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HANDWRITING IN MINIATURE, j
A Maa Who Tan Write lll.(XH) U i.rda
on PoataS lard. I
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There I a niau in Detroit, .Mii-h..
who 1 performing the unprecedented
feat of writing HUi word on a ikikijI
card. It uiiiihIii Iikt a tal from B:iron
Mum-haiiHcn. tint Charles S. Moiiniei
1st prepared to prove the Inilh of if by
exhibiting the pont.il card. M iieove.
Mr. Mounter' work Ih plain, evcu to
the single lt t tr. although, of ouri a
magnifying :l;tsix In necew.-uir) to 'eiii
irjtrate thU truth to the investigator
Mr. Mounter nays hid ambition Ik of
-omparatIvely recent Inspiration. Two
month ago. wlilli' he wax a u vice at
the art of writing, having only mic.
cc-iled in producing on a jxiHtal e;ud as
many character a.s an ordinary wiitei
would require a quire or o of ;:ipT to
portray, he read of the performance o'
a penman, who had placed no ics
than 7.D words upon one tdc of a
jtoKlal card.
Mr. Moiinlcr studied the id.u care
fully, aud the more he thought th.'
more lie believed he could eclipse the
feat of which he had read. So he be
(fun. uml for hi text Pxk th" firm
IxMik at hand, which proved to be a
copy of "Portia." Never were the
chapter of a novel written In such a
ondened form a thi. ln one aflT
noon he miccei-ded In writing on the
elde of a postal card I.imki words. -ctipylng
but a wmall Mirtion of the
rqi.ice.
The effort, ax may be Imagined. wa
somewhat exhausting to the writer,
and he found It necessary to take a
three day' rest to recover his stcadi
ihus of ncrre. Then he Increased (he
mitriber of word on the card by an
other thousand, and llll there wan an
nbundant amount of spare to be filled.
It began to look an if he would get the
whole volume on the postal. He con
tinued hi efTortH. writing at Inter
vals of three dayx, until the number
of words footed up H.:I2. and xt 111 half
the card wax unfilled. Twenty-four
jiflfre of the iNHik had been written
on the card.
Mr. Monnier Is still laboring at hix
nelf nppfiifod task, and feelx xtire that
when tin- card ix filled It will contain
about II fly pages of the book, or be
tween Iti.rxdi and 17.IKXI words. The
word will be contained in lexx Unit
1M5 llnex, and the number of letters In
Jill will Ik' between H0.00O and Ki.lMlO.
The back of a 2-cetit postage stamp
would not seem to present a surface
favorable to record-breaking perform
ncot of the kind that Mr. Monnier de
light In. Vet on the gummy rmrface
if a stamp the Detroit expert has writ
ten a letter containing 70.'! words, mif
ficienl characters to require the use of
eight pagex of letter paper for the or
dinary writer to produce.
Mr. Monnier also made a circle the
mxp of a gold quarter and endeavored
to place the contents of a volume with
in the small ring. He succeeded In
wriling Inside one of the circles the
lord's prayer, the Hail Mary, and hix
.signature, with the words "Champion
mall writer of the world" added KHI
words In all.
fn another he has written a poem
containing WO words, and the circle is
only three-qiiartcrx full. On still an
other he has succeeded in placing the
lord's prayer twice, the total number
of wonlx being 114, and In a circle con
siderably smaller than a gold quarter
he has written the Lord's prayer once,
the number of wordx being fifty-seven.
It would be supposed that this pen
expert had eyesight of remarkable
kcennesx. lint, though only Z'S years
old. he has been near-sighted for fif
teen years. Ifix method of holding
the pen Is most peculiar. He writes
with hix eyes very near the paper, and,
peering at 11 through his glasses, he
works away with the penholder nest
ing on the side of Die nose. He claims
that by Ihfx means he can hold the
pen much steadier than In the ordinary
way. and can write steadily for three
hours at a stretch before tired nature
gives way. Mr. Monnier writes with
a quill pen. New York Herald.
' Kvlla of Itoast Co fTee.
Tin- coffee eating habit Is on the In
crease nnd doctors say there are few
worse. Coffee, when eaten roasted, ix
productive of a train of Ills that final
ly result In complete physical and
mental prnxl ration.
