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of a union between China and Japan this time would force the whole world to put on the thinking cap. It is only in France that the French population does not increase. In ada, Algeria and Tunis its increases rapidly. Minnesota's practical law for the encouragement of tree planting is worth attention in other States. Nearly 000 acres were planted with young saplings in Minnesota last year.

Eighty years ago the United States in eight years. Nicola Tesla tells the New York sold abroad $20,000,000 less than she bought of iron and steel products. In 1897 her exports exceeded her imports by $50,000,000 of achange Sunday World that he has "harnessed the rays of the sun" and will compel them to operate machinery and give light and heat. The invention is still in the experimental stage, but he declares there is not a possibility of its failure. He has discovered a method of producing steam from the rays ol the sun.

The steam runs a steam gine which generates electricity. The growing plea for technical schools as an important factor in the advancement of industrial art in the United States has received unequivo cal recognition from the State ol Georgia, pioneer in the Southern proof post-bellum years, notes the gress New York Mail and Express. On the eve of the Legislature's adjournment, an appropriation of $10,000 was made for the establishment of a textile school, on condition that this sum be dupli cated by popular subscription. This condition, we understand, has been promntly mot; and Georgia thereby promises not only to give a new im, pulse to her own textile industry, but to furnish one more example of manu' facturing foresight provocative of emulation by her sister States in Dixie. In science the year 1897 has given no one discovery equalling in brilliant impressiveness that of the X-ray or of argon, thinks Harper's Weekly, but for the first time in history a steamaeroplane of any considerable size has lifted itself and flown a considerable distance without the aid of hydrogen or other gas; the third- rail system of using electric power has been applied successfully in the suburban passenger traffic of steam railroads; all records on the ocean have been broken by improved steamships; and what seem to be really substantial advances have been made in telegraphing without wires.

This: is only part of along record of attempt and achievement in physical and mechanical science, but if there were nothing else it would call for admiration. A whipping for the correction of bad boys has been set up in Evansville, Ind. The judge of the local police court is responsible for the innovation, He was puzzled what to do with boys indifferent to parental control, and hesitated to inflict the penalty of a fine, which was really a putishment on the parent. He discovered that an.old statute permitting the flogging of lawbreakers had not been repealed, and at once set up the whipping-post. Now, when a boy is found guilty of misdemeanor, his father is sent for and given his choice of paying a fine, seeing his boy go to jail, or giving him a sound flogging with a strap in the presence of an officer, whose duty it is to see that there is no sham about this punishment.

There is seldom need of the mentor's interference, the angry parent wielding the strap to good purpose. The Humane Society felt impelled to interfere, but the judge stood upon the law, and there has been a marked decrease in the number of boys brought before the court. Without taking into account the legitimate losses occasioned by the war in Cuba, it is estimated that the depredations committed by General Weyler upon the property of the insurgents will closely approximate in value the sum of $77,000,000. The bill of charges against the Spanish butcher is itemized as follows: One hundred thousand country houses aud 50,000 dwellings in villages and hamlets destroyed, 800,000 cocoa trees cut down, 1,000,000 palm trees destroyed, 2,000,000 fruit trees destroyed, 5,000,000 banana plants destroyed, 1000 tracts of boniatas and yuccas destroyed, 4,000,000 coffee plants destroyed, 3,000,000 small cocoa plants destroyed, 000; 2,000,000 horned cattle killed outright, 2000 horses killed, 500,000 cordels of fencing burned, 300,000 hives of domestic bees destroyed, 650,000 head of sheep and swine destroyed, 500,000 tierces of tobacco appropriated, 000,000. To this inventory of outrages inflicted upon property must be added the wholesale murders perpetrated by General Weyler upon deSenseless women, children and inva.

lids. "In the annals of civilized warfare," concludes the Atlanta Constitution, "there is nothing to compare with the brutal record of the Spanish butcher." SEAMEN GO DOWN WITH THEIR SHIP. 253 MEN LOST. Battleship Maine Demolished by an Explosion in Cuban Waters. The United States battleship Maine, anchored in Cuban waters off Havana, blown up last Tuesday evening.

A telegram from Capt. Sigsbee of the Maine reports 253 members of the crew lost. No reason as to the cause of the explosion has been given. Members of Congress, high officials and foreign diplomats at Washington have no opinions to give, but a terrible suspicion prevails that the Spaniards are responsible for the awful disaster. President McKinley immediately upon receipt of the news cabinet meeting.

The following despatch was cabled to Capt. Sigsbee: "The president directs to express for himself and the people of the United States his profound sympathy with the officers and crew of the Maine, and desires that no expense be spared in providing for the survivors and in the care for the wounded." The Maine was blown up by an explosion well forward under the men's quarters. Her magazine is further back between her coal bunkers. Information is that this did not explode. Most of the crew were sleeping when the ship was blown up.

