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Dry Goods

New York, April 5.-Sales of print cloth extras outside the Fall River market were made late yesterday at cents. This is lower than the lowest price heretofore touched by the print cloth market. The effect is depressing on the market for sta- pie cottons. The demand is, however, very limited in spite of the weak market prevailing. At first hands and in jobbing circles alike there Is a dearth of store buy ing. Visiting buyers are exceedingly scarce In the woolen goods market there is much complaint over the many cancel lations in mems wear fabrics. Prints are generally irregular.
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New Orleans Cotton Market

New Orleans, April 5.-Cotton steady; sales. 4,475; ordinary, 9-16; good ordinary, 15-16; low middling, 5A middling, 5 9-16; good middling, 15-1s; middling, fair, 65-16; receipts, 4S21; stock, 33e,0S3. "
 Consolidated statement Receipts, net, 46,673; exports to Great Britain, 2S,79l; France, 1224S; Continent, 34 ,336; stock, S13,- All. a
 Cotton futures dull; sales, 600. April, 55O bid; May, 5.59a5.6O; June, 5.61@5.62 July, 5.66@5.67; August. 5.66@567; Septem- Der, 5.66@5.67 October, 56665.67; November, BICYCLES; December, 5.70@51; January, 5.72Q5.73.
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A CHANGE TO GAIN PRACTICE

From the Atchison Globe. 70
 When a woman resolves to be mere ecc- nomical, she imagines she has to go right down town and buy something, to prove her resolution to buy economically.
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Daily Statement


 Galyeston-Quiet but steady; middling, 54; sales 192; receipts, 4,OOS; stock, 76,446
 Mobile-Dull; middling, 5%; sales, 100; re- ceipts, S32; stock, 29.196.
 Savannah-Steady; middling, 9-16; sales, POI; receipts, 1357; stock, 49,325.
 Charleston-Steady; middling, 59s re- ceipts, 442; stock, 29,912.
 Wilmington-Firm; middling, 5%; receipts, 227; stock, 13,559
 Norfolk-Firm; middling, 1916; sales, IT. receipts, GA; stock, 42,351.
 Baltimore-Nomnal; middling, 6; receipts, 1901; stock, 26,7l8.
 Boston-Steady; midding. 619-16; re- ceipts, net, 1915; gross 11,SlS
 ladephia-Quiet; middling, 6 7-16; re- ceipts, 294; stock. 1O,323.
 Memphis-Steady; middling, 59-l6 sales 1,S5O; receipts, 1891; stock. 91 ,6s5.
 Augusta-Firm; middling, 5fSa5 lo-lo; receipts. 22s; stock, 4o,OO1.
 Paine, Murphy & Co.'s Stock Letter.
 Birmingham, April 5-Tfle expectation for the message from the president tomoF- row has caused a waiting tendency on the part of taaders anah consequent stagnaflon in the stock market today. Prices ruled lower than yesterday on dtsturolng runners thah war ships have been dispaoched oo Cuba to provide all American citizens on the island means to return fome and the general belief that General Woodford has been recalled. The stand taken by Great Britain resulted in a dcldn in Spanish fou1vs at the opening, and WAS followed by sfhff- nnss in prices of Amercan5, London being off much less this morning tisan was feared The market in early trading under the lead of sugar showed decline of to podnts which was followed by an advance in the closing hour of 1 to 9 points ogi covering of shorts Tomorrow is expected to bring a solution of the while situatdn and If r1- n1or Is authentic war will be the outcome. 
 Cotton Letter
 By Private Wire to T. c. Hewlett Agent . Birmingham, Ala, April 5.-The cotton market, both at home and abroad, ruled very dull today. apparently insa waiting mood until something more definite is known regarding the presidents message which no doubt will be presented to con- gress tomorrow. The Liverpool market closed quiet; prices unchanged to 1-64th lower than the previous close. Spot sales, 1e 900 bales; middling upland, 7-16d. New York opened to points lower than yes- terday. close fluctuations up to noon being confined within a range of 2 points. Very little disposition was shown to operate on either side News from Washington was of such a conflicting character it will be are lief when the presidents message reaches congress, regardless of what position he takes, and no doubt the worst effects will be fully discounted. t5
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New York Cotton Market.

