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2 A BIG VOTE FOR THE GRANT FAMILY EXPECTED TO-DAY D. S. and Jesse Will Divide the Honors of the Senatorial Ballot. GROVE L. JOHNSON'S BLUFF FALLS FLAT Even Burns Men Attach No Importance to the Wild Talk of the Election of the Mexican Next Wednesday. There Will Be No Extra Session. CALL HEADQUARTERS. SACRA MENTO. March s.— There is talk to night that Jesse D. Grant will get a block of Democratic votes to-morrow. The scheme to vote for Jesse was hatched early in the session and for several days it was whispered as a profound secret that nearly all of the Democrats would line up for him, and in the end make a strong pull to get supporters of his brother, U. S. Grant, to join them. The plan was not dcc"mcd practical, as many members doubted whether Jesse D. Grant was a resident of California. However, the Grant fam ily will poll a bigger vote than usual to-morrow if the plans agreed upon to night are not changed before the con vention assembles. The supporters of U. S. Grant are as firm to-night as they have been at any time since the balloting began. Indeed, the claim is advanced that Grant is in position to call into his camp three or four new voter*, but is not inclined to bring them in at this time, as a small gain would not give him a decided ad vantage and he does not care to take any step at this time unless he takes a decisive one. The political Filipinos of the Burns corral axe casting wistful glances at the Grant column. The only explana tion that can be given of Johnson's remark that Burns would be chosen Senator next Wednesday is based on ihe hopes of those in the corral that some of the Grant men will come out and "vindicate" the "Colonel." Judge Dibble, who is supposed to possess and enjoy the confidence of Colonel Burns, cannot give any explanation of John son's prediction and does not seem to attach any importance to the state ment. Doubtless it was made as a bluff to brace up the despondent touts. Burns continues to hold daily confer ences over the wire with his niastei, Herrin, of the railroad company. The long distance conversations take place at Colonel "Wright's office, in the rail road depot in this city. Herrin, in the yvllCW building at San Francisco, is daily advised as to the course of events in the Legislature. There has been raw work before in California politics, but this discounts NATIVES IN AMBUSH FIRE ON AMERICANS Continued from First Page. Bllvela the hearty support of the Lib eral party on all national and dynastic questions. The programme of Senor Silvela includes protection to industry, commerce and agriculture; thorough reform in municipal and provincial ad ministration; sweeping army reforms; the formation of a really efficient navy, with a fortification of the coasts and general financial reorganization. The Premier has already invited presidents of chambers of commerce to concert with the Government in the necessary measures. GERMANY SEEKS A GOOD UNDERSTANDING BERLIN, March s.— lt is taken here that the Kaiser's appointment of Pr nco Henry to command ihe cruiser squad ron and the publication of the with drawal of Admiral yon Dieflrich from the Philippines is his Majesty's per sonal expression of a desire to con tribute the last link in the chain of a good understanding, whirti he, as much as Baron yon Bulow, considers it is necessary should exist between, the United States and Germany. His Majesty is well aware of Admiral yon Diedrich's overzealousness. Following the same policy of concili ation, the question of grievances of American insurance companies will be reheard,, and probably the petroleum difference will be adjusted to place the American oil on an equal footing with Russian. BERLIN, March 6.— A dispatch from Manila announces that the American authorities there have undertaken the protection of German interests, and that the cruiser Kaiserin Augusta has left Manila Bay. HAILS AMERICA'S ADVENT AS A NEW POWER LONDON, March s.