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VOL IX SALISBURY, N. C THURSDAY. APRIL 80, 1896. -. 4 not support A Chicago newspaper has figured out that by the census of 1900 Chicago will contain 200,000 more people than flew York city. A Kansas court has ruled that "a man who calls upon a worn ly and takes her to entertainments oc casionally, is legally engaged to marry her. The courts of Missouri decide that a teacher has control oyer a child from the time it leaves the parent to the time of its rtftarniu jg. including the time to and from school Tho coforod people of! Baltimore. Md, aro demanding colored teachers for all the colored schools, and the school authorities are mak ng arrangs meats to lot them have their way. . Acording to the New York Observer women constitute two-thirds of all the church members in tho Udited States, but only one-thirteenth criminal Men , mako of all the hp twelve thirteenths of tho criminals and due- third of tho church members. An cminent sawmill statistician osti mates that tho forests 'of Maino aro worth $35,250,000. The same author ity informs us that tho statjes of Con necticut, Rhode Island aut Delawaro could bo hidden away :a tho big woods of Maine and never heard of more. San Francisco banks ha jb in their vaults millions of dollars fnoo vnluo of farm mortgages ihey jdaro not fore close, states tho Examiner, as they c uld not rcalizo fifty cents on the dollar. These mortgages represent the. savings of San Francis :o workers and the misfortunes of California farmers." Italy is suffering from th effects- of foreign entanglements, maintains the New York Advertiser. -Urged on by Great Britain, sho went into tho busi ness of extending her responsibilities in Abyssinia,. with tho resul; of fear fully beaten army, a Complcto change in miuistry, popular intractability and a menace to the throne. Another enormous cstutd "in the Bank of England" is said tojhave'4been discovered by the finding of tjho satchel of a French soldier of tho revolution, and some' people in the Northwest have been notified that they are tho heirs. Of course, adds the New Or leans Picayune, they will pay a good deal to find out that the estate is a myth. Qiiecnj Victoria's greatest bane is the enormous amount of original : "poetry" sent to.hcr from all parts o the world. It is all read by her see 's tetary, and the best of it submitted to ' hor majesty aud personally acknowl edged. Ou the recent bi lh of tho royal grandson nearly half a ton of manuscript verso was received at Windsor. . ; Rcforring to the appointment Of Mr. . Francis Pakenham to bo minister to Stockholm tho Now York World tells a humorous story of the now minister. oomo twenty years ago tuo iorcigu office required from all the members ,of the diplomatic service a return of thoir exncjtj age, there havitig beeu reason to suspect that certain senior functionaries were in effect. nearer rthe septuagenarian limit than they pro fessed to be. Mr. Pakenham "had , the honor to report that hoi was look ing forward to the speedy celebration of his eleventh birthday I f' having been born on February 29, 1832. The other day when judge Groas- cun. of Chicago, was sentencing a young man, convicted of cmbezzl ment, he imposed comparatively a light sentence, and explained his leniency by; saying: "I don't want o make a criminal of yon. You are too young a man." Tho, prisoner, it seems, had been foolish rather than vicious, and had been led to his crime more by circumstances than by any lack 01 moral sense, xue page very . properly exercised his discretion. He -decided that it would be an iujury to society to impose a sevew sentence, , whicu wouia mnse a connrmea crim inal of a youth who was capable of lifiinsr reformed, so he sent the voune- u - j m w ster to the house of correction instead of prison. Ho is a sensible and a just judge, maintains the Atlanta Constitution. It is a greater benefit to. society to refprm a young criminal than to blast his life by one of those severe sentences which little picayuno judges frequently impose, doubtless under the belief that their c harshness will give them a newspaper, reputation for Roman flrmngii aud all that lort The state In Cuba does a single public library. it rabbisbi ' - TIT R 1TFT f!0 rtf ftl I7ft j.aa v.aaa. y kj. - '-' v I ' ROUTINE OF HOUSE AND SENATE BRIEFLY CHRONICLED. Summary