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About Western news-Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 3, 1898)
v Ft It R x h As o t t t r y V V tf i j If- fa few fe J a Vr VOLUME xin TfflS TOE WORLD INTELLIGENCE FROM PARTS ALL NEW TRIAL GRANTED FRANCE THE DECIDES TO REVISE DREYFUS CASE The Condemned Man Still Remains a Prisoner on Devils Island as the CourtHolds There Are No Grounds for Suspension of Penalty The Dreyfus Case Dreyfus will secure a new trial The court of cassation of France on Saturday -decided to grant a revision of the case and will institute a supplementary inquiry The court however declined to order the release of Dreyfus The decision of the court textually is as follows In view of the letter of the minister ot justice dated September 20 1898 in view of the arguments of the public prosecutor denouncing to the court the condemnation pronounced by tlie first court martial of the military government of Paris on De cember 22 1894 against Alfred Dreyfusj then a captain of artillery attached to the general staff in view of all the documents in the case and also of articles 443 and 445 of the code of criminal procedure endeit by the law of June 10 18G5 relative to thi admissibility of an application in proper tform lor revision The court declared tlie application to be -in proper form and legally admissible and stales that it will institute a suple mentary inquiry and declares there is no ground at the present momentfor deciding -on the public prosecutors application for suspension of penalty The judges of the court were occupied for three hours and a half in considering the judgment The public whose ad mission o the court was regulated with the greatest care awaited the decision with marked calmness During the sus pension of business the public crowded into the lobbies and there was evident -anxiety to hear the verdict There was no demonstration when the court rose The decision created no public excitement and complete tranquility prevails on tliQ streets LIFE BOATS CHAINED DOWN -Story of Miss Koudebush a Survivoi of the Mohegau Disaster Mits Maud Roudebush who is -better on the operatic stage as Miss Maud Roudez one of the survivors of the Mohe gan disaster arrived in this country Sun--day on the uttaid liner Eruria Miss Roudebush was drescd in deep mourning -and her face lure ttacea of the strain and -hardships she endured when the steamer was wrecked When seen by a reporter Miss Koudebush in reply to a question said The opinion of John Hyslop that tho life boats weie difficult of access I believe is true and I can say myself that they were double railed as has been slated and that the rail around the boat was almost s high as ones chin They were chained -down and when I went on deck I saw some of them which apparently no at tempt had been made to launch 1 do nof know what caused the accident VIRDEN MINE STRIKE CASES Penwells Are Fined 20 and Costs for Inciting the Riot The trial of Orve and Max Penwell sons of operator G V Penwell and Louis Jehle of Chicago charged with inciting the riot at Paua 111 of September 28 when negroes and union mineis fought a battle on the principal business streets of the city was called in Judge Crosbys court Saturday morning The Penwells were lined 23 each and costs The case against Jehle was dismissed The Pen wells will appeal to the circuit court Anarchists in Ponce A sensation was created in Ponce Porto Rico Saturday on the arrival of the steamer Philadelphia from the Spanish main by the discovery in the handbags of two passengers of a number of explosive -cartridges containing dynamite The dis covery was made bv the customs officers and the passengers were arrested on thei supposition that they were anarchists The police who fear that others belonging to the gang have escaped are making a strict search Biff Grain Shipments More than 690000 bushels of wheat aud corn cleaied the custom house at Phila delphia Saturday on steamers bound for European ports The shipments of wheat and corn from this port since January 3 have aggregated over 25000000 bushels Great Fire in Cashmere A great fue in Serinagur one of the capitals of Cashmere in the Vale of Cash mere India destroyed all the public buildings and many residences Sunda3T One man was lulled The damage is esti mated at 5500000 Noted Presbyteriun Divine Dead Samuel Mutchmore one of the most prominent ministers in the Presbyterian church died at his home in Philadelphia Sunday from kidney trouble He was 69 years Sails for Manila The transport Zealandia with the First aud Second battalions of the First Ten nessee regiment comprising 590 men sailed from San Francisco Sunday for Manila DREYFUS CAS CALLED Question of Granting New Trial Be fore French Supreme Court The court of cessation of France which s to decide upon the question of reopening the case of Dreyfus opened at noon Thursday in Paris and was filled with people but there wa3 no demonstration As a matter of precaution only ticket