The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • 1

NASHVILLE TENN FRIDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 7 1890 vou WHOLE NO 4 899 ElVS THIS MORNING DEAD IN A COLLIERY He Wild Wail from the Black Convention at Washington 1 Three Hundred Miners Imprisoned at Abersychan Appoints a Negro Postmaster at Amorims Ua Xl Weather To-Day Indications: For Ten- nessee-Warmer cloudy 1 weather and rain east erly winds Fcr hen-tucky-Warmer easterly winds light rains except in extreme northeast portion fair weather local report Maximum temperature 44 deg Minimum tem-Mean temperature Mil One Dead Southern People and Southern Methods Given a Roast Hundred and Fifty Bodies Taken Out One Way of Getting Even With Congressman Crisp Blair Elections Down Here Declared to be Farcical Formalities Many of Them Mutilated Beyond AU Recognition Still Bleating About His Mendicancy Idol re- wkathkr J) Feb 6 -A storm has de- ifdln Sfboffi in te Texas' and Northern Rains are eastward Rains are re Southern States In widow of the Duke of Aosta and $30-000 each to his first second and third sons The confirmation of the Samoan treaty by the United States Senate affords general satisfaction in Berlin The committee of the London Dock Union Is making arrangements for a general strike on Monday Cardinal Pecci brother of the Pope who is suffering from pneumonia is dying He has received extreme unction The Pope has ordered his Bishops everywhere influenza been to lot tbe people eat what thqy Choose without restraint Wednesday being the anniversary of the adoption of tbe Constitution of the Republic of Mexico was observed as a national holiday The influenza is increasing in tbe City of Mexico and causing so many deaths that a sufficient number of hearses are not available to carry the bodies of the dead to the cemeteries Twenty-two companies of London dock-owners have signed tho agreement reoently made to fight the labor unions of men employed in handling freight and in other dock occupations Martin Mueller the man who in October last attem pted to shoot Prince William of Wurtenburg while the latter was driving to church at Lud-wigsburg has been adjudged a lunatic and placed in an asylum HIHH-WATER MARK and in close proximity to the lamp the three doors leading from this room being also heavily draped with silk portiers the room itself being cased In panel-work of wood both walls and ceilings and this being heavily coated with hard oil varnish it would take but a very short time to envelop the entire room in flames and it was from the conditions mentioned a veritable fire trap WThen the fire was first discovered the door opening from the burning room into the main hall was closed as stated by the butler James Walsh who passed said door to answer the ringing of the front door-bell at which he found a man who told him that the room was on lire He ran to those doors and slid them opqn and was satisfied that he closed them immediately This cannot be so as one ot tbe doors was found pushed back into the partition and is hardly smoked while the other one has the face nearly burned off In his excitement he failed to close them The door in question opened almost opposite the foot of the main stairway up which the fire and dense smoke from burning varnish rushed making it impossible for anything living to have ascended that stairway so all means of escape was cat off from above so far as the front was concerned and this column of dense smoke took but a few moments to fill every room in the house from the first floor to the roof and no doubt bewildering every one who came in contact with it NO FURTHER CONTEST penaes and salaries of the commission A preamble recites that the appropriation is necessary for the preservation of the plant or unfinished works and for tho continuance of the improvement It is reported to-night that Bamuel Randaii is dying He was attacked with a severe fit of vomiting this morning which continued to grow worse during the day until bis system became so debilitated that there was little strength left The doctors have been at bis bedside all the afternoon and evening His family decline to give any information concerning hie condition but from a reliable source your correspondent learns that he is gradually sinking and that the doctors have despaired of being able to preserve his life much longer Mr Randall felt much better yesterday than in several weeks and held a long conference with Mr Carlisle on the attitude of the Democrats in the House He was so pleased with tbe splendid fight the Democrats were making against tyranny that he commissioned the Kentuckian to bear his congratulations to thedr party friends and volunteered to dictate an address to his Secretary which Mr Carlisle was to read in the House during the debate on the rules Only a few people in Washington