— ln the introduc tion of his new history of British India, to be published to-morrow, Sir William Wilson Hunter, former member of the Indian Legislative Council and former president of the Indian Education Com mission, referring to the advent of the United States as a colonizing power, says: "America starts upon her career of Asiatic rule with an amplitude of re sources and a sense of moral responsi bility which no previous state of Chris tendom brought to the work. In her splendid and difficult task she will be trammeled by no Portuguese inquisi tion of the sixteenth century, nor by the slave colonization of Holland In the seventeenth, nor by the cynical rule for gain of the rulers which, for a time, darkened the British acquisition of In dia in the eighteenth. "The United States, in the govern ment of their dependencies, will repre sent the political conscience of the nineteenth century. I hail their advent ail previous performances in the polit ical arena. It has come to this pass, that a man aspiring to the high office of United States Senator, to represent the people of California and asking the support of the Ilepublican members of the Legislature, daily seeks his instruc tions, n4* from the people or the repre sentatives of the people, but from the chief counsel of the Southern Pacific Kailroad. The best judges of the Senatorial sit uation to-nipht predict that the Legis lature will adjourn a week from next Saturday. There is a belief that the Burns touts will from this time on fight to prevent the- choice of a Sen ator. So far as Burns is concerned, the handwriting is on the -.sail. Ho cannot get a caucus, and without a cau cus there is not the slightest chance of his flection. It is extremely doubtful if he could succeed with a caucus, but as the majority of the Republicans in the Legislature decided in the confer ence that the party did not want a caucus that settled the question. There is some gossip concerning ad journment next Saturday, but the Speaker of the Assembly and leading Senators figure that the session must be prolonged another week. That view is also expressed by Judge Dibble, who is well advised as to the business on hand and the length of time requ^-°d to close up everything essential. It is a settled fact that Governor Gage will not call an extra session of the Legis lature, no matter what happens. Aft^r the arrival of the trains from Pan Francisco to-night there was con siderable talk ahout adjournment at an earlier date than March IR. A de termined effort may be made to-morrow to fix an early time. Among the touts i the threat is constantly made: "Burns !cr no Senator." The supporters of Barnes, Grant and Scott are fully de termined that Burns shall not be elected, and before the session ends They may resolve to elect a Senator despite the command of Burns to the Cf ntrary. "*Vhc n thn railroad paper here paradM the Purns address as an ultimatum the members of the Legislature who do not take orders from Herrin accepted the reference as a threat of the corpora tion that no Senator should be chosen. The old fight between the people and the lallroad corporation seems to be on again. as a new power for good, not alone for the island races coming under their care, but also in that great settlement of European spheres of influence in Asia which, if we could see aright, form the world problem of our day." SOLDIER'S LIFE IS SAVED BY A WOMAN Wagon-Load of Human Freight Top ples Over a Ten-Foot Em bankment. SAUSALITO, March s.— Two fractious mules came near being responsiule for some of Uncle Sam's men losing their lives on the road between here and Fort Baker this afternoon. The post wagon was overturned and .rolled down a ten foot embankment, severely injuring Pri vate James Foley and Mrs. 'Williams, the wife of Ordnance Sergeant Williams, and bruising several others badly. Eight soldiers, including Mrs. Williams and her husband, were on their way to the post. They met a team opposite the powder magazine, a mile from town. They • took the outer side, when a check broke and the mules became unmanageable. The wagon and team rolled over twice be fore they reached the bottom of the em bankment.' Foley's head was caught un der the wagon box and would have been crushed if Mrs. Williams' shoulder had not sustained the weight of the wagon. Foley was badly cut and bruised, Mrs. ! Williams' shoulder was bruised and her left ankle sprained, while two soldiers were knocked senseless. KASKASKIA TUMBLES INTO THE MISSISSIPPI Change in the River Current Re- moves All Trace of Illinois' First Capital. NASHVILLE, 111., March s.