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I 1 1 7f7 if 6if 1 f. VOL. NO. 321. CHICAGO, MONDAY MOKNTNG, FEBBTJABY 8, 1892 TWEIiVE PAGES, PKICE TWO CENTS.

AWOKE TO DIE. Over Thirty. Human Beings Roasted Alive at New York. ONE HUNDRED MISSING. The Hotel Royal Burns Down in the Early Morning.

FEW HAD TIME TO ESCAPE. Firemen and Pollcsmen Perform Many Acts of Heroism. Wall Topple In While Score Helple Wretches Are at the Window. of HORROR IN A HOTEL. Nsw Tobk, Fob.

7. An appalling disaster, bringing to mind the terrible occurrence in Park riace, still fresh in the puMio mind, oc curred in this city early this morning. The Hotel Royal, that well-known land-mark which has stood for more than a quarter of a century at the southeast corner of Sixth avenue and Fortieth street, was burned to the ground and a large number of Deo tile were burned, suffocated, and crushed in the ruins. At the time of the disaster there were ISO guests in the bouse. The hotel employes, all told, number fifty-fire.

Of this total number fire hare thus far been found dead, six are in the hospital, and sixty- three have been reported alive. One hundred are still missing. The num ber of dead will probably not exoeed thirty. The scenes were heartrending and appalled even the firemen and poliecmen, who are used to terrible scenes. Soon after the fire broke out ambulances arrived from the various hospitals.

Many physicians whose residences are In the neigh borhood were quickly on the scene and did all they could to relieve the injured. Nearly every one of the 124 rooms which the hotel has on its five floors was occupied last night by guests, many of them transient. In fact all the rooms save four had been taken at 1 o'clock this morning, when Richard Meares, the proprietor, went to bed. When the flames burst forth from some unknown origin near the elevator abaft, the entire building was instantly enveloped in flames. LIST OF TBB DEAD.

Uskxows womas, 40 years old, fractured skull and slightly burned. She is supposed to have jumped from a widow and killed her self. TJmwows wcmaw, about 28, gos)d looking, light complexion, wore an abundance of jew elry. Burned and suffocated. XJmwnown mas, about 85 years old, dark brown hair; jumped Train Window.

Bend smashed in pieces. Smooth face, about 6 feet 9 inches in height; weighed about 180 pounds; wore linen night-shirt and trousers. Uhkkow mas, good looking, about 42 years eld, had on striped silk undershirt; light brown stripes. Evidently a Hebrew. Body at morgue.

Hbhbt C. Lett, of the firm of Levy, Strauss A Freeman, No. 707 Broadway, wholesale clothiers; Identified by his brother, H. J. Levy.

TBB l.ULHID. Clariwcb W. Keii, 39 years old, single, lawyer, Hazleton, suffocated and burned. Injuries not fatal. Taken to Bellevue Hospital.

Waxxbb L. Yatbs, 60 years old, clothier, of Philadelphia, condition serious; burns and contusions. At Bellevue Hospital, Mas. Isabella babes, wife of the pro- -T1I TT I -1 Habdiso, engineer of the Hotel 11 i V- ivoytu, iaiaiiy ournea wmie trying to rescue a woman. Several ribs broken.

Taken to hospital." bomb or thb Miser a i Wic. E. Akmstbohq. Thomas Kbxwedy. Chari.es Closb.

K.atb Rarxxr. Elizabeth Dokahu. Maquis Octlber. Mat Rtab, chambermaid. Scmb Smith, chambermaid.

Aknib Cemmisos. Mas. Vas Nobdis. William C. McLaxb ajtd win.

-O. A. Mcbpht. Among others inquired after were Mr. and lira.

Lockhart, permanent guests, who came from Scotland on a visit to this country. Mr. Lockhart was described as an elderly man nd is wealthy and his wife is a young woman who has been an invalid. They occupied rooms on the fourth floor. thbbbsctjbd: Buchanan, Rupert iemont.

C. S. Bonby, C. Hrarnes, andC. C.

Cockbush, E. C. Allen, C. White. W.

H. Scott and wife, O. 8. MoOee. Mrs.

J. Titus, E. B. Reynolds wife, O. Sapler, E.

Q. Harding. Langdon Smith, James E. Corey. Mrs.

S. Knap, of Chi-P. Taylor. cago, H. P.

Tompkins, W. C. Pearce. Not all the persons who engaged rooms at the hotel last night registered, nor did all who registered put down true names, for reasons best known to themselves. A (ew of the names as written are E.

T. Leonard and Mrs. Leonard, Phil-adclpbia. H. D.

Sonlin, city. E. F. Leonloka, Rupert, Ontario. W.

Trafford and wife, New Rochella, F. A. Clark and wife, Boston. J. C.

Price and wife, city. L. C. and Mrs. Taylor, Newark, N.

J. F. Lester and wife, Boston. J. K.

Smith and wife, Springfield, Mas John Parkerson and wife, Great Neck, L. I. Mr. McKe and wife, New Haven. CM.

