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PililSiPP 0$§S JSP*. jpiS wr V§#' fkj' •~"4f:: furner County Herald W. O. BROWN, Publisher. iJURLEY. SOUTH DAKOTA. Jim Corbett's experience on the dia mond proves that he can't hit any thing. The TeaBon that Qneen Victoria never quarrels with her servants is that Bhe stays out of the kitchen and never pokes around to see how late their company stays at night. In the Whitechapel (London) county court three witnesses in succession in one case could neither read nor write. Three witnesses in the case were named respectively Speller, Reader and Wright* A plausible young man accosted a Georgia farmer recently, and in a very little while induced him to pay $50 for a machine which he assured him would turn out brand new (20 bills by simply turning a crank. It has been decided by the presby tery of New York that after a minister of the gospel has said all that his holy office requires him to say about Sun day newspapers and the bicycle habit and the evils of vaudeville and other natters vital to the salvation of the? human soul he should not be required to officiate at funerals on the Sabbath day. There was a realism in the college commencement of earlier days un known to these times. Thus on July 1, 1797, a newspaper had this para graph: "The elephant Is advertised as being at Providence on his way to Bos ton. He is to be at Cambridge the ap proaching commencement." Even the glory of the escorting Boston Lancers might be eclipsed were boyish eyes now permitted to feast on an elephant within trumpeting distance of the com mencement procession. J. All the navel orange orchards in Cal ifornia are descended, as an account in a contemporary informs us, from two trees imported from Brazil by the Unit ed States government and sent to the Pacific coast thirty years ago. It is suggested that these trees be removed to some public park, and preserved as a monument to a profitable branch of an industry which has so enriched that state. The value of the yield thus secured to California, could it be com puted, would be a sum so great as to make these trees seem like fairies, the touch of whose wand has made gold cover the ground. It has been prophesied that at no very distant day it will be possible to dissipate the thick fog by a charge of electricity and that the atmosphere of smoky cities will, by the same means, ft*'kept clear and bright. On a small «cale, & modification of the principle has already been applied by Pro. Oli ver Lodge, who precipitated both .smoke and dtist on tho walls lr°!de a chimney or flue by static electricity, and now a patent has been taken out in Germany for an apparatus for smoke prevention by means of wires stretched inside a flue or chimney, and rendered incandescent by an electric current. There is no doubt that this extremely simple electrical method will completely consume the blackest smoke possible, but it Is at the present time too costly to be commercially profitable. The announcement is made by Mr. Bellamy Storer, United States minister to Belgium, that the United States am bassadors to Great Britain and Ger many will, in common with him, take YigorouB steps to secure a modification of the laws against American sheep, cattle and meat products, which now involve so large a loss to American agricultural interests annually. The action taken will be simultaneous, and is the outgrowth of the determination of the administration at Washington to protect American agricultural in terests by doing its utmost to have the discriminating laws of European coun tries against American products changed. As a matter of fact, the at tention of all United States represen tatives has been called to the need of urgent and vigorous action in the premises. It is explained by the min ister to Belgium that Great Britain and Germany control that country, and that all three are influenced to discriminate against American meats by the agra rian element in their parliaments on the pretense that American sheep, cat tle and meats are not sufficiently pro tected against disease, and the claim that they must have their own inspec tion, which in practice acts as a pro hibition of imports from this country. The contention is made on the part the American representatives that our system inspection is the most scientifically complete in the world, and that, as a matter of fact, the ground of difficulty is rather economic than sanitary. The result of this action on the part of the American representa tives will be awaited with interest. The New York reporter who got the clew which enabled him to unravel the mystery of Gotham's latest murder case, and did it by a visit to'a Turk ish bath establishment, may certain).jr be said to have scored clean scoop on his news competitors. The Lewiston (Me.) Journal say* that a hotel owner a: Phantom Lake, Wis., has had several bathing schoon ers built which are so large that ladles can bathe in them unseen." These "schooners" probably are Imported from Milwaukee. 