LATER
NEWS.
MESSAGE
Virden rioters will be prosecuted as
fast a. information can be obtained
against them.
From All Parts of the New The Carlist movement in Spain is Opening of Final Session of
gaining ground owing to the apathy of
World and the Old.
Fifty-Fifth Congress.
. the Spanish government.
The official trial of the new torpedo
boat Farragut, in San Francisco Lay
INTERESTING CIRCUMSTANCES
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS was a successful one in every respect.
Comprehensive Review of the Import*
ant Happening» of the I*a»t Week
Culled From the Telegruph Columns.
Thirty-seven people were drowned in
the wreck of the steamer Clan Drum
mond in tho bay of Biscay.
A gift to Wellesleycoliege of $50,000
from the estate of Charles T. Wilder
has just been announced.
The 50th anniversary of Francis
Joseph’s accession to the throne was
celebrated throughout Austria.
Three coalbarges were lost and the
liveB of 10 or 12 men were sacrificed in
the recent Atlantic storm off Bargate.
The Philippine insurgents demand
7,000,000 pesetas for the release of 40
friars imprisoned sinoe the commence
ment of the war.
A fit« fiend attempted to burn John
Wanamaker’s big department store in
Philadelphia, but was arrested before
lerious damage was done.
The liabilities of Gillo” ‘be ab
sconding Kansas cattle-plunger, con
tinue to grow, the latest estimate plac
ing the total at $1,500.000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to hold up and rob a Missouri Pacific
passenger train near Sedalia, Mo. One
bandit was captured and another was
icvercly wounded.
Agu inaldo is said to bo preparing to
make resistance, and Spanish sympa
thizers in Madrid declare 60,000 men
armed with Mansers will oppose Amer
ican control of the Philippines.
Secretary Long has ordered the
cruiser New York to Havana.
On his
arrival, Sam peon will hoist his flag on
the cruiser, anil it is expected slm will
bring the adtuiral north next month.
A German government offloial, in
an inteiview with a correspondent of
the press in Berlin confirmed the report
that Germany is negotiating with
Spain for the purchase of the Caroline
islands.
Advices from New Guinea say the
nutivo tribes living on Musa river late
ly raided the Masini villages, in Col
lingwood- buy, and massacred 15 coast
people. There arc no police to deal
with the murderers.
News from Samoa states that the na
tives held a meeting October 13 to
discuss the question of the kingship.
A number of conciliatory sfreechM
ere delivered, but no candidate was
named, nor was any decision arrived at.
Two men have been arrested at Lon
don on charges of having robbed the
Duchess of Slither land of valuable jew
elry in France lust month. Part of the
stolen jewelty was in the [rossession of
the robbers when they were arrested.
Chile is on a specie basis and no
more paper money will be issued.
It is announced at Washington that
no more presidential ]M>stmiisters will
be named until congiess meets.
The battle-ships Oregon and Iowa
have been ordered to proceed from Mon
tevideo to Valparaiso, where further
orders will await them.
Troubles bus arisen in Africa be
tween Germany and the Congo Free
State, relative to the respective boun
dary lines north of Lake Tiinganika.
General Thomas Regalado, tlm bond
of tlm revolutionary movement hi Sal
vador, has usurped tho presidency and
proclaimed himself chief executive of
the republic.
The attempt to effect a coalition be
tween the states of Nicaragua, lion
dura. and Salvador, to be eotidui ted us
tho United States of Central America,
has failed completely.
Arrangements are being made by tb«
war department to disinter the remains
of all the soldiers who lost their lives
ill the campaign before Santiago mid
bling them to this country.
Great improvement in the health ot
the army has taken place within tho
last two months, as shown by the last
reports to tho surgeon-general from the
field and general hospitals.
There is a band of American swin
dlers in Hamburg, Gernmnv, who tire
passing worthless American paper
money, for which they not only procure
valuable merchandise, Imt even obtain
money in exchange from their victims.
It will probably bo the end of Decem
ber or the beginning of January .before
any further news is received from the
men who have chosen to spend the
w inter on tho rich gold-bearing creeks
of the Klondike. About 500 men will
winter on the creeks iu the Allin river
country.
