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I THE ENTERPRISE. WELUSQTON, I OHia (Jeneral News Summary. Interesting Home and Foreign New DOMESTIC. Claude Holliday, one of the mail elerks Injured in the Santa Fe wreck -at Lang, Kan., in 1897, has just settled with the company. He received $11, 500. This is said to be the largest mm ever paid a mail clerk by. any railroad for injuries sustained In a wreck. It is announced that the combination f manufacturers of clay sewer pipe, fire brick chimney tops and linings, and similar products, is now definitely completed. The new concern will 1)e called the Federal Sewer Pipe Co., and will have a capital of $25,000,000, The Allentown (Pa.) rolling mills on April J increase the wages of their 200 men 10 per. cent. A pig Iron fur nace Is being' gotten ready to put in blast. 'Damage to the extent of $180,000 was caused by a fire at Hartford,' Conn., on the 29th ult. which destroyed the of fice building of J. L. Howard, the J. L. Howard Co.'s factory and damaged several adjoining buildings. Michael Shea is dead in Indianapolis at the advanced age of 118 years. He was born in Ireland in 1781 and was a friend of Daniel O'Connell. Shea was married when be was 57 years old and has children 60 years of age. The formation of a candy trust is gadn in progress. The present deal ia expected to go into effect by June 1. The combine ia to be capitalized at $25,000,000. Leading houses of Ohicago, Boston, New York, Buffalo, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cin cinnati, Detroit, Minneapolis and St. Louis are to be included. The president has pardoned Oscar Dawson, who was convicted in 1895 and sentenced to five years' imprison ment for robbing the post office at Salem.' W. Va. The prisoner is in the last stages of consumption and it is on .this account that executive clem ency is granted. " Nearly $1,000,000 of the $5,000,000 that the citizens of St. Louis have been -called on to subscribe for the world's fair in 1903 has been pledged. It is now evident, that the entire stock of the exposition corporation will be dis posed of before May 1. . The prospectus of the Kentucky Dis tilleries and Warehouse Co., just issued, has caused a flnrry in whisky. It shows that the company is holding all he goods at high prices. Prices of ome whisky are quoted at an advance of 30 per cent, and a few brands are eld at almost 100 per cent, in ad vance of what they have been selling lor. The Davis 4 Thomas Iron Co., of CatMsaqutf, Pa., has increased the iwages of its 200 employes 10 per cent. Fur bearing seals have been unusual Sy plentiful oft the California const dur. ing the past winter. The British seal er Geneva put into ?tfonterey after a raise of a little over two months off jshore-with 1,243 skins. Miss Edith Boone, of Philadelphia, Oios begun a suit for $15,000 damages, .against Frederick K. Farrow, a young lmg clerk for squeezing her hands so violently that the smaller bones' of one -of tfeem. were broken and both hands vere, rendered practically useless. Judge Shiras, in the federal court at Dubuque, Ia., has decided that under the bankruptcy net innocent third par ties can hold their securities. The court holds that mortgagees canuot be -compelled to yield possession of prop erty in their hands which passed into their possession before the proceedings In bankruptcy were begun. Business failures in the United States for the week ended March 31 numbered 194, as compared with 220 for the same period lunt year, and 26 in Canada, as -compared with 27 for the correspond ing week of 1898. P. J. Morgan's $4,000 collie Hurri cane is dead at Highland Falls, X. Y. Hurricane was descended from gen erations of prize winners. Mr. Mor tran had refused to sell Hurricane at any price. The censu-s office has called nttention to the large number of applications for places that have been filed and to the fact that for some time but a small skeleton corps engaged for prelimi nary work will be appointed. ISo far there have been 2,500 formal ap plications for office under the census. A serious shortage of vessels in the trrain 'trade, which is likely to result in the diversion of a large traffic from 4he lakes to the rail lines eastward, is threatened for the coming season. The shortage is due in a large degree to he heavy chartering in the iron ore trade. The monthly statement of the treas ury department shows exceptionally teavy receipts and a materinl decrease in the expenditures. For March the total receipts amounted to over $57, COO.OOO. ' : A syndicate of anthracite coal opera tors from Luzerne and Lackawanna .counties, Pennsylvania, have arranged to take 209,000 acres of conl lands along the line of the Western New York it. Pennsylvania railroad, in the north western port of Pennsylvania. Harry Lappin and his wife, nged 45 and 42 years respectively, were burned to death late on the night of the 30th tilt, in their home in Philadelphia. A remarkable suit has been com menced in the superior court, at Mil waukee, Wis., by Hector Lcublow, who wants $23,000 damages from the 12 jurymen who convicted him ton a charge of conspiracy six years ago. The oldest lawyer at the bar does not remember a similar instance. Gen. Alger has approved a circular authorizing candies in half-pound pack ages to be kept on hand for sale as staples to officers and enlisted men of the army. This Is similar to action taken in European armies, based on recent discoveries as to the food value of sugar. The transport Logan has broken the record, making a trip In 90 hours from Savannah to Havana, loading the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana regi ment and reaohing Savannah ahead of the quarantine. ' ' Fire at Wynnewood, I. T on the 1st destroyed the Masonic hall and the Times building. 