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HI STR0NGH01D 111 [ WEN. WH EATON'S MEN CAPTURE e THE CITY OF PASIU. f' ! r THREE AMERICANS WERE KILLED. 1 ti ; s< h l.o?e< of Filipinos NmI<I to He Severe. It?>bol? Wore I'ttorly Kouted Mini Cltj Knslly Taken. tl A Manila special nays: General Wheftton attacked aud captured the jJ' city of I'asitf, east of Manila. Monday afternoon. The enemy made a stand tli for an hour, hut at the end of that time was forced to retreat. o /i ? ... te .ni uavtiKiib trenerai wiieaton's tli- | j)( visional brigade, consisting of the I pi Twentieth United States infantry, the Twenty-second infantry, eight com- 8' panics of the Washington volunteers, ') co seven companies of the Oregon volun- ,u teers, three troops of the Fourth,> of United States cavalary and a mounted [' kt battery of the Sixth artillery, was drawn up on a ridge behind San Pedro I < Macati, a mile south of the town. The re advance was sounded at 6:.'!() a. m., j tic tho cavalry led the column, at a smart to trot, across the open to the right, th eveutually reaching a clump command* go ing the rear of Guadalupe. hi1 Supported by the Oregon volunteers Ft the advance force opened a heavy fire se: on the rebels. de The response was feeble and desul- so tory, apparently coming from hands- oji ful of men in every covert. While the dr right column was swinging toward the fr? town of I'nsig. the left advanced and th poured vollevs into th? i,u?i> -n-1 A small body of rebels made n dc- ii| terniined stun I at Gaudalupe church, re but was miiible to withstand the as- iii| Bault. m; At 7 :d0 a. in. a river gunboat started tli toward Pasig The rebels were first Ci encountered by this vessel in the jungle near Guadalupe. Steaming slowly, the gunboat j mired a terrific lire from her gulling guns into the brush. For i? ail of an hour the whirring of the rapid fire guns alternated with the booming of the h-'avier pieees on board. . The artillery moved to a ridge eom- ~11 mnndiug T'a-ig and Parteros. Iiy this , time the enemy was in full flight-along a line over a ini'e long and the firing was discontinued temporarily in order JTl to give the hoops a rest before making an attack on Pasig. 110 At this stage of the engagement it !'a was raining heavily, aud after a short rest, General Wheaton resumed the attack on Pasig. I After tne Town una Twentieth regiment liu erf up on the blutT and the Twenty-second took up a 1( position on the left of the place, with 'lo the cavalry in the center, whereupon the euemy retreated to the town. The rebels were met opposite Pate- P1' ros, but the enemy bolted and the city was captured. ea Thirty of the rebels were killed and sixteen were taken prisoners and the Americans lost three men killed and fourteen wounded. A public demonstration was made at Havana Monday morning in honor r? of Gome/.. When Federieo Mora, civil governor of Havana, learned of the preparations he directed the police pH to prevent the parade. They tried to j',; do ho, hut utterly I'uiled. tic When near (juiinta do los Molinas as the demouHtratorH began to shove tlie i policemen, pulling their coats and at- 1 ft tempting to take away their clnhs. 1 aj, There were more than a hundred poiiee ca within ten blocks, hut they did not j,r nct together. Indeed, they were tie thoroughly scared, and one policemen ran to Central park, where the Tenth j,r regulars were camped. th The Twentieth regulars, who were |ia sent at double-quick with lixed bayo- trr nets to protect the policemen, charged nj, down upon a crowd of a thousand, tin Everybody ran, including the police an and men, women and children tutu- fj, bled over each other in the rush. Two j>, minutes later the avenue was cleared for blocks, but not a person was hurt pr( by the regulars. tlu i 1 WILL VISIT 01"BA. El i de llrnrglti H?ll tor* Arn iig For n Trip ati to thn Island. fm Mr. F(. II. Cnbauiss, president of the Georgia Press association, is ar- ; ranging to take that hotly of editors ?r (>ii a trip to Cuba. The trip will he a short one and at moderate cost. It is estimated that the expense will ho Th from $?