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