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WAR SHIP TO SAMOA THE AMERICAN FLAG WILL. FLOAT IN SAMOAN WATERS. Th Mohlean a Training Ship Will go mt Hmm a American Inlereftta lieuiaud It- Churchill on Mauioa. New Yohk, Feb. J. The American flag Will goon be displayed in S.imoan waters by a man-of-war, says tlie Her ald's Washington correspondent. Tht vessel will be the Mohtcin, which ha been converted into a training ship. Since the arrival in Washington of former Consui-General Churchill, the president and Assistant Secretary ol State Day have become convince! that American interests demand that a man-of-war shall soon visit Samoa. Mr. Churchill has told them that the na tives Lave no respect for the A eric-in overnment because it has never sent a man-of-war to support any steps f ir the protection of American interests which its representatives in Apia might take. Mr. Churchill reported an insult paid to a man from Arizona who had es tablished a miBion near Apia. He de manded satisfaction, hut the native! laughed at him, and upon subeeiuent occasions, when he attempted to pet latisfaction for soma wrong committed, they taunted him w it h the u' rage com mitted upon the minion and the fur ther fact that he had received mi sup port from his government in th stand he had taken. The natives have quite a different feeling for the Bri'.it-h and German government. Fach of these (tovernments keeps one and sometime! two cruisers in Samoan waters Th last American war ship to vi'it Apia was the Alliance, which dropped ancnor in the harbor of Apia in 1893. Upon the arrival of the Mohican in Samoa n waters it Is expected that its command ing oflicer, Cuinmandther G. M. Uo k, will confer w ith Consul-General Oflborn In regard to the s'eps to be taken to create a deeper resp"Ct among the na tives for the American flag. Aa a reeult of the representatto" which have been made b former Con- ul-Geneial Churchill, the administra tion may enter into negotiations w th London and Beriin louki'g to the amendment of the tripartite treaty uu der which Samoa is governed. In the firm place Mr. Churchill thinks the sal aries of the cnief justice and other of- fleers appointed by the three govern ments in Samoa are tx high, and these may be scaled dow n. There is no in tention on the part of the government to abandon the interests of this govern ment in Samoa, Mr. Churchill does i o recommend it, although he says the oniy reason why this government should con tinue its hold upon the island is because It in morally bound to do so by the course pursued in the past. Mr. Church Ill states that if the United States were to withdraw from Samoa, the islands would Le diviled up by Germany and Great Britain. ;)Ternnir-fit and Htuta Hand- Sold. Nbw York, Feb, 1. More than 90, OoO.OOO of government state and railroad bonds have been sold during this month compared with $:JH,13S,000 for the same month last year. This is the highest monthly record in history. The Com mercial Advertiser says: "When bankers are asked why bondi re so active and money at the banks so cheap, they reply that money is pouring Into New York from all parts of the country so freely that there will be no bet'tr money rate. Tnat there is ten dency among a number of banks to re duce rates of inte-est on deposits is true bat that there is a general inclination to do so is not yet apparent. In the mean time it is expected that bonds for in restment will remain active. Luetg-rrt Caa Nraring; a Cloaa. Cilit'Aiio, Feb. 1. Oratory in tht Luetgert case is scheduled to begin to day, when Assistant State's Attorney McKwen exp"ctt to open for the prose cution. He will probably speak until late and will be 'ollowed by Attorney Kehoe, who will talk for a day. Then will come Attorney Jtieae, who is tc argue that the state has utterly failed lt prove the death of Mrs. Luetgert. Attorney Harmon will talk for thres sr four days in behalf of Luetgert State's Attorney Deneen will close thl arguments, but his speech will not re 4 lire more than a day for delivery. Th case will go to the jury next week. When court convenes tomorrow morn ing a few witnesses will be Introduced by the delense in sur-rebuttal. Tonight Attorney Harmon announced that he would put Luetgert on the stand again t morrow. Today a doxn witnesses were called by the defense to testily as to the good chaiacterof William Charles. llald bf the Folic. Bostok, Feb. 1. Chief lnipectot Watts received a telegram - from tht po ice of Begins, N. W. T., who