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NEWS OF THE WORLD.
PEACE AFFAIRS.
Filipinos again Are upon the Ameri
cans in the dark.
The bishop of Havana has issued a
warning to parents not to send their
children to non-Catholic schools.
The number of Filipinos killed at
Manila is estimated at fully 2,500.
About 65 Americans have been killed.
There was a lull in the fighting at
Manila. Many Filipinos have taken
to the jungles, where they will con
tinue to fight.
Aguinaldo is said to be collecting his
forces near Polo, Luzon. General Otis
estimates that the Filipino leader has
30,000 men.
Servants in Havana are declining to
work, saying 'hat it is unnecessary be
cause the United States government
will feed them.
Whitelaw Reid urged the retention
of the Philippines, and declared
against statehood or citizenship for the
peoples in our new possessions.
The democratic members of the
house military affairs committee have
declined Secretary Alger's invitation to
accompany him on his trip to Cuba.
General Otis cables a report that the
"insurgent rcpresentaive at Washing
ton” sent word to Aguinaldo to drive
out the Americans before the arrival of
reinforcements.
General Ernst finds that beef re
ceived recently at Havana is much bet
ter than the previous shipments.
About 2 per cent, of 900,000 rations was
Many of the American troops will be
withdrawn from Cuba next month.
American officers at Manila express
confidence that they can soon crush
Filipino opposition.
Cuban generals who created a scene
at the Garcia funeral in Havana are
being blamed for their conduct,
condemned.
Admiral Dewey, in an interview, says
that were the Filipinos an ordinary
people he would say the backbone of
their opposition was crushed, “but with
> this race you can never tell.”
The Cuban officers who were to take
part in the burial of General Garcia
in Havana became offended as a re
sult of a question of precedence, and
the burial took place without their
presence.
United States forces, under Brigadier
Genera) Miller, captured Iloilo, capital
of the Island of Panay and seat of the
so-called government of the Vlsayas
federation, last Saturday, after a bom
bardment.
Details of the capture of Iloilo state
that the entire Chinese and Filipino
quarters of the city were destroyed by
the fire said to have been started by
t.ie Filipinos. American troops now
oc.upy the defenses there.
The report of the war investigating
commission, which was presented to
President McKinley last week, has
been made public. It denies ail of
General Miles' statements In regard to
the beef supplied to the army.
Secretary sent to the senate a
statement explaining why Admiral
Sampson had been advanced over Ad
miral Schley. He criticises sharply
the conduct of the latter In the war
with Spain and charges him with “un
steadiness in purpose” and disobedi
ence of orders.
DOMESTIC.
Chicago May wheat, 72%@?2%c.
Mrs. Rhoda Lovelace, aged 99, died
at Youngstown, Ind.
The Keokuk & Western railway was
absorbed by the Burlington.
The National Council of Women
opens Its meeting In Washington.
Lieut. Edwin A. Hurting of South
Dakota was drowned at Manila.
E. Myers, the amateur
sprinter, died at New York, aged 41.
Coal prices have been advanced from
25 to 35 cents a ton at New York.
Slight earthquakes occurred in
North Carolina. Tennessee and Ohio.
The steamer Bulgaria Is thought to
hve been lost at sea, with 116 people.
John S. Jelly, a pioneer of Jo Daviess
pounty, died In Oalena, 111., aged 85
*ars.
David Kcyt, an old and wealthy con
tractor of Rockford, 111., died aged 73
years.
Congressman Barrows of Massachu
setts was nominated for librarian of
congress.
The United States and Canadian
commission Is said to be on the verge
| of collapse.
Cincinnati clothing firms were
burned out, with a loss of half a mill
ion dollars.
Throngs of visitors ill New Orleans
f enjoyed the annual carnival. It was
a great success.
A chemical trust, with 125,000,000
capital, has been Incorporated at Al
bany. N. Y.
Commander Frederick Booth-Tuck r
, of the salvation army is seriously sick
at New York.
Fire destroyed the machine shops at
the Brooklyn navy yard, entailing a
loss of J 1.500,000.
!■ Gen. Mger called on Miss Helen
Gould to tnank her 1n person for her
war relief work.
i Richard Mansfield 1s sick, and was
yunable to appear as Cyrano de Ber
ifeerac at Boston.
F Senuti r-eleot Beveridge of Indiana
delivered an address in Philadelphia in
thvor of expansion.
If Siepry Jones, better known as Cav
endish. the whist expert and author.
1s dead at New York.
