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-t \'f'P^ ' •• ** -'-• ̂ ,~ - m ' r. . :* f yJv.-^^.v ' Ai •>"' 'f)T^ , ^ ̂ /,T*'?'".. * wmwmK .A .IT . I \f . * .»r •.- r i r^; McHenry Rjaindealer £ * r - , K"\ * McHENRY, J. VAN SLf Kfe, t«Htor ami 1% ILLINOIS SEWS. 7 • j Fire ratall.«dWtf!Oj%d thC" ntalk building »f the Lincom, ffeh'.. Normal University, three miles from tbf.t city. It was a four- A^~ , fstory structure, costing .slightly. over #100,000. Insurance. $25,000. The origin •*; "t>f the fire is unknown. &:1% The timely discovery by a special officer .- l>f a man in the act of starting a fire in ttoe' If%'•< basement of John Wanamaker's depart- toent store in Philadelphia, no doubt saved '* |i serious conflagration and possibly the * lives of many persons. * Atibrey C. Taylor, a well-known news- •% 1; -;'*Fr'ter Zanesyille, Ohio, had a toreihonition of his death, and the day that he Vras taken 111 went to an undertake Ing establishment and selected the coffin </' ,!n which he wi&ifed to be buried. The seven-story granite building at Rooster and Third streets. New York, ; Vas destroyed by fire, causing an aggre­ gate loss of $185,000. There was much . ielay in getting the engines to the scene • #f the conflagration owing to the snow»in the streets. Emperor Francis Joseph, in celebrat- •Ing the fiftieth anniversary of his ac­ cession to the Austro-Hungarian throne, -granted full pardon to all lese majeste prisoners and remitted the remainder of (he sentences of 540 other prisoners. Joseph P. Gross, an assistant foreman ° '4f the San Francisco fire department, was •hot and almost instantly killed by Joseph Clark, an upholsterer. The murderer ac­ cused his victim of having caused an es­ trangement between his wife and himself. It is reported at St. Louis that Armour, *Wift and Nelson Morris, the big Chicago packers, are interested in a scheme to build and operate an independent tele­ graph and telephone line to connect all fheir packing houses in the West with iheir Chicago headquarters. ^ It, is announced through H. G. Burt, president of the Union Pacific Railroad, «*<fciat the Illinois Central road has signed * contract for the use of the Union Pacific bridge into Omaha and for the occupation «(f the Union passenger station which is in jjrocess of construction. ' At a meeting of the board of managers life; € V.~ kj'V It 'f'*-%t the American Bible Society in New 5 Tork Rev. William Ingraham Haven of Brookline, Boston, Mass., was elected sec- ' retary of the board, to take the place of Sev. Albert E. Hunt, who resigned some Me ago, after forty years' service. W" r A train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- ^ toad near Ivy City, Md.. struck a carriage In which were four children on their way to school, causing the instant death of Dannie Bell Harris and James Gray, two «f the children, and severely injuring a fcoy named McDonough, who was driving. : {• ID Rochester, N. Y., fire was discovered <; %i the Academy of Music, where tire melo-v ' - ^ <§rama. "The Wheel of Fortune*' was filaying. In the play there were two ex- • plosion scenes, which may have caused the fne. The loss, including theater and dam- ige to adjoining property, will probably •'."'tieaeh.^100,000:: « A The quadrennial general conference of 41 the Methodist Episcopal Church will be ield in Chicago in May, 1900, A decision t to that effect by the committee which has ^ J|he location of the conference in charge Was ofcftained by the Chicago Methodist facial Union subcommittee,, in session at "V the Palmed House in that city. V' '. •< C- M. Mantell, said to be a solicitor for V1 ' the Medical Record, was shot dead at his x, .fcome in Alameda, Cal., by a young wom­ an who claims to be his wife. Two bul- . lets were fired, one passing through Maq- teU's heart, the other penetrating the fcrain. The. murderess then turned the re- ,Solver upon herself, inflicting a wound ? Which, it is thought, will not prove fatal. r NEWS NUGGBT8. Mn Bray died in Mexico, Mo.. Med v ^ At San Francisco, the Shipowner^ As- ' Mociation has ordered a reduction of $5 it month in wages for all classes of sea- Wen. Samuel G.' iD^nhafti, an ageflt of the la- 3^or bureau, estimates gqld. output of- i the Klondike region for the last season at '§9;000,000. Aguinaldo, leader of the Philippine in­ surgents, it is reported, demands $1,500,- ; $00 from Spain for the release of impris­ oned friaxs. The home of Hiram Biggs, a farmer liv­ ing seven miles southeast of Perry, O. T., •aught fire and Biggs, his wife and three '•"p;:gmall children were burned to death. ^ ., Special dispatches from Budapest say £7, i ,that a plot to assassinate Prince Ferdi- |iand of Bulgaria has been discovered at {if, Sofia. It is added that numerous arrests ; jbave been made. ,i At a meeting of the board of directors 'Zl.pt the Second National Bank of Spring- p '1" field, Ohio, it was decided to go into vol- j > Untary liquidation. The bank is one of 1$^ the oldest in the «ty. P •>- A council of the Catholic bishops in the J United States is to be convened at Wash- | ' fngton to inaugurate a concerted move- •fev ,' tnent in the church in America to increase ,-J ' the contributions to Peter's pence, f - Pittsburg coal shippers to the lakes ^ . have been notified that no more coal will j>e received at the lake ports this year. ^ } IThis closes the season and throws several thousand miners out of employment. > The German ambassador, Count Philip |/ / Von Eulenberg, presented to Emperor fe. Francis Joseph the gift of Emperor Wil- ^ liam in honor of the former's jubilee. It " la a magnificent service of porcelain. According to the official forecast from At- Sydney, N. S. W., the wheat harvest for -> 1898 will be 1,590,000 bushels in excess ^ of that of 1897, and there will be a surplus available for export of 2,250,000 bushels, j*. At Canajoharie. N. Y., the candy fac- tory of the Pettit Manufacturing Com- Pany "was destroyed by fire. The loss is |jf^7$50,000. ' A bomb containing 140 grammes of f powder and nails, capable of doing terri- . '7 ble damage, was found in the bourse at •,**<. j Marseilles. The fuse had been lighted, f ibut it had not burned. fcif Justice Wright has granted the motion fV? - of the attorneys for the Knickerbocker Trust Company of New York to foreclose Ibonds against the Oswego, N. Y., Electric Street Railway for $125,000. and ordered f.f ' Its salg. a, few weeks hence. K • r-'.