White and wife, Nyack, N. J. Williams and Albany. H. O.

Warren and wife, Nyack. R. Marrong and wife, Boston. ohn Thompson and wife, city, Thomas Gould, city, Ifwret and wife, ciiy. Br.

White and white, Chicago. Mr. Faulkner, wife, and daughter, Con-' noticut At o'olock Mrs. Isabella Meares, wife of Mr. Richard Mearea, proprietor of the hotel, awakened her telling him tnenanse was on bhe heard the crack ling the flames and saw smoke coming wrougn toe ere vices ol their bedroom door.

Mr. Meares had only retired at 1 o'clock and was aroused witli difficulty. He sprang out oi oeo ana ran into ut iiauway. volume oi amok filled the halls and flames were making their way rapidly op the elevator shaft. Their, apartments were on the third flpor and forty feet from the stairway.

One glance at the situation was enough to tell him the story. Jle ran back to his wife's room and shouted. Now you follow me." snatched up a coat, and again ran into the hallway. He fought his way straight to the staircase, supposing that his wife was close behind Lira. The passage-way was choked with dense smoke which almost strangled him.

Then throwing the overcoat over his head to pre vent suffocation he BKHx'HIS HKAD LOW AXD GBOPBD his wiy to the banisters, on which he placed his left hand- Flames were shooting up from below. Hi hand which was on the ra ling was burned, and his hair was singed. His situation was perilous. To run down the tairs for two flights meant death, and so, swinging himself over the hand-rail, he dropped twenty feet to the ground floor. He landed on his feet without a broken bone, and made his way to the street.

Mr. Meares was among the first to leave the burning building, and when he made his exit not a fire engine had arrived. But even in those few minutes the flames had gotten their grip on the fated structure and were shooting from all the windows of the upper floors. When Mr. Meares reached safety in the street he realized that his wife was not with him.

At that moment a hook and ladder truck arrived. Meares i nplored them to save his wife. A ladder was quickly placed in josition to a window which he said was his wife room, Cp the ladder Policeman Merritt ran. The window selected was not the right room. In it was an unknown woman, who quickly stepped out on to the ladder and was CABKTCD DOWli IB SATBTT.

Then the ladder was placed against the window of Mrs. Meares' room. A young man ran nimbly up to help save the woman who had already stepped upon the ladder. Meares ran up the ladder, too, and stepped off to the roof of the verandah over the entrance to the office to steady his wife when she cam down- She was nervous, and in making the descent slipped and fell to the sidewalk. She was picked up with a sprained ankle and several body bruises.

In the meantime. Policeman Gallagher had rung in an alarm, which was followed by two calls for ambulances. The scenes before the fire companies ar rived were heartrending. One man, whose name is not known, sprang from a third-story window and was dashed to death on the ground below. rVople turned their faoes away horn fled at the sight.

This was on the Sixth ave nue side of the building. A moment later another man leaped from a window on the Fortieth street side and was instantly killed. Shortly afterward two women jumped from Windows on the Sixth avenue side, and were DEAD WHE5 PirXBD CP. Their bodies were taken to the Thirtieth Street Station House, and afterward, uniden tified, removed to the morgue. At that hour tho known dead numbered four.

Several others had dropped from windows or slid down ropes, with which every room in the hotel was provided, and escaped with severe burns, while many more had been in jured in the same way, making their escape by the fire escapes, and were in the hands of ambulance surgeons, who had been sum moned from Bellevue Hospital and New York Hospital. The surgeons had their bands full in taking care of the injured and maimed. All this time the fire was raging fiercely and it was plain to be seen that the building was doomed. The structure burned like much kindling wood. The work of rescuing the guests still went on and many were taken from the window by firemen and policemen.

Sergeant Ward and Patrolman Phillips, of fire patrol No. 2, went into a room on the fourth floor front and rescued Walter Phelps and wife, taking them down a ladder safely. They succeeded in saving Mrs. Samuel Kniff, who was about to LEAP TBOM OKB OT TBB WIHDOWS on the third floor. Mr.

Frederick Uhlmann, a dealer in hops, has been a guest at Hotel Royal for years, and lived with his brother Simon and mother. The latter yesterday went to their country residence at Lnkewood, N. J. Mr. Uhlmann had gone to bed shortly after 1 clock, and was sleeping soundly when he was rudely awakened by the cry of fire and the screams and shouts for help of the in mates of the house.

He ran from his room on the second floor, which was directly over the office, into the hall. He found it filled with smoke, and was forced back into his room. Again he made an attempt, and falling over some obstruction in the passageway suc ceeded in making his way down the one flight of stairs to the street below. He escaped with only an overcoat to cover his naked' ness. Mr.

