PEACE OR WAR.
President McKinley, It is Said,
is Ready For the Report.
“COURT HAS DECIDED.”
This Statement is Quoted As Coming
From a Prominent Naval Officer—Firm
Action Is Expected Intervention in
Cuba Is Not Belleved to Be Far in the
Distance—2,000 Men For the Navy.
A despatch from Washington, D, C,, says:
President McKinley, according to a distin-
guished naval officer, who Is quoted in a
special cablegram from Havana, has inform-
ed Captain Sampson, chairman of the Unit-
ed States naval court of inquiry, that he is
ready to receive the court's report on the
wreck of the battleship Maine, The cour: is
said to have come to a final decision in the
case,
It is believed in executive and official eir-
cles in Washington that the government will
not much longer delay its programme of in-
tervention fn Cuba, and that events are rap-
idly shaping action in that direction,
Orders have been issued for the immedi-
ate enlistment of 2,000 men for the navy, a
large proportion of them to be machinists, A
special board has been detailed by Secretary
Long to go to cities in the South. and West
to enlist recruits,
Military orders which go into effect imme-
diately will Jead to the manning of hitherto
unprotected fortifications from Bostondown
the Atlantic coast and along the gulf to Gal-
veston,
At a conference held at the Navy Depart-
ment between Assistant Secretary Roosevelt
and the chiefs of the naval bureaus the ad-
visabllity of arming and equipping fast mer-
chant vessels as auxiliary cruisers was dis-
cussed.
Work upon new ships and repairs to older
ones are belpg hurried all over the country.
The Columbian Iron Works, at Baltimore,
received justructions from Washington and
will work night and day upon the torpedo
boats McKee, Rodgers and Plunger,
Many memoers ot British H of
Commons take the view that any trouble
threatening the United States should
shared by Great Britain. Hon. Hubert Val-
entine Duncombe intended to question the
government on the subject, but postponed it
for the present.
Spaln is courting the assistance of Franc
and Bussia, as there {3s a strong belief
Madrid that Great Britain will side wi
United States in the event of war.
The Spanish government has
conditional purchases of coasting
in Austria through her military agent.
Senor Sagasta, the Spanish premier,
that all the members of the Madrid cabin
regard it as a question of honor to remain at
their posts (n the present crisis.
Senator Proctor and Col,
who have returned from Cuba, le
West for Washington. They
ing description of a “battle”
combatants on each side, which Bay,
was gotten up at Matanzas for their benefit,
Loyalists in Havana have started a move-
ment to build or purchase for
ship to be called the
the Ne
be
made five
stoners
Parker,
ft Key
, they
Spain 8a war-
Isla de Cuba,
NO SHORE LEAVE FOR TARS,
Members of the Cruiser Montgomery's
Crew Are Denied This Privilege.
Captain Con of l
crulser Montigom n t
pany with Consul General Lee, ¢ d on
Captain General Blanco and was
cordially and courte
In a
general,
eral of «
will be no more delay in the
lief supp
verse
received
letter
Dr. Co
seretary gen
s th re
that thers
’
passage re
lies through the custom
house, On
account of the discovery of jewelry in such
supplies the authorities held up many con-
signments, and pre ns
were spolled,
The officers and men of
are still refused shore
much time to drill, wi
terest, especially among
Spanish shipe, whera
ferent.
some perishable visi
the Montgomery
leave, They devote
bh excites
the sailors
the tacti
muah
mueca in-
“BLOWN LPF BY A MINE.”
“That is What Beth Divers Say," Writes
a Sailor Lad From the Montgomery,
The parents of Johnson L. Hayes ‘of Mon-
toursville, Pa,, have received a letter from
him, dated on board the cruiser Montgom-
ery at Key West, Young Hayes is one of the
crew and has been in the navy twenty-two
months,
In his letter he says: “The fleet is nearly
all here awaiting the end of the investiga-
tion on the New York, which is lying about
ix miles from here,
“More dead and wounded
from Havana on the Bache,
“We have become a regular prison ship
now,
“We bave two divers, who were down in
the Maine and are waiting to give their testi.
mony at the court of luquiry. They will
not be allowed to communicate with the
g wore till the courtis over. One reporter,
who knew too much, has also been brought
aboard,
“The Maine was Mown op
is what both divers say.”
