HOTEL GUESTS IN FIERY DEATH TRAP Sixteen Burned and Suffocated and Many More Injured. FIRE STARTED BY INCENDIARIES. Seventy-first Regiment Armory Destroyed and the Flames Communicated in Mysterious Way to Park Avenue Hotel—A Panic Among the 500 Sleeping lumates— Building Not Equipped With Fire Apparatus. New York, (Special) —For the third time since New Year's Day Park ave nue, this city, was the scene of loss of human life, the collision in the New York Central tunnel at Fifty- sixth street and Park avenue; came the dynamite explosion in the rapid transit subway at Forty-first street, and the third was a fire which started in the Seventy-first Regiment's armory, at Thirty-third street, and spread to the Park Avenue Hotel, where eighteen per- sons were killed and many injured. It was the worst Windsor was destroyed. The fire was first seen about 1.30 the morning in the armory, and in a re- First was aflame from end to end. The firemen made their way as best they through the streets deep with slush, and did all possible to confine the fire to the that the hotel was on fire. The hotel was crowded with guests, who had come to attend the festivities in honor Prince Henry. More than 500 persons were in the house and air shaft. At about the time the ho with smoke their way through the darkened hall- way, jumped from windows or ran di the building. It this fact which ac- counts for the large loss of life, although the hotel was not destroyed. One of the saddest incidents of the fire was the death of Mrs. Salome Foster, “The Tombs Angel.” for fifteen years had been in in behalf of female prisoners in the city prisons. Mrs. Foster of John W. Foster, and the last five vears at the Park Hotel. Her income, h was : time considered large. was for the m part expended upon the deserving poor The Seventy-first Regiment Armory cost the city $700,000 to build. The k will be somewhat me saved from the fire was memorative of the kille the battle of Bull Run ch was pre sented to the regiment by ol Martin. The fire destroyed th rigir of the regiment, as it was orga 1850, and all the portraits. together with a $7,000 sword presented by the State of Massachusetts for of the Massachusetts volunteers, all the origi nal war records numerous other valuable trophies, prizes and articles. The damage to the tel, Manager Reed said. + ceed $350,000. The he is serving meals modations for its ¢ Fire Commissioner S Chief Croker ] i in the hotel from that + and that the h any sparks that is who Service Tombs and « was the widow had lived for Avenue whic the services and rosters, besides tel is BROKEN NECK HEALED. Woman Recovers From Imjury That Was Considered Fatal ard broken Octot by buggy, made her first street Sunday although six p was no possibi again She was confined in the McKeesport Hospital until a short time ago, when she was removed to her home with her head braced in splints. As the bones of her neck did not knit together straight her head is slightly turned to one side and her neck is perfectly stiff. She says she suffers but little from her misfortune. last National Council of Women. Council of Women at the triennial ses- sion here elected the following officers : President, Mrs. William Todd Helmuth, New York, formerly president of Sorosis and of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs; vice-president, Mrs. Mary W. Swift, of California: corre- sponding secretary, Mrs. Flo Jamison Miller, formerly president of the Na- tional Women's Relief Corps; first re- cording secretary, Mrs. Ida Weaver, of Idaho; second recording secretary, Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, District of Columbia ; treasurer. Mrs. Lillian Hol- lister, Detroit, Mich, supreme com- mander of the Supréme Hive of Macca- bees of the world. ————— —" Big Day at Charleston Charleston, S. C. (Special.)—Satur- day was military day at the exposition, State militia from South Carolina and Georgia participating in the exercises, The Jaiade to the exposition grounds was led by Governor White, of West Virginia, with his staff, and Adjutant- General Floyd, of South Carolina, with the staff of Governor McSweeny. The Chatham Artillery, of Savannah, with he famous Washington guns, was in ne. ———— A S . A Couple Suffocated by Gas Detroit, (Special) — James McGlashan, aged 3B years, a foreman in the con- struction department of the Michigan Telephone Company , and an unidentified woman were found dead in a roomin house on Park Place. Gas had escape im some manner from the gas stove in