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Show AMERICAN EAGLE. . month May be th to claimed who a"o E. lieinarJ. Jew of the Charity Itnaar In 1'arU Iturna with Eear-lucredited representative ItemilU Many of thu iettum lie. Unite of the society Colonization 1oiik1 to the Arlitoeraey A Philadel Scene of Horror. States, with headquarters at his appearance in this citj phiamade attempted to interest a number o and A 5. fearful holaeoust Paris. May most prominent Hebrews in i resulted here last evening from the the scheme to colonize, government land.-;burning of a charity m.aar, which htate. Those to whom Deinard was patronized by many appealed ior assistance discouraged people. The known dead are 115, and his efforts and he returned East. many more missing. Fire broke out Nothing more was heard of th about 4 p.m., and yi twelve minutes scheme until a few days ago, when all that remained of the structure, of inquiry began to pour in on 180x300 feet, was a muss of smoulder- letters Rabbi Voursanger and others from Heing ruins and charred human bodies. brews in 1'hiladelphia, As these ad The sight is most sickening. Inquistated that forty Jewish families ries are coming in for missing persons, were on the eve of departure for Calithe list including niany of the nobility. fornia anil asked what provision had About 3,000 people were in the build, been made for them. Dr. Voorsanger ing w lien it caught fire. The flames made sin investigation, with the result spread so rapidly that many of those was unable to discover that who did escape had the clothes burned that he had been taken up by the soland from their backs and their huir singed any to or any other provision referred ciety close to the head. colonists. the would-bfor made "When A survivor tells this story: the alarm was spread we tried to keep BIMETALLIC COMMISSION. cool, but the rush from behind forced n us forward, and we were separated. Members ill Sail for Europe on their Next Saturday. Then I tried to w ork my way buck, Klooruington, 111., May 4- .but I was taken off my feet and carried Adlai E. Stevenson, will sail backward and forward in the swaying Wol-coCrowd. I lost iny hat; then my coat next Saturday in company with of members other the and Payne, was torn off, and then my waistcoat. StevMr. commission. bimetallic few seconds. the All this happened in a will first "Immediately the full extent of the enson saiJ the commission other the and later Paris capitals us all. The visit calamity dawned upon and first London of Europe, probably flames spread with startling rapidity Berlin. which next whole the building throughout "We will be guided to a greatextent rumbled like a living furnace, but the not could of the by our instructions from Washington," conflagration uproar he. '"Our object is to secure the of said and cries the the agdrown groans consent of all the European nations or onized crowd. "I cannot describe the struggle of as many of them as possible, to the which followed. No words can depict holding of a conference of nations in the horror of the scene. It seems, as regard to an international agreement I look back upon it, a hideous night- as to the coinage and ratio of gold and mare. The whole thing was over in silver." twelve minutes, and nothing remained STATE but the charred and blackened ruins of the bazaar." Contracts Continue Six Yearn and Govern Eight Hundred Dlittrlcts. No painter ever imagined a last judgOne. ment so appalling. Helena, Mont., May 5. The followgirl, who ran through the streets skinless to tell her ing books have been selected for the mother of her safety, had charge of use of schools throughout the state by commission: Stick-ne- y the wooden horses in the bazaar. It is the state children to how tell readers, published by (linn & Co.; many impossible how or time Walsh's were in them at the arithmetic, published by D. C many A Kcllogg's grammars, by Reed remained. Heath; & Co.; modern spellMerrill a fearful flames to rose The height. Maynard, A Sheldon Barnes' histories, Co.: but came fire The ers, by quickly, brigade in Book blockade American be done? The could the what company; by Iiij'.it mental arithmetic, by front of the bxirnUig uian wa tiiiuply frightful and the hose was compelled Thompson. Brown & Co. Books for to play over the heads of the multi- drawing, physiology and hygiene, tude. The scorched people cried for writing, civics, music, the firemen to souse thcin, which they and supplementary reading will be sedid. lected later. The contracts are for six The cries from within were cries years and govern every one of the never to be forgotten for intensity of siK) districts in the state. anguish. The firemen courageously let RAILROAD INCORPORATION. themselves down from surrounding buildings, but their efforts were too Denver, Cripple Creek & Southern Kailroad Holes were broken often fruitless. Company. through the walls by navvies who hapDenver, Colo., May 5. The Denver, pened to le working near. Cripple Creek & Southern Railroad There was one procession with sixty Company was incorporated today with corpses on stretchers. I heard the