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Tariff Circular No. 8.
Gen. Henry's Retirement.

San Juan, Porto Rico, April 27, via
New York, May 4.-(Special correspon-
dence)-Maj.-Gen. Guy V. Henry has
announced in general orders his re-
tirement at his own request, from the
post of department commander and
military governor, and that he will
soon be relieved from duty here. Gen..
Henry says that during his stay in
the island, which began in July last,
he had received abundant proofs of
the loyalty of the Porto Ricans aid
their desire to be true to the Ameri-
cans and adopt methods that have re-
suited in making the United States a
great nation.
Promises Fully Realized.
The promises made to the military
governor at the meeting of delegates
last December, the general says, have
been fully realized; and he expressed
his thanks to all for their good will
and hearty cooperation.
Words of Advice.
Gen. Henry advises the Porto Ricans
to be patient, and adopt as rapidly rs
possible all suggested changes, which
arc for the better and lead to success
and to the improvement of the island.
Methods to be Pursued.
The methods to be pursued, he
trusts and believes, will be based upon
humanity and justice, and with due
regard to the golden rule. Honest and
jealous performance of duty by all
officials and the prompt carrying out
of all laws and reforms based upon
just and moral codes should be the
foundation stone of all action.
Thanks to officers and Soldiers.
He thanks the various officers and
soldiers for their cooperation and
willing subordination to the civil au-
thorities, in order that the latter
might have an opportunity to learn
and practice what will be required of
them upon the removal of the mill
tary forces.
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Barn Burner Lynch cd.

A special to Memphis of April 90th
gives an account of the lynching of
negro named Willis Sees at Osceola,
Mississippi county. 1t seems that a
number of barns have been fred within
the last few months near Osceola,
and suspicion was directed toward Sees,
The negro's wife gave information
which led to his arrest.
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A Centenarlan,

Pope county claims ''the oldest citi-
zen" in the person of-Wm. Ford, who
was born in Tennessee May 8, 1898 He
is veteran of four wars, the first be-
ing that of 1912, when at the age of IA
he fought the British. He served in
the Florida Indian war, and then wore
Uncle Sans uniform during the Mexi-
can war. Being southerner by birth,
when the civil war broke out he en-
listed with the Confederacy, and served
until the surrender.
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TRADE WITH PORTO RICO.
Order Allowing Foreign Bottoms to
Engage in the Porto Rican Trade
with This Country.
IT IS ONLY OF TEMPORARY CHARACTER.
Mini. Gen. Henry's Announcement of
His Retirement from the Post of
Department ana Military Covers
nor of the Island of Porto Rico
Words of Advice.

Washington, May 4.-The following
is the order of the war department al
lowing foreign bottoms to engage In
the Porto Riean trade with this coun-
try, formerly limited to American ves-
sells under the coastwise laws:
Tariff Circular No. s.
War Department, Washington. May
1, 1S99.-Tariff Circular No. S: BY di-
rectlon of the president, paragraph 2,
page T. of the amended customs tariff
and regulations for ports in Porto
Rico" is hereby temporarily amended
SO as to permit all vessels, whether
foreign or American, to load or clear
for the United States. This order will
be fully proclaimed and enforced in
the island of Porto Rico.
sc. d. MEIKELJOHN,
Acting Secretary of War;"
Especial attention is called to the
fact that this is a temporary order,
and may be revoked if it does not
prove satisfactory.
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BreaL in the INSURANCE Embargo.

Little Rock, Ark, May 4.-There
was break in the insurance situation
here when four of the old line conn
panies announced that they would at
once resume business in this field. All
the insurance desired can now be OBJ
tained. and It is believed that in u
short time all the companies which re-
Gently withdrew will be doing busi-
ness in compliance with the new law.
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Damaging Wind.

Kingman, Kas., May 4.-fhe rain OF
Tuesday night amounted almost to
waterspout, and was accompanied by
strong wind that blew down half
dozen barns, uprooted trees, and did
other minor damage. A mouse on the
farm of John Wilson was blown down,
and the tenants baby carried 300 feet
and dropped without injury
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Burned to Death in Her Home.

Cortland, N. Y, May 4.-Mrs. Joanna
Deverne, a widow, go years old, was
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed her house. She was rescued
from the building once, but returned
to it to secure valuable papers and
Derished
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To Oppose The Trust.

