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ALL AROUND. ..£ HOME AND ABROAD. Items of In! rmntion Gathered From a Wide Area—Political Happen ing* and InduNtrinl Notes—Crimea and Accidents. The president has nominated William McMicken of Washington to be surveyor general of Washington. 11. I*. (Ipy has been confirmed by the senate as I'nitcd States attorney for the district of Washington. The burning of the Melntire block i?i Winnipeg caused a loss of $300,000. A Tokio paper states that there are some 00,000 troops in Vladivostock ready to take the field at a moment's notice. The lit. Rev. Kthc'bert Talbot. I). I).. LL. 1).. former missionary bishop of Idaho and Wyoming, has been enthroned as bishop of the. central Pennsylvania dio cese of the Protestant Episcopal church. On December 24, the Japanese merchant steamer Xara Maru ran on a hidden rock of the Pescadore group and sank imme diately. Of her 80 passengers and crew seven only reached the shore. The drown ed were all Japanese. According to the statistics of the Jap anese customs authorities, 10 foreign seal ing schooners, 12 British and four Amer ican entered Hakodate and Yokohama during the year 1807. Their aggregate catches were 88.12. a dccrcae of 13,514 com pared with that of 1800. Harry Albury, 18 years old, is dead in the hospital at Brooklyn, X. Y., of lep rosy. He died of tubercular leprosy, and it is said that there are not more than half a dozen such eases in the country. Thousands of sheep are reported to have perished frun cold and starvation in west ern Wyoming. The cold has been intense for 00 days and old-timers say that it is the hardest winter they have seen for 10 years. Carbon county has 500.000 sheep, and floekmasters there fear the loss will amount to 25 ■oer cent. Losses among cattle will not be so heavy, as owners had been preparing for several years to feed tlieii stock during severe weather. The Sawyer and Goodman sawmill at Marionette. Wis., was destroyed by fire Thursday. The plant was valued at $150,000. The First Presbyterian church at Xew Albany, Tnd., the largest in the city, was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss. $50.000; insurance, $20,000. The Clierokec-Lanyan Spelter Company'* large plant at Rich Hill, Mo., was de stroyed by fire. The plant was valued at .$150,000. * A revolution has broken out at Sail Jose, Costa Rica. The Japanese government is seriously considering the retention of Wei Ilai Wei for an indefinite period, even aften China pays the war indemnity. A cow derailed the north bound Texas special on the Iron Mountain road, 30 miles south of St. Louis, resulting in the death of the engineer and fireman and slight injury to two passengers. It is reported that the Cross river ex |>editi<!i, composed of Niger coast protec torate troops, was massacred while de stroying towns about Assay cntek. The ltoyal Niger company has sent a force of constabulary to rescue the prisoners. Six firemen, including a district chief, a captain and a lieutenant, were killed at a Boston fire, which burned out the interior of a live-story building on Mcr rimac street, occupied by G. W. Bent & Co., manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc. An order reducing the shop forces be tween Omaha and Ogden has been issued by the Union Pacific. Two hundred and seventy-five men are dismissed from the shops at Omaha, Grand Island, North Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie and Ogden. One hundred of these come from Omaha. The ofticers of the road decline to say how long the reduction will be in force. The Omaha shops worked 1000 men 40 hours during the week. The United States canal company is about completing its examination of the western division, including Lake Nicar agua and westward to the Pacific, on ! Monday next. The commissioners have ! examined the ground several hundred feet <#ep by boring. The commissioners will travel on foot from Ocha to the Caribean sea at the rate of about three miles a day, examining both sides of the route i and wading 20 miles through the swamp. | s\ cablegram received at the war de- | juutment from Dr. Jackson at Alton, i Sweden, announces that the Manitoban. j chartered by Lieutenant Devore for the j ~ llutverament, had just sailed from that , port tofWew York with 630 reindeer and 7* Inlander* Jo care for the animals and drive them. The \» ar department is now making arrangement* for the transporta tion of the deer across #he continent from New York to Seattle. The war department has recalled the j attention of congress to the need of ad 1 ditional military protection in Alaska, and in this connection "Informa tion received at this department indicates the necessity of legislation to provide ef feetive means for controlling the disor derly element among the large