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I TO PREVENT SWEAT ON WHEAT.
|I ■nyon notice County, an inquiry Idaho, ftom asking J. B. for G.,
Iraedy a
for the sweat on wheat, oats
Id lieat barley. California is a great
and barley State, and wheat has
len grown successfully on the same
■id lor over forty years without any
■tilizers. Wo have used the blue-
Rue (sulphate of copper) remedy to
■ 1 smut for the last fifteen years,and
■never Id fails, to wit: Take a barrel
set it in the ground, the same as
lough like you were going to scald hogs,
a platform so that the water will
■in back into the barrel; put three
Bunds of bluestone in the barrel and
R the barrel half full of water ; stir
Rh a hoe occasionally for a day or
R the bluestone will dissolve. Tho
Restone water can be made a
Ik or a month beforo using, ns it
Ri’t hurt or lose strength by stand-
K. The day before you expect to
Hr grain put a sack of grain (sack
■1 all) in the barrel, and leave it
Ire for two, three or four hours.
Bn lift it out onto the platform to
Kin, Hthe and put another sack of grain
barrel to soak. It would be
Ht to begin to sack grain a day or
R> before beginning to sow, as it
Ruld be better drained. While sow-
H keep soaking grain and draining
■head, so as to have it well drained,
■you sow much grain, then keep re-
luestone lenishing your barrel with water and
at the proportion of six
bunds of bluestone to the barrel of
!al., ater.—Horace F. Wilcox, Julian,
in New York Tribune,
H COVERING CLOVEE SEED.
■ One of the principal causes of failure
Bn securing a good catch of clover is
■he lack of sufficient moisture im¬
mediately Rs after seeding. When seed
sown on winter wheat, it sometimes
Rails to germinate because a crust
■forms on top of the ground, especially
tf the season is dry and the seeds do
Riot become sufficiently imbedded.
■This may be remedied to a great ex¬
tent by harrowing the ground lightly
immediately after the clover has been
sown, to give the seeds a light cover¬
ing. If clover is sown with spring
grain, it becomes almost a necessity to
give the seeds a covering deep enough
to secure moisture, but not too deep so
as to exclude light. One-half to one inch
i3 about right, especially if the soil is
light and sandy. Clover seed covered
to a depth oi three inches in the light
sandy toils of the AVestern States has
grown and m a de a good stand, and
produced a more vigorous growth than
that covered only ono-hali an inch
deep. But deep covering would
under no eircumstanees be advisable
where there is plenty of moisture, as
in the Eastern States, and dry seasons
are rare exceptions. However,a light
covering will be advisable under most
conditions. Last spring I seeded a
couple of small pieces to red and
alsike clovers and gave the seed a
covering by using a light drag.'
Although tho season was an unusually
wet one I succeeded in obtaining a
very good stand. So even a large
amount of moisture will not destroy
the clover seed, if it has not been
covered too deep.—L. O. Follow, of
Minnesota, in American Agriculturist.
ETTI.ES FOE BUTTEE MAKING.
The instructor of Cornell Agricul¬
tural College, Ithaca, N. Y, has sent
out a list of rules about butter making
and ripening cream. He says:
The practical part of cream ripening
is this: Keep your vessel so that it may
all ripen evenly and thus avoid loss in
churning. Raise the temperature to
62 or 78 degrees and keep it as near
that temperatnro aspossible nntil ripe,
and then cool before churniDg. Well
ripened cream should be coagulated or
thickened. It should run from aheight
in a smooth stream like oil. When a
paddle is dipped into it aDd held in
the hand, it should stick all over in a
thick even coat, not running off in
streaks and showing the surface of the
paddle. When the last drops run off
the paddle bade into the vat tboy
should leave little dents or depressions
on the surface which do not olose up
for an instant. Tho cream should
have a satin gloss or fresh surface.
Cliurn until the granules are the size
of wheat kernels; then draw off the
buttermilk and wash through two or
three waters, whirling the churn a few
times around. Use from a pint to a
quart of water por pound of butter.
Hove the water at a temperature of 40
to 45 degrees in hot weather and
fr< m 50 to 62 degrees in winter, always
de lending upon season, natural solidity
of the butter, warmth of room and
size of granules. If you do not care
about feeding the washings, I would
put some salt in my first wash water.
