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Wf\ Orphan Isle of Pines.
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L UNITED ST A TES AND CUBA HAVE RIVAL
U j CLAIMS-PRODUCTS AND PEOPLE.
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Bn 4t?l HSU ! on ornhnn lalnnrl hv til
I] ll I name of the Isle of Pines
iLJL/ I Secretary Root has Just ai
f[Fj' |lfl| nounced that Cuba Is il
guardian, but the orphan i
protestiug. It bad eagerly expected t
call Uncle Sam "padre," and, now tha
kits anticipations bave been snubbed, i
pias. in true Infantile fashion, "set up
Herbert G. Squiers, the United State
Minister to Cuba, who returned to H?
,vana recently from a visit to the Isl
Of PIne& reports that the America:
r residents there are clamoring for Amei
lean sovereignty, and say that the;
have made extensive purchases of lan
with the understanding that tne Star
and Stapes were to float over thei
houses. The Pine Islanders can appes
to Congress for relief from the ruiin
of the Secretary of War.
About the size of the State of Rhod
Island, and situated sixty miles sout
of the western end of Cuba, the Isle o
Pines would prove a Valuable accessio
to any country interested in Sout!
f American affairs. In the same long]
I tude as Tampa, Fla., and the same latl
I - -Jtudfe_a8 Yucatan, Mexico, the bit o
land is-5^6.rded as a strategic key t
fthe Caribbeain&a and the Yucatni
Channel, which coflV.t'g-*> this sea wit]
"Gimme a Cent." "**
H AS ISLE OF PINES WAIF.
fij tlie Gulf of Mexico. Attention to th
Island as a military base lias recentl
I been still more strongly foeussed b,
igj the Venezuelan tmbrogiio.
Jr The circumstances which orphans
I the Isle of Pines grew out of the recen
[ Spanish-American War. At the end o
U the conflict Spain relinquished her ax
IT clent sovereignty to the island, and th
[ natious wondered as to its fate. Soni
I aald it would come into the possessio:
of the United States; others seemed t
regard it as geographically a part o
\ Cuba, inasmuch as Cuba, by reason o
I Its concave shape, embraces the Isle o
| Pines in the segment of its arc. Intei
I national cariosity, therefore, wasgreai
ly aroused when Cuba ratified the Plat
amendment, which, in defining the ter
rltorial bounds of Cuba, omitted th
Isle of Pines, and referred to it by say
"The Isle of Pines shall be omltlei
from the properly constituted bound
arles of Cuba, the title thereto bein;
ieft to future adjustment by treaty."
Leading statesmen in Cuba have a!
along taken the view that the de fact
government of the Isle of Pines is onl;
temporary, and that until its national
| HAhBOlt AT SUEVA
E , lty Is determined it should pay tax*
I 1 to Cuba, as a part of the Province <
m ; Havana. The determination of Cuba 1
flm inhnltlfnnte nf thtt Iclc nf T*itW
n iaA u:t muuviiuiiio VI. iuv V*. ?.
91 (brought the situation to a crisis. T1
Mft 800 Americans who live on the islac
f became defiant. They went to the A
! cade, or Mayor, of the principal clt;
I and said they would u*e force if nece
IBk eary to prevent a tax levy by Cub
,They insisted that the country shou
H .belong to the United IStates, and j
Bfira goon as the American flag floated ov<
them they would pay their taxes
H ' iXTncle Sam, but never to any one else
In its independence from gover
mental control, the Isle of Pines hi
SraHsimply been true to its traditions. F<
BBagMmore than two centuries after Colui
KE&flkus discovered It this piece of the wor
BSTxras the bome of fleets of pirates, wl
Ki preyed on the commerce of the Atla
tic as far north as the Carolinas ai
1.
I to the southward as far as Rio Janeiro. I
The island was peculiarly adapted by
nnt-nre as a haven for the buccaneer.
and some Cubans say that even at the
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It present time, should this Island come
a Into the possession of a foreign power,
it would become a strategic base of ops
eratlons for smugglers.