11. Robinson, a print er employed on the Times, was burned to death and an unknown printer is, missing, The monthly statement of the direc tor of the mint shows that the total coinage during March was $14,572,073, ,of which $12,176,715 was silver. $2,346, 556 gold and $48,801 minor coins. The . coinage of standard silver dollars dur ing the month amo'inted to $1,900,301. The Missouri house of representa tives Jus. passed, a -bill -proh ibit lag 4 he sale of milk or cream treated with chemicals. The penalty for so doing ts a fine not to exceed $100. Wayne Tarkcr, the 6-yeer-oH sou of Congressman Richard W. Parker, of New Jersey, fell from a second-story window at his home In Washington on the 1st and was instantly killed. During the month of March 15,000 troops were landed in the United States from Cuba. This work has required especial expeditionary measures on the part of the quarantine service, but so far all the requirements made upon the service have been met. Burglars robbed the post office at Richland Center, Pa. on the 1st secur ing stamps and money orders valued at about $600. The safe was blown up by dynamite. Edwin Munshower, a discharged let ter carrier, was caught in the act of robbing the Norristown (Pa.) post of fice on the 1st. The prisoner said he had robbed the post office 13 times dur ing the month of .March and six times in February. Thtee thousund " union bricklayers went on a strike in Philadelphia on the 1st. The strike grew out of the fail ure of the bosses to sign the new schedule of wages for this year. Two thousand iron ore miners em ployed nt Fossil, Redding, Wade's Gap and Alice, Ala., and the coal miners working at Hargrove and Belle Ellen, went on strike the 1st, The cause of the trouble at the ore mines is said to be inaccuracy in the check system. PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. Timothy Reardon, who served as gunner on the steamer Kearssrge dur ing the famous battle with the Con federate privateer Alabama, outside the harbor of Cherbourg, France, and who later served under Farragut in Mobile bay, is dead in Brooklyn, X. Y., aged 61. Onus Spreckles has decided to estab lish in San Francisco an electric plant that will be without a rival in the world and which will furnish to the people of San Francisco light, heat and power almost at cost. William K. Vanderbilt has duplicated his wedding present to his daughter Consuelo. Duchess of Marlborough, for his son, William K. Vanderbilt, jr. Se curities worth $10,000,000 have been turned over to the young man by his father. Ex-Senator George Grny.of Delaware, has been appointed United States cir cuit judge for the Third judicial dis trict. Representative Sherman, of New York, has notified the president that he declines the appointment as mem ber of the board of general apprais ers at New York City, and will accede to the expressed desire of his constitu ents that he remain in congress. There will be presented to Miss Helen M. Gould a novel gift In the form of nn album containing the autographs of 3,000 soldiers and sailors of the Uni ted States who fought in the war with Spain. , FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The change by the world to a gold basis has finally driven Ecuador to adopt the same course, congress hav ing just enacted a law which, within two years, will place the monetary sys tem on a gold basis. Ecuador has heretofore been upon a practically monometallic silver basis; no gold in circulation, and her silver irredeem able. ... The total of last year's revenue for the United Kingdom was 117,837,353, a net increase of 1,841,039. Jack Carr, the Alaskan mail carrier, has broken the record from Dawson to Skagimy, coining out in ten days. He reports that the Yukon is giving its first signs of breaking up and that the Ice will undoubtedly go out very early this yenr. The torpedo boat Somers, which was purchased in England just before the outbreak of the war with Spain and which was unable to cross the Atluntic owing to heavy weather, -will be brought to the United States soon on the deck of a freight steamer. The British steam collier Heathpool was run down and sunk on the 1st off Beachyhead, England. Only one of the crew was saved. LATER. The rolling mills nt Columbia, Ta., have posted a notice that beginning May 1 the price for puddling will be raised from $2.73 to $:l, and that a general readjustment of the wages of the mill hands will be made. A fire occurred at Kingsley, Mich., on the 2d in which two .women were burned to death. They were Mrs. Sarah Shubert, aged 60, and Mrs. Bey ers. , i The