The Mena weekly star., 1897-08-11
CUBA ISOLATED.
Spanish Officials Suddenly Shut Of
 Cable Communication.
THE KILLING OF CANOvAs.
The Assassinstion May Cause the Collapse of spanish Authority In Cuba- Female Worker. Inoreasing In
 Gainful Occupations.

ton between the United States and Cuba was practically suspended yes terday. A cable connects Key West with Havana. It might as we'll have
 been cut in mid-gulf for the purpose it served. The time from Havana to Key
 West by boat is only five hours, but
 this was not sailing day The Cuban end of the cable was in possession of Spanish officers Ominous silence pre- vailed. Spanish authority maintains a rigid censorship over the cable at all times. Immediately following the news of the Canovas assassination, Cuba was isolated from the rest of the world. All the messages to be sent out of Havana must be taken to the palace and passed upon by regularly detailed censors before the cable com pany dares handle them. If they are stamped censored" they go. If not stamped they are waste paper It is presumed that the stamping was sus- pended as soon as the news from Spain was received.
 Soon after the state department was opened for business yesterday brief cipher message was sent to Consul General Lee, giving him official in- formation of the assassination. Noth- ing had come from him in reply up to a late hour. It was thought at the state department that the Spanish au- thorities at Havana were trying to sup press the news until troops could be con- centrated and provisions could be made for the defense of Havana. The cf Ia arf, se. c.. startling news from Cuba. Diplomacy prevents utterance for publication, but privately the leading officials at the department express the opinion that the end of the war is near. Canovas was not only the personal friend of Weyler, but he was the mainstay of the Spanish loyalist party in Cuba. His removal means so much that it would not surprise the state department to see an utter collapse of the Spanish authority on urfc 1ssss'.sss'. .-s......,,s urrab there will be no more aggressive cam paigns by Weyler and that the Spanish troops will be concentrated rapidly at the seaports. If the insurgents are sufficiently supplied with ammunition it is thought they will at once take the field and rapicly possess them selves of the interior of the lslana, .---. occupying the provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzas and Santa Clara, as they now hold Puerto Prin- cipe and Santiago.
 Female Workers Increasing.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-Comparative figures compiled by the department of labor in the form of deductions from the last census statistics relating to workers at gainful occupations point to the fact that persons at work espe- cially females have increased very much faster than the population at large. As a result the statement shows that the proportion of workers relative to the total population and to the whole number of people of the re- spective ages, was considerably greater in 1890 than at the preced- ing census periods, and that this increased proportion is apparent for each of the great classes of occupa- tions, except agriculture, fisheries and mining. All this the statement sets out shows the increasing disinclination of our population to follow agricultur- al pursuits. The analysis demonstrates that the increased proportion of work CTS is found generally in the higher walks of business life and in those oc- equations which called for skilled la bor. The conclusion Is accordingly stated to be inevitable that the great body of workers has, as whole pro- gressed and risen. Perceptibly in the social scale of life.