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WHEN INDICATIONS.

rOR 8-lTCBIAY-5HshtIy rmir and fair rather; southeast winds, becoming variable. Splendid baroaina in Children's Knee Pants, extra and Children'o Short Pant Suits, AT THF. fi3 BJI i i Clothing Store. LEPROSY OF THE JEWS. A Wild, Itnrnlne Itch, that Strike With a Thousand Electric Itching Needles. Er.no: Ai.toona, Pa., Call, I wish to Fay omithing lu praise of that valuable medicine, Cuticura. which I paw advertised in your paper. 1 tave had the old leprosy, ol which you rend in the i:ib!e, where the Jews first cot It among then, and did uot know how to care iL It has many other EcsLsh names, I have had it oa my body for over 6ixty years. No doctor could tell me hat it wan, and probably 1 never would have koon had I not seen the advertisemeat in your valuable paper, rirst it fa a scaiy ailectlon of the Min; next it locks like barnacles on a vessel's bottom, or an old los that has laid in the water for a long time, and just the tame la my feet, knees and ellows, and by taking a mlcrosco&o and looking at me it loots worse. In other words, wc will call It ichthyosis, or lish-ekin ; then comeg on what I call the wild burning itch, that will Mrike you with a thousand electric itchy needles. You can net tt. il WHEBE TO SCBA.TC1I FIRST. You tfcen have to run out into the open air to get relieved. Wby, it im dreadful, and Having no many eminent doctors ana none inowiDg what to do for you: but I haTe found the lost treasure at last. It did net take two spoonfuls of the Caticura Resolved before it took, that burning itch by the throat and bid them to bold oil, and it is off. My tlesh ia becoming rafter, my hair labecoining soft and sllty. and I .uen rot to uslns? external applications Cutiou: a Soap nnd anoint the parta with Cuticura, It the thousmds knew the Koodnes of this medicine as I do, they would not be twenty-four hours without it. It is not nly adapted to my ceso but to all others, and if anyone disbelieves this let him stop next door to the Locan House here, take my microscope and aee for himself. Joseph V. Kiley. Hoilidaysbur;;, Pa , Nov. 12, IhSJ. AGONIZINgTiTCHING And cumin? tkln diseases instantly relieved by a warm bsth with Cuticura Soap and a single application of Cutirura, the preat aiin cure. This repeated daily, wita two or thret doses of Cuticura Iiefolvent, the new blood puritier, to keep the blood cool, the perspiration pure and unirritating. the bowejx open, the liver and Kidneys active, will fpec'Üly cure Eczema, Tetter, Rin?worm, fsoriasls. Lichen, Pruritus, Scall Head, IiasdruC, a . ..'tj Fpeciea of Itchins, Scaly, ad dimply Humors of the 8caip and Ssin, when the bcst physicians and all kuown remedies fail. Bold everywhere." Cutktra. 50 cents. Soap, 25 cents. RE.soLvr.vT, tl. Pgtteb Drug and Chemical Co., Boston, Mass. Totter Pros and Chemical Co., ltocton. Knabe, PIAfilH Hallet & Dans IHlWö Aro the Acknowledged OP THE WOULD. Hero or thorn aro being sold in this city than any other first-class In All Styles at Thw, Pfaiin & Co. S! S2d 31 forth PemilTasia St. o tit? at h i nnm mm bUI IIM PRICES. Children's Knee Pants, worth 75 cents, for 3 cents. Children's Knee Pants, worth !.Q0, for 58 cents. Children's Knee Pants, worth $1.25, for 73 cents. Knee Pants, worth $1.50, $2 and $2.50, now $1, $1.35 and 81.50. MO CLOTHIN GO. Only a ie-v lert of those Men's (ui;ill f-ize) Odd Coats at 1, and l'g bargairiB in Odd Coata at $2.50 and $5 co.

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WASHINGTON NEWS.

