Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 25, 1899, Page 2

The Lievald--Review. | PITH OF THE NEWS By E. Kiley. MINNESOTA. GRAND RAPIDS - Love finds the way in, but it has to be thrown out. it’s a poor contortionist that can’t make both ends meet. The man who itches for a thing may Bet it by lively scratching. Some men judge by appearances, bat detecti judge by disappearances. The indolent man is the first ‘to claim that he never had an opportu- nity. Bread may be the staff of life, but what the average man wants is.a fat pudding. There are fewer things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in a nightmare. The rye whisky combine will prob- be followed by a strong advance in the beadache market. The druggist who has scruples should also poss i ounces and pounds. tio A man never cares anything about meeting his wife’s relations—unless they are rich and distinguished. When an estate is divided according to law it means that the heirs get what left after the lawyers get through. Ambassador Choate took 12 trunks to England. It is to be hoped that none of them appertained to a white elephant. Appearances would indicate that heaven sometimes helps those who have alréady succeeded in helping themselves. With the introduction of the smoke- Yess locomotive comes the hope that some day there will be a tipless sleep- ing car porter, Gen, Eagan says it was intended to use the canned roast beef merely as an incident. It has become quite an important incident. It is rumored that the north pole has been discovered, but nobody has as yet come forward with a reasonable suggestion concerning the use to which it may be put. Mayor Jones of Toledo, O., is a can- didate for re-election upon a platform which ‘is composed chiefly of the gol- den rule. The only fear his friends have is that the voters may look with suspicion upon this “new and untried issue.” What'the Indian needs is a home in severalty and the breaking up of all tribal relations. The quicker he gets white neighbors of the right kind the quicker he will be free from the bale- ful influence of the squaw man. With or without treaties the allotment of Indian lands should be pushed along until the country is free from “reserva- tions,’ which are often plague spots to the surrounding country, as well as to the Indians resident thereon. Consul-Gen. ‘Holloway writes from St. Petersburg:to the state department that Russia constitutes a world large enough to command the attention of the leading manufacturers and export- ers of the United States who are seek- ing a market for'their surplus. There is a general desire on:the part of Rus- sian ‘merchants and dealers to make connections with American manufac- turers, provided ‘this can be done ad- vantageously—that is,,if they can deal directly with ‘the home.company. The surest and )best ‘means of introducing goods into :Russia .is to send samples by a thoroughly competent representa- tive af the business it is;aimed to pro- mote. Articles af American manufac- ture, with ithe exception .of ,portable and ‘traction -engines, threshing ma- chines and ;plows, .are ,preferred to those manufactured in England, Bel- gium and Germany,.our principal com- petiters. Said William Black, in answer to certain critics who deplored the lack of “realistic” .effects in his novels: “I prefer to write about sane people and honest people, and I imagine that.after all, they are in the majarity ‘in the world.” He uttered a cheering and wholesome truth here. ‘The “realism” which prides itself upon depicting :the sordid tragedies of human existence, which confounds the exceptional with the general, which finds mp joy, mo nobleness in life, is blind to its faets and deaf to its teachings. One tires of it all, and longs for something sweeter, less ignoble, less superficial and misleading. “Tnwe realism,” says Stevenson, “is always @nd everywhere that of the poets—to find out where joy resides and give it voice.” Gov. Pingree of Miehigan has de- clared epen war upon Mark Hanna, but as the jatter has been pronouneed guiltless of the charge of obtaining his Seat in the senate by unlawy] means, and it isn’t likely, therefore, that he will consent to keep on lying awake nights and worrying. In view of the fact that the presi- dent of France hag an income of $250,- 600 a year, he can afford to be com- posed even while those around him are permitting themselves to be swayed by