A large machine shop in the Brook
lyn navy yard was burned, causing a
million dollar loss.
k Mrs. Fannie Humphreys Gaffney of
View York was elected president of the
Council of Women.
3dward Simeon Hayden, Inventor of
' T *yde- trseess of electrolysis for
separating precious metals from cop
per, is dead at New York, aged 47.
Two of the five university of Wis
consin students charged with rioting
were convicted and fined.
A rich mine owner in Montana was
killed by a man of whose sister he had
ihaae derogatory remarks.
Sevier Forcier, 100 years of age and
the pioneer settler of northern Wiscon
sin, died at Chippewa Falls.
Former confederates now living in
Boston are organizing a veterans’ as
sociation for social purposes.
Rev. Henry M. Field has resigned as
editor of the Presbyterian Evange
list on account of advanced age.
The cruiser Charleston was stationed
off the coast within an estimated eight
mile range of Aguinaldo’s capital.
The State Insane Asylum at Yank
ton, S. I)., was destroyed by fire and
seventeen of the inmates perished.
A dozen men and several women
were injured in a factional fight at
Diamond Bluff, Wis. Some may die.
Colonel D. C. Wellers, manager of
the Postal Telegraph Cable Company
at Vincennes, Ind., died aged 67 years.
Secretary Gage, in an interview in
Chicago, said he believed financial re
form would be enacted at the next ses
sion of congress.
O .e person was killed and seventeen
were Injured in a wreck on the Pitts
burg and Lake Eric railroad near
Fleming Park, Pa.
Sac*a Fe roau officials have con
tracted for ten automobiles to run be
tween Flagstaff, Ariz., and the grand
canyon of the Colorado.
In the Pennsylvania house the jury
bill in Senator Quay's interest goes
over till March 21. The senator’s
trial is fixed for Feb. 27.
Frank E. Dillenbaugh has been
found guilty by the circuit court at
Cleveland of unprofessional conduct
involving moral turpitude.
Secretary of the Navy lying has is
sued an order prohibiting the sale or
issue of malt or other alcoholic liquor
to sailors at naval stations.
The North Carolina house of dele
gates has voted in favor of impeach
ment proceedings against Judge W. 1,.
Norwood, of the thirteenth circuit.
A. W. Campbell of Wheelng, W.
Va., died suddenly at Webster Groves,
Mo., of paralysis. Mr. Campbell was
one of the founders of West Virginia.
Lincoln day was observed through
out the country by banquets of repub
lican clubs. The policy of imperialism
was the leading topic of the speeches.
The Elmwood opera house at South
Framingham, Mass., was badly dam
aged by fire and two stores were also
damaged. Loss, $20,000; insured for
$15,000.
Marie VVainwrlght, the actress, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy at New
York, with liabilities $11,052 and asstes
SIOO in clothing, which she claims is
exempt.
An avalanche of snow and earth at
Silver Plume, Col., burled 25 Italian
miners, a woman and two children in
Cherokea Gulch, several of them be
ing killed.
Captain J. Pinkney Smith, formerly
agent of the Southern Associated
Press in New Orleans, and one of the
owners of the Daily States, died of !a
grippe.
It is said at the navy department
that if the nomination of Pear-Admiral
Schley is not confirmed by the senate
his position on the navy rolls will lie
jeopardized.
Broadway. New York, has been offi
cially extended to Spuyten Duyvll, and
Is now thirteen miles long.. The New
York board of trade favors restlctlng
high building.
Win. J. Bryan, in a speech at a
democratic banquet at St. Paul, said
that the ratification of the pence treaty
clears the way for the recognition of
a Philippine republic.
Albert Berg, secretary of state of
Minnesota, narrowly escaped death at
Washington tnrough Inadvertently
taking an overdose of a patent medi
cine containing chloral.
James R. Graham, former partner in
the commission business at New Lis
bon, Ohio, with the father of Mark
Hanna, died at Davenport, lowa, at the
advanced age of 85 years.
At San Francisco Attorney General
Ford has filed an opinion with the rail
way commissioners n which he states
that they have no authority over the
Pullman Palace Car company.
The three men under arrest in Mis
souri who are wanted In Minnesota for
alleged complicity In the Great North
ern train robbery are indicted in the
former state for highway robbey.
John A. McMurtie. the millionaire
railroad contractor who built the R'.o
Grande over Marshall pass and through
the Grand Canon, died at Denver of
blood poisoning, claused by an abscess.
