BONDS 1(1 KND JOB III SIIM VOTE STOOD 47 TO 32. All Amendments and Oold Substitutes Votsd Down In the Senate. After a debate, nnlmnted ni nil times mill occasionally nortmnnlnti, which oocupli'd thi grcnter imrt of lat week, I hp enato Fli'lay evening, ly thn de cisive Vote of 47 to 32, pacel the TclliT concurrent resolution. Aftr tho oratory was over nnd a substitution resolution from Mr. Nelson wns disposed of, the Lodge amendment, ns follows, enme up: "That all the bond of thn United Slate, Issued or authnrlxi'd to he Is sued under the snld art of congress hereinbefore recited, am payable1, prln t'lpal ami Interest, In gold ln or It equivalent; ami that any othpr pay inont without thn consent of thp ercell tnr, would be In violation of the public faith nml In derogation of hi lights." Mr. VeHt timvpil lo table thn amend ment. "I hope the senator will withdraw the motion to tnlilp," Interposed .Mr. W'nl cott, "so thut we mny have a direct vote on gold." Mr. Vest consented, nnd the vote taken directly on the lrfielge nmond ment, resulting In Its defeat, 24-53. Mr. Quay now came forward with n new amendment a follows: "Strike out nil after the enacting olausn, and In xert: 'That all the bonda or other obli gations of the United mate Issued un der the anld acta of rnngrc-R hcrelnbe lore recited should tie pnld, principal and Intercut, In the money that la the highest money of the world.' " Mr. VeHt again moved to '.able; car ried, 47 to 31. That the debate wan Interesting, vvna attested by the attendance In the gal lerlea, which were crowded throughout the day; and that It was Important was evidenced by the statement of several of the speakers that the discussion was but the preliminary alignment of the treat political parties for the context of WOO. The Teller resolution la oh follows: Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring therein), That all bonds of the I'nlted (Mates Is ailed or authorized to be Issued under the said acts of Congress hereinbefore recited are payable, principal and In terest, at the option of the (lovernment of the I'nlted States. In silver dellara of the coinage of the United Slate con taining 4 12 grains each of standard silver; and thnt to restore to Its coin age such silver coins as a legal tender In - payment of said bonds, principal and Interest, la not hi violation of the public faith nor In derogation of the rights of the public creditor. Mr. Foraker thought the statement lu the resolution that such coinage as con templated by It was not In derogation of the rights of creditor could only mean the free and unlimited coinage of sil ver. He was therefore opposed to the resolution. Mr. Foraker declared him self In favor uf International bimetal lism, or, as an alternative, to main ' tain the present financial status. KING OSCAR WORRIED. oiway and Sweden Cannot Agree ai to Begulatlng Relatione. The news that the committee np polntpd to druw up proposals for the better regulation of the relations bet ween' Norway nnd Sweden haa been unable to reach an agreement, indi cates that the tension between the two countries la fast approaching the snap ping point, and It is stated that on the frontier the arming of both parties Is rapidly progressing, both sides prepar ing for war. The members of the committee men tioned above characterize as mislead ing the statement telegraphed from Chrlatlanla giving thn greunds upon which it was said they had been unable to reach an agreement. At the last session of the committee to-day King Oscar In a speech Bald: "They who Incur the blame for the failure to arrive at an understanding have taken a grave responsibility tie fore htetory. May the Almighty stretch Ilia hand over the future of my be loved peoples and give security to thn brother kingdoms and happiness to their Inhabitants." BEAD IN HIi SHOP WINDOW. A Mew York Bnilnees Man Torne on the Oae and Falle to Flnlih a Letter. Otto C. Delfs, a German butcher. Rat dead all night long In tho window of his store at New York, In full view of passers-by. The little gas stove In tho glass booth he had In his place wiu pouring gas Into the place, while he sat there with a pen In his hand, apparent ly trying to write to his wife while slowly being asphyxiated. Delfs was found Sunday by his clerk, J-ouls Plata. When Plata entered the atore he wae not surprised to see the proprietor, and thought he was already at work. He went about preparing for the opening of the store until he noticed that Delfs had not moved since he had entered. The clerk went to the booth and opened the door to arouse Delfs, who, he thought was asleep. As soon aa Plats opened tho door he waa made almost dlzxy by the smell of gas. He touched Delfs and found him cold in death. Then he ran around to Mrs. Delfs and told her. Hhe found a scrap of paper on which was