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UKDAV MORNIXC;, MAliCIla;, 1887. VOLUME XXXV.-NUMliEUTS"' gto 'i? mill ?7 I'liurteellth HI rant, l^eiiusT Ci.ktki.ami, have yon heard initliiua"nn' Oartcr Harrison? nl,i.\Bii.iTita i-00,000 anil no asselta to l(*sk ol." Brooklyn muot bo an easy Jo business In. It iloisii'i n.HtUT why Archbishop lyni'li ?'K>lo ','8 '? k?ri' Ohurcblli. It mu a bonio thiust, unit everything hol|?. . 7,n 1,11X1 |inMi'U)torfl on Ihu wrecked (toim?r Hcotia ?i?y tlmnk their laoky iun fur mi escape which In almost a niirnnlo. Vain Undo John Sheriuun Is stirring tbiiiiis up. The politicians of the other ,:J, It'ftr that he may accelerate the tbretli'iii'il alampsde. 1) ik.ita. since she develooed her r.a pscity for Hoods, is not bo inviting a place o( residence hs before. Her boom will be a little otl /or a while. Cimu.ND, 11U votoafl. 'All other Presided, vetoed. Cleveland's ^reatnead la almost equal to that of all the otlior Presidents combined. Can the Democracy shako off ench a man 7 No census of the United States will be complete th?t dues not include the Americanjcolony in Canada. 8ome of our brighteat winds are resting there, and they continue to y.o. . ^ __ Whkn* the President was looking for a man to make Minister to Turkey he stumbled on orio who is little kuown in hia own city. Hut he wrote some Cleveland resolutions in 1884, and the President sees that the favored one's gratitude may take tbi) form of a Cleveland Biography. How is the Administration going to get along without tho moral support of that exemplary reformer, Eageno Higgins, upon whom Mr. Cleveland lias leaned as upon a staff? A job in the Baltimore jail ia a good thing for Mr. Higgina, but he is going to l)i on the wrong aide of the bars. To tho Hon. Carter Harrison, Mayor of Chicago: Dkau Sir:?You inav not ha &wnrn that! at divers times and ia Bundry places the Intelligencer h&s expresaod opinions of yoa that would not be /Uttering to your self esteem. The Intelligencer now deeirea to call in these utterances and to say that the stand yon havo taken does credit to oar common manhood. Your nice Bene? of honor go?s far to make amonds for your errors of administration, and stamps you aa superior to the men who are mak. tag life uucomfortable for you. Your ecathriog criticism of the National Ad' ministration for its interference in the local affairs of your city, displays at once courage and a nics appreciation of the fitneaj of things altogether. Your letter is refreshing aud stimulating. Accept, dear sir, assurances of the distinguished regard of The Intelligencer. liruut Memorial KxorcUeM, Milwaukee, Wis , March 25.?Commander in Ohief, Fairchild, of the G. A. R. has ie?aed a guneral order in relation to the memorial at Washington in honor of the late General U. S. Grant. Pursuant toje h mJiiuiiHin Hnupimi tu me maw nttuulliu jvu* campirient Commander Fairchild appointed a committee to bo known as the Grant Momorial Committee, consisting of one member from each department, of which committee the Commander in Chief will be chairman. Among the committee are: Maryland, W. E. W. Roes, Baltimore; New York, Ira M. Hedges, Ilaverstraw; Ohio, II. 15. Lloyd, Cincinnati; Pennsylvania, Robert D. Death, Philadelphia; Potomac, S. S. Burdett, Washington; Virginia, Edgar Allen, Richmond; West Virginia, "W. H. H. Flick, Martinshurg. He also . suggests that on tho 27th day of April next, which will he the sixty-fifth anniveraary of the birth of General Grant every post of the G. A. R. shall, at some convenient hour assemble and inviting their fellow citizens to meet with them ami hold h foaat of patriotism^ and thereupon solicit and receive contributions for the momorial. % Up lit a Treu. BtflMAitcK, Dak., March 25.?It has been learned that D. M. Kennedy, wife and three children aro held on Sibley Island by the flood, and for six days have been living on such food as they can save from tho flood. There is no hope of rescuing them until the tlood subsides, and their friends are dietracted. They can bo seen through field glasses occupying a nest built in limbs o( trees, over three miles from shore. Northern Pacific managers have abandoned hope of removing the gorge" by dvi natnite. and can not nav when thev will : bo able to ship freight acroBa the river. Passengers are being transferred by boat. A party of twelve, attempting to cross from Mandan in a boat Wednesday evenin?, were driven by wind and ice into a willow thicket and passed the night there, momentarily expecting death. They were reecued in the forenoon. Upper lllHNourl Floods. Dowdlk, Dak., March 25.?The last reports from the atago drivers irom La Grace and Lobcau to-day, Bay that a great deal of property has been loat daring the * last few days owing to the high waters of *the Missouri river. At Lebeau the people from the bottoms- were compelled to flee to the high blufla. Mr. Barthelolson was on tho roof of his Ijuilding albnight and was reecued tho next day. Mr. Kirtland Was drowned before he could reach high ground. Wilkina Sl Skinners' ranch, near LaGraco, is.under several ieot of wat8r. The Grand river ico broke up yesterday, and is now overflowing, and, it is expected when the gorge at Bismarck breaks the rivor will rlao several feet more. WASUINOTON NOTES. Washington, 1). 0., March 25.?The Commissioner of Pensions, in his weekly report to tho Secretary of the" Interior, Btatea that 1)87,187 applications are now before his oliUe for adjudication. Claims aro being tiled at the rate of 6,000 a week, anil the liual adjudication number about 2,500. Tho appropriation of $147,719 to Indemnify Chineao (subjects for losaea sustained at Hock fcSpritiKS, Wyo., has been placed to the credit ol the dishorning officer ol too Department ol Btato for payment to tho Chineao Aljniflter at Washington 94 the reprehentativo of the Chinese Rovernr inent. Senator Gollura a member ot tho elections sub-committee to investigate the alleged outragos in Texas says that he does not think the committee will be called together during the recess ol Congress, AVERY ROUGH VOYAG Til E HTKAM8III1* SCOT I Ground* In the Hand Nenr Fire Itlnnd \v Twelve Hundred ou Ilonrd?A NoMNa of Wild Cutifunloii Minclud with Many DeNiMtlrlug C'rltii. Brooklyn, March 25.?The triennial' Scotia o[ the Kb 11 re Une, that plica I twoen New York ami the Medlterranet wont anljore at lllno Point Station, llftp miles eaet ot Fire Iaiand lighthouse, di inn tho terrible Kale thin morning, tjhe took tliH beach with her lu-ai! but linally worked around broadside i in the frightfully high sea that was ru ning. An east-northeast hurricane was bio Ingat a velocity of 70 miles aa hoar, a: as eoon as the venae! became caught me ijim:iuanua uiu sea was cast in uil t rections about her by tho violent bur cane. The waves made a clean bree over her deck and when the vessel w discovered by the life savin# crow her t\ mania had been swept from their steppii by the angry seas. The vessel when she departed fro Marseilles, ou February 20, had on boa several