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BUILDINGS BURNED N. U. WINS DEBATE NEBRASKA ASSESSORS A SCORE DEAD NO SIGN OF LIFE s I !i Town of St. Edwards Loses Sov on By Firo. STARTS AT EARLY MORNING HOUR Totnl l,o IXIin.iteil ill I'lflccii Thou- nml llnlluri Itliwn In .Herlou Mow to I. Itllo Toon I Ire Storied lu ii Itmluiiriinl Other Nrim. A St. Ktl ward. Nidi., May 8, dispatch eaya: Tho most destrurtlvo lire Hint over vlHllcd St. Ktlwnrd occurred yes terday iniirnlni; nt I oVInclt. resulting In (lie loss of live business houses and two iiiio(Tiiili'd store buildings. The lire started In I hi' restaurant and dwelling nt' Harry Richmond, who lost all his household effects and stock of goods. The losers an Harry Kleh inonil, restuiiranl and dwelling. JXOO, no Insurant c; W. Degraw, limber hIioii, $lfiO. no Insurance; Charles llornnian, meat market, no Insnrum-p; Hit' iiliovi buildings being owned by Con Kugan. who carried aliont $1,000 Insurance on all three buildings. !'. It. Hossell.tlrug attire, HitifU partly covered by Insur ance, building not Insured: N. Ilasscl lialth. oltl Htori' building, fully covered by Insurance; A. I). White, drug stori'. no Insurance on building, slock iarlly liiHiiri'tl; ('. Cnywnod. vacant store building, no Insurance. The loss on the drug store rannnt bo estimated at this tlmi as some stock anil llxtnri'.s won' saved. The streets are full of stock and lixlitrea. Tlio large plain class windows In the new lirlek building across the street were ilestroyetl hy heat. The brick restaurant of 1-2. I). Vleth was saved by tearing down the annex to Whlf's drug store. The block burned Is the northwest block on Heaver street and contained some of the oldest buildings in the town. The lire unnpany could tin noth ing towards subduing the lire, as It hnd gained too much headway before being discovered. Thu trans-.Misslsslipi and (ierman Mutual Insurance companies of Omaha are some of the companies that carried insurance on the burned IiiiIIiIIiikh. The origin of the lire Is unknown. The total loss. It is believed, will not lie far from $15,000. CRY "GOD HELP THE KING" Irlih of lliitilln Slinu l.m l of Itmeri tw for IMtvuril VI I. The nationalist members of the cor poration of the city of Dublin have prevented that hotly from considering the question whether'!'. ('. Harrington, tlie lord mayor of Dublin, .should at tend the coronation of King Kdward by absenting themselves from the meeting of the corporation held on Wednesday. The lord mayor announced that there was no quorum present while forty nationalist nit hers were con gregated outside the door. Amid derisive cries of "(Soil help the king" from the crowded galleries, the mooting adjourned. FOR WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY Iliiwriiiiu-nt AtU lllilt for K)lein In Alaoliii. The first movement toward the adop tion of i' system of wireless telegraphy by the I'nlted States government for communication between llxetl bases was made when (iencral (Jreely. chief slgunl nlllcer. opoiud bids for the sup ply of such systems for service in Alas ka, where the ordinary tables fail in Important points, owing to climatic conditlous. Five, bids were received, nml another hit! is on the way from 5ermany. The bids will be referred to u special board of signal corps ex perts for consideration. The senate committee on military af fairs has completed the army appro priation bill. Increases recommended by the committee bring the total ap propriation made by the bill up to annul $100,000,000. CESSION OF PUBLIC LANDS lllll ISUiiii; t'lifin lo 1'orlo Kim I iinr.i lily Hi-port I'll. A bill giving to I'orto Hlco all pub lic land except those required lor the United States naval and military pur poses hns been ordered favorably re ported from the house committee on Insular affairs. It transfers all the public lauds to insular authority, i. cept such ns the president may desig nate within one year for naval sta tions, army pouts and other public uses, and the transfer Is conditioned on I'oi to ltiio releasing all claims on the lands so required by the United States for military, naval ami other .public uses. Illlll' III A'N Slrkl', It was reported in New York Mon day night that President Mitchell of the united mine workers' association i.utl been notitled that President Haer of the Ph'ladelphla & Heading railroad bad made some concessions ami that a