[. A line of reefs encircles the Island
? fnr the most Dart, and between it and
ii Cuba lies a chain of little isles, called
'"it
0 AN ISLE OF PlXfcJ
1 the Isles de Mangles. The prii^^H
^ Wjton northern shore is
^pfc^?Bhrr*jIstanco up
Ceri^^^^Kld a person" in Havana
wish to vlM the Isle of Pines, he would
cross Cuba by rail, by a journey of
thirty miles to Batabano, and take a
steamer from there for Nueva Gerona.
Though the entire distance would be
only ninety miles, nevertheless, under
present conditions, it would take the
traveler a whole day.
Were It not for a long, projecting
cape, much resembling Cape Cod, at
the western end of the southern shore,
the Isle of Pines would have the
square outline of the unpoetic Block
Island. At high tide the island Is
practically transformed Into two land
areas, for the reason that the sea
inundates a chain of lagoons across the
southern part of the isle. The northern
part, facing Cuba, however, is mountainous,
with peaks more than 2000
feet above the sea. Here dwell nearly
all of the 3000 inhabitants, and those
who have been stimulated by American
onterDrise to till the soil finds that It
responds with a wonderful fertility.
- Potatoes are produced which bring a
e higher price in the markets of Havana
" than those from the United States.
Tobacco grows even too luxuriantly.
Sugar cane is cultivated successfully,
^ and the pineapple, which grew wild in
:t such abundance that it gave its name
f
1 to the island, is being systematically
l* raised for American tables.
* The population of the Isle of Pines is
u distinct from that of Cuba, and is a
mixture of the native Indian, the Inf
vading Spaniard and the negro slave.
- Before the advent of the Spaniard the
j, aborigines were divided into two
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OEI10NA, ISLE OF PINES.
s classes, one owning the lands and cul>f
tivating them by means of negro
:o slaves, and the other a shiftless, totally
?s savage race, which subsisted on raw
le fish and fruits, and wandered naked
id up and down the coasts.
.1- Three hundred Americans have sety,
tied on the island, and with an enters
prise characteristic of their race thoy
a. are rapidly turning the natural wealth
Id of the country to commercial ends,
is They have found that many woods
pr abound, such as cedar, oak, pino de tea,
to ocuja. sabriua, eapeche, fustic, cocoa,
ebony, mahogany, walnut, celba, mail
ronon. majugua and the royal palm,
is which tree furnishes most of the necesor
sitles of life, Including food, drink,
waa/1.?
II* SUtllfl <11111 I <UlUl'Jll, iUtUIJ lillL" U U\HiP
Id have long beon usod prodigally by the
10 natives, who did not realize their value,
n- and thus the Spanish prison at Nueva
id Gerona, In which politically prisoners
f were at one time confined when the
island was used an a penal col?ny, Is
finished in mahogany and ebony, over
which has been daubed whitewash, for
"ornamental purposes."
Marble quarries, containing fine vari?ties
of white, green and pink stone
are now being operated, and a company
has been organized to build a sana- of
torium at Santa Fe, in the interior, fa
where there is the largest of the many th
magnesium springs which has long w
made this island a health resort for er
rich Cubans. Naturalists say that the la
island possesses 200 species of birds
and fully 700 of fish. The most pic- ~
turesque member of the bird family
is one which walks about on lily pads,
and possesses blue head feathers, with
creamy white body, scarlet breast, legs
of green and bill of orange. In the
everglades In the southern part teem
countless forms of insect and amphibian
life, and after nightfall tray
An lulfl of Plne?
phos- J
phorescent lights, will-o'-the-wisps and
other unearthly forms of misty Are.?
New iork Tribune.
PRACTICAL
EATING-APRON
May Be Blade of Percale. Linen or Brown
Crash.
* This little apron, says Woman's
Companion, Is something entirely new.
It is a simple, practical eating-apron
for children, cut in one piece, and
buttoning with one button only in the
back. It may be made of percale, j
linen or crash, and bound with pretty \
colored tape. It will be exceedingly ]
serviceable made of rough brown
crash?just the sort of crash that Is
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nr&MB.'s
used for kitchen towels. I? fine oilcloth'it
will be found useful, too, as it
can then be wiped off with a damp
cloth after each meal.
A useful feeding bio is made of a
piece of damask linen or mummy cloth,
with an absorbing pad on the back.