Uhlmann lost everything in his room, including $12,000 in cash. Several checks and notes and other valuable business documents were lost. Despite his loss, however, Mr. Uhlmann waa cheerful to-day, for as he said, "If my mother and brother had not gone away on Saturday tbey would have been burned." AMONG TBB ARROW ESCAPES was that of H. C.

Tbompkma, of this city, who was a transient guest at the hotel. He was awakened from his slumbers by the cry of fire. He got up and went into the hallway, but escape down the stairs was impossible, Mr. Thorn pk ins kept his head, and collecting atl his valuables escaped out of a window down a rope. In descending the flames from the second Story windows burned his bands slightly and scorched his hair.

Mrs. jr. JLnapp, of Chicago, had a room on the fifth floor. She had presenoe of mind enough to wrap a vet towel around hep head to prevent being suffocated, and went to the window and waited until rescued by a burly policeman. i Mrs.

neper and daughter, of Fleming-ton, N. 1- occupied a room on the third floor front. They registered at the hotel yesterday; They were taken from this room" flown a lad dr. They lost all their clothing save the night dresses -which they had on, and were cared for by Mrs. Knight, of West Fortieth street Mrs.

Kueper Buffered from shock and Misa Kueper's long black hair was singed by the flames which burst over her head as she stepped on. the ladder. Mrs. Knight nad no less than nine home less people in her bouse at one time. Among those who accepted oi the hospitality was a young man named Levy, who slid down a XmABXXa TBB IXXSH TO TBB BOB.

These escapes occurred before the wall of toe building feu wnue. ine nremen were doing their almost to stop the progress of the flame, which threatened to envelop the ad- joining buildings. When the wall fell people were seen at several windows on the top floor- crying for neip, out Uiey foil back and were soon buried tn the ruins. 1 he names of the burning building illu- uineo uo sicy lor mile around and drew to tne scene an immense throna of doodIa. Tue fire lines were strictly drawn and main.

OUTBREAK OF. CRIME. Daring; Deeds of Down-town Highwaymen Last Night, ALL WITHIN A FEW HOURS. A Thief. Fatally Shot In Front of the County Building.

Footpads Rob a Man et the Des- plalnee Street Station Held Upon the Bridge. MORE CROOKS THAN POLICEMEN. Another outbreak of criminality in the heart of die city. Shots were fired between a thief and a de tective, the former was wounded, perhaps to death, the officer injured, and a pickpocket la jaiL All this occurred within a block of the Central Station in the City Hall at 11 o'clock last night. W.

J. Norton, an officer in plain clothing. jumped on a cable car going south on LaSalle street. Five men, some of them with face he had seen in the rogues' gallery, were, on the car. With wits sharpened by long service for a great railway, Norton saw an attempt on the part of the gang to force a well-dressed young man mto a corner.

It was the old "rush" gam of the pictspockets, but it was unsuccess ful. When the men dropped off the car the of ficer followed. A train westward bound was on the other track. A crowd stood ready to enter the car at the corner of Madison street. The thieves divided to let them by until the last of the passengers, a Chinaman named Wong Loo, attempted to get aboard.

Then they cloned about him. As they.stood on the platform together, Norton saw one of them shaking his fist in the occidental face. As his hand3 were raised to protect himself another deftly searched his pocket. TBlJS IB CALLED "TBUKlBO." Norton grabbed the man who was actually picking the pockets. As he dragged him from the rear platform of the Madison street trailer the other jumped off and scattered.

Yi ith a firm grasp on the criminal a arm, be went east on Madison street, and turned on Clark to go to the Central Station. At the corner of the County Building a man who had followed the officer thrust a pistol in his face. "Let that man go, you cursed he, and after firing and missing he struck the offloer on the head with his revolver. Partially stunned by the blow, the detective drew his revolver and shot. William H.

Farrell, an old polioeman, now keeping the place at No. 91 Clark street, heard the shots and came out to learn the cause. A man darted by him down the alley be tween Kandolpu and ashington streets. Farweli cbaaed and caught him as he ex claimed. "I'm shot 1" Though Norton's prisoner made an attempt to escape, the plucky man hung to him and booked him at the Central Station a minute before Farrell arrived with hi bleeding cap tive.

The chase had been short, for the running man was already weakened by loss of blood. MOBTON BEOOOBiaBS SIM XBSTABTLX as his assailant To the sergeant he gave the name of John Williams. He was known to be a St. Louis thief under the name of The pickpocket is John Reynolds, a well-known crook, who was fined $100 last week. and told to leave the city under suspension.

Dr. McMartin examined Williams' wound. He found it serious. The officer's bullet had entered to the left of the spinal cord, skirted the base of the skull, and gone through the cheek. Much blood was lost.

The ambulance was called and the injured desperado removed to the County Hospital. There be now lingers between life and death. Reynolds denied any acquaintance with him. The officers' search had shown, however, that both were in possession of tickets to the Concordia baH on Milwaukee avenue next Saturday. Norton's wound, though stunning, was not permanently serious.