written, "Dear Mary, I can't " The letter ended there. Mrs. Dolfs aid her husband had met reverses In business of late, and that he had been unable to pay hla bills. First Railway Side at 104. Reclining In an Invalid's chair at the Polk street depot, Chicago, the other night, with a pipo In her mouth, Mrs. Aceneth Yaughgar, 104 years old, told torles of the last century to a crowd of interested listeners. Mrs, Yaughgar was accompanied by her son, John Yaughgar, of Walton, Harvey county, Kan. Ho was taking her to his western home from her old home In Huntington county, Indiana, where she haa lived far more than sixty years. This waa the old lady's first trip on a railroad. Hhe enjoyed the sensation. Will Balsa Ooets. An Interesting stock raising experi ment waa Inaugurated recently when 2. 8. Onderdonk, of Philadelphia, took a lease on the Canada De Loa Alamos grant of 15,000 acres near Lamy Junc tion, N. M. Five thousand goats will be placed on the land at once, and as many more in the spring. The object is to produce pelts to supply kid glove manufacturers. French experts say '.hat northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, owing to the dryness uf the atmosphere and the constant sunshine produce liner grained and tougher pelts than any other part of the world. lotlaluta Befnied Admission. . Deputy 'Demblom, accompanied by a earty of socialists, was refused admla ' lion to th Chamber of Deputies. The president h'A io ordered. A crowd Liollected, and attempted to push aside the soldiers. A fight ensued in which tna soldier withstood the mob with . P d bayonets. A strong body of do I suctwrutfd In aliening the disorder. 1IRSELY TOLD TBLSOBAMg. Linus M. Child, a prominent lloslon lawyer, Is dead. t let-man v'a leasp of Kino Chan has been llxed at Hit years. The antl-tllrting bill was defeated In the Virginia legislature. , President Dins of Mexico will Visit the United Htntcs shortly. Kxploslons of gunpowder killed eleven persons In Hiienos Ayres recently. The Drexel residence at Philadelphia was destroyed by lire the other tlay. The loiter clleiup at Chicago haa cor nered all the surplus wheat In the country. Turnpike raiders are engaged In blowing up Kentucky toll gates with dynnmltp. Jl.noo worth of stnmps and money was stolen from the llenevn, O., post- office Inst Tuesday. Fourteen murdered babies have been found within the last three weeks in and about New York. flteelworkers employed at making rn palrs on Hrooklyn Prldgu won their strlkn for 12. 25 a day. The Ohio Peltate the other day adopt-. ed resolutions demanding the recogni tion of Cuban Jtelllgerency, 400.000 pounds of provisions were for warded to Cuba by sympathising Americans a few days ago. The wlntpr Is very severp at New foundland and there Is great destitu tion among the poorer cIhsscs. Dr. Nunsen, the Arctic explorer, lias sailed for lOngland. Iln will lecture in London and return to Norway. Drlng a storm at Chicago recently Carlos Munchy was blown from a U0 foot tower and Instantly killed. Thn Dreyfus case was thn cburp of a dud between newspaper men at l'arla recently. Hllght injuries resulted. Mrs. Mary F.lla .1. Wallace and Miss Hrldgpt Murphy, both servnnts, were killed by a train at Newton, Mass. Four hundred delegates met In con vention at Indianapolis last Tuesday to urge reforms In the currency laws. The machine establishments of Oenrgn F. ott were destroyed by lire at Philadelphia Saturday. Ijoss. $147,000. Jealous Mrs. Cnnavan, of Woodstock, N. 11.. poisoned her Bister, Minnie Tucker, with strychnine the other day. J. Morangue. county surveyor of Nea Prrce county, shot and Instantly killed I. A. Klppen, postmaster at Klppen, Ida. President McKlnley was a guest at the National Association of Manufac turers' Banquet at New York a few days ago. Senator Hanna's son Is being sued for divorce by Mrs. Carrie May Hnnna, nt Cleveland. Neglect and cruelly nre charged. Chris Merry, the Chlrago peddler re cently convicted of killing his wife, Pauline, was sentenced to be hanged February IS. - Thn principal of thn Itnyen school nt Youngstown, )., has cIIhiiiIsspcI several young ladles for not doing up their hair as he had suggested. The TtrltlKh cabinet held a meeting last week at which Ixirel Snllsbury de clared that China had practically ac cepted tho Hi'ltlHh offer of a loan. Mr. Minnie CuHhmiin, a whlto wom an and school teacher, was recently married to (larrntt White, a full-blooded I'legan Indian at Dupuyro, Mont. A coroner's Jury at Hrooklyn acquit ted Jacob Heinx, n Texas cowboy, of murder. He had killed Otto Dlehl, his brother-in-law lor abusing his sister. Hun I Jacobs tore his hair and bis wife fainted when he was found guilty In a Cleveland court the other morning of having sold a $i:i,000 brass brick as gold. $5,000,000 was demanded from the cashier of the