Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — Page 2

SljtJtntocrflticStnttnel J. W. McEWEN, PublUher. RENSSELAER. - • INDIANA.

TO RECOGNIZE CUBA.

FRIENDS OF THE REPUBLIC ACTIVE IN THE HOUSE. Congressmen FJetcher and Woodman Push the Matter—War Cloud Lowers Over Europe—Ominous Attitude of Two Great Powers—Britain Defied.Cubans to the Front. Congressman Fletcher (Minnesota) introduced a resolution to recognize the belligerency' df’the Cuban insurgents, and Congressman Woodman of Illinois introduce# in .the Honse the following: “Whereas, the republic of Cuba has, by its enterprise and ability in statesmanship and arms; secured the control of the greater portion of the territory of the island; a nd. Whereas, The armies of the republic of Cuba are now within sight oi the capital.city, the former government of the island, and the great majority of the entire population do accord allegiance to the newly formed” republiy; therefore, be it Resolved, That the.. Committee on Foreign Affairs be requested to make an early report on resolutions heretofore referred to said committee touching on the affairs of the Cuban republic and its proposed or existing rights ns a civilized nation." WAR SEEMS IMMINENT. Germany and England in a Dangerous State of Tension. Dispatches received in London after midnight Tuesday from Berlin reiterate in terms which almost compel belief that it is Germany's intention to declare the independence of the Transvaal republic. London morning papers credit the announcement, and they interpret that it means war. The editors of the principal London journals were invited to meet Mr. Chamberlain Tuesday. The results of the inspiration received at these interviews are words that will send the country to arms as soon as they are read. The Government announces that several regiments from the First army corps will leave England at once for the cape. A fleet has been ordered to Delagoa Bay, where German cruisers are now lying. It is plainly intimated in the inspired editorials that England is prepared to deal both with the German emperor and with any dictator, plainly meaning Mr. Rhodes, who may assert himself in British South Africa. These allusions strengthen the belief that a revolution has been attempted or is now existing in Cape Colony under Rhodes' leadership. The news of the surrender of Johannesburg after being in the possession of the insurgents for three.or four days is confirmed. The authority’ of the Boer government is fully re-established.

IS NOW A CARDINAL. The Ceremony of Elevating Satolli One of Churchly Magnificence. The second step in the elaborate ceremony of elevating Francis Satolli. Archbishop of Lepanto and apostolic delegate to the United Slates, to the rank of cardinal prince of the church, took place in the venerable cathedral at Baltimore. The ceremony consisted of- conferring the berretta. whfehTs_£he cap worn by priests on ordinary occasions and differing only in the case of cardinals, in that it is red. The preceding steps have been the conferring of the zuchctte, or red skull cap, and the administering of the oath. The remaining step is the conferring of the red hat, which must be done in Rome by the pope himself within sfX months from Nov. 30, the day upon which Satolli’s appointment was made. KAISER BACKS BOERS. Mill Not Recognize Any Suzerainty Over Transvaal. At a special audience which Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State of the Transvaal, had with Emperor William, his majesty declared that he would not recognize any claim of suzerainty over the Transvaal. Great Britain by the treaty of 1884 claims suzerainty over the Transvaal republic. A semi-official denial was issued of the statement from Cape Town, contained in a dispatch from the Times, of London, that Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State for the Transvaal, with a secret fund at his disposal, had floated a German colonization company, with the intention of introducing 5,0 X) German military settlers into the Transvtta-1. MUST PAY HIGHER RATES. Panama-Pacific Mail Agreement Will Affect Sun Francisco Merchants. The provisions of the agreement entered into by the Panama Railroad and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company have at last been made public and the effect of the agreement will become readily apparent in a few days when San Francisco merchants find themselves compelled to ship freight to eastern points over the rail lines at greatly advanced rates. In pursuance of the agreement between the two transportation companies the Panama Railroad is preparing to abandon the operation of all its steamers between San Francisco and Panama.

