4 flebraste tRotes
Good batter sell (or 10 cent a pound ,
e.Qekdale. - ' I
Both barter ahopa at Orleans were
recently looted by burglars.
A aerie of gospel temperance meet
ioga will be be d at S wanton.
A number of horte near Carleton
have died from eating corn sia'ka.
Tbe Mullen Enquirer baa Joined ttie
great majority o( silent newapapera.
Omaha ia pulling hard for a sugar fac
tory to go op with tbe new onion depot.
Tbe Kearney police are taking flow
measures to rid the city of scarlet peo
ple. Mr-. W. H. Webb of Berwynn wai '
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rath.
The school and churche at Cam
brigde are closed on account of dip
tberia. It only co"ta a quarter to become a
member of the soutwei-t Nebraska edi
torial association.
G. E. Jones of Nuckolls county sold a
brood sow the other day that tipped the
lieam at Oft.") pounds.
The saloon at TaMe Rock doesn't pay
expenses. The peopU in that town pre
fer buttermilk t' ben.
The Douglas Ente'prizi thinks a
preacher cannot do good work unless
his salary ia ptid promptly.
Calloway has organized a new social
club, the object of whi h ia to give
semi-weekly danrng parties.
Quail are plentiful in Sarpy county.
A crowd of Papillion sportsmen bagged
eighty-two in one afternoon.
J. K. Htiliz of Oer ng shipped through
Sidney sixty-five thousand pounds of
alfalfa seed for the Chicago market.
Butte is the foremost wheat market
in north Nebraska. Competition ia
lievly and high prices are being paid.
A North Platte boy wae arrested for
etealiuu coa!, and the fine of f 1 imposed
by the judge his father refuaed to py.
The supply of celery used at Nebras
ka City i" nearly all grown near Cook by
a man who know how to raise the best.
Oliver, son of Ed J. Hall, lately de
creased, will keep book at the Kearney
industrial school alter tbe fliat of Jan
nary. John War ! of Papi lion holds the belt
for corn bucking. His day's work was
167 bushels and ten pounds. Great Je
hosaphat! ' A littla daughter of FriU Schmidt of
Buffalo died last week as the result of
scalding. The accident happened three
weeks ago.
A Boedeker of Plattesmouth, was re
pairing a corn shcller when the horse
suddenly started, and now he has but
one thumb.
Mr. Baker, late agent for the Gilt-rest
lumber company at Oconto, wai con
victing of embezzling $140 of his em
ployers' money.
Lsst summer Falls City had the best
baseball team in that section of the
elate and now they seem to have the
best football eleven.
Ira Hubbard of Gering has a badly
broken leg. A log rolled off the wagon,
striking him below the knee and frac
turing both bones.
The man who leaves Nebraska In
hopes of finding a better place, says the
Stuart I-edger, would do well to pur
chase a return ticket.
A thirsty man broke into the drug
store at Loup City and got away with a
jug of alcohol and a winter's suppy of
choice eating tobacco.
Pome one tried to burn the hotel at
Euatis by setting fire to a rick of hay
'near by. The bucket brigade saved
everything but the hay.
Mrs. H. 8. Sl.neck, state deputy su
preme oracle, organized a camp of Roy
al Neighbor at Petersburg with a char
ter membership of twenty.
The pupils of the Ansley school hve
organized a dranatic club, and will
give entertainments for tbe purpose of
starting a school library fund.
Peter Johnson of Williamsburg loaf
nearly a hundred chickens in one
night. It wasn't coyotes that did tbe
mischief.
After a delay of about five years,
Misses Maggie and Maud and Mr.
Earnest Peery, of Franklin, have re
ceived the sum of $"00 from an estate in
the east.
The big Finnegan will case iu court at
fSchuyler, where three children are
arrayed against two, has been compro
mised after occupying five days of the
court's time.
A case of wile-beating occurred at
Oakdale recently, and the wrath of a
justly mortified son caused the. belligcr
ant sire to absent himself from home
for a few days,
Whitecaps went to tbe house of a
farmer in Lincoln connty and gave him
three hours in which to pack up and
poll out. He procured a Winchester
and still bold the fort.
Colonel Wisner's Bayard Transcript
baa just rounded out another year of it
existence, making eight in all. Tbe
Transcript has always been one of the
best paper in Cheyenne County.
Plymouth boasts of having the largest
horse west of the Mississippi river, if
not in America. This freak i eighteen
bands in height and has a frame large
BDongb to weigh, when In good con
dition, at least 4,000 pound.