Colorado National bank last week by a craxy man. While waiting for the money a patrol wagon which had been telephoned for took him In charge. Joshuo Moles of Allegheny had been missing from his home for several days. Wednesday his duughter fuinted when she saw her father lying at the morgue. He had been struck by a freight train. Senator Hoar hnnded Secretary Sherman the other day a check for IB. 014.00, from Oeorgo 11. l.ytimn, trustee, of Hnston, representing the contri bution made by ltustonluns to the Cuban relief fund. , Fifteen months of unconsciousness Is the record of William Scott at New York City. He was assaulted and has never recovered his senses. The assail antH are held In Jail to await the out come of their offence. Col. Aaron Spangler, ex-state senator died suddenly at Springfield, (., last Wednesday. He hod Just returned from Donver, where he mined his brother, Michael, a millionaire, who was killed In a in inn accident. Seven prisoners In the Buchanan county Jail at St. Joseph, Mo., escaped by climbing over the cms In the wo men's ward and through a trapdoor In tho roof last week. A garden hose was used In leaving the roof. $40,000,000 of treasure Is said to be burled In thn Pacific oceqn off the west coast of South America, c A. warm castle and W. W. Flanegnn, of Pitts burg, are members of a syndicate In terested In recovering tho fortune. After giving one awful shriek, Mrs, Rhodes fainted in a Baptist church near Heading, Pa., last Sunday. Her husband had not been In a church for twenty years, and the sight of him np- proachlng the pew cauBea ner to swoon, California's golden Jubilee celebration began Monday. In the 60 Heats of thn ureut procession, which Inaugurated thn week of festivity, the history of California from the discovery of gold to the present time waa represented. Ilonds of all Insurance companies not Incorporated under the laws of Califor nia, have been declared Invalid, and any agent of any of the disqualified corporations doing business will be Ha- blo to arrest on a cnarge or misuu meanor. Ten locomotives and 15,000 steel rails were started on their way to China by the steamer 8t. Andrew from Now York last week. Tho locomotives are of the Mogul pattern. Eight of them are for the Chinese railroad near Tonk Ku, and two aie tor japan. The Indian Head cotton mills, built and owned by Boston capitalists, at Cordova. Ala., began operations Wed nesday. Che mills are the largest In thn state, containing 50,000 spindles and 1 ono looms, consuming 10,000 bales of cotton annually, and employing 1,000 persons. Bulla's Demand on China, A dispatch from Shanghai says a se cret dispatch has been Issued by tho Tiuni L.I Yamen to certain high ohi clals. Informing them that Russia warned China that if Klaochau were granted to Germany. Russia would de mand either Ta L,len Wan or Port Ar thur. According to the samu dispatch It Is asserted at Shanghai on good au thority that China consents o have thorlty at the head of her customa and railways. At the present moment there are 10,000 Russian troops In Ta Lien Wan and Port Arthur. Russian agents have been sent to Tien Tln the port of Pokln) and to , Jupan WOniDMiDERIKEROEORMOIT. TWO TRAITORS. Insurgents Willing to X1U Oomet, the Cuban Oeneral for a Consideration. Two voting Cubnn Insurgents who have recently surrendered to tho Span- sh nfllcliila nt Havana are preparing to hnve their nine go down in his tory as traitors of tho most exceptional 'pp. , For a money consideration those, men mve nsserted their wllllngnpsa to kill Ion. Maximo Gomes, the leader of tho Cuban forces In their light for liberty. Senor Antonio tlovln. the minister of the Interior In thn Cuban cabinet, Is said to have brought the authoilxatlon of tho New York Cubnn Junta to nego tiate with the Insurgents and the Span- nsh government for tho establishment of peace. Circulars signed by certain Cuhnna mvn recently been circulated clandes tinely, attacking tlov. IIiiihoiii for ad vising Gen. Illanro to deport cerlnln persona. The circular also charges that Senor Jlruson had been for the past two years thn principal elill.HtiT of ro- rulta for the Insurgent forces. The clearing of the River Cauto, so nn to make It navigable, which waa ordered by Gen. Pnndo, will, It Is fear ed, produce an epidemic! of malarial fever among the soldiers. Two hun dred atato prisoners trifesldlaros) have been sent tc the Cauto river to assist thn soldiers In clearing tho stream. Gen. Itlnnecv thn raptiiln-general, ac cording to thn version of bin trip, re ceived from Spanish sources, was wel comed enlhuslimtlciilly nt Santiago do Cuba. The provincial deputies tender ed him a banquet, nt which. In thn course of a reply lo a toast to his health Gen. Hlnnco urged that all element of thn population should endeavor to con tribute to the establishment