Private Albert M+ Veigh, of Charlestown,
W. Va., Company G, Twenty-sevenih Regi.
ment, was killed, sud Private Gould, same
rompany, was (atally injured at Camp
Meade, Pa., wbile trylog to alight from a
rain,
At Newport News a jury brought io a ver
diet of murder in the first degree against
Richard Williams, for killing James E.
Newman in April,
Adolph Lusetgert, the rich Chicago san-
sgemaker, serving a life sentence for the
murder of his wife, was found dead in his
sell,
Captain James Davis, of Point Pleasant,
W. Va., while asleep jumped from a second-
story window of a hotel and was killed.
Joseph Pfister, of Kingsville, Md., was
tilled and five men {ojured by the collapse
3! a building In Pittsburg.
Three people were poisoned at Carmi, 1i-
Huools, by drisking coffee which a woman
tor fessed she poisoned.
Half of a 700-foot tunnel on the B, & O's
main line near Cambridge, Ohio, caved in,
The ore handiers’ strike at Ashtabula,
Ohio, was settled, the men galuing thelr
point,
Two men wera killed and five seriously
turt by an explosion at Derringer, Pa.
Three transports sailed from San Frao-
sieco for Manila.
There was less rioting in Cleveland by the
striking motormen and conductors of the
street car lines, Ope boy was shot bya
sonductor, but there is no proof that the
shooting was intentional,
Senator Martin and Governor Tyler, .who
are candidates for United States Senate io
Virginia, will take the stump, to reply to at-
lacks by their enemies,
Eight negroes were held for the grand
jary in Washington, on the charge of crim-
nally assaulting Mre, Dora Linkins,
Admiral Bechley will entertain Admiral
Dewey at Hendricks, near South Norwalk,
Ot, after the reception in New York.
Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes was nomi-
aated to be chief justicw of the Bupreme
Court of Massachusetts,
John Doyle, an engineer of a mining com-
pany at Cripple Creek, was abducted by
iwenty masked men,
Merritt Buating, postmaster of Bunting,
Del., was arrested, charged with makiog
{alse returns,
Forty thousand acres of valuable {ron land
no West Virginia and in Giles county, Va,
save been sold to a New York syndicate for
soe-hall million dollars,
Henry Novels, colored, was shot to death
at Hattiesburg, Mi:s. He was charged with
baving attempted to assault Miss Rosallne
Davie,
Hepry W. Cramp denies that there are any
defects in the hull design of the new battle.
ship Maine,
At the trial of George and Peter Phiipot,
at Manchester, Ky,, there was no fighting.
Jesse Adame, living on Tug River, W, Va,,
killed his wife and himself,
The Improvements that are being made to
the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Rall-
road, between Parkersburg and East St
Louis, are belug pushed rapidly to com.
pletion, Seventeen thousand tons of 85-ib,
steel rail have been placed in the track and
there are still 25,000 tops to come, deilvery
being delayed on socount of rush of orders
at the mills, The company bas also put lo
125 miles of gravel ballast and expects to
get out 200 wiles more during the season,
and itis hoped by fall that the track will
rank as the best in the west, A great many
grade reductions sod chauges in line are
also belog made between Cincinuati and
St. Louis. The purposes is to make » uni
form one-hall of one per cent. grade be.
tween Clucionati and St, Louls, as well ae
to elimioate s large amcuut of objectionabie
curvatures,
a dynamite bomb upon the roof of a eat
barn in Cleveland, 0, Considerable damage
was done, but no person injured.
Altgeld, Williams, General Warner and
other giliver leaders conferred in Chicago as
to the future reintions between the Demo-
eratie party and the silver people,
Governor Plogree gave out a statement in
which he severely criticises the President in
connection with Seeretary Alger's resigns.
tion,
By the expiosion of a botler in & sawmill
near Wavoesboro, Pa, Ell Whitehill was
blown 200 yards and killed.