>') to $75 for each perst n. ; ^fa It is the intention of President ^ <'ah?niss to call a meeting of the gn( Georgia Press association at Tampu i ft0^ for Friday morning, the 24th of March. fjic Tt must he distinctly understood that no one can enjoy the privilege of ^OI taking this trip except the editor, pro- tjir priotor or publisher of a Georgia j newspaper. One lady will he allowed on to accompany each gentleman, hut she fjr, must he a member of the family of such editor, proprietor or publisher. J MUItOF.KF.lt UK WIS HVNt.Fl>. i I Hwiiiik Into Kternlty I'nlliiitlinll.r t'r} Ing to irtiiKinmi to "Walt." Htn . ? w 11ii ti cry ror a i?w more moments of life, for a drink of cold water ami for lii.s wife to coiiio to him with her ! prayers. K ?hert Lewis fell through the death-trap in the Tower at Atlan- R'u ta, (la., Tuesday morning, in oxpia- rej tion of th" murder of Charles llaynes, ^ and in eighteen minutes afterwards UM his hody was rut down and turned over to the undertaker. 5f2 t.OMEZ ISSUES STATEMENT. Ircfptu Dlmnlaaal From the Cuban Army With n Rente of Kellef. A special from Havana says: Genial Maximo Gomez baa issue*! the ollowing statement to the Cuban peole and army: "Hy the use of the suprome facilies with which it is endowed, the asjrnbly, representing the urmy only, as <lei used me as commander-in-chief f the Cuban army, which grade it eonirred on me during the last war. As jiiiiiuiiMiur-iu-cnioi i always followed le dictates of my best conscience and le call of great national needs. I enjavored in all civcumstances to fnltill y ;,,lty"The assembly considers the fact lat I do not aid it iu etTorts to raise aiH, which latter would compromise o greatest tiuancial and political inrests of Cuba, to he an act of insubmlination and want of respect. The imary cause for the action taken mo ?" mi- <1?U. . Lould begiu the exercise of its own ivereiguty, as a republic of union and mcord, proclaimed at Monte Cristo id sustained unimpaired on the field battle, free from all compromise, >eping the nation's honor spotless. "As for the rest, as a sincero man, confess I thank them because they liovo me of great political obliga>ns and also leave me free to return my abandoned home, which, during irty years of continual strife for the iod of this country that I love so in*li, has been my nno aspiration, ireigner as I am, I did not come to rve this country hy helping it to fend its just cause as a mercenary hlier, and consequently, since the ipressive power of Spain has withawn from this land aud left Cuba in ?edom, I have sheathed my sword, inking I had finished my mission iieh I had voluntarially imposed >ou myself. I am owed nothing. I fire contented and satisfied at havg done all I could for the benefit of v brothers. Wherever destiny rules at I make my home, there can the lhans depend upon a friend." KU.KUBU TAKF.S A HAM). ium I'rixl urnut Ion fiioirnntpi'liig; l*rotiM-tiou tn Who Itfturn. A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says: response to letters received by him >m various persons, who, as a result warnings received are afraid to rern to their homes in Abbeville and eenwood counties, the neighboroil of the Phoenix troubles, Goverir Ellerbo has issued a proclamation lliner ut>on the sheriffs, ilenutv slier J, magistrates, constables ami all lier pence officers in Greenwood aiul >beville counties, under the ]>ains Tie extends to al\ citizens' cTnven ' ;>ra their homes, as aforesaid, who sire to return to their homes, such 11 protection as all the power of e state can give as long as they irsue their lawful business, and the od people in the said counties are rnestly urged to assist in upholding e law and in saving the good names the respective counties. tESIDENT LEAVES WASHINGTON ir Vacation of Ten Day* or Two WcoKk at Tlioma%vlll??, (la. President and Mrs. McKinley and a rty of friends left Washington nt 1 10 o'clock Monday night for a vacant of ten days or two weeks at Thomville, (la. The trip was made via the Atlantic >ast Line