Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 December 1898 — Page 2

Sht £ifef Counts gcnwrat M, M«c. ITOOPS, editor ud Proprietor. ,H<WTR4i. : : INDIANA. The United States naval recruiting office at Chicago received orders from SFaahington, on the 25th. to enlist 60 apprentice boys, 20 landsmen and 15 seamen at once. Mabel Davidson, the skater, well known throughout Canada and the United States, died in St. Paul, Minn., on the 24th, of consumption, aged 25. The body will be cremated. The Italian government has sent an altimatum to the sultanof Morocco on the subject of the detention and ill* treatment of Italian proteges. A week was given in which to reply. ■ J. M. Baldwin Stuart, professor oi psychology, at Princeton, N. J., hai received from Paris official notifies tion of his election to membership it the French Institute of Sociology. Marshal Blanco, whose resignation as captain general of Cuba bad beer accepted, sailed for Spain on the 27th Jle will be succeeded by Gen. Jitnin^i Castellanos, a division commander.

A special from Montevideo, Ura '• guay, says: The United States battle* ships Oregon and Iowa and the colliei Celtic hove arrived here to re-coal and take on board supplies of provisions. 4, The court of inquiry appointed by the secretary of the navy to ascertain why the Spanish cruiser Maria Teresa was abandoned, and to fix the respon* sibility, began its labors at Norfolk, Va., on the 22d. In the decree accepting the. resignation of Marshal Blanco as captain-gen-eral of Cuba, the queen regent eulogized the zeal, intelligence and loyalty with which the governor gen era! had fulfilled his functions. Thanksgiving day was generally observed by the Americans in Manila. I*. 1. The British residents also celebrated the day as as holiday. The feature of the festivities was a dinner tendered by O. B. Williams, United States consul there, to officers of the American army and navy. A Thanksgiving dinner, attended by 100 Americans, was given at the Kaiseroff in Berlin on the -4th. John B. Jackson, secretary of the American embassy presided at the banquet, and proposed toasts to President Mc- • Kinley and Emperor William, both of which were received with cheers. Dr. Don Victor Eguiguren. the Peruvian minister, w ho came to Washington in July. 1SS>7. for the express purpose of effecting an adjustment of the celebrated McCord claim, took his leave of President McKinley on the 22d. His retirements leaves Peru without representation in Washington. Every soldier in the Seventh corps •t Savannah, (la., was made to fprl the joys of Thanksgiving. All drills were abandoned for the day. and at two o’clock each man received a ration of turkey, fruit and cake. Over 1.000 turkeys,and several wagon loads of cake and fruit were sent out to the camp. A person, high in office at Madrid, who arrived in Paris, on the 24th, asserted that, in spHe of the recent bluff, there is no risk of the peace negotiations being broken off bv Spain, lie declared in the most positive manner that S|iaiu had resolved to accept the United States’ condition, though under solemn protest. President Yglesias of Costa Kica. accompanied by members of his staff, and Col. Carter, U. S. A., visited the treasury department, on the 25th, and after being presented to the chief officials, was escorted through the money vaults and shown the mode in which the government handles its vast stores of coin and currency. Mr. Simon Guggenheim, who was married in New York, on the 24th. to Miss Olga Hirsh, commemorated the ♦vent by giving a Thanksgiving dinner to 4,000 children in Denver. Col., -where he tesides. The tickets were distributed by Parson “Tom” Uzzeli of the People’s tabernacle, to whom Mr. Guggenheim entrusted the management )f the feast. -

