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2 WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. THE OUTLOOK NEW YEAH omin6us. John Hall Finds the Outlook in the East and the Revival of the War Spirit in the United States Dis qnieting—-An Armed British Force Reported to Have Entered the Transvaal. London, Dec. 31.—1 n its issue to-mor row the Times will say: “The new year opens with mingled omens. At home the auguries are in every way favorable. The outlook of external politics is most serious, even alarming. The revival of the war spirit in the United States, or what stimulates It, and the prolonging of the uncertain position in the east are almost equally disquieting. The long im pending crisis in South Africa has be come acute. We are bound therefore to be prepared for contingencies which may call for a vigorous exertion of power, that last resort that must be relied upop to hold the British empire together. Hap pily, it is certain that the nation is fully capable of meeting the probable demands on its own resources." The Morning Post will to-morrow pub lish a despatch from Vienna saying that a telegram from Pretoria, the capital of the Transvaal, states that an armed force of the British South Africa Com pany, numbering 800 men and armed with Maxim and other guns, is reported to have entered the Transvaal. This force is said to have reached the vicinity of Rustenburg, and Intends to march on Johannesburg. President Kruger has or dered that its advance be forcibly pre vented, and has issued a proclamation appealing to the burghers to defend their country. The dispatch adds that fight ing seems inevitable. The papers here will to-morrow publish a statement, emanating from a commer cial source, that Dr. Jameson, the admin istrator of the British South Africa Com pany, has led 500 armed men into the Transvaal to assist the Uitlanders, or foreign residents of that republic, to en force their demands that they be granted equal political rights with the Boers. The papers will add that the Rt. Hon Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state for the colonies, has ordered the immediate re turn of this force to British territory. The Times will to-morrow publish a dispatch from Capetown announcing that Dr. Jameson’s invasion of the Trans vaal at the head of 700 men was in re sponse to a long appeal from the Uitland ers, which appeal the Times prints. There is no further direct news of the British Invasion of Dutch territory. The Westminster Gazette© says: “We must not delude ourselves into thinking that the Venezuelan crisis is passed. There is a surprising depth and strength of feeling behind Pres ident Cleveland. Lord Salisbury cannot retreat from his position of refusing to submit the Venezuelan dispute to arbi tration and the Americans will not re treat fr<yn the stand they have taken." The Gazette, in conclusion, advises that both agree to leave the whole matter to a board of conciliation. The countries would not be bound to accept the decis ion of such a board, it siys, but the chance of reaching an acceptable com promise would be very great. The morning papers will to-morrow print another letter from ex-Prime Min ister Rosebery of similar tenor to the letter from the same source published Monday morning In which Lord Rose bery took the government severely to task for its action, or rather its non action in regard to Turkish affairs. In his last letter Lord Rosebery advo cated the holding of many mass meet ings to express the public opinion nn Boxq&jm&.ty valves, hejaya, exlds: "To build "the mightiest “ivy in th© world and give absolute po<W to the ministry in order to see our ev<j’ effort baffled and ridiculed by a sultah—and such a sultan!—is enough to make every gorge in the country rise." The Standard, commenting on the state ment telegraphed from Vienna that Rus sia would not take over the administra tration of affairs in Armenia, recalls the fact that a similar statement was made by Austria prior to her occupying Bos nia, and adds that the same may be true In this case, since Russia, having a pros pect of taking the whole of Turkey through the person of the sultan, would not waste her strength In occupying a part of the Turkish dominions. Persistent rumors are In circulation to the effect that secret negotiations are going on between Russia\and Turkey. Constantinople, Dec, 31.—The army re serves at Moush, Sardlz, Aleshogora and Bitlls have been called out. Vienna, Dec. 31.—The Politische Corre spondez’s St. Petersburg correspondent emphatically denies that Russia intends to administer Armenia or to intervene in anyway in Anatolia. SEVEN MEN HELDFIip, Two Highwaymen Commit Murder While Mnkinii' a Night of It. Horse Creek, Ala., Dec. 31.