A NATLONAL CRISIS.
Martial Law Will Bo Proclaimed
Throughout Spain.
Incendiary Poiten l«ned l>> Strikers
tu lilcli TlireatM Are .Hade
AiialilMt Orderly <la»*c*--.',00
Kcported Hilled in a
Street Itattle.
Madrid, Feb. 21.—Premier Sagasta
is preparing a decree establishing
martial law throughout Spain. The
signing of the decree, it is believed,
will be followed by an extreme na
tional crisis.
It was persistently said when the
■chamber of deputies closed last even
ing that the minister of war, Gen.
Weyler, had a long conference with
the queen regent Wednesday, fol
lowed by a conference with the mili
tary authorities yesterday. After
wards, il is asserted, arms and cart
ridges were served out to the troops
in Madrid, who are in readiness to
start at a moment's notice.
According to telegrams received
here late last night from Barcelona
the street fighting continues. The
heavy rain which fell during the day
helped to disperse the rioters, and
the authorities are taking severe
measures.
Barcelona, Feb. 21. —Incendiary
posters infte appeared here which
threaten the orderly classes with
terrible reprisals, saying that dyna
mite will be used to offset the .Mau
sers of the troops. The strikers are
looting numerous shops and private
houses. The best known anarchists
have disappeared and authorities are
hunting for them.
The negotiations which have bee.i
taking place between the newspapei
publishers and the compositors have
failed. The railroad ofTicials h.ive
announced the suspension of service
on the lines owing to the resolute
attacks which the rioters have made
on the trains.
Trades unions throughout Spain
have declared their adhesion to the
cause of the Barcelona strikers.
The strikers yesterday murdered
three workmen who wished to re
sume work. The proprietor of a bak
ery who raised the price of bread
was also killed.
It is hourly becoming more appar
ent that anarchists are the prime
movers in the incipient revolution.
The markets are without provisions,
and the strikers are preventing the
slaughter of animals.
London, Feb. 21. —A message to the
•Exchange Telegraph Co. from Bar
celona says a fierce battle has been
fought between the troops and the
rioters in the suburb of Barcelona
known as Sano. Before the engage
ment the cavalry and infantry had
been posted in the most dangerous
points and a field battery had been
located on the plaza from which van
tage point the guns could sweep the
surrounding streets. When the final
clash with the troops occurred, the
artillery was brought into action
and raked street after street. The
rioters engaged the batteries at close
range, but were finally driven off. It
is reported that 500 persons were
killed and wounded on botu sides.
The entire neighborhood was wrecked
by the shells. The ruins caught fire
and this completed the destruction.
COASTING ACCIDENT.
One Hilled and Four Otlierd Are liadly
Injured.
Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 21.—At TYil
merding last night in a bobsled acci
dent, one young woman was killed
ami fout other coasters badly injured.
The dead:
-Miss Mary Purseley, aged 19 years,
of Turtle Creek, neck broken and
skull crushed.
The injured, all of Turtle Creek
are: Miss J. Margaret Jones, 18
years, bad scalp wound, face and
breast cut and limbs bruised; Wil
liam Hath, arm lacerated and leg- bad
ly cut; Miss Frances Chambers, aged
17 years, scalp wound, arm and face
lacerated, and body bruised; Miss
Alice Burns, aged 19 years, head cut,
right cheek cut and body bruised.
The remainder of the party, c n
sisting of three boys and a girl,
•whose names could not be learned,
were badly bruised and cut.
The party were coasting down (lien
street, a very steep thoroughfare,
which was coated with ice. The sled
•was being guided by William Rath,
got beyond control, and at the cor
ner of Margaretta street dashed into
a sewer drop.
GROUND TO PIECES.
fatal Wreck on I lie l.aeka tvana Kail
road One Hilled and Four Injured.
Binghamton, X. Y., Feb. 21. —A
wreck in which one man was killed
and several injured, occurred Thurs
day on the Syracuse division of the
Lackawanna, about one and a half
miles south of Preble.
A work crew with a heavy snow
plow and two engines were attempt
ing to clear the track. The engines
tried to ram the plow through the
deep drift, when the head engine.
