Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 10, Number 48, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 20 February 1889 — Page 6

THE NAPPANEE NEWS. BY G. N. MURRAY. NAPPANEE, : t INDIANA. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. CONGRESSIONAL. Second Session. The Naval Appropriation bill was passed in the Senate on the 12th. A resolution was presented from the Kansas Legislature requesting Congress to adopt such measures as will secure to every citizen of the Southern States perfect protection in the exercise of all political rights clude Canada in the act authorizing the President to arrange a conference of American nations. The General Deficiency bill (114,568,881) was reported, and the debate on the SmallsElliott election case was continued. A bile was introduced in the Sedate on the 13th providing that all citizens of the United States having the qualifications requisite for electors shall be entitled and allowed to vote at any election for Representative in the Congress of the United States without distinction of sex. Mr. Evarts spoke in support of his resolution instructing the Committee on Elections to revise the laws governing Congressional elections. The nomination of Norman J. Colman, of Missouri, to be Secretary of Agriculture, was confirmed In the House the Judiciary Committee reported favorably a bill to amend the naturalization laws. The South Carolina contest case was settled Dy giving the seat to Elliott, the sitting member, by a vote of 143 to 126. A bill to amend the laws regarding the importation of alcholic liquors in the States was reported in the Senate on the Nth. The nomination of Carroll D. Wright to be Comissioner of Labor was confirmed In the House a favorable report was made on the Senate bill appropriating 1250,000 to protect American interests in the Isthmus of Panama. The bill to divide a portion of the Sioux reservation in Dakota into separate reservations and to secure relinquishment of the Indian titles to the remainder was passed. The bill for the admission of South Dakota as a State was amended So as to provide for admission by proclamation of the President, and that the proposed States of North Dakota, Montana and Washington shall be admitted in the same way. A favorable report was made in the Senate on the 15th on the bill to provide for the establishment of a National Board of Health. The bill placing General Kosecrans on ihe retired list was passed; also forty-one private pension bills. A bill was introduced to provide for a National system of farmers’ institutes —ln the House Mr. Mills, from the Committee on Ways and Means, reported back the Mills Tariff bill, with the Senate amendment, which he declared was unconstitutional. The Senate bill appropriating *250,000 for the protection of American interests in Panama was passed. The night session was devoted to pension bills. In the Senate on the 16th a bill was passed to place Major James Bergeron the retired list as Colonel in the regular army. The resolution concerning election outrages in Washington County, Tex., was considered —ln the House the McMillan Tariff bill, patterned alter the Mills bill, which would reduce the revenues 572,000,000 per year, and the Breckinridge Tariff bill, carrying a reduction of *40,O.uo 0. were reported. A favorable report was made on the bill providing an enabling act for the admission of the Territory of New Mexico. A resolution was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Interior for information as to the number of clerks appointed in his department s nee March 1. ISBS, without certification from the Civil-Service Commission.

DOMESTIC. The National Association of Builders in session on the 13th at Philadelphia passed a resolution that the members recommend to the various State Legislatures the passage of a law making it a felony for any person or association to prevent or hinder any American youth from learning some trade or handicraft. I>i! J. W Cor, a prominent druggist of Pine Bluff. Ark., was found murdered near his home on the loth. ISoy Ryder, a school-boy at Youngstown, 0., died on the 13th from inflammation of the stomach, caused by paper wads which he was in the habit of chewing and swallowing while studying. The National Prohibition Conference in session on the 13th at Louisville, Ky., indorsed the Indianapolis platform, including the tariff and woman suffrage sections. A fire on the 13th at Memphis, Tenn., destroyed the Neely block and badly scorched the Uayoso Hotel. Loss, $193,000. The new court-house at Donaldsville, La., just completed at a cost of $20,000, was burned on the Kith, and many valuable records were destroyed. William L. Porter, the retiring treasurer of Vermilion County, Ind., was on the 13th discovered to be $12,000 short in his accounts. A fire on the 13th in a silk house in New York destroyed property valued at SIOO,OOO. The new Government building at Fort "Wayne, Ind., was occupied on the 14th. The structure was seven years building and cost $400,000. An organized band of barn-burners was on the 14th operating in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Owing to grief over the death of her husband Mrs. Wilhelinina Hiebelschauser, a wealthy