WILL HAVE NO WAR
Programme of the United States
in Regard to Spain.
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CAUSES A SENSATION.
If Spain Rejects the Offer of Mediation,
According to the Report, the I nited
States will Proclaim Its Disapproval
of the Cuban Regime by Withdrawing
the Minister to Spain,
A cable despatch from Madrid, says The
arrival of United States Minister Woodford
in Madrid Sebastdan has made a
sensfition, programme of the United
States has been ascertained. This does not
comtemplate a declaration of war i Spain
rejects mediation, but rding to report,
an “ostentatious proclamation to the world
of disapproval of the Cuban regime by sus-
pending yuatie relations with Spain and
withdrawing the United States minister.”
General Woodford 1 declined to be in-
i
from San
The
aoe
diple
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terviewed on the subject further than to say
that his conference with
the foreign minister, was of a most
The unexpe
’
the Duke of Tetuan,
antisfac
tory character, tod bitterne
of the press and o
fully impressed 1
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be al od
ay
THE NEWS.
A destructive fire raged at Twelve-M lilo
Lake Township, Emmet county, Iowa, and
swopt overything before it. The fire
traveled {a a northeasterly direction. It Is
estimated that over 12,000 tons of hay have
also have
been burned, Boveral residences
been consumed,
A negro who went
from Huntsville, Ala,
taken up as a yellow fever suspec
ried to the county pest house, five miles be
low the city, where ho was completely 1so-
lated. No fears are entertained of in
fection from the South,
The anti-clgarette law, enacted
Tennessee Gonernl Assembly at {ts last
was declared pstitutional
ates Clreuit Judge Lurton.
Silver CUHf (Col. ) Rustler states
ssman 1 reo
from Mo
stating that he was appointed
into Nashville, Tenn,
Wednesday night, was
‘t and oAar-
any
the
HOH
by
sion by
United St
The
Ext
teiagram
uno
that
ongre wosend has
Attorney-General
United States Judgeship (n the
ritory, caused by the death of
Ey :
Governor Black recelved the
of Congressman Franels H, Wil
recently appointed postmaster of Br
af a
Ihe resignation comes in time to permit
a on the date of
munieipal election in the Greater New York
Constable Thomas Manny, who
by Wallace J, CI at W
Y.. after the
Pritchard, is dead
the
shodow of MU OOCPRROT
was
EN
oa
irtsbor
i Horace I
who
stood,
ristian,
had
Christ
latter kille
woods, has n
favorable to Spanis
hend that
o~
wah
tion designe
H sy has
n
its at t
GREEK CABINET STEPS DOWN.
Premier Blames Germany for Harsh
Terms of Treaty.
ernment.
effect, Amie
defeated the
350
This defeat
deemed
rasciutld
sMyYannistis are a |
ber, and no Cs
business wit
rrespoudent
M. Balll, when
the preliminary
sont] ye
ex wn Lo
th
:
inst Greco,
lared he would pot
ing the treaty
nd the
refore
nirary to the
state and the wn
“M. Delyannis expresssed his ap
this position, but blamed the
again asking a vote of
had already been accorded,
suming that the government was actuated
by other reasc M. Delyannis sald that he
would withhold his support. The vote was
then taken,”
pe
provai
government {or
this
re, pre-
confidence, as
There!
ns,
FOREIGN NEWS,
All arrangements at Bome for the ces
sion of Kassala to Great Britain have
completed and everything is ready for the
occupation of town by the British
troops,
A pried of £100,000 has been placed on the
heads of Prospero Morales, the revolution.
ary leader of Guatemala, and his aid, Man-
unl Fuentes, .
The official reports at Paris of the harvests
of barley and oats for 1897 show that the
former will yield 15,542,210 hectolitres, com-
pared with 16,241 492 in 1896, and that the
Iatter will yield 87,016,990, compared with
92,008,398 in 1896.
