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) LONDON PACKED TO THE DOORS IN HONOR OF THE EVENT. SPECIAL SERVICES FOR VICTORIA Her Majesty Attends St. George’s Chapel Where Only Royalty Was Present and Impressive Scenes Are Witnessed. London was iu the midst of jubilee fever Saturday. The streets were im¬ passable, resembling a mixture of car¬ penters’ shops and country fairs. They were crowded with excursionists from all parts of England. Everything seemed to be half done and incomplete. Many of the decora¬ tions were already seedy from two clays’ storm. Nothing, however, seem¬ ed to be lacking in enthusiasm, unless it was in the case of the syndicates of speculators in jubilee seats, who, at all places except St. Paul’s cathedral, accepted any reasonable offer. The combined losses of the four largest speculators exceed $200,000, and on every hand are inquiries as to “where are the Americans?” Queen Victoria began the celebra- tion of her jubilee, Sunday morning »s was befitting her entire career, be- fore the altar of her faith. mi Throughout , , London, x i .1 the united -ii kingdom and t ic empire in every cathedra , church or chapel of the es- fabhshed church ot England were held services similar to those at St George s chapel, W indsor, where her majesty paid her devotions and offered solemn thanks to God. The announcement that the services at St. George’s chapel would be pri- vate and for the members of the royal family prevented the gathering of a large crowd. The scene was most ini- pressive and the services very simple, lief Majesty sat in the chair of state, immediately in front of the commun¬ ion rail, and just beside the brass plate whose inscription designates the spot which was the temporary place of interment of the prince consort. All the envoys from Catholic coun¬ tries were present in full uniform, ex¬ cept the prince and princes s of Naples, who were absent owing to the presence of the papal envoy. On the arrival of General Devaust, the French envoy, the band outside played the “Mar- ee 1 use.” In his sermon Cardinal Vaughn dw r elt upon the glory of the Queen’s reign as peculiarly grateful to the Roman Catholics of the empire, be¬ cause it had always been consistent with the extension of freedom of con- science of her Roman Catholic sub¬ jects. In tbe afternoon and the even¬ ing there were special accession day services at Westminster abbey and at St. Paul’s cathedral. At St. George’s chapel, Windsor, in the afternoon a special musical seivice was held, at which most members of the royal family, except the queen and Empress Frederick, who had attended the morning service, were present. CUBAN POLICY NOT KNOWN. Tho President II:is Not Yet Decided Upon Any Plan of Action. A Washington special says : It can be stated on the best authority that all publications purporting to outline the Cuban policy of President McKinley that have been made up to the present time have been in disregard of the fact that up to this moment the case of the United States government has not yet been made up and that even in the discussion of the subject of our .relations to Cuba that have taken place in the circle the point has not yet been reached where it can be said that the executve had finally determined upon any certain plan of action. TO BE SOLD AS A WHOLE. -Jwdge SimonioH Renders a Decision in the Yadkin Valley Bine. Judge Simonton, of the United States circuit court, has reaffirmed his decree in the case of the Farmers’ Roan and Trust Company of New York ve. the Cape Fear aud Yadkin Railway Company rt at. that the rail¬ road should be sold as a whole, not in divisions, as contemplated by the plaintiffs. “ORIGINAL PACKAGED CASE. A Test to Be Made By* Biasing a Charles¬ ton Agency. The dispensary law of South Caro- lina is to he brought before the courts once more. At Charleston J. S. Piuk- usschn’s “original package” agency was seized by the state authorities, the proprietor taken before a magis¬ trate and his store closed up. This action is taken under section 22 of the dispensary law, which de¬ clares that any place other than a state dispensary, in which liquors are sold, shall be considered a public nuisance. It, is probable that the case is made to test the validity of the “original pack¬ age” decision recently issued in the United States courts. CONSUL TO ANTWERP. Connecticut Man Succeeds Harvey John- son, ol' Georgia. A NVashington special says: A Con- necticut man is to sup plant Harvey Johnson as consul at Antwerp. This io a plum which has been sought by other Georgians. Dr. Hopkins had it on his list, but only secondary to the Greece mission; Alton Angier has wanted it and so has .Hugh Angier, who had applied from New York, and Theo Deeante, of Augusta, who has £ ee u an applicant. RAGGING ON FREE LIST. Di'inocrntH Gel A«Ml«taiice From tho Silver Republican!). The silver republicans of tho west went to the aid of the democrats in