Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 27, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 November 1893 — Page 2

<Thr gifec County Jcmottat M. McC. STOOPS, Editor tad ProprirtarPETERSBURG. * - INDIANA. The public debt increased during October $5,141,059.01. It has been decided to hold a winter carnival in Quebec in February next Annie PiXLEY^he well-known American actress, died-, in London, on the night of the 8th, of brain fever. - The constitutional amendment providing for female suffrage in Colorado was carried by a good majority at the election on the 7th. Mrs. Abbie M. Leland, widow of Maj. William W. Leland, <Jf Gen. Grant's staff, and mother-in-law of Joaquin Miller, died in Nyack. N. Y., on the 9th. The condition of ex-Secretary Jerry M. Rusk, who had been ill for some days at his home in Viroqua, Wis., had grown alarming, on the 8th, and his friends were filled with the greatest fears. The state elections held- in many states, east and west, on the 7th, proved a surprise to political prophets of both parties, being little short of a revolution in favor of the republican party. On the 8th the longest iron railway bridge in Germany was opened. It spans the Vistula between Forden, in Prussian Poland, and Culmsee. It is .1,450 yards long and cost 8,000,000 marks. The Western Colorado Development Co., in sinking a well east of Grand Junction, Col., struck a strong flow of natural gas, on the 9th, at a depth of 860 feet. A pressure of 00 pounds was obtained. Gen. James Bridge died in Boston «n the 6th. He was born in Dresden, Me.. June 1, 1S09. lie was the leading spirit in the establishment of Harvard nniversity in pursuance of bequests of John Harvard. On the 10th President Cleveland granted a pardon to Clarence U. Harris, formerly cashier of the Commercial national bank of Dubuque, la., convicted April 18, 1893, of violating the United States banking laws and sentence suspended. On the 6th Emperor William issued the expected edict against gambling in the army. By it he forbids games of hazard of any kind among the men in active service, and directs the officers to report and punish severely all transgressors of the order.

Of the five Russian criminals who escaped to sea from Siberia and who were carried to San Francisco by the whaling bark Charles W. Gorgan, three are murderers, one a counterfeiter aud one a common convict, all causes for extradition under the new treaty. The Oriental mills of Providence, R. I., north of the city, which had been shut down for about two years, the result of the failure of Reed Brothers, started up on the 9tli. The mill is a large one, and will resume in full as soon as the machinery can be got into readiness. Ex-Premier Mercier* of Canada, in a letter published in the Montreal Patriot, 'declares that his annexation views exibt^olely in the minds of the ultra conservative papers, and asserts ■on his word of honor that he is opposed to the annexation of Canada to the United States. The Ward line steamer Seneca ar- „ arived at Quarantine, Staten Island, on the 10th, bringing Capt. Hoffman and fifty-six of the crew of the steamer City of Alexander, which was burned iat sea near Havana, on the 1st, involving a loss of eleven lives, five of the •crew and six negro stevedores. Ox the 9th Dr. Wekerle, minister of finance and president of the ministerial ■council, announced to the lower house of the Hungarian diet that the ciyil marriage bill prepared by the government, having received the king's approval, would be presented to the house for its Consideration within two ■weeks. Seven cannon shots were fired upon the Pacific Mail steamship Costa Rica by-command of the commissioner of the port.of Amapata, Honduras, on the 5th, because her captain refused to surrender Policarpo Bonilla, a refugee who recently led the revolution in Honduras, but was defeated by Gen. Vasques. The Costa Rica was flying the Americas flag, f ' Severe earthquake shocks have occurred in Mexico recently, and there is much .excitement among the people. The Colima volcano is in a state of eruption, and the people living in the ^valley at ithe base of the mountain have left their homes in search of a . placeof safety. The disturbances have been felt in the states of Oajaca, Puebla, Guerrero, Morelos and Jalisco. The fire loss of the United States and Canada, during October, as estimated_£rom the daily files of the New York Journal of Commerce and the Commercial Bulletin, amounts to $11,.014,700. This is over $2,000,000 less £han the suns chargeable to the same month in 1892, but the year’s record so far exhibits an eco^jnous increase over ties total for the first ten months in 1893. _ Attek a protracted meeting of the | cabinet,on the 10th, Secretary Gresham, with the concurrence of th'e president, gave out for publication his report >»n the investigation of affairs in Hawaii made by Special Commissioner Blount, submitted some time ago, in wJb&h he takes strong ground against the action of Minister Stevens in connection with the overthrow of the queen's government in January Jjast.