Williom W, Griscom, a well-known elec
trical engineer of Philadelphia was killed
by the accidental discharge of his rifle while
bunting in Canada,
Ex-Mayor Hewitt, of New York, in an in-
terview in Paris, says he is for Beth Low for
Mayor of Greater New York,
Emperor William has decorated the Rus
sian Minister for War, Gen, Vannovskl, and
Count Pushkin, Ald-de-eamp of the Czar,
with the Order of the Biadk Eagle,
It was announced in London that Lord
Salisbury had not wi
conference, but that h
ence of Russia and Jap
been
that
cently taken place in Croatia]
tial law has been proclaimed in twelve dis-
tricts,
mletaton so Spain Jad vist of ORFLRy. To
n a visit of to
the Spanish ald: Madrid,
riat!
heats
reat
500, was in
r the laws
Ham-
Frederick
is
re are
re
sliroad |
{ August b
an rease of $23 425.33
wt shows net earning
pot
ings §
os Tantare t
Nn JALDUATDY
Governor M
ted 27 delegates to
n at Davenport, la.
nited Amerioan Mechan
Nashville
facCarthy
P.J
Laurin,
the Waterways {
on October 25
r Orderof 1
"
rated at the
Mavor
Day was ce
saftion Tuesday wel
Sain
J. Oscar Nichuals, ex
ny years prominent
8
suicide
by shootin
vial at his resi
jusst upon the
shot himsel!
The «
of
yroner’'s jury in the ir
i deatl Cashier Struble, who
. last month, rendered a verdiet of sui-
The verd as reached alter
hours’ dellberatio
The Americ
printing paper,
Frank VP. Tyler,
sbont $80,000
assigned to
Habilities,
it collections are said
$52,000
Diffion
to have caused the faliare,
ing paylog-teller of the Ellicott Square Bank,
committed suicide by drowning in the Chi-
cago Biver,
Engineer BE. Bennett Mitchell was killed
and Fireman Jobn R. Cawley serionsly in-
the Northern Central Railway at George
town, a lew miles north of Harrisburg, Pa.
William Woodnuth Griscom, a prominent
electrical engineer, of Philadelphia, was ac-
cidently killed while gunning on Governors
Isiand, Ont,
Pr. James T, Sothoron, a Marylander by
birth, and a leading member of the medical
profession of Washington, died in that city,
aged fifty-five years,
Benjamin Frank Lamar, a prominent far-
mer, of Oaklahoma, was found murdered and
robbed in front of the Ualety Theatre, St,
Louis.
John Boecker, a farmer, near Carroll, Ia,
murdered his wife nod five children, and
fatally Injured an eight-year-old son.
Vietor Anderson, of Whitedale, Mieh.,
killed bis mother and commitied suleide,
The tugboat John A, Woods was destroyed
by fire on the Hudson River. She was own.
wd by Captaln Woods and is a total loss, She
wae valued at aboat #325,000, fully insured,
A destructive timber fire has been raging
in the Big Horn county, South Dakota. G,
W. Greer, special agent of the Interior De.
riment, who has charge of publio tHmber,
pas just returned, and reports 5 aq
pn in the heaviest timber destroyed. -
PLOT AGAINST CZAR.
Over a Hundred Socialists Un- |
der Arrest.
PLOT WAS FRUSTRATED.
German Officer
The Consplrators
Disguised
Prisoners Had Un- |
dertaken to Tunnel From sn Heer House
Royal Destitution In
to the Castle
Crete.
from Warsaw, Russia,
denial will be forth-
3 H i ir
official «
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Her as
to leave no
s was 5 determined and de
Emperor Niel
sut visit to this
strated by aceldent,
ins
before the arrival
mperial party a number of perso
(s8rman nD
“vial, the
» luneel, whieh
sllar of a bos
the
my
Destitution In
TORTURED FOR A LOAN
larrios Strung Up a Reluctant Subject By
the Thumbs
when he re
Morales cursed him aud
His many friends, however, had thei
nge shortly after, for when the cil)
ezalten Was
{rrave ac
sives ang « had
pe
neq 30
‘
tal
@® rey Against
m
The San Bias
tr Barrios,
r
yf whom say It will be a
red
3
i tion
bef
Bis
re pesos rests
t is again
jeft r
party Quegaltenasgo
fA g Consul 1
been surrounded by
tin
sintanoe «
tow?