GOMEZ OFFERS 8150,000,000,
This Sum, is Reported, Would be Given
in Exchange for Independence,
There is a good deal of comment in Hav-
ana about propositions to the insurgents by
the radical wing cf the autonomist party,
The Spaniards say the autonomist pro-
gramme promises nothing but sorrow and
war, while General Gomes has offered £150 -
000,000 and a favorable commercial treaty
with Spain if independence is granted, They
also say that the autonomist programme to
disarm the volunteers would mean indepen.
dence if carried out, since the insurgents
would not be disarmed,
The central committee of the conservative
party, after a long debate, agreed to take
part in the fortheoming elections. The st.
titude of the conservatives does not medan
that they accept the autonomous form of
government, or that they will contribute to
its establishment. They will only accept
the positions to which they may be elected,
#0 a8 to watch the proceedings of the auton-
omists and defend their own interes.s,
were brought
7 & mine—~that
Death of Haugh Jewett,
Haugh J, Jewett, one of the best-krown
railroad men io the country, died at the
Hotel Bon Alr, Augusta, Ga, For the last
six years he bas been in poor health, He
was born at Deer Creek, Md. in 1818. He
studied law and was admitted to the bar but
ater took up raliroad busivess.
THE NEWS.
Mrs, Robert Mantell, the actress, died In
Port Huron, Mich,
The firm of Bettman, Watson & Bern.
heimer, dealers in oils, who operated in
many States, has failed, The estimated
capital of the concern was six million dol-
lars,
It 1s said that a rallroad will be built from
Fredericksburg, Va., to the Chesapeake Day
through the Northern Neck.
Major Jacob Bretz died at Carlisle, Pa,
aged 92 years,
The Old Dominion steamer Jamestown
brought down from New York to Norfolk a
hundred cases of 10-inch armor-plerclog pro-
jectilés for Fort Monroe, and also some
smaller projectiles, They were takento Old
Point, It is understood that there were
seven or eight mines in the lot, to be plant.
ed in the channel.
A Philadslphia syndicate formed by Geo,
H. Earle, Jr.. and Richard ¥Y. Cook took up
the loans of $500,000, secured by bonds and
stock of the Record Publishing Company
and beld by P. A. B. Widener, Wm. L. El-
kins, James McManes and the Kemble es-
tate, These securities, it is claimed, repre.
sent a control of the Record property.
A fire, which originated in the jarge nov-
sity store of Wolf & Company, Franklin and
Vine streets, Philadelphia, did damage
amounting to $25,000 before it wus gotien
under control,
Ex-Chief Justice Wyekliffe, of the Chero-
kee nation, has been placed ip jail at Vinita,
charged with eattle stealing. He could not
give bond for £1,000,
Six persons have been taken to Colorado
Spriogs from Cripple Creek and placed in the
county jall, charged with stealing a
amount of the richest ores,
vast
The vote on the proposition to establich
a defense fund for the United Mine-W
and the
against
IrRers
resuit
the
has been officially counted
apnounced, It is decidedly
pian,
The
Eulaia distriet,
Chilbuahus, Col,
watchman were
amounts to half
Edwin 8 Tbhying, town treasurer of Exe
ter, N. H., bas been arrested in Boston on a
en, charging
th of about #14. -
he funds of He has Leen
days in which to make good.
May
the
May 44,
n the Santa
southeast of
d. Two
I'he
Domingo mine, |
fifteen
has
roasted
san
miles
been |
alive,
urne
1048
a million doliars,
th
writ Issued Uy the selectn
h the embezzlement
him wi
000 of t the town,
given ten
incinnati
under the
al Festival Association,
Theodore Thon
for a quarter of a cont
An off
blast furnace
burg and the
ieys LO enter |
awn
The thirteenth (
icles of
begin
fastivities, AUS]
will
yas will di
rt has been no
operat '
ning va
ation, Fourteen
pioeteen furnaces, are
fneluded.
8 r Otero has made an order rem
Fail as soll
harging ne
vert
og A. B
Mexie
bh
President,
Nherw
| was rele
i he
i 0
Carpenter
sctile, died
at the age of
"pr
Mary
uple from Baitim
ed in Chicago.