Heavy Influences at Work to Secure an Extra Session A Snpera bundance of Room. Colcnel Dudley's Prostitution of the Pension Bureau for Partisan Purposes Other News. EXTRA SESSION PRORARLE. It is Thought nn Kxtra Session Is Sore. Special to the Sentinel. Washington, Feb. 13. There bu been a good deal of talk to-day about an extra Bestien of Congress. An impression gets a footbold every time an appropriation bill gets a backset in any way or there is filibustering, that an extra session is inevitable. A gentleman who is excellent authority npon legislative matters approached your correspondent to day and said: ' There will be an extra session of Congress as sure as you are a foot high. 1 have teen here a good many years dabbling in legislation. I seldom get left. It is a marter of business with me. I have Interviewed all cf the men who are on the inside of the House affairs, aud I tell yon there will be an extra session." "Why," laid I, "Mr. Randall, who controls the appropriations, said a few minutes ago that he would have every appropriation bill through both houses inside of two weeks." "Let me give yon a pointer," Baid my wise friend: "Mr. Randall wants an extra session of Congress." "Eut he would ruin himself with the incoming President if he necessitated an extra session." "It doesn't make any difference what the new President wants; Mr. Randall knows he himself desires an extra session." Later I saw Mr. Randall again, and intimated that it had been said that he didn't care if there wo3 an extra session. "There will be no extra; that's all there is about it," said Mr. Randall, firmly. Apparently there has been very little done towards the completion of appropriations dnring the past ten days, and one thing is very sure: If the work progresses bnt twice as rapidly henceforth as it has in the past, an extra session is inevitable. The work must move forward ten times as fast. There ii a' heavy outside pressure being brought to bear for an extra session. The people working for the Bankruptcy, Mexican War Pension, and Schooi and other bills, and the lobby that is boomiag the Nlcaraguan and Mexican treaties want an extra session. The citizens here are laboring for it. The men who are candidates for office in the next House' and quits an element of the members elected for the first time desire an extra Eession. With these influences operating and the work being so far behind an extra cession of Congress will be a ditlicult thing to avert. Letters Addressed to Cleveland at Washington. 8peclal to the Sentinel. Washington, Feb. 13. A few days ago a letter arrived at the city Postoffice here addressed to "Hon. Grover Cleveland. Washington, D. C." Then another come addressed to "3. Cleveland." The clerks having charge of the distribution glanced over the Oity and Congressional Direc tories, and failing to find the name, sent both letters to the Postothce of the House of Representatives. They rested there, and were sent back to the city rostoffice. Promptly they went to the Senate Postoffice. Shortly they reappeared at the city PostoiEee. The letters were picked up and the (' rections examined again. No Grover or''. Cleveland was recorded. In tb.3 oilice is i expert whe runs down addresses somewhat after the manner people are located, or addresses are completed, at tha Dead lettter Office. He has all the maps and directories to be found, and can trace almost any addrees in the United States or Canad i Thtse letters were turned over to him. N sooner did his eagls eye catch the aidre--than he dissected it. "Why," he exclaimed, "this is for tl President elect. Grover Cleveland's msii n forwarded to New York.'' The letters were forwarded, and the clerks through whose hands they had passed ar? the butt of all jeers. Since then a good deal of mail has been received for Mr. Cleveland. It Is generally addressed in awkward handwriting, and consists of letters, It is (believed, from applicants for oöice and crank. Dndtej'a Methods Exposed. Special to the Sentinel. Washington, Feb. 13. There was a good deal of surprise expressed by the House Committee on Pensions, Bounty and Back Pay to day, at the character of the testimony developed la tha examination of Chief Comstock, of the Pension Bareau. Comstock acknowledged that Major Grubby in his campaign against Colonel Matson for Congress last fall, was given complete C3ntrol over the pension cases. He sent to the oflice, and that Dudley issued orders to make special all claims sent in by Grnbbs. Cornstock said it was known generally in the oll'.ce that Grnbbs was to be offerded every facility in his campaign, and the order of lndley wa3 unusual and remarkable. Tais places a charge that the machinery of the Pension Otüce was uei for partisan purposes in Ohio and Indiana on a solid his. Chairman Warner says this order cf Dud

ley's was remarkable and mean, especially since it was issued in the interest of the opposition to Matson, who has been so fair in his dealings with the Pension Office and with the ex Commissioner personally.