CURRENT TOPICS,. • THE NEWS IN BRIEF. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. On the 8th Judge Morrow, of San Francisco, took under advisement a motion to liberate fourteen Chinese confined in the county jail and awaiting deportation as provided for by the Geary act. The collection of antique Irish metal work from the Royal Irish academy, Dublin, exhibited at the World’s fair, has been loaned to the Smithsonian institute, and will soon be shipped to Washington. Wm. N. Moff, of Bloomington, Ind., has been appointed supervisor of Indian schools. Gen. Rugqlks, the newly-appointed adjutant-general of the army, has been an assistant adjutant-general for the past eighteen months, having accompanied Gen. Williams, just retired, from New York. He is a graduate of the class of 1855, West Point, and before the war saw frontier duty in Minnesota and Montana. Mrs. Ollie Nte, wife of a carpenter, was instantly killed at the outskirts of Terre Haute, Ind.. on the 6th, by a passenger train on the Logansport division of the Vandalia. She did not heed the whistle or bell and seemed to be unconscious of her danger. Julies Froebel, the well-known Swiss writer and statesman, died in Zurich on the 7th. He was a nephew ot Dr. Froebel, the founder of the kindergarten system. Dittmar’s dynamite factory at Baychester, N. Y., blew up on the 7th. The building, a large, low, frame structure, was completely demolished. If the struggle in Morocco is prolonged Spain will declare war on the sultan and make the affair on the Riffian coast a secondary consideration. The latest details concerning the terrible disaster at Santander show that the number of dead, missing and wounded is fully 1,000. By a collision in a dense fog between the Western Transit Co.’s steamer Albany and the Anchor Line steamer Philadelphia, off Point Aux Barques, at 2:80 o'clock on the morning of the 7th,i twenty-four lives were lost and both steamers were sunk in 200 feet of water.

By a rear-end collision on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad at Seventy-first street, Chicago, on the 8th, between the Blue Island accommodation and a limited vestibuled express, five persons were killed and eleven injured, many of them being badly scalded by escaping steam from the disabled locomotive of the express. The accident occurred in a dense fog. Mrs. U. S. Grant, accompanied by her son Ulysses S. Grant, arrived at San Francisco, on the 8th, from Santa Barbara. ‘ She will remain there a week, and return to Santa Barbara for a two years’ residence. Commander W. H. Whiting, late of the United States'steamer Alliance, arrived at San Francisco, on the 8th‘, from Guatemala, en route to Honolulu, where he will be married to Miss Ah Fong. Ox the 8th Emperor Francis Joseph formally accepted the civic marriage law, which has caused much clerical and other opposition in Hungary, to which country the bill applies. Sigxor Francisco Genki.a, Italian minister for public works, was stricken with apoplexy on the 8th. It was expected that the stroke would prove fatal. A meeting of liberal Presbyterians, called to consider affairs in what they believe to be a crisis in the church's history, began in Cleveland, 0., on the 8th. The county high school building at JSftingham, the first of the kind in Kansas. was destroyed by fire on the night of the 7th. Loss, $‘.10,000; no insurance. The United States cruiser Olympia, under command of Capt. Goodall,\put to sea from San Francisco, on the 8th, for her contractor’s trial trip. Joshua Jump, of Terre Haute, has been appointed by the president to be collector of internal revenue for the Seventh district in Indiana. A steamer in the harbor sfe Kiel rammed the steam pinnace belonging to the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, on the 8th, cutting it in halves and sending it to the bottom. The crew were rescued. v The steamer Burlington, with two barges, bound up, light, sprung a leak whjjfn 10 miles off Sand Beach, Mich., on the 8th. She was picked up immediately by the steam barge Tempest, which, started to tow her into Sand Beach, but she sank just as she got inside the piers. She was built in 1857. Six men and nine women were killed by the explosion of a bomb tlirown by anarchists in the Liceo theater, in Barcelona, Spain, on the night of the 7th. A number of others were injured by -splinters of. wood, pieces of glass and fragments of iron. The house of J. Long, at Stanchfield. Minn., caught fire from a prairie fire, on the 9th, and was consumed. One child about three weeks old was burned to death. The mother was burned so badly that she is not. expected to live. . Another child was burned quite severely. The Quebec legislature opened, on the -9th, with the customary ceremonies. In his speeeh from the throne Lieut.-Gov.Chapleau made kindly allusion to the term of service and the departure of the earl of Derby, Flattering mention was also made of Lord Aberdeen. Empebob William has ordered that ten military officers who were implicated in the Hanover gambling ease be cashiered. Mb. Fbanci* Parkmah, the eminent historian, died at his home in Jamaica Plain, Boston, on the 9th, of peritonitis. The Panhandle glass works at Wellsburg, W. Va., resumed operations on the 9th, employing 200 men, after several months’ idleness. Frank I. Darling, of Michigan, and John G. Townsend, ot Illinois, have been appointed special examiners in the pension office.