1 ..MtMri&Mk>u PITH OF THE NEWS EVESTo OP THE PAST WEEK 15 A CONDENSED FORM. A General Remit of the Moat Im portant News of the Weelc From All Parts of the Globe, Boiled Down and Arranged In Con Ten lent Form for Rapid Perusal By Bmy People. Washington Talk. The president has remitted the fine In the case of Addle B. Holland, sen tenced in Michigan, in November, '5)5, to two years' imprisonment and $250 fine for embezzling postofflee funds. Personal Mention. It is expected that President McKin ley and Senator Hanna will visit Sen ator Frye of Maine, and enjoy the fishing in the Kangley lake region this summer. Lillian Russell denies that she is sfcteklttg-- a^ NH-th Dakota divorce in order to accumulate a fresb husbaiid. She snys she doesn't want to support another. Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, United States minister to Spain, has sailed for the scene of his future duties. His wife and daughter accompanied him, the secretaries of legations and some relatives. Mme. Lillian Nordica. the prima donna, who has been seriously ill in London l'or several weeks, is conval escent. She asks the press to express her gratitude to the large number who have from time to time made inquiries regarding her condition. Dr. John Wilson Gibbs of New York city announced his marriage, at Meridan, Conn., to Mrs. Mary E. Sea ton. The bride is a niece of Collis P. Huntington. Her first husband ac quired a fortune in California. Mrs. Clara Fisher Maeder, the once famous actress, now eighty-six years old, has published her memoirs. She went on the stage when six years old anid followed the profession, continu ously for seventy-two "years. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, wife of the negro educator, not only teaches in the institute at Tuskegee, but helps many of the poorer class to put Ji to dally practice the principles taught there. Casualties. Mrs. J. D. Mallory, wife of the oys ter and fruit packer of Baltimore, was thrown fro 11 her carriage and sus tained injuries from which she will al most certainly die. Ten of the largest stores of Wiarton, Ont., were burned. The fire was in the heart of the business portion of the town, before it was controlled with gr^at difliculty. The loss will be very heavy. Mrs. Annie Turke, living a few miles north of Webster City, Iowa, wandered away from home and for thirty-six hours she was lying under a wagon bridge over-a smnll creek. She is eighty years old, and when she fell from the bridge her leg was broken. She will die. Criminal. As a result of bad feeling over whis ky cases Jim Napier, a youth, shot and fatally wounded R. H. Kirman on a farm eight ir!!es north of Albia, Iowa. A big British flag which hung across Cleveland street, Brooklyn, was found to have been torn and cut iu pieces, besides being bespattered with mud. Sex distinction was wiped ont in tl:c court of Police Magistrate Thunicus.at Danville Illi". The- justice sentenced' Maggie Sellers, a disorderly woman, to the rock pile for thirty days. Maggie took the se itence philosophically. The New York police decided that Annie Sullivan and Patrick Sulivan, cousins, who were found dead in a room in Martin Ritz^s boarding house at Westchester, committed suicide be cause, according to the laws of the Ro man Catholic church, they could not marry. Emil Minson lost jewelry and money out of his trunk at his boarding house at West Superior, and to ascertain its whtreabouts consulted a clairvoyant. She told him that a woman with blond hair had the goods, and the descrip tion tallied with Mrs. Bertha Nelson, the landlady. Minson talked about it and the landlady has sued him for ,000 damages for slander. Foreism Votes. A special dispatch from Athens says that the sultan has instructed Tewlik Pasha to sign the Peace preliminaries. The islhtt'ds of Antigua, St. Kitts and Guadeloupe, of the Leeward group, experienced a severe shock of earthquake. Maurice Grau, the manager of the grand opera season at the Co vent Garden, London, has been engaged f-r a further term of four years. Dispatches from all over the Prov ince of Ontario tell of great damage and in some cases ruin wrought to crops by the phenomenal rainfall. Signor Nicolini, the husband of Ad elina Patti, continues seriously ill. Ho is at Craig-y-Nos-, suffering