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VOL. XXII.— NO. 81.
BAOTTOFDEATH
PAXIC-STRICKBX WOMEN IN OMA
HA PACE A WALL, OP BLIND
ING FLAME*
PATTERSON BLOCK DESTROYED
IT WAS CROWDED WITH WOMEN
lU'SY WITH AFFAIRS OF THE
MACCABEES
FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH
Bluze Started From a Gasoline Stove
l.xplosion Flame* Sot Discov
ered Intil They Had Spread to
Adjoin I tin Apartments Elevator
Shaft Roared Like a Furnace
Escape Through Blinding Smoke.
OMAHA, Neb., March 21 -Comparative
ly insignificant in material destruction,
but appalling in Its harvest of death and
Buffering was a flre that partially de
stroyed the Patterson block at Seven
teenth and Douglas streets this afternoon.
Two of the victims have already passed
away, one more is not expected to live
and about twenty others are suffering
from broken limbs and burned and lac
erated fiesh.
The killed:
MRS. THOMAS TAYLOR.
MRS. ANNA SCHAMEL.
The injured:
Mrs. C. F. Broslus, face and hands
burned.
Mrs. A King, face badly burned.
Mrs. A. L. Samuelson, face and hands
severely burned, both wrists broken.
May SHmuelson, live years, burned on
hands and face.
Mrs. G. D. Wilson, face, hands and
shoulders burned.
Mrs. J. C. Holt, face and hands burned.
Marguerite Holt, hands burned, in
jured internally, may die.
Mrs. Mary Hopkins, face and head bad
tj burned.
Mrs. Mary Sullivan, hands and face se
verely burned.
Mrs. W. A. Rex. hands and face se
verely burned.
Mrs. Ed Schiner, face, body and hands
burned, bad cut on head, will probably
die.
Mrs. French, South Omaha, face and
liands burned.
Mrs. A. A. Smith, face and hands badly
burned, injuries probably fatal.
Mrs. C. E. Allen, face and hands
burned, cut by glass.
Mrs. Thomas Thornton, face and hands
burned severely.
Walter Scott, hands and face severely
burned.
Unknown man, badly burned on hands
and face.
Steve Williams, five years, face and
hands burned.
Fireman William Gauder, suffocated
and fell from ladder; internal injuries;
will probably die.
Lieut. James Adams, injured about hips
by falling down stairs.
MIRTH TO MOURNING.
A group of happy women, busy with the
affairs of the secret orders with which
they were affiliat?d, were in a moment
brought face to face with death. Sixty
ccconds later seven of them lay burned
and bleeding on the pavements, to which
they had dropped, forty feet below, and
the others were rescued after they had
been more or less severely Injured in their
desperate dash down the single pair of
Ft airs that led to safety.
The blaze started after 3 o'clock from
a gasoline stove explosion in a room in
the rear of the third floor of the build
ing, and next to the elevator shaft. It
was not discovered until it had spread to
the adjoining apartments, and the entire
floor way filled with smoke and flame.
About twenty members of the women's
lodge of Maccabees were attending a
meeting in the waiting room in the front
of the middle of the building on the same
floor. They were unconscious of danger
until a janitor threw open the door and
told them to get out before the flames
cut them off. The warning came too late.
The flre swept through the door and
down the single stairway. Those nearest
the door fled through the blinding smoke
and reached the street with hands and
face burned and blistered. The rest faced
a solid wall of flame.
LEAP OR BURN. .
There was a flre escape at the south
front of the building, but none of them
Eeemed to have thought of it. They rush
ed panic-stricken to the windows through
which the smoke was already pouring In
suffocating puffs. The fire was scarcely
rt>. foot behind them. It caught their
clothing and scorched their faces with
increasing intensity. In another Instant
the spectators, attracted by the clouds
of smoke, were horrified to see one after
another springing from the open windows
and falling heavily to the pavement. Not
one arose. They lay inert and apparent
ly lifeless until carried into the office of
a physician, across the street. Most of
them were bleeding from severe cuts and
bruises, and all were burned until their
torn and blackened skin hung in shreds.
In a few minutes all except Mrs. Taylor
recovered consciousness, and physicians
and nurses hastily summoned did all that
was possible to relieve their sufferings.
As fast as hasty dressings could be ap
plied the victims were taken to the
Clarkson hospital by the ambulances. Th»
body of Mrs. Taylor was taken to the
morgue, and others whose injuries were
less severe were treated at neighboring
drug stores and at the offices of down
town physicians.
MONEY LOSS SLIGHT.
