The British foreign office has hoon oMelal- ly notified by the Spanish embassy that the government of Spain has ordered the ports of Cuba, the Philipines Islands and Porto Rioo tobe defended Ly lines of torpedoes, and thatentry into these ports, therefore, Is only possible under the guidance of pilots who are In readiness, outside tho lines of de fense, to take ships in, Julius Baldash, 8 Spaniard, died at Long Bun, a mining town near Steubenville, O., from the effects of being shot through the bangs by Louls Ship, ® German, The men had quarrolled over the war and Ship took the side of the United States, Baldash threatened to kill him and when they came to blows Baldash started to get a weapon, when Ship shot him. Ship was arrested, Prof, Jobn B. Moore qualified at the State Department as Assistant Secratary of State, and In the absence of Secretary Day re- celved tho representatives of forelgn gov- eroments having diplomatic business with the United States, 8 [Lieut Count von Goelzen, the German zailitary attache at Washington, who is now fn Berlin, has been ordered to return to the United States and accompany the forces of the United States which will operate in Cuba. The British cruisers Cordelia and Pelican Rave been ordered to Newfoundland waters £0 cope with any emergency that may arise if Spanish warships wisit this coast for coal, What may prove a serious epidemio in Roanoke, Vo, is now prevalent, and the Pphyslelans areso baMed they cannot con- trol it. Thedisease resembles cerebro spinal meningetis, and claimed four vietims Thurs- day. They live from twenty-four to forty- . eight hours after being attacked, Among thoso who died were J. H. Windel, grocer, and C A Lane, jeweler, Frost did great damage to fruit and early wegetation In West Virginia, The mercury dropped to within a few degrees of the freeziog point, President Harris, of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, issued instrue- tions that any employe who desires to enter the service of the country on account of the Diostilitles now impending between this goverament and Spain may do so with the understanding that upon leaving govern- znent service and presenting honorable dis- charges therefrom he will be retaken into the service of the company. The General Assembly of Rhode Island mopanimously adopted a resolution appro- | Priating $160,000 for militia equipment, | John A, Logan, Jr., has recelved authori ty from the War Department at Washington £0 recrult a regiment of 1,200 men and equi; them lor light cavalry service, Ninety carloads of oranges are leaving Southern California every day for the East. As 300 boxes of 200 oranges each <ar, the shipments represent nearly 5,500, O00 oranges every twenty-four h A freight wreck on the New York C st Fairport, N. Y., resulted in the death John Hare, conductor; Edward Brakemag, and Frank D i, fireman, Fred. =. Wadleigh, of Buffalo, engineer, was bad- 1y injured, Edward Bender, who has been separated from his wile for a year went to her home in New York, and abused her so that thelr seventeen year-old called ina policeman and two friends to | protect his mother. snder was 80 en raged at the interference that he shot at of them, killing Richard Benpett, Fears old, Policeman Daniel Driscoll Farry Danger received slight flesh wounds The son was not hit. Bender was arrested hi +h flil each irs ent ral of Jopes, Wi vioientiy son, Harry, 3 ninsteen and BLANCO NEEDS NO HELP. Says Spanhh Squadron Can Be Utilized Elsewhere. Captain General Blanco has cabled the Government at Madrid t b Lhe Bpaolsh squadron of satilized elsewhere, us b } the effect ti warships an ace ef =fonse of Havana without the a the floct, maj 5 sunt for £ unt for i ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE, Vienna's oldest Leen voled a municipal pe wear, } Brig.