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/kiT. VERNON HAWK-EYE.
MT. VERNON, l I IOW&.
During the year 1897 disease e~t
t~hort the lives of 32,534 Spanish sol-
diers in Cuba, and malarial fever was
slightly more fatal than yellow fever.
i J
The sultan of Turkey has decided not
to allow indemnity for the killing of
American missionaries in Armenia.
What the sultan needs is a war for hu-
manity, with Dewey trimmings.
ii
It is said that in Mexico the bride-
groom always furnishes the trousseau
of the bride. This is expensive some-
what in Mexico, but it would be a triv-
ial matter in the Philippines where
beads and shells are cheap.
i
][n one county in Vermont in one
week 23 barns and 13 dwellings were
strnck by lightning and more or less
damaged. If that ~as a region full of
wires a theory would be advanced, but
it happens to be the reverse.
The total toss of the American army
and navy in the recent war is reported
to be 23 officers and 236 men killed and
87 officers and 1,406 men wounded, an
aggregate of 1,752. In tbe civil war the
union army alone lost 4,142 officers and
62,916 men killed, and in addition 43,-
012 died from wounds.
I
Dr. Patrick Manson, whoever he is,
aunonnces in an eastern paper that
mosquitoes carry malarial fever. The
physician~ have us jumping sideways
~o get out of the wayof microbes, boil-
ing our water to anode certain death
and now we will have to be on the
lookout for mosquitoes.
It has been found that the X-ray
shines through a fox terries as if he
were a Chinese paper lantern. The ex-
periment was tried upon an animal of
this species which had.swallowed a
diamond ring, the trinket appearing in
his midst as visible as a fly in amber
or a gold fish in a glass globe.
France employs over 5,000 women in
her civil ~ervice, telephone and tele-
graph offices. The municipality of
"Paris alone gives work to 900 women
while the Bank of France pays sal-
aries ~o 400.more. Two hundred wom-
en have permanent positions in the
Credit Foncier, with earnings varying
from $175tto $37~ a year,
. / I i~ .
have dtse
tug
A WEEK'S HISTORY
Important Happenings of a
Week Briefly Told.
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNXON
All the Latest News of Interest from
Washington, From the East, the
West and the South.
THE LATEST FOREI6N DISPATCHES
~AR NEV*~ S.
In Fernandina. Fla the hospital
zhip Olivette. which had been lying
near the quarantine statiou, sunk
th#ough some mysterious agency. All
on board were saved.
In the transport Mexico Gem Shaf-
ter and his staff arrived in New York
from Cl~ba.
With all well on board the transport
St. Paul arrived at Manila.
With 2,279 soldiers from Saotiago on
board the steamship Covandanga ar-
rived at San,tander, Spain.
Orders were issued by Adjutant Gen-
eral Corbin for the mustering GUy of 19
volunteer organization~ numbering
over 20,0~0 officers and men.
The government has returned the
auxiliary cruisers. St. Paul an~t St. Louis
to the International Navigation com-
pany.
Gen. Brooke issued an order assum-
ing command of the troops in Puerto
Rico.
Many of the wealthiest natives in
the Philippines called upon Consul
Wildman in Hong-I(ong and urged
that every possible effort be made for
the annexation of the Philippine is-
lands to the United States.
The torpedoes placed at the en-
trance to the harbor of Havana h,ave
been raised without accident of any
kind.
The president spent five hours in
Camp Wikoff, Montauk Point, bare-
headed, most of the time. visit.Sag the
sick in the hospitals and inspecting the
well in their cantonments.
loughs.
Up to the present time the war de-
partmeht ban issued orders for mus-
tering out nearIy I00,000 volunteers,
and this will be done as soon as the
reed have had their 30 and 60-da3~ fur-
FROM gVA$HINGTON.