Charies Lindquest was seriously injured
by an explosion of turpentine, on a Ciyde
Line stramer, at New York, .
Five Italians were Jyoched In Tallubal,
La. as the result of the killing of Dr. Hodge:
by AB Italian,
The indications are that United States
Senator Martio wll be re-siected next win.
ter in Virginia,
Tbe United States transport Indians ar
rived as San Francisco, from Maoils, with
308 sick soldiers,
Alexander MeMaster, vice president of the
Union Bask, of Buffalo, was killed by a run.
sway horse,
Eight persons were injured in an accident
a8 an excursion resort near Washington,
The government will erect fortifications
on Bailey's Hill, near Nahant, Mase,
Edward Weeks, of Akron, O., was drowned
at Decarur, Als,
Memorini services in memory of Robart G,
Iagerscil were bed at Peoria, Il. Itis pro
posed to erect a monument to him in Giev
Oak Park in that eity,
Charles Broadway Houss bas purchased »
valuable piece of property in the town of
Winchester, Va, It is said he will present it
to the town,
The warring Kentueklans of Clay county
are prepared to make trouble at the trial of
the Phiipots for murder in the Mancbeste:
Court,
A street car was blown up In Cleveland
0., by strikers or parties in sympathy with
them and four passongers seriously injured,
The trades unions in New York are it
favor of forming a new labor political party
President Disz will be invited to the Unb
ted States in Ouviover,
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE,
a
Trentanove, the sculptor, is at work ons
bust of Neison Disgley,
Joel Chandier Harris works mostly o
night, He rarely takes pen in hand before
10 P. M. and daylight frequently finds hin
still ut his desk,
Baron Nordenskjold, the Swedish natural
fst and explorer, Is finnnelally ruined as the
result of his Lecoming Involved with
Swedish publishing bouse, His loss b
$300,000,
Tue Paris correspondent of Londor
Truth says that General Galifet had a Jew.
Ish ancestry. The inst Jew of bis line wa
paptized In the reign of Louls KHL
Dr. Richard J, Outilog, of gus fame, say
that hit of his suecy 84 WAS peresver
Above all" he
CALAMBA TAKEN.
EE
Four Americans Killed and a
Dozen Wounded.
THE INSURGENTS FLEE.
Genera! Hall's Troops Pioeeod Up
Laguna de Bay in Canoes, Aceaupanied
by Gunboats Troops Land East of the
Town and Swim a River, Under the
Fire ol the Filipinos.
Manila, (By Cable. )—An exredition com
rosed of troops from San Pedro Maeat],
Pasig and Morong, under Brizadier Gen
eral BR. H. Hall, eaptured Calambs, an im-
portant trading town on the south shore of
Laguna de Bay. There was two hours of
sharp flohting, during which four soldiers
were killed and twelve wounded, The
trencliea commanding the harbor were
under water, but tha swampiness of the
land made the land harder. The troops
boarded easeces Tuesday night, The force
comprised 400 of the Washington Volun.
teers, 430 of the Twenty-first Infantry, 150
of the Fourth Cavalry and two guns of the
First Artillery. Thess and the gunboats
Naridan and Costo assembled opneosite Cal.
amba Wednesday afternoon, Crowds of
people In carts and on foot were seen rush-
ing to the hills. Natives eseaplog from Cal.
amba In oascoes sald a hundred Insurgents
beld the town,
A fores under Captain MeGrath, of the
Twenty-first Infantry, and Captain Eiton-
herd landed east of the town, but found a
river Interveniog.