bare it cuitody Abraham Tebitt,- the allege defaulting leather commission merchant of this city, and his wife, stating thai bonds, money and Jewelry amountini to nearly $25,00) have been rec jvered. Oafaraor Qrla-aT's Baalcna. TasNToa, N. J. Feb. 1 Governoi firiggs sent to both houses cf the legis lature communication giving noti that ha had fil-.'d his resignation witr the secretary of state, to take effeot af saidnitht. Tha two bouses then passed a res-dutloa providing that President Voorhara of tha senala should taka thl oath of offloa as acting governor. A concurrent resolution eulogistic of Governor Griggs was adopted bf boit the sens la and aaambly-. DEATH AND DISASTER. torriblc Ntorm Ileal ro)H I Urn and laui.fi llnaijr I. iu of Prownjr. Bi.ktos, F b. 2. A northeast snow lorm which raged until yesterday after noon, completely paralysed all branchei af bnsineH an 1 stre t car ami s'eam railroad trallie, and f'r a time shut ofl the it y fr'tn mmunieation with ill plaot B ouifride the limits d H 9'on. The etorm was the most bevere tt.is city has experienced in twenty-five years, ind ni-e 1 the lows of several lives, 1 jidi oii.g a in: mey damage of hundred? ' t ussnds of dol am. between 1 and 5 o'clock yesteida) noiti.n.'ft foot of heavy, wet snow set Jed over ttie city and leveled wires i ill i.ireetioiiH. The snow clung to tin. pole and wires, and, aided by a wine tilowmg at the rate of City ui le at lour, prostrated all telei hone at d tele fraph lines out of the city. Mo'e thar jalf the elect" ic lights of the city wen" inland in suburan towns the fire alarn i.irvice was crippled. Lite Monday ngbt the big thru -nated scliouner, Charles T. I'.r ggs, ol Bath. Me , coal laden, was dashed to piece-; on the Nahan cnast and it is be ieved her crew of eight men perished. The liody of one ol the crew has been recovered. In the business district it was nearly noon wnen many employes reached their places of employment, all subur ban trolly lines hav.ng been abandoned it inidniirht arid the steam railroads be ing unable to run uiore than two or three suburban trains during the after noon. All the through trains from New York and the west, as well as those from the eat, w.-re some four to six hours late, and many did not get in un til late in the afternoon. Tho trai ka were badly blocked with snow, but masses of 1 roken poles and wires scat tered over the road were encountered at many point". Last night the few trains moving are running without a telegra phic service. The city and suburbs are covered with broken p iles and tangled wires. Many hortea were killed in th itreets by stepping Uion the ends ol telephone wires which had fallen across the trolley wires. Tim situation aa- jumt'd such a dangermis aspect that Mayor Quincy ordered that none of the electric lights be turned on except in diHtricts where the wires are under ground. It will require weeks to re Itore the telephone and telegraph ser vice. ot a single telegraph wire out ol BoMon was in operation all day and the telephone wires were in almost as bad condition. The wholesale and rnoBt of the husi ness districts of the city were deserted ill day. On the stock exchange trans itions were very limited. Shipping in the harbor was damaged zrcatly and it iB fen red that many dis asters to coast shipping will be reported when telegraphic communication is re itored. The center of the storm appeared U be in the vicinity of New Bedford, and the blunt of it fell on Boston and terri tory within a radius of fifteen or twenty miles. From meagre reports rece v.k! from the middle and western pans oi the state the storm there was les severe. Here about twenty inches ol now fell. Rockland, Me., Feb. 2. The storm has stopped traffic and no trains a' moving. I luring the storm the fishing schooner Lena Young i arted her lines and drifted ashore. She is now in a perilous posi tion. The crew wag rescued. Kfyptlan Cotton a .Succrn. Wabhinoto.n, Feb. 2. An official roll er gin test under the direction of the of- ficeof fibre investigations of the depart-!are riiAnt fif naripiiltiira at Tinskr, tv- .. Texas grown Kgyptian cotton, has Just ' been concluded with most succcs mil and , 'liug cauie are now uri..B.i.g giatifying results. For several yr, money than they will bring in the mark culture experiments have been carried et mUvn 'ttd- what '8 true ol cattle' on In Texas by W. li. Weotworth on the he "Tled, is also true of shep, horsei seed distribution bv the department n(1 ho, with the view of oroduction