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m :V; • • •> - •;•••;: ms&i 1. . THE PLAINDF.ALER " J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. MCHENRY. ILLINOIS COERCES THE PKESS. CENSOR.ATTENDS TO EDITING HAVANA PAPERS. Gen. Pando Prohibits Reports of Gen. Blanco's Failures or Sarcastic Lau­ dations of Autonomy--Rumor that 's Pis Iron Trust Is Being Formed. Works His Blue Pencil. Gen. Pando's .sudden return to Havana was due to the failure of Capts Gen. Blanco's trip through the East, where the latter met with a cold reception at the hands of both Spaniards and Cubans. He immediately assembled the editors of all the dail.V papers except La Lucha and em­ phatically prohibited direct or indirect attacks upon autonomy, as. wella sui rticles of a laudatory -character which we're in his, opinion sarcastic. He is there now keep; the papers from printing any news relating to the failure of Gen. Blanco ia the field, t o coerce'-the'press and to pre­ vent an outburst of indignation- among the masses of the people over his faiiuh? to obtajn the surrender "of the insurgent leaders, as loudly promised. These, siren* eons efforts to choke the press prove, the desperate position of the Government, 5vhich grows weaker day by day. Even the leading editorial in El. Pais, tlie: offi­ cial organ of the autonomist party, was suppressed by the censor. "Capt: Gen. B1 anco, it is reported, is.seriously,disgust­ ed because of his failure to secure the submission of the insurgents in the east of the island and it is also reported that before May he will return to Spain. While on ship the captain general's "cane of command" fell overboard and the occur­ rence is considered one of ill-omen and an Indication that he will soon lose his com­ mand in Cuba. Collision on the L. & N. A disastrous head-end collision between a passenger and freight train occurred on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad near Kirkland, Ala., instantly killing Will Ursery, engineer of the passenger train, his fireman, Ed Davis, and three white tramps. Henry Davidson, engineer of the fast freight train, and his fireman. Will Lee, were seriously injured. Charlie Har­ rison, bralceman on the freight, had both legs cut off and will die. A trainman named Hughes on the passenger train was fatally hurt. Barrios' Slayer Is Killed. Official confirmation -of the assassina­ tion of President Barrios came to the State Department at Washington in the following telegram from Minister Hunter at Guatemala City: "President Barrios •was shot and instantly killed while walk­ ing with two military officers near the palace. The assassin while attempting to escape was immediately killed by the president's staff. Manuel Estrada Ca­ brera, temporarily the constitutional suc­ cessor, has been peaceably installed. All quiet." Rnmor of a Fig Iron Trust. In Cleveland iron circles the sensational story is circulated that an effort is being made by the Carnegie Iron Company to form a trust, controlling the entire pig; iron trade of the country. Local iron, dealers recently received communications' from the Carnegie company urging that stich a deal be considered and advancing lengthy arguments to prove the benefit a trust would be to all concerned. toms board ©^classification at New York 1 In favor of the importers. The surveyor in Cincinnati had ruled that the mer­ chandise should be regarded as "brandy containing cherries," rather than "cher­ ries, preserved in spirits." Gen. John Cochrane died at his home in New York. Gen. Cochrane was an old- time soldier. On July 17, 1S02, while with the army of the Potomac, he was made brifadier general. In 1SG4 he was nominated for Vice President of the Uni­ ted States on the independent Republican ticket, Gen. John C. Fremont being the candidate for President. WESTERN. NEWS NUGGETS. 1;.... Clara Barton,T president of the Red Cross, has, arrived at Havana. The Union Beet and Sugar Company, •will erect a $500,000 beet sugar factory at Santa Maria, Cal. i ^At St: Louis, Mo., Isaac B. Potter has been re-elected president of the Leagoie of American Wheelmen. cliichardSurton of Hartford, Conn., has been offered the chair of English litera­ ture in the University of Minnesota. . Morris Ablitzky, his wife and seven children narrowly escaped suffocation by coal gas at their home in Cleveland, O. Rev. D. J. M. Buckley, editor of the New York Christian Advocate, was made seriously ill by canned corn at Pittsburg, Pa. J. F. Ivumber of. Toledo, O., represent­ ing an English syndicate, has secured an option on the Stangkuebler Brewing and Malting Company's plant at Sandusky, O. John Wilson, city marshal of Nowata, Ivan., was killed by Thomas Dwyer, a whisky peddler, and the latter died soon after from wounds received during the! encounter. An application for a receiver for the Rocky Mountain Oil Company has been made in the Federal court at Denver through a complaint filed by the Central National Bank of Cleveland, O. The steamer Tess sailed from Van­ couver, B. C., for the north. She carries 100 passengers and S77 sacks of bacon, being part of the provisions sent by the United States, and which was allowed to •go through Canadian territory duty free. The question of the national sovereign­ ty to which Clipperton Island belongs "was presented to Judge Sea well in San "Francisco in a ease on trial before him of Captain Permien, the discoverer of the island, against the Oceanic Phosphate