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^TABLISHEDl82(j. amc on wall street. .[AST EXCITING DAY SIN'CE GRANT *WAKD’3 FAILURE. ■ MBlItar Bald and » Humor of ■ Uoald'* Death-Manhattan Kle- „ted Drops Forty l’olnts -The Becovery, Etc. MACON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 2«, 1887.--TWELVE PAGES. VOL. LX 11, is 011 3. 5 Tool, June 21.—The Stock Ex- this roorting became extremely 2 md excited, with heavy deolints. eirktl opentd with a feeling ot coDtl- in many stocks which Buttered so itTMterday, and largo scpporllcg wire given all over the room. In a onenU. however, there was a veiy GallicK apparent, and a report w», 1 tint there had been a falling out be- “ U Gould, Hassell 8*ge and Cyras .1 At the same time Berdan of- I iome heavy blocks of Manhattan tfbicb were taken by Wright* Co. V ihort period the s6les by Berdan 1 - Yooo shares, and Wiieht's ) 11,000 shares. Those wen made at about 166, j seon as Wright A Co's Litre filled the price broke to 149J, at that point Wenzesheimer * Co., had elder, and they offered the stock 19 per cent, without making a sale. ,. lid nut ncoor until the price reached ltd! of 3GJ per cent, from the opening i Tne tuom was covered with brok- itte decline brought oat selling or* idl dieses of seoarities. Western itirh held firm a long time, begin about 11 o'clock, and in a quarter .trdropped 8 per cunt. The tail in lacks was correspondingly great «uit (icitemunt ™ in tbe loan ; iters many inquiries were made ■ or call, bnt parlies who havo been _,ct in loaning money refused to ■j imonnt, no matter bow email. ■ iicilenient reached its greatest ihortly before noon, end a veritable na developed, No attention was ./brokers to fractions in the sales tjtbom, and the flao'.nations were libit tales were sometimes from & to cent, apart Stocks bought near the I itre thrown over when tho break d, tad this selling completely de- J .peculation. Tho marking down it and the delivery of ordere Ibe clerks and messengers ns tbe brokers, and tbe street tbl ictne of moro excitement bu been witnessed eince the May U 1135, The greatest declines so far Mere: Manhattan, 401 to 116; Mis- Picille 11 per cent to 93 j; cotton seed wot. to 39; Richmond Terminal, 7} ; .New England 6 to 45J, and Lake ud Western S to 63). Tho room /liepanic was filled with rnmora of ids, and telegrams from all points iid each other in rapid succession, | ailing orders and inquiries about nporta which were by tbl« Urns oir- daUevertbecountry. Tholncreased interest laved tbe room from a money iby its demud for stocks for delivery, 1V. White and somo other large opt - eotired tho market and began Ireely. They soon Rath- > large following, and buying tbe market almost rapidly as it bad Stock* took h ng jumps back to former prices. Manhattan recovered ~«nb of its loss, and other stocks • I recover.d about half tbs doclino ft No failares are annonneed os a ! the break. Oonld was in hiB ofllo, at 195 Broad- * 1145 p. m., and is perfectly well. *«, George Gould, was seen by on dd Press tepirter, and asked about ton of bis father's death. He Baid (•dawere malic! me falaehoods, oiron- taaffsettbeatockmarket. Th redoes to bars been any good reason for ', ud it was solely dne to a bear ■Kitad by fslae rumors of Gould's 'ud tbe embarrassment of prominent I'M.-A reporter of the associated I’m jut Men Ur Gonld in bis office. |«t.d famished him with tho follow- 'hr, »Uch he had jast sent to John THE COLLEGE AT AUBURN BURNED. The Great Building and Ite Valuable Col lections Deatroyed. Montgomery, Ana., Jnno 24.—A special to the Advertiser from Anbnrn reports tho burning of tho State Agrionltnral snd Mechanical College with tho chemical laboratory and apparatus. The buildiug originally oost over sixty thousand dollars. Tho insurance was thirty thousand dollars. A new building will be eroded at once. Montoomebt, Ala., June 21.—The burn ing of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Anbnrn to-day was a great ca lamity. The institute was established under a grant by Congress of lands tojfonnd snob colleges In the several States, ‘its annual income from this source is $20,000, and $10,000 from tho State. The buildings wero given to tho State by tho Methodist church, and originally coBt $85,000. Tho splendid chemical laboratory, with a museum of his tory, geological and botanical oabincts, and apparatus of all sorts had been gathered through many years, and wero exceedingly valuable, man) of the cabinet specimens being very rare. The total valne of tho ap paratus, cabinets and oontents destroyed was over ono hundred thousand dollars, she building with its improvements