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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17
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Grand and Petit Jurors.

Yesterday Judge David w. Sloan
came up to Oakland from Cumber-
land and drew the jury for service at
the March term of the Circuit Court
for this county. The following names
came from the jury box:
District No. Richard Custer,
Bradley T. Bray and John L. Fitz-
water.
No. 2.-Jonas Wass, James T. Po-
land and Alfred Kelley.
No.3.-John Opel, Charles w. Frost,
Stephen P. Broadwater, Harvey w.
Shope and George Popp.
No. 4.-George Warwick, Hugh Dill
linger, James Spence and Jacob
Stump.
No. 5.-Noah Pysell, Willie S. Friend
and Franklin Suter.
No.6.-Edmund Albright and David
w. Fraker.
No. 7.-George Little, Dorsey A
Ashby, Norman Barnard, Alonzo D.
Naylor, James H. Echels, James NJ
Litzinger, R. T. Browning, James
o. Cleveland, Hopwood Kildow, Sim
on p. Baker, Daniel l.. Conneway
George r. Beckman, Levi Hewitt and
Scott II. Jones.
No. S.-Merritt Wilson, Henry A
Shaeffer, Isasc w. Alternately, John
w. Biggs and Jonas Yutzy.
No.9.-Daniel b. Layman and Hugh
Mcmahon.
No. 10.-Adam d. Long, Franklin
E. Thrasher, James L. Hoge and Will
liam D. Hoye.
No. 11.-Peter Colmer and Jonas
Weitzell.
| No. 12.-Jonas Bittinger.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

FARMERS who find difficulty in I'M
Outstanding the cause of low prices of
meats in European markets will find
at least partial explanation in some
recent statements showing the large
number of ocean-going vessels fitted
with refrigerating apparatus plying
between the great stock growing
areas of Australia and South America
and the European markets. These
statements show that hundreds Owes
sells carrying fresh meats, fruits, but
ter and articles of this kind, now ply
regularly between Europe and those
parts of the world where these arti-
Giles are produced with cheap labor
and cheap land, and place them in
competition in European markets
with the product of our own country.
The Central and South American line
of the Royal Mail and Steam packet
Company has 80 vessels fitted with re-
frigerating apparatus, the Hamburg
line 90, including a tropical service;
the Harve ruitImporting Combina-
tion, IA; the Copenhagen Butter Ex-
porting Company a dozen, and nu-
merous others unload their cargoes of
fresh meats brought from all parts of
the world, in refrigerating warehouses
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

CUMBERLAND wants the Maryland
State Normal school located in that
city. Our sister town, Oakland, also
wants it. We hope Oakland will get
it. 1t would be too bad to have an
educational institution located on the
polluted Potomac. To locate it at
Cumberland would mean suicide, pure
and simple, to every teacher who had
been born or reared any distance from
the banks of the Decentralization
Republican.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

SOUND-MoNE men, whatever their
past party affiliations, will cordially
cooperate this fall in the nomination
and election of men of their views on
the currency question. This is made
absolutely necessary by the fact that
the populists, silverites and democrats
are preparing to cooperate in the
coming campaign for members of
Congress.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17
GREAT DISASTER IN HAVANA HARBOR
No Explanation Given OF the Mysterious Ex=
plOsiOn On the Man=Of=War.
THE U. S. NAVY'S GREATEST ACCIDENT.

The United States man-ofwar Maine blown up Tuesday
night in Havana harbor and almost totally destroyed
The official report of Captain Sgsbee places the number of
missing at 1853 OF this number but two are officers
The impression in Washington be that the disaster
the result of accident the Maine and there dspo
son to await fuller inquiry and developments before doing
saying anything further the tension and excitement
The catastrophe of the terrible that has ever
visited the navy of this ally other country and the entire ma
ton is in mourning The authorities Madrid have expressed
the deepest interest and concern
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17
Moderation Wanted.


