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SPANS New Cabinet Begins at the
Top.
Personnel Of Those Who Compose
It-Minister of Finance Advos
Gates Taking the Country Into
Confidence, With a View to
Retrenchment-Ter Explo-
sion of q Naval Magazine at
Toulon.

MADRID, March 5.-The Cabinet
Council to-day decided to suppress the
pensions of all former Ministers Senior
Silvela, the new Premier, says the
Government has begun at the top in
setting an example of economy.
Senior Duran the new Minister Of
Justice, is a Catalan protectionist. Sc
nor Dato, Minister of the Interior, is a
talented young deputy and barrister
who distinguished himself recently by
brilliant campaign against the abuses
and scandals in the Madrid municipak-
ity.
Marquis Villaverde, Minister of FL
member of the Silvela Cabinet after the
Premier. He is an able financier and
advocates taking the country frankly
into confidence, with view to retrencfr-
ment, which will impose sacrifices on
both tax payers and bondholders. He
favors an income tax and urges tbs
recognition and guarantee of the colo-
NAL debt
Senior Sagasta has promised Seno-s
Silvela the hearty support of the Lib
eral party on all national and dynastic
questions. The program of Senior Sill
vela includes protection to industry.
commerce and agriculture; thorough re-
form in municipal and provincial adj
ministration; sweeping army reforms,
the formation of a really efficient navy.
with fertilization of the coasts and
general reorganization The Premier
has already invited Presidents of Cham-
bers of Commerce to concert with tine
Government the necessary measures.
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cheney for the coming fiscal year. The
Secretary of the Treasury, in his an
nual report made in December last,
estimates it at about $31, 100000, but
it is now apparent that it will not be
less than $1OO,OO0,O00. 1t is almost
certain, therefore, that the Government
will be compelled during the calendar
year 1900 to face an actual treasury de-
ficiency. The $462, 100000 of income
arising from the sale of bonds under
this Administration and that of Presl-
dent Cleveland will then have been
exhausted, and the treasury will pass
from the condition of borrowed sur
plus to an actual deficiency. Such
condition must be met, either by IN
creased taxation, or by the issue OF
treasury certificates, or by an addl-
tional bond issue.
Notwithstanding this deplorable
treasury situation, which has been
called over and over again to the at
tention of Congress and the country,
appropriations have been made Whicn
in many cases have not been war
ranted by the interests of the pubic
service, or which, if proper in them
selves, should have been postponed I'M
til the national income should be ample
to meet all its liabilities without the
necessity of bond issues.
1.-THE appropriations of the original
Billion Dollar Congress amounted to
81 ,O36, $50, 1895 81. The appropriations
of the Congress just ended reach the
mighty aggregate of 81, 566, 800, O16.2S.
1t is fair to deduct from this total
1882, $50 OS3.47, made necessary to meet
the liabilities of the Spanish war. SO
if we deduct from the grand total the
liabilities on account of the war with
Spain. it appears that the appropria-
lions for the ordinary expenses of the
Government are 81 ,OS4, 321 ,932S1. The
appropriations of the Congress just
ended to meet the ordinary govern
mental expenses exceed those of the
preceding (Fifty-fourth) Congress by
500, IA, 65S.94. Not only this, but the
contract liabilities authorized by the
Congress just expired for new ships
and their armament, public buildings,
rivers and harbors, and miscellaneous
items, amount to S7O6O2, 524. If, there
fore. to the ordinary appropriations is
added the liabilities on account of these
authorized contracts, we ascertain that
the appropriations and contract liabili-
81 154, $50, 1861.
These increased appropriations have
gone for French spoliation claims, pub
lie buildings, rivers and harbors, Bow
man Act claims and hundreds of other
projects, some meritorious, but many
of them not entitled to recognition by
the National Government In nearly
every branch of the civil service the
Government there has been an increase
of appropriations.
1.-THE time has come to reform the
scale of national expenditures. The
reckless improvidence of the outgoing
Congress will at least serve the good
purpose of ar OF
causing therh to send representatives
to the National Capital who will re-
duce the burdens imposed by riotous
appropriations"
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STORM AT PITTSBURG.
Much Damage Done to Coal Boats
ON the Ohio.

