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Ma TEE NEBRASKA ADVERTISER i ' W. XV. HANDKH.S, I'ulilltlier. NEMAHA, NEHRASICA THE WOULD AT LAJIGE. Summary of tho Dally Wows. WASHINGTON NOTKS. Si'.citr-TAUY Ai.oki: hns drafted a bill to create in time of war a second as sistant secretary of war with a salary of S-1,000. Fiianci'.h AtfitA Ai.oi.it, the youngest daughter of tho secretary of war. was married on tho IHth to Charles II. I'lko, of Chicago, at the residence of Kocro tary Alger at Washington. 'J'hc com pany present wms a distinguished one, including tho president and Mrs. Mo ld n ley. SncitKTAiiv Ijono on tho 18th gave out the Information that the battle ship Oregon, about which there hns been so much anxiety, had success fully completed her long trip from San' Francisco and was now safe, but would not say where. It was snid at Washington on tho 18th that tho president will Issue a call for negro volunteers from tho south, who can bo utilized for an army of occupation In Cuba and Porto Rico. AiutANor.MMNTH aro being made by tho quartermaster's department for a slogo train to bo shipped to Cuba and to follow in tho wake of tho invading army. Tho train wilMo able to carry 50,000 pounds of artillery and will bo used for supplies In tho bombardment of Interior towns. Conohkhs will not adjourn until the result of tho war with .Spain is appar ent. This statement was made on the authority of a man close to the ad ministration. Tin: president on tho '20th nomi nated Dr. Jefferson I. (iriillth, of Kan sas City, Mo., to bo a chief surgeon in tho army with rank of major. Tin: navy department ul Washington received news on tho '20th that the Spanish Hoot was at Santiago do Cuba, but a Madrid dispatch at midnight stated that it had left there and gono somewhere else. Tin: navy department at Washington on the 22d denied tho truth of tho pub lished statement concerning a naval engagement oil' Hayti In which l'J ships were said to have been sunk. Tun first application for a pension growing out of tho present war lias been made by tho widow and four minor children of .lames Hoyle, who was quartermaster on the Maine and was killed when that vessel was blown up by tho Spaniards In Havana harbor. The application was made under the act of 1800, known as tho dependent pension act. OKNKKAI. NKW.1 AN attempt was made by the Indl anapolis and Kansas City teams to play ball at Indianapolis, Iud., on the '-2d. After two innings had been played all tho members of both teams and the umpire wore arrested. The Idea was to make a test ease of tho Sunday law. An accident to a train carrying tho First regiment of Missouri volunteers between Chattanooga, Tenn., and the camp at Chickamauga occurred on tho 21st. George Walker, of company I), was killed and four other privates woro seriously Injured. A si'KCiAi. to the Chicago Koeord from Macon, (la., on the 22(1 stated that the first expedition to Cuba had started and the outlook was for a suc cessful trip, tho transport Florida hav ing loft Port Tampa with several hun dred volunteer troops on board. TliitF.i: mortgages wore filed on tho '21st at tho United States court at Muscogee, 1. T. They were given by J. M. Daughorty, of Texas, to tho Uruinni-Fluto company, of Kansas City, Mo., to secure SlTl.tWO.-U) on Ull.iKW head of cattle located in the Creek na tion. The mortgages were the largest chattel mortgages ever Hied at Musco gee. C. h. Haki:u. president of tho Maker carriage works at Dos Moines, ln.,hhot himself twleo In tho mouth, dying nl niostlnstantly. Financial troubles un balanced him. Tint one hundred and tenth session of the general assembly of the Presby terian church was recently in session at Winona Lake, lud. Dr. Wallace Radellll'o, of Washington, was elected moderator. Tin: Twentieth Kansas regiment of volunteers, under tho command of Lieut. Col. Little, reached Oakland, , across tho bay from San Francisco, on tho evening of the '20th and went Into camp at tho Hay district track tho next tlay. Ai.i, the newspaper correspondents nt Tampa, Fla., have been notified that in future all their dispatches must bo placed in tho hands of Lieut. Mlloy, of Gen. Shatter's stall', for ap proval. Tho censorship will bo kept In force until aftor tho