DEVASTATED BY III MS.
SEVEN BURNED.
Talble Para Stock and Railroad Property
Destroyed.
A prarle Are, which raged all over the
country near Wlnnepeg, Manitoba, last
week, beln it fanned and driven by a
gale of wind, died out Sunday night,
and the morning" aim dawned upon a
terrible scene of death and devaluation.
Farmhouses, Implement, cropa and
live atock were everywhere consumed,
and many farmer loat their all.
A moat lamentable atory cornea from
Reausejour, 40 miles east of Wlnnepeg,
where two women and five children,
named Mnreakl, were burned to death.
Fire came upon their house, which was
In the woods, from two directions sim
ultaneously, and shut offall means of
escape. Only a few charred remains
were found this morning.
There were many narrow escapes.
Carcasses of horses, rattle and sheep
are lying over the district, anil a num
ber of families of foreigners are home
less and utterly destitute.
At Tingot, 70 miles west, the Canad
ian Pacific railroad station nnd seven
curs; the Dominion drain Company's
r levator, with 20.000 bushel of wheat;
l.awrle's store, Hlgglnbothnrn's, Link's
and Huckanan's stables, a cold storage
warehouse and Farmer Watdron's
farm buildings and crops were totally
destroyed.- The little town was prac
tically wiped out of existence.
At Stony Mountain fire ran up to the
Canadian Pacific railroad platform,
where, by desperate efforts, Its progress
was stayed. Much hay and grain were
consumed In this district. In the Lake
Francis district, northwest of the city,
there was also extensive destruction of
crops. A young farmer named Mark
ham was terribly burned while trying
to save his property.
At Oakland, on the Portage branch of
the Northern Pacific railroad, several
hundred cords of wood and thousands
of tons of hay were licked tip. Just
outhwest of Wlnnepeg there Is a large
hay marsh, and fire was driven over
this,, consuming everything In Its
course. Nearly every farmer loat his
hay. and many also lost their grain
and Implements. There were . large
Viands of horses and cattle pasturing
on the marsh, and to-day the charred
carcasses of animals the dot the
ground every few paces. Jack-rabbits
and prairie chickens were also destroy
ed. CONTROL OF THE B. & 0.
Fierpont Morgan to Institute Foreclosure
Proceeding! Against the Railroad.
Plerpont Morgan, who now practi
cally controls every great railroad run
ning east from New York, save two, Is
about to engage In a struggle for the
control of the lialttmoro and Ohio rail
way. The fight for control of the Bal
timore and Ohio will come Immediate
ly after October 1, when Mr. Morgan
will try to seize the property through
foreclosure proceedings. The receivers
of the road will, In behalf of the Balti
more interests and certain New York
Interests, endeavor to forestall Mr.
Morgan.
The opportunity for Mr. Morgan to
seize the Baltimore & Ohio will come on
October 1. At that time the Interest
coupons on $7,744,000 of bonds of the
Chicago division, the main line, held
by J. P. Morgan & Co., will have been
three months In default. Under the
agreement made when Morgan & Co.
took the bonds foreclosure proceedings
could not begin until 90 days after such
default. It is asserted In Wall street
that Mr. Morgan will lose no time after
October 1 in beginning suit to take the
road.
But the financier Is going to have a
tight on his hands before he secures the
property. It Is said In Wall street that
Speyer & Co., who have advanced
money to the Baltimore & Ohio com
pany and the Baltimore Interests re
presented by the receivers, will oppose
Mr. Morgan tooth and nail. Their plan.
It la said, will be to default on certain
Interest payments due on October 1 to
other parties, and thus give an oppor
tunity to contest the Morgan suit of
foreclosure. Then It will be a battle of
bankers,
BOLD ASSERTION.
Chicago Railroads Refuse to PJ For Street
Privileges.
President C. C. Bonney, of the Chica
go General Railway Company, acting
in the interests of the Yerkea lines and
the Chicago City Railway Company,
has filed a brief In the Supreme Court
of Illinois in which he boldly attacks
the right of a city or other municipal
corporation to demand any compen
sation, more than a license on the cars
run, from a street car company In con
sideration of being allowed the use of
the public streets. The olty seeks to
collect $500 a mile compensation from
the railway company, which Is agreed
on In its franchise' ordinance. The
principle set up Is that the city cannot
demand such compensation in any
cases. Mr. Bonney's argument applies
to gas, telephone and other franchises
also.
Tortured, But Escaped Death.
Henry Savage Londor, a well-known
artist, traveler and writer, and grand
son of the celebrated Walter Savage
Landor, has Just returned to India af
ter a terrible experience. He had un
dertaken an exploring tour in Thibet,
but he was abandoned by all the mem
bers of his company except two coolies.