Aside from the fatalities and the In
juries to persons the flre was not a
serious one. Few of the losers are able
to place an eaxct estimate on their losses,
but the total will not exceed $50,000. The
loss on the building is less than half
that sum and aside from that the
heaviest losers are the proprietors of the
Boston store, who had a large surplus
Btock in the basement of the block. The
loss of the various secret societies that
occupy the halls on the second and third
floorß is largely by water and smoke and
Is difficult to estimate. One lodge of the
A. O. U. W,, two lodges of Redmen, two
lodges of the degree of honor, four lodges
of Maccabees and several others lost
regalia and various articles of furniture.
The building is Insured up to the 30 per
cent clause and most of the other losses
ere largely covered by insurance.
At midnight the injured are doing as
well as could be expected with the ex
ception of Mrs. Ed Schrlner, Mrs. Ed
Smith and W. W. Scott, all of whom In
all probability cannot recover.
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WAKE ISLAND ATOLL.
lloiv I'ncle Sam Came Into Peaceful
Pociaesaion of the Property.
WASHINGTON, March 21.— The condi
tions under which Wake island, midway
between Honolulu and the Philippines,
was taken possession of in the name of
the United States, by the commander of
the Bennington, on her voyage across the
Pacific, are given in a report to the navy
department from Commander TausslK,
dated at sea two motnhs ago. The officer
says he approached the island with the
navigator at the masthead, steaming
slowly along the southern and eastern
sides to discover signs of habitation and
looking In vain for an anchorage. He did
not circumnavigate the island, but, see
ing that the outlet on the north was
barred not only by a wall of ccral but
also by a sandspit, he returned to the lee
of the island. A landing was made at 1
o'clock on the 17th of January and a flag
pole was raised. Besides some pieces of
wreckage, no signs of human occupation
were visible. On the eastern side of the
island, imbedded in the sand, an anchor
was seen, and what appeared to be the
wreck of a lower mast was high up on
the beach.
When the flagstaff t was in place the
sailors were formed In two ranks, facing
seaward, and, having called all to witness
that the island was not in the possession
of any nation. Commander Taussig or
dered the American flag to be raised by
Ensign Wettengel. Upon reaching the
truck the flag was saluted by twenty
one guns from the Bennington. After the
salute the fla£ was nailed to the mast
head with battens, and a brass plate
with the following inscription was
screwed to the base of the flagstaff:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
William McKinley, President.
John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy.
Commander Edward D. Taussig, U. S.
N., commanding the U. S. S. Ben
nington, on this 17th day of January,
1599, took possession of the atoll
known as Wake Island for the
United States of America.
FATALLY BURNED.
Explosion of Powder Wrecks a
Building and Kills Two Children.
DEWITT, Ark., March 21.— A terrible
explosion occurred here this afternoon as
a result of which two children are In a
dying condition, several other persons are
badly hurt, and property to the value of
several thousands is destroyed. The ex
plosion occurred in the store of S. L.
Leslie and entirely wrecked the building.
There were about a dozen people In the
building at the time, including Mr. Les
lie's family and some customer*. Two
of Leslie' b children were fatally burned.
The others in the store were more or
less injured, several badly. It Is sup
posed the explosion was caused by the
children playing in the store who acci
dentally set fire to a keg of powder.
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RICE ADMITS IT.
Say« He Offered to Sell His Proper
ties to the Standard Oil Company.
NEW YORK, March 21.— The hearing in
the case of the state of Ohio, ex rel. F.
S. Monett, attorney general, against the
Buckeye Pipe line company, of Lima, 0..
was resumed today in the office of
Charles Edgar Mills, sitting as special
commissioner. Attorney General Monett
conducted his side of the case. Messrs.
Elliott and Kline appeared for the com
pany.
Mr. Rice, replying to the attorney gen
eral's invitation that he make a state
ment, read from a lengthy manuscript:
"It is true," he said, "that in 1886, on
their solicitation, I did submit a proposi
tion to sell all of my oil properties, not
only my retinery, but production as well
for the sum stated."
Mr. Bice quoted from the letters of Mr.
Archbold, already published, to show
that the Standard Oil company had had
his proposition under consideration.
The Standard company, Mr. Rice said,
by its control of the railroads has raised
the freight rates so that it was impossi
ble for him to carry on his business.
"In 1856," he said, "the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern connections raised
their freight rates on me from 50 to 162
per cent, and none on the Standard Oil
trust, which closed up fourteen of my
agencies out of twenty-four in five
months and shut me out of over half
the towns in which I was doing business."