— By another of those sudden shifts in current so com mon to the -waters of the Mississippi River, almost all of what little remained of the historic town of old Kaskaskia, the first settlement in the Mississippi Valley, the first capital of the State of Illinois, I and at one time the metropolis of the great j Middle "West, was swept away to-day. Ever since the change in the channel of the Mississippi the ground upon which the town stood has been crumbling away. All the historic old' buildings, including Governor Bond's mansion, ana the da ! State House, have tumbled into the river. The few people who inhabited the tumbler ! down houses up to the present time were I completely shut off from the outside I world. The remains of Berrlen Minard, the first Lieutenant Governor of the State, which rest in a vault of Italian marble, are ciose to the river's edge, and but a few days will elapse until the cemetery and the last trace of the old town is obliterated. SALE OF A MOUNTAIN. : English Syndicate Buys Popocate petl in Mexico. CITY OF MEXICO, March 5.-, General Gaspar S. Ochoa. owner of Popocatepetl, has closed a deal for the Bale of that volcanic mountain to a syndicate of Eng lish capitalists. The price paid Is $260, --000 in gold. The most extensive sulphur deposit in the world is located irt the crater of the volcano, and it is the inten tion of the syndicate to build, a. cog wheel railroad to the top of 'the mountain in order to handle the product. GRATITUDE OF TEXANS. Indiana Legislature Thanked for the Return of a Battle Flag. AUSTIN, Tex., March s.— The House of the Texas Legislature has adopted a reso lution thanking the Indiana legislature for returning to the Texas Terry Rang ers the company flag captured by the In diana regiment from the Rangers during the Civil War. The resolution also in vites the Governor of Indiana and his staff and legislators to come to Texas and THE SAIN" FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1899. BELGIUM'S QUEEN SLOWLY SINKING Owiog to a Serious Relapse the Last Sacran)ent Is Ad ministered. BRUSSELS, March s.— Queen Marie Henriette, who has been suf fering from broncho-pneumonia, had ■ a serious relapse at noon to-day. Her physicians were in constant attendance throughout the afternoon and early this evening the last sacrament was administered. At that hour there seemed no- hope of recovery, but a bulletin at 10 o'clock this evening showed a slight improvement and afforded a base for reviving hope. All the members of the family have been summoned. Queen Marie Henriette of Belgium, a daughter of the late Archduke Joseph of Austria, was born August 23, 1836. She married King Leopold II of Belgium, then a Belgium Crown Prince, on August 22, 1853. Leo pold II ascended the throne on the death of King Leopold I, in Decem ber, 1865. The King and Queen of Belgium have three children, all daugh ters. The eldest, Princesse Louise, was married to Prince Philip of Saxe- Coburg and Go-tha. She recently separated from her husband and is said to be mentally deranged. The second daughter, Princess Steph anie, married the late Archduke Rudolph of Austria, the imperial Prince, who committed suicide on January 30, 1889. The third daughter is Princess Clementine, now in her twenty-seventh year. be honored guests at a puhllc function to be given by the Legislature to mark the return of the flag to the Terry Rangers. The invitation was wired them and action as to the reception will be deferred until such time as they can visit Texas. WATSON CHALMERS CALLED BY DEATH Passing at Chico of One of the Pio neer Newspaper Men of California. CHICO, March s.— Watson Chalmers, editor of the Chico Daily Enterprise, died at 3:20 o'clock this morning. He was one of the oldest und most widely known newspaper men on the coast. Chalmers learned the printer's trade in Leith, Scotland, sixty-two years ago. He came to the United States in 1853, and worked for a time on the New York Trib une, but after the gold discoveries in Cali fornia he came to this State in 1554. In MEXICAN DAN: "If They Won't Send Me to Washington I'm Blamed if I'll Let Them Send Any One Else," 1857 he was established as manager of the Red Bluff Beacon, since which time he has been actively engaged in newspaper work in the State. He came to Chico in 18(57,' and has since resided here. He leaves one daughter, Mrs. M. V. Loy, and two granddaughters— Misses May and Robina Loy. ICE BREAKS UP IN THE UPPER HUDSON The Result Is a Flood at Troy Which Threatens to Be Dis astrous. TROY. X. V., March s.— The ice in the upper Hudson, the Mohawk and the Hos sick River broke up to-night after several days' thaw and a warm rain. The result is a flood at this point and north of here which threatens to be disastrous. The ice is heavy and at Mechanicsvllle has formed a gorge of great strength. The back-up caused by this gorge has submerged all adjoining lowlands and the roadways are under water. Between this city and Albany the ice became wedged in Schuyler Creek and the mouth of Dry River running through Watervllet. Streets have been flooded in the latter place and the Albany City Railway tracks between Menands and Watervliet are submerged, making it possible to use but one track. The docks along the river front here are under water and the indications are' that the freshet will reach the highest point in many_y£arß^ JAILED AT STOCKTON. John Tannin Wanted by the Police of Santa Cruz. STOCKTON, March s.