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A KINDLY GREETING EXTENDED TO MR. STEVENSON BY VICE PRESIDENT MORTON. An Unprecedented Affair, But One Which Will Meet With Hearty Approval. Many Distinguished Persons Greet the Guests of the Evening Senators, Members of the Cabinet and Other High Omelals Present. WASHINGTON, March reception tendered last night by President and Mrs.

Morton to Vice and Vice, Mrs. Stevenson at their residence on Scott Circle marked another deviation by Mr. Morton from the traditions surrounding his position. It was an unprecedented thing for the president to bestow any recognition, official or social, upon his successor, the exchange of such compliments having heretofore been confined to the occupants of the presidential chair. Mr.

and Mrs. Morton received their guests to the doorway separating the parlor from the corridor out of which rises the grand staircase and which occupies the center of the west end of the house. At their side stood Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson, to whom the passing throng was introduced in turn by the host.

It was a distinguished and representative gathering that greeted the new official and his wife. The invitations numbered 600. DISTINGUISHED PERSONS PRESENT. There were present the members of the senate, members of the cabinet, assistant secretaries of departments, heads of the bureaus, the New York and Illinois delegations supreme in court the of house, the the United justices States of and the of the District of Columbia, and court of claims, the diplomatic corps in all the brilliancy of tne insignia of their several orders and honors, the heads of the army and navy, and a good sprinkling of the subordinate officers. In addition to these official guests the vice president and Mrs.

Morton presented to Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson a large number of their personal friends. An elegant collation was served in the dining room. Among the guests were the members of Mr.

Stevenson's party who accompanied him from Bloomington, including his son and daughters. THE NATION'S LAWMAKERS. Business Transacted in Both Houses of Congress. WASHINGTON, Feb. pension appropriation bill occupied the time in the senate during the greater portion of today's session.

In the house the senate amendments to the sundry civil appropriation bill were taken up and discussed until adjournment. WASHINGTON, Feb. senate took up the legislative appropriation pill. All the committee amendments were agreed to. On motion of Mr.

Sherman an amendment was agreed ordering the words "Welland canal" to be struck out of the act of June 19, 1878, "to aid vessels wrecked or disabled in waters coterminous to the United States and Dominion of cater In the house Mr. Holman asked for consent for a noncurrence in the senate amendments to the sundry civil appropriation bill, except as to the amendment known as the Sherman bond amendment. To this Mr. Bland objected, denouncing the Sherman amendment as a "job," and caused the reference of the bill to the committee of the whole. Mr.

Peel moved that the house go into committee for the consideration of general appropriation bills. Mr. Hatch opposed this motion with his antioption bill. The house determined--yeas, 148; nays, 84-to take up the Indian appropriation bill. WASHINGTON, Feb.

legislative appropriation bill was taken up in the senate, and after several amendments was passed. The senate bill, regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors, was then taken up and discussed at some le gth. The house took up the sundry civil bill, and after some filibustering on the part of the silver men and a good deal of heated discussion, a point of no quorum was raised. Mr. Bland finally took the floor with a speech on the financial situation.

WASHINGTON, Feb. the senate, the credentials of James Smith, as senator from New Jersey, in place of Senator Blodgett, were presented and filed. The agricultural appropriation was reported and placed on the calendar. The pension appropriation bill was then taken up and after some discussion was passed. In the house the Indian appropriation bill was passed under a suspension of the rules.

The house agreed to non-coneur in the senate amendments to the sundry civil bill and it was ordered to a conference. WASHINGTON, Feb. the senate today the naval appropropriation bill was taken up and after the amendments reported by the committee had been acted upon, was passed. The pension appropriation bill was also passed. In the house the Alabama contested election case of McDuffie vs.

Turpin, was finally decided in the latter's favor. The bill providing that after July 1, 1893, pig tin shall be exempt from duty was passed without opposition. Unfinished business was then taken up, but no quorum being present the house adjourned. WASHINGTON, March 1. Soon after meeting the senate, on motion of Mr.

Sherman, went executive session without any opposition from the Democrats. The doors were closed for about half an hour, and when they were reopened the routine business was proceeded with. The postoffice appropriation bill was reported and placed on the calendar. The conference report on the District of Columappropriation bill was agreed to. Vice President-elect Stevenson appeared on the floor of the senate about 3 o'clock and was given an informal reception by senators of both parties.

In the house on motion of Mr. Herbert (Ala.) the senate amendments to the naval appropriation bill were nonconcurred in. Mr. Hatch (Mo.) moved to suspend the rules and concur in senate amendments to the antioption bill. Against this motion a point of order was made, but was overruled.

After some filibustering and discussion a vote was taken on the bill and it was defeated -yeas, 172; nays, 128-not the necessary two-thirds. The senate amendments to the agricultural appropriation bill were nonconcurred in and the bill was sent to conference. The conference report on the District of Columbia appropriation bill was adopted, G. A. R.

Officers Elected. SYRACUSE, Feb. afternoon's session of the G. A. R.

encampment was taken up with the election of officers. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Edward J. Atkinson of Post 508, New York, senior vice commander; Silas Owen of Brooklyn, junior vice commander; John Eddy of Olean, medical director; Rev. W. R.