Rev, Mr. Seymour,
the pulpit in the Episce
isle, Pa,
‘nited States Senat
rawn from the
”
IAD Was BUN
r Mills, of
race for re-election,
entey 3
|
Texas, has
1
#8 f
Ex-Mayor Gastay Bre
Charlestown, W, Va,
JW
ONE SUFFOCATED, FIVE BURNED,
Barning Building in Pittsburg.
fires the
burg department has ever been called
to fight occurred at €14 Webster avenue Sun-
lay, when one woman was suffocated and
five other people so badly burned that three
may die, Three families were penned in a
ramabackle bullding, and the stairs eaten
away by flames as they slept. Here is the
result of the 15 minutes’ captivity
Dead. Mrs, Domine Eaoriello, aged 30
wife of Dominic Enriello, fruit huckster, was
separated from her husband in the smoke,
was suffocated while trying to ralse a win-
low and died in the patrol wagon.
Injured. Harry Levin, aged burned
about face, arms and shoulders, injuries pos.
sibly fatal; Lillian Levin, aged 6, burned
about bands, feet and face: condition ser.
fous; Max Verlinski, aged 22 burned about
legs and head, and fataliy Injured inter.
naily; Jessie Verlinski, aged 22, bis wile,
burned about the neck, feet and ace, in-
juries serious; Ethel Verlinski, 8 months,
burned about hands and body: will probably
die; Elizabeth Levin, aged 18, ankle broken
by jumping from second-story window, also
burt internally: Rita Levin, aged 3 years,
thrown from second-story window; badly
bruised.
The building at 615 Webster avenue Is a
three-story brick tenement, old and shaky,
Ou the first floor and the rear of the second
floor lived Bam Levin, with bis wile and
seven children. On the second floor front
lived Dominic Eariello, with his wife. On
the third floor lived Max Verlinski, with his
wife and S-months-oid baby.
The fire started in Levin's dining-room,
in the rear of the first floor. It burned
through the door and up the stairway, and
fu a very short time the entire buildlog was
jo flames. Only the most efficient work of
the rescuing firemen prevented a tenement.
house horror.
Fenator Mille Withdraws,
The Houston (Tex. ) Post prints a letter
from United States Senator Mills, in whieh
he formally withdraws from the race for re-
election, which leaves the field to Governor
C. A. Culberson. In his letter My, Milis
gives as the principal reason for bis with.
drawal the recent action of the State Exeen-
tive Committees which makes a stringent test
for all persons desiring to participste in
Democratic primaries and conventions,
Colonel Henry was wounded on the elbow
io a sword duel io Paris with Colonel Pie.
quart, whom be recently denounced at the
Zola trial
Pitts
upon
June of the most exciting
it
Defense Bill Passes the House
of Representatives,
NOT A VOTE AGAINST IT,
Party Lines Were swept Away and With
a Unnnimous Volee Congress Voted lis
Confidence In the Administration-A
Scene of Enthusinsm the An
nouncement of the Vote,
Greeted
A despatch from Washington, D.
Io a spirit of patriotism, with
words ringing in their ears, every Imo
of the House of Representatives, responded
ish situation by casting his vote for a
milllous of d liars to be expended at his dis-
cretion for the national defense,
Party lines wore swept away,
unaul gous voles CoHrogress voted its
the Administration. Many
were paired with absent colleague
of breakiog tb
pairs, an unprecedented thing in
aunals, in order that they might
record in support of this vast ap
to maintain the digoity and b
country.
den © ia
bers who
took the responsibiiily
Speaker Red, who, as the
cer, seldom votes on
y in case
his name called and
pacity
The s
the ann
AS a representative,
yf enthu
nent
gene BAST
IUnNCe]
ches were briel,
Many Speeches.
rh
if irs
were ai.o
» pressure |
r was given
Ot « them ne
UegRAardly
ives witli a
sented as a de
propriatis £2 §50.000.000
several other tems,
000 tor coal for nava
General Wheeler { De
§
i
1
federate cavalry leader, started
applause when the bill was presse
Fassnge of the Bil),
When the
Gestion was i e Dan
of the bill
the whole hc FRmasse jt
asked for the ayes
st the
desired
every member should go on record.
