Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 March 1894 — Page 2

Sto fifecJmmtg imoaat U- McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. • - INDIANA. Chairman Wilson left Guadalajara, Mexico, on the 13th, for San Antonio, Tex. I Congressman Caldwell who is a candidate for the mayoralty of Cincinnati, has left Washington to engage in the canvass. It is claimed by members of the house that if the seigniorage bill passes the senate the president will allow it to become a law without his signature. vi T. H. Davies, guardian to Princess Kaulani, was a passenger by the steamer Mariposa which arrived at Ban Francisco from Honolulu on the 15th. _____ Several racing magnates have purchased for *150,000 a tract of land in the southern part of San Francisco, and will open a new race track in October. London Truth, of the 14th, says the selection of Lord Rosebery for the premiership was a skillfully-contrived conspiracy, and a dirty tyick on the liberal party. The IoWa senate defeated the Carpenter local option bill, on the 16th, by a vpte of 23 to 12, and the house killed the committee bill for mulct and local option—both victories for the prohibitionists. After the surrender of the Brazilian insurgents President Peixoto at once sent food and water to the starving garrisons on Cobras and Paqueita islands, and ordered the sick and wounded to be taken care of. A dynamite bomb was exploded, on the 15th, inside the chief entrance to the Church of La Madeleine in Paris. The man who threw, it* was the only person killed by the explosion, but a number of others were severely injured. King Leopold, whose quiet disappearance from liis country house in Belgium excited much comment, was recognized, on the 16th, in MonJrieux, in the canton of Vaud, on Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where he was staying incognito. Both Senators Voorhees and Vest stated, on the 13th, that the pending tariff bill will not disturb the reciprocity arrangements which were negoti ated by the last administration with foreign countries under the authority of section 3 of the McKinley bill. C Dr. Frank Powell (White Beaver) returned to La Crosse, Wis., on the 16th, from the home of Col. Cody (Buffalo Bill), in North Platte, Neb., and reported that all possibility of a duel between Cody and Fred May was past, 6ay and Cody having adjusted their differences through their representatives. A distinguished Anglo-American supporter of the deposed >(ueen in Honolulu says the roj’alists have not lost hope of her restoration by the powers at Washington ; but declares the provisional government will not be tolerated one*' day after the final decision of the Washington authorities reaches Honolulu.

Municipal elections were held all over the state of Michigan on the 12th. In towns where party lines were drawn, the returns show that the republicans were generally successful, with large gains in their vote. In towns where a citizens’ or workingmen’s ticket was in the field it swept everything. On the 15th the secretary of the navy cabled orders to Admiral Benham, at Rio de Janeiro, directing him to proceed at once wfth one ship to Bluefields, Nicaragua. No particular ship was mentioned, but it was understood that the San Fraucisco, upon which the admiral had his flag, would execute the order. The Illinois delegation in congress, at a meeting, on the 15th, adopted suitable resolutions in reference to the death of Mrs. Hunter, wife of Congressman Hunter. They also sent a handsome floral tribute and aecom* panied the remains to the railway star tion, whence they were started on their journey to Paris, 111., for interment. At the close of proceedings in the Pollard-Breckinridge breach-of-prom-ise case in Washington, on the 12th, an altercation, in which blows passed, took place between the lawyers for the prosecution and defense, as they were leaving the court room, caused by strong language used by one of them, in arguing the question of the admissibility of deposi tions. Sir William Harcourt announced in the British house of commons, on the 14th, that after taking advice from all available sources the government had decided not to present the address as amended—containing the demand for the abolition of the house of lords —to the queen, but would bring in a new address amounting merely to an acknowledgment of the speech from the throne," which was subsequently presented and adopted. Two important dispatches from Minister Thompson at Rio were received hy the state department on the 12th. The first of those stated that Admiral 4a Gama had ottered through the Portuguese naval commander to surrender on condition that he and his" followers should be guaranteed safety. The second, received two hours later, said that Admiral da Gama had left his ship and gone on board a Portugwese vessel as an asylum. Secretary Gresham understands from these dispatches that the war has virtually ended.