New York, April 5.-Today's cotton mar ket was small, narrow affair, f1uctua- tions being restricted to a range of points and total transactions to a meagrely assoc bales. Aside from light buying for Liver pool account, business was restricted to the scattered operations of the profess sional element All sorts of sensa tional war rumors were in circulation throughout the day, but were too conflicting to do more than unsettle sentiment. Early English advices were about as expected, but subse- quent cables reflected some nervousness in the cotton trade at that point. Our market opened quiet and steady with prices 1 point higher to 1 point lower, eased off l to 2 points under scattered selling and varied but little from the rest of the ses- sion.
 At the close the feeling was barelyl steady with prices to points net lower.
 New York, April 5.-Cotton steady, mid ding, 3-16c; net receipts, 490 bales gross, 1,377; exports to continent, SS0; sales, 12,0O0; spinners, 512; stock, 197 ,86S.
 Total today: Net receipts, IA ,450: exports to Great Britain, 5000; continent, 5,755; stock 813,411.
 Consoldated: Net receipts. 46,673; exports to Great Britain, 2S,791 continent. 1224S; continent, 34,336. 7o4
 Total since Sept. 1: Net receipts, 7,9f6,- 5S4 exports to Great Britain, 2,933 TOP; to France, 73S, ,660; continent, 2,529,037. s
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Local Staple Grocerie.

Local Staple GrOcer1es Flour-Best patent, s5.50@5.75 Straight--s5.00: extra family. &.5o Sugar-Granulated. s5-33; Y. C.. 476 Coffee-Green, SG101kc; Arbuckle's pack ages. s101O: Lowering & Lyons packages, $1010
 Lard. 6zc basis. Clear ribs, sides, $500. .. .Molasses-Centrif.. 16a25c; sugar-house' 2DD35c.
 Rice. 615G8ikc.
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NORTHERN ALABAMA RAILROAD
 COMPANY.
 TIME TABLE NO. EIN EFFECT Monday, January 1, 1897, at 500 . m. Passenger, Passenger. Daily except Daily except Sundays. Sundays
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(Markets BY Telegraph

Tennessee new settlement 3s.......... Virginia 6s deferred-.... ............... Virginia funded debt Df..........,..
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coRREsPoNDENcE SOLICITED.

K. 0. M. 6 B.-East.
 Arrive Depart No. Fast Mail. ......... 55 pm .......... No. Express ........... 40 am .....,....
 West,
 Arrive Depart Mo- 3 Fast Mall ........ .......... 12 05 pm No. Express .......... .......... 10 20 pm Central of Georgia-Bast.
 Arrive Depart No. Fast Mall ......., .........: 9 30 am Mo- Fast Express .... .......... D8 pm
 West.
 Arrive Depart No. Fast Mail .......... 50 pm .......... No. 3 Fast Express ....n 35 am .......... Trains marked thus {! are daily except Sunday
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LOCAL MARKETS.
Fruits and Produce
Local Cotton Market Cot,on-Midd,ing. 51sc@5ssc-

