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THE PLAINDEALER i J. VAN SLYKE, Editor and Pub. ktqjBEBNBY. - - 1 - ILLINOIS 'MID ROAR OF GUNS. NEW YORK'S ELECTRICAL SHOW IS OPENED. Cannon Boom Simultaneously at St. Paul* Boston, New Orleans, and San "Francisco--The Shall of Persia Hies by an Assassin's Hand. Morton Presses the Button. Gov.; Levi P. Morton touched a button Saturday night in New York and a big cannon was discharged in Union Square, San-Francisco, TLs announced the open­ ing of the electrical exposition in Sew York city. By the aid of the Pacific Pos­ tal Company, Gov. Morton was. enabled to form one of the largest circuits ever known. It|was an idea of. the directors of the explsition to have four cannons fired simultaneously in four large^itSCs' at the'-lbjir points of the compass in the United i^tareJt. St: .Paul. Boston. New Orleans and San Francisco were chosen' to; represent the North.' East. South and West A camion was placed in a publicj squareTn;.each^ city aiiil' at o'clock Sat: urday night,!when the exposition opened/ Gov.' 'Morton touched the button in.th?, exposition building, and the..four..cann^ii.s -were fieed at once. . Mrs. Douglas Saves the Bank. •There .would have, been a bank failure at"'Ha Hock, Minn., Friday had it not been for the cool head of a woman. Pres­ ident Booker, of the National Bank of Grand Forks, which went under last week, is interested in the Kittson County Bank at Hallock. Cashier Douglas went to Grand Forks to see Mr. Booker, leav­ ing his wife to run the institution. His absence, coupled with the failure at Grand Forks, led timorous people to be­ come suspicious, and a few went in and drew a portion of their money. Presently some of the leading business men went in and asked for their entire balances. The lady in charge told them that the. bank was solvent, and that if they persisted in Withdrawing tneir deposits she would Close the bunk. This brought theni to their senses, confidence was restored after a few minutes' conversation. aiid the run was stopped. National J*' •ajiue Ptandir <r. Follow in g is tin standing of the c libs in the Nat ional B aseball League W. L. 'f \Y. L "Pittsburg s 2 St. I.ouis. . [ C, . > Philadelph ia S 3 Washington. Ci Boston ... '-'-7 4 Baltimore .. . •"> C» Cincinnati .. <i 4 Cleveland . . 4 •"> Chicago . Louisville . . 1 10 Brooklyn . . <> 5 Now York. . 1 10 Standing: of Western I«?ai ue. Followin g is thi standing of the clubs of the Western L 'ague: \V. L. W L. Detroit .. .. 1 l! Columbus . . 4 0 St. Paul. . 4 Minneapolis. . 4 Milwauket •• -1 4 Indianapolis 3 4 Hpmpstead, L. I.? on March 7 last was concluded before Justice Martin J. Keogh in Long Island. The jury returned a ver­ dict of murder in t!ie first degree, after being out two, hours. , The large warehouse of the Atlantic Refining Company at Pittsburg, together with two settling tanks and a number of receiving tanks containing oil, was de­ stroyed by fire Tuesday morning, ejitrill-: ing a loss of about $100,t>00. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. v .y • -' The .-firm of Pemberton Bros.; manu­ facturers and dealers in sheepskins at Peabody, Mass., an .. Boston, and the firm of B. E. Baker & Co., dealers in goat­ skins, of which the Pemberton brothers were also members, assigned for the bene­ fit of their ci editors. The indebtedness of the two firms will aggregate about $300,000 and their assets $150,000. A strike of drivers has caused a sus­ pension of five layge mines in the Tom's Run district, near Carnegie, Pa. Not more than forty men quit work because their demand for an increase in wages was refused, but they have thrown about 700 diggers out of work. The strike is not sanctioned by the miners district offi­ cers, and every effort is. being made b.v them to effect a settlement. Intelligence has been received at Pitts­ burgh of the capture, in "Guatemala of John L. Cowan, who disappeared last February, leaving his friends, relatives, creditors and " victims about $200,000 short Cowan wa, in the lumber busi­ ness, and his' victim% are scattered over the lumber regions of'Pen nsy 1 va n i a, Wis: consin. Michigan and Canadap Forgery, note-raising and Other forms of swindling are charged against him: 'Cowsi-n will be brought back, to the United Stages at once. '.7;.- " • .' . 4 ( i r and Rap ids 2 Persia's Ruler Slain. While the shah was entering the inner court of the shyine of Shah Abdul Azim. «ix 'miles- sout^i of Teheran. Persia, Fri­ day afternoon he was shot. It is offi­ cially announced that the shah is dead. The assassin fired point blank at his heart. According to a dispatch receiv­ ed at Berlin from Teheran the report is confirmed. It is stated that a physician attached to the German legation saw the shah's body. WESTERN. The Servant Gills' Union of West Su­ perior, Wis., has struck for an increase of wages from $12 to $15 per nHouth. Marshal^ Baker, of Pioneer. O.,' cap­ tured the burglars who operated on the Pioneer Bank last week. They are four in number. They were pursued into the country and captured after a desperate fight One of them had been shot in the leg. They were all heavily armed and had a full kit of burglar tools, with pow­ der and fuse, similar to that found in the bank. On one of the men was found a gold watch taken front the store of Mr. Hadley. They refuse to give their names. Over twenty Milwaukee school chil­ dren were knocked down and injured by a runaway team Tuesday, ! The team, which was owned by William