The trouble Is more prevalent among
.young girls than any one else. They
eat parched coffee without any defin
ite object, Juxt as they eat soapstone
ulate penHlx. but with much more dis
astrous results. The coffee eater be
come weak and emaciated, the com
plexion Is muddy and iwllow.the ap
petite poor, digestion ruined and
nerves all unstrung.
Konst coffee will give a few minutes
if exhilaration, followed with great
weakneiw. The victims' nearly rile
when deprived of the accustomed stim
ulant. Momrthtng New.
The Chlnigo Times-Hera Id says that
n Western gentleman lately found his
new cook In the drnwing-room, gazing
with much Interest At the aquarium,
"Well, Middy," said the gentleman,
lii a kindly lone, "whrtt do you think
of t hem V"
"Hitre, sor." answered the cisik. "upon
my soul. If they ain't role lovely! An',
begorra, srhnps you wouldn't bclnvn
It, but this Is the first time that I Iver
kiw red herrings allvo before!"
Old Theory of Idffhl.
Among the more sober physicians of
old, a told by Aristotle, It wan- In
lleved that In some manner the nun
was conveyed by night across tho
northern regions, nnd that darkness
was due to lofly mountains, which
screened off the sunbeams during the
voyage.
One of tbe most pitiful sight In the
world to that of a woman moved to
tear when she baa left bar handker
chief at boat.
T'ie North Piatle school bouse piob
ieoi remains unsolved.
Ira L. Bare has edited the North
Platte Tribune (or twelve years.
(Several citizens of South Sioux City
nave a touch of the Alaska gold fever.
The Wayne Democrat issued a very
creditable holiday number last week.
Tbe Gandy Pioneer will be gold a'
auction on January 2, to satisfy a mort
Ege.
The Logan Valley agricultural and
mechanical association of Wakefield has
dissolved.
An Otoe county patriarch of sixty
four was recently married to a blushing
widow of six y.
The Fullerton Poet will issue a special
edition containing a write-up of the
town and county.
An Indian on the reservation near
Rushville killed himself to escape arreal
for horse stealing.
James Barcue of Republican City
pulled 1,000 pounds of channel cat out
f the river in one day.
The old soldiers of Pender are resolved
that the postoffice shall lie bestowed on
one of their members.
Several married couples in Hall coun
ty are sick of their bargain, and want
the court to untie the knot.
Mr. I!eee, a farmer living a few
miles north of Chapman, lot$.)00 worth
of bogs recently from cholera.
One grain dealer c( Hebron bat
already eliippeil twenty thousand busbelt
of corn to tbe eastern markets.
Tho Nebraska City Press says with
Governor Furnas in tbe cabinet Nebras
ka would never have a drouth.
A four-year-old son of J. H. Moody
of Mason City was run over by a heavily
loaded wagon and fatally ii jured.
The (iandy Pioneer wants a law pass
ed prohibiting the u-e of a shotgun ir.
the state for a period of five years
Fiar.k Taylor iH now owner and pub
lisher of the Table Kock Argus, having
brought Frank Harrison's interest.
Kx-Treasurer Graves of Banner
county will be cailed on to replace i")0
wrongfully wrung from the taxpayers.
Wild geese continue to linger in ti.
cornfields west of the 100th meridian
and sportsmen are making the most ol
It is estimated that forty to fifty mill
Ion bushele of corn is piled on the
ground in this state for want of crib
room.
The people of Milford have decided tc
hold an election, and the candidate re
ceiving the highest vote will be the next
po t master.
Mrs. Henry Norton, tbe wife of a
C:ister county farmer, died suddenly of
heart failure. She leaves a buaband
and four children.
A hedge fence deal wai worked at
Wayne ami tbe republican says it was a
clear case of "a smo.ith confidence man
taking in suckers."
Tti9 s?ople of Coz-id propose to have
tbe local prohibitory law respected. No
guilty boot-legger sunds a ghost of a
abow in that town.
Maon City has rcc utiy organised I
commercial club, the general object ol
which is to promote the interests of the
town and its citizens.
The town of Genoa aspires to the dig
nity of electric lights, which are offered
to the citizens at the :ateof 50 cents per
month per incandescent light.
The commiBsioii ot the present (jost
matter of North Platte will expire April
10, lH'.IH. Republican appirants for the
place leel coriesp imiingly blue.
Sportsmen in Lincoln county are sill
ing quail in great numbers and the
North Platte papers have been running
serial quail Btories for BeveraF weeks.