-Gen, James F. Wade, who takes | <ommand of that portion of the United States | Army sent to Tampa, was born in Ohio in E540, and ls a son of iate Benator Ben- | Jamin F, Wade, The Japanese jinriksha-puller who saved | t Be life of Alexander 111. and received there- For a present of £10,000, spent the money in & Tow years aod then committed sulolde, Count Tolstol will soon celebrate suniversary as a journalist, or, rather, smauniversary will be celebrated Ly bis admir- | ers. A "Tolstol school” is to be founded in | Bt oscow in his honor, : Et Is reported that Mr. Kipiiog fs on his | sway home from the Cape, where he has | grassed the winter, and that he is dus in | Eogland early next month, { The Philadelphia Record says: “Col, Wii Liam Ayres, who died last week at his resi- | «ence, 35 Spruce street, Philadelphia, en- | Joyed the distinction of having been the first | Er nlon prisoner who was exchanged during | the rebellion, | The Rev, J, Ritehle Smith, who cepted the presidency of the New Westmin- ster University, at Denver, Col,, is now pas- tor of the First Presbyterian Church of Freeksklll, N.Y. He is a graduate of Prince ton, and ls 46 years old. Lord Dufferin Is sald to have 12 white eats, almost exactly alike, for which he paid £6,000, Mayor Carter H. Harrison, of Chicago, In Bais first annual message, congratulates the «ity Council on “the remarkable scarcity of wieious legislation” Inst year, Dr. 8 Filmore Bennett, the author of **The Sweet By and By.” is growing blind, Eau Lopes soon to completes a volume of wemsree on Which be Is now at work, nie Gorman Empress bas acceptad the io- wr itation of Queen Viotoria to spend a part of tie summer in Abergel die Castle, in Seot- Emnd. Bhe is In poor health, Lieutenant Keywiteh, of the Austrian Army, and Princess Louise of Belgium, who Fecently sloped, are said to be on thelr way to the United States, Lady Yarde-Buller, who was arrested In rakiand, Cal, last week and pat in charge of a lunacy commission, is once more at lib exty. The trouble with her was a dinner; so =aid the commission that examined her men- tal state, Arthur Nikisoh, conductor of the Lelpsic “Gewandhaus concerts, has been fined 12,000 salden by the court in Budapest. Before he accepted his post in Lelpsic he was conduc- tor of the royal opera in Budapest, and Esxroke bis contract to do so. It is said that Crozier, who invented the <isappearing guo-cartiigs, got bis idea from a Kinsas prairie dog jumping isto its Bole, Cheek Castle, In Logan county, 0., alnter ainier, +4 tae his 50th | the | bas me | FIRST BATTLE WON. The Batteries of Matanzas are Silenced by Sampson, SPANIARDS LOST LIFE, Engagement Lasted 20 Minutes and 9o Shots Fired, SPAIN'S BAD GUNNERS. Notas Shot Fired by the Spaniards Took Effect, Although the Attacking Ships Were in Ensy Range Two Missiles Went Them nnd One Shrapnel Borst Over the Decks of the New York—First Shot Fired from a Spanish Battery - Last Shot from the Puritan Deadly in Its Effect American Fire Effective, Near A despatch from Key West, says:— Reports of the bombardment of the Spanish batteries at Matanzas by the guns of the flagship New York, the monitor Puritan, and the cruiser Cincinnati continue to The first dispatches wore not exaggerated, except that about ninety shots were fired from the ships instoad of 300, as stated (n the earlier cables from Key West, The shots from the 8 and 12.lpch guns of the United States ships reduced the tories in short order, the engagement lasting but twenty minutes. One projectile, twen- ty-five inches long and weighing 250 pounds, was especially destructive, It cutthrough the long earthwork fortifications on the Rubaleava side of the Matanzas harbor, and undoubtedly killed many men, The exact number will probably never be known the United States, for the Spaniards in mak- ing their reports of the engagement that they succeeded In repulsing the United States fleet after twenty minutes of hard come io, bat- } tc i stalls Located the Batteries, Admiral Sampson ran into Matanzas har | ror with the New York and Clociupati Puritan for the #0 of draw- | the fires of Spanish batteries, He wuuted and eX press purpe » poss where they were, The day before « the masked batteries had Dupont, and the location Open ol ORL about f« Matanzas there was a puff of red bank of t present hy Ong he fur barbor, and water near flagehly ing at the 'Admiral’s ship, an fairly well almed. iy a this time un, which stopped, and irectliy at the hard en the New York a: iog as they did so, thin two and a hall miles of the batteries. The Ww fs the earthwo tt uni hore first fe shots i 1 then short, and came with portsides t her six-inch gun ¢ { her « 3 tobi inal igut-inet guns Spaniards’ Alm Was Had, aniards kept up a fl t, which wa it the tT 5 me, Dowever, that th snood beginning ts