os and orders bad bees
¥
should be allowed to
nent ir
ORYE
Frison,
Americans Thrown in
ans are thrown int
provocation
and say that nines A 3
n at Quezaltenango wh
he Stars and Stripes were not
hey state thal Ameri
| jail on
| Barrios
in pris
Even t
to float over their residency
the slightest
us
were
left
NEW INVENTIONS
A red patented insect-proof display
{ rack has a base on which rests a cup, which
| is fliled with water after the socket of the
rack has been inserted in a in the cen
} tre of the cup, thus preventing insects and
vermin from orawling into the shelves
sbove,
sid le
OHUY
hale
HOE
A recently patented water-motor has an
endless upright chain of buckets mounted on
two axles, with a stream of water at the top
to fill the buckets as they start down, the
jength of the chain determining the power
of the motor.
Fire hose can be cleaned and dried by a
new mechanism, consisting of two eylindri-
coal brushes set in a frame, which can be aty
tached to the hoss cart, the brushes being
rapidly revolved az the hioss passes between
them by a chain geared to the axie of the
hose reel,
Wave-motors are being manufactured with
a float mounted on the end of a rod to work
up snd down as the waves move, the rod
moving a piston, which operates a water or
alr-compresser and fills a tank to furnish
power to run machinery.
Hammers for use in machine shops are oper.
stad by pasumatic pressure, a sliding spring-
pressed rod belong set in the casing to be
driven by pushing a button, by which the
air is admitted to the driving chamber,
A recently patented bleyele frame has
springs {nside the tublag for the saddle post,
crank hanger, front fork and handlebars, to
deaden the force of a blow on the whesls
and makes rough roads sasior to rides over,
To safely support a lady's hat at a theatre
# bracket {s attached to the under side of the
seat to carry a swinging shelf extending
nearly to the floor, the device folding up
A KENTUCKY LYNCHING,
Jull by » Mob
and Hanged,
Raymond Bushrod, colored, who assaulted
14-year-old Maggie Roberts, was lynched at
Hawesville by a mob of about BOO people
The lynching occurred in the courthou
square, and the body was left hangiug to the
Hmb of a shads tres
There was no altémpt
art of the lyncher
nthe erowd, dyshr
Ind. RBevgh ddfths ago
and treated kindly by
in the upper part of the
ward his benefactor by
“i
at disguise
not a musk
od was from
he was take
farmer
to re
Willis Clark, a
OuUnLy,
stealing hls W
fros
only
Hoe was released two weeks ago
after | served
davs | the tt
IY z sentence
aft
156
Petri Bia
Robert
minens
town,
tered little
Roberts
ited her
} ; vg
d DOIOW HEeAr
nn Maggie
Ben
3 AREER
hr
nu, he
aug?
©
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THE sFEAL CONFERENCE,
Great Britain Has Decided Not to Join in
the Meeting in Washington
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FIBLD OF LADBOMN.
sts talk of b
dustrial bazar al which their work w
exhibited
B nati
{ at Detr Charles Rowett, of
| was made president
England
Wholesale
ers held a pal convention
ok kee
vit Kansas City,
oe
I'he New Castle, Eng ot
branch
Co-operative Society
£15,000 to the striking engineers
Chicago's Municipal Civil
mission declined to furnish 1
a firm whose men had struck,
Fall River Loomfixers held a" shop
ing to protest against being asked
more work than they can do well.
Pittsburg street raliway
ghortly be granted #2 for a ten-hour
Some will be employed but nine hours,
The contractor awarded a contract for
Naervice
Com-
meet
to do
day.
to agree to employ unionists exclusively.
Denver bindery girls struck because two
non-union girls wera employed. The union
scale calls for §7, 8 and €9 a week.
American Horses In Germany.
Baron von Stumm’s oggan, the Berlin Post,
publishes an article califng attention to the
fact that 3,308 horses were imported from
America during the first seven months of
1897, and insisting that this new import
ought to be excluded. In the same article
the Post claims America sends even a greater
number of dead horses to Germany, in the
shape of sausages,
BIG FINES IN KENTUCKY.
vasted by Flames,
Grass io all the Blue Grass region is so
dried out because of long drought that (ear
of damage by fire is great. Two hundred
acres of meadow on John Hayes' farm, six
miles northeast of Lexington were fired by a
locomotive and burned over, destroyinfl sev:
eral stacks of hay and two miles of fencing.