Jack the ripper, Jack tbe 8 1 rangier
and Jack the Clipper hare all bad tbelr
day in different localiti, bat Sidney
en bdart Of th only Jack the Smasher,
who UkM a sseetel delight in throwing
MoMt and breaking window glass, and
live ler-e. nUtagjaw ft htj favorite.
FRUIT THE PROPER THINQ.
Ita Advantage Over Bread and Vege
tables Arc Many.
A compared with the nourishment
they give, fruits and nuts have the
least proportion of earthy salt. Animal
flesh come next, then vegetables, and
fourth In rank we have the largest
amount of the earthy matters. From
tbe analysis we see that fruits as dis
tinct from vegetables have tie leaKt
amount of earth salts. Most of then
contain a large quantity of water, but
that water ia of the purest kind a dis
tilled water of nature and has in solu
tion vegetable albumen.
We also notice that they are to a
great extent free from oxidized albu
mensglutinous and fibrinous mi'v
stances; and many of them ooiil.ti:j
acids citric, tartaric, malic, etc.
which, when taken Into the system,
act directly upon Uie blood by Increas
ing lta solubility, by thinning it; the
process of circulation la more eiuily
carried on and the blood flows .nore
easily in the capillaries which become
lessened In caliber as age advum-i-a-than
it would If of a thicker nature.
These acids lower thp temperature of
the body and thus prevent the wast
ing procfHS of oxidation, or com'. no
tion in the system.
Exhilarating ami Ktiiiuihitiiig "tfccis
produced by ten, coffee and chocolate
are caused by theine in tea, caffeine In
coffee, ami bromine lu cocoa or clioc.i
late the latter containing mnnller
percentage of the stimulant tha:i the
others. All have a similar alkaloid
base.
Milk has become extremely popular
with all daHHcs of physicians of hue
years. Formerly a fever patient w:.h
forbidden to take milk. In modern
practice milk Is nliftur the only food al
lowed. An exclusive diet of milk '
found very ellicacioiiM In diabetes. At
the German spas, Carlsbad, Wiesbaden,
etc., n very little bread Is allowed and
the diet mostly made up nf milk, egf,'s,
grapes and lean lcef.
A non-starch diet Is the rule, bread,
starchy vegetables and cereals being
almost excluded. Hire Is easily digest
ed and on excellent food, except that It
alHitimlri lu earth salts. 1'rults are not
only digested lu the first stomach, but
they have a large part of their nour
ishment already In a condition to be
absorbed and assimilated as soon as
eaten.
The food elements In bread nnd ce
reals have to undergo a process of di
gestion In the stomach and then be
passed on to the Intestines for a still
further chemical change before they
are of use to the human system. This
Is the great advantage of a diet of lean
meats and fruits. North American He
view. Has Saved Hixteen Lives.
.Tames Black, assistant reporter for
the Merchants' Exchange at Mclgga
whnrf, has prevented one more bav
tragedy. The Southern Fuel fie collier
Mackinaw came in late In the nfter
noou and as usual kept on her course
to her coal bunkers across the bay, sim
ply slowing up to lower n boat con
taining a couple of men w ho w ere to
go ashore and purchase supplies, be
sides currying a report fo the Southern
Pnclllc otflees. The bay was rouh,
and by the time one man. Andrew
.Tneobson, had low ered himself Into the
small boat, a heavy sea swamped the
craft. The steamer was making good
headway, nnd n life preserver thrown
to Jacobson, who could not swim, land
ed far out of his reach, .racolison must
have perished but for Hlack, who was
going off to the ship to get her papers.
Ho saw the helpless man In the water,
nnd as his split tall would not carry
him fast enough he took to bis o;iiu to
hasten IiIr bout to the side of the help
less sailor. Hlack arrived Just as Ja
cobson, now unconscious, was nlioiit
to sink for the third time. Wit'.! nil his
strength he Jerked the man into his
Whitehall nnd put off for the steamer,
which had begun to back up. .laeeb
son was hoisted aboard, and nftcr he
l ad been rolled for half an hour re
turned to life.
Jacobson Is the sixteenth perso i who
f,we his life to the courage of Ulii.-h.
When yet a lad of It! he rcsci.od six of
his playmates from watery graves, fie
Ins saved ten men from le,nh !i, the
bay since he has been employed. - San
Francisco Chronicle.
