The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 18, 1898, Image 2
??THE
COUNTY RECORD.
Published Every Thursday
?AT?
UNGSTREE, SOUTfl CAROLINA,
?B T?
IiOlTIS J. BKISTOW,
?. Kditor and Proprietor.
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The raw silk industry of Japan includes
an annual production of about
7,500,000 pounds. Of the average
exports more than half are to the
United States.
The whole Hobson incident is fine,
but there is nothing finer in it than
his turning his back ou cheering
crowds to plunge at once into his
tpi>hnu-;il dutv as a naval constructor.
The assi gnmeut was made and accepted
as bare matter of course. This illustrates
tho spirit of our whole navy.
On toj) of the news that the Chinese
Emperor has ordered the establishment
of universities on the European
model comes the report that_ the
younger Mandarins have established
t reform society: and, though their
meetings were for a time forbidden by
. authority, they have been resumed
under the presidency of the. Emperor's
tutor.
The financial supplement to the
Street Railway Journal recently issued,
devotes some space to a comparison
of gross receipts by leading
i * i i:
street railway ime* iu iuc
States in the years 1S97 and 1S9G. It
shows that iu 1S97 the twenty-six
properties earning more thau $1,000,000
gross per annum increased their
income 2.20 per cent.; those earning
from $500,000 to $1,000,000 lost. 11
per cent., and those earning from
$100,000 to $500,000 gained 1.87 per
cent. The aggregate gain showed by
all of the 175 roads included in the
summary was 1.9 per cent.
Mr. George B. Waldron, in an article
in McClure's Magazine shows that
4 in the twenty-years following 1793,
Napoleon cost the British and French
.--.4 l?oo 4T>A?. CStl -AO AAA AAA 111 mninir
UUb IC^O IUOU ^y,UVV,VVV,VVV U.V4IV^
and 1,900,000 lives?the latter number
equal to the entire adult male
population now living in Greater London
and Paris. In the one battle of
Waterloo 51,000 men were lost,29,000
of whom were British. The Crimean
war of two years cost the nations engaged
in it $1,500,000,000 in wealth
and over 600,000 of their citizens.
The France-German war cost over
200,000 lives and required an expendi
s\f CI "OA OOn nnn Fmn^A had iri
addition to pay aa indemnity of 1,000,000,000
and to give Alsace-Lorraine, a
total loss, it is estimated, of not less
than $3,000,000,000.
While the soil of the Hawaiian
group of islands is prolific in fruits of
almost every kind, the manufacture
of sugar is the chief industry of the
inhabitants. In 1896 the exports of
\ sugar amounted in valne to S14,93'2,000
out of $13,436,000, the value of the ;
_ . I
entire exports. For tiie same year
the total imports aggregated in value
37,165,000. Most of the trade of the
islands for some time past lias been
carried on with the United States.
The public debt of the islands on
January 1, 189G, aggregated $3,754,335;
while the yearly income from direct
taxes, customs and licenses is
approximately SI.740,000k In spite
of the wealth of the islands, the chief
attractiveness which they possess for
the United States grows solely out of
their strategic position, says the
Atlanta Constitution.
Statistics translated from the Arcliiv
fur Eisenbahnweseu, a publication of
the Prussian ministry, show that in the
five years 1891-5 America has built
more miles of railway than any of the
other continents, the increase for that
period being 16,938 miles, making a
total of 2*29,722,as against an increase
of 13,732 an l a total of 155,284 for
Europe, an increase of 4867 and a total
of 26,830 for Asia, an increase of
1647 and a total of 81G9 for Africa,
and an increase of 15G6 and a total of
A
13,883 for Australia. When put iu
percentages, however, the additions
to the African lines head the list, for
the record of that country is 25.2, with
Asia second, 22.1, and Australia, Eurnne
and America following in order I
~rwith
12.7, 9.7, and 8 respectively. At
the close of 1895 the railways of the
world, if joined together, would have
gone around it at the equator more
than seventeen times, for the aggregate
mileage was 433,953. Of this
nearly a tenth was built between the
end of 1891 and the beginning of
1896. This is the first four years in
railway history that construction has
not advanced proportionally as well
as absolutely more rapidly on this
continent than elsewhere, but we
still have more miles of railway than
all tli- rest of the world united.
END OF TI
I
Peace Protocol Signed by Sec-!
retary Day and Ambassador
Cambon in the Presence of
President McKioley.