One-fourth of them were killed outright. Some of the watch and a few of the officers and crew who were on shore escaped unhurt. The explosion was terrific, shaking the city to its foundations, illuminating the harbor and causing terror to all within sight and hearing. Indications were that a torpedo had been exploded under the bows of the battleship. Capt.

Sigsbee, who was wounded in the head, says the magazine was in perfect order. Sigsbee, in his shirt sleeves, directed all work of rescue. He bleeding slightly and his clothes were covered with dirt. His first care was for the disabled showed great coolness and wounded. All of the crew who were not courage.

Five minutes after the explosion the Alphonso the Spanish cruiser lying not far away, launched boats a and hurried them to the sinking battleship. They picked up the wounded sailors and those who were swimming. The dead number at least 275. The survivors are Capt. Sigsbee, Lieut.

Com. Wainright, Lieut. Holman, Lieut. Hood, Lieut. Blandin, Chief Engineer Howell, Surgeon Honnerberger, Paymaster Ray, Lieut.

Catlin, Past Assist. Engineer Bowers, Chaplain Chidwick, Cadets Holden, Bronzon and Boyde, Assistant Engineers Creenbow, Eugene Washington, Gunner Hill, Boatswain Larbin, Carpenter Helms, Pay Clerk Nicholas Careth. Up to Saturday 130 bodies have been recovered. Each is placed in a coffin and carried to the Colon cemetery, where Chaplain Chadwick, of the Maine, conducts funeral services. The men searching for bodies have also recovered a number sad relics of the Maine, including medical of, chest, enlistment records, a gold watch and chain marked T.

Bartlett, Waltham 331134," and photographs. Lieut. F. M. Jenkins, of Allegheny, an officer on the Maine, is said to be among the lost.

The Red Cross Society is hard at work in Cuba relieving the sufferings of the Maine's survivors. Public opinion and official statements are delayed until divers can make investigations of the Maine's hull. Should the plates found to bulge outward the cause will be assigned to explosions on board the warship, but should they appear to have been driven inward, the blame will be placed upon a foreign torpedo boat. at Havana were placed at half mast on the governor-general's palace, on shipping in the harbor and on city buildings. Business was suspended, Thursday night the theaters were closed.

The commander of the Maine, Captain Sigsbee, is a favorite in the Navy Department. For four years he was Chief of the Hydrographic Office, and by his energy brought the office up to a high standard. He was lucky to get so important a ship as the Maine, considering his actual rank, which is that of a commander; but immediately he justified the department's judgment in the selection by running his ship straight into a dock in New York harbor to avoid running down a packed excursion boat. This was a display of quick judgment, nerve and pluck that pleased the departenent so highly that Captain complimentary letter. The Maine is, or rather was, a battleship of the second class, and regarded as one of the best ships in the new navy.

She was built at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is 313 feet long, 57 feet broad, 21.6 feet mean draught and 6,682 tons displacement. She carries four ten-inch and six six-inch breech-loading guns in her main battery, and seven six-pounder and four eight one er rapid-fire guns gattlings in her secondary battery, and four Whitehead torpedoes. FRANCES WILLARD DEAD. The Noted Temperance Worker Dies in New York City. Frances E.

Willard died early Friday morning at the Imperial hotel in New York. At the bedside of Miss Willard at the time of death were her niece, Mrs. W. W. Baldwin, Mrs.

L. M. M. Stevens, vice-president of the Women's Christian Temperance union; Miss Anna M. Gordon, Miss Willard's secretary, and Dr.

Alfred K. Hill. Miss Willard has been ill for about three weeks. Dr. Hill said that Miss Willard had suffered for some time with profound anemia, which caused her death.

Miss Willard was president of the International as well as the National W. C. T. and had made the temperance cause her life work. Frances Elizabeth Willard was born in Churchville, N.

September 28, western female college, Evanston, 111., 1839. She was graduated Northwestern female college, Evanston, in 1859, became professor of natural science there in 1862, and was principal of Genessee Wesleyan seminary in 1866- 67. The following two years she spent in foreign travel, giving a part of the time to study in Paris and contributing to periodicals. In 1871-74 was professor of aesthetics in Northwestern university and dean of the Woman's college, where she developed her system of self government, which had been adopted by other educators. The funeral service over the remains of Miss Frances E.

Willard, took place in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, Sunday afternoon. A Spanish Version. The Spanish legation at Washington gives out the substance of a dispatch received from Havana, in which the cause of the disaster as to the Maine is given as an explosion in the a dynamo room. If this is the correct explanation it accounts fully for the fact that the loss of life is confined to the crew and marines. According to the plans of the battleship the dynamos were located directly under the forward turret.

Between the turret and the dynamo were berth decks. Under dynamo was the hydraulic pump dome, and below that again was the magazine, in which was stored the loaded shells for the 10- inch guns. Whipping as a Punishment. Sentence passed by the city court at Atlanta, on Joe Lee, a ten-year-old negro, is creating a great deal of comment. It is said that he is confined in the city stockade and whipped by one of the officers every day for 30 days.