invasion of Cuba takes place, so as to keep tho Spanish government in ignorance of tho movements of the urmy. HAKiuts of Chicago agreed toadvanco tho prico of bread one cent a loaf, tho change bolng from four to five cents wholesale and live to six cents retail. A eonsorvutlvo estimate places the number of loaves of broad consumed dally In Chicago at '200,000, bunco tho uitvanco in prico means S'2,000 addi tional dally expense to broad con biimersof that city. In a collision between a construe Hon train and a sneoial on the Van- i- I r j dalta on the -'1st near St. Louis fou men were killed and several injured. Patrick Fouh, of Oiuulin, Nob., a Kttrvlvorof the Maine wreck, now on tho Marblehead, who escaped from tho Nebraska penitentiary while under a 15-year sentence, was pardoned on tho 21st by (Jov. Holeouib. As a result of the explosion of pow der at the Economical Smokeless Pow der company near Hammond, Ind. Arthur 10 llooth was killed, three other employes were seriously Injured and the main building totally wrecked. It was believed that tho explosion was not an accident, but was caused by some suspicions characters that had been seen near the works. Dciiino a celebration at Lorain, O. , of the falsely reported naval victory in which 12 of tho enemy's ships woro said to have been sunk a hosu cart ran over two men causing tholr deaths. EmvAitl) IIkm.amv, the author and humanitarian, died at his home in Cliicopee Falls, Mass., recently, aged '10. Tin: national convention of tho Itrothcrhood of Locomotive Engineers at St. Louis defeated by a vote of '205 to '200 the proposition to federate with other railway labor organizations. Aiiciiii: Siioi'.MAiuiit, a baker, was jerked from a street car while round ing a curve at Fiftli and Central streets, Kansas City, Mo., and died soon it f lor he was picked up. Whim: chasing a pigeon with some other boys at St. Louis, little ten-year-old Willie Hawo passed a dangling wire and caught bold of it. There was a slzzlng sound and tho boy screamed and spun round and round. L m ally his two companions seized Ills coat and pulled him away from the wire, buthe fell down and was dead In a few min utes. Fouit children were drowned in Fish ing lake, a short distance above Now Martinsville, W. Va. A party of nine children attempted to cross the lake in a "John bout" anil it oapsi.od with tho above result. A mo lire broke out at Dowit Snell's wholesale grocery at Toledo, ()., and raged for six hours on the 20th before the firemen were able to get It under control. The building adjoined the Toledo ISlado and the newspaper plant had a elose call. As It was, the dam age by water made it impossible to operate the newspaper plant for a week or two. The loss on the grocery plant was estimated nt SHOO, 0U0, the building was wortli 50,000; all well insured. Tin: fight at Syracuse, N. Y., on tho '20th between Kid McCoy and tins Ituh ling, the latter of Cleveland, resulted in a victory for McCoy after '20 rounds. Hktwt.bn 8.000 and 10,000 Spanish troops were said on tho '20th to be em barking at lhiroelonn, Spain, for the Philippines. Tiik cruiser Charleston, that sailed on the 18th for Manila with ammuni tion and supplies for Admiral Dewey, was back at her berth at Mare island Cal., the next day with her condensers out of order. Tho accident was trivial, but dipt. Glass concluded that it would be better to return and secure tho benefit of facilities than to repair the damages at sea. A dispatch to London from Mon treal, Can., on tho 10th stated that Senor Polo y llernabe had secured by cable a coal depot near St. Pierre, Miquelou, the French colony on the south coast of Newfoundland, at which the Cadiz squadron will coal previous to attacking the Atlanticsea board of the United States, while tho Capo Verde squadron commanded by Admiral Cervera draws oft the squad rons commanded by Admiral Sampson and Commodore Sohley. A stuict censorship has been estab lished at Tampa, Fla.. and absolutely nothing pertaining to military or naval movements from that port will bo permitted to bo sent out. It was Intimated that this censorship would continue until after tho final move ment of troops to Cuba had taken pluce, It being the purpose of tho gov ernment to keep the Spanish