THE NEWS. President Harris, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, Issued instruc. tions that any employe who desires to enter the service of the country on account of the hostilities now impending between this government and Spain may do so with the understanding that upon ROvVern- ment service and presenting honoravle dis- charges therefrom he will be retaken the service of the company The General Assembly of Isiand unanimously adopted a appros priating 150,000 for militia equipment, John A. Logan, Jr, has received authorl- ty from the War Departmant at Washington to recruit a regiment of 1,200 men and equip them for light cavalry service, Ninety earioads are leaving Southern California every day for the East As 300 boxes of 200 oranges each fill car, the shipments represent oearly 5,500, 000 oranges every twenty-four hours. A freight wreck on the New York Central at Fairport, N. Y., resulted in the death of John Hare, conductor; Edward Jones, brakeman, and Frank Dowd, fireman. Fred, T. Wadleigh, of Buffalo was bad- '¥ Injured. The stage between was beld up about Geronimo, Ark., lsaving Rhoda resolution Oi OrAL EMS each , suginesr, imo and Globe north of who took (ero five iiles by two robbers, and robbed all the passengers, Ries, of San Car- los, sent Iodian scouts on thelr trial, Edward Bender, who has been separated m his wife for a year went to har home in New York, and abused her so violently that their Harry, called in a policeman ! protect Lis mother, Bander w raged at the interference that he shot of them, killing Richard Bennett, years old. Policeman Dantel Driscoll Barry Danger received slight flesh wou The son was not hit. Bender was arrested. A bill substituting electrocution ing In Massa I Governor Wolo T.7 nor of Oregon t ar 1 Mr-0ia son and two saventaen yi s at aii nineteen { and nds for hang- wen signed by Geer has been nominated for Gover- y tke republicans, town crowned ieader who Young ladies of a Ge with white roses a local Lad won a su ful Hon. Clement Dowd N.C. He was at of Hon. Z. B. Vanc in Con Dawson City has bec the new Yukon Territo formed out of part of Lory. Anexplosion in a grain elevat town, Mass. quake and lad to a fire $600,000 damage. Eighty per cent, of the chamber suit m ufacturers are said to have forme bluation to be Incorporated as the Furniture Company. Mrs. William C. Whitne two months ago at Alken, moved to her New York hom regia option fight against license, died at time the law partner tw TOPs R Asheville, one e and served terms rr ress ie the Boston shook I a Ameri ¥, who was inj: NC, will e. TALMAGE WOULD GO TO WAL, Will Tender His Services as the Army. Chaplain in Rev iu Chic frout placed « such as the ga Chickamauga. Dr. Talmage will not keep him Mar congregation, short,” be was heard bard fighting will lards, Ino my opinion. “1 bate war but now we are bard fighting and quick d we only go at it as i! we mean shall bave Caba freed before we kn DeWitt Talmage t ago, that he prop rmy ch entire di hs A3 an ver an ering binks his w away from hi war will rk th ! eefah i Ana wish it ia for FACTS ABOUT THE NAYY. The United States is the fifth as lo the world. The navies of France, Russia snd Italy rank order pamed. Germany States are about tied, # Our present effective fighting fo sists of four battle ships of the first one battie ship of the armored cruisers, eighteen gunboats, six double tarreted mon! ram, one dynamite gunboat, one boat, one transport and boats, The powder used is brown, the biggest guns weighs 500 po holsted to the breech by a derrick, der being sewed up in burlap bags. Armor plates are tested Ly fi projectiles weigbing from 100 to pounds at them m guns charge 500 pounds of po distance about a city block, Our battie ships have fifteen to seventeen knots an hou ers make nineteen 10 twenty-lfog while the monitors can travel about knots, The biggest guns tige feet long, big enough fora n crawl lato; four feet in diameter at iargest part, and weigh 135 500 pounds, or thereabouts, The fastest vessels in the pavy are the torpedo boats Porter and Dupont, each of which ean travel 27.5 knots an hour Battle ships cost from £2.500.000 to 53 761,000, and cruisers from $600,000 to #3 000,000, A good torpedo boat costs over $100,000, Battle saips are for the heavy work; ers are commerce destroyers; monito useful only for coast defense, The Indiana could lie outside Sandy Hook and throw 1,200 pound shots into New