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* ^ THE COUNTY RECORD. | Published Every Thursday ?at? CNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ? B T? LOUIS J. BKISTOW, Editor and Proprietor. The Temple of Fame -will need to have some new stories built on it in order to hold the names of the Yankee lads who are demanding a place at the top of the illustrious list. Italy is congratulating itself that there were only 920 duels fought last year in the whole country. Of these 103 had serious consequences, though only one duellist was killed outright. So important are the indications ? afforded by the teeth of the general health and strength of the constitution of candidates for the United States Navy, that unless a would-be ? ooAilitolila flvimim CUUtfl CttU |IU33 <J. ticuuuciv tion at the hands of the ilentist he must make up his mind to look for an^ other calling. It is easy enough teaching Spain a lesson, but that lesson will be heeded by others who have been ready with their sneers. The schoolmaster has been a little slow, perhaps, bat his ferule is long and his arm strong. We venture to say that when this war is done the American flag will have a new meaning the round world over. There are 100,000 ranches and plantations in Cuba valued at $200,000,000. Besides supplying food for the island these plantations yielded a surplus valued at $90,000, for export. Sugar and tobacco are the main products and constitute ninety per cent, of the exports. The sugar product for the fiscal year 1892-1893 amounted to S15,89-1 tons; in 1893-1S94, 1,054,214 tons; in 1894-1895, 1,004,204 tons, and in 1895-1806, 225,221 tons, all of which, except 30,000 tons per annum, was exported. The International Commission of the Pyrenees, on the suggestion of the Municipal Council of the little canton of Aramits, has suppressed the annual no O 'VTllttfo /Ifik CereillUllY a aa buu v.v Baretous" that has taken place on July 13 in that place for more than seven hundred years. The ceremony consists in transferring three heifers as a. tribute from the French valley of Baretous to -the Spanish valley of , Roncal, with details that are considered humiliating to French amour propre, such as casting a lance and firing o gun at the French "soil. In future the tribute will be paid with the omission of these acts. Following the.olil principle that the dancer must pay the fiddler the new war taxes are now operative upon the people of the country. It is safe to say that every person, whatever his age, sex or previous couditiou may be. will be called upon to pay directly or indirectly. Checks require a twocent stamp, conveyances of real estate, quantities of other documents, life, fire and marine policies, nil mnst be stamped; if one goes abroad the passage ticket is taxed; if he allows his note to go to protest a twenty-five cent sjam^ is a reminder; if he buys medicine or perfumery, a graduated soalo of tax; chewing gum pays a tax of four cents, sugar and petroleum refiners par; if one buys a scat in a palace or parlor car, a tax of one cent is required, etc.; and if we receive legacies from near or far relatives or others, we will pay a tax and a heavy one. The nation whi<$i governs almost one-fourth of the earth's population, and upon the whole governs well, spends over two hundred millions annually upon sport, and has invested in the same way an even greater sum, comments Ontiug. Perhaps there is no higher test of a man's all-round abilities than his power to govern wisely; at any rate, it is a truth to be borne in mind, in this connection, that the governing races of to-day are races of sportsmen. The people who play games are inheriting the earth, perhaps because it makes them meek. As a matter of fact, we think it does just that, among other things. The French do not play games, and Mr. Benjamin Kidd has shown how the population of France is steadily decreasing, the deaths having outnum(ah Cflrflrol ! uereu IUC uuius iuuc iui cv . v. m , years' past. The Spaniards do not plAy games, and travelers in r.nd students of Spain, aud the Spanish, agree that their two most salient characteristics are overweening pride and cruelty. The Chinese despise unnecessary physical exercise, and can scarcely be driven to tight, even for their country, and their lack of decision and their pulpy condition of dependence are now all too manifest. 