The Inaugural Committee's Announcement. Special to the Sentinel. Washington, Feb. 13. The Inaugural Committee requests the announcement to be made that persons may secure accommodations here during the week of March 4 by making application to them, and that they have a superabundance of room and boarding facilities. It appears that a great proportion of hotel and board-ing-honse room and facilities have been placed in the handa of the committee for disposition. Application for rooms or board may be made through the committee, and the assurances given by the committee may be relied npon. It is expected, however, that single parties or couples will net apply to the committee, a3 they deal in acommodatlcne by the wholesale and supply clubs or partif s cf several persons. - . OH to Albany Petition Presented. clal to the Sentinel. Washington, Feb. 15. Senator Yoorhees and Congressman Cobb left here, at 11 o'clock to day, lor Albany, N. Y. They took with thorn a bundle of recommendations addressed to Cleveland in behalf of ex-Senator McDonald for a Cabinet position. They will r.'ge that McDonald be made Secretary of n a Tri asury. Mr. Stocksher presented t3 the House today petitions for the passage of the Mexican Pension bill with the Senate amendments, es follows: James L. Miller and 41 other citizens of Galena, Floyd County; John Jackson and 102 other Utizens of New Albany; William J. Hardy and 53 other citizens of Lexington, Scott County, and of James H. Duffin and 200 other citizens of West Fork, Crawford County. They were all referred to the Committee on Tensions. WASII1MJ10N MATTERS. Civil Service Examinations The Indian Appropriation Ulli, Et-. Washington, Feb. 13. Civil service examinations will be held in the Southwest and South during March as follows: At Nashville, Thursday, 12; Memphis, Saturday, 11; Little Rock, Tuesday, 17; Jackson, Misj., Friday, 20; New Orleans, Monday, 3. These examinations will be for departmental service in Washington. The Commissioa has an inadequate number of names on ita eligible register fer the States of Arkansas. Mississippi and Louisiana, and persons from those Bt&tes who pass examinations will, therefore, have a better prospect of an earU appointment than those from other States, having a larger number on the register. The President has, by executive ortfer, opened to public settlement attr May 15, 1S5, fell the lands within the Niobrara, or Eantee Sioux, Indian reservation, in Nebiata, remaining unallotted to and unseeded by the Indians, except such a3 are cccupien for agency, ichool and missionary pnrpopf?. The Treasury Department has notified the Collectors of Customs at ports on tiie ncith frontier that, as the service? of a Depaiy Collector of Customs at Fremont, O , has been discontinued, vessels with rargoes whi h are destined to Fremont will have to enter and clear at Sandusky. The House Committee on Invalid Pensions will report favorably the bill providing for an increase of pension to the widow of General George H. Thomas to 2,000 a year. The Indian Appropriation bill as reported to the Senate, increases the House bill to ?152,000. The committee has struck out all the provisions for the payment of private claims growing out of Indian depredations, bnt has substituted a general provision requiring the Secretary of the Interior to report at the next session all claims of thii nature, together with such information rgerding them as may hare iieen gathered by the agani of the Department. The bill coata:.ra new provision, as follows: "To snppi.. feed and other necessities of life in cass o distrsgs anioog Indians not having matv funds, arising from emergencies not foreseet cr otherwise provided fur, to ba used at th discretion of the President: $2.3 00)." Thprovision for the Indian school st Sinta F. is rtricien out and a new provision i3 in fertf d for the establishment of a school in Col orado for the Utes, and .f 10.000 13 apprnpr' attd for the construction of an Indian schon at Albuquerqne, N. Mer. The f?a'nre of thv House bill, prohibiting under heavy penal tifs the ssie of firearms to the Indians; that of amending the statutes and the resolution apainst selling spirituous liquors to the In dians; that antnorizing the President to open negotiations with the Creeks. Seminoms and Cherckees for the purpose of opening ti settlement the Oklahoma country, end that which subjects Indians charged with the commission of crimes against person or property to the laws of the Territory where the act is alleged to have been commitUd are struck out. Ihe Acting Postmaster General trans mitttd to Congress a letter to himself from tte Attorney General setting forth the desirability of securing the postal records of thtconftderacy for use in the settlement of claims presented by parties who carried thnilinthe South in antwar times, and hose accounts had not been adjusted at the outbreak of hostilities. The Secretary of the Interior disbarred from practice as attorney John McLean, of Roofeston, III. The World's Exposition. New Orleans, Feb. 13. In the Governj ment building a meeting of Iowa citizens attending the exposition was held. The meeting was called to order by George Sneer, of Des Moines. Major J. H. Marshall, of Council BluCs, was called to the chair and E, H. Calkins was made Secretary of the meeting. They passed the following resolution: ResolTed. That we do express our admiration of the magnificent display now on exhibition, not only of curious but alio of useful and fine stowing of the crand resources of our'coarnoa country and the world at larje. and we earnestly commend it to the patrorue o( tae people ot our own State, the United u:e. and the world at irge.