resident of Crestline, 0., committed suicide on the 14th. I Superintendent Chase of the Indian school located at Geneva, Neb., disappeared on the 11th, and it was discovered that he had robbed the Government of over $25,000. f Advices of the 14th show that the constitutional amendment for a State lottery was defeated in Nevada at the recent election by 600 votes. f Mr. Charles G. Washburn, of Worcester, iMass., of the Washburn & Moen Manufacturing Company, stated on the 14th that the Alleged “French patent” of Louis Janin did not void the Glidden barb-wire patent. ; Father Dougherty, of the St Louis Catholic diocese, renounced priesthood on the 14th and said he would locate at Chicago as a practicing physician. Mary- Powers, a thirteen-year-old girl at Laporte, Ind., was on the 14th sentenced to five years in the State reformatory for the murder of her infant brother, to whom she administered arsenic. The National Association of Builders closed its third annual convention at Philadelphia on the 14th. Edward E. Scribner, of St. Paul, was elected president. It was announced on the 14th that the big brewery of Frank Fehrs, at Louisville, had been sold to an English syndicate for $1,000,000. The fifth annual assembly of the Florida Chautauqua opened on the 14th at Defunick Springs. The session will continue five weeks. Charles W. Gabel, of Reading, Pa., shot bis wife and afterward attempted suicide on the 14th during a family quarrel. Half-breeds at St. John, D. TANARUS., on the 15th resisted the attempt to collect taxes from them, and the sheriff had called out the militia Bloodshed was feared. T. B. Barry, the labor agitator, olaimed on the l'th that his new brotherhood comprised ninety-six assembles, and more were being organized. The entire sopohmore class of Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa, was suspended on the 1. th by the faculty for hazing. At Capa Vincent, N. Y., the opera-house was destroyed and several other buildings were badly damaged by fire on the 15th. _

Two train men -were killed by the explosUmof a locomotive boiler on the lath at Fnus broke out In a Chippewa Falls (Win) business block on the 15th, and before the flames could be subdued property to the value of SIOO,OOO was in ashes. > J ohn Lee was banged at Alexandria, Minn., on the 15th for the murder of Charles Cheline. Martin Moe, who was expected to die with him, had his sentence commuted to Imprisonment for life. The wife and child of Jacob Fauoett (colored), and two other negro women were murdered by unknown men near Modnt Olive, N. C., on the 15th. A fire on the 15th In the cracker factory of Louis Fox at Fort Wayne, In<L, caused a loss of SIOO,OOO. Excitement was high at Purcell, L TANARUS., on the 15th over the discovery of old placer mines rich with gold two miles east of Purcell, in the Choctaw nation. John Sage, charged with aiding and abetting the murder of Harry Albert Cunningham, aged two years, was sentenced at Marion, Ind., on the 15th to life imprisonment. The Keeney House at Pike. N. Y., was burned on the 15th, and Jennie Mack, a domestic, and her little niece perished in the flames. It was said on the loth that gold bearing quartz had been discovered in paying quantities on the north shore of Lake Superior, 250 miles from Duluth, Minn. The exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing-houses in the United States during the* week ended on the 10th aggregated sl,097,139,727, against $1,121,571,895 the previous week. As compared with the corresponding week of 1888 the increase amounted to 28.5. Walton’s Opera-House, the Farmers’ Bank and two stores were destroyed by fire on the 17th at Butler, Mo. At Port Huron, Mich., on the 16th three children of Mrs. Bernard Beechler, being left alone in the house, set it on tire, and two of them were fatally burned. Governor Lakrabee, of lowa, was on the 16th indicted by the Polk County grand jury of that State for criminal libel, the complainant being a Mtb. Turney, whose sou he had ref used, to pardon out of the penitentiary, whither he had been sentenced for seventeen years on the charge of robbery. Five children of August Penmanu, of Philadelphia, Pa., were poisoned on the 16th by eating Vienna sausage, and three of them died. Klein, the American, whom the Germans claimed led the attack on Mataafa at Samoa, arrived at San Francisco on the 16th. He would go to Washington to apprise the State Department of the actual condition of affairs on that island. The house of Thomas Widens, near Ashland, Ga., was destroyed by tire on the 16th, and four of his children were burned to death, Mr. Willous himself being seriously injured. * Senator David F. Houston, of Roanoke, Va./fell on the icy pavement at Lancaster, Pa., on the 16th and, rupturing a blood vessel, died in a few minutes. A silver mine was found on the 16th sixty miles northeast of Chattanooga, Tenh., in North Georgia, which was very rich. The quartz yielded thirty dollars to the ton of pure silver. Frank McDougal, a school-boy at Parkersburg, W. Va., committed suicide on the 16th because bis parents threatened to send him to school. At Glenville, Minn., oil the 16th Joseph Chemeleck killed three persons, his sister-in-law, Mrs. Chemeleck, and