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FREELAND, PA., MARCH 5, 1896.
Spuin and the United States.
From the Wilkesbarro Newsdealer.
As was to be expected the more excit
able faction of Spain's population is in
dignant at the threatened action of tin l
United States government to rccogni/.e
the Cubans as belligerents. Some of
the hotheads are allowing their passions
to get the best of their judgment and
are committing various depredations
which have a tendency to wound the
pride of this country. The government
of Spain has promptly disavowed the in
sult otTered our Hag by the impassioned
Spaniards, but all the same the affair at
Barcelona Is not going to help the cause
of peace.
Viowing the matter from a conserva
tive point of view, Spain has no cause to
complain of the position taken by the
United States. In fact we think we
have been unusually impatient under
tho circumstances.
After a year of war under Spain's
ablest general, the rebels, with few guns,
scant ammunition, no cannon, no licet
and no communication with the outer
world, hold three-fourths of the island
and are so close to Havana that their
signal rockets and camp-fires may be
seen from housetops in that city. Ha
vana is in effect belcagured on the land
side. She has no secure communication
with any island point more than ten
miles beyond her walls. Spain's great
army is unable to make headway even
in its own neighborhood.
The new captain-general, selected for
his known savagery of mind, has tried
to overawe the insurgents by threaten
ing to treat any prisoners he may take
as so many bandits. He proposes to
convert the war into barbaric butchery,
denying to his opponents the rights that
all civilized nations accord to armed in
surgents everywhere. ]And yet we are
told by Spanish statesmen in cable dis
patches from Madrid that our country
"has 110 pretext" for recognizing the
right of these men to fight for liberty
and achieve the independence of their
country if they can.
Technically, under the hard rules of
international law, it may be true that
the Cubans are not yet entitled to re
cognition as belligerents. Hut where
liberty and humanity are involved the
American people on occasion recognize
a higher law than the rules laid down
by traditions for the government of in
ternational affairs. The American peo
ple sympathize with the Cubans, and the
senate resolutions only give oxpresions
to the national feeling.
the Wilson Itill.
When the Wilson tariff bill was pend
ing in congress Walter Gaston, superin
tendent of the Hazard Itope Works, of
Wilkesbarre, spent a great deal of time
in Washington. He told the congress
men that the wire rope industry of the
country would be ruined if the Wilson
bill became a law. In this he was as
sisted by the congressman who then
represented this district, an 4 the two
worked night and day to have the rate
on wire rope made a great deal higher
than the framers of the bill thought
proper. Time lias shown that Mr. Gas
ton and Congressman Ilines were wrong,
and the Democrats were right. The
Wilson bill passed, but the wire rope in
dustry was not ruined. It was never in
better shape than now. One of the
largest mills in the country is located at
Wilkesbarre. Wire ropes and cables
are shipped to all parts of the land.
Gaston's mill is working day and night,
and ground is to be broken for an addi
tion which will nearly double the capa
city of the plant.
Sound Advice from Singcrlyi
From the Philadelphia Record.
If tli is country should become involved
in activo hostilities with England over
Venezuela and with Spain for Cuba,
what would become of the A. I*. A.?
Obviously, such an organization could
not exist in a period of war, when citi
zens, without distinction of creed, would
he required to perform military service,
and when all who should perform such
services would be entitled to equal civic
and political rewards. In view of pos
sible contingencies, would it not be well
for the A. I*. A. to disband now, when
there is peace? An organization can
have no reason for existence in a time of
peace when it would necessarily dissolve
in the midst of war.
When Baby was sick, wo gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria
31.50 a year is. all the Tiiiia'NK costs.
Possibilities of the Cathode Hay.
Ordinary people, who don't buy
bonds, are talking 1 more about the
Roentgen discovery than about any
thing 1 else. It is Ihe most genuinely
astonishing thing 1 in science since the
invention of the phonograph. llic
medical aspect of the discovery, which
may lead to the photographing of one's
internal organs as a preliminary 1o
every visit to the doctor, is possibly the
most interesting side cf the matter;
though the. promise of a French savant
to so adapt the "cathode rays"—if they
are the cathode rays—to the eyes that
we can all see through solid substances,
may be the most startling feature of
all. If the day should ever come, says
the Boston Transcript, when that
should be done, what a world of hum
bugs would be at an end! Clothes, of
course, after that would be worn sim
ply as a protection against cold. Every
body could see how much money every
body else had in his pocket. Skeletons
would be visible in carefully-locked
closets. We could begin to feel that
the very secrets of our hearts were be
ing laid bare. And even now we see
rather more than is good for us. Let
us hope, on the whole, that the cathode
rays will be left to the camera. That
is bad enough!
