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,
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this pe |
There was a Jing
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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