Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Page 2

SftejDcmocraticgctit'.itcl J. W. McEAVEN, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INOIANA

GIVE UP THE EFFORT.

RAILWAY RECEIVERS TIRE OF A TASK. To Protect Fourth-Class Postmasters —American Heirs Wanted in Guate-mala-Chinamen Solve a ProblemChinese Bride with a Big Dowry. Can’t Serve Two Masters. Henry C. Payne, Thomas F. Oakes and H. C. Rouse, receivers of the Northern Pacific Road, tendered their resignations to Judge Jenkins at Milwaukee Tuesday afternoon. The resignation gives a complete history of the appointment of the receivers and dwells upon subsequent litigation. Reference is made to the attack made upon the receivers by President Ives in the Washington courts. The proceedings are set forth and excerpts made from the opinions of Judges Gilbert and Hanford. The receivers then proceed: “Your receivers manifestly cannot administer the trust with justice to the parties interested or themselves if subject to the orders and instructions as to the general administration from two or more independent tribunfils. We cannot abide, nor can we ask our sureties to abide, the danger of differences of opinion between courts, each assuming to be controlling as to the expenditures of the receivership in the general administration in view of the immensity of the sums involved.” ESTATE MAY GO TO THE HOSPITAL Jamea McCormack, a Wealthy American, Dies in a Guatemala Hospital. United States Consul General Pringle, at Guatemala, in a report to the State Department, announces the death in a hospital there on July 10 of James McCormack. a carpenter, said to have been an American citizen. He had about $150,000 or $200,000 on his person and about SBOO in the International Bank. The courts appointed Javier Arroyo administrator. The law of the country obliges the legal representatives of anyone who dies in the hospital intestate to present themselves within thirty days, otherwise the estate reverts to the hospital. As the Consul General was told that McCormack left a wife and some children, supposed to be in England, He procured an extension to three months of the time allowed for the appearance of the heirs, the furthest limit permitted by law, but he expresses fear that the time will elapse before the widow gets the notice FOURTH CLASS POSTOFFICES. Officials Planning to Bring Them Under Civil Service Regulations. Both the Postoffice Department and Civil Service Commission are taking interest in the movement to place fourthclass postmasters under the protection of the civil service laws. While nothing is likely to be done at present, it is probable that before the end of this administration the looked-for action will be taken. There are over 05,000 fourth-class postoffices in the country, and the number is constantly increasing. About 20,000 carry salaries of less than SSO per annum, and at, least half are in places where there is much greater difficulty in finding a competent and reliable person who is willing to serve than in choosing between competitors. It is obvious that there can be no question of examination and certification in the usual civil service methods in these offices. Several plans have been suggested and a combination of them will probably be adopted.

Broke the Corpse. i Monday afternoon the remains of four Chinamen were exhumed at Columbus, Ohio, and packed in zinc boxes to be shipped to China. Great consternation was caused when it was found that the body of one of them, that of Me Lung, who embraced the Christian religion before he died, had turned to stone. As the box provided for it was not half as long as the body, it became necessary to break the petrified corpse. To do this the Chinamen indulged in a tug-of-war with the corpse, breaking the legs, arms and head off. Peary Has Returned. After six months of suffering, trials and danger; after having seen gaunt starvation staring them in.the face more than once and after having preserved their lives by eating thd.fleshhf seals, Lieut. Peary and his companions in his Arctic travels are safe once more off St. John’s, Newfoundland, and will soon set foot on the soil of the United States. Wants a Hubby. Hip Sing Lee, a wealthy Chinese merchant of San Jose, Cal., offers a half interest in his extensive merchandise business and $5,000 in cash to any reputable young American who will marry his daughter, Moi Lee. Hip Sing Lee is the wealthiest Chinaman in the valley, and his fortune is estimated at from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO. .1 £*' No Hope for Barney Lantry. Dispatches from Strong City, Kan., state that Barney Lantry, the well-known millionaire railroad contractor, is suffering from paralysis of the lower limbs, and that he cannot recover. He is one of the most prominent men in Kansas, and was the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer last year.

