THE NEWS, Five boys, the youngest of whom was twelve years old and the eldest sixteen, have been arrested on the charge of attemptiog to wreck a Southern Paocifio train at Bsa Praneisco. The steamer Dirigo arrived at Victoria from Skaguay with passengers from Dawson City. They report that the temperature was 50 degrees below zero when they left the Klondike, The Buckingham Theatre, on Jefferson street, Louisville, Ky., was destroyed by fire. Fred Rider's Night Owl Company, which was playing at the theatre, lost 23,500 worth of proj erty. It is learned from a reliable source that the bicycle raddie consolidation is an accom- plished fact. The company will be incor- porated under the laws of West Virginia, with a capital of 2,000,000, A movement was started In Springfield, 1iL, for the eroction of a bronze statuo in honor of the late Frances E, Willard in the National Capitol at Washington. Illinois is entitled to two places in Statuary Hall, Sir Willlam MeDouald, millionaire tobacco manufacturer, of Montreal, has given to Me- Gill University $181 250 to complets the en- dowment of the McDonald Building of chem- istry and mining. This brings the amount given to the cojlege by Bir William up to $2,650,000, The treaty between the United States and the Creek nation has been completed and signed in the Indian Territory. Robert Marks had a fight with John W, Bennett and both were killed, at Ban An- tonfo, Tex. Marks announced that he was going to die with his boots on. He entered the Silver King saloon and threatened to shoot out the lights. Words were passed and revolvers were drawn. Marks emptied the five chambers of nis pistol, shooting Benauett through the abdomen, Stretched on the floor, mortally wounded, Bennett fired three shots at Marks, killing him io- stantly. Beanett died later. Half a block of fine buildings in the heart of Columbus, Ohlo, were destroyed by fire, Maoy persons were hurt by failing walls, but most of the injuries are vot severe. The most seriously injured are Firemen Jobn F. Donoghue, Jack Welsh, Otis V. Kilbourne, Patrick Duncan and Robert Kerins, and Miss Carrio Johnson, The property loss is about £500,000, Great excitement exists on the Mining Stock Exchange at Colorado Springs, Col, over a fabulously rich strike in the Isabella mine, at Cripple Creek, Assays from the strike run from 40,000 to $100,000 to the ton. The stock jumped from 97 1-2t0 150 per share, over 100.00 shares changiog hands, Six weeks ago the stock solid at 22 cents, George Frown, a farmer living at Nor- wood, Long Island, N. Y., broke his neck in jumping from a window in the house he oc- cupled with his family, and which had taken fire while all were sleeping. Brown and his wife had gotten their five children safely out of the house, but Brown did not leava the building until escape by the wayof the ground floor was cut off. He then went up to the second story, from a window of which he jumped. In his flight he turned and landed on bis bead. His death was lustan- ianeous, Andrew Carnegie has offered to donate £100,000 for a library buliding for the State College at Bellefonte, Pa. providing the State will appropriate £10,000 annually for the maintenance of the library and museum to be connected with it, The trustees of the State College have appointed a committee to present a memorial to the Legisidture set- ting forth Mr. Carnegie’s offer and urglog the necessity for such a buliding. The jury in the suit brought against Cham- paign County, Ohio, to recover $5,000 dam- ages for the iynehing of “Cliek’’ Mitchell in June, 1897, has returned a verdict against the plalotiff, The sult was brought under what is koown as the anti-lynchiog law of the State, which provides that the sum of $5,000 damages shall be paid to the next of kin of a person meeting death by mob vio. lence, This case Is the first sult of its Kind Au the State, George McWhorter, for thirty years Jus- tice of the Peace at Milwaukee, Wis, com- mitted suleids bLyshooting himsel! in the head, As Justice he did a land office busl- ness, marrying couples from adjoining States, Deapopdency over defeat for the offics he held so long fs