Now It's Italy. Rumors are in circulation in Berlin regarding the serious situation of Italians in Erythrea. Their position is said to be almost desperate. It is learned that the tension between England and Italy in regard to the refusal of the former power 1 to allow the latter to disembark troops at Zeila has become very serious. Burn Three Towns. A special from Havana, Cuba, says: The insurgents have attacked and burned the towns of Gabriel, Guira and Artemisia, stations on the .Western Railway which runs from Havana to Pinar del Rio. Bussed a Wave-Swept Vessel. The British steamship Massasoit, at New York from Swansea, reported that a vessel in distress was sighted. Four men were seen on her deck, which had evidently been wave swept. Owing to the storm the Massasoit was unable to send assistance. After the Trusts. The House adopted a resolution, introduced by the Committee on Judiciary, calling upon the Attorney General for information regarding the non-enforcement of the anti-trust law. Armed Men Guard Claims. It is estimated that five hundred claims in the Cripple Creek district on which owners have failed to do full assessment work in 1895 have been jumped. Although armed men are holding claims in all the outlying portions of the district no fights have yet been reported. Ditched by r. Mule. The Chicago fast mail train, No. 1, on the Illinois Central, southbound, struck a mule two miles north of Holy Springs, Miss., derailing the engine, baggage and mail cars and three coaches. The two Pullman sleepers did not leave the track. The fireman was fatally injured. - •’ft .

EWORN TO SLAY THE CZAR. Nihilists Will Not Rest Until They Kill Their Ruler. A wholesale merchant from Moscow is authority for the information that the recent report of an attempt to assassinate the Czar was true in every particular. The gentleman, who, for reasons well Understood, desires that his name shall be suppressed, says the Russian police are informed that the nihilists have sworn not to rest until the Czar shall be slain. The fraternity resolved at the time when the young ruler began his reign to grant him a year in which to prove that he was in earnest with his promises of liberal reform. The year is at an end and the young autocrat, not having realized their hopes, is doomed to perish at their hands. A Jewish student of the University of Moscow was appointed by lot to deal the death blow, and it was only by accident that the Czar escaped. The student masqueraded in the garb of a drummer. In his valise was a well-prepared bomb instead of samples of merchandise. He managed to pass the beantiful Par Czarskoje Selo several times daily, hoping to catch a glimpse of the Czar. The latter passed him again and again on the promenade, but the would-be assassin did not recognize his Majesty, who was dressed in the plain uniform of a colonel of Preobrasheuski Guards, instead of that of n general. The student was arrested on suspicion after a day or two and the plot further revealed through a female friend to whom he had told his secret. The entire Russian press has received strict instructions from the authorities not to publish a word regarding the affair, which, nevertheless, is repeated from mouth to month. DR. JAMESON SURRENDERS. Remnant of His Forces Now Imprisoned at Johannesburg. .! A London dispatch says: The invading English army in Transvaal has been disastrously defeated by the Boers. A score or more have been killed, many wounded, and Dr. Jameson is a prisoner at Johannesburg. One of the most impudent acts of aggression ever committed even by British arms lias thus met with swift retribution. The details are meager of this inglorious finale of what was intended to be a brilliant piece of bravado, which 'success might justify but which failure would make a crime. All that is known •is that the Government'messengeis, with dispatches from London ordering Dr. [Jameson to retreat to. the Chartered Company's territory, reached Dr. Jameson Wednesday morning. lie pocketed the Queen's orders, told the messenger laconically that he would attend to them, gave the command to his troops to saddle, and marched, not on the back track, but on toward Johannesburg. At -1 o’clock in the afternoon he encountered the Boers at Jxrugersdorf, about thirty miles east of Johannesburg. There was hard fighting until sundown, ami the British troops suffered severely. The famous marktnanship of the Boers was no less deadly than in their gallant defenses against the same enemy fifteen years ago. Twenty men. including throe officers, were killed, and fifty prisoners were taken before Dr. Jameson surrendered. These meager facts are all the information the Governi ment vouchsafes. GREAT CRISIS ON. Wildest Rumors Circulated Regarding the Transvaal. The greatest alarm existed in London Saturday, because no further news had arrived from the Transvaal. Forty-eight hours had elapsed since the confirmation of the report of the capture of Dr. Jameson and his invading force by the Boers. Then came a very significant message from the German Emperor to the president of the Transvaal republic, congratulating fiim upon the successful repulse of the British force. This aroused a storm of indignation in Great Britain, which was quickly succeeded by a feeling of apprehension over an unconfirmed rumor that an uprising had occurred at Johannesburg, and that the English were being driven out. It is believed a great crisis is on. FIRE, RUIN AND DEATH. Explosion of Fireworks in St. Lonis Wrecks Three Buildings. With a detonation that was heard two miles the fireworks stock of Detwiler & Street, a Greenfield, N. J., firm, stored in the rear of 309 North 2d street, St. Louis, exploded Thursday- afternoon. Four persons are dead, six missing, one fatally injured and thirty-two seriously hurt. Adjoining buildings ■ were 'crushed like paper boxes, and in their fall carried scores of inmates down with the ruin. Windows were broken for blocks around, and the air was filled with powder smoke, sparks and flying debris. Two other explosions followed the first in rapid succession, completing the work of death ami destruction. In addition a property loss of SIOO,OOO was entailed by fire.

