miHaunfiinii. EIGHTEEN LIVES LOST. By in Exptoilon of Whieky Terrible Hsvoo 1i Wrought -ton 91,700,000. A lire In the third lloor of the Union Pierage Company's building nt Pitts burg caused a death dealing explosion last Wednesday night. In the building wore stored hundreds of barrels of whisky, and without any warning these exploded, bringing down the- walls of the huge building, crush ing out the lives of at least a dozen persons. The greatest conslernntlon was caus ed by the explosion. From the sur rounding houses people In their night clothes, barefooted, were rushing out to place of shelter. The helmcted firemen ran for their lives. Boon, however, they recovered themselves, and begun the heroic search fftr their dead comrades. The names of the dead are as fol lows: I.leiit. of Police, John A. Merry. Thomas Claffey, John liwyer, dosiiia McManna, Ormge Loveless, John Scott, William McOotinlgle, William Heotl. Jr., Stanley Helm, nged 14; William Smith and Albert Wolf. Seventeen persons received serious In juries when the walls fell. Twenty-three persons are missing, and a most of these were last seen In the vicinity of the fire It is believed their bodies will be found under the ruing. Chief Humphreys of the (lie depart ment assert that when the ruins are rleared mora bodies will be found. Jinny spectators stood nar a portion of the building where It n not known a f)r was railing, and when the ex plosion decurred the chief believes many of the spectators were killed. Saturday, as had been predicted by the tire chief, seven bodies were found under the walls. The Incessant labor of hundreds of men for two days was rewarded by the discovery of the fol lowing dead: Jamen Mornn, D. Wiclter ly, Oeortf o E. Neuman, William loran, J ami's Casting Dennis A. Dreary and .William A. Pinch. The force of the explosion was ter rific. Heavy telephone and telegraph poles bearing 00 and 70 wires as well as heavy cables, were snnpped elf short a far away as three squares, and the streets Uttered with live wires, nddlng to the dangers threatened from the Are. For squares away the window glass was broken, chimneys were toppled over and men were thrown from their feet. There was but little noise about tho first explosion, except that occa sioned by the fearful and terrifying roar of towering brick walls as they toppled down. As the wall fell they crushed In many of the buildings surrounding the storage house. An entry for the Humes was made to the lloeveler Storage building by the Haines and caused u biss to that structure of IfiOO.OOO. The Chautauu.ua Lake Ice Company's building was diiuiaged to the extent of l.i0,000. The Union Storage Warehouse) and contents sustained a loss of tl.noo.rsM. The total lom will umount to $1,700, 000. The loss to the Insurance companies by the tire will amount to $o,0oo. The buildings were located on 1'enn avenue between Twelfth and Thirteenth atreets. The entire Pittsburg tire department battled with the flames and finally the Allegheny department also assisted In subduing th fire. Ten thousand people visited the ruins of the great tire Sunday, and It was u day of funerals In 1'lttshurg. ' MILITARY POST NEEDED. War Department Receives a Report Concern ing Klondike Neede In a report from Capt. Kay, of the war department, who was sent to Alus ks to study the needs of the miners, thn Captain recommends that the mouth of Mission or American creek be chosen as the site with a sub-post, If necessary, at Circle City. The best Interests of the aervlce. he says, re quire permanent garrisons to be lo cated' well away from mining towns, ho that the troops. If required to act, will not be biased by local Influence. On the food question, he Bays: "Tho question of food Is a very serious one, and the action of the North American Trading and Transportation Company Is causing much friction. I used my best endeavor to reconcile all differ ences peaceably and get all people who are without provisions down to Fort Yukon aa anon aa possible, where there la an abundance of food. I learn that while food Is scare In Dawson City, the miners In the outlying camps are fair ly well supplied, fhn store (two) are Melting very conservatively. The eat ing houses are all closed save one. While I consider the situation critical I do not believe there will be any great loss of life beyond that Incident to a climate so rigorous as this. That there will be much suffering along the river and the train owing to the rashness and Ignorance of people unaccustomed to this climate, no well-informed per son here will deny but there Is nothing that should cause undue anxiety or alarm among people in the states who have friends in this country. There are fabulous stories being circulated and will be published about the prices paid for food. I have verified instances where $100 was paid for 60 pounds of Hour, but such cases are rare, were