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Movements OF steamers.

PHILADELPHIA, April 29. - Arriveds
Switzerland, from Antwerp; Missouri, from
London.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Arrived: PENN
sular, from Lisbon Phoenicia, from HAM
burg.
QUEENSTOWN, April 29.-Arrived: Cam
SOUTHAMPTON, April 20. = Arriveds
Kensington, from New York.
COPENHAGEN, April 20. - Arriveds
Noordland, from Baltimore.
GENOA, April 29.-Arrived: Aller from
New York. via Naples
ROTTERDAM April 29.-Sailed: Rotter-
DAM for New York.
NAPLES, April 2s.-Sailed: Karamania.
for New York.
MOvILLE. April %.--sailed: Furnessias
for New York.
NAPLES. April 29.-sailed: Ems, for New
York
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Hasty wedding at New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS, La, April 29.-The First
Regiment left here tonight for Tampa.
waiting over for General Skaters STAFF.
who were also ordered to meet the COM
mander in Florida. The impression among
army men is that the first army corps sent
into Cuba will be for the purpose of CO.
operating with the insurgents. Other regi-
ments have not received orders to leave.
The State troops will begin to mobilize on
Sunday. Lieut.. f. e. Lacey, 5r;, who te went en-
Charles Hotel to Miss Florence r. Gran
dali. of Detroit, who came he here WITH WITH n t
FAREWELL Inspector Lawton accompanied
the staff to Tampa Col d.G G a r. gWas6 eGm
TON Col Babcock will assume the duties
Of adjutant general at Tampa and M9 Wi 90
~ TonoDa as nuartermaster Paymaster e.
W. Haiford will remain here. Lieutenant
Commander Wadhams left TINS morning Ior
Pensacola to complete the fleet Tor the
eighth patrol district.
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$4,000 TRAIN ROBBERY.
Four Masked Men Make a Haul ON the
Southern Pacific.

Ell PhSO, Tex, April 29.-The westbound
Southern Pacific passenger train No. 20 was
taken in charge by four masked men at
Comstock, Tex, at midnight last night and
two miles west of the station the express
car and engine were detached and run a
short distance. The robbers wrecked the
safe and took the entire money cohtents.
badly wrecked by the explosion. No one
was injured and none of the passengers
were disturbed. The robbers took trail
southwark. toward the Mexican border. and
posse was made up at Del Rio and now
is in hot pursuit
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LANDING PLACE.
Concluded from First Page.

siasm that has never before been heard
here. Everybody Joined in and flags were
waved while the soldiers and people shout
ed. Cheer followed cheer. hats flew in the
air and it was altogether a stirring scene.
There was a long wait for the train to
start, however, even after the baggage had
been placed on board the cars, which took
a couple of hours. Meantime, the first good
soaking rain of the encampment set in, and
the enthusiasm had to be adjourned for
while, the soldiers taking refuge in the
at last in four sections or trains by way
of Pensacola and with good send-on from
the troops WHO remain behind. The trst
train passed out at p. M, the otheES Ioi-
lowing in short order.
Orders have been received here to recruit
companies of several regiments to war
strength of LOG men.
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DRILLING At NEW YORK.
$4,000 Volunteers Receiving Instruc~
ton in Military Tactics.

NEW YORK, April 29.-In score of halls
and empty stores throughout this city thou
sands of men received their first instruc-
tions in military tactics to-day. They are
the recruits who have signed the rolls of ths
various volunteer regiments being raised to
enlist and go to the front Internationally
whenever the government needs them The
number of men who have signed the rolls
already is estimated at about fifty thousand.
This number is twice as large as New York
is likely to be called upon for. 1t is all
preliminary work that is being done now.
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BRUNSWICK, Ca, April 29.-Because she
neglected to fly the American flag at sea
when called upon to do so. the schooner
Addie NJ. Anderson, Captain Taylor. was
fired upon off Hatteras by the United States
transport Panther. The Anderson arrived
here to-day from New York, and Captain
Taylor reports sighting the Panther, bound
for Key West. with eight hundred marines
aboard. The transport signaled the schoon-
err to show her colors. but Captain TAYLOR
did not respond. Orders to heave to were
also disregarded. The Panther fired a solid
shot across the schooners bows. followed
by another, with the desired effect. Captain
Tayloy says the Panther's commander gave
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CARDENAS NOT BOMBARDED.
Commander of the Puritan Says There
Is No Truth in the story.