HISTORIC SCENE IN
THE WHITE HOUSE.
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Imperative Orders Gabled to Cuba,
Porto Rico and Manila to
Stop Bloodshed.
Spain Yields to Our Ultimatum?Peace
Commissioners Appointed Forthwith
to Make a Treaty, Which Madrid
JjjJUika WiH Re Ratified by the Cortes
Without Difficulty?Spanish droops to
Evacuate Forts, American Forccs_ Jo >
Occupy Tlieui?Porto ltico Ouri?The
Blockade of Cuba. Porto Rico and
Manila Raised?Order% Immediately
T- ? Varnl on,.
Military Commanders to Cease Hostilities?Work
on tlie Treaty?Not
More Than Five Commissioners on
Each Side, to Meet in l'arls by Oct. 1.
Washington*, D. C. (Special).?Tho war
between the United States and Spain, which
was formally declared to exist by Congress
at 3 o'clock on the morning of April 21 last,
was practically ended at 4.23 o'clock Friday
afternoon, when Secretary Day and M.
Cambon, French Ambassador representing
Spain, affixed their signatures to duplicate
copies of a protocol establishing a basis
upon which the two countries, acting
through their respective commissioners
could negotiate terms of peace. Immedil
ntely following the execution of the protocol
President McKinlev signed a proclamation
SECRETARY OF STATE DAY.
(Who signed the protocol in behalf of the
United States.)
declaring the existence of an armistice, and,
Pursuant to a provision of the protocol,
orders were transmitted at onco to General
Miles in Porto Rico, to General Shafter in
Cnba, and to General Merritt in the Philippines,
and to Admiral Dewey at Manila
and Admirals Sampson and Watson at
Guantannmo, to cease hostilities; and to
Admiral Howell at Key West, in command
of the blockading fleet, to raise the blockade
of Cuban nnd Porto Rieau ports. The
orders also include the liberating of the
Sort of Manila from the blockade that has
een maintained there by Admiral Dewey
since May 1. Copies of the proclamation
were sent to our Ambassadors and Ministers
In South America, and notification of
the signing of the protocol was sent to all
other diplomatic representatives of the
United States.
The full text of the protocol was not
made public. It is a document of about
1200 words, and some of the provisions
withheld, it is believed, relate to matters
concerning which it is deemed expedient
for the present to maintain in reserve.
The Protocol.
The protocol provides:
1. That Spain will relinquish all claim of
sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
2. That l>orto Tdeo and other Spanish
islands in the West Indies and an island
in the Ladrones, to be selected by the
United States, shall be ceded to the latter.
S. That tho United States will occupy
and hold tho city, bay and harbor of
Manila, ponding the conclusion of a treaty
of peace wnich shall determine the control,
disposition and government of the Philippines.
4. That Cuba, Forto Rico and other
Spanish islands In the West Indies shall bo
Immediately evacuated, and that commissioners,
to be appointed within ten days,
shall, within thirty days from tho signing
of the protocol, meet at Havana and San
Juan, respectively, to arrange and execute
the details of the "evacuation.
5. That the United States and Spain will
each appoint not more than Ave commissioners
to negotiate and conclude a treaty
of peace. The commissioners are to meet
rtt Paris not later than October i.
6. On the signing of the protocol, hostilities
Will be suspended and notice to that effect
will be given as soon as possible by each
Government to the commanders of its military
and naval forces.
The President I>eclares an Armistice.
Tlie proclamation declaring tne existence
of an armistice reads:
"By the President of the United States of
America:
"A TBOCLAMATION.
"Whereas, By a protocol concluded and
signed August 12, 1S9S, by William R. Day,
Secretary of State of the United States,
and his Excellency Jules Carubon, Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of tha Republic of France at Washington.
respectively Representing for this
Nebraska Republicans in Session.
The Nebraska Republican State conven- ,
tion at Lincoln nominated Judge M. L* t
Haywood for Governor, at the head of a '
full State ticket, and adopted the platform
advocated by the Conservatives, as to the ]
proper policy of the Nation toward con- I
quered territory, and containing the fol- 1
lowing financial plank: "Wo reaffirm un- <
swerving allegiance to the principles enu- <
merated in the Republican National platform
of 189C. We are in favor of the maintenance
of the present gold standard and
unalterably opposed to the free and unli-' (
u-ited coinage of silver." ' i
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IE WAR W1
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? THE VIC.
purpose tho Government of the United t!
