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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12
made his marriage en- route.
That is an Interesting rnmo

That is an interesting rumor about the
engagement Of James G. Blaine and
Miss Kuhne Beveridge the sculptress,
who modelled the busts of Grover Cleve-
land and Joseph Jefferson, and once
caused a sensation by her midnight
marriage to Charles Coghlan while
playing in Miss Rose Coghlan's theatri-
cal company. Mr.. Blaine is now slav-
ing as a reporter for a New York morn
ing paper, but he is credited with hav-
ing had enough of wild oats, and being
now an Industrious and capable writer.
He, too, has had his matrimonial ex-
perience
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12
WORCESTER.
SATURDAY, MARCH II. 1898.

Speaker John L. Bates Of the Massa-
chusetts house of representatives made
himself marked man by his vote COM
pleting tie, and thus saving the order
for an investigation of the Boston gas
business from reconsideration and pos
sible defeat. 1t is generally a good thing
for man to get himself marked in
such a manner in, this state.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

The gas and electric light commits
sioners, as shown by their annual re-
port, are staggered by the Boston gas
situation, and no wonder. Henry NJ
Whitney's Massachusetts Pipe Line
Company, which was incorporated by
the legislature in 1896, has made con-
tracts by which the various Boston gas
companies are to buy their gas Of it for
nifty years. Then the pipe line com
pany contracts to buy it's gas for fifty
years of the New England Gas and Coke
Company, an unincorporated association
which the men concerned in it appar-
emily hope and believe will be beyond
the jurisdiction Of the state gas commits
sion. That is to say, the much-vaunted
pipe line company does not intend to
make gas at all. 1t has not even ap-
piled for permission to issue stock. The
unincorporated gas and coke company.
a voluntary partnership, responsible to
nobody, controls. or seeks to control the
entire Boston gas business. 1t owns
the various patents, and it has mort
gagged to a New York trust company its
various properties as security for it's
bonds, some s14,oOOOOO of which are to
be issued Immediately The gist Of the
Whole matter seems to be an attempt
to remove the Boston gas business be-
yond the control of the laws of the
state, at least so far as the operators
and the securities that are to be thrown
upon the market are concerned. The
hope is, of course, that there can thus
be no supervision of the bond issues.
Under the circumstances, the amaze
ment of the commissioners at this pal
pable attempt to evade the law, is quite
comprehensive.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

The Hon John z. Russell of Leicester
is prominently mentioned just now,
because of his second gift of $780, to
Washington and Lee University, of
which ex-Postmaster General Wilson is
president, 1t is pleasing to see Massa-
chusetts and especially Worcester coun-
ty doing something for the cause of ed
ucation in the Old Dominion.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

Brave Bill Anthony" Capt. sigsbee's
marine orderly, is experiencing all the
sweets and annoyances of fame. The
girls are writing letters to him, and his
and photograph are in de-
mand. His letter to Chicago girl-of
it was Chicago-has got into
print, and it is not at all bad letter,
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

FOR MAYOR KANSAS CITY.

Kansas City, March 1.-THE republi-
can primaries have resulted in the re-
nomination of Mayor James M. Jones,
who received majority over two other
candidates.
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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12
oU1 AND ABOUT.
CORRESPONDENTS GIVE VIEWS ON
CURRENT TOPICS.
Mr. Knibbs and His Nervous Horse
Practical Purposes of the Congress
sional Library The Unitarian
Employment Society Sale.