the senate Saturday, and the combina¬ tion was sufficient to make an import¬ ant change iu the tariff bill on soma features of geuorul interest to tire south. The schedules covering jute bagging were strinken from the bill. The effect of this, unless it is reversed later, will lie to give the farmers of the south cotton bagging free of duty. The fight for this was based on the democratic claim that the bill should give to the farmers of the south equal consideration with those of the west. If the western farmer was given free binding twine for his wheat, the south- erner should be allowed to buy his cotton bagging in a market not handi¬ capped by a tariff tax. The democrats all voted for free bagging and the silver republicans voted with them. When the free list is reached these items will, therefore, be placed upon lLaL tion'wheif t m?yT^ab?e\o°re l r ver?e conference e thisac- it comes to Rie between luneon the tae two two house House, Imt nut me he ffiU- inai cations now are favorable for bagging on the free list. Another victory over the republicans was secured oJ in the iMaterial item of mattino-s of U-aw B imil« The repub- luains ld n re ponse to Pennsv”a the demands of he makers of and e l uole n t ust put a tariff on these 6 mattffigs The mltings object was oT to keep Keep the tne Japanese Japanese mattings out out ot the tlie American market, or at least to keep them Xrom underselling American car- ts and ] mo l oulrl . There are no American mattings to protect. By practicaI , y the same vote as on the bnggi paragraph the tariff on mat- tings was stricken from the bill. KICK AGAINST TARIFF BILL. Japan Ken,onstrat.es Now and May Event- ually Retaliate. The protest made by the Japanese government agaiust the pending tariff bill is formally embodied in a note re¬ ceived from Minister Toru Hoshi. The note is couched in the most courteous language, but there is a firmness of tone observable that indi¬ cates the remonstrance may be fol¬ lowed by acts of retaliation if disre¬ garded. The note begins with an apology for expressing an opinion that under ordi¬ nary circumstances might be regarded as trenching justification upon domestic^ important affairs, but as that Japanese interests are involved and in the opinion of the Japanese minister the proposed increased duties will injure the United States no less than Japan by retarding the growth of commercial relations. POPULISTS OPPOSE FUSION. Maine Committee Declare the Alliance With Silver Democracy a Failure. At a meeting of the Maine state pop¬ ulist committee at Augusta Saturday all present were opposed to fusion aud in favor of the middle-of-the-road c oarse. With one exception, the mem- bers of the committee heard from were of the same mind. Delegates were ap¬ pointed to the conference at Nashville July 4th. Resolutions were adopted declaring that the late alliance with the silver democracy has proven a failure and should no longer be continued, and condemning in unqualified terms the “brutal treatment” accorded by the democratic party to the populists, and especially to “that great national leader, Hon. Thomas E. Watson.” FIVE CHILDREN BURNED. 'MelanskPs Hoinn Destroyed by Fire and Boss of Life Results. Fire Saturday night partly destroyed the home of Joseph Melauski in east Buffalo, N. Y., and his five children were frightfully burned. Sophie, aged ten, died in a hospital Sunday morning; Mary, aged twelve, Brownislewa, five years old, Veronica, three years, and Cecelia, aged eight, are lying on cots at the hospital, and the attending physicians say there is little chance for their recovery. Me- lanski is also in the hospital. His arms and face were burned in the attempt to save his children. House Programme. The programme in the house for this week is the same as during past weeks. Two sessions only will be held. STEEL WORKS START UP. An Industrial Revival Is On In the Mo- nongaliela Valley. Advices from Pittsburg, Pa., state that an industrial revival along the Monongahela valley has started and prospects are brighter than for many months. Both the Edgar Thompson and the Homestead steel works have resumed, all departments running full. The Duquesne steel works, which has been making billets, have commenced on rails, with enough orders to keep the plants working the greater part of the year. At Braddock the Pittsburg and Rankin wireworks are in full opera¬ tion. Ten Thousand Blackberry Pickers. A dispatch from Liberty, Mo., says: Fully 10,000 blackberry pickers have already arrived and hundreds of others are coming in on every train,by wagon all( j on foot, for the season which will ] ast for a month. The crop is estima- ted at 60,000 crates and will be the ] argos t ever known here. Woodford’s Nomination Confirmed, The senafco Saturday confirmed the nomination of Stewart L. Woodford, of New York, as minister to Spain. SAYS PROPOSED ANNEXATION IS AN INJUSTICE TO HER. FILES A PAPER WITH