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upper window OF the hotel. The mother
threw the child to the street, dashing It
to pieces, and then jumped to death her
SELF. Many persons were saved by Jumping
from the roof OF the section OF the hotel
on Forty-seventh street to the roof OF the
building below.
Meanwhile the flremen had run mp lad.
ders at many OF the windows and had be-
gun to take down people as fast as possl-
BILE. There were some feats OF herolsm
which brought cheers from the watching
throngs. Undoubtedly some who did not
escape might have done so II they had
waited little longer for the fire.
fighters to rescue them. The fire.
men were aided by various police
men and others, who made their way into
the building when the flames first started.
One patrolman guided three women down
to safety. Two unknown members OF the
Forty-seventh Regiment went up the fire
escape on the Forty-seventh street side
and rescued two women who were entreat-
ing aid from the windows.
Miss Helen Gould threw open the doors
OF her home, which Is opposite the hotel
the old Jay Gould house as soon e5 It was
found that the house could be utilized, and
several OF the wounded were carried Into
the house. They were laid out on the
floor, cushions or pillows being used to
make them comfortable, and miDistered to
as far IS was possible until they were car
ried to anbulaaces, to be distributed In
various hospitals.
Among the dead are: John Connolly, Of
New York City, hotel carpenter, compound
fracture OF the skull, died In Flower Hospi-
tai; Mrs. John Mccormick Gibson, guest
a. the hotel. died at the Murray Hill Ho-
tel; Miss Eleanor Louise Goodman, dough-
ter OF Samuel Goodman, q guest In the ho-
tol, jumped from window, died OF frac-
turs OF the Skull in Bellevue Hospital;
Lucille Grande, OF North Carolina; Mrs.
Nancy Kirk, seventy-aTe years old, mother
OF J. S. Kirk, wealthy soap manufacturer, OF
Chicago, died In Bellevue Hospital; Mrs.
Isabella G. Leland, flfty-two years old.
wife Of the proprietor, taken to Flower
Hospital, died without regaining con-
sciousness; Miss Helen Leland, twenty-one
years old, daughtec OF the proprietor OF
smoke; Miss Amelia Paddock, OF Irving
ton on Hudson, jumped from sixth story,
died in Miss Gould's house. She was a
slster-in-law OF Samuel Goodwin, assistant
traffic manager OF the New York Central
Railroad.
Abner Mckinley. brother Of the Presl-
dent, with his wife and daughter Mabel,
lived In the Windsor. Mr.. Mckinley was
not in the hotel when the fire broke out.
AS soon as he heard OF 1t, he fastened to
the hotel, only to find the walls falling In.
The family had succeeded in escaping how
ever. The McKinleys occupied suite OF
rooms on the second door.
The monetary loss, as estimated by
George T. Patterson, of the New York
Board Of Fire Underwriters, is $1,000, 900
It is covered by insurance.
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FILIPIN0S IN RETREAT,
General Wheaton's Flying Brigade
Pursues Them For Eleven Miles.
INSURGENTS LOSE TWO HUNDRED

The Enemy's Attack on Taguig Meets
With Prompt Reply-Our Forces
Now Command the Lake - Half a
Million Dollars Worth of Insurgents
Property Destroyed.
MANILA, Philippine Islands (By Cable).-
After the attack by the Filipinos Satur
day night upon detached post at Tagutg,
1t was decided by General Wheaton to pur'
sue the insurgents and bring matters to ap
snd in short order, II he could succeed II
engaging them In battle.
He Immediately reinforced the Amerl.
cans with two companies eaeh OF this
Washington and Oregon Regiments. Tht
post had held the enemy In check, and the
fire OF the reinforcing companies repulsed
them, driving them across to m island
formed In the estuary. They were thus iE
front OF the Twenty-aecond regulars. -,
On discovering that they we're entrapped
the rebels fought desperately, aided ma.
terially by the jungle and the darkness, but
they were completely routed, with heavy
loss, after two hours fighting. The Ameri'
cans lOSL Two klllel duu lHCuIi "ouuAOo
among the latter Lieutena Frank Jones'
General Wheaton determined to punish
the natives, and at daybreak on Sunday
his brigade started In the following order:
The Sixth Artillery holding the extreme
right, the Oregon volunteers holding
the centre, the Washington regiment
keeping to the edge OF the lake. and
the Twenty-second regulars occupy.
ing the right OF the line, which swept
the whole country along the lake In
a southerly direction toward General Oven.
shines position. The line, thus extended
over two miles OF country, rough and GOV.
cred with thick jungle, advanced eleven
miles, The enemy fed. the last OF them
being seen about $50 in the afternoon. Al
scarcely any time did the Americans gel
within 1900 yards OF them.
The Oregon regiment had one man killed
and four wounded, and the Twenty-seeond
regulars one wounded. According to the
official reports no fewer than 200 Fllipinos
were killed.
General Otis says the American Army
and gunboats now command the lake. He
estimates that pronerty OF the insurgents
valued a: s500,0C0 has been destroyed.
while quantities OF rice and sugar, and 4Oc
tons Of COAL Which is very valuable here:
have been captured.
many VI tue pIlSouoES ioPi 'u"I ~, -"
Filipino soldiers are weakening. The
generous treatment that the Americans
administer to the native prisoners and
wounded seems to influence the insurgent
army powerfully. In the opinion OF the
Americans, however, the Filipino leaders
will continue to provoke fighting just a
long as they can retain their hold upor
their followers because they have every
thing to gain and nothing to lose.
The enemy have twice as many men OF
their firing lines as they have arms, anc
the fact that so few arms are captured bJ
the Americans Is because the guns OF the
wounded Fllipinos and OF many who sur
render are spirited away.
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EXPLOSION KILLS THREE MEN.
Smokeless Powder Causes Death and
Havoc in New Jersey.

