. ’7
‘
break at Maranam. which ended in
-g¢WEEK
. "as ._.... .w—- .. .
L Y 4N9 R WA L K .,- G A z E TTE
‘i
___.- .........
l sorolor_ov_ ooromo.
.lolm lllersey’o Children Saw
,Hlu _ Destroy Himself,
._ HE‘POU‘R'ED' KEROS‘ENEQVER HIS
f CLOTHING. '
His Child May Die From lrihaling
- Smoke. »
NEW YORK, March 24.—-—With the mem-
ory of a Winter’s destitution, and only
the hope of starvation for himself and
family, Joseph Klersey, 35 years old, of
856 Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn, crawled out
of his sick bed yesterday afternoon, and
saturating his body- .with kerosene, set
himself on fire, and wasburned to'a crisp
before the eyes of his young wife.
Klersey was ' an upholsterer, and did
business in a small way in one of a row of
one-story tenement-houses on Myrtle
avenue, between Marcy and Tompkins
avenues. A year ago he was taken down
with the grip, and during the last Winter
he and his family lived on the brink of
starvation. He was too proud to ask re-
lief, and the neighbors knew it, but they
stole away his four children and at times
gave them food. One week ago the starv-
ing upholsterer was taken ill with the
grip and became so desperate that doctors
were compelled to administer morphine.
Klersey and his wife have four children—
Joseph, 11; Peter, eight; Ida, three years
old, and Willie, 16 months old.
Yesterday afternoon about 4 o’clock
Mrs. Klersey, while her husband was ex-
tremely violent, ran to the neighbors for
assistance, leaving her youngest child
lying at the foot of the sick father’s bed.
The child, Ida, was sitting in the kitchen
and the other two children were away on
messages. Hardly had the sick man seen
his wife leave his house than he jumped
out of bed. What happened was learned
from the girl Ida. Crawling out of his
bed, the father made his way to the kit-
chen, and after searching around found
the can of kerosene. He took it and
kissed the little girl, telling her that she
would not behungry long. Then standing
in the doorway of the kitchen he poured
the oil on his hand and rubbed it on his
body. He saturated his clothing and
asked the little girl to find him a match.
Ida refused to do so, and the father found
one. He struck it and set fire to the un-
dershirt, and an instant was covered
with flames. -
At that moment his wife .returned, and
catching up a blanket ran toward her
husband, who ran away from her and
went into the garden. She followed him
and in the struggle to put out the fire
threw him to the earth. She fell on him
and put out the flames, but he was be.
yond all pain.
Neighbors climbed the fence and took
the weeping woman away from her hus-
band’s body. She was taken into the
house and it was found her face and
hands were badly burned. The boy
Willie had swallowed an amount of
' smoke and was dying. The police say
that the case is the most deserving of any
that has ever come under their notice.
CUTTERS MAY '60 OUT.
If They Strike 7.003 Tailors and Shop
Hands Will be Idle.
NEW YORK, March 24.—Between 700
and 800 clothing cutters, representing
Unions NO. 4 of New York, No. 5 of
Brooklyn and N o. 28 of Jersey City, met
last night in Beethoven Hall, Fifth street,
near the Bowery, and voted unanimously
to reject the agreement submitted to
them by the manufacturers.
' The clause on which they differ deals
with the employment of non-union men.
A number of strikes will probably be or-
dered today, and a number of lockouts
are also looked for. Eight hundred cut-
ters are interested, and stoppage of their
labor would enforce idleness upon at
least 7,000 tailors and shop hands.
A Revolution in Brazil.
NEW YORK, March 24.———The British
steamship Hilary, from Para and Bar-ba-
dos, brought here yesterday the first
news ofa revolution in the interior of
Brazil, during which, it is said, 70 people
were killed and many others injured. The
story gained circulation in Para on
March 11, the day of, the Hilary’s de-
parture from that place. At the same
time news was received of a second out-
arrest of the entire police , force of ‘that
crty without bloodshed; ' '
u... n 5...”-
“ms
ITTLE
IVER
mus.
