THE NEWS, Fire engine No. 25, which was run down by a switch engine while going to a fire at (lenesee street and the New York Central crossing, in Buffalo, Driver Michael O'Brien was fatally injured Engineer William Whalen and Fireman Robert Sands cut and bruised. O’Brien, whose skull was fractured and both jegs broken, died later. Tue lire engine was demolished and the horses killed, —— Fire destroyed the wholesale house of the Peeble’s Grocery Company in Chattanooga, Tenn, causing a loss of 75,000, —— President An. drews, of Brown University, has telegraphed to Chicago his unqualified declination of the offer to become co-president of the univer. gity there.———Henry Potter, alias ‘‘Colonel” DEMAND ON HAWAL A AL HHA A 35 Minister Willis Calls For the Queen's Restoration. ——————————————— —————— pe wo A DEFIANT RESPONSE. The Provislionals Prepared to Offer Resistance-Britisn Sailors Were Landed--Quiet Prevalls But the Storm Is Likely to Burst at Any Hour, men in New York, by means of forged checks, was sentenced by Recorder Smith jer of the Gate City National Bank tentiary.——Judge Clayton, decided that Professor 8. C, stand trial for the murder of his wife Mrs. Mary Van Rossum, aged seventy-one years, was struck by a locomotive and in- stantly kil ed at the Franklin street crossing of the Erie Railroad, N. J. Mre. Jane Shattuck shot and killed Henry in Chester, Pa, in Paterson, pot marry her daughter, ss she requested, ee LAW Y OF Frodesick H. Teese started from Neward, N. J., for St. Louis, but House, in New York, and died there, — guale Sacco, the keeper of an Italian board- ing house in Boston, was nssassinated by rincenzo Carchidi —— While Wm. Loog, aged twelve years, and Harry Dean, aged twenty-one, were shooting rats in a pear Wilmington, Long accidentally shol and instantiy killed Dean, a bullat a Flobert rifie passing through his heart. — Col. Henry M. Porter, for many years golieitor for the American Bank Note and a man well known in elubs and in and it has been from chial Com- pany, New York society, is insane, found necessary to remove him to an asylum, Mrs. Hiram Paulding, widow of the Iate lear Admiral Paulding, of the L pavy, died at her home at West Neck, Hunt- fngton, IL. L She was eighty-seven years of age, and bad been In poor hea th for some time. Her husband was a son of the Pauld- fog who figured conspicuously in the ecap- ture of Major Andre.——A fire at Nimiek station, on the Pan Handle Raliroad, de- stroyed six dwellings and their contents, and rendered thirty people homeless, The houses were all comparatively new. Colonel Rice, of the Guards, expressed the opinion tb at World's Fair grounds was of incendiary ori- gin ~-Edward H. Duaryee receiver for the firm of E. Alsdor! & Co., Newark, the largest bicycle, plano ing machine dealers in New Jersey, The ap- pointment was made by Vice Chancellor Green, and the bonds were placed at 825,000, — Herman Serenco and Ida Gatelstein were arrested in St. Louls on suspicion of being jeaders of a band of ecounterfeiters.——The St. Paul and Kassas City express jumped the track at Missouri Valley, Ia, sad two coaches rolled over the embankment, Mrs, ¥. M. Hensler was thrown window, and a coach fell on her, killing ber fostantly, No others were seriously hurt. Sherman Waggoner, a goung farmer, shot and killed his wife with a Winchester rifle at Lynaville, Ct. The busband’s crusity drove the wile away and be shot an aunt, -Application was made the United States Columbian at the fire ol and sew- from home, as she was entering the house of Waggoner escaped. re Judge Ross, uit Court, in Los Aaogeles, bef Cal, by bond Fe Railroad for receivers for the Atlantic and aud Pacifle Railroad. Cook and Wilson, who sud their bonds fixed at $30,000 each. rest. H threatened trouble, —— Washiogton, Wis,, O The Bank D. Bjourouist & Son, of unable to secure sufficient patronage to war Zoological Garden went foto the hands of an assignee, The venture was undertaken by Jeading citizens, and about £75,000 was ex. pended on grounds and animsis. The as. aggregating €15,000. —— John C arl Loveason and Charles O. Davis, boys, were drowned at Tacona, Wash., while skating Twelve bands on the steamer State of Kansas were badly burned at Omega Landing, Alabama, by sulphuric acid, ——Isaze Bancroft, aged sixty, was killed by a train at Ladds Mills, Ct, —Lieutenant Colonel George H. Burton who bas represented the Secretary of War in an investigation of the killing of Captain Hedberg by Lieutenant Maney at Fort Sheri. dan, has completed his labors at Chleago, we Mrs. Catherine Blackezby, aged seventy, died at Danville, Ky., not having tasted food for twenty-eight days. I — CEREAL STATISTICS FOR "93. Estimates of Area and Product as Com pleted by the Department, The estimates of area and product of the principal cereal crops, potatoes, tobaceo and Bay for the year 1803, as completed by the statisticlan of the Department of Agricul ture, make the aggregate corn aren 