This year 1898 is not good year for
the display of bad temper and fac
tional spirit. 1t is time for republi-
cans to get together and move along
tremendously for the common good.
The proceedings at Washington in
dictate that the dangerous reputation
and revolutionary program espoused
by democrats and populists in 1896 is
not yet abandoned. An attack on
the public credit contained in reso-
luton offered by silver mine owning
senator from Colorado, received the
votes of all the democrats in the
Senate but one and all in the House
but two. Notwithstanding its crush
ing defeat in 1896, the democratic
party is therefore in 1898 fully COM
mitted, by its representatives in
Congress, to a reaffirmation of the
doctrine of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver at the dishonest ratio
of 16 to 1. If the Teller resolution did
not mean that it meant nothing.
This is the year of congressional
elections. National issues must come
to the front in every state and con-
gressional district in the country.
Republicans need therefore to rele-
gate petty personal and factional
considerations to the rear and stand
shoulder to shoulder for the public
credit and for the maintenance and
strengthening of the business revival
that set in as soon as the Chicago
platform and candidates of 1896 were
overthrow. By so doing they will
attract the aid of conservative demo-
Gratis who are weary of the reckless
tendency of the dominant element of
their own party. By failing to do so
they will disgust and drive away
these conservative democrats, as well
as dishearten many republicans. The
result of all this would be to give the
Bryanites control of the seth Congress
in both branches, the effect of which
would be to arrest the business revi-
val and paralyze industry again by
foreshadowing the triumph of the
forces of cheap money and free trade
in 1900.
To insure the control of the next
Congress, the republicans of the sew
eral states should cultivate harmony
in the selection of their state and
local tickets. In no state is this truer
than in Pennsylvania There are
several able candidates for governor
who are clear of fractional entangle-
ments, any one of whom, if nomina-
ted, would be elected by very large
majority, and whose strength would
help to carry the local ticket through
in close counties. II, on the other
hand, a candidate should be nomina-
ted who would challenge fractional
antagonism, it would mean an ugly
and doubtful fight in the state, with
loss of congressman, Legislators and
local tickets in close districts. The
chief burden in such cases falls upon
those close districts and counties, and
they ask to be delivered from bearing
unnecessary loads.
1t is year for harmony and mod
Grafton. The spirit to be displayed
on the one hand is not to nominate a
particular candidate for governor
just because it can be done, nor on
the other to indulge in incorporate
abuse of state leaders who hold high
positions in the party.
Let moderation and harmony pre-
vail all along the line, and success is
assured.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

holding from to 10 thousand tons
each, and thus place upon European
markets the productions of the great
cattle ranges and fruit markets of
South America, Central America, and
Australia, where cheap land and
cheap labor obtain in direct competi-
ton with the production of the farm
ers of the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1898.

FEBRUARY receipts under the Ding
ley law have thus far averaged mil
lion dollars day, and as the expendi-
lures of the Government only average
about that sum during the year, there
is good reason to expect that the
Treasury will soon begin to show a
e,,,rvNIuc
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

gled. 1t is not likely that more than
forty sailors were saved.
1.-THE officers on deck narrowly es-
capped. In the junior officers mess all
had to Chamber out through water
and wreckage waist deep. One ladder
from the after torpedo compartment
was jammed with men struggling up
for life. All agree that a double ex-
plosion occurred from the natural
result of an underwater explosion of
the magazines"
The dispatch says that the account
of the passengers on the Ward line
steamer City of Washington, which
was lying 800 yards from the Maine,
bears out the foregoing statement.
Continuing, the cable says:
Brass pipe, angle iron, ETC., fell in
shower on the decks of the City of
Washington, so injuring two boats
that when lowered they were useless.
Out of the dense smoke came an
guished cries for help. Simultane-
ously with the cessation of falling
fragments, searchlights were thrown
on the wreckage and its load of agony,
Spanish boats from the shore Joined
those of the Washington alongside at
once, but the regular ferry boats,
passing soon after the explosion, did
not stop to offer aid"
NOT AN ACCIDENT.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-Capt. George
Sumner, who, in the absence of Ad-
miral Bunce, is acting commandment
of the Navy Yard, said to-day:
1T is impossible that the blowing
up of the Maine was due to accident.
The magazines are closed at sun down
and the passageways and ammunition
elevators are guarded at all times by
men who would shoot on sight any
man or men caught tampering with
them.
The keys of the magazines are kept
in the captains cabin. Each key is
numbered and kept in its order in a
cabinet. If any key should be absent
from its place for 10 minutes after sun
down there would be immediate in
vestigation by the officers in charge.
Any infraction of this rule is a court
martial offense.
ut would be impossible for any per-
son to get at the keys after they were
once in the possession of the captain
The cabinet in which the keys are
kept has complicated lock, which
could not be tempered with. In addi-
ton to this, sentries guard the cap
tain's apartments so closely that it
would be impossible for anybody to
get into the rooms without being no.
| ticed.
Another thing that makes me be-
lieve that the explosion was not an
accident is that the Names principal
magazines are nearer the middle than
the bows, and if there had been an ex-
plosion there many officers would
, have been killed. The fact that Of
ficers escaped almost scathless con-
vinces me that the explosive must
have been placed under the bows"
CAUSED BY FOUL MEANS.
LONDON, Feb. 16-The Globe this
afternoon, commenting on the
disaster to the United States battle
ship Maine, says:
1T is impossible to refrain from
the suspicion that the explosion may
have been caused by foul means. AL
though anchored, the Maine would
have had steam up in one of her
boilers for the dynamos and auxiliary
machinery.
"If an Internal machine had been
hidden in the coal and thrown into
the furnaces, evidently there would
| have baan an pXDlOSiOn of the boilers
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17
RE ENTRANCES;

