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I 10 lit ilill II Activity in All Lines of Business Is Reported from All Portions of the Country. MERCHANDISE EXPORTS LEAD IMPORTS. I'nyment Through the Clenrlnir HouaeM Are Ininienae National Prosperity lteitta on .Solid Foiindn- I tlous Hxporta Kirrrd Imports A'ctUlty lu Jobbing Lines. New York. March 18. -R. G. Dun & Co.'a Weekly Hevlew of Trade says: "In busi ness, this year cannot be compared with any other. It can be said that payments through the principal clearing houses for th past week have been 57.4 per cent, greater than in 1892 and 43.9 per cent great er than In 1K9S, but that exaggerates (he gain In sums branches of business, whlla in others It falls far short of the gain. Thus the February exports of manufac tured products have about doubled since 1832. Omitting New York clearings, whera speculation in stocks is most active, pay ments through the other principal clear ing houses for the name week show Increase of 37.6 per cent, over 1802, and 27.1 per cent, over last year. Hut without regard to such details alt realize that the volume of busi ness in most branches Is the greatest ever known. Solid Foundation. "The national prosperity rests on more solid foundations. The exports of bread stuffs, provisions, cotton and oil in Feb--u.rry-.Vio wed a decrease of JG.000.000, but W6.406.943 in Vlue against J31.273.39C last year, and were Sufficiently large to cover 60 per cent, of Vhe entire imports. Th merchandise experts exceeded imports for tha month J33.624.ll7. the gold supply in creasing, and thertappears no occasion for monetary disturbance. The treasury re corded its first payment of .the $59,000,000 for the Central IVciflc railroad, having previously received .000.000 for the Union Pacific and over $6.;)D0,000 for the Kansas Pacific. Iron I odnets. "Bwiftly rising quotations for Iron and its products would t jtslead If it were not kept In mind that mo e than nine-tenths of the Iron manufacturing capacity is engaged, and will be until Jul' or later. In the exe cution of orders taken months ago at low prices. If a million tons of products go out this month. 900.000 at such prices as $18 to $ for steel rails, at which the entire out put of the Illinois Steel company for this year was sold some time ago, It hardly in ictates the true character of the iron busi ness that lees than 100.000 tons are going out at such prices as $26 to $28 per ton for steel rails made here for small lots this week. Belated buyers now have to pay fancy prices to get orders accepted at all. With drawal or postponement of business be cause of high prices begins to be a slg alflcant feature, and much foreign business is evidently lost. "Failures for the week have been 189 in the United States, against 208 last year, and 34 in Canada, against 27 last year." Hmdat reet'a Review. Bradstreet's says: "An activity which in some directions represents the continuance ef pre-existing conditions and In others re flects a special lmpul.se communicated by the near approach of spring forms the lead ing note of this week's trade advices. In the iron and steel Industries activity con tinues unabated, the upward tendency of prices being strikingly maintained and the eagerness of consumers to take the product remaining unchanged. The more springlike weather has Induced a greater keenness in the demand for seasonable goods and from most sections of the country come reports of a marked activity In Jobbing lines having to do with dry goods, millinery and foot wear. The cereals weakened during the week, probably in sympathy with wheat, which experienced a marked drop on Thursday. In part as the result of heavy liquidation in Chicago and In part owing to reports of the break of the drought in California and better news from other wheat-growing sections." THREE KILLED. A Wreck on a Southern Itnllrond In Which Three Tralna Were Kuiaahed I'p. Iloanoke, Va.. March 20. A fatal wreck occurred on the Norfolk & West ern railroad at Ada Sunday morning, killing Fireman Van Luudingliam, of this city, and a htakeman named H. A. Graham. A tramp was also killed. Several trainmen wore more or less in jured. Three freight trains were wrecked. All wen coming east. The first train had stopped. The second broke in two and the sections in their flight down the mountain side crashed into the first train. They were soon fol lowed by the third, which had not been flagged. . etc roes Shot. Palmetto, (la., March 17. A mob of masked men srtormed the little house doing service an a jail here at an early hour Thursday morning, and shot nine negroes. Four were killed outright, and the other five were badly wound ed. The negroes were held for the burning of the town, three lire since January 1 having nearly completely destroyed it. Tralna linn on Snndny, New York, March 20. For the first time in the history of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad Sun day passenger trains were run yester day, when a regular Sunday train serv ice was established. The trains were crowded. A Southern Tornado. Birmingham, Ala., March 1G. A tor nado at Avondale, a suburb of this city, destroyed 23 houses, three churches, three machine shops and thousands of yards of fencing and many persons were injured. "Dewey Day." llarrisburg, Pa., March 16. A reso lution has been adopted in the legisla ture requesting (Jov. Stone to name Monday, May 1. 