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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 189S. = 3 the flagship New York and the battle- ships Indiana, Massachusetts and Iowa BENJAMIN | THREATENED " BUTTERWORT SUMMONED Peaceful Death of the Commissioner of Patents. Passes Away in the Pres- ence of Wife and Children. Went to a Georgia Resort to Recuperate From an At- tack of Pneumonia. MOST NOTABLE CAREER. Distinction Gained as a Lawyer, Sol- dier by the Talented Quaker. and Statesman Special Dispatch to The Call. THOMASVIL! Benjamin Butterworth, United States oner of Patents, who has at Plney Woods Hotel here several weeks, died at 3:15 o’clock this fternoon. The end was peaceful, and when it came his wife and children were at his bedside. He came here to recuperate from an attack of pneu- mc and recovered rapidly until two ago, when he suffered from ure- nvulsions. From that relap: ver recovered. His body will be sent to Washington to-morrow. Ga., Jan. 16.—Hon. | in October, 1896. BENJAMIN BUTTERWORTH, Appeared While Addressing a Meeting in this City A iy, = as He AILING SWINE GIVEN RELIEF Tests of the Anti-Toxine for Hog Cholera. Successful Benjamin Butterworth was what known as ‘a “bir ht Quaker.” Those who knew him best during g areer are unanimous in saving “His daily life was as exem- of the tenets of that good old h as that of any public official He was born in Warren County, Ohio, Oct 1837; was a member of the € ate of Ohio from War- | ren and counties In 1873-74; was elected f - First Ohio District to h orty - seventh, iftieth Congresses, to the Fifty-first ublican. h, as he has al- wn, spent his earl- »out Maineville and latter a little Miami Rallroad. William Butterworth, Linton, a family noted the entire line for their intellect, powers of percep- gth in speech and de. parents we of Qua Major Butterworth's and ~remark powers ere inherited from his s first acquaintance s made in the office of aw w Durbin Wa titioner in ( then a successful prac- incinnati. e war he attained the rank an Ohio regiment. He was - of Patents first during n of Garfield and Ar- ord made then and weight with the adm thur, and hi subsequent President McKinle, selecting him for that po secretary of the -t in the in- at enterprise at Chi- cago du he early [90's, and worked along in that capacity with honor to himself and profit to the ntil its close. His widow ive him. His uyler of ball coact national SABBATH RIOTS DISTCRD PARIS Students Parade the Streets Crying Out Against M. Zola. Police Finally Disperse the Mob and Make a N nber of Arrests. Epecial Dispatch to The Call PARIS, Jan. 16.—There was a popular emonstra: ¢ military < gymnast associations, in honor of General Felix Saussier, now re- tiring from the military governorship of Paris, and the commander-.n-chief of the French army. General Laussier, who was in full uniform and surrounded by his staff, stood in the window of his resi- dence, responding assiduously to the sal- | of enormous crowd: timately bands of students paraded the streets, shouting perpetuallly, *‘Con: spuez Zo “Death to the Jew: and the eral cases cafe win- dows were a house mis! The police =, and the windows of ~ola’s was broken. persed the rioters T . Louise Michel ure addressed a social- this evening and denounced ittendine the trial of Comte Cster| < A bas Brumon bas Rochefort!” but there' was no further disorder. The list of persons signing the petition circulated by M. and others on Fri- day last for a retrial 0. former Captam Alfred Dreyfus is becomin- increasingly significant.” Numerous members of the Institute and other prominent persons are signing, which shows that the movement is daily growing in respectability and in- On the other hand, the anti- ampaign, started by the students, to Marseilles, Toulouse, ey and other large towns. PASSES CLOSE T0 A VESSEL HEAVILY LISTED TO STARBOARD. British Steamship Willow Branch Sights a Craft That Has Evidently Encoun- tered a Gale. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 16.—Captain Ritson, commanding the British steamer Willow Branch, whieh arrived in port to- day. stated that on January 7. to the westward of the Grand Links, he passed close to dn unknown steamship that was heavily listed to starboard, but she did not signal that as: He describes the v & 1 large, deeply laden craft, with a funnel wih black around it, and believes it to have beem one of the Allan line fieet. to have been @ red top and red band Dr. Salmon Submits an Encour- aging Report to Secretary | Wilson. Congress Will Be Asked to Appropri- | ate Money for the Distribution of Serum. EBpecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Jan. 16. The Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Dr. D. Salmon, has