States and tho Government of Spain, tho n
United States and Spain have formally 1<
agreed upon the terms on which negotia- t
tions for the establishment of peace be- fl
tween tho two countries shall be under- t
taken; and, t
"Whereas. It is in said protocol agreed b
that upon its conclusion and signature hos- t
tilities between the two countries shall bo I
suspended, and that notice to that effect I
cV.nl1. V.O i.kvn na ennn a* nossiblo bv each ll
Government to thocomtuandersof its mill- li
tarv and naval forces: b
"Now, therefore, I, William McKlnley, "
President of the United States, do, in ac- t
cordanee with the stipulations of the pro- S
tocol, declare and proclaim on the part of t
the United States a suspension of hostili- a
ties, and do hereby command that orders o
be immediately given through the proper t
channels to the commanders of the mill- 11
tary and naval forces of the United States
to abstain from all acts inconsistent with a
this proclamation. -v?-' s
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto 3et t
my hand and caused the seal of the United c
States to be affixed. I
"Done at the city of Washington, this t
12th day of August, in the year of our Lord o
one thousand eight hundred iind ninety- d
eiehf, and of the independence of the
United States the one hundred and twenty- t
third. William McKi.nx.ey. f
"By the President. William R. Dat, 1
Secretary of State." t
Suspension of Hostilities Ordered. v
The armistico proclamation was followed c
at once by orders from the War Department a
to the several commanding Generals in the J
flold directing that all military operations '
be suspended. Practically identical cablo- .
grams were sent to Major-General Miles in
Porto Rico, Major-Genoral Shatter in San- a
tiago and Mnjor-General Merritt in the a
Philippines, this is the text of the message e
to General Miles:
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"amrtant-GF.xr.rai/s Office,^ j,
Washington*, August 12. 1893. 1 B
"Major-General Miles, Ponce, Porto Rico: v
"The President directs that all military I .
operations against tho enemy be suspended. r
Peace negotiations are nearing completion, v
a protocol having been signed by repre- ?
sontatives of the two countries. You will ^
inform the commander of tho Spanish [
forces in Porto Rico of these instructions.
Further orders will follow. Acknowledge n
receipt. v
"By order Secretary of War. j
"H. C. Cobbis, Adjutant-General." t
SICNINC THE PROTOCOL. [
Simplicity of the Formalities at the
White House. ^
Washington*. D. C. (Special).?With sim- o
plfclty in Keeping with democratic insti- 1 t
tutions, the war which has rased between j o
SI. JULES CAMBOX. J
(French Ambassador who signed the protocol
as the Representative of Spain.)
Spain and the United States for n period of
three months and twenty days vas quietly
terminated at 4.23 o'clock Friday afternoon,
when Secretary Day, for the United
States, and M. Cambon, for Spain. In the
presence of President McKinley, signed a
protocol which will form the basis of a G
definite treaty of peace.
The protocols were signed at the request
of the President in the Cabinet room at the
Executive Mansion. There were pres- h
ent the President, William R. Day, Secre- n
tary of State; John B. Moore, Assistant .
Secretary of State; A. A. Adee, Second
Assistant Secretary of State, and Thomas nr
AV. Cridler, Third Assistant Secretary of si
State. At four o'clock the French Ambassador,
M. Jules Cambon, was announced, ci
He was accompanied by his secretary, M. n
Eugene Thiebaut. P
They were conducted to the library, where el
they had conducted the negotiations with 1'
the President and Secretary Dav. and here h
they were met by Judge Day and escorted
to the Cabinet room, where they were wel- p
eomed by the President.
There was no delay in proceeding with p
Tho Oldest Person in America Dead.
