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ESTIIATES FOE THE iff Secretary Lone Wan's $98,910,984 For the Next Fiscal Yeare THREE NEW BATTLESHIP PLANS The Secretary Also Favors the Construction of Two Armored Cruisers and Several Gunboats ? $20,000,000 For Yards and Naval Stations?Total of Estimates to Be Submitted to Congress. Washington, D. C.?The naval estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1903. have been made public. They are larger by about $21,000,000 than the appropriation for the current year. Secretary Long said in speaking of his plans for naval extension, that he would propose an Increase over last year of one battleship, making the ex tension plan provide for three battleships and two armored cruisers. The awhorization given last year was for two battleships and two cruisers. Mr. Long believes that Congress, in calling upon him for his views about the new ships, did not limit him to the submission of but one plan for each type , of vessel. He wiil therefore present a number of p!aus, varying in their arrangement of turrets and batteries. He will also recommend the construction of a number of small gunboats. The estimates for 11)03 amount to $98,910,984.03. while the appropriations for 1902 amounted to ?77.924.535.00. The largest single increase is In the estimate for public works in the Bureau of Yards and Docks. Last year. ?0,775,010 was appropriated for this purpose. The new estimate is for 820.U3S.375. The new items amount to ?16.038,375. Last year ?3.000.000 was appropriated for the Naval Academy. This year only ?1.500,000 is asked for. For the nav of the navv. the increase is $1,297,913 over last year. For public works in the Bureau of Ordnance. $318,100 was appropriated last year, and $1,437,300 is now asked for. The ' appropriation for the Naval Militia is the same as last year, $00,000. One item is for $200,000 for a plant for housing and storing torpedo vessels, to cost $550,000 when completed. Two million dollars is wanted for the purchase of land. The total amount estimated for the New York yard is $3,473,000, as against an appropriation this year of $1,109,000. It is tho largest amount estimated for any yard. Portsmouth comes nest with $1,947, j. The Bureau of Construction and Repair asks for $9,923,S24.25. This year it got $7,300,824.25. Included in this is an estimate of $50,000 for improving the construction plant at New .York. This is just double what was appropriated for the same purpose this year. The bureau also wants to put | in a new steel derrick barge at the j "Voxir Yrtr-lr rnr/f tn r>nst SSrvlVW Thp 1 Marine Corps wants $3500 appropriated for electric light at New York. The placing of some of our new possessions under naval control has resulted in the inclusion among the estimates of a number of items which read strangely in a naval estimate. For example, the Bureau of Yards and Docks includes in its estimate the jpay of two school teachers to be appointed at Tutuila, Samoa. They are to get $000 each. For the Island of Guam the bureau wants one school teacher and adds in paraentheses, "American." This teacher is to get S150U a year. Repairs to the school will cost $300. Other items in the bureau's estimate for Guam are one Deputy Collector of Customs and crew, at $1200, and one Judge of the Court of First Instance, at $2000. A telephone system is to be put in at Tutuila, to cost $2000. The Bureau of Yards and Docks wants $5900 for a schoolhouse", books, furniture, and other equipment. At Cavite $12,CC0 is wanted for a fire-protection system, and $300,000 for a refrigerating plant. The estimates for the new naval station at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, amount to $1,443.000. A naval hosDital at Canacan. Philippine Islands, is wanted by the Bnreau of Medicine and Surgery. The cosr is to be $50,000. TYPHOON IN LUZON. Town of Baler Wiped Out?Twenty Dead in Manila Bay?Great Damage Done. Manila.?The worst typhoon in ten years has raged for several days. Its centre has been about sixty miles from Manila. Eight miles of railroad have been destroyed and half of north and central Luzon has been submerged. A majority of the telegraph lines have ben damaged, and Government and other vessels have suffered. Twenty persons have been killed in Manila Bay. The town of Baler ha;; been demol* Isbed. Student Without Money Kills Himself. David Arnott, of Woodford County. Ky., a member of the senior class at the State College, at Lexington, shot himself in the head with a revolver. Lack of money with which to complete his course is assigned as the cause. Prison For Former Army Captain. John M. Neall, formerly a Captain In the United States Army, recently convicted of forgery, at San