Youngstown News, 1895-08-30

              The Youngstown News. VOL XT. YOUNGSTOWN, K. Y., FKIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1895. NO. 2». ATLANTA'S GREAT FAIR. Remarkable Progress Made at the Cotton States Exposition. THE PRESIDENT WILL START IT. The Kxhiblts Will Be in a State Approximating Completeness When the Gate* Are Thrown O.nen—Various Amusement li,nisi.« !;..„,h-Thf Attractions of the Southern "Midway." The work on the Cotton States and International Exposition at Atlanta, Ga., i.s so far advanced that it may be confidently announcedthat it will be thrown open to the nubile on September IS with the exhibits in a more presentable shape than was ever before attained by the managers of eimilar prodigious enterprises. The Commitiee on Ceremonial Day has arranged that President Cleveland will touch the button setting the machinery in motion. The Board of Directors decided to issue an invitation to Booker T. Washington President of thn Tuskegee (Ala.) Norma! and Industrial Institute, to take part in the exercises on the opening day. tind to deliver an address on that occasion, thus recognizing the colored race in the official programme. Dr. Neidlinger. Commissioner from the Argentine Republic, has arrived with five carloads of the exhibit which that Nation will make at tho Exposition. The exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution nnrt National Museum is, for its size, the most beautiful and impressive that has ever be"n prepared. At the lumtttoa of President Collier, the hxeeutive Committee of tlie Cotton States, and International Exposition voted to make pKjptembHr 21st Blue ami Gray Day at the Exposition. It is estimated that ou'e hundred thousand veterans of the Union Army will be at Chickamauga and Chattanooga on the 19th and 20th of September, and tho majority of them will come to Atlanta on the 21st. Tho work on the Pennsylvania Piuilding Is progressing very rapidly and the whole affair will be ready for exhibits by the time allotted for the opening. The New York building is almost under roof, and from the way in which the work is progressing they will be ready long before the time for opening. The structures on Midway Heights, at the Cotton States and Interactional Exposition, are taking shape very rapidly. The enclosure and structures for Cairo Street are approaching completion. The same is true of the German Village, the Chinese Village the Mystlo Maze, and the Palace of Illusion. The steel structural work for the great Phamix Wheel is en route between Pittsburg and Atlanta, and the foundation is to be. ready by the time the material arrives. The work is all completed, and the erection will occupy but a few weeks. The Mexican Village is about done, though it has been decided that the bull fight will not take place. Mr. Km Owyang, concessionaire for the Chinese Village, is now on his w.»y from China to Amerioa with material for his show. He is bringing a bevy of Chinese ladies fora beauty show. Select plays will be presented in the Chinese theatre, in the true oriental fashion. At a place remote from the Midway, between the Woman's Building and tho lower lake. Is the Japanese Village, with quaint buildings and picturesque gardens, bazaars, etc. Contracts were let for the erection of the the Moorish Palace. It is to be of a most attractive design and will be one of the most promin"Ut buildings on the Midway. In one of the towers of the Moorish Palace will be a dancing girl set In incandescent lights and It will be of a most ingenious design, scintillating in jets. In the naval exhibit of the Government Buildirtt there wiil a host of implements of naval warfare that have never been seen in this part of the country before. The five and six-inch guns have arrived and are being put in place. The cutter which arrived from Norfolk Navy Yard sometime ago, is attracting much attention, and its passage has occasioned much amusement among the nttacheu of the exhibit. The boat was sent to Its destination in charge of a quarterman, Johnny SluoDoniild, and the caro with which ho looks after it is convincing of the (net that no harm will come to this purt of Cede Barn's possessions. The European exhibits cover quite a broad range of important articles. Commissioner General Antonio Macehi gave the following summary: Great Britain—Artlstio pottery, electroplate and silverware, cut crystals, ShemeM cutlery, Birmingham goods, Bradford woolens and cloth, Coventry cycle?, pianos, furniture, chemical products, terra cottu statuary, ship models and railway appliances, books, etc. France—Tapestries, rich drawing-room furniture, bronzes, lamps, statuary, upholstery, scientific aod eleclricnl, appliance*, marine