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Evening star., 1897-02-09
CORCORAN BUILDING.
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HOME BUILDING ASSOCIATION.

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FOURTEENTH ISSUE uF STOCK
Books ir" open for subscriptions the office OF
the treasurer, 1897 P,nua. ave NV.
Second monthly meeting. at which stock OF l4th
SERIES may be taken. and loans ohtainrd easy
terms, and with least possible expense. Tuesday
evening. 9Th instant. Lall. s.w. corner Pcuna
ave ana 18th street. 4 O'Clock
Regular mIntIly meetings, second Tuesday ever
Ing OF each month
Shares. $500 each. Monthly payrncnts tber,on
Sloo per share.
The business of first month Of the new series
share taken now
Interest is allowed at G per cent on payments
made on stock withdrawn, cancelled in settle
ment Of loans
Average amount loaned per share during mast
year was httl" over SSS. the additional munthly
paym.ar therefor being ST. Der sirarp oaus
can be settled more shares nj amy time
the borrower desires.
A thirty day notice 10 withdraw YOUR money
when desired l. rarely required, Come in aud
try
THOMAS BOWLING President. s12 f 81. NV.
ANS,JN :. TAYLOR. Moe President Ial3 4 stpw
W H. WETZEI- So .rrtaIy. 2l:s5 II 81. NV
L. y WESCcTT, Treasurer. 1901 Pa ave NV
DlGEt TORS
LEVI !. BRYANT Io,I conn ave. NV.
JAMES ii. BlKAM 2o23 IL St NV
SAM'L A. CooMIS. 22I4 II st. NV
E,itN 1 L. GllLiiL:EN; i3sl Columbia st. NV.
,HAS \: MooIiE, HAS i7th st NV
$ NORRIS TiicRNE, a33 I'D st. NV.
CORSON & MCCARTNEY,
Members Of the New York Stock Exchange.
1il? ST. Glover hufding
Correspondents OF McsSrs. Moorc x S.hley so
Broadway.
Bankers and Dealers in Government Bonds.
Railroad Stocks ana Eonis and III S,,,,ritias
listed cn the exchanges of New York Philadelphia
boston and baltimore lousht and sold
\ spec icity made of investment securities Dis
tfict bonds and all local Railroad Gas Insurance
and TeieIhone Sia'k dealt in.
anerisan Am ,s Bell Telephone Stock bought and sold
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Condition of the Water.

Risen. Cincinnati, 6.5; Chattanooga, "a;
Louisville, 81. =l4-
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Capital: One TIiIIion Dollars

SAFE DEPOSIT DEPARTMENT.
Rents safes inside burglar proof vaults at
s. per annum upward.
Securities, jewelry, sverware and raluables
Of all kinds in owners package. trunk case
taken deposit moderate ocst.
SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT.
Deposits received from TEN CENTS upward
and interest allowed s. and above.
Loans money real estate and collateral
security. Sells frst-class real estate aud
other securities in of $500 and upward
TRUST DEPARTMENT.
This company is |. legal depository for court
and trust funds, and as administration
executor, receiver, assignee and executes
trusts Of all kinds. Wills prepared by a
. competent attorney In daily Attendance.
OFFICERS:
BENJAMIN r. SNYDER. ...............P President
i. FRANCIS RIGGS. First Vice President
W. RILEY DEEBLE. Second Vice President
THOMAS R. JONES. Third Vice President
ALBERT L. STURTEyANT. ........... Secretary
GEORGE HOWARD. .-.......-..---......Ire Treasurer
CHARLES +. NlMAN. Assistant Secretary
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CORSON & MCCARTNEY
The National Safe Deposit,
Savings and Trust
Company
OF tie District Of Columbia
lER 18TH ST. AND NEW YORK AVE.

