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PLYMOUTH,
ND' ANA.
WILL BOOM THE WEST
PURPOSE OF THE OMAHA CON
VENTION. Chicago and Vicinity Temporarily
Conquered by the Klemeats Two
Uely Fires on Hand at Once Train
Wrecker Captured and Lynched.
Transmississippi Congress.
Three hundred delegates were present
Monday at the opening session of the
transniississippi congress at Omaha,
which was presided over by ex-Delegate
to Congress tleorge (. Cannon, of Utah,
who was elected president of the con
gress at the St. Louis gathering last
year. The general object of the congress
is the promotion of the welfare of the
AVest, and under this head a vast number
of questions have been scheduled for dis
cussion and action. Among those are the
irrigation of arid lands, the improvement
of waterways and deep-water harbors,
the construction and maintenance of
levees on the Mississippi and its tribu
taries, discriminations in transmissis
sippi freight rates, the necessity for a
national bankrupt law, the restriction of
immigration, methods for the relief of
agricultural depression, the project for
cable communication with Honolulu and
the admission of territories to Statehood.
Blizzard at Chicago.
One of the most disagreeable storms in
the annals of weather bureaus descended
on Chicago late Monday afternoon. It
rained, it snowed, and between times
sleet pelted down pitilessly. Untold dam
age was caused by the elements. When
night came the downpour of the mix
ture of snow and rain and sleet came
heavier and the wind, which was gusty in
the afternoon, rose to a gale. The streets,
the pavements and sidewalks were flood
ed to a depth of three inches with slush.
The storm made the pavements almost
impassable; street car traffic was seri
ously interfered with; trolley lines were
broken with the weight of the snow; tele
phone and telegraph wires were borne
down, broken and crossed until half he
wires in the city were made useless by
midnight, and communication with the
outside world was entirely cut off ex
cept at long intervals. Ends of broken
trolley and other electrically chargid
wires dropped into the streets to the posi
tive danger of passers. Numbers of acci
dents of iJiis sort were reported from
various parts of the city, and the opera
tion jf trolley lines in the outskirts of the
city suspend "I early in the evening on
many streets. Then. too. the lake was
ahcd to a seel hing caldron, and it
Reeius a miracle that many boats were not
not lost at the harbor entrance, as a two
Ways" storm had driven them all to that
end of the lake, and snow obscured the
harbor lights.
Two Fires at Once.
Fire completely burned out the in
terior of the five-story building atthe
southwest corner of Wabash avenue and
Randolph street. Chiengo. Monday night
(shortly after 11 o'clock. Eight firms oc
cupied the building, which is owned by
A. S. Trude. The loss will aggregate
$1."UMM. Though the blaze was con
fined to the Trude building, the firemen
had to make one of the stubborn battles
for which the Chicago department is
famous. The gale was blowing fifty
miles an hour, and in fiery direction were
enormous stocks of goods stored in in
tlammable buildings. A second fire in
Haymarket Square at the same time did
several thousand dollars' damage.
Cuban InHiirjsents It urn a Town.
Details from Santa Clara show the
town of (luina de Miranda, Cuba, the
most important in the district, has been
burned by the insurgents commanded by
Koloff. A majority of the brick houses
of the place and fifty palm huts were de
stroyed. Before the revolution there
wer- -töOO inhabitants there. The maiu
wealth of the place was tobacco, coffee,
and cattle. The small garrison defending
4ui:ia de Miranda made a heroic defense.
BREVITIES.
St. Joseph's Church at Mount Carmcl,
Ia.. was burglarized and the communion
cup poisoned in order to murder the Ilev.
I':iIi;t Jakamowicz. This was fortun
ately discovered at mass.
William 1. lloyce when arraigned at
Sioux t'ity. Iowa, for the murder of Con
stant iJoiish. alias Nellie I'atton. former
ly of Nan Meter, Iowa, whom he shot, en
tered a plea of insanity due to cigaret
Jnbi!.
II.viit.-iii I tcttenhost. a welt-known pugil
ist and trainer, of Brooklyn, shot and
killed his two thiMrcn and himself Sun
day ;t fiel i'ioon. Iletlel.host was the pro-
prie'o, of a college of physical instruc
tion in Brooklyn.
I i view o" the statement fnm the dep
uty co! lector of customs at Lewes, Del.,
to the eir'e.-t 1 1 1 : 1 1 a thorough search had
failed to discover arms, ammunition or
neu on hoard the Joseph W. Foster, the
secretary of the treasury ordered the ves
sel released.
