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I ' r f: riT*i ufiTCi rror THIHL nuiCL rinci Flames Eat Up tbe Famous Windsor Hostlery In New York City Like So Macb Straw. scon lit' LIVES LUST. Men and Women, Frantic With Fear Hurl Themselves From Roof and Windows. ffha Fire Started From a .Smoker'* Matcli Toesed Into a Lace Window Curtalr ?Many Killed and Injured?Over t Score of Vodles In the Knins?The Wlf< and Daughter of Proprietor Lelanc Among: the Killed?President McKtnk ley* Kin Escape?The Loss is Aboal 1.000,000?Hotel a Fire Trap. New Yobk City (Special).?The Windsoi Hotel, one of the best-known and most popular of New York's older hotels, was lestroyed Friday afternoon by a flre li rhlch many persons lost their lives. Ahnnt flftv narsong were iDiured. eithez ?y being burned or by jumping from th? Findows * tho hotel, many of them ser >usly and some of them fatally, while early forty persons, including guests and f i fan m SCENES OF THE WINDSOR Hi smployes ot the hotel and policemen, were onaccounted for. It Is thought that some of them were burned in the rains and that , iheir bodies will be found when a thorough learch is possible.- This cannot be for two ?r three days. The fire was the most calamitous hotel blase New York has ever known. It was itarted from a window curtain taking fire (rom a lighted match that was thrown from a saeond storv window. Several of the dead were killed by jumping from the windows. Panic seemed to feign Inside the hotel from the first. The Bremen saved many lives by their heroic Seeds, bat they were powerless to control ihe flames. Within an hour and a half the Hotel was almost destroyed. The Are that made an uncouth and terriole mass of rubbish of one of the city's flnest hotels was kindled by the tiny blaze that flickered on the head of a discarded matoh. An unknown man, a guest of the hotel, was standing about 3 o'clock in a front parlor on the second floor, close to a bay window which was huug with lace curtains. The guest lighted a cigar or cigaretfc, and tossed the match, still blazing, to the street. Jast then the curtains blew back. They were all ablate in an instant. ITbe man who had throwu tue matoh turned and ran. The flames soon filled the parlor, wherc they originated, and then went roaring upward in that end of the building, eating their way with a growing appetite and kr\?an/1lnri nnn(/i Tlimr unnn KiipsI' frnm HiD ""J windows on every floor to the top one? the sixth. Then they reached the roof. The horrified thousands In the street below were pushed bnck by the polioemen, who bad been stationed there to preserve ordei amid the festivities of a gala day. \7omen turned pale and screamed, little ones shrank back sobbing, and men felt the sweat break upon their brows, as the boad* of panicstricken people protruded from the bote! windows, turning now toward tho flames and now toward the sidewalk, and calling foi help In tones that made the hearers eick. The Are spread to the centre and to tlie rear. On the sixth floor it 3wept northward with an Irresistible rush, carrying woodwork and walls before it till it reached the wall on the Forty-seventl street side. It also traveled northward In the lower floors, but not so rapidly as on the top one, which it crossed ic about five minutes. The hotel was one of wide halls na<l vestibule?, a <leligh( to guests, but a terrible aid to tht fire. It was a building of drafts, where the flames made easy progress, and as they spread northward on the lower floors, wherever they met an elevator shaft, ol which there were several, tliey ieaped up through.. They broke Into the rooms of maddened men and women, and in al parts of the building drove them througt the windows in an effort to seize the ont remaining chancc of safety. Some of the fleeing guests and servants threw out the safety ropes, which had beer placed In the bedrooms as means of eseap* Smallpox In Arkansas Legislature, Members of the Arkansas Legislature ai Little Rock were panic-stricken a few dayi ago when It was announced that physician: had diagnosed the Illness of Senator Lank ford as smallpox. After a half-hour's de bate the House voted to vaccinate all It: members. Franking; Privilege For General Gotnez The Postmaster-Gonerul at Washiiigtoi has civen Director of Posts P.athbone bead of the Cuban mail servloe, nuthorit; to extend to General Gouiez the frankinj privilege for his official mail. l'roininent People. General Castellanos, last Spanish Gover nor-Genernl or Cuba, has been appointei Captain-General of Madrid. Slatin Pasha is about to leave the Egyp tian army in order that he may spend tbi remainder of bis days among bis friends ii Austria. Major 0. L. Fruden, the assistant secre tary to the President, bears a striking re semblance to Mr. McKlnley. a lfkekes.1 heightened by the high hat and frockcoa be always wears. Edward Gray, the principal of theDaven port school, of Fall River, Mass., who hat just died, was one of the oldest and best known eduoators in Massachusetts, bavlnj taught cflctinnonsly (or fifty-seven yean - . In case of Are. and started down them, often relaxing their holds as the agonizing I friction of their uanas against mw ropo proved too much to endure. Others lost their heads completely and finding themselves unable to escape bv halls and stalrways, sprang from the wlndowsills to probable and often certain death below. It was only a brief time before the hotel was in flames from basement to roof. An hour after the flames were first discovered the building was completely gutted, with a few fragments of the walls standing in places. The whole center of the building