of peace. rue Spanish General I.ihiiip. with alio Infantry nnd I fill cavalry. In two col umns, while recnnnoiterlng near Ma- caguit and Cayumo, In the direction of the Mejla district, beyond Holguln, dis covered that thn Insurgents had con centrated their forces. Ilo attacked thpm at Mejla and a slinrp engagement ensiled. The Spanish accounts say that f len. Ijiiquft took the Insurgent trenches by a liuyonet chnrao. The lnsuruenta fled, leaving five killed. Of the SpunlHh Maj. Sectindo Camarara and I, lent. AgiiHtln I,iKiie, son of. Gen. Iiiique, were seriously woundel: two soldiers were killed nnd twenty wounded. On January 27 Gen. l,uniie arrived nt llolguin. HILARITY NOT DRUNKENNESS President Fatton Speaks in Defense of the Students of rrlnoaton. To an audience which Included Grov er Cleveland, President Patton of Princeton, Inst Hunday spoke on tem perance at the University chapel. In reference to the Princeton Inn imita tion he said: I bear testimony to thn high moral tono of thn studentn of thn university. know that they have been mlsrepre- settled nnd misunderstood.' Their hilar ity, their bolsteroua outbursts of exu berance, their nongs, which often have il more bacchanalian sound than I would wIhIi, and In some Instances their Inexcusable nets of wrong doing, have produced Impressions which thn facts will not Justify; and thny have on ninny occasions been charged with drunkenness for no other reason than that, under tho Influence of the grega rious liiHtiuct, which sometimes as sumes an almost irrational modn of ex pression, animal spirits have been al lowed too much freedom, and speech nnd action have not been kept within those metes and bounds which mature men in the busy walks of life aro apt to aHHociiiio witn aoniicty. nut thorn waa never less rennon for adverse criticism of Princeton than during thn period In which It has been so unsparingly bestowed upon ua. i wisti morn particularly, however. to say a kindly word to those who are understood to lm moderate drinkers. If any duty Is Intuitively given ua In con sciolism rh it is temiH-rancn. 1 mean the duty of self control. .Let me cau tlon you, then, against tho hublts which put self control In peril." MINERS VICTORIOUS. They Secure an Advance in Wagos and an Elgnt Hour Day. The Interstate convention of coal op orators and miners closed at Chicago last Wednesday. Although the Strug gle was stubborn, the miners came nut victorious. The rate agreed upon means is rents to tne miners. The differential existing In favor of some of the states is now a thing of the paat and uniform rates will lirevnll. inn miners were juimunt over tho results of their 10 days' session, for it means to nearly un.miu sort coul mln era an advance of 10 cents per ton, and a uniform clay of eight hours at unl form nay wages. And tho operators congratulate one another with a vic tory over themselves. Boy Wanted to Know. A 8-year-old boy, Harry Moore living In Kentuck, Jackson county. W. Va.. whoso parents declined to allow him to ace the execution of Morgan recently. resolved to try the experiment on him self. Going to his fathers garret, he climbed upon a chair, fustened a rope that hung from a rafter around his neck end kicked tho chair from under him. lie would have strangled to death had not tho falling chair attracted tho attention of a member of tho family who, on making an Investigation, found him black In the face. W hen resuseita ted he explained that he wanted to know how It felt to be hanged. CAPITAL 0LEANIN01 McKlnley celebrated his 55th birthday last Uuturduy. The senate has confirmed the nomi nation of J. V. Griggs, of New Jersey to be attorney general uf the United States. A modification of the treaty which forbids the building of warships on the Great Lakes Is urged by the committee on foreign affairs. Senator Quay secured the passage of a bill indemnifying the state of Penn sylvanla for money expended in 1864, At that time the militia was called out for military service by the national government. The amount involved is 116,000. Secretary Gage sent to the House recommendation for steamboat In spectlon service in Alaska. . He says suitable protection resulting from the Inspection of steamers should be given the traveling publlo vmiting the Klon dike region. , Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of labor, has received a personal letter dated November S, from Samuel C. Dunham of the statistical bureau of la bor, who was sent to the Klondike some months ago to Investigate, saying he considers the food supply at Dawson aa Insufficient, while there was plenty at Fort Yukon. Dogs were selling aa high as S&00 a Poaa FOR COAST DEFENSES. Congress Cats Down the estimates Made by War Department. Thn provision of tho ntmrotuintlnn hill for thn extensive system of const defenses now In course of contempla tion was reported to the House thp oth er day. It carries tl,H4.Hl2, as against estimates made by thp war depnrtmetit f 11.1,378,571. The amounts allowed by the bill for the main Itema aro aa fol lows: Gun and mortar batteries. ll.000.00Aj lies for fortifications. :i(Ki.00O; preser vation and repair of fortifications, $75. 