There is no law for this. The case, however, is exceptional, POPULATION DECREASING. War. Disease and Massacre Devastating the Island of Cuba. In a letter from Washington to the Philadelphia Inquirer Robert P.

Porter writes: "Or 200,000 soldiers sent out by Spain 147,000, or nearly three-quarters of the total number, have either died if digease, returned home disabled or been killed in battle. Of the 37,000 now in and around Havana, not half of them are to-day able to stand up and be counted, so terriby have their ranks been decimated by disease, lack of nutritious food and other necessities. While the Spanish representatives at Washington have had abundance of money to use for the purpose of corruption and in the entertainment of prominent American officials and statesmen for the purpose of treating the cause of Spain, the Spanish army, cooped up in the seaboard cities of Cuba, is literally dying from disease and want of adequate provisions. Added to this the insurgents have practically possession of nine tenths of the island, and it is exceedingly doubtful if another campaign under such conditions is possible. "While the gloomy foreground of the picture indicates the absolute impossibility of further delay in ending the three years of destruction and bloodshed and the hopeless position of Spain, we have even a more horrible background in the fact that since the war broke out three years ago this month the population in Cuba has decreased from 1,900,000 to probably less than 000,000.

These losses have been due to high death rate from disease, starvation, massacre, killed in battle and other causes. Under existing conditions it is claimed that delay in settling this question is costing 1,000 lives a day. TERSELY TOLD TELEGRAMS. The New Orleans Mardi Gras opened last Monday. Miss Willard's estate is said not to exceed $20,000.

Milford, N. felt an earthquake shock last week. It is estimated that there are 40,000 cases of grip in Chicago. Anderson, clergymen have agreed not to marry divorced persons. Eight Chinamen were arrested in The wharf and custom house TamPittsburg for conducting a speak pico, was destroyed by fire.

Loss $2,000,000. A trolley car instantly killed Mrs. Harriet Campbell at Pittsburg the other In a collision at McKeesport. a few days ago, engineer Frank Lint was instantly killed. Pittsburg ministers are complaining that too many revivals are taking place in that city.

Mrs. Annie Cleveland, wife of the exPresident's brother, died at Cleveland a few days ago. China has to all her inland waters agreed, owned either by natives or foreigners. Troops left Oregon recently for the Klondike to maintain law a and order in the gold fields. Franz von Auersperg, a bankrupt foreign prince is now running an elevator in a New York hotel.

The largest steam yacht ever built in this country, the Niagara, property of Howard Gould, has been launched. The International League of Press Clubs, in session at New Orleans, elected P. C. Boyle, of Oil City, president. The wife of ex-Secretary Whitney, of the navy, was seriously injured in a runaway at Aiken, S.

the other day. A thief stole $2,500 in diamonds from the house of Townsend Burden, of New York, who lost jewelry valued at $50,000 two years ago. The four people frozen to death in Chilkoot Pass February 2 were an Indian woman and three children belonging to a pack train. Inhaling gas, resulted in the death of Jacob Dilienburg and wife, of New York, a few days ago. Whether accident or suicide is not known.

Charles W. Barstow, dealer in paints, oils and naval stores, at St. Louis filed a chattel deed of trust to secure creditors to the amount of $700,000 last week. The teller of the Dover bank, defaulting, Boggs, was captured at Wilmington, a few days ago. He is accused of getting away with $100,000.

The body of former Police Commissioner Leonard Welles, of Brooklyn, was found in the woods near Scotch Plains, N. Sunday with his throat cut. William J. Scanlan, the comedian, is dead. He died Saturday night at the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, where he had been confined for the past six years.

French expeditions are marching upon Sokoto, which pace is under British influence in West Africa. It is feared that as a result Great Britain will declare war. Luetgert, the Chicago wife murderer, has been denied a new trial, was sentenced to life imprisonment. Morris Bojenski, of New York, came to Chicago for the purpose of purchasing a wife. While speculating his wife with three children appeared the scene, and Morris is now in jail." Two women, brooding over the death of a child, attempted suicide at Hemstead, L.

the other day. Annie Volmar, one of the women, is dead and Mrs. Bedell, her sister, is in a critical condition. General Booth, commander-in-chief of the Salvation Army, in an interview said among other things, that if there came a war between the United States and Spain, he would order out the Salvation Army in America to go to the front as nurses. The department of state has awarded gold life-saving to William McField, a British seaman, in recognition of his heroic services in effecting the rescue December 2 last of an American citizen, a passenger on board the Nicaraguan schooner Dolphin, on the coast of Mexico.