had melted with succeeding crashes into a vast heap of ash-besprinkled bricks. The two big lamps on handsome fillars still stood unharmed before the ruined entrance. But the Windsor had gone. The smoke rose In dense, blinding volumes from the heaps of what it once had been 1 and spread for blocks about, carrying a weight of ashes. The terrible scenes enacted during the early part of the fire will never leave the memories of those who witnessed them. *fen women and even children slid or dropped from ropes suspended from the windows or leitped out In delirium to death or terrible Injury. One man on the Forty-seventh street side fell upon another man on the street, somehow within the fire lines, and both were instan'Jy killed. At some windows men and women stood and wrung their l hands in despair. At others they screamed wildly for aid. Many of these were guests who had gone to their rcoras for an afteri noon nap and were cut off by the flames , before warning reached th-jrn. One handsomely dressed woman, later 1 identified as Mrs. Amelia Paddock, of . Irvington, N. Y., appeared at a window of a room on the fourth floor and held out ber 1 arms to the cro?JC then raised her bands as if calling for mercy on her soul. Then she clambered to the window sill, poised , for an instant, and leaped, while a sraoth' ered groan went up from the crowd. She turned like a top and struck the iron railing in front of the hotel, her lifeless body i bounding off into the areaway. Shortly afterward au unknown man jumped from the roof on the Forty-sixth ' street side of the hotel. Another one was > seen to jump from the Fifth avenue side, and two more from the rear. Then two women lumped from the roof into the 1 court yard below. I A mother and ber babe were seen at an jj [)TEL FIRE IN NEW YORK CITY. i upper wiDdow ot the hotel. The mother , threw the child to the street, dashing it to pieces, and then jumped to dentn herself. Many persons were saved by Jumping from the roof of the section of the hotel on Forty-seventh street to the roof of the building below. ? Meanwhile the flremea haA ran up ladders at mnDy of the windows and had begun to take down people as fast as possl ble. There were some Teats or Heroism which, brought cheers from the watching throngs. Undoubtedly some who did not escape might have done so It they had waited a llttln longer for the firefighters to rMcue them. The firemen were aided by various policemen and others, who made their way into the building when the flames first started. One patrolman guided three women down to safety. Two unknown members of the Forty-seventh Regiment went up the fire escape on the Forty-seventh street side and rescued two women who were entreating aid from the windows. Miss Helen Gould threw open the doors of her home, whloh is opposite the hotel? the old Jay Gould house- as soon as It was found that the house could be utilized, and several of the wounded were carried Into the house. They were laid out on the floor, cushions or pillows being used to make them comfortable, nnd ministered to as far as was possible until they were carried to ambulances, to be distributed in various hospitals. Among the dead are: John Connolly, of VT a ,n VauI* ViAfal zioriianf ap /?rvm nnn nH | ilOY iV/Alk VHJ, UVlOl V.U1 p'.UkUl, VVIM(/VUU<A fracture of the skull, died in Flower Hospital; Mrs. John McCormlck Gibson, guest ' at the hotel, died at the Murray Hill Hotel; Miss Eleanor Louise Goodman, daugh1 ter of Samuel Good.nan, a guest In the hotol, jumped from a window, died of fracture of the skull in Bellevue Hospital; ' Lucile Grande, of Nrrth Carolina; Mrs. 1 Nancy Kirk, seventy-3-e year3 old, mother | of J. 8. Kirk, wealthy soap manufacturer, ol ; Chicago, died in Bellevue Hospital; Mrs. 1 Isabella C. Leland, flfty-two years old, wife of the proprietor, taken to Flower 1 Hospital, died without regaining con| solousnees; Miss Helen Leland, twenty-ono ; years old, daughter of the proprietor of the hotel, burned about body and inhaled [ smoke; Miss Amelia Paddock, of Irving1 ton-on-Hudson, ju nped from sixth story, 1 died in Miss Gould's house. She was a 1 sister-in-law of Samuel Goodwin, assistant ) traffic manager of the New York Central Railroad. , Abner McKinloy, brother of the Presl, dent, with his wlfo and daughter Mabel, lived in the Windsor. Mr. McKinley was ! not in the hotel when the fire broke out. As soon a3 he heard of It, he hastened to the hotel, only to itnd the walls falling In. | luuiuiuiiy utiu suucewuuu iu o.iuayiuK uuw, ever. The McKinlevs oocupled a suite of , rooms on the second floor. The monetary loss, as estimated by ! George T. Patterson, of the New York i Board of Fire Underwriters, is $1,000,000 s It la covered by insurance. Hanged For a Dual Murder. t Oliver Prevost was hanged at Port Arthui , Ontario, a few days ago for the murder ot , two French swiue herders named Carrlere and Dolvin on February 10, 1897. The prin[ cipnl witness against Prevost was Rosanna s Gauthier, a married woman. In his defence Prevost swore tho woman poUoned the two men. ^ Invitation to the Peace Conference. t I China, Japan, Persia an.1 Slam, besides y i the European States, will be represented i I In the Peace Conference to bo convened at J tne Hague, Holland, on May 18. A Boy Kills a Woman. " I &1t\A*f T Iran cirfnon T'Qo rj mno a ?_ j | aiUQik juuacu, OIA^UU JV>UU VIU, 04rested at Cincinnati, Ohio, a few days ago, . charged with the murder of Mrs. Anthony s Stlegler. of Mount Lookout. The boy con2 fussed and said his motive was robbory. He found $70. The murder was a brutal one. The woman was found dead by her * son the night before, her head having heen " crushed In by Ave blows of a poker. 