passion, | | DIGEST OF THE NEWS FROM ALL | PARTS OF THE WORLD. | A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Tel- egraph Reports — The Notable | Events at Home and Abroad That i Have Attracted Attention. Causalities. L. Lournan of Cincinnati, on board the S. N. Castle, bound for Honolulu, fell overboard and was drowned. The Marysville, Cal., woolen mills were damaged by fire to the amount of | $100,000. Frank Peck of Yuba City was burned to death. A freight train on the Texas & Pa cific railroad became derailed at a point eighty miles west of El Paso, ‘Texas, resulting in the death of En- gineer J. W. McMurray, Fireman Geo. Euts and a one-armed tramp named John Freed of Pennsylvania, who was stealing a ride in one of the cars. The steamer Direge was picked up by the Victoria Tees and towed to Ju- neau. The headless corpse of a man, man gled and bruised, with one shoe and a | bit of rope dangling from an ankle, was found tossing on the waves of Lake Michigan, near Hyde Park, Chi- cago. | | | | From Washington. It is believed at Washington that England has not abandoned the open door policy in China. | The soldiers of the Sixth immunes, ‘recently returned from Porto Rico, have decided that they do not want ; to go to the Philippines or elsewhere | in the regular army. Frank A. Vanderlip, assistant secre- | tary of the treasury, after several weeks’ absence on account of serious illness at his home in Chicago, has re- | turned to his duties greatly improved j in health. Secretary Alger has issued an order quoting the paragraph in the army law abolishing the canteen and prohib- iting the sale of liquor on army reser- vations. It is stated the provision of | the law is published for the informa- tion of all concerned. A board of officers has been consti- tuted to prepare a project for the Southwest Pass, Mississippi river. It consists of Col. Henry M. Robert, corps of engineers, U. S. A.; Lieut. Col. G. M. McC. Derby, U. 8. V., major corps of engineers, U. S. Az; Robert Moore, civil engineer, and William Starling, civil engineer. Crimes and Criminals. The people in Ashley, a suburb of Wilkesbarre, Pa., are terror-stricken over the work of a gang of jncendia- ries. Mrs. Minnie Adams of San Francis- co has been arrested on suspicion of having murdered her two-year-old ille- gitimate child, John Richard Gray, by administering carbolic acid. George J. Mink, aged ten, was stabbed under the left shoulder blade at Detroit by Xavier Glombin, a twelve-year-old boy. The blade pene- trated the lung and will probably prove fatal. While crazed with liquor, Dr. Chas. F. Murray, son of Dr. R. J. Murray, one of the most prominent physicians of Beaver Valley, at Pittsburg,’ Pa., shot and killed John Jennings, his father’s colored butler. Murray then rushed to the stable, saddled a favor- ite horse and rode into the country. A free-for-all fight with knives and razors occurred between soldiers of the Twenty-fourth infant resort near Cheyenne, W: Greenhouse of Company [ was fatally statbed, and Sergeant Barnes of the same company, who was his assailant, was badly wounded. Barnes has dis- appeared and a searching party is out after him. Sporting Noton. Teddy McGovern of New , York knocked out Patsy Haley of Buffalo in the eighth round of a fast, fierce and clever bout before the Lenox Athletic club. Walter. Spalding, a director of the New York Baseball club for years, has resigned because he believes the club is not being operated in a sports- manilike way. Much interest is displayed in sport- ing circles in Paris in a boxing match just arranged between Reynolds, an American, and Charlemont, the French champion. Paddy Purtell of Kansas City and James Scanlan of Pittsburg met in a twenty-round glove contest at the Auditorium at Memphis, ‘The fight was a lively one throughout, resulting in a draw. People Talked Aboxt. Martin J. Carter of Pennsylvania has been appointed consul of the Unit- ed States at St. Johns, N. F. | Lieut. de Faramond, of the French navy, is at Washington to study American naval methods. Rey. W. ©. Dickinson, D. D., a well known Presbyterian minister, died at Evanston, Ill. Richard H. Leech, chief engineer United States navy, retired, died at bis home in Brooklyn. It is generally believed that Herbert Putnam of Boston will accept the pe- sition of librarian of congress. Baron Kussel, lord chief justice of fEngland, has been appointed to sue- eeed