Monte Carlo Victims.
The gambling table at Monte Carlo
have claimed two more victims, and
the authorlths, n usual, nre annoyed
at the Hecret having leaked out. Monte
Curio has never bi-en In good odor. Ev
ery addition to the long roll of suicides
stirs up afresh the widespread desire
to have its gambling tables done away
with. IleiK-e strenuous efforts are
made to prevent eases of suicide being
made public. The local press Is lavish
ly hrllted to keep the reports out of the
papers. Hut people frocuently go
away from Monte Carlo to commit sui
cide, nnd those are thu onc which
come to llglrt. In the little phu-c It-self,
when a man Is known to have ld
heavily, ho Is closely watched. Not uu
frequently the authorities mnke him a
small present of money, accompanied
with n word or two of shrewd advice.
Bnt n few shillings plus all the advice
in the world will nrt bring hope Nick
to foolish, ruined humanity, and ho sui
cide reimthm iiopulnr. Suwex News.
Cyclist and Carrier I'lceons.
ExMrlmelita with cyclists and cur
rler pigeons for transmitting messages
are lelng made by the Gymnastic So
ciety of Rome, In the Interest of the
Italian army. The rider carries small
cage attached to hla machine, In which
are aeveinl well-trained pigeons. When
Important obaerratlona have been
taken and Jotted down they art placed
In envelope and affixed to the birds,
which are liberated.
Whenever tbe boy, see a waf on load
ed with watermelona, rhsy wlah th
bom bitched to at would ma awajr.
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ORGANIZE FOR CUBA LIBRE
Tk (hbao League ef the United Btatei
Organised at Hew York.
LEADING MEN BEHIND THE LEAGlk
aek Mi Cbtuufj Depew and Theo
dore atooeevelt laterest Themselves la
the fr.edeai mt uee Monster
Mate Mielle-.
New Yore, Dec. 15. The Cubau
league of the United States was formally
organized in this city last evening. Tbe
men behind this movement are so well
known and carry so much weight that
it ia beyound a doubt that this is the be
ginning of a movement that will have
no small part in the history of both
countries. The meeting organized with
Col. Ethan Allen a t resident and the
following as vice presidents: Charles A.
Dana, Former Ooverno', Roswell P.
Flower, Former Postmaster-General
Thomas M. James, Chsnncey M. De
pew, John R. Despassos, Theodore
Roosevelt, Former Mayor Thomas F.
Gilroy, George noadley, J. Elsard
Himmone and C. If, Dennison.
Francis Wayland Glen waselected sec
retary, Darwin R. James, treasurer, and
the executive committee was made np
as follows: John Jacob Astor, Paul
Da.,a, Gen. Daniel Butterfield, Col.
Fred D. Grant, Walter Log.in, Edwin
Wardman, John C. Mctiuire, R. C.
Alexander, Constant A Andrews, Frank
B. Carpenter, John D. Kelley and
Thomas E Stewart.
In opening the meeting Colonel Allen
read this call :
"We, the umler-siguud citizens of this
republic, anxious for the success of all
people for tbe civil and political liberty
which this nation secured more than a
century ago and still enjoys, unite in
organizing the Cuban league of the
United Statea of America.
'The object nf this league is to secure
for Cuba by all lawful, peaceful and hon
orable means the political independence
which her patriots are now endeavoring
by tremendous sacrifices of life and
treasure to gain, to encourage them with
our sympathy and moral support and to
arouse tbe whole nation to demand an
end of tiie campaign of murder and de
struction in that island.
"Mindful of the help which our fath
ta received in a similar struggle, we are
constrained by a sense of gratitude to
return to Cuba the kindness which was
effectively given to us.
"It is apparont to a'.l thoughtful ob
servers that Spain has not the power to
crush the Cuban patriots, and therefore
the continuance of the cruel struggle in
Cuba can only serve to prolong a sense
of abasement and humiliation in the
minds of all men who are confident that
this republic has the power to end It
and is in honor called upon to do eo for
the highest good all oartiee directly
concerned."
This call was signed by all of the men
above named. Other prominent signa
tures attached to it were Gen. Powell
Clayton, A. B Hepburn, Silas B.
Dutcber, Gen. V. T Christeneen, Col.
A. E. Srtords, Collis P. Hutington,
Louis Windmuller, Gen. Stewart L.