and mathematical instruments. Parisian novelties, jewelry and fancy ornaments, enamels, apparatus used at Pasteur Institute for the discovery and treatment of bacteria nnd bacilli, perfumery, soaps, wines anil liquors. Germany— Pianos, artistic majolica, Dresden china and glassware, cut stones, new photo painting!) and sciuutilic apparatus and appliances. Italy—Most important aud beautiful collection of marble statuary, curved and artistic furniture of all description?, decorated panels und drawing-room ornaments, artistic bronr.as, Roman and Florentine mosaics. Ventitiaa gInMWMO, artistic majolica and ceramics, Neapolitan corals and tortoise shell ornaments, llotnan cameos, artistic and high class jewelry, tanestries, cloth and cotton fabrics, hats, bicycles and sowing machiues, chemical and pharmaceutical products, scholastic aud scieutifle books and publications, and a great variety ot exhibits in olivtt oils, wines aud liquors. Belgium— Brussels lace, embroideries, patent hund-stitehing machines, operative exhibits of class engraving, fancy goods, chocolates, spices, etc. Buttla—A very important collection of Russian furs, from one of the largest fur manufacturers of St. Petersburg; also, a splendid collection of stufl'ed bears,seals and other animals, Itussi.iu silversmith work aud enameis. carvel wood nul art fabrics, etc. A movement has b-wn b'gun by the Exposition management to brlag all school children above the gmde oT grammar schools to the Exposition, and it is believel that at lenst a quarter of a million will come. There area half million boys and girls in the high sobooll, seminaries und academics of the Southern States, and it is estimated that litty per cent can be brought. Dr. Charles W. Dabney, Jr., Chairman of the Ciovcru- ment Board, who speut many years of his life In educational work, holds that this is the greatest educational opportunity of the generation, and the Government exhibit alone, when properly studied, will bo better than a school term. Principals of a iirtemles, seminaries and colleges, complain that their schools will be demoralized liythu Exposition this full, and to meet the case, tin organized effort will be made to Ret all such institutions to gtveone week's vacation, ami bring their schools in a body to the Exposition, so that afterward the pupils can go on with their work without interruption. A number of schools have already decided, on their own accord, to do this. If it can be done upon u large scale, quarters may be secured at a very moderate cost. This will be done In case of the boys, by providing tents. For the girte, better accommodations will be Secured, either in boarding houses or in hotels specially constructed for the purpose. Through the co-operation of the Departments of Publicity and Promotion, Public Comfort and Education, the matter has been started. THJi CHIMEri TOWEIt. UNITED BTAI'KS GOVJiiINUKNI liL'lLOlXli AGRICULTURAL BUILDING SPOFFOD'S SHORTAGE. Accounts of the Venerable Librarian of Congress in Confusion. ALLEGED DEFICIT OF THOUSANDS. This Defalcation Said tn IWist in tlifi Tny Roll Account*, and In Addition to This is a Discrepancy in the Copyright and Search Fee Account*—The Ace need Official Makes u Statement. A dispatch from Washington s.iys: The thousands Of friends and admirers of Alnsworth It. Spofford, the venerable Librarian of Congress will l»arn with pain that his financial affairs as Librarian of Congress and Chief of the Copyright Huroau are in an inextricable tangle and that his shortage to the Government is at least £30,000. and n probable amount above that which can never be definitely ascertained, on account of the destruction of the library's account books and his failure to keep anything approximating a correct record of receipts and disbursements. The detailed report of Treasury Expert Myers, of the Fifth Auditor's Office, who has been Investigating hia accounts, has shown so serious a condition of affairs that Secretary Carlisle laid It before the President for action. The report of Expert Myers shows that Treasury funds have t>een misappropriated; that thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of dollars have been lost or wrongfully disposed of, and that false and fraudulent vouchers have been prenented at the Treasury Department by Mr. Spofford for payment. This last statement will come as n stunning blow to those friends of Librarian Spofford who have explained the peculiar condition of his accounts by suggesting that his mind was too much occupied with booksand their contents to be able to keop his financial affairs in the strict, methodical fashion of a business man. There are, however, on tile in the Treasury liepartment pay