President of the Exposition Company, made an address, reviewing the work done, and introduced Governor Tay ? ^ o --! ui??? ior. At me uuuuiusiuu ui uu^^o^u, muw had been preceded by the rendering of "The Star Spangled Banner," the band struck up "Dixie," and there was tremendous enthusiasm. t After the booming of cannon announced that t^e machinery had been 9tarted, Mrs. Van Leer Kirkman turned on the water at MRS. VAN LEER KIRKMAN. (President Women's Department, Tennessee Centennial.) tne Moretti iouniam. a recepuua wo Woman's Building followed. The grounds are perfect and complete, beautiful beyond description. There are splendid walks with beautiful blue grass and beds of flowers with fountains on land and in lake. The lakes are alive with swan, wild geese, duck and pelican, and there are also gondolas from Venice. Tennessee Is the first State to celebrate its centennial in this manner. A tract of two hundred acres of well wooded land on the outskirts of the city, two miles west of the State Capitol, is the site of the exposition. On its picturesque knolls and surrounding its pretty artificial lake, a miniature World's Fair has arisen. For two years the work has been in progress, and the expenditure of 82,000,000 has wrought wonders In the park. Like | their Chicago prototypes, the buildings, | most of which are of steel, have all the outward marks of white marble palaces, and are all on a consistent and artistic architectural plan. The exposition is the most important of its kind ever attempted in the South. Three Children Borned to Death. Mary, Lulu and John Hatfield, children, were burned to death in a mountain cabin I about five miles from Sneedvllle, Tenn. I Their mother, who Is a widow, had gone 1 to a neighbor's house, looking the children op Curfew Moat Not King, Says Plngree. j Governor Pingree, of Michigan, vetoed j the Donovan Curfew Bell bill, which pro, vided for the arrest of children found on j the streets after 9 p. m. The Governor 1 characterized the act as interference by the j State in domestic matters. Ot*ruan PaHha Goes Back. Osman Pasha, who was recently ap! pointed Commander-in-Chief of the Turkj ish forces operating against the Greeks I has returned to Constantinople. No expla nation to vouchsafed of his return. The National Game. Griffin has been reappointed captain o the Brooklyn team. Clements has served the Phillies for four teen consecutive years. This is Glasscock's twenty-third consecu tive season as a professional ball player. Five of the first ten base runners in th T.eaime last vear were Cincinnati players. ANTONIO MAXIMO MORA. The Celebrated Claimant Passes Away fit j a Kipe Old Ai;e. i Antonio Maximo Mora, whose property Jn Cuba was confiscated twenty-five years c ago, and whose claim wan finally settled c in 1895 by the payment by Spain of nearly r SI,000.000, died a few days igo at tne Jiot-M ' Grenoble, New York City, aged sevent;rnine years. ril, J T W J ; t ANTONIO MAXIMO MOBA. n t Mr. Mora was a native of Cuba, but be- t came a naturalized American citizea in May, 18G9, after the outbreak of the ton years' rebellion in Cuba. Mora, who was a wealthy planter, was arrested for being in sympathy with the insurgents, tried by T court-martial, and sentenced to bo shot. The court f_alsoj||directed that his ^ ^ [E TENNESSEE EXPOSITION AT NASHVILLE property be confiscated. Mora and C his brother escaped to this city, whore pj Mora laid his claim before Hamilton Fish, then Secretary oi 8tate. 13 e oe- ' timated the loss to himseif and brother at M 83,000,000. Diplomatic ccrrespondenoe be- {" gan, and in 1886 Spain acknowledged the }e claim to be a valid debt, although deduct- ? ing one-half of the original amount demanded by Mora, who, being In nesd of w money, agreed to the reduction. The lat- L ter remained unpaid for near nearly 1en ? years. More than $100,000 was expanded ? by the United 8tates Government in cclleot- "( ing the claim. of bi SIX HANCED ON ONE TREE. J A Whole sale Lynching of Colored Men ins jl] Texas Town. a For th>5 murder nearSunnyside, Texas, of Henry Daniels and his two stepdaughters, t? the assaulting of the girls and Che l? burning of their home a mob, composed of tl colored people swung to the same branch P] of a large oak tree Fayette Rhone, twentyone years old; Will Gates, thirty-flvo years 0< old; Lewis Thomas,twenty years old; Aaron w Thomas, thirteen years old; Jim Thomas, fourteen years old; Benny Thomas, fifteen years old, all colored boys. The last four ai are brothers and it is probable that Will al Williams, who was also implicated, met his a' death at the hands of the same mob,though his body