The pad is made of absorbent cotton,
over which is quilted a piece of soft
linen. Une or tne nicest inaienais or
which to make this bib is the perfect
parts of worn-out table linen, which
is soft and much more absorbent than
new linen, and is much easier to rinse
out and keep fresh.
ndKESTttEWILb
ECHOES RINQ
No doubt many of our readers who ?
have visited Grindelwald, in Switzer- uj
land, have seen the man with the big w
Alpine horn shown i? this snap-shot. b<
For a consideration this person blows tv
jlj^
THE HOKV-DLOWER OK ORINDELWALD?
A IEW NOTES ON HIS INSTRUMEN1
BRINO MOST EXQUISITEjECHOES FROM
THE SURROUNDING MOUNTAINS.
a short call of a few notes on his
gigantic instrument, whereupon most
exquisite echoes come bad: from the
surrounding mountains, taking the
form of distant peals of church bells
and organs playing. This phenomenon
is a never-falling source of attraction
to tourists, and the born-blower makes
quite a lot of money during the season.
?The Wide World Magazine. as
oi
If you are invited to a wedding, the tc
cheapest thing to send is regrets. ^
i SACK-WEIGHING
MACHINE
atforra Scales find Hatchway Door*
Combined.
A usual way of checking the weight
1 material going into a warehouse or
ctory in sacks is to take, say, every
ilrd sack and place it separately on a
eigh-brldge. This procedure has seval
disadvantages. It takes time and
bor to do it, and the exact weight
n never be ascertained absolutely..
TRAP DOORS AND SCALES.
the system is open to trickery and
ception. An ingenious device has reitlv
hppn ^ipslgned bv an English firm
hereby sot only every sack can be I
ilghed, but time and labor are both
red. This apparatus is shown in
p accompanying cuts. It certainly
s the advantage of being simple.
ie ordinary double trap-door, such as
found over the hatches of any wareuse,
is made to do duty as the plat-'
rm of a weighing machine, the long
id short lever bodies of the mnehine
ing so arranged round the hatchway
K VISING SACK THROUGH TRAPS.
> to permit of a free opening under
ie flaps. The levers can be made to
>erate a spring balance, as shown in
ie illustration, or else an ordinary
eel-yard. In the one case a movable
idlng indicator is attached to tlir?riphery
of the dial face, so as to
low the weight which the pointer
lould show. In the other, of course.
ie proper weigiu is imi uu me siaiird,
and the operator observes
hether the lever is up, central or
>wn.
The metliod of procedure is well
lown in the cuts. The sack is hauleil
[) through the double flaps of the
itch in the ordinary way. When theips
have fallen back into place tin*
weighing the sacks.
ick Is lowered outo them, and tli.?
eight indicated on the dial. It will
i seen, therefore, that there are not
vo handlings of any one sack, and
1 the time lost is that involved in lowing
the sack onto the platform, or
ap-door.
A lever will be noticed to the left of
ie pillar carrying the dial. This is
ir disconnecting the latter when it is
>t desired to weigh the sacks passed
trough the trap-door, and to save the
achine from unnecessary wear and
ar.
Men Wear Combs.
The traveler in India is surprised to
>e that men wear combs in their hair
uch more than women do. A Cinilese
gentleman wears what we know
f r;
3 tlie circular comb and a very small
namental back comb of tortoise shell
i gather his curly locks together. He
ears a full beard also.
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FIRE DEVASTATES OHM
" % r> i c a l
rorty biocks Burned ana nunareas
of People Left Homeless.
SUSPECTED INCENDIARY HELD
A M*n, Wlio Recently Served ? Term in
Frlion For Arson, Under Arxe?t? The
Blaie Start* Where the Bis Ball Fire
of 1000 Ended ? Million* of Feet of
Lumber Couiamed,
Ottawa, Ontario.?A fire, suspccted
nf helncr of lncendiarv orieln. destroyed
hundreds of houses and millions of
feet of lumber In this city. John White,
who has Just been released from the
penitentiary after serving a term of Imprisonment
for arson, was caught near
where the fire was first discovered. He
was taken to the police station and
charged with starting the conflagration.
The fire originated within a stone's
throw of where the great Hull fire of
April 26, 1000, was checked. The Hull
fire started on the opposite side of the
river and spread to the Ottawa side,
destroying millions of dollars' worth of
property. It burned out near where the
Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway enters
the western part of the city, and
It was in the lumber yards near the
railroad that the latest fire originated.
