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'; ;! X" Washington, Nev. 26.-President Mc
'~,,;:!'~;; 1 Kinley has nearly completed his moe
. sage to congress. At the cabinet meet
~?~ * , - ; ing yesterday, he talked over with his
*': : , advisers some of the sections of the
document. The message this year wil
X : ;) - be longer than usual in order to permit
the president to tell of the conduc
and results of the war.
!!':. -' X * . < There are only a few sections yet un
finished, and the most important of
these is that which will refer to the
result of the peace negotiations al
I5.- - 0 0 Paris. This section ..- president will
leave unwritten until the last moment
in order that he may be able to inform
!)~ ; the congress of the exact status of oui
relations with Spain at the moment of
! 00 0;0- its reassembling.
~ : In describing the conduct of the war
" 00X; President McKinley will repeat many
of the figures heretofore used by Secretary
Alger in detailing the magnitude
of the task that confronted the United
irs States in the raising and equipping of
n army of 295,000 men on short no;
ice. While admitting that mistakes
were made, the president will say that
the country is to be congratulated on
the generally efficient manner in which
this work of mobilization was per!
at formed and on the evidence that it presented
to the world of the resources of
0 the United States. He will lay the
blame of most of the mistakes that
were made to the inexperience of some
of the officers of regiments and partly
to the inability of the men themselves
to take care of themselves in the field.
HI-e will refer to the fact that in order
to definitely locate the blame so that
similar mistakes may be avoided in the
future he had appointed an investigation
committee, whose report when
ready he will promise to transmit to
congress.
He will recommend the enactment of
;4 additional legislation to bring the militia
of the various states to closer
touch with the war department and
will also recommend that the regular
army be increased in numbers to 100,000
men.
The president will give the navy unstinted
praise for its efficiency in its
work during the year. He will recommend
that the office of admiral be
created by congress and that Rear Admiral
Dewey should be promoted to
fill that position. He will also recommend
that the army transport system,
which will become hereafter a neces_.
7 sary feature of the military estab_\^
-lishment, be placed to charge of the
i', ; ?. %na~vy.,. as the case in European couna'!-
'" X -" tries. (
In the case of Hawaii the president
will suggest the organization of a territorial
form of government, together
witA the abrogation of the contract labor
system.
In Porto Rico, the Philipines and
Uolan he will recommend that military
forms of government be maintained
until congress has an opportunity,
through commissions to be appointed
:\(:X70 by it, to, investigate the conditions in
each island. Of Cuba the president
ii' 0 will say that the American military
government must be maintained there
C, until the Cubans are ready to organize
X' - -s a government of their own.
The message will strongly recom,-
' - mend the building of the Nicaragua
. canal Under the auspices of the United
States, and will indorse the plan of
making a great national university
out of the naval academy at Annap;!!
: * olis.
;?, A feature of the message will be the
president's statement as to how he has
expended the $50,000,000 placed in his
.V : hands by congress at the beginning of
the war for national defense. The
~i. treasuryy department under the presi~t
-1 , dent's instructions has kept a separate
, . 0 --account of expenditures from this fund
fi^ S 0 so that the president will be able to
show where every dollar of it has
gone.Texan Appointed.
.Washington, Nov. 26.-A Texas man
in the person of Dr. Hadra of San Antonio
has pulled down an apointment
in the army. He has been made assistant
surgeon and will probably be
assigned to duty at Fort Sam Houston.,-'. . ' - Indiana Accident.
-- :: 13 Elkhart, Ind., Nov. 26.-While a par'--
: ty of twelve people were returning
from a ball at Otis on two handcars
:;''-,' they were-struck by a Lake Short fast
mail, East Chestertown, Wm. Seban*
-:' ski and Wim. Kempter being killed out*i.j:
:right, while Sebanski's two daughters,
?ii; : -aged 13 and 15 respectively, were prob-
i. :ably: fatally injured Others of the
partyy jumped and escaped injury.
F~ !?. ..-. . ;., -.*. . - : '-- ' . . . -- - .
.-;.Three carloads .of cottoR partially
~^. .i;,xbur] n at .Nolanvllle, Tex.
