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ZZZ Photo albums. Ladies desks, Autograph albums, Collar and cuff boxes, etc. away from the field. "Maceo was surrounded by his own men, who einoarKea with him ana passed the trocha, it is affirmed Ty his his own phj sician. Dr.

Zertucha; li is not true inaceu was coming ior any conference with me. I can prov-it with two reasons. The first is that if I was in the province of Pinar de-Rio how could I summon him to the province oi iiavana ine second is that knowing myself the situation in which Maceo was i Pinar del Rio, knowing the sitnatio was so desper- ate that he asked he from the rebel forces in the other pa of the island. 1 would not be so inn ent as to agree to a conference with im in a place he he would be out of theiftrocha. "Once in Havana, he would have re solved the problem of breaking the eircle in which I' had him and his forces in Pinar del Itio.

'Maceo died as have fallen all who command forces who at sight of the enemy fly away. This discouraged band he brought to Havana with the hope of making it fight. Any other chief in similar circu distances, if his. men disbanded, would be sure to die. And that is what happened to Maceo.

WEYLER." Weyler Burned in Effigy. Marcus Hook, Dec. 16. This little town was literally ablaze last night with indignation against Spain. Fully 2,000 citizens of the place and of Chester held a parade.

Speeches in denunciation of Spain were made and 1 as' a denouement an effigy of Weyler was rigged up on a pole, fired at from 1 .1 lt 1. ,1 4- i t4 excitement prevailed during the dem onstration. HELD AS TRAIN ROBBERS. Four Men Arrested by the St. Louis Police, Hut Evidence Weak.

St. Louis, Dec. 15. Walter Jackson, a cigarmaker, has been arrested on suspicion of having been one of the men who held up and attempted to rob the Iron Mountain train in this city on the night of December 9. Officers of the First police district to-day brought in four mehSvhom they suspect of being part of the gang who held up the train.

The names of the firisoners are Herman Keeney, William ludson, Ueorge Severly and Harry Sylvester. According to the police they are all worthless characters and belong to what is known as the "Bates street gang," and hang about the scene of the hold-up. The men were taken before Chief Harrigan, who, after a short interview, ordered Sylvester released and the others held for further investigatron. The police have not yet been able to fix the crime upon Jackson or any of the three men. ALEXANDER SALVINI DEAD.

The Noted Young Actor Passes Away in Italy After Long Illness. Florence, Italy, Dec. 15. Alexander Salvini, son of Tomaso Salvini, the great Italian actor, and himself a well known American actor, died to-day after a long sickness, from consump tion of the bowels. Plan to Prevent Strikes.

Chicago, Dec. 15. Officials of the Illinois Central railway have before them the application of 1,500 employes of the road who desire to purchase the compaey's stock. The Illinois Central employs 22,000 men. More than one- fourth of the employes of the company are now stockholders, and it is thought one-half will soon be enrolled.

In the success of the plan of making the employes financially interested with the executives, it is believed the company has taken a formal step in the direc tion of solving the strike problem. Pearl Bryan Case Perjurers Punished. Cincinnati, Dec. 15. John Seward and William Trustee, witnesses in the Pearl Bryan murder case, who were convicted of perjury, were to-day sentenced in Newport, Seward to two years and Trustee to one year in the Kentucky penitentiary.

They tried to make the jury believe that Pearl Bryan was beheaded on the Ohio side of the river and conveyed to Fort Thomas afterward. Against State School Books. Topeka, Dec 15. State Super intendent of Instruction Stanley is opposed to state uniformity of school books and to state publication. In his forthcoming biennial report to the governor he will recommend that if the legislature should undertake either state uniformity or state publication the question should be well considered beforehand.

He thinks state publication especially would be a costly experiment. English Cracks at Chandler. London, Dec. 15. The Times to-day commenting on the Cuban situation, expresses the hope that the Spaniards "will continue to disregard the vitup eration of the jingo senators and abstain from imitating them," adding: "The American government maintains a correct and neutral attitude and as long as it does so Spain can afford to smile at Senator Chandler's off-hand recognition of the Cuban republic." Starkey Meets an Awful Fate.