Company, to whom he sold it. Mrs. George Gould created a sensation at the Drexel ball at New York by wear- U ing the Emperor of China's crown. This costly gem was purchased by Mr. Gould at the close of the recent war between Japan and China and is said to be the most expensive crown that any society leader in the United States possesses. The governors of the New York Stock Exchange have censured "Deacon" S. V. White for his peculiar methods of adver- fi tising. Sir William Dawson, formerly princi­ pal of McGill University and one of the greatest geologists in the world, is very ill at Montreal, his left side being almost paralyzed. Rev. W. D. Rockwell has brought sui for $35,000 damages for libel against Chancellor James It. Day of Syracuse •University and Dr. James M. Buckley editor of the Chnstiau Advocate of New iYorkV* " • St. Joseph. Mo., will remain in. the Western Base-ball Association. Train.'Wrecker Warden, under sentence to be han&ed in California, has been grant­ ed ji reprieve till June 17 to allow an in­ vestigation as to his sanity. A taxpayers' league has been organ* ized in Van Wert County, Ohio, to prose­ cute the officials who are responsible for overdrawing the county funus $50,000. In St. Louis Daniel McClelland, aged 43. employed in paint Works, committed suicide by putting his head between the ponderous wheels of a machine known as a putty chaser.' " At Mercer, ten miles north of Prince­ ton, Mo,,. Andrew Alley was shot dead and Joe Alley, his cousin and partner in a general store, was mortally wounded by Peter Kindred. A report comes from Cincinnati that the Standard Oil Company is about to' reorganize, the plan contemplating issuing -stbek dividends to the extent of four, shares .for each one share or certificate of stock held, by- present holders of stock. Dr. S. H. Sampson, or Samson, was removed from the village jail at Laurel- ville, O., to the Hocking County jail at Logan as a precaution against lynching pending the coroner's investigation of the death of Bessie Neff, found dead ia the doctor's office. The damage suit at San Francisco by Peter D. Peterson, against F. F. O'Con­ nor, general ticket agent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company, re­ sulted in a verdict for plaintiff. The suit grew out of Peterson's arrest for forgery in signing another's name to a ticket pur­ chased from a scalper.' Frank Bellew has been lodged in the county jail at Suisun, Cal., charged with murdering his brother and sister by pois­ on. Lewis aud Susie Bellew lived togeth­ er in a cottage in the outskirts of Elmira. When the victims were taken sick Frank was almost the first person to come to their house. He helped the nurses to make gruel, using water from the tea kettle in which lie is alleged to have placed poison. The day before the crime Frank called on his brother-in-law, John W. Bird, a photographer, and complained that he had not received enough of the property of his parents, who had over­ looked him in their^'will. He added: "Bird, I'm going to commit a terrible crime to-morrow. I'm going to commit a tragedy that will shock the whole com­ munity." After the crime Bird had rea­ son to believe that Bellew intended to kill him, and made the statement which led to his arrest. Mercer, a village in Missouri, five miles 6outh of Lineville, Iowa, was the scene of n do'ible mimltr the other night. An­ drew and Joseph Alley, who owned a general store, were shot by Peter Kin­ dred, a well-known farmer. The mur­ derer was captured by a posse a few miles from Mercer as he was attempting to escape and taken to Princeton, Mo., for safe keeping. Threats of lynching were heard, and the officers spirited Kin­ dred away to a stronger jail at Trenton, where he is kept at present under a strong guard. The trouble arose over a bill Kindreil owed the Alley brothers. They sued him and secured judgment for the amount. On the night of thg murder Kindred came to Mercer, got drunk, en­ tered the Alley brothers' store and began abusing them, saying that he would not pay the bill. The brothers ordered him from the store. He refused to go and instead drew a revolver and began shoot­ ing. , Representative Parker of Cuyahoga County has introduced a bill kn the Ohio Legislature \^jhieh is meant to prescribe who may and who may not marry. The measure provides for a State board of three examiners, to be appointed by the Governor, and a board in each county, to be appointed by the Probate Court. Men and women who apply for marriage li­ censes will be required to submit to phy­ sical and mental examinations by the boards of the counties in which they live. The presence of any transmissible dis­ ease or hereditary diathesis to mental or physicial disease or defect, or any crim­ inal history or bias, will bar an applicant from the right of tnarriago. A fee of $5 a couple will be authorized, which will go to the examining board. Tn case persons are not satisfied with the findings of the county board they will have the right to appeal to the State board, but will have to pay a fee of $25 to that board. No more than one member of the same school of taedicine can be appointed on the county or State board. Mr. Parker says that this plan alone will put a stop to the alarming increase of insanity, crime ""and degeneracy. He expects to have the sup­ port of medical men. EASTERN. SOUTHERN. order and protecting life and property, Advices to the Government state thai the rush to the