THE NEWS. NM. Cary was sentenced to jail ib Rich- mond, Va,, on the charge of passing worth- Joss chooks, Gotthieb Schneider, a Howard man, killed auother at Sheep Camp, Klondike, and narrowly escaped Iynehed, The heirs of the late J. Herman BDBosler wlll present a handsome free library to the citizens of Carlisle, Pa., as a memorial. Two men were killed and a number of others injured at the burning of a boarding house at Butte, Mont, The French steamer Labrador, from vana, on February 22, via Santander February 27, bas arrived at Colon, having on board the five commissioners sent to investi- gate the affairs of the pew Papama Caval Company and to report upon the progress made upon the canal, While returning home from church at Wellsville, Ohfo, Oliver Reed asked Barab Walter to marry him, and upon her refusal he drew a revolver and shot her through the heart. He then blew out his brains. Anex- amination of papers found on bis body shows that the deed was premeditated, Dr. Gatling bas received word that Gen- eral Miles will be in Cleveland to witneas the last process before boring and rifling io the big steel const defense rifle cast in one piece. The members of the Army Ordnance Board have Leen notified, and some of them undoubtedly will be present. Near Richmond, Va., a killed his brother's wife and wounded sev- eral other persons with a shotgun, The stewsmer Strabo put into from Bouth America and reported that the trip the ship's cook had died of yellow captain had recovered from a county ia the being Ha- on demented man New York on fever and the severe attack. Robbers in Oklahoma held up a revival service and took up a collection. They then visited nearly all the stores in town. Joseph Leiter has arranged for to the seaboard of 1,500,000 busbels of wheat. Most of it, it is said, will go to Liverpool. The funeral of Mrs. Thurston, wife of Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, took piace from their residence in Omaba, inn " ¢ shipment sgents raided an Ad bys States revenue jiileit still in cellars connecte 3 ranean passages under Harmonia Hotel, in Ludiow street, New York, George Bryan, ton, N. J., burned by mo into cannon United twelve years ( 3.11 f was blloded for t life bY ten lead which he intende make balls to Spain, Charles Beil, of No. 264 shot spd killed himsel! fo a cemeteryin Loog Island City on the grave daughter, who dled seventeen years ago. Alaskan, 3 Wied Eighth Aven of his United States authorities in Dyes, fear that the encroachme disputed territory will result in this country, and the belief is exj 3 government shou + ressed ba Le some action by our taken, The steamer Strabe arrived at New Y with the captain with yeliow the cook having died during mille down * YOVAE®. The ninth week « riers’ strike the in New England, © willing to return to work under a re fuctl of five per cent. instead of ufacturers deciariog them to accept the con Rev. Dr. Dewitt Ben! congregation that he has a Presbyterian ( Work « pissippt Exposit rapidly James Butty, a newsl electric car in Norfolk Judge James Goggin, perfor Court, who Las mA for his decisions that criticise ods, is dangerously iil at bis Windy Clty. Jadge Goggin is ® from enlargement of the liver, and tors say he will not recover Miss Elizabeth Bosworth, committed suleide at New Britain, ! igniting a chicken bouse in which she had jooked herself. Miss Bosworth, it is sald, bad quarreled with ber brother and threat- ened to kill herseil, Edward Barrett, of South Norwalk, Conn, bas resigned the presidency of the United Hatters of North America, an office which be has held since 1892, when aged 66 . bow conn. OY the Makers apd Finishers’ unions were amalgamated, By the constitution of the order Vice-Presi- dent John A. Moffatt, of Orange, N. J., be- comes president. The British ship General Roberts, Captain Fearon, at Dunkirk from Chittagong, reports that when south of Mauritius on December 95 she encountared a cyclone, during which one of the crew was lost overboard and some sails and two boats were carried away. The new Grand Opera House at Thomas, Ontario, was burned. It owned by Rothwell, of Detroit. General Bjornstierna Minister of War, is dead. the poet, is also dead. Colonel Dyer, 8 member of the Armstrong- Whitworth ( London) firma is dead, Colonel Dyer managed the affairs of the employers in the