strike In the anthracite regions may not take place. Shot lloiin II)' Score, Advises from St. Petersburg report n pensant molt In the district of Kon ntnntlnogrnil. province of Poltava, Rus Bla. The rebels destroyed hiindieds of farms nml threw a million pounds of fitigar Into the river Dnclpor at Ivun ovku. Troops engaged the Insurgents nt Vashllovka. Seventy-six persons were killed and two hundred Injured. The leuders of the pennants were ar rested and sentenced to three hundred lashes, Thirty-five died under tho llog Blng. Tho priests, tho advii?o statu, support tho rebellion. REGARDS PEACE PROBABLE len. I, til in Mxjtit Cubic MM Wife 1 I. mnlon. A London, May 7. dispatch says; The wife of (Jen. Lucas Meyer, tho commander of the Ornnge Free State forces, who Is lu Una country, re ceived n cable message from her hus band yesterday saying that peace. In South Africa was probable. Further advices received here today from South Africa announced Hint 208 Iloers had been captured and that ten burghers wen- killed lu the neighbor hood of Undley, Orange River colony, Monday. The town of O'Klepf. Western Capo Colony, which had been besieged since April by a Transvaal force under Commandant Stniitz. has been relieved by a Hrltlsh force under Colonel Coop er. The garrison was lu good henlth and only a few of the troops wero wounded. The Iloers tellrcd south. Lord Kitchener. In reporting the re lief or O'Klepf. adds that the Con cordia district, lu about the same part of Cape Colony, Is clear of Doers. TORRENTOF MOLTEN METAL lour. Men ('uughl In I'looil mill lintuntljr Killed. Four men were killed, two fatally Injured nml two others terribly burned by being caught In a torrent of molten metal :n an open hearth pit at the I'ennsylvanla Steel works, Steelton, near llarrlsliurg. I'a. All of the men were Austrlans. They were nt work In a pit behind the "chockers" when the Iron boiled over, or the furnace burned out, and the en tire pit was turned into a pool of lire. forgot II mix l.oitdcd. Marl Rnwson, ugeil Hi. wii3 shot re cently by his brother Ollbert, aged 11. at At wood, Kan.. Wednesday last. The boy.i wen- hunting ground squir rels nml when sipilrrckt were scarce passed away the time pulling out the cartridges and snapping the empty gun at each other. After having stmt several squirrels Ollbert. still having a cartridge In bis gun, snapped it at Hurl. The ball entered the boy's stomach. He Is in a critical condition. llrillitli IIhk -J (III liner. An olllclal dispatch to the London war olllce reports a successful drive, of Doers In Orange Itlvcr Colony Tues day by Dritish troops under Colonels Flint nml Darker. The troops left the Frankfort, Hellbron and Vrdefort mail Hue and drove rapidly south to the Kroonstiiil, Dudley and Lielieuberg Vlei line, reaching there lu the after noon. The bag netted ten Doers killed nml -OS captured. Dritish casualties tso fur heard from were nil. Kitchener renin rkB thut the country swept con tains (lie most Irreconcilable Doers In Orange Illver Colony. Tliri'iitH of Amimtliiiillnii. Kvangellst .lames Coatl, who Is con ducting a series of revlvnl meetings at IMilyvllle. In., received written and verbal notice Hint unless he Immediate ly ceased his attacks on the saloons of the town he would be assassinated. He Is advised to at once leave the place, under palu of death. Coad says hn will continue the meetings, but he will work under the protection of armed guards. Will Itcitore Itiitcv Freight rates on dressed beef and live beeves from Missouri river points ure to be restored after July 1 to what they were prior to .lune so. 11)01 . This will mean an advance on each class of freight of about 5 cents. The meet ing of the executive olllcers of tho western roads at Chicago hud the mat ter under consideration and the result wus the agreement to restore former charges. liirni SeIN for HI II, (Hit). Frank 10. and J. II. Anderson of Val ley Center have sold their farm of "10 acres for $111,000 to C. M. Hopkins. Mr. Hopkins bought the farm because it is considered by many as one of the best alfalfa farms lu the county and It is said that It has u larger acreage in that crop than many other farms. Messrs. Anderson will engage In sheep raising. roiimi liirni. Frank Norman, a young fnnner liv ing seven miles northwest of MePher son, Kan., was found dead at his honi'i He hnd been dead an hour or more and from the .position of the body it could not be determined whether he had shot himself or another had done It. I'rt'iiiiinl Hoy Hid. Willie Livingston, a boy fourteen years of age, tiled at Washington, I). C. Tuesday, lie was the adopted son ol Mr. and Mrs. John Livingston of Fre mont, Neb., and was on his way home from North Carolina, accompanied by his niothei. inning failed to derive benefit there for dlnbetes. His father has gone to meet the remains. Hint ii Chllil. Mrs. S. M. Andress, a widow ol Larueil, Kan., was arrested for cruelly beating her adopted daughter, mi or phan child HI years old. She was lined $100. The child was taken away from her ami temporarily placed in, charge of Marshal Shady. -As soon as the probate judge can get uctlon on the case, the child will be sent lo tin girls' orphan asylum at Delolt, SirloiHly lnjiirril. 11. H. Luekcn, a farmer living seven miles northwest of Fremont. Is nt Fre mont for hospital treatment. Wednes day some workmen were llxlny '.he windmill tower nt his place, when a heavy braen fell off the platform. He was on the ground below anil tho Iron struck blm on the head after falling thirty feet. Ho was rendered uncon scious and was brought to tho elty while lu that condition. An operation was performed, tho clotted blood tnken out and this morning he was able to talk to his relatives. Troo Planter Collogians Out Talk Missouriaiis. A TOWN WIPfD Off THE MAP HI. I'lcrrt', IhIiuiiI of .MiirtliiiMi-, Ii Swept !j Volriiiio Alumni nil Inliiihlliiiitn Itrporlril Kllli'il lllliir Ni'i of lntrrrM to lli'inliri. The I'nlverslty of Nebraska debat ing team, In the annual debate with the University of Missouri at Columbia Thursday night, won for Nebraska the championship of the middle west, winding up Nebraska's season of three signal victories In place of last year's three defeats. The verdict of the Judges was prompt nml unanimous. Nebraska maintained the negative or the municipalization of street rail ways for American cities, on the alllni ntlvo of which she tlefeated Colorado n month ngo. Missouri had defeated Nebraska four years lu succession, lint this time deafening yelling failed to brlnt; the home team within sight of victory. The Judges were Prof. F. C. Hlnekniar of the University of Kansas, ProL A. O. l.ovejoy, Washington uni versity, St. Louis, and President John Mlllln of Hart! In college. In every point Nebraska far sur passed the Missouri team, which did not know how to use evidence, nml which persisted In Ignoring Nebraska's onslaughts, not appearing to know It was confounded. C. P. Craft for Ne braska dltl not leave a vestige of Mis souri's opening alllrmati;e. C. C. North pierced the second Missouri man's civil service argument and W. Frederick Meier made mincemeat of the third man's co.st argument. Mr. Craft closed the debate with rebuttal, showing, ns did Messrs. North and Meier, mastery of the subject. Mis souri inuile speeches Nebraska de bated. Missouri concedes her Wat"r loo niter defeating Kansas and Illi nois. TOWN IS DESTROYED VoIi'imid Suri'p SI. Plcrri Munil ol Mur- tliihine, HIT tin Map. A St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, dispatch of May 8 says: The Dritish steamer Hoddain, Captain Freeman, which left St. Lueln Wednesday for Martinique, returned there nt 5 o'clock this afternoon, bringing a report that the town of St. Pierre, Martinique, has been totally ilestroyetl by volcanic dis turbances in the Island. Almost all the Inhabitants of St. Pierre ure said to have been killed. The Hodilam reports that all the shipping In the port bus also been de stroyed. The Quebec Steamship com pany's steamer Hornimu is mentioned ns lost with all on board. Tin' Kotldani wns almost completely wrecked. Her captain was seriously burned anil seventeen of her crow are dead. A Washington special of May S states: United Stntes Consul Ayme today cabled the state department nt Washington from (itiaileloupe that great, consternation prevails In Hint locality in consequence of enrthquukts nml volcanic activity. Land noises are heard contlnuo ly which nre ascribed to volcanic action. Telegraphic eoinniunlcution with Martinique Is broken in every direc tion. He snys he Is Informed that many hundreds of people have been killed in and about Martinique. THREE BROTHERS SHOT NaliriiHku-lhilintii llorilrr ItNputi- 1'unti's it TriiKeily- A Sioux City, In., .May !. dispatch says: In a