A part of the plant of the Hardford carpet company at Thompsonville, has been closed for indefinite period. More 200 hands are affected. An unsatisfactory demand is made to be the cause of the shut down. A portion of the Westfield plate company's factory at Thompsonville also has closed: Three men, looking for employment, were run down and instantly killed by an express train in Allegheny, the other day. The dead are John Haifley, 22 years Robert Lawrence, 21 years old, of Salem, and William Ryan, 35 years old, of Leetonia, O.

They were accompanied by Michael A. McNamara, also of Salem. A wild engine was rapidly approaching the Ft. Wa She depot at Allegheny, the other day. For some unaccountable reason steam had entered the engine's cylinders, while no one wag in the cab.

Engineer Martin saw the impending danger and permitted his engine to collide with the runaway, thus stopping it. Both engines were badly wrecked and traffic was delayed for two hours. The brave engineer who had prevented disaster at the risk of his life escaped unhurt, At about midnight Sunday while a masquerade ball was in progress at the Irijoa theater, at Havana, a bomb was exploded on the second floor, destroying window blinds and the roof and wounding a lawyer named Pou and his father and two other persons. The explosion caused great confusion, and many of the masqueraders abandoned the theater. Others, however, continued dancing.

Amos R. Eno, proprietor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, died Monday, aged 88 years. Mr. Eno amassed a fortune, estimated at $15,00,000, by operations In city real estate. MOURNING ON A SPANISH CRUISER.

VIZCAYA IN NEW YORK. The Main Disaster Forces Her Captain to Decline All Social Functions. The. Spanish warship Vizcaya arrived in New York harbor last Saturday. She received every courtesy and all possible protection at the hands of the American navy.

Senor Manuel de Suarez, secretary of the consul-general of York, accompanied by a representative of the Associated Press, visited the Spanish warship Vizcaya Sunday. In an interview Capt. Eulate said that while his ship was in this port his officers would accept no invitations of any kind. The Spanish warship had come here on a visit of courtesy and friendship and when the dreadful accident to the Maine was learned the flags were put at half-mast, and there they would remain until the ship took her departure. He likened his visit to that of one intimate friend to another, when disaster had overtaken the latter, the same delicacy dictated what to do, to mourn with the friend and to avoid all festivity.

No invitations of a social character would be -this he wished to have understood. Referring to the catastrophe that had overtaken the Maine, he declared that he and his officers were greatly shocked and that the sympathy of all was with the families who had lost those near and dear. He said that he had duly sent a telegram to the secretary of the navy expressing his sentiments and those of the officers. Capt. Eulate when asked how long the ship would remain in port, said that he had no orders from his government, but he evidently expects to be here for some time.

He was eloquent in his praise of his ship during the hurricane met between the Bermudas and Cape Hatteras. She rode the heavy seas without an effort, and although the storm lasted thirty-four hourse, no accident of any kind occurred. The Vizcaya has a full crew of engineers, marines, torpedo corps and carries ten torpedoes, marine artillerymen, quartermasters and other officers, and a diver, a total complement of 492. Capt. Eulate ordered the guard withdrawn from the Vizcaya Monday, saying he had full faith in the honor of the American people.

THE MAINE DISASTER. Big guns are being rushed to Mobile, Ala. The disaster to the Maine has called forth great sympathy from England. The new torpedo boat Guenn was launched at Bristol, R. last Saturday.

The guards at the mortar and dynamite batteries at San Francisco have been doubled. Five bodies were recovered in the harbor Saturday near the wreck, but only one of them--that of "Tennis" was recognizable. Orders have been issued for the enlistment of 300 men for the navy, to fill the vacancies caused by the destruction of the battleship Maine. It is now a positive fact that the harbor at Havana is filled with submarine mines and torpedoes. They were placed there by General Weyler.

Commander-in-chief Street, of the Union Veterans union, has offered to the President the service of 10,000 men of the union for the defense of the country. General Miles has ordered the commanedr of the Eastern military department to detail men to every fort on the coast and to send abundant ammunition. Diver Martin, of the Maine, has assured Capt. Sigsbee and Consul-General Lee that the forward 10-inch magazine which was supposed to have caused the destruction of the Maine has been found to be in first-class condition. Naval experts are agreed that the explosion was caused by a sub-marine mine.

The damage was too great for a torpedo. It not an accident, for it is known that the whole middle deck which was blown straight up never had an ounce of powder under it. Since Friday morning Fort Sheridan, at Chicago, where the Fourth infantry and the First cavalry are stationed, has been in a state of the utmost activity. Colonel Robert H. Hall ordered that general preparations for a possible immediate summons be made.

A party of young Spaniards at Mexico City performing Spanish airs in the street in the garb of Spanish students on Sunday last, were attacked and stoned by the populace. This indicates the state of popular here in regard to the Cuban question. Consul Lee will reward the fireman Ugarte, who at the risk of his own life sailor. Ugarte, who was badly burned made a gallant rescue of a drowning about the head, persevered until he succeeded in saving the drowning man. He will be decorated by his battalion chief and the municipality of Havana.

