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IS OF INTUITION.
WHOSE WORK IS TO DE-
HER BLIND ADDRESSES.
That Have Gone Astray and Been
I^Bent Bv r m-st to Come the Dead Letter Office—-The
to the Foreign DJ-
jf^Blslon — IIow They Are Deciphered
^Blegible |H'ouble, but handwriting at place lias do made diffi- lots
jHies no fho
^Bter brought about by it appear
than in the Postoffice Depart-
Bl The dead letter office, in which
^»et ^■dreds result of clerks of inaccuracy are employed, of is a
■>. penman-
Bpnrt or forgetfulness or ignorance on
of letter writers.
^Rerhaps ■he dead the letter most interesting is the branch
office foreign
^Ksion, ^■ing from to which abroad are whose sent all addresses letters
■ve illegible to postmasters first
^Idling ■manship them. which When seek to systems train boys of
■ girls to write with a precision that
■Tld leave no room for individuality
■trietly adhered to wero inaugurat-
■ many of the old teachers predicted
■b results from such systems, saying
■t they would inevitably end in
■sing Bee the people to write so nearly
that forgery would be easy and
Bisequently By crime increased. But
one who visits the dead letter
Bee, Bn ahd especially the foreign divi-
of that institution, will be con-
Bced that the years of training in set
Btems of writing have had no effect
■causing a similarity of penmanship.
■ the other hand, practical experi-
B‘c seems to demonstrate that train-
B in penmanship can no more make
Bople Bihl write alike than any training
make them look alike.
■The illegible letters coming to the
Beign ^R>ert division are turned over to an
corps of ladies whose duty it is
^Kecipher By should them be and determine for delivery. where
sent
Bbse experts are under the direction
^Ktiss Richter, number whose service, of extend- has
over a years,
■^'Postoffice ^■sed her to Department be regarded throughout marvel
as a
^Bceenness ■ wonderful and intuition in which because de- of
way she
^Bear ^Biers hieroglyphics little intelligible that to others hen
as as
Bitches.
Blhere is a good deal of system in
Bs Richter’s work. To begin with,
■ has access to a library of 250 vol-
Hes of city directories, which fre-
Be ■ently guide her in delivering letters.
has also a volume, which was
Bepared Bipart for the use of the Postoffice
men t some years ago, which
Bves the names of streets in all the
Bincipal ftd cities of the United States,
shows how high the number of
^■yies HIBquently on each happens of these that streets relative run.
a
of some newly-made American writes
from his home in the old country and
fails to give the name of the city for
which his letter is intended.” In this
way it might happen that merely the
name and number of the street would
lead to the delivery of the letter. For
instance, if a letter were received with
the address of Baltimore and Paca
streets, with the name of the city left
out, it would at onee be sent to Balti¬
more, Md., because that is the only
city in*the United States in which
streets of these ames cfoss, though
there are other eities having a Balti¬
more and a Paca street. Frequently
the name of the street is as good an
address as if the name of the city and
State to which the letter was going
was attached. Terpsichore street ex¬
ists only in New Orleans, but streets
named after Presidents are so numer¬
ous as to be no guide to the city in
which they are located. President
Jackson was so greatly admired that
250 streets were named after him. It
frequently happens that a very high
number on a street with a common
namewili lead to its location, because,
although there may be scores of
streets of the name, very few of them
have numbers running into the thou¬
sands.
The ladies whose work it is to send
poorly and partially addressed letters
to their destination have need of a
varied class of information in order to
be successful in their labors. They
must be thoroughly acquainted with
all geographical and historical names
in the country. For instance, if a let¬
ter bears the address of Suwanee street
that at once places it in a southern city
in the vicinity of the river that has
been made famous in song. Many
towns, but little known, are named for
Governors and other men eminent in
State affairs, and names of streets .are
located in the same way. Men estab¬
lishing great business enterprises gen¬
erally bequeath their name to posterity
in connection with a street or avenue.