No, 209, left the track, twisting
around across it. Fireman (iarrett
Nagle, aged 24 years, was on the ten
der and was caught bet\ve< /t and
the engine, liis body being ground to
fragments. Engineer George Ritz
lieimer was thrown about 30 feet and
landed in a deep snow drift, unin
jured. Four men were inside the
snow plow and all were more or less
hurt.
ICarly In the Field.
St. Louis, Feb. 21.—The allied party
•of Missouri, which was organized at
Kansas City last ■September and
which, according to J. 11. Cook, of
Carthage, its chairman, is composed
of "public ownership men, both
wings of the old populist party, the
liberal wing of the social organiza
tion. Bryan democrats and silver re
publicans," met here yesterday and
adopted a platform and selected a
state ticket. The platform reaffirms
allegiance to the principles of the
party as enunciated In the national
jplatform adopted at Kansas City
TENDING UPWARD.
ft. linn A ('«.'» W'crk ly Itcvlciv of
Trade Say* Price# Have Advanced
llurjnu (lie I'aMt Meeli.
Jsew York, Feb. 22. — 11. (J. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says:
Along 1 tin- Atlantic coast business
was temporarily checked by the
storm and some interior points also
suffered from unfavorable weather,
but consumptive demands give no evi
dence of abatement. Prices of per
ishable goods advanced sharply, the
whole range of staple commodities
tending upward. Jobbing trade in
spring lines of wearing apparel is of
ample proportions and all heavy
hardware and products of iron feel
the pressure in that industry. Pros
pects are most encouraging as to the
labor situation.
While no means inflated beyond the
point fully warranted by urgent pur
chasers, prices of pig iron have made
decided advances despite the opposi
tion of leading interests. More im
ports are reported, lint foreign mar
kets are also advancing, now that
there is less prospect of American
competition because of the unpreced
ented home demand. Railway sup
plies and structural material are still
the most eagerly sought of finished
steel products. llecord breaking
building permits indicate the business
that will be done by structural mills.
The presence of numerous buyers
in the Boston footwear market has
not yet produced the desired volume
of business. There seems almost a
deadlock, owing to the indisposition
of manufacturers to make desired
concessions and the unwillingness of
purchasers offer full list prices.
Following the advance in prices of
print clothes to 1% cents there has
been an equivalent gain in many di
visions of the cotton goods market.
Woolen and worsted fabrics for
fall have received less attention, but
sales are still fully up to the average.
Farm staples are remarkably well
maintained at the recent advance in
quotations. Cotton added a small
fraction to its price and rilled (pact
during the week at the highest posi
tion of the crop year.
Liabilities of commercial failures
thus far reported for February ag
gregated $(>,097,851, of which $3,404,-
027 were in manufacturing, $2,892,143
in trading and $401,112 in other com
mercial lines. Failures for the week
number 250 in the United States
against 253 last year and 31 in Can
ada against 39 last year.
STORM IN THE EAST.
Heavy Fall of Kaln mid Sleet CatiftCN
a StiNpcntdon of Traffic.
New York, Feb. 22. —Snow, followed j
by rain and sleet, Friday, created in j
this city and vicinity the most dis- !
agreeable weather conditions known I
in many years. During the early !
hours of the day heavy, wet snow !
fell in huge flakes. This condition !
prevailed for several hours. Short
ly after noon the snow turned into !
a steady drizzle of rain, that con
tinued with intermit ten periods of
sleet, all afternoon and far into the
night. Much of the snow that was
left from the recent blizzard, was
converted into slush and the streets
are inches deep.
During the evening the tempera
ture dropped enough to turn the
downpour of rain into a coating of
ice over buildings and street*. Traf
fic on the Brooklyn bridge was al
most at a standstill. Heavy trucks
could scarcely be moved. Street car
traffic everywhere was much inter
rupted, but the greatest difficulty
was experienced on cross town horse I
car lines. Four horses were at
tached to all of these cars and had
hard work getting along.
Jersey City was hit hard, and by !
10 o'clock last night the city was !
practically in darkness, and there I
was every indication that the electric I
service, which is wholly overhead, j
will be entirely out of order by morn- j
ing. Electric wireg' were down in j
every part of the city. The fire alarm
system was crippled, and the police j
wires are in bad shape. Trolley
cars ceased running entirely late in
the evening.