Mrs. Margaret Fallon, who has just died
it King's Ferry, Cayuga County, N. Y., at _
he age of one hundred and seventeen, is
Delieved to have been tho oldest person in nc
imeriea. It has been found from the rec- Hi
>rds that she was born in Lusfuth Parish, wi
iings County, Ireland, in 1761. She has in
>een a widow llfty years and is survived by lie
bur sons and live daughters. The oldest np
inugbter is eighty and the oldest son sev- th
;nty-flve. " ti<
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Tho Pennsylvania Department of Agri- th
nlturo has licensed ever a thousand ' t0
rands c! fe.iiiiirers. llr
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work at hand. As socn as the gentlelen
had greeted one another, Messrs Cridar
and Thiebaut compared the copies of
he protocol that has been prepared, and,
nding them satisfactorily engrossed,
hey were placed on the table preparaory
to being signed. The document
ad been prepared in duplicate; the
est ran In parallel columns, one being
inglish, the other French. In one copy the
Ingllsh version occupied the flr?* column;
a the other the French came lirst. Tho
itter was first signed, "M. Jules Camon"
appearing on tho upper lino and
William R. Day" on the lower. Thesignaures
to the other copy were reversed .that of
iecretary Day coming first and that 01 m. v
iambon last. This copy will go into the c
rchives of the State Department; the 1
ther 31. Cambon carried away to transmit I
o Taris, whence it will reach Madrid, its
Inal resting place. 1
The writing was done upon the table i
round which the members of the Cabinet I
it during thoir sessions, at the place allot- I
ed to Secretary Long, whose chair was oc- i
upied In turn by 31. Cambon and Secretary <
)ay. The act of signing was witnessed by
he President, who rose from his seal at tiife }
tberendof the table as M. Cambon sat (
[own.
The President, as soon as the protocol
lad been signed expressed his great satis- ,
action at the completion of the ceremony,
.'o M. Cambon and to 31. Thiebaut ho exended
his thanks in an earnest, impressive ray
for their active and sympathetic s
o-operation in bringing so speedily >
nd successfully to their present stage t
he efforts looking to a resumption of peace <
etweon the two countries. M. Cambon re- t
urned his thanks for the warmth and evi- t
lent sincerity of the President's greeting, i
,nd expressed his own pleasure at being <
bio to participate in such an auspicious
vent. 5
Congratulations were exchanged among \
11 those present, and after President Me- (
rinl?v lmd slunnd thn nrneliimation an
louneing tho existence of nn armistice,
rhich he did within two minutes after tho
irotoeol had been signed, a short period of
elaxation and refreshment followed. Sou- 1
enirs of tho event were secured by several
lumbers of the party, Assistant Secretary
loore getting the pen used by tho signa- <
ories to the protocol.
The pen to be used in signing the procla- ]
lation directing a suspension of hostilities I
ras handed to the President by M. Thieiaut,
who remarked that ho desired to re- <
ain it as a momoDto of the occasion, and ]
ho President received it. exoressing pleas- j
ire at tho j?art played by M. Thiebaut in |
ho peace negotiations.
Before tho party dispersed tho Secretary j
u" War, General Alger, Assistant Secretary ]
f tho Navy Allen and Adjutant-General
'orbiu.who had been invited to bo present,
ailed and joined in the felicitations.
CONDENSED HISTORY OF THE WAR. ]
Hostilities begun, April 21, 1S93.
Peace proposal accepted. Aucust 2, 13D3. 3
Protocal signed, August 12. *
..Mimoer 01 uays 01 ncium war, jr->.
Cost in lives to Spain, about 11,000 killed.
No official report of Spanish casualties i
published.) j
Cost to tho Unitc.l States, about 253 men ]
tilled and about 1321 men wounded. i
What we lost: The Maine, with 206 <
n<-n. i
What Spain lost: Montojo's fleet, Cer- \
era's fleet, Cuba, Porto Pico, one of tho
-.adrones and possibly the Philippines. i
Strength of the United States Army when (
var was declared. ?7.532 men. ,
Strength now, 279,500 men.
Strength of United States Navy when war
ras declared: Battleships and cruisers, 14; 1
nonitors, 19; unarinored steel vessels, 10; *
;unbonts, 19; torpedo boats, 23. 1
Strength now: Battle ships nnd cruisers, {
9; monitors, 19: unarmored steel vessels, J
1; gun boats, 25; torpedo boats, 25; special
raft, 15. ?
May 1. Dewey destroys Spanish fleet at J
lamia.
May 19, Cervera's fleet readies Santiago.
June 22, Shatter's army lands nt Baiquiri.
July 3, Cervera's fleet destroyed.
July 14, Santiago surrenders.
July 2G, Miles lands at Ouanica.
July 29, Ponce surrenders.
SPAIN'S VIEW OF PEACE.
lovermnent Preparing to Meet Any Uprising
That May ArUo.
Madrid, Spain (By Cable).?The protocol
aving been signed, the Government Is
oir considering the domestic situation
)r the best means of allaying the excitelent
and propagating the idea that Spain's
jrrenderis not so complete as indicated.
