2
GLADSTONE IS DEAD.
Passing Away of the Great
English Statesman,
LIFE ENDED IN PEACE,
The Departed Statesman to ba Accorded
a National Funeral and a Monument
in Westminster Abbey, Though His
Body Will be Interred at Hawarden
The Last Hours at Hawarden,
A cable despatch from London, Eng,
says: Mr. Gladstone died at o'clock
Thursday morning, at Hawarden, He had
been unconscious practically all day, though
at times he seemed to recognize for a
moment some of the watehers about him, |
Certainly he did recognize his wife, who
was beside him all day, except when the
physician prevailed upon her to rest. She
tenderly clasped her husband's hand as she
watched him. Apparently he slepta good
deal; occasionally he uttered a few words in
an incoherent, dreamy way, words which
those who were watching were unable to
catch, Their only consolation was that he
was not suffering pain. No bparcotics were
administered,
The bulletin posted on the Golden Wed-
ding Porch says: “Mr. Gladstone passed
peacefully away at b o'clock.”
At 4 o'clock Wednesday morning it was
thought Mr. Gladstone's last hour had come,
but he again showed his great vitality and
rallied, relapsing into sleep. Rey, Stephen
Gladstone read prayers and bymets, includ-
ing Mr, 's favorite, “Rock of
0
Gladston
THE NEWS.
A row over the boundary line of farms at
Jackson Summit, Tiogo county, Pa,, resuit-
ed In a tragedy. John Curry, forty years
old, shot and kiiled Blake Wales, aged fifty
years. Curry also attempted to kill a son of
Wales, but the boy escaped after receiving
shot in the face aud one in the elbow, The
boy went to Lawrenceville, Pa., and re.
turned with a constable and posse of cli
zens, Curry was captured,
From Bupporters of the Red in
France came a gift of 25,000 francs, equiva-
lent to about $5,000, This money is to
used by Miss Clara Barton in rellef work
among Americans, Spaniards and Cubans In
the flald, The gift was made through Au-
gust Belmont,
Two men attempted to cross the Alle-
ghany river on a raft near Springdale, Pa,
The raft was swamped by the rough current
in the centre. Four men succeeded In
reaching the shore, but the others were
drowned, Their names are Willlam Ander
Cross
ba
Newton Neal and Edwin Omen.
Pierto Paneo, the eighth victim of the ele-
vator accident of the Boston Whar! Com-
pany, Boston, died at the City Hospital,
Paneo's home was in Pittsburg, Pa. Three
of the eight men who were on the elevator
when it fell where killed outright.
others have died sines the accident,
The Daimler Motor Company, of Stein-
way, Long Island, New York, has recsived
from the government an order for a dozen
small launches of the Daimler model. The
vessels are to be used in harbor patrol work
and guarding the harbor mines. They will
be thirty feet in length and will have a
speed of eight to ten miles hour,
of the will be assigped to
Point and Fort Schuyler.
The
an Nome
boats Willetts
Naval
at
Lieut. Niblack, late United Sta‘es
Attache to DBeriin Rome, reported
the Navy Department, and had some amus
ing stories to tell on his experiences (o every
buy a ready
He has beer
division
ps that
and
in thirty days
y
duty as watch
and
the
ghi
The C. A, Gambrill Manufasturing (
Baltimore, booked an«
rder for fi The
flour.
r 80,000
sr large gos
ernment « t
¢
£109 OO
eof §192,000
that the bulk of it will be sent
it Is underst
made
IZ0
80 ha
iw
vessels di
N vessels soon
When
was
Ages.”
Gladstone
Father,
Though tional
be accepted by the
doubt that the remains
be laid to rest in the peaceful graveyard at
Hawarden, hureh where be |
was married more than ball a century ago. |
At Hawarden the bag ortion of bis ile |
had been passed is truly a retreat |
sweet enough for any laborer, |
heard
a patior
funeral will probably |
, thers is i
Mr. Gladstone will
aa 10
u
ugh
Profound Feeling in Loadon.
