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'4 V O L U M E I I . W H I T E S Y I L L E , N . Y ., J U N E 18, 1896. N U M B E K 12. General News Summary, j Interesting Home and Foreign News. C O N G R E S S . T h e senate on the 8th passed the new defi ciency bilL A final conference report was made on the post ofiftce appropriation bill and was agreed to. P a rtial conference reports on the Indian appropriation bill and the District of Columbia appropriation bill were agreed to and further conferences ordered. The immigra tion bill was taken up and Mr. Morgan made another speech upon the question of the war in ■Cuba __ In the house a number of bills were passed u nder suspension of the rules. Confer ence reports were presented and agreed to on the following appropriation bills: Post ofiace, final; Indian and District of Columbia. F in al conference reports on the naval and Indian appropriation bills were agreed to by the senate on the 9th. In the naval bill a com promise was made reducing the number of new battleships to three and directing that no con tracts shall be made for arm or p late u n til after the secretary of the navy shall have inquired into the cost of m anufacture and make a report to c o n g ress....In the house the contested elec tion case of Aldrich (rep.) vs Underwood (dem.) from the Ninth Alabama district was decided in favor of Aldrich and he was sworn in. The final conference reports on the Indian and naval bills were agreed to. T he first session of the Fifty-fourth con gress was practically concluded on the 10th by the agreenjjKat of the two bodies upon the sun dry civil and D istrict of Columbia appropria tion bills—the only remaining m a tters of dif ference between the two houses. To accomplish this the house voted to concur with the senate in its amendments to the sundry civil appro priations for certain public buildings. The senate agreed to the house provision in the dis trict b ill cutting off appropriations to religious, benevolent anfl. charitable institutions, amend ed so to make the new policy effective after June 30, 1897. Previous to reaching this con clusion the house passed many measures under suspension of the rules. I n the senate on the 11th the D istrict of Co lumbia appropriation bill was received and signed by the vice president, thus disposing of the last of the general appropriation bills so far as the legislative branch was concerned. A bill was passed granting a pension to the wid ow of Gen. W. H. Gibson, of Ohio. The usual resolutions of thanks to the vice p resident and president pro tem. were passed and the senate adjourned sine die ----- In the house Mr. Turner, Of Georgia, acting for the minority, offered a resolution thanking Speaker Reed for ability and impartiality in discharging the duties of his office. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Beed responded in a brief speech and declared the first session of the house of representatives of the Fifty-fourth congress adjourned without D O M E S T I C . E epined petroleum has been ad- vanceij. 15 points at N ew York, Phila delphia -quotations being- 5 points lower. A TEAWELiNer salesm an, nam ed Beu- h e n M e r d i a x ti , co m m itted , su icid e b y Shooting him self throug’h the head at Titusville, Pa., on the 9th. O n the Louisville & Nashville rail road a portion of the tunnel a few m iles south of Cincinnati caved in and k illed tw o men on the 10th. A passen ger train w a s flagged jnst in time to prevent a catastrophe. A n incendiary fire occurred at Whit ing, I n d ., on the 10th -which caused the death of Mrs. Annie Homan, Miss Ma mie JHoman and John C. Homan. The fire originated in a saloon kept by Jo seph Pulaski. T he supreme lodge of the Knights of Honor, in session at Louisville, K y ., has re-elected all the old ofBeers, in cluding John M u lligan, of Yonkers, N. Y., as supreme dictator. T he actual appropriations for the session of congress just closed (exclu sive of liabilities contained in contracts authorized) reach a grand total of $515,759,830. E ight thousand dollars’ d amage was done on th e 11th in Mrs. Field’s m il linery store at A llentow n , Pa., by a fire of unknow n origin. Eleven per sons had narrow escapes from suffoca- A t Edinburg, Ind., on the 11th the Thompson bank closed its doors, as did the large flouring m ill operated by the same company. The Thompsons have $300,000 in personal property and claim their depositors will be given dollar for dollar. J ackson S heridan w a s um piring a game of ball at Bloomington, Ind., on tb e 9th w h en he w as struck in the tem p le by a