University of South Carolina Libraries
F K I THE COUNTY RECORD. Published Every Thursday ? AT? UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA, ?B X? LOUIS J. BRISTOW, Fdltor nnd Proprietor. One Herr Rolirig cut Prince Bismarck's hair from 1890 to 189S. He carefully saved up all the shorn locks, and now proposes to sell them in small sections. Here is a new terror added to the death of great men. A man was on his way to be married. He got on an express traiu by mistake. Finding that there was no stop at his station, he pulled the bell cord and got off. Is ho liable to punishment? is now the question. It will be interesting to see if railroad companies love a lover. A Connecticut man has left his en. tire savings, amountiug to twelve thousand dollars, for a monument to be erected to his memory. How much better it would have been to put this money into a memorial library! The monument will do nobody any good. It will be infrequently seen, and it will not make the town a better place to *-M i*i .n i live id, wnne a uurarjr wyuiu uuve uecu a lastiug reminder of Lis generosity and common sense. Kaiser Wilhelm Las strnck another blow at the French. A recent army order commands the suppression of the terms Premier Lieutenant and Seconde Lieutenant and the substitution of Obcr and Unter Lieutenant instead. The title remains, therefore, half German and half French, and First Lieutenants willjbe easilyj confused with Lieutenant-Colonels, Oberst Lieutenants. An imperial at tempt at Germanizing the French title Lieutenant would have been interest* ing. ______ It is a very pretty proposition made by General Sir Herbert Kitchener that a college and medical school be established at KLartum. in memory of General Gordon, devoted to the education of sons of Sheiks and other young men, graduation from which should qualify one to hold Government posts. It would cost, he says, $300,000; and he believes the British public would subscribe it. That is the way war is made nowadays by nations that feel responsibility for territories acquired in war. If it be true, as claimed, that the * t_ . i / r i.K i long-xooaeu-ior buew mai.cu uccu invented it is news of great importance. An Englishman and a Berlin chemist have announced the invention of a match which will strike anywhere and of which phosphorus is not a component part. The makers of friction matches are liable to necrosis, a horrible form of jaw disease, as a result of the use of phosphorus, and in Europe large rewards have been offered for a suitable substitute for this dangex*ous substance. It is to be hoped that the substitute has been found. Lovers of fresh fruits will rejoice at nnn* orifirnriso ftndprtnknn liv til< California sngar king, Clans Spreckles says the New York World. He has begun building a railroad from a point in the San Joaquin Valley over the Tejon Pass into Los Angeles. This will conuect south of the pass with the Atchison system and north of it with the new San Francisco and Los Angeles road; which means that all of the great fruit districts of California are to be provided with a competing railroad roi^e to the Eastern States. This in turn means that an abundance of grapes, figs, apricots, pears, peaches and plums will soon be furnished to us fresh and chean. ; A serious question has arisen in New Jersey concerning a gravestone. It j seems that the relatives of a person who is buried in a cemetery at Elizabeth desire to perpetuate his memory, in accordance with his express wish, by placing at the graven large boulder which has been brought from his farm and adorned with a suitable inscription Tli? nrmearanee of the hucre stone is not satisfactory, however, to some of the neighboring lot owners, and at their instance the authorities of the cemetery have refused to allow it to be placed thereih. The rights of lot owners in respect to the monuments which they may erect must depend upon the particular contract with the cemetery association, or upon the statutes of the State in which the cemetery is situated. It is usual for the proprietary corporation to reserve for itself the power of final control in such matters, and where that power is exercised with discretion there is rarely any difficulty. There are many cemeteries in which natural boulders have been erected into very suitable and liandsome mormments. I OUR DEMANDS REJECTED. ! Spain Flatly Refused to Accept Our j * Request For the Philippines. MANILA'S SURRENDER INVALID. Spain Maintained That \Te Have No Ultimate Right in the Philippine* The Don* Demand That the Tariff Due* Colluded i.t Manila lie Returned Negotiations Not Broken Off. Pabis, France (By Cable). The Spanish Commissioners, in the course of a two hours' session of the Teace Conference on [ Friday, flatly refused to accept the propoI sition made by the Americans on Monday ' to take the entire Philippines group and to reimburse Spain for her "pacific expenditures" there. This negative decision was expected. The Spanish Commissioners had also a number of positive declarations which filled some thirty-seven sheets of typewritten pre.