from can cer of the liver. Henry Roehefort, duelist, journalist agd politician, has been condemned to various terms of imprisonment twen ty-four times, twice to life sentences. John Redmond, the Parnellite lead er, accompanied by Louis Stuyvesant Chanler star orator, is stumping Ireland in the cause of the RSdmond league. President Fanre is said to be the greatest dandy in France. He is anx ious to institute a special presidential costume, but his colleagues do not look upon the secbcme with favor. It is said viat Queen "Victoria in tends to confer an honorary grand cross of the Order of the Bath on M. Haqotaux, the French minister for foreign affairs. George J. Goschen, first lord of the admiralty, announced a supplementary naval estimate of $2,500,000 necessl tated by rapid additions to foreign navies. It is proposed to commence the construction of four additional very fast armored cruisers of 11,850 tons each, and several torpedo boats. Three young women in Germany Mi- -J have been recently commended for their thorough work in pharmacy, and Fraulien Eva Bosse, a daughter of the German minister of public wor ship, has been pronounced by Dr. Fraulich, president of the imperial German Pharmaceutical society to be one of tiie most excellent and gifted scholars: he has ever met. Consul General Lee has informed the state department that in the event of the release of the American Ivouis Somelinn, now confined in jail in Ha vana, there will remain now confined,, in addition to the five Competitor pris oners, only the following: Manuel Fer nandez, confined in Fort Cabanas Rafael Fernandez Diaz, at San Gua La Grande Julio Thomas Sainz and Frank A. Gramont, Santiago. General. The dominion cabinet decided not to attempt to enforce the alien law in the Klondyke region. August McKinnon of Metropolitan, Mich., has filed suit against the North western Railroad company for $20,000 damages for personal injuries. A prominent distiller of Kansas City named McCormick is in correspond ence with local capitalists at Ottumwa, Iowa, endeavoring to put in a distillery at that place. The battleship Indiana will be sent to Halifax to be docked and cleaned. This is necessary on account of the bad condition of the dry docks at Port Royal, S. C. The sparring match between Kid McCoy and Tommy Ryan will take place at the Empire Athletic club in Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 8 for a purse of $5,000. The Algonquin Woolen Mills Com pany of Passaic, N. J., has given notice that on Aug. 1 wages in their large mills will be Increased from 10 to 15 per cent. Two thousand three hundred gar ment workers went on a strike at New York. One hundred and twenty-five shops in that city and Brooklyn are affected. The Avery Plow factory of Louis ville, Ky., has resumed operations af ter a three years' shut-down, giving employment to 1,000 men. One thou sand additional men will be given em ployment gradually in therfuture. The board of railroad commissioners has granted authority to the Boston Elevated Railroad company to issue $10,000,000 of stock. The motive pow er of the road is to be electricity. .Teff Powers and Jack Perew sparred for points at Lavack's gymnasium at Cleveland, Ohio. Powers won in seven rounds. The match was to have been between Lavack and Powers, but the former was unable to spar because of a sore hand. The reply of the German govern ment to the demand of the Agrarians for a decree temporarily excluding foreign 'grain has been received with general satisfaction, although it is considered too graciously worded. A letter from Capt. Lehmann, of the Dutch steamer Dordreiclit, says that he saw a curious object floating in the AVhite sea on July 17, which was nei ther a ship nor a dead whale, but re sembled a balloon. Mayor Sylvester Pennoyer of Port land is credited in Oregon with an in tense desire to be governor of the state once more, his plan being to mass all the free silver Republicans and Demo crats in his interest. The election is a year off. The general store of Aid. N. C. Gal lagher of Escanaba, Mich., was taken possession of by the sheriff on a claim of $000 held by the Dousman MilUcg company of Depere, Wis. Mr. Galla gher is perfectly solvent, but disputes the claim, asserting there is a discrep ancy in the nccouiit. A rich strike has been found in the Goleonda, in" Montana, one of the group of mines belonging to the Alps Mining company. A vein of eighteen to twenty feet of free milling ore that will average $200 has been found b.v cross cutting in the bottom of a shaft 125 feet from the surface. The board of fire and police commis sioners of Omaha met and adopted a resolution