0; plans for fortifications, tr,ooo; sea walls and embankments, iiin.ooo; tor pedoes for harbor defense, 115,000; ar mament of fortifications, $a,0:i:t,777; field guns nnd other miscellaneous Items, 2116.2.15; proving grounds at Snndy look, $16,000; Walertown. Mass., nr enal grounds, $SO,IIOO; Watervllet, N. arsenal, $R,000; ordinance and forti fication board, $100,000. Total, $4.144, M2. In thp detailed Items for armament e $2SH,000 for large coast defense guns; $124,000 for gun carriages; $IS2.7Ul or breech-loadlniT morlnrs; $:i!H,0ii0 for eservp supply of powder and projec tiles; $20t,oiio for rapid-Urn guns. Provision Is made that the aimntrient shall be of American make, except when It Is to thn manifest Interest of the Government to pmciiase limited quantities abroad. WARSHIP AT HAVANA. The Government Orders the Bsttleshin Maine to Cuban Waters. The I'nlted Slates government has rdered a warship to Havana. Officially It Is said that the ni t of sending the bntllcHlilp Maine to f'utm in merely the resumption of a custom niiicatlng friendly navnl relations witti Spain, Among men familiar with the situation. It Is rlnlm"d that thn war ship was sent to protect American in terests in Culm, Spain being considered powerless to give any shelter to foreign merest. Thn dec ision to send Hip TTnlted States battleship Maine was finally reached at a special meeting nt the Whlto House Monday between thn President, Secre tary Long, Assistant Secretary Day, Attorney General McKenna and Gen. Miles. It Is not denied that some such move has been long In contemplation. as Is evident In tlie following state ment of Assistant Sncretary Day: It Is customary for nnval vessels of friendly nations to pass in and out of the harbors of other countries with v!ich they nre lit peace, and British nnd German warships have recently visited Havana. This Is no new move. Thn President has intended to do It for somo time, but heretofore something has happened to postpone It. Thn or ders to the Maine mean nothing more than I have said, and there Is no;hlng nlarmlng or unfriendly In them. The Spanish minister hern Is fully Informed of what Is going on, and so far as I know has not made the slightest ob jection to It." Further, Assistant Snc retary Dny said that Consul General Lee had not sent for a warship. l pon the arrival of the Maine at Ha vana a salute wns (I red by the forts nd war vessels. Visits were exchanged by the officials, nnd tho customury courtesies were extended. 1 he presence of the Maine In Cuban waters has displeased the Spanish newspapers. They suggest that a few Spanish cruisers be sent to American ports. The president and cabinet are pleas ed that there were no disturbances nt Havana when tho ITnlted States wnr- hlp Maine arrived at Havana. Tho friendly visit of the warshln Mainn to Culin, has found a response In Siinln. She will send one of her cruisers to visit an American port. SYMPATHY FOR CUBA New York Legislature Panes Besolutions Petitioning Congress. The New York state assembly Tues day night discussed the Cuban question at length and adopted the following re solutions; Resolved. That the cause of Cuba from thn beginning of tho revolution has deserved nnd has received the sym pathy or our people, whose earnest hopes are for Its speedy triumph. As the representatives in the legislature of the state of New ork, we unite In de nouncing the atrocities committed by Spanish troops upon tho Cubans, and we appeal to our national government for the exercise of Its influence In be half of peace by whatever means neces sity may require at the earliest mo ment when Its obligations other than those afTecting Siinln will permit the termination of the struggle." Resolved, That a copy of the fore going Joint resolution be forwarded by the clerk of the assembly to the presid ing officer of the senate, to the sneaker of the house of representatives In con gress." These resolutions were adopted as a substitute for more radical ones, de mandlng that the Cuban Insurgents be recognized as belligerents. The vote was 71 to CO, thn minority consisting of those who favored the original resola turns. FILIBUSTER SUNK. Traitors Scnttle a Vessel and Four Lives are Lost Nineteen aurvlvors of the suspected filibustering steamer Tlllle, which prob amy sank off Harnegut, were brought to Providence. R. 1., by a coasting schooner Tuesday. Four men were lost. Capt. John O'Brien was among tne saved. The Tlllio was abandoned last Sun day afternoon while