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the new King. The decision was received with ominous silence by the natives. Within an hour the consuls, the president and the German and British captains held a meeting. The German consul and president declined to recognize Tanus and went over to Mataafa, who was waiting at Mutinu, the western portion of Apia, with 3.WX) men under arms, until he had surrounded the loyal troops, 1.200 in number, who occupied the central portion of the town. The followers of Malietoa lacked arms and ammunition. In a few hours the rebel forces had surrounded the residence of the chief justice, who was guarded by 200 loyal natives, and Captain Sturdy, of the British war ship Porpoise, landed twenty-five sailors under Lieutenant Gaunt. The residence was barricaded and the. men stood to arms all night. when the chief justice and family was taken to the beach. The correspondent here describes the fighting, as already cabled from Auckland- By the flight of Malietoa's men to the Porpoise, the rebels were left in absolute possession of the town. Ail Samoan houses were looted and burned. White men’s houses were invaded and searched for Samoan property. Trees were cut down, crops were spoiled, dogs and horses taken away, and boats either stolen or destroyed. In this extremity the consuls, the president and the leading Mataafaian chiefs came to an agreement to preserve life and property' and to keep order. A provisional government, with the president as executive head, was approved by all consuls pending the settlement of the whole question by their respective governments. The British and American consuls agreed to this provisional government, with the understanding that it was in no wise to affect the Berlin treaty or any official ot the powers or any office under it, and that the Malietoa people who had been taken on board the Porpoise should be allowed to go to their homes, their arms being retained on the Porpoise. The first act of the provisional government, however, showed the tixed determination of the German officials to assume an ascendency in Samoan affairs. By public notice the provisional government abolished the Supreme Court, and then decided that the president was the acting chief Justice, and that Chief Justice Chambers no longer held office. They seized Jhe Supreme Court and placed new locks on all the doors. Chief Justice Chambers and the British and American consuls issued a proclamation that the court would he opened by him as usual in the morning. Captain Sturdy, of the Porpoise, gave notice that if any resistance to the opening of the. court by Justice Chambers was offered the Porpoise would open lire on the town. Captain Sturdy also appealed to the German captain for assistance without avail. Mataafa. upon receiving Sturdy’s ultimatum, withdrew’ his armed guard from the courthouse and on Jan. 7 the chief justice, with a guard of twentyfive men. landed. The chief justice and the two consuls walked to the courthouse, and after an exciting colloquy wfith the German officials, Chambers ordered the door broken In with a sledge hammer. The session of the court was then held. Three cheers for the justice and the British and American consuls were given by the British and Americans, and the crowd dispersed. All now is quiet, and so far as fighting Is concerned is so up to date. The chief justly has sent his family to Aucklund and himself is on the Porpoise. The Germans still insist that Dr. Rafael is chief justice. Qn Jan. 19 the wealthiest German merchant in Samoa smashed all the windows in the Supreme Court building. He was fined |IOO and sentenced to 100 days’ imprisonment. In court he insulted the judge and gloried in the deed. He was sent to Jail and late that night Dr. Rafael, claiming to be chFf justice, ordered the jailkeeper, a Swiss with German sympathies, to take the prisoner to the German consul. This was done and the next day the merchant was fined £3O by the German consul. Everybody in Apia is anxiously awaiting news of action by the three powers. The action of the provisional government in deporting the Malietoa chiefs is. claimed to be in direct opposition to the agreement made with the consuls. Sixty chiefs were sent, to Mauua. but owing to bad weather could not reach the island. They were taken to Tutuila by the Pago-Pago people who have declared their allegiance to Malietoa. They tried to capture the guard at the prison, but the schooner got away too quickly. Everything points to another fight among the natives at no distant time. Part of the Mataafa people are dissatisfied with the looting and deportation of the chiefs and are now talking of uniting with the Malietoa faction. During the fighting between the natives Mataafa’s party lost thirteen killed and fourteen wounded and the king's party lost four killed and eight wounded. Dr. Kramer, prominently connected with the German legation in Samoa, arrived on the steamer Moano to-day and it Is believed that he brings important advices for his government regarding the situation in Samoa. Dr. Kramer says the situation is at a standstill and the decision of the powers Is all that is being awaited.