Finally the Thibetans arrested him by
an act of treachery, sentenced him to
death and, after torturing him with
hot irons actually carried him to the
execution ground. At almost the last
moment the execution was stopped by
the grand llama, who commuted the
sentence to torture by the "stretching
log," a species of rack, which greatly
Injured Mr. Landor's spine and limbs.
After being chained for eight days he
was released. Mr. Landor has no few
er than twenty-two wounds as the re
sult of his torture.
Million Dollar Firs.
', Fire broke out in the central power
station of the Capital Traction Com
pany at Washington last Wednesday
night, and the building was destroyed.
The loss will be about 1500,000 on the
building, about $300,000 on machinery
nd stored cars, while the loss sus
tained by tenants will amount to 1200,
000 'more, making the amount of dam
age $1,000,000. The loss on adjoining
buildings will not be large, as those
. burned are old and small.
Murders His family.
' The slaughter of a mother and her
Ix children occurred at the home of
John Boecker, a farmer living eight
miles northwest of Carroll, la., last
Monday. Afterward the fiendish or de
mented husband and father, at whose
bands they died, completed his bloody
work by sending a bullet Into his own
bead, inflicting a fatal wound. The
family were prosperous Germans, and
as far as is known lived happily. No
tnotiva for the tragedy has been dis
closed. Boecker's victims are his
fttt and these children: Caroline, aged
Hi Christine, aged 0; Henry, aged 8;
I e, aged C; John, aged 8, and an
TERSE TELSOKAMI.
Silver Democrats have nominated
Henry George for mayor of Greater
New York.
Mrs. Urownlee and her two sons were
burned to death ' at Longmeadow,
Mass., the other day.
Ex-President Cleveland and family
left Buzzards Bay Tuesday for their
home In Princeton, N. J.
General Neal Dow, the veteran tem
perance worker, expired at hla home
In Bangor, Mo., last Saturday, aged 93
years.
Major Lewis Glnter, the millionaire
cigarette manufacturer, died at his
residence, West Brook, Va., last Satur
day. The American Mailing . company,
with a capital of $110,000,000, was Incor
porated at Trenton, N. J., a few days
ago.
In the Big Horn county, 8. P., fifty
four square miles of timber land has
been burned over, Involving a loss of
$r.oo.ooo.
Physicians of the Homeopathic hos
pital at Pittsburg are working upon the
theory that the X rays will kill con
sumption bacilli.
Cashier Sllverberg, of the New York
Mutual Life Insurance company, has
been arrested at Copenhagen for em
bezzlement from the company.
Masked men wrecked the Humo
(Mo.) bank building In an attempt to
blow open the safe with nltro-glycer-lne.
They were pursue! but not cap
tured. The German government Is prepar
ing bills providing for compulsory life
Insurance throughout tho whole em
pire, and for old age Insurance fur the
laboring clnsses.
John K, Iteldy, the alleged defaulting
treasurer of the Ht. Louis police relief
association, gave himself up Tuesday
and gave ball In the sum of $5,000. He
Is short over $8,000. He played the
races.
Tho consul of administration of the
O. A. It. has decided to annul the char
ter of Fletcher Webster Pout No. 13, of
Brockton, Mass., because of the post's
refusal to send delegates to the national
encampment, The case will be ap
pealed. Everett Fowler, of Kingston, N. Y.,
has presented to Miss Helen Gould,
daughter of Jay Gould, the odometer
used by her father when- a young man
In surveying Ulster, Delaware and
other counties, for the purpose of mak
ing maps.
Tho schedules In the assignment of
J. It. Willard & Co., at New York,
bankers and brokers, with offices in
Philadelphia, Montreal, Washington
and other cities, show llabllltlea of
191)8,930; nominal assets, $85,687; actual
assets, $43.9iia.
The spreading of rails caused an ac
cident to a Denver and Rio Orando
train In which Mrs. Mclntyre, of Hllver
ton, and Fred Fcyler, of Cincinnati,
wcro killed. The wreck occurred at
Cotopaxl, Col., last Sunday.
Boldly, in daylight, and on a busy
street, Frederick U. Rust was abducted
and borne off In Philadelphia, the
other day and Is now held concealed by
his captors. He Is a harmless Inmate
of an Insane asylum and thcro is a
contest over his estate of $80,000.
Two children, almost helplessly drunk
staggered to the Third ward publlo
acheol in West Hohoken, N. J. They
were. Otto and Llllle Bcchtel, 13 and 5
years old respectively. They found
two bottles of wine In a lot while on
their way to school, and drank it.