Chartered by special act Of Congress,
Jan-, 1867, and acts of Oct. 1890 and Feb 1893.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

w & T I-CIiAPIN UNION WILL. HOLD IFS
regular mcctin. WEDNESDAY, = pm, at head
quarters 91e + NV All invited. Mrs NJ
r. COHEN. Pres. II
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We're making
q strong bid
THOS. w. SrlITH,
'olks Who Feel Poorly

Main Ohic", 1t and In1. ave. Phone 21T.
Mill ard Nharves. foot ith st. sc. Phone Dol.
ia2B- I'm. 20
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B BookkeeDers and Clerks

who d. much writing ought 10 have the
'iAI;INEK INK WELL 1t does away With
irky ''bl0ttcd' lettcrs-tlusty. thick
ink I-n dips in the SIDE. not the top.
lust can't get Ia. Ink can't evap1ratc.
Fight quantity of ink is always taken up 10y
The pen We hive them.
Sast0m 6 Rupp, 421 I 1th St.
= .rJIAR-PEICED STATioNERS. feS-1id
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U~uIiIy the ordinary circular is Il fiat
failure. simply because no one Will take
time read IL. This sort Of advertising il
fuSt being supplanted 10y my patent type
writer circulars, which initiate real type
writing exactly. EIch person who receives
one reads il thoroughly. under the i'm
pres, ion it is Il personal communication.
iNRoN :. ADAMS. prompt printer, J12 l1th 81
feg Id
Evening journal., 1897-08-14

having been published that the General
Land Office would soon issue maps of
Alaska showing the latest surveys and
explorations of the gold regions, that
Office mas been flooded with letters re-
questing copies of the maps. AS it will
be impossible to prepare the maps for
several months the request cannot be
granted. The officials have not time to
respond to the letters explaining the
situation. The Geological Survey is in
much the same condition.
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CONTEMPORARY OPINION.
A COIN-IN-THE-sLoT GAS METEF

A COlN-IN-THE-SLOT GAS METER.
The object Of coin-in-the-slo gas
meters is to facilitate The use of gas by
the labOring class, either for lighting
CIR cooking. They permit of the intro
ductiCn of the current of gas into the
meter, and consequently it's subsequent
distribution, only in measure as it is
paid for by tenths of dollar. This
method of payment has the advantage
Of proportioning the quantity Of gas
used every day to The resources of
every household and of preventing the
presentation of large bills at the end of
the month. The meter operates as fol-
lows: After the introduction Of each
coin, which, in falling interposes itself
between two of the ten teeth of a
ratchet wheel, a handle is turned in i&e
proper direction. In this motion the
coin passes the ratchet wheel to make
a tenth of a revolution, and causes a
screw, to which is fixed a clock valve,
to rise TO a certain height This clock,
when lifted, allows the gas to enter the
meter, but since through a series of
gear wheels, actuated by The vertical
shaft Of the meter, the screw that ma
neuvers the clock descends (for a dis
tance of 10 cents worth of gas) to the
same extent that 1t rose, it results that
the passage of gas is interrupted after
volume corresponding to 10 cents
worth has been consumed 1t is then
necessary to put another coin into the
meier in order to obtain a new flow of
gas. The movement of a sector, color
cd black and maneuvered by a special
tappet, in front of an aperture upon
which are inscribed ten divisions COR
responding TO ten coins, permits of
knowing at any Instant the quantity of
gas paid for in advance. After all the
gas paid for has been used the sector
completely covers the apermre.-Scien-
tific American.
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THE JAPANESE SUMMER GIRL.

The japanese Summer girl is indeed
a feminine entirely apart and distinct
from csherSummer girls in her irresist-
bic charms. Instead of being locked
up in a cage like the Italian and Span
ish, or watched like a pet kitten as is
the French girl she is allowed perfect
personal freedom from infancy, says
the Washington Post 1t is, however,
the freedom of a sill1ywinged butterfly
at least that is what she makes of it
in her shimmering kimona, with her
jddty hair high coiled and ornamented
with pins and absurd little coral flow
ers. There is nothing boisterous or
mannish, a sailOr-hattish or shir.
waistish in her liberty. 1t is a sweet
sUbservient fragrant soIG of freedom,
like the liberty of the gentle field
flower that bows to every passing
breeze. She pitter-pats up and down
the funny little winding walks OF her
flower garden, drinks tea in the tiny
tea houses on the hills, embroiders lit
tie poems and stories in silk and gold
on the fine satin in the golden sunlight,
caresses lher lover or lovers with the
same innocent case that a bird rubs
it's head against a rose, lives indeed all
her Summer days like a grOwn-up little
child might who had never been scold-
ed or criticised and who had been al
lowed all the toys and all the pleas
ures that she desired.
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THREAD TOOTH"