Francisco, Cal., was sentenced to serve two years at ben Quentin at hard labor. Klonrtlko mining Swindles. Consul AlcCook, of Dawson, writing to Oe State Department, at Washington, warns against investing in certaiu Klondike mining companies floated in the United States. He says: "These companies issue prospectuses giving as reference, without authority, prominent Government officials and others in Dawson. The statements made are in most instances flagrantly false, and some companies have been known to actually pay unearned dividends in order to sell their stock." Commissions For Naval Gunners. The Navy Department, at Washington, has received the papers in the cases of Naval Gunners Francis Martin and Henry B. Soule, who have passed guod examinations and have been recommended for appointment as orncers ui tue line. >vxien iue; letcuc their commissions lliey will be tlie first enlisted men to obtain such advancement. No Abatement In Industrial Activity. Industrial activity shows no abatement, and the distribution of merchandise of all kinds is very large. %' ' t MUSOLINO IS CAPTURED ' , i ftalian Brigand Accused of Having i Committed Twenty-five Murders ! Tbc Government Had Offered Bin Ke- | wards Fur Ilis Arrest ? Taken After a Desperate Strujxle. Koine. Italy.?The notorious b'igand, Musollno, lias been captured after a flcrce resistance at Urbino. lie had long terrorized Calabria, and is credited with having committed twenty-five murders. Owing to the sympathy manifested toward him by the peasantry Musolino had always escaped capture, despite the immense reward ihe Government offered for his arrest. Giuseppe Musolino. who styles himself a "gentleman brigand." has been a fugitive from justice for two years. He claims to be the victim of a judicial conspiracy. In October. 1898. Musolino. who is a man of good family and education, met Vincenzo Zoccoli, one of his politi cal opponents. A quarrel arose and Zoccoli stabbed Musolino ever forty times in the hands and arms. Musolino >va.s lying dangerously ill from his wounds when Zoceoli was shot from ambush. Musolino was accused of the crime, and dragged from his bed to prison. The presiding Justice was a notorious protector of the opposing faction, and Musolino was convicted and sentenced to twenty-two years at hard labor. Musolino managed to escape before long, and has since been remorselessly enforcing the threats to kill those responsible for his conviction made at the time lie was sentenced. Ilis sole motive for leading the bloodthirsty life which has made him famous seems to have been vengeance. He is said to have killed twelve out of the fifteen men who appeared on the stand against him. SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTRY* More Than 17,000,030 I'uplls Enrolled In All Institutions. Washington, D. C.?About twentyone per cent, of the total population of the United States attend public schools, and two per cent, of the rest attend private schools, according to the annual report of the Commissioner of Education. The grand total in all schools, elementary, secondary, and higher, public and private, for the year ended July 1, l'JUO, was 17,020,710 pupils, an increase of 282,348 over the previous year. Of this number the enrollment in public institutions supported by general and local taxes was 15,443,402. Special institutions, such as evening schools. Indian schools, schools con nected with asylums, reform sciioois, and other institutions more or less educational in their character, Increase the total number by half a million pupils. The statistics, as interpreted by the Commissioner, show a uniform consensus of public opinion throughout the Nation in favor of providing secondary education at public cost. Public high schools have increased from 2526 in 1SU0 to G005 in 1900. MYSTERY IN M'KINLEY'S DEATH. Doctors Now Declare the Exact Came Will Never Be Known. New York City.?The physicians and surgeons who attended President McKinley in the closing days of his life have presented to the State Medical Society, here in semi-annual session, a report covering the medical and surgical history of the case. It was read by Dr. Mann, who said that there wa3 absolutely no bacteriological infection. Continuing he said: "If you ask me what caused the President's death I could not tell you. I doubt if that will ever be discovered. Amongst contributory causes, however, were the President's age, his lack of exercise and his naturally weak heart, which made his pulse high." REFORMS IN AFGHANISTAN. N>V7 Ameer Increases Fay of the Soldiers and Will iteduce the Land Taxes. London.?The Simla correspondent of the Times says Ameer Habib Ullah has increased the pay of the Afghan soldiers and promises a reduction of the taxes