Helms of Richfield Springs, chaplain; Martin Short, J. S. Graham, John T. Finley, R. H.

McCormick, J. C. Scholts, council of administration. P. J.

O'Connor of Albany was appointed assistant adjutant general and Henry Redmond of Rochester, assistant quartermaster general. AT THE STATE CAPITAL Legislative Transactions in Senate and Assembly. MONDAY -SENATE--The most import ant bill brought up before the senate today was Mr. Rosch's to regulate the sale of liquor on Sunday by regularly licensed dealers. -A host of bills of minor importance were introduced.

The most important were: Mr. Ogdensburg charter amendments. Mr. Dennison's, fixing the salary of the Monroe county clerk at $4,000. Mr.

Endres' general appropriation for increasing the lockage capacity of the Erie and Champlain canals and improving all the canals. TUESDAY SENATE: An immense amount of work was gotten through with today. Many bills were passed and great number of new ones introduced. Among the; most important bills under discussion WAS Cantor's appropriating $300,000 additional for the World's fair exhibit, which was called up for final passage. It was not definitely settled, After some unimportant bills had been passed the senate adjourned.

ASSEMBLY: The special order of the day was the blanket ballot bill, which was on second and third reading, and after a great deal of discussion was referred back to be considered at a special meeting of the committee, next Wednesday and made special order the day following. Several minor bills were passed. WEDNESDAY-SENATE- The following bills were passed in the senate today: Mr. Peck's, allowing Syracuse to raise by tax $7,500 to pay for a bridge over South avenue. Mr.

Endres', providing for the division of the assessment roll for paving Bailey avenue, Buffalo. Mr. Fish's, appropriating $3,000 for 8 portrait of Ezra Cornell for the state library. Also the Ogdensburg charter amendments bill. ASSEMBLY--The Ransom personal registration bill was ordered to a third reading in the assembly today after which the house adjourned until next Tuesday evening.

TO THE INAUGURATION. Governor and Party Take the Train for Washington. ALBANY, March Flower, wife and party started for Washington over the West Shore road in a private drawingroom car at 9 o'clock this morning. The guests who accompany the party from Albany include Colonel T. S.

Williams, the governor's private secretary; Colonel E. L. Judson, his military secretary, a and Palmer C. Ricketts of Troy and General W. M.

Vest of Hamilton, members of his staff. The other members of the governor's staff join the party in Jersey City and continue with them over the Pennsylvania railroad, arriving in Washington at 8:25 p. m. Apartments have been engaged for Governor Flower and party at the Arlington. Governor Flower will return on Monday.

The Governor's Latest Nominations. ALBANY, Feb. following nominations were received in the assembly from the governor: To be commissary general, Joshua M. Varian of New York city, reappointed; confirmed on motion ot Senator Parker. To be manager of the Westetn House of Refuge for Women, William B.

Dye of Albion, vice E. Kirke Hart, whose term of office has expired; Edward C. Walker, reappointed; both confirmed on motion of Senator Van Gorder. Also the following were referred: Managers of the St. Lawrence hospital, Wilbur F.

Porter of Watertown, William L. Proctor of Ogdensburg. Manager of the House of Refuge for Women, W. F. Holsapple of Hudson.

Manager of the Reformatory for Women, Samuel W. Johnson of Mamaroneck. Trustee of the State Asylum for Idiots, Francis Daumer of Syracuse. Members of the state board of mediation and arbitration, Gilbert Robertson, of Troy, William Purcell of Rochester. Mr.

Cleveland's Cabinet. LAKEWOOD, N. Feb. 23. -Mr.

Cleve land announced late last evening that he had completed his cabinet by the selection of Richard Olney of Boston for attorney general and Hillary A. Herbert of Alabama for secretary of the navy. The complete cabinet is as follows: Walter Q. Gresham of Indiana, secretary of state. John G.

Carlisle of Kentucky, secretary, of the treasury. Daniel S. Lamont of New York, secretary of war. Hillary A. Herbert of Alabama, secretary of the navy.

Hoke Smith of Georgia, secretary of the interior. J. Sterling Morton of Nebraska, secretary of agriculture. Wilson S. Bissell of New York, postmaster general.

Richard Olney of Massachusetts, attorney general. The selection of Hillary A. Herbert for the navy has been expected for several days, but Mr. Olney's name had not been mentioned in connection with the cabinet and his selection is a surprise to everybody, particularly to the friends of George A. Jenks.

The Grant Monument Association. NEW YORK, March annual meeting of the Grant Monument Association was held in the Mills building yesterday. The report of President Horace Porter was read. It shows a sufficient amount has been raised for the completion of the monument and that a contract has been entered into with the Maine and New Hampshire Granite company for granite work necessary to finish the structure. It is believed that the work will be finished in the autumn of 1895.

After the passage of a vote of thanks to General Porter the association elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Horace Porter; first vice president, Elihu Root; second vice president, Grenville M. Dodge; treasurer, Frederick D. Tappen; secretary, James C. Reed. President Harrison Will Not Lecture.