vouchers drawn by Mr. SpolTord in the nnmea of clerks for much larger sums than were actually received by those clerks, and It U shown that he has for years been drawing salaries for positions which have been purposely kept vacant by him. In addition, Expert Myers has discovered that Mr. SpofTord has collected fees for which there was no legal nuthoritv, amounting to between 8200 and 5300 a month, and has made no returns to theTreusury Department of them. Librarian Bpofford made the following statement: ''As to the statement that fraudulent vouchers have been presented, the fneta are that two bills, one for 625 and one for about £6, tioth bearing receipts, but neither marked 'duplicates,' were rendered In the accounts from tho library, the duplication not having been detected either by myself or by the clerk having these acoounts In charge. The amount overdrawn was at once made good on attention being called to this error. "Regarding payment ot salaries, it is true that the Librarian has for a long time secured larger services for the library under appropriations specifically for a larger sum than that paid, and this under the authority of the law, which provides that whenever the duties of a clerk of a higher grade can as well be performed by one of a lower, it shall be lawful to employ more than one within the limits of the appropriation made. Acting under this, I have in good" faith employed, in coses where no expert of adequate experience wan found for n vacancy, two persons for the salary of one person for a much longer time within the limits of the appropriation made. This has secured for the Government much more service for the amounts, and it never occurred to me ns n thing improper, much less illegal."Mr. KpofTord said that, instead of there being only twenty-four persons employed in the library, as had been stated, there wero actually thirty-eight, the law requiring thirty. "To those who know anything of the multifarious duties thrust upon the librarian," continued Mr. Hpoffonl, "it will not appear strange that I have asked for a separation of the duties of regibter of copyrights, which should be under the charge of a distinct bonded officer connected with the library of Congress, from those of librarian, so a3 to secure the full benefit of the publications recorded under the Copyright law. "The net remit of tho whole matter, so far as now seen, is: That there will be due the Treasury about $22,U00 on adjustment of ropyright and salary accounts, although no absolutely final audit has yet been reached. The amount due I am, of course, ready to pay Immediately." The Library of Congress was established in 1802, but it remained for Mr. Hpofford to make it famous. His reputation as a librarian is world-wide, and his acquaintance with tho contents of the thousands »f volumes under his care is phenomenal. To members of Congress he is well nigh invaluable, being able to supply them with information on almost any Qonceiva,ble subject. He entered the library in 18CI, and three years later was appointed by President Lincoln to the place he now occupies. The office of librarian is probably the only one of that importance which the President may fill without the advice and consent of the Senate—lt is his absolutely. Section 88. Revised Statutes, says: "The President solely shall appoint, from time to time, a librarian to take charge of the Library of Congress." OVERLAND FLYER HELD UP. Robbers liluw <)|i«ii the Safe end Frighten l'n»N«iiK«rii With I'iatol Shots. Shortly after midnight eastbound overland flyer No. 8. on the Union Puciße, was held up at Buttermilk Hill, Neb. There were three men visible, according to Conductor Flynn's description. Two of the pang «ot ou the train at Brady Island, going forward over the tender after the train was in motion, and with 'revolvers drawn, held up the fireman and engineer and compelled the engineer at the point of revolvers to go bii"k to tho baggage car, open the door nnd gain admittance, which he did by informing the baggageman that they were held up nml that the robbers had a gun at his head and demanded admittance. They were admitted and the expressman was compelled to open the smaller safe. Uα could not open the larger combination safe, and the robbers proceeded to blow the top out of it with dynamite. The bandits wore black slouch hats with black silk handkerchiefs for masks. When the dynamite exploded the passengers on board were much excited, but were not molested. It Iβ impossible to learn the amount of booty secured. They were »x- T.ert handlers of dvnamire. SEVERE WINTER IN AUSTRALIA. While We Swelter, the Antipodean* An Having the Coldest Weather. Mall advices from Australia say that