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THE CAPE GIRARDEAU DEMOCRAT. BEX II. ADAMS, Publisher. CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1891. VOL. XV.-NO. 45. a IMGELMANN. ATTORNEY AT LAW AND CITY RECORDER OBoe at nor on Harmon Strwt, CAPK OIRARDEAU. MO. & & HARRIS, Physician and Surgeon Ofllm In irar of Trlelc'T'. t)m Store, ocmn f IiKlppf-nilrtnr. and Kpanlsb Street. Cap Cirardoau. IHTHneci.il atMnlloa flrea U urerj and U.miki of Femalaa, r H. A. ASTHOLZ. aoratarr Building and Lou AaiOflfatloa. NOTARY PUBLIC. Havrratarr 8outneatTn Mrtrtot Acrlcat- Do Tour Insurance Business In a rooipany whons reeord In th. pan a a tuaraote. for to. future. Inaui In Ifca HOME, OF NEW TORE. LEO DOYLB, Agent, To a North Main Street, Cap GlranMaa. favour!, apia. N. WICIITERICII, f Gape Girardeau, - Ma Agent for tk following Reliable Companies : 1 TrankliB Mutual, of PL I,nula. Citizens' Insurance Company, St Lou It. spnntjfleli Insurance Company, Spring Mid. Mil These ar 'hrer of thf txMttand stoat retfaoTw ompaniea In Uic country, dec.. CONRAD KEMPE, Daalar In DRY GOODS . AND GROCERIES, New roods received weekly. Groceries al war frwh. Horn comer of Fountain and Harmony Street a. dot.. CHRIST. KRUECER, BUTCHER. Shop on Main street, one door aontb of tha PrescoH House. AH kinl of Kresh Moats ami Sanaa? al irayti on hand. Delivery wugon run ever to om lit it. I July 4. K D. EXGELMANN, Dealer In AND- GROCERIES. No. MW Harmony Street, CAPE GIRARDEAU, MISSOURI. F. W. VOGT, Dealcra In Independence Stroo Cape Girardeau, - Mo. Entire new atonk. the latest Improved and best Conking and Hnaifnjr retire In the mar ket. All kind of Job Work done In the beat manner and at moderate prtoca. ROOFING AND CUTTERINC A apooutltf and work a-uarantced flrgt-claaa. ADOLPH jJlST, Mechanical and Burflcal oea all kinds of work Id tali Una, and guar ant ail work done. Office at residence, eorner Harmony and torlmier Street. EDW.S. LILLY Daalen la HARDWAEE, Iron and Steel, ipnM Implements, Etc., Etc. Areata of th. HAZARD POWDER COMPANY. Dealan (applied at Wbot.nl. Prtooa. 8T and 39 Main Street, CAPE OIRARPBAU. lift RIDER J WICHTERICH, DRUGGISTS ! North Main Strret. A toll and oomploHl Una at Drag. Ptnt Medlctnei, Perfumery, Toilet Article Stationery, Hottons, Ete, MiUinery, Dry Ms A St. Lotis Justice ha decided that a young woman is hound to return the gift of a rejected lover. TlAi.r a dozen New York ladies cart a handsome living hy holding conversa tion classes and giving private lesson in that art. Sixty tiiocsanii workmen of Switzer land do embroidery. They are paid about 10,000,000 annually, and their machines are worth 94.000,000. Thk most reasonable answer to tho question: 'Where did yon gv that hat?" would he "from Danhury, there were over 6, 100.000 hats made in the little Connecticut town last year. A Boston publisher savs that he still Bells thirty thousand copies a year of I ncje I om s i a bin. Several seasons agr he pot out a special edition of the book and sold sixty thousand copies of it. A him. is now leforc the New York legislature to authorize a charter for Greater New York which will take in Brooklyn, St ate n Inland and all the suburban towns near the city which are in the Mate. The freemason who succeeds I General Albert Pike an the highest dignitary of the order in this country is .lames Cun ningham Itatchelor. M. D., of New Or leans, lieutenant grand commander of the grand consistory of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite in the southerr jurisdiction. Mr. E. I). K. N. Soi'Tii worth, the novelist, is still writing, though over seventy-five years of age. As to her full name, which is Kmina Dorothy Eliza Ncvitte Southworth, she says: "When I was born my people were too poor to give anything else, so they gave me all those names." A JtoVKi.TY in the washing machine line has just been invented. It is con nected with a child's swing, anil after the soiled garments, with the proper quantity of soap shavings, have been put in the tub, a child is placed in the swing, which is set in motion, and moves automat ical ly . and turns the washing machine. Hf.NRV M. Staxi.kv intimate: that circumstances may arise which will make necessary his return to Africa. For his one hundred lectures Stanley received S 110. 000. and Maj. Pond says the average gross receipts were S"2,7so. He isendeaving to arrange with the explorer for another course of one hun dretl lectures in America, beginning in October. A cabi.koram of over thirteen hun dred words, which passed through New York from Lima to London one night recently, over the lines of the Western I'nion Company, cost a pretty penny to transmit, the rate lieing over two dol lars a word. This would represent an outlay of over twenty-six hundred dol lars, and is probably the largest toll paid by an individual or company out side of newspaper corporations. AnorT two miles alove Parkersburg, W. Va., the site of a large prehistoric village has leen found ami many relics unearthed. The village covers (our acres Itordering on the Ohio river. The entire area presents the appearance of having lieen at one time closely packed with people. The earth is furrowed in many places, and is intermixed with fragments of pottery. Iioncsof animals, such as deer, bear, etc, with many utensils ami ornaments of stone, lione and shells. Thk bureau of American republics reports that the official returns from Brazil indicate a great commercial ac tivity in the new republic. During the year 1M0 corporations were organized with capital as follows: January, 611.720: February, ?101.040.000; March, 8l.OSO.GO0; April, 811.fiIfi.00U; May. ITJH.OOO; .June, SO.flso.000; July, $77,440. 