pre- a capital stock of $1,000,000, Its purfect of police say that fully 3U0 per- pose is to operate a steam or electric sons were missing. road from Garo on the South Park road down Currant Creek to Canyon City, MISERY AND DEATH. making connections with the Santa Fe. Yellow Fever, Smallpox and Other UNeases The incorporators are Charles T. Case ami George S. Freeman of Colorado, Prevalent in Culm. Chicago, May 5. A special to the Charles E. Funk of Chicago, Samuel L. Blake of Detroit and Frank W. Corri- Tribune from "Washington says: "Official reports of the most serious gan of St. Louis; Mr. Case being electcharacter have recently come to the ed president. state department regarding the misery TARIFF BILL REPORTED. in Cuba and Secretary Sherman has issued special instructions to all consuls Surprint Created by ltd Early Preitentation in Congrewi. requesting detailed reports as to the situation in their districts. In the Washington. May 5. The tariff. bill course of a long confidential report was reported today in the Senate. from Matunzas Consul I!ryce said: Jones of Nevada cast the deciding vote Over 7,000 persons have been conce- which enabled the Republicans to pre ntrated at this place, of sent the measure and will vote for its whom are entirely without means of passage. The bill places a tariff of support, women and children are dying two cents on lead lx4 eeuts on hides, on the streets from starvation. Death while fruits, wool cattle and lumber and misery walk hand in hand. Among have received due consideration; Senthese people there are several Ameri- ators Sharp, of Idaho, and Clark and cans. Yellow fever, smallpox ami other Warner of Wyoming, pronounce the diseases are prevalent. All this is the bill more friendly to the west than result of General Weyler's inhuman any of Ui predecessors. Senator Canpolicy. Aid for these sufferers should non was not seen and Senator Rawlins promptly come from the United States. declined to express an opinion. "Other reports of a similar character have been received from the regularly Given Time. accredited agents of the United States New York, May 5. A great silver-boun- d and have been placed before President album was given to General McKiulev." Horace Porter, ambassador to France, t Delmanico's last night a.s a souvePoUiined by Lemonade. nir of his friends of the Union League Walnut Creek, Cal., May 5. club. TWo hundred and fifty of his Emilia Kilsslingdrank lemonassociates in that organization signed ade kept in a tin bucket over night, and died at Datnille today. Eighteen their names on the illuminated page? cabischool children who also drank the after President McKinley and his their net had written autographs. stuff are very sick. A Rebecca lodge used part of the lemonade at a social. General Porter will sail to his mission dinThe remainder was presented to the on the st Paul Wednesday. The his farewell a from ner was, therefore, school children. most intimate companions. TO DEATH. UTAH. MURRAY, rol to be Ovcv U1" ' pied by Hebrew TWO HUNDRED PEOPLE BURNED WILLIAMSON. M. A. Hj Government AGAINST OUR TARIFF COLONIZATION. JEWISH AWFUL HOLOCAUST. San Franeiv.-- . 4.-- Some J t UTAH NEWS. IMphthcria is epidemic at Ferron. Ferron has a new roller mill, which has just tai-- put in tit ration. of cattle from Logan Six were shipped to South Omaha last week. Judge E. V. Higgina of the Fifth ju dkial district is holding the regular May term if court in St. George. Postmaster RoWrt of Provo is circulating a petition asking that he he retained in'olllce until his term expires. Land Commissioner Mcl'arland says there have been fine rains in southern Utah and that the outlook for a big fruit crop is good. Estimates place the wool clip of Emery county at 300,000 pounds. There are between 40,000 and .10,000 sheep to be sheared. The wool is U being khipped to Price. John Ross, who murdered Lena Carter at Ogden and killed himself, was buried at the poor farm, a resolution against burying murderers keeping him out of the cemetery. HaJoseph E. Kaakukoo, a native of waii, appeared before Judge Cherry at Salt Lake City as an applicant for admission to citizenship, but was denied, his honor holding that members of Kaakukoo race are not eligible, The Bear River Canal eompany8 dam at the head of the canal in Bear river canyon is backing up the water and covering thousands of acres of the low lands along the Bear, Logan and Muddy rirers. This may in suits for damages. Frank B. Stephens has received a letter from Hon. William J. Bryan announcing his intention of coming to Halt Lake City in adauce of the meetcongress, ing of the of which Mr. Bryan is president. The congress meets in Salt Lake City July car-load- s ( ten-fo- re-bu- Trans-Mississip- lt pi Hth. ' Elizabeth Fitzer, wife of James Fitzer, who recently got into jail by importing wolf scalps into Montana and securing a bounty of 83 thereon, and who is also suspected of being the maker of the borab found anchored to has brought suit for divorce and alimony. Pat McAfee, who displayed so much wealth in Salt Lake, using 8.10 bills as a covering, has been sued for $'00 