THE WORK OF FLAMES LIVE9 LOST AND MUCH PROPERTY BURNED IN WASHINGTON. tnmmer Flllaa oa th MaseeohnseUs Coast Swept Avif by Flames A Nnw Jnriir Village In Peril Forest Fires ClOM Great Dniftl In Several Sctlona Qoovbrsbub. N. Y., May CO. Forest Bret are raging to an alarming extent long the dg of th Adlrondark. The southern iky ! all aglow, and upward of 10 fires are reported. The woods are Terr dry, as dry at In July or August, and the anderbrnsh burns like tlndnr. la eome of tbe burning districts there hae been a general eall (or men at 12 per day to light the flret, and employment would be given to many more could they be eeonred. The wind hnt been terrlfio and swept the dree through the woods to a considerable distance. Couriers have been sent out In some oases to secure help from tbe neighboring towns. The worst lire reported Is nenr Oswe- Ratohle, three miles from Star lake. I'n ae cheeked It threatens to reach that pop lar summer resort, and fears are enter tained for the many oottuges and the oost ly hotels. A special to a local paper reports the burning of the residences of George Titus and the Oastenette lumber oamp. Unless a heavy rain sets In soon the damage to tbe lumber Interests will be enormous. The residences of Thomas Powers and Charles Borland of this place have been burned. Marshall Chneseman, a neighbor. Who was assisting In getting out the fur niture, was burned to a crisp. Firemen Lose Their Lives. Washihgton, May ill. A conflagration, which resulted In the loss of almost IJ50, 000 and In whloh two firemen were killed and four seriously Injured by falling walls, occurred In tbls city. Twenty-one build ings with their contents were totally do etroyed in the space of about two hours. The burned district consists almost entire ly of oommlsslon and wholesale jobbing bouses In the square bounded by B street, Louisiana avenue, Ninth and Tenth streets. The fire started in a branch sta tion of tbe Postal Telegraph company lo cated on B street and is supposed to have been caused by lightning, a severe thun derstorm having just before passed over tbe olty. The buildings were filled with a mass of Inflammable material, whloh made It difficult for the firemen to cope with the progress of the flames, whloh spread with great rapidity. After two hours' hard work the flame were under control. Tbe list of the dead and Injured, all of whom are firemen, follow: Dead Giles, engineer, Company No. 0; Griffin, member of Track No. H. Injured Joe Mulhall, J. Mallwo and Arthur Donaldson. Weretown's Close Call. Toms HrvrR, N. J., May IB. The for est Ares swept down on the little village of Waretown and for hours threatened to wipe It out of existence. Men, women and children turned out to light the flames, and assistance from otber places was sent to the threatened vlllnge and the place was saved. The Central Railroad of New Jersey sent a force of Its men to the vil lage to relieve those who had been fighting tbe flames. Tbe village did not escape entirely. Tbe famous Hopkins House, a summer hotel and sportsmen's gathering place, kept by Charles Martin, was totally destroyed with about everything It contained. Tba Are started near Wells Mills, six miles from tbe village. It was a small thing at first, bat fanned by tbe wind lr spread out fan shaped until when It reach ed the outskirts of tbe village It had a front of almost three miles. The village Was not far from the center. The second fire started to the south 01 tba village. It la supposed that the dry grass was fired by sparks from tbe noon freight on tbe Central railroad. While tha residents were spending their energies oo this fire that from tbe south swept up be fore Its presenoe was even knowa to ths Are fighters. Th Hopkins House stood a little outside of the village, and It was soon la flame. The news spread along tha Una, and every on rushed for th vil lage to protect as well as tbey might theli own homes. Sarnmer Cottages Darned. NAnANT, Mass., May 10. An Incipient bias from a painter's lamp at the old sum mer cottage one ocoupled by the, poet Longfellow on Willow road was th be ginning of a fierce fire, whloh, fanned by a strong southwest gale, devoured five handsome summer residencies and con tents, entailing a loss of 1100.000. Tbe timely arrival ot two engine from Lynn prevented th destruction of other build ings Id th vicinity. Within a few momenta after th Are started th entire Longfellow cottage was mass of flame. Th cottage owned by Mr. Henry C Dunoan of Boston, across th street, soon was roaring furnace. Tbe Are then reoroesed the steet to the cot tag of Mr. Frederlok Cunningham of Brookllne. Th gala seemed to Inoreas at this point, ana th oottag of Charles K. Green of New York, several hundred feet away, oaught Are from cinder. This and cottage owned by the Samuel Russell se ta te of Boston war destroyed. Th burned oottages were uooooupted, but all contained much valuable furni ture. Th Longfellow cottage waa quite old, bat was In tha beet of condition. It was In this oottage tba famous poet wrot "The Bell of Lynn.' It was owned by hla daughter, Miss Alio W. Longfellow of Cambridge. Th residence of United State Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Is sit uated near th scene of th fire, but es caped damage. Big l-lras la the OaUkills. KisasTOM, N. y.. May 19. The forest Bras In tha Catskllla which bav been raging for eavaral days are now more se rious than aver. The famous Stony Clo . 