the late Baron Herschell on the Venezuelan arbitration commission. Herr Ludwig Bamberger, a former member of the reichstag and the au- thor of a number of works on history and political economy, is dead. Dr. John MeDougall Dunlap died at bis home in Indfanapolis, aged seventy years. He was widely known as a nose and throat specialist. The session of the general conference of America rabbis at Cincinnati was devoted to the celebration of the eight- jeth birthday of Dr. Wise, with many eulogies of him at the Phoenix Club dinner, ‘land offiee at Pueblo, Col. : .. Foreign. The house of commons rejected the motion for a reduction in the naval estimates—147 to 2. A report is current in diplomatic cir- cles at Vienna of the engagement of Princess Victoria of Wales to Prince George of Greece. Countess Russell, wife of Earl Rus- sell, the notorious “Bab” Scott, made her stage debut at Plymouth, Eng., in “A Runaway Girl.” The Newfoundland government is fitting out the revenue cruiser Fiona for the annual spring campaign against the stpply of bait to French fishermen in New Foundland waters. Baron Russell, lord chief justice of England, will probably succeed the late Baron Herschell on the joint high com- mission and the Anglo-Venezuelan commission. The principal English railway com- panies have resolved to dispatch agents to institute a private inquiry into the working of automatic couplings in the United States. The officers belonging to the Argen- tina training ship Presidente Sarmien- to are visiting Santiago de Chile, where they are being accorded a cor- dial reception. The parliamentary secretary of the British foreign office says that Italy has been a friend and ally of Great Britain and will be welcomed as an ally in the far East if she can come in by diplomacy. Other nations may also come in if English interests do not suffer. The Conservative government of England is in financial straits. The national expenditures total up £112 158,200, an increase of £4,471,200 over the estimates. The deficit will prob- ably be met by a reimposition of the former tobacco duty and an increase of the income tax to 9 pence. Otherwise. England and Germany now seem to be on the best of term: Reciprocity treaties Germany are in sight. A Chicago packer says there is no such thing as canned roast beef. Leading tanneries in the country will combine. The Thirteenth Pennsylvania was mustered out at Augusta, Ga. As expected, the Delaware legislat- ure adjourns without electing a sen- ator, The law prohibiting the sale of liquor in St. Louis on Sunday is being rigidly enforced, ‘The re-establishment at Camp Meade, near Middletown, Pa., for the muster of volunteer troops, is going rapidly forward. There has been a great decrease in the sales of whisky in Kentucky in the past two weeks. Fifty distilleries in Kenturky are not in the combine. The Kansas supreme court handed down a unanimous opinion that the extra session of the legislature called by Goy. Leedy in December, is legal. The strike at the Schoen Pressed Steel works at Pittsburg, Pa., was practically broken by the return of sev- eral hundred workmen to their old pe- sitions. Smallpox has been widely prevalent in Washington of late, and the health officers are bending every effort to cteck what*has threatened to assume the aspect of an epidemic. A special from Lake City, Col., says the armed Indian strikers prevented ‘other miners from going to work in their places in the Hidden Treasure and Ute and Ulay mines. The Cummer Lumber company’s saw mill, together with 12,000,000 feet of pine lumber, docks, ete., was de- stroyed by fire at Jacksonville, Ila. "The loss will reach $600,000. A receiver has been appointed for the Continental Fraternal union, an endowment insurance company, organ- ized in Richmond, Ind., eight years ago. The Internatinal Air Power Compa- ny of New York has changed its name to the International Power company and increased its capital from $7,000,- G00 to $8,000,000. Tex-Judge W. M. Moore of Pittsburg has about completed a deal whereby a combine of the shee steel manufactur- ers of the country will be effected. ‘The capital will be $50,000. Ellwood Pomeroy of Newark, N. J., has issued a call for a social and polit- ical conference at Buffalo, June 23 to July 3. Gov. Pingree’s name heads the list of signers. The Noonday Yeast company, with “a capital stock of $1,000,000, was in- eorporated at Trenton, .N. J. The