holders were admitted MaitreLaborio who waseonnsel for Zola during the lat ters trial was among the lawyers occupy ing the first row Mine Dreyfus was present and was represented by Maitro Mornard The Dreyfus appeal case was called immediately According to a special dispatch from Paris to a London paper the mob around the palace of justice where the appeal in the Dreyfus case is being heard necaine so dangorens that the lawyers tied VICTIMS OF VIRDEN RiOT Coroners Jury Renders Its Verdict No One Censured The coroners jury which has been in session at Carlinville 111 for fourteen days holding an inquest on the bodies of nine of the victims of the riot at Virden October 12between miners and guards ol the Chicago Virden Coal Company re turned a verdict Fiiday evening The veulict in each instance is that the de ceased came to his death by gunshot wounds inllicted by weapons in the hands of parties unknown to the jury No one was censured and no recommendations were made to the grand jury The grand jury will convene November fl in special session to investigate the causes of the not and indict the guilty parties OREGON INDIANS UP IN ARMS Redskins in Baker Mining District on a Shooting Affray Word was received Thursday from Can yon City Ore of a shooting affray ir which Indians shot and seriously wounded Dave Cuttings and shot the horses frou under E Duncan and F Mosier Tht redskins then went to the home of Jolic High and shot him but not fatally The scene of the trouble is on the south fork ol the John Day River thirty miles south west A well armed posse from Canyon City took up the trail and trouble is ex pected as the Indians are well armed BOY ROBBERS SENTENCED Five Youths Who Held Up a Train Get Ten Years Each In the criminal court at St Joseph Mo Thursday afternoon Herbert Donovan Alonzo Arteburn Charles Cook James Hathaway and William Hathaway were sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years for robbing a Burlington passenger train near St Joseph on the evening ol August 11 Tlie robbers are mere boys and of good families The robbery was successfully executed but no booty wa secured Lake Schooner Sinks The three masted schooner St Peter ol St Vincent sank Friday about live mile southwest of Sodus on Lake Ontario witL all on board save Captain John Griffin who was rescued in a precarious condition Eight persons at least perished It is thought that the St Peter lost her ruddei and that the heavy seas caused he lospring a leak She was bound from Oswegs tc Toledo with coal Great Tobacco Combine A syndicate composed of several east ern capitalists are about to file articles ol incorporation of the Continental Tbaccc Com pan j The company will have a cap ital of 75000000 one half to be 7 pei cent preferred and one half common stock This syndicate will control more than four fifths of the plug tobacco output of the country Light Catch of Seals The official statement of the sealing in dustry for the season just closed shows e total of but 27865 skins for the fleet o1 thirty five schooners by far the lightest catch in many years also fewer schooneri have of course been employed The catch is divided thus Asiatic coast 4i0 British Columbia coast 10055 Behriw Sea 17370 Sick Soldier Suicides Philip It N Hildreth 20 years old a member of Troop A New York volun teers committed suicide in New York City while delirious from fever con tracted in Porto llico He shot himsell through the head with his army revolver Hildreth was cashier for the shipping and export house of William It Grace Co Drunken Fight of Soldiers In a quarrel at Lexington Ky Thurs day between William JI Green John Nofwit and Ed Wilson all privates iu Company H Seveulh lmmlines negroes Green was shot and instantly killed bj NofwiL All were drinking and had come back to camp from town Board of Trade Firm Fails H C Gray Co commission merchants on the Chicago Board of Tradeon Thurs day required Secretary Stone to cice up all accounts which were open with them Mr Gray has served as a director of th board for the past two years Double Hanging in Texas At Richmoud Texas Manuel Morris and Peter Autre negroes were hanged from a double gallows Morris murdered and then outraged a 6-year-old blind gJrlt and ihen confessed the crime Autif assassinated his mistress The Plague in Kussia It is now recognized that the epidemic prevailing at Samarkand Russia is the truo pUgue The mortality is higher f ir t VALENTINE NEBRASKA NOVEMBER 8 1898 WEEKS FAMILY MURDERER George Taylor Is Located in Texas but Eludes Officers Another clew to George Taylor one of the murderers of the Meelts family has gone glimmering Ever since the escape of George Taylor from the Carrolton jail four years ago many efforts to capture him have been made He has always suc ceeded in eluding arrest and now he has again slipped out of the clutches of the police just when they were sure they had him A week ago Detective Charles Sandt son of Kansas City received a tip from an old crook that