the room and suffocated the couple, The s had also penetrated into the adjoin- ng room in which Marguerite Stevens was asleep, and she was unconscious when the door was burst open. She was ‘resuscitated and will recover. NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD. Domestic. ter of Norfolk who sued the Norfolk sermons stolen while in the possession of the railroad, has received from the com pany a check for $250, the amount de cided upon as their value by a board of arbitration, In the Greene-Gaynor conspiracy cases in Savannah, Ga., Judge Speer overruled the demurrer of the defend- ants except to two counts, and the defendants pleaded not guilty. S. G. Stokes, recently convicted and sentenced to four years in the peniten tiary for attempted assault upon a ten- year-old girl, escaped from the jail at Lunenburg Courthouse, Va Joe Higginbotham, colored, was hanged in the jail at Lynchburg, Va. for criminal assault upon Mrs. Ralph Webber, whose husband witnessed the | execution, The*Maryland Dredging and Contract ing Company of Baltimore filed an in- crease in their capital stock at Dover, from $100,000 to $300,000. Charles E. Jones told in New York how he chloroformed and killed Rice, the millionaire, upon the instructions of Lawyer Albert T. Patrick, now on trial i for murder. Miss Ree Reinica, of Front Royal Va., and Elmer W. McConnel, of Par kersburg, W. Va., eloped to Winchester i and were married there. Joseph Ramsey, on trial in Essex County Court, Virginia, on the charge of killing Joseph Dunn, was of | murder in the first degree The new steamship Kroonland, largest built in the United States, was launched at the Cram shipyard, Phil adelphia Gertrude Gothie was shot and killed in Philadelphia by George Sutton, her 1 who then tried to kill him- as convicted the 0 g' i jealous los er, self Dr. Louis Lewis, a medical and su { cal authority, living in Philadelphia, d | at St. Vincent's Hospital, New York A decision of the Supreme Court of Missouri ousting five city officials put the municipal government in a predic: mes | People were shocked and a n of horses killed in Philadelphia by wires breaking down with the ice. The sleet storm was the many years, bre wires and cutt) munication | ¢ Royal ice Ares Legis] ittance setts i permit the adm the order of persons between i8 and 21 vears Lot $ i C ! and Year Charles 1 three s of age, respectively Petit Or Ansen Were rned to phanage, at (ol. L.D and president Publishing Cor ged 6 + A aged 76 years ominent lawyer srfolk Land } Foreign the foreign diplomat nterest Japanese reports inese reformer wrt's friendly Anarchis citing and the other fo strike rioters attacked and aid The spreading The Jesuit college at priests fired upon them troubles are the tha Saragossa the General Weyler has been urging the Queen Regent to give him a free hand m dealing with the rebels in Catalonia, { but if this is granted Premier Sagasta | threatens to resign English political circles are stirred up over nd Roseberry’s announcement of { his final separation | Campbell-Bannerman’s | Liberal party from Sir Henry section of the There are rumors of a | Imperial Liberals, under the leadership {of the Duke of Devonshire and Lord | Rosebery. The Italian Cabinet has resigned be- cause the Government's candidate for was not re-elected The United States Steel Corporation, it 1s reported, will take control of the North Swedish mines. The Dowager Empress and the Em- peror of China granted a New Year's scrambling for a peep at the imperial party, Barcelona, Spain, state that in a battle between troops and rioters a field battery raked the streets, and it is reported that 500 persons were killed and wounded. The Boers have cut up a detachment of the Scots Greys, one ol England's crack dragoon regiments. Major Feil- den was killed and Captain Ursher wounded. Forty-six of the British were captured, A Fissacial A street dispatch from Denver says the Guggenheimer Exploration Company has secured control of the output of lead fluxing ores of the country. The St. Louis and San Francisco Rail. road Company has issued a circular guaraniveidy § per cent. on Kansas, Fort Scott & Memphis income bonds and making them callable at gs. The directors of the Bell Telephone Company will on April 22 submit to the stockholders a proposition to increase the capitalization by issuing $4,000,000 more of stock, . i MEETS PRESIDENT William's Brother at the White House. An Imposing Greeting at the National Capital to the Royal Vigitor The Line of