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Viewers strike Declared OF.

Philadelphia, Feb. 27.-The uphol-
stery weavers' strike, which was begun
about II weeks ago, was declared off
last night by the weavers. The men
asked for a general advance in wages
of about "a per cent. They were Of
fered an increase of - per cent, which
they refused, and then struck. Last
night. however, the strikers reconsid-
cred the manufacturers offer, and con-
cluded to go back to work at the figures
named by their employers. The men
will receive, in addition to the II per
cent increase, ten cents more an hour
for all overtime work. The strike cost
the men $4,000 in wages.
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Admiral Dewey,s Prize Money.

Washington, Feb. 27.-The United
States court of claims yesterday rem
dered an opinion on the claim of Ad-
miral Dewey. his officers and men for
naval bounty for the destruction Of the
Spanish fleet in Manila bay May l.,
1898, the court holding that the claim
ant has a right to recover for each per-
son on board the enemy's ships the
sum Of $500. This decision is upon
the basis that the admirars fleet was
superior to the Spanish fleet, exclud-
ing the shore batteries, the torpedoes
and the mines in Manila bay The adj
miral claimed 5000 for each man be-
longing to the enemys fleet. Under
the decision Admiral Dewey is per-
sonally entitled to $3.50. He will
probably appeal.
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Eal'irH"re. Feb. 27-Just an hour
after her wedding yesterday Mrs. Mary
Kraets. IS ye-rs old. swallowed a
quantity Of ch0roform, and is at
Johns Hopkins hosHital in a critical
condition. After the marriage cere-
mony the bride and groom, the latter
a drug clerk named Emil Kraebs,
drove to a boarding house on Patter-
son Park avenue, where he formerly
lived. Mrs. Jansen, the brides aunt,
ordered Kraebs to leave the house,
and after assaulting him and scratch
ing his face elected him. He return
ed later with a patrolman, and while
the latter was hearing Mrs. Jansen's
side of the story Mrs. Kraebs drank
the poison. It is feared she will die.
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TO RESIST INVADERS.
Beers Are Assembling in Force
Near Bloemfontein.
MEANTIME OR0NJE FIGHTS ON.

He Has Engaged the Corps of Lord
Roberts For Ten Days. While Thir-
ty Thousand Boers Have Been Get
ting Together Elsewhere.
London, Feb 27.--The Beers are as
sembling an army near Bloemfontein,
with which to dispute the invasion OF
Lord Roberts. This intelligence comes
from Pretoria by way OF Lourenzo
Marques. The cCmmandoes are de-
scribed as Fastening from all quar-
ters of the two republics No estimate
is made of their numbers, but the
withdrawal of the Beers from most OF
the places where they have been in
contact with the British, except the
district near Ladysmith, may raise the
resisting force to 10000 men. This
figure assumes that the Beers have be-
tween 10000 and 10000 men in the
field.
The gathering of this army across
the path of Lord Roberts gives signifi-
canoe to General Cronje's steadfast de-
tense. He has engaged the corps OF
Lord Roberts for ten days now, and
whether he is relieved or not, he has
given time for the dispersed Boer fac
tons to get together and to prepare
positions to receive the British adj
vance when Cronje is overcome and
Lord Roberts moves forward.
1t is difficult to conceive that the
Beers are strong enough to take the
offensive and to rescue General
Cronie from his precarious situation.
The war Office had nothing after
midnight to indicate his collapse, and
he may hold out for a few days. The
correspondents seem to have no exact
information respecting his resources.
Some say he has plenty of food, but is
short of ammunition. Others assert
that he abandoned his food supplies,
but kept abundant supplies of cart
ridges.
General Butler on Saturday faced
the last and strongest positions of the
Beers who bar his way to Ladysmith.
The strenuous fighting indicates bat
tie between armies, rather than rear
guard actions protecting a retreat.
On Thursday and Friday Butler lost
40 officers killed and wounded, repre-
senting probably total loss of from
400 to 500.
General Whites guns worked on
Saturday upon the Boer position, and a
heliogram from Ladysmith reported
that the Beers were retreating and that
larger rations were being issued in
view of the fact that relief seemed at
hand.
Nothing has been heard from Mafe-
king since Feb. II. The movement on
the veldt away from the railway is be-
coming increasingly difficult for large
bodies of troops. as the grass is burn
ed up. General French has to wagon
forage for his horses, and even the
infantry finds the long marches harder
than before, as forage for the trans
port animals must be carried. This re-
quires the formation of garrisoned de-
pots.
The ordinary campaigning season is
over, and the sickly season for both
men and animals has set in. Tech
nical military writer's take these things
into consideration in forecasting
events.
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The New PHILIPPINES Commission