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS IH BRIEF. FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. In the senate, on the 13th. Mr. Blanchard, appointed to succeed Senator White, of Louisiana, was sworn In. Mr. Peffer offered a substitute for. and Mr. Gallinger an amendment to, the tariff bill. The seigniorage bill was taken up. and Mr. Vilas concluded his sjmeclt against It.followcd by Mr. Allison.whodemanded reconsideration for amendment to cure the bill of fatal defects. Mr Wolcott also made a brief speech.In the house. It being District of Columbia day, no general legislation was considered. » In the senate, on the 13th, the Bland seigniorage bill was taken up, and Mr Stewart spoke in favor of it. Mr. Dolph spoke in opposition to the bill, his speech being unfinished when the senate adjourned.In the house most of the day's session was occupied in considering the sundry civil appropriations bill. A vote upon Mr. Morse’s amendment disclosing the absence of a quorum, the house, at 5:10, adjdurned. ' j In the senate, on the 14th, ufter routine morning business, the Bland seigniorage bill was taken up. After several speeches bad been made the vote on Mr. Allison's motion to reconsider the vote ordering the bill to a third reading was taken, and resulted: Yeas, 88: nays, 45. The agreement that the remainder of the discussion be under the five-minute rule was abrogated, and Mr. George continued his argument in favor of the bill.... ..In the house consideration of the civil sundry appropriations bill was resumed, a strong opposition developing to the appropriation for the Mississippi river commission, which was finally agreed to. In the senate, on the 15th, the bill to amend the act authorizing the construction of a bridge across the Columbia river between the states of Oregon and Washington was reported and passed. The Bland seigniorage bill was passed: Yeas, 44: nays, 31. Several bills of minor importance were also passed, and the Benate went into executive session...... In the house the bill to lease Oklahoma school lands was passed, and the sundry civil appropriations bill was taken up. The senate was not in session bn the 16th . ... Ir. the house an amendment to the civil sundry appropriations bill adopted on tlig loth, directing a special investigation of the coast and geodetic survey, was so amended as t6 withdraw the authority to reorganize the force and to make >135,000 the minimum l|mit of the expenditure for the ofilc-e force. After further consideration of the bill the house took recess until 8 p. m., the evening session being for the consideration of private pension bills. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. At the expiration of the forjty-eight-hours’ notice given by the Brazilian government, active operations against the rebels at Rio were begun at noon of the 13th. Their fire wasi not returned by the insurgent ships, and when the government fleet entered the harbor they found forts Villegaignon and Cobvas abandoned by their garrisons. The terms of capitulation offered by Admiral da Gama were rejected, and unconditional surrender was demanded by PresidentTJeixoto. The London Times after making allowance for the difficulties which Lord Rosebery had to encounter, says “the general feeling is that his debut as premier was distinctly disappointing.” I: iM^the trial of suits instituted by Chancellor von Caprivi and Finance Minister Dr. Miguel against the writers Plack and Schweinhagen and Bookseller Ewald, begun in Berlin f on the 13th, for giving issued a pamphlet entitled “Pharisees and Hypocrites,” the defense set up was that the charges are true.