—While Bud 'Adair and John Brown were returning from the Ivy mines last night about 8 o’clock they were held up by two men. Brown being commanded to throw up his hands, did so, and was robbed of S 3. Adair was also ordered to throw up his hands, but refused to do so, and re sisted, when he was shot through the left side and left hand, killing him in stantly. The two robbers then proceeded to the coke ovens at Ivy mines and robbed the night watchman of what little change he happened to have in his pockets. Later on in the night they held up and robbed two negroes near the Victor mines About 11 o’clock they held up and robbed two more negroes near the junction lead ing to the Magellan mines. The night watchman robbed at the Ivy coke ovens says he recognised the men, and one of them was Bart Thrasher the noted desperado who recently escaped from the Pratt mines. A Collision in a Tunnel. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 31.—T0-night at 10 o’clock an Illinois Central passenger train ran into the rear of a Wabash pas senger in the tunnel. Fireman Henry Roth wilier was Instantly killed and En gineer Milton White and Express Mes senger J. G. Chambers were badly jn juted. Nerves \Are like Fire. , They are Good Servants But make Poor Masters To keep your Nerves steady, Your Head clear, Bdild up your Strength, Sharpen your Appetite, You must have Pure Rich Blood The Best Medicine to Vitalize and Enrich the Blood, is Hood’s Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier Prominently in the Public Eye. Hood’s Pills SHOTS AT A VARIETY SHOW. Two Men Killed and Several Wound ed in a Mining; Camp. * Cripple Creek, Col., Dec. 31.—A shooting affray in the Union theater, in the little mining camp of Victor, a few miles out, threw the place into great excitement. Early in the evening the' toughs of the town gave it out that they would clean out the Union, and when Manager Smith Os the theater accused Tom Pasco, one of the audience, of being the leader, a pitched battle was precipitated. The killed are: George Smith, manager of the theater, and Tom Pasco. The wounded are: George Ferguson, mortally; Robert Smith, shot in the thigh; Fred Ellis, left arm broken by a shot, and several others received flesTlxwounds. Victor has always borne an excellent reputation as a mining camp free from saloon brawls and shooting affrays. Saloons and dance halls have been run ning night and day ever since the camp was 1 started and to-night’s affair is the first serious trouble the town has had. The variety show at the Union was pro gressing as usual and the programme was about half finished, when Manager Smith came in from his office and walk ed to a table at which were seated five or six men. One of them was Tom Pasco, a well-known man about the camp. Smith accused him of being the leader of a gang of toughs which were scattered about the theater, and told him he had heard the tbughs had come down to clean out the place. The lie was passed instant ly and in a jiffy a dozen pistols were flash ing in the gaslight. Before any one could interfere Pasco had brought his pistol to a level with Smiths head and had let its contents go. Smith dropped on his knee and as he fell he was seen to draw his gun. A report rang out and Pasco reeled and fell almost directly across Smith. The shooting then became general and when the smoke had cleared away nearly every light in the place had been shot out ttnd it was some time before sufficient larrips could be obtained to allow the mar shal to see who had been killed. It is a miracle that but two were killed, as bullet marks are everywhere. Some f the wounded left the place for their camps without saying who they were and a full list of the injured cannot be obtained. SEMINARY GIRLS SCANDALIZED. An Indignation Meeting Over Scur rilous Publications. Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 31.—The riot call was sounded from the court house at Cleveland, Tenn., to-day as a precon certed signal to summon the citizens of thirf quiet town together for the purpose of condemning certain scurrillous publi cations made in two weekly sheets which are debarred from the United States mails under the act prohibiting carrying of ob scene literature, and which grossly re flected on the character of the young ladles of the Centenary Female College. It was a remarkable gathering of business and professional men, composed of the best citizens of Cleveland, and fairly bun bled over with indignation. Judge P. B. Mayfield presided over the mass meeting. Red-hot resolutions were put through without a dissenting voice, characterizing the articles and illustrations as vile, sjanders and baseless fabrications, libelous in the extreme and designed to injure the institution among strangers. Dr. David Sullins, the aged president of the college, and a widely known educator, was present and two newspaper men on the committee of resolutions were among the most Indignant. The most offensive feature of the publi cation was the cartoon accompaniment, which pictured a highly modernized ver sion of the Romeo-Juliet scene. The girls were shown in deshabille, climbing out over a balcony to meet the young Lo tharios, who were coming up a ladder I to aitl their-descent. The origin of teles was/ffi tips laik of "five gay BFPMWratagx.