BOTE 61ESTS IN FIEHY DEATH TRAP Sixteen Boned sod SoHocated *■('

M*ny More lajnred.

FIRE STARTED BY INCENDIARIES. Smntr-Hrat Btfiatot Araor; DntnyH 104 tte Fit act CoBsaalcaUd U My»Urto« Wo, to Port ArctM tW»l-A Po»U AlMSf It* M Slcrpl.j faHMM—BoIMIot Not Eeoippcd Witt FIrt Appo™ 1 **- | New York, (Special ).—Kor the third time since New Year's Day Park

e of loss of’

s the collision in

the New ‘York Central tunnel at Fifty-

one. this cjpr, v

human life. First n

iew Wot

tame the dynamite explosion in the rapid transit subway at Forty-first street, and

the third

Sevent

Forty-t

e which started in the

eventy-first Regiment's armory, at hirty-third street, and spread to the Park Avenue Hotel, where eighteen persons were killed and many injured. It was the worst hotel fire since the

Windsor w

destroyed.

The fire - was

the morning in the

' 1y short tin

.Same from end t_

made their way as best they through the streets deep with slush, i did all possible-to confine the fire to the

- armory, but after they Iwl been at work

nearly an hour the .disA’ery was made that the hotel was on nre. The hotel was crowded with quests, who had come to attend the festivities in honor • of

Prince Hi

were in the house.

The fire was confined principally to t fifth and sixth floors, near the elevat and air shaft. ' ....

about t.jo in r, and in a rebuilding was

firemen

ould and i thi

worl

tors, near the elevator

about the time the ho-

tel was found to be on fire the lights went out and the .corridors were, filled with smoke. The guests, unable to find their way through the. darkened haljway. jumped from windows or ran directly into thp flame-swept portions of the building. It is this ta« which accounts for the large loss of life, although

the hotel was not destroyed.

One of the saddest incidents of the fire

s the death of Mrs. Salome Fos

iel.” who • “

t death c Tombs A

• fifteen ehalf of

fe years had been in service in behalf

K female prisoners in the Tombs and other

city prisons. Mrs. Foster was the widow of John W. Foster, and had lived for the last five years at the Park Avenue Hotel. Her income, which was at one time considered large, was for the most part expended upon the deserving poor.

^ The Seventy-first Regiment Armory

' t city $700,000 to build. The loss

. »st the will be s

what more. The only thing

laved from the fire was the tablet com-

rative of the killed

d and wounded at !. which was prey Col. Henry I.

NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD.

Ce neslk.

The Presbytery of Brooklyn. N. Y, has violated a church rule of the General Assembly in licensing Clarence Doane. a relative of Bishop Doane. of the Episcopal Church, to preach. Doane is a recent convert to the Presbyterian Church, and it is said that the Presbytery licensed him before the probationary

period expired.

In a freight, wreck near McCalls Ferry. Pa-. Engineer A T. Hatch and Fireman Paul Wilhelm were killed, and Henry Wolf, brakemvi. was dangerously hurt. All resided at Columbia, Pa. The annual meeting of the department of superintendence of the National Educational Association opened in Chicago, with 500 delegates in attendance. Sirs. Soffel. who tried to escape from the jail at Pittsburg with the Biddle has/ recovered from her wounds.

several ina steamer's

boys, hav recovered From her v One man was killed and se jured by the explosion of a boiler on the Tennessee river.

Joseph W. Blondin. charged with killing his wife last Jane in Boston, was

arrested in New York.

Edgar A. Jancy, aged aS. killed himself by shooting at Lansdowne, a suburb

of Philadelphia.

Five men were killed in a collision on the New York Central Railroad, near

Aurelius, N. Y.

At Camargo, 111, Fletcher Barnett, a rejected suitor, shot and killed Miss Eva

Wiseman.

Rev. W. P. Hines, the' Baptist minister of Norfolk who sued the Norfolk and Western Railway for a bundle of sermons stolen while in the possession of the railroad, has received from the company a check for $350. the amount decided upon as their value by a board of

arbitration.

In the Greene-Gaynor conspiracy cases in Savannah. Ga, Judge Speer overruled the demurrer of the defendants except as to two counts, and the

defendants pleaded not guilty.

S. G. Stokes, recently convicted and

rs in the penitenisault upon a 1

G. Stokes,

sentenced to four years tiary for attempted assault

year-old girl, escaped from the jail

Lunenburg Courthouse. Va.