govern ment In ignorance so far as possible of our plans for tho invasion of Cuba. Accoiini.vii to a Worcester, Mass.. dispatch the consolidation of ten of the most prominent envelope compa nies In the country, representing 00 percent of the output of commercial envelopes, hns been elVeetcd. The name of the consolidated company Is the United States Envelope company. The total capital U 87,000,000 and the output 17,000,0(10 envelopes a day. Nkootiationh looking to tho bring ing about of peace between the United States and Spain were said to be under way, according to a Paris dispatch, and the suggested terms will take definite form in a short time. It was reported that Spain was willing to treat for peace if she is allowed to re tain Porto Klco and tho Philippines, allowing Cuba to go. It was further stated that should tho United States not agree to peace upon these terms, Spain would bo satisfied with the re tention of tho Philippines alone. Union Wooi.ron, of the United States circuit court at l)es Moines, la., ren dered a decision, which will bo far reaehlng In Its effects on the lowa pro hibition law. The ease was that of a browing company of St. Jjouia against Van Vlcct, who lives at Pella, la., and is engaged In the sale of beer contrary to tho law. 1 ho action was on a note given for the beer. Van Vleet set up tho plea that tho note was uncollecta bio because the sale was Illegal under the law. Judge Woolsou held that thu note was valid and a verdict against Van Vleet for 0,000 was returned. pissed through the Golden Gate on tho morn-, ing of the 2'2d, every steam vessel in tho harbor saluting her by blowing their whistles. The soldiers at tho Presidio to the number of (5.000 gath-j crcd on the beach and cheered the ves-1 sol bound with supplies for Admiral Dewey at tho Philippine islands. Uy the derailing of an Oakland, Cal., train a fireman and engineer lost their j lives. Font men wore crushed to death by aeave-ln at the hematite ore mines near Mayorsville, Pa. KK.voit Capdkpon'. the minister of tho Interior, declared in an interview that the new Spanish cabinet would prose cute the war to the bitter end and pre ferred defeat to disgrace. Ax epidemic of measles and pnou monia, It was reported on the 22d, had broken out in tin Fifth regiment of Missouri volunteers at .leirorsoii bar racks, St. Louis, tho result of drench ing from recent rains. A toknado struck Havcnna, Tex., on the night of the 21st, blowing down 11 barns, ten dwellings and two churches. Near Ivanhoo Capt. Duproo was killed by the storm and his house wrecked and at Clarksvlllo a negro was killed and II people were Injured. Many horses and mules were killed and much damage done in the lied river district. Wai.tku S. I.AUKKit, who was the American consul at Sagua la Grande, Cuba, it is understood, is to bo com missioned as colonel of an immune regiment to bo sent to Cuba with thu first invading party. In addition to commanding a regiment, Mr. Darker is to be placed in charge of all the supplies to bo distributed among tho reconcentrados. Ohcau DcAlttNd, an engineer of tho Terminal railroad at St. Louis, was caught beneath the wreckage of fivo flat cars, which lie was drawing across tho bridge to Fast St. Louis, and fatally mutilated. The cars jumped tho track. Nr.ws of u terrible snowslide down the Valdes glacier, in Dritish Colum bia, was recently received. Fully lot) persons were eaught by the avalanche and buried alive. Many were rescued, however, but probably '20 lives were lost. .1. P. Ilocsro.v, deputy postmaster at Union City. Ok., who, for four years after tho death of Isaac Cooper, an old ex-Illinois soldier, impersonated in in ana regularly drew ins pension, was convicted of perjury and sentenced to live years In the penitentiary. Ovcit two score of lives were lost and thousands of dollars' worth of property was destroyed by a tornado which swept Clinton and Jackson counties, la., on the 1SI.1i. Telegraph facili ties woro paralyzed and tho details were meager. At Preston fivo persons were reported dead, at Quigley two, at Itlggs station two, at Stanwood two and Delmar Junction two. The storm passed over into Illinois and at Sa vannah lu that state four persons were killed, atSkillman Valley four, at