1 abiaxa for miles on either side. Moun tain after mountain has been licked up, and the blackened oraga are smoking for mile and miles. From Lanesvllle, through the notoh, the massive slope are all aflame, and tbe mok 1 so denas that passengers on tbe Stony Clove trains can eoaroely see or breathe at times. Yellow elonds of blaza and amok fill th ravines, and tba roaring Area beat the rocks In plaoas until they burst asunder. rarest Fires Near Egg Harbor. Ko Hakkom. N. J., May 19. Galloway township was visited by a destructive for est lira, caused by tbe wind blowing a lot of burning brushwood from tha Kckl bamp farm Into tbe timber land. William 1-reldhoBer't orchard, berry and vegeta ble plota were destroyed and John Menses and K4werd Mueller's farms badly dam axed. A numberof otber plaoesar threat ened.' Tbe loes to lumber alone, it It tuuught, will xeed 1 0,000. . Archduke CbarleT Louis Itoed. VlkNNA, May HO Archduke Charles Louis of Austria, brother of Emperor Frenols Joseph, la dead. Dispatches from Budapest say that the announcement of tils death bad created a feeling of sorrow throughout Hungary, where th archduk was very popular, and oast a (bade of sadness over the celebration of Hungary's millennium. Th principal celebration, whiun was to take plan on Juns o, has bean postponed, and a period of mourning bete been, ofllolaliy ordered. Archduke t harles LcuU was born July SO. lfttH- ORLEANS DEFIANT. The Cannes of the Split la the Ranks ef French Royalists. Parts May It). A letter whloh the Duke of Orleans has written to the Duke of Dandlftret Pnsiiiler, who has resigned the presidency of the Royalist committee, has just been published. Tbe letter shows that the split In ths ranks of tbe French Royalists Is In part due to the committee disapproving of the Duk. of Orleans' Idea of submitting himself at a candidate for eleotlnn at Cholet, not In order to ell In the chamber of deputies, but to give an opportunity for a Royalist demonstration, and also because the Duke of Orleans de clines to disavow his cousin, Prince Hen ry of Orleans, for aocepting the decoration of the legion of Honor from the govern ment In recognition of his travel In th far east. The Duke of Orleans' letter I very blunt and dictatorial In tone. Referring to the question of his candidacy, be says: "It Is necessary to choose between plny Ing at monarchy and making it a reality. If you think that the French monarchy as it was constructed In the past oan be reconstructed In the future by an affecta tion of inert and expectant dignity stand- DURE or ORLEANS. Ing motionless on distant shores because of - the greatness of Its traditions and deeming Itself too lofty to mix with men and things, we are not of one mind. Tbose from whom I descend confronted many struggles and many risks other than those at which your zenl takes alarm. 1 remain tha judge of the royal dignity. I hold that It will not be Impaired far from It If In some French vlllnge, even were It the humblest, for all are alike dear to me, the electors designated me to serve my country In accordance with the exam ple set by myanoestors. Do you wlsb that I should, by vain distrust of universal suffrage, justify the absurd legend of the alleged Incompatibility of the monarchi cal and the elective right, when It la evl dent to my eyes that the two principles are constantly tending to oomblne and to blend In a system of compromise!"' FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Hammer? of the Proceedings of the Sen .ate and House. Washington, May 14. In the senate yesterday the river and harbor bill was passed. It makes direct appropriations of $13,300,000 and authorizes continuing contracts for 1(14,000,000, an aggregate of 176,000,000. In tbe house there was a long and bitter parliamentary struggle over the contested eleotlon oas of Klnaker again-) Dowllng In the Sixteenth district ot II I nols, wblob was Anally sent baok to tbe elections committee No. 1. Washington. May 16. In the senate yesterday the Du Pont election case waa taken up, Mr. Piatt advooating Colonel Du Pont's right to a seat. Mr. Caffery argnod for protection to American sugar produoert against German discrimination. Tbe Illiteracy test for Immigrants was dls cusssed. In tbe house most of the session was devoted to consideration of private pension bills. The contested eleotlnn case of Cheatham against Woodard was deolded In favor of Mr. Woodard, the sitting mem ber. Washington, May lfl. In the senate yesterday the claim of Henry A. Du Pont to the vacant seat from Delaware waa re jected by a vote of 81 to 80, the Democrats and Populists voting solidly against the oontestant. In the house the day was de voted to private pension bills, 101 of them being passed. The contested election case of Hoge against Otey was decided In favor of Mr. Otey, the sitting member. Washington, May 19, In "the senate yesterday a motion to take up tha Alaba ma election case was defeated. In the house the fortification bill was reported. Numerous bills were passed under suspen sion of the rules. Washington, May 0. In tba senate yesterday tba Dlstrlot of Columbia bill was passed, leaving only two appropria tion bills to be acted on. In the bouse the title of W. C. Owens to tne seat from the Seventh Kentucky district waa oonflrmed. Bill to restriot Immigration were dis cussed. Abraham Lincoln's Nleoe Killed. LcxiNGTON, Ky., May 14. Mis Maris Todd, aged 90, daughter of Dr. Lyman B. Todd, was killed by a trolley car while she waa bloyollng. Sh waa a oousln ot Robert T. Lincoln and niee ot th late President Llnonln. Two Handred People Killed. BRASS, West Africa, May IS. An ex plosion at Bide, In tbe Nupe country on tba Niger river, has rared to the ground the palace of the Krair Malekl and hat killed 800 people. General Market. -, Maw Yokk. May 19. FLOUR State and western dull and nominally Quchanged; olty mills patents, t4.DuA4.60: winter pateuta, $S.7 e.a.80; clt mills clears, t4.10tfs.aj; winter straights, t4.40aa.66. WH EAT No. 1 red opened steady with fair local buying, eased off under good crop news, but rallied again on covering; May, teeo.; July, 7f'ilUllO. CUKN No. 3 was steadier on prospects of light receipts; July. a&He. OATS No. s qui.t but steady with com; June. 34Hc; tracK. white, state, Kft4eic.: PUKK-Uulet: old to new sua, .76H.71. family. $10.oumll. LAKD steady; prime western, steam, t.a asked. BUTTER Steady; stale dairy, UaiMc.s state oreamery, ll&lse. OHKKSE Steady; state, uurge, eVaWtc, small. tr,IOc KciUo-gutet: state and Pennsylvania, 10M fcllc: weetern. ltHc oUOArl Haw dull and nominal: fair reOn Ing, 8Hc. oemrlruKal. Ml teal. 4V;.: redned, quiet: crushed. 