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DEWEY IS HOME Tha fllnmnia Arriuflri in Now 1UG Vijiupiu nmiuu iu i\\j u York City Ahead of Time and Surprised Everybody. ABMiEAL ffl FINE HEALTH '' - M?/*n \A/alrrtmft ne ntxeiveu a Diagnintciu ii&ivuinb and Said He Was Glad to Reach Home. Admiral Dewejr Wat Overcome by the Qree tine He Received?Sainted by the Forta as the Olympla Entered the Harbor?A fleeting: Meeting of the Admiral and His - Son?Glad That the Chinamen on the Crnlser Were Allowed * to Land?Dewey's First Thoughts Were For His Men?Officially Welcomed by the Keceptlon Committee. New Yobk Citt (Special).?The cruiser Olympla with Admiral Dewey aud his gallant officers and men arrived in port early Tuesday morning, two days ahead of the time she was expeoted. Admiral Dewey has the faculty of surprising people wonderfully dereloped. He surprised the Spaniards in Manila, and now h? surprised the millions of Americans who were watching and watting for him by sailing Into New York harbor even as he did into that of Manila, silently and before only the very lew bad become sufficiently awake to make even tbe first tarn In tbeir beds. The unexpected arrival of the Admiral made no difference In the cordiality of his welcome, official or otherwise. The SubCommittee of the Reception Committee, which, It was planned, would receive the Admiral on Thursday In the name of the Mayor of New York City, carried out these plans Tuesday morning almost to the letter. The only Important difference was that the reception took place two days earlier. As a result Admiral Dewey had been here only a few hours before he was officially welcomed and made to feel at home. Notwithstanding their surprise the Reception Committee shook themselves together and informed the Admiral of the plans that had been made for his welcome, and to learn if he approved them. Tbe plans met with Dewey's approbation, and accordingly the programme was carried out as arranged. The committee salle4.down the bay to tbe Olympla on the police boat Patrol. Those present were Chauncey M. Depew, William Mc* J o.n.?ta,?.,ftho Kmv AUUU, CA*A39l9iaUh v? ?uv ** M .J , St. Clair McKelway, Warren W. Foster aud BlcharJ Croker. The other two members of the committee, Levi P. Morton and William 0. Whitney, were unable to be on hand on such short notice, and in the absence of the latter St. Clair McKelway acted as chairman. Alfred M. Downes, private secretary to Mayor Van Wyck, was the first to mount the gangway. Then came St. Clair McKelway. They were received by Lieutenant Brumby. Then St. Clair McKelway, as the spokesman, said: "I have to say that we come as a SubCommittee .of the Reception Committee with the represeatative of the Mayor to personally appraise you of the fajt that, a3 you are now anchored In our waters, you are not only legally In our jurisdiction but a guest of the city. "It Is our wish to present to you an outline of the arrangements made for the cele oration on rriaay auu oaiucuajr,auwjcv.? m all feasible respects to your owu amendment and suggestions." Admiral Dewey explained that he thought the weather too threatening to watt out at sea, especially as. the Olympla has one of her propellers damaged. After the Interviews the members of the Reception Committee proceeded from the flagship to the police boat and back to the city. Admiral Dewey's first thought when he wa3 discussing the arrangements for his reception was for his men. "How about the crew of this ship?" ho asked, when told what had been done for himself in connection with the land parade. "How do they get ashore? I've got 35J men here. They all want to go, and how will they get ashore from where we are anchored?" There was a heavy mist and drizzle off Sandy Hook when the marine observer, at 5.45 o'clock described the white cruiser bearing up from the southeast. Her progress Into the harbor evon at that early hour was not without suitable greeting. The steam pilot station boat was the first to make Itself beard, and her steam siren fairly rent the murky atmosphere with Its SCretJ'JUILJ pUIUVUIOUl'/, J.UCU n wun vu the signal halyards of the pilot boat 11 string ot little code flag?, and the signal officer on the flagship read the word "Wel, come." The Olympla signaled back "Thanks." Salutes were also exchanged with tlie Sandy Hook and Scotland Light vessels. It was at 7.15 that the Olympla, threading her way through the channel, had Fort Hancock, on Sandy Hook, abeam. Then outspake the big guns cf the fort with an Admiral's salute. This is seventeen guns. It was the first salute to an incoming vessel ever fired from the fort, and it was the first time in over thirty years that the flag of an Admiral had been saluted in this fort. The Olympla returned the salute, t was tho first time that her cuns, which spoke so effectively at Manila, had awakened the echoes on this coa3t. The lower harbor w .s now well awa'ce, and as the Olympia swung round near the Southwest Spit to find her anchorage, to the southward a bevy of tugs was drawing near through curiosity and blowing their whistles with ali the fervor that such little fellows could muster. The Southwest Spit sweeps into the main ship channel at the point ot the Hook, and here it was that the Olympla anchored, dropping-her big gesc Dower in iue suuuy uuuuu auvui uuchalt mile to the north and west of wliere the cup challenger Shamrock and her majestic looking consort, the Erin, were at anchor. Bear-Admiral Philip, the commandant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was informed of the Olympla's arrival