Rheumatism of the heart caused ti e,
death of Bessie, the only daughter I
Mr. and Mrs, Herbert It h odea of Fill
more county. She was ten years of age,
The Hickman Uepublicun, by F. E.
La Grave, haa made its appearance.
It is a si i -column" quarto, to which
heal advertisers seem to take very
kindly.
The editor of the South Sioux City
Record waa so pleased with a cup of
coffee given him at a church social
that he wants to marry the girl that
made it.
J. II. Ionian, a newspaper man form
erly of Broken Bow and Nebraska-at-large,
is now in Denver publishing Arid
America, a very creditable irrigation
Journal.
Burglaries and petty larcenies are be
coming ao frequent on the Indian reser
vations, says the Pender Timet, that a
little Barretl-Scottiim may be reported
to by inteyigent settlers.
II. W. Cunningham of Harlan county
has lout jix head of horses from some
unknown but very fatal disease. The
trouble seems to locate in the bead and
the animals become crazy and blind.
Commenting on the accidental dis
charge of a gnn by which Lester Bee be
lost one of his beat thumbs, the Kai,an
News says : ''It does seem that people
will eventually learn that the thing is
loaded."
The Dawson County Enterprise has
changed owners, G. F. Cooper and J. C.
Fee h arty being the new editors and
publishers. The paper haa been en
larged and improved under the new
nianagenmt.
Representative-elect Slebbina o( Lin
coln couuty will start overland in a few
dayi (or tbe state capital. Ha wili rid
all the nay in the same old rattletrap
ha iited daring he campaign. Stebbini
la tba arch enemy of rapid transit and
'iaa no dm for rallroadi,
ARE ARRESTED
Failure of Rational Back of Illinois
Gets Officers Into Trouble.
RUN ON THE EANKS CONTINUES
Krrrlirr of KfXnland Hjult U Ulr hurled
Soma W ltuMM ara llrld tn TVttiry
AaalBt Hanker llreyrt Public
Scare Abuul Over.
Chicago, Dec. 24- -Charges and coun
ter charges in connection with tbe man
agement of the National Bank of Illi
nois were made yesterday and engrossed
the attention ol the financial commun
ity to the exclusion of the day's eventa
surrounding the big national bank col
lapse.
The arrest of Banker Dreyerand Ber
ger, tbe discharge of the receiver of the
Roseland bank and the continuation of
the savings depositors' run on the Illi
nois Trust and Savings bank and tbe
Hibernian Banking association, were
the principal developments. The pub
lic scare is practically over and a com
plete restoration of confidence seems to
have been effected.
By arrangement of tbe police depart
uant, counsel for tbe Jefeno tnts and
Justice of the Peace W. T. Hall, the ac
cused private bankers, Edward S. Dre
yer and Rolxjrt Berger, entered Justice
Hall's private court room at 2 o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Detective Fay,
who held the warranta which F. E.
Kennedy, a saloonkeeper and depositor
at Dreyer A Co.'s bank had sworn to,
announced that the men were under ar
rest. The charge in each case is that
the bankers received a deposit of $153
at the close of business last Saturday,
knowing at tbe time tliat they were in
solvent. Tbe defendants were accom
panied by Adolph Kraus, their lawyer,
and Charles II. Wacker, of the Wacker
& Birk Brewing company. The latter
signed tbe bond of the bankers in the
rum of 1 500 each, for their appearance
in Justice Hall's court January 2. Ken
nedy says be is acting for himself only,
but his action is regarded as prema
ture and ill-advised by those who be
lieve that the D.eyer failure could not
be foreseen.
IHnrtmii I'Dlia lu Cities.
MitwAiKEE, Wis., Dec. 24. The
chamber of commerce, while expressing
sympathy for struggling Cuba, adopted
resolutions against the Cameron report
to the senate. Copies of the resolutions
will be sent to the senators and repre
sentativea in congress from this state,
with tbe respectful request that they
act in harmony therewith when the
question shall be called up.
Toi.kdo, O., Dec. 24. The Toledo pro
duo" exchange adopted a resolution in
troduced in the senate by Senator
Cameron recognizing the independence
of Cuba.
Havanna, Dec. 24. Colonel Pavia re
ports having bad an engagement with a
party of rebels encamped at Sao Redon
dointhe vicinity of Holquin, killing
twenty-one insurgents and capturing
and destroying their camp. The trocps
lost one lieutenant and four privates
killed and a major and nine private!
were wounded.