hundred parceners. These, f the moat part, were ltaliau ernigran bouud to tbia country to aettlo in tl west. At Naples where eIio called h ft days afterward, there embarked 800 pt senders. These were from her sister shi the Benrunda, which was previously bui in the disastrous collision with tho Italii man-of'war Italia. These passengers swe ed the list to nearly 1,100. A few othe were taken on at Gibraltar, which poi she left on February 27th. The vesf experienced unusual severe weather ( tho nasaago across and much anxiety w felt lor the passengers on board. When the steamer encountered the lai the majority of passengers were restin With the firat shock aaveral hundred them rush'ed on deck, and a panic ensue The otlicora and crew wero powerlei When the waveB began breaking over tl decks tho womon shrieked and fell i their knees imploring help, while tl children clung to their garments cryii and screaming. The anguish of tl women in trying to protect the little on from the opray was pitiful to behold. Tl carrying away of the masts added to tl terror of the passengers, and they clutchi ono another as though they expected to 1 the next to be swept away. Tho vessel gradually settled in tho loo sand and at 10 o'clock, when she was lit discovered by the const guard, there was n more than a half doz9n feet of free boa left. Every sea inakoa a clear breach ov her decks, carrying everything movat overboard. When first discovered t! veaael was in the midat ol a very high a which was sweeping her /ore and aft. Ti high northeasterly winds which prevail prevented the life savers from making ai attempts at rescue. They tried eevei times, however, to fire the line by mea of mortar on Bhore, but each time the al was too low and the line fell wide of t mark.1 When they finally succeeded getting a line to the voaael it was of liti or 110 use, owing to the heavy sea. great crowd of people has assembled i the beach and are endeavoring by eve meanB in their power to a^aiat the lifti sa ing crew. It is believed that several the passengera have been swept ov< board by the waves. Tue Hcotia ia under the French flag a: hails from Marseilles. 8he;wan built Leitb, Scotland, November, 1871, and therefore comparatively new. She ia bi rigged and registered 2,492 gross toi There ia but little hope of saving the vi sel. Her agents in this city, James Elwell & Co., South street, have Bent t sistance to the veaael. The Scotia, wi her cargo, ia valued at from $500,000 $750,000. STOKY or Til 12 VOYAGE. A Ilough PrtHHi4j;e on the Ocenn-The Si furluB of Iuiinigruutii. Patcuoguk, L. L, March 25.?It wsb e ceedingly fortunate for the strand steamer Scotia now lying with lior nc deopintbe outer bar off the Blue Poi life saving station that tho high wind ai heavy sea which prevailed when she w run ashore subsided so opportunely tii morning, otherwise instead of being a condition, to Btill offer shelter and s commodation to the 1,200 sonls aboard her she would "probably be breaking u and her living freight, if all wero saved reach tho beach, would be exposed to t! merciless winds and with shorter ratio than have been their portion for twen days past. At daylieht when Capta Jones and the crew of life savt attempted to throw a line to t vessel, and later when an effort was ma to launch a life boat to reach hor the si rolled mountain high and tho wind bl< a hurricane. Within two hours a mod< ate breeze and quieter sea permitted t! launching of a boat and an approach the steamer. The vessel lies with h nose deep in the sand, headed northea Her appearance gives unmistakable ei denco of hard usage by the waves aud t absence 01 masts aud riggiog togeth with the general disorder of her de makes her aluiOHt a distressing objei while the poor foreigners crowded h decks gazing longingly amidat their e citement at the land so near .and yet far, created feelinga of commisaeration the hoortfl of the hundreds of men wl awarmed to the beach from all poir along the main land. Through a surfman who vialtod thoSc tia in tho life-boat and conversed withoj of tho steamer's crew who spoko little Ed liah, it was learned that the statements passenger .Farina, who succeeded in gi ting aahoro in the llrat boat which reach the vesael, theterribioBtorms experionc and the sufferings of the passengers wo not overdrawu. For nearly twenty da the steamer met a aeries of storms, t waves dashing.over the decks like hu: mouutaius and at tiinea threatening to e tirely submerge her. During most of t time it was necessarr to keop the po emigrants packed like sardines In tl steerage, where they wore subjected toi descritjable sufferings, being thrown fro side to aide, aa the vesael pitched, frc their berthB and sustaining more or le serious bruises or fraoturep of bodies ai limba. Sevoral men and wouwn haj} ari and legs broken, while the children a block from frequent contact with t. j aiats andbpams, The machinery of the steamer has bo of little uae for nearly a The f? of the vessel having run asHore with h head northeast, directly opposite to b proper couree, would indicate that she h been tossing about with but alight contr Captain BulTat behaved notyy, remaini almost continnoualy on the bridgo duri the week. Yesterday tho lead was thro< frequently and last night when the soui ings indicated proximity to the besch a i iw hi arm uui a yauog, wdiio (uo vu?; strained and tossed, he decided to bea her, and in order to keep her more atea he ordered the cutting of the mat When she struck tho beach and the t tuc,v awakening, tho thud of the aho wbb fell by all passengers. A ece of inexpreeaihle excitement prevail Women and children aoreaice.d and praj aloud, while stalwart men* *au e ahoating and gesticulating wildly. It V hardly tiayhroak when the veaael groui cd. and thojio oi> jjpijrd could not diat gulah the land ahead, and it wa$ not ui i the life saving crew reached the flhlp tl the Oaptain knew just where be w Captain Bishop, the Merritt wreck! E company's went, arrived on the beach about 0 o'clock and Immediately took charge of Having the vessel and made ready for tho tugs expected from New A York. After inspecting the voesel Captain Bishop said he thought she could be itn got oil' all right and her cargo saved. 8 K NATO It CAMDKX lu Waihlugtou-Wlmt lie TUInka of thu Hltuntluu. tyxckd Dkipatch to the IttitlUuwctr, ilp Washington, D. 0., March 25.?Senator )6. Camden arrived In Washington to-day. in, He was Boon by your roporter and asked en if there was any change in tbo situa* ir. tion with reference to the election > of a United States Senator, Ho 1 on Buid that ho had no doubt that on the Senatorial fight would be resumed. As to any change in the statue of the Legislature ho could not say. In speaking of the meetings that hnve been held by canty cus Detnocrata in some countiea condemna(l ing the action of the recalcitrants, Mr. j Camden said he could not predict what effect they would have, ss there wbb "a groat deal of stubbornness among the ri- bolters.', ch Thore is a vacancy in the judgeship of tho United States Court for tho District of Columbia. Among the numerous appliv0 canta for the place are Judges John Blair, Hoge and H. A. Hall, of West Virginia. It 1b a presidential appointment. rd JL Miner Killed. or Special Dltpalch to the JntelUyencer. its Piedmont, W. Va.