-gar— who ‘ wtw aaousefi of flbtlng with the young ladies while visiting the town and their subsequent arrest, whieh episode was distorted to suit the purpose of the sensational publica tion. AFRAID OF GROVER’S POPULARITY. An Antl-Clevelan<l Conference Pro poned by n Kansas Mun. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 31.—Prominent democrats here and elsewhere over this state have received typewritten letters from one Walter N. Allen of Meriden, Kan., asking co-operation in an anti- Cleveland movement. One of these let ters, addressed to Senator J. Z. George, has been shown the Southern Associated Press correspondent. It begins as follows: "Enclosed And proposition for a national conference of anti-Cleveland men and re form forces. I ask that you read it and then send it to some democratic editor in your state, who will notice same.” Senator Georg© will take no stock In any such conference, though like a large majority of Mississipplana, opposed to a third term for Mr. Cleveland or any other man. He cannot be inveigled into a move ment that savors so strongly of populism. Mr. Allen, who is neither democrat nor republican, judging by his circular, sug gests that the conference be held a week after the democratic national convention, which he predicts will end in a row. He proposes to get alt the dissatisfied ele ments together, "Span the river of preju dice and form an alliance against the com mon enemy. ’The Cleveland-Carlisle ad ministration.’ ’’ Commenting on the letter the Clarion i Ledger, the official journal of Mississippi says: "We are qpposed to Mr. Cleveland for a third term, but should the party in convention again nominate him, we will give him a warm support; but we are op posed to any conference such as Mr. Al len proposes. It is unnecessary to say that Senator George and other democrats, to whom the circular has been sent, will de cline to have anything to do with th© proposed conference." , DI'NRAYEN’S DEFEAT. The Committee Finishes the Taking of Testimony. New York, Dec. 31.—The special com mittee of the New York Yacht Club, sit ting as a court of inquiry into the charges made by Lord Dunraven against the people in charge of the Defender con cluded its labor of taking testimony in the case "at noon to-day. The long ar ray of witnesses who took the stand on behalf of the Defender syndicate and gave evidence entirely refuting the char ges of foul play brought by the Irish carl, hatl ail been examined by last night with the exception of some of the riggers from New York and Boston, who added their quota this morning to the already overwhelming mass of rebuttal testimony. George R. Askwith, Lord Dunraven's counsel, came alone for the first lime since the session opened. J. A. G. Hll tomn. Ix>rd Dunraven’s private secre tary, who was one of the stenographers of the hearing, left for London on board the North German Lloyd steamer Havel this morning. Nothing could be gotten out of any member of the investigating committee after the adjournment beyond this from Mr. Whitney: “It will be some days be for the report will be ready. The evi dence has all been taken, and we are through, except for making the report. I cannot say wfeat day the decision of the committee may be expected.” COWHIDED AND THEN KILLED. | White Men Uaeh a Negro Farm Hand for Maligning Women. Meridian. Mies.. Dec. 31.—Jim Lynch, a negro farm hand residing twenty miles east of this place, was taken to the woods by about twenty-five determined white men last night, and. after being whipped with a cowhide until the blood was streaming from his body, was shot to death. Lynch had been making some very, ; ugly remarks about Ikdies. j THE WEEKLY I'L:>DA\ , JANEARY :', IS9G. FOR WOMEN! One Kind of Protection That Pro tects—A Hard Nut for Skeptics to Crack—Some Figures ' That Don’t Lie. No one has ever warned people against wearing a certain kind of underwear, drinking a certain kind of chocolate or eating a certain kind of bread because <the particular name of such article, its composition, or process of manufacture was protected by law. Seven out of every ten articles we eat, drink and wear are legally protected, and there isn’t a medical man under the sun who doesn’t continually use such ar ticles. Yet a majority of 'these same men say to their patients that because the United States government has seen fit to recognize and protect the name of a cer tain medical discovery, made by one of u\ \ Z ' \ A' the most successful, regularly qualified practitioners in America—that this fact renders such discovery unworthy of pub lic confidence. No traveler, not even a doctor, ever objected 'to having his or her life saved by a Westinghouse air brake, and no one declines to enjoy the blessings of Edi son’s electric light or Bell’s telephone. All these discoveries are protected by law. Civilized governments recognize the fact that public benefactors are not only worth protecting, but that they re quire protection for the good of the peo ple. By protecting them the public pro tects Itself. Discoveries that increase the comforts of life and lessen its