was also valued at one handrtd thousand dollars. All is a total loss, excopt a little chemical apparatus and the contents of tbe treas urer’s and president's oflioes. The fire broke not about 4 a. m. In the State chem ical laboratory, wbloh bod been used the day before. Tho first assistant in this de partment sleeps In the building, and at 12 o’clock last night made an examination and found all right everywhere. No doubt is rntertained that ' the fire was caused by rats gnawiDg matches. The insnranca is $30,000, in tho following companies: JEtno, of Hartford, S5.000: Royal, of Liverpool and London, $2,S00; Home,of New York. $5,000; Georgia Home, of Colnmbns, $2,500; Capital Oity.jof Montgomery, $2,500; Merchants’ and Trad ers', of Now Orleans, $2,500; Hartford, $2,500; North British Mercantile, $7,600. Tho bnildiDg will bo replaced at enee. The Mecbanio laboratory in a separate building was uninjured. THE CIVIL SERVICE FRAUD. I GKEAT fire£tlouisville. | GERMANY AND FRANCE; CONSTERNATION AMONG THE DE PARTMENT EMPLOYES. | Several Thousand Hog-heads of Tobacco and Four Warehouses Destroyed. Louisville, Jane 25.—The most deatruc- I tive fire that has occurred here in years broke on'in the tobac 'o quarter at ltd. \ o'clock this morning. Tho ontiro square THE STRAINED RELATIONS BE TWEEN THESE OLD ENEMIES. Old and Competent Clerks in Danger of “ °, 1ULK sue em.ru square T he Residence of Gormans lu Franco Only Losing Their Places for Want of | b l™ C “.“‘‘““^s^'“u Made Possible by the Frankfort Treaty—Freuch Agitators In Alsace-Lorraine. Knowledge Not Necessary to Their Duties. Tenth streets was the sceno of tho fire, and two acres of bnildings with their contents were lOBt. Tho loss is estimated at fully half a million and tbe insurance cinn't be Washington, Jnno 25.—The Star to-night obtained for weeks yet. The papers of va- saje: Nothing authoritative can be learned I r ’ ons “ rms »ro in safes in the debris, about the recent examinations for promo- | ,. rri -,. uuu These will havo to be recover^ and tho tion in the quartermaster general’s^office. I ^ vo „ U* 0Man d hogshoads of tobacco checked tinder the new civil service roles, bnt there IJ 1 !* before Accurate figures are known h “ The box from which tbo alarm waa turned in was defective, and as a resalt tbe flames were almost beyond control when the en- Ih-j lir*> a as incendiary, it is a well-founded report afloat, which re ceives credence in department circles, that out of thirty-eight clerks bnt ten passed the . examinations successfully. It is said that 8 m * 8 «rivtd, correot answers to many of the questions I * 8 if afcked wonld in no way show the efficiency of the clerks, and that the very questions which wonld be easy enough for a yonng u.4!i nr won.nil frt sh fr.*m school wen* tbo , . greatest stumbling blocks to tbe oldest ° on,d baT “ B Vl'j od ' The flames spread with It broke oat in tbo middle ot tbe block at tbo rear eud of tbe Market street end of the Boone warehouse There were no lights or fire of any kind from wbioh th<> rt .mos efficiency, became they had given their at tention for many years to official duties and not to school dnties. It Is said that one man employed In the disbursing clerk’s 'ffice made no attempt to answer the math* fearfnl rapidity. Tho limner tobacco warehouse and Sawyer, Wallace A Co. ware house, both fronting on Main street, wero quickly enveloped in flames. Threo ware houses mentioned occupy nearly a wholo mI:■ ,tr,-,, i >,il were closely puked with ematioal questions asked, and yet he wns | hogsheads oHobaeoo.^bawyer^ \\ oUaoe^ A always regarded as a competent clerk and * kept his accounts correctly. It is claimed that a majority of the competitors were so Co.’s, house it a branch of a big New York firm. Tbe firemon coaid do very little. The heat was interne and the inflammable flamed by a realization of the danger 0 f materisl was entirely too far beyond eon- failure to.t they could not do justice to I tr0 >- All that oonld be done was to save soisoent reetdenoes and business bloeks. No lives were lost, though several narrow esoapes were had. Sawyer, Wallace A Co. 's were so'overoome'with few “and nervouV-1 warehouse, 69 Main street, was owned by themselves. Ladies in particular were at a disadvantage. Thou who had families de pendent upon their earnings for support A TRAGEDY OF THE MINES. ness at the danger of bdng]tbrown out of Glover. It was a solidly built brick employment th.t they were mode slok, and b ““" n «u“ 1““““® *tra<>taro, and valued in one or two instances fainted and had to I at *20,UU0. It was partially insured. In be carried home. Tho clerks begin to feel £• warehouse were 2 «0 hogshoads of to- that there is no donbt that the promotion I baooo, worth .R om *120,000 to $12o,000. examinations will afford ample opportunity AU of tho tobacoo was destroyed. I ho for the discharge of all employes whoso ser- ! took was wtU i ? 