great Sierra De Mercedi moun tain of iron, adjoining the city of Durnngo, Mex.. has been purchased by C. P. Huntingtn, the well-known rail way king, for $800,000 in gold. A powder car belonging to a Great Northern freight train blew up near Everett, Wash., on the 2d, killing one tramp and wounding two others who were Tiding In on adjoining car. In addition to the powder car two cars containing mixed freight were burned. Rev. J. F. Shannnhan, rector of the ChuToh of Our Mother of Sorrows, of Philadelphia, has accepted the bishop ric of llarrisliurg. He wns selected by the! papal authorities some time ago, but declined the charge. Now he accepts. The town nnd city election nt Hart ford, Conn., on ithe 3d was distin guished by general apathy and a light vote. The common council will stand 43 rpeublicnns to 17 democrats, a gain of six. . This gives a republican major ity of 26 on joint ballot and ensures the election of republican candidates for city attorney, prosecuting attorney, etc. Cotton mills generally In the New England states, operating more than three-quarters of the total number of spindles In the north, began work on the 3d under an advanced wage sched ule which in nearly nil of the mills is about the same ns thnt which existed prior to the general reduction in the early part of 1S0H which, it Is estimat ed, nffects from 130,000 to 140,000 hands. Light Battery F, of the Fourth artil lery, nnd Light Battery F. of the Fifth BTtilWy, left New YorVc City on the 3d, bound tor Munila via Sail Francisco. Each battery numbers 120 men and four officers and is supplied with a hospital outfit. D. A.' Waterman, treasurer of the Michigan Central railroad, died on the 2d at his home in Yonkers, N. Y. Mr. Waterman, who was 65 years of age, was widely known In railway circles and was also prominently" connected with V. M. ,C. A. organizations in dif ferent parts of the country. . a. NEWS OF OHIO. Jv Gathered by Telegraph. From All 1. Parts of the .tateuJl On.u All the Appointees. Celnmbus, April 1. The ' supreme court yesterday decided sever.if in portant political cases.,. At the lust session of the legislature the terms of county Infirmary directors and pros ecuting attorneys were extended, and a contest at once arose as to whether or not an interim existed and m the theory that it diid temporary appoint ments were mode to fill the vacancies. Suits of ouster were brought by the regularly elected official for possession of the ofutes,' and yesterday the su preme court ousted all the! appointees, on the ground that the law ,i:-.lcr which they were appointed was un constitutional. This disposes of all such cases except those relating to county commissioners. . Zeltners Bound Overt Bowling Green, March 30. Coroner Trichler has completed the Inquest in the Hoytsville tragedy and holds John and Paul Zcltner for murder in the first degree, finding them jointly guilty of the murder of both K. li. vvesten haver and Clarence Wittenmeyer. The brothers were taken before Mayor Campbell here yesterday and bound over without ball. , The men had planned to commence work on their farms In a few days. Mrs. John Zelt ner and three children visited the pris oners and a touching scene resulted. Prof. Klrkofr Dies. Oevelnnd, March 31. Word was re ceived here Thursday that Prof. Andrew J. Hlekoff, a former superintendent of schools in this city, died near San Fran cisco Wednesday, of heart disease. Prof. Rickoff was one of Cleveland's most eminent educators, and he wat personally known to thousands of for mer children in this city, wno are now men nnd women. Prof. Rickoff suc ceeded Rev. AnRon Smyth as superin' tendent of schools in 1807, nnd he held that office until 1882. An Attempt to Wreck Train, Delaware, April 1. An attempt was made to wreck a train on the Big Four a mile north of Ashley Thursday even ing. A farmer discovered ties on the track, secured a lantern and stopped a fast freight a short distance from the ties. It Is supposed the robbers thought the fast passenger, following nn hour later, was the next train due. Officers were brought from Gulion on the passenger that followed. They scoured the country without finding a clue. A Fugitive Return. Lisbon, March 31. John C. Stouf fer, indicted by the last grand jury for forgery to the nmount of $5,000, nnd who afterward forfeited his bail and absconded, appeared and gave himself up to the Rheriff yesterday. He had been in Mexico and declares that his conscience so smote him as to compel his return. This is the second time he 'has returned unexpectedly when fugitive from justice. Hare No Authority Outside of Titles. Columbus, March W. The Cleveland election board case brought out a de cision from the supreme court yester day which takes away some of the power of the Oevelnnd, Cincinnati, To ledo and Columbus boards of elections. The decision of the circuit court that city boards of elections have no au, thorlfy outside of city limits is af firmed, and further, a county board must be provided for the townships. Murderous Hobbers. Toledo, March 30. At Empire three men broke into the residence of Jane Willis Tuesday night nnd tried to kill the inmates, beating Mrs. Willis and cutting