supposed to have led to his suicide. He was single and about sixty-five years old. Frank MeZane, who was confined in the Fasex county pesnitontiary, at Caldwell, N, J., under a sentence of three months for Jar ceny, committed suicide by banging himself in his cell. He made a cord out of! band- sages which had been bound around his bead by the prison physician, and with it stean- gled bimeel!, Marcus Daly, the Montana millionaire, it is snld, will contest the seating of Wm. A. Clark as United States Senator from his Htate on the charges of bribery. Arrangements were ‘nade In Atlanta, Gs. for the ninth triennial iuternational Bun- day-sehool convention, which is to be held there April 27 to 20, A company bas been organized in Peoria, Iii, to run a line of motor buses in opposi- tion to the street-car line, The Presbyterian Church at Spartanburg, 8. C., one of the fluest edifices In Upper Car- olica, was burned. The fire started in the church lurnace, Charles Ort, son of President Ort, of Wit teaburg College, died of spinal meningitis, resulting from injuries received in Just Thanksgiving football game, Mre, Mary Melntyre, a wealthy widow sixty years oid, was found murdered in her home at Pana, II, The body was frightial- iy mutilated with an axe. Everything of value had been earried off Uy the murd=rers, The San Bruno Hotel, a jandma: x ou the fan Bruno road, San Franciseo, (fala, was burned, sod Matthias Echorn, porter of the botel, perished in the flames, In his efforts to ssenps a similar fate, J, Kansauer, a lodger, jumped from a third-story window and was severely hart, Washington, The Senate confirmed the nominations of several postmasters, and also of Nelson E, Nelson, of North Dakota, to be Collestor of Customs, District of North and South Da- kota. A bill granting a right of way to the Da. kote Southern Railway Company lor the construction of « raliway line through the Yankton Indian lands, in South Dakota, was passed by the Bonate, and a resolution was ndopted direeting the Secretary of War to make a survey aod estimate for the improve gent of Brazos River, Tex, eoneurrent resolution, adopted by the GOMEZ'S AID SECURED. en wn - Cuban Army Problem Appar- ently Settled. WILL GET $3,000,000. A Formal Compact Made with Robert FP, Porter, Who Represents President Me- Kinley Insurgents are to Surrender Their Arms snd Take Up Civil Par. suits. . Remedios, Cuba, ( By Cable, )—Gen. Max. imo Gomez, commander-in-ehief of the Cu. ban army, put himsel! squarely in position as an sotive ally of the United States gov- ernment in the reconstruction of Cuba. As o result of a conference which Robert P. Porter, the special commissioner of Pres- ident McKinley, has had with General Gomez here, the General eabled to President Me- Kinley giviog assurance o! his co-operation in disbanding the Cuban army and in dis- tributing among the Cuban soldiers the £3,000,000 to bo given for the purpose ol en- abling them to return to thelr homes. He wrote the foliowing letter to the President: Rerunric or Cusa, HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, Rexepios, Fel, 1, 1813, President McKinley, Washington: It bas been a groat pleasure to me Lo con- fer with your commissioner, Mr, Porter, io- troduced by my friend, Quesada, and 1 am now aware of and pleased with your wishes, In a short time X will go to Havana and coke for with General Brooke, so that everything will go well, Following your advice, I willingly co-uperate in the work of recon- structing Cuba, Maxmo Gouez, Geners’, General Gomez also telegraphed to Gens eral Brooke that he would accept the latter's invitation to go to Havana, The success of Mr, Porter's mission great- iy simplifies the returning of the military Cubaus to the pursuits of peace, Porter Had Full Authority. In view of Goneral Gomez's supposed prior attitude of hostiilty toward the United States, Mr. Porter came here clothed with absolutes authority, and the tender of the €3,000000 was practically a verbal uith matum, Mr, Porter made plain the purpose of the government and was gratified at the ready response of General Gomes, When Mr. Porter arrived be was accom panied