Schatt- schneider, was hitched with a weight. The little ones cried, "Runaway, run­ away," and gathered in crowds along the curb to witness thj horses dash wildly along the street. As the team ran, the hitching weight, which was on the near side, swung up over the heads of the little one^ who lined the curb and landed in their midst. The - infuriated horses fol­ lowed the impulse which was given "to them by the flying weight and dashed in among a hundred "oi the boys and girls who were shouting in glee at. the flying team, and in an instant there were at least twenty-five of them who had been knocked down and trampled upon. The only ones who are thought to be danger­ ously wounded arc Frank Schubie and Annie Nolden. They are in a critical condition, and the physicians have but flight hopes for their recovery. • on the charge of having incited Arme­ nians to rebel against Turkish rule" was surrendered to the United States consul at Alexandretta Saturday. Details of the affair show tha4 the fetep was nSt tak­ en until a United States warship had been telegraphed for. The correspondent of the London Times at Constantinople says: "Rumors are cur­ rent that the sultan has had.a sudden and acute development^ spinal'or ren'iil dis4 ease, due to Izzet Bey's vigilance in sav­ ing his sovereign from worlr and worry, I believe that the sultan is quite free from organic disease, but he is constitutionally subject to violent paroxysms of nervous irritability which brain fatigue tends to aggravate." The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has captured' and brought into Havana the American schooner Competitor, of Key* }Yest, loaded with arms and ammunition, believed to be intended for the insurgents. The details of the affair show that the Mensagera on Saturday sighted near Ber- racas, on the north coast of the Province of .Pinar del Rio, a suspicious-looking schooner, which attempted to get away from the war vessel. She was pursued, overhauled a*h& boarded. In command of her were Alfredo La horde. Dr. Bedia and three newspaper correspondents. The Competitor; it appears, was last frdm the Mosqnit^:const, where,; it is presumed, she , shipped the arms a1>d ammunition found e»n boa hi. The flatter consisted of" 38,- 000' cartridges, a number of packages of dynamite,- Vmaiiy v^as'es of ^Manser and Remington rifles, eases of accoutrements, on board are lipid as_'i>riscnejes.v^ . VL'.. A*: A dispatch from ̂ Pretoria' sttys: Sen­ tence of death has been pion-anneed upon Messrs.- Phillips, "Hammond, Farrar and= Rhodes, of* the Johannesburg reform com; mittee, who recently pleaded guilty of' high treason. This appears"to be confirm­ ed by,the following advices from London: The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Joseph Chamberlain, announced in the «House of Commons Tuesday that the five leaders of the reform committee of Johan­ nesburg--J. H. Hammond, Francis Rhodes, George Farrar, Lionel Phillips and Charles Leonard--had been condemn­ ed to death. Mr. Chamberlain added that upon hearing the news ho cabled to the Governor of Cape Colony, Sir Hercules Robinson, to communicate the following to President Kruger: "The Government has just learned that the. sentence of deatl; has been passed upon the five lead­ ers of the reform committee. They can feel «o doubt that your honor will com­ mute sentence and have assured Parlia­ ment of their conviction that this is your honor's intention." John TTays Ham­ mond!. one of the members of the reform committee condemned to death, is an American. W. J. Galloway, conservative member for southwest Manchester, asked whether the law under which the leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee were tried does not provide for the con­ fiscation of their property in the event of conviction, and not for the imposing of the death penalty. Mr. Chamberlain said he was unable to answer the question. HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE CRiPPLE' CREEK, COLORADO, IS IN RUINS. Several Squares Swept by the Flames • --Plajcue Spots Wiped Out-Dnmagc Over $1,tOO,OOO, with hut Light In- entfance--3rOOO People Homeless. Eight Blocks Burn. One million dollars is a conservative estimate of the damage done by fire at Cripple Creek, Colo. Th'e amount of in­ surance, as nearly (is can be arrived at, will not exceed $250,000. When the fire broke out in a second-hand store the dai£ ger of a big conflagration was not per­ ceived, and it was thought that, the fire­ men, who were early on the scene, would have the flames under control in a very few minutes. But in a short time the fire had spread to the adjoining buildings and a brisk wind sprung up. Then it was conceded by all that at least half a dozen buildings on the corner of Meyers and Third streets would go, and the occupants began to move out. But many had wait­ ed too long and were unable to save their goods. Some barely escaped with their lives. Several Worneti were dangerously burned. ./ Every minute added fury to the flames, and when the fire, had spread several dcors on either, side the danger to the city was observed, but no one • eotsld realize, "how great the damage would be. The heat became so intense that buildings on the north side of Meyers'street*topk fire. Then it was that occupants of stores and offices began td make preparations to .save their possessions. Every wagon in town was pressed into service; * Not .a tenth • part of the goods were saved. By the time the postoffice ,had caught it became evident