gold fields has attracted liuudreds of the lawless element and that troops are neeesBary at once to prevent trouble. FOREIGN. Savannah, Ga., has had a dozen fires within the last two weeks, and it is be­ lieved an organized gang of firebugs is operating in the city. George P. Tucker, a coal miner of Cres- eent^ W. Va., shot and killed his wife and William McAllister, whom he surprised together at his home. An earthquake of five seconds' duration shook Christiansburg, Va. It caused much alarm, but no material damage. The shock followed a snowstorm. A shortage of $13,000 has been discov­ ered in the accounts of former Treasurer Ferd Trepp of the Elmwood Cemetery Company of Memphis, Tenn. ' S. L. Patton Jr. killed himself at Sa­ vannah, Ga., by taking laudanum. He left a note to his parents, who live at Co­ lumbia, S. C., defending his suicide and denying that it was a coward's last resort. He had twice attempted to kill hiinself be­ fore. Ninety-two quarts of nitro-glycerin, which was to have been used in jihooting an oil well in the Elk Fork field, froze, and J. H. Hanks placed it in a steam box to thaw at Sisterville, W. Va. It ex­ ploded and dug a hole ten feet in diameter and ten feet deep. Marquis' Ito, prime minister to Japan, in an interview, said his Government was watching the situation in the East, and was prepared to safeguard Japanese in­ terests by whatever means may be re­ quired by events. The Constantinople correspondents of the Frankfort Zeitung telegraphs that Russia, France aud Great Britain1 have! agreed to insist upon the candidature of Prince George; of Greece for the govern­ orship of Crete, and are ready to enforce it should the Sultan prove obdurate. The British steamer Majestic has been chartered to carry twenty-two locomo tives and a general cargo from Philadel­ phia to the Finland Government. The locomotives are being shipped by the Baldwin works. At the Baldwin works locomotives are being built for Norway, Japan, Africa and other countries which formerly got them from other places. Japan is going to invade the Klondike. An army of 5,006 able-bodied laborers is being got together for the gold fields and in a month or so will make a descent upon Dawson City. One of the Nippon Ynreu Kaisha steamers will take the la­ borers there, but as they will not land on the soil of the United, States, there will be no one to'say them nay, unless Great Britain takes a hand in the matter. One of the1 Japanese steamers that have been carrying laborers will be used to carry them, to their destination. It is added that the Japanese will be taken over by a syndicate, and trouble in the Klondike is predicted. A cable dispatch -from Paris says there is a scheme on foot to purchase Cuba and end the strife there. A new development in the undertaking is the appearance of James Gordon Bennett as an important factor in the deal. When J. Pierpont Mor­ gan was in Paris a few weeks ago, it is said, he put himself in communication with several big financial houses of Lon­ don, Paris and Berlin, and also had a long consultation with Mr. Bennett. As a re­ sult of this pilgrimage of the eminent American banker it is said that the entire $400,000,000 required for the purchase of Cuba is now assured. The money will be paid to Spain, it is said, and charged to Cuba, and will be protected by an issue of bonds, practically countersigned by the United States Government, making them a gilt-iCdged security at once. These bonds, which will bear larger interest, naturally enough, than the obligations of more firm­ ly fixed governments, will, with the Uni­ ted States' indorsement, it is believed, command an immediate premium in the market, under which the promoters of the purchase will realize a literally enormous profit. IN GENERAL. At Madoc, Ont., John Milligan, aged 21; Lee Milligan, aged 15, and Ethel Baker, aged 12, were asphyxiated with fumes of charcoal. It is reported that Mrs. Hetty Green Will build a railroad through Oklahoma Territory from Medford on the Rock Isl­ and to Sherman, Texas, to connect at that point with her son's road to Galveston. The high price of wheat has produced shipments from the far Western States, but the stocks ia farmers' hands are said to be the lighest ever known. There is an increasing export demand for flour, and the Minneapolis mills are running at their full- capacity. Minneapolis has o,S00,000 bushels of good wheat now on hand, not more than enough to supply the mills for five weeks. The Loiter syndi­ cate proposes to, reserve its enormous holdings for use in the United States. Mr. Loiter predicts one dollar and a half wheat. He denies that there is any cor­ ner and bases his estimates on the fact that there is a world-wide shortage due to the short foreign crops and large home demand. The Fabre Line steamer Burgundia ar­ rived at the port of New York from Med­ iterranean ports and brought safely to port sixteen seamen who were rescued in midocean from their sinking craft. They were Capt. Larsen and fifteen of the crew of the Norwegian bark B. D. Metcalfe, from Savannah for Hamburg. Capt. Lar­ sen says he sailed from Savannah Dec. 10 with a cargo of naval stores. "When three days out from Savannah," the Cap­ tain said, "the vessel encountered a strong gale and began to leak. The bark put into Bermuda, where she was thoroughly calked, sailing again Jan. 22. Ten days after leaving Bermuda we met a gale from the north and northwest, with enor­ mous