•South and west of New York tele
graph and telephone lines were pros
trated early in the afternoon, and
although condition** unproved some
what between New York and Chicago j
late in the evening, communication ;
by wire with Philadelphia was cut off
absolutely. Slow communication was 1
restored with Washington, D. C., by \
way of Atlanta.
DAY OF PRAYER.
"• A. It. Auk CunarcNM to ICwlaltliHh
One for Our Martyred I'rcKidcntH.
Washington, Feb. 22.—Less than
100 delegates were present when
Friday's sesison of the I). A. it.con
vention opened.
Mrs. Strati on.of Minnesota, of
fered the following resolution, which
was unanimously adopted: "Re
solved, That we recommend to con
grees that the Sunday following the
birthday of our late beloved Presi
dent McKinley, be set apart as a
day of prayer in memory of our mar
tyred presidents, Lincoln, as the mas
t;r mind, the great-hearted emanci
pntor, whom we all revere; Garfield,
and particularly McKinley, a man be
loved by the people as possessing all
the virtues of heart and mind that
combine to make one good and great.
We suggest Sunday that the memory
of these men may year by year be
associated with thoughts of our duty
as citizens to live nobler and purer
lives."
One Killed, Two Injured.
'Winnipeg, Man., Feb. 22.—Joseph
Roleau, of St. Gregorie, Quebec, was
killed and two men were injured by a
dynamite explosion at one of the
pumps of Pigeon River Boom Co.,
near Port Arthur, Friday. They were
thawing out dynamite.
Averaged S«H7 a Head.
Lexington, Ky., Feb. 22. —Friday
closed the Woodard & Shanklin's
five days' sale. All horses yesterday
sold for less than SSOO. Sixty were
sold averaging $l5O. During the sale
419 horses were sold for $99,005,
averaging $2 !7 per head.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1902.
FEARS OF FLOOD.
lee In t!■ «> Allegheny and .Tlo
■ioiij;a lie la 111 vera flay 4 an He Tron It le
In the Advent of Warm Weather.
I'itt.sbnrg, PH., Feb. 21.—A sleet
storm last night with rapidly moder
ating weather and two days of rain
predicted by tin 1 government weather
office promises to bring about the
conditions feared for weeks (last by
river men and citizens generally. The
great danger apprehended is from
the immense gorges of ice in the
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
The obstructions are o, the most se
rious character and liable to do al
j most incalculable damage to river
| craft moored between this point and
j Wheeling, and should flu l moderate
! weather and rains bring down with
j the ice the heavy snows from up
river points, the flood which will re-
J suit is likely to be a record breaker.
The gorge in the Allegheny extends
almost without a break from Pitts-
I burg fully 70 miles up the river, and
I varies in thickness from five to 10
' feet. The ice is frozen to the bottom
[ of the river in many places and is
damming the water, with the result
| that the river is rising above the
gorge, and this fact points out that
i when the first waters of the rise
come the water will be dammed back
until the valley along the river would
be flooded, which would do a damage
not to be computed in money.
The gorge in the Monongahela is
not feared so much necause the
numerous dams along its length will
serve to break the ice and make it
less dangerous than the Allegheny.
The situation was made worse yes
terday by the formation of a gorge
in the Youghiogheny at Versailles
and other points about McKeesport,
which threatens the barges removed
from the Allegheny to the Mononga
hela and the other boats and barges
moored in the pools below McKees
port.
Tne coal companies are taking
every precaution for the protection
of their property along the rivers,
and all residents in the lowlands and
valleys are making ready for the ex
pected flood.
The river from Wheeling to Park
ersburg is gorged almost solid and
the river men fear this almost as
much as they do the gorge in the
Allegheny for the reason that many
boats are frozen to the bank at vari
ous places and these have no way to
protect themselves or their tows
from the flood.
DOMESTIC ANIMALS.
Total Value of the Same In I'nlted
State* laced at *3,200,000,000.
Washington, Feb. 21.—The census
bureau in a report on domestic ani
mals in the United States on June
1, 1900, announces that all the domes
tic animals in the United States have [
a probable value of at least $3,200,- !