off Kurnegat In the midst of a terrible storm. It Is be lieved she was scuttled by traitors, who naa joined the party on board fur the purpose of destroying the vessel. The nineteen who were saved escaped with great difficulty. The other four men could not be taken off and they went down with the vessel. Forty tons of uynamite, three dynamite guns and a considerable quantity of ammunition Intended for the Cuban Insurgents was on Doara tne Tlllle when she sank. Mother and Daughter Murdered. The dead and froxen bodies of Mr. Fanny Rathburn and her 12-year-old daughter Mary were found in pools of blood at their lonely home, west of Burlington, Ia a few days ago. The woman had been struck In the head with an ax. Her head waa spilt open. The body or the child was found in a bedroom off the kitchen, with the throat cut from ear to ear. Evidences of a horrible sruggle for life were pre ent on all side. The body of the woman waa found to be badly eaten by rats. tl.000,000 Worth of Oraia Destroyed. The Union elevator In East St. Louis and owned by the United Elevator Company at St. Louis was totally burn ed Tuesday with the contents, about 3,000,000 bushels of grain. A greater part of this was cum. Eighty-five cars loaded with corn destined for New port News and owned by E. H. White at Co., waa atao consumed, aa wen aa the Chicago, Burlington AY Qulncy freight house, adjoining the elevator. Numerous cottages to the east of the elevator were also burned. Tb total less ta 11,000.000. 1EN CUES KILLED H S A TOWN FIRED. Troops Make a Charge npon Chinese Murder ers With Bayonets. Particulars of the raid by Chinese pi lules upon the Kuropean settlements at Hal Phong, have been brought by thn steanipr Coptic! from the Orient to San Francisco. The plrntes first attacked the men of Hal Huong, the night of De cember 1.1. Tim town wns fired In four qtiartpr simultaneously, and half of this provincial capita! has been de stroyed. Thn morning of December 16 several hundred Annnmltes crossed the River Lnchtrny In small bands and converg ed upon Hal Phong. Shortly afterward several fires started In the Kurnpean ami native quarter. Meantime an other hand, about 150 strong, attacked thn village of Amblr. This was headed by nn old mnn, who marched In the center of fcnir standards, which born the Inscription: "Obey the order of heaven," "Destroy thn Furopenps." "Kxtnriulnnte the dynasty of Ngti-Ycn and' Mac." About 4 o'clock French troop charg ed the remaining guard of thn pirate with llxd bayonet. Fifteen of the pl rntes were killed. In the meantime thn pirates had entered the house of A, It. Marty nnd killed hi bookkeeper, M. Gnuthler, nfter horribly mill Hating him. Ills 7-year-old child also disap peared. They attacked M. Dealer, clerk of the FaiiNse Mining Company, and left him for dead. The following Saturday 10 of the enp lured pirates were executed liion the stiot where M. Gnuthler was assassin ated, and thn bodies were placed on slakes and set, up In front of the bouse, UNCONQUERABLE CUBANS. Spain Unable to Suppress Them at Matansas City. Riots similar to those which occurred In Havana nre taking place now In Matanzns City. The uncompromising Spaniards ami the volunteers attacked the building in which thn wealthy merchants of that city, Ilea Bellldo & Co., have their olllcn. They also raided thn office cif the Aurora del Tuinurl, which Is the oldest newspaper publish ed in Cuba. The regular troops fought the rioters. The situation Is very grave there ocennsn the government ha not such large resources as Havana. Gen. Motion, who is operating with his col umn uround Matanzas, wns hastily summoned to the town to reinforce the troops. A terrible dynamite explosion I Just reporteii rrom Puerto Principe. A mili tary train was destroyed by several dynamite bombs between LiiKareno and Rambliizo, It was carrying reinforce ments to Gen. .limine. Castellanos, Over 50 Spanish soldiers and officer were killed, it Is said, and 40 badly wounded. There Is nn doubt (hat Gomes feels Inclined to offer Spain indemnity of $IOO,(HS),aoo for thn independence of thn Island, and that thn name idea prevails In the Cuban government, but it is also certain that he will energetically re ject all proposals of autonomy. The Spanish Press Opinions. The Spanish paper, "Kl Nacionnl," announces tnat the American govern ment is about to present to Spain alms amounting to nearly $10,000,000 for damages to American subjects. chief among whom are said to be Carlo Itosa for $XM2,K40; Francisco Selglll and Jose Rafael Reyes, for over $700,000 each. The Spanish "Heraldo says: "We must send our Ironclads to New York. Long ago thn Spanish flag ought to have floated opposite thn chimney of American ports to remind them that Spain i watching. The presence of American warships In Spain will be an swered with tho