CHICAGO, Feb. is nothing in the report that President Harrison is coming here to lecture at the Chicago university," said President Harper when asked about the story reported in dispatches from New York. know nothing whatever about the story," he continued, "and the origin of the report is a mystery to me. I know of no reason why it should be stated that Presinent Harrison is going to lecture on constitutional law at the Chicago university." O'Brien, the Bunco King, Heard From. ALBANY, March of State Prisons Austin received 8 call from Dennis Leary, who said that while in Buenos Ayres, South America, Jan.

14, he met and talked with "Tom" O'Brien, the bunco king. Minchen was with him. The pair declared that Dave Dischler had been left in Germany. Leary was in the Argentine Republic on business for an express company. Reading Employen Draw Their Pay.

READING, Feb. Guy completed the payment of the January wages of Reading railroad employees in this city, having disbursed $114,000. The banks promptly cashed the checks. The paymaster then started for the reading and Columbia division. KAIULANI ARRIVES.

THE HAWAIIAN PRINCESS PRESENTS HER APPEAL IN PERSON. Accompanied by Mr. Davis Who Has Prepared a Statement of the Wrongs She Wishes Righted--The Princess Described as a Beautiful Young Woman. The Ex-Queen Charged: With Violating: Her Oath. NEW YORK, March Kaidlani, neice of the deposed Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii, is here: She arrived here yesterday on the steamer Teutonie, which sailed from Liverpool, Feb.

22. With her were Theophilus Davies and Mrs. Davies, who are the English guardians of the princess, Miss Davies and Miss Whartoff, companion to the princess. F. C.

McFarlane, the ex minister of finance to the dethroned Queen Liliuokalani, and Dr. Mott Smith, the present Ha- walian, minister to this country, PRINCESS KAIULANI. down the bay on revenue cutter Chandler to meet the young princess. They boarded the ship immediately after she left the health officers' boarding station. THE PRINCESS DESCRIBED.

A suite of rooms had been engaged for the party at the Brevoort House and they were driven there immediately after coming off the steamship. The princess is 18 years old. She is tall, beautiful young woman, of sweet face and slender figure. She has the soft brown eyes and dark complexion that mark Hawaiian beauty. In regard to her views on the various aspects, to which assume, the Hawaiian Princess Kaiulani government referred to her guardian, Mr.

Davies, whe had prepared a statement both on his own and her behalf. The statement of Princess Kaiulani is as follows: KAIULANI'S STATEMENT. To the American people: Unbidden I stand upon your shores today where I thought so soon to receive a royal wel. come on my way to my own kingdom. come unattended except by the loving hearts that have come with me over the wintry seas.

I hear that commissioners from land have been for many days asking this great nation to take away my little vineyard. They speak no word to me and leave me to find out as I can from the rumors of the air that they would leave me without a home or name or a nation. Seventy years ago Christian America sent over Christian men and women to give religion and civilization to Hawaii. They gave us the gospel, they made us a nation, and we learned to love and trust America. Today three of the sons of those missionaries are at.

your Capitol asking you to undo their father's. work. Who sent them? Who gave them authority to break the constitution which they swore they would Today a poor, weak girl, with one of my people near me, and all these Hawaiian statesmen against me have strength to stand up for the rights of my people. Even now I can hear their wail in my heart, and it gives me strength and courage, and I am strong in the faith of God, strong in the knowledge that I am right, strong in the strength. of 70,000,000 of people who in this free land.

will hear my cry and will refuse to let. their flag cover dishonor to mine. OTHER STATEMENTS. Mr. Davies also.

made a statement in which he reviews the history of the young princess leaving Hawaii and the stay in England and his notification of the change in the government of the islands. He also charges Queen Liliuokalani and the commissioners with violating their oaths, and concludes as follows: I do not for a moment believe that any of them would be guilty of intentional cruelty or even discourtesy to the princess and the inconceivable treatment which their silence toward her has betrayed them into, must arise from the difficulty they find in reconciling their present attitude with the knowledge that their oath to sustain the Hawaiian constitution. binds them to the succession of the princess unless the nation itself releases them from the oath. Vile Den Raided at Troy. TROY, N.

March police raid on a vile den in Green street developed a condition of crime, and depravity heretofore unknown city. Twelve persons, blacks ard whites, were found living in named Bont and her two daughters, including a white woman Lucy and Lilly, aged 18 and and 14 years, respectively. Another white girl, Mary Pollard, aged 18 years, the daughter of respectable and well do parents, was found living with crippled negro, John Wickes, as his wife, although no marriage ceremony had been performed. Ralph Bont, father of the girls mentioned, was yesterday indicted for criminally assaulting his two daughters. Charles Lewis, a negro, on Sunday night last compelled Lucy Burtis, white girl, to marry him at the point of a revolver.

Lewis a wife living in Philadelphia and he has been' arrested on the charge of bigamy. Leon Bosworth, a white man, is in jail, charged with criminally assaulting a 14- year-old colored girl. Chicago Carriagemakers on Strike. CHICAGO, March 2. -Nine hundred union carriage and wagonmakers of Chicago went on strike yesterday.

