Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — Page 2

gSPEij COUNTY DEMOCRAT. fprITABCOCK. Publisher. pWSSELAER. - • • INDIANA.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.

EAn attempted train robbery near SoMalia, Mo., was foiled by six detectives ieoncenled in the express car. One robber gwas captured after a lively fight arid punch shooting. Gen. Lord Kitchener appeals to the [{British public to subscribe £IOO,OOO to ■found and maintain the/Gordon Memorial SCollege at Khartoum, with a view of eduieating the Soudanese, r k Export robbers held up the police station sat Laugueuil, Canada, lagged the policelinen on duty and looted the municipal ■safe. They also robbed several stores, getting away with about,¥lo,ooo in cash. R. C. Eddy, a lawyer from Chicago, has Ipraetically succeeded in effecting a cu:'.sIbinution of the linseed oil interests of the country. It is said that the capital stock Of the new combination will be fixed at |80, 000,000. Joaquin Miller, the poet of the Sierras, has notified the Harpers -that he will sue them for libel because they published ari article asserting that lie was supported in Alaska by the benevolence of miners who admired him. Claude M. Johnson, director of the bureau of engraving arid printing, in his annual report shows that during the year there were 92.979.478 sheets of sis nips and government securities printed and delivered at a cost of $1,570.'AW. While boring for oil on Siiminerland beach, near Santa Barbara, Cal., a marvelous flow of natural gas has boon struck, throwing sand and rocks a number of feet into the air. It is pronounced the biggest strike ever made in the M ost. : Figures to date indicate a gold production for Colorado this year of $2K,M0.000. Cripple Creek's November gold output Was 36.450 tons,'worth $1,177,560. The aStnelters treated 11 <■ iO tons of an average bvalue of $72. Mill ore ratigcd from $-20 :to S3O a ton. | At Shippenshurg, Pa-., Max Boyne, a :young Ulan employed around the depot, thad an epileptic lit and fell up against an engine, lie was being slowly roasted to !death when discovered by the little son of the yardmaster. lie is horribly burned, (but may recover. |- The details of the new German army (bill Show the Prussian peace contingent =tvill be increased by 11,424 men ami 2,8,>0 horses. The Saxon contingent will be increased by 2.073 men. llerr Eugene Bichter, the radical leader, calls this Germany's answer to the Czar’s disarmament (proposal. b Officials of the United States Express Company in Denver have been notified that its office in Almoiia, Kan., was robbed the other night. The safe was opened and a package was taken containing $3,000 in greenbacks that had been sent, by the Standard Meat and Live Stock Xbompnny of Denver to its agent at 'Aliment. llow much more was taken is not known. f The suit of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Hailway Company in the Unitled States Distric t Court in New York to compel the Western Union Telegraph Company to affix and pay for the revenue stamps required by the* war revenue law on the telegraphic messages transmitted (under its contract with the railway company has been dismissed at the railway company's costs. I* Annie Lansk.v, 23 years old, committed suieide at the homo of her sister, Mrs. Annie I’ineoss, in Chicago, by strangling herself. The- young woman had been demented for more than a year, it is said, and had frequently threatened to end her life. Mrs. I’ineoss left-lier sister alone,in the house wlnle she went shopping. When she returned she called for Annie, hut, received no response. She then searched the house and in a closet in the- kitchen she found Miss Lansky's, body. She bad doubled a rope about lver neck and then ended her life by drawing the ends together.

NEWS NUGGETS.