North Bend. Dec. 15. About 1:30 yesterday afternoon, Thomas Starke inninr member of the firm of Starkey Son, proprietors of the City Roller mills, met instant death by being wound around a shaft in the third story of the milL Starkey was placing a belt, when his clothing caught in a cog-wheel, and the force of the revolution of the shaft could not be resisted. Oregon Land Grant Forfeited.

Washington, Dec. 15. Chief Justice Fuller announced the opinion of the court in the case of the United States vs. the Oregon California Railway and the Oregon Central Railway companies, involving titles to valuable lands near 1 Portland, reversing the decision of the circuit court of appeals for the Ninth circuit and sustaining the contention of the government. OAfJTOIHA, I mm PUBE DEALERS OF TWENTY-SEVEN STATES MEET.

TO WORK FOR PROTECTION Moat of the Southern Delegates Hava Been Free Traders In the Past, But Insist That if There Is to Be a Protective Tariff Lumber Mast -Not He Discriminated Against. Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 15. Pursuant to a call issued by J. C.

Defebaugh, publisher of the Timberman, and W. B. Judson, publisher of the Lumberman, 150 delegates representingtwen-ty-seven states assembled here this morning to take action for the better protection of lumber interests. Most of the Southern delegates have been free traders, but all insisted that if there was to be a protective tariff lumber should not be discriminated against and that they would do all they could to secure a tariff on lumber. They stated that all other articles used in connection with lumber in all sorts of construction were protected and that the lumber trade was now so depressed as to require relief.

A temporary organization was perfected with J. A. Freeman as chairman and J. C. Defebaugh and W.

B. Judson secretaries. Mr. Freeman made a vigorous speecK against the tariff of 1894 as discriminating against lumber and urged the convention to take such action as would secure just treatment to the lumber interests in the tariff bill to be enacted by the coming Congress. Sec retary Pefebaugh read many letters from the lumbermen who could not be present, but who pledged their co-operation in any action the convention might take to secure a tariff on lum ber.

The usual committees were appoint- rd by the chairman and a division of the work for the session of two days was carefully made. While the pres ent purpose is to secure a tariff on lum- ee, yet a permanent organization is being perfected for the general interests of the lumbermen in the future. CSACE CABINET. Governor "Saury Chief's" Faction Brtmks a adlo. in the Council.

Guthrie, Dec. 15. In the recent Osage election the Conner-Big Heart combination was defeated for the first time by the Progressive party, which includes most of the half breeds. Saucy Chief," a full blood, was elected governor, and has just obtained con firmation of his cabinet by the council, which convened the first Monday in the month, but was deadlocked awhile by the filing of contests and other dilatory tactics by the minority. W.

T. Leahy has the treasury portfolio and S. W. Petit the judiciary; W. T.

Mosier is secretary, Arthur Rogers permit clerk and Frank Pruden, high sheriff. llarfth to Major Cirujeda. Madrid, Dec. 15. The- report that Captain General Weyler has ordered proceedings to be taken against Major Cirujeda.

because the major, after the death of Antonio Maceo, went to Havana without the permission of his superior bflicers, is causing discontent here, owing to the popularity of Cirujeda. Although the ministers maintain reserve on the subject, it is seated that the cabinet may consider this question, and it is further stated that the ministers may also discuss General Weyler's plan of campaign, which is being criticised. It ha been decided to purchase the British transport Prince of Wales. Bell Starr's Son Meets Death. Claremore, Ind.

Dec. 15. Last night Ed Reed went in to a saloon and fired several shots. The marshal arrested him and took him before the mayor, who put him under bond. Then he started for home but soon returned and start into the saloon again when five shots were fired and he fell with bullets in the neck an! just over the heart, and died this morning.