by Benor Gonzales Quesada, special commissioner of the Caban Junta at Wasb- fagton; Captain Campbell, of General Brooke's staff, asd Lieutenant Hanne, of General Wood's stall, Goueral Gomez was seen by Senor Quesada in the afternoon and after an hour's con- ference, Mr. Porter, accompanied by Senor Quesads, Captain Campbell and Lientengnt Hanna, was received by Gomez io his par ior, and in the presence of his staff, The first problem, Mr. Porter then otaged was the disbandment of the Cuban army and the return of the Caban soldisrs to work, This was the specific mission which had brought him to EHowmedios and in which President McKinley expected General Go- wmer's ald. The Cutan commaader-in-chiel replied that be was ready and willing to give the aid required, but asked how be could do so, To this Mr. Porter replied that President MeKinley would be glad to have him go to Havana and co-operate with General Brooke in disbanding the Cubans sad In paylog over the £3.000,000 appropriated for that purpose, General Gomez said the amouny was (oo small, but that was not his lant, and he would make it go as far as possible, while bkening it to the miracle of the loaves and fishes, “No man in bistory,” sald Me, Porter, “has done so much with sunh small resources as you bave Hence your eo-opera- tion with General DProoke wil] Briog good results” done, A Formal Compact Made. A formal compact was presented to Gon. eral Gomez Ly Mr. Porter and was assented In brief, the compact is an follows: First shall assist the American tributing the funds, Second--That these officers shall at ovee meet at some convenient pisce to deelds how, when and where the payments are to be made and srrange other details, Third-That the sua pald to eash man shall not be regarded as part payment of salary or wages due for servide rendered, but is given to facilitate the disbandment of the army, ns a relief of suffering and as an aid in getting the people to work, Fourth-—The Cubans shall surrender their arose to the Cuban Assembly or Lo ils repre- sentatives, Fifth-—The committee on distribution shall use is best endeavors to distribute help among the popuiation so that all may secure work. Sixth. That the £3.007.000 shall be piaced subject to the order of General Brooke and that action shall be Immadiate, General Gomez was given a publle recep. tion bere, aud Mr, Porter wis among those present. officers in dis. Gendarmes Searching The Woods For Perpotrators of 5 Crime, Santiago de Cula, (By Cable, )--Colonel Va fente's gondarmes, who on Sunday began to, search the woods between Mayari and San Luis for the missing postal eourier, Antonio Arturo Varrioe, who leit Mayari jor Bas Luts January 20 with a mall poueh, bave reported the finding of bid body, The courier was evidently murdered, as many wounds [rom mashes were found on bis body. His hores was wanderiog two miles off, but no trace of the mail pouveh has been found, The gendarmes are still soouring the woods in the hope of discovering the assailants, Arrangements have fieally been complet ed to fostall the Abgio-Ameriean Ciab of. Bantiago in the buliding formerly occupied by the Bpauieh Club, ; Dissatisiaction Is expressed at the tax which, under orders from Havana, Is now levied upon passengers arriving at and de. parting from Saotiggo. As the tax stands, & persun golog f Eanilago to Guanta- nama and returning has to gay practically double the passage money, Family of Five Buried Together, Little Hook, Ark, (Mpecinl, ) ~<A family of five persone, bas died In the littie town of Bowman within the last two days, svery member sucsumblog to ppeamonia, wynn, his sou Charis, ils sons data liter, and Mre, Dick 3 FOI MNS MAYHNIOK'S RELEASE Her Frionds to Make Another Effort te Have Hor Freed. New York, N. Y., (Special.)