Dental Trouble the Result OF Usin
the Teeth in Place of Scissors.
The dentist looked at the inciso
about which complaint had been mad|
and nodded significantly.
Il see" he said. Thread tooth"
The words conveyed but little intel
ligence to his hearer, and, failing to COM
prehend their significance after fey|
moments reflection, she asked what hI
meant by it.
"You do a great deal Of sewing, don'|
you?" he said.
"Yes," she replied in a bewilderet
way; but don't see"
And you bite your thread instead o.
cutting it, don't your interrupted thu
doctor.
Il don't know"
"Well, know. OF course you do
Nothing else could have made this tootl
look as it does. This biting of thread il
the most pernicious thing in its effec
on the teeth that woman can do. It il
surprising how many of them have un
consciously fallen into the habit. l
would require only an extra second I,
take up the scissors and clip the thread
hut the woman who sews lifts the gar
ment to her mouth and with those sharl
teeth sewers the thread, thereby gain
ing a fraction of a minute, perhaps, bu
at the same time literally saving III
enamel off her teeth. Gnawing threa,
once or twice a day cannot possibly b
harmful, you argue. Probably not. Blu
when you bite it score or more time
n day and repeat that every day in th
year the effect is bound to be seen a
last in what call the thread tooth
IF it was only the silk and fine cot
ton that women bite it wouldn't be S
bad. But You don't stop at anything
Why, the other day l was I'M hous
where a woman was sewing buttons o.
a child's shoe. The thread she was usin
was q little less than rope in thickness
but she bit it Off Just the same. Befor
I went away she said she would b
around to see me professionally in
few days. as her teeth had been trout
ling her: asked her which one needle
being attended 10. She pointed out tn
one that served as scissors, of cours'
/ can't tell woman's age by looking q
her teeth. but L do know whether sh
does much sewing or not.'AChicag
Tribune.
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EDITORIAL COMMENT.

The Klondyl1e bin of fare includes ice
en- ast.-Jacksonville Times-Union.
One of the funniest things in the
world is the spectacle of a man trying
to manage a jag and a bicycle st the
same time.-Terre-Haute Express.
There is a hct wind in Kansas that
may give the Populists a good
chance yet. The big crops have been
getting a littie the best of him so far.
Baltimore News.
SO long as Europe can trade the lib
erty of weak nations for cOaling sta
tions trade will be brisk. But Europe
is likely to run short of trading stock
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
If Japan wants a row with The
United States, ii only shows that she
has followed the recent encounters be-
tween unmatched powers to little pur-
pose.-Detroit Free Press.
European countries have no great
opinion of annexation by mutual con-
sent Their method is seizure, and this
also they disapprove of except by q
European pOwer.-Boston Globe.
A Chicago doctor declares that fruit
is had for the health. The doctors
seem to be gradually working around
70 a POINT from which they can declare
that everything but medicine is bad
for the health.-Cleveland Leader.
Evening journal., 1897-08-14