while at breakfast. Captain Slgsbee Bereaved. Eleanor Slgsbee, aged thirteen, the youugest ohild of Captain C. D. Slgsbee, of the destroyed battleship Maine, died suddenly of heart disease at the summer houso of her aunt, Mrs. Caroline Rlttenhouse, at Rehobotb, Del. 8he went to Rehoboth fcr her health. The Nashville Beaches Santo Domingo The gunboat Nashville arrived a few dayago at Santo Domingo from Gibara, Cuba She relieves the cruiser New Orleans 'which has been engaged In looking aftei ' ?hi> Tlmjnal 'American luiorcsia uuuu6 tuv VUMUU^ revolution. The Labor World. The American Federation of Labor coa|3lst3 ot 11,500 unions. In Syria a skilled laborer is paid from fifty cents to a $1 u day. The labor temple agitation at Toledo, Ohio, has been temporarily laid on the Bhelf. Eight hundred coal miners at Hlnton, W. Va., have joined those on strike. Nearly 3000 men are now out. After a long strike the union carpenters of Edinburgh, Scotland, have secured a wage scale of $9.73 a week. ' Wood carvers are in demand in New York jCity, and the trade is booming. Members 'of th? craft are comlnz from London to 'pecore work. 82?* *' ; . ADMIRAL Gfc* He called together the officers of the yard and read them the telegram announcing that Dewey was here. Bear-Admiral Philip then gave order9 that the silver service and the bronze tablet presented by the city of Olympla to the cruiser, and the gun-metal medals for the Olympla's crew be put on board the navy yard tug 'JLraSic. Lieutenant Dewey of the receiving ship Vermont, a nephew of the Admiral, was ordered by the commandant to deliver these gifts to the flagship. There, was no formal presentation of the gifts. They were simply put on board and given over to the care of the Admiral. Sir Thomas Cipton was one of the first to get aboard the Olympla and greet th3 Admiral. Later the Admiral called upon Sir Thomas aboard the Erin. Bear-Admiral Philip and bis ahls paid an official vlslst to Dewey, while Rear-Admiral Sampson, with Captain Chadwlck and Lleutenant-Coramander Winslow, had paid their respect9 only a few moments before. Dr. Sanborn, of the Dort physician's staff, went aboard and looked at the Olympla's papers. He found eleven of the crew sick with typhoid fever of a mild type. With the exceptiou of t wo blade3 of the starboard propeller, tbat have been twisted out of shape, the Olympla Is perfectly -* a 9 f Ki\ Kn n If j f\9 SOQQQt DUO rttU 1UIU uuo is& iuo uaucvo v? the Suez Canal, and since tnen the starboard propeller has not been used. Notwithstanding this, she came from Gibraltar at a ten-knot speed. The Almlral was greatly pleased when told that the Treasury Department would let the Olympla's Chinaman land, and he called the steward la to him. "Ah Leen," he said in pigtfon English, "United States let Chinaman go land parade." Ah Leen's face lit up with pleasure. "Me likey velly much, veliy much," he cried, and then he ran off to tell his fellow-countrymen of their good luck. When he had gone the Admiral, beaming with satisfaction, said: "That's the best new3 I have heard in a long time. These faithful fellows will get their medals, but I had despaired their beins allowed to land." Like most self-contained men, Admiral Dewey's feelings are intense when stirred. This was plainly shown when he graspe l the band of his only child, George G. Dewey, who had hurried down the bay to meet hl3 father as soon as he heard the Olympla was sighted. The young mau was welcomed up the gangway by the officer In charge. Naturally he was very much excited and was very nervous. Ho had not seen his father la two years and he was all a-tremble as he stepped on board. Admiral Dewey had ju3t bid good bye to Admiral Sampsoa when his son approached him. "How are you, father?" said the boy. The Admiral turned like a shot, with a remark, "Well, bless my heart, so It is," and la aa instant he' had him by the arm and down in his cabin. There they were left alone, and if the President himself had come, there was not an officer on the Olympia who would have Interrupted them for a while. The officers all had Ptories to tell about the battle of Manila itself, ana so had the members of the crew, and they told them until tbey were tired of telllnar. The bugler displayed the bugle, the call of which opened the battle, and It looked as if it had been displayed ever since. It was battered up, and every bit of plaiting was worn off It. In addition to the bugle there were any number of relics of the battle. Every man had something. There were Spanish shells, exploded and unexploded, pieces of cannon, pieces of ships, a hundred and one things taken from the arsenal and from Spanish sailors and Spanish soldiers. As the men told the story of the battle over and over again, they pointed up at the blue flag with four white star3 that flew from the Oiympla's main truck, and they were 1 as proud of the promotion of "tne old man" to the highest rant in tne navy as they were of their own achievement on May 1, 1893. THE COUNTRY'S JOT. Celebrations In Many Flaceii When the News Was Received. Monttelikb, Vt. (Special).?The news of the arrival-in New York of Admiral Dewey was greeted with firing cannon, crackers and cheering. Nohthfield, Vt. (Special).?The receipt of the news of Admiral Dewey's arrival was the signal for a demonstration, In which all the bells and whistles In town joined, while the cannon on Norwich University grounds gave the Admiral's salute. Sax Francisco, Cal. (Special).?The news of the arrival of the flagship Olympla in New York was immediately followed by the tiring