While the nominal indemnity offered by the United States for the Philippines is but $20,000,000, the actmi indemnity is much larger, for it is proposed that each government shall act tie the claims of its own citisens against the other. This amounts to teleasing Spain from claims for large •mounts of damages suffered by American citizens in Cuba. The president has caused the appointment of i board consisting of Biaj. George H. Hopkins, assistant ad-jotant-geuet^l l*. S. V., military •ide to the secretary of war, and Capt. Francis Dickens, attached to the navigation bureau of the navy department, to devise some acceptable plan for the distribution of ordnance cap tnred from Spain between the war and navy departments. > —•—- A delegation of White0 Hirer Utee had a hearing before the secretary of the interior, on the 22d. at which they made a vigorous protest against the •ending of any more government commissions to treat with them for the. allotment of their lands, the cession of any portion of their territory In trust to the United States or kindred Linatters, and asserted very positively hat what they wanted to do with ■heir valuable lands was to leaae them ■or revenue-producing purposes and to.cede or otherwise dispose ol \ \

CURRENT TOPICS. the rows nr bbief. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The French line steamer La Nor* tnandie, which arrived at New York, on the 21st, from Havre, was detained at quarantine owing to smallpox | among her steerage passengers. Several of the Turkish ministers have submitted to the sultan memori- ! sis pointing out \he disturbed state of the empire and the reforms they consider necessary. The sultan is irritated at this attitude upon the part of his ministers. Ex-Tax Collector J. C. Keogh was arrested at Holyoke, Mass., on the 21st, on three warrants, charging embezzlement to the amount of $115,000. One warrant charges an embezzlement of $50,000 in 1897. one a similar amount in 1896, and the third is for i $15,000 in 1895.

The long-talked-of American sardine trust to control the output of the manufacturers and packers of this country, is finally assuming shape, although it will be controlled by British capitalists. It will be capitalized at $3,000,000, with shares of $100 each. Fire, on the 21st, in the wholesale district of Lewisville, Ky.. gutted the milliuery store of David B&ird & Son, at 515 West Main street. A new stock valued at between $50,000 and $60,000 was destroyed, while the building suffered $10,000 damage. Adjoining houses suffered from fire and water to the extent of $5,000. Big Four Brukeman Frank W. Fortney, of Beliefontaine. O., was thrown front his train at Bright wood. Ind„ on the 22d, and almost killed.. The accident wss caused by the train’s speed being checked suddenly, by an unknown man throwing himself in front of the engine. Wash King, a jockey who has ridden on eastern and western tracks for < the past 13 years, died at his home in | Atchison, Has..on the 22d, from the ef- | fects of a fall received while riding at Denver Col., two years ago. Dr. Charles Massey Hammett, formerly health officer and coroner of the District of Columbia, and a wellknown practitioner, died in Washington. on the 22d. of Bright's disease, aged 63 years. All of the government departments in Washington were closed on Thanksgiving day, and at least a majority of them gave a half holiday, on the 23d, to all employes in anticipation of Thanksgiving. The American schooner W. II. Swan was seized by the collector of customs for the; port of New Orleans, on the 2-\f, for carrying contraband goods. Jxmdon papers comment u|>on and express satisfaction at the “open door” I Intentions ot the United States in the Philippine islands. The next meeting of the national Grange will be held in Ohio, the city to be selected later. The crown sheet of the boiler of n locomotive on a west-bound freight train on the Denver & Kio Grande j railroad blew out at Swallows. Col., on J the 24th. One man was killed and | two were injured. Eighteen loaded freight car* were burned, and the loss was heavy. The armored cruiser Kaiser, flagship of the German squadron commanded by Princ£ Henry of Prussia, which was recently ashore in Kamsah j bay, arrived at Hong Kong, qu the 24th, with three holes in her bottom. She will 1h* docked for repairs. Andrew Carnegie, on a recent visit to the White House, addressed the president so violently as against the policy of expansion and the acquisition of the Philippines that it is doubtful if he will lie invited to call again in a hurry. Secretary of the Navy Ltmg will recommend. in his report oh the naval operations of the war, ltear-Admiral Dewey lie made Admiral Dewey, and Bear-Admiral Schley lie made vice-ad-miral. This would leave Bear-Admiral Sampson the ranking rear admiral. As the outcome of a quarrel between M. tie Freyeinet. the French minister of war. aiul Gen.« Zurlinden. the military governor of Paris, arising out of the Dreyfus affair, Gen. Zurlinden will be called yipon to resign. Santiago celebrated its first Thanksgivings since the American occupa