We are in receipt of the following
two pertinent and interesting letters:
To the Editor OF Out and About: 1t
was with considerable interest that I
read in the Spy of Friday a statement
headed "Mr. Knibbs complains" fol-
lowed by an account of matter which
placed Mr.. eKnibhs and the officer sta
toned at the Harrington corner cross
walk at issue This corner is one OF
the most dangerous in the city for
crossing pedestrians, where almost in
cessant traffic centres from four points,
and regard the placing of an officer
at that point for the protection of per-
sons crossing the street as one Of the
wisest and kindest acts of the city gov
ernment.
Mr.. Knibbs says, 81 was driving an
unusually nervous horse" which state
ment shows the necessity and wisdom
of having an officer stationed at this
crossing, who can do his duty without
fear or favor-at least who can do the
duty that he is ordered to do, viz: pro-
tect foot passengers from the reckless
NESS of such drivers, whose beasts are,
as they themselves confess, liable to
land them Sin Easton's window"
We live in land Of liberty, Mr. Geo.
de Forest Brush to the contrary, not
withstanding-a land where man may
drive "an unusually nervous horse" if
he can do so without jeopardizing other
necks than his own. We have not yet
arrived at that stage of brutality, as
in Paris, where, If pedestrian is run
over, and there is any life left in him,
he is prosecuted for getting in the way;
for here we recognize the right of
the pedestrian as well as the driver.
The safety of our public would be
better assured if Mr.. Knibbs and his
unusually nervous horse" could do
their cavorting out on the boulevard or
in some of the outlying districts Of
Worcester, rather than in the most
congested section of the city, at an
hour when the streets are not thronged.
The writer is not an old woman who
must be led over a street crossing, be-
ing amply able to take care of herself
but she has often been grateful for the
sense of protection which the presence
Of the man at the helm in this location
gives to those who must cross the
streets. She does not know the names
or even the faces of the men engaged
in this duty, but Is glad to hear word
of testimony to their usefulness and
efYiciency, and to wish that a like pro-
tection could be afforded to foot pas
sengers crossing Washington square,
where SO many streets meet, and the
distance from one sidewalk to another
is so great. An Onlooker.
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good titles, cloth binding, gilt top, worth
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A New Departure,

To men and women out of work
and to employers wanting help,
the Spy announces that hereafter
it will publish individual adver-
tisements of not only SITUATIONS
WANTED but also HELP WANTED
of 20 words or without
charge. See Page 6.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

STATIONERY BARGAINS FOR
SATURDAY.
We have just received from the mills
100 reams assorted tinted Papers as fol-
lows:
Rose Laid billet and octave sizes.
Heliotrope, octave size; also billet
size.
Pink Granite billet and octave sizes.
Each with Envelopes to match.
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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

The Worcester League of Unitarian
Women meets Wednesday at the South
Unitarian Church. The religious and
philanthropic news committee will make
a report, after which the subject of the
day, Woman will be discussed under
three subdivisions:
Misdirected energies of women.
Outcome of physical culture for wo-
men.
Woman as factor in modern prog
ress.
Box luncheon at 12.45 o'clock, tea and
coffee to be provided by the ladies of the
society. All women, whether members of
the league or of other denominations
than the Unitarian, are cordially in
vited.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

Our second correspondent writes on
another topic as followss
Dear Out and About:
The writer was one of the audience
that listened with pleasure to the lec-
ture by Mrs. Albert H. Chaffee on Thurs
day evening at Memorial Hall, upon
the congressional library a t Washing
ton While that lecture was replete
with richness of description of the
architectural and decorative qualities of
the magnificent library, it left the hear
er unsatlsf1ed, because of its lack of hui
man interest.
Would it not be a welcome sequel to
the lecture of Thursday night, if Mrs.
Chaffee,, after showing us the cold mar
Bile body, would open up to us a glimpse
of the life and soul which inhabits it?
Perhaps she would tell us what the
library stands for What kind of books
it contains. Are they specially books
upon Jurisprudence, international law,
military and naval tactics, currency,
customs laws and duties, copyright
laws mining, banking, ETC., and is
there a department where miscellaneous
books are kept for general reading? Is
it true that a volume of every book
copyrighted in this country is kept, and
deposited here by the government? Is
the library open only to members of
congress, or is it open to the whole
District of Columbia? Are the members
allowed to take books away to their
committee rooms, or are they compelled
to use them in that very uncomforta-
BILE looking room, called the reading
room?
These and other questions which
would have given a vital and human
interest to Mrs. Chaffee's lecture, were
entirely overlooked, and left the au-
dience at its close with something of the
unsatisfed, lonely feeling one experien-
ces in walking through the dead city of
Pompeii. There was far-aWay-ness,
and long-ago-ness about it all, that
not even the descriptions of coloring in
the elaborate pictures, the ornate dec
grafton in the vaulted roofs, or the mar
BILE columns with their highly polished
surfaces, could atone for.
The library was made for the uses of
every day man, in a work-a-day world,
but one would never have guessed it
from Mrs. Chaffee's presentation of it..
The whole series of pictures shown in
Mrs. Chaffee's lecture gave one the i'm
preston of a stately and dignified edi-
flee into which had never been breathed
the breath of life, in which the sound
of footstep had never been heard, nor
the echo of human voice among it's
pillars and arches.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12

Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Dartmouth's
mathematical professor and novelist,
has married at Athens Grace Aspinwall
Bowen of Brooklyn. Mr.. Hardy is now
United States minister to Persia, where
other literary men have been sent by
several administrations, and he has
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-12
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Mems Natural Color Medium Weight
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and Drawers, equal for wear to s1.00
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LAST CALL ON JACKETS.

The BALANCE of our FINE WINTER JACKETS rich
silk lined strap scanned hghgrade cloths, from $1,000 to
$4,000 Jackets. POSITIVELY LAST CALL Gin the news
papers, Choice
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
DREYFUS SAID TO BE DEAD.
REPORT REACHES PARIS A LITTLE
BEFORE IT'S DENIAL.

Bnted Upon n Telegram From an Tn
known Correspondent at COImar.
Dreyfus' Fnthcr-fn-Law DiscredIts
the story Bcenusc of the Colonial
0fflce's Recent Assurances OF the
Prisoner Good HenIth-Later Ad-
vices From COImar Indicates Thne
the Telegram Was Hoax.
Paris, Nov. bit Is reported here this
evening that Dreyfus Is dead
The rumor is understood to be based upon
a mysterious telegram received from Coli
mar, capital OF Upper Alsace, signed by
an unknown correspondent.
So far as can be ascertained, there IA
no official confirmation OF the report.
His father-in-law dlscredts II. He says
he has received excellent accounts from
the colonial office quite recently as to this
prisoners health
Despite these assurances, there are dark
rumors afloat. In view of the curious
manner in which the letter from Dreyfus
declaring that he had abandoned all hope.
was conveyed to Nine. Dreyfus. on FRI
day. many people believe he is dead. Care
ing show that nothing is known there az
to the death of Dreyfus. 1t is now be.
lieved that the telegram was hoax.
A dispatch from Paris on Friday said
that Nine. Dreyfus had applied that day
to the Office OF the minister Of the colonies
for permission to send her husband some
warm clothing for his return home. Tho
request was refused, on the ground that
the government would do whatever was
necessary.
AT the same time according to the dis
patch the authorities read her a letter
from her husband to the effect that having
for fve months addressed appeals for re-
vision to Gen. Boisdeffre (recently CHIEF
OF staff of the French army without get
ting a reply, and being weary and ex-
hausted by his useless appeals he would
body. He described himself as III and
dying and bequeathed to the generosity
Of my country the care Of rehalitating my
memory"
IL appears that Nine. Dreyfus then ask
ed permission to telegraph her husband
the decision OF the Court of Cessation.
This was also refused. Then, through 4
friend, she appealed to President Faure.
but with no better result.
The dispatch said her counsel would
bring the whole matter before the Court
Of Cessation.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
WANT FEDERAL rNTEnTERENcn.
Negroes at ST. Louis 60 Send an Adj
dress to the President.