that the only way to stop the progress of the fire was to blow up the buildings with dynamite. This was done under the supervision of the firemen, and a number of buildings had to be sacri­ ficed before the fire had reached' them. The fire started about 1 o'clock, and by 4 it had demolished the blocks in Meyers between Third and Fifth streets, and in ------ -- ; • v. ' he ever got into n tight place, he would imitate Brutus' example and tjilte his own life. He seems to have carried out his. idea. ' Sheriff Bull <is< widely knowh in . Grand Army of the Republic circles and was a member of Commander Walker's staff. Dtirhtg the war he was colonel i of the 149th.Indiana, and at times was an officer of the old 14th and 115th. He was brave to a fault. He was op his first term as sheriff and had just received a nomina­ tion to a second term. Sweem was a member of the Rockville Light Artillery and a poor man. but for­ tunately had insurance of $3,500 in the benevolent organizations., Bte leaves a wife and six little ones. TRAILS OF DEATH LEFT. Eight Persons Killed Outright in a Kansas Cyclone. A cyclone swept through Clay County, Kansas Saturday night, leaving a trail of destruction and death to mark its, visit. Eight persons we're instantly killed and four fatally hurt, so far as known, al­ though investigation is likely to add to this grewsome ljst. In addition a num­ ber of others were more or less seriously .hurt, and property worth thousands of dollars, herds of stock and growing crops became the- plaything of the devastating tornado. . • 'v. To add to the terror of the occasion, the storm' came at night, arousing the panic- stricken people from their slumber to face death in terrible form. Tliere was scant Warning, a few fleecy clouds in the even­ ing giving no sigii of tlie hpw 1 ing tempest that was to descend three hbtirs* later. The list of killed, so far, as reported, is as follows: E, Beltzor, Mrs\ Beltzor, Jessie 'Hall,.aged"5 years; Mrs.' Oie Halvetsoh, J. Haynes, -Mrs, Frank Peterson, Selfim Peterson-, aged 10 years; Joseph Trernbiy. The fatally injured:-John "Morris, Frank Peterson, aged 40 years; Julia Peterson^ aged '8 years; Mrs. Frank Wilkerson. A mile east of St. Joseph the first vic­ tims of the storm were found. There dwelt a well-to-do Frenchman, Eli Belt­ zor, his wife and six children. The farm house and outbuildings were torn to pieces and Mr. Beltzor and his wife killed. The family were'preparing to go into the>cellar when the storm struck them. Just east of there another fanner, Joseph Trembly, BREVITIES. The illness of the Russian ezarowitz has taken a sudden turn for the worse. The total catch of seals in the north At­ lantic for the season just closed was 207.- 000. * Jen Jung, a Chinaman charged with killing Dora Wagner, a white girl, in St. Louis, says he aid so in self-defense. Columbia University will send a band of naturalists to explore the Puget Sound region. They will leave New York June 10. Judge V> . 1>. Minick, of Morehead. Ivy., who Was shot in the arm by Plein Tolli- ver, uncle of the famous Craig Tolliver, died of blood poisoning. ,v Cognovit judgments were taken against the Ohio Buggy Company at Columbus aggregating $50.00'*. J. S. Morton is president and John Dertliick treasurer of the company. Obituary: At Anderson. I ml.. W. (J. Lindsay.--At Crystal Falls. Mich.. Sheriff Thomas Ball.--At Rochester, Ind.. I)r. Cornelius Hector, SO.--At Janesville, Wis.. Mrs. E. C, Gowdy, SO.--At (iillett. Wiss.. Louis Runkel.--At Elco. 11!., James E. McCrite. S3. A man who gave the name of Jo.hu Lewis, and who said be was an iron molder, wa arrested at San Francisco while attempting to strangle a woman in an alley. The police Iwlieve Lewis may have strangled other women who were re­ cently murdered there. Dr. A. Monroe Looser, executive sur­ geon of the Red Cross hospital in New York, has received a letter from Miss Clara Barton, dated Constantinople, in which she says that contagious diseases have spread very much at Zeitoun and .it Marash in the interior of Anatolia. The J. L. Hudson Company, Detroit clothiers, Thursday morning notified their creditors that the company is financially embarrassed and desires an extension of credits. The company has branch stores at Sandusky, St. Faul. Grand Rapids, St. Louis, Cleveland and Buffalo, but the three latter are nof in any way affected. A statement issued by the company gives assets at $1,271,840 and liabilities $518,- 154. The Epworth League board of control has recommended that the affiliation with the Christian Endeavor Society be dis­ solved. The New ^ ork World correspondent gives a list of thirty-two non-combatant „ Cubans shot without trial by the Spanish soldiers, and whose cases he has personal­ ly investigated. % Japanese Consul Salto at Tacoina has received notice that a company of eapi- ' talists has applied t > the Japanese govern­ ment for permission-to establish a steam­ ship line between Japan and New York City. The mining camp of Cripple Creek, Col., is no more. The destroying angel whose wings of fire fanned the camp on Satur­ day renewed his visitation Wednesday, and completed the calamity. Thousands of people are homeless, with two inches of snow oil the ground and a thermome­ ter that is hugging the zero mark. No description can exaggerate the condition of affairs. Two million dollars' worth of property went up in smoke, with prob­ ably one-tenth of that covered by insur­ ance. The loss of life is great owing to the reckless