berger. Arthur w. Swarts and Geo
F. Connell will return from Better
tomorrow.
Lilburn Chandler is out Of town
several days.
Alexander B. Cooper has returned
RehobOth.
Miss Edna Dougherty is home fl
Hockessin.
Hon. John C. Higgins, United std
consul at Dundee, Scotland, sailed
his post to-day.
J.. w. Humphreys, of Dover, is
guest at the Merritt House.
Francis H. Hofecker. Jr., went
Rehoboth to-day to spend Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John G. Gray went
Pennsylvania to-day for stay of S
eral weeks.
Mrs. Charlton McCurdy and daught
of Denver, Colorado, are visiting re
tiyes here.
Miss Carrie Richardson, of No.
West street, is recovering from a.
we're illness.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cummings and
guest, Mrs. Mary Young, of PhilaC
phia, went to Pitman Grove tod
where they expect to spend seve
days.
William o. Short will spend n
week with friends at Lewes.
William Michael Byrne has return
to Atlantic City.
General Samuel A. Macallister
suffering with a severe cold.
The last time of ''Hogan's Alley
Shellpot Park this afternoon and ev
ing.
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UNITED STATES TROOPS FOR
AIASKA

The troops would arrive rather late
in the season, and would have TO pre-
pare for their Winter quarters. They
were to have started from Seattle next
Thursday, and Captain Rays Arctic
experience was relied upon TO guard
against dangers and discomforts but
though there was doubt whether even
this would not be rather late, the pro-
ject of getting them off then was aban-
doned. Another steamer starts on Au-
gust 20, and can be used ON any PRESS
ing need; but without some new ur-
gency there would by that time be all
the more reason for waiting until
Spring
Tie exTense is also a ssrl0Ls mater.
withou. special authorization OF Con-
gress, because the general trunspotta-
tlou fund would have to be used, and
other army movements would be cor
respondingiy cTamped. Then the drain
of deseItiCn would be enormous, with
the high price OF labor and the possible
fortunes awaiting the miner, and temp
tations to it would be added uncer any
hardsh'ps due to incomplete prepara.
tions for the troops. Desertions in
California and either mining regions in
IOlAltl years were lAOulHltuo. W III
the government putting men on the
ground free of charge and with pay un-
til they get there, it may be imagined
that only great fideiity to duty would
keep them with the col0rs. 1t has
been asserted that Of the first de,aoh-
ment of mounted police sent to the Yu-
kOn not man re-enlisted, and that a
new force had to be sent last Spring;
but IL was at least something that the
Canadians waited for their terms to ex-
pire.
While not undertaking the objections
to hurrying off a garrison to Alaska at
this time, the result is something Of a
disappointment. II is mitigated by
the facts that we can have a nava
guard ait Juneau; that the Wheeling
will soon be sent to Alaska, this YES
sci and the Pinta being eXpecsed tC
/ stay there through the Winter. and
that possibly a revenue cutter may b'
kept at SilSta. Still, it must be owned
THAT these resources are not a full sub
stitute for a garrison on the Upper Yu'
k0n, and Congress will probably make
provision for the latter next Winter
should the military authorities fail K
send troops earlier.-New York Sun.
Evening journal., 1897-08-14
ALNA,s PLEAsANr orrING.

The Alva Outing Club, of this city,
is now pleasantly located at Pennsville,
and the boys state that they are having
a delightful Summers experience. They
left this city on July and will not re-
turn until September /. Two tents.
completely appointed, and a large and
speedy sailing skiff, constitute their
equipment.
The outing party is composed of Les
lie McVey Harry Stidham, Harold Har-
vey, Linford Denney, James Carberry,
William LawtOn and Walter Watson.
They sailed from Pennsville to Wash
ington Park on Thursday and witness
cd the sham naval battle, returning the
next day.
At present they are entertaining some
friends from Philadelphia, Bridgeton
and Quinton.
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BAYARD IS IN IT.

One day in the Fall of 1894, a mem
ber Of the Cramp shipbuilding firm,
after having granted an unusual num-
ber Of permits to visitors to make a
tour of the yard, thought that a special
record of the more distinguished visit
ors might be kept and that a volume
with signatures of prominent men and
women would soon take on great value,
The thought was quickly acted upon,
and in a few days there was placed
on the desk of the president of the COM
pany. Charles II. Cramp, handsomely
bound book of considerable thickness,
ready for the signature of the first spe-
clal guest. Since then the book has been
brought out on various occasions from
its compartment in a large safe, and
many distinguished men and women
have registered the date of their visit
on the neat pages. In commenting upon
the book a Philadelphia exchange says:
There is the name of T. +. Bayard,
Delaware, former minister to Great Bri-
tain, so well liked by the English and
so harshly criticised by a few Ameri-
cans. prejudiced against the mother
country"
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DOMESTIC EXPORTS INCREASE.