Cleveland, o., May Al. b. Vat
Cleave, formerly president of the Naa
Cleave Glass Co, and number of othet
Cleveland and Pittsburgh capitalists
have organized company under the
name of the Pennsylvania Windoss
Glass Co., to oppose the window glass
trust, q
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Charged with Swindling.

New York, May =. William Bailey,
formely of ST. Louis, where he still has
a wide acquaintance among business
men, was arrsted in Wall street, Tues
day evening, on complaint of Daniel
Messmore, of that city, who alleges
that Bailey had swindled him out of
SJOOOO
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Fire in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, May A fire of un-
known origin destroyed Charles Bach
rach's clothing store at Thirteenth
street and Ridge avenue, and before
the flames were subdued Is other
buildings, principally small dwellings
in the vicinity were badly damaged.
The entire loss is estimated at $780,.
600; covered by insurance.
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Denver, Col, May Manage otto
C. Floto, of the Colorado Athletic as
sociation, says that the Fitzsimmons-
Jefrries fight will take place in Denver.
H.. offered purse of $4,000. and has
received dispatch from the principals
requesting him to go to New York to
arrange the details,
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The Jury Couldn't Agree.

New York, May 4.-The jury in the
case of Theodore B. Willis, formerly
city works commissioner of Brooklyn,
and VIM. X. Philips, ex-police commis-
sioner, on trial for conspiracy to de-
fraud the city through public eou-
tracts, reported that they could not
agree on a verdict. They were dis
charged by the court.
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Nebraska Crop Conditions.

Omaha, Neb., May 4.-Heavy rains
have visited all parts of the state, and
the soil is now in excellent condition.
Small grain is all in, and prospects are
fine for spring sown. Winter wheat
and rye are badly damaged, but much
supposed to have been killed in coming
out, and will make part OF crop.
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Imprisoned spanish officers.

Madrid, May 4.-Armiral Mantojo,
Capt. Sastao and Generals Toral, Jau-
denes and Pareia, all concerned in the
defeat and capitulations at Manila, Ca
wife and Santiago, and who are to be
tried by court-martial. remain rigor-
ously confied in the military prison
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German Hopes.

Berlin, May 4.-The Tageblatt, com
menting upon news of the American
governments pleasant reception of the
German insurance commissioners,
says: eve hope that other political
economic differences between Ger
many and the United States, will also
be regulated in the same conciliatory
spirit"
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caIifornin Packers, Association.

San Francisco, May 4.-The Califor.
mia Packers association has been ins
corporated with a capital stock of So
100000. 1t is composed of some of ths
largest fruit packing establishments
in the state, and its object will be ia
control and regulate the prices 81
canned fruits
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ImnerIaI NisItOrs.

Strasburg, May Emperor Will
lam and the empress arrived here, and
were received at the railway station
by the governor general of Alsace Lo-
raine, Prince Hohenlohe-Langenburg,
and the principal officials of the prov
ince The city was profusely decorat-
Oh
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Edward N. weIton Dead.

New York, May Edward N. We'll
ton, formerly a well-known publisher
of this city, is dead. For 40 years he
published the Electric Magazine. His
business included large trade in med
ical publications.
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Death of Father 1aryn,,,,.

Chicago, May 4.-Rev. Vincent Bar
ynski, pastor of the st. Stanilaus Cath
olic church, said TO be the largest Po-
lish congregation in the world out
side of Warsaw, died Tuesday night
( pneumonia.
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Want the Company Dissolved.

Chicago, May An a bill filed in
the circuit court, Alfred Y. Chick and
Wm. levin, brokers, of London, En-
gland, and creditors of the Municipal
InN estment Co., of Chicago, in the
sum of S44, 300, ask that the company
be dissolved by decree of the court.
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California Raisin Growers.

Fresno, Cal, May 4.-The California
Raisin Growers association has Sc
cured control Of 90 per cent. of the
five central counties of the state. The
packers have accepted the terms Of
fered.
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Young Patterson A.sassinated.