on land. lie is likely to spring into immediate popularity. The Afghans presumably hope that Habib Ullah will depart from the fiscal policy of his father and abolisn the heavy imposts on trade and the State monopolies. The removal of the transit duties and the abolition of the monopolies would cause an imrortnea mviroi nf tmrlp between India arid Afghanistan along the ancient caravan route. BANK ROB3ERS CAUGHT. Citizens lteturn the Fire of Safe Blowers, Wounding Three of Them. Evansville, Ind.?A loud explosion aroused the village of Howell, a few miles from here, a few days ago. The citizens discovered that four robbers had blown open the bank safe and were in the act of plundering it. Instantly the bank was surrounded, and the citizens opened fire, which was returned by the robbers as they Hod. When the fusilade ended three robbers. badly wounded, were stretched out on the ground. The fourth had escaped. Marshall Sumpter was shot in the leg. The wounded robbers are j -u- Ttinr rofiiqp to talk. ! IU tut* iiuapituft. ^ Bank Robbero Make a BIr Haul. The vault of the Farc.ers' and Citzeus' Bank iu Tiro, Ohio, was wrecked by six rubbers, who procured the conients and escaped. It is said the vault contained $4U,000. The explosion awoke the people of the town. All who approached the bank were driven away by the robbers, who were armed with rides. They escaped. Xav-ul Officer'* Wife a Suicide. The wife of Lieutenant Parmeter, I). S. N? committed suicide at Washingion while temporarily insane. Twenty-uine Hazors Suspended. Twenty-nine students have been suspended trorn the Missouri University :it Columbia, Mo., lor hazing L. L. Thompson. Tney clipped his hair in the form of u horseshoe, marched him about a mile into the country, removed all his clothing and left him there af 1 'Pliov mnsr mnkp lui a guuu hiui written apologies before they will be reinstated. M;irtial Law in Spain. Martial law has been proclaimed at Seville, and disorders are reported elsewhere in Soain. IB TRIAL FOB MM ' r.i a i _ t A i_ 11 Judges onne oourr 01 rtppeais unanimous in Their Decision. IMPROPER EVIDENCE ADMITTED The Opinion Says Tliat All Testimony Regarding Harriet Is Incompetent ? Three Judges, However, Would Allow Some of This Kvldence? Court Passes on Question of Handwriting Exports. XT V T> nlnn/1 U 1/aII*i<M1V ^.lUUliyt H* i.?nuiauu xj? iuvuucuA, since February 16, 1900, under sentence of death for che killing of Mrs. Kate J. Adams, will have a new trial. The Court of Appeals has handed down a decision reversing the judgment of the lower court. All the Justices who heard the argument on appeal agree on the finding, which is based on the admission of evidence regarding Henry C. Barnet, although the Court is not a unit as to how much of this evidence was incompetent. The Court also refers to the rule regarding the admission of expert testimony on handwriting, and the prevailing opinion holds that none of the "Barnet" letters should have been used. Justices Parker, Haight and Gray are those who concur in the result, but dissent as to some of the points decided. The prevailing opinion is written by Justice Werner, of Rochester, his principal ground for reversal being that the lower court erred in admitting evidence as to another alleged crime, the death of Barnet, and thus merged two issues. Justices Bartlett, Xr J AAn/imn.A/1 IT* V LI LI U U LIU. \J XJL ICU tUUUUilCU 1U tub prevailing opinion, and for the expunging of the Barnet testimony Justices Parker, Haight and Gray did not believe that the Barnet evidence should be kept entirely out of the case. . The Court gave out a condensed statement of the reasons for granting the new trial. They say: "Every member of the Court of Appeals agrees for the reversal of the Judgment of conviction of Molineux on the ground that the trial court erred in receiving In evidence the declarations of Barnet made to Drs. Phillips and Douglass, that he had received Kutnow powders through the mail. "All agree that since the amendment of Section 2 of Chapter 36 of the laws of 1SS0 by Chapter 555 of the laws of 188S, genuine writings may be received in evidence as standards of comparison with a disputed writing, although such writing may not be the issue on trial, but simply a fact relevant and material to that Issue. That the genuineness of such writings must be established to the satisfaction of the Court by commonlaw evidence, and when that is done handwriting experts may compare the disputed writings with the genuine writings and give their opinion thereon, but they cannot select and establish the standards of comparison, and then compare them with the disputed writings. "All writings proved to the satisfaction of the Court by a preponderance of evidence