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EASTERN.

The Bricklayers and Masons' Interna.
tional Union. in session at Hartford,
Conn, indorsed the cigarmakers' blue
label. The delegates were rendered ban
quet and ball.
At the Lenox Athletic Club in New
York kid" Mccoy, legitimately mid
dleweight pugilist, was knocked out by
Tom Sharkey, a heavyweight. Seven
thousand spectators saw the fight.
A local passenger train going west and
an excursion train going east met head on
in deep cut at sharp curve on the LIE
high Valley Road near West Dunellen. n.
j. Thirteen persons were killed and
thirty-6ve injured.
A Monongahela traction car became nm
manageable near Duquesne. Pa, and
went over q twenty-fvefoot embankment
near Rankin bridge. When the car top
pied over the stove upset and several pas
sengers were burned.
Francis Brunner, who was arrested on
a charge of embezzlement, committed sui
eide in cell at Trenton, n. j., police sta
tion. Brunner hanged himself by tying
q handkerchief around his neck and fas-
teDing it to the iron bars of the cell door.
Schuyler Hamilton, New York mining
engineer. formerly reputed to possess
property worth $500. 900. has filed petit
tion in bankruptcy. Mr.. Hamilton's liza.
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Sparks from the Wires.

Gen. Gomez advises against the dis
bandment of the Cuban army until it has
been paid by the United States.
Edward Kelley. a Chicago saloonkeep
er, was shot and killed by a revolver
which he threw behind the bar, remarkinr
that it was harnAss
Some alarm prevails among Americans
ut Havana owing to the spread of con.
tagious diseases. Three deaths from
Asiatic cholera are reported.
\ 14-year-old boy who figured as the
mascot of the Eleventh United States in.
fantry al Santiago has been brought home
to Baltimore by his parents.
\ deer pursued by hunters in Union
County. Pa, leaped over a cliff and alight.
ed sQuarely upon Reuben Cromley. who
was working in 4 quarry, injuring him
fatally.
William Dalton. aged 20 years, a promi.
nent resident of Lafayette County, dice
ut his home near Odessa. Mo-. after a Ions
illness. he was distantly related to the
notorious Dalton boys.
i. F. Hughes. who received a slighi
flesh wound from penknife in the hands
of DR.. W. y. Graham. while the two were
Quarreling in the rotunda of Sicher's Ho
tel at Sedalia, Mo-, caused the arrest o..
DR.. Graham on the charge Of asssH' hovtt
intent to kill, can than,
re.ru-ua for it,"
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MARKET REPORTS.