Fickle Maid Finally Caught. Miss Annie Bolligh, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., on two occasions left town on the day set for the marriage. Monday she tried to elude Michael Zilbiski, but she was watched, and when she attempted to run away was escorted to church and the marriage ceremony was gone through with. Frozen to Death in September. William Cheeney was frozen to death in the mountains of the Natural Bridge mining district, thirty miles east of Livingston, Mont., Friday night. He was a gray-haired prospector, and with three companions was overtaken in the East Boulder basin by a howling blizzard. Patriots Badly Defeated. Dispatches received by officials at Havana report a defeat of insurgents in the mountains of Seborucal, between Paila and Mazantini. Gale Ends tbe Heat. The extreme heat which for two weeiw had scorched a wide area was dispelled Sunday night by a gale which swooped out of the West. The change was phenomenal. Within an hour the mercury dropped from 90 degrees to 70. By morning it registered 52. To Atlanta In a Wagon. Milton H. Barr, Edward J. Clifford and Cliff B. Ruhmer, members of Company G,'First Regiment, N. G. C., of San Francisco, started out from Oakland on • trip across the continent, their destination being Atlanta. They are going tp »ake v the tour in a wagon.

HONOR TO HEROES. Monuments 'to Soldiers Dedicated at Cbickamauga Parle. Nowhere and at no time has there been ! such fraternizing between the blue and | the gray as Wednesday on the battlefield ;of Chiekarpauga. At Brotherton's house, bwhiris murks the point where the Union ' oenter-wa-s-bfoken. the First and.Sixtyeighth Georgia Regiments, Confederate States of America, held a reunion. This ! was made the rallying point for nil the 1 Confederate veterans. Dinner was served for thousands, and Union veterans were nade as welcome as Confederate veterans. At the dedication of the Illinois monuments an ex-Con federate soldier spoke on Snodgrass Hill; at the dedication of the Ohio. Michigan and Minnesota monuments there were hundreds of ex-Coufed-erates in the throng. And so it was everywhere. All over the park parties composed of ex-l’nion and ex-Confederate veterans were hunting for relics or discussing the varying fortunes of the battle and the positions they respectively occupied at different times during it. It was a great day for the survivors of that famous field. It was a great day for the thousands of- the younger generation which can now realize so vividly the valor that was so conspicuously displayed, as it is enabled to do by the monuments and tablets that have been erected. It was a great day for Chattanooga. THE BALL PLAYERS. Standing of tbr C'nbs In Their Race for the Pennant. The following is the standing of the clubs in the National League: Per I’. W. L. cent. Baltimore 124 82 42 .001 Cleveland 128 83 45 .048 Philadelphia ...120 77 4!> .GIL Chicago 12G 70 50 .550 Boston 120 70 50 .550 Brooklyn 120 07 50 .532 Pittsburg 127 07 00 .528 New York 125 04 01 .512 Cincinnati 123 02 01 .504 Washington ....123 40 83 .325 St. Louis 125 37 88 .290 Louisville 127 34 93 .208 WKSTF.HV I.KAOUB. The Western League sefison closed Monday with the teams in the following positions: W on. Lost. Per ct. Indianapolis 78 43 * .045 St. Paul.-. 74 50 .597 Kansas City......... 73 52 .584 Minneapolis 05 00 .520 Detroit 59 00 .472 Milwaukee 57 07 .400 Terre Haute 52 72 .427 Grand Rapids 38 80 .300 All the clubs made money.