sub- | mitted to Secr Wilson a report upon the experiments made in the treatment of hogs for hog cholera with anti-toxine serum. This serum is made upon the same princip! the anti- | toxine of diphtheria. Good serum has been obtained fromsboth horses and cattle, a horse or cow being inoculat with the hog cholera virus in quantities at first, and with doses after Suitable intervals of tir The T ance of the animal is ral to the highest practicable point. The blood of such an animal when in- Jected under the skin of swine has been found to possess both a prevéntive and curative action. This serum was first small animal being found efficacious, was last fa tested in Page County, Iowa, on s eral herds of swine, containing gether 278 animals. Leaving out one herd, from which definite returns as to cause of death could not be obtained, only 39 died out of 244 animals treat- ed, of which 86 were sick. Consequent- ly 82.8 per cent of the animals of these herds were saved. Of untreated hogs kept under observation during the pe- riod referred to, about 85 per cent of the animals died. Dr. Salmon believes that with experi- ence a better quality of serum can be prepared, and he has no doubt that this percentage can be maintained hereafter. Referring to this report, Secretary Wilson remarked that undoubtedly the results reported by Dr. Salmon were most encouraging to hog raisers. The cost of the serum now, said the Secre- tary, was but 10 cents per head of ani- mals treated, only one dcse being re- quired, and doubtless in course of time this light cost may still be further re- duced. “It is, in my opinion,” Secretary, ‘“‘of the utmost importance | that this serum, for the next year at least, be made by the burean under our own supervision and distributed in | large quantities in order to demon- | strate its efficacy upon a more extend- ed scale. Tt is absolutely essential that during the experimental stage serum of undoubted quality be used. Unless the hog growers can obtain it from this department they will be forced to de- pend upon what can be obtained from private sources, and, owing to the nov- elty of this product, not only will dis- couragingly exorbitant prices be charg- ed for it, but in many cases inferior products may be offered. This would preclude the possibility of making a satisfactory test on a widely extended scale. “I propse to ask Congress to provide | an appropriation necessary to enable this department to furnish 2,000,000 | doses of serum during the next vear and to make a considerable portion of the aporopriation immediately avail- able. Tt seems from Dr. Salmon’s re- port that it takes three or four months to put a horse or cow Into condition to supply the serum: consequently the work upon an extended scale must be | undertaken at once. “The losses from hog cholera are so enormous and have weighed so heav 1 1 sr 1e. tested upon cannot imagine that Congress will for a moment hesitate to make the appro- priations necessary to earry on this work thoroughly. Tndeed, apart from the great stake the farmers have in this matter, to refuse to nrovide for a | thorough test of this remedy now would ; | be. indeed, ‘penny wise and pound fool- |1sh’: for the discovery of this serum has involved already many years of work and a very large sum of money. It ! would be a great mistake now that so r | thus | s In the laboratory, and, | ailto- | sald the | ! fly for vears upon onr farmers that T | it a thorough and extensive test.” GREAT BRITAIN'S SHARE Proposed Loan to the Imperial sist China to liquidate demnity, would provide 0,000 at par, to run fift it net, as follow f three Siang-In g the years, t In the ev but { France 1 the re hic error g Yang in Hu-Pei provir , in Hu-Nan provin SES DELAYED IN and was willing to he Japanese a loan opening great a discovery seems to have been made not to finish the work by giving | a result of my conversation with them. OF THE CHINESE PUDDING. Concessions to Be Acquired Through the Government. LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Peking cor- respondent of the Times says: Yester- day lay) Sir Claude MacDonald, Briti jassador to China, In the | course of an interview with the Tsung- -Yamen (Board of Foreign Control), n- ot the including treaty power; to extend | Burmah ra Hunan prov- | ince (the most southwestern in China). nt of her default China is to er the control On this basis China re- fears and of port, o ov THE SUPREME COURT. Postponement of the Confirmation of to Be Retarded. Mc- Kenna Said to Have Caused Justice WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Delay in the ne ponement of ment in the Supreme Court | Tt included been before the this -se everai cases that firmation of the nomination of Attor- v-General