use of dynamite in throwing down buildings that stood 111 the path of the fire, with the hope of erecting a bar­ rier of debris that would stop further progress of the flames. The Palace ho­ tel was blown to bits, and sleeping guests were hurled to eternity. Four are known to be dead, and the injured number twen­ ty. The fire was started by bandits, Whose aim was to loot the banks. Not a business building is standing. Only a few outlying residences escaped -the flames. Peter Egbert, a Rockville, Ind.. carpen­ ter, 22 years old and unmarried, Satur­ day morning, without apparent cause or provocation, shot and instantly killed Mrs. Herman Haschks and two children, next door neighbors. He then reloaded his gun, and, coming up town, saw Sheriff W. M. Mull and Deputy Sheriff William Sweem in the National Bank stairway. Egbert shot the sheriff in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Deputy Sher­ iff 3weem was shot in the right side of the neck, being instantly killed. Egbert then made his escape to the fair grounds, just outside of town. A posse was im­ mediately organized and started in pur­ suit. Fifty or more men. armed with shotguns, rifles ani pistols, surrounded the grounds. When, he saw escape im­ possible, th- murder r killed himself. Miss Florence E^tert, tne sister of the mur^ derer. when she heard the details of the horrible affair and that her own brother was the central figure of the various tragedies, became frantic and died imme­ diately from the shock She was in bed suffering with typhoid, fever. A severe cyclone struck near Spencer, S. D., Monday at 6:30 p. m. It took a northerly course, destroying farm prop erty and doing .immense damage to crops. The littla town of Epiphany lay directly in its path and waT?*ompletely wiped off the earth, not a building left .standing-. Three persons were fatally injured and fifteen more were seriously injured in that immediate vicinity. At Madison heavy wind demolished several buildings. A family of five are reported killed outright near Montrose, bu': the report cannot be verified. It rained in Nebraska almost incessantly for twenty-four hours. In various portions of the 'State a violent gale blew, destructive of windmills and small buildings to a (Considerable extent. In North Omaha great piles of rubbish, tree limbs, mud anl sidewalks filled the street from curb to curb. Lightning that accompanied the rain played havoc with the overhead wire system and struck in several places. The greatest damage about town was sustained by the Ne­ braska Telephone Company. About 100 telephones were temporarily out of ser­ vice and nearly all the toll lines knocked out. IN GENERAL, Tha Illinois Women's Republican League named Mrs. H. F. Carriel, of Jacksonville, for State University Trus­ tee. Sir„ Mackenzie Lowell has resigned as prime minister of Canada, and it is be- lieved that Sir Charics 'l upper-has accept- ed the task of forming a new cabinet. Thomas Q. Seabrooke, the comedian, has been sued for a separation by his wife. El via Croix Seabrooke, upon the grour.d of cruelty and abandonment. Obituary: At Dresden. Ohio. Dr. D. A. Austin.--At Fairbury, 111., Mrs. Mary Gibb, 68.--At Muncie, Ind., Milton Thomas.--A%feonstantine, Mich., Samuel King.--At Elkhart, Ind., Mrs. Margaret Burdoff, 52.--At Roekford, 1111., Mrs. A. J. Storey, 63. The steamer Alki, at Port Townsend, from Alaska, had a^ passengers two seal­ ers, Gus Petersen, a German, and a half- breed, Siwash Jimmy, who left Victoria Jan. 23 in a sealing schooner, City of Sau Diego. April 4 the men, while hunt­ ing seals, were lost in a blinding snow­ storm and driven before the wind all night in a small canoe. When daylight came the schooner was hot in sight. For six days and night; the men drifted, un­ til they went on'the Alaskan beach 100 miles west of Sitka. Their feet and hands were frozen stiff. They were picked up by Indians. As the schooner City of San Diego has not been sighted since the nighi of the storm, Peterson is of the opinion she was lost. She had eighty skins at the time the men left her. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: "Business has been favored by seasonable weather, and the distribu­ tion of products has made fair progress, not yet reducing retail or wholesale stocks far enough, however, to materially 'improve the position of industries. Those stocks have apparently been large #ver since the fever of buying last fall, and the actual buying for consumption smaller than has been generally realised. Hence all the great industries are embar- ra ed by lack of adequate demand, and in some cases the accumulation of goods in anticipation of demand has gone about as far as it can. Strikes of some impor­ tance are threatened in building and win­ dow glass trades. Prices of commodities are on the whole lower than ever before. The fall in manufactured products is less than it was April 1, but in farm products greater." MARKET REPORTS. EASTERN. The dead bodies of Mrs. Joseph Cock-, ing and Miss Daisy Miller, her niece, and! the unconscious form of Joseph Cocking were found Friday in the village store kept by the Cockings at Hill Top, Md. Robbery had been the incentive Mrs. Anna Ware Tread way Winch Wilts, who is 78 years old and worth' $150,000, commenced an action at New Ybrk for absolute divorce from her hus­ band, Archie Wilts. The complaint charges Wilts with various illegal esca- pades. The trial of Arthur Mayhew, a negro, for the murder of StepheD Howell in FOREIGN, Gomez, the