SUSPICIOUSLY QUIET.

El Malidi's Proclamation Annonnces the Killing of (lordon Wounded . Recovering? Rapidly. Small Parties of Arcb3 Renew the Attacks on Suakim ProcautlpEs Takon Against Dynamiters. AFFAIRS IX THE SOUDAN. The Situation Around Su:tkim A Spj's Report. SuAKi'i, Feb. 13. Small parties of hostile Arabs have reappeared to menace tha garrison. A spy returned from Hesheim, the place where the rejonnoitering party of Huts&rs and Egyptians wa3 attacked on the 3d inst. The Hussars got S3 far as Handoub without opposition, but having on their way out burned a native village without reason, they were attacked on their return to Heshcun, which is about three miles from Handonb. Tho attacking party lay in ambush, ani the Arab fire was so terrible that the Hussars could not face it, and saved themselves from annihilation by returning at full gallop in a circle to Suakim, eight Hussars and three Egyptians being shot. Colonel Freemanie commanding at Suakim, in reporting the incident, stated that the oüicer in command cf the Husss.-a had exceeded his authority in ordering the burning oi an Arab village. Spies were at once sent out to ascertain the fate cf the missing troopers. The spy who returned cot Id If an: nothing, but he found in lh desert, near the scene of the fight, several articles of clothing which evidently belonged to the missing men. T.h3 spy fetched these articles to Suakim. All were pierced, as if by shears. The spy reported that he found the enemy encamped at Hesneim. The Conservatives Will Not Need the Aietant e of the Colonic. Ioni'On, Feb. 13. The Conservative papers charge the Government with suppressing General Gordon's diary and letters, in which Gordon ttated he had Eent Colonel Stewart away from Khartoum, in order to save his (Etewart's) life, intending himself to meet death at Khartoum, as he knew no help could ref.ch there in time to rescue him. When Parliament ensembles, the production of the dispatches of the Government in regard to the Soudan campaign will be demanded. HfcrtiDgton, Secretary of Suite for War, advifes th.a accentanca of the offers from Canada and New South Wales to send troops to the Sen dan, but the War Oilice authorities oppose the proposition. The question will be rtterred to the Cabinet for decision. Owing to the oppoaitiovi to the Duke of Camöridg. , th3 Commander in Chief, and oher cüioers. It ia probable the ministers will decide to inform Canada and New S mth Wales that their assistance will not he needed. The Malidi's froclnniation, London, Feb. 13. An oäicial Arabian document found upon the person of a native afier the battle of Dalka Pass sets orth tbs? El Mahdi stormed Khartoum January 20, and after only a garter of au hour's fighting captured the city and killed the traitor Gordon . The proclamation also states that Gordon's steamers were captured, and concludes with the orthodox "Praijes to Allah " A party of Hussars, who went from Suakim to Handonb, wantonly burning a vilDg on the way, wai attacked hv Arabj while returnlnc, and driven into Siakim, with a loss of eight Hussars and three Egyptians. Gordon' Diary. London, Feb 1 ; General Wolseley telegraphs that twenty nine of the wounded at Gafcdul Wells have recovered. General Stewart, Lord Wolseley says, is doing well, although his recovery is slow. Th diary kept by General Gordon in Khartoum, with entries up to December H 184, is reported to be at present in the possession of the Government. Colcnel McXeail, equery to the ien, has been appointed to cemmand the Second Brigade