McKenna will compel a pos signed for re-argu- week. ha »urt for a long time, and the justices found it impossible to dispose | of them, it is presumed, for the reason | CRISIS IN CUBA OVER Peace Now Seems to Prevail at Havana. Diplomats Agree That the Worst Is Certainly Passed. Expect Good Results From the Recent Riotous Pro- ceedings. SQUADRON SAILS SOUTH. Fleet of Warships W1ll Be Near in Case the Interests of Americans Are Threatened. | Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—The Herald's Washington correspondent telegraphs: The threatened crisis in the Cuban situation has passed, at least for the time being, according to the latest in- formation received from General Lee. I have talked to-day with Secretary Sherman, Assistant Secretary of State Day, Senator Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, leading | | | that e memb, who for some months have comprised the actual | of the urt, could not S supposed when the assign- were made last month that by the | Juc til January A rumor announcem current last week tha nt of the opinion nd judg member of the court. Under the agreement to take a vote in the Senate on his nomination next Friday, he cannot enter upon the discharge of his duties un- t the ment of the court in the now long overdue braska minimum freight rates :ing delayed for the completion ing opinion. the divi el REDUCTION OF WAGES Cut, and the Loss Will Be Over a Million a Year. exceptions being one or two small own, have not d a few in which, owing to convenient to make later. £y or less degree Between 10000 and 15,000 dence agents will be affected also. the aggregate earnings of the operas will loss in wages and purchasing ties in which they spend . | GRADUATED WITH GRANT'S of Two Wars, Dies of Qld Age. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—General C! topher Colon Auger, U. S. A., retired, ton: to-night. of 43 at W with distinct After the active service ion through the civil 1 in of various departments of the army. was retired in 1 Washington. Subsequent to his retirement he way of his home, but, though wounded, recovered. He had t stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., an J. A. Auger, at Leavenworth, Kan. war he saw considerabl case of a IN THE COTTON MILLS. fac- reduction will affect to a greater the earning of nearly 20,000 operatives in this State and those | of Knight and Goddard In Massachusetts. | employes | Connecticut mills controlled by Provi- | s in As tives consequence of the reduction to opera- tives and business men in the communi- | their money | will be nearly a round million if the cut | averages; as expected, about 10 per cent. | CLASS AT WEST POINT. | General Christopher Colon Auger, a Veteran hris- died of old age at his home in West Washing- General Grant graduated. General Auger | was with Grant in Mexico and served | war. le the Indian uprisings on the frontier, and was later in command tn He 885, and has since lived in was, shot by a negro desperado in the door- serfously Wo_sons, now in the army—Captain Colon_ Auger, ajor enna’s appointment | n confirmed and he would n The same authority | Texas and armored cruiser New York. ion of the court at sIX 0| qmp. squadron is expected to reach Dry PROVIDENCE, R. I, Jan. 16.—The cut | in the cotton mills throughout the State | will go into effect to-morrow, the only | tories whose owners, for reasons of their | ded to cut wages and | their paying | monthly or for similar reasons, it Is not the reduction until approximate $9.000.000 annually, the | power in | General Auger was one of | the threé surviving members of the class est Point—the class with which | | | members of the House Committee on | Foreign Affairs, and with Minister de Lome. They all agree that the worst ove Minister de Lome is as optimis- tic as ever as to the ultimate success | of autonomy. One thing is certain as tervention on the part of the United | States, and future action of the au- thorities here will depend solely upon | the developments in the island within the next two months. | The Herald's special cable from Mad- | rid, published this morning, showing | that the recent rioting in Havana was the result of a great conservative plot | against the Sagasta ministry of Spain, attracted wide attention in diplimatic and official circles here. The dispatch was read with great interest, particu- | larly in the State Department, as it seemed to confirm. similar brief advice from Consul-General Lee in Cuba, re- ceived when the disturbances began in Havana. It was in consequence of the conclu which General Lee drew from the riots that the authorities made i | There is no immediate intention of in- | | such prompt preparations for sending P ship to Havan ey feared that the plot should