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CABINET MEETING.
Questions Relating to Cuba, the
Principal Topic of Discussion.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The Cabi-
net at its meeting to-day listened to the
reading of the more important parts of
the peace treaty, and then gave their
attention to affairs in Cuba Secre-
tary Gage talked at some length on the
financial situation, and outlined a plan
looking to the forming of a permanent
basis of the values of current money.
According to the Spanish system gold
coins of that country have been re-
ceived generally at considerable pre-
MUM. In some instances the intrinsic
value of some of the Spanish coins have
been disregarded and a fictitious value
substituted. These irregularities will
be done away with, and a just value,
based upon mint coinage, will be substi-
tuted. The customs and other duties
in Cuba will be received in American
money, or at its proper equivalent in
Spanish money.
1t is expected that official action will
be taken in this matter within the next
two or three days, with view to put
ting the new measure into operation on
January 1st.
1t is learned that a program more or
less elaborate has been prepared for
the celebration attending the raising of
the United States flag on the island of
Cuba on January 1st The President
and members of the Cabinet are agreed
that this celebration should not be of
an ostentatious character, but simple
and dignif1ed and the Secretary of War
has sent a cable of instructions on this
matter. 1t is pointed out that care
should be exercised to prevent offense
to any, and thus avoid possible disturb
ances.
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THE STEAMER LACKME.
Belief That the Vessel Will Burn
to the Waters Edge.

ASTORIA, Dec. 27.-The steamer
Lakme, which arrived in port from Pu-
get Sound yesterday morning with her
cargo on fire, was beached to-day. The
deck load of lumber was removed and
an examination of the vessel made. It
was found that many barrels of lime
in the forward hold were burning
fiercely, and it was impossible to re-
move any of the cargo.
The tugs Rescue and Escort and a
city fire engine worked all afternoon
pumping water into the Lakme's hold.
Despite the water pumped into the
Lakme by the tugs and engine, there
was no abatement of the fire, and it is
the general belief that the steamer
will burn to the waters edge.
Another danger which now threatens
the total destruction of the steamer
is that the lime will swell and burst
her open. The lower holds of the
Lakme are filled with lumber. and
strenuous efforts are being made to
subdue the fire before it reaches this
portion of her cargo. The Lakme is a
wooden vessel, and was used as a
transport last August in conveying the
United States engineer corps from San
Francisco to Honolulu. She is owned
in San Francisco.
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CHANDLER'S FEARS,
Sees Dangers in the Use of Money
in New Hampshire Politics.

MANCHESTER On. H). Dec. 27-
The Union" will print tomorrow the
conclusion of Senator William E.
Chandler's statement on the growth of
the use of money in politics in New
Hampshire. AS to the last campaign
the Senator says:
Unfortunately the temptation, under
the conditions existing, to boldly
seize and selfishly use the great power
OF the republican party was too great
70 be resisted by certain forces and
persons. 1t is at just the times of
overwhelming ascendancy of a party
that designing men take the opportun-
ity to possess themselves of the party
organization. The few men who are
seizing power will WELD it with relent-
less mercilessness. Will Senator Gal
linger fail to issue more circulars and
money drafts like those which have
made his conduct of the canvas of 1898
the most notable in the present history
of the State? Elk pede Herculeum! The
game is made up. Look to see it
played.
There is no possibility Of doubt that
herein is correctly depicted a new sys-
tenn of political control in New Hamp-
shire, under which, through money in
fuences, all popular legislation at the
coming session is to be defeated, and
hereafter all Republican caucuses and
conventions and the election of all del
egates and nominees for office and all
Federal office-h holders are to be directed
by the Chairman of the State Commit
tee, according to his own will and
pleasure. except so far as he may be
influenced by the corporations or in
dividuals who have furnished to him
the large sums of money necessary to
fasten upon the people a scheme of
political rule. Whether the Republi-
can party will indorse. approve, submit
to and perpetuate such a system, is
about the most important question up
on which the members have been called
upon to act
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Wasserman, Davis 6 CO.