Taylor was living on a ranch twenty miles from Galveston Texas and that he was in the habit of going to Galveston every Tuesday Sand erson quietly slipped away from Kansas City and landed in Galveston but the bird had flown Some one evidently had tipped Taylor and he has again disap peared MORE WARSHIPS FOR DEWEY Two Light Draft Gunboats to Be Sent to the Philipines Two more men of war will probably follow the auxiliary cruiser Buffalo to the Asiatic squdron Orders have already been given to the gunboat Helena to pre pare for her long trip through the Suez Canal to the far east and as soon as she is ready she will start The Yorktown it is understood will soon be placed in com mission on the Pacific coast and will start for Manila In addition to these gunboats it will be necessary for the department within the next few months to send an auxiliary cruiser carrying another draft of men to take the places of those on the Asiatic station whose terms of enlistment have expired NOTED THEATRICAL MAN DEAD Nathaniel Childs Takes Morphine and Then Shoots Himself Nathaniel Childs press agent of the Way Down East company died a suicide at the Jefferson Hospital in Philadelphia Saturday lie had swallowed forty five grains of morphine after which he shot himself in the head The act was com mitted October 25 but through the efforts of friends the affair was kept secret and Childs was taken to the hospital where he lingered until Saturday Despondency is given as the reason for the act Childs was one of the best known men in the theatrical world Case of Religious Fanaticism A case of fanaticism of the worst typt was discovered at Los Angeles Cal when Nell Thompson colored died while being taken f ion tlie homo of Mrs Minei va Williams who is said to call herself a rep resentative of Christ aud who has been preaching the doctrine of fasting as a means of grace The Thompson woman practiced this doctrine having gone with out food for eight days and sleepingon the river bottom on a piece of matting in pur suance of what is said to be Mrs Will iams teachings Opposed to Penitentiary Products The national convention of the whole sale saddlery dealers in session at Cincin nati adopted resolutions requesting con gress to put hides on the free list and tc buy no goods manufactured in penal insti tutions The association the last year spent 18000 to dispose of a plant at Joliet 111 and they are now after the plant working under contracts in the Maino penitentiary To Punish Chinese Soldiers In response to the demand of the British minister Sir Claude MacDonald the em press dowager of China has issued an edict directing the punishment of the Chinese soldiers who attacked a party of English railway engineers at the Marco Polo bridge on the Pekin railroad ftXABKEX QUOTATIONS Chicago Cattle common to prime 300 to 000 hogs shipping grades 300 to 5400 sheep fair to choice 250 to 475 wheat No 2 red 66c to 67c corn No 2 31c to 33c oats No 2 23c to 24c rye No 2 49c to 51c butter choice creamery 21c to 23c eggs fresh 17c to 19e potatoes choice 30c to 40c per bushel Indianapolis Cattle shipping 300 to 550 hogs choice light 300 to 400 sheep common to choice 300 to 450 wheat No 2 red 69c to 70c corn No 2 white 32c to 33c oats No 2 white 26e to 28c St Louis Cattle 300 to 575 hogs 350 to 400 sheep 350 to 50a wheat No 2 70c to 72c corn No 2 yeIlow31c to 33c oats No 2 25c to 27c rye No 2 50c to 52c v Cincinnati Cattle 250 to 525 hogs 300 to 4O0 sheep S250Fo 425 wheat No 2 6Sc to 70c corn No 2 mixed 34c to 35c oats No 2 mixed 25c to 27c rye No 2 54c to 56c Detroit Cattle 250 to 550 hogs 325 to 400 sheep 250 to 450 wheat No 2 73c to 74c corn No 2 yellow 35c to 36c oats No 2 white 26c to 2Sc rye 53c to 55c Toledo Wheat No 2 mixed 71c to 72c corn No 2 mixed 32c to 34c oats No 2 white 23c to 25c rye No 2 51c to 53c clover seed new 510 to 520 x Milwnukee Wheat No 2 spring 67e to 68c corn No 3 32c to 34c oats No 2 white 26c to 2Sc rye jSto 1 50e to 52c arley No 2 46c to 47c pork mess 775 to 825 Buffalo Cattle good shipping steers 300 to 575 hogs commou to choice P350 to 400 sheep fair to choice weth ers 350 to 500 Iambs common tc jxtra 500 to 575 New York Cattle 300 to 575 hogs P300 to 400 sheep 300 to 475 wheat No 2 red 77c to 79c corn No p 39c to 40c oats No 2 28c to 30c butter creamery 16c to 24c eggs Westi era 19c to 21c STATE 0E NEBRASKA NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON DENSED FORM Thirteenth Annual Convention of Nebraska Christian Endeavor Un ion at Hastings Good Attendance and Much Enthusiasm State Christian Kndeavorers The thirteenth annual convention of the j Nebraska Christian Endeavor union was held at Hastings Oct 21 22 and 23 There were 400 delegates in attendance The convention proved a success as the weather was favorable the attendance was large and everybody seemed to be gieatly enthused The various programs as arranged weie interesting and instruct ive and every meeting was well attended The following information is