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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
{ WASHINGTON ITEMS.

Henry w. Phillips arrived as tne
first Minister to the United states
from the new South American re-
public Of Acre.
In It'll preliminary report to the Pres
ident the Isthmian Canal COMMISSION
favors the Nicaragua route against
all Others, and recommends q Lnlrty-
foot waterway at a cost OF slzo'ooV''
900. ....... ..
The Secretary of State sent new
note On China to the Powers, appear
ing from the extreme course suggest
ed by y.some Of The Powers.
The population Of South Carolina as
offlcialiy announced Is 1,34O.316 against
L15L 149 in 1890. This is an increase
since 1890 Of 1S9, ,167, or 1874 per cent
Secretary Gage announced that
Treasury refeundipg operations are to
be discontinued after, December 81.
CAPTAIN ". M, Meredith, of Illinois,
as;appoanted Chief: Of the Bureau OF
Engraving and Printing. S
Negotiations for a reciproclty agree:
mentt between the Emitted States ano mo
Rusia are in progress. . - s...t
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CORN UP TO FIFTY CENTS
A Chicago Speculator Manipulates
the Market at Will
He Turns From Seller to Buyer anc
squeezes His Rivals For
&C.. Small Fortune. -. - !

Chicago (SpeciaD.-November corn
touched fifty cents Monday. It made
an advance Of five cents for the day.
Of ten cents bushel for the week
and Of almost fifteen cents within four
weeks. @sx
Young Mr.. Phillips sold. what corn
changed hands at that point. Shorts
did the buying that advanced the mar
ket to the fifty-cent quotation. Il
The fve-cent advance. over the close
Of the previous week made the day
the notable one so far for, the cam
paign. "A roar and q cheer gave notice
of the half-dollar achievement, and
there wasia hocking toward the oil.
ready overerowded corn pit from all
over the floor. The tip-top figure was
made In the first hour, November
starting at forty.six, selling between
fhforty-six and firty cents, and closing
at forty-nine cents. ~
The man with q corner In the Hollow
of his hand was not ready to let 1t get
away from him. All the morning the
little corn king stood on the edge Of
the pit and watched the ebb and flow
.{of the battle. Is
Some Of. the dealers thought the ju-
sivenile, looking speculator was In
straits AID was running to wind up
This string. They jumped on the mar
4 ket, and tried to sci! corn at 471a.
Phillips turned instantly from sell
Ter toss buyer, from bear to- Lull,. and
snapped up every man who was offer.
ing 10 shade the price that. he was
milking. iSs1 vs. - 6, ~
The decline stobped rat once. Phil.
lips showed To- the s0tfn pit that be was
|. Its master; that Re could regulate it
Sat VIII Il e b. b ! ( :2 e = :,
Phtllips,s cond duct won him great
praise Few mef tinye been able to
{ Keep a cool head hHder! like circum.
STANCES. He narst d withs 300, 900 bush.
sels, about one.tehth of his holding.
He bought 10o,0 600: when the bearstrtsd
Ito drag him of his PEDESTAL BE made
$50; 900. 4, sSsiss + 81 sssss q
Monday Is price ofeoin Ii the highest
8Since June, 1895, when ID predicted
famine ran the price for corn up. sss Z Z
December; corn felt the dnfuence OF
the short grading in NoyembeE and
went Sup half ta cent over Saturday:
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERAhcEs

Who Will voiunteere-A Collect1on oI
Tragedies, Showing What an Awtuli Awt1l
: Account the Rum Seller WIZ HAYS
to Give at the Bar Of God.
Who is ready, who is willing? Who VIII
volunteer? III -, q
Who will join the gath ring array Who
che call will hear? y. ~
Right and truth against the evil must pre-
vail; :. ~ & g, :.
If 1--WE trust our mighty leader, weHshau
n never, fail. s. ~
Faithful soldiers now are needed on the
temperance field
Who are always firm and dauntless, who,
will never yield, -. ..3s 8sss3s g s:ss
& foe is near; ~ Sfsr s sss &.
Such are needed in our army, WHO WIN
volunteer?. A
~, 9.g -Temperance Banner /.
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!. J ous 8 AporTEp sI.rl ISLANDS Is1L.ANps.

