————————— — ww THE NEWS/ The Dominion cabinet has passed an order in eouncll adopting the ugreement which was entered into by Bydoey Fisher and the authorities at Washington, on the question of quarantine, this ment sbolished between Hates, Mrs, Mary A. fragist, has been very Ill at Melrose, Mass, during the past week. Her condition at one time was so serious that it was feared she sould not recover, but danger, The Damara arrived at Halifax, N.8., with the Durham City. The machinery of the Durham City is disabled, Ex-City Chamberlain, A. J. Rogers, of Johnstown, N. Y., held to awalt the action of the grand jury on a charge of mis- appropriating £5,000 from the eity’s funds Rogers was released on £6,000 ball, Joseph Hoffman, the convict tempt at sulcide in Sing Sing last week by jumping from the fourth tier of the state penitentiary, attributed to abolition of labor in the prison, died as a re- sult of v's injuries, Michael M. Keeler, aged 75, who was for merly A. T. Stewart's confidential secretary, a year in Sing Bing for As a result of HUE rog- quarantine be the United international will Canada and Livermore, the woman suf- she Is now out of was whose at- has been the was sentenced to passing worthless cheeks, for Gusge who disap- ile Rallway full of Montreal detectives are h tave V. Nyman, of Minnea from the Canadian } was found to be peared Station. bis valise gold watches and jewelry. n received from L r of Mexie Ly announ has been seo; iar Cape sinms January 7 = Mckinl wodspeod to attend, if possibl ‘umberiand Society al and 23, President-Ele Maj. W. F. the Army Columb been ¢f early date ships were cl brokers, £1,000 000, rned has persistently | Benator chairman « been known Mr. Hanna's United States Ohio's veteran if premier i probably « this ambit Mr, Sher pire two yacaney ment will be { ernor Bashneli the Ohio Legislature understood tha point Mr. Hauna to Mr. 8h vyoars hence ate when the the head ¢ grave 3 f the Deg r Shor Nena statement relative nouncement, but against its acthentic Gen, i sell A. J in Washington a few ence with the Ohl understood, all adjusted and oir recon ] the belief that General Alger is al member of Mr. McKinley's cabinet, the pos ke ia to fill being that of Beeretary of War, a ————————— ENGLAND A8 OUR ALLEY. 08clal Opinion {n London Against Mr. terpreiation ofthe Monro Doctrine A copyrighted London eablegram to the Now York Evening Post says: Eutirely new Importance has been given to the ur mpact with the United Btates in Engilshowen’s eyes by Secretary O! ney's statement, reported by the Chronicle's Washiniton Correspondent, that Great Britain baviog in the Venezuelan treaty ad mitted the validity of the Monroe doctrine, she has now by the arbitration treaty become the nliey of the United States in the mainten, anes and enforcament of that doctrine, Official opinion does not confirm that wide interpretation of what is, the officials say, a treaty for a specific and clearly defined ob ject. They certainly would repudiate any confirmation by the treaty of Me, Olney's ex- pressed claio: that & permanent political union between a Earopesn and American state would be unnatural and inexpediont, “England,” sald a Jeading oficial to-day, “always has been a warm supporter of tie true Monroe doctrine, but not of that extray- agent version of it.” gh er) Meanwhile it is [significant that the Pa ndf Vienna newspapers comment on the uty as an affair of purely Anglo-American Olney's 1n- ration e¢ DEVASTATION Five Hundred Families Burned Out in Cuba, BY GEN. WEYLER'S ORDERS Alan Thelr Share of Eurning the Prohibited People from Carrying Produce. The Incsurgents are Doing Ceoeneral Wevyler and Insurgents rave Absolutely Countr: Reports have been received from Rantlaso effect that the burned the buildings on the farm of Ducaron, io the insurgents recently r Caney, Several young men who rocently joined the surgents at Mau » report the exis sotion among the Calixto Garela from Trinidad to Fah ® passeng sired to be pent to the fri is a Colt carbine i farnished additi the great insurgent leader's The government does pisata stated on vernmeut alloy be able to make 10.090 hogs sugar, because, from eight mile General Weyler asserts that there are only hortly repent having made such a statement. There is no doubt that the insurgents have suffered greatly from sickness and other cnuses, but Spanish come from the western part of Pinar del Rio the insurgents will again eoncantrate in inrge overwhelmingly largs force sent them, against HURLED DOWR A SHAFT. Five Men Killed by the Fall of a Crosshosd fa a Eine at Potteville, Pa. An accident, in which five persons were killed, occurred at the new Wadesviile shaft of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at Potteviila, Boon after arriving at the shaft in the morning the five victims stepped on the rim of a large fron bucket to be lowered A crosshead weighing several handesd pounds through which the bucket rope passes, had become frozen to the gaides and did not move when the bucket started. When the men bad gotten about half way down the crosshead fall, strikiog the bucket, The men were huried to the bottom of the shaft, 500 fort, and were mangiad, FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, Senate, 101m DAY. ~The Senate passed & number of bills on the calendar, incl ding several amendments to the law of navigation and iso the bill authorizing the Pre ) If point to the navy Commander Ounek whose versy. A jol Mills (demoers the power of re sides in b endence of Caba and appropriating 210,000 for u United Sates mints the republic of ( silent te noush hh toutro 1 by Cnsn agloned ma Offer OnEres tur « iba, Mr resolution right Iu the Benate pon tis the exc aru Day at length Mills that recogni of the Presi spoke tion Is not iusive lent Irn Day ih vas much curtalled by stinger tw of the day 8 the Ben HI exectiiive ses After this the bal given to Mr, Bacon, « uphoidi t 1068 new gov ¢ open session of at ii hours, SL ne the J ng the | sgromont House, Pacifle