| Show NEWS ROME feb 9 the announcement is M made ade that every vessel in the navy has been ordered in readiness for active service and that naval armament at naples has assumed extraordinary activity the preparations are in accordance cor dance with cipher instructions from the government VIENNA ret feb 9 the wiener tag blatt says I 1 lc c lias has received information that russia and trance france are about to conclude a treaty of alliance similar to that between austria and germany SAM RUMO feb 9 doctors doctore mackenzie howell schroeder and krause were present during the operation on the crown princes throat dr mae mackenzie will send a report of the operation to the emperor which will be of a cheerful character the physicians are pleased with the results of the operation aud and are confident of the patients speedy recovery the prince bore the operation bravely NEW YORK 10 has dropped from the second to the fourth place in the walking match albert albera still has a hood good lead scoring at 10 miles harty second guerrero third albert completed his miles at 1 52 p in IB and was 5 minutes ahead of the best record SAN remo feb 10 the crown prince of germany slept well last night he takes loud lood easily and his bis general geneval condition is satisfactory LONDON feb 10 the lancet says even should prove to be the sole disease from which the crown prince is suffering its great extent must cause serious and permanent deformity of the larynx GETTING WORSE A dispatch from san remo says that the german crown prince Is uneas uneasy y and feverish SAN ekemo REMO feb 10 tile the official bulletin says that anat the brown rown prince passed a chod night without fever or pain and that his powers of respiration and are perfectly unimpeded LONDON feb 10 J D pyne mem her ber for west waterford Waler tord was arrested on alighting from froin a cat cab outside of the house of commons pyne is the ceu aeu aleman who shut himself up in lus lua farney castle in waterford Water tord and defied the police to arrest him and who wh afterwards ter wards eluded the irisi ies and escaped to england Eu laud pyne was taken to 10 scotland yard and will be sent to dublin WA washing roy feb 10 by bv appointment C P vice president of the pacific railroad company Compa riv appeared before th house committee on pacific railroads to give his views upon the pending legislation touching those roads and to explain the ri resources sources of the pacific railroad company he said ho h did not come to make an argument but only to have a talk with the committee the settlement of the central pacific debt was a very old matter and somewhat iri he would ilke to have it ended hj wished to talk a little about the builders aud and building of the central pacific and to see it an agreement could not be reached by which the government could come into its own and the company pree preserve erve its ita property he had been with the road since its organization his associates were all his bis neighbors and came into the organization it at his solicitation re he had asked them not because they were men of large means but because ot their integrity he fie had put in 12 hours a day on the companas comp anys business from froin that day to this and none of the companas comp anys employed emp loyes had worked harder the men who went over the road in a car said it could not have cost much but it had cost a great deal of work huntington continued at some length and went over the same ground he did when before the pacific railroad investigation committee in new york some months ago in conclusion he made a proposition tor jor the settlement of the debt of the central pacific on the basis of fiema annual payments an extension of 62 52 veara with interest at 2 per cent weber if you could build this road for less than you owe tile the government it would be a money making arrangement to give up the road to the government ern ment would it not huntington ill 1 I prefer to pay the government and keep the road weber and we are willing to te let you doit 11 collins why not let of your money now in the tr treasury e abury go on the debt huntington because it was earned by branches of the road not subsidized outhwaite brotherton representing many of the stockholders made a proposition to the committee huntington well brotherton is a good man but his hia propositions are on the principle of let the devil take the hindmost 1 11 huntington promised to lay before the committee not later than 30 days hence a definite and authoritative proposition for the liquidation of the central pacifica indebtedness flunt huntington ington was asked if he had his hia propositions individually or from the central pacific railroad well rep replied led huntington 1 I have no doubt that whatever I 1 here propose would be fulfilled by the central pacific company I 1 have been its vice president ever since its organization huntington frequently referred to the equities of his bis company and said lie be was willing to have them deter mined by the courts he believed the government owed the road HELENA moot mont feb 10 patrick john hart hare was hanged banged ut at 1130 today the crime for fol which he was executed was the killing of john pitts stepfather of his bia sweetheart on nov ath th pitts pitta had circulated false