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Caught in

New York, Feb. IA. special to the
New York World from Key West, Fla.
says: AS Genera Weyler was marching
with his columns just before entering
santa Clara his horse was shot under
MIN by a Cuban sharpshooter. 1t is sup
posed that the shot came from a distant
hillside.
Throughout the march from Rodas
the captain general was assailed by mis-
siles of this kind and several times
barely escaped being wounded. He is
greatly worried over 1t, and large scout
ing parties precede the advancing Span
ish columns to capture the daring
~marauders.
A Spanish force of 500 men was am
pushed Wednesday night les Naza-
rene, just west of Santa Clara, where
General Weyler was then. and narrow
ly escaped annihilation. The insurgents
had mined the road and bridge over Il
creek and hid on the roadsides. AS the
Spaniards were crossing the bridge
mines were exploded, killing twenty or
thirty men and %wounding many more.
The blowing up of the bridges divided
the Spanish force. The Cubans fired on
those in the rear and then charged.
Many Spaniards We're driven into the
creek, where they were drowned.
The soldiers In the rear column just
managed to escape humiliation. The
Cubans captured fifty prisoners and re-
port over 100 Spaniards killed, drowned
or wounded and missing. The Cuban
loss was slight.
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SOUTH DAKOTA LEGISLATURE
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

LU.aNN r.
Pierre. Feb. Tin the senate both the
d.spensary and the Bouck license bills
were laid over until Friday, when the mat
ter OF a liquor law VIII be probably settled.
The prohibitlonists have a proposition
that after a bill has been enacted it b
submitted to the people for ratification
Committees favorabiy reported the Pal
rer game bill, a bill providing for depos-
tories for county funds and the claim of
Carter Bros. for public printing. The fol-
To permit of dead n fallen timber on
school lands; to encourage farmers insti-
tutes and making appropriations for the
Frost, U. s. A., military secretary to
the governor; to reimburse J =. Mcleod
foar Indian d~epredations, $1,2li; for a
bounty on wolves; for the purity of cleo
tons; for the appointment of steam boiler
inspectors; to submit salaries of county
aries Of registers of deeds.
The house this morning cleared It's order
OF business up to the third reading of
The bills introduced were:
BY Mr.. Gibbs, relating estrays and pro-
v1dfng of advertisement of same.
INF pa, 500 for a sewer for the insane hos
pitai at Yankton.
BY Mr, Glass, giving liens for labor and
a elsims. furnished priority over all other
BY. Mr.. Hair, against the theater hat.
providing a. fine for wearing hats to OBJ
BY Mr.. Kirk. providing for a board of
embalmers and licensing the same.
The rest of the session was taken up in
the first and second reading of n bills
and SECOND reading of house bills.
A bill was introduced exempting press
representatives and divulging the source
Representative Summers introduced a bill
for tho government of mutual insurance
companies. .a
The bill for the assessment OF live stock
nQSSed the house II nrnyi0a9 that f2NaS
must be paid before title to cattle can be
conveyed to purchaser.
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FOR GOVERNMENT CONTROL
Stuyyesant Fish Talks Of the Pacific
Railways.
Suggests that the Union and Central
Pacific be Made Public High
ways---All Roads To Have
Equal Rights.

Washington, Feb. 9.--The house COM
mittee on Pacific railroads today heard
S%tuyvesent Fish, president of the Ili-
nois Central railroad and f. S. Bond,
vice president of the Chicago. Milwau-
kee and ST. Paul, on matters regarding
the Pacific railroads.
Mr.. Fish suggests that the govern
ment forclose on the Union and Central
Pacific at the same time and make
them public highways over which all
connecting roads would have equal
rights. The Sioux City and Pacific, a
branch of the Chicago and Northwest
ern, had been built on the faith Of the
Pacific railroad act that it would be a
branch of the Union Pacific, but was cut
off from business with the company.
He favored government ownership on
the ground that it would give all con-
Meeting roads equal rights, as was in
tended by the original act. II the gov
eminent, however, looked only to maxi
ing h most money out of Its Pacific
road interests, 1T should accept the first
good offer.
Mr.. Bond could o say without con-
s%ultation with other railroad officials
what the roads running to the Missouri
river would like. but he was of the opin-
ion that an organization OF railroads
could be perfected to purchase the
Union Pacific.
L. j. Morrison Of New York, represent
ing bond and stockholders in the Union
and Central Pacific, advocated a re-
organization under which the stock
holders would be taken care of.
The committee, after the hearing
wen into executive session and agreed
TO report favorably the Harrison bill,
creating a commission consisting of the
secretary of the treasury, the secretary
of the interior and the attorney general,
to provide for the settlement OF the in
debtedness OF the Pacific roads.
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WILL REACH SUPREME COURT
Final Decision on Dakota Divorces
Is Wanted,