-entment. In this statement the Spaniards held that the United States had no ultimate rights in the Philippine Archipelago and could have none, save by the consent of Spain in these negotiations and upon terms satisfactory to her. According to the Spanish contention in the formal statement, the United States entertained no thought of annexing the Philippines when the protocol was signed, or it would have been expressed in tho protocol as clearly as tho conditions regarding tho cession of territory in tho Antilles and tho Orient. M. Cambon, before tho signature of tho protocol, received from Madrid the presentment alleged a cable messago clearly setting forth that the maintenance of Spain's authority over tho Philippines should not be affected by tho protocol, to which reservation tho United States made at that time no protest or objection. This dispatch to M. Cainbon, as the Spaniards claimed, embodied also the view that the United States had no valid basis Ic r claims in the archipelago. It was further held by Senor Rios and his colleagues that the capitulation of Manila, having occurred after the signing of tho protocol, and thus after the suspension of hostilities, was invalid. With all this for a groundwork, the Spaniards made their first positive move against the Americans, and it constituted their counter proposition. They charged upon the United States a wrongful appropriation of public moneys belonging to Spain by seizing the tariff duties at Manila, and they formally demanded the return of these moneys, in the sum of nearly a million dollars. On the sarno premises the United States were declared to have made and held a9 prisoners tho Spanish troops at Manila in violation of international law, because done after the suspension of hostilities under tho protocol. A further charge was that by the imprisonment of the Spanish troops at Manila tho United States had prevented Spain from quelling the insurrec IlIUU, UUU xiail iuu> fuuinuna-u iv luv WW lenee against Spain after the cessation of hostilities. The Spanish presentment also cited the refusal of the Americans to consider the Cuban debt, on the ground that it was not mentioned in the protocol, and demanded an adherence to this as a precedent in the discussion of the Philippines, regarding the cession of which the Spanish Commissioners held the protocol to make no mention. There was no indication of a rupturo between the American and Spanish Commissioners. 1 FRENCH CABINET'S POLICY. Ministerial Declaration Afflrins the Supremacy of the Civil l'ower. Takis, France (By Cable).?The Chamber of Deputies re-opened on Friday with a crowded assembly, after its adjournment on October 25, the day of the fall of the Cabinet presided over by 31. Brisson. Amid great animation the new Premier, M. Dupuv, read the Ministerial declaration. He began by declaring that the cabinet fully recognized the difficulties and responsibilities of the task undertaken, and affirmed the supremacy of the civil power as the fuudamental principle of a Republican State. He expressed confidence in the army, which, he added, would faithfully respect the laws of the republic. "Wo do hot," he continued, "leave the national army a butt to the campaign of insult waged against it if we place It above the blind polemics which futilely seek to throw unjust responsibilities upon it. The army is still more entitled to the solicitude and protection of th* public powers since it can onlv work usefullvfor the security of the country in qnietudo and silence. ' The permanent interests of the nation nt home and abroad, its greatness and prosperity, will be the predominating object of our cares and efforts. Tho Government's foreign policy will be inspired by the clear interests of the country, and care will bo taken that our efforts are proportionate only to the value of the object at stake." The Ministerial declaration was applauded ia both the Chamber of Deputies and tho Senate. The Chamber approved It by a vote of 423 to 04, Serious Fir? in a Powder Works. A fire which destroyed one of tho mixing bouses of the Unique Works, a part of the Forcito Powder Works, at Lake Hopatcong, N. J