Worcester Morning Daily Spy, 1897-03-15

An examination of the place was then made, and it was seen that the flooring of the room in which the Are was dis discovered - covered discovered was saturated with kerosene. If the fire had got a good start, the building would certainly have been de destroyed. - stroyed. destroyed. There are several policemen whose beats terminate at this building, and there were two of them at the building about 10 minutes before the alarm sounded, but neither of them saw anybody leaving the building. The damage to the building was slight. Mr. Mellen could not tell Sunday night whether he was insured or not. The occupants of the stores suffered very little damage. THE STAR FOUNDRY. Its Business in the Future To Be Con Confined - fined Confined to Loom Castings. The consolidation of the Crompton Loom Works, the Knowles Loom Works and the Star Foundry has resulted In a change In the last named shop, which has for several years been doing a rather big business in the way of heavy castings. Hereafter it Is the intention of the con consolidated - solidated consolidated concern to use it only for the purpose of loom castings, and Saturday the 97 men employed at t'he foundry were notified that they would be needed no longer. The notice was n surprise to the men, as they were not looking for such a complete sweep, although they expected that some changes would be made. Three of the discharged men were hired later in the day to go to the foundry at the Knowles Loom Works, and the men now at work at the Crompton foundry on Green street will go Into the Star Foun Foundry - dry Foundry today. Charles A. Pratt, who has been general superintendent of the Star Foundry, has rented the foundry of the old steel works on Bloomingdale road, and will go into that plant today, and will doubtless give employment to some of th« discharged men. THE SOCIALISTS. The Out-of-door Meetings To Be Resumed as Soon as Weather Permits. The members of the socialist-labor par party - ty party had been hoping during the week that Sunday would be characterized by mild temperature. In order that the old custom of holding open-air addresses on the common might be revived, but at the dawn of the day all hopes vanished. No out-of-town speakers had been engaged, as It was the original intention to have brief remarks by local socialists, Mr. Ab Abbot, - bot, Abbot, Leroy D. Usher, secretary of the sec section, - tion, section, and John Young. However, the so socialists - cialists socialists do not allow such a trivial matter as Inclemency of the weather to dis discourage - courage discourage them. Elated by the number of votes polled by Candidate for Alderman Addison W. Barr, who Is now in Biloxi. Miss., meetings will be held with unfail unfailing - ing unfailing regularity on the common as soon as conditions permit. It is intended to put more vim and energy into the work this year than ever before. REV. DR. HAMILTON RESIGNS. Boston, Maroh, 14. - Rev. Dr. B. F. Hamilton, pastor of the Eliot Congrega Congregational - tional Congregational Church, has resigned after a pas pastorate - torate pastorate of 5 years. The chief reason ex expressed - pressed expressed for his resignation is the neces necessity - sity necessity for a rest from work.

