Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 January 1891 — Page 2

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THE INDIANA STATE SEN'TINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 7, 1831 T WE LYE PAGES

THE FIFTH AVENUE GONE

On tho Anniversary of Its Previous Fire. 'An Historic Theater Burns to the Ground Six Firemen Lose Their Lives in the Flames. Hermann's Play House Also a Mass of Ruins. The Firemen Have Some Very Narrow Escapes. Fanny Davenport Had a Presentiment of in Luck. Fully a naif Million Damage Done Already. New York, Jan. 2. Eighteen years ago today, the Fifth-ave. theater, then in the rear of the Fifth-ave. hotel on tbeTwenty-fourth-st. Bide disappeared in flame and smoke. Within a short time after Augustine Paly had old Appolo hall, where the famous rommittee of seventy had ita birth, changed into a play-house. Fifteen minutes or so tonight after Fanny Davenport, in the character of CUopatra, had trod the hoards of the Fifth-ave. theater, and the audience had pissed outof the Broadway andTwenty-eudith-st. entrances, a watchman ran out of the theater screaming "fire." A few second later tire engines were dashing up Broadway, and until nearly 1 o'clock this morning new detachments were Ptill responding to additional signals for help. What was at first believed to be a false alarm proved to he one that destroyed a whole block upon Broadway, besides the Fifth-ave theater, Herrmann's new play house, a dozen stores, and threatened the Sturtevant house, on the east fide of Eroadway between Twenth-eighth and Twenty-ninth-sta. Up to this writing, while the fir is yet raging, no lives are known to have been lost. There were a dozen or more narrow escaoos and at one time it was thought that three firemen, who were caught upon the roof top, would perish. For two of these brave fellows it was very lucky that a line of hose ran from the roof to the street. The daring ''laddies'' took advantage of this act, and when th.'ir comrad ;s on the street pave them upas lost they slid down to the street, But the other, a reckless port of an individual, scorned, it seemed, to escape that way. He stood his ground, and was soon lost Bight of in the smoke. Ladders were hastily raised, but the searchers failed to find McGinnis that was his name, it was eaid but to the surprise of his comrades, half an hour or so later, the bravo nan made his reappearance on the street. He had crawled along the roof until he reached a hatchway, through which he made his escape. The fire had been burning less than half an hour before the flames shot through the roof, causing the wildest consternation among the guests of the Browes house, on the northeast corner, and the Sturtevant house. The shower of sparks which covered the pavement of Eroadway also set fire to the awnings of the latter. To add to the confusion there were 6is explosions in the Fifth-ave. theater, which blew burning ratters sky-high, and these set fire to- the roofs of the buildines'surrounding the burning theaters. While the firemen were powerless to do anything toward Bavin? the play house?, they worked nobly in preventing the destruction of houses in the vicinity of the immense blaze. All the propert)' burned belongs to the Gilsey estate and the total damage to the building and its contents i$ roughly estimated at $ 01,000. Manager Harry Miner wan early on the scene, as was a'so Professor Herrmann. "While the former saved nothing from the wreck, the professor and his wife worked like beavers. Mrs. Herm ann saved her four pet doves, but her husband sorrowfully said that his favorite trick apparatus worth $20,000 was lost to him forever. The occupants of the stores on the west side of Broadway from Twenty eight to Twentv-ninth streets, which numbers from 113) to 1203, were as follows: No. 115, J. J. Slater, shoes; No. 1187 was the wide entrance to tho Fifth ave. theater; No. 118'J was occupied by the Cash register company; No. 11IU, J. B. Crooie & Co., sorting goods; No. 119:), L. Spero, tailor; No. 1,19, entrance to Herrmann's theater ; No. 1.197, A.D.Kirch florist: No. 1199, J. B. White, jeweler; No. 1201 Wiseman, florist, and No. 120.", Ilannan &. Son, shoes. The goods in all these stores are badly damaged by water and should the walls topple in the salvage will be yery small. Thy are shaky at present, and the firemen, aware of their condition, for safety's sake are working from the opposite side of Broadway and W. Twenty-eighth-st., and the roofs of the houses to the westward. The first of the series of explosions.which are thought to have been caused by the bursting of gas tanks, came very near bci a serious a"air, for a dozen or more firemen under the leadership of Battalion Chief McCabe, were at that moment working in the auditorium of the Fifth-ave. theater. They were almost blown into the street with several reporters. At intervals of every few minutes explosion followed explosion. The firemen did Dot know what was coming next, and they were, for the firt time in the history of the department, more or less frightened. But they soon rallied. Ladders were raised and the water towers and several nozzles with "Siamese four ways" were doiug their best to stay the spread of the fierce flames. The Btirl breeze which was blowing from the Northward trot in its fine work and there was no stopping the fire. It had simply to burn itaell out, and to the chagrin of the fire department, Herrmann's new theater, which has recently been rebuilt at considerable expense, was found