> • tmi " EASTERN. ' • lit home 6't the famous Dickey Club of HafWr^ Unlv^rsity 6n brattle Street, Boston, was burned. The. Bfertk Of Hornellsville, N. Y., of which ex-State Forestry Commissioner F. G. BkTjo'ocli is1 president, posted a notice to the effect that the bank had gone into volutft^* liijlcitdati9hf The notice also announce! that crejjtitorii would be paid dollar'for dollar. Josepi| roppler, while being chased bf # workman in a factory at Trenton, N. J., tum)>led into a vat of vitriol. Not iHiE JMIBS bflniii oat, ke started for hMtt, bai on th* way the acid began eating into his flesh. Both tegs mast be amputated. At Toledo. Judge Taft accepted -the resignation of Receiver Pierce of the Clover Leaf Railway. It is to take effect Boc. 1. Samuel Hunt of Cincinnati, an official of the Cincinnati. Portsmouth and Virginia road, was tiffined by the court for the vacant receivership. '* Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania has al­ lowed the requisition of Got. Bushnell for the return to Ohio of Frank D. Magowan, Mrs. Frank D. Magowan and her sister, Mrs. S. H. Wjrnn, to stand trial on the charge of kidnaping Ethel Beryl Barnes, daughter of Mrs. Magowan by her first husband. v ' John PhUip Soiisa has been ofdered by a New York court to pay amounts esti- niated at $100,000 to the widow of David Blakely," fofriieV manager of Sousa's Band. Under the decision Sousa must pay half the profits for the tour of the band ending in 1897 and half the proceeds of music composed prior to Blakely's death. WESTERN. Ex-Judge William Foster of Hawaii died at San Francisco. During a quarrel over a fence in Chris­ tian County, Missouri, Burd Meadows, a farmer, shot and killed Stephen Bilyue' and his two sons and wounded William Tabor, Bilyue's son-in-law. Elmer Munsell, aged 20, was shot acci­ dentally by his 18-year-old brother-in-law at charivari festivities twenty-four hours after Munsell's marriage. The tragedy occurred in Dry Grove township. 111. Fire broke out in the Robert Keith fur­ niture and carpet establishment at Kan­ sas City. The fire was gotten under con­ trol at 7 o'clock, with an estimated loss of $210,000 on stock and $40,000 on the building; total insurance, $185,000. Six persons were killed, ten dangerously wounded and fifteen to twenty others bad­ ly injured by the explosion of one of the boilers in the river steamer T. C. Walker, near Fourteen Mile Slough, CaK Escap­ ing steam added to the horrors of the dis­ aster. At Millersburg, Ohio, County Treasurer F. F. Smith discovered that both outer doors of the vault in his office had been blown off by cracksmen. The inner vault was not molested, but $200 was stolen, including $60 in pennies and $75 in lodge money. Kansas has been experiencing a coal famine, the worst ever known in the State. Hundreds of the smaller towns have been without coal. Missouri and Illinois coal was shipped to the State, but this, with the Kansas supply, did not meet the emergency. A terrible windstorm in the oil district of Los Angeles, €al.r caused much dam­ age. Two oil tfenks, holding 1,000 gal­ lons of oil, were punctured by falling der­ ricks and the oil ran through the streets. Houses and barns were crushed under the falling derricks.. vKo >cacualties are re­ ported. ,7,v J. L. Loins, a prominent farmer living aercfs the Mississippi river from New Madrid, Mo., in Kentucky)'was murdered for money by two negroes and his body thrown into the -river. One of the negroes has been captured and shot to death by a mob which-is now on the trail of the other murderer. - Because the indictment did not state that Cass was the custodian of the bill, a demurrer to the indictment against John H. Flanagan, charged with attempting to bribe Silas Cass, an employe of the Leg­ islature of 1897, to destroy the St. Louis Civic Federation school bill, has been sus­ tained in the Circuit Court in Jefferson City. The fact that Vice-President Mitchell and T. W. Davis of the executive board of the Uftited Mine Workers of America should htove been in conference with M. D. Ratchford in MassWon, Ohio, at the time when the report ' that another na­ tional strike of miners was shortly to be ordered, seemed significant. But all three deny that anything of thfe sort is contem­ plated. " j, The St. Louis Court of Appeals has handed down an opinion holding that the neglect of religious duties cannot hamper man in a benefit order. Veronica Franta sued the Bohemian Roman Catholic Cen­ tral Union for a benefit of $1,000 on the life,of her husband. Payment was refus­ ed on the grouud th^t Franta was not a member in good standing because he neg­ lected religious duties;. The court held that this restriction was calculated to de­ prive a person of his religious freedom, which the law and constitution guaran­ teed. SOUTHERN. M. B. Lane, a section foreman at North Little Rock, Ark., shot his wife to death