The navy de|uirtment has made pub
lic a riqsirt from Admiral Sampson,
covering the iqierations of the United
titatee blockading fleet off Santiago
after the destruction of Cervam’«
squadron. The riqairt »cores General
Shafter tor making public inipo. Pint
telegrams and refusing to recognise
the admiral in the surrender.
Minor Ne»w« Item«.
Meyer of Louisiana, has introduced
in the house a bill appropriating $12,-
000,000 for the construction of a wide,
deep channel from deep water of the
I Mississippi nvci to deep water of the
I Gulf of Mexico.
The history ot the document which
will certify the passing of the oldest
I colonial power in the world and the
advent of the newest was epitomized
I by Judge Day in a single sentence: “A
peace treaty to contain anything which
the victors put into it.”
News has been received of one vessel
boarded by the Spaniards during the
late war.
She was tiie British bark
Nellie Brett, and after a thorough ex
amination was allowed to proceed.
The boarding ciew was from the Al
fonso XIII, afteiwards sunk by the
Americans.
Señor Romer, Mexican minister to
Washington, has notified Secretary
Hay that Mexico has determined to ad
vance her mission here to the rank of
an embassy. Consequently, as soon as
the necessary steps are taken, the
United States minister to Mexico,
Clayton, will become an ambassador.
Representative Cousins, of Iowa, has
the honor of introducing the first bill
ill the house at this session, it is en
title 1 “a bill declaring a standard of
valuó in the United Sta’es,” and pro
vides that the standard of value in the
United States is hereby declared to be
and is the standard gold dollar of 25.8
grains of standard gold, 900 fine.
In conformity with the require
ments of the law the secretary of the
treasury has transmitted to congress
the estimates of appropriations te-
quired for the service of the fiscal
year, ending June 30, 1900, as fur
nished by the several executive depart
ments. Those estimates include the
permanent annual appropriation ag
gregating $593,048,378, as
against
$808,875,885, the amount of the ap
propriation including deficiencies and
miscellaneous expenses for the fiscal
year of 1898, and $ 163,(147■ 885, the
amount of the eslimutes of 1899.
Tho estimates given below aro the
appropriation« for Oregon and Wash
ington for the coming year: Gray’s
harbor, Washington, $500,000; Yu
qui nil bay harbor, Oregon, $400,1)00;
custom-house, Forthind, Or., $200,-
000; Columbia river and Willamette
river below Portland, $150,000; Co
lumbia river at the Cascades, $100,-
000; entrance to Coos bay and harbor,
Oregon, $100,000; lighthouse at Semi-
abmoo bay, Washington,
$25,000;
lighthouse at Middle Ground, Colum
bia river, $24,000; lighthouse at Bur
rows’ island, Washington, $15,000.
Superior Judge Rhodes Borden died
at his home at San Francisco.
A boiler in n sawmill near Mont
rose, Colo., exploded, killing three men.
General Miles has prepared a draft
for a bill providing for a standing army
of 100,000 men.
It is reported that the Great North
ern Ims purchased an lino to Portland
and will soon cornu into that city over
its own tracks.
Mad Mullah’s fanatical movement
has been partly cheeked, and a strong
British force is held in readiness to
move against the Rebels.
The appeal of General Lord Kitcli-
oner, of Khartoum, for funds to found
a Gordon memorial college at Khar
toum met with an immediate response
in London. Over 1’70,000 out of the
£100 000 asked for has already been
subset ibed.
During the past week five bodies
have been picked up on the beach be
tween Florence and Gardiner, Or.,
with a few miles' space. They are
supposed to be the laidies of sailors of
the wrecked Atalanta. If
must have been carried 40
the ocean currents.
The young king of Spain has bad a
very pleasant windfall in the shape of
a legacy of 3,000,000 pesetas, be
queathed to him by an old gentleman
named Solar, who had a close though
unacknowledged relationship to the
king, l>eing the natuial son of Ferdi
nand VII, and great uncle of King Al
fonso,
Advice« from Russia say the reports
of threatened famine there are growing
more gloomy every day. Count Leo
Tolstoi lias petitioned the government
lor permission to form relief commit
tees to cope with the distress, and the
czar himself has contributed 500,000
roubles to the Red Cross Society to aid
the starving peasants.