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $6.25; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $500; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $3.50; wheat, No. = red. &c to Csc;
corn, No. ., SIC to 3Sc; oats, No. 2, 27c
to 29c; rye, No. 2, 54c to SOC; butter,
choice creamery, 19c to 21c; eggs, fresh,
20c to 22c; potatoes, choice, Soc to 4Uc
per bushel.
Indianapolis-C shipping, $500 to
S5.75; hogs, choice light, $2.I5 to $4.00;
sheep, common to choice, $3.50 to $4.2o;
wheat, No. red, Csc to zoe; corn, No.
white. 34c to SEC; oats. No. 2 white, 3Oc
to Sic.
St. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $5.75; hogs,
$500 to S4.00; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, re to 74c; corn, No. 2
yellow, 34c to Soc; oats, No. 2, &c to 29c;
rye, No. ., SOC to SIC.
Cincinnati-Cattle,$ 81 80 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to S4.00; sheep, $3.50 to s4.25:
wheat, No. 2, roc to T2c; corn, No. .
mixed, SEC to SIC; oats, No. mixed, 29c
to 30c; rye, No. ., 56c to 5Sc.
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs,
$3.50 to $3.75; sheep, $500 to S4.25;
wheat, No. ., 70c to &c; corn, No. 2
.elioNp otC cCt, odtS, A>o. "uitt, ciI
to &c; rye, SIC to oSc.
Toledo-Wheat. No. . mixed, roc to
&c; corn, No. = mixed, 35c to SIC; oats,
No. white, &c to 29c: rye, No. >, 54c
to SIC; clover seed. $3.50 to S4.55.
Observation-Disclosures, No. spring, &c
to Csc; corn, No. 3, 33c to 34c; oats, No.
. white, 2Sc to 30c; rye. No. l, 54c to 56c;
barley, No. 2, 44c to 53c; pork mess,
$3.50 to $1,000.
Buffalo-Cattle, good shipping steers,
$500 to S5.15: hogs, common to choice,
S3.25 to $500; sheep, fair to choice weth-
ers, $3.50 to $3.50; lambs, common 70
extra, $500 to $3.50.
New York-Cattle, $500 to So. 10; hogs,
$500 to $4.25; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2 red, SOC to Sic; corn, No.
2, 43c to 45c; oats, No. white, 35c to 36c;
butter, creamery, 15c to DC; eggs, West
cru, 22c to 23c,
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suit, and the next step will be the appear
ance of the corporations attorneys before
some judge of the Circuit Court of Cook
County with the request that decree be
made of record divorcing the palace car
company from every line of business or
ownership save that for which it was en-
powered by incorporation to transact.
Suit Begun in 1894.
The proceedings to compel the Pullman
company to live within the law which ere
ated it were commenced In 1894 by Mau-
rice L. Moloney. then Attorney General
of the State. The first proceedings were
quo warranto. The law thus compels the
Pullman Palace Car Company to dispose
Of the following:
Plant Of the Pullman Iron and Steel
Company, plant of the Pullman Brick
Company, plant of the Pullman Gas Com
pany, the Arcade building, the Hotel Flor
ence (named for Mrs. +. o. Lowden, who
was Miss Florence Pullman). Pullman
market buildings, two church buildings
the public school house the water mains
in the streets. In addition to this several
hundred acres of land ard 300 town lots.
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William T. Stead, editor of the Review
Of Reviews, has received from Lyman J.
| Gage, Secretary of the Treasury, and
President Barrows Of Oberlin College let
| teTs indorsing his peace crusade.
Premier Sagasta denies that any negO-
tiatiOns are in progress for the sale of the
Carclnes. He intends to convoke the
Cortes as soon as the United States SEN
ate has approved the peace treaty.
NJ. Quesnay dc Beaurepaire, who re-
signed from the French court of cassa-
tion. has published a statement explain
ing his action which virtually charges that
the court is in a conspiracy to exonerate
Dreyfus.
Emperor Nicholas, according to q dis
patch to the London Daily News from
Odessa, is planning to meet Emperor
Francis Joseph, Emperor William and
President Faurc early in the spring to
impress upon them his disarmament pro-
posals.
The Paris Figaro was confscated by the
police throughout Germany on account of
caricature which it contained, copied
from Puck, representing all the crowned
heads and entitled ''The Threatened Re-
volt in the Jungle" Emperor William
was represented as boar.
A telegram from Cayenne, capital of
French Guiana, has been communicated
to the court of cessation at Psris. embody-
ing the reply of Dreyfus to questions put
TO him by the public prosecutor there.
Dreyfus energetically denies that he ever
confessed that he was guilty and protests
his innocence.
Quesnay de Baurepaire, president of the
section of the French Court of Cessation,
which is dealing with the Dreyfus case.
has resigned his Office in consequence Of a.
disagreement regarding the Dreyfus in
quiry. LIE Soir says it learns from an in
disputable source that the Court of Cassa-
ton is convinced that Dreyfus was justly
condemned.
Aguinaldo has issued proclamation at
Manila calling on the Filipinos to unite
to defend their liberty. He protests
against every clause of Gen. Otis proc
lamation and denies that Otis has any
claim to the title of captain general of
the Philippines. He further declares that
The Americans came to grand freedom to
the Filipinos. not to establish themselves
as masters of the archipelago.
The Petit Bleu Of Brussels announces
that the Batelelas tribesman of the Congo
Free State. who defeated a column of 200
of the State troops and captured kalam-
bari. in addition TO killing two officers, one
sergeant and 200 native troops, captured
fourteen whites, two guns and ammuni-
ton and quantity of baggage. Five
whites were also killed at kalambari,
which is the chief town of the district. 1t
was garrisoncd by 800 men, who deserted.
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WASHINGTON.

The Navy Department has decided to
allow the naval station at Guam Il full
brass band. Instruments will be ship
ped on the Yosemite
The sword of honor voted to Rear Ad-
miral George Dewey, the naval hero of
Manila, by joint resolution of Congress
has been received at the Navy Depart
ment from the makers, Tiffany & Co. of
New York.
L. P. Mitchell, acting Comptroller Of
the Treasury, has given an opinion that
the Federal Government cannot pay ex-
penses incurred by the Governors of
States, or officers of their respective staffs
acting under their authority, in raising
the volunteer army of the United States
for service in the war with Spain.
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News of Minor Note.