and the Plant system, oard a splendid train of Pullman i rs, perfect in equipment with every ovision for the comfort and safety of j e party. i Ten minutes before train time the < esident and Mrs. McKinley reached i ? ...t.? ,.t i? c mm msu, uci c u uuuiuci ui jiuujur j d assembled, aiul wont on board tho I tin and greeted those who accompa- i jd them on the trip. These included b vice president ami Mrs. Hobart d Master Hobart, Senator and Mrs. inna, Miss Hauna and Miss Phelps, . J. N. Rixey and Mr. George B. rtelvou, assistant secretary to the < enident, and B. S. Barnes, one of s executive clerks. , Secretary Alger, Postmaster General uory Smith, Secretary to the Presint Porter, General Corbin and oth- j < were at the station to bid the party ewell. BODIES SHIPPED HOME. j innlnn of Officers Killed In Philippines 1 Aro Krllig Transported. cable dispatch from Manila says: e remains of Colonel W. E. Smith, ,jor E. McConville, Captain David Elliott and Second Lieutenant Eu10 S. French, who wore killed in ion, were shipped home Friday by i United States transport Soandia, :h military honors, the Second Orea r a! ii n foaea fnrrtiaKie <* tU a am aa*>1 . ,Vii?iivcvin Iiiiuiiiiuii^ lutl onuuri I ough the city. tlajor General Lawton, who arrived ^ hoard the Umte<l Statea transport f ant, from New York, on January * h, landed and formally reported to c_ ijor General Otis. i DEATHS IN THE ARMY. (fmcnt Showing Lotifi Brlwrrn .May 1, 1898, and February 38, 1800 A Washington dispatch says: The f lowing statement has been issued >\ving the total number of deaths >orted to the adjutant general's of- | i between May 1, 1808, and Fehru '28, 1809: Killed in action, 329; ] (1 of wounds, 125; died of disease, 1 77. Total, 5,731. 1 IPlinKM ? I THE STORIES OF TROUBLES O NEORO EX-SOLDIERS. ALGER DECIDES ON THAT COURSI Many Cnmplalntiof AIIi>k?><1 MIMrrntmei Ar? Lo<i(rd A|??ln*t Nonthern Communities. A dispatch from Washington snvs The war department was throngo Friday, with negroes and officers c the Eighth immune regiment and b officers of the Tdfcth lodging con plaints with tlio offices of their tro/tment in the south. \ Secretary * r-J" Vvesfigate"thc thor/ "'"Vl.oen n*l*n?but complaints from , " through which those rT?>*erntory passed. The officers deny ,.a.Ye on tlio part of the men ana lay all the blame on the commuuity hrough which the trains have passed. Friday morning one of the rajors of the Eighth immunes, colord, who visited the department, ir tie a report to the adjutant general ' , regard to the soldiers and their c nduct, and told some very startliug s iries in regard to their reception at Tasliville. The officer told General Corbin that at Nashville the police mtered the cars whero the imuiunes t sre and attacked and beat them i a liorriblo manner, and not only id this but ruuueu tiie bomiers; iu me liiHiniicu SI 5 being taken from o e of the colored soldiers. Ti e adjutant genoral tc Id the major to make a written report :>f the affair ar>d to include a stntemeit iu regard to other incidents of the 1 -ip. An officer of the Teilli iruniunes also stated to General Corbin that the report that the state militia at Griffin, Ga., had fired into the car containing the soldiers, and where there were women, was true, and that he was surprised that a number of women as well as soldiers were not killed. This officer was also asked to make a written report, and when these are made the department intends to make them public. The department wishes reliable reports from cities and towns in both Tennessee and Georgia in order that the blame may be properly placed. PURCHASED BY SOUTHERN. I'he Louisville Alr-l.lue li.pnrtriMo Have Changed llnntl*. M Tt io Pu jGft/ known as the Louisville Aim-Line and will hereafter be 111 the ccfmpeti tion for the great western gr&in am other traffic for the south wifth tin Louisville and Nashville and Hllinoi Central railroads. I The deal is said to have be?