Captain McGrath and Lient, Batson
swam the river nnder a firs from twenty
Maussr rifles, Having crossed the stream,
the officers proenred a easeon to ferry the
troops over. The insurgents retreated
through the town, shooting from honges
and bushes ns they fled to the hills, Threa
members of tha Washington regiment
waded from eaneoss throuch swamrs often
shoulder.deap, while a group of Filipinos
concealed in bavstacks wera shooting at
them, until the Napidan focused her six.
pounders and Gatling puns on the stacks
for a few minutes, Most of the work was
done before the Washington Volunteers
eould reash the town,
The Filipinos aft three dead,
ensunitien on the American side,
killed and threes of the wounded wera mem.
bara of the Fourth Cavalry, and two killed
and sight wounded belonged to the Twenty-
first Infantry,
There was much shooting by amigos,
emerged from the bushes with white flags,
Alter the flghbt a degen men, holding up
thelr hands ard shouting *“'Castilisoos”™
met the Ameriean cavalry. Even
gnldiers embraced the Americans bByster'.
enlly, There were fifiv Spanish prisoners
rt Calamba, of whom wera elvil
offlolals and somes were Jidiers, nay bad
hasn given the choles of joining the Filipine
army ®r becoming of Fil hn {roe
and chose the army, Intending to surrender
at the first oprortaaity, Most of the eivil.
inns reached the American Hoes daring the
fiehtiog, hut the insuresnts took others
away with them in retreat, General Hall
eaptured twelve Filipinos with guns,
Major General Henry W, Lawton, Pres
fassor Dean CC. Woreestar, of the Ameriean
Philippines Commission: Mrs, General Law.
ton and General Lawtion's son ascompanied
the sxpedition on board a and «st
gooly in an unnretacted boat close to the
shore during the fighting, the bull
spinahing about them,
As soon as authorization ean be reosived
from Madrid to inenr the nassssary sXpen.
ditures, the Spanish general Jaramiile will
tend a commission romposed of Hsanors
Toral an! Ros to Terine CRLrY
money, medicine and clothes to the Breanish
prisoners thers, The commission will
reoren negotiations for the release
captured,
It Is reported that £3 000000 in Mexiran
money will be affarsd to the inetirgonts for
the release of the Spaniards, General Jars
amillo declines to confirm this report,
Or tha
two of the
who
some
servants
iInnneh,
“48
to fond,
falen
of the
Calamba fan town on Laguns de Har,
about thirty miles sotitheast of Manila, It
i* mueh further south than the United
tates troops have yot penctrated on land,
Itisin the provines of Lazaoa, It basa
population of 11.476, aud is twenty-seven
miles from Banta Cruz, on the enstern shoes
of the bay. [ts capture ls not considered of
any strategie Importanes,
of the pian to harass and worry the io
surgents,
STEAMING ALONG
UNDER WATER
Raccesslnt Test of the Holland Subms-
rine Bont by the Navel Beard,
New York, (Special ~The naval board,
consisting of Constructor Varney, president,
and Lisutenants Haeseler and Rederave,
made a test with the Holland submarine
bout to determine the relative advantages of
steam and gasoline as a propelling agent for
boats of that clase. Most of the tests were
surface teste, The government's plans for
the Plunger contempiate the use of steam,
but Mr. Holland has maintained that better
results can be obtained from gasoline, The
members of the board wouoid not converse
about the test, The board will meet at Bale
timore on the call of Constructor Varney to
draw up its report,
Mr. Holiand, In discussing the point un-
der test, sald thet one great advantage of
gasoline was that It required but a few
moments to get the boat under way,
The members of the board expressed
themselves as plensed with the tests made,
There will Le a serivs of oficial texts of the
Holiand towards the last of next mopth,
The Holland ran two miles under water,
holding a trae course and a uniform sub.
mersion of five feet, At the end of the first
mile the Holiard shot to the surface twice
io sucesnalon, This was to time her in ris
ing at fall speed for olwervation nnd to ses
how well alie was bolding the courses, The
first time up ber turret showed seven swe.
onds, and on the second trial nine seconds,
German Mule in the Carniines
Washington, (Hpeclal)—Iaformation re.
osived In offielsl quarters hers Is to the
effect that a party of German officials, who
will insugarite Gorman ruls in the Caroline
Islands, ‘recently sequired by Gormany from
Bpain, satled on Tuesday inst for the Islands
by way of (lenoca, Those who have been
shonsh for this work are Dr, Stahl, who will
: eta i Herr Fritz, who will bave
phi of he Marianas group, a
Senflt, who in
HO oP.
