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HEWS OF TIIE WORLD.
BPANISH-AMERICAN SITUATION.
President McKinley signed the peace
treaty.
The Spanish government. It is an
nounced, has decided not to sell tne
Caroline Islands.
It is stated that the Filipinos must
lay down their arms before they can
deal with General Otis.
The latest advices from Manila state
that the American troops continue to
drive the Filipinos inland.
Admiral Cervera is to be prosecuted
In Spain as a result of his defeat by
the American fleet at Sanitago.
The credentials of Brigham G. Rob
• erts of Utah, as a member of congress
have -been received and placed on file.
The Filipinos, at Admiral Dewey’s
order, evacuated San Roque, a town
near Manila, but Bet fire to it before
lepartlng.
General Henry was appointed the
new Porto Rican cabinet, and the lib
erals are said to be dissatisfied with
his policy.
/' Gen. John Patterson has been placed
on the retired list.
Two Minnesota soldiers were wound
ed at Manila by one bullet.
Representative Dockery said next
year’s deficiency will be sfto,ooo,ooo.
1 It codt the government $99,660 to In
vestigate the conduct of the Spanlsu
war.
President McKinley commuted the
sentence of Commissary-General Ea
gan to retirement from rank and duty
lor six years.
Robert P. Porter, recently a special
commissioner to Cuba, sailed for Eu
rope and is reported to be on a mis
sion for tffe president.
The Anglo-American joint high com
mission has reached no conclusion on
the proposition to give Canada a sea
port on the Alaskan coast.
The queen regent of Spain has signed
the decrees convoking the cortes on
February 20, and re-establishing the
constitutional guarantees.
Army officers think the war Investi
gation committee’ may be called to ac
count in the courts for reflections cast
upon any one In its reports.
The body of Gen. Callxto Garcia ar
rived In Havana from the United
States and was received with honors
by Cuban and American officers.
The American troops attacke 1 Cal
oocan, a village six mileß northeast of
Manila, and captured It after inflict
ing havoc on the Filipinos. They also
took Uolllo.
The return of General Wood to San
tiago bus, It Is said, pacified -the peo
ple, and he will probably recommend
the disbanding of two American regi
ments.
General Otis cables from Manila that
Aguinaldo has requested a cessation of
hostilities and a conference. The
American commander has declined to
answer him.
General Miles, it Is said, Is fully pre
pared to defeud himself against the
criticisms of the war Investigating
commission when the time conies for
him to iipeak.
Admiral Dewey has written a letter
to Judge Urawley of South Carolina,
statlug that under uo circumstances
would he be a candidate for the presi
dential nomination in 1900.
.The inquiry Into the charges against
1 the character of the army meats pre
ferred by Gen. Mileß will follow close
Upon the presentation of the report of
the commission to investigate the con
duct of the war.
> The state department has declined to
the claim of the Austro-Hun
garian government for indemnity on
account of Hungarian miners killed by
„ a sheriff’s poßse at Hazeltou, Pa., on
September 10, 1897.
The Havana police force has been
\ organized by ex-Supt. John McCullagti,
of New York. Residents of Santiago
complain that the cost of the Havana
police Is greater thun the expenses of
the whole province of Santiago.
The Havana correspondent of the
London Times says General M xituo
Gomez has agreed to refer to the Cu
ban assembly at Muriauao the Ameri
can offer of $8,000,000 to pay off the
Cuban army on condition of disband
ment.
General Otis’ official reports up to
date indicate that 49 Americans have
been killed in the fighting and 148
wounded. He estimates' the total Fil
ipino loss at about 4,000, hut this Is
believed to be below the correct ng
uree.
General Otis cables that Agonclllo is
responsible for tbe outbreak m Ma
nila. It is reported there, be says,
that the Philippine representative tel
egraphed from Washington to Agui
naldo lelliug him to drive out the
Americans before re-enforcements ar- j
rived.
The report of tbe war Investigating I
commission declares that the charges
of incompetency in the war depart
ment are well founded. Gen. Miles
is censured for public criticisms of
army meats, and the commission as
set Is there was no evldeuce the beef
was treated with chemicals.