has not yet been found. Henry Daniels an old colored man, lived near Sunnyside in a little hut with his step- A daughter, Marie, and a seven-year-old child. The house was broken into, Marie Daniels, aged oighteecf, a id the seven-year- .. old child assaulted, and old Daniels club Ded -L to death trying to protect those In his hi charge. Then Daniels attd his stepdaugh- ^ tor were thrown Into tae house and the child was thrown into th<i well. The house Jt was set on Are and the fiends left, thinking that they had covered their inhuman deed J from the sisrht of the world. w' Bloodhounds tracked the Thomas boys to V their home and they were arrested. They confessed, implicating the others, who were ^ quickly secured. Shortly after 10 o'clock p. m. a mob surprised the officers, took the j men to the lone oak tre? in the road tJid, without ceremony, strunjj them up. Great Britain and theJBoen. The British Budget was made public in T the House of Commons; it provoked a hot exchange of words between Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of the Colonies, and Sir William Harcourt, the Liberal leader, over C the Government's war preparations. Sir ti William denounced the Government's South ^ African policy, and Joseph Chamberliic.de- , clared Harcourt's language "pernicious, Q dangerous and unpatriotic." Sfitny Death* in an Earthquake. fl News has just been received of an awful series of earthquakes throughout tho cliain d of Leeward Islands that caused the loss of hundreds of lives, it is reported. jUI tho lalnnHa Irv o>rniir\ hftvft heen affected. The loss of fife lias been very- large. Many buildings collapsed during the most R serious shock, which lasted for forty sec- tl onds. The damage to property ii very o large. g S Postmaster of Boston Dead. p Colonel Jeremiah W. Coveney, Postmiister ? of Boston, Mass., died unexpectedly at his n home in Cambridge of heart failure, lnci- si dent to an attack of pneumonia. g A Cuban Patriot Teaches Boys In Jail. Dr. Luis, now in the Baltimore city jail as a Cuban filibuster, has begun to teitch a ^ class of twonty-sevon boys under sixteen, 8 who are confined there on various charges, n from crap shooting to stealing. The p rison 1 school was suggested by Warden Bailey and * Mayor Hooper, and it bids fair to become a ? permanent feature of jail life. Mississippi Breaks Its Record. The Mississippi River at Natchez, Miss., 1 rose until it stood at 49.75, one and a quar- d i tur toft ahove the hisrhest record of any C previous year. " t Labor World. London has 60,000 costermongers. Paris has a school for cab drivers. p New York City has 1S00 horseshoers. (J Germany has 374 women blacksmiths. Missoula, Montana, has a labor temple. * K. of L. is credited with 41,000 members. Brooklyn clothing ct.tters average 820 a t f week, { Brooklyn carpentcrs get ?3.25 for eight - hOUEJ. ? Cumminsville, Ohio, has a labor ex- < change. English tailors threa ten to strike for the ( e twelve-hoar day and t tie abolition of over- 1 time. t ? PITTSBURG SWEPT BY FIRE. JlgT Mercantile Establishment* In Rnlna and the Lou la Three Millions. Fire at Pittsburg, Penn., destroyed 83,>00,000 worth of property and caused the Leath of one fireman and Injuries to four nore. The great wholesale grocery estabishmont of Thomas C. Jenkins and the nammoth retail store of Joseph Home & 3o., are total ruins. The burned section 'xtends from Fifth street to Cecil Alley on ?enn avenue and from Cecil Alley to Fifth itrefet on Liberty street, covering an area )f several acres. George Atkingon, of No. 15 Engine Company, was killed and four other ir en were njured. The firemen fought the fire all night and t was nearly 8 o'clock next morning when t was under control. The firemen say that he fire is the largest that western Pennsylvania has seen since the railroad riots of .877, when property valued at $4,000,000 vas destroyed. Summary of the losses follows: Joseph Home & Co., 81,250,000; T. C. 'enkins, 8500,000; tenants of Home buildng, 8125,000; Methodist Book Concern, )15,000; Scobie & Parker, 850,000; John luck, 810,000; Heck's drug house, 820,000; )obbs, photographer, and various physiians, $30,000; Boisell, Irwin &lCo., 810,000; '. W. Scott <fc Co., $25,000; Citizens'Traction Jompany, $10,000; Swift & Co., $7000; John lall, Jr., <fc Co., $10,000; American Press Lssooiation, $5000; occupants of building 04 Penn avenue, $10,000; of 502 Penn aveiue, $10,000, and of 500 Penn avenue, $10,00; Mayer's glove house, $25,000. Other losses run all the way from $10,000 ? * AA * tin n J sA J ??t<l 11 Vkolvtn f K A luwu iu a low uuuutou, aiiu win mw otal to more than the figures stated above. It Is estimated that about two-thirds of he loss is covered by insurance, divided mong sixty or seventy companies. Besides he man killed, half a dozen firemen were lore or less seriously Injured. Investigalon so far as carried on has not developed he cause of the fire. CUBA SECURES HOME RULE. 