1 \ SHAFTER'S ARMY ORDERED HOME; Only One-Tenth of the Soldiers at Santiago in Fighting Trim and Their Officers Asked For Relief, WROTE A ROUND ROBIN. Ye!:nw Fever Threatened to Kill Thou sands and Thev Are Bcin^r Tr;nsferred to Montauk Point. Peril Necessitated llaste?War Department Spurred to Activity by News I From Santiago?Colonel Roosevelt De- ! clares Ninety I'er Cent, of the Army Is Incapacitated and That Men Will Pie Like Sheep if Lett in Cuba?Shaffer and Roosevelt Rebuked. Santiago de Cuba (Special).?Summoned by Major-General Shatter, a meeting was held hero at headquarters, and In the presence of every commanding and medical officer of the Fifth Army Corps General Shatter read a cnble message from Secretary Alger ordering him, at the recommendation of Surgeon-General Sternberg, to move the army into the interior, to San Luis, where it is healthier. As a result of the conference General Shatter will insist upon the immediate withdrawal of the army North within two weeks. Colonel Roosevelt's Letter. As an explanation of the situation the j following letter from Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, commanding tfie First Cavalry, j to Generul Shatter, was handed by the lat- [ ter to the newspaper correspondents here for publication: "Major-General Shatter: "Sir?In a meeting of the general an l i medical officers called by you at the palace j this morning we were all, as you know, | unanimous In view of what should be done I with the army. To keep us here, in the ; opinion of every officer commanding a division or a brigade, will simply involve the destruction of thousands. "There is no possible reason for not shipring practically the entire command North at once. Yellow fever eases are very few j in the cavalry division, where I command one of the two brigades, and not one true j case of yellow fever has occurred in this | division, except among men sent to the j hospital at Siboney, where they have, I be- ] lieve, contracted it. "But in this division there have been fif- i teen hundred cases of malaria fever. Not j a man has died from it, but the whole com- [ mand is so weakened and shattered as to be I ripe for dying like rotten sheep when a real j yellow fever epidemic, instead of a fake ! epidemic, like the present, stri!:<# us,'as it i is bound to if we stay here at the height of 1 the sickness season, August and the begin- , niug of September. Quarantine against i malarial fever is much like quarantining j against the toothache. All of us are cer- ; tain, as soon as the authorities at Washington fully appreciate the conditions of , the army, to be sent home. Half the Troops May I)lc. "If we are kept here it will in nil human | possibility mean an appalling disaster, for I the surgeons here estimate that over half the army, if kept here during the sickly; season, will die. This is not only terrible j from the standpoint of the individual lives I lost, but it means ruin from the standpoint j of the militnrv efficiency of the flower of j the American army, for the groat bulk of j the regulars are here with you. "The sick list, large though it is, exceed- i fug 4000, nflfordo but a faint index of the de- I bilitation of the armv. Not ten per cent, i aro fit for active work. Six weeks on the j Muino coast, for instance, or elsewhere, j where the yellow fevyr gem; pjjnaot possi- , profagatCj woulo ihh!M U3 ill fL3 fit as ' fighting cocks, able as wc are and eager to take a leading part in the great campaign i against Havana in the fall, even if we arcnot allowed to try Porto Ried. Kept Thcro Without Object. ' \Yi can ho moved North, if moved a1 j once, with absolute safety to the country, j although, of course, it would have been in- j finitely better if wo had been moved North | gr to Porto Rico two weeks ago. If there , were any object in keeping us hero we j would face yellow fever with ns j much indirferenco as wo facts bullets. But there is no object in it. The I four immun-s regiments ordered