e : s. 10 49,
F'our natives were hung at Dagupan,
Luzon. PSF. for arson and murder. tne;
victims of the latter crime Including
two Ametican prisoners. 8 s.; Js &
Secretary Rott sailed from NueYitas.
Cuba, on his return to. the United
States ss5<l <. ~
Dorotion5 Karragdag, an insurgenr
Lieutenant. Colonel and Manuelo La
szars, were arrested I'M Bnlacan PROV
ince, P. i. Karrag gdag had previously
been arrested and sparo oleds stss
: The Cuban Constitutional gonvens
ton decided that Its sessions shall be be.
public. 81 J! II IL
Filipino; corresp dence AZ q Hong
Kong shows that guinaldo g has been ent
severely wounded, K o.
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Labor World.

The car strike at Lyons, France, is
assuming grave proportions.
Hawaii needs 10000 men to work on
the plantations Of the islands.
One-fourth of the laboring popula-
ton of Colorado is said to belong to
labor organizations.
The rival cigarmakers' unions, at
Tampa, Fla, have settled their diff
ferences, and the threatened strike is
averted. .ss.s ~,
The long strike among the Belgian
blowers has been due to the re-
fusal of the employers to discharge
n6n:nnion men. ~
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Twelve MEN In IA BANK I ROBBERY
Ten Hold the Crowd at Bay, and Finally
~ 81 All Escaped in Stolen Buggies. !;

Zen Hold the Crowd at Bay and Finally
All Escaped in Stolen Buggies.
& iMarengo, Ohio Special. Twelve
men had part in blowing up the
vault Of Sperry & Warristaff's bank
at Ashley, six miles from here. at 8
o'clock q. m. At that hour terrific
explosion awakened the population Of
the place.. The first report was fol-
lowed by three more, All came from
the bank building which is in the CEN
tire Of the village.
s AS citizens emerged from their resi-
dences to ascertain the cause of the
explosions they were met by armed
,men. Ten Of the men kept the crowd
at bay while two kept at work on the
inner safe. -Four times theysexploded
dynamite, but only succeeded in
swrecking the vault doors and esduter
safe doors. Becoming frightened at
the size of thegcrowd that gathered,
more than one hundred and fifty per-
sons having been aroused, the robbers
fed in three buggies they had stolen at
this place. :
The bank building was completely
wrecked by the force; of the: plosion.
The burglars failed to secure booty.
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FOREIGN.

she. Somalis have risen In Jubaland,
ast Africa, and small British force
las been cut of, Z. S
The Italian Chamber of Deputies re.
jected a Socialist motion to reduce the
army. AZ &7S Y. j (: 4. 5S5Ss
John Lawson Johnston, of Kings.
wood, Kent, England, the noted diet.
[zetic expert, died Of syncopes on board
This yacht, the White Ladye, in Cannes
+ sHarbor. He was born in 1889.
Michael Alexandrovitch, upon whose
I3twenty-two-y year-old shoulders will fall
the ermine and purple mantle Of Gar
louf. All the Russias should his brother
tsNicholas die, Is to-day the most inter
Testing personality in Europe. =. :.
b Brazilian officials are Informed that
Uruguay ia contemplating severance
OF friendly relations. -
General Roberts reports British
disaster to an outpost Of Bluffs" six
being killed, five wounded and thirty
one captured. . IL
The typhus epidemic at Copenhagen,
Denmark, is assuming serious proper
tionS.
Three steamers sailed from Corunna,
Spain, for the United States, having
on board 2750 emigrants.
The Colombian rebels at Buenaven-
tura have been completely crushed.
A Rome dispatch says the Pope Wis
tied the BaSilica and became so fa-
tigued that he had to take to his bed.
1t is reported that he tainted twice.
A house collapsed in Darmstadt,
Germany, burying score of workmen,
Of whom twelve are dead.
The Porte definitely refused to grant
an exequatur for the American Consul
est Harpoot
The British Cabinet recommended
tmotion Of General Kitchener to
kstenant-Ge to enable fhl n to
the supreme command ih South
after the departure Of General
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CAPE COLONY MAY RISE;
Anti-British Feeling Assuming
Alarming Proportions.
Ten Persons Arrested In Johannesburg
For Conspiring to Assassinate Gem
eral Roberts in q Church.

