Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 1, 1882, Page 1

™ THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ELEVENTH YEAR. 'SCORCHED SCRIBBLERS. Immense Fire in the New York Newspaper Offices. off in every direction. She got out on the ledge of a fifth story window. She maintained her position only for a few minutes, when a blast of tire and smoke from the window struck her, and whirling over saveral times in her descent she struck the pavement with a dull thud, a orushed mass. Strangely enough, no blood flowed from the terrible fall. She Center of the Work of was borne to the Times office, aud an s ambulance summoned, but she was Destruction. past all human aid, and was dying —— when it arrived. fifth A " A Two men crawled out of the Being Occupied by & Number |,,..v "and by dropping and_ clinging of Periodicals that Lose to copings and kicking in & window, Feavil finally let themselves fall, succeeding it in making their escape. An> 1 men o gentlemen ‘who ucu:pioddn i ¢ oa the top floor, who made his escal Much Anxiety Felt as to the |yt ¥ bindin moke, said. the Loes of Life, Which 18 building w:\; 1;|Il|. 4 with mmh:nd women, and that many must have SUEPORSI DR oaY bso:l sniothered and burned, It memecyes will hardly be possible to get tha; loss of life to-day. A young gir Bl s U 10 who was wearing a blue dress, who per Floor Contained a Liarge | waa cut off from the stairs ran to a Number of Females. The Old ‘*World " Building the fourth story window on the Park Row side andstr: esitatingly while the i flames an noke encireted Zher. n{“Jumpja " shouted the specta- Gallant Rescue of a Woma: s, l’(}mi“’M trightened look be- from a Fourth Story Win- | joy she throw b_relf out and fell with of w thud on the stone pavement. When oW S0t Do icked up lifo was extinct, her head Brave Firemen. geiug crushed almost beyond recog- nition. ) The entirely burned out are Will, Fall_Partionlass of the OArlwnimes nu{ionrry store, the old trophe. Lovejoy's hotel building, occupied by 'R theEvening Mail and the upper stories Natlonal Associated Press. hs offices of the Rural New Yorker, New YOrx, January 31, —Fiames | and above the ground floor and the were discovered in the block bounded | building is thoroughly gutted; the by Park Row, Beekman, Spruce and | front of Eugene Kolly's Nussau bank Nassau strects, and the fire is now | building, northwest coruer of Beok- raging. The flames are bursting out | men and Nassau, which building was windows in all dircctions. The New |only saved from entire destruction by York Times and the old World build- | the fact that it was only partia'ly iug are in . this block, and the post-| cumpl'e(c(l npd had little of wooden offico - on the ‘opposite side of Park | partitions, windows, etc, Row. . | The fire was finaily gotten under The flames were first discovered at | subjection at ll‘ a. m. At this 10:10 a. m. and spread with gnnltihllll’ (L1:30)the fire is under L:nl\}l-ul rapidity. Several people jumped|and will be eoufined to the buildings from the upper windows and " others | mentioned. It is now feared that oscaped by ladders. It is fearcd the | lives wore loat on the upper floors of loss of life will be greater than_first | the old World bnilding, and the fire. apprehended. To is now considered | mon and police are devoting all their (11 a. m.) impossible that the Times | energies to ksoertain the facts, Just building can be saved. as tho firafan wero approaching, an 11:08 a. m.—The Tiwes building is [ 0ld, cray-Beired woman was seen in now in flames. Kelly's new building, | the fourth story of the World build- ten storics high, to be occupied May | ing appealingfor help Her lips were lat by the Nassan bank, and opposite | een to move, but her voice could not theold World building, is mow in|be heard. Al who saw hor were hor- tlames; also the Morse building, op- | 1or stricken. The d posite the corner of Beokman and|her person, jguiting her hair and Nussau streets. It is impossible to|clothing. “Bhe fell back into the tell the loss of life. Theold World flames, and ‘wus no doubt burned to building walls on Park row, opposite | death. None could give her name. the postoflice, have fallen. ~The col-| | It was 12 o'cleck noon before it ored janitress, Kllen Buil, jumped | Was possible to obtain an adéyuate from the story next to the top and |idea of the extentof the fire, as thefire was probably “fatally injured. Her | murshal, the insurance patrol and oth. husband is missing. One woman got | ers in possession of any material facts out on a ledgo aud jumped, her| Were too busily engaged to give any clothing catching on fire as sho went | facts to reporteys, W down through