The News and Obsen'-gr.
VOL. XXXVIII. NO. so.
TOE [LADBCBEST ©OESQMJmOK! ®F AGW OTIBTO [MOOT.
HE SPEAKS PLAINLY
(JOV. O'FEIIRALL SAYS HE IS
DISGUSTED WITH TIIE
WHOLE BUSINESS.
THE NEGRO COMMITTEEMAN AGAIN
Chairman Darling Calls O’FerralUs
laterviews Nonsense and Professes to
Believe that he did not Authorize
Thfm-Gov. O’Ferrall Replies that
they W’ere Published by his Author*
ity and that they ara True—lie
Heavily Scores Darling.
Richmond, Va.. March 21.—Governor
O’Ferrall received last night the follow
ing letter from Senator Darling, who was
one of the Massachusetts legislative com
mittee who visited the exective mansion,
and who has since given out in Boston
several interviews regarding the treat
raent, accorded Tearaob, the negro mem
ber of the committee:
*'Hon Charles O' Ferrail:
“My Dear Sir:—Perhaps you havebeard
something of the insufferable nonsense
that was telegraphed here from Rich
mond after our departure. The entire
committee, including Mr. Teamoh resent
it with indignation.
“I send you by this mail copies of
Boston Journal and Boston Record in
which appear interviews with me. I beg
to assure you of our hearty apprecia ion
of all >ou so kindly did for our commit
tee and to express the belief that these
interviews which ate just published to
night will correct the mean insinuations
and untrichs which were telegraphed
here bv some unscrupulous sensational
ist in R chmond.
“P ease give my kind regards to Mrs.
O’Ferrall, whom I shall never forget for
her charming courtesy and kindness.
“Very respectfully yonrs,
“(Signed) Thomas W. Darling.
“State House. Boston,
“March 19th, 1895.
“To Governor (Jhas. T. O’Ferrall.”
Gov. O’Ferrall’s Reply.
To this the Governor replied as fol
lows:
‘ Richmond, Va., March 21, 1895.
“Senator Thomas W. Darling ,
“state House, Baston, Mass.
“Dear Sir: Responding to y<-u r s ot
the 19th iust., I will say that I am
utterly disgusted with the episode to
whi< h y< u refer.
“The time has not come when I would
knowingly iuvite a committee of any
kind in which there was a colored man
to dine or lunch at my private house or
the Gubernatorial Mansion. Whin I
trust I may never be so unmindful of the
dignity of my official station as to treat
a legislative committee from another
State, whatever may be their constitu
tion or color, with discourtesy when t hey
are calling in their official ca
pacity and I am receiving in my
official capacity, yet candor re
quires me to say that if I had been
aware, or it had even been intimated to
me that a colored man was in your par
ty, my attentions would have been much
more formal than they were, and you
would have been received at my execu
tive office and not at the Mansion, for I
draw the line on the negro at the social
circle or anywhere else that suggests even
a semblance of social equality.
“Interviews with me have been pub
lished by my authority, and while I need
no vindication before my people, I here
denounce without qualification as abso
lutely untrue, any statement, insinua
tion or intimation that the facts are at
variance with these published inter
views.
“Candor requires me further to say
that I am utterly surprised to find that
you and some of your colleagues have
made at home the statements you have
in the face of the expressions < f disgust
and annoyance you indulged in ad libi
tum in Richmond at having with you
the negro Teamoh.
“Very respectfully,
(Signed) “Charles T. O’Ferrall.”
CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH.
A Little Negro Girl and Baby Perish
in a Burning Building.
Special to the News and Observer.
Greensboro, N C., March 21.
This afternoon about 5 o clock a house
in that part of Greensboro known as
“McAdoo’s meadow” caught ou fire and
two negro children who had been left in
the building were burn* dto death. The
llames had made considerable headway
before the fire was discovered, and by
the time the fire company reached the
scene the room in which the children
were was completely enveloped in flames.
One of the children, a girl about 8
years of age, was m bed, suffering from
a burn which she had received about a
month ago; the other was a baby about
two years o!d. Both were burned be
yond recognition.