for an old bill. The party bringing the suit says two years ago he could have had McAfee's interest in the mine for the claim, but didn't know the mine was any good. The Utah delegation in congress, to which Hon. Geo. Q. Cannon, Justice Barteh and l H. Lannan of the Tribune have been added, are a committee to invite President MeKinlcy to attend the jubilee festivities at Salt Lake on July 24. An engrossed invitation will be presented this week at the White House by the entire committee. II. L. Driver of Salt Lake is collect-inminerals for the Tennessee exposition at Nashville. He has visited Park City, Eureka and Bingham and has obtained some splendid specimens from these camps. Mercur will also contribute the best she ha. It is the intention of those having the matter in charge to make a good display of the mineral resources of Utah. Four small Salt Lake children were more or less hurt May 1 by the falling of a porch upon them. Little Nellie Page, as a result, is at St. Mark's hospital with a broken leg. The others are badly bruised. The children had a swing fastened to the porch which became loosened from its upper moorings and fell without warning. Some Ogdcn parties whose "reputation is above question" have seen an floating over town at night. It is the regulation ship that has been (seen so often and at so many places during the past few months, with a light at either end. The queer craft possessed marvelous agility and changed its course, turned abruptly around and arose and lowered at will. Joo Walker, the notorious horse thief of Emery county, who recently shot Sheriff Tuttle, has offered to pay Tuttle's doctor bill. He sent word from his camp in San Rafel that he would turn over three horses (presumably without a bill of sale) for the eheriff to dispose of. Should the animals bring more than enough to settle all bills, the residue is to be turned over to Walker. Via rother-ln-law- 's door-kno- - g air-shi- p cigar-phape- d, 1 well-know- n vi-- es e Mis-io- tt TEXT-BOOK- S. text-boo- Brad-Vmry- 'a book-keepin- three-quarter- s Eight-year-ol- d g MRS. LEASE'S THEORY. The People Who Prayed for Kain Ought to Have lleen ISuilding an Ark. THREATS OF RETALLIATION ARE Topeka, May 3. Mrs. Mary Ellen MADE BY GERMANY. Lease, in an interview here, discussing recent disasters in Oklahoma and the In the Event of the Paage of the Home the political and social history of the Measure Obstacle May be Thrown in the Way of German Import territory, said: of American Product. "The people of El Reno who prayed daily for rain ought to have been Berlin, May 4. In the re'u hstag to- building an ark. I believe in prayer, day Count von Kanitz, the agrarian but what mockery such a prayer is in leader, interpellated the government Oklahoma. on the subject of the proposed "The curse of the Almighty rests States tariff. Count von Kanitz upon that land. That was the last spot remarked: "We should not exaggerate of ground left for the Indians. They the consequences to ourselves of abro- had been driven there from every gating the treaty, quarter of the continent. But the greed but we could give a preference to Rus- of the white man prompted him to possian against American trade, place ob- sess it for his own use, and the Indian stacles in the way of importation of was forced to go. maize, bacon, hams, sausages and cot"Look at the crime that has been ton from the United States, and the committed in Oklahoma; look at the government, it is hoped, will take such drought; look at the disaster at Chandmeasures as w ill tend to the advantage ler; look at the deluge at Guthrie, El of the industry, commerce and agri- Reno and elsewhere. Do you doubt culture of the whole country." that the hand of Jehovah is in these Baron Marsehall von Bierberstein, things'.' If he has been pleased with the minister for foreign affairs, said the people would he have washed their that as the new United States tariff homes with an angry Hood when' they was still in suspense, he would confine asked for a shower to save their his remarks to the measures of the im- crops?" perial chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, to MORMONS WHIPPED. counteract the danger threatening German trade, adding: "But I cannot Alabama Toughs Strip and Whip Mormon Elders. unroll a picture and show how matters Montgomery, Ala., May 3. A party will shape themselves if the decision of religious partisans in Jackson counof the United States house of reprety carried into the woods, stripped and sentatives becomes a law." new-Unite- d severely whipped two Mormon elders. The elders have appealed to Governor WILLING TO QUIT, Johnson for protection, representing Turkey Admit She Will Gain Nothing, and that they had been threatened with Has Had Enough of War. death if they remained in the state. Constantinople May 4 In influential The sheriff of Jackson county has been Turkish circles the opinion is expressed instructed to make them his special that the war with Greece will soon ter- charge. The governor says the state minate. constitution guarantees religious libIt is pointed out that while Turkey erty and the