9 ' General Booth Qoei to New Zealand. It was announced at the headquarters of [ the Salvation Army In London that General Booth has gone from Adelaide, South Ausj tralla, for New Zealand, In order to under. take a campaiga there. I FILIPINOS IN RETREA1 General Wheaton's Flying Brigad Pursues Them For Eleven Miles. INSURGENTS LOSE TWO HUNDREI The Enemy's Attack on Tagnlg Meel With a Prompt Reply?Our Force Now Command the Lake ? Half Million Dollars' Worth of Insargenti Property Destroyed. Manila, Philippine Islands (By Cable).After the attack by the Filipinos Satui day night upon a detached post at Tagulj It was decided by General Wheaton to pui sue the Insurgents and brine matters to a and in short order, If he could succeed 1 engaging them In battle. He immediately reinforced the Amerl :ans with two companies each of tb Washington and Oregon Regiments. Tb post had held the enemy In check, and th Are of the reinforcing companies repulse them, driving them across to an Islan formed In the estuary. They w?e thus i front of the Twenty-second regular". On discovering that they were entrappe the rebels fought desperately, aided mt> teriallv bv the lunele and the darkness, bu they were completelv routed, with heav loss, after two hours' fighting. The Amor cans lost two killed and twenty woundec among the latter Lieu'enant Frank Jone! General Wheaton determined to nunls the natives, and at daybreak on Sandn his brigade started In the following ordei Tho Sixth Artillery holding the extrem right, the Oregon volunteers holdln the centre, the Washington regimen keeping to the edge of the lake, an the Twenty-second- regulars occupy ing the right of the line, which swei: the whole country alonir the lake I a southerly direction toward General Over shine's position. The line, thus extende over two miles of country, rough and co\ ered with thick jungle, advanced el<>ve miles. The enemv fled, the last of thei being seen about 3.39 In the afternoon. A scarcely any time did the Americans gc within 1200 yards of them. The Oregon regiment had one man kllle and four wounded, and the Twenty-seeon regulars one wounded. According to th official reports no fewer than 200 Filipino were killed. General Otis says the American Arm and gunboats now command the lake. H i estimates that pronerty of the insurgent valued at $500,003 bus been aescroyw while quantities of rice and sui?ar, and 40 tons of coal, which is very valuable her< have beeo captured. Many of the prisoners represent that th Filipino soldiers are weakening. Th gnnerous treatment that the American administer to the native prisoners an wounded seems to Influence the insurjjen army powerfully. In the opinion of th Americans, however, the Filipino leadet will continue to provoke fighting just a long as they can retain their hold udo their followers because they have everj thing to gain and nothing to lose. The enemy have twice as many men o their firing lines as they have arms, an the fact that so few arms are captured b the Americans is becaube the guns of tfc wounded Filipinos and of many who sui render are spirited away. TORNADO KILLS A FAMILY. Father, Mother and Nine Children Loi Their Live* In Alabama. Edwabdsville, Ala. (Special).?The toi nado which passed near this place Satu day iilght destroyed Ave houses, log struc turee, and killed ten persons in one famll, The dead are Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Coff* and nine children: Leila, twenty-twi James, twenty; Lulu, eighteen; Jack, thi teen; Bessie, twelve; Dollie, ten; Davero eight; Grover, six; John, four. About dozen persons were .Injured. uoiiee, WBO uhu uuijr uuc iog auu ill was a Confederate veteran, was i home with ten members of his family whe the storm came on. From all indicatio] the house was torn asunder and tho ii mates were violently thrown up and dow and against the ground until life was e: tinct and then were dropped 200 yards ol The body of one of the girls was a most completely wrapped around stump. The funeral of the family tot place on Sunday. All tho bodies we placed in one grave. An Arkansas Village Obliterated. Pine ?luff, Ark. (Special).?Rob Roy, town of 300 inhabitants eight miles norl of here, is in ruins, every building ia tl place being leveled with the exception < I the Cotton Belt Railway station. A torni do struck the town at noon on- Satnrda and in a moment blotted out the place. Only one man was killed, a negro name Ben Grant, who bad taken shelter from tl storm. 8everal persons were injured, bi none seriously. A DESERTER AT MANILA. Pate ot an American Volunteer Who Wi Infatuated With a Native Woman. Sax Fbancibco. Cal. (Special).?The' Mi alia American, a daily paper which hi been published at the Philippine capit since the oocupation of that city, says ! its latest issue which has reachec^tiere: "Ez-Corporal John W. Hays of Compai D, First California Volunteers, traitor ar deserter, has found his just end. His boc now lies in a trench dug to bury the en mies of his country who fell In battle, wll no slab at his head, his name forever h&te by bis own regiment. "Hays was a member of the Old Guari and came with his regiment to Manll Last October he married a Filipino woma and two days later deserted to the iusu Kent line. This was the last his regime] heard or cared to hoar about him uutll ye terday, when, in butylng dead insurgent they came across his body, riddled wil bullets, with the clothes of a first lleutei ant of Insurgents. The sad feature of tt Btory is that Hays was oue of the best me in his company, and was slated for promt tlon. His captain felt his loss keenly, an could only ascribe it to infatuation for native woman." Finland Petition Kejectcil. The deputation of 500 persons who woi to St. Petersburg, Russia, to present petition with500,000 signatures relating I the Imperial decree of February 15 concer ing the Constitution of Finland have bee ordered to return home Immediately. 