resulted in the death of ono employe and the injury of four others. Charles Lozier, aged about twenty-eight, and married, who was screening chemical soda at the time, was burned to a crisp. A. W. N'idelius, chief chemist, who happened to be in the mixing hoflso at the time, sustained severe butDs about the face and nanus. ii?viu aim riiuih. opeiry, uruiuers, were badly burned. Frank Sperry was fatally injured. David received his burns in trying to rescue his brother. The other person injured was Mattin Kjallman, a Swede, who lives at Kingstown. A New Itejmblic. A new republic was bora on November 1 called the United States of Central America, composed of Nicar agua, Salva lor and Honduras. lte-elected President ef Women's Clubs. Mrs. William Tod llelmutk was renominated for Piesident of the State Federation of Women's Clubs in New York City without opposition. The President of the Naval War College. Commander C. H. Stockton has been ordered to assume duties as President of the Naval War College, Newport. It. I. To Modify tho New Harbor Monitors. The Navv Department is considering the advisability of modifying the plans for the four new harbor monitors by Increasing Kola oi^a f??rvrv? 07Afl Mna tn 40.10 tfin? ?n ablins: them to carry four 12-inch guns in two turrets, instead of only two guns in one turret. A State's Insolvency Laws Suspended. All the insolvoncy laws of Massachusetts were suspended on July 1. The United States bankruptcy lawsuporsoded them ou that day. This important decision was rendered by the full bench of the Supremo Court at Boston a few days ago. JOHN WANAMAKER ARRESTED. " Charged With Slander by Pennsylvania'i Former Public Printer. Rochester, Ponn. (Special). Ex-Postmaster-General Wanamaker was arrested as he stepped from a train here on Wednesday on a charge of slander preferred by Thomas Robinson, the veteran editor and former Superintendent of Public Printing. Colonel Robinson left Harrisburg a few months ago, when he resigned tho office of Superintendent of Public Printing and returned to his home in Butler. Recently, in a speoch, Mr. Wanamaker criticised the former Superintendent for his part in the printing on the famous bulletin on "Diseases and Enemies ol Poultr)*," which caused a scandal and involved an expense of over $60,000 to the State. Rooinson has always contended that he was innocent of any wrongdoing and that he simply performed his duty. It is supposed that the suit grows out of this matter. ATr Wnn?imnber enmn horn to address a political meeting. After the Sheriff ol Beaver County had sorved tho summons at the railway station Mr. Wannmaker whc was not put under bonds, made bis speech, THE CONDITION OF TRADE. Business All Over tlie Country is Very Active and tlie Outlook Bright. New Yoek City (Special).?Bradstreet's says: In distributive trade reports of bad weather interfering with regular demand | and collections, but of stimulating retail trade in heavy winter goods, come from the West and "Northwest, whence also came advices of bad roads crippling farmers' ability to deliver wheat to market. Against this, however, might be cited the fact that primary receipts of wheat are fully equal to those of last year. All advices as to railroad traffic point to Western and Southern railroads being taxed to their utmost to handle the business offering, with gross earnings showing gains over last year's exceptionally good results. A great burst of activity in nearly all lines has followed the freeing of the lower Mississippi valley section from the numerous quarantines, and country buying is reported active, be Ins partially stimulated by colder weather in that section. From the Pacific Coast, particularly Paget Sound and Columbia River points, tbe advices are of very active trade, heavy grain receipts being largely absorbed by mills working on export orders and of increasing trade with our new dependencies. MRS. DRUCE WINS HER SUIT. An Order Granted That Her Father-lnLaw's Grave May Be Opened. " London (By Cable). Mrs. Anna Maria Druce, daughter-in-law of the late Thomas C. Druce, who, she asserts, was in fact and in law the fifth Duke of Portland, obtained a final order in the High Court of Appeal directing the Chancellor and Faculty of the Diocese of London to issue her a permit to open and inspect the coffin, now in the vaults of Highgate Cemetery, alleged to contain the remains of her father-in-law or or a man uunoa -is a nomas ouaries Druce. Mrs. Anna Maria Draco claims that her father-in-law's alleged death and burial under the name of Draco were deceptions, and that ho Jived and finally died, after having been under