A gash half an inch long, down to the bone, marked where the hammer of the thief's revolver had entered the scalp. The criminal's revolver, with one "chamber discharged, was found at the corner of the alley. Officers were promptly detailed to bring in the other three members of the gang. Tbey are known to frequent criminal resortd on the West Side, and their capture la expected. UNDER THB BRIDGE LIQHT8.

George Sullivan, of No. 134 Van Buren street, waa stopped by two men at the Polk street bridge just before midnight last night. While one covered him with a revolver, hav ing ordered bim to throw up his hands, the other rifled his pockets and secured $60 in cash. They escaped by keeping him in range of the revolver until they had withdrawn some distance and then both broke into a run and disappeared in the daakness. Sullivan says he would recognise the meathould be them again.

IN r-RONT OF A POLICE STATION. One of the boldest attempt at robbery yet reported to the police occurred within twenty feet oi the Desplaine Street Station at 9:90 clock last night. at that hour Andrew Soronson, of No. 21 North Union street, was returning from church. turned off Madison street on isespiaioee, ana as ne passed onaer gas lamp be -was accosted by two men, who asked him the time.

Mr. Soronson glanced at hi watch, informed the men, and walked ahead. He did not notice the men cross Deeplaine street and hurry toward ashmgtoa. There they crossed over again and met Soronson in i a i i irons oi xuicnaei voniey saioon, wnica la Just across the alley from the police station. There they stopped Soronsn, in full view of the main entrance of the station, and demanded his money.

When he refused botlN sprang on him and knocked him down. They were frightened a way, however, by a noise in the station before tbey secured anything. Soronson sprang to his feet and Jan after them as far a Washington street. There he met Officers Brady and McOraw and reported the assault They started north to see if they could And any trace of the men, and bo ran son returned on JJespiaines street. When in front of Tom Costello's saloon, which adjoins th Police Station, he was again stopped by 'one of the sams' fuen" "who had assaulted, him only a few moments before.

He knocked Soronson down again and was beginning to go through his pockets when Officers -Brady and McUraw beard boronson cries for help. Tbey hastened to his assistance and placed tne roDoer unoer arrest lis said bis name was George F. Clark. He was identified by Soronse as the man who asked, him for the time at the oornor of Madison and Dee. plaines streets.

Th police learned that hi companion was Oeorgt McLftin, and was arrested at hi boarding house. No. 137 Moo roe street He, too, was locked up at the station. The offioars at the Desplaiaes Street Station regard the assault as one of the most daring that has lately been committed on the West Side. 7 "This was certainly an unusual display of boldness," said Sergeant Roche.

"If one is not safe in front of a police station, J. hardly know wher he would FORGED PAPER AM CO LJuATKR AIj Warrant Oat tar the AnesttnT K. l. Darusl, of Fdrtlud. h-toa.

PoBXLAVD. Oregon. Feb. 7. Special TtU- oram.

A warrant has bees Issued for the ar rest of E. D. Darand, President of the Du rand Organ and Piano Company1, of this city, on a charge of forgery. Durand is supposed to nave left this city last Friday night and bis Thereabouts are unknown. About ten years sgo Durand came to this city from St aouis, MoM and engaged in the business of selling organs.

He organised the Durand Organ and Piano Company with capital stock of $200,000. The company engaged extensively in the business of selling musical instrument and. had agent out over the country renting and selling organs and pianos. They also sold stuck of the company on. the plan substantially as follows: A buyer would give his note for $1,000 on the promise that the note would not be disposed of by Durand, "but would be Ifep hot his possession and renewed at th expiration if the desired dividends arising from the profit of the company, which it was made to appear would be large, could be applied by th stock, holder in payment for spy instrument he had bought and also applied to his note.

About $300,000, it is said, was thus raised on note. He sold these notes and forged about $200,000 worth, which he put up as aollateraL Among Durand creditors- is the Cottage Organ Company, of Chicago, to whom he owes $16,000. INSPECTING WESTERN GRAIN. Trouble BtvNi tfe Kansas City Exchaag sad the State Anthorltfe. St.

Locis, Mo Feb. 7. Special Telegram. News has reached here that a war is on at Kansas City between the Commercial Ex, chaage and the State Inspectors; that the exchange has appointed inspector, and will ignore the State authorities. CaDtain Joseph Shea, chief of the State Inspection Department, has gone to Kansas City to try and settle the tnaibte.

Just be fore his departure he was asked what the trouble was about and in tepfor said This is a fight for our grades. Kansas City has no regular elevator, but there are seven mixing houses in that city i and sues places have bought all conditions, of low-grade wheat and have mixed itandtyaveendervored to palm it off on the the Board as regular grades. They have tried to pass it as No. 3 hard winter wheat for expert when it was really rejected. "Now there is no desire oil the part of the Stat grain department tolajur the trad 3 of this city, but the cold facts are that before the State took charge this ftans City grain had no standing in the market of the coun try.

