V LIVES LOST III I Blil! HOTEL. THE WINDSOR. DESTROYED. Escape From a New York Building Mud Im. posiible by the Denee Crowd! Which Had Gathered to Bel th Parade. Fire broke out In the Windsor hotel, New York, last Friday afternoon. While thousands of people were view ing the St. 1'otrli k's Lny parade from the windows nnd balconies the cry ot "Are" rang through the corridors. In a moment the building ft whirl wind of f!nme. The engines reached the hotel with difficulty so dense was the crowd. Thus far sixteen persons were killed In the fire nnd ft number are still un accounted for. The dead: Connolly. John. Flanagan, Kate, Olb son, Mrs. Addle, Goodman, Eleanor Louise, Clrandy, Miss Lasallcs. of Elizabeth City, N. C. llenry, Mrs. Mehltable, Kirk, Nancy Ann, aged 73, widow of James H. Kirk snap manu facturer, of Chicago; Iceland, Mrs. Warren, wife of the proprietor of the hotel: I.eland. Miss Helen, daughter of proprietor of hotel; Paddock, Ame lia, Sullivan, Mary, unknown woman, who Jumped from a Fifth avenue win dow, died at Helen Gould's home; un known man, jumped from roof at rear of hotel, body not recovered; unknown woman, mother of child, Jumped from hotel window, body not yet recovered. The hospital reports as to the injured are most favorable. Most of the pa tients are Improving. Home of them were able to leave the hospital and others will be discharged lit a few days. There was the wildest scene of ex citement within and without the building. Hundreds of guests and i employes were In the hotel when th fire broke out, and for many of them escape with safety was Impossible. Probablv from ten to fifteen Uvea were lost within a half hour, and thirty or forty persons were Injured In Jumping from windows and in rushing through the roaring flames In the corridors and on the stalrwnys. Many who were in jured died later at near-by residences and at hospitals, and others who made wild leaps to the stone sidewalks were so badly Injured that they are still hovering between life and death. Soon after the first alarm was given people In the lower floors of the hotel, those who had easy access to the street and stairway, commenced to pour out of the building In great numbers, but It very soon became ap parent that a great majority of the occupants of the hotel were either panic-stricken or unable to make their way to the ground floor. Windows were thrown up on every side of the' building and guests, most ly women, in all stuges of terror, made their appearance and uttered frantic appeals for assistance to the crowd be low. As the flames gathered about them they became more and more terror-stricken, and presently some of them stood upon the narrow window sllls and beckoned to the spectators that they were about to leap. The men collected upon the side walks ready to render any assistance thev could, and In the meantime some ot the women left the window-sills nnd dropped to the streets. In moHt Instances the efforts to catch them nnd break their awful fill were un availing, for they struck the sidewalk, and In moBt cases broken limbs were the result. As soon as the firemen could get their scaling bidders Into position they climbed the sides of the building and entered at every winnow where ther was an unfortunate guest appealing for assistance, and many casts of heroic rescue were witnessed by the throng in the streets. At the corner of Forty-seventh street and Fifth avenue, directly across from the hotel. Is the home of Miss Helen Oould, and at her direction many of the Injured were carried there and were treated by physicians and nurses whom she had sent for. The first horror occurred Just ,15 minutes after the fire broke out. A handsome woman appeared at the window of a room on the fourth floor. She held out' her arms to the crowd below. Then she raised her hands us If In supplication, and in n morpent . climbed to the window und leaped. She turned about like a top and struck the Iron railing In front of the hotel. Her body seemed to be Impaled there, 'but It fell oft and Into the area way. Bhe was dead. The Woman was Identified as Mrs. Amelia Paddock, of Irvlnirton. N. Y. The President's brother, Abner Mc Klnlef. who with his family lived at the hotel escaped uninjured, but lost all of his effects. The loss of the fire Is estimated roughly at $1,000,000. The building was valued at (3oO,000. Th? loss on the contents of the building Is almost complete. The salvage men managed to save $20,000 worth of paintings on the first floor of the hotel. Many of the guests who lived at the Windsor lost valuable jewelry and bric-a-brac and furnishings, among them being F. F, Flower, a