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The evening times., 1898-10-06
S72,944
Persons Died in the U. S.
in One Year According
To the Last Census.

To bury them, at fifty dollars
apiece, cost over forty-three mill
ions.
Think of what Life Insurance,
even i'll moderate am punt for
each, would have meant for the
relatives and dependents of these
dying people,
Everybody should insure, if only
for a small sum.
Make a start and sec how much
better you will feel.
/ will take the same pains with
a small as with large policy, give
you the best rates in the best COM
pauies, and start you off with the
advantage of my ten years eXper-
ience.
The evening times., 1898-10-06
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No. SIG I4th St. N. W.
p. o. Box SOB.
p. o. Box 5O3.
Why. of Course.

why. of Course.
From the Chicago POst)
Just by way of 4 hint, you know I told her
she looked sweet enough to kiss"
s'WeIl2'
''well. she said that was the way she intended
90 look"
"And So"
Precisely"
The evening times., 1898-10-06

Your credit IS good at Lansburgh's Fur
nitIre House. 18th and E sts- oc3-tr
The evening times., 1898-10-06
Ladies' 50 Kersey Coats, S5.eS.

Lined all through with superb
grade of satin. Has the straight
front, tight back and box sleeves
of the new coat.
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magnificent-worth UCs/O
$9-Cash or credit
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
Rushing Repairs on War Vessels at the Navy
 Yards.
Dispatch Boat Dolphin and Cruisers Chicago and At
 Ianta Overhauled.
As Fast as They Are Ready for Ser vice the Boats Are Equipped
 and Manned.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, March 3.-Great hurry characterizes work in the navy yard of getting the dispatch boat Dol phin into normal condition. She has been thoroughly overhauled and will be as spick and span as a brand new boat by March 15. One hundred and fifty men are at work on her, and on March 24 Commander Lyons will hoist his flag and the Dolphin will be once more in commission. She has been re- fitted with new engines, boilers, decK and spars Admiral Bunce said to-day that old guns will be placed in the Dolphin.
 Sledge-hammer blows deafen the ears of those who stand near the cruiser Chicago, which is being htted in the navy yard. Her guns ana upper deck works have all been removed, new nickel steel deck built in her two feet below the water line, and she mas been fitted with new engines, boilers and machinery. She will have new decks, with an armament of rapid-fire guns, but will not go into commission until August.
 Similar work is goin on where the cruiser Atlanta is dOcked. She Will have new boilers and engines and be fitted with new decks and rigging, and the resisting power of the turrets will be increased by the addition of new plates. She will carry fourteen 5-inch rapid-fire guns in addition to her usual armament when she goes into commission next September Sail maker P. F.. Ward, with nine seamen, left the yard to-day for League Island, where they vii join the cruiser Colum- bia.
 Orders were received to-day for forty men to report on board the ram Katahdin, which is also at League Island. They will leave in a day or two. When the Government tug Mar keeta put out from under the nose of the Dolphin to-day she carried a queer-looking cargo of cylinders, piled like sections of water pipe on her deck, while five great crates were stored amidships. The cylinders were 61-inch powder tanks and in the crates were 13-inch tanks. No information could be obtained about the Narkeeta's cargo, but it is supposed the cylinders were taken to Fort Lafayette, to be charged, and that their ultimate des- tination is Key West.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
Hurried Preparation on the Miantonomah for
 Sea Service.
Will Be Placed on Duty With the Anaphitrite, Monadnock
 and Terror.
Anaonq Officers Summoned for Duty Is Captain Reed, Now on the
 Reserve List
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PHILADELPHIA, March 3.-Lieu- tenant William A. Gill, U. $. N., in charge of the Photographic office in the Bourse the past two years, received orders from the Navy Department to- day to report for active duty on the monitor Miantonomah March l0. The Miantonomah is in course of hurried preparation for sea service, and IS ex- pected to join the Amphitrite, Monad- nook. Terror and others of her class at that time.
 Lieutenant Gill was to have reported on the battle-ship Maine before the day of her sailing from Key West to Ha- vana harbor to relieve Lieutenant Blandin, who was the officer of the watch on the night of the disaster.
 Two officers of the big monitor, the chief engineer and his assistant, ar rived to-day and were formally re- ceived by the commandant. These are Chief Engineer M. w. Parks. who has lately been inspector of the Columbian Iron Works at Baltimore, and Past As sistant Engineer Matthews, late of the Brooklyn Navy-yard. After submitting their orders to Captain Casey they made an examination of the Miantonomah Both were well pleased with her con dition.
 Three drafts of seamen were re- ceived at the navy-yard to-day, aggre- gating thirty men. Nine of these came from the Brooklyn Navy-yard and were assigned to service on the Columbia. Twelve from Boston and nine from Nor folk were quartered on the Richmond to await service on board the Mianto- nomah.
 The commanding officers of the cruisers Columbia and Minneapolis have not yet been announced, but it is said unofficially at the navy-yard that Captain Bands, formerly of the Co., lumbia, will be in command of the Min neapolis, and Captain J. l. Reed of Mount Holly, N. J., now on the reserve list, will have charge of the Columbia.
 The announcement from Washington that Captain Mortimer Johnson has been assigned to the Miantonomah as commanding officer was received with much favor on board that vessel. The choice is popular one among the men who will make up her crew.
 The work of scraping the cruiser Co., lumbia will be started tomorrow. An examination of her keel was made to- day, and it was found that in some parts where the paint had been rubbed off she was slightly rusted. The two big turrets on the Miantonomah were turned to-day for the first time in a year and worked satisfactorily. The deck of the Esatahdin, within the steel casing, Is now being caulked. Her ma chinery is reported to be in frst-class condition
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
Believes Spain and the United States Should
 Fight Anyway.
Nobody at Havana Doubts That a Torpedo Wrecked the
 Maine.
No Vessel Moored at the Buoy Where She Lay for Three Months
 Past.
coDv,tgbted 1898, by James Gordon Bennett

Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett.
 KEY WEST, Fla, March 3.-Private advices received from Havana by steamer last night say there was prac- ticalIy no change in the situation there except it was very noticeable that Ihe accident theory in the Name dlsdster was passing away. A prominent Aller- ican official, whose connections are such that his name cannot be used. but who has been intimately asSoclated with the investigation, is quoted as saving that there was absolutely no doubt the Maine was blown up by submarine mine, and that the Board CT Inquiry had from the first been Tn pos session of positive evidence to thls eI- feet.
 You cannot make it too emphatic. he is reported as saying. My lnfor-. mation is direct and positive.
 The same official said also the find ings of the court might be held back. though the report will be made to Washington as soon as the session which is to be resumed in Havana within the next few days is concluded.
 One witness who was before the board while it was sitting in Havana said: "No vessel for the past three years has been moored at the buoy where the Maine was blown up. l thought it very strange and commented on the fact when the Maine was placed there by order of the Havana harDor master"
 The Spanish Government has score or more of Pinkerton detectives em- ployed, who are keeping close watch upon the investigations being made by officials Secret agents of the United States Gov ernment have made a full investigation of the defenSeS of Havana, lncludlnS plans of the Notifications, the number of guns etc This report is now on its way to the authorities at Washington. The naval officers at Havana, who, up to a few days ago, held that the blow ing up of the Maine was due to an ac- cident, have changed their views ana now assert the ship was wrecked by an outside explosion.
 The private letter above referred 20 concludes by saying:
 Secretary Congosto said to several Americans who went to call on Gen. eral Blanco yesterday morning, Why do you beard the lion in his den? Is the United States Government prepared for war?'
 "'Spain is ready at any time. Your country has repeatedly insulted and humiliated mine by interfering with our Cuban policy, and Spatn's patience is almost exhausted. I hope war will come soon. We hate America. We have everything to gain and nothing to lose by war with the United States. I am a cold -blooded Spaniard and should prefer to die in Cuba than elsewhere to save Spanish soYer- eighty
 "Secretary Congosto spoke with great vehemence. He intimated that Cuba was practically lost to Spain, therefore she had nothing left to fight for but national honor.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
THE SPANISH DIVERS
 TO MAKE REPORT.