The mother of the children was away
from home at the time and had left a
thirteen year-old girl to take charge of
them. The girl says she had gone to the
well to get a bucket of water and when
she got back found the house ou fire.
A Mob Liberates Three Prisoners.
WobDWARD, O. T., March 21—A mob
which broke into jail here last night,
overpowered the guards and deputies and
liberated three prisoners Will Black
shear. Turn Yost, and Edwin Lahr. The
guards made a stout resistence, succumb
ing only io overwhelming numbers. No
one was seriously hurt so far as known,
and not a shot was tired. The guaids
4:laim to have recognized some members
o#4-he mob.
IT IS A PRETTY ROMANCE.
A Young North Carolinian Wins a
llriile and Marries Her Secretly.
Special to the News aud Observer.
Washing ton, D. C.. March 21.
Married October 9th, 1894, in Alexan
dria, Va., by Rev. Henderson Suter,
rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Sam’l
B. Gregory and Miss Esther M. Brews
ter, daughter of John T and Virginia
Brewster, of Alexandria, Va.
The church above referred to is the
historic old church where Washington
an i Lee worshipped.
Notice of the marriage was only made
puolic yesterday. Simple as it is,a pretty
romance may be read between the lines,
the principal dramatic personae being a
prominent young North Carolinian,
Samuel B Gregory, of Halifax county,
and a young lady of Alexandria, Va.,
for, of course, there is “a woman at the
bottom” of every romance.
Esther Brewster, is the beautiful 19
year old daughter of John T. Brewster,
an official iu the Government Printing
Office. The Gregory and Brewster farm
lies have long been friends, through
the young people had never met before
the fall of ’93, when Gregory came to
Washington as Private Secretary to
Congressman Woodard. This was in
August, and during the extra session of
the 53rd Congress, and Greg >ry soon
made the acquaintance of tde young
lady and became a fr* quent visitor to
her father's house. It was soon taken
for grauted that they were mutually at
tracted to each other and that there
would be a match, a circumstauce that
seems to have met with the approval of
all parties concerned.
It appears, however, that the young
people apprehended some opposition toan
immediate marriage ou the part of their
families because of their youth. During
the past winter Mrs Gregory, mother or
Mr. Gregory, paid a visit to Washington,
and she saw a great deal of Miss Brew
ster and became very much attached to
her though, she did uot at all expect that
she was leifning to love her daughter-in
law.
The notice appeared in this morning's
Washington papers. The News and
Observer correspondent called upon
Mrs. Hilliard, at whose hous JMr. Gre
gory boarded, but could learn nothing of
tbeir whereabouts and at the Agricul
tural Department where he holds an im
portant position as learned that Mr.
Gregory was on leave for some days. It
is probable that he is off on a wedding
trip taking his bride to his North Caro
lina home.
To-day Jas. Jones, son of Senator
Jones, of Aikansas, said that the news
paper reports are very much exaggerated
about Lis father’s condition. A private
telegram says that his fever is lower
and he is much better.
Congressman and Mrs. Crawford left
to day for Waynesville. He made his
final visits to the departments to-day,
and, it is said, was given a promise for a
vacant place of some prominence.
Mattie E. Boldinger has been ao
pointed postmistress at Collinsville,
Polk county, vice W. G Green way, re
signed.
It is understood in Supreme Court
circles that Justice Howell E. Jackson,
who is now at his home in Tennessee,
will resign from the bench of the Su
preme Court next fall if his health does
not permit him to resume active partici
pation in the work of the court after its
summer vacation. Justice Jackson has
been absent from Wat-hington some
months ou account of illness, which was
thought by his friends to be c msumption
in an advanced stage, and, although his
recovery was for a tune considered out
of the question, he has recently greatly
improved.
The movement in Congress to pass a
bill placing Justice Jackson on the re
tired list was based on the understand
ing that he would not be able to again
take his sent with the court His im
provement during the past few weeks
has led him to believe that he may re
turn to work a f ‘ter a rest of a few months
more. Should this hope fail of fulfill
meet it is said to be his intention to
place his resignation in the hands of the
President.
THE NEW STATE PRINTERS.