The new antidote for laudanum poisoning was successfully administered in the Homeopathic hospital at Pittsburgh, Pa., on the 14th, tt> a man who had swallowed five ounces of the deadly drug with suicidal intent, and upon whom all the ordinary means of resuscitation had been used without avail. A number of participants in the late revolt at Costa Rico have taken steamer from Port Limon for New Orleans. Twenty-three of the prisoners taken were shot. Richard Puryear, who murdered Christian Ehlers, near Tannersville, Pa., escaped from jail at Stroudsburg on the 15th. He was pursued by citizens, captured and hanged to a tree. The conflict of authority between Gov. Waite of Colorado, and the board of fire and police of Denver, supported bj’ the sheriff of Arapahoe county, culminated, on the 15th, in the governor calling out 'several companies of militia to - take forcible- possession of the city hall, in which the ] sheriff with over 100 special deputies and the city police were intrenched. Both sides were, obdurate, and bloodshed would have followed had not Gen. McCook, with United States. troops from Fort Logan, appeared on the scene as a peacemaker. On the 15th United States Ambassador Bayard had an interview of nearly an hou**s duration with the earl of Kimberly, British secretary of state for foreign affairs. It is understood the interview had reference to the recent interference on the part of Capt A. G. Cuzon-Howe of the British war ship Cleopatra in the matter of the seizure of the Mosquito reservation in Central America by the Nicaraguans. The weekly statement of the Bank of France, issued on the 15th, showed an increase of 7,350,000 francs gold and a decrease of 900,000 francs silver. For the first time in the history of tthe United States a Japanese has applied for naturalization papers in Boston. His name is Shebato Saito, aged 29. He is a graduate of the State school of South Carolina and the Washington academy in Maine, and also attended the Georgetown university at Washington. He married an American woman. The case will be decided on the 22 d. ♦ ■ A mite of a baby is thriving in an incubator in New York, and though she weighed scant two pounds when she was born on February 24, on the 15th she tipped the heam at five and one-half pounds and was as fat as a butter roll. So she promises to be a credit to her mechanical foster mother, the incubator. She is the daughter of E. Clarence and Florence H. G. Haight. Eleven survivors of the company of 300 which left Pittsburgh, Pa., for California during the gold excitement of 1849 met in that city, on the night of the 15th, to celebrate the forty-fifth anniversary of their departure.! After a brief busine ss meeting and the reelection of the old officers “The 49ers” sat down to an elaborate banquet.

Clung Ming See, treasurer of the company of Chinese merchants which owned and operated the Chinese theater and village on the World’s fair grounds, is locked up in Chicago, charged with embezzling nearly $00,000 of the company’s funds. He was arrested by a Chinese detective, Lem Dong, who brought the alleged embezzler back from China. Aftkb the shore batteries at Rio had fired upon the insurgent ships for thirty minutes, on the 13th the latter surrendered unconditionally, Admiral Da Gama having previously gone aboard the a Frenchman*)!-war. FaLse teeth sold at one cent per set, gold watches at $3.50 each , and seal sacques at 43 K cents apiece, at the sale of unidentified property held by the lost and found department of the World’s fair in Chicago on the 15th. Other lost goods were sold at equally low prices, and not over $500 was realized by the Exposition managers. Dispatches received at Lisbon, on the 15th, from Rio de Janeiro said that Admiral Saldanha da Gaina, with 500 of the insurgent sailors and marines, was on board the Portuguese corvette Mindello. It was added that the refugees would be brought to Portugal by the Mindello and by the Alfonso de Albuquerque. The ravages of yellow fever are alarming everybody in Rio Janeiro. The number of deaths amount to sixty daily. All sorts of rumors are in circulation. One of them is that the Aquidaban, one of the vessels seized by de Mello when he sought to set up a government on his own account, has been found abandoned in southern waters. Capt. Frank Brownell, who shed the first southern blood in the war on Virginia soil, shooting and killing Jackson who had the moment, before killed Col. Ellsworth, after the latter had torn down the confederate flag from Jackson’s hotel in Alexandria, died in Washington on the 15th. , On the 15th the Bland seigniorage silver coinage bill was passed by the senate by a majority of thirteen, the vote being: Ayes, 44; nays, 31. The bill was passed exactly as received from the house. Advices from Miller, |S. D., on the 15th were to the effect that the country was being swept by a fearful prairie fire,’which had burned much timber, two or three schoolhouses and farm buildings in several places. Chevalier Molaroni, for twenty years an official in the department of public works at Rome, died, on the 16th, jjfrom the effects of injuries received on the occasion of the explosion of a bomb in front of the chamber of deputies on March 8. The coroner’s jury in the^case of the lynching of the negro Richard Puryear, at Stroudsburgh. Pa., returned a verdict, on the 16th, finding that the murderer came to his death by being hung by parties not known to the jury. The Floyd brothers, on tidal at Minneapolis, Minn., were each sentenced, on the 16th, to five years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary for complicity in the Minneapolis bank embezzlement Erasmus W. Payne, who claimed to be the oldest odd fellow in the state of Michigan, dropped dead at his home in Adaira on the 16th. He was 85 years old. r By the explosion of a boiler in the province of Yekaterinoslav, Russia, on the 16th, fifteen men were killed and many others badly injured. ' John West, the leader of a notorious gangof burglars, was arrested in Sidney, O., on the 16th. The reichstag passed the Russo-Ger-man commercial treaty on the 16th.

