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Epitome of tlie Week.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.

CONGRESSIONAL, Sccouil Session.

An amendment to tuo Consular and 'Diplomatic Appropriation bill giving to our Mm sters abroad I ho ttlcof "Ambassador" instead of "Envoy Extraordinary and Ministers' Plenipotentiary'' was adopted in the Somite on the 29tb. Senator Sherman spoke at length on the Samoa flU-ulty, mainlaning that. our rights must bo asserted In the lie use a petition of thirteen thousand citizens of Utah against tlie admisrion of that Territory as a State was presented. The Sundry C.vd Appropriation till was passed. A bill to provide for the better protection of tho fur, seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska was reported.

THE Senate resumed consideration of the Diplomat and Consular Appropriat'on bill on the iOth nit., the timo being occupied in discussing the amendments allectitig tlie Samonn islands. Tlio British extradition treaty was also considered In tho 1-Iouso the time was passed in discusj-tng the Oklahoma bill.

THE House amendments to tho bill to In creaso tho pensions of those who have lost both hands were concurred in on the Hist ult. in tho Senate. After the passage of a few pri vate bills consideration or the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation bill was resumed, tho pending question being on the amendment referring to Samoa, and the bill was finally passed—In tho House many petitions wore presented in favor of tho Sunday rest bill. The Oklahoma bill was further d.scussed.

THE House amendments to tho Senate bill for tho admission of South Dakota as a Stat? were non-coneu-red tn in the Senate 011 th 1st. A resolution was adopted instructing tho Committee on Foreign Kelations to inquire Into affa rs in tho Sonioan islands, and to report what measures were necessary ta protect the interests of American citizens therein. Tho British extradition treaty was rejected. Adjournod to tho -ith ... In the House the conference report on the bill to create tho Department of AgricuUtirj was agreed to. The bill making Oklahoma a Territory was passed— yeas, 148: nays, 102 At tho evening session twenty-live private pension fcilis were passed.

THE Senate was not in session on the art.... In tho Houso the Naval Appropriation bill was passed and the Naturalization bill was discussed. jfy,

DOMESTIC.

•v.- CINCINNATI'S new Chamucrof Commerce building was dedicaicu on me aotn ult. with appropriate ccremonios.

IN Alama County, Tenn., on the 80th ult. a crowd horsewhipped two Mormon elders named Miller rnd Winters. They were then tarred and feathered mid ordered to leave the country on pain of death.

OLIVER WEJ?DFI.I, HOLMES on tho COth ult. presonted his vast medical library to the Boston Medical Library Association.

JACOB FALK, a wealthy farmer living near Bluffton, Jnd., suicided 011 tho :?0t!i ult by shooting. For some timo past ha had not lived happily with his wife, and she had applied for a divorce.

ALLIK CROWELL, a fourteen-year-old girl living in Bethlehain township, Jnd., confessed on tho 3Jtli ult. to tlio burning of several dwellings, claiming she was paid one hundred dollars for doing it. She was thought to be insane.

IT was reported on the ."10th ult. that gold and silver had been found in paying quantities in tho northern part of Iowa County, Wis. It was procured by surface digging and was said to assay from $2.25 to 410 per ton.

ADVICE3 of the 30th ult. from the Indian Territory were that the United States soldiers who were recently stationed at Oklahoma City had returned to F.jrt Sail, and that some fifteen families of "boomers" had crossed the Canadian river and entered Oklahoma and that others were following.

UP to the 30th ult. tho Federal grand jury at Indianapolis, hid., had returned one hundred ands xty-or.e indictments for violation of the election law, and several prominent men had been arrested.

THE Committee on Judiciary in tho Maine Senate on the 30th ult. voted to Inrbid tho sale of cigarettes to persons under sixteen years of age, and to provide a penalty for a minor under sixteen who smokes in a public placc.

CHARLES M. BAI.CH and his wife, of Walnut Springs, Tex., woro foun dead in bed on the 30th ult., having been shot through the heart. It was thought that Balch killed his wife and then took his own life.

THE trouble at Sow Iberia, La., culminated on the 30th ult. in tho lynching of Jim Rosamond, a negro, by a mob of"unknown men. Governor Nicholls announced his intention to restore order at the point of the bayouet if necessary.

THIS lumber firm of C. B. Burt & Co., at Williamsport, Pa., failed on tho 30th ult for $100,0.00.

THE round-house of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fo Railway Company at Galveston, Tex., was burneu on tho BOlh ult .Lt)ss, SI00,000.

Tnn joint resolution for submitting a prohibitory amendment to the people of Pennsylvania was signed by Governor Beaver on the. 31st ult^IHRRR oeaths from sinall-pox occurred on tho 31st ult. at tho Onondaga County poor-house near Syracuse, N-

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THE officers of tho Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company stated at Hartford on tho 31st ult. that the loss by the recent defalcation of Joseph A- Moore, their Indianapolis agent, would not exceed the amount first, named—£500.003

THE Aikansas Legislature on the 31st ult. passed bill «iuth 1tlie Cxovornor to oiler a reward of 5.000 for Oho arrest V. and conviction of tho murderer or mu'rderers of John M. Clayton at 1'lunimerville.