gleaned from the secretarys report Socie ties Congregational 143 Presbyterian 14S1 Christian 142 Lutheran 25 Evangelical 553 United Brethren 24 Baptist 18 Methodist Episcopal It Protestant Methodist 11 Friends United Presbyterian 8 Eree Will Biptist 8 Reformed 4 Advanced Presbyterian 3 Peoples 2 Chmchof God 2 Seventh Day Baptist 1 Men 1 Member ship 4125 4881 3710 819 897 551 356 241 21B 2G3 206 163 123 97 S4 40 71 U Solution of a Mystery The mystery surrounding the identity of the body of the young man who was faund dead near Wymore recently has been cleared up John Krapp of Cortland had a brother named Peter Krapp who lisappeared from home about July 15 The former has positively identified the the clothing as that of his brother The deceased he sa3s was partly ilemented and was frequently talk ing of going to South America which he axpecled to reach by walking How he came to his death being physically strong is more of a mystery than ever As long as the remains were thought to be those of T E Priest of Omaha the conclusion was eaehed that bellied from an overdose of morphine How the Iatters letters came o be in the vicinity of the dead man is aot apparently explained Boy Commits Suicide Mead Clark the 11-year-old grandson Df Walter Holston a leading farmer north of Trenton and a prominent citizen com mitted suicide by shooting himself with a through the left breast He came into tovn to school in the morning but decided not to attend and went on an errand for which he received 75 cents Afler completing the errand he visited a school in the country aud did not arrive aome till about 5 oclock His grandfather reprimanded him mildly for staying out of school when he went into the house and jsed the revolver with the above result Supposedly Murdered Meager particulars of the murder of Lawrence R True son of Mr and Mrs M B C True of Tecumseh at Cincinnati aave reached the former city He had left iucinnati presumably on a freight iteamer for St Louis and as he had up wards of 100 on his person it is believed no was killed for his money and thrown jverboard His body with the throat cut Ami otherwise lacerated was found float near Lawrencoburg Ind Clairvoyant Under Arrest C O Corbett the clairvoyant who lumped ids board bill at the Commercial Intel in Bancroft last week was arrested it Wayne turned over to Constable Rossi ier and taken back to Bancroft for trial Corbett is also wanted at Elk Point S D where he went under the name of W J Paullinglou which is supposed to be his true name and wheie he is charged with numerous offenses Gamblers at Grand Island A oout three weeks ago the doors of the aiiibliug rooms at Grand Island were again thrown open and everything has itu c been tunning wide No interference js attempted by tlie police department and I he dicks of the roulette wheel have been heard on the streets by pedestrians pass ing some of the saloons The mayor and cit council are being severely criticised New College Building- Dedicated An elaborate ceremonial at Lincoln one day last week was the dedication of Hid building devoted to the college of mechanical arts just completed on the lite University of Nebraska campus President Chaplin of Washington Univer sity St Louis deliveted the dedication dress Wreck at Lincoln A wreck occurred in the B M yards at Lincoln in which two men were badly injured A switch engine left the track and the fifteen oars following it were piled up in a promisoous manner Several of thecals were reduced to kindling wood Killed His Affianced Wife John Melchort an exposition employe shot and fatally wounded his affiance wife Lillian Morris and then turned his weap on on himself anil blew his brains out at Omaha last week More Telephones for Nebraska City Nebraska City is to have another tele phone exchange An ordinance granting a iraucnise to nenry a uoit oi oc ijouis passed the city council and was approved by the mayor Farmers Are Busy The cold wave of the last week has given way to more pleasant weather and the farmers are taking advantage of it and getting their corn in cribs as rapidly as possible Suicide Near Millard Mrs Mohr living two miles south of Millard committed suicide by hanging herself in an outbuilding The cause of tba deed is unknown FATAL WRECK Collision on the Union Pacific Kills Three Men A collision on the Union Pacific at Sil ver Creek resulted in the death of three men and the serious injury of one other The dead are Samuel Hindman en gineer William Rattan fueman B Shau non brakeman Seriously injured John Griffing brakeman An extra freight train stood on the sido track and the switch being left open freight No 27 go ing at a good rate of speed crashed in the rear end of the extra The engine was badly wrecked and four cars reduced to kindling wood Samuel Hindman engineer of 2So 27 was taken from the wreck unconscious but died in a short time William Jtanan the fireman was caught in the freight cars being thrown several feel and was wedged in between timbers and parts