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ANNUAL MEETING

or New Haven w. c. T. U. Mo- To-
 Morrow Afternoon.
 The annual meeting of New Haven union, w. c. T. U., No. i, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in Welcome hall. Reports of officers and superintendents will be given. All in- terested are invited to attend.
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ILLNESS OF MIR. GRAVES.

Charles E. Graves is quite ill at his residence, 1O1 Grove street with bron- chitis and pleurisy. Mir Graves has been confined to his bed since last Fri day, and, although now improving, he will not be able to attend to business for some days.
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1.-the Baby i, Cutt,nr Teeth

Be sure and use that old and well-tried remedy, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children's teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind collie, and Is the best remedy for dlar- rhoea. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
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SPIES THROWN OUT.
Free Fight at a Meeting of NihfIist
Sympathizers.

NEW YORK. March 25.-The Times says:
"A meeting Of Russians held last night at
a hall on Henry street TO form plans for
aiding the Nihilists in st. Petersburg broke
up In wild disorder after a free fight in
which at least half the audience joined.
The hall was filled to the doors, but every
thing went off smoothly until a commit
tee was appointed to call a mass meeting
to raise funds for the Nihilists. Just after
the committee had been named some one
shouted Down with the spies,' Throw
them outr Kill the spiesi' chorused a dozen
others. A man near the door struck a man
near him in the face with his fist. His vic
tim retaliated, and this seemed 10 be the
signal for n general scrimmage. Wild
shouts and yells in various languages were
heard. and the people in the audience began
an onslaught on others for no apparent
reason. Some fought with chairs and others
with their fists. and the din could have
been heard a block away. For ten minutes
pandemonium reigned. Noncombatants OF
whom there were only a fe v. stood on seats
until they were iostled down. out with the
spiesI shouted "A voice. and three or four
people were promptly thrown down the
stairs. one or two others shouted Police
and announced that they were going for
policemen. This quieted the people. the
followed. Though many were bleeding
about the faes. none was seriously hurt
and there were no arrests
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FACTS NOT FACETIOUsNEss.

The Sentinel. in it's effort to make the
people of Indianapolis believe that their
city government is the most economical
at the expense of the Journal because in
transferring figures it made a slight mis-
take TO the advantage of indianapolis.
Turn back TO the files of the Sentinel when
Mr.. Denny was mayor, and ii was de-
nouncing his extravaganza in black type
and deploring the increasing expenditures
of the city. Now that the current ex-
penditures have increased So per cent
more than one-third-since 1895. the Sem
tincl is trying TO make it appear that the
present regime is a marvel of economy.
Without giving the items Of expenditure,
it tries to make it appear that the cur
rent expenditures OF Providence are more
than double those of indianapolis. In a
table purporting to be copied from the
bulletin of the Labor Bureau for Septem-
Der. 1900. the expenditures of the city Of
Providence are given as 1889 per capita,
while those of indianapolis are put at S6.S2,
when i'm fact the figures as published are
put at s22.66 for Providence and sl1.5s for
Indianapolis-the school expenditures be-
ing more per capita in indianapolis than
in Providence, are deducted from both, to
the advantage of the latter. In this table
a class of expenditures which are classified
as "all others are $11.66 per capita in
Providence and $685. in Indianapolis. Now.
of what is the s11.66 in Providence made up?
All the items are not on the surface. but
two OF them are found in other tables:
toward liquidation of city debt. 81, S19. SOS;
interest on city debt. s799.66S. Instead of
reducing its debt. as is Providence, Indian
apolis is increasing its obligations. In
dianapoIis paid. $4,000 of it's debt in 1899,
and it's interest accrued was $50. $50. Take
out the payments on account of debt on
both accounts and leave the charges for
schools in. and there is not a great differ
ence between the annual per capita cost
of the two cities.
The Sentinel has compared the expendi-
lures of several cities for police and fire
departments and interest on the city debts
for the purpose of showing that Indian
apolis has a smaller expenditure than
others. The interest account is limited
I'm Indianapolis because OF the constitu-
tional limit - for which every taxpayer
should be thankful. otherwise We should
have had a much larger debt. The basis
OF the expenditure I'm the two depart
ments named was made before the pres
ent regime came into power. The SEN
tinel, however. did not compare another
expenditure-that for parks Here is wnere
the evil comes in. indianapolis expended
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Many Killed or wounded, a. Pris-
oners Taken and Cannon, Rifles
and Ammunition Captured.
CASUALTIES FEW
FORMER PRESIDENT KRUGER SAID
TO BE IN FAVOR OF PEACE.
Alleged to Have Advised Schalken-
burger to Formulate Terns-No
Renewal of Negotiations.