in this ,n. I Governor W. A. Bichards of Wyominp try of Egyptian cotton. A serious ob stacle to success has been the need of a proper gin to separate the seed from the lint, the ordinary gin injuring the cotton to a ruinous degree, but this has been I overcome by a special form of gin. The engineer expert states that the cotton produced from the E'yptian feed plant- id in Texas is stronger tuaa the native cgy !... u, -s ...un-aveo oy me y,e per , oiiy ,.,.,,,, r,.acile,l was that ou in gmning. This was seventy pounds , bcnBlor() Mason and Butler should pre .r hour the first day ami seventy-six j pare the bill which shouhl be used as l and nine-tenths per hour the second day. basiH (,r lurther delilerations. The bill I aimed only II Ity pounds prhour- (he output of the native Fgyj t in. Ik lint from this test will be examined a,.,i farther reported tip, n. The imports of Egyptian cotton afv steadily increasing and now amount Ai value to over $5,000,000 annually. With the ginning question settled those who are interested in the growth of Egyptian eotton in Texas assert that produ- tion in this country is assured. A Krraaraahl 114 rth Kocord. PtXhAcoi A, FIs. Feb. 2. One of the most remarkable birth records has oc curred near Pollard, Ala. Seven yrars ago Mrs. .. I). Pettis gave birth to throe children two girls and one boy. A few days since she gave birth to four boy all now living. Two of them wighed flvs and a half pounds each and the other 'wo six pounds each A Mpm-tal From fihanfthal. LOM don, Feb, 2 According to the spe cial dispatch from Shanghai the critical point oi l be Chinete oan negotiation was Ureal Britain's insinience that tin British should always remain it th head of the Vang Tse Kiang valley cus toms and assume their full admission Id eaaa of d-fault. The dispatch adds that aeveial thousand Russian troops, which have been guarding the trans-Siberian! railroad have ente,..i Manchnrla wttb tha concent of Pekin aulho.i. ica. FJHE IS EXrENSlVJi LOUIS HAS A FIRE WHICH COSTS A MILLION DOLLARS. Big fir4n Klevalor and I'relijlit 1I"" Ilurnud Hefore Help an li Any ixd- C lileraMc l relKht U j..t and Mauv llrM- -r-iiiat"t- St. Urih, .Ian. 27. One of the rnoBt disastrou. tires in East St. L-iuis for many years started at 9:40 o'clock Tues day iii'ht in the Union elevator, the la gest buii.iing of i;s kind either here ir in St. L-.ui-, and before it had burned in-elf out pmierty to the estimated value oi DO.oiHI was de-troy-'d. The elevator and us .uiiluiiV. rupp'-Hed to (OnUin not far from 1,2,0,0110 hu- elgof arain; tne Chicag.. Burii.igton AQumry fr. ight house adjoining, with ten car add of merchandise, eighty-five ear Lads cf crn and a number of nnall dwellings were burned, tng-ther with he stables of ti.e St. Louis Transfer company. The tne w,B ii o ered by ii e elevator watclii.ian, and del .re lie ,-ould turn :n an i the Ha'ne had got su b a Htari, 'cing fanned by the -trong northwest wind, tnat they soon , nvel..ped the whme building. Before tne tire had been burning an hour the elevator aud us concents were doomed and the flames had read to the Bur lington freight hou--. All the appara tus, in the ity of East St. Louis was called to the scene, but no impression :ou!d lie made on the lire and help was .1 ked from St. Louis. Thiee engines were sent over. At mulnicht the fire was confined vuitl.in the liii.i'H named, but It will be mciiv hours before it burns itself oat liu l,oai.;,.ut Insi-rs are thought t, be the h. B. White Gram company. H. C. Ilaartsick and the United Elevator com pany, which owned the bulk of the grain in the elevator. It iB imn'isHible at this iatehour to ac curately estimate the losse.-), but it is thought that they will foot up to at least $1,000,000. What the inHurance amounts to cannot bo learned now. Given up for Lost. San Fbancihco, Cai., Jan. 27. The steamship IVIican, now 103 (lays out fiom Foit Towuacnd, for Taku, Japan, una h.