succeed and “aptain-General Blanco should be overthrown anarchy would prevail. The pacific character of the news from Ha- vana, er, during the past few days has somewhat eased their minds | on this score. | In the opinion of Minister de Lome, the riots have improved rather than aggravated the situation. He thinks they have cleared the atmosphere and that General Blanco will now be able to vigorously push his plans for auton- omy without any further setback. He considers the riots soleiy the resuit of a radical change of policy which took upon the arrival of General o in Havana. e n con- 1 in it were those deprived of of- which they He dep- ard fice had uader the old regime. recates the talk about the ther patronage autonomy, and thinks it aaybedy shculd fourtecn gays after the formally inaugurated. much from Senor C the Interior, who has just Havz There is no probability of action on the Cuban question in either house of Congress during the present week. The President has not yet prepared a reply to Senator Cannon’s resolution, asking what preparations had been made for the protection of American citizens in Cuba, and it is probable that he will consider that it is not com- patible with public interest to give the Senate the information at this time. According to a telegram ed this morning by Captain A, Crowin- shield, chief of the Bureau of Navi tion, from Rear Admirai ard, North Atlantic squadron left Hampton Roads to-day for the Gulf of Florida. The squadron is the strongest that has | been in southern waters since the close | of the Civil War. It comprises the battle-ships Iowa, Indlana and Massa- chusetts, second-cla battle-ship coney.sion arrived in ortugas on Saturday. | !T\\'A.f‘.nm(;'ro.\', Jan. 16.—Grave ap- | prehensions were felt by both the offi- | cials of the State Department and those of the Spanish Legation that disturb- | ances of a more or less serious charac- Many Thousands Are to Be Affected by the | ter might occur in Havana to-day, ow- ing to the fact that many persons oth- | erwise occupied during the week would be comparatively free on this day to follow their own Inclinations. Advices recelved by Minister de Lome to-day, followed by others at a later hour, in- dicate, however, that Havana was per- | fectly tranquil. After noon the Minis- | ter received a dispatch conveying the | information that at 11 o'clock this | morning there had not only been no rioting, but that there were not even sporadic disturbances of any kind. As a precautionary measure, General Blanco had carefully provided against | any trouble, but so far as surface indi- cations went; the precautions he had taken were entirely unnecessary. The | advices were that the better judgment of the people was uppermost. Good feeling prevailed generally through- | out the city, and no disturbances were | anticipated. Up to 3 o'clock this afterncon State | Department officials had recefved no | word from Havana, and they accepted | this as an indication that no trouble had occurred or was anticipated. They | regard the rioting of last week as| merely a flurry which spent its force | in the few hours it lasted. X General Lee is under instructions to | notify the department promptly of | anything unusual or in the least way | threatening, and the fact that no dis- | | patch was received from him clearly | indicates that the city Is practically | absolutely quiet. Secretary Long has received no ad- | ditional information concerning the | movements of the North Atlantic | squadron and said that he expected none. Admiral Sicard simply carried | out the orders previously issued to him | | and salled to-day with the main body‘ of the squadron for Southern waters to enter upon the usual winter maneuv- e TS. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 16.—Having completed coaling and all provisions | for their winter’s cruise in Gulf waters, | the ships of the North Atlantic squad- ron, which have been anchored in | order | ception of the difficulties | mated that ¥ | in an e mo by the Christian brothers, out- | left Old Point at 10 a. m. and two hours later passed out the capes. south bound. They put to sea in the teeth of a north- easter which is blowing off Hatteras to-night. It is Admiral Sicard's inten- tion to keep well away from the stormy cape. The fleet will proceed directly, at ten knots speed, to Dry Tortugas, their headquarters for the Gulf evoiutions. This point is within such easy reach of Havana that the ships could be sum- moned in a few hours should their presence be necessary. The Texas will join the fiagship off the South Carolina coast. The torpedo-boat Foote was forced to take the imside route owing to the heavy weather off Hatteras. The ships are equipped for a long voyage and their magazines are well stocked. HAVANA, Jan. 16.