her son, Dick Willis, terribly. A relative reported to have $600 was visiting Willis. Robbery is the sup posed object. Assistance arrived and the burglars were driven off. Tortured by Robbers. Dennison, March 81. Six masked burglars entered the house of Thomas Crocker, nn aged man, and bound and gagged him and his wife. Mr. Crock er was tortured by having lighted matches put to his feet to compel him to reveal the hiding place of his money, but refused. Mrs. Crocker was ub jected to barbarous indignities. The robbers secured only $97. Killed by s Train. Akron, April 1. An Erie freight train dmpped the body of an unknown man near the Market street bridge yesterday. The unfortunate man had been caught in some manner by the trucks near Hie Buchtel avenue cross ing and for half a mile between the two points had swept clean a path where the body had been dragged. Hocking Coal Co. Reorganization Toledo, April 1. A partial reorgani zation of the General Hocking Coal Co. is announced, the companies in the combine being the Somers Coal Co., Hocking alley Coal Co. and the Green- dale Coal Co. These companies will combine and will establish offices and will do business under the name of the General Hocking Coal Co., : K!lnarr Extradited. Pninesville.April l.-By order of court John Collins and Ann lngersoll, the al leged abductors of little Gerald Lap! ner, were yesterday turned over to De tective Brodcrick, of Chicago. Broder Ick started for Chicago last night with his prisoners. Both Sides Want Tbla Wltneaa. Canton. April 1. Senrch was made nt an East Eighth street residence, Thurdav evening, by Sheriff aiser, for Mrs. Eva B. Althouse, the missing witness, but it was fruitless. Counsel for Mrs. George say they are anxious to locate her. . The state likewise ex presses u desire to have -her testify Held to the ftrsnd Jury. Lima, April 1. Sheridan Ki?er, of La Kile, charged with passing spurious coin, was bound over to the I nited States grand jury and sent to jnil, in default of $300 bail, yesterday. He was taken to Toledo. Gives S20.000 to llubart College. Columbus, March 30. Miss Catherine M. Tuttlc, of this city, has given to Hobart college $20,000 to found scholar ships for worthy scholars in memory of her uncle, Joseph Medbery, of Roch ester, N. Y and Sylvester Medbery, of Columbus. ' Well Known Hotel Tlan Dead. . Toledo, March 30. Simon Grlschott, proprietor of the Sf, Charles hotel, died Tuesday night. He was one of the best known hotel men In the country, and it is said he cquld call more travel ing men by name than any otlnr bonj face. ' ."'' THEY REST AT MALOLOS. IHeArthur's Idea Halt for a Breathing Spell-Backbone of the Insurrection fc t la Thought to Have Hn Broken. Manila. Ann! '. 3.-ThA American troops under Uen.McArthur are till restinir at Malolos. whre: Everything was quiet yesterday. ' Hostilities else where -so far as offleially-s-eported have been limited during the last 24 hours to an occasional exchange of shots between the insurgents and the troops forming the lines of Gen. Law ton and Gen. Hall, extending from the waterworks to La. Lonia. - But this shooting has been just active enough to make the lives of the soldiers a. bur den nnd to compel the officers to sleep in trenches, clothed and in readiness to repel possible attacks. Most of the Americans are becoming convinced that the backbone of the in surgent opposition is broken.' There are numerous rumors pointing- to nn early collapse of the Insurrection. One of these is thnt Pio Del Pilar, the best fighter among the Filipino officers, will desert Aguinaldo and give his support to the Americans. The Spaniards, reasoning, from their experience of the natives, refuse to be lieve that the rebellion' Is anywheie near put down. They declare that the Filipinos will not take their defeat at Malolos, with the 'loss of the city and the removal of their so-called govern ment, seriously to heart. On the con trary the Spaniards nredlct that the insurgents will hover near the Alherl- enn lines, bothering them as much as possible nnd when attacked in force dissolve, only to reappear at other points. This sort of tactics, the Span iards say, will be followed until the wet season compels the Americans to be boused in barracks and then the Fili pinos will return and reocenpy such towns as the United Staites troops do not garrison. With the next dry sen son a repetition of the present opera tions will begin. Time alone will show how much there is in this the ory, but ns against It it must be borne in mind that the Spaniards in all their domination of the Philippines never gave the inhabitants a demonstration of power comparable In' effectiveness to that given them by the United States. A priest and two members of the so-called Filipino congress, who hid themselves in the woods during the fighting which preceded the capture of Malolos, returned there Sunday and declared that 2,000 of the Filipino sol diers were anxious to give up fighting and would do so but for their officers. who keep them under arms. The whole country lwtween Malolos and Caloocan is now full of friendless women, chil dren nnd old people, who are returning to their homes, carrying white flags. The