Orders have been received at the navy yard at Norfolk, to keep the force working on the monitors Puritan and Terror, and torpedo boats Foote and Winslow at work day and night. It is commonly commented upon at Havana that no dead fish were found in the harbor after the disaster, and this fact is looked upon as showing that the explosion occurred on board the Maine, and not outside, as in the latter case many would have been killed by the concussion. The following telegram was received by Secretary Long Monday from New York: "When I arrived at New York I heard of the Maine disaster. We feel very deep sorrow and send our condelences for the dead and their families." "EULATE," "Captain Spanish Cruiser Vizcaya." It is known that Lieutenant Jenkins, of Allegheny, who is among the missing, was alive after the explosion. A colored mess attendant now at Key West met Jenkins running forward.

He evidently thought, in the confusion, that the Maine had been fired on and he was rushing to the forecastle where was located the six-inch gun of which he was in charge. The New York "Journal" has started a subscription for the erection of a shaft or monument in memory of the Maine's heroes at the gateway of the new world, and heads the list with a contribution of $1,000. The movement is being met with great favor. The subscription is to be a popular one, any sum, no matter how small, being accepted. The wreck of the Maine is considered as extra-territorial.

That is it is considered out of the jurisdiction of Spanish authorities, the same as the United States legation home at Havana. Consequently the services of Spanish divers who wished to assist the American divers have been declined. Spain wished to employ her own divers in order to prevent a perversion of truth by those in employ of this government. Recruiting is going on rapidly at the Brooklyn navy yard. Crowds of men and boys are on the receiving ship Vermont eager to enlist.

Only Americans are accepted. All these seemed fired with patriotism. Some have left good positions in order to get a chance to serve. The Maine incident will certainly result in filling the naval list with good material and up to the legal limit without much trouble. Rothschilds Invest in the Klondike.

Joseph Ladue, recently from the Northern gold fields, says: "The Northern American Transportation and Trading Company is now buying claims in the Klondike. I understand they are acting as agents for the Rothschilds. I met Mr. Cudahy on the train from Chicago San Francisco, and he told me they had just received $400,000 in drafts, ACCIDENT OR DESIGN. Indifference the Maine Explosion was Treated by Spaniards.

The Ward line steamer Seguranca got in New York from Tampico and Havana. The Seguranca arrived at Havana at 10 o'clock the morning after the disaster to the Maine and passed close by the wreck. The ship's passenger said that great excitement prevailed at Havana, and at the time of sailing the foreign population were generally of the opinion that the Maine was destroyed by design. They cited among other things in support of this theory the fact that the Spanish man-of-war Alfonso which was anchored near the Maine, changed her moorings just previous to the disaster. One of the passengers, William L.

Carbin, went so far as to say that he saw a boat go near the Maine on short time previous to the explosion. He said he would go to Washington, to make a statement before the proper authorities. C. P. Holtcomb, of Newcastle, general manager of a street railroad in Philadelphia, one of the passengers on board the Seguranca, was outspoken in his belief that the investigation at Havana would reveal some startling circumstances.

"I went to Havana," he said, "not at all in sympathy with the insurgents, but Wednesday, when we got there, I believe any the Americans on board was in a mood to commit murder. The flags of the Spanish warships were not at half mast. The vessels of all other nationalities had paid this slight tribute to the dead. I had a telegram to bring back the remains of Apprentice Glazier, who is the son of my bookkeeper. I found that he was among the saved.

The contrast between the bearing of the Spaniards and Cubans is strong. At the funeral of the Maine's seamen, the Cuban women in the streets were almost all dressed in mourning, while the Spanish women wore colors. The only American flags I saw in the whole procession were two small ones about three by six inches. I went aboard the Alphonso XII. and was received politely.

The only expression of regret I heard there was from an officer, who complained that the force of the Maine explosion had broken his toilet bottles. There can be no mistaking the indifference of the Spanlards in Havana over the loss of the warship and those on board. Thursday, while driving to the cemetery with two American friends, I was assailed with jeers, and some one threw a large stone at our carriage." F. W. Bobbet, of this city, who was with Mr.

Holcomb in the carriage, added: "That's perfectly true. In fact, one or two children yelled after us that they had blown up the and that they were glad of I did not hear a single expression of regret for the terrible loss of life from any Spaniard during the time I was in Havana." Mr. Weinheimer said he heard an excited Spaniard declare shortly after the explosion that if the "Americanos" sent another warship it also would be blown up. FIENDISH TORTURES. The Cruel Turk Continues His Brutal Slaughter Unmolested.

The note of the Bulgarian agent to the Turkish government, protesting against the treatment which Bulgarians have been subjected to in Macedonia, reveals a state of affairs similar to that which existed in Armenia. It says that village after village has been surrounded by the Turkish army, that wholesale arrests have been made and that the prisoners have been subjected to unheard-of tortures. The note further gives a list of the villages and the names of the victims to whom torture has been applied. Schoolmasters, it appears, have been the special objects of vengeance. These tortures are recited in the official document, and in each case the name of the victim is given: Hot irons thrust into mouths, legs broken, splinters driven under the nails, naked feet placed on hot stoves, hung by the feet for 15 hours, tied to horsss' tails, beaten to death, hung by the feet over fire.