Sick Headache and reliewall the troubles inci-
dent to a. biiious state oi the system, such as
Dimincss, Nausea, Drowsiness, Distress after
eating, Pain in the slide, kc. While their most
remarkable success [has been shown In curing
SICK
Headache. yet Carter’s Little Liver Pills are
equally valuable in Constipation, curing and pre-
venting this annoying complaintwhile tb ey also
correct all disorders of the stomach,stimuiate the
liver and regulate the bowels. Even if they only
Ache they would be almost priceless to those who
suffer from this distressing complaint; but fortu~
nately their goodness does notend here,and those
who once try them will find these little pills vain.
able in so many ways that they. will not be wil-
, ling to do without them. But after all sick head
.AGHE
Is the bane of so many lives that here is where
we make our great boast. Our pills cure it while
others do not.
Carter's Little Liver Fills are very small and
very easy to take. One or two pills make a dose.
They are strictly vegetable and do not gripe or:
purge. but by their gentle action please all w?
use them. In vials at 25 cents; five for 81. So
by druggists everywhere, or sent by mail.
team MEDlClNE co., New York. .
hall ill Smell lose. lull ince-
Advertise in the Gazsrrn. .
i
l
l
" SHV'N ‘7. (lo it.
the"
HOW POOL BALLS ' ARE. ,MADE.
Pressed From a Gun Cotton Mixture.
Cut in. Lathe and Dyed. -
" Celluloid has altogether superseded
ivory as a material for pool balls,”said a
manufacturer to a reporter. “A set of
sixteen celluloid balls will outwear three
or four sets of ivory, and they cost only
$25, whereas you cannot buy sixteen good
ivory balls for less than $115. The con«
dition of the atmosphere which causes
the ivory balls to shrink and swell and
crack just as if they were made of wood
has no effect upon the celluloid.
“ Of course you know that celluloid is
a mixture of gun cotton and camphor.
Naturally it would be yellow, but zinc
white is put in to make it white. After
the ingredientslhave been properly min-
gled with the aid of steam heat the cel-
luloid is pressed into blocks which are a
little bigger than the balls that are to
be made. In order to render them as
hard as possible the material is subjected
to a. pressure of 300. tons fOr each ball.
Next the blocks are turned in a. lathe to
perfect spheres of precisely the diameter
required by means of knives which work
automatically and cannot out beyond a
certain distance from the centre of each
ball.
“When this has been done the perfect
spheres of celluloid are ready to be dyed
in various colors. For this purpose they
are dipped and allowed to remain for
some time in pots containing the dyes,
those parts which are not desired to be
colored being protected by means of
little cups of brass ingeniously fastened
upon the balls. In the plain balls of red,
blue, green, purple and yellow only the
round spot where the number is to go
needs to be covered, but in the treat
ment of the striped balls the matteris
not so easy. After they have been fished
out of the pots the dyed balls are put on
a lathe and made to revolve rapidly,
while fine sand paper is delicately ap-
plied so as to smooth their surfaces.
Then a keen knife, manipulated by hand,
removes from them the thinnest con-
ceivable shaving all over, which does
not take Ofi the color, because the dyes
penetrate to a- little depth. Finally,
sandpaper is again applied and the balls
are ready for the last process to which
they must be subjected.
“ This last process is the varnishing.
They are placed for this purpose in
little wire cups, which come into con-
tact with them at as few points as pos-
sible, and a transparent lacquer is be--
stowed upon them by hand with a brush.
As soon as they are dry they are ready
to be packed and sent to the retailer.
When they are newly finished, as you
can see for yourself, they are quite as
prett tol , k at as any ivory pool balls «
Y 9°
that ever “were made. When are the
numbers put on, you ask? Oh, they
are out very quickly with dies before the
balls go into the dye pots. and a little
plumbago is rubbed into them to make
them black. No; it would not be pos
sible for a celluloid ball like one of these
to explode; nor could it be made to burn,
inasmuch as its density is too great.