number of people now flocking to Alaska, and for j preventing persons who or* without an adequate supply of food and clothing from entering the territory to perish during the severe winters, unless relieved by the government." T. W. Flannigan, R<»l Frost, Henry Svarl and C. C. Forster of Milwaukee. \\i lumber men, have gone to Se attle. wheVe they will purchase &10.000,000 feet of sugar pine with a sawmill plant, in northern Oregon, near the border line. The «leal will involve $400,000. Fred Carney and his son Frederick, with four Chicago, capitalists.including Perley Lowe and n. Wilbreck, have also left Wiscon sin for California, where they will close a deal for a sawmi.l plant and 600,000,000 feet of NUgar pine on a river in the north ern part of California, near the Oregon l»order. The deal involve* $000,000. A dispatch from Santiago de Cuba an nounces the arrival there of the Austrian third cla«s cruiser Donsu. HANGED AT HILLSBORO. l»ald the Dentil Penalty for n Crime Commit(eil Four Year* Ago. Hillsboro Ore.. Feb. 5. —Gu» Waehlin, ! the murderer, was hanged here yester | day. i The erime for which Gus Waehlin suf- I fred the death penalty was the murder of John 1-). Ledriek, a rancher of Washing ! ton county, about March 10, 1894. Waehlin, although only 23 yars of ape. served a term in the Oregon penitentiary for larceny of a cow from Ledriek prior ito 1804. He had just been released from the penitentiary when he went to Led rick's farm, and taking a club, beat his brains out. After burying tlie body in the barnyard, he took what money Led j rick had and with a team drove in Port j land, where he sold the horses, j Waehlin disappeared and for two years ! no trace of him was discovered. In the ! meantime Robert Buck, a rancher, was j arrested and charged with the murder, j but he was discharged at the preliminary examination. In September last Waehlin. who was suspected of being the murderer, was arrested in Morrow county, brought here and found guilty. It was known that Ledriek and Rob ert Ruck had not been on good terms and Waehlin endeavored to fix the crime on Ruck. LIVE STOCK TRUST AT OMAHA. Exchange llus a llule to Freeie Out Independent Operators. Omaha, Feb. 4. In the hearing of the United States against the South Omaha Livestock Exchange, ex-President Rich ard Gilchrist was on the stand. He was closely questioned and some of his testi mony bordered on the sensational. He admitted that the exchange was a monop oly so far as the control of the sale of stock on the local market is concerned. No man can handle stock there who is not a member of the exchange, who has not paid in $1000 for bis membership. Mr. Gilchrist explained how one rule of the exchange had been used for the purpose of freezing out a combination of stock growers and farmers, who had sought to avoid the rules of the exchange and han dle their own business on a co-operative plan. BANNOCK AND SHOSHONE LAND Commimiloiier Hoyt Concludes a Treaty for Its Sale. Poeatello, Idaho, Fob. 4.—C. G. Hoyt of the Fort Hall Indian commission, practi cally concluded a treaty with the Han nock and Shoshone Indians of the Fort Ilall reservation, for the lump sum of $525,000. The treaty also carries a pro vision for the payment of $75,000 to the Indians for the rel'nqishment of their hunting rights in Jackson's Hole. The treaty is the result of the commis sion. About one-fourth of the land to be sold is fine agricultural land and tTie bal ance mineral land. It is thought that the treaty will be ratified before congress adjourns. A MARVELOUS SILVER DEPOSIT Some of the Ore Hun* 20,000 OmiecM lo the Ton. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 4.—Mining men in this city arc excited over a phenomenally rich silver deposit discovered the other day on the line of the Kio Grande, Sierra Madre &, Pacific railroad, in Mexico, 100 miles from Kl Paso. Francisco Consado of this city discovered the de|»osit three miles north from the railroad track, where it had been tramped over for months tin noticed by railroad men. Consado brought samples of the ore to this city which as sayed 20,000 ounces of silver to the ton. BOY KILLED IN A GLOVE FIGHT Hltfli School Lad* Were Settling « Dispute. West Bend, Wis., Feb. 4. —During a glove contest between Carl Llndback and Willie Klants, high school boys, Lindback fell dead in the fourth round. The young men had been unfriendly and decided to settle their differences with gloves. Short ly after the beginning of the fourth round Lindback received a stinging blow which felled him to the floor face down ward. His friends ran to his assistance and were hor rified to find him dead. DYNAMITED BY INSURGENTS I'Mirngcr Train Wear Curaaruya. Cuba, Wan Shaken I p. Havana, Feb. 4.