recent lockout of the ecogineers' trades, Gen, George W. Rains died at Newburg, N.Y. aged 88 years, He was a native of South Carolina, and was graduated [from West Point Military Academy in 1841. He perved in the Mexican War, and was twice brevetted for gallantry. During the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army. In 1867 be was professor of the University of Georgia, st Was the former Bwedish Earl Tavastisroa, The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs authorized a favorable report on the bill authorizing cities and towns of Indian Ter- ritory to secure laud necessary for publie jmiprovements, The bill provides for ocon- demuation proceedings, Senator Stewart gave notice of an amend- ment he will offer to the naval appropria- tion bill, providing for the construction of eighteen coast defense monitors of type of Puritan, Monterey, and Terror, and appro- priatiog $1,800,000 with which tu begin the work. A favorable report was made by the Ben- ate Committees on Postofliees on Benator Allen's amendment to the postoflice appro- pristion bill, continuing the Western fast mall and probibiting the transfer of the mail from one ear to another at Chicago. The Senate confirmed the nomination of Albert 1. Love, of Livingston, Mont, regis- ter of the Jand office at Bozeman, Mont, and some paval promotions, The Senate Committee on Commeres au- tiorized a favorable reporton pri Fed posed amendment to the su elvil Sp opriation bill, providing for the con- struction of five new revenue cutters, to be Jocated as fo} Qae on the Oregon coast one on the GV ixico, one for the Charleston (8. U : d one each for STEP FOR DEFENSE —— Single-Turreted Monitors to be Brought Into Service, A SIGNIFICANT MOVE, Simultaneously the Monitor Terror Is Ordered to Key West—-To Bulld a Num ber of Torpedo Boats—~The Navy Depart. ment Thinks the Monitors Very Effec. tive Const- Defense Vessels, A despateh from Washington, D, C., gaye: —The Navy Department took the most decisive step toward defensive preparation for emergency that has been made since the squadron was centered at Key West, The orders bring into service the eight single- turreted mopitors, used during the Civil War, as coast-defense ship<, They bave been lying for some time at the League Island Navy-yard at Philadelphia, Secretary Long has Issued orders that the monitors Catskill and Lehigh procead to Boston and the monitors Nahant and Jason to New York. The other monitors, Man- battas, Mahopae, Montauk and Canonicus, will remain at Philadelphia, where the work of preparing them for service will begin fm- mediately, The monitors ordersd to Boston and New York will proceed under their own as they are good sea boats, and thelr engines are in fair condition, capable of a speed of five to an hour. The concerning the four monitors remaining at Philadelphia direct that they shall be com- pleted and ready for commission within the next 30 days. In order to do this three of them are to be given new boilers, and Bee. retary Long approved ers al a cost of $25,000 each, steam, seven knots orders orders for these boll- Terror Goes to Key West. simuitaneous with the {ssue of these orders to the old single-turreted monitors Sacretary Long also ordered the modern double. reted monitor Terror from New York, i abe bas thos far been stationed, to Key West, | where she is to join Admiral 8i | This ve takes from N what bas thus f i { vessel tur- whera J ard’s last me ar Leen re gard i i reliance for harbor | monitors Nahant and Jason | the place of the Terror. | vast difference between we of } rn the oid these pecullar naval engines of tion, essentially the same, Meors say that it is a great believe the effectiveness of T'be monitors now ok part io the notable ty stru yet they are | and naval « | take t¢ is 1 mmission Ue net into e« | Ragen ents resulting io the fall of in rears they | {ton In hat overshad« recent RAYS ed by the fine ® Lew navy, | has i | battie-ships of tk ut the Navy wt sight of Vessels nent naver They Are Well ¥ quipped, } ris have been made or F they are well « » they are no two { chanieal davices which operate jare in g i working i guns, while not of the rder thr atest heavy solid heavy sea they Ina Awash, save the turret, but it is said { this is an advantage rather than | wise and that even in this ndition seven knots