Two houra before the principal fire
started two smaller blazes were discovered
and quickly extinguished In
the lumber yards near the Canadian
Pacific Railway. It was 3.30 when the
third fire was discovered. Whtn the
brigade arrlvtd at the scene it was
found that the water main had been
damaged and no water could be obtained.
When the brigade finally did
get water the fire was utterly b-eyond
Its control. It swept along over the
same ground that the former fire had
gone, the only difference being that it
was going in the opposlt? direction.
There is a large cliff which'extends
from the Ottawa Rivtr to Margaret
and Preston streets. The fire area was
on the flats below the cliff. At two or
three points it came very near getting
over the cliff, and had it done so nothing
would hav? saved the city. At
9.30 at night the fire was thoroughly
under control and it was confined to
the following area:
The Ottawa and Parry Sound Railway,
on the south. Division street on
the east. First avenue on the west,
and the Richmond Road on the north.
From the Parry Sound Road to the
Richmond Road is about one mile, and
from First avenue to Division street Is
about one-quarter of a mile.
Fifteen million feet of lumber were
destroyed. It belonged chiefly to J. R.
Booth and was sold. The loss on the
lumber will be about $300,000. The
buildings burned were principally
dwelling bouses and stores. They
were all built since tbe last great fire,
and were either solid brick or brick
veneered, as the city would not permit
any other kind to be erected.
Mayor Cook said that there were from
500 to 600 families homeless, or about
2000 individuals. All the property is
supposed to be well insured.
The Mayor said the city would oppose
any aid being asked from outside
Canada, and personally he thought
that the city should grapple with the
situation without any appeal for outside
help.
Mayor Cook estimated the loss on the
buildings at $300,000, making a total
loss of SGOO,000. *
On the cliff overlooking the ruins
were thousands of people looking upon
the desolation which the conflagration
created. Tbe large majority of those
burned out were taken charge of by
friends.
Alderman Ploufere, "who represents
the ward in which the fire occurred,
estimates that between 500 and COO
families were burned out.
S2I00 FOR A_POE_MANUSCRIPT.
MThe Bell*," In the Poet'a nandwritm;
Sold at Aactlon in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Pa.?The original manuscript
of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells"
was sold at auction for $2100. It was
part of the Harold Peirce Library.
The manuscript is a little scorched.
It consists of slips of blue paper pasted
tosrether, and originally formed a strip
eignt inches wide and thirty-seven and
one-half inches long, but It has been divided
Into three more or less equal
parts. It lacks the last fourteen lines
of the completed poem, but tt Is believed
that they never formed a part
of this sheet.
There were three dealers active In
the bidding?George D. Smith and
George W. Bowdeu, of New York, and
George H. Rigby, of this city. The
manuscript was bought by Mr. Rigby.
RAZED HtS OWN TOMBSTONE.
Alan Snppoaed to Have i'.een Dead Many
[Years Antonlshei Hla Family.
Rochester, N. Y.?Twenty-eight years
ago this month the body of a man was
found floating in a millrace here. It
was identified as that of William H.
Stone.' The identification was made
positive by Mrs. Stone, the supposed
widow.
The One Hundred and Fifth New
York Infantry, of which he had been a
member, adopted a memorial resolution
and attended the funeral in a
UUUJ. v^uiei ui ruui'e v^icax v, iuru a
policeman, was one of the pall bearers.
Interment was in the Stone family
plot, in Mount Hope. A few days ago
Stone suddenly appeared, razed the
tombstone, and fully identified himself
to his family and the police. He has
been a wanderer.
Mbdt Killed in Railroad "Wreck.
Twelve men were burned to death
and eight slightly injured in a train
wreck fifty miles west of Port Arthur,
Ont. A caboose attached to a tie train
left the track, the car was overturned
and took fire.
Chinese Leper llecapturod.
Dong Gong, the Chinese teper, who
escaped from quarantine at St. Louis.
Mo., was recaptured. lie was found in
in a Chinese laundry, many customers
of which burned their linen when th?y
learned of the capture.