Cuban insurgent leader, is again reported dead. The census of Paris up to March 30 shows the French capital to have a pop­ ulation of 2,511,455, an increase of 87,- 250, chiefly outside of the fortifications. Dr. Lueger, the anti-Semite leadc#, who for the third time was recently elected burgomaster of Vienna after"his election had been annulled by the emperor, has re- - nounced the office by request of the em­ peror. The London Standard's Madrid dis patch says the minister of finance, Senor Juan Navarro Reverter, has notified the cabinet of the necessity of relief meas­ ures 011 account of the prolonged drouth, which has caused a rapid rise in the price of cereals, also injuring live stejek. Rev. George P. Ivriapp, the American missionary who was expelled from Bitlis by the Turkish authorities without trial Chicago--Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to* $4.50; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 61c to G2c corn, 'No. 2, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2, 18c to 19c; rye, No. 2, 35c to 37c: butter, choice creamery, -14c to 15c; eggs, fresh, 9c to 10c; potatoes, per bushel, 15c to 25c; broom corn, 2c to 4c per lb. for com rnon growth to fine brush. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.25; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.00 sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75 wheat, No. 2, 66c to 67c; corn, No. ] white, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis--Cattle, $3-00 to $4.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red. 69c to 71c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats No. 2 white, 17c to 18c; rye, No. 2, 36c to 38c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50 to $4.25; hogs $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00 wheat, No, 2, 70c to 72c; corn. No.. 2 mixed, 30c to 31c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 20- to 22c; rye, No. 2, 43c to 45c. Detroit--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.50; hogs $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.00 to $4.00 wheat, No. 2 red, 67c to <>8c; corn, No yellow, 28c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; rye, 37c to 38c. Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c corn. No. 2 yellow, 29c to 31c; oats, No 2 white, 19c to 20c; rye, No. 2, 38c to 39c; clover seed, $4.<»0 to $4.70. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 61c to 63c; corn, No. 3, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; barley, No. 2, 32c to 34c; rye, No. 1, 37c to 39c; pork, mess, $8,00 to $8.50. , Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $3.25 to $/ 50; wheat, No. 2 red, 71c to>'72q; corn, No. 2 yellow, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 26c. New York--Cattle, S3.00 to $4.75; hogs. $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.00 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 73c te 75c; corn, No. 2, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c; butter, .creamery, 10c to 16c; eggs, West­ ern, 10c to 12c. SCENE OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK FIRE. Bennett between Ttiird aau Fifth streets,- etopping just tnis side of the New Mid­ land depot. Nearly all the buildings be­ tween Third- and Fifth streets in Eaton were destroyed. Many people lost every­ thing they had. Twenty Thousand Letters Destroyed. The pr6perty in Meyers street was oc­ cupied in the most part by saloons. The two variety theaters, Topic and Hol- lang's, were there, and innumerable dance halls. Grace Clifton was badly burned about the face and hands. J. Anderson, while placing a charge of dynamite under the Sisters' hospital to blow it up, had a leg torn off 'by a premature explosion. The postoffice in Bennett avenue is a to­ tal wreck, only the vault standing. Twen­ ty thousand letters and thousands of packages were destroyed. The First Na­ tional Bank va^lt is standing. All' the books and papers were saved, and the bank opened for business while its build­ ing was burning in a room adjoining the BimetaKic Bank. The Episcopal and Con­ gregational churches were destroyed. The city jail, in which were confined about twenty prisoners, has only the iron cages left. The prisoners were released. The Sisters' hospital was blown up after the patients had been removed to the Pike's Peak hospital. Mayor Steele ordered all saloons closed, which prevented lawlessness. A report was started that thieves were busy and a hundred deputies were at once sworn in and the militia was called out, but no depredations were > committed. Thou­ sands of people were made homeless, but they were all given shelter by the gener­ ous people of the town. The burned sec­ tion is to be built up at once with brick and stone. Work of Rebuilding Bcirun, Already the won,; of rebuilding the burned district has begun. At a meeting of the City Council a resolution was pass­ ed allowing the erection of temporary buildings within the fire limits with the provision that all must be removed within sixty days to give place to buildings of stone and brick. Before nightfall fully twenty-five buildings were under way and quite a number are occupied. With 3,000 people rendered homeless in a day, of course lodging houses are in greatest de­ mand, and many of file;" are rapidly pro­ gressing. At an early hour telegrams began com­ ing to the Mayor from cities and towns of the State offering financial aid. These were turned over to the committee, who replied with thanks, but declining the kindly offers. Cripple Creek will take care of her own. Mayor Steele prepared a proclamation to the general public, say­ ing that outside assistance is not needed. wasluiled.