Woodford, Col. W. E. Brown, Gen. Mar
tin T. McMahon, Hon. Noah Davis,
Warner Wilier, Gen. Howard Carroll,
I Dr. A. M. Fernai.dez de Ybarra, Alonzo
B. Cornell and about fifty others.
I Colonel Allen predicted that the move
ment thus started would become his
toric. A mounter mass meeting will be held
in Cooper un'on next Monday night,
' when Senator Morgan of the foreign re
iatons committee and Congressman
Hitt of the same committee in the house,
Congrescuian Reed of Maine and Kena
tor Cullomof Illinois will peak.
Made Ilia Ksrape.
Ill Ri.iv, Dec. I"). The Tageblatt says
that ex-Sultan Murad hag escaped from
the palace near Constantinople, where
he lias retrained practically a prisoner
since he, became insane in 188ti.
V llrle Sum Won.
Wakiiimitos, Iec. 15. The United
States yesterday won its fight against
the Otegou A California Railroad com
pany and the Oregon Central Railroad
company for possession of the land
within tbe northwest quadrant of the
circle of which Forest Grove, Ore., is the
centre, within a radius of twenty miles,
which was originally granted to the
Oregon Central Railroai comuany and
forfeited by act of congress for failure to
complete the line as proposed. The
Central disposed of it right to the
Oregon A California company and both
were made defendants. The circuit
court for the Ninth circuit gave judg
ment for the United States, but the
court of appeals reversed that. The
supreme court of the United States, in
an opinion announced by the chief jus
tice, reversed the court of appeal and
sustained tha circuit court.
Made an Asalgnmeni.
New York, Dec. 15. Bagot A iSona,
dealer in dry goods, assigned to Am
brose O. McCall, without preference.
Liabilities $140,000; aaaets 15,000. Dull
trade and pressure of creditors are said
to have caused the failure.
Amend Copyright Law.
Washington, Dec. 15. The bill amend,
tng tha copyright law, particularly a
regard dramatic production, together
with tha house amendment, waa laid
before the enaU and the amendment
concurred in. Tha bill make piracy
miademaanor and make an injaoctio
granted by or circuit Judge enforceable
ta any circuit. Tb act ol tba amend
aaaat it that tba Injunction ahall not bi
graaUd without doe notice to dsfano)
aaU. The WUjmw gotttota pidet
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orrac.iu iuuuj
Dabaa OIBe-re la th l'alted a -tee Over
whelm with on ere
New Yokk, Dec. 1ft. From all IU
of the United States, fro u Mexico and ,
from Paris, telegrams were received by
tbe Cuban junta an 1 by tbe prominent
Cubans in New York, in which the cor-
respondent expressed tbeir sympathy
for free Curta and ottered financial as-
stance to the men who are making a
bsht for liberty.
One of the most ardent writers was
Herbert Wolcott, chairman of the Cuban j
American league of Cleveland and
brother of the United States Senator
Wolcott. In bis communication to Fidel
G. P.'errera, Mr Wolcott said the American-born
itizens of Cleveland were in
tensely enthusiastic and reprobated the
murder of Maceo and his staff. Money,
Mr. Wolcott said, was coming in faster
than at any time since tbe war began,
and if men were wanted there would be
no trouble in recuiting more than one
reigment. So fervent is the. svmpathy
for Cuba that the junta would not be
asked to expend a dollar of ita funds for
equipment or transportation. Mr. Wol
cott said. He wrote that members of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Clevelanl who were olficera in the civil
war had volunteered to go with enlisted
men and assume command of them in
Cuba.
In Floi da, Louisiana and Georgia and
the other julf states the feeling seem
strong against Spain, as evidenced by
communications received here. It ia
stated by prominent Cubans that if ves
sels can he got of the country it will be
only a few days before many thjusand
stand of arms and many chests of am
munition will bo landed within the in
surgnnt lines.
W R. tialbreath, librarian of tiie
Ohio state library of ColumbuB, com
municated with Mr. Pierrera, asking in
formation as to the shipping of muni
tion", the transmiiuion of funds and the
forwarding of men to Cuba Mr. Gal
breath said the people of that city were
thoroughly in earnest and that they
could be counted upon for larger sub
scriptions than ever before.
In this city funds have heen pouring
in to aid thu Cuban cause and many in
quires a'e being made of the Cuban of
ficials aa to the bebt way to transmit
funds and supplies to the men who are
fighting.
Alter the Klllbueter.