of Bills and Resolutions Presented and Acted Upon. .THK HOU8TE. , Nearly five hours were given by the house Friday to a j further considera tion, in committee of the whole, of the general pension bill. The speakers generally supported the bill, but all criticised one section or another, and especially those which authorize the pensioning of soldiers, who, previous to their honorable ser vice in the union, had served in the confederate army or-Ji&d not received an honorable discharge. . Bills were passed authorizing ; the free entry into the ; United States of articles or animals exported for exhi bition in other countries, and nine private pension and relief bills favor ably reported at the Friday night ses sion. , - ' . The senate's request for a conference on the Indian appropriation bill was agreed to. The second conference report upon the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill was made to tho house Saturday and agreed to, another conference, however, being ordered upon, the few remaining matters in dispute. A 8 agreed upon, the total of eateries of United States district attor neys, carried in tho bill, as it passed tho house, was increased $23,000, and those of marshals $4,500. The house went into committee of the whole for the further consideration of the pension bill. The debate while it lasted was very spirited. Mr. Miles and MrPickler got into a coloquy over the provision of the bill authoriz ing the pensioning of ex-confederate soldiers who served in the Union , Ar my. Mr. Miles said, as the son of a rebel, he was opposed to - tho pension ing of those men who had been true to no flag, but were perjurers and bounty jumpers. j , i The hour of 2:3d o'clock having ar arived, under a special . order, the house suspended publio business and listened to eulogies upon the late W. H. Crane of Texas. The usual resolu tions were adopted and as a further mark of respect, the house took a recess until 8 o'clock. . ; The debate on the adoption of a rule brought in by the rules committee 14 the house at Monday's session for a vote on the. Pickle Jri. peion- bill was rather sensational. ";" " "T Mr. Crisp said that the "leaders" of the majority had thrown over the com mittee on pensions, and framed this bill and nowjproposed to pasa.it or none without amendment. ' Mr. Henderson taunted Mr. Crisp "as the head of the star chamber rules committee of the past." Without be ing disingenuous he frankly acknowl edged that tho purpose of the rule was to bring the bill to a vote. Mr. Hepburn protested vigorously against the interference of the com mittee on rules, declaring that if there was any question inwhich a republican house could be trusted it was that of pensions. , The rule was adopted on a rising vote, 70 to J36. IMr. Crisp demanded the ayes and noes, and tne roil was cauea. ine rule limiting debate! on. the pension bill was adopted 119 to 88. The first business in the house Tues day was the vote on the passage of the pension bill, which was taken yeas and nays at the demand of Mr. Crowtner, of Missouri. It resulted yeas 187, nays 54. The republicans and popu lists supprted the bill and the demo crats opposed it. Six democrats, how ever, voted for the bill Messrs. Uum- mings and Walsh of New York, Lay ton and Sorg of Ohio, Fitzgerald of Mas sachusetts and Downing of Illinois. Mr. Mahany, republican, of New York, offered a resolution, calling upon the president to direct the secretary of state to interpose in behalf of John Hays Hammond, who is on trial in South Africa for complicity in the re cent troubles in that country., and asked unanimous consent for imme diate consideration. 1 Mr. McCreary, of Kentuckv. sucrorested in view of the importance of the matter that tne res olution should first be acted upon by the committee on j foreign affairs. Adopted. ! ' . Some miscellaneous business was transacted, including the passage of a bill to place John NJ Quackenbush cn the retired list of the navy, by a vote of 161 to 49. This bill was intended to cure what has been considered by the' beneficiary and his friends a great injustice perpetrated upon him. Mr. Henderson, of Iowa, reported from the committee on rules an order providing for the consideration of the bankruptcy bill, which was agreed to without discussion. By its terms the session until Friday are to be devoted to general