burdens and dangers are the result of brains, study and genius, and there is a premium on brains the world over. Every discoverer is entitled to the fruits of his labor, genius and skill. It is enough that he places his discovery with in the reach of the people. He need not make a partner of tne public or a confi dant of the profession. The case in point is a discovery which Is annually brightening the lives of THOUSANDS OF WOMEN, a discovery which, according to their own written statements, has rescued over 90,- 000 women from conditions of hopeless de d®SfP^lp and them This discovery is legally protected as Dr. Fierce’s Favorite Prescription. It is not a patent medicine, but its name and individuality are, for the benefit of all, protected against pirates and humbugs. It is the discovery of Dr. R. V. Pierce of Buffalo, N. Y. chief consulting physician to the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Insti tute, and author of The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser, of which over six hundred and eighty thousand copies have already been sold. Why shouldn’t women use it? Its dis coverer is a regularly qualified physician who has made the treatment of ailments peculiar to women a life study and a life specialty. His thirty years’ practice in this special field, during which he, with his staff of specialists, have successfully treat ed hundred of thousands of cases, has af forded him opportunities enjoyed by no one else for discovering the right methods and th© right remedies. That he should, for his own protection and the protection of his patients who are scattered all over the globa take advan tage of that law of which every Inventor in other fields avails himself, is neither unprofessional nor unbusiness-like. It’s >good, sound, common sense. In every state, city, town and hamlet. Dr. Pierce’s discoveries have effected just such cures as those reported below. Long neglected, seriously complicated and so called Incurable cases are treated by him by letter with a success that is sim ply astounding. Where the ordinary prac titioner treats one such case, Dr. Pierce and the skilled specialists of the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute treat tens iof thousands; and what is regarded by the local doctor as a complicated case, one that puzzles his brain and baffles his skill, is as simple of treatment and sure of being cured in this institution as is the drawing of a perfect circle to the one man in a million. This is another instance where practice makes perfect. It is a case where one man can do what millions of others cannot do. One reason that women suffer in si lence agonies that would make A COWARD OF MAN is because her inborn modesty causes her to shrink from the ordeal of submitting to medical examination and the stereo typed “local treatment.” When, finally, torture drives her to seek advice, she. unfortunately, only too often falls into hands that lack the rare ability of draw ing that "perfect circle” upon which her peace of mind, her happiness and her life depend. Instead of the treatment that makes thousands of cures a certainty and failure almost an unheard-of accident, she receives that which makes failure a certainty and the cure a mere accident. No woman, who is tired of suffering, tired of doctoring, or tired of life, should fail to write Dr. Pierce, or to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association, of Buf falo, N. Y., of which he is president. She i will receive, free of charge, good, sound, I professional advice that will enable her to cure herself at home (if her case is cur able), pleasantly, painlessly, permanent ly. and this, too. without having to un dergo the trying ordeal of "examinations" and the stereotyped and dreaded treat ment by “local applications.” If her case is really incurable, she will be told so plainly. But Dr. Pierce’s records, cover ing hundreds of thousands of cases, prove that there are not three incurable cases in a hundred. Here are a few specimen cures: Mrs. Homer Clark. 238 West Third street. Sioux City. lowa, tried doctor af ter doctor and hospital after hospital, but all to no purpose. She suffered from female weakness and ulcers of the uterus. She continued growing worse until a druggist—Mr. Cummings—advised her to take Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. The first bottle brought relief and its further use effected a cure. Mrs. Abram Lyon, Lorraine. Jefferson, county. New York, was declared incurable by everv physician in her neighborhood. She had’ falling of the womb and ulcera tion brought on by the birth of her child. After having been given up to die she was induced to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription which, she says, not only saved her life but cured her permanently. Mrs. Samuel A. Jacobs, Mechanicsburg, Pa , after the best physicians in her town could do nothing for her frequent faint ing spells and terrible pains in her head, which made life a burden to her, was in duced bv a neighbor to take Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, a single bottle of which benefited hsr so greatly that she publicly advises all suffering ladles to use this infallible remedy. Mrs. Jennie Williams. Mohawk, Ore gon, vainly tried doctor after doctor for i the bllndin* dixzy spells, palpitation of I the heart, pains in back andr head, and nervous chills, with which* she suffered 1 over three rears. The very first bottle * of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription brought greatful relief, and two more (with two of his Golden Medical Discov ery) banished all pain, made her a well, happy and strong woman. Mrs. William Hoover, Belleville, Ohio, was given up by three doctors. She suf fered from female weakness and could scarcely stand up. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite prescription made her entirely well and so strong that she now does the work for a family of five.’ Mrs. Anna Dauel, 901 South Main street, Bloomington, 111., after suffering for eight years from female weakness and womb trouble became a mere skeleton and hed to be carried home from the hospital. Friends then induced her to take Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, which effected a complete cure. Mrs. Mary F. Covell, Scotland, Bon 1 Homme county, South Dakota, was pro nounced incurable by the best doctors in the west. Her trouble was falling of the womb and leucorrhea. After giving up all 1 hopes she was quickly made a "well wo -1 man” by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip tion. IV The above list could be continued to ' embrace over 90,000 grateful letters re ceived by Dr. Pierce, but space forbids. A GREAT BOOK FREE. When Dr. Pierce published the first edi tion of his great work, The People’s Com- mon Sense Medical Ad viser, he announced ttlat after 680.000 copies had been sold at the x regular price, $1.50 per *' copy, the profit on fcl* li which would repay him Wrt | <y # /fv, for the immense wttMftfjj , amount of labor and r money expended in pro flucing it, he would dis- JHJ tribute the next half ’ ,lK t™ million free. As this zj. number of copies has I already been sold, he / is now giving away, ab- solutely free, 500,000 copies of this most complete, interesting and valuable com mon sense medical work ever published— the recipient only being required to mail to him, or the World’s Dispensary Medical Association of Buffalo, N, Y., of which he is president, this little • * COUPON NUM- BER with 1 COUPON I twenty-on e (21) one- i Nf0.107. | cent stamps to cover cost-*—— -*-* of mailing only, and It' lin one great volume. It contains over | 1,000 pages and more than 300 illustrations. Several finely illustrated chapters are de voted to the careful consideration in plain language, of diseases peculiar to wo men and their successful home-treatment without the aid of a physician and with out having to submit to dreaded "exam inations” and the stereotyped "local ap plications,” so repulsive to the modestly sensitive woman. The Free Edition Is precisely the same as that heretofore sold at $1.50 except only that the books are bound in strong paper covert instead of cloth. If French cloth-covered, embossed and gold stamped covers are desired, send 10 cents extra—3l cents in all. to cover only the postage and the extra cost of that more durable and beautiful style of binding. Send NOW before all are given away.—ad. ROSEBORO’S ROBBERY, The Express Agent Implicates the Mayor and Coroner. Wilmington, N. C., Dec. 31.—A special to the Star says that the alleged robbery of the Southern express agent at Roseboro, N. C., a station on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad of $950, by masked men a few days ago, has turned out to be no robbery at all. According to the confession 'of Agent Grier, it was a deliberately planned and executed con spiracy, participated in by himself. Dr. Fleet J. Cooper, the coroner of Sampson county, and Redden Butler, the mayor of Roseboro. Cooper and Butler were arrested Mon day and had a preliminary hearing before Justices Giddens and Farrell. They were bodnd over in a bond of $950 each, to ap pear in Clinton on Thursday. Jan. 2, for further preliminary examination. They deny any complicity or knowledge of the matter and say that Greer implicated thefn to shift the burden from himself. LYNCHED FOR STEALING. A Cattle •Thief Hanged by a Mob tn Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 31.—Ex-Sheriff Bush of Simpson county was in Jackson to-day and tells of a lynching that occurred a day or two since, but which has not here tofore been made known, on account of the distance from railroad and telegraph offices. A negro named Andrew Brown, j who had served a time in the penitentiary | for cattle stealing, was caught at his old . tricks and started to a justice of the peace. A mob met the officers on the road, took charge of the prisoner and left him dangling at the end of a plow line his body full of lead. No arrests have been made yet, but the affair is generally denounced in the country. A BATTLE WITH WINCHESTERS. Two Men Killed and Two Wounded In Virginia. Sargent, Ky., Dec. 31.