York at the rate of four a minute, Those artists who show smoke In their pletures of naval batties are wholly wrong, Smokeless powder is used, All of the cruisers aro named in cities, and the battie sbips, except t sage, in honor of States, A big battle skip bas on board an élestrie plant capable of lighting a towa of 00 in- habitants, Ballors are paid month and board, An act of Congress in 1872 abolished 1 ging in the navy. Great Britain has 294 torpedos and tors pedo-boat destroyers; Uacle Sam bas only vight. There are six rear admirals in active ser. vice, The offices of vice-ndmiral and ad. miral are unfilled, so there is no head of the navy excepting Seeretary Long, At present the total enlistment fores of the aval militia is 3.870 offlvers ard men, Beliind the heavy armor there is a pad. ding of either corn pith or epcon husks. It costa $500 every time one of the guns on board & ship is fired, We have the only ram-—the Katahdin, The boilers of the Iowa have a beating ~urface of eight acres nnd hold thirty tons of water, . : AVA Great Bi ahead in aud the class second class, tw cruisers, fifteen tors, one dispateh + i eight torpedo Ac a a 8 aod in the navy are their Ho rs are ere honor of he Kear- frowns $0.50 10 #1250 per ev. og big £& Vit Sp; Diplomatic Relations End and State of War Begins. REAR GEN.WOODFORD LEAVES, Not Permitted by Spanish Fresent the Ultimatum-—Kscorted Frontier by Guard Jingo Demonstra- tion at the Station, Where Cheers Led by the Civil Governor Ware Fol lowed by Cries of “Viva Espana.” to to Ministry A oable dispateh from Madrid, says: The aitimatum of the United States was received early Thursday morning, in English, The Spanish government immediately broke off diplomatic relations with the United Btates, notifying the United States Minister to this effect before he was able to present any note, I'he Spanish government having received the text of the ultimatum of the United States from its own sources did not wait for the United States Minister to present the ul timatum, but sent him his passports, It is not expected that there will be ans ormal declaration of war, as Bpain's action # considered a virtual declaration of war, hostilities may begin fim mediately, f i i and Bot! own people and to all neutrals what | termed “‘the notification of war.” Senor Gullon's Note to Woodford. f following gis the text of the note re ceived by Gen, Woodford from Senor Gul on, Minister of Foreign Affairs “Dear Sir: Io compliance with a painfy duty, I have the honor to there has been sanctioned by the P of the Republic a resolution of both cham bers of the United States which deauies legitimate sovereignty of Spain and ons armed i{oterventiou in Cu which equivalent to a declaration of war. “The government of her majesty have or. dered her Minister to return with time from North American gether with all the pers { tion. “By this act the diplomatio relations erto existing between the two countries a: ali official communications between their representatives cease, “I am obliged, thus, to inform you. = that you may make such arrangements as you th fit. I beg your ex t acknowiedge receipt of this note | time as you deem proper, th je ureat yut loss of territority, to. the anel of lega- ink wllet at such Taking portanity to reiterate to you thes assurance of my distinguished consideration. “P. GULL ON Gen. Woodford Leaves Madrid, Gen. Woodford left Madrid at 4 o'eloek in the afternoon for Paris, tt 61 this pe | There was a Jing i | | i i | i } } { i { i is H and | nstration at the raliway station, dritish Charge d' Affaires Secretary of the Asin German mm ( Ruadaghausen, United States Minister off, Woodford t a quarter of the hour at which Bat the train started (en. arrived at hour in train an the was half an Wo represeniatives to leave, press and a 1s, whiie | civie guar order amid the ere private detectives, elvil guards ace number vel {32 Minister main tained bis usual cs yess, but looked wor: and fatigued, When the crowd was thickest about hb the 4 IRS ang AY : ( f I aching Co Morel, the hiel o shook hands with him cordially, bim for his kindoess and zeal in the United States Legation aad rd’s) residence for s0 many m sanking guarding his (ron, ntha WILL SEARCH FOR ANDREYR., Frof. Stadling Will Go to Klondyke and Start From There. Prof, Stadiing, who has been appointed te conduct the search for Prof. Andres. ti started last year in in tre who an a at. bal Kion