8 " r * d ; r . Tho Boom ware vices aro to be dispensed with at the end of bouse was owned by Thomas H. Glover, tho fiscal year in accordance with law. In- a ? d 7a ' n ,?J ataboat , U 00nttt 1 i 1 ned , deed, itis said that the Civil Kervice Com- ab .°, n ‘ 1 -°°° hogsheads of tobacoo, all of missioi will soon be called upon to desig- 7,n C ^w[ U .°° D .\ U n™^n. W8 ,? i7° r i^ * r0I j uate scholarly bnt inexperienced persons I **2o,000 to $12o,000; partially InBnred to All tbe places of tried and efficient clerks ° n botb bnildings and tobacoo. The . * ....... .I Kannnr vnrnnnnan Wfifl ntnut Five of the. Imprisoned Mon In Virginia tu uu tuo uibuoo ui meu uuuuuucut vaciAt ■ _ . . City Mlne» Found Dead- who ate somewhat rusty in arithmetic and ? ftn ? T er „ 522“®?^ _ » .sr.i * 1 M- ParrUh & uo., valued at about Yiboinu Nev., Jane 25—la addition to g^grapny. » -- * the six men imprisoned by fire in the Best maxiko the examinitions more severe. and Beloher mine, five men are sbnt eff from escape in the CUO-foot level and fonr men in the 400-foot level ot the Gould and Carry mine, making in all fifteen miners imprisoned. Little hope Is entertainod of Having the men on the 400-foot level. En gines sro busily ongagod in pnmping air to the levels where tbe miners are imprisoned. Thousands ot persons snrronnd the mines and the most inienso excitement prevails. No effort is being made to pat ont the fire, os it is impossible to nsoertain where it is. Laieu.—A rescuing party has finally managed to reach the C<X)-foot level, bnt thoy found the five minersdead. They hid evidently been asphyxiated whilo endeavor- 1 g to escape. The miners have not yet been able to do anything toward tbe rescue of the men imprisoned in tbe Best and Belchor mine. The names of tho dead men are John Tronnce, J. Morgan, R. C. Brnee, W. O. Carpenter and Andrew Bean. Morgan was married only a few weeks ago and it is feared that bis widow will lose her reason In oonseqaenoe of his death. Vieginia Cm, Nev., Juno 25.—Unavail ing efforts wore repeatedly made to-day to reseno the six miners entombed in tbe imrning Gonld and Carry mine lu which fivo miners lost their lives last night. The firo won extinguished about noon to-day, at d a cage waa sent down, bnt was driven back after it bad reached the 1,000 foot ievol. Relays of miners are tunneling through from tbe Consolidated Virginia mine, and they expect to reach the imrris- onid miners by noon to-morrow. The damage to the mine from the fire is very- slight. It it known that the Imprisoned men were alive a'2 o'clock this morning, which fact has occasioned gre t energy on tho part of the relief parties, who are mak ing superhuman efforts, in the hope that the entombed men may still be alive when the tnnnel is completed. $7,000 and belonged to the undivided Tne secretaries of looal ivfl servies ^ UponUimd about GOOIhogsheads of boards at several of the large cities, called l ° b »°“' Y “> n ' d etfomtlOOOOtoMfi.m here to confer with the Civil Service Com-1 *? thought that the legations that will mission, with a view to establishing a uni- bo brought about by the firo will bo some- form system of examination throughout the thing .astounding. ^Lorillnrd A Co., and country and to exchange views upon quca-1 ii?m. 0t «. b wafi 6 n^hlrf tons affecting the civil service eystc-m, oon-1 borkand wc , 89 ° tber8 > eluded their services this afternoon. One I bought a lorge lot of ^baoco In thlsmsi- of tho most Important questions discussed k , et , 5 r A a , y ’ was that of amending the present ml os | i to provide toi the examina. tion and marking of paperB applicants for positions anywhere in tho customs or postal service by tbe pres ent boor 1 r.f examination loostod in Wash ington, enlarged by a permanent detail of ono or more efficient officers from several of tbo more important local offices in tbo country. It is claimed that by this system ot examination of papers uniformity in marking and greater promptness wonld be secured, and that ii would relieve the sys tem of all suspicion even of favoritism, hs applicants wonld be known hero only by number, the n.me in noinatanco beingper- milted to accompany tbo papers. It is also. ... .. said that in view of their other duties I gr«to'ate the country that the fl.gs are to basing their claim upon some technicality. TIIE CAPTURED FLAGB. Iletolutions Adopted by Veterans of the Army of the Foi New Yonx, June 25.