THERE is probably no other city in
the world where such an annual in
crease of population has to be pro
vided for, as in Ch'eago. The city is
growing at the rate of 05,000 yearly,
and 13,000 of this number are children
of school age. Fifteen new buildings
ure imperatively required to accommo
date this increase, and 14 more for the
nearly equal number of children now
housed in rented rooms. But, fortu
nately for Chicago, her hoard of educa
tion does not have to eope with this tre
mendous problem with the feeble
means that are at the disposal of too
many other cities. It is not dependent
on councils lor school funds in Chicago,
but has been empowered by the legis
lature to make a five per cent, levy on
real estate in the city, two-fifths of
which may be used for salaries and
three-fifths for building purposes—"a
sum amply sufficient to provide whole
some and comfortable accommodation
for every child of school age in the
city."
Two BROTHERS who had been sep
arated for 42 years, each thinking the
other dead for more than 30 years, were
reunited in Cochran, Ga., recent!}'.
Their name is Ingram, and one is a hotel
proprietor in Cochran. They parted in
1854, and at the outbreak of the war
lost all trace of each other. All efforts
of each to learn the other's whereabouts
at the close of the war were iiiisuocess
fill, and each mourned the other us dead.
A week or FO since a commercial travel
er stopping at Mr. Ingram's hotel in
Cochran remarked that he knew a man
named Ingrain in Pike county, Ala..
who bore a strong resemblance to the
liotclkceper. From what the traveler
related Mr. Ingram thought the Ala
bama man might be his brother, wrote
to him, and found that he was. Soon
afterwards the two brothers met in
Cochran.
THE youngest daughter of a revolu
tionary soldier, so far as known, was
discovered at Lebanon, Conn., recently,
and added to the membership of the
Willimantic chapter of the Daughters
of the Devolution. She is Mrs. Au
gustus Avery, and is only 50 years old
Jler father was 74 years old at the time
of her birth. He was doubtless one of
the youngest soldiers in the war. There
are only eight other daughters of rev
olutionary soldiers belonging to the
order.
CALIFORNIA and Mexico have a new
competitor in tlie matter of supplying
oranges to the rest of the world. The
oranges grown near Jerusalem are
light in color, of oval shape, and the
fruit is packed with more care than
that from other countries. The first
consignment, which reached this coun
Iry recently, attracted much attention.
The oranges were grown between
Jerusalem and Jaffa and are worth be
tween $4 and $4.50 a ease.
The receipts of the 30 largest posl
oflices of the United States for the
month of January, 1896, amounted to
$2,9412,340, a net increase over the first
month of 1895 of $215,000. All the
oflices show an increa-se except San
Francisco and Milwaukee, where the
decreases were $723 and SS,GOG respect
ively. New York city heads the list,
followed by Chicago, 'Philadelphia,
Boston, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Brook
lyn-
LIVE QUESTIONS!
'•A View of Patriotism,"
•by
John Turner White,
of
Springfield, Maine.
"Vox Populi,"
by
J. W. Caldwell.
Monday Next, - - March 9.
ROBBING A SPIDER.
A Simple Device for Keeling Out Hie Web
from IIN Splnnero.
This is written for boys only. Girls,
of course, wouldn't touch the nasty
things—not for anything. Unless, in
deed, there is a "new" girl, too; and I
rather hope there isn't, for I um such
an old boy now that 1 don't like innova
tions. The old girls—that is, the sort
of girls 1 used to know —seem to me
hardly to cdmit of improvement. And
they just hated spiders. But 1 was a
boy, and to me a big, fat. sprawly
spider was one of the most interesting
things iu nature.
One day I was watching a flue large
specimen completing his web. The
stay-ropes were already stretched
across the open window; and begin
ning where they crossed he was hob
bling round and round fastening the
cross-lines of fresh shiny silk.
Suddenly it occurred to me that I
might reel out that silk for my own use
DUEL BETWEEN SPIDER AND LARGE ANT.
—or amusement. Really, 1 fancied
myself on the verge of a great discov
cry. Why might not a most beautiful
fabric be made of that glistening ma
terial? Who could tell what might
come of it?
So 1 managed to get hold of the end
of the strand, and began to draw itoul.