Tna report of tho Commissioner of Patonts sent to Congress on tho 31st ult showed that patents were issued during the year to tho number of 20,420, or which 1,530 were to foreign inventors

THE Nebraska Legislature on the 31st ult. voted to submit the question of proliibition or high license to tho people of the State. ,,/• AT Olathe, Kan., Mrs. Lucy Ferguson, seventj-flvo \ears old, was on the 31st ult. convicted of murdernur her hu-b ind and the death sentence pronounced- A motion for new trial was overruled. She tho mother of six children .TWENTI HIOLSAM) mechanics at Pittsburgh, Pa., decided on the 31st ult. to withdraw from tho Knights of Labor

Tnn President, transmitted to Congress on the 1st additional correspondence relating to the fcamoan affair, which showed that tho German Government had e\1 emptod foreigners from the operations of 1 martial law and ordered the German Conr? V-sul to relinquish Ins command of the adm»Di6tration of tho islands-

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Tin: atnblo.4 of tno celo'oriUed Mcun. Hope farm near North Attlobc.ro, Mass., were burned on tho 31st ult., and twentyJive imported cattle we're cremated.

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Tin: Board of Indian Commissioner.. ... their amiu il report 011 tlio 1-t asked that tho appropriation for educational work among the Indians be increased to 0'X),000 lor the jirst vcar, OJO for tho second and ^l.UO,) 000 for the third yo:r '1 in: statement ot tho public debt, issued on the 1st showed tho tot-ul dobu to IK il.(•*"».iH*te.u5a cash 111 'Ireasurv, Jii!.93ti,debi less cash in the 'Jreasury, *1,3:21.845,1)72. Uecreaso during January, i'12,2U5,2JM. Decrease since June 30, 1SSS, 13,ioS, fb.s.

THE Grauiteville (S. C.) Manufacturing Company's warehouse, containing bales of cotton, was burned on the 1st. Loss. $100,000 insurance, ?'.)0,000.

THE coko workers in tho Connelsville (Pa.) region struck 011 the l3t for a:i increase of wages, about eight thousand men being affected.

Six boys, ranging from ten to sixteen years of age, broke through tho ice while skating near Paterson, N. ,1., on tho 1st, and three of them were row nod.

Tni: mail packet Bowling Green, plying between Bowling Green and 1Cvansvlie, Ind., .s burnod on the 1st, near Kock1 ort, Ky.

THE Beading Coal & Iron Company on tlie 1st shut down nil but twonty of its fifty collieries.

TUB business portion of tho town ef Carbon, lnd., was destroyed by lire 011 the 1st.

THERE were 332 business failures in tho United States during tho seven days ended on tho 1st, against 331 tlio previous seven days.

Tiir. Jackson Memorial Association of Lexington. Va., 011 the 1st ordered a bronze slatuo of "Stonewall" Jackson to cost 530,000. It, will be completed in three years.

WHITE CAPS were on the 1st terrifying the residents of Norfolk, Va. KEIXA VICTORIA, tho brood mare recently sold at auction, bringing 57,503, the highest price ever paid for a brood maro at public auction, died noar Terre Haute, lnd., on the 1st.

Mit. G. G. MANDT, editor of the Mount ITureb (Wis.) Sun. a Prohibition paper, was shot and mortally wounded in his own houso 011 the 1st by an unknown miscreant, who made his escape.

TIIE Union Academy building at Johnstown, N. Y., was barnod on the 1st, causing loss of ?4i) 000. George Thompson, chief ot the lire department, was instantly killed, and Teddy Smith was fatally hint, by thrt falling falls.

IT was announced cu the 1st that Mrs. Liuiequ^, living near Father Point, Can., had fallen heir to §1.000,000 left by her son who recently died in Illinois, where he had been living under the name of Lavack. Mrs. Lnucque was the only heir.

A TEAR ago at Lincoln, Neb., a colored man named Warwick had a barber of that city arrested under tho Civil Rights ulll for refusing to shave him The case was appeale 1 to the Supremo Court, wh eh handed down a decision 011 the 1st in Warwick's favor.

A FIRe in Buffalo, N. Y.. on tho 2d buruod over six acres of ground covered by business houses, causing a total loss of nearly $3,000,000. Many firemen were badly injured, and other parsons had narrow escapes.

THE steam tug Two Brothers oxploded at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 2d, killing two men and wounding several others.

Bv an accident on tho St. Louis & San Francisco railroad on the 2d near Springfield, Mo., three men were instantly killed and live injured, four of them fatally.

THIS big malt-house attached to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis was burned on tho 3d, causing a loss of S^OO000.

IHE schooner C. II. Oliver capsized in Chesapeako bay on the 2d, aad the entire crew of live men were drowned.

GEORGE HEIUEL, a young farmer living near Kvansville. lud., covered himself with a white sheet on the 2d in order to frighten a superstitious negro who lived near him. The negro had an axe in his hands and in his terror literally clove Heidel's head asunder.

