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BENJAMIN PTTERWORTH SUMMONED Peaceful Death of the Commissioner of Patents. Passes Away in the Pres ence of Wife and Children. Went to a Georgia Resort to Recuperate From an At tack of Pneumonia. MOST NOTABLE CAREER. Distinction Gained as a Lawyer, Sol dier and Statesman by the Talenied Quaker. Special Dispatch to Tha Call. xi njjiiiiin miucrwonn, united States mlssioner of Patents, who has 111 at Plney Woods Hotel here several weeks, died at 3:15 o'clock this afternoon. The end was peaceful, and ■when it came his wife and children were at his bedside. He came here to recuperate from an attack of pneu monia and recovered rapidly until two wer-ks ago, when he Buffered from ure mic convulsion?. From that relapse he never recovered. His body will be sent to Washington to-morrow. Benjamin Butterworth was what is known as a "birthright Quaker." Those who knew him nest during busy career are unanimous in Baying of him, "His daily life was as exem plary of the tenets of that good old' faith as that of any public official , could He was born in TVarren County, Ohio. 22, IS3T; was a member of the State Senate of Ohio from War ren and Butler counties in 1873-74; was elected from the First Ohio District to; the Forty - sixth. Forty - seventh, ! Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, I and was r< I to the Fifty-first : ;>uhlican. "Ben" ButterwOrth, a? he has al- ; ways been best known, spent his earl ier y- I about Mnineville and! ng — the latter a little station on the Little Miami Railroad. ' His father was William Butterworth, his mother a Linton, a family noted throughout the entire line for their keenness of intellect, powers of percep- | tlon and strength in speech and de- j bate. Both parents were of Quaker ancestry. Major Butterworth's keen Intellect and remarkable powers of ; ption were inherited from his mot hi r. terworttr*a first acquaintance ■with law was made in the office of TiurViin Ward, then a successful prac- '< titioner in Cincinnati. 4 During the war he attained th^ rank "of major in an Ohio regiment. He was Commissioner of Patents first during the administration of Garfield and Ar thur, and hi? record made then and subsequently had great weight with ' President McKinley in selecting him for that position. He was made secretary of the World's Fair project early in the in ception of that gr^at enterprise at Chi during the early .'9o's, and worked along In that capacity with honor to himself and profit to the company until its close. His widow and four children survive him. His ■wife was Miss Mary Schuyler of Penn sylvania. The children are Mrs. Howe of Washington, I>. C, a widow: Wil liam, who married n Miss Deere, of Moline. TIL; young Ben, who was in jured In game early in life, and Frank, whop* 1 prowess as a foot ball coach and fullback is almost inter national. SABBATH RIOTS DISTURB PARIS Students Parade the Streets Crying Out Against M. Zola. Police Finally Disperse the Mob and Make a Numbir of Arrests. Special Dispatch to The Call. PARIS, Jan. 16.- There was a popular to-day, with a procession "of military officials, soldiers,. veterans and ■ gymnastic and other associations, in . honor of General Felix Saussier, now re tiring from the military governorship of • Paris, and the commander-. n-chief of the French army. General Saussier, who was In full uniform and surrounded by his staff, stood in the window of his resi dence, responding assiduously to the sal utations of enormous crowds. Ultimately bands of students paraded the streets, shouting perpetuallly, "Con spuez Zola!" "Death to the Jews!" and the like. In several cases cafe win dows were smashed, and the windows of a house mistaken for >.olas was broken. The police ally aspersed the rioters and made many arrests. Louise Michel and Sebastian Faure addressed a social ist meeting this evening and denounced the secrecy attending tne trial of Comte Esternazy. There were shouts (ft "A baa Brumont!" and "A has Rochefort!" but there was no further disorder The list of persons signing the petition circulated by M. Zola and others on Fri day last for a retrial Oi former Captain Alfred Dreyfus is becomin- Increasingly . significant. Numerous members of the Institute and other prominent persons are signing, which shows that the movement is dally growing in respectability and in fluence. On the other hand, the anti . Zola campaign, started by the students, Is extending to Marseilles, Toulouse, Lyons., Nancy and other large towns. PASSES CLOSE TO A VESSEL HEAVILY LISTED TO STARBOARD. British Steamship Willow Branch Sights a Craft That Has Evidently Encoun tered a Gale. PHILADELPHIA. Jan. IS.