The statement of the public debt
l~sued on the l~t shows that the debt
decreased $34,789,711 during the month
of AugUst. The cash beMuse.in the
covery treasury was $92%144,640. The. total
e0se r~ ; i debt, lessthe.cashbalanee in the treas-
the ar admirable forury, amountsto $1,012,870fl17.
m~ckintoshes, bicFcle~ tires and like Tl~e annual report of the commis-
purposes.
signer ~f pensions will show that the
number of pen sioners0n the roils June
~0, 1808, w~ts 993,714 and the amoun~
paid for pension~ during the fiscal 2~ear
ended June 30, 1898, was'$14~.651,879.
31 the total circulation of
ates was $~0,508,524,
$481,745 for the
MOUNT VERNON HAWK-EYE.
In the Mississippi river near Fort St.
Philip the United States steamer John
Meiggs of the snagboat service was
blown up, and Capt. Starr, Sergt. Need-
ham, Ralph Rogers, Pat Corless, H.
Jackson and J, D. Malone were killed.
Near Columbus, Ga lhree children
of Mary Ring died from being bitten
by a rattlesnake, and a fourth child
fell into a spring during the excite-
ment and was drowned.
as he supposed,
the footprints of
s. The cave runs
i~s fdr at least $0
:tee :rt from the water,
but somewhat inland.
It : t over with bright
green lc attractive even to
this day,
The Da, ier, of ti Tk-m,ea ev-
FOREIGN IX~'ELLIGENCE.
In the Bertram shipyards in Toron-
to, Ont fire ca used a loss of $450,000.
Near Paris Lieut Col. Ilenry, one of
the chief witnesses sgainst Captt Al-
bert Dreyfus, killed himself. He had
made confession that the document
which he offered at the trlal had been
forged to aid the army in the prosecu-
tion of Dreyfus.
Well posted officials in Europe pre-
dict war between France and Germany
as a result of expos~ares to be made in
the Dreyfus ease andl war between
Great, IIritain and Russia over compli-
ca,tiGriS in the far east.
In France M. Cavaignac, minister
of war. has resiga~.ed because of a
disagreement with his colleagues, who
desire a revision of the Dreyfus ease.
Two shocks of earthquake at San-
tiago de~ Cuba shook every .h,o,useliu
town with unusnal force.
Under Sir Iterbert Kitchener the
Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated the
dervishes in a great battle at Omdur.
man. on the Nile. the losses on the
British side being 200. while thousands
of the dervishes were killed or wound-
ed.
Fire destroyed the chintz factory
ofGartalde & Co at Melannay, France,
the loss being 2,000,000 francs,
LATER NEVVS.
Rear Admiral Sampson, Maj. Gen,
James F, Wade Maj. Gen. Matthew C.
'Duncan and Lieut. Col. John W. Clous,
members of the Cuban commission,
left New York for Cuba on the Reso-
lute.
The thirty-second annual encamp-
ment of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lic began in Cineinnatl.
The two-mile tandem bicycle record
was broken in Detroit by Joseph an~
Porter. who went the distance in
4:01 3-5.
President and Mrs. McKinley left
New York for Washington.
Gen. Wheeler. in eommand~ of Camp
Wikoff. Montauk Point. L. I reports
to the. secretary of war that the health
of the troops is improving and that the
visit of the president was very bene-
ficial.
At the election in Arkansas Dan W.
Jones (dem.) was reelected governor
with very little opposition.
Frank and John Mane. 16 and 17
years old respectively, and George
Grass, 14 years old, were drowned while
bathing in Lake Erie at Buffalo.
The police discovered a revolution-
ary and anarchist plot in the suburbs
of Barcelona.
A trolley car was struckby a pa~
senger, train at Cohoes, N. Y. and' 18
persons were killed and ten fatally in-
jured
Labor day was generally observed
throughout the country.
MO.?
ed', barns
qll be con-
war, will consist of
Manila are said to
themselvos in trenches,
and fear of trouble is expressed.
Ma~y editors were, gathering at
Denver, Col to attend' the thirteenth
annual convention of t,he National
Editorial association.
Queen Wilhelmlna, of Holland~ was
formallly crowned at Amsterdam.
