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F . ? VOL. XII. City Suffers Most Disas tory of ' flk'E RAG Hi AI.L DAY SUNDAY Toward Midnight the Fire Begin Hating Its NVay Into tin- Financial District "layer /TcLean Says the Loss Cannot Be listlmated. Baltimore. Special.?The nost doul ntftivo. en ! ion in ti?t hi<;ti)i V of Haltinuut occurred here Sunday in Hie wholesale dry goods business district. raging practically unchecked during many hours, completely destraying snore.s of the largest bus lies;; houses in the wholesale district, involving losses which cannot be estimated. as the fire was still burning fiercely wlioti night fell. Owing to the wide e-.tem i.C the calamity it will be tomorrow before even an approximate estimate can be made, though it is certain that it has already exceeded $J5,000,000. The tire was still burning ai nightfall, but was under control.No loss of life was reported at this hour. HKOKE OUT ON HOPKIN S Pl.ACK. The lire broke out shortly before 11 o (Mock tills morning in tne wholesale dry goods store of John' T. Hurst & Co., on Hopkins place, in the heart of the business district, with a series of loud explosions, which were heard in remote parts of the city, and spread with fearful rapidity. In half an hour there were a dozen big warehouses in the wholesale dry goods and notions district burning fiercely. The entire tiiv department was called out,hut was utterly powerless to check the spread of the flame.;, which were aided by lhe high wind.-,, and by noon there wore sa\a fires in at least 30 1 ig warehouses, and the conflagration was steadily eating its way into successive blocks, cast, north, west and south. On Halt itnore street, the blocks between liberty and Sharp streets was soon ablaze, then came the next block cast to Hanover and after that the block'on the south side to Charles street lircke out into flames, the Consolidated Gas Company's building anu Oehm's Acme Hall burning fiercely. Mcauivhile there were stores north of llaltimoro street being similarly consumed. Mullin's Hotel caught an. other buildings near it caught. West of Liberty street, on the south side of Italtimorc street, the block was doomed, and the big bargain house also caught. Down in Hopkins' place where the conflagration started, Hurst's building and other wholesale bouses on both sides of the street crumbled and fell. The big dry goods houses of Daniel Miller A: Sons and It. .M. Sutton & Co. were soon aflame, and alone tier man street?oast and west. from the llurst building?there were a dozer, buildings limning. Mass A: Kemper's big wholesale store on Baltimore street, quickly Succumbed to the tlamos. On Hopkins' place the Hopkins' Savings Bank itnd the National Exchange Bank were gutter] by the flames. Across the street were the ruins of John K. llurst ft Co., and next to it Hechl. Jr.. ft Sons, were in flames. THE BLOCK A CAULDRON. All these buildings were swept away by the flames, and the whole hiock was nothing but a cauldron of lire. At 1:30 o'clock Mullin's Hotel, a seven-story structure, at Liberty and Baltimore streets, was in flames from garret to cellar and its great height and narrowness acted as, a torch. AJ1 the guests had been ordered out, and none, consequently, was Injured. Though every bit of fire fighting apparatus in the city was called Into requisition as the flames continued to spread, at 10 o'clock six engines ar, rived from Washington and four from Philadelphia. It is roughly estimated that there wore 350 hose playing on different parts of tho conflagration at the same time. ; FfNU BUN FOR THEIR LIVES. Wall nftc r wall toppled into the ffretr., and flrt.non ran for their lives. All kinds of wires had to be cut to clear the way for the fire fighters. The liloi k 1> untied by Gorman. Liberty, ialtlmoiv . and Sharp streets was #arly four 1 to be doomed, and the rstnen, turned tin ir attention to 3avIpg tho buildings on Baltimore street. " * east of Sharp, hut the fire was beyjnJ ^ Red hot. .fnders Ignited the roof of QRT FO. .irous Blaze in the iiisthe Sou tit | Front Street Theatre at least half a raljile from the main conflagration, which shows t ? what distance fiery rain I' ll. The blaze was extinguish tl by the flivmen, assisted by ?-it!i:r.( ns. Fur a time cciisidorahl alarm wis felt at the City Hospital. The Sisters of Merry in charge of the institution ivere all at their posts, iuul an effort was made to keep the fiy* of the confew cinders fell on the roof of the lmsflagraticui a sec -et from the patients. A pit&l, hut were extinguislied by tlu i physician.