1 the event of their failure to comply wl this mandate foroe was threatened. Killed His Wife and Hlmielf. Jealousy caused William Lang to kill L wife and then fatally shoot himself at h home, in Chicago a few days ago. Lar and his wife attended a masked ball in tl evening, and it was said the husband b came onraged because marked atteatioi were paid to his w^e by one of the your men at the affair. He shot his wife in tl left temple and himself just above tl heart. He died a few hours later. California Falls to Elect a Senator. The California Legislature has udjourni line die without electing a United Stat Senator. Cycling Notes. TV*** Tiofwxlf- Whpelmfln hnrfl Hrnnnf I ibout $10,000 in promoting cycle Va meets, and will quit the Held. ' American wheelmen who tour in Fram !his year will be obliged to obtain permi !rom the Custom House officials at the Trench port ct entry, in order to avoid :ax and the necessity of carrying a badj an their wheels. The durability of bicycle tires varies ai .ording to the use to which they are pu Aiders discover through the wear and tei :hat the rear or driving tire succumbs flru This circumstance has led to the sugge tlon that manufacturers and makers of b cycles should fit them out with speck tires for the roar sMela. p regiments have been Issued by the War Department. The British Ambassador has consulted with Secretary Hay as to a modus vivendi to be be observed pending the determina* tion of tbe Alaska boundary question. ? A bill in equity was filed in the District Court a few days ago by the Roxana Gold Mining and Tunnelling Company to restrain the Secretary of th9 Interior and the Commissioner of tiie General Land Office . L, from issuing to the Isabella Gold Mining Company patents for the Lee loile and 8 Cheyenne No. 1 mining claim in the Crlpi' pie Creek district, Colorado. A petition for a rehearing of the "Alcohol in the Arts" case, decided against the _ manufacturers In the Supreme Court by a bare majority, was filed on Monr' day. General B. F. Tracy succeeds Mr. * I f, Choate, who argued the case as counsel | r. for Robert Dunlop, the claimant-in the p cn3er Tbe contract for the construction a1 naval training station in San Francisco. 1 Harbor, at a place known as Yerba Buena, I L I Vioo hoon ownri^Brl Th? Successful Arm . wa9 Campbell <fe Pettus, of San Francisco, whose bid was $74,400. There were twentytwo bidders. ? The Secretary of War has approved the plans for the Improvements to New York d Harbor, and bids have been advertised c for. Consul McNally, at Bogota, has Informed d the State Department that the Consular agent In Bucaramaugn has telegraphed >' him that William Sldorichs, a citizen of ^ the United States, associated with Mecke [ & Co., of New York, shot and killed himI. self at that place on Maroh 10. I; Mrs. Emily Maria Fish, wife of Hamilton Fl9h, of New York, died in this cltv a few * days ago, after an Illness of several week9. j She was formerly Miss Mann, of Troy, N. Y. U j Aotlng Postmaster-General Heath ha9lsit ! sued an order directing that the fees for d | postal money orders Issued In the United r. States for payment In Cuba shall be the same as those fixed by law for domestlo 1 D . money orders. ! k Orders were issued for the muster out of ] d the First Texas in Galveston, Texas, and | r- the Second Louisiana in Savannah, Ga. | n Both regiments ure in Havana, but will be i v brought to this country as soon as trans- ( ^ ports are available. The Sixth Company , >1 o[ Volunteer Signal Corp9, now iu Augusta, ] Ga., has been ordered mustered out. i j Dr. Cabell Whitehead, Assayer of the ? United Statos Mint, has accepted an important place In the service of the Turkish I Government. He will shortly depart for 1 Constantinople to assume the duties of tho I [ office, wliloh will be virtually that of DI- ] ? ! rector-General of Industries. I. J C l>om??tic. ? Camp Sterling Price, Confederate War Veterans, at Dallas, Texas, a few days ago | shipped n carload of native Texas trees for, | e the Confederate cemetery at Camp Chase, , j Ohio. The trce3 are of the hardiest | "I growths known to Texas and are expected | lt to withstand tho oovere Northern climate. | Bedford Eeale died on Monday of hie- I Li coughing at St. Vincent'sHospItal.Norfolk, i " Va. Fifteen days ago hu began to hie- | r cough intermittently, and for eight days be hiccoughed unceasingly. \ ,t Thomas 8tubbleflold, nephew of Circuit 1 i Judge Bobbins, was shot and killed on ,j Tuesday at JTayfleld, Ky., by Joseph Ramie monds, of Clarksville, Tenn., in a sudden r quarrel. The Japanese cruiser Cbitose, construct- 1 ed by the Uulon Iron Works, sailed from San Francisco, Cal., for tbe Orient a few days ago. As the big vessel passed down , the bay, tbe vessels In the harbor saluted 1 her. The battleship Iowa saluted with I colors. I Twolve tenemont cottages at Dallas, ; r Texas, were burned a few days ago. Eight J i. were owned by Mrs. W. E. Dundbar and ? three by George Mitchell. The Are was oj. ' incendiary origin, and the nearest alarm M box had been plugged so that it was nec0 essary to drill it out with a chisel before p an alarm could be turned In. 1 ! A Louisville and Nashville train, north i bound, struck p landslide between Ewlng (< I and Wheeler, \a., a few days ago. The j, train was thrown from the track and Firej, man Oharles Pointer was instantly killed. 