KEY WEST, Fla, April 29-Dispatches
sent from here this morning stating that
Cardenas, a port east of Matanzas on the
north coast of Cuba, had been bombarded
were pure fiction. The dispatches said that
at Cardenas were the monitor Terror and
the gunboat Machias, and shot from the
shore batteries provoked them to fire back
For two hours" the report said, Car
denas withstood the bombardment Then
the ancient guns, which did no damage to
the ships. suddenly grew silent"
Capt. B. r. Harrington, commander of
the United States monitor Puritan, and the
commanding officer Of the Cardenas fleet
who has just come from there. specifically
and emphatically denies the story of the al
legged bOmbardment of that port. He says
there are no Spanish batteries there and
that the entire story is untrue.
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Cant. skunk Disappointed.

special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 29.-Capt. W. A
skunk. of the Eighth Cavalry, United States
army a former resident of Laporte, Ind,
is a. grievously disappointed man. His regi-
ment is one of the few that will be kept at
home to do guard duty. being stationed on
the Black Hills Indian frontier Captain
Skunk, who has been in Washington for
several months on special duty, asked TO be
assigned to active duty in the field, but mas
much as his regiment Is to be kept at home
his request was to-day denied.
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Ru.neII u. Harrison's Desire.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON. April %. = Russell b.
Harrison. of Terre Haute. is i'll Washing
ton. He was visitor at the White House
and war offices. Ostensibly his trip to
washington was IN the interest of his
brother-in-law, Gen. William j. Mckee He
has two strings to his bow, however. and
has military ambitions. seeks an apoint-
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SAVANNAH, Ca. April 29.-The Norwe-
gian steamship Orange arrived here this
morning from Matanzas. She had on board
fifty Cuban refugees. women and children,
but no men. She was boarded by crew
from the United States cruiser Cincinnati
after she left Matanzas. The Orange Is
TOW at quarantine
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su,o;,e Of an ola Coun,.

CHICAGO, April 29.-John Asquith, sew
seventy wears old were found dead in bed
to-day IN their rooms at At No 694 Canal
m nee s nne eib by sSiuen'y com
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LONDON, April SO-The Berlin CORE
spondent of the Standard says that the Aus
trian government is not disposed to sign a
special DECLARATION OF 3b ngIq4Iffahty in the war
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Of Key weet. and Commander Wynne, of
the navy (retired)
~ Nc news has been received to-day from
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Handy Barometer.

Boston. Transcript.
Mrs Groves-Your husband Is an awful
sufferer from the rheumatism.
Mrs. Yourselves; but then he's a handy
thing TO have round when one wants to
know what the weather is going to be.
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So They win.


" dShIngton POst-
Those chaps UP in the klondyke who i'm
a eine the country is putting i'm its entire
time thinking of them will be very much
surprised after the thaw.
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This estimate, which was transmitted to
Congress to-day, is entirely independent OF
the allotments made by the President to the
War Department from the 50yOOO,OOO defense
appropriation. This will indicate that, up to
July next (two months), the increased ex-
penditureS on account or the war VIII De,
annroximately 800 900 coo.
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Fled from Matanxas.

him warm lecture on the dangers Of dis
regarding his orders.
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WAR is EXPENSIVE.
Preparations So Far Have Cost $9O'-
OOOOOO-Defciency Estimates.

WASHINGTON, April 29.-The secretary
of the treasury to-day received from the
secretary of war estimates of deficiencies in
war appropriations required for the use of
the War Department for the remaining two
months of the present fiscal year, aggre-
eating 1884, 019 1897. In his letter, Secretary AL
ger says that the acts of Congress, ap-
proved April % and rs, 1898, authorizing the
enrolment of volunteer army and placing
the regular army on a war footing will ne
cessitate this increased appropriation for
the organization, support and maintenance
of the forces The several items in the APP
preparations are as follows, cents omitted:
Signal service of the army. .......... 81 ,O00
Pay etc. Of the army volunteers. 5,l6666
Paw etc. of the army (regularS)... 40 Z95
Subsistence of the army. ...........:. Z,I59o45
f' deep mart fp..e'' . . 49, 100000
Incidental expenses, quartermast- --o mn
er'S department ............... I90'00V0
Horses for cavalry and artlllery'.'' 1'0V'O0U
Barracks and quarters. SUVVW
ARMY transportation ................ 100000
Ct eoninaee anu V'p 10 900 900
Coytip~encies If the arrny.......... 20, 900 900
Ordnance Department .............. 3,747, los
Medical and Hospital Department. 500V
Equipment of engineer troopS...... 5OOV0
Torpedoes for harbor defense....... 5V00U0
Exneditionary force to Cuba. 150034
Total .$S4, O19 997
This estimate which was transmitted to
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GENERAL NEWS.