an hour of utilizing harbor defense he character the conse! ats naval sis are fully thelr | but are satisfied that they will prove ade quate for the limited delensive purposes to which they are assigned, The Catskill snd Lehigh will undergo some additional repairs when they arrive at | Boston, and those golng to New York may also require some additional work there, Torpedo Boats to Be Bulle Another important step in the preparation for defense has been practically decided upon by the Navy Department, Since it has been demonstrated that it wiil be Impossible for this Government to obtaln from abroad any considerable number of war vessels of any class the Navy Department has had un- der consideration the question of buliding a number of torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, luvestigation has disciosed the fact that vessels of either class could not be bullt in jess than ninety days, but the eox- igencies of the case are such that a conclu. ston has been about reached, it is sald, to give American builders contracts for a num- ber of these vessale, Only such builders, however, as are known to have the necessary facilities will be entrusted with the work which, if the present purpose is carried into effect, will pushed forward with the greatest possible speed. The number to be constructed bas not been decided upon, but it seems likely that contracts will be given for a considerable namber of each class, us of defects, ba SPANISH REVFVOKT DELAYED, Senor Moret Expects the American De. cision to Be Unfavorable, Senor Moret, the Minister for the Colonies, toid the newspaper men, who waited on bin, that the report of the Bpanish court of in- quiry would not be known as soon as bad been expected, He sald he believed the American report would not be as Iavorable as Spain desired, Count de Villa Gonzalo, Spanish Ambassa- dor to Russia, has resigned, MISS BARTON COMING HOME, Sudden Departure of the Head of the Red Cross Foclety, Miss Clara Barton, president of the Amer fean branch of the Red Cross Soclety, left Havana for New York on the Key West mail steamer, Mise Barton saye the cause of her depart- ure is purely personal and bas to do with private financial matters, £he expects to go to Washington, and ex- pressed the hope that she would soon be able to return to Cuba. Congressman Connell’'s Loss. The old Meadowbrook breaker of the Con- neil Conl Company, Scranton, Pa., of which Congressman Connell is the head, was tot- ally destroyed by fire, presumably of incen- diary origin. Loss, 825000; losorance, £19,000, Detective hot by a Thief, Private Detective Edward Garrison was shot and perhaps fatally wounded at Charlotte, N. U., by Ed Mosely, a negro bottie thief, whom he was trying to arrest. Mosely has been caught and placed in Jndl, i FOREIGN AFFAIRS, The fightiog on the northwest frontier of India bas ended, the rebels having glven the hostages demanded. Floods threaten serious damage In Moa- treal, the 8t, Lawrence River having reach od the record point, and many manufactur lug establishments being flooded, Theodore Lerner, of Berlin, will head an expedition to start next May, In search of explorer Andree. The French navy is mobilization, to support, it Is Russia's demands in the far East, The price paid for the two Drazillan war ships was 2,500,000 for both, Riots among striking miuers at Bomor- rostro, Spain, resulted io threo of the erowd being killed by a volley fired by the police, Mr. Joseph Chamberiuip, in the House of Commons sald the proposed reciprocity ar- rangements between the West lodles and the United States would amount to a bounty upon sugar exported from the West ludia Islands. John Shore, a famous detective, who was for many years the head of the criminal In- vestigation department of the new Scotland Yards, died {no London. Wooll Joel, trustee of the estate of the late Barney Barnato, the Bouth African milllon- sire, was shot and kliled at Johannesburg by a man named Feldtheln, to whom he had refused money. It is stated that the dispute between Chili and Peru as to the provinces of Tecna and being prepared for reported, Arica Is almost certain to be settled soon Many persous have been rendered home- has done by Grand been aud damage of the less and much the rivers, Ontario. A Biamese Cambodian rebels in the province of Bat overflow Thames