London (By Cable).-The Daily Mail
publishes the following alarmist dis
patch from Cape Town:
"The anti-British feeling in Cape
Colony is assuming dangerous proper
tions, owing to false stories spread Of
British barbarity in Orange River
Colony and the Transvaal. Loyalists
fear that the Dutch Congress next
week will be the signal for rising,
and they demand that martial law be
proclaimed throughout the colony.
1.-THE situation is declared to be grav-
er thanrat any previous period during
the warn",.
The, Var Office publishes the follow.
ing dispatch: from General Roberts at
Johannesburg: ,.
E;;aAs reports Of a plot against my
life will probably reach you. l think
you should know the facts. 1t Is my
belief that there was a pot IN exist
ence, and FIVE Italians, four Greeks
and a Frenchman were arrested. and
are now awaiting trial. Their inten-
tions were to explode a mine under
st. Mary's Church during the morning
service" .-'....is~
News of the plot to assassinate Cen
eral Roberts, as it first reached here,
implicated twenty foreigners. The con-
spirators laid mine, which was de-
signed to be exploded while General
Roberts was in church. The police
and General Roberts's bodyguard frus-
trated the conspiracy.
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I,S|TEANERA TOTAINRECNi
Lost in the Gulf Of St. Lawrence
With All on Board.
DRIVEN ON THE ROCKS IN A GALE

Tie St. Olaf Wrecked at the Entrance OF
Seven Islands, Bay on Her Way to
Quebec From the North - Bodies
Washed Ashore - Seven Passengers
and q Grew Of Nineteen Lost. l..
Quebec (SpeciaD. The coasting
steamer st. Olaf has gone to, pieces on
the rocks at the entrance Of Seven ISL
ands Bay. on the north coast of the
Gulf Of st. Lawrence, land Of the twen-
ty-six persons on board the Inflated
vessel not one has survived to tell the
story Of the wreck. A woman's body.
washed ashore Saturday, and a mail
bag left on the beach at low tide were
the first indications Of the tragedy,
and later in the day other pieces Of
wreckage and more dead bodies came
ashore. P. E. Vignault,, postmaster at
Seven Islands, wired the first tntellt-
gence to this city,, and since noon full
confirmation of the disaster has been
received. - !. ~ ~ ~ q,
The Hudson Bay official at Seven
Islands. Mr.. Ross, has sent out a
searching party. The disaster must
have occurred late on Wednesday,
night or early on Thursday morning.
"A heavy gale from the east was blow,
Ing on wednesday aud Thursday with
snow. The st. Olaf passed Shel drake
lon Wednesday afternoon, and Should
have reached Seven Islands eariy on
Thursday. When she failed tosappear
there It was thought that she, had pro
lceeded on to Quebec instead lof at;
tempting to make the bay I'm SO fearful
Ia gale accompanied BIZ such binding
snow. It is evident that she did make
the attempt, and the discovery at low.
= water Saturday Of her bow and one
OF her boilers on the T9cksSo Boule
Island, at the mouth of the bay, told
the story Of the disaster
The st. Olaf was an iron steamer of
305 tons, and was built on the, Clyde
at Port Glasgow, In 1882. She was
valued at about 10000, and was in
sured for about $4,000. =; y =
Captain Lemaistre, her commander,
was a Jersey man, well known as q
skillful navigator. He leaves q family
In Montreal The other members
the crew were Louis Caren, first nd tic
Charles Boudreanlt, ,secel {, y
N. 'veit, purser;; yer TO assess e s' ana az jS S
$ steward; sN yosss Iss taxes TO be, uniform
,and pertyWithin the jurisdic ctioni
/, JrE
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we Keep the Isle .of Fins,