ReO. that ati proceed to y the fact ut graphers give credence to report Andree has been beard from in those tudes, the TORPEDOES FOR SPAIN'S NAY ¥. ment If War Breaks Out, Senor Bandovia, the Spanish agert in Der enroute to Kiol to test thirteen | Sehwartzkopl torpedoes, which be has pur- | ia | A the case, | that country. The Uzalted States has been notified of the facts in and will request the German goversment | to prevent the shipment of the torpadass, if | war breaks out beltore they are on their way to Spain, Assy | ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE, A memorial of Dr. Arnold, of Rahy, has been placed In Laleham Church, which be used to attend, The late Mrs, Julia W. James, of Boston, left nearly all her estate, valued at $542,000 to the Museum of Fine Arts and the Insti tute of Technology. The Count of Tarin, nephew of the King of Italy and hero of the sensational due with Prince Henry of Orleans, is coming t« the United States next month, The Rev. Samuel J. May, the venerabic Unitarian minister of Leicester Hii, Mass, celebrated his 88th birthday last Banday, Despite the weight of years, he has full pos- session of all his faculties, Prof. Benjamin Howard ls the only Amer- lean who bas thus far been able to reach the Biberian Island of Baghalien, where the worst Russian erfminals aro sent. Hes as. serts that the commonly accepted tales of the horrors of this prison‘are exaggerations, Ex-Gov, William J, Northen, of Gecrgia, has declined a nomination for the Mayoral ty on the ground that his business Interests rexjuires his attention, Queen Vietoria has read and reread the posms of Beott so often that she knows most bof them by heart, The late Princess De Joinville received from the Government of Brazil, indspend- ently of a dower of $20,000, a small colony named San Francisco, of which she was never deprived. Capialn Sigabes’s revolver, whish was found by one of the divers on the wreek of FROMPEACE TOWAR Spain Severed the Diplomatic Re- lations Before She Received the Ultimatum. AVE GEN. WOODFORD HIS PASSPORTS, North Atlantic Squadron Moves to the Enemy's Country--Inspiring Scenes in Key West Harbor--Big Warships Flash Night Messages Across the Skies--No Interpreter Needed to Tell That They Meant Hostile Action s-- Fleet Moves Under Cover of Night. A despatch from Washington, s ys betwean the United States and a fact, though not yet officially declared so by { Congress The stirring events of Thursday enlminated | in the afternoon In orders for the departure of the North Atlantie squadron to blockads | 1 Havana, This is practically an net of war, that the country and 6 sald to date from April War | On Apsil 20,1808, about 11 « ‘elock | the Department of State served notice | Purposes of this Government pain in | by deli to Minister Polo a copy of an fnstruc Alimtster Woodford, and res uti viutions Gitsd BBO KR © py passed by the Congress of 5 on the 15th inst. notios the Spanish Male After the re | 80 war between this Btate Departmen Spain m 2, 1 A low the opening of the | Stats Department came word from Minister Woodford that the Spanish government had notifled hin lent MeoKiuley's ay truly b passporls, which were 804, yesterday altern minutes after odford | Minister instruoete Mtates , before he ¢ 1 to * verament of ne Re A d present Pre was at the same tis uitimatam, that it has i diplomatic relation Craneral Wo i broken y yo | yrogen artanent { United apaio the Deg re had then abo bal he and { gram { his passp Madrid, Fhe administration ina publi nn afterward the RisO 8 i was i 8 { 20 AGDO action readari roved today of the Island « the Presid randy pre. resolu Army t nediate re t Atiantis Havana, stratagio be Government an suit Navy Departments, waa the order for he Government « \ pr} the Nort its authority and ! ¢ ® Cubs and withdraw its veramen the blockade of i jrotts {a walter The % \ 5 Iho Massach a 15-kn 4 war and carries four 13.4ae0h has 9.000 horsap i and 30 guns of smaller size hi, four G-inch cabinet | Ic ot pos i in iba and ( wing rees from ( takin { disclaims any disg exercise sovereignty, much further than this the n & this % t sible to say, for the obrious reason that the | here! ¥ a to tire ei ti of over sald isiand exon theroo! nnd asserts | that yn when th ant and hat the movements fieation to prevent the enemy ti i® accompli wmation ) ar sontrol Minister Woodlord's action as reported 10 | peond inder such ina iste telegram, in ment