They Have Bought a New Outfit and
are Already at Work.
Special to the News aud Observer.
Winston, N. C., March 21.
Messrs. Sewart Bros , the new State
Printers, have rented two storerooms in
which to do their printing for the Slate.
They have a number of printers at work.
They have purchased new type, and
have ordered two new presses of the
lab st make.
Snow fell here thick and fast for sev
eral hours last night.
A Historical Society has been organ
ized iu Salem. It will make a full and
complete collection of manuscripts,relics,
souvenirs and traditions, of which even
the citizens ot the Twin-City are not
aware
Mr L. W. Springs, the well-known
SDuff drummer, is president of the North
Carolina division of the Travellers’ Pro
tective Association, which was organ
ized here this week.
Assignment hi W ilmiiiston.
Wilmington, N. C., March 21.—Davis
& Zoeller, dealers in dry goods, notions,
carpe’s, etc., assigned to day, with Frank
H. Steteman as assignee. Preferences
about $0,200, of w hich about $5,000 is to
local creditors.
No estimate obtainable of assets or
liabilities.
London, March 21.—The inqnest into
the loss of the steamer Elbe, which has
l een in progres< at Lowestoft for some
t me has been indefinitely iiostponed.
RALEIGH, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 22. 1895.
DEVOURED BY FLAMES
OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS
WORTH OF PROPERTY GO
UP IN SHORE.
SIOUX CITY'S GREATEST FIRE.
It Starts in a Small Pile of Rubbish
But it Spreads Rapidly and Destroys
Over $400,000 W orth of Properiy--
The Wind Was Blowing a Gale and
Telegrams Were Sent to Surrounding
Towus for Additional Fire Appara
tus—Big Cotton Fire in New Orleans.
Smux City, la , March 21.—The great
est fire in the history of this city this
morning destroyed property to the value
of $400,000.
It started at 10 o’clock in a pile of
rubbish ou the platform of the Western
Transfer Co.’s warehouse, and in an
hour the great iron building, four stories
high, and covering a full quarter block
of ground, with over $200,000 worth of
implements aud carriages was a heap of
ruins.
The fire spread to the plant of the
Sioux City Linseed Oil Co., and soon the
big elevator, with 100,000 bushels of fiax
iu it, was destroyed. Every piece of fire
apparatus in the city was at work, but ir
was impossible for them to coutrol the
fire, as the wind blew a gale. The east
ern part of the city’s busiuess section was
threatened and the mayor sent telegrams
to surrounding towns for additional fire
apparatus.
the fire was only controlled iu time to
save tbe main buildings of the Linseed
01 Co. The loss to the company is SIOO,-
000, covered by insurance.
The heaviest lossers by the fire are the
dozen or more agricultural implement
houses that had stock there in storage
The local men are generally secured by
their insurance.
OVER 20,000 BALKS BURNED.
A Big Cotton Fire at New Orleans
Causing a Lo-s ot $500,000.
New Orleans, March 21.—At about
1 o'clock mis morning fire destroyed
Kern’s coffin and box manufactory on
South Peters street, between Girard and
Lafayette streets. Finally at about 3
o’clock flying sparks ignited a number of
uncovered bales of cotton lying in the
yards of the International Cotton Press,
seven blocks distant.
The firemen worked hard, but were
unable to do more than to confine the
lUmes t/O the press yards, which comprise
an area of two squares bounded by South
Peters. Front, Caliopeand Erato streets.
Casius J. Meyer and J. H. Lew, lessees
of the press pro;>erty, say that nearly 20,-
000 bale' of cotton were damaged or des
troyed. Only one compartment of cotton
was saved. Lessee Meyer estimates the
loss at considerably over half a million.
The Brooklyn Cooperage Company
owned Gy the American Sugar Refining
Company, which covers an entire block
opposite the press and the large freight
depots <>f the Illinois Central railroad,
were considerably scorched but escaped
seriousdamage. Notstimateof thein
suranee is yet obtainable.