It will help to float the granules bet¬
ter, and perhaps dissolve out the
casein to some extent. I would gen¬
erally salt the butter in the churn.
F A EM MANURES.
A recent bulletin of tho Missouri
Agricultural Experiment Station deals
•with soil fertility,and the production,
preservation and use of farm manures.
It is estimated that the manure pro¬
duced each year by the farm animals
of the United States is worth the
enormous sum of $2,000,000,000. On
the same basis, the valne of the ma ■
nure excreted by the farm animals in
Missouri each year would amount to
$150,000,000. This estimate for Mis¬
souri is probably too high, since a
relatively smaller quantity of foods
producing rich manure, such as cotton
seed moal, linseed meal, wheat bran,
etc., are fed in Missouri than in most
of the Eastern and Northern States.
The value of this product of the farm
is large enough, however, to warrant
our most serious attention and to jus¬
tify the employment of such measures
as are necessary to preserve without
waste and apply in the best manner
all the manures prodneod.
Fully one-half of the manure pro¬
duced in Missouri is wasted, which,
according to the foregoing estimate,
means a loss to the farmers of this
State from this source alone of $75,-
000 , 0000 .
The manure from yonng, growing
animals is less valuable than from ma¬
ture ones, tho food being the same.
Full grown animals not gaining in
weight throw off in tho dung and
urine practically all the fertilizing
constituents taken into the body. In
milch cows and growing animals from
one-half to three-fourths of the fertil¬
izing constituents of tho food passes
into the manure. In fattening or
working animals it is from ninety to
ninety-five per cent.
The value of the manure is more
dependent upon the kind of food con¬
sumed than upon the age of the an¬
imal; for example, animals fed on
cotton seed meal, linseed meal, wheat
bran, clover hay or blue grass, will
produce a manure very much richer
than when feed on corn, oats or timo¬
thy hay. The passing of the food
through the animal adds nothing to
its fertilizing value except to render
its ingredients somewhat more readily
available to the plants.
Sources of loss are faulty methods
of feeding; improper arrangement of
pastures and feed lots; from allowing
the manure to stand in piles in the
barn yard or in the field, where it fer¬
ments too rapidly; the waste of the
liquid manure. As a rule the manure
Bhould be hauled direct from the barn
to the field and spread. Nothing iR
added to manure by allowing it to rot
in piles, and much is likely to be lost
by this process.
BREEDING DAIRY COWS.
1. Select the best cows in your herd,
or that you can buy, to keep, and dis¬
pose of the others.
2. The best cow for the dairy is the
one that produces the greatest amount
of butter fat in a year (for food con¬
sumed) when being rightly fed.
3. Test your cows by weighing; the
milk of each cow for a year, and test¬
ing it occasionally with the Babcock
milk tester, and know how much but¬
ter fat each one does produce.
4. To renew or increase your herd
raise the heifer calves from your best
cows.
5. Use the best dairy-bred sire you
can get; one if possible that has a long
line of ancestors, and have been first-
class dairy animals.
6. In this way you can make each
generation better than tlie preceding
one, if they have at all times proper
care and feed.
7. It is neither profitable nor neces¬
sary for a cow to go dry more than
four to six weeks.
8. Especially should your young
cows be watched and not allowed to
aequiro the habit of drying up too
soon.
9. "Darken the stable in which tho
cows are milked through fly time. It
will not only economize the patience
of the milker, but the cost of milk
production as well.
10. Keep a record of the time when
cows are bred, and have no guesswork
about the time of calving.
11. Provide a roomy box stall, and
allow the cow to become accustomed
to it a week prior to calving.
12. Rich foods should be withheld
for a short time prior and subsequent
to calving.
13. The udder should receive prompt
attention. An obstacle may be re¬
moved from the teat the first hour
that might battle science later.
14. A pail of scalded bran should be
given to the cow as soon as possible
after calving.
15. The calf should bo permitted to
nurse its mother for two or three days.
16. After separating tho ealf from
its mother, feed tho natural milk as
soon as drawn, for a week or ten days.
17. Then begin gradually to substi¬
tute skim milk with oil meal jelly
stirred into it.