Remittsnces made by money order, postal
note registered letter or bank draft will be at
our risk, II made otherwise, at the risk Of the
SENDER. Address,
THE REPUBLICAN,,
Oakland. Nd.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 16-The
battleship Maine exploded in the har
day night.
Many were killed and wounded. All
the boats of the Spanish cruiser AL
fonso XII are assisting.
AS yet the cause of the explosion is
not apparent.
The wounded sailors of the Maine
are unable to explain it.
1t is believed that the battleship
was totally destroyed.
The explosion shook the whole city.
The windows were broken in all the
houses.
The first telegram from Havana gave
the list of killed as AT and later adj
vices placed the number at 253 men
and two officers.
A telegram from the commander
was received as follows:
MAINE blown up in Havana har-
Dor, $40, and destroyed. Many
wounded and doubtless more killed
and drowned. Wounded and others
on board Spanish man-of-war and
Ward line steamer. Send light house
tenders from Key West for crew and
faw ,,ioooc of ao,,ip,nap+ c+ilI obova
water. No one had other clothes
than those upon him. Public opinion
should be suspended until further
report. All officers believed to be
saved. Jenkins and Merritt not yet
accounted for. Many Spanish officers,
including representative of Gen.
Blanco, now with me, and express
sympathy.
(Signed) SIGSBEEn
AT 1915 O'Clock Secretary Long re-
ceived the following from Capt. Sigs-
bee, and gave it out from the Presi-
dents room:
REPORTED MISSING 253.
advise sending wrecking vessel at
once. Maine submerged except debris.
Mostly work for divers now. Jen-
kins and Merritt still missing. Little
hope for their safely. Those known
to be saved are: Officers, "a; uninjured,
crew, IS; wounded, now on Ward line
steamer, in city hospitals and hotels,
SO, so far as known. All others went
down on board or near the Maine. To
tai loss or missing, 253. With several
exceptions, no officer or man has more
than part of suit of clothing, and
that is wet with water. Ward steamer
leaves for Mexico at 2 this afternoon.
The officers saved are uninjured.
Damage was in compartments of crew.
l am preparing to telegraph list of
saved and wounded Olivette leaves
for Key West at l p. IN. Will send by
her to Key West officers saved except
myself and Wainwright, Holman,
Henneberger, Ray and Holden. Will
turn over three uninjured boats to
captain of port, with request for safe
keeping. Will send all wounded men
to hospital in Havana.
"SIGsBEE."
CENTRAL MAGAZINE EXPLODED.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16 "A special
copy right cable in the E0ening
World from Havana says the officers
of the Mainesstate the explosion was
in the central magazine and that the
Maine was raised out of the water
and then went partially to pieces.
The dispatch continues:
"All but the surgeon were talking
in the ward room at the moment of
the explosion. Then came the stu
pendous shock. All the officers be-
low rushed on deck. Only n very
pitiable few of the $50 blue jack cts
ever got from below. The water
rushed over them and many were
stunned and drowned, but not man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-02-17

Our nice sleighing snow has all dis
appeared, but we have plenty of mud
in its place.
DanielOrendorf is suffering severely
with boils.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Lohr were
visiting Mr.. Lohr's father near this
place last Saturday and Sunday.
Broadway has some very nice ladies,
but we don't think any of them would
receive the attention of the LAD"
that is corresponding for the Journal
from this place.
Andy Schlossnagle, of Friendsville,
called at Jonas Bittinger's last Sun
day as the guest of Miss Gertie Hone.
Miss Della Stark paid Eli Orendorf
a visit one evening last week.
l.. F. Brenneman, accompanied by
Miss Ellithorpe, made flying trip to
Grantsville last Sunday.
BLACK JOE.
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Call for Your Letters

j. |. Lansent, John j. Nichols,
Christian Gregorius, S. T. Kimmell.
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RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
ADVERTISING RATES.

First insertion for square of ten nonpariel
lines 81: each additional insertion after first
50 cents per square of ten nonpariel lines.
Positively no deviation will be made from
The above rates.
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Opening and Closing ofthc Mails.