1t is reported the son of Hugh Pat
terson, who was murdered in Decem-
ber, 1897, by Lee Mills and Will Hardin,
was assassinated at his home in Van
Buren county last week. Hardin was
shot to death in Jail, and it is believed
his friends murdered young Patterson.
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SIMPLY A WASTE Of TINE.
The Negotiations of the Filipino En-
voys with Gen. Otis Give Lit
tie Promise of Success.
THEY WANT TO RETIRE WITH DIGNITY.
That Would Involve Conditions the
United States Gould Not Countc-
1ance-The Enyoys Admit TINT
they Represent Aguinaldo In
stead of Gen. Luna.

a conference lasting two hours to-day
between Maj.-Gen. L. S. Otis and the
ENJOYS who came here from Gen. AM
tonie Luna, bearing a proposal for a
cessation of hostilities.
Gen. Otis adhered to his refusal to
recognize the so-called government of
the insurgents.
Ask n Three Months Truce.
The Filipinos now ask for a truce of
three months, to enable Aguinaldo to
summon the congress and consult
with the insurgent leaders on others
of the islands. The ENJOYS admitted
the contention of Gen. Otis that Agui-
naldo has little control over affairs
outside of the island of Luzon.
The Spanish Prisoner Question.
The question of the release of Span
ish prisoners in the hands of the Fill
pinos was mentioned, and Maj. Manuel
Arguelles, the chief member of the
deputation, said that he considered
them as being in the same category
with the Americans, the United States
being the successor of Spain in do
minion over the island, and acquiring
BY treaty all Spanish rights and obi
cations.
After the close of the conference
with Gen. Otis, the Filipino ENJOYS
hae consultation with the United
States Philippine commissioners.
Admit They Represent AguinaIdo.
Manila, May 3, 8 p. m.-The Filipino
envoys, Maj. Manner Arguelles and
Lieut.. Jose Bernal, have abandoned
the pretense under which they came
to Gen. Otis that they represented
Gen. Antonio Luna, and to-day an
nouneed that they came as representa-
tives of Aguinaldo himself.
Gen. Otis Is Cautious.
The two emissaries used all their
wiles to secure a reply from Gen. Otis
to the letter from Senor Mabini, Agui-
naldos prime minister and minister of
foreign affairs in the dictator's cab
met, which they presented to Gen.
Otis yesterday, but Gen. Otis refused
to make any reply, on the ground
that to do so would be equivalent to
n recognition of the so-called govern
ment of the Filipinos.
Want Peace with Dignity.
Maj. Arguelles said that Aguinaldo
knew he would be overpowered in
time, but that he would be able to
continue the fight for months, and
that he would do so unless he werL
given what Maj. Arguelles termed
peace with dignity.
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Census Districts.

Director Merriam has completed the
work of laying out the census districts.
Arkansas has six districts, as follows:
First Distriet-The counties of Clay,
Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene,
Lee, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Poin.
sett, st. Francis and Woodruff
Second District - Baxter, Cleburne,
Fulton, independence, lizard, Jackson,
Lawrence, Lonoke, Prairie, Randolph,
Sharp, Stone and White.
Third District-Benton, Boone, Car
roll, Crawford, Madison, Marion, New
ton, Searcy and Washington.
Fourth District-Conway, Faulkner,
Franklin, johnson, Logan, Perry, Pope,
Pulaski, Sebastian, Van Buren and
Yell.
Fifth District-Clark, Dallas, Gar
land, Grant, Hampstead, Hot Spring,
Howard, Little River, Montgomery,
Nevada, Pike, Polk, Saline, Scott and
Sewer.
Sixth District - Arkansas, Ashley,
Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland,
Columbia, Desha, Drew, Jefferson, La
fayette, Lincoln, Ouachita and Union.
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Mules and Men for Manila.

San Francisco, May 4.-The steamer
er Leelanaw will sail for Manila with
250 government mules. She will also
carry 20 soldiers, under command of
Lieut.. Kippbard, of the Fourth artil-
lery
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struck for an Advance.

Biddeford, Me-, May -Four hun
drer machinists employed at the Saco
aud Petee shops, here, have struck for
an advance of 20 per cent. in wages.
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Favorable Weather for Farmers.