gered in the persons of certain Wears
and vicaresses. who We're unable to
keep themselves from dabbling in
parochial medicine and quack rene
dies. Not a few country villages still
contained such unorthodox practition-
ers, who dispensed medical advice to
the peril of their too-confiding parish
toner's, and often to the annoyance Of
the local doctor. But the Rev. John
Ward was not an empiric of this sort
He had worked diligently to acquire
a knowledge of the medical profession,
and was doubtless we'll fitted to prac-
tice it under the license which he
probably received from his bishop at
the time that he entered upon his
clerical duties. In his diary Ward
asked himself specially to remember
that he must "studie such diseases as
are peculiar to women, and also to
children, so as to be ready at them
when I come into the country" He
evidently meant to be a good. all
around man.
But the point to which Mr.. owen
specially referred was that on taking
up his work in Stratford- -on-Avon. in
the forty-sixth year after Shake
speare's death, Ward must. both as
vicar and doctor, have been told Of
many facts concerning the bard by
those who had been intimately ac-
quainted with him. Unfortunately. he
did not record much about him in those
memorandum books; what he did say
had been seized upon by the indus
trious Halliwell-Phillipps, and duly re-
corder in his Life of Shakespeare
This was one of the extracts. and,
coming as it did from a highly edu-
Gated man, who had lived in the village
of the Shakespeares, it was Of un-
doubted biographical value: 81 have
heard that Mr.. Shakespeare was a nat
ural wit, without any art at all; he
frequented the plays all his younger
time, but in his elder days lived at
Stratford, and supplied the stage with
two plays every year, and for that
had an allowance so large that he
spent at the rate of FL 900 a year.
which in those times was a very con-
siderable amount, corresponding, per-
haps, to $1,000 or $4,000 of to-day.
Another extract ran as follows:
Shakespeare, Drayton and Ben JON
son had a merry meeting, and, it
seems, drank too hard, for Shakes
peare died of a feavour there con-
tracted." In those times, said Mr.
Owen, it was customary to call OBJ
scure diseases "feavours,' just as they
were now called 'influenZas" or ''neu-
roses" but whatever the actual cause
of Shakespeare's death might have
been. it was evident that local tradi-
ton ascribed it, rightly or wrongly, to
the effects of that merry meeting"
And. doubtless, it was a merry meet
ing" One had only to think of those
three CHEEKY friends together, Shake
speare. Ben Jonson and Drayton, to
be assured that it was. A pity, how
ever, that Ward, unperceived, could
not have been there with his note
books.-London Telegraph.
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CAPTAIN SIGSBEE'S STORY.
HIS ACCOUNT OF THE BLOWING
UP OF THE MAINE.
Thoroughly Believes the Vessel
Was Blown UP From the
Outside.

