THE NEWS, Fire destroyed the business portion of Lindsey village, cight miles west of Fremont, 0. The postofiice, the drug store, grocery, meat market and the new Produce Exchange Buliding, Town Hall and the Grand Army of the Republic Hall was burned. Hon, J. Leonard Mueller, general manager of the Synder Banana Company, Mobile, Ala, shot and mortally wounded himself, He was one of the best-known fruit importers in the country. In letters to relatives and friends nervous prostration was alleged as having induced the attempt at sell-destruc- tion. The speakers who will represent Princeton in the annual debate with Yale were chosen as follows: R. F. Stirling, Blairsville, Pa.; N. 8. Reeves, Now West Brooklyn, N. Y.; H. H, Yooum, Columbia, Pa., and Ivy Lea, Atlanta, Ga. In New York an attachment for $700 was issued against the City of Tacoma, Wash, in favor of John F. Dillon for services rendered in 1803 in connection with an issue of water and light bonds, The two-masted schooner Miranda, owned by the East River Terra-Cotta Company, sank off Bath Beach, 8. I, She was loaded with fire brick. The captain and crew es- eajel in the schooner’s boat, While three men were engaged in repairing the bell tower of the St. Marie Sulome (Quebec) Roman Catholle Church the seal- folding broke and they were thrown to the ground, a distance of some 70 feet.. Trep anier St. Benoit was dead when picked up, and the two others, named Valllancourt and Chenier, were fatally hurt, The lilinois State Senate has adopted a resolution providing for the appointment of a special committee of five to investigate the reported misappropriation of the funds of the University of Iilinols by Ex-Treasurer Spalding. Adolph Kluge, of the firm of Kluge Bros, New York, was held in £2,500 bail by United States Commissioner Alexander for exami- nation upon a charge of alding in smuggling from Canada several trunks containing woven ge yods, Secretary Alger has accepted the offer made by the State of New Jersey of the use of the State camp and rifle range at Beagrit for the United States troops in the vicinity of New York, Coblentz, Plke & Co,, wholesale liquor dealers, Ban Francisco, have failed with la- bilities of £100,000. Nominally the assets exceed the liabilities, though their real value can be established only after the ex- pert shall have submitted his statement, A train of passenger cars ran into a in which several workmen were sitting the Pennsylvania Railroad yards, City, N. J. Three of the workmen were se- verely hurt, In an interview published in the Bacre- mento (Cala.) Bee, James Collins, now in jail, acknowledges that he is “Cuckoo” C¢ lins, wanted by the police of Denver for the robbery of a jewelry store on March 8, 1886, A loeal institution has deposited £1,000 000 in gold in the New York eclearing-house vaults in of balances, bringin the aggregate amount of gold on there Sp to $53,000,000, Mrs. Caroline Dooth, Newtown, Conn, It wassapposed by now says that J. W. Tuttle, with had been living, inflicted the woun had quarreled much of The New York East C Methodist Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, voted to give the laity equal rep. resentation in the Conference with the clergy. The proposition was carried Ly so majority of 68 on a total vote of 202 Judge Quinn bas sentenced Lewis Kelli han, of Mason City, Ia.. to be hanged on Au- gust 12. Kellihao and his ther rot bank at Sherburn, Mion, killed two men, They fled on were caught three days was killed at the eapture At Toronte, Ontario, Harry Lavigne, alias Sam H. Cohen, who is wanted in Cleveland on a charge of embezzlement, to 00 days in jail for pocket-picking. car in Jersey deposit who was late, bre ts inte was sentenced - I i is BIG BLAZE IN NEW ORLEANS, An Entire Block Destroyed and Other Property Damaged. The Moresque block, owned by Gauch & Sons, was totally destroyed by fire Thurs. day afternoon. The fire broke out shortly after one o'clock and at hall-past two the bulldiog bad collapsed and upwards of $400000 bad gone up In smoke. The Moresque building, occupied an entire block, bounded by Camp, Poydras and Church streets and Lafayette Square, and iis walls were built entirely of iron in a design known as the Moorish, The Montgomery Farniture Company and Gauch Bons & Co,, crockery mershants were the tenants of the building, and both firms carried full stocks. The buildings of the German Gazette and the Evening Telegram were completely gutted, thelr contents being destroyed. Several stores were also destroyed. Adjacent dwell- ing houses and business property were dam- aged more or less by water, The following is the estimates of losses and insurance: Gouch & Sons, $100,000 on baild- jug, on stock $60,000, insurance $125,000, Montgomery Company, stock £100,000 loss. insurance $80 000: German Gazetle, loss $35,000, insurance €12,000; Evening Tele gram, loss $20000, no {osurance: Warren Hotel and saloon, loss $10,000, insurance 85.000; James A. Atken, plumber, loss $10. 