A u"gro tramp was caught trying to
wreck a train near Calvert City, Ky.,
and pursued to the woods, where he was
overtaken and riddled with bullets and
then hanged to a tree. The locality is
.surrounded by u wilderness. The name
of the victim is unknown.
Ieorgc Harris, the old negro upon
whose career Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe founded her character of "Uncle
Tom." is in destitute circumstances near
Lexington, Ky. For some time his daily
income and expenditure has been within
the compass of a Twent piece. He is
practically disabled. His colored asso
ciates will not help him, saying the white
folks ought to take care of him.
Obituary At London. Barthlemy Saint
Hilaire and Lord de Tabley; at Spring
field. II!., General L I.. Curran, TO; at
Joliet, II!.. John Pickering, 40.
Tb I'olt divorce case at Providence, It.
L. is .said to have been settled outside of
court. It is also reported that Colonel
Colt's prosecution of Van Alen will be
dropped.
Four people were found murdered on
a boar adrift in Red River near Paris,
Texas. A dog stood guard over one of
the bodies. Federal officers are now in
vestigating the ghastly details of th
ui.vsteri.ius affair.
EASTERN.
Brooklyn gas companies have been con
solidated, with a combined capital of 2jo0,
000,000. Col. Fitzgerald, the Xew York restau
rant man who was arrested for dressing
his waiter girls in bloomers, has sued the
city for $10.000 damages.
The British bark Trinidad has reached
New York after a voyage of 154 days
from Auckland. New Zealand. The ves
sel had been given up for lost and rein
sured in English Lloyd's by the London
underwriters at TO guineas premium.
The British steamer James Turpie,
Captain Smith, which sailed from (Jen i
on Nov. i for Xew York, has arrived at
Gibraltar seriously damaged, having
been in collision with the Vulvar, oil' Ctrpe
Ceta. Spain. The Vulcan tank and two
of her crew were drowned.
Fire in the six-story factory building -it
OS Clinton street, New York, caused a
panic among the working people, who
numbered alout two hundred. The base
ment, in which the flames started, was oc
cupied as a candle factory, and the tallow
there caused the fire to spread rapidly,
cutting off egress by way of the stairs.
Several men jumped from the roof ami
from windows to the tops ot" ad joini.ig
buildings. After the building had be.-,i
gutted the firemen set about searching for
bodies. One, which has not been identi
fied, was found.
Fire in the Park, r Block at Low. !!.
Mass., Tuesday morning nns-d a loss . f
SoölUKN). The building is live storied in
height, partly occupied by the Applctoi:
company, and oatain. d X-ltm.txiM worth
of finished cotton goods. The building is
owned by the he:r of Col. .1. M. G. Par
ker. The losses ate probably covered
by insurance. Fire at Dallas. Texas,
destroyed a building LV'K.'t feet, three
stories in height, which were occupied
by the Texas I:n r (Ympany and by the
Deering Harvesting Company of Chi
cago. Loss on building. S."i.mh: insur
ance, $41 , too. Loss of the Texas Paper
Company. Söo.om; insurance. x::i.Too.
Ijoss of the Deering Harvester Company.
SLVj.OOO. fully insured. Puict-ll. I. T..
was visited by a disastrous tire which al
most wiped it out of existenr e Tuesday
morning. The lire started in a grocery
store owned by Paul Glucketnan. who is
strongly suspected of applying the torch,
and he was at once arrested by a United
States deputy marshal. Twenty busi
ness houses were burned, the aggregate
loss being about S.loo.oou; insurance, Sjo,-
0 M K
Trainwreck'rs ditched the New YorU
Central fast mail a few miles west of
Rome. N. Y.. Tuesday morning. En
gineer Frank Hager, of Albany, and two
tramps were killed. Fireman Chris Wag
ner, of Albany, an 1 Mail Clerks IViK-r
and M. .1. McCarthy were injured. Y!i. :i
the crash came the engine was thrown
from the track into the ditch and com
pletely sahm-rged in the mud. only the
driving wheels on the left side being
above tlie earth. The forward mallear
was thrown two c:'f I ng'hs ahead of the
engine, and rolled down the bank so that
it lay lengthwise toward the rails. The
second car, in which the mail clerks
were working, was thrown onto the ten
der of the engine and demolished. The
third and fourth cars were also wrecked,
the ends of both being broken. The first
sleeper was thrown from the rails, rolling
completely over, so that the tru ks were
a long distance from the rails. The sec
ond car was simply turned on its side,
while the rear sleeper did 110' leave the
trneks at all. Mutineer Hager went down
with his engine and must have been in
stantly killed. The fireman. Chris Wag
ner, was badly injured about the head,
and it is feared that he is internally hurt.