18. Scald the calf’s feed pail daily.
19. Feed three times a day and not
more than three quarts at a time until
the calf is well started.
20. Warm tho milk by 2 ilaciDg the
vessel that contains the milk in hot
water.
21. Warm the milk to ninety de¬
grees F.
22. Don’t trust your finger, but a
thermometer. It will save many a
calf's life.
23. The mau whose ideal of a cow is
high, coupled with good eare, feed and
gentleness, is sure to receive the high¬
est profit in milk And pleasure that can
be made in dairying.
We will add a couple of other points:
24. Alwuys clean out the box stall
after a cow has calved therein, and
thoroughly disinteet it with a solution
made of one part of;sulphuric acid to
nine of water. This is to prevent sep¬
tic poisoning of the next cow, which
may easily occur.
25. Do not milk the udder out clean
until the fourth day after calving.
This will often prevent a chill, which
often produces milk fever.
Germany exports 750,000 canaries
every year to ul! parts of the world.
GREEK AND TURK.
WHY TIIK FORMER BITTERLY
HATES THE LATTER.
Awful Devastation of tho Grecian
Island of Sclo by the Turks—
How the Greeks Avenged
Their Comrades.
T HERE are passages in modern
Greek history whioh explain
the unquenchable hatred of
the Greek for the Moslem.
Some injuries may be forgiven, others
leave behind them a running sore
which never heals. Suoh a wrong is
the massacre of Soio.
Over against the seaboard of Asia
Minor, within seven miles of tho beach
on whioh the surf breaks and in full
sight of the old Pagus range, with the
town of Smyrna nestling at its base,
the Island of Soio or Chios wooes the
Western breeze with her oils and
wines. Like most of the Aegean is¬
lands it was born of fire and sulphur
and lava, but after a time generous
nature swathed the rugged rooks of
the southern extremity with a cover¬
ing of alluvium, on whioh the citron
blooms and the lentisk lends its frag¬
rant bark to the knife, so that the
gum mastio whioh the girls of the
Orient love shall flow.
From the remotest antiquity a race
of islanders were grown to fit so sweet
a landscape. The men were tall, sin¬
ewy, brave, trained to handle their
small craft in the stormy seas when
the hurricane blows; th6y led quiet
lives, at peace with all the world, and
kept out of wars when war was every¬
where else. Nowhere, even in Lesbos,
•were suoh beautiful girls raised. They
were taller than the Greeks generally,
with exquisitely rounded forms, flash¬
ing black eyes and rippling hair, which
hung loose over their shoulders.
For a thousand years Scio was the
happiest of the gems of the Eastern
sea. Its chief city, basking on the
eastern beach, with its face to tho ris¬
ing sun, was rich and quiet when the
gutters of the other oities of that re¬
gion flowed periodically with blood.
When the time came that the Turk
swooped down upon it, the people ac¬
quiesced, lot the Moslem set up his
mosques and went on chanting “Ave
Maria” as devoutly as ever. Chance
favored it. It was made the demesne
of the Sultana dowager, and a wild
rage for chewing gum having broken
out in tlie seraglio at Constantinople
it was discovered that the precious ar¬
ticle could bo best manufacturedjfrom
the gum mastic of Chios. Thus the
owners of lentisk groves grew rich.
In the times of the later crusades
the Genoese wrested Chios out of the
hands of the Turks,held it for a couple
of centuries, and left their marks all
over the island in the shape of con¬
vents, churches, colleges, hospitals,
libraries and palaces. Then the Turks-
reconquered it. But the softness of
the air mitigated the ferocity of the
temper of the Moslem; the cres¬
cent floated over the castle of Soio ;
but the Christians cultivated their
fields without molestation, and at the
beginning of this century they num¬
bered 90,000 of the hundred and odd
thousand of inhabitants. When the
Greek war of independence broke out,
the Ghians did not at first see that
they were called upon to take part.
They read the papers in their quiet, |
easy-going way and kept their passions
well under control. But when news
came that Greek blood was flowing on
the mainland they rose in arms and !
locked up the Governor in the castle j
without doing him any harm. He :
dispatched a swift messenger to Con- ,
stautinople to say that he had fallen
into the hands of the Philistines and
that he was prepared to endure what¬
ever Allah might send.