to be aBre, after the fourth explosion. In this building years ago the San Francisco minstrels Birch, Wambold & Baccus kept many an audience in roars of laughter. And the place on the northwest corner of Twenty-eighth-pt. and Broadway is well known to the gamblers of twenty years go. In the basement Johnson kept his pool-room, and it was there John J. Scannel murdered Totn Donohue. The Fifth ave. theater, or old Apollo ball, famous for politics and plays since it was remoodeled by Mr. Daly and at the time of its destruction was being managed by Ilawy Miner. On Dec. 2:), last, Fanny Davenport made her first appearance in Sardou'a play of "Cleopatra," about the title of which there is some dispute and legal troubles. The actress has been greeted by large audiences and it was expected "Cleopatra" would have a long run. But in half an hour's time the scenery, costumes and buildings worth probably $750,000 vanished iu the fire and smoke. Later. Fanny Davenport's loss is about $50,000. At 2:15 o'clock the fire in the Sturtevant house is reported to be under control. It was very lucky indeed that the fir did not break out during the performances for it is claimed that the play houses were well patronized. And it seems odd, too, lhat in so short space of time the fire could have pained such headway with a watchman inside the building. This is the mystery which Fire Marshal Mitchell wilt be called upon to solve. And what caused the explosions is another puzzling question for the same official. Then again it was said these men, when they first arrived, undertook to fight what was apparently a dangerous fire with too small a force. Only two steamers and a truck answered when the first signal was rung from box 419 on the corner of Tw nty-eighth-st. and Broadway. Then there was a gap of five minutes before the second alarm was runs. It brought five engines and after that the gongs were kept busy. All the guests in the Sturtevant were aroused when it became apparent that the great caravansary was in danger. They packed tip their effects and it was necessary at a moment's notice. Several of the nervous guests went to oth r hotels but the n ajority remained to w itness the great fire. The roof of the hotel was on fire perhaps a dozen or more times and the awnings in the front of the stores were all burned off. Still at 3 o'clock the damage to tho hotel was not over $ V00. There were some lively scenes in the f'rower house, but there was no panic. The front of the Fifth-ave. is of iron, and as the beams vanished it was feared it would fall out and crush Kvarrad's bath-house on the south side of Twenty-eighth-st. I"p to the timeof going to press the walls are standing and the fire was still burning. The Fifth-ave. theater was a complete wreck and Hermann's was not much better.

SUSPECTED A FIRE. ranny Davenport Hu.l a Suspicion of Had Luck. New York, Jan. 3. 4 a. m. During the performance in the theater lact night a sharp odor of smoke was noticeable and before Harry Miner left the theater he went all over it and made a personal investigation of the theatre, but without discovering anything. It was said that he had a strong presentment that something was going to happen and spoke to rome of the orchestra of the possibilities of fire in the theater. He appeared perfectly satisfied, though, when he left the theater and was the last man out. Tho MorWsays: "A curious confirmation of a stage superstition is worthy of note in this connection. When Miss Davenport saw t-e scenery of the second act, she cried out in dismay at seeing the wings on the symbol of 'O.-iris, the winged sun, on the drop, and declared she would not play under it. She was told that it was essential to the Egyptian character of the scene and persuaded to abandon her superstition. "Very well I wi 1 plav," shesaiJ "butbad luck will follow." " Ba 1 luck seems to have been foreto'd. First the s izur of her costumes by the customs house officials, and now their destruction w ith the theater by fire. COLONIZING NtGROES. A Great Jtiodaa Front t Sooth Into Okla. ttotnn. Topeka, Kas., Jan. 3. The Bev. B. T. Foster, colored, who wag a candidate for auditor of state on the people's party ticket, has come from Kansas City with twenty fami'ies of colored people from Kemper county, Mississippi, en route to Hennessey, Oklahoma. Tho families number about one hundred people. Mr. Foster says: "This is but the beginning of a tremendous exodus of colored people from the South. Thousands of them will leave the Southern states within the next sixty days. We look upon Oklahoma as our haven where political ostracism is unknown and w here every man can cast the ballot of his choice without fear from any source. Many of the colored people of Mississippi are refusing to enter into new labor con racts and those that have property are disposing of it." Mr. Foster gnid, further, that the opening of the Cheyenne, Arapahoe and Iowa Indian land, which is to occur in February, was afracting many of his peopie to tho territory. FOUR BURNED TO DEATH. TerrtbU Iteaalta of i Fire Hotel. la a Texaa Corsicaxa, Tex., Jan. 2. The Avenue hotel, a wooden structure near the Cotton Belt depot, burned last night. A woman, two men and a boy were burned to death. One man and the boy are unknown. The other man and the woman, from a letter found in a valise, are supposed to be Mr. and Mrs. McDanbd, from McGregor, Tex. The bodies are held by the city authorities for identification. Tho firemen made fruitless eflort to save the woman and the man and barely escaped themselves by leaping from a eeconu story window. Several ears of freight standing on a ride track of the Cotton lJelt railway were burned. The hotel was a total loss. Building fully insured. Losa $20,000. Making M ny Aojwhirt, Baring read" Mr. Morehead'ssxperiene plating with rold. silver and nick , I aent fur a plater, and hare more work than I oan do. It i inrpriaing the apoonn, casWs and jewelry that people want plated. Tha firt week I cleared 137.10, and in tlirea week t H'J.85. and my wife liai nid ahout aa I hare. Jtr ad J retain V. II. GriCiih & Co., Zaneivillr O., yon can get circulars. A plater onijr eoaia 3. You c id learn to use it in an hour. Can plate Urge or small articles, and cao make money anywhere, A. J. Jonsox,