WESTERN.
C. It. Meeker, assistant engineer of the
Southern Pacific Railroad, ami formerly
an officer in the United States navy, com
mitted suicide at Oakland, Cal.
The Minesota Supreme Court has af
firmed the decision of ti e lower court in
the I lay ward case. The date of execution
will be set by the Governor later.
Michael IL Malier, who is wanted at
Leadville. Colo., for the alleged embezzle
ment of about S1.0O0 from the Dold Park
ing Company last February, has been ar
rested at Los Angeles.
Policemen T. F. Rrown und B. S. Far
row were dangerously wounded and "Will
Ward, colored, fatally wounded while
the officers wen attempting to arrest the
latter at Little Rock. Ark.
The San Francisco Merchants' Ex
change lias a message from Empire City,
Oregon, saying that the steamer Ban
derillo is ashore south of Empire Rar.
Captain Winart was drowned.
Frank Waylaud, of Marion. Ohio, re
ceived n letter from a Baltimore attorney,
asking him his relationship to William
Wayland. who moved to Ohio years ago.
lie was his son. The attorney now writes
him that lie is heir to the Wayland es
tate in Maryland, valued at a million.
Charles Stuckey. who is alleged to have
robbed the now defunct State Rank of
Dultith of about .Sl.'.ooo prior to his
flight last October, has been arrested at
Perley, Wis. He declares he will tell the
whole story of the wrecking of the bank
and sensational disclosures are expected.
Oscar Ranchman. Ellis Brown and
Frank Henry, lately defendants in the
Fulton County courthouse arson case at
Lewiston, 11' , have begun suit for 10,
0OO damages against the detectives and
officers who kidnaped them from Chicago
and put them through the "sweat-box"
process.
Just after ?, o'clock Tuesday morning
the north side of the city of Purcell, I. T.,
caught fire. It is reported that three
fourths of the town is in ashes. Purcell
is located on the bank of the South Can
adian River on a high hill and the wind
had full sway. It is reported tiiat sev
eral persons perished in the flames.
Two Cincinnati boys were on trial be
fore Judge Ilollisttr for stealing cloth
from the Globe Tailoring Company. The
charge was grand larceny, for which the
penalty is State's prison. Attorney Mor
ris, however, showed that under the tariff
')v in force the value of the goods had
been so reduced the crime was only petit
larceny.
The "Pacific limited," which left Chi
cago at ( o'clock Sunday evening via
the Chicago and Northwestern. Union Pa
cific, and Central Pacific, arrived at San
Francisco at 8:40 Wednesday evening, re
ducing the running time between the two
cities to practically three days, instead of
thre and a hslf. The greatest saving in
time is on the Union Pacific between
Omaha and Ogden. amounting to six and
one-half hours.
The epidemic of diphtheria which has
prevailed in Chicago during the last
two months is to be stamped out at once if
it be in the jiower of the health depart
ment to do it. It is proposed to push the
anti-toxin treatment. In the present
emergency it is expected to accomplish
what vaccination did to stamp out the
smallpox epidemic. Physicians will be
employed by the city to treat the elck,
and the best medical skill will be ob
tained to combat the ravages of the dis
ease. Major W. S. Pea body has arrived at
Denver from Archuleta County. Souther-i
Colorado, bringing specimens of ore taken
from the largest vein ever discovered.
The vein as described is LOO) feet across.
The ore averages 011 the surface ,S to the
ton. If the discovery sustains the claims
of those who have been upon the ground a
new gold-bearing region has been found
which will eclipse anything known in the
world. Senator Teller recently made a
quiet visit to the region, nnd is filled with
enthusiasm on the subject. He says iL is
"a big proposition."
Fire at Chicago Thursday destroyed
two big blocks owned by Warren Spring
er, ate up the plants of twenty firms,
threw TOO persons out of employment and
caused a loss of .ft It Mi.t. too. The lire burned
for three hours. Four hundred women
and girls on a sixth floor were in danger
at one time of being cut off by the Haines,
but they were saved by the presence of
mind of a policeman and heroism of Chris
Olson, the elevator conductor. The fire
men were threatened by the irequent fail
ing of the tall walls and by explosions of
oil. They had several runs for their lives,
with narrow escapes, but they luckily
came through unscathed. The buildings
were equipped with automatic sprinklers,
bet these wen- as helpless as garden
sprinkling pots to stay the lire. There
were also two tire walls, but the flames
passed these barriers as easily as though
they were but lath. Chris Olson, v. Im n
the fire broke out knew his duty and stuck
to his post until every man and w..nan in
the b::ilding had been landed safely to the
ground. Five trips of the elevator to the
top ll. tor were necessary to carry all down
i:i safety. Other means of escape was
cut off by fire and smoke.