Fruits and Produce Butter-Elgin, 25c; Dairy, No. T.: soc Dairy No. 2, 1Sc; country. 1bc; cookihs' 10cd12c. .,. Potatoes-Irish, s0c to sl per btishei' sweet, per barrel. $2.75. Eggs, 10c.
 Apples S400a4.50.
 Lemons, $S.0067350 per box. Oranges, $3.00Q14.00 per box. Cocoanuts, $400 per 100.
 Corn-Yellow, 41c; white. 4ec. Meal, Soc per sack s-, Nro Hay-Choice Timothy. s15; No. 1, sl4; No' 2 SIS e,,. Poultry Hens. 22lzc:. fries. 121sc@2oc; ducks. 15cq3oc; geese. BOG.
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ARRIVALS. No. s.-From Jacksonville. Albany Columbus, etc .. ..........-.. .1l:35 am No. 1.-From Savannah, Macon,- Co., lumbu5, GIG ........ ..-.. b.5D pm Through Pullman Buffet Sleepers running between St. Louis and Jacksonville, Fla handled on trains 8 and { between Bir- mjngham and Albany
 Connection at Savannah with superb freight and passenger steamers of the Ocean Steamship company. from New York. Boston and tue Eas.-
 For further information apply. to g. Jacobs, Com'l Agent, Jack w. John- son, Union Tic Ticket LA Agent j. 2 z; 2Haiie; 0sn- Manager.
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BIRMINGHAM & ATLANTIC R. R. co. Time table No. 2l. taking effect a. m. July
 { 189A
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IN CASH PRIZES!

For the best prepared and most
 nearly correct answers to the
 following twenty questions...
 No answer received in this
 Contest after May I. 1898.
 The Prizes will be awarded on May 10 as follows: For most nearly perfect set CEf1 mn of answers. .WOVsOO For second most nearly per con mn feet set of answers. ... WzUsUV For third most nearly perfect Ctf1 mn set of answers. ........ WIusVV And for the ten next best sets
 of answers $2.oo each. The follouipr ara tha ouecfi0nS.
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STATIONS,

SAMUEL HUNT.
 General Manager O. K. CAMERON. Master of Trains. N. R. ADRIANCE,
 Superintendent. WE RIRMINGHAN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-04
SAFE DYNAMiTED.
Burglars Operate in the Office of
the Miller Lumber Co.

The safe of the W. I. Miller Lumber
company at 21S East Sixth street, was
blown to pieces some time last night
with dynamite, and is a total wreck
The time it was done is not known as
there was shooting and firing of cannon
crackers going on all through the night
and the noise of the dynamite explosion
would not be noticed above the other
noise.
The safe was about four feet square
and five feet in height. 1t stood in the
southwest corner of the lumber Office.
RMS Office is a brick building Il by 20
feet
In front of the safe and separated by
a few feet there was a high desk coun-
ter. The Office had three doors and
three windows in it.
The burglar entered at the rear by
forcing open the rear door. There is
coal shed in connection with the rear
of the office which afforded an easy
hiding place both in entering, and dur
ing the time of the explosion.
The outside door of the safe was Dor
ed into, a hole hree-fourths of an inch
being drilled about the center of it, and
e Few inches to the side of the combina-
ton knob. Through this was slipped a
stick OF dynamite and the explosion fol-
lowed with terrific force. The front
door of the safe was blown out, and
also blown to pieces. The outer steel
shell was twisted and blown apart and
the concrete which was used as a. filing
was thrown out on the floor in large
chunks. The inner door was torn from
its fastentngs and fell on the floor.
The wall and window casing ada
cent to the safe were blown away, large
chunks of brick and mortar being bro
ken out.
The front Of the desk counter was
badly damaged. All three windows in
the Office were blown out by the force
of the conclusion.
J. B. Heck. bookkeeper, for the lum-
Der concern, was notified of the safe
having been blown, and the police and
sheriff were notified. An investigation
was made which revealed the fact that
the work was undoubtedly that of a
professional safe blower. Two cold
chisels and large iron bar were found
in the office.
Mr.. Heck said: ct haven't been able
to find out what time this occurred. No
one seems to have heard it. There was
but little money in the safe. took the
money to bank Saturday morning at
1880 and after that I paid off the men
at the lumber yard. There couldn't
have been much money there. Mr.. Mil
Ter is out of the city"
WAS there as much as $50 in the
safe?" was asked.
mo, don't think there was" said
Mr.. Heck
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Notes and Personal Mention.