Ade line two, at liyron one and at Pawpaw one. Deaths occurred at other places. ADDITIONAL DISPATCHERS. Qkn. Lacih:t, with his battalion ol Cubans, S.000 stands of arms, a number of rapid-fire guns, trains of pack mules and a large cargo of assorted ammuni tion, has landed from the Florida on the island of Cuba. A report to this effect has been received at Washing ton. The censorship was so effective that it was not known for three days that tho Florida had sailed from Tampa, Fla. IIkmoiias, tho two-year-old, has been sold to II. Eugene Leigh for 510,000. a Chicago dispatch stated. The horse has been racing under tho colors of George II. Whitney. A ivr.Y Wi:sr special to New York stated the Cubans were lighting their way to the coast where they will join with our forces of invasion. Three hun dred Cubans engaged a squad of Span ish cavalry recently 15 miles west of Matanzas. The battle was fiercely waged in sight of the ships on the blockade squadron. Tin: war revenue measure was again debated in the senate on the 2l5d. A bill was introduced by Senator Chand ler giving the president greater power for retiring army and navy officers and making appointments according to his discretion without regard to seniority. Two bills of minor impor tance aiiecting the volunteers were passed by the house. ItnpoHTs from more than a dozen counties in north Texas stated that the wheat crop had been half destroyed by a tornado und the rains which fol lowed. Other grain crops had also suffered. A dispatch from St. Louis on tho '23d stated thai the deal for the consolida tion of the plug tobacco factories in tho United States had fallen through. A lad named Henry Garner died from Injuries received from being thrown or falling from u freight train at Reeves, Tenn.. and accused Joe Mitchell, a negro brakenian, in an ante-mortem statement, as being tho cause of his death. Mitchell was locked up In tho village calaboose, but a mob took him out and hanged him in tho woods and then perforated his body with bullets. SnvnitAi. persons were reported killed in the section around Menu, Ark., by a destructive rain and hail storm on tho 2iid. The railroads suf fered from washouts. Tun opera house, masonic building and several other places atTexarkana, Ark., were destroyed by firo on tho sad. Tin, ci.iser (lmrlcstoi MUST DEFEND HER "HONOR." SpmiUli MlnUtrr Hiiyn In ThU War Wcnli- iicm unit Poverty Aro Pitted Ai-iilint Stri'imtli unit Wi'iiltli. Maduid, May 2:!. Senor Capdopon, minister of tho interior, hasdenied, in tho course of an Interview, that tho change in the ministry would Involvo any alteration In tho foreign policy of Spain, all ho new ministers being in favor of prosecuting the war to the end with tho utmost energy. Ho says: Spain went perilously nciir sucrlllciiitr her honor In the Interest of pence, only inuklntf n stnixl when further concessions would have In volved her tllsKnicu ami elTnecmcnt us u nation. This sho will nover do. and In this rcsolvo the now cahluet Is as thoroughly determined as the old. The new cabinet entertains no illusion. It Is aware that weakness and poverty are opposed to strength and wealth, but Spain Is In tho position of a duelist bound to defend his honor iitfiiliist tho tfross Insults of u more powerful antagonist, who, although ho Is convinced that tho result Is almost certain death, yet feels the force of tho principle of noblesMsobllKO. Spain prefers a possible do feat to a crrtiiln dlsitraec. Ministers know that tho moral sympathies of tho powers aro with Spain and that, while hesltatlni; to undertake the responsibility for action which might lead to a greater war. thev may eventually inter vene from motives of self-interest and public polity on behalf of Spain. firs'FTension'claim. Tim Widow of ilitmi'H Doyle, Who Watt Killed mi tho .Maine, Kill's a Claim Under the Aet of 1H1M). Washington, May '2:5. The first pa plication for a pension growing out of the present war has been received. It is made for tho benefit of tho widow and four minor children of James Hoyle, who was killed on the battle ship Maine last February in Havana harbor, when that splendid vessel was blown up by the Spaniards. The ap plication is made under theactof 1890, known as the dependent pension