'he New Reform Law Put in Operation on the Island. The Queen Regent of Spain, at the last abinet meeting In Madrid, signed a decree rovidlng for the application of the agreedpon reforms for the Island of Cuba. Her Majesty's aotlon was due to the receipt of a ible message from Captain-General Weyir announcing that the western part of the1 land Is completely pacified. The home rule plan about to be applied as made publio In detail by Minister de ome on February 6. A Council of Admin trauon is created ior cue guverumeui, ui ie affairs on the island. This council will 9 in the nature of a Parliament, made up t thirty-one members, a majority of them sing elected by the Cubans, and a minority ppolnted by the Throne. The Council of dminietration is to have practically lpreme control of the island subject to jrtain supervisory authority by the home overnment. One of the most Important latures of the plan is that allowing Cuba > revise her tariff schedules. The reform law was passed on Maroh 15, 195, but never applied to Cuba, owing to ie uprising. Last New Year's Day it was romulgated by the Queen Regent, and izetted in Havana as a New Year's con>ssion. Its actual application was still ithheld, however, until General Weyler >uld announce that the island was pacl3d. On the King's fete day the plan was nplifled. The decree signed by the Queen jpears to be the last step toward actually aplying the law to Cuba. FIVE PERSONS DROWNED. Fanner, Hit) Two Daughters and Two Hired Men Tipped From a Canoe. An accident occurred near Gallatin, enn., by which John Nolin, a farmer, and Is two little daughters and two men who ere employed by Nolin lost their lives in umberland River. The Ave wore return ig home from church In ft canoe, xne inoe tipped, filled and 9ank. The farm ands tried to swim to shore, but were cared under by the swift current and rowned. Nolin caught each of his girls by le waist and tried to float down the stream, at the children seized their father about le neck, strangling him, and all three were >st. This is the eighth drowning that has 2curred in the Cumberland at this point in 10 past six or eight weeks. DEATH IN A CLOUDBURST. en Lives Are Known to be Lost in White Creek. Further news of the cloudburst on White reek in Tennessee indicates that at least yo farm houses were almost demolished ad the Brander family of four, two farm ands, names unknown, and three children ad the grandmother of Allen Sweets were Hied. The Sweets were sitting around the Are re when the water struck the house, carding the chimney down. The barn of anchor farmor was razed and two houses amaged by the great body of water. Germany and Oar Tariff. In replying to a question In the German eichstag, Baron Marschall VonBieberstein, le Minister for Foreign Affairs, declined to utline the policy of the Government In reard to the tariff relations with the United tates while the Dingley Tariff bill remained ending. He announced, however, that nless Germany's protest against the sugar urtax of the penaing bill is heeded, Geriany will consider the question of whether he could continue the advantages now ivon to American imports. Greece's millionaire Patriot. ill. \x. .ivoruu, fcuu \jtuoa. uiunuuauo, w liu ras instxumentai in reviving the Olympian ames, and who offered the Greek Governlent at the outbreak of the trouble with 'urkey to provide the Greek army with 0,000 uniforms, has subscribed a total of 16,000,000 to the war fund. France Determines to Interfere. A cable despatch from Paris says that II. lanotaux, the French Foreign Minister, leclares the Republic will take 9ides with Ireece and Christianity unless the Sultan lolds out the olive branch. * Slinor Mention. The Lake Erie & Western Railroad haa )laced orders for 1,000,000 ties in West Virginia. Near Burden, Kan., a boy chased by a jray wolf escaped by dodging among a lock of sheop. A Kansas City (Mo.) Police Judge during he past year fined forty-sevenj men for jeatlng their wives. J. E. Daughtrey, of Alexandria, Va., sneezed while ho was leaning back in a chair ind dislocated his spine. Convict militia companies are being organized at the Michigan City find.) Prison to employ the Idle time of the 600 prisoners there. h' ' FIRE 1M B PM Leaders of French Society Perish in a Frightful Disaster, ALL EUROPE IS IN MOURNING, Flames Level a