SHERMAN. Senators Favoring the Treaty Say They Back Only Three Votes to Secure Ratification. Queen Lilioukalani filed a protest Thursday afternoon in the office of the secretary of state at Washington. It was delivered into the bauds of Secretary Sherman by tL Joseph Jive neIe . lube representing Ha- M th^i^ague 0 :^’ WlthtW ° The protest in. part reads: “I Lilio- ukalani of Hawan, by the will of God of April,'*A. lb1877, and by the grace G f> U l( ;e“ Jay of the of Hawaiian January, islands A D. i *° i he , ? y -1° . ratification of a certain treaty which, so I am informed, has been signed at Washington ° bv Messrs Thurston and Kinney I’ purporting P g to to cede “ c e those ose is- 13 i ? a -n ? . ^ 'T dom , ! . mo “ of he tt Gll ltcd f State3 s ' I declare such a trea- . to ard the 1 f" Wr ° n ? f P ar » a Hve r people of Hawaii, “, 'T™* c® ? f the I* , ? violation , of interna- tional rights, both toward my people nT1 Ohom j tnward he^ friendU mtinM »iti tlm perpet-.ation of the fraud wherabv consrit U ’a ; onalgovornnrentwasover ac? of' ' thrown d finaUv an cross ,, ustice to me ^ Because tne offieial omcml piotests m . otests made mado Ja ' l uary ’ 1893, to the so-called provisiona , gov- ernment was signed by me and are received by said government with the assiiiame a io case was icferred to the United States of America for arbitration: “Because that protest and my com¬ munications to the United States gov¬ ernment immediately thereafter ex¬ pressly declared that I yielded my au¬ thority to the forces of the United States in order to avoid bloodshed and because I recognized the futility of a conflict with so formidable a power. “Because the president of the United States, the secretary of state and an en¬ voy commissioned by them reported, in official documents, that my govern¬ ment was unlawfully coerced by the forces, diplomatic and naval, of the United States, that I was at tho date of their investigations, the constitu¬ tional ruler of my people. Because said treaty ignores not only all professions of perpetual amity air cl good faith made by the United States in former treaties with the sovereigns representing the Hawaiin people, but all treaties made by those sovereigns with other and friendly powers, and it is thereby iu violation of international law. The protest closes as follows: ‘ ‘Therefore I, Lilioukalani of Hawaii, do hereby call upon the president of that nation to whom alone I yielded my property and my authority to with- draw said treaty (ceding said islands) from further consideration. I ask the honorable senate of the United States to decline to ratify said treaty and im- plore the people of this great and good nation from whom my ancestors learn- ed the Christian religion, to sustain their representatives iu such acts of justice and equity as may be in accord with the principles of their fathers and the almighty ruler of the universe, to him who judges righteously I commit my cause. “.Done at Washington, D.C.,United States of America, this 17th day of June, in the year 1897. “Lilioukalaxi. ” Need Only Three Votes. It is announced that there are fifty- seven senators who can be counted for the ratification of the Hawaiian annex¬ ation treaty—just three less than the requisite two-thirds. There are eleven other senators who are undecided as to how they shall vote. There are twenty-one senators opposed to the treaty. This is the result of a careful can¬ vass of the senate. The advocates of annexation are confident of their abil¬ ity to secure at least three more vot!es and thus bring about the ratification of the treaty. FRANK BUTLER CONVICTED. Jury Pronounces Him Guilty of the Mur- dor of Captain Weller. The trial of Frank Butler, charged with the murder of Captain Lee Wel¬ ler, while the two men were on a gold prospecting trip, was concluded at Sydney, N. S. W., Wednesday, the jury renderin' a verdict of guilty. Butler, after the murder of Captain Weller, escaped from Australia on the ship Swanhilda, but upou arrival of that vessel at San Francisco he was arrested, afterwards being extradited. After the verdict was announced Butler attempted to cut his throat with a piece of tin, but was seized be- tore he did himself any serious injury. ACCEPT S SETTL EMENT. One or Two Greek Towns Will Be Given to, Turkey. The Athens correspondent of The London Daily Telegraph says: “It is reported here that the peace conference and the porte have accepted a settlement, giving Turkey either the town of Ligaria, southeast of Milouna, or Nezeros, north of Larissa.” The correspondent of The Daily Chronicle say3 the porte has abandoned the policy to delay and decided to accept the advices of the powers. SHORT ON MELONS. Only Ono-Tlilrd of a Crop In Georgia—A Bi^ Loss. The Georgia watermelon will not be as much iu evidence as usual this year. The assistant general Railway, passenger agent of the Southern has received from agents throughout the melon belt reports indicating that the crop will be very short. The average production of the state is 6,000 car¬ loads, and it is given out that this year’s crop will not exceed 2,000 car¬ loads. This means a loss of about $300,000 in revenue to the railroads and about the same amout to the melon growers. The shortage in the peach crop is e ?