—There was a ter rible battle and double murder at Don key, a little hamlet, near Pound Gap, in county, Virginia, yesterday, the re sult of a drunken row on Christmas, over 'a woman of bad character. Bill Wells and Gus Osborne, always known as good citizens, met Jim Cox and Abe Williams, two desperate mountain outlaws, on the public road a half mile from Donkey, heavily armed with Winchesters, for the purpose of fighting it out. The firing con tinued for more than two hours. Shortly after the firing commenced a deputy sheriff of Wise county, whose name has not been learned, appeared on the scene but < <»uld not stop the fight. Soon Wells and usborne lay lifeless on the roadside, with Cox seriously wounded, being shot twice. The deputy sheriff also received a serious wound in the left leg. A Fatal Esrtbyuake in Italy. Naples. Dec. 31.—A severe shock of earth quake was felt at Clcciano. near the city of Nola. in the province of Caserta. on Sunday. A number of houses were thrown down, several persons were killed and many injured. HARD FIGHTING NEAR HAVANA. THE CUBAN FORCES REPULSED BY THE SPANISH. The Concentrated Forces of the Pa triots Engaged in tine Fighting. They Retreat in Good Order and ■Without Very Serious Loss in Kill ed or Wounded—The Cubans Also Reported Repulsed in the Jiquani District. Havana, Dec. 31.—Gens. Navarro and Suarez Valdez held in check throughout the whole of yesterday the concentrated forces of the rebel commanders Gomez and Maceo. Gen. Navarro attacked a capip of rebels and dispersed them. Go mez and Maceo were entrenched at Cen tral Maria and a battle ensued there later in which the Spanish artillery werte pitted against the insurgents cavalry. The rebels were finally routed and retreated in two colmuns, leaving seven dead on the field. Passing Camanagua on their re treat, the rebels had twenty litters and two carts filled with wounded. Gen. Sua rez Valdez made an attack upon another wing of the rebel army, and after two hours fighting the rebels retreated, leav ing eight dead and many wounded. Gen. Valdez reached Baro without further re sistance. The rebels who confronted him and were forced to retreat were 2,000 strong. The last news from the field shows that the rebels have been driven back in the province of Matanzas, after having been severely punished by the troops. The loss of property has been enormous, but planters now feel more confident in the future success of the Spanish army, and will try when possible to grind again. /Some of the large central factories, how ' ever, have suffered so severely that it will be rather hard for them to do any thing before next year. On Dec. 28 two government columns, one of 400 men under Col. Rodon and the other of 200 men under Col. Pardon, after a fight lasting two hours, dispersed the rebels commanded by Rabi and others. The engagement took place in the Jiguanl district, to the eastward of Bayamo, in the province of Santiago de Cuba. The rebels made several charges with ma chetes, but were repulsed and finally driv en from the field in confusion. Their loss was 17 killed. A quantity of arms and a number of horses were captured by the troops. The government loss was eight killed, including three officers, and 42 wounded. The latter were taken to Jiguani and Bayamo. Geq. Suarez Valdez telegraphs that he had an engagement yesterday with a rebel force north of Cuevitas and defeated them. The rebels lost two killed. Madrid, Dec. 31.—A dispatch from Ha vana to the Imparclal says: "Col. Pe rera, with 850 Spanish troops, made an attack upon Maximo Gomez at the head of a force vastly more numerous than that of the Spaniards, at Calimete. The insurgents’ cavalry made a charge upon the square formed by the Spanish troops and for a time the situation of the Span iards was critical. "After three hours’ fighting, however, Gens. Navarro and Suarez, with their commands, arrived, and the insurgents retreated. The Span ish had nineteen men killed and sixty three wounded. The insurgents lost 20) killed and wounded. Gomez made a stand at Marqute and again at Roque, but was driven from both positions.” Two thousand Spanish troops embarked at Cadiz last evening for Cuba. Baro, Cuba, Dec. 23, via Tampa, Dec. 31.—At 9 o’clock this morning the town of Roque was invaded by Maximo Go mez, Serafin Sanchez. Cayeto Alverez, and ' with thgg They did no great day to the town, I their depredations were limited almost en tirely to taking a number of horses. They seized the flag on the town hall and set fire to a new but unoccupied wooden fort. They marched through all the streets of the town, headed by the rebel flag, shout ing “Viva Cuba Libra.” Later they en tered a number of stores, in some of which they paid for what they took, while others they looted. They left with the mayor of the town three of their wounded, with an intimation that they must have close cake arift attention. Previous to reaching Roque, Gomez and his following had devastated the cane, fields of the Espana estate. They took on the estate, and had with them at Roque, two prison ers, alleged poisoners of wells. I While on the way to Roque the rebels set fire to the railway work shops on the line of the Cardenas and Jucaro railroad. Maximo Gomez, w'hil'e at Roque, said that their men composed the vanguard; that Maceo and Quintin bandera were follow ing with a large force, and that at that time the latter was near Colef. Waycross, Ga., Dec. 31.