Captain Charles D. Sigsbee is con-
tributing to "The Century Magazine"
his personal Narrative of the Maine. "
His second paper describes the blowing
up of the Maine and the scenes that
followed it. Captain Sigsbee says:
About an hour before the explosion I
had completed a report called for by
Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy, on the advisability
of continuing to place torpedo tubes on
board cruisers and battleships. | then
wrote a letter home in which I strug-
gled to apologize for having carried in
my pocket for ten months a letter to
my wife from one of her friends of long
standing The cabin mess attendant,
Pinckney, had brought me, about an
hour before, civilians thin coat, be-
cause Of the prevailing heat: I had
taken off my blouse and was wearing
this coat for the only time during the
cruise. In the pocket I had found the
unopened and undelivered letter.
Pinckney, light-hearted colored man.,
who spent much of his spare time IN
singing, playing the banjo and dancing,
was for some reason in an especially
happy frame of mind that night Poor
fellow he was killed, as was also poor
old John r. Bell, the colored cabin
steward, who had been in the navy
twenty-seven years.
At taps ('turn in and keep quiet'')
9:10 o'clock, I laid down my pen to
listen to the notes of the bugle, which
were singularly beautiful in the op-
pressive stiffness of the night. The
marine bugler, Newton, who was rather
given to fanciful effects, was evidently
doing his best. During his pauses the
echoes floated back to the ship with
singular distlnctness, repeating the
strains Of the bugle fully and exactly.
A half hour later Newton was dead.
I was inclosing my letter in it's en-
velope when the explosion came The
impression made on different people
on board the Maine varied somewhat.
To me, in my position, we'll aft, and
within the superstructure, it was a
bursting rending, and crashing sound
or roar Of immense volume, largely
metallic in character. It was followed
by succession of heavy, ominous,
metallic sounds, probably caused by the
overturning of the central superstruc-
ture and by falling debris. There was
trembling and lurching motion of
the vessel, list to port, and move
ment of subsidence The electric
lights, of which there were eight in the
cabin where I was sitting. went out.
Then there was intense blackness and
smoke.
The situation could not be mistaken; /;
the Maine was blown up and sinking
For a moment the instinct of self-pre-
servation took charge of me, but this
was Immediately dominated by the
habit of command. / went up the in
clined deck into the starboard cabin.
toward the starboard air ports, which
We're relieved somewhat against the
background of the sky The sashes
were out and the openings were large.
My first intention was an escape
through an airport but this was
abandoned in favor of the more digni-
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SCHOOLS oF SANTIAGO.
Trouble Between the City and the
Provincial Board.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Dec. 27.-The
troubles between the School Board Of
Santiago province and the board re-
Gently appointed for the City Of. San
tiago by Mayor Bacardi have culmi-
mated in the formers tender Of resig-
nation to General Wood.
The Chairman of the Provincial
Board, in the letter of resignation.
says the board was actuated in its
course by a sense of public duty. owing
to the differences it had with Mayor
Bacardi. and to the feeling that this
friction was a cause of embarrass-
ment to General Wood.
General Wood, in the course Of his
reply, said he fully appreciated the mo-
tives of the Provincial Board, but must
decline Of accept the designations. He
declared that the board had shown
itself capable of excellent work, and
promised to use his best endeavors to
adjust the differences between the
board and Mayor Bacardi. He point
ed out that the Provincial Boards far
exceeded the limits of the municipality
and characterized all the recommends
tions it has made thus far as excel
lent.
<A1AIOL5 kIG AAIGI1CdIlS A6iC llS1e IL
only one opinion regarding the action
of the Provincial School Board. It is
merely a fit of temper over small de-
tails, and is generally regretted as an
unwise exhibition of weakness.
General Wood has appointed Colonel
Sargent, Colonel Savard, Captain Pal
mer and Captain Mendoza as a COM
mission to proceed to Guantanamo and
Investigate conditions there, especially
the charges recently brought by Lieu
tenan Colonel Henry Ray against Chief
| of Gendarmerie Valiente, of having
used armed Cubans after an ostensible
disarming, and of having thus indi-
rectly promoted and protected robber
bands in that locality.
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fed way of making an exit through
the passageway leading forward
through the superstructure. I groped
my way through the cabin into the
passageway, and along the passage to
the right, or stae board, near the for
ward part of the superstructure
When the turn was reached, some
one ran into me violently. 1t was Pri-
vate William Anthony, the orderly at
the cabin door. He said something
apologetic, and reported that the ship
had been blown up and was sinking.
He was directed to go out on the
quarterback, and I followed him. An
thcny has been pictured as making an
exceedingly formal salute on that oc-
casion. The dramatic effect of a salute
cannot add to his heroism. If he had
made a salute 1t could not have been
seen in the blackness of that compart-
ment. Anthony did his whole duty, at
great personal risk, at a time when he
might have evaded the sdanger with
out question, and deserved all the COM
mendation that he received for his act.
He hung near me with unflagging zeal
and watchfulness that night until the
ship was abandoned.
I stood for a moment on the starboard
side of the main-deck, forward of the
superstructure, looking toward the i'm
mense dark mass that loomed up
ami0ships, but could see nothing dis
tiLctly. There 1 remained for a few
seconds in an effort to grasp the situ-
alton, and then asked Anthony for the
exact time. He replied "The explo-
sion took place at nine-forty, sir 1t
was soon necessary to retire from the
main deck. for that part Of the ship
was sinking rapidly. / then went up
on the poop-deck. By this time
Lieutenant Commander Wainwright
and others were near me. Everybody
was impressed by the solemnity of the
disaster, but there was no excitement
apparent; perfect discipline prevailed.
The question has been asked many
times if [ believed then that the Maine
was blown up from the outside. My
answer to this has been that my first
order on reaching the deck was to post
sentries about the ship. I knew that
the Maine had been blown up, and be-
lieved that she had been blown up
from the outside. Therefore, I ordered
measure which was intended to
guard against attack. There was no
need for the order, but / am writing
oe first impressions. There was the
sound of many voices from the shore,
suggestive of cheers.
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Porto RiCan Commissioners State
the Wants Of Their People.
Wish TO Be Made a Territory Of the United
States, and Not Colony.
Ask for the Privilege OF Becoming
First-CIass Americans, With the
Same Educational Facilities for
the Youth as Are Accorded in
the United States.