Washington, Feb. 24.-The president
has about decided on the appointment
Of Henry C. Ice, of Vermont, and Cen
eral Luke E. Wright, of Tennessee, as
members of the Philippine commits
sion, and unless something now UNI
forseen occurs their selection probably
will be announced shortly. He has
also summoned Prof. Bernard Moses,
of California, to Washington, for a
conference on the Filipino situation,
and has in contemplation the tender
of a place on the commission to him.
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An Alleged Chicago Uxorcide.

Chicago, Feb. 27.-Mrs. Evrill e.
Synon was found dead in her home
last night. Her skull had been crush
ed by heavy blows from some blunt
instrument and there were several
gashes on her neck Michael ]. Synon,
husband of the woman, is under ar
rest The need of money, which he
wished to use for gambling, and which
he knew his wife had, is thought by
the police to have been the motive for
the murder.
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A Protest From Porto Rico.

Washington, Feb. PA memorial
of protest and petition from the pople
of Porto Rico to the congress Of the
United States" was presented to the
senate and house yesterday. The pc
titioners ask that the military be with
drawn, that Porto Rico be declared an
integral part of the United States that
unrestricted free commerce be estab-
lished between the United States and
the island, that American money be
substituted for Porto Rico money and
that commission be appointed to
codify the laws and consider insular
interests. The petition is signed by
the Porto Rican delegates in this city.
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Cuba's Revenue Receipts.

Havana, Feb. 27.-The internal reve-
nue. collections in the Island Of Cuba
for the six months ending Dec. 81 were
s413,44S, derived from the following
sources: Inheritance and conveyance
tax, s1S761O; corporation tax, $49,056;
tax on railroad freight and passengers,
$40, 1854; forest privileges. S555; re-
demption of rent charges, 1920; inter-
est on rent charges, 1884 interest on
interest arrears, 1924; rent of govern
ment land, s2,363 sale of condemned
property, s147; sale of public lands,
$675; sundry revenues, s2S,592; re-
funds for undue payments, s503
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New York,s Rapid Transit Tunnel.
Biu Against Faitb Curists

Trenton, Feb. PA bill making It
illegal to treat sick persons by the
methods of Christian Scientists and
faith curists will be introduced by AS
semblyman John ]. Fallen. of Hoboken.
as a result of the death of Grace
Clarke in Jersey City Sunday. No
legal action will be taken in the case.
as physicians in good standing had at
tended the child at her mothers re-
ouest before Christian Scientists were
called in, and there was little chance
of saving her life.
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Five Of Family Killed by n Train.

Geneva, n. Y, Feb 26.-Shortly af-
ter Saturday midnight the midnight
express on the Lehigh Valley railroad
struck a carriage containing seven per-
sons at Tuttles Crossing, about 25
miles east from Rochester, instantly
killing five occupants. fatally injuring
another and badly bruising the other
The dead are Mrs. Amy Smith, 4S
years old; Bert Smith, % years; Miss
Miranda Smith, "a years; Glee Smith,
IA years; Catherine Smith, years. In
jured: Poster Smith, husband Of Mrs.
Smith, and father Of the other vic
tins; Gardner Smith, 81 years old.
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Revolution in acknowledgements

Washington, Feb. 27-What amounts
to revolution in mechanical econom-
les is reported to the state department
by Consul General Mason, at Berlin.
Professor jesse, of the royal technical
high school at Charlottenburg, has sue
ceeded in advancing the efficiency of
the best type of modern compound
steam engine so per cent. This is eff
fected by the absorption of heat from
the exhaust steam through sulphurous
acid, which. being evaporated, drives
an auxiliary engine. In this way a
1000 horse power central station en-
CINE should, according to Mr.. Mason,
furnish power to drive an additional
LOCO horse power engine.
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Brokers' Backed Syndicate swindIes.