LAST YEAR'S TliADE BIG

But the Failures More Than K.ept Pace. Dun's Agency Reviews the Situation. Prospects For the Coming Year Brighter. Banker Kean Offers Creditors a Compromise. The Chicago Hanker Hopeful Other KuslnesH New. New York, Jan. 211. G. Dun & Co'a weekly review of trade says: "The new ) ear opens with so much of uncertainty that there is a natural disposition to dwell upon the crowding records of the year just dosed which show an extraordinary volume of business in many lines surpassing all precedeut. Iron, cotton, leather, boot and shoo and meat production were larger than in anv previous year. Thus 2f-'li,312 cattle were slaughtered at Chicago against: 1,7im,."10 in 1S$9, a gain of 23 per ct nt ; and o,733,Xrj hogs against 4,211,7t7 in 18st, a gain of ?A per cent. At Boston 3,5.15,211 cases of boots and shoes were ehipped against 3,:J0U,0S0, a gain of 4 per cent. "The clearing house exchanges show that the volume of all business in lS'.K) exceeded that of any previous year by at least 10 per cent., though in part this increase was due to the higher range of prices during the greater part of the year. The advance in prices of all commodities compared with a year ago is 6.( per cent., and the average has been about 5.5 per cent, higher for eight months; but this unprecedented volume of business has not been altogether successful and the recorded failures have been in number and inamount of liabilities larger than in any previous year since 1SS4. Though in number only a trifle greater than in 18S9 the average of liabilities was $17,406 for the year against $1.1. GTS the vear before. Moreover the average of liabilities for the last quarter was greater than in any ether fourth quarter on record, namely $20,784 against S14JU7 in 1SS!. "The reports from other cities are almost uniformly confident in tone and indicate a good volume and fair condition of trade for the season, but are liable to be colored by the retrospect of a generally prosperous year. The South rejoices in great crops and wonderful manufacturing and for the moment notes less financial pressure, good holiday trade and bright hopes. St. Iouis has weather more favorable for distribution and money at 7 to 8 per cent. ; Kansas City notes a strong demand for monev and receipts of 14,000 cattle and .15,000 bog-, and St. Joseph reports a large increase in the year's trade and care iu credits resulting well. At Milwaukee and St. Paul unseasonable weather has affected trade for the week but very satisfactory reports are made for the past year and money is easier. At Chicago, though money is close, confidence rapidly revives, collections are easy and the p:tst vear's trade exceeds by uer cent, that of 1SS!) in general merchandise, dry goods and shoes, somewhat more in clothing, 20 per cent, in furniture, and 33 per cent, in some other lines, while the increase in products of factories is $25,000,000. At Cleveland, jobbers are surprised at the fullness of collections, but twenty-live iron furnaces in the Mahoning region are about to close. Pittsburg repot ts a decline of 25 cents in pi;j-ir'n, weaker finished products, and a reduction in i-rices of coke to furnaces from .2.15 to $1.05, though Shenango furnaces are also to close. The Eastern reports show easier money markets, and a more hopeful feeling. At Philadelphia the grocery season has been sat i-Lictorv, with good co lections. At Boston, conditions are deemed favorable. Wool is fairly active, with unsold stocks in the country reported at 27,000,000 pounds against 30,000,0i.0 a year ago, and n better prospect for woo en goods. Domestic hides are firm, and leather and boots and shoes are more active. "The iron industry does not improve as the closing of many furnaces indicates. Copier and tin open the new year lower. There is a better tone in the anthracite coal market. It is evident that prospects are thought brighter in the cotton and woolen industry tor the record shows that a number of new mills are being erected ; and while the great majority of domestic woolen goods are selling at as low prices as a year ago and some even a shade lower, the volume of salepjimproves and the market for dress goods and worsteds has been improved both in volume and to some extent in price. "The cotton market has advanced J cent with sales of 405,000 bales, although both receipts and exports for the week exceed those of a year ago. Other speculative markets have ben comparatively dull, t ut wheat has advanced J cent and oats li cents, with corn cent lower, coffee cent lower, oil A cent hither and lard 20 cents per 100 pounds higher. The closeness of money and the uncertainty as to the future have promoted a healthy inactivity in most kinds of speculation and the exports of wheat at the current prices begin to approach those of corresponding weeks iast year. "The stock market has been dull rather than weak, though prices closed mnch lelow those of a year ago, averaging for the sixty most active stocks $55.40 per share against $J4.f3 Jan. 2, 1800. The averatre rose to S if 1.03 J with the silver boom May 24 and fell to $.".3.01 on Nov. 15, the day the Barings' liquidation was announced. The most significant fact in this business is that r.:w issues of securities during the year after deductinar ad for the replacement of older securities have amounted to $230,174,810 bonds and$lS),t30,751 stocks, exceeding by ?14,(V()00 net issues for the previous year. The prospect for trafiic is aflected unfavorably by the shortness of crops which some roads begin to feel seriously but favorably by the better understanding between managers which promises more satisfactory rates. Toe monetary situation lias not changed during the week, though the treasury has put out $000 more than it has taken in. Exports at this port continue to exceed tho.-e of a year ago, swelling the excess of exporta over imports, and the rate of foreign exchange has again fallen to $4.83, indicating that gold imports may not be distant. "The businea failures occurring throughout the country during the patt feven days number 34S, an compared with a total of .133 last week. For the corresponding week of last year the figures were 322." Tho Trull nT thai H rpcnU Laranf Democrat. The trail of the serpent is over them all. Vn'e notice with regret that many democratic newspapers, published in democratic counties, aro painfully and suspi