Unless something unexpected occurs, the new tariff bill will be sent to the senate a week from next Saturday, or a fortnight after the opening. Tomorrow the perfunctory perfor performanc.es - manc.es performanc.es will no doubt attract a large attendance. The new house will be called to order by the clerk, the roll be called, after which the candidate? of the several parties for speaker will be placed in nomination, and the result of the vote will determine the political alignment of the new house. Of the republicans, democrats, popu populists - lists populists and silver fusionlsts that consti constitute - tute constitute the house, 206 are republicans. The percentage of new members is unusual unusually - ly unusually large. There are 148 new men. Of these, 132 'have not served in congress before and 16 have served prior to the 64th. After the house is organized, a com committee - mittee committee will be appointed to await on the president and inform him that the house is ready for business. Pending the appearance of the president's mes message, - sage, message, the biennial seat drawing will occur. This is always the feature of the opening day. THE ARBITRATION TREATY The Only Thing to Distract the Senate From Cuba, This Week. Washington, March 14. - Vice Presi President - dent President Hobart will rap the senate to or order - der order at noon tomorrow. The week does not now promise to be a busy one in the senate, unless the arbitration treaty with Great Britain Is considered. Sena Senator - tor Senator Davis, chairman of the committee on foreign relations, sajd today he would force the question of ratification as soon as It would be possible, in ex executive - ecutive executive session. There will be consider considerable - able considerable opposition to It even In Its amend amended - ed amended form, but the friends of the treaty assert that there will be not over 20 opposing votes, when the final result is announced. Some nominations are expected on Monday, and there may' be a brief ex executive - ecutive executive session to permit the reference to committee. A number of bills, a majority of which will be those which failed last session, will be acted upon during the week, but they must receive committee action, and there will be little or no legisla legislative - tive legislative work. The president's message is expected Monday. There Is now talk of filling all com committee - mittee committee vacancies, except those In the committees on finance and appropria appropriations. - tions. appropriations. Both of these committees are quite equitably adjusted, and It Is feared that an effort to supply the va vacaaMpe - caaMpe vacaaMpe might result in bitter feeling antventanglement which the republi republicans - cans republicans desire to avoid on the eve of the first fight. The credentials of Corbett and Hen Henderson, - derson, Henderson, appointed to fill senatorial va vacancies - cancies vacancies from Oregon and Florida, re respectively, - spectively, respectively, will be presented Monday. They, will be referred to the committee

THE BIG FIGHT REPORT. Only One Bulletin service for All Papers in the Country-No Private Snap. J. N. Taylor, son 'of the editor of the Boston Globe, writes his paper from Carson, Nev., as follows, concerning the press arrangements at the Corbett- Fitzsimmons tight, showing that the Globe and ALL OTHER NEWS NEWSPAPERS - PAPERS NEWSPAPERS will be treated exactly alike: | 'The seats for the press range around I close to the ring. There are 104 of them ; in all, and all papers in cities having a population of more than 20,000 will be recognized. There will be two wires at the ring side, one of which will be used for Western Union bulletins. The other will be used in an emergency only. is the intention of the Western Union to use all papers alike, and for that reason no wires will be leased for the exclusive use of anj- one paper. "It has cost the Western Union Tele Telegraph - graph Telegraph Company more than *IO,OOO to got reads' for handling the business brought about by the Corbett-Fitzsim Corbett-Fitzsimmons - mons Corbett-Fitzsimmons match. "There were two wires between Reno and Carson when Corbett and Fitzsim Fitzsimmons - mons Fitzsimmons arrived, but linemen were at once put to work and seven new wires were stretched over the mountains and are now ready for use. "Quadruplex Instruments have been put in. and one wire to Chicago will be worked with the Wheatstone system. By this method from 130 to 150 words a minute can be sent. The matter comes in Morse characters out on tape .and the Chicago operators send direct from this tape into the newspaper offices in the east. There are five quads here In the Western Union office, and another Wheatstone wire to San Francisco, with a capacity of 200 words per min minute. - ute. minute. "Up to 5 o'clock in the afternoon the Western Union will have also the use of two single wires which at that hour will be taken by the two press associ associations. - ations. associations. account of the limited wire facili facilities - ties facilities a great deal of the matter going to the eastern papers on the day of the fight will have to be sent by the way Of San Francisco, whence it will be transmitted to New York and Boston by the way of the southern trunk Une of wires. that day, up to 5 In the after afternoon, - noon, afternoon, there will be a Wheatstone and four sendings east, and a Wheatstone and five sendings west. Everything going east will be relayed at Chicago, and everything going west for the east will be put through repeaters alt Bau Francisco. The capacity of the office here will be about 25,000 words an hour."