New York, Feb. 27.-The World says:
Twenty-Five men will be indicted by
the special grand jury now in session
rs a result of the investigation into the
recent bear movement against the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit The grand
jury has found that not only have well
known persons in Wall street been
back Of the raid on Brooklyn Rapid
Transit stock, but that they have also
been connected with the $40 per cent
syndicates which have been exposed
recent1y
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Flour Trust in Receixerx, Hnna.

Milwaukee, Feb. 27.-Judge jenkins,
In the United States court yesterday
appointed three receivers for the Uni
ted States Milling company, otherwise
known as the flour trust. The receiv-
ers are Daniel Thomas of New York,
Charles E. Kimball of Summit, N. j.,
and Albert c. Loring of Minneapolis.
The collapse of the company was due.
1t is said, to its inability to float its
securities on the open market.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1900-03-03

Washington, Feb. 27.-Colonel Wood
ruff, commanding at Fort Slocum, tel
egraphed the adjutant general yester-
day, in response to a request for infor-
nation as to the truth of the press re-
port that about 200 soldiers deserted
from that post last week, that the re-
cords of the post show a total of IS
assertions during the past seven
months.
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To Purchase n Historic Home.

Washington, Feb. 24.-The Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution yes
terday appropriated $4,000 for the pur-
chase OF Meadow Garden" the home
of George Walton, in Georgia, one Of
the signers of the declaration of indie
pendence.
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Our Porto Rico SoIuicrs.

Washington. Feb. n. - Secretary
Root is so we'll satisfied with the record
made by the troops recruited from the
natives of Porto Rico that he has de-
termined to increase the number now
in service. There is now a full battal-
ion of these troops, and the secretary
has issued orders for the enlistment OF
another battalion.
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Charged With Conspiracy Against
H. G. Prick Coke Company.
SUIT AGAINST COKE COMPANY.

The Board Of Directors, Under the
Control OF Carnegie, Charged with
working to Cheat the Coke Com
pnny in Interest of Steel Company.
Pittsburg, Feb. 27--John Walker,
guardian OF Andrew Carnegie Wilson.
S. L. Sohoonmaker and John POntefract,
on behalf Of themselves and such other
stockholders of the II. G. Prick COM
pany as may choose to join in the suit
as plaintiffs, filed the much talked OF
bill In equity to annul the coke con-
tract held with the coke company by
the Carnegie Steel company, limited,
in common pleas court No. 2. yester-
day afternoon. The bill names as de-
PENDANTS the II. c. Frick Coke COM
pany. a corporation; Thomas Lynch,
II. C. Frick, George Lauder. ID Nj.
Clemson, Andrew NJ Moreland, James
Gayey and Thomas Morrison compos-
ing the board of directors of said cor
poration. and tia Carnegie Steel COM
pany, limited.
The action is remotely connected
with the trouble now existing between
II. c. Frick, former chairman Of the
Carnegie Steel company. and Andrew
Carnegie. and was precipitated by the
filing of Mr.. Tricks bill to secure an
accounting of the affairs of the Car
negie Steel company.
In this case the plaintiffs seek to
restrain the defendants by injunction
from selling, shipping or delivering
any coke to the Carnegie Steel COM
pany under n contract dated Jan. |,
1899, at a price of $135 Il ton, the con-
tract to run for a period Of FIVE years,
and from settling with the steel COM
pany for coke already delivered under
the contract II is also asked that the
court annui the contract and order an
accounting. The plaintiffs allege fraud
in the obtaining OF the said contract.
and accuse a majority Of the board OF
directors OF the Coke company OF
working solely for the interests Of the
Carnegie Steel company. with the pur-
pose of cheating and defrauding all
stockholders of the coke company not
members of the steel company.
II is also claimed hat If the contract
is carried ont the Frick Coke company
will have to refund to the steel COM
pany $4,000 on account Of coke sold
to said steel company during the year
1899, and during the year 1900 1t will
cause loss to the coke company OF not
less than 100000. The bill sets forth
that at the time the grievances COM
planned of happened Schoonmaker
owned $50 shares of the capital stock
of the coke company, Walker 4,096
shares for himself and 116 shares as
guardian of Andrew Carnegie Wilson,
and Pontefract $50 shares.
The Carnegie Steel company, it Is
stated, was the owner of 59,104 shares
of the capital stock Of the coke COM
rany, and Carnegie was likewise holder
of 51,213 shares. which together con-
stituted more than a majority of the
coke company's capital stock This, it
is claimed, enabled the Carnegie Steel
company and Carnegie to elect their
nominees as directors Of the coke COM
pany and dominate and control their
action.
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To Build Locomotives For France.