the flames. The fire- | of the moat rapid and destructive that brought down three inmates. | tha city has spen for soveral years. The. postofiice roof on tho noriisase | THe tames wore first™ discovered on sido is smoking. The employes are |the Nassau strectside of the end of drenching it with wator. No hose is{ the old World building, .und within a able to reach the roof. It is hoped |few momeuts were bursting out from now the Nassau bank building will be | various parts of that side of the bl?uk. partially saved, as no partitions are |and even on Park Row. The mit. Tho old Mail office, Beckman |cause of this extraordinary rapid and Park Row, formerly Lovejoya spread of the thames 18~ at this hotel, is now in flames. It is now |mowment unexplained. - The block occupiod by the Rural New Yorker|ircluded the flat iron shaped building and numerous small offices, and stands ; known as tho Times aud the W orld uext to Jay Gould's new building now | buildingz. The up-town section was occupied by the World, joccupivd by the Times building, Tho offices entircly burned so_far | Which was separated from the down- are the Scientific American, tuwn section by the old World build- York Observer, Ncottish American [ing by a solid 22-inch wall. = Only a Journal, Pettingill's advertising | poriion of the I'n'n.gs building was agency and the Turf, Field and Farm, [occupied by the 'Times newspaper Those now burning are the Times, | proper, but there were scores of litilo Forest and Stream, Legio Bros, & | offices scattoredull through the stories, Co., J. Walter Thompson, cu‘!!ull"fll‘l‘ll‘,“v‘l"‘. lawyers, agents, etc. Moyer's German advertismg agency; | The World building was sunilarly | | | Nash & Crook’s dining rooms, and the | honeycombed and was occupied be New York Rubber company, the|sideson the ground floor or former largest of the kind in the world. | publication office of the World, by a All the walls of the old World baild- | ¢lothing mercliant, th ing have fallen. i Packing and Belting company, and 11:12 2. m.—The firemen are now | Willy Wallack & Co , the upper fluors setting some control of the flames | being devoted to nowepaper offices, and it is hoped will be able to save a| Peftonidlls udvertising agency, the wood portion of the Times huilding, | S¢ Awerican, the Scottish- 11:14 a. m.—Damage to the post- | American Jullrunl,'(llu Now ‘Yurl( Ob- aftice will bo: slight and is cansed by | server, the Turf, Field and Farn, and {he cracking of plates on the n scores of more minor oflizcs. sard roof by the heat and w . i was killed named Ellen Firemen are advancing in con of | Bull 4 40, janiiress, who came the fire, The Morse building will | fron Virginia two years ago, Her he saved, but the windows and fur- husband came to the city two weeks niture of wany fron ago and s missing, although known burned. to haye been in the building, At the ‘The conflagration, whizh for it sud- | time Mra, Bull aud two men on the denness and rapidity with w fifth story ran to the window and got liad spraaNRTRCCREY) sy aut on the sill, the crowd below fold in this city, It bro them not to jump ay they were put- oflices ar building formerly occupied | ting up add Mrs. Bull became World and other printing offices, en- | frenzied, weapped a shawl around her tuiling o loss of life at present unde- | and leaped aud was crushed to a jelly A ladder seconds after died almost instautly. | was up within 2 few termined, At 10:10 a, . the f were fist seen from the roof an of the upper windows, At the same | Mrs, Bull jumped and tho two men time men and women were to b safely destended. Three men were crawling out of windows on the scenata window on the Beckman of windows. For awhile it looked street side near the corner of Park Row. Charley Wright, a bootblack, who has a stand on the opposte cor- ier, saw them, He climbed a tele- aph pole and cut a wire that during the late presidential campnign held a intense heat was nearly driving t} Hancock banner, swung between that frautic. One woman, well dregsed | pole and window w)wn.s the men were and apparently young, who was stand- | and cried to them to slide down which ing on tho ledge of a window in Baek- | all three safely did, one burning the man street, near Williaw street, | fiesh off both hands. atretched forth her handsimploringly. | 8. Tracy, aged 40, a printer in Heroic firemen tried to get a ladder | the Scottish- Americun Journal, jump- to her, but before they could do so|ed from the third floor, broke his hip the flames took hold of her clothing | boneand roceived dangerous interual and enveloped her in fire, She!injuries. He is in the hospital and plunged back into the burning build- | will