has military ambitions, seeks an appoir
have his wish gratified.
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Such Cures as This

the heart and asthma There would be
weeks at time when 1 could not lie down
in bed One day friend told me my blood
was out Of order and 1 had better try
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FIRED AT CUBAN FORTS BY TIE
AMERICAN BLoCKADING FLEETS.

UnfOunded RumOr that Cardenas Had
Been Bombnrded by the Monitor
Terror and Guuboat Machins.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-09

the wothless stuff, while the heavy
yellow particles remained below.
The boys stood attentively watching
the operation, which was carried on
with such skill that by and by nothing
was left in the bottom but the yellow
and black PARTICLES. The latter were
pulverized magnetic iron ore, which al
most always accompanies the gold.
Frank and Roswell's eyes sparkled as
they saw so much Of the yellow par
ticles, even though it looked almost
as fine as the black sand.
How will you separate them?' ask
ed Frank.
"Now. yell obsarve the use that that
cask is to be put to" replied Tim; ''jf
yell oblige me by filing the same with
water"
This was done. when Tim flung about
a pound of mercury into the cask,
after which he dumped into it the
black and yellow sand AS soon as the
gold came in contact with the mercury
it formed an amalgam.
This will do to start things said
Tim; when we have enough to make
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ITO be Continued.)
A GOOD REASON FOR 1T.

AS I stopped to speak with the pion-
eer at his gate / noticed four or five
children back Of him. and when he
had given me the directions asked for
l said:
Il see you have several children old
enough to be in school?'
Yes, four Of EN- who orter to be in
skule five days week" he replied
And I noticed a school house half a
mile back among the trees.
yes, thars a skule house up thar,
and it's too bad the children can't go.
You didn't see nobody around thar,
reckon?"
mo, it was shut up; I saw two 9TH
ers between here and Ridgeville, and
both, were closed Has the school
money given out?'
NO sah-lots of school money left"
Teachers scarce?'
mo, sah-lots O. teachers to be
had"
Then what is the trouble?"
wall. it hain't exactly trubble," he
said as he scratched his head and dug
up the earth with his heel. Whats
the matter along here-and I guess
it's the same all Over-is fallin' in luy
and gittin' married"
oh! The teachers get married."
They do, sab. The fust one we had
teached two weeks and then married
Jube Taylor Youll come to Jubes
place about a mile further on, and
she'll probably be lickin' his seven
young uns."
Il see
THE next one teached three weeks
and then married Henry Dawson
Henry lives back here on the other
road. and if you was goin' that way
you'd find her lickin' his five young
'uns and hollerin at the hired man
And the next?"
And the next teached a week and
married Rube White, which is me
and which lives right we're, and thar's
her in the winder She's licked thu
young 'uns twice over this mornin
bossed me around and called me
names ant will have both hands in
my hair before you've got forty rods
away. Thar's another teacher comm
next week, but ole Jim Lattimer is
waitin' to marry her, and you kin put
it down that the cause Of edducashun
along this yere road has sorter lost
its backbone and is mighty weak in
the knees"
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the woman, as she used her switch on
the bags beside her Would you say
he was a squar' man? He lives over
1T Gordonsville, and we've bin cor
respondin' by mail. He was to be here
to-day to marry me, but he's fiunked
tight out Does he look like a f1uuker
to you? =
well, ma'am," said the Colonel, af-
ter look at the photograph, he mag
he a good man or bad man. | would
not want to do him an injustice, you
know"
lis his nose set en- right?"
Its pretty fair nose"
lis he too wide between the eyes?''
perhaps not"
"How's his mouth?"
Really, my dear woman, you must
excuse me- said the Colonel, as he re-
turned the photograph. You see
Yes, | see," interrupted the woman,
as she received it. i see I'm wilder
bin a wilder for five years. This fell
Ter sees me once and falls in love with
ne and writes me over nifty love let
tiers. ! finally give him my heart. He
is to be here on this train to marry ne.
re uOI l SuON w OIL 49, " 'iSsN
is to be done about it?''
IL don't know, ma'am,' stammer-
ed the Colonel,
Are you married."
''Yes'm.'
"An the others married.
"All married, we replied in chorus.
Then III tell you what is 70 be done
ABOUT it," she exclaimed, as she rose
I'D and fourished the switch around,
II git into my buggy and drive back
home. | stand on a stump IN the front
ward and blow the dinner horn. About
fifteen different fellers who want TO
marry the wilder Jones will come gal
lcpin' down the road and across lots,
AMI the fust one who jumps the fence
gifts the prize, and Mr.. John Hope, Of
Gordonsyille, kin go to grass and be
hanged to him. That's me, and that's
my way, and if any Of you want to
kiss the bride, now's we're golden OPP
portunity."
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while he was absent in taking out
some of the gold which he assured
them was there.
AS has been explained, this form Of
mining is of the crudest and cheapest
nature. In winter, after sinking a
shaft to bedrock, tunnels are run in
different directions and the frozen dirt
piled up until warm weather permits
its washing out. The distance TO bed
rock varies from four to twenty feet.
The gold is found in dust, grains and
nuggets, the last varying from the size
of hickory nut or larger to small
grains Of pure gold.
1t quite often occurs that the bed
rock is seamy, with many small de-
pressions. 1t is supposed that when
the debris containing the original gold
swept over this bedrock, the great
weight of the metal caused it 10 fall
and lodge in the creyices. where it has
lain for ages. Certain it is that the
richest finds have been made in such
places.
Having fixed upon the spot where
the work should begin. Tim McCabe
and the boys set to work to clear off
the coarser gravel and stone from a
patch Of ground. At the end Of sew
eral hours they had completed en-
ough to begin operations. Tim drop
ped few handfuls of the finer gravel
or sand into his pan, which was a
broad, shallow dish Of sheet iron.
Then water was dipped into the pan
until it was full, when he whirled it
swiftly about and up and down. This
allowed the gold, on account of its
greater specific gravity, to fail TO the
bottom, while the sand itself was float
ed off by the agitation. Tim had learn
ed the knack Of dipping the pan side
ways, SO as gradually to get rid Of
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Milligan, Wilkin s Co.
it pay, Wen squaze it through bucl,
Good Mandolins, $3.50.