DEVOURED BY FLAMES. Great Buniness Blocks in Indianapolis Burned Down. Half a million dollars in buildings and merchandise went up in flames and smoke Wednesday morning ns the result of one of the most disastrous and stubborn fires in the history of Indianapolis, and parts of several blocks, including some of the finest buildings in the city, are in ruins, or badly damaged. Valuable stocks had to be flooded with water, to :m enormous loss, to prevent their total destruction and a wider spread of the fire. Two million dollars in cash stored in the* vaults of the Indiana National Bank, whose building was totally destroyed, was in danger, but the vaults withstood the flames intact. The lire started at 0 o’clock ou tie third floor of the live-story stone and brick building on Washington street, between Meridian and Pennsylvania streets, owned by A. B. Pettis and occupied by Eastman, Schleicher & Co. It soon had great headway, and all the resources of the city lire department were . at. once called into play to combat what was certain to prove a disastrous blaze. In spite of the quick work and hard fighting of the firemen the flames spread rapidly, aii4 it was several hours before they were sufficiently uuder control to quiet fears that the entire business district might bo burned. WITH POMP OF PEACE. Soldiers and Others Join in a Grand Street Pageant. Friday, the last day of the. exercises at Chickamauga Park, the most spectacular in its events of any during the dedication week. It was the first time that the center of interest has been in the city of Chattanooga itself, and so develoi>ed the first opportunity of getting some tangible idea of the crowds that have been attracted thither. It affeeded the first opportunity, the people of Chattanooga themselves have had of meeting their guests en masse, and neither guests nor hosts were disappointed in the meeting. The parade in the morning was witnessed by at least 100,000 people. So large a number were never before in the town at one time, not even during the military operations which' were being commemorated. The parade moved at 10 o’clock, and it bad all the elements of a pageant in the great number of military organizations, and the larger number of notables who took part in it. Vice President Stevenson presided over the closing exercises. Speeches wera made by Mayor Ochs, Senator Ball of Tennessee, Gen. Grosvenor of Ohio, and others. Then the exodus began, and the celebration was over.

ON THE GRIDIRON. Awful Scorching Which Old Sol Gave the Northwest. Three deaths from heat were reported at Chicago Friday and several prostrations. The day was one of terrific heat throughout all the middle Northwest, at the same time snow was falling in Montana. In the corn belt ripening progressed phenomenally rapid; but pastures and stock suffered. Morton for President. For Secretary of State John Palmer For State Treasurer........A. B. Colvin For Attorney General... .F. E. Hancock For State Engineer C. W. Adams For Judge of the Court of Appeals, Celora E. Martin The New York Republican State convention met at Saratoga Tuesday and nominated the ticket prepared by the party leaders. Governor Morton’s candidacy for President of the United States was formally announced aud it secured the unanimous indorsement of the convention. The platform scores the administration for failing to defend the rights of American citlzeus in foreign countries, and for permitting foreign encroachments on tbe western hemisphere. The tariff and deficiency questions receive condemnation. A sound and stable currency is indorsed. Governor Morton’s administration is indorsed and his candidacy for President formally launched. Caban Arms Are Seized. A Belgian firm doing business in the West? Indies has received a cablegram from one of its employes saying an, immense quantity of rifles, swords and cartridges, intended for the Cuban insurgents, have been seized on the Island of Andros, where they had been secretly brought from New York. Andros lies about 150 miles north of the Island of Cuba. Henry Watibn Falla Deed. At Fort Scott, Kan., Henry Watson, one of the oldest and best-known hotel clerks in the West, dropped dead while standing before his dresser in the Tremont House. Rheumatism of the heart was the cause.

THIEVES GET THOUSANDS." Two Croekod Employe* Loot t Chicago Bank. Close on the heel* of Receiving Teller Van Bokkelen'e $35,000 defalcation from the Merchants’ Loan and Trust Company of Chicago, comes the discovery that two | trusted employes of the National Bank of i Illinois have disappeared, leaving a shortage variously estimated from $20,000 to $40,000. Who the guilty men are President George Schneider and Cashier Carl Moll refuse to disclose. All they will say concerning the identity of the absconders is that one was receiving teller, the other a paying teller, and that the amount they have stolen is $19,000. They entered the bank's service ai the foot of the ladder and reached their positions step by step, as their merit warranted. The receiving teller had been with the bank seventeen years. The other had worked there twelve years, and was away on his vacation when the shortage was discovered. Whether he intended to return or not is not known. He was trusted implicitly by bis superiors, and it was only when glaring irregularities were discovered in bis accounts during his absence that the officials of the bank grew suspicious. TRADE OF THE WEEK. H. G. Dun & Co’s Review of Principal Market Items. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: "In spite pf gold exports wheat advanced for some days, in all nearly 2 ceuts, mainly because a single speculator bought. Corn rose and fell in sympathy with as little reason. Good reports of foreign crops, weakness of flour .in Minnesota, and large exports of corn from this country all work against a rise in wheat, though scarcity of contract gTades may help a speculative advance. Pork products haye been reasonably yielding, with prospects of a large crop, hut before the dose had a stronger tone. The cotton market, lifting and falling a fraction each day alternately, shows no settled tendency. The surprising increase in production and advance in prices of iron seem to be bringing it natural check, ns prices have gone so high as to cause some purchases from Europe, both of pig and finished products, and have also caused a distinct shrinkage In home demand.”