Sam Robbed. Washington dispatch: Senator Chandler is probing into n Navy Department scandal of large proportions. By direction of the Senate the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs will inquire into various little matters relating to the construction of warships, and incidentally it will be learned to what extent officers of the Ordnance Bureau are interested in patent processes by which, it is said, the Government is robbed by extortionate charges out of between $500,000 and $750,000 on every vessel built. Secretary Herbert wanted to let the contracts for the two warships about to be built, as it was thought better results could be obtained thereby, but he found himself strongly antagonized by the Ordnance Bureau, though the other experts of the department cordially indorsed the position he had taken. The stubborn resistance of the Ordnance Bureau finally prevailed, and the Secretary announced his intention to let the contracts in the old way. This decision set tongues wagging, and members of Congress were solemnly assured that there was rank rottenness in the Navy Department and that officials were using their positions to divert public moneys to their own pockets by corruptly influencing contracts, whereby the Government was forced into buying patented processes in which they were financially Interested. The instructions given the Naval Committee will afford an opportunity for investigation into the alleged abuses. It will also serve to prevent the guilty parties from escaping by the usual method of defeating inquiry. The charges are now being aired, and the Navy Department must purge itself by proving the charges to be unfounded or else locate and cast out the guilty officers who are accused of bringing discredit on the country and disgrace upon the department. Files Notice of Appeal. At Pierre, S. D. Attorney General Crawford appeals from the decision which granted a demurrer in the suit for $28,000 against Thomas H. Ruth, which amount was lost on Taylor’s defalcation through the negligence of Ruth in failing to apportion it to the school fund at the r. roper time. All Marched Out. At Columbus, 0., the main part of the Franklin County Children’s Home was I damaged by fire to the amount of about ; $25,000. The east and west wings re- ' main intact. One hundred and thifty Children were safely marched oat. The . fire originated near the top of the building Another New State. The President on Saturday issued his proclamation in conformity with the act 0f Congress, stating that th : people of

Utah have complied with all of the r% quirements of the law providing for the admielrton of Utah to the Union, and declaring that the territory has .passed out of existence and that Utah ia admitted to the family of States. The people of Utah showed an intense interest in every step made at Washington, and Private Secretary Thurber was importuned to telegraph immediately to Salt Lake the first news of the signing of the prodamation, and to preserve as a valuable historical relic the i>en wkffi which President Cleveland affixed bis signature to the document. SIX KILLED IN A WRECK. Express Collides with a Freight on an Open Switch. Two freight trains stood on a switch ng Schooley's Station, seven miles east of Chillicothe, 0., at 11 o’clock Saturdaynight. The first train galled out, and the conductor, thinking that the second one would follow, left the switch open. Fifteen minutes later the east-bound express came along at forty miles an hoar, and. running on to the switch, collided with the train standing there. The following were killed: George Addis, fireman of freight train; J. 11. Cox. fireman of passenger train; J. F. Edgarton, 5f Loveland, jaistal clerk; Jesse King, freight brakeman; Leon Mathers, fireman; Thomas Michaels, engineer of the express. The injured: Fitzsimmons, engineer freight train, slightly injured; J. D. Murphy, of Greenfield, postal clerk, seriously injured. I'ltigineer Fitzsimmons, of the freight, escaped without serious injuries. Conductor Hendershot, of the freight, is responsible sos the wreck, as he left the switch open. The passengers in the express were badly shaken up, but none was seriously injured. DEPRESSION AT THE END, Many Failures Mark the Year 1895 in Trade. R. G. Dun & Co.’s Weekly Review of Trade says: -The commercial failures during the complete year 1895 number 13,197. against 13,885 in 1894, but the aggregate of liabilities is slightly greater. $173,196,000, against $172,992,856; so that the average per failure is $13,124, against $12,458 in 1894. The bright promise offered by a large decrease in the first quarter was followed by a small increase in the second and third quarters ami a large increase in the last quarter of the year. In ‘that quarter also the deferred liabilities to each firm in business increased, and also the proportion of deferred liabilities to payments through clearing houses.”