.Tftlin rvnlnnav Waf TTrpn
John Czolgosz. brother of the assassin
of President McKinley, "was released
by the police at Los Angeles. Cal. The
police are convinced that he is a peaceable,
law-abiding young man. For the
sake of avoiding notoriety Czolgoss
will continue to go under an assumed
name.
Japan Send* a Oano to The ITame.
The question of the liability of foreigners,
to pay the house tax in Japan
will b? submitted to the International
Arbitration Court at The Hague in September
next.
PLOT TO BLOW UP LINER |
Police, Warned by Mall, Find Infernal
Machine on Umbria's Pier.
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According to "Uifla" Letter, Oceanic W?l f
Spared Because of Women and Chit- p
dren Aboard ? A Joke, Perhapi*
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New York City.?A special delivery ^
letter was received at Police Headquarters
at 12.15 o'clock p. m. marked o
"Warning from the Mafia," and con- P
talnlng the information that a box Q
containing 100 pounds of dynamite liad n
been sent down to the Cunard Line
pier to be put aboard the Umbria.
which was to sail at 2 o'clock. * c;
The letter also said that the box had a;
been fitted out with a clockwork appliance
which was set for thirty-six hours.
Within a very few minutes detec- 5
tives were dispatched to the pier. Un- uj
der a pile of trunks they found a
plain pine box, much like an ordinary
packing case, with iron handles B
at each end. There was no name on F
it, and a hasty examination convinced
the detectives that it contained a lot of g
dynamite. The clockwork was seen as d
soon as the lid was opened. tl
rrn. i-iA? ?4-U _
a ue itfiitri cuuiuiuiiiK iiie moiuiu^
was written In fairly good handwriting,
evidently that of a man. After telling
of the dynamite it said that It was .p
meant as a warning to those who sail .
on English vessels. ,
When the box was taken ont the top
was pried off and the clockwork was
seen inside. The wheels of It were N
moving. a'
A rope was tied around the box and
It was dropped over the pier near th?
side of the Umbria and lowered until it b
struck the bottom. ^
The Umbria sailed at her scheduled T
hour, 2 o'clock, and then the box was it
raised and an Investigation begun.
The removal of the bottom disclosed e]
three compartments. In the centre r)
compartment was the clockwork and a ^
lot or wires, in tne ena compartments E]
were about ten small packages, each
labeled "Climax Powder Company,
Emporium, Pa." The packages were
about one and a half inches In diameter
and about six inches long. It was a
taken to Fire Headquarters for further a
examination. t<
All the men on the pier knew of the
box wag that it was taken to the pier p
In an express wagon at 2 o'clock on the v
previous day by two men. who looked p
like Italians. They said that they had
met a man at Thirty-ninth street and G
Broadway who had told them to take .
the box. p
Superintendent Murray, of the Bureau
of Combustibles, said that the Infernal
machine was the most complete
and elaborate he had -ever seen. There P
wus no doubt he said, that It contained
guncotton and powder. E
The letter of warning, which was
written in pencil, was mailed at the F
general postoffl,ce'*at 11 o'clock, and the r<
writer gave the information that it had n
been intended originally to send the S
box on the Qfeeanlc, but it was found p
that that vessel would carry too tnany t
women and children, so it was decided
to sentf, it on the Umbria. r
Police Commissioner Greene Is in- j(
clined to the belief that the whole af- ?
fair was somebody's idea of a practical
Joke. This Impression is gaining considerable
strength, and If the lnvestiea- ^
tion corroborates it the joker, should b? J
be caught, will have a very hard time v
of it for perpetrating such a scare upon 6
the public.
The police, however, regard the pla?r- v
ing of the bos on the pl-?r as a very se- E
rious matter, and purpose to make It
anything but a joke for the perpetrator. a
CLEVELAND ON HIS BOOM. ?
Say* He Has Mot Desired to Lead thk
Democrats For the Fourth Time. p
Athens, Ga?B. F. Holder. Jr., editor {*
of the Athens Banner, recently wrote a b
letter to Grover Cleveland, telling him
the result of a poll of the business n
men of Athens, showing a strong senti. t]
ment for the nomination of Mr. Cleve- C
land, and asking this question: "Are
you now considering or would you con- $
slder making the race for the Presl- f,
dency next year on 'the Democratic c
ticket?" Mr. Cleveland wrote in reply ti
as follows:
"Princeton, N. J.
