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LATE GENERAL GARCIA.
His Funeral Will Take Place at
Washington To-Day.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The fu
neral Of General Garcia, the Cuban
commander, will be held at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning from st. Patricks S
Church in this city. The celebrants of
the mass and the honorary pallbearers
have not yet been selected, but will be
announced later. The body will be
placed in a metallic casket and depos-
tied in vault at Arlington, pending
it's removal to Cuba.
The arrangements are said to be in
accordance with the wishes Of General
Garcia's family and his comrades in
arms
The Dolphin will be designated by the
navy as the vessel to carry the remains
of General Garcia to Cuba. She is now
lying at the Washington navy yards,
and is being fitted for the accommoda-
tion of the President. She is well fitted
for service of this character
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BUILDING TRADES.
The National Council in Session at
Kansas City.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 12-Theodore
S. Jones of Kansas City, President of
the National Building Trades Council,
called the second annual convention of
that organization to order this morning
at labor headquarters. All parts of
the country are represented.
The convention will be in session
about four days, and one of the most
important questions to be brought up
will be the Establishment of a joint
board of arbitration, to be composed of
master builders and members of the
Building Trades Council, whose office
shall be the settlement by arbitration
of all disputes and grievances between
employer and employe. There will be
no attempt at consolidation with the
Federation Of Labor, according to the
tatement of General Secretary and
Treasurer w. H. Steinbeiss of ST.
Louis.
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FOUR LIVES LOST.
Fatal Results Of Sunday Nights
Fire at Brooklyn.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Four persons
lost their lives in last nights fire in
the fiat house in Prospect Place, Brook
lyn. They We're: Joseph Noblitt,
Mrs. Stothern and Thomas Winnie The
latter in the darkness failed to see the
opening of the airshaft, and walked
into it, falling to the cellar. He was
instantly killed. An effort to rescue
the Noblitts by placing ladder from
one fiat to the other would have been
effectual, but Mrs. Noblitt tainted, and
her husband refused to leave her. They
perished before other means Of rescue
could be produced.
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FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
CATHOLICS NOT OPPOSED TO
AMERICAN CONTROL.
Leaders Of the Church at Manila
Favor United States Retain
ing the Islands.

HONGKONG, Nov. 4-The Zafiro
and the Esmeralda, which arrived yes
terday from Manila, brought over two
gentlemen who have played a prorni-
nent part in the stirring events which
have taken place in the Philippines
during the last few months On board
the Esmeralda was General Whittier,
chief Of the Customs Department at
Manila, who leaves for the conference
at Paris on Saturday on board the sgd
ney. Last night Consul General Wild
man entertained him at dinner at the
United States Consulate, Read Admiral
Fitzgerald and others being invited to
meet him.
Our other visitor is the Rev; Father
McKinnon, Captain and Chaplain Of
the First California Regiment, Our
readers will remember that a few days
before the fan of Manila the reverend
gentleman risked his life by entering
the city in order that he might inter-
view the Archbishop, who it was said
was standing in the way of the sur
render.
In consequence of the many stories
he had heard concerning him, Father
McKinnon expected to find in the
Archbishop an aggressive, overbeariEg
individual and he was accordingly
somewhat surprised when he was in
troduced to mild little man who soon
convinced him that the story that he
was in favor of the Spaniards resist
ing to the bitter end was not correct
His grace said that he had favored the
surrender for some time, and in proof
of this he took down the council rec
ords, which showed that he and two
others had voted in favor, but that
they had been overruled by the mill
tary element.
Father McKinnon states that the
leading Catholics in Manila are strong
ly in favor of the retention Of the
Philippines by America, as they con-
slider that in this lies the salvation of
the church in the archipelago. The
reverend gentleman will remain here
until the arrival of the City of Peking
with officers and marines who go to
Manila as reliefs, when he will return
to his regiment.
With regard to the landing of 5000
rifles, million rounds of ammunition
and eleven rapid firing guns at Iloilo
by the Spanish mail steamer Buenos
AyreS, correspondent WTileS Wnlie
this is presumably another precaution
against the rebels, it is certainly con-
trary to the terms of the armistice''
The correspondent adds: Il am in
formed that in South Luzon govern
ment is organized Of local chiefs not
recognizing Aguinaldo. Also that
Aguinaldo has sent three of his gun
boats to Bokol, and thence to Iloilo
for conquest I doubt this, as Spain
has half a dozen gunboats in the neigh
borhood, each one Of which is equal
to all Of Aguinaldo's.
I'VE hear that the German cruiser
Arcona is still cruising in the vicinity
of the southern islands"
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ALL HANDS RESCUED.
The American Bark GIeneida
Abandoned at Sea.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Captain Corn
ing and nine of the shipwrecked men
of the American bark Gleneida were
passengers per steamer Orinoco, which
arrived to-day from Bermuda.
The Gleneida sailed from New York
on November 25th for Buenos Ayres
with a general cargo. When two days
out she encountered a. terrific hurricane
from the east-southeast, with tremen-
dous seas, when the deckload of rosin
broke adrift, which, owing to the heavy
seas, carried away the fore rigging,
and as a result the foremast went by
the board Meanwhile the vessel la
bored and strained heavily, causing her
to spring leak. On the 18th the Brit
ish steamer Ivydene, from New York
for Rio, rescued all hands and took the
crew to Bermuda.
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try, and $4,000 as reserve. He did
not believe in Understanding the
seriousness of our task in the Philip
pines.
ed, General Miles said he did not ap-
prove the suggestion that the head Of
the army be an executive staff officer
to the President. During most of the
time of the last 100 years the army
had been under the command Of a
General or a Lieutenant General, and
that was the practice the world over.
General Miles said he did not speak
from a personal standpoint, as he was
ready to be retired at any time. But
he believed in the principle Of rank,
and an army commensurate with the
responsibility.
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THE ISLA DE CUBA.
Former Spanish Warship Starts
for Hongkoup.

