Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1898 — Page 2

ghtgtniotratitScntintl J. W. McEWEIV, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - - INDIAN*

SHOT ON THE STREET.

BROKER KILLS A MAN ABOUT TOWN AT WASHINGTON. Trouble Grew Out of the Failure of the Firm in Which the Broker Was a Partner—Strong Coal Combine in Ohio. Thousand People saw the Deed. At Washington, I). C., Dennis J. Canty, a broker, formerly of East St. Louis, 111., shot and killed George Bye, a well-known sportsman and man about town. The shooting took place at the corner of Fourteenth and F streets, in front of the Western Union building, in the presence of perhaps a thousand men, women and children. Canty drew a revolver and deliberately fired into Rye four times. The latter reeled and fell to the street. He was carried to a drug store and died five minutes later. Canty coolly replaced his revolver in his pocket and waited for an officer to come and take him. The day before the two men had had a quarrel at the same spot and it is said Rye threatened Canty with a drawn dirk. Dennis J. Canty has borne a good reputation heretofore. He was appointed to a clerkship in the interstate commerce commission under Col. W. R. Morrison. He went into brokerage business with H. W. Van Senden, who was formerly private secretary to Secretary Carlisle. The firm failed and the members were indicted. A week or so ago the indictments were nolled. It is learned now that the shooting is the culmination of the failure of Canty's firm. Rye, who is said to have been a horseman and speculator, lost by the failure and threatened revenge.

COAL COMBINE IN OHIO. Railroads Take the Entire Output and Make All Sales. It is said that since the Senate investigating commit le» has concluded its work, coal operators openly admit that the Ohio coal railroad combine is in active operation. It is claimed that every big operator in the State is a member of the trust. “The combine,” said a leading Cleveland coal operator, “was practically completed at the meeting here a number of weeks ago. It now controls the entire output in Ohio. All coal is delivered to the railroads at a stated price, and they assume 'the responsibility of all sales. It is the strongest and promises to be the most successful coal combine this country has ever seen. It is expected that other States will be taken into the combine when the time for such a movement arrives.”

PRAIRIE FIRE IN KANSAS. Cimarron Saved from Destruction byHard Work. M ith the wind blowing at a velocity of about forty miles an hour, n prairie fire raged within sight of Cimarron, Kan., sweeping everything before it. Thousands of acres of pasture laud were burned off, and reports come of losses of live stock and buildings, but no losses of human life are reported. At one time the wind changed suddenly, driving the flames toward town, and it took hard work on the part of n large force of men with teams and water wagons to prevent the town’s destruction. Franz Josef Stirs Europe. The Austrian emperor is making great efforts to induce the European powers to present to the United States the danger to Europe of their carrying any further their interference in Cuban affairs. Emperor William is warmly seconding the efforts of Emperor Francis Joseph. The American government is aware of this situation.

Six Men Injured. The eighty-six-foot steel span being placed at the end of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad drawbridge across the Mississippi river at Winona, Minn., fell with six men on it. The span had been moved two feet out to let a train pass, and while in this position the timbers supporting it collapsed. The six men were badly shaken up and bruised. Whips the Schoolmaster. In a little brick schoolhouse, near the. town of Depew, N. Y., Schoolmaster Bowen received a terrible beating. His injuries are likely to prove fatal. The trouncing was given by George Winters of Depew. Winters alleges that Bowen twisted his daughter Minnie's ear and tore it so that it needed six stitches to repair it. Krueger Will Resist Britain. At a meeting of members of the volksraad at President Krueger’s residence in Pretoria, Transvaal, opinions were expressed against admitting the claim of British suzerainty, and it rns decided to allow tne Goverhment to take advantage of complications in which Great Britain might become involved elsewhere.