as they following a carefully “1! by the hour of The Spanish the 221 day of A notified blm that it regarded its with | communicated to thi Er Minister Polo ending diplo- | of Spain a full and General Woodford fur | this demasd and informed the Span. | ends of peace iu © king the int free at MIAy estal licated that be was : there 10% by that nse Lo ROVern. amend Bs as satislastory respo whearativ the i. the resolution shal 4 5 ‘1 withongt dl her stated that he had 1a be assure #1 goverament, after as President will procesd be had put the American legs to Madrid and American goneraily in the hands o The British for his Pass itther notices power and asthority him by use the interests In conferred upon { the British don in Spain embassy, 3 ambassador, High nit ot a is Madrid, so American interests the British charge d'al- faires, Sir George GG. F. Bonham, To all intents and purposes this relieves he State Department from further negotia- fous as to Caba, except those relating to privatecring, neutrality observances and the like, It was found necessary to frame a Received 2.02 A. M Madrid, Sherman, Washington marly this (Thursday diately after the receipt of gram, aad Before I had communicated sa ne ir 9 April 21 orning, imme. Your open ieie. in SCHLEY'S FLAGSHIP, BROOKLYN, Tas Brooklyn fe ths Nuve's greatest Cegiser, Her speed fs 20 knots, her displacement 9.271 tons, and ane onst aboat $3,000,000, Shs carries eight 8-inch, twelve b.doeh and 20 smaller guns, MAAR 5 sisi notios to the powers of the intention of this to Spanish Government, Spanish Minister government to establish a blockade of Hav. | for Foreign Affairs notified me that diplo- ana, such a potifleation being required by | matic relations are broken between the two international law, countries and thet all oMelal communion. tion between their respective representatives have ceased. [ secordingly asked for safe passports. Turn legation over to Eaglish Embassy and leave for Paris this afternoon, ———— TEXT OF ULTIMATUM, A despateh from Washington, says: ~The following statement of the text of the ulti se Maine, is now on exhibition in a New York theatre, matum ¢3 Spain was Issued Thursday, Have notified consuls, WOODFORD. | rou | | A BLOCKADE ONLY, Instimotions to Captain Sampson, It is Bald, Do Not Contemplate a Bombardment, Captain Bampson lustruetions contem.- piste the lustitution of a blockade of the ports of the entire island of ( Thera will be no bombardment of the fortifications there will be no attempt to enter any of Ear but shoy Bpanish ! Le American ships intter will Or capture them if possible, Naturally mueh bas been left t Judgment, and the are conlidenut that he will not full the coun iry iu its time of need, Any fneffe of blockades will result in ance by neutrals and the conseque sumption of commerce between the ports of Cuba, uba, the ors id vessels the destroy Captain Sampson's authorities tiveness berry r6- and its non- nt them It Is the purposs of this government tc starve the Spanish troops int they will be « comparatively easy prey lor the American nriny, It ls, therefore, proposed to ‘kade effective at all I'he only exception to this out of the occasional temy the blockadivg squadron } r dent a stale where make Lhe tines, ruie OTary MAY &rise al ahsen os f 4530 wv Bi roa a 1 i n RE 1a Lhe cane of storm, which does not suspend the legal operation of a Blockade It is not expected that the execution of ti pian will be performed without danger the American vessels, The North Atlantic Squadron. Thirty-eight vessels of the United he North Atiantie ¢q and of Capt, W. 7 Went, Navy, comprising 1 ron on, under com Are 8 or near mite cruiser Vesuvius, sjundron, is at it to pre 1 Rodgers is on | Key which belongs #1 of vesse 108 pEYOrs 3 that sever; fitted iv £8 [ wilh gun w x # > + Be ht 0 Ee Lftv-eight Rican sts | Clircios he North Atlantic squadron ch it will meet in the vi- iba, Of the Spanish force, its er, the Alphonso X111, 3.000 a disabled ocopdi- in Havana harbor, and it ex pected iatil the American flag Bpain s nexl largest the cruiser Reipa iit in 1857, which & very good vessel of her type American er ships which are seven tor. vinity of « inrgest ori of nf disp tons displ tion acement, lies in = will remain there aoe that of Spain fe ! tous, by 3 t men have to fear fu Cuba cruisers, the Filipinas, of 750 tons asd 20 knots; the Jorge Jusn, of 935 tons and 13 knots: the Neuva Espana, of 630 tons