and was in turn killed by the wom­ an's son, who crushed his skull with the same weapon. A fast freight on the Shenandoah divis­ ion of the Norfolk and Western Railway went through a bridge near Riverside, Va. One man was killed, one fatally injured and another badly hurt. A negro boy living near Butler, Ga., shot and killed Wesley Wainwright and fatally wounded R. L. Cooper and John P. Jones, white men, who, having a warrant for the arrest of the boy's father, attempt­ ed to enter the house. The committee having the matter in charge has decided upon a celebration in 1908 of the one hundredth anniversary of the purchase of Louisiana territory from France. A meeting will be held in St. Louis Jan. 15 to decide upon details. Unless the President intervenes to save him, Private LindsejvP. Holt, Troop F, Tenth United States cavalry, stationed at Huntsville, Ala., will be executed for murder. This is the first death sentence passed upon an enlisted man since the be­ ginning of the war, and for many years previous. Kthel Bod fish, aged 14 years, and Blanche Howard, 8 years old, were ar­ rested at Little Rock, Ark., charged with robbing a dry goods store. A considerable quantity of goods taken from the store was found in their possession. The girls also robbed the Provident Relief Associa­ tion house the same night, securing a large amount of clothing donated to the poor of the city. A. J. Demules, known as "the Tur­ quoise King of tb#"3tfrillas," was murder­ ed at his turquoise mine forty miles north of El Paso, Texas, in New Mexico, by a M^S-ican- employe. - While "tiit'fjnoise kln§" Was seated at the breakfast table the Mexicau approached god emptied a six-shooter with the mine-owner's back as a target. Derauies was instantly killed, one bullet passing through his neck and tlie other lodging }n his back. The assas<< sin was captured. .. • : .T-".'! -id' , . f : FOREIGN. The mad mullah, who, with 600 men, ,has been threatening to pass tha Swat frontier, has crossed the Swat river, and fighting has taken place between his fol­ lowers and the In do-British forces. An umbrella maker of Oldenburg, who boasted that he had been chosen by lot to assassinate Emperor William on the lat- ter's return from Palestine, has been sen­ tenced to three years' imprisonment afte'r having.been convicted of leze majesty. At the bpeniH'g of a heW' College at Pe- resa-Argentina, near Turin, Italy, the great hall collapsed, carrying down the as- •embly in this rains. ^^ee'lUtop* ware Injured, one of whom hat sine* dted. Scores of persons were killed or seriously hurt. General Wood issued a tootice at Santl* ago imposing a fine of $1,000 upon any person promoting a bull fight, and a fine of $100 a promoter or witness of • cock fight. The French cabinet baa decided to an* thorize a loan of 160,000,000 francs for the purpose of establishing an Indo-Chin­ ese railroad system in connection with the Chinese railroads. A dispatch to a London news agency from Shanghai says that the admiral of t¥e Chinese squadron has holsted the Brit­ ish flag over Ting"Hai and several other islands of the Chiisan archipelago, and that ships are cruising near the Chusati islands. Touching the expulsion of Austrians from Prussia, Count von Thun, the Aus­ trian premier, declared in the Reichsratb that if greater consideration be not shown Austrian subjects the Vienna Govern­ ment will not hesitate to adopt retaliatory measures, i.. . President Iglesias of Costa Rica was the recipient of two notable courtesies al Washington, being the guest of honor at a breakfast attended by prominent offi­ cials and South American diplomats, and later being taken by President McKinley for a drive about the city in the White House carriage. France has notified the State Depart­ ment that a decree will issue presently prohibiting the importation of trees, shrubs and plants from the United States, and requiring an inspection of all fruits, fresh and dried, at the point of landing in France. France fears the tree pest known as the San Jose scale. The trade affected is very small. While a religions ceremony was In pro­ gress in the vestry room of the Church of St. Germain des Pros, at Paris, where many girls from the schools were In at­ tendance, the cinematograph lamps were suddenly extinguished and a fearful panic ensued, everybody instantly recalling the charity bazaar fire: The priests finally succeeded in allaying the panic, but not before forty girls were injured by tramp­ ling, many being seriously hurt. IN GENERAL. The Fourth Tennessee regiment has been ordered from Camp Poland, Knox- ville, Tenn., to Santa Clai*& City, Cuba, and the Sixth Ohio to Cienfuegos. The Great Northern Railroad Company is said to have placed with West Virginia operators contracts for 500,000 tons of coal at $1.25 a ton, delivered in Sandusky, Ohio, throughout 1899. Lord Strathcona, Canada's high com­ missioner in London, now in Montreal, confirms the rumor thfut he has deeded $3,000,000 to relatives, thus saving $250,- 000 in succession duty in case of his death. The court of inquiry reports that the ac­ cidents on the cruiser Buffalo were due to neglect and incompetency on the part of the engineers of the ship. Chief Engi­ neer Frederick C. Brig will be reprimand- ed. , George S. Willits of Chicago^ who died at San Juan,. Porto Rico, is now declared to have been> killed by a native doctor, who used an improperly cleaned hypo­ dermic needle in injecting quinine for sun­ stroke. A. S. Hardy, premier of Ontario, is to be knighted by the Queen for his faithful services to Canada and Great Britain. He is strongly in favor of closer relations with Great Britain and author