000,000. Of this amount the value of
the animals on farms and ranges con
stitute over 93 per cent., and those
not on farms 7 per cent. The census
received no value of animals but esti
mates it at $215,192,928. The total
value of all domestic animals on
farms and ranges was $2,981,054,115, j
against $2,208,707,513 in 1890. There
was a gain in all parts of the coun
try except in the Xorth Atlantic
states, where there was a decrease of
horses, sheep and swine, making a
total decrease of 3 per cent, in value.
The livestock on farms in the
United States follows: Calves, 15,330,-
333; steers, 15,253,182; bulls, 1,315,566;
heifers 7,182,014; cows kept for milk,
17,139,674; cows and heifers not kept
for milk,, 11,583,253; colts, 1,313,476;
horses, 16,952,664; mules, 3,271,097;
asses and burros, 95,603; sheep. 61,-
605,811; swine, 62,876,108; goats, 1,871,-
252
lowa leads all the states in the to
tal value of its live stock, while Tex
as ranks second. The former has an
'investment of live stock of $271,844,- )
034, and the latter has $236,227,434.
Texas, however, has the greatest j
number of neat cattle, mules and '
goats, but the average value of these j
and other animals being less than in
lowa, the pre-eminence in value rests
with the latter named state.
BOLD ROBBERS.
Desperate Attempt to Hob a Hank In
Mexico City.
Mexico City, Feb. 21.—A daring and
foolhardy attempt was made yester- I
day to rob the London and Mexico !
bank, one of the strongest financial
organizations in the City of Mexico, j
by an unknown robber, who, after j
killing the cashier and seeing that j
he would be captured, blew his own j
brains out.
At an hour when business was
slack and when no one but employes
were in the bank the robber entered
the building and unobserved made bis
way to the vault. He covered the
cashier with a pistol and demanded
that he give up the money in his cus
tody. Upon the cashier's refusal the
robber fired, the bullet striKing the
cashier in the head, killing him in
stantly Other employes made a rush
for the robber, who fired three shots
at them without effect and as the
men continued to advance and seeing
that his capture was inevitable the
robber turned his pistol upon himself
and sent a buli't through his brain,
dying instantly in the bank.
The dead robber had no papers or
any article on his body that would
serve to identify him other than that
he was an American. He was well
dressed in a tailor made suit, wore
a full beard, wall trimmed, and was
about 45 years of age.
Three Children Killed.
Owensboro, Ky., Feb. 21.—Three
children of John Thompson were in
stantly killed and another and the
mother fatally injured last night by
the accidental explosion of a keg of
blasting powder. Thompson was
moving, and a keg of powder was
among some thirds putin the kitch
en temporarily. A tire was started
in the kitchen stove. The children
were playing around the room, and
tn some manner one of them dropped
a coal of tire i# the keg of powder.
Instantly there was a terrific explo*
sion and the roof was lifted
NEW CABINET PLACE.
It Will Be Called Department of
Commerce and Labor.
Prenldont VV ONII I IIKTON'N Official Fam
ily Hail Four Membern,
Ui'Mi Itooaevelt'* Will Sooii
Have Miie,
The passage by the senate of the 1)111
to create a department of commerce
and labor, with its head to be a mem
ber of the cabinet, is interesting as a
historical development, as well as a
sociological fact. Only four ollicials—
a secretary of state, a secretary of the
treasury, a secretary of war and an
attorney general sat at the council
| table of President Washington. The
I head of ihe war department at that
j time had charge of the political end of
| the navy, as well as of the army. A de
partment of the navy, however, was
j created in 1798, during John Adams'
I administration, at a time that war
seemed to be imminent with France
! on account of that country's assaults
l on American commerce and outrage
| ous treatment of American ministers.
The lifi h cabinet post thus appeared.
It was not until the nineteenth cen
tury had well advanced, says the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat, that another
| cabinet department was established.
By the time that Jackson entered of
fice in 1829 the post office business of
the country had grown to be so large
that the man in charge of it, who had
been a mere bureau official before that
time, was advanced to cabinet rank,
and his field of work became one of
the great executive departments.
When William T. Barry, at the begin
ning of Jackson's first term, took of
fice, six persons belonged to the presi
| dent's official family. The settlement
j of the west and the growth in the gov
j erninent's general activities rendered
j the creation of the department of the
J interior essential, and Thomas Ewing
j took his place at its head in 1849, at
| the beginning of Taylor's term as
president. As a recognition of the vast
CARROLL D. WRIGHT.
