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EES* k<v . i I he Decision of the Court of Cassation Was Unanimous. HE IS RESTORED TO HIS RANK. CTte Question Whether the Persecuted Officer is Guilty of navlng Aided Other * Powers Against France With Documents?Prisoner "Will Bb Taken to Renncs For Trial Immediately. .4 T> /r>? Tih,v nt Pnceo X AK13 ^ uy tau icy,?XUO vvum vuw;u. tlon has Riven a verdict In favor of a revision of the Dreyfus case, and ordering a tew court martial to sit at Kennes, sixty tnlle3 from Nantes, for tho trial of the prisoner. The audience received tho decision with cries of "Vive la justice!" "Vive la loi!" The decision says the prisoner is to be Retried on the following question: CAPTAIN ALFRED DSZYFU3. <The Court of Cassation has practically declared him Innocent of treason.) "Is Dreyfus guilty of having practised machinations or of having had communication with a foreign Power or its agents in 1891 with the view of facilitating acts of hostilities in the case of war with France, or having furnished the means therefor by furnishing notes or documents retraced on the bordereau?" a*.Itfs learned that the only point upon which the court was divided was whether the farce of a new trial was necessary to etitlsty the technicalities of the situation. The Judges were unanimous on the question of revision, and there lacked only Ave of a majority for a decree declaring Dreyfus absolutely innocent nnd ordering his unconditional release. There were stronp technical objections to this course, otherwise it would oertalaly have been adopted, for the analysis of the evidence made In the judgment rendered lenvea the prisoner on Devil's Island free of even a suspicion ofgulls. The Cabinet Council ba3 decided that the French second-class cruiser Sfax, now at Fort do Franco, Martinique, should proceed immediately and bring Dreyfus from his islaad prison to France. The cruiser is expected to arrive at Brest about June 26, when Dreyfus will be handed ,MME. LUCIE EUGENIE DHETFC3. (The faithful wife of the unfortunate officer was overcome with joy at the news of her husband being granted a new trial.) to the military authorities and lodged In the military prison at Kennes. His cotivlction having been annulled by the United Chamber of the Court of Cassation, his military rank and title are restored to him. He will occupy an officer's cabin on board the Sfax and will be al iowea on aeoic irom no 4 o ciock every aiternoon. Dreyfus tfIII now bo tried In accord with allegations in the original indictment in which the only incriminating document was the bordereau. The code permits the Introduction of fresh evidence, however. But this evidence must first be submitted to the Couriof Cassation for approval. The proceedings will undoubtedly be public, but of the shortest and simplest description. His acquittal, of course, will carry with it restoration to rank, with arrears of pny. Then he will bo promptly Invalided, for It will be a long time before 1 's~ bis physical and mental conditions will regain their normal state, even under the best conditions. M. ZOLA RETURNS TO PARIS. Writes For a Notification of tlie Sentenco Pronounced Upon Dim. Pabis (By Cable).?Emile Zola, who has returned to Paris, ha9 written asking the Public Prosecutor to send to his residence a notification of the sentence which the Versailles Court passed upon him In the libel action growing out the obarges which he brought against the officers who conducted the Esterbazy court martial. . M. Zola is naturally overjoyed at the outoomo of the Dreyfus revision proceedings, 4,. and says: "I knew the light was finally bound to break through the mass of falsehood, calumny and forgery, and that Dreyfus would be restored to liberty and honor and myself no longer forced to live an exile." Mine. Dreyfus Oveijoyed. Paris (By Cable).?lime. Dreyfus is over. Condition of French Crops. An official report issued at Paris, France, says the harvest of the winter crops promises exceedingly well, though their appearance is slightly inferior So those of 1898. In sixteen departments they are very good, in sixty-three they are good, in six fuirly good and in one department the crop is fair. The spring crops are in much the same condition. Will Not Call For Volunteers. The Cabinet, at a meeting in Washington a few days ago, decidcd that it would be unnecessary to call for volunteers for service in tt.c Philippines. Tho National Guine. Pitcher Hughes is a great favorite in Brooklyn. Lange is doing some wonderful base running for Chicago. Yeager, the Brooklyn pitcher, makes a clever utility man. For its sine Pittsburg is tho greatest baseball oity in the country. Brodio is playing a sensational game In centre field for Baltimore. A little more sand would increase tho Philadelphia's chances of winning the pennant. Meier, tho flrst baseman of tho Princeton team, la attracting the attention ot baseJbaU^ managen. t Joyed at th? decision of the Court of Ca?3a^ tlon. She ha'9 received messages of con> Kratulatloa from all parts of the country and abroad. Hme. Dreyfus has cabled to her husbnnd I w-w/yws -. yw it. emile zola. (His famous letter beginning with the words "I accuse" caused the French Government to re-open the Dreyfus case.) ' tbe gist of the judgment of the Court of Cassation, and adding: "We are with you in heart and thought and share your hap* pines.