Joe Higginbotham, colored, wat hanged in the jail at Lynchburg. Va, for criminal assault upon Mrs. Ralph

.—norative of the the battle of Bull Run. tented to the regiment by

Martin.

The fire destroyed the original roster af the regiment, as it was organized in • 1850, and all the portraits, together with t $7,000 sijrord prcJthted by the State of Massachusetts for t» services of the

Massachusetts lor Massachusetts volu

war recori

is other

And articles.

luntoers, all the origids and rollers, besides • valuable trophies, prize*

The damage to the Park Avenue Hotel, Manager Reed said, would not cxleed $50,000. The hotel is still open and k .-erving meals and providing accom-

modations for its guests.

Fire Commissioner Sturgis and Fire Chief Croker Jwth believe that the fir.* m the hotel was separate and distinct from that which destroyed the armory . «nd that the hotel did not catch fire from toy sparks that came from the armory.

BARCELONA LESS STOMY.

There

"tempts

fire persons .

ported that a nu« been caught in t

The Helen Are Orica Tbrea Days t# SarreaAer Their Arm*. | Barcelona. (By Cable).—Ahhough there was some renewal of ordinary life in this city Saturday, it was largely arti-

| ficial.

A few public establishments scogened \Under the compulsion of The authorities. but practically no business was h transacted. The street cars ceased runit 8 o'clock in the evening and the

: to publish, the

using to work. The capihonzed (he managers ol seek printers outside ol some isolated affrays and

to sack bakeries, during which

fire persons were wounded. It was re-

> -■ itnber of workmen had

the act of preparing

bombs.

The captain-generil has allowed the j T rioters three days in which to delhret 19) all of their arms. After the expirnIson of that time an-, person found in possession of arms will be tried by drurahead .court-martial. •

TRAGEDY IN A THEATER. SMeets Cribbed to Death by Drori

the Daily Express

says that the police learning that some 500 students had arranged a meeting to be hdd in a certain theatre last Friday bight, quietly filled the gjileries of the theatre with 1.000 Dvormks. After the - performance had ended, at midnight, the students remained in the pit, the Dvor-

- «iks still in the gallery.

* At 3 o'clock in the morning, at a given signal, the Dvorniks suddenly descended . *nd attacked the students, beating them with dubs m,a most brutal manner. The

students had arms, ribs

. head*

broken, and some of them were killed. A large menber of them have been sent 1 others bait been im-

Aaotfcer Biy Deal ftalrig San Francisco (Special).—The,Examiner says every indicatigh point; to the belief that i big railroad and financial deal is on the tapis by which George J. Gould's-Missouri Pacific will gain as entrance into San Francisco. Prince ■poniatow'ski, F. S. feuilock, one of his partners in several enietpmes. and Sen-

PRINCE HENRY HEETS PRESIDENT Emperor Wili am's Brother it the While House. 1 GREETED BY CROWDS ON THE STREET Aa Imposrit Orecliag al lb* National Capital to the Royal Visitor—Tb« Une of the Proctsatoa From Ike Depot to Ike Executive Mansion Cart I. U, Ouarde* ky Tkraags af Soldiers a ad OfOcors. Washington. (Special).—Prince Henry of Prusaia. brother of the German Emperor, was greeted Monday by the President of the United State's, both Houses of Congress, and the munidpal authorities of the Capitol City, in a manner befitting hjs high rank and with a democratic sif^Iidty that Princes of royal blood arc not accustomed to re-

ceive.

There was little of the brilliant display of miliary and the pageantry of parade which follow the reception of distinguished members of the Royal family visiting foreign nations. Washington crowds, accustomed to inaugural

1 ... . ... ■ . , _ . processions, vast throngs on the great 31 thC Cramps ' ihipyxrd ' j lh^ r a g pitoPan7 m thc h Vy l «S^P addphia.. soldiery, could scarcely realize that so Gertrude Gothic was shot and killed j distinguished a personage was being in Philadelphia by George Sutton, her honored by the Government and that —

jealous lover, who then tried to kill him-

self.

Dr. Louis Lewis, a medical and surgial authority. living in Philadelphia, died t St Vincent’s Hospital. New York.

inal assault upon Webber, whose husband \

execution.

The Maryland Dredging and Contracting Company of Baltimore filed an increase in their capital stock at Dover

from $100,000 to $300x100.

Charles E. Jones told in New York how he chloroformed and killed Rice, the millionaire, upon the instructions of

Ibert T. Patrick, noW

Lawyer Alb for murder.

