Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 March 1898 — Page 2

?hf pkt (Eountg flrmorrat «L McC. STOOPS, Editor »«d Pioprlotor. * !*ETKRSRTTRG. • - INPTAHAi Gem. W. 8. Rosecraxs died, on the 11th, st his home, near Redondo, CaL The old warrior's death was peaceful in the extreme. The president, on the 8th, sent to the senate the nomination of Wm. J. Calhoun, of Illinois, to be an interstate commerce commissioner. The Iowa house, on the 11th, adopted a resolution favoring freedom for Cuba. No word of opposition was offered to the resolution, and applause followed its adoption by a unanimous vote. It was officially announced, on the 9th, that the Dominion government would at once supplant the mounted police in the Yukon territory with a portion of the permanent military fore* of cthe Dominion. A dispatch from Pekin says Russi? has definitely leased Port Arthur and Ta Lien Wan for 99 years. It is added that Russia has determined to extend the Siberian railroad to Port Arthur whether China consents or not. Ajchwebinq a question in the house of commons, on the 9th, on the subject, Mr. Curzon, parliamentary secretary of the foreign office, said Russia had not sent an ultimatum to* China with reference to Port Arthur anil Ta-Lien-Wun. Ox the 11th, Gen. Brooke, commanding the department of the Missouri, or-' ’ dered a court-martial in the ease of Capt. Charles T. Withered, stationed at Fort Wayne, Detroit. Mich., charged with duplicating part of his company's pay rolls. Mr Thomas W. Criddleu. the special commissioner of the United States to the Paris exposition of poo and j third assistant secretary of state, re- ' quests the press to deny the report that he has been commissioned to purchase war ships.. The senate committee on immigration, on the 11th, reported adversely on the nomination of lion. T. V. Powderly to Ik* commissioner of immigration. ! Mr. Chandler,of New Hampshire united J with the democratic senators to secure an adverse report.

11 wo.-uex. John v>. >vh*son, chief oi engineers, U. S. A., arrive l at Kt*y West. Kla.. on the btli. from Tampa, on board the Olivette. It was presumed that the oh jot of den. Wilson in visit* ing that part of the country was to inspect the fortifications. M a yoh II akhisov of Chicago, on iht f>th, issued a call for a meeting to take action on the movement to erect a | foonmnent to the men who lost their lives in the explosion of the battleship Maine, and appointed a large committee to take charge of the matter. Thk senate committee on military affairs. onthe loth.decided to recommend the passage of the bill authorizing the revival of the grade of lieutenantgeneral of the army. The bill authorizes the president to nominate any oflijocr to this grade. ‘The bill is in the _ interest of tien. Miles. Twenty miles of railroad tracks in Chicago will be elevated this summer. : The cost of the work will be in the j neighborhood of $*,000,000, and the , work will give employment to iJj.OOC j, men. lty the elevation of these tracks J some of the most dangerous grade ! crossings in the city will be done away with. The strike at the Whittenton cotton mills, in Taunton. Mass., was practically ended. on the Utb-, when a delegation of loom fixers waited upon Supt, Lpvering and informed him that the! operatives .were ready to return' to j work at the reduced rate of wages. ] About 1,000 pe.-sons were alTectod by the movement.

On the Uth the president signed the | bill appropriating to be paid to the book agents of the Methodist Kpis- | copal Church, South, as full oompensa- | lion for the property of that corporation. used, token away, injured, con- j sained or destroyed by the t'uited States or its army at Nashville, Teuu., during the war. Tuk appearance at the White House, on the 8th. of Sir Julian 1’auncefote, tlie llritish ambassador, gave rise to the report that be had goue to tehder j to the president the good offices of Ureat llritain and to mediate between the United States and Spain. As a matter of fact, the ambassador's visit j was for no such purpose. * " : • A msr atch from Pekin, on the 9th said: “A state of anarchy prevails on the island of Hainan. Hands of outlaws, said to number 6,0*0 men, have raided 11 military camps and 2? vil- j luges, murderin'; and looting in their course. It is impossible to . describe the triumphant march of murder and lust through peaceful pastoral towus surrounding the eity of Kio-Chow.*’ 1 Special dispatches from llombay on the 9th, announced that a riot had broken out among the low caste llin- | (loos and Mohammedans against the Europeans, having its origin in an attack upon the plague search party, i Two soldiers, as these dispatches w ere sent, had already been kiiled, and the police had tired on the mob, killing air persons and wounding many others. A special from Washington, on the 10th. said: “The United States government has virtually taken possession of Hie American line of steamers consisting of the St Louis, St Paul, the l*arjs and the New York. A federal natal officer will be put in command, practically, of each of the big vessels as they arrive and anil from these jduires ” ♦