72,006, 465 acres, and product 1,619,498, 131 bushels ; whent ares, 34,629,418 acres, product 396, 181,725 bushels : oats, acres, 27,275,088, pro- duct 636,864, 850 bushels ; rye, acres, 2,008, 485, product 20,555,446 bushels: barley, acres, 3,420,371, product 60,869,405 bushels buckwheat, acres, 815,614, product 12,1382, 811 bushels ; potatoes, acres, 2.6 5,186, pro- duct 183,004,208 bushels; tobacco, 702,058 sores, product 453,028,968 pounds | bay 49, 613,460 arces, product 65,766,158 tons, The average yield of corn per acre was 22.5 bushels ; wheat, 11.4 bushels ; oats, 23.4 bushels ; rye, 18 bushels ; barley, 21.7 bush, ; buckwhest, 14.9 bushels; potatoes, 72.3 bushels; tobacco, 687 pounds; bay 1.38 tons. The returns of the correspondents of the department make the acreage of the winter Wwhiut sown lass Sail 91.3.pur deat of the ates barvoted in 1803, The steamer Warrimoo brings advices from Honolulu to January 1st. The following Is a summary of the tion at Honolulu when the Warrimoo that port : Minster Willis, in reply to a | tion from President Dole, demanded situa left communica. of the provisional government that it surrender to the Queen, { + President Dole replied, | gider this demand, A wee | ensued after the arrival of the revenue cut. to k of terrible refusing con fears | ter Corwin, Minister Wiil s held the force with the provisional of government menace using and ! the citizens got in readiness to rush to arms though it was generally belioved minister was bluffing. All is quiet at Honolulu, govern: I'he § ent has a foree of men un strongly for o« was { and the palace g searched neenled On then minister re | were bein arms, the 16th arm ravived by Dritist reiving permissi iain protecti io ernment Champion { Capt ! Queen and £5 ar sate ain Hooke for pressing yo To that Min ister Willis Leg {’ Dec, 18, i803, ir: | have tu a that 1 have a communicatic my governhent which I the President and Ministers of form yo desire 10 submit your govern- ment at any hour to-d which it may please which 1 regard ny you to designate, and sin- cerely respect.” The jinterview and lows: Foreigs President . Damon, = King, minister Smith, attorney | Willis, E. E. oad American, Mr. Willis said Myr. President and fdent of the United the it has been jemand was as How d B inlster of Dee. 19 Hon Ho p Clie Ranfor Dole, finance ; general ; M. r States has very gretted the Hawali but it as has © due to delay in unavoidable. Bo mueh © as beer prod required The President ost assuredly I do, that any {| crecy should surrounded the change of views between cur two | ments, I may say this, however, erecy thus far observed has been in the terest and for the safety of all 1 need hardly promise action on the Hawallan question { under the dictates of honor and urred since my arrival b certain compliance, which was io confer with ¥ regrets, as conditions, edent was yi. belo als wm so have inter. govern your peo the President's bas duty. now, and has been from the beginning, abso- lutely free from prejudice and resentment and entirely consistent with long established friendship and treaty ties which have so closely bound together our redpective gov. | ernments, The President deemed it his duty { to withdraw from the Senate the treaty of annexation, which had been signed by the Secretary of State and agents of your gov ernment, and to dispatch a trusted represen. tative to Hawali to impartially investigate the causes of your revolution and to ascer- tain and report the true situation in these Is. lands. This information was needed the better to enable the President to discharge a delicate and important duly, Upon the facts embodied in Mr, Blount's report the Presi dent has arrived at certain conclusions and determined upon a certain course of action, with which it becomes my duty to acquaint you. The provisional government was not established by the Hawaiian people, nor with their consent or acquiescene, nor has it since existed with their consent, President Dole in his roply sald his gov. ernment would take the matter under con. sideration and reply later, that been a I iiss DOWN WITH THE BRIDGE. Beventy~Fire leune Plunged Into Newtown Creek live Missing, An improvised btdge over Newiown Crook, ot Moeelor, Long Island City, Li. L, ecollnpsed, precipiiatiog a large number of pedestriana, variously estimated at from 0 to 75, nto the water. The greater number of them were rescued succeaded in reaching shore through their own efforts, some in an jujured cone dition. Five persons are reported missing, and it is belleved they were drowned, The bridge was 15 feet high, and the water where the accident cecurred 1s nine feet deep. ————— Tarn are ramors that the Italian Govern. ment is attempting to farm out the tobmeco I FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, Senate, 191m Day.