Miss ~

'trial

Ree Remica, of Front Royal. 1 Elmer W. McConnel. of Par-

u Winchester

kersburg. W. Va, eloped and were married there.

Joseph Ramsey, on trial in Essex County Court, Virginia, on the charge of

| Irillii

!ph Ramsey, on 1 y Court. Virginia, o,

ing Joseph Dunn, was coni rder in the first degree. *

SSTSl'

Charles Bright, an American engineer.

have concealed £100,000 of his tssets in connection with

roceedi

sets in conr ... proceedings in the London courts, complained to a magistrate in the police

a,e f* ,he -

that money sent him by his mother Keen impounded, that he was deJ of counsel, and that his witnesses

threatened.

by the Government

the history of the naiion few others more distinguished have been its guests. The dear skies and soft sunshine brought forth a large crowd that swarmed the avenues leading to the White House and filled the sidewalks comfortably from the Pennsylvania Station along the route token by the party, but there was nothing approaching that jam which is a conspicuous feature of the inaugurations' every four years. In fact, the crowd w:f not marked by its numbers so much as it* eagerness to see the Prince 'and hi* distinguished suite and peered with intense earnestness at every open carriage it was driven rapidly along Pennsyl-

EMPERORS YACHT CHRISTENED. Priaca Heary Is FaemaUy (Urn Fr*«4— of Now York City. New York, (Special).—The launching of Emperor William's yacht, the Meteor III, a luncheon at the shipyard at Shooters Island, a luncheon on the imperiiTyacht Hohenzolkm, the ceremony of tebdo-ing the freedom of the city'of New York by Mayor Low to She royal visitor, a banquet at the Metropolitan Club and a brilliant opera performance at the Metopolitan Opera House made up the program of Prince Henry's third day in the United States. The weather was wretched, but barring this discomfort, there was nothing to disturb the harmony, the enthusiasm and the success of the launching and all the other notable events of the day. Miss Alice Roosevelt christened the yacht in charming style, and looked and acted like the typical Artierican girl she is. Prince Henry preseifed her with a magnificent jeweled bracelet containing - miniature portrait of William II, the istly souvenir } gift of the Emperor, The luncheon' on the Hobenzollem. given by the Prince in honor of the President, was the most brilliant func--tion ever given upon a vessel in Ameri-

in waters.

President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt returned to Washington after tht luncheon. Miss Alice Roosevelt remained in New York for the opera. Everywhere the Prince went he was closely attended by detectives in citizens'.

A VOTING-MACHINE TRUST.

cognirance ot Kussrt. having re-; p rince Henry, during his first day in that'^Mandiuria S would b never^be had^few moments to hinv to an Americar. trade. j until ^d^Trture'at'midi^ght'waVcon! In reply to an inquiry, the colonial | stonily either being received or receivcretary Mr. Chamberlain, in the Brit- i ing others. He first called on the Presi-

dent. was then driven to the German Embassy, which will be his residyice while in Washington, and —— —

ceived a call fro— was just half an at the While Hi

inquiry, the colonial

‘ secretary - Mr. Chamberlin, in the British House of Commons, stated that Lord Milner has not received any communication from General Botha offering to sur-

render.

Governor Flores, of Rizal Province. Luzon. P. L, -has organized an expedition of native police and volunteers to clear the province of ladroncs and insurgents. The Rev. Horace Dutton, of Boston, was robbed of a Urge sum of money in Rome while on a bicycling tour . In Pekin the foreign diplomats view with much interest Japanese reports that Russia is trying to obtain a port in Korea. as such a move, would test the efficacy of the Anglo-Japanese alliance as a barrier to/Russian expansion.

, af nc. from the President hour after he had called

Then, for

two hour* he received the varior *•"" — 1 •*-“ ministers and 1

.in. v-apiiui. vrnvrc >140 ciock ne was received in the House and watched the proceedings of that body for a few minutes. Thence he went to the Senate and saw that body in session, and, returning to the cmbasii. prepared for the grand dinner at the White House in hu honor at 8 in the evening. One hour after the close of the dinner the Prince was on his private train on his stoy to New York,

the cfiief eunuch. wbo^O&peiessly^eor- j encc of the Preside: rupt, is faifl the Dowager [Empress' chief Ruishcd persons, adviser. ' , The programme ai

The proposed joint sis'sion of States General of Holland, as required

rideSSe‘discussion.*’

Dr. House, a /missionary, and A. A. Garginlo, a dragoman of the American

pranged by the Govlittee was executed today and a smoothness that is

pot always characteristic of receptions ■ here of an official nature. .;