Smokeless Powder Causes Death and
Havoc in New Jersey.
PENIS GROVE, N. J. (SpeclaD.- More
than 5000 pounds OF snokeless powder ex-
ploded on Wednesday at the E. I. Dupont
Powder Works at Carney Point, near here,
and opposite Wilmington. DEL, instantly
killing three workmen and iDjuring others.
The dead are: Isaac Layton, aged fifty,
married; John Magill, aged thirty, single;
William Ford, aged forty, married.
The explosion took place In one OF the
drying houses, where Layton was at work.
The explosion shook the country for miles
around, and In tho town heavy panes Of
glass were broken In many houses. Across
the Delaware River, in WILMINGTON, the
noise Of the explosion was also heard. L =
mediately following the first explosion
came several others, distinct, and nearly
as loud. They occurred In small store
houses.
Both the drying house and the store
houses were demolished, and other small
buildings about the works damaged.
Francis Dupont and his nephew were at
work in the laboratory at the time OF the
explosion, and were slightly injured By
pieces OF glass, but directed the care OF the
other injured and the recovery Of the dead.
The works have been running on large
Government orders Tor smokeless powder.
The loss is estimated at $3.50 900. without
taking into account the delay that must
ensue in filling the Government orders.
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AN INSANE MAN HANGED.

Examination After Death Shows MUIR
derer Was Irresponsible.
ATLANTA, Ga. (SpeclaD.-A new and
startling feature has been aided to the
case Of Robert Lewis, who was hanged u
few days ago for numbering Charles
Haynes. A posr-mortem examination OF
the mans brain by DR.. William P. Nlcoi-
son disclosed the fact that 1t was diseased.
Meningitis had been OF long standing and
a film grew tightly over that portion OF the
brain which controls the emotions. A dis.
ease OF the blood had c:ept into the cells
and nearly destroyed ths mans reasoning
faculties.
Tbs outcome OF the autopsy Is vindca-
ton OF the position taken by the attorneys
for the condemned man. Lewis was
hanged as the result OF an examination by
an expert. DR.. J. B. Baird, who pronounced
the murderer sane. The Georgia law does
not permit the hanging VI an insane mt l.
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THE NEWS EPIToMlZE1.
Washington Items.