■ft; Gen. John J. Dupuy, n prominent cxfl Confederate soldier, died in Memphis. || It is reported in court circles that Prince IGeorge of Greece is engaged to Princess * Victoria of Wales. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii a elaims 1;000,(K»0 acres of Hawaiian land * acquired under the title. H Dr. John Henry Harrows, the popular K Chicago divine, has been elected president § of Oberlin (Ohio) College. .United States Consul Gibbs, at Tatna- % tave, Madagascar, reports the bubonic plague has broken out at that place. The Birmingham Rolling Mill Company K of Birmingham. Ala., has tiled a deed of assignment. The liabilities are estimated at $200,000. At St. Louis, James L. Wilcox and | William H. Shaw have been sentenced to | icthree years each in the penitentiary for l “sweating” gold coins. | |; The Czar is said to have informed the |s3ultan that, though Pr.inee George is to be commissioner iu Crete, the Sultan’s i |*6vereignty over the island will be safe- : | guarded, j * A man giving his name as Charles Walker, d his residence Quebec, has been arrested at Lyons, France, for.at- ■ I tempting to rob a bank messenger. Two ||£ accomplices escaped, ft- Trouble is brewing between Germany | and the Congo Free State touching the ftft boundary of Congo territory north of Bpfake Tanganika. Both sides are reported E-tO be increasing their forces. " pThe Campania Transatlantica has eharI tered the steamers liapslmrg, Fulda and ft Werra of the North German Lloyd Steaml ehip Company and will use them in re-p-moving Spanish troops from Cuba. R’ A rumor is current in army headqunr- ( ters that between now and Jan. 1 5.000 ft soldiers will be concentrated at San Fran- ■ cisco to embark for the Philippines. fc The Alaskan steamer Detroit was HKjfleked on Shelter Island, twenty miles Rfrom Juneau. The twenty-seven passen■Mpers and the members of the crew were t , A correspondent in San Salvador cables ftthtt order has been completely restored ■|jh|jthat State, the rebel uprising having ■Wtep quelled and all demands having been ft submitted to the provffioftaL government ■Sftttblished by Senor’ w fW»s Regala.

EASTERN.

George Heyman, the New York furniture dealer, has failed. His liabilities are $200,000. Joseph Murphy, the actor, Is planning to embark in the summer hotel business in New Hampshire. * The home of the famous Dickey Club of Harvard University on Brattle street, Boston, was burned. The American Fireproof Wood Company was incorporated at Trenton, N. J., with a capital of $1,000,000. Charles Walter Couldock died at his home in New York City, after an illness extending over several Weeks, The Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott has resigned the pastorate of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, which he Ims filled for ten years. f The strike at the Corbin and Excelsior collieries at Sluimokin. Bn., lias been declared off, the operators agreeing to lower the price of supplies. The firm of Colburn, Fuller & Co., boot and shoe manufacturers of Boston and of Dorry, Mass., made a voluntary assignment. The liabilities are estimated at $300,000, largely in notes. The second-class protected cruiser Kasaigi, built by the Cramps for the Japanese Government and which left New York recently for Newcastle, sustained considerable injury by colliding with and damaging a bridge abutment at the latter place. Joseph Schroppler, while being chased by a workman in a factory at Trenton, N. J„ tumbled into a vat of vitriol. Not realizing his danger, after being helped out, he started for home, but on the Way the acid began eating into his flesh. Both legs must be'amputated. At Toledo, Judge Taft accepted the resignation of Receiver Pierce of the Clover Leaf Railway. It is to take effect Dec. 1. Samuel Hunt of Cincinnati, an official of the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and Virginia road, was named by the court for the vacant receivership. Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania has allowed the requisition of Gov. Bushtiell for the return to Ohio of Frank D. Magowan, Mrs. Frank D. Magowan and her sister. Mrs. S, 11. Wynn, to stand trial on the charge of kidnaping Ethel Beryl Barnes, daughter of Mrs. Magowan by her first husband. Miss Nora Bitner, a highly respected young woman of Allegheny, Pa,, was beaten so bndl.v by three girjs, none of whom is over 15 years of ago. that she will probably die. Her assailants—-Mamie Wright, Sophie Mickle and Victoria Bennet—are in jail. Miss Bitner, with a young woman companion, was walking along East Ohio street, and in passing a group of young girls at play mnde some jocular remark concerning the party, whereupon one of the youngsters grabbed her by the hair and pulled her to the ground. While prostrate. Miss Bitner was kicked on the head and beaten into insensibility.