TRUST LOSS $1,000,000. The Tobacco Manufacturers Have Squandered a Fortune. More than one million of dollars has been given away by the manufacturers of plug tobacco in the United States during the pnst three months. This nmouut will furnish some idea of the magnitude of the losses suffered by the warring factious of the tobacco trade since they be- _ gau to fight. The retail tobacco dealers liuve received the principal benefits from tills princely gift, which bus resulted from nothing else than the sharp competition between the American Tdbacc-o Company, comouly known as the trust, and the fifteen or twenty indc|>ondent manufacturers who met in New York recently, decided to see the trust in its cut in the price of plug tobacco and to go it one better by making cigarettes. Christians Fiercely Condemned. The London Times prints a dispatch from Hong Kong which says that at the annual examinations in Canton thousands of students were given copies of an imperial decree, in which the doctrines of the Christians were fiercely condemned. • The decree upes the following language: “A stupid, black-haired race is establishing sundry sects, and they regard not their own lives, but pretend to rise again ■as immortal man and woman. They congregate and, abandoning chastity, behave like obscene birds and beasts. Faithful Confueians must shoot and stone and behead them without mercy. I, the Emperor, command the authorities to eradicate these weeds and vermin. Kill the serpents. Throw them to the wolves and tigers, because thpre is no salvation for them either against heaven-sent calamities or misfortunes caused by human agencies." Death from a Fly Bite. A dispatch from Homburg announces that Mrs. H. A. Morgan, Jr., of Aurora, N. Y„ djed\there under unusual circumstances. A week before Mrs. Morgan was bitten on the lip by a fly. The Morgans belong to one of the oldest and richest families in Central New York. Under Falling Walls. At Nashville, Tenn., a portion of the walls of the old Colonnade Building, which is being torn down, fell. Six workmen were buried under the debris and all were more or less injured, but none ip thought to be fatally hurt. Fatal Boiler Explosion. A defective boiler, used in the. drilling of wells at Montgomery County Infirmary, six miles west of Dayton, Ohio, ploded, killing two inmates and seriously injuring three others. Skelton Brothers Freed. Robert S., Walter L., and James Skelton, brothers, have been acquitted at Birmingham, Ala., of the murder of Robert C. Ross, a banker, in February, 1893. Big Fire in Alder, Minn. A fire broke out Thursday at Alder, Minn., and burned fourteen stores,- a church, a newspaper office and several other buildings. J. C. Wilson Is Dead. J. C. Wilson, one of the receivers of thi Atchison Road, died suddenly at the Holland House, New York.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.75 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2 red, 59c to 00c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,19 c to 20c; rye, No. 2,38 eto 39c; butter, choice creamery, 20c to 21c; eggs, fresh, 13c to 15c; potatoes per bushel, 25c to 35c; broom corn, common growth to tine brush, 2Vfcc to 4e per pound. Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2,60 cto Ole; corn, No. 1 white, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 24c. St. Louis—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.50 to $4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 59c to 61c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white. 18c to 20c; rye, No. 2,38 c to 39c. ‘Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat. No. 2,65 cto 66c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 22c to 24c; rye, No. 2,41 cto 43c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75; sheep, $2.00 to $3.73; wheat, No. 2 red, 61c to 62c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; rye, 42c to 44c. Toledo—Wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 64c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye, No. 2,42 cto 44c. Buffalo—Cattle, $2.50 to $6.25; hogs, S3.CO to $5.00; sheep, $2.50, to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 63c to 65c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 38c to 40c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 26c. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 spring, 57c to 58c; corn, No. 3,31 cto 32c; oats. No. 2 white, 22c to 23c; barley, No. 2,41 cto 43c; rye, No. 1,40 c. to 42c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, $3.00 to $5.50; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 62c to 63c; corn, No. 2, 38c to 39c; oats, No. 2 white, 24c to 25c; butter, creamery, 15c to 22c; eggs, Western, 16c to 17§.