OBITUARY. Capt. T. H. ( rimford, Who Graduated from Went Point with Grant. LOUISVILLE. Ky.. Feb. B.—Captain Thomas H. Crawford, aged seventy-eight, a Mexican veteran, died at his home in this city last night. * His death was indirectly caused by wounds which he received in the battle of Cherubusoo. In that battle he received five wounds, and they gave him muoh trouble all his life. He was a student at the West Point academy, and graduated In the same class with General Grant. Died In a Theater. NEW YORK, Feb. B.—Mrs. Maria Allen, wife of Col. Ethan Allen, grandson of the revolutionary hero of that name, died in the Metropolitan Opera House to-night. Jut as the curtain went up, Mrs. Allen gasped and fell forward. She was carried to the corridor and thence to the reception room, where she died within a few minutes, Edwin M. Stanton's Sister. AKRON. 0., Feb. B.—Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott, widow of the late C. P. Wolcott, and a sister of Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war In Lincoln's Cabinet, died here to-day, aged seventy-two. Mrs. Wolcott has written something upon the personal side of her brother’s character, which she refused to have published until after her death. A Yletim of the War. PORTSMOUTH, N. H„ Feb. S.-Chief Machinist B. D. McGoath, of the United States steamer Alliance, died to-day at the Naval Hospital from the effects of a wound received upon the torpedo boat Cushing during the recent war. His home was in Portsmouth. Va., and the remains will be taken there for interment. 11. V. Parke. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. B.—H. V. Parke, of the firm of Parke, Davis, & C., chemists, at Detroit. Mich., and New York, who arrived here on Saturday last for his usual winter visit, was taken with severe chills at La Mesa and expired to-day of heart failure. Mr. Parke had large interests in southern California. The HorsteJen* Carriage. New York Commercial Advertiser. The automobile is rolling toward permanent popularity in New York. At first it was viewed askance and people hesitated to get into the clumsy vehicle, just as the Parisians stared and hesitated before entering the American ambulance when it was first introduced to that city of pleasure. To render oneself conspicuous or to label oneself as eccentric a year ago all that was necessary was to enter and ride in a horseless cab. The small boys hooted, polite passers-by stared or smiled indulgently, while drivers of horses exchanged sardonic grins as the driver on an electric motor whizzed by. First, only men were to be setn in these lumbering vehicles. Then r few women ventured to travel by electricity. They were usually young and gorgeous, and other older or less splendidly dressed women said they w'ere trying to attract attention. With the beginning of this winter the business-like face of the woman caller or shopper was not infrequently seen behind the panes of the horseless cab. Horseless cabs are seen in the quiet cross streets and gyrate wildly in the avenues where the conservative live. Broadway and Fifth avenue are not their only rolling ground. But the stamp of respectability was given to the ugly vehicle one day last week, if never before, when one of them lumbered up to the door of a "dozy old house in Washington square and stepped long enough to allow a white-haired old Udy and two fat and whe°zy pugs to alight In Paris the automobile is the sp<ciu! pet of the new aristocracy; in New York it may take the place once occupied b> the sit w-fi cteu etrse and the bask t phaeton. He hiked SlmkNpenre. New York Evening Sun. Jt was in the gallery at the “Merchant of Venice” a few weeks ago. ••There.” he said, pointing with a not too cleanly finger to a page of the Shakspeare “score” he held—- ■ now that is the celebrated mercy speech.” “Really!” cried the maiden by his side, ‘‘you don't mean It! You must know a lot about it!” admiringly. “YeR,” admitted the youth. **l do. 1 like Shakspeare. I’ve seen a'lot of him. I saw Othello once.” THE CHIP CURE THAT UOEjTciRE. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets remove the cause that produces La Grippe. The leauioe has L. B. Q. oa each Tablet. 25c.