Surgeon General Sternberg said that
there was no necessity for any addi
tional provision fer the treatment of
soldiers in the Phil
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nila. Ample provision was made some
time ago for such an emergency.
Private James Ellis, company I,
North Carollnia volunteer Infantry,
having been tried and found guilty
of murder by a genera) court mar
tial convened at Macon, Ga„ waa sen
tenced to be dishonorably discharged
from the service of the United States
forfeiting all pay and allowances and
to be confined for the period of his
natural life. The sentence has been
approved and the United States peni
tentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.,
designated as the place of confine
ment.
DOMESTIC.
Chicago May wheat, 73%c.
An attempt was made to dynamite
a hotel at Butte.
Senator Roach of North Dakota was
married In Washington.
The village of Forestport, N. Y.,
was destroyed by fire.
IJr. James H. Etheridge, the gyne
cologist, is dead in Chicago.
Belmond, lowa, had a fire which de
stroyed 3150,000 worth of property.
At Jackson, Miss., Governor Mc-
Laurin is critically ill of pneumonia.
War officials are looking for Lieut.
J. B. Everitt, Company A, 4th Wis
consin.
Nearly all the large cereal factories
in the country are merged under one
management.
The department of agriculture
will have a beef investigation on its
own account.
A. C. McClurg & Cos., the Chicago
publishers, were burned out, the loss
being $650,000.
George M. Curtis of lowa Is ap
pointed a member of the colonial
board for Cuba.
Coal companies and dealers were
indicted in Cincinnati for violating
the anti-trust law.
A Chippawa Fall (Wis.) man was
murdered in the Klondike after gain
ing a large fortune.
Captain who aided
“Boss” Tweed to escape to Cuba, is
dead at New York.
Millionaire James L. Flood was
married In Kansas City to Miss Fritz,
sister of his first wife.
George Scarcliff, Sr., a wealthy
pioneer resident of Janesville, Wis.,
died at the age of 73.
The American commissioners refuse
to cede Skaguay, Alaska, or any other
territory to Great Britain.
An epidemic of “spotted fever,” or
cerebro spinal meningitis, is said to be
raging at Morgantown, Ky.
Rev. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, a former
Haltlmorean, was elected rabbi of
Temple Emanu-el, New York.
Maxey hall, at Brown university, was
gutted by fire. Loss, $25,000. Fifty
three sutdents lost their rooms.
Rev. James Monroe Taylor, presi
dent of Vassar college, was elected
firesident of Brown university.
Samuel C. Meredith died at Indian
apolis, aged 92. He was the oldest
newspaper publisher In the state.
Senator Hansbrough’s Inter-Ocean
building and other structures at
Devils Lake, N. D., were burned.
Plans for a gigantic silk trust, with
headquurters iu Paterson, N. J., are
being discussed by the manufacturers.
It is estimated that 50 per cent, of
the wheat acreage in central Illinois
has been killed by the severe weather.
George Searles of Chicago found his
wife at Wichita. Kaiw with the man
with whom she ran spnty in January,
1895.
Professionals are excluded from
membership in the L. A. W., but will
be allowed representation in the as
sembly.
The president and cabinet fully de
cided upon an extra session if the
army reorganization bill is not passed
by March 4.
Judge Simon Baldwin, of Con
necticut, urged the restoration of the
whipping-post for the punishment of
wife-beaters.
Intensely eold weather prevailed
throughout the country. The tem
perature fell to twenty-Blx degrees in
parts of Florida.
A loving cup was presented to Ad
miral Sampson's wife by the com
manders who served under the Ad
miral at Santiago.
Mrs. L. Z. Lieter and her daughters
sailed for Europe, the daughters to
continue on to India to visit their
sister, Lady Curzon,
The Delaware legislature passea a
bill reducing the taxes of the Balti
more and Ohio railroad from $35,000
to 25,000 annually.
The American Steel and Wire com
pany will advance wages of all mill
men 10 per cent. This affects sev
eral thousand mn.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie has offered to
give Atlanta. Ga.. a SIOO,OOO public li
brary if the city will furnish a site and
an annual appropriation.