Miss Helen Wilson, Miss Louise Smith,
Miss Emily kdng ana mis- MISS Maud Bates e
remain until Friday.
Ladies Aid society OF the First Metho-
dist church at I O'Clock Wednesday after
noon in the church parlOrs.
A. L. Davis has returned from Hot
Springs. where he has been spending the
past month.
ing the Fourth with Miss Emma Whit
mer.
ing the Fourth with his family in Topeka.
Miss Callia Wellhouse. Miss Lulu Har-
are are spending the Fourth al TonganoXie.
The young men will return this evening,
mainder Of the week
Mrs A. NJ. Reynolds. wife of Rev. A.
NJ. Reynolds of the Westminster church
went to St. Joe today to visit her father
J. ". Thurston left Saturday for visit
to his old home near Boston.
Mrs. L. w. Wilson and, daughter Mary
the summer, Miss Wilson will not re-
turn this fan, as she is going to teach in
Mr. and Mrs. c. S. Sutton have return
ed from Chicago, accompanied by MISS
Mary McQuaker, who will be their guest
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Dietrich have gone
to Omaha to attend the exposition
Mrs. H. A. Tice and children are going
to spend the summer at Green Mountain
Miss Mabel Burton of Chicago is visit
ing Mrs. H T. Bird.
Inc n8nlDeFS or the MOdeIu 4@AlSA a y z
club and their young men frlends are PIC
nicking near the reform school today.
Mr.. Roy Ranney is up from Arkansas
City. spending a few days with MS pa
rents.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. FIungate are spend
ing a few weeks in Arkan sas City.
Allyn CaprOn, who belongeq. 10 tne
rough riders was a pupil of Miss Hattie
Lowell. in Topeka, twenty years ago and
was killed while fighting under the com
mand of her cousin, General Smarter;
Miss Florence Horn has returned from
a several weeks visit in Kansas city.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Prescott Of Kansas
City are spending a few days with Judge
and Mrs. A. Fl. Horton
Misses Stella and Hattie MeElroy are
going to Thayer, Kan. Tuesday for a
months visit with relatives
Mrs. A. II. Horton returned Saturday
from Colorado. After attending the meet
ing of the Federation in Denver she visit
ed the Misses Horton and Mr.. Albert 9or-
ton at Colorado Springs
There viii be a called meeting of the
Stedman club Tuesday evening at the
home OF Mr.. n. P. Garretson at 1101 Har-
Miss Lena Gregory, a former Bet61ny
student, was married last Thursday at
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Twenty First Ordered to Rein
force General Shafter.
Col. Thomas G. Fitch Starts to
Santiago Today.
EQUIPMENT LACKING.
Deficiency Will Be Remedied at
Tampa.
Private Charles Root of Hays
City, Dies.

Chickamauga Park, July 4.-The
First army corps. which includes the
Twenty-frst Kansas and Second Mis-
souri, regiments has received orders to
pack all extra baggage for shipment
home and prepare for an immediate
movement to the front.
Transportation is here and the First
division will leave not later than this
evening. The Second and Third dt-
visions viii follow as rapidly as pos
sible.
The Twenty-flrst Kansas is almost
equipped and what they lack is prom
{sed at Tampa. All regiments of the
Third division participated in target
practice this week. Corps will march to
Ringgold, Ga, and be transported from
that point
1t viii require all this week for the
entire corps of 80, 900 men with their
baggage to get away. This will in
clude one reserve corps hospital, and
ambulance train and three division hos
pitfalls and ambulance trains. The sick
will be left at Letter hospital.
Charles Root, of Company I, Twenty
first Kansas, died at the Third divis-
ion hospital yesterday of spinal menin-
gifts. His parents, at Hays City, had
been wired some time ago that he could
not live. The body was shipped home
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WOLF IN THE FOLD.
Missouri Preacher Wanted For
ElOping With a MatrOn
of His Flock.