*. Loving kisses from all. Lucie." RELATIONS WITH SPAIN RESUMED. Duke d'Arcos Formally Presents Ills Credential* to the President. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Diplomatic relations with Spain, broken oil April 21, 1S93, wero formally resumed when President McKinley greeted the Duke d'Arcos, the newly-accredited Minister to the United States, In the Blue Parlor of the White House. lflll^ duke d'ahcos (The newly-accredited Spanish Minister to the United States.) The ceremony differed in no way from similar functions in the past. The Minister, accompanied by his secretaries, drove to the State Department, where they were met by Secretary of State Hay. The Secretary and the Minister and his secretaries then drove to the Whito House, where they were soon presented to the Presidont, who was dignified and cordial in his manner. ~ * * * * f,,H Tbe Dune ana ins seureuiriM nom ?u *u.. court dress. Across tbo Duke's coat was a scarlet sash, and on bis breast were the jewels of several orders. SPAIN'S EMPIRE VANISHING. The Transfer of Inlands to Germany Announced by the Queen Regent. Madbid (By Cable).?The Queen Regent opened the Cortes tvlth the usual ceremonial, and In tbe speech from the throao announced that the ilarianno, Caroline, and Talaos Islands were ceded to Germany by the late Spanish Cabinet. Germany, it is announced, will pav S5,CC0.0C0 for the Caroline, Palacs, and Marianne Islands. Spain retaios three coaling stations, one in each group, and Germauy undertakes to defend thesestatlons in case of war. Germany, in addition, grants to Spain the most favored nation rights in Germany and in the colonial islands. Spain's Act Not Questioned. WAsaiNOTON, L>. C. (Special).?The news of the cession by Spain of the Ladrones, Carolines and Palaos In the Paciflo Ocean to Germany did not create surprise among State Department officers. A prominent officer, who would not be quoted, said tbat there had been some I prospect that such a cession would be made, and he naa not ueuru iuu-. ?uj uujeation would be offered by the Government of the United States. It lin3 been apparent to the Government for a long time that Germany's unfriendly attitudo was due to jealousy over the attainment by the United States of possessions in the Pacific which Germany wanted, and it is now regarded at certain that Germany's pressure on Spain prevented the transfer of a cable station in the Carolines to the United States. BLIND MAN * A MURDERER. Win. C. McCormick Kill* the Mother ot the Woman He Courted. U>"io:m>wy, Penn. (Special.)?Mrs. Minerva Monaghan was murdered at her home by Councilman William C. McCor- i raick, who also seriously injured her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude McGogan, and 1 his rival, Richard Diffenderfer. The j tragedy was committed in a lit of jealousy, j The murderer is blind, and it is marvelous j that one in his condition could commit ! the crimes he did. McCormick has been I paying devoted attention to Mrs. McGogan I over since she was separated from lier | husband a few vears ago. The coroner's jury found that Mrs. Mon- ! aghan was stabbed to death by McCor- ! mlck. McCormick is one of the leading i politicians and business men of this coun' ty. For fourteen years he has been elected to the Common Council from u strongly Republican ward, though he is a Democrat. Ho was onc-i manager of the amateur baseball team which won the amateur championship of Pennsylvania for several years. ' , Fatal Wind Storm In Kansas. A heavy wind storm b&s 3wopt over Central Kansas. At Stewart George W. Rlter was killed and two of his family injured. | At Pratt tho Santo Fe round hous? was j leveled and several barns and outhouses blown down. Vigorous Campaign In the Philippines. The vigorous campaign which has been started against the Filipinos In Morong Province, on the border of Laguna de Bay, by Generals Hall and Lawton is being successfully executed. The town of Antipolo, n mnnnIn efrAnn?hnlH ttmo fhn Filipino losses being very heavy. Owners dire Up the Pari*. The American Lino steamship Paris, now oa the rocks near the Manaclea, oil the English coast, has been handocl over to the underwriters and salvagers, who aro preparing to make another attempt to float hor. Boston's PoBtmiiflter Insane. Colonel Ht;nry A. Thomas, the postmaster at Boston, has become Insane. His nervous exhaustion, it Is thought, was tho result not so much of attention to ofllclal duties as to his ready acceptance of Invitations to make adiIpaccq" li n kiisnff v*nr?n ? /) oa r\r\tx n# tlm i best after-dinner talkers la Boston. His public career bo(?an as private secretary to Governor Greeabalge. Two Killed by a Train In Ohio. Harry Jones and Andrew Haines were killed by a Pan Handle train, near Newark" Ohio. The train struck their buggy, dashin# It to atoms. Mercer, the third occupant, escaped by jumping. .?? I LOREDTODEATHBYGOLD Prospectors Perish Miserably in the Wilds of British Co'umbia. 