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HOUSE TAKES
oy
Resolution Passes by 322 Votes
to 19,
INTERVENE AT ONCE.
An Official Note of the Madrid Cabinet
Declares the Policy Bet Forth in the
President's Message an Interference in
Spain's Internal Affairs— Crack Liners
st, Louis and St. Paul Bought.
A despateh from Washington, D. C.,
says: —The House of Representatives Wed-
nesday by a vote of 322 to 19, and after one
of the most exciting days in its history,
adopted a resolution which is regarded vir-
The resolation directs the President to
intervene at once and stop the war in Cuba,
with the purpose of establishing, by the free
action of the people of Cuba, a stable and
independent government on the island, The
President is authorized to use the land and
naval forces of the United States to carry
out the purposes of the resolution. The
democratic members of the foreign aflalrs
committee reported a minority resolution
declaring for armed Intervention and the
recognition of the Cuban republic. The
scene in the House was one of the most dis-
graceful ever witnessed there, and at one
time a free fight seemed imminent.
The Resolution.
“Whereas this long series
juries and burdens for which re-
gponsibla has culminated Io the destruotion
of the United States battie ship Maine, inthe
harbor of Havana, aad in the death
of our seamen,
“Resolv.d,
hereby auth
at gnew t
tent and
peacs and or
of losses, in-
Srain 1s
of 264
&+.. That the
rized aud directed to interve
y stop the war in Cuba, to the ex-
urpose of securing permanent
jor there, and establishing by
the free action of the people thereof a stable
and independant government of their own in
the Island of Caba; and President
hereby authorized and wered t
the land aod naval forces of
States to execute the purpose ¢
lation,’
The Saaate committes
reported to the Senate a resolatiou
ing that the goverament
its authority in Caba and
and naval forees from
President is directed
the army and
enfores the demand, and to eall into the ac
tive service of the United States the militia
of the several Biates, miosority mem-
bers of the committee presented a resolu-
the Is
emp use
the
’
yn foreign relations
demand-
ol Spain relinquish
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1
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navy of the United States
The
ile. No action was taken on
resolution. An report
intervention and charging Spain
responsibility for the destructio
tle ship Malne was submitted Ly the com-
mittee,
Dispatches from Madrid
Spanish governmeat is pi
game either with a view « {
hostility of this country to
in some overt or concrete form, or with
slaborate
with the
#tate that
aving a walt
per
take expressio
iting th
view of safeguarding the Spanish dynasty
by giviog the continental power a further
chance to mediate,
After a prolonged cabinet meeting an of-
fleinl note was given out by Senor Hagasta,
in which he made this declaration: “The
doctrines contained In President McKinley's
MOsSAgs are facompatible with the sover-
aignty and rights of the sation, anl am An
jaterferenss in the lateraal affairs of this
country.”
Senior Bagasta, According to aa interview
with him eabled from Madrid to a London
sage as "“daplorable, Lut fore d from him
by the clamor of Congress.”
The crack American liners Paul and
St. Louls ware ordered to be beugh: for this
country, and will be transformed into heav-
fly armed craisers, The pries paid for them
i» said to have been about $5.000.000, The
Old Dominfon Line steamship Yorktown and
the Brazilian groser Metheroy will also be
we
ful inspeetion.
The fiylag squedron of Commodore
Sebley was given sealed orders Wednesday
to go to een, aud at 2.50 departed from
Hampdon Roads, This caused mush 6x
eitement, bat it was stated at the Navy Des
partment that tde squadron had simply.
teen ordered on a practice crntse, Toe
Minneapolis was delayed by striking a oh
le, but followed the other vrasels ont to ssa
after a delay of four hors,
A special dispatch from Washiogton shows
that the Amegioas naval squadron now at
Hong Kong is vastly suverior in strenikih to
the Bpasish fiset around the Phillppine Is
ands, and est shatly capture thuse Spenish
eolonles within a few days after a declara-
tion of war. 4 ve
There are reporis in Madrid of a serious
: Isiand rebels at
outbreak of Philippine
Fulnan, el
the Spanish Cortes to meet next woeok,
action as a step in the d
even to the ex-
may, on the
pendence of the
inde-
resolutions,
It is doubtful, however,
at this time, It is
protest,
house by the United States
one or more of the European powers
tate between this country and Spalu,
and would mean the virtual surrender of
occurrences of tue next few days,
The strongest evidence of the a
Senate Committees on
if it does not elaborate,
does not require governmental
basis for formal
soizure of the customs-
it is suggested that
may offer to madi-
of her debt by this country
by the
THE NEWS.
