Show BY TELEGRAPH P per PEB MON lon tarn tapu uzl uhn AMERICAN washington 15 tho supreme court decided that bottles la in which ale and beer ar are e imported are sub bub subject to a duty of 35 per cent ad valoree valorem va lorem besides 35 cents a gallon on ale or beer in them the secretary of the interior informs congress that no lands have been patented to land grant roads for any uncompleted roads since last march except to the wisconsin central secretary folger in a ietter lotter to the chairman of the house commit committee toe on foreign affairs in answer to a request for his hig views as to effect commercially merci ally of the abrogation of the hawaiian treaty encloses a set bet of tables showing shoeing in detail the tho trade between the united states and the hawaiian islands these show that the value of exports to the islands for the fiscal year amounted to and the value or of imports from tharo thare for tor the same time as had the sugar imported been subject to duty that duty would have been experts in the guiteau case are not yet paid the reason is they asked extravagant sums the department part ment of justice has bas been in correspondence with them ever since the trial but no batby basis of settlement is yet reached the senate committee on appropriations will act on the mlee flea appropriation bill some time during the day the subcommittee sub committee which had charge of the tho bill retained ned a clause providing for a reduction of letter postage to two cents per half ounce representative hackett ford of the third north carolina district is dangerously ill the court of 0 cielma rendered a de decision clelon in favor of the pacific mail steamship company for in the gult guit against the united states under contract for carrying the malls on the china line a number of years ago the joint resolution offered by dunn of arkansas and referred to the committee on commerce provides for rn an investigation of the thoeub sub bub eject of railroad transportation in all its relations to the be agricultural commercial and industrial interests of the tho united states it directs the commissioner of railroad i to consider and investigate tho the subject and inquire generally into the conditions affecting commerce with foreign nations and among the states the character and extent of inactions mado made by railroad corpora tiong and rates charged by them whether or unequal and their sufficiency for the traffic through the country to ascertain as ab nearly as may by the cost coat of construction st and equipment and rate and amount of dividends declared and paid the resolution also aiso directs that the commissioner shall have power to end tend for persons and papers administer oaths and exam ine witnesses in the prosecution of his inquiries and visit such portions of the country as ho he may deem advisable vi sable the ee secretary ere cretaro cre tary of the interior decides that lands in bitter boot root val ley montana are not subject to the grant of the northern pacific railroad this land Is ia occupied by settlers red bed cloud had an interview with secretary teller today to day he urged payment for the horses taken by general crook the money was appropriated to pay for these horses and a letter had been sent to the third auditor of the treasury inquiring if any lanca balance of the fund remains A prominent western lawyer is engaged in preparing a draft of an amendment to I 1 the constitution which will be offered for fur con congressional greg grea action at washington that will make mako it poe possible sible sibie for the citizens of any state to bring suit against rny other state this amendment Is ia being prepared at the instance of holders of state bonds issued by such buch states as Tennes tennessee seg sep which endeavored to repudiate their obligations gat ions tons end the gentleman who has it in uia charge bays says tho the Tenne tennessee asee asce delegation in congress are in favor of li buo cuo n leis leib i elb eib understood the secretary Secie secle tary of the navy has decided to close four of the yards on tho the of bf march it 19 not as yet finally determined which the northern yards will be operation but it Is settled washington and mare island yards 11 vve anano north and south of the po V to absac maTIll will not be closed the letter ietter of the secretary of the tha navy N avy transmitting the supplemental supplement t report from the naval advisory B board oard to the houto bouto recommends a change in the monitors puritan am ph itrice terror and to breech loading turret guns of great length and the substitution of rollers for spindle babe base Is ia suggested the erti catI mated mateJ cost of the puritan Is given as for hull for machinery for ordinance for completion of the other three monitors total cost terror 1 total cost total cost ift is s understood three plans of ap portion ment of representation will be submitted to the committee viz chandless chandlers Chand lers for four delegates at large for every state two delegates from each district and three delegates for every republican senator and representative senta tive making the total 1206 forbes for two ae legates delegates at large for each state and delegate for each district and one for every republican senator and representative total