* ! e tbe “ ^ Horticultural u assoc g a- ’ Hon and a large fruit grower estimates the peach crop of the state at 20 per WOO'O, Xu hut the greater part of this ^hT VslT ht Sffi and the prowerfl of fruit and me lons wiI1 be about S800 - 000 on aocount of short me i on business five years ago am()unte(1 to 8 ,000 carloads from the Nearly * every farmer in South SX r . • acrelg“ melons for the market ana tne aciea D e ran lan up up tovery to seiy iai D o P r0 P 01 ' tl0L ' s - It'was soon found that the supply exceeded the demand in some Markets while it fell short in others . Tbe perishable nature of the crop ^ made it impossible to protect the when the fruit reaches a city where the market was glutted. To meet this difficulty a melon giotvers „ rowprs association association was was organized oigamzeci, aud for ? ne aeas0 “ m08 * of tbe meIous gl ' 0wn 111 the state 7? re market ed through that agency. This helped the powers, but it broke the agency, Fmally a System devJSed "' bicb telegrams reporting the price aud sup- p !y m eacb 0 f the principal markets were £ posted at the railway stations from hich melons were shipped. This aided greatly in distributing slli p ment8( and reduced to a minimum the tendency to overstock certain mar- kets . Nevertheiess, when the crop was , large, or the weather ,, cool, , prices were low and unsatisfactory. This tended to check the increase of the melon crop, and the rascality of an irre¬ sponsible class of commission met who managed to secure consignment, caused the growers to lose heavily. While there were many good commis¬ sion houses in the business, there w r ere unfortunately a great many who took advantage of the perishable nature of the fruit to squeeze the shipper. . All these influences combined have curtailed the crop during the past few years from an average of .8,000 car- loads to about' 6,000. This year the small yield has cut this dow r n to 2,001 about one-fourth the number formerly raised iu Georgia. It is probable that the small crop ii the state will increase the price, f<£ almost the whole marketable mele' crop comes from Georgia, INVITED THE PRESIDENT. League of Ex-Confetlerates Want Him To Attend a Reunion. A delegation of the Southern Patriotic Legion of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia called on the president Tliurs- day to invite him to attend a reunion 0 f their organization at Harrisonburg, Va., next fall. This is the league of ex-confeder- a tes which visited President McKinley a t Canton before the election, aud af- terwards on their last trip he promised to honor them with a visit. He told them that he would be glad to attend if they could postpone the reunion to next year. If thev insisted, he said, he would go this fall, but thought it best, as he had just been down that way to put off the visit until next year. The committee agreed to postpone¬ ment of the reunion. DISCUSSED COTTON DUTIES. Senators Contend That We Can Meet Com¬ petition Without High Duties. The senate completed the wine schedule of the tariff bill in a littl« over an hour Thursday and then toot up the cotton schedule. The debate on the first paragraph til the cotton schedule took a wide ranges the democrats generally contending that America could compete againsl the world without high duties. A test amendment on the entiTf schedule proposing the Wilson scaleo on cotton threads and yarns were of¬ fered by Mr. Jones, of Arkansas, and defeated by 20 to 30. CYCLONE IN FRANCE Causes the Death of Twenty People and Boss of Much Property. A cyclone struck Asnieres, France, Friday while a fair was in progress. Two hundred trees were uprooted, the roof of Coignet fire works factory was blown down and the boiler exploded, killing several persons and injuring fifteen. It is reported that five persons were killed in a cafe. In every direction houses and other buildings were more or less seriously damaged. It is estimated that throughout the district over which the cyclone moved at least twenty persons were killed and ninety injured. SUBURBAN STARTERS. Coney Island Jockey Club Announces the Jockeys In the Handicap. The starters in the Suburban handi¬ cap, as far as jockeys have been en¬ gaged, were announced by the Coney Island Jockey Club as fol-lows: Havre, Lewis; Flying Dutchman, Taral; Dutch Skater, Martin; First Mate, Scherrer; Peep o’ Day, Hamil¬ ton; Sir Walter, Doggett; Volley, Hewitt; Ben Brush or Ben Eder, Sims; The Winner, Belmar or Howard Maun, Sloan. DOCUMENT SENT TO SENATE HUT MEETS OPPOSITION. PRESIDENT SENDS SHORT MESSAGE Giving His Hensons For Favoring