—The insurgents have dynamited a passenger train near Cam guy a, partly destroying the engine and derailing the cars. The detachment of Spanish cavalry has been engaged with an insurgent force under Colonel Lazo at the Aguvo plantation. Havana prov ince. The Spanish reports of the affair says the insurgents were captured and that the Spaniards had seven men woundedi .To Secure Alankau HuMlnenN. San Francisco, Feb. s.—The Alaska Commercial Company and the Southern Pacific railroad have entered into a com bination to obtain a share of the Klon dike travel. According to the arrange ments made, through ticket i from all eastern points will lie sold to Dawson City via San Francisco, through passen gers being given preference on the Yukon river boats from St. Michaels to IXiwkoii City. Fvneral mt Hon. J. P. Smith. Miami, Fla., Feb. 7.—The funeral of tl.e late Hon. J. P. Smith, director of the bu reau of American republics, will be held at his home in Urbana, 0., Tuesday at 2 p. m. His frieqds, Dr. S. M. Musgrove, Cuptain William S. McGinnis and Hon. G. | 11. Hamlctt, accompanied Mrs. Smith from Miami with the r^jj^ins. j Ice in winter and l * {inn in mr have r lo of man. IJITZVILLE, WASHINGTON, L EISIU'A liV !), 1898. NORTHWEST NEWS NOTES. A GLANCE OVER THREE STATES Shliifcle Mill* In Western WnMliliiß;- ton lleMuniliiK: Operations—Wheat Shipment* From the Sonnd-Xewn Froiu the ItnnKeH of Montana- Work on the Hullroad to I.cwlm ton, Idaho. Tacoma is to make a test of vitrified brick pavement. Nearly all of the 207 shingle mills iu western Washington have commenced cut ting again. 'Ihere is renewed talk of the establish-1 ment of a steel plant in Port Angeles by j eastern people. Ix>ggers from Olympia are cruising 011! the upper reaches of Klk river, iu Che-■ halis county, with a view to opening up ; I a big camp. During 181)7, out of every four mar-1 riages iu Walla Walla county, one #li- j vorce has been applied for. There were 141) marriages recorded. General fund warrants of Chehalis eoun-; ty have been called up to and including No. 2311, dated April 0, 181)4, amounting to about $10,000. All of the warrants drawing 10 per cent are now out <.f the j way. Spraying fruit trees for insect pests has ' begun in Yakima county, and in a short j time all the orchards iu the valley will j show up perfectly white from the appli cation of the official spraying recipe giv- j en out from the state horticultural bu- ! reau. The British ship Jordanhill has cleared j from Tacoma with a full cargo of wheat," the 40th cargo for the season. She car ries 132,025 bushels, valued at $1)5,000. Exports thus far amount to 0,000.000 i bushels, valued at $4,200,000. The superintendent of public instrue- . tion holds that it is illegal to donate, ( rent cr lease public school property for ; use as a dance hall or kindred purposes at social entertainments. There is noth- . ing iu the law authorizing such use. either by the vote of the electors or by act of the directors. Warren Blagden, who was recently 1 buried at (loldendale in the Odd Fellows" cemetery, was an early and respected cit- j izen of Klickitat county. He was born j in Maine in 1824. In 1848 he was mar ried to Miss Lvdia Tupper at Sycamore. J Illinois. The movement to form a drainage dis : triet comprising the vast swamp west of ; Colville is meeting with some vigorous! opposition from settlers up the valley. Those in the lower end of the proposed district are strongly in favor of drainage. | and will push the enterprise. One of the most important derisions' ever rendered in the state, and the first one of the kind ever rendered, is that handed down by Judge Neal in the case of the Spokane Street Railway Company and the Inland Telephone Company against the county commissioners. The court held that a franchise is subject to taxation the same as the property of a r corporation or an individual, or the prop erty owned by the company owning the ' franchise. The re|H»rt of the Washington state j grain inspector for January shows that : during the month the local receipts of j wheat amounted to 083 cars, as against ! 115 cars during January, 1807. Rati mat- j ing from the first receipts of the 1807 crop I in September last, Tacoma has !