SATOLLI TAKES THE OATH.

Administered by Mgr. Sbarretti, Designated for the Occasion. The oath of office required to be taken by a cardinal was administered to Mgr. Satolli nt Washington in the private chapel of the Qatholic legation. Friday. The duty- was performed by Mgr. Sbarretti, the auditor of the legation, and designated as ablegate for the occasion, while Mgr. Stephan, of the bureau of Roman Catholic Indian Missions, and Father Gillespie, of St. Aloysios Church, were the witnesses. Felicitous speeches were exchanged between the ablegate and the cardinal. BANK I.N BAD SHAPE. Assets Hundreds of Thousands Short of Liabilities. A meeting of the shareholders of the Banque du I'euple to receive the rejiort of the committee appointed to investigate the affairs of the bank took place at Montreal, Que., and was very stormy. The report revealed a state of affairs even worse than had been anticipated. The entire capital stock of the bank, $1,200,000, has been wiped out. The statement presented shows as follows: Liabilities, $3,687,438.60; assets (apparent), $3,299,300.37; deficit, $388,138.23. Fire Horror at Columbus, Ohio. A fire horror claimed six victims in Columbus, Ohio. At 4 o’elpck the residence of John H. Hibbard was discovered to be on fire, and before the flames could be extinguished six members of the family were suffocated by the smoke and their bodies partly cremated. The dead are: John 11. Hibbard, Mrs. John ll.’ Hibbard, Allen Hibbard, aged 5: Dorothy Hibbard, infant; Miss Fay Hibbard, of Barnesville, Ohio; Mrs. Grace Hibbard Lee, of Barnesville, Ohio. Mr. Hibbard was secretary of the Central Ohio Natural Gas and Fuel Company and was connected by marriage with the Deshlers, Huntingtons, and others of the wealthiest families of Columbus. Four sons less than fifteen years of age and the colored servant, aged 18, esen ped by' jumping from the second-story windows. Natural gas was used in the house, but the fire evidently originated from some defective construction in the woodwork. Fast Train Wrecked bv a Mule. The Chicago fast mail train on the Illinois Central struck a mule two miles north of Holly Springs, Miss., derailing the engine, baggage and mail cars and three coaches. The two Pullman sleepers did not leave the track. .The fireman was fatally injured. Sheriff Gagged and Robbed. B. E. Derail, Sheriff of Jones County, Miss., was Wednesday morning found in his office at Ellisville bound and gagged.

MARKET QUOTATIONS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.50 to $5.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00' to $4.00; sheep, fair to choice, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 55c to 57c; corn. No. 2,' 25c to 26c; oats, No. 2,16 c to 17c; rye, No. 2. 32c to 34c; butter, choice creamery, 23e to 25c; eggs, fresh, 20c to 22c; potatoes, per bushel, 18c to 25c; broom corn, S2O to $45 per ton for poor to.ehoiqq, Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $4.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to prime, $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2,63 cto 64c; corn. No. 1 white, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white, 20c to 22c. St. -Louis —Cattle, $3.00 to $5.00; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2 red, 66c to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2 white, 16c to 17c; rve, No. 2,31 c to 33c. Cincinnati—Cattle, $3.50 to $4.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $2.50 to $4.00; wheat, No. 2. 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 mixed, 29c to 30c; oats, No. 2 mixed,. 19c to 21c; rye, No. 2,39 cto 41c. Detroit—Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep. $2.00 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 65e to 67c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 20c to 21c; rye. 37c to 38c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 red. 66c to 68c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 26c to 27c; oats. No. 2 white. 19c to 21c; rye. No. 2,37 cto 38c; clover seed, $4.30 to $4.40. Milwaukee—Wheat. No. 2 Spring, 58c to 59c; corn, No. 3,25 cto 27c; oats, No. 2 white, 18c t0,19c; barley, No. 2,32 cto 34c; rye. No. 1,35 cto 37c; pork, mess, $8.75 to $9.25. ; Buffalo—(tattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, ! $3.00 to $4.50; sheep, $2.50 to $3.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 70c; corn. No. j 2 yellow, 31c to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, 22c to 23c. | New York—-Cattle, $3.00 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $4.75;‘ sheep, $2.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 69c; corn, No. 2, 34c to 35c; oats. No. 2 white, 23e to 24c; butter, creamery, 17c to 25c; eggs, Western, 21c to 25c. t

BOND CALL IS ISSUED.