Ie their battories to get the ras or three sh sie 1p After this the three ships steamed ou bay. the Puritan and the Cinclonat! remal ing in the ¥, howe the Nev York turning to the neighborhood of Hav ana. ver, and re re SPANISH SPY ARRESTED, Found Un Him, The government engineer officer at Eads, La. a Spanish spy. Walsh and his home as r * bh ¥ He gave his name ns New Orleans Eads was found on him, of the army authorities, Cruiser Charleston Injured, Francisco, that A dispatch from San discovarad ARYA has just been tha Its eondensing and it may be necassary from the East, in readiness as soon as had been expected. tubes was injured, to gel new ones FORTO RICO TERRIFIED, The New York Journal has the [following by special cabie: “At San Juan, Porto Rico, five citizens of the United States who were talking in the streets were arrested, manacled, and beaten with swords. They were wholly unprotected, and there is no British gun boat thers on which they may take refuge, “Mr. Barnes, an American sugar manu. facturer, has put bimself under Brit'sh pro- taction . His children and his wife were at- tacked and his estate destroyed by the Span- ish soidiers. “On Monday an iron ship of 3,000 tons was sunk by the Spaniards, In the main shannesl B84 torpedoes bave been placed, wired in the fort. All the buoys have been changed. The Spanich gunboats and the crafper Concha are at San Juan, “The city is ordered in darkness at § o'clock nightly. with 12,000 tons of food, The warshonses are stocked for two months of slege, The lighthouses along the entirs coast bave been extinguished.” TO MEET DEWEY AT KEA, ‘=o Now York World's London corre ipondent eables his paper that Manila ad- tices say the Spanish squadron has sailed o meet Commodore Dewey's fleet on the tigh seas, in order, if possible, to avold the sombardment of Manila, German and inglish interests, it is sald Iu London, nee wording to the World, will bs much injured ww hich Don Piatt made famous, is to be turn- ead into asummer resorts. = iy an American inyasion of the Philipploes, of the regular army will be speedily conv Burgents, years has been engaged in fighting The fleet blockading Cuba continuss by the gunboat Machias and the monit The developments regarding Hawali learned that President Dole carried with situation, and learned that no Immediate ministration, mittes on Foreign Relations will not Congress continues to deal with urg peal the imitations on the of passed by the H islation necessary to enroll a volt purcinse ise and will be speedily ver has been tested will i bo and the Senate from yellow Is agreed Lo la the revenus bill wil call, doubt that the opposition | the meas RF rod 30 avall, in a week sal chaoge from the text * has proclaimed neutral i Fra: I'be acti as evidently Verde Isla italo will send a warst { Portugal | from Cape n ready to sail Crreat Hr ity British subjects who desire to FORCE SPAIN'S FLEET TO MOVE Government Against Our Ships. fespateh from A nissal of the ng K British i States t TO BEMOVE BRITISH CITIZENS, England Will Take Her Subjects From | Cubs on Wa ships ing to the arrest of Cuba An reatment, reprosentatic P i) ns arian spies ns have reign Office, and ne ff British wned for taking { ¥ tagiish men-ofl-war, I'he continued rise of wheat ines, higher twents niy ALBOS HORS. than at] years, A again | the prices now being duriog the last Loudon FIELD OF LABOR, [illinois has 853 coal mines, Chicago press feeders won strike, Germany imports Tennessee wood, Connellsville has 18,000 coke ovens, Spain has 100,000 registered beggars, silk costs 6 cents a quart io London. London lamp posts tarnish hot water, Chicago sprinkier-fitters get $2.50 a day, sehenectady Carpenters’ Union Is twenty flve years oid. Rockland ( Me.) bas 600 union lme-burn- era, An Indianapolis printer has worked 66 years, Chicago newspaper carriers will join the Vederation of Labor, Syracuse milk peddiers use a union label, Pittsburg hod carriers want $23.50 a day on May 1. Chippewa (Wis) sawmill men struck for | ten-hour day. A iabel league is to be established in each | ward of Chicago. In Wales 60,000 coal miners struck for 10 | per cent. advance, New York Central Unlon rejected a motion opposing war. i Chicago unionists watt a unionist on the | Civil Services Board, : Indianapolis Master Painters’ Association