of the legisla­ tion against Michigan lumbermen. Frank C. Ives, the world's ch&mpion bil­ liard player, will probably never again be seen in a championship contest. His re­ tirement is due to the fact that he has con­ sumption. He finds that his strength is insufficient to permit him in engaging in a difficult game. The steamer Farralon, from Skaguay, brings news of disaster to the steamer Utopia which nearly sent that vessel and all on board to the bottom of Gastineaux channel. As the Farralon was entering the channel she found the Utopia drifting helplessly toward the reef extending from Point Ardena on Admiralty Island. The Utopia had lost her propeller and a terri­ ble gale was blowing, with the thermom­ eter below zero. The Farralon succeeded in getting a hawser aboard and the Uto­ pia was towed out of danger and taken to Juneau. .Bradstreet's views the business situa­ tion thus: "Winter storms and a holiday have interfered with wholesale demand and distribution, but later clear, cold weather is a compensating feature, indnc- ing heavy retail business ta seasonable goods. In general business circles most developmehts have been favorable, nota­ ble among which might be mentioned gen­ eral advances in prices of cereals, provis­ ions. groceries, cotton, -steel and pig iron, the latter chiefly at Eastern and Southern points, continued heavy general export trade, a better tone in the market for hides and leather, more firmness in cot­ ton goods and active stock speculation, all of which are reflected in the heavy bank clearing total. Unfavorable features are few, prominent among which is tfye con­ tinued dullness tot"wholesale of wool and woolen goods. The movement of wheat and other breadstuffs continues large. Wheat (Including floyr) shipments fpr the week aggregate 81824,726 bushels, against 5,679,141 bushels last week. Corn exports for the week, aggregate 3,993,}J46 bushels, against 3,331,724 bushels last week." MARKET%pbRT8. Chicago--Cattle, . common to prime, $3.00 to $6.00; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice. $^.50 to $4.50; wheat. No. 2 red, 6(>c to «37c; corn, No. 2, 33c to 34c; oats, No. 2, 26c to 27c; rye, No. 2, 51c to 53c; buiter, choice creamery, 21c to 22c; eggs, fvesh. 22c to 24c; potatoes, choiee, 27c to -35c per busheL Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3.QD to $5.50; hogs, choice light, $3.00 to $«.75; sheep, common to choice, $3.00 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 68c to 6»c; eorn, $o. 2 white, 32c to 34c; oats, No. 2 white. 28c to 29c. St. Louis--Cattle. $3.00 to $5.50>, hov $3,00 to $3.75; sheep, $3.50 to J4.5 wheat, No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, No. . yellow, 31c to 33c; oats, No.-2, 26c to 28c, rye, No. 2, 51c to 52c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $2.50 to $5.25; hogs, $8.00 to $3.75; sheep, $2^0 to $4.25; wheat, No. 2, 69c to 71c; corn, \o. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; oats, No. 2 mixed, 28c to 29c; rye, No. 2, 56c to 58c. $2.50 to $5.50; hogs, $3.25 to $3.75; pheep and lambs, $3.D0 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2, 70c to 72c; cor*, No. 2 yellow, 34c to 36c; oats, No. 2 white, 29c to 30c; rye, 55c to 56c. v Toledo--Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 7»)c to 72o; corn, No. 2 mixed. 3lc to 35c» oats, No. 2 white, 25c to 27c; rye. No. 2, 54c to 55c; clover seed, new, $4.60 to $4.70. Milwaukee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 65c to 67c; corn, No. 3, 33c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, 28c to 30c; rye, No. 1, 52c to 54c; barley, No. 2, 48c to 49c; pork, mess, $7.75 to $8.25. BuYalo--Cattle, good shipping steers, $3.00 to $5.75; hogs, common to choice, $3.50 to $3.75; sheep, fair to choice weth­ ers, $3.50 to $4.75; lambs, common to extra, $5.00 to $5.50. New York--Cattle, $3.00 to $5.75; bogs, $3.00 to $4.00; sheep, $3.00 to $5.25; wheat, No. 2 red, 77c to 78c; corn, No. 2, 40c to 41c; oats, No. 2, 30c to 31c; butter, creamery, 16c to 25c; eggs, West­ ern, 28c to 25c. n x C O n r i l S S I O N B R S A I J i A I H S . Whltelaw Reid. Secretary Moore. Senator Gray. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. (1808 ) Feb. 15--Battle ship Maine blown up In Havana harbor. April 20--President authorised by Congress to intervene in Cnba with army and navy. April 22--Blockading proclamation Issued. First gun of the war fired by gunboat Nashville In capturing the prize Buena Ventura. April 23--President calls for 125,000 two-year volunteers. April 25--War with Spain Is de­ clared. April 20--Cervera's fleet sails for Cuba. < > May I--Rear Admiral Dewey de­ stroys entire fleet of Admiral Mon- tejo In Manila Bay. May 11--Ensign Bagley killed at Cardenas. May 10--Cervera's fleet seeks refuge In Santiago de Cuba Bay. May 25--President calls for 75,000 additional volunteers. June S-Hobson sinks the Merrlmac In Santiago harbor and is taken prisoner with seven volunteers who accompanied htm. June 10--Six hundred United States marines landed at Caimanera. June 18--C&mara's fleet sails from Spain. June 22--Shafter's army lands at Balquirl and Siboney. July 1--Lawton and Kent and rough riders take San Juan Hill, losing 231 men, with 1,364 wounded. July 3--Cervera's fleet destroyed by Sampson's squadron. } \ July 17-- Toral surrenders Santiago and eastern portion of Cuba. July 25--Gen. Miles lands in Porto ' Rico, near Ponce. July 26 -- Spain proposes peace through French Ambassador Cani- bon. July 31--Battle of Malate, near Manila. Aug. 12--Spain and United States sign peace protocol defining terms. Aug. 26--United States peace com­ mission named. Nov. 28--Final terms of • United States accepted by Spain at Paris. PROVISIONS OF THE TREATY. Cession of Porto Rico to the United States. Evacuation of Cuba. Cession of the Island of Guam in the Ladrones. Cession of the Philippine archipelago to the United States upon the payment of $20,0^0,000. Renunciation of all claims for indem­ nity. Religious liberty in the Carolines. Liberation of all political prisoners. Restoration of past treaties and com­ mercial relations. The taking over of the Island of Ku- saie, or Ualan, in the Carolines for a tele­ graphic and naval station. Cable station rights at other points in Spain's jurisdiction. COST OF WAR TO BOTH NATION*. Spain Loses. Cuba $300,000,000 Philippines 450,000,000 Porto Rico 150,000,000 Cost of war 125,000,000 Loss of commerce 20,000,000 Thirty ships lost ............... 