Philadelphia, Feb. 27.-The Baldwin
locomotive works, of this city, has re-
ceived an order from the Paris and
Orleans railway, of France, for 30 ten
wheel passenger engines. This is the
first locomotive contract ever placed
nv this railway in America
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rxn,os,on Betrayed Connterfeiter.

Joplin. Mo-, Feb. 27.-The explosion
of q gasoline stove brought an al
legged counterfeiter to grief here yes
terdav The man under arrest is Oscar
RAMSEY and his mint was in the upper
story OF a private residence. After the
fire had been extinguished Deputy Uni
ted States Marshal Means gathered in
the counterfeiting outfit and several
snnrious dollars upon which Ramsey
was working. 1
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Soldiers Cannot Purchase Discharge

Washington. Feb. 27.-The war de-
partment has found a means of escape
from the necessity which apparently
confronted it of deciding at this time
whether or not state of war exists.
The question was brought forward by
the applications Of a number of en-
listed men to purchase their dis
charges. The Judge advocate general
declares that the law relative to the
purchase of discharges was not man.
datory. but discretionary. The secre-
tary of war may" in time of peace
discharge soldier who wishes to pur-
chase his discharge 1t is probable all
Of the applications will be rejected.
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TO THE PUBLIC

Having sold my interest in
the agencies of the Hamburg
Bremen Fire Insurance Com
pany and the United States Fire
Insurance Company at Oman
cock, Va, to Fletcher & Dough-
ty, l desire to thank my former
patrons for their past favors ard
bespeak a continuance of them
on behalf of the new firm.
Respectfully.
L. w. GROTON.
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WISHART POINT
TRANSPORTATION co.
= Cheapest and best route to -
Chincoteague.

Hack leaves Bloomtown 6 a.
m Wlsharts 1880 a. M, arriv-
ing at Chincoteaaue 9.15 a. M;
leaves Chincoteague $50 a. m
arriving at Wisharts IL a. M,
Bloomtown ~ no.. leaves Bio om-
town l p. M, arriving at Wish
arts 1.30 p. M, Chincoteague
$3.50 p. m. D.; leaves Chincoteague
4.3O p. m arriving at Wisharts
6 p. M, Bloomtown 7 p. m.
Fare on launch Globe 35 cents
each way, on hack 40 cents
full fare from Chincoteague to
Bloomtown 70 cents.
s. w. MATTHEW'S,
President
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NEW YORK, PHILA. & NORFOLK R,R.

Time Table in Effect Nov. 80, 1897.
Quickest and only daily line between
Boston, New York, Phila., Nor
folk and Old Point Comfort.
NORTHWARD
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$50 FaTTnS For Sale

The undersigned offers for
sale $50 Farms, situated on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland and
Virginia, suited for all purposes,
ranging in prices from
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TERRIBLE TALE OF cANNIBALISM
Balekas From the Congo Have Oblit-
Grated a Dense Population.