Andrew Carnegie will acquire, before
October 1, a controlling Interest in the
property of the Metropolitan Iron and
Land Company, which controls the
Norrlo, East Norrle and Pabst mines
In the Gogebla range, Mich. These
mines have an annual capacity of
about 1,000.000 tons of ore.
Jacob P. Holsebach of the Cincinnati
police force committed suicide by
shooting last Sunday. Ho had come
only scond In a newspaper coupon
vote for the moBt popular policeman
on the force. The prize to the winner
is a free trip to the Nashville exposi
tion. The vintage of California this year
promises to reach 20,000,000 gallons, or
25 per cent, more than last season. The
growers are now receiving an advance
of from $6 to $10 a ton for their grapes,
the understanding being that they are
to receive $1 for every cent per gallon
the wine brings when sold.
The government of'New South Wales
asserts that It has found such difficulty
In placing In England an order for
2,000 tona of steel rails of high carbon
quality that It has been compelled to
place the orders In America, where the
manufacturers have . readily under
taken the contract at $23 per ton.
. A freight wreck occurred on the big
four railroad In East Shelbyvllle, Ind.,
last Monday, in which four cars load
ed with merchandise were demolished
and entailing a loss of $,000. Brake
man McMakln was injured. The acci
dent was caused by the separation of
the train and subsequent collision of
the two sections.
Tho final account of the estate of ex
Mayor Edwin H. Fitter of Philadel
phia was filed with the register of wills
to-day. The estate is valued at $3,
137,207 18 and Includes stocks on the
Pennsylvania railroad. United Gas Im
provement Company, Philadelphia,
Wilmington eV Baltimore railroad and
stock in different banks.
Consul Brunot at France says these
reports show that the wheat crop of
France this year will be only 88,556,890
hectoliters ( 2 bushels, 8.35 pecks), aa
against 119,742,745 In 1895. This year's
French rye crop will be 17,664,050 hec
toliters, against 24.464,730 last year, and
maslln (mixed wheat and rye), 3,219,
650 against 4,130,481 in 1H96.
Fire broke out In the feed store of N.
E. White, at Utica, N. Y. An hour
later the roof and third floor fell, bury
ing several firemen. Four were res
cued slightly injured. Isaao Monroe
and John Halon are missing and pro
bably fell beneath the debris. They are
probably dead under tons of hay and
other combustible material.
Saturday was the 100th birthday of
Mrs. Sally Betsy Jennings, and the 80th
birthday of her oldest son, Peter, and
was celebrated at the Jennings' farm
house, near Danbury, N. J. These two
and Mrs. Booth, aged 70, Mrs. Jennings'
daughter, and her younger son, Ell,
nearly 70, danced "Money Musk" in a
way that Indicated many years of life
to come,
W. C, Brann, editor of Brann'a Icon
oclast, at Waco, Texas, was the victim
of a mob of 200 students of Taylor uni
versity, a Baptist institution, who by
threats of death, compelled him to sign
a statement, declaring that an article
appearing In the October number of the
Iconoclast and reflecting on Taylor uni
versity, was untrue, and further that
he would leave the town.
At the Coburg assises at Toronto
Saturday J. F. Hendricks, aged 76, was
tried for kissing hla niece, Mrs. Effle
Pllkey, a school teacher. She asked
$2,000 damages. The Judge said he evi
dently had no Improper Intentions. An
old man had a right to kiss female rel
atives without having his character
suspected. The Jury awarded the plain
tiff 20 cents.
Two masked highwaymen held up
the Boonevllle stage Tuesday at
Ukiah, Cal., and J. K. Barnett, a pas
senger, was shot and Instantly killed
by one of the robbers. Barnett had
plunged his hand into his pocket for hla
purse and the highwaymen thought lis
was about to draw hi pistol,
PISSEKGERS KEID UP BY BINDIIS.
TRAIN ROBBED.
Ia Midday, Travelers aro Relieved of Their
Money and Jewelry.
Bandits robbed the south-bound
Rock Island passenger train and all Its
passengers last Friday, about five
miles south of Mlnco, In the Indian
Territory The railroad and express
officials have feared a hold-up In that
section for several weeks, and armed
guards have been put aboard all night
trains at El Reno and carried through
to Chlckanha. It had not been thought
that the outlaws were bold enough to
attack a train In midday. Friday
morning the trainmen were complete
ly surprised, and were not prepared to
offer any resistance when five masked
men came upon them at the lonely
elding.
Under the pressure of Winchesters
and ubly-looklng Big-shooters, the
trainmen, the express messenger and
all of the passengers were made to
climb down from the train and stand
In a line, hands up, on tho prairie
along the railway. While three of
the robbers covered the badly-frlghl-ned
crowd with their guns, the other
two coolly and carefully robbed them,
passing from one passenger to another
down the line. The bandit secured
about $300 In cash and such other val
uables In the way of watches, pins and
Jewelry as were In sight.