Annexa¬ tion—Secretary Sherman Signed For Uncle Sam. In the great diplomatic room of the state department the representatives of the governments of the United States and Hawaii gathered Wednes¬ day morning and signed a treaty by the terms of which, if ratified, the lit¬ tle island republic will become part of the territory of the United States. For the United States, there were Secretary Serman, Assistant Secreta¬ ries Day, Adee and Cridler, Private Secretary Babcock and Assistant Pri¬ vate Secretary Gahtree. On the Hawaiian side were Minister Hatch, Lorin A. Thurston and W. A. Kinney, all for this particular occasion accred¬ ited as to negotiate a treaty of annex¬ ation. Sent to Senate. The treaty reached the senate cham¬ ber at 5 o’clock, p. m., and the senate at once went into executive session, and as soon ns the doors were closed the message of President McKinley, accompanying the treaty, and the treaty itself, were read to the senate. They were attentively listened to. The president called attention to the fact that a^ legitimate and existing go V- ernment of Hawaii offered to annex the islands to the United States in 1851, but on account of what was deemed best policy the annexation was not accepted by this country. He stated that the United States virtually exercised a protectorate over the islands since the first American mission and guaranteed the autonomy of the governments of the group. The islands had been largely settled by our own people and our people were now interested in them. Ameri¬ can interests predominated and we had grown to consider them under our own protection. The present treaty was in the light of a consummation of what had practically been in existence for years. Referring to the treaty negotiated under the Harrison administration, President McKinley said that the fail¬ ure to accept the proffer of annexation in 1893, while not a subject of con¬ gratulation, was not wholly without its value, as it had demonstrated that tbe existing government could main¬ tain itself and no question could be raised of the authority of the present government to negotiate the present treaty or its right to yield the sover¬ eignty of the islands. In one part of the chamber there was a group of senators who would bitterly oppose the ratification of the treaty. Among them were Senators Gray, Mills, Pasco, White, Caffery, Petti¬ grew and McEnery. As soon as the reading of the document was com¬ pleted, Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relation, moved that the message and the treaty be made public. Senator Gray objected to a vote on the motion, and under the rules, a single objection carried the motion over until Thursday. Senator Davis gave notice that at the next executive session he would pre¬ sent the motion for publication, as all the essential facts and almost verbatim copy of the treaty had been published in the press of the country. There was some discussion as to when the treaty might be considered, and Senator White asked if it was the intention to push it at this session,and upon the reply being made that it was possible, the California senator said: “I desire to announce that I am j,re- pared to stay here all summer to pre¬ vent the ratification of the treaty, which I consider a veiy bad proposi¬ tion. ” “I’ll join you,” said Senator Petti¬ grew, of South Dakota. The message was not a very long document. It dealt with historical facts concerning the islands and show¬ ed that the United Stales and Hawii yearly grew more closely bound to each other. This was not really an¬ nexation, he said, but a continuation of existing relations with closer bonds between people closely related ^y blood and kindred tiesi TO SUPPRESS LYNCHING An Association Has Been Incorporated at Columbus, Ohio. The National Anti-mob and Lynch Law Association has been incorporated at Columbus, O. Tbe purposes of the organization are declared to be to dis¬ courage mob and lynch law within the United States and to agitate public sentiment with a view to securing such legislation as will suppress such prac¬ tice by providing adequate punishment for violators. It is proposed to form branch associations all over the Union. This organization has been in con- temptation for several months but re¬ cent outbreaks served to precipitate hasty action. COMPROMISE ON WRAPPERS. The controversy over the rate of duty on wrapper tobacco, which has been in progress ever since the tariff bill was taken up in the senate, was settled Friday, so far as the republi¬ can members of the finance commit¬ tee could settle it, they agreeing upon the rate of $1.75 per pound. This is a compromise rate. The growers of wrapper leaf wanted a rate of $2, while the manufacturers asked that the rate should not exc.ed .