Americans are trying to gain the confidence of the inhabitants by prov ing to them that if they will return and attend to their ordinary work peaceful ly, no hnrm will befall them. Two hundred and fifty civilians came back to their homes in Malolos Saturday evening. Two' thousand women and children, with a sprinkling of unnrmed men, sup posed to be warriors, came to the out skirts of Malolos on the sen side of the city ' pnd afterwards 'sneaked awny, carrying all the goods they could. There has been no little rivalry as to which regiment the First Montana or the Twentieth Kansas hi entitled to the honor of having raised its flag first In Mnlolos. Col. Funston and 20 men of Company E, Kansas volunteers, claim the distlnctiqn.oi) the .ground ,of having entered ' the town at double quick and raised the company's flag, but the first flag to be recognized of ficially was that of Company G, of the Montana infantry. MADE SIEVES OF THEM. An Official Report on the Enetol the Fire ol Dewey's Ships Upon "Ion- tejo'e Fleet. Washington. April 3. Lieut John El liott, the intelligence officer of the Bal timore, has forwarded to the navy de partment a rexrt on the effects of the gun fire of Dewey's fleet upon the Snninsh war vessels in the battle of Manila. The report Is based upon ft personal examination of all the vessels, conversations with officers aboard and extracts from Admiral Montejo's offi cial reports. It describes in detail the effect of every shot from the American fleet and proves that Montejo's vessels were riddled by a perfect storm of shot and rtell from the American guns. ' The total number of hits observable was 141, but there were doubtless many others, especially of Small .caliber, through the rigging and burned super structure of 1he ships. After painstak ing inquiry Lieut. Elliott makes the fol lowing report of casualties on board Montejo's ships: - Killed 167, wound ed 214. . The following points "In connection with the examination of the Spanish ships is emphasized by Lieut. Elliott 1 The sides of iron and steel built cruisers do not arrest projectiles enough to explode them. 2 The incendiary effeut of bursting 8-lnch shells is far greater than would seem proportionate to that of lower calibers. , 3 At ranges over 2,500 yards the 'gun shields of cruisers are In no sense a protection, but Insure the annihila tion of the gun's crew and the disab ling of the gun if struck by a projectile, '. 4 Warships of the present day will generally lie placed hors du combat by conflagration nnd the' destruction of their personnel before they are sunk by gun lire. Kour Grapes. Paris, April 3. Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo, in nn Interview published in La Patrle says: "The capture of Malolos is riot as important ns the Americans are trying to make it ap pear. The Filipino government had already determined upon removal to San Fernando and a small detachment of troops was left with orders to burn ,the town nnd thus draw the Ameri cans Inland. Two months of rain and ever will save the Filipinos their am munition nnd A good deal of trouble, nnd the war will not end while a single Filipino remains to bear arms." Bandits Captured. Santiago, Cuba, April 3. The tele graph line to Havann constructed by the United Stales signal corps, is Com pleted and will be opened for commer cial messages to-day. Five more ban dits have been captured, including Nai non, a noted desperado. The others who hnvc been Infesting the Son Luis district seem to have removed their op erations to the north. A body of armed men a few days ago attacked two Americans In the neighborhood of Holguin, took their s.rms and horses and then went further north to rob the lighthouse U Gibara, , : . " ON THE-E0CKS. Steamer Stella Furnishes the Latest Ocean Tragedy. The Unfortunate Craft Is Wrecked la the Kngll.h Channel and It Is Be lieved that 70 Persons Were Drowned as Result. Southampton, April l.-The pas senger steamer Stalls, plying- between uhiis port -and the Channel islands. crashed upon te Casquet rocks, near the Island of Alderney, Thursday after noon in a dense fog and foundered in ten minutes, her boiler exploding as she went down. The coasting steam er Lynx, which brought tie news of the disaster here, picked up four boats and 40 persons belonging to the Stella. The officials Sf the London & South western Railway Co. declare that the loss of life by the wreck of the Stella, which belonged to that company, will not exceed 70. Three boats, including the collapsible boat, are missing. The Stella left Southampton at noon Thursday, conveying the first daylight excursion of the season to the Channel islands. The weather was foggy, but all went well until about 4 o'clock the Casquet rocks suddenly loomed up through the fog and the steamer almost immediately afterwards struck amid ships. The captain, seeing that the Stella was fast sinking, ordered the life boats to be launched. His instruct ions were carried out with the utmost celerity and the women and children were embarked in the boats. Then the captain ordered the men to look after themselves. A survivor states that he and 25 oth ers put oft from the Stella In a small boat. The