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THE NORTHWESTERN. IIENMCIIOTKK * (IIUSON.&llwd I'ubfc LOUP CITY, • * neb. NEBRASKA. The Burlington will put In a new Iron bridge nea/ Wyir.ore. The length of the new bridge will be 157 feet, and it will cross the Blue river near that city. The postal receipts at Omaha ag gregated $30,363 in September a* against $23,257 in the corresponding month of last year. This is an in crease of $7,106, or 30,6 per cent. The insanity commlon of Dodge county, adjudged August* Wallace a fit subject for the asylum. She is u daughter of Francis A. Wallace and for sonic time has been very unruly and hard to manage. Albert Palmer of llnroln, a flftcen yesr-old boy, was fatally shot by his playmate, Hoy Moore, aged thirteen, while hunting at Burlington beach. The shooting was purely accidental. Young Palmer died in perhaps ten minutes after the charge of shot had entered his body. There will be a meeting of the fair managers of the Trans-Mississippi states In Omaha October 25 and 26, the purpose being to discuss matters of Importance In the conduct of western fairs generally and to visit the exposi tion, The session will last two days. Among the speakers will he a number of prominent men who do not come from Trans-Mlssleslppi states. The official report of the Burling ton system for the year ended Juno 30 shows that gross earnings were $42,800,162, an Increase over the pre vious year of $7,273,975. The expens es and taxes of the system amounted to $27,810,886 which is an Increase of $6,149,117 over the expenses the previous year. Net earnings amount ed to $14,989,276, an increase of $2, 124,858. Fred and Ellas Edward* and John Olbaon, who were arreated In Union county, South Dakota, and brought to Dakota City by Sheriff Boronisky. charged with killing a ateer In the Marten paature belonging to Daniel O'Hanlon, wore discharged at their preliminary hearing before County Judge Hyan, there not being sufficient •vldence to warrant them being held to the dlatrlct court. At Beatrice Judge I/etton handed down hla decision In the application of W. H. Harris of Crete for a mandam us compelling O. E. Emery, float rep resentative committeeman from Cage county to sign a certificate for the nomination of W. 8. Orafton for float representative. Ho grants the wrlti Leave to file a motion for a rehear ing was granted and the issue will be made up and the caee taken to the supreme court. A petition has been filed by John E. Logan In the district court of Scott’s Bluff county, against Hon. Martin Oerlng, charging alienation of the af fections of Josephine Logan, wife of tbe plaintiff. The petition alleges the commission of adultery on the 18th day of March, 1898, and at divers times thereafter, and as a considera tion for the wounded feelings of the plaintiff and the loss of the society and comfort/of his said wife he asks judgment. In the sum of $50,000. Governor Holcomb has Issued his annual election proclamation In which tbe list of state congressional, legis lative and Judicial offices to be tiled are enumerated. Provision Is made for the filling of vacancies In the Third and In the Sixth judicial districts. A vacancy In the Sixth district was caused by the resignation of Judge Sullivan to qualify as Judge of the supreme court and a vacancy was caused In the Third district by the death of Judge Charles L. Hall of Lin coln. The Identity of the dead body found eaet of Wymore still remains a mys tery and notwithstanding the fact that efforts are being made to communicate with people mentioned in letters found • few yards from the body, ail at tempts so far have been in vain. A telegram was received from the chief of police at Omaha which had been sent at the urgent request of a Mr. Priest, asking for a description of the body, and one was sent, but no ad vice has been received from him or any other source and the case will probably remain unsolved. The Union J’arlflc had an expensive freight wreck eight miles north of Be atrice. Train No. f>5 was running at a high speed, when the engine and eight cars left the track and were piled up In the creek and on the right of wav, some of them being made Into kindling wood. On the engine were Kngineer Charley Burt, Fireman John Frozen end R. A. I<att*». The engine waa thrown from the