debate on the measure, the session of Friday and Saturday, until 4 o'clock the last named day, to be devoted to the consideration of the bill under the fiveaminute rule for amendment.. At the hour named the bill is to be reported to the house with any amendments adopted and a vote on its passage then taken. The house under tne operation of the order went into committee ot the whole for consideration of the bill. An unusual division; of the time for debate wis agreed "upon Mr. Hender son, of Iowa, to control half of the time in favor of the bill; Mr. Bailey, of Texas, to control one-quarter in the interest of those favoring volun tary bankruptcy only, and Mr. Brod erick, of Kansas to control the re maining quarter in opposition to any bill on tee subject I Mr. Bailey gave notice that one, perhaps two, substitutes for the pend- ing bill wouid offered for action of S ne house by friends of voluntary j bankruptcy. J The opening speech of the, debate j was made by General Henderson, in j support of the bill, which ispracti I cally the Torrey bill, providing for j both voluntary and involuntary bank- At the conclusion . of Mr. Hender son's speech, at 5:10 p. m tho house adjourned. . " THK KKNATK. The senate made considerable prog- I ressJFriday on the sundry civil appro- priation bill, haviner disposed of all the amendments teported to it by the committee on appropriations. Mr. BacOn, of Georgia, 'offered an amendment for . the payment to the Cotton States and International Expo sition Company, of Atlanta, Ga., of unexpended balance, about $13,000, of the appropriation heretofore made for the government exhibit there, as agreed to. The bill was then laid aside for the day. The report of. election committee No. 3 upon the contested case of Cor nell vs. Swanson, from the fifth dis trict of Virginia, in favor of the sit ting member Mr. Swanson, democrat was received and the minority given until Wednesday next in which to pre sent their views. At 5 o'clock the house took a recess until 8 o'clock, the evening sesi ion to be for the consider ation of private pension bills. When Mr. Peffer's bond resolution was laid before the senate it was modi fied by Mr. Peffer by striking out tho clauses in relation to government officers having been interested in the matter for their own profit The reso lution went over without further ac tion. - The following bill were passed: . Senate bill to pay $250,000 to the Richmond college, Richmond, Va., for the use and occupation and jnjury of the building by the United States troops for eight months, beginning April, 1865 . ; Senate bill appropriating . $20,500 foT a lighthouse at St. Joseph's bay. Florid. At 5:45o'clock the senate ad journed. An effort was made in the senate Saturday by Mr. 'Sherman to have ac tion taken on the house bill relative to distillation of fruit brandy, eo as to have engrafted in it a provision for the repeal of the section of the tariff law which allows a drawback of the tax paid on alcohol used in arts and in medicine. Mr. Sherman explained that, owing to the action of the., treaH -" ment arawijacs; was not operative, snk ttM cJotma running into the K ill- 10ns were being piled up, and it was therefore highly important that the provision should be repealed before the adjournment of congress. He met, however, the combined opposition of senators on his own side, only three of whom voted with him to take up the bill, these votes, however, being offaet by the opposing votes of three popu lists. All the demcrats but three voted for Mr. Sherman's nfotion. . The consideration of the sundry civil appropriation bill was then proceeded with,. The senate made verybrief work of the bill, having taken only two days in disposing of. it. When . it passed the house it carried appropriations ag gregating $30,000,000. The senate appropriations committee reported it back with an addition of $5,000,000, largely made up of sums necessary to carry on work on public buildings and river and harbor improvements and United States . courts for the whole twelve months of the year, instead of for six or nine months. The senate itself, besides carrying out the recommendations of the com mittee, added items amounting to $2,000,000 more, so that the bill as it passed appropriated in round figures $37,000. There was very little friction in the consideration of the