probably die. ing. Another lad, climbed out Richard Bowie, aged 38, a printer m a ledge on Beekman street, | on the same paper, jumped out of the near Park Row; Private John |third story window and received a J. Horan, of ‘hook and ladder | compound fracture of both legs, i No. 1, James Henry, assistaut fore- | ternal injuries, cut his head and face, man of hook and ladder No. 1, and |has been unconscious ever since and Keenan, of No. 29 engine, raised two | will probably die ladders and by caeans of the most|{ Every one of theabove had at- superhuman efforte rescued her just|tempted to cet down the stairs but as the last remnsnt of her strength | were driven back by the flames and failed her. rmoke, Ellen Bull, colorod janitress, who| Tt ie known that five compositors had charge of six rooms on the upper | were workiug in the Scottish-Ameri- floor, was engaged with her husband | can rooms, which were isolated, when cleaning them when she heard the fre broke out, and Bowie and alarm; she started to run but was cut | Tracy are the only ones known at this / though they must jump and run the chances for their Jives, Meanwhile the rouring flames kept avgumenting, | ¥ and the position of the poor creaturcs became additionally perilous, The > The flames raged about | 000. The fire was one New York | OMATA time to W‘:cnpmt The rooms Aro on the top floors, which wero wnder- going and none of the éarpen- ters are. n to_have been at work therein Avhen the fire cocurred. | They have mot accounted for the woman (namo unknown) who ap peared at the fourth story window and whom the spectators told to wait a moment, 'l‘wom{ men tore down an awning from the front of a neighbor ing store, and, holding it ligh up un- der the window, told the woman to jump. She did, and her weight broke through the awning, but the fall had been broken and she fell to the flag- ging but slightly hurt and walked AWAY A. M. Stewart, proprietor of the Scottish- American, is believed to have porished. A letter carrier who had just com- pleted his delivery in the building and an ooccupant who escaped both say they saw at least forty panic-stricken women and girls running about cn the upper floor dazed by the smoke, Two colored waiters in Nash Crook's say they saw two white women and ono negress perish together in the fire. Col. L. C. Bruce, cditor of the Turf, Field and Farm, narrowly es- caped. He was in his office on the third floor when the fire broke through the door. He threw the subecription books out of the window, crawled out a window and along the window sills to the Times building and escaped through that, having his arms, face and neck burned and his hair and beard badly singed. Bruce thinks many of his compositors who were at work perished. Broce's father had all his whiskera burned off. A sixteen year old negro and two white men were at a fourth story win- dow. The negro jumped down upon & projscting sign on a third story win- dow from which thero was a ladder to the street. Ho told the whites to jump; one dia and broke the sign and was falling headlong when a boy. caugh; him with one arm arouund the body, holding to a -window with the other, and held him until. a fireman rescued him. The other white made a safo jump and he and the boy were both saved. . The fire originated in the cellar from the new ongine being tried that was to hoist the new elevator and the elevator shaft spread it through the building. The building was owned by Orlando J, Potter, prosident of the Singer sewing machine company, and was for twenty-one yeasrs occupied by the World and is insured for $126,- A. J. Todd, patent lawyer, and Jas. H. Hunter, clerk, are reported missing. A. M, Stewart has not perished as reported, but was saved by an em- ploye. Police Captain Lyman, in whose precinct the fire occurred, says he thinks no less than ten persons per- ished and perhaps forty. In addition to the lomses already reported are Rodiguez Bros., import- ers of Hvana. cigars, corner of Nas- sau and Beekman streets; Tibballs & Sons, books; Gratam Taylor, 8. G. Ruhn, tailors; J. C. Todd, patent law- yer; Munn & Co., patent solicitors; A. B. Clark, second hand books; Ja- cob T. Stoue, patent lawyer; Thomp- son’s Bank Note Reporter; T. W, Hofell, fire escapes; Marks, tailor; The Press, the new evening paper; Polaud Spring Water agency; The Manufacturer and Builder, periodical; The Printing World, periodical; The Retailer, periodical; The Takagrafter, periodical; Burt, Frazer & Osborne, patents; B. F. Brady; Pinsa Alm- Gueists, patents; Starkweather & Gibbe, architcets; the library of The Turf, Field and Farm, the most valua- ble sporting library in the country, and cannot be duplicated; The Scien- tific American archives, patents, mod- els and cuts, invaluable, The World building was condémued a year azo, and three weeks ago anpli- | cation to add three stories wus refused by the building department on the ground that the walls were too weak. Eve 15G.