-Captain Ritson, commanding the RritiHh steamer Willow liraneh, which arrived in port to 4 day. stated that on January 7. to the westward of the. Grand Links, he passed close to an unknown steamship that was heavily listed to Btarboard, but she did not signal that assistance was needed. He describes the vessel to have been a large, deeply laden craft, with a red funnel win black top and red band around it, and believes it to have been one of the Allan line fleet. THE LATE HON. BENJAMIN BUTTERWORTH, as He Appeared While Addressing a Meeting in this City in October, 1896. AILING SWINE GIVEN RELIEF Successful Tests of the Anti-Toxine for Hog Cholera. Dr. Salmon Submits an Encour aging Report to Secretary Wilson. Congress Will Be Asked to Appropri ate Money for the Distribution of Serun i. Special Dlßpatch to The Call. Call Office. P.iggs House, Washington, Jan. I*s. The chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, Dr. D. E. Salmon, has sub mitted to Secretary Wilson a report upon the experiments made in the treatment of hogs for hog cholera with anti-toxine scrum. This serum Is made upon the same principle as the anti toxine of diphtheria. Good serum has been oljt.aini.-il from both horses cattle, a horse or row being in"< a with the h>>g cholera virus in small quantities at first, and with larger after suitable intervals of time. The resistance of the animal is thus ! to the highest p; point. The blood of such an animal when in- I under the skin of SWinfi has ':■• ■• n found t" possess both a preventive aDd curative action. This serum was first tested uj>on small animals in the laboratory, and, being found efficacious, was last fall tested in Page County, lowa, on sev eral herds of swine, containing alto gether 278 animals. Leaving out one herd, from which definite returns as to cause of death could not be obtained, only 3l< died out of l'-J4 animals treat ed, of which 86 were .si«-k. Consequent ly 82.8 per cent of the animals of these herds were saved. Of untreated hogs kept under observation during the pe riod referred to, about 85 per cent of th»- animals died. Dr. Salmon believes that with experi ence a better quality of scrum can be prepared, and he has no doubt tfiat this percentage can be maintained hereafter. Referring to this report, Secretary "Wilson remarked that undoubtedly the I results reported by Dr. Salmon were j most encouraging to hog raisers. The i cost of the serum now. said the Secre j tary, was but 10 cents per head of ani mals treated, only one dc-se being re ! quired, and doubtless in course of time i this light cost may still be further re- J duced. "It is, in my opinion," said the '■ Secretary, "of the utmost importance , that this serum, for the next year at least, be made by the bureau under our own supervision and distributed in large quantities in order to demon strate its efficacy upon a more extend jed scale. It is absolutely essential that during the experimental stage serum of undoubted quality be. used. Unless the hog growers can obtain it from this department they will be forced to de pend upon what can be obtained from private sources, and, owing to the nov elty of this product, not only will dls couragingly exorbitant prices be charg ed for it, but in many cases inferior products may be offered. This would preclude the possibility of making a satisfactory test on a widely extended scale. "I propse to ask Congress to provide j an appropriation necessary to enable ' this department to furnish 2.000.000 doses of serum during the next year and to make a considerable portion, of the appropriation immediately avail - ; able. It seems from Dr. Salmon's re port that It takes three or four months to put a horse or cow Into condition to I supply the serum: consequently the 1 work unon an extended scale must be undertaken at once. "The losses from hog cholera are so ' enormous and have welched so heav ily for years upon our farmers that I '■ cannot Imagine that Conpress will for a j moment hesitate to make the appro priations necessary to carry on this work thoroughly. Indeed, apart from : the great stake the farmers hay* in i this matter, to refuse to proviso for a thorough test of this remedy now would , he. indeed, 'penny wise and pound fool ish': for the discovery of this serum has Involved already many. years of work and a very large sum of money. It would be a great mistake now that so THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MOXDAY, JANUARY 17, 1898. gTeat a discovery seems to have been made not to finish the work by giving it a thorough and extensive test." GREAT BRITAIN'S SHARE OF THE CHINESE PUDDING. Concessions to Be Acquired Through the Proposed Loan to the Imperial Government. LONDON, Jan. 16.