200 LOST ON EDMONTON TRAIL. Past Winter a Terrible One For Klondlkerg?Starvation, Scurvy and Exposure Killed Many Who Started on the Perilous Trip?Scores Drowned in the Treacherous Waters? Relief Proposed. Seattle, Wash. (Special).?The storv of last winter's suffering in the wild interior of British Columbia along the Edmonton trail will soon be told. The steamer Laurada has just arrived from Wrangel and other Alaskan ports, and brought the first chapter of the story of deaths by drowning, starvation and freezing. Several men have just arrived there from points on the trail, and within the next few weeks all will be out. The deaths reported by the Laurada number nearly two hundred. Fifty men have been drowned in the Great 81ave Lake. Twenty have perished in the rapids of Mud and Laird Rivers. There have been at least ten deaths from freezing and twenty-live from scurvy. Several miners have been lost in the woods. Bodies of scores of men who died from exposure have been found. Tho details of the terrible story of death and the names of seme twenty victims were given at Wrangel by men who were almost dead after a year's suffering. Only the strongest got through to the coast, and hundreds of others are still iu danger. Fifty miners lost their lives by drowning on Great Slave Lake. Of these but three are known by name. Tho boats foundered when a great distance from shore and no one knows tbe Identity of the unfortunate miners. Many others wero drowned whilo fording various rivers. Boats were wrecked while trying to shoot the rapids of Mud, Liard and Nelson rivers, and parties of from two to five were lost. Fuller details of the death by scurvy, exposure and starvation will be nad when a big party of miners, now fighting their way out of the country, arrive. Where bodies were found identification was nearly always possible, but those who reached the coast have no information .In many cases. Many purties are reported missing, havlng.started through the mountains intending to go to a certain post but failed to arrive. Pitiful appeals for help come from miners in scurvy camps at Dearie Lake and Mud Biver. The Hudson Bay Company was preparing to send a relief party to Dearie Lake with vegetables for those sick with scurvy. The Northwest Mounted Police were also going to give assistance. Accord lng to miners, more man mis win ue necessary if many lives are to bo sated. All who are out are bitter against the Dominion Government and tbe Canadian Pacifla Railroad. All sorts of names are applied to officials who persuaded them to try the route. THE REINA MERCEDES USELESS. Constructor Hlchboru Says Tlie Vessel Is Fit Only For a Trophy. Washington, D. C. (Special).?It Is not at all certain that the Heina Mercedes, the Spuuish cruiser recovered at Santiago, will be added to the naval list as an effective vessel. If Chief Constructor Hi' h THE CRUISER RE (Former Spanish warship has been declared I only as a tropliy < born is consulted and his advice taken, she will not be considered anything more than a tropliy. She might, he admits, be sufficiently repaired to permit of cruising about from port to port to be seen, but for naval purpose he would not advise the expenditure ot much money on her. The Relnti Morcedes is an iron ship, built in 1887. She is 280 feet long, 43 feet beam, h^ a draft of 15 feet 5 inches, i3 ot 3090 tons' dlsnlaeement. and about 3000-lior>e power, which gives her 14 knots speed. Under forced draught she is said to be able to make 17.5 knots. She can carry from 500 to 600 tons of coal. Her armament, a3 set down In the Spanish list, is six 6.2-inch Hontoria breech-loading rifles, two 2.7iacn Hontoria breech-loading rifles, three 6-pounder quick flrers, two 4-pounder quick-firers, six 3-pounder quick-firers and two machine guns. She has five torpedo tubes. FOUR MURDERERS HANGED. Two TVere Executed in rennsjWania and the Others in Missouri. Lancaster, Fenn. (Special).?Ralph W. Wlreback, the murderer, on April 7. 1898, of D. B. Landls, President of the Coaestoga National Bank, was hanged in the jail yard In the presence of several hundred persons. This was the first execution in this county since 1853, when two negroes were hanged. Wr-aT fnrcrrB P?nr? fSnnplnlV?.TnnaS Preston, Jr., colored, wus banged In the jail here for the murder of his wife Id February, 1303. Bethany, Mo. (Special). ?Freeman CochraD.wbo killod GeorgeStanbrough in 1897, wus hanged here. Cochran and Stanbrough were farmer*, and quarreled over a womau. PaixcETON, Mo. (Special).?Peter Kindred, who shot and killed Andrew A. Alley and dangerously wounded his cousin, Joseph A. Alley, at Mercer, on February 5, 1893, was hanged here. Passaic (N. J.) Alderman Killed. Alderman Owen J. Purceli was killed at Passaic, N. J., a few days ago, by being thrown Trom his buggy in a run-away at the Walllngtoi* Bridge. Purceli struck his head against a telephone pole. His skull was crushed in and he died