67.tc.; powdered. osii. TUHFE'I ISE-Juletj 2M MOLAfeSKH-yuiei; New Orleans. 28&.170. KICk. Wuiet. uuuieeue. H Jaiiaa, 394 Sc TALLOW Xasyt city, tWatt-Wc; country. W4'lli-Ic HAY Dull: shipping. TkaoOc: good to aluMMa. yu.yrtc. Disapproved by Oavoraor Griggs, Tkknton, N, J., May 0 Governoi Griggs ha filed with the stats librarian, Without approval, 08. bills which pass ed both house of ths recent legislature. This 1 equivalent to vetoing them, and tha bills therefore fail to beoome law. Tba most Important of these' bills was perhaps that of Senator Voorhses, provld Ing that In damage suit lawyers shall file with th olerk of tbe court a sealed written coutrsot of tbe compensation tb lawyer la to receive from the olelinant for damages for prosecuting the suit. BUYING CUBA'S DEBT. BONDS HELD BY SPANISH BANKERS TAKEN BY FRENCHMEN. they Sleek Direct Intervention la the Is land's Treasnry department Reports From Havana Say the Insargents At tack the Porte Near at Hand. Havana, via Jacksonville, Fla., May 30 Aoonrding to private MBdrld advlnos received by a well known Havana banker, the bulk of the Cuban debt held by Ppalo banking Institutions and persons of wealth has been unloaded In Paris during the last six or eight weeks. Bought up by French capitalists, upward or iJ7. 000,000 In Cuban bonds have thus changed hnmls. Among the seller are mentioned Pre mier Canovas, Hnmero Kobledoand Henor Elduayen. Haiall holders of Cuban bonds In London have also unloaded, aud Bel gian, Dutch nod German financiers, who uutil reoently had a 1100,000,000 or mora of tbe paper mentioned, have also sold heavily In Paris, wher more than 00 per oent of the original emission of 1394, 00U, 000 Is now held. The object of French buyer In seeking th control of the Cuban debt Is said to bs to obtain from Spain a direct Intervention In the Cuban treasnry department, plao Ing a representative of their syndicate In every custom bouse on the Island to see that these be honestly administered, and thus Insure prompt payment of the inter est on the debt. Major General Moreno Jlmenes, who was chief of staff to Captain General Mar tines Campos here last year, has been made military governor of the provlnoe of Tarragona, In Spain, while Jose Mar tines Campos, the deposed captain gen eral' youngest son, waa recently elected a deputy to the cortes. Brigadier General Snares Inolan, who has left Havana for Bahla Honda, baa also been elected to the Spanish parlia ment. It Is reported from Madrid that Lieu tenant General Marin, now governor of Puerto Hloo, Is soon to be recalled. Santo Domingo Ports Closed. To stop excessive Immigration of Cubnn refugees Into Santo Domingo Presidont Hereaux has closed the ports of that re public against vessels from Cuba, under the pretext that smallpox Is raging bere. Cubans apparently have very little con fidence In Captain General Weyler'a latest decree offering amnesty to Havana and Mntnnzas rebels who voluntarily present themselves at government posts and, sur rending their arms, swenr again fealty to Spain. The decree Is not held by General Weyler and hla olllcers to apply to Cuban who hav been members of Insurgent par tlos oharged with having at any time slnoe the war began set fire to caneflelds or to bacco houses within these provinces. The Cuban rebel wbo, repenting of his disloyalty to tbe crown, comes to head quarters Is royally welcomed, receives a receipt for his rifle or machete, is asked to sign his name to the oath of allegiance and Is not Infrequently Invited to the ta ble of the local commandant. An hour afterward, notwithstanding that he has been forgiven his act of rebellion, the ame man Is arrested on the oharge of In cendiarism, tried by a drum oourt martial and may be shot the following morning. Here In Havana not a day passes that as the sun rises an execution doesn't oo our In the Cabanas oastle. The ohurohe at tbls hour are usually crowded by Cuban mothers, wives, sisters and daughters, kneeling, It la supposed. In silent prayer for these unfortunate person. The Insurgents have made an attack np on tbe forts at Glbaooa, near Havana. Tba fighting lasted for Ave hours, when th Insurgents were repulsed. The troops lost 30 killed and wounded. The losses of the Insurgents are said by the Spanish au thorities to have been heavy. On their re treat tbe Insurgents burned 80 house. Riot Over Cuban Question. City of Mexico, May 30. The Cuban question, coupled with tha hatred of tbe lower olaases here for tbe Spaniards, was the cause of a riot In on of tbe outer wards. A drunken man passing a match factory made an offensive demonstration against the owner a Spaniard shouting, "Death to Spaniards I" When the Span- lard, thinking tba man was about to draw a knife, bit him, a mob gathered, shout ing, "Death to Spaniards!" and "Cuba Libre I" and then began stoning ths fao tory and smashing the windows. Ths po lice were telephoned for, and soon General Carbellada and his adjutants arrived, when