of an Admiral's salute from the harbor forts and war vessels In the bay, and by blowing of sirens and ringing of Are bells. Philadelphia (Special).?Tde big bell [ In tue tower of historic Independence Hall rang out a salute In honor of Admiral Dewey's arrival home. When the news of the Admiral's arrival In New York was rehorn Mnvnr Ashbrldce ordered the j V,O..W ? ? School Tax Unconstitutional. Attorney General Douglas, of Minnesota, has made public an opinion that the one and one-half mill tax law passed by the last Legislature for the relief of the 8t. Paul schools is unconstitutional. The schools of the city, which Have nearly thirty thousand puplLi, will therefore have to close about April 1, when the regular school appropriation runs out. All Qolet In Samoa, J Advices from Samoa say that no farther outbreaks have occurred, but, it is added, the action of the Germans is likely to cause trouble. Minor Mention. ; A Christian Science school for boys ha3 1 A??0Kii0i,aH ut- Sfnmfnpii. Conn. UOUU ootoyjiouwu ? ? ^.v-?.. , ~ Yellowstone Park had a larger number of visitors this year than ever before. During the present year the tussock moth killed 1024 trees on the streets and parks of Buffalo, N. Y. ; Wisconsin has followed the example of New York in Issuing a list of books for township libraries. The gain in the number of school children in Marquette, Mich., this year, was only one over last year. The British Association for the Advance' ment of Science has been granted $5000 ' toward the expanses of An Antarctic expedition )RGE DEWEY, riDgtng of the bell, and seventeen strokes the Admiral's salute, was tolled. .Columbia, S. C. (Special).?An artlller] salute of seventeen guns was fired in fron of the State Capitol in celebration of tilt arrival of Admiral Dewey. Raleigh, f?. C. (Special).?A salute o seventeen guns was llred In the Caplto Square In honor of Admiral Dewey's ar rival. Richmond, Va. (Special;.?An artillery salute of seventeen guns was fired in tlx* Capitol grounds here In honor of the ar rival at New York of Admiral Dewey. Mobbistown, N. J. (Special).?In compll ance with Mayor Quayle's request, churcl and lire alarm bells were rung, stean whistles bltfwn, and a salute of seventeer guns fired in honor ot Admiral Dewey'i arrival. LONG'S GREETING TO DEWUT. No Surprise In Navy Department at tlia Admiral'* Unexpected Arrival. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Not th< slightest surprise wa9 expressed at t!i? Navy Department over the arrival of th< Olympla before her scheduled time. On< of the officers on duty In the departmen remarked dryly that Dewey had a habit oi surprising people. The Navv Department sent this forma message of welcome to Admiral Dewey: "Navy Department, Washington. "To Admiral George Dewey, Sandy Hook: "Tbe department Is happy to learn o your safe arrival, and extends to yoa ant your officers and crew the most cordla welcome. John D. Long." FATAL WRECK NEAR AUBURN. New York Central Passenger and Freigli Train* Collide. Aububn, N. Y. (Special).?A head-ent collision betweeen a Now York Centra passenger train and a freight train oc curred just west of Old Flat Bottom Bridge about half a mile west of the city, and a: a result three people are dead, two fatally injured and four seriously Injured. Thi dead are: Emmet Lanctot, of Rochester engineer on the freight train: J. G. Curry of Rochester, fireman on the freight train R. J. Frew, of Geneva, baggageman on thi passenger train, and J/imes E. King, c Skaneateles. At the place where the accident hap pened there Is a sharp curve, the sharpes that is met for several miles. The Centra authorities state that the trains run aboul twenty-flve miles an hour at this point The freight train, several hours late, wn.1 making fast time, and when the two cami In sight the speed was so great that astoj could not be made. Killed In a Head-End Collision. Oskaloosa, Iowa (Special).?A head-em collision occured on the Northwesteri Hallway, oetween a jmsaougci nmu iuuiu bound,"with forty passengers and a coa train drawn by two locomotives. The thre engines and fourteen cars were demolished the wreckage being plied forty feet high Two engineers, the conductor of the pas senger train, and a ilreman of the frelgh were killed. Firemen Baxter and Culj were seriously Injured. MURDERED AT HIS OWN GATE. Ten Men Went Up to Joseph Rntkosk; and One Killed Him With a Hotelier. Shesaxdoah, Penn. (Special).?Josepl Rutkosky, of William Peun, a suburb o this city, was standing at his front gat conversing with a neighbor, and his wlf and seven-year-old son were looking on when ten men rushed up to them. Th leader pulled out a hatchet which he hai concealed under his coat and deliberate! struck Rutkoeky on top of the head, crush ing his skull. Immediately the assassin took to their heels and escaped. Rutkosk, died in a short time. The oitizens went wild with excitemen on hearing of the murder. A party wa organized and started in pursuit of th murderers who had made their way to th mountains. There seven suspected me: ?onil nnt- tn inll In this clt\ woto tny^uiQu ?uu ^ They are John and Anthony Senkawicks Mathew and Raleigh Bubnis, Charle Kutchi9, Michael Brozesky and Andrei Kurnl9. Raleigh BubnU, it is alleged, i the one who struck the blow. The crow threatened to lynch them before they wer locked up in jail. No reason is assigne for the murder other than Mr. Rutkosk was mistaken for another man. Exploding Boiler Kill* Three. The boiler at Henderson & Mangus's gl: at Pottsborough, Texas, blew up a fei days ago, demolishing the building am killing Engineer Grant CorJor, Pressmai Nunn 8teel?, and a bdy named Jones. . Miss Jones, sister of the boy, had both let blown off and her hip broken. | -C9MB Filipino* Beaten in Cebn. General Otis has cabledto the War D< partment, at Washington, the details of a attack made upon insurgents on the Islan of Cebu. The attack* was made under th direotion of General 8Dyder, Colonel of tl Nineteenth Infantry. The attacking part consisted of regulars and nearly 300 me of the Teunessee regiment. General Sny der destroyed seven forts and routel th Filipinos. Philippine Military Departments. The War Department at Washington hn definitely decided to create four militar departments in the Philippines. 