Washington, Feb. 1.-THE supreme
court of the United States may ulti-
mately be called upon to declare con-
Corning the validity of the divorces that
have been ground out by the judicial
mills in the Dakotas and Oklahoma,
and should that august tribunal decide
that the divorces heretofore issued from
the mills in question are invalid and of
no legal effect, there will be such an ag-
gregation of domestic s%hakings-up as
probably no country in the world has
ever witnessed. Women who now re-
gard themselves as wives will realize
that they have been living for a great
ar or lesser period under conditions not
sanctioned by law; husbands will find
themselves in the same ~predicament,
while the number of children who will
thus be branded with the stamp of ille-
sitimacy cannot be estimated. The de-
clsion Of Justice Russell of the United
States supreme court in the now ia
nous MCGOWAN case, and in which he
holds that neither the wife or husband
can acquire temporary residence in a.
foreign state for the purpose Of secur-
ing a divorce, has, in the opinion of emil
nent lawyers, laid the groundwork for
the overthrow of the entire fake divorce
system. The case is now pending in the
New York court of appeals, but what
ever may be the decision here, 1t has
been definitely arranged that the matter
shall be carried up to the United States
supreme court, for a definite and final
adjudication Of the questions involved.
To this end it is stated hat five hus-
bands who have been victims of Dako-
Ia DEGREES have subscribed l $1,000 each
to a fund for taking the appeal to the
supreme court. Or the combine, two
reside in New York, one in Boston, one
in Philadelphia and one in Chicago.
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FRIpAY,s

Pierre. Feb. Gin the house yesterday
t Cote nsq !. i 10 biil WY Ma anao passed{ r. BY
the senate. The bill provides fos ! per cent
legal interest and 10 per cent on contract.
On amounts less than $1,000 there is no
limit on the contract interest.
The bill to reimburse State Treasurer
Phillips for expense incurred in bring
ing the state cash to the capitol for In
spsction passed the house.
special aas e olaer f sar MondaS S,i' N sss bills msq Mer =;
introduced to define the boundary Of
Mead ilyman B sntei;s stAnl Fgis Pbns,nn npayfass and md!
ties on the coded lands and makes the
all of this land.
81 Bi us were nsni Pbassef g giving d }n1ie esp power },se, to
onment are penalties. A bill fixing the
salaries of county auditors on a basis of
the valuation of the county, with $500 as
was passed.
Other bills passed were to allow city
councils to appoint city officials in case Of
failure to qualify. n a resolution men,
or1al;Zlng congress for ~taXation of lands of
Indians.
In the senate the liquor license n the
state dispensary bills were up for debate,
and after IN Jour of filibustering, both
next Tuesday.
There is little doubt now that a high
license measure will become a law. The
propositions for the past three weeks and
has reached the conclusion that it is not
yet time for the state to commence dis
pensing liquor, nor will it do to adopt a
Will probably retain the main features Of
the Stephens high license bill.
h valued insurance policy bill was de-
be reconsidered tomorrow, when Its
friends declare 1t will pass.
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BEATS THEM ALL.
Kansas Man Who Wants No More
Elections.

Kansas Man Who Wants No More
Elections.
Topeka, Kas., Feb. 1o.-R. e. Williams,
typical and we'll known populist of Clay
Center, has conceived a plan that would
do away with elections in Kansas. He
has prepared a bill which Senator Ham
ma will introduce providing for dispos-
ing Of county offices by auction 10 the
lowest bidder.
In substance, 1t provides hat on the
first day of January of each year the
for county offices shall sub
nit bids stating the minimum noun
for which they Will serve the county in
a stated capacity.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check for $40 as an earnest of
good faith.
These. bids are to be opened by the
sheriff and county clerk. The success
full applicant will then be permitted to
move int the court house, while the
cash deposits Will be returned to the 9th
er bidders.
Mr.. Williams writes in support of his
bill that it would be a great incentive
FOR young men and women. They would
be impelled to educate themselves in or
der to acceptably fill offices which would
oe open to all.
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STILL ON THE RAG8ED EDGE
Nothing Accomplished in the sena-
toriaI Eight.
An Antt.Kyle Combination With a
Club For Democrats---Old Sol
diers Give Notice of
Their Intentions.