soon after reaching the hospital. A Chicago Miser Murdered. The body of Martin Meier, an aged Swiss miser, was found a few days ago in his cottage in Chicago. The mau had been bound, gagged and strangled to death. The murderers are unknown and the police ure Investigating the crime. Minor Mention. nr" - T? J ? Kfla nnanmfl/1 J. Lit) IDUUSiricll VUU1U11391VU UIU ivou>u.? its sessions in Washington. The alumni of the University of Georgia are to raise an endowment fuud of $100,000. Baron Saurma von Jeltsch, German Ambassador to Italy, will retire in consequence of ill health. An Eoglish correspondent writes from Constantinople that there are upwards of 33,000 Armenian children still uuc.ired for, among whom the distress is appalling. The United States Army has organized a system of distributing riC3 at Malolos and some of the smaller towns where Filipino stores were captured, but the latter will soon be exhausted, * FLED FROM HISHff AYMEH Thrilling Ride of a Connecticut Farmer and His Plucky WifeSAVED HIS THOUSAND DOLLARS, livery Step of the Way Eonthe Lashed HU Mare, While His Wife Looked Uelilnd?Up Hill and Down Dale Thej ltacud, Till the Light* of Derby Conn., Were Reached. Derby, Conn. (Special).?Mr. and Mrs. Gaiso L. Bootbe, of this city, bad a wild ride in getting away from bigbwaymen on the Housatanic River road, between Zoar | Bridge and tbii city, a distance of eight miles. The Boothes left Zoar Bridge at 10 p. m., having spent the day at Mr. Boothe's father's country home. While passing through a clump of trees near Assistant State Secretary Elnman's country place, The Maples, they were accosted by three men la r carriage. "Is that you, Boothe?" asked one of the men. "Yes," answered Boothe. "Who are you?" "Pull up a minute; we've got a little business with you," said the voice. "Better call at my office in the morning," said Boothe, as he whipped his borsa into a dead run. On came tUe pursuers, and it was the wildest ride that Mr. and Mrs. Boothe ever had. Mile after mile they went at top speed. Half the distauce the road was so narrow tbat it was impossible for one team to pass another without pulling into the brush. flto H*af tonr milua Him P.AAHlM WAPA well in the lead. While Boothe lushed the horse his wife kept watch behind. They nere in n two-seated carriage, Mrs. Boothe being iu the rear seat. On sped Boothe's faithful mare, white with foam. The horse of the pursuers was just as white, which enabled Mrs. Boothe to see the animal better. Twice Boothe wanted to turn iuto a farmyard and light it out, but his wife urged him on. As they passed the Lovelaud place, with half tbe distance covered, oue of tba pursuers threatened to shoot if Boothe didn't pull up his horse. "Shoot and be blamed!" was Boothe'a reply, as he urged on his mare. Both horses were running at breakneck speed up hill aud down dale, through sandy stretches and over good gravel. Oa they sped until the lights of Derby shone in the faces of the Boothes, and tben they knew the race was won. They drove into Housatanic avenue, while their pursuers, not daring to come into the light, turned about. Before leaviug Boothe quarrelled with one of his men. He says this man knew that he (Boothe) had a large amount of money with him. The suspect hus disappeared. Mr. Booths says he had more thau $1000 with him. He wa9 unarmed. Iu return for the faithful work of his mare Booths turned her out to pasture and says she can have a whole month's re9t. NO BARCAIN WITH KRUGER. British-Transvaal Conference at Bloewfonteln a Failure. London (By Cable).?It is officially stated that Sir Alfred Miluer has given to the Cape newspapers an abstract report of the proceedings of his conference with PreslINA MERCEDES. >y Naval Constructor Hichborne to be good >f the late war.) dent Eruger, and that the nogotlations were without result. Lord Solborne, Parliamentary Secretary to the Colonial Office, thinks It improbable tliaf tha (JnHKnrnf Inna will ha rflatim Ail T7a i lias not seen the official abstract of the confercnce, he says, and tbe only news received at the Colonial Office la that the conference has been abortive. The newspapers here regard the failur* of the Bloemfonteln negotiations as being serious. President Ktuger's reported desire to arbitrate the difficulties is generally regarded as impossible, except as an act of grace on subordinate points, such, for instance, as the question of damages growing out of the Ja&eson raid. AUGUSTIN DALY DEAD. Famous Theatrical Manager Succumb* to Heart Failure Id 1'arig. Pauis, France (By Cable).?Augustln Daly died here a fow days ago in the Continental Hotel of rheumatio heart failure Sirs. Daly and A'la Rehan were with him. Mr. Daly had been ill In London two wet;ks with a severe attack of the jflr Kr'P nni' complete ? rest had been or?A H5S dered, but he wante(*t0 corne t0 Pafi3 I I 1 on urgeni uusjubsb. t 'A His physicians ISKfcv ^6BK strongly ad v is ed Sv against the trip, A ,-? r~ nevertheless Mr. V? /fffcv nnd Mm. Daly nnd iff ^'S9 Kehau crossed .TO Km over. On arrival here Mr. Daly im mediately took to his bed and never AUGt'STiN DALY. left it Mr. Daly had been seriously affected by worry over a London lawsuit through which he was tryiug to recover possesion of his EDtflUh theatre, which now is In the hands of Mr. Edwardes. Two Cowboys Slain. News was received at El Pa30, T?xa3, from Odessa, of the killing of two cowboys there by a deputy sheriff. Buck Reed and Eugene Kelly rode into town from a ranch. They mounted their horses and rode through the streets at breakneck speed, terrorizing the inhabitant.