"Is it not a fact," asked Mr. Kline,
"that in IS9O you sent to the Standard
Oil company, through Mr. Orvis, an of
fer to accept $000,000" 'for all your oil prop
erties, agreeing, if the offer was accept
ed, to abate litigation?"
"Yes, I guess 1 did.''
Mr. Rice's testimony to the same effect,
given at the hearing in Columbus, was
read to him, and he said it was correct.
OYSTER TRUST A FACT.
Bivalves Will Be Controlled by a
Capitalization of Over $3,000,000.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 21.— 1n
Jersey City tomorrow, under the laws of
the state of New Jersey, an organiza
tion will be formed which will control
the oyster grounds on both sides of Long
Island sound, the New York and New
Jersey bays, where oysters are grown;
the oyster farms of Narragansett bay
and Rhode island and the oyster grounds
of Massachusetts. The new combination,
It is said, will have a capital of over
$5,000,000
WEDNESDAY MORNING/MARCH 22, 1899.
SHERMAN IS ALIVE
REPORT THAT HE WAS DEAD AB
SOLUTELY WITHOUT FOUN
DATION
ALL WASHINGTON IS EXCITED
NO ONE APPEARS TO KNOW HOW
THE Hi 'MO II OF HIS DEMISE
ORIGINATED
NEWS CAME FROM NEW YORK
Contradiction Did Not Ajrlve Until
After 8 O'clock; Last Evening
The Venerable Wife of the Stntes
man Doea Not Know That He Has
Been 111 Secretary Hay Says It
Is a Marvelous State of Affair*.
WASHINGTON, March 21.— Seldom has
official Washington been more complete
ly stirred by conflicting emotions than it
was today by the announcement, first, of
the death of Hon. John Sherman, and
then by the contradiction of the report,
which came a few hours later, the one
giving a relief which was as marked as
the sorrow produced by the other.
The first report, which came from New
York, was received at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon and was circulated in the de
partments just before they closed for the
day. The announcement seemed to fol
low naturally the other cablegrams of the
day, stating that the venerable state
man's conditions had grown worse since
yesterday, and there was a universal ex
pression of regret, and, in many cases, of
personal distress over the news. Cabinet
ministers, senators and members of the
house expressed deep sorrow, speaking
not only in terms of admiration and re
spect for the ex-senator's public career,
but dwelling with loving kindness upon
his personal character.
REPORT CONTRADICTED.
The contradiction of the first report did
not arrive until 8:30 o'clock. It came to
the Associated Press in the shape of a
positive statement from Santiago, made
in the knowledge that the report of the
senator's death had been circulated.
This dispatch was Immediately given as
wide circulation in the city as It was
possible for it to receive at that hour.
Secretary Hay was placed in possession
of a copy of the dispatch denying the re
port of ex-Secretary Sherman's death.
"A most marvelous condition of af
fairs," remarked the secretary. He then
proceeded to express his great relief that
the first news was not confirmed.
The news of the reported death of Mr.
Sherman took many persons, friends and
others, to hie house on X street. Among
others who were congregated there when
the representative of the Associated
Press called were the two former private
secretaries of Senator Sherman, Mr. Bab
cock and Mr. Vaile, as well as Miss Kate
Willick, niece, and Mrs. Col. Charles
Hoyt, whose husband was a cousin of
Senator Sherman. They and others pres
ent read the dispatch, stating that the
senator was still alive, with tremulous
Joy.
HEARTFELT REJOICINGS.
Te reading of the glad message had
scarcely been concluded by those present
than Mrs. McCollum, the adopted daugh
ter of Senator and Mrs. Sherman, burst
into the room, accompanied by the
daughter of Gen. Miles. They had re-*
celved a telephone message from the
Associated Press, while at Gen. Miles'
THE PRESIDENT TAKES A VACATION.
house, and had hurried over to impart
it to the rest of the family.
"It has been a trying day," said Mrs.
McCollum, "but all is well again."
Indeed there were heartfelt rejoicings
and thanksgivings on the part of those
who had assembled at the house when
they realized It was true that the invalid
was better and might yet be restored to
them. Mrs. Sherman is the one person
of the senator's household who suffered
neither from the first announcement or
rejoiced over the second. She was not
informed of either. Mrs. Sherman has
been quite ill from a paralytic attack for
several months and had never been in
formed even of the senator's serious ill
ness, for fear of its effect upon her. It
was felt when the news of his death
came today that it would have to be bro
ken to her, but all hesitated to make the
announcement. It was ultimately decid
ed to postpone the sad duty until to
morrow. She was thus saved the shock
TELEGRAMES OF CONDOLENCE.