>ccn the j salt water terminal for 8210 carloads of j wheat, measuring about 0,000,000 bushels, \ The inspector's report states it is esti | mated that about 75 per cent of the crop ; has been moved. Montana. The business men of Great Falls arc or ganizing to push the Kdmoiiton route to the Yukon. The Montana State College of Agricul lure lias just received three dynamos, which constitute the initial equipment of its electrical laboratory, and they will also be used for lighting the college build ings. i The Billings committee to raise the subscription toward the Sisters' hospital report the full amount of $3000 subscrib ed and the offer of several eligible sites free. The Big Horn basin ranges are reported to be in fairly good condition and the winter thus far has been extremely favor iflble to stock interests. There are in the neighborhood of 100,000 head of sheep being wintered in the basin, about half of vhicb were driven in last fall from Yel lowstone county. The Milk River valley, in Montana, is looking forward to a pro*perous year. The wool growers have the most encourage ing prospect of years. There will not be so many range cattle shipped in, but the ranchmen will increase the number of their holdings and improve the quality of the stock. A new departure was made in court procedure by Attorney Lyter of Great Falls a few days ago. He was to have submitted an argument before the district court at Choteau, but being detained at home by sickness, Mr. Lyter addressed his remarks to Judge Smith, at Choteau, over the telephone. Active work has begun on the extension of the railroad to Lewiston. Thirty two men are making their headquarters at Kendrick. At present they are taking track alK>ve town and taking it to a point below Juliaetta, where it is used to riprap along the track. Stock shipments over the Burlington last week were the largest in the history of that road, Besides some 700 cars of sheep and cattle transferred from the Northern Pacific, the Burlington handled nearly WXiO cars of stock received for ship* I inent lietween Billings and Newcastle, a distance of 301 miles. The Billings yards alone contributed 1400 ears of beef cattle and feeders and 401 double dedfc cars of sheep. Tn addiJi«%Lthere 400 |<y " '* *•"•« * s ship'Htrfn over {he -l J for the city of Butte for the year 18117. i The report shows the total number of deaths during the year to have been 471. or a little less than 1 per cent of the city's j population. The report further shows that out of the total number of deaths, | ;{l3 were males and 158 females. As class ! iticd among diseases or causes the report i shows 42 have resulted from pneumonia: mining accidents, 33: other accidents, 3: | consumption, .'JO: suicides, 20. The late W. (J. Latimer was a pi< necr of pioneers in King county. He built the ; tirst liou.-e that was used for school pur | poses in King county. It was located on ■ the back end of the lot where the Sullivan ; block stands now. Mr. Latimer built the house iu 1853, and in the spring of 1851 turned it over to Mrs. I). K. Blaine for a school house. It was iu Mr. !«atimcr's house that the tirst regular church ser ' vices were held iu Seattle. Hev. I). K. ! Blaine was the otliciatiug clergyman. Hi* I tirst sermon was delivered on the first j Sunday of December. 1853. Mr. Latimcr was one of those who helped load the first 1 vessel that sailed awav with a load of Puget sound lumber. He served King county as treasurer from 188*2 to 1800. Idaliu. | The officials at the Nez Perie agency arc now engaged in preparing the roll* for the semi-anuual Indian payment. The dis bursement. amounting to about $80,000, will be made about March Ist. The bonded indebtedness of Kootenai | county, by the treasurer's re port to the board of county commissioners, is $144,000. Of this amount $0000 bears 8 per cent, $0000 7 per cent, and the re mainder 0 |>er cent interest. The entire sum becomes due within the next 17 years. The greatest amount to l>e paid iu any sin gle year is in 1000. when $10,240 becomes due. The record of mortgages released in La tah county during December shows that fully $00,000 of mortgage indebtedness has been discharged. It is estimated that fully $150,000 of mortgages has been paid during the six months from July to Jan uary. With a considerable proportion of the wheat crop still unsold, it docs not seem an exaggeration to put the amount of mortgages that will have been paid lu the year following July 1, 1807, at $250.- 000 to $.100,000. The report that three men were drown ed in the Pend d'Oreille river near Mr. Markham's ranch has been confirmed. The names of the men an? Carl flagan, (. Randall and O. Hawkland. The three men were in a boat which became fouled in some thin ice. U. J. Sage, who lives down the river, beard the men shouting about 0 o'clock in the evening and tried to get to them, but found that impossible. The empty boat was afterward recovered, with "oiiip letters and •» Swedish Wide The bodies have not been recovered. The justices of the supreme court, who are the custodian* of the state law library, are making energetic efforts to improve it. They have recently secured a full set of the Lawyers' Reports, annotated. The funds for the improvement of the library have all been derived from the fees paid by attorneys, but a new resource has just been discovered. Section 807 of the Re vised Statutes makes a continuing appro priation of $150 a year for the library. Since the admisHioti of the state this ap propriation has not been drawn until now. The matter was recently taken up and (In justices have directed the auditor to cred it the library with the appropriation for all the intervening years. This will give the library something over $1000, wiiicl. will l»e immediately available. ORDERED TO YUKON RIVER. Moil lien \ew« to Mounted Police CnunfN tiree-t Kneltement. Salt I-ike, Feb. 7.