it pay, we'll squaze it through a bucl,
skin bag"
What is the result?'
Nearly all the mercury will ooze
through the bag. and we can use the
same agin in the cask. The impure
goold will be placed on a shovel AMI
held over a hot fire till the mercury
has gone out in vapor, and only the
pure goold if lift, or rather there's
just a wee bit of the mercury still
hanging bout the goold; but we'l
make big improvement when Jitf
comes back The fling Of his clam
amt the only thing that takes him to
Dawson City"
What do you think Of the deposit
here?"
= blave it's one of the richest finds
in the Kloondike country. and If it
turns out as it promises, we shall go
home and live like gintlemen the rist
Of our lives"
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smiling but silent. trailed after him.
Climbing over some intervening bowl
de.s they shortly emerged into place
altogether different from any they had
yet seen. III was a valley two or three
hundred feet in width, with the sides
gently slOping. There was no snow on
the ground and here and there a few
green blades of grass could be seen
sprouting from the fertile soil.
Through the middle Of this valley me-
an5ared a stream eight or ten feet in
width. but shallow and so clear that
tha bottom could 3e plainly seen, while
.o- some distance away. The valley
itself wound in front until it curved
oat Of sight 1t was impossible, there
Isce. TO guess its extent. 1t terminated
uo1 far below where they stood, rocks
coming together so as to form a small
canyon through which the creek rush
al VITA a velocity that reminded them
Of The dangerous oLe5 they had passed
Oh their way from Chilkoot pass.
rWait here a Bit said JEFF, as he
started toward the stream. The 9TH
els 0beyed watching his actions with
interest
Ha strobe to the creek, along which
~ walked a few rods, his head bent
ais he carefully scrutinized all that
uassed under his eye. Suddenly he
o8ped and started as if he had found
1haJ for which he was looking. linen
st0oning down. he leaned as far out as
BE ecu Z. gathered a handful OF the
sraqe.ly soil and put it in the washer
which he had taken with him. inns
Vas repeated several times. when ne
dipped the pan so as nearly to MI u
with water, after which he whlrled 1t
round several times with speed that
oaused some Of the water to fly out.
That part of his work completed, he set
down the pan which served as WASH
II and walked rapidly back toward ms
liends
Another disappointment" remarked
Frank: lit isn't as easy TO find gold as
wa thought"
Fl don't know about that, said Tim
McCabe, JEFF looks to me as if ne has
E.t on something worth while. How
Is ii Jilf?" he called, as the old miner
tIrE near.
That's our claim, he replied; well
s.ake it out and then I'm going TO
Dawson b file it,"
are you sure there is gold here?
9 ked Roswell. in some excitement
yes, | hit it this time, we mustn
lose any days in stalking it out or
somebody else viii get ahead OF US.
The assurance OF JEFF impaired con-
tdeaca TO the rest. The stakes were
t and driven as already described
aad then Jeff breathed more freely.
We've got 60 days TO find the stuff,
ha said and nobody daren't say a
word 10 US. Al The same I'm going to
DAWSON 10 lille the claim and make
'4lnes dead sure
Waen w you go?'
Now. right Off ] want 70 bring back
some things with me and I'll be gone
lHo OF three days, but won't lose no
time"
Jeff was che of those men who 90
f9t require long to make up their
a and having reached a decision
ing can turn them aside from its
execution Ten minutes later he wGs
ltfrFjng toward lawson City. 40 miles
more disiant
aasnaea as Tim McCabe had prac-
knowledge Of placer mining, the
t1tee cec.ded tc improve the time
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HAD THOUGHT IT ALL OVER.