—-A dozen or more fire engines are this evening still playimg on the ruins of the burned Worid building. The four streets which bound the seene of the disaster are still blockaded to the publie, and will continue to be for two or more days. T'he Times will be published as usual from the upper section of the block, The 'T'ines "building was saved from the destruetion, and indeed from sefis ous permanent injury by the extra- ordinary pavtition ‘wall which sop- arated the premises from the burned building. It is understood this wall i8 22 fuches thick and was put up at the spoecial request of the late Mr. Raymond, the origmal editor of Th Times. Tt is estimated the dam to The Ti building will not excecd 2,000; this is tho estimate of Mr, Jones, publisher aud principal owper, The World building is a complete wreck and, except tho tottering frag- ments of 1ts walls, is in ruine, The front of the Morse building, standing at the rear and on_the cp- posite side of Nassau street, was badly injured, the windows being burned away, and the occupants in the front sections lost considerable in furniture, books, ete. The editorial and pub- lication rooms of The Truth newspaper, ated in one of the front sections, has been removed to another part of the block on Spruce street. The Morse building is owned by the Morse estate, and js nine stories Kigh, and of the most approved modern structnre; it was erected about five years ago at an enormous expenditure and is oc- cupied by lawyers, agents and private business oftices. On the south side of Beekman street is located the old Lovejay building, until recently occupied by the Evening Mail publication on the basement ground, now by a hat store and offices. The damage to the build. ing is great from fire, smoke and wa- ter. The Mail ofices were removed few woeks ago to the Express build- ing, when the consolidation of the two papers was effocted. The Express building is a few deors below, con- tiguous to the new offices of the Daily News and the new building occupied by the World is teparated from the — S WEDNES o DAY M roar of the oy building in course of erection 0 be occupied principally by the Nassau bank; this is one of the most expensive new buildings in courss of tion known to business fimlc.r damaged many thous- ands of 3 the building was saved from ote destruction with difficulty ‘#pdl . the flames roceived leas encou ont than they would had thessindows, partitions and floors beon ol ho Beekman street front ovably “damaged by smok wator, ) Mr. Eugonie Kelly, tlie ownor, states this evening that he is unable to even estimate his loss. The damage to the postoflice build- ing on the city hall park side of Park Row, direotly fronting the World building, is comparatively slight and was caused principally by the flood of water poured 6 the roof and sides by postoffics employes. 'IPI:lu &of the conflagration Q at one time could scarcely bo esti- mated, as it was not improbable, ex- cept for the extraordinary force of ficemen and the combination of for- tunate circumstances, that the new postoftice, city hall, Tribune building and ascore of other prominent build- ings would be turncd. It so hap- pened that rticular building where the nated was several stories less in height than the now bnlldin‘gl sarrotnding it and thus the wind did not got a faic swoep, al- though it blew'st'n high rate and a fierce snow s | was raging. The burnéd building was regarded for a long timoas unsafe and a fow months ago the architect refused to allow additional, stories to be built, aud regonimended that it be torn down. Orlando B Potter, the owner, who is president of tho Singer sewing machine com , states that the ronts were ' $70,| per annum, that the building was worth §200,000 and was insuped fot perhaps threo-fourths of ita valuey sito is valued at over half a million One of the heaviest losers is the losers is “the New York Belting and Pucking company, whose stock was valued at $160,000, with insurance of upwards of $100,000. The firm has ocoupied oftices in the building vver tweonty five years; they opened new oftices a few donrs below within two hours from the timo they were burned out. Their stcgk is an entiro loss,the only thing saved being the books in actual use, which wore carried out by the clerks; the other books are in the safes and it is hoped are not de- stroyed. Wylie Wallack, one of the largest dealers and importers