Hon. II. E. Taschf.reau, judge of tha Dominion supreme court, died suddenly in Quebec on the 9th. A gas motor in the North Side street railway barns in Chicago exploded, on the 9th, and the explosion of ten more motors immediately followed. A die-’ astrous fire followed, resulting in the total destruction of the eleven motors and the buildings, with forty street cars. The total loss will probably reach $100,000; covered by insurance. Ratifications of the extradition treaty between the United States and Sweden and Norway were exchanged, on the 9th. by Secretary Gresham and Minister Grip. The provisions of the treaty will go into effect thirty days from the date of exchange. John C. Eno was arrested in New York city, on the night of the 9th, on a warrant sworn out by United States District-Attorney Mitchell, on the old indictment charging him with misappropriation of the funds of the Second national Iwink of New York in 1884. He gave bond and was released. On the 9tli the birthday anniversary of the prince of Wales was celebrated at Sandringham. The church beils were rung during the morning hours, and flags were displayed every wherein the vicinity of the residence of the heir apparent to the British crown. The big marshes bordering the Kankakee river in Indiana were reported burning, on the 9th, and the fire threatened to sweep over the tracks of the Lake Erie & Western railway and burn over a large contiguous territory. Several hundred men were out battling the flames. The annual circus parade provided by the city of London on the occasion of-the installation of the new lord mayor was witnessed by tens of thousands of people on the 9th. Alderman George Robert Taylor, representing the Queenhithe ward, is the new chief magistrate of the city. During the five Jnonths the Ferris wheel revolved onJ-Mlrtya v plaisanee at the World's fair 1,453,(511 persons paid a total of $79(5,805.50 to ride. The company paid pff bonds amounting to $300,000, and after paying operating expcnses,aud dividing with the exposition over $150,000 was left for the stockholders. George L. Cramer, for thirty-one years secretary ot the Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of Frederick county, Md., committed suicide on the 9th. A committee had reported that he was a deftrulter to the extent of $11,000. On the 9th the announcement was made, and later confirmed, that the Carnegie Steel Co., limited, of Pittsburgh. Pa., had broken away from the steel combine and cut the prices on steel rails $5 per ton, from $99 to $24 and $95. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Burrows, of Chicago, on the 10th. Mrs. Burrows and the police succeeded in rescuing six of the children, but Frank, a 2-year-old boy, was burned to death. The Pittsburgh and Lake Angelina mine at Islvpeming, Mich., employing 500 men, suspended work for the winter on the 10th. The miners struck for higher wages, which the company refused to pay. Robert Gladstone, the sportsman and breeder of race horses, died at Broad Green, near Liverpool, on the 9th. He was a nephew of the prime minister of Great Jlidiain. There was a hka,vy fall of snow throughout Coloradwim the 10th. Powell, the leading steeplechase jockey of France, was killed at Auteuil on the 9th, by the fall of his mount, Wisiirath^

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The new cruiser Olympia, built by tlie Union iron works of San Francisco, on her first trip established her position as queen of the United States navy, making a maximum speed of 21:26 knots, and averaging slightly under 21 knots on a run of 68 knots with a heavy sea and strong wind. Her owners expect her to make 22 knots on her official government trial, and are happy in anticipation of a bonus of Of $100,000. Twenty-one persons were killed outright and many others were injured by an explosion in the shop of a chemist in Brest-Litovok, a town of Russian Poland, on the 11th. The building in which the shop was located was completely shattered, as were also the adjacent houses, each of which contained several families. The weekly statement of the New York associated Banks for the week ended on the 11th shows the following changes: Reserve, decrease, $5,815,275; loans, ', increase, $602,700; specie, increase,$1,528,400; legal tenders, increase, $6,368,700; deposits, increase, $8,827,S00; circulation, decrease, $53,600. Harlow N. Higginbotham, president of the World’s Columbian exposition, has