The Atlantic States Packers’ Association,
in session at Buffalo, elected A. A. Brakeley.
of New Jersey, president,
Fire which began in the Union Storage
Company's warehouse, on Pike street, near
Thirteenth street, Pittsburg, caused the
loss of eleven lives, twenty-seven persons
are missing, eighteen are injured aud the
property damage is about $1,500,000,
Several of the men who were wounded in
the Lattimer shooting testified at the trial of
Sheriff James Martin and bis deputies at
Wilkesbarre,
A convention of Georgians met at Atlanta
and took steps in the direction of baving
manufacturing Industries exempted from
local taxation,
The South Carolina House of Representa
tives passed a bill exempting York, Plekens
and Oconee counties from the operations of
the dispensary law,
Five persons were
the Louisville and Nashvi
Kirkland, Ala,
Judge Gary, at Chicago, allowed
for Adolph 1. Luetgert until February 19 to
prepare a motion for a new trial,
The report that a stove trust is
formed in Detroit is authoriatively denied,
Edward Hughes was killed and Thomas
Anderson fatally injured by a fall of rock in
the Baltimore Mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Death from coal gas was pear being the
fate of Morris Ablitzky, his wife, and seven
children, of Cleveland, O. All that saved
them was the arrival of Morris Proper. a
milkman, who found every member of the
family unconscious,
Near Newhampton, Iowa, a
pamed William Christoph fired !
Emil and Minnie Boos, but both took effect
in the girl's side, He then went home and
shot himself twice in the
and the girl a eritical condition.
ent in Jove was
killed in’a collision on
lle allroad near
counse)
being
LW
chest, Christoph
th
appoint the
Secretary of State Sherman
ion of American
many has been
wuere the existence «
dise
frrait is
drug int
frost
secured In all cases
f San Jose
insect is vered in the f
The president of the
Associatic
will be
but will prove hartfal t
ducers of the West,
n says the
in the interest of
The New York State Asser
resolution
Murphy for
bill.
A despatch from San Franei
syndicate of Guatemalans bad
000 for the killing of Barrios.
Baron Harden Hickey, better
the Prince of Trinidad. committe
in a hotel in El Paso, Tex,
State Senator R
ware, died in Wiig
A resolution ist
Ohio Legislature
to lift the State He
Ti} §
under it,
censuring
hi FET
ais recent
ow
bert
Superintenden
Union Printers
bh
liam B. Prescott
graphical Union, t«
reason assigned for
is lii-healith of his wife
The 14th annual convent
House Painters and
of the United States
deiphia B :
the largest in the h
was in session three d
At Mount Carmel
House was totally
70 inmates escaped
apparel. The loss on th
niture will amount
sured,
arse,
"
ilie
Treasury Deg
Collector of the Port
effect that shipments
the {
vessels {or transshipment to
ish bottoms wi
ing the coastin
The
Metealf
French steamer Burgun
At the trial Martin
barre, Judge Woodward stated '
received an an
against him,
Howard Humphreys, aged
years, was shot accidentally and killed re-
cently by his brother in Stafford county, Va
Mrs.
Va.
nited States to Viet
)
crew of
were
of Sheriff )
he had
Bymous jetter making threats
seventeen
Charles Webb, of
1
was burned to de
Urange ounty
ath,
ENGINEER FORGOT HIs OKDERS,
Five Killed in Head-end Collision
Louisville and Nashville,
on the
urred
Railroad
A disastrous head-end
oti the Louisville an
near Kirkland, Als. killing Will § ser, engi-
neer; Ed Davis, fireman. and
tramps. Henry Davidson,
Will Lee, fireman,
Charles Harrison
eut off, and Brakeman Hughes ws
burt, Both will die Eugineer
forgot to stop at Kirkland and mee
Cars and engines were demo
1 *ollision oe
1 Nashville
three white
and
seriously injured.
had both
engineer,
wera
brakeman
ished,
TWENTY CRUSMED TO DEATH.