* and driving every pedestrian to cover. Deputy Sheriff Joe Brown called on the cowboys to surrender, but instead of complying they turned their weapons on him. Thedeputy sheriff was quick to pull his own six-shooter. When the smoke cleared away both cowboys'saddles were empty aud the two men were found to be wounded mortally. Both died a few hours later. Slept oil tbe Root unci Kollcd Off. Edward Bender, of Lancaster, Tenn., a mechanic who was working at B'rd-inHand, became too warm in his bedroom a few days ago and told his companion that he was going out ou the roof to get fresh -?- ? n iinfse was hoard. itir. ouuu uucMi...? . - Eeuder bad rolled o.T the roof and received injuries from which ho died. More Jackie* Are Wanted. The Navy Department at Washington has directed the enllstmont of 270 naval apprentices. All these apprentice boys will be sent to the training station in Newport, R. I., to be prepared for servlca as <tblu saamen. . . ? SAMQANS ARE DISARVilNfl Warring factions Are at Feace and Mataafa Surrenders His Guns. Lone Sirajrtrle Between the Illvul Clilef* tains Seems Now to 1$? Definitely Settle<l-?ilallotori T.inu the Victor. Am, Samoan Islands, via Auckland (By Cable).?The trouble* ia Samoa between the natives are at an end. Botb factions, the Malletoans and the Mataafaus, are disarming. Mataafa has already surrendered 1800 guns. The question which, has kept Samoa In constant turmoil of late was whether the nntfvfl thrnna should be alven to Mataafa or Malletoa Tanu Mapill, both powerful Dative chiefs. The former is favored by the German residents in Samoa, while the English and Americans insisted that the latter should be king. As matters are now Malietoa Tanu is unmolested in his royal rights. The intrigues of the representatives of the various peoples interested In the island led to the necessity for some sort of an understanding as far bncti as 1831, when Germany and Great Britain agreed to respect | the indepeudence of the islands, and in 1890 an agreement oo'weoa the United States, Great Britain end Germany was ratified in Berlin. The cause of tbe >te trouble will be interpreted di7*.*ently according to the na:ionallty of ilia interpreter, but most unprejudiced correspondent* trace the origin of the troubles to the tne Idling of the Germans in native affairs nnd in having deposed the late King Malietoa in 1887. Two severe battles were fought In Samoa :hls year, one at Valtele on n German plantation, the other at Vallma, the old home of Bobert Louis Stevenson. . FRANK THOMSON DEAD. Pr**ldent of the Pennsj'lvanla Railway a Victim of Indigestion. Philadelphia (Special).?Frank Thomson, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, died a few days ago at his home, at Merlon, a few miles out of the city. His death was entirely unexpected. THE LATE EBA.VK THOMSON*. Mr. Thomson was flfty-elght years of age, and since ue reached the age of seventeen years had been In the service of the railroad company of which he had been the bead during the last two years of his life. lie succeeded to the Presidency in 1897 upon the death of George B. Roberts. He was born in Cbambersburg, Penn., on July 5, 1841. At seventeon years of age he intered the Altoona shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad for instruction. After a four years' course of training in this 5chooi he was graduated as a mechanical sngineer. He could fhen build a locorao'.ive through every stage of its progress ,'rom the crude iron to the ilnished engine on the raili, while ho was also fltted to opirate as engine driver. Miss Annie Thomson, the only daughter, sa prominent figure in Philadelphia soci. sty, and Frank G. and Clarke Thomson are UI3 3UU3. ENCLAND REWARDS KITCHENER. Home of Common* Votes a 'Grant of Sl.50,000 to the Sirdar. Loxdon (By Cable).?The House or Commons ha3 voted a grant of $153,000 for General Kitchener, of Khartoum, for bis ?ervices In the recent Nile campaign. Mr. Balfour, in introducing the vote of $150,000 for Lord Kitchener in the House of Commons, said the fact that tie power of Mabdlsm was crushed whs due to the genius of the man they desired to honor and reward. OEYTOAt, WBD KrTCHBNZR. Mr. John Morley, the former Libera! Chief Secretary for Ireland, opposed the vote on the ground of the treatment of thf Mahdl's head. Three Toan; Women Drowned. Three young women, students of ale Kandrae College, were drowned in Silvei Croak, two mlie3 north of Lebanon, 111 They were Itutli Jeoson, nineteen years PliMni'tt S'li.xj ?rt\dUte60 years old, of St. Jacob; and Hallene Jack seventeen years old, of Beaucoup, III. Goner,?J Cliarlox Kine Uincliar^ail. By direction of the President, at Wash ington, Brigadier-General Charier King who has jant arrive i at San Franci.?c*> frorr service) in tliw Phtlliiptuus, has be??a honor ably discharged fr.iai the volunteer army to take elT* :t August 2. Steamer Murne.l ami Oae M?:i IJrowned The passenger steamer It. G. Stewart from Hancock to Dula:h, Miun., rar ashore ou Michigan Islani, oae of tlw Apostles tfroup, and later wis burned tc the water's edge. Oue of the crew. Geng; MoKeuua, of Detroit, Mich., was drowneJ in escaping frosn the burning boat. Th? others, with the three passenger.