the care of Dr. Forbes Winslow, in a lunatic asylum, as Dr. Darner. Her son, who sho assert9 is the rightful Duke of Portland, and for whom her present proceedings are taken,is, or has been until recently, a domestic servant. He was last heard of in Australia. THE IDENTITY OF DE ROUCEMONT Mrs. Grien.of Sydney, Says tho Australian J Story-Spinner is Her Husband. Sydney, .1 S. W. (By Cable).?When tho London Chronicle publishes the statement of William May, an old diver, of Leeds, to the effect that Lou is Do Rougemont was none other than Hen^l Louis Grien, or Green, of this city, it establishes tho identity of the man who has been setting all England agape with his storie9 of Crusoe-like lifo on a queer island of the jneronesian Arcuipeiego. Mrs. Grien lives in Sydney, and she Las recognized the portrait of De P.ougemont as that of her husband, and said that she 1 had heard from him in England through relatives there. Her husband left hero presumably for New Zealand last May and she has not seen him since. Mrs. Grien is the daughter of a Queensland property owner und a wamna who is ecnueeted with i several of the best families of Australia. She was married to Grien in Newtown in 1SS3. MAINE VICTIMS REMEM3ERED. Grave of the Drowned Sailors at ilavana Decorated. Havana, Cuba (By Cable).?General Wade and General Butler, of tl>e United States Evacuation Commirsion, went to the Colon Cemetery to lay flowers on the grave of the victims of the Maine disaster on Wednesday. In the course of the afternoon a number of other ofllcers visited the cemetery. Just after Generals Wade and Butler had left the Hotel Trocba for the cemetery, carrying the floral crown made by the committee of young Cuban girls who had asked the privilege of paying this tribute to the dead, u carriage was driven up to the hotel with representatives of the Cuban Club, who brought an immense floral cross to lav upon the grave. On learning that Generals Wa le and Butler had already gone to the cemetery tbo Cubans followed and overtook tnem in time to place both offerings together. Two Women Acquitted of Murder. Miss Minnie Saxton, who, on learning that her sister, Susan, was to be married, shot anil killed her on August 22 lust, was acquitted at Toronto, Ont., of the charge of murder on the ground of insanity. Mrs. Isabella Burrell was also acquitted in the Criminal Court at Toronto on a charge of murdering her three little children on October 21 last. She was adjudged insane, and will be sent to an asylum. Thanksgiving Day in Santiago. General Wood, Military Governor of Santiago, has prepared a Thanksgiving proclamation, saying that tho Cubans ought to give thanks for the blessings they have received. The Americans want to keep the day in the old-fashioned style, and have written their friends in the North to send on turkeys. The Kaiser ii\ For Peace. At the dedication of the Church of the Redeemer, near Jerusalem a few days ago, Emperor William made an appeal for universal peace. Georgia Lynchers Driven OCT. Wiil Uobinson, a negro, charged with attempted assault on Mrs. It. S. Walker, was arrested at Augusta, Ga., a few days ago. About 500 armed men, includiug a number of soldiers in camp at Augusta, marched to the jail,in which twenty policemen had been stationed, and demanded the surrender of the negro. Upon being told by Jailer Collins that the would be derended, one of the attacking party shot at the policeman holding the lautern. The fire was returned. William Moore, a volunteer soldier on furlough. was shot through the head and will die. When he fell the attack was abandoned. None of the policemen was Injured. The Clyde Liner Croatan Goes Down a Few Miles From Cape Charles, FIVE PERSONS ARE DROWNED. The Survivors Renewed by the Schooner Alice E. Clark, of Portland, Maine, and Taken to Vineyard Haven, Mans. * Wo PA l^riVPtl i WODVJHHU ?.v.w The Cause of tlie Fire Unknown. Vineyard Haven, Mass. (Special). A disaster at sea, with a loss of iivo lives, was mndo known on Friday by the landing here of twenty-two persons who escaped from tho burning steamer Croatan, of the Clyde Line, bound from Now York for Wilmington, N. C., and Georgetown, S. C. The affair occurred on November 1, about eighteen miles north of Cape Charles. The Croatan sailed from New York on October 31 with a general cargo and eight passengers. At 3 o'clock in tho afternoon of the next day tho burned hulk snnl: beneath the waves. Twenty-two of the passengers and crew were landed at this port by tho schooner Alice E. Ciark. of Portland, Me. 1 Tho persons lost from tho Croatan were: James Curtis, steward, of Jersey