Perhaps Fatally.
Officers Guarding a Car Hiating Strik
ers Backed by Their Sympathizers Block
ade the Track A Number of
Were Injured During the Day.
Cleveland, O., (Special.)—There was An.
strikers with most disastrous results,
A oar on the Euncild Avenue line Was
blown up at the corner of Kenslugton Birest,
o'clock, by what is De
mits or sitro-glyoerine.
The car, which was an open one, Was rud-
ning rapidly when tbe explosion ceourred,
Bole torn in the floor and all the windows
shattered,
feet and legs, and one of them will die, it Is
believed,
The noise of the explosion was heard all
over the eastern part of the elty, and it
shook sil the houses for two or three blocks
from tha scenes of the explosion,
It is believed that the explosive was placed
pear the corner of Kepsingion Street,
time before the ear cams slong. He alighted
from a wagon for a
drove rapidly away.
The motorman
Wiliam Dragger, of Ciscinpatl, Altho
around him, be stood at his post and did his
utmost to stop the evar, which was running
wild, with a broken brake As soon as he
eould be jumped down from the vestibule |
and fell to ths ground. Quickly recovering,
be Lelped the conductor, Frask Schroeder,
of St, Louis, takes the people from the
wrecked ear
Iie explosion was a terrific one, It ap.
peared to 1iIt the ear in the air, and the
floor was ripped and splintered for three or
four feet back of where the motorman stood.
The passengers received thelr Injuries from |
the splintered boards of the floor. The re
port was so deafeniog that some of the
passengers could not hear for ten minules
afterward,
A great crowd of people ware attracted by |
the solse of the explosion,
were eared for antl the ambulances, which
were summoned by a hurry call, arrived,
None of the lojured are ilkely to die. The
police are at work on the case, but it will be |
diffieuit to make headway with the slight
clue in thelr possession,
The First Fatality.
to bring aay reliel to the strike shiustion,
which was regarded as serious,
The State Board of Arbitration bas prae-
tieally abandoned their «forts to coneiliate
the strikers and thelr former employer,
The resentment of the conductors and
motormen who quit work and the more tur
bulent spirit of thelr sympathizers is held in
cheek ton degree Ly the presence of the
the barns and terminals,
Small riots occurred durlog the day, but
with one exception they wers without seri
ous reeqalte, Iu the death of Henry Corns
welt, slain by a bullet fired by Ralph P.
Hawley, a conductor on the Broadway line,
is recorded the first fatality ot the strike,
A AA A NRG a
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
Captain Mahan, of the Ahaticnn delega
tion to the Peace Conlerence, will, it Is said,
withdraw his proposed amendments to the
scheme for adapting the Geneva convention
to naval wars, owing 16 the objections of
Groat Britain and other powers,
Fighting between rival tribes In Samoa
wos renewed, Ove Malistoa chief and two
Matanta chiefs were wounded, Heveral
ohivfs were arrested, Cnlef Justice Cham.
bers bins pent his resignation to Presidest
McKinley,
Oeoil Rhodes arrived at Cape Town, and
was given an enthusiastic re spidon,
Delegations of weeping women having
relatives among the prisoners Io the hands
of the Filipinos, created a od 4 distreming aeons
in the Spanish Setate chamber.