nephew of ex-Governor Flower, who, among other things, lost a package of Jewelry valued at J. 000. The Windsor was owned by Elbrldge T. Qerry. There vui 1600.000 insurance on the building and (75,000 on the contents. President McKlnley, when In New York, always stopped at the Windsor. A suspicion became current Monday that the fire was the work or thieve. Many of the guests who had lost dear friends and all their valuables openly declared that thieves had set the big hotel on fire for the purpose of creat Ing a panic and looting the rooms. The' police were Investigating these stories very closely and questioning the four men now under arrest. The police say that there must be at least SO bodks In the ruins. Elbrldge T. (Jerry had insurance ag gregating (f.95,OU0 on the Hotel Winds or end (120,000 on Its furniture. War ren Leland. the proprietor, had (100, 000 Insurance. It Is estimated that II.- 000,000 was lost in jewelry belongtn'g to people living at tne hotel. Hobaon Saving Spanish Vesaela. The work ot repairing the three Spanish gunboats raised In Manila Bay la reported to be progressing rapidly at Hong Kong under the direction ot Constructor Capps and Assistant Con st rue tor Hobson. The vessels, are said to be In excellent condition as to ma chinery, and even before they went In to dry-dock to be repaired the Isla do Luson and the Isla de Cuba made 13 knots under their own steam, and the Don Juan de Aurtrla was only about a knot behind. Tho constructor s re ports to the Navy Department show that 1 the other sunken Spanish war ships have been so badly damaged as to be not worm ine com oi raising ana repairing. Coal lor Admiral Dewey. The equipment bureau of the navy denartmenl Is now loading at New port News, 6,000 tons ot coal to be taken to Manila. This coal will go ebr-ovh the clues Canal. TERSE TELEGRAMS. Princess Kaluln.nl ot Hawaii Is dead. Ex-Benator Walsh ot Georgia la dead. Governor Plngree. of Michigan, 18 heading a movement for a new party. Joseph Lelter has failed again. He was endeavoring to form a dairy trust In Chicago. The lamn chimney factories In the Indiana ana belt closed down. Indefi nitely on Saturday. . , John O. Mllburn wns elected presi dent of the Pnn-Amerlcan exposition, to be held at IlutTntn. John Sherman Is very 111 on board the steamer Paris which Is now cruis ing In southern waters. John Shess. lavld Euydcr and Peter Wink were killed In a boiler explosion at Altoonn, Pa., last Friday. Numerous attempts have been made at New Orleans during the past few days to burn Catholic Institutions. Two troops of cavalry have been ordered to the Yosemlte park to pro tect It from timber thieves and sheep herders. rcnaineer Frederick Wllhnm nnd Fireman Edward Gray were killed by he ditching of a train near Auourn, Cnl. The California legislature has ad journed without electing a I'nlted States senator to succeed Stephen M. White. Five thousand men employed by the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Rail way had their wages Increased last Monday. William II. Schwolhe, ft well-known ItlZen of llrnnklvn ,11ml at 7:13 a. m. on March 13. He was a member of the Thirteen Club. I.eech Lake Tndlnns In Minnesota who Imagine that they are being Im posed ipon by the government are preparing to "make trouble. Fireman Van Londlngham and Brakcman E. A. Graham were killed by a freight wreck on the Norfolk and Western railroad at Ada, a. The finance committee of Pittsburg councils dlscunsed and practically de cided upon a new bond Issue of (7.000, 000, bringing the debt ot the city up to the limit. Four locomotives were destroyed In a collision in Valparaiso, Chill, the other day. One passenger was killed nnd a dozen wounded. The damage is placed at (200.000. The Allan liner. Castlllan. Is a total wreok off Halifax. N. 8. Eight hun dred head of cattle on board the stranded ship perished. All of the passengers escaped. The famous mad stone, which has been In the Fred family ot Leerburg, va. for 130 years. u sold last Wed nesday for (TOO. This stone Is said to have never failed to cure. Unless measures are taken to feed the deer In Yellowstone Park thou sands of them will die. Hecause of the deep snow they are unable to se cure their own food. Sixty senators and representatives will soon go on a cruise to examine the proposed Panama and Nicaragua cannl routes. They will be guests of the Panama Canal Company. Suits aggregating (1.600.000 have been brought by the state of New lork against Armour & Co.. or cni- cii no. The racking house Is accused of sellng oleomargarine as butter. A gigantic telephone company, capitalized at about $30,000,000, Is under the process of formation, and Is to cover Pittsburg and Allegheny, West ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio towns. Unbelt Lewis was hanged at At lanta, (la., Wednesday for tho murder of Charles Haynes. Lewis built the gallows upon which he was executed while employed by the cuunty two ynrs ago. Tho three-mastea scnooncr James W. Blgelow from Jacksonville for Pro vldence. It. I., has been given up for lost, as Bhe Is over two months out, Cant. Graham wos In charge. She carried a crew ot eight men. It was said In Chicago that the mak ers of bar Iron in seven States have combined to. form one great corpora tion. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri and Ala bama ore said to be Included. Sixty, thousand textile workers In New England may be affected by a new machine which will be placed upon tho market shortly. The American Warp Drawing Machine Company has been incorporated In Maine with a capital stock ot (3.000,000. The United States transport Thom as, formerly the Mlnnowaska, sailed from Havana Monday morning for the I'nlted States with 202 volunteers. The Ward liner Havana, specially char tered for this purpose, will sail with the Second Louisiana Volunteers, In the hearing of the caso of At torney General Monnett, ot Ohio, against the Standard Oil Company, at New York, J. JJ. Arjhiioi.i, of tho SlinUard, and Attorney Films, Mon- nclt'x r.-.s itunt, became Involved in a quarrel, and called each other liars. Mrs. Henry H, Moeser, of Pittsburg, the other day told her 10 year old daughter to call her father to dinner. When the child came to the father's room she found him hanging from a beam. The suicide was very poor and had been in ill-health for a long time. The coroner's Jury at Hot Springs. Ark., rendered a verdict against Sher iff Williams. Deputy Sheriffs Coffee Williams, Edward Spears and William Watt In connection with the riot of Thursday, in which six men were killed, and they were committed to Jail. . The murderer of Mrs. . Anthony Stlegler of Mount Lookout, near Cin cinnati, whose dead body was found In her home last Friday, has been found In Albert Luken, a boy of 16, living with his widowed mother in Clifton. Luken was arrested and made a full confession, giving his motive as rob bery. He got about (70. Many Lives Were Loat. A calculation based on the most re cent statement made by Lloyds, the recognised authorities In shipping, reveals the fact that at present there are nine steamships, bound across the Atlantic from United States ports, overdue to such an extent as to render their reinsurance Impossible, and this means the loss of no less than 251 lives and the sacrifice of pro perty amounting in the aggregate to about (1,805.600. Coroners Divide s Body. Oeorge Bates a few days ago got Into a fight with a saloon-keeper whose place of business is in Minnesota across the river from Pembina, N. D. He was beaten and taken home where he died. The coroners from the two states both claimed the body, one saying that tho crime had been committed In Min nesota the other that the man had died In Dakota. They compromised by cut ting the body In two each coroner tak ing half. The head was boiled so that the skull can be used as evidence. The assailant. John Smith. Is under arrest. A verdict was rendered In accordance with the above facts. FAMILY SIP! OUT Of U. DEATH IN A CYCLONE. Members of Lewis Coffee's Household btrewa About for Half a Mile In Cliburne County, Ala. Flfteea Persona Killed. One moment Lewis Coffee, of Ed wardville, Alabama, was enjoying the presence and health of his large fami ly, the next he and his entire household were swept away to death by a cyclone which visited Alabama and Georgia town last Sunday. a The list of the dead Is as follows: Lewis Coffee, aged 55, tax assessor of Clebourne county, and the following members of his family: Mrs. Coffee, aged 46; Leila, aged 22; James, aged 20; Lula, aged IX; Jacob, aged 1.1; Deveroe, aged 8; Dolllo, aged 10; Orover, aged 6; John aged 4; The path of the storm was about 200 yards wide, and It traversed the coun try for 12 miles, beginning In the northern part of Clebourne county, near Iron City, and moved southward. Tlire waa an Immense conical cloud that bounded along like a rubber ball, rising at Intervals and leaping for sev eral hundred yards without doing any damage. Then when It descended It would pick up houses and crush them to pieces, uproot trees or twist them off level with the ground and sweep all before It. Lewis Coffee's residence, a strong double log house, situated on ft little hill, was In the path of the storm. It was swept away and