-en i.iveii uo an lo3t. She was never spoken of alter the passed Cape Flattery. She has a complement oi fifty-five oflicers and men. I'he local branch of the United States hydrographic office received reports during November of several large log tioating in the path of vessels bound Irom I'uget coun ' to the orient. It is the opinion of local shipmasters that the Pelican struck one of these logs at night and sunk, befoie her boats could be manned. As high as teo guineas rein surance baa been paid on the missing steamer. fc .. -, Stockmen In Sewlon. Dbnvpb, Colo., Jan. 27 Chairman Springer called the national Btock grow er's convention to order yesterday There waa a full a.tennance of delegates. A committee -vas choeen of one from each state represented to draft a consti tution and b)-Uws. The first address was on "S'atistics at to Values of Live Stock and Prospsctive Conditions,"!).? J. II, Neff, editor of the Drovers Telegrim, Kansas City. The 8je;iker reviewed the history ol the stock growers business of the past fifteen year, showing that the industry, which ws on the down gia le,for a num ber of years, reached bottom a couple o! years ago and has since been improving. Figures were given to show that pricet now U1,,re tlln -'w per cent aoove I the lowest point of a kw yeara ago. IU "I"?Mrd tWe ieAT lhat "tocklnK anu next spoke on "The Cession of the Arid Public Lauds to the State." Poatal Having- Bank. Washinoton, Jan. 27. The senate ,,torti,a and nostroadi j yeit;rjay had und r consideration th. :,dviM,lim- o establishing the schem (l( ,rflHtai .aviriga hanks in the United Tf;, , r-u io., wis goners! and will supplant the numerous measures or that subject now before the committee, and Messrs. Mason and Butler were re quested to have it ready before the next meeting. A communication was read from Post master-General Gary making suggestion! on details of the legislation proposed, He urged the giving of the largest pos sible discretion to the postmaster-general in putting the new system in oper ation and suggested 2 per cent as a pro fitable and reasonable rate of interest. Waa Mot llurnad, Bpocane, Jan. 27. The report UiatG. D' Albert, a violinist and brother of tht famous pianist, was burned In the Great Eastern block fire, proves unfounded. He wis not in the building at the timr and has been located. Trouble in India. Muscat, Gnll of Oman, Jan. 27 Tha British gunboat Lapwig baa siezed tht steamer Beioonohistan off here and iti cargo ol arms" and ammunition has been confiscated. The cargo is held by the British consul. It is presumable that the cargo of ami and ammunition aeli -d by tha Lapwing was Intended lor the uaa of tha Insur gents of Beloochlstan, who have roa.t ly been giving considerable trouble to the British. CHARGED WITH IV.JRDER. A hherltT and tliclity Depotle in Troulile W.-i.KK-iKAKMK, Pa., Jin. 3!.r-Tne case of Sheriff James Martin ami hu eighty depulier, charged with murder and (e'o lions wounding of a f core of "trnking miners at Ltthner, this county, September 10, last, will be called for t. ial in the criminal court next Tuesday February 1 It is expected that the tria) will 'ast a week and it may be loruer Oefore a verdict is reached. Able coun sel has been i niployed on both sides. M ire than a hundred witnesses have been sutip jeuaed and most of them will heheaid The commonwealth willclaim that the strikers ere only exercisinif their rights as free men when they marched on the public highway un billed. It will be contended that they we.-e not lawless; that they had off red no personal violence to anyone and that they were not bent on destroying p-op-erty. The lawy.-r for the prosecution will quote decisions from the higher c inns to show such a bo ly of men had a ri ht to move on the public highway w i e en.'a:-l n a peaceful mission. O i the other hand counsel for the de feme will ch-trge that the strikers were riotous, that they were armed and tnat their intention was to destroy property. Tney will call witnesses to show that the people living in the strike district were fearml for their lives and that B mie of them moved away for nafety. It will abo be shown that the sheriff had ine in conflict with the strikers at llazleton on the morning af September 1", and that he then and there warned them tiy reading the ritt act that they should dispr.-e and go to their homes. Instead ol accepting this advice, they j ered the oflicer of the law and pro ceeded on their match to Latimer. The Latimer mine was in operation, t e employes had no grievances so far as knnwn, an 1 it will las averred, the only object (he Btrikers could have had in gong there was te intimidate the men. The owerg of the mine had appealed to the si-eriff to protect their property and in attempting li do his sworn dutv in the matter, his d uties came in ci n flict with the strikers and bloodshed was the result. The defense will con tend that this was the most natural thing in the world and that under the c reumstances it would he a travesty on justice to hold the officers of the law guilty of murder. Arretted