—Another at tempt is to be made to secure the releass of Mra. Florence Maybrick, an American wo- man, who has been ten years in an English prison, convicted of murderiog her husband by poison, The fight to obtain the liberty of Mrs. May- brick bas been long and unprecedented in the history of International complications in respect to persons convisted of capital offences. After many failures of their efforts Miss Helen Densmore, one of the chief work- ers in behalf of the prisoner, kas published a letter declaring: “It is the custom of the English home office to revise long sentences in the case of female conviets at the end of seven, ten, fif- teen and twenty years. The present year ls the tenth since Mra, Maybrick's conviction, The reply of the home secretary to Dr Cinrk, M. P., Mr. Davits, M. P., snd to Mr, Dalziel, M, P., at last summer's session of Parliament-—viz., that be Sir Matthew White Ridley, was aware of the strong opinion beld in America nnd Euglavd ss to Mrs, May- brick’s sentence, also that she had been ade- quately punished--has led to strong hopes that the ten years’ revision will result in the release of Mrs. Maybriek, which would cause much satisfaction in England as well as in this country.” “The Iriends of Mrs, Maybriek,” Miss Densmore sald, “are making another strong effort with the British home secretary for her release, and it is important that the peo- ple of England should feel that Amerien takes a great interest in her unhappy fate.” BLOODY TRAGEDY IN KLONDIKE, Four Indians and a White Sentenced to Denth for Murder of Ten Persons, Chattapoogs, Tenn., (Special )—William P. McDowell, a contractor of this eity, has received a letter from his son, John Me- Dowell, who is in the Klondike gold fleids, In this letter MoDowell states that four la- dians and one white man have been sen- tenced at Dawson City to be hanged. The scaffold was erected in a graveyard, and the hanging was to have occurred December 2, but the white man was taken suddenly ii, and the execution was postponed until March 1. It wiil be remembered that several months Ago the steamer Jessie was wrecked in an Alaskan river, and It was reported that all on board were drowned, An Indian guide spread this report. From the letter of young MeDowell it seams that strong evidences was obtained that a band of Indians and one white man fell upon and murdered ten mem- bers of the company who had escaped from the wrecked boat, The four Indians and one whites man re- ferred to were convicted of this crime, It Is sald, and were sentenced to execution, The let. tor does not stats who of the party were mur- dered, but in the party were Robert I, Frier- son, a young attorney of this eity, aud sev- eral friends from Galistin, Tean., snd also several young men from Middle Kentueky. Its stated that a missionary sod his wile ware among the number murdered, but no names are given, Burisad in a Sneowsiide, Apex, Colo, (Special. )—~Three lives were jost in a snowslide bere. Ssow bas been falling almost coutinually during the past on the mountain sides, The pack gave way, swept down on the home of W. H. Rudolph and earried it away. Rudolph escaped, but bis wife and three children were awept away rescued the six-year-old son alive, other three have not been fous Escaped by the Ald of a “Trasty.™ Canton, Ohio, (Special. )-—8ix priscuers osonped from the county jail. They were James Sullivan, charged with highway rob bery; W. H. Cummings, Ealph Carnaban, Charles BR od, Frank BSsitor and James eeny. Campbell was a “trusty,” and Satur liberty of the corridor. The bars of & rear eaped, TO SEND NO SHIPS TO SAMO... to the Berlin Treaty. ln correspondent of the London Times, that u'l three protecting powers bave agreed tn reirala from sesding larther naval recep forcoments Lo Sammon Germasy to build war vesssls to increase the effectiveness of the Gorman navy. It is understood societies of similar cha.acter are being formed all ever the world, includ. ing the United States, [or the same purpose, An Economionl Hall, Chiet Eagloser W. T. Manning, of the Baltimore and Oblo Raliroad, bas fovented a new rail that experts say bas many points of interest 10 raliroad owners, the principal one belug its economical feature, It is well known that ralls wear rapidiy on ourves, snd where these are short and trafflo heavy, the cost of renewal is very large. Manulog has evolved a section, which, he asserts, wili reduce the cost 57 per cent, per ton per year, He adds materiniiy to the life of the