given $100,000 of his private fortune to the endowment fund of the Columbian museum, which practically assures the fulfillment of the conditions attached to Marshall Field’s gift of $1,000,000 made two weeks before. The chief and executive council of the Osage nation have issued a proclamation ordering all negroes to leave the reservation in thirty days, and notifying them that any negro found in the country after that time will be given fifty lashes. It was reported in Kingston Jamaica, on the 11th, that there was an uprising against President Hippolyte in the southern part of Hayti, the rebels having declared in favor of Gen. Manigat. The rebellion is said to be headed by Jean Gilles. Mrs. J. Roosevelt, wife of the secretary of the United States embassy in London, and daughter of the late William As tor, died on the 12th, in London. 1 .King Oscar of Sweden has decorated Mine. Meb Melba, the opera singer, with the gold medal for art and scienoe. On the 11th the banks of New York held $57,828,725 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per cent. rule. Baron Alexander von Bach, the Austrian statesman, died in Vienna, ,on [the 18tb, in his seventy-ninth year.

INDIANA STATE NEWS. Mr. ani> Mrs. John Fehner Mna> eie, while passing the Midland Steel works, were attacked by a gang of drunken iron workers and nearly killed. The men attempted to take Fehner’s wife away from him. He made a hard fight, but was nearly murdered, and the woman was badly injured by being hit in the face with a stone. There were seven men in the crowd. A number of them were arrested. The other night for tfte first time in the history of Jay county two couples were married at one ceremony. ’Squire Evilsizer officiated, and the contracting parties were Foster Thomas and Lulu Hysell and Orlando Hvsell and Nora E. Collins. Florence Shea died in Indianapolis a few days ago at the reputed age of 104 years.. Four generations were at his bedside when he expired. { The young son of Thomas White, a farmer at Dora, Wabash county, was fatally injured while riding a horse. The lad slipped from the animal's back and falling on his head suffered a fracture of the skulk Gov. Matthews has received a number of threatening letters of late from cranks, and his friends fear that he may suffer violence at the hands of some lunatic. One writer informs him that he will be blown up with dynamite if he pardons a certain prisoner in the penitentiary. Forli hundred miners, employed by the Parke County-Coal Co., at Rosedale, went out on a strike recently. The men struck because the operators lowered their screen nine inches, which the miners claim is a violation of the contract made last May. Clarence Ritten house was killed the other day in the Auburn band sawmill. He was roiling logs on the carrier, when he fell backward, being caught in the carrier and breaking his neck and crushing his head. Mrs. Ollie Nye, aged 33, was struck by a Terre Haute and Logansport passenger engine, near the Union depot, Terre Haute, and was instantly killed. She was, trying to cross the track >n front of the engine. At La Porte Conrad Hoeloecker hanged himself with a clothes line while temporarily insane. Miss Effie Horxbeck, aged 16, of Shelbyville, has been subject to fits, and the other afternoon suffered from seven severe attacks in a few hours. She. then procured strychnine and took

a large uose, causing ueatn. Two members of one of the prominent families of Blountsville are dead from the effects of milk fever, or milk sickness. The first victim was Merton, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J." H. Billheimer, who died after but a few days’ illness. Fire totally destroyed the porcelain building's of the Peru Electrical Manufacturing Co., causing a loss of probably $10,000. A large quantity of valuable dies, which were in daily use, all machinery and manufactured and raw material were ruined. Fortunately the company has new buildings, which have not been occupied, but considerable delay will be occasioned by loss of dies. Fourth-class postmasters: G. C. Harbaugh, Colfax, Clinton county; Philip Hoffman, Earle, Vanderburgh county. Pensions issued to Indianians a few days ago: Original—John Fitzsimmons, Marion; Lewis D. Hammond, Argo; Robert Hollis, Royal Center. Increase —Rolla Hofsteater, Knox. Reissue— John Sheaks, Teegarden; Terrell Bunch, Monon; Austin F. Harper, Eugene. Original Widows—Sarah J. Freel, Lafayette. When