Every member present voted for
many of them assuming the responsibility
of breaking their pairs in order to place
themselves on record. At the conclusion of |
the roll zall the Speaker bad his name call
ed, an unusual proceeding, and amid great |
applause voted for the Lill. When be ag-
nounced the vote, “S11 ayes, no nays,” an!
enthusiastic demonstration oecurred,
but Mr. Cannon
He did »
quest of many members,
he said,
its favor,
i re
and nave,
who
the bill}
FIFTY MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE,
The Bill to Place This Sum at the Presi-
dent's Disposal For Immediate Use,
Chairman Cannon, of the Appropriation
Committee Monday introduced a Lill en
titled “Making Appropriations for the Na
tional Defense.”” It is as follows:
“That there is Lereby appropriated out of
any motey in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the national defense, and
for each and every purpose connected there.
with to be expended at the discretion of the
President, aud 10 remain available until
June 30, 189%, $50,000,000."
It was referred to the Committee on Ap-
propriatious.
Mr. Canton, after an interview with the
President went to the Capitol and called a
special meeting of the Appropriations Com-
mittee, After this meeting Mr. Canton in.
troduced the national defenses Lil in the
House,
Guns For the Fouth.
Six ten-inch guns and several moriors
went southward from Alexandria, Va. for
Galveston over the Southern Railway. A
special train of sixteen senied cars of ame
munition passed through for Temps, and
siz more guus go southward, The ammuni-
tion trais was rus os passenger schedule
via hort Line,
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
Felice Carlo Cavallott, Italian post, and
Hadieal member of the Chamber of Deputies,
wis killed io » duel with swords
Macole, an editor and member of the Depu-
ties,
It was reported In London that the Brit.
ish government has secured an option pur-
because of the strained relations with France
over territory in Alriea,
Japan demanded of China an official
surance of the payment of indemnity
May. Russia the
ionn, and refuses to evacuate Port Arthur,
Ion Trent Hamiiton, Baron Holm Patrick,
6 noted Irishman, is dead,
The Austrian cabinet bas resigned
Count von Thun Hohenstein has been
trusted with the task of forming a new one,
The six remaining Irish political prisoners
» English jails will be released next June,
Niearaguan apd Costo Rican troops are re-
rted to have met in battle on the
f those two countries, |
Opposes
i ir
i
18646,
August,
The Ni
ATARUAL canal commission
began
Hee anniversary of the Italian con.
was celebrated in Rome aud other
ution
+
of *'t
An epidemic bilster” is
fifty deaths a day in India.
iack causing
The passage of the German naval bill is
anviile died in Paris,
I'he Duchess of Don
n iz in
A small revolutic
as Lroken out
Venezuela,
London
progres
TO BLY MEN.OF- WAR,
McKinley Frepared, it is Sald,
to Take All Ships Offered for Sale,
to the N. Y. Herald
President
irchase thie men wa
cglon specia
COREress Delbg widng
FIELD OF LABOR
A Milwaukee hardwa mpany shares
fits with employe
Trades unions are the bulwarks of
Giadestone,
Beveral Frisco druggists were £
for selling bogus liver piils,
Chicago architectural iron workers won &
strike for the discharge of a non-unionist,
New Yor machine stone workers rub
bers, and helpers want the eighi-bour day
on June 1.
modern
ew,
ned $200
The threo wire drawers’ and diemakers'
unions of Cleveland held a joint open meet.
ing.
Montreal lasters who struek for an in
crease have been told that machises will be
introduced,
A bili before the Maryland Legisistare
will increase the cost of retail Jiquor license
10 §500,
About three-fourths of the New York sloak
manufacturers have now granted the pew
wage scale,
Chicago painters want 35 cents an
til Mare 1, 1892, and 37
year following,
Frieco's Mayor declares that his town
pays 25 per cent, of the entire taxes of the
State government.
Denver unionists who attended a funeral
refused to march behind a non-union band,
Tacoma Mill Men's Usion won a strike
8 week after the asecciation was formed,
Yardmen get $1.50 a day.
The nine-hour day has already been es.
tablisheddn several Boston printing ofiees,
The 150 employes of a Detroit furniture
manufactury will be unionized in a body by
order of the firm.
At Sunderland, England, union ecarpen-
ers struck when they were requested to
“hurry ap and work faster.”