of the Suakim expedition, ENERAL FOltElUS NEWS. General ürter DL.lfle J-xpect to Keicli I'Ht gsou Soon Paris, Feb. 13 General Briere DeLisle telegraphs to-day: 4,We shall probably nach Langson to-mcrrow." In describing the progrefs of the French treops the dispatch says the enemy abandoned their fortified works in Georges upon our approach. On Tuesday we arrived at the dividing ridge and descended into the valley. Her we met the Chinese in strong force, and were compelled to fight our way over the rockv heights ULtil nightfall. Dynamite Precautions. Lodon, Feb. 1:; The police have b?ea authorized to watch, search and if necessary arrest persons visiting the new Law Conns Buildings. In all cases where visitors, a I cording to permission, enter the House ot Commons, they will be required to register their came and address, and be furnished with numbered tickets, which will be 'charged up against the rep?ctive signature?. The lobby of the House of Commons will be strictly reserved for the use of the Pe is, members, oHicials, and persons epecially authorized by the Speaker. Strict Kale In the Parliament ltulldlcs. LoNiON, Feb. 13. The recent dynamite explosion in the House of Commons hj demonstrated the fact that under the existing rules for the government of admission of Etrancers to the galleries and lobbies of the houses of Parliament, it would be an easy matter for dynamiters to convey explosives into the buildings during a session of Parliament, and cause the death of many members. The Government has decided to adopt more stringent rules and realatisas

for the admission cf visitors. Members of Parliament, in the future, will not be allowed to introduce strangers into the galleries and lobbies. The Speaker of the House cf Commons alone will have the right of granting tickets of admission to visitors, and be will only issue tickets to members for their friends after haviDg received a week's notice, and that in the Meantime the antecedents of the proposed visitor can be inquired into. T irnstilts will be erected at the entrances t the galleiies and lobbies, and experienced detectives be posted at each turnstile to carefully tcrntlnize the strangers a3 they pass. The Third Italian Expedition. Rome, Feb. 13. The Fanfulla states that the third expedition from Italy to the Red Sea will sa 1 from Naples at the end of this month, and will consist cf two battalions of infantry, a section cf artillery and a company of engineers. The paper also says the Government is considering the project to establish a regular packet service b?twen Nsplfsand Suakim, Assab, Aden and M--scwab.

Th Canadian Vojageurs. I.ONiCN, Feb. 13 The Canadian voyagcurs witn the Nile Expedition, left Alexandria in the steamer I'eonah, wlrch convejs ibena direct to .neenstow n. There they will embaik in the steamer Hanoverian for Kcrre the tifth week in March. A dispatch from Gfreral Wcolseley compliments the voysgeurs for their services. The 101)0 and Bishop. Rome, Feb. 13. The Pope has written the Catholic Bishops of England to publish the instructions of the Propaganda against the education cf Catholics in Ecglish uniyersi ties. Obtained a Verdict for I0. Ci EVE1.4..NP, O., Feb. 13. Mrs. Mary M. Tuttle, of Ann Arbor, Mich., Etarted for Cleveland February H, 1SS3. She arrived at Toledo, took a New York and Chicago limited express on the Lake Shore Raad without having purchased a ticket. The rule was that passengers should have tickets for this train. She presented the money, but tte conductor refused it and told her to buy