The following firms are amoag the
heaviest losers: H. &C. Newman, 7,-
000 bales; M. Levy and Sons, about 5,-
000 bale-; A Adler & Co., between 2,000
and 3,000 bales: L Stern & Co., about
2.200 bales; H. & B. Beer, about, 2.000
ba es: The American Society and Coat
Bros several hundred bales each.
A high wind was blowing at the time.
New Orleans, March 21.—The total
amount of the less on the burned cotton
aggregates about half a million doll trs,
fully insured. The loss on the compres
sea and machinery is about $78,000.
DEADLOCK SI ILL UNBROKEN.
Mr. Wolcott, the Democratic Candi
date, W it hd raws.
Dover, Del., March 21.— Chancellor
James L. Wolcott, Democrat, who was
the choice of the minority Democratic
caucus lor Senator, aud has since been
supported by a majority of the Demo
cratic members of the Legislature, to
day sent a letter to Speaker of the Senate
Watson, requesting the withdrawal of
his name.
The Wolcott’s followers, of whom Mr.
Watson has been the leader, then united
on Edward Ridgeley, of Dover, and nine
votes were cast for him in both of the
ballots taken, but without result.
THE STRIKERS WON THIS TIME.
The Electrical Contractors Association
Gets ail that it Asks.
New York, March 20.—The strike of
the Electrical Workers, which has been
holding in this city for some weeks, has
come to an end.
The result is a complete victory for
the Electrical Contractors Association,an
overwhelming defeat for the board of
walking delegates of the various trades
unions, who have been conducting it.
The settlement was brought about
through the mediation of tbe New Y’ork
council of mediation, of which Bishop
Potter is the head. A committee of the
mason builders were also active in the
settlement.
Rebel* Defeated and Leaders Killed.
Havana, March 21.—The Governor of
Santiago Province reports that on M arch
18, General Garrich started from Baire
with 200 men. The troops overtook the
rebels and killed five of them in a short,
brisk fight. Among the dead were tbe
rebel leaders, Manuel and Bacheco, and
the aide de camp Estrada, All the arms
and ammunition of the rebels were cap
tured.
A SENSATIONAL REPORT.
Secretary Morton will tell Seer, t- that
will Make Interesting Reading.
Washington, D. C., March 21.—Sec
retary Morton’s next annual report, it i
stated will set opt in detai', wuh nam* s
and accompan -v-sg pa’titulars, the facts
in a transaction which will make inter
esting reading.
Some weeks ag. -Mr. Morton wrole to
the purchasing agent of the seed divisioi
of the department iuformiDg him that
members of Congress had been charged
with disposing of their seeds in away
other than was coi t mph ted by law an i
instructing him to either verity or dis
prove these charges in the most substan
tial wav.
In less than a week the agent brought
to the Se® etary a written order of a
member of the House of lieprt sentatives
for his entire quota of seeds, w hich he
proposed to sell to the Department’s
agent for the sum of $75. The purchase
was directed to be made and instead of
cash tbe agent gave his check, which
was properly endorsed and the money
was taken from the bank. So it hap
pens that Secretary Morton now has tbe
seeds issued to this member, turned over
on his written order, and also the check
through which the money was paid and
bearing the signature of the member
who sold the seeds The department
officials decline to mention the name ot
the Congressman now or to locate him,
but the assurance is given that the
whole transaction, names and all, will
appear in the report as a striking ex
ample of the evil to which the Secretary
has so frequently called the attention of
Congress.
The full quota of seeds furnished a
member of Congress by the department
consists, ou an average of 1,400 packages
of flower seeds, 15.000 of vegetable and
82 quarts of field seeds, grasses, etc.
The total cost of this quota to the de
partment is between $225 and $245. The
department in this transaction got the
whole lot back for $75. The Secretary
is making an effort to abolish the free
distribution of seeds entirely, for the
reason that it has grown into an evil
that was never contemplated when the
original law was enacted.
ALL QUIET AT NEW ORLEANS.
Neither Side Show Any Desire for a
Settlement of the Questions.
New Orlevns, March2l.—Neitherthe
ship agents nor the screw men have
shown the least disposition of a desire
for a treaty or settlement of the ques
tions, but on the other hand they are
maintaining the respective positions first
| assumed in silence.