—An erroneous state ment was telegraphed on Wednesday from Saratoga, as to the disposition made by tho Army of tbo Potomao of the resolutions in troduced t>y various members touching the battle flogs. It waa asserted that all these rcsolatioim were laid npon the table, correct statement wonld have been that &11 were laid npon tbe table oxoept those offer ed by Corporal Tanner. Theso were passed without one dissenting vote. They oon- the timo at tbe disposal of the present ex amination board for the pnrposo of passing and marking examination papers is entirely inadequate. Mr. Mason, secretary of the Now York cnetom house board, Mr. Post, of tbe New York poat-ofllce board, and Ur. Donovan, of tho Chleago custom home remain in tbe keeping of the national au thorities, and prononnee them holy relios which Bhonld not be bnrnod nor given away, but preserved, that they may remind future generations of tbe awfnl sacrifice of tho civil war, and inspire them with devo- board, were appointed a committee to pre sent in writing the views of the secretaries upon this subjeet. The secretaries unanl- mouily favored raising the minimum as the standard of eligibility to office from <5 Tbe following are the resolutions intro duced by Corporal Tanner: “Resolved, That the Society of the Army of the Potomao congratulates the country at large that in obedicnoe to a sentiment e. irac j.M up 0 ?] ceo' PP*J' '•bulletin yon are putting ont that 'took is in lonnB is a msli- . tdaebood. Not ono share of I Mbastton is in loans or has had I 1 ®*, ,»u the back; nor do JJ_*«ilg|lar in tbe world. Yon should Jeentrodiot Yonrt truly, ,. “Jat Gould.' 1 «****••*» further, that the story Cyrus W. Field had quart, lied <; last be and Mr. Field were as »s ever. The mmor that I, .* ,f ouMs is also baseless. i* 1-10 to l fer diem, : _ .“8* >» quoted as haeieg said n™!®* esMcrtrom ibis time on. Minus to ndv .noo slightly, not- nig. heavy rate for money. * ho 6to ® k board seems rjfidiy. puzzled to soeonnt for the t a. i* HI'* 1 decline could oconr PsEPl!* 8 Ibe bail I «KliV. f < I ^ ‘“derbllt and Pniiodel- luaJk a 1 * ' ak »n up stocks which VeJ.,, . “ d rt| i-*til the holders [ail rr.i y n * eevBfidnn them. Cy rus (•OWiIi a/®®!** •'dd. nad t.ktn np fcoiua a “ b8tlaa 8tock - ««‘ d end J , , 'tiuir. df0, k Ul# d^nectnees of tho fc, Uoo, "fi“. a d8.‘ge dU ‘ R " tmen * ■Miggbj*** 24 -Bi-cretery Fair- «t 1J0 o’clock that with As.i*tant Press- tba.^"^ ,,k 10 k *' , P bio1 io - '••neSlim.. 0 lt eff airs to Wall Uuttt., y , Jibing Seri,as ahonld B’baoa r ?? . b ® bed heard nothiog I s * •uu^j! ll ^ n ' f unaaaim •<. He said t. « IbU hour did not Wre »n, u ,Utanoe from • 'Umaled very plainly f*Mhoiix»ih 10 • ttm ta-mioentbe file P'vpayment of the in rb'.OCKj 0 I, '■ •hick wonld rdeaai ‘‘wSi el*o .aid that if ‘ b* wonld offer » Ikr.?’ *“bo»t rebate, the $19. t - ceuL bonds uj*tanng <b * n that ®f » ■W***»i|7;Ul-afford to iBire. IS «* a l,‘. b, C oo- lig>».>ia£*»fieMdruii -t,k. l tt*a*rly a. It *-*i*StjCallstm! worn All FIGHTING ON THE BORDER. A Bloody Battle Between KmUEflers ami River Guards. Galveston, Juno 26.—A dlipateh from Eagle Pass to tha News says: Intelligence was reotlved here at a late hour last night that a sanguinary conflict was In progress between the river guard and smucglors at a point fifteen miles below Piedraa Negros, in iltzioo. Tbo coufliot Is still in progress. A scouting party of river guards and policm men, numbering twenty-five, surprised a band of about twenty smugglers well armed, with a cavalcade of twenty pack mules. Tho smugglers at once showed fight end at the flr.t volley two guards fell dead and fonr had their bones killed un der them. The guards then fell bock and dispatched a cornier to ^I'l^ras ^N5groa for rciututee&ieuU. la the meant-me - - “ smugglers fell back toward the Rio Grande, with the evident purpoac of cross ing the river to the American side, from which they were distant about eight miles. The smugglers in their retreat kept np a desultory ikirmiih with the reinforced guards, who era pressing them in the re%r. When it became appirent that the design of the contrabandlite was to seek ref age ou American soil toe Mexican authorities notified CollectorTbrokold, who sent a posse of mounted Inspectors from this city to intercept them A brisk fight is expected. A Mexican guard arnved in Piedrae Negrai late ihU evening from the scene of addon and reparta the fight .till » progress end one or more of the gnerds eke killed. Tho loos of the smokers Is not known. TI1B LOUISVILLE DRILL. The Montgomery Compentra Take Two the Three I’rlaea. Louisville, June 24.