Thurlow Weed Barnes has brought
suit in the New York supreme court
against the American-China Develop
ment Company for $1.000.000 for ser
vices in obtaining railtoad conversions
from the imperial Chinese government,
through the Chinese minister at
Washington.
The «»ncessions are
worth in net profit at least $13,000,000
to the company. and they may be
worth $24,000,000.
California mine owners assert the
The steamer Monarch cleared from gold output of the state has been Clll-
New Orleans for Liverp-ad with the tailed at least 50 per cent by a pro-
largest general cargo ever carried from longed drought.
that port, embracing 30,630 bales of
Oliver Clement, aged IS, of Poplat
cotton, 133,000 bushels of corn, 19,000 Bluff, Mo., has learned Mrs. Hannah
staves.
McGinnis, aged 50. She was his step
Sarah Bonnell, an Abilene. (Kan.I mother's stepmother.
young woman, has received a legacy of
Though one of the youngest general
half a million dollars from a New York
officers in the confederate army Gen
friend interested in her musical educa
eral Wheeler was the oldest in the na
tion. She will go to Paris soon to com
tional service against Spain.
plete her musical education.
A Few Bill* Were Introduced in the
II ou»e—Adjournment Boon After the
Reading of the Message.
View« of a
COMMENT.
Number of Senntors
Representative».
OLD
and
Washington, Dec. 7.—Many senators
excused themselves from expression of
opinions at length upon the president’s
message, on the ground that they had
not been able to give careful attention
to all the details. Republican sena
tors were, however, willing to express
themselves in u few general words of
commendation.
Senator Cullom regarded it as ‘a
1 painstaking, entertaining and accurate
historical review.”
Senator Platt, of New York, com
mended the expression of a determina
tion to increase the standing army, and
to maintain order in Cuba until the
Cubans can take care of themselves.
Senator Wolcott said it was an ad-
I mirable document
Senator Lodge said it was “able and
excellent.”
Senator Foraker—A good presenta-
| tion of facts generally, but a little in
definite on the question of Cuban in
dependence.
Senator Proctor—A good American
paper.
Senator Perkins-—An able resume of
the situation and facts leading up to
the war.
The Democrats were even more
averse than the Republicans to discuss
the paper. Senator Jones, of Arkansas,
was an exception. He found in the
message a number of points which did
nof accord with his views. Ono of
these was the proposition to continue
the volunteer army in existence until
the standing army can be increased.
“Some of us do not favor the increase
of the standing army,,” he said, “and
the president has no right to assume
that a majority stand with him on that
proposition. ”
Washington, Dec. 7. — When the sen
ate convened Monday to begin the clos-
| ing session of tiie 55th congress«, the
! chamber presented a notable and beau-
■ tiful appearance. By 11 o’clock the
| public and private galleries were filled
| almost to their capacity with a distin-
1 guislied assemblage, including many
ladies in brilliant attire.
On the floor of the senate the display
of flowers was unusually beautiful even
for the opening day of a session of con
gress. The odor of flowers tilled the
j chamber. The memorable scenes en
acted in the ohambeer during the last
session, and the momentous events that
j have occurred since congress last ad-
| journed created a feeling of intense ex-
i pectancy on the part of the spectators
i and the members of the senate. This
, was made manifest by the long lines of
people in the corridors anxious to gain
admission to the galleries and by the
- early arrival of the senators on the
I floor. Through the courtesy of the
vice-president, the members of the
! joint high commission were admitted
' to the floor of the senate, and were the
recipients of much attention.