sea was calm but there was a big swirl around the rocks. When this boat was a short distance away from the wreck, the boilers of tha Stella burst with a terrific explosion ond the vessel disappeared stern fore most in the sea. The lust thing the survivor saw was the figure of the captain of the Stella standing cnlmly on the bridge and giving his last instructions. The cap tain perished with his vessel, owing to the suction caused by the sinking steamer being very great. . The Great Western Itnilway Co.s steamer 'era, from Southampton. picked up 40 others of the survivors und lnnded them at Guernsey. Another steamer of the same com pany, which arrived at the island ol Jersey yesterday, reports having passed many bodies of victims of the disaster about the Casquet rocks. A survivor of the disa-ster named Rush says the speed of the Stella In the fog was riot diminished, though the fog whistles were sounded. Rusn adds thnt at 3:30 a. m. the engineer showed him in the engine room a dial registering a speed of Wt knots. He says the vessel struck within 25 min utes aftcrwnrds. Rush further asserts that two life boats were sunk with the steamer which, after resting on the rocks for 10 or 15 minutes, split in two and dis appeared. . . The passengers all agree thnt per fect order and discipline prevailed on board the Stelln. The crew promptly took up their stations when the steam er struck, served out the life belts and lowered the boats. The scene at the moment of the sinking of the vessel was heartrending. Those who had succeeded in jetting Into the boats had a narrow escape from being en gulfed on account of the suction caused by the sinking vessel. "AN UNGRATEFUL PEOPLE." O n. Gomes Describes Cubana In the Aove Sentence Former Insurgents May Not Get the Cash Offered to . The n by Americans. Havana, March 31. Gen. Brooke has almost made up his mind to send the $3,000,000 back to the United States if the Cuban military assembly does not give up the army rolls. "You may as well do so and not trifle much longer," said Secretary Alger, when dis cussing the matter two days ago in conference with Gen. Brooke nnd Max imo Gomez. The latter said such a course would serve the assembly right. Anyway the Impression is spreading that the governor general may return the money to Washington, and it is stirring up fresh feeling' against the assembly. Gen. Ernst called upon the Cuban Rafael Portuondo, chairman of the executive committee of the as sembly, three days ago and asked for the rolls. "Do you come from Gen. Brooke?" asked Portuondo. "Yes," Teplled Ernst. "Officially or unofficially?" 1 "I come unofficially," "Then I cannot give them up," re torted Portuondo. "I can only do so on official recognition." A file of United States troops would nrobnblv be sent to take the rolls if he military administrnlon knew exact ly where they were, but there is a feel ing that a mistake might be made and the administration pluced in the light of owr-nnxiety and possibly be laughrd at. In the course of conversation yes terday with an old friend from, San Domingo, Gomez said: "I am ready to go home. I am tired of this jangle with the assembly. I have learned something about this prople which I did not know before. They are nn un grateful people. They do not appre ciate what the United States govern ment Is doing for them n service in which I am assisting. ' These aisem- which I am assisting." Counterfeiter and Plant Captured . Wilkesbnrre, Pa., April 1. United States Marshal Racharach and Secret Service Detective Parker yesterday ar rested Charles Moses for counterfeit ing. He was sent to jail in default rf $6,000 bail. A big counterfeiting outfit was found hidden In an outhouse at his home. It is the apparatus used by a gang of men who have flooded New Jersey and the eastern part of this state with counterfeit dollars and half dollars. George S. Czepaplas, the leader, was captured some time ago and Is nmv In jarl at Pittsburg. . Oth era are under surveillance. Fatal Resemblance. Paris, April 1. A wealthy gentleman named Tourret was shot dead last evening In the Bois de Boulogne by q man who mistook his victim lor rresi dent Louliet, to whom Tonrett bore t striking resemblance. The murderer. whose name ts Ozouf, Is thought to 1m Insane. Will strike for More Par. . "r4 l'hiladelphln, April 1. The Journey. ;nen Bricklayers' Protective . union numbering 3,000 of the 4,000 brieklayeri in this city, -has decided to go os strike to-day for an Increase in wage from 37 to 45 cents an hour. ,, BRIBERY AND FRAUD. They Rule Cuban Conns, but Gov. Gen Rrooke Proposes to Work Changs Bogus Generals Gomes' Letter Havana, April 3. To-day, as under the Spanish regime, bribery and fraud' direct the Cuban courts. This is the firm conviction of the military admin istration. Gen. Brooke intends to clean out the corruption, to revise .the judic ial procedure, to change the court per sonnel end to abolish the barbarous practice of incommunicado by which a Judge may imprison for life a person ignorant of the accusation against him and of the names of his accusers. It Is true that the statutes allow only three days' detention incommunicado, bnt the judge, under the