in- eorporators are Richard B. Sulter, J. C. Heald and Edna Conrad of Cleveland, The annual convention of the Repub- lican party of Rhode Island was held, and Gov. Elisha Dyer and other state officers were unanimously renominat- ed. Timothy Howard of Australia, who will have charge of the government telegraph and telephone systems of that country, is in the United States, inaking an investigation of the Ameri- can methods on these lines. Notice has been posted in the Fisk- dale, Mass., mills that on and after April 1 the wages will be raised to their former standard, whieh means, practically an increase of about 11 &3 per cent. Gov. Roosevelt has signed an amend- ment to the civil code which prohibits absolutely a physician from divulging any information concerning one of his patients, either before or after the death of the patient. ‘The Missouri senate has passed a bill allowing insurance companies to in- sure against loss by burglary or rob- bery; also, against loss of money, se- curities or valuables transported by registered letter or express. A run started on the Cincinnati Say- ings society, without apparent cause, was promptly met by the payment of all checks presented. The officers at- tribute the run to the malice of a de- positor. Applications of the Roxanna Gold Mining company to patent what is said to be the richest portion of land on which the Isabella Gold Mining company is producing ore at Cripple Creek, was denied in-the United States fais is eon- sidered 4 victory fer the Isabella com- pany. ‘ with England CAINTA IS CAPTURED THE TWENTIETH REGULARS IN A HOT BATTLE. Insurgents Driven From Another Stronghold After Desperate Fighting—Splendid Advance of the Americans Under a Heavy Fire—The American Loss Seven- teen Wounded; Filipines Lose Heavily — Brisk Engagement in the Trenches Near Caloocan—In- surgents Open Fire on the Out- posts—Montana Man Killed. Manila, March 18. — The strongly fortified village of Cainta, northwest of Pasig, was captured after a desper- ate fight, by the Twentieth regular in- fantry. The Americans lost seventeen wounded, while the rebels’ loss was heavy. . ‘The first battalion of the Twentieth infantry. regiment advanced from Pasig, clearing the country to Cainta, a well defended village of 700 inhabi- tants, five miles ‘northwest of the foothills. The troops first encountered the rebel outposts in the dense jungle on the banks of the river. The enemy was dislodged after half an hours fighting. he Americans advanced in splendid manner under a heavy fire until all was ready to volley the rebels from the trenches. The latter had a great advantage and dropped a num- ber of our men. The Americans charged across the rice fields, making four advances on the enemy, who numbered 1,000 men, 500 of whom were entrenched, and in the face of a cross-fire. Our troop scarried the town after four hours’ fighting and burned the outskirts, the rebels firing from the windows and keeping up a running fire in the streets. The Americans then withdrew in order to get some more ammunition. The rebels lost about 100 men and the American loss was Corporal Johnson of Company C and Private MeAvoy of Company L, killed. In addition, the following Americans were wounded: Sergeant Check, Company L;_ Cor- oral Households, M; Private Kelly, C; Private Kinney, C; Private ‘Tinkler, C; Privates Varley and Gilley, G; Pri- vate Caley, F; Privates Hahan, Grif- fiths, Lafeyth and MacFarland, L. Artie Cluckman, the regimental “mascot.” carried a parrot into action and was wounded in the knee. A Brush Near Caloocan. The insurgents at the outposts and jn the trenches beyond Caloocan fired several volleys last night upon the Kansas volunteers and a part of the Fourth regulars, desiring, it is sup- posed, to discover if the American line had been thinned by the movement of Gen, Wheaton’s command. The Amer- icans in the trenches replied warmly to the fire. H. M. Beecher of Com- pany A, of the Montana regiment, was killed in the engagement. A bat- talion of the Twentieth regular in- fantry routed a small band of Fili- pinos on the Laguana road, and some sharpshooters, who were firing from a house over which a French flag was flying, were dislodged. A gunboat entered the lake and silenced a one- gun battery in the foothills, ISLANDS OF THE SEA. Except Luzon Welcome the Americans Gladly. Washington, March 18.