Pierre, Feb. 1o.-In the fusion caucus
last night Kyle received 90, Goody-
koontz II, and Plowman 8. The caucus
adjourned subject to the call of the
chairman. The democrats did not par
ticipate.
H. l.. Loucks said last night that the
election, in his opinion, would not oc-
cur this week Dr. next. An anti-demo-
cratic combine was organized last night
by Loucks. Goodykoontz and Plowman
forces under the direction of Loucks,
who seems to have soured on all dem
ocrats.
Seven populist members of the legis-
lature, veterans of the war of the rebel
lion, held a conference yesterday and
decided that after Wednesday next they
would vote for Picker for United
States senator.
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MEXICAN MATTERS.
and Mrs. Diax rendered =
Grand ball,

Grand Ball.
City of Mexico, Feb. 10.-A grand bali
a luxurious scale In honor of Presi-
dent and Mrs. Diaz was given last night
at the palatial residence of Pablo Escan-
don. Of the opulete4 family of that name.
1t was. in point Of Importance. taste
and display, what the Bradley-Martin
avent will be to New York.
The bishop of Pueblo has discontinued
all pilgrimages for the present on ac-
count of the prevalence of fever in that
city.
The sugar product Of Yucatan will be
less this year by one-third the usual
amount, owing to rains arriving late.
Plans for the first modern sewerage
system and waterworks in the country
have been submitted at Monterey for
the approval of the governor, in accord
Inc with the concession granted j. A..
Robertson Of that city. The plans We're
prepared by the celebrated sanitary en-
gineer, Samuel NJ. Gray, of Providence,
r. I. The water supply viii be brought
in from a large underground river dis
covered flowing through the mountains
ten miles west of Monterey, and the
works will cost $l,z50,O 600 in gold.
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TuIrpsDAy,s PBocEEn1Ncs

Pierre, Feb. 5.--A bill taxing and regu-
lating grain warehouses was passed In the
senate yesterday. This bill Increase the
warehouse license from, 81 to $40. There are
LOCO grain warehouses In the state n the
total fees therefore amount to SO, 900. I'm
like the present law, the railroad commits
siOners are directed to use this fund for
the purpose of employing lawyers to en-
force the provisions of the warehouse and
railroad law, notwithstanding the attor-
ney general and the county attorneys are
directed to prosecute all violations.
That the bill was passed III the senate
was due to the efforts of Senator Palmer.
It received a majority of three, eight pop
ulists voting for the measure.
An opponent of the measure commenting
on it to a correspondent said:
1T is a job, pure and simple, that will
cost the farmers of the state nearly 5000
q year in excess of the present require
ments. 1t will be severest upon the farm
err, for the reason that farmers cannot
now load their own grain or store it in
granaries or warehouses without first OBJ
tanning a license. Every purchaser OF
grain is held to be a warehouse man. If
farmers do not rally to oppose his meas
ure 1t will pass the house and soon become
a law. 1t seems to have no other object
than to provide a FUND for some lawyer
well qualified to absorb the full $4,000 at
tho expense of farmers"
The bill a~ppropriating 5000 OO for an ex-
hibition at Omaha was killed.
In the house the pure food bill WIS
The committee reported favorably on the
equal suffrage constitutional amendment.
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Winter Trading.

Chicago Tribune.
There isn't much demand for bicy-
cles now. You ought to sell them cheap,
How much do you ask for this one?"
Forty dollars. It's "a 500 wheel.
Never been u Of the shop"
T PntE-tive dollars is all I can az
ford to put in a mach,ne. Gty's you s25
for It,"
Cant let it go at that price. Here's
one, though, you car have for $25.
Eighty dollar wheel, and good as new
Give you SIS for it,"
Can't possibly sell it for that. 1
have here q machine, however, that we
sold last uInmer for SIS. It's second
hand, but never has been ridden 100
miles altogether. You can see it's prac-
tically as good as ever. and we warrant
it. You can have 1t for SIS"
Give you $40 for it.n
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SPAIN READY TO FORGIVE
Canoya's Preamble Says 0Fenses
viii Be Forgotten.
Amnesty oMered and Application of
Desired Reforms Depends
Only on the Cubans
Themselves.