Jackkonviimg, Fla., Dec. 16 A sre
c al received by the Citizen from Key
West rates that the cruisers Newark
and Raleigh received telegraphic in
structions from Washington at noon
yesterday and that the cruisers at once
Tint to pea to capture the steamer Three
Friends, which left Fernandina at
an early honr yesterday morning with
a car tro of ar ns an I ammunition, be
sides about fifty Cubans, to be landed
in C ba. Instructions were also re
ceived for the revenue cutters Mcl.in,
at Miami, and the Winona and For
waul t Key Wet, to intercept the
T ree Friends if possible. j
Every effort will thus be made to
catch the little fi'.libiister, which suc
ceeded in getting away with its cargo
despite the vigilance of the government
officials and Spanish spies. Thia was
done by using the Commodore aa a de
coy, the Cubans announcing that all of
the preparat'ons l eing made were to
send the Commodore with a cargo of
arms and ammunition to Cuba. The
Commodore Ihv at ita wharf yesterday
and no attempt was made to clear from
the cuntom house.
The actual cargo carrie 1 by the Three
F.-iends was as follows: Four hundred
thousand rounds of ammunition, 1,040
rifles, one twelve-pound Hotchkiso cun,
twenty machetes, 4,000 pounds of dyna
rrite, besides a quantity of medicine,
provisions, etc. The expedition is com
manded by Perez Calvo, who wag an
adjutant of Maceo's ataff
llrlrl a ICoMx-r.
Sr. Loris, Dec 10. Waiter Jackson,
a cigarmaker forty-two years old, is un
der arrest have under the charge of be
ing one of tbe gang which tried to rob
the Iron Mountain train in this city De
cern lie r 9. The prisoner admits be wa
arouti 1 the railway yards the night of
the crime and the police have a man
w ho saw Jackson at Tower Grove station
a short time before the hold-up and who
alleges he saw some sticks of dynamite
In Jackson's possession. Four other
men, who are said to belong to the
Bates street gang, were also brought to
police headquarters yesterday on sus
picion ol being part of the train-robbing
gang.
M.inta CIhuk C'.iu- it fire.
Ai.tooma Pa., IVc. lb. --Damage ag
gregating 100,000 was done here Mon
day night by a fire, started by a boy
playing Santa Clause in a show window
of E. M. Morrow's dry good htore, corn
er Elexenth avenue and Twelfth street.
I The boy upset a kerosene lamp and in a
very fw minutes lire was sweeping
through the store. The fireextended to
the Odd Fellow' building, a three-story
brick structure, in which tbe poatoffice
is located, and on the other side to the
Simon building, a three-story structure.
The three building were gutted. It
was rumored that two girl perished in
Morrow' store, but tbe report could not
e verified.
Killed at Hla Own Uame.
CijARKmork, I. T., Dec. 16. While
drunk and creating a disturbance her
Monday night in a aaloon, Ed Reed,
who killed tbe Crittenden brother a
year ago, wa shot and killed br
deputy (heriff. He wa a ton of tbe no
torious Belle Starr. He had been ar
rested earlier in the evening for hoot
lag the saloon and wa placed under
bond, buf after bit releeea h 'turned
to the aaloon and waa floariabiag hi
aa when killed with two hot.
DARE MT TO HELP CUBANS
Against the Law to Enlist low in the
United Cute for Furpoi of War.
CUBA JUNTA AT ST. LOUIS MUST STOP
Ulstrlet Attorney felt lafomia the Leader
af the i aula That at Is Mot Legal le
Upealjr aollelt aid and Eallat
St. Loots, Dec. 17. Enlistment of re
cruits and solicitation of funds to assist
tbe Cubans continue here unabated,'
and is carried on without attempt at
concealment. This is doDe in direct vio
lation of legal enactment, and yesterday
United State District Attorney Anthony
Felt called upon tbe junta. Senor Ra
mon Aquabella, the active Cubau agent
here, received a note from tbe United
States attorney calling attention to the
following sections of the neutrality laws:'
"Every person who within the terri
tory of jurisdiction of the United States
levins or set on root, or provides or
prepares the meaus for any military ex
pedition on enterprise, to bi carried on
from there against the territories or
douiininions of any 'oreittu prince or
state or colony with e hich the United
States are at peace, shall be deemed
guilty of a high misdemeanor and ball
be Sued not exceeding 3,000 and im
prisoned for not rnoret'.an three years."
