The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-27

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about o'clock this morning Jackpot
/ necessitated a showdown. The queen
regent exhibited four aces to Sagasta's
| three aces and pair of jacks. Each ac-
j cused the other of conduct unbecom-
/ ing a gentleman. and during a rapid
exchange OF profanity and champagne
bottles the queens royal high cocka-
/ forum chambermaid in waiting made
away with the entire stakes, $14.15, be-
! ing the total cash reserve in the Span
! igh treasury at the close of banking
! hours To such an extent has the
! Cuban war depleted the finances of the
/ Kingdom The credit of the nation
trembling in the balance and the crown
| jewels being already in hook, Sagasta
is desperately endeavoring to negotiate
1 a loan upon four royal washtubs, the
hereditary pink 1ampshade and Al
/ phonso Kills baseball bat. 1t Is i'm
possible to conceal the gravity of the
! situation.
Washington, Feb. 26.-Secretary Long
has received a cablegram from Consul
/ General Lee at Havana announcing
] serious accident to two American
divers. named Sourmash and Ginger
ale. When Sourmash and Gingerale
were so unfortunate as to turn their
backs on a Spanish officer and get their
| heads in the way of a stream of bullets
/ issuing from the officers revolver. OF
] the various theories to account for the
! disaster the most commonly accepted
| is that 1T was a case of spontaneous
combustion in the revolver's cartridges.
1 The cablegram adds that General
| Blanco and his staff have expressed to
| General Lee the deepest sorrow ana
/ sympathy, and are doing all in their
power to procure the Americans a COM
petent undertaken and a disengaged
| hearse Secretary Long carried the sad
news to the white house, where Presi-
dent Mckinley bore UP under the in
telligence with his customary fortitude,
/ although repeatedly obliged to go TO
the bureau drawer for dry handker-
chiefs The president ordered four
yards of crepe a bingham dress pat
tern and bunch of violets sent to
! each Of the widows, and has directed
| the state department to cable Sagasta
| a request to convey to the queen regent
| renewed assurances of his most dis
| tnguished consideration and undying
regard. Thankful for the patriotic pa
thence, the dignified discretion, the
splendid self-poise heretofore exhib-
tied by the American people, the presi-
dent respectfully solcits continuance
of the same until doomsday, when the
truth will positively be made public.
Podunk, Feb. pa Key West spe-
eial to the Daily Circus says: The
British sloop Skip-the- Gutter. Cap
tain Shinnyside. has arrived here with
a cargo of Bermuda onions and mem
Der of the crew Of the Inflated Maine,
II. b. Damn, whose escape was little
short of miraculous. When the explo-
sion occurred the sloop was about
three-uuarters of a mile distant from
the Maine. BY the light of the flames
of the burning vessel, the sailors of the
Skip the Gutter deserted one of the
victims of the disaster flying rapidly
through space in their direction, and
hastily taking a spare sail they held it
up by the four corners to break the force
of his fall. Guaging his descent with
almost incredible nicely, they caught
him in time and intact, save for the
loss Of both legs which in his hurried
departure from the Maine he uninten-
tionally left behind him. Damn says
he was on the Names poop deck, fish
ing, when he saw a suspicous-lookina
boat row hastily around the stern and
put back to shore. Just at that mo-
ment Damn was casting his fishline
into the sea, and the hook caught one
of the inmates of the boat firmly by
the coat collar in such a manner that
what with the boats velocity and curve
of direction the coat was jerked off his
back The rowers did not stop to re-
cover the garment, and Damn was
leisurely hauling ii in when the explo
sion occurred. Finding himself sailing
swiftly through the heavens, with rart
presence Of mind he clung to the fish
line and its dependency, which he fount
of the utmost service to him in ths
capacity of a rudder enabling him t.
steer for the Skip the-Gutter with &C
curacy and ease. An examination of tn,
coat by Damn and the captain of th'
Skip-the- Gutter disclosed the fact tina
it is the property of a Spanish officer
In the inside pocket were found Sl5 AM
a number of discriminating papers AM
documents, proving conclusiVely TIL
existence of n plot on the part o
? Blanco, De LONE. Bryan, Teller, Hart
man, IL Hung Chang and other emf
! nent lung-haired cranlss and renowned
l free silver anarchists to torpedo TIL
| Maine, assassinate Mckinley and hi
E cabinet dynamite Wall street. eviscer
: ate the United States treasury an,
commit the country to the ho01rs o
bimetallism.
{ Madrid. Feb. 26.-General Weyler ha,
? just been assassinated by a boml
S thrown into his house by an anarchist
g 1t is believed that several bombs wer
3 thrown into the house as a number o
/ explosions were heard at brief inter
4 walls. Strangely enough the general
= body was not mutilated and it Is re
: ported that he died of conclusion of tn
Il brain produced by the force of the ex
o posion
Chicago, Feb 26.-Headquarters Raj
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