( March 25.?Henry j ? Jones, aged 40 years, employed in the New l0. Atlantic minea, waa killed yestorday.mornP, ing by a fall of breast coal. Ho loaves a family of four children, his wife having }" died Bomo years ago. Uo waa a resident "* of Elk Garden, but had been working in 1n Penusylvauia aud roturned.to this region oulv a few days ago. HiB position in the iol Federation of Miners and Mine Laborers, )n of which he waa a member, waa a promiaB nent one. The remains will be taken to ^ Newburg, his former home, for burial. >g> laHauo AtiylMiii Mnttern. of Special Dltvnlch to the InlelUaeiicer. d' Wkston, March 25.?Up to this hour, 10:30 p. m., nothing can be learned from xn thfl nrnnnnilinda nf tho TM.oaU.^ I le at the Aaylutn. It is known, however, ag that they are working hard to forward tie their resolutions to the Governor by tho ea first train to-morrow. . I 10 ? , bo The Virginia State Debt. ad Richmond, Va., March 25.?At tho Dem- 1 1)0 ocratic caucus thia afternoon the following ] g0 reaolution was adopted: 1 at ' Vubreas, The Govornor has commnni- ' ot cated to the General Assembly that a rd council of foreign bondholdera proposed 1 er the appointment of a cotnmiasion on the I ,le part of the Stato of Virginia to confer with J tie a commia8ion to be appointed by them ' ea looking to a final settlement of the debt; ] tie there/ore, b*? ifc 1 ed lietolvcl ' y V nf Delegates, the 1 ay Sau^t o u-.at'nug, a j Ut cjoimittee conral sisling of three members of the Senate and ' ne livo of the House, be appointed, who shall m be charged with the duty, first of meetiug he with a commission from the council of ! in bondholdera, ascertaining what amount ; tie of bonds of Virginia are owned ! A or controlled by said conn- \ on cil of foreign bondholdera; eecond, ry to demonstrate to said commission the in- 1 ,y. ability of the people of the State to bear a J of greater burden of taxation; also to show 3j. what are the revenues and necessary ex- j pendituresof the government available ! ad for the payment of interest and point out 1 at to them that which addresses it to their is Interest aa well as to tho interest of the rig Stato. is. At to-night'a session of tho General Aa2B aembly the foregoing was introduced in E, both branched. In tho Senate tho paper is- was referred to the Finance Committee. 1 th In the House it waa adopted with only to six votea [Republicans] in the negative. AcnliiHt the Trunk Line Pool. Harrisburo, Pa., March 25.?The argnjf* ment in the trunk line and coal pool caaes _ began in court thia morning, the attendC(j ance of attorneya representing the various 1 corporations being quite largo. The 1 Attorney General called up the Dt caaes and presented evidence taken , id before an^ examiner by his predecessor, ] aa w. Uaeaiuy in the trunk line caaea. John ! ia Scott offered an affidavit from President ia Roberta, of the Pennsylvania Kailroad. iC. Mr. Olmstead offered affidavits from of Obauncey M. Depow, President of the , P) New York Central, John King, President , to of the Erie, Samuel Sloan, President of j lie the Delaware & Lackawanna Kailroad, , ns M. Adams, President of tho* New ty York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad ia Company, and others. These afiidaIra vita stated that the object of the , he trunk line coutract was to prevent secret je rates, unjust discrimination, etc, and had i irf been of groat benefit to the citizens of I Pennsylvania by producing steady and ; )r_ fair ratea for the through transportation, he thus enabling tho companiea to re- 1 to duco the ratea of . local traffic. 1 er They also show that since the I 3t. passage of the Iutor-State Commerce i ri. bill by Congress tho companiea had all < he withdrawn from tho trunk line pool to i er date from April 1st. Attorney General t ck Kirkpatrick then aaid in that view of that i ct, he would indefinitely postpone argu- i er ment in that caae, and proceed to the case i x- against the anthracito coal companies. I bo * ill AnarclilntH In tho Dump#, bo Chicago, March 25.?The condemned ^ Anarchists in the county jail have been \ 0. visibly depressed in spirits Bince the ar- , fie gumonta which wero made last week be- ; fnro tho Rnn?nma Honrf (r\r a rairoraal nf 1 of the verdict and the granting of a new 3t- trial. ed Representatives of tho party who were < ed in attendance during the proceeding have 1 ro been forced to admit that the arguments ya la behalf of the State were very Btrong, I be and those in behalf of the prisoners cor- : gtj respondingly weak, and that Leonard i m- Sweet, the special counsel from whom ho be much waa expected, failed to rise to the l or occasion. I * l n. NJ2WS IN 11 KIEF. m In a three weeks' rat hunt near Bowersim vilie, Grceno coaaly, 0., 10,843 rata and J m mice were killed. ? Alexander Dixon, Poatraaster of Falls yille, Newton county, Ark., is under ar- , jj0 rest for rifj ing registered letters. A school house floor at Utica, N. Y., < en K*ve way while a donation party was in ict progress, and a dozen persons wero se- i ier riously injured. ier Wm. Darlington, a braksman,waa blown aA tr l... 41 ?_.! hu ?vu> i,uu wuui a uuyuur ur iuo nuiu, ucih ol. New Madison, Ind. IJe fell betwoan tbo ng cara and waa killed. A compilation of veto xneaaagea Bhowa that Cleveland baa thus far 113 vetoea. ld" The total iqr a}l tlje preaidenta of the n(J United States except Cleveland ia 132. Thursday's wind atorma destroyed a brick dwelling in Bellevue, Ky., demolI* iflhed B. Qray'a foundry at .Jackson, 0., * andunroofod a number of buildings at k Gallipolis. ,ne Eugene Higgina, Appointment Clerk in 0d. the Treasury Department, who haa been fed largely advertiBed, intenda to retire from the service of the United States to be (U garden of the county jail at Baltimore, id- A 8uit of tho receiver of the Firat Nain lional Baiik of BoITaIo against tho Direcitil tore of the bank, in which'the receiver tjftt gepks to establish the liability of thp rDlaa. rectors for the bank's debts, haa been diaLng mis8edby United* States Judge Wheeler, TERRIBLE COLLISION ON TIIK VOUT WAYNK ItAILUOAD. A Freight Hnwtalic* Into it l'ftMenger Trnln; Home of the Incident* or Ilia Wri ck. Tlie Killed and Wounded?Accident Cmuted by u Letiklng Air lloie. PiTisuunan, March 25.?A Iri^titfa! occlilout occurred on tho l'"ort Wajno Iiall road Bhortly bsfore I o'clock this morning. It was attended with fatal results ind a number of passengers were injured, rho accldebt caused u panic amonK the passengers. Some of them had a moment's warning and almost miraculously escaped death by jumping from the train. The eastbound express No. 12, from Chicago, which is due in Pittsburgh at J;10 o'clock in the morning, reached Mem, 0., last night shortly after mid* aipht. The train loft the