The foreign division is also supplied
with directories containing all sorts of
information that might lead to the de¬
livery of a partially addressed letter,
A letter addressed to a cashier or other
officer of a National or private bank,
for instance, without the name of city
or State to which it should go, is read¬
ily sent to its destination by reference
to the directory showing the location
of all such officers.
Foreigners generally seem to have
an idea that “America” is a rather
contracted place, and they frequently
omit name of States and counties in
which they wish their letters delivered.
The fact that there are dozens of
towns called Madison, scattered in all
parts of the United States, does not
seem to occur to the average foreigner,
and unless the name of a street or
possibly the county is attached there
is little elue to the destination of the
letter. Such letters are frequently de¬
livered, however, by the experts hand¬
ling them knowing in what parts of
the United States emigrants from the
country from which the letter came
have located.
Tuscaloosa was recently indicated on
a letter from Canada as Teake Luce,
Ala., but it was promptly delivered. A
glance at many of the addresses to the
uninitiated gives no clue whatever
to tlieir meaning, but to tlio experts a*
very slight indication of the place to
■which the letter is intended lends to
its ultimate delivery. The department
instructs postmasters to whom these
letters are sent for delivery to return
the envelopes, if possible, so that the
expects handling them will be able to
aee how nearly they came to decipher¬
ing the addresses. In this way the
experts are constantly being trained
V> greater and greater efficiency for
their work.—Washington Star.
Priceless Trophies of the Hunt.
W. A. Baillie-Grohman writes ol
“Sports in the Seventeenth Century”
for the July Century: The author
says: The the
stag was altogether most
highly prized animal of the chase; and
his antlers, if they were of great size
or showed any abnormity in their
growth, were the most treasured
trophies of the hunt. When potentates
made one another presents, these usu-
ally consisted of some famous deer
head; for these Nimrods not only vied
with one another in the quantity of
game they laid low, but also regarding
their collections of antlers, upon which
enormous sums were spent. For the
famous sixty-six-tined head killed in
1696 by the Elector of Brandenburg,
aud which is still preserved at the Cas-
tie of Moritzburg, near Dresden, it is
said that the. Elector of Saxony gave
a company of the tallest grenadiers in
his army. For an abnormal thirty-
six-point head one of the Dukes of
Wurtemburg gave a whole village,
with its inhabitants, land, houses aud
church, including even the parson’s
prebend, as the chronicler does not
forget to mention. A Duke of Pom-
for a celebrated thirty-two-
tined head, which he was anxious to
have for his collection, a sum which
would correspond to $25,000 of our
present money, and what is more, his
bid was refused. Upon the spots
where great stags were killed monu-
ments were erected; and in more than
one instance monasteries and cloisters
were founded in such localities, las
well as in those where some great
Nimrod had escaped mortal danger.
Shooting a Captive Balloon.
Recent experiments \ at Shoebury-
ness, „„ England, tv ,__ i by officers of n i. the n oid-
nance department show that, contrary
to the general belef, balloons maybe
struck by projectiles from cannon. A
captive balloon was sent up over the
es nary of the Thames, attached by a
cable of about 700 yards to a boa
loaded with ballast, which was set
adrift on the water. The weather
was somewhat boisterous and the
morning dull and hazy. The field
piece was placed on the marsh land
beyond the school of gunnery, from
where the firing took place. The dis¬
tance of range was ascertained to be
about 4000 yards. Shrapnel shell was
used, and good practice was made
from the first, On the sixth round,
however, excellent elevation and di¬
rection and distance were obtained,
and the shell was observed to burst
almost immediately over the balloon.
After oscillating for a few seconds the
balloon was observed to be collapsing,
and then it gradually fell. Its descent
was slow, and, as far as could be
judged, had the car contained any oc¬
cupants it is possible they would have
sustained but little, if any, injury had
the balloon fallen on land, It was
impossible to ascertain the extent of
the injury which was done to the bal¬
loon itself, but the wicker car ap¬
peared to have sustained little or no
damage.
Firecracker of Compressed Air.