1( Charles Shively, the engineer, was badly a injured, but will recover. Only slight ,, damage was dono to the train. t The first train from Denver, Col., since [I February 21, consisting of a rotary and | four onglnes, reached Como, Col., a few < days ago. The train was a week going >1 from Grant, u distance of twenty-three 1UUCB. Mr. McWhinney, of Allegheny County, introduced a concurrent resolution in the Pennsylvania Legislature, providing for I the observation of May 1 next as "IJewey :f Day," and the official declaration of the i, met by the Governor. No opposition was >; offered to the proposition in either the i- House or 8enate. Plney Fork, an oil town in Wetzel County, W. Va., was burned a few days ago. SevenM teen dwelling bouses, two hotels and all M the business part of the town were deu' stroyed. The loss Is estimated at $150,000. Llcht Battery F, Fourth United States Artillery, stationed at Fort Adams, R. I., has received orders to prepare for transfer to Manila. Tho battery is commanded ? by CaptainS. W.Taylor and has been there ' elnce the close of the war with Spain. a As a result of the assault made by Colonel j Jack Cbinn upon C. J. Bronston in the , Phoenix Hotel, LsxIngtOD, Ky., the Grand ? a Jury has returned an indictment against , li Cbinn. Tho indictment is for common < nuisance, "by using insulting, abusive, in- ? ? decent and rlotons language ror too purpose of provoking an assault." The inl, dlctment la very unusual. a The Texas Legislature has appropriated :l $2000 to be used in exterminating the smallK pox epidemic at Laredo. There are COO cases of the disease In that city. J The Connecticut Stato Senate at Harta ford, Conn., a few days ago passed a bill n to permit the New York, Now Huven it . 1 Hartford Railroad to run trains on Sunday ^ between the hours of 10.30 a. m. and 3 p. m. (which was prohibited by statute), after a ? lengthy debate. ' At an early hour.a few days ago. 8t. >( Clare's Convent, a Catholic institution in j ' New Orleans, La., was partly destroyed by ' j fire. The Are w?s clearly of Incendiary ] l(j origin. Duringtbe pa?t few days attempts t z have been made to burn St. Mary's School, f the St. Francis Colored School and St. Clare's Convent, all Catholic. All of the t fires were incendiary. Chief of Police 1 Gas'.er believes the lie? to be due to a re- ? x liglous fanatic. i , I i'oraljrn. n G. R. Birt, the missing chairman and j n managing director of the Millwall J)ock j [t Company, who disappeared in February, . t' leaving a deQcit of $1,000,000 in the ac- j counts of the concern, was arrested in Lou- j don a few days ago. Marqul* Salvago Ragsfl, Secretary of the I f4._ li?_ T ?at PrtL'ln T*T 111 SlItftHfid 4 11U11UU UO^UWIV/U .%* ? W..H| ..... it Signor Martlno as Italian Minister to lj China. Marqnis Raggl is now at Home, but ( 11 will start forthwith for his post. 0 A serious explosion was causod at the War j Department in Paris, Franco, bv fx peri- < 1$ meats with a new form of gunpowder, j 8everal persons wera injured, and great j 1 alarm was felt in the neighborhood. I It is reported that Empross Eliribnth's ' murderer, Lulgl Lucchiui who is impris- ' oned at Geneva, Switzerland, has completely broken down under tne rigors <>? e solitary imprisonment. He has nttemptod suicide on three occasions and has probably beoome violently insane. ' Baroness Von Donovkbevg, a daughter ol 1 Count Vou Munster, the German Amb&ssador to France, was rob'oed iu Pisa of jewels . e' valued at 521,400 and a large sum ol mouoy. ' Gil Bias, a prominent Parisian journal, . says that M. Turpin, the inventor of the J ' explosive melinte, who was convicted ol ? treason some time ago, has decided to ap? nlv for a revision of his trial. Placards have been posted at Castellon and Alcala de Cbisvert, Spalu, ciiUIuk tipou taxpayers to refuse to pay thek taxe*. V The placards, which were addressed to the < '* repatriated soldiers, were torn down by the 1 * police. Jean Baptlste Sebastlen Krantz, the 1 Frenoh engineer, formerly Director-General 1 ot Roads and Bridges, died at Paris. He 1 /' ";>? r% ;v > ~ " * I " ' . . | THE NEWS EPITOMIZEOL ,f WaalilnKtnn Item*. Orders for the withdrawal to the United States from Havana, to be mustered out, ? OahaioI Tlllnnlc. and Ifilaf Tnrtlnnn. V . ' ' / :^v.' FIGHTING IN HAMA. A Mob Attacks thy Police and Many Are Killed anj Wounded, CUBAN OFFICERS HIIX IN THEFRAV Trouble Started at a Ball in an Unsavory Quarter or the City?The Police Fired on From the Roofs?A Police Captain Severely Injured Troops Make Many Arrests. Havana, Cuba (By Cable).?The excitenent which grew out of the conflict between the police and the populace has subtided, and it Is not likely that there will be further trouble. The mob has been taught ^ lesson which will probably prove sufSclent. Lawbreakers now fear the police ind realize that the latter will not tolerate resistance to their authority. During the affray3 of Saturday and SunJay three policemen were killed and about flfteon wounded, while of the populuce five were killed and between sixty and seventy jthers wounded, some so ser'iusly that :hey will probably die. The condition of Police Captain Jose Estrampe3 was serious, but he Is recovering. 