However, if you were to cut it up into
chips it would go off at a pretty lively
rate upon being ignited.” ......
An Unlucky Tableful.
Several men were talking of supersti.
tions so common among all classes of peo-
ple. As a matter of course, one of the
things touched upon was the supposedly
fatal number thirteen. An Old colored
man who happened to be within hearing
distance felt moved to remark: “I want
to tell you, gem’men, not to make fun of
that thirteen business. I ain’t super-
fishus, but I tell you, don’t you eat at no
table whar dar’s thirteen. I dun do dat
and I hope to die if pretty nearly every
one of dem ain’t dead and buried.”
His hearers expressed surprise at his re-
markable statement and asked for par-
ticulars.
“ Well, some of them got killed, and
one thing an’ another, and some jest
nachelly died. But dey is pretty nearly
all gone to-day.”
“ How long ago did this thirteen-at-
table incident occur?”
“ Now, lemme see. Been about thirty
years since the war,‘ ain‘t it? Well, I
specs it must a-happened ten years be-
fore the war broke out. But it makes
me feel about as uneasy as though it
was only yesterday."—Chicago Times.
A West Point Story.
Two plain, ordinary citizens visited
West Point for the first time, and were
deeply interested in - the blithesome
cadet. With the assurance that they
were on Government ground, and that
they were finite parts Of the same Gov-
ensmenththey went where they pleased,
and were not interrupted. As the day
waned, however, they drew nigh forbid-
den ground—a plot sacred to the embryo.
generals. As they stepped‘across a. line,
ignorant of the awful trespass, a mild
youth with spotless uniform and heavy
musket ran up. . '
“ No citizens allowed here,” said the
sentry.
The citizens turnedsadly away.
“ I feel like the sunset gun,” remarked
one. - «
The sentry stopped to listen.
“ Why?",inquired the other citizen.
"" “ Because I’ve just been fired’o ,” Was
the answer; and to" the citizen’s delight,
the sentry smiled—Harper’s Young
People.
A New Use for a Wife.-
Any one having the combination of a
wife, a lawn-mower and a slope to mow
should profit by the wisdom of one of
our citizens, as imparted to us. He
found it exceedingly difficult to over-
' come the law of gravitation in running
the mower across the steep slope in a
straight course, its natural tendency be-
ing downward. After laboring against
this difficulty for some time it occurred
to him to, attach a strap to the mower
and let his wife stand at the top of the
bank and hold it from running ofif. This
proved so successful that he says it is
nothing but joy to mow the slope now. ,
Any one not having the wife can vary
the above formula to conform with the
circumstances—Dover, Me., Observer.
. '~—
, -. >~~~mu .
' WAdvertise‘in the Gszurrs.
9W --r--.—«-<~ 1 'r '
.2 Ill-a". '
room...
—_
Proposed Reorganization of the
Senate Makes Trouble.
THE PRESIDENT’S RULES FOR
‘ THE OFFICE-SEEKERS.
Secretary Carlisle to Study the
Tariff. -
WASHINGTON, March 24.-—By a practi-
cally unanimous vote the Republicans in
caucus yesterday decided to reject all
offers of compromise and contest the pro-
r’posed Democratic reorganization of the
elective officers of the Senate to the end.
The caucus was largely attended, but
was of short duration. Naturally there
was division of sentiment as to what was
best to be done under the circumstances,
but those in favor of contesting the pro-
posed organization were largely in the
majority. The vote taken was decisive,
and it is probable that at the next execu-
tive session the ultimatum of the caucus
will be given to the Democrats. An effort
will then be made to settle . the matter
behind closed doors, and, that failing,
the fight will be transferred to the open
session. -
The Republicans claim that they are
right, and when one of the leading Sen-
store was asked what it meant he replied
that it meant a fight to the finish. An
amusing feature of the case is that the
Republicans think the Democrats will
not insist on proceeding at this time, and
the Democrats assert that the Republi-
cans will grow tired of the struggle in a
day "or two. No more caucuses on this
subject will probablybe held by either
party.