martins martini for three delegates at large for each state one for each district and one for every republican votes or the major fraction thereof total on the basis of the last election NEW herald jr fad rad editorial it Is evident before any headway can be made against polygamy in must pass a law with more effective provisions than those in any law now in force it Is practically impossible to prove polygamous marriage marriages s these thesa marriages are performed secretly with no record available as testimony nor is it practicable to establish eata blish marriage by the evidence of parties to it the edmunds bill provide 3 for meeting these it will leave the mormons cormons little loophole for escape from prosecution lor their flagrant violation of law it ought to be speedily passed NEW yone YORE 14 wall wali street bro kers are not making their salt scarcely anything Is doing in the stock exchange the great holders of stocks would be heavy losers if compelled to beil fell at present priced gould for instance owns shares of western union and as that stock hab has declined 10 a share in the last three months this item alone represents a depreciation in his property of bome bomb of the big men of the street are talk ing of going away for awhile aw hile hiie V Is going to california for torra torna forra winter jay gould intends to tse tae tle that trip round the world as soon as he be can get ready which will be a year yet as the large steam yacht he ordered will not be ready before that time rufus hatch who says the bottom hits has dropped out of the market to stay out awhile will sail ball for europe soon gould is bearish and so BO is keene washington 15 the chesapeake ohio railroad company are expending on a steamship line and before long will have steamships running between newport and rio janiero and between the same port and europe it ia expected that abree steamers will be completed in three months the company hopes to do a large busl burd ness exchanging hour flour comee cotee and sugar this thia is the same sama enterprise in which john roach claimed he failed fun fon want of a congressional su subsidy baidy baldy kansas city 15 15 near ne charter rivers river the smoking car r of a passenger train jumped the track and crashed into the caboose ose lf a freight train on a bide side track filing L the t h e conductor passengers considerably y shocked halifax 15 The Halifax annapolis express for halifax ran oft the track trach near mo mount nt uniacke sta tion two pa passenger pas and baggage cars cara aeo thrower into a snow enow bank two pasE passengers engers seriously injured the others escaped with slight ic junne junie ft station stations 15 an ke ice bridge rail rall way gay connected with the southeastern railway 25 cars crossed I 1 BOSTON 15 the mayors clerk was bent sent to the postoffice post office for fon A letter ietter detained for postage the letter was postmarked jan read mayor palmer I 1 am going to kill hill old governor butler in live anve months and twenty eight days from today to day then I 1 will choose you yon for governor of old massachusetts I 1 sent him warning I 1 have sworn bic bia Sla signed planed ned oharles CHARLES governor butler explains in regard to the cutting off of newspapers in the executive department I 1 found that the state was paying in the neighborhood of a hundred dollars for newspapers for the tae executive which were useless to me in n this first they did not got on my file till after I 1 left the office for the day necona that I 1 ought to have no time to read them thiril third that I 1 buy for reading at homo home buch such newspapers as I 1 need and therefore cut off the expense 11 ST LOUIS louls li 14 A fire broke out shortly after 4 oc loik this morning in the kitchen of cf the Plant planters ers erb house oc spying the block on fourth breet B reet between pine and chestnut extending to the pantry store room lind and servants quarters one of the servants was smothered to death one burned and two others have broken limbs great excitement prevails amongst the guests and other occupants of the hotel most moat of whom left the tho house houses but returned again during the day loss about the tha ser ter servants of the hotel botel acted with great coolness going steadily from door to door waking the guests and five minutes after rap ping again to be certain that the inin inmates steh stes were aroused the guests all hurried out in the thinnest of garments with vivid thoughts of the milwaukee holocaust and dash ed for the open air in their night clothes manewith many with bare feet there were about people in the hotel lights were seen in the republican and democrat of office fleer and in neighboring gambling houses and in these they took refuge till carriages were procured to take them to other hotels the boller boiler room roona in the four story building at the rear of the hotel the fire started near a stairway leading to the servants quarters above and cent onn off the escape of 75 persons sleeping there and also formed a barrier which cut off the escape of those sleeping in the south half they were compelled to climb out upon the frame structure abutting on the alley alleys and let themselves down by a pully rigged there for hoisting supplies one poor fellow was seen to stant