The passengers and the trainmen,
having been thoroughly plucked, three
of the bandit turned their attention
to the express and mall coaches, the
others standing guard over the help
less crowd on the track. The register
ed mall pouches were quickly rilled,
but the through safe In the express
car resisted all the force and the In
genuity of the road agent. When the
messengers had convinced tho bandits
that they could not open the strong
box, they resorted to dynamite. Sev
eral heavy charges were exploded, but
the safe proved bandit-proof, and
though It was badly battered. Its con
tents were saved to the express com
pany. Having taken forcible posses
sion of everything that they could car
ry away, the bandits mounted their
horses and rode off toward the west.
Blood hounds have been put on the
track of the- five men who held up the
train near Chickasaw, I. T.
BY VOLCANIC HEAT.
Fsotory Built That Will Produce Yellow
Nuggets.
Unless Edward C. Brlce and his as
sociates at Chicago have made a mis
take at some point In their calculations
they will light the furnace fires Octo
ber 6 In a factory that Is to produce
gold from the baser metala to the value
of $2,000,000. The Record telle the story.
Without claiming a knowledge of the
black art, without calling to hla aid
any of the powers of alchemy, Mr.
Brlce asserts that he can make gold
that he has made It and sold It on the
market on its own merits side by side
with nature's product from the moun
tains. The orthodox theory that gold
Is a primary substance he disputes and
holds that It Is made from other metals
by heat and by volcanic action.
To prove Its faith In the Inventor and
his theory a company, of which Mr.
Brlce Is the president and heaviest
stockholder. Is fitting up a plant at
Thirty-ninth street and Lowe avenue
at an expense of $25,000. The company
Is capitalized for $75,000, and not a
dollar's worth of the stock 1b for sale.
A building that was once a foundry,
103 by 268 feet In dimensions, whose
dingy brown walls give no Indication
of holding a secret, Is being transform
ed by two score of workmen Into this
Chicago "Klondyke." The- last layers
of brick on five large furnaces are be
ing put In place under the personal su
pervision of Mr. Brlce.
These furnaces are of Mr. Brlce's In
vention and form the most Important
part of the works. In their compact
ovens volcanic heat, It Is claimed, will
be produced, and by subjecting his
combination of metals to Intense heat
In the different furnaces Mr. Brlce says
the dull baser metals gradually turn
Into the sparkling ore, from which gold
and silver are produced.
The formula held by Mr. Brlce I the
result of year of study and thousands
of experiments. In 1889, In his labora
tory at Washington,- the experiment
was made In which he says he first
produced gold. Mr. Brlce came to Chi
cago three years ago. His experiments
had beeen kept up and In November of
last year some friends Joined with him
and invested a few thousands of dol
lars for the purpose ot making the test
which should decide whether gold
could be made at a commercial profit.
From their factory at Fortieth street
and Wentworth avenue, which was
known as the Illinois chemical works,
they turned out, Mr. Brlce says, gold
ere which was sold to the National
smelting works of Chicago for over $3,
000. The cost of manufacture was, he
declares, about 65 cents to the dollars'
worth. In the new establishment It
wll be much less It is claimed.
KINO INDIONANT.
Ruler of Siam Must Become Christian to
Receive Royal Honors.
The King ot Slam has been the lion
of the week at London, lunching with
city companies and dining at the man
sion houses, but the novelty of his visit
has worn off, and Chulalongkorn I.
generally voted a bore. His Majesty is
reported to be very angry at the fact
that ho has not received the Order of
the Garter. He thought, as the Shah
of Persia and the Sultan of Turkey
were both Knights of the Garter, he
ought to be equally honored, but Queen
Victoria Is determined that only Chris
tian sovereigns shall hereafter receive
the Order of the Garter, as the Knight's
oath can be taken only as a Christian.
CAPITAL GLEANINGS.
Available cash balance, $214,362,665;
gold reserve, $147,911,771.
President McKlnley has returned to
Washington from his visit to Massa
chusetts. Charles Belmont Davis, United States
consul at Florence, Italy, has resigned
that position.
Henry A. Castle, auditor, has closed
the books ot the postal service for the
fiscal year ended June 80 last. The re
sults, compared with the preceding
year, show that receipts Increased $166,.
264; expenditures Increased $3,470,745;
deficit Increased $3,304,490. For 1897 re
ceipts were $82,665,462; expenditures,
$94,097,042, and the deficit was $11,431,
679. George M, Robeson, secretary of the
navy under President Grant, died last
Tuesday at his home In Trenton. He
had been in ill health for two years.