000; August, STiH.os0.0O0: Septemlier, S1i5.40.000; October, S1HS.7fi0.000; No vember. $:;s.720.000; December, $19, WHI.OOO total, S4 .Ol4.7iO. A. N. Lotkwikw. president of an ac cident association in New York, says that since the accident companies offered an indemnity of !i,50 for the loss of a hand or a foot there has lecn a great increase in the number of acci dents in the left hand; so many, in deed, that it was found that people were maiming themselves to get the insurance. Finally the companies were forced to offer a less sum for the left hand than for the right, since which time there has been a decrease of SO per cent in this variety of accidents. Evkrvonk may not know that the Ilanlfcof England notes are made from new white linen cuttings never from anything that has lieen worn. So carefully is the paper prepared that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each workman is registered on a dial by machinery, and the sheets are counted and booked to each person through whose hands they pass. They are made at Laverstroke. in Hampshire, and are printed within the building, there being an elaborate arrangement for making them so that each note of the same denomination shall differ in some particular from the others. Thk astronomers tell us in their stel lar predictions for April that Venus is making her way toward the sun and rises less than two hours before the son appears above the eastern horizon. As she travels toward superior con junction, she at the same time recedes fmm the earth, her semi-diameter nat urally decreases, and with it her bril liancy. She has been fair to see for many weeks, and although she will not lay aside her starry crown for some lit tle time to come her rival, Jupiter, is gaining rapidly upon her. and will fair ly outshine her before her course as a morning star has been fully run. Thk bulk of P. 5 Barnnm's proper ty ($5,000,000) went to Karnum Seeley, his only grandson. Harnum paid taxes on about 51,000,000 worth of real estate in his home city, Bridgeport, Conn. When he had by the accumulation of wealth passed all question of financial trouble, he used what his foresight had secured to him for the benefit of the poor people of Bridgeport. He estab lished the system of building houses and selling them to the working people on long payment, and hundreds of the pretty residences now owned by the working class in that city were se cured through Mr. Barnum's generosity. The wife of Senator Stanford, of Cal ifornia, receives a large begging mail, among which the other day was a letter from a Texan gentleman who wanted fifty dollars to get a new set of teeth It was a clear case of gam faine. Epitome of the Week. INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION. FROM WASHINGTON. Thk 100th anniversary celebration of the establishment of the American pat ent system was ttcgun in Washington, a large numler of inventors participa ting. I.N Washington Charles K. Kincaid, the newspaper correspondent on trial for the shooting of ex-llepresentative Taulliee, of Kentucky, in February, WW, was acquitted. Assistant Swrktarv SrAi-i.iux; has faccided that a Chinese laundryman is a laborer, and that the proprietor of a laundry is also a laborer within the meaning of the Chinese exclusion act. Thk business failures in the I'nited S'.ates during the seven days ended on the imh numbered against ZA'l the preceding week and iO0 for the corre spMiding week last year. Is Washington a national association of inventors was organized, with Dr. Itatling as president. Heti rns to the department of agri culture for April show that Hie condi tion of the growing wheat crop through out the entire country is the best since 1SHJ. Thk president has appointed ex-Congressman AlonzoCrotinse, of Nebraska, third assistant secretary of the treas ury. Thk exchanges at the leading clearing-houses in the I'nited States (luring the week ended on the 11th aggregated 1.0T!,t.fi.i:;:s. against 5slfi.siii.si the -.w.L Au iy.mnt.nMl with lira ,.....'..-. ...... I " ' - corresponding week of 1MM the decrease amounted to 0.4. I Thk report that the Italian govern-1 ment would immediately suspend all j diplomatic relations with this eountry unless a satisfactory reply to the last ' eominunieation of the government was immediately made by Secretary Blaine rvas eon firmed. THE EAST. Thk lecture tour of Henry M. Stan ley in the I'nited States is over. He said in New York that the total numlter of miles he had traveled in all his ex ploration of Africa was ti.VooJ. and that lie had leaten the record by over iOOO miles on his leeture journey. At Lancaster. Pa.. N. Byres A: To., IninU-r dealers, have failed for ?!h).ihmi. Thckk Hungarians who were in the laltor riot at ilraddoek. Pa., last New Year's day. in which Michael (Juinn wits killed, were convicted of murder and sentenced to lie hanged. Thk death of Russell Erret. who took un active part in the formation of the republiean party and served three terms in congress, occurred at his home in Pittsburgh, Pa., aged 74 years. Aktkr serving nearly forty years as a missionary in foreign lands. Iter. I 11. (itilich died at Springfield. Mass. At Lancaster. Pa., Harry Kauffman committed suicide by taking arsenic. His brother died in the same manner ten d:tys before. They had agreed to die together. A national temperance congress is to be held August is and 10 in the audi torium of the National Prohibition park at Staten Island, N. Y. on the loth the New York Tribune was fifty years old and the event was fittingly celebrated by a jubilee at the Metrojtolitan opera house. In the Pittsburgh district -V,: brotherhood carpenters