presence of Spanish warships In America. We will thus prove that wn have the means of an swering a naval visit and have pow der enough to answer gun salutes, friendly or otherwise." America Well Represented. Rear Admirnl McNair, who has been in command of the Asiatic squadron from November, 1X115, until January 3. when he was relieved and irdered home, and who has reached this coun try, says: "The feeling in China and Japan is one of uncertainty. The fleet of thn powers In Asiatic: water have been Increased, until they are all repre sented by an unusually heavily armed force, but what they may portend Is something I do not know. We will shrtly hnve a fleet of seven vessels there, the best or tneir Class in tne world, to protect American - interests. and uphold, if necessary, the honor c f the American ling. Plague Caused Blots. Serious riot hnve occurred at Slnnar, In the Nosslck district, Bombay presi dency, against the plague measure. A mob killed a hospital assistant, burned the segregation camp, wrecked the post olllce and cut telegraph wire. The po lice were obliged to lire upon tho mob In order to quell the disturbance, and many of the rioters were wounded. CABLE SPARKS. A German soldier while on duty at Kiao-Chou bay was recently murdered by Chinese rabble. Mr. Crlspl. wife of Italy's former premier, now appear In public accom panied by a tarne calf. A British warship arrived at Havana Wedncaday, a well aa tho German cruiser t'harlotte. A French man-of-war Is also expected. Tho Spanish minister, Duke de Ar ena, and the duchess, have left Mexico City for tho I'nlted States. They win after a visit to tho United States, go to Sonln. Herr Trojan, editor of tho "Kladder- nilatsch," published at Berlin, has been sent to orison for two montns. tie ru cently published a cartoon which dis pleased the emperor. 1,000 students and their professors left the schools at Prague and moved to Leitmerits. They could not endure the persecutions of the Cxechs, and have petitioned the government to move the nehools. Scyfullah Pasha, with 2.000 soldiers and two guns recently went to the vll lage of Lasarinu, near Trlkhala, Greece, to enforce the payment of tax es. The peasants met the troops with a sustained lire, ana a regular engage ment ensued. It Is reported that Count William Bis. marck. president of East Prussia and second son of Prince Bismarck, has fought a duel with Herr Maubach, the chief presidential counsellor, owing to a personal quarrel. .Herr Muubach, It Is added, was wounded. Cotton Weavers' Strike Aa nearly as can be ascertained about 1,000 cutton operatives are out of work In Fall River, Mass., some aa strikers and others because of the strikes. At the Laurel Lake and Har- graves mills the management announce that the places of the strikers have for the moat part been filled, so that these nillla am bat little crippled , TRADE REPORT, An Inereata of Bnslnssi Shown, But Ro Im provement in Prices. R. fl. Dun Co.' weekly review of trade report for last week: The first month of the new year has brought lather more Increase In busi ness, but less Improvement In price thnn wn expected. With payment through cleniing house 7.3 per cent, larger thnn In ISM, and probably the largest ever known In any month, with railroad earning 11.2 per cent, larger than the bent of past year, thp fact that price nre very low only shows clenrly thn Incrrnsc In quantities of product sold. Nor I there any dispo sition to refuse order, even at preent price; inoeeci, tne competition of man ufacturer seeking order alone pre vent a rise. Most of them have all they can menage, many working night and day and one great t"cl concern running on Sunday, but the work not yet filled with order are seeking con tract at a low price n have ever . been made, Indicating that even the nr not entirely unprofitable. The set tlement of wnge on a 10 per cent, ad vance April I, fi(r 200,000 con I miner of the central region, with other changes, will tend toward a larger de mand for products of nil kinds though also toward some lucre Rsn In cost of manufacture. Whent hit been conspicuous, rising B cents for the week with b cent for May option. Western receipts have been 10,(Ki!i,o.