--None_of the family, so far ns can be learned, was injured. Three miles south of Clifton several houses were torn down and a numbe: killed. The cyclone took tne people unawares. There had been indications of a heavy rain all day, with local showers, but no­ body expected a storm. So far as learned, the victims were in their houses, and most of them had retired. The storm struck Peter Anderson's house at 9:30 o'clock. This was about a mile from the starting point. The house was demolish­ ed in an instant. Every member of the Anderson family was injured. When they had extricated themselves from the de­ bris they discovered that Anderson's grandchild was missing. The dead body of the child was found in a ravine half a mile away. It evidently had been carried there by the wind. Anderson alarmed the neighbors who lived out of the track of the storm, and search was commenced for victims. A large number of cattle and horses were killed, and fruit in tl^e storm's track was ruined. It is impossible at this time to estimate the damage to buildings and other property. Heartrending tales of suffering are told by persons who visited the scenes of the storm. Many of the injured lay all night, pinned down by wreckage <w paralyzed in the mud, while others crawled or hobbled across'the country to a neighbor's house. In several instances people were lifted into the air by the cyclone and carried for a distance, and then suddenly dropped. Buildings were lifted up and then hurled to the ground with force enough to de­ molish them. The wife and daughter of John Morris were reading when the shock came. The house was divided. The wom­ en managed to get out, when the wind picked them up, carried them 200 yard's and let them safely down on a pile of straw, just away from the storm's track. FIGURING ON THE DEFICIT. EGBERT KILLS FIVE PERSONS. He Then Takes His Own Life--His Sister Dies from the Shock. Peter Egbert, a Rockville, Ind., carpen­ ter, 22 years old and unmarried, Satur­ day morning, without apparent cause or provocation, shot and instantly killed Mrs. Herman Ilaschke and two children, next door neighbors. He then reloaded his gun, and, going up town, saw Sheriff W. M. Mull and Deputy Sheriff Sweem in the National Bank stairway. Egbert put up his weapon and shot the sheriff in the back of the head,, killing him instantly. Deputy Sheriff Sweem was at the bottom of the stairs and was shot in the right side of the neck, being instantly killed. Egbert then made his escape to the fair grounds, just outside of town. A posse was immediately organized and started in pursuit. Fifty or more men, armed with shotguns, rifles and pistols," surrounded the. grounds. Here, when Egbert found escape impossible, he fired a charge of buckshot into his own head and expired immediately. Miss ITlorence Egbert, the sister of the murderer*, when she heard the details of the horrible affair and that her own broth­ er was the centralBfigure of the various tiagedies became frantic and died imme­ diately from the shock. She was in bed suffering with typhoid fever. Egbert was about 21 years old and. un­ married. He was a great reader and efudied Shakspeare much. His compan­ ions say be frequently remarked that if Officials Ketimate the Total for the Fiscal Year Will Be $25,000,000. The treasury deficit for tne fiscal year ending June 30, 1896, will be approxi­ mately $25,000,000. This, according to a Washington dispatch, is the opinion of officials and others best qualified to make an intelligent estimate of the result of the fiscal operations„of the year. In his annual estimates sent to Congress at the beginning of the present session, the Sec­ retary of the Treasury estimated the re­ ceipts from customs during the fiscal year at $172,000,000. So far, with nearly ten months of the year gone, the customs re­ ceipts have reached about $137,000,000, with a fair prospect of increasing to $165,- 000,000 by the close of the year. The esti­ mate of the receipts from internal revenue sources was $158,000,000. Up to this time they have reached $120,000,000 and it is expected that the figures for the com­ pleted year will be about $146,000,000. • The receipts from miscellaneous sources are expected to slightly exceed the esti­ mates of $15,000,000, making the total receipts for the year about $327,000,000. The Secretary's estimate of the year's ex­ penditures was $362,000,000, which, ac­ cording to his figures, would leave a defi­ ciency of $17,000,000. The actual expenditures, however,,it is now thought, will aggregate about $352,- 000,000, or $10,000,000 less than Mr. Car­ lisle's estimate in December last so that the deficit at Jibe close of the year, it in believed, will not show any very material change from Saturday's figures, $25,162,- 423. This makes the total deficit for the threfc? fiscal years ending June 30, 1896, $136,S61,812. TRIAL OF JAGKSON. ' Alleged Murderer of Pearl Bryan Fighting for His Life. The end is drawing, near in the Pearl Bryan murder case--that case so full of guilty romance, of mysterjrand of pathos. Seldom has a trage­ dy so engrossed the minds of the public as this horrible dra­ ma of the bleak hills of the Kentucky Highlands, where in "the murky gloom of a cold January night the unfortunate vic­ tim, of her own love and a man's fiendish