outside deals and not the prevailing price." Lnetgert Found Guilty. Adolph L. Luctgcrt wUs Wednesday night convicted of the murder of his wife, and sentenced to Imprisonment In the penitentiary for life. The big pris oner was calm to all appearances, and did not seem nervous In any degree. He smiled at one or two friends, and after the announcement, laughed In a manner that showed plainly that he did not think the verdict a serious matter, comparatively speaking. The trial lasted 72 days, and was his second. Anthony Hope's Complaint Anthony Hope has been talking free ly regarding America since he returned to London. He sals he believes half the population of the United States Is composed of Interviewers "whose pre dominant characteristics are conceit, aa, while everyone asked me Innumer able questions as to my opinion of the United States and Its literature, past, present and future, no one asked me a single question regarding England or the English A Chain of Suicides. Miss Lizzie W. Huffman, of Bright wood, Ind., is dead from the effects of a narcotic poison taken with suicidal intent. Several weeks ago her daugh ter Kdith committed suicide. Previous to Edith's death her lover. Harry Phil lips, committed suicide. The daughter was despondent over her lover's death, the mother could not stand her sorrow over her daughter's death. . Thirteen People Soorohed. Tuesday morning 16 Inmates of a four-story tenement house at Albany, N. X., narrowly escaped death. As It was II persons, wore badly burned. Mrs. William Fagan was. seriously burned TEISKLY TOLD TILIORAMS. Clara llarton distributed supplies to 300 needy Cubans last Sunday. Annie Shlpskl, aged T years, was kilt ed by a trolley car at Trenton, N. J. There are no Indications of an early settlement of the New Kngland cloth mill strike. Cyclist Anderson Is at Chicago ar ranging for a race with a locomotive next May. 40 ppr cent, of tho milk cows In the vicinity or Pittsburg are affected with tuberculosis. Spain hns requested the Clyde ship builders In London to hurry work on Spanish boats. Excessive smoking of cigarettes kill ed Albert Howard, of MoKeesport, Pa., last Wednesday. John I). Rockefeller presented land worth $2f..0ii to the city of Cleveland for park purposes. The Illinois senate concurred In the house joint resolution favoring the an nexation of Hawaii. Pittsburg's famous criminal lawyer. Major Edward A. Montooth, died lust Wednesday morning. rtich deposits of lend and r.lnc are re ported to have been discovered on the New Kaw reservation In Oklahoma. IjcvI P. Morion's office building on NasKau street, New York, was de stroyed by lire last week. Loss $500,. (HI0. The pen with which Lincoln signed Hie proclamation freeing the slaves has been presented to the New fork Press Club. Miss Mollle Vincent shot h"r lover, Taylor Wyatt, and then committed suicide. They lived In Morcneln valley, Va. The Hoyt building, c orner of St. Clair and Hank streets. Cleveland, was de stroyed by fire Inst Saturday, loss, $375,000. Three men were killed In tho New port mine at I son wood, Mich., a few days ago by an explosion of giant powder. At San Carlos, Ariz., 1,fi00 Apaches as sembled and gave the necessary con sent for a railroad to go through their reservation. By decree Cuban papers are prohib ited from publishing anything that will hurt the prospects of peace or auton omy In Cuba. Secretary (luge and tlen. Harrison addressed the Mnrqtiette Club nt Chi cago lost Saturday. The occasion wna Lincoln's birthday. tn a head end collision on the Louis ville and Nashville railroad lit Mont gomery, Ala., lust Thursday five train men were killed. Judge Thornell of the district court at Council Bluffs. In., deckled the state law taxing collateral Inheritance to be unconstitutional. A successor to Do Lome, the Span ish minister to this country who was recently compelled to resign for slan dering McKlnley, has not yet been chosen. John Schofleld shot nnd Instantly killed Peter Pfcffer nt the latter's home. In Louisville, Kv because the latter objected to his paying attentions to bis daughter. A filibustering expedition left Tampa, Flu., for Cuba last Saturday night. 