I am disposed to give; them a grade for their stuff grain from the territory adjacent to the city which will iwdicala Just what it fa, create a new grade, in fact "Of one thing res aseuied; Kansas wheat must submit to the Mao an inspection. have a fore of eight compejCrot rpejngtKan as City, whrah will increased reduced as drcumstaneea.1 may" warrant, but the State inspection muatend wilb preserved. NEW EL.ECTRIO CAR ST8TEM. It I SaM to Be Cheep as Kot Ateetad by tba WMUkerv- Dbtboit, Feb. 7.Spial TeUmvun.

An inventor of many year experience with electricity, Thomas Harris, has patented a new electric street car system which is entirely different from any system heretofore invented. Between the two outer est taaoks he plsees a section of rail about the length of a car. These sections are placed twenty or thirty feet apart, and the wire whioji conveys the power and connects with a station at a dis tance is underground and Inside the tional rails. The cat has a dynamo and brush, and the circuit is mad by the brush striking the sections of rails and connecting with the underground wires. The wire is so out tf the way that none of the rails contain electricity except the particular section which thjs oar happens to be passing When he-car leaves one section for another the electricity has also left the rail.

Mr. Harris claims that each ear is inderjen dent, and that should a car tea the track bo danger oould result. Such (a accident would not interfere with ear in; the rear in the least and as soon as the "car was put on the track again it would move forward as if nothing hsd happened. Tit system is claimed to be much cheaper than other sys tems, and it is said that bad weathet can not affect it working in the least t. WILL FORM TWO EXCHANGES.

aUaamatpslls ad at. Paal Btittfl Kac to tmlta, St. Paul, Feb. 7Th ioint effort of the St -Paul and Mipneipolis fruit dealers to organise a Twin City Produce Exchange a nave laiien uwougo, and lb at, com. mission men will form an organization of their own on the same plaa which the joint committee had formulated for the merchant of the two cities.

The failure was due to the. action of the Minneapolis dealer in refusing to become a party to the proposed incorporation of the Twin City Produce- Merchants, The object which the dealer bad -ia iew was to protect themselves against1, ewtssde commission men and to correct abuse which hsd grown up in the trade, meeung oi tne.joia oommiUee was held yesterday afternoon sad the Minneapolis members of the committee- stated that they would not go into th exchange. The rsuU will be an independent exchange In that citv. The local dealers have alreaar sBstens. ft-.

form an exchange witb $50,000 irtock, and or- ganiHuun win penectod in a tew aajs. TWO BANKS IN B-ATj estimated LtablUUas a ad jMaats af tjoaa atexleo res Lobdsbcbq, N. M-rFeb, 7-While the bank examiner' report on the failure of the Deming and Silver City banks is not' made public it is learned authoritatively thatlhe total liabil ities foot up $252,009. Th available assets largely in toe snapeoi notes of prominent cat' Uemen ain this section, are upwards of $115,000. i The bank officers state that they will be able to resume in ninety days and pay dollar for dollar.

The bondsmen ef the Treasurer of Giant County made good the tosses sus- taoned eowity unds. Ex-Senator Bo-wen Hobbed. Wabhikgtoh, Febi 7. Ex-Sena Bowea, of Colorado, and his wfe are visiting the eity and are staying at the BiggiHouw. Fn day night daring the Senator1 Wines from ths hotel, and while Bowea wjw at li ner, some one entered tKx io.ru and stole sUamond jewelry valued at $1,600,., JOGGLED THE-EARTH Californlans Startled by the Fall- Ins of a Meteor.

WEIGHS ABOUT EIGHT TONS. It Illuminated the Heaven Be fore It Descended. Paclflo Coast Astronomer Specu lating About the New Star Die- covered at Boston. A CELESTIAL VISITOR. Sab Fbabcisoo, CaL, Feb.

7. Special Tel gram. Table Mountain, near Oroville, CaL, around which so many mysteries of nsture cling, and in whose depths are caverns of un known depths, was the scene, a few nights sgo, of a strange and awful sight A ball of fire descended from the heavens with frightful rapidity, and with a shock that mad th ground tremble for nearly a mile around, and buned itaelf deep in the earth. William and Robert Campbell own a farm five miles from Oroville, and a mil from the northern edge of Table Mountain. On the evening in question about 10 o'clock, they were outside of the house, seeing that all was well for the night when suddenly darkness was dispelled and for a moment it was a light as day.

The ball of fire appeared in heavens and hung for a moment over the rim of Table Mountain, and then, with a rush and roar impossible to describe, descended to the earth. A abook like that of an earthquake followed. It is hardly necessary to state that the brother were startled, but they determined to investigate on the morrow. So the next dsy they went to the spot where the mass had apparently struck. They had no diffl-cuUy in finding the place for the light the meteor made on the previous night, although but for a moment, bad mads everything clear, and they went directly to the spot They found that where it had struck was an immense bole in the earth four or five feet deep.