Henry Owen,\ of Bedford, returned after midnight to his home from watching over his father, Jordan Owen, who is dangerously sick, he noticed a man at his door, who upon his approach fled. Upon investigation Mr. Owen discovered that the fellow was about to administer chloroform by letting a bottle down through the transom. Mrs. Owen, the only person in the house, was asleep. • The other morning Emer Wink asked his wife to dress their three-year-old daughter for Sunday-school. He did not go there, but took the child and fled overland in a buggy. The mother was apprised of his actions, and, securing • a rig, armed herself and pursued her fleeing husband, riding continuously until 8 a. m. next day, when she overtook him and compelled him to surrender her daughter. She drove sixty miles before securing her child. Rev. M. Mahin and wife, now stationed at Tipton, have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Rev. Mahin was admitted to the Indiana M. E. conference in 1841, was ordained by Bishop Andrews when but 17/ years of age, and has continued in the ministry ever since. The democrats of Richmond and township have decided to hold an election to determine who shall be postmaster under the new administration. The election will occur Saturday, Sjvember 18, and will be according to e Australian system. The candidates prominent for the position at this time are Hon. Luther Mering, B. F. Wissler, John G. Schwegeman, John H. Roling and John P. Thistlethwaite. John R. Davis, a Madison confectioner, has become insane over financial troubles. Dr. Eddy and the students at Rose Polytechnic, Terre Haute, are again at loggerheads over*Halloween capers. James A. Rogers, S3 years old, a workman at the Indianapolis Light Co.’s power house, Indianapolis, was instantly killed the other night. In oiling a dynamo he touched the brushes with both hands and a voltage of 3,500 went through him. The town of Bicknell, Knox county, whs visited by burglars the other night The iron safe in John Donaldson's store was blown open, and the cracksman secured .forty-two dollars cash, a large quantity of clothing and other articles to the value of $350. Georgian a Howard, a divorced woman, suicided at Indianapolis with morphine. A

ONLY BY FORCE. According: to the Hawaiian Consul-Gen-eral in San Fraocleco Rx-Quee*- Lllloukalanl Can Only be Rentored to tho Throne of Hawaii by Force, and That Done the United State Will Hare to Maintain Her There—Why Was Not Minister Thurston Notified? San Francisco. Not. IS.—In an interview with the Hawaiian consul-gen-eral last night he said: ‘•Uncle Sam may restore Lilioukalanl by force, but that is the only way she can reach the throne again. If this is done the United States government will have to maitain her on the throne by force. The provisional government is strong enough to maintain the control of the islands unless the United States should interfere. Of course, it could not fight the United States, but if this government should interfere to restore the deposed queen she would be deposed again as soon as the force was withdrawn. The letter of Secretary Gresham is dated October 18. This was two days prior to the departure of Minister Willis to Hawaii. It would seem that our minister at Washington, Mr. Thurston, should have been notified at the same time, but he was not. The Hawaiians believe that the royalists have had information that was inaccessahle to those of us who favor annexation. Lilioukalani, has said all along that she would be restored by the American government. She has told her supporters to have no fear, as the Washington government would certainly place her back on the throne. “Secretary Gresham has been misinformed on several points,” continued the consul-general. “Minister Stevens acted on precisely the same instructions which the American minister during Mr. Cleveland's first term received. That fact is susceptible of proof. Minister Stevens onlydid what President Cleveland himself, during his first administration, ordered the American minister to do if certain contingencies should arise. The landing of the marines from the Boston was not necessary to the success of the revolution. The revolt was a success long before they were landed. It was some time after landing before they were quartered in the building to which Secretary Gresham refers, and they were sent theiy because it was the only building which was suitable.” A FLING AT GEN. HARRISON.