stories about hart flirt and on the day clay of the murder had bad gone to boulder to secure his arrest for the alleged seduction of bla bis stepdaughter NEW YORK feb 9 guerrero jad aad another sevare spell of bleeding atthe at the nose this afternoon and he be is thought to be b in a bad way at midnight the score was albert herty guerrero hart 31 90 moore dillon 34 vint sullivan 27 18 tilly stout at the end of tile fourth day albert bad completed miles three miles ahead of the worlds record made by fitzgerald in 1884 CHICAGO CHicA oo feb 9 the failure of bensley beasley bros a board of trade firm of thirty years standing was announced today toda the general impression is blat liabilities will reach in some quarters where ta close watch is kept on the standing of different houses bouses no surprise was 1 expressed at the failure as they have b sen ben struggling for several years bensley practically admitted that it was losses occasioned by the mcgeoch failure in 1883 and the collapse in wheat in june that time that used up a large part af pf their assets lone chew a chinese merchant residing in portland oregon recently inquired of the treasury department whether the requirements ol of section 6 of the chinese restriction act might not be waived in the case of his nephew a young chinaman now at HOUK kong whom he intended to bring over and give dive an interest in his bu business lie he was informed that inasmuch as by the express terms of the i statute the certificate therein shall be the sole evidence permissible to establish on the part of any chinese person pot a 9 laborer the right of entering into the united states the en ell qu ry 0 of I 1 no other than a nega live answer the post postmaster gnaster general has entered into a new contract with the chicago burlington quincy railroad tor for a fast mail service between chicago and council bluffs to take effect march toe the present contract calls for a last mall service on a schedule of 16 hours westerly six times a week the new contract la Is tor for a dally daily service both east and west upon a sene schedule dule of hours the leaving time at either end to be controlled by the Post effice department by this arrangement the california mails leaving san francisco in the evening e after business busi hours and arriving ai at council Counell bluffs in the lore bore noon of the third day wi win fl be taken up oy the new fast train and will leacu chicago in time for the first morning delivery on the fourth day from the pacific coast it is the P purpose of tile the department to secure arii ur if possible pos siale iI a fast mail from chicago east to leave chicago on the arrival of the pacific coast train and to make new york in about 25 hours from chicago and about hours from rum san rian francisco the special committee to investigate the pennsylvania labor trouble today to day listened to an Inlo informal rwal from representative brumm whose district dIstri CL is in the reading region lie he thought I 1 the whole lockout was fostered by bythe the reading company he declared lae bi blame of refusing to arbitrate rested 0 ambe ante a railroad officials after the first interview with superintendent Sw elgert said representatives of the men had attempted they said to send telegrams declaring toe strike off and ordering the miners back to work but tile the western union telegraph company which to a considerable extent was controlled by the reading company has refused some messages and delayed others and when in consequence many of the men in en at distant points did not return to work the company had I 1 next day laughed in the strikers faces the hearing will be continued tomorrow to morrow SAN fransisco feb 10 many underwriters der writers in this city have given up the british bark glenavon as lost she sailed from august 27 07 for liverpool and was spoken october off the cue falkland islands by the snip ship wizard three days later the wizard barely escaped being wrecked in a terrible storm and the bark is supposed to have gone down cincinnati ohio feb 10 reports from tim in sandusky sand asky and patin put pat in bay ghiosay Ohi Ohl osay that a perceptible earthquake shock startled the inhabitants shortly batore 10 this morning no damage was done minneapolis feb IQ 0 O the evening journal will pu blish blish official state ments showing that the loss of life by the recent blizzard in north dakota has been greatly exaggerated by some papers church writes saying in there is no wont want of food in the territory and the loss of life in yank ton county was only three ex gov arnor pierce corroborates governor church and is coined in the statement by the bankers and prominent citizens of north dakota As to live stock the exaggeration is still worse of horses sheep cattle and hogs in yankton haniton county not 60 in all were lost Rail railroad rood commissioner N T smith i of huron writes As far as learned the following is an authentic su summary lamary of the loss of life in the recent storm beadle county 9 belhomme Ben Ban homme 10 coddington Codd inston 3 erased er aued 6 dark clark 2 edmunds 0 6 brown browe 6 5 hand 7 kingsbury 3 lincoln 29 S spink ink 4 turner 18 yankton A 3 total CAIRO feb 10 severe fighting I 1 is reported at cassala between the dervishes and abyssinians Abyssinia ns VIENNA