- of the house staff. Rightoi 11 women, two babies and seven nurses were taken from the Maternity Hospital, on West Lombard street, in police ambulances and given nuarters at the ritv h .vital \ w an ? ------ ... who was ill in bod with typhoid fever was taken to the city hospital. CITY TERRIFIED IIY EXPLOSION. At 3 o'clock a tremendous explosion j of about ir.O barrels of whiskey stored in the upper doors of No. 24 Hanover street hurled tons of burning matter across the street onto the roofs of the buildings opposite which the firemen were drenching with water in a vain hope to make Hanover street, the eastern boundary line of the conflagration. ; Here an engine was buried by a falling . wall, the firemen fleeing tor their | lives. I The whole city was notified of the i conflagration lty a terrific explosi. n. ! which occurred some minutes aft'-r 11 I o'clock. A sharp, spitting roar went j up wilh reverberating thunder. This j was followed by a peculiar whistling ! noise like that made by a shrill wind. I The churches i:i the central putt of ! the city wen filled with worship,oe s. many of whom were frigh > n"d, and. while no panics ensu 1 hundreds )f' men and women won; outside to .< i w hat had hnppem d. in a few moments ! the strteis au l pavements all over the | city were craw tied with excited people. ! Anothet deafening crash occurred, and , I dense columns of cinders and stnoho J ' shot up over the < *,tral section of j the city, and in a huge brown column ' moved rapidly toward the north o i. ! : liorne on the strong southeast wio.d the column of smoke, blazing cinders ; and even pieces of tin moling sprea i ever the center of the city, and a ram of cinders fell, compelling pedestrians j to ilogc red hot pieces of wood. ; PEOPLE r.OlKlINC; EIRE URANIhS. I Two more explosions followed, and ! thousands of people hurried to the I scene of the lire. Of all the speeta- ' torn, comparatively few saw the fire j itseir. They coil Id not got within half n 1 block of it. Even the policemen guard- ; ing Ihe approaches to the tiro had to j shif their positions repeatedly and j dodge falling cinders. Pieces of tin ' C> by 8 feet square v.ore lifted into the j | air liv the tcrillc heat, sailed upward i like paper kites, and when they \ reached a point heyond the seene of the most intense heat, fell Inhering i to the streets. RAGING WITH I'XAMATED FURY. ) 9:20 p. m.?The fl-p is stil' raging J with unabated fury. The Are department is helpless with the flames steadily traveling eastward on Haltimore j I and Fayette streets. The t't.ion Trust building has fallen in. The Carrollton Hotel is on fire. The Herald building I is apparentv doomed, and the occupants have moved out. The Sun is preparing to move, "loads of burning cinders cover the whole city. FIRE NEAR COURT HOUSE. 10:20 p. m.?The tire sweeping east en Fayettcvllle street is within a short distance of the court house, which occupies the block hounded by Fayette. Lexington and Calvert streets. Opposite is,the postoffice adjoining this I is the temporary custom house and j opposite to this is the city hall. The | Calvert office building, at Fa yet t" and I St. Paul street, is afire, and the Equitable, building, which adjoins it. is now threatened. The riain office of the | Western Union Telegraph Company is ! located in the Equitable building, and ' the force Is leaving for a branch office. A number of buildings are being 1 dynamited in an effort to r.Uip Vm | fire. 11:45?The fire Is still orr.ing its vay i eastward on Baltimore sii\.ct an' c.n Fouth and German streets, including , tiro financial district. Mayor Jlel.anc, i who has been on the scene all day and ; night, says It Is utterly impossible to make an estimate of loss. The fire ft LL 1 IKSDAY, FEBRUARY DOINGS IN CONGRESS hivru^S.w. ^ *- - MI] LIT MILL, S. C., WLl? officials Fay that thus far it will user orate $40,000,000. Cra>h after crash could bo hoard within the burning district, but even the firemen could not tell front what buildings they proceeded. In the seething furnace of flames all sense of the direction of location of buildings was lost. Hundreds of merchants and business men with offices on the threatened district \.,re untitled by watchmen and 1'i-ii . . .u.i:iy iuok steps 10 nave i:11 ir book- removed to a place of safety. A. C. Meyer & Co., and the CarrollIon Chemical Company removed boxes containing explosives to a point s ' ral sqiMina away from the fire. SOME Ol' THE BUIUMNGS IH'RNEl) Anions the