A priest of the village of Zernovtzi was hung by the feet for three hours and then by the arms for 14 hours. A wet cord was bound tightly around his head. the prisoners at Kumanova were beaten until their flesh came oft in strips. THE LATIMER TRAGEDY. The Defense of Sheriff Martin Claims the Shooting Was Justifiable.

The defense of Sheriff Martin and his deputies for the murder of the miners at Lattimer opened Monday morning at Wilkesbarre. The law says that the defense has only to prove that the killing was justifiable. Attorney Ferris opened with a review of the sheriff's power, and asserted that the slaughter of the miners was justifiable homicide. He asserted that the miners were riotous, had terrorized the community, in fact that anarchy had taken the place of law. Mr.

Ferris said the defense would prove that the true story of the Lattimer shooting had never been told. He said it would be proved that threats were made and that the plan for the final attempt on Lattimer was consummated at two secret meetings. He also asserted that the sheriff was attacked by the strikers and thrown in a ditch before the order to fire was given. Pulled Down Spanish Flags. The National Cash Register Company was holding a convention of its agents from all over the world at Dayton, a few days ago, and among other countries Spain is represented.

In honor of the various nations different flags were displayed at the factory. Objection was made the Spanish flags by the workmen, and 12 of them were pulled down and torn into shreds. President John H. Patterson, of the company, ordered 24 Spanish flags put up to replace the ones torn down, but this made the 2,000 workmen angry and trouble was feared. CAPITAL GLEANINGS.

tion at the sale, Leiter's Fortune in Wheat. The bankruptcy bill passed the house last Saturday. There is a general demand on the part of senators and representatives for an immeliate investigation of the disaster to the Maine. The secret service has discovered a new and poor counterfeit $10 bank note on the Hibernia National bank of New Orleans. President McKinley was the principal speaker at the University of Pennsylvania last Tuesday.

The occasion was Washington's Birthday, The postoffice department has been informed that after March 1 samples of liquids, greases, powders and glass will admitted to the mails of Great Britain. In the case of William Grice and others, under indictment in Texas for violating the anti-trust law of the State, the United States supreme court held that the federal circuit court had interferred in granting a writ of habeas corpus when no proper exigency arose, and reserved the decision. The court did not enter upon the merits of the anti-trust law. The Government lien on the middle division of the Kansas Pacific railroad, in Kansas, was sold last week to Alvin W.Krech and Winslow S. Pierce, representing the reorganization committee, for $5,300,000.

There was no competi- It is pretty well established in inside circles about the Chicago Board of Trade that within the past ten days there has been turned into cash in two Chicago banks about $6,000,000 for Jos. Leiter's account. There is confirmation of the sale of wheat. Within 48 hours ocean tonnage has been taken at very low rates on 4,000,000 bushels to the leading English ports, WOULD FIGHT THE GREEDY YANKEE. SPAIN'S NEW POLICY.

An Alliance is Claimed to Exist Between the French and Spaniards. Now that the state legislature throughout the country are urging war with Spain, the people scouting the theory of accident in the Maine disaster, and certain Congressmen condemning the administration for its hesitancy in attacking a weak, foreign power, it may be well to consider the following from foreign newspaper opinions, There may after all be some reason for the indifferent and fearless attitude which Spain has thus far assumed. There is a curious discussion in the Spanish press as to the possibility of confederating the Latin republics of South America with Spain against the United States. "El Pais" contends that the Spanish republics are weak through isolation, but that united in a military and diplomatic alliance they would be the first power in the world in territory, the second in population, and that their armies and navies would have sufficient power to insure respect. "El Pais" thinks Spain's advice would not be discarded if she warned Latin America against the United States, adding: "For it is well known that the greedy Yankees, once the Panama canal is opened to the world's commerce, will do all which their perfidy can suggest to wrest it from the Latin countries of Central America, even England seized the Suez canal.

Tending in this direction is the desire of the Americans to sucure Cuba, and the advance of the United States in the sea of the Antilles are preliminary steps in the blockade and occupation of the future canal." Referring Latin alliances the London "Spectator" in a long article points out that there is no doubt of the existence of special relations between France and Spain which have lately been strengthened, and says: "There are well-informed people who believe that when in the autumn the United States found there was a stiffness in the Spanish attitude which could only be accounted for by the fact that Spain knew she could appeal to a power which could not neglect her demands for help." The "Saturday Review" expresses the belief that France allowed the United States to understand indirectly that considerations of importance to her would not allow her to see Spain treated in an unfriendly manner and that a Spanish appeal to France must result in the latter's intervention, and the "Review" believes that this accounts for "the way the United States shrunk from putting into practice the treatment of Spain suggested in the original protests of the Washington Government." SORROW IN SPAIN. Expressions of Regret Conveyed to Minister Woodford. -Press Opinions. "The news of the disaster of the Maine has caused a painful impression in Madrid. It was at first feared that there has been some act of imprudence to which the catastrophe was attributed.