- A - -',&A-,,i -'VJ fX ' : B~Rrom Dravana.,
New York, Nov. 26.--A dispatch
from Havana ,Says: The greatest activity
prevails at the Havana arsenal.
Eight light draft gunboats used duringe the insurrection for patrol of the
1 shores and rivers are being docked
- preparatory to sending them home or
t selling them. The Alfonzo XIII, the
Nueva Espana and the Diego Velas-
quez, now at different ports of Cuba.
f will come to Havana harbor to await
e here the coming of the auxiliary cruist
ers Meteor and Rapidito, which will
1 arrive Dec. 10. Columbus' ashes will
t be placed on board the Rapidito and
i about Dec. 18 the fleet will pror
ceed to Spain. Besides the ships
f mentioned the fleet which will cross
the Atlantic will comprise the Donde
de Venadito, the Infanta Isabel, the
- Marques de la Ensada, and these tor_
pedo boats: Marques de Molins, Martin
Yanez Pinzon, Alonzo Yanez Pinzon
and the Filipinos.
f The first stop will be made at Mar_
tinique, where the ships will be coaled
and where honor will be paid by the
t French to Columbus' memory. The
same thing will be done at the Cape
Verde islands, and the fleet will then
. proceed to Cadiz as usual.
Probably Havana will be policed by
Cuban troops collectively as an organ,
ization of the army, or as individual
members recruited into the service of
the United States. Gen. Menocal has
been approached in the matter, and
- asked whether on the departure of the
Spaniards he would be able to form a
- body of men to preserve order in the
t towns. He replied affirmatively, and
there the matter rests at present.
In addition a scheme has been mooted
to form a body of mounted police
for service in the province, to be
drawn from the Cuban army. Gen.
Menocal's opinion regarding a suitable
officer to command this force has been
asked, and there has been named in
this connection Lieut. Col. J. Strampes,
ran American from New Orleans, who
has served three years in the Cuban
army, and was commander of Gomez'
infantry, a body of picked men, especially
selected for their work, having
served directly under the commanderin-chief.Increase of Garrisons.
New York, Nov. 26.-A special from
Mndon says: The Russian garrisons
in China are to be largely increased
next spring, according to advices from
Odessa, based upon authoritative military
information.
The military establishment at Port
Arthur, the strongly fortified post at
the entrance to the Gulf of Pe Chi Li,
which China has virtually ceded to
Russia, will be raised to 50,000 troops
of all arms. Here is to be one terminus
of the trans-Siberian railway,
where there will be an open port the
year around.
The force to be sent to Talien Waq
may be inferred from the fact that barrack
room is to be provided there for
15,000 men. This is the point on the
Liao Tung peninsula of Manchuria,
not far from Port Arthur, which Great
Britain Insisted must not fall into foreign
hands.
The dispute over it threatened at
one time to lead to war, as it is a vital
point for British trade throughout
Manchuria.
Such movements of troops *will
amount to virtual occupation by Russia
of Manchuria. The territory east
of Liao Tung will be cut off completely
from China proper by a Russian military
trocha, so to speak, running from
Siberia to the Yellow sea.
Spanish Cabinet.
Madrid, Nov. 26.-After visiting the
queen regent yesterday in order to condole
with her majesty on the death of
her husband, which occurred on Nov.
25, 1885, the ministers met in council.
They were occupied exclusively with
the peace question, and eventually the
ministers unanimously approved the
instructions to Senor Montero Rios,
president of the Spanish peace commission,
drawn up by the foreign and
council ministers.
Postoffice at DeKalb, Tex., was bur.
glarized; $200 worth of 2-cent and $20
worth of 1-cent stamps taken.
The Texas' Ball.New York, Nov. 26.-The sailors and
marines of the battleship Texas, to the
number of several hundred, held their -
annual ball last night at the Lenox 1
lyceum. Capt. Sigsbee of the Texas
and Miss Sigsbee led the grand march
in which 400 couples participated. Capt.
Sigsbee was vociferously cheered during
the march.