CURRENT TOPICS. THE NEWS IN BRIEF. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. In the senate, on theTth, the entire day’s session was devoted to consideration of the district of Columbia appropriation bill without final action being reached.In the house the Hawley bill, providing for two additional regiments of artillery, was passed under suspension of the rules,'with but three dissenting votes. Messrs. Cox (dem., Tenn.) Jones (dem;, Va.) and Todd (fusion. Mich.) A bill appropriating 160,010,000 for the national defense was introduced by Mr. Cannon. District of Columbia business was then taken up, but, owing to* filibustering, nothing was accomplished. * ■ ! Js the senate, on the 8th, much time was spent in further consideration of the District of Columbia appropriation bill, which, with an amendment reducing to about one-half the present rates of telephone charges, was passed. The bill appropriating 8-88,000 for the relief of the Methodist Episcopal church (south) of Tennessee w as passed. The bill appropriating |j0,000.0j0 for national defense, was received from the house and referred to the commlttee on appropriations.In the house.in the presence of crowded galleries, after four hours of patriotic and eloquent speechmaking by 59 different members, the bill placing t5O.nw,0U0 at the disposal of President McKinley to be used according to his judgment in view of the threatening attitude of Spain, was passed: Ayes. 311. nays, 0, fairs were disregarded, for the first time-in the history of the house, to allow every member to go on record in favor of the measure. IN the senate, on the .9th, without one word i of debate and by unanimous vole the bill appropriating Io0.00u.000 for the n dionai defense I was passed. Party lines were swept aside and j all pairs were broken. Twelve minutes after j t^ie bill was reported to the senate the vice-i president announced its unanimous passage. 1 .In the house the session was devoted to ! routine business. Tba executive, legislative and judicial appropriation bill went through ] its last stages la the adoption of the final con- j fereace report, und tiie remainder of the day i was consumed in the consideration of the sen- > ate amen intents to the Indian appropriation I bill. ' •

Is the senate', oa tin 10th. no business of real importance was transacted during the!o;vn 1 session, which lasted only an hour, the time be n*' largely consume t in disposing of routine business. A few hills of mmor importance, however. were passe 1..-—In the house, after a debate which lasted more than live hours, the senate amendment to the Indian appropriation bill providing for the free entry of ced'd Indian lands, was non-concurred in by a vote of i-# to 13ft. The senate amendment far the ! ratification of the Jsc-minoie treaty was also non-o .. urre in. Th* Senate was not in.session on the tlth — In the hou>e the bill to pay the Bowman claims, aggregating #1.8 Hl.OlM. for stores and ' supplies furnistied the Union army during the : war, was under discussion all day, progress being greatly retarded, by dilatory tactics. An evening se-sion was held,.which was devoted to pension legislation, after which the house adjourned to the 14th. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. A semi-official note, issued in Madrid, on the 8th. declared that' the Spanish government had not received any complaint regarding the attitude of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, the United States consul geiferal at Havana. Twenty thousand persons, on the 8U1, attended the funeral of Signor Cavaliotti, the poet aqd dramatist and well-known radical member of the Italian chamber of deputies, who was killed in a duel with swords, on the Gth, by Deputy Maeola, editor of the Gazetta di Venezia. Catt. G. F. IIami.in. general manager of the Ditmar powder works, of New York, says that in November, 1897, Weyler's hgents purchased from him 8,000 pounds of dynamite and 150 miles of rubber-covered, insulated copper wire, which was shipped on the steamer Ciudad UondalA dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., on the 9th, said: “Gen. \Y. S. liosecrails' physician reports that at 1- o'clock he was slowly and peacefully passing away. He is conscious and suffers no paiu. His splendid vital force may keep h.ui alive several hours, possibiy until another day.”