the timbers scattered for a mile. Ten of Its eleven occupants were Instantly killed. Except the body of the baby, which was found under the ruins of the chimney, the corpses of the vic tims were carried half a mile and nine of them were found heaped together. Every body had been stripped of Its clothing. One was twisted around a stump and two others were headless. Heslde the body of the father lay Bes sie Coffee, the only member of the family not Instantly killed. She was unconscious, and her arms were around her dead father's neck. She Is unable to talk and will die. In the same neighborhood the residences of J. W. Wilder. J. H. Cason, Andrew Stelpan and Benjamin Stanxell were wrecked, and all their occupants In jured. Near Heflln a white woman, whose name cannot be learned, was killed and five persons In the same family hurt. It Is estimated that about 50 buildings were destroyed, between 20 and 25 persons were In jured and over a score of farms wer devastated. A cyclone passed over nurke county, Oa., Sunday morning. In the vicinity of Waynesboro four people were killed. Several houses were demolish ed and much damage was done. There were 11 houses blown down on Waiter McCathern's farm, six miles from Waynesboro. One house near town was completely demolished while It waa occupied by eight negroes, but they all escaped uninjured. LOOTING A STEAMER. The Wrecked Liner Caatillan Hat Fallen Into the Hande of Plratea. The steamer Delta arrived at Hall fax Sunday from St. Vincent with the cargo of the wrecked steamer Caati llan. Members of the Delta's crew re port that the Castlllan may be floated and that acts of piracy are In progress at the wreck. The Delta's people are loud In their denunciation of the vandalism they saw. A hundred boats swarmed around tho Castlllan, and the people In them defied all authority.. They carried away everything they could In the shape of cargo, and smashed the saloon doors for the sake of the brass fittings. When tho Delta left there were about 800 of these vandals aboard, loading up dories and smacks with cargo, furniture, etc. Before Cap tain Barrett left the wreck he tit" tempted to drive the wreckers off the ship at the pistol's point, but they dared him to shoot. Special custom house officers from Halifax and Yarmouth were also put on board, but the wreckers only treat ed them with contempt and went on with the work ot destruction uninter rupted. Thursday tho weather was particu larly line and hundreds ot boats were there from all around, while men swarmed over every part of the ship, hacking, smashing und destroying. Fred Jones, of Ottawa, chief preven tive olllcer of tho Canadian customs, went down and warned the men that thought ho had no force with him at present to stop the work of destruction and robbery, prosecutions would be en tered against every soul of them and the least penalty was a year's Im prisonment. Ha Operated the Santiago Balloon. Thomas Carroll Boone, the telegraph operator in the war balloon In the operations before Santiago, died Mon day at the Massachusetts general hos pital, at Boston as the result of an operation on a wound received In the fall of the balloon after It hud been shot to pieces. Boone, with two government officers, performed herolo work in the airship, which was a tar get for the Spanish gunners, until it fell Into the trees and threw all three men out. Boone waa caught In the drag anchor and waa fearfully wound ed. He never fully recovered, although since last fall, up to within two days of his death, he continued hlB work as a telegrapher. Gagged and Robbed Mrs, Charles H. Nix was seized by two burglars Wednesday night, at Chicago, who, after gagging her tied her to a chair in the basement. Then they looted the house, securing (2.000 worth of valuables. After this they carried her, still gagged and bound In the chair, to the second floor and lock ed her in a clothespress. After two hours and a half she succeeded In slipping the gag and called for iielp. A stableman heard the cries and came to her rescue. OUR NEW POSSESSIONS- The Oregon arrived at Manila last Sunday. Gen. Brooke has informed the war department that a fresh quarter of beef will not last 12 hours In a tropical climate. . The bones of Admiral Vlllaml), one ot the officers of Cervera'a late squad ron, were found In a cave near Santi ago last Tuesday. The Seventh army corps, now at Cuba will soon return to the United States. They will assemble at Camp Meaae, fa. tor musier out. Hereafter all rations distributed by the united oiaies among tne Cuban poor will be charged up against the custom receipts oi ine province. When the