Had the work of enlistment been car
ried on with a show of secrecy, as here
tofore, this note of the attorney would
not have leen written. Hut for a week
recruiting and the soliciting of funds
have been public
Julius von tierpte and W. C. Carter,
revolutionary agents, have been quietly
picking up the right kind of men and
shipping thetn to New Orleans. They
left for that point yesterday, accom
panied by CornrliuH Knott, a chemist,
and J. L. Goodn.-r, a mechanical en
gineer, who have e. new ftingled cannon
that is said to work deadly execution.
Von Gerste claimed be had sent 200
men out of St. Louis and that he would
pick up 300 more 011 Lie way down to
New Orleans. Preference is given to
.veterans of tbe British or German
armies not citizens of this country.
Charged With llribery
Minneapolis, Dec. 17. The announce
that a warrant is out for the arrest of
City Clerk Charles F. Haney and that
Haney is on bis way to Mexico has
created a sensation. The charge is
bribery in connection with the city fuel
contracts. Haney was expected to gd
to Mexico January 1, having been or-:
dered by his physician. He left very
suddenly last Friday night, and although
the local authorities have made an effort
to arrest him before he crosses the
border they have not yet succeeded.
Trie grand jury is now in session, and ia
investiaatinz a number of aldermen
charged with boodling in paving, sewer
and otiier contracts. It has leaked out
that at least two indictments have been
found and some thirty others are prom
ised, The evidence has been gathered
by Chicago detectives under the direc
tion of certain members of the Good
Citizenship league. Auioni; the charges
made is one that the ballot boxes in tbe
Eleventh ward were tampered with to
secure the election of an alderman favor
able to the combine. The contest over
this Seat is ttill progress.
;ninliMl to Death.
Rkii CuKr-, Cal., Dec. 17. A terrible
accident occurred late yesterday after
noon in the Holy Cross mining district.
The accident took place in a tunnel in
the Holy Cross mine. A rim strike was
made recently in the tunnel and the
company has been pushing the develop
ment of the new vein. Six men were at
work in the tunnel yesterday afternoon.
A heav7 blast wae put in, which tore
down a great quantity of earth and
tone, under which they were crushed
to death.
Tbe district is situated sixteen miles'
from this place, and the courier who
brough the news uf the disaster could
not give the names of the unfortunate
miners.
Looted the Bank.
Denver, Dec. 17. The testimony
given in the trial before Judge Hallett in
the United States district court of
Charles H. Dow, piesidrit, and Sidney,
f). McClurken, tell, r "f the Commercial
National bank, arm O F. Miller of the
Hernia Treatment company, now of
Chicago, charged with niiciii propriation
of the funds of tbe bank has been of a
sensational nature.
It appears from the testimony of other,
officers of the bank 1 hat at the time it
was closed in 1893 Miller had overdrawn
his account to the amount of $ 25,000,
the only security for which held by the
bank waa bis personal notes. Miller
had secured this large amount by means
of kiting check with the approval of
President Dow. It hae been shown that
he shipped large sums of money east by
express from time to lime.
Hill J Smith Want! Money.
San Fkancixco, Dec. 17 Billy Smith
ha sued Thoma Sharkey for 900 which
he claimes is due him for services rend
ered in assisting to train the sailor for
hi recent battle with Fitzsimmons.
Smith asserts that bis services were
worth $1,000, but Sharkey had only paid
him 100.
Warship Heady la Sail.
New York, Dec. 17. The flagship
New York, which has been undergoing
repair in tbe Brooklyn navy yard, will
leave on Saturday next for Hampton
Road. A auppiy of ammunition from
Fort Wadsworth ia to be stored in tbe
magazine of the veaael aa soon aa aha it
uken out of her dock. Tbii fact
led com ol ber officer to believe that
tbe New York will not remain at Hemp-
a a a . i -11 --
ton itoaaa long, dui win in su jwwma.i-
ityjoin toe Raleigh aad Newark ofll
IT.. Weal
Key West.
witHOtLu raorici.
Aatarrlag Maxlfeeta ieeaad hf the rreat
deat of the Ca aa Lagaa.
