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2 ALGER DEFINES ■ HIS AuiHomn He is Supreme in the War Department. ORDER MAKING IT CLEAR A NEW VESSEL IS ADDED TO THE NAVY. iris THE SPANISH GUNBOAT BARACOA Advices Received by General Quesada Indicate that the Cuban Assemb'y Will Dis solve This Week, Clearing Way Lr Adjustment. Wt’.slEimbm. Meidi 1.3.- The follow ing order has been issued at the A\ nr Department: “Circular No “Headquarters of the Army. Adjutant “Oeneral's Office. Washington, D. “March I*l W*. “The following decision has been made and is published for the information and guidance of all concerned: “War Department. “Washington. March 22. 1899. "Ordered, ihat hereafter no chief or acting chief of staff corps shall Ik* de tailed or ordered to any duty by any au thority without the approval of the Sec retary of War. (Signed) “It. A. ALGER. “Secretary of War. “By command of Major General Miles: “H. C. Corbin. Adjutant General.” This order of Secretary Alger Inis been issued to set at rest all questions as to who is lilt' supremo authority in the \V ar Department. It is an old Contro versy dating back to the time when Jef ferson Davis was Secretary of War and General Scott General of the Army. The last time the matter was brought prominently to the attention of tin* coun try was during the administration of President Arthur, when Secretary Lin coln wrote a very caustic letter to Lieu tenant General Sheridan stating that the staff corps of the War Department, with the exception of the Adjutant Gen eral's and the Insjioetor General's corps, were nmler the direct control and sub ject only to orders of ihe Secretary of War. The order of Secretary Alger will hereafter include the chiefs of corps tin der the sole control of the Secretary. General Miles has held to the construc tion based upon the letter of Secretary Lincoln. The cause for the issuance of tin l order was a recent order of General Miles to Lieutenant Colonel Garlington. acting chief of the Inspector General's corps, during the absence of General Breckinridge, directing Garlington to visit certain points in the West on an inspection tour. The order of the Sec retary does not refer to General Breck inridge's present duty in Cuba as he is acting 1111 tier orders issued bv Secretary Alger. OCR NEW GUNBOAT BARACOA. Washington. .March 22.—The Navy Department is gratified to learn that its representatives who have lteen working for some iim«- in the vicinity of Santiago and Guantanamo, have succeeded in adding another vessel to tin* American navy in the gunboat Baracoa, which was reported to have been towed into San tiago yesterday. The Baracoa was oik of the Spanish gunboats sunk near Guantanamo. She is a useful type of vessel for patrol work and is about 50 per cent larger than the gunboats San doval and Alvarado now at the Wash ington Navy Yard a* carries one Hon toria gun of 3.5 inch caliber, one of 2.7 ealib r and two machine guns. I HSS< hLUTION FORESHA I *OWED. Washington. March 23.—Advices from Cuba received hy Senor Quesada, which he regards as trustworthy, are to the ef fect that the Cuban assembly will di<- sojve before the present week etuis, probably on Saturday. Mr. Quesada re gards this as ti most satisfactory out come. as tin* dissolution is brought about voluntarily and without that agitation which enforced action might have caused. It will clear the way, in his judgment, to a jgteific adjustment of the affairs of Cuba. THE CAR ROLLED OVER. One Trainmen Slightly Hurt, and u Lit tle Girl Cut in the Face. Augusta. Git., .March 23.—There was it wreck on the Atlantic Coast Line in side the city limits to-day. The train had jttst crossed the river bridge when the mils spread on a very sharp curve after tin* engine bad passed. ’Hie first-class coach was derailed and fell off it slight enbankment, completely turning over. The passengers were badly shaken up, but none was seriously hurt, except th six year old daughter of President Mack, of Denmark, who was badly cut in the face. The sleeper ran off and collided with the engine on another track, but was not seriously damaged. One trainman was slightly hurt. FIFTY SIXTH JOINT BALLOT. Harrisburg. Pa.. March 23. —The fifty sixth joint ballot for United States Sen ator taken to-day resulted: Quay, (Rep.) 87; Jeuks, (Deni.) 71; Dalzcli, (Rep.) 17: Stewart, (Rep.) »!; Stone, (liep.) 3: llnff, (Rep.) 7; Irvin. (Rep.) !