Collapse of the Woman's Gallery ina Sgn
Rgogue ina Polish Town,
During a funeral service in the synagogue
at Idzienelol, in Grodno, the woman's gal-
lery collapsed,
In the panic that ensued twelve women,
five men and three children were erushed to
death and many others were serio usly in-
jared, :
HEAVY LOSSES BY EARIMOUAKE
Four Thousand People Homeless and 120
Killed or Injured In Asin Minor,
Earthquake shocks continue to be felt at
Balikesr, Asin Minor, and vielnity, About
4.000 people have been rendered homeless,
some 3,600 houses, 30 mosques, and 15 khans
have been more or Jess destroyed, and 140
ersons have been killed or injured,
Frizes for American Artists.
The Pennsylvania A ademy of the Fine
Arts Waiter Lippincott prize of #300 bine
been awarded to James Jebus Shaunon, for
his ofl painting, entitied, Babies in ihe
Woods.” Mr. Sbaunon is an American, who
bas lived for some years in London, where
bis portraits of women are much in request,
His pleture, entitled, “Miss Eitty,” is niso
Iu the academy's exhibition, aad won first
prize at Pittsburgh this year,
A Prince Wounded in a Duet,
A special dispateh from Borlin says a duel
hus taken place between Prince Frederic
Honenlohe-Waldeabtity and Lieutenant
‘dehoitz, officers of the Hussars, Both men
were wounded,
Brookiyn Central Labor Union has asked
the Police Commissioners to provide police.
men with union-made bats,
AT STII
4 h '
De Lome Writes a Letter Crit-
icising the President,
MAKES A 6
IMPOLITE TERMS USED.
The Spanish Minister Admits that He
Wrote It-The State Department Hus
Communicated With Minister Woodford
About It, and the Spanish Government
Will be Called Upou to Explain Matters.
ateh from Washington. I. «
The publication in the Dewspapers of
purported to be itograph
ten by Senor Dupuy Ds 1
minister, to his friend, Canals
the President with
caused a sensation in
and soon will be
ROVE
what
writ
an n otter
me ie Npanisi
, eriticising
the utmost freedom,
inl Washington
Minister De
nited
dis
followed by
Lome's departure from States,
At the outset there was a
question the authenticity of the letter
as bit by bit the circumstantial
cumulated, until it was finally announced
officially that the minister declined to deny
the authorship of the letter doubt
the only question that re-
was as to
by ministe
Minister DelLome
osition ¢
but
evidence ac-
ail was
dissipated, and
mained the line of actiol
pursued r
cabled his res
' the Spanish government.
Here Is the Letter
the better
ther
and « r= in
win over exile
There goes Ambla
too deeply taken
and there mu
r we shall jose
Adela returns §
you io the new year t
peace aud tt
ter
inke iis
poor pain
i r Spain.
A ir atieg
ir bat
I
{a
De Lome Wrote the Letter,
-
The following statement as to Its act]
I Was mas
the case ¢
Spanish IN
r
!
the State Depart
publie b
I ¥
Minister De Lome does n
the letter, 7
cated with General Wor
Until that
ish governmen w
ADY manner state fhe
sage to
As sc
partment |
Hord on
rege
General W
0 as the leite
the State Department ef.
fort to settle its auth Assiatn .
retary Day was in ¢ onsuitation with the
President on the subject least four times
during the official day, and then spout much
time in framing his message to United States
Minister Woodford, at Madrid. Itean be
stated without question that General Wood.
ford was directed to lay the
before the Rovernment., fa cgue
there should be undue delay in acting, the
State Department would feel eniled upon to
move directiy in the matter and give the
minister his passports, as wae done when
Bir Julian Pauncefote's predecessor wrote
the celebrated Murchison letter,
tnt Nae.
at
facts dey eloped
Spanish
Resignation Aceepled,
A cable despateh from Madrid says
meeting of the Spanish Cabinet, held under
the Presidency of the Queen Regent, the
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senor Gallon,
read a dispateh from Senor Dupuy de Lome,
the Spacish Minister at Washington, saying
that the published letter to Benor Canalejas
was written by bim and that his position,
consequently, bad become untenable, and he
begged the government to accept his resiy-
nation.