here j are sufficient to garrison tho city and stir- ' rounding towns, and there is absolutely | nothing for us to do here, and there has J not been since the city surrendered. It is ' Impossible to move into the interior. Every shifting of camp doubles the sick rate in our present weakened condition, ana, anyhow, the interior is rather worse than the coast, as I have found by actual reconnoissance. Our present camps are as healthy as any camps at this end of the Island can be. "I write only because I cannot see our men, who have fought so bravely and who have endured extreme hardship and danger so uncomplainingly, go to destruction without striving, so far as lies in me, to avert a doom as fearful as it is unnecessary and undeserved. Yours respectfully, "Theodore Roosevelt, "Colonel Commanding ^irst Brigade." After Colonel Roosevelt had taken the initiative all the American general officers united in a round robin adirested to General Shatter. The "Round Kobin." It read: tVo the undersigned officers, command ing the various brigades, divisions, etc., of the army of occupation in Cuba, are of the unanimous opinion that this arinv should be at once taken out of the island of Cuba and sent to some point 011 the northern seacoast of tho United States; that, it can be done without danger to the people of theUnited States; that yellow fever in the army at present is not epidemic; that there are, Killed by a School Teacher, At Anadarka, Oklahoma, a colored man named Barrett was killed while trying to enter the room of Miss Phoebe Stokes, a school teacher at tnat place. Miss Stokes heard him at a window and ilred six shots into his body, killing him instantly. Aq;uiualdo in the Proper Spirit. AguiDaldo is not so bumptious now. lie asked General Merritt's permission to march his mjn in triumph through Manila when the city falls, and wants his troops organize! into regiments under American officer.-. ' only a few sporadic cases, but that the fW"my is disable 1 by malarial fever to tlio ex^nt that its efficiency is destroyed, and thmkit is in a condition to be practically entirely destroyed by an epidemic of yellow fever which is sure to cono in the near future. "We know from the reports of competent officers and from personal observation that the army is unable to move into the interior and that there arc no facilities for such a move if attempted, and that it could not be attempted until too late. Moreover, tho best medical authorities of the island say that with our present equipment we could not live in the interior during the rainy season without losses from malarial fever, which is almost as deadly as yellow fever. "This army must bo moved at once or perish. As tiie army can be safely moved now, the persons responsible for preventing such a move will be responsible for the unncessary loss of many thousands cf lives, "Our opinions are the result of careful personal observation, and they aro also based on the unanimous opinion of our medical oftlcers with the army, who understand the situation absolutely. "J. Ford Kent, Major-Gencral Volunteers, Commanding First Division Fifth Corps. "J. C. Bates. Major-General Volunteers, Commanding Provisional Division. "Adna R. Chaffee, Major-Gencral. Commanding Third Brigade, Second Division. "Samuel S. Sumner. Brigadier-General Volunteers, Commanding First Brigade, Cavalry. "Will Ludlow. Brigadier-General Volunteers. Commanding First Brigade, Second Division. "Adelbert Ames. Brigadier-General Volunteers, Commanding Third Brigade, First Division. "Leonard Wood. Brigadfer-Genorn! Volunteers, Commanding the City of Santiago. "Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel Commanding Second Cavalry Brigade." Major M. W. Wood, the Chief Surgeon of tbo First Division, said: "The army must be moved North," adding with emphasis, "or it will be unable to move itself." General Ames has sent the following cable message to Washington: "The Honorable Charles II. Allen. Assistant Secretary of the Navy: "This army is incapable, because of sickness, from marching anywhere, except to the tr:in?norts. If it is ever to return to the United States It must do so at once." SANTIACO ARMY ORDERED HOME. Fever Strlrken Forces Are to Ho Itrouglil to Montauk Point at Once. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Because of the perilous condition which has overtaken the United States troops in Santiago, and touched by the cry coming up from men tossing with fever, the administration gave out a bulletin which startled the city. President McKinley, after a conference with Secretary Long and Secretary Alger, took action for the prompt transfer o! Shatter's forces to Moutauk Point. L. I. The bulletin recited the number of transports on hand at Santiago, and ordered General Shaffer's men relieved from furthei duty at Santiago. Here is the bulletin in part: "War Department. ) "Adjutant-General's Office, V "August 4,1898. ) "The Secretary of War has ordered General Shatter's troops relieved from further duty in Santiago as fast as transportation can be provided and the transfer of Span* ish prisoners will admit of reduction of the garrison. "American transports now at Santiago will sail for New York as fast as they can be comfortably embarked. The rest at Montauk Point will prepare these seasoned troops for the campaign against Havana, in wnich they probably will take part. The lirst transport left Santiago Thursday. The movement is expected to lie completed by August 20. Five United States volunteer regiments, immunes, have been ordered to Santiago for garrison duty. The first has already arrived, the others are being pushed forward as rapidly as transportation can bo furnished." Young In Command at .Wontauk. Washington, I*. C. (Special). MajorGeneral S. M. D. Young, who recently returned from Santiago, where he was stricken with climatic fever, was ordered to take cpmtnand of the camp established nt Montauk, L. I. Brigadier-General BandaM will assist General Young in tho administration of altairs at the camp. Sliafter and Koosevelt Jtebukod. w T\ n /Cn.w.:.. 1Y V'o..?ofn of War Russell A. Alger ordered a severe reprimand seat to General Shatter, the Commanding General at Santiago. The General has made two grave blunders in the opinion of the President and the War Department. These are the permitting of General Kent's report to tje made public and also the facts about the great distress at Santiago and the need for the removal of our entire army. Col02"l Roosevelt wa3 included in the reprimand. FOUg FERS0N3 DROWNED. A Boat Belong!.'..!; to Colonel it uppert, Jr., Swamped With Fatal Itosalts. A large crowd of New Yorkers went to the fishing banks, off New Jersey, to join in the festivities of Ladies' Day of the New York Fishing Club. Instead of returning by the ferry ten of them accepted the invitation of Colonel Ja<*o!> Ruppert, Jr.. to return to ?w York on his steam yacht Albatross. Tiio yn 'ht was anchored in Rnritan liny, about COO yards away from the banks, anil tho party boarded two boats to bo rowed out to her. Tho water was very rough, and one of the boats was swamped l y tho I high waves. Four of the eight occupants were drowned. In the swamped boat wore Frank Ruppert. Mrs. Otto T. Frohwein, her two daughters, Gertrude, lifteen years old, and Fauna, thirteen years old; her son, Otto r. Frohwein, Jr. six years old; her niece, Annie Siebenliehan, eighteen years old, and two sailors whose names were not known. The boats arrived in time to save Mrs. Frohwein, Frank Ruppert and the two sailors. But Mrs. Frohwein's two daughters, her son and her niece sunk before the men in the water had been able to reach them. | Lieutenant Holison Presides at a Meeting. j The Metropolitan Opera House, at New i York City,was thronged with a vast multi| tudo on Thursday night, when Lieutenant j Hobson presided at a meeting of the New i York Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Protective Association. The meeting was held ; for the purpose of raising funds for tho j destitute families of the soldiers and sailors who are iu the service of their country. | Lieutenant Hobson received a flattering I ovation, and made a lasting impression by ; a remarkably well-delivered speech telling J of the heroism of the sailors in the service of Unole Sum. Iteward For Destroying Cervera's Fleet, The men of Sampson's llect are entitled I to S100 for every Spaniard on Cerverac | Ships. A Captured Flag In Washington. The second captured battle flag has been received at the War Department, Washing, ton, with a brief note from General Shaftei as follows: "Fragment of Spanish flag captured by the Thirteenth United States Infantry at San Juan, July 1." German Comic Papers Confiscated. All tue principal comic papers in uer ; many have been confiscated on account o j the publication of cartoons ridiculing tin ; Emperor and th<> police. Some of thes? paners will be pro.