— John Tannin is In jail here on a felony charge. He was arrested at midnight by Deputy Sheriff Wall in compliance with a requisition of the Sheriff's office of Santa Cruz. The officers here are unaware of the nature of the charges, but were notified that a war rant had been issued and an officer would arrive on Monday to take the prisoner back. Tannin formerly was a salesman here. Rumor has it he so forgot his obligations as a married man as to deceive a young lady in that city. SALE OF STEEL WORKS. Pennsylvania Plant Now Idle Will Soon Be Reopened. CHESTER, Pa., March s.— The "Well man Steel 'Works at this city have been sold to a syndicate of capitalists repre sented by .Frank Samuel, a Philadelphia broker. A. C. Crozer, the Upland manu facturer, is the principal stockholder. It is the purpose, it is said, to start the plant, which is one of the largest in the United States. The works cover a large area in the ponthern portion of the city. At one time 1000 men were employed. Mr. Samuel is interested in foreign ore im porting from Cuba, and is a blast furnace man. It is thought that a new line of special material will be manufactured. WAGES ADVANCED. Pennsylvania and West Virginia Laborers Made Happy. PHILADELPHIA. March s.— The wages of all day laborers in the tin plants of the Newcastle district have been advanced from 5 to 10 per cent. The advance will affect between 1200 and 1500 men. The Reese-Hammond Manufacturing Company at Jeanette has . advanced the wages of its 250 employes from 5 to 20 per cent, and the Williamsport Nail Company has made a 10 per cent advance. WHEELING, W. Va,, March s.—Com mencing March 12 a 10 per cent increase of wages goes into effect at every depart ment of the Riverside Iron and Steel plant here. About 3000 men are affected. MRS. STEVENSON DIES AT THE AGE OF NINETY Mother of the Former Vice-President Summoned to the Beyond. PEORIA, March 6.— A telephone mes sage to the Herald from Bloomington, 111., says: Mrs. Sarah Stevenson, mother of the former Vice President, Adlai E. Steven son, died at 2:30 o'clock this morning, after an illness of several weeks. She was 90 years of age. URUGUAY'S CABINET. President Cuestas Announces As signment of Portfolios. LONDON, March 6.— The Montevideo correspondent of the Times says: Presi dent Cuestas has made the following as signments of portfolios: Dr. Saturnine Campo, Minister of tho Interior. Senor Campestegui, Minister of Fi nance. Senor Carlos Maria Rena, Minister of Agriculture. Senor Herrero Espinosa, Minister of Foreign Affairs. General Nicodemus Gastro, Minister of War. Remains an Independent Line. DENVER. Colo., March 6.— Charles Smith of this city, who controls a major ity of the bonds of the California and Nevada Railroad, denies that the line has passed into the possession of the Santa Fe company. All Saloons Closed. ST. LOUIS, March s.— The order o£ the Board of Police Commissioners that all saloons be closed at midnight Saturday night and remain closed until midnight to-night, under the provisions of the law, was carried out to the letter. Bubonic Plague Rag-ing-. LONDON, March s.— The Bombay cor respondent of the Post says: The bubonic plague is raging here with unparalleled severity. According to official returns there were 912 deaths last week, but these quite underrate the mortality. CUBANS WHO MAY BECOME BANDITS Rather Gloomy Outlook at Santiago. — , THE RESULT OF ECONOMY ONLY ONE COURSE FOR MEN WITHOUT WORK. El Forvenira Asserts That the Ac tion of Havana Authorities Is Due to Antagonism to Gen eral Wood. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTIAGO DE CUBA, March s.