—A special to tlio Tribune from Butte, Mont., says: Information received from Lethbridge, on the Canadian boundary, is to the effect that great excitement has been canned there by orders received from the domin ilon government tlint ever}' man of Ihe mounted police hold himself in readiness to proceed to the Yukon at a moment'* notice for temporary duty. Superintendent Dean has received no tice to go to McLeod *o relieve Major Steel, who was ordered to the Yukon and had left for that place before the arrival of the second mewage. Five men were also ordered to the Yukon ami left yester day. The orders, which were received by wire by the officers in command from the division, are said to l>c due to the exist ence of serious trouble between the Can | adian and United States authorities in Alaska relative to the attempt by the ; Americans to g<4 provisions into the Yu kon free of duty, ostensibl> for the relief I of distress, but in reality for sale to the | highest bidders. JAPAN TO INVADE KLONDIKE. Five TtiouNfind I.n liorera Will De ne end I'pon Daw won Clt> . San Francisco, Feb. 8. The Cull Hays: "Japan in going t«> invade the Klondike. A standing army of 5000 a ble-bodied la borers is being got together for the gold fields and in a month or ho they will make a descent upon Dawson City. One of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Ht<»ainers w ill bring them here, but as they will not land on the soil of the United States, there H-ill l»e no one to say them nay unlets Great Britain taken a hand. One qflftfce Japan ese steamer*" that has been carrying la in rem will be used to carry the men to their destination It is added that the Japanese will be brought over by a syn dicate, and trouble 011 the Klondike i* predicted." Captain W. H. Hall la l)rail. San Fran< isco Feb. 7.—Captain \V. G. Hall, the shipbuilder an'i designer, die t yesterday morning at h.s home in this city, lie was one oi me be-*' known men in »hippinp circles on t! [r « <ml*v 1 and his shipyards turned out many of the fast 1 est vessel* o( the sailing fleet. AlltT HeJCoiildn't F * [ San Franciani, Feb " 1 hi» inability i navigation. J Cjie Vl»i- WRECKONNORIRN PACIFIC CARS WENT THROUGH TRESTLE Killed Two TrainpM Wlio Were llcatliiu Their Way. n Third Se riously Injured nud a Fourth Sllithtly II ruined—lt una la k Cau tiously I nder Slow Orders. Pasco, Wash., Fob. 7.—The east bound passenger train on the Northern Pacific went through a turtle a few miles west |of Council about 4 o'clock yesterday i morning. Four men were beating their way at the time. Two were killed, one ! >ei ioiisly injured and the fourth slightly | bruised. One of the mail clerks received a slight cut upon the head, the other ! trainmen and the passergers escaping un hurt. The dead are .John (Julvert and I*. J. I*e land. The injured man gave his name a* Peter Smith. On (Jul vert's body were found letters of rccommcndaticn from the superintendent of the Sutro Street Railway Company, Sail Francisco, and from the Duliith Street Kailwav Company, also a shipping receipt for a l>ox from Taeonui to Bos ton, and a telegram to him fi*oin Bos ton saying "Come at once," and signed "G. S." A small note I>ook was taken from Ice land's coat, on the first page of which was written: "Diary of P. J. Leland, from Los Angeles to St. Loflis." This contained an account of his trip up to the night before his death. There were al so letters of recommendation from parties in both cities. Coroner If. <>antcnhcin went to the scene of the wreck 011 an extra train ami returned during the after noon with the bodies of the dead. Kverv effort is being made to locate relatives. The injured man claims to have been aboard the steamer Corona, recently wrecked during the passage to Alaska, losing his outfit in this wreck. He was endeavoring to beat his way home when overtaken by a second disaster. Water from melting snow has l>ocn giv ing considerable trouble for the past few days, and the train was proceeding cau tiously under slow orders. Had it l>oen running at the usual speed many more must have been killed and injured. The engine and mail ear of the wrecked train are lying upon their sides in the ditch. The express and baggage cars, also n tourist sleeper, are derailed. The remain der of the train was brought, back to Pasco and proceeded east over the O. R. St X. BLOODY SHIRTS DISCOVERED. KtlilnUlr n roul Trim** Wiim Coiii uilltcil \eiir I'n I <111 ni" Htver. Colfax, Wash., Feb. 7.