practice that has grown up, may make a new com mitment at the expiration of the third day, another at the expiration of the sixth nnd so on without limit. More thnn this, the evidence in criminal causes is taken by clerks,- who for a consideration write into the testimony things never uttered, thns often mak ing the best friends of the accused ap pear to condemn him. Maximo Gomez, In a letter to his wife In San Domingo reviews hi differences with the .military assembly. He be gins by describing the situation as it wns when lloliert P. Porter, as the rep resentative of President McKlnley, vis ited Cuba after the assembly's repre sentatives at Washington had obtained a promise of $3,000,000 from the presi dent. The writer says: "This action on the part of the as sembly's committee I approved. It was then that Mr. Porter asked me as commander-in-chief to decide to ac cept the $3,000,000, to aid In Its distri bution and in the disarming of the army and to proceed to Havana to as sist the United State military gover nor. I agreed and on arriving at Ha vana I conferred with Gen. Brooke con cerning the payment and the disarma ment. "The assembly then called upon me to visit Its president, saying the object sought wns an unofficial exchange of Ideas. But It placed me upon the bench of the accused, my crime being that I was inclined to accept the $3,. 000,000 which the assembly 'Itself, through its representntlvesi -had in duced President McKinley to promise, a matter as to which I had not been consulted. It flppenred that I had broken off negotiations for $13,000,000. To all this I replied that I 'had octed In the bestaith, but that nothing had been lost, ns I would withdraw the ac ceptance I had given. They then re quested me to array myself on their side in order to give strength to then resolutions. I said I had no hope ol obtninlr.g more than $3,000,000 from the United States and disapproved ask ing chant'. "The conference ended without ac complishing anything. A few day Inter three men whom I did not know visited me and said several millionaire! stood ready to lonn many millions, but thnt the mater was possible only with my co-nperation. I answered thnt I could not consider any proposi tion of the kind and regarded it nt ptrange that hny one woutd be ready tc lend money without a guaranty. My visitors replied thnt the city council could arrange a guaranty. . Then committee of the nssembly approached me, asking me to support the assem bly's efforts to obtain a loan. To thlf I replied that Cuba could not make a loan, as she lacked the necessary au thority. The next day the assemblj deposed me. Beguiled by mysterious telegram from Washington, the military assem bly iid not dissolve on Saturday oi the Americans and many Cubans had expected. The 23 members present were unwilling to vote for this solu tion because they still believe In th ability of the nssembly to raise a largt lonn with the help of the United States government. Pnnguillv favored paying many Cu ban generals wbo never saw a dny'i fighting declaring that among the civil- Ian members of the Cuban party thert were the most devoted men he ever knew. The motion was carried. It means the admission to payment, ac cording to conceded military grades, ot many men who have not been recog nized before, if the day for the pay ment of officers ever comes. Washington, April 3. Villalon and Heviu, the representatives of the Cu ban assembly who came here in an ef fort to secure more funds tcf be dis tributed to the Cuban army 'when dis banded, left Washington on Saturday for the south, presumably en route to Havana. They expressed themselvet as disappointed with the result of thcii visit. A DOUBLE TRAGEDY. A Canadian Kills His Indian Sweet heart and Then Suicides. Toledo, O., April 3. A tragic story come from Point Pelee, Ont. Jame La Blnnche, a young French Canadian killed 'his sweetheart, an Indian girl named OIgn Tostamle. The French man lived on the mainland and had not seen the girl during the winter. When he went to her home he learned that she had given her love to another, an American.. He begged the young woman to take a walk with him, When they arrived at "Lover's Rock,' a spot made famous because an Indian chief had there murdered a French giTl who refused to marry him, La Blanche is said to have stublied Miss Postnmle. He threw the body into the lake and then drove the knife with which he had killed the girl Into hi own heart. A Ntep Toward municipal Ownership, ' Detroit, Mich., April 3. A long strld towards Detroit's ownership of the city's street railways was taken Satur day evening, when the common coun cil carried out the intent of the Me- Leod law, providing for mnnicipil ownership and operation of Detroit street lailways, by adopting a resolu tion appointing Gov. Pingree, Carl K ncnn'Kii nnu j.iiiou u. Btevnpsjn aa the commifwlon to buy and operate the roads for the city. This result vas reached after a shorp fight, and th rnln'ion wus adopted by a vote of II to 1U Represents a S!tO,0Ou,ooo Syndicate Washington, April 3. C. M. Coen, who I said to be the author of mys terious rlispntche to the titban assem bly, urging that body not to disband on the