scheming was be­ headed. No adorn­ ment is needed for the story of the judge hklm. crime; it stands forth as strange, as weird and as intricate as any novelist's conception. Not yet are all the features in the-case made jclear; but the trial of Scott Jackson, which is. now progressing in the Campbell County court at Newport, Ky., will lift fully the veil of mystery. And following his trial for the butchery of Pearl Bryan will come that of his accomplice, Alonzo Walling. Interest in the trial of Jackson is very deep and very general and the co,urt room, in which Judge Helm presides, is every CAMI'BICUi COUNTY COURTHOUSE. Where the Tr ia l I s Be ing He ld . day crowded with people, anxious to see the prisoner' and take in every detail of t?he proceedings. Judge Helm and Sheriff Plummer de­ cided to admit only 200 spectators to the court room at one time. Tickets are given out for each half day, and no one will be given tickets twice during the trial. In this way the sheriff hopes to discourage traffic in tickets, which, if placed on sale, would undoubtedly demand a high price. A theory which finds many supporters is that Jackson will take the stand and admit he was instrumental in bringing about Miss Bryan's death; that he was a mutual friend of the victim and Will Wood, and that at their request he agreed to perform the operation and requested Walling to assist him. This they .attempt­ ed to do and made a mistake which re­ sulted in death, but the crime was com­ mitted in Cincinnati, and with a view to SENATE AND HOUSE. WORK OF rOUR NATIONAL LAW. MAKERS. A Week's Proceedings in the Halls of Congress--Important Measures Dis­ cussed and Acted Upon--An* Impar­ tial Resume of the Business. 1 miry" -Hi JACKSON AND HIS ATTORNEYS. concealing the victim's identity the body was taken to Fort Thomas and the head severed. Should the truth of this story be established a conviction in Kentucky could not stand. Thus there is a possi­ bility of the defendant escaping punish­ ment on technicalities, even though he be guilty. Witnesses were examined Saturday to establish the identity of the headless body found near Fort Thomas as that of Pearl Bryan's and to prove that she was mur­ dered at the very spot where she was found. In the afternoon the defense be­ gan to cross-examine witnesses. The method pursued indicated the lines of defense; one that the body was killed by some drug several hours before it was beheaded where it was found; also that all confessions of Jackson were made un­ der durance, were not voluntary and will be incompetent as evidence. ^ The National Solons. The Senate gave Friday to the sundry civil appropriation bill without complet-^ ing it. Mr. Shern - n sought to take up"^ tne bill proposing, a repeal of the law giv­ ing a rebate on the tax on alcohol used in the arts, but the measure went over. A proposal by Mr. Bacon (Dem.) of , Georgia giving the Cotton States Exposi­ tion Company $13,000 balance of the for­ mer appropriation unexpended was adopt­ ed. The bill then went over. The joint resolution giving to Senators Mantle of Montana and Clark 6f Wyoming the sal­ ary from March"4, 1894, instead of from the date of election, was adopted. The House decided to proceed with the Pick- ler pension bill and the whole day was consumed in the discission of that meas­ ure. The House non-concurred in the Senate amendments to . the; Indiah' bill and agreed to a conference.. The evening r' session was devoted to private pension bills. . . /- •. - ; ' In the. Senate Saturday the sundry civil appropriation bill was completed.an<1 pass­ ed during the day. .. As it paSsed* the House it carried about $3O,O0O.'QOO; as re­ ported to the Senate, it reached $35,000.^, 000, -"ind with amendments added the to­ tal was raised to'-$37,0Q0.000; Most, of the time in the House Was occupied with the general pension bill- The deba te -was generally formal in character. At half- past 2 o'clock, without concluding debate • on the bill, the House entered upon the special order--the delivery of eulogies on the late Representative William II. Crane of Texas. Then the House, as a further mark of respect to the memory of the de­ ceased. adjourned until 8 o'clock. The debate on tne adoption of a rule brought in by the Rules Committee in the House Monday for a vote 011 the Pickler general pension bill was rather sensa­ tional, though nothing was accomplished. The minority report on the Pacific Rail­ road bill was submitted to the House by Representative Hubbard of Missouri. It deals exhaustively with the financial con­ ditions of the companies concerned in the proposed funding plan. It argues that the majority bill should not be adopted. The Senate did nothing of importance. The Senate was plunged into an excit­ ing financial debat? Tuesday, after sev­ eral weeks of serene and formal procedure 'on appropriation bii.'s. The naval appro­ priation bill was under consideration, and the item of four battle ships, to cost an aggregate of $15,000,000, served as a text for a speech by Mr. Gorman pointing out that the revenues of the Government are less than the receipts. Mr. Gorman's statements brought on a:; animated con­ troversy, in which Mr. Sherman! Mr. Hale and Mr. Chandler joined issues vita the Maryland Senator as to the responsi­ bility for the failure of tariff legislation in the present Congress. The House pass­ ed the Pickler general pension bill by a vote of 1S7 to 54. The section to which the bulk of the opposition was directed provides that