law, and It is expected that Mrs. 1'oylo will get at least 1'2 a month and not less than S2 a month will go to each of her four children. She is penniless now. INI ward lli'lluiiiy Dead. I Si'itiNfirini.D, Mass., May '2.'5. -Ed-I ward Dellamy, author and humanita I rian, is dead at his home In Cliicopee I Falls, in the 10th year of his age. Mr. j liellamy has been in feeble health over I since he finished his "Equality," some i eight months ago. It was in 1SSS that his famous book, "Looking P.aekward," was published, the sale of which up to tho present time is over 150,000 copies in America and probably over 500,000 copies have been sold In England and j. other foreign eountrics. Mniillii llUliopn Aro IllttiT. London. May '23. A dispatch to tho Daily Mail from Hong Kong says: Spaniards in Hong Kong and at Ma nila openly boast that a licet of war ships Is on the way to the Philippines and the bishops have issued pastorals to the effect that "Spain and God are preparing to cut out these social ex crescences from America." The pas torals urge the people to give no quar ter and they ascribe Admiral Dcwey'n humanity in refusing to bombard Ma nila as due to fear. For Saiiiimon and Downy. Ri:adino, Pa., May '2:;. On a rush telegram from Washington, the Car penter steel works sent 150 13-inch projectiles destined for Sampson's fleet. These weigh 1,200 pounds each and will go through anything Spanish alloat. Over 800 projectiles of some what smaller size are on hand and they go to Sun Francisco for Admiral Dewey, at Manila. The l.'t-inch pro jectiles aro popularly known as "Mc kinley's peacemakers." .IIiiiiv Kllli'il in it .storm. Favktti:vii.t.i:, Ark., May 23. A tor nado passed through the fruit belt of the Ozark region, spending its force in tho White river valley. At Elm Springs great property damage was done and one man was killed. Two miles enst Farmer Killingsworth and his wife were killed. The house of an Italian was also wrecked and the en tiro family killed. Near Fort Smith a Mrs. Nesbltt died from fright. Wounded .siilillnrx Itiilni; Cured Tor. Washington. May '2:!. The secretary of war received word from Gen. Hrooko confirming the report of tho accident at Chickamauga to a train carrying Missouri volunteers. He stated that one man was killed and four injured and that the remains of the one killed have been sent to his friends in Mis souri, lie also said that the Injured men were being cared for At the hos pital. I.nri;ii Ann Siibmnrui'd. Qdincv, 111., May 23. Tho break in the Crow levee, in the Indlau district, has caused the spreading waters to cover an area of nearly lfi.OOO acres of farming lands and on part of them tho water is three feet deep. It is esti mated that about r,000 or 0,000 acres of wheat is submerged and It probably will be a total loss. MlNHiiurl C. A. IC. OlllocrH. Cautiiacii:, Mo., May 22. Offices of the state G. A. 11. were idected at tho encampment hero as follows: A. G, Peterson, St. Louis, commander; W. F. Henry, Kansas City, senior vice com mander; Capt. Tattle, Carthage, junior vice commander; I'ov. Ferrell, Tina, chaplain. Sontliorn Mrtliodlst Killtorri. Hai.timoui:, Md., May 2:1. At tho general conference of tho M. E. church south yesterday lie v. II. M. Dubose, of Jackson, Miss., was chosen editor of the Epworth Herald, and How J. J. Tlgcrt, of Nashville, Tenn., was re elected editor of the Methodist Review. Lecture of n Novelist. A well-known novelist delivered a lecture recently in .which he tend selections from his own woiks. His reputation and the so ciety that engaged him brought together tin audience composed of the best people of the neighborhood. After the lecture, when people met, it was the proper tiling for one to ask the other: ... , , ,, "Were you nt the lecture?" And the answer in'overy case: ..,.,,., "Oh, yes! I was there, but I didn't hear a wo i d. Did vou hear the lectin c( Well, no! 1 was there, but I couldn't. hear, cither. ,. A friend who met the novelist a few dayp after his visit to the suburban town asked him what kind of audience he had, and how he liked the town. .,.,,, "It's n fine place,' was the reply, "and I' had the most attentive audience that I have ever spoken to. 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