Just before the senate was called to
order, several well-known members of
As Viewed in Loudon.
the diplomatic corps appeared in the
London, Dec. 7.—Much having been
i diplomatic gallery.
expeoted, there is a certain tone of dis
Promptly at 12o’clock Hobart rapped
appointment in the morning paper ed
for order. Mr. Milburn, the venera
itorials mi President McKinley’s mes
ble blind chaplain, in a profoundly im
sage, Its noncommittal character is
pressive manner, returned “devout and
attributed to the fact that the negotia
reverent thanks for God's goodness to |
tions of the peace commissioners at
us as a nation and for his care of us
Paris are not finished.
since last gathered tn the chamber.”
Considerable satisfaction is expressed
The call of the senate developed the
at the references to Anglo-American
presence of 67 members. The usual
reia ions, and nt the coldness displayed
resolutions were offered and adopted.
toward Russia.
Cullom of Illinois offered one to ap
The Daily News complains of the
point n committee to inform the house
“ambiguity of the message on com
that the senate was ready to transact
mercial and currency matters,” and
business; Hale of Maine, one fixing
“the conspicuous absence of any allu
the hour of daily meetings at 12
sion to ftco trade.”
o’clock noon, and Morrill of Vermont,
The Times says: “It is creditable
one to appoint a committee to notify
to both the dignity and good sense of
the president that the senate was
the American people that a message
awaiting any communication he might
announcing the victorious ending of
desire to make. Morrill of Vermont,
the great war, the acquisition of terri
and Cockrell of Missouri, were named
tory and initiation of an imperialist
by the vice-ptesident to join a like
policy is sober in tone and moderate in
committee of the house to call on the
recommendations. ”
president.
The Daily Chronicle pays a tribute
McBride of Oregon, presented the to the “sober, sound common sense and
credentials of his colleague, Simon, to straightforward language” of the mes
whom the vice-president administered sage, pointing out that President Mo-
the oath of office.
Kinley’s reference to the military oc
The reading of the message occupied cupation of Cuba virtually outlines a
two hours and 18 minutes. Many per policy “precisely the same as Great
sons remained in the galleries through Britain in Egypt and likely to have
out the leading, but, as is usual, little the same effect.”
attention was given to the presentation
DEBTS OF THE ISLANDS.
of the message, either in the galleries
or on tiie floor, after the first few pages.
The senate adjourned shortly after They Will Not Be Mentioned in the
Treaties.
the reading of the message.
London, Dec. 5.—The Paris corre
spondent of the Standard, says: The
In the H our «.
Washington, Dec. 7.—Tho opening peace commissions have agreed not to
session of congress Monday wav a spec mention the Cuban or Philippine debts
tacular occasion, animated and bril in the treaty, because it might lead to
liant. There were more than the usual misapprehension. The American com
number of distinguished personages in missioners have indicated to the Span
the thronged galleries, including many iards that these debts cannot possibly,
representatives of foreign governments, in law, right or equity, be saddled
high officials, and ladies ami gentlemen upon Cuba or the Philippines, since
conspicuous in social and political life. the money employed was not for the
The greetings of the members were benefit of the colonies, but to compel
most cordial, and there was no outcrop them, by force of arms, to suffer the
ping of partisan rancor to mar the oc oppressive Spanish rule from which
casion. One of the most striking inci they are seeking to free themselves.
The Madrid correspondent
<
of the
dents was the cordial meeting between
the floor leaders of the respective sides, Daily News says: : It is officially an-
Messrs. Dinglev and Bailey. In view nounced that the Spanish peace com -
of the gossip about the possibility of missioners have secured a concees ion
Mr. Bailey being deposed as the minor granting Spain commercial advantages
ity leader, it is significant that the in the Philippines for 10 years. An
speaker named Mr. Bailey as the effort will be made to secure a similar
minority member of the committee to concession in the Antilles.
wait upon the president, an honor al
FIVE LIVES LOST.
ways bestowed upon the recognized
leader of the minority.