pitched ball. Two days later he died from concussion of the brain. Sheridan w as a member of the Indiana university team and lived at Lebanon, Ind. T he Moore Cycle Co., of South Mil waukee, has assigned. Assets $200,- 000; liabilities considerably less. T he board of m a n agers of the Joint Traffic association has taken steps to prevent the use in general traffic of tickets issued for the Christian En deavor convention in W ashington from July 7 to 13. T he special senate com m ittee ap pointed to investigate the recent sales of government bonds, began its inquiry a t W ashington on the 13th. T he boiler of the Michigan salt works, near Marine City, Mich., ex ploded on the night of the 11th, k illing W illiam Mowbray, night foreman, and John F. Haley. Peter Booth, a fire man, and Cyrenius O’N e il were badly injured. Flam es broke out after the explosion and th e property w a s de stroyed. Loss $50,000, w ith $10,000 in surance. P ostmaster G eneral W ilson has denied the privileges of the m ails to E. A. Slack Co., of Kansas City and Chicago. The firm sold devices for card playing. T he First national bank of Lam ed, Kan., capital $50,000, closed its doors on th e 11th. T he w h o lesale crockery and queens- <ware establishm ent of R. Douglass & Co., doing business in St. Joseph, Mo., and Denver, Col., passed into the hands of a trustee on the 10th. The liabili ties are in the neighborhood of $100,- 000, w ith assets nearly double that amount* T he total number of silver dollars coined from bullion purchased under the act of July 14, 1890, to June 1, 1896, w a s 46,044,651. Upon this coinage there wae a profit of $10,117,334. B usiness failures in th e United States for the w eek ended June 13 numbered 246, against 341 for the corresponding period last year, and in Canada 27, again s t 34 for the sam e tim e in 1895. T he gold reserve of the treasury, which, under the la s t bond issue, reached its m axim u m figure of $138,- 000,000 on April 13, has now fallen to $104,238,754. T he Edward C. True, a three-masted schooner, from Baltim o re for Portland, sank ofP J o b ’s Neck, on the south side of Vinyard Haven, Mass., on the 10th, and a ll on board are supposed to be lost. P E R S O N A L AND POLITICAL. - A. P. A. COUNCIL No. 61, at Louisville, K y ., has adopted a resolution calling on the order for th e expulsion of Gov. Bradley for appointing to office John Whalen, a Catholic. T he resignation is announced of Prof. Egbert C, Smith, as president of Andover (Mass.) Theological seminary, after a period of 18 years in that posi tion. George Abbott, professor of the ology, will succeed him. D r . C harles M. N es , aged 69 years, died at York, Pa., on th e 13th. He was ?5ie inventor of the Nes silicon method of converting iron ore into steel. The discovery of the process w a s made by observing the effect of lightn in g on an old gun barrel, w h ich had been con verted into a high quality of steel by the electric fluid. I saac H. M aynard , ex-judge of the New York court of appeals, dropped dead on the 12th in a hotel at Albany. Heart disease was the cause. G en . R obert W hitely , U. S. A. (retired) died at his home in Baltim o re on the 9th, aged 87 years. Gen. W h ite ly saw active service in the Seminole, Indian and civil wars. He was born in Cambridge, Md., and was graduated from West Point in the class of ’30. He was retired in 1875 with the rank of major general. _ FOREIGN. Two British officers have been ar rested at Metz on suspicion of being spies engaged in obtaining informa tion regarding Germany’s fortifica tions. It is likely that they will be re leased shortly. E gyptian cholera statistics show that 761 n e w cases of cholera and 633 deaths have occurred in th a t country since June 1. A dvices received in London from Athens states that the number of French, B ritish and German engineers wh'o were recently massacred by the Kurds on the railway line from Smyrna to Karsaba is estim a ted at 300. T he . czar, in commemoration of his coronation, bas subscribed tbe ag gregate sum of 350,000 roubles to vari ous charities. T he Turks have pillaged and burned 20 ham lets in the interior of the island of Crete LATER. T homas D aw l e y , the correspondent of Harper’s W eekly w h o w a s arrested at Havana some tim e ago on the charge of being in communication w ith the rebels, has been released from Moro castle, w h ere he had been confined ever since he w a s taken into custody. T he supreme lodge of the Knights of Honor, in session at Louisville, Ky., has decided not to adm it women to the order. T he case of Herman Keck, the dia