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MARYLAND Republicans Meet.

The Maryland Republican State Conven-
ton met at Baltimore. All the leading
lights OF the party in the State were on hand.
Senator-elect Wellington called the conven-
ton to order. A. P. Barnes, of Worcester
County, was chosen Temporary Chairman.
Attorney General Harry N. Clabaugh was
elected Permanent Chairman. The election
OF four delegates. at-large resulted In the
unanimous choice Of George L. Wellington,
James A. Gary, William T. Master and Rob
ert P. Graham. For electors-at-large, Gen
eral Adam E. King and ]. Cookman Boyd
were chosen. The platform, which was
unanimously adopted, declared that:
''We believe in the gold standard
upon which to base our circu-
lating medium, and are opposed to free and
unlimited coinage Of silver until an interna.
tional agreement Of the important CONNER
cial countries Of the world shall give silver
larger use." The platform also announced
that the delegation to st. Louis was not in.
structed.
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DISTRESS IN CUBAN TOWNS.
Concentration Of Population Adds to Dan
ger of Famine.

Concentration OF Population Adds to Dan
ger OF Famine.
HAVANA, Cuba, April 21.-The situation In
Cuba Is heart-rending. The poverty is aP-
paIling. Famine stalks through this naked,
desolate land.
The bread question will presently become
as important us the political question. Prep
srations for relieving the suffering OF the
non.combatants must soon be made Women
and children from the interior continue to
flee to the United States on every steamer.
The benevolence of Americans will soon
be tested or thousands will starve, for every
thing is being put to the torch. Before long
nothing will be left OF once smiling
country but ashes.
Reports come from oil parts OF the Island
of much distress resulting from the concen-
trstion Of the population in the cities and
the desertion OF the fields.
A letter from Cartagena says the people
are in a terrible condition. There Is no WORE
for the men and little food. In Trinidad nsn
sells for thirty cents a pound and meat mas
Increased two and one-half cents q pouna.
In ssncti Spiritus charcoa'. formerly lofty
cents q bag, is now S1.4o. All food has aa-
vanced equally in price. In Sitio aranae
many families are living In tents erecteo III
the middle of the streets.
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JERSEY FARMS DESERTED.
Cheap Land for New York City Poe
Nearby.

Cheap Land for New York City Poor
Nearby.
South Jersey farms are being deserted as
fast as those Of New England. All over Cum
berland, Cape May and Atlantic Counties
stand thousands Of acres Of unused farm
lands and hundreds of vacant houses. The
houses are falling into decay, and the fields
aud orchards are overgrown with bushea.
Even towns are deserted. Over In Allan
tic County are the remains of the once pros
porous town of Pomona. 1t Is sparsely set
tied. Then there is the settlement OF Hal
bertstown in the lower end of Cumberland
County, which for two years has not had a
single resident. The town was founded By q
company Of New York capitalists, who e3-
pended several hundred thousand dollars In
laying out streets and erecting houses and
factory buildings. In Halbertstown stands a
handsome and commodious school house
which never had child within its portals.
Fifty houses in the place are going to decay.
The town has excellent railroad facilities.-
the West Jersey Railroad running right
through it. Its boom is exhausted. The
place has been named the "Silent Town" 1t
Is the town that will be sold entire. Just as It
stands, by Sheriff Thinn, OF Cumberland
County, IN few weeks.
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THE NEWS EPIToM!zEo.
Washington Items.