The noisiest firecracker yet has been
approved by the New York Board of
Fire Commissioners. It is warranted
to make more noise than the Chinese
kind, and to burn no awnings. It has
no reaction and no after affects. It
explodes with great force, and fills the
air with large quantities of noise and
lots of strawboard, but no spark.
It is a plain United States fire¬
cracker, composed of one-third of
chloride of potash and two-thirds of
compressed air. The explosion of the
chemical bursts the chamber of com¬
pressed air, and the result is an ex¬
plosion which combines the delightful
nerve-annihilating properties of the
cannon and the pop gun.
This cracker is lighted by means of
a fuse, just as is the Chinese cracker
of commerce. The air chamber will
not explode if it is stood on end or if
the cracker is held in the hand.
This American invention leaves no
sparks, for the fire does not cling to
the tough strawboard as it does to tho
porous rice paper used by the Chinese
maker. It consists principally of a
pasteboard tube filled with compressed
air and stopped with a cork.—"Wash¬
ington Star.
Hare It Like a Soldier.
The real name of General Smolen-
ski, the gallant Greek commander, is
Constantine Surolentz, and he comes
of Dalmatian stock, His father took
part in the war of independence, set¬
tled at Athens, and married a Greek
lady. His two sons adopted a military
career, for which they were educated
partly at home, partly in France and
Belgium. Constantiue is the younger
of the two, and besides possessing
strategetieal abilities of a high order,
he is endowed with great physical
courage. It is related of him that a
few years ago he had to visit Germany
for the purpose of undergoing a severe
surgical operatiou. The doctors were
proceeding to administer an anesthetic,
but Smolentz would have none of it.
“Chloroform,” he exclaimed, “is only
fit for women!” and while the knife
was being used he said, “Go on,
gentleman!” as coolly as though ho
were a mere spectator, nor did a single
expression of pain escape him during
the most trying moments.
Greater New York is thirty-two
miles long by sixteen wide.
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A Talented Colored Girl.
A young colored girl of Vermillion
County, Indiana, has won a personal
triumph which entitles her to recogni-
tion as one of the bravest young
women of her time. She is a credit
not only to her race, but to the coun¬
try, which, by its provisions for free
public schools, has given her the op-
portunity to show the stuff of which
she is made. Four years ago she en-
tered the high school at Clinton. Ever
since that time she has been practically
ostracised by her fellow-pupils. On
two occasions, when she resented in-
suits, she was expelled from the school
for no better reason, as the trustees
explained, than “to keep peace in the
family.” Still she kept ou, and the
other night she was graduated, with a
good record. When she gave her ad-
dress at the closing exercises she
scored the greatest success of the even-
ing. Such usually is the reward for
courage. The pity is that during her
course of study some of the young
woman’s classmates, or at least the
authorities of the school, were not as
generous as the public. Her four years
of work would have been far more com-
fortable. The father of the girl, whose
name is Carry Ptrker, is a laborer,
She intends to become a foreign mis-
sionary.—Indianapolis News,
Will Teach Girls to Keep House.
The girls in the seventh and eighth
grades of the Charles Kozminski and
the Hammond schools are now to have
a chance to learn how to make bread,
run a hem or dust a room according to
the , best , and , most . improved . - methods.
Since ,the introduction of manual
tnuil ; n « g f or ^ J )y3 the Chicago pub-
th e has been eonsklera-
b [ e complaint £ that the girls were not
f th chance to use their hands
u8eful arts . In other
cooking d lain sewi had
been introduced into the curriculum of
the schools alongside of manual train¬
ing for the boys.
For many years the Kitchengarden
Association, of which Mrs. W. H.
Mtfiore is the head, has given instruc¬
tion in cooking and sewing to the girls
of the Huron street and {Holden
schools, but the classes were held after
the regular school hours, attendance
was not compulsory and the Board of
Education had no jurisdiction over
them. From lack of interest in the
work aud scarcity of funds the associa¬
tion gave up these classes. The mem¬
bers then resolved to make one last ap¬
peal to the Board of Education and see
if it were not possible to have the cook¬
ing and housekeeping taught during
school hours as part of the regular
course in one or two schools as an ex¬
periment.