DUNES III EABOltlS lNChEASE.
The Bureau Of Statistics Of the Treas
ury Department has issued an interest
ing bulletin relative to the increased
exports of this country. II shows that
the principal articles of domestic ex-
ports for July, 1897, amount to $36, ,945,-
27s, as against sS5, ,645, ,S49 for the same
month of 1896; and S29 ,445, $40 for the
same month Of 1895. Exports for the
seven months ending July, 1897, were
valued at $500 9S7 O75 as against $780,
S11 ,297 for the same period Of 1896, and
$277 .675, 1886 for the first seven months
OF 1895.
The value of breadstulfs exported
during the month was S13, ,914, ,4S7; cot
ton, s2,43S,5l6; mineral oils, s5,132, ,Sl5;
provisions, including cattle and hogs,
Sl5, ,459 400. A heavy increase in the ex-
port of corn is shown, 12405 466 bushels
for last month, an increase OF almost
100000 bushels over July, 1896, while
the increase for the seven months end
ing July is from 64,O56.6l2 bushels, in
1896, 10 115,600, 159 bushels for the same
period in 1897. Another heavy increase
is shown in the expectation OF rye
which, for the seven months period
ending July. 1885, amounted to 1851
15S bushels, and for the same period
this year, 4,S93.779 bushels There has
been a decrease in the number of bush
els Of wheat exported during the frs
seven months Of 1897. compared will
the same period of 1896 from 34.432 ,61'
bushels to 2S,126,395 bushels. This de
crease is more than Offset, however, b.
the increased value Of wheat exports 70
this year, it appearing from the Treas
ury reports that the value of the Jesse
export Of 1897 exceeded the greater ex
port CT the same period of 1896 by S47,
$40. The expectation of wheat durin
July, 1896, amounted to 6,O62 ,O96 bush
els of the value of S3,S24.O31. and dur
ing July. 1897, to S,S.9S7 .492 bushels. @
the value of SO, sos. 1t will be note
that the value Of the same quantity G
wheat exported during July of this yea
is almost so per cent. greater than tina
of July, 1896.
Evening journal., 1897-08-14

one days sport. Among Marshal Lam
mans guests were: Ex-Governors Wat
son and Reynolds, Harry Sattertield.
DR.. James A. 1Johand, William b.
Pratt, Max ROsenheimer, Edward Rey-
mods, DR.. Schaub. of Milford, Colonel
e. r. Cooper, Colonel Charles e.
Triedler, Louis Levy, Mr.. ConnOr. of
Dover, Fred Heiss, Charles F. Meiler,
Captain Schaeffer. Frank J. Neider-
mailer and William F. Sheppardson,
Charles Stewart, DR.. Negendank, w.
Scheife, and others.
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500 REWARD 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
20 learn that there is az least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
n an its stages and that is Catarrh
Hairs Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity.
quircs a constitutional treatment. Hairs
Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. acting
directly unon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. thereby destroying
he foundation OF the disease. and giving
the patient strength by building UP the
constitution ana assisting nature IN doing
its work. The prcprictors have so much
faith m its curative powers that they Of
FER One Hundred Dollars for any case
that q fails 10 cure. Send for list of Tes-
tirnonials Address
+. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo, o.
aSold by druggists. 75c.
Evening journal., 1897-08-14
OUTING PARTY FLOODED OUT.

Tho Opera Outing Club, which has
been camping near Pennsgrove, return
ed home on Wednesday, having been
forced off its camping ground by the
high tide. On Tuesday night there was
six OF eight inches of water in the tent
and the boys were compelled to cling
to the ridge pole for comfort. Next day
they broke camp and came home. Les
ter Baylis, James c. Simmons, Harry
Richardson, Norris Mercer and David
Hlligas made up the party, to say moth
ing of the dog which was trained to re-
trieve chickens for culinary purposes.
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SATURDAY. AUGUST IA. 1897.
IMMIGRATION AT Low EBB.