ciously silent anent the fee and ealarr re- i form. The Democrat speaks for the kmo- J

crats ot one oi tno republican counties the one wherein the biggest democratic gain in Indiana was made last November, and we rise to ask the brethren who aro more fortunately situated if they think they can carry Indiana without us next year? The campaign of 1S00 was conducted with honest intentions by the democrats of LaU range countr. MU3T PAY THE PARSON. A Georgia Judge Ierlle Thut the Chareb, Must II Sold for Ih it Purp e. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 3. Chief Justice B eeckley, in deciding that the Antioch baptist church must be so!d to pay the ealary of the preacher, pays : "If any debt ought to be p iid it is one contracted for the h alth of souls, for pious ministrations and holy services. If any clacs of debtors ought to pay, as a matter of moral as well rs legal duty, the good people of a Christian church are that class. No church can have any higher obligation resting upon it than that of being just. The study of justice for more th:tn forty vears has impressed me with the supreme importance of this grand ami noble virtue. Sorn of the virtues are in the nature of moral luxuries, but this is an absolute necessity of social life. It is the Log and hominy, fho bacon and beans of morality, public and private. It is the exact virtue, be ng mathematical in its natur. Mercy, pily, charity, gratitude, generosity, magnaniinitv, etc., etc., are the liberal virtues. They flourish partly on voluntary concessions inide by the exact virtue, but they have no right to extort from it any unwilling concessions. They can only supplicate on peisonal. A man cannot give in charity, or pity, hospitality or magnanimity, the smallest part of what is necessary to enable hi:n to satisfy the demands of justice. The law grants exemptions of property to families, but none to corporations or co!lective bodies, lay or ecclesiastical. These must pay their legal debts if they can. All their property, legal and equitabl-, is subject. We think a court may well constrain this church to do justice. It is certainly an energetic measure to sell tbe church to pay the preacher, nor would it be allowable to do so if other means of satisfying the debts were w ithin reach." STOLE FOR THIRTEEN YEARS. A Respected Massachusetts Hanker Prores m Defaulter. Stock dkidge, Mass., Jan. 3. Charles Willis, for fifteen years treasurer of the Stockbridge saving bank, is a defaulter to the extent of $25,000 or more. The exact amount is not known, but defalcations amounting to $23,300 have been brought to light so far. The stealing has been carried on with regularity for thirteen years, small amounts being taken nt a tim". When a depositor paid in $500, for instance, it was properly en' e red on tiis book, but set down as $400, say, on the ba'ance record. As Willis was the only man regularly on duty in the bank he w s able to pay each retiring depositor in full and escaped detection. The discovery was due to the suspicion and investigation of Bank Examiner E. P. Chapin of Springfield, to whom Willis made a fud confession. The news was broken to the nineteen incorporators of the bank this morning and the whole town is upset, Willis being one of its most prominent and respected citizens. Willis will plead guilty and is now prostrated at his home. He gave bondf for $25,000 in 1885, and the loss will fall upon his bondsmen, Charles C. Callender and J. M. Van Deusen. INSANE AND A DEFAULTER. Lonnellr Very The Affairs of Il-rnrt 11 !! Ilsti Kansas City, Mo., Jan. 3. Guardian Hugh Lynch, appointed to take charge of Bernard Donnelly and his estate ujnjn Mr. Donnelly being declared insane, is being overrun by claims against the estate for sums both large and small, the aggregate already reaching $40,000. From present indications Mr. Lynch is of the opinion that the estate will pay only a very small per cent, of what is due from it and many persons will be great losers w ho can ill afford the loss, being personal friends of Mr. Donnelly who intrusted their money to him for investment. So far Mr. Lynch hs not found that these funds have ever been accounted for. The profits of the Troost estate, of which Mr. Donnelly was trustee, including the (lillis opera house, passed into the hands of Mr. Donnellv, and as yet Mr. Lynch has not been able to find what has becomeof them, lie is inclined to believe that noth ng can Ijm found. What hasbt come of the money which has passed into Mr. Donnelly's hands is a qu-stion Mr. Lynch U not prepared to answer. Donneby bus some property but all of it is incumbered to the fullest extent I'-nn i.ii Vt rout-. Sjencer Democrat. There are many soldiers who never got farther than Indianapolis who are drawing large pensions, while there are others who served through the entire war and endured its hardships, and they have not been able to get even a dollar in pensions, although their atilictious show them to be just ly entitled to it. CocrrlKht. 1890. A departure from ordinary methods has long been adopted by the makers of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. They know what it cm do and they fficarantce it. Your money i3 promptly returned, if it fails to benefit or cure in all diseases arising from torpid liver or impure blood. No better terms could be asked for. No better remedy can bo had. Nothing else that claims to be a blood-purifier is sold in this way because nothing clso is like the "G. M. D." So positively certain is it in its curative effects as to warrant its makers in Belling it, as they arc doing, through druggists, on trial! It's especially potent in curing Tetter, Salt-rhcuni, Eczema, EryBipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Soro Lyer, Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands, Tumors and Swellings. Great Eating Ulcers rapidly heal under its benign influence. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 003 Main Street. Buflalo, N. Y.

