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BUSINESS

continues as dull rs evcr-indced il is Il
over, very large number of employees
have been discharged from the retail stores
and much suffering is anticipated. 1t is
horrible to swell the already thronged
ranks of the unemployed. There are un
numbered thousands who would be Z al of
anything to do that would give the III daily
bread. The slack trade has thrown thou
sands OF salesman, book keepers, and peo-
pie of that class. vino have always lived
tolerably well, out Of employment, and
they suller more severely than others, for
they are not used to it. The revival Is
most anxiously looked for. PIETRO.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.

NEW YEAR'S-CALLS AND DCALLERS-THE
HELPLESS POOR-TIIE CARNIVAL OF
CRIME-THE DILLON MURDER--AM MILL
IONAIRE IN TROUBLE - THE LAST
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TERRIBLE MURDER

on record vas that at the Westminster
Hotel, Saturday night. Romaine Dillon,
a wealthy and lirst-family bachelor of fifty
shot a gentleman named Dilleber in the
corridor of the hotel, after a moments al
tercation. The victim dying in few
hours. The singular thing about it is,
that the parties had no quarrel-indeed
they scarcely knew each other. Dillon
was offended with Dilliber for walking in
the corridor understand, they were both
boardcrs-aud haG show his displeasure
all day. Meeting Dilliber that evening,
he ordered him to get out OF the corridor,
which Dlliber refused to do, wbereupOn
Dillon drew his Derringer and shot him.
Now the facts come out. 1t appears that
Dillon has been insane for years-that
when he was boarding at the Breyoort
House he was in the habit of quarreling
with the bOarders on the most absurd pre-
texts, which created such 4 fear of him
that the managers were compelled t. get
rid of him. He showed mur1erOus pro-
pensities then, but never u word was said
about it, aud he went to the Westminster.
Since be has killed man the proprietor
states that this luuatiC has been for Il year
in the habit of ordering people away from
the house that if any one walked in the
corridor in front of his room he would per-
emptorily order him away, and If he de-
clned to obey, he would shoot at him as
cody as though he were dog. But never
a word of all this was said to any one by
the propri etor. The Dillon family are
profoundly grieved that poor Dill Der was
killed butthey were always afrai, that
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THE CARNIvAL OF CRIME.

Is crime, Ike cholera, epedemic 1t
would seem SO. One murder breeds anoth-
er. The pistol, knife and bludgeon have
been very busy from the day before New
Years Till now, and the police reports show
no abatement even yet. One frenzied man
shoots his wife, cut the throats of his four
children, and then kills himself, which
last murder was the only one that the
world need be- thankful for. The number
of grog shop homiciGcs New Years eve
and the night following was frightful.
And what is singular, it keeps up steadily.
But the most
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private rejoicings in their own way, and
made things hum.'' The steamers sound
ed their whistles and fog-horns, and every
fire, factory, and church bell swung reck-
lessly. 1t was impossible to distinguish
anything the air was full of loud hum
ming, in which broken notes of bells, fog
horns, screams, and reports of rockets,
were mixed ike mad,-for !he coming-in
of the hundreth year. The morning was
so lovely it was mockcry to call it a win
ter's day-for it smiled clear and soft as
April.
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GENERAL NEWS.

TRENTON, N. J., March 13.-Joseph Sooy,
the defaulting State Treasurer, has been sen
fenced to three years imprisonment and an
til the costs of prosecution are paid.
PHILADELPHIA, March ia fire occurred
at the Point Breeze Driving Park Saturday
night. It was confined to the stable build
ings, but no horses were burned.
LANCASTER, March 18.-District Attorney
John w. johnson was arrested here to-day on
charge of issuing forged and fraudulent
naturalization papers, The alleged ofense
was committed tour years ago.
MONTREAL, Canada, March 13.-There will
be $50 exhibitors ct the Philadelphia Centen-
NAL from Quebec Province.
NEW YORK, March 13.-The Post has the
following: "We learn from Director that
there has been q meeting of the Pacific Mail
Board, and that resolution was adopted
authorizing the President to issue 81, 600, 600
ten years per cent currency bonds. The
company to have the privilege of redeeming
the bonds any time before maturity. The
resolution expressly restricts the issue Of
bonds, except for the purpose Of taking up
the floating debt and dischargipg the loan for
the Panama Railroad Company.
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RIVERS AND STEAMBOATS,.