for Murder. Buht.isotos, -Ian. 31. Six members of what is known --Pthe Storms gang are now under arrest charged with compli city in the muiler of Mre. Rath burn and her daughter. Blood Btains were found on the clothing of Storms, the leader. A lad named Parsons told the police that he called at the home of the Bath burns several weeks ago and found two " en the-e. One of t em, he said, askd Mary Rilbburn to fix his tie and the boy afterwards identified the tie found on the body of Mary Rathburn as the one that had been called to bis atten tion that nit'lit. The supposition is that the girl tore the tie rom her assailant in tha struggle for her life. Young Par 6 ins also picked out the man Storms from a number of prinoners and declared he was the man who wore the tie on the light he called at the Rathburn home. Exporting Mexican Cattle. Washington, Jan. 31 The remark able growth of the exports of Mexican cittle to the Unite 1 States forms the subject of a report to the state depa t ment from United States Consul Kind rick at Cindad, Juarez. He says that while it was supposed the large export were attributable to the desire to fore stall the duties carried by the Dinglef set, yet this has proved to be erroneous, f r the trade g ea on increasing steadily until the cattlemen in many cases have exhausted their herds and all have real ised handsomely. The island of Cuba drawl about 6,000 head per month and the consul pays that the price of cattle for home consumption in Mexico will soon r Be tj a point where they cannot b- proCtally handled. There are not many cattle left in Mexico and thequal ity exported to the United States is of low grade, that have no effect on prices in the south west. A lirand Banquet. IlAVAN.t, Jan. 31 Yesterday morning United Slates Oonmil-General Lee gave a banquet a'- the Havana Yacht club house at Mariano beach, to the officials of tht United States warship Maine. The company included several well known American residents and repre sentatives of the American and English press residing in Havana. Contul-Gen-eral Lee presided and proposed "Cap I tin Sigsbee and the splendid officers of the Maine." Captain Sigsbee respond ed and then proposed "The United States and Consul. General Fitihugh Lee, its representative in Cuba." There were no other toa-ds. Consul General Lee, Vice Consul-Gdueral Bpringerand another member of the party distributed food among the poor people whom curiosity bad attracted to the club house. After the banquet sev eral of the officers of the Maine witness ed a bull tight having been provided for tnem by General Parado. The attrac tion was Mar.zantini. Spain's most cele brate 1 bullfiifhter. A Ilia Ntrla Looked ror. Bkllaike, O., Jan. 31. It Is thought that a big strike may be looked for at the Wheeling lion and 8teel company's woikiat Ben wood, W Va. Thecompany last week gave its employes notice of s reduction of from 10 to 30 per cent in waies after February 21. The employes at tha plate mill went on a strike last Monday. Saturday afternoon the men met and rejected the proposed uewsoala A strike affecting eight hundred men is probable. BUSINESS 4S liETTElt PAST WEEK HAS SEEN AN ENCO'UR . AGING INCREASE IN TRADE. Itraifxt reel's Report Make a Kamrable hliou ing - Im-reaHed Activity in Mei--cliaiiillHlnff. I.liteK and iif all Jiidintrie I-arj;e Kxjxiru of heat.' Xbw Yohk, Jan. 20 Bradstreet's to day fays: Favralde conditions in the trade sit uation continue to far outweigh those of an opposite character. Stormy weather throughout a lare section of the country this week has checked the movement of the merclnndise in the country but a good demand for season able goods U reporte I as already result ing. The last week of the month cloned with increased activity in nnny lines, a number of price advances, heavily in creased bunk clenngs, as compared with one year air" t nearly all cities, another considerabl drop in the num ber of failures reported, large, exports of cereals, particularly wheat, corn and flour, aim perceptibh confidence in near ly all branches of trade as regards the outlook for spring business. Another favorable feature of the week is the plight but distinct improvement in the cotton goods situation, in which specula tive at tivity is awakening. Print cloths are higher and some makeB of gray and medium weights cottons are more firm ly held. Pig iron is reflecting the effect of the piesent unprecedented production and a further weakening in prices is re corded i.t eastern pointB. At