have decidd to strike for eight hours a day on May I. Tin: sister and friends of Anna Diek erson indignantly denied the pub lished story that the distinguished woman had Itcen sent to the insane asylum through jealousy and that she was not insane. P. T. Uarm m's funeral took place at Bridgeport, Conn., on the 10th. rtiisi ness in that city was generally sus pended. Bai noarunkr. Eiikrman Co., eal and hi in Iter dealers at Lancaster. Pa., failed for Moo.000. Foi r Italians were lioat-riding on Miller's river at Change. Mass., when they were swept over the dam and drowned. Thk recalled Italian minister. Baron Fava. departed from New York for Italy. At Washington, Pa., three sons of Thomas Munco found an empty glycer ine can and began throwing stoni at it The can exphided. blowing the boys to pieces. WEST AND SOUTH. Fh:k nearly destroyed the town of Tobias. Neb. An engineer, fireman and brakeman were pinioned under the engine and fatally scalded in a wreck on the Wis consin Central railroad near Vernon, Wis. A cyclone visited Nevada. Mo., and houses were unroofed, wires prostrated and havoc played in all directions. One person was killed. Thk ileath of William Wallace, post master of Indianapolis, Ind., occurred at the age of fitf years. Ho was a son of the late (iov. David Wallace, brother of lien. Lew Wallace, and was Presi dent Harrison's Hirst law partner. At Huron. S. D., Fred Hundley, 18 years of age, was sentenced to four teen years in the penitentiary for shoot ing his father over a quarrel in putting down a carpet last summer. In .leffersonville, Ind.. .lames Cow ard and his mother quarreled. She struck him with a stone, when he shot and killed her. In Chicago the second annual election of the World's Colombian exposition was held and a ticket composed of thirty-one old and sixteen new directors was elected1. While insane Mrs. Andrew Doll, of Herman. Neb., killed her two children and committed suicide by taking a dose of concentrated lye. After an absence of twenty-two years. Rue Westerville, of Windfall, Ind., has returned home, having made a fortune in business in a western town. A fire in the village of Cheviot. O., destroyed property covering nearly an acre of ground. The supreme court of Indiana has de cided that where candidates for public office receive an equal number of votes the election may be determined by the drawing of lots. Flames destroyed the cotton sheds at Memphis, Tenn., causing a lot of Stt.1,000. Thk name of the city of Spokane Falls, Wash., has been changed to Spo kane. At Martinsville. Ind., Mrs. John Oli ver committed suicide by hanging her self because her granddaughter had dis graced the family. Fire destroyed Peoples A Shields1 livery tables at Mandan, N. P., and thirteen horses were cremated. While smoking boys set fire to the stock yards near Cincinnati and prop erty rained at $&0,00O was destroyed. Firk destroyed the Occidental hotel In San Francisco and P. II. Hoy, a prom inent citizen, was burned to death. In a collision on the Chicago, Hock Island fc Pacific railroad near Me al link in, la., seven persons were injured. Haw mix Nklkon and ('entry Butler were hanged at Sumter, S. C, for the murder of ( apt. John Maxey in Janua ry last In Louisville a bag containing 51,000 in silver was stolen from an express wagon at the Water street station. At Decatur Horace Clark, of Mattoon, III., was elected commander of the (iranil Army of the Republic for the de partment of Illinois. At Waukesha, Wis., Christian Iriese, aged 7." years, and his wife, aged 72 years, were found murdered in their home. A luiiR took William Boles, who killed a policeman at Kenton. O., on March from the jail at that place and hanged him. At Savannah. Oa., John II. Kincle, admitted to the bar. is the first negro allowed to practice in that state. Ix the American baseball association the percentages of the chilis for the weekended on the llth were: Louis ville. .WW: St Louis, .firtfi; Baltimore, .500: Boston. .MM): Athletic, .500; Wash ington. .500: Cincinnati. Columbus, AifVlcKs from the southern I'te agency in Colorado were to the effect that the Indians had lost nearly all their stock by recent snowstorms. The snow covered the ground to the depth of 4 feet, and horses and cattle by the thousands starved to death. Thk constitutional convention of Kentucky completed the constitution to lie offered and adjourned after being in session in Ijouisville 100 days. In James Hitchcock, of Masi. Mich., was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment He has lieen found innocent by the death lied confession of a witnessat the trial. iNatimlHV camp near Reno, Ark., two men were fatally shot and one killed during a quarrel. M askkd men broke into the jail at Sealand. Wash., ami shot to death John Rose and John Edwards, who were convicted of the murder of Hans Fredrrickbon and his wife altout a year ag. At Osage City. Kan., John Carroll, a coal miner, committed suicide by plating a dynamite cartridge in his mouth and lighting the fuse with a match. The explosion blew off his head. William and Mary Johnson, two children, were chased into the Arkan sas river by a vicious cow near Ponca, I. T-, and lnith were drowned. A Mob took Alex Fottte, a negro who murdered J. J. Meadows at Bluefield. W. Va.. from the jail and lynched him. At Waukeska, Wis., Mr. anil Mrs. Christian Preiiss, aged s:t and 71 years respectively, were suffocated by coal gas at their home. A rich discovery of gold ore in the Black Hills has created considerable excitement in that region. A fiiik which started in a dime mu seum on West Madison street in Chi cago caused a loss of Ssoo.OOfl. One life was lost and several persons were injured. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. At Petrol ia. Ont.. Bradley's nitro glycerine works blew up. and three workmen were blown to fragments. At Mannosa, Out, one of the richest gold mines ever found in the dominion has lieen discovered. Levi Brothers, dealers in oriental wares in London, have failed for $4-;.vooo. In Honduras rich gold mines have leen discovered. Mr. Par.nki.l denies the report of his alleged marriage to Miss O'Shea. Fori: elections of mcmliersof the leg islature of Prince Edward's Is' and took place, and in every case the Ulierals were successful. In the island of Jamaica, a depen dency of l.rcat ICritain, the inhabitants were calling on their government to give them reciprocity with the I'nited States. A I'owpkr magazine adjoining the sultan's palace at Zanzibar exploded and thirteen persons were killed and twenty wounded. LATER. Thk London Times expresses the be lief that the Newfoundland delegates will be permitted to present their ap peal at the bar of the house of commons but that it is hardly probable that they will lie able to change the intentions of the government with respect to the al leged grievances in connection with the I'nited States. There is no apparent uneasiness in Washington official circles over the at titude of the Italian premier, the gen eral impression lieing that his threats against the I'nited States are entirely for "home consumption and for polit ical effect Pool-Seller A. M. Fisher, of New York, was sentenced, on the 13th, to three months imprisonment and 1.000 fine. The police captains were in structed by the superintendents to close tip the pool rooms on account of this decision. The decision in the famous lottery suit at New Orleans was not read, on the Kith, greatly to the disappointment of a court-room full of lawyers who had assembled to hear it The court does not read again until the 27th. The president has respited (ieorge S. Key, Perry Jones and Edward Smith, the colored men who were concerned in the Navassa island murders and were sentenced to lie hanged at Baltimore, Md., May 15, until June 19. Frank Deno and John Solak were probably fatally hurt by an explosion in the Americus mine at Blackhawk, Col., on the KUh. The shock was felt all over the city and the shaft house was shattered to pieces. TnE supreme court, on the 13th, de cided the cases of Seeberger, collector at Chicago, against Farwell & Co. and others, and Magone, collector at New York, against Edward Luckemyer, in favor of the defendants. The grip has caused an extraordi nary mortality among old people in West Virginia recently. From Green brier county alone are reported the deaths of five women each over 91 years old. The New York presbytery met, on the 13th, and appointed a committee to investigate the charges of heresy against Rev. Dr. Chas. Briggs, of the Union theological seminary. CorST Lewenhauit. who was mar ried to a daughter of ex-Secretary Bay ard ten days before, died in Wilming ton, Del., on the 13th. It is thought in Berlin that Germany will be very slow to redeem her prom ise to remove the restrictions from Amarican pork. MISSOURI STATE NEWS. Star Flnsnr. Fnder an order of the honse of repre sentatives ol the Thirty-sixth general assembly of Missouri, made just liefore adjournment, the clerk of the house committee on appropriations was or dered to compile and have printed a de tailed summary of all appropriations made during the past session, together with the funds from which they are payable, and add thereto an estimate of receipts into the state treasury during the years lsfli-ii, and send to the mem bers of the legislature. This work could not be completed until all the bills con taining appropriations of money for any purpose were examined and acted on by the governor. The statement has now been prepared, turned over to the public printer, and will be mailed to members as soon as the proofs are corrected and It can lie printed. The statement will show estimated receipts from all sources during isoi-y-j of $7,!t49,4..:j:s. This is a conservative estimate, and floes not include any esti mate for taxes from foreign corpora tions, under the late law. nor for in creased revenues from railroad taxation. It is considered more than probable that some ?:too.000 more will lie paid in to the state treasury. The appropriations foot up in gross, $7.r.41.S75.:iH. Of this sum total ?4.55fi, 707. SO are payable out of the state rev enue fund. Out of the state interest and sinking funds ftJ,:wi.ls7.50are appropri ated, and of thisamount SL07.MH7.50 go to pay interest upon the londcd debt and I,i5O.O00 for the purchase of bonds and reduction of the ltonded debt. Deducting from the appropriation payable out of the revenue fund the amounts appropriated for extraordinary purposes are: support of common schools 91.4oo.ono no -t)nrncif in former year K'.'u I? World.' Fiilrt-xhititi 1.MI..M, W Lincoln Institute Inilnt rial School (which will be refunded by the fniieil Mate r..ono w Total rl,iVrl,H 7 fi There is left for the net ordinary ap propriations for the support of the state government, Si,siil.i40.ti. Tin Thirty-fifth general assembly made appropriations for the net ordi nary expenses for Ihso-w of .i.!70.47S, exceeding thise made by the last gen eral assembly in the sum of ?7,5:J7.74. A .MiMHtnri Zlne IMaroverjr. A. L. Carpenter, of Kansas City, for many years connected with the Sander son Stage Co., which was a "star" route between Kansas City ami Santa Fe, was in St. Louis a few days ago. Mr. Carpenter is full of reminiscences, has had a large experience, and varied1, among the Indians, and is an expert in the