>n con pummated in New York and wyll rais< the amount of track or the Hbutherr railway to comfortably near nhe si*. thousand-mile mark. The now line acquired is aver 374 miles long and gives the much desired entry to the west. MUST M ATCH WIRES. Cntquo IWIalnn of JikIri' Norwood In n Dniuttifn Suit at Savannah. .Tndge J. M. Norwood, in the Savannah, Oa., city court, rendered a decision Friday morniug, the final result of which will he awaited with much interest by lawyers. The effect of Judge Norwood's decision is that people driving on the streets and pedestrians must be on the lookout for electric wires, and if they see them *hen it is possible for them to do sdand then run into them, the oompaii* owning ihe wires is not responsilA in damages to the party injured. BRYAN TO TENNKSSIIA.VS. Sebraskan Will Addren? tli^ tut? I,i>glt. i latum on March 'ii A Nashville dispatch say Hon. G. j W. Wade, secretary of tin comniitteo ippointod to invite Hon. \ J. Bryan 1 :o address the Tennessee egislature ! in the issues of the day, hi received i letter from Mr. Br^an m eptiug the i invitation and naming eduesday, March 22d, as the date f'-Aie speech. COM MISSION W ILIA Pl'KAU from Itullng of JihIka Favoring Southern Fx press OiAnany. The decision of JudgiEliory Speer, >f Macon, to the eflect hi* the Georgia railroad commissiorhal no authorty to require the Sotlitrn Express lompauy to pay the cot of the rovonue 1 tamps and enjoining tl?e Coin mission rom applying any I'm if t|ie company efuses to pay the stmps, will he ap>etleil. It ia not known (-finitely whether he appeal will he nc.de to the circuit | ourt of appeals at New Orleans or vliether it will go to the supreme I jourt of the Unite States at Wash* ngton. AHANDOM COLON. iVrrrklni; Company ilTm f'p Hope of , Sitvlntc Smikfi ItattlcAlilp A dispatch to TheVew York Herahl roin Washington sas: The navy departinnt has abandoned dl hope of thoreeov y of the armored miser Cristobal Clou, sunk in the >ntile of July It. Engineers repre* i tenting the Swedis Wrecking coin* j |>any, who inspeetedthe wrecks, have eft for Stockholm w hont making any I (reposition to the doartmeut. POBTO KICANS 1HSSATISFIEU. Correspondent of Chletfo Paper Seji They Are llendy to Kevolt. The Chicago Tribune prints the following special correspondence from Porto Rico from a Tribune correspondent: San Juan pr Pokto Rico, March I 4.?The real situation in Porto Rico is not understood. People in the states generally regard Porto Rico as a sort of haveu of pence. Tlie war department has just requested of General Henry that he immediately report how many regular troops ho could spure from the island. "I need twice the troops I have," said the general at his residence in Sail Juan. "Because of the easy victory of our troops here iu the war and ?i. f..: n;? I 11 \ ll|>pul UU l< 11 KTilll I 1 HC?'o U k 1110 UlllM vn to the American soldiers when they invaded the island, a notion prevails iu the states that there is little necessity for a strong force to maintain order in the island. The idea is erroneous. "The conditions here are alarming. These people have been giveu every ounartnnitv but tliev have thrown r* - o i for local self-government. They are no more fit for local self-government than I am to run a locomotive. More troops are needed ip the island. The seeds of discontent planted by professional agitators are rapidly growing, and can be kept down only by a strong military force. "The ill feeling between the natives and the American troops seems to grow stronger every day. The American officers have to maintain the greatest vigilance to prevent their in on from wrofiL* i 11 or von rrofin pa on tlio p natives, and especially on the native poliee, for acts of violence that arc continually committed against the troops." "BADLY TREATED" WITNESS. Million Snyn lie Will Not Again Tentlfy Agnlnut Mm. Moore. ?. Martin Mahou, the New York hotel man, who is now in Atlantic City, N. ,T., savs that he will not return to New York to testify against Fayuo Moore. Mahou figured prominently an prosecuting witness in the badger trial which resulted in sending William Moore to prison for nineteen years, but he says he was so badly treated