1S09, as "Dcwcy day" and designate the same as a legal holi day. f.otner. for President. Havana, March 17. The talk of Gen. Gomez for president of the Cuban re public is increasing, as a very natural reaction against the censures passed upon him by the military assembly. Will Hot HeilRti, New York, March 10. In nn inter view in this city yesterday Secretary of War Alger said the constant reports that he was to retire from the cabinet were false. WORK OF A CYCLONE. Grrnt Dnmaice Done to Property In Scvrral Southern Ktntra and a ' Number of I'rnont Killed. Memphis, Tenn., March 20. A spe cial to the Commercial Appeal from Uirmingham, Ala., sajs: Additional de tails of Saturday night's cyclone near Kdwardsville were received here late Sunday night. The following is a list of the dead, so far as known: Lewis Coffee, aged W, tax assessor of Clebourne county, and the following mem ber of his family: Airs. Coffee, aged 46, Leila, aged 22; Jame. aged 20; Lula, aged 18; Jacob, aged 13; Deveroc, aged 8; Dollie, aged 10; (Jrover, aged 6; John, aged ,4; un known woman, near llonln. The wounded number 14. Hickory Flat. Miss., March 20. A tor nado struck this place Saturday, doing considerable damage to buildings and other property. The school building :ind two churches were demolished and 25 dwellings blown down or unroofed. Several persous received painful in juries. A family living west of here lost its, dwelling and a young woman was killed. Trees were orn up by the roots, twisted off like reeds, and all fencing in the path of the cyclone lev eled to the ground. On some farms near here hardly a building was left stand ing. Iiethlehem, Miss.. March 20. Will Wickes house was destroyed by a tor nado and a child killed. Little Kock, Ark., March 20. A tor nado passed through portions of Jef ferson and Desha counties Saturday afternoon. Telegraph wires were blown down and the details are coming in slowly. At Kobroy five houses were blown down and one man killed. The town of Dumas, in Desha county, was struck and considerable damage done. Nearly all the houses in the town were either blown down or damaged and sev eral persons were wounded, but so far as can be learned no lives were lost. Pine IJluff. Ark.. March 20. Further details of the fearful storm which swept over portions of Arkansas Sat urday morning reached Pine Bluff Sun day. At Walnut Lake three persons were killed. Atlanta, Ga., March 20. A special to the Constitution from Waynesboro, Ga., says a cyclone passed over Burke county at three o'clock Sunday morn ing. Tn the vicinity of Waynesboro four people were killed. Several houses were demolished and much damage done. SIGNS THE TREATY. The Queen lteteut of Spain Affixes Her SlKnatare tn the Historic Pence Document. ' Madrid, March 18. The queen re gent has signed the treaty of peace be tween Spain and the United States. The next step must be taken by Spain; that is, she must name her spe cial envoy and notify the United States government of the probable date upon which he will present himself in Wash ington with the exchange copy of the treaty of peace. Although in most in stances little more than a perfunctory ceremony, in the case of the exchange of ratifications of this, treaty the de tails will be of more than ordinary in terest, for the occasion will be his torical. The signed treaty of peace will be forwarded to the French ambassador at Washington, M. Jules Cambon, for exchange with the one signed by Pres ident McKinley. No decree on the sub ject will be published in the official Gazette. The draft of the treaty of peace be tween Spain and the United States was signed in Paris on December 10,1898. It wasi approved by the United States sen ate by a vote of 57 to 27, on February 6, and was signed by the president on February 10. Washington, March 20. M. Cambon, the French ambassador, called at the department of state Saturday and servej formal notice of the signature of the peace treaty at Madrid. Secre tary Hay has indicated his preference that M. Cambon shall act as the agent for the Spanish government in the final exchange of ratifications. This should hasten the last formalities. I a Doom for No One. Toledo, O., March 17. Mayor S. M. Jones, who is one of the socialistic leaders who i a prime mover in the conference called by Gov. Pingre, of Michigan, to meet in Buffalo in June, denies that the object of the meeting i si to form a new political party or to boom anyone for oflice. lie stated that it was; purely a conference to aid in the bettering of labor conditions. Ileentahllahlnor Camp Meade. Washington, March 10. The recstab lishment of Camp Meade, near Middle town, Pa., for the muster out of vol unteer troops isgoing rapidly forward. An officer of the quartermaster's de partment has been there some time and is now putting the camp in con dition for the occupancy of the troops. For a "Woolen Combine. Foxcroft, Me,, March 18. Manufac turers of men's woolen goods in this Ejection have been approached by repre sentatives of the syndicate who pro pose to bring about a combination) of woolen manufacturers under one man agement with a capital of $100,000,000. Falls to Klect. Sacramento, Cal., March 20. The Cal ifornia legislature adjourned sine die at 11:45 o'clock Sunday morning without electing a United States senator to suc ceed Stephen M. White, term expired. 