of stationery in the city, loses about $100,000; insur- ance $62,600. His entiro stock is lost. The Scientific American is also a complete loss; insurance about $20,- 000. The propeety in use which is not included in the loss, and which is irretrivable, is the accumulation of resords of patents, models, drawings, eto. Messra. Mann & Co., theowners, estimate the contingent lcss to ,the firm and custon at upwards of $100,000. Daring the afternoon they effected arrangements for offices at Broadway and Warren street, across from City Hall Park, Turf, Field and Farm, owned and published by Messrs. Bruce, had i oftice in The World building. Itis a complete loss, estimated at $50,000, including the best sporting libiary in the country, being about 500 volumes of books which cannot be replaced, and the fourth volume of the Ameri- can sporting ‘book in manusoript form ahout ready for publication; it will take about one ydar to rearrange the material for this volume, Mr. Bruce lost plates, pictures, etc., stored in tho office, 8. M. Petlencill & Co., advertising agents, estimate thoir loss at $20,000. Among the known losses to insur- ance companies are the following: Lafayette, $5,000; Emporium, $2,000; Altna, of Hartford, $10,000; Star, £2,000; Home, £30,000; Phanix, of Brooklyn, $15,000; German Ameri- can, $10,000; Citizens’, Hanover, North Awerican of Pennaylvania, Harvard, N al of Hartford, Na- tional of w York, Farragut and Ni »,000 cach; Queen, $2,500; Royal, 81,600; London, Liverpoul & Globe, $5,000 in building, and §6,000 in routa; Tmperinl Noxthern, $10,000 in rents and building, Tle above list i8 subject to corrcction a8 woon as the occupants can get ab their books or agents can look up records, The partiewlar point about, which there is amazing doubt Ab tho present writing, twelve hours after the fire, is ubout tho loss of life, it being vari- ously estimated at from b to 500, as it is feared that a number of women and pirls in the printing offices on the top floor were unable 9 escape, Among those known to bo killed are Ellen Bull, the janitress, who died at the hospital, and two «thers whose numes aro w3 yet upknown. Soveral victims are now in the hospital. Awmong the startling incidsnts of the fire may be mentioned the follow- ing: Rev. E. D, G Prince, of the Ob- server, said when the cry of fire was shouted he seized a bundle of papers of personal value and assisted the clerks to close the safes, and then ran for his life down stairs, his coat wrapped around his face, He could not get through that way. He saw his brother, Rev. Dr, F. Prince, had succeeded in passing the critical oint, and with Dr. Btoddard he ran ack and sprang out of & front win- dow on to the ledge of the window, and holding in by the sign board climbed along the ledge to the Times building to & window, thus escaping. One man escapod by jumping from a window to the mass of telegraph wires underneath, along wmcfi he crawled a few fvetto 'rolo, down which he shd to the ¢round, Col. L C. Bruce, after trying to escape down the stairwey with his subscription books, had to throw the books from a window and escape as Dr, Prince did, Pierre Wolf, janitor, 18 years old, said he thought the loes of life over estimated. A woman standing on the sill of a window of the fourth story, held on to the telophono wire with her left hand She was hatless and her clothes were in & disordered condi tion, She fanned herself with her right hand and waited for assistanco. “Hold fast till T come,” shouted a fireman, and a score ot men and boys ruehed forward and dragged s ladaer from a hook and ladder company's wagon that had just arrived. In an instant tho ladder was placed along- side the building. It only reached to the third story. A ery of despair went up from the crowd. ~ “Push up _an- other,” a hundred voicos yellod. Two firemen ran up the ladder two ste atntimo. “Can you hold ona m ute!” one asked the poor woman. “‘Yos, but for God's sake, hurry,” was the hoarse reply. *‘Come on then,” said the fireman to his companion, “‘damn the ladder, we must save her," and up he went to the top. His hands jurt renched the woman's foet. The orowd held its breath in suspenso. The woman remained cool. *‘Hold on to the wire and step on my shoul- der,” maid the firoman, guiding her foot with his hand. The woman did as sho was told, but as the brawny fellow went to move a step lower she seemed to swoon and had apparently lost her balance, when the firoman on the atep below caught her and she was hastily carried to tho ground. Cheer after cheer wont up from the crowd. The corner burned is one of the bost newspaper lccations in the city, the contral point of newspaper row and