*, wer?" saved. A IJuroti ami Hit \Vlt?? Barou EJgar de B ir i an I his wife, Fail uie, wer-i foiluJ guilty ia t!ie Unit?1 .Stilts District Court at of lnvia-,' us.! I tho United State* mailt to ?1 :fr.i i I oiu.i ?m of Groat Urltalu. Ttiay iVJro coavlj.ul oa tweuty-Uvo counts. mmm The Farewell Address of the General to the Nation. nniiRT5 nr amccipa adciiwiuqt ^UUUIO VI niTIUlllV^M fill L. UIWUU I ?aba'i Great Patriot TelU the Idanderi to Work Together to Secure Self-government? Cuban* Mu?t" Devote Tliem elves to Pacific Labors?Gomez to bo 1 to San Domingo to Embrace Hi* Family Havaxa, Cuba (By Cable).?General 5Iaxlrao Gomez, the former Commander-inChief of the Cuban Army, has Issued his farewell manifesto. In the course of the manifesto he says: "The commission with which I have been intrusted is nearly concluded. I have attempted to find a solution of questions concerning the army which I commanded daring the bloodiest war known in Amer" ica. I am now leaviat? Cuba, regretfully, to attend to necessary private business. ' OENEBAL MAXIMO GOMEZ. "A parting word to the people for whom I have sacrificed thirty years of my life, and to my friends in the army just disbanded, which dlsbandment should have been instantly after the removal of the bloody weight of Spain's merciless regime, for which we armed ourselves. Now we no longer want soldiers but men for the maintenance of pence and order, which are the basis of Cuba's future welfare. "We wanted and depended upon foreign intervention to terminate the war. This occurred at the most terrible moment of our contest, and resulted in Spain's defeat. But none of us thought that this extraordinary ev?nt would bo followed by a military occupation of the country by our allies, who treat us as a people incapable of acting for ourselves, and who have reduced us to obedience, to submission, and to a tutelage imposed by force of circumatnn/iAa Thla flonnnt ha nnr iilMmftfA fntA after the years of struggle, and we should aid by every pacific method in finishing the work of organizing, which the Americans accepted in the protocol, and which is as disagreeable for them as for ourselves. This aid will prove aseless without concord among all the islanders. Therelore it is necessary to forget past disagreements, to completely unite all elements, and to organize a political party, which is nee led In any country. "It Is always said that countrios have the government which they merit, ^ind Cuba will have that to which heroism entitle her. To-day she can only have one party, with one object, that of obtaining the aspiration of years. "We must devote ourselv63 to paciflo labors, gain tte respect of the world, aud show that though our war was honorable, our peace must be more so. "Wo must make useless by our behavior the presence of a strange power in the island, and must assist the Americans to complete the honorable mission which they have been compelled to assume by force of circumstances. This work was not sought by those rich northerners, owners of a continent, I think doubts and suspicions are unjust. We must form immediately a committee or club, to be a nucleus of a Government. This will serve Cuban interests purely, and act as an aid to the intervenors. "I, as one of the first Cubans, although one of our last old soldiers and not far from the grave, without passions or ambitions, call on you with tne sincerity of a father, and urge a cessation of the superfluous discussions and the creation of parties of all kinds, which disturb the country and tend to otiuse anarchy. In this country there should not be one man whom we consider a stranger. To-day we no longer have Autonomists or Conservatives, but only Cubans. "My mission having ended, I will absent myself temporarily to embrace my family, but I will return shortly to Cuba, which I love as much as my own land. "My last words for my soldiers are that, as always where my tent is the Cubans have a friend." Tbls fire well manifesto Is the principal topic of conversation amoug Americans and Cubans of all shades of politics. The Americans, for the most part, consider it an affecting address, expressing the real views of the old patriot, ana also his siuoere intention to retire from public life. His Cuban admirers say the address will rank among the most famous in bistorv. It Is not thought probable that General Gomez will leave Havana before July 1. After visiting San Domingo, be expects to return to Cuba in order to remove