mining industry, from prospecting to running an "arasta," or superin tending a stamp mill. Mr. Carpenter was just in from a prospecting tour throughout southwest Missouri. "The liirgest mineral iliscovery of the age," said he, "has been made at Seneca. Mi. Heretofore a little village, part ly in Missouri and on the Quapaw Reser vation. I. T.. the place is liound to become a great mining center. An inexhaustible supply, or deposit of 'black jack or zinc ore has been discov ered there. It is a true fissure or hori zontal vein, the extent of which can not be estimated. Heretofore a Unit Jop 1 In. Webb City. Cartersville. in Law rence county, and at Galena. Kas.. and on Short creek zinc has lieen found in pickcts. The new discovery is some thing novel in the zinc business, and sets the geologist and mineralogist to cndtreling their brains to account fo? the deposits. Aged 104 Yearn. Emily Baxton, colored, wlnse age was 104 years, and who had resided in St Joseph since 1S44. died the other day. As near as can lie ascertained she was liorn in the I7S7, in Florida. She was the slave of the late Gen. James Craig. She retained all of her facul ties until the last For the past thirty years she had. been unable to do any work, although she could get around until a year ago. Through the kind ness of Gen. Craig she was made quite wealthy at the close of the war. but lost her property soon after through in ability to pay taxes. Since 1H70 she has lieen a charge on the city and her colored friends, who regarded her as a person possessed of supernatural powers. Ilnw Atkinson l.nc III VYhinker. At St. Joseph Mrs. Fannie Kendall ?nused the arrest of F. M. Atkinson, claiming that he was her husband, who had deserted her in Novemlier last, and that the name Atkinson was assumed. Atkinson, when arrested was living with his wife, whom he married three years ago. Mrs. Kendall, however, pos itively identified him as her husband, but said that her husband w.re no beard at the time he left her. The offi cers caused the man's Ward to lie re moved, whereupon Mrs. Kendall dis covered that she had been mistaken. Atkinson was released from jail, and Mrs. Kendall was taken with a fit of hysteria, which threatened dangerous results. Ntarved Hi Cat t Its Walter Martin, a farmer near Leeds a suburb of Kansas City, was arrested the other day on the charge of allowing sixteen head of cattle to starve todeath. The humane officer who made the arrest found their carcasses on the ground, shrunken and emaciated. In the barn was a horse dying of starvation. The officer shot it Martin says he left home hoping to raise money to keep his fam ily from starving. Death of an Old Steamboat Captain. Capt Chas. K. Baker, one of the oldest Missouri river steam boat men. died at Kansas City. He had been identified with the river for fifty years. They All Want It. The supreme court will soon be called upon to elect a clerk. There are twenty-eight candidates and the scramble promises to be interesting. A Otrl Fatallv Bnrnetl. Lulu Aibietz. 10 years old. was fatally burned at her home in St Iouis by her clothing catching fire while she was lighting a fire in a stove. Canned by an Accident J. W. D. Hall, one of the most promi nent business men of St Joseph, was accidentally shot in the left foot neces sitating amputation. Determined to Die. Pusley Davis a young man who took an ounce of laudanum about two weeks ago at St Joseph, died the other day. lie refused to eat Wanted for Embezzlement. John W. Hamilton was arrested by Sedalia officers at Smithtown. He is wanted In Kansas City for embezzle meat A FEAST OF FLAME. The Bleceat Fire In rhiraffo Sine the Great CAUnaffration John M. Smyth M Co'a 4ireM Furniture Hon and Kohl a) Midriletoa Wnt Kid Masram Among the rroertr Dmtroyed Th Lom KtU mated at Nenrlv Two Million Dollara A 1'ante In the l lurnn. Chic a on, April 13. One of the fierc est and most disastrous fires the Chicago department has fought in many years swept through west Madison street yesterday afternoon. The big Smytha building that extends from I'nion half way to Hal. stead street was ilestroyed, and with it the jon tents of John M. S my the & Co.s furniture house, the largest retail establishment in the world. All that is left of Kohl Jt Mid dleton's West Side dime museum is a heap of bricks and charred timbers. On the north side of Madison street from I'nion street to the Hay market theatre block, five buildings were destroyed. Three of them tumbled down liefore the maelstrom of fire, and at one time the roof and a portion of the front of the theater building was burning so fiercely that every body thought it would share the fate of its ncighlsirs but the firemen managed to save the structure. though in a seriously damaged condition. The total loss is estimated at between SI.500.000 and $"..000.000. John M. Smythe fc Co. alone will lose nearly SfiOO.000. An extraordinary feature of the conflagration was the lack of fatalities One man, Alexander Grant had his leg broken and his skull fractured hy falling from the supporting beam of an electric light in front of the museum. A fireman was injured by a flying piece of mortar, and two or three spectators who got under the danger lines were hurt, but none of them so seriously that they were unable to go home unaided. The fire originated in the wagon sheds of John M. Smythe A Co., directly in the rear of the museum. Five hundred persons were in the lower hall of the museum when the flames burst out in the rear of the stage. Some one in the audience saw the smoke creeping out through the scenes and the alarm was given. A rush was made for the doors, and those who sat nearest the