Death in the pitiless, stormy waters of
Lake Michigan ca::ie to the sailors and
disaster and destruction to the ships that
braved the elements and set out from
port in the teeth of the gale of Tuesday
and Wednesday. Wreckage from a num
ber of boats has been washed ashore at
various p sints on the lake, and while it is
not positively known that any boats
have been lost, four bodies were waKd
ashore Wednesday morning on the beach
near Sarnia. Nothing is known there of
any boat having gone ashore and it is
possible that the bodies are those of fish
ermen who were lost in the gale. Bat
tered and stormworn boats came int.
Chicago port bearing evidence of ther
struggles with the gale in decks swept
dear of everything that offered any re
sistance to the wind and waves. Wreck
age supposed to be marked "Corning"
came ashore near Charlevoix. Mich., ami
the owners of the barg' Ida Corning,
("orniiig .V llyau. were fearful for the
fate of their boat and its crew until i:;
foruied by i Icgraph that, it had tied up at
Bay City all right. Half a dozen boats
were wrecked along the Michigan shore
at various points, but so far as known
may be released from their perilous posi
tions, and no lives have been reported
lost. The life-saving clews were kept
busy going on perilous missions of mercy,
full of danger and hardship.
SOUTHERN.
Charles Hurd. the negro who murdered
Jasper D. Kclley, a young white man.
ten days ago. was taken from the jail at
Wartburg. Tenn.. and lynched.
A strong effort is being made to secure
a panl m for Hume Clay, the Bourbon
County forger, who is serving a ten-year
term in the Frankfort. Ivy., penitentiary.
John Montgomery, his wife nnd I. H.
McKeecher were found murdered on the
farm of S. O. Templeton, three miles east
of Brownesville, Ore. All three of the
victims had been shot with a rille. No
motive is at present known for the crime.
United Stab's Marshal Kilbourn and
three deputies made an extensive raid on
moonshiners in Wise County. Yirginia.
just over the Kentucky line, destroying a
dozen illicit stills, with a capacity of
12.O00 gallons. In a light between the
officers and moonshiners three of the lat
ter were seriously wounded and one offi
cer received a painful shot in the mouth.
Wednesday morning a tenement-house
at South Pittsburg, Tenn., occupied by
Irvin Robinson, n respectable colored la
borer, was destroyed by fire. In the build
ing were two of Robinson's children, aged
1 and 4 years respectively, nnd both were
burned to death, Robinson and his wife
being absent at the time. Much indigna
tion exists against the negroes living near,
who stood by ami saw the children burned
to death without making any effort to
save them. Their brutal conduct was
prompted by jealousy of Robinson's su
perior attainments.
The statement of the accounts of Bam
berger, Bloom & Co., wholesale dry goods,
who failed some time since, at Louisville,
Ky., is as follows: The assets are ap
praised at 5?SrS,lNS: the totul liabilities
are SL'JEUOo, of which 5,710,077 is to
Kastern creditors. Of the assets, $Bt,
tK( has been pledged to secure liabilities,
leaving $72'J.OJ2 assets available to meet
general liabilities of $1,078,4:?;. The
firm desires to resume business if an ad
justment of its n flairs can be made, and
as its creditor have manifested a friend
ly spirit there is hope that the well-known
house ma' soon be reopened.
WASHINGTON.
The President has appointed John Ii.
Peak, of Kansas City, Mo., United States
Minister to Switzerland, to succeed Min
ister Broadhcad, resigned, and Otto
Munehmeyer as United States Consul at
San Salvador.
The treasury expert who investigated
the accounts of Ainsworth R. Spofford,
Librarian of Congress, reports that the
librarian has for yojjrs been drawing
money from the treasury on vouchers
bearing fictitious signatures of dead men
or men who never existed.