City; Mrs. James Curtis, wifo of tho steward; Jeremiah McCarthy, second a-sistant engineer, ot Nova Scotia; leaves a widow in Now York; Jennie Williard, colored, of Wilming tOD, N. C., Frank , oiler, last name not known. The story of the disaster is told by Captain Kale and the other ofticcrs of the vessel as follows: ' The Croatan was twenty hours out from Now York on her way to Wilmington, when, at 3 p. m., a llrem'an came hurriedly on deck and reported that sho was on lire. A general alarm was Immediately given, and an effort was mado to lower tho boats, but the flro spread with such rapidity that all iefforts to reach tho boats were unavailing. ;In less than ten minutes after the lire was reported the ship was enveloped in flames from stem to stem. Captain Hale, seeing that to remain on the vessel meant sure death, gave orders for all hands to jump overboard and save themselves as best they could. The eaptain tvas the last man to leave the ship, remaining on deck with his llrst officer until the vessel began to sink. There was no panic on board. Men and women, after putting on their life-proser'vers, leaped into tho water. Some of the passengers had their faces scorched, and .the clothing of some was on lire when tlioy leaped into the sea. The captain and llrst officer secured a yawl boat, which had been damaged in lowering, and by hard work rescued eight persons from the water. Tho burning ship was sighted by the four-mnsted schooner Alice Clark, of Portland, Captain Clark, Norfolk forPort[land, which lay becalmed six miles off, and her captain sent a boat to aid in tho work of rescue. Its crew succeeded in saving twelve persons, who had been an hour or more In the wuter and had become nearly exhausted. They were taken on board tho Alice Clark, and received every possible attention. j Captain Clark not only gave tho shipwrecked men and women feed and clothling, but supplied them with money to take them to their homes. No explosives were known to be among the shin's cargo, nnd the origin of the lire is a mystery to lier ofllcers and crew. FASHODA OF "NO VALUE." Lonl Salisbury 1r a Speech Givci France's licason For Evacuating the Place. London (By Cable). An iiamenso number of people witnessed General Kitchener's triumphal progress to the Guildhall Friday morning to receive the freedom of the City of London and the sword of honor presented to him In recognition of his defeat of the Dervishes at Omdurman. The banquet given to General Kitchener at the Mansion House in the evening was an cxcepiionally brilliant affair. He v.as attired in the uniform of a Major-General of the British army, wi'.h the ribbon of the Osmanieh Order. He was greeted with tremendous cheering from the assembled guests. The assembly greeted tho rising of the Marquis of Salisbury to toast the Sirdar with nervous silence, as it bad been whispered that he had an important and grave statement to make. His statement was important, but it was pacific, as ho announced a settlement of tho chief difficulty with Franco. Tho Premier said, in part: "No one cun wonder at the vast ent husiasm by which the career of tilts great soldier has been received, esneciallv when we ! consider the strange dramatic interest of the circumstances and conditions amid which his laureis were won by the sirdar. "I h ive received from the French Ambassador tho information that the French Government has como to tho conclusion that tho occupation of Fashodt is of no sort of value (prolonged laughter an^ Cheers), and that they thought, in the circumstances, that to persist in an occupation would only cost thcin money and do harm. "They bavo dons what I believe every Government would have done in the same [ position resolved that tho occupation must cease. (Cheers.) I rausf not bo understood as saying that ail causes of eonI troversy aro removed. That is not so. Doubtless there will be many discussions I between us; but a somewhat acute and somewhat dangerous cause of dillerences lias been removed." Death of General Fltzhugh Cee's Zllothcr. Mrs. Anne Maria Lee, mother of General Fitzhugli Lee, died at t'ao home of hur soa> Captain Dan M. Lee, in Stafford County, Va., as the result of a fall she received a few days ago, breaking her hip. Mrs. Lee was eighty-eight years old. She was tho daugnter of General John Mason and sister of United States Senator John M. Mason. She married Captain Sydney Smith Leo, brother of General ltobert K. Lee. lie.,ides General Lee and Captain Daniel Lee. her children are: Major John M. Lee and Robert Lee, of Stafford. The burial was in Christ's Church Yard, Alexandria. Accuses Weyltr of