light with Sheriff Lewlson nml posse of Union county. South la kato, three brothers named Turgeon were shot live miles northwest of Sioux City yesterday afternoon, ami one of them, Fred Turgeon, may die. Tho trouble was over accretion laud, the dispute being whether it lies in South Dakota or Nebraska. Mrs. S. S, Adams of Sioux City owns the tract, and hns had her claims accredited by the federal court, but because the Mis souri river has divided mid also added to it, the Idea popularly obtains that half of It lies In South Dakota anil half In Nebraska. Mrs. Adams leased .her holdings to two brothers named Hold), who started this spring to farm it. Their claim was invaded by three brothers nanietl Turgeon. ami the sheriff of Union county. South Dakota, was tent to dispossess tliom. in a battle with pistols and rllles the three Turgeons were shot. Fred Turgeon probably fatally. None of the sheriffs posse was hurt. QUEEN MAY RECOVER AiH let" rrcini lli-t I, no Stiy Sim III- n (looil I'liuiui'. The Improvement in the condition of Queen Wllhelnilna Is being malntnlnetl. Tho prince consort Thursday went to the nseenslon day service at the chinch. The following bulletin wns Issuel front the palate: "Thero Is no Increase In the queen's temperature. She passed a quiet night." C'nr ICi'vIhh Trnopi. The cznr held a grand- review at Mars Held on the 8th. snys a St. Petersburg dlRpnteh. The forco wns composed of fifty-seven sqnntlrons of cavalry, four teen companies of Cossacks, nml nr tlllery with 1-ti guns, making a total of 110,000 troops. Ornna. Duke Vladi mir AloxautlrovHch, the c.nr1 brother, was in command. Tho most elaborate precautions wero taken to Insure the czar's safety en route to and during tho review. During the actual tua-ueuvei-H the publto kept a quarter of n mile dlstan Tiny Mini IluthiT NtiltUdin unit Hcil No 1'ny Therefor. Nebraska's assessors must tlo n little extra work now, mid that without ex tra conipenr.atlon. Thus salth the su preme court, nml the decree Is Inex orable. For a number of years the deputy commissioner of labor has found him self handicapped in compiling statistics through the failure or assessors lu ninny of the counties to collet t all the statistics directed by law. There was nothing in the statute granting asses sors any additional compensation for the extra work requested of them, anil a number refused absolutely to tlo it. Lancaster's ofllclals, say the deputy labor commissioner, have been cspe clully obstreperous In the matter. When requested to glean the desired Inforiuatlou on their rounds this spring they declined oniphatlrnlly. L. N. 10s l;ew of Normal wus the victim chosen to combat the insistent Mr. Watson, deputy labor commissioner at present. On behalf of Mr. Watson. Attorney (lencnil Prout applied to the supreme court direct for a writ of mamlaiuus to compel the assessors to do this work. The ease wan vigorously contested, hut the court hnntled down the decision Thursday Hint Mr. Watson was in the right und the writ wus Issued ueeortl Ingly In compliance with the prayer of Mr. Prout. A GAIT OF A MILE A MINUTE Stiirnti'i'ii 1 1 tin r lli-tni't-n New- York nnil I'liliiiK". It Is the present plan of the manage incut of the Pennsylvania to place In service a daily train which will make the distance of !li miles between Chi cago and New York in seventeen hours, or possibly seventeen und one-hulf hours. The exact date on which the new service will begin has not been irttleil. but It Is sa'.tl that the now llyer will be put on between June 15 anil 20. This will be by long otitis the fattest long distance train In service In the world, ami Is mude possible by the expenditure of over fifty million dollars by the Pennsylvania company in improving Its track brtween the two cities. The average speed of the train, in cluding stops, will be 5'.l.i;i miles per hour, anil exclusive of stops, 5" miles per hour. The fastest trains between Chlengo and New York city at present nre limited trains which made the run lu twenty-four hours. OPPOSEDTO ADMISSION. OiH'illnii iih In Whi'thcr Terrllurle Will III' .llllllll .Sttlll-N. The house Thursday, after agreeing It) close the general debate at II o'clock, resumed consideration of the bill granting stutehootl rights to Okla homa, Arizona and New Mexico. Orosvenor opposed the bill In Its pres ent form, lie said Unit democrats fn vor the bill because they would