buildings consumeil are tlie following: Koxbury Kye Distilling Company; Allen fi- Sons. I? ather; Sugar Ac Shear, i-lothing; L. Stein & Co.. umbrella inunlifaeturers; M. Friedman & Sons; Croekin fi- Co.. dry goods; Schwa tv. Toy Company; Mullin's Hotel: Burgunder Brothers, clothing; Maas & Kemper, manufacturers ??;" confectioners' tools; Lewis Dowry & Co.. dry goods; Dry Goods Kxchange; S. Neuburger A| Urother. dry goa ls; A. Sauber, cloti.i ing and sponging establishment; A. C. M< yi r A. Co.. druggists; Carroll) n Chemical Company; William T. l)lx< n A- Hro., wholesale pap r; Burger & Co.. I wholesale clothing; Blanke's saloon; Thomas Bnrne Ac Co.. liquors; James Gary Ac Sons, cotton mills, office; Charles Burger Ac Co.. wholesale clothing; American Cigar Company; Cook Sanders, local agent of Cluett. Peabody Ac Co.; John Hurst & Co.. dry goods; Haneel Miller Ai Sons dry goods; Stanley Ac Brown Drug Compauy; it. M. llutton Ac Co.. dry goods; Diggs, Curarn Ac Co.. boots and shoos; Nolan's restaurant; C. V. Davidson, gas-fitting establishment; F. Schlcuns fir Co.. clothing dealers; Oppenheiraer, Knshland Ac Co.. wholesale jewelers; W. C. Ko.t7.em fi- Co.. clothing; C. J. Stewart A- Sons, hardware; O'Connell & Ilannon, restaurant; building occupied by the Nation.il Fx ' mgo 1 tank and the Merchants anil Manufacturers' As?sociution; Hopkins Savings Bunk; the building ore upicd by Thornton, Rogers Ac Co.. printers; Carr. Owens At Hoine; man. and Blake's saloon; Baltimore ' News Company: the Cashing Company, book sellers: .1. S. MncBonald & Co.. jewelers: the Goodyear Rubber Company; Lilus Berwany r & Co.. clothing: the Welch Brothers Company, jew dors; the Consolidated Gas Company ; Oelims Air Co.. clothiers: C. J. Delanev Ac Co.; Huyler's Confectionery; Willing Knabe Piano Company; Samuel Hunt's Sons, leather goods; the lames A. Armiger Company, jewelers; the Dehrau Hat Company; Kranz Smith Piano Company; F. \V. McAllister & Co.. opticians: Bryant & Stratton. business college; R. l^eitz & Co.. pianos; IinwoUl & Co., furniture; Granger & Co., tobacconists; Amltach Brothers. clothing manufacturers; Conrad Zeal's Sons, trunk manufacturers; the building occupied by Silberman Ai Todes, dry goods; Thalmier Broth us, dry goods, and the Florence W. McCarthy Company; FussellbaughBlake Company, wall paper; Raschgan c umun, nillliuw MlillH'M, IV. .liUIUCIIl & Co., boots and shoes; James Robertson Manufacturing Company, metals; Peter Rose & Sons, harness and saddlery; 15. Cohen, notion"; V ProtzI'elder, boots and .shoes; John Murphy ('oinp.'.riv, publishers. LATER?At S o'clock Monday morning the lire was reported uucontrolable, with loss fully fifty millions of dollars. The fire departments of New York City, Philadelphia, Washington and Wilmington on hund and almost poweiless to stay the flames. News of the Day. The presentation by the Prince of Monaco to the Academy of Sciences of Paris of a map of ocean depths, showing the nature and formation of all the bottoms sounded, has once more bro-ught the personality of the Prince hefoie thrt public. Beyond the fact that he is paid $.".00,000 a year to permit gambling in his principality and that he has twice been freed from marital obligations?once from the daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, his first wife, and lately from the Duchess of Richelieu, nee Heine, of New Orleans, very litvle is known of the Prince. With the gift of this deep sea chart lias cc ine the revelation that Prince AMio t. is n.scientist, for nicst of the soundings recorded on this chart were taken by 1 :ni or those with him in the cruises of his yachts, the Hirondelle. the i Princess Alice I and th Princess Alice H. | It is announc e d that Thomas Nelson j Page, author, is in the near futuro to establish a tec hnical school in Hanover. Va., toll county of his birth. The plan is to teach o ng men and girb the different iv.ar.-:al calling.;, such as carpentering. irerhanics, dooJinj, cool ing mo ving etc. JjjR ... vua^iull >1 IMC OCMUkC UII II1C Treaty (Question. Tillman Speaks Plainly. After alnto-t allowing the amendment to 11;?* urgent deficiency appropriation hill providing for a loan of $ 1.000,01' t to the St. l.ouis Exposition to ' go throng'.: without any discussion whatever. the Senate Wednesday changed its tactics ju. t a the vo . was about to he taken and cat : I upon a debate on the lean nr- \ ' o w'eieh continued f<?r a ho it ;u ir ho . . and whi li was still in pi >m . i -vt th< nate adjourm 1 for the ,iay. The debate was precipitated l<y a point of order made against the amendment i?.