000, insurances §5.000; Heath, Schwartz Sons, wall paper, loss £15,000, insurance £10,000, The jusurance is about squaliy divided be- tween local and foreign companies. Outside of the specified cases of loss, tie damage to adjacent property ia estimated to be $60,000, all fully insured. Total loss $400,000, with an insurance of $298,000. No loss of life is reported, but seversl prostrations by heat occurred. PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS. The Diamond Glass Works, of Royersford, are preparing to resume operations this month. The barn on the farm of William Cook, pear Haltman's Mill, East Coventry, was destroyed by fire. The livestock was saved. The large barn of Lewis Grape, in Sugar Valley, was completely destroyed by fire, together with all the contents. A number of valuable horses and hogs were cremated lo the burning structure, Residents of Bristol and vicinity have been ecousiderably annoyed recently by tramps who have ealled In the morning, and fading the family still 18 bed, appropriated the milk left on the doorsteps, The home of Frank Kessler, of Millhelim, was completely destroyed by fire, the Hames originating from a defective stovepipe. The SHS President McKinley Mames the Commission. ACTIVE WORK TO BEGIN. They Will Go to Europe in May to Ar. range for an International Conference and Agreement for Bimetallism Two of the Members Strong Advoesates of the Restoration of Sliver, A despatoh from Washington says:—-Une der the act approved March 3, 1897, “for the promotion of international agreement for bimetallism,” President McKinley Monday night announced the appointment of three commissioners to represent the United States in the proposed conference, They are: Hon, Edward 0. Wolcott, of Colorado, Republi- ean; Gen, Charles J. Paine, of Massachu- setts, Republican; Hon, Adial E. Stevenson, of Tilinols, Democrat, Confirmation of the Senate ls not required ing the commission, these appointments by by the act creat It has been generally conceded that Sena ¥ ) the active leader tor Woleott would be made a member of Ho has been an in the movement for the monetary agree ment, and is widely known as an ’ ommission, advooate His trip to Europe iast secded to presentative of the the silver cause, least new fall was generally con be at sami-oMeinl as the re administration, Wolcott's Trip to Earope. His tour and embrased adding He bad audier with floanciers and Ministers, and then laid the foundation for the onference which the deavor to bring to a conclusion, Benator Ww now serving his se term in the Senate, having been elected to that body in 1885. v extended over 1 saveral months the European capi- the more noted t is belioved tis, 24 interaational commission will en~ oleott 8 ond While a pronounced bimotallist, he was a staunch supporter of tiokot RES. the St Louis Charles J. Paine Is a Bepublican and was a MeKinley man, He 2 oge prominent business men of frill of the most Massachusetts, f the flnan- classed as a sup- sid i% sald to be a deep student While he is dmetallism, based on International creoment, he is regarded as ailled with is a graduate He Harvard, being a member of the ial question, wirter of 1 the sound money faction, of class of '53 it is a fact not generally known that Gen P ‘oloott on his European trip ane l woad with Ben stor Woleott with the understanding that he to be made na men It {+ believed that he went al Wns ber of the Come mission, Fx-Vice President Stevenson, Ex-Vice tha slic mem bar « President Stevenson : v fed § tthe ( +0 es ¢ aliy known as an advooate of He was a stanch supporter of Bryan and the hicago platform. He and Senator Wole however, are y i accord tion t yot known when the Co | meet and organize, affected, however, It is it Senator Wolcott will financial ques When an nis be be made welilant aent. Britain Not te Take the Initiative, Answering a question the regarding spexts of the ge sending out tations to a bimetslll four reftaratad, in sonference, Mr CABLE SPARKS. advices at Re discovery of gold Massowah me ALnOunce & very rieh quartz al As mAs. The prospect of fs attracting European « Greece financial ruin for 6 great deal of astiestion creial eircige, that General Ri vera will be sentenced to death, but that the sentence will not be carried oul. in It is believed in Havana Emperor William telegraphed his condo lence to the widow of Dr. Von Stephan, the German (mperial postmaster. Dispatches received in Madrid from Ma. la say the Phillppine insurgents have lied several monks and have burned three hurches, A cartload of fireworks exploded in Buenos Ayres, Argectios, setting fire to 3 block of buildings, which was destroyed. Ten per sons were killed, n F e { i Heveral of the prominent officers concerned in the recent military plot in Chill will be re tired acd another will be transferred