The weather for the week ending
May I'd, as reported by the weather
bureau at Little Rock, was favorable
for all farm work throughout the en-
tire state. Rain occurred in portions Of
the northwest section on the 27th, and
was beneficial to vegetation, but pre-
vented further plowing and planting
during the remainder of the week. All
farm work was pushed vigorously.
Corn planting was finished in many
localities; in others it is nearing com
pletion. The early planted is coming
up and the stand generally is good. In
some sections it has been worked over
for the first time; in others it is ready
to be worked Cotton planting pro-
gressed rapidly; in some localities it is
coming up, while in others none has
been planted Wheat, oats and Irish
potatoes have improved and as rule
are doing well. Fruits of all kinds,
except peaches, are more promising.
Cut-worms and potato bugs are doing
some damage, principally in the south
west section.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-15

PRINCE MlCHEL CANlACUZENE.
nicus III and who was appointed regent
and afterward emperor. Serben Canta-
cuzene, who died in 1865, tried to lib
crate Wallachia from the Turks, while
Constantine C~antacuzene, who was
born in 1900 and died in 1876. was a
distinguished Roumanian statesman.
The Count Ca~ntacuzene, who was
Russian minister at Washington in the
late sixties and early seventies and
whose beautiful wife made a sensation
at the capital, was presumably a rela-
tive of Miss Grants fiance.
Prince Cantacuzene, who has also the
title of Count Speransky, is related on
the maternal side to the late Prince
Gortchakof, who a quarter of a CEN
fury ago was ssthe Grand Old Man of
Russia" being grand chancellor of
Russia and minister of foreign relations.
The fact that the C~antacuzenes own
estates near Moscow does not signify
that they are possessed of great wealth,
for there is one family in this country
of vast domain which owns 2 $500, 900
acres and is not regarded as rich. The
youthful prince is said to be unusually
talented.
This is the third prince who has paid
court to Miss Grant. The Prince of
Turin and Prince Albert of Flanders
both danced attendance on her Cor one
whole season at Newport, but all to no
purpose. Thee times and out is a rule
which seldom fails, SO you see the no.
BILE Russian had the fates with him.
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hear that so many are killed in such
and such an engagement you feel In
clined to give three cheers.
81 have lived in Cavite and know
that the excitement of conquest holsters
up the courage to do and dare. The in
surgents had frequently threatened to
attack 'Cavite, and several times we
women were hurried off to Fort San
Felipe. At the slightest sound the men
were up in arms and chasing madly
down the street, leaving us to protect
ourselves. On the morning of the 9th
of February we were awakened by the
bursting of shells and the roaring Of
guns. We forgot to eat breakfast and
ran like mad up and down the sea
wall"
With the army women in Manila are
a number of wives of naval officers.
Among them is Mrs. Beach, wife of
Lieutenant E. L. Beach Of the flagship
Baltimore. She writes of her life there:
sThe night Of Feb. 4 will always
live in my memory. The excitement,
though silent, was intense, and the
courage that comes up in every wom-
ans heart rose to the occasion then.
The sound Of the galloping hoofs, the
quiet mastering of the troops, the com
mands in the dark, thrilled every one
who saw it with a serious feeling. We
took up our residence in the basement
for safety, because the bullets were be-
ginning to whiz pretty lively about
our quarters"
Many other American women are
still in Manila and have been there
during most Of the fighting. They Wis
tied the hospitals, wrote letters for the
wounded, said prayers for the dying,
sang encouraging songs for the home
sick boys and scothed the aching heads
with their tender hands. This vas their
mission.
One American woman had two sons
in the field, and every day che visited
the trenches to inquire for and speak to
her darling boys, and every day she
came back to her home with their
promises of bravery newly pledged
from their lips, and every day the sons
of the absent mother watched for her
sweet face and blessed her as she passed
them. She and all the other army wom-
en- enthusiastically welcomed the first
signs of returning peace.
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put the professional boomer and leads
direct tc a first class citizenship-men
Of thrift, energy and industry.
The location Of the lands ends for
ever the public domain entries in Colo
RADIO so far as valuable farming land ex-
tends. as this particular area embraces
all that has been withheld from entry.
1t is the last chance for cheap, fertile
and enviable homes in the great min
ing state.
1t will also furnish n Of those spec
tacular scenes, now becoming rare in
this country, of a desolate tract of land
suddenly becoming populous and bloom
ing forth in all the gaudy apparel of a
raw civilization. Today about the only
evidences of the white mans mode of
living to be found within the reserva-
tio' is at Ignacio, where the Indian
acy is housed in a few frame build
lngs. Before the end CT May half a doz-
en- rival towns will have sprung up, and
the bewildered Ute will feel strangely
ors Of place. G. j. BowDEN.
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THE CORN PITH MAN.
HOW INVENTOR MARsDEN HAS uTIL-
lied A VAST WASTE PRODUCT.