•; Widener, (Rep.) 3; Riter (Hep.) 1: Rice, tßep.) 1; Smith. (Itep.) 3: Tubbs, i Rep.t 2; Grow, (ltep.) 1; Markle, illep.) 1. Total vote 207; neces sary to a choice 104. Paired or not vot ing 40. No election. PREPARE TO RECEIVE Me KIN LEV. Tallahassee. Fla., March 23.—1 n anti cipation of a visit of President McKinl y and party ro-murrow, great preparations have been made to properly receive and entertain tin* distinguished visitors. They will arrive by sjs-cial train tit noon. Gov rnor Bingham, State and city officials, commercial bodies and so cieties will welcome tin- Presidential party to Florida's capital. PRESIDENT WRITES SAMPSON. Commends Ilis Spirit of Self-Sacrifice and Appreciates His Work. Washington. March 23. —Admiral Sampson litis received from (h * Presi dent the following reply to his letter of March 9th. 1899: "Executive Mansion. “Washington, March 13th. 1899. “My Dear Sir: 1 am its receipt of your considerate letter of tic tltli instant in which you express a desire thar, with out reference to your own interests, the other naval officers who rendered such conspicuous services in the naval cam paign in tin* West Indies may have the advancement’ which you recommended for them, ami in which yon ask nothing for yourself. 1 highly commend this dis interested action on your part. Let me assure you that I have Ihe highest ap preciation of your services as command er in-chief of t lu* Atlantic naval forces during tin* Spanish war, in hloeknd'ng Fnba. co-operating with the army, di reeling the movements of the great num ber of vessels under your orders, a;, 1 at last after tho most effective preparation, consummating, with the gallant officers and men under your command, tin* de struction of the Spanish fleet. It was in recognition of your services and of your great skill that l recommend yon to the Senate for the advancement whiett you had earned. Very truly yours. (Signed) “WM. MKINLEY. “Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson. E. S. "Navy. Gommander-in-Fhief E. S. "Naval force. North Atlantic Station, “F. S. S. Flagship New York. Ilavai .i, Cuba.'’ CAPTURE OF FILIPINO MAIL. Some Interesting Facts About Filipino Official Methods. Washington. March 23.—The capture of Caleoocan, in the Philippine Islands, Island of Luzon, by the United States forces, recently, resulted in the confisca tion of considerable mail addressed to the insurgent government. It includes a number of letters of Agttinaldo and other leader's, and brings out some interesting facts about Filipino official methods. Postal Agent Yaillo tit Manila, lias forwarded some of this mail to Acting Postmaster General Heath. Otic letter is addressed t> Agtiinaldo’s so-called Secretary of the Treasury, and is in reply to a request for money. The writer is apparently tin* fiscal officer at Lueena. Luzon, to whom the insurgents had entrusted the duty of squeezing tin* merchants, and lit* had apparently confiscated for the insur gents' cause a lot of cocoa fibre belong ing to a large tobacco company. When asked to turn over the proceeds, the agent remarked that only three thousand, five hundred dollars had conn* into his hands, and that amount he had paid to the troops who were clamoring for more. The letter is written in very fair Spanish. Apparently Aguiiialdo’s treasury offi cials are running short of paper, for the outer covering of the letter is made of a sheet of j«tper. written all over, torn out of a record book, and it was tied around with a fragment of Manila bag ging. Another letter captured received by the Post office Department was sent from the Provincial Governor of Antipolo, ad dressed to Agninaldo's Secretary of the Interior, in which he apologizes for not being preesent at Malolos at the promul gation of the constitution, assigning its a reason that the telegram commanding his presence, though dated January 21st, only reached him January 23rd. two days late. To atone for his absence he says