Now if there is anything that a spider
particularly detests it is to be robbed
of his silk; no paek-peddler values his
stock half so highly. As soon, there
fore, as my victim perceived what 1 waa
at, he reached back with a claw and
snipped the thread. This was repeatec
several times.
Then I saw that I must devise some
means for preventing this sort of in
terference. So 1 cut a small round
hole in a bit of cardboard, and made a
slit from the hole to the edge—see cut
This arrangement I slipped about my
spider's wusp-like waist. As his legs
were on one side of Ihc card,and his ab
domen with the spinuers on the other
he could no longer meddle with the
thread; neither could he get out of the
sort of pillory in which I had placed him.
lie wasn't hurt in the leust, but lie was
altogether helpless and in the worst ol
humors. Then I got hold of the strand
with a pair of tweezers and proceeded
to draw out as much silk as I pleased,
winding it about mv linger.
But this process was slow, and did
not satisfy me. 1 wanted spider's silk
in bulk; my head was full of schemes
for producing a new and beautiful fab
ric from this bright and elastic ma
terial. I therefore mounted a spool
upon a spindle in sueli away that i
could make it rotate with great, speed
by means of a band running from a
wheel—about eight inches in diameter
-—which 1 turned with a crank. To
this spool I attached the end of the
thread, and set my machine in motion.
It was a great success. The spindle
sang like a humming-top as it spun
on itiS bearings, reeling his precious
silk from that disgusted spider until
the glistening thread covered the spool
:is with a sheet of varnish. An angrie"
insect, I fancy, never lived; but. what,
could he do about it? And afterward-'
I fed him well byway of compensation.
Thus far my plans had worked to
perfection; but when 1 endeavored to
HEELING BILK FROM TIIE RELUCTANT
SPIDER.
utilize tho material so unscrupulously
obtained, like many another thief I
l>ecame involved in difficulties. I found
that the adhesive strands —so perfect
ly adapted to the owner's own business
of fly-catching', were not so well suited
to manufacturing purposes as I had
fondly hoped. In fact they had glued
themselves together so firmly that 1
was never able to unwind them from
the spool; and my invention, though
highly interesting, did not prove re
munerative —a lucky thing for the
spiders.
There were other experiments that I
tried with these ungainly pets —some
of them too cruel, as I now realize, but
1 was quite unconscious of it then. For
example, I often wafted Hies against a
large fresh web, and in this way 1
presently discovered that the ordinary
spider, though he has eyes with num
berless facets, is really almost blind,
lie does r.ot trust to sight at all. lie
stands waiting at the center of his web,
his feet clutching the strands. When
a fly strikes against tho meshes tho
spider gives the whole fabric a sharp
shake, if the fly remains still the
owner of the web srems unable to lo
cnte him, but if he buzzes or straggles
Mr. Spider is down on him in an in-
Riant, and hastily incusing him lu a
winding sheet of silk, bears him hack
j and hangs hiin up to be devoured at
I leisure.
Once, I remember, I presided at an
! encounter between a spider and a buin
i ble bee. The bee, of course, buzzed
loudly. The spider rushed upon him,
i uas stung, and hastily withdrew. Again
• the bee buzzed, and again the spider,
unable to resist his instinct, rushed to
the attack —with the same result. At
hist, however, the spider managed to
get his silken shroud about bis foi
midable prey, aud bore him off in tri
umph.
He was not so fortunate, however,
with a large, black ant which I treach
erously dropped upon his web. The
ant began to struggle, and down came
the spider; whereupon the ant coolly
I bit off one of his legs. The spider with
drew in dismay. But being a ravenous
old fellow of great size, the destroyer
of unnumbered flies, lie could not for
bear a second attack. He strained his
mandibles without effect on the hard
armor of the ant, who meanwhile
nipped off another log.
In the third attack the ant began to
operate on his enemy's übdoraen; and
the spider, escaping with difficulty, re
treated utterly discomfited. Then the
ant proceeded to break the meshes, and
fell unharmed to the lloor. Thus were
the flies avenged. C. KAY.
SMART BLACKBIRDS.
Gon. Lew Wallace Tells a Good Story
of Their Sagacity.
Gen. Lew Wallace related an incident
which shows to a remarkable extent
the wonderful sagacity and memory of
blackbirds.