mond merchant of Cincinnati, who is under sentence of one year in the peni tentiary for alleged attem p ted diamond sm u ggling, has been appealed to the United States supreme court. Mean tim e Keek has been released from jail at Philadelphia on $10,000 bail, pend ing the hearing of the appeal. A STORM of unusual severity sw e p t the New Jersey coast on th e night of the 13th and before it had spent its fury did enormous damage. The fish ing interests suffered a loss estim a ted at $40,000. R ev . W illiam F ogarty , of Cincin nati, a student at the Catholic univer sity in W ashington, D. C., pitched headlong from a third-story window at that institution on the 13th w ith fatal consequencef. P ostmaster G eneral W ilson has begun a crusade against concerns sell ing devices to defraud at cards and other gam b ling schemes. D istrict A ttorney M ac F arlane , o f N ew York, has entered a judgm ent for $107,357 against the North Ameiucan Commercial Co. in “action “No. 1,’* brought by the United States against the company to recover rentals, royg-1- ties and taxes for the sealing privi leges on the islands of St. George and St. Paul, Alaska. A house at Tohaceoport, Tenn., in which a number of w h ite and colored boys had taken shelter, was struck by lightning on the 18th and four w ere killed. U pon the arrival of the steam er Mas- eotte at Havana on the 13th three of th e passengers were arrested. They were L. and C. Duarte, brothers, and one Carillo. They were searched and dam aging papers found on their per sons. They are said to be anarchists. W’^ arehouse a , of the W hite M ills D istilling Co., at Louisville, Ky., w a s destroyed by fire on the 14th, entailing a loss of $135,000. Seven thousand three hundred barrels of w h isky were burned. The loss is fuUy covered by insurance. V a l Schwab, a fireman,, w a s fatally burned by fallin g in a vat of blazing whisky. ALL CONTESTS HEAED. Republican National Committee Makes Up the Roll of Delegate?. A Majority of Those Awarded Seats in the Convention Favor the Candidacy of the Apostle of Protection —Mr. Platt’s Forces Re duced — Platform Makers at Work. S t . L ouis , June 15.—St, Louis now looks like a convention city. It has hung out its bunting in tasteful pro fusion to bid welcome to t h e big repub lican gathering. A ll four of the lead ing candidates—McKinley, Reed, Mor ton and A llison—have their headquar ters at the Southern hotel. The A lli son boom is not developing the propor tions th a t was expected of it. The railroad officials yesterday received official notification that the special convention train scheduled to start from the H a w k eye state loaded w ith Allison boomers had been counter manded. One o f them was expected to bring 1,000 Allison rooters from Des Moines alone. In the halls, corridors and public rooms of the Southern, the friends and adherents of the several presi dential candidates m eet as on neutral ground, w ithout the sligh test e x h ibi tion of political anim o sity. On oppo site sides of the square h a ll which forms the landing of the parlor floor, pictures of M cKinley and Reed seem to glow er at each other. To some of the intervening colum n s are attached photographs of Senator Quay. The rush of incom ing delegates Sun day w a s continuous, but no change w a s indicated in the trend of senti ment, It s till ran strongly for McKin ley for first place and w ith no very marked choice for second place. The vice presidency, in fact, m ay be con cealed about the person of some one w h o has not y e t been publicly sug gested for the honor. The large rooms on the parlor floor of the South ern are now occupied by the headquar ters of M assachusetts. Iowa, Maine, California and a few other states. Members of the national com m ittee are plum ing them selves upon their success in disposing of the imm ense mass of work thrust upon them w ith out holding a Sunday session. True, it w as nearly 5 o’clock Sunday m orning before the last contest w a s disposed of and th e tired committeemen crawled aw ay to their beds. The committee disposed in all of 168 cases, only rem itting to the convention for settlem e n t the delegates-at-large from M ississippi, Delaware and Texas and the delegates from tw o N ew York districts and one California district. The num b er of cases w a s so great that it was a physical impossibility to give all of them a careful judicial consider ation, so many were decided alm o st at haphazard. A large proportion of the cases w ill be fought over again before the committee on credentials w h en the convention is organized and m ay delay the nom