6. ooo rifles, 6.000 pounds of dynnmlte and 200.000 rounds of cartridges mude up the cargo. Now that President Ilarrloa of Guate mala Is dead, his cabinet has resigned and tho leaders are i-ngnged In battle among themselves. Sixty-four men were killed In a riot last week. As an elevator In the Hoffman House, New York, ahot upwards, Mrs. Arthur Levy fainted. Hhh fell and her head was bruised by a projecting lloor and sho died Instantly Sunday night. For $.'100,000 a Chicago man proposes tn raise the rapitol building at Colum bus, so as to admit of another story un der the structure. A bill will be Intro duced In the legislature to that effect. Mrs. Annie C. George, widow of Hen ry George, was awarded $500 in her suit against tho Pennsylvania rtnllroud Company for $5,000 damages for Injur ies Hiistnlned by a fall In that com pany's station In Philadelphia. About S.OOO trousers makers of New York, Brooklyn and Brownsvillo went on strike a few days ago for an ad vance In wages. They claim that they had to work 16 hours a day, getting from $5 to fit per week as wuges. During a funeral service In the syna gaguo at ldzienciol. In Warsaw, recent ly, the women's gallery collapsed. In a panic that ensued 21 women, 6 men and 3 children were crushed to death and many others were seriously Injured. Professor Samuel J. James, of the University of Chicago, has been nomi nated by the bureau of education to re present the United States at the Inter national congress of commercial In struction to be held at Antwerp next April. Chris Merry of Chicago, under sen tence for tho murder of his wife, suf fered an Injury to the head some yearn ago. In the effort to save hln life his attorneys will have his brain examined with X rays before the date of his exe cution. Secretary Bliss emphatically, disap proves the senate bill to remove tho Indians from Annette island to the main land of Alaska and throw the Is lund open to settlement. It Is repre sented that, isolated from the whites, as they now are, the Indians are making good progress In civilization. A boat containing five men went over the falls at Oregon City, Ore., the other dr.y. Oeorge Freeman. Sr., his bods, Ueorge and James, nnd L. J. Shannon were drowned. Hurry Free man held to the boat and reached shore. The present high water will probably prevent recovery of the bod ies. Tho Quebec express on tho Intercol onial railway plunged over an embank ment at Petit Itoche, 7 miles from Hal hurst, near St. John, N. B lust Wed nesday, killing the engineer, William Uastaln, and badly Injuring Fireman Poole. The cause of the accident Is supposed to be a broken rail. The pus senger curs did not go over the embank ment and the. passenger escaped In jury. Michael Davltt moved an amend ment In the House of Commons In London the other day. calling attention to the distress In Irelund. and the fail ure of the potato crop. The motion was seconded by John P. Haydcn and was supported by John Dillon, chairman of the Irish parliamentary party, who said the misery In Ireland was a scan dal to the government. Mr. Dillon ad ded that the distress was aggravated by evictions of tho starving and he culled Uon the government for Imme diate comprehensive proposals for the relief of the sufferer. Died Holding n American Flag. Mrs. Susanna Smith, wlfo of the well-known Brooklyn abolitionist, died with anAmerlcan Hug In her right hand and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln In her left, at her home In BrooTTTyn Sat urday afternoon. Sho hud gone to an upper room for the Hag aiul tho por trait, intending to use them to decorate her parlor In honor of Lincoln's birth day. While going downstulrs she was tripped by the Jlag and plunged head long to the foot of the stairs. She died almost Instantly. MHNY SRVEO FROM H SINKING SKIP. RESCUED BY THE ST. LOUIS. Tho Atlentio Liner fees Signals of Dletreee and Takei on Board 818 Faiiengert. The attention of steamer St. Louis crossing from Southampton to New York was attracted by sjgnula of dis tress while out at sea last week. As soon as the St. Louis got close en ough to the Ill-fated vessels signals were run up Informing that the vessel was In sore distress and that the pas sengers and crew desired to bo taken off a soon aa possible. With the aid of glasses Is was discovered that the ship In distress had on Immense hole In her tide to the aft and wa slowly but steadily settling. A high rolling sea was running at the time. A storm had been raging a few hours previously, but the sea had calmed considerably. "The Veerdnm. a Holland ship from Amsterdam to New York, was laboring In a heavy sea and tho work of rescue was difficult. The passengers were lowered from the ship's side by means of life-slings. The excitement on board of the Veendam waa Intense, but Cap tain Stenger nnd his crew managed to keep the passengers In some kind of discipline. After all the children had been taken from the Veendam, the women were transferred to the life boats. Next came the men and Inst of all the ship's crew. Many of the women were so overcome that they had to be picked up and dropped overliosrd Into the arms of the lifeboat crew. Captain Stenger behaved like a hero. Not only did he direct the efforts of his ofllcers and crew, but ho personally assisted In lowering the children and more tim id of the women. 