— El Porventra, discussing the situation brought about by the orders from Ha vana limiting the total expenditures upon the departments of the provincial administration to $10,000, says: "There is only one course open to men who are without work and food, namely, to become banditti. Hunger demands bread. The proceedings of the United States authorities at Havana are evi dently antagonistic to Major General "Wood, and born of jealousy of his suc cess and popularity among all classes of Cubans. Three thousand men have been thrown out of employment with only a day's notice which must mean a serious menace to public peace and property." The Independenria, El Cubano and the Santiago Herald comment in much the same strain. Two companies of the Fourth Immune Regiment are in the city to-day, nomi nally to receive horses, but it is ex pected that they will remain at least a week before returning to Manzanillo. The court-martial .of Private John Williams of the Ninth Immune Regi ment, charged with complictiy in the murderous affray at San Luis on No vember 14. is still in session. Thus far, the prosecution has offered two eye-wit nesses, but the other testimony is con flicting. The Judge Advocate com plains that there is considerable per jury among the officers of the regiment. The accused is defended by Major Har rison, whose orderly he was at the time. The case will probably last an other ten days, and a conviction is pos sible. GENERAL CAREY WILL PAY THE CUBAN TROOPS NEW YORK, March 5.— A Washing ton special to the Herald says: Pay master General Carey has perfected ar- rangements for going to Cuba next week to pay off the Cuban army. This means that an agreement has been reached by General Gomez and Major General Brooke regarding the payment of the Cubans on the basis of the Pres ident's suggestion to General Gomez through Mr. Porter. General Carey will take the entire appropriation of $3,000,000 to Cuba, $1, --500,000 of which will be in silver and the remainder either in gold or in bills. He will leave New York on one of the gov ernment transports, to which the money will be transported from the sub-treas ury, and upon his arrival at Havana he will report to General Brooke. Immediately upon the payment of the officers and men the troops will be dis banded and the Cubans will return to their ordinary avocations. As soon as the army is disbanded the question of the withdrawal of the American troops will be considered. Appeal to National Leaders. WILMINGTON, Del., March 6.— A party of Union (Addicks) Republican Assembly men left here to-day for Washington to confer with members of the National Re publican Committee and other Republican leaders on the Senatorial deadlock in thi3 State. Killed by Exploding Benzine. ST. PETERSBURG, March 5. — Last evening a carboy of benzine exploded in a third-class railroad carriage on the line of Dwinsk. south of St. Petersburg. The carriage was burned, six women and a man wore killed and sixteen others were Injured. VAST APPROPRIATIONS OF THE LAST CONGRESS In All $1,566,890,016 Has Been Set Aside for National Expenses, lint Nearly One-Third ol This Is Owing to the War With Spain. WASHINGTON. March s.— The of ficial statement of Representative Jo seph G. Cannon of Illinois, the chair man of the House Appropriations Com mittee, summing up the appropriations of the Fifty-fifth Congress, shows an aggregate appropriation by the entire Congress of $1,566,890,016, and for the session just closed a total of $fi7.Xfi58,400, with authority for contracts subject to future appropriations amounting to $50,000,000. Chairman Cannon's state ment in full follows: The appropriations made at tho session of Congress just closed amount approxi mately to $673,658,400, and show an appar ent reduction of $210,071.000 under the ap propriations made at the preceding ses sion. This is attributable to the large ex penses occasioned by the war with Spain that were provided for during: the preced ing session. The entire appropriations made by the Fifty-fifth Congress aggre gate $1.58fi,590.016 28. Of this -sum J482.562, --083 17 is directly chargeable to our late war with Spain nr incident thereto. De ducting this charge from the whole amount of the appropriations, the re mainder, $1,084,327,632 81 represents the ordinary or normal appropriations made by the Fifty-fifth Congress. The appropriations made by the pre ceding Congress, the Fifty-fourth, amounted to $1,044,580,273 87. A compari son shows an increase in ordinary appro priations made by this Congress over the Fifty-fourth of $39,747,000, but this appar ent increase is more than accounted for by increases under eight items alone, namely: For pensions, $4,000,000; for the postal service, $16,000,000; for rivers and harbors, including work under contracts previously authorized, $3,600,000; for new ships for the navy, $6,000,000; for begin ning the work of the twelfth census, $1,000,000; for the Paris Exposition, $1,200, --000; for new public buildings, including the building for the Department of Jus tice, and for site, and