expedition has defeated the tambang. The work of the ym is- United Btates ( sion on the Niearagua Canal Is about com- pleted, The Marquis of Salisbury, Prime Minister England, who has been suffering from in- 1 will France to srted that he will soon » the Bouth of retarysaip, of the Chambers of wns declared that 14 mennces Eng between a few Frenchmen and oscurred at Nancy, r and a subordinate No one was burt, but ated, when a Ger. the investiyg OMAHA'S EXPOSITION Plans for State Baildiags for the Trans Missiasippl Celebration Pians for State bulldings tha Trans Misstesippl Exj i nn are be department of pul 3 architects’ drawings . Arkansas, Denver and is nearly « additional an the ace the exesptio: made necessary | the flue art exhil Miates senda siidin wii rt time, It is ¢ Now York and heir Htate their at withic » ab that the Slates « < handsOm o States Lave tod thirty ia tae « ail thirty have nted ons the fie t five More States will be or- fect that at isast A The win- ganized within the next ton days ter weather bhaviaog been favorable, eon- struction work fast advaociog and is court and the mid- ia prograssing in the maln way with great rapidity. The government building, 500 jength, the pianacie of whose dome is near. iy 200 feet high, is nearny done, The management Las found ulid several ansexes 10 {inary demand for exhibit space. foet In iL necesaRry accommodate the extracr ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE last In- huseits, has just was a lineal it 3 tchell, the Gould Mi Massa Mre, Zerisah dian princess died at North Abington descendant of Massasoit Thomas G. Alvord, superintendent of ari of the libeary of Congress, is baving a col- lection of ot gravings, prints and photo- graphs of the United States placed Io the galleries of the west wing of the building. What will probably be eflectual discour- agement to bieyele thieves in Suffolk county, New York, has been given by a judge who has just sentenced William BSeamon to 10 years penal pervitudes at hard labor for stealing 8s wheel, Another charge ol the same nature is outstaading against the con- in sae tH the residents of ali one of viet, Warsaw's proposed celebration of the 100th birthday of Adam Mickiewlez, the great Polish poet, has been prohibited by the police. Said Frances E. Willard: "Poor, grand George Elliot, who sees Do light beyond the who thinks we are snuffed out sepulchre; : Dear me, it so’t even aes lke candies ! thetic,” Verdi, the Italian composer, charges £I for an autograph or a signed photograph; when the request comes from awealthy ad- mirer he asks double that sum, He does not keep the money, but distributes it among the poor. King Bell of Cameroons, through whom the Germans acquired their protectorate over that country, Is dead at the age of 70 yours, und Gerany will no longer ackhowi- edge the rovalty of the Bell family or any other native King. The late King's eldest son, Augustine Manga Bell, is a Cbristian, educated in England. President McKinley, it is sald, has oon sented to daliver an address (n Chieago on the dgeeasion of the laying of the cornerstone of the new Postoffles Bullding in that city, According to the Washington Fost, John Murray Mitchell, of New York, is the only member of Congress who insists upon hav ing his name printed io full ou ail public papers to which Jt must be attached, Ope of Mr. Giadstone's peculiar ideas which be bas foliowed for 15 year, is to go to bed the instant be finds that be has caught cold and stay there until the indis position has passed. In this way he believes be bas frequently cut short what might bave been 8 serious lioness, He sometimes reads and writes In bed [just as ural, ~ LOAN FOR SPAIN, Arranges for $38,600,000 and is Said to be Ready for War. CLUE TO HER TACTICS. Fresident McKinley Says He Willi Do Everything Consistent With the Honor nnd Dignity of the Country to Avert War Spanish Torpedo Flotilln Lenves the Cansry Islands for Porto Rico, A despatch from Washington, D. says The Spanish government has sar- ranged a loan of 200,000,000 pesetas, or $38, - 600,000, with the Bank of Spain, A special cablegram from Madrid states that the coun- try is ready but unwilling for war, The government at Madrid and the United States Navy Department have per- mission for the use of dynamite on the Maine wreck at Havana, It is belleved that