seas. We were obliged to put the vessel before the gale, as she was labor­ ing heavily and had sprung a leak again. We found the leak gaining rapidly. The seas boarded us in every direction, sweep­ ing everything before them. The decks buckled and cracked, letting the water through, and we saw the craft could not live longer. We put out fenders and haw­ sers soaked with oil, used oil from pipes and from scuppers, which smoothed the;: sea to a considerable extent and undoubt­ edly prolonged the life of the vessel. Feb. 1 the Burgundia hove in sight. By. this time the wind had fallen and the sea was moderate. The French steamer lowered a boat, and we were all safely lodged on board the Burgundia, abandoning our ves­ sel in midocean." TO PfllSON FOR LIFE. THE JURY DECLARES LUETGERT GUILTY OF MURDER. WASHINGTON. Verdict Makes the Penalty a Pen'ten- tiary Term--Prisoner Appears to Be Satisfied tq. Have Escaped the Gal­ lows--Guatemala's President Slain. Takes It Calmly. Adolph L. Luetgert, the Chicago saus­ age maker, is guilty of wife murder. Af­ ter five hours of deliberation the jury agreed upon this verdict. Half an hour -before midnight Wednesday each of the twelve men rose in his seat in the jury box in Judge Gary'B court and declared that beyond the question of a reasonable doubt he believed the prisoner had taken the life of his wife, Louise Luetgert, on the night of May 1. The prisoner sat without a sign of emotion and met the gaze of each juror without a tremor. If anything, a look of gratitude and relief was noticeable, on his face. He hail ex­ pected the death penalty" if convicted. The first intimation' that a verdict had been arrived at, Says a Chicago dispatch, was brought by one of the bailiffs from the jury rooin.on t.ho sixth floor. The jury wanted to see Judge Gary. This was shortly before 11 o'clock; The scene in the court rooin and State's attorney's office was, instantly changed from , a rol­ licking gathering of those connected with the case to an anxious, "expectant crow'd. State's Attorney Deneen and Mr. : Mc- Ewen came into the .court room promptly and took their places at the west end of the counsel's table, which they occupied during the trial. Mr. Harmon, Mr, Ke- hoe and Mr. Reise gathered at the oppo­ site side. William Charles was nearby with an anxious look on his haggard face. Behind him sat Arnold Luetgert, the de­ fendant's son, equally agitated. Dr. Reise and others interested in the defense were grouped about then;. In the midst of them a chair was left for Luetgert. Inspector Schaack, Captain Schuettler and many of the officers who have work­ ed on the case were on hand. Judge Gary arrived at 11:20 o'clock, and he promptly ordered every one to sit down and maintain silence. The last strain of the trial had come, and the si­ lence became oppressive, while the wait for Luetgert and the jury continued. No one ventured to break this, except Mr, Harmon, who objected to the draft from one of the open windows, and asked the bailiff to close it. Luetgert came into court closely guarded by five bailiffs, and took his position near the private entrance to the court room. Attorney Harmon re­ quested that he should take his place with his counsel, and the prisoner complied. He was looking pale and anxious, and showed the effects of the severe strain under which he has labored. Juror Snow was the first to appear, a few minutes later. The solemn expres­ sion on the faces of the twelve men seem­ ed to show that they had decided on a verdict of guilty. Juror Bachelor carried a bundle of papers, the instructions and identified. The body of one fireman un­ identified is at the morgue^ Thomas Lynch's scalp was torn off by flying de­ bris. He is still alive. > Lieut. Roseland of the fire company was giving orders to j his men When the ammonia tank blew out of the warehouse building and took oft both his legs at the knees. Police Lieutenant Berry's body was the first recovered. All the dead were crushed. The ammonia tanks exploded at intervals of a few minutes with reports that were heard miles away. The following is the best list of losses obtainable to-night: Hoveler Storage Com­ pany, building and contents, $000,000; Chautauqua Ice Company, $150,000; Un­ ion Storage Company, $1,000,000; small Penn avenue houses, $25,000, making a total of $1,775,000, all of which was well insured, mostly through the agency of W. G. M<^bandless & Co. Some of the heaviest individual losers who had con­ signments in the warehouses are: The Economy Distilling Company, 8,000 bar­ rels of whisky, worth $75,000; Mononga- hela Textile Company, wool dealers, 125,- 000 pounds of wool; Collins Cigar Com­ pany, 25 car loads of tobacco; W. H. Williams, commission merchant, twenty cars loads of sugar. „ BARRIOS IS SLAIN. ADOLPH L,. ETJETGEkT.1 I New York claims to have a musical prodigy in the person of the 6-year-olcl daughter of a Polish barber. She is said to read-classical music with readiness and executes Gounod and Chopin in avman ner to put all other prodigies to shame. An army of unemployed men camped around the State House at Boston, Mass., in order to be in line to register for civil service examinations in the mechanical department in the morning, but 1,000 were.turned away after the lists were full Miss Aileea O'Donnell was wedded to "V igcount de Say ve of France at Washing­ ton, Cardinal Gibbons performing the ceremony. Judge Hagner'in the Equity Court at Washington has