They demanded nine hours for a day's work instead of 10 with the same pay, and that pieceworkers be given an increase of 10 per cent. One hundred firms have granted the demands and of the 1,500 makers in the city 600 returned to work. Four of the largest manufacturers, Studebaker, Kimball, Sherman and Smith, still hold out against the workmen and say they will maintain that position. The four employed 600 of the strikers. Not Up to Expectations.

BERLIN, March William failed to make the sensational speech expected of him at the banquet of the Brandenburg diet last evening. He spoke with unwonted earnestness and animation, but gave utterance to no such surprising sentiment as that expressed by him a year ago concerning the emigration of all malcontents in the empire. The emperor made no direct reference to the army bill. but spoke emphatically of the hearty accord in which he found himself with his chancellor, Count von Caprivi. To Pat Tin On the Free List.

WASHINGTON, Feb. Mr. Springer, from the committee on ways and means, reported to the house, with the recommendation that it pass, Stump bill placing tin and tin ores on the free list. WESTERN NEW -YORK. MARCH.

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Fr. Sa. 1 2 3 4 5. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 31 THE NEWS CONDENSED BRIEF NOTES CHRONICLING ALL EVENTS OF INTEREST. Happenings of the Last Seven Days Sin Arranged 1555 Put Regard fo the.

the Reader Who Has Little Time to Spare. At Barnesville, S. while a colored woman was at a frolic her five children at were burned to death. stroyed barn of George A. Kerr and the At Kingston, N.

an incendiary destallion Hazleton, valued a at $2,000, was burned to death. A pacer valued at $700 was almost suffocated and it is thought will die. The French steamer Donnai was sunk in a collison near Saigon. Seven persons were drowned. Jules was elected president of the French senate by a majority of 148 votes Conrad Zapf, a mechanic, 45 years old and demented, escaped from his home, at Columbus, 0., and was locked in the stationhouse at Groveport.

Some time during the night he heated a poker red hot, placed it against his body and impaled himself upon it. He was dead when found in the morning. Coal to the amount of 150,000 tons, propeity of the Philadelphia and Reading company, has been attached at order the Cheektowaga, N. trestles on an issued to the Brown Hoisting and Conveying Machine company upon a claim of 827,000: Senator-elect Murphy was check-mated by Boss Herrick in his attempt to name an anti Herrick man to succeed the late ward of Albany. Timothy Philip Russ as alderman from, thulfivan was elected by 10 votes to 0.

The house bought by, General Grant a decade ago has been sold by his widow to Henry O. Havemeyer, who occupies the adjoining house on the northeast corner of Fifth avenue and Sixty-sixth street, New York. eastbound Central freight train was wrecked on a trestle, near Oriskany, N. by the spreading of the rails. Seventeen cars were piled upi in the ditch.

Nobody was injured. A dispatch from Russia says: While a peasant wedding party was crossing the Dniper at Tkaterinoslav the ice broke and two sledges with 10 persons disappeared under the water. All were swept under the ice and drowned. The thousand kilometre bicycle race in Machinery hall, Paris, on the exhibition grounds is ended. Terront covered the distance in 42 hours and defeated Corre, who came in second, by 10 kilometres.

At Minneapolis John S. Johnson, the skater, in a 200-yard dash reduced the record 3 going the distance in 17 2-5 sec. He skated two miles in 6:01, reducing the competitive record sec. An explosion occurred Benwood, W. Va.

A hot blast furnace at the Riverside works was blown up and William Kelley, John Mooney and William Duff of Benwood and Patrick Corrigan of Wheeling were seriously burned. Kelley is not expected to recover. His eyes were burned out and he is unconscious. The Paris Temps states that a French vessel-of-war has taken possession of Kerguelen, otherwise known as the Isle of Desolation, in the Indian ocean, which was discovered by the French navigator Kerguelen in 1772. The island is said to have beds of coal.

A special from Pecahontas, says a fire broke out at midnight and destroyed an entire block of 20 houses, stores and dwellings. The lodgerooms of the Red Men, Knightsof Pythias and Royal Arcanum, together with their contents, were also burned. Loss about partially insured. An officer of the Reading Coal and Iron company stated that the various anthracite companies would make a reduction in the price coal of from 25 to 50 cents on or about April 1. The court of claims rendered a decision in the case of D.

G. Swain, judge advocate general of the army, vs. the United States, for the recovery of half of his pay for the period of 12 years, advers to General Swain. The case has been pending in the court of claims for the past two or three years. The order for the export of $500,000 gold has been cancelled and the outlook is now favorable for a complete cessation of gold exports during the week.

Anthracite coal is not to be any cheaper just yet. The eastern sales agents and the western sales agents held separate meetings and both agreed to allow prices to remain as they are. A Central News dispatch from Rome says: The pope has been greatly displeased by the abandonment of the American pilgrimage. He attributes the abandonment of the undertaking to the disputes between Archbishop Satolli and the American bishops and has ordered an inquiry. Carter H.