Afterwards, as details arrived, the fears dispelled took the form of feelings of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortune which has occurred. "The captain-general, the commandant of the arsenal, the sailors of the cruiser Alfonzo the crews of the merchant vessels and all the available forces hastened to succor the injured." The government has expressed to Minister Woodford the regret it feels at the catastrophe, more especially as it occurred in waters within Spanish jurisdiction. An admiral in full uniform, in the name of the minister of marine and the entire Spanish cabinet, called on Gen. Woodford and informed him that the government had telegraphed to the authorities in Cuba to do their utmost to relieve the distress of the injured and to furnish the officers and crew of the Maine with everything which they may need. All the members of the cabinet and of the diplomatic corps left cards at the American legation.

The Epocha says: "Whatever relations between Spain and the United States, Christian feelings and humanity compel us to regret the catastrophe. The spectacle of so many lives suddenly launched into eternity inspires compassion." El Dia expresses sorrow for the disaster, which is describes as a "very disastrous occurrence for Spain." The Heraldo remarks: "Although the Americans try to represent us as a people devoid of virtues, we must face this horrible misfortune sincerely and express feelings tor compassion." The Heraldo adds: "In the face of provocative Americans we shall always remain a proud people; but in the face of men in misfortune, of whatever nationality, our hearts are always full of pity." The Imparcial published an extra duced a deep impression in Madrid. edition, to saying that the news had proThe premier, Senor Sagasta, personally informed the queen regent of the loss of the Maine. THE DREYFUS MYSTERY. Germany and Russia Supplying Each Other with State Secrets.

Herewith is an alleged explanation of the Dreyfus mystery. According to this explanation a secret compact between Russia and Germany existed before the Franco-Russian alliance was arranged, under the terms of which Russia undertook to supply Germany with all the information obtainable by spies or otherwise regarding French military affairs, Germany supplying Russia in return with information concerning another power, presumably Austria-Hungaria. Dreyfus discovered and traded upon this compact. Whether the bordereau was written by him or not it was merely the ostensible basis of the indictment against him. The real secret document referred to is a compact the revelation of which would have imperiled the Russian alliance.

CABLE SPARKS. A plague hospital at Bombay was destroyed by fire last Sunday. Three patients died from shock. Large stores of guns and ammunition are reported being received at Johannesburg, in the transvaal. Lord Salisbury's coach was cut in two by a swinging gate recently.

The premier had a narrow escape from death. A tariff war with the United States is demanded by the German Agrarians, who will shortly be paramount in the politics of that country. A wind storm toppled a chimney St. Francis Xavier's Academy at Vicksburg, into a room where a class was reciting, and Joseal Smith, of Delta, was killed. The referendum in Switzerland has resulted in poular approval of the proposed state purchase of the railroad; of Switzerland at a cost about a billion francs Seventy-four bodies have been recovered from the Vereinigte Carolinengluck colliery, Prussia, which was destroyed last Thursday by an explosion of fire damp, Thirty men are still in the ruins, On the Dissecting Table.

In the dissecting room of Missouri university at Columbia, the, body of a girl, 17 years old, lay on the table. About a dozen medical students were clustered around, when a frenzied woman rushed into the room, and shrieked, "That's her; that's her; That is Hattie Emerson, my daughter!" Mrs. Emerson then raved, and it is feared she may not recover. The body of the girl was obtained from the poor farm a few days ago, Rev. Sam Jones has announced himself an independent candidate for governor of Georgia.

A WEEK OF TRADE. Business Not Affected by the Terrible Disaster of the Maine. R. G. Dun Co's.

review of trade reports for last week as follows: The dreadful disaster to the Maine, much as it has affected all hearts, has not much affected business. Only in the stock market, where there was selling Wednesday by speculators on thin margins, but in no other speculative market was an effect felt, nor in general business. An advance of 10 per cent. in wages by some Gogebic mines is expected to be general throughout the lake region, excepting the Meseba district, and prices of ore from the other ranges this year have been advanced 15 per with an allotment of 6,000,000 tons outside Carnegie mines, which betokens an output much the largest ever known. Wheat has risen cents, and exports continue so heavy that a material advance is natural.

Atlantic exports in three weeks have been 8,416,495 bushels, flour included, against 5,661,971 last year, and Pacific exports have been 476,652, against 1,474,782 yast year. Such shipments, with heavy engagements for the future, in spite of 11,430,831 bushels of corn exported, against 507,214 bushels in the same weeks last year, are conclusive proof of the urgeney of foreign needs. Wheat receipts hold up well, though not exceeding last year's as much as exports, in three weeks, 7,775,560 bushels, against 4,884,740 last year. The botfact is that the world needs wheat, which this country can only supply for about six months to come. Cotton has held unchanged for spot, though a little lower for options, prospects of decrease in the next yield being the main support.