rail by plael.g additional metal in the head and on the side upon which the wear comes, The new rall will be given a thorough fest on the Baltimore aod Oslo Haliroad, the re- ceivers having ordered 1,000 tons from the Carnegie Steel Co, The Pittsburg and Western have also ordered 500 tons, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Prinee Ferdinand has intrusted to M. Gre- eoff the formation of & new Bulgarian eabi- net, A wild Bonapartist’ demonstration took place at the Nouvean Theatre, Paris, where piny ealied “The King of Rome’ is belng produced, Mors than $300,000 of the $300,000 recently stolen from Part's Baok in London has been mysterivusly returned by mail, Tue French government will Introdues in the Cuamber of Deputies a Lill intended to enuse the whole Court of Cassation to pass final judgment on the Droylas revision, Soldiers are on guard at Colon, Colombia, ns it fs feared that the striking doekmen and raliway smployes will try to burn the city, Porto Ricans are dbsatisfied with the mill tary administration of the Island and want » {4 33 Hg governorship of Jamalea Is to ve : omit of the Island Is to smn A Snub to the German Consul at Samoa. PILLAGE CONTINUES. The American and British Consuls Decline to Have Any Further Intercourse with Him or the German Municipal Fresi- dent, Except in Writing, Until They Apologize, Auckland, N, Z., (By Cable.) The follow ing advices have just been received here from Apis, Bamoan Islands, under date of January 24: “There has besn no further general fight ing between the parisans of the rival ehief- tains since the last advices were forwarded, except that a party of Mataafa's followers was routed in the bush by Malietosns, Its expected, howsver, that fighting will be re- sumed, ns Matanfa is re-arresting persons who have been already fined snd released, *“The work of pillage continues, among the houses looted being Vallima, the home of the late Robert Louis Stevenson, the novelist, “The exiled Mallvtosn chiefs were landed at Pago Pago, on the Island of Totalls, the schooner on which they were being unable 10 proceed to the Island of Manus, owing Ww adverse winds, The Tutullans gave them o hearty welcome, asd made an attempt to seize Mataafa's son, who was on board the schooner, but the eaptain put to ses, **There has been a collision of authority between Chief Justice William L. Chambers, of the Bupreme Court, and Dr. Joasnes Raflel, the German president of the musiei- pality of Aple. Herr Grosmuhl, a German resident of Apis, who was arrested for smashing the windows of the Supreme Court chamber, was sentenced by the chile! justice to imprisonment asd to psy a flue, Dr, Ral- fel instructed the police authorities to reloase Herr Grosmuhl, whose fine was subsequently fixed at $1,000, “The German consul, Herr Rose, there. upon wrote to the American consul, Lloyd W. Oshourne, and the British consul, E B. 8. Maxse, protesting that the action of the eble! justice In fining Herr Grosmubl was an infringement of German consular rights. Messrs, Osbourne and Maxse jolotly replied in their official cepacity that, the proper tritunsl baviog dealt with the matter, the consuls could not interfere. More than this, with the German consul ©. the Germau musielipal president, except in writing, or to sitend meetings, except to consider the acts of the municipal council of Apia, unless as apology, with full retraction, were offeres for the behavior toward Chief Justics Chan- bars. At the same time the Supremes Court summoned Dr. Raflel for contempt of court in releasing Herr Grosmubl"” OUR INTERESTS IN DELAGOA BAY A Decision of the Arbitrators May be Ex pected Not Later Than Jane. London, Eang., (By Cable. correspondent of the Pall Mail Gazetle tele. in the Delagoa Bay dispute may be expected Bo later than June. ther unreasonable delay, to make grave representations to the federal counell, which Britals will join in these repressstations, the fact that the loterosts of in it, of the negotiations between and Portugal as 10 the action of the latter power in East Africa, the claims of the late the COM POtER- tion for the seizures of the ilne by Portugal on Jone 29 1898 were brought forward, Eventually it was decided that the Swim federal counell should appoint arbiirators company sent a reply, and Portugs! then made a rejoloder. The McMurdo claim it bas been asserted, would be settisd with an award of a sum ander §10.