the body of his son, Francisco Gomez, who was killed with General Antonio Maceo. He acsires to re-in;er lae uouy uui uamo laud. WHOLE TOWN IN CONTEMPT. Erorv Citizen In 1'rlnceton, Ky., Flued Fur Petitioning a Grand Jury. Pbincetos, Ky. (Special).?Every man In town wag fined for contempt of court. A petition bad been signed by all of them asking the Grand Jury not to indict the insurance companies, and no indictments were found. The Commonwealth's attorney moved to proceed against the signers for contempt of court. After considerable argument the judsre flued every man one cent, and the decision was applauded by the defendants. Driven From Reservation, Three squads of Osage Indian police an d light horsomen evicted several hundred whito intruders from the Osage Indian reservation In the Indian Territory. All the fences uud improvements of the intruders were destroyed and hundreds of cattle wore turned into the grain lleids. The destruction of crops Is great. Alaskan Kailraatl Nearly Rta ly. | The-tracks of t!ie White Pa3J Railway ia i Alaska will be completed to Lake B*anett by July 1. Tiae schedule time from Pa?et Sound ports to Dawson will t!iea bd about eiylit days. rroinlneut I'eople. The latest Mark Twain story Is of the itply made by the humorist to a friend who declared his fondness for calf's-head soup. "Like likes like," said Twuin. The first visit of Thomas Hardy, the novelist, to America, was made as a college lecturer upou architecture. Mr. Hardy is a great admirer of the United States. M. Camille Krautz, who has succeeded Do Freyclnet as the French Minister of War, was sent to this country in 1393 as the Commissioner-General of the French section at the Columbian Exposition. Governor Poynton, of Nebraska, whe is a fine horseman, until reoentlyhad a great dislike for the bicycle. A few weeks ago, however, he was Induced to learn to ride a i wueei, unu ue 19 bow hu wuoui wuvwct. : j i . ' . ? :rvf^9ppsq| THE NEWS EPITOMIZED; -J Washington It?raa. f Commissioner of Pensions Evahs was no? tlfled of the arrest at Nashville, Tenn., ol William Davis, who Is charged with vlolat ; ing the Pension laws. Davis Has oeen representing himself as a pension attorney ; and Las filed more than forty claims, a ma? ! Jority of which are said to be bogus. ' The receipts at the port of Havana for May were $927,223.06, and for the tast four i months, $4,133,931.42. The May receipts exceeed those of any other month durlug the American occupation by 533,297.75. The showing is the more remarkable as the receipts usually fall off at this season. The regulations allowing the volunteers to purchase the arms and equipments which they carried during the Spanish war will be continued in the case ot the volunteers returning from Manila. They may pur- , -a chase the Springfield rifles at 1)10 each, and the revolvers at the same price, while the otner portions of the outfit are sold at cost. The German Government has nominated and the President has accepted Baron August Yon Bruck as Consul for Germany at Havana. The Baron is now on leave of absence, and the duties of the Consulate are still intrusted to Herr Falke, the retiring Coniul. General Greely has received notification* that Sergeant Hugo Behnne, of the Signal Corps, United 8tates Army, died at Ma* tanzas, Cuba, as a result of an accident. He originally entered the service with the Twelfth New York Volunteer Infantry. The State Department has received telegraphic information from the Marquis of Tweedale, Chairman of the cable company operating in the Philippines, that the arrangement made hy General Otis with the company for establishing direct cable communication between Iloilo and Cebu hits been successfully completed and the line is now open for business. j By direction of the President, the American Colonial Bank of Porto Bico is deaig- U nated as the deposltoryof the War Depart* ment for the Island of Porto Bico. ; The coinage of the mints for the month of May was 11, 223,817 nieces, valued at $7,804,566, $4,803,400 of which were double j j and and half eagles. The output of standard silver dollars was 2,219,000 pieces and of minor ceins 4,307,000 pieces. . During the month of May the receipts oi tbe Government from tbe several sources were Customs, $18,367,906. Internal rev:enue, $23,720,729, miscellaneous $2,697,377, 'a total of $44,786,013. Tbe disbursements for May amounted to $40,513,004. . ,:A In conformity with the determination heretofore reached by the War Department to relieve tbe troops who have been on duty in Alaska throughout the last winter, the Department has ordered Companies ? and L, Seventh Iofantry, to report to General Shafter at San Franolseo lor transportation to Alaska. Uomaitic. Sir James Winter, the Premier, an? nounced in the Newfoundland Legislature that the Ministry did not intend to enact any other French Shore legislation. H? also declared his belief that the French Government preferred there should be no action on tbe part of the colony, because France Would thus be compelled to negotiate for a settlement of the difficulty, Inasmuchas, after