IMMIGRATION AT LOW EBB.
Fewer foreigners are coming to our
shores now than at any time since the
government assumed Jurisdiction OF i'm
migration in 1882. This condition Is
doubtless largely due to the news OF the
period of depression having reached
Europe and deferred persons, who only
leave their own country because they
hope to better their condition here
from coming to land which could
not give employment to the people al
ready In 1t.
The number Of arrivals from all
countries, according TO the Treasury
statistics, during the last fiscal year
was 230,S32, decrease, as compared
with the previous year, OF ,435. The
lightest immigration OF any previous
year was in 1895, when the number
from all countries was 279, ,94S. The
year of heaviest immigration was the
first of the period, beginning with 1882,
when arrivals numbered 7SS,992. Dur
ing the entire period of Federal super
vision 7,432,O16 have entered the United
States.
The arrivals of Russian Jews for the
past year numbered 22750, as against
45,1S7 for the fiscal year ended June 80,
1896.
Italy furnished the greatest number
of immigrants, 54,431, a decrease OF
S,G29 from last year The cause of the
heavy Italian immigration of 1896 was
assigned to the war Of Italy with Abys-
slnia, but the figures for the last year
are not abnormal, having been exceed
ed by several years OF the period. Since
1882 there has been large and steady
decrease in German immigration; in
1882, ,6O3 entered the United States
from that country, while in 1896 only
%, ,533 arrived. 1t will be seen that the
number of German immigrants during
the year OF government supervision eX-
ceedel the immigration from all coun-
tries during the last year immigration
from Austria-H Hungary decreased from
5,1O3 in 1896 to 33,O31 in 1897. The
decrease from other countries is as fol-
lows. England, 19 492 in 1896 to 1874 in
..,,1SsI1 Sweden, q 1877 to 13,144; Norway,
S.155 to 5,S42, and Ireland, 40, 1862 to 2S
421.
When the promised tide of prosperity
comes we shall doubtless find that Cas-
tie Garden and other points through
which the immigration reaches this
country will be kept much buster.
Evening journal., 1897-08-14
CUR Z. .

When a man has suffered for months
with kidney troubles distressing hackache
and lost sleep, until life was no longer
pleasure, and tried every remedy recon-
mendei TO him without relief. as ! did. ne
may be excused for making known his
great satisfaction at finding a medicine
which has cured his aches and pains. The
box OF Dr. Hobbs Sparagus Kidney Pills
which / bought at n b. Danforth's drug
store IS the medicine which removed my
aches and troubles and restored me to
good health. ! wish every sufferer could
would lead them TO use them and get re-
lief. John Vincent 119 Poplar street
Wllmlnnlnn- Dnl
Evening journal., 1897-08-14

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in one Of her
recent poems, says, 81 think Of death
as some delightful journey" If Ella
likes that sort of Summer outing she
is welcome to it,
Evening journal., 1897-08-14
DEAnH OF A YOUNG MAN.

George A. Whitelock. q years old,
son Of Zephaniah j. Whitelock. died at
his home, No. 10 South Harrison street,
This morning. The young man, who
was crippled from a shedding accident
in early boyhood, had been i'll for sew
eral weeks, but the immediate cause OF
his death was Bright's disease.
Evening journal., 1897-08-14

Those Wilmingtonians who desire TO
go to the Klondyke region in search Of
gold and who want to know something
definite about the character Of the gold
region will be unable to get maps from
the General Land Office and Geological
Survey for several months. The report
Evening journal., 1897-08-14

AS soon as General Weyler heard Of
the assassination of Prime Minister Ca
novas he left the field and hurried to
Havana. Weyler only wants half an
excuse to get back TO his palace at any
time. and particularly when the insur-
gents are operating within a few hun
dred yards Of the city limits.