are aware of Mr condition to-night but from all accounts his hours on earth are numbered Tidwell was appointed postmaster st Worley Tenn to-day and Edmundson at Bethel How Was Our Legislatures ami Courts Hauled Over the Coals snows ttFlth ftf river at Port ever 40gn nnily Weather Bulletin Miwdcal reports received at Nashville OrolOgHW fry time Prevailed with a cold wave in the (Her hwpwy1 The river at Port-SrtKbe the hipest Woody Plot First Discovered It Stands a Fair Chance However of Delug Beaten The Claim Set Up that Negroes Are Lynched by Connivance of Courts and Officers Clerical Sensation in London-Cnnmln After Separate School Question Mfrllng of tti Commit ter on Rule Pension Granted Tennessean -Capital Notes Weather Bar place Pt Cloudy Pt Cloudy Cloudless Cloudy Rain ain Pt Cloudy Cloudless Rain Lt Kaln Pt Cloudy Cloudless Pt Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Pt Cloudy Cloudless Cloudy Suow Rain osCbristl jm Orleans eport smith little Kwk Salveston tut Antonio gemphls Iishrllle grille Paul Louis isas 'W maha eortiead aarck Afvfune wtb Platte Mfillott SSIlr 12973 12964 2998 3006 3022 3030 3012 3016 3012 3048 2982 2932 1 30 10 13006 12993 The Itiver at Portland at Last Begins to Full THOSE HOUSE RULES Mr Lampson Will Not Appeal to the Courts to Oust Lieut Gov Marquis of Ohio London Feb An explosion occurred to-day in a colliery at Abersychan in Monmouthshire ten miles northwest of Newport Throe hundred miners were imprisoned and for several hours no communication could be had with them The cause of the explosion was the flooding of pits adjacent to that in which the explosion occurred By the flooding of these pits gas was dislodged and foroed into the pit where work was in progress and there it was ignited and exploded There must have been a great quantity of gas as the explosion had tremendous force It was heard at the distance of a mile All the gearing in the shaft was thrown ithe air as if from the mouth of a volcano and simultaneously a vast bright volume of flame shot lorward followed by a dense heavy column of smpbe The first party of rescuers organized endeavored to penetrate the pit through the old workings They got far enough to be able to see groups of the dead but they could not reach them and were compelled to retreat by the suffocating volumes of smoke that rose in that direction Upon the first appearance of a diminution in the volume of smoke rescuers went down the main shaft and reached the scene of the catastrophe They rescued a large number of miners yet alive but all very badly 1 arned aud they brought out sixty dt ad bodies nearly all so mutilated that the recognition of their identity is impossible The latest estimate ol' the dead is 150 Ths Committee Still l'atchtng Thm to Suit Reed Washington Feb The House Committee on Rales was again in session this morning and amended tbe code to correspond to the action of the Republican caucus yesterday afternoon One of these amendments which was overlooked in the abstract sent out last night ie of importance as it strikes out of the new code the authority conferred upon the committees reporting general appropriation bills It Is learned that this action was directed by tbe Republican cauous yesterday only after a bitter tight in which Representatives Cannon and McKinley were finally overcome by the opposition under the lead of Representative Payson As amended tbe rule is in the exact shape of the corresponding rule in the preceding house Capllol Notes Among tbe nominations sent to tbe Senate by the President yesterday postmaster iS JLP A It Til SCHOOLS From our Resident CorreapomlrnL Washington Feb Tho Pres-1 ident to-day appointed a very disreputable and illiterate negro named Henry A Dudley postmaster at Americas Ga This is the home of Congressman Crisp and it is thought that appointment was way of being revenged on Crisp because of tbe during the past week in the fight with Reed Dudley is the first negro that Harrison has appointed to a presidential postoffice There will be music at Americus when the news gets there Senator Blair of New Hampshire continued his speech to-day in favor of his bill to promote mendicancy He spoke for four hours with nobody to listen to him but the clerks pages official stenographers and presiding officers It will require four days more for Blair to conclude his talk The Senate adjourned over to-day until Monday and Blair will probably conclude about Thursday Tbe belief is growing that tbe bill will be defeated in tbe Senate this time If it passes I it will be by a very narrow majority The Arkansas and West Virginia Senators who voted for it formerly will be against it this time and so will Senators Eustls and Walthall Haw lev of Connecticutt and Spooner of Wisconsin are preparing to speak against it and so will several Democratic Senators Hampton