Harrison was nominated by the Democrats for mayor of Chicago scoring an easy victory over his principal opponent, Washington Hesing. THE IRON MOUNTAIN WRECK. Much Damage Done but Nobody Seriously Injured. LITTEE ROCK, March 2. The southbond train on the Iron Mountain railroad, which left here yesterday morning, was wrecked near Hopem, 110 miles from here.

Two coaches and a chair car were burned. Between 15 and 20 persons were injured, none reported seriously. The Vesuvius Returns to Brooklyn. NEW YORK, March United States dynamite cruiser Vesuvius has arrived at the Brooklyn navy yard, after her prolonged stay in Port Royal sound, where her three pneumatic guns were tested. The Vesuvius will probably remain here until after the naval parade, although she may go to Hampton Roads and come up with the squadron.

New steering gear is to be put in. Off for the Washington. AMSTERDAM, N. March 2-The officers and 65 privates of the Forty-sixth Sep. erate company, accompanied by the Thirteenth brigade band, leave today for Washington to attend the inaugural ceremonies.

They have been assigned to the third division of the first grand division.st Witnessed Their Grandmother's Marriage. COLEMBUS, March 2-At the residence of the bride's daughter in this city, Mrs. Sarah Ross, aged 65, and J. C. Blossbemer, aged 76, were married last evening.

Four grandchildren of the bride witnessed the ceremony. RUFUS HATCH'S LAST DEAL. Death Ends the Operations of the Great Wall Street NEW YORK, Feb. 2. -Rufas Hatch, the well-known broker, is dead.

Mr. Hutch was 69 years old. The immediate cause of death was a complication of kidney, heart and liver troubles, which had confined him to his room for several weeks. Mrs. Hatch and all the members of the living except.

California, were at the bedside. family Kimball, a daughter Mr. Hatch's career was an unusually eventful one for even a "money "He was born in Maine in 1830 and went West when 16 years old. After trying various callings he went into the commission business in Chicago, Here his luek began. At first he did well and prospered.

But the close of the Crimean war found him heavily long of grain, and the collapse in the price of that staple broke him, and his firm failed for $160,000. In 1869 he agent to New York was one of the originators of the open board of brokers. He was then otte of the greatest men of street, and his word went for every. thing. Some time after this Mr.

Hatch failed again this time for $600,000. Mr. Hatch was the founder of the Iron Steamboat company. He met with his last reverse the Great Northern Pacific break in 1883. Since that time he has done little in the street.

Mr. Hatch leaves three children by his first wife. was a Miss Charlotte T. Hatch, and four by his second wife, who was a daughter of Captain Gray, the commodore of the Pacific Mail fleet. MILLIONAIRE MACKAY WOUNDED.

His Assailant Will Probably Die From Self Inflicted Wound. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25. John W. Mackay, the famous bonanza mining king and financier, was shot through the back yesterday afternoon by a man giving the name of W.

C. Rippi, and narrowly escaped death. Rippi after firing one shot at Mackay shot himself through the left breast and will die. The shooting 00- curred in the paved court back of the Lick House, which runs from Sutter to Post street, between Montgomery and Kearney. Mr.

Mackay was taken to the Palace hotel and received prompt medical attention. His wound, though of a serious nature, may not prove fatal. Mr. Mackay's wound is not so serious as was first supposed. He is getting along nicely and will probably be fully recovered in a few days.

His assailant, W. C. Rippi, contrary to the doctors' predictions, is in a fair way to recover. In regard to the shooting he said he regarded Mackay as the cause of all his losses and was only sorry he had failed to kill him. Mackay's Assailant Still Alive.

SAN FRANCISCO, Mackay continues toward recovery. nicely and he will week or 10 days. still alive and in March W. to rapid strides His wound is healing probably be out in 8 Rippy, his assailant, is a somewhat improved condition. UNEARTHING THE BODIES.

List of the Dead and Wounded in the Chicago Disaster. CHICAGO, March falling of the walls of John York's drygoods store at Halstead and Nineteenth street yesterday morning, seven and perhaps eight persons were instantly killed and many others seriously injured. The killed are: John Smith, 45 years old. Dollie Smith, aged 13 years. Baby 9 years.

Hattie Smith, 4 years. Paulina Reutich, 19 years. F. Kunz, 48 years. Mrs.

Mary Kunz, 45 years. The injured: F. Kunz, Jr. Patrol Sergeant Loughran. Police Officer William Smith.

Missing--Joseph bartender, aged 27 years. The rescue of little Annie Smith was little short of miraculous. She had been under the ruins exposed to the smoke and heat and the water thrown by the fire engines for over eight hours. She is not badly hurt and will recover. A little later the bodies of two of the Smith girls, Lizzie and Hattie, were recovered.

The body of the hired girl, Paulina Mor. tina, was recovered at 1:40 in the afternoon. Although it had been located two hours before the situation was such that the firemen were unable to extricate it. At 20 o'clock the bodies of John Schmidt and William Kunze and his wife were found in the ruins and were taken to the morgue. Auburn's Trio of Murderers.