POLITICS OF THE DAY

ENEMIES OF COMMERCE. On the stump, in Congress and In the press, the McKinleyites insist that their policy Is Just the reverse of free trade. They claim that all the foreign goods Imported mean the loss of employment for American workmen, and that in order to increase prosperity the products of other countries should be shut out by a practically prohibitive tariff. The strongest objection that they can bring against the Wilson tariff is that under its operations imports have increased, and they promise that if restored to power they will enact a tariff law which will effectually prevent foreign trade in many lines which are now profitable. But when the protectionists drop out of their role as political partizans who depend on Lite high tariff as an issue on which they can get office, they argue for increased commerce as strongly as though they were free traders. For instance, in an editorial on New York city as a commercial port, the New York Tribune boasts of that city's growing importance as a center of commerce, predicts yet greater growth, and urges a costly system of harbor and terminal improvements in order that foreign trade may be attracted to New York. From a business standpoint tbe Tribune is doing good work in favoring improved facilities for American commercial relations with foreign countries, but it is very inconsistent for a tradehating to encourage commerce.

Old Forge (X. Y.) dispatch; Ex-President Harrison had removed to-day a large molar which had caused him great pain. It was a wisdom tooth.

If the protection swindle is a sound public policy, as the Tribune asserts, it must require 'the least possible amount of foreign trade. This applies as well to exports as imports, for if protection were to be carried out logically by every country, all international commerce would cease. The result of the strict enforcement of such a policy would be that instead of being a great and wealthy city New York would rapidly fall away until it reached the position of a small seaport town. It will be denied by some high tariffites that their doctrines are inconsistent with the extensive development of foreign trade. What, then, becomes of their claim that they wish to preserve the home market for Americans by the exclusion of foreign goods? They are either trying to delude American workmen with false pretenses of shutting out all foreign competition, or they are sincere enemies of commerce. In either case they are unworthy the-confidence of the people, of whom a great majority are heartily In favor of the greatest possible volume of foreign trade.

Republican National Convention. The Republican convention at Minneapolis In 1892 authorized tbe‘national committee of that party to establish a new ratio of representation in future national conventions. The present, ratio is two delegates for each member of Congress in both houses and two for each territory. The Democrats have the same representation in national conventions. The proposed new rule will provide that there shall be one delegate from each congressional district in all the States and two delegates at large for each State. One additional delegate shall be chosen for each 7,000 Republican voters in any district. This would make a convention for the Republicans of about 1,000 delegates. Probably under a similar rule a Democratic national convention would contain a greater number of members. There is equity in this proposition—too much equity for its acceptance by the aspiring, greedy, trading gang of politicians of the Republican party. It Is only fair that the body of the voters in any party shall select Its‘candidates. The men who are to cast’ the majorities should nominate the man for w T hom they are to vote. It is the height of injustice for the minority States to nominate a candidate whom the majority States are to elect The frauds perpetrated on the Republican national conventions in the past by bodies of delegates yVlthout constituencies have been the scandal of the country for at least two decades. A few cunning and tricky political organizers could pack conventions in the Southern States and send eighty or a hundred irresponsible and venal delegates to the convention, whose votes were to be had by the highest bidder offered through the rascally middlemen controlling the “trust” This class of delegatee nearly-nominated Arthur for President in 1884. They were subsidized for Sherman In 1888, but Alger, “the kind gentleman from Michigan,” bought them out from under him and he lost the presidential nomination which he might have secured If his