—The follow- ing from Gen. Otis has reached the war department “Reports from Iloilo indicate im- provements; less activity on the part of insurgents of islands; reports from Negros most encouraging; inhabitants enthusiastic, quiet prevails through- out the island and Col. Smith direct- ing affairs in framing internal govern- ment. Cebu quiet, business progress- ing under United States protection AN reports from Samar and Leyte indi- cate desire of inhabitants for United States troops; these jslands occupied, insurgents’ control confined to Luzon and the occupation of the Pasig river line with contro) of Laguada de Bay has cut the country occupied by the Taglios in nearly equal] parts.” CARNIVAL CONTRACT. Preparations Under Way for a Big Event in Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., March 18. — The directors of the Milwaukee Carnival association have given to the St. Louis builders of floats a contract for $15,- 000 for the carnival pageant to be held here June 30. Through the treachery of an employe at St. Louis the draw- ings of the first designs already well under way in construction were sold to and printed by a local German pa- per. Notwithstanding the delay to be caused by preparing new designs, the contractors, by working day and night, will deliver the pageant on time. The directors hold blameless the contractors for the unfortunate ex- pose. CONSTERNATION IN BERLIN. Report That Mr. White Wil) Be Ap- pointed Peace Commissioner. Berlin, March 18.—The Washington telegram saying that Ambassador White will be appointed United States commissioner to the coming peace conference has caused a feeling nearly approaching consternation in the em- bassy. The ambassador knows noth- ing about it, and owing to the number of matters coming up just now be- tween Germany and the United States the report was not credited. Cows With Tuberculosis. Bethlehem, Pa., March 18. — Nine head of fine Alderney cows, suffering from tuberculosis, were shot at Oliver Randolph's dairy by order of the state veterinary board. ‘This is the first dis- covery of the disease in Lehigh valley. Will Get Their Pay, Madrid, March 18. — The Spanish government has concluded a loan of 30.000,000 pesetas with the banking house of Urquijo. The money will be devoted to paying the Spanish troops ; Who have served in Cuba. } Passenger on hoard the steamer Lees, ! A BATTLE IN ALASKA. A Clash Between Americans and Canadians. New York, March 19. — A special j from Vancouver, B. C., says: Carl Slummerfelt, a German, who was a which has arrived here from the Lynn } canal, brought the news that a battle had been fought between American and Canadian miners, a few miles off the Dalton trail. Four men are re- ported to have been killed outright and a number of others are said to have | been seriously injured. When the alien mining law of British Columbia was enforced a few months ago, the American miners left Atlin, the new Canadian gold district, and struck north. They found, a short dis- tane efrom the Dalton trail, on the Porcupine river, a district rich in plac- er gold. It was generally conceded that the new placers were American territory, and the miners vowed that no Canadian should ake a claim. Some Canadian mounted policemen, however, did stake claims in the Amer- ican territory, and justified their act by moving the Canadian flag from Mount Pleasant, on the trail, so as to; make the line take in a rich part ad ! Hi the district They were followed by at least forty Canadian miners, who all located good claims. <A fortnight ago about one hundred American miners held a meet- ing and decided to send notices to all Canadians to leave the country within five days. The notices were sent out, but no heed was paid to them. Slum- merfeit, who left the Porcupine river district two weeks ago, s “Early on the morning of the sixth day the American miners met and pro- ceeded to the Canadian camp. *T don’t believe they intended blood- shed, although they were fully armed. Before they could even state the ob- ject of their visit some one—I don’t know from which party—fired a shot, and then everybody seemed to be Windsor ; out the building. shooting. Seve rounds were fired and four men, I told, were killed outright—an American and three Cana- dians. “The battle was very brief and*re- sulted fn the Canadians, about fifty in number, flying across the border. The Americans then returned to their own camp.” THE MARKETS. Larest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, March 20. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 67 @ 681-2c; No. 2 North- ern, 64 1-2@65 1-2c. Corn— 3 yellow, 31 @ 32c; No. 3-4 @ 311-4¢. Oats —No. 3 white, 2! @281-4c. Barley and Rye — Ss barley, 40@44¢; No. 2 rye, 511-2 No. 3 rye, 491 Duluth, Mar 0). — Wheat—Cash, No. 1 hard, 67c; No. 1 Northern, 65 1-8c; No. 2 Northern, 615-8c; No. 3 spricg, 58c; to arrive, No. 1_ hard, ¢; No. 1 Northern, 65 5-8c; March, o. 1 hard, 671-8c; No. 1 Northern, 65 1-8c; May, No. 1 hard, 691-8c; No. 1 Northern, 67 1-8c; July, No. 1 hard, 69 5-8: No. 1 Northern, 67 5. oats, 26 1-24 ; Tye, 51c; barley, 40@46e. Migneapolis, March 20. — Wheat — March closed at May opened at 65¢e and closed at 643-4c; July opened at 66c and closed at 66c. On track—No. 1 hard, 653-4c; No. 1 Northern, 64 3-4ce: No. 2 Northern, 62 3-4e. Milwaukee, Wis., March 20—Flour is lower. Wheat weak; No. 1 Northern, 67c; No. 2 Northern, 651-2c. Oats lower at 281-4@281-2c. Rye lower; No. 1, 5 Barley lower; No. 2, 47@ 47 1-2c: sample, 39@44c. Chicago, March 20, — Wheat—No. 2 red, G7@68c; No. 3, 65@66c; 68C: ple 0 1-2¢, 251 -4e, Chicago, March 20. — Hogs — Light, 35@3.9 |, $3.65@ 5; heavy, 5@3.95; .70. Cattle | —Beeves, $3.90@5.60; cows and heife: | $2 @ 4.75; Texas steers, $3.40@4.7 stockers and _ feeders, $3.40@4.4 Sheep — Natives, $3.40@4.85; lambs, $4.4005.50. Sioux City, Iowa, March 20.—Hogs— $3.55@3.70. Cattle—Beeves, $4@5.10; cows, bulls and mixed, $2@4; stockers and feeders, $3.50@4.50; calves and yearlings, $3.75@4.90. South St. Paul, March 20. — Hogs— 83.70@3.75. Cattle — Cows, $2.10 } 3.35; steers, $4.37 1 40; stockers, $3@4.60; bulls, $2.7! Sheep, $4.25 @. IN NEGROS. New York, March 19.—The Herald correspondent at Iloilo says: I have just returned from Negros island. A committee, with Col. Smith presiding, is drafting a constitution on simple lines, placing the government in the hands of the natives, except the cus- toms, postal and telegraphic services, muitary and police matters and exter- nal politics. Telegrams from other portions of the island betoken friendly sentiments toward the Americans. It is ukely that there will be a peaceful resumption af all business. | I learned that the Boston had gone to Zamboanga, formerly the refuge of ; the Spaniards from the southern is- | lands, to assume peaceful control. I learned also that after a conference be- | tween Gen. Miller, Commander Walker of the Concord, Lieut. Cowper, com- manding the British gunboat Plover, and prominent natives on board the | Plover, it was decided that Lieut. Cow- i per should cross the lines eerie pl and negotiate a settlement with the rebels, who are much reduced in num- | bers owing to desertions. Should this | result be reached the bottom would be | knocked out of the revolution. The only thing left will be for Otis to tackle Luzon, and his troops suo | soon reduce Aguinaldo and his faction to suing for peace. An Englishman named Cogan is held as hostage in the Island of Leyte, and the Plover will proceed there to obtain his release. All is quiet in the other Visayan islands. Question of Succession, | London, March 19.—According to a dispatch from Nice the question of the succession to the throne of Saxe-Co- burg-Gotha has been decided in favor of the duke of Connaught’s son, Prince Arthur, born Jan. 13, 1883. Overdue British Ship Sighted, Queenstown, March 19.—The British steamer Lucania, just arrived, reports speaking off Brownhead, the overdue British ship Czrnarvon § Bay, Capt. Griffiths, from Tacoma Sept, 17, for Queenstown, } \ | @28 1-20; No. 3, = | Fanfulla MANY LIVES WERE LOST AWFUL CALAMITY ATTENDS A HO- TEL FIRE IN NEW YORK. Hotel Completedy De- stroyed by Fire—Flames Spread So Rapidly That Many People Were Cut Off From Escape—Fronr Ten to Fifteen Lives Lost and About Forty Persons Injared in Jumping From Windows — Wild Scenes of Excitement Within an@ Withont the Building—It Will Be Some Time Before a Complete List of Casualties Is Known, New York, March 19. — which originated from the igi a lace curiain burst forth from the second floor of the Windsor hotel at y-seventh street and Fifth avenue ok yes ; shortly after 3 o’ek noon just the St. F was prday after- y parade sing the building, and in a few minutes they had leaped up to the roof and enveloped the entire Fifth avenue and Forty-seventh street fronts of the | Ten minutes later the flames were