bill. Among the amendments adopted are the fol lowing: Increasing the limit of cost of the publio building at Savannah,Ga., from $400,000 to $500,000. Appropriating $15,000 for a post office building at Fortress Monroe, Va. Appropriating $2,058 for purchase of additional land for the military cemetery tit Key West, Fla. Appropriating $150,000 for s rev enue cutter for the Gulf'Of Mexico. The Peffer bond resolution was then taken up and went over until Monday as the unfinished business. In the senate, Monday, Mr. Chand ler made a supplemental report of the committee on privileges and elections on the Alabama election of 1894, Sena tor Chandler states that the new report is made because the minority report is not forthcoming after the lapse of forty-eight days. The supplemental recites, the statement made by Senator Allen, of Nebraska, in his speech in the senate on February 11, 1895, charging that 34,000 fraudulent votes were cast for Oates in tho fifteen black belt counties, which, being deducted, would overcome Oates apparent ma jority, and show the election of Kolb by about 7,000 msjority. The report -also claims that a Kolb legislature was in fact elected, "that in four black belt counties two Kolb sen ators and seven Kolb representatives were chosen, and in 14 white counties four Kolh senators and 24 Kolb repre sentatives were chosen, but that in all these cases the democratic candidates were fraudulently declared elected, making an apparent democratic ma jority of 45 in the legislature. ; ' Eliminating these frauds there was, it is asserted, an actual populist and republican majority of 29 in the legis lature, making Senator Morgan's elec tion invalid. After unimportant routine morning business the senate ' proceeded to the QBiidmtioa of the naval appropria tion bilL jAs passed by the house the bill appropriated $31,647,240. " The changes recommended - by the senate committee on appropriations would re sult in a set reduction of $367,758, leaving the amount of , the bill $31, 279,482. . -, v z The unimportant amendmentsTof the committee were all agreed toy while those affecting the' increase of the navy were reserved for the present," After the consideration of various amendment, an d . without action, the senate adjourned until Tuesday. ";- x ne wnole of Tuesday's session in the senate was occupied considering 4 V- 1 -ir.. t.:ti - mi. . i . $ iLio iiuTBi appropriation uiii. xua urst two hours were passed in the discus sion of the amendment offered Monday for the; committee on naval affairs, prohibiting officers outfeg'j'.Tna rine corps on the lVtiredTia rrrom" tak ing employment in the sertice of per sons or. corporations .having contracts with the government for the supply of material. The amendment was finally agreed to yeas 45, nays 11. The remainder of the daj's session was occupied by a specch of Mr. Gor man, of Maryland, on an amendment offered by him to reduce tho number of battleships provided for in the bill from four to two. The soeeck was al most entirely on political lineV Sen ators bherman and Hale took part m the discussion, which "assumed quite an animated character. The amend ment went over without action and thtr senate, at 5:30 o'clock, adjourned un til Wednesday. FIVE SHOT D0FN. EGBERT KILLS A FAMILY AND . TWO OFFICERS. ! Being Closely Pushed He Then Kills Himself. I Saturday "morning at Eockville Ind.r Peter Egbert, a young man twenty three years of age, shot and killed Airs. Hermann Haechke and her two children, Hermann and Aggie, Sheriff W. D. Mull and Constable W. M. Sweep. - , He then killed himself. His sister, Miss Florence Egbert, who was lying very ill with typhoid fever, died shortly after : the tragedy from the effect of the shock. About 7 o'clock young Egbert was sent into the backyard to saw some wood for family use. Shortly after, while Mrs. Haschke, who lived next secured a double-barrelTeir ' otimSil. loading shotgun" ftnd ; going into the Haschke house, shot the little daugh ter, a child of ten years, dead and wounded the boy, two "years younger, who ran out on the porch, where Eg bert shot him again, killing him in stantly. ltiiiea tne aiotner . The murderer then went out into the alley and levelled his gun at Mrs. Haschke, who, seeing .his intention, attempted to escape. He shot her, however, the charge tukmg effect in the top of her head, removing part