froir all parts of Australia word is received ol severe cold and terrible suffering, many running rivers and large harbors being frozen over for the fisst time in thlrtv years. On the Fourth of July Lyttleton Harbor, New Zealand, was covered with a thin sheet of ice. Since then the ico has become so thick that men and teams are pns.Mug to and fro. This has not occurred before in the memory of the oldest settler. A telegram from Broken Hill district tells of suffering from cold and hunger among th'e miners. The Government hm <ent i? 1000 for immediate relief, and more financial assistance is to follow. From many other mining districts conn's the same news of distress, and the suffering among the poor is worse than it was during the troublesome times ol last summer. A telegram from Burry, South Australia, States that the weather If terribly cold, the thermometer registering lower than it has in thirty years. Berry Utver is frozen over. At Bomhala the Ice is two inches thick on Bombnla River. For the llrst time in the history of the city, hundreds of people were skating on the river. Fuel is very scarce, and the city authorities are providing for a large part ol the population. At Gulldburn, New South Wales, all tho water taps in the city burst. There is a scarcity of fuel and universal distress. The thermometer reached the lowest point It ever reached before in thnt town. At Moruya, South Australia, there is scarcely any water at all for cattle or meD. It is extremely dry and bitterly cold. A large number of people are living on a few drops of water a day. At Wentworth the weather is very dry and extremely cold. There is not mueli business being done. Citizens an, helping each other in the struggle for existence through the terrible struggle. Similar reports are coming in from almost all parts of the colonies. Drought is prevalent in almost every placo where the cold wave has struck. BULL FIGHT IN COLORADO. Mlneri nt Cripple Crepk l>.> Not I.ILr the Hum Manager Joseph Wolfe carried out his promise" to Rive the people of Colorado n real bull fight, the performance Ht Cripple Creek resulting in the slaughter of two hulls. The novelty of the exhibition nndtheantidoatlon of a conflict between the Sheriff of El Piiao County and the management of the eirnival drnw the 5000 people who crowded the vast, roughly constructed amphitheatre, more than thu desire to see a bull sin lightered. The sight of an ordinary bull, accustomed to quiet, scenes, being slaughtered and tormented, his sides pierced by the cruel darts und by the goads of the pIOMOTW, and finally th« brutality of the rtnal stabbing and the denth throes of the tortured animal, m> a snectiicle revolting to American ideas of fair plav. The Cripple Creek miners want the public to understand that they do not endorse the show, and had the civil authorities used their proper power to stop it no protest from the miners would have been made. There Is no doubt about thu genuineiess of this bull fighting. La Charila, the woman bandnrillos; Garcia, Esquival and the chief Mexican. Cheehe, performed ihelr parts with sufficient agility, grace and fearlessness to satisfy the pnhlio of their ability. Herford bulls were declared "no good" by Cheche. Night came on before the Jong programme of wild riding, *f«er tying, lasso throwing, and other similar sports had ended, and many left before th« performance closed. The audience was generally quiet, growing excited only when the bull drove the men into boxes and over the barrier?, but they watched the officers of the law as much as the bull killing. LUZON B. MORRIS DEAD. Connectlcnt'e Former Governor Stricken With Apoplexy in II Iμ Office. Luzon Barrllt Morris, former Governor of Connecticut, dted at his residence, in New Haven, from a stroke of apoplexy. Hβ went to his office at nine o'clock a. m , and about an hour later he was found iinconsolous on the floor by Algernon H. Morse, a tenant in the building. Mr. Morris was taken to his home, where he remained In an unconscious state until he died. Luzon B. Morris was born in Newtown, FHirllold County, Conn., in 1827. Hecradunted from Yale with the elans of 1854. and was admitted to the Bar In 1836. In 1858 tho degree of A. M. was conferred upon him hy Yale. Hβ served in the House of Representatives frem Seymour two terms and from New Haven four terms, and was in the State Senate one term. Hβ was Judge of Probate of the New Haven district .six terms, from 1837 until 1863. Hβ early identified himself with the Democratic party. In 1890 he was th» party's candidate for Governor, and ha 1, it was alleged, a majority over all other andldates of twenty-six votes. The memorable deadlock followed; the caso went Into