Ex-senator Edmunds was elected 4
dent Of the International Arbitration
gress which opened two days sessiol
Washington.
Mr.. Goodwin, the Populist contestanfI
from the Fifth Alabama District, was seatedI
by the House.
President Cleveland received petition
from the Bar Association Of New York, ask
ing him to favor the establishment Of an In,
ternational court Of arbitration.
An amendment to the Naval Appropriation
bill, appropriating S25, 900 additional for the
construction OF tide gates In the causewayi
across Wallabout Channel. connecting the
Cob Dock at Brooklyn. n. Y, with the Navy.
Yard was favorably reported to the Senate
from tho Naval Affairs Committee.
A report from Miss Clara Barton, giving an;
account Of the gratifying progress Of relief
work In Armenia, was received In wash
ington. 4,
In the House the General Deficiency bill,
the last Of the great appropriation bills, was
passed. 4;
Mr.. Call presented to the Senate petition
signed by L. L. Yarrell and A. b. Garland,
attorneys for Mrs. Maybrick, addressed to-
the President Of the United States, urging
this Government to intervene In behalf OF
Mrs. Maybrick The petition Is accompanied
by great number Of printed documents and
letters from individuals interested IN the,
case.
The newly found document submitted to-
the Boundary Commission by, Venezuela ts
said seriously to discredit the British Blue
Book.
In the United States Senate Mr.. Allen, OF
Nebraska, accused Mr.. Gear, OF Iowa, OF ut
tering falsehoods. .s
Experts testified before the House Com
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce
that the building Of the Nicaragua Canal ac-
cording to the plans and estimates prepared
by the company was impracticable. &
Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, the Arctic e1.
plorer, has been detached from duty at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard by orders issued by the
Navy Department and placed on the wait
ing list.
The President issued his annual Bering
Sea proclamation, warning sealers from ply
ing their vocation during the close season,
from May to August !. The proclamation
Is similar 10 those issued In previous years.
President Cleveland has awarded medal
OF honor to Brigadier-G General Absalom
Baird, who was Inspector-General Of the
Army up to time of his retirement from ac-l
tive service. The medal Is given for gallan.
try in action in Jonesboro. Ga, Septem.
ber /, 1861
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A QUEER EXHIBITION.
Flying Machines, Kites and Aeroplanes
to BE Shown in Boston.

Flying Machines, Kites and Aeroplanes
to BE Shown in Boston.
There will be a unique gathering Of more
or less visionary modern disciples Of Darius
Grsen at Boston next October. There is to
be held during that month grand compet-
itive exhibition OF designs for and working
models of airships, flying machines and aero
planes. under the auspices OF the Boston
Aeronautlcal Association.
Five valuable cash prizes, the amounts OF
which will soon be made public, as contribu-
tions to that end, are being solicited from the
scientific men Of the country, will be award
ed as follows:
For the kite showing the maximum OF lift
to the minimum of drift in a breeze having
a velocity of more than fifteen miles per
hour.
For the kite showing the maximum Of lift
to the minimum of drift in breeze having
a velocity Of less than fifteen miles an hour.
For the kite keeping its equilibrium
through the greatest extremes OF wind
velocity.
For the soaring machine In free fight,
which, after gaining velocity, shall make
the best course, the excellence OF the course
to be judged by the maximum OF length and
the minimum of undulation. Energy may
be given to the machine by carrying 1t to
height.
For the best selt-propelled machine
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WEYLBR'S FIRM TROCHA.
The Strongest Spanish Line Yet
Stretched Across Cuba.
SOLDIERS SUCCUMBING TO HEAT.

All tho Available Spanish Troops Are Be-
ing Used to Maintain a Wall of Men
Across the Narrowest Part Of the Island
Value of tho Barrier From a Military
Standpolnt--Hospitals Crowded.
HAVANA, Cuba, April H.-General Weyler
has succeeded in accomplishing what Mar
tinez Campos attempted in vain. He has
built trocha across the island and kept It
intact for two weeks. That the present
trocha is formidable even the insurgents ad-
NIT, but they profess that 1t alarms them not
at all.
When Maceo passed through Havana
province to the west. and Weyler stationed
10000 men along the twenty-one miles from
Mariel on the north coast to Majana on the
south, he cabled to Madrid announcing that
the second In command OF the insurgent
forces was pehned up in the western prov
ince.
After stalking his reputation on the abso-
Lutte impossibility OF Maceos crossing, he
found that detached parties of from 100 to
200 insurgents we're getting through the line
at will.
He then brought all the troops from other
parts Of the island that could be spared,
leaving the eastern and middle provinces
with forces barely sufficient for garrison
duty, and practically suspending active
operations In all but the western province
The concentration raised the force on tie
trocha to $4,000, and gave 5000 more for use
in flying columns, acting In conjunction
with those on the line. The troops were set
to work erecting forts. digging trenches and
building barricades.
The work has been pushed night and day +,
and the best trocha Spain has ever built In
Cuba now confronts Maceo. Through the
hilly country south from Marie redoubts
have been built for artillery upon every emil
nence.
Between Guanajuay and Artemisia, along
the middle part OF the line, forts and block
houses, with earthworks between, have been
constructed. From Majana to the south
coast, through marshy land, is broad ditch.
backed by stockade, with block houses at
intervals.
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Prominent People.