Reed is the man who kihed the two Crittenden brothers at Wagoner about a year ago, and was a son of the noted Bell Starr. Hot Springs Citizen Protest. Hot Springs, Dec. 15. A mass A.1 At 1 1J1 yesterdsay to protest against closing Und stas nd ho itaL as reCom mended in the report of 8ecretary of War Lament It was de- cided to send a committee to Vk ashintr.

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The Cuban Junta In New York Over whelmed "With Offers of Aid From AU Part of the United States' Indignation Everywhere Over General Maceo'i Killing. Havana, Dec. 16. The United States consulate general jn this city is under a special guard of armed policemen. This precaution is taken by the Spanish authorities owing to the fear that the indignation expressed by the Spanish sympathizers against the United States would find vent in an attack upon the consulate.

There have been fresh signs of the hostile feeling against the United States in view of the news from there of the ardent sym pathy felt with the insurgents over the death of Antonio Maceo, and the alle gations there of the manner in which he was killed. In the absence of Con sul General Fitzhugh Lee the consulate is in charge of Vice Consul General Jo- esph A. New York, Dec 16. From all parts of the United States, from Mexico and from Paris, telegrams were received yesterday by the Cuban junta and by prominent Cubans in New York, in which the correspondents expressed their sympathy for free Cuba and offered financial assistance to the men who are making the fight for liberty, One of the most ardent writers was Herbert W. Wolcott, chairman of the Cuban American League, of Cleveland, and brother of United States Senator Wolcott.

In his communication to Fidel G. Pierrera, Mr. Wolcott said the American-born citizens of Cleve- land were intensely enthusiastic and reprobated the murder of Maceo and his staff. Money, Mr. Wolcott said, was coming in faster than at any time since the war began and if men were wanted there would be no trouble in recruiting more than one regiment.

So fervent is the sympathy for Cuba that the junta would not be asked to expend a dollar of its funds for equip ment or transportation, Mr. Wolcott said, ne wrote that members of the Grand Army of the Republic in Cleveland, who were officers in the civil war, had volunteered to go. with the enlisted men and assume command of them in Cuba. In Florida, Louisiana, Georgia and the other Gulf states, the feeling seems strong against Spain as evidenced by communications received here. It is stated by prominent Cubans that if vessels can be got out of this country, it will be only a few days before many thousands of arms and many chests of ammunition will be landed within the insurgent lines.

In this city funds have been pouring im to aid tne Cuban cause and many inquiries are being made of the Cuban officials as to the best way to transmit funds and supplies to the men who are fighting. WEYLER ON MACEO. Was Slain In Open Battle, Commanding Troops Who Would Not Fight. New York, Dec. 16.

The New York World correspondent at Havana sends the following signed statement from General Weyler on Maceo's death: "Havana, Dec. 15. Maceo died as a result of -the feeble state in which were the insurgent bands at Havana. Doubtless before the sudden attacks and the constant prosecution of the battalion of San Quentin they were losing ground. To reorganize those bands he put himself at their head and for this he died, with part of the staff accompanying him.

"In the same manner have died many generals in all the wars of the world. "Maceo was not killed in an ambush. "My assertion can be proved bv the fact that the Spanish column which fought against his forces had to main tain itself against the fire of the in surgents and the insurgents were strong enough in numbers to retake the of Maceo and the son of ScOtt Emulsion is made up of the most essential elements that go to nourish the body. Where the appetite is varying or lacking, it increases it, and where digestion is weak, it aids it to perform its function in a more vigorous way. It enriches the blood, makes healthy flesh and cures chronic coughs and colds by making it possible for the body to resist disease.

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SCOTT A BOWJTE, Hew York. SENATOR ALLEN CALLS FOR AN INQUIRY. WANTS AN INVESTIGATION Presidential Campaign the Subject of Resolution Senator Morgan of Alabama Call, for Action In Cuba The State Department Called on for Information. W1.8HINGTOX, Dec 15. The Rev.

T. De Witt Tal mage delivered the prayer at the opening of the senate to-day, and. in the absc-euce of the vice president, Mr. Frye occupied the chair. The house resolution for a recess from next Tuesday to January 5 was reported favorably and agreed to.