Orders for the withdrawal to the United
States from Havana, to be mustered out,
OF the Second Illinois and 161st Indiana
regiments have been Issued by the War
Department.
The British Ambassador has consulted
with Secretary Hay as to modus vivendt
to be be observed pending the determine
tion OF the Alaska boundary question.
A bill in equity was fled In the District
Court few days ago by the Ro1ana Gold
Mining and Tunnelling Company to re-
strain the Secretary Of the Interior and the
Commissioner Of the General Land once
Company patents for the Lee lode and
cheyenne No. mining claim In the Grip
pie Creek district, Colorado.
A petition for a rehearing OF the "Alco-
bol In the Arts" cnse, decided against the
manufacturers In the Supreme Court by
a bare majority, was filed on Mon
day. General B. F. Tracy succeeds Mr..
Choate, who argued the case as couDse!
for Robert Dunlop, the claimant In the
case.
The contract for the construction of a
naval training station in San Francisco
Harbor, at place known as Yerba Buena,
has been awarded. The successful firm
Was Campbell Pettus, OF San Francisco,
whose bid was S74, 400. There we're twenty
two bidders.
The Secretary OF War has approved the
plans for the improvem ents to New York
Harbor, and bids have been advertised
for.
Consul McNally. at Bogota, has informed
the State Department that the Consular
agent In Bucaramanga has telegraphed
him that William Siderichs, a citizen OF
the United States, associated with Mecke
l. Co., OF New York, shot and killed him
sell at that place on March 10.
Mrs. Emily Maria Fish. wife Of Hamilton
Fish, OF New York, died In this city few
days ago, after IN illness Of several weeks.
She was form erly Miss Mann, OF Troy, N. Y.
Acting Postmaster General Heath has is
sued an order directing that the fees Tor
postal money orders issued In the United
States for payment In Cuba shall be the
same as those fixed by law for domestic
money orders.
Orders were Issued for the muster out OF
the First Texas In Galveston, Texas, and
the Second Louisiana In Savannah, Ga.
Both regiments ure IN Havana, Lut will be
brought to this country as soon as trans
ports are available. The Sixth Company
otVoluntear Signal Corps, now III Augusta,
Gu, has been ordered mustered out.
DR.. Cabell Whitehead, Assayer OF the
United States Mint. has accepted an I'm
portant plnce In the service OF the Turkish
Government. He will shortly depart for
Constantinople to assume the duties OF the
Office, which will be virtually that OF d.
rector General OF Industries.
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REAL cULPaIT IN DREYFUS AFFAIR.

Former Russian Ambassador at Paris
Charged With Selling Secrets.
LONDON (By Cable).-The Evening News
publishes sensational Dreyfus story. 1t
declares that the former Russian Ambas.
sador, Baron Won Mohrenheim, Is the real
culprlt who sold both Russian and French
secrets to the German Government, adding
that the Russian Government itself Is con-
vInced Of his guilt, and that 1t is only to
avoid a public scandal greater than the
Dreyius affair that be is unpublished furtnef
than the intimatton that he Is not to snow
bis face within the Cars domlnions.
Baron Won Mohrenhelm was formerly
Russian Ambassador at Paris. He was re,
iieyed from his post in December. 1897, and
was succeeded by Prince Ouroussof, who
was previously Russian Minister ut Brus'
oalo
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Foreign.


G. R. Birt, the missing chairman and
managing director OF the Mlllwall DOCK
COMPANY. who disappeared IN February,
leaving delcit OF 81. 900 in the ac-
counts OF the concern, was arrested IN Lon
don few days ago.
Marquia Salvage Raggi, Secretary OF the
italian Legation at Pekin, viii succeed
Signor Martino as Italian Minister to
China. Marquis RaGgl Is nowat Rome put
will start forthwith for his post.
Aserious explosion was caused at the War
Department In Paris, Franco, bv expert
me1ts with new form OF gunpoWcer.
Several persons wero injured, and great
alarm was felt in the neighborhood.
It is reportsd that Empress Elizabnth's
murderer, Luigi Lucchint who is lmpris-
oned ut Geneva, Switzerland, has com.
pletely broken down under the riIors o.
SOLITARY Imprisonment. He has attempted
suicide on three occasions and lus prooa'
bly, become violently insane.
Baroness Won D Donovkberg, daughter OF
Count Won Munster, the German Ambassa-
valued at S21, 400 and a large sum OF
money.
Gil Bias, prominent Partisan journal,
SAYS that M. Turpin, the inventor OF the
explosive melinte. who was convicted OF
treason some time ago, has decided to ap.
ply for revision Of his trial.
Placards have been posted at Castellon
and Alcala de Chisrert, Spain, calling upon
taxpayers to refuse to pay thsif taxes.
The placards, which were addressed to the
repatriated soldiers, were torn down by the
police.
Jean Baptiste Sebastien Krantz, the
French engineer, formerly D Director- General
OF Roads and Bridges, died at Paris. BE
MAS eighty.tHQ/ears Of age.
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Cycling Notes.

The Detroit Wheelmen have droppec
Ibout $4,000 in prom oting cycle rae
meets, and will quit the field.
American wheelnen who tour in Franc,
.hts year will be obliged to obtain permits
rom the Custom House officials at thei,
French port CT entry, In order to avoid q
lax end ths necessity OF carrying u badge
On their wheels.
The durability OF bicycle tires varies ac'
.ording to the use to which they are put,
alders discover through the wear and teal
that the rear or driving tice succumbs frs:
This circumstance has led to the sugges.
tion that manufacturers and makers OF 81.
eycles should At them out with specia.
tires for the roar wheels. ------
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Prominent People.