--The Benate devoted nearly two hours to the discussion of the resolution offered last weak by Mr, Hoar, eailing on the Treasury Department for a statement of the payments made to Mr. Blount as Commis. sioner to the Hawall Islands, and of the authority under which such payments wero made, The resolution was finally referred to the Committee on Foreign Helations, Mr. Frye's resolution declaring the sense of the Senate to be in favor of striet non-inter- vention between the Queen and the pro- vislonal government was laid over till Wed- nesday next. 20rn Day. The House bill for the repeal of the federal election laws was bought up in the Benate, postponed till Monday next, and made the ‘unfinished. business’ after two o'clock each day until disposed of or displaced. ‘The resolution offered on Mon- day by Mr. Chandler, as to the authority of the appointment of Mr, Blount ‘without the advice and consent of the Benate,”” wns withdrawn by him on the representation of Messrs, Vest and Bherman that the subject matter was embraced within the scope of the inquiry now going on before the Com- mittee on Foreign Relations, 2181 Day. Iu the Senate Mr, Peffer's reso. lution of the force in the office of arohitect of the tressury, was passed Frye's resolution of January 5, | against wornl or physical in | Hawail pending the conclusion of the inves | tigation in the Senate, was discussed by Mr, { Davis, of Minnesota 2ixp Day. ~The Beoste was | with two speeches op the sub ject of Hawall The first was Ly Mr. Davis in continuation { of that whieh he had commenced yesterday, and the sec by Mr. Turple. Nir, | nrgued that the appointment of Br. | os commissioner to Hawali i viee and consent of the {| dential invasion of the privilege ol I ute. Mr. entertaloed nd Senate was n he Beg. Dax The { threo hours, but passed with open dot ! the time being given 10 executive tn nominations were being Director ; dian Agent W i sion no © Ak®D uj senate only was ib an boar ZURD hail rm, the the considera Wis tion jsiness, and a inrge nu jad, KRMOnE » Mint Preston During the any Hnporia them id In. onflrn atten, Binney BEG, 3 intters, the } rH ray igh 1 niorest and §, — hr AY & noss) exritement speache nd ng §¥ + L * , ge Tr i Bgal 4 $00 iar 1 358 &%Y0 6 iurn BIE sissies Tre partisans of h i ys on the floor gaillerie ; ison opened the fhe speech Mr. Bur. spirited snd in The is Iny & whieh iebate he f Mi { speech agninst the | sppia { to the echo, as Mr. Wi been | other two speeches of the day's sess made by Mr. Black, of lilinois, for, and Mr. ! Hopkins, of fillnos, against the bill, Speeches Wore n ade at the evening session i Hi Hawaiian nection with a report of the Naval Absire offered by Mr ary the pw yesterday, jowed with a and was son had nag The Has the in uy intr Day the patter came in con inde by the Chairman ommittes on a resolution utelle, ealling the Secre ! Navy for any iaformation in { of the Dep relative to | matter. The com amended the lution by i March 4, ae on rime mitten Hing for information instead of 1883, The discus {| sion gave two litt ne with Mr. | Tracey, of New York, and the ¢ the r with Mr. | MoMiilin, of Tenn alter which the House went into co {f the whole i ! consider the Tariff Mr. His Tennesse in the TER. a from Ri ris £ © ils, a mitlee ¢ i, with ohair artlt deb the sp Day. The nie in the He Breckinridge, Richar Doill Harter & also an even! i 22ND i tinued i Mowers, { Springer, here wan ne Day i Wise oOD ing is Iviogiey 3d Bros) ny session ver us be Hogee entry ved I~ i self into « ities of the whole | Richardson in the chair. Mr | cluded the speech be was : a recess on Thursday in turn by Representatives . Pens 4 sion, Payne, Simpson, well und Meisleiohn, res Me sh i Danie ie, | DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES diteh at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Jacor Krinoy, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, | went to bed drunk with a pipe in his mouth, He and two of his children were burned to death, Two miners, named Peter Leavitz and John Zinka, both Polanders, were killed in the Twin Shaft, at Pittston, Fa., by a fall of conl and rock. Florence Mullaly, aged 21 years; Meriz Moore, aged 60, and Florence Deegan, 2'¢ years, were suffocated by smoke from a fire in their house in New York City. Tuos. Garoo, aged 20 years was willedand two other workmen were injured by an ex- plosion in the works of the New York Oxygen Company in New York City. A Prexsyivaxia conl train and a Lebigh Valley passenger train were in collision on the Mahony Division of the latter road be- tween Buck Mountain and Delano. Both en- gineers were seriously injured. Aworkman ina quarry in the Roxbury distriet, Boston, fell while enrrying a keg of forcite. An explosion followed and Thomas Black, Patrick Huse and Thomas Hardeman were killed, and Cornelius Leary was proba bly fatally injured. Two other men were injured, though less seriously. By a rear-end collision between a Rock Ise land freight train and a mixed train on the Union Pacifie, at Linkwood, Kansas, two men were killed and elevon injured-