Madbid, Dec. 24 Queen Regent
Chrisetina will, on Christmas day, sign
a decree ordering the operation of cer
tain reforms in the island of Porto Rico.
Admiral Beranger, minister of marine
deaies that the government is purchas
ing warships. General Azcarraga,
minister of war, has rendered an account
to the queen regent of the work which
has been done by the war ministry with
a view to the arising of possible compli
cations. Tbe Epoca a semi-ottcial
oruan. declares that together with the
niurvBi the Knanish armv IS fullv
VJlpMe ol main,aining an international
war.
Jac Ksonvii.lk, Fla., Dec. 24. Consul-
General Fitzhugh Lee stopped last night
at Ocala on his way to Havana and was
tendered a inception by the citizens at
the Ocata house.
'w (iuiiboatn Is Launched.
Emzabetiipokt, JJ. J., Dec. 24. The
gunboat Annapolis was successfully
launched at 10 :30 yesterday at the Cre
scent ship yards here, Mist Georgians
Porter, granddaughter of the late Ad
miral Porter, christened the new addi
tion to the navy.
The Annapolis, one of ttie six com-
Dosite gunboats authorize.) by act ol
.H-liHnn. ! launched t he
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'""""'n
ing already slipped off the ways. The
Annapolis' length over all is 200 feet and
between perpendicular lines is 168 feet.
The mean draught is twelve feet, which
expert! aayia light enough to permit
her navigating shallow water, such as
ate found on the China coast and the
river of thii country. Her engine will
develope 800 horse power and her con
tract speed is twelve knots. Her main
battery consists of six four-inch rapid
fire gun 2nd the secondary battery four
six-pounder and two one-pounder rapid
Are guns. The new vessel will have a
complement of nine officers, ten marine
and 125 bluejackets.
A Mealean Fight,
' St. Louis, Dec. 24. A special from
Guadalahara, Mex., say particulars
have been received there of a desperate
affray at the ranch of Juan Vidrio in
that tat. Vidrio had trouble with
tome of hi employe a few days ago and
thirty of them attacked him. He wai
wrioutly wounded by the first volley ol
ihota, bat took refuge in hi residence
tnd A red on hi aetailant killing two ol
ham and wounding sewn other badly.
twentv member of the mob arretted.
4 Cubaa l lallne T..a Cubs U a i ul'll
w.
Fakis, Dee. 23 Toe Giltla (neat, a
pel) pub.islics a reirt of an interview
ith beuor BtUnco?, the represents! iv
if the Cubau insuriienitj in Paris, in
inch je declares th-a the aeertiout
at the revolutionist in Cuba hat'e n
ovrnment is falw. J lie Cubans, he
h, b ie a governn ent in the form of
juut i, wlione meuibe s are act ng to-
-ether under the assent of the active
participants in the rebellion and a
ma j Tity ol the inhabitants of the island.
be sympathy of tbe American people,
-as Senor Be'ancos, is utterly unselnh
tnd inspired from a feeling of compas
sion for the victims of Spanish tyranny.
I-onooh, Dee. 23. The Daily News,
reierring to the statement that the Span--h
minister of war is preparing a pain
hlet for the use of the army and navy,
giving data of the American defense?,
tc.., says that it seems that fpain has
consented to take a band in the interna
' ional game of bluff opened by Senator
Cameron. It adpa that if General
tearrava, the Spanish minister of war,
tias done anything so foolis-h as the ai t
accredited to him he had better undo it
immediately.
The Standard's Madrid correspondent
teleeraphs that Spain has notified tbe
United Sta'.es that she is satisfied with
t' e friendly tone to President Cleveland's
mespaire and the attitude of Secretary
Olney toward tbe Cameron resolution.
It is added that the rumors of military
and naval preparations on the part of
t .e Ppanif-h must Ix? received with cau
tion. The government, limited by
budget votes, is acting purely on the de
fensive.
Maijkid, Dec. 23 The Madrid and
provincial press continue tbeircainpaign
of denunciation egriinst the United
States, but their Columns contain noth
ing new in the way of abuse of the
American government. It is asserted
that the Spanish government has been
secretly preparing for war lor sometime
past.
A dispatch to the Imparcial from Ha
vana savs that 3,000 troops have tailed
for .Vanzanilla to join the. forces near
that place in an attack upon the insur
gents under General Garcia, who iB now
holding the road to Bayoma.