a ticket at Sindusky. When she reached the latter place she bonght a ticket from Sandusky to Cleveland. The conductor informed her that she should have purchased a ticket from Toledo to Cleveland, and put her off the train in the Sandusky depot. She fainted and the train tteamed away. When she got hre she entered suit for 1.000 damages. Today a jury awarded her -vJÖO. Cotton Convention. Nkw Oki.eans, Feb. 13. The National Cotton Planters' Association held its fourth doj's session to day in the main building of the exposition. The meeting was occupied oy the address of Captain Bedford Pim, of the British navy, who choEe es his subject "The Live stock and Ranches of the I'nitad Sratep.' In the course of his address Captain Pim descr' ed his recent visit to Galveston, and said he was convinced a first-class harbor might be constructed there in the course of a year Lorn the commencement of the work by running a railroad on screw piles out to a depth of thirty feet of water, and protecting it from heavy weather by a ticating breakwater of a peculiar shape. Slaklns Cleveland's Cabinet for Ulm. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 13. President-elect Cleveland was comparatively free of visitors to day, as it is his desire for quiet. A delegation from Michigan, headed by S. L. Kilbourn, of Lansing, called on Mr. Cleveland and urged Orlando M. Barnes forSecretary of the Interior. Mr. Cleveland promised he wonld remember the name. The Presidentelect having his attention called to the Washington dispatches, eaid: "Oh. I see the?" are making my Cabinet lor me down in Washington." Gunpowder Kplolon. Cleveland, 0., Feb. 13. A powder mill rear Hubbard, Mahoning County, Ohio, exploded this morning. The force of the explosion wes frichtinl: The ground was shaken for miles around as if by an earthquake, and the mill was blown to atom3. Mike Eagan and Ot a Hurl burt were shockingly mangled, but may recover. The damage to the property wi'l probably not reach L000. Three Persons Cremated In Indiana. Lor isviLi.E, Feb, 13. Information reached thie city this evening of the cremation of William Fräser, wife and grand child, all colored, cn Thursday nigh, about fifteen miles back of New Albany, InJ. It i3 sunposed the house caught :. Ire during the night and the inmate i bnrned while asleep, as the dead bodies were found in the ruins this morning. An Oregou Hülsing. Portland, Feb. 13. J. W. Murray was hanged at 1:20 this afternoon, in the presence of less than thirty witnesses. Ihe prisoner maintained his good spirits to the last, and needed no assistance to the scaffold. He talked a great deal during the formoon, and ate a hearty meal. His neck was broken by the fall, and death was instantaneous. A Doubly Katal Tight. New Ok lean?. Feb. 13. Tho Times-Democrat's Meridian, Miss., special says: Yesterday at Poplarville, on the Northwestern Railroad, in a ght between two citizens named Bcoao and Smders, both were killed. Boone was Town Marshal. The difficulty is supposed to have originated in an attempted arrest. Ouarreled Over a Woman. New Yof.k:, Feb. 13 William J. White, of Dover Plains, N Y., last night killed Samuel Prcpper. They quarreled over a woman. White is now in charge of a Deputy Sheriff. White's wife and two daughters are prostrated with grief. A Steamer Abandoned. Eoston, Feb. 13. Intelligence received Lere states that the steamer Benwell Tower, from Baltimore, January 20, for Liverpool, was abandoned January 29, disable and leaking. The crew were taken off by the Bttamtr Gladiolus.