N he armistice, several
twithstandiog
slies were reported from Baota (
Cubs. A DBritsh
seized by the
ksirm
and Sautiago de vessel
the Arrow, had been
ties charged with ing
war, but was ordered released on
author
ontraband of
the repre-
CArr
Ist
President Griscom,
has offered the Paris and New York to
government,
The Secretary of the Navy has prohibited
the farther issuing of news to press or pub-
He, followl the precedent set during
Civil
The suggestion df
that t Bundesrath
+ National (
Switeeriand
mediate betwee!
Knnir
Spi
ap iy
ter body
Was UnaLImon
British
yusider
sommande
authorities,
Ibe
to advise the Queen
semi-official
independence ou
As this is also
the posit
¥
bas probably been
Caldnets will 1 advise Spain
ithat 8;
biates
European
to further yisldine.
will declares war to prevent the United
completing ber armament.
Mioister I’
already Leen
It is beliavs
ain
recalled, He is all ready t
FOR ACTION.
ble. Spain expects to put up a long and
vigorous fight.
Daring the past two months the Baltimore
and Ohio Raliroad Company has received
1.110 new box cars, 1.239 double hopper
goudolas and 224 coke cars of the order of
5.150 recently placed with Puliman’s Palace
pacy aud the Bouth Bal:imore Car Works,
Deliveries are being mads us rapid. y ss the
ears are completed,
Plats Glass Company, in North Irwin is
complets ruins, Fire started near
gas converter, The flames spread
groat rapidity from one buliding to another
remained of the largest ipdepesndant
glass works of the Unitsd States. The
f= estimated at $750 000, with lusurance
pinte
joss
of
from eating wild parsaips. The wild pars-
nip is a Earopean plant that bas become
domestionted in the United States, It closely
resembles the cultivated parsnip, only its
toot is hard and serid, Its a member of
the Sativa family and is very polsonous
The Senate Committee on Appropriations
propriation bill, and Senator Hale afterward
reported it to the Senate. The amendments
recommended by the commities increase the
aggregate appropriation of the bill, as It
passed the House, of £8,238 500, making the
total $46,777,608. The principal items of in-
crease are the lollowing’
tion and the machinery of new war and de-
forse vessels $6.000,000; for armor aad ar-
mament, $1,509,000; for equipment, #200
000; for additions to asd repairs about navy
yards, $662,000.
i
SPANIARDS DID IT,
Plans to Blow Up the Maine.
Lee was before the Sen-
Foreign Relations
He talked
the
(Consul General
ate Committees OD
Tuesday.
in regard to
and especially with relercuce
tion of the Maine, He
ore Was no roon
that the destru Of { 16 Ve
Spanish agov
“Do you
bour late
committees
in Cuba,
sald that
to doubt
esiro
see] WwW
mean the Spanish
i
was asked Ly a
Havant
mmitiee OF
recognized
He res;
hastened lol
Le was
fie, and
spain Advised to Decinre War
jsuna correspondent of
Mali SRV 3
ng Austria, are reporie
f declare war, becau
ns would
Boaveral ;
Al bs
On eassl be
delay or
yoke a revolution.”
FIELD OF LABOR.
Detroit bas sixty-four unions,
We send cotton to fifteen countries,
The States contain eleven pin factories,
Panama Canal employs 8,500 inborers,
Mexico has one typesetting machine,
United States bas 400,000 telephones,
Detroit waitresses will be organized,
Pittsburg plumbers want the eight-hour
dny.
d iV.
Jank dealers’ license
£250,
in New York
100,
The Scottish
&35,000,
(ialveston
£19,000.
Clerks’ Association
‘Lougshoresmoen’s
hours,
Springfield (Masa. ) municipal laborers get
$1.50 a day.
Chicago derrickmen want 37%
hour on May 1.
Cleveland Central Labor Union Is apposed
to Sunday baseball,
Ground for Detroit labor temple will be
broken on Labor Day.
Troy (N. Y.) contractors who do eity work
must employ unionists,
Chileago electricians pow get £3.95 a day,
an advance of 75 cents,
New York House Framers’ Union fines
men who work for jumpers,
Gov, Tanper addressed the Springfield,
Federation of Labor.