tbe mob stoned them, slightly wounding ths general. Tbe police dis persed tba mob, arresting 14 persons. Died of Yellow Fever. HAVANA, May 80. Genoral Vicuna is dead of yellow fever at Corral Falao, In Matansaa province, where he bad been sick for several days past. His body will b burled in tbe city ot Motanzaa. CZAR'S LIFE IN DANGER. Polio In Mosoow Are Raid to Have Dls covered a Fresh Plot. Milan; May 80. Acoordlng to advloet received by tha Heoolo from Moscow tht coronation festivities bave caused renewed activity among tbe nihilists, who for s long time past appeared to hav abandon ed tbelr attempt upon tha life ot the rulei of Russia. Tha advloea published by tha paper an to tbe effeot that the police of Mosoow have discovered a place in tba city thai waa used for the manufacture of bomb. It was situated beneath tbe street through which the coronation prooesslon will pass. It 1 added that placards bave been post ed about tbe street calling upon tbe peo ple tn revolt against tbe czar. Several workmen who were employed In the preparations making In the krem lln for the ooronatlon have been arrested. It being suspected that they are Implicat ed In the oonspiraoy against the czar, Destructive Storm la Kentucky. Benton. Ky., May 18. A terrlbl cy clone passed over tbe northwest oorner of this county, doing damage to everything In Its path. At Klva It tore down tht bouse of Anderson Jones and killed th, entire family, consisting ot Jones, aged 60 hla wife, aged 65; bis oldest oblld. a son IT years old, and two girls, one 10 and tht otber 13. Jones was a poor man and had only lived in that community about aii mouths. Five ooflins were sent to Klva, and the entire Jones family were buried in the same grave. Th.i seen waa visited by hundreds from all tbe country around. Tbe tornado came out of Graves count) via Sympsonla, where two stores were de molished and two churches and one school house torn down, beside barns, sta bias, fence and everything else In its path' There was considerable damage In otbel parts of th county. Tbe damage done al Sympsonia was sever, but no Uvea wen lost. Forest Flras In Connecticut. Winbtkd, Conn., May ltf. For tba seo ond time within a few weeks forest flret have again broken out In this vicinity, and several hundred acres have been burn ed over. Tha must serious fir la raglni in th vlolutty of Cbapinavllle, and at out time it was thought that Uuvinehurat, tht summer reoldenue of John Shepherd of Boston, would succumb to the flames. Over 100 men are fighting tbe Are and suo deeded in turning its course before reach lug th house. Tbe woods In Colebrook are being swept away, aud another fir ii burning fiercely at Cherry Park, neur Col Ilnsvllla, NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thnrsday, May 14. Burglars vllled the Rnynor family nf misers near Warwick, N. Y., bound the members and took away a box of mnaey. A man, thought to have been Edward Friend, who recently failed In business, committed sutcld at a Park row hotel, New York. Mrs. Dora Pbelps of Bridgeport, Conn., denies thnt she tampered with the affec tions of George Hayes, damaging them to the extent of tfl, 000. Citizens of Nyank, N. Y. , ar qnaklng lest they be Indicted for taking part In a lottery held In connection with the benefit entertainment of a benevolent order. Mrs Sarah Schofleld, wife of a hotel keeper at Arinnnk, N. Y., was found dead In a brook near Moaholu parkway with a wound on bar forehead. It Is believed that she was murdered. Alfred Schmidt and wife sat up In bed and watched three masked burglars by candle light rob their house at Weehaw ken, N. J. One burglar kept the couple qnlet with a revolver while bis compan ions collected tbe valuables. All three scaped. Frldar, May 1(1. Earl and Countess Spencer of England arrived In New York. Scott Jaokson was convicted and sen tenced to death at Newport, Ky., for the murder of Pearl Bryan. Robert H. Dolan, a photographer, wa found Impaled on the fenoe In front of his home In Wakefield, N. Y. , under clroum stnnces which point to murder. The body of a young and finely formed woman, gagged and showing five ugly wounds made wltb knife and club, wa found In the wator on the south shore of Staten Island. Ernest Arnhelm, son of a millionaire of New York, was declared Insane by a jn, In general sessions and waa sent to Mat teawan asylum. A fast life Is said to have caused his mental derangement. While attempting to got on a moving train at Irvlngton, N. Y., Reginald H. Jaffray, a well known soolety man, who was reoently married, had bis right leg cut off. He Is a grandson of the late B. H. Jaffray, the millionaire dry goods mer chant. Saturday, May Id. Surgeon General Forator of Boston dropped dead on the steamer Puritan just before she sailed from New York. The trotting mare Nightingale, th property of C. J. Hnmlln, dropped dead at Louisville. She was valued at over 110,- 000. Minister de Lome denies that Spain will enter a formal protest against ths ac tion of the United States in regard to tb Cuban Insurgents. George M. Clarke, wbo says he was for years private secretary to Thomas B. Reed, Is looked up In the Raymond street jail In Brooklyn, oharged with swindling many hotels and boarding bouses. The New York Democratlo state com mittee met In New York olty and fixed June 84 as the date and Saratoga a the place for the state convention to elect four delegates at large to the national conven tion. Ex-Excise Commissioner Andrew of New York had Kdgar M. Tomlinson, tba Lexow witness who aocuaed him of aooept lng a bribe, arrested on a court order In his suit for too, 000 damages for orlminal slander. Monday, May 18. Governor Clnude Matthews ot