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pattsmoutlt Joitnwt C W. KM K KM AN. rubltaher. rLAlTHOU'lH. : N KJ'.KASKy The News Condensed. Important Intelligence From All Parts. CONGRESSIONAL Itefftolar Session. Senator Fkve (Me.) introduced a resolu tion in the senate on the 3d that there should le eo interference on the part of tho United Suit's government by moral influence or phys ical force for the restoration of Queen Liliuo kulaui or for the maintenance of the provi sional government of the Hawaiian islands dur ing ite prnding congressional investigation In The house Mr. Wand introduced a bill to m.iUe the seigniorage silver in the treasury im mediately available ly issuing certificates aga:cw it and then coining the silver. A reso lution was adopted setting aide Friday and SaturJay next for the consideration of the Ha waiian matter. The resignations of Represent atives Krllows and Fitch, of New York, were I re st' n ted. In the senate a resolution was introduced on the 4th calling on tho sf-cretary of the treasury lor a statement of the sums paid Mr. Blount as commissioner to Hawaii, and the orders and law tnJer which such payment was made. Ad journed to the 8;h In the house lack of a quorum prevented taking up the tariff bill. Mr. 1! Arrnond (Mo. ) introduced a resolution for the appointment of a special committee for the purp.ise of investigating the feasibility of re moving the capital and locating a site. DOMESTIC Thk minority members of the foreign affairs committee iu the house bitterly attacked Mr. Blount's Hawaiian policy in their report. In 1S93 the number of persons who committed suicide in the United States was 4,436, against in the previous year. The biggest trust ever organized has been almost perfected by the organiza tion of the saloonkeepers of Ohio. St. Loris officers caught two coun terfeiters with a complete outfit for the manufacture of bogus monej'. Six dead bodies were recovered from the ruins by fire of a Buffalo (X. Y.) boarding-house. The value of the three principal metals produced in Idaho during- 1893 was: Gold, $1,045,000; silver, $1,M)2,000; lead. $775,000; total, $3,922,000; against a total of $7,063,000 in 1S92. Albert Schock, of Chicago, won the 6ix-day bicycle race in New York, beat ing all records with 1.600 miles. In the United State 533,319.866 were given to charity, education and popular entertainment during the year 1S93. J. W. Burke & Co., publishers at Macon, Ga.. failed for $100,000. The receipts of the government for the first six months of the fiscal year were $155,431,314 and the expenditures $189,500,032, a deficiency of receipts ver expenditures of $34,003,718. The body of Lucy Stone, the philan thropists world-renowned thinker and defender ,,of the rights of woman, whose death occurred at Boston Octo ber IS last, was cremated in Boston. J. Iv-i Edmistox was arrested on the charge' 'of' embezzling $30,000 from the suspended 'Walla Walla (Wash.) Sav ings bank, of which he was president. Cbazt, from drink John Cummings locked himself and family in a burning1 Omaha hquse and four perished. The total number of post offices in operation in ' the United States is 6S, 800. .1; During the year 1893 78.839,233 pieces 'of money were. coined at Philadelphia. A negro- :ancl.. his three sons were whipped," twfth' 'hickory switches by masked men at Waco, Tex., for maim ing live felocki',,'-l'; The i total number of murders com-mitted-iaithe.United States in 1S93 was e,615, again st, 6,79,1. in 1893. The num ber of lega executions in 1S93 was 126, against 107 in 1H92,' .and the lynchings numberect'2to):J Kil A UTS amite ' petard was exploded outsido the parliament house at Athens, Greece.dqing ; great, damage to property- .ej r; urp After twenty-three' years of silence, caused ' by; terror,' Mrs. Kuertl, living near Valparaiso, Intl. recovered her speech?" ii tui,;ii m: )!. The xmtputt: of arort ore in the Lake Superiop:iregion;Tin0lSa3, was 6.135,000 ton, against.. 