Colquitt Ransom George and Gibson are still inelined to support it If tho bill I passes tho Senate it is almost certain I to go through the House as Reed stocked the Committee on Education iu its interest The House went along smoothly today under a flag of truce between the parties Cannon for tbe Committee on Rules got au order for the printing of tbe proposed eode together with tho reports of tbe majority and miuority oi the committee It is probable -t rults will be laid before the' House to-morrow There is some difference of opinion among the Democrats as to the way iu which the new code should be received but the course likely to be adopted is to I consider and discuss the code in good faith doing nothing that might cause delay in action Their reliance will be on their ability to show that tho code is a bad one aud ought not to be adopted without amendment and they will then be satisfied to let the responsibilit for any evil that may result from the too great liberty of action rest artth the majority When it comes to the final vote on the code as a whole they may not vote leaving the Republicans to adopt the rules by their own votes This latter action wiil not be to make delay but merely to emphasize their protest if the code is not amended as they desire There is no doubt that the code is the most villainous ever submitted to the House of Representatives Uudcr its operation everything would be lovely lor the looters and lobbyists Mr Carlisle has prepared a strong minority report and it is understood that Mr Randall is dictating a speech which will be read in the House when the rules are np for disoussion The debate on the rules will probably last a week and promises to be hot Mr Enloe of Tennessee to-day made a very clear half speech in favor of Disjoint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution empowering the Federal Government Portland Ore Feb The river is falling slowly to-day and all fears of serious local damage from the flood is past This is the highest water in the history of tbe city The bridges are believed to be safe and there is no evidence of any serious damage to builttings The goods in the stores on tbe lower streets were all removed beyond the reach of damage The only loss in the business district will be from the presence of the water on the ground floors of the buildings which will be trilling The most serious loss up the river will be from the destruction of bridges which seem to have been swept away everywhere Interruption to travel still continues landslides being reported in many places The only telegraphic communication with tho East is by the way of the Canadian Pacific and Postal Cable Company The Union Pacific is blockaded by heavy slides between this city and the Dalles and no trains are expected to be running for several days The Northern Pacific ie still running At Salem about sixty houses have been swept away and many persons were driven from their homes though so far aa learned no lives have been lost Along the river bottoms considerable live stock has been drowned and large quantt titles of grain nml hay destroyed The Columbia River at Vancouver Wash is falling At Eugene Ore a large wagon bridge near Springfield went out Monday also a part of the bridge near that city causing a loss of about $130000 A few amatt- kvIWlsp and large amounts of wood fencing and other material were washed away aud the aggregate losses will foot up many thousands of dollars At Rose-burg Ore no trains have arrived since Friday and a shortage of provisions Is feared unless communication is restored The bridge across Bear Creek has gone and tuq woolen mills have been destroyed by tlio flood New Orleans Feb 6 The Times Greenville Miss special says: The river registers 40 feet on the gauge Here which is within one foot of the high water of 1882 The levees however are higher and stronger than then and better able to withstand the encroaching waters The only weak point in the levee is at Clover Hill in Issaquena County south of thU place where it is said to be in an unfluished condition however a large force is at work there Assistant Engineer Somerville said this evening that there ws hard ly any cause for alarm at any place in this levee district even though the high water mark of 1882 should be reached Preparations have been made to meet any danger that may arise NATIONAL GUARD I MuifiuiiY Sergt Signal Corps Domestic The Ball-Post libol suit Proceedings of Congress yesterday IYAt-GCRATiON of Gov Fleming of est Virginia Alabama negroes pronounce in favdr the Butler bill A baptizing at Jeffersonville lnd leaks up in a row and robbery of a peddler ear Birmingham Ala Meeting of the Board of Control the Epworth League Proceedings of the National JJuard ssociatien Convention Mb Halstead before the ballot box aieMigating committee Powderly begins