the courts of. the State—from the lowest to the Supreme—on one point and another, and remained a subject of litigation until the term had nearly expired. Hβ was again his party's candidate In 189'2, and this time was electe 1 by a clear majority over all other candidates, and was inaugurated In January, 18!)3. He married in 1858 Miss Eugenia L. Tuttln, of Seymour. Their six ohildren are all living BANNOCKS SLAIN. A Sarprlstnc ftnry Brought liy a Courier From Uiitinonil Valley. A diepntch from Burns, Oregon, says: A courier from Diamond Valley reports the killing of fifteen Bannocks by cattlemen under thx leadership of "'Bye" Smith. Smith's reason was revenge for the murder of his father in 1878 in Diamond Valley. The matter ha* no bearing on the Jackson's Hole troubles. Ever since Smith a father was killed in 1878 by warriors of the Bannock tribe he has been "on their trail," ami not a few have met death at hiH hands. It seems that a party ot Indians were on their summer hunt near Diamond Valley and killed n number of eattla iwlonjrlnK to th« whoso herds ritngo in that vicinity. A party of cattlemen whs organized to Dunlsh the marauders, and B:nith readily undertook to Uad tiiom. The t.ursuera located the Inillaus about an hour before sunset at th»ir camp near the western eilge of the valley, and without wariiiu,' opened lire upou tht-m. The InMinn liU'lut were thrown Into a pamo anl lied for the liillh, ihu squaws loilowiug suit. The stockmi-ii pomad them and llred a volley at the fugitives, dropptng ««vurHl of them, including one or two Bi|uanx. Tie pursuit was not continued, the cattlemen believing tuat sufficient punishment hu 1 betm inflicted.The courier reports that fifteen ilead Indians were found after this oue-side.l battle. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED Washington Items. A.'tincr Secretary McAdoo announced thn naiui-s ..[ the gunboats heretofore known as No*. 7. 8 and 9, now building at Newport Now*. They are Nashville, Wilmington and Helena, mr the respective cities of those mimes. Th« tugboat at Mare Island has been named Unadllla. Thi> Turkish Minister IB Washington received Information to the eff.vt that the renort of an attack on the St. Paul's School in Tarsus was erroneous. Postmaster-General Wilson said that the recipts of the largest postnffleesof the country for the month of July last were about 17 per ont. heavier than for July, 1894. Hβ oouiden this a good indication of the relurning prosperity of the country. Secretary Morion closed every sugar experimental station in the United State*, twenty in numot»r, and sold their property for what he could get. lieeent advi-os indicate that the trial record* In Oou«ul Waller's case am defective, and his release and a large indemnity will be demanded by the State Department. The President issued an order extending the Civil Service rule* to include all printers and pressmen in the Executive departments.The Secretary of the Interior drew upon rbfl Secretory of (he Treasury for <M0,!)5O,O00 for payment of pension*. Secretary of State Olnev, Minister Depuy la Lome and Mr. Mora havonignod a memorandum, and the Moraolatrn will be paid. The Pot* Itoya! dry dock is a success. A. telegram conveying this information was re-3etv«l lit the Navy Department from Captain (Haw, President of the 11.-ittvl appointed to test the dock. Domestic. BEConi) OK THE LI&OUI CI,CDS. John Smalley, the outlaw who killed De- j tectlve Towers on n train at Grand Rapids. Mich., was shot and killed by deputy sheriffs. Twenty-five buildings were burned at Rosendifle, N. Y. The young Duke of Marlborough arrived In Newport, R. 1., anil is the guest of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt at Marble House. James Banks, a lineman employed by tho Carnesrie Steel Company. met death in a horrible manner while repairing the line at Briuldock, Penn. C. It. Behrens. the architect: P. A. Buckley, ex-Building Inspector, and three other men were placed under arrest at the inquest on fhe victims of tho West Broadway disaster. New York City; the charge against them is manslaughter in the seoond degree. Jesse labors? foolored) became crazed by religion at Pine Bluff, Ark., and prayed ail night. He shot his landlady, Mandy Walker, at the breakfast table, fataily wounding her, and then blew out his own brains. Edward' Price was killed by a cable cat in New York City, and John J. Read and Elsie Dunham, a little ,{irl, fell victims to the Brooklyn trolley. Mrs. Lola Perkins was accused of burning her sister to death In Minneapolis, Minn., in order to secure insurance money. The Rev. George Hebbard, prlest-ln-oharge of St. Luke's Chapel, Trinity Parish, was found dying beside the West