i employs only unionists, Io Belgium Inst year 80 per cont. of the strikes were sucessiul, Shots Were Put the Steamer Guide. WINGED BY Three Into TRIED TO RUN BLOCLADE oyed to some Cuban port, acting as on with supplies for the starving re- The nored Signals to Heave to. Indians on the Mexican border. ONE MAN WOUNDED. vigiiant and effective, The Bpanish The fipaoisrd Was Bound from Corun hans to Havens With a Cargo of Fro. Money Thought Be for Spanish Troops Her Capinin Was Game and Did Not Abandon ¥Ffforts te Es cape Until He Faw Hope Was Gone In the Meantime the Terror Had Put Two r Terror after an exciting chase, of vislons and to are of interest and importance. It is him from Washington a copy of a One In Mer Upper Works Key the Min- | Adispateh | from the news ment which se event practi first week of prize, the steame tured by the Ter los, ten miles off ulter a slern ehase, Five town wid marking the end was the arrival of r Guido, Bhe was ror and the gunboat M ut not shols were action was contemplated by the ad J aii nts at Honolulu the Renate Cc rxait- yITS WHr, HPL Lo press the anpexation treaty, war legisiation ney The bill t Quartermaster's supplies hus 1 Cardenas, | unt enncted fired by the Bepato, while the le four by the Monitor and though the shot by Two through the pilot-he upper works, Manuel BEivas | house of penetrated ne by the gunboat ¢ Muchlas did not take went Terror 10.000 men whose m otiv ym plly passed, I effect, # shots he formality of 4 4 UES ALG OLS 24 ediate oy issue of bonds will a sallor Laally the Guid is adopted with inf He taken 10 the hb a fel w ter when Lireast ling to {| which may cause his death, was | Bull the Spanish fleet Ow suit. | ashore apd spital Won ind Kiehlondo re | wrist from through the The Gu Havana wi money t} ht | The Terror first | pursuit by se: he Bpanis sive 4 £1 the hie a } Lie & i gL FOWDER MILLS EXPLO I» 8. and ROTOR begar her Men Killed and Four Others In. Jured at the Californias Works. ; Sania Cruz, Cals SEY. AWAY All the Shots Found the Mark. snitor the Californias Frowder | than any | 4 brought h t thre ia iw ® crew and t As # Bt . put avon | tleamer in i ow learned of a they asked Kintes Dis Department PREFVFARED TOSHOW FIG EIT. That the Spanish Ades iral at Manila Has Varied One, ran ap . BRITAIN'S POSITION, i jo aval sia th = Spanish of Neutrality Wilt Precedent Very Strictly Proclamation Follow % 1 that the Prince of Wales i al Hy ugh u L& ’ WATCH ON THE SPANISH FLEET itol the Q { Jaest rie purpose « a ha : nroving the draft « roel. pe 8 oH procia mation, it is be strictiy suPy tion wil calling atlent t the Navy | listment act, « ing that =f Spanish | jects against » Verde was preparing to putto imme during the night THe Navy it is prepared lor thelr departure, | this goverament/ a 0 Freparing to Sail, received a of Wore 1 % ge os i i. Announ jose the belligerents in any way, The Forelgn Office will send to the Treas. ury the Ho Coilogial, War and officos the rs fi the demand of ot wid ordered the and American ships theuse of Br | bors for wariike itted | The conling question United | vidon that beiligerents will pre- | British ports with no | fiolent to earry them side it | thelr own country or mguad- | tion, and 80 more coal will be supplied A maerioan | riugal KEpanish purposes, The approac Spaniards will not be pers America so long as the Navy ia powerlul snough tO be at i % + onl than i= suf. h supplied 0 the nearest port If the Spanish fleet heads for this to ron A reorganization of the fleets may be necossary, Io that event the | by special permission. Fiyisg Squadron wil be reinforced with| | ring prizes into i those of the colonies, some of Rear Admiral Sampson's HAghting ships, Should Spain successfully elude our ships | and ssooeed in stringing its vessels along | the coast of the United States mwaeh hard | work is looked for by the American mavy., | Chiliand Peru are reported to have signed | 8 protocol settling the boundary dispute | between them. er yt 3 Domingo have asked Estimated That at Least 50,000 “Troop ri had Sab 1 Smingo uve usd Will Be Concentrated There. | ah tha ’ ) Arrivals of troops at Chickamanga | Yachis of American millioaaites are expected to be heavy for the next few the Meditorrateni are sald: to be’ in days. The number of soldiers sagiaaliy a