1'romlnent People. King 03car of Sweden takes delight i fishing for salmon. A bust of Former Speaker Reed is beiu executed In bronze for the Maine Leg! laiu&u. Professor Hadley, the new President ( Yale, rides a bicycle, plays whist and is a enthusiast over golf. Emlle Zola has written a letter to Mm Dreyfus saying that the flght for her hu band's fall rehabilitation will go on. The officers and oorporals of the Insul Police of Porto Rico have presented l General and Mrs. Guy V. Henry a portra of the General, painted In Porto Rico. E was the former Military Governor Ol tt Island. ... ~ KEAEBABGE'STBIAL HIP New Battleship Covsrs the Distance With an Average of 16.84 Knots. PROVES HERSELF A FINESEA BOAT 3n Her Official Speed Trial the Kearaarge SlioTrs Herself to Be the Fattest in Her Clasa?Her Trip Uoequaled For Marine Plctureaqueneae ? Battleship Is a Serenteen-Knot Vessel. Boston (Special).?With the splendid iverage of 16.81 knots to her credit, the Jnlted States first-class battleship Kearsarge, the latest and greatest addition to our navy, ended her official speed trial, a trial which was successful in every detail, ?nH orfiieh fnr marine Dleturesaueness has oenn unequaled in our naval career. Greater Interest, It may be said, centred .n the trial of this battleship of honored and historic name than In any previous trial runs of our line of battle craft. There were many reasons for tbi?, chief of which was the desire to compare the Kearsarge cype with the Indiana and Iowa classes, ootli of which so remarkably proved their worth In the recent war. The new battleship, with her sister ship, che Kentucky, now nearlng completion, Is distinguished by superimposed turrets, :alled Sampson turrets, after Bear-Admiral Sampson. These turrets carry 13.nch guns In the lower, and 8-lnch in the jpper barbettes, and the main and secondary batteries constitute the heaviest armament of any ship in the world. Again, the aew battleship differs from the Indiana ;ype in having two masts Instead of one, and likewise much additional ponderous machinery. On her speed trial sbe carried four bilge 7 and two docking keels, the Iowa alone bet log presented In this shape for her trial ' ruu, and her relative speed, with 500 horse power less, and 350 tons greater displacement was aDDroxlmatelv equal to that of t th? Iowa. 1 The Kearsarge, while nominally a sixteen * snot craft, will probably be spoken of In naval circles as of seventeen knots, based AO doubt on her trial performance. r Nothing but nralse is heard of her han3 Alaess, her steadiness, her general efficiency * |n every respect. She is by long odds the oeat battleship yet tried on this side of the (rater, and in many essential respects the * best in the world. 1 In the course of her run two remarkably 1 fine marine plotures were presented, aside 1 from the one of this mass of steel being 1 forced through the water at great speed. The most impressive of these wns when after crossing the finish line, the ship's helm was put hard over, and around she went in a circle, the diameter of which was scarcely more than twice her length. As the screws churned up the water the * waJce made a great wave of boiling green ' water which rushed toward a centre with J the force of a tidal rip, the foamy tops 9 meeting In miniature cataracts. With this ?J" # ~thiln. ' remartauiy ciuoe [nuius ui wnuu tuv ' ciiuation ol the raft was scarcely three de. (frees. 1 The other picture was during the homeward run, when, with a huge "bone in her teeth," the forward deck was bathed in :louds of spray lrridescent In the Autumn [ ?an. t I FILIPINOS MAKE A CAPTURE. Barn the Gunboat Urdaneta and Make Priaonera of the Crew. t Maxila (By Cable).?The United States gunboat Urdaneta has been captured by j the rebels and scuttled in the Orani River, I on the northwest side of Manila Cay, twen. ty-flve miles from this city. Her commander, Naval Cadet Welboru C. Wood and her crew of eight mun were s made prisoners and taken by the Filipinos f to Pornuc. 9 The Urdaneta, which belongs to the , class ol vessels known as "tlnclads," bom> barded Orani, a small town held by the ; rebels. ? She kept up a lively fire with her little f guns and the rebels retreated. Afterward the crew went ashore to take possession of the place. They were Ambushed t by the Filipinos, surrounded and captured. I The rebels then beached the gunboat and t jet her on fire. They first stripped her of her armament,consisting of a ofie-pounder, a - onH a Vnrrlan ftVfm* ? U VUU nuiviuauv w . s ty-ilve-millimetre gun. Thl?, with the am> munition, they carried off for use against (he Americans. The United States gunboats Petrel, Calao and Basoo, 9ent to search for the Uri daneta, found her beached near the town i md riddled with bullets. There was no . trace of her crew. .1 e THE ADULA SINKS AT SEA. ,) 3oes Down Near Jamaica With the Cap* i* tain and Five Sailor*. % " Kingston. Jamaica (By Cable).?The itlas Stoamshlp Company's steamer Adula, which was seized as a prize by the United 3tates during the war.with Spain, has been r sunk in deep water to the east of Jamaica. Her chief officer, Captain Percy, of New Sfork, was drowned with the crew of flve. i She was bound for Baltimore, with a cargo f Df oranges. 