-The Inter-FUte drill at the lair ground* drew l*W»< between fonr tnd flve Uioiuand P“P ,# f®*; terdny. It Is thonght to bo a very close race betw. en the Monigomety Greyo and the Louisville Light InUniry for the fint prize of *2,000, eith the Montgomery True ^'louuvulle, June K-tameU.. crowd, were present at the M*mu«i>i. c ®'‘ b ”‘!?“^ Oeotnl Park ‘=> d ; y '. Ji® ' Ti° fl,kt ori/ - SfartgxttlSgS ! *750. by th . M jutgom.ry True Blmw. TU ' b - 18 0( LdVKeSir! ptny ru»kmg Jf, me eet-juu 81 per cent. to irexccpt to euc B U plac4s i. reqalm.p^Ul v«t}y dominant throughout the hand the technical quoliflcationi. They also favored battle banners wrestsd by the valor of our the diacontinnance of the lorty-flve-year , fj!°“ Vl 6 . limitation as to tbe oge of olerka in general, ®f a gallant foe, are to remain, os the law’of ncept in special cases, and also to raise the th® land pro vidos.forevermore^nnder the Mrrierh fromhix'teen to°twonty a ona^ Ttmse Cy^ho^rmnatitate^nuthoritto^of tSonation! ri^”t lsTaU a« aharTdYtf by the^CivU "‘'Resolved, That while in th. days when .. w . n _ i ill * _ I WO IPIlt htpn 1 Havlce^CommijBsion.who willsoon place «'^pt step to the martial mn.le of the tho matter before the President for his ap-1 u ad ? D > * beI ? eeenoa of camp and field and provol^H BLOODSHED THREATENED. all the dread accompanimenta of deadly strife entered so largely into onr daily life, these banners floated at the head ot rebel eolnmna, they aro nevertheleaa Citizens will llealat the Payment of Bomla hol y re n ca 0 j onr comn ion people. Bravo for Which They Got no Benefit. m6n j/fl pj keep them ailo.it, brave men Louuvilu, Jnno 24.—United (Rates died to bring them down. They shall not Marshal Gross retnrned from Taylor be bnrnod, they shall not be lightly given oonnty, Ky., where he went to take the sway by those who in no senso can enter initiatory step* to colleot taxes for the pay- into the feeling of either those who by tbe mentof tbe county railroad bonds of the exercise of heroism unexcelled were en- Cumberland and Ohio railway, in accord- abled to lay them aa trophies at the feet ot anco with a judgement istned by Judge Abraham Lincoln, or those who only enr- Howell Jackson at a recent term of the | tendered them after a heroic defense, which but enhanced tbe glory of their capture, for Northern meu [and tjouthern, Union men all to-day, mand for those flags such care Will insure tncir prescrv.tion. mis m or United States Court. He reports the citi zens of that county lu a very bad temper | for and determined not to piy Ibe taxes. The threat was made that the mandate ot the ecnrt oonia not be executed unless at the cost of many lives. Manholl Gro6a I d«.r that generations yet to come may see is determined to execute the judgment aid them, not in hnmilietion,bnt to the end^thst collect tbe taxes. He returned to the city each contemplation may produce reflection this evening to consult with the United npon the awfal sacrifice through which we States diatriot attorney, leaving a deputy have preached onr high plane of national on the gronnd. There is great excitement existence and cause a firm resolve that at Campbellaville, the county seat of Tay- through all their lives these generations Copyrighted 18S7 by New York Associated Frebs Beiilin, Jane 25.—Tho prisoners Keooh- lin and Bleck, who were recently oonvioted of treason in belong! og to the French Patri otic League, were to-dny transferred from Leipsio to Magdeburg fortress, and their as sociates, Sebittermsn and Trap, to Grstz, where they will remain nntll tbelr periods of detention expiro. Tbo government has heard nothing of the alleged application of France for tbeir releasoor commutation of their sentence,^tnd no approach at negotia tions concerning them has been made In any form. If the French government bad taken such an imwi-u ht.-p a t&nces, Bismarck wonld oertainly have guored tbo application. The opinion thronghout Germany is that tbe prisoners have been itniently treated, and may yet have their sentences modified, bnt their only chance of obtaining a commutation is in tho eeesntion of the Patriotio Leagno ngitation, and in their making a direct ap peal for mercy to the Emperor. The tone of the Frenoh press in demanding the re- leaso of Kooohlin, on the unmnd that he is a Frenoh ottizen and officer, and was aotborized by the German government to reside in Alsace-Lorraine, together with threats of retaliation on German anbjeots in France, tonds to tho increase of sever- ities against French malcontents in Ai-acc Lorraine-. The position of the Germans in France has booome under sooial