Saw Yoac, Dec )8. Col Ethan JU
len, president of tbe Cuban league of
the United States, which wa organised
the other evening by a number of prom- -inent
New Yorker at tbe Fifth Avenue
hotel, iasued an address to the publie
yesterday in which he sets forth the
principle and purposes of the organisa
tion. The address, after reviewing th
struggle in Cuba from its inception to
tbe present time says :
"We are charged before the world
with impotency in not protecting our
own citizen against Spanish violence
on Cuban soil, and in hushing our in
dignation at unnumbered cruelties in
Cuba, while millions of American
capital there invested are gradually die
rppearing. which would be stved by the
immediate intervention of this govern
ment. "Fellow citizens, it is due toourselve,
as well as to Cuba, that this record
should be reversed. This baa not been
our record hitherto and we are per
suaded will not remaii so now, when
an appeal is made to the humanity, a
well as to the material interests, of our
people. We do not propose, nor ia it
necessary, to violate our laws. But if
the laws stand in the way then change
the laws.
"We, the people, are the source ol
pjwer, and may dictate what the law
shall be and theiefore cannot shield our
selves behind statutory phraseology
from the odium of not fulfilling our nat
ural obligations toward a people strug
gling to be free. Let us so speak that
this execut ve of this nation and our
representatives in congress shall re
cognize Cuban independence and all
will be well.
"We are not required to raise batal
lions of men nor ships of war, but we
are called upon to declare that the heart
of this nation is with the oppressed
Cubans and then her independence ac
knowledged, her unarmed he-oea may
obtain from us, as required, the equip
ments of war, as Spain has done here
tofore, and thus we blaze the way for
a final victory, aa surely to follow as in
the end riiiht triumphs over wrong."
The league aBks for subscriptions
throughout the United State in aid of
the patriots, which may be sent to Hon.
Darwin B. Jones, the treaeurer, No. 203
Broadway, New York. The league will
hold a grand mass meeting in Cooper
Union Monday, December 21.
Bold Kubblug In Missouri.
Skdaua, Mo., Dec. 18. While the
Missouri, Kansas & Pacific flyer wa ap
proaching Sedalla at an early hour yes
terday morning three men who had
boarded the train further up the road
commenced V rob the passenger in the
chair car, I'l.eving them of watches,
jewelry and money.
. A wild scene followed, some of the
awakening passengers making a show of
fight and the women screaking from
fright.
C. H. Hopewood of Finnegan, 111.,
who had lo9t his watch, grabbed the
timepiece from one of tbe robbers and a
scuffle ensued. Other passengers came
jo Hope wood's assistance, but tbe
thieves fcufht their way to the platform
and jumped off the train just as it waa
entering the city. They escaped- aftei
eecuring three gold watches and a (mall
amount of money.
'i Not a shot was fired by robbers or
passengers and the thing was over with
Sin five minutes.
ITncle Tom tiets Med.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 18. Tha
"Little Eva" of an African Uncle Tom's
Cabin company was landed in tbe city
receiving hospital at an early hour yee-
terday morning. The "Uncle Tom" o!
the same organization is a fugitive from
justice. A company of negroes were re
hearsing for "Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to
Date" in a hall in Vine street. Mies
Melinda Chamberlain, otherwise "Lit
tle Eva," did not roll her eyeB in the
pathetic parts to come up to tbe artiti
reauirements of the company's "boas
bully," Roy Norman, who had the title
role. When the final meeting cam
"Uncle Tom" whipped out a razor and
fell upon "Little Eva." His execution
was so good that "Little Eva" came neat
bleeding to death before she reached th
receiving hospital. He escaped. Four-te-n
stitches were required to gather the
wound on her thigh.
Medical College Hurn.
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 18. -At an early
hour yesterday morning an explosion
occurred at the Detroit college of medi
cine and immediately following the ex.
plosion flames broke forth from th
third story windows and in less than
two hour the entire building waa a masi
of ruins. The janitor of the institution
and his wife narrowly escaped with tbeir
lives.
The loss on building will reach $75,000
partly insured. Beside the building
itself, valuable instrument, such aa
microscope, etc., and costly furniture,
have been destroyed. The cause of the
fire is a yet not fully cleared up, but
incendiarism i strongly suspected.
Case nf Accidental Death.
St. Louis, Dec. 18. Judge Adams of
the federal court has awarded judgment
for 2.166 to Mrs. Sarah 8mltb against
the Western Commerical Travellers' as
sociation on an accident policy oa Mra.
Smith's late husband. The ground of
complaint was that the skla waa eosi
dentally robbed off Mr. Smith's fool
while breaking- In a new pair ol efcoN;
a
BI
that Mood-poiaoBlac aat ia oaia
Ith's death. Tbe Jadga held that
death was aecldeatal.