So the Venerable Bishop Newman Characerlzes Secretary Gresham's Hawaiian Report. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 13.—The venerable Bishop John P. Newman, Gen. Grant’s old pastor, and the bosom friend of many public men of this and the previous generation, paid a missionaryvisit to the Hawaiian 'islands just before the revolution. Talking on the subject at the West hotel to a reporter of the United .Press, Bishop Newman said: “I do not believe that the people of this country will ever permit President Cleveland to restore the monarchy. He cannot do it. How is it to be accomplished? . These are questions upon which the people may have something to say. When I was in the country the people were ripe for independence. The leaders of the revolution were the cream of the intelligence and dignity of its residents. The fact is that but for American civilizing influences the islands would be in a rapid state of decadence. On the last Sunday I was there I'visited no less than six Sundayschools, all promoted by American zeal and maintained by American money. The state paper just issued on the subject seems to me to read more like a partisian argument than a state document. The underlying idea seems tc be to get in a fling at Gen. Harrison.” GOES FOR GRESHAM. Ex-Minister Stevens Comes Out In a Reply .to Secretary Gresham's Report on Hawaiian Affairs. Augusta, Me., Nov. 13.—Ex-Minister Stevens, in a signed editorial in the Kennebec Journal, takes Secretary Gresham to task for his attitude and report on the Hawaiian revolution. Among other things he says: “All that American piety, American benevolence, American schools and American patriotism have accomplished in Hawaii in the past seventy years are now concentrated in the provisional government and stand in its support. It is a government honestly and ably adraftistered and the best government that Hawaii ever had.” He says that for the United States to overthrow this government would be a crime of startling import. Ex-Minister Stevens attributes Mr. Gresham's policy to hostility to Mr. Harrison and the late James. G. Blaine, which drove him out of his party and into his present position. The document is a very lengthy one. A DIAMOND THIEF. Arrested, He First Denies and Then Confesses His Guilt. Pittsburgh, Pa., Nov. 13.—Sometime last August T. 0. Tarter stole $2,000 worth of diamonds from a Chicago woman while he was in that city. He was seen in the vicinity of the robbery, and a description of the man was sent to all the police in the large cities. Last Thursday Capt. Waggoner and Lieut Teeters located the man in Wright's restaurant and .arrested him. He denied having been in Chicago at all, but was held by the police until the authorities in Chicago sent a man here to make an investigation. He arrived Saturday night, and had an interview with the man, who finally admitted that he stole the diamonds. How the State Fund* of Minnesota Were Farmed Out. St. Paul, Minn.. Nov. 13.—Evidence in the receivership case of the Bank of New England has disclosed the fact that state treasurers have for years been lending the state funds to banks, the interest going to their personal accounts. In some instances banks have paid per cent, personal interest on state moneys besides the 8 per cent, allowed by law. The 2X per cent went directly to the state treasurer, and was in the nature of an emolument for placing the deposits of the state moneys with them.