The number of callers on Mr. Cleveland
yesterday showed no diminution from
the previous days within the last two
weeks. Senators and Representatives
formed the bulk of the visitors, but their
missions were mostly in connection with
local offices. But little was said to the
President concerning his noted rules.
They have come to be so well understood
that few points in regard to them remain
to be cleared up. The no-reappointment
rule is, of course, the principal one, and
in it the greatest interest is manifested.
From what Mr. Cleveland has . said it is
understood not to apply in certain cases,
as follows: .
1. To those who have no opposition for're-
appointment. _
2. To those candidates for Postmasterships
who have opposition but are indorsed almost
unanimously by citizens of their city or
town.
3. To those who were removed by the Har-
rison Administration without serving out
their terms.
4. To those who were nominated for office
by Mr. Cleveland just prlor to Gen. Harrison’s
inauguration, but who failed of confirmation
by the. Senate. , p ,
Since the exceptions to this rule have
become more familiar to office-seekers
there has been a rush Of the -“exs”*to the
White House. They have received little
satisfaction from the President, however,
unless they enjoyed: his personal at:i
quaintance or were known to him by
reputation. __,_____ .
The Senate has confirmed the follow-
ing nominations: Theodore Runyon
to be Minister of the. United States
to Germany; Walter D. Dabney of Vir-
ginia to be Solicitor for the Department
of State; Edward B. Whitney of Néw York
to be Assistant Attorney- General; James
G. Jenkins of Wisconsin to be United
States Circuit Judge for the Seventh
Judicial Circuit; Charles B. Stuart of
Texas to be Judge of the United States
for the Indian Territory; Abner Gaines
of Arkansas to be Marshal of the United
States for the Eastern District of Ar-
kansas; Joseph W. House of Arkansas to
be Attorney of the United States for the
Eastern district of Arkansas; Clifford C.
Jackson of the Indian Territory to be
Attorney of the United States for the In-
dian Territory; Ernest P. Baldwin of
Maryland to be First Auditor of the
Treasury; Thomas Holcomb of Delaware
to be Fifth Auditor‘of the Treasury, and
a number of Postmasters. -
Secretary Carlisle intends to give much
of his time this summer to the considera-
tion of the tarifl with a view to indicat-
ing the outline for the formation of a
tariff bill by the next Democratic House.
Nearly every mail that reaches the
Treasury Department contains. sugges-
tions from statisticians as to the com-
pilation of a tariff bill. Prominent among
them is that from the New York Reform
Club. The general outline of the New
York Reform Club's tariff proposition
corresponds to a proposition submitted
in 1885 by Edward Atkinson of Boston to
Pgesident Cleveland and Secretary Man
:1 ng. .
- WASHINGTON NOTES. '
The Senate was in session just 10 min-
' utes yesterday.
Congressmen Bourke Cockran and
Tracey called upon the President yester-
day. The purpose of their visit was con-
cealed, but the general supposition is
that they desired to press the claims 1 of
New York city for Federal patronage. «
Senator Caffrey of Louisiana called Mr.
Cleveland’s attention to the retirement
case of Gen. Eugene Carr, U. S. A., who
was placed on the retired list by Mr.
Harrison against his own protest. He
wants to be put back on the active list.
Robert ”A. Maxwell, the Fourth Assist-
ant Postmaster- General, is likely to
prove a record-breaker. He has been in
the ofilce just one day and at night there
were'just 40 heads in the basket, four .‘of
which were New York country postmas-
ters. .
Postmaster-General Bissell states that
no editor was placed under an iron-clad
rule. “If a Postmaster chooses to sit up
until late in the night writing editorials
We see no reason to object, nor will we: if
a Postmaster writes anything after oflce
hours for a weekly paper.”
Congressman McCreary called at the.