Boston Cestral Labor Usfon may exclude
foremen in shops as delegates,
; architectural iron workers’ new
senle was signed. It seeures double pay lor
overtime,
cents an
ORES.
LULLED,
How the Message Was Receiv.
ed by the Law Makers.
DEBATE IN THE SENATE.
fenator Butler Introduced a Resolution
Demanding The Immedinte Evacuation
of the Island By Bpain- House Nefers It
to Foreign Affairs Committee Without
Debate,
A despatch from Washington, D. C., says:
In the Senate every uvallable seat, both on
the floor and in the galleries were occupled
when Viee-President Hobart's gavel called
the sespion to order, Io the galleries the
people had been waiting for bours, but the
arrangements for handiing the crowds were
wo admirable that not the slightest confusion
existed, The attendance of Benalors were
unusually large, ludeed, every member of the
body in the eity was fn hisseat, Among the
visitors on the floor was General Nelson A.
Miles, of the army.
In the diplomatic gallery were
Paunceforte, the British ambassador
Hengeimuller, the Austrian minister
party; Mr. Constantin Brun, minister
Denmark: Mr. Charles F, Adam, first
tary of the British legation, and Miss
rb of the Freneh
Yeoln, secretary of the Jegation of (
Mr. J. BK Ploda, the
commander
Bir Julian
Be Cre.
Chanecell eulve,
Dr
Swiss minister,
legation,
mala
nese
brilliant
attired in the
+ galleries presented a seene
adles were
Interesting Inventions.
Tops are being manufactured which
are spun by a current of air directed
by a blowpipe into the curved chan-
nels extending outward from a central
opening in the top.
A new skirt supporter, the invention
a Western woman, has central
gection of elastic webbing, hooks
at each end to catch the skirt and hold
it in any des height
A new rowlock boats it
of a U shaped metal plate set
glide the with flanges
ing beyond the edges of the hole,
oar lying loose lock.
Stockings and socks can be easily
paired by means of ind
which are being made for pt
are adapted to fit the
¥
Oi a
with
ired
for formed
into the
extend-
the
of boat,
in the
re~
* ’ ¥ ' &
LO : nee] Cap
"yy
pose
over worn
and
parts and be gewed
In
the
Lil
a newly d
back of ong
ig enti
along
of
a
a comb
and fits
bas Kk
one €n
place .
Molasses and
for in
placed om the
nee
ing the interior ang
cape of air tl
is table
of
at tt
{ bonne
r i Ad ag
A roGen,
4 AY were n¢
Ma one
{ the President appeared
f #IOng-
min
ther clerk
Mr. Mason
° nia nos
al the read
cers
mittee
Mr Mutier's Hesolution,
nd naval fl
ii
ind
he ouon to re-
: foreign
Biates 10 ears y these Toso)
ik . 4
The intion went over s rales,
st Ins
ul i
res
debate
yim In Hite
agreed to,
Another message from the
transmitting the Cuban consu
je Senate, aad
with the
rit
fer the message to
or
the ©
reiations was thisn
President,
Ar reports,
after being
rompanyiog
reign rela.
aid before ti
read, was refereed
papers t
tions,
Alc
717;
ynmittee on I
y the « n |
No Debate in the House,
The President's message was tread to the
to the commities
debate, There
demonstration either of
on foreign
was abso.
lutely no approval
ing. but there was a sharp burst of applause
from the republican side, when, toward the
war in Cuba must cease, At the conclusion
of the reading about hall the republicans
several of the democrat
aned,
After the message had been referred the
House transacted some District of Colum-
gr
New York distriet
Mr. Ward's tities to the seat,
All the afternoon the members stood about
diseussing tho message and the
probable action of Congress upon it.
TO RECALL BERNABE,
Senor Gullon Authorized to Order Him
Home.
According to aspeeclai dispateh from Mad-
rid the Supreme Couneli of State has author.
order the Spanish Minister at Washington®
Ssnor Polo de Bernabe, to return to Spain
directly President McKinley acospts “any
resolution of Congress which attacks Spain's
sovereignity in Cabs.”
She Threatens to Abdicate.
The Madrid correspondent of the London
Morning Post, telegraphing by way of Blar-
ritz, says: “The Queen Regent has informed
the members of hey court that it Is ber in-
tention to abdicate immediately if the Cab.
net takes any steps derogatory to Spain's
uonor and dignity.”