A Havana, ms pat on or uie sm said that Capt. Gen. Blanco would see that the Montgomery was moored at the buoy held by the Fern, or that held by the Spanish cruiser AlfonzotXIL If stationed at,the latter buoy, i£ will be interpreted as a sign of Gen. Bianco's determination that no suspicion shall rest upon the Spanish officials in the case of tire Montgomery. Advices from the orient by the steamship Empress of India tell of the almost complete destruction of Manila. Philippine islands, by tire. Five million dollors' worth of property was destroyed. Tuk European situation is regarded as more serious than that between the United States and Spain. Kussia and France will test England’s {declaration that she would prefer war rather than the dismemberment of China. Tuk directors of the New York Central railroad, on the 9th. deoiared the regular quarterly dividend of one per cent. V, The Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, on the 9th, cut the rates from Minneapolis, Minn., to Seattle to $10, to meet the boo’s slash. The statement of-»*f?Ie\.*ondition of the treasury, issued on thebth, showed: Available cash balance. $121,541,637; gold reserve, Sl6S.tiJd.179. The 850,000,tXK) national defense bill passed the senate, , on the 9th, by a unanimous vote, and was promptly signed by the president. The London Daily Chronicle editorially describes President McKinley's notion throughout the pending crisis aa “a model of statesmanship." It declares that the action of 4he Washington government in oonnection with the Maine disaster deserves the highest raoognition.

JamemMcMcllev, M. P.. has give* notice o&bill in the Dominion parliament, ?wnich provides that only British subjects can hold mining properties in Canada, and they must have been resident in Canada at least 12 months prior to the recording oi their claims. Pittsburgh (Pa.) school children are to pioneer a monument movement for the sailors of the Maine wlio are buried in Havana. It is proposed to have every child in the public schools of the country contribute one penny for this purpose. Spain has temporarily forgotten her other troubles in the altogether national grief over the death of Frascuelo, the most celebrated of all the bullfighters of Spain. He was 65 years of age, and was covered from head to foot with scars. The information reached the navy department, on the 9th, just before the closing hour, that the board of inquiry on the loss of the Maine had completed the investigation and would at once prepare the report. The United States cruiser Montgomery steamed into Havana harbor, on the 9th, without any great demonstration being manifested. She wasj moored at the place near the Maine wreck which was formerly occupied by , the Fern. T The new French bourse law prohibits outside brokers from dealing in securities officially listed, increases the number of official brokers, who are divided into groups dealing with different securities, reduces brokerage charges and constitutes a committee of control for foreign securities. Sknor Sandoval, the Spanish military agent in Germany, Austria and Scandinavia, who returned to Berlin, on the 9th. from a trip, reported three additional purchases of coasting steamers at Fiurae and two at Polo. Tiik monitor Miantonomah- and the ram lvatahdiu were placed in commission, on the 10th, at League Island navy yard. Senator Chandler, on the 10th, introduced a biii providing for remission of duties on w ar materials that may be imported. . , The American yacht Anita, with a congressional party on board, arrived at Havana on the *19th.