track and went plung ing Into the ditch without a second's warning and all three men miraculous ly escaped Injury except Butt, whose Shoulder waa displaced. The experts hired by the city of Hastlnga to go over the city treusur er’a books for the period of eight years made their final report to the city council at a special meeting. The re port shows the city Indebted to J. |> Miles, the present treasurer, la the sum of f&t 41. also Indebted to Will 1* Vet ter. bis predecessor. In the sum of |34.It. The report further shows (). J Kvans. late mayor of the city, In debted to the city MI3 61. n shortage for the term he served as treasurer Firtor to Miles' first terra Mr. Kvans in mediately tendered his check paya ble to the city treasurer covering the full amount of the shortage claim*) by the esnert*- hut asked time from the council to go over the flguree with the experts, which was granted The mortgage record for Otoe coun ty for the asuoth of fteptmiher Is ea follows; New Instruments tied teen ty-four, aggregating 134 330 The re leaeee recorded were tfleen. amount ing to I« . Reports of 6 daring and myster ious railway nail robbet* at or near Alliance. In the northwestern part .f this elate, were coatrnied by H«|wr tatendaat Hut leg of I m oln 't «v,» latter pouckea, ope daeosed for Lin coln on the eaettwHi nd Burlington train, the other for Diets Mills and Montana p*oaU on the westbound ware cut open and mastered letters j and package* of vein# taken All of the Branch Lines of the Santa Fe to Be United. BY PURCHASE AND LONG LEASE THo Mot« Will IlMUlt In • 111* Kertm-Hon In Oporatlng Kip»»i -r»»ntjr Kimdi Will Ha (.'oDUilliltUil — Kuinuci ts Han InuirlMO I* Now Aiturad. Topkka, Kan.. Oct. 34.—Tho Atclil Km, Topeka A Santa Km railway, at Lite next meeting of ita stock holders, December 8, will absorb into the main company a majority of ita branch linen by purchase and the other branches by long time lease. The branches now controlled by the Santa Fe which the company proposes to absorb are: Kun sos City, Topeka A Western, lasaven worth, Northern A Southern, Southern Kansas. New Mexico A Southern i'aciilc, New Mexican railroad. Kin ilrande, Mexican A Pacific railroad, Sllrer City, Doming A i’aciilc, Wichita A Western, Ht. Joseph, St. ixtuia A Santa Fe. Chicago, Kansas A Western, Kansas city, Emporia ,1 SuulUru, Florence, Eldorado A Walnut Valley, Marion A Me Kherson, Wichita A Southwestern. The Chicago, Santa Fe A California, Denver A Santa Fe. Pueblo A Arkan sas Valley cannot be purchased now, but are to be leased and the ratifica tion of the leases will be voted on at stockholders’ meeting. At the general manager's otlicc it was explained to day that those purchases are made to get rid of a vast amount of extra work in the various department*. It will make very eonslde-able re duction of expense of running the road. The lines represented by the companies to be absorbed arc now operated and practically owne 1 by the Santa Fe. It is formally announce! that the stockholder* will vote oa tho approval of the recent purchase of con trolling interest in the San Francisco A Sun Joaquin Valley railway, which is to give the Hint* Fa its own line in to Sun Francisco. To connect the newly purchased property with tho company’s old lines the Mojave division of tho Southern Pacific has been leased subject to the approval of the stock holders at this meeting. CAPTURED 7,000 MAUSERS. A Report on I lie Spanish Illltcs Taken at Nmitl»(o. Wasiiikotosi, Oct. 24,—The board of officer* of tlie ordnance department di rected to inquire into tlio condition* of the Spanish small arms captured at Santiago lias made it* report. The Umrd find* that the Spanish arms con sist of two patterns, the Spanish Mauser of seven millimeter or .24 cali ber and the Turkish Mauser of 7.6') millimeter caliber. The cartridges of these arms are. of course, not inter changeable. There i* only a small percentage of the hitler arm, how ever, not enough to tuke into consider ation the subject of restoring theta for use in the army. Of the Spanish Mausers, it was found that ai>out three-fourths of them could be utilised by taking parts of tiic remainder anil supplying de ficiencies in the best anna. This would make, at a rough estimate, 7,<mh) Mau sers available for use in the army. No decision lias been reached as to the feasibility of Introducing them into the American army and it is possible that for the present they will bo held to await an emergency. NOW ALASKA IS EXPANDING, Aurv*yor« II. tv# Found *.500 Hqu*r« Milos of Additional Territory. Wakhixotox. Oe. 21.