AUBURN, March status of the trio of murderers now awaiting electrocution in Auburn prison is as follows: sel filed notice of appeal case of Taylor, the colored convict murderer, under sentence of death during week of March 5. This will operate as a stay of proceedings until passed upon by the court. Parker, the Lockport murderer, is under sentence of death during week of March 12. Noth ing but executive clemency can now save him. The case of Fitzhum, the Buffalo murderer, was decided adversely by the court of appeals, and nothing remains but to fix a new date for the execution of the sentence.

Nominations Made by the President. WASHINGTON, March president has sent to the senate the following nominations: Truxton Beale of California, to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul general of the United States to Roumania, Servia and Greece. Genio M. Lambertson of Nebraska, to be arbitrator on the part of the United States under the treaty for a claims commission concluded between the United States and Chili. Dead Baby Found by a Fisherman.

SHAMOKIN, March John Dobson was fishing the Susquehanna river through a hole in ice he noticed the body of a baby floating under the ice. Dobson res ued the corpse. A sponge was tied about the nose and the back of the head had been stabbed twice. The police think the infant was murdered at Northumberland. The Narconic Ten Days Overdue.

NEW YORK, March White Star line steamer Narconic, left Liverpool for this port Feb. snow 10 days which, overdue, and it is certain she has met some serious mishap, probably to her machinery. Fatal End of a Quarrel. CLARKSVILLE, March 2. At Trenton, near here, Bud Garth became involved in a difficulty with.

two negroes and shot them both. One is dead and the other dying. Carnegie Machinists on Strike. PITTSBURG, Feb. 28--Another strike has been inaugurated at Carnegie's Twentyninth street mill.

The strikers this time are the machinists, who refuse to work 10 hours a day for nine hours' pay. The strike involves about 50 skilled workmen. Superintendent Dillon says there will be no trouble in filling the vacancies. President Harrison's First Veto. WASHINGTON, Feb.

president returned to the house yesterday without his approval a bill prescribing the number of district attorneys and marshals in the judicial district of the state of Alabama. This is the first veto of the present session. THE MARKETSNow York Produce Market. Cuba: County fair Sept. 12-14.

Brocion: Scarlet fever epidemic. Albion has two resident Chinamen. Belmont: Public library established. Silver Creek will have AL driving park. Alden post-office burglarized last week.

Franklinville: No license for past 26 yeurs. Attica: Ex-Congressman Stevens dead. Fairport: Deland's Saleratus Works burned. Belfast: Flour-mill burned: 1088 $8,000. Attica flouring mills will be reopened.

Tonawanda: C. Winters has a horse 45 years old. Randolph has a Justice of the Peace but 21 years old. Batavia: Charles Cone, a pioneer aged 95 is dead. Palmyra: Fourteen persons killed in a railroad accident.

Geneseo farmers will grow sorghum molasses for syrups etc. Franklinville's newly elected supervisor is 22 years of age. Hornellsville: Breeders' Association meet Feb. 22 and 23. Alfred Center: Rev.

J. Summerbel of Baptist church is dead. Jamestown: A $10,000 Christian Scientist church will be built. Bath: Fifty "vets" are taking Keeley treatment at Soldiers' Home. Westfield: Meeting of the Chautauqua Horticultural Society March 4.

Steuben county: Board Supervisors, 22 Republicans and 9 Allegany county: Principals of publie schools have formed an association. Livingston, Allegany and Steuben county wheelmen have formed a league, Dayton: Norman M. Allen elected supervisor for the 34th consecutive term. Castile: Rev. J.

C. Long, of Presbyterian church for 15 has pastor, resigned. Test gas and oil wells will be put down on the Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations. Versailles: The Six Nations will be represented by thirty Indians at the World's Fair. Syracuse: Over 1,500, veterans attended the annual A.

R. encampment last week. Somerset: Rev. J. V.

O' Donohue, pastor of Catholie church for past 12 years, died Feb. 24, aged 70 years. Cattaraugus: New school-building burned loss $15,000 -27 Republican and 7 Democratic supevisors just elected. Little Valley: Second week of Circuit Court, Judge Childs presiding 200 civil and several criminal cases on calendar. Olean paid $6,000 for its poor in '92- A "jag cure" established -Seven Organized fire companies Will have a city charter.

Fredonia. is a no license town a very exciting contest was made at Spring election for license, but with adverse results. Salamanca: Rev. W. W.

Conor, Baptist, has resigned, to engage in Evangelistic work--Baptist church has called Rev. J. W. Millard of Toronto. Lockport: Rev.

T. Munzert called by Lutheran church at Rome N. Miss Anna Pohl given a verdict of $5,000 as a heart balm for breach of promise. Rochester: Joe Hess the noted temperance lecturer is stricken with paralysis-Col J. P.

Cleary elected Commander of the New York State Departmenet, G. A. R. Chautauqua Board of Supervisors stand 24 Republican to 5 DemocratsPhillip Goyt 105 years old died March 17-Only six licensee towns in this county -Railway lake inundated and frozen over. Chautauqua.