her two daughters, Rose and Mary, and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. The motive for the triple murder was involved in doubt. Lewis Crocker and Frank Layton were burned to death on the 16th in a ltftnber shanty at Lopez, Pa The business portion of Rock Rapids, Minn., was destroyed by fire on the 16th. The scores of the three leaders at the close of the six days’ female bicycle tournament in New York on the 16th were: Stanley, 624 miles; Von Blumen, 502; Oakes, 522. The amount taken in during the week was $10,212 and the girls’ share $4,084. Frank L. Silvers, a prominent horsebreeder and well-known citizen of Tecumseh, Mich., on the 16th shot and killed his wife, his two daughters, aged nine and eleven years, respectively, and ended the awful deed by shooting himself. The only conceivable motive for Silver's murderous act was jealousy, though for this, it was agreed, he had no cause. Hiram Vandusen, of Harlem, N. Y., had on the 17th fasted fifty-three days. The barn of the Landis Transfer & Livery Company at Kansas City, Mo., was burned on the 17th, consuming ninety-four horses and seventy-five carriages and buggies. James Hoffman, one of the owners of the building, also perished in the flames. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Governor Sawyer on the 12th appointed Gilman Marston, of Exeter, as United States Senator for New Hampshire for the interim between March 4 and June 19, when the Legislature will elect a Senator. Rev. G. L. Demerest, D. D., secretary of the general convention of the Universalists of the United States, and wife celebrated their golden wedding on the 12th at Manchester, N. H. Mrs. Eunice P. Helms, of Lydonville, N. Y., died on the 12th aged a few months over one hundred years. Up to withir a few weeks of her death Mrs. Helms enjoyed the best of health. Governor Biggs, of Delaware, on the I2th appointed Mrs. Ella F. Brown, of New York City, a Commissioner of Deeds. She now holds that office from thirty-four of the forty-six States and Territories. Sidney Bartlett, LL. D., of Boston, celebrated his ninetieth birthday on the 13th. He is still an active member of the bar, and his practice is said to be worth SIOO,OOO a year. The galleries of the National House of Representatives were thronged at --.oon on the 13th with visitors who watched with interest the proceedings attendant unon the official count of the electoral vote for President and Vice-President. Senator Ingalls presided. After the certificates from each State had been announced the presiding officer declared Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, the next President, and Levi P. Morton, of New York, the next Vice-President erf the United States. Abner Prugh, born in Frederick I’ounty, McL, died at Dayton, 0., on the 13th. at the age of one hundred years. Colonel Ruth Goshen, Barnum s giant, died in New York on the 13th of dropsy. He weighed about 630 pounds. William E. Lovett, a millionaire capitalist, land-owner and old time tobacco manufacturer of Detroit, Mich., died on tie 18th, aged sixty years. George Hill, the biggest man in Rhode Island, died on the 14th at Providence. He weighed 554 pounds, and had several times picked up a live cow by the hind legs and tossed her across his shoulder. Edward Willett, editor of the New York Sunday Dispatch, died at his home in that city on the 14th. Kate ClaXton. the well-known actress, having acquired a fortune, retired from the stage on the 14th. Colonel W. B. Dunn, a prominent citizen and lawyer of Mobile, Ala., died on the 14th at the age of eighty-one years. He was

noted for his knowledge of the political and constitutional history of the United States. Dr. F. M. Urquhart, of the United States Marine Hospital Service, died at Evansville, Ind., on the 14th of pneumonia contracted through overwork in the South during the yellow fever plague. He was thirty-three years old. Db. Holland N. McTyeiebe, senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh South, died on the 15th at his residence in the Vanderbilt University campus at Nashville, Term. John W. Street, the Inventor of the stable car, and a prominent man in railway circles, died in Chicago on the 15th, aged fifty-two years. It was reported on the 16th that Patti had signed a contract to sing at thirty performances of opera in New York next December. FOREIGN. It was discovered on the 13th that barbed-' wire was patented in France, April 19, 1865, which, under a ruling of the United States Supreme Court, would invalidate the Glidden and other patents. Indians at Cold Lake, Manitoba, on the Battle River reservation, were on the 13th Buffering from a peculiar epidemic which was fatal. The muscles of the throat and neck swelled rapidly preventing the swallowing of food. It Avas feared that the entire tribe would be exterminated. Panama advices of the 13tli state that much anxiety prevailed there owing to an increase of crime, which was attributed to the presence of the thousands of laborers whom the stoppage of operations on the canal had thrown out of work. General Komaroff, with a strong force, arrived at Bokhara on the 13th. The Ameer had circulated the report along the frontier that he was advancing for the