A Terrific Nltro-Gelatine Explosion at
Speaker Reed received a warm wel
Pinocle» Cal.
come from both side« of the house when
Pinocle, Cal., Dec. 7.—The nitro
he ascended the rostrum to call the gelatine house of the Judson Powder
house to order, but perhaps the greatest Company blew np at 8:35 this after
personal ovation to any member was noon, killing Superintendent Charles
that given Major-General Wheeler, of Konnedy and four Chinese, the only
Alabama, who has not been seen by workmen in the building nt the time.
many of his old colleagues since he The explosion was a terrific one, four
went to the front at the head of tho tons of nitrogelatine blowing up, com
cavalry division of General Shafter’s pletely demolishing the building. The
army. Mr. W. A. Stone, of Pennsyl same house was badly damaged by an
vania, McMillin, of Tennessee, and Mr. exp1 -ion six weeks ago. Hurt two Chi
Sayers, of Texas, who have been elected nese Were killed.
Superintendent
governors ot their respective states Kennedy was
superintending some
since congress adjourned, were also mixing when the explosion of this af
overwhelmed with congratulations.
ternoon occurred. It is probable that
Tho floral tributes today wore un the cause of the explosion will never
usually numerous and made the hall a be known, as no one who was in the
veritable bower of beautiful flowers. building escaped death.
The proceedings themselves were dull,
Newport, R. I., Dec. 7.—Block i«l-
all interest centering in the reading of
the president’s message. For over two Hnd «offered severely from the storm
hours the clerk droned through the long last night. The three-masted Nova
document, but the interest of members Scotia schooner Vamoose, loaded with
and spectators never flagged.
With coal, went ashore during the night on
rapt attention they followed the presi Clay head, on the east side of the isl
The captain and mate were
dent's recital of the war and listened and.
eagerly to eveiy suggestion or reami- drowned. Two of the crew were able
mendation he had to offer, No expres to reach shore in safety. and four
sions of approval or disapproval intar- others were taken off by the life-sav
ing crew in the breeches buoy.
rupted the reading.
Chicago Theater Burned.
Garcia at Washington.
Washington, Dec. 7.—General Gar
Chicago. Dai. 7.—Fire badlv datn-
aged the Lincoln theater at 468 North cia, with his staff, called at the war
Clark street tonight. The evening per department today to pay his respects to
Mr.
formance had been concluded and the Acting Secretary Meiklejohn.
audience bad left the building but a Meiklejohn chatted for a few minutes
few minutes, when tho fits broke out. with his callers, but not upon matters
The member« of the "Dawn of Free- of business. The Cubans had previous
doin'' conn any, which is at the thea ly seen Secretary Gage and conferral
ter, were still in the building, and they with him on eamomio questions relat
were compelled to make a hasty exit, ing to the administration of affairs in
They professed themselves
none of them saving any considerable Cuba.
portion of their clothing. The loss is very well satisfied with the reception
accorded them by Mr. Gage.
•bout $60.000
GLORY
RAISED.
Two Santa Clara Cities tn Control of
Americans.
Great
Fire on Broadway,
New York.
OF A MILLION DOLLARS
LOSS
Roger», Feet & Co. Burned Out—Sky-
icrapers of Home Life IiiMurance and
Postal Telegraph Companies Gutted.
New York, Deo. 6.—In a blinding
rain storm tonight, the massive block
of buildings on Broadway, Noe. 353 to
259, and included between Murray and
Warren streets, was almost destroyed
by fire. Within three hours more than
$1,000,000 worth of property was de
stroyed.
The fire began in the five-storv brick
building occupied by the men’s fur
nishing firm of Rogers, Peet & Co., on
the southwest corner of Broadway and
Warrent street. Ad joining the Rogers-
Peet building, and south of it, was the
magnificent white building of tire Home
Life Insurance Company, and next to
this was the brownstone building of
tire Postal Telegraph Company, erected
at a cost of millions only a few years
ago. Within a few minutes after the
discovery of the fire the Rogers-Peet
building was a roaring furnace, and an
alarm had been turned in which
brought more than a score of engines to
the scene.
It was but a short time
when the flames had eaten through the
wall of the Home Life, and were roar
ing high above that lofty structure.
Thousands of people had gathered on
the scene, and the blinding glare of the
flames lighted up the lower part of the
city. Even in the downpour, the great
crowd of people grew and the police
reserves were called out from many sta
tions and kept the people back for
blocks. Great showers of eparks wire
carried in all directions by the gale,
that blew 60 miles an hour. It was a
picturesque fire.