212 passengers were transferred from the wrecked steamer to the St. Louis. "The last man to leave the Veendam wns Captain Stenger. By this time the stern of the? Veendam had settled per ceptibly nnd her bow was almost en tirely clear of the water. Before leav ing the Veendam, Captain Stenger set Are to various pnrta of the cabin. The 118 steerage passengers of the Veendam were taken to the barge office when the St. Louis nrrlved In New York lust Saturduy. Of these 70 were detained because of lack of visible meana of support The captain, of ficers nnd crew of the Veendam sailed for Rotterdam on the Spnarndam the same afternoon. Floating wreckage caused the sinking of the Veendam. ALONE ON ANJSLAND. A Solitary Watcher Will Not Deiert Hii Post Until Rellsved. Alone on a coral reef in the Pacific ocean, hundreds of miles from any other land and out of the usual course of vessels. Theodore (lussmann is wait ing to be rescued. A letter to a friend at San Francisco, Captain Charles Hnettge, which he sent by a French man-of-war that chanced to cruise In his locality, describes the awful soli tude in which he has been Isolated for months. Oussmnnn might have left his Im prisonment by the vessel which brought his letter, but to have done so would have been deserting his post of duty. He Is one of three men sent down to Cllpperton Islnnd last July by the Oce anic phosphate rompany to keep pos session of the company's property and of the island. His companions deserted him at the time the Mexican man-of-war Democrata hauled down the American Hug nnd hoisted the Mexican standard. Oussmunn refused to leave then although an effort was mnde to shanghai him by the Mexican captain. In order to remain at his post of duty Oussmann practically marooned him self, swimming ashore from rhe war ship with evidence of his employers titles to tho Island concealed In one of his shoes. FOB AN ZI0HT HOUB DAY. A Million Hon Boon to Make a Stand for Shorter Work Dsye. Samuel Oompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has been In New York to gut the unions to enter Into a great movement for an eight-hour work day. According to the present plans of labor lenders a demand for theedght-hour dny will be made on May 1 next that will Involve fully 1,000,000 men. The American Federation of Labor will muke this demand in one trado at a time, and according to tho leaders great strikes are expected before tho battle likely to follow Is decided. Previous attempts to force tho largo employers to grant the eight-hour work day have been unsuccessful. The suc cess of tho recent strike of miners, tn which more than 200,000 took part, has encouraged the American Federation of Labor to prepare for undertaking a tremendous tight. The leaders are now perfecting planB which they believe will Insure success. Mr. Oompers Intends to confine his work until May 1 to Interesting the unions al!lllated with the American Federation In the movement. Ho will superintend the operations of a power ful and well organized staff of organ isers from his headquarters at Wash ington, D. C. He will superintend many of the arrangements "personally. CAPITAL 0LEANIN0S. Available cash balance, $223,876,943; gold reserve, $16.7,109,121. The Minnesota members are working hard for tho bill against "mixed" Hour. Commodore Bunco has been nomin ated by tho president to be rear ad miral. Senator Pettlgrew spoke against the Hawaiian annexation treaty In the ex ecutive session. Three propositions were Introduced In the senate last Tuesday for the relief of Cuban insurgents. President McKlnley will address the University of Pennsylvania students on Washington's birthday. For ten years tho United Stutes has been second In the volume of foreign trade, but Is displaced by Germany and now ranks third,. First Assistant Postmaster General Heath ruled that It Is not necessary for newspaper publishers who may bo appointed postmasters to give up their papers. The secretary of the treasury sent to congress the draft for a bill to reduce the number of customs districts from 153 to (l.r., and It Is contemplated it will cause a reduction In expenses from $420,000 to $281,000. The secretary of the treasury Issued a warrant In favor of the treasurer of the United States for $7,615,255.15, td be used for the payment of first mort gages on the eaxtern and middle divis ions of the Kansas Paclflo railroad. Tho Indian olllee wil soon Issue ad vertisements Inviting pasture lands on the Osage and Kaw Indian reserva tions in Oklahoma. There are about 200,000 acres to be leased and the period Is to be three years from April 1. The house committee on commerce killed tho senate bill to permit the state of South Carolina to control liquors brought Into the stato In orig inal packages. The motion to report It favorably waa lost on a tie vote. REVIEW OF TRADE. Unseat! Demend for Fig Iron- Spring Trade Indioationi Good. n. O. Dun ft Co.'s weekly review of trade reports as follows for last week! Business Is pushing toward spring activity rather early. Events which havf controlled are good buying of Iron by the largest makers, the rise In cot ton with strength In goods, the great railway consolidation and the Cuban Insurrection. The latter, with Its pos sibilities, operates as a brake on specu lation, and foolishness of local traders gave foreigners a much desired oppor tunity to buy stocks, on balance about 45,000 shares. January earnings, $38. 