delegates had not abandoned him on receiving a new bid. He had his revenge in keeping Alger out of President Harrison’s cabinet In most of the States and smaller political bodies the delegates to the local conventions are proportioned on the basis of votes. This gives the strong counties and precincts their proportionate weight, while weak counties and precincts have all the weight to which they are entitled. It often happens that a man of strong character, great popularity, wide influence and skill in political management, representing a mi-nority-constituency, produces more important results in shaping political action than is effected by mere unorganized numbers. This is the triumph of brains over inert force, and it serves to equalize any difference which tends unfairly against the few for the benefit of the many. There are good reasons why the rule which the Republican national committee is to consider should be adopted by both parties. The Democratic national committee cannot determine the question without instructions from the national Democratic convention, which is the fountain of authority.—Chicago Chronicle. Growth of the Tin Piute Industry.T When the duty on tin plates was reduced by the new tariff law from 2.2 cents to 1.2 cents per pound last summer, the change was vigorously opposed by those who bad engaged in the

high protective rate of the tariff law of 1890, and also by those who contemplated engaging in the business. Those who fought against the change declared that the lower rate of duty not only would ruin all those already engaged in the industry in this country, but also would prevent any further extension of this branch of manufacture. The new tariff law has been in operation now for a year, and instead of the prophesied destruction of the tin plate Industry there has been the largest and most substantial growth in the industry that has ever occurred in the same length of time. The increase in the capacity for producing tfti plates during the past twelve months, under a duty of 1.2 cents per pound-, has been nearly as great as the growth of the industry during the entire three years in which the rate of 2.2 cents was in force. Twenty-six new factories in which the plates are both rolled and tinned have been started, and the companies have extended their plants and increased their output. Six new factories for dipping plates have been built or enlarged. The result of this activity has been a great increase in the production of tin and terne plaitcs, which sliSws that the manufacture of tin plate in the United States has undergone its most marked development during the past twelve months, with a protective duty 45 per cent lower than the rate provided by the tariff act of 1890, and under the lowest prices for tin plate ever known in this country. That the American tin plate industry is able to take care of itself under present conditions of foreign competition is proved by the events of the past year.

Party Lines and Extravagance. The era of lavish appropriations with no thought as to where the money was to come from began with the billion dollar Congress and has lasted ever since. The party lirfe has not appeared in the spending of the money and it should not in fixing the responsibility for it. As to administrations, while each administration is responsible, a comparison as far as that quoted is furnished by the fact that the first Cleveland administration paid off debt and left a surplus in the treasury. The Harrison administration paid off debt, but wiped out the surplus and laid hands on such trust funds as the national bank redemption funds.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Evila of Political Dictatorship, Personal dictatorships are incompatible with true Democratic Government. One-man power is absolutism, and when it fastens itself upon a State or a city the substance of political freedom is gone, though the forms may remain. It makes no essential difference to the mass of the people under what party name a personal dictatorship is established over them. The autocrat who cheats them of their American birthright of self-government may decorate his band wagon with the Democratic or Republican colors, but in either case their political liberties are gone and the autocrat does with them as he pleases,—Baltimore Sun.

CUBA’S BIG VICTORY.

THREE HUNDRED SPANIARDS MEET DEATH. General Maceo'* Patriots Achieve 9 Great Triumph—Dynamite Is Used with Terrible Effect Bartolome Masso Elected President. Killed by Hundreds. News of a battle in which the Spanish were defeated by the Cabans was received in New York by President Palma. It came in a letter, written Sept. 14. by Pedro Rovira, a Cuban private, who deserted the Spanish ranks at Pera Lego, when Campos was defeated. In a later engagement Rovira was captured by the Spanish, court-martialed and sentenced to receive 400 lashes and to be shot. The sentence was carried out while Rovira was shouting for Cuban liberty. On Aug. 31 the Spaniards captured Francis, and Gen. Jose Maceo fortified his few men in a plantation house near the Casambra Hospital. The Spanish were slowly closing in on him some days later when Gen. Oebreco and a Cuban column came to his relief and made the enemy evacuate their position. A hot, engagement followed, in which the Spanish regained their position, but were unable to hold it long, as Gen. Antonio Maceo suddenly appeared on the scene, and, with Cebreco and Col. Mieunlnit, succeeded in wresting it from Cnnalle and Gariko, who commanded the Spanish. This battle lasted from 5 o’clock a. m. until 0 o’clock at night, when it whs discontinued until the dawni