In order to allay public feeling Spain has
aused the publication of a semi-official
ote expressing the hope that the Philipines
^ill remain under Spanish soverIgnty,
and that the armies in Cuba and
orto" Rico will be permitted to depart
onorably.
The Liberal, one of the most influential
apers in Spain, however, admits that
pain's mission in the Xew World is oomletely
ended.
Wyoming Jtepnbllcan Convention. '
The Wyoming Republicans met in State 3
invention at Douglas, Wyoming, and
iminntod by acclamation Do Forest 1 ^
chards for Governor. F. W. Mondff}
is nominated by Congress. The platform
dorses the "twin mea9iires of the Ilepub ?n
party, protection and prosperity;"
iproves the Dingley tariff law, supports
e Administration in its vigorous prosecn- t
in of the war against Spain, praises the t:
untry's heroes, approves Hawaiian an- J
xation, and favors the construction of
e Xicarnguan Canal, and favors the re- t
ntlon of all the territory which American c
have conquered. t<
THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. |
Washington Item*.
Mr. .Tames B. Angell, retiring Minister to
Furkoy, has tnken leave of the Sultan, and
lis successor. Mr. Oscar Straus, has sailed
or Constantinople.
United States man-of-war Albatross, fornerly
the flagship of Admiral Miller, has
>een ordered to Guatemalan waters.
The sugar imports for July reaehed ?5,199,870
acrafnst $2,231,287 for the same
nonth in 1807.
The claim of Alexander McCord against
'era for *50,000 damages for false lmprisonnent
has been referred for arbitration to
ho Lord Chief Justice of Canada.
The North American Trust Company filed
i bond of *250,000 with the Secretary of the
treasury, and has been made fiscal agent
>f the Government at Santiago.
The Navy Department decided net to deer
the reception of bids for new battleihips,
hut decided to allow bidders to base
sstimates on plans for battleships superior
n speed to the Illinois, which formed tho
>asis of the origin.il advertisements.
President McKinley is expected to ask
Congress to revive the grade of vice-adniral
and to appoint ltear Admiral Dewey
o that rank.
Junior officers of the navy who displayed
rallantrv in action arc to be rewarded afer
the war.
Professor Park Morrill, chief of the foreast
division of tho Weather Bureau, died
ifter twentv-ono davs of illness with
yphoid fever. - . .
Domestic.
While leaning from a window Miss Jenlio
Allison, aged eighteen years, ofShamocin,
Penn., was killed instantly by her
lose coming in contact with a telephone
viro that had been crossed by a live are
iglit wire and thus charged with 1300 volts
>f electric fluid.
The bodies of Wade Counts, a famous
Vest Virginia outlaw, and his son were
bund Jn Roane County, West Virginia, unler
a tree, where the "men had been killed
lightning.
J. Hgpry Conrad, head of the wholesale
loffee and spice house of J. Conrad & Co.,
Chicago, was instantly killed by falling
hrough an elevator shaft from the tl\ii^[
loor to the basement of his establishment,
dr. Conrad was ilftv-s?yeu years old and
vas wealthy.
Mjchajel Cion, aged thirty-three, a welP
cnown tobacco dealer of Hartford, Conn.,
vas instantly kill in a runaway accident,
le was thrown from his wagon and his
lead struck heavily against a tree. His
irother, who was with him, escaped.
A severe electrical storm passed over the
mmp at Miami, Fla., resulting in the death
>f Private Charles E. Gill, Company K,
rirst Louisiana, and Corporal E. K. Hum*
ihreys, Company E, First Texas.
Three hundred men have started down the
fukpn to St. Michael's, Alaska, without
noney, depending on the Government to
iring them home. These,with the hundreds
low stranded there unable to get up the
iver, are liable to bring about a serious
Judge J. 31. Hobson, father of Lieutenant
Jobs on, was appointed postmaster of
}?eonsboro, Ala.
'Women voted at a special school election
it (New Brunswick, N. J., and won by a
arge majority.
A mob of 250 masked men, at Corinth,
diss., lynched Mullock Walker,colored,for
landbagging Charles Dasselle.
F. A. Leach, Superintendent of the Mint
it San Francisco, Cal., estimates the gold
jutput of the Klondike this season at not
;o exceed $6,000,000. Food riots are feared
it Fort Yukon. Government artillery an3
ntantry will go to St. 3Ilohaers to preserve
)rder.