LONG-EXPECTED ACTION TAKEN

BY CARLISLE.

Sealed Bids to Be Received at Hi* Office Feb. s—lnterest Fixed at 4 per Cent. -New Securities to Bear the Dat« of Feb. 1, 1895. Amount la *100,000,000. Speculation concerning the amount and I character of the new bond issue was set ’ at rest when Secretary Carlisle made i public a circular on the subject. The loan will be a “popular” one, and the circular gives notice that the Government will sell $100,000,000 thirty-year 4 per cent coupon or registered bonds dated Feb. 1, 1895, for which purchasers will be required to pay in gold coin or gold certificates. This is the first issue by the pres- i ent administration of such a large amount I of bonds at one time, all the previous is- I sues having been for $50,000,000 eagh. j The circular also contains an intimation of a possible further issue of bonds should the issue or sale of an additional or dif*®rent form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve be authorized by the law before Feb. 5. The circular is as follows : “Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary', Washington, D. (.’.—Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be leceived at the office of the Secretary of I the Treasury, at Washington, D. C., until [ 12 o clock m. on Wednesday, the Sth day | of February, 1896, for the purchase of ! one hundred million dollars (SIOO,(XX),(XK>) of United States 4 per cent coupon or registered bonds in denominations of fifty dollars (SSO) and multiples of that sum a * may be desired by bidders. “The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. “The bonds will be dated on the Ist day of February, 1895, and be payable in coin thirty years after that date, and will bear interest at 4 per centum per annum, payable quarterly in coin, but all coupons maturing on and before the Ist day of Feb-

THE HISTORIC GROUND SOLD AT PUBLIC SALE.

The historic Yorkshire estate, situated on Bull Run, the first battlefield of the war, was recently sold at public auction at Fairfax court house, Virginia. Six hundred acres in all, situated on both sides of Bull Run, in Prince William and Fairfax Counties, were sold. The land lying on the Prince William side brought on an average $6 an acre, the other about $3. The prices ranged from $3 to $25. The part of the battlefield on the Prince

ruar.v, 1896, will be detached and purchasers will be required.to pay in United States gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded them, and all interest accrued thereon after the Ist day of February, 1896, up to the time of application for delivery. “Payments for the bonds must be made at the treasury of the United States at Washington,. D. C„ oy at the United States sub-treasuries .af’New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis or New- Orleans, or they may be made at San Francisco, with exchange on New York, and all bids must state what denominations of bonds are desired, and whether coupon or registered, and at what place they will be paid for. “Payments may be made by installments, as follows: Twenty per cent upon receipt of notice of acceptance of bids and 20 per cent at the end of each ten days thereafter; but all accepted bid-' ders may pay the whole amount at the date of the first installment and all those who have paid all installments previouslymaturing may pay the whole amount of their bids at any time, not later than the maturity of the last installment. “The bonds will be ready for delivery on or before the 15th day of February, 1596. “Notice is further hereby given that if the issue and sale of an additional or different form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve shall be authorized bylaw before the sth day- of February, 1896, sealed proposals for the purchase of such bonds will also be received at the same time and place, and up to the same date, and upon the same terms and conditions herein set forth, and such bids will be considered as well as the bids for the 4 per cent bonds herein mentioned. “J. G. CARLISLE, "Secretary of the Treasury.”

CORTEGE CUT IN TWO.

St. Paul Express Train Runs Down a Funeral Carriage in Chicago. Without a signal of warning, an express train of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Road cut through a funeral procession at the Paulina street crossing in Chicago. Five persons were buried undef the ruins of a mourning carriage, and two women were so badly injured that they may die. The occupants of two other carriages narrowly escaped the same fate, the horses being pulled up within a few feet of the outbound train. Part of the funeral procession went on, the mourners being unconscious of the fact that some of their number had been nearly killed. Whether the flagman or the engineer of the passeligef train was to blame was not learned. The flagman declares he flagged the train, but the witnesses of the accident tell another story. The engineer, the police say, was at fault in not slowing up in response to the flagman’s signal. Dr. Leonard Jucket, one of the oldest citizens of Elgin and a former resident of Chicago, who died at Elgin at the age of 76 years, possessed the press on which the first legal printing was done in Chicago. Its frame is 9xll. The press was brought from the East by the late Mr. Castle, of Elgin, who first took it to Michigan City, Ind., then to Chicago, find afterward to St. Charles. A San Francisco paper says the Government is preparing tb prosecute the conspirators who perjured themselves to aid James Addison Peralta-Reavis in his mythical claim to 13,000.000 acres of land in New Mexico .worth $75,000,000. Nearly every witness who testified in the case will be indicted.