i he suo-comiaici.ee oi me nouse committee on civil service reform, on the i 10th, decided to report adversely the Evans bill, taking a large number of places outside of the classified service. Tue damage suit of Jacob Schaefer, the billiard champion, against the North Chicago Street Railway Co., for injuries alleged to have been received in being thrown from a ear three years ago, was decided, on the 11th, in favor of the street ear company. Faiiures throughout the country as reported by Dun & Co., for the week ended on the 11th, were 21$, as compared with 226 for the corresponding week last year. For Canada the failures were 30. against 01 last year. The railroad transfer steamer S. D. Harlow, plying between Cairo, 111,, and bird’s Point, Mo., was burned to the water's edge, on the 11th, while lying j at the incline at bird’s Point; loss, $30,000. Tue secretary of the navy, on the 11th. appointed a court-martial for the trial of Civil Engineer Menocal on charges growing out of the bad work done on the New York dry dock. The new- Spanish minister, Senoi Polo de bernabe, was presented to the president on the 12tli. Fcktheb reinforcements of Spanish troops sailed from Santander for Cuba, on the lltu. , LATE NEWS ITEMS. Two freight trains collided near Midway. O., on the 13th. Both engines were badly damaged and eight ears were derailed. Engineer Van Seaid was slightly bruised and an unknown tramp was badly injured. A ear loaded with sheep was derailed and 100 of the sheep killed. The collision was ciiused j by one engineer forgetting the other train. The weekly statement of the New York associated banks for the week ended on the 12th showed the following changes': Surplus reserve, increase*.' $> .'70.025; loans, decrease, $10.30 - 5: specie, increase, $3,038,700; legal g tiers, decrease. $1,672,400. deposits, decrease. $10,228,200; circulation, decrease, i $20,000.

Denver, Col., is flooded with coun- , terfeit silver dollars. It is a remark- j "ably clever imitation of the genuine, j and it is estimated that there are fully L’.Ooo.UOO of them in circulation. The situation is so serious that the treasury has made it the subject of a communication to congress regarding the propriety of adopting a new device for the coin. The Grand Republic, the largest steamer on the Mississippi river, was burned tulhe water's edge, at its winter quarters, just below the mouth of the River Des IVres, a few miles below St. Louis, on the 13th. Captain aud Mrs. | Thorwegen and two children and I Mate Stephens-were on board and; narrowly escaped with their lives. The Bethlehem (l’a.) Iron Co. has re- j ceived orders to pash ail government work as yet unfinished on the 100 tea and twelve-inch guns and carriages, aud the force of skilled mechanics in !. 1 sic parturients is working night and i Lay. As official of the l/nited States em1 bassy in London said, on the 13th: **lt iis absolutely untrue that we have been mformed that Spain has raised SGU.&KJ,UUG for the purchase of war ships, etc., and has deposited that amount in a Loudon bank/’ Anukew SeiifiXEU, a financial broker, shot his wife and killed, himself in his office in San Francisco, on the 13th. Mrs. Schuller was taken to the receiving hospital. She will probably die. Schuller s death was instantaneous. Os the 1-th the associated banks of Xcw York city held 721,325 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-<x'ut. rule. Hamesteau Washblr-NK, republican member of the Chicago civil service commission, has tendered Ijis resigns*

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TURNERSVILLE PEOPLE Worked Up Over a Ghost That Practices on a Flute. Kendallviuue, Ind., March 7.—The people of Turnersville, this county, are greatly worked up over what is supposed to be a musical ghost. At about ten o’clock every evening, in the house formerly occupied by Andrew Stephens, lately deceased, music is heard, seemingly sacred hymns, played on a flute. They seem to be at some distance from the listener as though a wall intervened between the musician and the persons listening. The music is perfectly rendered till in the latter part of the hymn, when a false note is struck. It is tried over again, but at every repetition the same mistake occurs and the musician gives it up in disgust. Some of the foremost people of the vicinity have heard the strange performance. All are greatly puzzled. GOLD HUNTERS Will Go to Brown County, Indiana, Instead of the Klondike. Bloomington, lnd., March S.—Instead of going to Klondike this spring a party is now being organized to go to the adjoining county of Brown and prospect for gold. The party now being organized here to search for the precious metal is headed by an old miner named' Merker, who has had experience in California, British Columbia and Australia. Rev. C. Smith and iN B. Rogers are also interested. The father of the latter found gold in Brown county 40 years ago. It is proposed to organize a party of about six, put in a couple of sluices and work long enough to thoroughly test the problem whether gold can be had iu oaying quantities. KID McCOY Whip* JaniM Ulx('A\rrU. of Indianapolis, and Jack Tierney, of Terre Haute, With, out Lfitrlii; the Utn$. Indianatolis, Ind.. March 8.—Kid McCoy, in Tomlinson hall, before 3,000 people, whipped James Blackwell, of i thiseity. and Jack Tierney, of Terre i Haute, without leaving the ring. He I played with them from the start and ended both men with left hooks. From the ring he announced that on Wed- j nesday he would claim the championship of the world, as he has had $-*>.000 j>o»ted for six weeks for either Corbett or Fitzsimmons. lie will defend the title at least once every six months till defeated. There were several preliminary bouts to a finish.