to a less important post, Mr. Joseph Ohamberiain in ths House ol Commons announced that a contract bad been signed for a fast steamship services be tween Canada and Great Dritain, The Grand Duke of Mesklenaburg-Schwerin died at Cannes, Frances, and bis brother, Duke Johann Albrecht Schwerin, has as sumed the regency of the grand duchy. The Peruvian government has suspended the coinage of silver at the government mint and bas fssued a prohibition against the im- portation of silver coins after May 10, 1807 The Congress of Honduras has granted a concession to a Hondural syndicate, in con junction with New York capitalists, for ap interoceanie rafirond from Puerto Cortes, ot the Atlantic, to Amapaia, on the Pacific, The action against the American Tobacco Company of Cauada for conspiracy, taken by F. M. Fortier, a Canadian tobacco manu. facturer, has been dismissed by Judge Du goa at Montreal, who holds that the company has « right to insist that the dealers whe wish to handle their cigarettes shall not han die goods of another manufacturer, HOSPITALS IN CUBA. Weyler Preparing for the Dread Halny Season. In view of the approach of the rainy sea- gon, Captain General Weyler bas ordered the erection of an {afirmary on the trooba and the extension of the military hospitals, New hospitals will be constructed under the supervision of the sanitary inspector gen- eral at Trinidad, Casiida, Isabella and Ragus. The Captain Genaral has ordered the de- molition of all houses inside the ealitvation gone. This is on the theory that the peas sats will remain at night in the block houses sud remove their families to the towns. In thie way, says General Weyleor, tho regulars will not be exposed to the risk, in case of in- surgeat aggression, of shooting women and children, INDUSTRIAL ITEMS. At the present time considerable more than one-half of the bessemer stosl manufac- tured in the United States Is produced iu Pennsylvania, which mainly uses the high olass and expensive ores of the Lake Buper- for region. Nearly one-fourth of the whole amount 8 produced in Llinols, A 162-{noh pupermakiog machio is under construction for the Rumford Falls Paper Company, of Rumford Falls, Me, which ls, undoubtedly the largest in the world, hav ing a 60-foot wire gun-metal breast-roll, 24 tooh gun-medal coucher, 24-inch press-roll, 28 48-tnch dryers, besides press and recels- ing dryers, and a stack of 12 chilled ealen- dar rolls, reel and winding machine, the speed being from 500 to 500 feet per minute. Arizona's monthly output of copper ut present is over 5,000 tons, which, at 12 cents per pound, returns to Arizona annually over $14,000,000, or an average of nearly £40,000 per day. Most of the copper produced in Arizona gives also a yield of gold or silver. The output of copper will be nearly doubled this year, as all the plants are being invreas- ed, and others are being installed at new mines, The greatest activity is reported in the southwestern part of Yayapal county. Metailurgie experts are examining Japan- ese ores, with a view to employing them in making steel, but the investigations bave not as yet been encouraging. The Inrgest deposit is near Kamalshi, where biast furnaces are already at work, and ex- periments have been made with the black or magnetic fron sand, from which, it is sald, was made the very flue steel for which Ja pan was once noted; but in view « f the r+n results of rec this tradl- tion does not seem likely to be verified, . ” pevernl bar- at sx periments, “Salvador,” says a citizen of that coun- try, “is one of the richest countries In the world and one of the most densely ind, like the Vanderbiits and Astors, ther, but a who have that baudsome Incomes. Coffes 1s, of the bg justry, and the crop worth anpually about $7,000,006 in gold There is also a large amount of ladigo ex- ported, Almost the entire country is under sultivation. only drawback to life in Salvador is the constant dread of the ravages of yellow fever.” H. M. Brentley, of Philadelphia, plied to the Mexioan government for a popuint- There are no people of great fortune, great large ostatles yield many Murase The has ap- ite newal of the Topolobampo co-operative olony, whi Owen, who enterprise, h was recently forfeited | pn priete failure wer of claima $c have a no caplial back of s addition to the establish ment of the co-operative colony #8 Top braces the ballding of 8 raliroad from that place to the city of Ohihuskasy, across the Sierra Madre Mountains, made ac 3 Bole large rently $s a foll my & the ant of Ameri terprise, which, | ries his =n bampo, em ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE. Ex-Ambassador Dayvard has had | ite English : King Leop very fond « ever be finds it poss aud #r #ireets like any humble tou The late Perley Dest one « ron panied, wna {f the best-known v gists the United States, and | employed hes In aim years in making Rebelo wi every