Elaborate Ceremonies Celebrating Ad* miggion to the Union. After years of trials and tribulations of various kinds, Utah emerges from her swaddling clothes and becomes a new member of the great galaxy of the States in the Union, to be represented by a fortyfifth star upon the national flag. The formal celebration of the event and the nauguration of the State officers took place Monday in Salt Lake City. On receipt of the news that the President’s proclamation had been issued, guns wen* fired and the citizens gave themselves over to a season of jollification. Monday was a general holiday and thousands of people from all over the new State joined with the citizens of Salt Lake in celebrating the close of Utah’s forty years of probation. The inaugural exercises proper began at 8 o’clock, when the cannon at Fort Douglass. the guns of the First Regiment,

Utah National Guard, every whistle in the State and all the other instruments of noise available heralded the beginning of the day’s festivities. The parade formed at 11 o'clock, led by the Sixteenth Regiment. United States Infantry, 500 strong, and its bands. Following came the carriages containing the State officials and invited guests, with the Utah National Guard, the Grand Army veterans and all the civic societies of the city as an escort. ‘ The exercises at the tabernacle were very simple. They opened with music by the band from Fort Douglass, then a prayer by Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church; “The Star-Span-

BATTLEFIELD OF BULL RUN.

William side was sold to Dr. C. M. Bennett, of Washington. His name does not appear in the Washington directory and he is not known to real estate men. The remainder of the estate was sold to different individuals. Nobody has any idea for what purpose it was bought. The land has been in litigation for many years, and this sale was made by order of the court. Three years ago there was a spasmodic attempt to buy it for purposes of a park.

gled planner’’ by the tabernacle choir, the reading of the President’s proclamation, administration of. the oath of office, Gov. Wells’ inaugural address, “America” by the audience and the benediction. The Legislature was Called in special session at 2 p. in. to fix a time for the regular session, the constitution failing to provide the time for convening regularly.

Whole Island, Excepting the City ot Havana, Is in Their Hands. In effect, the whole island of Cuba, outside of the city of Havana, is now in the hands of the insurgents. They have not annihilated the Spanish forces, nor have they routed the whole army in any single pitched battle. Yet the situation is completely in their hands, and so completely have they outgeneraled the Spanish that, to all appearances, Martinez de Campos’ army might as well be in Spain for any cheek it puts upon the movements to and fro of Maximo Gomez’s army. The latter's progress has been accompanied with continual accessions to his forces by volunteers, and he has captured enough horses, rifles And artillery to add immensely to the effective strength of his num. He has practically carried his base of operation with him, and has usually countermarched over a wholly different route from that of his advance, apparently counting with confidence upon living upon the country as he went. There is little doubt really felt in Havana that he will get as much or more sympathy in Pinar del Rio than he did in Santa Clara and Matanzas, and the general fear is now that, after sweeping over Pinar del Rio, he will come upon Havana from the west, co-operating in an attack with the forces of the insurgents which have been east of Havana for several days past. The advance of Gomez beyond Batabano has cut the line of telegraph and cable communication with the eastern part of the island upon which Campos principally relied for directing his forces in Santiago de Cuba, Puerto I’rincipe and Santa Clara.. Many hundreds of non-combatant inhabitants of the island have gone to Havana to await the passing of the storm. Still more have sent their wives and families there as a safe refuge. This class of the population is in a state of utter consternation and dismay, and spreads an infectious spirit of panic through all other circles. The authorities no longer make the slightest concealment of the serious view they take of the situation, and there are some who do not hesitate to rail at the Spanish generals and the troops and make bitter criticisms of them. There has been great fear that the light and water supply of the city would be cut off by a sudden raid of the insurgent forces. The idea of the city being left in total darkness for the unseen working of plots and seditions is itself enough to work a panic in the nervous condition of the public mind. All possible recruits have been enlisted for the defense of the city, and the available ground about tne city has been filled with batteries of artillery, whicn are manned night and day. As the relatives were viewing the remains of Mrs. Andrew Merry, who was buried at Greenville, Ill.; lier mother, Mrs. Daniel Nevinger, just after gazing upon he,r for the last time, stepped back and sank down in a chair dead. There Is very little love that is worth the price paid for it.