danget from hostile warships, dered to Chickamauga bas not arrived by a . nila SRE. one-half. It is quite probabie that meutly | Tie Norway Pacliamet sloping A moss or quite 15,000 troops of the regular sarvie Ths Nicneaguan and Costa Rican govern will be sneampod at Chickamauga by Wed: Phin om oud at ais Tor pines hestiay or Thutsltay: settle questions of an (nterantional chaiasisr itis estimated thai the passage of the by a board of arbitration, to consist of one Army reorganization blll, providing for an member cash trom: Guatemala, Coste - Rion increase in the standing Army, will resaltin | 00 bit of tis Greater Republic of at Jesst 20.000 troops belog comceamtrated, Central America, to mest on board the Unil- The Chickamauga battlefield is mm ideal wd Sthtes Ww ip Alert, potat fur drilling paps, sscording to the There are renewed rumors (an London that general opinion of Army officers, mn it I Groat Britain ay og wegotiations. Tor an quite probable that this point wiil De the allianos with the United States in foreign affairs, The United States minister at Athens has received muny apolications from Greeks to enlist in the American Army, There ls a great popular excitement in Guayaquil, Ecuador, over the imprisonment of Governor Ignacio Robles by the military commander of that city as a resvd of & per onal difleuity. The Governor of Jamacia bas sont 8 mes. to the coundl of that island a ee the local defense FOREIGN AFFAIRS GATHERING ATCHICKAM AT GA, the bee now in much force of the regular Army. Captain D. MeArthur of Washington, D. C., who has been appointed assistant guar termaster under Colonel Lee, has mrrived, and established his hoadquarters mt Batlle field Station. The Tenth Cavairy { megre), from Forts Asinbolos and Keogh, Mo=taos, 450 men, in command of Col, Guy V. Fenty, with Captains Hum, Bleed, Woodward and Jones, have arrived, The trains were sent out to the park without much delay and un. loaded. This is the third of ook ored savalry to arrive at Chickamauga. A Group 53 Sand Hills Thought to Be of Artis ficial Origin. | The plantation of Mr, James M. Tift Ie directly east of Albany, a distance of about one mile, and Is famous throughout southern Georgia as the Sand Hill or Band Mountain place. It embraces S805 acres of land, much of which is exceasd ingly fertile and espec- to ihe cultivation of a good deal of timber pi that are proportions grow mi adapted | fruits There on the piace, and some 164 truly astonishing certain The group which made COVers area of about 350 acres, and most in- persons have view: it many It , fiat stretch of farm n by other hill or with broad and valuable timber other mile after abi is there a % 10 be digni- except on is or many miles in every of in white rand hills, place celebrated, sleep as the aii anda those narkable even present em a 1} | teresting sight to who times, is located on ing country eriptior ription, uts country more than a y are grouped circle in , while a height almost 2 13 wr the tricks, maids C1 iy he was hostess was 1 on to trick just me till en linge gmplietion of the “Will ia heavy shawl { he went On a big « the with ‘Now,’ shmere begun. Some one « ge cr cloak? he said | shawl, bserve { the shawl?” | including the maid at { will one of you be { write a number of { piece of paper, being careful not to let i what i= written. With trem- fingers one of the giris did Do, the maid at the door leaned for- ward and began to breath hard. "Now, place the writicn paper, with the figures on the upper slde, under tha ghawl as IT hold it’ It was done, the thickness of the shawl velug between Carl Hertz and the paper as he look- ed down toward it. There was breath- jesse silence. Then he sald: ‘Surely, the number is 761.) It was. He had apparently seen right through the thick shawl. Every one was dumfonnded and amazed. Then upon the silence broke the shriek of the maid a! the door. J With one final gaze at the shawl and one at the handsome conjurer, che hid her rosy face in her hands, yelling at the top of her voice, ‘What's the good of me clothes? and fled’ London Chrenicle. The property of the Presbyterian church in the State of California is { estimated at £20000. ‘You © they all did, tho enough to figures on a good three i me gee | bling | while
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