while on the witness stand in that trial that he will not present himself to testify in the trial of Mrs. Moore. Mr. Mahon's statement made to a reporter is as follows: "It may be as well for mo to make an authoritative statement and put a stop to this ooutinual newspaper hounding. You may state, positively, that I shall , remain here, or at least without the '"SU'ilastion of New York courts, for'at ' lfe? threatened with. i- >ew York has heen so adjusted that 1 can remain awny indefinitely, and ii e necessary, I will go abroad to esc'aix s annnvimn. T . j v.. j. uDimvu every man 11 master of hie own action. - ; "I did what I thought was right in 3 instituting the ease against Fayne 1 Moore and her alleged husband, but I - w^s badgered and ill-treated worse i upon the witness stand than I had t j been by them, and I will not undergo such an ordeal and uncalled for hounding again. "All rumors that I have been briber, or begged into not appearing in the retrial of Fayne Moore are absolutely and unqualifiedly false. I "This is the first, last and only statement I shall make regarding my I position." GOVERNMENT IS ANNOYED Over Report* of Trmibln Tniiiieil Uy Muttered Out Soldier*. A Washington dispatch says: Regarding the report from Atlanta of I rioting by the Tenth colored immune regiment after its muster out at Macon, Ga., it was said at the war department Thursday that 110 official report had been received and that as the troops in question bad been mustered out of tho service they would have to bo dealt with lw H>? .vnin itdiuoriTies for any breach of law they might have eo unfitted. The fact is, however, that the repeated occurrences of this sort are becoming a sore question with the war department, and it is highly probable that hereafter troops to be mustered out will bo sent to their own state and given their discharges tber<. i Kvery Month From 500 To I .OOO Arrive In l'iiir**t Souml CllleN. Labor circles in the northwest are much agitated over reports which are j received with general credence that hundreds of Japanese contract laborers are being brought into Puget Sound cities. Kvery month from 500 to 1,000 Japanese laborers are landed at Tacoma, Vancouver and Portland. Practically all pass in through the requirements of which are sound body and $00 iu cash. It is said that hundreds of these men are finding employment on various railroad lines. SAMPSON MAKES PROTEST. A?kn Secretary I.out; In Omit HI* nninr In l.i?t of I'romntInn*. Secretary Long of the Navy, linn received a letter from Rear Admiral Sampson in which the admiral, after referring to the allegations that lists of officers recommended for promotion for gallantry off Santiago has failed of continuation because it included his name, asked the secretary to immediately reappcdut these officers omitting his own name. * 1 Ml MlPUt): by the ^1^ as- 01 semblyIba. hj{ the old hero is Verturbed t On the Contmry, lie N'X)1C Annrm^lT ^ By Telephone Thai KnJ">" the SltuntB I A special from Hav\says: Tho ( Cuban military assent ju public session Saturday after impeached General Maximo Gomea(l removed him from liia command Wener**' chief of the Cuban arf tit? thst ballot taken resulting itjh vot'8 he ing cast in support woti?u to impeach and remov' | r,?rt 4 ?*??. t/eueral Gomez's supporters were General Cespcd and General Nunez. The original otion, which was introduced by Sei Manuel ttanguilly, provided for t abolition of the grade of general-iihiof, but an amendment was offei to this by Senor Aguorro, which lad "to abolish tho grade of gene -in-chief and to remove General Gce-z for failure in his military duties a disobedience to the assemblv." Senor Aguerro declid that (tomez was insubordinate andbould be punished, and 8enor Hang lly insinuated that the general was aiaitor to Cuba. Much passion was kident in the speeches, in some of .which Gomez was declared to have ien delinquent in his duties and disoedient because ho had accepted the ?