NEW YORK, Dec 27.-Three Of the
members of the commission Of Porto
Rfcans on its way to see President Nc
Kinley and members Of Congress are
still in the city, and will remain here
until next week, when they will pro-
reed to Washington. DR.. M. Zeno Can
dia, DR.. ]. ]. Henna and Senor Eugenio
NJ Hortos are here, and they viii be
Joined by DR.. Raphael del Bale and
Senior DR.. E. L. Gown, who are ex-
pected from Porto Rico early in Janu-
ary.
In speaking of their mission here, the
members of the commission said that
they represented several cities. Ponce,
San Juan, Arjuntas, Penelas and Juan
adiz, more particularly than the whole
island, but other delegates represent
ing other cities of the island may be
expected here on a similar duty during
the next month. The Commissioners
have been sent to Washington in an eff
fort to put an end to the administra-
tive, financial and educational condi-
tiOnS as they exist in the island of
Porto Rico to-day.
Senor Hortos, in speaking of their
mission, said:
IOlCO asks " DS dGCSplSQ Dy
the United States as a brother, not as
a servant. We ask for home rule and
public schools. We do not expect ev-
erything at once, but want TO start
right, and only ask that we be made a
Territory, the same as the Territories
that have grown to be States. We do
not want to be started as a colony,
which must forever remain outside the
nation. We were a colony of Spain,
and the best we could be- was second
class Spaniards. We do not wish TO
be second-class Americans. We want
to be first-class Americans. We want
to become a part of the American peo-
pie.
The people of Porto Rico do not yet
understand much of the American laws
and customs, nor the feeling of the
American people toward them. They
do not know what is to become of
them. We have no complaint to make
of the government of General Henry.
He is a good man, and we all respect
and esteem him. But his government
is the government of Americans. not
OF the people, as all military govern
ments must be.
Above everything, I want to see
public schools started in my country;
such schools as you have here. 1 have
taken 1t as my part of the work for nv
country TO have as many schools start
ed as possible. Not more than Is or
70 per cent. of our people can read or
write. It is not their fault. The Span
iards gave no schools at all that were
worthy of the name''
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sHAKEsPEAREs LAST ILLNESS.
A Victim Of a Merry Meeting
With Jonson and Drayton.

The work of the 10th session of the
Medical Society of London was be-
gun on Monday evening at the rooms
of the society," in Chandos street, by a
short Introductory address from the
President, Edmund owen, surgeon to
st. Mary's Hospital, who remarked
that among the many treasures of
their library were fifteen volumes of
manuscript, which formed the diary or
commonplace book of the Rev John
Ward, NJ. A. Oxon, who was vicar of
Stratord-on-Avon from 1862 to 1881
Having taken his NJ. A. degree in 1862,
Ward left Oxford for London to study
anatomy at the Barber Chyrurgeons'
Hall, in Monkwell street (where DR..
Scarborough, the friend of Harvey,
was giving demonstrations, and to ac-
quire a general knowledge of the heal
ing art
Not very many years ago it was
quite usual for the professions of di-
vinity and medicine to be combined in
the one individual, and it was to be
admitted that the custom still lin
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EVENTS ON THE TURF.
Winners Of Yesterdays Races at
the Oakland Track.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27.-Weath-
er at Oakland fine; track fast. Re-
suits:
Six furlongs, selling, Howard won,
Hohenlohe second, Don Cara third.
Time-1:14A.
Futurity course, Rey Hooker won,
Tiburon second, Banewor third. Time
ZIP.
One and a sixteenth miles, First Call
won. Frank Jaubert second, Wheel of
Fortune third. Time-1 :46b.
One mile, two-year-olds, Oakland
Prize stakes, value $3.50, Olinthus
won, Sam McKeever second, Limewater
third. Time-1:41
Seven furlongs, Rosormonde Won
Recreation second, Joe Ullman third
Time-1:27.
Six furlongs, Sly won, indian second
Shasta Water third. Time-1: IA.
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ROBBERS MAKE A RICH HAUL
A Bank at Lima, O., Looted of Over
Eighteen Thousand Dollars.