-The Peking cor respondent of the Times says: Yester day (Saturday) Sir Claude Mac Donald, British Embassador to China, in the course of an Interview with the Tsung- LJ-Yamen (Board of Foreign Control), stated that England was willing to as sist China to liquidate the Japanese in demnity, and would provide a loan of £12.000.000 at par, to run fifty years, the service to be 4 per cent net. including sinking fund conditions, as follows: First— The opening of three treaty ports, the Talien-Wan. Slang-In and Nan-Ning. thereby increasing the cus toms revenues; second; a declaration that no portion of the Yang-Tse-Kiang Valley shall b<- alienated to any other power; third, the right to extend the Burmafa railway through Hunan prov ince (the most southwestern In China). In the event of her default China is to place certain revenues under the control of the Imperial customs. On this basis the negotiations will proceed. China re gards them as advantageous, but fears the threatened apposition of France and Russia, especially to the opening of Tall-en-Wan and Nan-Nit, The Times, commenting on the report, suggests that Siang-In. which the cor respondent describes as "in Hunan prov ince" is a telegraphic error and means cither Siang Yang in Hu-Pei province, or Siang-Tang, in llu-Nan province. CASES DELAYED IN THE SUPREME COURT. Postponement of the Confirmation of Mc- Kenna Said to Have Caused Justice to Be Retarded. WASHINGTON". Jan. It— Dels? In the [nation of the nomination of Attor eral McKenna will compel a post ponement of mnm assigned for re-argu 3upi Court this w• ek included several mim that have it . n before the court for a long time, and the justices found it impossible to dispose of them, it is presumed, for Die reason that • Ighi members, who for some ths past li;:\ mprised the actual working body of the court, could not it was supposed when the assign- He last month that by the 17th inst. Judge McKenna'a appointment would nave been confirmed and he would be a member of the court. Onder the men! to take a vote in the B< on his Domination next Friday, he cannot enter upon th- discharge of his duties un til January 24. A rumor was current last week that th'i announcement of the opinion and judg ment of the court In the now long <>■. Nebraska minimum freight rates case was being delayed for the completion of a dissenting opinion. The same authority fixes the division of the court at six to two. REDUCTION OF WAGES IN THE COTTON MILLS. Many Thousands Are to Be Affected by the Cut, and the Loss Will Be Over a Million a Year. PROVIDENCE:, R. L, Jan. 16.— The cut in the cotton mills throughout the State will go into effect to-morrow, the only exceptions \ eing one or two small fac tories whose owners, for reasons of their own, have not decided to cut wages and ■ few in which, owing to their paying monthly or for similar reasons, It is not convenient to make the reduction until later. The reduction will affect to a greater or less degree the earning of nearly 20,000 operatives in this State and those of Knight and Goddard In Massachusetts. Betwi aiwi L 5.000 employes in Connecticut mills controlled by Provi dence :\\z> m!s will he affected also. As the aggregate earnings of the operatives will approximate $9,600,000 annually, the loss m wages and purchasing power in consequence of the reduction to 0;..-ra- Uves and business men in the eommuni- In Which they spend their money will lie nearly a round million if the eul ■.verages< as expected, about 10 per cent. GRADUATED WITH GRANT'S CLASS AT WEST POINT. Genera/ Christopher Colon Auger, a Veteran of Two Wars, Dies of Qld Age. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— General Chris ; topher Colon Auger, U. S. A., retired, died of old age at his home In West Washing ton* to-night. General Auger was one of the three surviving members of th. class of '43 at West Point— the class with which General Grant graduated. General Auger was with Grant in Mexico and served ' with distinction through the civil war. i After the civil war be saw considerable active service in the Indian uprisings on j the frontier, and was later In command of various departments of the array. Ha ; was retired in 1885, and has since lived in Washington. . Subsequent to his retirement he was shot by a negro desperado in the door v.ay of his home, but, though seriously wounded, recovered. He had two sons, now in the army— Captain Colon Auger, stationed at Fort Riley, Kan., and Major J. A. Auger, at Leavenworth, Kan. THREATENED CRISIS IN CUBA OVER Peace Now Seems to Prevail at Havana. Diplomats Agree That the Worst Is Certainly- Passed. Expect Good Results From the Recent Riotous Pro ceedings. SQUADRON SAILS SOUTH. Fleet of Warship* Will Be Near In Case the Interests of Americans Are Threatened. Special Dispatch to The Call. N"EW YORK, Jan. 16.