made a ruling holding in effect that it is unconstitutional for Con­ gress to appropriate money for sectarian institution#.. A settlement'of the Government's claim against the Kansas Pacific may be reach­ ed without a foreclosure sale. It is be­ lieved the Union Pacific reorganization committee will offer the full amount of the Government claim, $0,303,000, in a short time. V . At the Cabinet meeting in WashingtoA it T>vas decided to send two companies of A decision in the much-discussed brandy cherry case^t as handed down by the cus- tr°°P« to Dyea and SkagUay, Alaska, im- , • mediately for the purpose of preserving MARKET REPORTS, Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00 '-o $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 96c; corn, No. 2, 27c to 28c; oats, No. 2, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 49c; butter, choice creamery, 18c to 20c; eggs, fresh, 15e to 10c; potatoes, common to choice, 52c to 05c per bushel. ^Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, common to choice. $3.00 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 94c to 95c; corn, No. 2 white, 28e to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2, 95c to 97c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 2»c to 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 23c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 40c to 48c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.25; sheep, $2.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 94c to 90c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 25c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 50c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.50; wheat, No. 2, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 26c to 28c; rye, 49c to 50c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 93c to 95c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; oats, No. N 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, No. 2, 48c to 49c; clover seed, $3.05 to $3.10. Milwaukee--Wheat, No.. 2 spring, 90c to 92c; corn, No. 3, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; rye, No. 2, 47c to 49c; barley, No. 2; 38c to 42c; pork, mess, $9.75 to $10.25. Buffalo--Cattle, $3.00 to :$5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $3.00 to "$5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 96c to 98c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 32c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.00 to $5.00; wheat, No. 2 red, $1.03 to $1.04; corn, No. President of the Republic of Guate­ mala Slaughtered, ; r. ; , President Barrio's of. Guatemala has been assassinated. ' ' V-4, ; '. Lajo Arriaga, the Guatemalan minister to the United States, Wednesday" after­ noon received an official cablegram from PRESIDENT .TOSE verdict. Another wait of five minutes, more silent than the first,'occurred, while Luetgert was being brought over from the jail. Juror Bolek bowed his head as if suffering from the long strain. Juror Loeb's face was swollen and red as if he had been weeping. Judge Gary addressed the jurors; "Gen­ tlemen* have you agreed upon a verdictV" Juror Bachelor rose and replied, "We have, your honor." The momentous piece of paper was handed to the clork, who read: "We, the jury, find Adolph L. Luetgert guilty of murder in the form and manner charged in the indictment, and fix the punishment at imprisonment in the peni­ tentiary for the rest of his natural life." A look of intense relief a tthis announce­ ment passed over the face of the prisoner, who seemed glad that he had escaped the ijeath penalty. Mr. Harmon promptly rose and requested that the jury be polled. This was done by the clerk, and each juror announced that he concurred in the verdict. Mr. Harmon then gave notice that in due time he would file notice for a new trial. The jury were then discharg­ ed by Judge Gary. "That is only half a victory and half a defeat," said Mr. Harmon. "It was un­ justifiable from either standpoint, and a compromise. We asked for an acquittal or a conviction, and there could be only one conclusion if he was really guilty." Luetgert's lawyers regard the verdict as a compromise on the part of the jury and look upon it as a victory for their client. Luetgert was immediately surrounded by his friends as he stood up in court, and they shook him heartily by the hand and congratulated him that he had escaped the death penalty. They plainly showed their satisfaction with the ^outcome of the trial. The big prisoner all this time was close­ ly guarded by bailiffs, who when the short scene was over led him back to his cell in the- jail. FALL VICTIMS TO FLAMES. Explosion of Whisky Wrecks a Pitts­ burg Wurehouse. By an explosion of 2,000 barrels of whisky in Pittsburg at 11:30 o'clock Wed­ nesday night over a score of persons were buried under tons of brick ami mortar and it is estimated that twenty-five lives were lost. The property loss is nearly $2, 000.000. 