Great Britain dre
the passin f Mr
Lvery other topie in
re
out of
stone, Hawarden
which, from the
street was respectful
ly moved. In tw pi
tension most keen and
House of Commons and Hawarden i
Just before the Hou rose a telegram |
from Mr. Herbert Gladstone reached Lord |
Htanley, sopnouncing
that bls father wos
sipking. Already bel: d
re eath the hush |
of grief seemed to fal
ioht hel
sight bel
highest
most
Ga
was
ver the seepe of his |
triumphs, and from the present men turned |
to the past, recalling sayings doings,
A great lion lay dylag, his old colleagues
bis one-time enemies and followers watching
his last long fight with his last and implaca- |
tle foe, as they watched in past
fights against foes whom he could overcome,
True to himself, he was yielding slowly ine
by ineb. It was generally felt at St, Steph.
en's that he was dying, but the te
that great scene witnessed fo
when, hie last speech 8;
House without one word of spoken adieu,
Most Ilinstrious Englishman.
It is seldom that the axiom of the lon. |
gevity of genius finds as gilori exam- |
ple as in William Ewart Gladstone, Of
three famous octogenarians of Europe
mark, the Pope, and ‘Grand
the last named, who celebrated his eighbty-
eighth birthday iast | wor, was the old-
est in years, asd at the same time the most |
youthful in mind
Mr. Gladstone
filustric
was to be
mies as we
and
days his
h
b
sequel
if years ago |
ken, he ted the |
be quit
us anu
the |
Bis«
tk Man"
the Old
Jeroen
mn
f 3 &
BERG §
WAS the most
i8 Englishman his day, and It]
had maoy ene
me have charged |
that Giadet« 10 creative genie, |
In Prime Minister and |
during all bis sixty years in Parliament, he
is not credited even with the creation of
local self-government in the Eogiish
ties, Other reforms which he carried
through are also lost sight of. As an orator |
be had few peers. He enjoyed not onlya |
singular felicity in the choles of words and
the construction of sentences, but a Jueid |
and convineing power of reasocing. He |
vever wrote a line of his speeches, and some |
of his most successful ones were made in |
the heat of debate, and necessarily without
preparation. Bat his personal infuenos and |
flery energy were as potent as any speech
he ever made,
Although born im Liverpool, Gladstone |
was found of proclaiming that every drop |
of bis blood was Scoteh. He came of the |
Gledstone family, of Lanarkshire, wherothe
Gledstones are first heard of. In 1260 Her.
bert de Gledstone figured in the Hagman |
Roll as one of the lairde who swore feaity to
Edward 1. William Gledstone, the last sur-
viving scion of the family, removed to Big
gor early in the seventeenth century, and
by the time William's grandson had been
born the family name had been altered to
Gladstone, The Premier was baptized
Gladstones, but in 1835 his father Jobn,
dropped the final 8 from his name,
expected that be
¥
| as friends, NC
ne possessed
# four terms as
soun- |
Two More Transports,
The steamships Seguranca spd the Bara.
toga left New York for Key West, where
they will be used as transports to take troops
to Cuba, The Beguranca carried a great
quantity of commissary rations, The Sara.
toga had no rations, but each vessel had
1,000 extra tons of eoal on board.
“Remember the Maine’ Crackers,
Captain Duval, ¢f the United States com-
missary department, bas mede a contract
with St. Louis bakeries for 610,000 poundy
of arvy crackers, This is equivalent to
80,000 barrels of flour. On euch will be
printed the words, ‘Remember the Maine,”
mors that a Spanish
Northern
Slates
The
to be blamahle sn tha railitary au y
WO De I i aon Oe military sulue
nthe invasio
eq
t ready to
pe required,
Castillo, selec
Ia
piALrs in LL
President Harris,
Reading Rallway (
ticos tb
t Oat an
a
valry service,
of oranges
rnia
leaving
every day
rages
represent
the East,
f 200 «¢ ach fli each
ne
ranges every twenty-four b
its arly 5,500 -
urs,
on the New }
resuited in the death
conductor Edward Jones,
wd, Breman, Fred
, engineer, was bad-
wreck
NY.
A freigh
Hare,
T. Wadleigh, of Buffal
injured,
Cleveland
vy
days and holidays,
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE,
Prince Kung, Iately d
president of the (
at
copased rand on
binese Foreign Office, was
diplomat, and
nt
ne
forme virtually
Captain Gridiey, of the Olympia; Captain
Coghlag, of the Raleig ud Captain Wildes,
who for gether in Ma-
niia, were classmates Naval Academy,
in 1863. Gridley and
roomed together,
Pret, William
been appointed
versity of Edisburgh
He will give two
each on “Natural Religion.”