station a few nomouto later and had proceeded twoaud jne-half miles, whon Engineer William Beall noticed that the air brake hoae was leaking. Tho.train was running rapidly 3n a steep down grade that is soven miles long, extending from Salem to Leetonla, Ohio. Tho engineor reversed the englno ind succeeded in stopping tho train, lie alighted from his englno and crowded in between the tender and the smoking car to fasten the ends of the hose together again. As soon as the train had stopped n brakeman was hurriedly sent back to tiag 1 tho freight, which waa hack of tho express. ! Conductor Reed and the other braketnen stood on tho track keopiug a sharp look* f out for any approachiug train. They were suddenly horrifiod whon i they saw tho fourth section of the eaat- 1 bound freight train No. 70 round the curve and speed on towards the express. Conductor Reed had the presence of j inind to jump upon the express and cry ' to the poHsengera to hurry off that a train 1 was crashing into thom. One of the 1 brakemon at the samo time rushed ahead 1 to tlie englno of tho express and culled to ' Engineer Beall to coma from uuder the ungineor he would be killed. 1 TUK CKASII. ( ic wae 100 late 10 avoid a collision. The grade waa bo eteep that the freight train I lould no( be stopped. In another moment ' ,t had crashed with terrific force into the ! Pullman sleeping car. The freight locomotive crashed through the sides until it odged one-third of the way within the deeper. The force of the collision was so ?reat that the impetus given to the sleeping car caused it and the forward paeaen<er coach to telescope. The forward part Df the sleeper waa completely split open, the passenger car being wedged into it nearly to the center. There waa but a small space left in the sleoper between the locomotive and the forward coach. There were but three pa3aengers and i Conductor JohnT. Bingley on the sleeper. Had the car been filled with passengers the Iobs of life would have been frightful. Conductor Bingley waB Bitting on a lounge in the car when the accident occurred. One of the berths fell down and held him a prisoner until help came. VVh9n ho waa rescued it wari discovered that he had escaped death almost miraculously. Mr. J. 0. Hazletfc, another of the Pullman passengers, waa crushed under his berth, and when the debriB was cut away it was found that he waa bo badly.injured that he had to be carried from the car. Mr. P. Pedow and the other passengers were alBO imprisoned among the broken timbers, but escaped with alight bruiaes. Engineer William Beale received the warning too lato to crawl from nndor his engine. Whon the collision occurred he waa ground under the cars and fatally injured. He was placed on a car and sent towards his home in Allegheny. But before Rochestor, Pa., was reached he died. His home is at tbo corner of Juniata and Fulton streets, Allegheny, lie was fifty years or age ana leaves a lamily. j When the warning came from Conductor Iieed a panic ensued among the passengers, the majority of whom were women and childron. ( They rushed frantically to the forward part of tho coach. A number of them reached the platform and succeeded in ! jumping to tho ground before the collision ! occurred. By reaching the front of the J jar they escaped being killed. Mrs. Davis, ! of Pittsburgh, waa badly bruised. She ; was brought to tho city and taken to her borne at ifo. 30 Thirteenth street, South 1 Side. Several of the other passengers ' were also injured. j tiie victims. , The list of tho killed and wounded is aa i follows: Engiueer William Boall, of Allegheny, jo badly injured that he died when the train reached Rochester, Pa. He is 50 1 (rears of age and leaves a family. J. 0. ( Hazlett, who was in the sleeper, was bad- 1 ly injured about the breast and back. He was wedged in under hia berth. It is j [eared that he received internal injuries. , He waa taken to a hotel at Leetonia, 0. , Bee Hin, a Chinaman, was oeveroly cut , on tho head. John T. J3ingley, conductor < Df the Pullman car, was wedged in the \ drawing room department; waa bruised { about the head and had his lee and hand \ injured. He lives in Chicago, but was , brought to Pittsburgh. His injuries are not oerioua. Mrs. Davis, of Pittsburgh, was bruiued about the body and had her face cut. P. Pedow, of New Orleans, was slightly bruiBod. He was caught among , the debris in tho sleeper, but escaped atiri* auaj injury. Mrs. Louise Aden's threeyear-old child waa hurled upon a pile of \ rocks, but escaped with a number ol bruises and slight cuts. Mrs. Gray, of Minnesota, was slightly injured. l3ella Ooyne, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was cut about J the faco. After a delay of three hours a portion of , tho train was started for Pittsburgh. It reached the Union Station at 6 o'clock this morning. The passengers who had been in itho collision gave vivid descrip- , tionfl of their narrow escapes. j Mr. P. Pedow, of New Orleans, said that j there waa such a jamot broken timbers in j the car that every one in it had hard work to get out. He himself was held a prisoner until the broken berths were taken oil him. He then escaped in his stocking , feet. 1 Mrs. Louisa Eden, of Leadvillo, Col., said: "When I heard the conductor cry there is a wreck coming, I grasped my two i children and rushed out upon the platform. , Ju?fc an I cot there the crash o.nmn on/J r I 3aw a child and a woman thrown out , upon a pile of stones. My little child here j waa also picked up on a pile of stones, but ; waa not badly injured. If we had not : gotten out on the platform we would have been Hilled, I never before saw such a panip." , j Mrs. Gray, of Minnesota, hue ftve chiU j dren with her. She picked the two smaller , ones up'in her arms and ruahed oat upon , the platform. SJie waa slightly injured. , One of her children was lost for a tune, and it waa reported that tho child had boen killed. The mother was frautip unr , til tlje littlo one was Unally discovered uninjured. , Miss Delia Coyne, of Brooklyn, had a j narrow escape. When she jatriped from the train she fell to the ground. She was bo near tho wheels of the.car that a satchel she was carrying was ground to pieces. Sho lost all of her money, and was cut about the face. Memorial services to tho lato President Arthur will be held in the Assembly Chaipfoer at Albany, N. Y., April 20. A TKltlUULK C1UMK. A Mnn Attempt* to Murder Ills Wife nud Then Cotunilta Suicide, New York, March -o.?J anion llogan tried to kill his wife, Klizuboth, this mornlot;, and then committed aulcldo. 