LATE NEWS 1TEM& The senate was not in session or. the 17th...In the house, after, attention to matters of minor importance,the sundry civil appropriation bill was taken up in committee of the whole. Several proposed amendments were ruled out on points of order. The committee rose, and the special orderfor the hour—eulogies upon the late Representative W. H. Enochs, of Ohio who died last July—was taken up, after which the house adjourned. The green flag of • Ireland which was carried by the steamboat Hazel Kirke during the naval parade last year, and which was saluted by the visiting war ships, was raised at sunrise, on St. Patrick’s day, on a line between the staffs on which the state and municipal flags float over the New York city hall Jtmilding. Ix the race, on the 17th, between the crews of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge—the fifty-first since 1829, when the present series began— Oxford won by three and a half lengths in 21 minutes, 89 seconds. The race was rowed over the championship course of 4% miles, from Putney tc Mortlake. The statement of the associated banks of New York city for the week ended the 17th showed the following changes: Reserve, increase, $1,668,925 loans, increase, $3,108,600; specie, increase. $1,219,200; legal tenders, increase,$2,240,400; net deposits, increase. $7,162,700; circulation, decrease, $224,i 800. The usual March celebration in honor of the men who fell in the revolution of 1848 was held in Rerlin on the 18th. -The w-eather was bright and cold and thousands went to the Friedrichshain cemetery to decorate the graves qf the revolutionists. Count Pourtales, who owns much land in Colorado, while still retaining his interest in several large Silesiar estates, has gone to Berlin to follow the proceedings of the imperial cui> rencyf commission. He is about tc publish a book on the silver question. Ox the 17th, Queen Emma signed a decree dissolving the Dutch parliament. This step is supposed to be the outcome of the recent action of the second chamber in adopting an amendment to the principal clause of the government reform bill. The anniversary of the Commune was celebrated in Paris, on the 18th, without disturbance of any kind. The cemetery of Pere Lachaise was crowded, but no unusual demonstration war made. - * ,£ *, j *

THE STATE AT LAKGE Interesting Information from Towns in Indiana. Will Go After the Randolph Land. Columbus, lad., March IV —Away back in colonial days—1793—Daniel F. Randolph owned forty acres of land where the city of Philadelphia now stands. He executed a lease upon it for ninety-nine years, then entered the army. He was killed in the revolutionary war and all trace of his possessions lost The lease expired in 1892, and efforts are now being made to find his heirs. Miss Susie Randolph, of this city. Dr. D. F. Randolph, of Waldron, Shelby county, and the Randolphs of Des Moines, la., and Kahoka, Mo., and the Palmersons and Earharts of Shelby and Rush counties are known to be heirs. Miss Susie is 33 years of age, a dwarf and an orphan, living here by sewing. Dr. Randolph was hero Wednesday night and after a conference with Miss Susie they employed an attorney and agreed to raise (200 to cover the expense of a trip to Philadelphia to thoroughly investigate the case. The heirs number about thirty-five and the estate is estimated to be worth $4,000,000. Saloon* Meld a* Nuisance*. Indianapolis, Ind., March 15.—The supreme court Wednesday declined to consider again the College avenue saloon case. The court had passed upon the subject three times. John II. Stehlin opened a saloon in College avenue adjoining the property of Mary E. Haggard, the plaintiff, who .took the position at court that the saloon depreciated the value of the property. The supreme court first decided the controversy in favor of Stehlin. Judge McCabe, in a rehearing of the case, decided in favor of Mary Haggard. The court VV ednesday, without an opinion, declined to reopen the case. A far-reach-ing decision is thus finally sustained. The court holds that where it is shown that a saloon depreciates property a process at Jaw to secure damages is proper. The liquor interests have looked upon this as the heaviest blow struck at their business in recent years. Heavy Vote Against a Redaction. Terre Haute, Ind., March 15. —For several weeks the trainmen on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad have been voting on the . company’s propostion that they should accept a 10 per cent, cut in wages. The votes are now all in aud by an overwhelming majority the engineers, firemen and trainmen refuse to accede to the proposed reduction in wages. Among the reasons given the company for this refusal is the fact that the C. & E. I. has not suffered by the hard times, being able to declare its regular quarterly dividend'; of l\i per cent. The men believe the whole matter will now be dropped by the company.