> j Mr. ltailcy. who supported his point w;th a speech based on the theory that tiie national government was not. as such, conee:tied with the success or failure of any exposition. He was sup. ji Ttcd by Mr. Ixnlge and Mr. Kilting, w' ile speeches were made in support of the amendment liy Messrs. Hale, j Allison. Cork ri 11. Spooner, Mil'oinas an?! others. Mr. Tillman said lie wanted ti? say t unolhing <?:t this "loan or gift." tho ; latter ho thought. as it was no: likely that tho government would over get anything baok. In tho course of his 1 remarks ho said South Carolina had bad a share of the steal that had | hc. it secured by other cities and lie had helped to {jet it What he meant was that this expenditure of money was : unlawful and unconstitutional. Mr. Spooner remarked that the Set:. ! ator from South Carolina had put himself on record as participating in a 6t< al. "What I mean," declared Mr. Tillman. "is that when Congress takes money from the people and gives it away for expositions it amounts to a steal. What I want to know is how far we are to go and how much longer we are to participate in" Here Mr. Tillman hesitated. "Steals." Interjected Mr. Spooner. "Yes. steal." said Mr. Tillman, defiantly. . Mr. Itaeon said that its lie intended to vote for the amendment he did not want !." impression to go out that lie Was in ilv wrong. He thought the appropriation a proper one. In reply to a question from Mr. Hailey he said that abstractly he did not endorse the! principle, and that if the practice of giving aid to expositions was now he- j Ing initiated lie would oppose the prac- j ticc. Hut iu view of what had hern done in the past lie considered it not out of place to make the appropriation. The Senate chamber was again the arena of an interesting political debate with the provision in the urgent, deficiency appropriation bill for a loan of $1.1100.000 for the St. I. >uis ' Exposition the basis for the discus- 1 sion. The controversy was precipitated by ' Mr. IjO.igc. who (iitoted inanv uflicial i ! figures to demons!nito that Republican policies had not been a failure in the t nlted Siat-s. He also charged Mr. Gorman with hostility to the navy. Mr. Forakcr also spoke, devoting hinisglf largely to a comparison of conditions under the Harrison administration and those under the administration of Cleveland, to the advantage of th former. On the Democratic side Messrs. Gorman and Bailey were the orato's. Commenting on the present condition of the country's finances, Mr. Gorman said that it was due to the immense expenditures made in preparation for war?$82,000,000 last year for the navy and $118,000,000 for the army, in n time of profound peace. Ho denied, ns Mr. Dodge had charged, tlint he had Ic on an enemy of the upbuilding of the navy. On the contrary, he w.iiild have the navy engage ample forces to guard Aiuerhmi interests cv rywhere. |t..t lie had had no id' a of a navy to compete with tlmt of Gnat. Britain or Germany, because our conditions did not require such a navy. 11" did not want a navy for display, i> it for service. "! want economy in it." lie said, and he called attention to the effectual aid given to Venezuela during the admin- ' ist ration of Mr. Cleveland. "We did th ?t." he said, 'at tin* cost, of $1G,00<>,noo a year, and now we pay $82,000,000 for a navy with which to threaten Colombia." He would reduce the army from 100.000 men as now authorized. to 50,000. tile did not. he said, confess that ho would he willing to take money from the excessive expenditures for the army and navy, and give it to tin- St. Louis fair, the success of which was pledged by the United States. S?m; Spicy Remarks Indiana and Kentucky locked horns in the House Wednesday. The debate, which involved nearly every memh: r of bcth State delegations. was fast and furious from start, to finish. Kentucky <1< manded of Indiana the return of W. S. Taylor, tliat he might be tried for the assassination of William (loebel. The assault was made by Mr. James, of Kentucky, and the defense was led by Mr. Crumpackfir, of Indiana, Partisan feeling rose to an extreme tension, and a.* either side scored both applause derision resulted. The debate was based on tno diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Mr. James fired both sides of the House to interest and feeling by dorlr. in-: at the outset that the "Hough IV ! r President" was ridiculous in his message to Congress favoring international extradition treaties, v-hen one State could not get from another fugitive fr m justice. He had. he said, introduced a liUl in which the Federal government made extradition compulsory ui cm*# where persons had been indicted for crime. Fori four years, lie s:iH c .vernor ').i bin. ??; Indiana. fu protected Taylor, who had been rc.fn film . 