1I? undo an sttcck on bis wlfo with n hatchet, striking her in the bead and fracturing her skull, alter which be jumped out ot a third ntory window ol the house. The Oorotmr hog been notified to take Mrs. Horn's anto mortem statement. J amen Hogan wag the driver at a Knickerbocker leu wagon. Whnn he threw tumult out ot the window bin head waa smashed, and he died on the spot. The tenement, No. -'52 West Twelltb street, wag the scene ot tbo tragedy. Ilogan had been working tor the ice nnmnanw (r\r tioont* ? ,T~ J .? * I? VIII v j J UHIO Ul IUUIU. UO waa sober, hardworking and easy to get along with aa a rule, lie waa married to his wife fourteen years ago and they had bIx children, who had ail died. The loss of her last ohild proved on Mrs. Hogan's mind and it was unhinged at times, the neighbors say. One of her tits of desperation came on her [yesterday. Hogan had be*n drinking but not enough to etfcot him. He wft#, howover. irritablo and nervous at times, llis wife's depression appoared to have effected him and he stayed home all day yesterday. During the day the wife's Incessant mourning for her dead took a praying turn. She made h*r husband and the neighbors assist her in praying. llogau's^marriod Bister railed ket evening and found the pair still praying. When the neighbors wont to bad list night the couple were stUl muttering thoir prayers. This morning thpy heard a struggle in Hogan's room and the screams of the woman and tho sound of mutltad blowB, of chairs being upeot, of a window sash being violently slammed and a crash In the yard. This was when Hogan jumped from the window in tho back room, from which ho had jumped. Mrs. Hogan was found with her skull open. The walls and bedclothes and evon the ' soiling were spattered with blood. Hogan 1 had struck her on the head with a hatchat in a moment of insane exasperation, md believing ho had killed her had ! thrown himself from tho window- as the ! quickest way of ending his own life. Mrs. j Hogan said that she and her husband had ? quarrel, but about what she seemed to have forgotten. Ho had never J struck her before, but had always been 4a good husband to her. She was taken to the hospital where tho surgeons decided that she was in no im- 1 mediato danger of death, as it was found that her skull wuh nnt. on ?">" Srat ouppo^cd. She had throe deopcuts jn the top of tho head, bat neither has jplit the bone. She iB so weak from loss )f blood that it will be stranj;o if she relovers. She was not able to make any statement to the coroner about the trouble. A MORTAL WOUND [utileted Upon uu Aged Citizen of Portiu Mouth by a School ltoy. Portsmouth, Ohio., March 25.?A trag3dy occurred here to-day by which Beniamin Ball, a respected, aged and wealthy jilizou, will lose hia life. He ia the owner if f. number of small tenemont houses at ;he east of Tenth street. A high wind has jeon blowing all d*y. This afternoon the jhildren of some of the tenants were burnng eoinb rubbiah in the yard. Ball and lis eon, Charlea Ball, got into an alterca;ion with them over tho tire. During tho jnarrol the younger Ball addressed to Mrs. Williams, wife of a vault-digger, opprobrious names, and her son Charles, aged 'ourteen years, ran to the bouse, procurred i revolver, and threatened to shoot. The jlder Ball then chafed the boy into the 3OUB0, and during a ecufils received a nortal wound. The bullet, a thirty-two lalibre, entered below his right breast. Medical aid was summoned, the doctor jeing of the opinion that he will die be'ore morning. He ia seveuty-two years of ige, a man of powerful constitution. A few days ago hts residence was partially leslroyed. by .fire. The boy waa arrested ind ia now in the Station house. His lady ichool teacher, who has just visited him n his cell, says that lie was one of the brightest and best boys in her school. J Expititori UIh Crime. Memphis, March 25.?Amos Johnson, colored, aged 43, waa hanged tbia afternoon, at 2:15 o'clock at Marion, Critten- , ien county, Arkansas, for outraging a Utile white girl only 8 years old. The girl, 1 Margaret Arnold, had been left in bis ' iharge by its parents who were on a flat 3oat and he cared for her four years. Cho crime waa committed lost December, ind he waa convicted by a jury of hia )wn color. He confeeaed tbia forenoon uid made quite a lengthy harangue from . ;he scaffold. Fully 1,500 people, mostly ( colored, witneesod the execution. His j neck waa broken by the fall. Two Frightful (Jriuien, New York, March 25.?A frightful crime tvas committed by a Baloon-kesper at the jorner of Jefferson street and East Broad- j ray shortly after 10 o'clock this morning. Cho victim is a little girl and she suffered erribly at the hands of the brute. News )f the crime spread rapidly, and in a few ninuteathe place was thronged with an sxcited crowd who threatened to lynch ;he scoundrel. The reeerves of the Madi- , ion Street Station were summoned and i ire trying to got at the wretch who has , Darricaded himself in the cellar of his i jaloon. He was afterwards arrested. , Caused l>y Jenlouxy. Pittsuurgit, March 25,?A special from FoungBtown, 0., aaya that Ebenexer I standard, aged 25, shot and almost inatantly killed Miss Alice Hancock, aged 17, as ihe waa walking with his rival, "Walter : ?nox, last night. The murderer waa capered in a house on Mt. Olementa street ibis morning and placed in jail. He asked or a razor to cut bia throat. Standard, 1 [7ho is said to be weak minded had per* dated in paying court to Miss Hancock but ffas repudiated by her. A School Tuucliur Murdered. New York, March 25.?The body of a ivomau waa this morning found in the aaliway of a tenement houao. The woman ijad been outraged and then murdered, 3hn has been identified as Mies Louioa Llaldrick, a Brooklyn school teacher. ax nusumax's holdings, Prom Which ClnimautM to the Land Sank to Qiiktllliu. j Chicago, March 25.?A somewhat remarkable litigation is before Judge Blod:ett, intho U. 8. Circuit Court, to-day?an ijectment suit againei Patrick Flaherty, who since 1S55 has occupied a tract ol iwelve or thirteen acres of land lying on Doth sides of Blue Island avenue, near the river. The land is valued at $125,000. Prior to 1876' H. J. and A. 11. Walker had made claim tQ the land. Jn that year iboy sold their allegod interest to 0. H. and L. J. AlcOormick, who brought an Bjectmeni suit agaiust jjiaberty 111 the Circult Court, which was dismisaed when it ;ame to trial.? They then brought a forcib!o detainer suit in a Justice's Oonrt, which waa also dismissed. In one lorm Djr another the qlaim waa argued in tfro Circuit, Superior, Appellate and Chancery Courts, until it finally reached the Supreme Court, where Flaherty's title was sustained. The McCormick'o thon sold their interest to their'brother-in-law, Henry Day, of New York, who broughtsuit for ejectment in tho U. 8. Circuit Court, which was the case just pending. The jury returned a verdict against Flaherty. A new trial will bo had under the statutes. The coats and attorneys' feeq amount tq $10,000 as the oaseetandg,' AN EVENT IN ROME. CARDINAL UIUBONS IS 1IONOUED, lie U Invented With n Tttulnr Church, With nil the liniioiiliie l'oiup (Mid Certiuiotty the Cnthollo Church enn Cmnmuiul. A Couijilluieut tu nu Autorlcnu. Romb, Starch 26.?It was juit hull put 0 o'clock tills morning, tho da/ being tlio sacred least day ol the annunciation when Cardinal James Gibbons, arcblsbop of Baltimore, arrived at the iron gatea of tlio portico of tho Basilica of Santa Marie for tho purposr