Numerous piece had been broken off the meteor by the fall, and had also buried themselvM in the ground. The top of TBB MASS "WAS STILX. HOT, so hot in fact that the men could not hold their band against it, and the surrounding brush and. green wood was burned and scorched as if it had been exposed to a long-continued fire. The place where the meteor fell was about half a mile from Campbell's residence and on the immediate edge of North Table Moun tain.

Some days after the occurrence Q. H. Stout, Superintendent of Schools, was at Campbell's place, and the men told him of the strange affair. Stout, being of a scientific turn of mind, wanted to investigate, and Robert Campbell took him to where the celestial visitor was buried, In conversation with Stout be fully corrobor ated all of the foregoing. He says that he and Campbell estimated that the snsss meat weigh fully eight tons.

It lias.buriad m. bro- le.n,lava,an4 eartn at a depth of rotn four to five feet, and with proper toots it would be comparatively easy to dig it out and more fully examine it So far a he was able to determine, its formation was apparently lara not differing greatly from the surrounding lava of the mountain. He also states that the surround. ing trees are blackened and burned by the intense heat and that from appearanoe he should judge that the shock of the fall must have been temflc The meteor is easily accessible and will be excavated and a careful geological exam in ation of its construction made. It may pos sibly be determined mat labia-Mountain, from its peculiar mineral formation, magnetic influence.

ABOUT THE NEW STAR. Sab Fbabcibco, CaL, Fab. 7. Special TeU- gram. The new received from Boston of the discovery of a remarkable star by a Scot tish astronomer created much interest among scientist oo the Pacific coast A telephone message was sent to Professor 8.

at Lick Observatory, last night, requesting any information that he might have gained from examination of Nova, but he explained that every night recently Mount Hamilton astronomer hav been hindered by a totally obscured sky and that there had been no chance for observation. IToieaeor xturnnam aid to-oav tnat pos sibly during the night a stranger near Chi Aarigae might be seen, but be deemed it very The new ar, he said, is of such magnitude as to be discerned in clear weather without any artificial aid, and to be distinctly seen through an ordinary pair of opera glasses. Local astronomers said in an interview i Ws know that solar hydrogen flames, seen during total eclip e. and exhibited at all time through a spectroscope, frequently shoot out to a distance of 100,000 mile 'from, th "sun. If, then, as is impossible, an outburst should take place similar to those which have caused a telescope star to become plainly visible to the naked eye, what would became of this essth and all other planets, together with the inhabitants thereof? Tbere is little reason for doubt that reali sation of this idea would immediately re sult in the extraction of all animal life on this globe.

But we can- easily see that the chances of such a calamity are very remote, when we consider the vast number of all telescopic stars and the extreme paucity of instances like the 1 ABDUCTED A BOY. Ae FiknswiMia Entries Away the S-raar- old Bon fan. Kan. Pirwiiim, Feb. 7.

Last night at Wood's Kim, the son of Mrs. Kane, No. 107 Wilkins street, was enticed away from home by a man. JohnTtaue. aired 8 and James Hughes, a year younger, were playing in front of their homes about 6 o'clock last evening -when a man came' up and offered them some candy.

He wa' friendly, and as tbey wanted more candy, try followed him down the Fort Wayne tracks almost to Jsck's Bun, where he said he would get them more candy, when near Jack's Bun he sent th Hughes boy back, giving him" 6 cents to purchase a lead pencil. This was but a pretext to secure the boy of Mrs. Kane. Hughes got the pencil and returned, but the man and the boy had disappeared. Hughes went back home and related the fact.

He could not give a good description of the man. The latter, he said, was a large man and fairly well The pouoe have no clew as vet vMri. Kane, the mother of the child, was neany nystencaurnen questioned hut night She had no idea why her son shou'd be taken. She is a poor woman. Her husband left her about two years ago and since then she has not heard from him.

This fact was marked by the police and they do not doubt that the on was abducted by the father. Mrs. Kane, however, says the description of th man did not correspond to the appearance of Mr. BTf AI B'RITH IN SESSION. Twwety-fln tnul Muttsg aTGraad Lodgw IMstrlet.

Me. Opened at Orand Baptds. Gbajtd Battd, Feb. 7. Special Tel egram, The twenty-fourth annual session of the Grand Lodge District, No.

Independent Order B'nai B'rith. opened to-day. Delegates are present from the six States in the district, and number aboiTt seventy-five. Today the chief business transacted "was to elect officers with the following result Pres ident, M. M.

Houseman. Grand Bapids Vice Presidents, Israel Cowan, Chicago; Albert Salsenstein, Springfield, I1L i Secretary, E. Hamburger, Chicago; Treasurer, Soloman Marcus, Chicago; trustee orphan asylum, Abram Hart, Chicago; trustee endowment fond, M. M. Hirsh, Chicago.