tion. AM the ships in the harbor were j decorated with bunting, and the ofli- i 'Cera entertained friends at dinner. The day was practically unobserved by the Cubans, except those employed in tM government offices. An American note was received by the Spanish commissioners at Havana, on the 24th. declaring that the Americans knew that the cases containing papers belonging to the civil records j were already prepared for shipment j to Spain, and demanding that they be left. The Spanish commissioners in reply promised that the records would , be left intact. Fire, on the morning of the 24th, d^ stroved the Baldwin hotel and theater In San Francisco, entailing a loss of $2,500,000. Five lives are known to have been lost and several persons 1 were injured. The entire mechanical outfit, scenery and wardrobe of the “Secret Service” was destroyed in the j theater. The Havana newspapers of the 24th ; announced the resignation of Cipt. j Gen. Blanco, • as published in the Madrid Gazette, and insisted upon the truth of the reports in circulation that Gen. Blanco would leave Havana in a few Jays, probably sailing oa the steamer VillaTerde. | « While a party of 12 peof% were returning from a ball at Otis, Ind., oa two band car* they were struck by the Lake Shore fast mall east of Chesterton. Wm. Zabenski and Wm. Kemp* ler were killed outrtgbtandZabenaki’s two daughters, aged 43 and" 15 respectively, were probably fatally *»« |turcd.

Two persons were fatally injured and a score more or less seriously hurt by a wreck on the Burlington, six miles north of Burlington, la., on the morning of the 24th. The grand jury at Fergus Falls, Minn., on the 23th, returned indictments against the six men arrested at Moorhead for holding up the Great Northern train at Carlisle two weeks ago. They ere also indicted for burglarizing Warfield’s bank at Battle Lake three weeks ago. The French cabinet has decided to authorize a loan of 870,000,000 francs for the purpose of establishing an Indo-Chinese railroad system in connection with the Chinese railroads. The statement of the condition of the treasury, issued on the 25th, showed: Available cash balance, $296,589,2SS; gold reserve, $241,191,741. A special from London says: The Russian garrisons in China are to be largely increased next spring, according to a dispatch from Odessa bared upon authoritative military infotrualion.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. ' The ministers of thy four powers Interested in the proceeding. Great Bhitain. France,Russia and Italy, went, on the 26th, in royal carriages, to the palace.&nd formally announced to King George of Greece the appointment of his son, Prince George, to be high commissioner of the powers in Crete. The prince, later, received the congratulations of the ministers. One of the most terrific blizzards ever experienced there swept west of New England, on the 26th and 27th, doing great damage to sea walls and other exposed property. Snow fell to the depth of three feet in some places, and railway traffic was much interft ml with. Although vessels in harbor were warned in time many were lost with much loss of life. The energetic action of Oscar S. Strauss, United States minister to Constantinople, has obtained a concession which the united powers had been for IS months vainly endeavoring to secure, namely, the granting of traveling permits to foreigners in the interior of Asia Minor. The Pittsfield express, for New York, on the Danbury & Norwalk division of ihe New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad was wrecked, on the 26th, by the breaking of an axle. No lives were lest, but several persons were seriously and perhaps fatully injured. The steamer Fearless, Cnpt. James McKenna, the last of the Arctic fleet to arrive atSon Francisco this winter, reached port, oh the 27th, with nothing to show for her four years* voyage. She is one of the vessels that were cough t intheieeat Point Harrow. A convention of tobacco growers from all over Kentucky was held in Lexington, Ky„ on the 26th. Numerous circulars had been sent out. and many delegates were present. The object of the meeting is to fight the plug tobae«M> trust. A dispatch from Simla says: “The Mad Mullah who. with 600 men, has been threatening to pass thy Swat frontier, has crossed the Swat river, and fighting has occurred between his followers and the Indo-British forces.” Harley Bates and Fred Hallway, of Portland, Me., engineer and fireman of a Boston & Maine locomotive driving a snow plow, were killed, on the 27th, by the engine plunging over an embankment._ CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Allen Burke, aged 70 years, dropped dead at Sedalia, Mo., Friday, of genera! debility. Leonard Mnnsell, of near Danvers, 111., was accidentally killed by his bride's brother. An old woman, a married man and a youth, who were tired of life, committed suicide in St, Louis Friday. The North Georgia Methodist conference expelled Rev. Joel Gibson, of Atlanta, on charges of immorality. -Cashier Howard, of Houston, Tex., will be extradited from Germany and tried for embezzlement. Eldridge K. Stone, a native of Grafton. Mass., and a resident of Quincy, 111., 'since 18T9, diet! Friday, aged 80 years.