The president has commuted the
sentence of Private John Nofwit,
7th volunteer Infantry, who was con
victed of murder by court martial and
sentenced to be shot, to life imprison
ment.
The senate committee on Immigra
tion recommended the prompt exten
sion of the Chinese exclusion act to
Hawaii, together with the discriminat
ing Immigration laws of the United
States.
Allen Eugene Rich, a retired busi
ness man and for many ears one of the
beet-known passenger conductors on
the Chicago and Northwestern road,
fell dead at his home In Janesville,
Wis. He was 57 years old.
The entire country from Florida to
Maine and 1,000 miles Inland was,
bllxrard-B*ept. New York City his
fifteen inches of snow, and all railroad
traffic was alwndoned. while city trans
portation was badly crippled.
The home of Miss Marlon Abbott, an |
actress, in Mamaroneck. N. Y., was
destroyed by fire, and shoVand her
cousin, Miss Helen Abbott ofj’hicag-'.
jumping out of a second story window
in their night clothes.
Amos Palmer, a wealthy young man,
shot and killed his wife at their home
in Edgewood, near Providence, R. 1.,
late last night, and is now in prison.
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer entertained a
few friends to celebrate the eighth an
niversary of their wedding.
A definite agreement for the adjust
ment of the debt of the Central Pa
cific railroad to the government has
been made between the government
commission and the bankers represent
ing the railroad. It is understood the
plan contemplates the payment of $58,-
000,000 to the government in semi-an
nual 3 per cent, notes, the last expir
ing ten years from date. These notes
will be secured by a deposit of Central
Pacific 4 per cent, bonds.
Stephen Neal, former judge of Boone
county circuit and author of the four
teenth amendment to the constitution
of the United States, has filed suit for
divorce at Lebanon, Ind. Plaintiff is 82
years old, and has been totally blind
since last July. Mrs. Neal is 62. It
is the third marriage for each. Mr.
Neaf alleges that his wife forged his
name to a check for $275 anu left for
California, leaving him blind, in feeble
health, without money, and with no
one to care for him, except his 15-year
old son.
Baltimore was visited by one of the
worst snowstorms in its history. The
snowfall for twenty-four hours was
15.5 inches and since February 5 was
32.1 inches. Car lines generally were
tied up. Public and private schools
were forced to close. Business was
practically suspended in all sections of
the city. Funerals announced to take
place had in many instances to be post
poned. Much suffering is reported
and many appeals for help made. The
storm extended from Florida to Maine
and west to the Alleghany mountains.
Remarkably low temperatures and
heavy snow are reported in the south.
FOREIGN.
Latest advices from Samoa state
that anarchy prevails there.
Hydraulic mining on a large scale is
to be tried In the Klondike.
Hugh Ryan of Toronto, Ont., died
of angina pectoris, aged 67 years.
A large number of additional steam
ship wrecks on the British coast are
reported.
Heavy gales are sweeping the
British coast, causing shipwrecks and
loss of life.
Prince Napoleon Charles Bonaparte,
head of the elder branch of that
family, died in Rome.
The conditional resignation of the
Hungarian cabinet was presented to
Emperor Francis Joseph.
President Zelaya has issued a decree
declaring the republic of Nicaragua
to be in a state of siege.
Baron Karl de Merck and Francis C.
Baring prominent society men, were
granted divorces in London.
Right Honorable Sir Joseph
William Chitty, a lord justice of the
court of appeals, is dead at Ixmdon,
aged 71.
Archduke John of Austria, alias
John Orth, is reported to be living on
a farm in the Argentine Republic with
his morganatic wife.
The situation caused by the Nicara
gua revolution is becoming more criti
cal, and the gunboat Marinetta has
been ordered to Blueflelds.
William Tumour Thomas Poulett,
the organ grinder who is claiming the
Poulett earldom in England, says he
has received offers of aid from Ameri
cans.
General ■ Mercier admitted to the
court of cassation that, as minister for
war, he communicated secret docu
ments to the Dreyfus court martial
without the knowledge of Dreyfus or
his counsel.
A special cablegram from Rome
states that Bishop Alexander Chris
tie, of Vancouver, has been trans
ferred to the see of Oregon, to succeed
Archbishop W. H. Gross, who died in
Baltimore last November.
“Evil Dispositions
Are Early Shown. ”
Just so evil in the blood
comes out in shape of scrof
ula, pimples, etc., in children
and young people. Taken in
time it can be eradicated by
using Hood's Sarsaparilla.