WESTERN.

Almost the entire business portion of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was destroyed by fire. The loss will be about $20,000. At St. fjouis. Mo, William Shaw, charged with coin sweating, was convicted by the United States District Court. At •Kingman-, Kan., W. C. Morgan, a wealthy resident, was found dead on the prairie, lie is thought to have perished in the storm. Iu Day County, Oklahoma, K. M. Murcheson, aged 70. shot and killed R. 11. Low, aged 20. They quarreled over some fence posts. Di Day County. Oklahoma, It. M. Murcheson, aged 70. shot and killed It. 11. Low, aged 20. They quarreled over some fence posts. At Fostoria, Ohio, Mrs. Charles F. Krugman poured gasoline into the stove. Au explosion followed and Mrs. Krugman was burned to death. James Gray of Cleveland, a brakeman on the Lake Shore Bailroad. has fallen heir to $350,000, being his share of his graiidmo thor’s estnte. The United States battleship Wisconsin was successfully launched at San Francisco. The boat was christened by Miss Elizabeth Stephenson. At Columbus. Ohio, Judge Taft of the United State's Circuit Court has ordered the sale of the Zanesville (Ohio) electric railway on Jan. 3, 1809. Private deposit boxes in the State Treasury at Topeka, Kan., have been looted by unknown persons. Governor I.eedy is among the losers. Condo Hamlin, managing editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, has been appointed colonel of the new regiment of the Minnesota National Guards. The grand jury at Fergus Falls, Minn., has returned indictments against the six men arrested at Moorhead for holding up the Great Northern train at Carlisle. The vault of the Wrenthain, Mass., National Bank at Wrontham was blown open by burglars and rifled. About $2.(100 and notes valued at $05,000 are missing. The Baldwin Hotel and theater in San Francisco was destroyed by fire. There were 800 persons In the building. Many are supposed to have perished. The loss is about $2,000,000. Elmer Munsell. aged 20, was shot accidentally by bis 18-year-old brother-in-law at charivari festivities twcntyrTour hours after MunseH’s marriage. The tragedy occurred in Dry Grove township, 111. At Milan, Mb., the jury in the trial of W. E. Furaeson for the murder of S. G. Wilson retirrrted a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Judge Stephens at once sentenced him to hang Fridny, Dec. 30. An attempt to rob the Lincoln County Bank was made .at Ellsherry, Mo. The town watchman was tied to a tree by four robbers, who broke into the bank and attempted to enter the safe. It is not known that they got anything. The powder mill at Lauionte, Mo., blew up, blowing six men to atoms and wounding several others. The explosion took place in the packing louse, and was of such force as to be heard and felt for a distance of twenty-five miles. Prairie fires have played havoc in Oklahoma and Indian territory. Millions of tons of hay in bale and hulk have been and no less than 100 residences have been destroyed. Several lives have been lost in these prairie fires. Fire broke out in the Robert Keith furniture and carpet establishment at Kansas City. The fire was gotten under control at 7 o’clock, with an estimated loss of $210,000 on stock atpi $40,000 On the J>dU4Jng: totaLiqsurnpoj. jfcltJSjOQQ, *