(Mentioned for the New Portfolio of Com
merce and Labor.)
importance of the agricultural inter
ests a department to concern itself
with the great activities was created
in 1889, near the end of Cleveland's
first term, and Norman J. Column, of
Missouri, was its first head.
The growth of the cabinet posts
from four places in Washington's days
to eight for the past dozen years, and
1 lie ninth place post is likely to be
established before the present session
of congress ends, is merely a formal
recognition of the expansion in the
number and importance of the coun
try's interests. Twice as many per
sons are in the cabinet in Roosevelt's
time as were there in the days of the
country's first president, but the
United States itself is about 20 times
as large as it was then, and it has a
hundred times the wealth and does j
more than a hundred times the busi
ness that it did at that time. The
$'70,000,000 of merchandise exports in '
1800—and they were much larger then \
than when Washington first entered ;
office—had grown to not far from sl,- i
500,000,000 in 1900 and in 1901, while the I
domestic trade lind expanded in a far
larger degree. The increase step by
step in the number of members of the
president's official family in the past
hundred years and over tells the story
of the great expansion which has been
made in the country's interests and ac
tivities.
Seven CoiiiiiioncNt Dream*.
Horace G. Hutchinson's classifica
tion of the more frequent dreams, in
his recently published volume on
"Dreams and Their Meanings," ii
fairly complete. He sa,vs there are
seven common kinds: (1) the falling
dream—you are falling over a preci
pice or down the stairs; (2) the fly
ing dream—the dream that you can
fly; (3) the dream of more or less
inadequate clothing—that you are
not properly clothed; (4) the dream
of not being able to get away from
some beast, or injurious person or
thing, that is pursuing you; (5) the
dream of being drawn irresistibly to
some dangerous place, such as a fire;
(6) the dream that some darling
wish has been gratified; and (7) the
dream of being about togo on n
journey, and being unable to get
your things into your trunks, etc.
But, as he adds, "no doubt there are
a great many more."
Smoked 'l'liroiißh III* Knrn.
In oue respect John Watson, of Can
ton, 0., is a wonder. While boxing with
a friend he received a staggering blow
on the left ear. A few days later, while
smoking, lie discovered that lie could
make smoke come from that ear. The j
doctors believe that a fracture of the
tympanum is the cause.
Friit'lit Turn* Mule'* llnlr.
The flood at Mahanoy City, Pa., so
terrified a black mule that the animal
turned gray with fright. He was eia>
ployri in the Maple Hill colliery,
THE TWO ROUTES.
Col. fCriiNl Compared TIIOKC of FANARII
and Nit'iiruuuu.
Washington, Feb. 19.—C01. O. 11.
Ernst, of tlif isthmian canal commis
sion, was before the senate commit
tee on inter-oceanic canals yesterday.
In a preliminary statement he said
the cuts in I lie Darien route before
the tunnel was reached made that
route impracticable. While it had
not. been examined carefully, he
thought it would lake 20 years to con
struct such a canal and at a cost of
$290,000,000.
As a member of the commission lie
was assigned .to the i'anama route
particularly, but went, over the \iea-.
ragua route, in answer to questions
by Senator llanna he said he would
have recommended the I'anama route
in the first report of the commission
had the offer of the I'anama canal to
sell for $40,000,000 been made at that
time and gave the following' reasons
for so doing:
The Panama route was -shorter,
straighter, lower, having - four locks,
as against eight for .Nicaragua, and
cost $1,350,000 less per year to main
tain and operate. Col. Ernst said
there were difficulties on both routes.
The liohio dam on the Panama route
was more difficult than the dam on
the Nicaragua route, but the clay
banks on the latter route were a dif
ficulty that would have to be over
come. The healthfulness of Nicara
gua was better than Panama, but by
sanitary and police regulations the
conditions in Panama could be im
proved.
Col. Ernst did not agree with other
witnesses that silt in the Chagres
river would ever be a serious men
ace to the Panama canal. The dif
ficulties in the construction of the
Bohio dam, he said, could be over
come.
Senator Morgan asked a series of
questions regarding the floods of the
Chagres river on the Panama route.