J. A. Koch, deputy sheriff from War
repsburg, Mo, came to Topeka today and
secured a requisition for Rev. Robert
Howell of Warrensburg, who is wanted
for clipping with Cora Henderson, wife of
William B. Henderson, a wealth stock
man who lives near Warrensburg.
Howell is a minister of the Christian
church. He was holding revival meetings
in the country, and Henderson and his
wife were leaders in the church work.
Howell was a favorite, and went to board
at the Henderson home.
Ten days ago Mrs. Henderson disap-
peared, and Howell left at the same time.
The preacher started out to sell school
furniture and Mrs Henderson accompa-
MED him. When they reached Carthage,
No, officers were on their track and they
hurriedly crossed the Kansas state line.
A few days later they were arrested at
Oswego.
Soon after his wife left home Hender-
son buckled on a six-shOoter and started
out to hunt for the guilty couple. He was
heard from last evening, but he knew
nothing of their whereabouts. Koch says
he has no doubt that Henderson would
kill Howell on sight and he is anxious to
get to Oswego before Henderson.
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HE SOFTENS DE HEART.
An Argument Against the Appoint
ment of Army ChapIains.

Judge John Martin, clerk Of the su-
preme court, relates the following story
of a conversation he overheard between
two colored recruits on the steps Of the
capitol:
They tell me that we amt goin' to
get no chaplain. That is too bad, too
bad said the first man who had just
enlisted
Dat is all right tells you. it is all
right" said the second recruit. DE fact
is dat we don't want no chaplain We
will do better without one. De chap
lain will preach kindness and mercy.
He Will soften de heart so we won't
stick a bayOnet into a Spaniard when
we sees one. I tell you what we want
Is something to harden de heart so dat
when we see de Spaniard we will go
right at him and run de bayonet right
through him"
The reason the coloFed battalions are
not entitled to a chaplain is because
there are not enough troops to COM
plete a regiment and it requires a COM
pIete regiment to be entitled to a chap
lain.
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KANSAS PACKERS.
A Great Kansas Industry Usually
Overlooked.


The following figures from the forth
coming report of the la Dor commissioner
concerning the meat packing industry
in Kansas show to what an extent that
industry has grown:
The raw material used by the six
packing houses in Kansas last year
cost $57, OILS. 682. The value of the pro-
duct finished and ready for market was
$50, 426, III and the total weight of the
output was 1,019, 349 1874 pounds.
The report shows that the six packing
houses paid 1874, 500 for labor to a
total of 1910 employees during the
year. OF the employees, 6,858 were men
and 682 women and girls.
The average earnings for the year for
all help, skilled and unskilled, were S541
for men and s299 for women Skilled
labOrers received from 81 day upward,
the average being 81 sos a day for men,
and S1.41 for women. Unskil1ed laborers
received an average of S1.6O for men
and SO cents a day for women Only
one plant reported an increase of wages
over the previous year. The increase
was per cent. The report Is incon-
plete on the subject of the market.
The four companies that reported
handled only half the total product but
their report shows some interesting
facts. They marketed in Kansas 29-
60I, 2SS pounds of their products, in
other states 390. 695,975, and exported
136. 433, 73S.
The six packing houses represent an
investment of SIS, III POP.
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SOCIETY NEWS.

A large delegation will leave Topeka to-
day to attend the National Teachers as
sociation, which meets in Washington, d.
c. The majority of them will spend the
summer in the east, visiting different
points of interest. The train which leaves
Topeka is made up entirely of Kansas
people and no change will be made on the
entire trip. Those who will leave Topeka
on this excursion are: Mr.. and Mrs. Eli
G. Foster, Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Culley and
son Mr. and Mrs E. H. Anderson, Mr..
and Mrs. Meyers. Mr.. and Mrs. Gross, Dr..
and Mrs Weeks, Mrs. L W. Doolittle,
Mrs ELIAS ShuH and son, Mrs J. B. Nc
Afee, Mrs. S. B. Weaver and children,
Mrs. M G Price, Mrs. J. W. Sturgis, Mrs.
Addison Eby. Mrs. Parsons, Miss Ida Ger
trude Russell, Miss Worcester, Miss Will
son, Miss Nellie Lercher, Mr.. William
Davidson, Mr.. John Macdonald, Mr.. Will
son. Mr. John Abrahams, Mr.. r. E.
Strauss, Mr.. E. A. Simmerwell, Mr.. Earl
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COLORADO CELEBRATES.
Pageant of States Takes Thousands to
Denver's Festival