How Drake Caught
{ing ¢ £
is grossly
feot i
warm and
"
well p
empty stoma
off
of drau
the
in
be
bowels and chest
with an
to
eXPOSUTY
care not rool too ra
heated; keep
flannels, and
little commen various en
gencies, colds will rare if
were a penal offence, we should soon
find a way to prevent them.
out
with exercise
gense
Uses of Electricity.
limit to the uses of elep-
announces that if
from one
i needle point to another through a corn
{or bunjon, it will cause the tissue to
| dry up, shrivel and finally fall off,
| jeaving a new and healthful surface
! where thee was once a scene of con-
stant pain. Another experiment
recommends passing a current through
the body to alleviate and finally to
sure indigestion and heartburn, while
‘he number of peopie who use the bat-
tery for rheumatism and kindred ail-
ments is now numbered far up in the
hundreds of thousands New York
[| Mail and Express.
There ig no
tricity A scientist
| an electric current be passed
o
nligt
iad
ainsi cts
Cost of Living.
Experiments at the Missouri State
University show that in the matter of
diet » man can live at an expense of
18 1-2 cents a day.
New Zealand contains at present 42.
a0 natives (Maoris) and 626,000
| Whites,
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News Gleaned from
Various Parts.
Latest
One Kilied, Another Dying The Huge
Iron Boller Blown Three Hundred Feel
Badly Burned and Seslded Cause of
Expiosion Unknown Other Interesting
News.
f
The boiler at the saw mill on the farm of
Holsoppie, thirteen miles soutbonst
kililog Hol-
Churles pple,
sidney
Hols
Holsopple
one or of
siting
tbe
blew up,
¥
and Joseph
ily lojured that
A
ar
topple, Intally lpjurin
‘
de Druece
wo
by A
4
:
The ten had been ¢
ra new when suddenly
huge
300 feet
the other
upon the
«iA
Wi
barn,
Oue-haif of the wi-
lalr (80 borse power
Irom its former position,
was Lown
01
while
er
tn §
the mili,
was proprietor
Bensot which
& ihe
Ler WAS al on the rool { the
and when
foot
Own
ortunate operatives of
Holsopple, the man killed
H at
he left at noon 10 ass
Ge y
tel isoppie
Pino ist fo «
um
when
Landed on His Head
« H. Hiester at w=
re
It Was an Accident,
ie alleged Lrate
i August Bau
was Cepied in
4 fe
Fatal Fall Down Stairs
&
¥
Mise Lizzie
, f sow oy
nning at fall speed
whether or not her
er, just as he play.
The mis
sired ber
ale
pebbles
the eves and in
her sight was rulaed,
A Child Burned.
A sad burning accident
sear the gol! grounds at Easton
Dangel was burning
dren
oscurred in a eld
Dr. AL
brush near his home
were playiog nearby.
them, Katrina Behn, who, with ber
mother, Mra, Mary Debio, of Wilkes-Barre,
ts visiting Easton, ran close to the fire and
swoon her dress wae in flames, She ran across
the flelde, the wind fanning the blaze all the
while, Her sg reams attracted the attention
of Thomas Eichlin, a carpenter, who was
nearby, and he ran
hands be beat the
snd some obi
Jone of
With bis
finally quenched the flames with & busket of
bat not before the victim had been
Child's Fearful Doom.
Marpet MeAdame, aged 7 yoars, met with
The ehild was
iothiog caught fire, She was up-
extinguish the fames and was roasted
Fell Undor Car Wheels
Lewis Travis, of 320 East Second Sirest,
Wilmington, Dal, was badly mutilated bw a
porth-bound train on the Philndelphin, Wik
mington & Baltimore Rallroad at Crum
f.yane, He was seen to fall from a ear, tha
wheels of the oars passing over his loft Jog
and Joft arm. He was taken to the Chwster
Hospital, where both arm and leg were am-
putated.
Drowned in a Millrace.
Stanley Drachbill, aged 8 years, a son of
Mrs. Margaret Brachbill, sceldentaily
Arownad in Garberich’s millrace, Bellefonte,
About hail-past © he was sent with a lnsch
for his cider brother, who worked at Crider's
Mill. This was the last seen of bim alive,
The waser was drawn off and the unforte-
pate boy's body was found,
in Egypt fans were used in religious,
ceremonies, made of parchment or
f where. ¥
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