- Kvidcnce of what is undoubtedly a foul murder was discovered near here yesterday by K. K. l/oyd, while walking along the I'alouse river, one mile west of Colfax. Loyd's attention was attracted by a pile of cloth ing lying in the mud by the river bank, lie picked up one of the garments, which proved to Ist a white shirt, ami further search revealed another white shirt and an undershirt. In these was wrapped a pocket book and diary. In the former were two drafts issued by the Banco tie Occi dent of Mexico on the Anglo-Califoruian bailk, limited, of San Francisco, payable to/John Hchicss, for $000 each. The drafts were written ami printed in Spanish and were dated May 2. 1802. There was als-i what ap|>carcd to lie a copy of a deed or contract written in Spanish at (Guatemala, and signed by Juan M. Iliibin, also n cer tificate from the clerk of the court of Multnomah county, Oregon, that the fore going was a true copy of the declaration of intention to become a citizen of the t'liited States. The copy stuck to the pocketbook and was so badly torn it could not lie read. The certificate was signed by \V. If. Harris, the clerk of Multnomah county, Oregon, dated September 14. 1892. One of the shirts was covered with blood and had five clean-cut holes, tin doubtcdly cut by a knife. The boles were in various parts of the garments, as if made during a struggle. Around the neck of the shirt was a great deal of blood and blood stains were plainly visible around each hole in the garment. From the ap)>carance of the clothes, they had lain there a long time, and had probably l»ccn washed by the river, as they were filled with dirt, and the pocketbook was thoroughly soaked. All the writing was in Spanish except the certificate mention ed above. The two bank drafts were neat ly executed on fine paper, but appeared to have l»een in the water a long time, and the corners were badly worn. Thre is no doubt that a murder has In'cn committed and evidences of the crime thrown into the river, which at last gave up its secret. The pocketbook was wrapped in a flour sack, and around this was wrapped the two shirts. Deputy Sheriff Matlock was notified and went out to Loyd's house at the fair grounds and examined the papers and garments, hanging the latter in a stall near the race track to dry. John Schiess was undoubtedly the own er of the property, and it is presumed he wijs murdered. When some one is found who can rend Spanish the identity <<f the dead man may learned. Hntlf Mlm-r %»i»h> vlated. I San FraiU'ihco. Feb. 7. Sam Martino vitch. a miner from liutte City, Mont.. | was found dead in his r<» 111 at a hotel having l>een asphyxiated by gas. A draft foi $000 was found in one of his pocket* and there is no reason to suspect that death was not accidental. Vioand for Ala«k<«. Victoria. B. C., Feb. 7.—The steamer Queen left yesterday morning with 500 miners for the Yukon. She will be fol lowed today" by the Danube with over inure " ' /ic poor relation < *n wonders if the %* ' • * SAVANNAH'S EPIDEMIC OF FIRE Dm matte of l|ll2<Vaoo l»> Fin men StnrtliiK la a Hay Wiirelioune. ' Savannah, (ia., Feb. 7. Savannah's epi- I dciuic of lire continues. Damage to the amount of $125,000 was caused by a lire which started in a hay warehouse on the wharf at the foot of Jefferson street. The lire started iu the hay in the warehouse jiiiid threatened to be a large conflagration I by the time the alarm was turned in. The tire communicated to several brick buildings on Ray street and three of them were entirely gutted. The heaviest loss was sustained by Charles t'onklin & Co., who carries a $100,000 stock of hardware, ' with an insurance of $75,000. There have been a dozen tires here within the last two weeks and there is considerable talk of iirchug*. Before the tire which broke out in the i liav warehouse had Im>cu brought under I control, flames burst out in the magnili j cent Cathedral of St. John, the Raptist, I the seat of the Catholic church in the i Mate <>f Georgia, and it was soon a mass of ruins. All of the lire engines iu the city were engaged at the other fires. 