— The Herald"s "Washington correspondent telegraphs: The threatened crisis In the Cuban situation has passed, at least for the time being, according to the latest in formation received from General Lee. I have talked to-day with Secretary Sherman, Assistant Secretary «>f Btate Day, Senator Davis, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, leading members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and with Minister de They all agree that the worst is over. Minister de Lome is as optimis tic as ever as t" the ultimate success of autonomy. < '"•'■ thing is certain as a result of my conversation with them. There is no immediate intention of In tervention on the part of the United States, and future action of the au thorities here will depend solely upon the developments in the island within the next two months. The Herald's special cable from Mad rid, published this morning, showing that the r€ nt rioting in Havana was the result of a great conservative plot against the Sagasta ministry of Spain, attracted wide attention in diplimatlc and official circles here The dispatch was read with great Interest, particu larly in the Btate Department, as it confirm similar brief advice from Consul-General L>-e in Cuba, re • i when t: an in ma. It waa In i insequence of the luslons which General l.<->' drew from the riots thai the authorities made such prompt preparations for sending a warship to Havana. They feared that i:' the plot should succeed and Captain-General Blanco should be overthrown anarchy would prevail. The • character of the news from Ha vana, however, during the past days has somewhat eased th> j ir minds on this score. In the opinion of Minister de Lome, the riots have Improved rather than aggravated the- situation. !!•• thinks they have cleared the atmosphere and thai General Blanco will now be able to vigorously push his plans for auton omy without any further Betback He considers the riots solely th. result of a radual chansf of policy which took upon the arrival of General r.iaT.'-<> in Havana. The m< n cerned in it were those deprived : flee and uther patronage whi h they ha<i under th* old regime. He <i> p • - tn>^ talk aboul the failure •■! auton- my, and thinks It unfair thai anybody sh( uld reach thia < ■•lvi'.sn-n f. 'M-t'M n u.iys after ihe reforms were formall) inaugurated. He ezpectfl much from Benor Govin, Minister of the Interior, who has just arrived in Ha\ ana. There is no probability of action on the Cuban question In either houi Congress during the present week. The President has not ><t prepan reply to Senator Cannon's resolution, asking what preparations bad been made for the protection of American citizens In Cuba, and it is probable that he will consider that it is not com patible With public; interest to give the Senate the information at this time. According to a telegram received this morning by captain A. s. Crowin shleld, chief of the Bureau of Naviga tion, from Rear Admiral Sicard, the North Atlantic squadron left Hampton [loads to-day for the Gulf of Florida. The squadron is the Strongest that lias been in southern waters since the close of the civil War. it comprises the battle-shipa lowa, Indiana ami Massa chusetts, second-class battle-ship Texas and armored cruiser New York. The squadron is expected to reach Dry TortUgaS on Saturday. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.— Grave ap prehensions were felt, by both the ofil cials of the State Department and those erf the Spanish Legation that disturb ances of a more or less sen. .us charac ter might occur in Havana to-day, ow ing to the fact that many persons oth erwise occupied during the week would be comparatively free on- this day to follow their own Ine (nations. Advices received by Minister de Lirme to-day, followed by others at a later hour, in dicate, however, that Havana was per fectly tranquil. After noon the Minis ter received a dispatch conveying the information that at 11 o'clock this morning there had not only been no rioting, but that there were not even sporadic disturbances crt any kind. As a precautionary measure. General Blanco had carefully provided against any trouble, but so far as surface indi cations went, the precautions he had taken were entirely unnecessary. The advices were that the better judgment of the people was uppermost. Good feeling prevailed generally through out the city, and no disturbances were anticipated. Ip to ?, o'clock this afternoon State Department officials had received no word from Havana, and th -y accepted this as an Indication that no trouble had occurred or was anticipated. They regard the rioting < f last week as merely a flurry which spent Its force in the few hours it lasted. General Lee is under instructions to notify the department promptly of anything unusual or in the least way threatening, and the fact that no dis patch was received from him clearly Indicates that the city Is practically absolutely quiet. Becretary I^>ng has received no ad ditional Information concerning the movements of the North Atlantic squadron and said that he expect. .1 none. Admiral Heard simply carried out the orders previously issued to him and sailed to-day with the main body of the squadron for Southern waters to enter upon the usual winter maneuv ers. NORFOLK, Va., Jan. 16,— Having completed coaling and nil provisions for their winter's cruise In Gulf waters, the ships of the North Atlantic squad ron, which have teen anchored in Hampton Roads for the