suit against Cal-Lan for criminal libel Probability that the Blair bill will defeated in the Senate The colored convention at Washington issues au address Asad incident connected with the sine explosion at Plymouth Pa Chicago parties suing for property inQahtb Minn worth $2 000 000 Widest Harrison appoints Tepo postmaster at Amerious Ga Amzw Carnegie offers $1000000 aablish a free library in Pitts T- XlLamfson abandons his contest like Lieutenant Governorship of to Virginia General Assembly appropriates $6235494 to Emory and Henry lege Report of the Washington fire mar-'ai as to the probable origin of the Trcy tire The high water mark at Greenville Iss almost reached but the levees cure and no danger feared The high water at Portland moving but travel still suspended and eat damage done to surrounding WAS Local The evidence concluded in the Cath-ice Bibb murder case The American Medical Association J1 be held here May 20 Committee appointed to take charge lthe Davis fund entertainment The noted Morgan horse Ben franklin 2:29 to arrive here this awning The Cumberland River Improve-ot Association preparing to send a Wnmittee to Washington biEsviEWs with local Democrats question shall the primaries before or after Jpiorney Henderson makes jWielense before the Supreme Court shows why be should not be deferred interesting decision in the Su-reae Court wherein a foundling after Kars sues for her adopted moth- Washington Feb 6 The Colored Convention to-day elected ex-Lieut Gov Pinchback President of the national organization and issued an address to the people of the United States It expresses regret that it is necessary for the colored American citizens to meet in a separate body for the consideration of questions national in their character but says they are compelled to do so because they have been made special objects of attack and oppression Attention is called to the fact that popular elec tions Federal and local in many States of the South are farcical formalities where the votes of the col ored men are suppressed by violence or neutralized by fraud their rights denied and themselves their wives daughters mothers and sisters are made the special objects of unfriendly State legislation and compelled to travel in filthy and inferior cars Colored American citizens who may be convicted of petty ofienses through unfriendly courts are submitted while undergoing sentence of said courts to such cruel and inhuman treatment as to make their condition worse than abject slavery In addition to this colored American citizens when suspected of having committed certain offenses and while in the custody of the so-called officers of the law are in many instances and as we believe with the knowledge and through the connivance of said offi qers cowardly lynched and murdered without a hearing and without even a semblance of a trial 6ur children in many of said States are not afforded the school facilities to which they are entitled and which is essential to future prosperity not only of our race but of both races iu the localities in which they live The labor system in most of the Southern States is unjust and unfair to the colored Americans and they seldom if ever enjoy a fair or reasonable portion of the fruits of their labor They are taxed without representation and compelled to obey laws they have no voice in making The address continues: parties are the instruments through which the will of the people is executed Our purpose is to so impress upon the public mind the justice and fairness of our claims that no political party can safely afford to ignore them If it be true that all our friends are in one party and our enemies in another which we do notassert -That is a misfortune for which we are responsible and the existence of which we sincerely regret We think it our duty to applaud the acts and indorse the utterances of our friends it matters not where they are or to what party they belong We therefore urge upon the colored American voter of the United States especially in localities the public sentiment of which secures to thenuthe efficacy and potency of their votes to support in the future only such candidates for public office as are known to be in favor of justice to the colored American citizens To us this should be the paramount consideration Questions relating to governmental admin istrative policy as for instance the tariff civil ser vice reform and the financial policy of the Government we sheuld make secondary and subordinate Without regard to the attitude of parties upon such questions and without regard to our own views upon them we feel that it is our duty to support only that party and only such candidates for office as are known to be friendly to our cause until all political parties will accordAo us the rights and privileges to which we are entitled under