The shortage in the Russing wheat
may reach one hundred and twenty million
A lieutenant and four sailors of the Aas
SPANISH. AMERICAN ISLANDS,
Captain Byrne, of the Bixteenth Infantry,
{ surprised robber bands of Babsylones, at
| Bobong, Island of Negros, and killed 115,
besides woundisg many more,
The floods on the Island of Luzon will
prevent for a long time military operatians
{on & large sonle,
te fever situation in Caba is reported to
| be not alarming,
| A Filipise priest has been excommuuil.
cated by the Archbishop of the Island of
| Luzon for starting & movement for the jude.
pesdence of the church in the Philippines,
{| The Ushted States transport Zealandis,
with four companies of the Twenty-fourth
| lufantry, 150 recruits and quantities of sup-
i plios has arrived at Manila,
Spanish residents In Cuba are forming an
organiestion with a view to securing Amer.
lean eitizsnsbip,
Vigorous measures will be taken in Cuba
i to chek public gambilng.
| The natives In several provinces of the
{| Philippines are endeavoring to throw off the
| domination of the Tagals,
{| Newspapers in London,
versely on tha
the Philippines,
Mre. General Honry made an appeal to
| merchants lo New York, to help the poor In
{ Porto R
Horses, mules and wagons are being pur.
| ebased Tor shipment to Manila,
Two oases of yellow fever smong
i troops in Puerto Prineipe,
i ported,
commented se.
conduct of the campaign in
eo,
the
Cuba, were re.
Drought prevails in tbo island,
{ General Harrison Gray Olis says the cas.
| uaity Hsts reported officlaily from Manila,
have boen aseurate,
Geseral Aoderson says be had no elash
with Geaeral Otis while in the Philippioes,
SIGNS OF A CONFLICT,
Armed Rival Forces to Mareh Into Mas
cheater, Ky.
London, Ky.,
the
Special. )—The gravity of
siluntion at Manches ter, Ky... and
throughont Clay sounty cannot Le ver.
estimated. Mavy noncombatants have left
| their homes, atandoning their arope, and
{As many others as ean will leave soon,
IE ven bers in London the losecn rity Is felt
to such an extent that some families are |
i ienviag.
Au outbreak is expected at any time,
Doth parties are mustering armed forces
for marching into Manchester. The Phil.
{ pois have 53 armed horsemen, and Bo one
{ knows bow many fooumen, The Morris asd
Griffie faction also bave a large foros, The
| Philpots say that the laiter iocludes the
White-Howard faction, Oa the other band,
the Morris faction say that the Dakers have
| made common cause with the Phiipots,
It is stated that Deputy Sheriff Davis
Chadwell, of the White-Howard faction, has
| openly espoused the encse of the Griffins,
{ It is bard to conceive bow, under these elr-
i cumstances, & eon fliet can be avoided,
FATAL FT INE EXPLOSION,
Four Slave Killed and Two Severely
Injured.
Brownsville, Pa., (8pecial. )—An explosion
of gas and fire damp occurred is the mine
of the Redetone Coal, Oil and Gas Company
at Grindstone, five miles from here, in whieh
70 wen were entombed. Four are known (o
buve been killed and two were injured.
The explosion oecurred lo entry No. 10,
and the flores was so great that eight men
who bind just descended into the shaft were
kpock«d down and seriously lojured. All
but a boy named Solo
mon, who had sn ugly cut across the throat,
but who went back, refusing to leave the
mine until bis father and brother could Le
got out,
The mine is operated by a shaft and there
was 50 other way of esenpe for the entombed
miners, The seven men Who escaped wers
tout 10 the Connellsville Hospital, They
were Ladly burned,
LN
A 200,000 Fine,
Business District of Phoenix Olty, Ala.
Burned Down,
Columbue, Ga., (Special) Fitk broke
cut in the celinr of the New York Hseket
Store, ln Phoenix Clty, Als, Just seross the
Chattabooebes river Irom Columbus,
Before the flames cocld be checked the
entire business district was burned to the
ground, entailing a loss of $200,000,
Owing 10 the absence of fire fOubting fa
clidien Insurance rates in Phoenix City sre
gibi bigh, and it is stated that vary
ily of the property destroyed was
A SARA
IN A BOX or OF TURAUCO,
How Thmothy Hogan A Escaped From the
gan, the
REMOVED BY ASSASSIN
President Ulises Heureaux
Meets a Violent Death.
dr ———
ASSAILANT ESCAPED.