aid funding dered the most mportant that w reefs poanion Finile IWR iat ion at this under Hog was buroed this patients, eo hininor § Rge LHRH is reported of the Blate of Ua v 4 the AL Aol troved several hogses and Pacifle const k de failing walis ares puras i 4 A report was received at Galveston, Ta i t were injured by ax, he schouivr SNe from Matagorda that 8 Ghuil, shoe args of cotton, bal sunderad ia Pass fuxisty ix also fo t for the sch ul France, which salled from Matagorda at be same time as the Saa and is iverdne, At Millersville, Ohio, a son of Alesandes Dolwick sevarel several poands of Llasting powder sod wan Lo Lhe ot lar, accompanied by three sisiers, 'o kis rats The powder exploded aad oue girl, § years old, was mired to death. The ciothiog of the other ihre children caught fire and they wer avrribly busied, as were Mr, aod Mea. Dol wick in atte aptiog 15 extiaguish the Sames . i RII ps fia Cavaino, sonnet Fiower Cradl, How Norfolk, Va. Downing killed & ' the name of Emma Lang in After They Hands Had Spaniards James the Ma by Hulz and Then Thelr Companions ly Not Re Fallen Into of guire’'s Hands Were Loosed Liberated, Barry's B covared. Maguire, of Philladelphi Jeremiah w i Aries WW Al New York, sand Ch . have just reached Phila ng experience in Cuba, Barry, of Wiliam id against fled Biates, This on were rojsased 4 and saal a lomied with ’ hoars lat» ha se medd inrknoss, Hai methis ad been aroused from b tonet voajvety reeping his lace, and #ruek a disturbed Bim, iarantais While tb gon what | troy he Ho fainted, BAW savers: oughis of lle and desth hairy substar i through bis mind a cold, tnshed self in his face thinking How in hat when he again came to lle It was Frond day- fight and the tral was speeding like the | wind The straggling rave enabled him io Hmiy the objects uw out bim, and the petapiration broke oat on Bis forehead as he recognized Bis claire of the night before, 4 and saw that thsir amber had been trebied, He looked about tor a loows board, and found a small ons, but be knew i! he was attacked the tarautaies would leap at him, and that ’ he could not ward them off His apprehension was increased when he saw that they bad engaged in one of those fearful and deadly combats among them salves. For hours he sat there, facing these ireadlul creatures. Then night came on, and again he was mercifully rendered un. | conscious. Whew next he know what was golag on about bim he was on a cot in» hospital In Portland. He tad been thers & month, and #r goon through 4 well nigh fatal attack of ain fever, His companion on the journey 8 wae his bride, who lind come from the i «And fie, he fainted asin, belay auconsclous be does not know, see | end PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of News Gleaned From Various Parts of the Btate While Company's dam, skating on {3 Orge Beolt, Bed thr The y ough the lee and was drowne ng man was alone when the nest th OL ep pene ! his erie r help were heard by a far latter coul mer living ne I render body was re ar, though the Him no rovered about an b old chil ere, of Parsons, was burned Anna, the 2-year child was alone In the dently been playing with the parents returned the little burned horribly fohn Huans Ws Iron company s furnace walki i He was wire : kK hi $7 mm —— S—— NEWD™ CLFL. MH iCS. Arkansas niaing 62180 school teachers, Harvard Las ever 1 Ch re students this year than fongo is to havea hall that will sea 20,000 foes pie London furnishel Christmas 104,508 paapers, In Western New York apples and potatoest have hardly paid for barreling. Fogs, which are becoming more frequent, are rapidly adding a pew complication to our climate, A reunion of partici paien of the Repub at Pittsburg. The guestion of the exosssive taxation o* Ireland has aroused a good deal of excile. ment 4 that country. Tr usands of soldiers belonging to the Ta «sh armies have straek for the payment of heir overdus wages, During the past sloven months Clinton County, Michigan, hag paid out $416.81 for bounties for sparrows destroyed, A now and apparently inexhaustible vein of fine bine granite has been recently dis. covered near Fredericksburg, Va. The total of clearings for 1806 by the banks in the New York Clearing House Asso ciation was $28 870,775,006, a decrease of #071,021 868, During the first fifty weeks of 1808 the number of cases of rabies in dogs reported in England was 423, more than a fourth of them in London. This season's crop of coffee in Nicaragua is estimated at elehty per cont. of a full stop. The deficiency has been caused by insuffi cient raips during the year, Kentucky Republionns have abandonsd their proposed contest against Colonel Smith, the Bryan elector, and Kentueky's vote will remain twelve for Kinley and ona for Bryan, dinner to wits in the frst cars can party is to be hex The X Ray ray is Iw in Law. Ing Of ts diseas fendi 1o hz produced around to pros #4 successful wound was went to a aid who Mi ian Valley 1m WAN awake: motion in farna the pride of § #ouree of consid hastily dressed aml she to the she looked 0 sO fen yard. through a animal chasing the terrified tovis, thickens window and =a also noticed that three of fom lay dead on the ground. Hastily rolling a big stone up against the entrance to the yard, Miss Barnand returned to the house and pleked up a gun which ber nephew had left there it was nlad, Going back to the hen yard she pushed the gun through the window, nimed at the intruding animal and fired both barrels, Then costed 8 sanriing, spitting and umping the like of which she had pever seen or heard. When 11 ceased she peered cautiously in and saw the animal stretebed upon the floor. She dared not touch it. But when Bob Owens, a neighbor, drove by, she called on him for assistance. Owens went into the yard, and when he came out brought with him a 82 pound wildeat. Miss Barnard almost fainted when she found out the sort of animal she bad slain. She sold the akin to a New Haven taxidermist for
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