CINCINNATI, March 13.-River 26 feet and
rising. Weather clear and cool.
PITTsBURG, March 13.-River feet inches
and rising Weather cloudy and cool.
EVANSVILLE, March 13.-River 10 feet
4. 1Oths of an inch and rising. Weather clear
and cold.
CAIRO, March 13-Arrived Susie Silver
from Cincinnati at A. NJ, James Howard
from New Orleans at 6. Departed; Future
City for st. Louis at ?. NJ. Grand Lake for
New Orleans at IL, Susie Silver for New Or
leans OF s A. NJ, James Howard for St. Louis
at g. River 25 feet inches and rising
Weather clear and cool.
LOUISVILLE, March 13.-River rising slowly,
10 feet inches in the canal. Weather clear
and COOL
ST.. LOUIS, March 13.-No arrivals or depart
ures. River rising at the rate of half an inch
an hour. Weather cold, cloudy and clear
alternately.
MEMPHIS, March 10 River rose inches
Arrived: Baum from Cincinnati, Illinois from
Vicksburg Departed: Belle of Memphis and
Capital City for St. Louis, City Of Vicksburg
for Vicksburg, Simpson Hornor, and Sher-
lock for Ohio River-the latter last night.
VIcKsBURG, March 13.-Down: Church at
IL NJ, Belle of Shreveport at 2 A. NJ. yester-
day. Up: Common wealth at 8 P. NJ. Ar
rived Natchez at P. NJ.
SHREVEPORT, March 13.-The river here is
on q stand; it rose at Fulton IL feet and still
rising. The Clifford has gone above Fulton.
Arrived Sunday night: Bryarly from New Or
leans. Bonnie Lee from Jefferson. Departed
to-day: Bryarly for Jefferson, Bonnie Lee for
above the Raft. The rise above Fulton will
let out large lot of cotton.
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FIRE IN MEMPHIS.

MEMPHIS, March 13.-At hslf-past 10 this
morning fire was discovered in the Office of
the Surveyor of Customs, over the Bank Of
Commerce, on Madison street. The police
and bank watchmen found the doors locked,
and after breaking in found the clerk Of the
Surveyor, who stated he had been working
there until that hour, when lamp exploded
and set the papers on fire.
The alarm was sounded and the fire ex-
tipguished; not, however, until the books and
papers of the Office were either burned. or
badly damaged. The remark of the clerk
after the fire, that cit looked Belknapish,"
causes considerable comment.
The loss on Johnston & Nunns' fancy store
yesterday is rot yet known, but it is fully
covered by insurance, amounting to S25. 600,
divided between the Royal Queens and Ian
perial. Of England; Niagara, of New York,
and Merchants, of Memphis.
The damage to Taylor, Joy Co.'s dry
goods stock, next door, by smoke and water,
is SIC, 600; covered in nine insurance COM
panies.
MEMPHIS, March 13.-Gen. w. j. Smith,
Surveyor of Customs, who returned this af-
ternoon, says but few papers of value and no
money was lost by the fire in the Custom.
House this morning. He had forwarded all
the government money to Washington last
Friday.
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FROM THE PASSES.