017,417 already reported,- are 1B.B per cent, better than last year, and 9..1 better than In 1892, showing the best Month In six years at least, and Feb ruary returns thus far are promising. The output of pig Iron February I was 229.K23 tons weekly, the largest In the history of the business, hut the re ported buying of 1.10.000 tons of bes mer Iron by the Carnegie Company nnd 100,000 by another of tho largest steel concerns, nevertheless means a deri sion by the ablest manufacturers that the unprecedented output of pig will soon prove too smnll for the growing demand for finished products. The Il linois Steel Company has contracted for a million tons of bessemer ore, and producers of other ranges count upon on advance In price. Bessemer pig rose to $10 IB, and gray forge to $9 nt Pittsburg, with finished products gen erally stronger, nnd In larger demand than ever at this season. Bnll con tracts nlready cover, it Is said, more than last year's production, the rail ways buying earlier than usual. Bar contracts for cars, wagons, agricul tural Implements and other manufac tures are heavy at the West; structural contracts there are very numerous, and at tho East large, with 50,000 tons esti mated for New York buildings alone this year, while plate and sheet con tracts for the season ore unprecedent ed. January wus one of the biggest months In ('onnellsvllle coke output. f2.t,975 tons, nrtd furnace continued at the same price. Tin rose to 14 cents In spite of heavy shipments, and copper to 11 cents, or better for like. In spite of enormous American production. The rise In cotton 5-10 ner cent for the week results In part from better ' prospects for manufacture here and' abroad, but only In part. Wool sales . at the chief cities were only 5.30.1.200 pounds rnr the week, and il.nfl4.6'0 pounds for two weeks, against 22.721.600 last yenr. Prices are still strong, In spite of the general Indifference of manufacturers, who seem to have se cured ample supplies. For the better grades of woolen goods an advance averaging 17.5 per cent, from Inst year is readily maintained. The opening of works idle for years, In spite of the heavy production already assured. Is a striking feature in this, as in the Iron and other Industries, and Implies heav ier demands for products than are now met by thn unprecedented output. Wheat lias been strong, with spot ndvnncing 2 cents nnd May 2 cents, though western receipts have been, for two weeks, 6.31.6.718 bushels, against .1. .'117,895 bushels last year, but Atlantic exports have been 5.274.418 bushels (flour Included), against 4,026.596 hush els in two weeks last year, with Pacific exports large. Corn exports are also surprisingly well sustained, 7,164,762 bushels, against 7.82.1.865 bushels Inst year, and the price has advanced a trifle. Business shown by bank clearings Is again larger than ever before, 54.7 per cent, lurger than last year for the week, and for the month to date, 44..1 per cent, larger than last year and 16 per cent. larger than In 1R92. Failures for tho week have been 295 In the United States against 267 last yenr, and 43 In Canada against 61 last year, ENSI0N SWEPT OVERBOARD. Exeentive Officer of tho Coining Expire After Being Bescoed From tho Water. Dashing at full speed through the combing waves, the little torpedo-lMiat Cushlng entered Havana harbor Satur day morning. On board she had the body of Knsign J. It. Breckinridge, of Lexington, Ky who had been washed overboard and drowned a few hours before. A call was sent to 'Consul General Leo for physicians, but It was to late. Breckinridge wns executive officer of the Cushlng, which had a stormy pas sage from Key Wet to Havana. She left Key West Friday morning with stores tor tho Maine. The boat pitched heavily In a feurful sea. Ensign Breck inridge, who wns stationed forward, was carried off his feet by a heavy sea. Ho clutc hed the life line as he was swept aft. The line parted, however, nnd Ensign Breckinridge went over board. Seamen Everett and Coppago started to go to resiain In the ITfeboat, but It was mvamped In lowering and the men were thrown Into the water. , The Cushlng Anally obeyed her helm and swung around and maneuvered near the men In the water. Atkins, Coppage anil Everett were rescued by lines, and Ensign Breckinridge was taken on board In the same manner, Atkins fastening the line to him. On the arrival in Havana a message waa sent to Consul General Lee. who sent Dr. Burgess. Dr. Burgess said It was doubtful If medical aid. If avail able, could have saved the ensign. Breckinridge's father Is Inspector general of the army