persecution barely tolerabio. They would bo bunted ont of tbo country altogether bnt for tbe protec tion gnara'-teed them under tbe Frankfort treaty, which debars tbe French govern ment from placing n prohibitive impost upon Germans resident in France. Mess nres for the repression of tho French els meat in Alsace-Lorraine have boon forced npon tho Berlin government, which, how- evor, has never gone to the length of pre venting French citizens from tr dioa with Frenoh residents in Reichsland. French manufacturers and traders, so long as they are not associated with politiosl conspira tors, nro treated there on the same fooling with Germans. In Franoe German traders are now being stamped ont. Tho latest antl-Germun projection, of whioh tho Ber lin officials lias been advised, is a pro posal before the Chamber of Deputies mak- Dg foreigners resident in France, who may he membors of an association hostile to Frenoh interest-*, liablo to fine and to im f irisonment and cxpnUioo. The proposal h capable of snch elastic intorpraU>tior« as to oover all Germans sojourning m France. If tbe measure is supported by the govern ment it will be sssnmed here to be directly hostile to Germany, and will lead to an en ergotic remonstrance as a breach of tbe Frankfort treaty. Tbe Offioial Gazetto for Relohsland, in contradictiog French fables abont the huppresslon of foreign traders and Frenoh mannfactnreia in Alaaoo- Lorraine.defines clearly what tbo German government alms to accomplish. It deolares that tbe government’s desire is to foBter all commercial activities, and to take only snch measures as may bo necessary to maintain pnblio peace and weaken influences tending to retard the rennlon of Alsace-Lorraine with Germany. This statement is in har mony with what is happening iu Alsace Lorraine. Tbe officials there strictly oh servo tbe rnle of non-lnterferenoe, even In the oase of notorious French rualoontents, unless acta really in detianoe of law are committed. French Bgents am swarming In Reichsland, and have the ut most lieanso to drive their trade, althongb suspected of often abusing their facilities. Tne social sensation of the week has been the verdict ot the officers of the oonrt honor in the caso of Major Ulnze, aocmed of omitting to challenge to a duel his politi cal opponent in the Reichstag election, who during the election campaign aapened his honor 'a an officer. Major Hinze was re tired from the army on a pen Hton and wears two orders wan on the field of battle. He waa a Pro gressist deputy in the late Reiobstag. opposed tho S.ptonnale and favored the short service system. He beoime intensely unpopular among his former brother officers, who denounced him during the electoral straggle as nnfit to bear an army title or wear orders. He prosecuted his slanderer in a court of law and obtained a sncceaslal verdict, whereupon the staff officers of the Guards Oorps appointed a court of honor, whose decree deprives Hinze of the right to the title of Major and to wear the uniform of the urmy. The Emperor has confirmed GREAT FIRE IN CHICAGO. lor conhty. Tte amount of taxes involved is $18,000 in Ibis particnlar cose, though tho total amount dne bondholders from other countries amount to abont $26,000. The road was never bnilt. will stand solidly for tbe Union, peace and fraternity.'’ A TERRIBLE TEXAS TRAGEDY. An Insane Barkeeper Shoots ills Best Friend Dead. Forr Worn, Tex , June 23.—W. T. Prepayment of July Interest. ,ane . d 26 —Secretary Fair-1 Qrigkby, proprietor of tho Unique Sample child this afternoon telegraphed to all as- r0 om«. became suddenly insane lost night aiatant treasurers directing the payment of Itom brooding over financial troubles. He Ju<y interest checks end eotipoc. upon 6tood i can t ng 8 on Us safe befe.ro i crowd of presentation. Many of tbe interest checks friendJi wUh , 45 calibre revolver, [or registered bond, were mailed in advenes miklng elaborate preparations for knfeide in anticipation of this action, so aa to fa- and keeping the crowd et bav with the cdiUtetU payment. The effect will bo L ei0in th 8 “te n in“ to UU en"y Th7t £ f,0 T ^‘ h ®‘ a M, rc “^ r !t*°, f ? b0n preached. D. B. Kennedy, hi.beet friend, * m® j? Ure8t came Into the saloon at the time, end rnn- cbecks will be mailed to-day. bimiler ao D j cg towards Grigsby, said: “He shan't iron has heretofore been taken by the de- t* flowed to kill Urns ■ pertinent when ths occasion demanded, bnt w jn rhye hj m it sometimes bsj ptntd thst authority for their payment before matnrity w** with htld. Negroes KJrcted from the While Cnr, Avoi’hta, Ga., June 25.—Two colored i men, father and non, from !