30,000.000 Judge Day. Senator Davit. Senator Frye. Battle* Jp Wisconsin Floating in Stftt Francisco Bay. The battleship Wisconsin was launched at San Francisco Saturday morning. Thousands of spectators witnessed the ceremony. Long before the hour appoint­ ed for the launching the visitors crowded the yards of the Union iron works, the adjoining housetops, and the hills. Many took places of vantage hours before the vessel slid from .the ways, and they pa­ tiently stood in the cold morning air until the ship entered the brine. Even then they were loath to depart, many remain­ ing for hours to watch the giant hull as it floated at anchor in the bay. The launching party, which included prominent visitors from Wisconsin, was given a place upon the large platform which had been built around the. prow of the vessel. Miss Elizabeth Stephenson of Wisconsin, to whom had been given the honor of christening the battleship, and little Miss Lucile Gage, daughter of GOT- ernor-elect Gage of California, who had been chosen to touch the button that start­ ed the vessel on the ways, took positions within a few feet of the ship's prow. Irving M. Scott of the Union iron works chose workmen to knock away the sup­ ports that held the vessel on the ways. Almost simultaneously Mayor Phelan stepped forward upon the platform above and introduced Margaret Duff of the Irv­ ing M. Scott grammar school, who, on be­ half of the school, presented to the battle­ ship a large flag made by the pupils of the school. Commodore Watson, command­ ant at Mare Island, accepted the colors on behalf of the Secretary of the Navy. "May its folds," he said, "never float above oppression, but be ever the signal of liberty and freedom. Let all join with me in the hope that it may be given to the care of men as brave as Clark and Milli- gan, and the gallant crew of the Oregon. We can wish no better." Following the unfurling of the flag Mayor Phelan read an ode to Wisconsin, written by Clara Iza Price. Hardly had the Mayor ceased reading than little Miss Gage, at the bidding of Mr. Scott, touched the button that freed the giant ship. The massive structure re­ sponded to the touch of the button like a thing of life, and without the slightest jar started down the ways. As it trembled on the move Miss Stephenson broke the bottle of wine upon the prow and in a clear, full voice said: "I christen thee Wis­ consin." The dimensions of the. Wisconsin: Length on load water line, 368 feet; beam, extreme, 72 feet 2% inches; draught dis­ placement of 11,525 tons, 23 feet 6 inches; maximum displacement, all ammunition and stores on board, 12,325 tons; maxi­ mum indicated horse power (estimated), 10,000; probable speed, 16knots; normal coal supply, 800 tons; coal supply, loose storage, 1,200 tons; full bunker capacity, 1,400 to 1,500 tons; complement of offi­ cers, 40; seamen, marines, etc., 449. TROOPS STILL NEEDED. Total .....$1,075,000,000 United State* Loses. Maine $ 2,500,000 Cost of war 200,000,000 Indemnity to Spain 20,000,000 Total $222,500,000 Lost by the United States, about 253 men killed and about 1,324 wounded. About 2,000 men died in camp. These figures do not include the 266 sailors lost on the Maine or the men who have died of fever after being mustered out. Lives lost by Spain, about 2,500 killed and 3,000 wounded. No official statement of Spain's losses has been made. WHAT WE GET. Inlands. Square miles. Population. Porto Rico 3,500 806,708 Philippines 114,326 - 8,000,000 Sulu 050 75,000 Guam 120 8,561 Isle of Plnea ......... 1,214 2,500 Totals .......120,110 8,892,769 This does not include Cuba, area 119,- 240 square miles, population 1,631,619, of which the United States has possession pending the establishment >of a stable gov­ ernment there. ENGULFED BY THE SEA. Passenger Steamer Portland la Loat with All on Board. The steamer Portland of the Boston and Portland Steamship Company, flying be­ tween Boston and Portland, was wrecked at 10 o'clock Sunday morning off High­ land light, and the entire crew and pas­ sengers, fifty-seven persons, perished within a short distance of land. ,A large quantity of wreckage, including trunks, was washed ashore, and at dark Monday night thirty-four bodies had been recov­ ered from the surf by the life-saving crew at High Head station. One body was that of a woman. The vessel had a mis­ cellaneous cargo aboard, -valued at about $25,000. From reports that have come from New England points it Is difficult to estimate the total loss of life and damage to ship­ ping along the coast as .the result of the recent storm. The list of disasters seems to grow, and from dispatches received it appears that at least thirty schooners have been wrecked at different ^points from Eastport, Me., to New Haven, Conn., eighty-six schooners have been driven ashore and fourteen barges, loaded or empty, are aground. In Boston harbor alone over forty Hyes find thirteen vessels were lost. 