OLD SPANISH FORT, SANTIAGO DE CUBA.

of the next day, Sept. 1. The Spanish then commenced to retreat until they reached the Igubanabnno field, where they were able to use their cavalry, which was impossible on the mountains of Santa Maria. They did not gain any advantage, however, and after burning their provisions they continued to retreat to Mountanin, which place they entered in scattered groups. The Cubans had no cavalry, but made effective use of dynamite bombs, which, the letter states, struck terror to the enemy. In the engagement the Cubans’ loss was forty men, wounded and killed. The Spaniards last over 300 men, forty horses and a large store of provisions and munitions of war. The Spaniards after the buttle sent a cable to Spain headed, “The defeat and capture of Jose Maceo,” and also asked for the reward and the advance of the officers in the engagement. Cubans Elect a President. Letters received at Tampa, Fla., by prominent Cuban leaders state that on Sept. 10 a Constitutional convention was held at Najasa at which Bartolome Masso was elected President of the Cuban republic, Marquis of Santa Lucia Minister of the Interior, Thomas Estrada Palma Representative of the Government in the exterior and Maximo Gomez General-in-ehief. Some time ago when delegates were called Santa Lucia was mentioned as President of the convention, and the impression prevailed that he was the destined Constitutional President. Masso was horn sixty years ago at Manzanillo. He is highly connected anti thoroughly educated. lie left Manzanillo Feb. 24 last, and was considered as the head of the revolution in the eastern department. When this occurred Calleja sent a committee of prominent autonomists and some chiefs of the former revolution to dissuade him, but he was not pliable. The committee went again, reenforced by ex-resident Sportono, who, during his term, published a decree to put to death any person who should propose anything but Cuban independence. Masso received him, but learning his purpose, told him to leave the camp immediately or his own decree would be enforced. News has been received at military headquarters in Havana of a desperate fight at Mefi, near Palma Sola, province of Santa Clara, between 300 insurgents, led by Bermudes and Fleites, and a detachment of Government cavalry under Capt. Riestra. The vanguard of the cavalry, consisting of a sergeant and seven privates, were first surrounded by tha

THE BARCAEZTEGUI.

insurgents, and in the engagement every one of the vanguard was killed. By this time Capt. Riestra, with the main body of cavalry, thirty in number, came up and engaged the insurgents, whom he forced to retreat, leaving three of their number dead on the field. Their wounded they carried off with them when they retreated. As the cruiser Barcastegui, which was sunk by tlio merchantman Mortera Wednesday night, constitutes a danger 1o vessels leaving or entering the port of Havana, it has been decided to break up the hull of tlie vessel with dynamite. The divers have refused to work upon the wreck on account of the danger from sharks and because of tlio insufficiency of their outfits.

SINKS WITH ALL ABOARD.

Schooner E. R. Williams Founders Off > St. Martin’s Land. The schooner E. R. Williams sank in the gale off Escanaba, Mich., and all on board are supposed to be lost, as it would be impossible for them to reach shore in such a furious sea. The cargo of the Williams consisted of 570 tons of irfin ore from Escanaba consigned to a Toledo furnace. The Williams was in tow of the steamer Santa Maria. The sea was running heavily from the south on Green Bay, and the schooner, laden deep in the water, made bad work of the head sea. The tow line parted and the Williams disappeared from sight. The Saida Maria cruised around for some time frying to find the Williams, but it was not until daylight that her topmast was discovered sticking out of the water under St. Martin’s Island. No trace of tlio crew could be seen. The Williams was built in 1873, and rated 293 gross tons. She was owned by W. L. Fay. of Elyria, Ohio, and was probably without insurance. The iron cargo was fully covered.

Sparks from the Wires.

I lie New York bootblacks have organized into a protective union. Fifty-four members of the new House of Commons have written books. In England there are 70,000 girls engaged ia public houses and drinking bars.

A BIT OF STRING.