8ixty arrests were made and orders have seen issued to the police not to hesitate to shoot hereafter should occasion require It. There seems to be concerted action among :he Nanigos, the secret society of the low :iass of colored men here, to attack the police upon every possible occasion. All the trouble of the'two nights occurred in the fMitlwInr* TtTor/la whl/?h a pa {nliahl^Arl hv flirt worst classes. Saturday night's trouble occurred at a publlo ball In 8an Jose street, an unsavory quarter of Havana. Many Cuban officers, eolonels and captains among them, attended. A policeman, following orders to prevent a crowd collecting in front of the building where the ball was in progress, isked a group of men to go iuorto disperse. His request was unheeded, and, iftor repeating It, be was attacked by the ?ronp, whereupon many issued from the aulldlng, set upon hirn. took away his club ind revolver, and handled him roughly. The policeman immediately notified headquarters, who ordered twenty reserves to the scene of the trouble. The crowd bad prepared for their arrival. It is said :hey opened with a revolver fire upon the j police, which the latter returned, the shooting being kept up until the nmmuni- j tlon was exhausted. Tha opponents of1 the police acted with determination in the iffray. Many who were in the building mounted the roof, which is comparatively low, and < 3red upon the police from that point. They ivere apparently well armed, and thl3 fact, :ogether with the resolution with which :hey fought, seems to confirm the belief ;hat the attacklug party was mostly made jp ot uuoao otncers, as oruiuttry uivuinus , ivould hare lied from the revolvers of the police. -'.Many women were wounded. American troop9 were called to the scene ivben the trouble waa over, and numerous irrests followed. DEATH OF PRINCESS KAIULANI. Claimant to the Throne of Hawaii Passed Away at Honolulu. Sah Francisco, Oal. (Special).?The iteamer China, from the Orient via Honoula, brings news of the death of Princess | laiulani on the morning of the 6th inst The cause of death was inflammatory rheumatism. ^8" PHIXCE38 KAICLAN'T, OF HAWAII. Princess Victor!? Kaiulanl was the laugater ot A. 8. Oleghorn. a gentleman )f British ancestry, but long a resident of he Hawaiian Islauds, and the Princess Herlam Llkeliko, a sister of Kalakaun, who reigned as King for r "enteen years, and ilso ot Lillaokalani whose reign of two rears was brought to it close by the action >f the United States authorities on Januiry 17,1893, Descent by Hawaiian law is hrough the female line, and the Princess vas declared heiress to the throue in 1891. JIAO was OUUUIUUU iU uu^tuuvi, uuu ittractive and accomplished girl, 8he was m her twenty-fourth yoar. AN INSANE* MAN HANGED. Examination After Death Shows Murderer ffm Irresponsible. Atlanta, Ga. (Special).?A. new and itartling feature has been added to the tase of Robert Lewis, who was hanged u ew days ago for murdering Charles 3aynes. A post-mortem examination of he man's brain by Dr. William P. Nicollon disclosed the fact that it was diseased. Meningitis had been of long standing nnd l film grew tightly over that portion of the >ra!n which controls the emotions. A dlsiase of the blood had crept into the cpIIs ind nearly destroyed tiia man's reasoning ,'aoultiea. Tbs outoome of the autopsy is a vlndica:ion of the position taken by the attorneys 'or the condemned man. . Lewis was langed as the result of an examination by in expert. Dr. J. B. Balrd, who pronounced ;he murderer sane. The Georgia law does not permit the hanging of an insane mr. i. tdcnlral Villainil's Suppoued Skeleton. After careful investigation General Loonird Wood, the Military Governor of Santiago, Cuba, is convincel that the skeleton tound a few days ago tied in an arm-chair imid the rocks on the shore, about four nilo3 west of El Morro, is the remains of the 8panlsh Admiral Villamil, who commanded the tordedo boat destroyer Furor ind Pluton in the battle which resulted 1q the destruction of Cervera's squudrou. Atlanta Citizen Dies Aged 102. John S. Prather, the oidost citizen ol Atlanta, Ga., is dead at the age of 102. News of the Toilers. More than 90,000 employes in New England are receiving increased wages over those of 1891. Louisville, Ky., has a new city central labor union, called the United WageWorkers' Union of Louisville. Nearly all the labor unions of Georgia have elected delegates to form a State leJsration of labor in that State In April. Eureka Lodge 434 of the International Association of Machinists has donatod i53 ' to the Idle boot and shoe workers of Marlboro. The oigarmakers of Springfield, lit., are taking quite an Interest in the bootblacks of that olty, and have assisted In organizing ft uaioa. / " . i.' OMR MPW RPLATIONS WITH JAPAN I To Be Brought About by the Treaty Which Goes Into Effect In Jnly. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Extensive changes in the relations between the United States and Japan will be brought about on July 17 nest, when the new treaty between the two nations goes into effect. ' It was negotiated several years ago, but its actual operation was deferred so as to give time for adjusting 'affairs to the changed conditions. Similar treaties have b?en made by Japan with most of the other first MIKADO XtTTSUHITO. (Under bis enlightened rale Japan has attained the status of a great nation.) class powers. Their essential feature is to give Japan a status as a modern nation, Instead of imposing the restrictions which she was under, along with China and other Eastern countries, before ber advance to modern methods. The entire extra-territorial system is swept away by the new treaties. This gave to foreign Powers, including the United States, a right to try civil and criminal, cases relating to their own citizens in consular courts, instead of in the Japanese courts. Hereafter these foreign courts will be abolished and