Other fires started have been extinguished
against the bottom of the seal when not in
use,
by the united efforts of hundreds of neigh-
TILT 1
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DORADO,
Gold Country Discovered
Washington State.
4 i
in
SCENE OF EXCITEMENT,
tinker and is
to Exceed
in Alasksn
Told
Mount
Miners
Located
of Riches
it in Located Near
Build by Experienced
in Value the Lodes
or Callfornin Tales By
tecently Returned Miners,
EVIDESCE OF CANNIBALISM
very on the Site of Greely's
Arctic (
shastly Disc
are
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE,
nai (re
| Washing
er has been retained
jored cit af Alton, 111, in their
suit against the Board of Education for
structiog the teachers in the white public
sohools to admit no colored children to their
Renat
Zeng
{ by the co
ia-
classes,
“Charles Egbert Craddock,’ called
{the “George Eliot America,” who Is
known as Miss Murfree in private life, said
| recently in an interview: ° Mother was de
termined to teach us three things thoroughly
the major and minor scales, the multipli-
ation table and to speak the truth.”
President Tiresins Augustine Simon Sam,
sf Halt, is said to lack altogether the firm
hand which made his predecessor's rule so
successful. Under President Bam the gov
ernment has become corrupt and the people
so dissatisfied that a revolution is feared.
Ex-Governor William Sprague, of Rhode
lsiand, recently met his two daughters in
Washington for the first time in 18 years
Mr. Sprague was divorced from his wife,
who was Miss Kate Chase, 18 years ago, and
his daughters have not been allowed to
communionts with him.
Lady Marjorie Gordon, daughter of Lord
Aberdeen, is the editor of a juvenile magna-
zine and has jost received from Rudyard
Kipling a short pieces of childish rhyme for
her publication,
Miss Lizzie 0. Thomas, a prominent young
Florida woman, has gone to Hiroshima, Ja-
pan, to take charge of the school there un-
der the Methodist Episcopal Church. Miss
Thomas will probably stay five years.
11 is reported that the Czar has purchased
ten acres of ground pear Nice, and that he
will build there a magnificent villa, istended
y for his mother,
often
of
of Russia,
f
[HE KEYSTONE STATE.
4
Gleaned From
Various Parts.
DOCTORS.
Counter-Suits Entered In Ly-
Vowersof Henlth
Falled
Hecelved
coming County Court
Bosrds An Embezzier Sentenced
to Deposit All the
Merritt Douglass Dead,
Money
2 ov
his soc
1
buried two wives and
has eight
geven in all
He
n living, me twenty
has lived
and is
buried
childre
He is naker,
f= in jams county,
pearly all his life i
about 70 years old
was 45 years old
John ¥. Jordon, father of
the Scranton boy who died from
phobia, is suffering from oi
that i= cecasioning Fim much alarm. Thurs.
day night while he was holding his son In
bed the latter broke the skin of his father's
jeft forearm with his teeth. A physician at
once cauterized the wound, but i bas sisee
become very sore and the arm is grestly:
gwollen. It is feared that serious couse
quence may follow.
One of the employees of Cheltenbam
Academy. Ashbourne, was beld up by bigh-
waymen and robbed of his shoes, watsh and
a sum of money. Thestable of W. F. Fray
was broken into and ransacked. The robe
bers took away with them two valuable
dogs. Mr. Fray is in the West. Toe Abing-
ton Protective Association, of which he is.
an active member, bas placed officers on ihe
tracks of the perpetrators,
May Be Pearl Bryan's Head.
William Parson, a boatman, while digging
for coal ih Medoe sandbar on the Kentueky
side of the Ohio river, found a skull, the
jower jaw of which was gone. In the up-
per jaw were nine teeth, Two front teeth
were gold filled. An expert dentist says It
is the skull of a woman between 15 and 28.
gears of aga. Itis supposed to be hat of
Pear! Bryan, for whose murder Jacksor and
Walling were hanged. Should that prove
true, it has been in the river overd¥months,
just
Willie Jordan,
hydro.
A Very sore arm