beno llted politically by augmenting their numbers In the United Suites senate, by the admission of the territories in question. There Is a movement mining republicans to change the purpose of the omnibus terrirtorial bill admitting Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma, by making one state of Arizona and New Mexico. The movement has niuny supporters on the republican side, but is opposed by all the ileniocratti. FIRE AT A REFORMATORY CHI lions., nt I'onllm-. III., llnriiH Willi i.oih or S-jnii.iitin. The northeast cell block of the state reformatory at Pontine. HI., was destroyed by (Ire. entailing a loss of $'.'00,000. The progress of the tlanies through the supposedly lire-proof structure was so rapid that the city and rel'ormntory departments were un able to control the lire. Three hundred inmates were locked in the cell block, but were quickly transferred to the south cell block. All wero panic-stricken, but opeyed orders. The origin of the blaze is charged to inmates or the reformatory, who are supposed to have taken ad vantage of the absence of Superintendent Mallory and other olllclals in Springlleld. PALMA AT SANTA CLARA 'iiIiii'n rri-Hlili-nt-i:iict IlriM-tnl lly lin uifiiHu tiiitlmrlni;. President-elect Palnia, who has just arrived here, says a Santa Clara cable dispatch, found the people from the whole surrounding county gathered to give him greeting. Semite Si-iikH Infill-million. Senator Culberson In the senate Wednesday Introduced a resolution calling on the secrctury of war lor copies of all orders, letters and cnble grnins relative to the reconcentrado order of (leneral Dell anil tho "howl lug wilderness" order issued by (ien cral Smith. The Philippine civil bill then wns taken up, McComas delendlng tho measure from u legal standpoint. I'liiiiift DUIrllinleil. The president has nominated H. Clnv Kvans to be consul general to London, Knglnnd; Frank P. Sargent, of Illinois, lo be commissioner general of immigration; Frank W. Tucker, collec tor of Internal revenue In Arkansas; C. W. Wndsworth, of New York, third secretary of the embassy nt London. Iranelilse Tm-l.uw l.iigul. Judge Karl, referee in the matter of the constitutionality of tho New York state franchise law, declares tho law constitutional on overy point. The decision Is still to be passed upon by tho uppellato division of tho supremo court, and the court of nppen'.u. fniicro" l-lMiremi'H I'i'Bret. The house mid senate, on the 8th ngreed to resolutions oxprceslng grief at tho Intelligence of the death of Hear Admiral Sampson nml appointed a committee to attend tho funeral. Sorlos of Fatal Explosions at Pittsburg, Pa. CARS CONTAINING NAPHTHA IGNITE ('mile Virllnlili- I .ii tie of lltirnliiK Oil III Mm VuriU -l-'lril lltplmloii Fol lowed hy !liillierln; Crowd llinnlreil Are Injured. The Sheraden yards of the Pan Han dle railroad was the seen" Monthly evening of one of the most disastrous explosions und llres known In this sec tion for ninny yours. A score or more of lives were last, mid about two hun dred persons were so badly burned thnt. according to the Judgment of phy sicians In attendance, 75 per cent of them will die from tho effects of their Injuries. The following Is the list or dead so far obtainable: Albert McKean. brakeman: John Swan, brakeinan; Unknown boy. iihout fourteen yrars old; H. F. Snilthley; . Fincrty, Charles Hertlg. W. W. Taylor, (1. 1-2. Hunter. W. 13. Wright. Dallas Dert. Unknown Wlilte Man, . Ootids, David Smith, James Mailer, Italian Section Hand. Unknown Hoy, W. 12. Hesl. Tony Leo, Lawrence Kee nnn. The i-anse of the catastrophe was the explosion of u train of naphtha oars which were being switched at the yard, and in the switching the rear car telescoped a car forward. The leaking naphtha Ignited from a switch light, causing mi explosion which threw the Haines fifty feet high. Much of the escaping naphtha ran through Cork's Uun. to l-2splen borough, n di.i tauce of one anil one-half miles, and caused another explosion, blowing to atoms the Seymour hotel and the Col lins house, on Itlvcr llontl. and badly wrecking u frame building nearby, in which were congraegated two hiintreil oi more sports from Pittsburg und vi cinity, betting on the races, baseball, etc. Few of the occiipnnts f this building escaped injury, many being badly hurt. Mrs. Seymour ami her daughter of the Sheratlen hotel, were seriously, and