PITTSBURG, March 5.-The heavy
rainfall in this vicinity Saturday night
and Sunday morning. caused the rivers
to raise at the unusual rate of six inches
per hour and the present indications
are that the raise will not subside be-
fore Monday night There is higher
water on the Monongahela at the pres
ent time than in many months.
At 10 p. m. the Ohio River at Davis
Island shows 15.2 and is still rising at
the rate of from four to six inches an
hour. River men think seventeen feet
will be the maximum and if this proves
true, Pittsburg and Allegheny will es-
cape a flood stage, lowlands and cellars
being the only sufferers.
Reports from the heavy wind storm of
Saturday night show considerable dam
age to river property.
Four coal lows were wrecked with a
total loss of the cargoes and the steam
er D. T. Watson capsized the transfer
fiat of the Pittsburg and Western Rail-
road with five cars of coke on board.
sinking them. The aggregate value of
the boats and contents is about $4,000.
The wind continued throughout the
day, recording a maximum speed of
thirty miles. River men found it i'm
possible to navigate with lows safely
and all of the boats were tied up. Ex-
ira forces of men and steam siphons
and pumps We're kept going all the time
to prevent the boats and barges from
sinking at their mornings.
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THE AMERICAN BOY"
Building Of Battleship to be
Pressed in the Next Congress.

CINCINNATI, March 5.-Among the
projects to which the short session of
Congress was unable to give favorable
consideration was that to have a bat
tleship named THE American Boy"
The national committee of the Ameri-
can Boy Association January Doth de-
cided to visit Washington in a body and
appeal to the President, Secretary Long
and members of Congress to name one
of the new warships "The American
Boy and allow the contributions which
the youth of the country have sent here
and will continue to send form the first
installment for it's construction.
This committee reached Washington
January Goth, and had a satisfactory
interview with President Mckinley, af-
terward seeing Senators, Representa-
tives and others on January Both. Rep
resentative Bromwen of Cincinnati Of
fered a joint resolution authorizing the
Secretary of the Navy to call the next
battleship constructed 1.-THE American
Boy and to receive and deposit in the
United States Treasury as a special
fund for the construction of said bat
tleship all contributions which may be
rendered to him for the purpose of de-
fray1ng the expenses thereof, said con-
tributions to be in addition to any
amount that might be appropriated for
the construction of battleships. Secre-
tary Long had advised the committee of
the law to name all battleships after
States, cruisers after cities. etc. This
measure was favorably reported by the
Naval Committee, but it was killed in
the House on a point of order by Mr..
Boutelle. The boys have returned from
Washington determined to press their
work harder than ever, and they say
they have been receiving letters of en-
enlargement from all parts of the coun-
try. They pay their own expenses and
deposit all contributions in the Market
National Bank and are confident that
they will succeed at the next session Of
Congress-
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FLOOD AT TROY.
Strong Ice Gorge Formed Between
There and Albany.

TROY On. Y.) March 5.-The ice in
the upper Hudson, the Mohawk and the
Hoosick River broke up tonight after
several days thaw and warm rain
The result is a flood at this point and
north of here, which threatens to be
disastrous. The ice is heavy and at
Mechanicsville has formed a gorge of
great strength.
The backup caused by this gorge has
submerged all adjoining lowlands and
the roadways are under water. Be-
tween this city and Albany the ice be-
came wedged in Schuyler Creek and
the mouth of Dry River, running
through Watervliet. Streets have been
flooded in the latter place and the AL
bany city railway tracks between Men
ands and Watervliet are submerged.
making it possible to use but one track.
The docks along the river front here
are under water and the indications
are that the freshet will reach the high
est point in many years.
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DANGER ON THE OHIO.
The River Is Very High and Is
Rising Rapidly.

CINCINNATI, March 5-During the
last two days there has been a heavy
rainfall, principally south and east OF
the Ohio River, extending from below
the Kentucky River up to Morgantown,
w. Va Tonight two-thirds of Charles
ton. W. Va, is under water. The river
at that point at this writing is forty-one
feet and two-fifths of an inch, which
equals the highest previous record at
that point. The United States engin-
eer says it will likely reach one foot
higher, making 1925 feet On the north
side of the Ohio, the streams are full
but not dangerous. Above Parkers-
burg to the source of the river, the
streams are high but not all dangerous
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THE POPE IN GOOD SPIRITS.
Has Resumed His Ordinary Diet
and His Condition Good.