Anarchists -and revolutionists are inciting the It.boring classes in Barcelona and other pans oT Spain to rioting.

striki

riotK. lege at Saragossa and .the

:arly all the anarchistic elements in

1 rope are • • - -

—rcelona.

spreading. The rioters attacked Jesuit Colli " ‘

F'.:r Ban

eminent com mi

■ithout hitdi

ot alw

National Coancll of W«

Washington. (Special).—The National Council of Women at the triennial sion here elected the following office. „. President. Mrs. William Todd Hchnuth, New York, formerly president of Sorosls and of the New York State Federation of Women's Clubs; vice-president. Mrs, Mary W. Swift, of ^California; corre-

California; Mrs. Flo Ji

m dealing with the rebels in Cato but if this is g—“•“* t>—c-

orldahoTserond recording secretoiyl ing the Mrs. Kate Wilier Barrett. District of Columbia; treasurer. Mrs. Lillian Hol1;■ t — n,# — „ 1» \ 11supreme * com

Hive of Macca-

A street dispatch from Denver .he Guggenbrimer Exploration Com

The St Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company has issued a circular April xr uhu la ft.

lister. Detroit, Mich, mander of the Supreme

bees of the world.

Big Day at Cherfestok

S. C <f * •

d*y was military day at the State tflllitia from South Carolina and

tH. — : ;

The parade to the e

New York (Special).—With the object of consolidating the voting machine companies of the country. New York interests have organized the Federal Voting Machine Company, with a capital stock of $5XXXA000. The company has already token out

in I

Wood, hoi

organizers in incorpo-

1 South

papers of incorporation

koto. It is understood, however, the action of the organizers in incc

n South Dakota v

Dathat

irpoir the pur-

pose of securing patents, and that the Federal Company will be rcincorporated under the laws of either New Jersey

Maine.

There are about six voting- machine concerns in the United States, all of which, it is said, will be token over t the Federal Company, which is said t liave strong financial hacking. CaUloraliBS lor Beer Ukerty. San Francisco Opecial).—Mayor Schmitz presided at a largely attended meeting of Boer sympathizers in Metropolitan Hall here. An address was nude by Commandant W. D. Snyman, of Genoa 1 De Wet's staff. Resolutions adopted am) ordered sent to Prct Roosevelt and the California Senators and Representatives urging that Congress take action looking to intervention by the nations with a view of ending the war by arbitration and assuring the independence of the Boers.

Manila, (By Cable).—A force of| live constabulary at Santo Cruz, province of Itoguna, Luzon, has captured Cortez, second in command to'lhe insurgent general Malvar, and turned him over to the military authorities. Cortez was in fancied security in -a suburb of Santa Cruz, known as Alipit. and was raishiR funds for the /insurrection. A friendly native informed Inspector Sorensen of this fact and the capture of Cortez followed. Fir* Risks Up IS Per CeatAtlanta (Speci*!).—The Southwei ern Tariff Association decided that 25 per cent, increase in rates be made on fill classes of merchandise and on frame store buildings; also, on all manufacturing risks and their special hazards which have not been rated under revised schedules within a year. This action went into effect Friday and wax caused by the extraordinary fire losses which they have been called on to bear during the last three years, and especially since the beginning of the present year. ODDS AND ENDS OP THE NEWS n of the Supreme Court of sting five city officials put thi pnt in • predicatm -aUf- , the w. The sleet storm was the woi

SU OFFICES BLOWN UP BY RAIDERS Explosion Ruined Cripple Creek Gold Assiy Equipments. PLOT AGAINST THE ORE BUYERS. For Vests There fits Bees s Systematic Steallog of Rich Ore From the Mists, Amesstlsi to Thestaads of Do lists Monthly—It If Alleges Thai More Thas SI Attaytrt Hate Male a Basiaess of Baying Such Ore.

Victor. Col,

is in a state of terror owing 1

err ted attack upon the leading assay fices doing business in this district.

nd fo

iplosions wrecked as many a

office* in the centeft ranging from Victor to Cripple Creek and up to Goldfield, [n every instance the object sought by the incendiaries was accomplished by the destruction of the office with the equip-

ment of delicate balances.

The raiders did not hesitate to jeop ardize Hfe, as all but one of the buildings were also equipped by sleeping fami'ies As it was, men. .women and childien were hurled out of their beds oy *he shocks and serious injuries inflicted.

x>L, (Special).—Cripple Creek c of terror owing to a preeon-

lomg bus

Beginning at 3 o’clock Monday morning, and following in rapid succession

six explosions wrecked as 1

shocks and serious injurict

The full extent of the damage cur'.'

be estimated now.