There will b~i an extra session of the 1
Chickasaw legislature,. Tei - - 0plouion. : ' -
Stockton, clV ov. 28.-The most
disastrous rive'accident in the history
of Stockton occurred yesterday morning
at 4:20 o'clock, when a part of one
of the boilers 6f the river steamer T.
C. Walker, which left San Francisco
about 6 o'clock Saturday night, was
blown out, killing five and dangerously
Wounding eleven persons, while
probably fifteen or twenty others were
more or lessbadlyhurt. The Walker
is owned by the California Navigation
and Improvement company, and ran
between San Francisco and Stockton.
Dead: John Tulman, captain; W.
A. Blunt, agent in charge of shipping
! for the Moss factory; Watson Henry
-of Stockton, engineer of the Walker;
A. Henry and his wife, Jerry Daly,
fireman.
Ferdinand Law of Seattle died at 6
o'clock yesterday evening at the receiving
hospital, making the sixth
death.
Wounded: George P. Smith, Massachusetts,
deck hand, burned about
face and body; James Corcoran, deck
hand, will probably die; Jack Holbert,
Jack Perry, watchmen, badly scalded;
Coratti Dominici, deck hand, scalded
and badly injured; John Burris, deckhand,
burned about the-head; G. Foppiano
of San Francisco, a passenger
injuries of the breast; Edward Paul
Jones, stevedore, scalded about the
face and hands; Martin McCaffery of
San Francisco, deck hand, burned
about head and body; Louis Brizzolana'of
San Francisco; John Ferger
of Stockton, deck hand, head cut and
back hurt.
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred,
and were awakened by the report,
which was as loud as a cannon roar.
People rushed from their rooms in
their night clothes and found the
whole forward portion of the steamer's
upper works blown away. The
electric lights had been put out, and
the escaping steam enveloped the
front portion of the boat until it was
impossible to see how much of the
boat had been carried away.
The screams of the men who were
locked in their rooms near the pilot
house were heartrending. Capt. John
Tulan had been blown from his bed
against the door of the stateroom, and
was so seriously injured he could not
move. The door could not be forced.
One of the employes of the boat secured
an ax and cut the upper part of
the room away and finally removed
him, but not until he was virtually
roasted alive. When pulled out the
flesh dropped from his bones in large
pieces, and although he was suffering
excruciatingly he bore it bravely, and
not a groan escaped him as he was
taken out of the steam.
Watson Henry, the chief engineer,
and his wife were in their room near
the pilot house when the explosion
occurred. Mrs. Henry was blown
through the roof. The flooring was
blown upward and she was hurled
with great violence a distance of
twenty feet toward the bow of the
boat. She was horribly crushed by
the force of the explosion, and also
badly scalded with escaping steam.
Her injuries proved fatal at 12:30 yesterday
afternoon. Her sufferings
were so intense that she begged the
physicians in attendance to end her
life, but all that could be done was to
deaden the pain by the use of narcotics.Mr. Henry was terribly scalded. He I
was thrown some distance away, but
not as far as was his wife. He died
shortly after being brought to this
city. Mr. Blunt was instantly killed.
He was standing on ,the lower deck,
as he intended making a landing a
short distance above the place where
the explosion occurred. Daly was in
the hold of the boat when the accident
occurred. The escaping steam
completely enveloped him, scarcely a
portion of his body escaping thej
scorching vapor. He died at the hospital.The sixth annual stag party was
given Thanksgiving by W. Goodrich
Jones at Temple, with about 150guests present. These entertainments
are given each Thanksgiving day to
the business men of Temple.
Bishops Injured.
Rome, Nov. 28.-At the meeting of a
new college at Peresa-Argentina, near
Turin, yesterday the great hall collapsed,
carrying down the assembly
In the ruins.
Three bishops were injured, one of
whom has since died. It i, feared that
many persons have been killed or seriously
hurt.
In a difficulty at Chandl , 'ex., Peter
Da-lvs was seriously ut with a
kif, . ' 'SOUTHERN NEWS.
ville, and were united by the two jusiices
of the peace there in Hymen's holy
bonds.
Ed Ross shot and killed his wife and
John Walker four miles from Paducah,
Ky., and then shot himself.
The dwelling of Joe Hagan near
Morganfield, Ky., burned and Mrs, Hagan
was burned to death.