Spanish fought the Fll Inlnos they usually stopped for a mid day rest. The Americans apparently never rests, and this astounds the Fil ipinos. AN AWFUL CONFESSION. A Chicago Bautaga Maker Admits That He Murdered His Wife Burled the Bones That Would Not Burn. Two years ago Interest was centered In Chicago on Luetgert, a sausage maker, who was accused and finally convicted of having boiled the re mains of his murdered wife In a large vat. Now August A. Becker, also a sausage maker, has confessed to hav ing murdered his wife and boiled her remains In a large kettle. He was arrested four weeks ago and Wednes day confessed. Becker when first arrested admitted killing his wife, but declared he push ed her off Handolph street viaduct In to the lake, and that she was drown ed. The police have never placed any re liance in the drowning confession, and have kept up their work on the ld.ea that Becker had killed the woman In his house and made way with the body. The finding of a portion of a hum nn lung three rinys ago In Beck er's born put strength In their theory. In his confession Becker said he had killed his wife by striking her on the bead with a hatchet In the kitchen of his home. He then cut the body to pieces and boiled It In a large kettle. After watching the disintegration of the remains for several hours, and when nothing was left that resembled a human body, Becker says he took what remained and burned it In a red hot stove, the fire having been pre pared by him. The bones which would not burn be burled on the prairie near his home. January 27 was the date Becker says he cxnmmltted the murder. He asserts the crime waa not premeditat ed, but that he quarreled with his wife on the afternoon of that day, and In the beat ot passion he killed her with a blow on the her.d with the hatchet. The piece of lung and a portion of calico which were found under the barn, nnd which the police believe to be strong evidence against Becker, he says could not be any part of the body of his wife, as he Is certain that he destroyed every particle of flesh, and he maintains the dress winch she wore was also entirely burned. August Becker, the sausagemnker, who confessed to having killed his wife and boiled and burned her body last Thursday took police officials to the spot In his yord where he had burled the charred remains. Two baskets of burned bones were found, and Dr. Dor sey to-night Identified a portion of them as a human shoulder blade. EOLD1ERS CALLED OUT. Texas Authoritlee Hava DlfTicu'.ty In Removing 8n.alt.pox Pnticnta. The work of removing smallrmx pa tlents to the pest-house at Laredo, Tex., under direction of State Health Officer Blunt was begun Monday morning. After 10 hnd been removed the officers encountered on East Mata- moraa street a mob of several hun dred Mexicans, who menaced them. The chief ot police was telephoned for. Marshal Joe Barthelow and Assist ant Marshal Idur hurried to the scene, and when they attempted to arrest the leaders of the disturbers they were aS' saulted with stones and fired upon Idar was knocked down and severely beaten, and one of the rioters was wounded. About 20 shots were fired, A dozen arrests were made, and the mob dispersed. The health officers resumed their work, but were soon met by another mob of 600 or 600 Mexicans, many of them armed. The health officers de slated, and Dr. Blunt opened tele graphic communication with Govern or Payers. The war department tele graphed authority to use troops at f t. Mcintosh, A fight Is probable when the negro regulars arrive. PLEASED ENGLISHMEN. Our Ambaeaador to Great Britain Makes a Speech Which Waa Well Received. Ambassador Choate made a brilliant debut as an after-dinner speaker at the annual banquet of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Great Brl tain Inst Thursday night, at which he was the principal guest. He had be side him Lord Charles Beresford and Lord . Chief Justice ltussell, both speakers of great power In their own wny, but Mr. Choate at once estab lished his claim to be considered a finished orator, commanding a vein of fine humor, together with charming gracefulness and tact. He received a worm reception when he rose. His speech was enthusiastically applaud ed, especially those passages In which he dwelt on tho kinship of the two races. At the close he received an ovation which Is altogether exception al on such occasions. He was highly complimented on all sides, and received the congratulatory comments of the audience, comprising 600 representa tive business men from all purts of the three kingdoms, ROASTED AND FROZEN. A Cincinnati Man Subjected to Terrible Tor- turca by Chinese. Yokohama papers Just arrived con tain details of the terrible sufferings and death of M. U. Blanchard, form erly of Cincinnati. He was captured by a band of Man- churlans In North China and taken to their mountain cave. There he waa tied hand and foot, and after being stripped was laid on the snow near a fire so that his head and shoulders were nearly roasted, while the op posite extremities were freezing. In the morning ho was flayed alive by the bloodthirsty Chinamen. They used bamboo canes, and the flesh of the lower extremities was torn off in shreds. Natives ate his heart and liver, and the rest ot his remains were thrown to the dogs. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL. In spite of reports Secretary Alger says he has no Idea of resigning. The secretary of war says there Is no such thing as embalmed beef. Investigation reveals that Gen, Eagan bought all the army meat direct from the packers. American citizens have presented claims of (21,000,000 for damages sus tained during the war with Spain. A committee of prominent citizens, of Washington, are making arrange ments to have Admiral Dewey with them In May: Upon his return from the South the President may cause the regular army to be Increased to 62,000 men. The best regiments now In the volunteer service may be retained for this ser vice. , Gen. Miles and his friends say that If It Is proven that cans labeled "Prime Boast Beet" did not contain anything but remnants ot brlled beef then suit will be brought against the packers. The attorney-general will be obliged to recover large sums of money. NOTHING illS THE HMERIGANS. CONQUERING THE INSURGENTS. Philippine Meet With Nothing But Defeat Enemy Attack Our Forcea Near Paaig and Art Badly Beaten. The American soldiers In the Phll'p- plnes are determined not to spend more time than necessary nn tho Isl ands If a cessation of hostilities with the Insurgents will secure their re lease. From Manila to Paslg their march has been a victorious) one. From Jungle and stronghold Jhe ene my has been driven, growing weakT every time he attempts to reorganize his scattered and depleted numbrs. Som of the rebels retently expelled from Cavlte and the small towns In the vlclnty of Paslg combined forces and Sundny night attacked a company or the Washington Volunteers, at ft detached post at Tngulg, about ft mile nil a half southeast of Paslg. Gen eral Wheaton Immediately reinforced the Americans with two companies ench of the Washington and Oregon Beglments. The post had held the enemy In check, and the fire of tho reinforcing companies repulsed them, driving them across to an Island formed by the estuary. They were thus lif front of the Twenty-second itegulnrs. On discovering that they were en trapped the rebels fought desperately. aided materially by the Jungle and the darkness, but they were completely routed, with heavy loss, after two hours' fighting. The Americans lost two killed and 20 wounded, among the latter Lieutenant Frnnk Jones. General Wheaton determined to punish the natives, and at daybreak Mondny his brigade started In the fol lowing order: The Sixth Artillery, holding the ex treme right; the Oregon Volunteers, heading the center: the Washington Heglment, keeping to the edge of the lake, and the Twenty-second Regulars, occupying the right of the line, which swept the whole country along the lake, In a southeasterly direction, toward General Ovenshlne's position, Tht line, thus extended over two miles of country, rough and covered with thick Jungle, advanced 11 miles. The enemy fled. At scarcely any time did the Americana get within 1,200 yards of them, Wednesday Gen. Wheaton's column encountered the enemy In such force between Pateros ond Taguig as to necessitate a change In the original plans. The cavalry attacked a rebel stronghold In the Jungle, driving the enemy into Pateros. The Americans had one man killed and three wound- Scott's battery shelled the city and woods effectively. Later the enemy crossed the river from Paslg. Two companies of the Second Oregon lnfnntry cleared the right bank after a sharp engagement, and then retired with three wounded. In the meantime the Washington vol unteers closed In, driving small bodies of the rebels bock upon Pateros. One mnn was killed. During the night the enemy burned the town of Pnslg. Philippine Insurgents were detected a few dnys ago smuggling guns Into the city packed In coltlns. The Americans captured 1200 guns conceal ed In this manner. The Twentieth Infantry hnd nn all doy fight at Paslg last Thursday. Three thousand rebels were encounter ed and defeated. They were