Stealing. Two ex-cashiers of tho Philippines Treasury, who are in prison in Manila, say tha^ General Weyler and his associates looted tho treasury of 81,300,090, and that they (thecashiers) were made the scapegoats. Sickness Among Soldiers at Manila. P.eports from Manila, Philippine Islands, showed tho existence of much si-kness ubiu^b IUU uuu|is i Young; Briilo Commits Suicide. Mrs. George Bear, a popular young society woman, of Kansas City, Mo., who was the daughter of former City Engineer Felix, committed suicide a few days ago by firing a bullet into her brain. The tragedy occurred just one week after the young woman's marriage to George Bear, an insurance man, and on the twenty-third anniversary of her birth. Her friends are un- 1 able to assign a cause for the deed. General Kitchener's Brother Honored. Colonel Kitchener, brother of th: SirdarGeneral Lord Kitchener, has been appointed Governor of Khartoum. MEWS ' EPITOMIZED. n WasMnetoa Items. s J A cable dispatch received at the Navy Department annonnced the arrival at Baliia of the colliers Justin, Scindia and I Sterling, so that Captain Barker hnd in p that harbor all of the squadron with which ho sailed for Honolulu, Secretary Long ordered the auxiliary cruiser Aileen turned over to the Brooklyn Naval Militia for its exclusive use. The Treasury Department summary of (] commerce for September shows that for nine months there has been an increase of over $100,000,000 in exports. Consul-Goneral Gowey, at Yokohama, re- E ports to the State Department that notwithstanding the low wages paid in Japan to watchmakers, the business is not a paying one, according to the report of a rr.einV ? r\ l.? r T */? lr ucr ui mu ?iuivu vuu^nnj. of still among the mechanics is one of the reasons assigned for this state of affairs. Mrs. Florenco George and Miss Kittie . MeAteo were killed by n railroad train at Laudon station, a suburban village. They * had been attending a birthday party at the t home of Isaac D. Porter, who is Mrs. 0 George's son-in-law. On their way to tho station to tnke a train to the city they were r struck by a train going in the opposite C direction. e Tho President appointed Colonel W. S. t Worth, of tho Sixteenth Infantry in the regular service and a Brigadier-General in the volunteer service, to bo a Brigadier- P General in the regular army, vice Coppin- I ger, retired. e General Bacon, who commanded the sol- t dlers in tho recent light with Pillager In- g dians at Leech Lake, Minn., ba? made a t report to tho War Department. Ho warm- f< ly praises the conduct of the ofTlccrs and J men engaged in tho battle. b n Domestic. u The War Investigating Commission and p its committee at LexingtoD, Ky heard fur- n ther testimony 011 Wednesday bearing upon g the alleged inefficiency and negligence of c army officials. Four fast trotting horses, valued at $3300 t to $4000, were burned to death at Woronoco 3 Fark, Westfleld, Mass. t Charles Offutt, a well-known attorney* . while temporarily deranged through ill, ^ ness at Omaha, Neb., shot himself through * tho head, dying instantly. Mr. Offutt was a native of Kentucky" and was twice c Speaker of the House of the Kentucky T Legislature. 1 While playing in front of his home in Brooklyn. Robert Baier, eight years old, B ran in front of a trolley car and before tho t car could be stopped was crushed to death t under the motor bos. A State election in Texas was held a fow s (lays ago tor me puruwso ui tuuuK uu n Constitutional amendment to pension oil I Indigent ex-CoDfederate soldiers who came c to Texas since 1830 at $8 per month. A' a very light vote was cast. It is believed' that the amendment will carry, but it will S require a two-thirds vote. " I lj)r. Wheeler, ol Bellevue Hospital, New 1 York City, subdued with hypnotism a * sailor in an epileptic fit whom * five policemen could not control. ? It was reported in Philadelphia that ? England had bought American coal for her . stations in the West Indies. A strike of 125 girls in the packing dc- B partment of the Continental mutch factory at Passaic, N*. J., against a reduction of o wages caused tho shutting down cf the j whole plunt, which employs 000 persons. j The first tost in this country of armor- d plate mado by the Krupp process took t place at tho works of the Bethlehem Iron t Company, Bethlehem, Penn., was a great fi success. Soldiers of the United States Volunteer * Infantry of colored immunes at Chicka- v mauga Park, Ga.t stoned several trains be- ? cause they were not allowed to ride in the 1: ladies' cars of the rapid transit line. Gideon W. Marsh, the fugitive President of the Keystone