partial construc tion of the new Government printing of fice, about $5,000,000, and for payment of judgments rendered against the Govern ment on account of French spoliations and under the Bowman act, $3,100,000. These very natural and necessary in creases in public expenditures, on ac count of the pension list, the growth of the postal service in response to the de mands of commerce, the improvement of the great waterways of the country and for Increase of the navy, the construction of needed buildings to accommodate the Government service in the cities of the country, the taking of the census, the participation of the nation in the great exposition to be held at Paris next year and the payment of the French spoliation judgment and Bowman act case's so long (.oiisidered by and pressed upon Congress aggregate $39,900,000— more than dissipat ing the entire apparent increase in the ordinary appropriations by this Congress over those made by the Fifty-fourth Con gress. In addition to the direct appropriations made at this session, contracts were au thorized, subject to future appropriations to be made by Congress, amounting to about $70,000,000. cf this amount $44,000,000 is for additional ships for the navy, $22. --500,000 is for work on rivers and harbors, and something over $3,000,000 is for public buildings. The contract system is of ne cessity applied to the construction of new warships, which require periods' of years for their construction. In the case of river and harbor improvements and the construction of public buildings experi ence has shown that the authorization of contracts tends materially to expedite and cheapen the same. Dockery of Missouri, the ranking Democratic member of the House Ap propriations Committee, made the fol lowing statement, giving the Democrat ic view: This Congress easily surpac-.es all its predecessors in the stupendous aggregate of its appropriations. It was thought that the Fifty-first Congress, commonly known as the ''Billion-Dollar Congress," had in point of extravagance of appropriations touched a limit which would not be reached or at least surpassed by any of its successors. This Congress, however, has far exceeded the appalling total of appropriations there made, and it will be remembered that the "Billion-Dollar Con gress" was followed by overwhelming dis aster to the Republican party at the en suing election. ;•£".;-•■;. Confronted with a war with Spain, re-' quiring the imposition of additional taxa tion, tt is obvious that rigid economy should have been applied in all other di rections to the expenditure of public money. The people were willing to meet all the demands upon the national treas ury made necessary by the Spanish war, but it is fair to presume that they ex pected their representatives, in view of tne cheerful disposition manifested to meet these added burdens, to limit the ordinary apropriations to the necessities ,of a wise and economical administration, These ex pectations have not been realized. The result is an annual deficiency in the country's revenues amounting on the first of this month to $99,109,554 50. This deficiency, as shown by a recent conserva tive estimate by Chairman Cannon of the Appropriations Committee, will probably reach $159,000,000 on the 30th of June next. It is impossible to estimate with absolute accuracy the treasury deficiency for the coming fiscal year. The Secretary of the Treasury, in his annual report made in December last, estimates it at about $31 - 000,000, but it is now apparent that It will not be less than $100,000,000. It is almost certain, therefore, that the Government will be compelled during .the calendar year 1900 to face an actual treasury defi ciency. The $462,000,000 of income arising from the sale of bonds under this admin istration ana that of President Cleveland will then have been exhausted, and the treasury will pass from the condition of a borrowed surplus to an actual defi ciency. Such a condition must be met, either by increased taxation or by the is sue of treasury certificates, or by an ad ditional bond issue. Notwithstanding this deplorable treas ury situation, which has been called over and over again to the attention of Con gress and the country, appropriations have been made which, in many cases have not been warranted by the interests of the public service, or which, if proper in themselves, should have been post poned until the national income should be ample to meet all Its liabilities without the necessity of bond, Issues. The appropriations of the