A Kills ir Terror
Paducah. ky., Dec. 23. The town ot
Mayfield, where Ji-n Stone, who assault
ed Mrs. Green, was lynched and filled
with pistol shots, was the scene of in
cendiary fires and rioting last night.
Yesterday Charles Bolin, 27 year old,
wbite, lay at his home with a revolver
wound in tbe neck, while a dozen tie
groes are fleeing beyond the reach oi
mob law. two dive keepers were
wounded, and one may die. The lynch
ers, having samhed the vengeance on
the body Stone, started Inst night to
weed out the notorious negroes. An
assault was made on a saloon owned by
Tom Chambers. Chambers opened fire
and repulsed the attacking party. Bolin
was dangerously and others were slight
ly injured. A second attempt to st'irm
the house wax successful. Chamb ra,
escaped, but the building, with a whole
sale beer house, which was operated in
violation of the local option laws, and
other buildings patronized by rouith
negroes, wre fired and destnyed.
The negroes fled in every direction
One man was captured and severely
whipped. Yesterday Mayfield was (tlb-d
with armed and excited men, and trou
ble is expected at any time. Possex are
in hot pursuit ot the negroes, ami more
lynchings are not improbable.
Erie Iliiail Hhh T i. Wrerku
Patebxon, N. J , Dei 23. The train
on the Erie railwav leaving about 7:3C
crashed into the wreckage of a freight
train which was eistbound. Th'. en
gine of the passenger train was derailed
anrt ll tnnr.lpd ouor nn 11a nirle TI.A
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Fireman W. J. Hallred of Waldwick, N.
J., were killed. Several of the passen
gera were cut and b-uised by broken
glass and flying timbers, but none was
seriously injured.
The truck of one of the freight cars
had broken and the timber with which
tbe car was loaded became stre-vn on
the track, causing the accident.
Kill An.r IH.'i In Spxln
Madkiu, Dec. 23. A tmall band of
men carrying a refmblicanflag assemble !
' Novelda, p.ovince of Alicante, and
i when called ution to disperse by the
, .,.,. , . T.
were again ordered todisperse, and upon
their second refusal the gen larrnes fired
upon them, killing seven of them. The
others then fled precipiately, hut the
gendarmes pursued and captured several
of them. A search was nnd.! of the
lodgings of prisoners and a number of
dynamite bombs were found. The
police are at a loss to decide whether
the assemblage of the men was for the
our dob of making a demonstration of
sympathy for the anarchints Sentenced
Saturday at Barcelona or whether i
was a manifestation of republicanism
The finding of the bnmhe tends to make
them believe the men were anarchists
Wanted to Kill Thou All.
Ctm-iNNATt, O,, Dec. 23 James Pres
ton, a laborer, shot hi wife Amanda,
and hi stepson, William Bryant and
himself yesterday morningat their home
437 Eat Pearl treet. Mr. Peston was
hot once in the head had once i t the
houlder. Bryant received a shot in
th left arm. Preston fired a bul'.et into
hi own breast. Jealousy was the cause
of tbe (hooting, the injured were re
moved to the hospital. The condition
f the hatband nod wife I serlou
CUBA'S FRIENDS ARE AWAKE i
Kei
Yorkers Unite in a Great Meeting
For the Tbe Bake of C aba.
AMERICANS ARE IN FAVOR OF LIBERTY
Cooper Laloo U racked With a Oreat
Crowd to Liatea to atlrriug Addreaee
by Men Who Love l.llrtr aud
Honor freedom
Xew York, Dec. 22. Two great de-
monatration in favor of struggliug Cuba
look place in this city last night. One
was a street parade of the organization
called the Friends of Cuba. The other
wan t. mass meeting at Cooper union,
called by tbe Cuban leajiue of the United
States. Several thousand men took
part in the street parade
and many
thousands more lined the t-idewalks and
cheered enthusiastically along the line
of march. The procession formed on
East Eighty-i-ixth street and Kizhty
seventh street and marched by way of
Third and Lexington avenues and
Broadway to Cooper Union. Franz
Mayer, president of the organization,
was gran t marshal. Tho column was
divided into ten battalions. An Amer
ican flag was carried ahead of each bat
talion, with two Cuban sc idler as es
corts. A large number ol large trans
parencies were carried l. uatrating Span
ish massacres. One, showing the kilt
ing of Maceo, bore thn title ' Spain's
latest triumph in murdering under the
flag of truce."