3Irs. Kluge, who claims to bo Adolph
Sutro's widow, says she will contest the
;vill of tho San Francisco millionaire. The
Jstate is estimated at $4,000,000.
While cleaning a revolver in his office at
Carlisle,Penn., Chief Burgess W. E. Fought
fatally shot himself. The ball penetrated
near the heart and lodged in the back.
George Webster, of We3t Stockbridgo,
Mass., shoe and killed his brother, Fredsrick.
and then killed himself. Frederick
tVebster was released recently from State
prison, where he was serving a term of
thirty-three years for attempted murder.
WillinmS. Kulp was arrested at Marshall,
Jlich., for making counterfeit dollar
pieces. His complete outfit of dies, furnace,
milling machine, metal, etc., was
secured. Kulp has served onesentence for
passing counterfeit money, being convicted
in the United States Court at Grand
Rapids.
Mrs. Ivato A. Hughes, of Charlestown,
Mass., was fatally shot in the back of the
head by Charles Mc.Mullin, whom she had
had arrested for assault. McMullin took
this means for revenge.
A mob near Griffin, Ga., lynched John
Meadows, colored, for an assault upon a
seven-yenr-old white girl. There was no
resistance from the law officers.
Jonn Evans, of West Newton, Penn.,
*rmed with two revolvers, went to the
home of his wife and llred three shots at
her head. She died in a few minutes. He
tlso shot Policeman Harvey in the leg
while trying to arrest htm. Evaus is sixty
years of age. His wife was nearly as old.
rkey did not live together.
John Driscoll, a tool sharpener of White
Rock, R. I., threw himself under the wheels
>( a moving frflcrht train and was killed,
rwo ears were derailed.
Brigadier-General John S. Folaml died
it Asheville, N. C., of typhoid fever contracted
at Chickamauga, where he commanded
a division. His wife, son and
laughter, with Lieutenant Wrenne, of General
Poland's staff, left with the body for
Westerly, R. I., where it will be buried.
John S. Poland was born at Princeton,
ind., October 14. 1835.
Private L. Forsythe and Charles Dunn,
jf Companies B and A respectively, Fourth
Regiment of immunes, were struck by a \
train at Potomac Run, Va.
Governor Wolcott, of Massachusetts, has
?ommissioned Lieutenant-Colonel Edmund
Rice. United States Army, to be Colonel of
:he Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, in the
place of Colonel Woodward, resigned. Gov- ,
?rnor Wolcott also appointed Adjutant But- er
R. Ames, of Lowell, to be Lieutenant- i
Colonel. i
Edward B. Bowers, of Ilingham, Mass., ^
iccused at stealing railroad stock valued .
it $850, committed suicide when an officer
irrived at his home to arrest him. He was '
;hirty-seven years of age and married. '
James Roach, a private in Company K.
rwenty-seeond Regiment, ventured out too
'ar while bathing near Fort Schuyler, N. Y.,
ind was drowned.
Six robbers broke into the Union Bank at c
Richland. Mich., and opened the safe with
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lliro-giyecriiic, Bci'uiun ucnuj siu.mu.
Three men were killed by railroad trains I
n Boston. Maurice Conlan, a switchman:
Tohn Sullivan, a brakeman, and John t
[teardon, who was run over by a train a
vhile crossing a r?"?-oad track.
"Samuel L. Black, Mayor of Columbus,
)hio, was elected President of the League
if American Municipalities, at Detroit,
tych. v
Lieutenant Hobson was lionized at Long t
(each, N. J., where he was presented with ,
gold sword and kissed by the prettiest girl *
t the hotel. I
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Foreign.
The Japanese Government has notified
he European powers that their respective
reaties with Japan will go into effect on T
uly 1,1899. 1
The mine and towers of the great naph- r>
ba works at Wisehau, Russian Transcau- ^
asia, have been destroyed by fire. Four- I
cen people were badly burned.
fll HI li Mil.
Blockading Fleet at Havana Ventured
Too Near.
FLAG OFTRUCE NOT RESPECTED
Another Rich Find in the Klondike?Coun
terfeiters Overhauled The Cost of the
War Custom Receipts at Santiago. MSn
The flagship San Francisco, the monitor
Miautonomah and the auxiliary
yacht Sylvia were tired upon by the
Havana batteries shortly before 5
o'clock on the morning of the 12th. ?