Col. Charles I ley wood, commanding the
marine corps, in his annual reiort to the
Secretary of the Navy, makes a strong
t . l 1 a 1
appeal ior an increase in me euusieu 1
Midiem 01 111t- iuijis m incci iiiv uu-
tional duties imposed by the increase of
the navy. Col. Hey wood estimates that
1,500 marines on shore are needed for the
protection of millions of dollars worth of
(Jovernment property in their charge, a
number JiOO in excess of the marines now
engaged in that duty. In addition to (his,
it is estimated that about 450 more fuen
will be required for the new vessels now
under construction.
FOREIGN.
Danish millers have petitioned the Dan
ish (Jovernment to iniKse an experiment
al duty on import ed Hour.
It is reported that Prince Henry of
Battenburg has decided to join the staff
of the commander of the expedition to
Ashantee.
The report of the mutiny of 1T0 convicts
and 300 volunteers on the steamet Cata-
bnia during her last voyage from Madrid
to Havana is ollicially denied.
Sir Henry Ponsonby, formerly privata
secretary to Queen Victoria and keeper
of the privy purse, died at Cowes, Isle of
Wight, Thursday morning of paralysis.
The authorities of the Congo Free
State have decided that Capt. Lothaire,
who is charged with the irregular execu
tion of the English trader Stokes, shall
be tried before a Belgian court-martial.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, enraged
because his son, Nazrullah Khan, failed
to arrange for a permanent Afghanistan
representative during his recent visit to
I'ngland. is said to have burned and im
prisoned a number of subjects. It is ex
.peeted the son will be banished wren he
returns home and a noble who accom
panied him is to be tortured.
The Empress of China, just arrived at
Victoria, B. C from the Orient, reports
cholera practically extinguished in Japan.
All the Asiatic coast, when she sailed, was
looking to Kin-Chow, where, on Oct. IS,
a combined, boiler and magazine explosion
on the troop ship Kung-Pni sent 000 men
to death. The boilers were old and un
serviceable, but ordinary caution would
have prevented the catastrophe.
Robert Harding Mil ward, the Duke of
Marlborough's lawyer, who represented
him in Xew York when the marriage set
tlements were signed previons to the
Duke's marriage to Miss Consuelo Van
derbilf, in an interview at London is
quoted as snyiug tha? the rumors current
as to the amount of the settlements are
grossly untrue. lie also desired to olli
cially contradict the statement that there
is a heavy mortgage on the Blenheim es
tates, and added that the Duke of Marl
bcroush declined to touch a .shilling of his
bride's money and that the whole of it is
settled upon her in the ordinary way.
Chinese papers received at Vancouver,
B. C. by the steamer Empress of China
nr- bitter in their attacks on the . Japanese
authorities in Corea. whom they blame
for the murder of the queen. They as
sert that .Japan is a nation pretending
to be civilized, but it is the most barbar
ous on earth. The queen was hung up
by the hair and, after being otherwise
abtu-'ed. tied hand and foot, soaked in oil
ami burned in the rear of the palace, her
remains being reduced to ushes, so that
all trace might be lost. Thirty attend
ants of the queen, it is alleged, were
butchered, their corpses being left about
the palace. When the palace was at
tacked, of some 1.50I J guards on duty only
six remained at their posts, and they were
quickly dispatched. According to Chi
nese reports, there were fifteen women
of title in the court, the queen, her moth
er, and BIO ladies in waiting. They were
nearly all soaked in oil and burned, while
the men's throats were cut.
Constantinople dispatch: The attitude
of the Porte, or of the Sultan, has under
gone a decided change since the other
fleets began to join the British fleet in the
naval demonstration in Salonica Bay.
There is no doubt that the pressure
brought to bear upon tin Sultan bus been
strong cnotprh to make him take personal
charge of the work of reform in Armenia,
ami it is now hoped there will bo no fur
ther bloodshed, except in the case of put
ting down the insurrections which have
broken out against Turkish rule in differ
ent parts of Asia Minor. It is hoped,
however, that the Armenian clergy will
be able to induce their co-religionists to
lay down their arms, especially as the sen
timent of the whole of Europe is now in
favor of the Sultan, whose evident desire
to meet the views of the powers is thor
oughly appreciated and has undoubtodly
tided ovir a most dillicult crisis iu the
East. There is no longer any talk of the
armed intervention of the powers in the
Turkish Kmpire, and if any display of
force is necessary upon the part of Ec
rope, it might be in the direction of sup
porting the authority of the Sultan., ss
Jreat Britain. Russia and France are
extremely desirous that order should
promptly be restored throughout Asi.j
Minor.
IN GENERAL
(leneral Master Workman Sovereign
resigned at Wednesday night's session of
the Knights of Labor general assembly
and 