Sloped with Zella’s Sister. Wabash, lnd., March 15.—A1 Rulimann, guardian hnd alleged husband of Zella Nicolaus, of George Gould fame, and Mrs. Effie Wetherbee, the oldest sister of tins fair Zella, departed from this city Wednesday morning and no one knows wither they have gone. Zella herself is brokenheated at the home of her father, . Wesley Lytle, in this city. She says, with great emphasis, however, that Ruhmann. in whom she so fondly trusted and with whom she made that famous European tour, is a blackhearted scoundrel and that he must not enter her presence again. Lafayette Gas Plants Sold. Lafayette, lnd., March 15,—The natural gas and the artificial gas plants of this city Wednesday became the property of an eastern syndicate headed by Charles F. Dieterich and A. B. Proal, of New York. The deal was for cash and the money is jn bank subject to the check of the late owners. James Murdock, president of the natural gas plant, represented the people here in the deaL The natural gas plant sold for $650,090 and the artificial gas plant for $190,000. Back Taxes Must He Paid. Indianapolis, Indi, March 15.—Legal notice was served upon the executor cff the late Banker Gallup Wednesday that the county auditor would place upon the tax duplicate all omitted property of the deceased since 18S1, the amounts ranging from $175,000 in 1881 to $223.000 in 1893, the total taxes due being $52,486. The executor was cited to show cause next Saturday why the amounts should not be placed for taxation. % Lady Vick Brings Top Price. Richmond, lnd., March 15.—The total receipts of the second day of the Lackey horse sale at Cambridge City were $10,000. The highest price was for Lady Vick, purchased by L. V. King, of Cleveland, 0., for $825.. Extending Its Line to Mancie. Anderson, lnd., March 15.—The Chicago & Southeastern railway Wednesday began grading on its extension to' Muncie. It unexpected to have trains running into Muncie by July 1. The Pair at Mancie. Muncie, lnd., March 15.—The board of directors of the Delaware County Agricultural and Mechanical association decided Wednesday to hold the fair August 13 to 17 inclusive. Too Much Morphine. Peru, lnd., March 15.—Florence Hathaway, 15 years old, was found dead in bed at her home here. She took morphine to relieve p§.in and took too much by mistake. Knights of 1'ythias. Muncie, lnd., March 15.—Knights of Pythias will hold a district convention in this city April 19. Fatal Diphtheria. Carbon, lnd., March 15.—Thirteen persons have died of diphtheria within a week at this place. The Portage Lake company will resist the land officers’ decision taking from it 66,647 acres of Michigan penin- | aula land.

BRITISH POLITICS. Lord ROTcberjr DeHnm Ilk Position ea Home Rale In n Speech st EdinlmrcU - The New Premier and tr. Gladstone - The Question of the Dh olution of P* "* llameut—An Electoral Aaomslf - M.% Gladstone Read)' for Et efcencie*. London, March 19.—’ qtd Rosebery a definition of his attitude .towards the question of Irish home rule, aspiren in his speech at Edinb vrgh Saturday, certainly ought to be ullieient to d ifeat the purposes of he malignat t misrepresentations of the premier s remarks in the house o lords. No repudiation of the mean ngs which tl e unionists newspapers : are succeeded in attaching to Lord B asebery’s utte> ances has been deemed necessary vo ministerial circles, excepting with a view of dissipating the uneasiness in the ranks of the^Irish parliamentary party which misinterpretation and misrepresentation hare created. THE LEADERS WANT TO KMOW. Justin McCarthy, Thomas Sextcn and Timothy Iiealy had an extended interview on the subject with Mr. John Morley, chief secretary for Ireland, on Thursday and obtained fro n him once more a precise statement of the home rule policy which the Rosebery ministry intends to pursue. Mr. Morley informed: the Irisjh- deputation that the policy of the present government in regard to Ireland was the policy of Mr. Gladstone, which h« d not been altered and 4would not be altered. Horae rule, he; said, was in the forefront of the liberal programme, and there was no intention to deviace from the course which had long ago been marked out. Concerning the speech <j>f Lord Rosebery in the house of lords, Mr. Morley said the premier’s rather unhappy phrasesi-in the upper hbuse had afforded the unionists an opportunity for perverse interpretation: but Saturday night’s elucidation o£ the government’s policy and the premier’s views in Edinburgh should restore confidence in the sincerity of the government and its purpose to carry out the home-rule policy marked out by Mr. Gladstone. Irish