past ten weeks, the flagship New York and the battle ships Indiana, Massachusetts and lowa left < >ld Point at 10 a. m. and two hours later passed out the rapes, south bound. They put to sea in the teeth of a north easter which is blowing off Hatteras to-night. It is Admiral Sicard's inten tion to keep well away from the stormy cape. The fleet will proceed directly, at tfii knots speed, to Dry Tortugas, their headquarters for the Gulf evolutions. This point is within such easy reach of Havana that the ships could be sum moned in a few hours should their presence be necessary. The Texas will join the flagship off the South Carolina coast. The torpedo-boat Foote was forced to take the inside route owing to the heavy weather off Hatteras. The ships are equipped for a long voyage and their magazines arf well stocked. HAVANA, Jan. 16.— N0 •'disagreea ble incidents" have occurred to-day, and "complete calmness" exists. Gen eral Morroto, General Bernal and Gen eral Salcedo have arrived, and are as sisting General Blanco in maintaining order. Yesterday while Senor Marcos Gar cia, Governor of Santa Clara, was at tending a baseball match, a hospital employe tried to shoot him. General T'rrier and his aid-de-camp frustrat ed the attempt. General Pando arrived at Manzanll lo on Tuesday last. According to the official reports, there has been only "unimportant skirmishing" in that di rection. MADRID, Jan. 16.— Senor Romero Robledo, presiding at a meeting of his friends to-night, attacked the autono my scheme, and sought to magnify the significance of the recent demonstra tions at Havana. The meeting decid ed to reassemble on Tuesday n^xt. in order to draft an address to the Queen Regent protesting against the dissolution of the fortes, and request ing that they be convoked. General Weyler was invited to at tend the meeting, but excused himself on the ground of "scruples arising from his military position." DEMANDS FOR LUMBER ON THE TRAILS TO DAWSON. Indications That the Rush in the Spring Will Discount That of Last Autumn. SEATTLE, Jan. 16.— The steam schooner Noyo arrived here to-night from Skaguay and I've;'.. Alaska. Among her passen g> rs was Hans Larsen of Circle City, who came "'.it t" Dyea with a <i.>g train by way of Dawson City. He said there was plenty of food at Circle City. He also conllrmrd previous reports that there would lie no suffering at Dawson this winter from lack of provisions, as the exodus bad removed danger of famine. He <iid not think that the government relief expedition was feasible at this time. J. A. Lacy of San Francisco, who took a cargo <>f lumber to Bkaguay on the Nfoyo, says so great is the demand for lumber that the people can hardly wait until It is unloaded. Lacy Bays that but a small part of the hundreds of people ar riving at Dyea and Skaguay intent on pushing on to Dawson, have any con ceptlon of the difficulties before them. H<j predicts that the congestion on the trails will be greater than it was last season. VESSELS IN NEED OF AMMUNITION Navy Lacks Sufficient Powder for Use in Case of Emergency. Officers Arjree That the Batteries on Commissioned Warships Should Be Modernized. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office. Rlggs House, "Wash! . Jan. 16. Naval officers generally agree with the statements made by Assistant Becretary of th< ■ ps should t.e taken to modernise the batteries of many vessels now In commission. I un derstand that Mr. Roosevelt informal the President yesterday that the navy was also badly tn need of ammunition. Mr. ..it appreciates that every ship in the navy has a supply of powder suffi cient, for peace purposes, but in case of ency, he thinks, there :s not enough p >wder t>> rapidly replace that now In tne magazines of the men-of-war. Naval officers generally say Congress should lose no tim* in appropriating the $500,000 required by TCcretary Long for the purchase of reserve ammunition. The only recent contract made by the depart ment for powder was that entered into several months ago for I'JO.OOO pounds of six-inch smoke';.--.; powder. It is desired by Captain Charles O'Neill. chief of the bureau of ordnance, that ne be given authority to convert all of the six-inch gutis of ordinary type now in ser vice Into rapid-firing guns. He has esti mated that 125,000 Will be needed, and has urged that Congress make an appropria tion without delay. There are ninety-five six-inch guns of ordinary type on board ships of the navy, and their conversion. Captain O'Neill says, will double th. ir ef flciency. The cost of converting a six-inch gun Is ab.ait $1000, and the time required would be from five to six months for each lot of twelve guns undertaken at the s.i me time. Bight six-Inch guns have already been converted, and work on nineteen was commenced some months ago. Eighteen of these are for the Newark and Atlanta. Buried Under Sacks of Wheat. VTBAIJA, Jan. 1C — Elijah Allen. a young man of IS years, working on the Fulgham rancli. bad a narrow escape from death yesterday. He was soaking wheat in Milestone liquid !