- -ton, took I n<-nU in a (init-rU-* white c»r of the (»eor- j railro-id fast tnun from Atlanta to An- j k’ntitA. Tte condnctor rtqnfstfd tfcft-m to; Uke S6AU :n tte or provided for oolor ‘ 1 pecpl ■bow « f force wmade to *j*-et them, wfcen they took tbe state twfgntd them by t , t m , 4 , t , the conductor. { destination by r»il. be allowed to kill himself, poor fellow. I will nave him." Not heeding the command to h-ilt, Kennedy prtated on and wm shot through tha heart The manino taw what he had done end sank to the floor moaning: •*Iue gbllo a «. the g A low«,* I im going to the gallows." lie n- mnniAO. An Mr 111 to m New Oeleash, Jane 26.—Tne lhcaynne'a N«tcti / hprcial *h\h Th- Siefti; * r Paris C. Brown blew ont her c>linder and cr<$ck> hi *- k • y refnaed to do, nntll a | ed her abi$fi jnat bflow here, r ec<teaiUti' g her return to New Orleaa-i. .She land*®! her pamengfrn and they proceeded to their 11 d* th* degradation of although there au Q* ^ t c i aUie f n tho criminal code applying fnnAllytn snldif-ra and rivillians. which foirbids challenging to a duel under a pen alty of six month*’ imprisonment. This decision pots the stamp ot highest authori ty on dueling as a laudable custom, pre vailing over the law forbidding it. The Emperor has completely recovered. Yesterday he resumed bis custom of ap pearing at a window to return tho greet ings of the multitude that daily gathers in front of the Three Mm Killed. Mexico. Mo., Jane 25—Three men were walking along the Cbieago and Alton track, which parallel* the Wabusb, and stepping over the Utter to avoid a Chicago and Alton tr*in they were struck from behind by a Waba«h train which tb?y did not see ap proaching, and two were killed. Tbe man who is alive is badly hurt. He give his name aa George Adam*, of Chicagj. He said one of hU companlona wm named Hart and the other he only knew by the name of Jim Adams cannot llva. Th© Yellow Fever at Key Writ* Washington, June 25.—Instructions have been given to Passed Assist tnt Sar- geon Qiiteras, of the marine hospital serv ice, who is now in K*y West,to m ke scien tific inveHti^dtion of tbe nature of tbe dis- «:«#*« prevailing in that city, especially with reference to the spectroscopic condition of H * r * v »ng j the blood. Itis txpected that the rtfagee tUtion to beesta ; Imbed at Kgmont will ba ready for nne next week. A Urge number of tcuU will be transferred from New Or leans to tbe iUtioo. TheDentructlonof huIimneniie Packing: Ea- tAbllshinent Chum** a LohmoT W1 /JRO.OOO. Chicaoo, June 26.—Early this morning one of tho employes of tbe Chicago Packing And Provision Company discovered fire in the tank room. In a few minutes one of tho tauks e xploded scattering burning Urd all over adj icent buildings and a dozen separate Arts wore soon burning. Tho de struction of tho immense establishment wan nearly complete, though the firo watt under control this evening, fourteen and a-half hours after it started. The firo is still mouldering. Loss, $1,250,000. Tho Chicago Packing and Provision Com pany's works occupy about six acres of ground, but tho lire v/iih kept within the district bounded by Fortioth street, Centre avenue, Forty-second street and the rail- roul tracks. This territory contained four large buildings. The mAin buildiug was three hundred by fonr hundred and seven- tutj-tivc feet, in it a portion of the killing as done, and tho hanging, ontting, pack ing, curing and other work incidental to a slaughtering establishment. Except tho onr- iiii/ mom. in which wore l'.UKK'.UOu pounds of'short ribs, these buildings are a total lot8 The caring room, 1G0x4OO foot, and fonr stories high, lost its roof, but tho stone firn walls saved i'B contents, a portion of them in a roasted condition. Ou tbo east File of tbo main building was a warehouse, 120x100 f et, with four stories and base ment. The two upper floors at the south end wereused for killing purposes. Iu tho warehouse were 17,000 turrets of mess pork belonging to Armour & Co. Tbe building and much of the pork were destroyed. About 3,000 live hogs were in the building when tho fire started, but the company’s employes succeeded in getting most of them out, but between six hundred and Ri ven hundred hogs were burned alive In the bnildiDg, Bick of the main building wero the fertilizing factory, 100 feet (square, and the engine houso, 50x65 feet. Roth structure^ were burned completely. 