ROME. March 5.-The Pope, who was
in excellent spirits on rising this morn
ing, desired the attendants in the ante
chamber to attend mass in his own
room.
The following bulletin was issued at
/ a. M:
His holiness passed quiet night
getting several hours sleep. All his
natural functions, the pulse and the
temperature are normal. 1t has not
been necessary to re-examine the
wound. No medical bulletin will be
issued this evening"
His holiness, who rose at half-past ~.
returned to bed at 1:30 p. m. He has
resumed his ordinary diet and his con-
dition. mentally and physically, is good.
He engaged his physicians in CONVEX
sation and to their amazement recited
the entire last portion of the Seventh
Canto of Dante's Paradise comment
ing upon various passages as he pro-
ceeded.
Professor MaZzoni afterwards said;
HE is indeed a marvellous man.
DR.. Lapponi hopes to be able to dis
pense with the bulletins altogether in
the course of two or three days.
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KIPLING's HEALTH.
He Is Now Far Advanced on the
Road to Recovery.

NEW YORK, March 5.-According to
the reports of his physicians, Rudyard
Kipling is now far advanced on the
way to recovery. All through the hours
of Saturday night and early this morn
ing the favorable conditions increased.
He slept peacefully many hours and
when he awolxe it was clear that he
had made another powerful stride to-
ward health.
1.-THE improvement in Mr.. Kipling' s
condition. said Mr.. Doubleday this
morning, sis. perhaps, more marked
than at any previous period Of his i'll
ness. He is emphatically d winner this
time"
The following official bulletin was
posted at the Hotel Grenoble at 2
o'clock this afternoon:
MIR. Kipling is convalescing with
slight continuing fever. The resolution
in the lungs has advanced, though it is
not yet complete
1t was said that Mr. Kipling's daugh-
ter Josephine, is dangerously i'll at the
home of Miss De Forrest. She is re-
ported to have suffered slight re-
lapse during Saturday night. There
was no change in the condition of Elsie,
the youngest daughter, who is suffering
from pneumonia at the Hotel Grenoble.
Mr.. Kipling was still on the mend to-
night. His younger daughter was re-
ported to be in very satisfactory con-
dition, while the elder daughter jose
phine, is believed to be out of danger.
Mrs Kipling herself paid three visits
to-day to Josephine, who is being cared
for at the home of one of Mrs. Kipling' s
friends, remaining about an hour each
time Nothing was given out to-day
regarding the little ones condition but
the fact that the mother did not re-
main at her bedside tonight is taken to
mean that there is no immediate dam
ger.
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TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Naval Arsenal at Tou1on Wrecks
the Surrounding Country.

TOULON, March 5.-The naval mag
aZine of La Goubrana, between Iazyne
and Toulon. in the Department of Var.
Southern France, exploded at half-past
O'Clock this morning. All the sol
diers on duty at the magazine were
killed and a number of inhabitants OF
the district buildings, of which many
were RACED, also fell victims. Forty
corpses have already been recovered.
The cause of the explosion is not known
Fifty thousand kilogrammes of black
powder exploded. 1t looks as though q
volcanic eruption had occurred. the
country being swept almost bare with
in radius of two miles, houses de-
stroyed. trees overturned and distorted.
fields devastated and covered with
stones and impalpabe black dust.
Some of the stones are enormous. One
weighing fifty kilogrammes fell in the
suburb of Pont de Las Signs of the
explosion are evident in all the sub
urbs of Toulon and in the city itself.
Even at st. Jean de Var, five miles dis.
tant, windows We're shattered and doors
battered in. Later reports show that
of the seven sentries, four were killed
outright and the others severely in
jured, the corporal being literally
scalped and the scalp overhanging his
face like a veil.
A large number of soldiers are now
employed in clearing away the debris,
but the work is very difficult
1t is impossible to ascertain accur.
ately the number killed. but It is be-
lieved that no fewer than a hundred
We're injured.
Although it was clear night the ex-
plOSiOn was so terrific as to prodrce a
slight rainfall
Fortunately the neighboring maga-
zines escaped. 1t is now believed that
the explosion origina ted in chemical
decomposition in smokeless powder.
There is no suggestion of foul play.
To-day the whole city is in mourning.
flags at half-nast and the casinos
closed
Both the Government and municipal
authorities are forwarding relief funds
M. Lockeroy, Minister of Marine. has
telegraphed 10000 francs toward the
maintenance of the families of the vic
TINS, and a public subscription has
been opened here.
The bodies found or recovered are ter
ribly mutilated. Sixteen were found
in the rocks near the shore and it is
feared that others were precipitated
into the sea.
A vehicle moving along a road near
the sea was lifted bodily into the water
by the force of the explosion two of it's
occupants being drowned
The scene at the village of La Gou-
bran was appalling.
kilograms from Nice say the explo-
sion was distinctly felt there
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CHINA DENIES
ITALY'S DEMAND.
Says It Is Unable to Grant the
Request.
Thinks England Setting Even for Russla's
Concession.
Sir Claude Mcdonald Presents q
Note Supporting ITALY In Her
Demand-Transpor Ohio Ar
rives at Manila, Losing One Pri-
vate on the Way by Disease
Kaiserin Augusta Has Left
Manila.