of the engine It was half an hour after tho collision before ho was extricated ne died a little later John Grilling brake man of the extra was caught between the cars and sustained serious injuries Brake man Shannon was fatally injured being thrown from the car to a considerable diS lance CHARGED WITH KIDNAPING A K Spencer Arrested for Enticing a Girl Away from Home AESpencer a cook is locked up in Omaha charged with having kidnaped 36-year-old Helen Hopkins from her home The girl cannot be found Spencer having secreted her and he refuses to tell where she is A trace of her was obtained at 81S South Tenth Street but when the police went to search for her she was not to be found She had been left at this number by Spencer but upon his arrest had left and secreted herself somewhere in the west bottoms It is learned that she has assumed the name of Helen Williams Spencer according to Mrs Hopkins the missing girls mother coaxed her eldest daughter who is married to desert her husband and go west with him four months ago She said that he deserted her daughter in Denver and relumed to Omaha lie had not been in the city a week she says until he coaxed Helen her next to youngest daughter to elope with him Mrs Hopkins is prostrated over tlie loss of her daughter Sheep Dipping Plant The Fremont Stock Lards and Xand Company has put in a sheep dipping plant near the packing house in that city The plant which is a large one and equipped with all the latest conveniences has a capacity of 1200 sheep a day The dip ping solution which is prepared in large boilers is conducted to atank The sheep are driven into it down an inclined walk or passage and come out on a similar walk at the other side The company expects to do a good business dipping sheep this winter as an unusually large number of sheep are being unloaded at the yards near the packing house to 13 fed and watered Bloody Fight at Beatrice A bloody fight occurred at Beatrice be tween a man who claimed to live at Omaha but who refused to give his name and a young horse trader named Blowers The two had traded horses the stranger to give Blowers some money in addition Not having the cash he asked his wife for it She evidently did not want the trade to he made and refused to give her hus band the money whereupon he set on her and began choking her As he picked up a board and was going to strike her Blow ers interfered aud a hard fight followed The woman was badly injured Cattle Lost in the Storm W I Walker of Omaha who has a large cattle ranch on the Winnebago res ervation north of Bancroft lost thirty two head of cattle in the recent storm At the beginning of the storm the herd numbering some 600 head was driven with the storm to the south until a creek was encountered whero by a jam thirty two head were crowded into the stream and trodden under foot forming a bridge for the remainder of tho herd to cross on Mr Walker estimates his lo3s at upwards of 1000 Shooting- Quail at Wymore Notwithstanding the fact that the open time to kill quail did not begin until No vember 1 for the last month hunters have been killing quail in the vicinity of Wy more in lare numbers and the true sports men are very indignant that such a fla grant violation of the game law is per mitted Quail are plentiful this season and hunters have no trouble in bagging two or three dozen in a half days hunt and they are doing it so openly that sev eral arrests are likely to be made Thieves Steal Mules Grigor Landrammer and Grant Blair two farmers living a few miles from Fair bury lost a span of mules each in one night by theft The teams were taken from their stables and one span evidently hitched to a buggy and the other led The thieves were tracked forseveral miles and it is supposed drove into Kansas Land rammer lost a carriage harness aud Blair a draft harness His Friends Are Anxious Fred Schmietenkof who worked on a farm near Richfield has been missing for some time and friends were in Omaha the other day making iuquiries about him Little information of him was obtained Some of the missing mans friends suspect foul play but they are notpiepared to say at the present lime just why they suspeci this Worthless Check Swindle Several merchants of Omaha have beet victimized on the bank check swindle I y an individual representing himself to be H Metcalf an employe of the Hall Safe Company He is supposed to have got ten ahead of the town to the extent of sev eral hundred dollars Killed by a Train An Italian named Charles Foley who has been working on the section for the Union Pacific Railroad for some time past was run over and instantly kilied by a freight train near Buda He was terribly cut and mangled his head being nearly severed from the bod v WWB WESTERN NEWS DEMOCRAT JSTefiTS tt i - NUMBER 41 ACCEPTS THE TERMS SPAIN AGREES TO ASSUMETHB CUBAN DEBT Stubborn Do us Have Bowed to Your Uncle Sam and It Is Now BelieTed that Peace Negotiations Will Pro ceed More Rapidly It was announced in Washington Fri