'Twenty-four craft went aground and fifteen were sent adrift or damaged by fouling. The loss to shipping wns at least $500,000. The damage to railroad and telegraph companies .in Bos­ ton City will foot up another $500,000. Shipping seems to be favored most on the Massachusetts coast. Near Cape Cod --that graveyard of many .a ship and sailor--twelve vessels were lost. Life-sav­ ers were vigilant and only five lives were lost. At Salem nine vessels were lost and twelte damaged. Three men went to wat­ ery graves. At Gloucester thirty vessels went ashore and were sunk. At Quincy four vessels were wrecked. At Vineyard Haven, twenty-two vessels went ashore and seven were damaged. Four lives were lost. On the Maine coast forty-seven ves­ sels went' ashore at Portland, Rockland and Belfast. The loss of life.is hard to determine. It is known that nearly fifty persons perish- ' ed in and about Boston harbors Reports from other, places-in some case* state thast the crew-of (this < or itbat <ve***l *«oap«d. Few Volunteer* Can Be Released at Present. The muster-out of regiments in the vol­ unteer army will be resumed soon after the conclusion of the treaty of peace at Paris. The administration is unwilling for more than one reason to order the dis­ charge of the whole volunteer army at present, the chief reason being, of course, the need of a large force to garrison points in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines. It is probable, however, that within a very short time the President will grant a few of the many requests for the muster-out of volunteer organizations, trusting that Congress will rfoon make provision, by the increase of the regular army, for the maintenance of strong garrisons in our new territories. In selecting the regiments for muster out, it is the intentipn to designate those organizations which were first sent to the front, and which have been constantly employed either in fighting or in garrison duty since midsummer. Other conditions will be taken into account, but, as a rule, regiments which have-mereJy remained in camp^in the United States waiting for or­ ders will not be mustered out of the ser­ vice immediately. Many of the volunteers now in the United States have already been designated for duty in Cuba, and the orders affecting these organizations will not be changed. As soon as addi­ tional regiments for the regular army shall have been authorized by law and recruited, the volunteer regiments now needed at various foreign stations will be discharged. SOUSA MUST PAY UP. Decision for Mr*. David Blakely for a Large Amount. John Philip Sousa, the march king, has been ordered by the New York court to pay Mrs. Ada P. Blakely, widow of the late David Blakely, his former manager, $100,000, which may end the litigations of eighteen months. Mrs. Blakely claim­ ed this amount due the estate from Sousa for music compositions, management and a percentage of the profits of a tour end­ ing May 23. 1897. The court further ordered that half of the profits on all sales of music should be paid the administratrix. This includes "El Captain," "The Bride-Elect" "and other equally popular pieces composed by Blakely. f New* of Minor Note. The total assessed valuation of property m California is $1,130,885,697. Nearly four hundred persons are snow­ bound in the mountain passes of Alaska. Russia has spent over $255,000,000 in naval armament during the last seven years. All the white officers of the Sixth Vir­ ginia regiment (colored) except three have resigned. Consular reports show a remarkable growth in the trade of the United States with Braadl. In his annual report Secretary Long will recommend the construction of three new battleships. The anti-cogarette law passed by the Tennessee Legislature has been declared unconstitutional. ^ The dipping process for cattle afflicted with Texas fever is not proving a remark- table success fat Missouri. A tjiief in New York stole a woman's purse and put in her pocket a crystal which appeared to be glass, but which a jeweler #**eeuac«l * diamond worth HAVOC ON ATLANTIC COA8T. Terrific Storm* Sweep the Eaat, Bring- ing Death and Disaster. Reports from all parts of the Atlantic coast show that the terrible storm of Sat­ urday night and Punday wrought wide­ spread havoc. In New York City the storm was the worst since the memorable blizzard of 188S, in which Roscoe Conk- ling lost his life, it filled t!ie streets with huge drifts, made the country roads im­ passable, and in fact blocked everything. Haying finished with the city, the mad combination of wind and snow, the storm rushed off to New England, where its force was severely felt in Boston and many other coast cities. It will l»e some days before all the details of suffering and distress are made known. From all points in the States of New York and New Jer­ sey came reports of snow blockades. The telegraph and telephone wires were down in all directions. On Long Island trains were not running, and on many other rail- roads trains were ababdoned tfr ifreanj delayed. The storm began shortly after noon Sat­ urday. It started in with a mild fall of snow, this storm having its center in Michigan. In the evening a coast storm came up from the south, and, joining that from the west, gave New York its biggest snow storm in ten years. Twelve inches of snow fell. The wind, most of the tim^, blew at the rate of fifty-eight miles an hour. The lowest temperature was 25 degrees above zero. Railway trains and street cars were stalled everywhere. A score of outgoing steamships and hun­ dreds