purpose of making war upon Russia. It was alleged that he was causing three hundred persons to be beheaded daily and greatly interfering with frontier traffic. Advices of the 13th from. China say that the famine in Anhui and Kianqsu was worse. In one province three hundred thousand families were starving, and altogether several millions were suffering from famine caused by drought two years in succession. All the members of the French Ministry sent their resignations to President Carnot on the 14th. Advices of the 14th say that during a recent earthquake not a single house in Costa Rica escaped injury and many were tota ly destroyed. Whole streets were blocked with ruins. Losses in San Jose amounted to more than $200,000, while all the principal edifices in Alajucla were damaged. At La Laguna the earth had assumed the appearance of a rough sea. Another tragedy was enacted on the 14th at Lake Stamberg, near Munich, when two persons drowned themselves in its waters. Since the suicide of King Ludwig eleven persons had drowned themselves in the lake. Advices of the 15th say that Viscount Arinori More, Japanese Minister of Education, had been assassinated at Tokio by a religious fanatic. The victim was formerly Minister to Washington. Aden advices of the 15th state that the Russian flag had been hoisted on territor v : which under an Anglo-French agreement belonged to France,. The Republican General, Villa Cam; a, died in prison at Madrid on the 15th. The schooner Hippomenes, which sai ed from Yarmouth December 8 for Barbad' es, laden with fish and lumber, and with a crew of five rimt, was on the 15th given up as lost with all on board. Leprosl’ was on the I.sth said to be dying out in Canada. The report of the Agricultural Department showed that there were nineteen patients, eight males and eleven females, in the Lazaretto at Tweedle. N. B. It was stated on the 16th that the German Government was willing to effect a settlement of the Samoan question upon the basis of the United States Government’s proposal at the Washington conference—namely: The establishment of a joint American, German and English control over the Samoan Government through the Consuls of the three countries at Apia Three blocks of business buildings in Manchester, Eng., were burned on the 16th. Loss, $250,000. A foundry and a grain elevator at Montreal, Can., were burned on the 16th, causing a loss of $150,000.

LATEST NEWS. The boilers o£ the Park Central Hotel at Hartford, Conn., blew up with terrific force sarly on the morning of the 18th. The hotel was laid iu ruins, which speedily took fire, and appalling scenes of torture and death ensued. In spite of the efforts of the firemen it was estimated that nearly forty persons, occupants of the house, were either killed by falling walls or fell a prey to the flames before they could escape from the wreck. The hotel was valued at $120,000. King Otto, of Bavaria, .was on the 18th declared to be hopelessly insane. Servia was terribly agitated on the 18th over the recent depredations of the Amaut brigands, who had raided and set fire to a number of villages. All of the young girls in Gradata had been kidnaped and taken to the mountains. A famine was prevailing on the ISth in a portion of the interior of Russia. Many persons had died from starvation in the territory .of Orenburg. In Bibb County, Ala., several persons were killed and others injured by a cyclone on the 18th, and much property was destroyed. The United States ship Galena, with RearAdmiral Gherardi ou board, sailed from Key West, Fla., on the 18th for Port au Prince, Hayti. A cyclone on the 18th in Banks County, Ga., did great damage and killed Thomas Stevens and son and Mr. and Mrs. Meaders. In the Arkansas House on the 18th four Democrats of Pulaski County, where njjie ballot-boxes were stolen; resigned their seats, and the four contesting Republicans at once qualified and took the places of the retiring quartette. Hattie B. Stevenson, clerk in the postoffice at WellsviUe, 0., was arrested on the ISth for robbing the moils of SSOO, and confessed her guilt. It was stated ou the 18th that the withdrawal of Booth and Barrett from the support of the movement to exclude foreign actors from the United States had virtually ended the agitation. The river at Augusta, Ga., was thirtythree and a half feet above low-water mark on the 18th, and fears were entertained that the banks would not stand the pressure. John Shannon, a Frenchman living at Bradenville, Pa., was so badly frightened by threats made by White Caps that ho made his will and shot himself dead on the 18th. Two Mormon elders at Barnett, Ga., were taken Into the street on the 18th and given one hundred lashes each, after which they were told to (gave the community. In the United States Senate on the 18th speeches were made by Senator Palmer (Mich.) and others over the unvailing of the statue of Lewis Cass, the pioneer Governor of Michigan, in the old Hall of Representatives. The Texas outrages resolution was further considered. The House bill to provide for taking the eleventh and suhee; quent censuses was passed. In the House filibustering over the Sullivan and Felton contested election case from California occupied the time.