of formerly taking possession of it as hia titular church. Ho was arrayed in ills splendid robos of a Cardinal, wearing a white fur cape, crimson eilk rnantlo ?ad long train, When bo reached the door of tho church ho knelt upon a cushion placod upon a strip of carpet. The Canons belouging to the church and the Btudenta of the American college in Homo, wearing burplicop, were waiting for tho archbishop. Student Sticker, of Cincin* riati, Ohio, wan cross boarer, and the aco*1 lytes carrying candles were stadonta Do* herty, of Baltimore, Md., and Shea, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Bishops Kearie, of { Richmond, Va.f and Wattwaon, of OoJumbus, Ohio, wero with tho Ganone, waitiug. Student Keardon, of Baltimore, bore tho crucifix. Cardinal Gibbons when ho approached tho church waa accompanied by tho Rt. Ho v. J hon Ireland. Bishop of St. Paul,Minn. [\tid by Master of Ceremonies Marucci and othera. The Cardinal aftor kneeling kissed tho crucifir, which was presented to him by a Canon wearing a cape. Tho Cardinal then put on his beretta and so covered placed incense in tho thurible. He then again bared his head, took the isponum from the Canon who had pro* Eonted the crucifix and signed himself with the sign of the cross. Then replacing tho boretta he aaporged the peoplo present with holy water, alter which he again removed hiB baretta and waa thrice inconsed by the Canon, tho choir meanwhile singing "Ecco Sacerdos Magnus." After being thus incensed the procession moved to the altar followed by tho Cardinal who blessed tho peoplo as ho went. At the altar the bleBaed sacrament waa administered and all knolt for a abort time in prayer. The procession next wont to tho high altar. There tho Cardinal knelt and the Cauon recited tho paternoster and other prayera. In tho lapee a throne with white back and crimson canopy had boon placed, tho Cardinal llfiftfon hfmablf nn?K?*l..??n WO 1U1UIIC, 1 tho biahopa ami priesta in attendance being seated about him. The prothonitary,. Monsignor Pericole, thereupon read m Latin tho papal bull assigning the church Santa Marie in Iratleverc to Cardinal Gibbons as his titular church. This bull was a long document and recited at longth the nature of the assignment of the government custody and annexed privileges of the baailica. After the reading of the bull the canons went forward to the throne and all but the chief canon knelt and kissed the Cardinal's hand, the Cardinal rising to receive the chief canon for the kiBS of peace ad osculum pads. An address from tho canons to the Cardinal was then read in Latin by Canon Francesco Arduini. It was of great length. To this Cardinal Gibbons, remaining seated and wearing his berreia, replied in English. The Cardinal's voice waa strong and ringing. 12ach word he said was distinctly heard although he spoke under the disadvantage of being seated behind the altar. Hia voice roso towards the conclusion of hia address which waa pronounced magnificent. The choir now effectively rendered the Te Deum set to splendid music after which tho Cardinal went forward to the altar and papal indulgence of 100 days waa read in Latin. The Cardinal then bleesed the people assembled. The church was occupied large by Americans ana distinguished visitors to Rome during the investiture ceremoniea. REASONS FOlt "WHITING. Archbishop Lynch llelutes his Motives la Writing to Churchill. Toronto, Ont., March 25.?Archbishop Lynch waa found at hia beautiful residence yeaterday by a correspondent, who asked him what had been the particular cause for writing the letter addressed to Lord Randolph Churchill, published on Monday last, and which hrs caused so much excitement in Toronto and throughout the Dominion of Canada. ^ UI had been meditating such a letter for six months past," was the reply. "My own experience among the starving poor of Ireland, and the misery and poverty which encountered me on every side during my many visits there," wero what partially induced me to write it. Another reason iB that I firmly believe that the course England is pursuing toward Ireland would in case o? any trouble arising between the United States and England precipitato upon Canadian soil myriads of Irish-Americana who feel ag keenly this treatment as do their brethren in Ireland, "Each visit I have made to Ireland has brought to my eyes scenes of desolation and dire want more heartrending than I had aoen before.. I have heard the screams and lamentations of mothers at railroad stations, parting from their children, who are compelled to go to America for very lack of substance at home. I have seen young women of eighteen or nineteen /ears of age running in their bare feet to church, and I have since read constantly of evictions and coercive measures adopted by the British Government. I deemed it my duty as a prelate and a Christian man to express my convictions on these matters, and being acquainted witu Lord. Churchill, and knowing hi in to be a man | of talent and high principles, I selected him as the one to whom 1 should address my letter. Moreover, ho is married to an American wife, and I believe that the love of freedom and juatice with which phe |s imbued must certainly have anveffectupon I his conduct.". ^ucky cniuetie, St. Louis, March 35.?You Sing and Pock Sing, the two celestials implicated in the?inurder of Lou Johnson, a Ohineaoj detective who was brutally murdered in i this city two years ago, and for which two j Ohinamen have been convicted and two I more now under indictment were released to-day on their own recognizance., This action was taken by the court on the recommendation of the Circuit Court Attorney and others, because it is not believed that the men can be convicted, as the only witneea against them, Qaong Seng, who turned State's evidence ill the first trial has become a lunatic and can be of no further use as a witneea, and there is nothing to be gained by keeping the men in iail. Split Id the Ilunkn. New Orleans, March 25.?For some time there haa been trouble in the ranks of the laborera engaged in the handling of cotton in this city. The Cotton Men's Council split into tko Old Council and New Council. The trouble grows out of tho fight which was made on the independent cotton prosBeg, which prop'ose to reduce preee charges While paying regular wages. The New Council excluded pres3 owners i\nd other employers, while tho Qld Council al\o^ed auch employera as were alroady ropro* sented to remain in (he organisation. Yesterday tho trouble culminated in the strike of the Ifew Council, which stopped work at all bat two of the cotton pres ses in the city. Members of tlw opposition Council claim that the move Is In tho nature ol a boycott .iitainnt tho colored people, who are in the majority in the Old Council. They claim that they work at union rales and perform their duties faithfully. Between8,000and 0,000 worklogmen are directly interested in the result of the contest. AN EXPLANATION Of Pomlarly's Circulur?The Trvutiurer'a He nmrkt. Philadelphia, Pa,, March 25.?General