persons otherwise entitled to pensions shall no be disqualified on ac­ count of prior service in the Confederate army, provided they joined the Union forces ninety^lays before Lee's surrender. Both House and Senate spent Wednes­ day in debate of various^measures. Ab­ solutely nothing of importance was done. The general debate on the bankruptcy bill was continued and concluded in the House Thursday. Mr. Bailey of Texas gave notice that he would offer as a sub­ stitute his voluntary bankruptcy bill. The Senate spent another day on the naval appropriation bill without completing it. Mr. Gorman further opposed the item of four battle ships and expressed the opin­ ion that the appropriations already made would consume the balance in the treas­ ury. A determination of the number of battle ships has not yet. been reached. Mr. Chandler has proposed substituting thirty large and fast torpedo gunboats for two of the battle ships. The bill was passed increasing the pension of Brigadier Gen­ eral William Gross of the volunteer forces to $75 per month. LITTLE RUTH CLEVELAND. Thoujjh the President's Daughter She Had Common Measles. Doubtless, every plain, ordinary citizen from one end of the country to the other has had the measles at some time or other. The malady is 110 respecter of persons. It invades the mansion of the rich as well as the lowly cot of the poor; At an early hour in the morning the police discovered a house to be oft fife, at Columbus, O. By breaking in the door they rescued Col. John A. Keith, well known in State and national Grand Army of the Republic circles, who was asleep and almost suffocated by the smoke. Dispatches f;rom Hudson bay report the arrival there of the crews of the fishing schooners Wilhelmina, Mary and Ellen, which were lost on St. Patrick's night in the straits of Belle Isle, while engaged in seal fishing. Several,,of the men were frost-bitten, but no lives were lost. RUTH CLEVELAND. the palace of the king as well as the hut of the peasant. It entered the home of President Cleveland and two of his little tots were stricken. Esther, the Pi'esi- dent's second oldest daughter, was at­ tacked first. Every precaution was taken to keep it from th? other children, Rutu and Marion, but despite every effort the former, the first born of the I'rtsideiit, also fell ix victim. News of Minor Note. Nine Russian warships are now at Nag­ asaki, awaiting the arrival of six others. Pnderewski,' the pianist, has placed in the hands of William Mason, of New York, and Col. H. L. Higginson, of Bos­ ton, as trustees, $10,000 for the purpose of establishing triennial prizes for compos­ ers'of American birth. Perry S. Heath, who for over two years has been president and general manager of the Commercial Gazette at Cincin­ nati, lias sold his interests in that com­ pany, and has resigned and retired from the directory and management. A, settlement with the creditors of ,P. H. Ivelly, of the Kelly Mercantile Com­ pany in St. Paul, has been made, and tl^e assignees left for Chicago and the East to meet the creditors elsewhere. The creditors in that city agree to a'60 per cent settlement. The abolishment of the Mexican custom houses in the interior of the country, to take effect July 1 next, the beginning of the new fiscal year, is announcd|l in a communication to the Postofiief-^Depart- ment here from the Director General of Posts of M exico. Items of Interest. England's police army numbers 40,- 000 men. Sunflower stalks are now converted into paper. The Cherokees of North Carolina number 2,885. Blotting paper is made of cotton rags, boiled in soda. The Russian imperial crowu is val­ ued nt-$6,000,000. The notes of the Bank of England cost one-lialf penny each. The eggs of a crocodile are scarcely larger than those of a goose. The Himalaya Mountains have been seen twenty-two miles away. Railway travel in Norway is cheaper than in any other country of Europe. In Brazil there are said to be 300 languages and dialects spoken by the Indians. In the Bermudas accounts are settled but once a year, June 30 being the day fixed for payments. The commander-in-chief of the Sul­ tan of Morocco's army is a Scotchman, by name Ivaid McLaln. In marching soldiers take seventy- five steps per minute, quick marching 108 and in charging 150. A healthy man respires 16 to 20 times a minute, or over 20,000 a day: a child 25 or .35 times a minute. • it Is said that a clock lias been in­ vented which requires to be wound only once every lnuidred years. The number of fleeces taken from our sheep in 1880 was 32,121.868, which made 165,440.230 pounds of wool. The largest ocean creature now known to exist is the rorqual, which often reaches a length of fourteen feet. William Strong is the only retired justice of the Supreme Court' of the United States now living. He is 86 years old. * < It is said that at Stevens Point. Wis., a local census disclosed a husband oC 37 and wife of 35 who had a grandchild 5 years old. The oldest chestnut tree may be that at-Torworth, which is 50 feet iu circum­ ference. As long ago as 1135 it was a landmark. \ A11 electric system of intercommuni­ cation for trains is being tried 011 the London Southwestern Railway, doing away with the overhead cord for com­ municating from any part of the train to the locomotive. - The New York Lenox avenue conduit road (underground trolley) has emerg­ ed successfully from the tests to which the severe storms of last winter sub­ jected it. The equipment of this line is to be increased.