the Procession From the Depot to the Executive Mansion Carefully Guarded by Throogs of Soldiers and Officers. Hen Prince the Washington, (Special) ry of Prussia, brother of Emperor, was greeted of the both and the municipal President United States, Houses of Congress, authorities of the Capital City, in a of re Prince {tO a democratic that blood simplicity are not accustomed ceive of and the Phere was little the brilliant dis of military pageantry of which follow the of par: distingu reception ished members of the Royal fam Washing- inaugural ongs on the great White House to gay trappings of realize that was being t and that in of the nation few others more foreign nations ccustomed to ' 80 onage nage » Lyovernmer guests ae \ timguisiied have been it shine ILS eagerness ingul : Cal shed One hour after the he Prince was of "e HE Way 10 sew sed the launchin Meteor 11 I! in ii, ed t A YOTING-MACHINE TRUST. Six Companies Have Secured a South Dakotas Charter. ur pu the Oru swated Jet pose that Federal AWS Ne Ww under the Maine I here SCY Or mit six machine all of over by said to ab voting the United States shid t be taken Federal Company, which ¢ strong financial backing are Concerns In which, it the has wi i 1% Children Perish in Fire were burned to death in a fire which de- in time to eight children from the building rescue Californians for Boer Liberty. San Francisco (Special) Mayor meeting of Boer sympathizers in Metro. yolitan Hall here. An address was made y Commandant W. DD. Snyman, of Gen- eral De Wet's staff. Resolutions were adopted and ordered sent to President Roosevelt #and the California Senators and Representatives urging that Cone ess take action looking to intervention the nations with a view of ending the war by arbitration and assuring the inde- pendence of the Boers. Fire Risks Up 25 Per Cent. Atlanta (Special) ~The Southwest. ern Tariff Association decided that a 25 per cent. increase in rates be made on all classes of merchandise and on frame store Duitdings; also, on all man. ufacturing risks and their special hazards which have not been rated wnder re. vised schedules within a year. This ac. tion went into effect Friday and was caused by the extraordinary fire which they have been called on to bear during the last three years, and especially since the beginning of the present year, . NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS, Canal Treaty Ratified. Final ratifications of the Hay-Paunce- fote Treaty, giving England's assent to the construction of a canal across Cen- tral America by the United States, were exchanged at the State Department. There was little ceremony about affair, though this was an act the that have geen in progress intermit tently for many years, and which regarded as of the first order of import- ance. Lord Pauncefote was accompan- ied bv Mr. Raikes, his first secretary of the Embassy, while Sidney Smith, Chief Hay's attendant. Copies of treaty had been prepared precisely sim- ilar in the fact that the inverted in one copy, except were Lord protocol being signed formally attest ing that fact, which will form part of the records No affirmative action is required un der the treaty ; it is simply declaratory of the powers and rights accorded to the United States in connection with the construction of an isthmian canal, and it does not distinguish as between any of the projected routes for the waterway-—it is quite as applicable to Panama as to Nicaragua or to Darien. Fist Fight in the Senate. In the United States Senate Saturday sational physical encounters ever nessed in that body Senator B. R. Tillman, olina, was proceeding with his speech against the Philippine tariff b when Senator John C. Spooner, o SCon- in, mmterrupted to ask how a najority of Senate had } Paris ned to ill, Wi wo-thirds ab treaty of the been ratify the peace : Mr. 1 Senator Mclaurin of illman finally intimated that one referring to his colleague, Mr, had been won over by prom patronage in South Carol Mclaurin, who was absent from th at this nu rned 4 ing in his own defense, d 1 18¢s Mr amber me, retu enounced ns statement as “a maliciou il immediately d M: ad 5 separated War toreh Ser nate ¥O11t the Pan- CONVINCE the offer Oo sell its prop £40,000 0x Wi Favor Statehood for Territories. House ( i iy Vint Secretary Long Will Retire. Cabinet Secretary $ meeting he rooort that reg 1 at VEER Ee rh ago Sitisficd as to Manchuria. The United States government perfectly satished of Russia's intentions pecting Manchuna The pledges