The Cabinet decided to accept the resig-
nation of Bevor Dupuy de Lome, and the
Ministers subsequentiy met and decided to
telegraph to Senor de Lome, aeenpting bis
resignation ani entrusting the First Beore.
tary with the condust of the current affairs
of the Legation, After the Cabinet councii
the premier, Senor Sagasta, said that Benor
Dupuy de Lome had Coravely” ado ftted the
asthorship of the letter, Senor Canalejas
wis out of town, but his Secretary said he
hind never received any such letter from De
Lome,
“At a
The action of the Spanfkb Cabinet in ae
cepting the resigostion of Senor Dupuy de
Lome tony not close the incident in which
be so ¢ouspleuously figures,
When the Spanish Minister admitted tc
Hecretary Day last Wednnsday alternool
that he was the author of the Cnnalejas lot
ter, n oublegram was at once sent to Minis
ter Woodford at Madrid, its substance being
cfMelully stated at the State Department
yesterday to be as follows
“There has appeared io the public print ¢
letter addressed by the Spanish Minister te
Mr. Cabalejus, This letter, the Minister nd
mits, was written by bim. It contains ex
pressions concerning the President of the
United States of such a character as to end
the Minister's usefulness as a representative
of bis government in this country. Gen,
Woodford, therefore, is Instructed at once t«
Sy 10 the Minister of State that the ifime
diate recall of Mr, Dupuy
pected by the President,
Long before any reply had been received
to this ecablegram the State Department
learned throygh press dispatebes that
Spanish Cabinet had met and had nceepted
SENOr lo | resignation, and
i I him of that action, At the
tment the faet the Cabinet
bh Repor de |
de Lome is ex
§
Lhe
Dupuy « e's
bad faforme
Lut that
HIG §
Minister
but
dispate)
‘onsidering
Was commented upon,
plained that the press
ing in detail, It
that Spain would
OF express regret for the
Minister's letter. and this position belong an.
ade that
1 ba
BUD i
Was suppose
Course,
ipated, th cement was
ceptance of the resignati
ronsidered satisfactory.
the
According to
ington Del
Intest desp
nes fate has
* recn
COST US 82,000,000
We Have Spent In Bunning Down
Filibusters,
What
BLUE JACKETS LAND,
States Troops on Niearaguan Sol)
Consulate Protected.
Uonists had taken
§
: Hur
fas 1 3 se ¢
{the nite a0
sd
i
an interests generally, San J uan del Sg
near the wes terminus of Nit
Canal, and is a calle
The United St
the goene of
measures will Ie
tern the
station,
ites has three warships near
disturbance, and ample
* Laken to safe guard Ame: €
The Alert is at San Juan ad
str. Marietia is at Lit ertad,
Saivador, ane oat Newport was at
Greytown, on the east const at Jast reports.
Aucther cat legram received at the
Navy Department teiliog of the progress of
the revolutionary movement at that end of
the Nicaragua Canal,
The Captain said be had landed a force
for the protection of the United States Cone
sulate, and, as the government forces had
to bombard
the town, he had taken on the Alert all of
the women and children who cared for
refage,
Tie rebels were driven out of town, which
was entered and taken possession of by the
Government troops, The rebels retreated
toward the interior of the or untry,
The opinion among Central Amerieans is
that the insurrection bas been a mistake
from the beginning and that it {a doomed to
fallure owing to the preparations made by
Presiden: Zuya to meet the storm. The
outeoine of this uprising is awaited with
uch interest, because it is the flies: real test
that has been made of the ability of the
Greater Republic 15 carry out that part of
the tripartite agreement that pledges united
efforts to suppress rebellion in any ore
Slate,
the
Can interests,
the guaboal
wa»
given notice of their intention
The Grosvenor Arbitration nin,
The House committees of iabor unani-
mousiy ordered a favorable report on the
Grosvenor arbitration bill, which is a modi-
fieation of the Phillips bill passed by the
House at the let session, There Lu een
vigorous opposition to the measure on the
part of the general ofMcers of the American
Federation of Labor.
-
DEATH ROLL OF FIRE.
Eleven Bodies Recovered and
27 Persons Missing.
PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY.
The Confingration Was One of the Most
Costly In Lives nnd Property in Pitts
burg's History Ww ork on the Debris
Went on Dey and Night, but Little Vro-
gress Made in learing It Away.