Already many telegrams of condolence
and personal calls of sympathy had been
received at the house. Prompt measures
were taken by the Associated Press to
inform the prominent officials of the ad
ministration and others of the safe ar
rival of Mr. Sherman, at Santiago, and
it was with a feeling of genuine grati
fication and satisfaction that this news
was received, supplemented by an ex
pression of hope that Mr. Sherman would
entirely recover.
When the report of Mr. Sherman's
death was first circulated today, an As
sociated Press representative called at
the Sherman residence. . *Ha was received
by Mrs. McCollum, who was asked if the
report was confirmed. Bhe Bald:
"Yes; I have heard from the state de
partment that he is dead."
Mrs. McCollum addedjthat she did not
know where the state department receiv
ed this information.
At half past 12 o'clock tonight Mr. Mc-
Callum, the husband of ex-Secretary
Sherman's adopted daughter, said nothing
had been received at the house from
friends aboard fhe Paris regarding the in
valid's condition.
MILES IN BOSTON.
Receives the Good Newa That Sec
retary Sherman Is Alive.
BOSTON, March 21.— Maj. Gen. Nelson
A. Miles visited the legislature this af
ternoon. He first was received by the
senate, where he made a brief address.
He then went to the house, where a sim
ilar programme was carried out. Each
branch took a recess after Gen. Miles had
addressed them, during which the mem
bers were presented to .he visitor. Just
after leaving the state house one of the
afternoon papers, containing the an
nouncement, that Mr. SiiL-rman had died,
•was shown to Gen. Miles. Unfortunately
the contradictory report was not receiv
ed for some hours later, ctnd while Gen.
Miles expressed his intention of carry
ing out the day's programme, Mrs. Miles
requested that her numerous engage
ments should be canceled. This was
done at once and ehe returned to the
hotel very much depressed over the sad
news. A few hours later a representa
tive of the Associated Press brought her
the welcome news that Mr. Sherman was
still alive.
In the meantime. Gen. Miles, despite
the heavy weight of loss on his mind,
bravely stood the test of hours of hand
shaking at the Algonquin club, previous
to the banquet in the same club house by
the Merchants' club, a dining organiza
tion. In the midst of the festivities the
Associated Press dispatch was shown to
him and he at once expressed his great
Joy at the good news.
FOR H?S LIFE.
Dentist Kennedy ota Trial for the
Murder of Dolly Reynolds.
NEW YORK, March Sl.— Dr. Samuel
J. Kennedy, the dentist-accused of the
murder of Emeline C. Rflynolds, appeared
for trial today in the criminal branch of
the supreme court. "Dolly" Reynolds
was found murdered in a room at the
Grand hotel, this city, on Aug. 16, 1898.
There were wounds on the head and at
the base of the skull. Her neck had been
broken. The weapon used was a piece
of cable covered with lead and wrapped
with tape. It was bent like a hook at
one end. Under the dead woman's corset
was found a check for $13,000 signed Dud
ley Green and Indorsed, by Samuel I. J.
Kennedy. This aroused. suspicion against
Kennedy and led to his arrest. Five
Jurors were secured before adjournment.
THREE ARE- BEAD.
Horrible Effects of the Explosion of
a Sawmill Boiler.
CUMBERLAND, Md., March 21.— Word
was received here today of the explosion
of the sawmill boiler at tv« plant of Hud
son Strauss, near Mattle"; fifteen miles
north of Cumberland, killing; PMfletus
Wink, Daniel Snyder Jr., engineer, and
a man named Shuss, who was a sawyer,
and wounding John Snyder, Harry Slegl
and Anthony Whitfield'. •
The boiler had been in use many years.
The fly wheel, weighing about a ton, was
thrown a great distance. The big steel
saw was broken Into bitsr. Snyder was
horribly crushed and blown about a hun
dred feet, and Wink's head was blown
off. John Snyder" s condition Is serious.
The mill was almost entirely obliterated.
Siegl, who was within i ten feet of the
boiler, escaped with a broken leg.
CLOSED LNCIDiSNT.
Gen. Wheeler Refuses to Discuss the
Battle of Las Gnaslmas.
NEW YORK, March 21.— Gen. Joseph
Wheeler, who is at present in this city,
refused today to discuss any further the
subject of the battle of Las Guasimas.
"I think," he said to a reporter, "the
«r St. Louis. Republic.
statement which I sent to the war de
partment and which the department has
seen fit to publish covers the whole
ground of controversy. I am in too deli
cate a position to say anything further,
even if there were anything more to say.