Bessemer Pie-Iron Pool. One of the biggest pools the country has ever known was formed in Cleveland. All Bessemer pig iron producers in tl»? Cleveland, Mahoning valley and Shenango iron districts, except one, are bound together by the combine. . Suicide of C. K. French. Charles E. French, formerly a prominent citizen of Redlands, Cal., committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He was formerly wealthy, but lost most of his money in speculation on the Chicago Board of Trade. Gold Under Streets. A ledge of gold-bearing quartz has been found by men engaged in grading at Seventh street in San Francisco. This street is being cut through a bluff. Spain Wants to Know, Bernabe, the new Spanish minister, has made a formal request from the authorities at Washington for official information as to what the United State's means by buying two warships from Brazil. No satisfactory response to his demand was vouchsafed. Pacific Ship Goes Ashore. The three-masted ship New York, from Hongkong for San Francisco, ran ashore near Half-Moon Bay, a small town al>out thirty miles south of San Francisco. Not » life was lost. Moil Car Destroyed by Fire. AA hen the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern special limited mail train, westbound, arrived at La Forte, Ind., the other night the Boston and Albany car was discovered on lire. The car was nearly consumed nnd the mail destroyed. The origin of the fire is a mysttfi-y. See Sign* of a Revolution. Tranquility prevails at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but the Government has called an extraordinary session to consider the financial situation caused by the fall in exchange and the reports, originating in the military clubs, of a coming revolution.

WOOED AND MARRIED

BY CHARLOTTE M BRAEME

CHAPTER XIX. For some few’ minutes afterward she heard sounds on the borders of the hike; murmured sounds, as of intense pity and compassion, followed by the tramp of many footsteps, and then all was still. The ground was covered with dead and dying leaves. Lady Caraven flung herself down upon them, and as she lay there the old words came to her, “Let me die!” Death would have been a mercy. The golden stars came out in the sky. Was it really herself, or was she dreaming? Was she Hildred, the beautiful,popular Countess of Caraven, lying there in all the abandonment of her misery, her husband's angry voice in her ears, the marks of his angry grasp on her arm? Outcast, wretched, despairing, there was only one friend for her in the world, and that was Sir Raoul; if she could but see him, if she could but tell him! The pitiless night hid her from all eyes. Surely there had never been a night so full of pain. How long she had been lying there she never knew. Time was all ended for her. She was conscious only of infinite misery. She did not even feel the chill breath of the wind as it passed over her. Then, after what seemed to her an age of suspense and agony, she heard footsteps amid the brushwood, and Lord Caraven calling her by name. “I am here,” she said. In the thick growing darkness it was with difficulty that he discovered her. He saw her at length lying with her face hidden among the dead leaves. “You may rise and thank heaven,” he said, in a stern voice, “that you have not succeeded; the evil is not so great as it might have been.” She rose and stood before him, the same dazed look on her face. “I do not understand—you say such hard, cruel things,” she moaned. “Hard and cruel,” repeated her husband, with bitter contempt, “did ever a woman live so cruel as you?” “I am not cruel,’ she replied. “I have been driven mad.” There was such infinite sadness in the young voice, such dreary despair in the young face, thjt he was touched in spite of his anger and contempt. “Tell me,” he said, “what made you do this thing—this cruel, ungenerous, unwomanly deed.” She thought he referred to her conduct in following him, and they seemed to her hard words. “What made me do it? You will only despise and hate me the more if I tell you,” she replied. “Frankly speaking, Hildred, nothing that you can say to me will make the matter worse, but it .may certainly be made better. Tell me the plain truth.” “Yes, I will tell you,” she replied. “I see that alh good understanding is at an end between us.” ■ “That is certain,” he said, with emphasis; “with my consent you shall never enter my doors again.” “Have I acted so very wrong?” she asked, sadly. “Wrong?” he exclaimed, contemptuously. “We will waive that, Hildred. You have done that which I will never pardon. Now tell me why you did it. You may speak the truth to me; you bear my name. I will shield you from all harm. No one knows but myself.” “Then she did not see me?" said Hildred, drearily.