Copyrighted, 1898. by James Gordon B.nnctt
 HAVANA, March .3-Father Chid- wick to-day established the identity of the two bodies taken from the wreck of the Maine last Friday They were those of Quartermaster Burkhardt and C. A. Scott, carpenters mate Burkhardt's s body was identified by means of scraps of paper found in his clothes. Scott's body was identified by means of Odd Fellows link" tattooed upon his arm.
 Captain Sigsbee and Father Chid- wick are about convinced that the search for bodies must soon be discon- tinued. The Spanish divers did not work to-day They are awaiting the arrival from Spain of experts on naval construction.
 The American divers and the Merritt Wrecking Company's men continued work on the wreck as usual.
 General Hyde, president of the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me, is here on his way to Mexico. He called to-day upon Captain Sigsbee and later upon General Blanco. MT. Hyde and Captain Sigs- bee discussed the torpedo-boat destroy CTS now being built at Bath.
 Consul General Lee says he under stands the report of the Spanish divers. soon to be made, will be brief and to the effect that the bolts on the sheeting on the sides of the Maine were sheared in all cases so evenly as to prove con c1usively that the initial explosion must have come from within.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
BLANCO SAYS AMERICANS
 ARE SAFE IN HAVANA.
Declares There Is Yet Friendship Be- tween the Governments of
 Spain and America.

Copyrighted. 1s9s by James Gordon Bennett.
 HAVANA, March 3.-According to in- structicns, I prepared a statement set ting forth the fact that newspapers in New York are alarming the public by declaring the lives of Americans in Havana are even now in danger, and in case relations between the Spanish Government and the United States be- come strained. a riot could not be avoided, resulting in great danger to Americans. With this l called at the palace and presented my card to Cap tain General Blanco, was received most cordially, Dr. CongoStO, secretary of the General Government, acting as inter preter. General Blanco quickly said it was impossible for him to receive any correspondent, but as an American cit iZen he was glad to see me and offer every courtesy possible. In answer to a request for a statement concerning the existing condition of affairs here, he said that the American newspapers are anxlous to plunge the two coun- tries into war. Nevertheless, he could not answer my questions, as they were founded upon newspaper reports ofen- sive alike to Spain and to the Captain General. He said that in spite of the press, the governments of the United States and Spain were in full accord, and the friendly relations could not be disturbed.
 He was happy to observe that the Herald had maintained an attitude of dignity, and not lent itself to sensation alism. Any American who has lived in Havana any length of time, said Gen. eral Blanco, knows his life here is per fectly secure. General Blanco pleaded pressure of public affairs, and the in- terview ended.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
OLD MONITORS MAY
 AGAIN BE USED.
Many Engines of War That Would Be Useful in Guarding Shoal
 Water in Channels.

WASHINGTON, March S.-In the course of the inquiry into the naval resources of the United States an or- der has been issued to make a test of the machinery of the monitors at the League Island Navy Yard. These are single turreted craft that are armed with big smooth-bore guns, but they would be still of service in an ener- gency. There are eight of these: mon itors at League Island, and the Gov ernment owns several others that are now loaned to the naval militia organ izations of some of the States, Those at League Island are the following: Canonicus, Mahopac, Manhattan, Cat skill, Jason, Lehigh. Montauk and Ma hant They are all between 1900 and 21O0 tons displacement and draw little water, so that they can take. up ad-. vantageous positions on shoals conn manding channel approaches. The in tention is to turn over the old engines and work the machinery that Is made to turn the turrets, if 1t can be made
 to work at all.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
INSURGENTS
 VERY BOLD Challenge the Spanish Soldiers to Leave Forts
 and Fight. Cubans Boiling Up Their Foes in the Town of Sagua
 La GPande.
special Dispatch to The Can.