"At 1113' home over in Crawfordsville,"
said the general, "we have a large num
ber of tall trees on the lawn, and in'thc
course of time these trees became the
roosting place at certain times of the
year for hundreds of thousunds of
blackbirds. They came in great, black
clouds, and in spite of all I could do
they refused to leave. Of course, they
were a great nusiance, and I was in de
spair as to some means of getting clear
of them. I stood for da 3's with my gun
{•ring into them of an evening and kill
ing hundreds of them, but the rest did
not seem to be sufficiently struck by
fear or grief to want to part company
A FEW SHOTS PUT TIIE.M TO TI.IGIIT.
with me and mv hospitalit}'. I thou
devised a new scheme.
"Procuring a number of Roman can
dles one evening I l'ghted them one by
ne after dark, when the boughs of the
rees were bent low with the weight of
the crooking birds, and I poured the
•andles into the tops of the trees at a
great rate. The sudden innovation
-.taitled the birds a.s nothing had ever
bone before, and they became panic
si ricken. That night 1 was free of
them.
u Tlie next evening, however, tin
habit of returning there to roost was
stronger than fear, and they began
coming in by thousands as soon as the
e.ening approached. After dark I be
gan with another volley of candles, nnd
the birds began to realize that there
wasaAletermined bombardment in prog
ic-ss. They fled precipitately, tftid the
third evening only a few returned. A
few last shots put them to flight, and I
was troubled no more.
"But what do you think those birds
did? My dividing fence runs between
the trees on my property and the trees
on the property of my neighbor, which
are equally high and suitable for a
home for the blackbirds. When the
the birds were driven from my lot they
flew over across the dividing fence to
the trees of my neighbor nnd settled.
There was no bombardment over there,
and they stayed there ever since.
"This was u long time ago, but never
since the last Roman candle wus fired
into them lias one of those birds settled
on one of my trees. They are 'tabooed'
as effectually as though they were on
fire. The great clouds of birds each
morning and evening fly directly over
my trees, going and coming, but not a
bird settles upon a tree that is on my
side of the dividing fence.
"Another st range thing is that if any
one of an evening stands in my lawn
ind makes a slight noise, as slapping
his hands, there will be the wildest com
motion among the birds in the neigh
boring trees. They become restless
nnd almost panic-stricken. If, however,
the same person crosses the fence ami
stands directly under them and makes
twice as much noise, they pay no atten
tion whatever to him. lie can even
shoot up into them without driving
them from their perches.
"1 have wondered several times just
what impression those birds have of me
end my property that they have so de
cidedly given me the cold shoulder.
They know every tree that is on the
ot her side of the fence within n few feet
of the dividing line. Of course, I have
not bothered them over there, as they
uere not my guests."—lndianapolis
Sentinel.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Monaco, Fob. 88 —The Duke and
Ducwebs of Marlborough and W. K.
Vanderbilt have arrived at M nto
Carlo.
Vienna, Feb. 88. —Archduke Al
brecht Salvator did yesterday after
noon from consumption. He was born
Nov. 22, 1871.
Corry, Pa,, Feb. 88.—By the bursting
of a batting saw in the pa 1 factory
yesterday afternoon Fred Moffit, 27
years of age, was horribly mangled
and killed.
New York, March 2.—James Gordon
Bennett has reduced the price of the
Evening Telegram, which is the even
ing edition of the Herald, to one cent.
The reduction takes effect to-day.
Worcester, Mass., March 2.—Hon.
W. W. Ilice, ex-congressman and
brother-in-law of Senator Hoar, died
at his home here last evening from
organic trouble .of the heart, aged 70
von vs. He was the oldest ex-jnayor
of this city.
.-alem, Mass., Feb. 28.—The bail of
Clarence Murphy, who was indicted on
129 counts for alleged embezzlement of
$17,000 from the Salem Savings bank,
as been increased to $25,000, and in
default of sureties he has been re
manded to jail.
Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 28. —Edward 0.
Wyckoff of this city has announced
that he will present Cornell university
with a bui ding to be used exclusively
for the training of crews. The build
ing will be located on the campus and
coutuin a modern rowing tank.
Utica, N. Y., Fob. 28. —Fred Bristol,
one of the four boys indicted Wednes
day for murder in the first degree for
Ciusing the deaths of two men b3"
wrecking a New York Central train
near Rome, died of consumption at the
jail in this cit3* yesterda}' afternoon.