Within a fortnight he was taken 111
with congestion of the lungs, which
brought on heart failure. Mr. Robeson
came here 10 years ago with a view to
building up a law practice. Ha was
born In Belvtder in 1829.
The monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
during September, 1897, shows the re
ceipts to have been $-l,3,08, and the
expenditures $26,o8,816.
FEVER INCREASES.
Warm Weather sad Disregard for law
Said to be the Reasoa.
The state board of health officials at
New Orleans say: During the twenty
four hours ending 8 p. m. Sunday, Octo
ber 8, there were: Cases of yellow fev
er to-day, 81; deaths to-day, 2. Total
cases of yellow fever to date, 317; total
deaths to date, 36; total case absolute
ly recovered, 93; total cases under
treatment, 188.
Wednesday was a record-breaker In
the number of new cases of yellow
fever reported at New- Orleans, while
the deaths, three In number, equalled
those of any day since the yellow fever
was first discovered In the city.
There are various reasons given for
the spread of the disease, but the prin
cipal ones are two, that the weather
turned warm again and owing to the
much larger field to cover the board
of health ha had some difficulty In
getting every house as closely guarded
as was possible when the cases were
few In number and the trained officials
of the board were stationed about the
quarantined house. The fact that the
death rate ha been small and that the
chance of an epldemlo have been con
sequently growing less, have made the
general public somewhat careless, and
there has been Increasing friction be
tween the quarantined people and the
authorities. Imprisoned Inmate ot
house have been going over back
fences and -sneaking out ot side doors
In order not to be confined, and the re
sult ha been that the fever germ that
have been scattered developed rapidly
In these warm day.
There were twenty-four new rase
reported two of them In the Charity
Hospital, three were children In the
Sister of Charity Convent, one In the
Poydraa Asylum, and two in the de
tention. Most of the cases are among
the well-to-do.
The saddest and most sensational
case reported was that of Mr. Jennlo
Alford, who was stricken with the
fever Tuesday. Edward A. Reppert,
her son-in-law, greatly terrorized, Im
mediately packed his grip and fled
north, leaving hi wife to attend her
mother In a strange city. Mrs. Alford
died this morning and was buried In
two hours, and her daughter is ab
solutely prostrated.
The Norwegian fruit steamer John
Wilson, ten daya from Boca del Toro,
Colombia, arrived at Delaware break
water quarantine at Lewes, Del., Sun
day, with her flag at half-maat. When
the quarantine physician boarded her
he found the body of the chief engineer
Charles Peterson, aged 37 year, of Ber
gen, Norway, who died on the passago
Friday last of yellow fever.
GREAT FINANCIAL LOSS.
A Negress, Having Yellow Fever Deprives
Many Men of Work.
Eva Duncan, the negro woman at
Houston, Tex., who has been under
guard three days, declared to bo a sus
picious case by State Health Officer
Swearlngton, but by every local physi
cian to be suffering dengue and kid
ney Inflammation, Is getting better.
The Cotton Exchange and Board of
Trade held a meeting Wednesday and
passed resolutions requesting Surgeon
General Wyman to send an expert here
at once to look at the case and wired
It to him. Every town In Texas has
quarantined against Houston, and the
loss to trade la a million dollars a day
whtlo ostnacism lasts. Two thousand
are out of employment already on ac
count of it and the list will grow
dally.
KLONDYKE HARDSHIPS.
Partiel Oolng to the Oold Fields Robbed of
their Provisions.
Col. O. V. Davis, of Spokane, Wash.,
has Just arrived In Junea from a trip
down the Yukon as far as Lake Le
barge. There he encountered one Shep
ard, of Dawson City, who was on his
way from tho Klondyke. Shepard told
Davis a worse story of the condition of
things at Dawson City than any that
have been published hitherto.
Shepard said that parties going down
the river were held up within 200 miles
of Dawson City, and their provisions
taken from them. Shepard says there
Is as great an exodus up the river by
the overland route to get out of Daw
son City for the winter as there Is down
the river to St. Michael. Hundreds
were coming behind him as fast as they
could travel. Many, beyond doubt, will
be caught on tho trail by winter and
with Insufficient provisions must per
ish. Typhoid and pneumonia are raging
furiously at Dawson. Hundreds are 111
and mapy dying. There have been re
ports here for three day that Dawson
City had been burned five weeks ago,
but this In not corroborated by either
Davis or Shepard.
GOVERNOR'S WIFE IX COURT.
If Convioted She Will Surely be Pardoned by
Her Husband.