Rev. William K. Marshall, of Wellington. W. Va.. has been chosen as rector of Trinity Episcopal church at Owensboro. Ky. Charles Hornecker. the 15-year-old ron of Policeman Hornecker. died at St. Louis while undergoing an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Anna Farley, wife of Wesley Farley, of Pryantsville, Ky., died Friday morning from the effects of burns received the day before. f Mrs. Harrison Johnston, wife of Harrison Johnston, president of the Totnbigbee mills, diet! at her home in Columbus, Miss.. Friday, at the ad- \ a need age of 75 years. The Kentucky court of appeals affirmed the life sentence of James Tolliver. of Harlan county, for the murder of Jack Gross. Tolliver was a party to the Craig-TollivVr feud. The medical examinations of Battery A, St. Louis, have been completed. So far as the reports show the health of the men is excellent, and there will be no claims for pensions. Mr. Henry White, United States charge d'affaires, and Mrs. White, dined Friday evening with Queen Vietori a, and remained at Windsor castle over night. William Paine, of Peakesville, Mo„ was married to Mrs. Mary Tringer at the latter’s home in Golden* City, Mo. The groom is 88 years old, and the bride is 85. At Palestine, Tex., ex-Policeman Goa Moore fatally shot Jesus Salaxar, a tamale vender, who was once a captain in the Mexican army guarding the castie of Chepultepec.

AIL OVER THE STATE. Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. Sh«t HU Brother. Jeffersonville. Ind.. Nov. 26—Roy Noble, a 15-j ear-old boy. accidentally shot and killed his brother. Floyd. 13 years old. at theirshome near Sellersburg. The boys had just returned from hunting. and were talking about their merits as marksmen. Floyd asked his brother what he would do if a burglar got into tV house. Roy picked up the gun and pointed it at his brother. A loud report followed, and the lad sank to the floor fatally wounded. Re died soon after Roy did not know that the gun was loaded. Gotag to the Grand Jnry. Clinton. Ind.. Nov. 26.—The complaint of the state against Superintendent Leaveuworth. of the Clinton schools, charging him with assault and battery upon Herbert, son of Mayor C. M. White, has been withdrawn from the justice court and will be taken up for grand jury indictment and trial in the circuit court, which will convene early next month. There is much bitter feeling. and it is said nn effort will be made to secure Professor Leavenworth's dismissal from the school.