New York, March 3.—Yesterday was
the lost day for the payment of the sec
ond instalment on the 4 percent, bonds
just issued bj' the government. At
the sub-treasury it was stated this
morning that all but six of the bidders
whose payments were due yesterday
had paid up.
Middletown, Conn., Feb. 28.—Prof.
C. D. Woods, vice-director of Storrs
Agricultural college station in this
cit}', has been appointed dean of the
agricultural department of the Maine
State college and director of the Maine
experiment station at Orouo, Me. lie
will accept.
Savannah, Ga., March 2.—The steam
ship Laurada dropped down the river
yesterday afternoon with 311 colored
emigrants bound for Liberia on board
The party is seut out by the interna
tional Emigration society of Birming
ham, Ala., this being the second partv'
sent out within a 3'ear.
Wcstbrook. Me., March, 1. —The Pro
sumscott river is rapidly rising. It has
swollen to the height of twelve feet
above the average in twenty-fcur
hours. Two small bridges at da build
ing, occupied as a club room and so
store, have been carried away, beside*
the large stone building of S. D. War
ren & Co.'s paper mills.
(li'c :go, Feb. 28.—Joseph Dunlop,
editor of the Dispatch, convicted of
sending improper matter through the
m :iis and sentenced to pay a fine of
$l,O Oaud servo two years in the peui- #
tentiary, will now appeal to the presi
dent, this being the only course open
to him, since approval of the convic
tion by Judge Urossoup yesterday.
Albany, March 3.—The freshet of
the Hudson river at this point is slowly
subsiding and the real btate of affairs
is just being- realized. Many poor
families have lost all that they pos
sessed. and Mayor Thacher has issued
a jroc'amation asking for relief for
die sufferers. The poliee are patroliug
the lower portions of the city iu boats
carrying relief to the destitute families.
Middlctown, Conn., Feb. 28.—The
inquest yesterday afternoon revealed
tlui fact that Timothy Farmelee of Co
belt was most brutally murdered Wed
nesday night, his skull being fractured
by a tlatiron in several places, and four
ribs on each side broken. He lived
alone and was eccentric. Robbery
was the cause,*sloo and a goltj. watch
being missed.. There is no trace of the
murderers.
Chicago, Mareli 2.—As a result of
Ed. Corrigan's visit to Chicago the
$25,000 Chicago Derby has been official
ly declared off. No payments have been
ma le on it, and the first declarations
arc due to-daj'. There are 247 entries,
and the stake was too costly to trans
fer. The only Hawthorne stakes now
left are the Stallion stakes of 1897 and
1898.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., March 2.—Hugh
J. Williams, aged 81, was killed on
S.i turd ay'night by an explosion of gnir
in the Franklin mine; John W. Jones
was seriously injured, and Daniel
llaker was slightly bruised by flyii g
rock. The explosion occurred in a
tunnel whore men were blasting rock.
In tamping the powdor ignited, caus- #
ing the blast to go off sooner than ex
pected.
Madrid, March —A dispatch fr m
Havana to the Imparcial says that
Capt.-tien. Weyler is satisfied with the
progress ho is making towards sup
pressing the insurrection. He beliefs
that it is the best policy to strike aL
the root of the revolt before lopping
off the branches. The dispatch adds
that Spanish troops arte constantly in
pursuit of tiomez and Mateo.
l a re, Vt., March I.—Never in t? e
history of llarre has high water done
so much damage as in the last twenty
four hours. The heavy rain caused a
vast amount of snow to melt und late
Saturday night the ice in the river
went out with a rush, shaking the
heaviest blocks and tearing away
many supports along the river bank.
This rush of ice threw water in many
basements and the occupants had :io
warning. The water then receded,
but rain set in aguiti in tlje middle
of the night, and this morning the
streets are submerged.
HENLEY REGATTA.
, Tale Students' Request for Permission To
Jf.nter the Races Granted.
New Haven, Conn., March 3.—A
conference of the academic and scion
tific branches of the Yale faculty was
held last night, and it was decided tliat
the request of the university navy man
agement to enter an eight in the Hen
ley regatta in July would be granted.
The faculty have allowed every point
of the petition of the navy. The lattei
asked that permission be allowed them
to sail on June 6 before the close of the
semi-annual examinations, in order
that they might become acclimated be
fore the race on the Thames. This
request was granted, and the Yale
oarsmen will leave New York on that
date, probably by the Cunard line. The
faculty stated to the crew manage
ment, after the meeting last night,
that the most stringent scholarship
standard would be required from the
oarsmen who were allowed to cross the
water, and any candidate whose schol
arship was in doubt would not be al
lowed to represent Yale at Henley.