Andrew J. Faulk, wbo was the third,
In"the UniterS.States t'here were171, governor of Dakota territory, died at
busi~ Ss;failu~in the seven "da,ys his home in Yankton, S. D.
tz~de~/~t~e ~d~tust 179 theweek People from all over the United
pr~|0us an~tTL/in the corresponding States are pouring into Honolulu.
p ;t~i0d~of'lS97,' A letter sent by Maxtmo Gomez to
"At/Wi~dham, Vt George W.~Dimtck the American commission in Havana
en~ wife lost theirltves in a fire which, is addressed to Gem Butler. and in tt
destroyed Mr. Dtmlek'a farm buildings, he places himself unconditionally at
On the 2d 30 dea~asand 82 pro~ra,the American co.mmis.~ion's disposal
fro o rred ,n New
city. A]l~)ver the country intense]seat
and many prostratimns iu the past five
Fernandez, the fa-day~ were reported.
mm of Robin~n Crusoe.The occidental jibing of the sail of a
He where, Itbb- pleasure yacht on Presque Is,le bay,
himself safe from near Erie. Pa sin.opt overboard Mary,
Della and Ells Pardine and Jessie
Moore and they were drowned.
In the National league the percent-
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 4th were: Cincinnati,
.639; Boston, .632; Baltimore, .6?2;
Cleveland, .588; Chicago, .55~; New
York, 5 8; Pittsburgh, 496; Phila-
delphia, .495; Louisville, .425; Brook-
lyn, .394; Washiaagton. .351; St
Louis, .261.
otution feel that they sharein.the dis- In New York city 50 dead and over
tingtion, accorded to Dr. Anita McGee, 100 prostrations is the record of the
whose appointment to the army reed- I heat on the 3d.
teal staff, with rank of lientenanL ] Near Stamford, Conn Frank,
ma~rks the first woman who has ev~i, ~ George and Mabel Ferguson, aged 24(
hem such a position in the American ~ 19 and 14 years, respectively, of Brook-
military. She was regularly sworn in lyn, N. Y were drowned by the up-
as assistant surgeon, and by order of setting of a rowboat.
the sec~. e~ ry ~war is entitIed to wear
the untf0rm of a second lieutenant--
if she choOse: ;~ ~he war department
gave her chargd:~f the selec{|0xi of
women nurses, and she~aced ~0 Of
them tn the field, ~ '~
V#I~ST AND SOUTH.
At Topeka Kan the Kansas Loan
an& Trust company failed, for $400,000.
In convention in Milwaukee the s~-
sial democracy of Wisconsin nominated
a state ticket, headed by Howard, Tut-
tie for goverrror.
Fire destroyed 14 buildings at Rapic~
River, MiCh.
Dynamite exploded prematurely
while blasting rock at St]nosy]lie, Ind,
killing John W. Williams, John GruBb.
Buck Wampler and Edward Watts and
fatally'injuring Ben Fyffe, Milton Hike
and, Willie ~iford.
For this year the southern, cotton
crop is estimated at 11,199,094 bales,
valued at $320.553,000.
At the age of 91 year~Wilford Wood-
ruff, of Salt Lake City, president, of the
Mormon church, died in. San Fromcisco.
The death of Col. T. C. Tupper, a re-
tired officer who won distinguished~
honors in the civil and Indian wars, oc-
curred at his home in Cleveland. O
aged 60 years.
Twin daughters of Mr. Prater, aged
seven, and a baby girl were burned
to death at Speegleville. Tex.
In the pulpit at the High Street
Methodist church ta Springfield, O~
key, James Stephenson. of Jamestown,
0 dropped dead from heart trouble
at the beginning of his sermon.
tn Baltimore Frank Waller went 494
rnileson a bicycle in 24 hours, making
a new reeol~L
arranged by the commissioners who
meet in Paris, make but one'demand,
and that is that the remains of Chris-
topher Columbus be returned to SpaVin.