"It was at least due ta the n«n in my
division that the statement should be
made and those officers should not be al
lowed to reßt under a cloud of misunder
standing."
FATAL RUNAWAY.
Hack Team Becomes Unmanageable
During? Progress of a. Funeral.
EVANS VILLE., Ind., March 21.— Five
persons were injured, two probably fatal
ly, in a runaway during a funeral here to
day. The injured:
iT h Car? 1 , 1116 Freycer; aged 60. right
shoulder dislocated and internally in
jured.
Mrs. Susan Smock, internally injured.
Three others, unknown,- badly injured.
The five persons wgre in a hack and
the team became frightened at a street
car. The hack was con.'.letely demolish
ed and the funeral pr««es..i!on wai stopped
an hour.
— —•*
Miller Is Inaaiie.
MONTREAL, Marcfr 21.— Henry Miller,
tne old veteran who sinfc threatening let
ters to President McKinley and others,
was arrested at the-r.ej|uest of the United
state consul general, $nd been examined
by the police physicfiiifc and found to
be insane.
TO RAZE HOTELS
NEW YORK Al.Ol<llt.MK\ PETITION
THE 1.W.1M.A l( III; FOR POWER
TO SAVE LIFE
WOULD DESTROY FIRE TRAPS
DEMAND AUTHORITY TO INVESTI
GATE AND CONDEMN ALL UN
-
SAFE STRUCTURES
HOTEL PROPRIETORS AWAKEN
They Say a Bill Should Be Framed
Conferring- Discretionary I'owcrs
on Building; and Fire Depart
ments—All Hotels Do! Not Look
Alike to Them Some Are Con
structed Much Better Than Others.
NEW YORK, March 21.— The following
preamble and resolution relating to the
Windsor hotel fire were passed unan
imously today by the board of aldermen:
"Whereas, the terrible catastrophe, in
the shape of the Windsor hotel fire, with
the accompanying loss of life and millions
of property, has vividly called attention
to the public necessity for the greater
protection of the hotel living people;
therefore, be it
"Resolved, that the legislature is here
by respectfully requested to pass and the
governor sign a bill which will give the
commissioner of buildings in the city of
New York full power and authority to in
vestigate and, if necessary, demolish all
hotel buildings in said city not absolute
ly fire proof."
Proprietors of the ten hotels, members
of the Hotel Men's association, called on
Commissioner Thomas J. Brady, of the
department of buildings, today, the ob
ject being to advise with him as to the
best means of protecting guests from fire.
They eaid that a bill should be framed
having for Its main object the conferring
upon the building and fire departments
such discretionary powers as would be as
arbitrary as possible. It should be a bill
which would deal with each individual
case as it arose and not an ironclad law
to cover In a general way all hotels. All
the hotels are constructed more or less
differently and different action would
have to, by necessity, be taken when ac
tion was necessary. Let the head of the
department in which the power has been
vested use his judgment and deal with
each individual case on its merits. It was
suggested as the idea of the hotel men
that the best way by which hotels would
be protected from fire would ..be vigilant
watchfulness, and that this should be
insisted on by law.
WANTS THEM FIREPROOF.
Commissioner Brady said he believed
absolutely in fire proof buildings. Build
ings should be so constructed that
when a fire broke out on the second or
third floors the floors above could be shut
off from the fire and be practically fire
proof so flames could not reach them.
This, he said, should not only be adopt
ed, but other things should also be con
sidered. Alarms should be placed in each
room. Watchmen should patrol the hall
ways at all hours and the hotels should
be provided with the most improved ap
pliances for fighting fire.
He believed that power should be vest
ed in some department which should see
to It that these appliances were in order
and to have men for this purpose alone.
The right should be given to the depart
ment to have men go through the hotel
at all hours during the night and day
and see that the employes were -doing
their duty.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Otten
bourg called especial attention to the Taw
governing the construction of fire escapes.
He said that it appeared absolutely use
less.
FAVORS HOME RULE.
He was opposed to special and arbi
trary action and was in favor of home
rule. A law should be framed and speed
ily passed vesting power in interested de
partments in this city concerning the
government of hotels here. He called
attention to the Greater New York char
ter and said that while .every provision
had been made concerning the construc
tion and arrangement of buildings of the
city there was no provision bearing on
the licensing of hotels. He had in his
mlurf the drafting of an amendment to
the charter giving to the municipal as
sembly of this city power to pass any
ordinance in relation to hotels and their
management so far as it concerned pub
lic safety. He said that when this was
done then the matter could be taken up
at leisure and any measure bearing upon
the subject could be presented to the
municipal assembly.