of her skull. She died within a 6hort time. . v Haviner completed this work of butchering, Egbert shoulderedliis gun and deliberately walked into the busi ness part of the town. Sheriff Mull and Constable Sween were planning a means of capturing the murderer. Egbert was walking across the north side of the square, holding his gun in position with both barrels cocked, when he saw Mull and Sween, crossing the street toward him. He called out to them not to come any nearer. Thfc The two officers retired into a hallway in tha national bank building for a moment's consultation, " when Egbert turned, and coming upon them sud denly shot and instantly killed both men. The murderer then started to run, taking a westward course toward the fair grounds, with a number of -cm zens in close, pursuit. He ran like a deer, but while he was crossing an open field just v west of town a shot from his pursuers took effect in his heel. This crippled him, and, though he managed to scale the inclosure of the fair grounds, he was unable to run further, and, crawling into a stall, shot himself in the right breast. . v The fire from his gun ignited his clothing, which was partially burned when he was found. Egbert was at one time confined in the insane asylum, bus naa been ais charged as cured. The general belief is that insanity was the cause of the crime. CYCLONE IN KANSAS. Several PeoDle Killed and Much Property , Destroyed. A cyclone of tremendous force sped through Clay county, Kansas, dealing death and destruction on every band. As far as known fife people were killed, three fatally wounded and seventeen injured. ; - A full list of the injured is unobtain able, as the doctors have not returned from the scene of the disaster. It is known however, that every member of the families of John Morris, A. W. Elkins, Peter Anderson and Henry Gardner was hurt and "three of them have wounds said to be fatal. ' A large number of horses and cat tle was killed, and the damage to farm property is immense. Ex-Slaves Want Pensions. , - A number, of ex-slaves of Hinds conntv. Miss., held a mass meeting a Jackson to perfect plans for urging pensioning of old slaves by the nations trnvernment . Ther are aa confiden they are going to get 8100 each as they ones were cf "forty texts and a malt." NATIONAL CAPITAL GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON- IN BRIEF PARAGRAPHS.' : 8, olnss'of the Chiefs and. Ileads ot th , Various Departments -"-'-- The senate committee "on acrrionltnra has agreed to report the 'filled cTieese' bill as it parsed the house with a re commendation; that it be referred to the finance committee on the ground that.it ia a financial bilL - The president has let the "agricul tural appropriation bill become a'law without hia signature. Three pension bills and a bill granting to railroad companies in the Indian Territory ad ditional grounds have also become laws without approval. . , The senate-"has made some big in crease in the river and harbor bill and Florida, through Senator Pasco's efforts has profited materially. He has had the appropriation for the St. Johns and Jacksonville increased from $25,000 to $200,000; Pensacola from $100,000 to $200,000, and Key West from $80,000 to $100,000. . Saturday the house committee on rules discussed the advisability of clos ing the debate on the pension bill, now before the house. It was deci ded to allow the debate to continue for some days, and it was further agreed to hold several night sees-Ions on the bill. As soon as the pension bill is out of the way an order will be brought in providing for the consid eration of the bankruptcy bill. Southern Naval Militia. Secretary Herbert haa made the an nual allotments of monev to the sever al state naval militia organizations of ne country, on the basis of the returns of the strength of the naval militia up to April 1st. Thesa returns show that in 14 states there are organizations com posed of 293 officers and 3,339 enlieted men. The appropriation was $25,000. rom which $1,000 was deducted for the purchase of books of instruction o be issued prorata. The forces and money are distributed this way in the southern states : ! North Carolina, seventeen officers and 162 men, $1,164; South Carolina, 21 officers and 1G5 men, $1,186; Geor gia, eight olficers and" 98 men, $704; Louisiana, 15 officers and 217 men, $1,550. - I,.