heretofore obtained from Russia have been renewed and rein- forced so strongly, it is stated, that they must be accepted as satisfactory, unless our government is prepared to deliber- ately question Russia's integrity, which, | it is said, it has not the least disposition to do to be sad 5 as orrecinees Those London Dock Charges. The House Committee on Commerce ordered a favorable report on the hill designed to remedy the alleged irregu- larity in London dock charges. The bill | of provisions for these charges. Capital News in Oeaeral Senator McComas replied vigorously to Senator Wellington's speech attack- | ing President McKinley, in which Wel- romise made had not been fulfilled. McComas said | that Wellington's memory was at fault, and Wellington replied. causing a scene by declaring that McComas lied. The United States Supreme Court de: nied the application of the State of Min- nesota for leave to file a bill against the Northern Securives Company on the ground of lack of jurisdiction, The Senate by a party vote of 46 to 26 passed the Philippine Tariff Bill, Sen- ators Tillman and McLaurin not being allowed to vote despite the vigorous pro- tests of some of the Senators. Senator Frye, president of the Sen- ate, gave directions to the clerks to omit the names of Senators Tillman and Me- Laurin on the roll calls. A bill was introduced in the Senate for the construction of a new building for the Department of Justice. The office of the first assistant post- master al was offered to Harry S. New, of Indianapolis. Attorney General Knox has submit- ted to President Roosevelt his report and tions in the case of Judge Noyes, of Alaska. An attempt was made in the House to defeat the appropriation for the Carlisle Indian Se¢hool, but it failed. Justice’ Gray, of the Supreme Court, who is fuffering from paralysis, is some- what fetter. RAIDERS BLEW UP SIX OFFICES Explosion Ruined Cripple Creek Gold Assay Equipments. PLOT AGAINST THE ORE BUYERS. For Years There Has Been a Systematic Stesl- Ing of Rich Ore From the Mines, Amounting to Thousands of Dollars Monthly —It Is Al leged That More Tham 50 Assayers Have Made a Business of Buying Such Ore. Victor, Col., (Special) Cripple Creek is in a state of terror owing to a precon- fices doing business in this district. Beginning at 3 o'clock Monday morn- ranging from Victor to Cripple Creek and up to Goldfield. In every instance the object sought by the incendiaries was accomplished by the ment of delicate balances. The raiders did not hesitate to 180 ardize life, as all but one of the buildings children oy “he inflicted. As it was, men, women and were hurled their shocks and injuries The full be estimated now In this city the Davenport office was ed by two explosions. Almost at me time the i of Van derwalker,* Morgan & liams were likewise destroyed man, a miner, iniy gd In the explosion at passing at the Flying debris struck him he {a 18 injuries m i ; 3 § ve out ot beds SETrIOUs extent of ihe dang: canpn the s severe! Was ¥ Williams’ office moment « i av result in to : In cripple and ur ip idfield, about a mile fice, north Creek taneously i anoth wrecked 3 joining re lovee it escaped with- She was badly in the other 1 out of bed living owder was i he house in th: here is a t of a general move 11 4 all high-grade ct nt BARCELONA LESS STORMY. The Rioters Are Given Three Days to Sur reader Their Arms Barcelona there was iments reopened the author: business was treet cars ceased run- WWEDapers try tls _ Ie pa Barcel pers na There were of is allowed the which to After the expira rest foie mn deliver TRAGEDY IN A THEATER. Students Clubbed to Death by Drovoiks--A Brutal Attack ( By Cahl indent of the Daily Express [he St. Peters Ir COTresx learning that some police says that the j 00 students had arranged a meeting be held in a certain theatre last Friday night, quietly filled the galleries of the theatre with 1,000 Dvormks, After the performance had ended. at midnight, the students remained in the pit, the Dvor niks still in the gallery At 3 o'clock in the morning, at a giver signal, the Dvorniks suddenly descended and attacked the students, beating them with clubs in a most brutal manner. The students had arms, ribs and heads A large number of them have been sent prisoned Wants Popular Election. Columbus, ©. (Special). <The House of Representatives of the Ohio Legis lature has placed itself on record as being in favor of electing the United States Senators by a direct vote of the ple. This action was taken when