At the same time Mrs. E. S. gtick-
ney asked to be allowed to support a
kitchengarden in the Hammond school,
where her nephew, Cyrus McCormick,
supports the manual training depart¬
ment for boys. The Board lately
granted Mrs. Sticlcney permission to
establish the kitchengarden in the
Hammond school, and has given the
Kitchengarden Association two rooms
in the Charles Kozminski school, where
they are at liberty to carry out its ideas
as they see fit.
The association has raised money
sufficient to pay two teachers for a
year aud to furnish the rooms ia the
best manner for the Work. Miss Allen
has been secured to teach cooking and
Miss Mills to teach housekeeping and
plain sewing.
The instruction is to be confined to
the girls in the seventh and eighth
grades, for these are the grades where
the study of domestic economics is gen¬
erally introduced, and the association
believes that by starting the study in
the early grades it reaches a much
larger per cent, of children who especi¬
ally need the instruction than if girls
were taken from the high school.—
Chicago Record.
Juliet Corson Passes Away.
Miss Juliet Corson, familiarly known
as the “Mother of Cookery,” whose
work on culinary art made her name a
household word over the country, died
recently La New York City from thei
removal of a tumor.
It was told last year in the Herald
that Miss Corson was incurably ill
with a tumor. At that time she was
living at No. 57 Clinton Place with
friends of many years’ standing. With
the news of the famous woman’s ill¬
ness came the report that she was al¬
most destitute. Miss Cornelia C. Bed¬
ford, of No. 10 East 131st street, Pres¬
ident of the New York Association of
the Teachers of Cookery, sent an ap¬
peal to the Herald, and Miss Corson’s
many friends and former pupils rallied
to her assistance. More than $300
was sent to Miss Bedford, as trustee
of the fuud, and many contributions
reached Miss Corson directly.
Miss Corson was the first woman in
the country to teach the art of cook¬
ing under a systematic course of in¬
struction. Her early life was one of
poverty and hardship. Leaving her
father’s home, she found employment
in a library, where her intercourse
with books and papers gave her an in¬
sight into literary work which served
her well in after years. After con¬
tributing occasionally to magazines
and papers, she became an editorial
writer for the National Quarterly Re¬
view. In this connection she joined
with several charitable women in teack-
ing the art of cooking to deserving
working girls.
This prompted Miss Corson to make
systematic instruction in this impor¬
tant branch of domestic economy her
life work. This was nearly a quarter
of a century ago. She traveled about,
chiefly among the families of the poor,
showing the wives, mothers aud sis¬
ters how to live well and cheaply. In
every case her instruction was accom-
.panied by practical demonstrations.
The railroad strikes in 1877 brought
her into prominence. At her own ex¬
pense she circulated 50,000 copies of
a book, showing workingmen’s wives
how they could prepare a substantial
meal for fifteen cents.
Her work was by no means confined
to the poor. Society women called
upon her for instruction. Bachelors
were frequently shown how they could
prepare wholesome breakfasts by
means of the chafing dish, and sport¬
ing men were prepared for a summer’s
outing by her valuable hints.
Miss Corson was a prominent ex¬
hibitor at the Columbian Exposition,
in Chicago. Her exhibit and work
won her a medal, the only one given
for dietetics, and a diploma. She
again launched out into a literary
career, in 1889, when she became the
editor of the Household Monthly, a
Boston publication. —NewYork Herald.
Fashion Notes*
Gros grain silk is revived again for
dressy gowns worn by matronly wo¬
men.
Cashmere is unquestionably stylish
for outdoor wear, and it has a greater
attraction for women of moderate
means than silks have.
Linen dresses are very fashionable.
These are trimmed with incrustations
of guipure over a transparent lining
of contrasting colored silks.
A watered silk poplin cut into small
checks, in cream and brown, white
and black, gray and white, and in
other colors, such as dark blue and
red or maUWe and cream, is much
affected.