the Constitution and the laws of the The address favors the Blair bill the holding of Federal elections under Federal control and emphatically denounces the bill for the deportation of colored men we says the address in conclusion justice equal rights and fair It was resolved that a copy of the address be presented to the President and that he be thanked in the name of the convention for his kind allusions to the colored Americans in his message to Congress was Burbank to at Dyersburg Tenn The nominations of Blanche Bruce Recorder of Deeds District or Columbia and George Hammer postmaster at Bristol Ten were confirmed by the Senate yesterday in the secret session of tbe Senate yesteruay the resolution of Senator Edmunds declaring that the rights or the United States in the harbor of Pago Pago were not infringed by the Samoan treaty was rejected 39 to 13 Attorney General Miller said yesterday in response to an inquiry on tbe subject that the whereabouts of Fanz thr victim of tbe alleged outrage at Aberdeen iss were known to him bat that he did not care to make them public for tbe present The American Shipping League Convention yesterday adopted resolutions in4orsing the Farquhar subsidy bill now peuding in Congress urging Congress to improve the sea-coast both lake and seaboard defeases and favoring an efficient nary Senator Reagan made an argument in favor of the scheme to spend 000000 in making a deep water harbor at Galveston A sub-committee consisting of Senators Frye Vest and Coke were appointed to draft a bill aud report to the full committee A SAD INCIDENT ArcUblhop Clrnrtr Denounces th Equal Rights sedation Kingston Ont Feb Archbishop Cleary in addressing a meeting of his church people at Tweed referred to tho sepotte school question He said Lat the diabolical spirit of hatred of religious education had found its way into the province of Ontario Satan had raised his standard there and had sent forth from the gates of hell his army of demons the Equal Rights to propagate his wicked maxims throughout tbe cities and towns of tho province Yielding to this influence the Conservative leader had formed his policy and has announced that he would run sword through the Catholic Church and sever the sacred bond between Bishops tbe chief pastors of the flock ol Christ and the faithful people committed to their care In contusion the Archbishop denounced lAr Meredith the Conservative leaded most vigorously and predicted that number of separate schools wouM continue to increase as usual notwithstanding the agitation AIMED A JPOLYOAMT Columbus Feb 6 The contest for the Lieutenant-Governorship is over Mr Lampson has given up the ease and said to-night in regard to the matter: full consideration and acting upon the advice of my attorneys and a conference of leading Republicans I have decided not to attempt to take the contest to the Supreme Court This decision is based largely upon legal considerations When the contest in the Senate was ended no oompetent testimony was heard by that body Not a Senator had read or heard read the depositions of either side on file in the case No oral testimony was ofiered on the part of myself the Senate refusing to bear it purported to be a summary of depositions made by tbe Committee on Elections but which in fact was a summary of conclusions made by Mr attorneys and largely unsustained by the depositions themselves was read by said attorneys and upon tnis tbe Senate decided the case The journal of the first proceedings as approved showed that a summary of depositions was read On the sec ond day the same summary was continued and concluded This summay contained also a summary of the depositions taken on behalf of the contestee which was not read by Mr attorneys The next day after the contest it dawned upon Mr attorneys that the decision of the Senate was based upon no evidence presented to tbe Senate and that the journal so showed Thereupon the journal was made to read that depositions were read before the Senate instead of a summary thereof A summary of depositions is not evidence depositions are evidence The courts have held that you cannot go behind or impeach the records of a co-ordi nate branch of the government and we do not propose to go into the courts on a doubt If the journal had been a correct record of the proceedings as provided by the Constitution we should have had a clear case in the Supreme Court Again if the courts should entertain jurisdiction of the case in quo warranto proceedings and decide that the decision or judgment ot the Senate was a nullity daving been based upon no evidence the case would be remanded to the Senate to be tried ovor again with probably the same result Another trial would delay the business of the Senate and be expensive to the State as well as the parties Personally I am unable to bear such expense