Col. Ernst said the water rose to 39.3
feet above low water in 1879. In 50
years there had been four floods of
over 30 feet. Such floods, he said,
would cause considerable risk in the
construction of the liohio dam. Po
lice and sanitary control of Panama
would be necessary, he said, should
the United States construct the canal.
TWO BONANZAS.
A New Gold Field IN Found In Africa,
Ainu H lll:r Copper Deponit.
London, Feb. 20. —lleports from two
experts have been received in London
from different parts of Africa which,
if borne out by later developments,
are likely to have an important in
fluence on the world's gold and cop
per supply. One of the reports comes
from Assinine, on the French Ivory
coast, and says that a reef of quarts
gold, eight feet wide and panning
from two to eight ounces, has been
opened up on the Ivory coast.
Front North Ithodesia, the British
Chartered South Africa Co. has re
ceived news of the discovery of a cop
per field, estimated at 40 square
miles. The tield is situated 150 miles
north of Victoria Falls, and runs
thence to the Congo Free State. In
the ancient mines dug by the natives
and reopened by engineers in the
employ of the Chartered Co., copper
assaying 44 per cent, is now being
secured, besides a large percentage
of silver. So much importance does
the Chartered Co. attach to this dis
covery that the Cape to Cairo rail
road will be diverted in order to pass
through the copper field. Work on
this section of the road has been or
dered accelerated, and it is expected
that it will be completed early in
1903.
Two Dozen Indian** Arretted.
Muscogee, I. T., Feb. 20. —Twenty-
four members of the ( razy Snake
band who were arrested near Henri
etta, were brought here yesterday
and lodged in jail. La-Tah-.Micco and
nine others of Snake's band escaped
from the officers. Several of the num
ber were in last year's uprising.
Nothing has yet been heard from i
the Isparheclier home, where on Mon- J
day evening a band of 20 full bloods,
led by Cliitto lliarjo, were endeavor- j
ing to take an American flag from the j
ex-chief, lleports are that they cap- J
lured the flag, also that the old war- |
rior, to prevent its capture, destroyed
it.
■lnline**** In <■ ermun Iron Trade.
'Washington, Feb. 20. —After Eng
land. (iermany is the most formidable
competitor of the United States in
the iron markets of the world, ac
cording to a report of I'nited States
Consular Agent Harris at Eibenstock. j
Mr. Harris says that the present out- '
look for the iron industry in (ier
many is not bright and manufactur
ers are not building new factories or
enlarging old ones. Even the ship
building industry, which flourished as
never before in 1900, now shows signs
of falling off, and it is only in the
navy yards that activity lias contin
ued unabated.
Struck a Snag and Sank.
Colon, Colombia, Feb. 20.—News re
ceived here from Barranquilla relates
that the steamer Juan B. Elbers, be
longing to the Colombian Transport
Co. (operating steamers on the lower
Magdalena river), collided with a
large piece of timber in the Magda
lena river near Ladra Del Gitamara
and sank in less than one hour. Ow
ing to tlie timely aid of the steamer
l'alo Negro no lives were lost, but
the entire cargo on board the Juan
B. Elbers, valued at SIOO,OOO, was lost.
A FamoiiM Scout Die**.
Philadelphia, Feb. 19.—i Mr. George
May Powell, of this city, has re
ceived a cablegram announcing the
d«ath at London of Col. Francis J.
Turner, a noted Boer scout. For the
first is months of the South African
war Turner was a leading scout of
the Boer army. He was a mining and
mechanical engineer and liad large in
terests in South Africa. John O.
Knight, of the Chicago Record, went
as liis only associate in the daring
feat of blowing up the railway
bridges behind the Boers when the i
British captured BoemfonU'in,
DISASTROUS FIRE.
It Visits New York City and,
Causes $1,000,000 Loss.
Four People Are Known lo He Itinil
and the Fire < lilel" Ma)* Twenty
or More IfodiCN Are in the
Muiu«—Armory Is
In Amlicm.
Xr\r York, Feb. 22.—Fire which
broke out. after midnight last night
destroyed the Seventy-first regiment
armory building, on Fourth avenue
'J'lie building occupied the entire
block. The lire started on the main
floor ami burned upward very rapid
ly. Before 2 o'clock this morning
the entire building was in ruins.
lllefore an alarm had been turned
in the fiames completely enveloped
the building and when the liremeit
reached the scene the blaze had
burst through the roof.