The iron output February 1, with reports of stocks on hand not held by the great steel companies, indicates a consumption of at least 3,000 tons per week greater in January than the previous maximum attained in November, 1895. The production is at present greater than consumption, stocks having increased 9,016 tons weekly in January outside the steel companies, whose stocks presumably decreased. Some weakness in pig would naturally result, but while gray forge has declined at Pittsburg to $8.50, with Southern iron offered at Chicago at concessions, no changes appear in products. Though new business has been somewhat disappointing, the works are mainly supplied for months ahead. In building of steel cars, in black sheets for tinning.

in rods. wire and wire nails. increased demand and heavy busin' appear, though bar and pine are weaker and structural orders seasonably slow. Minor metals have advanced, tin to $14.20 on considerable consuming demand, to $11.25 for lake on heavy exports, and lead to $3.80 and spelter to $4.10 on speculation, but failure to organize the tin pool causes weakness, American selling at $3 and lower at the West. In the cotton manufacture production is restricted by strikes and some grades are a shade dearer.

The recent opening of higher grade woolens at advanced prices meets less demand than was expected, with less activity in lower grades and unexpectedly numerous cancellations in light weights, indicating larger buying than consumption has yet warranted. Failures for the week have 295 in the United against 303 year, and 35 in against 58 last canadia, year. MAINE WILL BE RAISED. The Sum of $200,000 Appropriated by Congress to Rebuild the Ship. The navy department will raise the Maine.

The appropriation of $200,000. provided by Congress was the sum named by Chief Constructor Hichborn as required for the raising of the ship and its delivery at either Norfolk or New York, where he proposed to undertake the work of rebuilding the ship. He said: "I am confident that work can be done, and I see no reason to abandon hulk in Havana or leave her to the demolition of dynamite. If there is one-half of the hull in good condition, or fairly so, that is all that is necessary. I am able to a assure the Government of rebuilding the ship and of making her as good as new.

Of course this would be attended by large expense, but not nearly so much as another battleship would cost." Charles H. Cramp, the soldier member of the Cramp Shipbuilding Company, of Philadelphia, said the raising of the Maine depends entirely upon the size of the hole or rent which may be in her bottom. "The fact that one of the magazines of the Maine was located next to one of the coal bunkers does not indicate that the alleged 'accident' resulted from this proximity. Why, I know of at least two British men-of-war SO constructed as to actually place the main magazine between two boilers, and a French cruiser has her magazine right in the midst of coal bunkers. "The disaster, I believe, can be traced to exterior influences, but I am not now prepared to discuss them.

I believe there is danger in the harbor of Havana and quite sufficient reason to exercise great care." Lew Wallace Challenged. General Lew Wallace has been challenged to a duel by George E. Oakes, of Indianapolis. During an address delivered here on Lincoln day, in which he was relating reminiscences of the great emancipator eGneral Wallace told hitherto unpublished story which reflected on the courage of General McClelland in war. In short.

that Lincoln had made a special trip to Harrison's Landing after the seven-days' battle keep McClelland from surendering to the Confederates. Oakes served under McClelland and heard Wallace's speech. In a letter to the general Oakes denounces the story untrue, and asks the general to meet him upon the field of honor at such time and place and with such weapons as the general may choose. The affair has caused much excitement throughout the state. Uncle Sam Wants Sailors.

Steps have been taken to fill the vacancies in the enlisted branch of the navy caused by the loss of most of the crew of the Maine. The legal quota is now about 300 short, and arrangements. have been made. for the immediate enlistment of about that number of men. Telegraphic orders have been sent to the recruiting officers in charge of the receiving ships at New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk authorizing them to make the enlistments immediately.

A telegram was received from an organization in Detroit offering the immediate services of 10.000 citizens in that city in case of need. Patriotic offers also have been received from other places. Wrecked in a Snowstorm. Two passenger trains on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul road came into collision during a blinding snowstorm Saturday, resulting in one death and injury to a score or more persons.

The accident occurred in a deep cut six miles south of Rockford, and both engines were demolished. The dead: Englneer R. C. Tilden. Traitor Hanged Augustin Morales, an emissary from the Spaniards to the camp of the insurgent Gen.

Pedro Diaz, commanderin-chief of the Cuban forces in Pinar del Rio province, was hanged a few days ago, in accordance with a sentence passed upon him by court-martial. Morales was sentenced on January 27, but Gen. Diaz granted him 12 days' respite because Morales asked permission to arrange some affairs and write to his family in Pinar del Rio city. When the answers to his letters were received the sentence was carried out. Morales was on a mission of bribery.