Mormons are entitled to was forced into the war by Greek agit; moreover, they refrain from teachgression and the counsels of certain ing or practicing polygamy and should powers, she will not gain any advan- not be liable to persecution because tage by crushing Greece for the bene- they believe the Book of Mormon to be fit of the Slav element in the Balkans. inspired. It is held that the successes attained ZERTUCHA ARRESTED. by the Turkish troops in Greece are all the Turkish government could desire. The Man Who Betrayed Maximo Gomez in in Jail. The commander of the forces at reNew York, May 3 A dispatch to the Epirus, telegraphs the Turks Louros. and Journal from Havana says: occupied captured The Landstrum or Mustahf us (second 's Dr. Maximo Zertueha, Antonio reserve) belonging to the third army physician, who is alleged to have corps, stationed in the Salonica dis- betrayed the Cuban general to the trict, have been called out. Spaniards, was arrested at his home near Guines yesterday and brought to WAR TO BE CONTINUED. Havana under close guard. He is now in the- fortress The New Greek Cabinet Has Decided to in the military prison La this cf Cabana, Make Another Effort. opposite city, lie is , incommunicado. held London, May 4. The chief points of It is understood at the palace that interest in the situation today are: this' morning ordered his deWeyler First, that the decision of the ministers who have returned from the portment to Chafarinas islands, the Greek frontier seems to be in favor of Spanish penal station off the African a continuance of the war; and second, coast. that fighting continued almost inces Injunction Proceeding Instituted. santly at Velestino from last Thurs Charleston, S. C, May 4. The state day until Sunday, with the result that dispensary law was attacked today in General Smolenski has been prevented proceedings begun in the injunction from actually assuming his new duties federal court State Dispensary as chief of staff. As a further result Commissioner against Vance by W. A. Vander-coo- k the Greeks at Velestino have managed & Co. of California, owners of to retain their positions, but they are of wine recently shipped to too much fatigued to follow up their merchants of this city and seized. by success. the state authorities. They ask for Probable Filibustering Expedition. $5,000 damages and for a permanent San Francisco, May 4. The United injuction restraining the Soxith CaroStates government has taken official lina authorities from interfering with cognizance of the existing possibility the company's business with its patthat a filibustering expedition may rons in this city. leave this port bound for Honduras. The collector of the port has been Chapman Ih Wanted. warned by the secretary of the Washington, May 4. United States treasury to prevent the departure of District Attorney Dawes has demanded any vessel with arms or munitions of of the attorneys of Broker Chapman war. In this connection a close watch of New York that he hasten to Washis being kept on the movements of ington to serve the "sentence imposed Carlos Ezeta, who is now in Oakland, upon him for refusing to answer quesCal., and who is said to be organizing tions before the senate sugar trust ina company of volunteers to go to s vestigation. After the decision of the and aid in the overthrow of the supreme court Chapman announced existing government. It is said Ezeta that he would surrender himself to has considerable financial backing Marshal Wilson and ask for'a few days' for the ready expenses of his proposed delay, but nothing has since been heard from him. expedition'. Ja-nin- a, Ma-ceo- - Hon-durp- Greek Joan of Are. SNOW IN OHIO. London, May 5. The correspondent At Several riacen Hoy Enjoyed the I'nnsua of the Daily Telegraph at Athens has Sport of Snowballing in May. had an interview with Helen Constan-tinideCincinnati, O., May 3. Considerable the girl who is snow fell here today and throughout about to start for the front at the head southern Ohio. At several points the of a large band of irregulars. She is boys were reported as enjoying the un- an excellent shot. Her brother will usual sport of playing snowball in accompany her. Both of them are bitMay. The temperature is so low that She declares that terly much damage has been done through- she will in the front ranks and fight out the Ohio valley. Preceding the has no fear of death. Her departure snow there was a constant fall of rain was witnessed thousands of enthuby for twenty-fou- r hours. The Ohio river siastic Athenians, who hail her as the and all its tributaries are rising rap- Greek Joan of Arc. idly. s, anti-dynasti- c. Pleaded. Wyo., May 3. All the Springs, wool in this section is being contracted Wool-grow- Maceo has declined to meet General Weyler to discuss autonomy. The resignation of William M. Aiken, superintendent architect, has been asked for by Secretary Gage. It is understood the masons are not political. er Rock for at prices quite satisfactory to the growers. The prices are above 9 cents a pound. This is an increase of more than 8 cenU over last season's prieea. r- - |