l)isldc»ii>(l II.s* Xec't. Emiso\. Ind., March 5. -.Joseph Wit•enmever,.oldest sou of Albert Wittenmeyer, a prominent democratic politician of this place, in an effort to get up from his bed threw his head in a backward position, dislocating his neck. His head was restored to its position by* pressure, which was followed by a severe chill and considerable swelling of the neck. At last accounts he was resting' easier, with chances for speedy recovery. Store and Stock Burred. l>KAZii.. Ind.. March 5.—Staunton was visited by a tire that destroyed the building and general merchandise stock of J. N. Yancleve, nothing being saved in the building except the books. The citizens of the town worked the" greater part of the night to prevent the .fire from spreading. Yaneieve's loss will reach £y,00J. The amount of insurance could not be ascertained. The origin of the tire is unknown. The Experiment Was n Failure. Kokomo, Ind.. March 7.—The experimental oil well drilled north . off this city is a failure. The drill went 15 feet in Trenton rock, with plenty of water, but no indication of oil. It is the Opinion of experts that there is no oil in Howard county. To make some use of it the company decided to sink the drill 100 feet further. Other companies were ready to drill, but have audoned the project.

Paroled Convict Made a Guard. Ji ffkksunVU.X.K, lad., March 5.— Henry Herns. who was serving a life sentence in the reformatory for a murder committed at Vincennes, and i whose sentence was commuted to 20 | years by tiov. Mount, he being later i paroled by the board of managers, has been appointed a guard at the institution in which he was for 20 years confined. ^ He is in charge of the machinery. Arm* in laitUaa. IXDiAjfArous Ind., March 8.—Sixty thousand Springfield rifles ace stored in the United States arsenal at this point, besides which the Indiana militia. numbering nearly 5,000 men. are armed with the same weapon. Spring field breech-loader, caliber 45. There j are also several cases of Kray-Jorgen-sen rifles, sighted for 1.S00 yards, besides some few pieces of artillery. Guv. Mourn S.rk. Indianapolis, Ind., March 5.^1 Jov. Mount is' coulined to his home by a severe attack of grip, and his physicians have enjoined upon him to remain away from the otfice and take absolute rest. He is hopeful of being able to keep his appointment with the | home mission committee of the Pres- J 1 jt -rian church in Sew York next i week. _ lie Lived Loo; Knon;b. Sew Albany. Ind.. March 0.—Eugene Anderson, a dairyman, took 20 grains of morphine Tuesday night with sui-i cidal intent. He is 53 years old and j has a wife and three children. So ■ cause is assigned for the rash aet. but ] he refuses to take an emetic, declaring ; that he has lived long enough. He i will die. ___ Maj. Finney a Candidate. j Richmond, Ind., March ".—The name | of May. R. P. Finney, of New Albany, will be presented to the May state encampment of the srrand army for commander.

IN THE NICK OF TIME. An All-Night Ride Was Necessary to Keep a Saloon Out of Laketon. * Wabash, Ind., March 5. —Samuel Floor, of Laketon, is an applicant for license to sell liquor in thalt place. The town has no saloon, and the temperance people resolved to keep one out. A remonstrance signed by 313 of the 540 voters in the township was ready for filing, and some friends of Floor, it is said, threw the remonstrance into the stove when it was presented to them at their request to sign. It was then thought too late to get out another remonstrance. The temperance people were desperate. Couriers were summoned and a night canvass of the township was made, and the new remonstrance with more signatures than the old was filed just in the nick of time, and the commissioners next week will refuse Floor a license. BADLY BURNED. Express Car Catches Fire and the SXeaxen gcr Has a Narrow Escape. Valparaiso, lnd., March 7. —Sunday morning near Wheeler.’ west of this city, the express car on the fast paper train on the Pennsylvania road, was discovered on fire. The train was stopped at Wheeler and the car switched Onto a side track. John Williams, the express messenger, was found lying in the ear near the door nearly suffocated. lie was badly burned about the head and hands, but will recover. Williams fell asleep shortly after leaving Chicago, and was awakened bv the crackling of the flamjes near Clark Station, but was unable to signal the engineer owing to the bell cord burning. The contents of the car were destroyed, the crew being unable to save anything. WILLIAM KILO, Accused of Abusing llis Parents, Hadly Beaten by Whitt caps. j Tipton, lnd.. March 7.— About 11 o’clock Saturday night a band of mpn took William Kilo, of Prairie towthship. this county, from his father's koine, dragged him a short distance away, tied him to a tree and gave him a terrible lashing. One of the ribs bn his left side was broken, his back badly laeprated and eyes swollen almost shut. Young Kilo is accused of getting drunk and abusing his parents. Kilo recognized three of his assaiianits, and arrests will follow.