'Hie Government bonded ware­ house was burned, 2,000 barrels of whis­ ky exploded, and the falling walls crush­ ed ihe adjoining tenements, all the occu­ pants of which were either killed or in­ jured. After the warehouse wall fell ip a large ammonia tank shot out of the burning building and fell on a small house in an alley, crushing in the roof and two stories, and -leaving the four walls standing. The house was occupied by the Sipe family. Rescuers dug into the cellar aud found the body of Sidney Sipe, 15 years old. The father was standing upright jammed in by timbers. He was cut out with axes ami found to be.alive. N. C. Scott, son of W. S. Seott, president of Chautauqua Lake Ice Company, was looking at the fire with his brother. He was killed by the minister of foreign affairs of Guate­ mala announcing the assassination of President Barrios and the succession to the presidency of First Vice-President Manuel Estrada ̂ Cabrera. No details whatever were given. The dispatch came from Guatemala City, the capital, where President Barrios has lived and the Gov­ ernment departments are carried on. It added that entire calm prevails. President Barrios was a man of wide attainments and marked executive abil­ ity. He was comparatively young, being only 42 years old. The six years' term of service for which lie was elected termi­ nated March 15 next, but the national congressional assembly already had ex­ tended this term for a further four years. The new president, Mr. Cabrera, is a man of prominence in Guatemala, and is one of two chosen by the congress to fill the presidency in case of a vacancy. The system of the country is different from that in the United States, there being no vice-president elected with the president. The duty of filling the executive chair de­ volves on the congressional branch, and accordingly two vice-presidents, first and second, were designated some time ago. They are eligible in the order of their choice. When the excitement of the tra­ gedy has passed a presidential election may be held. The assassination of President Barrios probably is due to the revolutionary feel­ ing which has been growing in Guatemala ever since he declared himself dictator last June. One of the first acts of the rebels was the assassination of the pres­ ident's brother in San Jose, and the mur­ der of the wife of the jefe politico of Quezaltenango. Following closely on those two crimes came the capture of | Plaza San Marcos by the revolutionists. To the dissatisfaction since President Barrios proclaimed himself dictator the, bad financial condition of the country un­ der his rule has added fuel to' the flames of discontent. The dead dictator had been straining every effort to restore peace and harmony, but had been thwart­ ed by an assassin. MASON WANTS A WAR. Introduces a Resolution Demanding of Spain Immediate Peace in Cuba. In the Senate the other day, Mason of Illinois presented the following: "Resolved, That the President of the United States is hereby requested to no­ tify Spain and the insurgents that the Cuban war, so called, must at once cease, and be discontinued, and the United Stites of America hereby declares and will iHointain peace on the island." This resolution is preceded by a long preamble setting forth the horrors of war as it exists in Cuba, declaring that "all DE LOME IS RECALLED SKXATOIl MASON. 2, 36c to 37c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to the falling wall. His body was recovered, 31c; butter, creamery, 15c to 21c; eggs, but his brother is still missing, William Western, 17c to 19 c. ' .' Jtnbenstein's body was recovered and HIS RESIGNATION ACCEPTED BY SPANISH GOVERNMENT. tmpertinent Spaniard No Longer Min­ ister at Washington--Confesses that He^Wrote the Canalejas Note--Peace­ able Relations Are Not Affected. Message Copies from Madrid. Enrique Dundy de Lome is no loriger Ihe Spanish minister to this Government. Hip recall was demanded by thir Govern­ ment when it was discovered lie had writ­ ten a letter in which he spoke of the Pres­ ident of the United States as a "low poli­ tician, weak and catering to the rabble." Such a letter, purporting to have been written by him in December last to Senor Canalejas, was published throughout the country Wednesday morning, havipe been given to the press by the Cuban jufita in New York, who had received it by the hands of a special messenger frdm Ha­ vana, where.it had been stolen from Ca­ nalejas. • • -i _ The following is the substance of the' cablegram sent to Minister Woodford in Madrid by the State Department: "There has appeared in the public prints a letter SENOK DE LOME. Christendom is shocked bj; its barbari­ ties." It sets forth the refusal by the insurgents of the pretended autonomy; asserts that "daughters of insurgent sol­ diers arc sold into houses of infamy and women and children debauched and threatened beyond the power of language to describe." It tells of the sufferings -of the eoncentrados, declaring that the tlag of truce has been abandoned and the struggle narrowed to extermination or in­ dependence; pointing out the necessary expenditure of large sums by the United States to succor its citizens in tile island, and quoting the Cuban paragraph from the last Republican, national platform. A four-story rear tenement in New ••York City was destroyed by fire. Seven families lost everything they owned and two children were burned to death. They were^Tonjv 3 years old, and Michael, a year younger, the children of Fillippo Spoine'le, a bootblack living with his wif* and tht-ee children on the top llooc M • addressed to Senor Canalejas. The Span­ ish minister admits writing it. It con­ tains expressions reflecting upon the Pres­ ident of the United States of such a char­ acter as to end the minister's usefulness here. Gen. Woodford has been instruct­ ed to inform the Spanish Government that the immediate recall of Minister de Lome is expected." At a meeting of the