Bunk, returned to Philn- 8, delphia, Penn,, nfter seven years' absence, ? und surrendered to his bondsman. ri Mrs. Russell Sage, of New York City, of- o fered to present the Government with a hotel in Virginia, formerly a health resort, as a hospital to accommodate 1000 soldiers. * The ofTer was declined because of tlio In- , accessibility of the site. This year's foreign shipments of iron and steel will prove by far tho heaviest in the country's history, and unquestionably they o have saved tin homo trade from having to C( accept prices lower even than those ruling, which it is acknowledged leave very nnr- -u row margins ui prom. d John F. Coyle.of the Nineteenth (regular) Infantry, at home in St. Louis, Mo., on a ?: furlough, was shot and killed bv John Doerr, of the Twenty-first (regular) Infan - " try. home on sick leave. The men quayrelied over a girl living near Coyle's home, f* Coyle was twenty-fpur years old and married. Docrr is tafpty-one and single. " Friendly Chinese in San Francisco. Cal., _ have warned Dr.Jtarner. who Is trying to suppress the tnuro in slave girls, that the ? Highbinders have decided to take his !i*? if he continues his crusade. ^ P.. It. Evans, a business man of Thomas- N viile, Ga., was shol and killed a few days tc ago by Dr. J. G. Hopkins during a quarrel h over a business trarsaetion. aGovernor Cook, of Connecticut, re- tc prleved BoDjamlrw'R. Willis, the Fairilold County mur.lere , who was to have been executed Nover oer 4, until December 90. w Willis was co. victed of murdering David S. R. Laniber. In Wilton, Conn., December 1SD7. NancvJ. Larger, a centenarian, of Belle fhA r, inr. Vrtor a Si WUU", JfCliU.,'Mi?7U i*V mu v/k *ww aad one month. Fivo children survive, the oldest being Samuel Burger, aged eighty-four years. Mrs. Barger was in possession of ail her faculties until her ?: death. ai st Foremen. b( TI19 Italian Government decided to re- ft' duce tho duty on wheat. Tho Earl and Countest: of Minto left , London for Canada, where tho Earl will ?_ assume the duties of Governor-General. j The Hamburg-American and North Ger- te man Lloyd steamship companies com- ja plained to the German Foreign Office of 0j American health regulations caused by y deaths from bubonic piaguo in Vienna, (}, Austria. Mrs. Nancy Guilford, of Bridgeport, Conn., arrested in London, and vrho.se ex- ht tradition to tho United States oathech' re m of murder in the second degree in <v c tion with the death of Emma Gill, ^ tim of tho Yellow Mill Pond traged< been granted, will sail for New Yorlc tody of Detective Cronan, of the port police. Prime Minister Schreiner introd bill in the Cape Colony Assembly prf (or a perpetual contribution of ii>150, nually to the imperial nayy. The pi was loudly cheered. A great Are in Serinagur, one of t tuis of Cashmere, in the Vale of Cr India, destroyed all the public fc and many houses. One man was k The Baroness do Roque has by no given up all hopes of obtaining the of her daughter, Mrs. Mavbrlck. The ess held a conference with Henry United States Charge d'Affuires In L a few days ago, and nl90 paid a v cheer to the prisoner. fe< A Frenohman was arro3ted at Dover, ia England, for attempting to enter the big t[l gun turret on the Admiralty pier there. The Novoe Vremya, of St. Petersburg, Russia, expresses joalousy of the facilities ] granted to English companies now work- qj ing in the oil fields of the Caucasus. It suggests that the American Standard Oil ;?j Company "may be buying ur> Russian com- | ~ petjtors at Baku behind an English.mask." |1U ." v f3l "t ippiwopcii irst Order For the Movement of UnTted States Troops Issued, -N iEN. CARPENTER TO COMMAND, j A !ierlith Cavalry, Fifteenth Tmfanlry,/?nd Third Georgia Volunteers to Cuba About November g'C?Xnerltafl and Porto .Principe to be Garrisoned; B by Onr Soldiers?Itcason Tor the Order* fl Washington, D. C. (Special).?Secretary ^ .lger has issue J the first order looking to he military occupation of Cuba by the ? Tnited States troops. The order was Issued ? niy after very careful consideration of the , eports of the military officers now li? * !uba. and of tho Hecker Eoard and other spert Commissioners which have been in he field. The plan looks to the occupation of* two oints to begin with, namely, Xuevitas and 'orto Trincipe, but tho occupation will be steaded as rapidly as tho Spanish evacua- I Ion proceeds. The Government is to be? j ;!n at once, but according to the calcula- j ions of the Department it will bo scarcely; easible to make the first landing before ] [ovembor 22. . 4 Headquarters of the new corps, which as been created for the purpose of begin^,.'