-ccutcl on the charge o, ; lese niajeste. i TO FRAME LAWS FOR HAWAII. j S?nntors Morjjan and Oullom nnd IZopre- J tentative Hitt to Visit tlio Island*. ; CniCAoo.Ill. (Special). The Commission* j ers who will devise the form of gown* J ment for the Hawaiian Islands, met in Chi. j eafco on their way to San Francisco and j Honolulu. Senator John T. Morgan, of 1 Alabama, and llepresentative llolx-rt It. ! I Hitt. of Illinois arrived together, Senator i Shelby M. Cullorn, of Illinois, having al? i ready reached the city. Secretaries, clerks, wives and relatives of members of the Commissioners brought the total number in the party to fourteen, and all left in a special car over the Northwestern road for Saa Francisco. -* : ' {f Vf < A % " K 'M itPfPPS" 4 1 . SENATOR JOHN T. MORGAN. (Hawaiian Commissioner.) A luncheon was given the Commission at the I'uion League Ciub. Many Gags were used in trimming the dining hall and the occasion was in the nature of a patriotic ratification of annexation. Senator Mor? gan, in particular, was congratulated tot the prominent part he took ir the battle for the island. SENATOR SHELBY 31. CELLOSt. (Hawaiian Commissioner.) All kinds of plans have been suggested to the Commission for the government of President Dole's domain, from making ft a ?art of California to giving it statehood. he Commissioners say, however, that they aro going to investigate first and will base their recommendations on what they 11 ud to be the situation and needs now prevailing. Henry L. Hayes, Mr. Hitt's confidential clerk, will be the official secretary of the Commission, and M. W. Blumonberg, a Senate minute clerk, will bo official stenographer. They are the only salaried members of the party. Senator Cullom is nceompanied by his wife and his daughter, Mrs. VV. B. Ridgely, and by his private secretary, J. C. Ridgeway. Mr. Hilt takes with him his wife and two sons, and Senator Morgan's son is with him as secretary. MARCHING TOWARD SAM JUAN. Sixteenth Pennsylvania Seines, a Bridge Six Miles Beyond Jnana Diaz. Poxcn, Porto Rico (By Cable).?The Sixteenth Pennsylvania, General Ernst's Brigade, have advanced to Descalabrodo Jtiver, six miles oeyonu uuaiia lm.iz, oh me road to Sau Juan, and holds the bridge over the river. EEIGADILE-GEN'EBAL OSWALD H. ERKST. (In command of the First Brigade, First Division, First Corps.) The Second and Third Wisconsin have reinforced them. No sign of the enemy is reported, but it is believed that the Spaniards are about 400 strong between the point captured and Coamo. The seizure of the bridge insures control of tho road to Coamo. Captain Clark Ordered Home. Captain Charles E. Clapk, commanding the battleship Oregon, which made the memorable run nrouDd Capo Horn, has broken down under the strain put upon him, and has been ordered home by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington. Captain Barker succeeds him in command of the Oregon. It is feared his active career is ended. Pennv Contributions For Leiter. The farmers of Harvey County, Kansas, have started a movement to set aside one cent for every bushel of wheat raised in the county this year to assist Joseph Leiter, of Chicago, in recovering his late losses in wheat deals. Lighthouses In Porto Kico Captured. Several parties of American marines have . landed near San Juan, Torto Rico, and taken possession of the Cape San Juan lighthouse and other lighthouse stations along the coa3t; the inhabitants welcomed the invaders. The Maria Teresa Floated. ^ The Infanta Maria Teresa, sunk at Santiago in the Battle of July 3, is now floated , | and is found to be in fairly good condition . 