Gen Voorhees is decidedly of the opinion that the case ought to go to the Supreme Court but it has been determined otherwise and this decision is BIG PRICES Realized for Rare Volumes ln the Umlon Collection New York Feb There is no apparent lack of interest in the sale of the Barlow collection of books on the fourth day of the sale The rare volumes again commanded high prices Brayton Ives the Boston Public Library aud the Lenox Library obtained most of the expensive works A lolio of Peter Martyr published in Spain in 1511 and containing a map of the American coast and islands went to Mr Ives for $1110 Among other expensive books secured by the same buyer was the Laws and Liberties of the Massachusetts printed at Cambridge in 1672 for which $270 was paid The Boston Public Library purchased the printed in Boston in 1790 paying $175 for it and also Journal ol the English Plantation at published in London in 1622 for which it paid $360 Among the works secured by the Lenox Library was Epistle to the Christian in Indian text published in Boston in 1700 the price paid being $300 DOWN TO DEATH Connected WitH the Nottinglinm £xfloton at 11 jr month ia WlLKEKBARRK Pa Feb 6- A sad Incident of the Nottingham mine explosion at Plymouth last Saturday has come to light in connection with tbe death of Paul Sewoholse one of the victims lie was a highly educated German mechanical engineer hut reduced by misfortune to tho necessity of working as a laborer He recently entered into a competitive teat in tbe Engineering Department ai Washington for plans of a Government light-bouee Twenty-five other architects submitted dehigns Hie plans executed during bis idle hours ud after months of study were accepted by tbe Government few weeks ago The Government officials also addressed him a letter at Shenandoah Pa offering him a position at $120 per month to superintend construction of the building he designed Tbe letter miscarried and necessarily compelled him to come to Plymouth where he secured work only 'to lose his life by the accident before learning of his good fortune He was a widower and has a son living in Frc-burg Germany Senator McDonald Will Introduce a Rill to Amend Canadlrn Marriage Lawn Ottawa Ont Feb Senator MacDonald of British Columbia last night gave notice of his intention to introduce a bill to amend tho act respecting offenses relating to the laws of marriage It is designed more particularly to prevent the practice of polygamy by the Mormons of Cardston and other places in the Territories The penalty provided for polygamy or lor assisting ln a polygamous marriage is imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine not exceeding 500 or both The bill also proposes to disqualify any person guilty of au oflense under the net for voting at any election in the Northwest Territories or for being a candidate lor any public position Convention at Wahington Make Itecoimuenlntton to t'ongre Washington Feb The National Guard Association Convention to-day adopted the report of the oommittce on legislation and indorsed a memorial which will be presented to Congress Tho memorial favors the Cutoheon seacoast defense bill tbe Hawley bill providing for appointments in tbe army from the officers of the National Guard and the Header son mobilization bill with some few amendments particular stress is laid upon the pressing necessity which exists for an increase in the National Guard appropriation and the sum asked for is $1000000 The convention then adjourned sine die The mem bers this afternoon proceeded to the White House in a body and paid their respects to President Harrison EPWOltTH LEAGUE FA XI TZ 4 'S PLOT A SAD STORY St ate A 510000 fire at Milan Mai'iiy County stock showings James Lellus suicide at Clinton lints at Lafayette and Dyersburg evehal heavy sentences at Spring- 'Other wn hat0RuVE robbery Morristown es that town from centre to cir- Whiteside's resignation Auditor of Chattanooga has een accepted Foreign lkri cal sensation in London KR Strike bV tbe London dock Plot discovered through a the conspirators leaRV denounces the an Equal Rights Association t(? be introduced in the arhament aimed at polygamy BlE in a mine in England The num-rictims is estimated at 150 a Ki Ore Fields JWavl lain Minn Feb Eminent A Young in conjunction with tbe Stales to suppress gambling in the neoessaries of life Mr Enloe got the floor to offer a resolution providing for tbe printin of 2000 extra copies of his proposed constitutional amendment Tbe farmers of the country more especially of the West and South have been pouring in roqueata on Mr Enloe for copies or bis joint resolution In order to meet the demand he asked for permission to have 2000 extra copies printed and In doing so made his speech It was listened to with attention by the House and made an excellent impression The