Central Township Schools. RrsnvM.ii;, lnd., March 9.—Schoo. officials, teachers and o.her, interested in education iu this county are engaged in a warm discussion of the proposed plan to unite the district schools of the several townships into one central township school' and haul the pupils of this central school in hacks. The discussion * ha- been intensified since it is known that the state superintendent of public instruction favors the proposed arrangement and will introduce a measure in the next legislature to make it legal. llouutl to Get Gits. MosTrEUEH. In l., March 9. — A good How of oil has been encountered in the King gas well whjioh is being drilled cast of this place, in the vicinity of Red key, by the Ohio & Indiana Gas Co. The well is located on the James Phillips farm. It is about 1,450 feet deep at the last report Saturday, but will be drilled Jto the depth of 4.000 feet. The company is drilling to tind the second flow of gas. The present prospect does not justify pumping for ioil Gen. Wejrler Kurued in Effigy. New Albany, lnd.,'March 9.—The citizens of Galena, this county, held a mass meeting and publicly expressed their indignation regarding the battleship Maine disaster. Gen. Weylerivas burned in efiigy, and patriotic speeches were made by leading citizens, urging the young men of the country to take up arms in defense of the country in the event that war is declared wit! Spain.

Accidentally Kilts Himself. Wabash, Ind., March 7.—Sunday afternoon a singular accident, causing the death of Rex English, 17 yearb of age, occurred at the home of his father, six miles south. While adjusting a rope around a joist in the kitchen, the rope was carelessly twined around his neck and as he Jell from a chair on which he stood his neck was dislocated. When found by his father he was bariy alive, dying in a few minutes. Itratli of A. M. Stun son. Ixdiaxapous. Ind., March9.—Aj M. Stimsou, purchasing a^ent of lh*v Big Four railroad, r. brother-in-law of M. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four, died at Lafayette Tuesday of Bright’s disease._ Charged U ith Kobbing Freight Car*. Ke.vdai.LVII.I.K. ImL. March 9.—Jas. Ferguson. Henry Mack and Charles Hendrix, hailing from Cincinnati,, are under arrest at Albion charged with robbing freight cars near this city, / Uiudow Strike. EaTOX, Ind., March 9.—A strike is on at the Banrs window glass factory, caused bv a flattencr being discharged. More than one hundred men are affected. ._ Girls Kitten by a Doj. Vixcr.NN es, Ind.. March 9.—Twc small children, Bertha Coaa and May Frey, were Wtten by a dog, supposed to be ma»l. A madstone was secured and applied, which gave prompt relief. The dog was killed, but not until it had bitten several other dogs and horses.__! ' Drop of • On tin 0.1. Habtfobd Citv, Ind., March 9.—An unexpected drop occurred in the oil market Tuesday. Indiana and North and South Lima dropped one cent, and the eastern product two cents. Westr era oil is now quoted at 54 cents.