SOUTHWEST Pass, March -, Noon.-Barom.
eter 5000. Wind N. E., blowing hard:
Weather cloudy and cold.
Arrived: American ship Saranak, Wood,
master, 40 days from Havre.
Sailed: ships Jno. Mum and Barelaw, and
barks Reform and Quelle.
The steamship Dhoolia has arrived outside
for orders.
LAss-A L'OUrRE, March 49, Noon.-Wind
north northeast, blowing hard. Weather clear
and cool.
Arrived: American steamship Tappahan-
mock, at $50 A. M, Pendleton, master, from
Havana via the Florida ports, to l. K. Roberts.
No departures.
SOUTHWEST Pass, March Is, 6 P. M.-Ba-
rometer 1880; wind northeast strong.
Weather cloudy and cool.
Arrived: British bark ]. B. Duffus. Shaw,
master, previously reported as having sailed
for Havre She put back in distress and is
now being towed to the city.
Sailed: Ships Louise and RISE and India.
barks Truce, Dux, Bragg and Vincenzo, Ga
latola.
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said the Republican party should await iii
acts and programme without distrust, but also
without confidence.
On Saturday next vic'o or Hugo viii move II
the Senate for general amnesty for odensel
committed since 1870.
Rsspail will make Q similar movement IN
the Chamber Of Deputies on the same day:
RAGusA, March 13.-The Iosurgent Leaders
L. Elaboration, Petrovich, Fuella and CESAR
we're arrested by the Austrian authorities on
Thursday last, ct Vigrani village on the
Dslmatian frontier, near Imoschi
CAmo, Egypt, March 13.-lnteligence pa
been received here reporting that on the !tn
inst. the Abyssinians attacked the Egyptian
entrenched camp At Goodrab and were re-
pulsed. On the next day Prince Hassan, with
several battaions SORTED and d. captured !pa, e.
returned to csmp. On Thursday, the Abys-
sinians renewing the attack, were again. re-
pulsed with great loss. =,
BOMBAY. March 13.-The Scraps, with the
Prince Of Wales and suite on board, sailed to-
dav
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WASHINGTON, March ID - Senator Sher
mans bill to limit the jurisdiction of heads
Of departments in the allowance OF claims
provides that no claim against the United
States in any Executive Department, after
being finally consid@ed and rejected BY the
head of that department, shall be subse-
ouently considered or allowed in whole or in
part, OF the head of that department. but il
presented again, may be referred to the Court
Of Claims.
The examination OF Mr.. Pendleton before
the House Committee on War Expenditures
was postponed until tomorrow.
The new Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
Mr.. Gorham, qualified to-day.
WASHINGTON, March 13.-The investigation
Of Senator Spencers election commences Fri.
day next.
adopted calling for information a. to cotton
CAGES, requiring names and residences Of the
original owners, and of the attorneys; also o.
to the manner of paying fees in such cases,
and whether there has been any combination
to defraud the government in respect to such
claims.
The Controller of the Currency calls for
national bank reports, showing the condition
on the 10Th inst: The Currency Bureau de.
clares q dividend of ten per cent in favor Of
the creditors of the Charlottesville, Va, Ma
tional Bank.
The executive session of the Senate to-day
was wholly occupied in the discussion of the
peace policy and the existing system Of ap-
pointing Indian agents on the nomination of
the religious bodies of the country. The de-
bate Was nominally over the nomination of
Indian Agent Learing, of Nebraska, but took
Q wide range. No conclusion was reached.
The House Judiciary Committee to-day dis
cussed the report of it's subcommittee. Va
rious propositions were advanced for admit
ting additional classes Of claimants to share
in the distribution Of the Geneva award.
Great differences of opinion were manifested,
and the committee adjourned without action.
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FRON CENTRAL AMERICA.

PANAMA, March 4.-The excitement in Bo.
gotta, reported by the last mail, has subsidized.
Congress has declared Dr.. Auquilleo PARA
President elect of the Republic by 48 votes
against SO. All is now quiet throughout the
Republic of Honduras.
The fallen President LeivA is still strug-
Cling to regain his post His forces are said
to have gained successes in some places. but
the revolutionary President, Medinazems, is
strong enough to finally triumph.
The Nicaraguan Congress has authorized q
loan of $40, 900 and an army of 5000 men.
The army of observation on the Honduras
frontier has been greatly increased
The political situation in Peru is calm. The
financial crisis grows worse. The banks have
COMMANDED receiving saltpetre and guano in
cluded in the contract with the government.
Commercial relief is hoped for when ship
ments begin 10 be made. The treaty Of amity
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MEMPHIS ITEMS.

MEMPHIS, March 13.-At Pacific Place,
Ark, on the 10Th, Thos. Leon, formerly Of
Mississippi, was shot and killed by George F.
Morris, aged II, to prevent Leon from muir
deting Sam. c. Hardwick, an invalid. Morris
surrendered, and was tried and acquitted.
Suit has been filed in the United States
Circuit Court, District West Tennessee, aux
Hilary to bill of same tenor fled in Southern
District Of Mississippi by the Illinois Central
Railroad Company, John Newell of Chicago,
and Junius B. Alexander of New York, sur
viving trustees, and Edmund j. Forstall, de-
ceased vs.. the Mississippi Central Railroad,
New Orleans, St. Louis and Chicago Railroad
Company-Southern Railroad Association.
This. suit is brought to recover SIS, 4l9, 900
value Of bonds, being part of $4,000, 900
worth of bonds issued by the Mississippi
Central Railroad Company, secured by lien
in the nature of o mortgage made by the Mis-
sissippi Central and Southern Railroad Asso-
citation to said Forstall, Newell & Alexander.
dated May !, 1872, covering the railroad fran
chises and property, real and personal, of said
Mississippi Central Railroad Company.
The premises considered, the orators
pray that a deed OF trust be recognized and
established; that the trustees be let into pos
session of the railroad property, effects,
franchises, privileges, facilities, rights. and
be empowered to exercise the same according
to the terms and conditions Of the deed, and
that trustees may b ealiowed the powers of
receivers, and have the privilege to account
before master of the court for all their acts
and doings, and to administer the trusts un-
der direction of the court.
Heavy frost and thin ice last night, it is
feared. killed the fruit.
Gen. Smith, Surveyor of the Port, left for
Grand Junction last evening.
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The TORNADO IN MISSOURI.