Japanese courts will try all cases alike. Another feature is in opening up the entire interior of Japan to the capital and enterprise of foreign merchants. At present the restrictions on aliens are exceedingly severe, except at Yokohama and a few large places, the interior being practically in the exclusive occupancy of tne natives. Now, however, foreign settlement and trade are invited, and the richness of tne interior promises large commercial returns. The rates of duty between tfie two countries will not be much changed, as this branch of the now relation already has gone into operation. KILLED HIS FIVE. CHILDREN. The Murderer Also Set Fire to the House to Conceal the Crime. Hptchixsox, Km. (Special).?John A. Mooro killed Ills fire children while they wore sleeping a few nights ago and then burned the house; The murderer is under arryt. The children were Curl Moore, aged twelve; Mary, aged ten; Pearl, aged eight; Charlie, aged sevenfcand Lee, aged tDree years. The'house in which Moore lived in was discovered on fire at 2 o'clock in the morning. When the flames were gotten under control and the firemen entered the five children were found lying side by side on a bed. The lower parte of their bodies were badly burned. It was at first thought they had died from suffocation, but blood * * U?J.Ia4Ua? an/1 rr?K an I wns round OU tat) uouuiuiun, auu TT uou physicittus examined tlie bodies they found the skull of each fractured. With one exception each child had a cut in the neck, evidently made by k knife. At the inquest the father declared the Are started from a lamp' left burning low In the children's rtora. When the doctors testified that the children had evidently been murdered Moore gave close attention, but his countenance did not change. Once or twice he sneered at the evidence. Wliea the verdict of the jury was brought in charcring bici with the crime he still acted iijdifferently. He refused to talk and was taken to the County Jail. The mother of the children was away from home during the night nursing a sick neighbor. She can give no reason for her husband's deed. Moore came here from Emporia three ' weoks ago, and has been out of work. He spent las: summer farming in Oklilhoma. His wife'3 father, M. W. Franklin, lives here, but the family know little about ' Moore. He has never"shown any symptoms of Insanity, so far as can be learned. MURDERED HIS SCHOOLTEACHER. Ml?? Preieott OblecteJ to Youns Bailey'a Attentions and He Shot Her. Salisbury, N. H. (Special).?Frank BalJey, aged seventeen, shot and wounded [fatally Miss Harriet Prescott, his school.teacher, Tuesday afternoon. Bailey had been paying much attention to his teacher, >ho had told him that he mu/st stop calling on her. 1 On two occasions he followed her to her ,home after school and went to the door an<l .asked to see her. Both times he was told that she was not in. This made Bailey angry, and he told her that he would see her or know the reason why. j After school in the afternoon Bailey went up and spoke to her. She made him an answer that he did not like. Taking a pistol from his pocket, he fired one shot into her chest above the heart. She was taken to her home, where she died shortly afterward. REAL CULPRIT IN DREYFUS AFFAIR. Former Russian Ambassador at Paris (liarged With Selling Secrets. Londox (By Cable).?The Evening News publishes a sonsatlonal Dreyfus story. It declares that the former Russian Ambassador, Baron von Mohrenheim, Is the real culprit who sold both Russian and French secrets to the German Government, adding that the Russian Government itself is con? j - * '- ?-"* If la nnlv fn vidcbq 01 OIS KUIIl, liuu mill i> * avoid a public scandal greater than the Dreyfus affair that be is unpunished further than the Intimation tbat he is not to show bis face within the Czar's dominions. Baron von Mohrenhelm was formerly Russian Ambassador at Paris. He was relieved from his post In December, 1897, and was succeeded by Prince Ouroyssoff, who was previously Busslan Minister at Brussels. Tiro Killed in *n Omaha Fire. Two persons lost their llve3 and twenty were injured, some so badly that they are expeoted to die, in a Are a few days ago at Omaha, Neb. The dead are: Mrs. Anna Schameland Mrs. Thomas Taylor. The fire whs not n serious one as far as Joss of property is concerned. It will not exceed 350,00U, half of which was on the building. The losses are fully covered by Insurance. M. CHinbon Will Act For Spain. The Spanish Government has appointed M. Cambon, the French Ambassador at Washinsrton. to exchange the ratifications of the Peace Treaty on behalf of Spain. The Work of State Le^islutors. A compulsory vaccination law has been enacted In Now Mexico. The New Hampshire Senate has for a second time rejected u bill to abolish Fast Days. A proposition for a constitutional amendi ment introducing the referendum has boen rejected in Utah. The Michigan Legislature has voted to submit to the people a proposition for a State printing office. /i - I}--nuD r\f nir 1 ah r?m i h/iq rfl. uyvoiuui ii>uuvg, w* fused to jolu tbo Legislature la putting An embargo on circuses, vetoing a measure which sought to require a Jlrcus to pay a J100Q llccaso foe. ' TIE CD6AV AM? CENSUS i i ^ More Than Thirteen Thousand Men ; ' i in the Ranks. _ i . ERNST WILL DISTRIBUTE MONEY. The Department Commanders Take Careful Census of the Cnlrnn Army and Find 13,319 Soldier*, Exclusive of the Commissioned Officer*. Entitled to Share In the 83,000,000 Appropriation. Hataxa, Cuba (By Cable).?The Cuban Army baa 13,219 meD, all told. This number includes corporals and sergeants, but excludes commissioned