9,074.293, .tons the pre vious year.' " " ,.','. So far as repdr&d !d,085 lives -were lost on tlieoeean and -2I&' on the lakes and river i of i this ' country in 1S93, against 3,846 in IW. o:U The loofjlfe-.by; railroad disasters in the United. Slates, in. ,1S93 was 4.603, against 4.428 in. 1S92. " The losses by flrein thXUnited States for the year 1693' aggregated 8188,356, 940, showing a 'barge -increase as com pared with the losses of iWlZJt The GlDbtj theater and several other building in,. Boston were burned, the loss bein $500,000.... Whilst Mrs.' Phoebe ' Johnson and John Cleaveri:were standing 'up to be married 'in PatersonJ 'N. J.' the woman died of heart disease.! .i )inoO X The public debt; statement;; issued on the 2d sbowedi.that tb ,debtj Jucreased $7,125,723 during the ' month of ' Decem- ucr. aho ;iwu uamuce in me treasury was $90.375.5.Vt v The! total ' debt; less the cash balance in the-treasury, amounts to 963,605.trT? " ) The .Montgomery I company of Port Kennedy, 'amade an assign ment with liabilities' of $330, doo! x"'r"f On com plaint' of, his 4 wif eV Ch'irles Kohler," a' Toledo peddler, was 'arrested for a murder committed in' 188f.'','',', All. riders' wh6 took' ptirt' iti the six day bieyele. race Ln:Nevi Yark3iape been suspended - by . the National Cycling association- ,., .,r. :no1 If... Most pfj the. business . portion of. lied Key, Ind., was destroyed by' fire. '. lowA;-is"'dvefrun 'with"'Wampa;'"wno resort to fyrce'lf a' pitiful stdry'does not bring fobd'undshelter.!'.f;rf''J I!i v or:;;; Geobs e r. A.-BvK le , A' crankv , a tr; tempted to kill Gov. Renfrew, of Old. a-, homa, because he was not given an of ficial position. r .. Faiia'ces, ana . .suspensions , of all kinds fn'LouisVille', Ky.,'-Jfor 'the'ye'ar' 1893 aggregate litV's tilting in actual 1 liabilitiefcof 4.027.353.54. Ti.'.r; : J rriia: At Broadway. Va., a iierrb' named Edward Williams was publicly given 200 lashed. East-bound railway shipments dur ing 1893 amounted to 3,281,2S0 tons, against 3.749,650 in 1892. The Gloucester (Mass.) fishermen had a fairly prosperous year, the value of the season's catch being placed at $9,000,000. The Columbus Watch company's property at Columbus, O., went into the hands of a receiver with liabilities of $250,000; assets, $400,000. The amount of national bank notes outstanding December 31, 1893, was $20S,442,027. A gift of $50,000, to be expended in the purchase of books, was made by John D. Rockefeller to the Chicago university. The coinage executed at the United States mints during the month of De cember aggregated 8.714.551 pieces of the value of $10,490,775.25. In a collision between stock and freight trains near Linwood, Kan., three men were killed and twelve in jured, two fatally. Three men were killed and several injured by the premature explosion of a blast in a quarry near Boston. Francis T. Walton, better known as Plunger Walton, proprietor of the Grand hotel in New York, failed for $200,000. The internal revenue features of the Wilson tariff bill have been agreed on by the house committee. An income tax of 2 per cent is among the pro visions. Two hundred of the unemployed at Cleveland, O., marched to the city hall and demanded that they be given work or food. Rev. Dr. Howard was convicted at Jackson, Tenn., for using the mails for fraudulent purposes in carrying on a bogus business of securing alleged claims upon English estates for people in the United States. The belief that only seven of the 1804 silver dollars were in existence has been an error, for the eighth one has turned up in Philadelphia. The Children's Endowment associa tion of Minneapolis failed for $150,000. Donald Kennedy, one of the most notorious opium smugglers in the coun try, was arrested at Detroit. Garnier's masterpiece. "Le Hoi S'Amuse." valued at S100.000. was ruined by the carelessness of a St. Louis elevator boy. Sarah R. Angle was victorious in her suit against the Omaha road for $205,833 due her husband's estate for work done. The Southern Land and Improve ment company at Frankfort, Ky., went into the hands of a receiver with lia bilities of $500,000. Flames originating in an elevator destroyed $1,300,000 worth of property in Toledo, O., and caused the loss of two lives. The fire losses in New York city in 1893 aggregated $5,630,937, against $5 060.937 in 1892. E. A. Nelson, treasurer