The trial of the wife of Governor
Atkinson, of West Virginia, began at
Glenvllle, W. Va., laBt Saturday, after
Judge Blizzard had overruled a demur
rer to the Indictment. The charge Is
forging the name of her late husband,
Judge D. C. Camden, to certain re
ceipts. The prosecution Is pushed by
heirs of Judge Camden, the Indictment
being found shortly before her mar
riage to Governor Atkinson. The gov
ernor appeared in court with his wife,
and it is said that conviction and sen
tence do not alarm the defendant, as
she will rely on her husband for a full
pardon.
CONDITION OF THE TREASURY.-
Favorable Reports From Officials at Wash
ington. The condition ot the treasury is show
ing improvement and in the opinion of
the officials at Washington is as satis
factory as can reasonably be expected.
There Is a gradual Increase In receipts
and a consequent diminution ot the
deficit. Acting Secretary Spaulding
said: We are perfectly satisfied with
the outlook, and I am convinced that
early next year the receipts will equal
the expenditures and by the end of the
fiscal year, June 80, 1898, the receipts,
I believe will be considerably In excess
of expenditures.
Assistant Secretary Howell, who Is
In charge of the customs, says that the
comparatively light receipts from the
source are due to the heavy anticipat
ory Imports of wool and sugar. He be
lieves, however, that within three
months large quantities of sugar will
again be Imported and there will be
large Increases In all the lines of Im
ports. He Is confident that the re
ceipts will soon balanee the expendi
tures. Publlo Debt Inereaso
The monthly treasury statement
shows that at the close of business
September 80, 1897, the publlo debt, less
cash in the treasury, was 81,012,122,713,
an Increase since August 80 of $3,787,
692. This Increase Is accounted for by
a corresponding decrease In the
amount of cash on hand. Tho debt Is
recapitulated as follows: Interest
bearing debt, $847,865,640; debt on which
Interest has ceased since maturity,
$1,884,670: debt bearing no Interest,
$376,115,896. Total, 11,887,815,600.
IKE SPRX1SH CH RESIGNS.
ANOTHER CRISIS.
Re Minister to be Appointed Who will
Probably Recall Weyler.
The Spanish cabinet has resigned.
The queen has accepted the cabinet's
resignation, but has asked Gen. Aicar
raga to continue until a solution of tho
crisis Is found.
Her majesty will summon the leaders
of the varlus parties and the presi
dents of the chambers to consult as to
the situation. Benor Sagasta has been
telegraphed for, and It Is believed that
the Liberal leader will be asked to
form a cabinet.
The ministry whose resignation has
Just been announced was constituted
as follows:
Prime minister and minister for
war Gen. Marcelo do Azcarraga.
Minister of foreign affairs The duko
of Tetuan. '
Minister of marine Real Admiral
Don Jose M. Beranger.
Minister of finance Don Juan Na
varro Reverter.
Minister of commerce and agricul
tureDon Aureliano Linares Rives.
Minister for the colonies Don Tomas
Castellano.
Minister for the home department
Don Fernando t'os-Oayon.
United States Minister Woodford, the
duke of Tetuan and the president of the
senate, the marquis 1'azo de la Merrzed,
held a long conference Wednesday and
General Woodford presented to Gen
eral Azcarraga the members of the
United States legation. Owing to the
cabinet crisis, the Cuban pour parlers
have been postponed. It is said that
Senor Sagasta Is In favor of super
seding Capt.-Oen. Weyler, and of
granting autonomy to- Cuba Imme
diately. Senor Gamaza will probably
be minister of foreign affairs In the
next cabinet.
As to what Is to follow the resigna
tion of the cabinet, officials at Wash
ington are completely In the dark. Sec
retary Sherman does not believe that
It will materially affect the relations of
Spain either to the United States or
to Cuba, which seems to Indicate an
exception on his part that when the
cabinet Is reorganized It will be found
to be still of a conservative tendency.
On the other hand, high officials In the
administration expect that a Liberal
cabinet under the leadership of the
veteran Sagasta will be erected on the
ruins of the Azcarraga cabinet.
If this should be the cose the future
Is held to be full of promise for Cuba,
for it la recalled that the Liberals have
not hesitated to express their opposi
tion to the great expenditure of human
life and vast treasure In the effort to
carry out tho repressive Conservative
program for the conduct of the war.
It Is not believed that the Liberals are
prepared to go to the length of prom
ising freedom to Cubn, but from the
expressions of the leaders of the par
ty It la hoped that they are willing to
grant so liberal a measure of home
rule and autonomy to the Island that of
Spanish sovereignty nothing would re
main. Senor Sagasta, the Llbernl leader,
has been entrusted by the queen regent
with the taak of forming a new cab
inet In succession to the Azcarraga
ministry, which resigned on Wednes
day last. Senor Sagasta, after leav
ing tho queen regent, had a long con
ference with the Marquis do Armljo,
who accepts the presidency of the
chamber.