In older people, the aftermath
of irregular living shows it
self in bilious conditions, a
heavy head, a foul mouth,
a general bad feeling.
It is the blood, the impure blood,
friends, which is the real cause. Purify
that with Hood’s Sarsaparilla and
happiness will reign in your family.
Blood Poison -* I lived in a bed of fire
for jears owing to blood poisoning that fol
lowed small j>ox. It broke out all over my
body, itching intensely. Tried doctors and
hospitals In vain. I tried Hood's Sarsapa
rilla. It helped. I kept at it and was en
tirely cured I could go on the housetops
and shout about it.” Mss. J. T. Williams,
Carbondale, Pa.
Scrofula Sores -“ My baby at two
months had scrofula sores on chick and
arm. Deal applications and physicians'
medicine did little or no good. Hood’s Sar
saparilla cured him permanently. He it
now four, with smooth fair skin." Mss.
S. S. Written, Farmington, Del.
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Hood's fill' cur* liter Lit: no Irritating and
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Washington’s Birthday,
February 22.
THE NEAREST HI N TO WASHINGTON.
NEAREST OF KIN.
Major Ebenezer Burges Ball, after a
careful investigation of his genealogy
by the Sons of American Revolution,
has been declared by them to be the
nearest living relative of George Wash
ington. Aside from this fact, in itself
sufficient to awaken the interest of all
in the man, Major Ball, when dressed
In the uniform of the continental
army, bears a remarkable personal re
semblance to the great patriot. At
first sight his picture is nearly always
taken for a likeness of General Wash
ington. Mary Ball, the mother of
Washington, was a cousin of Col. Bur
ges Ball, the grandfather of the sub
ject of this sketch. Washington re
sembled his mother’s family, and it is
from the same source that Major Ball
gets his likeness to his illustrious
kinsman.
Major Ball has led a varied and ro
mantic life. He was horn at the fam
ily home, famous in histoi’v as Ball’s
bluff, not far from Leesburg, Virginia.
When a young man he began commer
cial life in Washington; but subse
quently gave it up, went west and be
came famous as an Indian fighter and
California pioneer. At the beginning
of the civil war he returned and fought
in the confederate army, for what he
thought were the outraged rights of
his native state. The close of the
war found him homeless and destitute
and he secured a small business
privilege in the court of the pension of
fice at Washington, where he still la
bors. His distinguished bearing and
remarkable resemblance to Washing
ton attracts much attention tc him.
WASHINGTON WOMEN.
When Mary Bell was 27 years old
she was married to a widower ten
years her senior—a man with four
children. His name was Augustine
Washington and he had considerable
land, which was cheap at that time.
They entered upon their wedded life
March 6, 1731. The 22d of February
following their first child was born
and they named him George. Mary
Washington bad five other children,
and she brought up the entire flock of
ten—four of them another woman's—
so that none disgraced her, and some
did her Infinite credit, one, at least,
earning Lord Brougham's eulogy that
he was “the greatest man of our own
or any other age.”
All who are entitled to nave an
opinion unite In saying that it was
from his mother that this great man
inherited his abilities He was re
markably like her in feature and like
her family in stature and figure. And,
like her, he did ’'s duty, stopping at
no obstacle. Mhry Washington was a
woman of her time —and it was a
harder time than this. Her husband
died after twelve years of married life,
leaving her the land and the children.
The house in which they all lived had
three rooms below and an attic above.
They were simply dressed, the girls in
linsey-woolsey spun at home; the boys
In suits of tow. A suit In those days
consisted of a shirt and pair of trous
ers. In summer they were hatless and
barefooted; In fr'nter they had caps
and shoes. If they felt cold they put
on another tow shirt and another pair
of tow pantaloons. If they were still
cold they put on three. Mary Wash
ington did the cooking, washing, tail
oring and all the rest She had little
help except from the older ch'ldren.
For her one luxury she smoked a pipe.
George Washington had a good eye,
and he never used It to better advan
tage than in looking at pretty girls. He
began to fall in love with them when
he was 15 years old. He never fell
out of love with them. Elbert Hub
bard calls attention to the fact that he
went a long way out of his road dur
ing his first Journey westward to see
an Indjan princess rejoicing in the
i name of Aliguippa. The f Indians
named him Conotancarius, the
"Plunderer of Villages,” and wanted
him to marry one of their maidens anu
settle down among them.