The Home Life Insurance building
was occupied by that company and a
large number of men prominent in
various lines of business, Eveiy effort
was made to eave the valuable papers
stored in some of the offices, but many
of these were lost. The offices of tiie
rapid-transit commission were on the
ninth floor of this building, and it is
believed that all the plans and schemes
of work with which the company has
been working for many years are de
stroyed.
In the Postal building, as well, theie
were many serious losses of a private
nature, and when the flames reached
the operating room of this structure,
which they did within three hours of
the outbreak, the one or two solitary
operators who remained at their posts
were compelled to flee for their lives.
The fire burned even more fiercely in
the Home Life building, owing to the
great height of this structure and in an
incredibly short time the upper half of
this magnificent building was in flames.
The water towers in the street were
able to throw their heavy streams only
into the lowerq>art of the structure, and
the firemen, though they worked with
great bravery and untiring energy, in
the blinding smoke and heat, could do
little in the face of such a fierce sweep
of flames and gale. It was only a ques
tion of time when the Postal building,
eo far as the upper stories were con
cerned, went the way of the others.
The estimate of the losses by Chief
Bonner after midnight was $1,900,000
with a probability of a still further lose
should the fire continue to make any
thing like rapid progress.
At that
hour, however, be believed that he had
the fire under control within reasonable
limits.
MORE
News
of
WRECKS
REPORTED.
Several 1>isa»ter»
New York.
Reaches
New York, Dec. 6.—Vessels that left
this port November 25 boie the brunt
of the double hurricane. In many cases
the names of wrecks sighted at sea can
not be made out, and agents are wor-
ried.
Other vessels have not been
heard from.
Swan & Son, agents for the bark
Gleneida, received word last night from
Captain Corning that she was wrecked,
and that the crew ¿were in Bermuda.
She was 6tiuck by the storm and dis
masted November 20. She was aban
doned on the 29th. The Gleneida had
cleared for Buenos Ayres.
Word was also received yesterday of
the wreck of the schooner Kate S.
Flint.
The British steamship Baron Cawdor,
Captain Sutherland, just arrived from
Java, had a boat and hoist-engine gear
smashed during a 48-hours’ struggle
with the gale.
The German steamship Gera, from
Bremen, which arrived with passengers
yesterday, had the forward part of her
saloon stove iu and her bridge stanch
ions twisted.
Three barges which were cut loose on
the sound since Saturday have been res
cued from the north shore of Long
island. Thirteen schooners were taken
safely into New Haven by a tugboat.
The Sunset limited transcontinental
train of the Southern Pacific, west-
bound, was badly wrecked two mi les
west of Jennings, La. No lives were
lost.
Troop» for Philippines.
Havana, Dec. 6.—At noon today the
American forces, having previously
taken charge of Sancti Spiiitus and
Trinidad, in Santa Clara province, the
Stars an<l Stripes were officially and
with impressive ceremonies hoisted
over the city hall and the military and
other publio buildings in those cities.
When the flags were unfurled, the
bands played “The Star Spangled Ban
ner,’’ and the soldiers and crowds of
citizens cheered enthusiastically.
General Wade, president of fne
United States evacuation commission,
accompanied by Colonel Clous, judge-
adocate, Captain Hart, the official in
terpreter and Major Almy, Allison,
Butler and Brooke, called upon Cap
tain-General Castellanos at the palace
today. They were received by the
president of the Spanish evacuation
commission, who introduced them to
Generil Castellanos.
The meeting
was of a most cordial nature, and when
the Americans retired, the captain
general accompanied them half way
down stairs and shook hands with all
of them. The Spanish military guard
on duty at the palace was drawn up
and rendered the utmost honors to the
American visitors.
San Antonio de Los Banos, province
of Havana, ar.d Jaguay la Grande,
province of Matanzas, were evacuated
by the Spanish troops yesterday.