—No ‘“disagreea- ble incidents” have occurred to-day, and “complete calmness” exists. Gen- eral Morroto, General Bernal and Gen- | eral Salcedo have arrived, and are as- sisting General Blanco in maintaining order. Yesterday while Senor Marcos Gar- cia, Governor of Santa Clara, was at- tending a baseball match, a hospital employe tried to shoot him. Urrier and his aid-de-camp frustrat- ed the attempt. General Pando arrived at Manzanil- lo on Tuesday last. official reports, there has been only “unimportant skirmishing” in that di- rection. MADRID, Jan. 16.—Senor Romero | Robledo, presiding at a meeting of his friends to-night, attacked the autono- | my scheme, and sought to magnify the significance of the recent demonstra- | tions at Havana. The meeting decld- ed to reassemble on Tuesday next, in to draft an address to the Queen Regent protesting against the dissolution of the Cortes, and request- ing that they be convoked. General Weyler was invited to at- tend the meeting, but excused himselt on the ground of “scruples arising from his military position.” DEMANDS FOR LUMBER ON THE TRAILS TO DAWSON. Indications That the Rush in the Spring Will Discount That of Last Autumn. SEATTLE, Jan. 16.—The steam schooner Noyo arrived here to-night from Skaguay and Dyea, Alaska. Among her passen- | gers was Hans Larsen of Circle City, who came out to Dyea with a dog train by way of Dawson City. He said there wa: plenty of food at Circle City. He a confirmed previous reports th there would be no suffering at Dawson this winter from lack of provisions, as the exodus had removed danger of famine. He did not think that the government relief expedition was feasible at this time. J. A. Lacy of San Francisco, who took a cargo of lumber to Skaguay on the Noyo, says so great is the demand for jumbér that the people can hardly wait until it {s unloaded. riving at Dyea and Skaguay intent on pushing on to Dawson, have any con- before them. He predicts that the congestion on the trails will be greater than it was last season. VESSELS 1N NEED OF AVICNITION Navy Lacks Sufficient Powder for Use in Case of Emergency. Officers Agree That the Batteries on Commissioned Warships Should Be Moderniz Spectal Dispatch ta The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Jan. 16. Naval officers generally agree with the statements made by Assistant Secretary Roosevelt that steps should modernize the batteries of now in commission. I un- Mr. Roosevelt informed the sterday that the navy was o badly in need of ammunition. Mr. Roos 1t a; es that every ship in the navy has a supply of powder suffi- cient for peace purposes, but in case of emergency, he thinks, there is not enough powder to rapidly replace that now in tae | reputed a good one, and the Lanes had | magazines of the men-of-war. 1 should lose no time $500.000 required by Se purchase of reserve ammunition. The only recent contract made by the depart- ment for powder was that entered into several month go for 100,000 pounds of six-inch smokeless powder. It is desired by Captain Charles O'Neill, chief of the bureau of ordnance, that ne be given authority to convert all of the inch guns of ordinary type now in ser- e into rapid-firing gun: He has esti- ,000 will be needed, and has gress make an approp There ry type on board their conversion 11 double their e ficiency. converting a six-inch gun is about $1000, and the time required would be from five to six months for each lot of twelve guns undertaken at the e time. ight six-inch guns have already been converted, and work on nineteen was commenced some months ago. Eighteen of these are for the Newark and Atlanta. —— - Buried Under Sacks of Wheat. VISALIA, Jan. Elljah _ Allen, young man of 19 years, working on the Congress ting the al in ppropri retary Long for the urged that tion without deiay. Fulgham ranch, had a narr ape from death . He was soaking wheat in bluestone liquid before sowing in the field when a large pile of wheat in sacks fell, covering him completely. It was probably an hour before he was dis- covered by his employer, as he failed to report for dinner. With all haste the tumbled sacks were thrown aside and the poor fellow rescued. He could neither speak_nor walk, and nearly assed before he was able to realize what ad happened. Another half-hour's im- prisonment would have been fatal. hien fum S ety Cotton for the Orient. TACOMA, Jan. 16.—Seven trainloads, amounting to 4750 bales, of Texas cotton, have arrived in Tacoma for shipment to C.iha and Japan. The cotton came by way of St. Loujs and St. Paul. A great deal of this cotton is standing in cars on the track. Heavy shipments of cotton are arriving at all Pacific Coast ports having Oriental lines. An important phase of the movement arises in the question as to whether the cotton is sub- ject to insurance while standing in the cars. e Fatal Shooting Affray. OKLAHOMA, Jan. 16.