PEKIN, March 5.-The Tsung Ii
Yamen Chinese Foreign Office has re-
turned to the Italian Charge d'Affaires,
Marquis Salvage Raggo, his dispatch
containing the demand of the Italian
Government for a lease on San Nun
Bay, on the same conditions as those
under which Germany holds Kio Chau
Bay, accompanying it with a letter de-
claring that the Chinese Government is
unable to grant the request.
The demand of the Italian Govern
ment for a ninety-nine year lease OF
San Nun Bay, province of Che kang,
as a coaling station and naval base, in
Guided also "a demand for the conces-
sion of three islands off the coast or
Che Kang, with the right to construct
railroad from San Mum Bay to Po-
Yank Lake and to preferential railroad
and mining privileges within sphere
of influence, covering the southern two
thirds of Che-Kang province.
According to a dispatch to the Asso-
ciated Press from Pekin last Friday
the action of the Italian Government
had caused great excitement there, not
only among the Chinese, but also among
the foreign diplomats, the Chinese be-
ing convinced that Great Britain was
chiefly responsible for the demand and
that it had been made to emphasize
Great Britains displeasure at the turn
which the northern railroad question
had taken.
The representative of the great Pow
er, according to the same dispatch, was
reported to. have said that the moment
had arrived for international control OF
China and it was also asserted that IL
the policy of spheres of influence was
to be inaugurated, the United States
would doubtless have a say in the mat
ter with the probable preference for the
r1rovince of Chilli
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to the extent of those in West Virginia

and Kentucky
The Weather Bureau at this point
sent out tonight danger signals to
Point Pleasant, Catlettsburg and Ports
mouth. The heaviest rise is in the
Great Kanawha, but the Little Kanaw-
ha, the Big Sandy, the Licking and the
Kentucky Rivers are pouring in ire
mendous floods. Nothing yet has been
heard from the Tennessee and Cumber-
land, but from reports of rainfall in
the watershed of the rivers, it is pre-
sumed that they are keeping pace with
the rivers above them on the left bank
of the Ohio. "A saving clause in the
situation is the fact that everywhere
south and east of the Ohio River the
weather tonight is windy, clear and
cold Still another condition favorable to
comparatively slight flood in the Ohio
is the fact that in the warm weather
of the ten days preceding this storm all
the snow was melted in the mountains
and the floods therefrom have been
carried well down the river.
At all points on the Ohio River from
Gallipolis down to the Kentucky River,
the Ohio is rising. At Catlettsburg,
where the Big Sandy comes in, it is
highest, forty-eight feet and rising six
inches an hour There seems to have
been trough of very heavy rainfall in
West Virginia between the base of the
Alleghenies and the Ohio River AT
Cincinnati the river is forty eight feet
at o'clock tonight and has been ris-
ing three inches per hour for the last
fifteen hours. Unless the floods in the
Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers
should prove much greater than antic-
ipated and thus cause backwater the
maximum stage here at Cincinnati will
probably not exceed fifty-six feet.
Should it reach that stage it will stop
cars from running into the Union Cen
trail station, which will be a compare
lively slight embarrassment No other
roads here will be affected in the slight
est by the stage of the river. This
prediction is based on the presumption
that the weather will remain fair for
four or five days.
At Owsley, on the Kentucky side,
John Hutchinson and his family were
trying to cross the stream when their
vehicle capsized Mrs. Hutchinson and
two children were drowned
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| inmates Of a Residence Blown a Hundred
Yards.
Houses and Barns LeveIed to the
Earth and Orchards Damaged
Hudson River Floods and Ice
Gorge-Ohio River Rising and
Much Damage Anticipated
Severe Storms Throughout the
East.