A despatelh from "ittsburg
Eloven people even missing,
and nineteen
21,500,000,
preperty los
21.000 000 ins
Is the nwiul
nesday night,
Fhe fire was discovered ab
six-story co
the Chautauqua Lake Ie
The building ‘euples the ULlock f
Twelfth to Thirteenth streets, between Pike
étreet and Mulberry story
brisk, with three
in realty, four bull
MeDonald,
MeLaughiin
four companions
in the large I
e Company
from
{
alley It isa six
heavy fire
George
Jacob
Penn avenue
buliding, are
under
Mrs,
shit
el
when the wall
missing
the debris,
Mary McFadder
idren,
der the fallen
y nf
on i
iiberry
ives with
Of AWAY
NEN NOMINATIONS,
Yilied Ly
McKinley,
Important Places Fresident
1
Maryiand
burg, Carr
3 ¥
residue
rear
isanors have
ne are being
roil brewery is In
d-carvers will not join
bread.
Some Chicago voilerworkers have
for the nine-bhour day.
A ton of pure gold is worth $602, 780 91.
Boston stereotypers passed a law probit
lng the employment of apprencies
struck
uggested to employers that wages be ot
0 per cent,
At Cario, lil, a negro detective discovered
whiskey,
The Boston Building Trades Council will
boycott in the future any politican found pa
trogizing either as guest or through = pur
A bill to create the office of “Labor Law
Enforcement Inspector,” is before the New
York Legisiature,
New York sandwich men resent the invas.
ion of their calling by an Italian, and talk o
organizing a union,
Portland (Ore.) retail merchants have or
ganized and bave issued an appeal to the
people 10 boyeott department stores,
In San Francisco laundries girls work 16
hours a day for from $7.50 to $15 per month
and board,
New York's State Board of Arbitration de.
elares that the ‘walking delegate fa a neces
sity and accomplishes much good.”
Lorain (0) longshoremen's scale has
been signed by all employers,
Hamiiton, Oat, has created work for the
unemployed. They are employed at the ait
quarry and receive 18 Coils an hour,
Worcester (Mass. ) carpenters have been
promised the nine-hour day,
Helena (Mont. } tailors have Srganized,
They compiain thet Fastern-sweat-shop
goods are sold thre by Crummors who pay
Bo taxes
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
Dispatohes received in Havana from Ma
drid represent the Sagusta cabjuet as dis
gusted with the Cuban autonomist ministry,
because of [ts neglect of military operations
Agrinst the insurgents,
Cron, Woodford, 1 nited States Minister to
Spain, is sald to have presented another note
Lo the Bpanish government, to which Pre
miler Ragasta replied vigorously
fhe Spanish government has
Kend two additional erulsers to the
“ales,
decided to
United
between 1
ure fre
The turks are reported to
villages, A hbun¢
pans are suid to have Leen killed.
Dr
Who has arrived in London
saoguinary conflicts irkish
troops and Greek peasants quent in
Thessaly have
cupled gaveral fired per
the rer
he was al
Fridtjof Nansen arctie expl
BBYR
Ost killed with kindness lg the United
Ban Juangde! Bu
of
Diet
1 of
Fhe Gorman minister
cinred In the Prussian
horses dey eloped Influenza
tion, and that if the im portations Inereass
arantine would be necessary,
An almost perfect fresco by D
menico
Cbirlandajo, the fllustrous Florentine paint.
8 been discovered in a chureh in Fior-
t contains a portrait of Amerigo
f Don
i separation
vith whom
Carlos
from
she
M. Henri
M
pear Par with
ided
pdefin
ng renewed her ¢
allan Mind
FIREMEN KILLED,
| Collapse of a Boston Factory After a Big
Haze Floors Fell.
Was
Arrving
bot }
weh t the basemen
} beneath a great 1
Dasty
the department
BILE
ward removi
3 the men
were
*y ¥ {
omplishe
SHORTAGE IN SILVER VAULT.