he ordered all the local municipal residents to get up demonstrations ami cry “Long Live Filipino Independence, and Down With Annexation.” This is signed by Governor Jose Eliros. Governor of Antipolo. Some intercepted letters to Aguinaldo himself have come into tin* possession of the I’osloffiee Department. NO FAVORS SHOWN GOLD. All Contracts in Tennessee Payable in Any Legal Tender. Nashville. Tenn., March 23. --The House of Representatives to-day passed tin* Senate bill making all contracts en tered into hi Tennessee hereafter payable in any legal tender. The Dill is so amended so ;is to exempt mntrnets al ready in existence. The bill now goes to the (Governor, and lie will certainly sign it. The bill is the outgrowth of the silver sentiment in Tennessee. 44 Courage and Strength in Times of'Danger. 9 ' ‘Jfead ihe warning between the lines. What is that warn ing? It is of the danger from the accumulation of badness in the blood , caused by the usual heavy living of the Winter months . Spring is the clearing , cleansing time of the year; the forerunner of the brightness and beauty of glorious summer . Follow the principle that Nature lays down. Start in at once and purify your blood with that great specific, Hood's Sarsaparilla. It nerer disappoints. Crip -•‘Sixteen weeks of grip made me weak, but after alt else failed Hood’s Sar saparilla cured me. Later I overworked, and dyspepsia and canker in mouth and stomach bothered me. I took the Satsupa ri Ila again amt it completely restored me.” Mrs. Ki.izabeth Komax, Exeter, N. 11. Rheumatism -• Myself and a friend both suffered from severe attacks of rheu matism. Hood’s Sarsaparilla cured both. We would not be without it.” Wm. 11. Lester. fif> Leonard St., Fall River. Mass. Head and Back - " For one year pains in my hack and bead prevented my house hold duties. I took Hood’s Sarsaparilla and am a well woman. It also cured the grip in our family.” Mrs. Mattie llexderhon, l or. First ahd Franklin Avc.,Columbus,lud. Jfcctti SaUabaiiffg Hood’* Kill* <Miro )in*r tlln. the non Irritating rind “only cathartic t«» take with liooti'w Sui *a|r.iri)ia. Tim MEWS A.Nl> UlteUKVKli, t'IUDAY, MARCH ■’!, la'J'-t MUNYOM’S I will guaranty# that my Rheumatism Cure will relieve lum bago, sciatica and all rheumatic pains in two or three hours, and cure in a few days. MENTON. At all druggists, 25c. a vial. tAiida to Health and medi cal advice free. 1505 Arch at.. Phlla. RHEUMATISM IN HONOR OF JOHN A FRA EA IS People of Smyrna Honor One of the Winslow's Dent! Washington, I>. 0., March 23. The Navy Department has just it reived an account of a eommemorntivi service away off in Smyrna, Asia Minor, in the honor of John V.Tvovis, who wit* a member of the crew of the torpedo boat Winslow, killed in action along with Ensign Worth Bagley in (lie balth L.f Cardenas, May II last. The account stales that imposing funeral services took place in the Church of St. John the Baptist, in the presence of tin* friend and kinsmen of the dead sailor and many spectators. Mr. Stilpoii Hitt akin, the director of the museum and lendei of the Greek college, well known for. Id warm admiration of the American mi lion, made an address which deeply moved all present, and concluded with a panegyric upon the American flag, which he hoped would undulate haughtily for centuries and be respected hy all conn tries, diffusing rays of progress, justice and civilization. Joseph B. Golding has been appointed postmaster tit Daimmorit. and Lydia Delinger at Hermitage. FAMINE IN RUSSIA. Consumption of Garbage Produces An Epidemic of Terrible Mortality. St. Petersburg. March 23. The new papers of tliik city publish pitiable ac counts of the condition of the so-called famine districts of Russia, especially Samara, in the southern part of Euro pean Russia. The efforts of the Red <'ross Society have staved off tin* horrors of actual starvation, but the Society's funds art* almost exhausted, and the dire distress compelling the consumption of all kinds of garbage, has produced an apideutic of terrible mortality, with ty phus. scurvy and other pestilential dis eases. The peasants are compelled to sell everything, and are living in cold, damp and filthy cabins. Weakened by hunger they fall ready victims of typhus and acute scurvy. Unless the Govern ment gives prompt, aid, the Volga Pro vinces appear doomed to a repetition of the horrors of lS'.tl and 18112. HOLD Fl* OF THE OLIVETTE. Washington, March 23.