Six MEN wore sentenced at Fort Smith, Ark., 011 the 2d to hang April 10 for murders committed in tile Itilian Territory. They are: Malachi Allen, James Mill's, Henry W Miller, William Woods, Steve Bussell and George Br.ishears.

AN entiro family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. John Olsen and three children, were drowned 011 tho 2d while attempting to cross the Missouri river in a wagon fifteen miles north of Bismarck, D. T. The ice was thin, owing to the warm weather.

THE exchanges at twenty-six leading clear!ng-houses in the United States dui' ing the week ended 011 tho 2 I aggregated fl,019,080,3i'.), against U,010,032.247 the prev.ou3 week. As compared with the corresponding week of ISSi the increase amounted to 5.0.

GEORGE CLARK, a colored butler in the employ of P. F. Munger, of llvde Park, 111., on the 2d murdered Othelia IlyUnder, a Swedish domestic in tho same family! and then took his own life. The refusal ot tho gn-1 to marry li 1111 caused the deed

AN eartiHjimke shock was felt at Clarksville. Mo., on tuo morning of the 2d It was distinct and rattled things generally, but no damage was reported

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fourteen persons were down with the disease. .THE President on the 31st ult. appointed Jesse D. Abrahams, of Virginia, to be Comptroller of tho Currency, vice Tronholm, resigned. ^Tnu striking street-ear employes or Now York made numerous violent demonstrations on the 31st ult., but the companies succedoJ in ruuning a number of cars.

WAI.TLR IVI RS, ten years old, fell from tho top of a nine-story building at. Denver, Col., on the 2.1. He stiuck the te'ephono v. es and then rebounded to a horse's bacu and was not fatally injured

THE now district court-house of Scullyv.llc County, Choctaw Nation with all tho county records, was destroyed by fire 011 the 2d. It was supposed to bo tho work of incendiaries.

A iiui. 011 tho 2d at Denver, Col among business houses, caused a loss of over 5150,000. 'inis defalcation or John E Sullivan, county cierk ol Marion Countv Ind was on the 2d placed at *100,030. He had fled to Canada. .11 LKAt, gas v.as. struck in a well at Sandy Creek, N. Y., on the 2d raisin" tools seven hundred feet.. The roar from escaping gas could be heard a mile '1 tti. Commissioner of Pensions advised the Secretary of the Interior on t'ie2 I that tliei woul 1 bo a deficiency 111 tho amount necosoary foi tno payment of pensions for tho fiscal year over and above existing appropriations of about ?S 000 001

IN Philadelphia 011 the 2d Otto Kayscr shot and kille I Anna Klaus, whom I10 had sought to rui::, cut his wife's throat, and then took his own life

AT Cheyenne, Wy. T„ a Cttnaman named Vet Slug nad established a wash houso over a boiling spring. Tho slumbormg geyser burst forth on the 2d, spcuting water over a hundred fect,and tlio tent 111 Inch the Chinamen were sleeping at tue t.IMO was blown to pieces and the four celestials were killed.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.^®! A DISPATCH of tho 30th ult. from Washingtnn states tnat leading Bepublicans after hearing from President-elect Harrison, had decidcd thut an extra t-ession ol Congress could not bo avoided, and that the date of a-jsombling Bhotild n4. be later than April 1,

JACOH KNAI'P, editorof ttio Heading (Pa) Times, died 011 tho 2Utn, aged sevouty-ono years. IIo was the oldest editor 111 Pennsylvania.

JAMES II. LAMIIPEN, tho celebrated portrait and landscape painter, died suddenly on a train in the suburbs of Philadelphia on tho 31st ult. Ho was oighty-two years of age.

C'AI'IAIN JOTHAM BRADBURY, a veteran of tho war of 1M2, died on the 31st ult at Fai miiigton, Mo., aged ninety-eight years.

Ii was authoritatively announced on tho 3d that Pi-L-sideu Cleveland would return to the State of New York to reside on the expiration of his term of oilico, and would on March 5 rosumo the practice of law in New York City.

FOREIGN.

THE British ship Sir Walter Raleigh, laden with wool from Sydney, N. S. W., went aground on tho I'Oth ult. near Boulogne, and five of tho crow were drownoJ.

ARCIIIU-KE Hupoi-i'ii. tho ho apparent to tho throno of Austria, died suddenly on the 30th ult. of apoplexy at Mierling, near Baden, aged thirty-ono years.

ADVICES received at Auckland, New Zealand, on tlie 30th ult. from Samoa announced that the Germans there had begun systematic warfare 011 tho native sympathisers with Mataufa. It was also said that all factions of the Siunoans, including tlie followers of Tamasese, who had hitherto been favored by the Germans, would unite against tho foreign foe. No particulars had been received, but it was bo lieved the next mail would briug news of serious couliict in the island.

J. W. GALE Co., wholesalo dry-goods nierchauts at Toronto, assigned on the 31st ult., with ostimated liabilities of a quarter of a million dollars and small assets.