'lhe fact that no wind was blowing when the firo startod was probably the ouly cir cumstance that saved the entire stock yards from destruction. No porson seems to know the origin of the fire. Several saw the blaze simultanoonsly as it went through the roof of the tank house. Tho lUmcn begun rap idly to eat tbeir way directly across the building. Though tbe fire department was quickly at tho scene, the fire had gained a volume that no amount of water could re duce. Hugo sweeping circles of flames were whirling npward with a roar that conld be beard for blooks away. Twenty engines and every reserve in tbe yards wore soon t>r« UKht in play. All efforts of the firemen and hundreds of stccky aids’ employ en wero bent toward keeping tho conflagration con- tinni to tbe works of the Chic ig) company. Whilo one little squad of firemen were standing In a freight car playing on the tank room, tho tanks exploded, and n heavy beam came crashing through the oar. riinarihing Pip inau lUker'n ankle and knocking E liott unconscious. Soon after wards tbo waiU of tho houso tumbled to tbo gronnd, dUclosi' g a great heap of mess pork. P. D. Armour immediately set a hundred men to work removing tho meat. Charred humls of it wero rolled out and carted way. The little army tramped over hngA piles of looi>e pork, and carried big chunks of it out on tlio railr )ad tracks, whore it was thrown i.i bcup* Two wheeled carts and big four wheeled trucks were loaded from th» ho hoH|.4 like garbage wagons from tbe gutter. Mr. Armour watched tho mans of pork and cinders being cleared away whdo bis manager stood on an elevation of mens pork and superintended the work. The oarc tMK' ri of hogs roasted whole, the charred bodies a shupeless mass of cinders, were mingled with piles of briok, blickomd bonus and incinerated barrels, AHer tbe flames had oounnmed m nt of the wood work of the buildiug. 1 he firo made way into the nr. iu inouiiitri ot burning meat. Smoko thick with the fume* of r lasting |>ork rolled over tbe stock pens and drove into tbe eyes of the firemen. Falling walls fill'd the air with particM'ri of bri.k dust, blinding and suffocating the men. Thoy wero at time* cwutpflled to leave tli- ir hose and plunge thtir heads into buckeUlof water. Then they sit in turns with handkerchiefs dipped in water on th»ir swollen eyed ids, cr bathed th*ir bliaUrcd checks with dirty water. PerhripM tbo most exching kcene of tho day Wits prettentod when tho men.who wero attempting to drive through covered runa ways the live hog* in tho upper stones were forced by the llirces to deai«t. Below were scores cf workmen r >iiing«m figwrels f pork. Down on the crowd pelTineU leaped dozens of affrightid animals from windows or sprang through open hatchways. Men who bad braved tie firms fled from the falling hoga and atadiiUnce watched for glimpnen of tho squealing brutes that crazed with pain wero m-itiug madly about in th<ir tail-prison of of tire About 200 barrels of pork wero saved before the bogs commerced jumping. D (ring the afternoua the firemen g*ve uer a'tcutiuu to saving the abort ribs In th curing room, wnue a number were imide tbo building one of the diviai lls fell, severely injuring J. A. hr jtt Th -mas Murpbey, W. Hite, Nichols and Thomas Elliott. Mu captain valued bis 17,000 barrels of p rVt^$3bT) Q - 0O> IIjFai l that with ftud *mrari'« w w u d corny out tven, but was unable to give the amountH of insurance. Tho plant of tho Chicago Packing and Pro- viuiou Compaiy wa* valued at $300 0.4) and tho atock at $i 00,000. A lx/ge portion of the st< ck in store belonged to other par ties and the lois will be sustain* d by them. Abouthnlf of tbe Cbicigo Patckiug and Provision Company’s 2.500 employee will, b© thrown uut ot work. Fireuran Michael Murphy died to night. A Fire at Jack«unvll!e, Jaccsokvii.i.k, Juno 25.—A fire broke ont la-it ntg'it at 11 o’clock, totally destroying tbe 1 go brick block at the corner of Bay and C .y H.net*. occupied by Clark A Lof- tn-'. furniture; Watson A Co., drug*, and Stifle Brotht-ra, leather. Tbe lo** on the bcildm > \ 1 ht< «-k in insurance ibotiHOOJO. It to supposed thra* nun who w«.re in the building trying to havo vj.-h 11.y xalh era 1 bed ;n were killed. Their names axe unknown. Hix others were hurt from tho same oaune. non** j fatally. Rrath of a | Fire Im New Orlran*. | New Oar.xi.H», Jane 25—h uith 4 Jami- ; eon's cotton Kwaefj ami pickery, with its j Meltoi erateats, togethst with sered sfijacent I bmlJicg., burneti to-day. Lon. 110,000. i«*nt Preacher. I-OIIHIMIIH, vx, Julu 20 lt*3V. J. a. D. li..ecKwcM, D. D , pMior of the Mono- m* u* .1 tburili i ( iui* city, diet! ©any this m >r/.ir after a britf iilrj(?«R f of per ionitia* J)r. B!a< k «r»ll wm C-, years cf age, and was ry | rum.iient min«-ter in the Sauthem t Church. Ha was on the street twoda>«ago, and his »udden demU© is a great shock to the community.