in civil cases, and beyond a reasonable doubt In criminal cases, (1) by witnesses who saw the paper written or to whom it had been acknowledged, (2) by witnesses familiar with the handwriting of the person charged to be the writer and who are able to testify from their familiarity to a belief respecting its genuineness. (3) where the writing is shown to have been recognized and acquiesced In by the person supposed to have written It, or adopted and acted upon by him in his business transactions or other concerns, may, under the statute, be compared with the disputed writing by witnesses. But the Court should refuse to receive in evidence solely for the purpose of com parison any -writing otherwise prejudicial to a defendant. "Th? only subject about which the members of the Court differ in their opinions, relates to the testimony introduced tending to show that Mollneux caused the death of Barnet by the same method as that used in taking the life of Mrs. Adams. Four of the members of the Court, O'Brien, Bartlett, Vann and Werner, agree that the evidence should not have been received. The other three JusticesParker, Gray and Haight?hold that that evidence is admlssable, in that the evidence in the Barnet case pointing toward Molineux, tends to Identify him as the person who killed Mrs. Adams while attempting to take the life of Cornish by means of that rare poison known as cyanide of mercury, the Chief Judge and Judge Gray writing rvrvlnlnna tr? that effect." llJb V|/IU.VMW Lieutenant William* Slain. Second Lieutenant Jame3 C. Williams, of the Twelfth Infantry, fell off a train In Tarlac, P. I., and was killed. Lieutenant Williams was n son of General Robert Williams, formerly Adjutant-General of the Army, who died a few weeks ago. Young Williams enlisted in the Army as a private in the Thirty-fourth Infantry, und was promoted rapidly to a second lieutenancy for efficient services in the Philippines. Mistaken For a Deer and Killed. William Bowley, of Skowhegan, aged nineteen years, was accidentally shot and killed by Edwin L. Vail, of Houlton, at West Hastings Brook, Mek Bowley was mistaken for a deer. fterman Kidnaped by Bulgarian Brigands Herr Rosen thai, the representative of a German firm, has been kidnaped by Bulgarian brigands at Silistrla. Tire Roumanian boverumtu L UUO OViil a protest to Sofia and the Bulgarian Government has ordered troops to pursue the brigands. CabHn General Elections. The date for the general elections in Cuba has been set for December 21. The Electoral College to choose a President and Senators will meet on February 24, 1902. Thistles Fed- to Cattle. Owing to the scarcity of hay in YVbsteru Kansas farmers are feeding Russian thistles to their stock. It has been discovered that Russian thistles make good food for cattle, and cattlemen have gathered them the * ? 1 thorn for same as nay auu ?iat&cU ? winter feeding. To Keep Troops in Philippines. It has been determined at the War Department, at Washington, to send troops to the Philippines to take the place of those vrbose term of enlist* i ment expiree. LEOPOLD PLANS A VISIT fhe King of Belgium is Coming to ihe United States. Cxpects to Got Suggestions of Skipping Arrangements Beneficial to the Ports of His Kingdom. 'Antwerp, Belgium. ? King Leopold has decided to visit New York City. He announced this decision at an interview granted to the Burgomaster. His Majesty expects among other advantages to obtain in the United States many suggestions regarding the handling of shipping which will prove beneficial to the ports of Belgium. This Is not the first time that Leopold II., King of the Belgians, has expressed his intention or wish to visit KIX3 LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM. (Ho has decided to make a visit to the United States.) the United States. There was talk of his doing so three years ago, and in I 1S99 it was given out at Brussels that tlie monarch was going to take a three-months' yachting cruise, during which he would touch on this side of the Atlantic. Earlier in life King Leopold was fond of mysterious disappearances, and paid -frequent trips incognito to neighboring capitals. He is now sixtyfive years of age, but as his zest for automobiling shows, full of activity, and possessing a decided faculty for combining business with pleasure. The Congo Independent State, which is bis creation, is likely, in spite of early forebodings, to bring him in a substantial reward for his prescience. In his will he has bequeathed all his sovereign rights in the State to BelI glum, and not so long ago he made over to the public all his real estate in Belgium. King Leopold is a busy speculator, and Is said to be interested in several American mining ventures, besides