of other vessels were weather bound in the bay. In New York City eight lives were reported lost and sixteen people injured. The New England States felt the full fury of the storm. Railway traffic was blocked everywhere. Boston reported that thirty vessels were wrecked in the harbor, and that twenty-five lives had been lost. While the storm was heaviest in the southeastern part of New England, the^ whole district was affected, and ex­ perienced a snowfall of from eight to twenty-four inches. Fortunately, the storm was heralded sufficiently in advance by the weather bureau to detain most of the coastwise shipping in safe harbors, but the warning was entirely iinheeded and ignored by those on shore. WARNED TO SHUN HAWAII. The Island* Are Overran with Im peenniou* Adventurer*. "Tell all workingmen to keep away from Hawaii," is the warning of Robert W. Shingle, the Hawaiian commissioner to the Omaha exposition, who has been in Chicago for the purpose of conferring with Commissioner General Peck relative to the display that is to be made at the Paris exposition by America's new terri­ tory in the Pacific. "Since the visit of the United States troops on their way to Manila there has been a great rush for Honolulu, and the city, and, in fact, all of the islands are now overrun with impecunious strangers. I have just received a letter from J. B. Atherton, president of the Sugar Planters' Association, in which he urges me to make it understood that there is no field for commercial employment in Honolulu or the islands, and that the only possible opening is for a limited number of farmers to do plantation work at $18 or $20 a month." THREATEN POOR OLD SPAIN. Follower* of Don Carlo* Preparing for Uprising. A Carlist agent in London has contrib­ uted an unsigned statement to the Pall Mall Gazette, in which he says the fol­ lowers of Don Carlos in Spain are pre­ pared for a general uprising against the Government which will be signaled by the signing of a treaty of peace with the Unit­ ed St&tes by the Spanish commissioners in Paris. \ A big loan has been raised, equal amounts having been subscribed by frierfds in London, Paris and throughout Spain. While the feeling in the peninsula is at present quiescent, he says, the Carl­ ist army has been organized a^ secret .meetings. The article says the^Spanish army is honeycombed with Carlist agents. The London agent asserts that the Gov­ ernment is panic stricken, and also that Don Carlos is ready to cross the frontier when the moment for action arrives. SENATE TO HOLD UP TREATY. Senators Pettigrew and Hale Will Fight Annexation. Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota is opposed to the annexation of the Philip­ pines. "If our policy should happen to annex any territory north of us," he. said, "I would be heartily in favor of it. But I don't think it will be to the advantage of this country to take in the people of the tropics." Senator Hale announces that he will most vigorously oppose the annexation of the Philippines, as he did the Cubans. Hale says the peace treaty cannot possi­ bly pass the Senate this winter, if it in­ cludes the proposition to annex the Philip­ pines. This statement, a Washington dis- patchm says, causes a general feeling in legislative circles that President McKin­ ley will be compelled to call an extra ses­ sion of the Senate at least to handle the treaty. WILL FIGHT CANAL PROJECT. Pacific Railroads Closely Watching Moves Made. A Washington correspondent says that the administration party is giving the most earnest attention to the subject of the Nicaragua canal. It is certain that the presence of President Inglesias of Costa Rica in Washington is fraught with importance. He is rfcceiving- the most dis­ tinguished consideration at the hands of the United States Government. The State Department is worried over the alleged concession granted by Nicara­ gua to the Euyre-Cragin syndicate to con­ struct the canal. Stockholders who have invested in the Pacific railroads and their feeders will not see their property impair­ ed by the influence of a ship canal without a fight. Pugilist Badly Injured. Tom Lansing, the middleweight pugilist, former sparring partner of Jim Corbett, is at his home in Louisville, Ky., almost totally paralyzed as the result of a knock­ out blow delivered by Jack Root in their recent fight in Chicago; His recovery is doubtful. Spark* from the Wire*. The army of Germany has eight women colonels. A negro woman is the postmaster at Edisto Islaqd, S. C. Thirteen Chinamen were drowned in the forward calyn of a wrecked steamer at Sausalto, Cal. Texas recently bought 7,000 acres of land to be used as a convict farm, where cotton and sugar cane will be grown. Lakes Superior. Huron, Erie. Ontario and Michigan have an aggregation of 94,- 750 square miles, which is larger than the area of Great Britain. There are twenty or more counties in Texas in which the school population does not reach 100. In Sherman County thar* are six children of school age. John Showcross fell 375 feet down the shaft 4n his Mountain Beauty mine, near Woodland Park, Colo., and was crushed to a shapeless mass. ACCEPTS 0UB TEEMS.) SPAIN MAKES AM ABSOLUTE* SURRENDER. ( Cede* Philippine* to United ptifiW ' Without Heatrictiona--Give* Up "to Avoid the Horror* af War **--8*il« Group Included--Europe Reseat*. • Spain has ceded all the Philippines wS^i" • out restrictions to the United States *foi $20,000,000, doing so at the joint meeting- of the peace commissioners in Paris Mon­ day. The acceptance by Spain of the- terms of the United States was accom­ plished by a memorandum setting forth that Spain yields only to superior force. This decision was reached as the result of' pressure upon the Spanish commission, not so much from Madrid ob from the powers. The Americans' demands includ­ ed the acquisition of the whole of the Philippine and Sulu groups for $20,000,- 000, and it is also understood the United States will purchase the Caroline group. The question of the debt of Cuba is left unsettled. The answe^of the Spaniards was so short that less than ten minute* was consumed in rendering it into English for the Americans. 