Show TELEGRAPH TIDINGS the piro rire fiend riena frantically at work in all au the four roar comers A protestant rr preacher eacher pitches into a papal rr prelate elate butler eager after hoara senatorial scalp by W U telegraph to the Her herfeld fild I washington waif jan 15 these who should know bay say there ii Is no truth in tha the report that tha the fitz john porter bill basteen ha bean the subject of discussions in the cabinet and tho the dent decided to veto it indeed one cabinet officer ia is authority for the statement that the subject had bad never once been mentioned there is some talk of re removing m ight the he headdress bead dr now adorning adorn inz the tile go goddess of liberty on the capitol dome and placing in its it stead the cap of liber ty Jefre jefferson dans davis waa was on tha the committee that considered the work he jie opposed ed however the liberty cap because it represented ep resented freedom to all mankind and at that time slavery existed he ile suggested ohp the indian headdress az and id his suggestion was favorably abl considered consi dred ahe the massachusetts senatorial contest is le assuming anew a new phase rep n tentative enta tive crapo authorized the state mient that the report that he had written a letter withdrawing from flie the contest waa was not true for the reason that be was not A candidate and consequently cannot withdraw it is pretty etty wll well understood that the fl friends of hoar hear do not wish it stated officially that crapo is not a candidate for if it shall appear that hoar cannot be elected floars hoars friends ind much ch prefer crapo crap gogoy to goy loc long has affiliations with butler and is the man elected by br butler to defeat hoar OBA one of butler a men man yesterday said butlers victory woula would lose of its pleasure to him butler if hoar floar should be re reflected some of haars hoars managers have been here this week they say floars pros are growing brighter the chesapeake A ohio railroad company is expanding on a steam hp ip line aad and before long will have steamships running between newport and rio janeiro and between the same port and europe it is expected that three steamers will be b completed in three months the company hopes to do a lares large business in exchanging flour coffe and sugar this is tho the same enterprise in which john roach claimed ho he failed for thy want of congressional subsidy tha the eap exp experts s arts in the guiteau case are not yet pa paid id the reason is that they asked extravagant the department part ment of justice has been in cor respond enc with them ever since the trial but no basis of settlement has yet been reached the committee subcommittee sub odthe of the house elections committee will daily hear arguments in the iowa contested case me of cook ss i C cutar attil until tho the cas case is disposed of tho the supreme court decided that bottles in which ale and ber beer are imported are subject to a duty of 35 per cent ad valorem valoree va lorem besides 35 cents per gallon gullon on the ale and ber beer in them the secretary of the interior in informs congress that no lands have bea been patented to land laud grant roads for an any y uncompleted roads road s since last march rab except to the wisconsin central cantral in chestar the star route trial merrick on a suggestion of the thi Cour yead tread the particulars ol 01 o each cw case and find etheln alie in charged against it the dickson case is before the grandeury grand jury Iury warrants arenout are out for john KL olmstead name hojjat been beeri withdrawn aa so Dist district Commis rier and others charging then thata real estate business Du siness wit houta license the tragedy Tr cly jan 15 ben ban tice head clerk of the newhall house made the following statement bearing on the thep rigin of the fire somebody set the building on alre down near the foot of ibe the stairs leading from the inside of th hotl to the barbershop barber shop there was a little closet used for kindling separated only by vy a gooden wooden partition from the shaft of the a elevator the fire was set in lu the closet closets of courett cour sait burned through the partition into the hatchway hatch way before it went far enough in any other direction to be diso discovered the be inside of the hatchway hatch hatchw dav av was with oil from the machi machinery nm especially up to the third iud courtl fourth stories the names flames feeding OB on this oiled wood rushed right up the hatchway bursting out in the third and fourth stories where they were first seen from the outside this burning of oiled wood all the way up the hatchway made such a dense densi emoke smoke and terrible heat that many of saved were terribly burned by the beat although they did not come in contact with the hames flames the flames names reach me and yet you can see how I am fixed here tice held both arms abe above e the bed in which b be a lay jay bis his hands were so badly burned aa as to be useless for the present and are kept in bandages and he is unable to feed himself his cheeks and eyes are badly burned while his hair is not a singed n god showing the correctness of his theo theory r ti tice ce