feb lo IO lve ae prie frie pr passe asse publishes lishes the text of the TRIPLE ALLIANCE treaty the terms ot of the compact areas are as follows in the event of an attack by france against 1 u italy or by russia against aza austria 1 t r 1 the cabinets at rome and vienna will maintain a friendly neutrality tra lity austria will support italis interests to in the mediterranean andro and pro mote no enterprise in the bal balkans without previous agreement with italy toe italian german treaty imposes mutual support against frange france in case of attack atta ciU an additional convention provides it austria or germany Is attacked by france or russia italy will be obliged to aid the country attacked with all her forces the war office is making makine contracts eon son tracts for the immediate delivery ot of a large quantity ot of provisions and krupp has received orders for siege guns to cost three and a halt half million fl arius the guns ordered by turkey W and not paid for will be utilized to nil the first instalment installment of the order enormous avalanches along the lite line of the alberg railway have resulted in a ise serious flous loss of life the lower house bouse of the tollay today passed a bill to prolong the treaty I 1 of commerce with atti germany the measure was adopted by a large majority the lower house bouse has approved the international convention for the protection of cables feb 10 the reichstag Rel chatag committee on oil the anti autt socialist bill decide to in favor of rolo aging for two years the operation of the existing law and ond rejected the government amendments MADRID R s feb aeb 10 in the deputies premier segasta gasta said the government jovern ment Is satisfied with the resu results an ta of their policy internal peace Is assured in regard to the situation abroad the government vern ment desired to remain neutral while hile assuring respect for spain and abe colonies zhe government would wont d continue th tha liberal pro gramme the address was agreed to toby by to toh 61 pa feb 10 at 10 this morning a severe shock was felt inthis in this city it was learned that a if violent explosion had occurred at duponts powder works twenty railed miles distant and that four men bid bad been killed the explosion occurred at the packing house bouse where several tons of powder were stored adnall at nanticoke and Wan amle chimneys toppled from the roots of buildings and school children ran in terror from the school house bouse men and women flocked towards the mines where they thought the explosion happened and where members of their fa families milles were at work at Shick shickshinny shinny it is said the glass in almost every window was broken and many persons were thrown to the ground at wap wal lopen nearly every building was wab damaged or wrecked besides those killed over forty persons were injured fourteen of whom it is said will die de bater taff none of the injured will die the injuries are mostly bf by hying flying fragments the new met keti od odist I 1 at church at wapwallopen pennsylvania three hundred feet away was completely wrecked no trace of the packing house is left not even the foundation toun dation rocks hocks weight bin wt over a hundred pounds were blown to the top of the mountain a quarter of a mile away california northern district he was taken to the hoffman house by mar marshal franks the amount involved in the 24 indictments against bensoni is about this is the batch batchoff of indictments against the prisoner the first involving about 30 hav having ing been quashed by justice field last summer benson said tonight be and his brother W F benson were in copenhagen on a pleasure trip landwere and were preparing to sail for new york when on december jtb ath they were arrested and kept in close contin confinement ement finally his ais brother was released through the intervention of the american consul lie he being to await the arrival of a deputy from san francisco benson declares his bis arrest an outrage and asserts his readiness to meet his accusers ill feb 10 the wit of joseph C macki mackan n the famous election fine worker w who h 0 Is serving a sen tercelia ten celia celin joliet pen penitentiary I 1 tent lary on a technical charge of per perjury j ury made formal application to gov oglesby today for a pardon for her husband mrs mack ins interview with the governor lasted nearly two hours haars she left with him a large number of petitions and letters signed by large numbers of the most prominent wealthy and reputable pitI citizens zens of chicago jurging urging their belief that in madkins Mackl ns case the ends of justice had po now been fully served A letter from mackin himself was also submitted in which hibb he promises if pardoned to comport comfort himself so se as t to b win tae approbation of good citizens citizen s mrs afra nac mackan in hopes to carry with her hei to morrow to her husband lisband li ki a pardon from the governor louisy alle feb 10 the legislative committee which has been investigating ti the condition of Kentuck 1 cays ys famous among rowan county returned to F lafort frankton yr ankton this morning A very deplorable plo rable state of affairs was found to exist it Is probable that the county will either be abolished or transferred to another judicial |