Special Dispatch to The Call.
 NEW YORK, March 3.--A Jackson vile (Fla.) special to the Herald says: Captain George w. Hudson of the schooner John $. Penrose of Philadel- phia, who arrived here to-day from Sagua la Grande, Cuba, says that the insurgents there are very active and are really 'bottling" up the Spanish soldiers in the town, as they hardly dare to venture outside the safeguards of their block port.
 "I did not go. on shore very often, said the captain, with a significant smile. T did not fancy 1t, and did not like their expressions regarding my country. The news of the Maine dis aster reached us there in port, and while the Spaniards swore 1t was an accident the Cubans as energetlcaliy swore that it was only Spanish trick. Several street disturbances occurred on shore about this between them, as Cubans were bold enough there to take a stand, knowing that the insurgents were so close. The Spanish soldiers were all right, but their officers are very insulting in their manners. and did not take any pains to show thelr hatred of Yankees.
 ''The insurgents were within three miles of the place often, and seldom did a night or day pass but what we saw smoke from burning cane fields or houses near by, showing their presence But I noticed that the Spanish troops seldom went out after them. l asked an officer once, and he shrugged his shoulders and said that he liked Spain better than tramping around cane fields, where they might shoot him from ambush. Their little blockhouse forts would stand about ten minutes before one of our ships, and from what I saw any of our militia companies could hold their own with the soldiers quartered there. Several times the in- surgents came within rifle shot and taunted the Spaniards with being afraid to come out and meet them, but the only reply the Spaniards made was to fire at them and keep within their forts.''
 The captain thinks if war is declared that no American would be safe in Cuba. especially in the small towns, as In their blind rage and fanaticiSm the Spantards would most likely kill all with whom they would come in con- tact.
 The Penrose ran aground in Sagua harbor, and the Biscayne had to gC there and tow her to this port. The vessel is damaged some and will go on the ways here for repairs. The cap- tain seemed to think that the insur- gent cause was gaining ground in that section and that the Spanish soldiers were becoming discouraged.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
MUCH DYNAMITE AND
 POWDER SHIPPED SOUTH.
Various Firms in Florida Acting as Purchasing Agents for the
 Government.

NEW YORK, March 3.-The King Powder Company of Cincinnati is do- ing an immense business as a result of the threatened war with Spain. The volume of their business has in- creased wonderfully, and while there is nothing on their books to show that the material has been purchased by the Government every one knows that within the last few days the pow der company has shipped two tons of dynamite to points on the coast of Florida and expects to ship more at once. In order that no suspicion may be excited dynamite is ordered through dealers in the towns In Florida to which it is shipped. but it is really for the Government. The dynamite is sent in sticks and could readily be made into shape for dynamite guns. and it is supposed that this is what it is for From every dealer along the Florida coast the King l owder Com pany has been receiving orders of late for large amounts of dynamite and powder, and there can be no doubt that they are merely acting as pur- chasing agents for the Government.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
Speedy New Torpedo Boats

BRISTOL, R. l.. March 3.-The two new Government torpedo boats, the Gwynn and the Talbot, just completed by the Herreshoffs, were given their official speed trials to-day in Nara gansett Bay, under favorable condi- tions, and both exceeded their contract speed, the former making an average of 20.e knots per hour, and the latter c11. The company figured that as the Gwynn had been in the water about ten days and the Talbot only two, the slight roughness on the former would account for the difference between the two boats, and that they are practical ly eopal
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
KILLED THE DIVER
 TO CONCEAL THE CRIME.

NEW YORK, March 3.-A dispatch from Key West says that advices from Havana to Fl Yara, one of the most conservative Cuban papers printed in
 the United States, are to the effect that responsible Spanish officials employed diver to blow tip the Maine with a magazine, and then took his life to con- ceal the crime, after having paid him $20, 900. His widow, the story says, was immediately placed in an insane asy- lum, so that whatever charges or reve- lation she may make would be regard ed as the rawlings of a disorderly mind.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
Uncle Sam Sounded Brazil.

Copyrighted, 1898. by James Gordon Bennett
 BUENOS AYRES, March 3.-Press comment on the last conference of the American Charge d'Affaires with the Minister of Foreign Affairs says the United States endeavored to know Brazil's attitude in case of a conflict with Spain.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04

To Cure Cold In One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All cruggists refund the money if 1. fails to cure. FOG. The genuine has L. B. c. on each tablet.
The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
South Carolina Militia Volunteers