At Governor Foster’s request he was
i visited this morning by the exchange
; committee Governor Foster sta'ed that
I General Glynn had made a report to
| him night before last about the cost,
etc., of the military service, and that the
$3,000 already appropriated by the com
I omreial representatives of the city ha*
j been found quite inadequate to sustain
the soldiers in performing tbe duty. The
whole expenses, correctly made out by
General Glynn for a single day will foot
up $1,360.
• Now, if you gentlemen withdraw
your assistance,” tlie Governor said, “it
is readily seen that grave complications
will arise. There is no money of the
State's that is at ray disposal, as the Leg
islature only appropriated SB,OOO for the
maintenance of the State militia and
I $3,000 for its support while in active ser
| vice, and it is plain that to draw any
j amount further from the Treasury an
i extra appropriation would have first to
{ be passed.”
The Governor then asked iu plain
I language if the committee representing
j the various commercial bodies of the
| city intended to furnish any further
means, to which interrogation ex-Mayor
Shakespeare replied mat the committee
had not the authority to say but woul i
| have to act upon that matter later. He
; also added that he had an idea that it
j was about time for the affair to be
; brought to a close, as he considered it
: the duty of the b dies, it especially be
coming them, which they represent, t<>
go to the stevedores, f crewmen and ship
agents, and tell them, “Here, gentle
men, you must bring this matter to an
end.”
The conference ended without any
definite action.
THE RIOTERS IN PRISON.
Tlie Twenty-eight Men Charged W ith
Murder iuNew Orleans Denied Rail
New Orleans, March 21.—The twenty
eight men indicted yesterday by the
grand jury, charged with murder, are
now, with the exception of a very few,
within the brick walls of the Parish pri
son, where they will remain uutil the
day is fixed by the District Attorney for
their arraignment.
As soon as the men received the in
formation of their having been indicted
they began reporting to the sheriff’s
office and gave themselves into custody.
All of them having been indicted for
murder, which is not bailable, they will i
be compelled to remain within the
prison doors until discharged from cus
tody by the court on the hearing of their
cases.
Tobacco Factory Operatives Strike.
Richmond, Y’a., March 11.—A few
days ago the J. w right Tobacco Go., was
re-organized,theßoston stockholders with
certain Richmond interests, voting the
president, Mr. J. Wright, out of office.
The force of the factory sided with Mr
Wright and to day quit work, thus caus
ing a suspension of operations. The
employes say their action is not a strike
but a protest.
HUNTING FOR THE DEAD
FIFTY-FIVE MINERS KNOWN TO
HAVE PERISHED IN A TER
RIFIC EXPLOSION.
RECOVERING MUTIUTED BODIES.
There Are Filly Widows and 250 Or
phans in the Camp as a Result of the
Disaster—The Interior of the Mine
is Iladly Wrecked and Fall of Foul
Air But There is No Fire—No » x
pianatiou of the Awlul Disaster Has
Yet Been Discovered,
Evanston, Wyo., March 21—An ex
plosion occurred at 6 p. m. yesterday in
the Rocky Mountain Goal and Iron Go.’s
mills mine at Red Canon. Up to noon
to-day 55 deaths were known to have
resulted.
Those killed on the outside by
thing timbers were: James B. Bruce,
foreman; O. Maltby, superintendent of
motive power; W. E. Cox, head carpen
ter; William Sellers, Jr.. J. W. Clark, al.
married, and Jerry Crawford, single:
The following have been brought out.
Willard, James Lamb, Fred Morganl
married, and Saint Clay and W. H.
Grieves, single.
A large force of men is now' at work
to recover the bodies of forty married
men known to have been in the mine at
the time of the explosion and seven un
married men.
There are fifty widows and fully 250
orphan children in the camp to day, a
the result of the disaster. There is no
fire in the mine, and the work of recov
ering tbe dead bodies js moving rapidly,
but will probably not be completed to
day.
The interior of the mine is badly
wrecked, caved in many places, and full
of foul air. All the buildings at the
mouth of the mine were wrecked. The
entrance to the mine is by vertical pas
sage iuto the side of a hill, uot a perpen
dicular shaft, and the workings are very
extensive. No explanation of the disas- }
! ter has as yet been discovered.