A memorial service for the late Governor
Greenhalge was held in Boston.
Queen Victoria, while on the continent,
travels us the Countess Of Balmoral.
The Prince of Wales is again undergoing
treatment for .he reduction Of his weight.
Senator Wolcott, OF Colorado. is regarded
nc the best umatuer cyclist in Washington.
Duprez, once famous tenor, is still liv-
ing in Paris; he is over ninety years OF age.
Probably the champion postal-card writer
of the wor is Mr.. Gla stone. He uses over
1000 a year.
It Is reported that Ii Hung Chang, Prime
Minister OF China, has given up his projected
American tour,
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Half Of the members kept their own tally
lists and became visibly excited as the close

Half Of the members kept their own tally
lists and became visibly excited as the close
moss Of the result was seen before the call for
absentees had been ordered.
Just as the vote was about to be declared, Mr..
Kinne. OF Seneca, created momentary appre-
tensions among the bills supporters by
Arising and requesting that he be recorded
m the negative instead Of the affirmative.
This would have reduced the affirmative
vote to n, and might have led to further
dsfections. with the result that the requisite
votes could not have been obtained.
However, Mr.. Goodsell, Of Orange, was
equal to the emergency. he gained recog-
milton from the chair while the excitement
vas at its height and declared his wish to
change from the negative to the affirmative.
Immediately shout went up from the bills
friends, and without delay the result was an
nounced.
The vote analyzed shows that these Demo-
erats voted with the Republicans for the
bill: Barth, Butts, Cain. Ebbetts. Guider,
Kinne. Mittnacht, Newman. Stahl. two of
whom, Butts and Mittnacht, represented
Tammany. Republicans who voted against
the bill with the Democrats were Audett,
Babcock, Brennan, C. J. Clark, ]. Clark,
Cromwell, De Graw, French. Hill. Hobbie,
Housinger, Horton, Ives, Kelsey, Koehler.
Laimbeer, Marshall, Matteson, Miller, Nix
on, Perkins, Post, Robbins, Rounds. Sanger,
o. Smith, Steele, Steiner, Storm. Wagstatf,
Waldo, G.. Wilson and Zimmerman.
Those who were absent were Blatsdell, Of
Erie; Carlisle, of Westchester, and Malone,
of New York.
T The vote on final passage before it was
ssnt TO the Mayors was, 81 ayes and Sc noes.
Out OF total Of fitty-four votes in the two
big cities which 60 to make up Greater New
Iork, forty opposed consolidation and four
team favored 1t.
Under the terms Of the Greater New York
bill, the nine Commissioners, to prepare
legislation necessary to perfect consolidation
must be appointed by the Governor with
the advice and consent Of the Senate"
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Foreign Notes.

Baron von Hammerstetn was convicted
and sentenced In Berlin
Mr.. Chamberlain says England must re1
main paramount In South Africa.
General Weyler has stakei his whole cam.
paign on his trochs movements and Is san1
gune OF victory within nine months.
A special cable despatch from Havanas
Cuba, says that Gomez Is marching toward
Havana prc vince. to make demonstration,
In favor Of Maceo.
Princes. Marguerite OF Orleans was mari
ried In Paris to Patrice MacMahon.
1t Is rumored In Madrid that the Spanish
Government Is preparing to inaugurate rel
forms in Cuba.
The German Reichstac has called upon tn I
Government to combat the practice OF duel
ing.
Leon Say, the French political economist
is dead.
The French Senate refused tc vote tn +
Madagascar credits because Of want of con
flience in the Ministry.
Dervishes in the Soudan have hsan fight
ing among themselves. ~
King .Menelek has dened Italy. Angere
by the Duke OF Sermoneta's speech, he i'm
prisoned his enemy's envoy and peace negdX
iiations are off. The Negus considered Gen
eral Baldissera's representative spy in tn
Abyssinian camp
A demand was made in the German Reich
stag for measures to prevent dueling.
The Municipal Council has again electe
DR.. Lueger, the anti-Semite leader, to the
fee Of Burgomaster Of Vienna, Austria. Tn
Is the third time that DR.. Lueger has beS
elected to this office. !.
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ELECTRICITY ON THEIR WHISPERS.