and 18.6 knots, and the Galicis, the Margues de EE ———— 00 DEPARTS, Spanish Minister Requested His Passports. PROCEEDS TO CANADA. He Spoke Feelingly of His Departure and The nud Bald His Re quest Followed the Eunactment Attacked vircumstances, for His Passports of a Law Which Bin's Sovereignty. ky #1 el : The Minister's Passports ris res cling LO Sherman of and lute Slates sued the seal be afMixed at Washingt th day of r {the dd officers and § 8 were there was at no time any ore than keeping b At § o'elo wm ing i# onlookers made a hurried call at the French Austrian legation, left and th egation and started d and the ish interests are charge en i his staff at the An expressfwagon was pike the trunks of the for the train bigh witt Arges pariy BOME FOR THE PRESIDENT, An Infernal Machine Sent to the White House machine was sent to the Presi. nfernal Aun jet Thursday Fortunately its character i measures pre. was done, WER ispected, anc taken to vent ite expl and no harm The incident was carefully concealed and all onion Yanez, each of 571 tone and 158.6 knots, Four cruisers of between eleven and twelve hundred tons each are distributed around the island. In addition to this force Spain has stationed in Cuban ports a large num. ber ol gunboats, ranging ia dispiscement from 500 to 2.000 ons, HOWARD BAKER FEUD AGAIN, Ten Men Reported Killed and Three In Jured in Clay County, Ky, The Howard-Baker feud, in Clay County, Ky., bas broken out again, and ten men ar reported killed and three injured. This feud only ten days old, Howard and Baker were partuers io a logging enterprise. They quarreied and fought. Relatives and friends joined in, and & week ago three of them were killed, Anse asd Al Baker, who bad been arrested and kept under guard, broke away and hid in the woods, declaring they would exter. minate their enemies, The report of tin killing is regarded as fndiesting that they are keeping their word, The names of the dead aad wounded in the battle bave not been reported, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, A military conspiracy against the Brazil. ian government bas Leen frustrated. There is little change in the condition of Hon. Wm. E. Gladstone, who is critically ill. Queen Wilbelmina, of Holland, ie in Paris incognito. She will soon go to Cannes, The Marquis of SBailsbury, who Is In the Riviera recuperating, will return to England May 8 Mra. Oscar Wilde died recently in the Riviera, m whenoe as to tho There was nothing to suggest ) it came and no clue was florded : who sent it » inachine ng cigar ance bad been of the box was owder whi OWaer, sul was inclosed box At arranged sq cha of the White was Lieutenant Cross, it ice, to e marhive Landed aud 100k pre- santions to render it He soaked it thoroughiy in a tub of water until the con- tents were thoroughly saturated, and then whom ti discovered its nat opened jt Asa result of this measures will be taken to tive Mansion, The bied, and it is expected that a detail from the Distriot militia will form an additional outside guard to the approach to the White House grounds, FOR FREE CUBA. Delegate’s Sympathios Are With Cabans. The New York Press prints the following: Archbishop Martivelli, Papal delegate to the United States, attended the dedication of & new church at Pittsburg. The Archbishop refused to give any interviews (0 the press, tut be addressed the monks and priests st the Frasciscan Home, and through them it became known that his sympathies were with the suffering Cubans, He said. “Although I am an Italian dora, | am an American al heart, My sympathies are with this country ln ihe present dispute, and 1 cannot but sympathize with the Cubans in their straggie, and believe they should gain their freedom.” He is said to have given a long talk on what was expected of the Catholie clergy in the present crisis. The Holy Father deplor. od hostilities between two nations in whieh Le was so greatly interested, aod he bad advised the Spanish government to honor nbly avoid a conflict with the United States. But, seemingiy, the die had been const, and war would result, and it behooved every jood Roman Catholic, whether priest or ayman, to honor aud obey the mandates of the country of birth or Eooton when en- gaged io such holy war as that of atiem pts ing to relieve the sufferings of another eouniry, incident additional guard the Exseg. poilce {oree was dou. Papal
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