It Is feared fatally, In jured. CROP CONDITIONS HiiIim the Pint Seernl Iluyi Helpful lo tlronlng Wlieiil. The winter wheat prospect In Ne braska has been greatly improved by the rains of the past week. According to the weekly bulletin Issued Tuesdny by Section Director Lovelnnd nt the university weather station, the crop will yield fioni throe-fourths to an average harvest in the greater portion of the wheat belt, lu summarizing the situation, the report says; The past week ban been warm, with generous showers the tlrst days jf the week. The daily mean temperature has averaged about " degrees above the normal. The rainfall occurred on the Hist days or the week and gradually amounted to bttweeu l).7o of an inch and un huh. Tin' past week has been a favorable one for the growth of all vegetation. Winter wheat has Improved very much In condition. In a few of the south ern counties the rain was too late to benellt the earlier Ileitis, and the crop now promises less than half the aver age crop. In n large part of the win ter wheat belt, however, the prospect Is that with favorable weather from nearly three-fourths to a full crop will be realized. Crass In pastures and meadows has Improved, hut is still de cidedly below the average condition at this time of year. Oats have grown wll during the week. The soil Is in ixcelleut condition and corn planting has progressed rapidly. The curly planted Is coming up nicely. Fruit trees are blossoming very fully in northern counties; cherries are setting poorly In southern counties. L.C.RICHARDS DEAD I'ronillieiit IIuhIiu'hh Mini of Lincoln I'llHII-K AlVllJ. Lewis Cass Hlehartls died Monday morning at his home in Lincoln, of liemorrhnge of the stomach, after an illness of u little over ten hours. Ho wns taken 111 very suddenly and grad ually sank till he became unconscious, the end coming ut 10:30 o'clock Mon day. Mr. Richards was sixty-eight years of age, and has been a resident of Lincoln since IS7I. nlnee which time he hns been one of the prominent mid most substantial business men of the elty. He sustained n fall while super vising work about the elevator in the Richards block a year or so ngo. rup turing one of tho blood vessels of his stomach. Since then he has had two other attacks of liemorrhnge, but they were not severe. Monday morning he felt the symptoms recurring anil a physician was culled. He sank so rapidly that a consultation was held, but the hemorrhage was so severe that It was beyond help. Kmperor William of (erintiuy Is hav ing all press comments and cartoons, la relation to his brother's visit, clipped and pasted in a hook. Mllllurv limn. I to Meet. Atljutnnt fleneral Colby has ealed ft mooting of the state military hoard for May 'Jt'i. This board comprises (iencral Colby, Colonel Will llnywuril. Colonel Harry Archer. Hrlgatlier Oenoral P. H. Dairy anil Colonel J. II. Drown. The meeting Is for the purpose of transact ing routine business. The board will probably not take up the question of nu annual encampment. If the new national guard hill Is passed by con gress nn encampment will be held this year without expense to the state, if it does not pass, that will be different. Vicinity of til. Pierre ii Hugo Cimuitery lletrue Work. A Fort tie France, May lit Bpcclal rays: Outside help In quickly needed here. The town Is filling with refugees from the north end or the Inlnnd. The fjfil supplies at hand. Including those Jolit from Ouudaloiipe, are totally Inade quate and the terror of starvation con fronts the HiifTerers. The heat Is In tense, the unhealthy season lit nt hand nml an epidemic Is feared. The refu gees ure absolutely destitute. Hellel committees are helping the people to the boht of their ublllty, but food Is doled out cuutlotisly because of thu abbreviation of the suplly. It Is estimated that fjo.000 people on the Island nre without food nml shelter ami many will die of starva tion nml exposure before permanent re lief can reiich the stricken Islands. A grout cloud of smoke utlll hangs oer St. Pierre nml the country for miles around, livery person who es caped death from the eruption ban lied to Fort tie France, leaving only sol diers nml others sent to St. Pierre by the government at the scene. The work of burning the bodies Is going on as rapidly as possiole. Thou sands are burled under mounds of lava and cinders. They will not be reutheil for many days. The exposed