ination till late in the week. C. W. Fairbanks, of Indiana, w a s unanim ously selected as temporary chairman of the national convention. Col. C. W. Johnson, of Minnesota, who w a s secretary of th e national conven tion of 1893, at Minneapolis, w as unani m ously chosen secretary of this con vention. W. G. Riley, of Kentucky, w a s made first assistant secretary; Harry H. Smith, o f W ashington, second assistant secretary, and A. B. Humphrey, of New York, ex-secretary of the Repub lican league, third assistant secretary. For chaplain, Rabbi Samuel Sale, of St. Louis, was selected. Five tempo rary reading clerks were also chosen. A decided sensation w as created in the national com mittee by the appear ance in th a t body of Senator Quay. He seated him self at the secretary’s table, reached for a sheet of foolscap and be gan to write. He had hardly finished w r iting w h en Perry Carson, the col ored national comm itteem an from the D istrict of Columbia, came into the hall and found his w a y to the side of Mr. Quay. The latter ceased w riting and Carson, taking the pen from his hand, attached his signature to the sheet upon w h ich the senator had w ritten. Thereupon Carson withdrew. A few moments later it developed that qhe document w as a p roxy under w hich Senator Quay was “authorized to sit in the national com m ittee as the proxy of Perry Carson,” u n til such.proxy w as withdrawn. None of th e Platt-Morton men w ent to bed Saturday night until the na tional comm ittee disposed of the last of the N ew York contests. Mr. P latt w a s the one exception. Mr. Platt was early astir in the m orning and at 8 o’clock his friends began m a k ing their w a y to his rooms. Mr. P latt declined to express an opinion w ith reference to the national com m ittee’s action. Some of the gentlem en were not so reticent. Occupying as they do, intim a te per sonal and political relations w ith Mr. Platt, they may be fairly supposed to represent his views. It cannot be said th a t they are pleased w ith the result. They had hoped that Morton men only would he seated. .To this exten t they are dis appointed. On th e other hand they were led to believe that the anti-Platt men would be favored w ithout excep tion. T h a t th e y w ere not so favored is a source of gratification to them and to this extent they are satisfied. As one of the number expressed it to a re porter “we shall acquiesce in the com\ m ittee’s conclusion, for w e have w o n a practical victory, but w e would have preferred to have all our men s eated.” I t may be said in this connection th a t all talk of a bolt of th e N e w York men from the convention is at an end. Mr. Platt w ill not press the m a tter any further if the convention approves the national com m ittee’s action. It r e a lly represents a loss to Morton of only votes out of a possible 13. This means th a t Mr. Platt, w ith his friends, w ill remain in the convention and partici pate in its deliberations. W h at Mr. Platt and his follow e rs w ill do when the presidential campaign actively be gins is another question, although it is asserted that they w ill perform w ith cheerfulness any political duty that m a y he assigned them. It is estim a ted at P latt’s headquarters th a t Morton w ill secure 59 o f N e w York’s 73 votes. There is dissatisfaction among the P latt men th a t Gov. Morton should have chosen Chauncey Depew as the medium through whom to announce his determ ination not to accept the nom ination for the vice presidency. Mr. P latt w as so much surprised Sat urday w h en Mr. Depew showed him Gov. M orton’s telegram that he in- stx’ucted Chairman H a c k e tt to wire the governor im m ediately about it. Mr. H a c k e tt did so. He received a reply stating th a t it was true. The follow ing statem ent is given out from Ohio headquarters to show that the national com m ittee performed its duties in the m atter of contested seats in a spirit of fairness to all concerned; An analysis of the work of the na tional com mittee in regard to the 168 contests w h ich were originally filed w ith it, show s th a t 136 cases were acted on, some of the original number having been abandoned, w h ile several, notably those of Delaware and a por tion of the Texas delegation, were re ferred to the convention. In many cases both contestants and contestees w ere M cKinley men, notably in all of the Mississippi and South Carolina dis tricts and in districts of Tennessee, Virginia and elsewhere. Of the 186 claimants rejected hy the committee, 63 were avowed McKinley men. The im p ression which prevailed during the consideration of