In Washington. Starvation In Chicago. Mrs. Carolina Lang, 85 years of age, died at the county hospital at Chicago the other day of starvation, and her husband, Cornelius Lang, 75 years old, is in the same Institution dying slowly from tho same cause. When the police found them they had been three days without food and a week without tire. Lang was found lying on the Hoor near the door. He had started to crawl to the door to bring aid for his wife, but hud fainted through weakness. Neith er of them wu able to speuk when found. Tho Anaiiin Killed. The ofllciul confirmation of the as slnatlon of President Barrios of Guate mala came to the state department In the following cable from United Status Minister Hunter at Guatemala City: "President Barrios was shot and In stantly killed while walking with two military ofllcers near the palace. The assassin while attempting to escape waa Immediately killed by the presi dent's staff. Manuel Estrada Cabrera, temporarily the tribunal successor, has been peaceably Installed. All quiet." Beat tho Empire State Expreia Train No. 4. the Sunta Fe's California limited, consisting of a composite car, dining car and three heavy Pullmans, recently covered the distance from La Junta, Col., to Dodge City, Kan., 204.4 miles, In 3 hours and 44 minutes. The actual speed was 59.7 miles per hour. This Is faster time than la made by the Empire State express between New York and Buffalo. Queen' Speech to Parliament Parliament opened Tuesday at Lon don with questions of great moment crowding for consideration, yet the pre vailing tone waa peace, progress and satisfaction. '"' , 10 MUTINOUS JAPS. Forty Englishmen Held at Bay on Entire Night by Drunken I a Hon. Japan, while keeping her eye stead fastly on the Chinese situation, has now an unlocked for difficulty to con tend with. Continual trouble Is being reported from vessels manned by Japanese crews, the Japanese resenting any In structions or surveillance from Euro pean ofllcers and reserving an especial grudge for European passengers. Sev eral cases have been reported where olllcers already marked for attack by the Japanese and warned to withdraw from the service their retention of their positions being Invariably followed by a murderous attack from amhushed Japanese enemies. A case In point Is reported from the New York K. liner Hnkata Mnru from Japan via Hong Kong for England. There were .18 pas sengers on board the liner, many nt whom were repeatedly attacked by the Japanese crew whenever they left their own state rooms after nightfall. On New Year's day all the Japanese sailors and waiters, "mad drunk" and clad only In breech cloths, made an or ganized attack on the English ofllcers and passengers of the Hukata Mam. The Japanese were armed with knives, crowbars and belaying pins, brutally best the chief engineer and his assistant and attacked a passenger, Thomns Hall, In his berth, cutting his head open with a marlin spike. Ac cording to the accounts In the Tele graph, the ofllcers and most of the pas sengers were driven to the bridge, where, unarmed, 40 Englishmen kept 100 drink-maddened Jnpanese at bay dur ing the entire night by brandishing their walking sticks. Three Chinese were hanged simulta neously In the Victoria jail, at Hong Kong, on January 12, the drop being made to accommodate all three and the trio falling together. The executed men were members of an armed gang of shop thieves, and in raiding a store killed a Chinese employee. The crim inals were illsband d soldiers. Discrimination Againet Americano. American lumber is now the subject of discrimination at the hands of the Prussian government, according to tho report of the United States consul at Bremen, Mr. Keenan. The consul trans mits the complaints of a number of lumber dealers against what they re Kurd as discriminating charges against the carriage of American pitch pine levied by the Prussian railway. This pitch pine is listed as class 1, at a higher rate than class 2. on which Is listed similar wood from Sweden, Nor way nnd other countries. It Is also said that American pitch pine Is allow ed to go at the lower rate If the ofllrlals do not know where It originates. The trade Is considerable, and this Prusslnn railroad la the only means by which the wood can be taken Into the Inter ior, so the discrimination Is keenly felt, says the consul. Raieia, Germany's Co-Laborer. The Emperor of Germany, on Thurs day, whs present at the parade of the Fifth Regiment of Guards, at Span dau, before their Colonel, the Russian Grand Duke Constantino, and His Ma jesty created a sensation by walking up to his guests with his drawn saber and saluting, while snylng, In a ring ing voice: "Always friends with our dear neighbor and co-laborer Russia, I hope." At the luncheon afterward, at the of ficers' mess, the Emperor drank to the health of the Grand Duke, saying: "To u future