Anvicus of 1I10 31st ult. from Samoa were that the Germans intended to search all essels arriving there. They had suppressed a newspaper, imprisoned and subsequently released an English tourist and issued a proclamation placing tho Apia police force under German control. Matnafa, tho Samoan King, had six thousand followers, and his army was said to b( constantly increasing.

AT Dublin on the 3l3t ult. John O'Connor and Thomas Condon, members of Parliament for Tippeiv.ry, woro sentenced to imprisonment for four months for inciting tenants not to pay rent.

HE v. FATHER CORNYN was found dead In his study on tho 31st ult. at Strathroy, Ont„ with a gunshot wound in his head and tho gun by liis side. He had been ill, and committed suicide.

ADVICES of the 31st ult. from San Domingc say that continuous rains had entirely destroyed the sugar crop of that country.

THE residence of Colonel White, Secretary of the American Legation at London, was entered by burglars early on tho morning uf the 31st ult. and 535,000 worth of jewelry and other valuables were carried off.

KWITOU O'BRIEN was lodged in jail at Clonmel, Ireland, on the 31st ult. Herefused to remove his clothes in order to don the prison garb, and the warders undressed him by force. His beard wa3 shaven off. 'IHE Canadian Parliament was opened at Ottawa on tho 31st ult. by Govornor(jeneral Stanley.

COMMITTEE appointed to inquire into the condition of the British navy reported on the 31st ult that the ship?,'with few exceptions, wero unsuitable for modern warefare, and, indeed, wholly deficient.

THERE was a renewal of the rioting and throwing of stones at Tipperary, Ireland, on the 1st, and nine civilians and thirteen I oUeemen wero badly injured.

THREE THOUSAND seamen and firemen wore on strike in Glasgow on the 1st, and only twj steamers sailed, being manned by officials.

A FREIGHT train was precipitated down a mountain side on the 1st near Calgary, N. W. T., and seven men were killed.

A RAILWAY train fr.-m Brussels for Namur was thrown from the track while running at a high rate of speed near Groeuendi'.el on tho 2d, and fourteen persons wero killed and fifty injured, thirteen fatally.

IT was stated on the 2d that Sir Julian Pauncefote, permanent Under-Secrolary of State for the Foreign Ofilce, had been appointed British Minister to tho United States.

LATEST NEWS,,

THE brick wall of Meyer's bunding, lately gutted by fire at Omaha. Neb.. w»s blown down 011 the 4lh. wrecking two other buildings, and five men were killed and several other.? wero injured by tho failing wall.

AT Montreal 011 the 4th the thermometer marked 30 degrees below zero. A HEAVY gale prevailed ail over Nebraska on the 4t.h, aud considerable damage was done in the western part of the State, buildings being unroofed and trees blown down.

IN the streets of Chicago on the 4th John Dempsoy shot and killed Miss Maude McLeilan :.nd then killed hiimelf. Jealousy was the suppose cause.

THERE was a heavy fall of snow in Berlin, tioimanv, 011 the 4ui. accompanied by a thu!idi!i--,toi 111. In the mountain districts heavy und continuous rains had flooded the country.

Ai'TEK an 1dicne.1v of three months the miner., "W o.-,tei I'.-np.Ly1\-unia resumed work on the 4th at the old rate. This gave employment to five thousand men. 'inn Supreme Court if the United Mates adjourned 0:1 the 4Ui until Mondav, March 4, at eleven o'clock. 'JUL Span.sh mail steamor Remtri foundered 011 the 41 off tho Island of Bill ran, one of the Pit lhppuics, and all the passengers wero suppo.-ed to liavc been drowned. '1 in. statement that Sir Julian l'aunceA to had been appointed British Ambassadoi at W adnngton was officially contradicted in London on the 4th-

Iii .1 codiMon off Dtingeness on the-lth between two Ktiglisli vessels twenty-foui persons were druwned. Byth ships foundered.

JHL bank ol J. N. Knapp at Marquette, Mu.li., closed its dooiN 011 tho -1 th- The liabilities were estimated at £30,000 tc £50 000.

Bi the breaking out of an old feud ou the 4th at Bed Bird Creek Ky twe biotheis named Lizcmoro and a man named Cirsnnth were killed

IN New Lngland and Western New York tho thermometer ranged from 30 to 40 dogrees below zero on the 4th.

SLVI.N ocks of buildings were destroyed by firo at Antwerp, N. Y-, 011 the 4th, causing a loss of ^75 000

A HEAI 1 gale winch prevailo 1 throughout Lngland and Ireland 011 the 4th did much damage to property

IN tho United States Scnalo on the -Jth the bill to declare unlawlul trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and production as considered. 'I he Legislative, Lxccutive and Judicial Appropriation bill w.is IC, oited. hi the House the Snnnto amendments to tho Diplomatic and C011sulai Appropriation b.ll woro uon-con-currcd 111 and a conference ordered. A bill was passed for the allotment of lands in sovorally to tlie Oneida Indians in Wisconsin. At the evening session tlio bill to divide the Sioux reservation was discussed at length. This involves tho relinquishment of over a million acrca

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BISMARCK BACKS DOWN.

llo Modifies Ills Orders to tlio German Co:isul at S imoii—Koroijciusrs to JJo Exnnpt (j oin tho Kxactloim of Marllul Law, ami AM liv-aly HlgHts to bo 1'ruHO *vod.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Tho President Friday transmitted to Congress a report, from Secretary Bayard 011 Samoan affairs, inclosing tho following documents. Tho first Is telegram from Vice-Consul Blacklock, as fodows: "AICKI.AMJ, Feb. 31.—German Consul declares Germany ut war, with Samoa under martial law."