a period of fifteen minutes at the dinner hour. Two thousand dollars in registered bonds and $5,600 In coupon bonds and $5,600 in gold and currency were taken. A terrible windstorm in the oil district of Los Angeles, Cab, caused much damage. Two oil tanks, holding 1,000 gallons of oil, were punctured by failing derricks and the oil ran through the streets. Houses and barns were crushed under the falling derricks. No casualties are reported. A three-coach and baggage passenger train on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern road was wrecked six miles north of Burlington, lowa. One of the ears, containing thirty passengers, rolled down an embankment, turning three times in 150 feet. Two persons were fatally, three seriously and seventeen slightly injured. The fact that Vice-President Mitchell and T. W. Davis of the executive hoard of the United Aline Workers of America should have been in conference with M. D. Itatchford in Massillon, Ohio, at the time when the report that another national strike of miners was shortly to be ordered, seemed significant. But all three deny that anything of the sort is contemplated. W. H. F. Sehroeder of St. Louis was married recently. A few days afterward his wife and $27,000 disappeared. Jefferson I). Storts, a St. Louis lawyer, says that she left upon his advice, and that her seizure of the money was also by liis advice. In fact, he says he told her to “take everything she could lay hands on.” Mr. Sehroeder, according to his wife, though wealthy, is close. He refused to give her enough money to buy necessities. When he offered her 10 cents, and told her it was all she would get for a long time, she called on Mr. Storts. Mrs. Sehroeder is at Washington, Mo. The terrible treatment of Jacob Mominbe and wife, living near Touissant, a French settlement, has been reported in Toledo, Ohio. The old man was ducked into a cistern until he fainted and then the woman was strung up by a halter until ghe revealed tflie hiding place of their money which they had hoarded for years. It is alleged they were robbed by the three masked men of about $11,700. A grandson escaped and aroused the neighbors. who gave chase and shot one of the men in the leg, but lie was helped to escape iu the big marsh.

SOUTHERN.

Many points in south and southwest Virginia and North Carolina report having experienced an earthquake shock. . At Louisville, Ivy., the license board has decided to revoke all licenses granted to druggists to sell intoxicating liquors t at retail.

Dr. M. E. Regan was assaulted in the street at Eureka Springs, Ark., by J. D. Williamson, a Chicago capitalist, and severely beaten with a heavy cane. Trouble between their children was the alleged cause. Suit for $25,000 damages has been begun. At Anniston, Ala,, negro soldiers, members of the Third Alabama (colored) regiment, lay in ambush, shot at individual white soldiers and forced a squad of the provost guard to retire after an armed conflict. When the squad returned with re-enforcements the negroes had disappeared. Unless the President intervenes to save him, Private Lindsey P. Holt, Troop F, Tenth United States cavalry, stationed at Huntsville. Ala., will be executed for murder. This is the first death sentence passed upon an enlisted man since the lieginning of the war, and for many years previous.

Ethel Bodfish, aged 14 years, and Blanche Howard, 8 years old, were arrested at Little Itock, Ark., charged with robbing a dry goods store. A considerable quantity of goods taken from the store was found in their possession. The girls also robbed the Provident Relief Association house the same night, securing a large amount of clothing donated to the poor of the city. A. J. Denudes, knowh as “tlie Turquoise King of the Jarillas,” was murdered at his turquoise mine forty miles north of El Paso, Texas, in New Mexico, by a Mexican employe. While the “turquoise king” was seated at the breakfast table the Mexican approached and emptied a six-shooter with the mine-owner's back as a target. Demules was instantly killed, one bullet passing through his neck and the other lodging in his back. The assassin was captured.

FOREIGN.