Wisconsin Men Have Remarkable Ad-
venture After Storm.
A remarkable adventure befell party OF
Wisconsin men. According to one Of them,
II. o. Tofson, who lives at Kilbourn, In
company with Ole Tofson, Will Tofson, Jens
Anderson and Emmett Peterson, he attended
party at the home Of Tom O'Connell
About 2 q. m. the ycunS men started for
home. The rain had ceased. but the sky
was still very cloudy and the night was
black. Suddenly beads Of electricity gath
cred on their mustaches and hair and a
brilliant blueish light streamed from their fur
coats. They were terrorized. They brushed
and struck at the mystic fluid. but for fully
fifteen minutes they fought with it, and then
1t disappeared for short time only to re-
appear. They were greatly relieved on
reaching home. but still puzzling their wits
to make out what had possession Of them.
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Alabama Democrats.

Tho Alabama Democratic State Conven.
tion at Montgomery adjourned after two
days session. A platform was adopted
which favors the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver and gold at ratio OF 16 to /, al
discrimination against either metal, and
without the consent OF foreign Nations.
The platform also calls for the repeal ol
tho ten per cent. tax on State bank issues,
and for the government of the State b.
white men. The administration of Governo
Oates was endorsed. President Cleveland
was commended for his attitude on the Mon,
roe doctrine, but his financial policy wa,
condemned. The delegation to the National
Convention was instructed to vote Us uniI
for free silver
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Cofored BOY Lynched.

jeff Gardner, colored, about twenty-one
years of age, went to the home OF Joseph
Burrows few miles north Of Narren; Ark,
and found nobody there except the children;
he fastened the eldest girl with rope ana
then carried her to the Saline bottoms
where she was kept for several hours.
It was late In the afternoon before the TWO
were found. When the miscreant was or,
dered to surrender he attempted to run ana
was shot in the leg. Though Woundeo ne
made his escape into sage helo near w
and II was some time before he was found.
On being captured be did not deny anything,
and only wanted to know VI hat was TO De
done with him. he was lynched. Inc 8ri
Ia In critical condition. ---.--- ...
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GOLD PRODUCTION.

Indications of Large Output for the
Year 1896.
The Director of the United States Mint has
received q report from Mr.. John Daggett,
Superintendent Of the San Francisco Mint,
Of the production Of gold and silver in Cali
fornia, Oregon, Washington and Alaska dur
ing the calendar year 1895. The production
Of gold in California was S15, 1884, ,3lS, and Of
silver, coming value. $3.50, ,790. Gold in Ore
gon is placed at 81 1897 ,6s2 and silver at $15,-
1872; in Washington, gold s373,14s, silver,
s141, 900; Alaska, gold s2,S2s 400. silver s97,-
In California was s1.471, ,OcO, and Of silver
SS02,45 In Washington the increase Of
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Killed by Lightning.

Christian Anderson, teamster. living at
Cassidy Park, just outside Greenwich, Conn.,,
gave family reunion at his house in honor
OF the arrival Of his mother from Denmark.
Fifteen persons were seated about the table
at supper at half past 8 o'clock p. M, when a
bolt OF lightning from heavy shower passed
through an open window, striking Anderson
and killing him instantly. The bolt struck
Anderson In the face. No one else was in
iured. A widow and two children survive
tha dead man.
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SUFFERING IN ALASKA.

Adventures Who Went There With Little
Money Are Having a Hard Time.
According to advises by the schooner E1-
celsior, which arrived at San Francisco, CAL,
from Cooks Inlet, few days ago. serious
state Of affairs exists in Alaska Sitka and
Juneau are overfowing with miners, who
cannot start for the gold fields on account OF
the ice and snow on the hills, and now comes
the news that Cooks Inlet Is frozen and that
the miners who went up early are suffering
great hardships.
charged are exorbitant. Some OF the men
are destitute and have not taken enough
gold to pay for second-class passage to
Puget Sound, much less San Francisco. The
country is overrun with prospectors, and IN
some Instances the suffering OF the ad-
venturers Is heartrending.
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GREATER NEW YORK,
With Outlying Districts, S,4S0,o0o.

tton held at Nashville was for Mckinley, pro-
lection and sound:money. Iron-clad instruc-
lions were given for the Ohio man and, not
satisfied with this, each of the candidates-at-
large was called out and demand made for
q personal pledge to carry ou. the instruc-
tions to the letter. The pledge was given.
Judge Lewis Shepherd, Of Chattanooga, was
Temporary Chairman and George W. Win
stead, OF Knoxville, once a candidate for
Governor against "Bob" Taylor, was Per.
manent Chairman. The following delegates
at-large were selected: q. Clay Evans, of
Chattanooga, James Jefrreys, Of Camden;
E. ]. Sanford, Knoxville, and Ernest Cold
well, OF ShelbYYille.
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The Labor World.