Bpain wants the wreck preserved in order that it may be avaliable for a further inquiry into the cause of the disaster, London dispatches state that bankers, with the sympathy aud § co-operation of the Hothsehllds aud other European financiers, are bringing pressure to bear war, Their plan is said to be to persuade Spain to agree to pay an indemnity to the United States for the Maine disaster, and for thi made that money will be fortheoml The report of the naval board of into the Maine wa Washington Thursday night, It charge of four naval officers Lisutentan Commander Marix, Lieutenants Jungen and Hood and Fogineer Bow. ers, The President sald that be will d with the honor and country to avert war, and that he be- refused American ossible to avert t 8 purpose promises are iE. inquiry ived in disaster raced a Passed Assistant ) OVOrY- thing consistent : of the HHeves a conflict with He will, it is stated the Maine as a manda dignity Bpain can be averted, the destruatic incident, N¢ Kpain, but {roat separate non the f 3 | be notified « he t . t I inquiry, which will valent to a request for an nas Bpein may a Week or ten thirtee vessels, had salled from Islands for Porto Rico, As soon re: a rms wis received Assistant Be 1 . President, The Becretary nw retary Roosevelt the LAVA om flrateginis Allegheny WAR SUPPFLIES FROM ENGLAND, of Fowder and Shella A cabie despatch says The return of bassador ( i. Joha Hay, to london Egypt has brought to the embassy a swarm of war munition men and brokers who have options upon warshije, Rome of them re- newed efforts to sell 10 the United States ob craft atl preposterous Two Hered one sbip at prices £750,000 from London, Eng the United States Am- from fron pole brokers « apart. New contracts for ammunition and guns will probably be made onthe return of Com- man der Willard H. Brownson from Paris. when there will be a conference of the naval authorities to discuss the question of baying more ships, upon which cocasion C ma at der Brownson will report on the condition of the ships building In France which might be purchased by the United States, An oficial sald: “The United States will not be frightened into paying exorbitant prices or into buying second-rate ships and guus at any price.” This disposition proves disappointing to war material firms, some of which have tried to profit by the govern- nents needs to extort fctitious prices, The firet instalment of the Vickers-Maxim Company 8 contract for guns, amounting to $385,000, including many bail-luch quick- firers, was delivered Tuesday, The United BSiates crulser New Orleans will take a heavy cargo of powder, shells. and guns. She will descend the river and load several tonso! brown powder. The consignment is 80 large that the authorities will pot permit it to be loaded at Gravesend. Therefore the powder will be delivered from an isolated dock, situated at some distance from any bLulldiogs, prices, DIVERS MAY HAVE TO sTOP. Waters About Maine Wreck Poisoned by the Bodies Remaining. It i= probable that the work of the divers at the Maine wreck will be suspended on ac- count of the death of Mr, Williams from yel- low fever. The waters are pcisoned Lythe bodies, about 100 in number, which still remain in the huil of the battleship, and It is feared that to agitate the waters more will cause the outburst of sn epidemic of yellow and putrid fevers, The divers are deeply concerned over the dangers imposed by further Investigation, Quesada Says Spain Will Not Fight, Senor Quesada, secretary of the Cuban Junta in Washington, in talking about the situation, is quoted as saying that when the time came Spain would pot fight, He said that the Spaniards would continue thelr bluffing snd preparations for war, but when the United States intervened be is certain the Spaniards will back down and refuse to fight. Drenth of Dr, Hugh Hagan, A was received in Richmond an. pouncing the death in Atlanta, Ga, after a week's {llinese, of Dr, Hugh Hagan, a native of Richmund, wher: ve waa cducaled and spent his sary ue HORROK AT BUTTE. Miner's Lodging House Burned and Three Lives Were Lost, A despatch from Butte, Mont,, says:— The Hale House, n Inrge three-story brick bulld- ing on East Brondway, used as a lodglog and boarding house for miners in the ploy of the Anaconda Company, was entirely destroyed by fire, which broke