Other inscripticiiM were: "Let con
gress act; the people will uphold con
gress," "Uphold the Mi-nroe ductrine,"
"Another star to the (oitsteilation of
republics.'-''We die, but not surren
der," "Viva Cuba lilne."
Cooper Union was packed to the doo
when the meeting of the Cuban league
was called to ordar b its president,
Ethan Allen, a lineal des xnddiit of the
general of the same nam of revolution
ary fame. Mr. Allen saia:
"This immense and enthusiastic auU-
ence iB proof that the heart of our citi
zens Htill throlis in harmony for any
peoj.le struggling to be free. Further
than this it is proof that the American
people do not breathe the itirof coward,
although some of the government may.
We are assembled to uphold in other
lands the cause for whicn Washington
and his con. patriots contended in this.
If we are not willing to makeeomesacri
flinsto extend the heritage of liberty,
bequeathed to us from the storms ol
battle, we are unworthy to hold and en-
j y it ourselves. Cuba is now, fcr the
econd time, in the death grapple with
her savage foe. She is resolved to be
free and we are here to say she shall.
The curse of Spanish rule is no longer to
be tolerated. It is the government that
admits of no reciprocity between the
king and subject; it is otic part tyrant
and all the rest slave. Instincts of our
people revolt againsst this, wherever it
may exist, and especially when so near
ur own shores ".
Illinois National Hank failure.
CuiIcaoo, Dec. 22. The closing of Bn
instituiion considered to he the
second strongest national bank in Chica
go, quickly followed by the failure of
three private banking houses, which did
business with it, causjd a flurry in fin-
anc at circles yesterday and led to runs
on several banka b timid depositors.
A flood i f rumors relative toother banks
and business concerns led to the intense
nervousness whioh pervaded all clauses
of people long after banking hours and
the close of the courts. The banks
which were closed follow.
. National Bank of Illinois, capital
$1,000,000; liabilities, $11,000,000.
, H. S. Dreyer & Co., bankers, mortgage
brokers and real estate dealers, liabili
ties, $1,500,000: estimated value of
assets, $1,650,000.
Wasmansdorff & Heinemann, bankers
and mortgage brokerB, liabilities, $416,-
000; estimateu value of assets, $550,01)0,
Roseland Savings bank, Roseland, 111.,
mall capital and assets estimated equal
to liabilities.
Sp-tiilarda leertlug-.
New York, Dec. 22. A Times spec'al
Mys:
Passengers Sunday night from Ha
vana report that the insurgents' guerilla
leader, Areola, ha" I ieate-l two Span
ish columns and ha-captured two convoy
trains near La Perca last week and took
100 prisoners, all of whom, save one, a
Cuban, were released.
An insurgent band of 200 were dis
persed by Major Arco of the Spanish
column Saturday, insurgents losing their
leader and ten soldiers, while the Span
ish lost alieutenant and fifteen soldiers
killed and wounded.
Gomez i reported He advancing west
ward, but being incumbered by his ar
tillery and supplies, his progress is slow.
He believes that Maceo and his son were
decoyed to their death by Spanish
treachery. It is well known that tht
soldiers on the trocha have sent in com
plaints to the captain-general as to their
treatment, and he has ordered an inves
tigation. Atone place over 100 soldier
deserted to the insurgents, as they
claimed that they were dying penned
up in tbe swamp and with insufficient
food supplies.
London Papers Comment.
Lon don, Dec. 22. Commenting on
the declaration of Senor Canovaa, the
Spanish premier, that he will brook no
interference with the sovereignty ot
Spain in Cuba, the Pall Mall Gazette
ay that Senor Canova i magnificent
in hi defiance, but hie utterance i not
businesslike. If he wiihea to avail him
self of the few nvvnihs' grace remaining
to.him, the Gasette aay, he tnuat change
hi resolutely immobile attitude for re
solute action.
spa i audi aatEaeaioca
Taaovae C.nidine; Cleveland's M cMar
The People A routed,
Vadkid. Dec. 21. Senor Canova del
Castillo, the prime minister, ha re
eeived the official text of President
Cle.cland'a message to congress and will
shortly make a declaration on that part
of the document which refei to tbe
Cuban question.