A building trades council is being organ
ized.
Woolen manufacture employs 10000
Americans.
mailers' union has been organized In
New York City.
A workingmen's club house Is to be erected
in Yonkers, N. Y.
In this country there are over eighty Ma
tional trades unions.
Trouble Is anticipated on the street rail-
roads In Milwaukee, Wis.
New York coopers' wages have been re-
duced ten TO fifteen per cent.
A steel plant, which will cost 81, 900 COO, Is
to be erected at Birmingham, Ala
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Lionizlnr q Cuban Patriot.

Mr. Quesada, tho Secretary Of the Cuban
Committee at Washington, Is becoming q
great pet In society, and some Of the most
iastidious and giddy women In town have
taken him up and are making lion Of him.
They give dinner parties and teas in his
honor they take him to drive on pleasant
afternoons in their victorias, and they invite
politicians to their parlors to hear him talk
about "Cuba libra" NJ. Quesada Is a hand
some fellow. Of the Spanish type, about
thirty years o; age, with large black eyes and
q ferocious mustache. 1t Is his first expert
ence in swagg, ,r society. but be has the ma
tural .;'t Of selt-possession and carries him
self very well.
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Iowa PODulists.

The Populists made better showing in
their State Convention Ut Des Moiaes than
ever before In Iowa General James B.
Weaver was the Temporary Chairman, and
made I speech that outlined the policy OF tho
which declared for free coinage.
The attendance was the largest at any Popu-
list Convention ever hell in the State and
there wero more young and active men IN 1t.
Nearly four hundred delegates were present.
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Arnold was presented as the first delegate to
the National, Convention an antagonistic
movement was commenced. Richard B.
Comstock, Miles A. McNamee, George W.
Greene. Jesse q. Metcalf, James F. Van Allen,
David 8. Baker, John q. Fucker and John
E. Conley were elected delegates. The plat
form adopted indorses President Cleveland,
declares for sound money and presents to
the National Convention William E. Russell
as lone who will make ON ideal candidate
and an ideal President"
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Spain Offers Cuban Reform.

The Spanish Secretary Of the Colonies will
make arrangements to put into effect the
law granting political reforms to the Antil-
les. These arrangements wi ! probably go
into operation In Porto Rico on june / and
In Cuba on July 1. The Government denies
that the Washington Government prompted
this action. The speech from the throne
opening the Cortes will contain q passage
dealing with the reform. The Cabinet will
decide on the wording of the passage.
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gold was s140,9 and OF silver s12s, ,4s0; In
Alaska gold increase was 81 ,04s, 900 and sill
yer S92, 900. The gold output in Oregon In
1895, as compared with 1894, showsa decrease
OF s275,700 and an increase In the silver
product Of $4,000.
The report says that the indications are
that the gold product for 1895 will largely
exceed that of 1885,
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made Permanent Chairman. John E. Rus
sell, George Fred Williams, J. W. Corcoran
and James W. Donovan were chosen dele
gates-at-large to the Chicago Convention.
The platform adopted declares for sound
money and against free silver coinage, in
dorses the Cleveland Administration, de-
nounces the Republican party for coquet-
ting with the American Protective Associa.
tion, ana presents Mr.. Russell as candi-
date.
TAT Providence, R. l., the Democratic State
Convention was not the tame affair it prom
ised to be. When the name of General Olney
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W. j. Bryan for President.

Over 500 delegates attended the Nebraska
Democratic State Convention at Lincoln I'd
select delegates to the National Democratic
Convention at Chicago. They shouted them-
selves hoarse for free silver and ". J. Bryan,
for President. In addition to advocatint,
free coinage of silver a. a ratio OF 16 to l, d
resolution was introduced commencing Mr.!
W. J. Bryan for President. and pledeing tho
efforts Of the delegation in his behalf. i