1'nMteil Awny, Augusta, Ga., March 20. Patrick Walsh died at his home here yesterday, aged 50 years. He was former United States senator from Georgia, mayor of Augusta and editor of the Chronicle. Arcos for Spanish milliliter. Madrid, March 20. The Pais says it Is certain that the duke of Arcos, the former Spanish minister to Mexico, will be appointed minister of Spain at Wash ington. ill III II. New York's Fashionable Hostelry Is Destroyed and Several Persons Lose Their Lives. SCENES OF EXCITEMENT AND HORROR. The Death 1,1 t Mow Fool I'pltl, vrlfh 4." MIInur ami R4 Injured Proper ty 1onm H Huormous Police Think the llulltlliiK W'um Fired by Thieve An Important Arreat. New York, Marcn 18. Flames which originated from the igniting of a lace curtain burst forth from the second floor of the Windsor hotel at Forty seventh street and Fifth avenut short ly after three o'clock Friday after noon, just a the St. Patrick's day parade was passing the building, and in a few moments they had leaped up to the roof and enveloped the entire Fifth avenue and Forty-wventh street fronts of the hotel. Ten minutes! later the flames were roaring through the interior of the hotel and all eswape by means of sit airways and elevators was cut off. T hie re was the wildest scene of excitement within and without the building. Hundreds of guests and em ployes were in the hotel when the fire broke out, and for many of them est cape with safety w as impossible. Prob ably from ten to fifteen lives were lost within a half hour, and 30 or 40 per sons were injured in jumping from win dows and in rushing through the roar ing flames in the corridors and on the stairways'. The Dead. Mrs. Elizabeth Leland, wife of Warren Iceland, proprietor of the hotel: burns of body; died at Flower hospital. . Helen Iceland, daughter of Warren Le land, jumped from window; body Identified at East Fifty-first street station Mrs. Amelia Paddock, IrvlnRton, N. Y.; Jumped from window; body at East Fifty first street station. THE ILL-FATED WINDSOR HOTEL, NEW YORK. 1 66 ee c IQfiGGE III" f. FoTTfiTfiB 06 EE mm fit ftftlftwH! mm mm ft EE nmm mm mm mm Nancy Ann Kirk. (Mrs. James S. Kirk). Chicago: died in Uellevue. Mrs. M. Tierce, Macon, Ga.; died at 19 East Forty-sixth street. Miss Lacelles Grandy, Elizabeth City. N. C: body at East Fifty-first street station. Mrs. Addle Gibson, aged 33; shock;' died at Murray Hill hotel. Eleanor Louise Goodman, aged 17; frac tured skull; died at Bellevue. John Connolly, hotel employe, burns and Internal Injuries; died at Flower hospital. Unknown woman, middle aged, Jumped from window; died at Miss Helen Gould's residence. . Unknown woman; body at East Fifty-first street station. Unknown woman, partially identified as the wife of a Haltlmore financier; fell while letting herself down by the rope fire escape from sixth floor, and died in Miss Helen Gould's house. Unknown man, 23. seen to Jump from roof at rear of hotel; body not recovered. Unknown child, thrown from window by mother; body not recovered. Unknown woman, mother of the child; Jumped from window; body not recovered. A revisted list of the missing, made up at midnight, brings the list up to 41. The Itnrned Hotel. The Windsor hotel was seven stories high and almost square In form, had a frontage of 200 feet on Flfti avenue and occupied the entire block between - East Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh streets. The front center of the building was eight stories In height. It had also two wings, each seven stories in height and 75 feet In length. There were more than 500 rooms In the- hotel The building was chiefly of brick and was architecturally simple. It was thoroughly equipped for fighting fire and had pumps equal in force to six of the most powerful fire engines In the city. It cost about three-quarters of a million dol lars to build. The Windsor's builder and first owner was John T. Daly, and the build ing was first opened as a hotel in Septem ber, 1873. The Windsor for many years was one of the most exclusive hotels In the city and was In the height of Its glory up to ten years ago. It was the rendezvous of all the great Wall street operators from the days of Commodore Vanderbllt and Daniel Drew. The hotel became known as "Wall street