SECRETARY BAYARD'S PROTEST. Thou follows tho following paraphraso of telegraphic instructions sent to Minister Pendleton at Berlin 011 January 3!:

Mr. Bayard instructs the Minister of the United States at Berlin to Inform the German Government that advices from Apia state that the Gorman Consul had deciareit Germany to bo at war with Ma.uafn and Samoa to be under martial law. Mr. Bayard informs Minlsterl'endleton that the Gorman Minister at this capital, under instructions lrom Prince Uismarel:, had already acquainted this Government of tho declaration of war bj Germany against Jlataafa and had accompanied the notification with tho statement that Germany would, of course, ab de by the agreement w.tli America und Kuglund touching Samoa, and preserve under all circumstances the r.ghtsof this Government esttbl.shed by treaty. Hut in view of the advices from Apia Mr. lia.vard instruots Mr. Pendleton to say that this Government assumed that the German olllciuls I11 Samoa would bo Instructed carefully to refrain from interference with American citizens and property there, hence no declaration of maitlal law could extend German jurisdiction so as to include control of Americans in Samoa. Such a pretension could not be recognized or conceded V.y this Government."

On the same date Mr. Bayard wrote to Count Arco-Valley informing him of Mr. Blacklock's dispatch, and aJso of the contents of tho above instructions to Minister Pendleton.

GERMAN ORDERS MODIFIED.

Under Friday's date Count Arco-Valley, under instructions from the Prince Chancellor, sent tho following nolo to Secretary Bayard: "When the stale of war was declared against Mataafa the commander of the German squadron issued a proclamation by which foreigners established in Samoa were subjected to martial law. Interuat onal law would, to a certain extent, not prevent such a measure, but, as Prince Bismarck is of the opinion that our military authority has gone too far in this Instance, the military commander has received telegraphic orders to withdraw the part ot his proclamation concerning foreigners. "In negotiation with Mataafa, our Consul at Samoa has nsked that the administration of the Islands of Samoa ght be temporrally handed ovor tohira,which ili-mimd not being .11 conformity 10 our prev oils promises regarding its neutrality and indofendence, Mr. Knappe lias been ordered by telegram to a a

SENATOR l'RYIi'S OPINION

Senator Frye said Friday evening that the developments the Samoan matters have not, in his opinion, changed tho situation in any important particular. Germany, ho said, may have abandoned temporarily its rash methods, but had not in tho least changed its purpose. On the contrary it would go straightforward to the completion of that purpose unless some action was taken by this Government to prevent it. The Germans, said the Senator, made up their minds long ago to take possession of the Samoan islands, and they will not cliango their policy in this respect as long as tho United States Government offers 110 objection. Congress should instruct the President to make a demand upon Germany for a restoration of tho status quo. That demand, ho said, would undoubtedly be complied with. She can not afford to ignoro it, for if the commercial intercourse between tho two countries should be interrupted Germany would lose more In a week than tho possession of Samoa could repay in 1,000 years.

I'ROVISIO.VAI, RECOGNITION- OF MATAAFA. ACCKI.AVD, New Zealand, Fob. 2.—Tho latest advices from Samoa state that the Germans express the.r willingness to recognize King Mataafa provided ho will rule under German control.

Tamascse's supporters were reduced to 800 men. The British aud American Consuls declined to recognize tho right of.therGermans to establish martial law.

IN THE ltKICHSTAG. llSiatett

BERLIN*, Feb. 2.—Tho lloichstag yesterday discussed the naval estimates. In the course of the debate Herr Kiehter asked for tlie particulars relating to Samoa. Admiral Heusner replied that until the arrival of reports from Samoa, which were expected about the middle of the month, it would bo impossible to give the information desired.

WON' I ANN KX TII E ISLANDS. 2W LONDON, Feb. -.- The Standard's"clispatoh from Berlin says that German}* dons not. intend in U13 least degree to annex Samoa, but at the same time she is reBolvol that the American Government ohall not do so. ^v

THE GERMAN PRI'SS

BERLIN, Feb. 2.—The North German Gazette (Prince Bismarck's organ) says: that a declaration of war against Samoa, in nu international senpe, is altogether improbable. The Government has sent no such lustrucoiuns and as a matter of fact t.iiero is no opponent to declare war against, Germanv not having recognized Mataiiia'I he Germans. 011 a basis ot self-defense or reprisal, may have outraged 111 actual warfare, but the movement has not involved the consequences of actual war.