-—The discovery it 2,MM) square miles of additional ter ritory of the t'nitrd Slate* on the Alaskan const aud of a new channel for Yukon bound vessel*, which will minimize distance, time ami danger, la ollicially reported to Superin tendent I’ritchett of the coast and geodetic survey by John V. 1’rutt, the assistant in charge of the expedition which has been working in these waters. What the expansion of our Alaskan territory is due to in not known. There is a possibility of accretion and constant outward growth of the land since the first charta were made, but the better opinion is that it is due to previous inaccurate chart*. Mr. I'ratt s work is the first regular anil reliable survey of the region. The finding of the new channel will effect a saving of about «0J or .',00 miles iu reaching the Yukon. Memorial In lltlltrt'l I la ih* War < vmbkuiok Mass , tint. 2t \ large mass meet lug of Harvard students was held in Hoder's theater last night to take action with regard to a memorial to the Harvard men who died in the war with bpaia I'resideat Honald of the senior class preside*! and addresses I were mad* by President KHot. Major II I. Hogglnson aud MorWm (thaw A letter of regret wss received from t ul onel t'hcsalore ttuoeevelt, who had been invited to speak • »•« in* %».«• • rig tan. lamiais, IM Jt live lawn of Mti.-vosburv and eotully ha. been ra •i(.stover the trial of the vicar of Roy. Iu* ami hi* wife for cruelly to two or phan nieces, who had lwen left la (hair charge Tire tfhtidreu had U. • n reduced t.» tS‘-> p'*ilieii of d« Iges |S>- .1 . 'ol., Ing w«* ragged su l they were fed from a pig tab, t he elder ehtbl it was at legprd, wee etrtppsrd aad beaten by the tinrk wife a >d was (ticked by the star. Il»th the vb'ar aad his wife evri sniwwd to four mouths iu*' promua.se* a hard tabor HAVE DONE NOTHING YET. *•*•» FrnltU** Hoatlna i of P««e« Coni missions—Am«rlf mi AUmlliif Firm. Pabis. Oct. 24.—Tho joint session of the peace commission yesterday lasted from 2 p. m. to 4:30 p. in. During this time the commissioners discussed the second series of written arguments put forward by the Spaniard* for the pur pose of prevailing upon the American commissioners to assume the Cuban debt. No definite conclusion was reached and the commisa.oners ad journed until Monday, when tho Cuban question will again be discussed. It is probable that this feature of the negotiations will be disposed of next week. Thus far there have been seven Joint sessions, four of which have been de voted to the discussion of the first ar ticle of tile protocol. In this manner two weeks have passed and no result lias been reached. Tho American com missioners bare listened to all the ar guments of the Spaniards, but they have not changed the position which they first assumed In refusing to take over the Cuban debt. Porto Rli-nn» IHssntIsllr.l. Raw JUAB. Oct. 24.- Considerable political excitement prevails here, ow ing to the fact that Munoz Rivera, president of the recent autonomist council of secretaries; lienor Jilanco, secretary of the treasury; Kcnor Lo pe/,, secretary of justice, and Honor Carbonncl, secretary of the interior, all elected lust March on the autono mist platform, are continued hv Major General Krooke in their respective of fices. Their political opponents sug gest public demonstrations against such continuance. Investigation by the American au thorities, however, has led to the con clusion that they are all men of excel lent standing, and that their retention in office will be the best way to pre serve tranquility in the insular ad ministration until such time as the i’ulted States congress can take action regarding l’otto Rico. (Iprlulns lu Uia Tr»n«vaal. PnKToiUA, Oct, 24.— Serious trouble is brewing’ with the Mugato tribe in tlie Zoutpansbcrg district, south of the Limpo river. 