The Spanish transport Gran Antilla
sailed today for Spain with 1447 Span
ish troops; the Fulda will sail Monday
and the Werra, San Ignacio and Juan
Fergus Tuesday. The Spanish com
mission was advised today that by
Monday next the evacuation of Bata
bano and the entire line of San Felipe
will be finished. This will complete
the evacuation of the entire island
west of those points.
A deed of sale of the Tacon theater
to an American syndicate, the property
passing into the hands of the Tacon
Realty Company. The Tacon, which
is the eighth largest opera-house in
the world, occupies an entire block.
STEAM
PIPE
BURST.
Six Men Killed on the Steamer Alamo
at New York,
New York, Dec. 6.—Six men of the
Mallory line steamship Alamo were
killed tonight by the bursting of a
steam pipe while the vessel lay at her
pier in the East river. The dead are:
Patrick Murphy, second engineer;
Thomas McHugh, fireman;
Patrick
Farrell, oiler; Frank McMahon, fire-
man; L. Connell, fireman; J. Ryan, a
coal-heaver; John Stoneman, a passen
ger, of Albany, was seriously scalded.
The Alamo has only recently been
discharged from transport service for
the government, and was just ovei-
hauled at Roche’s yard, She has new
steam pipes and boilers,
She was
about to sail for Galveston with 30
passengers. At the time of the acci-
dent, about 7 o’clock, the ship had
cast off her lines and the tugboat Pres
ident had her line taut to assist the
Alamo into midstream. Her engines
had made but two or three revolutions
when the explosion came. It gave
forth a roar that was heard all through
South and Water streets, and the force
of it sent a shock and a shiver through
out the length of the ship. The floor
ing of the deck immediately over the
engine room was torn into splinters,
and steam poured up through the open
seams in clouds.
The sound of escaping steam was
mingled with the shrieks of the dying
men, who were enveloped in it. The
flow of the steam was checked with
great difficulty, and not until the lapse
of five or six minutes. Then it was
found that it had completely filled the
engine-room and fireroom, and that all
who had been confined had been \not
only parboiled, but suffocated by rt.
There was no sign of life left in any of
the bodies, and in several instances the
skin had peeled from their hands and
faces. The second engineei was found
close to the break, in a position which
indicated that he had tried to shut off
the steam at the boiler when the acci
dent occurred, and had died in the at
tempt. Two of the firemen were found
gripped in one another’s arms at the
foot of the ladder leading from the fire
hole.
Porto Rico Want» Reforms.
San Juan de Porto Rico, Deo. 6.—
The report put in circulation here that
the United States government will take
no definite action to establish a com
prehensive scheme of Porto Rican ad
ministration for at least a year has
provoked much adverse comment.
A meeting has been held by local
business men, Americans and Porto
Ricans, to protest vigorously against
any delay in reforms which are abso
lutely never- ary to prevent the contin
uance of serious abuse.
The same
meeting condemned the action of the
American authorities in collecting ar
rears of Spanish taxes since 1883, and
called for the application of American
laws and the establishment of free
trade with the United States.
Fire in Ferrol.
Ferrol, Spain, Dec. 6.—A fire which
occurred in the government dock yards
at this place last night, gutted several
building« and, before the flames were
extinguished, a number of Isimbsbells
exploded.
The loss is estimated at
4,000.000 pesetas.
Fire in a Catholic Church.
Milwaukee, Dec, 6.—Information re
New York. Dec. «. — Fire this morn
ceived in this city is that in accordance ing wrecked the end of St. Agnes'
with later orders from the war depart Catholic church, on Fifty-third street,
ment, several regiments of the United near Third avenue, destroying valuable
States army will in a few weeks embark
altars, paintings and a new organ.
for the Philippine* The order, which The loss is $100,000.
is said to include the Third infantry
from Fort Snelling, and the Second,
Berlin, Dee. 6.—Seven persons were
Third, Fourth, Fifth, Fifteenth and burned to death today in a fire which
Twentieth regiments, requires that broke out in the smail hamlet of Ex-
these regiments ba prepared for pro enthal, near Sonnebifg. Saxe-Mein-
longed foreign field service in the engen, about 13 mi.es northeast of Co
tropica
burg.