Driver Hughes of the fire depa rtment of
| New York City saved ten lives at recent
| tenement house fire.
In 1900 Iceland will celebrate the 9OOtb
anniversary of the introduction of Chris.
tianity into the island.
There are forty-five colleges and seven
teen State Christian associations among
the colored people of North Carolina.
Besides the rinderpest, South Africa's
worst plague consists of the myriads of
grasShoppers, which are sometimes so
dense that they stop railway trains.
The United States authorities have for
mally taken possession of Cienfuegos,
Cuba. A Cuban has been appointed
acting as police.
During the recent Fashoda incident
Queen Victoria is reported to have said to
ex-Empress Eugenie: If war should
break out between France and England L
will pray God to allow me to die before it
occurs"
Steps have been taken for 4 still greater
Chicago. Legislation will be asked for
the consolidation of the city and county
governments of Cook County and the abo.
ishment of township organizations within
the limits of Chicago proper.
David Deffenbaugh, living near Home
stead, Okla, was found dead by the road
side. While hunting in a cart his gun fell
to the ground. and was discharged. the
load tearing off his left arm. He bled TO
death.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jean Roy of st. Joseph
Beanie. Quebec. celebrated last week the
tiftietb anniversary of their marriage and
the event presented some ext-aordinars
features. The bridesmaid. the best man
and the fiddler of fifty years ago were
present But still more srafr-s cover
incident was the presence 'ignments in
Roys mothegtc &c, ,stts ETC., TO R. G. Thompson.
.sssial ~asial Repr sentative for Mr.. Gates, Wa
hash Tisks. Jffise. Fort Wayne, Ind.
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in GENERAL.

Gen. John NJ. Palmer has lost the sight
| Of his right eye by cataract and it is
feared the other eye may become affected.
The executive committee of the Inter-
national League of Press Clubs has de-
cided to hold the annual convention in
Baltimore early in April.
George A. Armour has given $4,000 to
found a classical alcove in the university
library in Princeton, and a yearly endOw-
ment for three years of So, 700 toward its
support.
The Engineering and Mining Journal,
in its compilation of mineral statistics for
1898, places the worlds production of
gold in the year at $2S6,21S,9 To this
total the United States contributed $64,-
300, 900 and Russia $25, 10000.
There is strong movement on foot at
Dawson to send representative to Wash
ington for the purpose of enlisting the
United States Government in the cause
of aiding in remedying the great distress
which prevails among the miners of the
Yukon.
Gov. Brady Of Alaska has arrived in
Washington to urge haste in territorial
matters. He says many of the people
who rushed into the klondike region are
coming out. largely because of the high
taxation. Many thousands of people, he
says, already have started for the Allan
district.
A'dispatch from Auckland, n. H., says
advices have been received from Tonga,
the seat of the Government Of the Tonga,
or Friendly Islands. that the German
consul has arrived there from the Samoan
Islands, and has given notice that Ger
many will seize Vavao, the most fertile
of the group. unless the Tongan Govern
ment pays the private debts which the ma
tives owe a German company. The Gov
ernment repudiates responsibility for the
giving of credit to the natives, contrary to
law, and the king is appealing to England,
America and France.
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MR.. DINGLEY IS GONE.
PASSING OF THE REPUBLICAN,
LEADER.
Author of the Existing Tariff Law
Dies at Washington of Heart Fail
ure, Resulting from Pneumonia
Sketch of His Life and Services.

Nelson Dingley of Maine, leader of the
Republican side on the floor of the House
of Representatives and representing the
Second congressional district of Maine in
that body. died at Washington, ID. c., of
heart failure, resulting from extreme
weakness due to pneumonia. He was un-
conscious for many hours and death came
quietly without consciousness being re-
gained. There We're present at the time
Mrs. Dingley, Miss Edith Dingley,
Messrs. T.. n. and y. III. Dingley, sons
of the deceased; James c. Hooe, an init
mate friend of the family: DIR. Deale, one
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1t will be the policy to give the present
occupants of houses the first opportunity
to purchase the dwelling houses, which
are of brick and are 1000 in number.
The issue involved in The People vs..
Pullman's Company was the right of the
company to own property other than that
necessary for the purpose of its incorpora-
ton. The company was incorporated by
a special act Of the Legislature Feb. 90,
1867. The incorporators were George NJ.
Pullman, John Crerar and Norman Viii
liams.
The quo warranto proceedings were
brought Oh Sept. IL, 1894. 1t was placed
on Judge Bakers calendar. The follow
ing February it was argred on the de-
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Defeated in uprcmc Court.