out shortly after 3 o'clock in the morning. Bo far as known two men are dead from injuries re ceived in jumping from wicdows: another le dying and twenty are missing, while a search “r- transient lodgers also lost thelr lives, Fire Had a Good Start, There were 250 men and women in the bullding when the fire broke out, Of these it Is believed about 200 escaped without in- Jury. The fire started in the bakery house in the centre of the bullding, nnd bad a good start before discovered, The blaze was first discovered by Billy White, Jake Yaeh and Jack Dooley, They summoned the watchman and rushed to the upper portion of the bullding shouting that the house was on fire, Iiy this time the fire had broken through the first floor and smoke filled the hallways, Dooley and his companions realized that there was no time to lose, and began kick- ing in the doors of rooms, The men thoughtfully awakened the The alarm bad been turned in and partment responded promptly. When firemen arrived, men io their underelothing and others half down the fire escapes in the rear. and the servant girls with tsem, windows In the front of the bul cally calling for helg They from the rear of the bullding Ein the women first the de. the ciambering Others dressed were wut ware fant. “fh ding, were cont by he dense oke, Many Jumped for Their Lives 7 uf ol belfcre many of the frightened people ha Others, Including all the it by the The ladders were run up. but r A 843 gotien ¢ the building many had made ro bed cl way. NOI firemen thes, and s« 16 of them suerereded enwes the ropes broke and the many feet to the ground. As fast ns the imped, those Injured inmeles were were RT hicles and carried Those Ip themeelves to the { i { pred sii friends in ard ITICERas in orGaer one saved apy! time of the fire Tbe night was bitterly mometer registering five deg As long as there at pie being In the | od themselves to pas nly after there was n do this, that they t egan worl in earnest. The fire had gained wav that had fallen in, The Hale H OMmpaAnY It was t two hours alter it tes be $70 000. und hid with KANSAS BANK ROBBED OF 85.000, Surgiars Blew Up the Safe and Held Citi tens Captive in Hank Nirkersor at N Rers t © ¢ are branded by aroling bas 122 lanneries, )etroit bas a Poilsh labor silian » b Ad Chicag ina cotton mili bas 2 000 hands, earpenters want $3.25 a day. Baltimore retall merchants Grganized, upon wii weavers in Prussia, with 30 000 unionists, produc. Detroit hast | an idie machinist Only women cArj Japan is credited Germany is first in beel sugar tion. A machine makes 2.500 000 matches dally In Omaba barbers must pase an examina tion. Savannah {psurance rates have been in- creased. Mrs. Wallace, of Chichago bas a gown. Chieago Ladies’ Tailor Union is winning a trike, Milwaukee street car fare will probably be 4 cents, Boston elgar-makers striking textile workers, New York tilelayers’ helpers inerease of 25 cents a day. South Farmingbam ( Masf ters struck for 15 nents a case, The Kansas City Times claims that Kan gas Clty is the money center of the West, Los Angles (Cal) butchers are being pros ecuted for selling horse ment as beel. Senators Savidge and Thompson are members of the Detroit 'longshoremen’s un- jon. The treasury of the United Pattern-mak- ers’ Rociety, of England, contains $80,000, Salt Lake City kas fixed the maximum rate to be charged by the Natural Gas Com. pany. Alexandria (Ind) glassworkers won a strike for the reinstatement of one of their number, The city of Chicago will do its own gar- bage collecting instead of giving the work to cantractors, A ten-hour day for raliroad employes will be secured by a bill before the Massa- chusetts Legisiature Detroit teamsters organized and imme diately struck for 26 cents 8 load instead of 10, They refused 20, Boston Typographical Union members have subscribed $50 to the widows and or- phans of the warship Maine. A ten-bour day law for street car employ- ea is before the New Jersey Legisinture, The Indians Retall Merchants’ Associa- tion, as a body, has decided to discontinue the use of the trading stamp. Employes of the eity of Pittsburg will hereafter enjoy the eight-hour day. The yinters want a municipal printing plant, Cleveland, thanks to agitation, bas but one sweat shop, and there sre nol enough fdie unionists to do the work of the oo operative