(00.00, vv SOLDIERS BODIES, at Various Polnts Jaan, Pores, Bantiago and Guantanamo», thers. The trip Is expected to take six weeks, or representatives of the dead soldiers, The expedition will bein charge of D. H, Rhodes, who will be ascompanied by thirty relatives of the dend. Many of those going are see to identify the graves, by the War Department, The cost of rein. terring the bodies here will reiatives, sent by state relief societies, ned some have been selected by the regiments, A pamber of metallls enskots haves hoen placed aboard the Roumanian, At ssch place the bodies recoversd will be put in caskets and taken aboard the vessel, which will then go on to the pext stopping place, —" a SUICIDE BY THE TRUNK ROUTE, Pletare frame Gilder Imitates Mrs Ayres’ Method of Ending Life, Philadelphia, Pa, (Special Robert T. Rink, Je., aged twenty-eight yesrs, took his life in the same strange manner as that ndopted by Mea, Ayres, at Penn Yas, N. Y,, last week, by closiog himsell in a trunk and then swallowlag poison, Rink, who was a pleture-frame gider, boarded at 213 Nortu Juniper sirent. Not puting in as apjears ance his room was opened and the search revealed Rink's body lo a trunk, the hd of which was closed, In the trunk was & ball-emptied bottle of whisky, and on a table ia the room was found the remnants of a srystailized powder, with whieh it Is presumed Rink ended his lite, Rink was in poor heaith and on Satur. miot death as had Mrs, Ayres, of whose Solede bu Ad rene mn The Rank of Admiral Por Dewey, yThe ima » Leta A An Attempt to Extract & Tooth Infuristed the Antal. Omaha, Neb,, (Bpecisl. )—An enormous sllver-tip bear, frenzied with an ulcerated tooth, which its master was trying to ex. traot, ssosped from its cags In the Creighton Theatre and created a panic befors being captured. In addition to frightening a number of persons the big bear seriously burt its master, Paul Batty, badly lecerated Btage-hand McDonald, aud tore the clothes off Jake Rosenthal, manager of the theatre, McDonald was assisting Batty to extract the tooth, and a crowd of men snd boys surrounded the cage of the enraged animal witnessing the operation, The brute wes fastened down with chains snd leethsr bands, but when the traluer touched the ul coerated tooth the bear gave a roar aud burst his bonds like paper. With a sweep of his mighty paw be threw Batty sad McDonsid 10 the floor sud turned upun tue crowd around the iron cage, They fled lu every direction, but the cage Was demolished in & moment, Manager Rosenusha! was cilmblag lato the flies as the made one pass at the manager, aod oaich- ing bis froek coat carried it completely away Boseathal's feet, aud then passed on in pur sult of the crowd, Iu the maze of scenery back of the stage the bear vented bis fury by demolishing everything lu sight. By this time the trainer recovered sufficieniy 10 direet the hesting of irons to subdoe the animal His roars could bs heard for several blocks, He Was foaily driven luto the ceiler of the thea tre, where, surrounded by a row of redbot irons, be submitted to being bound, THIRTY MILLION PUPILS, The International Sunday School vention st Atianta. Atinota, Ga. [(8pecial.}—The local come mittee having io charge the arrangements for the ninth wrisanial international Sunday- school convention, to be beid here fn April, met at the X. M. C, A. periors and took up { the work of eariug for the big gathering, | The conveution will meet April 27, 28 and 29, nad avout 2,000 delegates from all parts of the United Biates, several South Amerie can countries, Canada, Mexico, Eagiand snd possibly ludia are expected, Previous to the convention the (anterns- tional lesson committee, Bev. Dr. J. D. Potts, of Toronto, Oat., chairman, wiil meet Con~ for the next six years, Important work to come before the come mittee will be the stady of what BSusday- | school work