the Worthington resolution came up fo consideration, it being adopted by a vote of 73 to 23. The resolution asks Con. gress to take the necessary action, Porto Rican Municipal Loans Mayaguez, Porto Rico (Special). — The municipal loan of $200,000 has bees awarded to J. M. Ceballos & Co, of New York, at par. The firm holds $600,000 of the San Juan municipal loan and $200, 000 of the Ponce municipal loan, and wil) probably get the $1,000,000 Arecibo mu. nicipal Joust on Monday. It is believed here that J. M. Ceballos & Co. is taking up the loans for a syndicate, Another Big Deal Pending, San Francisco (Special). ~The Exam- iner says every indication points to the belief that a big railroad and financial deal is on the tapis by which George J. Gould's Missouri Pacific will gain an entrance into San Francisco. Prince Poniatowski, F. S. Bullock, one of his terprises, and Sen. partners in several en ator Clark, of are as being Gould’ in. a with to extend the Gould railroad ote Sand the Gould vailiond ays LONG TERMS IN PRISON Despite Partial Restitution, Bask of Liverpool Wreckers Must Serve Long Terms. London (By Cable) —Sentences were pronounced on the prisoners found guilty 1 5 of complicity in the Bank of Liverpool frauds. Thomas P keeper of the bank, and Dick Burge, the pugilist, were each sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, and F. T. Kelly, 2 book- maker of Bradford, and Stiles, another bookmaker, cach received two-year sen- fences Goudie, the book Counsel had previously announced tha Laurie Marks, the who 1s supposed to have committed James Mances, another American aker, also missing, and Burge had £91,000 of the bas money of which amount £76,000 had been re ceils Burge having £30,000, while £12,000 and £34,000 stood to the credit of Marks and Mances, respec tively, in a bank. Kelly and Stiles had divided £75000 between themselves, and Kelly had £17,000 and Stiles £6,500 American bookma cide, bookn who ’ ed, returned now restored SLAIN BY THEIR OWN RACE. Army Reports on Filipinos Murdered by Filipinos. Washington, (Special). —Among the latest reports received by the War De the partment is com : ¢ " manders oil JSITICLS ANOW- ing the number of n: killed or as by the Filipinos r suspected sympathy These reports, which of last December 01 513 ives saulted because of real with Americans, extend to that middle show number natives 1 while we it is fice under the A lasurgent Leader Caught. ty 1 ¢ Boers. 4 Scouts Capture { By Cab Victim of Gas Explosion. Mass dead, . A x3 Springfield mer Gould 1s the West Saturday ry underwent 3 anc had the rest sent 3 WW 138 three miles has been club in Dinwiddie county. from town awarded and it will ut $10,000 King Victor Emmanuel, in a speech opening the Italian Parliament, said in regard to the divorce bill that he in- tended to maintain strictly the separation of the civil from spiritual authority It is said in Boer circles that if the Boer delegates, after a tour of the United States, advise Mr Kruger to come to this country in the interest of his cause, he will do so. Mr. Marconi announced at a general meeting of the Marconi Wireless Tele- graph Company that the next series of tests would include the transmission of words and telegrams, Pope Leo entered upon the twenty. fifth year of his pontificate. He received a committee which presented him with a commemorative medal. The German Navy Department has de- cided to establish a chain of wireless telegraph stations along the entire coast of Germany. E. T. Kelly and Stiles, two bookmak- ers, pleaded guilty in London to the charge of complicity in the Bank of Liv. The contract cost al erpool scandal. irty-two persons were disentombed alive at Shamaka, Transcaucasia, re- cently visited by an earthquake. Trainmen on the Baltimore and Ohio near Winchester had a fierce fight with Warren Corder, a fugitive from justice, who was stealing a nde.’ He aaszulied the engineer and injured him diy. But was knocked unconscious by Fireman oomey. ! The Senate discussed the Philippine tariff bill, and in the House the talk was on desultory matters. Six Sotorious Sritninale wanted in va- rious of the country were arrested in Philadelphia, where had gone, it is belitved to rob the ion Com- pa ., Bates B. Triggs was killed near Martinsburg by an engine During a discussion in the lower house of the Prussian Diet of the nonconfirma- tion bt the Emperor of the election of Herr Kauffman as second of Berlin, Baron von
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