“No—and you may be thankful for it,” answered the Earl, severely. “She did not see you. You may .speak quite frankly—no one knows anything about it except myself. Now tell me.” “What have I to tell you?” she said. “I—l did it; I followed you here because —oh, how hard it is to tell!—because I was jealous of her. I thought that you were both ridiculing me, that you would tell her that you had been obliged to marry me to save yourself from ruin, but that you did not love me, you did not care for me, you disliked me, you hated mo, you longed to be free from me —my accursed money was all you wanted —that you would never like me. And I fancied she would pity you, in that soft, caressing voice of hers—pity you for being burdenfed with a wife you did not love. I believed that you would tell her that I was jealous of her, that .then both of you would laugh at me.” The passion of her words had deadened all sense of shame. She had forgotten that which her jealousy had prompted her to do, nnd remembered only her great, bitter wrongs. She was no longer a heroine—only a passionate, injured, deeply loving woman. She rose to the occasion. The Earl was impressed more than he would have cared to own. “I could not l>enr it,” she continued passionately. “I should have done worse than this, I am sure, if it could have been done. I was mad. I will tell you all. 1 was mad, because I had learned to love you with all the strength of my heart and soul. I could not bear that you should jest about me with careless words; it was as though you stabbed me for pleasure.” “You love me?” he interrogated, incredulously. The dark shawl fell from her, and she stood erect before him in all the dignity bf her pale, passionate beauty. Her umber dress and her rubies gleamed in the starlight; the queenly head was held aloft; she no longer pleaded and wept; the memory of her passionate love and her bitter wrongs filled her with angry pride. “Yes, I love you,” she continued, proudly. “AVhose is the sin? Is it mine, because I, your wife, have to tell you this, and you feel surprised? I love you; and uow that I have to leave you I tell you that woman never loved man, wife never loved husband, more dearly, more deeply, more devotedly, than I love you; I would have devoted my life to you; I would have died for you; every beat of my heart, every thought of my mind, every action was for you.” He looked terribly distressed. “M hy did you not tell me this before, Hiidred?” he asked. “I tell you? How little you know me! W as it my place to go to the husband who neglected me and plead for his caresses, for his love I I could have died a thousand deaths first. How little you know me! I should not tell you all this now, but that I know in this world we shall never perhaps meet again, I am speaking to you a grave. I stretch out my hands to you over a grave—the grave where my love lies—slain!” And as she said the words she fell upon her knees, weeping, sobbing with bitter

cries, as though a grave lay there, and she had fallen upon it. He Was touched. He could not tolerate what he believed to be her crime, but she was young, beautiful, and loving. Her crime nad been committed through love of him. He raised her from the ground. “I am very sorry, Hildred,” he said; “it is very sad for both of us. Now we must talk of something else. You must go at once.” She raised her weeping eyes to him. “Must you send me away?” she asked, gently. "It was wrong, I was mad with jealous anger, but I did not think I was. Could you not overlook it?” “You speak lightly,” he replied, sternly. “No, you can never re-enter my house. I have arranged it nil. I did so when I took poor Lady Hamilton back to the castle. I told our guests that you had been suddenly sent for by your father, that I had driven you to the station—and it is to your father's house you must go.” “Very well,”’ she said, drearily. “You do not seem to understand,” he remarked, sharply; “do you not know the danger, the peril that hangs over you?” She did not, but of what use was it to say so? “Try to collect yourself and understand,” he continued; “time presses. 1 cannot keep them away much longer. You must depart at once without being seen. No one must know at what hour you went. You must go to your father’s house and wait there. If it should be needful to send you abroad, I will arrange it.” It was the early dawn of morning when she reached the station—a large railway junction where she was both unknown and unnoticed. The train started for London in half an hour. No one spoke to her or appeared to see her as she took her place, and in a few minutes more she was on her way. It was a ’hard punishment—terribly hard for such a trifle, she thought, wondering that the earl could be so stern. She was tired, fatigued with passion and emotion. She had neither eaten, drank nor slept since the evening before. When she reached London, she asked a porter to call a cab for her, and gave the address—“ Mr. Ransome, the Hollies, Kew,” and the drive thither seemed to her more than ever like a dream.