Admiral Bermejo becomes minister of
marine In succession to Admiral Ber
anger. The financial question Is de
manding the greatest attention and
the Liberals at the outset of the coming
session of the parliament will expose,
frankly the position of the Spanish
treasury.
Marshal BInnco, It Is stated. In all
probability, will accept the poet of captain-general
of Cuba In succession to
Capt.-Gen. Weylor, who It is reliably
reported has been recalled.
The ministerial changes will not af
fect the Instructions which United
States Minister Woodford originally
received from President McKlnley.
Both Gen. Woodford and Senor Sagas
ta, the premier, maintain absolute 're
serve on the question of American re
lations to Spain.
Leading Liberals, however, declare
that Spain can never officially accapt
American mediation in Cuban affairs.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Tunnel Dug Under the Roadway Over Which
the Monarch Was to Pass.
As evidences show, the Czar of Rus
sia had a narrow escape from death
during his recent visit to Poland. The
success of the plot was only frustrated
by accident.
Several weeks before the arrival of
the Imperial party at Warsaw a num
ber of persons supposed to belong to
the German Socialist party undermin
ed Norvy Svlat, the principal street in
Warsaw, between the governor gen
eral's palace and the royal castle.
As the tunnel, which had been un
dertaken from the cellar of a beer
house, approached completion the con
spirators became apprehensive of a
collapse fit a roadway and called in
several Polish masons to build sup
ports. The masons, whose susptons
were aroused, notified the police, and
130 arrests followed.
Among those In custody are four dis
guised German officers, either on leave
or belonging to the Landwehr, who had
been active in the actual work of tun
neling. A number of merchants and
manufacturers from the town of Lodsl,
Poland, are also implicated.
FROM ACROSS THE SEA,
Jules Cambon, governor general of
Algeria, will succeed M. Patenotre as
French ambassador at Washington,
and Patenotre will be assigned to
Madrid.
The latest news from Guatemala is
that a prize of $100,000 has been placed
on the heads of Proapero Morales, the
revolutionary leader, and his aide,
Manuel Fuentes.
The Turkish notables have informed
the ambassadors at Constantinople
that they are living on charity, the
Christians having burned their olive
trees, and ask relief.
Minister Buchanan, at Buenor Ayres,
has supplied the department of stats
with copies of decrees Issued by the
Argentina government inviting pro
posals for the construction In Buenos
Ayres of a central railroad station, to
cost not exceeding $4,000,000. The minis
ter has succeeded In inducing the gov
ernment, for the first time in history
of such publlo works, to invite bids
from citizens of the United States
through the Argentine legation In
Washington.
News has been received at Rome
from Benadlr to the effect that the
English-Cavendish sporting expedition
which left Berbers, East Africa, lost
year, arriving at Lugh, Somallland,
about the middle of November, and
thence proceeding for Lake Rudolph,
has been attacked by a band of Am
haras, who murdered all the members
of the expedition". The party consisted
of two Englishmen and 80 Asoarla.
BUSINESS INCREASING.
Industrie aro Replenishing Stock and
Employing More Men.
R. a. Dun ft Co.'s weekly review of
trade reports!
The failures during the third quarter
of 1897 were 1903, with llabllltlea of
$28,96.1.261, of which 29 were In banking
for $2,387,069. Commercial failures,
8,874, with liabilities of $26,678,192, aver
age only $8,899 each, lower than in any
3uarter for 23 years. The amount of
efaulted liabilities Is the smallest In
any quarter for Ave years, and in 15
years only six quarter have shown
smaller liabilities. Manufacturing fail
ures, 651, with liabilities of $9,431,191,
average but $14,487 each, and trading
2,161, with liabilities of $12,826,065, aver
age but $6,927 each, both smaller In
average of liabilities than In any pre
vious year of which classified records
exist. 0
The volume of legitimate business
continues a little larger than In the
same month of 1892, for while the
great Increase of 27.4 per cent, at New
York for the week might be supposed
due to speculative activity, In spite of
the establishment and growth of the
stock exchange clearing house, yet
payment through the principal clear
ing house outside of New York ex
ceeded those of 1892 by 8.6 per cent,
for the week, and 2.0 per cent, for Sep
tember. Speculation In wheat and cotton had
been set back by bright crop pros
pects. The wheat estimates of 500,000,
000 bushel more than would be re
quired for food end need, leaving the
smallest stock for six years without
replenishment, were followed by de
crease In foreign buying, and caused
weakness.