White House yesterday and announced
to the President his resignation as mem-
ber of the International Monetary Con-
ference. He said his presence will be
needed in this country to attend to the
interests of his constituents. '
West Virginia sent her whole Congres-
sional delegation to see the Presidentzin
behalf of the appointment of the widow ’
cf the late Senator Kenna as Postmaster
at Charleston. The delegation presented
the name of Gen. C.C. ‘Watts for ap-
pointment as Dibtrict Attorney for the
State.
Read the Gamma.
....i“......p
.. , . . Beyond the I...
onond the see, beyond the son,
My heart is gone far, far from moi
And ever on its track will flee '
My thoughts, my dreams, beyond the sea.
Beyond the sea, beyond the sea.
Thebwallow wanders fast and free;
Oh, happy bird! were I like thee.
I, too, would fly beyond the sea.
_ Beyond the sea, beyond the sea,
Are kindly hearts and social glee;
But here for me they may not be,
My heart is gone beyond the sea.
‘ ' -Novel Review.
‘ A Coast Snake Charmer.
The three large rattlesnakes that at-
tracted 'so much attention in the window
of Joe Osgood’s saloon are no longer
there. Milwood, with the Robinson
show, dropped into the saloon and
wanted to bet $10'that he could take the
rattlers out of‘the window, handle them
and return them safelyf Mr. Osgood
said that if they were once out of the
window he would not have them put
back, and that Milwood could have
them. Milwood entered the saloon and
ripped the wire screen off the window.
In' a minute there was not a man in the
saloon excepting the snake charmer and
the proprietor, and the latter was on
top of the bar with a. brass faucet in one
hand and a. bung starter in the other.
Milwood picked up one of the snakes,
taking hold of it near the middle. The
snake rattled vigorously and struck once
at his arm, but Milwood dodged its pois-
onous fangs. In a couple of minutes
the snake seemed to take more kindly to
the situation and Milwood allowed it to
creep all over him. After handling it a
few minutes he dropped it into a shallow
box athis feet and commenced pulling
They acted very much like the first, but
he soon had them under perfect subjec-
tion.—Sisson Mascot.
A Great Canal.
The importance of the new Merwede
Canal for Amsterdam as a commercial
center can scarcely be overestimated,
and it is anticipated that a great impetus
will be at once given to trade between
this city and Germany. The section to
the north of the Leck, opened recently,
is twenty-eight miles long, and the whole
canal, when complete, will have a length
of forty-three and a half miles. _ It will
take the place of the old Cologne water-
way, which is only navigable for vessels
of small tonnage. The new canal, after
leaving Amsterdam, crosses the Leyden
Rhine, passes Utrecht and enters the
Lock near. Vreeswyk. The second por-
tion, which is still under construction,
commences at Vienen, opposite Vrees-
wyk, and finally enters the Merwede,
one of the branches of the Maas and
Waal Delta, from which the new water-
way takes its name, a little below Go
rinchem. The average width is‘ over 100
feet and the depth 10 1-4 feet, so that two
of the largest Rhine steamers will be
able to pass easily—London Times.
4 Keeping Animals In Captivity.
A curious book on the management of
animals in captivity has been written by
Ram Bramha Samj al, a native Indian nat-
uralist, who for many years has occupied
' the post of superintendent of the Zoologi-
cal‘Garden of Calcutta, in which city the
work is published. It appears that the
longest time that a tiger has lived in the
Garden is eleven years. The “ lesser
fruit bat ” of Bengal does not appear to
bear captivity well; though, as our con-
temporary Nature points out in its re-
view of this work, a nearly allied Afri-
can species has completely established it-
Self in the Zoological Gardens, Regent’s
Park, and has bred abundantly for the
last twenty years. One of the incidents
recorded in the journal of this zealous
superintendent of the Calcutta Garden is
a desperate fight between a lioness and a
tiger which by some accident had been
allowed to pass into the same compart-
ment of the carnivore. house. The tiger
was completely victorious, and killed the
lioness—London News.
Fight Between a Crab and a Rat.