The suggestion of Mr. Ottenbourg was
approved and It was agreed to allow the
corporation counsel to draft such an
amendment and send it to the legislature
tonight. It is then understood that re
garding the licensing measure no hotel
• man will be allowed a license until the
department in which power has been
vested have passed upon It.
THREE MORE BODIES.
Three bodies were recovered from the
ruins of the Windsor hotel today. They
were badly charred, and great difficulty
Is being experienced in the identification.
The first body recovered today was that
of a female of small stature. The arms
and legs were missing. It was first
thought to be the body of Miss Dora
Hoffman, of Baltimore, a woman sixty
years of age, who Is among the missing.
Tonight, however, two of the employes
of the hotel called at the morgue and
claimed to identify the remains as those
of Mrs. Margaret Auze, of Xew York city.
The men are William Curran, a parlor
man at the hotel, and James Trainer, a
waiter. Both were positive as to the
Identification.
There are now five bodies at the
morgue, each tagged with a number,
which, with the known dead, brings the
list to fifteen. The list of missing is still
very large. The injured at hospitals are
all recovering. The unknown bodies are
as" follows:
Body No. 1, recovered Monday; male;
Mody No. 1 recovered Monday; male;
legs, arms and head missing.
Body No. 2, recovered Monday; woman;
supposed to be young; unrecognizable;
one hand part of a kid glove with pearl
buttons; black cloth button on dress
marked "made IV and X Co., extra."
Supposed to be employe of hotel.
Body No. 8, recovered Tuesday; female;
supposed to be about sixty; small stature;
arms and legs missing; identified as Mrs.
Margaret Auze, of New York.
Body No. 4, recovered Tuesdays frag-
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BULLETIN OF
IMPOBTANT NEWS OF THE DAY
Weather Forecast for St. PauK
Fair; Northwest Wind*.
I— H«rve«t of Death.
Down With Fire Trap*.
Mr. Sherman Alive.
Millionaire Shot in the Back.
Wake Island Occupied.
'■£ — Ml nn.-MoiniiH Born Fighter*.
New* From Col. Ames.
B— Capitol BUI Blocked.
How to Keep Insane.
State Board of Health.
Steamer in the Ice.
4— Editorial.
To Bnry the Hatchet.
5— Sporting News.
Northwest News.
News of Railroads.
6— Markets of the World.
Bar Silver, 59 5-Bc.
Chicago! May Wheat, 6S 1-4 0.
7— Minneapolis Matters.
B— Eagle Street Site.
Activity in the East.
Park Gives His Story.
ATLANTIC LINERS.
NEW YORK-Arrived: Nomadic, Liver
pool. Sailed: Lahn, Bremen; Georgic,
Liverpool.
LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Southwark, New
York.
NAPLES— Arrived: Saale, New York.
TODAY'S EVENTS.
METROPOLITAN - "The Prisoner of
Zenda," 2:30 and 8:15.
GRA . ND ~~" A Trl P t0 Coontown," 2:30 and
8:15.
Palm Garden— Vaudeville, 2 and 8 PM.
Concert, Atlantic Congregational church.
Bates avenue and Conway street, 8 PM
Entertainment, Jefferson school, 8 PM.
J. W. Arctander speaks, Norwegian-
Danish M. E. church, 8 PM.
Alumni of state agricultural college meet.
St. Anthony Park, 8 PM.
ments of what appears to be a woman's
body.
Body No. 5, wholly unrecognizable. Tho
legs are gone; what remains of the arms
folded over the breast; body, charred and
shriveled to about half of its natural size;
the teeth are in excellent condition; not
a tooth is missing, none is filled. They
are sharp pointed and apparently those
of a woman; they are the only possible
mark of identification.
POSITIVE RECOGNITION.
The recognition of Mrs. Margaret Auze
made by the two employes of. the hotel
tonight seemed to be very positive. Both
recognized the beaded dress, part of
which remained. Mrs. Auze had been a
guest at the hotel for fifteen years, and
Trainer said he always waited on her
in the dining room. He identified her
by the prominent jaw bones and by the
teeth. Curran also recognized these fea
tures.
Mrs. Auze and Miss Dorah Hoffman, of
Baltimore, were seen, It is said, to go
to their rooms on the fifth floor shortly
before the fire broke out, and it is
thought almost a certainty that both per- t
lshed. Although the work of clearing
away the debris is progressing as rapidly
as possible, it seemed tonight when the
shift of 400 men was made that but a
small part of the ruins had been removed.