was sleep sleeping ng in a room in to the sixth story when the fire are broke out john gilbert actor is reported better he ile imagines he has been on a big spree and remarked to his physicians h y si sic ians this morning this drinnin drinking R whiskey ii Is a terrible thing it t ia is thought he may not survive the shock of the news of the death of his bis wife which will be kept from him as long as possible bit m christina haxel one odthe of the servants reported mis missing sini is safe this makes 00 known to be saved out of fifty oae one bodies BO so far have been re covered twenty eight of which are burned beyond recognition leaving thirty still missing it is not known but supposed that the regi resister ret ister staT in ju the safe will be reached bv by the digging today to day also the court in the center where probably most of the bodies will be bouril found the excavation reached the west wall where five bodies were fauna found in a heap under a section ortho of the ants quarters A correct estimate of the loss lose of life ii is impossible until the books of the hotel can bo cot got at above estimate ahting 15 dead and SO 30 missing makes the probable total loss of life 81 this is thought to bo be as nearly correct as POP possible si bi e the afternoon papers make the following exaggerated statement taken to the morgue rede received ived from the ruins 21 since died 81 dead not taken to the morgue total b 60 this does not include the tile fraz fragments ments of bodies found of about 40 people reported missing aard yet unaccounted for which swells the list to 80 90 it is a algoet most a sure thine thing that over lost their lives by the calamity no official investigation will be made into the origin or cause leading to the disaster until the termination of the works at the ruins the bodies will all remain at the temporary morgue until that time unless josf tive tiva identifications are made in such cases the identified bodies will be given to friends rire ST jan 15 daring a performance yesterday esterday y at a circus in aslan poland a fire broke but and before the spectators could escape the whole structure was ablaze three hundred people perished the loss of life in tho the burning circus in Bre ditcher on saturday was not so great as at first reported but it is believed over persons perished the fire broko broke out towards the end of the performance caused by carelessness in handling fireworks on the stage the curtain became tieni ted the flames quickly spread to the walls and roof tho the members of the orchestra were the first victims the audience numbering rushed to the front opened inwards the th e crowd pressed forward it could not be opened they then made to two side doors both both nailed up compelling the people to take to the windows from which many sprang into the streets with their clothes a sheet of flame the fire brigade arrived within half an hour but it was impossible te to extinguish the llamas flames as the water in the tanks was wits frozen the fire lasted two hours an eye wit witness ness states that when the doors were finally opened a mass of burning pe persons was visible within the h horses and properties of the circus circus were all destroyed st ed re the ice broke while the fire brigade was crossing the river thus preventing t their reaching the fire more i promptly it is osti estimated mAted DO men wom women e n and 60 children lost their lives T the be victims include the colonel ef of the police and the vice prest dent of the bourse the audience consisted mainly of jews another account says the fire was caused by a groom throwing th rowin a alighted lighted cigarette on t the he straw in fia tto the stables setting it on fire another groom tried to stamp it out but a strong draught fanned the flames the author of the fire perished also the clowns the circus was a wooden structure the hones horses running about wildly increasing the confusion it is stated BOW now that persons wore were suffocated crushed crus lied or burned to death chicago chip CHICAGO jan 15 the co commis amis dionor of public works says the city used last year gallons of water equal to a canal 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep from new york to san francisco prof swing in in a ser kernion nion yesterday saya say such scenes as that ef of the dishonest dishonest disho neit officer of tennessee treasurer polk stealing half a million with one band while gesticulating ticul lating th alie e eloquence of honesty with ahe other ire are so common as to cause only a wonder of an hour even in the mind and heart of the unfortunate archbishop purcell of cincinnati never could have been any adequate sense of the value of fidelity he ile was kindhearted to an extreme degree fond of the success of his creed meanwhile the catholics were trusting to this archbishop four millions of dollars they we were r a never to see a again ain he ile di did d not a even van keep books he ile had not trained himself to fidelity but had left himself to become the greatest emblem of business recklessness others have surpassed him in m dishonesty of purpose but he stands without a peer among the large crowd of reckless infidelity