1 as to her machinery and boilers. She will shortly start for Norfolk undo* her own steam, THE SEARCH FOR ANDREE. Dr. Tervrange Will Hunt the Lost plorer in a Balloon. A despatch from Vancouver, P.ritish < Columbia, says that Dr. Terwange, the irr young French scientist, who lias been for Fi * C some time making preparations, has left for Sknguay, Alaska, to look for Herr Andree and his balloon. At Skaguay ho will J ho met by eight other members of the party and ?r. Varich, head of tho expedition. ^ tic ^'' ' ' an en. TEnWAXGE'B A!n-VESSEL. The start out will bo made from Skaguay. it was intended to make the search for Tv mdree first in a balloon capable of carry- fai lug 9000 pounds. It was decided to take a an smaller and speedier air-vessel, however, , and One which will carry 5000 pounds was p.' built in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dr. Terwange would not state his exact destination. Supplies have been sent around 1 by St. Michaels, and will be cached at dif- an ferent points along the river for him. His search will be in out-of-the-way places in wf Northern Alaska. He feels confident that Or ho will como across some trace of the fa- oh mous Arctic explorer before he returns. \ The expedition is under the auspices of the O' Geographical Societv of France. of - - - Mi BOLD BOATSWAIN'S MATE. Kcvls Dors a Little Prize Capturing on *1 His Own Account. ' j>r Key West, Flo. (Special). Tl'e Eagle ar- wl rived Wednesday from the blockade on the south coast. She reports that on Tuesday Boatswain's Male Nevis went into Cortes at Bay with a small schooner the Bancroft had ] caught. He had orders to anchor there fDi while the Bancroft and Eagle chased a tn strange smoke. Ue h Nevis thought he would do a little work an on bis own account, and, seeing two small craft in the bay, he hoisted the prize * ' schooner's Spanish flag, and with his crew of three men, sailed up to the first fy, boat, presented a pistol to the Captain's head, and demanded his surrender. The Spaniard surrendered in haste. Nevis ' caught the second boat's crew In similar a,s style. Ka Meantime Captain Glover of tho Ban- *? croft, seeing the Spanish flag on Nevis's J'r ship, thought he had been recaptured. Ho 301 gent the lighthouse tender JIaple to aid eS( them. The Maple found Nevis blandly sail- I ' ing out with sis prisoners and two small Co schooners. tr.i ,tia AMERICAN CLAIMS ACAINST SPAIN. We May Assume Liability For Injuries to Property in Cuba. It Is understood to be the Intention of the ag: Administration to assume liability for the ( claims preferred by American citizens Co against Spain on account of injury to per- ^ sonal property in Cuba. Some part of that C01 liability may be imposed 0:1 the Govern- , ment of Cuba later on, when that shall have been established. The amount of those claims against Spain in behalf of American citizens who t, ' suffered in Cuba was J15.000.000 at the f"' date of the destruction of the Maine. It ^ is estimated that this total has been increased to J20.000.000 since that time, and I no doubt is entertained that there are brc many other claims of large amounts that Col hava not yet been presented. on j Two Brotbers Drowned In New Jersey, crc Louis and William Hunt, eight and twelve fee j-e.\rs old, respectively, of Philadelphia, I were drowned in Demonesson Lake, at ^0l Wr.rti-IK.1 rir V .T Tho hn\-s were In bath? inc. The youngest had been keeping near nt the shore and went out beyond his depth. wa Ho cried loudly for help, and his brother went to his assistance. The drowning boy J grasped his brother and refused to lot go. Lei There was a terrible struggle for lifo. the Finally both went down and were drowned. cut Their bodies were recovered, ing the Fusion Ticket in Wyoming-. At the State Conventions of tho Doraocratie and Silver Itepublican parties held at Casper. Wyoming. Horace C. Alger was ten nominated for Governor by the Democrats, der and was indorsed by the Silver Itepublicans. The lattemominated candidates for Auditor and Superintendent of Public In- 'jp structlon. The platform adopted by tho '0^( Democrats indorses the Chicago platform, to-nno on Inonm.t tnv And fllVOTS the TC- I tention of alllands over which the Ameri- ?or can flag floats. 