The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-03-28
TUESDAY, MARCH IS. 1899.

TUESDAY, MARCH rs. 1899.
Prince Loewenstein makes at least
one dead German of note in the neigh
borhood of Manila. The only wonder
is that others We're not killed in that Vi
cintty sometime ago.
If Gen, Otis keeps on his vigorous
way to success, stay-at-home generals
will discover there is a surer road to the
popular heart than hanging around big
cities and talking about last years
bad beef supply
A woman in New York broke a bakery
window the other day to get at a Loaf
Of bread for her hungry family. Nine
hundred thousand dollars are said to
have been the total receipts from grand
opera in that city this season.
The main sail of the new CUP
defender will contain over seven thous-
and square feet of canvas. The small
boy, patriotic though he is, will never
theless sigh when he thinks how far
that would go toward making a circus
tent.
After all, severe as were their brief
Cuban experiences, the eastern soldiers
may find that they were not playing in
such relatively hard luck. The Philli-
pine islands are a long ways from
home, and there are fearful doings
there these days.
When it comes to talking temperance
in way to count, Rev. Father Tuite
of North Brookfleld is a veritabe pow
er. His sermon on the evils Of intern
perance last Sunday was reminder Of
the Father Mathews crusade, both in
force and vigOr.
Leading London papers have special
emissaries in this country to learn who
are to be presidential candidates in 1900
When they have ascertained, if they
will kindly let the names be known, it
will enable several lightning rods to be
taken down as being of no further use.
The Twelfth New York regiment has
returned from Cuba without the loss of
man and without complaint to
make. Col. Leonard thus becomes one
of the marked men of the war. 1t
would be interesting if he would tell
more explicitly how he achieved his
astonishing record.
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Several esteemed contemporaries sug-
gest that this may be a Cambridge
year on the New London Thames. as
well as on the old London Thames.
Cambridge oarsnen having defeated
Oxford as soon as Mr.. Rudolph Leh-
man undertook to train them, it would
be a bit confusing to have Harvard
outrow Yale as soon as Mr.. Lehman
was displaced by another trainer.
An English correspondent says the
F'ilipinos are terrified at the American
method of fighting. 1t was the COM
Portable old Spanish custom to adjourn
the fight about noon for dinner and a
siesta. till the heat abated. After
wards the attack would be renewed I'M
less it rained That was several de-
grees in advance of Dewey's perform
ance, but it did not accomplish SO
much.
According to the state board of
health, the use of antitoxine has saved
the lives Of 1000 diphtherctic patients
in Massachusetts,, within the past four
years. The figures are an indication of
the general employment of the serum,
and incidentally it may be remarked
that it is in common use in Worcester.
In fact, few cities of similar size are
blessed with more efficient and pro-
gressive medical and surgical service.
With the death of George Bidwell, at
Butte, Montana, three weeks after the
death of his brother Austin, only one of
the four men concerned in the famous
Bank of England forgery of 1873, re-
mains in active life. 1t was George
who posed as the capitalist, while Aus
tin was his manager. Hills was his
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Hills is in an asylum for the insane and
Mcdonald is living in San Francisco.
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The navigating officer of the army
transport Ingalls, with Secretary Alger
on board, got lost on the voyage from
Key West to Havana, and when land
was sighted, the ship was over by Ma
tanzas. Here is another chance for
the photographers to jeer at the steer
ing gear OF the war department, but
it will be observed that Secretary Alger
got there just the same, and is still ''on
deck" as it were.
1t is rather queer, that duplication OF
bills in congress, whereby the president
could, if he would, promote Sampson to
the rank of full admiral with all the
privileges that appertain to the office
now held by George Dewey alone. 1t
is a safe guess that the president won't
take advantage Of laundering at The
capitol for there is no question of the
| intent of the law. Still, the situation
may give the Schley partisans a few
uneasy minutes.
It looks as If there might be three
Jeffersonian dinners in New York. The
attempt to broaden the silver dollar
dinner, so as TO include a number OF
newfangled isms and ologies in the bill
| of fare. was resented by the true blue
slverites, who seeded. They say they
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