Shore Railroad tracks near Little Ferry, N. i., and died before he could be taken to a hospital. A Mount Eoho (Cat.) observer discovered a new oomet. A reward of $fOO was offered for the arrest of "Honest Bob" HalUdajr, the missing i Tax Collector of South Orange, N. J. The amount of his defaleation has been definitely fixed at 910,471.85. A train on the C. and W. M. road was held up near New Richmond, Mioh., by five men. The express car was blown up with dynamite and one braketnan was shot. The robberf secured a watch or two and #7. Arthur Zimmerman, aged twelve, oommitted suicide by taking Paris green at Bloomsburg, Penu. The boy had been hired out on a farm. He did not like the work, and sa*d he would rather die than follow that occupation. John Darling, of Bound Brook, N. J., murdered his friend, Harry Dunham, in Newmarket, N. J., and escaped on his bicycle.Oue thousand girl clothing-makers. 3600 men and 400 cloakmakers struck in New York City for a ten-hour day. A cave-In caused alarm among the people of the mluing region in l<uzeroe Township, Penn. Potato bugs, marching fromGravesend toward Brooklyn, obstructed railway trains on the Sea Beach route. The Kentucky political campaign was opened by a joint debate In Loulsvillo between tho Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor. Flvo children of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wilson, of Elizabeth, N. J., have diod since July SO, of a strange malady that baffles the physicians. The Bank of Taooma, Wash., made a voluntary assignment. The statement shows the cosh on hand to 1m 1444, the total liabilities $379,000, of which 9229,000 is oity money. Foreign Notes. The oholnra has been carried from Chefoo, China, to Vladivostok. Uussla. In the British House of Common*, P. T. O'Connor. Antl-Pnrnelllte, asked the Oovvernment to reconsider the sentence of Mrs. Florence Maybrlrk. France gave United Rtates Ambassador Eustis permission to visit ix-L'uited Htatm Consul Waller in prison. Advices from Central America report eeriiiiirt fighting letween Salvadoreans and Guatemalans on the frontier. Hawaii signed a contract for a cable to be laid by American capital If the United States will give 4250,000 to the enterprise. Withdrawal)) of gold tot export reduced the reserve lu the United Mates Treasury below 9100.000,000. but the syndicate put in 92,000,000, raising It above the murk again. Thomas Bond, who murdered Qnorge Huckett and attempted to kill Mrs. Bakewi-ll and Mr. Uakewell, respectively the mother nnd stepfather of Hackett, at Or- Vtreave last spring, in-i hanged at HtatTorU, Englaud. !{■• confessed Hi.-, ortrne. Hlr N. 11. OConuor, liriii-h HinUter to Pekiu, ban been armed with authority tn demand the insue of Instruction* that will insure the nrtton.pt of English and American Consuls at the Kucheng (China) Inquiry into the iiiii.-sinTi' 'i! pifwrtffnirht The Porte has u.r.dn rejected the demand ot the Powea that the propoued reforms in Armenia shall be under foreign control. Bnain asked thu Spanish Bank ot the Lslai..; of Cuba for a loan of «1,500,00 U. The bulik replied that it could not lurnuth the mouey FIRE ENVELOPED THEM. Workmen Killed by an Explosion in a Steel Works. CAUSED BY CARELESSNESS. A Fiirnuv at the Tlmiii|.«on Work* In llnxlilork, I>nn.. Wa* Choked and Hixtrrn M«n Were Kn»nlf«l In Klumn of Kxt'lmlliiK «a»-A Volranlc Eruption «f l.lqiil.l Metal. The full of a "hang" fn the top of furnnee H of tho Edgar Tkompna Steel Works at Brnililook. Penn.. eausist an explosion which resulted in tho death of eight men. Eight .itlior men received burns, and some of them won' fatally Injured. The killed are: John Orengo, Joseph Luckai. forty-five years old, married; John Prokopovie, twenty-seven, married; Stephen Hnvtla, thirty-two j John Mika. twenty eight, married; Joseph Ceop, thirty-one; Andrew Drohuah, thirty-five, married; Mike Kaflnos. twenty-six, married. The last two men dloil after being taken to the hospital. Tho explosion ooonred at 5 o'clock a. in., when preparation* were being made for the morning molt. The force of tho rush of expanding gas was terrific, and frightened the entire town of Braddock. Hundred* of half-olad men, women and children flooked to the mill to Inquire th* cause of the noise and the result. The majority were Hungarian and Polish women who live near the mill, and had husband* and brothers working at the furniiees. They orowdod Into the yards over railroad track* which form a network alxiut the row of furniicPH and could not be forced baolc. They swarmed through the etook shed*, and soon the air was filled with cries and eroane as the bodies were picked un and recognized. The carelessness or Ignoraneo of one of the