Oddly enough the silken poplin has
again become popular. Many years
have passed since it occupied this
position in the fashionable world, but
now it seems to be on the top wave
once more.
Ribbon and tape braiding are each
effective, and with deft fingers can
accomplish a gown that will simply
shriek “imported.” Try braiding a
bright blue cloth with tape or
soutache; the effect will be stunning.
The perfectly plain coaching um¬
brella is again in vogue, and a safe
standard of taste authorizes bright
green silk, bright cerise and a purple
that seems bright, but which guaranteed really
shows the soft surface,
only by expensive dye.
Very attractive and dainty are the
exquisitely sheer Swiss muslin dresses
made up over crisp, lustrous, white
taffeta silk. A lovely model is made
with Vandyke trimmings formed of
Valenciennes insertion and lace. Very
deep points to match are inserted in
the seams on the front and side
breadths of the gored skirts.
When only a little good material re¬
mains in a dress, it can be often used
to advantage in making a dress for a
child. There are the dainty guimpe
costumes with the skirt and sleeveless
waist of one material and the guimpe
of another. Yoke and sleeves of a
contrasting material make the dress
look better than if only one kind of
goods is used.
A great deal may be done to make
the dresses which are outgrown large
enough. If a waist is too short a belt
may be made and sewed to the lower
edge with the upper edge of the skirt
gathered to it. The sleeves may be
pieced down or new cuffs added.
Dress skirts are lengthened by letting
out the hems or putting a bias band
around the bottom.
Delicate lace figures cut out and
appliqued in regular design on very
fine black net make an effective cover¬
ing for a bright satin, closely fitting
bodice. The black net hardly shows,
and the design formed by the lace
figures being carefully planned, just as
the braiding would be, to set off the
lines of the figure, the result is at
once modish and artistic.
General taste in purchasing this
year appears to go to extremes. It is
either the very sheer transparent tex¬
tiles like organdie, batiste, etc., or
linen duck pique. In the transparent
fabrics white takes high place this
summer. Then follow creamy pinks,
rosy violets, aud mauves, and some
soft, beautiful shades in corn yellow.
There are also some lovely and refined
shades in gray in silks, French cash¬
meres, and other light wools, and
many charming dyes in green.
Women who do not care to adopt
the short skirts advocated by the
Rainy Day clubs are using an ingeni¬
ous contrivance of tapes and rings to
keep their draperies out of harm’s way
in wet weather. The skirt thus ele¬
vated does not look nearly so ungrace¬
ful as one would expect, and it has
this advantage, for those who consider
it so, that it can be lowered in a sec¬
ond, and when the sun appears, one
is not left high and dry in storm cos¬
tume.
FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION IN ARMO¬
RY OF WINCHESTER COMPANY.
3 t EVEN FEOPLE INSTANTLY KILLED.
Accident Occurred In the Load ins: Depart¬
ment-Four Women Among
the Dead.
Four women and three men were
killed in an explosion in the loading
department at the armory of the Win¬
chester Repeating Arms company, at
New Haven, Conn, Wednesday. Five
others were taken to the hospital badly
injured.
The dead are; William F. Baumers-
ter, Mrs. Mary Baumerster, Miss
Josie Bennan, Miss Ida Brown, Wil¬
liam Hill, Miss Tracy Conroy, Ed¬
ward Barderf.
George Barderf and Edward Blair
were fatally injured.
The explosion occurred in the load¬
ing room. Employed in this room
were 150 hands, two-thirds of them
girls or women. Nearly all of the fe¬
male hands are employed on the load¬
ing machines, each of which require
throe operators. The full complement
of hands was at work in the room
when the explosion took place. Forty
feet of the side of the building was
blown out and hurled in pieces many
feet, and fragments of human bodies
were scattered in a sickening manner.
Two of the bodies had been decap-
itated. Others had been partially
torn asunder, and still others had
been dismembered. The officials of
the company expended every effort to
assist in the work of relief.
The cause of the explosion has not
been determined, and perhaps its
source may never be known. Some
of those at work in the room at the
time say it was due to the fact that a
cartridge in process of loading had
been improperly placed in the ma¬
chine.