—In a row early this morning Fred Jone: a barkeeper, shot Chief of Police G. W. Jackson through the thigh. As he fell Jackson fired at Jones, but missed him and shot Bishop Armstrong, a deputy sheriff, in- flicting a fatal wound. Jones is a brother of Milt Jones, the city marshal who was affray at Oklahoma City two jaws. Armstrong is said to have com from Texas. 7 S g S Seamen From a Wrecked Brigantine. NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—On board the steamer Antilla, which arrived here this evening from Nassau, were the mate and nine seamen of tle crew of the Italian prigantine Celestina, which was lost on the south side of Watling’s Island while on a voyage from Venice to Savannah. The vessel was a total loss. No lives were lost. S \igie o Najogqui Postoffice Burned. LOS OLIVOS, Jan. 16.—The postoffice at Najoqui, with all fixtures, and the resi- dence of the Postmaster, B. F. Nosser, were burned last night. Nosser's place has been a sort of headquarters for coast travelers for many years, chiefly on ac- count of its proximity to the famous Na- Joqui Falls. General | According to the | are ninety-five | al MRS, LANE SHOT BY HER TINY PISTO Blackburn’s Daughter | Is Wounded Seri- ously. | | Most Peculiar Accident in a Washington Hotel. | The Weapon Falls From Piece of Lace Being Raised by Its Owner. a BULLET STRIKES A RIB. | There Is Much Excitement Over the | Aftair, but the Accident Story Is Believed. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, D. C., Jan. 16. In her apartment in the Wellington Hotel last night, Mrs. Lucille Lane, | youngest daughter of ex-Senatyr Joe | Blackburn of Kentucky, shot herself. According to the statement given out by the family the shooting was acc | dental. Both of Mrs. Lane's ph cians refused to discuss the subject, even to the extent of saying whether or not the wound would prove fatal, but from the best that can be learned she will probably recover, although now suffering severely from shock. A friend of the family nominated to give out a statement said about midnight on Saturday that Mrs. Lane was pre paring to retire. Her husband at the | time W in the adjoining room look- ing over the paper. Mrs. Lane opened a bureau drawer to get a handkerchief Lacy says that but ' and picked up a handful of gloves and | a small part of the hundreds of people ar- | | laces which had been tossed together |in the drawer. Under this fluffy mass | was a tiny lady’'s pistol, a gift to Mrs. ‘Lane from her father and a posses- | sion of which she was particularly | fond. It caught in a piece of lace as | | she raised her hand, and falling of its ight struck the hammer on the | edge of the open drawer. The pistol exploded and the ball penetrated her | left breast. What became of it is §1- possible to say. | _Lucille is the youn the bullet struck a and ranged around beneath the left shoulder, mak- ing only a superficial wound. At the same time it said Mrs. Lane is suf: fering so from the shock that the phy sicians have devoted all their energies to rallying her without attempting to gest rib definit the nt of the injury The precise statement that either an would make to- night was that Mrs. Lane would prob- ably live until morning. At the re- | quest of the family the block in which the hotel is situated has been roped off. Senator Blackburn is deeply affected by the occurrence. He does not live with his daughter, and when the af- fair occurred was summoned from his room on New York avenue, remaining thereafter at Mrs. L: hotel. Lucille was the youngest daughter of tor Blackburn. She was married 5 to Thomas F. Lane, a prominent iness man and politician of Sum- mit, N. J. At the time of the marriage Mr. Lane was a chief of division in the Treasury Department. Subsequently he accepted a place with the Maxim Arms Company of New York as their agent in Washington. The position is & apparently always an abundance of money, which they spent freely, living shionable hotel and seeming to none of the good things of life. Their little girl, something over a year old, was one of the favorites about the house with all who knew her and the particular pride of her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Lane, according to those who saw them every day, were unvaryingly affectionate and attentive to each other, and she, while of slight phy- sique, was In excellent health. Mrs. Blackburn. who is not in ’the city, has been telegraphed for. Mrs. Lane's elder sister. Corinne, is the wife | of Lieutenant-Colonel Fort Worth, T FIRE RAGES IN A BUTTE BUILDING. Hall, now