When, some years ago. the German officer Schmidt was shot bv Carliss nobody dreamed of declaring war against tho fricndlv Government of Spam, b'ut our ships tried to captuue tho Cat-list force as a lepv.sa!. '1 ho affair Samoa is analogous. 'I lie German forces, as a protective measure and b.v way ol reprisal, without awaiting instructions, punished tho Mataara.les. AY helhor such lias been the case remains uncertain. At any rate such action will not amount to a declaration of war.

The Cologne Gazetto says: Germany must restore her authority In Samoa, which was grievously shaken by the events of December, and must inulce an example of tho mlsdoers. Th.s military side ot the procedure .s (If term.lied upon and unalterable. It can only occasion complications with America if her Congress desires to stay the hand of Ucrmanv and ollli'ially support Mataafa band. On the other baud, the diplomatic side of tho question does not btar a complexion of war fury. In the nineteenth century no battle will be .fought over Samoa. Germany's proposals for a settlement of the dull cully, now on tiicir way to Washington, will convince Americans of Germany's endeavor to deal justly with all duly establmhed interests."

A PLEASUKE TRIP.

Tlio AntiilcrhlU 11 in• iv a Part-v i-iluiids Ktrjiily to Set Sail for :i Seven

JHontli'.-i Cruise In J'oroiKn Maters. BAI.TIMORE, Md., Feb. 1!.- AVilliam IC Vanderbilt and party arrived in this city yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock over tho Pennsylvania road. '1 hey went direct to tho yacht Alva, which has toon waiting for thein hero since YVedneslny- The Alva will sail this morning on a seven months' cruise. Sho will lirst go to Bermuda and the West Indies, and later to tho Mediterranean. 'Ihe parly consists of Mr. and Mrs. William K. underbill, their two sons and daughter. Mr. Oliver 11 1' Belmont, WmJield Scotl. Hoy'. |iud

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SIX WERE KILLED.

& Xflorno Gu'e Ittiiw* Down Itrick Wnl in Omaha—Jt. Crashes Through Several l!ultilings. Hi ling Six of tlio Inmates i\mt

Wounding Several—Tlio Ilurrlcano General Throughout the State. OMAHA, Nob., Feb. 5.—A high wind at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon blew down a birgo scction of the east wall of Mux Meyers' brick building, at the corner of Farnum and Eleventh streets, recently culled by lire, completely wrecking two buildings immediately to tho east. Five people in tho wrecked building wero killed and several others more or less injured. The crash scut up an immenso cloud of dust, and soon attracted a crowd of not less than 5,000 people. Screams and groans could be heard proceeding from the ruins, but the loitering pyramids of brick wall still standing seemed to terronao every body, and for nearly half an hour they were left in their agony. It was nearly half an hour before the work of rescue began.

One oT the crushed buildings was a brick occupied by P. Boyor & Co., safe dealers, atul B. C. Dunbar & Co., engravers and book publisher*. Tho other was a frame, on tlio lirst floor of which was Edward Oloson's clothing store, and on the second a Mrs. Hcngen and licr family. Both buildings were crushed like egg shells, the front, wall of tho brick alone remaining standing.

AY'hen the crash came George Carle and E. O. Piiileo, employes of Dunbar & Co., were engaged at tho front window on soino pen-portraits, when the avalanche of brick and mortar canto crashing through the skylight. They leaped over tho drying-tablo and crept ulider the steam-pipes and down among the ruins on the broken scantling. Both escaped with slight injuries. In another part of the bu lding were other employes of Dunbar. There arc seventeen people 011 tho pay-roll, but there wero only nine 011 duty at tho time of tlie accident. All of them were carried down in the crash. The names of the dead are:

Kdward Olcson, Mike Martin, Maxwell Houston, P. Boyer, Thomas Lombard and Budolph Mitchell.

The injured arc: C. H. Silver, an engraver, shoulder crushed and finger broken E. A. Ph leo, an engraver, bruised John Jackson, slightly hurt Mis3 Emma Ol.ver, slightly injured Charles Blake, a draughtsman, Injured about the face and will loss an oye Charles Ceasar, foreman of Duubnr's art department, badly bruised, but succeeded in gelting out without assistance George Searles, slightly hurt: Mrs. Hcnger, fatally hurt.

The Meyer building was erected ten years ago at a cost of 50,000, and it has until six months ago been occupied by tho firms of Max Meyer & Bro. and Max Meyer & Co., dealers in music, tobacco and general merchandise. Tlie building was completely gutted by lire three weeks ago. It was remarked 011 tho night of tho firo that tho walls had been so burned as to be unsafe. Since then nothing has been dono with them, aud they fell easy victims to the fury of the blast. The damage is estimated at i?i5,000, and it is not improbablo that tho rest of the building will be condemned. The two-slory brick als3 belongs to the Meyers. Tho loss on it will bo about £10,000. Tho frame store was of little value. Dunbar's loss will be about $10,003, making a total loss of £$5,000.

FIERCE OA1.ES IN NEI1RASKA. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 5.—A heavy gale prevailed all over Nebraska Monday, starting at 2 a. m. at Alliance and reaching LiucolnQat about 0 a. m. Considerable damage was dono in the western part of the State, buildings being unroofed and trees blown down. At Arapahoe a number of small buildings were blown down. Lincoln escaped with a few cornices blown away und a few outbuildings overturned. The storm was an eiectrical disturbance, many watches and clocks in th.s city stopping at about 8 o'clock in the morning.