The missive reached the hand of
Kara Ali, the capondan pasha, or lord
high admiral, who was just then start¬
ing from the Golden Horn with his
fleet to chastise the Greek rebels. It
occurred to the capondan pasha that
it might be a good idea to drop in at
Scio on the way. He brought his
fleet to an anchor in the roads and
landed 15,001) troops, chiefly janissar¬
ies. These were joined by robbers
and adventurers from Smyrna, who
were ferried across the narrow strait.
The islanders were taken by sur¬
prise. They had no military organ¬
ization and were unprepared to fight.
They offered submission at once and
protested that they did not propose
to dispute the Sultan’s authority.
The capondon pasha pointed to the
castle where the Governor had been
imprisoned and quickly observed that
he proposed to give Soio a lesson. He
let loose his soldiers, bidding them
treat the island like a captured city
which had been given up to sack.
The Turks went about tho work de¬
liberately. They took two months to
accomplish it. They began by hang¬
ing the archbishop, the heads of the
clergy and the principal oitizens; their
bodies were thrown into the sea and
floated round tho Turkish ships until
they were eaten by fish. The capital
city, a score or more of flourishing
villages and tho splendid churches and
convents built by the Genoese were
then burned to the ground. The peo¬
ple were penned up in corrals, tho
males being separated from the fe¬
males. The former were killed to a
man ; the latter after a judicious se¬
lection had been made by the Turkish
army and navy officers, were sent to
Constantinople to be disposed of in
the slave market. ^Gordon Jsays that
the men who were slaughtered num¬
bered 25,000 and that 45,000 girls and
children were sold as slaves. Certain
it is that the price of comely young
women declined fifty per cent, in tho
slave markets of the Levant during the
year 1822, which was the year of the
massacre.
Several thousand Chians, men and
women, took refuge in the clefts of
the hills, and eluded pursuit. Of these
many starved to death; others were
taken off at night in boats by sympa¬
thizers from other islands. Quite a
number were bought or ransomed by
citizens of Smyrna. Of those who ex¬
patriated themselves, the bulk wan¬
dered through the Mediterranean cities
jn a state of destitution, and lor many
years Chian beggars invested the
streets of Genoa, Marseilles and Bar¬
celona. Among them were women
whose countenances showed remains
of hunger, marvelous beauty, destroyed by
oold and privation.
Gordon says that thero was a time
at the olose* of 1822 when of the 90,000
Christian inhabitants of Soio in 1821,
only 2000 remained. This appears to
be an exaggeration, but there is no
question but so far a3 in them lay the
work of depopulation which the Turks
understood was thoroughly done.
At the appalling news, the blood of
Greece boiled. Even tho tepid fluid
which jog-trotted through the veins of
European statesmen was slightly
stirred. Remonstrances couched in
decorous diplomatic phrases were ad¬
dressed to Constantinople. Mean¬
while a seoret council of Greek leaders
resolved to strike back. The Turkish
fleet lay at its anchorage in the roads
of Scio, the officers toastmgtheir dark¬
eyed captives in goblets of Chian
wine, and trying to divert their griefs
with song and dance. Under oover of
a moonless night there crept out. of
the northern darkness two small Greek
brigs, outfitted as fireships, filled with
gunpowder, pitch, tow, tar and Greek
fire, and manned by Constantine Ca-
naris of Psara and thirty-three Bailors
who were ready to give away their
lives. They had taken the sacrament,
and had been blessed by the priest.
Canaris had seen to it that a barrel of
powder stood handy to blow up the
craft with all on board, in case he
failed. When the black night fell, he
sailed in noiselessly, steering by the
lights of the Turkish vessels, and
aimed straight at the bow of the
Turkish flagship. When he struck
tie chains, he grappled them and
made fast, driving his brig under the
counter of the flags!ip as far as he
could; then he set fire to his craft,
and sheered off rapidly in a rowboat
shouting “Victory to the Cross!”