The following October the case was ar
gued before the Supreme Court. Not un-
| til two years later-Oct. 24, 1S97-dd the
| court hand down its decision, reversing
Judge Baker and sustaining the Attorney
| Generals position.
Pullman is situated on the west bank
of the Calumet lake. The town is built
| OH land belonging to the originally dis
tinct corporations known as the Pullman
Land Association and Pullmar's Palace
Car Company. The first excavations
were made on May 26. 1880. Within
two months construction had begun and
the foundations of the houses that were
afterward to furnish homes for the en-
ployes of the model town" were laid.
Five hundred men We're employed in the
preliminary work. Within f5e months
their number was increased to 1000.
Within two years the city IVES completed.
The Hotel Florence was the last building
of the many hundreds to be erected.
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RICH DAHCE AND EAT,
Lavish Display of Wealth Attends
Vandsrbilts' Ball.

New York's society swells, accustomed
as they are to scenes of surprising bril-
liancy and lavish displays of wealth, are
talking with wiGe-open eyes of the time
they had and tho things they saw at the
Vanderbilt ball. Five hundred guests
were present. and the jewels they wore
would pay the national debt of Spain and
leave a cash balance that would dishearten
the Carlists.
AS an excuse for the ball it was said.
TO have been given in hosor of the son, a
beardless college youth, who is about to
come into his $5O.000,O00 fortune. His
prospective bride Miss Elsie French, was
not in attendance, as she missed connec-
tions on her way from Europe, but Miss
Virginia Fair, who is to marry Willie X.
Vanderbilt, nephew OK the house, was
among the guests and she was easily the
belle of the bali"
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alleged Chicago postal swindler, who
were arrested Mt st. Augustine. Fla. have
been released on bonds in the sums Of $5,-
900 and $500 respectively for their ap-
pearance in the United States Court at
Chicago at the May term for trial.
At Memphis, Tenn, fire destroyed the
wholesale and retail dry goods house of
the J. S. Menken Company. The build
ing. five-story structure, was valued at
S150,00O. The stock was valued at about
S030.00O. Assistant Fire Chief Ryan was
badly burned about the eyes in forcing an
entrance to the building.
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cry $1,000 in stock had yielded profit of
S1S5,OOO. The Senate passed bill re-
ducing the charge for messages from %
to 10 cents. In to Houes a substitute
bill was passed reducing the charge from
% to 10 cents and other tolls in proportion.
Day press rates are reduced from u to
1-3 cent per word, and night press rates
from II to 1-16 cent per word. The tele-
graph lines are placed under the same re-
strictions as are imposed by the court of
visitation law on the RAILROADS.
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ReDort Fails tn Ceusure.

The report of the proceedings and find
ings of the court of inquiry to determine
the cause and fix the responsibility of the
grounding of the battleship Massachusetts
off Governors Island, has been received
at the Navy Department. The court finds
that the accident might have been avoid
ed if Captain Ludlow and the pilot of the
Massachusetts had provided themselves
with the latest charts of New York har-
Dor. Beyond this no blame is attached to
IL
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SOUTHERN.

The largest public school building in
Chattanooga, Tenn, was compelled to
close on account of part of the roof hav-
ing fallen.
Thresher Meade, notorious Southern
desperado, has been placed in Jail at En-
terprise, Miss. charged with rPbbirg the
postoffice in that town.
]. T. Davis, one of the editors of the
Banner of Cleveland. Tenn, aud j. Ben
Stern, editor of the Journal, hao fight
at Cleveland, resulting in Davis cutting
Stern in the head with knife.
Baron Edgar de Bara and his wi!e, the
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-01-12
TWO SiREs OF CYRANO.
Mr.. Gross cf Chica go Says the Child
of His Brain Was Stolen


s. II. Gross, prominent real estate
dealer of Chicago, has filed bill in the.
United States Circuit Court asking for
an injunction against a. NJ. Palmer, man
ager, and Richard Mansfield, actor, re.
straining them from producing the play,
''Cyrano DE Bergerac." Gross claims
that the play is stolen from Il play writ
ten by him twenty years ago under the.
title The Merchant Prince of Cornvillc.'
He declares that some years ago he sent
a copy of his play to Messrs. Mansfield
and Palmer. but never heard anything.
from them. Now. Gross asserts, they are
producing play founded upon his work.
Mansfield denied all knowledge of Gross
and his play. Palmer is in New York.
In the last act Of the play there are GER
tain similarties TO the same act in the
play written by Rostand both in language
and situations. Gross play was filed for
copyright in London in 1896.
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Censure for ECau.