Mr. Allen of Nebraska offered a resolution for a committee nine senators "on the use of money in elections." The resolution directs that the sommittee shall "thoroughly investigate the extent to which money, if was used in connection with the recent presidential election, either in promoting the nominations or in influencing in any manner the choice of presidential electors, and to inquire whether any such expenditures were excessive, illigitimate, corrupt or unlawful, especially to inquire and ascertain to what extent, for such purposes, the owners of silver manufacturers, the railroads or other corporations and millionaires of all classes made contributions and what contributions, if any, were made by jtoreign persons or corporations. Mr. Allen made no remarks on the resolution, but sent to the clerk's desk and had read several newspaper clippings containing charges of irregularity in connection with the recent election. The resolution was then referred to the committee on contingent expenses, Mr.

Allen remarking that he earnestly desired a speedy report to the senate. The bill validating certain New Mexico boDds was taken up, the house amendments agreed to, and the senate amendments disagreed to, so that the bill now goes to the President. Mr. Palmer of Illinois called up one of the pension bills, heretofore vetoed by the President, but yielded to Mr. Morgan for a speech on Cuba.

Mr. Morgan said: "I will confine my remarks to comments upon the facts stated in the recent annual message of the President and the report of the secretary of state. I am not able to discover that the President has made any specific recommendations or indication as to any action he deems it proper or expedient for Congress to take with reference to Spain or Cuba, nor that he has indicated any course, except a still patient waiting, that the executive proposes to take. Congress, jthus left to its own initiative, must as-jsume its own responsibility in a matter 01 me mosi serious gravity, congress must give to the statements of the President unhesitating acceptance as to matters that were committed by the constitution to his especial charge. When he undertakes to state the facts that affect our relations with other powers we must accept those facts unless the disproof of them is overpowering.

"This message is therefore of the most impressive importance, as a statement of the leading facts aud conclusions that bear upon our duties in respect to the conflict of arms which has raged for over two years in the Island of Cuba, and it has the support of nearly all American belief. I have not heard that Spain controverts any statement of the president in his message. The evidence that comes from private sources relative to the condition ot Cuba and the horrors of persecution, rapine and extermination visited upon the people of Cuba, admits of no doubt as to its credibility. Yet it presents pictures so incredibly inhuman and so disgraceful to the civilization of this age that it stuns the mind into disbelief that such things can be true. "If war with the United States is necessary to reconcile the Spanish people to-the loss of Cuba by foreign conquest," said Mr.

Morgan, "we shall be compelled to meet that emergency. If the destruction of Cuba is enough to satisfy the popular sentiment of revenge, we can avoid a war with Spain by remaining inactive while our own people are being ruined or slaughtered aiong with the Cubans. If we mean-to take any aetion towards stopping this war of annihilation and extermination, we have no time to lose Mr. Morgan spoke of the resolution of Congress 'at the last session which he said gave to the president the choice Df concurring with the policy of Congress or delaying. The president delay.

The war had he went on, until it had reached the final and desperate stage of a war of devastation and extermination, with the people of Cuba as a prey to those who had set aside the usual honorable usages of warfare, and had become rouuera, cui-mi-oais, assassins. rav- P'niie. Mr. Morgan closed his Cuban speech at 2:10 o'clock and the Senate agreed to his resolution calling for information on the Competitor and other cases. lon tan on not to Waive His Claim.

Madrid, Dec. 15- The report that Don Carlos, the pretender to the Span-. Ish throne, intends to waive his claim In favor of his son, Don originated in a dispatch to the Imparcial of Rome and is declared without foundation in fact. Black Envelopes Tarred Front Mails. Washington, Dec.

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RECRUITS FOR CUBA. Agents of the Juntw Believed to Be Operating in Kansas City. Kansas Citt, Dec. 15. The office of D.