Indiana has written a letter opposing a single gold standard. , Suits have been begun tn Iowa against number of western railroads for over charge on grain shipments. Mrs. Mary Burgess wa found dead on the floor of her room on Mott street. In New York, with bruise on her body. Her husband and son were placed under arrest. Benjamin Stone, aged 19, leaped from tbe roof of lyo Allen street. New York, In front of an "L" train. His skull wa crushed and his left arm out off. He died In Bellovue hospital. Charles F. Schroeder of New York rode a blcyole over a preclpioe while descending the Palisade, near Weehawken, N. J , with his wife and died of bis injuries In Roose velt hospital. In New York. A rumor waa current In Suakln to th effect that the khalifa, the leader of th dervishes, against whom tb 'Sudan cam paign Is directed, Is dead. No confirma tion of the rumor can be had. William A. Thompson, solon of an ex cellent family, was held for trial In th Yorkvllle polioe court la New York for passing a worthlesa check for twlS on Halnemann Bros.' riding academy, In payment fur horse. . Tuesday, May 19. ' A sharp fight between insurgent and Spanish troops, in whloh both sides claim the vlotory, took plaos In the provlno of Santiago de Cuba. Lillian Russell, the opera singer, and her blcyole were lnjuited in collision with a scorcher on the hlH in West On Hun dred and Sixth street. New York. Arnold Hermann, a Swiss farmhand, waa probably fatally gored by a bull bo- longing to Thomas Flood of South Orange, N. J., by whom he wa employed. Gold standard Democrats of Illinois solved to bave a state convention of their own, and there will be two act of dele gates sent to tha national convention at Chicago. Tobacoo Importers In New York say that General Weyler' embargo on tb Co- ban raw material will cripple them and throw out of employment nearly 100,000 persons In th United States. The czar and czarina arrived In Moscow and were enthusiastically reoelved. This was the beginning of tbe ceremonies con nected with tbe czar' ooronatlon. It wa th occasion of his twenty-eighth birth day, wblob waa oelebrated' with great en thusiasm. Wednesday, May to. Senator Quay announce that be wilt Visit McKinley at Canton, O. Witnesses In tb Holt will cas In Wash Ington said they were sure Judge Holt wrote tb alleged wllL A serious financial crisis has resulted In Baltimore from tb fight between May or Hooper and tha city council. Tha subcommittee of tb Republican atate committee has made a rtiport review ing the work of th lata legislature. George W. Holt, a wealthy Brooklyn lire adjudicator, and Harry N. Vaugbn ol JVew York were arrested charged wltn col lecting a false lnsuranoe olalm in Brook lyn. A dispatch from London states on th blgnesl authority that a movement Is on loot in London, Paris and Bross.tia to ar lect a reconciliation between tbe) Arme nians and tb sultan ot Turkey. General opinion among tobacoo dealers in Florida is that many manufacturer will be compelled to abandon bualaeas by reason of General Wevler'a edict pronlDlt- Ing the exportation of tobacco leaf froat :nn A Detaultlug tlauk Cashier. ROC'HKSTKR. Mar 80. Frederick A. Cole, formerly receiving teller in tbe Mon roe County Savings bank, baa left the olty. Before going away he admitted that he was a defaulter for a ooasulerable amount. The managers of the bank say that Cole's hortnge wus small, but it Is generally be lieved that he embezzled between tia.OOC and t-'O.uoO. This aiuuuat has been mads good by bis bondsmen, aud no effort will be made to prosecute him. Col had neea connected with tbe bank tor a long tluis aud wus proiulneut la tolal aud religious circles. FIRE NEAR rOWDER. FLAMES IN THE COAL BUNKERS OP THE BATTLESHIP INDIANA. While Sightseers Patted the Indiana's Big Oans, Jack Tars Fonght Fhe and Emp tied the Powder Magaslne Spleadltf Dlsolpllne Showa BnooKLTN, May 80. While pretty women and smartly dressed men Idled about th decks of ths battleship Indiana and prondly patted her mighty guns some of the men whom Unole Samuel has hired for fighting purposes were busy removing powder from th magazine with precision and rapidity. There was Ar In a coal honker, and the hunker was near tbe magazine. But the pretty wifmen and the Idling men who were visitors didn't know what all tne activity meant until It was over. They thought It wa part or tb show. Ths landsmen who watched said, "Splendid fellows!" and. the women, "Oh, Isn't it lovely I" , When they learned afterward what pos sibilities had been astir beneath their feet. they concluded that Lieutenant Com mander Swift was worthy of bis sword. The Indiana lies in ths coal dock of th Brooklyn navy yard, where the East river and Wallabout ohannel meet The trouble was In a reserve bunker, which, in addi tion to holding a few ton of coal, acta as a protection for th boiler. It Is quit near the steam, and It wa that, the offi cer believe, whloh caused th eoal to catch Are. In each bunker there la an etectrle Are signal, which reports promptly when there la danger, telling It exact location. These signals sometime give false alarms. But on this occasion the crew went through the Are drill In earnest. It wa the first time slnoe th Indiana ha been In com mission. An alarm wa sounded and tb matter was reported to Lieutenant Commander Swift, the ezeoutive oflloer. In a twin kling. There wa no noise or exoltement. The visitors went on examining tn guns. The executive hurried below, went at onoe to tbe bunker from whloh th alarm came and found It hot. H guessed that tha ooal had bean Ignited by spontaneous oombuslon. Thar ar steam pip eon neotlng with every compartment. In a second or two the steam wa turned Into