Remarkable Street Oael. Seymour. lnd.. Nov. 26.—Mayor Mills end Joseph L. Baird, the colored democratic orator, who was recently taken from the city jail by masked men and whipped, met and undertook to adjust some difficulties growing out. of that occurrence. Both grew revolvers and began shooting. Fifteen shots were exchanged, but none took effect. Baird had said that Mills was iu the party that whipped him. Further trouble is ft ared. Hurt In it Wreck. Marion, lnd.. Nov. 26.—The westbound passenger train on the BanHandle. due at Mariou at 9 o'clock, crashed into a street car at tins City. Tlie injured are: William Badger, motormaiu may die; James Cox. Jonesboro, may die; Dan Coleman: William Thompson. Miss Minnie Hathaway. Mike Keef. J. W. Hammond. Hartford City; Miss Elizabeth Mulphunt. Jonesboro. Moral Reform. Hartford City. lnd.. Nov. 26.—Hartford City is no longer run on the wideopen policy. Mayor A. F. Kinsley has | instructed all gamekeepers to close i their places and the saloon men to obI serve the hours for closing and the Sunday law. This is the first time in the history of the city. The disorderly house proprietors have been notified to leave the city. The State I ulver»lty. Indianajiolis. lnd.. Nov. 26.—Gov. Mount has received the report of President Jenkinson. of the board o£_irus- : tees of the state university. During , the last year there were 1.049 students attending, of whom 124 were graduated. Every county in the state was repre- , sented among the 994 students who were Indiauians. ^ Claims Self-Defense. Greensbuig. lnd.. Nov. 26.— Robert A. McCoy, a wealthy farmer residing three miles west of this city, shot and ! killed George Newman, an engineer, in this city. They had beeu ipiarreling j for some time over different things and McCoy claims Newman had threatened to kill him on sight. Temporary Judge. Brownstowu. lnd.. Nov. 20.—The auditor. elerk aud sheriff of this county have elected Daniel A. Kochenour as judge of the circuit court of this ct j cuit. who opened court Here and will 1 preside until Gov. Mount relieves him by the appointment of the late Judge Yoyles' successor. Cooperative Glass Factory. Hartford City. lnd.. Nov. 26.—A number of glass workers of this city have j banded together for the purpose of ' erecting a cooj»erativc window-glass j factory ir. this city. The concern is to I have a 20-blower tank, and the company ; is 1o be capitalized with a stock of $30,000.

l*a»He«l Aw»y. Portland. Ind . Nov. 26.—Dr. D. T. j Skinner, p well-knowu physician nod postmaster at Salnmonia. prominent in masonic and grand army circles, died at his home in Salnraonia. aged 60 years. He was a member of company C. Thirtyninth infantry, during the civil war. Post Office Robbed. Oakland City. Ind.. Nov. 26.—The post office in this city was entered by burglars and the safe was blown open and the contents taken. The cracksmen secured about $300 in stamps and cash of which $75 was Postmaster Burbank's private funds. Cbrtattaa Kadeavorers. Vincennes. Ind.. Nor. 26.—The state ! convention of the Indiana Christian En- ! deavor society concerned here with more * than 1.000 delegates in attendance, and the convention will be one of ihe best in the history of the organization. Holler Ssatlas Kink. Richmond Ind.. Nor. 26.—31. C. Henley. widely known as a manufacturer of roller skates, with other Richmond capitalists, has opened a skating rink | here, believing the craze has sufficiently returned to justify it. Robbed by Footpads. I Shelbyville. Ind.. Nor. 26.—Albert Lyons was fatally injured by footpads : aud robbed of $60. money he had sared to bay his wedding suit. Married Slaty tears Hilton. Inch. Nor. 26.—Unrille Ferguson and wife, of this place, celebrated the sixtieth annireraairy of their mar

i nn in. The Most Severe November Blizzard Within the Oldest Inhabitant’s Memory. IT SWEPT THE NEW EN6UND COASTS. Warning was Gina In Time to Save Much Shipping; Nevertheless There Have Been Numerous Wrecks Accompanied by Loss of Life—Railroad Traffic Impeded and Electrical Service Crippled. Boston, Nor 28.—A record-breaking November blizzard swept - over the greater portion of New England Saturday night and yesterday, completely demoralized traffic of every description, and well nigh paralyzed telegraphic and telephonic communication, while the northeast gale, coming on a high course of tides, drove the sea far beyond its usual limits, and made a mark along shore exceeded only by the memorable hurricane of 1851.