Denver, July Aside from the open
ing of the Texas Colorado Chautauqua
at Boulder, at which Hon. Henry Wat
terson of Kentucky will deliver an ora
ton this afternoon the most note
worthy celebration in Colorado is the
annual Pageant of States and Nations
at Pueblo At midnight the news of the
destruction of the Spanish vessels at
Santiago had been commonly known
and from that hour until daylight
whistles in the railroad yards kept up
a continuous shrieking and cannOns
were constantly fired. At o'clock the
streets were jammed and it is esti-
mated that Y, 900 people from outside
the city are there. The Pageant pa
rade was several miles in length and
contained many novel and interesting
features. The celebration will be con-
tinued tomorrow with an Industrial pa
rade.
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COLORED RECRUITS.
Company of 115 Arrives From Kans
sas City Today.

Major A. P. Shreve received a telegram
today announcing that Major Boyd will
arrive in Topeka from Kansas City at
noon today with company of lis colored
volunteers.
The state officials are still confident that
there will be no trouble in filling the two
battaIions allotted to the colored people
A Topeka colored man said today that
every possible effort is being made to keep
the colored people from enlisting. Why"
said he, do you know that colored peo-
sections on the railroad? That is some
thing we have been fighting for for a
long time. and we have never been able
to get what we wanted. Governor Leedy' s
action has done some good, anyway
The colored leaders expect to have 500
troops in camp by tomorrow evening.
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OUT OF MEDICINE.
Wounded Soldiers Suffering Miss
Barton Goes to Minister.

New York, July 4--Chairman Stephen
E. Barton, of the Red Cross society,
has received the following cablegram
from Clara Barton, the dispatch com
ing through the war department from
Playa del Este and bearing date of
July 8:
Lesser and his force are attending
wounded here. They are constantly
coming in. Elweu and his force are
landing supplies from the State of
Texas in the surf, day and night,
and dangers General Shafter sends
US urgent appeal from the front for
medicines and food; none there. Will
try to send by four mule wagons to him
tonight and go on ourselves.
Miss Barton does not give her exact
location.
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MALVERN HILL BARNUM
Shot at Santiago Just SO Years After
His Father Fell

Syracuse N Y. July 4.-First Lieuten-
ant Malvern Hill Barnuul, adjutant of the
Tenth United States cavalry, reported
wounded in the attack on the fortifica-
tions in front of Santiago de Cuba last
Friday is a son of the late General Henry
Z. Barnum of this city.
At the battle of Malvern Hill. on July 1,
1852 lust SO years to a day before the at
tack on Santiago. General Farnum, who
was then major of the Twelfth New York
volunteers, was reported to have been
killed; About this time young Barnum
was born, and later reports showed
that his father was alive, though badly
wounded, he was named in honor of the
battle. He is a member of the class of
81, West Point.
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IT'S JUST BEGINNING.
santiago's Fall Gives Spain and the
Queen a Pain.

London, July 4-The Madrid CORE
spondent of the Standard says:
THE official dispatches with reference
to the fighting at Santiago de Cuba
have caused a painful sensation. The
queen regent has sent an expression of
her sympathy to Sonora Linares, wife
of General Linares who is residing in
Madrid. The greatest anxiety is felt
by all classes. The press of all sections
is angry because no proper measures
have been taken to reinforce General
Linares. The queen regent is deeply
concerned and has requested her min
listers to send her all dispatches, no
matter at what hour they arrive"