The War Investigating Commission has
passed aresolution of censure on Gen.
Egan for the language he used when he
appeared to answer the charges made
against the c0mmissary branch of the
army by Maj. Gen. Miles, and returned
to HIM the carefully prepared typewrit-
ten statement which he left with the
commission after reading it to that body.
With its return was sent letter explain
ing the reasons for this action and copy
Of the resolutions passed.
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His $4,000 Gun Bur,t.

DIR. Il. j. Gatling's experimental steel
eight-inch rife, for the construction of
which Congress appropriated $4,000,
burst at the Sandy Hook proving ground
The gun went to pieces under n normal
firing pressure of $1,000 pounds. AL
though the air was filled with flying frag-
ments OF steel, no one waa hurt. rs the
officers who conducted the test took refuge
behind a sand hill before each firing
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Woman turned at Stake.

AdVlCeS from madagascar state that an
insurrection among the natives is still
fermenting. There have been numerous
outrages on colonists. many of whom
have been tortured and thrown into the
rivers to he eaten by crocodiles. 1t is re-
ported that woman taken oy the natives
was bound TO a stake, drenched with oil
and burned TO death.
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NEWS IN BRIEF GUSTS
BLOWN IN FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE EARTH.
An Important Record Of the Week
A. Told by 1.-THE TeieGraph-Latest
from Foreign Shores-Crimes, Gas.
ualtiess Fires, Etc.
Bark Audelina Caosizes in Harbor
at Tacoma.

Tacoma (Wash.) special: The British
bark Andelina, which arrived recently in
ballast, oapslzed and sank in twenty-five
fathoms of water. Capt. G. w. Stating
and crew of eighteen men are lost. The
Andelina was 2, 400 tons, four mastcd
bark from Annapolis, Nova Scotia, and
came from Shanghai for wheat. The
captain leaves wife and three children
in Nova Scotia. The vessel capsized in
a terrible squail. She had boom log on
each side and one got adrift, causing the
other TO upset the vessel. Tie ballast
had been discharged.
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A1uina1do,. Emissarie..

Among the passengers who arrived al
San Francisco recently on the steamer
Nippon Maru, from Hong Kong and YO-
k0hama, via Honolulu, are three emissa.
ries OF Aguinaldo. They are Senor Nor
to, Senior Lcwde and Scnor Luid, three
members of Aguinaldo's cabinet. They
are en- route to Washington on secret
mission, the purpose of which they re-
fuse 10 divulge. The FilipinOs are INTEL
ligent and speak English fluently-
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All Probably Lost.

There seems every reason to believe that
the naphtha yacht, Paul Jones, which
left Louisville, KY, December z, with a
pleasure party of prominent society,
bound for Pensacola, Fla, and other
ports in Southern waters, has gone down
in gale in the Gulf of Mexico, with all
on board. No word of the missing craft
had been learned. Lawrence Jones pur-
chased the yacht in the East where it
had been especially constructed for
pleasure cruising. Miss Florence Tag
gart, daughter OF Mayor Taggart of In
dianapolis, is among the number.
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TELEGRAPH TOLLS LOWERED.

Kansas Legislature Enacts q Law
Making Big Reductions.
Telegraph tolls in Kansas are reduced
by law which was enacted Thursday. A.
formidable lobbS was on hand to resist
the measure. It pleaded that Kansas
telegraph wires had been operated at a
loss during recent years. The advocates
of the law replied that in thirty years ev-
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Wants Prisoners Released.

The Spanish minister of marine has in
structed the Spanish naval commander at
Manila to send two gunboat. to the ISL
and of Balabac to search for Spanish pris-
oners, held by the insurgents The Gov
ernment has also requested Gen. Rios to
take further steps to secure the release of
the Spanish prisoners in the hands of the
insurgents.
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MANY Deaths fror, Gr;,

The grip is still raging in Washington.
Twenty deaths resulted from the malady
during the week, and twenty-five from
pneumonia. Most of the latter were caus-
ed by the prevailing epidemic. Hundreds
of Government clerks are absent from
their desks on sick leave, and there are
scores of vacant seats in both houses of
ConCreSs