Rumon Caceros, the Murderer, Makes His
Recaps, but His Capture is Confidently
Expected Vies President Figuereo As
sumes Fresidentisl Pewers, and the
Island Remains Cul,
Fort de France, Island of Martinique, (By
Cable.) Gen, Ullses Heuresux, President
of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated
it Mocs, Santo Domingo,
The pame of the murderer Is Ramon Ce-
coros, He sueceeded in making Lis esenps,
but an energetic pursuit was at ones begun,
and it is probable that Le will soon be cap-
tured.
Yiee President Geners! Wepeoslao Fig-
uereo immediately upon the announcement
of the President's death, assumed the direc
tion of affairs,
At present calmness prevalis everywhere
fn the repabiie,
The remains of President Heureaux will
probally be taken to Santo Domingo for the
funeral services,
President Heoreaux was a soldier during
big entire Hlstime., One of bis arms was
paralyzed from a wound he received by a
rifle ball In baitie, He is described by Amer
feane familiar with his career ss s man with.
oul fear, and when thers was apy disturb.
ance or revointioy (np apy part of the repub.
lie, he mounted Lis horse and went pellmell
bimani! to the front as leader and learned
ail the details of the revolution as well ss
the causes lending to it, He went us a sol
dier, not us President or Geperal, and thas
was unknown by his people, He generally
traveled on horseback and made frequent
excursions through the country, When on
#uch iris be avoided botels and private
houses snd slept slong the roadside,
Heo bad a worderful enreer and war heid
in bigh regard by the majority of hie people
He participated in many tatties and always
with sucoess, He did not fear an army of
five times the number of that which be corm.
manded., He was bold apd
Americans visiting Bap Domingo have sgroed
that the country bad sever had a more capa.
ble President than bim
Fresidert Heuresux was about fifte-Tour
yours of age and weighed ut
dred and seventy pounds, He spoke English
fluently, and treated everybody who ap-
proached bim with courtesy, Hip manners
were mild, and no one would
bim for a scidier. He was a terror, be
aver, to the eriminal clases,
who disputed bis suthority., He was
elected President of Domingo in 198%
and bas bean elected avery four years sinoe,
He bad a Cabinet of five ministers of
of foreign alfaire, of finance,
sud of publie instruction,
snd fearless,
one hg.
abo
bave lakes
Ww
and 10 those
first
Fan
war,
apd interior
FATE OF A TRAITOR,
How Corporal Mayes was Shot
in the Philippines
Eansas Clty, Mo.
sepne which attended the death of Corporal
Isonard ¥. Haves, America’s only traitor in
the Phllippines, was witnessed ly Serst,
(ivorge A. Lamarsh, of Company H, Twen.
tieth Kansas Volunteers, now in this city.
Corporal Hayes, be says, became enam-
or=d of a Filljino beau'y and, deserting bis
somrad », was placed in charge of a Fill
battery with the rank of lieutenant. Je
bis death aimost in the first engagement in
which he fought against bis country, Speak.
of this battle, Bergeant Lamarsh sald
“We bad charged the Filipinos, driving
them back asd killing and wound ne many
Amonk the wounded leit on the field we
| tound Hayes. Ii: was recognized by severs
{ of the boys. One of the soldiers of
! 50d Oregon drove bis bayonet thro ah the
body of the wounded ra tor and lified him
i above bis bead snd beid him there while the
soidiers shot him, The body was thrown
into a trench and luried witu several dead
Filipiooa,. We would bave ipested
worss il wa bad known how.”