The fire crept swiftly up the tarred
sides of the man-of-war, leaped the
bulwarks, lioked up the rigging, ran
along the deck and probed its way
down the hatches. In a tew minutes
it enveloped the magazine. There
were over 2000 men on board, sailors
and Boldiers. They were demoralized
by the looting in which they had en¬
gaged. Discipline had been relaxed;
the officers found it impossible to fight
the fire with vigor and method.
Presently tho flames gnawed tho with base
of one of the masts, and it fell a
crash. Foreseeing what must come
next, the Capondan Pasha, whose arms
and hands had been burned in a vain
attempt to check the conflagration,
leaped overboard into his gig and or¬
dered the sailors to row to the shore.
But just as they were shoving off an¬
other mast toppled and fell athwart
the Admiral’s boat, striking’ him a
blow on the head which broke his
skull. He lived to be landed on the
beach of the island he had devastated;
then he died, just as the chant of the
Ramadan rose in the night air, and the
explosion of the magazine on board
his vessel Eent 2000 of his countrymen
to eternity.
Six months afterward the Greek
A eet | a y o1 ^ ^e island of Tenedos
awaiting an attack, which much prove
fatal, for the lurkish fleet, over¬
whelming in numbers, encircled _ it on
everv^ side. Again it was a dark,
moonless night, and the watch on the
lurkish ships slumbered in security,
Through the glcom, over the dark
wave3, as eight bells sounded, the
same Constantine Canaris sailed silent¬
ly, every man in his little craft hold¬
ing his ureath and awaiting the grat¬
ing sound of the scraping of the Greek
sloop against the sides of the Turkish
flag ship. It did not take long, when
the jar came, for Canaris and his brave
men to fasten their grapnels to the
Turk and set fire to the combustibles,
with which their deck was loaded. As
the flames darted up the side, Canaris
pushed off in the dark and shouted:
“Turks you are burned as at Soio!
God save the cross!”—San Francisco
Chronicle.
How He Lost a Friend.
“I had a friend once who had a
horror of lending money,” said a well-
known sporting man last night. “He
knew me, and knew me to be perfectly
good for any debt I might contract.
He and 1 were in Chicago once, and I
got broke, cold broke. I needed $100
badly and had no one to turn to ex¬
cept this friend. I went to him and
told him that 1 knew his prejudice
against loaning money, but said I need¬
ed a hundred so badly that I was will¬
ing to take the ohanee. ‘I know you
to be good for a $100,’ said my friend,
‘but I warn you right now that if you
borrow that amount or a hundred
cents from me I will never speak to
you again as long as I live.’ ‘To per¬
dition with your friendship,’ said I;
‘what I want is a hundred.’ He pulled
out his wad and gave me five twenty-
dollar bills. The next day I tried to
talk to him and he would have nothing
to do with me. After several other
rebuffs I stopped trying to force my
compatiy on him. I paid the money
back when I said I would, but even
alter the debt was canceled he would
have nothing to do with me. That
was ten years ago. I have seen him
every day or so in all that time, and
he has never made the slightest re¬
sponse to my overtures. I don’t be¬
lieve his own father could borrow $2
from him and expect to retain his
friendship. He ib certainly a iunny
man.”—New Orleans Time3-Democrat.
Nevada for many years has had but
one Baptist Church. This is at Reno,
and now a second has been established
at Wadsworth, thirty-five miles dis-
tant, with a membership of sixteen and
four awaiting baptism.
PRECIPITATE!) IN SENATE BY A
MOTION BY MORRILL.
DEMOCRATS SHOW A SOLID FRONT.
Gorman Criticize* Speaker For Not Ap¬
pointing: Committee*—Special Message
From President.
An unexpected tariff vote was pre¬
cipitated in the senate Wednesday by
Senator Morrill’s motion to refer to
the finance committee the Vest resolu¬
tion declaring the order of Secretary
Gage as to the protective clause of the
tariff illegal. A yea and nay vote was
taken, and Mr. Morrill’s motion to re¬
fer prevailed—yeas, 24; nays, 23.
The only republican vote cast
against the motion was that of Mr.
Chandler, while the democrats voted
solidly against it. They had the as¬
sistance of all the silver republicans
and the populists present except Mr.