John C. Jenks. one of the first
settlers of Janesville. Wis., and for
many years a leading business man,
passed away at the age of 87.
Admirrl Lord Charles Beresford ar
rived in San Francisco from J&pan
and gave his views on the necessary
policy to be pursued In China.
Iu New York the engagement is an
nounced of Lispeuard Stewart and
Miss Romola Dahlghen. a granddaugh
ter of the late Admiral Dahlgren.
Bishop John Williams, of the Pro
testant Episcopal diocese of Connecti
cut. senior bishop of the church, died
at his home in Middletown, Conn.
Mrs. Martha Cumback died at
Greensburg, Ind., of heart failure,
aged 66 years. She was the wife of
former Governor Will Cumback.
Jesse H. Bunnell of Brooklyn, N. Y.,
died of heart disease, aged 56. He was
in the United States military tele
graph service during the civil war.
At Denver, Henry P. Rhodes. ex-as
sistant United States district attorney,
died from wounds Inflicted by himself
with a Be was 3i years old.
Fire destroyed one of the detached
cottages of the South Dakota insane
asylum and 17 of the .wo
men patftnts wefe burned to death.
Horace’ A. Taylor, of Madison, Wis.,
editor of the Wisconsin State Jour
nal, was appointed assistant secretary
of the treasury, a place worth $4,500 a
year.
Secretary ATger has directed that a
contract be made w,th Louis Gath
mann of Chicago for an 18-lnch gun.
The ordnance officers had reported
against It.
Mrs. Pamphilia Wolcott died at
Akron, Ohio, aged 72 years. She was
the widow of C. P. Wolcotttand sister
of Edwin M. Stanton, secretary of war
in Lincoln’s cabinet.
Miss Catherine Deering Nevins of
East Orange and Nicholas Boyle of
Wexford, Ireland, were married in
St. John’s' Roman Catholic church, In
Orange, N. J.
Major J. C. Cravens, aged 61 years,
a curator of the University of Mis
souri and a prominent lawyer and
politician, died at Springfield, Mo.,
after a brief illness.
R. F. Beecher died suddenly at
Wenona, I'l. He had been identified
with the business interests of Wonona,
and was city treasurer and a member
of the board of education.
Rev. H. L. Baugher, D. D., of Get
tysburg, died at Philadelphia, aged
59 years. For twenty-five years he was
professor of Greek in the Pennsyl
vania College, Gettysburg.
Mrs Ethan Allen, wife of Colonel
Ethan Allen, grandson of the revolu
tionary hero, died suddenly during a
performance of Lohengrin at New
York, from heart failure.
Duke D’Arcos, formerly Spanish
minister to Mexico, may be sent to
Washington as diplomatic representa
tive of the Spanish government to ex
change ratifications of the treaty.
Don J. Leathers, who managed the
famous Allerton-Nelson race for $lO,-
000 in Grand Rapids in 1890, died in
Tallahassee, Fla., where he had gone
for the winter. He was 55 years old.
At Auburn, Cal., the buildings of the
Big Dipper mine in the lowa Hill dis
trict were carried away by the burst
ing of a reservoir. Five Chinese and
one white man were killed. Loss
$20,000.
Mrs. William C. Whitney Is to be
moved from her husband’s country
home at Westport, L. 1., to their city
mansion. It will be the fifth removal
since Mrs. Whitney’s terrible accident
a year ago:
An entire Italian colony was swept
out of existence yesterday at Silver
Plume, Colo., when a snowslide de
scended north of the town and carried
out six families. Nine persons per
ished and fourteen are missing.
James H. Remington, a veteran
lawyer, for many years head of the
United States Law association, com
mited suicide at his home in Brooklyn.
He is supposed to have been mentally
unbalanced by an attack of the grip.
Arrangements are under way and
partly completed for the amalgama
tion of interests of all the leading
woolen manufacturers in the United
States. The capital which will be
represented In this combination will
be at least $60,000,000.