A FEARFUL HOLOCAUST; Eleven Persons Burned to Death., in the Bowery Mission. Cause of the Fire Unknown—The. Saved, Many of Them Nude and Badly Burned. Cared for by Willing Hands. New York, March 14. —The Bowery Mission lodging house, US Bowery, was destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning, and at least 11 lives were lost. The property loss is. $15,000. There were 150 lodgers in the building when the fire started and sorapidly did the flames spread that many of them were unable to escape. At 2:45 a. m. Chief Croker announced that the fire was under control and nolives lost. A search of the ruins, however, resulted in the discovery of 11 bodies, and it is believed that several unore are still in the debris. The eause of the fire is unknown. Number 105 Bowery is one of the best known lodging houses on %hat thoroughfare. It is called the Bowery Mission lodging house, and is conducted by the Christian Herald. In the basement of the building there is a cheap restaurant, while the ground floor is used exclusively for mission purposes, gospel services having been held there daily for several years. ^ The four upper floors were fitted up as a cheap lodging house, with accommodations for 150 males, who paid 15, 20 or 25 cents each according to the location of the rooms. . ‘ Saturday night almost every bed was occupied. At .1:30 o'clock yesterday morning one of the lodgers discovered flames coming from a washroom on the third floor, but before he hail .time to alarm the house, the,fire was seen by passers-by. l»y this time the flames, had eaten their way to the top of the building, and were bursting through the roof. When the alarm was given and the inmates aroused, a wild scene of excitement ufhsued. \Iaby of the lodgers became panic-stricken. They rushed into the hallways and tell overeach other in their efforts to reach the street. * '' ., ■ , Those on the lower floors got to the street safely by the stairways, while those on the upper floors groped their way through the blinding smoke to the metal tire escape iu the front of the building.

i nose wuo maae tneir way to tne street by the fire escapes were superficially burned by the excessive heat of the iron ladders, which in many places had become red hot from the ilames. within. In the meantime three alarms of fire had been sent in and in a few minutes the firemen were 1)1183’ deluging the building with torrents of'water. They finally succeeded in keeping the fire within the limits of the three upper* stories of the structure. A large detail of police: were quickly summoned to the scene in charge of Inspector Cross and the ^serves were called from the down-town precincts. This force of officers had difficult work to keep the vast crowd in check as well as to help the unfortunate lodgers. ^ Many naked and injured were eared for by people in the vicinity, aud about 50 of them were accommodated at the Eldridge poliee station some three blocks a wav. Several of the most destitute were brought to the station house iu patrol wagons, and on their arrival they were partially clothed by members of the force aud kind-hearted neighbors. After the fire had been extinguished suffieientiv' that a search of the place was possible, the police and firemen entered the building and the work of searching f" .* the victims was begun. Several bodies were found near the windows on the two -upper floors, where they had been stricken down While attempting to make their way to the fire escapes. So many bodies were found iu the early stages of the search that some estimated that over 40 persons must., have been killed. However, the officers fortunately overestimated the loss of life, and 11 bodies:in all were found. Some of these were, discovered in the small rooms they had occupied, while other.) were under the hall ways and on the stairs of the fourth and fifth floors. All of them were naked, and most, of them were burned and Arharred be vond recognition. • ■

It is thought by the police that only one of these bodies will Ik.' eventually identified. This one is designated as No. 10. It was found in a room on the fifth floor. In the same room there was a ftatchei.and it is thought ^hat its contents may lead to the identification of the hotly. As soon as the bodies were carried tothe street they were transferred tp the police station, and by half-past four o'clock in the morning the police relinquished their search. Coroner Zucea. after looking at the bodies at the station, gave a permit for their removal to the hospitals* Mauager Sardonken, of the Christian Herald who has direct charge of the mission and the lodging house, called at the Eldridge station later and told the officer in eharge that he would bury the dead. The loss on the building by fire is estimated at ST.OtK) and the contents are damaged to the extent of §5.000., Loss entirely covered by insurance. The building, which belongs to the Chester estate, is leased by the Bowery mission. FOUND DEAD. Believed to Have Been Drugged. Murdered and Robbed. Joliet, 111.. March 14.—The body oi Thomas Walsh, of the large wholesale, grocery house of Walsh A .Sons, was found in a diteh near this city. Marks on the head indicated that the man had. been murdered and it is believed by hi* relatives that robbery was the motive, for the crime. The police believe that Mr. Walsh was drugged, carried to the lonesome spot where his body was found and. murdered. No arrests have been mad*..