the close of this year, the French will have no legal warrant for in<i terference with the colonists. At a meeting at Valencia, Spain, the ArcUblshop of Valencia presiding, it was decided to telegraph an appeal. to tbe Peace Conference, asking the delegates to consider steps for the release of the.Spanish prisoners in the hands of tbe Filipinos when their other labors are concluded. Joseph Chamb9rlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in tbe House of Commons, '1 London, a few davs ago, said that he took > . . the most sanguine view of the situation with regard to th?Alaskan boundary question. An action has been begun by a tradesman against the Bank of Eogland in London as the result of the bank's refusal to cash a j one-hundred-pouud note which formed \j..J part of the money stolen in January from Parr's Bank. L. G. Hastings, Assistant Treasurer of the Bock Island Railway, with headquarters in Topeka, Kan., committed suicide by shooting himself twice through the head. Con+ !miA/4 411-liafilth la anlil fn hfltrA rtQIIQad thft suicide. I Mr3. Herbert Clark committed suicide at San Francisco. Cal., by swallowing carbolic acid. The woman went there three years ago with her husband, the abscond* ;ing cashier of the Bank of Lynn. Mass.,: i who was charged with stealing 467,000, or 'the bank's funds, and who is now serving a seven-year sentence for his crime. i Mrs. Benjamin McGrew, wife of former Postmaster McGrew, of Passaic, N. J., suf-. fered from a queer malady. Her jaws seti " ! as if by lockjaw, but the usual symptoms' ' of lockjaw were missing. Dr. G. W. Watson, who attended her, says the partial paralysis resulted from eating strawberries. Cases ol this kind are very rare. Sherman M, Reese, Assistant Superintendent of the Dncktowa Sulphur and Copper Works, was shot from ambush and killed by unknown parties* near Isabella, Polk County, Tenn. The affair has created' a great sensation. Walter B. Lane, of Fairmouot Township, . PeDn., accidentally shot and killed hid' eight-year-old daughter Gertrude. Th? father was practicing at a target with a revolver in the yard, and his daughter was standing near. While in the act of reloading the weapon it was discharged, tbe ball piercing the child's body. Kate Lee, sixteen years old. and Maud; Anderson, seventeen, were drowned by the> capsizing of a boat in Prairie Lake, ten; miles north of Tomahawk, Wis, Peter Meyers was found guilty at Somerset, Penn., of murder in the first degree for, killing John Lenhart, who had been deputized by his brother, Nelson Lenhart,: constable of Summit Township, to assist in arresting tht defendant for murdering Michael Karney,at Garrett, last September. Moyer was also found guilty ot murder in . the first degree for shooting Karney. The court imposed tbe death penalty twice on: the prisoner. This is suid to bo without a precedent in the history ot criminal jurisprudence in Pennsylvania. Ernest Devree, of Grand Rapids, Mich., who claimed to be the champion tatto artist of the world, was killed instantly at Blue Island, near Chicago, by a Chicago and Grand Trunk traiu. He fell between the cars and was crushed under the wheels. Forilfn. Coke has sailed from'San Francisco for Manila. Captain Froitch, the sole occupant of the little vessel, expects to reach tbe Philippines in sixty days. Mrs. Belle Marshal Roloson, wife ot R. ' TTT fA*it?ian4?r.Ai>A a r\yf\ m I n - tY . I\UIU3UU, IUI inT3U?j-UfV j wwi j u K*Vuu?M ent and wealthy member of the Board of Trade, of Chicago, committed suicide by, shooting herself in the tight temple. Death' resulted almost instantly. Mrs. Roloaon, had been for some time a sufferer from nervous prostration. A mob of masked men took the Rev. George Hlggins, leader of the "Holy Ghost and Us" sect In Levant, Me., and' gave him a coat of tar and feathers. He was warned to leave tho town, but it is not expected that he will do so. The law-abiding element in Levant is greatly stirred up over the case. A politlclal upheaval has taken place in Chile. Tho Liberals have united and will bring about the fall of the Conservative Government. t The British steamer Eddie, Captain Kerwln, has passed Gibraltar from Malta on her way to Now York. She signalled that the Italian steamer Mir.erva has foundered. Her master and seoo.id engineer were saved. Miss Both, daughter of Dr. S. Bjth, Swiss Minister at tiie Court of Berlin and chief of the Swiss delegation to tiitr Poaca Conference, at the Hague, was killed in a railway ?r>i?M0nt ?t Fluslilntr. on tha smith slilo of the Island of Walcheren, at the mouth of tho Western Scheldt, Holland. The Coroner's jury In the Inquest held upon the body of MissDarche, the American woaian who committed suicide by *hootinj? uerself In the Hotel Metropole ia London, found a verdict that the woman's net of self-destruction was due to mental depression. The London Daily Chronicle nnnouncesi i hat Mrs. Florence Maybrlck Is likely to b? liberated shortly, as the result of the pressure brought to bear by Joseph H. Choate, !\Jnitod States Ambassador, in favor of re-, uponlaa the oase. ' y-J A