Wyoming and Livingston counties, with 16 other counties have unused building erected for the insane, now cared for by the State; a bill is before the Legislature reimbursing these counties for moneys thus expended -Exhibits of grain will be made at World's Fair. Mayville: A young fellows heart "kind'o gin-out" at the wrong time recently. The parson began the ceremony; when he asked the groom if he would "take this woman for his lawful wife," the groom was doubtful about it and finally decided that he would not take her just at that time a sensation followed among the family and guests, but the young man was determined and the wedding party broke up. BUFFALO NEWS. Post office opened at Depew.

Firemen's salaries will be increased. Gospel meetings are being held in the police The new Real-estate Exchange building will cost $250,000. The Catholic Institute will erect a building costing. $100,000. The Buffalo Furnace Company's plant has been re-opened.

Two night schools have been closed because of small attendance. St. John's church property on Washington street, sold for $150,000. A $150 appropriation made for a school exhibit at the World's Fair. The railroads will discharge all men agitating a strike in the spring.

Mrs. Sophia Howland, sister of Rev. P. G. Cook, died Feb.

16, aged 80 years. About four hundred of the Cleveland Democracy will attend the Inauguration. The new ordinance prohibits people from putting garbage outside of their premises. Supt. Emerson attended the National Educational Associational convention at Boston.

The Western Association of Hamilton Alumni met at the Iroquois, Feb. 27. Assemblyman Guenther has introduced a bill to bring Cheektowaga within the elty limits. E. A.

Beals first assistant at Buffalo Weather Bureau will have charge of station at Minneapolis. Rev. 1 Dr. G. P.

Nichols of Binghamton has declined the call from Calvary Presbyterian church. Wilson 8. Bissell, the in-coming Post-master" General is being flooded with applications for, post-offices. Winchester post-office has been discontinued and for want of a post-master this mail will be got at Buffalo. Bertie Black, convicted of manslaughter has been sentenced to three years and six months in the penitentiary.

Bishop Ryan is treasurer of a fund to be, raised for the purpose of building a suitable residence and official home for Mgr Satolli. A new corporation to furnish Erle, Niagara, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties with a cheaper telephone has been organized capital stock 850,000. The Aldermen paid an official visit to the Penitentiary and highly commended the management upon the neatness and perfect order of the institution. Lieutenant Peary, who has made one Artie exploration, and will make another, lectured at Music Hall afternoon and evening. Feb.

27; he is doing this to obtain funds for the enterprise. An infant was found in a basket at No. 150 Bryant street, Feb. 18; a card pinned to his tiny blanket said: was born Jan. 6, '93.

take good care of me and I'll be a good boy such is life. NEW YoRK, March FLOUR -Quiet. Winterwheat, low grades, do fair to fancy, $2,56 patenta, Minuesota clear, do straights, patents, 0 5.00; low extras, $4.10 city mills, do patents, $4.5004.75: rye mixtures, RYE -Flour firm; BUCKWHEAT Flour, easier; buck. wheat, 58 g61c. CORNMEAL Steady.

Yellow western, $2.7502.80. RYE Western, 002.65c. BARLEY -Firm. Western, 002.80c: state, WHEAT -Spot lots lower. No.

2 red, store and elevator, afloat, L.o.b, No. 1 northern. No. 1 hard, 88c; No. 2 northern, options steady; March, April, May, June, July, CORN lots firm.

No. 2, elevator: afloat: ungraded mixed, 580 steamer mixed, 51 4 No. 8, 50e; options dull; March, May July, OAT8-Options, steady; March, do May, do July. Spots firmer: No. 2, 373 4 38c; No.

2 white, 41 No. 2 Chicago, No, 3, 37e; No. 3 white, 400 mixed western, 38 white do. 40 white state, HAY--Firm, 750.90c. PORK-Steady.

Old mess. new mess, $20.00. BUTTER Steady. State dairy, de creamery, 27c; western do, CHEESE- Steady. State, 10 fancy, l2c.

EGGS Firm. State, 20c: western fresh, 20c. Buffalo Provision Market. BUFFaLo, March 1. WHEAT -No.

hard. 1 northern, No. 2 do, red, 76c; No. 1 white, CORN Dull. No.

2 yellow, No. 3 yellow, No. 2 corn, 46:. OATS Firmer. No.

2 white. 30c; No. 3 white, 38c: No. 2 mixed. FLOUR--Dull.

Spring wheat, best patent, per low grade, Winter wheat, best family, BARLEY -Quiet. State, Michigan, 60 2 66c. RYE-Dull. Western, BUTTER Creamery fancy, 28c; choice; 26c. CHEESE Fancy, full cream, choice do, good do, EGGS- State and family, strictly fresh, 20c; western, 20c.

Buffalo Hay Market. BUFFALO, March 1. No. 1 timothy, new, per ton, $16.00: No. 2 do, common mixed, $13.000 13.50; baled hay, clover, loose straw, baled do, bundled rye do, $14.00.

No One Left to Tell the Tale. GREENVILLE. March residence of Cyrus Lee, about four miles south of here, was consumed by fire. The occupants, Cyrus Lee, sister and brother, wife and child, were burned with the building. There is no one left to tell the tale of how it originated.