WILLING TO SETTLE. Bismarck Ready to Accept Bayard’s Proposal to Restore Peace In Samoa—Jack Klein Finds Things Too Warm for Him on the Islands, and Return to San Francisco to Escape the Revengeful Germans, Who Have, It Is Said, Been Carrying Matters with a High Hand. Berlin, Feb. IS.—lt is said that the Government is willing to effect a settlement of the Samoan question upon the basis of the United States Government’s proposal at the Washington conference—namely: The establishment of a joint American, German and English control over the Samoan Government through the Consuls of the three countries at Apia. ‘ London, Feb. 18.— The Standard’s Berlin correspondent says he understands that the German Government is disposed to suspend hostilities in Samoa during the Samoan conference, but only on condition that estates belonging to German subjects be evacuated by Samoans and that boundary lines of the belligerents' possessions be marked and respected. This can not be done officially, however, because Germany regards Mataafa as a rebel leader, not as a King. The Frankfort Gazette suggests that all the three governments interested should recall their present Samoan agents on the ground that they have interfered overmuch in the quarrels of the natives. VICTORIA FAVORS A CONFERENCE. London, Feb. 18.—It is now admitted by persons in Ministerial confidence that the Queen's speech, which will be read in I’arliament Thursday, will make especial reference to the situation in Samoa, and recommend a conference between accredited representatives of the interested governments for the purpose of settling the disputed questions. KLEIN ESCAPES. San Francisco, Feb. 18.- The steamer Mariposa arrived Saturday from Australia. She brought news from Samoa up to February. No more fighting had taken place, but the story of events show the arbitrary and illegal acts of the Germans. Among the passengers on the steamer was Klein, the American correspondent, who left the islands for fear the Germans would kidnap him, as they charged he led the attack of Mataafa's forces that ended in the loss of twenty German - marines and officers. Klein was living in a hired house near the American consulate when on January 26 he learned from a reliable source that the Germans intended to arrest and try him by court-martial. He had several narrow escapes from capture by the German police, and on the night of January 21 sought safety on the American man-of-war Nipsic. On January 29 the captain of the German gun-boat Adler sent a letter to Gaptain Mullnn, of the Nipsic, demanding Klein's delivery to the German military tribunal on the gun-boat Adler. Mullen promptly refused, declaring that no American citizen could be tried by a military tribunal in Samoa. Klein never left the Nipsic after this until he was*transferred to the steamer Mariposa He will start for Washington in a few days to present his facts to the State Department. Klein says that he left the islands because he was aware that he would have to remain on an American man-of-war continually in order to avoid being seized by Germans, , who were evidently under instructions from Berlin to arrest him, although it was well understood on the islands that he took no part whatever in the attack on the Germans. He says that he left a sick bed to go out to watch the attempt of the Germaus to make a landing for an attack on Mataafa's forces, hut that instead of firing a shot or leading the natives he was a passive spectator beyond warning the Germans not to land as requested to do by the natives. The hatred of the Germans toward any one stating the facts respecting the aggressions of the Germans was illustrated lu the case of Cusack of the Samoan Times. Sir. Klein has affidvits of Vice-Consul Blacklock and other residents as to the proper character of his conduct on the night of the battle with the Germans on December IS. Klein declares that his published correspondence has been verified; by official correspondence respecting affairs on the islands. He contends that the situation of all American residents, and especially merchants, is intolerable owing to the insolence of German officials and soldiery. A feeling was entertained there that American rights would not be respected unless sufficient naval force was qrdered to those waters with adequate authority. When the Mariposa left the islands every thing was quiet, but the preceding month had been marked by lively incidents, of which only meager details have come by cable from Auckland. The fire at the German consulate on January 9 was accidental It was extinguished mainly by the efforts of the American and British marines, yet the next day the German Consul swore that the Americans and English were responsible for it, attributing to those nationalities the double motive of damaging German property and destroying German archives. The day after the fire it was found that Tamasese's party had really intended to attack Apia, but were prevented by that occurrence. The German Consul, Dr., Knappe, on January 12 sent word to Mataafa that he wanted to have a talk with him, but the King declined the invitation unless the Consul put his desires iu writing, as otherwise he feared he would compromise his own position. Another rebel came iu several days afterward and said Tamasese’s party