ONLY ONCE ABOVE ZERO + THE HOI KI.Y REC ORD OF THE RITTER COLD YESTERDAY. Mur Degrei i Below <he Minimum— Little Suffering; Among the Poor. “This mawnin','’ said an old colored man, “I seen a man dat said he b’lleved his year wuz fross-bit. He said he wuz a-goin' to fin’ a hot stove. 1 stz, Wait a minute, honey, an' lemme look at yo' year.’ I looked at his year, an', an'—yes, sir— th’ inside of hit wuz as black as yo’ hat. I picks up a han'ful of snow an' claps hit to his year and her it there. He yell like he wuz a-goin’ to die. 1 took him to a s’loon, an' he rubbed whisky on his year an’ got walim.” “Didn't he offer you a drink?” “Yes, sir, but I didn't want no whisky. It wahms ye ez long ez hits a suecilatin' through yo' blood, but it leaves ye col’er 'an yo’ wuz b’fo'. I tuk a clg-gah, on* it was so col’ when I went out ’at th’ en' of th’ cig-gah friz evah Dme I took hit out'n my mouf. When I got home at noon th’ ol’ woman and the chillern wuz a huddied aroun’ th’ stove wif th’ bed clo'es wrapped aroun’ ’em. If—if—l wish 'at 1 wuz down in ol Mississip!” Yesterday was the coldest day of the winter, and those who knew that.a year ago on the same day the weather was 47 maximum and 3.7 minimum could not satisfy themselves why (in the name of suffering humanity) it couldn’t be that way this winter. too. The first man who climbed out of bed yesterday morning, to call the servant, mayhap, felt that it was a cold day. Possibly he looked at hi” fire, and If he was in the van wuth most people he saw a mystic will-o’-the-wisp flame floating dreamily out of the holes in the burner. Presuming that this was occurring at 5 o'clock, it was natural for the man to suppose that in a couple of hours it would warm up a little. But the usual weather course seemed to be changed, lor the temperature dropped steadily from 2 degrees below zero at 5 o'clock until, at 8:30 o'clock, it was —9. Families sat in close communion around their stovps, and'it was noticeable that in sections of the city where the gas had been fairly strong before it was weak yesterday. Some people- complained that the heaters in tlie street cars were not working. At the office of the street railroad company it was said that the heaters in every car were really heating, that the inspectors had made it their business all day to see that all the heaters were working. The weather was ‘so cold, it was explained, that enough air rushed into the cars when the doors were opened to undo the work of the heaters. However, the heat could not be felt at the radiators. Wood and coal merchants had an optimistic look, and their wagons w T ere familiar sights on the streets all day. In one house in Morton Place the family found that water that had leaked from the faucet in the bath tub had frozen into a long icicle. In another, the water pipes leading to the bathroom were frozen up. and in still another house the family moved into tw’O rooms, leaving the furniture in the rest of the house to be preserved in cold storage. At the workhouse the men in the office wore their overcoats, and the prisoners shivered in the cellhouse. The Insane Hospital was kept comfortably warm. There was little complaint from the City Hospital, though the gas pressure —normally from seven to nine ounces—was three ounces. The weather bureau’s temperature scale, from 7 o’clock the evening before until 8 o'clock last evening, as follows: 7 p. m 9 8 7 11:39 -3 1 a. m 0 2 < 3 4 4 -1 5 -2 7 —fi 8 • -8 8:39 —9 9 —8 10 i—6 11 Noon —6 1 p. —2 2 —1 3 -1 4 0 5 —2 6 -2 7 -3 S —6 After the 7 o’clock registration the weather men w r ent home to pay court to their stoves, but the machines kept on taking the temperature all night. Th 3 prediction, “clear and cold,” held out little hope of warmer vveathei*. and the weather men refused to commit themselves. Charles S. Grout, secretary of the Charity Organization Society, congratulated the city that the condition of the poor people was good, comparatively speaking. There were thirty applicants yesterday at the society's office, and to them fuel and food were furnished. The society’s visitors had provided for those families that had been dependent on the society all winter, and if there was a case of suffering from want of food and fuel the society did not know of it. Mr. Grout said the poor people were In better condition titan they had been for several years, and the applicants for help did not number half as many as they did ot Evansville, Ind.. and Dayton. 0.. though this citv is much larger than either of the other two. He said work was more plentiful than before, and he had no doubt that the business boom had a great deal to do with the improved condition of those who ere usually dependent on <Tharity for a part of their sustenance.