The Arkansas swine breeders met
at Carlisle and effected an organization
by electing a full set of officers.
George Bush, aged 99 years, and Mrs.
Lucy Prophet, aged 68 years, were
wedded near Little Rock, Ark.
The Arkansas State Baptist convention
held its 1898 session at Little
Rock. Much business was transacted.
Eight couples eloped from Kentucky
one morning recently before breakfast
to Indiana's Gretna Green, JeffersonElijah
Creech and Thad Martin, farmers,
attempted to cross White river,
near Fayetteville, Ark. One of them
lost his balance and fell overboard,
capsizing the boat and throwing the
other out. Both drowned.
Miss Clarice Swartz of Hagertown,
Md., poured coal oil on her bed and the
sheets, wrapped herself in them and set
the bed on fire. Though horribly
burned she never uttered an outcry,
lingering about three hours.
Milton Garvin's home in Clay
county, Tennessee, was destroyed by
fire and his four children, ranging in
age from 1 year to 7, perished in the
flames. The parents were absent at the
barn, but could not reach their children
in time to rescue them.
Rev. J. H. St. Clair was reported
dead by a coroner at Decatur, Ala., that
official rendering a verdict that the
clergyman suicided by taking fifteen
grains of morphine. The reverend gentleman,
however, proved an alibi by
appearing sound and well next day.
W. 0. Finney and son fought a street
duel at Milledgeville, Ga., with W. B.
and J. R. Stanley, brothers. The elder
Finney was killed, his son seriously
wounded and the Stanleys mortally
wounded. The affair was the outcome
of a previous quarrel.
Charles Thomas was lodged in jail
at Hopkinsville, Ky., /Charged with
killing Samuel Word, a neighbor, over
the ownership of a small piece of money.
The affair happened at a church
festival at Roaring Springs, Thomas
shooting his antagonist through the
lungs.
Mrs. Harry Bradley, whose husband
ran a saloon at Savannah, Ga., smashed
the plate glass mirrors of the establishment
into atoms and turned
nearly all the liquor out. Mr. Bradley
gave her husband $3000 to start the
saloon. He got to drinking heavily,
and neglected the business. She finally
become disgusted and took the above
steps. . "Severe
Blizzard.
New York, Nov. 28.-When the people
of New York awoke yesterday
morning they found the blizzard which
was raging when they retired was still
in progress. The storm, which began
with a soft, sleety snow on Saturday
noon, increased gently as the day wore
on, with heavier snowfall, the wind
blowing a gale at midnight. There
was a slight abatement of the wind
yesterday morning, but the snow still
fell and drifted high, and the temperature
dropped rapidly. It looked as
though the blizzard would continue all
day, but at 10 o'clock there was a
breaking away in the west, and finally
the storm ceased altogether, and the
severest blizzzard since the memorable
one of March, 1888, came to an
end. The wind blew at the rate of
fifty-nine to sixty miles an hour during
the height of the storm.
The fall in New York city, the weather
bureau reports, was about ten inches,
Philadelphia nine inches, Boston
six inches, Portland, Me., four inches,
Albany a little over an inch.
At Boston and throughout New England the blizzard raged with great
force.
John Beckham had a leg cut off in
the Terrell, Tex., oil mill.
Goes Soon.
Washington, Nov. 28.-Archbishop P.
L. Chappelle, whom the pobpe has appointed
delegate to the West Indies,
has returned from his extended visit to
Europe and is stopping here a short
time on his way to New Orleans. The
archbishop expects very soon to enter
upon his work in Porto Rico, remaining
principally at Ponce, but will make
a trip through the island. Later he
will go to Santiago and then to HaVran
lTHE POO ) DELUDED MAN.
Tells How He Would Never Allow a
Woman to Manage Him.
The lord of eweation was sitting
with some men friends before a grate
fire one cold evening last week, and
was exchanging with them opinions on
persons and things. The conversation!
had drifted around to a discussion of
married life, and the host had the floor.
"Unaccountable, isn't it?" said' he,.