The navy management will issue a call
for a university mass meeting to settle
details of Yale's entry in a day or two.
FURTHER SHORTAGE.
Report of Examine™ of the Rooks of Ei-
Attorney Moreland of Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Feb. 29.—The city audi
tors engaged in examining the accounts
of ex-City Attorney Moreland against
whom a number of indictments for
malfeasance in office, embezzlement,
etc., are pending, have reported to
City Comptroller Gourley a further
shortage of 33,726.33. The comptrol
ler's report of the discovery will be
given to a special meeting of common
council next Tuesday. The new 4 'hold
out" was in the street opening account
which the ex-city attorney handled
himself and never reported to any other
city officer. No farther informations
will Ifc made against Major Moreland
until city council takes action on the
comptroller's report.
Verdict for PerHonal Injuries Sustalnet?*
Boston, Fob. 21).—The full bench of
the supr me court has overruled the
demur re in the case of Jennie A. Gor
don against the New York, New Ha
ven & Hartford railroad. In the lower
court the jury rendered a verdict of
$4,000 for the plnintiff, who was in
jured by reason of a defoct iu the floor
of the company's depot at Holbrook.
Plaintiff had bought a ticket and was
held to be a passenger. The verdict
stan Is.
St. Patrick's I)iiy Banquet.
Albany, March 3. —Senators and
members of assembly interested in the
celebration of St. Patrick's day have
arranged for a banquet at the hotel
Ken more on March 17. The toasts
are: "The United States," by United
States Senator David B. Hill; "The
State of Now York," by Lieut.-Gov.
Saxton; "The Day We Celebrate,".
Bishop Burke; "Civil and Religious
Libcrtj-," Senator Jacob A. Cantor.
Four Schooners Mining;,
Philadelphia, March 2.—Great anxi
ety exists in shipping' circles over the
fate of fonr Philadelphia schooners
which sailed from North Carolina
ports twenty-fivedaysagoandof which
on tidings have since been heard. The
missing vessels are Franic S. Hale, the
Melvin, the S. Warren Hall and the
Eunice R. Dyer. The crews of the four
vessels number sixty men in all.
Secured by the Ul.ouit Trust,
Baltimore,' March 3.—The James D.
■Mason & Co.'s steam bakery at 17 West
Pratt street, the largest bakery in the
south, has passed into the hands of the
New York Biscuit company. The head
quarters of the biscuit trust is at Chi
cago, and word comes from there that
two other Baltimore bakeries will
shortly pass into the control of the
New York Biscuit company.
A. It. Leo's Sudden Death.
Erie, Pa., March 2.—A. R. I.ee of the
W. Ij. Hcott Coal company of Erie died
unexpectedly yesterday at the ago of
59 years. Deceased began life as a
oil operator and then went into the
coal business. In 1870 he joined W. L.
Scott in his coal operations and at the
time of his death was the western
manager with headquarters in Chicago,
lie leaves a large fortune.
Now York State Mortal ty.
Albany, March 3.—The bulletin of
the board of health of the state for
the month of January shows that
there were 10,176 deaths during the
month, and an estimated death rate of
18.50, there having been an average
daily mortality of 328, against one of
305 in December, and one of 354 in Jan
lary, 1895.
The Armenian Relief. \
Constantinople, Feb. 29.—An imperial
irado has been issued permitting Miss
"Clara Barton, president of the Ameri
can Red Cross society, and lur repre
sentatives, to travel in Anatolia and
distribute relief to sufferers there.
Jnited States Minister Terrell accom
panied Miss Barton and her party to
Selamlik,
Prof. II rooks Again Honored,
Geneva, N. V., Feb. 29.—Prof. Wm,
It. Brooks has been awarded the medal
of the Astronomical society of the Pa
o fic for the discovery of his latest
comet. This is the fifth honor of the
kind bestowed ufou Prof. Brooks.
McKiuley Ditlcgates Chosen.
Topeka, Kan,, March 2.—Thirty re
publican county conventions to select
delegates to tlio state convention*were
hold Saturday. Nearly all of the con
ventions instructed their delegates in
favor of McKiuley.
Howling <iale at Highland Light.
Highland Light, Mass., March 3.
A howling northeast gale, with pour
ingrain here all last night.
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Said the Surgeon, but I)r. David Ken
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