his schemes for developing Ostend and other European pleasure resorts. At the opening of the Brussels ship canal last year he looked forward to ! the establishment of a line of steamers plying between Brussels as a seaport and New York City, and he is doubtless keenly alive to the advantages of developing still further the great resources of Antwerp and Its trade with this port. COSTLY FUNERAL FOR PUG DOC. Hundreds ot Children See the Body LyIns: in Pink Silk. Trenton, N. J.?Faunie, a pug dog owned by Mrs. C. E. Bosser, was i buried under extraordinary circumi J K-. TllA I BlliXLces, ujuurutru uy uuuuicus. xuc i dog lay in. state all day in the front I parlor. It required a large casket, for it had grown broad and heavy be: cause of fatty degeneration of the heart. The casket was lined with pink silk, the artistic Idea of Mrs. Bosser, worked out by an undertaker. Fannie was carefully washed, so that her light brown coat matched the casket lining. A large bow of white silk was around the dog's neck. Several hundred school children took leave of the dead pet and praised its life-like appearance. There were solemn tunes on the organ and the children sang hymns. Some placed carnations lu the casket before it was closed and carried with much solemnity to the rear yard, where It was interred under a pear tree. A stone will be placed to mark the spot Mrs. Boser's eyes were inflamed with long weeping for Fannie. DAYTON WOMAN DENIES CHARCES Pleads Not Guilty of Poisoning; Her Four Husbands and Children. Dayton, Ohio.?The formal charge of murder la the first degree was preferred against Mrs. Mary Belle Witwer, suspected of having caused the deaths of her four husbands and her own children by poison. Tho affidavit was sworn to by Chief of Detectives Frank McBride, and is based on the death of Mrs. Anna C. Pugh, a sister of tho accused. It is charged that death was due to the administration of arsenic wilfully and purposely by Mrs. Witwer. Mrs. Witwer was arraigned in policc court on the charge of murder. She pleaded not guilty. Typhoid Fever Prevalent. The weekly bulletin of the City Health Department of Chicago calls attention to the unusual prevalence of typhoid fever throughout the country, and ventures the opinion that the first year of the new century will be known as a typhoid fevier year. Treasury at Highest Mark. Nearly $1,200,000,000 is the enoi^ mous sum of money which the United States Treasury has now in its possession. This is an aggregate of wealth never before equaled In the history of thte or any other country Bank Robbers Get 811,000. The Bank of Barysville, at Potomac, 111., was entered by robbers and about $11,000 in currency taken. To get Into the safe two charges of nitroglycerine were used. The men escaped on a hand-car. President Castro Seek* Peace. President Castro has made a statement of the attitude of Venezuela toward Colombia1, declaring that he dc sired and was seeking peace Between the republics, but, in common with Ecuador and Nicaragua, Venezuela desired tlie downfall of the present Conservative Government at Bogota. Altoona Embezzler Sentenced. .Tamps PI. McCullougb, former Tax Collector of Altoona, Penn.. who embezzled $30,000 of public ftmde, has bt?en .sentenced to pay $3000 fine and to ftU for one yedr, A -RESCUED FROI SHIPWRECK Two Hundred Passengers Taken Froir the Hating in Alaskan Waters. $250,000 IN GOLD DUST SAVtL 111-I.uclc Pnrsnes tlie Ships of the Cantv dlan Pacific Kallway?Engineer Brewei Says That the Accident Conld No1 Have Been Avoided?Praise For thi Captain and Crew?Passengers' Stories Vancouver, B. C.?Two hundred passengers and a quarter of a million dollars' worth of gold dust, rescued from the wrecked steamer Hating, arrived in Vancouver by the steamei Willipa. All the stories told by the passengers vary slightly, but the raaiD facts are the same. W. M. Brewer, the well-known American mining: engineer, said that the accident could not have been avoided; that the ill-luck following [ the Canadian Pacific steamships had overtaken the Hating, and that the cleverest navigator in the world could not have prevented the accident. "I was in the bow of the boat," he said, "when the vessel struck, and although the shore was fifteen feet away the fog was so dense I could not see it. When the Hating rammed her nose on the rock the women screnmcd. One of them seized a lifepreserver, while the Chinese cook rushed from below with an ugly carving knife in one hand and a life-preserver in the other and shouted to the passeneers. 