An effort was made to pull down the
section of the rear wall by means of a
wire cable, but the cable broke and the
wall is still standing.
STREETS IAIPASSABLE.
Lines of policemen are drawn all round
the ruins, and the big crowds that still
gather are kept off a long distance. The
streets about the ruins are impassable,
and the debris is piled to a height of fif
teen or twenty feet on the Fifth avenue !
side of where the building stood. On the
Forty-seventh street side the pile of de
bris is even more formidable, as more
work has been done along the edge of the
ruins here.
It is estimated that with the speed with
which the work Is progressing at present
it will be a week at least before the pile
is gone over, and it may be longer. All
during the night articles of more or less
value were brought to the surface and j
turned over to the policemen, who were i
stationed about to receive, number the and j
take them to the East Fifty-first street
station house to await identification. All
of the most valuable of the articles are
turned over to the coroner's office officials.
The Hat of missing is now as follows:
Anglln, Mrs. Mary, of New York.
Bradley, Mrs. N. X., aunt of Mrs. A.
M. Fuller, of Plttsburg.
Boyce, Flossie, eight years of age, of
New York.
Brush, Mrs. H. G.
Clare, Mary, twenty-three years old.
chambermaid, working on sixth floor of
hotel.
Desh, Charles, borough collector, Sea.
bright, N. J., thirty-six years old, had
business engagement in hotel and has not
been seen since the fire.
Dunham, Augustus.
Egun, Miss, patron of hotel.
Fletcher, Miss.
Fuller, Miss. Garrett, of Plttsburg,
seventeen years old, daughter of Mrs. A.
M. Fuller and niece of Mrs. Andrew Car
negie.
Guion, Warren, elevator boy at the
hotel.
Hoffman. Miss Dora, of Baltimore.
Jose, Miss.
Johnson, Mr. and Mra. A. 8., of New
buryport, Mass.
Leland, Frederick, forty-t-hree years old,
room clerk, in hotel, cousin of Warren F.
Leland, believed to have been burned.
Lanny, Mary.
Lowrie, Miss Maggie.
Lynch, D.
Morett, Virginia, chambermaid, thirty
years old.
Morgan, Annio Taylor, forty years old;
patron of hotel.
McCarthy, Miss Catherine, twenty-five
years old, manicure in hotel.
McCarthy, Henry.
McConnell, Kate.
McDermott. Mary, servant.
McDonald, Lizzie, of New York.
McDonald, Mrs. Cabella, of Toronto,
lived three years at Windsor hotel.
McNulty, Miss, fifty-five years old.
Nellie, Annie (known at hotel as Annie
Malloy).
Neltney, Henry.
Ormiston, Bridget, servant.
Parry, L. H.
Patterson, Mrs., wife of Judge Patter
eon, of Colorado.
Simmons, Leland, fifty-three years old,
wine steward in hotel, cousin of Warren
Leland, believed to have been burned.
Simpkins, Miss Clara.
Simpklns, Miss Dora.
Soy, Mary, laundress, twenty-three
years old.
Stokes, Mrs. James H., widow of Gen.
J. H. Stokes.
Thomas, Anne.
Upham, Miss Annette, daughter of the
late state senator Upham, of Vermont.
Walsh, "Kitte, servant.
Worth, Miss.
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SHOT I THE BACK
MILLIONAIRE JOHN T. SHAVXE, OF>
CHICAGO, PERFORATED WITH
THREE UGLY WOUNDS
HAMMOND DID THE BHOOTHO
SHAYNR WAS IN COMPANY WITH
THE DIVORCED WIFE OF
HIS ASSAILANT
HAS A SLIM SHOW FOE HIS LIFE
Shayne, Mrs. Hammond and Two
Other Ladles Were at Lnnch In
the Anditoriam Annex Ham
mond Shot Shayne First While
the Latter Wa« Attempting to
Rise From the Table.
CHICAGO, March 21.-John T. Shayne
a wealthy furrier and a prominent Dem
ocratic politician, was shot and prob
ably fatally wounded this afternoon by
Harry H. Hammond, a tailor. The shoot-
Ing occurred in the cafe of the Audi
torium Annex, where Shayne was sitting
at lunch with Mrs. Hammond, the di
vorced wife of Hammond, and two other
ladies. The party had been seated for
Borne time when Hammond walked into
the cafe, stood for a few minutes and
went out. In about ten minutes he re
turned and, standing inside the door, de
liberately pulled off his gloves, and then,
walking quickly up to Shayne, who was
sitting with his back toward him, drew
a revolver. Shayne attempted to rise,
but stumbled over the legs of hl« chair
and fell to the floor. As he was trying
to rise, Hammond fired a bullet into his
back. Shayne fell under the table, and
Hammond, pulling up the tablecloth, de
liberately fired two more bullets into the
helpless man. He then walked out into
the office of the hotel, where he stood
waiting the arrival of an officer.