The remains are now in the cathedral
at i=Iavana. Columbus died in 1506 at
Seville, and was buried there, although
in his will he asked that he be buried
on the island of San Domtngo. Thirty
years later his son was aMe to carry
out his father's wish and the discov-
erer of American was laid to rest in
the ealhedral of San l)omingo.
r
The war department hasdccided that,
in the future" all of our armored crui~
ere and battleships, and possibly all.of
our cruisers, will have to be fitted with
'~re-proof" wood. This fire-proof
wood is a new thing, but it has been
demonstrated to be practical. The
process of fire-proofing co~sists in e!im~
lnation of the volatile an&fermentable
eonstituents of the wood, and the sub-
stitution therefor of fire and heat re-
sisting ingredients which are forced iia~
to the pores of the wood. Wood treated
by ~h!s process, a secret one, is free
from ~.!abllity of either wet or dry rot.
The British empire embraces 10,000
islands.
Orange production of the Pacifie
coast this season has been the greatest
A DECISIVE BAT LE.
Anglo-Egyptian Army Captures
Mahdist Stronghold.
~kiiiilhllates Dervish Army and Drives
the Remnant Into the Desert
--A Fatal Blow Dealt to
Mahdism.
"f.ondon, Se~t. 5.---The war office has
received the following:
"Omdurman. Opposite Khartoum. On-
the-Nile, Nubia, Sept. 2. by Camel Post tc
Nasrl.--The sirdar, Gem Sir Herbert Kltch-
ener, with the khalifa's black standard.
captured during the battle entered Omdur-
man, the capital of MahdJam, at four
o'clock this afternoon at the head of the
Anglo-Egypti~tn column, after completely
routing the Dervishes and dealing a death
blow to mahdism. Roughly, our losses
were 200, while thousands of the dervishes
were killed or wounded. Karl Neufeld wa~
rescued unharmed.
"Last night the Anglo-Egyptian arml
eneamped at Assize, eight miles from Ore.
durman. The Dervishe~ were three miler
distant At dawn to-day our cavalry, pa-
trolling toward Omdurman, discovered the
enemy advancing to the attack In battle
array, chanting war songs Their front
consistedofinfantry and cavalry, stretched
out for three or four miles. Countles~ban-
ncrs fluttered over their masses, and the
copper and brass drums resounded through
the serried ranks of the savage warriors,
wbo advanced unwaveringly, wlth all their
old-tlme ardor.
"Our Infantry formed up outside the
camp. On the left were the First battalion
Northumberland fusileers, the Second bat-
talion Lancashire fusileer~ and the First
battallo~ grenadier guards, with the Max-
Im battery, manned by the Royal Irish
fusileers. In our center were the First
battalion Warwickshire regiment the First
Batta Ion Cameron highlanders and the
First battalion Lincolnshire regiment, with
Maxims worked by a dstachment of the
RoYal art!llery, under MaJ. William. On
our right were the Soudanese brigades,
commanded by Gen. Maxwell and Gen. :h~c-
Donald. The Egyptian brigades held the
reserves, and both flanks were supported
by the Maxlm-Nordenfeldt batterieS
"At 7:20 a. m. the enemy crowded the
ridges above the camp and advanced
steadily in enveloping formation. At 7:40
our artillery opened fire. which was an-
swered by the Dervish riflemen. Thei~at-
tack developed on our left, and in accord-
ance with their traditional tactics they
swept down the hillside with the design
of rushing our flank But the withering
fire maintained for 15 minutes by all our
line frustrated the attempt, and the der-
vishes balked and swept toward our cen-
ter, Upon which they concentrated a fierce
attack. A large force of horsemen, trying
to face a continuous hail of bullets from
the Cameron highlanders, the Lincolnshire
regiment and the Soudanese, was literally
swept away, leading to the withdrawal of
the entire body, whose dead strewed the
field.
"Among the chief incidents of the battle
was a brilliant charge by the Twenty-first
lancers under Lieut. Col. Martin. Gal-
loping down on a detached body of the
enemy, they found the Dervish swords-
men massed behind, and were forced to
charge home against appalling odds. The
lancers hacked through the mass, rallied
and keOt the Dervish horde at bay. Lieut.
