A NATLONAL CRISIS. Martial Law Will Bo Proclaimed Throughout Spain. Incendiary Poiten l«ned l>> Strikers tu lilcli TlireatM Are .Hade AiialilMt Orderly ,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. 3