CHAPTER XX. Arley Ransome had not worked quite so hard of late; there was but little need. He had achieved the height of his ambition; he had a large fortune; he was able to speak of his daughter the Countess of Caraven; he could claim kinsmanship through his daughter with some of the noblest families in England. There was no need now to work quite so hard; he could linger over his daintily spread breakfast table and read his papers at his leisure, content if he reached the city before noon. On this morning he had seated himself so as to enjoy three things at once—the beautiful view of the river from his window, the bright fire in the grate, and the recherche little breakfast that had been served up to him. It was a sudden shock to him when, on hearing a sound, he raised his eyes to the door, and saw there a pale, beautiful woman who stood wringing her hands. "Father,” she said, “I am come home.” In utter amazement ho started from his seat. His daughter, his beautiful Hildred, the Countess of Caraven, pale as death, wrapped in n dark traveling cloak! What could it mean? “I—l am glad to see you, my dear,” he said; but he had a horrible foreboding that something terrible had occurred, and that the days of his greatness had vanished. “Come in—pray come in, my dear —do not stand there. How strange you look! Where is Caraven? Dear, dear, how odd it is! Come in, Hildred—the servants will think it strange to see you standing there.” She entered the room and walked up to him with haughty mien. “This is the end of my marriage, father,” she said, calmly—“the marriage that you told me could be happy without love. This is the end of it, and I am come home.” “Sit down, my dear, sit down; there is nothing so horrible as a ‘scene,’ and this looks like one. Take off your cloak and your bonnet. What a strange head dress!”

She unfastened the thick traveling cloak and there in picturesque disarray was the rich eveniug dress of amber and black, with a faded crimson flower clinging to it. The lawyer looked on in utter dismay. This disregard for dress and appearances spoke more forcibly than anything else could have done—told more plainly than words that something dreadful had happened. , “You have not quarreled with the earl, I hope—that is, you have not left him?” “He has sent me away,” she replied; and Arley Ransome’s face grew very dark. “There is not much to tell,” she continued, wearily. “You misled me—you told me that marriage could be happy without love. I find that love is the soul of it, that without love marriage is like a dead body. I being weaker and inferior, was the first to learn to love. I learned to love my husband—he has never cared for me.” “You are too sentimental, Hiidred,” said Arley Ransome, severely. “I have been doing my best for my husband,” she continued, “and we were growing happier. In time I think that he would have loved me; but some one else, a fair woman—one of the kind of women that he admires—Lady Hamilton, came, and ” “I see,” said the lawyer—“the old story, jealousy and quarreling. Surely, Hiidred, you have not thrown away the labor of a lifetime by growing jealous and vexing the earl?” “I have done worse than that,” she said * ar X' orsc - I was jealous of Lady Hamilton. I thought that both she and my nusband were deriding me. I followed them when they went out to see the sun set over the lake. I hid myself behind the alder trees to listen if they said anything about me; and then—l cannot tell how it happened—my husband saw me. He was very angry; he said I was never to enter his doors again, but to return uome at once to you.” The lawyer’s face cleared. “You are quite sure that you have told me the whole truth?” he said. “Yes, quite sure. What should I keep from you? It seems very hard punishment for what was merely a fault rather of judgment than anything else. I told the earl that I loved him, and that jealousy had driven me mad.” “You told him that? Then rely upon it in a few days all will be well. He will forget his finger and come to find you.” “I do not think so.” she returned.

“You are quite sure, Hildred, that you have hidden nothing from me?” he interrogated; adding, “It is, as yon say, severe punishment for so small a fault.” She looked up at him in surprise. “What can I have to hide, papa? In telling you of my love, and my jealousy, I hare told you the worst.” “Then all will come right again. In the meantime keep up appearances; go to your own room unobserved and wait until your luggage arrives. I shall say ■that you are come home for a few days’ change. Keep up your spirits; all will come right again, I feel sure.” “I am very tired, papa,” she said. “I think I will stay in my room to-day.” “Very well, my dear; do just as you like; you know best, of course. I will say that you do not feel very well. Go to your room, by all means. I hope you will soon lie better. Now try to cheer up; it will be all right. I will see to this difficulty with your husband for you.” She looked up at him proudly. “You must not interfere, papa! I shall never return to him now!” He looked pityingly at the white face. “You appear very ill, Hildred. Is there nothing that I can do for you?” “Nothing,” she replied, coldly. In her heart she felt bitterly angry with her father. She had trusted him; he had misled her. She did not offer to kiss him or to touch his hand, but went quietly out of the room and upstairs, leaving him with some very unpleasant thoughts. It had not been an agreeable interruption to his breakfast, but he tried to think little of it. It was only a quarrel, after all, and _his daughter had done nothing w’rong. He should make it all right in a few seconds when he saw the earl. He wrote to him before he went to the city, telling him that his wife had reached home safely, but was looking very ill. The rest of that day Hildred remained in her room, and on the morning following she did not come downstairs. It was afternoon when Arley Ransome, with a face as pa°!e as death, asked for admittance to her apartment. She bade him enter, and he did so, with an open letter in his hand. It was her husband’s writing, she perceived. “You have deceived me,” said her father, sternly; “you told me that you had hidden nothing from me. Your husband tells me that he has hidden you here because you shot Lady Hamilton on the evening of the thirty-first—shot her with intent to murder, and that you confessed your guilt!” Without a word or a murmur she looked at him, and then fell like one dead at ms feet (To be continued.)