original "bil lion dollar Congress amounted to $1,035. --680,109 94. The appropriations of the Con gress just ended reach the mighty aggre gate of $1,566,890,014 28. It is fair to deduct from this total $482,562,083 47,. made neces sary to meet the liabilities of the Spanish war. So if we deduct from the grand total the liabilities on account of the war with Spain, it appears that the appropria tions for the ordinary expenses of the Government are $1,084,327,932 81. The ap propriations of the Congress just ended to meet the ordinary governmental ex penses exceed those of the preceding (Fifty-fourth) Congress by $39,747.65*5 9C Not only this, but the contract liabilities authorized by the Congress just expired for new ships and their armament, pub lic buildings, rivers and harbors and mis cellaneous items amount to $70,602,524. If therefore, to the ordinary appropriations is added the liabilities on .account of these authorized contracts, iwe ascertain that the appropriations and contract liabilities 9' m 456 n Bl to the tremendous total of $1,154,- These increased appropriations have gone for French spoliation claims, pub lic buildings, rivers and harbors; Bowman act claims and hundreds of other projects some meritorious, but many of them not entitled to recognition by the National Government. In nearly every branch of the civil service of the Government there has been an increase of appropriations. The time has come to reform the scale of national expenditures. The reckless improvidence of the outgoing Congress will at least serve the good purpose of arousing the people and of causing them to send representatives to the national capital who will reduce the burdens im posed by rioteus appropriations. GUESTS JUMP FROM A BURNING HOTEL Several Persons Slightly Burned or Injured During a Los Angeles Conflagration. T.OS ANGELEB, March s.— The Flor ence Hotel, located on the corner of Main and Third sir. Cis. whs partially destroyed by fire this evening und several people were slightly burned and otherwise in iured in "escaping from the flames. Bon nie Whitman, a variety actress, saved her life by jumping from a third story window to the roof of a one-stor? dg;H ing adjoining. She was but slightly, in jured. The cause of the fire is not known. The loss to building and contents will amount to about $5000; insurance nominal. The building is owned by ex-Mayor Thorne and the hotel was conducted by B. F. Sanders. EVIDENCE OF MURDER. Suspicious Death of a Young Woman in New York. NEW YORK, March s.— Miss Magda lene Dorn, 20 years old, died last night in a room occupied by James J. Conley at 211 West Eighty-second street, under circumstances so suspicious that Conley was taken into custody pending an in vestigation by the Coroner. Conley called at the home of Dr. Brink er and urged him to accompany him at once to his room to attend a young wom an who, he said, had fallen seriously 111. When they arrived at the place they found Miss Dorn lying on the bed, dead. Gas was flowing from two gas jets. Con ley seemed greatly agitated and ex plained that the young woman had been visiting him and was taken suddenly ill. He left her to go for the doctor. He says she must have turned on the gas during his absence and become asphyxiated. The police did not take kindly to thi3 theory and placed Conley under arrest. Conley was reticent about his relations with Miss Dorn. GALE AT NIAGARA FALLS. Elevator at the Buttery Whirlpool Station Blown Over. NIAGARA FALLS, N. T., March &.— A gale this afternoon caus°d murh damage. The wind came in gusts, tearing signs from thetr fastenings and stripping sec tion of roofing from some buildings. Elec tric light wires were torn down. The old elevator at the Buttery Whirpool Station was bft>wn over. It crashed through the pavilion at the foot of the cliff, damaging property in the pavilion and causing a stampede among the people in the neigh borhood. No one was hurt. The loss la large. HEAVY SNOWSTORM. Mantle of White Covers Kansas and Missouri. TOPEKA, Kans., March 5.— A snow storm general throughout the State start ed soon after midnight last night and continued throughout the morning, while in the western part of the State the storm was accompanied by quite heavy winds. No delay of trains because of drifts has been reported. WEBB CITY, Mo.. March 5.— A severe snowstorm has prevailed here since 10 o'clock without cessation. At least six inches of snow has fallen. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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