at “ Smol | ke Drifts Info the Maguire Opera House and There Is a Stampede Among | the Audience. BUTTE. Mont., to be of incendiary origin, broke out in the Boston dry goods store in the Odd Fellows' building on Broadway, adjoin- ing the Maguire Opera House, about 9 o’clock to-night. Before the fire s tinguished the stock was practically a total loss. It w insured for 000, The dense smoke penetrated to the upper part of the building, where Thomas Steef, a paralytic, and his family also penetrated the opera house, where “Under the Dome’ was being given. As | Manager Hagan started for the stage to advise the audience to withdraw quietly, | some one rushed nto the gallery and | the doors, and gave an alarm. There was a r for and were slightly injured. - several women fainted | TERRIFIC TORNADO SWEEPS OKLAHOMA. 5 Visited by the Storm the Damage i Was Not Very Extensive CHICAGO, Jan. 16.—A special to the Chronicle from Guthrie, O. T., says: A e tornado, accompanied by heav: ain and hail, passed across Pottawattc mie County, near Maud postoffice, last s. Men from that part of the coun- | ty say that the path of the storm was | about half a mile wide and that timber was blown down and broken off so as to almost completely block the road A part of the country over which the storm passed has been almost deserted | eveni f the Indian scare. The tornado traveled in a northeasterly direction and_passed over into the Sem nole nation where, on account of the thin- ly populated country, but little damage | was dome. | lo =i Brazil Pieased With Bryan. BUENOS AYRES, Jan. 16.—The Her- ald’s correspondent in Rio Janeiro, Br: zil, says that the Government has de- | clared its_pleasure at the appointment of Charles Page Bryan as United States Minister to Brazil pR R\ liiness of an Empress. BERLIN, Jan. 16.—The condition of the | health of the Empress Augusta Victoria excites comment. She will go in the !g‘rlhg to some southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. | daughter of | an. 16.—Fire, supposed | live. | two hours | They were rescued with difficulty.”Smoke | | Owing to the Thin Pcpulation of the Area the families living there on account | EEK’S WORK [N CONGRESS | The Annexationists Show | Their Weakness by Further Delay. Senators Will Enter a Discus- sion of the Immigra- tion Bill. In the House There Is a Prospect of Considerable Argument on For- eign Relations. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Jan. 16. The Hawaiian annexation treaty will this week again occupy the major por- | tion of the time of the Senate. It ap- | pears improbable, however, that the treaty will be taken up on Monday. | There is an unanimous agreement to | vote on the immigration bill during the and it is altogether probable that vote will be preceded by some dis- fon of the merits of the bill. The | friends cf the measure are confident of | its passage, but they are not very hope- ful of getting it through without fur- ther debate. Senator Wolcott has given notice of his intention to address the Senate on Monday, when he will make a report of | the transactions of the recent interna- | ticnal bimetallic commission. Wolcott | has never given extended public utter- {ance concerning the commission’s work, | and there is very general interest man- ifested as to the course he may pur- | sue in his speech on Monday. When the Senate resumes considera- tion of the Hawalian treaty Senator | Morgan_ will take the floor, and it is expected will consume at least another | day in the presentation Gf his views in favor of annexation. He will be fol- lowed by Sena Pettigrew and White in opposition to the treaty and by other Senators for and against it. There is no hope that the discussion will be concluded during the week. A great many Senators wish to speak, nd as long as the result of the vote is | as uncertain as it is at present, neither side will be disposed to allow the vote to be taken. The Senate has agreed to vote on the confirmation of Attorney General Mc- | Kenna as Associate Justice of the Su- | preme Court cn next Friday, and the probabilities are that this vote will be preceded by some discussion as to Mr. McKenna’s merits. The urgent deficiency appropriation bill_ will in all probability be reported on Monday, and there may be an effort 0 secure its consideration during the weelk. The House is likely to become the arena for a general discussion of our foreign relations in connection with the “onsideration of the diplomatic and | consular appropriation bill during the | present week. The Cuban situation the annexation of Hawaii and the de- igns of the European powers toward China will. of course, be the principal topics to attract attention. 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