corpses are In an advanced stage of decom position nml exhtile a sickening odor, the work of ilennlng the elty can go on only very slowly. Kstlniatiu as to the number of dead are simply guesses, but a conservative opinion is that Hilly lio.ooo perished. The Danish cruiser Viilyrien has res cued fiuo people from the ninth und northeast coasts of Martinique. Thu French cruiser Suchct has taken 2.000 from the island. The cable ship Poyer Quertlor also saved a number. A London. Mny 111 dispatch states: SlMoen hundred lives are known to hai been lost on St. Vincent island ns the result of the eruption of "Lu Soufrlere," nccortllng to u cablegram received here this morning. On no count of the continued How of lava ami the Intense heat, the stricken section cannot be penetrated, but refugees arriving at Castries, St. Lucia Island, say, however, that the li3s of life will far exceed 1,000. A, week has passed since the eruption begun anil the tre mendous explosions und rumblings had not receded when the cablegram was sent from Castries this morning. Many refugees have arrived at Dominica In canoes. St. Lucia cannot lie seen from the neighboring Islands on account of the heavy fog. The sea in the vicinity Is covered with trees anil other debris swept from the Island. In the house of commons today Dil lon, nationalist, asked that in view of the action of the president of tho United States tor the relief or tho Martinique sufferers, would the Dritish government take similar stops. (!ov ernineut. Leader Dalfour nald he bad uo"r heard of any vote of the kind Icing submitted to parliament. Of course, the government sympathized with the victims of the disaster and every possible assistance would be given on the spot. Dillon pressed the government to create a precedent, say ing such a measure would receive a unanimous vole. Dalfour said he hud (ousldereil the matter with his col league.!, imi had no announcement to ninko Dillon gave notice he would interpolate tomorrow. Th-' n'ltlvo position of the sun and moon ul nn tingle of forty-live tle giccK Is Mild by Scientist Hugh Clem ents to have been the cause of the Mont Pelce eruption. The C.alveston disaster, he points out, occurred when tli sun and moon were In a similar position. CAD1NI2T TAKKS TIII2 INITIATI VI-2. A Washington, May HI special says: Th" cabinet meeting today was devotrtl almost cut I rely to a discussion of meas ures for the relief of the stricken peo ple of Martinique mid St. Vincent. It was decided to appoint committees of citizens in nil the large cities to take charge of popular subscriptions of money und the collection or sup plies. Arrangements will be made to forward on government vessels all con tributions thus obtained. In the senate this morning the chair man of the committee on foreign rela tions, Ciillon, reported favorably the hill providing for the appropriation of a half million for relief, under the di rection of the president, of the people of Martinique and St. Vincent. In this is included the $1100,000 appropriated yesterday. Richard (lough & Co.. of New York, have telegrapher the state department Hint they have a million pounds of rice In bond, ollerlng it to the government at a nominal price for the relief of tho Martinique sufferers. The department also has inquiries from various cities asking whether private subscriptions would he acceptable. These offers will be turned over to the directors of tho Red Cross socitty. ICi'gene)' lit un Klld. The queen regent of Spain May 111 sorrowfully took leave of her ministers and practically relinquished to her son the solemn charge which she has so faithfully fullllleil for the past sixteen anil a half years. Premier Sagasta and his colleagues called at the palace in the morning lor u formal leae -taking or the queen regent, antl to present for her majes ty's signature the last decrees to which her hand and seal will over bo alllxed ii regent of Spain. Will liMiHllciile. Judge Palmer, in the criminal court, at Denver, granted tho application r the district attorney for n spot Inl grand Jury to investigate the ilech of Lepresii tntive Albert Dabrien. whli h. uecordinm to the finding of thu coroner's Jury, wus caused by arsenical polHiulug. liUei Worl to Alum .Miller. President Theodore Roosevelt, Ilnr vmtl. '.so, has just presented the library or the jl.mnrtl union with n full set of his works. M&aattaufaMMd&'e.r-'