'ro fro Indiana .Republican Ticket. Tho Republican State Convention met at Indianapolis, Ind., and nominated a State S ticket headed by U. B. Hunt, for Secretary ^rI of State. The convention adopted a reso- ttie lution authorizing the Chairman to send to J100 Tresldent McKinley a telegram of greeting and congratulations for his "wise adminis- Prc tratlon of affairs, both in war and peace." 1 The platform adopted Indorses theannexa- mi; tion of Hawaii and declares unreservedly the for tho gold standard. q fen T'! ? Ttumprl to Death. *?yi A Am in a three-story frame building at j San Francisco, Cal., caused the loss of flvo it i lives and badly burned flvo persons, one of anl whom was not expected to survive. The building was a cheap lodging house, and ] most of the inmates were longshoremen Fie and peoplo who work along the water-front, to The explosion of an overturned lamp caused tro the fire. ] Gp Spain's Harvest Prospects. ju] The harvest prospects are so good ub< throughout tho Peninsula that the Spanish so' Government has decided to revoke the trv prohibition against the export of grain ? and to substitute therefor a moderate ex- 1m port duty. Mi nff Chicago Papers Up in Price. ?ti ? ? '?? "???'? ?-?f CrtiVqr?,-> have All IilC LllUAUlUfe v* VM..v.w.0^ advanccil their price from one to two col cents a copy. The increased cost of white 3 paper and the enhanced general expenses of due to the war are the reasons for the ad- Cu vanceu Ec Pillsbury Gels Second Prize. Tarrasch get3 first prize in the international chess tournament at Vienna, Austria, j*j, which is $1-500; Pillsburv, second, $1000. Ui The final gamo to decide the tie was drawn, att malting the score Tarrasch. 2-.;, riilsbury, 1 re: sei THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. TVhshlncton Items. The War Department received a cable* am from Snntiacro. Cuba, stntin.fr that rst Lieutenant .Tames I). Steele. S>c*nal irps, U. S. Volunteers, died of yellow ser. Tfalv bavins notiHethe United States her intention to land a mditarv force mewhero in Colombia, in default of a mplinnce with her demands in connec>n witli the Corrnti claim, the American >vernment replied, reeotrnizinp Italy's I! rijjht to do so. and expr 'ssine the hope a pacific solution." Contractors promise that the three batI ships that are soon to he constructed ^ II have more speed than is called for in e Government specifications. -^8 K. R. Scott. Commissioner of Internal * venue, has said "the revenue produced i.n trnr fur flfVirOvimfttCS >1.000.000 ilv. This i-? er^ntlv in o\-ecss of the dictations of the f ramer-i of the law." V naval eoalirg ptr.t'on Is to be estab!io J at ^an go Tar. go Harbor, Samoa, vlwnrd W. Harden. n well-known flnani! writer o' Chicago. has boon Jo-ier.atod Secretary of S'atcto -in 1y the fir.an.1 conditions of the ruiiippiiiis. ntern?il Revenue Commissioner Seott led that rent receipts, where there is no - e. are each taxable twenty-five eonts. eefpts not setting forth any terms of a :<e are not tax*Vie. ^ Dntnosflr. vlward B. Bowers, of Hi'igham, Va.".,' cased af stealing raflroa.1 stock valued rSoO, committed suicide when an officer rived at his home to arrest him. Ho was irty-seven years of age and married. ' r.nnes Roach, a private in Comnanv K, rentv-second Regiment, ventured out too while bathing nearFort Schuyler, N. Y., d was drowned. Rx robbers broke into the Union Bank at chland. Mich., and opened the safe with tro-Rlycerlne, securing nearly $10,000. George GrocnlefT. of Huffalo, N. Y.. shot d killed his mother-in-law. Mrs. E Igar ?lsner, and fatally wounded William Fle'11. who was at tiie house at the time. eenlefTis a blacksmith, thirty-seven years 1. Samuel L. Black. Mavor of Columbus, iio, was olected President of the Leacue American Municipalities, at Detroit, ich. Three men were killed by railroad trains Boston. Maurice Conlan. a switchman; hn Sullivan, a brakeman, and John ardon, who was run over by a train die crossing a railroad track. Lieutenant Hobson was lionized at Long 'neb. N. J., where he was presented with jeld sword and kissed by the prettiest