UTAH IS NOW A STATE.

CUBANS IN CONTROL.

GROVER NAMES FIVE.

PERSONNEL OF THE VENEZUE* LAN COMMISSION. Brewer and Alvey Head the LiatAndrew D. White, Frederic R. Condert, and Daniel C. Oilman Are the Other Appointees. All Accept. President Cleveland Wednesday night announced the appointment of the Venezuelan Boundary Commission as follows: David J. Brewer, of Kansas, Justice United States Supreme Court: Richard H. Alvey, of Maryland, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia; Andrew D. White, of New York; Frederic R. Coudert, of New York; Daniel C. Gilman, of Maryland. All of the above named persons will accept the places to which they have been appointed and are expected to assemble in Washington as soon as practicable, with a view to their entering upon their work. In Washington the commission is regarded as a very satisfactory one, whose opinions and conclusions will be received by the American public with that confidence which the standing of the members of the commission in the public eye inspires. Politically speaking, the commission consists of three Democrats and two Republicans. Justice Brewer and Justice Alvey are men of the highest judicial standing, whose reputations as impartial jurists are well known abroad, as well as at home. Frederic R. Coudert, of New York, is too well known as a leader at the bar to require any extended sketch of his scholarly attainments. Andrew D. White and Daniel G. Gilman stand among the foremost of American scholars and educators, and Mr. White has shown, in addition, unusual skill as a legislator, organizer and diplomat. Both will be useful members of the commission, and fheir names will do much to give its findings dignity and weight in the eyes of European nations. The law authorizing the appointment by the President of the Venezuelan commission was passed by the House of Representatives on Dec. 17. On Dec. 20 it was adopted by the Senate without amendment and without a dissenting voice. The text of the bill was as follows: “A bill making an appropriation for the expenses of a commission to investigate and report on the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana. “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, that the sum of SIOO,OOO, or as much thereof as mny be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the expenses of a commission, to be appointed by the President, to report on the true divisional line between the Republic of Venezuela and British Guiana.” The conclusions reached by the commission will be reported to the President for his information in connection with any further representations and communications that may be made by this Government to Great Britain in connection with the boundary line dispute between the latter country and Venezuela.

RIFAAT PASHA.

The New Grand Vizier of the Turkish Empire, It is evident the Sultan of Turkey is a hard man to please. He recently changed prime ministers three times in three weeks. The new grand vizier, Rjfaat Pasha, is a man of long public service. He has been governor of many Turkish provinces. His last office of that character was ruler of Smyrna. Before his promotion Rifaat was minister of the interior. He is a thorough-paced diplomatist and before advising the Sultan on any point ascertains the innermost views of his sublimity on the matter in question.

RIFAAT PASHA.

Adviee then is easily formulated. It is probable Rifaat will hold his portfolio long. There is little prospect of Stature joy for a grand vizier. Keanal Pasha, immediate predecessor of Rifaat, has been sent to govern an interior town of Asia Minor. Said Pasha, who preceded Keanal, took refuge at the English embassy upon his removal from office. He emerged a few days ago.

Have a Good Breakfast.

“The foreign idea of a light breakfast has become very popular in this country,” said a prominent physician the other day,” but doctors are beginning to inveigh against it, and with considerable show of reason, as they point out that during the night occurs one’s longest fast “It should certainly be broken by something more than a roll and coffee, since it ushers in the hours of hardest work for all our men and most of our women. “The rolls and coffee are not fit preparation for such laborious toil. They may do for a nation of idlers, but not for busy men and women. “An intelligent person needs no doctor to tell him when he is hungry, and the best time for a man to eat is when the man is hungry, even if It Is late al night. “It is the empty stomach, and not the comfortably full one, that makes people unhappy.”

Fish Hook.

A new fish hook has been invented. The bait holding device is supplied with self-opening hooks which are closed and concealed at their points and which spring in opposite directions when the slightest tension is put upon the line. One of the chief advantages claimed is that when the fish are landad they can be readily released.

ITS PERILS ARE MANY.