—There has been considerable correspondence be tween the Wir and Treasury Depart ments over the hold up of the Olivette at Tampa with 140 men of the Second South Carolina volunteers. When site arrived at Tampa tin* officers said they did not want to stop her to have tin* baggage of tile troops fumigated. Sur geon General Wyman said the Treasury Department officials agreed that the fu migation of baggage should take place. Acting Secretary Meiklejohn sustained tin* action of the Treasury Department, but gave the soldiers permission to come ashore. The officers of the Olivette wanted to lake her to Savannah or Charleston, hut the Mayors of these cities saiil that the Olivetti* would not be nermitted to enter either of these ports until tin* regulations were complied with. DTGBY BELL BANKRUPT. Chicago. Ills., March 23. —Digby Bell, the actor, tiled a petition in bankruptcy to-day in which lie asks to he relieved of liabilities aggregating $27,000. He stat«*s that he has no assets except an interest in a judgement for $228 given recently in New York. The filing of the petition is said to have lteen induced by the results of an unsuccessful season which closed in Chicago Sunday night when the actor's latest play “Jot- Hurst, ( Gentleman.’' was taken off the boards and the company disbanded. ■SPRING AND WINTER WHEAT. Washington. March 23. Th division of the wheat, crop for 181(8 as between Spring and Winter wheat, is estimated by the Agricultural Department as fol lows: Spring wheat, acres harvested. 18,310.- 130: bushels, 25*2,R0d,073; average yield, Iti.O. Wint r wheat, acres harvested, 25.744.- 848; bushels, 382,492,032; average yield, 14.0. Total, acres .harvested, 44.053.278; bushels, 073,148,703; average yield, 15.3. PERPLEXED BV DON CARLOS. London, March 23. The Madrid cor respondent of tin* Standard says that Don Carlos, tin* pretender, has perplex ed his adherents by a dispatch in which In* allows them to go to the |>oils at the forthcoming parliamentary elections, if they so desire. He explains that lie does not wish tin* Carlists to be represented officially in the next Cortes. The gen eral opinion in tin* political world, says tin* correspondent, is that tin* dissensions in the Cnrlist tanks and the irresolution of the pretender really deprive the party of all importance. PING REE IS NOT IN IT. Lansing, Mich., March 23.—Governor Pingree stated that contrary to reports from New York he was not going to at tend the Silver Democratic banquet to be held there on April 19th. He said ,li hail not as yet received an invitation, adding: "I never looked for an invitation front those feljmvs either.” MILL MEN'S WAGES RAISED. Youngstown. Ohio, March 23. —To-day all Mahonning Valley Mill owners volun tarily advanced wages of laborers from 81.13 to $1.23 a day. Fifteen hundred xneu will be beuefitted by the increase. A MONUMENT TO WALSH AUGUSTA WILL EREC r A BRONZE STATUE OF HEROIC SIZE. The Entire South Will he Invited to in Commemorating the Name cl Her Great Son. Anguftn, tin,, March 23, \ngo-ta will erect a monument to her lute Mayor, Hon. Patrick Walsh. 'I fie idea is to erect a hr<.uz<* drtitie of heroin size in some on** ot Auguste - many beautiful squares. Not eqly will Augusta do her part, but tin* entire South will be Invited to ii-sist in coin uieniorniing tin* name of tin* man who, standing with Henry W. Grady, v>.t* foremost In tin light for the recognition of flic South's possibilities and the forth erartee of Southern development. The idea of erecting a monument was first inhumed on Tuesday, ami site** (lien Mr. flie Vega Guinn, acting treasurer of the fund, has received a vet v large number of subscriptions which were unsolicited, People from alt parts of Georgia and from South Carolina have s.