$1.50. THE PETITION WITHDRAWN. Macon's Caae ylgnlnit the Ilailroiid. Will Now Oo To the Courts. The Macon petition against railroad consolidation in Georgia has been withdrawn by the attorneys who tiled it with Governor Atkinson. The question involved was such a large one that the governor was look¬ ing into it thoroughly, and he had an- nounced that he would give a decision at an early day. In making his investi¬ gation Governor Atkinson proceeded just as he would had he been consider¬ ing a petition of any other character. He looked at both sides. He heard from the attorneys who represented the Macon petitioners, and also heard what the railroads had to say on their side of the case. There was no formal hearing or argument, however, but in¬ formal talks. It is thought around the capitol that tke.governor was not disposed to direct the attorney general to institute such a sweeping suit against the roads as was contemplated by the petition¬ ers, but was more inclined to let the investigation proceed, if at all, against only one road. This would have in¬ volved less indirect materia! results, but tbe principle would have been the same in the end. That is, if it were shown that the Southern held one railroad in violation of the constitu¬ tion, it would probably have followed that it held others, but if it did not control the Central or the Georgia Southern and Florida or some other one road illegally, it probably held none in the state unconstitutionally. This, it is understood, did not meet the wish of the attorneys for the peti¬ tioners, and they withdrew their peti¬ tion,announcing that they had decided to institute proceedings in the courts. This is the right which any party at interest has. There are two methods of procedure against railroad monopo¬ lies in Georgia. One method is for the governor to direct the attorney general to bring suit against the of¬ fending company, while the other is is for any party at interest to proceed. This latter recourse was provided for by an act which Senator A. O. Bacon had passed when he was in the house five years ago. The senator is one of the counsel for the petitioners from Macon, and his law firm, Bacon, Miller & Brunson, and the /fiber firm, Dessau, Bartlett & Tillis, decided to let their clients proceed under the Bacon act. TO THY DR. RYDER. A Special Term of Talbot Superior Court Will Re Called. It is learned that a special term of the Talbot superior court will be called to try Dr. W. L. Ryder, now confined in Muscogee jail, at Colum¬ bus, Ga., for the murder of Miss Bailie Emma Owens. The regular term of the Talbot court will not be held before September. .Tudge Butt has just forwarded to Tal- botton an order calling a special term of the Talbot court for Monday, July 19tb, for tbe purpose of trying crim¬ inal business. At this special term the case of W. L. Ryder will come up and once more he will be put on trial for his life for the crime for which he wa§ convicted last fall. SC’HRIVER WAS NOT GUILTY. Case Against Correspondent of Mail and Kxpress, Newspaper, Is Dismissed. At Washington, Friday, John S. Sehriver, the correspondent of The New York Mail and Express, was declared not guilty of contempt in refusing to answer questions of the senate committee in return to the sugar trust investigation. Mr. Sehriver was the fourth of the alleged recalcitrant witnesses, Messrs. Havemeyer and Searles, president and secretary of the American Sugar Re¬ fining Company, both having been discharged, while Broker Elverton R. Chapman was convicted and served one month in jail. SUIT TO COLLECT POLICIES. Seven Prominent Insurance Companies Asked to Pay Up. In the superior court at Savannah, Ga., Friday, the Mutual Grocery Com¬ pany filed suits against seven well- known insurance companies for vari¬ ous amounts. The store of the plaint¬ iffs was burned November 10th, 1896. and the company has not been able to collect the policies. sued for the full Each defendant is amount of the policy. Agents state that the companies refuse to pay claims, and will make a showing in court. BURNED NEARLY A BLOCK. Big Blaze In Atlanta, Ga., Does Consider¬ able Damage. Two-thirds of the block situated at the corner of Alabama and Forsyth streets, Atlanta, Ga., owned by Mahew Cunningham, of Savanhah, was com¬ pletely gutted by fire Thursday night, after burning for about four hours. The flames were not subdued until 3 o’clock Friday morning. The loss to Mr. Cunningham, the owner of the building,- will amount to about $10,000. Over half the building seems to be almost totally ruined and the damage will probably necessitate a rebuilding of the entire burned part of the structure. RUSHING TARIFF WORK. Thirteen Pages of the Bill Gone Through With Wednesday. The senate made rapid work on the tariff bill Wednesday. There were no of long speeches, and the debate was a snappy character, which at times in¬ tervened, but did not delay tbe seri¬ ous work on the bill. Thirteen pages were disposed of. At 5 o’clock the Hawaiian treaty and the president’s message were received and the senate went into executive session.