FOR WIVES TO REMEMBER.

A Few Maxims Which the Women Should Not Forget. That Adam was made first. That he “pays the freight.” That “bitted are the meek.” That nine men in ten detest gossip. That all angels are not of your sex. That confidence begets confidence. That the least said is the soonest mended. • That with all his faults you love him still. That you should have no secrets from him. That husbands have troubles of their own. That he’s “all right ’ when you know him. That woman's best weapon Is her weakness. That home Is more than half what you make it. That he is just as anxious to get rich as you are. That wives are unusually favored in this country. That his typewriter cannot help It If she is pretty. That six pairs of slippers are enough for any man. That a man likes neatness In your attire at all times. That he is not In love with every woman he glances at. That candy in excess is worse than rum In moderation. That he likes to hear that the baby is his dead image. That you should not run up bills without his knowledge. That there are letter drop-boxes on the nearest corners. That he does not get sleepy the same moment that you do. That she who puts on the gloves should know how to spar. That it is policy to let him believe he is “lord and master.” That you can’t keep books, asd there is no use your trying. That your relationship is closer to him than to your mother. That a prompt and pointed answer does not turn away wrath. That you should not expect him to light the fire in the morning. That he expects you to look your best when you go out with him. That house-hunting is not reckoned by the average man as a pastime. That 8 p. m. is 60 minutes past 7 o’clock, not 15 minutes to 9.—Boston Globe.

THE EAGLE’S NEST.

Someth'ng About the King of Birds and How It Rears Its Young. In telling of the habits, haunts and homes of the eagle in Tennessee a writer says: The eagle either builds its nest upon the top of a mighty tree growing far up on the mountain, among myriads of twining vines, and the thickest and most inaccessible bushes or shrubs, or on the summit of a high rOck. It Is always a large one, strongly and comfortably built, large sticks and branches being laid together, nearly flat and bound with twining vines. The spacious inside is covered with hair and mosses, so minutely woven together that no wind can penetrate. In this abode the mother bird lays two eggs, which are great curiosities. The long end of the egg tapers down to a point, while the color is a dirt or brownish red, with many dots and spots upon it. The young birds are driven forth from the nest by their savage parents to scratch for themselves as soon as they are able to fly, and no training whatever is given them by the old bird. That Is left to their instinct, which hunger and necessity develop. There is no going back to the old home for the young eagle, for the mother bird at once tears up every vestige of the nest where they have thriven since birth, and while they emit plaintive shrieks, darts at them and pushes them off the crags and rocks, and as they must take to their wings or fall, this is how they learn to fly at once. It takes three years for a young eagle to gain its full and complete plumage and for the development of its strength. Once full grown, provided he does not meet with a violent death, the eagle should live between 80 and 160 years.

“CUBA TO BE FREE.”