Conferences have been held during
the past few days between the moat
prominent men in political life in Spain
w-ii. i the object of seeking a solution of
the problem which confronts the govern-
rnent and which, it is possible, might
eau-e a war with the United States. It
is conceded in all political circle that
the situation is grave, but it is thought
th the willingness of Spain to graut
reforms in the Spanish West Indies
sic lid tend to avert any display of
rrepsiveneRR on the nart of the United
St.-i.--s. One point is settled upon and
that is that no reforms shall be put into
(ffict in Cuba until the insurrection
shuU have teen euporessed, for it ia held
that to offer reforms with the Cubans
still in arms would indicate weakness
on the part of Spain aud would also be
derogatory ' her honor.
Though die popular indignation
caufed by the receipt of the news of the
action of the committee on foreign re
lation; of the American senate, show
little sign of diminution, there have
been no manifestations against tbe
United State oi its representative any
where in Spain. That such manifesta
tions were expected, however, is shown
by the fact tha police and gendarme
were detailed to guard the American le
gation here aid precautions were taken
elsewhere to protect the various consul
ates of the United States should the ex
cited people attempt to make an attack
upon them. Orders were sent to the
governors of the several provinces to
prohibit any anti-Amer.can demonstra
tions, and from dispatches received
yesterday from the provincial capital,
it is known tliat the orders were faith
fully carried out.
.Japan to Have tolerated Koada.
San Francibco, Dec. 21. The great
city of Tokio is soon to be gridiorned
with elevated railroads. Mr. Nomnora,
a special commissioner of the Japanese
government, to investigate different
elevated systems in America and Europe
arrived here yesterday. He is accom
panied by H. Iwasaki, S. Yamaguchi
and K. Takibe. .t
1 "We must have elevatfd roads in the
big cities of Japan," he said; "there
are too many people, for us to get along
without them. Jaoan is moving toward
the front We intend to have better
elevated roads than any other country.
Tokio, which will be the initial city for
the elevated system, is a great place,
and may be in time the biggest city in
t e world. It if four hundred years old
and has 2,000,C00 people. It is growing
right along, and is fo situated that its
growth must continue. We want to
visit Chicago, New York and other
cities where the elevated system is used
and see and understand for ourselves
t ie workings of these roads. We have
had the plans of th?m and all the de
tails by competent engineer made out
and forwarded to the ilermrtment in
Japan for a good while. But. tbe object
of the commission is to learn other de-.
tails. We rvant to study the practical
workings of the ro.ids. Before this year
Japan never bought a ton of railrcad
iron in the United States. This year
already we have bought'and contracted
io buy 40,000 tons of steel rails. We
also bought a large number of American
locomotives. Pu-ing the past year our
railroad building has progretsed with
great rapidity, We have about 3,000
mileg of road in operation now and in
ten years we will have 6,000 miles.''
Mr. Yamaguchi and the other com
miseioners will be here probably for
nearly a week.
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Hazard's son haaaJub.
Wilmington, Del., Dec. 21. Thomas
F. Bayard, jr., eon of the ambassador,
has accepted a position in the depart
ment of street opening in New York
City.
A Bloody Duel.
Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 21. A special to'
tbe Constitution from Knoxville, Tenn.,
ays :
A Sunday duel with revolvers, in
which both participant killed occurred
yesterday in Campbell county. The
scene of the duel was nine miles out.
Lincoln Baird and William Gaylor, two
young men, had for some time been
enemies. They met at the mill and re
newed the quarrel, which resulted in
the duel. Both men fired several shot
and both fell on the ground mortally
wounded. The Found of the shot at
tracted the attention of the nearest in
habitants, who, on going to the tcene,
found both men lying on tbe ground
dead.
Arreat the Agent.
Boston, Dec 21. Alonzo R. Shattuck,
a well known insurance agent of this
city, has been arrested on a charge of
doing an insurance business as s cor
poration not registered to do business
in this state. The claim is that he rep
resented the life insurance of St. Paul
in placing an insurance policy for $2,0 JO.'
Cofl'ee Vneaper.
NeV York, Dec. 21. The report that
interest identified with the American
Sugar Refinery company will retaliate
upon the Arbuckle Coffee company for
their determination to build sugar re
finery, is confirmed to an extent by the
fact that the Woolson company, which
I the second largest roaster of coffee) la
the United States, reduced the price)
its product X cent per pound. Tbto atj
most on usual occurrence and it sa
carted in tbe trade as most sitnltcr
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