>• fore sowing in the field when a large pile of wheat in sacks fell, covering him completely. It was probably an hour before he was dis covered by his employer, as he failed to report for dinner. With all haste the tumbled sacks were thrown aside and the poor fellow rescued. He could neither speak nor walk, and nearly two hours passed before he was able to realize what bad happened. Another half-hour's im prisonment would have been fatal. Cotton for the Orient. TACOMA. Jan. If..— Seven trainloads, amounting to 4750 hales, of Texas cotton, have arrived In Tacoma for shipment to c ma and Japan. Th»" oott.m came by way of St. Lotus and St. Pan",. A great deal of this cotton is standing in cars on the track. Heavy shipments of cotton are arriving at all Pacific Coast ports having Oriental lines. An important phase of the movement arises in tho question as to whether the cotton is sub- Jed to Insurance while standing in the cars. Fatal Shooting Affray. OKLAHOMA, Jan. H. — In s row early this morning Fred Jones, ■ barkeeper, shot Chief of Police <;. \v. Jackson through the thigh, As lie fell Jackson it Jones, but missed him and shot Bishop Armstrong, a deputy sheriff. In dicting a fatal wound. Jones is a brother Of Milt Jones, the city marshal wh killed in an affray at Oklahoma City two years ago by the Christian brothers, out laws. Armstrong, la said to have cuni^ from Texas. Seamtn From a Wrecked Brigantine. NKW YOKK, Jan. Ifi.— On board the steamer Antilla, which arrived here this evening from Nassau, were the mat< nine seamen of tHe crew of the Italian brigantlne Celestina, which was lost on the south side of Watling*a island while on it voyage from Venice to Savannah. The' vessel was a total loss. No lives were lost. Najoqui Pestoffice Burned. LOS OLIVOS. Jan. 16.— Th<» postotßca at Najoqtd, with all fixtures, ami the real of the Postmaster, 1; F. Xosser. were burned last night. N'osser's place has been a sort of headquarters for coast travelers for many y,-ars. chiefly on ac count of its proximity to the famous Na joqul Falls. MRS. LANE SHOT BY HER TINY PISTOL Blackburn's Daughter Is Wounded Seri ously. Most Peculiar Accident in a Washington Hotel. The Weapon Falls From a Piece of Lace Being Raised by Its Owner. BULLET STRIKES A RIB. There la Much Excitement Over the Affair, but the Accident Story Is Believed. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, D. C, Jan. 16. In her apartment in the Wellington Hotel last night, Mrs. Lucille Lane, youngest daughter of ex-Senat»r Joe; Blackburn of Kentucky, shot herself. According to the statement given out by the family the shooting was acci dental. Both of Mrs. Lane's physi cians refused to discuss the subject, even to the extent of saying whether or not the wound would prove fatal, but from the best that can be learned she will probably recover, although now suffering severely from shock. A friend of the family nominated to give out a statement said about midnight on Saturday that Mrs. Lane was pre paring to retire. Her husband at the time was in the adjoining room look ing over the paper. Mrs. Lane opened a bureau drawer to get a handkerchief and picked up a handful of gloves and laces which had been tossed together in the drawer. Under this fluffy mass was a tiny lady's pistol, a gift to Mrs. Lane from her father and a posses sion of which she was particularly fond. It caught in a piece of lace as sh-- raised her hand, and falling of Its own weight struck the hammer on the edge of the open drawer. The pistol exploded and the ball penetrated her left breast. What became of it is |I possible to say. Lucille is the youngest daughter of the bullet struck a rib and ranged around beneath the left shoulder, mak ing only a superficial wound. At the same time it is said Mrs. Lane is suf fering BO from the shock that the phy sicians have devoted all their energies to rallying her without attempting to definitely ascertain the extent of the injury. The most precise statement thai either physician would make to night was that Mrs. Lane would prob ably live until morning. At the re quest of the family the Mock in which tht> hotel is Bituatefl has been roped off. Senator Blackburn is deeply affected by the occurrence. He does not live with his daughter, and when the af fair occurred was summoned from his room on New York avenue, remaining thereafter at Mrs. Lane's hotel. Lucille was the youngest daughter of Senator Blackburn. She was' married In 1895 to Thomas F. Lane, a prominent business man and politician of Sum mit, N. J. At the time of the marriage Mr. Lane was a chief of division in the Treasury Department. Subsequently he accepted a place with the Maxim Arms Company of New York as their agent in Washington. The position is reputed a good one, and the Lanes had apparently always an abundance of