of Bruns wick, Ga., who had disappeared, was said to be $50,000 short in his accounts. The large safe of the Franklin Grove (I1L) bank was blown open and every thing of value taken. The loss was es timated at $35,000 in cash and paper. The wholesale drug house of T. II. Ilinchman & Son in Detroit. Mich., was burned, the loss being $150,000, and other property valued at $100,000 was also destroyed. A letter has just been returned to the La Porte (Ind.) post office from the dead letter office that was sent from La Porte by N. Weber fourieen years ago. An earthquake shock was felt in Telluride, Col. The United States government has just been informed that Minister Willis had written to the provisional govern ment in Hawaii requesting that they surrender office, as the United States government had decided in favor of the restoration of the queen, and that while President Dole had promised a reply soon it was hardly expected that this would be favorable to the queen. Albert J. Stone confessed judgment in Chicago for $172,547. It was said the money was lost in building operations. The Haynes Realty & Financial com pany, conducting one of the heaviest real estate businesses in St. Louis, failed for $175,000. The beet sugar factory in Lehi, U. T., the largest in the world, finished the season with a record of having man ufactured over 4,000,000 pounds. Powder exploded in the bouse of Sol Collins at Spring Creek, Mo., and Collins, his wife and four children would die. Representatives of many states met in Detroit. Mich., to form a new secret labor society, , Twenty-eight Arabian horses from the world's fair were sold at auction in Chicago, the average price being $360 a bead. Judge Long, of Michigan, will get his pension, Commissioner Lochren de ciding that its suspension was notlegaL Jake Kilroy went to bed with a lighted pipe in his mouth near Tuscum bia, Ala., and he and two children were fatally burned. Receivers were appointed for the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis and the Ohio Valley railway companies. ' j E. F. Cashman, the retiring treasur er of Greeley county. Neb,, was 6aid to be short $24,000. D. J. Cushman and William Morrill were killed and George Keifer fatally hurt in a freight train collision at War saw, N. Y. WagkwOrkers in Chicago were asked to contribute one day's pay toward relieving the distress of the poor and needy. Mrs. Mary McGrath, worth $40,000 d:ed an hour after being dug out of the rags and filth in her St. Louis home. A statement from the treasury de partment puts the stock of gold money ,in the principal countries in the world at $3,901,000,000, silver at $3,931,100,000, and uncovered paper money at $2,700, 000,000. ' Chief Ford's figures show the value 'of the country's foreign trade for 1893 ttf be the greatest since 1864. Resolutions congratulating Gov. Matthews on his stand regarding the Roby prize fights were adopted by In diana Presbyterians. i Gold-bearing quartz assaying twelva ounces to the ton has been discovered at Crooked Creek, Col. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Samuel Yarham, the oldest inhabi tant in central Kansas, died at Abilene, aged 109. He was thirty years in the English army. The legislatures of Ohio and Virginia convened in regular session. Thomas Payne King, who was in the charge of the Light brigade at Bala klava, died from apoplexy at Wichita, Kan. Nathaniel Wheexeh, president of the Wheeler &. Wilson Sewing Machine company, died in Bridgeport, Conn., aged 73 years. Mrs. Ann Baldrigk. 104 years old in October, fell at Terre Haute, Ind., and broke her thigh. Slie could not re cover. David J. Williams died at Saratoga, N. Y., at the advanced age of 103 years. Ilis father lived to be 1 13 years old and his grandfather died at the age of 129 years. The New York legislature convened at Albany. The Mississippi and Kentucky legis latures convened for business. Worthington C. Smith, ex-member of congress, died at Sr. Albans. Vt. Orlando B. Potter, aged 70, and a memncr of the Forty-eightn congress, dropped dead in front of the Bucking ham hotel in New York. The Maryland legislature raet at An napolis for its biennial session. The republicans of Pennsylvania in convention at Harrisburg nominated Galusha A. Grow, of Susquehanna, for congressman at large. The Massachusetts legislature con vened at Boston. Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch, th; oldest resident of Mason county, 111., died at Decatur, aged 104. Frederick Thomas Grkenhalge was formally inaugurated governor of the commonwealth of Massachusetts. Harry Kennedy, the famous song writer and ventriloquist, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. FOREIGN. At Teneriffe, one of the islands of the Canary group, a thousand deaths from cholera have taken place. The Manchester (England) ship canal was formally opened to traffic, A hundred thousand persons lined its banks. By a vote of almost 2 to 1 the prov ince of Ontario declared for prohibi tion of the manufacture and sale of liquor. French police visited the homes of 10,000 supposed anarchists and made many arrests. Cossack soldiers murdered 100 Cath olics at K rose ho Kowne, Russia. Accused of conspiracy against the government of Brazil, twelve naval cadets were shot on the plaza at Per nambuco. Anti-tax rioters at Campobello, Sicily, applied the torch to mills and public buildings and a third of the town was destroyed. At a state concert in Munich Freiherr Truchsess, formerly Bavarian minister at St. Petersburg, fell dead of apoplexy in the presence of the royal party. War between Nicaragua and Hon duras has begun in earnest, and the Honduras insurgent leader has estab lished a provisional government at Cor; pu. Sicily has been declared in a state of siege and Gen. Mora di Livriano has been endowed with full powers. Europe was storm swept, extending as far as Trieste. The suffering among the poor was terrible and many per sons had been frozen to death. LATER. The United States senate was not in session on the 5th. In the house rules were reported to govern the tariff de bate, but the absence of a quorum pre vented their adoption. Mrs. Joseph Wentz, at Miamisburg, O., drowned herself and babe while in sane. There were 511 business failures in the United States in the seven days endeu on the 5 th, against 344 the week previous and 231 in the corresponding time in 1893. Two-thirds of the business district of the town of Corwith, la., was de stroyed by fire. Officers at Muncie, Ind., arrested two of a gang of counterfeiters and secured a complete outfit for making money. The D. La thro p company, Boston book publishers, made an assignment with liabilities of $250,000. ' Dan Gilchrist (colored) was hanged at Rockingham. N. C, for the murder of his father-in-law. Alk Davis, an old negro, was lynched in Lonoke county, Ark., for stealing hogs. Cipher dispatches were received by the state department from the revenue cutter Corwin, just returned from Ha waii. Rioters attacked the troops at Ma- rineo, Sicily, and thirty of the mob were killed and fifty wounded. Sheriff Broward, of Jacksonville, Fla., has taken a hand -in the Corbett- M itch ell complication and he will stop the big fight. Gen. Crespo was reelected president of Venezuela. Warrants were out ibrThe arrestof forty Akron (O.) residents who wit nessed a cock tight in a hotel. Five-cent restaurants were being es tablished in New York city for the ben efit of the suffering unemployed. The Gutsch Brewingcompany at She boygan, Wis., failed for $100,000. Martin Reed (colorea) was hanged at Kansas City, Mo., for killing his wife on September 10. 1S90. Thomas and Kate Kinney, an aged ouple living in Orange, Conn., were burned to death in their home. Tnu schooner E. F. Willard went ashore near Ipswich, Mass., and eight of the crew were drowned. The exchanges at the leading clear ing houses in the United States during the week ended on the 5tii ult. aggre gated $030,800,551, against $77S,30,129 the previous week. The decrease, com pared with the corresponding week in ; 1893, was 25.8. TO RAISE KEVENUE. Important Action of the House Tariff Subcommittee. It Decides to I-vy a Tax of 3 Per Cent. . oo Personal Income, and to Increase the Tax on Whlnky and Play ing Cards. INCOMES TO BE TAXED. Washington, Jan. 4. The advocates of the individual income