MORE Ft Eh DEAhERS* WEATHER. Continued how Temperature and West Winds Will Prevail To-Day. WASHINGTON. Feb. 8, 8 p. m.—Forecast for twenty-four hours: For Ohio—Fair; continued cold: brisk west winds. For Indiana—Fair; continued cc.li; west winds. For Illinois—Generally fair; continued cold; brisk winds. WeathAf Conditions and General Forecast—The Southern storm has moved rapidly along the coast, with increased energy, and is central to-night off the northeastern main coast. The rain in the south Atlantic and snow in the middle Atlantic States has been succeeded by clear and much colder weather. Generally clear weather, with falling temperature, also prevails from the lower lake region eastward to the coast, except in northern New England, where it is still snowing. The. temperature has fallen from 30 to 40 degrees from the South Carolina coast southward, with freezing temperature practically to the Florida line. In the interior of the country generally clear weather has continued, with extremely low temperatures except in the upper lake region and upper Mississippi valley, where there were light snow flurries. The zero line extends through southern Missouri and the Ohio valley to western Pennsylvania. In the southwest there has been a rise in temperature of from 6 to 20 degrees, while in the Northwest abnormally low temperatures continue, ranging from IS to 34 below zero. In the middle and northern plateaus and north Pacific coast snows and rains have continued and fair weather in the southern plateau and southern California. There were light rains in the extreme northern California. The temperature in these districts is somewhat higher. Clear and cold weather is indicated from tlte east gulf States northeastward through New England, with freezing temperature as far south as central Florida. It will be somewhat warmer in the Southwest, with fair weather, while fair and continued cold weather will prevail In the remaining districts east of the Rocky mountains, except er.stern Colorado, where light snows are indicated. Light snows are also probable in northern New Mexico. Brisk to high northwesterly winds are indicated for llie middle and north Atlantic States, moderating during the morning, and brisk westerly winds in the south Atlantic States. Storm signals are displayed on the Atlantic coast from Sandy Hook to Eastport. and cold wave signals In eastern New York. Massachusetts and Connecticut. . RELIEF EXPEDITION FAILS. Fruttlen* Attempt to Succor Four Men on nu Icebound Water Crib. CHICAGO, Feb. S.—Four men, ice bound several miles out in Lake Michigan, to-day,

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saw the failure of a strenuous effort to send them relief by a bob sled pulled by hand across fields of ice with the temperature 12 below. Assistant City Engineer Paul Brown headed the relief expedition, which took supplies to Captain Kelley and three assistants at the city water supply in-take, known as the Sixty-eighth-street crib. Mr. Brown Rnd his two companions. Captain William Smitli. of the Dunham tug line, and Captain Daniel Donovan, chief city diver, boarded an Illinois Central express train with about five hundred pounds of provisions. They left the train at Sixtyeighth street, loaded their supplies on a bobsled and started across the ice fields for the crib. The strong westerly wind made the trip exceedingly dangerous, both from the floes of ice and the risk of freezing. Brown and his associates each took turns at the ropes, while the others pushed the provisionladen sled. After an ex citing experience owing to the gaps and floating ice. the daring mission was temporarily' abandoned. Coldest Since 1K72. CHICAGO. Feb. B.—Not since 1872 has Chicago experienced such intense cold as that which prevailed to-day. At 11 o’clock tonight 1819 was close upon the undesirable record of 1872 and was gaining steadily and had every chance of beating it out by several degrees. The lowest notch reached since the establishment of the Weather Bureau in (his city was 23 degrees below. At 11 o’clock to-night it was 19 degrees below and when the weather office closed the officials predicted that by to-morrow morning the mercury would reach 23 degrees below' and the record will be broken. Since the prediction was made nothing has occurred to stamp it as a false alarm. The maximum to-day was 8 degrees below' and the resulting discomfort was accentuated by a strong wind which blew’ from the northwest. There were no deaths attributable to the cold, although frost-bitten faces, hands and feet were numerous. Three people collapsed on the street from the effect of the cold, but were soon revived. All through the West and Northwest the cold was intense. Reports from all over the West and Northwest tell of record-breaking cold weather. Wisconsin Frozen Deep. MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. B.—This city is experiencing the coldest weather in twen-ty-five years. The frost has penetrated the ground to a depth of 4’ 2 feet, or within a foot and a half of the water mains. A double force of men is on duty' to see that the fire hydrants are not frozen up. The temperature to-night is fifteen degrees below zero and little promise is offered for any abatement of the cold. Railroads are running very light freight trains and as small passenger trains as possible, the cold weather interfering more or less with the pow'er of the locomotives. Perishable freight, in several instances, is being held, pending a change in the weather. Reports from around the State indicate the coid is general. At Cumberland thermometers register all the way from thirty-eight to fifty degrees below; Whitehall reports thirty; Black River Falls, forty-two. At Waupaca the water works are completely frozen up, and at Spring Valley the schools have been closed on account of the severe cold. Again Tied Up by Snow. DENVER, Col.. Feb. B—A snowstorm raging in the mountains again tied up the Colorado railroad lines to the west to-day. No trains are running on the Midland, although gangs of shovelers are persisently keeping at work. Two passenger trains from the west on the Denver & Rio Grande wore stalled between Leadaille and Buena Vista and two were herd at Glenw'ood Springs. West-bound trains did not go beyond Sedalia. The Rio Grande officials say the mainline will be reopened in a few hours after the storm ceases. No further effort is being made to clear the South Park tracks in the vicinity of I/eadville. Trains over tiie Union Pacific are getting through, hut are behind the schedule. Plenty of Booze, but Little Coni. LEXINGTON, K>'.. Feb. B.—A coal famine is threatened throughout Kentucky. T. B. Cassidy, of a coal agency representing eleven mines, says that to his knowledge there is not a coal supply that will last longer than twenty-four hours in any town in Kentucky. Mines are all Hooded, and it is impossible to get coal. The temperature in this city is 8 below zero and getting steadily colder-. Only one coal yard has coal and its supply is limited. If the present weather continues much loss of life from freezing to death is looked for. Beat the Record for Cold. ST. PAUL, Minn , Feb. B.—Last night beat the winter’s record for cold, the Weather Bureau reporting 28 below, while unofficial temperatures ranged down to 35 and 40 below zero. In the extreme northwest the mercury is approaching zero on the upgrade, and a slight abatement of the cold is promised later in the week. The weather continues clear, but there has been a cutting wind. This is the lowest since January, 1888. On account of the intense cold, the city' schools were most of them closed today.