the west, however, consumpti m of pig and of the finished prolucts o iron anil steel is re ported increased so as to hold prices firm. Large eales of bar steel and rails are reported at Chicago and St. Lo lis, with mills refusing tj take orders for delivery earlier thsi late summer. Boots and shoes hold the late advance and manufacturers of heavy weights will not take orders for fall delivery at present prices. Wool is strong on large sales and firm prices abroad. Prices of most staple product are higher on the week, notable instances of which are w heat past the dollar mark again at many western markets. Collections are generally reported air, thoBe indicating backwardness coming most generally fiom the south. Cereal exports are again heavy, total shipments of wheat, including flour, for the week amounting to5,110,G24 bushels against 3,96,00;) budiels last week and against 3 926.000 bushels last week and 2,515,000 in this week a year ago. Corn exports have also heavily increased from last week, amounting to 4,962,000 bushels, againft. 3,436,000 busheh last week and 3,011,000 bushels last year. A Myntvriou. Murderer. Cincinnati, O., Jan. 29. Christian Klein, owner of the Cincinnati flour mills at Corryville, a suburb of this city, was murdered by robbers at the mill Thun-day evening. The robbers got nothing, but effected their escape. At midnight Klein was reported at the hospital as dying. He never re gained consciousness and the case is full of mystery. He has been wealthy, but suffered losses the past few years, and creditors put his mill in the liandtof the sheriff on attachments. The suicide ti e ry is insisted on by the pdice. William Klein, one of the victim's sons, is missing. William was a partner and a.itive in the management of the millB. Klein was shot on the canal bridge near his mill an J since no trace of William could be had up to midnight the police are dragging the canal for the Bon's body and for the revolver that may have been ueed in the eyent of it being suicide. Later in the night William Klein, the son, was found at his home in the su burb of Corryville. The victim's pocket book, emptied of its contents, waa found on the bridge and there are other evi dences of highway robbery and murder. The police abandoned the dredging and the euici le theory. Swindling- the Lotteries. Cleveland, O., JaD. 29 Government secret service agents succeeded in un earthing a gang of lottery ticket coun terfeiters, whose operations during the last five years have extended through nearly every large city in the country. As lotteries are outlawed, the forging of the tickets cannot be punished, but the postal agents got after them for sending lottery tickets throgh the mail. Thurs day afternoon they arrested Thomas Dolan, thirty-five years old, ostensibly a carpenter, on the charge of sending lottery tickets through the mail, and searched his house. In the basement was found complete paraphernalia for altering lottery tickets, and it was con fiscated. Dolan was released on 500 bail. Tha gang's method of operations was to buy lottery tickets, wait for the announcement of the winning numbers and change the numbers on the tickets to correspond. The work was done by scraping tha original numbers off and painting the new numbers and lettering on with fine camels hair brushes. Smallpox at Gale bo if. Galksburo, 111., Jan. 29. A genuine eane of smallpox, located here Thursday caused much excitement. Trouble Among" Kantncky Miner. Pinxvii.lk, Jan. 29. The situation at the Straight Creek mines is growing more serious each day. There are hourly conlliits bet-veen th union and non union miners and serious trouble ia feared if the differences are not adjusted. A general battle was fought last night near the mines between the anion and non-union miners when seventy-five shots were exchanged. Wm. Moore and John and Andy Rexton anion men were badly injured. STEAMER GOES ASH0RE7 Una Woman Is ao Ita'lly Frown That . . . MM UUa . - .... j, .Sr. Johspir, 'Mitch;, Jan. 28. TheLaka Michigan and Lake Superior Trahlpor'-'' tatiou company's sleainer City of Dulato, which struck the bar outside the har bor piers and 'went ashore duHrtg a gala Wednesday night, has broken in two in tbe centre, and the wreck is pounding badly. The life-saving crew saved ths failure, consisting of about twenty-five, and the few passengers aboard, by bringing them ashore in the breeches buoy. The steamer grounded only about 350 feet from the pier. The Chicago tugs, Protection and