The w T ork of recovering the bodies got s
j steadily ou night and day. The work is ;
j attended with grave peril, and the first i
j group of miuers w'ho ventured to brave j
the gas, fire damp and crumbling walls '
were overcome, and had to be rescued
A little boy who had come to the mine
with a horse and buggy to take his
grandfather, Henry Burton, home at
the close of the day’s work, was driving !
over the slope near its mouth on the
public highway at the moment of the
explosion. He and the hor*e and buggy
were thrown almost perpendicularly in
the air fully twenty-five feet and all fell in
a heap into the mouth of the slope
where the buggy was demolished. The
boy was picked up unhurt aud the horse
| an hour later was rescued not much
hurt, although badly singed and stunned.
The shock of the explosion was felt for
miles around and was distinctly heard
at Evanston,' seven miles away. The !
Rocky Mountain Company generally des- j
ignated as the Central Pacific mines,
have two mines Nos. 5 and 6, with one
mile face, making two separate mines
! with 150 feet pillars separating them.
I This leaves No. 6 unharmed, but de
! prives the company of one half of its
! capacity.
This is the third disastrous explosion
, in this vicinity.
Iu 1881, No. 2 mine, Rocky Mountain,
exploded, killug thirty-six Chinese and
| four white men. In the epring in fBBS
i the Union Pacific mine No. 3, 36 men
I were killed.
Newell Beraano, the manager, arrived :
| f rom Salt Lake to night aud hastened to
I the mine.
The slope penetrates the earth at an |
angle of about 30 degrees and the full j
force of the explosion found vent at it’s
mouth, blowing the heaviest timbers into 1
splinters and through the air
The seene about the mine all last night
and to-day was heart sickening. The
air is filled with the agonizing screams of
50 widows and 250 orphans who as they !
gather about saw the distorted features
and mangled remains of father or hus j
j band, sou or brother, or realized at least ;
I that there was no hope to see their j
loved ones rescued alive from the mine’s 1
cruel depths. Help and succor
have been tendered from all sources
The mules that were iu the mine
| were as killed as were the men. The
; explosion blew rmt or loosened all
the timbering and supports and cracked
and shattered the walls and roof
of the interior of the mine so
that search tor the dead is attended
with great peril The work of recover
ing the dead becomes more difficult
as the working parties advance toward
the seventh level, where it is thought the
38 men who have not been found were
gathered to aw'ait the coming of the las:
man trap for tho day which was to take
them to the surface.
Sixty men perished in the disaster,
thirty eiirht of whom aox still m the
mine. About thirty of the deed Be
longed to the A. O. U. W. aud were in
suied for $2,000 each.
Two Negro Laborers Killed.
Atlanta, Ga., March 21.—The prema
ture explosion of a charge at the South
ern Granite Company’s quarry at
Lithonia, killed Silas Evans and George
Bryant. They were negro laborers.
Both men were thrown high in the air
and horribly mangled.
Atlanta, Ga., March 21.- Sheriff
McAllister, of Clay county, was indicted
to-day for the murder of Judsou Hyatt
at F<*rt Gaines. His trial is set for
March 26.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THE LEVOW POLICE HILLS.
They Have Been Reported Favorably
and will be Voted on Tuesday.
Albany, N. Y., March 21. —The Lexow
police bills were reported favorably it*
the Senate to day by their author, Sena
tor Lexow, and after a debate lasting
nearly all day, advanced to third read
ing. Final action, which it was in
tended should occur to day, was post
poned because of an error in the printing
of one of the bills. The vote under the
rules, cannot be token until next Tues
day.
The bills drawn up by the committee
of ten which represent the ideas and
wants of the reform element in New
Yotk city, were re committed to the
Lexow committee. This practically kills
the bills. The attempt of the R< publican
majority to pass the Lexow bills resulted
in the bolt, of Senator Reynolds, who re
fused to be bound by the caucus held
last night. Senator Stapleton for a
time joined in the bolt, but later in the
day he switched back and voted with the
majority to advance the bills to third
reading.