MANILA, Dec. 12.-The Isla de Cuba,
one of the ships sunk by Admiral
Dewey in the battle of Manila on May
10th last, and which he subsequently,
caused to be raised, started for Hong
kong to-day under her own steam. She
is of 1.O3O tons displacement and 200
indicated horsepower.
Captain Whiting, formerly of the
Monadnock, has relieved Captain Glass
Of the Charleston. The latter has gone
home sick.
The Raleigh leaves for home Thurs
day via the Suez Canal.
AS the result of an alteration before
a fruit stand yesterday, a California
volunteer was stabbed and two natives
were shot dead.
A fireman on the Buenaventura
jumped into the river from a launch.
His body was not recovered.
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VOLUNTEERS AT MANILA.
Regulars Designated to Take Their
Places.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The War
Department has begun in earnest the
relief of the volunteer troops now sta
toned at Manila by regulars. This
afternoon Secretary Alger signed an
order designating for this purpose six
regiments of United States infantry
out of eight held in reserve for service
in tropical countries. The regiments
are the Twentieth, at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kas.; the Third, at Fort Shell
ing, Mimi; the Twelfth, at Jefferson
Barracks, Mo-, and Fort Riley, Kas.;
the Seventeenth, at Columbus Bar
racks, o.; the Fourth, at Fort Sheri-
dan, and the Twenty second, at Fort
Crook, Neb. They will go forward to
Manila as soon as transportation can
be secured.
The volunteers in Manila will be re-
tired in the order in which they
reached that city.
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FREIGHT COMMISSIONERS.
The National Association Meets in
Annual Session.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.-The Ma
tional Association Of Freight Commis-
sioners began the second annual session
in this city to-day. Among the subjects
which will be considered will be reso-
lutions on the following subjects: That
express companies should be made
amenable to the interstate commerce
law, and be required to file schedules
of rates, and also contracts and agree
ments with other lines; indorsing the
anti-scalping law; pledging the aid of
the association to the report to prevent
legislation needlessly injurious to COM
mon carriers; favoring uniformity of
freight classifications and consultations
of classification whenever possible; and
urging Congress to declare specifically
that express companies shall pay the
war revenue tax.
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Elliott Defeats Gilbert.

CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-J. A. r. Elliott
of Kansas City to-day defeated Fred
Gilbert of Spirit Lake, Ia, in the live
bird shoot at Watson's Park for the
s.Sportsman's Review" trophy, Elliott
killing 80 birds to Gilbert's 81. The day
was decidedly unfavorable for high
scores, snow falling part of the time,
while strong wind greatly interered
with the contestants. Gilbert was
quite nervous at first, and made nearly
all Of his misses during the first twenty
five flies.
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A Cleveland Policeman Killed.