Lake Superior la an Exceedingly Treacherous Body of Water. The recent accident to the •learner Missoula tends to show more clearly than anything that occurred the vast area of Lake Superior, and the possibility of a vessel’s crow reaching land after shipwreck and yet being unheard of for a couple of weeks after starting on a voyage. The shores of Michigan* Wisconsin and Minnesota on the big lake are traversed by railways and telegraph lines, and the towns and small settlements on the American side of the lake, even to the islands, furnish ready means of communication with the larger cities; hut not so on that part of the Canadian shore north of the lakes, where a wilderness inhabited by a few fishermen and Indians exists. This is especially true of the Canadian shore just above Sault Ste. Marie, and for a long stretch of country to the north and east of the point where the Canadian Pacific railway turns in to the shore of the lake and traverses it on toward Port Arthur and Fort William. M hen the Missoula broke her shaft and was rendered helpless she was less than twenty-five miles from dCaribou Island on the course down toward Sault Ste. Marie. She was somewhat off the regular course of vessels bound down from the head of Lake Superior, but if she had been able to make any headway toward the Sault, or care for herself at all on the course she was following, she would have been picked up very soon after tlJb accident by some passing vessel. But a southerly wind drifted her out of the course of even the few vessels trading to Canadian ports at the head of the lakes, and she was working over toward the wildest part of the Canadian north shore territory when her crew was compelled to abandon her. A glance at the chart will show that Brule point, where the crew of the Missoula first made land, is scarcely more than seventy-five miles from Sault Ste. Marie, where 15,000,000 tons of freight passes through a canal in a single season, and yet the men in one of the Missdula’syawl boats spent nearly two days working along the shore of the lake before they found any more sign of life than a deserted fisherman’s shanty, in which they built a fire and dried their wet clothing. The fishing season has closed, but even fishermen are scarce in this territory during the most active periods. It is not strange, therefore, that the men from the Mis. soula were nearly a full week in finding means of communicating with the ownera of the vessel after they had landed on the dreary north shore of Lake Superior.—Detroit Free Press.

Royal Heirs Ailing.

The czarowitz is in the last stages of couspmption, and he is not expected tu leave Copenhagen, where he now is, alive. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, of Austria, is in a very critical state from dsease of the lungs. He has been giveri unlimited abseuce from the army, anti is under medical treatment in a remote health resort in the Tyrol. The young crown prince of Italy is also ailing to such a degree as to mere than ever convince people that he will not live to succeed his father’s throne. The heir to the grand duke of Baden is consumptive and has no heir. Prince Albert of Flanders, unlike his elder brother, the lamented Prince Baldwin, who perished in such a mysterious manner, is extremely delicate, and so, too, is the little crown prince of Germany, whose health is a matter of grave anxiety to his parents. In fact, his second brother, Prince Eitel, his superior in stature, weight, cleverness and general health, is almost universally regarded as the real heir to the throne. No one could dream of describing the Prince of Wales as a healthy man, while his son, the duke of York, has never entirely recovered from the effects of the typhoid fever with which he was laid low just about the time of the death of his elder brother. In one word, one may look all over Europe without finding a single heir to a throne in whose health and physique his future subjects can place confidence.— Chicago Record.

American Embroidery Design.

Of the many styles that afford a generous amount and great variety of pretty designs for embroidery work the colonial is one of the most attractive, owing, In a great measure, to its dainty simplicity. The colonial style is one of distinctly American origin—a purely American creation—and for that reason Is our own, and one which we take pride in employing when decorating and furnishing our homes. It was first used in the architecture of houses and churches erected during the latter years of the last century and the early years of this, and was at the height of its great popularity during Washington’s administration, which was known as the colonial period. That the colonial is a very popular style at this time Is shown by the general interest taken in it. It is much easier to find furniture, draperies and wall papers in a variety of designs in the colonial than in any other style.—Ladies’ Home Jsurnal.

Longevity of Ants.

Sir John Lubbock, the naturalist, who has done more to popularize the study of insect ways and habits than all the other modern entomologists combined, has been experimenting to find out how long the common ant would live. If kept out of harm’s way. On Aug. 8, 1888, an ant which had been thus kept and tenderly cared for died at the age of 15 years, which is the greatest age any species of insect has yet been known to attain. Another individual of the same species of ant (formica fusca) lived to the advanced age of 13 years, and the queen of another kind (lasius niger) laid fertile eggs after she had passed the age of 9 years.

For the Gaming Paris Exposition.

A “hole in the ground,” 4,800 feet leep, is' to be one of the attractions at he Paris Exposition. People will ascend and descend by elevators, of which there are to be eight, each 600 !eet in extent. First Church on St. Paul’s Site. The first church on the site of St. T aul’s, London, was built in 1610. After a man’s sweetheart has stepped on his foot, he is apt to lose the notion that she is a fairy.