At St. Louis, Boiler Inspector Price,
under investigation by the senate
Lexow committee testified yesterday,
admitting that he had made changes
in his records cud had issued fifty or
sixty engineers’ licenses of which
there was no record.
The United States Varnish company
is being organized under the laws of
New Jersey with a capital of $18,000,-
000 preferred and $18,000,000 common
stock. The new company will con
solidate the varnish manufacturing
interests of the country.
A letter from Gautemala states that
the government, in order to promote
the rubber industry, has issued a de
cree offering a caballeria of the public
lands —equivalent to over 100 acres—
to any person having 20,000 rubber
.trees over four years old.
There is a serious hitch in the work
of the Anglo-American commission
which may result in permanently end
ing the negotiations for anew trei.’.y.
The Canadian commissioners are said
to have demanded and the Americans
to have refused the cession of Skaguay,
Alaska.
Beatty Halestler, brother of Mrs.
Rudvard Kipling,- has gone to New
York from Vermont to sue Rudyard
Kipling for $50,000 for alleged mali
cious prosecution and false arrest In
1896. Kipling al'eged that Balestler
threatened .his life, but the case was
dropped.
At Akron, 0., Nellie Howers brought
suit against the American Cereal Cc
to prevent the directors from turning
the company over to the prospective
combine. She sets forth, among other
things, that the conveyance would be
illegal, as It Is for the purpose of
forming a trust. ,
The National Steel company, which
Is to control the rolling mills of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and West Virginia, has
been incorporated In Jersey City. It is
not the $400,000,000 trust which it
was rumored was about to absorb the
Federal Steel company, and Mr. Car
negie is not interested In it.
The plea in abatement on behalf of
Mrs. Annie E. George, indicted for
the murder of George D. Sexton, at
Canton. 0., has been prepared. .Con
trary to expectations, the plea does
not go Into the merits of the case but
is almost an exact copy of the motion
to quash, filed and overruled some
days ago.
In a shooting affray at Anniston,
Ala., Colonel David G. Colson, con
gressman from the eleventh Ala
bama district, was wounded by
Lieutenant E. D. Scott, a prominent
young attorney of Lexington, Ky.
Colson had trouble with Lieu
tenant Blakeman and nulled the j
latter’s ear. Scott took up the quar-
rel in behalf of Blakeman and the ;
shooting resulted.
Gen. A. D. Strauss, consul general of
Nicaragua, in New York., City, re
ceived a cablegram from the jJfeshkMM
of Nicaragua stating that all the pdßp]
on the eastern or Atlantic coast Wt
that state have been closed to flmiSi
mence by his orders. The closing of
the ports, It is thought, Is for the por
pose of preventing the bringing in
arms and other contraband of war for
the Insurgents, the uprising all along
the last coast exclusively.
CABLE CULLINGS.
The artillery strength of the Ger
man army is to be increased!
Gen. Count Caprivi was buried on
the family estate at Skyren, Prussia.
The Japanese government has prac
tically succeeded in quelling the For
mosa rebellion.
The retreat of President Alonzo of
Bolivia, before the victorious insur
gent army is confirmed.
The suit of William Waldorf Astor
against the London Mail was settled
by the giving of an apology.
The criminal section of the French
court of cassation has concluded its
inquiry into the Dreyfus trial.
Politico-commercial relations be
tween Germany and the United States
will be discussed in the reichstag.
William Laird, of the shipbuilding
firm which built the confederate war
vessel Alabama, died at Liverpool.
The Mexican senate has confirmed
the appointment of Manuel Aspiroz
as ambassador to the United States.
At the opening of the British parlia
ment references to an Anglo-Ameri
can alliance were greeted with en
thusiasm.
The English house of commons re
jected by a large majority a proposal
to cure alleged evils in the church of
England.
It is announced in the British house
of commons that Great Britain’s policy
in China is to come to terms with
competitors.
Herr Florens Henry Gottfried von
Bockum-Doiffs, of the Prussian cham
ber of deputies, died in his ninety
seventh year.
The Manitoba hotel at Winnipeg
and some railroad property were de
stroyed by fire, causing a loss of
about SBOO,OOO.