>roposition ol Robert P. Porter, Priident McKin ley's special emissary] without con suiting the assembly; ecause he ha< taken upon himself th arrangement! for the payment and di arming of tin Cuban troops indepen cut of the as sembly, and because h? had declare! to the assembly tlm he would observ its rulings in so far s cousidere them beneficial to Cuba. The assembly declared that th 53,000,000 was insufficient, aid thnt hns not yet accepted the propon'tioi The discussion of this question wi soon l)e tnken up, now that Genu* Gomez has been removed. Honor Gonzales do Quesada, wl accompanied Mr. Porter in Cuba, w attacked by Senors Glialberto Gome Sanguilly and Aguevro, who declar that he had acted in bad faith, a: had deceived them. Senor Aguet likened the present conditions cc fronting the assembly to those tl the French chamber wh 1 ^ Colonel - m^i^^iiftTiener^sid. declared that Mie present step \ f useless, and would make the assem ^ ridiculous in the eyes of the woi Id ! General Gomez is believed to' stronger than the assembly i? i affection of the Cuban army. Mn > privates are anxious to leave'the an and go to work, especially when tli are able to obtain money to start th in life anew. fTh M. ... iuu position of the assembly is r tnblv weak, as the military admin trat.ion supports General Gomez, as also the planters and property ownii element, who are tired of the Cub army, which subsists half upon ohari and half up m contributions levied 1 means of threats. General Gomez received at Molin Saturday evening a telephone messuf announcing to him the decision of tl assembly. He answered calmly: "A right, I enjoy the situation." WEN. WHEELER TALKS. Sm.t* Qiieatiou of Kit ltemultilnK In tli Army Ih Not llrrlilt'd. General Joseph Wheeler saw tli president Saturday concerning hi future status. Subsequently ho sai? that while the question of his remain ing in the army had not been deduite ly decided, it was probable that lu would not remain in the service. II< thought the president would bo unnblr to find a place for him and he was not pushing the niatt?r., "But I would like to remain in the service," he said, "and be sent to the Philippines, where there is fighting. I would not care so ibueli to stay in the army if I had tortmain in this country." TRAINS PRjisll IvvU -r??- __ \A??1 Several Other* ?f Tri?tVC^r?'W Injured. In a head-bnd?>llisii.i> i.~? ? - v "iNvcon two freight trains nef Hradloy's station, Conn., on the >frw York, New Haven and Hartford reload Hnndny morning, two Iiv*s ipre lo.?t and several others of the ?ufn's mew severely injured, though one fatally. Thirteen eitf, injstly loaded with cotton, left thtrrcH and ten of them went down a >iy sleep einhanknient. The damage t? rolfJig stock will not exceed 311>,O()0 j KIFMM IstoT wi: A K. N.w. ?f ,'tl" ???-* - ? ' - ? ltr?en i Him. A New Yot di *teli states that ltudyard Kipl;g if low "in tho most to ions poms of bvaleseence and still very wok," i I that ho is not "progressing fas ks the public had been led to beieve Unable to .oejBfi'. Kipling in I ignorance of lis Ipiite daughter's death, the ne's \?l?rnken to hiui Friday night <y i> Durham. The blow was a Imvy '"it the father bore up bravofy. j I OKfcT SERYICE MEN ARRESTED w Orleans Police Took Them to Be Profeaalonal Pickpocket*. A Washington dispatch Hays: The (deral and loenl authorities in New .'leans have clashed in a very pccuir way. It seeniH that during tho ardi (Iras in the Crescent City the erot service men from the treasury apartment went thero on mutters apertaing to tlioir business. Two of lein were arrested and landed in jail, lie charge being that they wero pickockets. 'J'lie secret service chiefs here pro -i~ mutter a mistake ionncoil tbo wuoio ind a blunder on the part of the police >f New Orleans. Secretary Ongo takes the side of his men and has ordered the solicitor of the treasury to write tho district attorney at New Orleans to demand an apology tor tno treatment the Fedoral officers received ami iu demitud further that the police who made the arrest he punished to tho extent of dismissal from the service. Up to the present time the local authorities have not acted but promise that they will investigate the ease and see whether or not tbere was any grounds for tho arrest of the Federal detectives for pickpoekefS. 