tax proposi tion were triumphant at the meeting of the democratic members of the ways and means committee Tuesday afternoon. The eleven members were present when the final meeting was held at the treasury department at 6 o'clock. Comparatively little time was: wasted in discussioa. The ground had all been argued and fought over time and time again, and Tues day afternoon the issue was joined on two propositions, one to levy a tax of 2 per cent, against individual incomes over $4,000 and against the incomes from corporations (that is, the differ ence between the gross income and the operating expenses, or, in other words, the net income); and, second, a proposi tion offered as a substitute by Mr. Cock ran (N. Y.) to tax the incomes from cor porations 1 per cent, and inheritances 6 per cent., to place a tax of ten cents on whisky and to restore sugar to the duti able list at one-half a cent to a pound. The vote on . Mr. Cockrau's substitute proposition, which was taken first, re sulted in its deft-at 7 to 4. The origi nal proposition was then submitted and carried by a vote of 6 to 5, as follows: Yeas McMillin, Turner.Whiting, Bryan, By num and Tarsney. Nyas Wilson. Cock run, Stevens, Montgom ery und Brecklnridi-e. It was also decided, in connection with the latter proposition, to increase the whisky tax ten cents a gallon that is from ninety cents t one dollar to be levied against whisky in as well as out of bond. Upon the representation thpt this increase would work undue hardship to the owners of whisky in bond it was decided to extend the bonded period from three to eight years. The tax on playing cards, at one time fixed at six cents a pack, was reduced to two cents, and the contem plated tax on perfumes and cosmetics was discarded. No increase was made in the tax on cigars, but the increase on cigarettes $1 per 1,000 was allowed to stand. The committee estimates that the tax on the incomes from corporatiena and individuals (corporations being treated as individuals) will raise $30, 000.000 revenue $12,000,000 from cor j orations and $1S, 000,000 from individ oals. The increase in the whisky tax, it is estimated, will give an additional rev enue of $10,000,000 per annum. The proposed tax on inheritance, which was to be levied in case the proposition for an individual income tax failed, wm not deemed necessary. INCREASE OF THE DEBT. During the Month of December the Total W Swelled by SS.K61 ,663. Washington, Jan. 4. The public debt statement shows the net increase of the debt, less cash in the treasury, during the month of December to have been $0,8f'.i,CG . The interest-bearing debt increased $9J, the . debt " on which interest has ceased sinc ma turity decreased $25,850, and the debt bearing no interest increased $2,003, 301. The reduction in the cash bal ance during the month was $4.824, 06 L The interest bearing debt is S585.039, 310, the debt on which interest has ceased since maturity is $1,913, 530, and the debt bearing no in terest is $376,053,077, a total debt of $903,005,917. The certificates and treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury amount to $004,317,424, an increase during the month of $5,088,122. The gold reserve is 80,891,600 and the net casn balance $9,483,955, a total available balance of $90,375,555, a decrease during the month of $4,824,001. The total cash in the treasury is $737,614,701. The total amount of national bank notes outstanding De cember 31, 1S93, was $20S,442,027, an in crease in circulation since December SI, 1892, of $34,141,215 and a decrease in circulation since November SO of $408,761. The circulation outstanding against bonds December 31 was $1S5, 087,703. A NEW BRIDGE. It Is Formally Opened in the Presence of Thousands at Leavenworth. - Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 4.