HASTINGS, Neb., Feb. 5.—A wind-storm struck Hastings at 11 a. m. Monday, blowing sixty inilei an hour and wrecking the old News building and blew in the front of a two-story building 011 Hastings avenue. At 12:30 a liHMoot section of the sidewalk in front of tho South ward public school building was blown 300 feet and Miss Aldrieh and three children wero buried under it. A 10-year-old son of Mrs. Puis was fatally injured and Miss Aldrich's arm was broken and her head hurt. Thero arc doubts as to her recovery. Tho other children escaped with slight cuts, ruinous STORMS ABROAD.

LONDON, Feb. 5.—The gale which prevailed yesterday was general throughout England and Ireland. Much damage was done to buildings and telegraph lines.

During the gale Sunday evening tho barracks of the Salvation Army at Derby wero blown down while a meetiug was in progress almost immediately the debris took fire from tho stoves and began blazing fiercely. A boy of 14 was killed and his body burned.

At Pudsley, Yorkshire, the spire of the Congregat onal church was blown down and crashed through the roof. Them TV!IS an average attendance of worshipers in the building at the tune and many of them were hurt bv living splinters, glass, etc but no one was killed. The escape of rno",t ol tho congregation lrom instant death is regarded as miraculous as the roof was completely wrecked and the interior of the church filled with broken tin.bei and stones

BISMARCK WANTS TO TALK,

TIi Suggests Unit 11 Consultation JCegardliig Samoa lie Held I11 ltcril:,. WASHINOION, Feb. 5.—Count von Arco, tho German .Minister, called at the State Department Monday al ternoon and had a conference with Secretary Bayard 111 regard to Samoan affairs. He informed the Secretary that lie had received a communication lrom I'rinco Bismarck to tho cffect that the German Governinciit proposes a resumption utBeiiinof the consultations winch took place 111 Washington between representatives oi Germany and Great Britain and the Unitcu States 111 ]{b~ 011 the subject of Samoa, 'lhc above lnlormation was furnished to the press by Secretary Bayard w.th the statement that it was all lie would say 011 tho subject at present. 1'. was therefore impossible to obtain tho full texo of Prince Bismarck's communication. It is probable, however, that it will bo transmitted to Congress tomorrow or next duv with Secretary Bayard's views on the subicct.

DI3AST R3 AT SEA.

A '«1!lslon ISet.lv(tun Two Vessels Oil'the IIiil.iKli CoasL ill winch Twenty-Four l.ives Were l.ost.

LONDON, Feb. 5.—The steamer Nereid I collided with the Br.tish ship Killochan, Captain Manson, from Lyttleton. off DunI geness Sunday night and both vessels went to the bottom a very short time

Twenty-four persons were drowned, including tho captain of tho Killochan. Nine mcmbuis of the crew were rescued, 1 0:1c of whom aft irward died, 'lho weather \\d.» clear at the time ef the collision. 'lho Spanish mail steamer Remus has I foundered off the Island of Billrau, one of the Philippines. All the passengers are I bupi)bsbU to havo been urownoJ.

•v-rj, BUFFALO'S CALAMITY.

Tlio llenrt of ilm ci'y .Swept by Fire, and a Loss of SW.rtOO,())() Incurred— Forty ISiiitdings, litcliidi ig Two il'itelH,

IJurncil—A Fireman Kilted by Tailing Willis—Seveiit'ieii Other I'ersons Hurt. BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 4.—Tho great firo Saturday morning did the most disastrous work in Buffalo since the embryo city was swept in flames in the war with the British and Indians in 1S13 and only one house was loft standing. A blaze in the heart of the manufacturing portion of itio city was fanned by a high wind loaded with snow, and destroyed more property than firo ever destroyed before in Buffalo. Flame* were discovered ab ut 2:45 o'clock in tho upper portion of tlio now big live-story building of lloot & ICoating, tbc leather merchants, at tlio southwest corner of Wells aad Carroll streets. Within .".11 hour the great block was a mass of flaming ruins, aud despite the efforts of the lire department other buildings in tho vicinity quickly caught from the flying fagots of fire. The Arlington Hotel and the Broczel House were soon in Haines, but fortunately there was uo loss of life, for the bright glow of the Root & Keating fire nwakened the guests, who sought shoitcr elsewhere. The Sibley & Holmwood block at Seneca and Wells, tlie new iron build ng of Sherman S. Jewell to Company, the Boot & Keating block aud the HoiVeld building, aud the hotels mentoned nrenmougthoprineip.il buildings destroyed. Many other buildings were gut. ted by tho flames, and before the lire was fully under control at 0 o'clock a good sized section of tlio Second ward had been gutted. Wells street, between Seneca and Exchange, was lined with wrecked build.ngs. And tho lire penetrated easterly and westerly und leaped across Seneca street, damaging 1 dozen buildings and gutting two or three. Step by step the firemen were driven back from the center of tho fire, and at 1:3l) o'clock it seemed as though the li unos had passed beyond the control of human beings. hulce i, all that prevented a quarter of Buffalo's business section from uttor destruction were the heavy brick walls of tho great JewoU iron block, el' tho Shepard Hardware Company 3 and tho Hoffeld buildings.