Mantle (silver republican), of Mon¬
tana, who voted with the straight re¬
publicans. Mr. Cannon (silver repub¬
lican) (Tennessee), and Messrs. Butler, Harris
Heitfelt, Pettigrew and
Turner (populists), were recorded
against the motion. Messrs. Teller,
Jones and Stewart, of Nevada, were
absent.
Senator Morgan asked to have a time
set for a final vote on the Cuban reso¬
lution. Mr. Hoar objected, and Mr.
Morgan gave notice that he would call
up the resolution daily until a vote
was secured.
A Special Message.
The presideut sent a special message
to congress urging it to make suitable
provision for adequate representation)
of the United States at the Pans ex¬
position.
The closing paragraph of the message
was as follows: “It is proper that I
should emphasize the need of early
action, for if the present session pass
without suitable provision being made
postponment of the matter for nearly
a year longer could not but operate
greatly to the disadvantage of tho
United States in view of the elaborate
preparations already making by other
governments and of the danger that
further delay may result in inadequate
allotment of space to this country, as
well as incomplete organization of the
American exhibit.
First Congressional Action.
The first step toward the acceptance
of the invitation from France to par¬
ticipate in the Paris exposition of 1900
has been taken by congress in the fol¬
lowing action:
Senator Mason, of Illinois, offered
in the senate a joint resolution accept¬
ing the invitation and pioviding for
the appointment of a commissioner
general, assistant commissioner gener¬
al and nine scientific experts to repre¬
sent the United States.
The sum of $750,000 is appropriated
to meet the expenses of the exhibit.
The resolution directs the president
of the United States officially to notify
the governors of states of the desire of
the government to be represented at
this exposition and to representation request them to
take proper steps for of
all the states and territories in the
United States at the exhibit.
No Funds Available.
Attorney General McKenna sent a
letter to the house Wednesday calling
attention to the fact that there is now-
no fund available for the payment of
the United States district attorneys.
He recommends that $25,000 be imme¬
diately appropriated for salaries and
expenses of district attorneys and
$55,000 for the pay of regular assistant
attorneys.
SPINNERS STRIKE IN ONTARIO.
They Quit Work Because of a Reduction
In Wages.
The Canadian Cotton company, of
Cornwall, Ont., started work Wednes¬
day after a week of idleness. A few
minutes after work was begun the
foreman announced to the spinners
that there would be a further cut in
their wages. The workmen, 30 or 40
in number, refused to accept the re¬
duction and left the building.
In consequence of the action of the
strikers the mill management closed
the mill down for an indefinite period,
thus throwing between 700 and 800
hands ont of employment.
OBJECT TO COLORED CADET.
Congrrcssman Shattuc Urged to With-
draw Bundy's Name.
Congressman Shattuc, of Ohio,
nominated D. J. Bundy, a colored lad
of Cincinnati, to a cadetship at An¬
napolis. urged withdraw the
He has been to
name, but says he will stand by the
appointment. of
There have been some murmurs
disapproval from the Naval academy
and threats of the students to resign.
Mr. Shattuc says that the boy
earned his appointment fairly and he
is going to see that he goes to Annap¬
olis and receives fair treatment if it is
in his power to do so.
HAY SAILS FOR ENGLAND.
New Ambassador Embarks on Steamship
St. Paul.
Col. John Hay, United States am¬
bassador to the court of St. Janies,
sailed for England Wednesday on the
American line steamship St. Paul. He
was accompanied by his wife and eld¬
est daughter. Belmont
Ex-Representative Perry
was also among the passengers, He
is going abroad for a stay of several
months.
FAMILY OF SEYEN BROWNED.
Negroes Attempt to Kctenpe Flood; Bull
Kirk* Boat to PltoM.
A distressing accident oocurred ten
miles west of Helena, Ark.,.Wednes¬
day, in the drowning of a family of
seven negroes.
Sylvester Sanders, a tenant on the
Joel Higgins farm, where the current
has been so swift as to threaten the
destruction of the houses, left with
his wife and five children for higher
ground. Unfortunately he took into
his boat a large bull, which he valued
highly. When within a mile of the
hills the bull, which was almost fam¬
ished, attempted to eat the small limbs
of the willow trees through which the
boat was being laboriously pushed.