Workmen at Baltimore &. Ohio eleva-
tor 0 saw a fight between a crab and a
rat recently. The rat went down a
stringer to get a. drink, when a crab
caught him by the head. A fierce tug
followed, the rat apparently having the
better of it for a while, as he could
steady himself by his foothold. The
crab used his method of propulsion with
energy, and churned the water about
him. The rat’s power "‘of' endurance
finally gave way and he fell overboard,
but he. still did his best to release him-
self. He struggled hard, but the crab
held on until the rat was drowned, but
was so exhausted by the fight that when
the rat floated to the surface the crab
swam away—Baltimore Sun.
Per-verse Printers.
The printer’s blunder which made one
of Mr. Aldrich’s sugared lines speak of
“patent nectar” instead of “ potent nec-
tar " was, it appears, even funnier than
it appears.
A correspondent of the Boston Tran-
script says that the line originally read
“ A potent medicine for gods and men,”
and was misprinted “ A patent medi-
cine,” etc.
It is also reported that Mr. A. 's equan-
imity was upset on another occasion be
cause in a serious mood he wrote in
another poem, “ Now the old wound
breaks out afresh,” and was horrified to
learn by the types that he—a bachelor—
had said “Now the old woman breaks
out afresh.”
A Famous English Bell.
At the ancient village of Hessle, near
Hull, a. bell is rung every night except
Sunday at 7 o’clock. Long, long ago,
so runs the story, a lady was lost on a
dark night near the place, and was in
sore distress, fearing that she would
have to wander about in the cold till
daylight. ‘ Happily the ringing of the
Hessle bells enabled her to direct her
course to the village in safety, although
she had to wend her weary steps over a
trackless country.
In gratitude for her delivery she left a...
piece of land to the parish clerk, on con-
dition that he ring every evening one of
the church bells.—The Fireside. ‘
,1 Read'the Giznms.
theother two snakes out of the window. _
.. . -\.
"1‘1 '
a... Po
_ '4’ .
Higheseel? E‘riieniLeavéiong Powers—'Latestilli:SE'3'Govft Report.
lHEY UEHEI]__l_HE BUURl.
Ann Arbor Strikers Left Alter
Judge Rick’s’ Order-
NON-UNION ; MEN AMONG THE
.BOYCOTTERS.
The Brotherhoods Are to Make a
Hard Fight.
‘ TOLEDO, 0., March 24.—Interest in the
-Ann Arbor trial continues unabated.
One very peculiar feature was developed
in the testimony before the United States
Circuit Court yesterday. It transpires
that five of the nine Lake Shore engin-
eers who left their engines the first night
are not Brotherhood men.
The morning sessiouwas opened with
the examination of Engineer Lennon,
who was the first Lake Shore man to
strike. He told the story of his leaving
the service of thecompany on the morn-
ing of March 18. Mr. Lennon is a mem-
ber of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, but in refusing to take Ann
Arbor freight he had acted of' his own
free will, and did so because he did not
care to help a company who.could not do
justice to its own employee. Mr. Len-
non was acquainted with the order of the
court at that time through the medium
of the newspapers only.
John Conley is not a member of the
Brotherhood. He quit the service of the
Lake Shore because he would not handle
freight that the other men had refused
to haul, and had le'ft.the company be-
cause they were asked. to do so. Fire-
man E. S. Kessler saidihe had left the ser-
vice of the company because Engineer
C so had quit, and was not a Brother-
hood man. Fireman Thompson quit 'be-
cause Engineer Clark did. Fireman
James said he struck , because Engineer
Rutgers had quit. Engineer Clark was
asked if he knew of any ‘rule Of. the com-
pany relative to the time allowed for
leaving the service of the company. He
replied that he did not, but admitted
there was a rule by whibh men, when sus-
pended or discharged, eculd get a hear-
ing from the officials in their behalf.
The testimony was concluded at noon,
and the arguments were to have been
presented in the afternoon, but Hon.
Frank Hurd, one of the counsel for de«
'fendants, was' taken suddenly ill, and
court adjourned until Monday. In al~
most every case,upon cross-examination,
the strikers have given substantial evi-
dence that they left their engines after
being served with Judge Ricks’ famous
order.