'You so in boat, me go, too.' His song died away by force. The men passengers were as cool as if they were on a Sunday-school picnic, though with the long list of disasters to Klondike steamers .In their minds they expected the worst." J. B. McGregor says: "I was in the bow directly under the pilot house when we struck. Captain Gosse, the mate and a quartermaster were on the bridge peering ahead. All afternoon we were running into dense bil lows of fog. Just ns we reached the narrowest part of the channel we ran Into a pocket. A hundred passengers peered over the bow. One could not see a foot ahead. Then the fop lifted, and Captain Gosse was the first to see rocks to the right, fifty feet ahead. "He signaled to reverse the engines. but it was too late. The steamer with her own headway scraped upon the rocks into a natural groove between two jagged ridges thirty feet either way. Had the engines not been stopped when they were the steel ship would have been split In two and srone down in 130 fathoms with all on board." A dozen other passengers told similar stories, and of how the Captain assured them that the steamer was wedged fast, and sent them ashore down the side ladders with the precious gold dust. While they were on shore the wreck was examined. It was found that the steamer's entire forefoot was ripped off and a six-foot hole stove in her plates, and that she was leaking badly. If loft as she was she would turn turtle with the rising tide. She was then tied tight with hawsers to trees on the isle where she had run ashore and the passengers returned to the ship. The Hating cost the Canadian Pacific Railroad $233,000 at the beginning of the season, and she was to have been taken off the run at ihe end this trip. TURKISH TROOPS WITHDRAW. Kiss Stone TVonld He Killed if the military Activity Was Continued. Constantinople, Turkey.?It is now learned, that the Turkish commandei had completed arrangements to surround Miss Ellen M. Stone's captors. Spencer Eddy, Secretary of the United States Legation, however, received lliiUl lliUUUJU tuui a. unuwi Mw>f .v would result in the death of Mlse TYPES OF BULOABIAN BRIGAKDS. Stone. He then proceeded to the residence of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tewfik Pasha, and demanded the immediate retirement of the Turkish troops. This was acceded to, and the Bulgagarian forces followed suit. Mr. Eddy's actlou has the unanimous approval of the members of the Diplomatic Corps, who are convinced that efforts to liberate Miss Stone by force will undoubtedly result In her murder' An Anarchist Editor Sentenced. r?n?ont TfiiJhnflo tho A nnrpliist. nt UU U1V.UI XUIIUWV4V, VUV wv? Paris, France, was sentenced to one year's imprisonment and to pay a tine of $200 for an article he printed in the Libertaire'at the time of the Czar's visit. The article incited an attack on the Czar and glorified the Anarchists. Through Whirlpool Rapid* In a Boat. Peter Nissea* of Chicago, has made a successful trip through the whirlpool rapids of the Niagara River in a boat of his own design. New Trial Granted to Miller. The Appellate Dfri.sion of the Su preme Court at Brooklyn, N. Y., liashanded down an opinion g-'iting a new trial to William F. MilL-r, manager of the defunct Franklin Syndicate. of Brooklyn, which induced people to invest on promise of 520 per cent, profit per annum. Miller was convicted on April 30, 1900, and sen* iAuM. :? tencea to ten years m. uuiu mum it> Sing Sing. a?|?enH Designs on AfghaaUtan. Advices from St Petersburg show ta&t- Russia is- anxious to gain control o0 Aftrtomfsfefl. . ~ . : - .i -# - - j 4 f I GOVERNMENT'S CASE IN | ihe Judge Advocate Concludes His Evidence in the Schley Inquiry. The Defense of the Rear-Admiral Begins? Captain Cook Assumes Responsibility For the Brooklyn's Loop. Washington. D. C.?Judge Advocate Lernly finished his presentation of testimony in the Schley inquiry, and Mr. Rayner put on the stand the first witness for Rear-Admiral Schley. This was Eduardo Nunez, the Cuban pilot, who gave testimony to show why Schley did not believe the Spaniards were at Santiago. He said that when he went on board the Brooklyn he told Schley that the Spaniards were probably not in the harbor, because vessels of that size could not get in. The water was not deep enough and the channel was too narrow. Nunez also testified that on July 1 Schley sent him to the Cuban camp to find out whether any Spanish ships but the Colon were there, aud he got from the Cubans a list of the vessels in the harbor. He reported this to Schley, -who ordered him to report it to Rear-Admiral Sampson, who had arrived. The last witness for the Government was Albert Beall, who served as a volunteer officer during the war and was a lieutenant on the Harvard. He testified to the dates on which Captain Cotton received his dispatches and cleared up the mystery attending Schley's "disobedience of orders" dispatch. In the Navy