The United States win retJh posses.
sion of the Isle of Pines. Whatepe he
the final disposition Of Cuba. Et wiz
be fortified, and. a strong garrt viii
be kept there Lying immt afely
south of the western end of Cuba the
Isle Of Pines commands the western
or Yucatan entrance.to ths Gulf and
forms an important outp post Tor the de.
fence of the Nicaragua Canal.
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gAMERlcANs AKE:l' spaTs


Strongest Position eissss = susoa capture cd :!
l ElI'a lndsr esa q B 10y EiEe.
Z Manila By Cable fhe Fortress Of
I the insurge9t chief pnimea ct Pima.
urau. which the iHeurg gents boasted
was Impregpa6le, was taken and de-
stroyed by q picked force OF the Forty
second and Wenty seventh Infantry
and Troop sH Of the Fourth Cavalry,
under Colonel ThoInp Geronimo
and most " the rsba escapeds
Y I The position Was considered the
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fwsathel: and RarM 8 q fsoduce.

:. The E recent warm ; weather had more
or less effeeH 0i1 The sale Of poultry,
game and farm products In New York
City. Ut caused q good deal Of perish.
able stock to go to commission men in
d more or less bad condition. This re.
suited in a sharp decline in prices for
the poor stock, but on the other hand
1t made q scarcity Of really fancy
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Cycling Nosss, 4

The proper care of his whe1
cyclists truest economy.
There is a noticeable ing
the number of children rig
Cycling: INDUCED in MOD
one of the healthiest and
Grating of exercises.
The winter cycling 50
Pacific coast opened wi
meet on the Vendome
Angeles, Cal.
rs Is The. wheeiman wi
cleans his machine vii
ice out Of it than I
to- take proper care
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Use OF Cannon to Prevsnt Hall.
An international congress, attendel
by 1000 delegates, assembled In Rom
Italy, to discuss the use Of cannon
prevent hail, which is so destrrct
to cropsj
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=. Presidents Pardons For One Year. Z.
During the year. ended June 80, 1900
72O applications for pardons were pre-
sented to the Department of Justice at
Washington. The President acted In
351 cases, denying 131 applications and
extending clemency in the other 220.
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Fourth lcons,e.cutive Twins.

Twins have just been born to MI.
and Mrs. Henry Yeager, Of Syracuse
N. W This is the fourth consecutive
time that twins have appeared at the
Yeager home, and the eight children
are alive. Mr.. and Mrs. Yeager have
been married eleven years. .
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FLORIDA Orange Grower q Suicide.

Florida Orange Grower q Suicide.
J. Edwin T. Pepper, one of the wealth.
est orange growers in Florida, COM
flitted suicide at his suburban home.
Sunnyside, two miles east of Lees
burg. He left no statement and no
cause Is assigned. y NJ
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controller Dawes.s Annual Rep

Controller DawesB Amman Report
Controller Dawes, in his annual re-.
port on the Currency Department for
the year ending October 81. callsatten-
ton to the fact that directors and Of
fcers Of National banks are indebted
to those institutions of which they are
in charge to an amount equal to one;
third the total capital Of all the banks,
and he recommends ta Congress
changes. in the law which shall cur
tail this. T.; .HJ9 x &G-..a
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iarRo. LYcERIN,iE:.. IitslLLsse eoY,s.:.
Ehsy Throw; IN ola csnS 81 5 Bepase
s; s.; s and IL Explodess "a 81

Wheeling, West va, {Special( At
.Leaserville, West Va, twenty miles
above Wheeling, on the Ohio River, q
crowd Of twenty boys had built q fire
on the river bank from driftwood and
were watching the rising waters. K
Il One Of the boys threw on the fire g
can partly filed with nitro:giy iycerine.
Immediately there wasFa terrific ex:
/ plosion, and, three boys were Killed and
fourteen wounded, of whom three viii
!. die. ~ .,,a ID 4 ,a i,
Az 81 result Of the. explosion an in.
fants child of Mrs. Dlrig died few
minutes afterward. n )
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csrmanv,s Huge Budget.