- Fif teen thousand people, in addition to the 20,000 living here, celebrated the formal opening of the new steel draw-bridge across the Missouri river at this point. The parade was over a mile long. D. R. Anthony pre sided at the dedication exercises and the test was made under the super Vision of Engineer George L. Morrison, of Chicago. The test was most thor ough. Then followed a gala train of Burlington and Rock Island cars. Speeches were made by several noted men. In the evening there was a grand illumination and a mass meeting. Work on the five bridge piers was be gun December 20, 1892. October 1 last the first piece of iron was put into place and on December 15 the bridge proper was finished. It was the quick est piece of large bridge building on record. The structure cost $(570,000 and is a combination railroad and wagon bridge. FAMINE PREDICTED. Crop; of Raiwi Threatened by Frost Gloomy View of the Situation. St. Petersburg, Jan. 4. The Rus sian Agricultural Gazette takes a gloomy view of the prospects for 1894. The remarkable mildness of the winter so far and the absence of snow are regarded as of evil augury. The mild frost which set in lately con tinues, threatening the totl destruc tion of the crop. Specialist Ivanon Etchenkoff writing to the Grajadanin predicts' a widespread famine in 1894. This fear is largely shared by well informed persons. RUNAWAY TRAINS. They Can Loss of Life In New York and Went VI rein la. Warsaw, N. Y., Jan. 6. A freight collision on the Buffalo, Rochester fc Pittsburgh railroad at about 2 o'clock a. m. resulted in the death of two men and serious injury of another. Tho first section of train 33 left this sta tion at 1:30 a. m., and, having to take on some cars at Rock Glen, ten empty coal cars and the caboose were left on the main track in charge of a flagman, who must have gone to sleep and failed to set the brakes. The cars and caboose, in which the three men were doubtless asleep, came down grade at a fearful speed and struck engine 94 on the sec ond section of No. S3 just as it was pulling out of the west end of the yard. The caboose and six coal cars were utterly wrecked. The killed were: D. L. Cashman, of Machias, and Wil liam Morrell, braketnan. residence El mira. George W. Keifer, the flagman, is badly injured. Cashman's body was found under the wreek, and Morrell's on top of the boiler of the engine. He was evidently in the cupola of the ca boose. Faikmount, W. Va.. Jan. 5. There was a fnghtful accident at the mines of tho Monongah Coal it Coke compa ny, 5 miles from here Wednesday after noon, caused by a train of four loaded cars breaking loose from the toil ropo on the inclined entry and running back where the miners were at worlc Robert Hitter was crushed against the wall and died in two hours. Fennimore Anderson was frightfully cut about the head and had his skull fractured. Frank Gallagher had his left arm crushed off and sustained other severe injuries. Both Gallagher and Anderson are expected to die. IN TROUBLE. Kecelvers Named for the Louisville, Kvunaville C St. Louis Koal. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 6. The finaucial diflieulties of the Louisville, Evansville & St Louis Consolidated Railroad company culminated Thurs- j day with the appointment of two re ceivers ice President L. O. Hopkins and James II. Wilson, of Springfield, 111. The petition upon which the receivers were appointed by Judge Woods alleges that the funded indebtedness, which is in mortgage bonds upon the railroad propert3 is $:0,OOO.C0; that there is a floating debt of $900,000, of which $500,000 1 past due; that the pay rolls for March and December have not been caid, and that the interest on the bonded debt falling due January 1 has been defaulted. This interest, it is al leged, amounts to $132,000. It is also alleged that the company is unable to pay its operating expenses; that its securities have been pledged for tem porary loans at greatly depreciated value, and that their value as assets of the road is menaced by the proba bility of their sale in default of tak ing up the temporary loan. Tho railroad company in an answer which is signed by E. O. Hopkins, vice president of the road, admits all the allegations of the complainants. Judge Woods issued an order appointing Hop kins and Wilson receivers, and fixing their bonds at $25,000 each. The re ceivers are instructed to operate the road without interruption. THE CRONIN TRUNK STRAP. The Long-Mlsslnc Leather Itand Has Iteea Found. Chicago, Jan. 6. At last