comradeship in arms." The Grand Duke Constantlne did not resfiond and hardly touched his glass with his lips. England'i Interests Not Suffering. Premier Salisbury, in reply to criti cism of the government's course, says England's interests In the far east have not been allowed to suffer. He says Itussia and Germany have given posi tive assurance that all ports they may secure will be open to all commerce. Ta Lien Wau, the marquis says. Is not worth taking, as the territory back of it Is barren and at present there Is no railway communication with the In terior. A dispatch from Berlin quotes Baron von Buelow as saying Germany does not oppose any of England's Just Interests. Oermani Killed la China. Letters received at Berlin from Kiuo Chau show that things are not so peaceful there as the Government pro fesses. The Germans have sent sever al expeditions Into the Interior to pun ish the natives for outrages upon sen tinels at outlying points, and there have been several encounters. In one case two Chinese officers and a number of their followers were killed, and a village has been destroyed and a camp broken up. The Germans sleep on their arms and fear a sudden attack. CABLE SPARKS. An epidemic like trichinosis has bro ken out in Berlin. The Norwegian ministry has resign ed. Former Premier Steein will form a new ministry. Two Italian warships am now at Port au Prince, Hayti, to collect a claim of $120,000. Two lots of California apples were stopped by German inspectors within the last fortnight. Cavalry was necessary to quell the disturbances In Pari Sunday caused by the trial of M. Kola, the novelist. Great snowfalls and floods are report ed in parts of the Sudetan mountains, Germany. People have been forced to Hoe for safety. During the Zola trial at Purls a sym pathizer cheered for the novelist and the police had dlttlculuy In preventing a mob from drowning him. Spain is without funds, Is endeavor ing to raise a loan In England and her legation at London hns for a long time received no remittances. President Barrios, of Guatemala, was assassinated at the seat of government last Wednesday. The Insurgents hail threatened his death and have fulfilled their Intentions, Oriental advices by steamer say that the black plague has broken out in Eastern Yunnan. At Chan-I-Cheo 6c0 deaths occurred In two months. The people are throwing dead bodies to the dogs. Paul Kruger has been re-elected president of the South African republic. The total number of votes cast was 19, 423. President Kruger received 13,764; Mr. Schalkburger, 3,716, and Gen, Jou bert, 1,943. Ruuia'a Independent Stand Much Importance Is attached to a communication appearing In the oftloial "Messenger" In which Russia abandon, log the candidature of Prince George of Greece tor the governorship of the island of Crete, threatens all concerned, declines all responsibility for the con sequences of further dragging the question, and says Russia will not al low any Increase In the number of Turkish troops in Crete AN INSULT TO M'KINLEY. The Spanish Minister Said to Hate Called the President Low Polltloian. Representatives of the Cuban Junta at New York gave out copies of a let' ter signed "Enrique Dupuy de Lome," who Is minister of Spain in Washing ton, and addressed to Pose Canalejas, who went to Cuba last September aa .Premier Sagasta's personal represents, tlve. In this letter the Spanish minister refers to President McKlnley as "weak nnd catering to the rabble" and aa a "low politician, who desires to stand well with the jlngna of his party." The Washington correspondent of the New York Press says that when a copy of this letter was shown to Minister de Lome he promptly pronounced It a forgery. He also says that an official of the state department discussing the matter said: "De Jjomc did not write that letter: the Cuban junta has been imposed upon by somebody." On the other hand Horatio L. Hubns, counsel for the Cuban Junta, says: "We know absolutely that this letter t gen. nine. A man risked his life to obtain It. We do not hesitate to acknowledge that it was stolen from Canalejas. It Is written on the paper of the legation. The handwriting Is De Lome's and tho signature Is his." , As a result of this letter, the state de partment has communicated with the authorities at Spain, and Minister De Lome will likely he recalled. DE LOME RESIGNS. Having Slandered McKlnley the Spaniah Miniiater Steps Oat At a meeting of the Spanish cabinet, held at Madrid Thursday under the presidency of the queen regent, the minister for foreign affairs, Senor Oul lon, read a dispatch from Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister at Washington, saying that the published leter to Benqr Canalejas was written by him and that his position, conse quently, had liecome untenable, and he begged the government to accept his resignation. The cabinet decided to accept the