ground of a good prospect of se curing more than the $3,000,000 offered by the United States, is in Washington, Mr. Coen Inst night admitted that he was the man who had been working on the plan to establish a $20,000,000 bond issue to be pnid for out of the Cu ban revenues now collected by the Uni ted Stntes. He snid he represented syndicate with $20,000,000 capital which Intccied to place the loan. . SENSIBLE, UTTER. A Western Canadian Settler Write. . to aa Illinois Friend. , i In writing to llri T. Hawkyard, of Rockford, 111., Mr. G. Simpklus, of Lc duc, Alberto, Western Canada, (and to- which points especially low rates are be ing quoted over all lines of railway),, (ays: Dear Sir Rec'd your letter the 14th. Inst. We have had no snow till after Christmas, and the cattle have been, able to live out, and are all in good con dition. It is snowing now. That is what we want have, about 6 tnches now. The old settlers say when we have lots of snow It means a good crop- the coming season. It never drifts here The weather is calm and bright. We: do not have to dress any heavier than'in. Illinois, and the horses never shiver with the cold when we take them from the warm stable, as they do in Illinois.. It has not frozen in the stable tins winter. The most of the stock runs out, but- there is no need of it, for timber is plen tiful and there is no expense to build. good stables and houses. We have good: log house and they are very warm., Two men can put up a house 10x24 In two days. There are good rails for fences. We live ten miles from the coal district, the price being 50 cents up to $2.00. The land is a very rich, loamy soil,, from S inches to several feet in depth; the hills have the deepest. It Is a roll ing country, and excellent for stock of all kinds. Sheep do well, and there- are plenty ol small lakes where thfa cattle can get good water. The cattle got out of grasB last year, about the- middle of April, and run at large; un less in charge of a herdsman, we have to fence against them. Wheat goes. from 35 to 60 bushels per acre, oats 80 and90,veryoften a hundred. As to pota toes, a neighbor planted 7 bushels and dug 226 bushels, and no bugs. Roots of all kinds do well. There are lots of strawberries and lots of red raspberries, black and red currants, and gooseber ries, where the fire has not burnt them. Cattle are scarce. I have been trying' to buy some for 8 months and have got only three two-year-old, and paid $30 each. Hogs are scarce, but can be got. They sell for 6 cents dressed, and cost more forstockers. Wheat, 50 cents per bushel; oats, 25 cents; eggs, 30 cents a dozen; butter, 15 and 20 cents; poultry was 10 and 11 cents dressed. Sheep are source. If you come, bring your farm tools. but bring no seeders; we use drills. Bring cows, but do not bring horses unless you are an experienced hand in shipping them, for so many of them are hurt in shipping. There will be plenty of work for a binder. Two good horses will break, but three lighter are better. The horses you get here can work without grain, but are better with it. It will be hard to tell what prices horses will be, for the Immigration will be very large the comiug spring. They could not be had last spring at one time. They claim the best time to break is June, but my experience is to break In the spilng and work it. You can break till the- middle of Julyv An Orthodox Douker. - The ecclesiastical functions of rornV deans had fallen into almost entire dis use prior to the Tractarian movement.. The revival of their ancient authority after 1850 led to the telling of many stories anent their newly exercised du. ties. One of the stories Hicks used to tell wns of the visit of a rural dean to Blisland, and of his interviewing the parish clerk in the absence of the rec tor. The rural dean expressed to the clerk his disapproval of the donkey's being allowed to graze in the church yard. The elerk, eager to defend hn absent rector, burst out: "Ain't un a religious baste? Why, that 'er be, and no chapel baste, neither. Maister sent un last week to the smithy, and the man who shood un was a dissenter, and1 he kicked un sure enough. Maister wouldn't hold with sich nonsense. Cornhill Magazine. ' Comfort for the Recipient. Emma Pans, if green means forsaken.. does the giving of an emerald to a young lady mean that the giver has forsaken herr Her Ppa No, dear. It means that he has forsaken the emerald. Jewelers' Weekly. "Love and a Cough Cannot be Hid." It is this fact that makes the lover and his sweetheart happy, and sends the suf ferer from a cough to his doctor, Sut there are hid den ills lurking in impure blood. "The liver is wrong, ' it is thought, , "or the kid neys." Did it ever occur to you that the trouble is in your blood? Pnrlfy this river of life with flood' Sarsapurilla. Then illness will be ban ished, and strong, vigorous health will, result. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best known, best endorsed and most natural: of all blood purifiers. ' Catarrh "I suffered from childhood, with catarrh. Wns entirely deaf in one ear. Hood's Bursopnrills cured me and restored my bearing." Mas. 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