Washington, Feb. 9.-The Spanish 1e-
cation has received, with the full alb
stract Of this new reforms of the Islands
Of Cuba and Porto Rico. the preamble OF
Senior Casovas, announcing the terms
of the new decree. This preamble ex-
presses the kindliest feelings toward
the Cuban people and declares that the
mother Spain Is disposed, as she has all
ways been, to open her arms to them
and to extend amnesty for past Of
lenses. and declares that the applica-
ton of the reforms only depends with
the insurgents.
Minister Depuy de Lone discussed
the scope of the reforms with a repre-
sentative Of the United Associated
Presses and said, among other things:
THE electoral reforms We're not re-
TERED to at length in the decree OF this
ministry, for the reasons stated In the
preamble of Senior Canovas. that they
will require the action OF the cortes. l
am informed. however, that the govern
ment contemplates extending greatly
the basis OF the suffrage, but they de-
sire to do it in such a way as to prevent
undue influence being acquired by the
iliterate portion of the population. Any
educational qualification which may be
suggested by the cubans Inc which
seems reasonable and proper will UNI
aoubtedly be adopted by the cortes.
1T is the purpose of the government
said Senor Dupuy de LONE, Ito show the
greatest generosity toward the insur-
gents who lay down their arms. The re-
forms cannot we'll be put in full effect
until the sovereignty of Spain is ac-
knowledged in al parts of the island.
The government will not relax its milf
tary activity in any degree if the insur-
gents show a disposition to continue the
contest and fail to appreciate the great
concessions made by the nome governs
ment.
1.-THE tariff features of the new de-
cree mean a great cal for the United
States as well as for Cuba. The first
column of the tariff schedules providing
for revenue will contain the greatest
number of items, leaving the list on
which determinations are made In favor
of Spain not exceeding 20 per cent OF
he value of the imports. a compare
lively short one. The duties levied will
be equal against all countries except
Spain, and American manufacturers
and exporters. in view of their familiar
ity with the Cuban trade and their near
ness to the Island, are likely to appreci-
ate the Importance OF these concessions.
The situation Will be much more favor
able To American trade than under the
reciprocity treaty of 1890"
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Huron Matters.

Huron, Feb. 1O.-A. w. Merrick has
been appointed superintendent of
bridges for this division Of the Chicago
and Northwestern railway.
Grand Army men of this city are
urging DR.. c. B. Clark of this city, for
the position of commander of the South
Dakota department G.. A. r. The cleo
ton takes place at the state encamp-
ment to be held at Redfield, June 9 and
10. DR.. Clark was a member of the
Twentyaffth. Iowa Infantry, is an emf
nent divine, and a very active G.. A. r.
Herman Hilkmeiner, a prominent
young business la Of Hitchcock, and
Miss Hannah Olson OF the same city,
were married a few days since.
The annual meeting of the South Da-
kota Dairy association will be held in
De Smet on the 10th and 18th of March,
and indications are that the gathering
will be the largest and most interesting
In the history of the association.
Eight tables of whist players were
entertained an evening or two since by
B. r. Trunibower and wife, the occa-
sion being a very happy one. Honors of
the evening were awarded to Mrs. Ed.
gar e. Vance and Mr.. Murray.
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nicipal, shan be assessed, levied ana col.