eontiguous to the postoffice, telograph offices, the New York end of the Brocklyn bridge, ete. It is alroady reported that several overturos have been made for the purchase of tho kite and for the erection of a newspaper building. Among the offers is ono by the Daily Graphic for the corner build- ing. Tho Graphic has been for yoars issatisfied with its present location, and it is said made overtures for the offices made vacant by the World when the latter removed to its now bulding, The World and Times huildings were erccted on the sito of the old brick church of the Firat Prosbyterian socioty in Noew York, of which Rev. Gardner Spriu% was for nearly fifty ears pastor. It was pulled down in 857, when The Times and Mr. Pot- ter bought the property and put up the present building. The interior of The World buwlding was filled up with old wood work, very inflamma- ble. Twe sets of stairs ran from the third to the ground floor, one set in the Park Row end and the other to Nassau street. One set went from the third to the fifth floors. The stairs were narrow and almost rotten. An elovator had just been erccted in the building and 1t is said that tho flames caught iu the flue near this and spread thence over the building. The janitor says thatit had been necessary to have unusually hot fires in the basement to dry the plastoring, some mynirfl having been made after The World removed to its new building, It _appears cortain that the flames originated from the fire in the base- ment. After getting a start they burned like tinfier, filling the house with flunes and smokoand preventing those in the upper stories from escap- ing except through the windows, To do this was more diflicult on account of the sleot, anow and wind raging fiercely, which prevented -persons from holding to the ledges very long. The storm raged all day and was trying on the firemen, who are com- mended by all for their bravery and perseverance, MioNtanT, 1Tt is still impossible to do more than estimate the nuwmber killed. Ellen Bull and Richard Daroy, the printer who leapod from a winaow, are both dead at {he hospital. The injured are Robt. Bo tor, of Brooklyn, somowh Harry Joint, rescued by a fireman, burned on the faco and arms; 12, H. Moore, printer, burned severely about the face; John Johuson, lithographer, severely burned; Col. Bruco was slightly scorche were others whose names wore arned, There are many roports of seeing ders to the windows reseued m in‘the confusion they doubtless ¢ edunobscived by means of the stair Novertholoss as the upper loors w y counpuking rooms cmploying 8,2t is not improbable that anui- ber of the penshod, People who como from the building say they dis tingtly heard crics of e, It s estimated thore wore 150 tenants in the establishiment, many of themn e ploying several othors . W. Hoeflle, who had an o in the building, reports that two me Stell and Brown were left in the building when he cscaped and they must have perished, Chas. [I. Noah, Bank Noto It porter, employed girls, who were not observed o escape. A number of girls wore employed ontho top floor. One was seen at the window, but fell buck as the flames enveloped ber. John Payne, a young compositor in The Obsurver office, is supposed be burned. His father is foreman of The Observer composing room, and has goue insane from the excitoment of his own escape and his son’s death. O'Connor, Mary 8mith and Mary Blount all worked in the huild ing and are reported missing, Among others inquired for friends and relatives yre A. J. lawyer, of Brooklyn; James H, Hun. ter, clerk of Todd; John H. Grennel, book-keeper; Alfred W. Harris, of Allendale, N. J.; Harry Jones, oftice boy; Austin Black, publisher of The Manufacturer and_Builder; James Cunningham and William Stubbs, of Brooklyn; Edward R. Harris, of New York; J. W. Denniuson, publisher, Mont Clare, N. Y., and Richard Tracey, printer. Thero is very little ground for hope that the loss of life is small. New Youx, Fobruary 1, At 1a.m. the fire is still burning, having caught in the sub-cellar, and a call for more engines has been issued. There is no danger of any further spreading, ORNING, FEBRUARY 1 1882 FOREICN INTELLIGENGE. Bladstone Still Refuses to Re- loase the Suspects. The New French Cabinet Fa- vorably Received, and in ood Working Order. The Failure of the Union (tenerale Causing Immense Financial Disaster. sllancous News That Oame Over the Wire. Natiouat Amoclatod Pras. Loxvox, January ~A letter from Mr. Gladstone, published in one of the morning papers, states that ho cannot rolease tho Irish suspects until thoy lose their power orabandon their intention to disturb the law or place obstructiona in the way of carrying out the orders of the governmont. Pants, January 31.