The engineers now defending their
liberty b fore Judge Ricks will no doubt
be convicted. It will not end there. The
decision to be rendered by the court in
~ these cases, where men are being tried
for a contempt of his own order, will be
appealed to the United States Supreme
Court. Not only are the leaders of labor
organizations watching the proceedings
of this trial, but railroad magnates have
an eye open to its result.
A decision against these men in court
would result most disastrously to labor
organizations, as strikes and boycotts
would be illegal. Interpretation of the
law is the question. .
Next Monday will be heard the all im-
portant issue, when Judges Taft and
Ricks will hear the arguments for a dis-
solution of the restraining orders that
have been issued by them during the past
two, weeks. ' '
THE POMERANIAN SAFE.
The Over-Due Allan Liner Gets Safely
Into Halifax.
NEW YORK, March 24.—The Allan State
- line'atea‘mShip Pomeranian, which sailed
from this port on March 15, bound for
Glasgow, put into Halifax at 2 o’clock
yesterday morning, with her machinery
disabled. .
The Pomeranian was previously re-
ported by Capt. Ehoff of the Red Star
liner Belgenland. The latter arrived at
the bar at 1.15 o’clock yesterday morning.
She sailed from Antwerp on March 11,
with general merchandise, 16 first and 108
second cabin passengers and 491 in, the
steerage.
Capt. Ehofl says his
forbid him to tow another vessel. James
C. Wright, Vice-President of the com-
pany, says the captain is mistaken. This
is the second successive disastrous trip
for the Pomeranian.‘
TOWNS BLOWN AWAY.
A Frightful cycIOne Sweeps Over Missis-
sippi and Tennessee.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 24.-—A cyclone
swept over North Mississippi and West
Tennessee late yesterday afternoon leav-
ing ruin in its wake. Tunica, Miss., was
blown away and several people are res
ported killed and injured. The Wires are
down‘ in every direction and it is diflcult
to get details.
Well authenticated reports say the
. town of Tupelo‘, Miss., the home of Con-
gressman John Allen, was destroyed by
the storm. The-little town of Kelly, 15
miles from Memphis, on the Memphis
and Birmingham Railroad, was wiped out
during the same storm. N o lives were
lost there. ‘
Convicts Helped the Firemen.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 24. -— Fire
broke out in the shop of the Claggett
Saddle-Tree Company, in the east wing
of the. Prison South at .Jeffersonville,
Ind., yesterday, and that portion of the
prison was-soon in ruins. The, loss 3-575,-
000, $25,000 to the State and $50,000to the
Clagget Company, which carried {25,000 i
=insurance. The convicts made no at-
tempt to creat‘e‘s- panic and escape, all of
them assisting‘the flrEmen by the use of
buckets ‘
.4: -o
company’s rules,
_—-- -—xm’
SIX 'PEOPLE PERISHED. '
A Disastrous Fire in an Apartment Hon”
. in Cleveland.
Cnnvnnaxn, 0., March 24.—Sho’rtly be-
fore 12 o’clock yesterday fire broke out in
the Morgan, a fashionable apartment
house on Prospect street, near Granger. -
The engines responded quickly, but be-
fore help arrived the building was en-
veloped in flame and smoke, and a terri- ,
ble panic ensued. '
Those in the third story had no time
to get their goods together, and before
they were aware of any fire they were
surrounded with flame and smoke.
The scene was a terrible one, and the
excitement and consternation of those in
safety, who were unable to aid the suffo-
cating women, was great.
The loss of life was among the most
terrible in the annals of Cleveland fires.
The body of the first woman found was
that of Mrs. Sommers, a blind woman,
who had groped her way to the stairs
only to die. Four other women and a.
child perished.
England Will Send Five Ships.
WASHINGTON, March 24.—-'l‘he Navy
Department has received a communica-
tion from the British Government stat-
ing that it will be represented in the
naval parade Apri127 by the following
vessels, under command of Vice- Admiral
J. C.H0pkins, K. C. B., Commander-in-
Chief of the North American station:
The Blake will be the flagsh‘ip of the
fleet, Capt. M. deV. Hamilton. Magi-
cienne, belonging to the North Ameri-
can squadron, commanded by Capt. J. 0.