Negroes At ST. Louis 90 Send an Adj
dress TO the President.
st. Louis, Nov 1S-At a meeting to-day
OF the Forum club, composed of about 500
coIored citizens of st. Louis, Prof. o. NJ.
Wood, race commissioner of the organiza-
ton, delivered an address upon the sub
ject Of the recent bloody massacres OF ne
groes In the Southern states.
These, he said, should be condemned in
unmeasured terms by All right-thinkng
people of the country. regardless OF race
lines and called for Intervention by the ma
tionaI government In the interest OF hu-
manity.
Resolutions were presented by Prof.
Clark of the Summer High School recon-
mending the appointment of a commission
OF seven to draft an address to President
Mckinley, calling his attention 10 the de-
fenseiess condition of colored citizens, who
are subjected in the states IN which they
live to all forms OF violence, and ask him
TO intervene In behalf OF humanity and
good government
The committee is instructed to circulate
this presentation throughout the United
States for the purpose OF securing the sig
natures and cooperation OF the colored cit
liens of the entire country. A copy win
be sent to each United States senator and
representative.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
ROBBED MAIL BOXES.
Florida Newspaper Reporter Arrest
ed Charged with the Crime.

Florida Newspaper Reporter Arresf-
ed Charged with the Crime.
Tampa. Fla, Nov. 13.-J. Poland Clark
son, well-known newspaper reporter Of
this state, was arrested this morning az
2:30 o'clock in the postofiice with an arm
fun OF letters and papers which he had
taken out Of various boxes. Policeman
Story happened to be passing the office on
the opposite side of the street and noticed
the peculiar movements OF Clarkson and
watched him; He opened boxes and secured
93 letters and a number of papers adj
dressed TO various parties in this city. and
was in the act of leaving the postoface
when the policeman arrested him.
For months he has been on a general
spree. and it is thought by those who know
him best that ne was afflicted with tenn
porary insanity, which caused him to do
50 indiscreet a thing.
Clarkson was formerly a reporter on the
Times-Union In Jacksonville, and worked
on the Tribune Of this city up to three
months ago, when he was dismissed on
account Of his drinking. He will have
preliminary hearing before United States
Commissioner Crane tomorrow.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
INSURGENTS MAY ATTACK 1LoILo
Merchants Appeal to the Americans
to Protect Them.

to Protect Them.
Manila, Nov. 13.-The following advices
have been received from Iloilo, capital OF
Panay, one of the four principal islands
of the Visayas group:
The insurgents have occupied Linganas,
Oton and Pavia, suburbs of Iloilo, and are
daily expected to attack the town. The
Spaniards have abandoned the Mole and
destroyed the connecting bridges.
Business is paralyzed and the inhabi-
tants are in a state of terror. The mer-
camille houses, of all nationalities, have
signed a circular asking the commander
of the United States cruiser Charleston to
remain, as the Spanish authorities are in
capable of affording them protection
1t is reported also that the insurgents
have taken the whole of the islands of Ne
gros and Zeba of the Visayas group. AS
the cable connections are cut il is impos-
sible TO confirm this rumor.
On Nov. 6, Gen. Rios, Spanish governor
of the Visayas, is said to have declared a
seven days armistice, in order to commun-
icate with Madrid with view of trans
ferring control to the Americans.
Maj. Bell has gone to Iloilo to ascertain
the facts of the situation.
The United States transport Scandia
will leave tomorrow with sixty sick and
discharged men.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
A SUPPLEMENTARY REPORT.
Capt. Cook of the Brooklyn Gives
Credit to the Men Below.