The two Barderf boys, working side
by side, were tfirown at a tangent out
one side of the building.
Edward Blair, working ten feet away
at ' his machine, was sent upward
through the roof. He fell on an ash
heap, with broken bones and a frac¬
tured skull, and his legs twisted out
of shape. The doctors say he, too,
will die.
Edward Barderf died after being
taken to the hospital.
T. G. Bennett, president of the
company, expressed the belief that the
machine that exploded had been over¬
charged through the carelessness of
the operator or powder boy.
GOLD MEN ARE HOPEFUL.
Executive Committee Members Hold a
Meeting In New York.
The executive committee of the na¬
tional democratic party, the gold wing
of the democratic party, met at New
York Wednesday, There were on
hand W. D. Bynum, late of Indianap¬
olis, and now of Brooklyn, chairman
of the national committee and ex-officio
chairman of the executive committee;
G. B. Hollman, Rockland, Me.; W.
D. Haldeman, Louisville; John C.
Bullitt, Philadelphia; George F. Pea¬
body, New York; F. W. McCuteheon,
St Paul; W. W. Screws, Montgomery,
Ala., proxy for J. M. Faulkner; T. P.
Linn, of Colnmbus, O., proxy for L. G.
Krauthoff, of Kansas City; Charles J.
Canada, New York, proxy for J. P.
Frenzel, Indianspolis.
There was much disappointment
over the absence of the three members
of the committee and also because of
politicians, who had expected to be
present from Iowa, Kentucky and
Ohio, to talk over the prospects of
the fall campaign, did not appear.
T. P. Linn, of Columbus, O., chair¬
man of the state committee of gold
democrats, said that the outlook was
very encouraging in Ohio. Mr. Linn
stated that many of the rank and file
who were Bryanites last fall had come
to a serious contemplation of their
error and would be found with the
national democracy this year.
At the close of the meeting Chairman
Bynum gave out a statement. He said
that after a discussion it was decided
to assist the states of Ohio, Kentucky
and Iowa this fall in their campaigns.
GENERAL M’LAWS DEAD.
With One Exception He Was the Oldest
Surviving Confederate Major General.
General Lafayette McLaws, the oldest
surviving Confederate major general,
with one exception, died at his residence
in Savannah Saturday morning. Death
was produced by indigestion.
General McLaws was born at Augusta
January 15, 1821. Ho was graduated
in 1842 from the United States milit'-ry
academy and gained his first experience
on the Indian frontier. In 1851 he was
made captain of infantry and took part
in the expeditions against the Mormons
and Navajo Indians. He resigned his
commission to enter the Confederate
army as brigadier general.
BIG PLANING MILL IN FLAMES.
Town of Fayetteville, Tenn., Has a $40,000
Blaze.
A forty thousand dollar fire occurred
at Fayetteville, Tenn., Friday.
The losses and insurance are: Lernis
& Williams, planing mill, loss $25,000,
insurance $8,000; Atlantic Lumber
company, loss $12,000, insurance,
$7,000; Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
Louis railway, four cars; Middle Ten¬
nessee and Alabama railroad, two cars.
The mill employed 75 men.
>0 TRANSFERS FOR ATLANTA,
Consolidated St root Hallway
Wins a Decisive Victory.
Atlanta, Ga., loses in her transfer
case. The decision of Judges Newman
and McCormick squarely knocked the
city’s claim of power to require trans¬
fers off' its feet. It left it not a leg to
stand on, declaring clearly and defi¬
nitely that not upon a single ground
upon which the city had based its
claim for authority to force transfers
was there legal warrant for the action.
It went a step further. It made the
remark that the power sought to be
exercised went to the extreme munici¬
pal authority even under legislative
authority.
It is a complete victory for the Con¬
solidated and thoroughly establishes
the fact that the company has the
right to name its own rate of fare
within a certain limit.
The decision not only overrules
the city’s demurrer, but goes so far as
to emphatically deny the right of the
city to pass an ordinance requiring
the street railway company to gramt
transfers.