This Is Asserted by Prominent Men in Washington. PLAN IS NOT DISCLOSED. McKinley Said to Favor a Peace Policy If That Be Possible. NATION ON A WAR FOOTING Condition of Defenses on Land and Sea All in Ship Shape. Uncle Sam Makes a Record in Putting On Hie FightingClotlics Many Ships in Commission—Big Orders Given for Ammunition Fortifications Equipped and Manned-Military Posts Established and Regular Troops Moved Eastward—Sj>anish Sovereignty in Cuba Seems Doomed. Washington correspondence: Cuba is to be free. President McKinley desires that its freedom be gained without war, if that is possible, but Cuba is to be free. This declaration is made by men so close to the administration that there is no doubt of its authoritativeness. Special recognition of Cuban independence is simpler and more direct, and means more

POLO Y. BERNABE. Now Spanish Minister to the United States.

than cither recognition of belligerency or intervention. It would not be regarded as a declaration of war by other nations, and there Is no cause for Spain to so regard it. If she did insist upon regarding it as a hostile act, upon Spain would be the responsibility for beginning war. The United States will demand ample reparation for the wrong inflicted upon us by the destruction of the Maine. It will later on demand a satisfactory solution of the Cuban problem. With the Maine disaster cleared up, it is said in administration circles that the President prefers independence to any other form of settlement of the Cuban question. One member of the cabinet is convinced that this is the best form of recognition. Senator Proctor favors it, and so do several other close advisers of the President. It is positively stated that this Government is determined to press on toward the salvation of Cuba, and that we are building for peace when we prepare for war, for there is only one way in which the Spanish can be driven, and that is by showing them you have the power to master them. Though the United States has purchased two Brazilian cruisers, and though large contracts let for projectiles and shells for both the army and the navy would appear to indicate the imminence of war, as a matter of fact the war cloud is thought not as black or threatening as it was a week or two ago. There seems a most hopeful feeling among those officials who are nearest to the center of inside news. It would not be correct to say that danger of war has passed, but the chances of a peaceful settlement of our troubles with Spain is considered possible. Preparations for War. Active and aggressive preparations for war make for peace. This is the anomalous situation which a look underneath the surface discloses. The history of the week forms a splendid record of what can be accomplished by the nation in a short space of time under the spur of necessity to provide for the national defense. Beginning with the appropriation of $50,000,000 to be expended by the President without limitation, there followed rapidly the placing of orders for enormous quantities of wnr supplies,, the institution of negotia-

U. S. AGENTS DISTRIBUTE FOOD TO STARVING RECONCENTRADOS.

tions for and the actual purchase of ships abroad, the enlistment of men for the navy, the creation of two additional regiments of artillery, the commissioning of monitors, cruisers and rams, the manning of new posts along the seacoasts an?, finally the rearrangement of the great military departments to meet modern conditions in military practice. The sending of the Oregon away from San Francisco is an exhibition of farsightedness with which the Secretary of the Navy is observing the situation. The vessel’s orders are to cruise down the Pacific coast, touching in from time to time at various ports where cable connections exist, to receive any orders that the depart-

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ment may have to give. In this way it is expected that she will work ns far south as Valparaiso, Chili, where she will await orders. Valparaiso is very much nearer Cuba and to Admiral Sicnrd’s fleet than Mare Island, while if it should be desired to send the ship to the Asiatic station, this enn be done almost as conveniently from Valparaiso as from San Francisco. At Valparaiso therefore the Oregon will be, where she can be most usefully manipulated in case of an emergency. The Board of Naval Bureau Chiefs find it impossible to pass judgment in Washington upon the fitness for naval service of vessels that may be offered for the auxiliary branch of the navy at the various seaports, so they have been aided in their work by the creation of a special board which will undertake to visit each of the ports where ships may be offered and make a careful personal inspection of the various crafts. 1 he Wnr Department on Monday opened bids for one of the largest orders of shot and shell for heavy caliber guns ever given, including armor-piercing projectiles and deck-piercing and torpedo shells. The number and character of these are as follows: Niue hundred and thirty-five twelve-inch deck-piercing shells weighing 1,000 pounds each; 1,241 twelve-inch deckpiercing shells weighing 800 pounds each; 481 ten-inch armor-piercing shells; 482 ten-inch armor-piercing shot capped; 149 eight-inch armor-piercing shell; 150 eight-inch armor-piercing ihot capped. These projectiles are for the heavy fortification guns now mounted along the seacoast. The purchase is not to be made under the fifty million defense appropriation bill, but is in anticipation of the fortification bill, which grants $940,000 for a reserve supply of projectiles and powder. As the making of the heavy projectiles will take considerable time the contract will be let ahead of the passage of the bill, assurances having been given from mtn in. Congress that no question would be raised as to the regularity of this proceeding. The entire amount is designed to give all the heavy guns now installed and those to be put in place during the coming year, a full quota of projectiles and powder. The 12-inch shot are among the largest made. The cost of a single round of this class of projectiles is ssll. Aside from the large order placed Monday the emergency bill permits additional orders to meet the requirements