"A bill submitted to the German
Reichstag shows that the imperial
budget for 1901 balances at $593, ,OOO,-
900. an increase Of 100000 over
1900.
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The Rum pernon at work.

young man VINO Is, now setNlnB aseetr4z
in State prison for homicide told me aeAiM.
and again. with tears IN his eyes, now sneI
committed crime while nm q conqitlofSsi
Of insensible inebriety that 5oreyef sEaae e
him as murderer, writes the Rev. Joss14
Monroe, in the New, York Wftness. "
All he can say now; tis sthst; when sthe5.l
deed was done he was ifsanely drunk S1dt
did not know what he. was doing st
the law takes no such excuse end holdt
him responsible for the crime, hethef
s was aware of it or not. .;;;: 3 1.
E3 Oh, this cursed rum that makes 90 mknX3'
maniacs and idiots, that sends men to the5
gaIlows and fills the death chamber. That
5frobs children Of their parents and sWlyegl
of; their husbands. That takes the brad
out Of the mouths Of helpless infancy md
steals the clothes of, the backs Of the Sl1s
firm and decrepit. The sacreligious de7
spoiler of the dead. the desolator OF I'M
home. The ruin of tens of Thousand Of;
all classes, rich and poor. high and low
+ Recently / met The, father of this, yonns
mar, of whom j speak. He looked 5patrs
archal. His som 3 disgrace added ten yea!
at least to his life. He was doWns1t 4
grieyed, mortified, and had been pray
for death to come to his rescue, but At
not come. With the Psalmist he sAs
cried many q time. Would God had sdled5
for thee, my, BON" But itwas too latess 81
y But what about her who, was his t1esE
ind earliest friend his motheri She t96
|, so, her bed at the beginning of the trpas
I ble,s and became poor, nervous sShrgnilt
invalid. Oh, what misery, wretchedde5
and disgrace rum brought upon seyer11f
+ families, all related to this young Smhnts
\ How II blasts, blights and eternaly INNS
\ the most promising lifel M
E Last December an nintelligent MAJ, abcnt5
forty years of age, was discharged sfgpn
sDannemora Prison, but the great s
gate was, hardly cloSed upon him sbef )
he wasSarrested again for ascrima.
ted several years ago, and, strange; 4tf
say, one which he had already forgot tSgf
The man had come from 3 aerespest6
family in New York City but on accokI
Of his long criminal career they disoWfea
him. He felt greatly mortified over
arrest, when he thought he was g
man. ~ i.; y, u X; Y u Z. 49,
After coming to, the city he wsots
very pathetic letter to one scf the jud&
in General Session, aying, among 0theS
ensy that heimig6t .haEse s IS 81 rsfHof s s Chr
Heshas spent several tefml pria0H 3
past nineteen years 0niy diifi x 6f
q lew months before ;Hs q 5g5Is sbaek SSa;i;;f
SO that dnring all these ysafs he i156k
seen free Christmas. y 81
The Judge took pity cn him and gay4s
him 'aSsaspended sent ntences which was
same as another chance ito show hindselk
sa man. ~
~ What a asplendid soppos tunity was plae9dz
before him! He started insagaina to ssh05
what he could do. Many people epcSlzr5i; !;
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:. Senator Davis was born in Hender-
son, N. Y, June 16, 1888. After a
years law course at Ann Arbor he
entered the Office Of former Post1nas-
teri General Randall at Waukesha,
ruio ,Es. sy{3 3.S4 Z 81 =
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z spy,s1lasi / 7, ,snf lI5ef = iofDSSis,s Desff.