'J’lie natives recently massacred a Lutheran missionary and liis family at the town of Zoutpunn berg, and the Transvaal government sent an expedition to punish them. The affair has now assumed serious proportions. Chief Apefu, with 20,000 followers, fully armed, and four cannons, sup plied by white trailers, has attacked the Laager. Heavy fighting is pro ceeding The ultimatum of the com manding officer of the Transvaal troops, (ieneral .1. Joubert, demanding an unconditional surrender, lias been ignored by the tribesmen, and he has summoned 3,000 burghers to reinforce tile 5,000 now in the field. The cam paign promises to be prolonged. limwtj l« Heartl From. Washington, Oct. 24.—A telegram was received by the secretary of the navy yesterday from Admiral Dewey, at Manila, saying that the collier Nero arrived at Tuku October Iff with her coal on fire, ami suggesting that, as he bus no further use for the vessel, she be sent, home. Admiral Dewey said nothing with regard to the political situation in the 1’hilipplnes or the capture of any more ships belonging cither to the Span iards or to the insurgents, or at least, if he did. the officials of the depart ment will not admit it. Ohio National Hank Falla. Lisbon, Ohio, Oct. 24.—The First National bank of this place was closed to-day by the directors. II. J. Childs, who has been the cashier for twenty years, has not been seen since yester day morning. The bank examiners ar* iu charge of the Institution. An investigation of the bank's af fairs is now in progress, and enough has Wen discovered to convince the directors that Childs is an embezzler. Amljr I)ii|inni I* Hold. Omaha, Neb., (Jet. 24. —The jury in the inquest over the body of William Walker, the prizefighter killed in a tight nt South Omaha by Andy Dupont last Monday night, returned a verdict holding Dupont u» principal and Chief of 1’oliee Carroll of South Omaha ac eeaaory to the killing. The testimony allowed that Carroll had received money to allow the light to proceed. I’hflpi tMla Ilia MUarac*. Lkxisoton, Ky., Oct. ',’4. —Private John I'lielp*, of the Second .Missouri regiment, who was publicly dUchargod and diagraccd at Camp Hamilton is at ill lu the eity. lie taken hia dla graec keenly and will not return home. Friend* hay he regreta the publicity he ha* received and will reform He graduated from Yale in ISVi and wan at Auna|<oUa aia month*. trruvad «t M*n*l*u«hl*r Clin Amt, ttrt, ?t—Deputy hhrriff J Webster, from Vtrden, 111., la In Chi* c4go with wartanta for the arreet of | President T C. I Mint'k * and Secretary i W I, York, of the Chicago Vtrden I nal | company. The warranta charge maii htaughter. The deputy sheriff and two Chicago detective# were unable to find Mr. iMtuckh and Secretary York and have aet leva able aa yet to M>rv* the warranta Item l« t ••ln| hMlk (aimak***. I ul*. (let It -l'nl«*ea | there la tome tiafoi i»t»n delay » aptata Itarrt* and tingiueeea ktaaa Dot* and hc»’tt of the VuUaa aad Captain cist ten tint of the wrecker# agree that the I'erwea wilt atari north neat Twewday I tltlaa t>»e»M Vim 4|tla Nt* Nona tad 94 l.itltan Hn**eU j l* again free from mate(womtat lien ntgaor t'erug'ni, akee wife the had : ; l ivK Slue January 9t, l»t*4, yeelerday | | received a decree of divorce la the j i eheiMety court In Jvrary illy. DU GETTING READY. All Warships Ordered to Take on Their Full Crew. LEAVES OF ABSENCE RECALLED 1lrlti*li Torpedo llmili Whirl. Were About to lie Repaired Ordered Hark Into Service — KiiiaU Drop* a I.oud Hint In Fsvor of frmuca In Fa.hods Matter. Loudon, Oct. 2t,—The Hritish ad tniralty has ordered every seagoing warship to have its crew made up to the full complement, at. in ordered in ease of mobilisation. Four torpedo ln.at destroyers, which were about to be tilted with new water tube boilera, have had their orders countermanded aud have been instructed to redraw their stores. Officers on leave of absence or un employed have been noti lied to hold themselves In readiness to commission the reserve ships if required. The excitement over the Fashoda question led an Irishman to smash with an umbrella a window of the office of I'unch on Fleet street this morning. The cartoon depicting John Hull threatening a French organ grinder had aroused the Irishman, lie shouted “Vive la France” as he broke the window. 11c was arrested, and when asked if ho was a Frenchman said: "No. J’in tn Irishman. Had I been a Frenchman I would huve blown up the place. ” 8t. Fetkrsbliio, Oct. 32.