0 Ship Was a Prize of the SpanUh War. e The Adula, a steamship with a gross tonn?M of 772. whs built in Belfast in 1893. She y was seized off Guantanamo Bay by the i 3rulser Marblehead on June 29, 1898, as she y was going la lor refugees without cargo. . 9he had been chartered by Don Jose R. 3 Soils, of Mnnzanillo, and had made three Y other trips, each time carrying a cargo of provisions. A month after her capture she t was adjudged a lawful prize of war bj 3 Judge Emery Speer, in the United State* e District Court at Savannah, Ga. n URCES FARMERS TO HOLD CORN. t Secretary of tlie Kan??i Board of Apical* 3 ture Says Good froflti Can Be Mad*. 77 Topeka, Kan. (Special).?Secretary Coll bum, of the State Board of Agriculture, a has Issued a second appeal to the farmers d of Kansas to hold their surplus corn. He y says: "If grain speculators can make a profit on borrowed capital by holding Kansas corn plied np along the railroad tracks, too a often brought below cost of production, ^ the producers can make a better one by ' taking good care of all they are not com^ pelled to let go of. The Instances are few " and far between wtiere a grower nas sui" fered loss by holding his unincumbered (t surplus from an unusu&l corn crop lor at least twelve months." Killed Flayln* Football. j. During a game of football at Merlden, u Conn., betweentbeMlddletown High School d and the Merlden High Sohool elevens, ie Thomas Kelly, left guard of theMiddletowu ie team, was thrown and his neck nroken y He died in the hospital. Eellv was about u eighteen years old. Ha was playing with - the High School team while preparing tc o enter college. President Diaz Will Pay No Visit. President Diaz, of Mexico, will not come ^ to the United States, owinsr to the Illness of v Mme. Diaz. Ignacto Marlscal, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, will come In his place. Cycling Notes. Q Nearly every member of the Russian lm perial family rlde3 a bicycle. 'S There are sixty-one counties In Kansa? s" where not one bicycle Is in use. , The devices for changing gears at the forthcoming shows will be numerous. ,a ~ <- > an nrHur fnt A 'JL'OIBUU luuwu 10 IU11U5 w?v.v. 4V4 Ave bicycles for the children of the King of 81am. The bicycle repair shop as an Independent Industry has almost ceased to exist extor cept In the most frequented places. It Fourteen States now require the rall[e roads doing business within their border* ie to trunsport bicycles of passengers free ol charge as baggag* MANY LIVES LOST IN INDIA. Floods and Earthquakes Cause Jreat Damage. A Rainfall of Twenty-eight Inches Ii Thirty-eight Hour*? Europiaul Among Those Drowned. Calcutta, India (3y Cable).?Earthquake?, floods and terrible landslides hare occurred at and near Darjeellng, in thfl Lower Himalaya. Great damage was done, and no fewar than sixty natives perished. There was a rainfall of twenty-eight Inches in thirty-eight hours. Three bad landslides took place between D arjeeling and Sonada, involving the transshipment of a railway train of passengers. Nine European children and twenty natives were lost between those two points. Tn? whole Calcutta road is blocked, and tbe Paglajhora Line has been seriously damaged. About a thousand acres of tea have been destroyed from Jalapahar to fiurchlll. At the latter place some 3000 feet of water supply pip* have been ruined. The electric plant suffered seriously. A dispatch from Jalpaigurl, on the River Teesta, forty miles southeast of DarjeelIng, says that a boat crossing the Teesta, with three Europeans and six natives, was swampad by the high waves. The body of ane of its occupants has been found fourteen miles down the river. It i) reported that the Europeans, Messrs. Anderson, Suster, and Whltton, jumped overboard. Lord and Lady Curzon nav* returned to Simla from a trip to the interior. Owing to the gloomy reports of the distress caused by the famine they have decided to curtail their proposed tour in the autumn. Lord Curzon will pr >bably pay a flying visit to a few of the affeoted districts. REPORT OF GENERAL LUDLOW. 9e Recommends a Revision of the Tax System In Havana. Washington, D. C. (Special).?BrigadierGeneral Ludlow, Military Governor ot Ha ana, has submitted a report to the War Department covering the work of the pa3t ,-ear, with recommendations for some shanges In the present system. He sug jests an apportionment of the surplus cus* ,oms revenues among the several depart nents. brigadier-general lttdlow. (The Military Governor of Havana 13 Id favor of more home rule for the Cubans.) An increase of the local revenues is arged, and to accomplish this General Ludlow proposes an increase of the taxes 3D real estate of from eight to twelve per jent. A general revision of the tax system Is required, the present method being defective and probably corrupt, In the opinion of the General. General Ludlow also points out that the Civil Governor of Havana now discharges many functions which should be left to th? local administration; that there should be more police courts, and thatlu all changes :are should be taken to respect the Individuality and autonomy of each province. KILLED HIS SISTER IN PLAY. Eight-Year-Old Child Fonnd a Shotgun