should be done in the newiy- acquired territory of the United States and in Caba, Bapiis:, Methodist and other de- nominational Buuday-sehool boards bave { already begua the establishments of! Ban- | day-schools in Porto Rico, Cuba and even | Hawai, i Work among the colored population ofthe Bouth will be given especial attention, Mex- | $09 has only recently been taken iu the fleid, { and the work there must aiso be considered. The convention does not draw the line at COIOT OF race, | Jt was decided to open i with a monster mesting and chorus | 000 voloss at tne Auditorium In Exposition | Park. The entertainment committee, head- ied by H. H. Cabannis, includes among its members Hon, Hoke Smith and ex-Governor Northern, It has sub-committees in each of the 110 churches in Atianta, The convention will represent thirty mii 6 Susday-school puplis and about 200,000 schools, the convention of 10.- BLIPPING BACK INTO THE SEA, sim— Faloon lsinnd, in the Pacific, Sald to Be Gradually Disappearing. San Francisco, Cal, (Bpecial )— The news has been brought bere from Australia that i the British mas-ol-war Penguin has just re- turned to Bydney, N, 8B. W,, alter taking soundings between the island of Longo and Auckland, KX. Z. The officers found thst Falcon Island, which suddenly came up out gf the ocean fo 1585, is gradually receding. When relocated by the Penguin's officers they discovered that the island is now three fathoms under water, The officers of the Penguin also suceseded in taking the temperature of the ocean atl a greater depth than ever before. Hitherto, where the thermometer got down a corrals distances it was invariably broken. Ob this | oceasion the thermometer was sent down | 4.962 Iathoms, found to be 85.5 degrees, ! face the temperature was 82 degrees, This, | the officers of the Penguin sssert, is the deepest ocean reading ever laken, while ¢u the sur. EXTENSIVE NEW TERMINALS Improvements Costing a Million and a Juarter, Savannah, Ga., (Special, )—Ths directors of the Georgia and Alabama Raliroad Come { pany and the Georgia and Alabama Terme | nal Company, at a joint meeting, suthorized | President J. Skelton Williams to contract ' jmmediately for the construction of the great steel drawbridge seross the Savanuah River! | between this city and Hutebissons Isiand, where the company's exiensive new termi« nals are 10 be lovated, The bridge will cost, approximately, a quarter of a million dold jars, and the terminals and docks a million. Eaginesrs are now preparing level land and | profiles for the terminels and docks, The | Georgian apd Alabama now enters the sity} on the Central of Georgia tracks, The di- rectors authorized the eoustruction of six- teen milos of pew trackage from Meidrim | into Bavaunal, Work on the bridge and ex tepsion will be begun at ones FikLb OF LABO an Brazil buys American coal Ameriea has 2,110 dally papers, Geoovs has giass-paved streets, Veneruels hasn't a entton mill, New York has fifiy-five dally papers. New York bas a peddiers’ union, London has 100,000 night workers, There are 280,000,000 agricalturists, In Japan cooks earu $10 a month, Debs is to address the Nineteenth Century Club at Delmonieo’s, New York ou Maren 23, There will be po eo-operative tailor shop in New York. The Sociai Reform Club, which included society peoples, who were to invest $50,000 in the euterprise, and the unltonists disagreed. A bill aimed at raflronds and in favor of workingmen was put in the blll box of the Kaw York Amsombly last week, It provides that “every ralirond corporation or ———— Cuban Chiefs Determined to Get » All They Can ———— BEFORE DISEANDING. ——— They Beornfully Reject the Three Mil. Hons Mr, Porter is Empowered to Offer and Muy Got as Much ss Fifteen Mil Hons from the United States—Frospect of Bett!