these cases, that the com mittee w a s deciding a large major ity of the cases in favor of M cKinley, doubtless grew out of the fact that in nearly a ll of the states where there were a large number of contests, both the contestants and the contestees were M cKinley men and as a natural result more M cKinley men were, nec essarily, given seats than w ere anti- M cKinley men. Sunday w a s not a day of rest for Mr. Hanna and his associates who are m a n a g ing the campaign of Maj. Mc K inley. More effective work in the m a tter of constructing a platform was accomplished than in any other 34 hours up to date. Mr. Hanna since coming to St. Louis h a s received letters and telegrams- from all parts of the country, from representative business men, giving their ideas as to w h a t the financial plank should he and how it should be expressed. These have been collated and arranged. The various platform s adopted by republican state conventions have also been considered. The result of all this is that Mr. Hanna prepared a rough draft of the platform, which he has subm itted to alm ost every prominent republican in St. Louis, except the free silver men and Mr. Platt and those connected w ith him in his fight against McKin ley. This platform, so far as t h e finan cial plank is concerned, is a combina tion of the sentim ent expressed in the platform s of the New York and In diana state conventions, but so framed as to omit the words “gold standard.” It w ill declare for the “existing stand ard” and strongly condemn the free coinage of silver. This financial plank w ill he preceded (if Mr. H a n n a ’s pro gramme goes through), by a strong and vigorous declaration for a pro tective tariff and reciprocity, coupled w ith a brief history o f tariff legislation and the disastrous eff'ects upon the country of the W ilson hill w ith its at tending depletion of the revenue and its constantly grow ing deficit. “We favor the m aintenance of the e!xisting gold standard and are op posed to the free n o inage of silver ex cept by international agreem ent for bim etallism w ith the leading commer cial nations of the world.” This is the text o f the financial plank upon which Mr. P latt and his friends agreed a t a conference which adjourned last night and which w a s attended by leading eastern men and a number from the middle w estern states. It was decided th a t the fight should be kept up for this plank in the platform, and Mr. Platt stated th a t he believed such a plank would he inserted and that the so-called “sound m oney” men would abandon their position of insist in g upon a plank that *meant gold, but which did not say so in positive terms. After the above plank had been agreed to, its t e x t w a s wired to the monied interests of New York and es pecially to J. Pierpont Morgan. The replies from these gentlem en were s a t isfactory. They commended the terse ness of the plank and indorsed its sen timent. A lthough the Ohio delegation has held no formal caucus, it is practically agreed that Senator-elect Foraker w ill be chairman of the delegation and member of the com mittee on I'esolu- tions; Judge A. C. Thompson, creden tials; Congressman Grosvenor, perma nent organization, and Gov. Bnshnell on rules. Charles L. Kurtz, of Colum bus, vrill be the member of the national committee to succeed W. M. HahiL C O N G R E S S A D J O U R N S . Tame Fndins: of One of tbe Shortest “Long” Seggions on Record. W ashington , June 13.—The senate was called to order at 11 o’clock Thurs day, w h en the D istrict of Columbia ap propriation bill w a s received and signed by the vice president, thus dis posing of the last of the general ap propriation bills so far as th e legisla tive branch w a s concerned. A bill w a s passed granting a pension to the w idow of Gen. W. H. Gibson, of Ohio. The senate then dragged along until 1;20 o’clock, the only business transacted being the appointment of a com m ittee to w a it upon the president and inform him that congress was ready to ad journ, and the appointment of a com m ittee provided in the D istrict of Co lum b ia appropriation bill to investi gate the charitable and reform atory institutions in W ashington. At 1:30 a recess w a s taken u n til 3 o’clock, w h e n the usual resolutions of thanks to the vice president and presi dent pro tem. were offered and unani m ously agreed to. W hen the vice pres ident delivered his valedictory he had a good sized audience in the galleries, though but 35 senators were present. H ouse .