"B. F. Holder. Jr.: '2
"Dear Sir: I thank you for your
letter of the 4th inst., and for the edi- V
torial clipping from your paper which
accompanied It. I cannot fail to be
gratified by the kindly expressions
which frequently come to me In these
days from all parts of our country, ?
and I desire to thank you for your ?
loyal support In the past and for your
exceedingly friendly expressions at this
time. In answer to the question with
which you conclude your letter, I can ^
say no more than to assure you that ^
at no time since the close of my last
Administration have I beer desirous of
carrying the Democratic banner for v
the fourth timo in a Presidential con- t
test. Yours very truly. - r
"GROVER CLEVELAND.** c
NEGRO CARRIER THREATENED. r
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Warned on Fain of Death to Give Up Mail
Itoate In Tennessee.
Washington, D. C.?Another colored ?
incident is reported in the postal serv- ?
ice, and as in the Indianola affair The t
Postmaster-General has ordered the 0
suspension of service until the report
of threatened assault has been fully f
investigated- John (J. Aiigood, a colored
carrier on a rural delivery route j
in Gallatin, Tenn.. says lie was held up r
by masked men and commanded not to a
make another trip with the mall under
penalty of losing his life. j
Postmaster-General Payne directed
Special Agent Conger in Naskvill" to
make a thorough investigation, and to
suspend the delivery of mail on that
route until the circumstances have r
been learned. P
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Fetching; Destroy* Moro Forts.
Ten Moro forts wore captured b? f
Captain Pershing and destroyed. 115 *
natives were killed, thirteen wounded ?
and sixty, including the Sultan of Am- f
parugano, made prisoners. The American
Loss was two killed and seven r
wounded. t
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Prairie Vlre Pamatro* a Town.
Fire which spread from the prnirle ,
to Minnedosa, Manitoba, has destroyed
the Canadian Pacific stock yards. Wallace's
grain elevator and damaged sev- (
eral other buildings. -Loss, $100,000. J
Sporting Brevities.
juan raicn, a.oy%, win ue exmuirea j
all over the country this season. 4
Negotiations are pending for n cable
Franco-American revolver match. t
J. Bnndermann has lowered the New i
York University record for the mile *
run to 4m. 41 2-5s.
Two thousand calico bass have been 1
distributed in Camden. Gloucester. 5
Monmouth and Hunterdon counties.
New Jersey. 1
In a short windward trial on the :
Long Island Sound in a light breeze ]
the Columbia showed to better advantage
than the Reliance. ;
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IINOR EVENTSOF THE WEEK
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
An investigation of the Washington
ity postoffice -was completed, but the
esults were not announced at the de*
artment. "J
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The Government crop report gay*
he average condition of winter wheat
s 92.6 on May 1, against 97.3 on. ,
kpril 1. ; a
Lieutenant Chester, one of the watch
fflcers of thp monitor -Arkansas,
orted the Navy Department that
tie vessel would probably be a prlsner
Id the Mississippi until the floods
ext. spring.
Major-General Baden-Powell wrote
) General Corbin, denying that he had
riticlsed adversely the American carIry.
Delegates to the Red Cross Convenon,
which meets in Geneva, Switzerind,
in September, were named by , ?
resident Roosevelt.
Secretary Root exonerated General
aldwin from the charge of criticising
llipino and negro soldiers. - .
Forty thousand dollars' worth of
ood ammunition, erroneously thought
efective, was thrown overboard from
le United States cruiser Olympla.
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OCR ADOPTED ISLANDS.
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The Ladrone situation In Albay
rovince, P. I., was unsatisfactory,
ut the other districts, which recently
ad been disturbed, were quieter.
Four natives were found euflty of
le murder of three American marines
t Olangapo, Subig Bay, P. L, last Sep;mber,
and were sentenced to deatli.
The quarantining of transport?
ound from Manila for San Francisco
'as resumed on account of the cholera,
'he epidemic 'was making slight gains
1 Luzon.
Albert Roberts, cashier of the Gotrnment
Ice plant at Manila, was ar*
?sted on the charge of embezzlement,
[is accounts were said to be $4000
tiort.