daybook day book and ledger would have been of more value to archbishop purcell than all the incense around his altar and all th the e professions processions process ions of his chanting priests A number of ministers yesterday took the milwaukee the tile theme from which their lessons were drawn rawn european events pants jan 15 the journal dei debats says england has practically taken possession of egypt wo may regret this but we have no right to protest against tho the exclusion from the arrangement since it is justified by our own abstaining from intervention A yellow book has been issued the final dispatch by duclerc minister of or F foreign or e affairs dated jan ath sw si E En gl glands ads altitude attitude compels frape f i resume her liberty A dip of lord granville british minister of foreign affairs dated dec says I there is no reason why after the disappearance of the control of france england should net continue to exercise a beneficent influence in egypt E jan 15 the police closed the jesuit church here it lt is reported the rector had received an anonymous information that a soa socialist demonstration vas as intended in the church yos yesterday another version of the report is tatt th t an attempt with bombs was contemn contemplated BERLIN jan 15 the lanata landtau P has Rl adopted opted a bill to relieve the sufferers ercha ers by the recent inundations mils bliss garrison A st louis louls special says mis garrison is not merely a very pretty girl but one who impresses you al at once with the sen benso s of honesty and purity champion chalfant jan IS charlei charles of this city challenges the th world to a contest in field shooting lie ile offers fr 1000 bet that he lie is the th champion of the world in thede the depart part ment merit of field sport it i pitcher of the providence baseball nine and celebrated as a fine field hot all over the west mrs lira tilton chicago jan 15 A new now york special aya mrs theodore tilton recently f found ou nd it necessary owing to straightened bened financial circumstances to hire out as a nurse to the difo of a naval surgeon who resides on monroa monroe street brooklyn being very ill at christmas time it became nece necessary sary to engage a nurse and the family physician agreed to get one soon after it r a veiled lady called and arid said she was wa the nurse recommended b by the doctor she was taken to the gial eick room and announced she was the wife of theodore tilton sho she watched the b bedside adside all night and was extremely devoted the following day the la dies lies began the exchange of confidence mrs 31 rs tilton waa was not in the least reserved on the subject she said the allowance of itow 1000 a year made by her husband was insufficient insulin sent to maintain her family in the sty style e which they should live it then came cam e out by degrees that her eldest daughter tho the you young ng lady who stuck to lier her during the trial had been married against the wish of her parents and that her husband bad had been an inmate of an asylum the result was she was caring for her daughter and a 15 months old baby ahe fruit of the union the beecher scandal was wag discussed always begun by tilton who said it is a matter of profound surprise to me that my so called confession should have met so strange a reception at the hands of the public of course there was no truth in in it said the patient lent you could not pat help yourself at t the thue time every word of it wag was true said mn mrs tilton my bly relations rela tiona towards mr Beecherl will never be understood lie ile was wits my spiritual guide and counsel and my religious belief lias been formed under his teachings there seemed to be nothing wrong in n what I did as I viewed it IV at the expiration offous of four day days sirs mrs Til tons daughter dressed came and persuaded her mother to go awa away re relative yeative to the published statement that mrs theodore tilton has bag been obliged in order to obtain a livelihood to become a nurse a lady who knows her intimately yesterday said to a herald reporter tte the statement is without a particle of of truth indeed no doctor would recommend her as a nurse she does not weigh more than 70 or 80 pounds and la a of such excessively nervous temperament thatah that the is more apt to require a nurse herself than to act for another mrs tilton is boarding in jn this city with her two sons and lier her married daughter cflorence kF florence lorence Mr ar taiton do does not contribute as stated amounts towards the maintenance oft of tho fa family mily though his children go torsee him from time to time she has not met met him ince since the trial IT r P it n R NEW conic jan 15 the commercial learns from haven one of tho the government directors of the V U P that at the directors cession session iu in boston on friday they accepted the report of bromley and the former being present instead of being in california as reported the report was based on the recent tour oserthe road and stated the condition of that road the tile road bed and rolling stock regarding the finances they say tho company was not prepared to mako male a stat statement dment and asked till march lat |