—There w a s a marked differ ence betw een the closing scene in the house yesterday and that of the Fifty- first congress, the last previous repub* lican congress. Then there was a bit ter conflict betw een Speaker Reed and the minority and no one of the lat ter w a s found to introduce the usual resolution of thanks to the presiding officer. Yesterday Mr. Turner, the second democratic member of the com m ittee on w a y s and means, acting ior the m inority in the absence of ex- Speaker Crisp, offered a ‘ resolution thanking Speaker Reed for the “Abil ity, faithfulness and strict im p a rtial ity ” w ith which he had discharged the duties of his difficult position, and at the suggestion of Mr. Dockery and other democrats there w a s a rising vote, that the expression of heartiness back of the resolution m ight tliereby he emphasized. In his closing remarks Speaker Reed offered his grateful rec ognition for the honor, saying: “The thanks of the house of representatives is alw a y s a high honor, hut is especial ly so at the end of a session w h en the speaker has been forced to say ‘No’ more tim es perhaps than in the history of a n y other congress. ” THE AIR OF FREEDOM. John Hayg Hammond and His Companions JBreathe It—Released from Prison. After Paying £35,000 Each. W ashington , June • 12. — Secretary Olney yesterday received a cablegram from Vice Consul Knight, at Cape Town, saying that John H a y es Ham mond and the other reform leaders had been released. They were fined £35,000 P retoria , June 12.—It is announced that the terms imposed on the four leaders of the Johannesburg reform committee, John Hays Hammond, Lio nel Phillips, Coi. Francis Rhodes and George Farrar, whose release has been decided upon hy the Transvaal execu tive council, require that in default of the paym ent of a fine of £35,000 each they shall suffer banishm ent from the Transvaal. The conditions of their re lease upon paym ent of their fines are the same as those required to be ob served by the other members of the re form committee who were recently set at liberty, nam ely, that they shall ab stain from interference in the politics of the South African republic. S T U D E N T S C A U S E A RIOT. Harvard Boys Celebrate a Victory on the Diamond by Fighting Policemen. B oston , June 13.—A riot to6k place in Harvard square Wednesday night, and as a result several Harvard stu dents have severe bruises and several Cambridge policemen are nursing wounds. It all happened as a result of the students’ exuberance over the victory the Harvard baseball club se cured at Princeton. Three- students were locked up and one was so badly cut about the head that a physician was summoned to the police station. Tw elve stitches were taken in the wound. He is Arthur T. Pilling, a sophomore. The other tw o students are G. H. Darr, a junior, and Clay Briggs, a special student. Patrolmen Corcoran, Murray, McEl- roy and Dynan were roughly handled and the coat of the first named w as stripped from his back. The others were struck in the faces w ith fists and stones. This all occurred after the officers had attem p ted to arrest Briggs on the charge of discharging firearms on the street. A M OUNTAIN IN F L A M E S . Forest Fires on Pike’s Peak Produce a Grand Spectacle. C olorado S prings , Col,, June 13,— An extensive forest fire is prevailing on the northv/estern slopes of Pike’s Peak, near Timherline. The smoke rises a m ile high and, m ingling with the rain clouds form ing over the peak, its broad column is livid w ith the glare of a sea of fire fiercely burning in the pine tops. Strong w inds are stirring the column and driving the fire across abysses to new material. The dam age cannot w e ll be estimated. Evidently several square m iles w ill be burned over. The m ountains are fu ll o f pros pectors and doubtless some of these are in jeopardy, but fortunately no ex tensive camp is near. The greatest dam age may be in th e effect the de struction of the forest will have upon irrigation. The spectacle is imposinsr. DID M U C H F O R S E A M E N . A u tl^ated Navigation. Xiatrs JECevised. on M o d e rn Lines by Congress. W ashington , June 13.