It Required a Large Force of Counters
Five Months to Make the Hecount,
ne. § ort co Id ¢
Washington
from
f the treas
SAYS
which was
ity cast
osed 5 =}
was made ns
y '
June asl of
riage
eRsary by
Mr. Ellis H
io place of Me. D
faly 1
060 O60
States (reasurer
gal was
lime ab
counted N
were
and sin
has
shortage of import-
an until treasury
committes had begun work in sliver vault
Na 1, in whieh there wore 103.653 000 stand.
ard do A colored man named Martin,
employsd as a laborer, was one day dis-
{ vered ia the coal and wood basement un.
der suspicious circumstances, and a search
{| resuited in the finding of 8 number of silver
| doliare, which presumably he had abstracted
| from some of the bags. Martin was arrested.
i and made a confession, admitting that he
| had taken twenty-eight dollars, for which
he bad substituted lead. The court imposed
af of 850, and Martin was released.
Tals admiseion cast suspicion upon the ene
tire contents of the vault, and a count hy
handling each individual plese was ordered.
Un September 10, tweney-eight expert
begun
it 8787 cash
y EITOrs of
dircovered
the
ars
Ge
fiers, under ths direction of Mr. G. C.
Bance, assistant cashier, began the work of
counting the contents of this vauit, The
time employed therefor was nearly five
months, the counters working eight bours
each day. The shortage will be made good
by Mr. Morgan, the retiring treasurer. It fs
probable, however, as has been done in sim.
liar casos, that Congress will make an ap-
propriation in Mr. Morgan's favor covering
the amount,
Killed Mis Brother in-law.
James Scanian was killed in a fight with
John MeGiue, his brother-in-law in New
York. MeGlus and his wife had a disa-
greement, resuiting in Mrs. MeGlue going to
the home of her sister, the wife of Beaniag,
Rulsequently, Seanlan and MeGlue met in a
saloon where they quarreled. From the
ruloon they went into the street to fight it
out. MeGiue had the best of It from the
start, and koocked Seanlan down several
times, Finally, Seanlan fell, striking hie
bead on the sidewalk, ard bad to be hel
up, He died a shoit tue afterward, Mo
Give is locked ap.
SAD NARRATIVE.
Pathetic Condition of Cuban
Reconcentrados,
TERRIBLE SUFFERING,
Little Likelihood of Any Helief Renching
This From Genvral
Lee, on Account of Menger Transports
of Corpses
Rection Consul
Hon Facilitles~Thoussnds
Divide spain and the Insurgents
Hon, Charles W, Russell, assistant
Filate in the Department «
Las jast rece
nowieaging
mulled
atlorney
al Washi
HOR ietier. pes
New York
Consul Bb
tistr]
iraft
ArRer al Nagus is
his estimate of the 1
‘ 2 wi to the
starvation, up to the
visit 200.000, Mr.
Higgins bas been elected
ory in the Northern In
Lins sent to the
£1.000
Douglas Ti a n ae 8
od the Native Sons’ M nu ment
Sau Fra
presented t ® eity by Mayor Phelan, bas
just compieted a design for another "nG-
ment to be erected at the corner of Bash and
Battery streets, Lis to be dedicated to the
merchants of San Francisco,
The notable fact in the
American provincial of the
{ Market o greets
and Mas
4 4
me
case of
the
Order of
new
the
ah, is that
He avowed his beijef
The heresy hunters
but Pope Leo has
he is a “Darwinian.”
in evolution years ago.
On jubilee day In 8an Francisco a squad
with 50-pound charges of powder. Oue ol
the guns missed fire, and the officer ordered
When this was done
of
was
spot and rubbed out the fire with biz bare
hands, thereby saviag the lives of the seven
Dr. Hermann V. Hiipreoht, of the Usniver-
sity of Pennsyivania, has just returned from
the site of the ancient City of Nippur, in
Babylonia, where his archaeological labors
bave been sucecess®cl. While in Constanti
nople be visited the Sultan, who gave him
many valuable antiquities,
It now appears that the “mailed fit” of
Prince Henry of Prussia contains nothing
more warlike than dainty bric-a-brac, It a
reported from Berlin that be is the bearer of
very costly presents from the Emperor Wil.
liam, especially masterplecos of the famous
Royal Berlin porcelain factory, for the Iw.
peror of China,
The Rev. F. B. Meyer, pastor of Surre
Chapel, London, aad famous as an va
list, is conducting a series of revival ser-
vices in Kansas City,
Dr, Iogram, who is now senior lecturer of
Trinity College, Dublin, first vame into mo
tice more than 50 years ago as the author of
the famous rebel ballad, beginning “Who