Under the new order, troops will be distributed at the batteries from Bost >n to New Orleans, and as the defenses will all be put in lighting condition, the Atlantic coast line will falr.y b Istle with armaments.

of such fortification guns as may be mounted for emergency. The present order is for the actual needs of the guns now mounted, without reference to any existing emergency, although it has been made all the more imperative by the Spanish crisis. Regular Army Moved East. The whole regular army, infantry, artillery and horse, comprising upwards of 20,000 men, is being moved east to the for-

tified cities and ports. At Chicago Quartermaster General Lee of the department of the lakes, is making arrangements to transport batteries of artillery now at forts in the West to the Atlantic seaboard and Gulf of Mexico. The Western railroads having headquarters in Chicago and St. Louis and other Western cities were invited to telegraph proposals fortransporting a battery of artillery from Fort Riley, Kan., to Fort Monroe, Va.; another from Fort Riley, Kan., to New Orleans, and a third from Fort Riley to Savannah, Ga. The war talk has had the usual result of bringing before the War and Navy Departments a perfect flood of suggestions

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and inventions. Many of these are most remarkable balloons, flying machines, kites and the like, centipede-like steamers with manifold propellers and torpedos of fearful and wonderful destruction. All of them are given attention and referred to the proper authorities for investigation, but not much is expected from them. Thus while those in authority talk peace, active preparations for war go steadily and determinedly on.

SHE CUT THE DOG’S THROAT.

Kentucky Woman’s Display of Nerve Saves Her Husband. Dr. William McKinley of Winchester, Ky., wasjstjved by his wife from death a second time Saturday when he went to the country to visit a patient. As the weather was fine, he took Mrs. McKinley along. Arriving at the patient’s house the doctor got out and left his wife in the buggy to hold the horse. Just as the doc-

tor reached the door a large bulldog rushed on him in an attempt to catch him by the throat. The doctor caught the dog’s jaws with his right hand and with his left caught his forefeet. He yelled to his wife to come to his assistance. She used the JJJJlfgy whip on the dog, but without effect, lhen she secured the doctor’s knife, cut the dog’s throat and immediately fainted. Two years ago Mrs. McKinley saved her husband from being strangled to death in a folding bed, which had closed on him.

Uncle Sam Secures Two Formidable Brazilian Cruisers. A week’s negotiations closed by the purchase by the Navy Department in London of the two fine cruisers built and building at Elswick for the Brazilian Government. The vessels are named the Amazonas and Admiral Abreuall and are modern in every respect. Possibly the officials took more pleasure in closing up the business because of the knowledge that the Spanish agents had been striving to secure these very ships. One of the ships is complete in every respect, has her coal supply and ammunition on board, and steam can be raised at any time. It is said the coal and ammunition on board passed with the sale to the United States. The ammunition is not all of the kind in use by the United States navy, so the supply of ammunition is a necessary adjunct to the new ships. The other ship has been launched, but it will take some time to make her ready for sea. The two Brazilian vessels will be extremely useful additions to the United States navy in either war or peace.

BIG OIL MAGNATES SELL BONDS.

Millionaires Dispose of $15,000,000 Worth of Securities. For some time past the prominent New York bond houses have been cognizant of the liquidation of a heavy line of Government bonds. The transaction is now completed and the deal has been traced to the Standard Oil group of millionaires, who have, according to the best calculations, disposed of about $15,000,000 worth of Governments. The sellers, who follow the Standard Oil rule of refusing either to verify or deny any report concerning themselves, have received some of the best prices during the last three weeks, and the average selling figure is far above the present market price.

EASTERN COAST DEFENSES.

BUYS WAR SHIPS.