\\ line the storm was heaviest in the southeastern part of New England, the whole district was affected, and experienced a snow fall of from S to 24 inches, and as the center of the disturbance moved down the Maine coast that section and the provinces probably received a similar taste of winter *! weather last night. Heralded In Time to Save Shipping. Fortunately the storm was heralded sufficiently m advance by the weather bureau to detain most of the coastwise shipping in safe harbors, but the warning was entirely unheeded an t ignored by those on shore, with the j result that nearly everyone, especially i the railroads and electric companies, were caught napping and suffered accordingly. There was not a railroad in New England that- was not more or less tied up by the heavy fall of snow, and the great drifts, and the roads running along the coast, like the New York, New Haven & Hartford and the Boston & Maine, had the added difficulty of frequent washouts j in places exposed to the heavy seas. Railroad,Traffic Nearly Suspended. Trains north, east, south aud west were nearly all stalled early in the night, although one train from Bangor reached Lynn yesterday noon, and two Chicago trains came into the eity last evening. In the cities and towns dependent upon electric cars, service was even worse, for the damp snow packed hard on the rails aud held up even the j heavy snow plows. The service in this i city was probably the best of any of j the surrounding communities, yet even here, there was no attempt made to 'Yun more than a dozen cars on Washington street and one or two others of the main thoroughfares. Mod Fearful lllUaard Since February Last. The storm, while not so severe and far-reaching in its effects as the fear- ; ful blizzard of last February, was | nevertheless the heaviest experienced i in November in this part of the country for a long series of years. Coming on Sunday it did not cause the annoyance or inconvenience it would have done on a week day. and most of the transportaticn companies made a heroic effort to at least partially recover from the effects of the blockade. Grave Fears for the Safety of Shipping Exposed. Only the barest reports were received up to six o’clock la3t night of the effects of the storm on the coast, but even those few lines gave rise to the gravest tears as to the safety of what little shipping may have been off Cape Cod Saturday night or | yesterday. It will probably be two or | three days before a complete list of the disasters can be made. Terrible Experience of Railway Trains. Farther to the west, at Providence •r.d in other parts of Rhode Island, communication was intermittent and subject to great delay. Night trains

over the shore line to hew' lork reached Providence with only a few minutes delay, but beyond that point they met terrific drifts, and it was morning' before either of the two regular trains reached New London. Here they were stalled nearly all day by freight wrecks on the road between that point and New Haven. The trains from New York met a similar experience west of Say brook At noon yesterday the regular New York express from Chicago left 1 Springfield for this city, followed, a short time later, by the morning express from the west, and. barring a | slight delay from a wreck at East 15 rook field, came through to this city all right. Thirty Burge* and Schooner* Sank—At j Least Twelve Live* LoeL Boston, Nov. 28.—During the gale Saturday night and yesterday morning 30 barges and schooners lying in » the harbor were wrecked and sunk ■ and at least 12 lives lost. The Wilson liner Ohio is ashore on Spectacle island in the bay. No serf- ; >us damage is reported. IJapreeedeatmt In the November RirorcK. j Philadelphia, Nov. 2S.—The blizzard j | which came out of the west reached 1 this city at 11 o'clock Saturday morning and raged furiously until one o'clock yesterday morning. As unexpected as it was violent, it extended i throughout the entire state. In those 14 hours the snowfall reached a depth of over dine inches, and the wind a velocity of 45 miles an hour. These figures are unprecedented in the November records of the local weather bureau, and the officials there say that the storm in general was,the worst , since the memorable blizzaro of 1888.

MADE A STUDY OF FOODS. Why the Porto Rican to Interior to the American—IVhot Should be Done to Restore Hto Physical Manhood. San Juan de Porto Rico, Nor. 28.— Doctor A madeo, a Porto Rican, who has* passed much of his life in the United. States, recently made a study of the* foods of the poorer classes of his coun— j try men, and has embodied some of the* j results of his labors in an open letter* | to Maj.-Gen. Brooke. His statements^ I have the ring of fact and they are interesting in that they give an idea of* j what the island laborer is and of* j what can fairly be expected of hintas a citizen of the United States. Tib the course of his letter, Dr. A made®* says: ,. . 5 Physical Inferiority of tho Poor of Porto & Rico. “Five years ago, upon my return. I from the United States, I began to* make certain comparisons between the poor of Porto Rico and the poorer classes among the Americans. I notecP physical inferiority among the Porto* Ricans. The blame for this should be* laid at Spain’s doors, for She, by reason of excessive duties on the necessaries of life, always prevented the* poor man here from obtaining proper nourishment.