girl t lie ^10 tel. Miss Mira North, of Stafford, N. Y.. was stantly killed by running into a railroad Un with her wheel. She lost control of r wheel, nnd it ran between tho engine d tender. John Pcttit, of Now York City, reputed bo many times a millionaire, disapared four months ago, aud his partner, illiam Calhoun, sues him to recover prop;y worth ?5,000,000. Commissioner of Immigration North has scovered in San Francisco, Cal., an ornization similar in its aims and purposes a Chinese highbinder tong. Wakayama l Kai is its name, and its members are me of the wors tcbaracters in the Japan> colony. rhe Spcnish Transatlantic Steamship mpany will not be able to fullil its conict for carrying the prisoners from Sango to Spain. lames Carney, twelve years old, of Camn, N. J., saved Frank Post, a playmate, im drowning and then, exbaused by Uia orts,sank from sight and did net rise ain. Jeorge Partlow, six years old, and John llins, four years old, of Haverhill, Mass., ( re buried "by tho cuving-ia of a sand I ak -while playing. Tae bodies were rerered. ohn W. B.ittishitl, of Ecorse. Mich., shot i killed James St. James, of St. Ignace, corporal in Company I, Thirty-fifth ehigan Infantry. St. James married rtha May Welsh, Battlsbill's sister-in7. They quarrelled over the bride with ) fatal result. Iphraim W. Sells, the elder of the Sells >thers, well-known circus men. died in lumbus, Ohio, of Bright's disease, after iiiness of several mouths. 'rank C. Fleming, of Chicago, while issing Valdez Glacier, Alaska, fell *200 t and was killed. luring a fit of temporary insanity George J. a brother of J. Kennedy Tod, the iker. jumped from a tenth-story window the Hotel Majestic, New York City, and s instantly killed. He had been sufTer from nervous prostration. E. Hugli, the Chancellor or tho Swiss gallon at Washington, who is spending * summer at Cottage City, Mass., res!d K. Sico. of Tokio, Japan, from drown:. Mr. Sioo had cone under twice when i Swiss Chancellor saw him, and, plung: iD, brought him to the surface, rilliam Rcid was sentenced by Justice pincott iu the Hudson County Court, sey City, N. J., to be hanged on Seplber 15. Reid was convicted of themnr of Andrew Henry iu Uobokcn. 'wo young women and five young men re drowned bv the capsizing of three asure boats at Willow Springs, a suburb Chicago. The bodies were recovered, 'wenty-ilve United States marines, under umanil of Lieutenant Lambert, sailed m Scuttle, Wash., on tho City of Topeka in Skaguay, Alaska. Foreign. ir Thomas Lipton has handed to the neess of Wales a check for *500,000 for purpose of the construction of dining uus in London that will accommodate a us&nd persous where worKingmen can cure a substantial meal cheaply, 'he Court of Cassation at France, disssed Zola's appeal from the sentence of Versailles Assize Court. (wing to Russian'aggression in China, rs of an Anglo-Russian war have been wessed in England. Iverybody in Spain is so eager for peace, s reported, that there is no danger of f uprising against the peace conditions America. .'he fleet of transports at Ponce, Porto i..ic iippn ordered to Santiago, Cuba. assist in bringing General Shatter's ops back to the United States. The Florida expedition for the relief of uerr.l Gomez in Cuba has been sticcess. On July 2-i Gomez was encamped jut five miles northwest of Jucaro, tho ithern extremity of the Moron-Juoara >cha. >enor Castelnr, tho Spanish Republican ,der, advocates peace, but bids Prim? uisler Sagasta to remember the Virginias air and be Arm when treating with the liiru Uitttw. V. high personage in the Carlist party trs the Carlists will rise if Spain loses her lonies. *Irs. Ethel Frances Blakelcv Jerome, wifo the British Consul a I interim at Havana, ha. died of malarial fever. ~ rite Carlists have ordered 20,000 riflos in island for delivery in Switzerland, j The Vatican at Rome, Italy, telegraphed a Archbishop of Manila, Philippine ands, instructions to place himself 'and ? clergy under the protection of ythe lited States, in view of tho threatened tacks by the insurgents. , Emperor William of Germany issued a script expressing his appreciation of tfke tvices of Prince Bismarck. ^ | I \