Shortly after 2 o'clock the walls of
the armory on the Thirty-third street
Bide fell with a tremendous crash.
• ccupants of the five-story brown
stone houses from 137 to 141 Kast
Twenty-third street were driven from
their homes by the police.
A large quantity of powder stored
in the armory exploded. Ambulance
calls were sent to iiellevue hospital,
but it is not known whether any one
was injured.
The Park Avenue hotel caught on
the third floor. The guests are alt
leaving and some are being taken out
by the firemen. The fire seems to be
gaining headway in the hotel.
At 2:30 o'clock a woman guest
jumped from the fifth story of the
Park Avenue hotel. .She was fright
fully injured.
Ambulance calls have been sent to
all the hospitals in the lower sec
tion of Manhattan.
At 3:15 it was stated that all the
guests and employes had been ac
counted for and that no one was left
in the structure. The estimated loss
up to this time is $1,000,000.
Two dead bodies have been taken
from the hotel. One of the dead is
said to be a Col. Pepper, of Louis
ville, Ky. The other body has not
been identified.
(Two more dead bodies were taken
from the hotel, but at 3:30 had not
been identified.
At 4 o'clock Chief Croker, who had
been inside the building, said that he
believed that a large number of dead
were inside in the halls and corridors.
TRAIN WRECKED.
PaNNcngcrH 11 iid a Narrow ICMeape lit
an Aeeldent on Lake Shore llniid,
Cleveland, Feb. 22.—The Lake Shore
accommodation train leaving this
city at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon
was wrecked on the outskirts of
Oberlin about 4 o'clock in the after
noon.
Louis Bates, the head brakeman on
the train, is the only person report
ed seriously hurt. He jumped through
a car window and in falling injure,!
his back. At Oberlin he was re
moved to a hotel and a physician
made examination of liis injuries. Be
sides the injuries to his back, Kates
is unable to move his legs. John
Lace, of Norwalk, was thrown
against a seat and his head cut. Be
yond a severe shaking up it is re
ported that none of the passengers
•were hurt.
A crank pin on the left-hand front
driver broke, loosening the connect
ing rod, which swung with the wheel,
demolishing the cab on the fireman's
side of the cab. It also broke the con
necting rod on the other side. This
rod tore the air brake cylinder off
from the engine and rendered it use
less.
The engine and cars left the rails,
the ears being piled in the ditch. The
track was torn up for a distance of
400 feet. The passengers were bad
ly shaken up and as soon as they
realized that the train was off the
track they made a rush for the rear
doors of the coaches. The track was
quickly cleared, allowing other trains
a free passage.
Had the accident occurred a short
distance further west the wreck
would have been more disastrous-be
cause of a steep embankment.
THE LAST ACT.
l''inal Italllicatioii ol the llay-l'ainiee*
tote Treat}'.
Washington, Feb. 22. —Final rati
fications of the Hay-Pauneefote
treaty, giving England's assent to
the construction of a canal across
Central America by the United States
were exchanged at the state depart
ment Friday afternoon. There was
very lit tie ceremony about the ex
change.
Copies of the treaty had been pre
pared, precisely similar, except in
the fact that the signatures were
inverted in one copy, and these were
formally exchanged between Lord
Pauncefote and Secretary Hay, a pro
tocol being signed, formally attest
ing to that fact, which will form part
of the records.
Lord Pauncefote was in the best of
humor of this outcome o, the labors
of himself and Secretary Hay, for tie
regarded the treaty as the most im
portant convention ever drawn be
tween the United States and Great
Britain and one that will do much
to prevent friction in the future be
tween the two peoples.
Peacemaker Hilled.
Persons, W. Va., Feb. 22.—M. F.
Gladwell, a Union veteran, aged 00
years, last night shot and killed Clark
Xagle, n neighbor, at Hainblcton,
near here, (iladwell, in a fit of an
ger, threatened to kill his wife and.
Magic attempted to enter Gladwell'd
room to quiet him.
Cavalry ICeturiiN Alter Two Veuri.
Mobile, Ala., Feb. 22.—The Eighth
United States cavalry, which has been
stationed for two years at Matanzas,
Cuba, arrived here Friday on the
steamer Volunteer. The regiment lott
last night for Fort liiley, Kan.
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