THE INCIDENT CLOSED. There Will be No Trouble with Honduras Over the Firing on the Mall Steamer' Costa' Rica, the Honduran Gorernmen Haring Promptly Disavowed the Conduct of Its Officers at Amipulla and Expressed Its Sincere Regrets. Washington’, ’Nov. 13.—The state department cable dispatch, in navy department cipher, tvhich navv officers have been wrestling with, was not CSff from Rio Janeiro, as was supposed, and had no reference to Brazillian affairs, bnt was from La Libertad, Salvador, ^ Where the United States steamship Al-sffl liance is now, and , where both Mr. Lewis Baker, our combined minister at Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador, and Minister Pierce M. B. Young, accredited to Honduras, happen to be at the present time, the cause of this foregathering being the firing on the United States flag carried by the United States mail ship Costa Rica, by the Honduras authorities in their over-anxiety to obtain a political opponent, Gen. Bonilla, who was on board the mail steamer. Minister Baker happened also to be n passenger at the same time, in transit from one of his divided posts of duty to another, and the affair thus obtained an immediate national prominence. The gunboat Alliance, cruising around in these waters, received some very explicit orders and trouble might have happened as the outrage was shown to be deliberate, blit for the result announced in this cipher cable. That communication conveyed the gratifying intelligence that the government of Honduras hud apologized and that the incident was closed. The 'state department yesterday afternoon gave out the folio wing% statement in regard to the case: Upon receiving authentic information of the I firing upon the Costa Kica. an American mail, steamer, at Ampalla. on the 6th inst.. because her captain refused to deliver up Gen., llonilla. a passenger. Gen. Young, our minister to^londuras, under instructions sent by Secretary ® Gresham by direction of the president, protested against the act as wanton and Illegal, nnd demanded an apology. The goverment of Homlutas promptly disavowed the conduct of its officers, and expressed sincere regret for the occurrence. The authentic information here referred to was a cable message from Minister Young of the 9tli inst., establishing the facts that the shots fired from, the port of Ampalla, were tired at the Costa Rica with the intention of hitting her, and not as, was at first supposed for the purpose of bringing her about. On the same day Secretary Gresh'am after consultation with the president sent Minister Young his instructions to demand an explanation and apology^ His satisfactory reply, which closesthe incident, reached the state department yesterday.

COOLNESS AND COURAGE Avert a Panto in a Burning Chicago Church—The iCongrc-gation Ketired in Good Order and the Structure was Chicago, Nov. 13.—Three hundred men and ’ women were momentarily panic-stricken yesterday evening in the Belder-a venue Baptist church, . when they discovered the, structure “ was on fire; but presence o% mind on the part of the pastor, By. H. M. Barbour, soon restored ortWr and the entire congregation escaped to tl>^ street in safety. There was some pushing and crowding at times, but no one was injured. The pastor had spoken about ten minutes when he noticed a gentleman who had occupied a seat in the center of the church arise and come forward. He walked up the main aisle toward the pulpit and beckoned Rev. Barbour to one side. “There will be a panic soon, if we are not careful,” he whispered. “The church is on fire. Sparks are falling from the dome.” Rev. Barbour glanced up at the dome and saw sparks were falling. He told the congregation that the services could not be continued. “There are good reasons,” he announced, “why, I cannot preach to you to-night. We will even dispense with the closing hymn and benediction, and I will ask you all to leave your seats quietly and in order, but with as much haste as possible.” Several who were seated in the center of the church saw the falling sparks. A score arose hastily and started for the exists in the rear. Others arose, not knowing What was the cause of the excitement. Soon the church was empty. The .fire caught in the dome from a leak in the large gas pfpe leading to the chandelier in the center of the church. By the time the congregation had left the dome was in flames. In the meantime the t^aze had been seen by parties outside the church and an alarm turned in. Quick work by the fire department saved the building from destruction an«J confined the fire to the dome. The loss is estimated at $7,300. At the Grave of the Hayinarket Bomb* Throwers . Chicago, Nov. 13.—Altgeld and anarchy were namyd together at the grave of Spies, JParsons, Ling. Engel I. and Fischer in Waldheim cemetery yesterday. A particular interest was ' given to the memorial demonstration by the participation of Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Oscar Neebe, who were sentenced with their dead comrades—the first two to be hanged and Neebe to fifteen years’ imprisonment. The governor of Illinois was praised for his exercise of the pardoning power, and Judge Gary was condemned, but Fielden and Schwab had no kind word to say for Gov. Oglesby who saved their , necks.from the hangman's noose. After the Principals and Witnesses of a Prise Fight. McKeesport, Pa., Nov. 13.—Constable August Weisser of Millford township is after the principals and the witnesses to the Othello-Lee prize fight, which was fought last Sunday morning at Bull Run. The officer has twentyseven informations, made before Squire Ledbeter of Bravosburgh, and has already served several of them. Some very prominent residents of the city are implicated. Lee is serving a thirtyday term in the workhouse find will be apprehended as soon as his term expires.