Northern mails close at 7 80 aud IL 40 q
m. and Is, > so, 80 and 3 80 p. u
Open st s 90 q. m, - 90 m. aud 5 90 D.. m
Southern mails via Charlottesville, close
ut Z so and 10 SO a. IN. and 215 and
SO y. N. Open at 8 90 8. m. and , 30
And 4:3O p. m.
Southern mails, via Richmond, ciose al
10 40 a. m. and 3 IS and s 80 p. N.
Manassas Division msils close at 7 90 a. M.
and 3 40 ?. m. Open at 1 ?. M.
Alexandris and Round Hill mails close st
8 40 a, m. and 4 90 p U. Open st 8 90 =. m.
snd 8 80 p. N.
Chesapeake and Ohio nails close at . IL
P m. and S 30 p. m. Opesa 8 &C a. m. and
4 40 p. m.
Washington mails close at 7 50 snd II AZ
a. m, and 1 is, ? so, Is so and 8 80 n. m.
Open at s 90 a. m, u 90 N. and 3 o and
& 80 p. N.
Office Hours-open at s 90 a. m. Close a.
Sunday HOurs-Open at 9 90 q. M. Close
ct 8 80 q. N.
Carriers Standardization made on
Inside routes-6 80 and 10 90 3. NJ. and
OO and 5 so p. m. Full route-6 80 a. m.
and s 80 p. m. Sunday collection 8 90 p,
m, Carriers window open Sunday 90 a. m.
close 8 80 q. III.
Deliveries made s 90 a. m, - 90 M, and
5 90 p. M.
All mail should be in office ten minutes
before hour indicated for closing.
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Alexandria 9asettf.
Monday gvFNNa. APRIL is, 19He.
FOR WAR REVENUE.

The republican members OF the "aFs
and means committee OF the House
have practically prepared the revenue
measure which will be passed to raisc
revenue sufficient to carry on the war.
The members propose that the present
generation shall bear the burden OF the
war, and, proceeding upon that theory,
they have prepared a bill that will raise
between 500, 100000 or $780, 600, 600
additional revenue Ter annum. The
bill will provide for an additional tax
OF 81 per barrel upon beer. GA manu-
factuied tobacco and 81 UT the internal
revenue tax will be Increased from b to
y cents. The increase on cigars ana
cigarettes has not been absolutely fixed,
but it will probably be 81 on ali classes.
The proposition which the Senate
placed on the tariff bill, but which went
gu in conference, to tax all stocks and
transfers OF corporations, is embodied
in the measure, together with practi-
cally all the scheme OF interDal-reVenue
tax OF 1866 which includes a stamp tax
on all checks, draf s, and other iustru-
ments of business mortgages, loans,
and bonds and a tax on patent and
proprietary medicines. A tax on tele-
graph messages and express packages
IS also incorporated in the bill. This
scheme of taxation is estimated to raise
$50. 900, 900.
The tax on proprietary and patent
medicines will be = cents on packages
or bottles retailing at % cents or under.
and t cents on those retail ing above
that price. The tax on kilograms Will
be l cent on all messages which cost -
cents or less, and 2 cents on all above
% cents. A duty Of 10 cents per pound
is placed upon tea and 8 cents per
pound upon coffee. Bottled waters
are to be rated similarly to patent medi-
cines.
For the pressing needs Of the govern
ment, the Secretary Of the Treasury Is
given the general power to issue certiti
Gates of Indebtedness, payable in one
year, and to bear not to exceed 3 per
cent. interest. The Secretary is also
authorized 10 borrow on behalf Of the
government, and by open subscription,
$500, 900, 600. This loan is TO be placed
through the postofices of the country,
the sub-treasuries and government de
positories, in low rate bonds, which are
to be sold at par. They are to bear 3
per cent. interest, and to be redeemable
after five years at the option of the
government, and TO be due in twenty
years. The principal and interest are
10 be payable in coin.
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DRUGGISTS.
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1 uesne 10 attest to the merits Of
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Train No. s5 connects at CaIvertOn for warrontOn.

Central TlmeD
Train No 35 connects at Calwton for aTenton.
LOCAL SERVICE.
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Cdvetor for Wauenton and at franklin Junction for Rocky Mounts nd nuusHse
returning arrives at Alexandria 30 pm
442 D. m Train No Is hrC Charlottesville and way stations connects at taveHouh Tor
Warrenton rturninga arrives at Alexantra SOo a m
% D m Train No 10 leaves AlexandrH daily except sunday, hf barnsubUZ and
Intermediate stations returning arrives at Alexandra lis p II.
Trains for Bound Hill and intermediate satons leave exandr 10 a M G.y
and 4:O D. m except Sunday ant 65 IN sundays only ano I'D p N 1my Tor Henr
don i've exandIa returning from Bound Hill S28 a m. and POP p m daily
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