II have called" said the young man,
ITO ask for your daughter"
Take her, my boy" the great fnan-
cier replied; take her with my bless
ing. I have liked you from the first
moment | ever saw you. There is no
man to whom / would rather give her.
But there's one thing I feel it my duty
to speak to YOU about You mast be
patient with her. ] am afraid that she
has been spoiled by her foolish old
father. Remember that she has not
had mothers care, poor child.
oh exclaimed the anxious lover,
"IIi never think the less Of her for
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THERE WERE OTHERS.

We were nine to get off the train at
Taylorsville to take the narrow guage
UP to Davisburg, and as we sat down in
the shade Of the depot building to wait
q woman drove up in buggy. she was
a brisk little woman and full of busi-
ness. and after hitching the horse she
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came along down the platfrom and
carefully scanned each face, and asked:
Ar you Mr.. John Hope?"
Each and every man answered mo, =
and when she had passed the last one,
SIZE came back to the Colonel and sat
down on a bag Of land-plaster and
took a photograph from her pocket ana
said:
That's the man I'm after. but It
seems he hasn't showed up"
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Z lAFER XVI.
THE CLAIM.

lII not take long to put the prim-
.a house in order, when the party
o1. with shovels and pans and a
cask TO investigate the find
allyA Jeff hoped he had made. Going
i. le stream for a short distance.
M turned Off into a narrow valley,
vuleH never would have attracted the
Al ntion OF the boys.
IAa Old miner stood for some min
attenJiyely studying his surround
and then, instead OF beginning
dlg, as his companions expected
u g Go, he said with an expression
b sglsJ
BOYS I've made mistake; there's
10 old here"
I-0w can you tell until you search p
d the astOnished Roswell.
"it amt what I thought it was; you
DON'T find the stuff in places like this:
tlare.s no use Of wasting time; come
Wondering at his action, the three
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Your husband, ma'am?" queried the
Colonel.
Not jest Wit, sab. He was to be. if
he had got here to-day, and we liked
the looks Of each other, but guess he's
backed out What sort Of galoot
would you take him to be-"
II shouldn't like TO pass an opinion
on a friend Ct yours
"Oh, you needn't mind that" replied
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that. I'll be willing to make ample
allowance for her motherless condi-
ton. Dear girl, I've thought Of that
from the first ''-Cleveland Leader.
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I'D Y0JIG AL0AD.kERS.
r,w TWO Boys Made the Hazard
ous Journey to the New
El6orado and Brought
Back a Fortune.
By EDWARD :. ELLIS.

al-ar "a a strange Cfait ana It's Won
ai voyage" 1.-The Star of India"
.ua-roWning the King" etc, etc.