-, Rivers and Harbors The senate committee on commerce "nrlrtfli'fiiBrnriiiiifiiiil 11 ,11 in 1 1 in" senate Monday; The committee struck out items to an aggregate of $631,858 and increased or inserted items aggregating $2,661, 690, making a net increase of $2,029, 832 the bill now carrying a total of $12,444,550. The improvements placed under the contract system werei increased net by $8,504,403, leaving the total of this form of liabilities to be provided for by future appropriations at $60,225, 613. - . Among the new items added are the following: Mobile, Ala., dredging channel, $60,000; Galveston, Tex., dredeinpf bar, $5.000 ; Roanoke river. N. C, $12,000; Bayou LaFourche, La., $25,000 ; Bayou Courtableau, La., $2,500. ! I Amopg the principal items of in--! crease are tnese: 1'ensacoia, i?ia., $100,000 to $200,000; Cumberland : $1,641,500 to $2,345,000; Key West, ! Fla., $80,000 to $100,000; Charlotte harbor and Pease creek Fla., $16,000 to $20,000; mouth Calcasicn river, La., $10,000 to $20,000; Sabine" Poss, Texas, $50,000 to $150,000, contract stricken out; Cape Fear river, N. C, $150,000 to $195,000; Saint Johns river, Fla., $25,0U0 to $200,000; Red river, La,, $75;000 to 8100,000; Brazos river, Tex., $5,000; Tennessee river below Chattanooga, $50,000 to $200,000; improving mouth Flint river, Iowa, $50,000 to $75,000. The principal redactions are: Win- yaw bay, S. C., $110,000 to $75,000, and places under contract system lim ited to $1,906,250; Savannah, Ga., contract limited to $1.093,950, stricken out; Yazoo river and Vicksburg hir bo r, contract limited to $860,000, stricken out; Bayou Flaquemine, La., $110,-' 000 to $75,000 with continuing con tracts authorized limited- to $1,173, 250 ; Cumberland river, purchasing sites for locks and dams 21 and 22, $20,000, stricken out. Tho general provisions of the bill governing tho construction of the pub lic works provides that the secretary of war shall not obligate the govern ment to pay in any one fiscal year more than $400,000j$n any one work placed under the contract system, in stead of 25 per cent of the amount of that work, as provided in the honse bill; but he is not prevented from making contracts for the whole of the work, subject to the 1 estrictions. HALF BULLION DOLLAR BLAZE. Business Portion of Paris, Texas, Burned Out. A special from Paris, Tex. , says the entire business portion of that city was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning. The telegraph wires are down, but it is reported that one man was burned to death and several others were serieusly injured. The flames were fanned by a high wind and the fire department was una ble to cope with the conflagration. The estimated loss is nearly half a million dollars, and is only partially covered by insurance." Among the buildings destroyed are the telegraph office and the posfoffice. A rxxca of salt added to the white of eggs will make them beat up aniextx sa iijtnier V.1' CARR IS INSANE. For . the Third Time' a Jury Passes Upon lib Mental Condition. The third trial of Alex Carr before the ordinary of Fulton county, at At lanta, last Thnrsday, resulted in a ver-, diet of "insane, K j-J:, ' j ? i ; Carr was to have' been .hnog on Fri--dsy, And the verdict came just in time" to save iZb unfortunate- man's neck. Ordinary Calhduu will eerUfy to the judge or the superior court "that the jury-has brought in a' verdict of insan ity, and :he judge will , issue an order directing Carr t be sent to the asylum, The verdict was -received by Judeo Anderson from the foreman. Dr. W. A. Crowra prominent Atlanta phytii cian. - As soon as . it was read lhero aa aflmfst'of applause which drowned out the sound of the judge's voice call ing for order and the rapping of the sheriff's gavel. The applause was heard upon the streets and passersby knew what it meant. , The prisoner was brought in from his dinner which he quitted very re luctantly, to hear the verdict. - When it was read he was sitting with an unconcerned look upon his faco picking his teeth with a toothpick. He was not disturbed in the leant h the verdict, and when "the applause swept over the crowd he did not even turn nis neaa. - IN WEYLKR'S HOUSE A Gas Engine Explodes and Much Kxcitement. Causes A gas engine exploded in the cellar of the palace of the captain general at Havana Tuesday,. causing some dam age, but