To-night an entertainment was given and the chief address was by the Hon. Henry Greeuebaum, of Chicago, who spoke 'of the aims and purposes of the order. Israel Cowen spoke of the Jews as American citizens. To-morrow business will be taken up. The most important matter to be considered is bow to care for the Russian refugees.

One school has already been established in Chi cago to educate the refugees, and it is pro posed to establish others. The endowment question will come up again, and it is thought the rates will be increased. RICH IRON ORE. Marvelous Wealth Raceatly Discovered la tne Xk Saparlor Basrtoa. Dcixth, Feb.

7. The sale of iron stocks of properties on the Mesabi range is now active. Facts hav corns to light through recent explorations which make the Mesabi range the most remarkable ever discovered. In two mines, the Cincinnati, and Pewabik, there are fully 18,000,000 ton of granular Bessemer ore in light On the properties of the Mesabi range suf ficiently developed to show something of the extent of ore upon them, there is said to be, by reliab.e explorers, more ore than has been shipped from alf the Lake Superior iron regions in the past thirty years of their history. During that time about 68,000,000 tons have been shipped.

TRACKS BLOCKED WITH CARS. No Freight MortBg or tbe Mew York Central at Koa pension Brldsje. Locbtobt Dbtot, N. Feb. 7.

Special Telegram. The great freight blockade, at Suspension Bridge shows no signs of abate ment The tracks of the Kew York Central are filled between the bridge and Kiagara Falls for several miles each way. The average daily number of cars delivered to the road from the trunk-lines show i Michigan Central, GOO; West Shore, 200; Borne, Watertown. and Ogdentburg" 150; Grand Trunk, 250, and sometimes 600 from their own road. Other roads swell the amount to about cars.

"A large amount of the cars are loaded with grain and flour which can not be moved for lack of power. COULDN'T SCARE THE SOLDIERS. Teaoeaaee Ml is Awrrouad a Militia Camav ad Bagla Flrtae bet to He fwrpaae. ITAsamixa, Feb. 7.

There was no fight at Coal Creek last nigbt the cause of the alarnr-taelDg- the surrounding 6f the militia camp by the miners, who opened an indiscriminate firing; hoping' to put the soldiers to flight Tbey were disappointed, however, ss ine uoops recumea im nrv ana ue miners dispersed. Several hundred shots were fired, but no one was hurt It was stated here that the wires had been cut at Coal Creek. This was a mistake they simply grounded. THE WEATHEK. rierrlea of Saow, Much Colder and Northwesterly Wlads the Probabilities.

Forecast lor twenty-four sours, ending 1 p. Feb. Far Chic (to and Ylelelty Flurries of snow elaarinc Monday afternoon, much colder. Brisk northwesterly winds. For Northern Illinois and Korthwestern Indi ana Harries of snow.

Clearing Monday after noon. Much colder. For Illinois and Indiana Decidedly colder northwest winds, with a eold wave; generally fair to-day, and probably Tuesday. For Upper Michiraa, Lower Mich inn, and Wisconsin Cloudy weather, with occasional snows; decidedly colder north winds, with a eold wav; generally fair Tuesday. For Missouri aad Iowa Decidedly colder; north west winds with a eold war; generally fair Monday probably Tuesday, For Minnesota Colder; north, winds" sad fair Monday; probably fair and slightly warn Tuesday.

For North Dakota and South Dakota Hiehtly wanner and generally (air variable winds. For Montana Slightly warmer and fair; sooth winds. For Nebraska Generally fair; north winds; colder in southeast portion waimw and probably fair Tuesday. Tb followin were th aeaeral observations throughout th country yesterday, taken at ths same moment of time at all th station named, beta' m. Cnicaco time, oorrespoadinvg ia ail eases to p.

m. Washington timet Alpena Awlnibolae. Albany Iteker City- Bismarck Bull Cairo. Chrl.tonw Clltrasa. Cleveland Coaoordla.

Davenport Ien ver-. Des LMitreit. Dodge City Brie Oreen Huron Jackson vl Ue Kansas Keokuk LaCrorae LlUls Rock LttUtlTtilt. ettiphls. Mile Cltr.

Milwaukee. Minnedosa. Montrose Hnbead. KewurieanSa. Kew Kortb Oklahoma.

Oniana. PaieoUna Pierre Port Pueblo. Kapld City. kt.ljom. 6 1.

feu i Salt Lake Ban Santa Sanlt eve. Ilult- Sioux Cixr Bpriugaeld, Bprtnicneld. Toledo Vulfnline. Waahlniflon. eeaaea MU K.iClear Snow Clear Rain Clear Clear Rain Cloudy1 air Clear ClaarC Cloed Clear Trace' Idaar ICtoody tiear Clear Clondy r'alr MS i Fair iciondy Irtnow Icloodvl JO 1 ICIoudj MO ISnow Trace tCloedy iKaln uiear rCloudy rair Snow JU Trace Cloudy It'lear Cloudy Cloudy Clar Jcioudf Trace.

i louay xiaiu Flr .4 Clouoy rair Cloudy Fair Cloudy J04 iCloudy rvioucy CbUMlv Cloudy niear IClondr viouay Trace Mid. W-'lusa MR. BLAINE IS OUT The Secretary Writes a Letter Declining to Run. HIS DECISION IS FINAL PereonaP Ambition. Subjugated by a Desire to Live.