nicipal, shall be assessed, levied and col.
lected by the state.
making it consist of the attorney general,
secretary of state and presiding Judge OF
the supreme court.
BY Bruce, relating to qualifications Of
persons practicing veterinary surgery.
BY Devine. to fix salaries of county at
toTneys.
BY Peterson, appropriating money for
fuel furnished to the agricultural col
and redemption Of Uniform non-interest
bearing warrants for counties and divis-
BY Schwartz, fixing salaries of officials
in cities of the first class.
BY Oieson, to establish a uniform system
OF education in South Dakota.
BY Colvin, compelling heads OF state in
s%tiatutions to furnish the necessary IN
formation for appropriations for their in
stitntions not later than the first day of
the legislative session.
BY Glass. fixing the time and procedure
of settling bills of execution in criminal
BY Gibbs, for recovery of taxes erron-
:eops.y collected.
BY Oleson, to regulate common carriers
and fix rates.
BY Anderson. relating to the fling of
MINING location certificates.
BY. thompson, authorizing county COM
missioners to examine accounts of town.
ship treasurers.
BY Benson. to provide for chattel mort
gage foreclosure by publication.
III ~. 5CidlS yGcAVi L z Tic
warehouse bill by a yote of rs to II. This
bill was a. tax on warehouses to create a
fund of 5000 a year which the railroad
commissioners We're to use In employing
side counsel to assist the attorney general
and county attorneys in enforcing the rail-
way laws. Senate Palmer will endeavor
to revise the bill today. and is preparing
to railroad It through under a disguise. He
now says that the new bill Will provide
that the tax on warehouses shall revert
to the state.
The liquor bills were up in the senate in
committee of tn ewhole. About two dozen
amendments were offered as substitutes to
the first section, and this is as far as the
work had progressed at the hour of adj
1ournment.
Governor Lee sent a communication to
the committee threatening that If the bill
did not finally provide for a portion OF the
tax reverting to the state he would veto
the bill. Threats, however, do not go with
the committee, and the state Will derive
no revenue from this source.
The equal suffrage bill was reported fa-
yorably in both houses yesterday after
noon. Before. becoming a law 1t Will be
submitted to the people for ratification,
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Despite the agitation against the de-
struction OF the palisades OF the Hud-
son river by the blasting of quarrymen,,
the work is still going on unchecked. 1t
was supposed h when h governors
of the states Of New York and New Jer-
sey appointed commissioners to act
Jointly in saving this wonderful geolog-
ical formation the good work vas well
STARTED, but after nearly two years the
efforts Of these commissioners have nor
accomplished any definite results.
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Eyade Bridge Tolls.

Vermillion. Feb. 1o.-A great number
OF Nebraska farmers are bringing their
cattle and hogs to this city and shipping
them from here to Sioux City ana Chi
cago. They not only save the 50 per
car for bridge toll at Sioux City but
they claim that the Milwaukee company
gives better rates than any road in the
northern part of Nebraska.
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an expert could not cut up 1000 sand
witches within twenty-four hours, the
amount of the wager, 1000 francs, to go
to the expert II successful and the sand
witches to be distributed among the hos
pitfalls OF Paris. The person. selected was
a woman employed in one of the cafes.
She completed the task In nineteen
hours and forty minutes. cutting up
twenty-five hams for the purpose.
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Retaliation.

Maudie Flanagan Gin great grief)-
I can't stand the girls at the boarding
school, mamma. They say papa.is rich,
butts low-especially hateful thing,
whose papa commanded a mortar boat
during the war.
Mrs. Flannagan-Niver moind, niyer
moind, me dar-rlin'. II iver she min
tions her ould morthar boat agin tell
her yure father carried a mortahr hod
twinty years before tn war.
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Rev. A. H. Burroughs, commonly
known as ..Parson Burroughs" who
keeps the Nickels house, just across the
state line in Bristol, Tenn, established
a matrimonial altar there seven years
ago for the benefit Of clipping couples
from Virginia. He has oficiated in the
marriage Of 615 clipping couples from
Virginia and West Virginia and has
made upward Of $1,000 out of this bust
ness,
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SIX DAY RACE.
Contestants in the Pittsbure Race
Are or.

Contestants in the Pittsburg Race
Are on.
Pittsbu7g, Pa, Feb. Sat 1 o'clock
this afternoon the six day bicycle race
in the Central rink. Penn avenue.
The track Is twelve laps to the mile
and was in good condition. All of the
expected contestants except Harry
Maddox, of Ashbury Park, N. j.. were
in place at the start The list of starters
follows:
Louis GimTf1, Cleveland: Fred Foster,
Germany; Frank Weller, Germany;
George Van Emburgh. Arlington, N. j.;
Albert Schock, New York; Charles
Ruckels, Allegheny; George Dench,
Pittsburg; Andrew Johnson, Long Is
land; Louis Hall, Philadelphia; Cle-
ment Turville, Philadelphia. +
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Warshins Arrive.

Washington, Feb. S.-Admiral Bunce
telegraphs the navy department.
through Captain Crowninshield of the
Maine, that the cruiser Columbia and
monitor Amphitrite reached the bar or
Charleston last night: the M%arblehead
at 3 o'clock this morning; the Maine al
10 O'clock, and the flagship New York
this afternoon.