Il washington, D, o. Special. News
!; ;0f the deaf OF Senator ID s,sof Min
inasota was received by PTesid ent Nc.
Kinley by telegraph from Senator Da-|
vis's home. Fl "A Presid dent wAs sho ocked
to hear END. I. I,
the Cha 81 OF the nittee on
Foreign yacat md there
will be. I'd tarekt 81 selec.
,dio, Foreign Hons littee is
ne greatess inpor tance toa the ADJ
and Tation at this stimesa owing t9
Il, ! S;;s,.sgii ,Snding Hay gauncef ef0fe treaty
ne ssyari rious com ati0ls il the
national field 3 Ss ri &;
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SENATOR MORGAN RE.ELEcTEo'
Receives Every Vote Cast in the Alabama
& c"-. Legislature.
- Montgomery. Ala. (SpeeiaR-The. J.
I Alabama Legislature voted. for United
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SENATORC,K DEAD
Expires at His Home in St. Paul.,
Minn., After Two Months Illness.
MEMBER OF SENATE SINCE 1887

He Was Chairman OF the Senate Com
Through the Civil war-Member Of
the Commission Which Negotiated tho
Treaty of Peace With Spain.
st. Paul, MINI. (SpeciaD. - United
States Senator Cushman Kellogg Da-
Wis, Chairman Of the Committee on
Foreign Relations, died at his home In
this city after an illness Of two months.
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,sI5e twpass second iientenant Of the
Twenty! eighth WI sconsin fantry;;
{ Sfroms 1852 tos Il iSe4 I'll Later he estab-
lished q large law praet tiee sat: St Paul,
MINI. 81 - 81 !,
B in 1857 he was elected to the Legis-
:iature and next year was appointed
I United States District Attorney sS
2 in 1873 he was elected Governor OF
asinnes6 ta,i He declined examinations
..but continued asa political adviser.
5g.In 1887 he was sent to the United
sStates Senate and continued a mem-
ber ofs That body until his death. Presi-
dent Kinley appointed him a mem
5ber 81 the Cemmissio ION which met in
Paris Septembet, 1898, to arrange
elrsnis of peace between, the United
Z States and Spain. He was widely Sae:
sauainted with the foreign affairs ' q
sfiiS country s so 81 * & ifs1 "
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OF the Navy Recommends
hing of Two Battleships, Two
kored Cruisers and Number OF
all Vessels - Asks For an Appro-
siation For Next y'ar of ss7'l7%'oao
Washington, GA. (SpeciaD. The
lnlal report hn D. Long, secre-
srv of the n hows that there are
kad, etion fifty-three war
types, the last Of
= Ioxbe completed by
80. Secretary, reject
|tions Of the Gen.
II which Admiral
and of the Board
ommends;that Con,
op;tapthorize
of only two battle-
= tons trial dispiace-
e. (ored cruisers, Of 49,
Replacement; "that at
draft gunboats and
It for river service are
!ble in connection with
vice, and that colliers,
transports and repair
necessary accompani-
.nera! recent increase Of
Ary quotes sections 1929
{ the Revised Statutes,
tde that the ships of the
be divided into four classes
: commanded by officers OF.
Ich rank. The classi1ca',
rs is obsolete, as the statute
ed "before the era Of steel
rapid-fre breech-l loading
=! The, Secretary after urg7
epeal Of these sections, says:
|eW of the many elements
,ould be taken into eonsidera-
determining the relative Inn
Zee of vessels ,of' the several
Ss. and In consid deration of chang
Conditions affecting not only the
els themselves but the navy list
which m y speedily render any
rule inapplicable, it is suggested
no absolute eli sfcation of yes
or pp&scriptioi % command be
podis IA p but that IN n
iate rules
A1nmand.
% = pu1d be
time
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Poisoned.

Poisoned. !
inmates. Of the
at Manchester,
X from arsenical
cause unknown