—" Havana for Cuba” is the password that is being used by Cuban agents in securing Georgia vol unteers to join the Cubans in taking Ha vana on Jan. 15. The Morning News cor respondent accidentally learned this fol lowing fact from a Cuban agent: Several squads of Georgians, who were unemploy ed, have left Georgia for Cuba this fall, and recently the number has increased. Many go by rail to Tampa and thence by steamer «to Havana, via Key West, but some go from the Georgia coast. All per sons who are willing to fight for Cuba are being invited to meet the agent on a certain day at or near Darien. The expe dition is to leave on a regular Altamaha river steamer and be taken beyond Doboy and Altamaha sound, where a filibuster ing boat will be in readiness to receive them. Volunteers will be paid SIOO cash at the start and SIOO a month for service, provided that Cuba wins. They will be provided with arms and ammunition. The expedition is intended to land at Havana and join the Cubans in beseiglng the Spanish city on Jan. 15. It is learned that several young men have already left Way cross on one of these expeditions and several more will leave here some time this week, via the Altamaha river. TO TINKER WITH THE TARIFF. The Ways and Means Committee to Begin Work Next Week. » » Washington, Dec. 31.—Chairman Ding ley of the ways and means committee will not leave Washington during the holiday recess. He has been so busy with his public work that his correspondence has fallen badly in arrears and the in tervening time between now and the reassembling of congress will be neces sary to complete it. Mr. Dingley will not call the ways and means committee together until the latter part of next week, at which time the sub-committees will be appointed and a programme of work prepared. One of the first matters which Mr. Dingley purposes bringing to the attention of the committee will be certain amendments to the administrat ive features of the present tariff law with a view to preventing under valuations of imports. A strong necessity exists, Mr. Dingley says, for the correction of some of the defects in the administrative law. There are also other matters coming within the jurisdiction of the ways and means committee upon which action will be taken, but of these the chairman does not care to speak of in detail at present. RECEIPTS OF THE TREASURY. The Deficit for the First Half of the Fiscal Year $15,000,000. Washington. Dec. 31.—The figures of treasury receipts and expenditures for the first half of the fiscal year 1896, are now practically complete. The official statement to be issued on Thursday, Jan. 2, will show approximately that the re ceipts for the six months were $167,500,000, and the expenditures $182,509,000, making the deficit $15,000,000. 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Thirty- Year Coin Bond* at 104.49, Lea* a Commission of 1 Per Cent.—Half of the Gold Offered at the Option of the Government. New York, Dec. 31.—An evening paper says: "A contract was signed this morn ing by all the members of the new bond syndicate subject to the formal acceptance of the government. The syndicate agree to furnish 11,500,000 ounces of gold, amount ing to about $200,000,000 gold, the govern ment to take half of this sum first, and to have the option of taking the other half, and to deliver four per cent, thirty year coin bonds at about the same price as paid-for the last issue of bonds; the managers of the syndicate to receive a commission of 1 per cent. The price at which the last bonds were taken was 104.49, at which they yielded 3% per cent, interest. “The foregoing report is pronounced premature by leading bankers. The sub scriptions for the new loan, according to banking officials, foot up anywhere from $100,090,000 to $155,000,000. Report has it that J. P. Morgan has secured $25,000,000 of this amount and James Stillman of the city bank, an equal amount. The Deutsche Bank of Berlin Is credited with being ready to take another $25,000,000. A ru mor was current that Bussell Sage was personally interested in the syndicate to the extent of $10,000,000, but this was sub sequently denied.' “The form of the application for par ticipation in the syndicate for the bond issue circulated among the banks and trust companies to-day states that the agreement proposed with the treasury is substantially the same as that of last February, J. P. Morgan & Co. being the managers of the syndicate and receiv ing for their services a commission of 1 per cent. “Gold to the amount of 11,150,000 ounces may be called Tor by the treasury, of which one-half, that is 5,575,000 ounces, Is a firm sale, the other half being in the nature of an option. No subscriptions of syndicate, and the gold to be paid in must not come from the treasury/' The demand for gold, for the purpose of subscribing to the new bond loan, led to an advance in the commission paid for the metal, and transactions were re ported at one per cent. It is reported that the $1,700,000 gold, which was snipped by the Paris last week, has been ordered reshipped to this country and will prob ably be used in jutying for bonds. Berlin, Dec. 31.