—Comment ing upon the recent speech of the Hrit ish chancellor of the exchequer, (Sir Michael Hicks- Heach, the N’ovoe Vrernya charges the chancellor witli making a violent attack upon the French government and says iic failed to bear in mind that France has in llussia "an ally resolved to support her in the Fashoda question, in view of the full solidarity of their interests.” SIMON’S HOUSE PAINTED BLUE Hunan I'alnls llolj landmark* In I'ales tine for the Knlsur's Vlalt Cosstantihoi’i.k, Oct. 24.— The zeal of the mi)tan of Turkey to renovate every town iu Palestine through which Ktuperor William shall pass has resulted in the desecration of even holy places. The historical house of Simon the tanner at Joppa, a few miles from Jerusalem, where Saint Peter lived, has been painted bright blue and its floors have been laid with colored tiles. llcsidex this, the build ing has been inclose! with a gaudy fence, while a superb iron screen over a dome of rock, dating back to the days of the crusaders, has been coated with yellow paint. ANOTHER YEAR FOR CANAL Tlie Maritime Com ji,tny'« roncrailon Does Not Kiplra Until October, 1890. Managua, Nicaragua, Oct. 1,—The contention of the American company regarding its canal concession of the government of Nicaragua is sustained. A commission of the Nicaraguan su preme court met here September 19 by order of President Seyala, to decide on the date of expiration of the conces sion to construct a canal across Nica ragua. The concession, ratified by the Nicaraguan congress April 20, 138',, was granted by the Nicaraguan gov ernment to tlie Maritime canal com pany of Nicaragua, chartered by the United States government. The commissioners were asked to lceep their decision secret from every one except President Seyala and the cabinet ministers, but it has leaked out. The couuaisaioners decided that the contract expires October 20, 1899. This accords with an official act of October 8, 1889, declaring that tlie ten years within which the company bound itself to complete the canal ended October 20, 1899. That act was signed and agreed to ofllcially by the Nicaragua!) minister of public works. EVERYBODY SLOW IN MANILA. Aii Army Olttrvr Writ** About tbe Troop* In Ilia Thlilppln* Capital, Wahhixato!*, Oet. 24.— A private let ter ha* Ini'n reeel veil (ruin nn u Ulcer in Manila giving mime feature* of tho condition of tins army in Manila. It wn written wnnii time Hff> when there were IT,out troop* ul Manila. At that time there were about <:0I eiek in ho*pltal. The ellmate make* exertion very difficult au<l every one U alow. The troop* are acat tens'. al*out tile city III coiupanief anil hohl all the alreet* to keep out the insurgent*. Hinee the rain cn«nl warm weather ha* been very oppre*' alv* ami alekne** Inereaved. Typhoid, dyaeutary amt malaria have prevailed, but not tuore aothan one ahould expect In the tropica The letter aaya that tieneral Utla work* tuo hard. |* reHi< ally lokiug tuto every detail wf the arwty Ue BetM r*ll«v N«ll*v'« l»#fal»«ila* front man Kan . Uvt It The re ! wltrri of the Omedley- ttariin*to« lean e»iii*i*aay of tt valeho*ler, l‘*. which had over |.,.lil,oai loaaed on kan uu farm* ha* W*um foreelonmo on i laud in nowtheaateru Kanaa* oonntie* The prvaeut on aera claim to have patd I the wurtytif** t» Henry J llwtler, who j waa generally known a* tha company a Kai>a*a agwut, ami win* from thta etty eeveral n*>miha am* Tha i|io*ti>« whether llwtler wee *#»»! for thv borrower, or fur the luamr, la rwiaew. A LARGER OUTPUT OF GOLD. Over O? Million Dollar* the World’* Product In I Mil7 Washi«gto», Oct. 84.—The director of the mint, in his report upon the production of the precious metal* dur ing the calendar year 18117, juat sub mitted to the aecretary of the treasury, deala not only with the production of gold and nilver in tho United Htutea. but iu foreign countries an well and draws a comparison between the pro duction of the leading producing coun tries of the world. The Tnltie of gold produced in the United States during 1897 was 8.57,* 3(53,000. The South African Republic holds first place, producing gold to the value of 867,633,801; Australnsia, 855, (584,182, and Russia, 823,245*7(53. There was a notable increase in the production of gold in the world dur ing 1897 over 1890. The United States increased 84,276,000: tile South African Republic made tho remarkable gain of 813,854,192. and Australasia Increased 810,502,249. Romance of the War. Dr. AD WOOD, N. 1)., Oct. 24.