calling on Chief Sigwart. of the police department, to resign. This is the culmination of an agitation that has been going on since trie Populist legislature changed the law restoring to the governor the power to appoint the Omaha police commissioners. Tuolumne county, Cal., is excited over a rich pocket strike made recently In the Tansey mine, between Sonora and Jamestown. Colby & Beckwith, who are working the mine under lease, uncovered the pocket at night, and before noon the next day they took out $30,000. In the afternoon the yield was $40,000. The lessees are now working another lead which they think will run into a second pocket. There is not a mine In the country which can show such extreme varia tions in the price at which it is held as the Diamond mine near Helena, Mont. It was sold last year to a Scotch syndicate for $1,800,000. Fif teen years ago Richard Lockey of Hel ena bought the mine for 90 cents. Mr. Lockey did not make the difference between these two sums. The proper ty which lie bought for !)0 cents lie sold for $S,000 and thought he was making a good bargain. Tnlkliiur lleairare. .v Soxey--I see they are fitting up a giant phonograph to warn vessels off the coast, and it will be ten horse power. Knoxey— No, you mean ten woman power.—Pittsburg News. Palpably False. "I have been told," said she, as they sat in a shady corner of the porch, that you have rather a grasp ing disposition." "You don't believe it, do you?" "i)ear me, no. I have never seen yon exhibit the least sign of catching 011."—Indianapolis Journal. S "Is Slims a man to be depended upon?" "Always. You can depend upon it that he will get the best of you if he can."—Detroit Free Press. \... Tame Eiragh. Tourist (in Jersey, apprehensively) How about the Jersey mosquitoes? Don't you find them pretty vicious creatures? Jersey Native (indifferently)—Not at all! Not at all! Why, they'll eat right' out of your hand!—Puck. 1 IN SOUTH DAKOTA Interesting News Items From all over tli* State. The state insurance department has granted a license to the Bankers' Re serve Life association of Omaha. The county of Beadle has appropri ated $100 for the purpose of testing sugar beet culture. The directors of the Clay county fair have fixed Sept. 21 to 24 as the date for the annual exhibit. Fire ruined the residence and most of the household goods of John Fer and, at Huron. The family had a narrow escape. In the national G. A. R. encampment in Buffalo in August, this state's con tingent will travel over the Northwest ern and Lake Shore lines. The board of county commissioners of Beadle county have appropriated $100 for the purpose of testing sugar beet culture in that county. The contract for the school building to be erected at Yankton has been let for $10.85)9. The building will be first class in every respect. J. R, Brown, late, postmaster at the Sisseton Agency, was held in bonds of bonds of $500 by a court commissioner at Aberdeen, on the charge of being short about $75 in his accounts. Chickens are reported quite plenty, and there is not any poaching done around Lennox. The boys say they will wait patiently until the 15th of August. Department Commander C. B. Clark of Huron, estimates that 250 old sol diers from this state will go to the national G. A. R. encampment in Buf falo. The Northville mill is turning out seventy-five barrels of flour per day, and under the management of Mar field & Johnson, promises to be a big thing for that vicinity Three horse thieves entered Henry Dumkle's barn, and succeeded in get ting one horse loose, when Dumkie fired two shots, dropping one of the thieves, but he got up afterwards, es caping with the rest. A. Shove's store at Howard was bur glarized. The-thieves broke in-a win dow and helped themselves to cloth ing, boots and shoes, jewelry and $7 in cash, all there was in the till. No clue to the burglars. The state board of pharmacy, at their meeting at Sioux Falls, selected Mitchell as the place l'or holding the next annual session. The prize for the best essay was awarded to A. II. Stites of Sioux Falls. J. W. Keeley & Son of the Huron City mills, have arranged to put their town on the Huron division of the Chicago & Northwestern railway: the capacity of their mill is 250 barrels of flour per day. The milk crop is one that never fails, and farmers of South Dakota are be ginning to realize that $250,000 per month paid them by the creameries of the state is a sum not. to be scorned. The amount will be doubled another year. At the Fairbanks place. Grace Cald er, a seven-year-old daughter of Mrs. Shandy of Vermillion, was run over and one leg was crushed. The wagon was loaded