Spanish cabinet, held Thursday under the presidency of the queen regent, the minister for foreign affairs, Senor Gullon, read a dispatch from Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister at Washington, saying that the published letter to Senor Canalejas was written by him, and that his position, con­ sequently, had become untenable, and he begged the Government to accept his res­ ignation. The cabinet decided to accept the resignation of Senor Dupuy de Lome, and the ministers subsequently met and decided to telegraph to Senor de Lome accepting h:s resignation and intruHuug the first secretary with the conduct of the current affairs of the legation. Senor de Lome sought to cover his re­ treat in an adroit manner by voluntarily tendering his resignation in advance of fhe President's demand for his recall. It is now admitted that he cabled his resig­ nation as early as 10 o'clock Tuesday night. At 9 o'clock he learned a fac sim­ ile copy of the letter was in the hands of the newspapers, and an hour later he had resigned. This step was taken to pre­ serve De Lome's status in the diplomatic service at home. He hoped thereby to forest;® 1 action by this Government which would have made him ineligible for reap­ pointment in the diplomatic service again. The President determined not to giVe the minister the benefit of this ruse and made the demand for the recall, with a view of forever terminating Senor de Lome's usefulness as a diplomat. The feeling of indignation in the admin­ istration against the Spanish minster is illustrated by the President's act heap­ ing humiliation upon the diplomat, Wed­ nesday morning De Lome positively re­ peated his charge made the night before that the letter was a forgery, even after he had stealthily cabled his resignation on account of it. His purpose was to keep the President in the dark long enough to get his resignation before the home government in time to avert a recall. The feeling Wednesday morning at the White House and the State Department was one of charity for De Lome. Nobody doubted the letter was a forgery and State Department officials showed their sympathy for the diplomat tt> the extent/ of calling attention to the Federal statute protecting foreign diplomats from libel. While all thi|i anxiety was being shown for the Spanish minister he. was crown­ ing his diplomatic career by misleading the President and State Department in order to gain a personal advantage. This act of De Lome's was the prime cause for the President insisting upon registering at Madrid a demand for his recall. It is not believed by officials of the administration that the incident will lead to any friction whatever between the two governments. oflk ft A Georgia postmaster who objected' to the criticism of his management of the office got his gun and winged his critic. Detroit has a bigamist with eight wives, and the authorities are actually consid­ ering the infliction of further punishment. A Washington special says: "Cables from Havana declare that the city is as quiet as Philadelphia." Perhaps they're all dead. .» ° Of course the three Seminoles who were engaged in that latest "uprising" quit just as soon as they learned that Congress was likely to pass an anti-scalping bill. The New York police department asks for a round appropriation of $13,000,000 for'the coming year. That's an unlucky number--for the taxpayers. For that Klondike feeliiig: Take a shov­ el and clean, off the sidewalk before break­ fast, repeating the dose as often as the sidewalk seems' to require it. Rev. Hugh Johnson, the "President's preacher," who made such sensational "breaks," is going to resign. Another case of "Too Much Johnson." > A Boston contemporary says "straw­ berries a.rc again in our midst at $2.50 a box." They will not be in our midst until they are much cheaper. ' . As Mary E. Lease has become an in­ surance agent, people may conclude they can insure their lease of life by securing an insurance on their iife of Lease. Poor John Chinaman is holding his queue with both hands and vainly trying to decide whether Russia, England or Japan is* the real "Jack the Clipper." S. D. Nickum of Indiana claims to have invented a light that will burn forever without costing a cent. ' Friday was private bill day in the House, but by systematic filibustering the private calendar containing the bills re­ ported by the Committee on Claims was not reached, the who}e day and evening being consumed in passing thirty-seven private pension bills favorably acted upon by the House at the session last Friday night. During the consideration of one of the bills an interesting discussion of tbe sale of the Kansas Pacific Road was precipitated by Mr; Fleming (Dem., of Georgia), who, with his Democratic col­ leagues, desired legislation to require the President to bid the full amount of the debt, principal and interest. Mr. Powers, chairman of ^.he^^a'Cjfic Railroad Com­ mittee, contended that the real purpose of the opposition was to compel the Govern­ ment to take the road and operate it. He said he thought the administration, which had secured every dollar, owing from the Union Pacific, could be safely trusted to jirqtect the Government's interest at the sale of the Kansas Pacific. In the Sen­ ate no busings of importance was trans­ acted in the -brief open session. After the executive session of three hours the Senate adjourned until Monday. The House during its entire session of