^
DOMESTIC. / ' VT
Part of the prison at Flat Top Stockde,
at Birmingham, Ala., was burned
nd nine convicts escaped and commit*
;d many daring robberies.
More than 200 Portuguese imml
rants were rescued rrom tne Drtg
era Cruz II., which 'stranded off "vf'ortsmouth,
N. C.
The explosion of the boiler on the
rovernment tug Cynthia at Willing)n,
N. |C., killed Engineer Aagustns
>ickey and seriously scalded three
ther men.
Fourteen girls who said they were
upils of a seminary were tramping . $
trough Westchester County and Conecticut.
Four of the eleven presidents of San N
'rancisco Highbinder tongs were ar;sted
on a charge of conspiracy to
lurder 300 members of the Chinese
oclety of English Education; the
olice were looking for the other seven;
wo of those arrested confessed.
Kentucky sued the Southern Pacific
tailway Company for $1,000,000 al?ged
to be due for taxes unpaid for
ve years.
Stumbling against a high-tension
'ire In a power house at Augusta,
lich., Ray Harrington received 25,000
olts through the body, dying 1ntantly.
The bill granting women the right to
ote w-as rejected by the Connecticut
louse of Representatives.
President Roosevelt visited Pasadena
nd Los Angeles, Cal., and saw the anual
festival of flowers in the latter
lty.
Judge McCarthy in court in Philadelhia,
Pa., said that if Southern negroes
ept on going to Philadelphia "we will
ave to enlarge the jails." '(>j
Ferdinand Schumacher, the "Oatleal
King," who failed in 1893, paid
he last dollar of his Indebtedness at
!leveland, Ohio.
John d! Rockefeller's offer to give
07,000 to the University of Nebraska
or a new building will probably be delined,
owing to criticism of the eapl- *
ilist.
Robert N. Hartman, professor of
nalytical chemistry in the State
chool of Mines at Golden, Cal., was
uflfycated in the gas-generating roomie
was born in Ghent, N. Y., in 1872.
FOKEIGK.
The city of Guyaquil, Ecuador, was
reatly alarmed over the reported exsteuce
of the bubonic plague in Peru.
It was announced that King Chrlsian
of Denmark would go to Paris
nd Berlin to return the visits of
resident Loubet and Emperor
V'illiam.
A mosque in which 200 Moslems
cere worshiping was dynamited, and
he worshipers were buried in the . .
uins; the perpetrator of the outrage
ommitted suicide by shooting.
The Governor of Kwangsi, China,
eported that the rebellion in that
rovince had been suppressed.
Infanta Isabella, King Alfonso's
unt, fell from her horse at Madrid,
Spain, and was kicked. Her lip was
ladly out, but she was not dangerously
injured.
Government troops in Morocco deeated
the tribesmen.
Mine. Humbert, her husband and
irother were committed for trial on
he charge of forgery by the Paris exmining
magistrate.
It was reported from Panama that
' resident Marroquin of Colombia had
esigned, and that General Reyes
rould succeed him.
The Turkish Government, in a comnunication
to representatives of the
lowers, denied responsibility for the
tiassacre at Monastir.
Bulgarians in Snlonica were hiding
rom the Turkish troops, and many
vere in prison; the city was under
uartial law, and further trouble was
eared.
It was announced in England that
icgotiations for a parcels.post conven.
J i.1
ion between ureat iinruin uuu. iue
Jnited States were going on.
Einperor William's gifts to Harvard
L'uiversity arrived in Boston.
Tiio Tope decided to appoint Father
Bolton, of New York, to be Bishop of
?ufl.'iiIo and received his jubilee gift
rom President Roosevelt.
The Irish Land bill passed Its second
eadii:g in the House of Commons by
143 votes to 2G.
Arverica saved The Hague Arbitraion
Tribunal when Europe tried to let
t die, Baron d'Estouinelles Constant
>aid.
An attempt by a Bulgarian band ta
)low up a powder magazine in Monastir
caused a panic in that town.
The airship built for the Lebnudj
wot hers and one of Santo.s-Duaiont't
lirships had successful trails la
France.
The bubonic plague was discovered
it Callao, Peru. \