—The late con gress paid more attention to the navi gation law s of the country than has any congress for 15 years, and w h ile the number of b ills actually passed is not large, the number w h ich have passed one house or the other or have been favorably reported in both houses, and the am ount of nearly com p leted work has been so great as t o insure at the December session extensive and necessary changes in our antiquated shipping statutes. One o f the m o st im portant steps w a s th e adoption of th e bill to reconvene the American dele gates to the W a shington marine con ference of 1889, to consider th e im proved international m les to prevent collisions a t sea. It practically a ssures the enforcem ent of the W ashington rules by all nations w ithin about a The bill abolishing u n n ecessary crew bonds, facilitating e n try and clearance a t lake ports and repealing numerous law s enacted early in the century, but not adapted to modern conditions and enforced to the discomfort of masters, owners and seamen, passed the house and has been reported w ith certain am endments in the senate. Represent ative Payne’s m easure to better th e condition of American seamen — to abolish im p risonment for breaches of civil contract and to a b olish allotm ents and the crimping system —^passed the house and has been reported in th e senate w ith imprisonm ent and allot m ent restored in a guarded form. The tonnage tax bill, abolishing the present law by w h ich the U n ited States in effect subsidizes German ves sels by about $50,000 a t the expense of our own, passed the house and rem a ins in the senate commerce com m ittee un til taken up n e x t session. The free ship bill w a s killed in the senate and the compulsory pilotage b ill in the house. BO T H ARE RUINED. A Leading: Newspaper of Barcelona Strips the Mask from \Weyler’s Claims and Shows that Spain and Cuba are Bank- N ew Y ork , June 13. — A Herald spe cial from Key West, Fla., says: Ad vices from Havana say a sensation has been caused there by an editorial on the situation in the Diaro D el Com- mercia, the leading^paper of Barcelona. Copies of the paper which reached Ha vana have been suppressed by W eyler. The subject of the editorial is Senor Sagasta’s statement thak the war is annually costing Spain 500,000,000 pesetas and 15,000 soldiers, but that the conflict may end in tw o years, “The g ravest is not w h a t the liberal chief says, but w h a t he w ithholds,” says the paper. “He know s that the war w ill never terminate except in the loss of Cuba. The treasury of Cuba w ill not have resources to cover th e expenditures, nor has that of Spain. The powers of consumption are dried up and agriculture, industries and business w h o lly ruined. We have to accept the economic catastrophe colos sal as it is and adm it that both Spain and Cuba are ruined and this catastro phe is due to th e stupidities that fol lowed the last revolution. “The prognostications of W eyler in crease the point of gravity w h en it is thought there w ill be much more than 500,000,000 pesetas spent annually and more than 15,000 Spaniards sacrificed.” DEATH F O L L O W S FIRE. Explosion of Oil in a Bakery Besnlts in a Woman and Child Being Killed—Several People Badly Injured. P ittsburg , June 13.—A t 3:30 o’clock Friday morning a barrel of oil ia. the basement of a bakery owned by Ku- buegunde Garische, at No. 83 Spring Garden avenue, A llegheny, exploded w ith a frightful report, and scattered flames in every direction. Several peo ple were sleeping on the second floor of the building, hut before they could escape the structure was enveloped in flames. Mrs. Garische, aged 74 years, leaped from the window, striking on her head on the stone pavement and w a s killed instantly. The firemen rushed into the building and lying on the floor found Mr. Gar ische, unconscious from h.eat and smoke. A gr’andchild, aged 5 years, w a s found dead in his crib. Lottie, aged 13 years, w a s badly burned about the head and hamds, and w ill probably die. Mrs. Garische, jr., escaped by aid of the firemen, w ith sligh t injuries. Two other occupants o f the house w e r e also rescued by the firemen. MORELAND’S SHORTAGE. Three Suits for Embezzlement are Brought Against Pittsburg’s Former City At- , torney. P ittsburg , June 13.—Three suits for embezzlement of $17,000 w ere entered Friday against ex-City Attorney W. C. Moreland and his assistant, W. H. House, before Alderman 3IcMasters. This amount of shortage is a ll th a t can come under the law of lim itation, al though the am o u n t in r e a lity is much greater. The aggregate shortage ap proximates between $250,000 and $500,- 000. Should the grand jury find true bills on these three counts th e defend ants w ill have 13 charges to answer in court. The defendants gave bafi in $10,000 each on th e charges entered yesterday. Their trial w ill probably take place at the present term of court. City Controller Gourley is authority for the statem ent that councils w ill be asked to appropriate $50,000 to cover the ex-city attorney’s shortages for which the eitt’ is liable, in th e m a tter of damages for street openings.