Auarlwwrat Essential to Good Uealth. “The science cf nourishment shows that a man, in order to maintain hishealth, should consume daily about 124 grammes of nitrogenized matter,.. 440 grammes of matter containing starch and 55 grammes containing grease; Hence the indispensability of ! meat. But the laborer of Porto Rice • lives on carbonates of hydrogen aloneMeat is a luxury he very rarely tastes. “This largely explains the condition of the laboring classes in Porto Rico— the muscular system wasting away from the defective nourishment and the brain inactive and dull because deprived af phosphates. Moreover, ex* elusive nourishment of this kind engenders severe organic, troubles in the end. A dangerous and common disease of the liver is the direct result among our people of a diet of tuberfc and bananas. Intelligence >*?>(! Activity Cannot be Maintained on Improper Diet. | “We can not expect from men on* such diet that degree of intelligence and activity which would be found in men properly nurtured. I am a country physician, and when my patients come to me tor relief from their many infirmities I am obliged to say tc them: ‘You do not need drugs ancf medicines, but you do need meat and fish and nourishing foods.’ These are very important facts to us, and we sincerely hope, as a source of possible relief, that Gen. Brooke will do all ictus power to secure the admission intc this island, free from all customs duties, fish and meats from the United States and of rice and flour. What li Expected or the United State*. “To the man who works for50 cents. | silver, a day, we should try to give a ! market in which his 50 eeuts will buy him proper nourishment. I believe the regeneration of this island should begin by restoring the health of its people. Surely it would be a pity if the inhabitants of a part of the rich American Union should be without proper nourishment. Sueh a state of affairs was comprehensible under the Spanish regime, but it would be hard indeed to understand under the control of a government whose first principle is to care for its people, as in ; Porto Rico cr.re for the people resolves itself now- into their proper nourish* ment. , Cannot Live Like the lUaoku of Africa. A majority of tha ‘ a Rican's are* of European extnjp^, .. They can not support life in roofless hutV and ic the open woods as can the/black raers of Africa. We should make it possible for them to. obtain shelter and homes at least as good as those of their forefathers. This could be done by permitting the entrance, free from all restrictions and duties, of the component parts of simple houses, such as boards, joists, iron^ roofing and nails. A Prim* Necessity for the Good of the People.

“I consider these recommendations, which I venture to submit, to be of prime necessity for the good of the people. Humanity demands their adoption. The poorer classes in Porto Rico can not be expected to appreciate their obligations to the United States,, much less to fulfill intelligently the duties of American citizens, becausefheir enfeebled mental and physical condition, the direct result of malnutrition, makes this impossible to them. We shall proceed with the work of social reconstruction of this island,, but in order to have healthy minds to work upon we must first secure healthy bodies. But we can not look for healthy bodies in a country where excessive tariffs would continue toprevent the poorer classes from eating meat and bread and compel them to resort for sustenance to roots and, bananas.** Eaterhaay Coming,to the tinted State*. Antwerp, Nor. 28.—The Droits deL’Homme asserts that Maj. Comte Ferdinand WalsinEsterhazy has sailed for the United States. Sadden Dhmppearmitee of the VVoaid-be-Knneae Cattle King. Fort Worth, Tex., Not. 2S.—Grant C. Gillette, the would-be Kansas cattle king, who recently failed for a million and suddenly disappeared, was well known in Texas. During the present year he bought from Texas cattlemen, nearly 50,000 head of cattle, paying for them $2,800,000. Gillette, after leaving Kansas, came to Texas, and November 22 registered at the Worth, hotel in this city. He was seen By lou commission men. He left during' the same day, and it is thought he has gone to old Mexico.