Hayes was a corporal la Company 1, First
Colorado VYeolunteers,
to Death
Bpeecinl.) The tragic
ino
the See
him
COLLAPSE OF A NEW BUILDING
A Maryland Bridge Bailder Killed and a
Number of Persons Injured,
Pittsburg, Pa., {Special )~The new pat
tern works of the Westinghouse Ele trie
Company, la courss of erection at East
Pittsburg, Pa. coliapeed, burying » number
of workmen in the rulss. One man was
killed outright and five others were serious
iy injured,
Joseph Plister, bridge builder, of Kings
ville, Md., aged thirty years, was killed.
These were injured: James Hilterman, J, W,
Thompson, Archibald Sweet, Frank Brown,
John Sullivan. The bulldieg was being
srected Ly the BhiMer Diridge Company, and
snly the structural fron war in position
when the accident oeceurred. Ten men were
st work at the time, ut four escaped un.
hurt. Plister was 08 the top of the building
when it collapeed, and be was crushed als
most beyond recognition. The injured will
sil recover.
MINING UNDER A CITY.
Copper to be Mined Under Batre Com.
pany With a Large Capital.
Batts, Mont, (Special. }A minlag com-
pany, under the name of Smokehouse Cop
per Mining Company, bas msn organised
sere for the purposes of tunneling under the
mtire city for copper ore, The organization
3 the company was brought about through
s settlement of a Hilgation which bas been
going on for many years, involving tie
Smokehonss, Destroying Aneel and Copper
Boitomn Mining cinime, which ecver the
principal parts of the city of Butte, The
importance of the new company is regarded
3s second only 10 thet of the Amalgamated
Copper Company. James A. Morray, the
millionaire banker, aud otter capitalists are
at the head of the company, which starts
ut with a A capitel stock of #1,500,000,
Killed at a Saw Mil),
-
ron
DID INGERSOLL BREPENTY
Tulmage Asks 8 Question As To His
Last Moment
New York, (Bpecinl.)— Rev, Dr. T, DeWitt
Talmage publishes the following editorial
in the Christian Herald:
“All the world knows that Colonel Tuger-
soll fought in a brilliant and prolonged
way agalust Christianity, jut bis bag gone
to judgment acd is io the hands of the God
to whom we are all accountable, Whatevei
others may write or dost such 8 solemn time
as this, we certainly will plast no netties on
Lis new-made grave, and only wish that we
could put upon It a fragrant ued redisct
garland of Christisn bops and divine
solace,
"Es careful bow you decide upon the
destiny of Robert G legersoll, Who can
tril what passed lo bis mind during that jest
woment? Perhaps in thet moment the
truth of the Gospel, whieh he could net be-
fore see, may buve flashed upos Lim, and
does pot take =x enroest preyer half 8
second 10 reach Heaven or ALEVEr 8
bai! a second to descend
“His mother was & grandly pood woman,
and God remembers a supplication 50 years
as easily as five minules Do 1 ' take 100
much responsibility vn yourselves,
tte
CENSUS IN NEW POSSESSIONS,
Supervisors for Cubs, Porto Rico and
Hawaii To Be Appointed
Washington, D. C,, (Special } uper-
visors who are to have charges of the ceppus
in Cuba, Porto Bleo and Hawaii will be
named soon, Director of the Mer-
riam apd War Dejariment officials are pow
considering the matter of their apyoiate
ment, Beven districts sre to be organized
In Cubs, sand President MeKinley, it is un-
derstood, bas sir ady pelocied the men who
will have charge of them.
The work in Porte Ries bes so
diffienit nor require so large a force nsin
Cuba, The utilizing of soldiers as census
Enumeralors is among ithe possibiiiy
both islands, forms and instr
will be fesusd from Washingt
turns will be sent to W
of the superior faci
supervisors will be spools
before Decem
The s
TRU
will not
’
ihe
OD, ALG 3
Ler,
AUXILIARY VESSELS SOLD,
Gets More Than Appraised
Valne for Severs! ships.