The animal’s action tipped the boat
and frightened the inmates, who made
frantic efforts to right it. In the ex¬
citement the animal kicked the side of
the boat to pieces and the entire fam¬
ily was drowned. Some negroes saw
them, but were unable to render
assistance.
BIG BATTLE EXPECTED.
Cuban Insu rjsjents Band Heavy Cargo of
Arms at Banes.
A special from Havana says: Banes,
an important port on the north coast,
near Gibari, from whioh go heavy an¬
nual exportations of bananas and co-
coanuts to the United States, narrowly
escaped total destruction.
The expedition under General Roloff
on the steamer Laurada, carrying 240
rifles, 5,000 cartridges and several
pieces of rapid firing artillery, landed
along the quay of Banes. General
Calixto Garcia, with 5,000 men, came
to protect the convoy of arms and am¬
munition, but as Roloff had no men to
arm Garcia was compelled to carry the
arms into the interior.
Evidently an important battle is in
sight, if the insurgents try to defend
their advantageous stronghold and
their claim to being able to hold a sea¬
port.
Great anxiety exists with reference
to the garrison of 100 men in the front
defending the quay at Banes.
It is believed they will be compelled
to surrender for lack of water and
supplies. The cruiser Pingon has
twice been compelled to break chains
in order to enter the Banes port.
KILLED ANI) CREMATED.
Maniac Murder. Family and Burns the
House.
A horrible tragedy was enacted at
Oakland, a small farming village a few
miles from Pascoog, R. I. About 3
o’clock Wedesday morning tlie house
occupied by Edward Reynolds and
family was burned and Reynolds, his
wife and adopted daughter were killed
and cremated in the burning building.
The deed was committed by Martin
Mowry, who worked for Reynolds.
Mowrv was willing to talk after his
arrest, but from his appearance and
manner of expression it seemed clear
that he was insane.
During the consideration of the In¬
dian appropriation bill, whioh was
taken up in the afternoon, Senator
Gorman criticised the manner of pass¬
ing appropriation bills without prop¬
erly organized committees.
He declared that it was in opposi-#
tion to the caution of President Mc¬
Kinley in his inaugural address that
strict economy should be observed.
ANGELL MINISTER TO TURKEY.
President Sends a Number of Appoint¬
ments to the Senate for Action.
The president Wednesday sent the
following nominations to the senate:
State—James B. Angell, of Michi¬
gan, to be envoy extraordinary United and
minister plenipotentiary of the
States to Turkey; George N. West, of
the District of Columbia, consul of the
United States to Pictou, Nova Scotia.
War—George D. Meildejohn, of Ne¬
braska, to be assistant secretary of
war.
To be commissioner of the District
of Columbia—John B. Wright and John
W. Ross.
Treasurer—John W. Cunningham,of
Idaho, assayer of the United States, at
the assay office at Boise City, Idaho.
Justice—Jasper P. Brady, of Indian
Territory, marshal of the central dis¬
trict in the Indian Territory.
Navy—Seligman Bros., special fiscal
agents of the navy department, at Lon¬
don, England.
Thirty-Four Miners Killed.
Advices from Johannesburg, South
Africa, state that a terrible dynamite
explosion has taken place in a deep
mine at Langlarte. Eight English and
twenty-six native miners were killed.
SPALDING MAKES A CONFESSION.
Admits That He Hypothecated the Uni¬
versity Bonds.
President McKay, of the University
of Illinois makes the statement that
C. W. Spalding, treasurer cf the board
and president of the defunct savings
bank, admitted to him and to Trustee
James W. Armstrong that he had hy¬
pothecated the university endowment
bonds entrusted him as treasurer.
This admission of guilt, Mr. McKay
said, was made Monday. Spalding
entered into no explanation, but
promised a full statement later. This
is the first time any one in authority
has openly stated that the bonds had
been hypothecated.
After the Dean Company.
The governing committee of the New
York stock exchange preferred charges
against Ceukirich, the board member
of the firm of Theo W. Myers & Co.,
which it is alleged acted for the E. S.
Dean company on the exchange. #
Two Big Iron Companies Fail.
The Longinead Iron company and
Conschocken, Pa., have gone into the
bands of receivers. The liabilities
will amount to $300,000. The assets
will not be above $150,000.