1 The Spanish Governmeht utilized the last six days, during which Senor Montero- Rios was conducting correspondence with Judge Day regarding details of the Amer­ ican offer, to sound once mor£ the Euro­ pean chancellories upon the point whether she could rely on any aid toward a limita­ tion of American aggression in case she- rejected the American terms. "We re­ ceived," said a Spanish delegate, with bitterness, "not only a refusal of any sup­ port, but also a plain intimation that no- power would interfere if we lost the Ctttr olines, and even the Canaries." The American commission declined to> accede to either of the three alternative prQpositions made by the Spaniards. Pres­ ident Day of the American commission notified President Rios of the Spanish body, in reply to a request for more time, that the American commission could not modify the demand it had made for a final reply. , The technical work of .preparing th# treaty and negotiating about other mat­ ters named in the American ultimatum will probably occupy about a fortnight. Resented by Kuropc. A Paris correspondent declares there is no denying that the whole European cototk nent will bitterly resent American acqui­ sition of the Philippines. This sentiment is not confined to diplomats, but especially in Paris it is the opinion constantly heard in the highest French society. It is known that a high official of the French foreign office said: "The appearance of the Amer­ icans in Eastern waters is a disturbing factor to the whole of Europe. Aineri^ cans, as is well known, lack diplomatic manners and will surely bring constant trouble to all of us." 'FRISCO HAS A PLAQUE SCARE. 8trange Disease Makes Sudden Ap­ pearance in Chinatown. Asiatic cholera, or the bubonic plague, has been discovered in Chinatown, San Francisco, and the entire district is undes quarantine regulations. Every effort is being made to suppress the facts. Health authorities refuse to discuss the matter, the police are reticent, and local papery have agreed to suppress information--foe the present. There have been a number of mysteri­ ous deaths in the Chinese section. Ori-s entals have dropped off suddenly, in most cases having been sick only a few hours. This led the health department to make an investigation, with the result that there are several suspicious cases under quarantine. The city physicians reported they were not certain as to the nature of the disease. Some think it is the bubonic plague and others think it is Asiatic chol­ era. With this alarming report the board declared a quarantine. There are some­ thing over 20,000 Chinamen living in the district known as Chinatown. It is with­ out doubt the filthiest spot in any Amerit can city, and is just the place where the plague or cholera might thrive. SCHLEY CLAIMS THE GLORY. Tell* of Battle Off Santiago at a Ban*! quet Tendered Him. Admiral Schley's speech at the Brook-, lyn Club banquet descriptive of the navail battle of Santiago has caused somewhat of a sensation. The Brooklyn Ciub gave the banquet in Admiral Schley's honor, and the famous sea warrior seized the op­ portunity to emphasize the fact that it was he and he alone who was in command when the American battleships off the harbor of Santiago destroyed Cervera's fleet. This being the first time that Ad* miral Schley has claimed all the glory ofc this famous victory, a great deal of coflf- ment has been caused by it. HOSTILE TO MISSIONARIES. United States TroOpa Land at Tien* Tsin to Protect American*. The Navy Department received a dis­ patch Saturday morning announcing that hostilities against the American mission* aries in the neighborhood of Tien-Tsin have broken out again. A detachment of marines was landed from the Boston to- protect the lives of the Americans and to restore order. The Boston is the only United States warship at Tien-Tsin, as the Petrel, which was recently there, has been sent to Shanghai. OFFICERS CALLED COWARDS. Seventy-first New York Volnntecre Make S»riong r barges. The Seventy-first New York regiment of volunteers is in a turmoil. Charges of cojvardice and neglect are freely made against field and staff officers and hun­ dreds of the rank and file, who fought bravely on San Juan hill, are muttering and threatening to resign unless the ac­ cused officers get out. The officers gen­ erally deny the charges, but daily devel­ opments show there is a heap of trouble in the regiment. Mother's Horrible Deed. "Mrs. William Santele, wife of a farmer living thirty miles northeast of Guthrie, O. T.r after a quarrel with her husband Thursday morning, took her 10-months- old baby and killed it by throwing it in a deep well, and then committed suicide ttfr jumping into the well head foremost. Its© Perhaps Teresa learned that trick from the Texas. That joint traffic association seems be considerably out of joint. , Gen. Blanco is said to be "greatly nVT- ed Try* recent events in Cuba." Well, if IMF isn't he will be. , Marchand's name isn't pronounced "March on," but it onght to be If there is anything in a name. Santiago has on hand an organised te» bor strike. It didn't take that town lopi/ to become civilised. * ;