The editor and manager of the Los Anges
jes Herald advocates government control of
all public utilities,
hour
AND DENIED
OR
President McKinley Reuscs to
Recall General Lee,
NOW GETTING SERIOUS.
The Spanish Government May Force Gen
eral Lee Out of Cubs by Giving Him His
Exequutur, and May Also Prosecute Him,
If They Dare, und Imprison Him The
Move May be Only a Campaign Trick,
{ Adespateh from Washington, D. C,, says
| Bpain has demanded the recall from Ha
vana of Consul General Lee; and President
McKinley has promptly refused the demand,
Not only has the Spanish government been
informed that General Lee will not be re
{ calied at {ts request, but the President bas
| endorsed every action of Mr. Lee, and
ttudiously dwelt upon ‘the eutire confidence
{ which is reposed by this government in the
| judgment, the fidelity and the courage of
| the Consul General.” To Bpain's further
protest against the Jespateh of the two war
{ ships, the Nashville and the Montgomery,
to carry supplies to the starviog Cubans at
| Matanzas and Bagun la Grande, and its re-
quest that the orders to these ships be re.
called and the supplies be sent in merchant
men, the government announces officially
with a curtness that is deeply significant of
determination that a warship, which is best
adapted for the purpose and most available
will leave Key West for a Cuban port next
In other words, President McKinley
bas taken a positive stand against interfer.
ence by Bpain with his program.
Secretary of the Navy Long and Assistant
Reeretary of Day were at the White
H President McKinley, After a
insting nearly two hours, boll
f IIATY
gave Lhe above Dried
has
woek
Rlate
use with
nferencs
sun
Mr. Day added that, al-
ord had
this administrs
bean lustructed
pater will, ther
natie reiatd
Les
fq
ns = |
The center
elirated
lent McK
ctoria bas refused to jen
Australian oni
Jubdiee jewel gilts,
on,
has been
ity luspector-General of Chinese
Customs, was for some lime in
service of the English army.
Bishop Eilicott is now the senior member
of the British Episcopal Beneb, baving been
Bn, whe appointed D
whe medical
(iouecester and Bristol
Makarow, of Russian
this country to Jook
isto American lee-breaking ferryboats, The
Russians want to keep some of thelr harbors
open in the winter,
Lord Ashbburaham's w
have been DouRhl at private
British Government for $225,000,
see of early in 1863,
Yiee- Admiral the
gary, is on Dis way to
sto manuscripts
shin by the
When the
by the late Earl, some years ago, the Gov-
ernment refused to Lid,
William F. Norton, the million.
Auditorium Theatre in
who manages it under
Quilp, cleared 7 centile a
bushel on 1,000,000 bushels of wheat during
eccentric
Senator White, of Californie, ie said to
ond of Lis present term, which expires next
Sullivan has taken a villa at
easy distance of Nice and
there he projoses 10 re.
Meanwhile,
Kir Arthur
The Kansas Legislature has just appropri.
Bishop Vincent, of the Diocese of Souik.
He has expressed himsell very
sf “wholesale recreation,”
Prol. Hamilton King, who will soon suc-
seed Mr, Barrett as Minister 18 Cores, bas
just taken out his citizenship papers fu De.
aoft. His father was naturalized years ago,
Hut as Mr, Kisg was unable 10 prodace the
papers he was forced 10 take oul new ones,
Mr. Fivecoate lives in Anderson county
snd Mr, Fewclose in Cowley county, Kai
ne,
Governor Renfrew, of Oklahoma, got Lis
start in the world by exhibiting a petrified
child in Arkansas. That was 20 years sgo.
A few days since he ized the child fu
Guthrie, where it ir *3hibiied aa
petrified woman. course, It grown
during that time,
News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
Latest
FACED THE ENGINE,
Aged Ysanuc Stuffiet Deliberataly Stood in
Fiylng Trains Path Farm Hands Bring
An Alleged Thief to Bay-—A Lighter
Fenalty For the Indian Pupils Who At
tempted Incendinrisin,
Isaac NR. BtuMet, aged ©0 years, whose
bome was at Reading, but who for the past
four weeks was the guest of his son, H. D.