Wooden .Strnotnre Being: Used for a Charity Bazaar?Scores of the Nobility and Wealthy, Mostly Women, Among the Victims?A Hundred Bodies Taken Oat?More in Ruing. Paeis, France (By Cable).?Not 9ince the terrible Are which converted the festivities In connection with the marriage of Emperor Napoleon to Archduchess Marie Louise into an epoch of grief and mourning has so appalling a disaster overtaken ransian society as me connagration 01 tae Rue Jean Qoujon Tuesday afternoon. The flower of Frances aristocracy was assembled together for the purpose of charity In a wooden building, constructed to represent a street of Old Paris. A bazaar, or fancy fair, was In full swing. The stalls were occupied by royal princesses, by j duchesses, countesses, and leaders of | the great world of the French metropolis, the place being densely thronged with ; visitors and purchasers, when suddenly a I fire broke out in the stall of the Dowager Duchesse d'Uzes. A terrible panic ensued. Those who did not perish in the flames seem to have sustained shocking injuries during the struggle that followed at the exits in the frantic'efforts to escape. So fierce were the flames that, as in the case of the Are at the Austrian Embassy at 1 Paris on the occasion of Napoleon's wedding, the exact number of the victims may never be known with any degree of certainty. The latest estimate of the dead is that at least 100 bodies hr.ve been taken out, ana as many more may still be in the ruins. One report is that the disaster caused the loss of at least 200 lives and has thrown many of the best-known families of France and other continental c Drntries into mourning. Perhaps 200 othe.-s were injured. The bazaar in which the Are occurred was a temporary structure of wood. The flames were first discovered above the stall, No. 13, occupied by the Duchesse d'Uzes, and while the place was densely crowded with well-known society persons, the holding of the bazaar in the cause of charity being an annual function presided over by the leaders of Parisian society. A terrible panic and crush followed the alarm of fire. There was a wild rush for the exits, and the weaker persons were trampled on after having been knooked down in the stampede. The inflammable nature of the building and its contents caused the flames to spread with great rapidity, and in a very short time the bazaar was a mass of flames. A. policeman wno was on duty at the doors of the bazaar says that from 1500 to 1800 persons were in the building when the fire started. He adds that the alarm caused a general panic, followed by a terrible rush for the doors, which were soon choked with the crowd, thus preventing the esI i>nr? nf m.inv who wnnlrt nthflnulifl have been saved. The strong tram' plod upon the weak, the young crushed the old to the floor and heartrending cries of fear arose on all sides, soon followed by shrieks of agony, as the flames, sweeping onward behind the crowd struggling for the doors, claimed victim after viotim and swallowed up stall after stall with frightful rapidity until the whole ; structure was a roaring mass of fire. Further details show that before the firemen had time to arrive the roof of the bazaar crashed in, crushing numbers of those who had been unable to Escape from the building. i In addition to those who were crushed or suffocated it appears that many others who might otherwise have escaped were caught under the roof, which collapsed In a few minutes after the flre started, the uprights supporting it having been burned away. Many ladles whose dresses had caught flre ran into the crowds near the exits, and In this manner flre was communicated to the clothing of others, who either perished miserably or were frightfully burned. It will be impossible to identify many of the bodies, they being burned beyond recognition. Some of them are completely carbonized, while others are without heads or hmbs. I So far as can be learned about 500 persons were enveloped In the flames, the others in the building having managed to effect their escape before the fire gained great headway. One hundred ana fifty seriously injured persous have been taken to the hospi tais or are oeing treated at tneir nomes. I Nearly all the dead and Injured were ladles I who occupied high social positions, many of them being international aristocrats. In some of the corners, especially near the main exit, were afterward found piled heaps of dead and dying, charred romains, arms, legs and skulls. Near the main exit the pile was Ave feet deep. A few minutes after the building was deI stroyed the ambulance corps and police began the work of removing the