Saturday morning shortly after 10 o'clock a portion of the walls of the Arlington Hotel fell in, burying four fire men. Three wero quickly excavated, but tlio body of the fourth, that of Sandy Marion, was not recovered till late in tho afternoon. An examination showed that lie died of suffocation.

Seventeen firemen and onlookers re-', coivcd injuries during tho progress of the firo from falling bricks, corn ices, etc., aud beams from the intense heat. About 1,00 people are thrown out of employment by the fire. As closo an estimate of tho losses as can be made now places the damage at $2,500,00:1. Forty buiidings woro burned. The principal losses are:

Strottman building aiul tenants, ST00,000 Hoot & Keithig, 5'J50,0'J0 their tenants, $C0.J,li00 S. S. Jewett & Co., S'WO.OOJ tho Broezel House, $lliJ,UUU Sibley & Holtnwood, $!.VJ,000 Fowler & Sons, SSO.tKlO: S. F. Eagan, liquor house, *40,0 (1 the Arlington Hotel, A. T. Kerr & Co.. 430,000 A. Berl's sample room, 10,000 Lonard's hardware store, S.*i0,000: T. W. Reynolds, boots and shoes, •SSi.'O.OOO Swift As Stamback, $l.")(l,onO A. Hertz, *10.000 Sidney Shepherd. hardware, $Ki,0U0: Sibley Ilolmwood, fliiVlOO.

SULLIVAN'S SHORTAGE.

It Amounts Mow to S10!).500, with l'rolinbly More to J'ollow. INi)1ANPOI.IS, lnd., Feb. 4.—Tho commissioners of Marion County havo elected John A. Wilson, a well-known attorney, to suceed John E. Sullivan, the count,y* clerk, who has lied to Canada. The profits of the office are about }14,003 a year. Wilson accepted, and promise! to contribute to the payment of the claims against tho office all over a net profit of $5,000 a year. Wilson in tho lust campaign was the Democratic candidate for AttoruoyGcncral of Indiana. Before Sullivan l6ft for Canada it was admitted by his friends that ho was 440,000 short in Ilia privato business accounts. Since then have coma to light many fraudulent warehouse receipts. Talcing those in sight tho losses seem to aggregate about tlio following amounts: Public and trust funds, ?51,003 privato business debts, £40,000 fraudulent warehouse receipts, 15,503 total (with moro to follow), $109,500. Tho trust funds chargod to his hands are acknowledged to have amounted at tlie beginning of tho we_'k to $05,000. Since thou of the county money there had beeu paid into his hands nearly ¥5,000.

DISASTER IN BELGIUM.

A Itallway Accident in Which Fourteen Persons Were Killed and Fifty Others I njured.

BRUSSELS, Feb. 4.—A railway train from Brussels for Kaniur was thrown from tho track while running at a high rato of speed near Groenciidaol Sunuay. Fourteen persons were lied and fifty injured, 'lne bodies ot all the persons lulled bv tlio railroad accident have been brought heroI'iftecn persons, all mortally injured, lie at Hoevlaort near the scene of the disaster. Among them are several children, 'j'he Ministor of Railways has visited tho injured, most ot whom are suliuring from Iructured legs. Masses 01 masonry block tho line, and they will probablv havo to be removed by the uso of dynamite.

It. has been ascertained that the train struck the pillar of a bridge near Namur, causing the bridge to collapse. The train was carried down with it. and completly wrecked.

AN ENTIRE FAMILY DROWNED.

Th\ Attempt to Drive Across tlie llivur "ii tlie Jco and .An! Tugulfed. BISMAI-.CK, D. T., Feb. 4.—'lho warm weather winch has prevailed 1:1 this section has so Honeycombed the ice in tho Missouri river that travel is beset w.til great danger. A11 entire

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ing of Mr. and Mrs. John Olscn and throe children, arc reported lo havo been drowned v. hilo attempting to cross tho river 111 a wagon lilteoii miles north of the city. The team broke through the Ice and pulloil tho wagon and occupants with them. There was no one present to rescue them, and tho swift current carried them nwuy before a 111:111 who saw tliem from tho shore could reach tliem.

L.OSX AT SEA.

Alarlno Disasters Jtepm'tcd in Which Seventeen Persons Woro Ill-owned. LONDON, Feb. 4—'J he Mourner Living, stun has been wrecked on tho coast, of Devonshire, off llfracombo. Uoforo it was possible to rescue any 0110 tn board tno stranded steamer she rolled over and sank, 'len persons wero drowned. Tlio cries ol the drowning people were heard from the shore. 'the British bark Kosencath, Captaiu Brown, from Dublin, while being towed to the ulydc, broke adrilt during a violent gale and was wrecked at. Port Patrick. 1 lie mute, Ins wife and- five teamen werq drowned-

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