He did better. Three years after
ward he went to New York on busi
ness, extending his journey as far
north as Boston. But while resting
from the fatigues of travel in the old
Dutch town he spent a week or two
visiting Beverley Robinson, formerly
of Virginia. Through him he met his
sister-in-law, Mary Phillipse, whose
father was one of the “solid men” of
Gotham. She took a certain fancy to
the tall young southerner who had
been fighting on the frontier and
boasted a military title. He took
something more than a fancy to her,
though she was his elder, better edu
cated and more accustomed to polite
society. So, on that very brief ac
quaintance, he proposed, only to be
taught the difference between a fancy
and a matrimonial engagement.
Two years afterward she was mar
ried to a colonel in the British service
—Roger Morris—a man of distinction
in his day. Washington always blamed
himself for being in too great haste
in the matter, so he bore no grudge. If
he had. revenge was on the knees of
the gods; for they had not been mar
ried quite eighteen months before they
were fugitives, while Mary’s “old
flame,” the newly chosen commander
in-chief of the continental army, made
his headquarters in their home.
If Washington thought he lost Mary
Phillipse by the precipitancy with
which he urged his suit, he did not
abide by the teachings of experience.
About the time the New York beauty
was wedded to her tory colonel
Washington had occasion to go to Wil
liamsburg to consult a physician in
regard to an ailment which did not
prove serious in the least. His road
took him to the house of a sprightly
widow, only seven months in mourn
ing. She was 26, just three months
his junior. She owned 15,000 acres of
land, 200 slaves, a large amount of im
proved property in the city of Wil
liamsburg, and she had some money
out at interest. The young man
hitched his horse, received an invita
tion to stay to supper, accepted it, and
as soon as the meal was over, pro
posed, following, it would seem, an old
proverb in regard to suing for a
widow's hand.
Martha Custis explained to a friend
a little later that her property was get
ting into confusion and badly needed
a man to look after it Possibly, too,
her two children required a father’s
care. Whatever the reason, she ac
cepted him as promptly as he had pro
posed. The engagement ring cost him
£2 and 16 shillings, but It must be re
membered, as was remarked when
Washington's feat of throwing a dol
lar across the Potomac was unsuccess
fully attempted, that money went
farther in those days. Eight months
afterward the happy twain were mar
ried. With her money Washington
rebuilt the mansion he had inherited
at Mount Vernon, and it was her prop
erty which made him the wealthiest
man in the thirteen colonies. But
Martha Washington was not Mary. She
knew so little about domestic cares
that he had to hire a housekeeper. And
Washington also wrote her letters for
her.
Though Washington's mother was a
stronger character than his father, ]
there was but one other of their chil- I
dren who resembled both the mother
and her eldest boy. This was Betty
Washington. She had the same broad
face, thin lips, large nose and partially
closed eyes. Tha* little protuberance
beside the jaw, which some irreverent
Americans have attributed to the use
of chewing tobacco, really was due L 1
the spring which kept George Wastl
ington's set of boxwood teeth open |
when he opened his mouth. Those
the world's fair. Thisflfp iaw d(e?ht i
teeth, by the way, were exhibited at |
the world s fair. This Betty did not i
have. But when she did her hjA in a
cue behind, brushed it back
and left it curly and bushy at the
sides, she was her brother’s living im
age. Having a sense of humor, she
to do this to tease George—and
is some evidence to show that
she succeeded. She married Fielding
Lewis, and one of her sons was the
first of all the secretaries to the presi
dent of the United States. Lawrence,
his brother, married Nellie Custis.
Now, Nellie was the only child of
General Washington’s stepson, being
Martha’s grand-daughter. She was, of
course, Wash'’-’ton’s step-granddaugh
ter, besides being his adopted child.
By this marriage she became also his
niece-in-law, and her children were his
grandchildren ny adoption, his step
great-grandchildren and his grand
nephews and nieces. It was to Law
rence and Neilic Custis Lewis that
Washington left part of his estate of
Mount Vernon. There was also a
Samuel, who lived with him at Mount
niece, Harriot, daughter of his brother
Vernon, and was married there. And
it is of her that Washington makes his
one complaint. He wiites that “she
was not brung up right.”
The British tank steamer Weehaw
ken. from Philadelphia, arrived at
Ponta Delgada, Azore islands, with
twenty-five passengers from the Ham
burg-American liner Bulgaria, which
is reported adrift and helpless 800
miles from the Azores.
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Most frequently such a woman leaves
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than better. In consulting Mrs. Pink
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Her intimate knowledge of women’s
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