with hay, and the child was hanging and swinging from one side of the rack. During the last four months one or phan's home in Chicago has found homes in Hand county for thirty boys. The last shipment was seven boys, the last of a car lead which the agent started from Chicago with. They were ail taken quickly, the farmers liking the idea of a number to pick from. A serious accident occurred at the first bridge north of White, on the railroad, recently. The bridge' carpen ters were working on the bridge there, when the bank caved in. One of the men, H. B. Nichols of Emmetsburg, Iowa, was instantly killed. Mr. Nich ols. was a member of the Masonic or der, being a member of the blue lodge and chapter at Emmetsburg and tlie commandery at Esterville. A few days ago Walworth county was visited by horse thieves, who drove off to North Dakota six horses belonging to Phil Lewis of Le Beau. Mr. Lewis declares that he knows the culprits, and has started north, where he expects to cause the arrest of the guilty parties, and, as soon as requisi tion papers are issued by Gov. Lee, will have them brought back for trial. The agent of a gopher killer is at work in the northern counties of North Dakota, killing off the gophers. He uses a poison which is sprinkled upon bread and placed near the go pher's hole. The animal scents the fragrant stuff, comes forth and par takes, and that is all there is of it. It is said to be a sure exterminator of the gopher pest. H. W. White of Yankton has re ceived honorable recognition for his abilities as an inventor. He recently patented what he terms is the best and most simple churn dasher ever placed before the public. The govern ment board of examiners of patents has awarded him a handsome gold and silver medal. Mr. AVhite has long la bored upon different inventions, and Is the patentee of at least fifty useful ar ticles. The Chicago & Northwestern depot at Castlewood was broken into and $25 taken from the money drawer. The agent was away to supper and had not been absent over twenty-five minutes. The outside doors were locked when he left, but upon his return one door was found open. Two tramps, who had been seen loitering around the de pot ducing the day, were arrested on suspicion, but there being insufficient evidence to convict them, they were released. The remaining assets of the First National Bank of Redfield will be sold at public auction. The assets consist of about $75,000 in judgments and pa per secured and unsecured, and about $5,000 in real estate. W. C. Kiser and W. W.Taylor are on the ground to bid on their paper and assessments these amount to about $30,000 alone. The amount necessary to be raised is *10, 000, which will enable Receiver Bourne to close up the affairs of the bank and pay 100 cents on the dollar. The bank has already paid J£^dends amounting to 90 per cent of the depos its since coming into the hands of the* recelver. JUS f'Z NEWS IN BRIEF. Overflow From the Wires in a Con densed Form. Prince Bismarck is again in excel lent health. One of the amusing features of the Minnesota state lair will be a log roll ing contest. One hundred and fifty persons are believed to have perished in the recent Crimean floods. United States Consul General Chas, De Kay will return l'rom Berlin to New York in September. Waldemar I*. Leonard of Cincinnati has been appointed vice and deputy consul at Hamburg, Germany. A Berlin dispatch says Secretary Sherman will soon resign and will- be succeeded by Ambassador Wihte. Cass Gilbert, architect of the new Btate capitol of Minnesota, is visiting Mr. Hamilton, of the supervising arch itect's office, in Washington. Judge Sanborn arrived in Denver and caused the decree of sale of the Union Pacific railroad ordered by the United States court to be duly re corded in that district. The grand jury at Leadville, Colo., has brought in two indictments against Judge Owens for failing to enforce the laws against, gambling and Sunday opening. The sheriff is in the same boat. The pantsmakers of Greater New York will strike, involving 7,500 work men. They claim they cannot average more than $1.50 per week, working from 5 o'clock in the morning until 7:30 in the evening. M. E. Anderson, a broker, with an office at 60 Wall street. New York, died of thirst and exposure in the desert north of Phoenix, Ariz., and his wife lies at a farm house near that city in a critical condition. The price of window glass has been advanced about 5 per cent by the man ufacturers. The new rate goes Into effect at once, and is to continue until Aug. 10, when probably if trade war rants it another advance will be made. The supposed infernal machine