this particular bank and whatever fir wa there wa speedily extlDgulsDeo. Orders For Steam Olveau The order for steam had been followed immediately by one to pasa np aromunl tlon a purely precautionary measure to Insure safety In oas tb fir should prove more formidable than wa expected. Man after man, a many as could work without crowding, darted Into th mag azine and out as tba steam was forced into the threatening coal bunker. Th leisurely movement of th visitors on the decks above contrasted strangely wltb the rapid movements below. The Indiana' men war working jnst as tbey ar expected to work when tb Is In aotlon. They were a oool a th olaret punch In th lieutenant commander a cab in above, much cooler then th neglige men who had com to see them and their fighting gear. It was tbelr Arst actual xperlenoe out side of practlca, and their dlsolplln was perfect Tbelr officers watched them wltb pride, thinking, no aouDt, tnat one aay it might be necessary to do the trick again when the batteries wer roaring and tha armor ringing under th enemy s firs. When the banker was oold, the ooal was removed and tb powder carried baok to tha magazine. On deck th trim officers and men on duty had paced to and fro without seem ing to notloe th unusual aotlvity, though they knew th cause well enough. Some of them were telling tb visitors about tht great Agbtlng machine and what would happen In oas of war. They didn't say what would happen If the magazine were fired. And tben, when th crew th Indi ana's complement 1 450 bad been at quarters for an hour and It waa all over, a tweet summer girl said to th embryo Farragnt at her aide: "There seems to be something nnusnal going on. What an all tbos men running around for?" And be, palling at a little mustache, told her wltb An nonohalanea: "Oh, there was a little bit of a Ar be low. Somewhere near th magazine, I be lieve. Jolly, don't yon think?" The lieutenant commander apok anthn- slastloally of tb conduct of tb man, say ing tbsy had stood their first tost admira bly. And now tha man and woman wbo pat ted th gun are thinking. Hank Robber Confess. BPRTNGrtEi.D, Ills., May 18. Th mL wbo robbed th State bank of Buffalo, tbls oounty, last Thursday, hav been cap tnred and hav made a full confession. Tbey are Carl Kloppeaburg, th cash let of th bank, and Joseph Kloppenburg, drug dark of this city, son of August Kloppenburg, a wealthy oltlsea of Spring field. Carl Kloppenburg confessed to Sher iff Baiter tha antlr story. Tb stolen money wa recovered. Keek Brokea ky a Fall. ShAUOEIN, Pa., May 14. Samoa) Manrer, aged U0 years, brok hi neck by falling down a steep man way at Columbuj colliery No. 1. A few hour later a safety lamp burst in tb Prlmros gangway ol th ant rain, firing th a and badly burning Michael Bullock, Anthony Sooa- Tick and John Konatusook. All will die. Maurer laavea a wife and on ohlld. Nearly Tvs Haadre Kilted la TMaa. Sherman. Tex., May IS. A moat die astroua cyolone struok Sherman at 4:S0 o'clock yesterday afternoon, wiping out tb antlr western and of tb town. Ths loes ot llf I appalling. Tba dead ar sati mated at between 160 and 800. This 1 a very conservative estimate. Many mors are fatally or seriously Injured. Peary Oalng North A gala. St. Johns, N. V., May 80. Tba arotle iplurer, Lieutenant Robert Peary, la go ing north again this summer, and a steam er Is now being arranged bar for that purpose. Tb object of th expedition is believed to be to secure for tbe Philadel phia Academy of Science tba 40 ton meteorite near Cap I ork whloh Lieuten ant Peary discovered last year. Americans CampUsneat Currla. London, May 80. Th Constantinople correspondent of Tba Dally Newa says "Tbe American colony made a point of being present at tba departure of tb Brit ish embassador, Sir Philip Currle. for London, to testify their appreciation uf hla support of American diplomaoy in be half of tb mlaslonarlea In Turkey." For the Hew Fork Public Library. Albany, May 80. Governor Morton ha signed th New York city bill relat ing to rb us of th land now ocoupled by the old reservoir at Forty aeoond street for a tree public library and reading room to b erected under tbe supervision of tba New York Publio library, Astur, Lenox and Tlldea foundation. Capital lock laereacad. Fall RrviH, May 8a The stockhold er of th Stafford mills Inoraaaed tbe cap ital stock from tout', 000 to tl.ouo.ouo to bring tb (took up to tba valu of th auuik, . CYCLONE IN KANSAS. A Destructive Tornado Sweeps Over Sev eral Counties, Caaslng (Ireat Damage. Concordia, Kan., May 1R. Another cyclone ha visited north central Kanma. It la Impossible to gnther the full details, bectuse the telegraph wires on th Mis souri Paciflo and Grand Island railroads are down. Tbe cyclone started In the northern part of Clay county, seven or eight miles south of the little town of Palmer, and parsed In a northeasterly di rection through Riley county and Into Marshal and Nemaha conntlos. It ornssod the Blue rlvor at the junction of the Mis souri Paciflo and Union Paciflo railroads and passed near the town of Axtell. The little br.mlet of Bodavillein Riley oounty was entirely swer.t away. Several are re ported killed there and many injured. At Spring Valley, some six miles south of Barnes, the storm demolished a church In which 1!M people were worshiping. Mnny wore Injured. Tbe pastor, Mr. Ma son, waa badiy hurt. Puruloal aid was sked for from Barnes and neighboring towns. J he storm formed about o o dock, almost In the track of the one that visited this seotlon three weeks ago. The cyclone waa followed by a heavy hall and rain storm, and much damage wa done to Crops. Fhankfokt, Kan., May 18. At t O'olook last evening a terrific