Mine. Dreyfus has received a letter from her husband in his own handwriting. Theodore Sedgewick Fay, the diplomatist and author, died at Berlin. He was 91 years old. According to a Vienna dispatch, England has leased the Island of Sokotra, off the Gulf of Aden, to the United States for a naval coaling station. At Patras, Greece, a severe earthquake shock occurred, causing the inhabitants to become panic stricken. A second shock was experienced. No fatalities have been reported. General Wood issued a notice at Santiago imposing a fine of SI,OOO upon any person promoting a hull fight, and a fine of SIOO on a promoter or witness of a cock fight. The French cabinet has decided to authorize a loan of 160,000,000 francs for the purpose of establishing an Indo-Chin-ese railroad system iu connection with the Chinese railroads. The mad mullah, who, with 600 men, has been threatening to pass the Swat frontier, has crossed the Swat river, and fighting has taken place between his followers and the Indo-British forces. An umbrella maker of Oldenburg, who boasted that he had been chosen by lot to assassinate Emperor William on the latter’s return from Palestine, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment after having been convicted of leze majesty. At the opening of a new college at Pe-resa-Argentina, near Turin, Italy, the great hall collapsed, carrying down the assembly In the ruins. Three bishops were injured, one of whom has since died. Scores of persons were killed or seriously hurt. A dispatch to a London news agency from Shanghai says that the admiral of the Chinese squadron has hoisted the British flag over Tiug-Uai and several other islands of the Chusnn archipelago, and that ship* are cruising near the Chusan island*. The Cuban colonial cabinet formally resigned to Gen. Jiminei Castellanos, tiie new governor and captain general of "ftuba, their respective portfolios. Gen. Castellanos, however, officially reappoint-

ed them and requested them to remain la office until the Spanish flag had been lowered in Cuba. President Iglesias of Costa Rica was the recipient of two notable courtesies at Washington, being the guest of honor at a breakfast attended by prominent officials and South American diplomats, and later being taken by President McKinley for » drive about the city in the White House carriage. France has notified the State Department that a decree will issue presently prohibiting the importation of trees, shrubs and plants from the United States, and requiring an inspection of all fruits, fresh and dried, at the point of landing in France. France fears the tree pest known ns the San Jose scale. The trade affected is very small. While a religious ceremony was in progress in the vestry room of the Church of St. Germain des Pros, at Paris, where many girls from the schools were in attendance, the cinematograph lamps were suddenly extinguished and a fearful panic ensued, everybody instantly recalling the charity bazaar fire. The priests finally succeeded in allaying the panic, but not before forty girls were injured by trampling. many being seriously hurt. A dispatch from Elbing, the seaport of West Phussia, says an attempt was made upon the life of the Czar while his majesty was returning from Copenhagen. Just before the Czar’s special train crossed the bridge between Boehmenboefen and Lagern a switchman discovered that the bridge had been barricaded. By almost superhuman efforts, as a result of which he is now in a hospital, the switchman succeeded in removing the obstacles sufficiently to permit of the passage of the imperial train.

IN GENERAL.

A peanut trust is being formed to control the world’s market. The battleships Oregon and lowa have resumed their long cruise to Honolulu. R. B. F. Pierce has resigned as receiver of the Clover Leaf Railroad on account of ill health. Clarence Key of Baltimore, grandson of the author of “The Star-Spangled Banner," died in the City of Mexico in destitution. The Fourth Tennessee regiment has been ordered from Camp'Poland, Knoxville. Tenn.. to Santa Clara City, Cuba, and the Sixth (Ohio to Cienfuegos. The Great Northern Railroad Company is said to have placed with West Virginia operators contracts for 500,000 tons of coal at $1.25 a ton, delivered in Sandusky, Ohio, throughout 1809. George S. Willits of Chicago, who died at San Juan, Porto Rico, is now declared to have been killed by a native doctor, who used an improperly cleaued hypodermic needle iu injecting quinine for sunstroke. A. S. Hardy, premier of Ontario, is to be knighted by the Queen for his faithful services to Canada and Great Britain. lie is strongly in favor of closer relations with Great Britain and author of the legislation against Michigan lumbermen. The steamer Farralon, from Skaguay, brings news of disaster to the steamer Utopia which nearly sent that vessel and all on hoard to the bottom of Gastineaux channel. As the Farralon was entering the channel she found the Utopia drifting helplessly toward the reef extending from Point Ardenn on Admiralty Island. The Utopia had lost her propeller and a terrible gale was blowing, with the thermometer below zero. The Farralon succeeded in getting n hawser aboard and the Utopia was towed out of danger and taken to Juneau. Bradstreet’s views the business situation thus: “Winter storms and a holiday have interfered with wholesale demand and distribution, but later clear, cold weather is a compensating feature, inducing heavy retail business in seasonable goods. In general business circles most developments have been favorable, notable among which might he mentioned general advances in prices of cereals, provisions. groceries, cotton, steel and pig iron, the latter -chiefly at Eastern and Southern points, continued heavy general export trade, a better tone in the mnrket for hides and leather, more firmness in cotton goods and active stock speculation, all of which are reflected in the heavy bank clearing total. Unfavorable features are few. prominent among which is the continued dullness at wholesale of wool and woolen goods. The movement of wheat and other breadstuffs continues large. Wheat (including flour! shipments for the week aggregate 5.824,726 bushels, against 5,679*141 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate 45,993.840 bushels, against 3,331,724 bushels last week.”

MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago—Cattle, common to prime, $3.00 to $0.00; hogs, shipping grades. $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $2.50 to $4.50; 'wheat, No. 2 red, 06c to 67c; corn, No. 2,33 cto 34c; oats, No. 2,26 c to 27c; rye, No. 2. 51c to 53c; butter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fresh, 22c to 24c; potatoes, choice, 27c to 350 per bushel. 4 Indianapolis—Cattle, shipping, $3.00 to $5.5^); r hcfes, choice light, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25: wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 60c; corn, No. 3 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 20c. St. Louis—Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No. 2,26 cto 28c; rye, No. 2,51 cto 52c. Cincinnati—Cattle. $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep. $2.50 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2,69 cto 71c; corn, No. 2, mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c: rye, No. 2,56 cto 58c. Deffoit— Cattle, $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $3.75; sheep and lambs, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2. 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, 55c to 56c. Toledo —Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 70c to 72c; corn. No. 2 mixed, 34c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c: rye, No. 2,54 c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.60 to $4.70. Milwaukee —Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3,33 cto 35c: oats. No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1,52 cto 54c; barley, No. 2,43 cto 49c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. Buffalo —Cattle, good shipping 1 steers, $3.00 to .$5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice wethers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra. $5.00 to $5.50. New York—Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.<H) to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red. 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2,40 cJe ,41c; oats, No. 2,80 cto 31c; butter.“creamery, 16c to 25c; eggs, Western, 23c to 25c.

THE AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS AT PARIS.

Wliitelaw Reid. Secretary Moore. Judge Buy. ~ Senator Davis. Senator Gray. Senuti r l ive.

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.

(18DS ) Feb. 15—Battle ship Maine blown up in Havana harbor. April 20—President authorized by Congress to intervene in Cuba with army and navy. April 22—Bloi* wading proclamation issued. First gun of the war tired by gunboat Nashville In capturing the prize Buena Ventura. April 23—President calls for 125,000 two-year volunteers. April 25—War with Spain is declared. April 29-Cervera's fleet sails for Cuba. May I—Bear Admiral Dewey destroys entire fleet of Admiral Montejo in Manila Bay. May 11—Kuslgu iiagley killed at Cardenas. May 19—Cervera's fleet seeks refuge in Santiago de Cuba Bay. May 25 —President calls for 75,000 additional volunteers. June 3—Hobson sinks the Merrlmac in Santiago harbor and is taken prisoner with seven volunteers who accompanied him. June 10— Six hundred United States marines landed at Caimanera. June 13-Camara's fleet, sails from Spain. June 22 —Shatter's army lands at Daiquiri and Slboney. July I—Lawton1 —Lawton and Kent and rough riders take San Juan Hill, losing 231 men. with 1.364 w.ouuued. July 3—Cervera's fleet destroyed by Sampson's squadron. July 17—Tural surrenders Santiago and eastern portion of Cuba. July 25—Gen. Miles lands iu Porto lUep, near Ponce. July 26 Spain proposes peace through French Ambassador Cainborn July 31—Battle of Malate, near Manila. Aug. 12—Spain and United States sign peace protocol defining terms. Aug. 26—United States peace commission named. Nov. 28—Final terms of United States accepted by Spain at Paris.

PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY.

Cession of Porto Rico to the United States. Evacuation of Cuba. Cession of the Island of Guam in the Ladrones. Cession of the Philippine archipelago to the United States upon the payment of $20,000,000. Renunciation of all claims for indemnity. Religious liberty in the Carolines. Liberation of all political prisoners. Restoration of past treaties and commercial relations. The taking over of the Island of Kusaie, or Ualan. in the Carolines for a telegraphic and naval station. Cable station rights at other points in Spain’s jurisdiction. COST OF WAR TO MOTH NATION . Spain Loses. Cuba .$:;OO.OOO,OQ0 Philippines .450,i UO.UOO Porto Kleo .. 130,000,000 Cost of war 125.000,000 Loss of commerce 20,0'*0.(‘00 Thirty ships lost 30,''-00,000 Total $1,075,000,000 United t tates Loses. Maine 2,300,000 Cost of war 200,000,000 Indemnity to Spain 20,000,000 Total $222,500,000 Lost by the United States, about 253 men killed and about 1,324 wounded. About 2,000 men died in camp. These figures do not include the 206 sailors lost on the Maine or the men wHo have died of fever after being mustered out. Lives lost by Spain, about 2,500 killed and 3.000 wounded. No official statement of Spain’s losses has been made. WHAT WK GKT. Islands. Square miles. Population. Porto Rieo 3,500 806,708 Philippines 114.326 B,OOO.tXH) Sulu 030 75,000 Guam 120 8.561 lale of Pines 1,214 2,300 Totals ...120,110 8,892,760 This does not include Cuba, area 119,240 square miles, population 1,031,619. of which the United States has possession pending the establishment of a stable government there.

TROOPS STILL NEEDED.

Few Volunteers Can Be Released at, Present. The muster-out of regiments in the volunteer army will he resumed soon after the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Paris. The administration is unwilling for more than one reason to order the discharge of the whole volunteer army at present, the chief reason being, of course, the of a large force to garrison point* in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. It is probable, however, that within a very short time the President will grant a few of the many requests for the muster-out of volunteer organizations, trusting that Congress will soon mnke provision, by the increase of the regular army, for the maintenance of strong garrisons in our new territories. In selecting the regiments for master out, it is the intention to designate those organizations which were first sent to the front.

SOUSA MUST PAY UP.

Decision for Mrs. David Blakely for a Large Amount, John Philip Sousa, the march king, has been oi 'ered by the New York court to pay Mrs. Ada P. Blakely, widow of the late David-Blakely, his former manager, SIOO,OOO, which may end the litigations of eighteen months. Mrs. Blakely claimed this amount dtfe the estate from'Sousa for music compositions, management and a percentage of the profits of a tour ending Mag 23. 1887.

NOW IN THE WATER.

Battleship Wisconsin Floating in San Francisco Bay. The battleship Wisconsin was launched at San Francisco Saturday morning. Thousands of spectators witnessed the ceremony. Long before the hour appointed for the launching the visitors crowded the yards of the Union iron works, the adjoining housetops, and the hills. Many took places of vantage hours before the vessel slid from the ways, and they patiently stood in the cold morning air until the ship entered the brine. Even then they were loath to depart, many remaining for hours to watch the giant hull as it floated at anchor iu the bay. The launching party, which included prominent visitors from Wisconsin, was given a place upon the large platform which had been built around the prow of the vessel. Miss Elizabeth Stephenson of Wisconsin, to whom had been given the honor of christening the battleship, and little Miss Lucije Gage, daughter of Gov-ernor-elect Gage of California, who had been chosen to touch the button that started the vessel on the ways, took positions within a few feet of the ship’s prow. Irving M. Scott of the Union iron works chose workmen to knock away the supports, that held the vessel on the ways. Almost simultaneously Mayor Phelan stepped forward upon the platform above and introduced Margaret Duff of the Irving M. Scott grammar school, who, on behalf of the school, presented to the battleship a large flag made by the pupils of the school. Commodore Watson, commandant at Mare Island, accepted the colors on behalf of the Secretary of the Navy. “May its folds,” lie said, “never float above oppression, but be ever the signal of liberty and freedom. Let all join with me in the hope that it may lie given to the care of men as brave as Clark and Milligan, and the gallant crew of the Oregon. We can wish no better.” Following the unfurling of the flag Mayor Phelan read an ode to Wisconsin, written by Clara Iza Price.