extra copies of his amendment to the Constitution were ordered printed as per his request Gen John 9 Mosby famous as a Confederate raider and guerilla during the war met Mayor Pingree of Detroit at the Kbbitt last flight for the second time Twenty-five years ago they had their first meeting Mayor lMngree was a young Yankee soldier in charge of recruits and a delegation of fractious mules While on guard one night the Mosby pickets gathered in Pingree and his subordin-nates The Yankee had on a magnificent broadcloath suit which pleased eyes and he said just shed that I believe it will fit me it did but Mosby threw back tbe coat with the remark -I wear that some of my men might shoot me for a When the two men met at the Kbbitt House last night they talked over the affair with much entertainment for tlisir auditors THE TRACY FIRE the Was Discovered Through a Quarrel Among the Conspirator Sofia Feb 6 plot for the assassination of Ferdinand was discovered in consequence of a quarrel among the conspirators and a noisy conference tho language of which was overheard It was agreed by ail the conspirators that they should remove Ferdinand but a difference of opinion arose between them as to who should profit by the removal in mounting the throne as his successor Panitza himself favored the restoration of Alexander but others regarding Alexander as no hotter than Ferdinand from the Russian point of view wished to leave this subiect for subsequent determination and have the Czar decide it Meeting of the Ilonrtl of Control to Systematize the Work Chicaoo Feb The Board of Con trol of the Epworth League a sort of combination of all the young Methodist societies of the United States met and began a two day's ses sion here to-day about thirty members of tho board were present The object of the session is to systematize the work of the leaie Officers were elected this morning Bishop Fitzgerald of Minneapolis being selected as President aud Rev Rees Secrotary Rev Dr Hurlburt the Corresponding Secretary read a lengthy paper on the work of the league since its organization There are at present 1910 chapters in the league and in round numbers 100000 members Suggestions as to improvement in methods of work were made and discussed 4 DISASTROUS FIRE 5(1 anaounce the Barker Moat i Strict at Great Falls Posjk' the greatest ore win discovered in this country tbe record of all pre- 51 the aPttal is flowing close Viore of tbe8e discoveries and nre8ummer has passed rich are looked for Labor fiopta I-Wed aro looked for Labor is Two Men Thrown Down Shaft a Distance of Eighty-Live Feet Waterloo Ia Feb A terrible accident resulting iu the death of one man and serious injuring of another occurred here this afternoon by the giving way of a seaflold of the new steel stand-pipe Jack Long of Hamilton Ont and Wilder Bardeen of this city were precipitated to the bottom a distance of eighty-five feet neck was broken and he expired immediately Bardeen had several ribs fractured aud is terribly bruised from striking timbers in his descent but the physicians think that he will recover INDUCTED INTO OFFICE tYlfo Suoiug dor Husband Abandonment Nxw York Feb Wm Spears 24 years old wss arraigned in a police court to-day by his wife Lucy Spears with abandonment and non-support He deserted her ln Detroit Mioh over a year ago and she followed him to this city and caused his arrest Her maiden name was Lucy Trolie and Spears betrayed her under promise of marriage He then had a criminal operation performed on her but refused to marry her After an interview with brother however be wedded the girl at Ontario Canada He then abused his wife badly and finally left her and came here She wrote him letters asking tor money for the support of herself and child but be paid no attention to them Finally Mrs Spears came here and got a warrant for his arrest and then his troubles began He did not know what he had beau arrested for until he saw his wife in court She told her story and her husband said that the marriage was forced on him at the point of a revolver Judge Hogan remanded the prisoner for examination A Serious Matter Wilkes ba us Pa Feb The explosion in the Pettibonc abaft of the Delaware Laokawanna A Western Company late last night proven to be a more serious matter than was anticipated in earlier dispatchea The fire departments of Wiikeabarre and Kingston were summoned at midnight and are still to-day ponring water into tbe shait With the exception of the tour men burned in the explosion nobody was injured The damage will reach many thousand dollars and months will be required to make the nooessary repairs The shaft is the deepest in tbe Wyoming region Probably Originated Through Explosion of a Lamp Washington Feb Fire Marshal Drew to-day submitted to Chief Parrish his report on the fire at Secietary house The report was