--All existing Fronch commorcial troaties have been prolonged until March 1. The new cabinet formed by M. De Freycinet has boen accopted by Prosi- dent Grovy, and has assumed the dis- charge of its duties. The chamber of deputies have fa- vorably recoived the miniaterial pro- gramme, which will be liberal in the parliamontary policy, and one advo- cuting reforms in the government. Tho declaration of the policy of the now ministry was road in the shamber of deputioa to-day. It postpones re- vision of the constitution and prom- iscs to mnko tho nocossary reform. Thoir londing aspiration will be to promote the roign of peace through out the country. By the failure of the Onion Genorale soveral prominent Austrian companios have become nearly insolvent and are left afloat ouly by the forbearance of their creditors, who sympathize with them in their loss and know that if thu{ were prossed for payment they could only pay a small percontage on their liuhii’itium Count De Chambord aud several leading Austrian clorgy- men and the aristocracy generally are also heavy losors by the failure. The government is openly chargod not only by the lulblie but by soveral newspapers of this city with favoring the manager of tho Union Generale's (M. Bonteux) schemes, and arc in o measure responsiblo for the losses, 1t was reported on trustworthy au- thority that the doficit reaches 96,- 000,000 francs. A dispatch from Lyons received this afternoon states that the troops are guarding the branch office in that city to provent its being sacked and that the manager of the offize dare not go out of the building for fear of being makked by thi pupulaee. A dispatch from Vienna atates that the question of tho failuro of the Union ‘Generalo will be brought be- fore the Austrian reichrath atan early day, as it is hinted that the minister of finance, who is expected to resign, had something to do with M, Bon- toux’s schomes. Caro, January 21,—A deputation from the chamber of deputiea to-day waited ou Cherif Pasha and asked him that tho niinistry should either agreo to the conditions of the chamber and grant them control of the budget or thoy wonld remign, THY NATIONAL CAPITAL, Yeostorday'a Proceedings--Mia- c:llaneous Matters, CONGRESS, Naticnal Associntad Pross, PROCEEDINGS 1N I SENATE, Wasitnaroy, danuary 51.—Mr | Voorheos called attention to a resolu women and girls at the windows of | tion offered by him and adopud 1y tho upper stories who afterwards dig- | the senate in Ostobor Lt direeti appeared and it is thought man y pors | the postollice comuwittee o inguire ishod, but tho firemon by holding lad. | into cortain eivit servies rilos in Cin 1 | einnati by whicl soldiers ded from appointments in tho cllic He said the vesoluvion had for some cause not been printed, and he feared it had not reached thocommittee, He eansed to ho roud & cor 1eo showing that the same vy there, Mr, Voorhees denoun now awatting the views of his succes sor. At 1 o'clock the up. Me, Vest wodified Lis amendinent by striking out the clause ro-enacting scotions 4,160 and 5,160 of the re- vised statutes, Mr. Huwley then addrossed the senate on tho bill, Mr. Vest's mnondinent was reject ed by u voto of 28 to 32, M. Plumb voted aye and Mr. Davis ([IL) no. It was otherwiase a party vote. Mr. Plumb's smendment requiring that all funds in the treasury in ex- cons of §1,000,000 should be used in the redemption of 3} per cent. bonds was adopted —yeas 33, nays 20 (Da- vis of 1llinois, Tngalls, Plumb, Saun. dors, and Teller voting aye aud Jones of Florida und McPherson nay.) Mr, Plumb then withdrew Lis other amendmonts and the senate went into oxecutive session und at 4:20 p, w. adjourned. funding bill came Tho nomination of Btratham, the Lynehburg postmaster over whow a fight was wade in October, was re rted by Senator Mahone and con- firmed without an opposing vote, PROCEEDINGS IN THE HOUSE, At 1 p. m. the resolution aeking the name American citizens conlined in Brutish prisons was taken up, Ad- dresses wore mado by Messrs, Dun- nell end Orth, After rather a noisy d tho rules ns arbi- | 190. debate, in which the chair rebuked Mr. Robinson, of New York, for at- tompts to interrupt other speakers, Mr, Orth's resolution was unani- mously adopted. Mr. Robinson's joint resolation withdrawing public lands granted rail- voads, but unearned by them, and opening the same to settlement was withdrawn by him, on the ground that it did not cover all grants of that kind. He offered a substitate so worded as to cover all grants of that nature, except to the Pacific railroads, which he omitted, because of the fact that they were covered by