DISCOUNTING FITZ. Wrestler Muldoon Says He Is Not in Good Condition, DON'T LIKE LOOKS OF EYE. But Jim Corbett, They Say, Was Never in Better Form. Stakeholder Smith Says Fitz's Only Show is a Short Fight at Close Quarters - Corbett's One-hand Practice. Carson, Nev., March 14. - The sensa sensation - tion sensation of t'he day was the declaration, made this afternoon by William Mul Muldoon, - doon, Muldoon, the famous wrestler, regarding Fitzsimmons. Muldoon is an acknowl acknowledged - edged acknowledged authority among sporting men on all matters pertaining to training and physical culture, and his opinion carries great weight with it. He visited Cook's ranch this morn morning, - ing, morning, and had a talk with Fitzsimmons. He looked him over carefully, and his opinion, expressed after leaving Fitz Fitzsimmons' - simmons' Fitzsimmons' training quarters, was not wholly favorable. "I did not like the looks of his eye,'' said Muldoon to some friends. took a walk with him, and we had a long conversation. We discussed the fight and prospects of both men, and Fitz to me did not seem to be at all over overconfident - confident overconfident regarding the result." Muldoon said he told Fitzsimmons he had seen Corbett at work and stripped in his dressing room, and that In his opinion the champion was in first firstclass - class firstclass condition. "I know it," said Fitz. "I know he is all right. I understand he was never in better condition." Fitzsimmons has done all the hard work of his training, and from now till Wednesday he will take only light ex exercise. - ercise. exercise. This morning he took a run of four miles to the penitentiary and back. He took his rub-down, and this ended his work for the day. Tomorrow he /will take a short run on the road, and do a little punching at the bag, and on Tuesday he will do practically noth nothing. - ing. nothing. Among the callers at Cook's ranch today was Billy M'adden, who tried to arrange with Fitzsimmons to meet his man, Joe Goddard, in the ring, in ease he succeeded in defeating Corbett. Fitz was non-committal, and declared that in any event he would not sign articles to meet any one till after the fight.

IN EXTRA SESSION. The Fifty-fifth Congress Will As. semble Today. LEADERS TO PUSH THINGS. Send Tariff Bill to the Senate, Week From Saturday, Only Ten Days for Debate - Rush Appro Appropriation - priation Appropriation Bills Through Without Ref Reference - erence Reference to Committees. Washington, March 14. - The fifty fiftyfifth - fifth fiftyfifth congress meets in extraordinary session, tomorrow noon, in pursuance of President McKinley's proclamation. The work before it - the passage of a tariff bill - has been pretty well cut out In advance, but the indications are that It will be a stormy session, and its length and scope are mere matters of speculation. Secretary of State Sherman remarked Several years ago on a memorable oc occasion - casion occasion in the senate that the president, like Aladdin, could rub the lamp and cause the genii to appear, but once they had appeared, they were masters of their own destinies. Congress once In session may go much further or not so far as the president may wish. So far as the house, which will or organize - ganize organize tomorrow, is concerned, the de determination - termination determination of the leaders is to direct Its energies to the task before It wltji all expedition, and throw the responsi responsibility - bility responsibility for complications and delays upon the senate. This was made manifest by Speaker Reed's speech, at the republican cau caucus, - cus, caucus, last night. Whether the leaders will emphasize any Inaction by the sen senate, - ate, senate, when the bill reaches that body, by a program of three day recesses, re remains - mains remains to be seen, but it seems likely that the speaker will, at least for the present, refrain from appointing any eave the committees actually necessary for the transaction of the business in hand. This will prove an effective bar to t'he passage of-miscellaneous or gen general - eral general bills, as the rules of the house are such that all such legislation must come through the agencies of commit committees. - tees. committees.