Grenfell, nephew of Gen. Sir Francis
Grenfell, was killed ; four other cfficers were
wounded. 21 men were killed and 20
wounded.
"Vthen the,Dervishes withdrew behind
the ridge lrL front of their camp, the whole
force marched tfl echelon of battalions to-
ward Omdurman. As our troops sur-
mounted the crest adjoining the Nile. the
Soudanese on our right came into contact
with the enemy, who had reformed under
cover of a rocky eminence and had massed
beneath the black standard of the khalifa,
in order to make a supreme effort to re-
trieve the fortunes of the day. A mass,
15,000 strong, bore down on the Sondanese.
Gem Kltchener swung round the center
and left of the Soudanese and seized the
rocky eminence, and the Egyptians hithZ
erto In reserve, JOined the firing line In ten
minutes, and the Derwlshes could
drive their
"The flower army was
caught in within a
ZOtl~ Of:. ~h~e~
brigades, with the artillery.
The devoted mahdlstS strove heroically to
make headway, but every rush was
stopped, while their main body was lit-
erally mown down by a sustained deadly
crOss fire. Defiantly the Dervishes planted
their standacds and died beside them.
Their ~ense ~nasses gradually melted to
companies and the companies to driblets
beneath the leaden hail. Finally they
broke and fled. leaving the field white with
Jlbbah-clad corpses, ltke a snow-drift dot-
ted meadows. At 11:15 the sirdar ordered
an advance, and, our whole Torce in line.
drove the scattered.remnant of the foe into
tho desert, our cavalry cutting off their
retreat to Dmdurman.
"The heroic bravory of the Dervlshes
evoked universal admiration. ~Flme after
time their dispersed and broken forces
reformed and hurled themselves upon the
Anglo-Egyptians, their emirs conspicuous-
ly leading and spurning death. V~ven waen
wounded and in death agomes they raised
themselves to fire ~t last shot. Among the
wounded is Col. Rhofles, the correspondent
of the London Times and a brother of Cecil
t~hodes."
Herr Karl Neufctd, who ia referred
to in th~ forego!ng dispatch from
Cairo as rescue~ unharmed from the
dervlshes, fel| into the hands of the
mahdi's followers in the neighborhood
of Dongola, in the late spring or early
summer of 1887. He was the last Eu-
ropean male eapu~e of importance re-
in California's history, mainiug m the p,'wer of the dervishes.
In South Africa there is a great de- London, Sept. 5.--The war office has
mand for donkeys, as they are proof received the following dispatch from
Gem Kitchener, dated Saturday even-
against climate, plague and flies. f . ,
Church processions are prohibitedins: ' rhe remnant o the Khahfa s
in Mexico. Even a priest cannot legal- force has surrendered, and I have now
s very large number of prisoners on
ly walk the streets in his churchly gar- my hands. Our cavalry and gunboats
meats.
Little importance is attached in are still pursuing the Khalifa and his
Japan to the czar's peace note, as it is chiefs, who, with only about 140 fight-
ing men, are apparently making for
believed to have been dictated by Kordofan."
financial distress.
A compt~ny to establish a permanent
exhibition of United States products
in London and Paris h~s been organ-
ized in Ne~" York.
The leading merchants of Kingston,
Jamaica, favor Andrew Carnegie's sug-
gestion of trading the British West
Indies for the Philippine islands.
Gen. Cassius .M. Clay, who has begun
suit for a divorce from his child wife.
wall
has bought her a farm and say~ he "
provide for her as long as be lives.
The Trades Union congress at Bris-
tol, England, has presented souvenir
cigar cases, cigarette cases, match
boxes and flasks to the American dele-
gates ~.
It is estimated that during his pon-
tificate Leo XI[I. has amassed $20,000,-
0 0, including presents of precious
stones, gold and silver to the value of
$10,000,000.