the long missing strap on the trunk sold to J. B. Simonds by Clerk Hatfield, of A. II. Revell & Co.'s furniture es tablishment, has been located. Hat field has identified it. The state has found it in the pos session of Adam Doerr. an old shoemaker at 142Jj' North Clark street, who says it was brought to him a few days before Dr. Cronin's murder by a man who wanted the buckle repaired. The job was done but the man never came back. This man answers the de scription of Martin Burke. The identi fication of the strap adds another clew to the men concerned in the murder. The latest development in the Cough !in investigation supplies the state with a brand new witness. On the authority of .Mr. Bottum, who is not given to re tailing idle rumors, this new witness will testify positively to having seen Daniel Coughlin in the neighborhood of the Carlson cottage May 12, 1S89. The name of the new witness for the state is Mrs. liorton and she lives on Woodside avenue. She knew both Foy and Coughlin and it is asserted that she will . swear that she saw both men named at the corner of Roseoe street and Ashland avenue May 12, the day the cottage floor was painted. A NOTED WOMAN GONE." Death ot Kllsabeth I. I'eabody, a Leader la Kducatlonal ileforna. Boston. Jan. 6. The venerable Eliza beth I. Pea body, of Jamaica Plains, is dead. She was one of the advanced educators of the century and was di rectly uoncerncd in the introduction of the kindergarten system in this coun try, and has been foremost in all edu cational reforms, especially in that of establishing new and important meth ods in the existing school system. She was born in Billerica, Ma6s., May 10, 1804, and was the daughter of Nathan iel Peabody, a well-known dentist Her 6ister, Sophia, became the wife of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and another sis ter, Mary, married Horace Mann, who founded the school for the deaf and u m Ii BRIEF FUN. The Youth "And what shall I do to hav5 my fellow-men speak well of me?" The Sage "Die." "Willie has a terrible cold on his che6t." "Dear me! How did he catch it?" "Went out one day without his chrysanthemum." Stadehoue-"They tell nie the aver age cowboy's language is fall of dash and piquancy." Binwestr "I don't know about the piquancy. P:om a printer's standpoint, though, it b cer tainly full of dash." BIG FIRE IN TOLEDO- Several liusiness Blocks Horned The Loss Estimated at Vl.300.000. Toi.odo, O.. Jan. 5. A fire which, caused a loss of $1,300,000, sweeping out several of the largest business blocks in the city and causing the probable loss of two lives, began in this city at 6:30 o'clock Wednesday night. The West ern Union is completely burned out and the Tostal is urable to take messages. These facts are -nt by long distance telephone and the Western Union at Detroit. The fire commenced on the river front of F. M. Quales' elevator, and was probably caused by an explosion of dust. This elevator was located at the corner of Madison and Water streets It was filled with grain, and, although the Sre was discovered before it had done much damage, it had seized such a hold on the inflammable building and contents that it soon be came evident that the elevator could, not be saved. The general alarm was turned in ami the twelve fire companies responded. Capt. Frazer, of Company No. 1, took four of his men to the top of the ele vator. The flames spread furiously through the lower part of the build ing and it was soon seen that the building could . not be saved. Three explosions of dust followed soon after and the burn ing building fell, a mass of ruins. Timbers were thrown in all directions and dozens of people were struck by them, many of them being badly in jured. Capt. Frazer was badly burned. His companions miraculously escaped. Julian Odell, a hoseuian in Company 6, was run over by his cart and so badly injured that he is dying. After the explosion the flames shot across Water street to the chamber of commerce building. King's elevator and oflice block across Madison street also caught and both buildings soon be came masses of flames. The chamber of commerce was a six-story stone building, containing about 