routed with heavy loss. Our loss wns small. Three hundred nnd fifty rebel soldiers were made prisoners. Weaton's bri gade now .holds the towns of Paslg, Pateros and Taqulg. This news Is based upon official Information, The First battalion of the Twentieth lnfnntry regiment advanced from Pnsig Friday, clearing the country to Calntl, a well-defended village ot 700 Inhabitants, five miles northwest of the foothills. The strongly fortified village of Calntl, northwest of Paslg. Philippine Inlands, was captured Frjdny after desperate fighting, by tho Twentieth lnfnntry. The Americans lost 17 wounded, while the rebels' loss . , was heavy. Maggote In the Beef, The lost witness colled before the army beef court of Inquiry at Chicago Wednesdoy, proved to be sensational. He was First Lieutenant M. F, Davis, of the First cavalry, called nt the re quest of Major Lee,' representative' of General Miles. Lieutenant Davis tes tified thot in Cuba half the canned roast beef Isued to the soldiers was thrown away because It was unfit to eat. He testified that he had opened one can himself and found maggots In It. An Enormous Pan. A Pittsburg company la to construct a fan which will draw the smoke laden gas from the Hoosao tunnel. The fan will be 16 feet In diameter and g feet wide with a capacity of draw ing 600,000 cubic feet of air a minute. CABLE FLASHES, The Peace Conference will be held at The Hague on Muy 18. The bill for the Increase of the Oer mun army has been defeated In the relchstug by a large majority. It Is said that the dowager empresB ot China Is administering poison to the emperor and that be is slowly dying. An explosion on the British crulBer Terrible, a few days ago resulted In tho death of a stoker and the wound ing of six men. Otto Schuleman, the German arch aeologist claims to have discovered a prehistoric city ot large size In the In terior of Mexico. The old Russian boundary line of Alaska was discovered, and according to it all the Klondike region Is the pro perty ot the United States, An Anglo-Egyptian expedition will be undertaken next autumn, according to a dispatch from Cairo to the "Dally Mall," to finally dispose of the Khalifa Abdullah and the other Dervish lead- era In the Soudan. An official decree Just Issued in Paris authorizes the school of mines to ac cept the gift of (5,000 offered In Feb ruary last year by Dr. Thomas Eglea ton, professor emeritus of mineralogy and metallurgy of the School of Mines, New York. The Spanish government protested to the United States against the order of General Otis prohibiting the ran som of tho Spanish prisoners held by Agulnaldo. The Geneva convention called will appoint a delegate to -act In the matter. The Constantinople correspondent ot the London "Standard says: "New has been received from Smyrna that 6,000 Cretan Mussulmen refugees, who were in desperate lack of work and food, invaded and pit laged the Greek and Turkish quarters of the city, a conflict resulting, In which many persons were killed or wounded." "THUNDER, BUT NO RAIN." Oen. Gomes Thus Characterises the Cuban Aaeembly. Gen, Comet has been deposed by the Cuban Assembly, but Cuba Is with Gen. Gomes. The Cubans by demon strations have proved their regard for the general, and Oen. Brooke has de termined to dissolve the Assembly, It being but a body of mischief-makers. The action of Civil Governor Mora and the police department In attempt ing to prevent Wednesday's popular manifestations In favor of General Maximo Gomes Is strongly censured, and the Ill-feeling against the police runs high. The action of Oovernor General Brooke in restraining the Cuban authorities from Interfering has pleased the people and Is favor ably commented upon. Gen. Gomes Is refelvlng hundreds of telegrams from all parts of the Island express ing tho people's allegiance and loyalty to him. The general says he recog nizes only one power in the Island that of the United States. In hla opinion the assembly Is acting as It does because It wants to get money out of the United States. He points out that the assembly first proposed to take (HO.000,000. As for himself, he avers that he Is not a beggnr. The United States Government offered the (3.000.000, and he has never asked an Increase. To all callers General Oomes speaks lightly of the assembly, declaring that It was his creation, as he did not wish to appear a dictator, and that the real military members, who took no part In a vote to depose him, will now resign. He calls the as sembly "a collection of block clouds, with much thunder but little rain." THEY CRIED FOR MERCY. Mob Kills Four Negroes Who Had Been Chsrged With Arson. A