no one was hurt. A grat deal- of excitement prevailed !iu the city for a time, the occurrence eing attributed to dynamite. . , , j The detonation was sharp and the building was soon partially filled with dust while the noise of breaking glass aud falling plaster could be heard on all sides. Part of the roof of tho pal nee fell in. , The explosion occurred in a closet situated in a low basement under the city hall, which part of tho building it rtnverted into a heap of rubbUhl' MILLS RESUME. " Eaglo and Phoenix Woolen Depart ment in Operation. The woolen department of the; Eagle and Phoenix mills at Columbus, Ga., which closed down recently on account Of a strike inaugurated among the em ployes in the weaving department, rV snme(V operations Monday morning by.degreesuntil in a. few o8lfie3n tire mills will be in operation again, giving employment to the hundreds of Operatives wno are now iaie, uTiug been thrown out by tne 6trixe, 250 persons are employed woolen department.. About IP the The Curse of Cold. The fact that 'n their Siecond great frm.lr' 1Ait Vitt nhntl fl lo'rifl Hnh with gold reefs has never been regarded by the Boers as anything but a' terrible misfortune. They learned of the exist ence of the gold long ago, and as long as they could they kept thds knowledge a profound secret, not in order to profit by it themselves, but to prevent the rush of immigration which they feared, r.rd which would bring upon them once more, and in an aggravated form, all the social and moral ills which they had made such sarifices to avoidi I do not think there is another nation in the world in which it would be possible to find even a small minority capable of takinsr puo'i a lofty and abstract view cf n!" cr VM deposits on their fnrms. But tiiv I - seem to have becii prac tically. t i:;u '!:ious among themselves in this attitude. Even after the un happy secret was Mil,' they strove des peraTely by means of laws against gold digging, to stem the irresistible t cur rent. ' Some of the English papers are ungenerous enough now or, perhaps, a fairer term is ill-informed enough to reproach the Boers with the fact, that their Government has been getting rich by heavy taxes levied on the output of gold mines about Johannesburg,' It if truethat the Transvaal Government does levy such a tax, although it , Is lighter by far than the royalty exacted by the Chartered Company ion the nines in MatabdeLind and elsewhere In its dominions. But it is alsome I hat, the Boers only resorted to this de vice when they expended, every possi ble resource to prevent mining alto gether. New York Times. - - Railroad Fog Signals. A Ixmdon naoer contains an account of the eleaborate precautions taken by an English railway company to prevent accidents on nine miles of Its main line in that city, when one of the- heavy fogs peculiar to the metropolis settles ver it. On this nine miles of road there are nine stations, Including the main terminus: At the largest of these there are fortyrcight signal. posts, the sec ond 1n si&e has twenty-nine, the third has thirtyfour and all jiine have 157. Whenever a foir settles down a man Is stationed at every one of these posts, and the engineers get their runmng: in structions from these, men, no depen dence being placed in the usual signals. To man this section "of track for six hours, from morning until noon, costs the company $G5. When a fog man fur nishes his own refreshments, be Is' al lowed eighteen cents a shift, so that the expense to the company for food for a single shift would be nearly $24."If reliance were placed in torpedoes about 5.000 would be required In six hours, and their cost would be equal to or even more than the expense of the fog men, while the English engineers pre fer to have the latter, very few colli sions have occurred under this system in enftottf the nltchv dark 1 ness of a London fog. Washington 1 Star. ".