CLEVELAND, Dec 12.-Patrolman
Joseph Spurney has been found dead in
an alley near the corner of Woodland
and Case avenues. He was lying in
pool Of blood, with a bullet-hole through
his brain. His revolver was lying by
his side with three chambers empty.
Whether Spurney was killed discharg-
ing his duty, or committed suicide, IS
not known. He was 30 years of age,
and leaves a widow and five children.
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by the 1Orce or arms, and thereby deny
to them what we claim for ourselves
the right of self government.
I'VE shall surrender the present safe
and Independent position by which we
are guaranteed the tranquility and the
fruits of peace, and force ourselves into
European and Asiatic entanglements,
implying war and the preparation for
war. We shall seek to conquer by the
force of arms, instead OF by our own
industry, commerce and superior men
tality and civilization. We shall be
compelled to open the gates and admit
the Chinese, Malays and slave-laborers
who come from our new possessions
since the Constitution Of the United
States forbids the interdiction of the
free entry of men and their products
between our States and our Territories.
"The policy of Imperialism is a declar-
alton that government has failed,
and that the people cannot be trusted;
that the dollar is of more consequence
than man, and plutocracy and militar-
ism nobler than humanity. The at
tempt to divert the attention Of our
people from the ills from which we suf'
fer at home to foreign questions will
fail.
''It has always been the hewers of
wood and the carriers of water, the
wealth-producers, whose mission it has
been, not only to struggle for freedom,
but to be ever vigilant to maintain the
liberty or freedom achieved; and it be-
hooves the representatives of the grand
army of labor, in convention assembled,
to give vent to the alarm we feel from
the dangers threatening US and our en-
tire people, to enter our solemn and en-
phatic protest against what we already
feel, that with the success Of the policy
of imperialism the decadence of our re-
public will have already set in.'
Mr.. Gompers reported that $50 local
unions were chartered during the year,
and there are now affiliated with the
American Federation Of Labor, sixty
seven national and international unions,
with 1O,500 local unions attached; ten
State federations; eighty-two city CEN
trail labor unions and trade assemblies;
315 local trade unions, having no ma
tionals, and 100 federal unions.
On the subject of an eight-hour work
day, Mr.. Gompers says:
Should industrial conditions war;
rant, it is suggested that every effort
be made by the incoming officers in CO.
operation with the union trade move
ment of the country to inaugurate
general agitation and movement for the
more universal introduction of the
eight-hour or shorter hour work day"
Although there seems to be no doubt
but that Mr.. Gompers will be reelected,
a fight will be made upon him by
small faction headed by Isaac Cowen
and Max Hays of Cleveland.
Il would fight against Gompers," said
Cowen, in an interview to-day, 'if it
were the last thing 1 had to do on earth.
Gompers is entirely too conservative
and slow. We have not selected cam
didate yet, but shall do so. He will
be a representative of up-to-date So
cialism.''
At the afternoon session a number of
committees were appointed and the
consideration of routine business was
begun.
Tonight many of the delegates at
tended a ball given in their honor by
local trades unionists.
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Fatal Crossing Accident.

BURGETTSTOWN Pa), Dec. 12.-
Carl Mcbride and his wife were in
stantly killed by an express train at
Raccoon Station, on the Panhandle
road. They were driving in a sleigh
from their home near North Star to this
place, and were crossing the track
when the train dashed into them, both
being terribly mangled and almost in
stantly killed. They had been married
but few weeks.
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Plimmer Knocked Out.