Department publications this appears as a defiant and almost insolent dispatch from Schley. When the case was opened Schley put in evidence the dispatch lie really wrote, which was of a pacific tenor, and indicated that he and all his captains had labored hard to obey the orders, but had been prevented by physicial conditions. Mr. Beall explained this difference. He was the officer who turned the dispatches into cipher. In doing so ho did not always use the exact language given him. but sought to give the same result by using equivalent phrases which were easier to put into cipher. In this way he unintentionally, and in perfect good faith, gave the dispatch the defiant twist for which Schley has been criticized. The most interesting witness of the day was Captain Francis A. Cook, who commanded the Brooklyn, and who was called by the Judge Advocate. He told the whole story of the campaign in a simple, direct, sailorly fashion, and the interest was intense. Among the points brought out by Captain Cook were these: He was responsible for the Brook lyn's loop, and had the ship well around before the Commodore spoke to him on the subject. He always regarded Schley as "an enthusiastically brave and patriotic officer." Schley and he were convinced that Cienfuegos was the destination of Cervera's fleet from all the information given them from Key West, and believed the Spanish ships were in Cienfuegos until McCalla communicated with the insurgents. The Flying Squadron was on Its way to Gonaives to coal when the scouts were met southeast of Santiago, and the retrograde movement toward Key West began under the belief that Cervera had left Santiago, if he had ever been there, and was probably at that time nearer Cienfuegos or Havana. Captain Cook also thought the blockades at Cienfuegos and Santiago were closer inshore than did most of the young watch officers who have testified. He never had any idea of jeopardizing the Texas by the loop, and was confident that there never was any danger of collision. THREE DIE OF FIREDAMP. Father and Son Perish In Trying to Re?cne Another Son. Connellsville, Penn.?John GiUeland, a coal miner, and his two eons, aged nine and eleven years, were suffocated near Juniataville by firedamp in an airehaft twenty feet deep. The shaft ventilates the abandoned part of the coal mine of the Juniata Coal Company, and is surmounted by a curb three feet high. The youngest boy climbed upon the curb and when a blast of deadly gas struck him in the face he toppled over and fell into the shaft. The father, standing in the doorway of the house, saw the boy fall and was horrified to see the other boy climbing into the shaft to descend after his brother on the ladder. When Gilleland reached the shaft neither boy was in sight. The father then climbed down nimself. Mrs. Gilleland gave the alarm to the neighbors. A canvas was ringed at the top of the shaft to deflect the air from the mine fan into the hole, and John Nicholson and John Brown, mine foremen, descended. The father's body was found half way down and the bodies of the two boys were found at the bottom locked in an embrace. The bodies were hoisted un with blocks and tackle. Roosevelt to Ride and Drire. President Roosevelt has purchased three horses, a landau, a brougham and a victoria. They were obtained in New York City through the President's brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson. The President already has in the White House stables a tine Kentucky thoroughbred saddle horse, as also is Mrs. Roosevelt's saddle mare Yaganka. It is the intention of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt to riile occasionally together. Escaped From a Transport. Thomas Bronnan, a private soldier, under sentence of life imprisonment for killing a superior officer, escaped from the transport Kilpatrick while she was lving in the harbor of Polio, P. I. Blc Reservoir Bnrst. A large reservoir, containing. 10,000,000 gallons of water, burst and caused great damage at East Liverpool, Ohio, No lives were lost, but a score of per r ns had narrow escapes. The money loss will reach $li>0,000. News of the Tollers, Australia has passed a law barriug tl'.e eutry of anyone under contract tc do manual labor. Ou^ of 22.SS3 coal miners employed in the district of Liege, Belgium, 13,004 are now idle. The Journeymen Tailors' Union has made a gain of nearly 4000 members I in the last two years. - ? - * - TJoil. Switchmen 011 ine L<aKe onuic ???..road are talking strike unless tbey are given an increase of wages. Industrial activity has been resumed in San Francisco, Cal., owing to several striken being settled. y I ,-v . .. . ? / . .1 Mascsrnt'i Lonsr Hair. 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