Morfonl, which cama over to tow the disabled steamer, Ciy of Traverse to Chicago, approached the stranded steamer, but wereuuableto oelp her, on account of the heavy sea. The City of Ihiluth was an old but staunch steamer. She waa under char ter of the Gresham & Morton Transpor 'ation company, carrying principally through freight from Chicago to this port, in connection with the Big Four railway. She was owned by the Lake Mi higan & Superior company and com manded by Captain McLain. Her ca pacity was about 1,000 tons and her value about $20,000. She was laden with package freight and grain. The steamer is well insured, and it is under stood there is $12,000 insurance on he cargo. On several previous trips she struck on the bar, while entering this harbor. The spot where the City of Duluth struck is the same dangerous sandbar at the mouth of the harbor on which it is supposed the ill-fated Chicora and its hapless crew went down three years ago, alunoBt to a day. Mrs William lyron, one of the wom en rescued, is dying from the effects of exposure, being badly frozen in the pas aue from the wrecked vessel to th dock. WOBK or TliR RESCUERS. The two big tugs Morford and Pro tection, which had accompanied the uoat across the lake, made several des perate attempts to reach her and get the crew and passengers off, but were every time unsuccessful. Ttie life-saving crew reached tha scene iu quick time, considering that they had disbanded for the winter. At midnight, they bad shot a mortar line to the boat and the rescue began. The tirst one to be taken ashore was August Kernwein, a business man of this city. He dipped into the water several times, during tbe perilous trip, and was badly frozen, when he was pulled out onto the pier. The test of the passengers were i ken ashore in this manner, one at a, time, j There were seventeen passengers and twenty-three cf the crew. Captain Mc Lain was the last to leave, he being taken off at 5 o'clock in the morning. There were several women aboard. Tim members of tbe life-saving crew took turne going out after them. Good Feeling- lrevaiU. Havana, Jan. 28. Captain Sigsbee, tci'ompnaied by Consul-General Lee and Lieutenants Howards and Iialeman of the Maine, paid a visit yesterday to eneral Parrado, the acting captaio general, w he received them courteously and cordially. They expressed them selves aH welt satisfied with the inter view. Tomorrow General Parrado wili return the visit on board the Maine. General Blanco has arrived at Man- sanille, where he hag been Litnerlyre- eived by the autonomist committee. Lart-e crowds turned out on his arrival. Madrid, Jan. 28. Fx Minister Canel jas, the Imparcial announces, has ar rived at Cadiz, form Havana, having Vii-ited the United States and Cuba to tndy tbe political situation and has ex pressed a pessimistic view of the dura tion of tbe war, d.vlaring the insurgents have the means to greatly prolong their esistance in the mountains. l'ollve Makes a Ulttaka. DABiroiiD, Wis., Jan. 28. The jury in the case of Julius Zulke, charged with the murder of Edward Davidson, in April. 1896, returned a verdict late last evening of guilty of murder in the first decree. The case has been on trial since January 7, and has attracted much attention, mainly through the search for Zuelke and the killing of an Innocent man by A ppleton policemen under the impresssiun that he was Zuelke. After the murder Zuelk made his es cape to Montana, where he was on a ranch and it waa only after a long search that be was captured and brought to Wisconsin in July last. Fortune Comas too Lata. CiiiCAOo, 111. Jan. 28. Edward Ohrn itech, heir to 1,000,000 florins in Buda Pest Hungary, and for whom the polios have been searching, lies in a pauper's grave in the potter's field. While agents were searching the world over for one ol the heirs to the millions of Buda Pest's greatest banker, the object of .heir quest occupied a maniac's cell in the county asylum. Obrnstech died under hli right name, but with a pauper's numbat opposite it on the book of the asylum. WUlToaah Daartnf. GALassuaa, 111 . Jan. 28. A decides innovation In ed 'rational lines in addi tion to the curriculum of Lombard uni versity has ost be. n anuouueed. Dan cing lessons will be given to tbe students weekly under the direction of a profea ional teacher in the new university vymnasium. Tho institution la eodu cational. It la supported by tbe Uniwr ralist oh arch and ia designed largely foi the education of ministers (or thai church.