Hardly had the Mayor ceased reading than little Miss Gage, at the bidding of Mr. Scott, touched the button that freed the giant ship. The massive structure responded to the touch of the button like a thing of life, and without the slightest jar started down the ways. As it trembled on the move Miss Stephenson broke the bottle of wine upon the prow and in a clear, full voice said: “I christen thee Wisconsin.”

The dimensions of the Wisconsin: Length on load water line, 368 feet; beam, extreme, 72 feet 2*4 inches; draught displacement of 11.525 tons, 23 feet 6 inches; maximum displacement, all ammunition and stores on board, 12,325 tons; maximum indicated fabrse power (estimated), 10,000: probable speed, knots; normal coal supply, 800 tons; coal supply, loose storage, 1.200 tons; full bunker capacity, 1,400 to 1.500 tons; complement of officers, 40; seamen, marines, etc., 449.

ENGULFED BY THE SEA.

Passenger Steamer Portland Is Loat with All an Hoard. The steamer Portland of the Boston and Portland Steamship Company, plying between Boston and Portland, was wrecked at 10 o'clock Sunday morning off Highland fight, and the entire crew and passengers, fifty-seven persons, perished within a short distance of land. A large quantity of wreckage, including trunks, was washed ashore, and at dark Mondaynight thirty-four bodies had been recovered from the surf by the life-saving crew at High Head station. One body was that of a woman. The vessel had a miscellaneous cargo aboard, valued at about $25,000. From reports that have come from New England points it is difficult to estimate the total loss of life and damage to shipping nlong the coast as the result of the recent storm. The list of disasters seems to grow, and from dispatches received it appears that at least fbirty schooners have been wrecked at different points from Eastport, Me., to New Haven, Conn., eighty-six schooners have been driven ashore and fourteen barges, loaded or empty, are aground. In Boston harbor alone over forty lives and thirteen vessels were lost. Twenty-four craft went r.gronnd and fifteen were sent adrift or damaged by fouling. The loss to shipping was at least $500,000. The damage to railroad and telegraph companies in Boston City will foot up another $500,000, Shipping seems to be favored most on the Massachusetts coast. Near Cape Cod —that graveyard of many a ship and sailor—twelve vessels were lost. Life-sav-ers were vigilant and only five lives were lost. At Salem nine vessels were lost and twelve damaged. Three men went to watery graves. At Gloucester thirty vessels went ashore and were sunk. At Quincy four vessels were wrecked. At Vineyard Haven, twenty-two vessels went ashore and seven were damaged. Pour lives were lost. On the Maine coast forty-seven vessels went ashore at Portland, Rocklqnd and Belfast. The loss of life is hard to determine. It is known that nearly fifty persons perished in and about Boston harbor. Reporta from other places in some cases state that the crew of this or that vessel escaped.

A German author, G. ‘ Solomon, has written a treatise in which he recommends that children should not be sent to school till their seventh year; that in the first year three hours a day should be the maximum of brain work, and that the bodily health should be looked after with special care from the ninth to the twelfth year. ■ • ; An incendiary is supposed to have set fire to the stables of the J. D. Bouse milk dairy, near Dug Hill, Mo* at which nineteen vslwible cows perished and tnost »{ the buildings were desire*adL. <\ ~ ' . :•