-... WEYLIIR'S ORDERS VlRB KOWTHAT? SO - PRISONERS CU TAKEN ,7 4 "It R Can be Avelded-Prelen to Sea - ' Dead fniuWents.' V a . .1 - . r Advices from , HaVann. " xi 1 -TAinnii Fla: state .that General Wevler is sal- " ifcfied that nothing in tlfo liti of inter vention br recognition f belligerency1 may be Jookd for ffon Washington, at leasC for the present, and the publio executions uf prisoners of ; war which v were suspended, for a Ume, have been resumed. vV. y'' There is supposed to be a general understanding among commanders f of Spanish columns that no' prisoners are to be taken in engagements in the " field. j r, ' ' " All Cuban patriots who fall into the hands of the troops through being Wounded or from other cause, are li able to be, shot . at once and counted with the number killed in battle. , Some jof the Spanish commanders act according to this , understanding, but others declined to slay unarmed or wounded men, and deliver their pris oner to General Weyler in Havana. " Many jjf these so-cal ed prisoners of war never carried a gun or engaged in battle, but were .taken from planta tions or from small towns and hamlets in the interior j where the Span ish assume that all men 'are rebels, and are! not far from being right. The prisoners aro brought to Ha vana bound and strongly . guarded to prevent rescue before reaching the city and mob violence afterwards. The lower class of Spaniards gath- er about each batch of prisoners and clamor for their blood1 as they pass through the streets, to the ferry to Ca banas fortress, or Moro castle. ' The court martial before whom these pris oners are tried is a pefTunctoiy affair composed of five military men, who order the death penalty under Wey ler's decree, that.all insurgents are bandits and incendiaries and deserving of deathj . The prisoners have no op portunity .to make a defense, and all Cubans in the rebel armies know that capture means death. Most of those brought in, -it seems, have been wounded, cut off from their columns, or caught without arms. When condemned to death they aro given twenty-four or forty-eight hours to prepare for the end. They are ress with rriifltA in constant attend- ance for the hut twelve RODBKRS KILL W03IEN. I he Man of the.' House Knocked V 1 Senseless and Gagzed.---- A horrible double murder,' accom panied by burglary, was committed at Hilltop, a small village in Maryland, Friday morning. About 2 o'clock Joseph Cocking, who keeps a general store at Hilltop, was awakened by a noise in his storp, over which his family lived. Hastily aris ing. MrJ Cocking came down stairs and was struck senseless by a blow on the head. He was -tied with a rope and thrown into the cellar stunned and helpless, where he was discovered next morning by. a passing colored man. wno round tne store aoor open anu heard moans. In their rooms upptairs the dead bodies of Mrs. Cocking and her sis ter, Mh-i Daisy Miller, were found. Both were lying on the, floor with their skulls crushed, as if by an iron bar or a similar instrument, xuo siure u been robbed, the murderers. Thero is no clew tor ARBITRATION CONGRESS. Resolutions Urging Peace Iletween England and Uncle Sam. The national arbitration convention held two sessions at Washington, D. C, Thursday. The greater part of the time in each was given op to speech making, but at the earlier one . the following resolution was adopted : "That we view with regret and ab horrence the cruel and unnatural war? fare now being waged by the belliger ents in Cuba, and that we solicit the aid of all civilized and Christian na tions of the world in using all legiti mate means to stop the. shedding of blood and, destruction of property in that ill-fated island." j A permanent committee of twenty 'five members was established. SENTENCED AN A31ERICAN. John Hays Hammond 1 Condemned K to Death. : ' Secretary Olney has received a cable dispatch from Mr. C. II. Kuight, the United States vice consul at Cape Town, Sbuth Africa,' briefly announc ing the sentence of John Hays Hm-' mond. . ., It is f aid that Hammond and five others bad been, condemned to death, bnt that lit was understood that jthe sentence! would be commuted. The subject formed a topic for dis cussion I. at the. cabinet . meeting Tuesday It is nps?rted that the state department has official informa tion to the effect that Hammond and the other leadersjh the reform move ment pleaded guilty under an agree ment that they would not be punished severely; '," " Forty-Thre miners Entombed. - A special from Chihuahua, Mexidb, says that the Santa "Euhilia mines, onrteeri . milee Jrom the city, have caved in and forty-three men are en tombed.; Seven! have been taken out dead and thirteen wounds ii ' ' Borne el tat xaca will d.1 . S-4 1. i 1 i -1 ' 1 I .1.
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