money, which they spent freely, living at a fashionable hotel and seeming to lack none of the good things of life. Their little girl, something over a year old. was one of the favorites about the house with all who knew her and the particular pride of her mother. Mr. and Mrs. Lane, according to those who saw them every day. were unvaryingly affectionate and attentive to each other, and she, while of slight phy sique, was in excellent health. Mrs. Blackburn, who Is not In *the city, has been telegraphed for. Mrs. Lane's elder sister. Corinne. is the wife of Lieutenant -Colonel Hall, now at Fort Worth. Tex. FIRE RAGES IN A BUTTE BUILDING. Smoke Drifts Into the Maguire Opera House and There Is a Stampede Among the Audience. BT'TTE. Mont.. Jan. 16.— Fire. supposed to be of Incendiary origin, broke out in the Boston dry poods store in the Odd Fellows' building on Broadway, adjoin ing the Magulre Opera House, about 0 o'clock to-night. Before the fire was ex tinguished the stock was practically a total loss. It was insured for $25,000. The dense smoke penetrated to the upper part Of the building, where Thomas Steef, a paralytic, and his family live. They were rescued with difficulty. Smoke ;iiso penetrated the opera house, where '■ruder the Dome" was being given. As Manager Hasan started for the stage to advise the audience to withdraw quietly, some one rushed Into the gallery and an alarm. There was a rush for the doors, and several women fainted and were slightly injured. TERRIFIC TORNADO SWEEPS OKLAHOMA. Owing to the Thin Population of the Area Visited by the Storm the Damage Was Not Very Extensive CHICAGO. Jan. If>.— A special to the Chronicle from Guthrie, O. T.. says: A terrific tornado, accompanied by heavy rain and hail, passed across Pottawatto nxle County, near Maud post office, last ■g. Men from that part of the comi ty say that the path Of the storm was about half a mile wide and that timber was blown down and broken off so as, to almost completely block the roads. \ part oi the country over which the storm passed lias been almost di - by the families living there on account OI the Tndian scare. The tornado traveled in a northeasterly direction and passed over Into the a nole nation where, on account of the thin ly populated country, but little damage was done. Brazil Pleased With Bryan. BUENOS AYRES. Jan. If,.— The Her ald's correspondent in Rio Janeiro, Bra zil, says that the Government has de clared its pleasure at the appointment of Charles Page Bryan as United States Minister to Brazil. Illness of an Empress. BERLIN. Jan. 16.— The condition of the health of the Empress Augusta Victoria excites comment. She will go in the spring to some southern air cure. Her physicians still forbid her leaving her rooms. WEEK'S WORK IN CONGRESS The Annexationists Show Their Weakness by Further Delay. Senators Will Enter a Discus sion of the Immigra tion Bill. In the House There Is a Prospect of Considerable Argument on For eign Relations. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Jan. 16. The Hawaiian annexation treaty will this week again occupy the major por tion of the time o-f the Senate. It ap pears Improbable, however, that the treaty will be taken up on Monday. There is an unanimous agreement to vote on the immigration bill during the day. and it is altogether probable that this vote will be preceded by some dis cussion of the merits of the bill. The la at the measure are confident of its passage, but they are not very hope ful of getting it through without fur ther debate. Senator Wolcott has given notice of his intention to address the Senate on Monday, when he will make a report of the transactions of the recent interna tional bimetallic commission. Wolcott has never given extended public utter ance concerning the commission's work, and there is very general interest man ifested as to the course he may pur sue in his speech on Monday. When the Senate resumes considera tion of the Hawaiian treaty Senator Morgan will take the floor, and it is expected will consume at least another day in the presentation of his views in favor of annexation. He will be fol- I by Senators Pettigrew and White in opposition to the treaty and by other Senators for and against it. There is no hope that the discussion will be concluded during the week. A great many Senators wish to speak, and as long as the result of the vote is as uncertain as it is at present, neither side will be disposed to allow the vote to be taken. The Senate has agreed to vote on the confirmation of Attorney General Mc- Kenna as Associate Justice of the Su preme Court on next Friday, and the probabilities are that this vote will be preceded by some discussion as to Mr. McKenna's merits. The urgent deficiency appropriation bill will in all probability be reported on Monday, and there may be an effort to secure its consideration during the week. 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