—Albert Martin, a rancher, living near the Cheyenne river iu Zlehcck county, en listed as a volunteer at the beginning of the war and fought at the battle of El Taney. After the battle he met Ra mona I'erez, the daughter of au officer of Garcia’s command, and they became sweethearts. Soon afterward he was attacked by fever and sent home on sick leave. He was engaged Iniforo his departure for the war to the daughter of a neigh boring ranchman and arranged to in! married while home ou his leave of ab ac u«e. Meanwhile the Cuban girl had learned of his illness and that he had gone homo and she resolved to follow and nurse him. Dressing in her broth er's clothes, sho crossed to Jamaica and secreted herself on a fruit steamer bound for New Orleans. Reaching there, she tramped nnd beat her way to llerrnosa. 8, I). When she reached there she learned of her lover's ap proaching marriage and the shock drove her insane. At the same time the American woman learned of her lover's flirtation and broke off the en gagement. Martin began drinking heavily and disappeared. A few days ago his body whs found floating in tiie Cheyenne river. Whether he fell in while intoxicated or committed sui cide is a matter of conjecture. Reporter W»» Too Freels Amsterdam, Oct. 24.—While Queen Wilhelmina and her mother were about to take a train yesterday on their re turn to Apeldoora, a reporter, dressed in a bicycle costume, advanced and of fered his arm to the young queen. lie was immediately arrested. It was at first reported that the queen had been assaulted, and great excitement pre vailed. It appeared later that the re porter was subject to derangement. He explained that he merely desired, out of politeness, to escort the queen to tiie train. Frederic Had Ne I>oetor. London, Oct. 24.—The inquest over the remains of Harold Frederic, the j newspaper correspondent and author, was adjourned until Wednesday next. The evidence presented was somewhat sensational. Mr. Frederic's daughter, Ruth, said her father did not believe in doctors. She added that it was with his consent, but under the influence of others, that Mrs. Mills, a Christian Scientist, was summonsd to attend him. Yellow Fever I* Checked. Washington, Oct. 24.—The cold weather in the South is checking the yellow fever epidemic and the reports to the marine hospital authorities here show a constantly lessening number o' cases. NEWS IN BRIEF. Dublin. William Redmond, Parnell* ite member of parliament for East Clare, addrruiug a homo rule meeting here, called for cheers for Major March and. which were given with great heartiness. Mr. Redmond said: "The sympathies of Iriahmen are with France." lloaton.—It ia reported to the shoe and leather exchange that the Kostou Rubber Wlioe company has been ab sorbed by the 1 'luted States Rubber company and that Mr. Converse, ita president, will )>eroine a director In the new corporation. The purchase price ia said to he #1,000,00‘J rash and 8I.I2S,* •MX) in preferred stock paying * per cent dividend and 83,tub,TOO common, u total of M,a23,noo. Constantinople.—-The emperor and empress of tiermany, with the aultan, reviewed 15,000 Turkish troops from a window of the Yildia Kiosk. After the review the sultan escorted the empress to liiuchcou, taking her on his arm. An iuioienss crowd of Turks surrounded the palace and cheered until Emperor William appeared upon the balcony. Washington.— In their effort to meet Herman competition, the fsbrie men- J ufseturers of Runlutis, France, have developed s new wraving luachins. whteh In speed surpasses the new Northrop inseUlne of Anierit-sn l uvea l,on, and permits the use of wrdlnarj material. hhelbiaa. Ms - J I. rheuvront. who has disappeared, ia saht to be heavily tilde hied to the nhsihy Villa lash, l he t'Urvs.’S bank sad two private Indi vid uslc. t’hen front Is of ruddy com pU sion black hair and mustache. Washington -The general ruevewj t..ns of the Kplseopa, chin ch adopted s l report recommend tug conferenso with the i hutch of bus'laud before entering on Independent work in Hawaii, ths two churches doing Juisl work lIters 1 now waiter agreement I’r*.vision was loads for lbs e»* utulss >»n lo atari work in Fwb sand l\»rto Him very. early I IS HARD ON OLD SPAIN. Slowly K(tailslug That filie Will !!»