Xo Snow to Protect the Wheat. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. . KOKOMO, Ind., Feb. B.—This is the coldest day of the winter, with a bitter wind. The mercury stood 12 below zero this morning and was below all day. The farmers report the wheat badly damaged by the freezing weather, being no snow on the ground to protect it. Deep Snow In Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA. Pa., Feb. B.—The snow which began falling early Sunday morning lias continued with more or less regularity up to the present time, and shows little signs of a let-up. About eight inches have fallen. Reports throughout the State say the storm is general, the snow in some localities being over a foot deep. Fourteen Below ut Greencuntle. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. GTiEENCASTLLE, Ind., Feb. B.—The most sudden drop in temperature ever known here occurred this morning. In the space of two hours the mercury fell 14 degrees—from zero to 14 below, some thermometers registering 16 below. Stanton's Spring Poems Nipped. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. S.—The thermometer fell to 10 degrees above zero in Atlanta last night, the coldest of the year, and the temperature to-day has not appreciably moderated. Locul Observation* on Wednesday. Bar. Ther. R.H. Wind. Weather. Pre. 7a. m. .30.07 —5 67 West. Clear. .00 7p. m. .30.13 —3 85 N’west. Clear. .00 Maximum temperature, —0; minimum temperature. —O. Following ip a comparative statement of the temperature and precipitation Feb. S: Tern. Pre. Normal 31 .13 Mean —4 .00 Departure from normal —33 —.13 Departure since Feb. 1 —llO —.55 Departure since Jan. 1 —ll2 —.Ol •Plus. C. F. R. WAPPENHANS. I-oeal Forecast Official. Yesterday'* Temperature*. Stations. Min. Max. 7p. m. Atlanta. Ga 8 22 20 Bismarck, N. D —36 —22 —24 Buffalo, N. Y —4 14 4 Calgary. Alberta —4 —6 Cairo. 11l 0 14 10 Cheyenne, Wyo 12 24 16 Chicago, 111 —l2 —4 —l2 Cincinnati, O —2 2 —2 Concordia, Kan —6 2 o Davenport, la —lB —l6 —lB Galveston, Tex 28 4040 Des Moines, la —3O —l4 —2O Helena. Mont 2 16 14 Jacksonville, Fla 34 40 34 Kansas City, Mo —8 —2 —6 Little Rock. Ark 14 34 30 Marquette, Mich —l2 —6 —l2 Memphis, Tenn 12 30 26 Moorhead. Minn —36 Nashville, Tenn 6 14 10 New Orleans, La 36 38 36 New York 24 32 21 North Platte, Neb —S 2 —2 Oklahoma, O. T 8 32 18 Omaha, Neb —lB —l4 —lB Pittsburg, Pa 0 12 0 Qu‘ Appelle, Assin —3O —32 Rapid City, S. D —S -S -8 Salt Lake City. Utah ... is 32 32 St. Ijouls, Mo —2 I 0 St. Paul. Minn —2B -IS —22 Springfield. 11l —lO —4 —lO Springfield, Mo —4 12 0 Vicksburg, Miss 20 31 3.2 Washington, D. C 12 24 12 —Below zero. Koiikli Rider Killed. SILVER CITY. X. M . Feb. 8.-A. J. Fowler shot and killed Tom Darnell at Central, ten miles from here. Darnell went-to Tamp.i as a Rough Rider. He was one of the champion horsemen of the world. It is said that Darnell attempted to shoot Fowler, who was prepared, on account of threats Darnell had made. Darnell had a horse saddled, on which, it is said, he Intended to escape after shooting Fowler.

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