cyolone swept down upon this town from the southwest. Everything In tbe north and west ends of tbe town waa completely wreoked. Prob ably three score of buildings were rased to th ground. Some ot the best residences of tbe town were blown to atoms, and re ports coming in from the country, where heavy damage has been done, will ma terially swell the loss. Many are reported painfully Injured, but so far as known ni one boa been killed. Many head of horses, cattle and other stock have been killed. The Methodist and Christian churches were demolished, and the Presbyterian choroh was badly wrecked. Snores of peo ple who are left homeless are being oared forlnpi-bllc hall and In ths homes ot the more fortunate oltlzena Topbka, May 18. A funnel shaped cy Slone struok the north part of tbe town ol Babetha, a small place northeast of here, near the Nebraska line, lata last evening, destroying the Grand Island railroad de pot and elevator and about 80 residences. Twenty or 86 people were wounded, sev eral of whom will die. Twenty families were rendered homeless, losing everything they had. The cyclone passed off toward Falls City and evidently did great damage. Owing to darkness and heavy rain, par tloulara are hard to obtain at tbls hour. Earlier In the evening a cyolone was seen to form over the town of Miltonvaie, Kan., and struok the ground a few miles out ol town, but did not do much damage there. Seneca, Kan., May 18. A oyclom truok this plaoe and destroyed one-third of the residence portion of this olty. Tbt oourthouse, sohoolbouse and Cathollt oburob were unroofed. Five hundred per sons ar homeless. Two children of M Everhees, two children of John McConnol) and a son of Peter Assemaober were klllec in the ruins. Cholera Among Egyptian Troops. London, May 20. A Cairo dispatch to The Standard snys that a death from cholera la reported among the Egyptian troops at Tourah. "A regular cholera miasma, " says this dispatch, "Is brooding over Cairo with the heavy air and the hot wind. The virulence of the disease Is al most unparalleled at such an early stage of a visitation, the percentage of deaths being 90." Two Klshops Elected. Cleveland, May 80. After muoh bal loting th Methodist conference In session In this city has chosen two bishops Chap lain C. C. MeCabe aud Ksv. l.ttrl Cran ston. The former was elected on tbe six teenth ballot and the latter on ths suc ceeding ballot. Electric Light Plant Burned. WlLKESBAfiHE, Pa., May 19. Th elec tric light plant In the town of White Ha ven was entirely destroyed by fire. Th loss Is 118,000; "PERIOD" ROOMS. Being a Dissertation on the Prevalent Form of Torture by Furniture. One of the compensations of the im- peennions is to watch the keen discom fort the rich experience in their efforts to spend their fortunes. Great ia the joy, therefore, of the poor woman as she watches her sister, wife of one Croesus, oonvert her house into a museum of "rooms of periods. " It would be saddening; if it were not Infinitely oomio to hear of the trials of one multimillionaire who is always keenly uncomfortable In his Greek drawing room because he can never find a book there. The Greeks, you see, did not have monthly magazines lying on their parlor tables. Accordingly the good gentleman's wife, architect and furnisher bave impressed upon him the necessity of not spoiling the perfect Athenian atmosphere of the apartment by the introduction of un-Athenian fea tures such as literature. In its seal for complete harmony the powerful trium virate has not yet issued an order for bidding the master of the house to enter his drawing room except when clad in the Greek ohlamys, but that is because even architects, furnishers and wives do not dare to be wholly consistent. Mean time the multimillionaire escapes from his Gothio library and thinks how in appropriate it is to read Dickens andei a mediaeval arched ceiling and by the light from a cathedral glass window. Only multimillionaires, fortunately, have the wealth necessary to moke themselves completely nnoomfortable by Greek and Gothic rooms. But the ordinary, plain millionaire has enough money to be made fairly miserable by Louis Quinae or Louis Seize drawing rooms, old Dutch reproductions in the line of dining rooms and bare colonial hallways. Comparatively small riches will go a long way toward making a family miserable once the room fevei has entered into the veins of the fam ily's presiding genius. Good American women of mixed ancestry and heavy weight have felt exceeding discomfort in apartments furnished in spindle leg ged, gilt chairs belonging to the period of a French king of unhallowed mem ory. What does it profit a woman to furawh her room with the most perfect consistency if she herself muxt always be an inhannomous note in it? Why should the lover of good roast beef and large, inviting armchairs have to wan der hopelessly abont a room set with the straight, harp backed chairs of colonial days, when repose was frowned upon and roast beef was none too plenty? After all one must live more or less at home, even if one has money in abundance. And why should home be a succession of rooms furnished after mod els set by other lands and other times! Who really enjoys living in a house that is merely a large object lesson in Ronton, Uooriah, Japanese and Egyptian architecture and furniture? A house holder ought to be more than a curatoi of a museum. Now York Journal. THE 8IZE OF BEEHIVES. Large ar Small Hive a Question of Local ity and Manatresnent, The advocates of large hives say that colony in a large hive has more stabil ity a superabundance of vitality, nu merous stores, eto. that safely carry it through hard winters and poor seasons. It