ST. LOUIS, March 13.-Accounts Of the tor
nado which passed over part of northeastern
Missouri Friday, say the little town of Shrin-
key in Monroe county, was entirely demol-
ished. Two persons were killed and twenty
wounded; some seriously. AT Kensaler Sta
ton, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Rail-
road, two children were carried away by the
storm, and have not yet been found. The
wife and child of Allen johnson, residing
four miles from Hlnnibal, were instantly
killed. The destruction of houses, barns,
out-buildings, fences, stock, grain, etc., has
been very great. The tornado was about 200
yards wide
QUINCY, Ill, March 13.-The following is .
summary of the late storm in Missouri :
Seven persons we're killed seventeen injured,
three or four of them dangerously some
thirty houses blown down and immense dam
age done to orchards and timber. It is est
mated that in Monroe and Rails counties one
thousand miles of fencing was prostrated.
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FINANCIAL.

New YORK. March Is. 1917 P. M.-Gold
1l4l.
New YORK, March Is, Evening. -Money
easy; offered at 3. Gold closed 114S9114aa
Exchange firm. 1876. Governments active
and s,rong; 1881 coupons 1888, 1868 118s.
new 119s, Cts 1919, 6Ss 1913, new 5s 118l, TO-
4Os coupon 119. State bonds dull and nomi-
nal; Tennessee IS 429, new Al; Virginia 6, SO,
new 35; consol 70, deferred S5ss; Louisiana 6s
A, new A, levee IS 44s, do. 8, 404; Alabama
81 32a: So 32a, Georgia IS 95, .Sevens IO411
North Carolinas 49, new 8. special tax p
South Carolinas IS, new So, April and O.to-
Der So.
Stocks closed active and unsettled.
The Posts financial article says: Gold
opened at ll4s. and all the sales since have
been at 1l4s@ll4i. Exchange is firm now.
having advanced somewhat; the rate is 1870
40. Money j. very easy. 3@4 for call loans
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and commerce between Peru and the Argen
tine Republic has been ratified.
NAME 1UNICIPAL POLlTICs.

BANGOR, Me, March ia large vote was
pollsd Ut the municipal election to-day. 35le
against 1907 votes last year. Hsyford, Be.
publican, is elected mayor by 1875 majority.
Last year Laughton, Democrat, had 1874 plu-
rality. The Republicans elect six aldermen
ont Of seven, the first time for number Of
years
B1DDEroRD, Me March 13-The city cleo
ton to-day was the most holly contested fol
years. Burnhsm. Democrat, was elected
mayor by 40 majority. Last year the Demo
Gratis elected their mayor by 159 majority.
The Republicans gain councilmen in two
wards and an alderman, and in one ward the
vote for alderman is tie.
AUGUSTA. Me, March 13.-To-day at Bel.
fast the Republicans elect the may or by eight
majority, and have q majority in both boards
Of the city government
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pOHESTIC HAKETx,