officers. The figures are the result of the official Inquiry Instituted, under the direction of the department commander.', for the use of tbe military administration. The reports of the Governors of th? provlnoes, as to troop?, are as follows: Santiago, none; Porto Principe, 300; Santa Clara, 4769; Matansas, 2200; Havana Prov lace, 2450, which includes 375 in the City of Havana, and Plnar del Bio, 3500. t General Gomez originally reported that there were 42,000 privates and non-com- | missioned officers. General Roloff, Inspector General of the Caban Army, was to hare presented an accurate muster roll to Got- . ernor General Brooke, but he has not done so. As an adherent of the Cuban Military. Assembly, he has joined with it ugiilnst General Gomez. His muster rolls, in whatever form they may be, have been given to Senor Rafael Portuendo, President of the Executive Committee of the Assembly, but the Governor General has assurance that they will soon be turned over to him. Brigadier-General Ernst will represent the military administration in distributing the $3,000,000. The statement that there are no Cuban soldiers in the Province., of . ' Santiago has caused considerable surprise here, as it was supposed there were many Cubans still in arms there. Nevertheless this Is the report of Major-General Leonard Wood, the Military Governor. ON SPEAKING TERMS WITH SPAIN. * ' Admiral Camara Hoist* Old Glory la Response to the Raleigh's Salute. Gibbaltab (By Cable).?As the Spanish squadron commanded by Admiral Camara was. leaving Gibraltar Bay p. few days, ago It was met near Algeclras by the United ADH1BALCAHACV. (Tho first Spanish Naval/Officer to aalate . the Stars and Stripes since the close of the war.) , instates cruiser Raleigh, which Is returning home from Manila. The Raleigh ran up the Spanish flag and the Spanish Admiral replied by hoisting the Stars and Stripes. This 1s the flrst act of international court- esy between the United States and Spain in European waters since the outbreak of the war. ' j* Spanish Flag Dipped to tlie President. Brunswick, Ga. (3peoial).?The first 8panlsh flag to be dipped fn salute to the President since the beginning of the war with Spain frittered down from the peak of the Spanish bark TaTalla Josef a as the President landed here on Wednesday, and was presented to Mr. McKlnley by Captain Bolg. The President thanked th% captain and said he would treasure the flag us one of the mementoes of his term of office. EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN. Smokeless Powder Canaos Death and Havoc In New Jersey. Pexn'b Gbove, N. J. (8peclal).?More than 3000 pounds of smokeless powder exploded on Wednesday at the E. I. Dapont Powder Works at Carney Point, near here, and opposite Wilmington. Del., Instantly killing three workmen and injarlng others. The dead are: Isaac Layton, aged fifty, raarneu; <iuuu iuukih, hrou iiuriy, oiu^ic, William Ford, aged forty, married. The explosion took pluce in one of the drying houses, where Liiyton was at work. .The explosion shook the" country for miles around, and in the town heavy panes of glass were broken in many houses. Across the Delaware Rlvor, in Wilmington, the noise of the explosion was also heard. I- .mediately following the first explosion came several others, distinct, and nearly as loud. They occurred in small store bouses. Both the drying house and the storehouses were demolished, and other small buildings about the works damaged. Francis Dupont and hLs nephew were at work in the laboratory at the time of the explosion, and were slightly injured by pieces of glass, but dlrocted the care of the other Injured and the recovery of the dead. The works have been running on large Government orders for smokeless powder. The loss is estimated at $250,000, without taking into account the delay that mu3t ensue in tilling the Government orders. Three Killed la Boiler Explosion. The sawmill boiler at the plant of Hud son Shuss, near M&ttle, Md., exploded a few days ago and killed Pblletus Wink, Daniel Snyder, Jr., nna a man named Shass. John Snyder, Harry Sigle and Anthony Whitfield were lDjureJ. 8nyder was horribly crushed and blown about 103 feet, and Wink's head was blowi off. A pin was driven clear through Whitfield's neclc from the back. The mill wan almost entirely obliterated. Unpaid Spanish Soldier* Disorderly. Spain's unpaid repatriated soldiers continue to be disorderly In Madrid, clamoring in boisterous demonstrations for arrears in payment. Foor Men Killed by a Fallliig Scaffold. Tne scaffold erected for the purpose of making repairs at W. C. Edwards & Co.'s mills at Rockland, Ontario, gave way a few days ago just as five men were entering the building and instantly killed four of them, Louis Rochop, Henry Dalrymple, Eugene Descham and Archie Stewart. Xavier Frappier was four hours uuder the debris and was finally got ouc seriously hurt. China ltefanes Italy'* Request. The Chinese Minister at Rome bus informed the Itnilau Government that China absolutely refuses tho demand of Italy foe a concession at San-Muu Bay. Kecrnltlnjj the Marine Corps. Orders have been issued by Brigadier* General Heywood, commandant of tho Marine Corps. Washington for the immediate enlistment of 3000 men to complete the quota allowed by law under the Personnel bill. Iu order to facilitate the work several additional recruiting stations will be established along the great lakes and in the interior, where heretofore none has existed. The Plagae Stamped Out ?t Haarltioj. The hubonlc plague has been thoroughly stamped ont of the island of Mauritius. Clean bills of health are now being lasaed.