stage were panie itricken. Half of the audience was composed of women and ?hildren. and they occupied the seats in frent The flames caught hold of the light inflammable scenery, and won made short work of it Smoke tilled the hall while the people were struggling to get out, and tongues of flames leaped from one side of the nar row stage to the other. Many of the women fainted or were overcome by the smoke and had to be carried out. By this time Smythe fc CCs big building clear down to union street was ablaze. The flames ran through the in flammable stock like a whirlwind, bursting through the roof anil the front windows and leaping clear across the street until they touched the buildings there. The northwest corner of Madison and I'nion streets occupied by Alfred Peats as a wall paper house, was the next to catch fire. The three-story structure next door, the lower floor of which was occupied by Barr Bros as a hat store. was slow.ycrumhling under the influence of the heat. The other buildings includ ing the comparatively new one of six stories which was known as La Barge's Recess clear to the east line of the Haymarket. were on fire. Men and women were tumbling through the open :loorsand running for theirlives Some of them barely escapeiL Nearly 1.000 persons were assembled in the Haymarket theater waiting for the last act of the performance, but they were dismissed at once through the alley way leading to I'nion street in good order and without the slightest evidence of a panic. All the streets approaching the fire were filled with people, and so dense did the crowds get that they heca me nearly unmanageable and it required a third of the entire po lice force to keep those who were "near est the building from rushing headlong into places where their lives would not have lieen worth a moment's purchase. Every engine that could lie placed within ft00 feet of the fire was called out and put at work. Pipe men were distributed all over the neighborhood in the alleys and streets on house tops and even in the threat ened buildings where they were held in readiness to fight the fire the moment it appeared. Fresh relays of men wero sent down the fiery gauntlet in Madi son street, where, despite the heat and the wavering walls which rocked and tottered above their heads they poured water into the burning build ings in torrents They stayed there until Inspector Shay ordered them to retreat and as they slowly retired the museum front went down with a terrible roar when the interior of the building collapsed. This was but the begining of the disintegration. The entire front of Smythe's town mar ket tottered and finally tottered and finally toppled over into the street, landing in an immense heap upon the very spot from which the firemen had so recently retreated. An Apaehe l'prilnn Feared. Santa Fe, N. M April 12. Advices from southeastern Arizona to the New Mexican state that the whole mountain Apaches are very uneasy and it is feared that they will go on the war path. They are having much trouble among themselves there being some shooting or cutting scrapes almost daily. Arrival or the Snrvlvor of the rtopla Dia aater In w York. New York, April 13. The Italian immigrants saved from the wreck of tha Ftopia, who were brought to this city, were landed at the barge office yester day. Many of them mourned the loss of some friend or relative, and in some in stances one member of a whole family was all there was left Of one family of eight only the father and one son reached here mother, brother and four children having been lost One sad case was that of a little Italian boy about 9 years old, who was all alone, his parents having been drowned. The Building of Torpedo Boat No. May be Don In a avy Yard. Washington, April 13. It is believed m naval circles that it will be finally decided to build torpedo boat No. 3 in the navy yards There ia talk of in creasing the size of the gun from 1 12 to 135 tons and having the vessel built in the Norfolk navy yard. Bids will prob ably be solicited again by the depart ment, but it is not believed that any contractor would bid within the limit of the appropriation for the larger boat and failing to get any such bid the sec retary could, under the law. have tha work dens in a Davy yard. ITALY'S LATEST DEMAND trill Not Alter the Cant loo and Dlmt lied Conrav of Onr fiovernmrnt Tho w Dipat h Scarcely Credited ia Of ficial Quarter. Washington, April 13. The dispatch from Rome yesterday stating that ia the event of the Italian government not receiving a reply to its last communica tion to the American st ite department with regard to the New Orleans mas sacre by April 14, the minister of the I'nited States Mr. A. G. Porter, will be requested to withdraw from the country, was shown to the president yesterday afternoon. He declined to say anything on the subject remarking that anything on this subject must come from Secretary Blaine. Subse quently the president walked over to Secretary Blaine's house and remained with him for some time. Mr. Blaine is unwell and could not be seen, liie im pression in diplomatic circles is that the dispatch is not correct in assigning a date for I'nited States Minister Porter's departure from Rome. A dispatch from Rome Friday gave Mr. Porter only twenty-four hours to remain unless the 1'nited States gov ernment responded to Italy's last note. Minister Porter is kept fully advised of the progress being made hy the I'nited States in its investigation of the New Orleans affair. No report has been re ceived by the department of justice from the l'n.ed States district attorney at New Orleans of the result of his investi gation, but the attorney - general is kept advised as to what progress he is making. Until the matter is fully sifted it is not thought that any threats from Rome will cause this government to act in any other than a cant urns and dignified manner. Mr. Blaine was seen last night in re gard to the Rome dispatch, but said he had nothing to say in regard to it GEN. JACKSON'S NIECE. Mrs. DaTldAon. a Meet of Old Hickory la Needy flrcumtan-e A XMt to th White II oufte Cordially Keeelved by tha Prenident and lut In the Way of Seeur ing m lenlon. Washington, April 12. An elderly lady. Mrs. Colonel Davidson, called at the White house yesterday morningand met the president Mrs Davidson claims to lie a niece of Gen. Jackson, and remarked to Col. Dinsmore that she had not entered the Whi'e house before since she was a girl, back in the 80s. She stated that she was in medy circumstances and had traveled all the way from Oregon City upon charity contributions Her destination is Nor folk, Va., her old home. The president shook her cordially by the hand, and gave instructions to have transportation provided for her to Nor folk. Her husband was an officer in the Mexican war. and Col. Dinsmore inquired if she drew a pension. She saiil she did not, and did not know how to apply for one. The kind-hearted colonel then escorted her to an at torney's office, and an application was speedily prepared. During the recent floods in Oregon Mrs. Davidson's only son was drowned, and her property, amounting to some thousands was de stroyed. A RICH HAUL. STeral Thoaand Italian Worth of tioml Keeovered from m Fenee llouaeat Denver. Col. Dknvkr, Col., April 12. Late Friday night the police of this city raided a dwelling house on the corner of Thirty first street and Maryland avenue, hav ing cause to think that soniethr.ig' very crooked was going on therein. They were richly rewarded, for in the el'ar was found a large assortment of stolen property of every conceivable descrip tion from a church organ down to a whitewash brush. Three persons we'e found in the house and arrested Thi-y are supposed ti belong to an organize d gang of hold-ups sneak thieves afl house-breakers which has Wen oper ating here for some time. The organ found was stolen from a church in Har mon, a suburb of Denver. A fifty-gallon barrel of molasses was found buried six feet deep in the cellar. The value of the goods recovered aggregates scl eral thousand dollars. THE TREASURERSHIP. K. II. Xeheeker. of Indiana, for l'nite'1 State Treanrer. Washington, April li 1'nited States Treasurer Huston and Mr. E. H. Ne liecker arrived here yesterday after noon on the same train from Indian apolis Nr. Nchecker went at oncetT the executive manshm. and subse quently Mr. Neleeker. accompanied b Private Secretary Halford. called oft Secretary Foster at the treasury de partment Mr. Nelieeker also had a conference with Assistant Secretary Whelpley alxuit the business of thu treasurer's office. Mr. Huston, by invitation, dined witb the president at ft o'clock last evening. The general understanding is that Mr. Nelieeker has lieen offered and has ar ceptcd the position of I'nited States treasurer and that the announcement will be officially made to-morrow. The Otdet I'nited Statra Judge on IIa Death lied. Saw Franwco, April IX United States District Jwgc Hoffman, who is on hisdeathlied, was appointed in is."t. He was the first United States judge upon the Pacific coast, and there is no other judge in the nation who has been on the ltench forty years the next longest judicial term being that of Judge Win. J. Allen, judgeof the south ern district of Illinois who was ap oointed April 18, 1855. Off on Her Trip Around the World. London, April 12. The steamer Em press of Japan, of the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. 'ft new line of steamships which is to connect with that railroad and ply between Vancouver, B. C, and Japan, left Liverpool at 1 o'clock yester day afternoon on her trip around the world, which she will complete before going into regular service. Every cabin was taken. An opportunity will be afforded the passengers who sail from Liverpool of visiting the ruins of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius. The Em press of China, will leave Liverpool about June 15. , Demand for Reeonveyaneo of Land to tha I'nited State. Washington, April 13. Secretary No ble Saturday instructed the commis sioner of the general land office to make a demand upon the Dubuque A Pa cific railroad for the reconveyance to the United States of all lands held to have been excepted from its grant of May 15, 1856. The lands in question lie within the state of Iowa and along tha line of the road between Pubuque and Sioux City. They are declared to have been excepted from the grant by reason of existing preemption filings at tha data of the definite location of tit road THE TREASURY. Tha Resignation of I'nited Slate Treaaor er Hutoa Aeeepted by tho rmidral and Knoa H. ebeeker. of Indiana, Ap pointed na Hla Soeeeaaor W bat tha Chance of Ofllcvrs will Involve. Washington, April 14. The presi dent has accepted the resignation of Mr J. N. Huston as treasurer of the United States The following is tho coiTespondence: Tkeam'kt or TnE CNintn state. WASUINoToN, Feb. 24. K'L ( To the Prtaidmt: Ma 1 would respectfully tender my re iff nation as treasurer of the United States, to tuke effect when it may be convenient to name iny neceor. AeknowleilKimr niy d-ep ene of frratttn!e to you for kind nea received at your band. 1 remain truly your. J. N. Hcston. Treasurer of the I'nited State. ExEerrrvE Mansion, I Wamiixc.tox. . c. April 1J, 1M. Hon. J. X. Iturtom: Si a I have delayed ac tion