Saturday had under consideration the bill making appropriations for fortifica­ tions and coast defenses. Little interest seemed to be manifested in the proceed­ ings, less than one-half of the members being present during the session. The bill was passed. I t carries $4,144,912, against $9,51 <,141 last year. The Senate was not in session. On Monday the House passed the mili­ tary academy bill with only one important amendment. The debate on the measure was desultory and touched a variety of political topics. The bill carries $453,540, being $26,032 less than the amount car­ ried by the current law. The bill to limit the period f3r the refunding of the cer­ tificates of deposit of 1879 to Dec. 31, 1899, was passed. In the Senate Mr. Chandler presented a memorial prepared in 1874 by the late Admiral Worden, who, as a lieutenant in the navy, commanded the Monitor in the historic fight in Hamp­ ton Roads between that vessel and the ironclad, Merrimac. ,Mr. Chandler said that Admiral Worden conceived the idea that it would be proper for the Govern­ ment of the United States to pay to the officers and crew of the Monitor the sum of $200 each, in the nature of prize money, but after having prepared the memorial concluded not to present it to Congress lest his motives might be misconstrued. The Hawaiian question consumed most of the day. In the Senate on Tuesday Mr. Allen offered as an amendment to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill a resolu­ tion recognizing the bclligcrency of the Cuban insurgents. Mr. Cannon offered a resolution urging the President to notify tSpain that if it did not recognize the in­ dependence of the Cuban republic before March 4 the United States would recog­ nize the belligerency of the Cubans and within ninety days thereafter would as­ sert the independence of the Cuban repub­ lic. Mr. Mason followed with a resolu­ tion requesting the President to notify Spain that the Cuban war must cease at once and to declare the intention of the United States to restore and maintain peace on the island. The House enter­ ed upon consideration of the Aldricli- Plowman contested election case from the fourth Alabama district. The majority ef the committee reported in favor of seating the Republican candidate on the ground of conspiracy, an allegation vigor­ ously denied by Democrats. Mr. Plow­ man's plurality on the face of the returns was 2,907. The majority revised the fig­ ures so as to give Mr. Aldrich a plurality of 342. Messrs. Taylor of Ohio and Mann of Illinois spoke for the majority, and Messrs. Fox of Mississippi and Settle of Kentucky for the minority. In the House on Wednesday the Al- drich-Plowman contested election case from the Fourth Alabama District was settled by the passage of a resolution de­ claring Mr. Aldrich (Rep,), the contest­ ant, entitled to the seat. The vote was on party lines. Cuban debate consumed the whole day in the Senate. Speeches were made by Messrs. Cannon, Mason and Hale. The House was in a very bad temper Thursday, and the whole session was con­ sumed in filibustering against two bills of minor importance--one to issue a dupli­ cate check, and the other to make Rock­ land, Me.; a subport of entry. Neither got further than the engrossment and third reading. Finally, when it became evident, that no progress could be mads with the bills, presented, an adjournment was taken until Monday. During almost the entire session of the Senate the Indian appropriation bill was under discussion. The reading of the bill was completed, and all of the committee amendments were adopted. Subsequently several amend­ ments of a minor character were attached to the measure. Mr. Allen of Nebraska enlivened the proceedings a few minutes before adjournment by making an attack upon Speaker Reed for preventing the en­ actment, as the Nebraska Senator declar­ ed, of meritorious legislation, sent to the House of Representatives by the Senate. He denounced the Speaker's action in this regard as a "disgrace" to Congress and to the American people. Sparks from the'Wires. Bolivia fears a war with Peru and Ar­ gentina. Kid McPartland and.^ Lemon, the col­ ored boxer, will meet in Buffalo the lat­ ter part of this month. SteameA Pennland, which grounded on Chester baT-while on route from Phila­ delphia to Liverpool, has been floated. • Edward Mack, who died at Huron, Ohio, and was buried in Sandusky, was the oldest man in (jjhio. lie was 109. Typographical Lnioq No. 6 of New York has appropriated $2,500 to cultivate potatoes on vacant lots for the unem­ ployed. A man named Francis Carroll, described as an actor, was remanded at London on the charge of threatening to murder Miss Florence St. John, the actress. A six-story building at 42 and 44 North 3d -street, Philadelphia, occupied by Blu- menthal Bros., wholesale clothiers, Was •damaged $75,000 by fire; insured. The trustees of Elwood Cemetery Com­ pany of Memphis, Tenn., have made pub- lie a shortage of $13,000 in the accounts of former Treasurer Ferd Trepp. Trepp is in New York. Sheriff Brockliss of Douglass County, Nevada, where the lynching of Adam Ubor recently occurred/ has been indict­ ed for willful neglect of duty in not tak­ ing steps to prevent the illegal execution. Mgr., Edtvard McColgan, honorary member of the pontifical household, vicar general of the archdiocese of Baltimore, Md„ and for more than half a century pastor of St. Peter's. Catholic Church, ia dead, aged SO years. .