TN P NFWS OF THE WORLD 11 L flfclVd 1I1& 11 JLliU

ALL THE CONTINENTS REPRESENTED. Minor Occurrences of the Past Week Briefly rnrag-rapnvd For "The Weealy Bontlnel" Lok 8'iarp or Mist Hmmty Item. Hull dock laborers have again gone on strike. The Worcester (Mass.) steel works are insolvent. Judge John Mitchell died at Dcs Moines, aged sixty. Max Newman, jeweler, Boston, failed or $?.',m. Thirty coal mines on the Monongahela river are idle. The Scotch railroad strike is being rapidly broken. Manv miners were killed by an explosion in Westphalia. The American chemical society is meeting at Philadelphia. Theodore 1nvo, cigar manufacturer, New York, assigned. The business portion of Milton, Del., burned; loss $30,0ii0. (ir.tnito Hall opera house, Augusta, Me., burned; loss $0,003. The Fifth-ave. theater and block in New York burned. Stock are generally higher, so is livestock; g'ains are lower. The (Jem City stove works at Dayton, O., burned ; loss $35,000. Chicago bankers report returning confidence in bus: nets circles. W. C. Murray, merchant tailor of Toronto, has fled owing $40,000. In a railroad wreck at Harper's Ferry two engineers weie killed. The Siuth Bend building bill has been approved by the president, Serfe it Mitchell's flour mill, Freeport, Neb., burned ; loss S15.0J0. Forty miners probably lost their lives in an Austrian mine explosion. San Francisco felt two slight shocks of earthquake Friday morning. The loss by the New York fir was $5(57,000. No lives were lost. Samuel Kerns was killed by an electric light current at l'uiiadelphia. Caldwell & Niblack, general merchants, Tyler, Tex., failed for $30,000. Davis Bros., music, Savannah, Ga., assigned with $vSO,000 liabilities. Hawthorne & Finn, steam-fitting manufacturers, Ne York, assigned. John M. Beamer, lumber. New York, assigned with j70,000 liabilities. The Spanish cortes has dissolved. Flections wih be neid Feb. 1 and 15. An organized exodus of negroes has set in from the South to Oklahoma. Donald Simpson, grocer, Sarnia, Ont., assigned, with $80,000 liabilities. It is be'ieved fourteen more soldiers have been killed by the Indians. W. W. Hill, a smad d-ahr on the New York cotton exchange, has failed. Charles Herzig it Bro., stationers, Memphis, failed w ith $30,000 liabilities. There seems little hone of a settlement of the Alabama coal mining strike. The master carpenters and journeymen of Chicago are still unable to agree. Lisburg r & Isaac, dry goods, Danville, Va., assigned with $J 1, 000 liabilities. Deroeay Bros., brickmakers, Boston, Mass., owe $10,000 with small asset. Two patients in the St. Petersburg hospital died under the Koch treatment. Tho Marshall county court-house at Marysvide, Kas., burned ; loss $50,000. Manv houses were blown down in a gale at Abilene, Tex., but no lives were iosL Eight members of an low a family have died of dyphtheria and another is dying. At Chicago 2 K) claims for tobacco rebate were filed Saturday, aggregating $"0,lKX. Charles Willis, a banker of Stockbridge, Mass., has been stealing for thirteen years. Two men, a woman and a boy were burned to death in a hotel at Corsicana, Tex. The Kansas farmers' alliance will present sixteen important bibs to the legislature. Mrs. M. P. Kempster, a former leader of Wisconsin society, was arrested for" larceny. Lou Jon police have unearthed a baby farm where children were starved to death. Glaeblowers at the Nova Scotii glass works near Glasgow have gone out on a strike. Shore Brothers, dry goods, Wellington. Kas., assigned; liabilities, $30,000; assets, $10,000. Charles F. Metzger, manufacture of fancy boxes. New York, has failed for $50,000. Frank IL Miller, papermaker, Montgomery, N. Y., assigned with $S0,000 liabilities. The winter has been so open that Minnesota lumbermen have practically done nothing. Judge Stowe of Pittsburg decided that pumping oil on Sunday was a work of necessity. Five men were killed by the blowing up of the tow boat Annie Koberts at Portsmouth, O. London reports a heavy demand for money for approaching sett'ementa at 4 5 per cent. Armour, Swift and Morris deny that they are about to purchase the St. Louis stock yards. Beprescntative J. N. Terrill shot aud killed C. W. Fmbroe on tho streets ot Guthrie, Ok. There is general complaint in New York that the new treasury notes are printed on rctten paper. The Wyoming mining convention adjourned, after a highly profitable three days' session. Judgments have been entered against M. W. Dubois, a big cattle man of Elgin, 111., for $75,000. Over 10,000 head of cattle are in danger through the intense cold weather in the Cherokee strip. All eight bodies have been recovered from the shaft at Wilktebarre and all have been identified. A workman named Hogan was killed and several others injured by the fall of a wall at Chicago. A. K. Nones, an ice manufacturer was killed by the wreck of a freight train a Las Vegas, N. M. Republicans are making desperate efforts to get enough senators together to pass the force bib. Sylvester fc Shatton's general store, Ogdn, la,, burned; loss, $15,000. The jinn then assigned. Gleason & Co., general merchants of Horton, Kas., assigned. Liabilities, $38,000 ; asset:, $-'0,0.-0. Henry Iaman, a farmer of Lancaster, Pa., assigned, placing his asBets and liabilities each at $-0,000. s Mrs. George Redpath, of Marengo, III., was burned to death by her clothes catching fire from a stove. The California atliletic club will match Jim Corbett and Pete Jackson for $10,000 $8,5(0 to the wiuner. Vice-President Edan of tho Whitman A Bornes harvester company of Syracuse de