a sumilar rosolution relating exclusively to them, Robinson’s resolution was referred to the judiciary committoo, when th housa went into committee of the wh]ula for the consideration of the bill. The bill giviog buildings and grounds at Erie, Pa., to be made as a home for indigent soldiersand sailora, to be supported by the government, was discussed in committeo of the whole, and opposed on the ground that it was a scheme to get govern- ment support for a portion of the poor of Pennaylvania, and creating a pre- oedont for a large class of institutions of this kind, and no action was taken on the bill, Mr. Prescott gave notice he would call up on Thursday the apportion- ment bill, fixing the number of repre- sontatives to each atate under the re- cent census, The post route bill, creating a num- ber of postal routes, was presented from tho committes and passed with- out debate, Adjourned at 6 p. m. CAPITAL NOTES. National Associated Pross THE STAR ROUTR CASES. WasuinatoN, January 31, —The hearing in the star route cases in the polica court was resumed at 1 o'olock to-day, Colonel Bliss and Cook for the government, and Messrs. Wilson, Tot- ten and others for the defense, being pre Mr. Miunix, one of the sureties on Cabell's bond, testified in his own behalf. Col. A. Brown, formerly clork in the postoftice dopartment, and alleged head and front of the star routo cases, was put on the stand by the defonse, During his ovidence the court inti- mated that if tho defense insisted upon him ruling upon intent he would sond the case to the grand jory, and lot the jury pass upon the law. Wit- noas, procceding, said he knew of a contractor putting in bids aggregating over §2,000,000, and offered sureties of $20,000 in value, At tho same lotting he had put up sureties agyro- gating $400,000 on proposals, amount- ing to §270,000. l"u protested against the insufliciency of the $20,000 surctics and he was overruled by the acting postmaster general, Adjourned until 12 o’clock to-mor- row. MISCELLANEOUS, The presideni sontto thé senate to- day a batch of nominations, embracing unimportant postmasterships. The physicians who attended the late President Garfield will present a atatement of their services without a bill, and will trust to congress for their remuneration. The New Jersey delegation in con- gress have ordered a set of silver badgos to bo presented to the railroad employos who wero in charge of the trains that conveyed the late president to Long Branch and his remains back to this city and thence to Cleveland. Rc‘uu i (0 tho commissioner of in- ternal revenue up to the 1lst inst. show 73,806,914 gallons of taxable spirits in bonded warehouses, nearly 4,000,000 yilons more than at the same tinme luw Tho presic | beon invite and cabinet have to attend the coming | Mardi Gras at Now Orleaus, Accom- [ panying the engaved invitations were deeorations for tho order for each {member. The president and cabinet | sent regrets for not being able to at- 8! assistant United R Cineinnati; W, I, v of inter revenue (for the Fifth Ohio distsict; Lt [ | Putlack of internal revenue [tor the 1 nsylvania district, tond Postmasters S, W, Whitefield, of | Clucinnati, and Chifford Strathan, of Lynchburg, Va. | GHI'OUT, GUITBAU, trary, without reason and without o |sonse, and an insult to union sl |i’coville Has Virtuslly Given diors, o My, Forry repliod that it was taken | Up .All Hopo . of t the first mecting of the commit- | Success, Lreforred to Postwaster Gen 5 al Jumncs, whoso veply was befo i the committee, and that they we Wasinyaron, January 31,—Mr. dishear ened. Tt is go to the court in bana, W. Guitosu has no hope of a new trial, Muson, the soldier who shot at Guiteau, is still undér confinement and will probably not be triod until Guiteau is oxecuted, Shot by His Brother-in-Law: Natlonal Amoctatod Pross. ovisvitieg, Ky., January 31.- T svening, wlnfu under the influ- ence of liquor, L. T. Owens, residing in the eastern part of the city, threat- oned to kill his wife with an axe. Her cries brought her brother, Geo. W. Oyler, an ex-government store- keeper, when Owens turned on him with the axe. Oyler drew a pistol and shot Owen in the neck, producing robably a fatal wound. Oyler gave Kiunul! up. L -, Uaion Depot in Nashville. Natlonal Assoclated Press. Nasuviuie, Tenn., January 31, —The building of a union depot is to be de- ferred for a time, Scoville is much doubiful if he will e— e en Indicatious National Associated Pross. Wasunaroy, February 1. --For the lower Missouri valley: Partly cloudy weathor, escept snow in the northern portion, winds geuerally from north to west and to south:est, followed during the night by ¢ 'ler weather,