Gen. A. M. F. Randolph, for many
years supreme court reporter and
well-known over Kansas. was found
dead in bed at Topeka. The cause is
thofight to be heart failure.
The custom house receipts for the
port of San Francisco for the month of
August amounted to $567,273.49, the
largest receipts for a single month iu
the records of the department.
Prominent members of the Roy/1
Arcanum in Brooklyn, N. Y have
taken the initiative tn a movement to
present Admiral Winfield Scott Sehley,
who is a member of the order, with a
$1.000 sword.
President McKinley has appointed
C. D. Woodward as one of the commis-
sioners to represent thts government
at the Paris exposition. Mr. Wood-
~ard is a professor at Columbia uni-
versity and ~s well known in art and
"literature.
London, Sept. 5.'The war corre-
sponden,t of the Daily Telegraph with
the Anglo-Egyptian forces says:
Khalifa Abdullah, with his harem,
and Osman Digua, his principal gen-
eral, managed to escape, but Abdul-
lah's banner and thousands of pris-
oners are in our hands. It is estimated
that 15,000 of the enemy were slain.
Our total casualties were about 500.
Mr. Howard, the New York Herald cor-
respondent, was slats by a shell in
Omd urman.' .~'
Died to Escape Armt.
Saginaw, Mich Sept. 5.--Charles F.
Rice, alias Edward Lause, was dying at
the central police station ~hen a dep-
uty United States marsiml arrivedthere
to arrest him. Rice had been held on
complaint of assault and batter3', made
by his wife, but occording to local and
post office detectives he had been de-
frauding accident insurance companies
by means of false injuries and had
served time in an eastern prison for
similar crimes. Rice left letters say-
ins that he was an innocent victim of
persecution who took morphine to end
his troubles.
Postponed.
Washington, Sept. 5.--Gen. D. S.
Stanley, president of the Society of
the Army of .~he Cumberland, an-
nounces that the executive committee
of the organization has decided thai
the cnnual meeting which" was to have
taken place at Detroit the 21st inst will
be postponed until Sept'ember, 1599,
many of the active members being en-
gaged in the war.
Aeel den tal'~-~ Killed.
Rock Island, I/1 Sept. 5.--William
Geisler, aged 19, was shot and killed by
the aceidental discharge of a rifle II
the hands of his l~-year-old brother.
REVISION CERTAIN.
French Cabinet Almost Sna'e to Re-
open Dreyfus Case--Minister of
"tVar Cuvaignac Resigns,
Paris, Sept. 5.--M. Cavaignac, minis-
ter for war, has resigned. The resigna-
tion is due to a disagreement with his
c~leagues, who desire a revision of the
Dreyfus ease. The following is the Yet-
ter sent to M. Brisson, premier and
president of the council.
"I have the honor to send you and beg
you to transmit to tbe president of the
republic my resignation as minister of
war. There exists a disagreement between
us Which, being prolonged, would paralyze
the government at a time when it most
needs full unity of decision.
"I remain convinced of the guilt of Drey-
fus and as determined as heretofore to
combat a revision of the case. I do not
Intend to shirk the responsibilities of the
present situation, but I cannot assume
them without being in accord with the
~h/ef of the government to which I have
t*,e honor to belong.'
The public feeling is running, if pos-
sible, even higher. Day by day the tide
in favor of revision is setting strong.
The resignation of M. Cavaignae seems
to make revision assured. A certain
feeling of impatience that no decisive
step has yet been taken is noticeable.
Such a complete upheaval of the Drey-
fus case has been mad~ by M. Henry's
confession that this was probably in-
evitable. M. Cavaignac's arrest of
Henry came like a thunderbolt, but
when the public had recovered from the
first shock it naturally expected the
government to go forward on the only
honorab/e path--namely, revision of
the DreyfUs case.
Owing to the r~signation of M. God-
efroy Cavai~nae, of the ministry of
war, President /,'care returned to
Paris Sunday morning and conferred
with M. Del Casse. minister for foreign
affairs; M. Bourgeois, minister.of pub-
MICHIGAN TOWN SUFFERS.