Mr. Bayard's son mainder W v ®, all tate §o Hiate in Sn-law, Lisu lates Professor has just the Newberry Professor Niche f 1400 ¥ fed the f Berlin beter fy regetited Lo Chicago by Jias in ihrary naista physiclogy and al sub and is a very va fered to th eh Diy jable one BIveraily « 3 Barnard the Cont nec ’ Wan rut Legislature one will Iw raised by The Harford *( has taken the matter in tion of one of Dr, headed a subscription list which growing. It is to be hoped that the ” ant” meets with success, for no educator America deserves more from the public than Barnard, When Preside »f Ohio Lis father was stil alive ident ther Jr. Afie drop the soerms Xely that ul y grant HERS and is rapidly ar subscriptio hand at the » Jarnard’'s friends, Cour ia nt McKinley was Governor The Pree iis name “Wm, M r ather died he Jr.” but as be took the office as “Wm. MeKinley, Jr, retain it, When he was Governor for a soc. ond term his name was signed plain "Wm, McKinley. Gradually the ia “Wm. became almost a straight line, and 80 he decided that as President be would sign his name “William MoeKinley.” Kinley, wished to ' oath of ‘he decided to 3 signed n k ¢ i letter ‘mn CURRENT EVENIS. A gold mine has been discovered at West Milan, N. H, Biddeford, Me, has hope: of a £2,000 000 Goverpment granite contract, 1,000 men five yours, In some parts of Tulare County, Cal., this season's sheepshearing has been given en tireiy to Indiacs and Chinese, The lumber business in the Penobscot {(Me.) region will probally exceed in volume this year that of aay previous year since the decline in the industry began, The fatlure of the Oregon Leglaiatare to organize and pase appropristion bills has left many of the puldic institutions in a sad plight. The State prison authorities say that they have not money enough to buy postage stamps for the conviots’ limited cor respondence or to furnish the discharged 0 employ March 29 was the starsap day of the maple sugar senson in Vermont, and reports from various sections around Rutland state that the run for the past four days bas been good, A farmer living some ways north of Mill Village gathered 150 barrels of sap on Saturday. The season will necessarily be short, and consequently every hour and every available maple is put into ase, Many farmers are boiling all night to keep ahead. One of the secretaries of the American Missionary Association of New York has just returned from a two months’ trip through the Routh. He visited North Carolina, Kentucky, studying the conditions of the NEED FOOD. The Flood Sufferers in the South. PEOPLE STILL GLOOMY. Twenty-two Thousand In Bolivar County Dependent Upon Charity Brighter Prospects in Kunflower County “The Country Drying Off, and the Farmers Be- ginning to Plant Cotton. While the condition of affairs in the over- flowed Mississippi delta is reported brighter, the situation between Vicksburg sad New Orleans is causing the greatest appreben- gion, The river continues to rise in the Louisiane levee district, and weak spots in the levee are belng strengthened and watch- ed day and night, O, C, Stublefield, corres- pondent for the Agricultural Department of the United Government at Indols, Miss, says the suffering iu Sunflower county, which forms part of the delta, has been greatly alleviated and that much of the coun- try now is dry. Farmers sre busy plowing and planting cotton, and if matters grow no worse, that country will pot require any as- sistance from the g Statistios of the number of flood in Bolivar county have Hintes ernment, sufferers been complied by a committee appointed to look after the distri- bution of the government provisions, show 22,000 whe fed In They y now or soon will have to be addition to 8,000 head of y charity, in live stock, The water at Rosedale has not receded The frst train that has entered Clarksdale for has arrived there. Trains also being run from lale to Minter City and Phillip and from L town. The weather througho and The Greenville for the last three days have given the people no hope. The bly rectde by May 10 be made, At Halena the sitagation Is u a moesting of the property o iL was decided to erect a many days are Clarks ilu to Jones it the reports at delta is clear pleasant, river water may possi- and if so, 4 crop may nchanged. At whnors of the city new td vee Ar Lhe city I ————ua— ATFTATAL QUARREL. Two Young Men Fight to Kill Each Other at Charlestown. f b ital Piedmont of a Jefferson © George Goetzen and Willi Dean, News reached nt Charlestown, aflray nly, W young mes, got into a quarrel, Dean bit Goetzen ar bottle, fracturing yori shot Dean through the b Eni. ayer 3 A0S the mrely missing bis heart. Doth Liy die, A letter from t 8 Durand many Africa states that Merc} i's exploring expedition in Alri iages, killed a few hau 4 and took their Evestock | dred natives r food is ot a IOs MARKETS. ARAIE ETO FLOUR Raito, Dest Pat. ® High Grade Extrs WHEAT Nc COBN-