LONDON, Dec. 12.-Pedlar Palmer
and Billy Plimmer met at the National
Sporting Club this evening for the ban
tam championship the National Sport
ing Club purse, and $500 side Palmer
knocked his man out in the seventeenth
round.
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thirty-eisht feet. maximite and picrio
acid at about forty-seyen feet nitrogsIa
tin al about fifty-four feet. one-hsif ton
or gun cotton At about eighsy-five feet,
one ton OF gun cotton as Iss feet one ton
OF nltrcgeiatin at 20 feet.
The unfortunate thing about naval
maneuvers is that they only prove things
theoretically, Practical demonstrations
or the qualities OF torpedoes and ex-
plosiye shells are always difficult mat
tiers. On paper Ii certainly seems thar
the Maxim aerial torpedo rs far superior
TO any other weapon OF war, and tho
trials of the gun. the torpedo the fuse
ana the powder have been a. successful
as could have been wished In its earliest
DAYS the Whitehead torpedo carried hut
eighteen pounds of dynamite and il was
then the common opinion that this was
the limit that could ne carried with safe.
~. We have seen IL rise from eighteen
pounds To 200 pounds Ghe amount CARED
In the Whitehead of today. aud there n
no reason why we should not get used 10
greater amounts still.
The modern frst~cIaSx batsreship coats
about S.es.@1. For an equivalent or
renditure Mr.. Maxim claims that he can
construct ten torpedo cruisers. costing
*Sn,vS each. carrying one 9-sncb tornado
gun and two torpedo mortars The for.
mer would be capable ~ throwing ha,f
ION or gun cotton nearly nine miles and
one ton about five miles Each mortar
would be capable OF throwing go pounds
TOUR miles. half ton about three miles
and one ton nearly two miles, The tar
Ties of the torpedo cruiser would be unlike
that or the ordinary torpedo boat. whirh
dashes into and runs gauntIe. Of d.
struc'ive fire from hatiiesi,ip. dfops n
torpedo and PUSHES away again out Of
range The torpedo cruiser would stand
her ground and fight. always head on.
thus presenting A very small target IL
the gun Of the hattlcship for unless a
shell from the latter strikes the fuse ~
the aerial torpedo II would fail TO ex-
plode IL.
To sum IL ali up Mr.. Maxim claim.
that he can for the cost If one battieshf,
produce feet of torpedo cruisers can
able of destroying 1000 frst-class battle
ships. Besides being very deadly his
aerial toTpsdoes. flied with compressed
wet gun cotton or other explosive. cof,,d
rot be exploded by quick firing guns. even
though shot all 70 pieces nn.es the fuse
which occupies but very small pier.
In the shell. should be- pierced bv n pro-
}sc'iie and exploded, and the chances ~
this happening are very small
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A Monster Gun That Will Send a Ton of Gun
Cotton Five Miles.

Hudson Maxim. a brother OF Hiram z.
Maxim, the inventor of the automatic
machine gun, has invented A novel form
OF torpedo. for which an appalling amount
or destructive power Is claimed. 1t IS
called the aerial torpedo and the naval
authorities of many nations are now Civ
ing ii Their attention.
This new form of torpedo Is 10 he fired
from pneumatic gun. also invented by
Hudson Maxim. IL carries the largest
charge OF high explosive ever vet fired
from gun--a charge weighing a.Oo
pounds The range of the gun Is also
a record-breaker. 1t will carry its ton Of
high explosive 10 a mark five miles dis
tant. half-ton charge il will carry
nine miles.
In order to hear something ahou, these
new inventions. the writer recently Wis
ited Mr.. Hudson Maxim at his home In
London, Eng. There sitting IN his library
he told me about them. He believes they
are destined to work complete revolu-
ton In naval warfare as well as In coast
defense.
In his workshop was shown a most in
structive diagram in which the latest and
most approved type of Whitehead ls-inch
torpedo was contrasted with a Maxim
4-inch aerial torpedo. The former car
ries at most 90 pounds OF gun cotton. AMI
It's range Is less than mile; the latter
carries one ton OF gun-co,ton and has
range of five miles. The efficiency OF the
aerial torpedo Is. therefore (all things be-
ing equs0. more than fifty times greater
than That of the Whitehead, while lis
cost IS less. Every one knows that unless
the Whitehead torpedo strikes the OBJ
tect at which II is aimed the latter come ,
of without any damage whatever. But
the aerial torpedo. carrying from half a
ton TO ton OF high explosive. striking n
vessel anywhere above or below water
or exploding IN the water anywhere near
her would mean utter humiliation to both
the boat and crew OF torpedo boat or
torpedo boat destroyer and would very
effectively render hors de combat a big
battleship.
Mr.. Maxim claims for his torpedo pro-
jectile tina; II has twice the calibYe.
double the length and three times the
weight Of the present armor- PIERCING
shell. and that II Is infinitely more de-
structive. He has invented gun which
has been proved capable of sustaining
working pressure OF lo0oo pounds to the
square inch, and mindful of the fact that
the key TO the problem of throwing high
explosives rests upon the propell,ng
charge. he has invented also a suitable
gunpowder. His muti-perforated smoke
less powder has been tested in large guam
titles for a period of more than four
years. and ii has been proved that by its
use greater uniformity Of velocity can 10
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the aerial torpedo shall have penetrated
to the desired depth in water, earthworks
or the deck of a ship. It's action being de-
pendent upon certain amount of retard-
alton of the torpedo. Ii has been largely
experimental with in the United States.
and has been successfully fired through
armor from four TO six inches in thick
ness without exploding uptil II had passed
through.
The gunner who IS instructed with tina
firing of the aerial torpedo. has no need
to take careful aim with a view TO pene-
trating armor. All he requires to do ia
10 lodge his torpedo at certain dis
lance from the enemys vessel and leave
II. 10 do It's deadly work. Mr. Maxim
calculates that 500 pounds of gun cotton
would be fatal at a distance OF about
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secured. and consequently greater accur-
ecy of firing.
Talking of the effective powder of his
aerial torpedo. Mr. Maxim said Five
hundred pounds Of gun cotton exploded
agains THE torpedo netting surrounding
a modern ba.tieship would insure her
destruction, In spite of water-tlght COM
partments. torpedo netting. etc" The
modern naval expert has, however, got
II into his head that the present amount
tsome 200 pounds) Of gun cotton carried
by the Whitehead torpedo Is the maxi
mum amount that can he used with
safety TO the attacking vessel. Hence
Mr Maxim will have to convince him
tina; his torpedo projectile can be made
strong enough TO carry with perfect
safety iis own weight Of wet com
pressed gun cotton or other suitable
high explosive. such as picric acid or
ma ximite.
His method OF throwing high explosive
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on board a hattieship and an aerial tor
pedo fired frIm Il special Maxim gun
ON a torpedo cruiser are pitted against
each other, the balance Is all in favor of
the latter. The Maxim aerial torpedo s.
perhaps. best charged with We, gun cot
ton. thought II may also be filled with
picric acid or 'maximlte'-the name given
10 the smokeless powder mentioned above.
One of the chief thing necessary in
any system or firing explosive shells -
the fuse Mr.. Maxim, with the aid OF
Prof. Aiger. of the United StateSS4vy.
has invented fuse capable of detonsting
the explosive matter in the .orpedo.Sand
which can with perfect safety he thrown
from ordnance at any desired velocity.
This fuse Is one adapted TO explode when
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* not wholly new. The United States
government has Experimental by throw
ing SO pounds or more Of high explosive
from pneumatic gnrs. But two and a
half miles il the maximum range OF THESE
guns. 50 that "A baiile<h;p could thus lie
tuss bayond range and destroy the entire
outfit, without being Itself In the least
exposed Now, the Maxim aerial torpedo.
carrying a Ton Of explosive. has a proved
range Of FIVE miles. and one carrying half
a ton VII carry about nine mics. As 40
gun al present in existence has greater
range than this it will be seen taat when
the shell thrown from a high-IyJwer gun
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THROUGH NINE sr.rrs