LUNATICS CREMATED,

Another Horrible Incineration of the Dtiuented Inmates of a Lunatic Asjlani. DURMXK RE I) LAM. Twentj-Llsht Luuatics 1'erUh In the Alj lum Fire at Philadelphia Pitiful Scene Knarted. PniLAi'Er iHiA, Fefr. 13. A lar?e number of lunatics perished in last night's fire in the) Insane Department of the Alms House. There was no tire alarm at the Alms House, and the attendants on duty when the firo broke out were so busy endeavoring to save the inmates that an alarm was not sounded until after the fire was discovered. The fire wai first seen in a room used for drying clothes. The Uame3 shot up an open space surrounding a small stairway and yery quickly broke through the roof. When the fire patrol reached the alms house they found the fire burning fiercely, bat ran into the house to assist in saving the inmates. When the Sremen arrived their movements wer9 greatly hampered by the inadequate supply of water. Nearly all the lives were lest In the immediate neighborhood of the stairway at the foot of which the Cre started. No lives were lost among the occupants of the first fioor, and not more than half a dozen of those on the second. Bat few of the inmates of the rooms and cells on the third lloor, near the junction of the buildings, escapad. When the lire br.)ke out William Strance.lehn Hajes, Thomas Kane and Joseph Schroder were the ktepera on duty. Mrs. Umstead, the housekeeper, was in the Woman's Department, making her nightly round. Jcseph Nudane, a well-minded inmate, was ccming down stairs when be saw smoke. He veiled fire and through the corridores calling on the inmates to save themselves. Strange, Kane, Shrcder and Nudane sat about liberating the insane people. Help came from the" half hundred able-bodied paupe s who act as night firemen in the engin- house. On the third Moor near where th9 fire started, the rescuers were driven back by the intense brat and smoke. In the violent ward, where forty-five inmates were confined, it was feared that all were lest, but most of them were rescued. The cccupants cf the nineteen cells in Wcrd M, near where the fire fir3t started, are all supposed to hava oeen suffocated or burned to death, with the exception of those who were rescued by the firemen. Piulaj-elhia, Feb. 12 11 a. m. The fire of last night at the Alms House entirely dest rosed that portion of the institution set apart for the inane. Of the 0S1 lunatics confined there many are still missing, but it is thought moat of them wandered away. At 0 o'clock this morning tw more charred bodies were found in Ward No. 2. They had been rcastsd beyond all recognition. Several human forms can be seen in the burning wreck in the cellar. It is now thought twenty-eight of the inmates perished. During the night many insane person were found wandering in different parts of the city, some nearly naked. The poor creatures generally seemed unable to understand the situation, and in some cases begged their captors Diteously not to thow them into the river. Others seemed to tare it as a good joke, and laughed gleefully when tho subject of fire was mentioned. Another came flying down South street earJy this: morning with a manacle attached to his wrist and a few links of chain dangling from iL He shrieked and laughed 83 he struck right and left among the frightened people. It was found necessary to use violence and keeck him down before he could be secured. Another madman caured a panic in a street car by rushing in half clad and with his fece scorched and blackened. He sank cowering in a corner. It was soon found ho was more frightened than those who ran away. The report that the streets were full of escaped maniacs caused mud alarm in West Philadelphia, and strangers look upon each other with much distrust. The firemen are still working at the ruins. They are weary and half frozen. Each man's helmet and coat appears hard as armor. The eearch for bodies continues 6teadily. There appears to have been a great deal cf unnecessary trouble caused by rotten hose and scarcity in the water supply. To remedy tbe latter a dozsn brawny firemen chopped a hole in the Schuylkill River. But when the ho wai introduced the mud and grinding bits of ice split the leather, and the attempt was a failure. The confusion about the ruins and the craftiness oT the insane people in secreting themselves, the promiscuous manner in which thy are being cared for and the utter weariness of all who have had them in charge prevent? a correct estimate bsing made of the I023 of life and property. TIIE FII4E K1ICOKD. Court-House Darned. Athens, Tex., Feb. 13 The County Courthouse of this (Henderson) county burned at 3 o'clock thi3 morning. The court was in session during the day. The fire is believed to ls incendiary. The criminal docket had just been reached. Thera were five murder cases pet for trial. Many valuable record3 were burned. No insurance. Dnslneps Part of a Town Destroyed. Vassah, Mich., Feb. Vi. A fire started in in the Briggs block to-day, destroying that and a Iare part of the business part of tbe town. Loss 10,000 ; insurance about ?S,000 The snow on the rooi s was all that prevented the whole town from burning. Two Persons Burned to Death. Cai.vi rrr, Tex., Feb. 13. At a late hour last night the servants' quarters at Dr. R. R, Fancher's premises were discovered in flames. Before the firemen could come to the rescue, two colored people were burned to death. One was a grown woman and tha other a young girL The firemen eived the main residence. A .JO,COO Fire. N:w York, Feb. 13. A fire to night in c'J and 01 Warren street, occupied by Gecrge B. Whitmore, dealer in butter and cheese, did $20.000 damage,

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