NEW YORK, March Is, Evening. Cotton
closed dull and easy: Uplands 12E. Orleans
Is 1.32; sales $40; net receipts $1,000. gross
rs, COS.
Futures closed steady; sales %, 500 bales.
as follows: Low MiddliDg for March 1908
1872. April Is 3-16, May Is 1882. June Is 23-
32@13a, July - 1916, August IA 1-16.
Flour firm; demand fair; Southern -four
firm. Wheat shade firmer; 81 Is for winter
red Western. Corn shade easier; very mod
crate business. Coffee, sugar, molasses and
rice unchanged. TalIow steady; $685.
Rosin steady; 81 60@1 65. Turpsntine
steady; 80. Pork dull; new mess s23. Lard
closed heavy; prime steam $13 623@13 65
Whisky quiet; 81 09@1 O94. Freights to
Liverpool quiet.
CHICAGO, March 10 Flour dull but un-
changed. Wheat active; No. l Chicago
spring. 81 O8. Corn steady. Pork steady,
$22 l5@22 20. Lard quiet but steady, IS. Is
@13273. Bulk meats very firm; shoulders
50. short rib middles 12s, short clear middles
l2a. Whisky 81 o.
changed. Wheat dull, 81 10@1 Is. Corn
quiet, 4S. Rye dull, 73@76. Pork quiet and
firm, S23. Lsrd-demand fair, sales OF coun-
try steam fefned 13s. city do held at 134,
kettle 1904 Bulk meats steady. shout.
ders 8s@8l, clear rib IL. clear sides 124.
Bacon quiet but steady, shoulders IS, clear
rib sides -, clear sides 1873 Whisky-de-
msnd fair market firm a. 81 O5.
LOUISVILLE, March IS. - Flour quiet and
unchanged. Wheat dull, 81 1901 80. Corn
demand active; 45@46. Pork $23 $50
% SO. Bulk meats-shoulders 81, clear rib
sides 12a, clear sides 12a. Bacon-shoul-
ders 81, clear rib sides 1877, clear sides 13s,
loose. Hams sugar-cured 14@143. Lard
tierce 144, key Isl. Whisky 81 05 asked.
Bagging quiet but firm; 1908.
ST. LOUIS, March 13.-Flour dull and
dropping very little doing. Wheat inactive.
No..2 red winter 81 Al. Corn active No. 2
mixed 40@404. Pork frmsr, S23 Bulk
meats, bacon and lard unchanged. Hogs
holders firm but little doing.
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GALVESTON, March 13.-Arrived: Steamship
City of Austin from New York.
Cleared; Bark F. NJ. Hurlbut for New
York.
New YORK, March 13.-Arrived: Acapulco
and Bette.
New YORK. March 13.-Arrived: Royal
Minstrel, Denmark. Arrived out: Native
Pearl, Aphrodite, Diligentia, Victor. Kate
Crosby, Adriana, Petronella Kong and Servia.
QUEENSTOWN, March 10. = Arrived: Re-
public.
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FOREIGN NEWS.

VIENNA, March 49, L. Jubobrat Oh, the
insurgent leader Of Herzegovina was arrested
SATURDAY. on Austrian territory.
LONDON, March Is. - A dispatch from
Odessa to the Times. says large number OF
Ottoman troops are sent daily to Herzegovina.
Frequent messages are exchanged between
Constantinople add Belgrade. The Porte
complains that even convicts are enlisted in
the Servian army.
Servia Acknowledges she is arming, but al.
leges her purpose is to protect her frontier
from scattered insurgent bands. Iu-feeling
prevails on both sides.
The storm of Sunday did much damage al
Portsmouth, Weymouth, Dover and other
seaports. Six hundred vessels took refuge in
the Downs. The mail beat from Calais to
Ostend was compelled to put back. The
French steamer Labrador, from Havre for
New York, remained at Plymouth some hours.
The storm extended to the Continent Tele.
graph wires in the north of France we're pros
trated and communication between Paris and
London interrupted.
A telegram from Pesth to the Daily Ne,os
says the waters OF the Danube show no signs
of subsiding. The distress is increasing. A
large dam has burst aud SO, 900 additional
acres Of land in which are several villages,
are inundated.
A postscript edition Of the Daily Ne,os just
issued contains the following dispatch. dated
Alexandria, Egypt, March 10, Gas P. NJ
."On Wednesday night last the Ably ssinian
army crossed the River Decassa Dekka and
attacked an entrenched camp of the Egyptian
army, when severe fighting took place. On
Thursday the Abyssinians were repulsed and
retreated to Adowa. King Kassa, the Grand
vlz;er, six chiefs and 5000 Abyssinians are
reported to have been killed in the trenches
Prince Passen and Gen. Loring escaped IN
hurt. Rhatib Pascha was wounded. The
Egyptian losses were heavy, but their victory
was complete"
LONDON, March 13.-This being the first
making up day Of the regular fortnightly
settlement, attention on the Stock Exchange
during the early hours was chiefly absorbed
in preparations for extending or carrying over
engagements to the end of the month. The
market is generally firm for both home and
foreign securities. The impression prevails
that most accounts have already been pro-
yided for discount. Market quiet but firm,
rates are unchanged.
PANS, March ia meeting OF the Repub-
lican Senators and Deputies was held here
last evening. About tbxee hundred were
present. They resolved to uphold the reso-
luton previously taken afirming the neces-
s1ty of superseding those funcionaries who
are opposed to the Republic. Gambetta made
q speech insisting upon the necessity Of THIS
measure. Referring to the nov Ministry e