Most of the public and many con¬
nected with the case expected that the
decision would be different. It was
thought that a special master would be
appointed to investigate the case and
that the end would not come in pos¬
sibly two years, but the judges have
surprised every one with a decision
that settles the litigation, so far as
their courts are concerned, definitely.
CHOPPED WIFE’S HEAD OFF.
Anderson’s Small Son Says His Father
and Brother Did the Deed.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., George Ander¬
son, aged sixty-two, and son, Wesley,
aged fifteen, were arrested Friday on a
charge of murdering tbe former’s wife.
A seven-year-old son of Anderson
says that while the family were trav¬
eling through Jefferson, Tuscaloosa
and Shelby counties, old man Ander¬
son held the woman while Wesley
chopped her head off with an ax.
He cannot tell where the killing oc¬
curred, but says he can lead the way
to the hole where the body was thrown
in.
Sheriff Shirley, of Tuscaloosa, is
trying to locate the woman, Anderson
claiming that she is in a poorhouse at
Columbiana, aud if she is not there
the boy will lead the way to where he
says the body is buried.
CUBA IN A BAD WAY.
London Chronicle Correspondent Draw*
Gloomy Picture of the Island.
The correspondent of The Daily
Chronicle (London) in Sagua La
Grande, province of Santa Clara,
Cuba, writes to his paper a terrible
account of the condition of affairs in
the island.
Both the government troops and the
insurgents, he says, are suffering hor¬
ribly from famine aud the ravages of
smallpox aud yellow fever, while
butcheries of prisoners after inquisi¬
torial tortures are of daily occurrence
if the victims be suspected of with¬
holding information.
Captain General W’eyler, the corres¬
pondent says, has shown neither
mercy nor quaater, and has turned the
campaign in Cuba into a near approach
to that of duke of Alva on Holland in
the sixteenth century.
EXPLODING BOILER KILLS FOUR.
Naptha Vapor Caused Accident—Beside*
the Dead Others Were Fatally Hurt.
At 6:30 o’clock Friday evening an
explosion occurred on the steamer
Nutmeg State of the Bridgeport Steam¬
boat company’s line while she was
lying at her wharf at the foot of South
street, Bridgeport, Conn., aud as a re¬
sult four men are dead, three others
are thought to be fatally injured and
a number more are in a serious condi¬
tion.
The men were all connected with
the boat. Immediately after the ex¬
but plosion an alarm of fire was sounded,
the flames were quickly extin¬
guished do aud the firemen had little to
but to assist and care for the in¬
jured. The explosion was probably
caused by the igniting of naphtha.
SILVER AT BOTTOM PRICES.
White Metal Makes a New Record for
Low Quotations.
A New York dispatch says: The
silver market was unsettled Friday on
the decline in London. Silver bars
and Mexican dollars made a new low
record quotation for the last two years.
The decline since Saturday has been
7-8 for bars and 5-8 for Mexican dol¬
lars.
A GHASTLY FIND.
Bodies of Twenty-six Infants Found In ft
Churoli Tower.
Special dispatches from Madrid
state that the bodies of twenty-six in¬
fants in rough deal boxes have been
discovered in the tower of St. Peter’s
church at Seville.
It is supposed that wholesale crime
has been commitied by the church
warden, Orellans and his wife, and
they have been arrested.
Keene Made Riches Rapidly.
The New York Journal aud Adver¬
tiser says that James R. Keene has
succeeded in making $2,000,000 in
sugar stock speculation during the
past few days.
LARGEST GEORGIA MELON.
Weighs 78 Founds, and Will Be Presented,
to President Mcklnley.
The largest watermelon grown in
the south thin season was shipped
from Atlanta, Ga., Monday, for Wash¬
ington, and will be presented to Presi¬
dent McKinley.
’lhe melon was grown in Georgia,
weighs seventy-eight pounds, and
took the prize of $25 offered by W. N.
Mitchell, southern agent of the Balti¬
more & Ohio railroad.