General Castellanos, last Spanish Cover.
nor-General OF Cuba, has been appointed
Captain General OF Madrid.
Slatin Pasha is about to leave the Egyp-
tian army in order that he may spend the
remainder OF his days among his friends In
Austria.
Major o. L. Pruden, the assistant secre-
tary to the President, bears striking re-
semblance to Mr.. Mckinley. lfkekess
heightened by the high hat and frockcoat
he always wears.
Edward Gray, the principal OF the D aven-
port school, Of Fall River, Mass, who has
lust died, was one of the oldest and best
known educators in Massachusetts,, having
taught eQ1tinuously for attg-ssven years.
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The Work of State Legislators

A compulsory vaccination law has been
enacted In New Mexico.
The New Hampshire Senate has foc
second time rejected bill to abolish Fast
Days.
A proposition for constitutional amend.
ment introducing the referendum has been
rejected in Utah.
The Michigan Legislature has voted to
submit to the people proposition for O
State printing office.
Governor Barnes, OF Oklahoma, has re-
fused to join tho Legislature In putting an
embargo on circuses, vetoing measure
which sought to require ,ircus to pay q
$1,000 license foe.
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employees OF the hotel and policemen, were

employees OF the hotel and policemen, were
anaccounted for. It is thought that some
Of them were burned in the ruins and that
their bodies will be found when thorough
bearch Is possible This cannot be for two
sr three days.
The FIRE was the most calamitous hotel
blaze New York has ever known. 1t was
started from O window curtain taking fire
rom q lighted match that WAS thrown
hom second story window.
Several Of the dead we're killed by Jump
ing from the windows. Panic seemed to
reign inside the hotel from the first. The
bremen saved many lives by their heroic
leeds, but they were powerless to control
.he flames. Within an hour and half the
hotel was almost destroyed.
The fire that made an uncouth and terri
ole mass OF rubbish Of one Of the city's
finest hotels was kindled by the tiny blaze
that aickered on the head OF discarded
match. An unknown man, a guest OF the
hotel, was standing about 8 O'Clock in a
front parlor on the second floor, close to
bay window which was hung with lace cur
tains. The guest lighted II cigar or cigar
cite, and tossed the match, still blazing, to
the street. Just then the curtains blew
back. They were all ablaEe in an instant.
The man who had thrown tue match turned
and ran.
The flames soon filled the pa-lor. where
they originated, and then went roaring
upward in that end OF the building. eating
their way with q growing appetite and
spreading panic. They soon burst from tho
windows on every floor to the top one
the sixth. Then they reached the roof.
The Mortified thousands in the street below
were pushed back by the policemen, who
had been stationed there to preserve order
khaF @t,y,k; In Inxy an
turned pale and screamed, little ones shrank
back sob5ing. and men felt the sweat break
upon their brows, as the hoads OF panic
stricken people protruded from the hotel
windows, turning now toward tho flames
and now toward the sidewalk, and calling
for help in tones that made the hearers
sick.
The fire spread to the centre and 70 the
rear. On the sixth floor 1t swept north
ward with an Irresistible rush, carrying
woodwork and walls before 1t till 1t
reached the wall on the Forty-seventh
street side. 1t also travelled northward
In the lower floors, but not so rapidly as
on the top one, which 1t crossed In
about five minutes. The hotel was one
Of wide halls aud vestibules, a delight
to guests, but q terrible aid to the
fire. 1t was q building OF drafts, where
the flames made easy progress, and as
they spread northward on the lower floors,
wherever they met an elevator shaft, OF
which there were several. they ieaped up
through. They broke into the rooms OF
maddened men and women, and In all
parts OF the building drove them through
the windows In an effort to seize the one
remaining chance OF safety.
Some Of the fleeing guests and servants
threw out the safety ropes, which had been
placed in the bedrooms as means Of escape
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Princess Victoria Kaiulani was the
daugate OF A. 8. Cleghorn. a gentleman
OF British ancestry, but long q resident OF
the Hawaiian Islands, and the Princess
Merriam LikeIke, sister OF Kalakaun, who
reigned as King for r "enteen years. and
also OF Liliuokalanl whose reign OF two
Of the United States authorities on Janu-
ary II, 1893. Descent by Hawallnn law is
through the female line, and the Princess
was declared heiress to the throne In 1891.
She was educated In England, and wns IN
attractive and accomplished girl, She was
In her twenty-tourth year.
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TORNADO KILLS A FAMILY.
Father, Mother and Nine Children Lot
Their Lives in Alabama.