1 lie conse- I qucncc was that it was nearly an hour I before an engine arrived to turn a stream on the valuable property that was fast going to waste, or other property around that needed protection. The tremendous shower of sparks that was carried up in the heat for an hour or more fell in the square and on other buildings made a grand spectacle. The fire started in the organ loft and spread rapidly through the church. Everything was removed from ■ the rooms in the vicinity and it was only ] after a struggle that they were saved/ At midnight the destruction of the ca- j thcdral was complete. The cathedral costi $22,000 and was insured for $6000. It was one of the finest ecclesiastical struc tures iu the south. The edifice contained many works of art. all of which were saved. SAYS HE DID IT FOR REVENGE. liflrw Confesses to the Murder of a llrot her anil Sinter. Fairfield, Gal., Feb. 0. —Frank IWew has ; confessed that he in a fratricide—a double ! murderer. On the 9th of last November 1 the little town of Dixon was thrown into a condition of extraordinary excitement by the dent ha from poisoning of S-oimi Be lew and his sister, Susie, who lived in the name house, Bruno Klein, an employe of Heli w, was also poisoned, but recov ered after a severe illness, Louia and Miss lielcw were each engaged be mar tied, and suspicion of having placed in the water kettle the |>oison which caused their deaths at first, fell ti|M»u a rejected suitor « f Miss lielcw. This man waa not arrest ed, however, the officers being satisfied of his innocence. Detectives worked secret ly on the case and were soon convinced that Frank Hclcw had murdered his brother and sister because he had been disinherited and coveted their property. The authorities were aided by Frank's brother-in-law, John \V. Bird, who alleged that Frank had tonfessed his guilt to him. Frank lielcw was arrested on Thursday night and at Hot protested his innocence, denouncing Bird as » deliberate falsifier. The officers predicted that Itelcw would weaken ill jail, and iH'fore he had been in his eell IS hours he had told the story of the poisoning twice to reporters iu the presence of two different jail oflieials. At first Hclcw said he did not know why he had committed the crime, but subsequent Iv said: "I guess I killed them for re veuge; they had slandered my wife." The officers are unwilling to admit that j Ik-lew's motive attained the dignity of re j veuge, insisting that he committed the J murder through cupidity and for the sole! i purpose of securing the six or seven thou jsaiul dollars possessed by his brother and i lister. SILVER AS A LEGAL TENDER. To Teal the Conalltatlonnllf > of the llliiml-Allison Ai'l, Detroit. Mich., Feb. 8. Fred A- linker, a prominent attorney of Detroit, has filed an annuel to a suit brought against him in the Oakland county circuit court, in volving the constitutionality of the Hland- Allison act and other lawn pertaining to silver an a legal tender. Stephen Kaldwin bought a farm upon which Mr. Baker held a mortgage that hccamc due to the amount of $.'lO4, in cluding intereHt. Mr. Ba'dwin tendered Mr. llaker '104 silver dollar* and asked for the cancellation of the mortgage. Mr. Itaker refused to surrender the mortgage for the 364 silver dallars, but agreed to cancel it if he received enough silver dol lar* to equal the present bullion value of silver of 304 gold dollars. This condition was declined by Mr. Baldwin and he filed a suit in equity, asking for a decree com manding Mr. Maker to cancel the mort gage in view of the tender made. In the answer Mr. Itaker submits that under the power "to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins and fix the standard of weights and mean ures," the congress of the United States has no in< re authority or power as far as pre-existing contracts for the payment of money are concerned to diminish or increase the number of grains of pure gold or pure silver in the dollar, in which a contract has been lawfully expressed I than it has to pre-existing contracts to change the number of grains in an ounce or the numlier of inches in a foot, or feet in a yard, or to change any other stand ard of weights and measures. Several of the leading attorneys of Detroit are in terested in the case. K nlit Ifiit Mllla to Hriumr. S. 11.. Feb. 7. The Wintluop knitting mill* at Lakeport. which have l»een cloned down for several month)*, re sumed operation* today on full time. l4vunolhe Works Fiiilrd. Providence. R. 1.. Feb. 5 The Khude Island loeotnotive work* filed a petition in ituolvency yesterday, placing the assets PROCEEDINGS Of ffl» DISCUSS THE NATION S AFFAIRS I.CMilern In llotli lira iii lit-n n( tlic \n • I«»■!