that exploded in a mail bag during the transfer of mail at the Potsdam rail way station last week turned out 1o be only a package of large torpedoes of the kind used by cyclists to frigliten dogs. The suit which was brought by Olga Netliersole against the Messrs. Froh man, as a result of business differences during her last American tour, has been settled. The Frohmans have paid a sum of money into court in settle ment and fhe suit has been discon tinued. Alexander Grant, chief clerk of the railway mail service, has been ap pointed assistant general superintend ent of that system, succeeding L. T. Myers of Virginia, resigned to accept transfer as chief of the division of in spection of the second assistant post master general. Dr. Arthur Kortcgarn, head master of the celebrated school at Frankfort, died suddenly at Irterlaken. He was 59 years of age, and until within a few years was head master of the well known school at Bonn, where many prominent Americans and Englishmen have been educated. George Walker of Ohio has been ap pointed assistant attomev for the de partment of justice. Mr. Walker went to Washington several yea re ago as correspondent of the Cleveland Leader and has been engaged in newspaper work there until within a few years, when he was admitted to the lmr and began the active practice of law. tub markets. f|«lj Latest Quotation* From Grain and Live Stoclc Center*. Chicago, Aug. 2. Wheat No. 2 red, 70 3-4@77c No. 3 rod, 73@75c No. 2 spring, 70 3-4@77c No. 3 spring, 72«g 74c No. 2 hard winter, 75c No. 3 hard winter. 69& 73c No. 1 Northern spring, 77@78e. Corn—No. 2. 27 5-8@27 3-4e No. 3, 20 3-4c. Oats—No. 2. 18@18 l-4c. Chicago. Aug. 2. Hogs Light, $3.70@3.90 mixed, $3.70©3.87 1-2 heavy, $3.50@3.85 rough, $3.50@3.05. Cattle Beeves, $3.85@5 oows and heifers, $1.75@4.25 Texas steers, $2.90 @4 stoc-kers and feeders, $3.25@4.50. Sheep—Natives. $3.2.rxS4.25 Westerns, $3.00@4 lambs, $3.75@5.40. Minneapolis, Aug. 2—Wheat—August opened at NO l-8c and closed at 80 l-8c September opened at 71 l-8c and closed at 713-8e December opened at 71 3-4e and closed at 72 l-8c. On track —No. 1 hard, 81 5-8c No. 1 Northern, S0 5-8c No. 2 Northern. 76 5-8c. Milwaukee, Aug. 2. Flour steady. Wheat higher No. 1 Northern, 83c No. 2 spring, 80 l-2c December, 74 7-8c. Corn firm No. 3, 27c. Oats firm No. 2 white, 21£z213-4e. Rye higher No. 1, 41 3-4c. Barley steady No. 2, 33@34c sample, 29@33c. Sioux City, Iowa, Aug. 2. Hogs— $3.30g:3.52. Cattle Canners, $1.80 heifers, $3@3.20 bulls, $2.50@3.50 stockers. $3.J0@3.75 yearlings, $3.70@ 4 calves. $4.50. South St. Paul, Aug. 2. Hogs $2.05$7ii.45. Cattle—Cows, $3.05 stock ers. $3.25j33.75 mixed. $2.05 heifers, $2.30^/2.50 steers, $3.50 bulls, $3.25 calves. $3.85. St. Paul, Aug. 2. Wheat No. 1 Northern. 79 l-2(§80 l-2c No. 2 North ern. 78 Corn No. 2 yellow, 24 (Ji25c No. 3, 23 l-2@24c. Oats—No. 3 white, 2Kfi|20 1-2c No. 3, 19Crl0 7-8c. Barley and Rye—Sample barley, 24@ 20c No. 2 rye, 36C?37 l-2c No. 3 rye, 34 Seeds No. 1 flax, 79@81c timothy, 90c(fr$1.10 clover, $3@4.20. Joplln'M Rich Find. Joplih, Mo., Aug. 2. A rich lead nunc has been struck on Main street, wilhin a few blocks of the business ecnter of the town. H. D. Graves and Sam Y-^ug'ian. two miners, who dis covered it, took out at the depth of seven feet over a ton of ore. Machin ery will be put in and the mine will soon be in operation right in the heart of the city. Injured on a Cycle Track. Cleveland, Aug. 2.—Fourteen bicycle riders and six bystanders were more or less seriously injured at the bicycle races at Scenic Park. None of the in juries resulted fatally, but one of tb® spectators of the races was in an un conscious condition for several hours. The accidents were the result of an overcrowded race track. Secretary Sherman, it was reported at Amagansett, L. I., will remain an other week with bis daughter. He is gaining strength daily. mmwnn i§*^ READY FOR WAR SPANISH MINISTRY IN A VERY TIGHT PLACE. Canovas Has a Plan He Would Unite Spain by Flfthtlng Over Cnba With Thin Country The Time Almost In Slgrht When She Must Give Up the War In Cuba— Cubans Comlsg Home Weylcr Denies. London, Aug. 2. A Spanish diplo matist who is in close touch with Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Span ish premier, informs the correspondent of the Associated Press that it is use less longer to disguise the fact that the Spanish ministry is in a very tight place. He says: "We can keep up the war in' Cuba only so long as our funds last, and the time when they will fail is almost in sight. When it comes we must give up the struggle. Now we are too proud a race to do so at anybody's,de mand but