"how hard it is to make some women
understand that they don't need to
manage their husbands. I've never had!
any trouble of that kind myselfwouldn't
stand it for a second even if
Polly were disposed to try her hand'
at management-but it seems impossi-i
ble to prevent some women from attempting
all sorts of things in the wayr
of regulating the actions of their hus-'
bands. Now, when I fell in love with
Polly she was what she is now in rare
moments-mild and pretty and amia-'
bly appreciative of my intellect, I did&
not ever ask myself whether she was:
cuever or not. I didn't care. We
got along splendidly, like -the pious boy,
and his lazy brother, the first of whom
said the prayers and the last the
'Amens.' I did the talking and Polly
egged me on with raising of eyebrows,
smiles and sympathetic 'Ohs'
or 'Ahr.' Well, we married. I have,
learned that Polly's friends were under
the impression that she had captured
a mental giant and was feeding
him with the sugar plums of fiction..
She gave people to understand that I!
labored under the delusion that she
was a very brilliant person like myself,
and that only her craftiness kept
me from finding out how shallow and'
silly she was. Was ever a more
absurd idea evolved from the brain of
a silly girl. Polly clever! If she only
knew that her mild eyes, with the absolute
ignorance of the world that lies
in their clear depths, are my stars of
hope, that her soft, faltering voice, that
gets shrill every time she tries to talk
learnedly, was what I love better than
oratory, and that her irresponsible way
of discussing my pet theories is what
flatters and gratifies me more than
any amount of sane praise from a
really clever woman-well, if she realized
all that, I wonder if she would
still believe that she has 'managed,'
'played with' or 'deluded' me?" Just
then Polly came into the room in quest
of a book. and one of the guests jokingly
repeated the substance of what
her husband had said. There was a
quizzical look in her face as she said:
"Did you say all that, Tom?" Her
husband acknowledged the corn. Polly
laughed good-naturedly and said: "You
old goose," and left the room. She
also left an uneasy suspicion on her
husband's mind that after all perhaps
she "managed" him without his being
aware of it. The same idea occurred
to more than one of his guests, but
of course there is no way of finding out
whether such is the case or not. :
"JENNIE KISSED ME."
Familiar Lines of Which Chauncey Depew
Oft Thinks Nowadays.
Every time Chauncey Depew reads
of a soldier or sailor being kissed by
an impulsive girl he murmurs contentedly,
if somewhat slangily: "Oh,
there are others." Dr. Depew was up
at Lenox a few days ago and was Hobsonized
in most satisfactory style. "By
a mighty pretty girl, too," says he,
and it will be conceded that few knows
a pretty girl better than the gallant
Depew. The girl in question is Miss
Jennie Griffin, daughter of William
Griffin of Elm Court farm. She is a
freshman of Lenox high school, bright,
vivacious and just turned sweet 16. Mr.
Depew tells the story this way, looking
the while as pleased as he used to
some years ago when he broke into
the jam closet and escaped detection:
"Miss Leila Vanderbilt Sloan's circle
of King's Daughters had a bazar for
the benefit of suffering soldiers. Someone
had carved a ship, or what is accepted
as a ship in Lenox, and there
was a natural difficulty in selling the
ship. It was suggested that I auction
off the alleged ship and of course in
the cause I was glad to do so. I had
just said 'Going, going, gone, to Cornelius
Vanderbilt for $100,' when this
very pretty girl was so pleased by my
success as an auctioneer that she walked
right up, threw her arms around
my neck and kissed me before the entire
assembly."
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Argentine Locust Antidote. J
It is reported from Argentine that a
little insect, called there the champi,
will probably extinguish the locusts,.as they devour the eggs of the latter
and multiply rapidly. on such food. Several
artificial, as well as natural, destroyers
of the Argentine locusts have
been reported, but usually nature provides
something that reduces the excessive
increase of such pests or destroys
them.
New Zealand's Pension Law.
To get the $95 yearly old-age pension
of New Zealand one must be more
than 65 years old and must prove tel
years of exemplary conduct. No one
who has an income of more than $5
a week or property worth more than
$2,700 can receive anything. For every
$5 of incolie which a pensioner
may receive from' other source $h5 1p
deducted from the pensloL; y
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