~lre Destroys Property at Owoaso
with on Estimated Value
of $200,000.
Owosso, Mich Sept. 5.--Owosso Sat-
urday night suffe:ed a $200.000 fire. At
9:30 fire was discovered in the rear end
of Woodward's furniture factory, and
in a short time the whole institution
was in flames, q he ~ire was beyond
control before the firemen got to work.
and after destr)y~ng the warehouse,
ldlns and lumber yard of the furniture
factory ~umped across the street to
the Owos~o Brewing company. The
lhree large buildings of this institu-
tion were soon ~nveloped in flames.
The fire next spread to the implement
store of Crow & t=aynes, William Jop-
ling's livery barn, Jacob Barrie's meat
market and seve~s! small buildings
near at hand At midnight, despite
the strong wind 0}owing, the firemen
got the flames under- control and
stopped their spread. The loss ou
Woodward's furniture factory will be
fully $150,000 with $60.000 insurance.
The Owosso Brewing company's loss
i~ about $30,000, ~ith $11,000 insurance.
Twenty-five thousand dollars, it is be-
heved, will cover the loss among the
smaller institutt ns.
MANY VICTIMS OF HEAT.
Avrful Record Is Reported from New
York City and PhlladeIphia for
Saturday nnd Sunday.
:New York Sept. 5. Fifty dead and
ever 100 prostrations in one day is the
record of the heat in New Y~rk city
Saturday. The sun beat relentlessly
cn the sweltering city all day long.
Night followed almost like day, and
~he deaths ~rom the heat reported at
Dee,
U
cide of Col. Henry,
to his death, confessed that khe letters on
graded ~nd expatriated were memufaetured
army." Other actors In thl~ deql3|cable drama are expected to aestroy themselves
before the much-wronged DreYfus cem ba brought back to France for a retrial
lic education, and den. Zurlinden. The
eabinet will meet to-day expressly to
deal with a request from Mine. Drey=
fun for a revision of the proceedings
of the court-martial that condemned
her husband.
As the cabinet is now practically
unanimously in favor of revision--
partly because the ministers are aware
that there is no other method of satis-
fying public feeling---the outcome of
the meeting is almost a foregone con-
clusion. It is not thought that M.
C~vaignac's retiremtmt will involve
the resignation of other ministers.
The fact that Gem Zurlinden has been
in conference with M. Faurei's taken
to mean that he will succeed M. Cav-
aignae at the war office.
According to Le Soir. M. Faure. who
received M. Cavaignac Sunday, strong-
ly urged him to withdraw his-resigna-
tion. The paper also asserts that at
the council to-day the president will
endeavor to prevent a decision in favor
of revision.
Inher letter to M. Sarrien. the min-
ister of justice, Mme. Dreyfus says she
addresses him again, since he alone
has the right to demand revision on
the ground of a "new fact." She argues
that Lieut. Col. Henry's admission of
forgery deprives his depositions and
acts of all weight, and concludes her
appeal by calling upon M. Sarrien to
"l|sten to the voice of public opinion
and put an end to the punishment of a
loyal and innocent man.'
Twins Burned to Death.
St. Louis, Sept. 5.---A special to the
Republic from Waco, Tex says: In
the villagc of Speegleville, eight miles
from here, the three daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Prater, twins, aged seven, and
'a baby aged t~hree years, were burned
to death Sunday in a ~mokehouse.
l~'ewport, Ind Sept. 5.---Two miners
at Geneva, William Scott and Aaron
~Telson, became involved in a' quarrel
over the searching of some houses for
stolen clothes recently, which led Nel-
son to kill Scott Saturday evening. He
used a revolver and ~hot him several
times. Ne/son fled and eseaped arres{.
~pringfleld, O, Sept. 5.--Roy. James
St ephenson, of Jamestown. O dropped
dead from heart lroub]e in the pulpit
here Sunday morning at the High
Street Methodist church at the begin-
~:g of his sermon.