Government
Washington,
tary of the Navy bas
vessels purcha
Dy « pocial, }—The Becre-
several
government for
| naval purposes 4 war with Bpals,
The coil New York navy
yard, appraised at $25,000, was soid 10 Louis
Luekenbach, of New York, for #50125.
The ferrybost East Boston, at the Boston
Bavy yard, appraised at $30 00) wes sold
to Phillipe, Wool & rismonth,
¥a., for $88 191,
The colifer Niagara, at the New York navy
yard, appraised at S60.000, was sold to
Hopry P. B of New York, for 875588
OF the other vessels offered for sale, the
yacht Eoquirer, appraised at £20,900, was
withdrawn at the request of the War De
depart.
disposed of
by the
uring the
ier Se pio,
sed
Watson, P
'
oth
partment asd transferred to that
ment, The bids for the ferrybont Governos
tassel], appraleed at $25,000, were rejected,
ae the bighest, that of the city of Bos wion
was $10,630 ines than the appraised value of
the vessel, The Governor Be , which i#
vow st the Norto = wii Le reap.
praised and offer again.
A BEAV x WOMAN" s TRIAL 8
Was Alone In the Klondike
Husband Died,
Ban Francisco
Bertha arrived from
passengers and about
| The Inrgest amovot ow
was $75,000, The purser says that there is
wealth in tbe Caps Nome district and de-
elares that there is no truth in the stories of
{siiure (0 find gold thers,
Details of the loss of the Be ns expedition
are told by psssepgers, Out of a party of 17
people who Port Toy wasend Juose 11,
180%, for Ko'zelue sound prospeet for
gold, only one survives, bat one is Mrs,
H W Bess, of Ciay City, Kv.
For twelve weeks she walched over hey
sick husband, with no one to ald ber. When
he died she was alone in the wildergess,
Alter walking nine miles she fourd a cabin
in which three fishermen were wintering.
She became sick of scurvy, was tenderly
eared for and floally reached St. Michael,
and took passage for Ban Francisco on the
Bertha,
Bhe will go to Bay City, Mich.
bas a mother, brother and sister,
pe]
navy yard,
i for suie
After Hor
(Bperia
st
The steamer
Michar! with 97
FLOOD, 000 in gold,
wd Ly one person
Tad
et
io
where sho
SHOES MAY COST MORE,
Manufacturers Agree That There Should
be a Halse in Prices
New York, (Special }— Representatives of
a number of big shoe concerns met hers,
Among them Were representatives of Geo,
Baker & Sons, 8. Well & Co., John Cramer
& Son, the Bay State Bhos Company, 8.
Waterbury & Co., the Robert Dix Shoes Come
pany, the E C. Bart Shoo Company and
George Siler & Sou,
All sgreed that (here should be an advises
in prices of standard goods, rather than a
cheapening of the quality, The shoes men
say that the sdvanos in leather is the cause,
Another meeting of the local manulactorers
wiii be beld belore the Philadelphia couvesn.
tion.
The Firs Chinese Penstoner.
Washington, (Special Ab Yu, of Shang.
bal, China, a jlandsman, who enlisted
io the navy in 1884, and was formerly ste
tached to Dewey's fingehilp Olympis, was
granted a pension of #3) a month for lung
trouble, Ho has the distinction of being the
first Chivess pensioner of this government,
A Sf ASO
Cotton for the Flaod Sufferers.
New Orleans, (Special. =A bale of new
Texas cotton, oiassed wirict middiing, one
and one-eighth inch staple, was shipped bh
H. & B. Beer Tuesday to the president of
the New York Cotton Exebange to Ib» seid
for the benefit of the Texas flood sullerem,
RAS AA NA Rd
Brutal Segre Shot to Death. ‘
Hattlesburg, Mise, (Special) \
Biovelu & bagen Whoo ‘attempted Len
Miss Hosaline Davis, was eaptured and was
identified Ly Mise Davie, Ho was Ged ton
tree and shot to death,