=ment. Wasulogton, D. 0., (Special, )-~1t Is lears- ed at the War Department thas Mr, Robert It is ad mitted that he in Cubs collecting this tnformation to gather : Touching Mr. Quesada’s mission to Gen. Gomez's headquarters, under instructions entirely probable thst if our government to Gomez touching the pay of the Cubans soldiers, that Mr. Quesads would be the jo- strument chosen for that purpose; not only because of bis warm Intimacy with Gomez of his executive ability, Tue decision to send Mr, Portsr to Cabs Tas reached after a full discussion of the situation of the Insurgent arwy viween 130 Mr, Porter will confer first with General Brooke. He will ask if the Cuban army will disband on pres- ent payment of $3,000,000, Our legal right to make this payment was referred to the Attorney General, who heid thal this sum might lawfully be savaneed to the losure Reni troops, on condition thal the Treasury be subsequently reimbursed from the reve enues of the sland, sud it is understood that this course will be pursued, If it is found that the desired rosuits can be obtain. ed thereby, Mr. Porter was also lnstructed to Inquire into the workings of the customs regulations acd local taxation matters, Havana, (Special, )— Robert P. Porter, the representative of President McKinley, and Benor Gouzales Quesada, the Caba commis on & special mimion to Cuba, started for Calbar- len, provipes of Banta Clars, in order to ses Gen, Maximo Gomez, : Mr. Porter's mission to Gen, Gomez is of a twoloid charscter—to discuss with him fully the position of the Cybun army and to invite him to Havana, The Washington ad ministration desires an immediate and Iriendly seltiement of the Cuban arny ques. tion, Asthe military chiefs decisively re- fuse to accept §3,00 5,000 in complete faction of the claims of the soidiery, ington has determined, it offer a much larger sum, even as high as $15,000,000, it less wili not be scoepied. Whatever is agreed upon is to be a charge wi tin. Wash is uuderstood, to paid, The Cubans, civillsos acd military, are aware that an engagement of this sort may sosms 10 be their earoest wish that the army be paid a great sum, the administration at Washington will yield, it ts understood, and Mr, Porter Is said to President McKinley and Governor General Brooke, The scope of his instructions is pot disclosed, exeept that it is knows that be bas rather full preliminary powers, Senor Quesada did not koow them until be and Mr. Porter were aboard ship. The Cabans here are in a state of expec tation and excitement. The business classes are pleased at the prospect of a settlement, Merchants for a fortnight have been alraid to place large orders, being uncertain of the future, Bbares on the local Lourse rose {rom ope to three points, which is generally sttributed to the probabdiity that the Cuban soldiery will be disbanded and will return to work. LET THE COURT DECIDE, recretary Long Shifts The Schiey Samp. son Controversy. Washington, D. C., {Special )—Becretary Long hus referred to the Court of Claims te question of determining the amount of bounty, if any, which {s due to the officers and men of the cruiser Now York, as the pe- sti:t of the battle of Jasuary 3, off Rapti age. The New York, it wili be remembered, was commanded by Admiral Bampeon, The question of whether the Now York participated in the battle will, therefore, be carry letters from at woeiny st the is ment by any ship or vessel belonging 10 the United States,” If the cnomy’s force is superior to thet of the United States, the officors and men are entitied to a sam equal to $200 per head lod sieh person on the enemy's ships, but other~ wise the highest rate is only #100, Wien ihe court takes ap the matter for cousideras tion, It will bs claimed by the offcers and men of the ships which were actualiy engag- ihe American fleet provided toe New York wus peiied to decide whether Admiral Rampeon’s By referring the question to the Court of Claims Seoretary Loog has avoided the pee sponsibliliy of deciding a controversy which partment, The offfeers sud men of the Brooklyn, Oregon, lodinna, lows, Texas Hlovcester and V Xen are concerned in the decision. These ships were in the battle, a a oT Bigwn To Pleces By Nito-giyeerine. : While thrawing nitro-glycerine near West Liberty, Ind, James Thompson apd Gib Gooden, weli-diggers, wers blown to plooes, The foree of the explosion was felt for seve eral A 0 Aa A, FOURTEEN FAMILIES HOMELESS, Ee
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