10,190-1. larly fndlot."! in KontnoU\ for (ho ninrdor of f5 < 'i'fl. "and ye* I notioo that when Purldn conit s to town." continued Mr. .lauus. 1'is winod an.l tlin? il h> this meat r i Quixote upon extradiion. wlio absolutely oonii l s to I)urbin tlv rlaht t<> give the waiting and anxnu: . wrli) the news th.it Manna ? at1 run to.- I'n- but If ho wants to. And whoti v o all ii :td that, wo apaitt declare 'ih Ving i d u> wrong." " Mr. Crarirv' iT. o Indiana aro to male a oth ' > Mr .lv i< <;, bronchi a s-'t Tin of e r.- tr im i -> !). me ratio s Tho CJovernor of It-Mann not- lnl n<> ucten f\ ticgan Mr r-t.mpn -km . daily to anyone acquaint* ! wish Kentucky ol^ction of lelm l Taylor liad hen < 1< ted (lovertior; that tho Kentucky juries had been "parkod." and that history would justify the nation of Indiana. Mr. William . of Mississippi, coinhattod tho id a that the Kentucky juries wore "corrupt and rpttcn." In some respect, lie said, the speech of Mr. Crunipacker was a disgrace to American civilization. It was ridh iloas to snppo that all pnriiv reigned in Indian i. an i that just across the river all was corruption. WAR CLOUDS DARKEN Latest Advices Indicate That Japan and Russia \N ill Light. Tokio, Special. A specially called conference of 'It'* cabinet, elder statesmen and military and naval chiefs was held today at the residence of Premier Katsura. The meeting is believed to have been of niueh importance, though no details of the discussion have been given the public. Possibly it foreshadows energetic action on account of Russian procrastination. Although the governments continue reticient. it is manifest that the situation is of the gravest and that the crisis is m ar at hand. The time in which the Russian reply will continue tq be ;i factor in the situation is narrowing. The patience of the government is becoming exhausted and the expected answer is delayed many days longer the issuance of an ultimatum hy Japan will become inevitable. The Japanese ft el that the existing conditions have entitled them to a more prompt reply and are bound to infer that the St. Petersburg government is determined not to yield, hut is utilizing the time to advance its preparations for war. R.iynor l or Senator. Annapolis, Md., Special. ? Right ynino of the ninety Democratic members of the Maryland (Icneral Assembly met in caucus Wednesday night, and after parleying for more than three hours selected Isidor Ray nor for the I'uited States Senatorship to succeed Senator l.ouis E. McComas, the prc.cnt Incumbent. At noon tomorrow Mr. Raynor, a well-known Haltimoie city lawyer, who achieved an international reputation as the leading e.Oincnl t .ln.l .... I -I 1 * - v w.I IUI .IIUIIIIUI Ol IIU-J lllll II!)', nil! naval court inquiry, will lie elctod liy the members of the (Icnoral Assembly in joint session to the United Slates Senate. In the joint session of the .Maryland Legislature today's ballot for t'nited Stales Senator resulted as follows: Democrats: Isidor ltaynor. ,'t7; John Walter Smith, 111 : llcrnard Carter. 'J; E. E. Jackson, s. Republicans: Louis Iv M< Comas, ...5. Necessary for election, votes. Honor to a Negro. A special from Portsmouth of recent date says: For the first time in the history of the city a white edifice for the reception of white worshipers were thrown open to colored mourners, when Will-am Eliott, 00 years old, and for the In: t forty-nine years janitor of the Court Street Baptist Church, was conducted by the Hev. J. M. Armistead. colored, in the church auditorium, which was filled to Its utter capacity with relatives ami friends of Rillott. The balcony overlooking the auditorium was also filled to its capacity with the members of the Court street congregation. The llevs. It. 1$. (Jarrett. pastor of tiie church. A. K. Owen, p slor of South Street ltaptist Church, ond VV. I'. Ilines, pastor of I'ark View Baptist church, delivered touching eulogies of the dead janitor. The chair near tiie chancel occupied during every service in tiie old and new Court Street Church for the past forty-nine years by Elliot'. war. draped handsomely by the ladies of the eongregatlon. The deacons of ti e Court S:rcct Ik.tptist Church Acted as honorary pallbearers." Suspect Arrested. Norfolk, Va., Special \ negro answering in some re.