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.
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.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.