Robert R. Sampson, 8 watchman employ-
ed io one of the Chicago office bLulldings, Is
a first cousin of Acting Rear Admiral Samp-
t
a
te
at the
Wildes
James, of Harvard, has
Gifford lecturer to Uai-
for the years 1800-1201,
f
Courses of
the
ten lectures
TeiR-
tive,
Gen. Robert E. Lee said of Gen, Joseph
Wheeler, who has just been made a Major-
Gepernl, that he waa one of the two abiest
cavalry officers developed by the Civil War
on the Confederate side, the other being
Gen. "Jeb" Btuart,
Prof. J. M. Schaeberle has resigned hie
position as astronomer at the Lick Observa.
tory. The regents of the University of Cali
fornia bave accepted ther resignation, tc
John Magee, tha president of the Fall
Brook Raliroad, is only 29 vears of age, and
is the youngest railroad president in this
country.
Admiral Dewey, besides being a popular
man socially, is also a great clubman and a
huntsman of no mean repute,
The Rev, Dr. Francis E. Clark, the presi.
dent of the United Boeclety of Christian Ea-
deavor, has salied for England in order wo
attend the British National Coovention of
the Society in Glasgow this mouth,
Mise Anna E. Kiumpke, the portrait pain.
ter, has been commissioned by Rosa Bonheur
to paint her portrait, aud has also been In-
vited to be the guest of the great artist dur-
ing the execution of the commission,
Capt. A. H. Lee, R, A, tbe British military
attache, with the American army, has for
the past five years held the position of pro.
fessor of military topography at the Royal
Military College at Kingeton, Ont,
Capt. Francis Martin, U. 8, N., now living
in Detroit at the age of 08 years, is without
doubt the oldest officer in the Uniled States
Navy.
——
to Minister of Marine.
YAN IMMENSE TRIUMPH.”
Admiral Camara of the Cadiz Squadron,
in Madrid Kecelving Instructions Hela
tive to the bLestinntion of His Ships,
Which Depends Upon the Requirements
of ithe War,
A Madrid special gays: —The Minister of
Marine, Captain Aunon, received a dispatch
from Admiral Cervera, in the
Capo Verde squadron of fleet,
It read: ‘
“Santiago de Cuba, May 19.--This
ing 1 have, without incident, entered
port, accompanied by the squadron,
“CERVYERA."
The Miovister of Marine immediately went
to the of the Premier, Senor
Begasta, and conmunieated this informa
tion. He then proceeded to the palace for
the purpose of informing the Queen Regent,
Lut Her Majesty bad already retired and the
LOWS WAS by the Infanta
Isabel,
command of
the Bpanish
morn-
this
residence
conveyed to her
Congratuations Cabled,
Captain Aunop then went to the Admiralty
and eabled his congratulations to Admiral
Cervera on bis arrival at Santisgo de Cuba,
In an Interview the Minister of Marine is
quoted as saying
“I am greatly rejoiced at the sale arrival
of the oet at Santiago de Cuba. It
is triumph for the Spanish
Navy. The sallors who executed the move-
ment and those who planned it are worthy
of
n"
Spanish fl
Aan immense
all praise.”
Vigorous Spanish Polley.
{ Admiral (
amara, the commander of
i Ca ME I
squadron, is receivigg
¢ instruc
destination
$ §
v
i Dis
reintive Lo
which, it Is explained, “depends
requirements of the war.”
The new Minister of Marice has
the greatest activity in artment, |
is sald he bas been offered ar muni!
f many quarters,
from
ul the new Spanish
the
u por
injected
Ons
It is evi
ten
Cabipst in
and
negotlinle
ds to push the campaign vigor
“will
foreign diplot
a combination of
t is said the Ministers
actively with
niso
: atists Lo protect
t her ene
Spain agains
mies,
“Splendid Example at Cavite.”
In taking possession of the Admi
pew Miclster of Marine made patriotic
speach to the assembled officers, recalling
“the splendid example set by our salliors at
Cavite in dyiag for Bpaln,
Lisutensnt Arturo de Caranza, the
attache at Washio
He Is qu«
watched in
Slates G
raity, the
a
{former
span
| arrived
Was Old
isn naval has
here
gon,
ted saving he
of
an
aely Cansda by agents
the United vernment
Advices From Manila,
from Manila
has improved {
imi
ti, it is added, has reguls
It is also reported |
foreign
coionists have Capiain
with Spain
and the action { the
sald to be dus to
y. Germans
a orders received by the Ger
psul from Berilo,
PRIZES CAPTURED BY DEWEY,
Blockade of Manila Strict Rebels Con
tinue Their Forays.