Treaauror Frederick Turner, being quea* tionod to?day with rogaTd to Mr. Powder- i ly'a circular calling for a convention to meet at llarriaburg, said: "At the general hoadqnarters wo are constantly in receipt of communicationb from individuals interested in labor matters and from local and district assemblies i asking for information aa to tho meritB of 1 Bucli and auch bflla pending beforo tho I oimu livmomiuns mo general oiucoro, ol ) course, very aeldora know anything about tho bills iu question, not being on the 1 ground and not having any facilities for i investigation, even if tn?y uave the timo, and consequently groat neod has been felt ( for some systematic modo of procedure in theso affairs. It is highly important that the interests of labor should bo protected [ and watched over in the halls of legisla- } tion. 1 "It is proposed to hold tho convention [ at llarrisburg; its proceedings to extend 1 over say three or four days. It is merely a State arrangement, although thoro is no State organization of the Kuights of La- t borin Ponnsjrlvania. Delegates will go to B I tho convention from all the locul assemblies and district assemblies?one deleI gate, as 1 understand it, from each local assembly. There are at least 200 locals in this city alone and six district assemblies which will bo represented. As District Assembly No. 1 is the largest in the State, and the senior Assembly, tho duty o( taking the lead in the arrangement of the convention will probably devolve upon it." IN POLITICS. A IJrnnch of tlie KiiljjhtH of Labor for l'olltlcnl I'urpoHttH. St. Louis, March 25.?It was announced here this morning, as a fact not generally known, that the Knights of Labor have a branch organization known as tho Progressive Committee, composed of delegates from the Knights of Labor, but in a measure maintaining a separato existence, inasmuch as it has a general supervision of *.!.? 1? 1 *- * - m? nuuio uuujr, nuu in Boiueuraea caneu l j the Committee of Safety. fc 1 One peculiar feature of this committee's 1 I work is the handling of the political eiiaa- 2 jtion as it effects the Knights of Labor. It r meets in this city on Sunday morning of I each -week, and reviews the political and \ general situation. Whatever this body r decides upon is the .law for the succeed- I iug week and oil action on the political d field is under its immediate control and b general direction. s How many of the labor unions outside a of the Knights are represented in this e Committee of Safety is unknown outside t of the order. For eome time past the idea of bringing the trades and labor ] unions into this political committee has z been in the minds of the leaders of the 1 order. It was thought that if the trades r and labor unions could be induced to send e delegates it would greatly add to the pow- \ er of the Progressive Committee. Last r night was understood to be the time when j an effort would bo made to bring the mat- r ter to a crisis. If the delegates could be v brought to the point of Bonding in their y representatives from the consolidated organizations of the unions of the city, of course it would carry the members of all i unionB in a body to act politically according to the direction* of the Safety Committee, and a power would be placed in the f hands of tnis body that could be used for the furtherance of its ideas that would be A almost irresistible. n A meeting was held last night and it is a said that all the unions iu the city waB represented, but no definite information 8' has yet transpired. It is admitted, how- t! ever, that important business was trans- b acted, and while it is not known that any a n/llitinol nnlirtrt !l ' . fibkiuu noo mivoii| ll B00I11B OVl" 1 dent that the matter waa discussed and f that Borae preliminary move in the direc- ^ lion indicated was made. t UltOOKIA'N 1'AlLUItl!. J I An Cxtonalvo Agricultural Implement Con- C cern GoeM Under. 1 | Nkwyohk, March 25.?The EdmiotonA j Waddell Company, of Brooklyn, manu- ] j facturera ol agricultural implements, has ? failed, with liabilities of ',.$200,000 and no J I assets to apeak of. The preaidentof tho fi company, John H. Edmiaton, has akipped t to Canada, and the other oilicora cannot I bo found. Everything haa vanished. Tho jj walls, tho ceiling and the floor only re- t main at the offices of the company in 1 Brooklyn. The stock lias been gobbled by . i tho largest creditor, whose agent was * shrewd enough to aave everything poesi- ] bio from tho wreck. The hooka are out r of eight. The business of the company is t I largely held by four New York banks, and c held very cheap. The creditors?poor fel- p lows?find the air chilly, very chilly. The story of the failure of tho E liniston n \& Waddell Company is tho old ono, with 2 a few varieties. There were the two part- 1; ners whose natneB appear in tho firm 2 1 name, and the father-in-law of Mr. Edimiaton, who actcd as hoad bookkeeper, i 1 had some stock, was a trustee and put his c uuuie 10 noiea. jjor tneae privileges he i has paid his fortune, $40,000, and returned t to Rockwell, 111. The partners were ener- f getic, handled all the goods they could get out of the manufactnrerfl, were visionary, r perhaps, and saw big things. They sold i to tho email country dealers and directly i tq tho farmers. They gave long time and \ took notes in payment. The ilrm would r pay for goods in notes and.discount them r at the banks, putting up 'other paper as r collateral. Collections were slow, they > got. pinched again and again, and some } chargod that they were driven to make e false statements of liabilities and assets to c get further credit. About three months ARO they were tightly cramped. They i stated their case to their creditors, and s were given an extension of time. The Emerson & Fisher Company, of Cin- 3 cinnati, 0., manufacturers of carriages, n &c.f has a bill of about $28,000 egainst the g firm. President 12draiaton offered to show v them the books and stouk, and said that fc if that was not satisfactory to assign the bnfjineea to them and rufa it as their agent till the debt was paid. The Cincinnati company sent on Mr. Ritchie three weeks f ago to take caro of the matter. He is a e shrewd, sharp business man, and saw at c once that only the shell of the business remained. He had some tolling interviews, c got the stock in trade transferred to his t company and proceeded to save wreckage. \ He sold what he could, shipped other stock to Cincinnati and pretty much can- ( celed the indobtness. < Ihe two partners, Messrs. Edmiaton and i Waddell, had a month" before boeun to i clear the decks. They had broken bp 1 their homes whore they tiftd lived in a < modest, fitting way. aut extravagantly, | and sent their tamiliea away. Now, an- ] tieipatiug eometliiof; would Urdp with i force, they a bo went av,-ay, ami have aim- I ptyvamehed. , The American Ejehatieo Ii.mk and tho i iiftnk 01 Coinmorca hold a good deal o{ the paper, on whiqh they hope to realJza something, and other banka have eotne i !i?