The Narconic Ten Days Overdue. NEW YORK, March White Star line steamer Narconic, which left Liverpool for this port Feb. 18, is now 10 days. overdue, and it is certain she has met some serious mishap, probably to her machinery. REFEREE'S SALE.

CUPREME COURT, ERIE COUNTY-John W. Kerr. as sole executor of the last will and testament of Thomas J. Kerr, deceased, against Joseph Straub, Albert Straub as assigne of Joseph Straub for the benefit of creditors, and Henry D. Taylor.

By virtue of a judgement of foreclosure and sale made in the above entitled action, at special term of this Court, held at the City and County Hall in the City of Buffalo, Erie County, N. Y. on the sixth day of February 1893, and duly entered in the Erie County Clerk's office on the same day, the undersigned, referee, will sell at public auction, at the Gowanda House, in the Village of Gowanda, Erie County, N. 01. the 25th day of Mareli, 1893, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, the real property and mortgage premises, directed to be sold in and by said judgement and therein described as follows: All that tract or parcel of land situate in the Village of Gowanda, County of Erie and state of New York, being part of lot number thirty-seven, in Holland the sixth township and eighth range of Land Company's survey, and being distinguished on a map of the survey of part of said Village of Gowanda.

formerly called Lodi, made by Henry Lovejoy forthe late Ralph Plumb, as Village lot number one hundred and thirty-eight, bounded and described as follows Beginning at the corner on the west side of Buffalo street. formed by the intersection of the north line on Mechanic street with the west line of Bufstreet according to the aforesaid survey, thence running westwardly bounding on the north line of Mechanic street as said street i- continued westwardly from Buffalo street of said map, eighty-one and one half fort. Thence running northwardly on a line parallel with Buffalo street about seventy-five feet to village lot number one-hundred and thirtynine as designated on said map; thence east on the south line of said lot number one hundred and thirty-nine, about thirty-two feet to a point fifty feet west from Buffalo street thence southerly to the north west corner of Peter Rink's lot; thence southerly bounding on the west line of said Kink's lot forty-nine and one half feet thence eastwardly on the south line of said Rink's lot forty-nine and one half feet to Buffalo street: thence southerly on the west line of Buffalo street to the place of beginning. Dated February 9th, 1893. O.

D. SPRAGUE. Referee. J. M.

CONGDON, Plaintiff's attorney, Gowanda, N. Y. CITATION FOR PROBATE OF WILL. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW York, To Josephine Riffel of Hamburg, N. Magdalena Biller of Mishawaka, Indiana, George Riffel of Buffalo, N.

and Mary A. Tompkins of Buffalo, Y. William Riffel of Saunders Spur, Michigan. Whereas, John M. Riffel late of the Town Hamburg in the County of Erie and State of New York, deceased, left a last will and testament bearing date the 5th day of November 1892.

purporting to relate to real and personal property, and the same having been propounded for probate by John Thiel Executor therein named: You, and each of you, being the widow heirs and next of kin of said decedent and the persons in being who would take an interest in any portion of the real and personal property of said decedent under the provisions of said last will and testament and the Executors and Trustees named or described therein are therefore cited to appear before the Surrogate of our said County of Erie, at the Surrogate's Office, in the City and County Hall, in the City of Buffalo, in said County of Erie, on the 29th day of March 1893, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of that day, and attend the probate of the said will. And that, if any of the above-named persons are infants, that they then and there show cause why a Special Guardian should not be appointed to appear. represent and net for them, in the proceeding for the probate of said will. In testiniony whereof, we have caused the Seal of said Surrogate's Court to be unto aflixed. Witness, Hon.

Jacob Stern, Surrogate of our said County of Erie, at Buffalo, N. this 8th day of February 1893. JOHN GRIFFIN, Clerk of Surrogate's Court. THOMAS W. SCHILLER, Petitioner's Attorney, Hamburg, N.

Y. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. DURSUANT to an order of Hon. Jacob Stern, Surrogate of Erie County, N. Notice is hereby given to all persons having claims or demands against Henry J.

Pettibone late of the town of East Hamburg in said county, deceased, that they are required to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the undersigned, Mary E. Pettibone the administratrix of the goods etc. of the said deceased, at the residence of the said Mary E. Pettibone in the town of East Hamburg in said county, on or before the first day of August 1893. Dated the 23rd day of January 1803.

MARY E. PETTIBONE, Administratrix etc. P. O. Webster's Corners N.

Y. HAMMOND HATCH ACKERSON, Attorney for Administratrix, 105 Franklin Street, Buffalo, N. Y. NOTICE TO CREDITOTS. to an order of Hon.

Jacob Stern. Surrogate of Erie County, N. Y. Notice is hereby given to all persons having claim or demands against Elizabeth Pfster late of the Town of Hamburg in said county, deceased that they are required to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to the undersigned John Ueblacker the executor of the estate of the said deceased, at the residence of the said John Ueblacker in the Village of Hamburg in said county, on or before the 10th day of April 1893. Dated the 28th day of September 1892.

JOHN URBLACKER Executor,.

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