-, ing the occupation will be* at Nuevltaaf* inder the command of General L. H. Carlenter. He was in command of the cav-j Iry brigade, composed of the Sixth and leventh Cavalry, at Huntsville, Ala. The rder is as follows: "The headquarters of the six troops of he Eighth United States Cavalry ana the ["bird Georgia Volunteers will be at Nuchas' "Six trooos of the Eighth United States lavalry and the Fifteenth Infantry to Port<f ^inclpe. "The regiments will be prepared foremtarkation at once, and the Subsistence Delartmeat will arrange for the necessary ralons. The command will be equlppea and atiouod for sixty days. "The Quartermaster-General's Depart- : oent will furnish the necessary wagon j ran9portation for use at their new staions. "The Surgeon-General will make proviion for hospital and medical supplies. "Brigadier-General L. H. Carpenter, Inited States Volunteers, Is assigned to nmrnond thn?A trnrnw with hAflrfnnartftrS - ----- ----f ,t hue vitas. "The cavalry brigade compose^ of the leventh and Eighth United States Cavalry, 3 discontinued. The Seventh is assigned o the First Army Corps and the Eighth to he Second Amy Corps. "The Fifteenth United States Infantry is [etached from the Fourth Army Corps, and > . ,n Infantry brigade created, composed of ho Third Georgia Volunteers and the FIf-. eenth United States Infantry, and desigiatcd as the Second Brigade, Third Divlion, Second Corps." Nuevitos Is a seaport at the eastern end n the northern shore of Cuba. Porto, 'rincipe is located in and about the central iortion of the province of the same name; I 'his general order has nothing to do with j he assumption of control of the island by I he United States, no change being made I rom January 1, the date agreed upon. I It was explained at the War Department gd hat this first movement of troops to Cnv" H rns ordered in advance of the date orifc M Uy intended, for the feasTlTTlrat thftSJ). 9 ih Evacuation Commissioners had unex H ectedly notified the American Commission H hat they intended to evacuate Porto Pfln-. M ipe on the 22d of the present month. Con- H equently, it became necessary to havo| V ntted States troops on hand in Cuba to. A splace these Spanish forcos to maintainl V ruer ana protect 1110 ana property. 1URDERS REVEALED BY A WOMAN. [r?. Myers Says Her J'aramour Killed. Two Men in tlio Desert. Los Angeles, Cal. (Special).?Til? story f tho murder of two men on the desert of euthern Nevada in April last year has. ist been told by the mistress of the murerer. Mrs. Myers was married on October Sl,: ud on the next day she confessed that | ohn Hancock, with whom she i'ved at the me, killed George Engelke, av*t*rinary lrgeon of Southern California, and x'eteri . draiston. o* Canada, a contractor, '.""he vo men disappeared in the desert and no ' race of them was found. Mrs. Myers, with her small boy, acct m- ; anied Hancock from Southern California ) Salt Lake. On tho way thoy fell in with ngelke and Edmlston. Hancock wanted te property of tiio two men. and one night,' hen in the wild mountain country of evai'a, he told Mrs. Myers he was going > kill them. She tried vainly to dissuade [m. He shot them both as they were deep, buried the bodies under stone3, and iok their belougings. Since then Mrs. Myers ho3 lived in fear " lat Hancock would kill her as the only itDtn or his crime. Hancock is now in in Bernardino Jail. He is an ex-convict. * CUBANS STRIKE AT SANTIAGO. .met r.aliorers <>ult Work When Refused Higher Wages. , Santiago de Ccr.a (By Cable).?The Cuins who bavo been employed in cleaning id repairing the streets of Santiago have ruck for higher wages, though they have son receiving a dollar a aav, or nrty cents id two rations higher wages than Wave rer before beon paid for similar work. In fact, locnl employer* of labor have >en complaining of the high rate, alleg-; g that It was quito imno-siblo for themi i compete with the Government on scchtX rms. * Tho Cuban laborers at tho best are zy and ^slipshod. They want an increase 1 fifty cents a day. General Leonard ood absQiutuiy refused to accede to the sniand, and will adopt heroic measures If ie strike is not promptly declared off. Tho trouble is that many of tho strikers ivo rations enough on" hand to last & onth or they can tith or i 9 * f >sional skui ana jdj bringing his ship through th< oft e so a ana a lurtung 100 10 suit Fatal Boiler Explosion at ( Vtjr. By the explosion of anew bo .* at the 1 City Boiler Work3, Oil Citj, Penn., a y daj'8 ago, two men were killed, two Tally Injured, urrti a dor.en more slightly r"t. The works were damaged to the exit of 112000. *