nies that his works will be shut down, and gays no grrat number of men will be discharged by thj trust. Charles Ban ford, the pioneer in introducing American hog products in England, died at Liverpool. The miners in the Broad Top and East Broad Top bituminous coal fields of Pennsylvania are on a strike. F. E. Dubcdot of V. E. Dubedot & Son, stock brokers of London, was ofliciallv adjudicated a bankrupt. S. A. Kean, thy Chicago banker, offers to pay 35 centa cash and 15 cents secured if legal proceedings are stopped. Colorado people have taken steps to prove that the government has no right to to refuse ttie free coinage of nilver. The men at the West End mines, Springfield, HI., are on a strike, an. 1 the operators threaten to shut down the mines. Thursday 1,50 miners in the Phillipsburg and Berich Creek districts of Pennsylvania will prob-ibly strike for an increase?. The Norwegian ship St man from Port Discovery for Melbourne was abandoned Dec. 15. Her crew wa.s taken to San Fran ciseo. The Trenton pottery manufacturers have ordered a reduction of 3i per cent, in wages, and a national strike may be ordcr?d. The long talked of divorce has been granted to Mme. Eyraud, wife of Michael Eyraud, the convicted murderer of O oil fie. The government press at Ottawa ursres the settlement of the Berhing sea dii'icivhy by the purchase of Alaska by the Dominion. Business and labor circle in South Chicago ae greatly alarmed at the prospect of a prolonged shut-down of the Lliuois steel works. IiCon L. Steven, president of the failed bank of Wi onsocket, S. I)., has bren arrested. Tiie liabilities are $20,0 0 and assets mail. Secy. Windom in a Chicngocaso decided that an alien could not he employed nominally as a sailor while performing an olileer's duties. The Northwestern traveling men's association at Chicago elected George J. Ib-ed president and N. J. Shinn vice-president for Indiana. The receipts of Egyptian cotton at Cairo to date amount to 2,700,000 cantars, against 2,200,000 cantars at the corresponding date last year. Those opposed to the present antibucket shop policy have put a ticket in the field for all officers of the board of trade except president. Tho Illinois Steel company claims it shut down its works nicely for repairs and to adjust a wage scale, which will be lower than that now paid.