-, bushel In four week, against fl.045,712 IuihIicIs last year, but . Atlnntlo export hiivo been 12.0fl.1,KaS bushels In four weeks, against 7,103,074 bushels last year, and Pacific exports, without Tncomn, for the week, 4.015, 5S3 bushels, against X.454.9S& bushels last year. So heavy an outgo with wheat over $1 per bushel, and with corn exports for thn four weeks equaling thn extraordinary movement of last year, .discloses the strength of foreign demand even better than current ac counts of disappointing shipments from Argentina, nnd poor prospects In Rus sia. Cotton has risen a sixteenth, not withstanding the strikes in eastern mills, nnd thn oltlclnl report of a de crease of 10.5 per cent. In British ex port of cotton good last year. Thn cotton manufacture I in more dltllciilly than any other, not merely because) prices do not much Improve, nor as yet the demand for goods, though both are helped by the closing of many mills, but largely because the manufacturer and worker have con sidered too little the rapidly growing production nt the South. The woolen , muntifacturp Is doing well, linn worsted goods having opened at an advance of 20 per cent, over last year, and tho large, mills nrn constantly buying wool, even nt current high prices, which Implies great confidence in thn future, presum ably based on larger order than ar publicly reported. Such purchases of wool have been frequent of late, even . by mills supposed to be supplied far ahead, and one Providence mill ap pears to havo taken 250,000 pounds worsted wool at Wheeling this week. Thn Iron niunufRctiire Is getting larger orders for finished products, which c rowd many works almost beyond their capneity, although some other are still in the market keeping price down. Pig lion I steady, except thnt besemer at Pittsburg Is 10 cents lower, the output last year being officially reported as ft.f!52,6Mi tons, and thn consumption in tills country, unsold stocks considered. !i.w:,:ik: tons, against 9,001,504 tons In thn largest previous year, which was ix',, and tl.34,9: ton In 1R92. Failures for thn week hnve been 342 In the United State, against 3111 last year, nnd ::l in Canada, against 57 last year. WITHOUT WIBES. A Pennsylvania Professor Transfsrs Dots and Dashes Through the Air. J. F. Ray. professor of chemistry and physics In W. & J. college, Pa., has made a successful test of wireless tele graphy. Hn has given thn subject much attention In the past few months and ha been experimenting for two or three weeks. tin Saturday an assistant was sta tioned In one wing of the college and tho professor In the other. Between tho two were four heavy walls and a rotunda. The professor had the re ceiving instrument, and as his assist ant made the signals the latter were recorded by dots and dashes on the re ceiver. The sender used a switch to make thn signal, using two bras balls and an induction coll, the electric waves going in all direction. At the receiving end thn clicking of the receiver was as pronounced as I the case at any ordi nary telegraph Instrument. BORNEO TO DEATH. Oil Explosion Causes a Pittsburg Woman to Expire la oreat Agony. Mrs. Alicia Lav In la Ackard was burned to death In a horrible manner at her home, Redmans Mill, near Pittsburg, a few day ago. She died In less than five minute after being burn ed. Mrs. Ackard was alone at the time. with the exception of her little baby. Her mother-in-law and lter-ln-law, who live next door, heard her scream ing, and found her writhing In agony. Her clothes were burned entirely on, and her body was literally cooked. The baby wu unhurt. An oil explosion la thought to have caused Mrs. Ackard death. The woman must have been literally drenched with burning oil. A portion of the kitchen had been burned. Dr. W. J. Martin, who made an exam ination of the body, said her lungs had been practically burned out. Psrssouting the Jews. About 10,000 people witnessed the fu iicral of those whet were killed during the recent rioting at Algiers. Their remains were interred In thn Christian cemetery outsldo of town, but on re turning thore were renewed demon strations with the usual cries. The mob attacked an omnibus upon which two Jews were riding. They were bad ly beaten and stoned. A few other Jews were similarly maltreated. Che bat, one of the Jews who was stoned, died. His skull was fractured. Eighty of the rioters were condemned to term of imprisonment varying from three months to a year, and one, who was caught In the act of pllaglng, waa sen tenced to five years In prison. Train Wreaked. The St. John train. No. 29, known aa the Provincial express, was wrecked in the cut at Orono, basin mills, near Old Town, Me., a few days ago, and six cars. Including the smoker, were turned topsy-turvy into the ditch. One of the passenger cars, in which were a large number of persons, was almost entirely demolished. Two persona were killed, and more than a score Injured, several probably fatally. The dead are: Jennie S. Murray. St. Stephen, N. B., Mrs. D. Cunningham. Troy. Me. Two Hundred Klondike Outfits Last News haa been received at Seattle that the steamer Corona, which left Seuttlo with 226 passengers, January 10, for Skaguay and Southeastern Alaska, ports, hail been wrecked near Lewis Is land, at the mouth of the Skeens liver. Her passengers were all safely landed on Skeena Island. . Every .pound yf freight apd baggage is lost. ' .
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