day morning that the peace negotiattons ia Paris were proceeding satisfactorily and that Spain had accepted the terms of the United Stares in regard to the Cuban debtr and all matters within the province of the joint commission excepting the disposi tion of the Philippines The articles of the protocol settled arei 1 The cession of Porto Itieo to the United States - The relinquishment of all sovereignty over Cuba and dependent islands ami the cession of Cuba to the United States for its pacification and the establishment of a stable government 15 This country assuming no portion o the Cuban debt 4 The cession to the United States ot an island Guam in the Ladrone group H The withdrawal of Spains forces from the western hemisphere now going on The one article to be decided is that pro viding that the United States shall occupy and hold the harbor and city of Manila and Sttbig hay until a pence commission determines the rights of both Spain and the United States In the Philippines- The negotiations were nearly wrecked on the Cuban debt snag The Americans were unyielding in their refusal to assume a single dollar of that debt despite the threats of the Spaniards to break off the proceedings Finally the Americans re maining obdurate Senor Montero Itios head of the Spanish commission tele graphed his resignation to Madrid and af fairs became extremely critical Hail hla resignation been accepted the other Span ish commissioners would have followed suit and the peace negotiations would have come an abrupt end This result was averted by the action of the Queen Regent in beggint Rios to continue As a last resort the Spanish commis sioners begged for mercy declaring that should Spain be compelled to assume the whole of the Cuban debt it would mean her utter financial ruin This appeal was sent to President McKtnley and resulted in the midnight cabinet meeting in Phila delphia Wednesday night The president and his advisers decided again that Spain must assume the debt and the Spanish commissioners were forced to accept th inevitable WARSHIPS TO CUBA Havana Harbor Is to Be DrasTKetl for Mines The President has decided that Ameri can warships shall he stationed in Havana harbor as icquested by Admiral Samp son and obir members of the evacuation commission The delay has bneu due to official reluctance to expose national ves sels and sailors to a possible repetition ot the Maine horro It was deemed discreet to await convincing assurances from the Spanish authorities that no torpedoes re mained which might be exploded by dis gruntled civilians or revengeful Spanish soldiers These assurances have now been fortl iming but nevertheless every pre caution against rascality will be exercised The naval administration has for some time ben engaged in equipping the Eagle auu Vixen at the Norfolk navy yard os tensibly for surveying duty but in reality these vessels have been provided with ap paratus for dragging Havana harbor for possible mines and they will be promptly dispatched to carry out their purpose It is not intended to send any of the largen armorclaus to Cuba STEAMER DOTY LOST She aud Her Entire Crew Are at the Bottom of Lake Michigan The magnificent lake steamer L II Doty is lost Her erew of eighteen or nineteen perished beyond reasonable Joubt in Tuesdays hurricane The wreck age brought in to Chicago by the tug Prodigy was fully identified The Olive Jeannette the consort of the Doty was towed into port Friday morning On Tuesday afternoon at 5 oVlock the towlino between her and the steamer snapped Then the two were as nearly as can be fig ured thirty five miles off Milwaukee From that time the Dotys story will never be told The fearful but vain fight of eigh teen or nineteen men for their lives in the wild hurricane will remain an unwritten page in the history of lake disasters Even where they found their graves will never be known NATIVES OF CUBA MAY ENLIST Plan to Add Spaniards and Cubans to United States Army In his annual report Secretary Alger will recommend that Cubans and Span iards who are now in Cuba lie enlisted in the United States army for the purpose ot doing garrison duty on the island It is estimated that there are about 15000 Spanish soldiers who will remain in Ooba and that a large percentage of this num ber will seek enlistment in the ranks ot the regular army It is also estimated that there are about 50000 Cuban insur gents who would gladly accept service in the American army A DIET OF GLASS Mrs Sandersons Servant Tells How AKed Victim Was Killed At the first days hearing of the sensa tional Sanderson murder case at Battle Creek Mich the chief witness for the State testified This witness is Marie Robertson the former servant of Mr and Mrs Sanderson She told in detail the story of how Mrs Mary Butterfield San derson fed her aged husband daily on ground glass which finally tore Mz vitals away The witness said that teaccnsed woman had told her she loathed her aged husband whom she desigated an olJ fooUM VI