had been notified by the German Consul that unless they came down and attacked Mataafa (he Germans would go and fire upon the forces of Tamasese. On the 18th the British steam packet Richmond arrived. Mr. Moors, an American merchant, started to take his goods off the Richmond, and his boat was seized by an armed German boat. It was 8 o'clock in the evening when the Richmond arrived, and a German guard was put aboard of her the next morning. It was announced that war had been declared, and that no goods would be allowed to land except at a certain German store, where they would be passed upou by a German storekeeper. The following day formal proclamation was made by the German Consul declaring the island in “state of war,” and that any assistance to the rebels would be punished by martial law Irrespective of nationality. All vessels were declared liable to be searched. Captain Mullan ‘ protested against the seizure of Moors’ boat and the boat was released. Consul Blacklock wrote; to Consul Knappe asking him what he meant by “state of war.” The German Consul replied saying martial law had been declared. Meanwhile suit was instituted against Stephen J. Cusack, publisher of the Samoan Times, and a British subject, in the British High Commissioner’s Court charging the defendant with criminal libel against the German Government and navy for reprinting an article from a San Francisco paper on Germany's aggressions in Samoa. Cusack was found guilty and lined $lO6. The paper was also suppressed. Captain Hand, of the British war ship Royalist, had been In the meantime friendly with the Germans, but on the 20th the British ship Longfellow arrived and was boarded bv an armed boat from the Adler, which loft .. guard aboard. Scarcely had the German boat left the ship's side when a boat from

the Royalist arrived to demand the reason for the presence of the Germans in charge of a British ship. The German officer refused to surrender the charge given by his orders and the English officer returned to his ship for further instructions. Captain Hand, after assuring himself that the Longfellow's papers were all right, sent a heavy detachment on board of the vessel and the Germans left. On the afternoon of the 30th British Consul Coetlogon issued a proclamation ordering British subjects to pay no attention to the proclamation of war. The British Consul’s posters had scarcely been up when Captain Fritze put up another proclamation declaring that British citizens and those of all other nations were under martial law, and for any offense against the stated regulations would be prosecuted by court-mar-tial. Consul Coetlogon took water on the following day and issued a proclamation that war had been declared and asked all British subjects to submit to a search. An Englishman was seized in a boat near the Richmond that day by an armed boat and forced to gd on board the' Adlar before Captain Fritze. 1 hey swore he was an American. An officer shook his sword under his nose and said: “By you are on a German ship now and must obey orders. ” He was finally allowed to go, and immediately lodged formal complaint with the British Consul. r* The steamer Wainui arrived from Auckland on the 23d, bringing important dispatches for the German Consul. These were supposed to order the Consul to suspend operations until further orders from Germany. Dr. Knappe went at once to see Mataafa. The Consul intimated to the chiefs that Germany did uot wish to prosecute war against them, but if they persisted in resistance there were plenty of war ships coming from Germany to compel their submission. The war was intended for the Americans and English, and not to do Mataafa any harm. He intimated that Germany was powerful and more than a match for America and England. The German Emperor had given him power to do as he pleased. In reply the Samoan chiefs asked for two weeks' time to consider, which was granted. On the 23d Captain Fritze issued another proclamation instructing citizens of Apia to report the quantity of arms in their possession under penalty of fine for disobedience. Mr. Fletcher, manager for McArthur & Cos., remarked on the street that he believed the United States and England would make war with Ger*many. Captain Fritze, hearing this, summoned Fletcher to appear before the German Consul and answer for the remark reported. Fletcher put himself under the advice of the British Consul, who told him under no circumstances to answer the summons. Captain Mullan, of the Nipsic, on the 24th wrote a stroug letter respecting the proclamation. He protested that the American Government never recognized Tamasese, and that no power would allow them to seize arms unless they were being used against a friendly nation. It was found out on the 24th that a German proclamation of the most exacting kind had been prepared but postponed until the arrival of news from America A category of offenses was contained in this reserved proclamation with penalties ranging from a fine to deportation or imprisonment for a life term. Helping Mataafa and opposing German interests and the circulation of any printed or written matter of that nature were among the crimes catalogued. Public meetings without permission were to be prohibited. It is believed iu Samoa that Mullan's protest has much to do with