Vain Qneat of a Man Who Stares' at the Shoes Voting Women Wear. “Will yon not let me tie that for yon ?"* It was the way he said it—the quiet tone of his voice, the polite manner of lifting his hat, the honest look in his. eyes. She could not'decline the favor. Indeed, he did not give her time to do sAbut with that chivalry that is a combination of boldness and gentleness he leaned down to tie her shoestring. She had paused on a busy street and set her foot up on the stone block In front of a store door. There was a vexed expression on her pretty face, but when this gallant anticipated her action she laughed right merrily. The shoestring had not only become untied, but was lost. Diving into one of his trousers pockets he produced a bit of white string, wdtli which he deftly laced her low-cut tan, remarking: “There, 1 guess that will do until you get home.” “No, I shall wear it if you will allow me; you are altogether too good to be forgotten immediately,” she said eoquettishly; and before be could recover from the flattery, before he could fix her in his mind so he would know her again, she was gone, become indistinguishable in a group that separated and dissolved at the street corner. And, maidens fair, if you should meet the hero of this story and he should stare—as he certainly would—first at your feet, then at your faces, with a look grown old in longing, do not feel offended. He is a harmless lunatic, and .the simple burden of his madness, the Vnelancholy burden of his murmuring ks he pursues his fruitless quest is, “A bit of string,” and nothing more.—Cincinnati Tribune.

HE STOLE MILK.

Jack Avoided Detection for a Very Long Time. The milkman who supplied Bloomfield, hi. J., families living in the neighborhood of Lawrence and Harlow streets, is happier than he was a week ago. His customers suspected then, that he was giving them short measure. Although he put in an extra gill as an evidence of good faith, there was still a deficiency in many of the tin pails that were set out on the front stoops at night to await his coming in the early morning. The police were asked to find out who was rushing the lacteal growler. They tried to do so, but they failed. A few mornings ago the culprit was discovered. The rea’der might surmise by the appearance of his mouth and tongue, conspicuous in the picture, that he has

JACK.

a capacity for milk in large quantities. He is a big Newfoundland dog, and he belongs to Airs. Moffatt, who lives in Harlow street. Mrs. Moffatt was looking out of the window early in the morning, when she saw Jack hiding behind a dumb of bushes and with a most interesting expression watching the milkman filling the tin pail on the stoop of the Rev. Mr. Winau’s house. When the milkman left Jack trotted over to the stoop, picked up the pall with his teeth, carried it a short distance, set it down, took off the lid, and drank nearly all the milk. Then he put on the lid and carried the pail back to the stoop. Mrs. Moffatt told the clergyman’s family about it, and soon the neighbors and the milkman all knew about the milk drinker.

A NEW LAWN-MOWER.

The Inventor Claims It Has Points of Advantage Over Old Styles. The lawn-mower here illustrated was invented by a Pennsylvanian, aud the Scientific American thus describes it: The knives are driven by crank and pitman connection with the ground wheels, the driving mechanicism being located entirely within the outer face of the frame and there being no projections to collect the cut grass. The axle carrying the ground wheels is journaled in depressions of the side or cheek pieces of the frame, the wheels being cupped on their outer frame. The wheels are loosely mounted, and ratchet wheels on the axle adjacent to the hubs are adapted for engagement by a dog on each wheel, the dogs turning the axle when the mower is ahead and slipping over the ratchets

NEW LAWN HOWES.

when the mower is drawn backward, the cutting mechanism being then inoperative. In each of the side pieces is a horizontal depression or well having near its center an opening. The shaft of the cutter is journaled In the inner walls of the wells, and on the shaft are spiders which carry the spiral cutting knives, extending from the inner face of one side piece to the inner face of the other side piece, the knives being thus protected from obstacles at the sides of the machine and adapted to cut a swath of nearly its full width. The grammar class was on the floor. “In the sentence ‘I love you,’ what is the mood of the verb?” asked the teacher. “Sentimental mood,” replied one of the larger girls, who had spent most of the summer at the sea shore.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Miss Innersent—You say you object to Charles because he is too much In the swim? Her Father—Most decidedly. Miss Innersent—But, papa, I am sure he would give up bathing altogether if he knew.—Boston Courier,