bodies. But J very few lives could then be saved. The j arms and legs of the victims were in most i instances completely consumed. Their | skulls were fractured and the brains protruded. There was no vestige of clothing on any of the bodies. As the news spread rapidly hundreds of carriages came streaming along the Champs Elysees conveying people with anxious and tear-stained faces, coming to seek relatives > or friends. Within half an hour were witnessed indescribable scenes of grief. One lady rushed frantically about inquiring for her daughter. On being assured that she was safe, she jumped, danced, screamed, and then rushed to her coachman and told him to drive home, after which she fell In a swoon. Another lady on reaohinR the scene went mad. Still another, imagining that she recognized her daughter's dress, called hysterically to hor husband to tell the police to prevent her from visiting the bazar. A majority of the dead seemed to have been mercifully suffocated before they were Tt* f Ka n rrrfn I af Ml f/"V rtllf of the building most of the ladies who escaped lost part of their clothing. Some of them were almost nude, their skirts and petticoats being "stripped oft of them. As they rushed out of the burning structure they fell swooning in the street, with their hair dishevelled and their faces, in a number of cases, scratched and bleeding. Died at Hla Son's Grave. Isaac N. Housel, fifty years old, was found dead beside his son's grave in Greenwood Cemetery, Trenton, N. J. He had ridden to the cemetery to place fresh flowers and sow grass seed on the grave, and having finished the work attempted to mount his bicycle to return home when he fell over and died. Heart disease was the cause of death. B.and O.'s New 8100,000 Passenger Station The $100,000 passenger station that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company is erecting in Baltimore, to take the place of the old Camden Station, is being rapidly pushed to completion. The structure will be thrown open to the public about June 1. Five Lambs From the Ewe. Joseph Luckman, of Heppner, Oregon, has a ewe that has just given birth to five lambs and all are alive. This is considered by sheepmen the most remarkable case on record. Luckman has been offered 3100 for the lambs. Women's Day In Nashville. Tho assembly hall of the Woman's Building was the scene of a brilliant gathering, when tho building, which Is one of the chief features of the Nashville (Tenn.) Exposition, was formally opened. Mrs. V. L. Kirkman, President of the Woman's Board, made the address of welcome and declared the building open. Spanish Anarchists Executed. Five of the anarchists convicted of participation in the bomb outrage on June 7 last, at the feast of Corpus Christi, were shot outside Fort Montjuich, Barcelona, Spain. They shouted "Long llveanarohyl" just before the order to Are was given. ? H REAR-ADMIRAL'MEADE DEAD* . VB The Famous Naval Officer Expires at A' Washington Sanitarium. Bear-Admiral Richard W. Meade (retired)^. SB United States Navy, who had beea ill la' Washington for three weeks past, died1 Tuesday in Dr. Johnson's private sanitarlum. ^S| r > THE LATE BEAB-AJDMIBAL MEADE. Bear-Admiral Meade was one of the beet] known officers of the modern navy, saw, hard service before, during and after the Civil War, and cruised*In all parts of thej world on Important naval ana diplomatic i missions. He was born in New York City on October 9, 1837, and was the eldest son j of the late Captain Bichard W. Meade, United 8tates Navy; an elder brother of the late General Meade,who fought at the battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863. The late Bear! Admiral was appointed a midshipman from I California October 2,1850. Admiral Meade - _ i married, in 1865, a daughter of the late M j Bear-Admiral Paulding, and by this mar- I | riage had one son and four daughters. ? 1 TARIFF BILL REPORTED. The Dingley Measure Subjected to a Radical Revision. The Finance Committee of the United j States Senate received the Dingley tariff bill from the sub-committee which had been considering the measure and immediately reported the bill to the Senate. In a general way the bill Is a surprise, especially to thos? who looked for the maintenance of thd Dingley rates. Except with regard to the duties on lumber, which was fixed at 62 per foot, and lead at 1% cents per pound, fruits at a proportionately high rate, hides at 1% cents a pound, and a few other items which were unchanged in order to secure the support of Senator Jones and a few Senators whosd votes are neoessary to its passage, the bill shows great reduction all along the