LIMA (O0, Dec. 26.-The American
National Bank of this city was robbed
last night Of SIS, 1872. The money was
taken from the big vault. The robbery
was perpetrated in a skillful manner,
no damage being done to the vault.
The bank is located on the corner of
Main and High street. The money
stolen was in currency and gold. No
silver was taken
The robbery was discovered this
morning by the banks janitor, who
found the door Of the vault open. A
deposit of $4,000 made on Saturday
was gone.
The directors of the bank held a
meeting at once, at which an assess
ment was made to meet the deficiency,
and other banks in the city offered as
sistance
The manner of entrance to the bank
by the robbers is mystery, as all the
windows are protected with heavy iron
screens. The front door was found
locked this morning as usual. There
was not the slightest clew for detectives
to work on. The robbery is the work Of
professionals.
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The Case Expected to Be Given to
the Jury Friday.
Taking of Testimony Concluded. aad Argu-
ment to Begin To-Day.
The Steamer Lnckme, With q
Fierce Fire Raging In Hold,
Beached at Astoria-GeneraI
Belief That the Vessel Will
Burn to the Waters Edge.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2.-The de-
fense in the Botkin case has closed, ana
the arguments will begin tomorrow,
and then the case will go to the jury.
To-day was occupied with the introduc-
ton of testimony in rebuttal and the
gathering up of odds and ends in the
testimony. Several witnesses We're
called.
DR.. Tyrell, who swore on a previous
occasion that he had visited Mrs. Bot
kin on the afternoon of July 31st, was
recalled and repeated his testimony.
Miss Maggie Smith, a domestic en-
ployed in the Victoria Hotel, said that
DR.. Tyrell had asked her to direct him
to Mrs. Botkin's room. She was posi-
tive it was not Sunday, and sub
stantiated her statements by saying
that she is never left in charge of the
house on Sunday. She stated that she
had served dinner to Mrs. Botkin on
the Sunday in question in Mrs. Botkin' S
room. Miss Smith said that she saw
Mrs. Botkin return to the house late
that afternoon and speak to one OF the
guests in the hall. This testimony cor
roborated that of a previous witness.
William j. Corcoran, purser of the
steamer Farallon, plying between this
city and Eureka, Cal, stated that his
vessel arrived here at 4:10 o'clock on
the morning of June 18th. This is the
day the link anonymous letter" was
mailed in this city to Mrs. Dunning.
Mrs Botkin was stopping in Eureka
at that time.
The prosecution tried to prove that
the letter was sent to this city with
a lot of other letters for posting, the
Farallon not being a regular mail boat.
The anonymous letter was postmarked
June 18th at 1:30 p. M, and Purser
Corcoran stated that all mail entrusted
to him is mailed within an hour after
it's arrival here. This seems to be the
weakest point in the prosecution.
Several other witnesses were exam
ined, and an adjournment taken until
tomorrow morning.
Four counsels will argue, and each
will take up one session of the court.
Attorney General r. c. White of Della
ware will open for the prosecution, and
will speak from 10 O'Clock tomorrow
morning until 1890; George knight
follows from to 4:30; Frank Nc
Gowan speaks from 10 to 1870 Tues
day, and Mr. Hos1ner closes the case
that afternoon At 10 O'Clock on Fri
day morning Judge Cook will deliver
the case into the jury's hands.
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TRAGEDY IN KENTUCKY.
A Laborer Shoots a Woman, and
Then Commits Suicide.

CONVICTION (Ky.) Dec. 26.--Joseph
Johnson, a laborer at the Mitchell and
Trantuse Rolling Mill, attempted to-
day to kill the wife of James Anderson,
a well-known burglar, at 608 Main
street, and then turned the weapon on
himself with immediate fatal effect.
Anderson is serving a term in the
Ohio Penitentiary, and Johnson for a
year or two has been living with Mrs.
Anderson. Yesterday he drank heav-
lily, and to-day, having no money, asked
Mrs. Anderson for some. She refused,
whereupon he fired twice at her, one
ball going through her body, the other
wounding her arm. Johnson then went
into the yard and shot himself twice,
the last bullet penetrating the brain.
Mrs. Anderson was taken to the hos
pital, and will probably recover.
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WERE NO DOUBT MURDERED.
Inquiry INTO the Death of Jack
David and William Banks.

+ SPOKANE {Wash), Dec. 27.-There
is now scarcely doubt that the
oharred bodies found in the embers of
a burned cabin near Spokane Saturday
morning We're the remains of Jack
David and William Banks, and that
they were murdered by Archie Carl and
Oscar King.
At the inquest to-day the physician
employed to analyze the blood found in
the snow in front Of the cabin testified
The record-union., 1898-12-28
CAPTAIN f. M. LYNDE.
The Retired Army Officer Dies
Suddenly at Washington.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-captain
Frederic Marcy Lynde, United States
army, retired, died suddenly here to-
day. He was native Of Michigan.
He served during the civil war, enter
ing originally as Sergeant Of the Fourth
Vermont Infantry from August, 1861,
to January, 1862, when he was COM
missioned a Second Lieutenant. He
was mustered out six months later, and
then served two years as private and
Sergeant in the First Wisconsin Heavy
Artillery. He entered the regular army
in 1866 a as Second Lieutenant, was
promoted to Captain in 1888. and re-
tired two years later.