120 offices and two banks. Wonderland theater was next door to it, on Summit street. Across Summit street from the chamber of commerce, which extends from f.ummit to Water, is the Hartford blo-k and government building. A terrific wind was blowing the flames straight toward them. The Hartford block was badly damaged, but by heroic work on the part of the fireman the progress of the flames was blockevi. As it is, about 200 offices and business houses are burned out. The largest losses are as follows T. B. Brown, chanber of commerce build ingr, 2jO.O0O, insurance f.lO.tOO; F. N. Quales. grain and elevator, tSO.'XW, fully inured: Frank T. King, grain and elevator, 1 160,000. (i 18.U00 insurance; Toledo Press, club. t-.00, no insurance: C L. Luce estate building. J60.UO0; Wonderland tbeater, onr.ei by Moore and others, of Buffalo, toC.OuO; Samuel Youd? building. 150.000; '"est & Truax, wholesale drugs. 175.000, insurance 145.000: William Baker. Hartford block. (10 'JOO; Mrs. K. Bullock, Cincinnati. Anderson block. flO.000: Second national bank office fixtures, etc., (25.CO0. In tbe vault which lies in the ruins is more than S2J0,OjU It cannot now be told whether this is destroyed or not Spit rer &. Co, bankers' and bond brokers' orilce fixtures, 2J.0J0, besides a large sum in the vault: Western Union telegraph, about K5,0J; American District telegraph, i-iJ.oOJ: Bacon ti Huber, architects. HO.OuO; E. O. Fallis. archi tect. 130.000: A. B. Sturires. architect. i25,0u0: Union Central Life insurance, (15,000: S?ep Coad, saloon, HO.OUO; John Poag estate build, ing, 115,0110 Robison Street Railroad company general offices, about (10.000. The remainder of the losses are made up among lawyers, insurance men, etc. The fire was gotten under control about 9 o'clock. A riot alarm was turned in, to which four companies of mili'.ia and one of artillery, under com mand of Col. II. S. Bunker, re sponded. The soldiers did gxxl service in keeping the crowd away from the danger. It looked at one time as if the entire business part of the city would be swept away. At 1 o'clock telegraphic service had been patched up and the burned out firms were look ing for new locations. Owing to the high wind help was re quested from the nearest cities and re sponded tc promptly by Cleveland, Detroit and Adrian. The latter two reached the city before the fire was under control aud rendered efficient service. This is the largest fire which has ' visited Toledo for the last twenty years. . Loss of 8250,000 to Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 5. Fire started from some unknown cause in the third story of T. H. Ilinchman & Son's whole sale drug house about 6:30 o'clock Wednesday evening. The building was shortly beyond saving and the firemen directed their efforts to rav ing adjoining buildings. The Ilinch man building was four stories high and extended through the block from Jef ferson avenue to Woodbridge street, with an addition on the Woodbridge street end. Adjoining the latter is. Standart Bros.' wholesale hardware house, which also suffered heavily from fire and water. W. H. Edgar & Co., wholesale sugar dealers, sustained a loss of sev eral hundred dollars from fire, water and smoke. Another building, occupied by Louis Blitz & Co., fancy glass manufacturers, was somewhat damaged with small loss on stock. The Hiuchman house was one of the oldest, and largest in the state. Their loss or. building and stock will probably react. $165,000; insurance, $115,000. Th Standart stock and building were val ued at $115,030, nearly covered by in surance. Their actual loss cannot cow be estimated, but it is believed the en tire loss will be about 250,000. DEATH OF CONSUL SAVAGE. The American Rrprpsentwtive t Durder Scotland. Pastes Anaj. Washington. Jan. 5. The depart ment of state is informed by cable of the death of George XV. Savage, Uaitett States consul at Dundee, Scotland. Mr. Savage was an invalid for several months, his age, 00 years, tending to the rapid progress of his disease. He was born in New York, and appointed in President Cleveland's first term from. New Jersey consul at Belfast. Las June be was appointed consul at Duo-dee