Senator La my, from his actions
day, will probably vote against, the
Lexow bills when they come up for final
passage next Tuesday.
Early in the day he telegraphed Mayor
Strong that his vote would be controlled
by the Mayor’s approval of the bills. He
received a reply this afternoon which he
refused to give out. He said he con
sidered it confidential and that he
wished to take it to Buffalo to-Dight and
consult with the people up there abont
it.
Mayor Strong has not, thus far, given
utterance to auy comments on the Lexow
bills, favorable or untavorable, hot it is
generally believed his views are in accord
with those expressed by CharhsStnart
Smith to day in his letter to Lieut. Gov.
Saxton.
It requires 17 votes to pass the Lexow
bills, and should Senator Stapleton vote
for the bdl on final passage, as he has
announced, his vote will carry the meas
ure regardless of. the votes of Lamy and
Reynolds.
MCKINLEY MAS UNWELL.
And the People ot Jacksonville Wert-
Disappointed About that R* ception.
Jacksonville, Fla., March 21.—1 t was
expeettd that Gov. McKinley, of Ohio,
who has been at Thcmasville, Ga., for
some days, would arrive in Jacksonville
tc night en route to Lake W orth, Fla.,
and arrangements bad been made to
tender him a public reception.
Late this afternoon, however, a mes
sage was received from Thcmasville.
stating that the Governor was unwell
and would be unable to be in Jackson
ville to-night. Elaborate preparations
had been made to receive the Governor
and the citizens were greatly di-appoint
ed at his non-appearance.
In Conference with Jeter.
Savannah, Ga., March 21.—Gov. Mc-
Kinley and party did not leave Thomas
ville for Florida to-day, according to the
programme. The Governor is slightly
indisposed and his physician rtcom
mended him to remain in Thcmasville
until he recovers.
After the reception tendered him at
the Mitchell House, Gov. McKinley had
a conference with about a dozen politi
cians. One of them was J. C. Pritchard,
a fusion Senator of Noith Carolina. The
purpose of the conference was not dis
closed.
SPANISH MINISTER RESIGNS.
His Official Conduct Had Been Criti
cised by Some Cuban Newspapers.
Madrid, March 21.—Senor E. de
Murugua, Spanish Minister in Washing
ton. cabled his resignation on March 14.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has re
fused to accept it.
Washington, D. C., March 21.—Senor
Muruegua, tbe Spanish Minister, admits
the correctness of the report cabled
from Madrid, that he had tendered hit*
resignation and the tender had been de
clined. He refuses to talk on tbe sub
ject.
One of his friends however, explains
that Senor Muruaga tendered Ids resig
nation because his official conduct had
been adversely criticised by some Cuban
newspapers, notably Havana journals.
Ills reoxenation wes consequently sent
in March t 5. .! the reply he received
from the i>n Minister on Foreign
Affairs was such as to completely vindi
cate his position.
NEW SI I'l KVIMM. ARCHITECT.
Secretary Carlisle Appoint* William
M. Aiken, a Native of South Carolina.
Washington, P. C., March 21 —Sec
retary Carlisle to-day appointed William
Martin Aiden, of Cincinnati. Ohio. Su
pervise g Architect of the Treasury to
fill the vacancy that occurred on Sep
tember 20th, 1894, by the resignation of
1 Jeremiah O'Rourke, of Newark, N. J.
j The salary of the office i, $4,50u per an*
| num
Mr. Aiken is about 42 years of age,
j and was born in South Carolina. He is
| a descendant of the celebrated Aiken
i family of that State, after whom the
, town of Aiken is named, and is a
nephew of Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, who
represented the Third South Carolina
j district from the 4. r >th to the 48th Con
gress. Mr. Aiken removed to Cincinnati
some ten or fifteen years ago.
Destructive I ire in Lalny* ttr, Ala.
Birmingham, Ala., March 21.—A spe
cial from Lafayette, Ala., says: “One
of the most destructive fires iu the his
tory of the town occurred here last night
at i 1 o’clock. The block on each side
of the square burned except two houses.
Loss about $25,000. Insurance SII,OOO.