we can do so by pleading force majeure in a war with the United States. Such a result naturally would be very unpleasant to us but in order to prevent a revolution in Spain and the overthrow of the monarchy, war Is the only way out. "The premier knows from President MeKinley direct that the president per sonally does not want war and wishes to save us from the cost and the blood shed. But his cabinet only partly shares his views, while the senate, the house, the American press, and the people of the United States favor a set tlement with big guns. "President MeKinley. however,while first for peace, has declared himself, as not shrinking from war, Ifp' eaee meas ures fail. This is the position, and naturally lends strength to the inde pendent course which Gen. Woodford will pursue. His instructions will be at tlieoutset to attempt to obtain for Cuba the peaceful means of Cuban in dependence. He is destined to be de feated in his proposal the moment it is made for Spain would infinitely pre fer w-ar, with or without encourage ment cf other nations, to any surren der on the Cuban question. This is the fact, and the premier sees no other way cut of the present position. He will court war the moment the United States becomes imperative in ite de mands. The wave of great emotion and patriotism such a war would call out in Spain would naturally sink all threatening domestic questions and disturbances. The Carlists. Republic ans and all others would unite for the nation as they could be united by noth ing else and when defeated, if Spain should be defeated, Cuba could be sur rendered without imperiling all pre ent political and monarchiul institu tions." CuTvvns ComlnK Hume. Madrid, Aug. 2.—A hundred Cuban prisoners who were recently pardoned have arrived at Gibraltar, wlienec they will proceed to New York. The gov ernment organs express the opinion that they will rejoin the insurgents. —o— Weylcr Don ten. Madrid, Aug. 2.—Capt. Gen. Weyler has telegraphed the government from Havana that he has decided to grant amnesty to 1,500 exiles, including Dr. Montalvo, and denies the American dispatches in which it is stated that the Cubans are using artillery against the outposts of Havana. NOT PACIFIED. Innaircentn Kill Forty-Ninr Span lardit and Secure $40,00li in Gold. Tampa, Fla., Aug..2.—The story tele graphed from Havana last week about an attack by Insurgents on the sub urbs of that city is confirmed by pas sengers who have just, arrived from Havana. The attack referred 1o was made on the little village of Marnanao, about ten miles southwest of the city and the terminus of the antiquated and dilapidated Marnanao railroad. The engagement was short and desiderate. Forty-nine Spaniards were killed and 120 wounded two Cubans were killed and forty wounded. The inhabitants of the town fled for their lives, leaving the insurgents in complete possession, ri'.ey sacked the place and secured $40, 000 in gold besides a large quantity of suj plies that they could not carry off. It is said that the wildest terror reigns in Havana, and that the well-to-do In habitants are leaving as fast as local laws will permit. GREECE WILL NOT LISTEN. KInsr George May Abdjjrate If For eign Control of His Kingdom's Fl nancen la Ordered. Paris, Aug. 2.—It is rumored that the possible abdication of the king of Greece has inspired the following dis patch from Athens: "It is stated on good authority that in the event of a,proposal looking to the establishment of foreign control over Greek finances being adopted by the powers, the king will make a dec laration of exceptional gravity." Russia and Germany having coun seled Greece to submit to the condi tions Imposed by the powers, M. Ralii, the premier, replied officially that Greece would never entertain the idea of financial control proposed, and that she would help herself. Its Location Known.', Washingto 1, Aug. 2.—Nothing can hie done more than already has been done toward marking the boundary line be tween Alaska and the British posses sions along the 141st' meridian until the senate passes upon the boundary treaty now before it. There is, how ever, no doubt of the location of the line along this meridian, nnd most people in the locality know where it is. House Burned t»p. Henry, S. D., Aug. 2.—During a very heavy thunder storm a large farm house belonging to George Washtoak, five miles east of Henry, was struck by lightning and entirely consumed, to gether wim the contents. Fred Grant's Successor. New York. Aug. 2. Mayor Strong has announced the appointment of Col. George Moore Smith, of the Slxtv ninth regiment to succeed Col. Fred D. Grant as police commissioner. II