on your letter of February 21 tendering your resignation of the office of treasurer of the I'nited States for reasons known t you. now yield to your request to be relieved from the duties of your nrtlee and accept your resifrnation, to take rffert upon tha ap pointment and qualrdearton of yonr suc cessor. I rcfm-t that your personal affairs compel yon to this step, and bex to assure you of my sincere regard and best wishes. Very sincerely yours. It ESI. llAKEISON. Tho .Vw Tmumrer Appointed. Wasiiinotox, April 14. The presi dent yesterday afternoon appointed Enos H. Nelieeker. of Indiana, treas urer of the United States to succeed J. N. Huston, of Indiana, whose resigna tion will take effect upon the qualifica tion of his successor. Mr. Nebeckef left for Indiana on the 6::J0 train yes terday afternoon. It will be aliout ten days before Mr. Nelieeker qualifies. He will have to give a bond of ? 150, 000, upon taking the oath of oflice, and again when he is confirmed by the sen ate he will have to give a new bond for a like amount. When he assumes charge of the office all the money in the United States treasury will have to be counted. A committee consisting of three ersons one representing the out going treasurer, one representing tho in-coming treasurer and one represent ing the secretary of the treasury, will superintend the count of the money. After the currency is counted tho heavy work liegins that of weighing the coin. This is done by the commit tee with the help of altout twelve la lwrers who place the coiu. which is in great bags upon the scales. It will take altout two months to complete this work. There arc now 4.500 ton weight of coin in the treasury to be counted. Approximately there are now in the vaults $tilH,370,000. Until the count is completed and the money found correct the bond of Treasurer Huston is not released. STATE INDEBTEDNESS. Amonnl which the Several States nro I'nand to Owe the (irneral 4.ovrrnmnt for Overdraft of Arm Kte., nnd which Comptroller Mathews Wants Withheld In raying- tho Direct Taa Refund. Washington. April 14. First Comp troller A. C.Matthews of the treasury department has recommended to Sec retary Foster that the following amounts Is? withheld from tho amounts due the several states on ac count of the direct teix: California, 8, 110; Georgia, 94.229; Illinois $t7.S07; Massachusetts f.Tstt; Michigan, $i,ftxt; Minnesota, S5.321:New Hampshire. S, 754; Oregon. $2,472; Rhode Island. !!, !.": Vermont. S54:i.7so; Virginia. So.4ur; Wisconsin. 95.201; New Mexico. 95,507; Washington.l,ys"; District of Columbia .20.354. The amounts are charged on the books of the department as against the states named for arms etc. overdrawn by them under section 10I, Revised Statutes prior to February 12. 1SS7. Other indebtedness of states to the general government may lie found on the tnks of the treasury, and other departments are being examined very carefully in order to discover any bal ance states may owe the general gov ernment In the cases specified it may be found that the amounts can not lo legally held as an offset to the govern ment refunding the direct tax to tho states but the amounts named will lie held until the question can lie legally de term i ncd. ON THE GRAND TOUR. The Trenident nnd Tarty Leave Washing ton and Start on tho (.rand Tour of tho South and Wet. Washington. April 14. President Harrison left Washington on his south ern ami western trip last night at ten minutes past 12 o'clock. The other memWrs of the party who will live for the next thirty days in the sumptuously fitted Pul man cars that comprise the presidential train, are: Mrs Harrison, Mrs Dimmiek. Mrs McKee, Mr. and Mrs Russell Harrison, Secretary Rusk, who will go as far as El Paso, Tex.; Postmaster-General Wanairaker. Dan iel M. Ramsdell. marshal of the District of Columbia; E. F. Tibbott executive clerk; George W. Boyd.assistant general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania railroad, who will have charge of tho party during the entire trip: Mrs. Boyd, R. V. hi 1 ah an. of the United Press; A. L. Clarke, of the Associated IVess and O. P. Austin, of the Press News associ ation; Col. James I Taylor, general passenger agent of Richmond & Ihtn villc system, and S. II. II art! wick, of tho Georgia Pacific division of the same road. Maj. A. P. Sanger of the army will accompany the party, through the courtesy of Secretary Proctor, as a per sonal aide to the president Secretary Proctor ami a numlier of other promi nent officials were at the depot ami waited to see the train and excursion ists depart slter rhoeh Making Her Protest Plainly Felt. Chicago. April 14. Miss Phrbe Con li ens' trouble with the board of lady managers has stirred up much uneasi ness among the members of the na tional commission. President Palmer has heard of the trouble down in Flor ida, and is now arranging by telegraph for a meeting of the board of control to be held next Thursday or Friday. The board, at its last meeting, adjourned until April 27, but the little tiff in the ladies' board is deemed of enough im portance to hasten the meeting a week or more. A Daring Robbery. Stack. N. Y., April 14. A daring robbery was committed In Haverstraw Sunday night The thief entered tho jewelry store of E. P. Vandenberg through the front door, and in doing so started the burglar alarm. Ho rushed in and carried off over 9500 worth of silver watches The proprie tor appeared on the scene just as the burglar was making a hasty retreat, but not one of the shots fired at the re treating robber touched him. Tho night watchman across the street also fired twice at the man, but he was do$ injured and made bis escape.