The Truitt block, and stores of Frank Powers & Co., general dealers, John Shafer, groceries and S. L. Snow, hardware, at Noble, 111., burned. . St. IOUM butchers have f ally decided to erect a $100,000 abattoir and do their own killing, so that the Big Four's deal for the stock yards will not ali'ect them. The fight between those who favor and those who oppose the continuance of the war on the bucket shops is waxing very hot on the Chicago board of trade. M. W. Dubois, the cattle man of Elgin. 111., places his liabilities at $400,0(0, and assets at $1,300,000. He will prol ably effect a settlement with his creditors. Schedules in the assignment of the Colbruu Chauncey company, New York brokers, show liabilities, $201,147; nominal assets, $710,223, and actual assets, $10,000. Fire at Clarence, la., destroyed the stores of Hecht & Thorn, Hanna it Co., J. Ij. Escher it Co., and Bich irt's agricultural store. Loss $35,0 ) ), insurance $15.0 JO. Smallpox is raging along the Bio Grande in both Mexims, and a strict quarantine is being maintained. The Mexican government will use soldiers to compel vaccination. Advices from Uganda state that in a recent conflict on the irontier tho Chr stian forces defeated the Moslems and lhat peace has been established throughout the country. The selling price of billets for the ensuing three months was fixed at $27 per ton. Under the sliding scale adopted two years ago this will re iuce the wages of the 2.O10 employes of the Homestead mills over 10 per cent. The receiver's statement of the North Kiver bank of New York show: As-et, nominal, $2, 4.'3. 44 ; liabilities, $2,255,bo3; surplus assets, nominal, $1S1,2S1. Actual liabilities, $2,255,003; asets, $1,S35.103; deficiency, $420.5 V.). It appears that Page, Cary ct Co., of which ex-Congress n an I . IL Page is tho head, owes the bank half a million dollars. A FIENDISH DEED. Bine Vitriol Dahrl Into a Man'i Face hj a W in tn. Greexcastle, Ind., Dec. 31. Special. Never before in the history of Putnam county was there such a criminal assault as was perpetrated in this city this evening. Shortly before 7 o'clock as Theodore Kleinbub, a resident of the north part of the city.was returning home from his place of business, ho was met by a thickly veiled woman, who, thinking it was his brother, rushed upon him with a pitcher of some unknown acid. Mistaken m her victim, she suddenly disappeared in the darkm ss, and a few moments Jfer appeared at the business place of Kleinbub Bros. Mr. E. D. Kleinbub wrs busy at his chair when a small boy banded him a note which read, "Come to the door a moment." As he approached the door an unknown woman dashed a pitcher of blue vitriol into his face, lie is now in a most critical condition. It is faid that ho knows who perpetrated the deed. A DESPERATE VILLIAN. He Kaviahea, Robs aol Stabs aa Unprotected Winn in . Plymouth, Mich., Dec. 31. Miss Thursta Cummings of Canton, aged about fiftyeinht, and living alone on her farm, was aroused Monday night by a man knocking at her door aud" requesting Induing for the night. She r. fused to admit him and he broke down the door, criminaly assaulted her and cut her throat, but not fatally. He then p undered the bou.-e, r.fter which, finding her still alive, he stabbed her three times in the side with a bread knih-. Shy lay in her blood until this ev ning, when, with a great effort, tdie went to the door and called a neighbor, Ben Bolton, who summoned other neighbors and Dr. Adams. The doctor thinks there is no doubt of her recovery. The yil ain is a voung man, stout of build, and is still at liberty, with do clew to his w hereabouts. lloun Connlv Heard from. Libation P'on-er. The democrats of Boone county nro well nigh a unit in their expressions for a fair and equitable revision of fees and salaries for etate and outitv oHit-era. They feel that public officials should be well paid for their work and the responsibilities they assume, but the eonle shou d not be taxed to make officials rich in a few years' service. To the I'Aftne Con'. Go to California via the through lines f the Buriineion Ibute. from Chicago or t't. lui . .ml iHnA nrrr ilie na hroad i faille, through car line of the Denver aud Hio j Oramle or Colorado Mi.lland B.ilvrnys via ' IadTillc, Glenwood Springs anl Salt Lake through interesting citie and uafurpused ceuery. Diniug can all the way.