The ¢ ndent at Manila of the
raphs as {oll
he
rrosp
fon Dally Telegraph, tele ws
De jes of
blockade
are
| Dewey's
w} ite the wore
! the
1
- § Re
spirits ish ofl
maintaine Adm
squadron keep their positions as
with preventin suppiies
to reaching the beleagured city in ad.
dition the Callao, the Americans have
taken some steamers which were making for
port, and several coasting
Nothing has yet succeeded in runnin
Rent
npan
The vessels of
thames ves
fre
to
Bio
biockads,
a desire to capture Spanish steamers, as his
isunches have iting around the
const. The Leyte ie at present anchored in
the River Pampanga,
“The rebel forces have not yet sume
the city. The)
to 0, but they ravage the
country outside, reign residents be.
Heve that if the city fell into the
wid be deplorable,
ernor is creating a loval native leg
boon #0
10 atiack
Lands
the rebels iL we he Lr
fh LO Bs.
any American forces that may be landed
ESTIMATES FOR THE NAVY,
For War Expenses
The Secretary of the Navy o
House an estimate for an appropria
£33.000.000 {no round numbers to cover
war expenditures of the havy for the
six months of the next fiscal year,
This is supplemental to the estimates heo,e-
tofore received, and ls expected to cover
one-half of the expenditures the war will
impose on the naval service, during the next
fiscal year.
sent
of
the
first
t
ion
The Pay of Volunteers.
In the Senate Tuesday a bill was reported
from the military affairs committees by Mr.
Carter, of Montana, and passed, providing
that the pay and allowance of the volunteers
oulisted in the United States Army shall
begin ou the day of their enrollment at the
Btate camps, with a proviso that volunteer
troops seut to the Philippines may draw one
month's pay in advance, It was explained
that the bili applied only to those who had
as volunteers entered the United States
Army.
FIELD OF LABO SA,
Carpenters have 453 unions,
Colorado bas 10,000 unionists,
Japan has forty-five watch factories,
There are 10,000 union barbers,
ludianapolis coopers won a strike,
Cleveland, Obio, prohibits Bunday fan-
eras,
Marion (Ind) pristers won nine hour
day.
Missourl
vention,
Montreal plasterers won a strike for 22 148
eents an hour, .
Buffalo structural steel workers struck
for 30 cents an hour.
New York tile-layers’ helpers get $2.40 for
eight hours,
Mayor Quiney, of Boston, suggests that
undertakers held a State cone
Instruction in swimming be giver in all the
publie bath houses,
i
1
A
Decisive Naval
Few
the well-fortifl
Heved,
tends to confirm the report,
fards are sxpected to strike,
miles or more apart,
posed to be off Key West or Havana,
Santiago Is not clear,
coast
enemy.
all along the line is the command,
service will be sharp and decisive, V
The army,
possible dispate
Bpanisl fleet and reduced the (
I
fr
of the isiannd by su¢
istration is to push the war to a
not share the view-—still sald to
rainy season has passed, This delay
ble ou the score of greater security
visers recogul
filet
ent the good work of our sh
uid Le
the inpending con n water; t
ple
blockade wi
i1
3
on
aa ’
Ww
ht i“
k of preparation for Invasion Is be
TORNADO VICTIVS,
Forty-two Persons Known to
wor
Have L.ost Their Lives.
Devasin
of
by the
the Death and
Storm, Which
Illinois
Its
Late Reports
tion Sown Rwept
Over Eastern Towa, Western
and Northern Wisconsin, lpcresse
Horrors.
thers are reporied dead
which devasied
wa Western 1100
the nt
the southeaslorn
v
rn
4
4
siden
side bw
The second
rf.
jul
the grea
figin, ¥
Lanark the storm ended is career by wreck
jog the «
inmates,
meshouse and killing three
others wer:
a
i
uniy a
Three fatally injured
the Luild-
of them were
fty persons in
ing when it went down, and all
more or jess injured,
Is Wisconsin the storm
than soywhere else, bot |
inmbering
swept al
Was In
ria
districts
re
wf
aleay it «
fuated Iz
ieee
i, and spent its
people are Kind
Yague reports brought ind
the seenw of the storm
fect that eighteen bodies of
acRDp OU ford
wh
are
inmber.