is also asserted that the queen it giv en snob an abundanoe of room to lay that more bees are produced, and that a greater body of bees work to better ad vantage tban a small one and more honey is the result. Larger swarms are) also ex pected from large hives. Those who favor small hives sat that a large quantity of honey lies idle ia dead capital in the large hives; that it takes so long in the spring and early summer to get the large hive full of bees, brood and honey thnt the best of tbe season is over before the bees are ready for the supers. With a small hive it is maintained that the combs are more completely filled with brood, as there are fewer cells to be filled. There may be fewer bees per hive bnt really more per oomb, bnt more hives and qneens will be" needed. Queens oost nothing, and small hives oan be made of oheaper lumber, as wide lumber is more expensive per foot Small hives are more easily bandied than large ones. All this has reference, of course, to the brood nest only, as the surplus apart ment of any hive Is varied in sixe ac cording to the season or the harvest Discussion has brought out the fact that tbe most desirable size of hives ia largely a question of locality and man agement In the northern states, where the seasons are short, and especially In those localities where there ie n fall honey harvest and oomb honey is pro duced, a small bive is preferable, for the reason just given via. that the sea ton is over before the colony In a large hive is ready to store honey in the sur plus apartment. In raising extracted honey the size of the brood apartment is not so important, as the honey oan be extracted even from the brood nest if neoeafiary, but it is more convenient to be able to leave the brood nest undis turbed and have tbe surplus all in one apartment In those lower latitudes where the seasons are longer, or where there is a fall harvest the. large hives give excellent results. There is then time for the colony to build np and fill the hive before the season is over. The difference between what is called a small hive and a large one ia not so very great An eight frame Langstrotn hive is called a small hive, while a ten frame hive, holding only about 15 pounds more honey, is called a large hive. A few beekeepers regard even a ten frame hive as smalL For the hiving of swarms from which an immediate surplus of oomb honey is expected a small hive is imperative. If a large hive were nsed, the season would be over before the hive would be filled. A hive that oan readily be made larger or smaller, a sectional hive like the new Eeddon, is probably the most desirable, as the size can be easily ohanged to suit the season or circum stances. These same changes oan be made with ordinary hives by using di vision boards or "dummies," but there is less "machinery" or complication with sectional hives. Only expert bee beepers and those who make a specialty of the business should employ small hives, as it is true that bees in such hives require closer attention in the way of seeing if they are properly supplied with stores and in wintering them. Farmers and those who are inclined to neglect their bees for their main busi ness had better use large hives, colo nies in such hives oan more surely care for themselves. At the same time it must not be forgotten that a small hive is an excellent thing in the hands of an expert living in the locality to which snoh a hive is adapted. The foregoing was written for Coun try Gentleman by that experienced and successful apiarist, W. Z. Hutch in gaon. Methods of Averting Frost, The latest plans for averting frost in volves the heat given off by vapor. Pro fessor Hammond of the Ban Francisco weather bureau offloe favors the vapor furnished by sprayed fires. The fires are made in the orchard to be protected and sprayed whenever they begin to burn up briskly. Mr. F. C. Finkle of San Francisco agree with Professor Hammond that "the condensation of the vapor warms the air, as it ia ia this way tbe heat is given off by that vapor, but the condensation would be as effect ive when the vapor is oreated by vapor from tanks as when furnished by sprayed fires. " The authority last quoted favor small oil Jets under tanks of water, by which the heated vapor will be given off gradually and condensed near the surface of tbe ground. Interesting to Pennsylvania Farmer. The Farm Journal says : "Our folks in Pennsylvania should' take advantage of the new law which allows a rebate of one-fourth of the road tax for broad tires on their draft wagons and carta. See tbe supervisor about it He may choose to forget to mention it to yon. " Agricultural Brevities. Good varieties of cabbages for market are: Early, Early Jersey Wakefield, Express; medium. Early Hammer, All Seasons, Fouler, Early Deep Head ; late, Flat Dutch, Stone Mason, Large Late Drumhead. It ia reported on excellent authority that Delaware farmers, with their crops of crimson olover or cowpess, and bone or dissolved rock and potash, have found a perfect substitute for stable manure. There is no special oall for a white ' oniun in the markets of Boston, but in ' those of Mew York they will always be found quoted at a large advance over every other sott, sometimes at double the price. In some parts of New York oowpeas, own either alone or in the oorn before the last cultivation, have succeeded wall, In other cases they have not I Nitrogenous manure produced less ef feot on leguminous plants than on grains and roots. Crisis la Oermany. London, April 17 A Berlin dispatch to Tb Standard denies tha rumor that there 1 a crisis over ths tier man Imperial chancellorship.
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