COLUMBIA. s. C., March 3.-One thousand militiamen of South Caro- lima rendered their services to Cover nor Ellerbee to-day in case of war The offer was made through Colonel Robertson (colored) of Charleston.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Oct. 1.-The stock market
during today's short session gave strik-
ing evidence that the power OF the bear
faction had not diminished in offering
lower prices. The break in Tobacco was
The more sensational in view of the half
holiday. No new developments concern
ing the speculation in this stock were
announced and the bears pursued the
same diligent tactics that have been re-
sponsihe for the tremendous drop TINS
week. New spots of weakness have APP
peared every day, and todays develop
ment was Consolidated Gas. Competl-
ton of the electric lighting companies
and n rival gas plant furnished the
basis for break of 6l2 points. The
Railway list had an interval OF
strength. but the influence of the spe-
cialties was to overpower it, and losses
resulted. The bank statement exceeded
the favorable expectations, and its pub
LEGATION checked the break.
The bond market moved in sympathy
with stock fluctuations, and showed
more activity on the easier money con
ditions.
Government bonds were remarkably
well held throughout the week. conces-
sons being confined to u per cent. in the
2's and " each in the 3's and As.
The total sales Of stock were 226. 400
shares, including c., b. & O.. 6,772
Manhattan, 1924; n. T., 9,704; st
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02
HAVEN & SHOUTS COTTON LET
TER.

New York, October 1.-(Special)-
In the cotton market the week opened
with Il continuation of the downward
tendency of prices, the October contract
reaching 800 on Monday, which was
followed on Tuesday by Il decline to
53s cents on the spat for Middling Up
lands. Later in the week the contract
market rallied about Is points, but spot
remained unchanged. On Friday the re-
newed weakness in options leaves the
final prices of tho week practically I'M
changed from those ruling at the close
of last week. There have been no new
developments of Importance, climatic
conditions having continued favorable
at the South for the ripening, picking
and marketing of the crop, and the
leading feature has been the large re-
ceipts, which for the present week
threatened to exceed those of the cor
responding week of last year. The
South has been selling outturns in this
market against spot deliveries, and
shows Il disposition to accept current
prices Liverpool has shown rather
more stcadincss than was expected, and
though Midding has fallen to 31sd., the
demand has been good at the decline.
The prospect of an early frost, the vel
low fever outbreak, the dullncS of spec
ulation and the depression in the cotton
goods industry. have all come in for a
share of attention from the trade, with
the net result of keeping alive, even nj
the present low prices the bearish sen
timent which has prevailed SO far this
season. 1T is plain, however, that the
conservative houses and investors are
slowly coming into the market as buy
cr3 of the more distant months on the
declines. They argue that at the prices
now ruling there is IA minimum of risk
in purchases against Il maximum of pos
sible profit. and this position would seem
to be we'll taken A similar line of rea-
soning has made the short seller more
cautions and the midwcck rally in prices
did much to eliminate the previously
oversold condition of the market. Cot
ton goods are quiet. The mills are no
longer curtaiIing production and the
market has relapsed into its old-time
coalition Of dullnees. There is, and has
been. an inconsistency in the situation,
in that while a good distribution from
second hand is reported, Their is but
slight show of activity at first hands,
and the business that is now being done
consists principally of small lots.
HAVEN & STOUT.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.

Chicago. Oct L. Enormous receipts
Of wheat at primary points, increased
Russian offerings and estimates of large
crops here and abroad were at the bot
tom of the weakness shown by wheat
today Besides. trading was excessive
ly dull. December closed at half Il
cent decline. Corn and oats We're stag
nant each market declining about Is
in sympathy with wheat. Provisions
were weak, partly on account Of grain
and partly OH bcarish independent fca-
lures, closing 7la0l1J lower
CHICAGO, October /.
nrn1 Chasing
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-10-02
NAVAL STORES.

WILMINGTON, N. c., october 1.-Turpentine
firm at 2Sa28 10: receipts "a casks.
Rosin firm at 81 .00a1.05; receipts 260.
Crude Turpentine quiet at S1.10, S1.6o and
81 60; receipts barrels.
Tar steady at 81 20; receipts Ia.
CHARLESTON, S. c., October l.-Turpentine
firm at u 1-2 sales -. =,
81 10: q. Si.25: II, $780, /, S13O; X, $685. M,
81 40; N, $l65; w G, $3.50; w w, S2.15.
SAVANNAH, Ga, Oct. 1.-Turpentine firm at
2S 1-2 sales 1852; receipts SiS.
D. 95: E. 81 05; F. 81. i0a1 10 12 G S1.20 II, 81
], 81 85; K, $1.35; NJ, $1.40; NJ Sl.6O; w G, $3.50;
w w, $2.I5.