-p cts the der-ription of the Roanoke a sr.iiant of M; Shields, was captured heating his wa> on a Norfolk fc Western freight train last night near Suffolk by the train - w and was brought here for safejlng pending identification. NO. 47. NOW OUT OF CUBA American Army No Longer Occupies the Country INDEPENDENT AFTLR MANY YEARS The Last Indication of Foreign Occu! patinn lla'- Ueen Removed I:rom the Island Havana. Hv Cable Tho last vestige of the \n iricau <>e. upation of Cuba disappeared Thursday afternoon whoa the \meri?an Ihm v.is lowered from tlie Cal aua barrael s. and the last battalion <" Xtueii. an ;;oIdiers tnarehed to the Tri i irnia pier and hoarded tho United States army transport Sum ner. The Sumner hail '.nought tho Scven11 enth and Nin !at li. company of I'niit il States art.'' y from Santiago, M'l these troops participated with tho Twenty-llr.-1 an I the Twenty-second companies. who have been stationed lute in the evaluation of ('aliana harra Its. l'n iident 1'alma ami the members of his eahinet, (Jen. Rodriguez, commander of the rural guards, Uuited States Ministi v Sipiires and the memliers of the legation staff took their places in the centre of the parade ground. After the soldiers had presented anus, tho American l!og was slowly lowered from the staff over the barracks, a salute of "1 guns meanwhile being flred from tin' fortress. The Cuban tlag was raised in its place and also saluted with 2t guns. President Palmn then addressed .'11 . 1111 ? "r? \ 1 111 .M.IJt'i DIIIWIl, t t ?11? ?' mandor of the American troops, saying: " A'e are confront) <1 by onn of the n o i extraordinary fact r?*oordcd in tli" annuls of un:\> r:- ?1 history, t.ho il(vparture from our : bores of the last troops the rnilod s h:is kept in j Cuba, after helping v- to secure our [ indepcu len e*iii 1 the Ide ungs of froo (ltuii. Thov coiihl lav longer, under I j any pretext whatever, or ail unjust '". mind t ould lie imposed upon us but ; on the contrary, the government of tint j railed States identified as it. is with , the liberal spirit and nohle character of j the American people, willingly proves its disinterestedness and the sincerity ot the niii it rendered us by taking these men away ami showing, at the same time, that we have, os an independent people, the confidence of one of the most powerful nations on eart h. "This act. of the United Slates in withdrawing its troops from Cuban territory reports upon it. everlasting glory and makes us proud of our deliverers, for it means that nobody doubts our ability to govern ourselves or to maintain pence anil order ?in 1 guarantee the rights of all the inhabitants of this island. This now consideration shown its, together with tho services we have previously received at their hands, will bind tho Cuban people to the American people forcvec in a strong tie of sincere gratitude." Major Itrown replied to President Pelnia and thanked him for his kindiu. s to the American oft'icers and soldi'!.. He ilil fe believed he voiced the opinion of his comrades in saying that there were no better people on earth than those of Cuba and expo 1 tin- hope that S nor Palma v.i. ;M serve many years as President, ad I tii: that the lirst part of his administration was a guarantee for success it: the future. After this reply, alt troop ; inarched pa t in platoon forma.tion and boarded the Sumner. Tim Sumner will sail -tomorrow, leaving the Twenty-lirst and Twentysecond lompanies of ort.illey at Fort Marram:*, Fla. and taking tlie others to Fort. Washington, Md. Safe Blowers Arrested, Roanoke, Va., Special.?Two men giving their names as William Raymond and James Donohue were arrested here last night by W. G. Baldwin, president of the Railway Special Agents' Association of America, charged with cracking tho safe in tho National Bank of Rocky Mount, Va., two weeks ago, when $1,000 in silver was taken. Eleven hags containing $1,100 in silver were lonnd on ino men. There is still $2,1)00 missing. Tho n-.'-n *!:< money hiirio.l near Rocky Mount ami wen' Aliere from Roanoko \ to get it. Silk CuSture Congress. V.'a :<i:H't')?, Special.?Louis TV Mag id. f Reorgia, the president of tin- Silk Culture League of America, anr.oeI that he had railed a silk eultuie e.aigrcss to he hoM next Oe o er at St. Louis. He aanomn-ed that Secretary Wii. >u ha * promised to make in nddroc.i. Mi. Magi<i catted >n Prc.d.Liit Roosevelt h the tntoreat ;f the movement for the growth of silk to the Unite.] States.