top fillers, all of whom are Hungarians, caused the accident. The refuse material which forms a "hang" had been allowed to accumulate until Its size obstructed the free pMMMO of the gases generated in the melttnii of ore. One ot the top fillers dumped a barrow full of stock into the furnace without raislntrthe bell, and this obstructed the open- Ing still more. The top of tho furnace wai practically closed, and a force ot men w»." sent there at once to remove the material which closed up the top. While the men were trying to accomplish this, working dlreotlv over tho top of the furnace, the "hang*, dropped tnto the molten metal at the bottom of the furnace. At the same instant the gases, which eould not escape because of the obstruction at thn top, took fire and exploded with a deafening roar; the sheet of name belched out the top of the furnace, etrtkingthe men who were scattered all about it, blowing them in various directions. The materials loosened at the sides of the furnace bv the fall ot the "hang" and tho explonlon followed the nub of flame. The debrli dropped back upon thu men, alp'iidv frightfully burned by the gas. One man was blown over one of the elevatora and dropped down through it. His bodj struck a car standing at the bottom and was cut iu two. Other meu were burned beyond recognition, and were identified by clothing or physical peculiarities. Only one man was killed instantly, but the others In the list of dead died while being taken to the shed. The position of the men while working at toe top of the furnaoa watf auoh that they bad no ehano* to WMM Tbg) iron oore.-inir at tho extreme top ooeokod jM flume* raoojeh to drive them bank "°W thus enveloping the men completely, AINt the first rush the flame* poured out of the opening steadily, and it was a baxardow task for the rescuers to go up and bring the bodies down. All the injured, except Jama* Harrison, the foreman, were Hungarian*. DEFENDER DISABLED. The Yacht Smiled Superbly Until Her Shroud* Slackened. Tli«- tlrst of the official trial races to determine which American yaobt ought to be selected to meet the British cutter Valkyrie 111., the challenger for thw America's Cap, wasstarted off Sandy Hook.N. J.,a* hml been previously arranged; but owing to circumstuncos unique in thu history of such raooe it wn.l not i'ii'liml. After clearly showing her superiority to the Vigilant in a race of ten miles to wttidwiird and return, the Defender withdrew. The reatton was that beoause of slaolclnK rl«- glng then* was danger of carrying iiwuy thn big sloop's ina.it, and it was thought beet not to run any risk so near the great race. Technically tho Vigilant won; but the gallant Defender so dearly demonstrated her aliillty t'> outsail tho old champion that there was no question as to which is the better boat. Owing to the mishap to the Defender's mast she returned to Bristol, H. 1., tor repairs. THE LAUNCH UPSET. Sudden End of an Excursion of Thirteen Men From Buffalo. Thirteen men, employed at the East Buffalo (N. Y.) stock yards, went down the river on a steam launch. While coming into the harbor duriug a heavy sea thn yacht capsized and threw the excursionist* and crew into the lake. The tug Maytham and tho life saving crew wiiit to the resoue and picked up seven of the pacwengHni und the crew. The sis others were drowned. They were CharleH Fisher, Henry Bohindler, Frank Biigmann, Frank Cannon, Jacob Batiman and Albert Stafford. Albert Hoehner, one of thoee reaoued by the tug, says that he requested the Captain of the yaoht to oome into the harbor through the canal and avoid the rough water outside. The Captain did not heed the request. Just at the mouth of the river s big wave struck the vessel and threw her over. There was no time to catoh life preservers. All of the drowned men except Stafford were married. She Sank In the Channel. The steamship Seaford. with 450 paisengen, including more than 100 Americans, traveling from Paris to London, collided In mld-ohannel at 4 o'clook p. in., and a tew mioutee later the vcwtel foundered. All on board were saved b> the I.yon, the colliding vessel, ol the same line. They lose till their baKKBRe. Th* Seafora wa» a new boat and cost »353,000. Senator Qusy Triumphs. Senator Quay triumphed over, the Hfcstinge-Murtin-Porter-Magoe combine, that fousht against his election ait Chatrml l of the BoputiUoen State Committee ol Pennsylvania.PP" Vet C'"b«. Won. r,ost. <*t rinha. Won. **t. Baltimore 62 85 .68! Ihleano.. .56 47 .544 I'lfvelaod. 67 89 .632 Clnolnnntl 58 45 .541 Pittsburg..59 l!i .584 Now York.51 49 .510 lioRton 55 43 .561 Wiishlnij'n SI 63 .830 Phllndel. .55 44 .557 St. Louis..8J 71 .811 Brooklyn..54 45 .545 Louisville.i3 75 .'235