and "Flayed Soldier." Pocghkeepsie, N. Y. (Special).?At Barrytown little Margaret Qulnn, the fouryear-old daughter of Patrick QuinD, was killed while playing soldier with her brother, aged eight, and her sister, aged six years. The children were nent on an errand to the home of Charles Walsh, coachman for Mr. J. A. Burden, Jr.. and for some time they roamed through Mr. Walsh's house laughing and playing. Charlie, the older boy, in an upper ball found a shotgun which had been loaded for a bunting trip. With aery of "Let's play soldier," he seized it and started down the hall, followed by the other cuuaren. They marched around a table *and in some manner the gun was exploded. The full charge of shot entered tbe breast of little Murgaret and passed through her lungs, killing her Instantly. Several of tbe shot, after passing through her body, slightly wounded her sister, who was on the opposite side of the table. The owner of the gun has no children, and he never supposed that it would fall into the hands of little people. Whole Aledicnl Faculty Keslsnl. The entire medical faculty of the Unlversity of Vermont, at Burlington, has resigned. The resignations were offered, the nmtamanra sav th? reauest of President fjuckbam, Torrey E. Wales, a trustee, and others. The origin of the trouble was In the medical faculty meeting a year ago when Dr. A. P. Grlnnell, who for manv yeai*s has been dean, was not re-elected, and Dr. H. C. Tinkham was chosen In his stead. Both men were popular with the students and Grlnnell carried bis case tc tbem. During the last year he aroused much hostility to the rest of the faculty, Man Ossified to Death. James McCasbln, forty years old, died at his home at Lowell, Mass., as a result ol gradual ossification for six years. At the time of his death his legs were rigid and stonelike. He contracted the malady while performing duty at a fire on a cold night over six years ago. Woman Chosen for Bank Treasure*. Mrs. A. A. Merrill ha3 been elected treas arer of the Fairfield Savings Dank, at Fair Qeld, Me., to succeed her husband, Simon Merrill, who died recently. Mrs. Merrill 1* the second woman In the State to be elected treasurer of a bank. The selection ol Mrs. Merrill Is generally commended. VAwfAnnHUnfl WrMkl. TLo schooner Marguerite, of Jlortiei Bay, with a crew consisting of four Farrell brothers and two Dover brothers, foundered in the recent gale off the coast ol Newfoundland, and all hands were lost. The ship, bottom up, was a few days ag> discovered off the coast. The schoouei Victoria got in to St. Johns, N. F., from the Banks with her decks swept and dories smashed. Her crew were lashed in the rigging thirty hours while sbe drifted before the gale. Her crew believe that tber< has been wide-spread destruction on th< Bunks. y?wty Ul*antn;4. New Jersey has a highwayman on a wheel who robs defenseless women. It is reported that famine is likely to occur in at least three provinces in India. The wooden belfry of famous Faneu!! Hall, Boston, has been replaced by one exactly similar of iron. The Cleveland street railroad strike cost Ohio $25,000 for transportation and maintenance of the militia. About ten million feet of biroh wood will be sent this year from Maine to England and Scotland for spools. Armour & Co., of Chicago, have voluntarily added $1,500,000 to the valuation placed by the assessors on the personal orooertv of the firm. sups BOMBtilwa Four Vesssls Shell Filipinos at O'an gapo, on Subig Bay. A KRUPP CANNON DESTROYED, The Enemy's Sixteen-Centimeter Gnn Blown Up With Gnncotton?Marine* Force Insurgent* to Flee?Excellent Work Done bj tlio Landing P*rtj? The Town Caught Fire. Manila. (By Cable).?The United States cruiser Charleston, the monitor Monterey, and the gunboats Concord and Zaflro, with marines and bluejackets from the cruiser Baltimore a few days ago left Cavlte and proceeded to Sublg Bay to destroy an insurgent cannon there. Thd warships for three hours bombarded the town of Olangapo and the intrenchments where the gun was situated. Men f^om the Charleston, Concord and Zafiro were then landed under a heavy ineurgent flre, proceeding to the cannon, which was utterly destroyed by guncotton, and then returning to the warshfps. The Americans had one man* wounded during the engagement. While waiting In Bubig Bay for better weather the Americans descried Filipino' reinforcements moving toward Olangapo. At 6.40 o'clock a. m. the Monterey beian the advance upon the town, which was about three miles east of the monitor's anchorage. The Charleston, Concord and Zafiro followed. At 7.25 o'clock the Monterey opened fire with her secondary and main batteries, the Charleston and Concord joining immediately. At 7.39 the Insurgent cannon answered, the first sbot passing done to the Monterey's smokestack. The gun was fired twice only. The American bombarding then became general. At 9.30 o'clock the Monterey advanced to a range of 600 yards, nslng her main battery. Two hundred and fifty men were landed about 800 yards east of the cannon at 11 o'clock, under a severe shore Mauser flre. The men from the Charleston were the first to reach the beach, but the Concord's men were the first at the gun. The cannon was found to bo a sixteen-centimeter Krupp gun, presumably obtained from the Spaniards. Meanwhile the warships continued to shell the shelving beach on the east and west sides to silence the Insurgent fire upon the sailors from the trenches skirting the beaob. The Americans then returaed to the boats, the firing inland being kept up to protect the embarkation. Th'J