LOYAL FRIENDS THANKED. His Supporters Asked to Stand by the Party. Great Issue Are Involved, and It lm Imperative That Republicanism Should WlnT NOT IN THB RACE. Washjsoto. eb.7.

The following Mtee explains itself: "WaSBDIOTOIT. Fab. (t The TTn a Clarksoh, Chairman of the Republican Ka. tion CominiUee rMv IWr fiir; I am candidate for the Presidency, and my nam will not go before th Republican National Convention for the nomination. I make this announcement in doe season "To those who have tendered ma thnir ann.

port I owe sincere thanks and am most grot, fal for their confidence. "Tbey will. I am sure, make earneat rtfnrt ia the spproachinif contest, which especially important by reason of the indus trial ana nnancial policies of the government being at stake. "The rjonubir dttcmirm on IKaoj. Unu a great moment and will be of far more reach ing consequence.

"Very sincerely yours, "Jambs O. 'WITHDRAWS FROM THE FIELD. Washixgioit, Feb. Telegram. Mr.

Blaine has written letter to Chairman Clark son, of the Republican National Cora. mittee, announcing that he is not a candidate for the Presidency, and that his name will not go before the Republican National Con vention. The expected has happened. It was stated a' few days since in this corra. spondence that Mr.

Blaine had intimated to a friend who had conversed with him on th -subject that bs would not be a candidate. This was probably the first announcement that he made to any one that his friend would not be permitted to present his nsm to th convention. In the same conversation Mr. Blaine raid to the friend: "I would rather liv than be. PresalenL? That statement js ery jsomrjrehensiv one.

It bad but one meaning to the gentle, man to whom it was addressed. That mean. ing was Secretary Blaine did not think hi physical condition is such as to warrant him, in taking the great risk of the strain of a Presidential campaign, and that if be should under tike it his life might be the forfeit. That is the impression which has been gained by a great many who are his friends -who have made very different statements, however, as to HIS PHTSICAT. COITDmOB.

It has been very evident to those who have closely watched Mr. Blaine for the last tare years that his strength has been failing, snd that it would be hazardous for him to accept the nomination. It has, of coarse, been a terrible trial for Mr. Blaine when he was assured on every hund that the nomination wsa in his grasp if he would socept it, to be confronted with his physical condition. The temptation has been tremendous to in.

duce him to take the risk. He has felt and leading Democrats have assured him that he could bs elected President. That would crown his ambition. It has been the aspiration of his life. It has been the goal toward which bis energies have been directed and f6r which the labor of -his life has been largely given.

Mr. Blaine has been warned by his physical condition not to take th risk, to renounce ambition in that direction, and to endeavor to close his political career in a station where raX TBBaTMPOCB BBSPOSTSTBtZATT and the racking labor of the Presidency would not be imposed upon him. This statement is a vefy simple one, and it is quite enough to explain the appearance of the letter of Mr. Blaine to Chairman Clark sen, which is dated yesterdsy. The letter of Mr.

Blaine will call upon ft great many of those who have been his friends to explain their statements to Repub- -lican and to their own consciences in msny cases, that Mr. Blaine was never better in his) life and that he could accept the burden of Presidential campaign with as great hops and buoyancy and vigor as he might have done twenty years sgo. The statements must have been false by very many of those who have made them. No one who was sincere and candid could have made them without kome -very powerful mental reservations. The excuse for these statements has been that Mr.

Blaine ha very buoyant days and very despondent days, and that on the de spondent days he fa not visible to the public Those who see him see him only on the buoy ant dsys, and the statement they bring ar born largely of the hope that Mr. Blaine ia in them. Mr. Blain himself participates la that hope and it is on those occasions when he has felt more certain of his strength than at any other time that he BUS BKBB ALMOST rEBStlAOED that he might undertake the great burden of the Presidential campaign. The spirit of the letter to Mr.

Clarksoa would seem to indicate that it was written ok ons of the days when he was despondent, It has not the tone or temper of any publie letter wntcn Air. Blain has ever written. There may be some who will claim that th letter still leaves the way open for Mr. Blain to accept th Presidential nomination if it should be tendered to himby the. National Convention.

Mr. Blain doe not say he would not accept the no mi -nation when tendered. -under such oumstance. But it would be trifling with the English language and it would be tricing with Mr. Blaine' sincerity to imput to the letter any statement other than that Mr.

Blaine's name will not go before the Set publican nominating convention as a'caadft date for the Presidency. The sentence 'l make this announcement in due season' can 6nly.be fairly interpreted as meaning that he make it f- HI AM3XB T1XB for the Republicans of the country to if i Pr.