DECLINES TO TALK ABOUT IT.
He was quickly placed under arrest and
taken to the Harrison street station,
where he declined to make any statement.
Shayne, who is a widower, had been in
company with Mrs. Hammond a great
deal since her divorce from Hammond and
there was talk of an approaching mar
riage between them. Tonight when, it
was thought that Shayne's death was
a certainty it was proposed that he should
be married to Mrs. Hammond before his
death. Later, however, the physicians
declared that Shayne had a faint chance
for his life, and the proposed wedding
was postponed.
Mrs. Hammond secured a divorce from
Hammond nearly a year ago on the
ground of habitual drunkenness. No cause
for the shooting is known, unless it can
be attributed to Hammond's jealousy of
his divorced wife. All three bullets
struck Shayne In the back, and it waa
at first the opinion of the doctors that
his death was inevitable in a short time.
Later, however, they declared that he
had a chance, if blood poisoning does not
set in.
YOUNG LAPINES KESTORED.
Startling Sequel to a Chicago Kid
naping Case Is Disclosed.
PAINESVILLE, 0., March 21.— A start
ling sequel to the abduction of Gerald *
Lapiner, the three-year- 3ld son of Mr.
and Mrs Louis LaplruT, \»hivh r.ccurfcd
in Chicago. May 30, 1898, developed here
toil.iv, hi the recovery fcr.d restoration ot
the child to his mother anO the arrest of
Mrs. Apn Ingersoll and John Collins, who
live about a mile west ot PalnesvlHe, at
whose place the was found and
where he had been kept since last June.
On the 30th of May, Gerald Laplner waa
abducted by a mysterious woman from In
front of his parents' home. No. s J .3r> Prai
rie avenue, Chicago. The woman ami
child were traced for a short time, and
then all track of them was lost. A large
reward was offered for the recovery of
the child and, although the Chicago po
lice made every effort to bring the kid
nappers to justice, nothing further could
be learned.
About two months ago, a newspaper ac
count of the abduction and the reward of
fered came under the notice of Mr. P. E.
Ferris and his sistf-r. Miss O. C. Ferris,
neighbors of the Ingersolls. Air. and Miss
Ferris suspected that the little boy who
had been at the residence of Mrs. Inger
soll since last June might be the missing
child, and they entered into correspon
dence with the Chicago police. After
about two months investigation and cor
respondence it was determined that the
child was the missing Gerald Laplner.
Mrs. Laplner was notified ami slio ar
rived here this morning to Identify the
little ono. She was met at the station by
Deputy Sheriff A. T. May. who h;is been
in charge of the case here, and was taken
in a closed carriage to the Ingersol] place.
while Sheriff John went on ahead to pre
vent the escape of the abductors. Access
to the house, was gained through the rear
door and there, seated in a high chair,
half dressed, the boy was found. Both
Mrs. Ingrersoll and Collins were placcvl
under arrewt. and held for trial lat'^r in
the day. Mrs. Ingersoll denied the charge
of obductlng and could not be induced to
say anything about it.
DEBS AT DELMONICO"S.
Labor Agitator AddrcKtieM the Nine
teenth Century Club in Xew York.
NEW YORK, March 21. — About 350
members of the Nineteenth Century
club gathered at the ball room at Del
monico's tonight to listen to an address
to the organization by Eugene V. Debs,
the labor agitator. There were a num
ber of the substantial business, profes
sional and scientiiic men present, and
the interest in Mr. Debs' words was
marked, and the speaker was wildly ap
plauded for several of his remarks. Tho
speaker's topic was "Prison Labor, Its
Effects on Industry and Trade."
BAILEY A CANDIDATE.
Texas Congressman Will Try t» Suc
ceed Mr. Chilton as Senator.
HOUSTON, Tex., March JL— The Post
will tomorrow print a special from
Gainesville, Tex., in which it is definite
ly announced on authority of himself
that Congressman Joseph W. Bailey Is
a candidate for United States senator to
succeed Mr. Chilton, whose term ex
pires March 4, 1901. Mr. Chilton will also
stand for re-election.