London, Feb. 27.-Some of the morn
ing newspapers publish a remarkable
interview with E. S. Grogan, who has
just returned to England after two
years journey in Africa. Mr.. Grogan,
who travelled over $500 miles and rep
resents himself to be the first Eu-
ropean who has travelled through the
continent from the cape to Cairo, says
that after leaving Lake Tanganyika,
with eight pOrters, he entered a region
of active volcanoes, where he en-
countered enormous lava streams,
forming veritable sea, 40 miles by 60,
and hundred feet deep" This whole
region he found devastated, forests and
herds of elephants being buried in the
liquid fire.
The neighboring country, he says,
is occupied by some 5000 Balekas,
ferocious cannibals from the Congo,
who live by man hunting. His guides
told him that the country, covering
$500 square miles, had been until re-
Gently densely populated but that the
people had virtually been killed and
eaten by the Balekas
Everywhere he found evidences of
cannibalism. The very paths in the
jungle were marked out by lines of
human skeletons The streams we're
full of decomposing remnants of hui
mainly, half eaten and horribly multi
ated. He entered some of the habita-
tions and saw "cauldrons full of liquid,
with floating human skulls and the
bodies of infants"
On one occasion the savages at
tackled Mr.. Grogan's party, but he
opened upon them with rife fire. This
staggered the cannibals, as they had
never before seen a gun or a white
man. Mr.. Grogan shot two, and the
rest retreated.
New York's Rapid Transit Tunnel.
New York, Feb. 27.-The rapid tram
sit commissioners yesterday passed res
olutions authorizing the board of es-
Inmates and apportionment to appro-
pirate the $35,000,000 needed for the
building of the rapid transit tunnel.
This resolution also included s., 500 900
for terminals and real estate. The
commission adopted a resolution in
structing the chief engineer to inves-
tigate and report as to the practicable
ity and the cost Of an extension of the
rapid transit railroad from the city hall
to South ferry, and thence under the
East river to the borough of BROOKLYN.
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"f'' stops for passengers on signal
to conductor. 2Daily, except Sunday.
K. b. Cooke. J. G.. Rodgers,
Gen'l. Freight & Supt.
Pass. Agent. Cape Charles, Va.
Norfolk, Va.
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AT NEW YORK.


NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Flour-Receipts 10 So,
brls; exports 1910; sales. $50 packages; mare,
quiet but a trife steadier. Rye flour steadier;
sales, 200 brls; fair to good. $780, choice to
fancy, s3.25d3.6O. Buckwheat flour steady at
81 1oa2.25. Buckwheat quiet at 57lkds2Isc. Corn
meal firm; yellow Western, SIC; city, soc;
Brandywine s21592eo. Rye steady; No. {
Western, SC (. o. b. afioat; State, 51@s2c c. t. T.
New York Barley quiet; feeding. 42@4sc c. i. f.
Buffalo; mailing. 56@67c c. /. f. Buffalo. Barley
malt dull; Western. s2d6sc.
Wheat-Receipts A.. S25 bu: exports. 1e1. ee2 blu;
sales. 3.S15.OOO blu futures. 1000 bu spot Spo,
firm; No. red, 79lEc f. o. b. afioat; No. red
7i&c elevator; No. northern Duluth, SAGE f. O.
b. aioat; No. hard Duluth. SSs.c f. o. b. aAoat
Options opened steady and unchanged. followed
by weakness under local selling for both ac-
counts, lower English cables and bearish outside
markets. Talk of export business to Lisbon
started covering and prompted an afternoon
March Slhqasc, closed at S1Ssc: May, sO% a
size. closed at S1isc; November closed at 77%c:
DECEMBER. 7sa7S1zc, closed at Isle.
sales, 2D,0l0 bu futures, 400 bu spot Spot
firm; No; 2. 46lsc elevator. and <7l{c. +. o. b.
good cash business. small country offerings and
local covering closed rmer and &c net higher
4slsq43lee. closed at 43ssc.
oats-Receipts, S,40o blu; exports, $500 Blu.
s sPGt sr T SS nike; Sss We Hhts No
white Western and State, 2IlsQ33c Options quiet
but steady.
Cut meats easy picked bellies. ssa1o. N.
picked shoulders, Sc; picked hams S. 75a9 %
Lard firm Western steam. s7.s5; November larl
SIS: South American. $3.50; compound s6ai6. I2ls
Tallow firm; city c2 for package). 4AQ5c; coun-
Coffee-Spot Rio easy: No. invoice, 77sc; mild
quiet; Cordova. 91s613i4c-
GAL 90 test 4ssc; molasses sugar: 5ssc: refined
steady.