Turning from speculative market to
productive Industry, the change in
tone I striking. All Industries are
pushed to Increased working force,
with occasional rise In rate of wages,
by the growing demand. This I large
ly for replenishment of stocks, but dis
patches show that retail trade at near
ly all Northern point continues to
expand, and dealers well know that
Increase of working force and of
wages ensures a larger distribution of
goods.
The advance In cotton goods has
been checked by the decline In mate
rial, but In woolen goods the advance In
price has been small, compared with
the rise In wool, which Is helped by
stronger price at London sales.
Slower to gain, because less affected
by replenishment of dealers' stocks
than other Industries, the Iron manu
facture ha been pushed to further ex
pansion by growing demand for fin
ished product, which has caused a
little further advance In price, while
pig Iron I also higher, 25 cent for
Bessemer at Pittsburg, with purchases
of 80,000 tons by one concern, and as
much higher for anthracite No. 1 at
the East, with No. 2 advanced by the
association to $10.50, and Southern No.
2 no longer offered below $8 at Bir
mingham. The average advance In
all Iron and steel prices, 9.9 per cent
from the' lowest point, Is still restrict
ed by addition of many furnaces, and
other works of those In operation.
Failures for the week have been 194
In the United States, against 299 last
year, and 84 In Canada, against 46 last
year.
AID RECEIVED.
Salvation Army Secures a loan of $5,000.
000 To Organize Colonies.
Frederick L. Booth-Tucker, com
mander of the Salvation Army In the
United States, this week successfully
negotiated a loan of $3,000,000, which '
will be used for the establishment of
farm colonies throughout the country.
Part of the money will be Invested for
the maintenance of the Woodvllle
colony, on the Panhandle road, near
Pittsburg. By a well-planned co-operative
system the leadera of the pro
gressive movement expect to build up
prosperous communities that will In a
short time overcome the vast debt.
New York capitalists are backing the
commander In his Immense under
taking. The Salvation Army colonisa
tion scheme Is also being encouraged
by the citizens in the various districts
which have been selected.
The farm colony scheme has been
under consideration by the leaders of
the Salvation Army for a long time.
Only recently, however, has the propo
sition been considered to secure large
tracts of land for the purpose. The
first farm to be located was near San
Francisco. It Is known aa the Golden
Gate farm. So far there are many
signs that It will prosper.
Recently the Santa Fe railroad en
couraged the army by offering a large
tract of land, comprising thousands of
acres, along Its system. The company
subscribed $25,000 aa an Inducement for
the army to locate along the system.
The residents of an uncultivated part
of Arizona are raising $50,000 as an In
ducements for the army to locate In
that district. These propositions have
been under consideration by Com
mander Booth-Tucker for a long time.
He has been to Europe In consultation
with Gen. Booth and others, and it la
understood that when he returned to
America over a month ago he had tho
advice to go ahead.
JAPAN'S ENTERPRISE.
Money Appropriated to Teach American
Kow to Make Tea.
Several months ago the Japanese
Tea Guild sent to this country a spe
cial commission to Investigate the con
dition of the Japanese tea trade In the
United States and Canada, and to co
operate with its American representa
tives in giving publicity to the merits
of Japanese teas and the best methods
of preparing them.
Tea bazaars are to be opened in
many of the principal cities in the
United States and Canada, where
ladles can enjoy a cup of fine Japanese
tea made by experts, and at the same
time receive instructions which will
enable them to make it equally well
at home. More than half the tea con
sumed In the United States and Can
ada Is of Japanese growth, yet most
Americana apparently do not under
stand how to prepare it so as to de
velop its delicious qualities. The
Japanese government has appropri
ated a large fund to aid in prosecut
ing this educational work. The Jap
anese Tea, Guild has Issued this official
recipe for making Japanese tea:
First. Use a small, dry and thor
oughly clean porcelain teapot.
Second. Put In one teaspoonful ot
tea leaves for each cup of tea desired,
pour on the required quantity of fresh
boiled water, and let stand with closed
lid from two to three minutes. Never
boll the leaves. In order to retain the
natural flavor, Japanese tea leaves
should be kept in tight can or Jar, free
from moisture.
Note. To thoroughly enjoy the nat
ural delicate and sweet flavor, neither
sugar nor cream should be used. .
Dawsoa City Destroyed,
The rumor of Dawson City's de
struction by Are brought in recently
gains credence. The intelligence was
first carried by the steamer Conquitla
from Skaguay, which arrived Tuesday.
When the steamer left Skaguay It was
a mere rumor, but subsequent events
have led to abellet that Dawson City,
Is In ashes.