Junction
ant that
nbermen
war Hea
that ten
pret, 1
It is sald, 1o¢
wera killed near Eim)
niso lacks confirmation,
The property damage in Wisconsin
will dogitiess fail much bweios
that done the fertile farming
along the Mississippi in lowa aud
report
wh
distri
Hilinot
in
Guarding the Dupont Powder Works,
Five eompapies of the Second Regiment
of Penpsyivania will guard the Dupont
powder works at Wilmington. The artillery-
men of the reguiar army who have been here
for several weeks will leave for Tampa the
latter part of the week,
GENERALS ASSIGNED,
Merritt Placed Over the Newly-Made De.
partment of the Pacific
signments to the different corps and other
ows:
Major General Wesley Merritt,
eifle,
States Army, the First Corps and the De
partment of the Gaif,
Major-General William M. Grabam, Unit.
ed States volunteers, the Second Corps with
headquarters at Falls Church, Va.
Major General James F. Wade, United
States volunteers, the Third Corps, report.
ing to Major General Brooke, Chicamauga,
Major General John J. Coppinger, United
States volunteers, the Fourth Corps,
bile, Ala.
Major General William R. Shatter, United
States volunteers, the Fifth Corpse, Tampa,
Fla,
States volunteers, to report to Major Gen-
eral Merritt, United States Army, for duty
with troops in the Department of the Pa
cifie.
Major General James H. Wilson, United
Hiates volunteers, the Sixth Corps, Chica.
mange, reporting to Major General Brooke.
Major Fitzhugh Lee, United
States volunteers, the Seventh Corps, Tam-
we Fis
Expected Within a
Days.
id advices are to be be-
enst end of Jamaica
ships of Admiral Bampson's
Bpan-
bundred
iying Squadron, is sup-
engagement with
the
d Bautiago are thres
with the
nun the
His object In sutiing into
port, but the
A possible strategio
Ku
there,
to Atiantis sen
it confidence is fait
of the
strike the
g¢. B
imvent any such plao
a short time,
ARRresgive
of
action
f this brunch our military
rgauized and equipped with all
captured or destroyed the
, there will be an lavesion
The policy of the admin.
bringing into
and Cubinet d
conciusion
The President
by
Oo
4
i be deferred
be
the
However desira-
and bis
of necessity fc
until svtumn, when
permitted,
the President ad-
low
Up
the
the
indefinite prolongation of
of the ar. 'hereiore
burried to co
© i ject b
®1.000,000 A BAY,
The War With Spain is Proving a
Undertaking.
[ Epe ili FAYE
{ it con
ve an expendi
appropriati
fh to
L000 a day.
ar it ii inv
Te
sted
are as foil
( (0%) O00
Or estin
we
$42
proporu
and
n of the above
DAYY Appr
necessary even i
eriatioe
pris Ls
War haa
vel the fact ren
verument in «
nu and ox
& growing feeling
epmbat with the
"™o
meni task
1he cane immed
victory of
Dewey in Manila
WILL NOT BE NEUTRAL,
Decision Arvived at by the Hawalian
Government,
Honolulu, via San Francisco, (Spes
The Hawalian government will not
neutrality This stand
! the existing relatio
i Hawatl Tie Execut
a prociamation of neutrality
be a breach of good faith, The gover
yen He position at a
of the Ssunte, It underst
Senators favored the stand taken
dent 1
At
the sean +
# taken on
st
E RADG
ers thal Wo
ment
nade kn peoret session
wii that the
by Presi
js
m considered at
pill, whic
wher important
aller
was the seupation
3
a3,
¥
if ratified by the Senate, wil ¢
Mimtes to ralse the American
is and use the sane as a
This m
pared with
mn
Dasa
is sald to have
knowledge of the
Foreign Affairs and
1d Lhe approval of President MeKinley.
i was received by the Hawalian gov
«ut a short time ago, and has had the
11 attention of President Dole aud bis
Cahife:
asire
the
n
ittee Or
They were informed that the measore was
and that
unwisé to make it pubile at thie time,
When the bill is given to the Renate that
body will ratify it at opoe; on this point
there does not seem to be any doubt, -
It was extensively reported in the busines
community on the 7th that Spain, through
agents here, was buying all the eonl to be
bad in this island, The consul of Spain de-
nied this aod said there was not a word of
truth in #t. That a coal famine Is Imminent
there can be hardly avy doubt.