«• I I.etf lalnttir** (oiimiiui** Tiuiv In Talk us Well an Trailhiiof Some I'llbllc llualne»«—W lint lla» Keen Hone. One of tin* features of Thur*da> '•> se« 1 "ion of tin* somite was a speei h by Senator J I'alTery of Louisiana in |»|m»i tof tlit? • resolution reported by the I'ominitti'e on (elections, declaring that Henry \V. t'or- I bett is not entitled to a sent in tin- -ciialei I from Oregon. Mr. t'orbctt Mas appoint / j I'd liy the governor of Oregon after the I failure of tin* legislature to i*li*rt to sin jeeed Senator Mitchell. Senator t'atfery I I'hiinied that no governor had tin* an thority to appoint a man to till a varan< v I —a vaeimey beginning with a new term . after the legihlaturc had had an opportnn- " ! ity to eleet and failed to do so. The ag lii'iilt lira I bill was tinder consideration I during the greater part of the afternoon ™ i and finally passed. After a brief e\e< I ntive session the senate adjourned. In the house the consideration of the 1 fortifications appropriation bill was re snmed. The debate drifted into politics and Mr. Itnrkc, democrat, of Texas, and Mr. Grosvenor, republican, of Ohio, joined | issue on the subject of McKinley pros ! perity. (•riinllnK Hlnlitn of Wn). In the house a bill was passed if amend the act of January 31, IHftfl, pant in# rights of way through the public do main for tramways, canals and reservoirs, so as to grant those lights to cities and private corporations. At present, the rights of way arc given only for mining and irrigation purposes. The senate passed a bill providing for the erection of a public building at Menu niont, Tex., at a cost not to exceed $HN),- (MM). Senator Lindsay then took the floor to speak on the resolution of the Ken tucky legislature, asking him to resign. The senator review his votes against sil ver in fhe extra session of 1800, which repealed the purchasing clause of the Sherman act, and continued: "In the discussion of the bill I declared 1 would vote for no amendment which merely experimented with a change of ratio or that did not provide reasonable safeguards to insure the maintenance of the parity of gold and silver dollars. I stand tinlay precisely where I stood then, when I received the unanimous indorse rtient of the democrats in K»* .iiickv for senator. If those who were in accord with me four years ago are not so today it is because they have changed then opinions; but I protest against being de nounced as a betra\er of my tmst be cause my views remain unchanged." The I senate adjourned until Monday. CoilMl l-'orf mention**. The somite was not in session Satur l day. The house during it* rutin l session had under consideration the hill milking ap propriations for fortifications ami coast defenses. Little interest MS'iticd to he mai)ifc^t«ml in the proceedings, less than one half of the member* being present during the wwion. Tin* hill wan passed hy (ho house currying $4,110,102, agaiimt $0,157,141 last. year. Teller F»v«rn Anu<• \n f lon. Senator Toller of Colorado iH-im ,h| the entire three hour* of the »e* nion in the senate Monday in discumriiig the Hawaiian annexation treaty.- During I lie course of hin H|H*eeh in favor of an ucxiition, Senator Teller took occasion to nay that he should have lieen glad to dis cuss the treaty in open session. and to the remark lie added the opinion that the time had almost come wVn the question of annexation should lie debated on a hill looking to legislation l»y hotli liouhom of congress rather than on the basis « »f the treaty. While he thought there might he a hare |K>ssibility of receiving the nee essary tW) vote* to ratify the treaty, he conceded that under the present circum stances this wan exceedingly doubtful, and he thought the xooncr the faet wan recog nized and a change of front made, the bet ter it would In* from all |>oints of view. The house panned the military academy hill with only one more important amend ment. The debate on the measure was desultory and touched a variety of po litical topic*. Am pax Mcd, the bill carries 143 A.540, being $20,032 less than the amount carried bv the current law. The bill to limit the periow for the refunding of the certificate* of def>o»it of |n7O t.» Doecmlicr .'II, 1H1H». was passed. NORTHERN PACIFIC BOUGHT IT Tnken In KlfO-Fhe Mile* of Track In Xontnnn. Anaconda, Mont.. Feb. 0. The Anacmi da Standard, on private inf< rmation re ceived from New York, announces the nale of the Montana I'nion milroad to the Northern Pacific. The tcrma are not vet made public. The Montana I'nion in a connecting link in Montana between tin* I'liion Pa cific's terminus near Hutteand the North ern Pacific line at (iarrison. The load in about 55 mile* long. It wan operated originally under a joint arrangement l»v the I'iiion Paeillc :ni<L the Northern Pa cific. The purchase in of importance, an it makes complete the Northern Pacific's through line from St. Paul I<» the coast via the ci(ie* of ltutte and Anaconda. \V. 11. Iturns. president and general manager of the Montana I'nion. who has declined to confirm the report of the mile, ha* left for New York, and it is reported from that city that promptly ou his ar rival there the formal transfer will lie made. OfKth of lieu, .loltn <«wl»ran*. New York. Feb. 8. (icnerul John Cochrane died last night at his home in this city. General Cochrane was in IHtW nominated for vice president of the Unit jed States on tiie independent republican I ticket. 15ener.il John Fremont beinc NO. 2.