roaring throughout the interior of the hotel and all escape by means of stairways and elevators was cut off. There was the wildest scene of excitement within and with- Hundreds of guests and employes were in the hotel when the fire broke out, and for many of them escape with safety was impos- sible. Probably from ten to fifteca lives were lost within a half-hour and thirty or forty persons wi injured in jumping from windows and in rush- ing through the roaring fiam: n the corridors and on the stairw Many who were injured died later at nuear- by residences and at hospitals’and oth- ers, who made wild leaps to the stone sidewalks, were so badly injured that they are still hovering between life and death. It may be twenty-four hours or more before the complete list of fatalities becomes known, and it will be Jonger than that before it can be ascertained definitely how many charred bodies are in the mass of fallen masonry that marks the spot where the hotel stood. The flames could not be checked, and in two hours from the time the fire broke out the entire Structure Was in Ruins and the streets on three sides of the building were filled with debris from fallen walls and chimneys, while the streams of water being poured upon the interior of the ruins had no other effect than to fill the air with clouds of scalding steam, making it impes: ble for any one to approach near enough to search for the bodies who perished. Soon after the first alarm was given people in the lower floors of the hotet, those who had easy access to the street and the stairway, commenced to pour out of the building in great numbers, but it was very soon ap- parent that a great majority of the oc- cupants of the hotel were either panic- stricken or unable to make their way to the ground floor, Windows were thrown up on every side of the build- ing and guests, mostly women, in all stages of terror, made their appear- ance and uttered frantic appeals for assistance to the crowd below. As the flames gathered about them they be- came more and more terror-stricken, and presently some of them stood on the narrow window sills and beckoned to the spectators that they were about to leap. The men collected upon the sidewalks ready to render any assistance they could, and in the meantime some of the women left the windowsills and dropped to the street. In most instances the efforts to eateh them and break their awful fall was unavailing, for the struck the side- walk and in most cases broken limbs were the result. As soon as the fire- men could get their sqaling ladders in position they climbed the sides of the building and entered every window at which there was an unfortunate guest appealing for ssistance, and many cases of heroic rescue were witnessed by the throng in the streets. The loss on the hotel is estimated at about $1,000,000. Several adjoining buildings were damaged considerably, but the loss on these is comparatively small. All the papers and books of the hotel are believed to have been saved. Warren Leland, proprietor of the Windsor hotel, went insane late last night. His wife and daughter were among the victims of the fire. and it is feared he cannot survive the shock. THE POPE’S CONDITION. Rome Newspapers Lay Stress on His Weakness. Rome, March 19—The newspapers and QOpinione continue in their reports of the pope’s condition to lay stress upon his weakness. The Vatican functionaries, however, deny that there is any cause for alarm, and says that his holiness walks about in his room and occupied himself in ar- ranging a small library and some pic- tures in his study. Prof. Mazzoni and Dr. Lapponi, his medical advisers. visited him, the former changin ‘x tight bandage that protects the . o é ‘The pope conversed with them, and on leaving they declared themselves sat- isfied with his general condition. Another Operation. Paris, March 19.—The Rome corre- spordent of the igaro says the pope's physicians have decided upon another operation. Attempted Suicide. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 19.—Abra- ham Moses, reported to be a banker at Natchez, Miss., also operating at New Orleans as a cotton broker and here as a broker, attempted suicide and will likely die. Job for Gen. Lope Reico. Havana, March 19. — Gov. Gen. Brooke will appoint Gen. Lope Reicv. whe, with his troops, laid down arms last December, to the post of civil governor of the province of Puerto Principe. -