Their Lives in Alabama.
EDwARDsvILIE, Ala. CSpeclaD.-Tae tor
nado which passed near this place satur
day night destroyed five houses, log struc'
lures, and killed ten persons in one family
The dead are Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Coffee
and niue children: Leila. twenty-five
James. twenty; Lulu, eighteen; Jack, thir
teen; Bessie, twelve; D Dollie, ten; Daveroe
eight; Grover, six; John, four. About
dozen persons were injured.
Coffee, who had only one leg and wht
was Confederate veteran, was a.
home with ten members OF his family whel
the storm came on. From all indication!
the house was torn asunder and the in
mates were violently thrown up and doWl
and against the ground until lie was ex
tinct and then we're dropped 400 yards on
The body OF one OF the girls was al
most completely wrapped around
stump. The funeral OF the family tool
place on Sunday. All the bodies we'
placed in one grave.
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Four Men Killed by Falling Scanold.
The scaffold erected for the purpose OF
making repairs at ". G. Edwards & Co.'s
mills at Rockland, Ontario, gave way few
days ago Just as five men were entering the
building and instantly killed four OF them,
Louis Rochop, Henry Dalrymple. Eugene
Descham and Archie Stewart. Xavier
Frappler was four hours under the debris
and was finally got out seriously hurt.
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More than &c, 900 employees In New Eng
land are receiving increased wages over
those OF 1894.
Louisville, KY, has new city central
labor union, called the United Wage
Workers Union Of Louisville.
Nearly all the labor unions OF Georgia
have elected delegates to form State led
GRAFTON OF labor In that State In April.
Eureka Lodge 434 OF the International
Association OF Machlnlsts has donated $50
to the idle boot and shoe workers OF Marl-
boro.
The clgarmakers Of Springfield, ILL.,, are
taking quite an interest In the bootblack KS
OF that city, and have assisted In organiz-
ing union.
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Recruiting the Marine Corps.

Orders have been issued by Brigadier.
General Haywood. comuandant Of the
Marine Corps Washington for the i'm
the quota allowed by law under the Per-
sonnel bill. In order to facilitate the work
several additional recruiting stations will
be established along the great lakes and In
the interior, where heretofore none has
existed.
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DEATH OF PRINCESS KAIULANl.

Claimant to the Throne of Hawaii Passed
Away at Honolulu.
SAN FaANc1sco, Gal. Especially. - The
steamer China. from the Orient via Homo
lulu, brings news OF the death OF Princess
Kalulanl on the morning OF the 9th inst
The cause OF death was infammatory
rheumatism.
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Killed HIS Wife and Him self.

Jealousy caused William Lang to kill hi
vile and then fatally shoot himself at hi
home, In Chicago q few days ago. LAM
and his wife attended a masked ball in th
evening. and it was said the husband be
came onraged because marked attentions
were paid to his wife by one Of the youna
men at the affnir. He shot his wife in thu
left temple and himself just above tb
heart, He died few hours later.
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Hanged For q Dual Murder.

Oliver Provost was hanged at Port Arthur
Ontario, few days ago for the murder Of
two French swine herders named Carrlere
and Dolvin on February 10, 1897. The prln.
clpal witness against Provost was Rosaana
Gauthier, married woman. In his de-
fence Provost swore tho woman poisoned
the two men.
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Two Killed in an Omaha Fire.

Two persons lost their lives and twenty
were injured, some so badly that they are
expected to die, In fire a few days ago at
Omaha, Neb. The dead are: Mrs. Anna
Schamel and Mrs. Thomas Taylor. The fire
was not Il serious one as far as loss OF prop
erty is concerned. 1t will not exceed S50,-
OOU, half OF which was on the building. The
losses are fully covered by insurance.
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A Boy Kills q Woman.

Albert Luken, sixteen years old, was ar
rested at Cincinnati, Ohio, a few days ago,
charged with the murder OF Mrs. Anthony
Stiegler. Of Mount Lookout. The boy con-
fessed and said his motive was robbery.
He found $40. The murder was brutal
one. The woman was found dead by her
son the night before, her head having been
crushed in by five blows OF poker.
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General Booth Goes TO New Zealand.
It was announced at the headquarters Of
the Salvation Army In London that General
Booth has gone from Adelaide, South Aus
tralia, for New Zealand, In order to under
take q campaign there.