the postponement of this proclamation. Notwithstanding the aid furnished by the German Government to Tamasese the latter’s forces are fading rapidly away. At the time the Mariposa sailed he had not over 600 men, while the army of Mataafa was receiving steady additions, the majority of them being from the camp of his rival. The armies were holding relatively the same positions they occupied since the last battle. There was much complaint among Americans over Germans tampering with the mails. Although there is an American post-office, it is virtually under the control of the German office, and the German Consul's clerk has been detected breaking open private letters. It is believed that Consul Knappe has obtained the United States secret cipher, as the Government dispatches recently received at Apia bore plain traces of having been tampered with. Australian and New Zealand papers uniformly applaud the prompt actiou of the United States Government in dispatching war vessels to the scene of the disturbance, and severely criticise the inaction of the home Government of Great Britain. BAYARD IS HOPEFUL. Washington, Feb. IS.—When shown the advices received from Samoa by steamer arriving at San Francisco Secretary Bayard’ Saturday night said that Captain Leary of the Nipsic had acted sensibly in taking care of Klein. Os the other events chronicled in the dispatch the Secretary pointed out that since its date telegraphic advices showed that martial law had been abolished as far as it applied to foreigners, and that the German officials had been rebuked. He 11 had noticed in the newspapers, although he had no official information on the subject, that the German Consul, Knappe, and Herr Brandeis,Tamasese’s adviser, who, according to some accounts, had been responsible for fomenting strife, had been ordered home by the German Government. If this was true the state of affairs promised to be much relieved. Secretary Bayard was hopeful that a speedy, peaceful and satisfactory settlement of Samoan affairs would be reached. He had, he said, received no news from Samoa later than that sent to Congress and already published. THE FLOORS GAVE WAY. A Fourteen-Story Strueture in Chicago I’artially Wrecked. Chicago, Feb. 18.— The “Owings Block,” anew fourteen-story structure at the corner of Dearborn and Adams streets, this city, was partially wrecked Sunday morning. The accident was probably caused by over-weighting the twelfth story with one of the huge water tanks intended to furnish hydraulic pressure for the elevators. Under the heavy weight the floor tiling gave way, falling through from floor to floor until the combined mass had gathered such an impetus and tremendous weight that every floor down to the basement was crushed through, causing the ruin of most of the interior partition walla l A few workmen employed in the basement heard the crashing timbers and effected their escape, but had the accident occurred on a week day, when large numbers of men are at work in the building, great loss of-Tite would have resu ted. The loss is estimated at about $4,060. AUee Sarnoe Melieau Man. Chicago, Feb. 18.— See A Cos., a corporation of Chinamen engaged in the grocery trade at 323 Clark street, mourn the loss of SI,OOO and the secretary, Sing You. Both departed Saturday night. Sing You slept In the store, and as he had the combination to the safe it was no trouble to open it and take the money. m present whereabouts are not known.

WILL SURPASS ALL. The Ceremonies Attending the Inauguration of President-Elect Hi -risen Intended to Outdo All Like Aflhlre — Programme of the Parade and Ball — How the General Will Take the Oath. Washington, Feb. 16.—The preparations for the inauguration of President-elect Harrison are very nearly completed, and If the day is fine the demonstration will be more imposing than any thing of the kind the country has ever seen. The size of tie procession will be limited only to the width and length of Pennsylvania avenue. Fifty thousand soldiers and members of clvio organizations will be in line, and. under the rules of the committee on arrangements they must be uniformed. There have been few great parades in this country, and the intention has been to make this one surpass all the rest The inauguration proceedings take place at 12 o’clock on the eastern portico of the capitol. General Harrison will be accompanied from the White House to the Senate chamber by President Cleveland and his Cabinet, by committees from both houses, by the citizens in charge of the Inaugural proceedings, and the escort of the party will be composed of 1 ,506 troops of the regular army—cavalry. Infantry and artillery—and by the National Guard of the District of Columbia, which comprises about 800 men. The immediate personal escort of General Harrison will be the members of the regiment he commanded during the war, the Seventieth Indiana. Arriving at the Senate chamber the President-elect will see the Vice-President-elect sworn in, and then, accompanied by both houses of Congress, will p- oceed to the east portico, where the oath will be administered to him by Chief-Justice Fuller. Ho will then deliver his address, get into a carriage, and be escorted to the White House by a procession of 50,000 men. This procession will be of eix divisions. In the first