Capt. Cook of the Brooklyn Gives
Credit to the Men Below.
Washington, Nov. IA supplemental
report of Capt. f. A. Cook of the cruiser
Brooklyn relative 20 officers deserving spe-
cial mention in the battle Of July 8, has
been filed with the navy department. It
follows:
Omitted States Flagship Brooklyn-Sir:
I request to supplement- my report of the
battle of July 8, and that 1t be filed with
that report made on July Z.
"The splendid and efficient work done in
the engine and fire rooms was largely due
10 the zeal and inteliRence Of Passed As
sistant Engineer Carter, who went imme-
diately 10 his station an the engine rooms,
and was unremitting throughout the sec
tion in his efforts TO get the best speed. He
was ably assisted in the fire rooms by
Passed Assistant Engineer j. b. Patton
and Assistant Engineer Fitzgerald.
Naval Cadets U. S. Macy and j. Fl.
Woodward were stationed at the battery,
and were cool and efficient in duty
NAVAL Cadet J. A. Hand was at the
central station, and conveyed all orders
and instructions deliberately and we'll.
Naval Cadets j. W. l.. Clement, r. w.
Vincent, j. T. Bowers and c. w. For
man were stationed in the powder division
and did effective duty.
. "Pay Clerk O. /. Hancock volunteered for
a station and did excellent work in the
powder DIVISION"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
CAMP MEADE's END NEAR.
Movement 10 Winter Camps gosg
Progressing Rapidly.

Progressing Rapidly.
Middletown, Pa, Nov. 13.-The end OF
Camp Meade is in sight. BY Thursday
the entire Second corps viii have left for
the new camps in the South. Three regi-
ments started to-day and three more viii
go tomorrow. Gen. Young and STAFF ana
the signal corps will be the last to go.
The regiments leaving to-day were the
Second West Virginia, Eighth Pennsyl-
vania and First Rhode Island. Secretary
Alger is SO well pleased with this loca
ton that portion of the troops may re-
turn next spring.
The hospitals have been cleaned out ana
on Wednesday their equipment will DO
sent away. The headquarters Of the corps
win be Augusta, Ga The troops will be
scattered 5etween that city, Athens, Ga,
summerville, Columbia and Greenville, s.
G. train Is provided for each battalion.
and each man Is allowed a seat to him.
self. Three days travel rations five days
field rations and coffee money is issued to
each regiment before starting
A hospital car in charge OF a surgeon
and nurses is attached to each regimental
train and surgeon sent with each Sec
ton. The Fourteenth Pennsylvania RegI-
nlent leaves tomorrow for SummeryilIe.
and Tuesday the Thirteenth starts for Au-
gusta.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-14
GOSSIP FROM SANTIAGO.
Gomez Getting Rid of Americans and
Cubans FavOrIng Annexation.

Santiago. Cuba. Nov 1S.-Capt. Warren,
an American, who has been with Gen.
Maxine Gomez for nearly two years. ar
rived here. According to his statement,
Gen. Gomez will no longer have Americans
about him, and is getting rid Of them as
fast as possible. He takes the same course
IN the case of Cubans suspected of favor
ing annexation to the United States. The
result is that some of the best men who
were long attached to his immediate staff
are not now with him.
1t viii be difficult, Capt Warren be.
lieves, to get the majority of the insur-
gents to disband. His idea is that when
the American authorities get control of che
other portions of the island they should
give out'no rations and punish severely all
thefts of cattle and produce.
He thinks too, that there may be some
trouble with the insurgents because of
their insisting on the right to court mar
tial delinquents among themselves.
There is very little serious sickness
among the troops here. Everybody is i'm
proving with the cooler weather
1t is estimated that no fewer than $4,000
people in this section are learning Eng
lsh, in addition 70 the school children.
The greater part of Marina street Is
now macadamized. This Improvement is
to be extended throughout the entire city
in place of the ancient cobble stones.
The United States revenue steamer Man
ming is now here, with Capt Shoemaker,
chief of the revenue cutter service, who
came to investigate as to the need of
vessel for Collector Donaldson. Capt.
Shoemaker believes that Collector Donald
sons request should be complied with.
Owing to the heavy weather, the Man
ming, instead Of the converted yacht Hist
will be placed at the disposal of Gen
Wood commander of the military division
of Santiago, for his trip from Guantanamo
along the northern coast of the province
The Manning. with Gen. Wood, probably
will leave on Tuesday