resignation of Senor Depuy de Lome and the ministers subsequent ly met and decided to telegraph to Senor de Lome, accepting his resigna tion nnd entrusting the first secretary with the conduct of the current af fairs of the legation. The candidature of Senor Muruaga to succeed Senor de Lome has been aban doned. The government maintains Its reserve, desiring to secure the approval of Washington, according to diplomatic I'ustom, before appointing Senor de Lome's successor. Senor Sagasta, the premier, and nth er members of the cabinet state pub licly that the De Lome Incident will not affect the relations between Spain and the United States, and that a new envoy competent to conduct the com mercial negotiations will be selected. STUDENTS FIGHT POLICE. Interference With a Snow Ball Match Neces sitates tbd Sending of Riot Calls. Two thousand students of the Rush medical college, the Chicago college of dental surgery and the Marquette school, engaged In a desperate conflict Tuesday afternoon at Chicago with 40 policemen. The battle raged with Inter missions of peace from noon until t o'clock In the evening. The police were compelled to send In riot calls repeated ly. When the students were finally put to rout fhey retreated to the protection of the college buildings and hurled down all kinds of missiles upon the police. Janitor Gus Christianson, of the Marquette school, was badly beaten, nnd had to be carried from the field ot battle. Brandishing clubs and revolvers the police chased the students Inside the college doors and forcibly took them from the buildings. When the riot was over and peace reigned 25 students had ueeii piaceo uiiu-r tirrem. The trouble began by the students en-, gaging in a snowball tight. In which the policemen Interfered. The grand battle began at 5 p. m. when the officials ar rested Carl Case, the son of a professor in the dental school. When he and an other prisoner were locked In a patrol box the students smashed the box, roll ed the oltteers In the gutter and re leased the prisoners. During the fight ' four students were badly clubbed, and Officers Sullivan and Brenncn injured. The streets were black with people. NO BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS. An Attorney Argues that the Reciting of tho Lord's Prayer ie Worihip. Attorney General Crow, of Missouri, last week In an opinion held It a viol ation of the state law to have pupils re cite tho Lord's prayer, or for the teacher to read the Bible as a part of the opening exercises In the public schools of the state. He says that these exercise are forms of religious wor ship, and hence are forbidden to be done in a public school house during school hours. He says: "The contin uous reading of the Bible and repeat ing the Iord's prayer cannot be done by believers in Christianity, without feelings of deepest gratitude and a holy sense of honor, reverence, adoration and homage to the Supreme Being, which is the essence of worship." A Viiltor to be Dreaded Tho Spanish government has decided to send the Spanish cruiser Almirante Oquendo to Havana and thence to New York. The Almirante Oquendo, though termed an armored cruiser of the bar bett type, is really a fast battleship. She Is of 7,000 tons displacement and 1,300 Indicated horse power, calculated to give her a speed of about 20 knots. She was built at Bilbao in 1891, cost about $3,000.1X10. has a belt of armor over her gun positions, and her deck plating Is 3 Inches thick. The arma ment of this warship consists of two 11 Inch guns, ten 5-inch guns, eight 2.2 lnch quick Hrlng guns, eight 1.4-Inch guns, and two smaller quick firing guns. She has six torpedo tubes, car ries 1,200 tons of coal and her crew numbers 500 men. Minieter Suioidea, George MauCoun, aged 23, of the Pro testant Episcopal church, committed suicide at Baltimore a few days ago by shooting himself over the heart at the residence of his mother. The act was done apparently In a cool and studied manner. He removed his coat and other clothing. He stood before a mir ror, opened his shirt and fired the fatal bullet. It Is stated he had been suffer ing greatly from pains in his head and had been afilicted with melancholy. He was a son of the late Dr. MacCoun, surgeim in the United BtateB navy. Liquor Canaee a Tragedy. After shooting his sweetheart. May Martin, until he felt certain that she would die, William Jacob, living In Pittsburg, Wednesday afternoon turn ed a 32-ca liber revolver to his own head and tired. He lived for halt au hour, and the death of tho young woman Is expected at almost any moment. Jeal ousy and liquor are attributed as the cause of the suicide and murder. Jndge Becomee a Christian Soientiat. JuiIkh J. Clurkson, one of the best, known lawyers of Omaha, has sold his fine library, turned bis lucrative prac tice over to others, closed his office and become a christian . scleuoc healer. fi