"The powers are too unanimously re resolved - solved resolved to maintain peace in the east to sanction such design. They find themselves compelled, though much against their will, to have recourse to vigorous measures which they shrink from 'adopting in regard to Greece. At the same time, they will have, in the resources at their disposal, a sure means of pacifying Ctvie without the co-operation of the Greek troops. "It Is hoped that Greece, seeing that the powers are firmly resolved not to shrink from any measure of coercion necessary, will give way, thus exor exorcising - cising exorcising the danger which, with her pres present - ent present attitude, threatens unpeace." TROUBLE ON THE FRONTIER. One of the Chief Causes of Excitement at Athens. Athens. March 14, 6 p. m. - Every m. - Everything - thing m. - Everything remains in sta tu quo, pending the action of the powers, but the minister of war Is hastening in every possible way the military preparations, precisely as if war were already declared. Great uneasiness is caused by the strained situation on the frontier. Graver advices are being received from Larissa. A dispatch says 1000 troops have been concentrated near Elassona. The Turks have formed two battalions to guard the frontier. The Turkish forces at Epirus were reinforced yes yesterday. - terday. yesterday. Among the Greek troops on the fron frontier, - tier, frontier, there is an increasing desire to try conclusions with the, Turks. A dec declaration - laration declaration of war Is awaited with Im Impatlen'-e - patlen'-e Impatlen'-e in mll^^t, cycles at Larris- The Greek corresbbndents who were expelled from Canea have arrived at Syra. They assert that Capt. Amo Amoretti - retti Amoretti urged them to leave because the Mussulmans threatened to dynamite the Greek consulate, where the corre correspondeuw - spondeuw correspondeuw ware staying, The Mua-

Thousands of horses and mules are arriving from abroad, the gift of rich Greeks, who are sending also large sums to the national treasury for patriotic purposes. The government does not seem embarrassed for money. Snow is falling on the Macedonian frontier and tihe troops are suffering from cold and exposure. It is rumored that disease Ihas broken out among the Turkish troops, who are largely young recruits, badly fed and lodged. GREECE STILL WAITING. Thinks the Powers Unwilling to Force Matters - A Proposed Compromise. Athens. March 14. - That Greece seems to realize that the powers are unwilling to make war, is borne out by rumors today. It is said this morning that Greece would accept for Crete a regime similar to that in Bosnia, which would leave inviolate the principle of non-annexation, while maintaining the integrity of the Ottoman empire; and It is suggested that France should take the Initiative, in securing this settle settlement. - ment. settlement. It is to The interest of France to make friendly advances to Greece, whose support would give her the naval supremacy in the Adriatic and Mediter Mediterranean. - ranean. Mediterranean. THE TURK'S PROMISE. Will Withdraw Troops in the Towns as Soon as preece Quits. Constantinople, March 14. - The porte continues to adopt an acquiescent tone, in answer to the requests of the pow powers. - ers. powers. Replying to the collective note of the ambassadors of March 5, the porte today announces In writing its intention to concentrate Ottoman troops in Crete in the fortified towns, as soon as the Greek troops have evacuated the is island. - land. island. The porte has also sent an iden identical - tical identical request to the envoys of the pow powers, - ers, powers, begging them to expedite the solu solution - tion solution of the crisis.

But even this is not absolutely nec necessary, - essary, necessary, as the committee on rules ean be invoked to furnish special orders. And it is by -means of special orders that the bills which failed of Mr. Cleveland's approval are to be put through at the extraordinary session. Consideration in committee would in involve - volve involve great d,elay, and result in almost interminable debate. Mr. Cannon, chairman of the appro appropriations - priations appropriations committee, says the bills as they went to Mr. Clevel'amd are all right, and he favors their re-passage under special rules, without the for formality - mality formality of again putting them through the regular channels. This plan will be followed, and tihe time before the actual debate on the tariff begins will be devoted to the appropriation bills. The new tariff bill will be introduced tomorrow. It will -then be printed and submitted to the democratic minority, and receive formal consideration by the full committee. It is not expect expected - ed expected .that this will require more than three or four days, although the demo democrats - crats democrats probably will protest vigorously against such expedition. The house leaders hope to enter upon the con consideration - sideration consideration of the bill in the house be before - fore before the end of the week. Some of them tonight fixed Thursday as the day on which the debate would be begin. - gin. begin. Although the limits of debate have not yet been decided on, the prevailing opinion is that it will not last over 10 dayns. Night sessions will of course be held throughout the period allowed for debate. This will give the new mem membe - be membe w an opportunity to make set speeches for the benefit of their con constituencies. - stituencies. constituencies.