▼• to Vmj Cuban I>«I»t T’auis, Oct 21.—The Spanish peace commission wan unable to meet the United State* peace commission in the joint session yesterday, and the next session of the two commissions has been fixed for Friday next. Judge Day, president of the Ameri can commission, read a communication from Senor Montero Hlos, president of tile Spanish commission, saying that udvicew expected but not received from Madrid made it necessary for hitnscif and colleagues to request a postpone ment of any further conferences until Friday next. A courteous reply was returned by Secretary Monro in behalf of the American commissioners grant ing an extension of the time of the next meeting ar requested. The assigned mason for delay is be lieved to have been to allow an inter change of communications witli Mad drid and to formulate a final attitude on the Cuban matter. Tills attitude of the Spaniards, to be developed on Friday, will lie watched with no little interest. Their alternatives are few, but pregnant. They may accede to the American attitude, themselves as sume the Cuban debt and go forward to consider the next protocol point of Porto Rico, and the choice by the United States of an island in the La drone group; or they inay at this junc ture formally astc for urbitration, or as an extremity, which is not likely, may retire from further negotiations. The tone, during the last four days, of tiie Spanish and French press is sig nificant of widened confidences by the Spanish as to the attitude they have assumed in the negotiations here and the recurring assurances of Spain’s de sire for arbitration may have bail a meaning. The Spaniards may not have sought to promote sympathy, but had they desired to lay down a basis upon which to set up a plea to Kurope to prevent what it is sought to present as her ravishment, the surface indica tions could not have iteen more favor ably disposed for that purpose than they have been. Surgrona Scored. Jacksonvu.uk, Fla., Oct. 21 —The war investigating commission held its sessions iu the city hall yesterday, ex amining a large number of regimental and other officers. One of the most outspoken witnesses of tho duy was Dr. Frye of the Third division hos pital. He condemned some of the methods In vogue in the hospitals and said that in many cases the contract physicians and members of the hos pital corps wero incompetent. Dr. Frye spoke in very uncompli mentary terms of the men engaged in the hospital corps, saying they had been picked up at random over the country and were “generally a scabby looking lot," not fit to udoru any walk of life. He also spoke deprecatingly of the contract surgeons, saying that lie would not be willing to trust his family or friends to 50 per cent of them. "Many of them,” he said, “are re cent graduates from medical institu tions, and I do not consider the aver age medical graduate capable of taking charge of from twcnty-tive to fifty typhoid fever cases." General Lawtou Arrives. Kkw Yokk, Oct. 21.—Hrigadier Gen eral H. YV. Lawton of the military department of Eastern < uba. arrived in this city yesterday, accompanied by his aides. The general, who hns been granted a leavo of absence for sixty days on account of ill he.alth, looked fairly well, and said that the voyage had done him a great deal of good. Speaking of the condition of affairs in Santiago and other portions of East ern Cuba, Gencrul Lawton said: "The general situation is good, and General Wood, who is now in charge, is rush ing the sanitary work to completion as fast as possible. Tho people down there claim that in the history of San tiago the city was never so clean as at the present time. Husincss is reviving also and confidence among business men is almost completely restored. Capitalists are now investing money. Tho people have accepted the United States government with the utmost confidence Two heaiki ..... *. they're trumps. . ,n one—if LIVE STOCK AND PRODUCE Omaiit, Cliliug** <kinl New York Market yuuUllimt, ON AU*. Ilnlter I reumery wpurator I* Muller < Imlre faiu y couuliy In K»it• Kre.U, per ilur . II eprlngi tili lki im Per pound ... 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