In this city the Davenport office wa« wrecked by two explosions. Almost at the tasoe time the assay offices of Van derwalker. Morgan & Williams were likewise destroyed. One man, a miner, was severely injured in the explosion at Williams' office. He was passing at the moment of the explosion. Flying debris struck him in the face. His injuries may result in total blindness. In cripple Creek Benjamin's essay ofce. north of the Florence and Cripple Creek Depot, was blown Tip. In the town of Goldfield, about a mile and a half north, almost simultaneously Boyce's office and another assay establishment were wrecked. Boyce's family occupied an adjoining room. Mrs. Boyce was fc'own out of bed. but escaped without fatal injuries. She was badly shocked. A family living in the other assay office was also blown out of be-1 but escaped serious injury. in this town the oowder was placed under the building. The house in which a family live*! nexx to the Williams assay efnee was much damaged, and a woman was prostrated. The general impression here is that the acts are the result of a general movement to rid the district of all high-grade ore-purchasing concerns. BROKEN NECK HEALED. Wsmb Recovers From Injury Thxt Was

Considered Fatal.

McKeesport. (Special).—Mrs. Richard Buck, of this city, whose neck was broken last October by a fall from a buggy, made her first venture on the street Sunday. She has fully recovered, although six physicians said that there was no possibility'of her getting well

again.

She was confined in the McKeesport :—i a s }, ort time ago. when

loved to her home with het 1 — *- bones of

Hospital t

she was removed to her

head braced in splints. As the b her neck did not knit together straigl her head is slightly turned to one si and her neck is perfectly stiff. S says she suffers but little tneonvenier

from her misfortune.

Scouts Capture Boers. London (By Cable).—A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria. Friday. February 21. says Colonel Park, with

300 mounted national scouts, recent! surprised a Boer force at Nooltgedacht, Transvaal Colony, and captured 164 prisoners. together with a quantity of munitions ot war and a, number of horses

Thrix were no British

Cornets Jout tenant Kiljoe

0 British casnchide Field

1 Lieu

Wife’s Tbrost Was Cut

Louisvillq, Ky.'. <Special).—Mrs. Jas E. Reagen. wife of a Wolfe cototy lum berman. was found in a room arWelcb't tavern with her throat cut from ear tc ear: The woman, who will probably die charges her husband with having com milled the deed after a quarrel between them. Reagan denies the accusations ol his wife and claims that he and Mrs Reagan were assaulted by thieves, who., after wounding his wife, cut him on the chin and robbed him of $146. When Reagan was arrested-a bloody barlow knife was found in one of hs pockets.

KllleS a Teacher IrScbool

Decatur. Ill, (Special).—Fletcher Barnett. a, school teacher, entered a schoolhouse one mile from Camargo and shot and instantly killed Miss Eva Wiseman, the teacher in charge. He shot at Ben

NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS.

Caasl Treaty Ratified.

Final ratification! of the Hay-Pzunce-fote Treaty, giving England's assent to the construction of a canal across Central America by the United States, were 1 exchanged at the State Department. fhere was little ceremony about the

affair, though

rounc

that

ir. though this was an ided out and completed neg

that have geen in progress inter: tcntly for many years, and which regarded as of ihe firs: order of imp

*nce. Lord

of the Diplomatic Bureau, was SecreIsrv the

f the

tary Hay's attendant. Copies of treaty had been prepared precisely ilar except in the fact that the

res were inverted in

Copies of the

one copy,

lunged Isetwcen •etary Hay. a •inally attestform part of the

No affirmative action is required der the treaty; it is simply declaratory >f the powers and rights accorded to United States in connection wrh

ihe United States •.he construction of ind * it docs not J _ any of the pn waterway—it is qc Panama as to Nicat

iragua or to Dai

.rien.

Fist Fight ia the Senate. In the United States Senate Saturday afternoon occurred one of the most sentationa! physical encounters ever witnessed in that body. Senator B. R. Tillman, of South Carolina. wat proceeding with h-s speech igainst the Philippine tariff bill, when Senator John C. Spooner, of Wisconsin. interrupted to ask how a two-thirds majority of the Senate had been obtained to ratify the Paris treaty of

peace.