Concord's men were the last to leave the shore, and the warships were reached at 12:50 o'clock p. m. Cadet Brinser.wlth the Concord's launch, armed with a Gatllng, did excellent work on the left of the landing party.. Captain Myers of the marines captured a muzzleloading field piece. Lieutenant McDonald was in command of the landing party, and the movement was splendidly executed and controlled. The town, which was riddled with shells, took Are at'several points. DREYFUS WITH HIS FAMILY He Seen HI* Children For the Flrat 'Sfme In Year*?HI* Boy'* Thonghtfalne**. Paeis (By Cable).?Former Captain Dreyfus met bis children at Carpentras a few days ago. Mme. Dreyfus joined her husband the day before. He embraced each of the children tenderly. The boy remembered his father, but said he looked different from what he had pictured him. KITE. LUCIE EUGENIE DBEYFUS. The boy 13 very sensible and sympathetic and his father Intends to tell htm the whole Jtory of his case In a short time. When he heard he was to meet his father the boy prepared a bouquet of flowers, which he presented to blm. Dreyfus met the carriage bearing bis children and he grasped them In bis arms and smothered them with kisses. His emotion was so great that he was unable to speak for some time. The excitement over the meeting made Dieyfus's physical condition somewhat worse. Hereafter no strangers will be admitted to the house oocupled by the Dreyfus famtiy CHILDREN KILLED IN A WRECK. Six Lire* Loit In an Accident to an Excursion Train in Colorado. Denveb, Col. (Special).?Six persons were killed and as many Injured In a wreck on the Elo Grande Railroad a few miles east of Canon City. The wreck was caused by a collision between a Judson excursion train, west-bound, and a freight train, east bound, at a siding. The killed are: Eva M.Walker, Westford, Mass., aged twelve years; Eugenia B. Judklns, Spokane, Wash., aged twelve years; Addle Judklns, aged ten, and Oeorge H. Judklns, aged six; a boy named Wills, Los Angeles, Cal., and Conduotor Salter, probably from Chicago. Perry Wulker, of Westford, Mass., was injured Internally. Ail the trainmen on the locomotives of the colliding trains jumped off and escaped Injury. TQe engineers mruou uu sio<?ui and pat oa brakes, bat the trains collided with each force that engines and cars were badly wrecked. The excursion train consisted of one empty coach back of t:he engine And three Pullman tourist sleepers, two of wlilch were telescoped. Church Property Kespeoted. The War Department at Washington has received the following cablegram from General Otis regarding the military nse of church property In the Philippines: "Referring to yoar cablegram of September 18, sixteen churches in different localities are { occupied by United States troops. Four only partially occupied and religious ser vices not interfered with. Also three convents occupied. These three and ten of the sixteen churches formerly occupied by Insurgents. Church property respected and protected by our troops." No orders will be sent to Goneral Otis on this topic, ns tt is regarded as a part of warfare tooc- ' cupy churches. Tlia National Game. In the last four games agalns: the Chlcagos the New Yorka made thirty errors. "Dummy" Hoy Is rated as the only really quiet player In the League this season. Maul, recently released by Brooklyn, ha9 been engaged by Philadelphia for next season. j | Cincinnati has purchased the sensational' j Grand Rapids outfielder and all-around| player, Crawford. Even the baseball magnates are beginning to admit that the people are losing Interest in tlie game. In Beaumont, Williams, McCarthy and Donovan the Plttsburgs have a r&st quartette of base stealers. ... , YAQUIS BEATEN IN BATTLE- | Mexican Troops Twice Victors, Buf Suffer Considerable Loss. T1i*t Talc* No Prisoner!, Either Belliferent* or Kon^Belllgerentf, Fat* tine All to the Sword. ;Jg| Los Asoeles, Cal. (3peclal).*Oai3lil ra- r4|| ports o( two battles between Hexloans and j.?H Yaquls have just beea received here. Gen- ~j3| eral Luis Torres declared the campaign ^ suspended until October, but the Yaquls ' were not consulted on that point. Lorenzo Torres also appears to hare made differ* ha ent arrangements. On September 14 Lorenzo T orres crossed ' ' M the river to Vloam, the town supposed to . have been captured by Luis Torres in #1 1 * * ?? * Th ? tn^uni 3sJ attacked bis rear guard, and a running - ^ fight of over half an hour ensaed. The In? . .;5 dlans were dispersed and niQe of them ' -ix killed. The Mexican loss wa4 five killed ; 3 and nine wounded, among the latter Lieu- ,\f tenant-Colonel Navarro.* On September 13 a foro9 tinder Colonel- :" ,-i Hernandez, number not stated, encoua- ; ; ,' <? tered one thousand Indians near Lake Zaqueca, between Torin and Potam. The ' Indians sought oover in the thick wood?, 8 where a bloody combat raged for two '{^m hours. The Indians were defeated and difl- .$m persed, leaving eighty-seven dead.. No wounded Indians ever figure In theae :'.%a reports, because the Mexicans murder them. The Mexican loss was fourteen ;'*|? killed and thirty-six wouoded. Major Bull * was mortally wounded. ' 31 These two battles prove that the Taenia :-.;2 have not retired to tbe mountains, but are- ' making their fight Id tbe valley, where the, \? war began. They are striving for the val- V ley lands and are not molesting the mining: * districts. 