by night," because of the visits of the great financiers. President and Mrs. McKinley always stopped at the Windsor and celebrities of all kinds were Its guests. Mr. Leland, the proprietor of the hotel, took charge of the Windsor shortly after the close of the world's fair In Chicago. FLHTIIKH rAllTICLLAllS. Sixteen Known to He Den! anl 4. Are MlasInK llenvy Iosaea. New York, March 20. The Latest es timate with reference to the Windsor hotel fire places the number of dead at 16; inj'urcd, 54; missing, 45; value ol the hotel, furniture, etc., is placed nt $1,250,000; insurance, $S90,000. The loss to the guests will reach nearly $1, 000,000. Two families have lost jewel ry valued at $100,000, nnd there nr scores of other wealthy families who lived in the hotel. nnd who lost jewels worth thousands of dollars. Fired hy Thieve. The police are now led to suspect that the hotel fire was the work ol thieves. Many of the guests, who lost friends nnd valuables declared thai thieves had set the big hotel on fir for the purpose of creating a panic and looting the rooms The police arrested Frank Kane near the hotel and found In a bundle that he carried property valued at $10,000 which was identified as having come from the hotel. JOSEPH MEDILL DEAD. Veteran Chicago Newspaper Man Ex plres In San Antoulo, Te. A Sketch of His Career. Chicago. March 17. Joseph Medlll. for almost half a century editor of the Chicago Tribune aud former mayor of Chicago, is dead. At noon Thursday came the &ad in telligence from San Antonio, Tex., that josErn mediLl. the veteran newspaper man had expired in that city at the Hotel Menger, where he had been slaying since early in the winter. Mr. Medill was 7t years old, and the cause of death is assigned t-imply as old age, with itsi attendant weaknesses. His heart, it is also said, had troubled him for the last two years and heart failure was presumably a complication hastening the end. Joseph Medill wan born In St. Johns, N. n., April 6, 1823. Ills parents, who were of Scotch-Irish descent, moved to Stark coun ty, O.. In 1S31. establishing themselves upon a small farm near Massillon. Joseph helped his father with the work and made his pocket money by getting up clubs of sub scribers for the New York Weekly Tribune, which at that time was read by many of the farmers throughout the country. A. C. Wale, a Quaker neighbor, had a library which he placed at the young man's dis posal, and it was not long before the con tents of every book on the shelves were mastered. In 1S49 he bought the Coshocton Whig, which he renamed the Republican. It was a free-soil whig paper. In 1853 this Journal was consolidated with another free-soil pa per called the Free Democrat and rechrls tened the Leader. Its office was In Cleve land. About the same time Mr. Medlll gave material assistance In founding the republican party in Ohio. In the winter of 1834-55 Mr. Medlll sold his interest In the Leader to Mr. Edwin Cowles and coming to Chicago In May bought a large Interest In the Chicago Tribune, a paper which was then almost bankrupt. It was placed on a paying basis by the new owners. In 1874 Mr. Medlll secured full con rtol of the paper and through It made a fortune. The Spanish Prisoners. Washington, March 20. The Spanish government, through the French am bassador, M. Cambon, has presented to the state department a representation as to the condition of the Spanish pris oners held by the Philippine insur gents, setting forth what they consider the serious results arising from (Jen. Otis recent prohibition of efforts by the Spanish authorities to secure the release of the prisoners. Noted Train Ilobher Sentenced. Meridian, Miss., March 16. Thrasher Meade, the notorious negro train rob ber, safe blower and bandit, was sen tenced to the federal penitentiary in the United States court here Wednes day for 20 years. In passing sentence Judge Niles expressed regTet that he could not under the Jaw sentence Meade to death. Iowa Out of Debt. Des Moinesi. Ia.. March 18. The state of Iowa U out of debt, lly July 1 there will be a surplus in the treasury. The income for July and August isso small, however, that the surplus will be dissi pated until after October. Hy January 1, 1900, the state will have a big surplus. Not to He Ileeojcnlsed. Washington, March 1G. The commit tee which was appointed by the Cuban military assembly at Havana to com& to Washington to secure recognition, it can be stated, will not be recognized in any official capacity. Not Utility. Chicago, March 10. Uaron Curt E. Von Biedenfcld, the first foreign noble man ever brought to trial in a Chicago criminal court, yesterday was declared not guilty of the murder of Constable Charles A. McDonald. Tour of Inspection. Washington,March 1G. About COscn ators and representatives have accept ed invitations from the Panama Canal company for a trip to inspect the routes of the proposed Nicaragua and Panama canals, f eeiiiSs ri, I) II! 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