The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 10, 1898, Image 6
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Published Every Thursday
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UNGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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,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
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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. *