home rule, the Irish secretary declared, had not been indefinitely postponed, as the unionists and tories had alleged. Even in tlhe event that the next general elections, be they fer or near, should give the 'liberal party a majority smaller than it has now, the home-rule bill will be reintroduced. THE NEW PREMIER AND MIL GLADSTONE. “The exact? terms of Lord Roseber\T’s statement of policy/’ continued Mr. Morley, “was agreed upon between the new premier and Mr. Gladstone, who desired that all adverse criticism and speculation as to the policy of the new liberal ministry should be foiled by an explicit declaration reaffirming the principles of the liberal party under the former leadership. Neither at the cabinet meeting, which was held* at the foreign office on the day of The re-opening of parliament, nor in the debates ip the house of lords, had Lord Rosebery had a full ’opportunity, to make a proper elucidation of his policy. The liberals throughout the country wanted an inspiring manifesto touching the whole range of^ party questions, and with a view of enabling the premier to pronounce such a manifesto the Edinburgh meeting had been especially arranged. ” ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY TO BOTII SIDES. The interview between the Irish secretary and the leaders of the Irish party was entirely satisfactory on both sides, and the Irish members withdrew with the conviction that the current reports as to the Irish programme of the new premier were founded upon nothing more tangible than on prejudice.

AX ELECTORAL ANOMALY. In the house of lords it is stated that the peers will insist upon a one-vote-one-value clause implying1 such equalization of representation jas wi^ll abolish the anomaly of Ireland having 130 representatives in the house of commons, while London, with a population about equal to that of Ireland, has only sixty-two members. The only chance of the registration bill passing the .house of lords therefore, lies in their acceptance of part of the provisions of the bill while rejecting the ope-man-one-vote pi-ovision, which is really the essence of the measure. The government certainly intends to prolong the session until Septemfber; but all sides recognize the difficulties that beset the ministry and are agreed that in a situation so difficult, an appeal to the country may come even earlier than July. the GEAXI) old max still “ix IT.” Mr. Gladstone’s season of rest at Brighton by no means implies that he has freed himself from the turmoil of politics. On the contrary he is very much interested in the political trial now going on before the country. He keeps up regular communication with the ministers, advising them in all matters submitted to him and has written to the liberal whips that he is in readiness at any time to respond to their summons to take part in any important division or debate should his presence in the house of commons become necessary. The conviction is growing in the inner ministerial circles that the Grand Old Man's retirement is not final. The general expectation is that he will make occasional reappearances in parliament pending the result of the operation which is to be performed upon his eye. A Desperado Shoots a 'Pursuing Officer and Commits Suicide. Nashville, Tenn., March 13.—A special .from Birmingham, Ala., says: This forenoon a negro named Charles Flemming, a city conviet, attempted to escape from the street gang. Street Commissioner Burkhalter overtook him on horseback and ordered him to surrender. The negro snatched the officer’s pistol from his. hand and fired one ball into Burkhalter, another into the horse and put a third through his own brain, dyipg instantly. Burkhalter’s wound is not iserious. The considered horse died. ■ <* - j

A BLOODY FIGHT Between tt Squad of New York Metropolitan Poltee and a Mob of Desperate Italian!—Several on Kotti Sides Seriously Injured, and Sixty of the Rioters Arrested— Police Billies and Italians Heads Broken. j New York, March 19.