line. I The retroactive clause mating tne rates collectible April 1. is stricken out of the bill. The provision emphasizing that nothing in the bill shall be regarded as abrogating N the Hawaiian treaty Is stricken from the' bill. This practically abrogates the treaty. There is an increase of forty-four cents a barrel in the Internal revenue tax on beer, which, It Is thought, will bring in $10,000,000 of revenue. This tax will continue until 1900. after which it will be $1. The discount on stamps is also removed, which, it is estimated, will add $25,000,000 more. Tea is to be taxed ten cents a pound fox % the next two years and a half. \ The internal revenue tax on snuff and chewing tobacco is raised from six to eight cents a pound, while cigars are to pay #3 a 1: thousand. The duties on wood and manu- l?, factures of wood have been materially re- V duced. The sugar schedule is an entirely I new one, the duties laid being both aa -A valorem and speciflo. The rates on wools are lowered from M eleven cents to eight cents a pound on the ' first class, and twelve cents to nine cents on the second class. ELEVEN LOST IN A WRECK. Steamship Collynle Went Down In a Collision With the Glrnifjoe. ' A collision occurred off Aberdeen, Scotland, between the small steamships Giralgoe and Collynle, resulting in the total loss of the Collynle. On board the Collynie were Captain Lawrie, her oommander; his wife ana two boys and a crew of eight men. Im- , mediately after the collision Captain Lawrie fastened life belts around his two boys and clasping his wife .In his arms awaited the inevitable sinking of ills ship. The Collynle sank in a few minutes and the captain's wife was torn from his arms by the Immense wave which closed over the vessel. The Glrnigoe stood by and picked up the Cap- . tain, who was unconscious, but all of the ] ULUOXIJ YYCXO uiivnucu* ? j The scene upon the quay when the waitI ing wives learned the fate of their huaI bands was pathetic beyond description, and ! it was necessary to carry some of the frenI zied and shrieking women to their homee , j by main force. CRIMES OF A FIEND. | Cat the Throats of Four Children and Assaulted Their Mother. f. | Farmer Knute Hillstead's wife and sis J children were in their home at Larimore, i North Dakota, when August Norman, a i young man whose attetnlons had frightened Mrs. Hillstead, entered the house. \ The woman ran into her bedroom and bolted the door. Norman, failing to get into the room, cut the throat of Peter, the flfteen-year-old son, and with the same razor killed the woman's thirteen-monthsold baby and inflicted fatal wounds in the I throats of two of her other children. J Going to the bedroom door the murderer j J then told Mrs. Hillstead that he would spare J : the lives of her two daughters if she would I fha flha Incr A. H upoii buv UVV4 wuv ^4W<V.VV?< ?? Q ? g horse the flend then took to the woods, 1 after breaking all the lamps in the house. | Armistice in Thessaly. I iTie Turkish commander in Thessaly ' asked for an armistice of Ave days, one re! port from Athens says. According to ani other report an armistice has already been i tacitly acquiesced in by both sides. An I armistice is understood to really mean the i end of the war between Turkey and Greece. I After fourteen hours' fighting the Greeks ; frustrated the Turkish attempt to turn the * ' dank of the Greek army to cut off retreat j to Yolo. Prompt News From the ?aquli, The Mexican Government is taking advantage of the quiet condition of the tribe 1 of Yaqui Indians to run Government telej graph lines through every part of that wild | and remote oountry. The object is to keep { in touch with the tribe so that word may bo | given of the slightest indication of a hostile i outbreak. Mr. Cleveland's Heavy Mall. 1 Thfl P<v?fcm&st?r at Princeton. N. J., has i applied for an extra carrier and allowance I for clerk hire because of ex-President i Cleveland's heavy mail. . Prominent People. George H. White, the only colored man in the present House of Representatives, is i a graduate of Howard University. ' Prince Paul of Russia is so tall that when | he travols he is compelled to take along his ! own bedstead, as the hotels have none long ' enough for him. ! M. Faure, the President of the French : RuDublic. is learning Russian, taking thr?? lessons weekly, In view of his expected visit to St. Petersburg. William Harding, of Waseca, Minn., who celebrated his 100th birthday recently, took part ill the WarOT 1812, the Mexioan War and the Civil War. He was sixty years of age when the latter broke out, but enrolled as a volunteer by giving his age as forty^.] JH