Btuffiet, at Pottsville, committed suicide by
standing In front of the poon Philadelphia
& Reading express train from the city, The
man was walking slowly along the main
track, when the train suddenly rounded a
curve and bore down upon him, The engl
neer whistiod repeatedly, but Stuffiet did not
heed the warning. Ilnstesd of leaving the
track be stepped directly in the way of the
train, folded bis arms aud deliberately faced
the engin=, is was thrown upon the south-
Lound track. His neck was brokes.
Running Fight.
A stranger giving the name of John
Brown, of Tennessee, was arrested after a
desperate battle with two laborers on the
tarm of Walter Hibberd, io East Whiteland,
It is al wh had entered ous of
the [arm vulldicgs and was surprised while
the act of carrying off some valuable
property. ie fled, and the farm hauds gave
pursuit. Hevoivers were used rather freely,
vut the fusiiade became too hot for Brown
and be surrendered. He was lodged in the
Chester County Prison by Harry
B. Thomson.
ged thas Bro
in
Detective
bentences Changed.
At court gt Carlisle
the cases of Fanuie
Flanders wore bro ig nd
{| ences revoked. These are thetw
| the lu Industrial School whe
penton 0 a term of eighteen
®t Ph
Indian
Biddle
and Eliza
Belin
puplis of
two weeks
before Judge
Eagieborn
p and t
hit had
ign er
qian
{ BRO was
la-
peliG
year,
Legally Dead.
Bment ( irt iw #
r a #
2a
3 & BOA ith
were declared legally
BE when tt
Atlant Ar and y
disappeared and beard
Alter they were deciared je
jeud Register of
¢ boys were
r
hey bave not beer
from sinoe,
gaily Wills Weaver was di-
: i to apg
intl au admin
ey inne
rit
Water Hight Dispate.
i er right iispute work
Tanbel,
ill was
It
feet
ulus Saw
® sireamn Lich segs 12 SOTTis~
alter
{from
of a we
slers
has beel stopped, fie 11
ed at Penn plrests,
ar st
rie Liga i i]
igh the
waler
the
ALi
wilh severe
red the
¥ ohe
aa ih
thelr
yexpiode
ti
vie
shaft with
Suse
elaney was from |
§ 41%
a 3% §
Tile
Death on the Track.
aged
the Mill Creek
Raliroad, by
it He was seen standiag on
{ the track next to that on which irain
| was approaching, asd when it drew pear he
ras Yoward it aud was stra It
is ught that be believed the train woaid
at the i Was Lot
going 10 stop he
George Senshak, of Port Bowkley,
was killed
the Jersey Central
atoul at
Station of
{ a passenger train,
5 Years,
the
k aud Killed,
1k
| Bop stallion, anc seeing it
% sags Fes maned
aie ConIuUseq
{ Drag
i
:
Her Burns Prove Fatal
Ethel Veriinsky, aged 8 years died
burns received io 8 tenement house fire in
| Pittsburg, making a death list of two, Its
| alleged that the tenement was not provided
with fire escapes as required by law,
from
Killed by an Express
The Lehigh Valiey's Biack Diamond Ex-
| press, eastbound, struck and instantly kiiled
E. V. Oliphant, of Winnout Township, who
| was walking on the tracks, a short distance
below town. This makes the fifth victim of
the train in this county since it was put on
the road.
New Electric Light Flant.
The syndicate which purchased the elec
tric light and street car plant in Dabols, is
making extensive changes. An entire new
plant of great magnitude Is being erected on
the property of John E. Dubols, one ol the
chie! stockholders, When com , the
service will be among the best of its kind in
the State,
Qaarryman Fractures His Skall,
Charles Derr, while working at the North
Lebanon stone quarry, was struck with a
rock which fractured his skull, Derr was
at a drill when the rock fell from a high
lank where the thaw had loosened it
a,
Killed by a Lump of Coal.
While Joseph Flock was working in a
breast of the William Penn Colliery, Shen.
andoab, a lump of ecal Yell and broke his
neck. Flock was 40 years of age, and lelt a
wile and six children.
—————
A Misstep to Death,
Alfred Cook, of Wilcox, received injuries
which resulted in his death,
I ss sine
To work worthily, min renst aspire
worthily. His theory of human attain.
went must be lofty,
lifting him above the low plane of cus.
om snd couvention, in which the
senses confine him, into the high mount
of vision, and of renovating ideas