MemDh/s ~uarant/~es~
Memphis, Tenn Sept. 5.--3~he Mere-
phis board of health has established a
rigid quarantine against ~the entire
country. No one will be allowed to
enter the city from any direction.
'Ihis action was taken on account of
the prevalence of yellow [ever in Mis-
sisslppL
German Navy Suffers Loss.
erlin, Sept =.--The recent north-
west storm which swept across the
Baltic sank a O~rman torpedo hoat
end severely dau~aged tbe whole Ger-
man torpedo floti':a. Five of the boats
barely reached n,trbor.
int~,vals in the ,ari0us city hosl~itals,
i~olioe headquar re, s and the coroner's
office. The higl~c~t point reached by
the thermo~nete to:day Was at two
o'clock, when~the merchry registered !
92 degrees. The humidity averaged 85
per cent.
Up to midnight ~,
been ~-eported to,poller h ead
43 deaths and.44 prostrati )n~
heat. The a~erage temte~t
the day in degrees wa** 8a,ttm
e6 for the corresponding d~
year. The maximum tern
88, but the heat was heightene
humidity, which was 80per
day long.
Philadelphia, Sept. 5.--There'were
nine deaths from the heat Su.fiday in l
this city and about 25 prostrations.
Sunday, for the first time since the
present hot spcll, did the thermom-
eter show any signs of falling. For
the past three days it has hovered be.
tween 98 and 9~, but the maximum
reached Sunday was 91 degrees. The
wind reached a Velocity of about 22
miles and aided much in alleviating
the suffering from the heat.
PEACE COMMISSIONERS.
Spanish Mlnisters Deflnltely Select
Three of the Men Who Will Cou-
fer with Amerlea~s.
Madrid, Sept. 5.--It is currently re~
ported that the Spanish ministers at
Friday's cabinet meeting definitely se-
lected the three following peaee com-
missioners:
Gen. Rafael Cerero y Saenz, general
of engineers.
Senor Eugenio Montero RiGs.
Sorter Villauruti.ar under secretary of
state for foreign affairs,
bids for Coalin~ Station-
San Francisco, Sept. 5.--Contracts
for the erection of a coaling station at
Pago-Pa~ have been invited by Com-
mander Z. L. Tanner, who has the work
in charge. The commander will tlot
state the amount to be expended, but
he says the work will be of a substan-
tial charaeter and at least a year will
be required for its completkm.
Killed by Lightning.
Lawrence, Kat Sept. 5.--John Jen-
r:ings and Ellet Eates, each aged about
12 years, were struck by lightning and
kikled near here. During a storm they
sought shelter unSer a tree.
WiIl Redeem Bonds.
Washington, SOln 5.--The secreta'ty
cf the treasury has issued a call offer-
ing to redeem th~ balance of the bonds
amountihg to $t4.004,560 issued to the
Pacific railroads. Of this amount over
$9,000,000 was iss,ed to the Central Pa-
cific, over $3,00q.000 to the Union Pa-
cific, and over $I 500,000 to the old
Western Pacific.
Lay Down on the Track.
Carbondale, Bl Sept. 5.--A son of L
M. Johnson, aged 20 years, committed
suicl~e by placing his hea~ upon a rain
I r0ad track mad aHowt-.g all englne to
oasa over It.
No Wonder the
When the news came to the
hospital of the destruction
one of the nurses commenced to
He had got as far as the
Brooklyn had been hit 45 times
p,a.tient, a little out of his
'Great Scott! Who pitched
--*San Francisco VVave.
Has Not Slept for Five
It is reported that a
not had an hour's sleep for
constantly walks about,
is now little more than a
are thousands of men and
unable to sleep more than an
night because of nervousne
dyspepsia, headache and coasts
certain remedy for tbese
renter's Stomach Bitters.
%Vouldn't Take Chanc,
Smith--One can't ahvays
patriotism by Iris eonversati
Jones--No, I suppose not.
"Take Brow~, for instance;
call him a coward?"
"Well, er--I might if Iwas
wouldn't fight."--Uificago
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