—The United States em bassy here has received a number of of fers from German banking firms of the i posed new American loan at Sniper cent, interest. It Is reported that the United States treasury will give only 3 per cent., or at the most 3%. The Deutsch bank is an anxious offerer for the loan. Some firms profess to believe that there will be an exclusive tender for the loan within the confines of the United States. London, Dec. 31.—The dealings at the Stock Exchange during the day were re stricted and the market closed The political situation Is not encouraging. American railroad securities are droop ing and attract little attention. The news from the Transvaal caused a weak ness in mining stocks. Spanish securities rose % on the news from Cuba. The Standard will to-morrow say in connection with the new American loan: “The loan is a mere raising of money to enable the United States to maintain an appearance of solvency. As it prolongs the present financial system it must end In debasing the currency. The new bonds would not be extravagantly cheap at par.’* RETURN OF THE BELL. The Atlanta Committee to Avoid a Row With the Philadelphian*. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 31.—The liberty bell committee that has been in hot water for several days through the action of the Philadelphia committee appointed to come to Atlanta and take the old relic home again, held a meeting behind closed doors to-day and decided to accompany the bell to the city of Brotherly Love de spite the complications and alleged dis courtesy. At the conclusion of the meet ing Mayor King said that the committee had decided to accompany the bell back at any odds. Upon considering the mat ter they concluded that there was not any unpleasant feeling between the com mittees of Philadelphia and Atlanta. Whether the Philadelphia committee will take charge of the‘bell here and the local committee will escort them, or the At lantans take it back and the Philadel phians act as an escort 'is a question to be decided upon further correspondence. Mayor King would not consent to furn ish the correspondence between himself and Chairman Smith of Philadelphia to the public. The nature of the letter which the committee will send to the Philadel phians is, therefore, a matter of conjec ture. It may be that the committee will insist upon receiving the Philadelphians as the guests of the city when they ar rive here, and will insist further up on taking the party and bell back to Phil adelphia. However, the letter will proba bly not be very peremptory and Chairman Smith will be given to understand that the feelings of the Atlantians have not been in the least ruffled by the apparent coolness of the recent communications sent to Mayor King. The Philadelphia committee will reach here about Jan. 17 and from present indications will be cordially received by the liberty bell com mittee, if not by the people at large. SOUTH CHICAGO MILLS SHUT. The Illinois Steel Company Close* Part of It* Plant. Chicago, Dec. 31.—The Illinois Steel Company closed for a month its Bessemer and rail mills at South Chicago. There are few orders to fill ,and the company says this is a good time* to make repairs. The two mills closed are operated on the sliding scale, which does not satisfy the company, and the men assert that the closing down is done to make a re adjustment. < A great many men throughout the coun try, including plenty of really swell fel lows, have got it into their heads, rightly or wrongly—and we are by no means sure that it isn’t rightly—that there is no reason why any man should pay more than $3.00 to $5.00 for a pair of shoes, and, to say the least, the idea has this foundation in reason,, that excellent shoes are now made tfor $3. To pay $S to sl2 for a pair of shoes is simply throwing away money, and in many cases this is done to gratify a mistaken notion that none but your favorite shoemaker is worthy to adorn your feet. The recent improvements in shoe machinery make it possible, as shown by the well known W. L. Douglass $3 shoe, to produce a shoe to-day that will compare favorably tn style, wearing qual ities and comfort with those; offered at $6, $8 and $lO per pair,—ad. _ Judge Peckham Rfhigni. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Judge Peckham of the court of appeals, to-day filed his resignation with the secretary of state. He will start for Washington at once to take his seat on the bench of the United States supreme court. ,