G. A. Spottiswoode, head of the
famous London firm of Eyre &
Spottiswoode, parliamentary and gen
eral printers, died.
Dr. Raffel, president of the munici
pal council of Apia, Samoa, is on his
way to Berlin with dispatches bearing
on the recent troubles there.
The bodies of three supposed aero
nauts. who, it is suspected, are Herr
Andree and his two companions, have
been found In Northern Stbera.
The subscriptions to the Imperial
and Prussian loans of 75,000,000 marks
and 125 million marks respectively,
foot up roundly four billion marks.
Lydia Shippy, formerly a ballet
dancer, claims to be the wife of Vis
count Hinton. the organ-grinder
claimant to the earldom of Poulett.
The governor of Blueflelds has taken
arms against the Nicaraguan govern
ment. The rising is confined to that
region. Foreign Interests are menaced.
Dreyfus has refused to reply to
written interrogations of the court
of cassation on the ground that his
answers are inaccurately transmitted
to Paris.
Lord Berresford says England, the
United States, Germany and Japan
intend to prevent the partition of
China and maintain an open door in
the Orient.
A score of French deputies have
addressed a letter to the government
rebelling against the proposed change
in the court of cassation, and a cabi
net crisis is expected.
The American Methodist missionary
house in Hiromae district, China, was
set on fire by a Chinese mob. Rev.
R. P. Alexander, in charge of the mis
sion, was seriously and his wife fa
tally burned.
Alexander McDonald, the “gold king
of the Klondike,” reputed to be worth
.£25.000,000 to £30,000,000 married
Miss Margaret Chisholm, daughter of
Superintendent Chisholm of the
Thames water police.
Prince Napoleon Charles Gregorle
Jacques Philippe Bonaparte, third
sou of Prince Lucien Bonaparte,
Prince of Canino and chief of the
older branch of the Bonaparte family,
is dead at Rome, aged 69.
Archbishop Ireland, who is In Rome,
is said to boArecelving extremely
cordial the Vatican and to
be winning new advocates of his views
in favor of the so-called “American
policy” for the Catholic church.
COMPRESSED AIR MOTOR.
Compressed air is soon to be added
to the motive powers of the street
railroads In New York. The adop
tion of this new propelling force is to
begin on the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth street lines, operated
by the Metropolitan Street Railway
company. Twenty compressed air
cars are now nearing completion for
these lines. Experiments have been
made for several years with anew ap
plication of compressed air, bringing
results in practical fields, the pro
motors contend, as certain as elec
tricity and much safer, more economi
cal, and more easily controlled than
the mysterious fluid, steam, or cable.
These tests, they say. have shown be
yond the shadow of a doubt that a
locomotive stored with the air can
draw a regulation train of cars from
Jersey City to Philadelphia at an even
speed of 70 miles an hour without the
recharging of the chambers. Its ad
vantages over the steam locomotive
are said to be economy, cleanliness,
retention of power, and the eve" end
regular manner In which this power
With the sa ue charge It is
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Just as easy to run the compressed
air engine 60 miles an hour as it Is to
run 1fc.20 miles for three hours, and
the .time ln.wtilcla the distance is to
be Covered Is only- limited by the
fßbaracter of the roadbed.
PAPER RAG TRUST. S
Combine Formed iTavihg r Capital of
$27,000,(000. C-
Appleton, Wis., Feb. 15.—The West
ern Paner P &S company at Batavia,
111., whieji operates ateaper mill at
has beconrc a member of
a paper ifag trust which has been or
ganized with a capital of $27,000 000.
This mill is one of the properties which
was involved in the $1,000,000 “allure
of the Van. Nortwick Brothers some
years ago. Nothing can be leaned in
this valley about the new trust beyond
the news of its formation as the mill
is controlled by William Van Nort
wick of Batavia. J. S. Van Nortwick
of Appleton is no longer part owner in
this mill.
STEAMER MORAN ABANDONED.
Her Crew All Safe on the Steamer
Naomi.