ATHENS (Tenn.) March "a tor
nado, about seventy yards wide, struck
portion of Madisonville last night,
killing three persons, wounding ten or
twelve others, and completely destroy
ing twelve or fifteen houses and several
barns. The killed are: Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Moser, Ed L. Horton
The Horton and Robinson residences
are both completely wrecked, not one
timber being left on another. The es-
cape of the inmates was miraculous,
some of them being blown distance
of a hundred yards and only receiving
slight bruises.
Telephone and telegraph wires are
blown down and all communication
shut Off
The storm came up with alarming
suddenness and swept everything in its
path. 1t was accompanied by a terri
BILE roar. Frightened inhabitants
rushed for their cellars and places of
safety. In the country great damage
was done to orchards and crops by the
wind and hail that followed 1t is re-
ported that further casualties resulted
in outlying rural districts.
Jack Moser met horrible death He
was hurled distance of seven hun
dred yards, until his progress was i'm
peded by wire fence, which complete
ly severed his head from his body
The 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
Moser escaped.
In addition to the loss of life and de-
struction of residence property, many
barns were swept away and stock killed
The woodworking and milling plant Of
j. H. Burleson, containing costly ma
chinery, was damaged. Most of the
damaged property is uninsured
At upper East Tennessee points heavy
rains did untold damage to crops and it
is conservatively estimated that this
torrent, coupled with. the recent freeze
and bad W s&ther, will mean loss of a
million dollars to farmers in that sec
ton
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FAMOUS BROOD MARES.
Horsemen Think They Were Bought
for w. C.. Whitnev.

LEXINGTON (Ky.), March 5.-Horse-
men here are of the opinion that the
famous brood mares purchased by Geo.
Easton, presumably for his brother,
William Easton, were in reality bought
for w. C. Whitney of New York
The mares were brought here to-day
and placed at La Belle stud with Whit
ney's other horses. They are the
Yorkville Belle, by Miser, out of Thora,
for which $4,000 was paid General
jackson at Nashville, and Mountain
Range, by Longfellow, out of Sierra
Nevada, bought from Albert Franklin,
price private.
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FLOOD AT wILKEsBARRE.
Susquehanna Rises and Overflows
It's Banks.

WILKESBARRE (Pa), March s.
The Susquehanna River rose rapidly
to-day and this afternoon it over
flowed it's banks between Port Bowkley
and Plymouth. The lowlands between
Wilkesbarre and Plymouth on the west
side of the river are entirely submerged
and the street cars are unable to run.
At South Wilkesbarre the people liv-
ing on the lowlands We're compelled to
vacate their homes. Some who re-
manned in their houses until the last
moment had to be taken away in
boats.
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Think China Will Accede.

ROME, March 5.-Great attention is
paid here to the refusal of the Chinese
Government to grant the requested
lease of San Nun Bay, to be used as a
naval base and coaling station. No
doubt is entertained that the concession
will be made after further negotiation.
Rear Admiral Grenet embarked to-
day on the Italian cruiser StrGnboi at
Naples, to take command of the italian
squadron in Chinese waters.
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Destructive Gale at Michigan Falls.

NIAGARA FALLS On. y, March ;.
A gale this afternoon caused much
damage. The wind came in gusts,
tearing signs from their fastenings and
stripping sections of roofing from some
buildings. Electric light wires were
torn down. The old elevator at the
Buttery Whirlpool station was blown
over. 1t crashed through the pavilion
at the foot of the cliff damaging the
property in the pavilion and causing a
stampede among the people in the
neighborhood. No one was hurt The
loss is large.
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More Talk From Esterhazv.

LONDON, March 6. - The DAILY
Chronicle this morning publishes au-
other installment of alleged revelations
by Comte Ferdinand Watson Esterhazy
as to his relations with the French
General staff. 1t adds but little to
what was already known. Comte Es-
terhazy himself is in Paris
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STORM AT MARIETTA.
Roofs Of Buildings Blown OFF and
Much Damage Done.

MARIETTA (Ga.). March "a ter
rife storm struck this city last night,
causing general alarm for some time.
The roofs of several buildings were
blown off and considerable damage was
done by water.
At Elberton the Courthouse was bad
ly damaged, and the new Episcopal
Church was totally demolished.
At Windsor and Carterville large
hailstones fell, doing considerable dam
age to plate glass windows and hot
houses.
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Transport Ohio Arrives at Manila.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-The War
Department to-day received 2 dispatch
from General Otis, concerning the ar
rival of the transport Ohio at Manila,
as follows:
Manila, March 5.-Transport Ohio
arrived to-day. One casualty. Private
Overton, Company G, Twenty-second
Infantry, died I'd inst; spinal menin-
gitis''