^?Their l0Bflea w511 be hardly leaa than : $10,000 to $15,000 apiece. A RED HOT LETTER PltOM MAYOlt CAUTKU llAllUISON Declining a ltcnomination AVhloh win Offered Ulm on a {Silver Sulver-llo Head* Iho lllot Act to the I'artjr nml thu Federal Administration an Well# Oiiicaoo, March 1!5.?Mayor Carter H, Harrison has again declined tho Democratic nomination for Mayor ot Chicago, and thin timo declares that hlo decision is llnal, Ho Bout ont a notlco to thu Democratic city central committee tor a special meeting this afternoon, when ho read a printed letter outlining hta purpose, and the reasons which actuated him In this course, lie openly declares tlmt ho has ijeenopposod by tho representatives ot ,ho administration at Washington, and jas also been cliargod with treachery to a political friend, and for thoso reasons he till not bo a candidate: The letter read to tho committee, alter uplaining that ho had previously written lutta* ^nnlnvJr... 1 ' ? , Uw.uu?g kitoi. uu wouui not run or Mayor, and bud alao oxpreased this ntention to the convention, ho Btatea that le was carried away by tho enthnBiasra of he moment and decided to accept. Ilia ettor then readsaa follows: haiuhson's letter. Gentlemen:?For yeara I have boon nade the target "Jor endless abuoo aud lander. This I huvo homo with comparaivo equanimity because my personal inogrlty and honor was never attacked, bat iow I find tho press almost unanimous in ts assertion that I havo betrayed a friend ,nd broken my word, and this friend does lot como forward to deny the falao attention. This situation is unbearable, luch a charge involvos a retlectlon upon ay personal character, and life is too hort to undertake to correct and explain nattora involving oue'a honor. Not a lewepaper in Chicago is willing to set mo, ight. There is but one thing left for mo o do. I cannot afford to bo elected Mayor inder such circumstances. Knowing woll ho consequences of tho action IJnow take, ,nd that it forever debars mo from fntuio >olitical honors I mnBt^poaitively and irovocably withdraw my name from the lead of your ticket. Tho ticket muBt in any evont be reoodeled, for I have in my possession the leclinatlon of Mr. McAvery, and this acton of mine may enable you to harmonize he party. The contidontial adviser in 3hicsgo of the President of tho United States, has taken the public position that Bhould bo defeated in the interest of the National Administration. Tho th*m> lewspapere which are the organs of the President in Chicago, have attacked mo uolently since my nomination and urged oy defeat. This convinces me that the .'resident of the United States does not lesire mo to be elected. I therefore repectfully suggest that you call into conultation with you the gentlemen who % ,re known to be advisers here of tho Fedral Administration, and nominate a icket which will command their support." The charge of treachory made in tho etter baa reference to Mr. Dewitt 0. Croier. formor City Superintendent of Pubic Works, and who was urged for tho loraination upon the theoiry that Harrion would not accept another nomination. iVhat course the Democratic party will low pursue is not stated. Some of th? tarty men declare that Harrison cannot eeign and will have to make the race, rhile others intimato that a now man rill be named. BUSINESS llAUOMETEIt. 'lio Condition of Trnilo?Tlie Event* of the 1'HHt Week. New York, March 25.?R. G. Dun & Jo., in their weekly trade review, say ipril is close at hand and some anxiety is ' lanifoated as to tho money market as is sual at this sea9on. Banks have been ending large amounts to the interior hrough.deposits at the treasury and isues of silver certificates elsewhere, .nd thcro has also beoa a heavy demand or Philadelphia exchange, so that a urther decline in reserves is expected. VcBtorn and Southern demand for money iaa been intonaitied by a desire to ship >roducts before the Inter-State ratea nto eiTect. Though the demands at OJiilagoarereporteddiminishing,rates are Ga8 >er cent. All circumatancea make it commratively eaay for tho operator to proluce tight money if he pleases. Tho ureaaury has taken in $1,700,000 more ;old than it haa paid out during the paat veok, but haa added $3,000,000 to the outtar.ding Rilver certiflcatea and put out ome legal tenders also. Tho reduction of he ratea by tho Bank of England and tho .bunuanco of money'there continued to tase this market as does the later foreign rade, the exportB from New York lor hreo weeks being IS per cent larger than aat year, with imports 7J per cent larger. The February ollicial report shows an ncreaao of $2,800,000 in exporta over laBt 'ear, the araouut being the largeat since 883, but tho imports were the largest on ecord for many years in February, and he excess of imports waa $-1,214,357, gold of ports ior the month exceeding < the im>ortB by $1,533,780. Railroad buaiuesa haa been large. Shipments from tho chief oaatern citiea wero 114,100 tons in February againet 134.980 aflt vear. hilt pnn?V?n*i*irJ ? " " Maun^g ?tta 50 tons against 850,245 tons last year. The temporary activity in March does lot indicate a larger bueinees after a hange of rates, however, nor is the bnildng of 010 mileB of road against 200 to late last year, a safe indication .to the uture, lleporta regarding the iron bnsinoas aro lot favorable, imports evidently having a lepreBBing effect. It would not be strange I a reaction should noon begin. The rise vhicb bsgan in 1871 lasted a month; the iao which began in 1878 lasted sixteen nonths; the rise which began in 18&5, has iow lasted about eighteen months. The roluine of legitimate business is largo and ocreasing, as exchanges and tonnage how', but epeculation in moat markets is lead. Business failures for the laat seven days lumber for the United States 218, for Canda 41, total 259 against 220 laat week and !21 for the corresponding week last year. Che caaualtles this week are considerably ibove the average in the Southern States ;nd in Canada. In New York city there vere 10 failures, in the New England itatoo 31, and in the Middle States 40, A Vwrllaltlo Hero, Chicago,March 25.?Fire destroyed four rame dwellings in the village of Horinoa, on the St. Paul road, just outsido the itv limits, at a late hour last night. Three of the structures wereowneu and iccupied by railroad employes, who loat iverything they owned. The fourth wad moccnpied. John McEnery, a aeolion boss of the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Tanl U?llwuw! iwoke to tind, hia house in lUmea and hia araiiy noarly euffocated. Seining hio tfiio, who waaalck, ha Jonght hia way oat, out could not roaoh hia twoohildren, who were rapidly being approached by the (lamed. John Murphy, who lives noar by, wh<J[ was awakened by the flaraea, arrived in time to make hia way through a oodrooin wiudow and passed the children 3Ut He naved himaell and gave thft alarm lo the occupanta ol the adjoining houses. The total loss ia $8,000, v;ith no insurance. TheJelTeraon ?ifa dopartment arrived alter all wa^ over. No water waa to be had, ' ' . . s