The Sorth-western Line comprises ore,
IN Illinois. Iowa. Wisconsin. M,cb,S.r
Minnesota. North Dakota. South Dakots
Nebraska and Wyoming. II operates thu
fines. trairs In the world The service -
Chicago. Milwaukee and all the nrsncspai
cities Of the East and Southeast canno,
b surpassed Insist On having your ticket
via THE Northwestern" r. W. Parker.
Commercial Agent. COS First avenue. Seat.
Tie.
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DANGEROUS TO TAKE
AN UNTRIED ARTICLE.
1864-1898.
Fed to Greedy at the North Pole.

. = = =
. That Worid-Renowncd scout and
. Indian Warrior. Kit Cnrson's
Son, Bears Witness to the Value .
= of Lauont's CrystaiIixed Eggs.
HOTEL STEVENS
Stevens * Grant, Proprietors
European Plan. Restaurant IN Cnrnec.fon
Seattle Wash. Feb - 1sss
. T.. Fred Lamont.
. Nc. Colman Block.
Seattle Wash
. Dear Sir: in making all of nv harass,
trips over the mountains Of the p.o,a
= coast both in the United States ana -
y british side Of the line. never co,..s
. my eutn, complete without a LIBERAL suns
. OF I.aMon:'s CryStai-ized Egg
. On my last trip since January : ,ess
Lake TesNn 10y Nay OF Wrans.i -
St.ckeen river over fhe ice. had my So :
. omeie''e every n'sht for dinner. psepared
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. tSlgued) KIT CARSON
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A woman writes % the Philaael-
phfa Times from Rampant City On the
ruksn rivers "Nswcomers, like euF-
selves. are we'll provided. but those
Who have been here ali ssnneF
have bst little, with poor prospects
fer nore. We have All the necessi-
ties Of life-eGGs crystaiiixed and
MIX condemned lnclgded."