United States Consul General Haywood
has been watching the situation closely and
present time, with two cargoes afloat, bound
for this port, In less thas a month the
United States will bave 7,400 tons of coal at
his port.
CERVERA'A STRATEGY.
His Fleet Gained Time by Bending Rear
Guard to Martinigoe.
The Madrid press and people are elated
over the alleged smartness of Admiral Cer-
vers, in sending Admiral Vallamil to Masr-
well on bis way toward Havesa, While Rt
wes su pposed that Valismii was scouting
abead, be was really the squadron's rear
guard, the Spaniards thus gaining Isvale-
able time,
FLUNG GAS
Sweep Away the Masked Bat.
teries at Cardenas.
ENEMY'S LOSS HEAVY.
Two Spanish Gunheats Go Down Under
Wilmington's Henvy Fire Amerionns
For an Hour s» Harricane of
Exploding Prejectiles Bellowed Into
the Harbor of Cardenas,
Unhnr
y West, Fila, says
The g Wilmington, Thursday morn-
lng, steamed In close 10 the const and keys
off the town of Cardenns, Her gun crews
were at their stations, every man on board,
from Captain Tod to the signal boy, had one
bursiog idea, “Avenge the Winslow.” The
watchword along the erowded decks and in
the heated engine-room and glowing fire
room where swarthy glants tolled stripped
Le waist was “Remember the Winslow.”
Within range of powerful four-ineh broad-
sides were the Bpanish gunbosts which had
A despateh from Ke
inboat
4
the
decoyed the Winslow up to the masked bat-
tery that bad dealt sudden death to Ensign
Bagiey and four of the crew. Near the forts
iny two schooners st anchor. Heports of
mines planted ip the entrance of the chan-
nel were disregarded by the Wilmington.
BEhe was no longer a blockader. Bhe had
become a destroyer,
For an hour a burricane of expic
bedi
ding pro-
into the har-
against the town but
against the aud the defenses which
sheltered Bpanish troops and sallors,
the Wimingte not waste
The execution WAS re-
5 i- and
} flew wed and shrieked
bor of Cardenas, not
wh
hao
wo}
gies] cataract
at and
battery and
The Bpan-
ining
aliack Was
ve, The Wil
ardenss hare of
erumbe from
BOL-00Mm
It i=, of
the sum of
i »
i, 8-
int as
as the base
41
were working on ©
king
teing
tier
or-
np Was
men
it was
es veri
LAllP rio Were
smington
the
bad be
warships
while
and
It was quite
ton with
bat-
her for.
over the
unners 4 plat-
no
It
enveloping
ite came when
i=t tho
ienas
”
pened fre
5
JARS
orm as steady a
Ler target
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FOREIUN AFFAILNS,
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resignation of the Earl of Aberdeen as gove
eThor-general of (
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voked a cabinet crisis and Rudin] may be
wo and Crispl again into
nuada,
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The people of Haytl celebrated the second
anniversary of the inauguration of President
Sam.
Prinees Henry of
Mr. Giadstoue's condition is daily growing
{ Jess favorable, He is becoming weaker,
though be does not suffer more pain.
Two hundred fishing bosts were swept
sway by a tidai wave at Swale, Japan, aud
1,500 men are reported missing,
Mr. Joseph Chamberiala’s declarations re-
gardiog an Anglo-American alliance are
arousing much anger in Spain.
Prussia is in Pekin.
Proposed Hospitals For Insured Men
President Thomas H, Bowles, of the Na-
tional Association of Life Underwriters of
Milwackee, Wis, issued a letter to the pres.
idents of all the life insorasee compunios in
the United Biates in regard to the establish
ment of a co-operative hospital service
among ile insurance companies {or the ben
efit of policy boiders who are taking part in
the conflict between the United States apd
Spain.
THOUSANDS WERE KILLED,
Terrible Destruction of Life Caused by a
Cyclone.
A dispateh to the Loudon Standard {rom
The Hague says:
According to a private telegram from Ine
dia, a terrible oycione has destroyed a great
past of Bima, a seaport towa of the Island
of Sambawa, Malay Archipelngc. Tae
the bodies of thousands of vietims., Tue
town of Kupaog, Island of Timos, escaped
the force of the hurricane,