S. Harriman. in the Sheidley building had the appearance this morning of a recruiting station in time of war. During the five or ten minutes in which a reporter was in Mr. Harriman's office nine men.

one of them a practicing physician, came in and said, that they wanted to join the Cuban army, nd asked how they could get there. Most of them wanted transportation, which Mr. Harriman was unable to give them. Nearly 150 men have called at Mr. Harriman's office since yesterday morning.

Most of them were young men. Two young men who had money with which to pay their way to Cuba said that they had learned not necessarily from Mr. Harriman that the Cuban junta would have agents in Kansas City at the end of this week for the purpose of sending to Cuba men who honestly wished to go there and join the army. The Southern rendezvous will be at Tampa, from which place they will proceed by boat to Key West, and thence to Cuba. FALSELY ACCUSED.

The Mother and Stepfather of a Woman Poisoner Freely Pardoned. Helena, Dec. 15. Governor Rwkards has granted free pardons to Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Clarke, serving seventeen-year terms each in the penitentiary at Deer Lodge for the murder of John I'. Stewart by poisoning. They had already served a year of the sentence. Stewart was a wealthy man and when he was poisoned suspicion first fell upon his wife, Mary. She was arrested at Spokane and tried, at Missoula.

To save herself she accused her mother and stepfather. They were convicted by her testim'ony of murder in the second degree. But remorse overtook Mrs. Stewart, and she finally confessed to an attorney and to ex- Governor Toole, but committed suicide before a -written statement could be signed. BIMETALLISTS CONFER.

Plans Being Considered for Thorough Or ganization of Silver Advocates. Washington, Dec. 15. A meeting of the officers and executive committee of the American Bimetallic union began here to-day, its purpose being to devise ways and means to continue work in behalf of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and incidentally to arrange for the resumption of the publication of the National Bimetallist, the organ of the union. The paramount business of the meeting will be to arrange the details for a convention of silver leaders throughout the country with a view to the inauguration of a comprehensive organization in behalf of silver.

Will Accept. Caraccas, Venezuela, Dec. 15. Many persons of education and position in the republic have begun. to realize the importance jf the protocol arranged between the governments of the United States and Great Britain for the settlement of the boundary dispute in Guiana.

This statement is given on the authority of politicians of prominence. It may be added upon the same authority that President Crespo will not yield to any popular demand, but will hold firm to his purpose to accept the proposed Anglo-Venezuelan treaty. Pinkerton Men Spying on Cubans. Jacksonville, Dec 15. Act ing under instructions of the department of justice.

United States Marshal McKay of the Southern district of Florida, has appointed seven or eight Pinkerton detectives as deputy United States marshals. These detectives are in tne employ 01 tne hpan.sb govern ment, and are scattered over the state, watching prominent Cubans and Americans who are suspected of being engaged in fitting out filibustering expeditions. Surprised by a S500 Box. St. Joseph, Dec.

15. Joseph tahn, a retired manuiacturer, was called to his front door Sunday night by a small boy who handed him a box He asked who sent the box, and a man standing in the shadow near the gate called to the boy to come away. Cahn opened the box and found $500 in bills inside, enclosed in an envelooe. He does not know who sent it, but believes that itwas from someone who had swindled him years ago. The Foley Farm Dec.

Auction. 15. Hundreds attended the I oley auctions yeerday Auctioneer W. Neatt said tha everything had brought a good price, the personality realizing SoOO above tho annpaicAmont If. la thnnrrhf thai the $1,700 "t-t- mortgage will easily be satisfied.

a 11c ivu-(ki tai 111 rented to Mike Summers for 8405 a vear. Bloodstains were still visible on the floor. Conscience Contributions. Washlngton, Dec 15. Two con science contributrons were received by the treasury of the United States to-day.

Both were sent anonymously, A '11 envelope to indicate why or when the money was sent. One contribution was of $520 and the other of $500. Both were in bills. Baroness Leonino Rothschild Dead. Paris, Dec.

15. Baroness Leonino, daughter of Baron Gustave de Roths- child, died to-day as a result of a fall i irom ner norse wnue nnnTm: The MONnoa brief work. joo office does law I 1 J. F. COTTRELL, 16 N.

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