mob of masked men stormed the little house doing service as a jail at Dnlmetto, Ga at an ear)y hour Fri day morning and shot eight negroes. Four were killed outright and the other four are badly wounded. The negroes were held, charged with the burning ot the town, three fires since January 1 having nearly completely destroyed It. The mob rode Into the town about 1 o'clock. The little house used as a Jail since the fire wns near the center of the town. The guard was called on td turn over the negroes held there for. trial on the charge of arson. He re fused and awakened his assistants. They were quickly overpowered, how ever, nnd with a rush the whltecaps made for the prisoners, who had been awakened by the noise outside. They began begging for mercy, but were shot down quickly. The dead are Bud Cottom, Henry Blgby, Tip Hutzon and Ed Brown. STRENGTHENING HER FLEET. England May Purchaae the Holland Submarine Beat Captain L. K. Bell, of the Tloyal navy; John P. Holland, Inventor of the eubmnrine torpedo boat, and L. B. Benet, of the Hotchkiss Gun Com pany, soiled nn the American line steamship St. Paul for England Thurs. day, Mr. Holland s visit to England Is the result. It is said, of several long consultations with Caption Bell re garding the purchase of a submarine boat by the British Government. Cnptnln Zollnskl, inventor of the dynamite gun bearing his name, was at tho dock to see the party off, and practically admitted that Captain Bell had come to this country to look Into the matter of the Holland boat. Znllnskl Inferred that the success of the French submarine boat Kede had caused much uneasiness In England, and that this fact had much to do with the proposed purchase. ITALY'S ACTION SUPPORTED. Great Britain and Japan Approve of the De mand Made on China. In the Italian Chamber of Deputies r few days ngo Admiral Canevaro, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a comprehensive statement regarding Italy's action In China. He confirmed the reported recall of Plgnor Martlno, Italian Minister at Pekin, and an nounced that Italy hnd obtained the approval of Great Britain and Japan before demanding the concession at Son Mun. , Great Britain, ' however, hnd re quested, he said, that force should not be employed, and hod promised In re- ' turn to give her diplomatic support to Itnly at the court of Pekln. Other friendly Powers, the Minister an nounced, were then notified and In dicted their acquiescence. Flva Men Killed. A shooting occurred at Hot Springs, Ark., Thursday evening which result ed in the death of five men and the serious wounding of one man. The killed are: Thomas Toler, chief of police: J. E. Hart, city detective; Thomas F. Goa lee, police sergeant; John Williams, son ot Sheriff Williams; Louis Hlnkle," driver of a brewery wagon, Ed Spears was shot In the neck and may die. The shooting grew out of the mayor alty campaign under way. Prospectors Froaen to Death. The steamer Excelsior, which ar rived last Friday at Seattle from tho mouth of Copper river, Alaska, brings news of the freezing to death of six men on Valdez glacier about the first of March. They were: Adolph Ehr- narat, iew zurx; aiaximiuun juiuer. New York; Alfred Aleeman, New York; Dr. Edward Logan, Denver; Itudolph Elkerkamp, Louisville, Ky.; August Schultz, New York. All the bodies except that of Dr. Logan were recovered and burled at Valdez. Ehr hardt. Miller und Aleeman were mem bers of the Scientific Prospecting Com pany of New Y'ork. A Balance in Spaia'a Favor. According to official figures, which, have just reached the state depart ment from Consular Agent Mortens, at Barcelona, dispatched under date of January 30, the imports of 1898, as compared with 1897, decreased nearly (29,000,700, while the exports fell oft only (18.000,000. Mertens says that the total exports during 1898 were valued at 859.747,000 pesetas (1132.401. 038) and the Imports at (a95,25,000 pe setas ((91.772,450), thus leaving the balance of trade In favor ot the country and showing; its natural wealth. Rhodea Pleaaea the Germans. A contract has been concluded be tween the German government ami! Cecil Rhodea, the BrltlBh South Af rican magnate, for the construction ot a telegraph line In German East Africa. A contract for a railroad through the same territory is upon the point of conclusion. Emperor Will lam and Empress Augusta Victoria, besides the ministers, with their wives, attended the banquet given by Sir Frank Lasc-elles, the British am bassador, to Cecil Rhodes, who ap pears to have personally Impressed everybody from the emperor downward.
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