division will be the regular troops, under the command of General Schofield, and the militia of the District of Columbia, numbering about 2,200 men. The second division will bo the National Guard of Pennsylvania, commanded by General Hartranft, 8,000 men. The • third division will include the other mill- . tary organizations, numbering' about 1,000 men, who will be commanded by Governor Foraker, of Ohio. The fourth division wiU be composed of the Grond Army of the Republic, under the command of Representative William Warner, of Missouri, com-mander-in-ehief, 5,000 men. The fifth and sixth divisions will he composed of elide organizations under the command of Myron M. Parker, of Washington, and Edwin S. Stuart, of Philadelphia, respectively. As soon as the formal proceedings at the capitol are concluded and President Harrison and ex-President Cleveland have been escorted to- their places, the procession will then pass down Pennsylvania avenue to the White House, where the two Presidents will take their place: iu the reviewing stand. Pennsylvania avenue and K street are to be elaborately decorated for the occasion, and there will be a show of bunting such as never has been seen here. In. the evening there will be a parade of flambeau clubs, a prize having been offered for the best display. There will also be $4,000 or $5,000 worth of fire-works explode ' in the park south of the White House am private illuminations on tfie principal streets. The ball takes place in the Fension building, which has floor room to acommodate 12,000 people. J The doors of the Senate chamber will be opened at 11 o’clock to those who are entitled to admission. President Cleveland and President-elect Harrison, each accompanied by a member of the committee of arrangements, will enter the Senate wing by the bronze doors in the east front Mr. Cleveland will go to the President’s room and Mr. Harrison to the Vice-President's room, and ir these apartments they will remain until hey enter the Senate chamber. When tb :y enter the chamber they will take pos ession of the chairs set apart for them immediately In front of President IngaU , while the members of the commit ee on arrangements will bo seated to the left of them. Mr. Morton will he escorted to the capitol by the third m mber of the committee, and he will remain in the VicePresident’s room until he ent urs the Senate chamber, where Senator Ingalls will administer the oath of office to him. The rendezvous for the diploma ic corps will be the marble-room, and at 1:15 they will proceed to the Senate c amber In a body and occupy seats on the right of the chair. Ex-President Ha es, the only surviving ex-President, and x-Vice-Presi-dent Hannibal Hamlin (if hr is able to attend) will also be on the right of the chair, and in the same portion of the chamber will be the Supreme Court and the ex-Justices of the bench. On the left of the chair will be the heads of the Executive departments, and for the first time in the history of the United States there will be eight Cabine officers, in stead of seven, the Secretary >f Agriculture being the latest addition to the President's official family. Also on the right will be the retired Generals of the army, the MajorGenerals commanding the £ my, the Admiral of the navy and the >fficers of the army and navy who by name have received the thanks of Congress, Governors and exGovemors of States and other officials. The Marshal of the District of Columbia and the Marshal of the Supreme Court, the HexPresident and ex-Vice-President, the Supreme Court, the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, the committee of arrangements, the Presi-dent-elect, the Vice-President and the Secret tary of the Senate, members of the Senate, the Diplomatic corps, heads of departments, the retired General of the army, the Major-General commanding the army, the Admiral of the navy and the officers of the army who, by name, have received the thanks of Congress, members of the House of Representatives and members-eleot. Governors and ex-Governors of States, officers of the Senate and officers of the House of Repother persons who have been admitted to the floor of the Senate chamber, followed by those who have been admitted to the gallery.The oath of office will be administered to the President-elect by the Chief-Justice, or, in his absence, by the senior AssociateJustice present. On the conclusion of the cermony the members of the Senate, preceded by the Sergeant-a -Arms, VicePresident and the Secretary, will return to the Senate chamber, and the President, accompanied by the committee of arrangements, will proceed to the Exeoutive Mansion. "ASSASSINATED.' Count Mori, One of the Most Progressive Statesmen of Japan, and Ex-Minister to tho United States, Killed by a Religious Fanatic. San Francisco, Feb. 16.—A private cable has been received from Tokio announcing .he assassination there of Viscount Arinei Mori, Minister of Education. He was known in thi? -ountry, having been Minister from Japan at Washington about 1880. Count Mori was one of the most enlightened of Japanese Statesmen, and his death is considered a loss to the Progressive party in Japan. The cable gives only meager details of the crime. He was stabbed on the 11 th inst., the day of the promulgation of the new constitution