CHILDREN' BOBXED AT PLAY

AN ENGLISH CHUP.CH IS THE SCENE. Little Girlt Frightfully Hnrnd-FlTe Killed tr Tow-float Ciploiton-rnpr Crniated In a Tnai Hotel Two J la J Wreck. Iioxnox, Jsn. 2. Particulars received today from Wortley, near Leed--,show that a Urr.ble scene was witnessed at a school fete there New Year's day. The hchool fete referred to was a charity bazar held under the auspices of the parish of Wortley. The buil Hug ued forthef- te wab the church school adjoining the Wortley I episcopal church. Part of the program of the bazar's attraction was a scries of ilr-ifis rian!in which a number of the young girls and boys of the parish took part. For this display a sma 1 stage was erected in the hchool room, and to the tight of the stag.j and opening upon it was a room used as a dressing room ur green room by tho children. Inside this dressing room, just before the disaster, a crowd of joyous children w.is gathered, all the girls of the party being in lit, At gauzy attire and many of them covered in addition with cotton u-ed to repre-iit enow. In addition several of the children carried, dangling on j sticks above their heads, lighted Ciiin.'j i lanterns. Th-" ta'i'irta rimnt thn prerarmg was intended to symbolize the wnder fro ics of the "mummers' in davs gone by. .Suddenly shrieks cf terror i-ued from the little dressing-room and all were horror-stricken to see a number of children rush unuu the fit ge with their cost u mis on fire. The gentlemen promptly s.ezcd the burning cnildren, threw them upon the rtage and smothered the tNmes. I'p to the present there ae four deaths recorded as the result of the disaster, and several of the injured children are not expected to recover. Investigation into the cause of the disa cr shows that while the children were gathered in the dressing-room preparatory to making tht-ir appearance on the stage, one of the little girls who was playing with a lighted lamp ac idently s t fire to her clothes. She uttered a cry of terror, triod to extinguish the llamas with her hands and rushed toward the door leading to th stae. Hercrieand the siuht of the flames caused a panic among the children who a so made a rush for the door mentioned. The result was lhat a crowd of children was crushed around the child whose clothes ere already in flamt-f. aD'1 thereby ignited the cloth. ng of twenty or thirty other children. FIVE KILLED. DUaatroas Kxplosi.m on Ohio Hirer TowIt ml nt Port nmonth. Fortsmolth, 0., Jan. 2. Five men were instantly killed by the explosion of a cylinder head of the tow-boat Annie Boberts. The boat was bound for Pittsburg. The smage to the boat will not esc-ed SI. 000. A complete list of the dead andiniured is: DealFBANK PERKY. BEX LAWSOX. JAMES SYVAIL, J. B. SHAW. JAMES GRAY. Injured Engineer Bfns, severely. A New Jrriejr C.-ll'alon. New Yopk, Jan. 2. A Lackawanna pa Benger train crashed into a train of j llat-cars loaded with pig iron at West Pater-on, X. J. The following are tbe wounded: Engineer Morris Lunger, left leg crushed and body scalded; Baggng'master Scanlon, leg cru-hd: P-rakeinan Bernard Foster, hurt about the head, caused by being thrown against a pile of pig iron. it now transpires that th accident was not caused by an i ed switch but by font train wreckers. Investigation shows that the br.:ss keys that ho d the switch hal been hammered out of place, causinihe switch to open wh-n the train struck it. Four men were noticed bang ng around the switch shor'ly be ore thn acci lent occurred and detectives are now looking for them. Bobbery was evidently their object. Two Klllrf, Two Injur!. Bvltimoke, Jan. 1'. Engine Xo. P, Engineer Manford, an 1 Xo. 40. Engineer Gosnell, were in collision on the B. o; O. road at the east end of Know lie siding at 10:30 last night. P. ith engines a::d eev- ral express cars were bvlly damaged. Engineer Gosnell and Fireman Williams Wt-re ki led. Engineer Manford and Fireman Egler were badly injured. Tin accident was caused by train Xo. '.S breaking loose between Wolvcrton and Washington Junction. A 3Iine Eivloslon. Berlin, Jan. 'J. A dispatch from Bochnn, Westphalia, announces that a disastrous explosion has taken place in a coal pit at that place. The t -tal number of lives lost is unknown. The bodies of two men killed and nine inj-irod men have been recovered from the pit, but it is feared that a number of other miners have perished. DUDLEY AND THE GLOVE. SCHEDULE. How the lt:ork-f.rlTe Satemn ArTAngcd Tlilna for a Consideration. rOii-ao JJem M 1 Xew Yoisk. Dec. 30. H ben General appraisers Tichenor, omerville and Sharp began tueir investigation of the Passivant kid glove reappraieement case they struck a mine of information showing'several veins of exceeding richness. It appears from the etory told to th- general appraWrs that when the glove schedule was under consideration by the ways and means committee of the bouse a combinal'ou of some of the glove importers cf thi city as formed to work through the most effective channels and with the most effective means to get that schedule framed in their especial interest. The effective channell they found was Col. W. W. Dudley, he of "blocks-of-fn e" notoriety, and "ths effective means was money. They encaged Col. Djidley to represent the-u before the McKi dev cotnniiltee 3nd to secure for them a schedule such as they desired. It did not seem to make any difference to Co! Dud ey that the tariff bill under consideration was a republican n.eaur-, especially designed to "protect'' the domeet.e manufacturer from the pernicious business activity of the importer. He did the work required of him to the perfect satisfaction of his client, lint how ami by what means or inducements he brought the celebrated McKinley and the rest of the republican majority of thJ ways and means rommittee to accept the complicated glove schedule prep ar.d by t be iin'orte-s and advocated by him, "only he and they are nMe tosav. " For liis services and expends iu behalf of the glove importers :do;ie, it is (dated, be was paid S1'.M. How much of this was his own share and bow mn h of it he was comjebed to share with other influential protective tariff law makers, he haa not as yet made public.