forwarded to the District Commissioners The Fire Marshal says: compliance with you? request I made a thorough examination of the burned gilding 1634 1 street Northwest owneji and occuDied by the Hon Traj Secretary of the Navy and from mi the evidence to be gleaned fro nr tue hired help in the house andm the surroundings in the libra' or main room on the first floors I mm of the opinion of which of coursothere is no direct proof that this 4Tre originated from the of a coal oil lamp a large d-a61e-burner duplex lamp being r-ept on a table within the circle formed by the large bay window which lamp was lighted every night It is very likely that when the family retired the night before the fire that instead of extinguishing the light the blaze was turned down low and left burning which is a very dangerous practice as from this cause the wick is apt to become crusted preventing a free flow of flame and keeping the heat below the crust thereby causing the thin brass work of which the burner is composed to become so hot as to generate ga8 within lamp causing the sa this was the cause as I have pieces scattered tbe floor the bowl ot tiie the same to explode If this -was the cause as every reason to helieve pieces of the lamp being directions over kgiven a employment can at once en t0 a rge number of men Bels legislation Blocked Feb- After 01 tbe Senate yesterday tbe Senate Clerical Sensation London Feb 6 A sensation has been caused in clerical circles by the Archbishop of Canterbury allowing counsel for Dr Kigg Bishop of Lincoln who is charged with ritualistic practices to argfee the propriety of the use of lighted oandles on the communion table befofe the Privy Council although such practice has tor a long time been pronoaifced illegal A Papal tUtaTowal Rome Feb 6 Cardinal Rampolla in reference to the protest of the late Rabbi Adler disagows through Cardinal Manuing the report that the Pope had French book accusing the Jews ot blood sacrifices of Christian children The Vatican simply acknowledged tho receipt of tbe book Foreign flAfhfm Governor General Salamanca oi Cuba is dangerously ill The Marquis of -Hartington left London yesterday lorEgypt The French Government will shortly issue a loan of 850000000 francs Crisp! yesterday presented a bill to provide a pension of $60000 to the Pensions were granted to Ten -nesseans to-day as follows Original Invalid Jaa Hamilton Clarksville Godfrey McNeely Fincastle franklin Dunsmore Graves ton Increase John Dunn Albany Quil-lin Gihia Rock wood Wan Roberts Trotters town Jacob Crabtree Newmansville John Huston Marvin in Baldon Well-spring Andrew He winger Long Hollow John Weedon Quite wait lcuj Wood Butterfly Lewis Miller Knoxville John Muitb Altamont Geo Payne Little Doe Original Widows Etc Mary widow ol Jas A Richardson Whitleyville Martha Gentry former widow oi Giles Carden Pulaski Senator Gibson to-day introduced a bill to appropriate $1000000 lor the mproveuient of the Mississippi River aad in harbors of New Grleaits Natchez Vicksburg and" Memphis according to the plans of the Mississippi River Commission and for the ex- Several Person Dully Runted In a I Conflagration at Glen Falls Glen Falls Feb The Mansion Hotel and a small building adjoining were burned early this morning A Stone landlord his wife and three children escaped ia their night clothes Stephen Cote a French doctor was badly burned and jumped from a back window to a shed beueath Anna Buckley and Julia Welsh two servants escaped in a similar manner Lizzie Farrar jumped from a front window and sprained her ankle Lizzie March fought her way down the front stairs through the ilauies She was badly burned about the face and hands Nelson Souircr a fireman was slightly bruised by a failing wail iern fsi incest eigbti Democratic Bena- sSZSj? the rahn of 'fesent tnoL ln counting them q-j trauiS in different di- yond the HteLaid they were t4cfr of thn llne to Ket out of tbe Their Asepce will block all legia- brJ Deadlock iwe 1a- Feb In the ffianent the roU caI1 on -s Usuai peaker was taken npand he 71st a tle Thi9 was blued Tbe voting con-lient whiAt0Ut cbaige until adjourn-allot Was takea after the 72d Inaugtraliou of Got Fleming of West Virginia Yeaterdnj Charleston Va Feb 6 Gov rieming was inaugurated at noon today The oath was administered by Judge English of the Supreme Court A large number were present among them many ladies The new Governor spoke lor about five minutes in which he referred to the Democratic tariff policy and the late contest complimenting Gov Wilson and pledging himself to discharge the duties of office faithfully aud impartially A grand inaugural ball took place in the State Armory in the evening in diflerent within the lines of phe bay-window and taking the surroundings into consideration the bay-window being heavily curtained with silk and lace.