start downstairs before the fil nire fire 0 reached tte tto third floor and aud an hour hou r later his crisped cordite wa way found in the kitchen mahe at the foot of the stairs another employee who although answering to call seems seema to have been too stupefied by smoke to get got up for two hours after his dead body was found on the smoking mattress of his bed the female help all escaped by the At stairway airway on the north side save one who broke droke her ankle in jumping to the roof of joshed shed the firemen made a grand baht preventing the fire from ex tending beyond twenty neef feet wo from the point of its origin but in that space it barned banned through the roof and destroyed about ten rooms the hotel proper did not sunner suffer to the tho extent I 1 of a dollar the fire however cro sed the tho bliey biley to the furniture warerooms wardrooms ware rooms where the bremen firemen had another fierce but short fight damage to the hotel property to the auction firm about 20 all insured in the evening the workmen in clearing away the debris found the dead body of a man anid amid broken timber at the foot of the stairway on the basement floor it proved to be henry blaney nn an employee over 60 yeara old who as a boy served as chore choie boy in the hotel the other two dead men ate aie carlo a scullion and denis B R carver sioux CITY 14 the dwelling of H pierce just across the line in dakota burned yesterday his hla wife accidentally upsetting a lamp while he was in the barn he returned in time to drag his wife out almost suffocated and in a dead faint he then rushed in after his two childred red aged give ave and two years but inas iras as driven out badly scorched by N the t e flames and the little ones burned to death uxbridge udbridge Ux bridge ont 14 the round house of the midland railway hallway and four locomotives are burned loss LOBS bangor me 14 the paper mill of T B co feet is burned with contents 1 memphis 14 A fire tonight to night destroyed the first presbyterian church services had bad been held there and the congregation dismissed only a quarter of an hour loss loes lne ins insurance urance light oak harbor ohio II 11 this morning the jail took fire A man locked up the night before for being drunk was burned to death stoughton Bt wis wig 14 P F 0 kanats manata carriage and wagon works burned loss insurance keenah wis 14 A number of business houses burned loss loo loos partly insured milwaukee 15 sentinels Vs neenan neenah special the loss idys by fire has reached origin undoubtedly incendiary hamilton hamiltons ont out I 1 14 among amon the guests at the newhall house mil waukee walkee at the time of the fire jire were a brother of J F brown of toronto wife and four children mr brown has received word that all are among the victims milwaukee 15 ben tice head clerk of the newhall house made the following statement bearing on the origin of the fire somebody set the building on fire down near the foot of the leading from the inside of the hotel to the barber shop there was a little closet wed med for kindling separated only by a wooden partition from the haft shaft of the elevator the nire bre was set in the closet of course it burned through the partition into the hatchway before it went far enough in any other direction to be discovered tee inside of the hatchway was saturated with oil from the machinery especially up to the third and fourth stories the flames feeding on this oiled wood rushed right up the hatchway bursting out in the third and fourth storie SiW here they were first seen from the outside this burning of oiled wood all the way up the hatchway made such a dense smoke and ter tei terrible heat beat that many of those saved were terribly burned by the heat although they did not come in contact with the flames the flames reach me and yet you cau can see how I 1 am fixed heretics He here reTice tice held both arms above the bed in which he lay ilia nis hands were so eo burned as to be useless ueless for the present and are kept wrape in bandages and he is unable to feed himself his cheeks and eyes are badly burned while we ha hain hair la Is not singed showing the correctness re ness of his hia theory tice was sleeping Ble bie in a room in the oth story when the fire broke out frankfort the forgo and bolt departments of the elba iron works burned loss insured st bt louis 15 michael doyle a miner miners illustrating to his wife and companion miss mary bluett a method of bring firing blasts exploded a keg of run pun gunpowder lowder all badly burned miss misa bluett da died fed chicago 15 A fire burned barned the nail factory one of the lar largest gestin in the united states at cummings station 25 25 milts the tit factory and n machinery lae lac chinery cost coat in addition to this there was a stock of at least kegs of nails malls and probably a much more large and valuable abla able collection of patterso patten sg ruef it was wak basor of u undoubtedly cf incendiary origin as a the watchman discovered the bre bra in the oil at opposite corners at the asame beame time fully irr suied JERSEY CITY 15 shaw shaws cashier of the sug bug suspended caty city banke Banks arraign ed to day said that he be was unable to furnish bail and wanted to have the amount reduced thebus Th the ejus justice said bald in |