-nl Htb*erifi lions in amounts from om to ten do! Ini’s, and it is understood (hat there on* several luneti larger aimiunis The monument will cost not less titan $ lit,ttoo THE OLDEST FRIMINAL. Dr LipNcoinb Convicted of Poisoning a Young Man, Jackson, Miss., March 2.”,, The oldest criminal ever placed behind prison bars in Mississippi was brbught to the State prison tonight to serve a lift* sentence for murder. The prisoner is 1 >r. \V. 11. Lipscomb, formerly a well known physi cian of Kemper county, and hi* is now nearly 73 years of age. Lipscomb was convicted of poisoning it young man named Charles Stuart, whose life was insured in his favor. The ease became famous throughout the country, and was extensively exploited in connection with the Holmes murder mysteries then at tracting attention. MI STER OFT IN SAVANNAH. All the Volunteers Returning from Cuba Regulars go to Atlanta. Atlanta. <,Ja.. March 23.—A special to the Constitution from Savannah says: "Before sailing for Cuba to-night Sec retary Alger said that all volunteers now lacing returned front Cuba would fit* muster.d out in Savannah. All en listed men of tin* regular army however, who art* to be relieved in Cuba will lie senr to Atlanta for recuperation. Sec retary Alg r said that if the quarantine at Savannah would not permit their be ing landed there another port could be found where the men would be landed and brought to Atlanta." SCHOOL FURNITURE TRUST. Wabash. lud.. March 23.—The organi zation of tin* American School Furniture Company, capital stock $1,300,000, lots been, completed and today absorltcd over twelve large manufacturing plants, scat tered throughout the Union. The scheme originated with .Limes Lynn, manager of the Wabash factory, and has lteen .a year maturing. EXPUNGED BY A CYCLONE. Nashville, Tenn.. March 23.—The lit tle town of Liberty, in Dekalb county, has been almost wiped off tin* map by a cyclone which swept ov r it lost night. Trees were uproot d and houses de stroyed in till directions. Tin*Christian elnireli. a handsome brick structure, was blown lo pieces. No fatalities arc re port d. TELEG It A PHH' BRIEFS. Paris and Berlin art* suffering from the scourge of influenza. Ni*d Hanlon and tin* Brooklyn team arrived in Augusta. Ga., t-oday from Charleston to which point they had sailed from Now mrk on the Algonquin. Nineteen dead and thirty-four missing is the record so far of the Windsor Hotel lire on Friday last. One body was found to-day. This brings the list of unknown dead to nine. During the past two or three weeks Comptroller Dawes has been engaged in paying the barred dividends revived by tin* act of March 3rd. 18!»'.t, to d ]M»si tors in the Freedman's Savings and Trust company. Exceptionally cold w ather continues 'throughout England, varying from 10 to 20 degrees of frost. There have been heavy falls of snow in tin* north, and several deaths front exposure are report ed. Similar weath r prevails on the con tinent. The famous American thoroughbred stallion Hanover was put to d atli in la'xington, Ky., to-day by chloroform. Gangrene of the left forefoot, the result of killing of tin* nerves in it while racing, rendered tin* ties true lion of the horse n eessary. Milton Young declined offers of $03,1)00 and $75,000 for him. THE LOCKVILLK PROPERTY. A Branch Line Will Be Constructed By the Seaboard Air I.ine. (Chatham Record.) The sum of SOO,OOO is the price paid for this property by its recent pur chasers. At least that is the considera tion stated in the deed, and by-the-way this deed had on it Bdt> worth of reve nue stamps as its contribution towards the war with Spain. The Seaboard Air Line, with its well known policy of aiding in the develop ment of the country traversed by its roads, will construct a branch road, about throe-quarters of a mile long, from its main line to Lookville and will do till it can to aid in the development of this valuable property. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of araTiraj^ra! .. ... r . JpS'p r _i:. Healthfulness jj GOiffsT || Washing PoWdEJ? Kranich & Bach NEW CATALOGUE, NEW STYLES. t The New York Musical Recorder in commenting on the New Catalogue of Kranich & Bach Pianos says: “ Kranich & Bach, the distinguished piano makers, have issued a new catalogue. 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