Grand Haven, Mich., Feb. 12.—Three
members of the crew of the abandoned
steamer John V. Moran walked a3hore
over the ice yesterday afternoon. They
report that the remainder of the crew
are safe on the steamer Naomi, which
is fast in the ice. The Moran was
abandoned Friday morning and went
down off Grand Haven, Mich.
LUMBERMAN KILLED.
Chippewa, Falls, Wis., Feb. 15.
John McCallum of this city, one of the
best known lumbermen In northern
Wisconsin, was crushed by a falling
tree in the woods near Deer Lake. He
was looking after some timber for
John Ross and passed through a sec
tion of woods where choppers were at
work when one of the trees which
were being felled struck him. When
the tree was removed it was found tuat
his back was broken. He lived only a
few minutes. Anton Wenner, a resi
dent of this city, was killed on a log
ging train near Brsinerd. He was 20
years of age and was to have been mar
ried in a short time to a young lady
of this city.
CONFESSES HIS GUILT.
Prof. Stephens Admits That He
Burned Pardee Hall.
Easton, Pa., Feb. 16. —The trial of
Prof. George H. Stephens, charged
with burning Pardee hall, La Fayette
college, reached a climax yesterday
when the counsel for the defense in
troduced as evidence a confession
made by the prisoner the day after his
arrest. The paper is a remarkable
piece of work and dramatic in the ex
treme. Stephens admits all of the
M. J. DICKINSON
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Wabeno, Forest Count>vWis.,
' DEALER IN
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Groceries, f
Clothing,
Footwear,
Hardware, j %
SUPPLIES.
HAY, FLOUR AND FEED.
RUSCH BROS.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
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WABEXO, WISCOXSIX. ,
charges under which he was indicted
but lays the blame of his
and present predicament at the do/Jof
President Warfield. He claims btlwas
inveigled into signing the paper by,the
college president. Warfield is severely
and condemned and he is held
for the physical and men
tal 'condition of Prof. Evans, who is
now in an insane asylum. Stephens
was much affected during the reading
of the confession. At times he would
weep bitterly Rhd at others laugh
terically.
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.WRECKED MARINERS RESCUED.
Philadelphia, Feb. 16.—The power
ful seagoing tug Eureka, the hrst ves
sel to force her way up the Delaware
through the ice blockade, arrived here
yesterday afternoon with 19 ship
wrecked mariners, 8 of whom had been
taken from the barge Newport, which
was cut through by the ice and sunk
in the Swash channel, and the others
from the barge Gibson, which was
driven ashore on the Delaware beach.
The Eureka also picked up the crews
of several abandoned oyster boats.
ALGER CRITICISED.
War Investigating Commission Says
He Was Incompetent.
Washington, Feb. 14.—The following
is a synopsis of the findings of the war
investigating commission: Secretary
Alger was honest, but incompetent;
there is not the slightest eviderce of
corruption in the war department; the
beef supplied to the army was all that
could be expected; Gen. Miles’ charges
were unfounded; no beef was em
balmed; the commissary department
was well managed; the quartermaster’s
department did fairly well, except in
regard to the congestion of supplies at
Tampa and the equipment of the
transports; the medical department
was overrun with red tape and did not
seem to know what it was doing; the
signal service covered itself with
glory; the relief camp at Montauk
point was well managed; the other
camps were generally good, although
many of them had to be abandoned for
specific causes.
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THE TURK WINS.
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Milwaukee, Feb. 16.—Hall Adali, Jfcc
Turkish wrestler, before a large audi
ence at the South Side Athletic ctbb
last night, met and defeated Capt. Tom
Shields, Bert. Scheller, and Tom Can
non insiue of 90 minutes according to
his agreement. Shields was thrown
twice and Cannon and Scheller once.
The bouts were catch-as-catch-can. ‘
ECONOMICAL HOME COMFORTS,
“Your husband must enjoy his
home.”
“He does. Especially at the times
when I want him to take me to the
theater.”—Detroit Free Press.
DEALERS II
Dry Goods,
Groceries,
Shoes, ,
Hardware,
AND
Lumbermen’s
Supplies.