‘ Pipon, R. N.’ C. M. G.; Tartar, belonging
to the North American squadron, com-
manded by Commander H. L. Fleet;
Partridge, belonging to the North Ameri-
can squadron, commanded by Com- .
mander N. Y. Macaiester; Australia,
from Mediterranean station, commanded
by Capt. S. E. Holland.
.To the Poor-House at 125.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 24. — Indian
John, the famous chief of the Columbia
River Indians, who has reached the age
of 125 years and has outlivedthe last'ofhls
tribe, has been committed to the poor-
house. John was always a friend of the
white man. When Dr. Whitman was
murdered at Walla Walla and the Indians
talked of coming to Portland, John was
one of those who left the Dallas and came
to this city, warning the settlers on the
way to be prepared for a raid.
Deserted and Burned at Sea.
BOSTON, March 24.—Steamer Borderer,
(British) which arrived yesterday from
London, brought the captain and 20 men
of the fishing schooner Iceland of Boston,
which was abandoned in a wrecked con-
dition March 20, in latitude 42.24 north,
longitude 57.45 west, having been 'in a
hurricane from south and southeast the
day before. The abandoned schooner
was set on fire.
,____________.__
lVoman’s Suffrage Bill in Maine.
AUGUSTA, Me., March Zine—Municipal
suffrage for women may yet become a .
law in this State. The Senate has passed
the bill providing for it, 16 to 13, non-
concurring with the House. The House
had defeated it by the small majority of
nine. It is now thought the House may
recede and concur with the Senate.
Killed by a Sick Man.
BARDSTOWN‘, Ky., March 24. — Jodie
Houston, while in delirium caused by
pneumOnia, shot and killed Alley Mur-
phy. The latter leaves a wife and child.
some.
Syracuse tested a successful dynamite
gun. ‘ ,
Connecticut’s anti pool-room fight is
still on.
A national plate glass combine is said
to be forming.
Evangelist Moody will , hold World’s
Fair meetings. , - _ -
Typhoid caused actor R. C. Wilmarth's
death in Boston.
Judge Britt’s impeachment in Minne-
sota is threatened.
The Hawaiian envoys will leave San
Francisco for home soon.
New scholarships have been added to
Yale’s theological school.
Gen. Lee’s medical director, Dr. S. D.
Cullen, died in Richmond, Va. ,
Charles Gaskius, sixth victim of Bos-
ton’s recent fire, died yesterday.
Ph‘mnix, Ariz., Mexicans Oppose Span-
ish in schools and favor English.
’ The old tin box game cost Farmer L.
Skinner, near Salem, Ore., $2,500.
An exploding lamp completely de-
troyed a $10,000 hotel in Dunmore, Pa.
Exposure at the inauguration has
caused Gen. Brooke’s illness at Omaha.
Hiram L. Northrop, president of the
banking company, died in Kansas City-,
The bodies found in a box in, the ' Mis-
souri at St. Joseph are still unidentified.
Thomas R. Harper is awaiting trial in
Portland, Me., for alleged election frauds.
Augustus H. Dunn was caught in ma-
chinery at Portland, Me., and horribly
mangled. '
Haverhill, Mass., masqueraders narrow-
ly escaped death from a falling metal
ornament.
Boston Hebrew residences were raided
by the police, who secured alleged smug-
gled wines. ,
S. E. Sanborn, a Manchester, N. B.,
educational leader, is accused of with-
holding money.
Washington’s last letter sold for $850 in
Philadelphia yesterday, and his card
tables $260 each. .
The Iowa and Oregon Land Company,
just organized in Muscatine, owns 8504!!)
acres of Oregon. ' _-
Over one hundred Japanese peasants
have reached California, on their way to
the World’s Fair. .
Read the Gamma.
.«z,
Norwalk Chronicler