1.11MUNKS "KAISE C41N" i <?t? Their Trip Home Tliroujrh tlm Old Tar II 1 State. A Raleigh, N. C., dispatch says: Further particulars in regurd to tho conduct of tho Tenth immunes bave been received from tho towns along the Seaboard Air-Line. Between Atlanta and Monroe they shot Flagman Sam Scaly in the heel, inflicting a painful wound. At Monroe they raided the dispensary, carrying olT some soventy-fivo packages of whisky. At Honderson they came i near killing an old white man named 4 ! (Tozier. ' Fii Weldon, the last point at which j they stopped in North Carolina, their " ~ * tb<? iioiut conduct was ine worm. .... , 1 of a pistol they forced John Battle, a s worthy colored man, to drink seven 9 ^hisses of whisky. Battle fell down senseless soon after drinking the liq1 nor and died before a physician could e he summoned. d The riotous troops forced their way into stores and saloons, taking wbatie ever they wanted. Thev fired upon a it switchman who failed to run at their i. command and spoke insultingly to ill those whom they met upon the streets, at TO TEST FOKEIUX SEEItS. bo ? as ' Specimen* of Plant* From tlic Orient .y ltcnrli Till* Country. ed Professor S. A. Knapp, the special ad commissioner of Secretary Wilson to ro the orient to investigate the advaiiain hility of eastern plants and seeds for lat ?-'-o in this country, and secure specien ; mens of ' \"c ^'iat n,? ? ? , - -te?^ld las primary report summing sLjil' Old work. ' -x |\ns pnriTjr>rF*?Mi_^ number of seeds nmT > y Mew to common u.salro*'crimont with a , ! '"clnde persimmons th ' he duct of which is ? r ' e?stern proo?r?: li"ml^m5 f"b,?1f ^ f vn^/nil |'1U!UM, my pears, camphor trees and All my the persimmon and pear seedlings have ioy reached here and have heen distributed eni to experiment stations. ,0. LEGISLATURE INVITES HRYAX. is. Nt-liriiHkitu Will .-\<I<Ii-cnn Arkan?a4 I.nw' ? milker* at l.lttlc Hock. William Jennings Bryan has accept'Jn ed an invitation to visit Little Rock, v and address the Arkansas legislature. A resolution was adopted in the house Thursday morning tendering him the invitation, and the clerk was instructed to send it to Mr. Bryan by telegraph. A reply was received Thursday afnoon from Mr. Bryan, saying that ho would accept and that he would bo on hand the latter part of this month, tho ? exact date not yet definitely settled. e PLANTED TREE OF LIBERTY. j The Mayor of Santiago .A<l<lre*?<-? Tlire? TlioiiHaod School Children. Honor Bacardi, mayor of Santiago, planted a tree of liberty in the Plaza Dolores Sunday in the presence of more than J,000 children representing the different schools of tho city, as well as a large concourse of citizens. He spoke of the glorious deeds of Cuban patriots during the past thirty ' years and of their uphill strugglo in j the face of immense odds. He paid a warm tribute to tho good work done by General Wood during the Amorij can occupation. I PROPOSITION TO WIIKELKK. ' Prnldrnt it Rrlc't<li<'- " i 41i>iifiriiUlil|i. A Washington dispatch soys: The president 1ms asked General Wheeler to accept the commission of hrigAdior and remain in the army. There is no major generalship to which he can he appointed in the new organization. General Wheeler has the matter under consideration, hut has not given a final answer. It is understood, however, that Gonerol Wheeler will do as the president wishes in the matter and will now stnrt for the Philippines, where the administration thinks his experience will prove most valuable. TAI.MANK'S SUCCESSOR. ltev Snnilerlniitl Will Tnke dinner of Ilia First I*rri.l?ytrrl?iii (linreh. The Rev. It". Ryron Suinl?",!"?-'' i i >uih| iihs open appointed pastor of the First Presbyterian church in Washington City to succeed llev. Dr. T. I)oWitt Talnmge. Dr. .Sun dor I an<l already lias served the ehureh forty-live years and since his resignation last June, when Dr. Talinugc tookjj^nige, has been the pastor eincr *