'jj'W The interesting feature of theso official 3j reports is to the effect that a number of ? Mexicans living In the river towns who . *|1 tram tnVitn nrlannflra hv the Yflntlk, In Jan- c nary last were not tortured, although the . Mexicans have Invariably Riven t: oat that j?i Yaqnls always maltreat their prisoners. >jw These prisoners were released not long ? ago, and were permitted to retaru io head* &m quarters la Torln. The returned prisoners reported when. !i thev got to Torln that Julian MWdonado, J said to have been killed by the Taqnls at Baeum at the beginning of the outbreak, la in reality one of the chiefs of the hostile? 39 and still alive., He was in the serviceof the Mexican Gov- ' 1 ernment and captain of a force detailed by 'Ja General Luis Torres on Julv 1 to disarm thp /ilacrtntontftd [adlins at Baenm. His M- <j oort was attacked and routed br the Insurgents and most of his men killed. He was taken prisoner, and In some way was In- $ duoed by the Yaqnls to join tbem. Teteblate gave the Mexicans all the wax they wanted for ten years, and if he Is again on the warpath a long campaign may 1 be expected. MISS JULIA GRANT A PRINCESS. She is Harried to Prince Cantacairae of BumIs, at Xewport. Niwpoe't, B. L (Special).?Miss Jalla t'Grant, daughter of Urlg^dler-General and Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, was united la marriage to Prince Michel Cantacuzene (Count Speransky) of Russia, at the rest* ;f3 dence of the bride's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Potter Palmer. Because or tne absence of Brigadier-General Grant, father . .. of the bride, who Is on military duty In the Philippine Islands, Ulysses 8. Grant, third, brother of the bride, conducted her to the. altar. - y The services were very simple, yet Impressive, being In every detail those of the Russian Church. Prior to the ceremony there was a dinner. After the ceremony, and after the bride and bridegroom were congratulated by tbeir relatives and ' friends, the entire assemblage sat down to a sapper, during which the health of the bride and bridegroom were drank. During the wedding supper toasts wore mode by Adjutant-General Corbin, Bishop Potter <? and Senator Depew. The bride looke^ charming in her wedding gown. The gown is severely cut, and V yet quite simple In design. Its material la' m rich white satin, with a very long sweeping train. A long tulle veil was worn nanoht nn wlfh nrnnorA blossoms, which were sent by a friend of the bride from the South. Her corsage ornaments were dls- g monds with a rope of pearls, the gift ol > tbe bridegroom, and she carried a shower, bouquet of stephanotls and lillles of tbe valley. ... Miss Jalla Grant and Prloce Gantaoazene . were also married according to the American service at All Saints'Memorial Chapel. SEVERE STORM IN NEW JERSEY; Iloaiea Demolished *nd Many Tree* Uprooted in Little Falls.. Patebsojt, N. J. (Special).?The hamlet of Little Falls, about Ave miles from here,was visited by a small hurricane. The J. wind swept off the roof of Jackson's mill/ "' carried it a thousand feet in the air,1 and then dropped it In a condition fit for kindling wood. Many trees were uprooted| and blown down. Tbe bouses about "the duck pond" had a narrow escape, and were rocked by tbe gale, but only comparatively, slight damage was done. Nobody was in jured. | ,-fl The rain came down In torrents and everything on low ground was under water. The storm was preceded by the gathering of dark and enormous clouds, and then there was a heavy thunderclap, followed by the downpour. There was no lightning. The day had been n very peculiar one, sunshine and showers alternating. BRIDE PRAYS AT A CRAVE. _______ j* Fulfills a Promise She Had Made to Her Dying Father. CixcnraATi, Ohio (Sreclal).?Joy and sorrow were Intermingled at the marriage of Henry leubrenk and Maggie Bishop. They were engaged for over a year, but the marriage was delayed on account of the death of the girl's lather. When the latter died he made a request that his daughter should visit his grave on the day she was married. The daughter, who is twenty-four years of age, never forgot the promise of her dying parent. The marriage took plaoe a few days ago. After the oeremony the couple were driven to St. John's Cemetery, at St. Bernard, where the husband aud wife knelt In prayer - ? T'H*. Kplila . DQSiae IUO ^ravo ui mo latuoii i.uu w**uw was dressed In white, us way her attendant, a younger sister. Planning ? Keir Soudan Campaign. General Lord Kitchener, Governor-General of the Soadan, Is preparing (or an Immediate) expedition against the Khalifa. Pottage to Porto Blco Reduced. In accordance with the recent decision of the Cabinet; Postmaster-General Smith, at Washington, has Issued an order reducing the rate of postage between the United States and Porto Rico from fire cents, the Universal Postal Union rate, to two cents, the domestic rate. Killed bj a Thrashing Machine. While thrashing in the town of Palatine, N. Y., Willard Patten, of Nelliston, fell in such a manner that one of hid legs was caught la the machinery and torn from his body. Ha died la a few hours. Popnllit Nominations in l'ennaylranlft. T. P. Rynder, State Chairman of the People's party, was at Harrlsburg, Penn., a few days ago and filed at the State Department the nominations of his party as follows: For Supreme Court Justlce, John H. Stevenson, Allegheny; for Judgo of the Superior Court, Nathan L. Atwood, Erie; for State Treasurer, Justus Wa:klns, Tioga. The signer were largely In excess of the legal -artn t ?*am on t _ iOlJUUViMw?. Virginia Fanner'? Liabilities 8390,000. William R. Lewis, a larmer of Accomac County, Va., has fllod an Norfolk a petition la bankruptoy; liablliHafl, $250^)0(3, aothins. -