_ Mr. Tillnun finally intimated that one tor—referring to his colleague. Mr.

n over by pr South Caro

Senator—referring to McLaurin—had been u _

iscs of patronage’ in South Carolina. Mr. McLaurin. who was absent from the :lumber at this time, returned and. 1 peaking in his own defense, denounced Mr Tillman’s statement as “a malicious lie.” Tillman immediately rushed toward McLaurin and struck him on the forehead. The two clinched and finally

were separated.

The Senate adjudged both of them guilty of contempt, and. after each had ipologizcd. the incident was referred tc the Committee on Privileges and Elec-

tions.

Free Deli very Contracts. The proposed change of the rural free delivery system from the salary to the itract basis was today embodied in

reported by the

Postoffices a

then

ut buildIS still

ing mid shot himself again, bat wai !»* wounded. He then ju

Steamboat Was Bioira Vp.

Knoxville. Tenn. (Special.)—The Steamboat T. H. Bacon, plying between I-oudon and Kingston. Tenn, was totally wrecked in the Tennessee river seven miles below Loudon by the explo*ion of its boiler. Estil Hudgins, asfistant engineer, was killed. Robert Bird, a passenger, who was en rouie home from the Philippines, was fatally injured, and Engineer Albert Claiborne

«rith,.a deck hand, were

1 special bill ordered House Committee on

Post Roads.

This is intended to take the place of < similar provision in the Postomce Appropriation bill, which is considered inJOnsiStent with the rules. The special bill follows the form of the clause in the tppropriation bill and in addition prohibits the sub-letting of rural delivery routes, or the taking of more than one

route by one person. Transfer ot,DauUli Isjes.

It has been practically decided that ;he forma! ceremonies of taking over the Danish West Indies by the United States shall be performed by the army, and it s probable that a delacjimcnt of troops trom Porto Rico will be sent to the glands soon after the exchange of ratiacations of the treaty to raise the flag ind formally take possession of the new

erritory.

While not definitely determined, it is stated here that the islands will be ilaced. with Porto Rico, under the control of Governor Hunt Each Hat Route Prtfereacc. Dr. Francis C. Bransford. of'the nary, who has accompanied a number of naval expeditions to Central America, and Prof. W. H. R. Burr, of the Isthmian Canal Commission, testified before the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Can-

als.

Dr. Bransford said that in the matter of healthfulness the Nicaragua route is incomparably superior to the Panama route. Professor Burr spoke as a civil engineer, saying that from his point of .v.- _.1

infer, saying til

1 the advantages are with t 1:,. u :a u. j g firmly «

XVS'i for $40,000.1

Favor Stotcboo* tor Territories.

tEe'pan-

ama line. He said he is firmly convinced of the wisdom of accepting the offer of the Panama Company to sell its prop-

1. franchises for $40,000,000.

erty and.

The House Committee on Territories unanimously voted to report bills fo: the admission of tfe Territories of New Mexico. Arizona and Oklahoma. The

lade by

_ihotna.

vote was taken upon a motion made by Mr. Moon, of Tennessee, declaring it to be the sense of the committer that the three Territories are entitled to statehood and that subcommittees be appointed to prcpM e Gic bills. The sub-

committees were appointed. Secretary Lett WU Retire.

After a Cabinet meeting Secretary John D. Long —' t -

the teacher in charge. He shot at Bert John D. Long stated that^the report that tederej but missed him^Ban^^tbea re !»D' of the Navy. Quite true.

retory of the Navy, is Quite true He said he half fixed on no date for his retirement and he

date for his ret formally President. 1 a roe. The

specific

not .

the

rojtr— and Cook Snnt

badly hurt.

Hr* in Wljro«« ol Opera H New, York * (Special).—At. 11,30 o'clock, during the performance of the opera, Ere was discovered in the wign*>m of the Metropolitan Opera House. It was quickly extinguished and little damage was done. The audience knew nothing cf the blaze. The opera tingen and the chorus were aware of the fire.

Stlisfled as to Minrharia. The United States government is now laid to be perfectly satisfied as to the .-orrcctnej*' of Russia's intentions rc-pccting-THanchuria. The pledges heretofore obtained from Russia have been renewed and reinforced #0 strongly, it is stated, that they must be accepted as satisfactory, unless yur-government is prepared to deliberitely question Russia's integrity, which, it is said, it has not the least disposition to do. Capitol Ntwj ic OtatriL The United States Government has proposed to the powers in the Chinese ireatv that there be a pro rata reduction »{ claims so a* to maintain the total a-ithin the sum of 450*00.000 taels, the full amount of -indemnity previously 1 greed upon for the Boxer outrages. The House passed the diplomatic and lular appropriation bill No busi-