—A mob of Itr.lii.s- i&d a squad of police had a hand-to-hand fight just before dark last evening at the corner of First avenue and One Hundred^ind Thirteenth street Blood flowed freely and two of the policemen were .pretty well used up, while two of the Italians are in the hospital and many others have bandaged heads. Sixty prisoners were captured and are now locked up in the East One Hundred and Fourth-street station house. The cause of the trouble was the crap-sliooting of a lot of Italian boys who infest the greater part of the uptown “Little Italy.” The boys were especially troublesome yesterday afternoon and citizens complained to the • police about disorder they created there. Sergeant Norton then detailed Policemen Moffet, Johnson and Garvey to go out in civilian dress and arrest the offenders. The men made their way to East One Hundred and Thirteenth street and^First avenue and proceeded to arrest two youngsters. As the men were not in uniform their purpose in being on the block was not suspected until they laid hands on the boys. The moment they did so, however, the Italians who were loitering about saw there was trouble in store for the boys and Vincenzo Bianco, a big Italian, made a set for Moffet and knocked him down. In an insthnt Biano was joined by others who jumped on Harvey and' Johnson. The policemen fought hard and were repeatedly felled with stones and bricks. They were fighting, however, against everincreasing odds, and were forced to retire and hurry back to the stationhouse for assistance. In the meantime the boys they had arrested escaped. At the stationhouse Sergt. Norton had been informed of the riot by a citizen, and he had just started out with a squad of reserves numbering twenty-four men as the wounded policemen returned from the fight. Moffet and Garvey were top badly used up to enter the conflict again, but Johnson, who had escaped with comparatively slight injuries, returned with the reserves to help identify the rioters. The squad did a double-quick over to First avenue, and then took cars to One Hundred and Thirteenth street. There the mob was waiting for them, and a free fight began. Several pi>tol shots were fired by the rioters, and bricks and stones and clubs' were brought into play. The police did not spare their efforts in telling blows with their short sticks, and the rioters fell to the pavement thick and fast , Meantime, the most intense excite ment prevailed in the entire neighborhood. The windows in the tenement houses on either side of the street were filled with women, who urged on the men with their cries. But the police succeeded is getting the best of the fight after a few minutes arid arrested forty persons, whom they took to the station house. Then they went back to the scene and took twenty more, making a total of sixty in all.

v» nen searcneu ten partly ioauea revolvers were found upon the prisoners and nearly twice as many "knives. Several of tile Italians required the services of an ambulance sprgeon, and two, Nicola Banco and Frank Comancho, were sent to the Harlem hospital. Moffet and Garvey, the' policemen were so badly hurt that they were granted sick leave. Several of the prisoners were found concealed in saloons, whose* proprietors were arrested. In the conliiet many of the ‘ ‘billies” which the police carried were broken. - A TEXAS TORNADO Detroys Much Property and Causey the Loss of Many Lives. Longview, Tex., March 18.—A terrible cyclone struck this place after midnight yesterday morning, causing* great damage to property and loss of life. Six persons Eire known to have been killed and dozens are seriously wounded, several of whom wilt die. The storm was accompanied by rain and hail. Hailstones weighing from fifteen to eighteen ounces fell with such force as to destroy buildings, trees and shrubbery. In many places they were found buried five inches in the ground. Among the houses destroyed are; those of C. E. Thornton, G. A. Miller, John Gamble, Henry Lester, John Buffet and Andrew Davis. The body of Lester was found in the ruins of his home yesterday, and his son Arthur, aged 6 years, received injuries that will prove fatal. Willie Lester, another child, received severe injuries, but will probably recover. A colored woman named Lorella Jones was killed in Buffet’s house, but aU the members of the family escaped with severe injuries. Reports from Emory, the county seat 6f Rains counter, are to the effect that six people were killed outright and oVer fifty wounded. Among the dead are Miss Esther Alexander, Henry Brass, George Walker and a 4-year-old Son of Henry Murray. Three bodies were found north of Emory which have not yet been identified, > * ^ Paris Artists With a Grievance—Where Ares Their Pictures? Haris, March 18.—The Figaro prints a letter signed by several artists who exhibited pictures at the Chicago fair. They complain that their pictures have not been returned, and express anxiety as to their safety, as in case ot fire no indemnity could be obtained. They hint that certain French officials, whose expenses are paid throughout their sojourn in the United States, are prolonging their stay for the sake of the profits. The artists say that some of these officials are traveling tha whole length and breadth of America.