shop, Philadelphia bas pow an ordinance requir ing every vehicle on the streets at night and proceeding laster than 8 walk fo carry a ught. $150,000 gave $250 to the demand an machine las mn i I! Senator Thurston Urges Force If it Be Necessary. OR CUBA. NOW TIME FOR ACTION. We Should Land An Army In Cubs, Send Our Fleet to Havanese snd Say To Spain Thet She Must Withdraw Her boldiers and Leave the Cabans to Govern Them. selves, A despatch from Washington, D, C., says A peene, dramatic in the Intensity ot ite io- terest, was presented in the Thure- day doring the delivery by Mr. Thurston, of Nebraska, of a speech on the Cuban situs tion, Not since the Inauguration of President MeKinley have so many people been on the Benaie side of Capitol, The galleries were packed with people, many of whom ar- rived at the Capitol as enriy as 9.80 A. M., obtain seats. Even dipio- matic gallery, which Is rarely oceupled, was , Bmong those in it being Benor Mes- Benute the in order to the filled Foster aud Mr, iy ladies and gentlemen from Within a onvened every mer few mi after the Bennie could be by the speech { House chairs ules ster who jres Mr FEAL and time Thurston bad begun 3 members ol his were either {1 t the ithout ihe nus expected anyt Ar t 20d forbid that the i indiza “iQ DAU 4 Fl degree the staten ty to make, ]sball 1s Gu e8l, conservative and st, tir th rh wn in ar 8¢ 10 stir the pu 0 iO any } lie passi LOL necessary and imperative duties and necessities of Amer blilty, Christian honor, 1 would but 1 dare not, melo eexoepl by speaking w Overstatemeni Impossible, Thurston Cuba t of affairs exaggerated, ~ said he had gone ng that the cot "greatly cted his « f % nret iostaz EX posure He Lea o« ent 1 tems § ed exaggeratic ever, that an ¢ nis verstalen cf! the sltusticn was repared, he stated, not oniv t of the statemen f the After three years OREOSRION ¥ believed, of the ie Spanish provipoes nor raliway op- strong Spanish tary protection, or by consent of the revoin- ousideration of tribute paid. The Inhuman Policy of Weyler. ‘Under the inhuman poiicy of Weyer not less than 400,00v self-supporting, sim; iv, peaceatie, defenseless country people were riven from their homes in the agricultural portion of the Spanish provinces to the cities and imprisoned upon the barren waste outside the residence portions of the cities and within the Jines of intrenchment esial- beyond, there is neltber cultivation erstion mii. tionists in lished alittle way New Locomotives The Baldwia Locomotive Works of Phila. deiptis, Pa., have recently delivered to the Baltimore & Obie Raliroad Compasy the inst of the large orders ¢f locomotives plac- This delivery included twenty ich are gow being broken in for service between Cumberiand and Bal timore, These jocomotives are of the same styie that the Motive Power Department adopted as the standard for the First and Second divisions, They are of the Consoli- dated type witn 21x26 cylinders, and the average load they wili pull approxunates 1.800 tons, ed last fall, heavy engines wi Brother Stabbed Brother. Theodore H, Davis, aged 27 years, was probably fatal'y stabbed by his bLrother Simeon, at Phiisdeiphia. The iatter, it is stated, twice plunged a knife otc Theo dore’s back and siasbed Lim several times across the face, Theodore is not expected to itlve. The brothers bad gone to the home of their brother-in-law, William Dougherty, 1105 South Broad street, with the intention of asenuitiog him. Theodore, however, re- lented and Simeon is said to have turned upon bim. Warships’ Names. Renator Allen gave notices of an amend ment he will offer to the naval appropriation vill providing that hereafter all first-class United States battleships, cruisers and mop- ftors shall be named for the States, Terri tories and districts of the United States, and shall not be named for any eity, piace or person until the names of the States shall be exhausted, faieide of a Naval Surgeon. Dr. George Cluton Hubbard, assistant surgoen, United States Navy, commitind sui cide at Bt. Blizabeth's Insane Asyium, Wash- ington, shontiy after midnight by strangling himsel! with the cord of his dressing gown. Dr. Hubbard was 27 years old. THI within & few weeks he had been attached to the Ban % Ammasition Company, of Derby, Conn., roosived a half. ¥
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