One 10 or 12-iuch shell struck the San
Francisco's stern a3 she turned to net
out of range, and tore a holo about a
foot in diameter, completely wrecking
Commodore Howell's qv.arters, und
smashing his book case to fragments.
Nobody was injured, and being under
orders not to attack the batteries, the
ships retreated a3 fast as their engines
could carry them. The evening preceding
the warships drew in closer to the
shore than ever.
Flag of Truce Not Respected.
Coamo, Porto Bico, (By CablesGeneral
Miles sent a party with a flag
of truce to notify the Spanish of the
suspension of hostilities, but the flag
was not respected. This was by order
of Governor General Macias. As General
Macias has no communication, he
may thus cut himself off from official
notification ol the situation, aunouga
natives have beon sent through the
Spanish lines to spread the news that
a cessation of hostilities had been
ordered. -j
Counterfeiters 0\erhauled.
Information has been redoived by
Chief Wilkie. of the Treasury Secret
Service, of the arrest at Detroit, Mich.,
of a gang of counterfeiters whose operations
have given the goyerumet considerable
trouble. There were also
taken tiftv $2 llancock and .iOO 82 Windom
bills?the latter being regarded as
the best all-round counterfeit which
made its appearance up to the discovery
of the 8100 silver certificate, in the
spring of last year.
Nebraska's Oldest Woman Gone. *
Mrs. Delilah Cromwell, the oldest
woman in Nebraska, recently died st
her home near Table Bock. She was a
small girl when Washington was President,
and insisted that she was bom
in 1778. Neighbors who have known
her for 30 years believo she was about
110 years old. Her fourth husband
died of old age a quarter of a century
ag?Custom
Receipts at Santiago.
General Shafter, reports to the War
Department concerning the cu&kflfiTe--0 ^
ceipts at Santiago, as follows: "I have )*
the honor to report for your informs- f
tion that there were taken in at the
custom house here, from July 30th to
August lotli, inclusive, $08,445.24.
"Shaftes, Maj Gen.
The Cost of the War.
Although the war with Spain lasted
only 114 days.it is estimated that it
hascostthegoverument so far $150,000,non
nf whitrli S98.000.000 has been ac
tnally paid out of the Treasury. The
total charged to the War Department is
80.7,000,000; total charged to the Navy
Department, ?32,700,000.
Another Rich Find. ?
A special from Juneau, Alaska,
says: What is regrrded as a most important
discovery of rich placer diggings,
is reported to havo been made
on Pine creek, a small stream emptying
into Atlin lake, a feeder of Lake Tagish.
The discovery is located in theNorthwest
Territory, Canada.
Spain Thanks France.
Duke AlmodOvar del Hio, Minister
of Foreign Affairs, has asked M. Pafo^
' 1 J
notre, tiio jtrrcncn aaoassauoc ui
Madrid, to transmit tc his government
the thanks of Spain for the good offices
which have resulted in the earliest
possible signature of a protocol of peace
with the United States.
His Majesty Has a Fall.
Empe-ior William, while out riding
at Wilbelmsruke, was approached by
two ladies carrying bouquets, which
they offered to His Majesty. The Emperor
reached down to accept the bouquets,
when his horse reared and unseated
him. His Majesty was uninjured.
and, joking about the accident,
mounted a fresh Bteed and returned to
the castle.
Admiral Matsunaga Arrives.
Rear Admiral Matsunaga Oki, of the
Imperial Japanese Davy, ha3 arrived in
Seattle, Wash., on the 6teamer Rio Jun 4
Mara, on his way to JLondon, where he
will remain for some time, superintending
the construction of two cruisers
md a battleship for his government
md studying the navies of the world.
Colored Companies for Garrison Duly.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, has rereived
a telegram from Adjutant General
Corbin, assigning the two inde>endent
colored companies at Camp
dount under colored captains, to Saniasro
for garrison duty. The companies
ire anxious to go.
The Insurgents Will Cease Firing. ,
1UC >? Li UttS UCCU UU* *W
ised through the Cuban junta, that
he Cuban insurgents will accept the
erms of the peace protocol between the
,'nited States and Spain, and that hosilities
will cease on their part
Accident on a French Railroad.
The night train on the railway to
jisieux, 34 miles east of Caon, was deailed
near Bonvillers, and six persons
rere killed and 41 wore injured.