He Thought Out a Plan Which VIII
Make Uncle SANS Ships. Unsinlkable
and Put Dollars In the Pocket of
the Poor Farmer =
Five years ago there was no known
use for the millions of tons of corn
stalks annually raised in the United
States other than the limited n which
the farmer designates when he mem
tions ''dry fodder" But cows will eat
only a small part of a dry cornstalk, so
the bulk of this vast yield was practi-
cally waste. 1t had been so for genera
tions.
Then Mark ". Marsden appeared and
proceeded to work out his theory of
putting to some use the 100, 600, 600
tons of cornstalks which the American
farmer raises and throws away each
year.
Mr.. Marsden had heard of cellulose.
He knew that it was made from cocoa
fiber; that it had been used with great
success as q protective lining for war
ships and that it cost 5000 a ton, the
product being uncertain and hard to get.
Why not make cellulose out of corn
pith? Mr.. Marsden set himself to an
swer his own question, and he has done
it. He does make cellulose cut of corn
pith, many tons of it.
But the pith is only a small part of
the cornstalk. Being a practical econ
omist, he tried to find some way of util-
izing the refuse. Rejecting that cattle
would eat portions of cornstalks, he de-
cided to separate those parts. He has
done it. His machines cut it up into a
fine meal, which is sweetened with mo-
lasses, pressed and sold as feed.
Now Mr.. Marsden is at the head of a
great industry and is getting rich very
fast. But all this success did not come
without a lot of hard thinking and per-
sistent effort. In the year 1895, after a
series Of experiments and the securing
of letters patent on numerous inven-
tions, he succeeded in impressing the
Messrs. Cramp and certain naval au-
thorities and capitalists at Philadelphia
with the value of corr pith cellulose as
a lining fer the cotferdams of battle
ships. He then came to Owenseoro,
KY, the center Of a large corn growing
belt, and leased a large building on the
river front, near the center Of the city.
In this barnlike structure he placed
machines Of novel design and began to
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sending to our soldiers in the Philip
pines his pamphlets denouncing the wal
and urging them not to r~e-enlist he has
got himself into particularly hot water.
Just before the civil war Mr.. Akin
son began writing the monographs
which have made for him an interna-
tional reputation. He has written on
many subjects, from cooking to the sci
ence of general government. Invariably
he has been an 1'anti." He has advocat-
ed every sort of protest from an~tislavery
to antiexpansion.
AS a statistician, Mr.. Atkinson holds
a high place. He has published figures
surprising, convincing fgures-about
many things, great and small. Also he
has been an inventor. He gave to the
world the Aladdin cooker with which
he tried to convince the day laborer
that a man could cook himself three
nice meals a day at total cost of 8 cents.
Mr.. Atkinson was born in Brookline,
a suburb Of Boston, nearly 72 years ago,
and he has always lived there. His ia
ther was a Boston merchant way back
in the beginning of the century. Mr..
Atkinson, although a learned man, is
not a college graduate. He left the
grammar school at an early age to go to
work as a clerk. What he knows he has
dug out for himself. Still be declines to
call himself a ''self made man." "You
might as well talk of a self laid egg,"
he says.
He has been successful in business,
owns a fine residence in Brookline and
has a large family Of grown up children.
Although past three score and ten, he
apparently has no thought of retiring
from active life. He goes to his Office in
Boston every day and studies and fig
ures just as hard as ever. He is a mild
looking old gentleman, and his eyes
beam out through his steel bowed spec
tacles in a kindly sort of way. He is
about the last man one would think Of
accusing Of treason or other high crimes.
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N WITH A WHIP.
How a PIucky Woman Saved Herself
and Husband.

The Civil and Military Gazette, publish
ed at A~llahabad, contains, IN exciting ac-
count of the manner in which a plucky
woman saved herself and her husband
against the attack of a Ghazi. As Captain
and Mrs. Spence were out driving slowly,
they saw a Brahui mounted on a Raluch
racing mare coming toward them at a
walk. As the man approached he drew
his sword and made a vicious cut at Cap
tain Spence, who, on seeing the naked
sword, instantly stood up n dashed at
the Ghazi with the driving whip, causing
the mare to swerve and the sword to pass
harmlessly by, but uncomfortably close to
Captain Spence's head. AT this instant
Captain Spence lost his balance and fell
under the Wheel of the trap, where he lay
pinned down for some time. Seeing her
husband in tho act of falling, Mrs. Spence
seized the whip from his hand and jumped
to the ground.
BY this time the Ghazi had wheeled on
the road and was making another rush.