LONDON, March 25.-The War Office has
received the following dispatch from Lord
Kitchener, dated Pretoria. March %:
"~Babington's force, including Shekelton's
column. attacked Delarey, 1,5OO strong,
southwest of Ventersdorp, and, having de-
feated him, followed him up rapidly, with
the result that the Boer rear guard was
driven in and their convoy, including the
guns, captured at vaalsbank. Our troops
displayed great ~gallantry and dash. They
captured two 15-pounder guns. one POM
pom, six Maxims, 500 rounds of big am
munition. 1900 rounds of small ammuni-
ton. 16O rifles. So wagons and "a carts. be-
sides taking 40 prisoners. Our losses were
slight. Many Beers were killed or
wounded"
The official casualty list issued this even
ing indicates a renewal of active operations
since the failure of the negotiations be-
tween Lord Kitchener and General Botha.
At Hartebeestfontein, March % and %. two
officers were killed and three wounded. and
four men killed and twenty wounded. There
also seems to have been heavy lighting at
a place near Gredgeacht March IS and near
ventersburg March 16. Venterdorp, the
scene of the defeat of Delary, is about
twenty-five miles northeast from Harte-
beestfontein. 1t is possible. therefore. that
the advices as to fighting at these points
really refer to the same engagement.
The Pretoria correspondent of the Stand
ard says that it is obvious some months
must pass before Boer resistance can be
crushed
The Amsterdam correspondent of the
Daily Express says he understands that
Mr.. Kruger has advised acting President
Schalkburger to formulate peace terms.
The Daily Mail continues it's campaign
editorially and by the publication of let
tiers denouncing the peace proposals of the
government, which is describes as "Verg-
ing upon betrayal"
1t is virtually certain that the govern
ment will decline to hear Messrs. Merriman
and Sauer at the bar of the House of Com
mons on the ground that, being ex-minis-
ter, there is no locus standi-
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NEGOTIATIONS CLOSED.
Mr.. Chamberlain Says There Will BE
No More Dfckering with Beers.

LONDON, March 25.-The colonial Sec
rotary, Mr.. Chamberlain, when asked In
the House of Commons to-day if it was
possible to change the offer of peace terms
to the Beers, said the negotiations were
closed and there was no intention of re-
opening them.
Sir Robert Reid, Liberal, formerly attor-
ney general and one of the British repre-
sentatives in the Venezuela arbitration
case, LAID on the table of the House a petit
ton from Messrs. Merriman and Sauer,
respectively, the former treasurer of Cape
Colony and former commissioner of public
works Of Cape Colony, asking for permits
sion to address the House with respect to
the peace settlement in South Africa, and
especially against the establishment of a
crown colony form of government. The
petitioners have dropped the idea of pro-
testing against annexation.
Mr.. Chamberlain, in replying to a request
as to the reported intention OF the govern
ment to settle a number of soldiers I'm
South Africa, replied that the government
had no intention of expropriating the own
ers of land or of taking land in any other
way than il could be taken in England.
Mr.. Balfour, reinforcing the colonial sec
retary's statement, said the government did
not contemplate any such suicidal folly as
confiscating the lands of the Beers.
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EARTH CONVERTED INTO FUEL.
Nebraska Experimenter Claims to
Have Made Important Discovery.

OMAHA, Neb.. March 25.-E. ]. Hoff-
man. Of 1919 L~eavenworth street. says he
has set the earth afire. He processes to
have invented a process whereby the clods
of the field will burn with all the gusto of
anthracite coal. Crude petroleum. he says.
mixed with common earth (gumbo and sand
alone excluded). with the addition of two
other ingredients. the nature of which con-
stitutes his secret. will make a fuel that
will burn better and with a cleaner fire
than pine knots. Seventy-five per cent. OF
this decoction is mother earth. The ex-
pense of the other three ingredients is only
a trife. His fuel costs $3.50 a ton. Said he:
AZ began experimenting. The first thing I
did was to mix the oil and earth together
and try TO burn them in the form of mud.
but that wouldn't work. The oil simply
burned out and left the earth practically
unchanged. Then / extended my investiga-
tons. and finally, after years OF close ap-
plication. hit upon the secret. l am con-
hdent now that that L have the problem
solved"
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SCORNED AS AN INSULT
LADORITES AT NEW CASTLE, PA,
DO NOT WANT CARNEGIE'S GIFT.
Say They Wish Justice, Not a Library
Views of Two Well-known
Few York Preachers.

NEW YORK, March Pa special to the
World from New Castle says: lowing to
attitudes Of labor unions the City Council
will, in all probability, reject the $500
offer Of Andrew Carnegie for a public Ii
brary for this place. Following the action
of the trades assembly. Division No. 80.
A~malgamated Association of Street-rail
way Employees. has adopted a resolution
protesting against the acceptance of the
gift. A committee to whom the matter had
been referred at a previous meeting re-
ported the following:
THAT such donations are inimical to that
independence American manhood is as
and especially so In this case, when such
fragrant injustice. even to murder. has
been done to those whose toll is represent
ed in every dollar OF the money thus ten
dered, to erect such q library here and by
it's silent or partisan outspoken influence
induce our children TO look upon 1t as a
logical necessity and unavoidable method
of obtaining certain benefits, tends to de-
stroy in their minds any idea of national
justice or human rights and make OF them
willing suppliants at the mercy of this
system of corporate greed, which deals out
a part of the sum in charity IL originally
appropriated from the producers to whom
IL rightfully belongs, which sum-, II they
had fully received, would have enabled
now being, as all others are who are SINH
larly robbed, the objects of charity. 1t
would be something like a semblance of
justice II these donations were made to the
widows and orphans of Homestead. We
deem them as worthy of remembrance as
the Maine. A city will enrich enormously
a few men and then be itself an object
of charity. We. therefore, condemn this
library move as an insult to him 1T is said
1t will benefit most, the workingman; he
does not want charity, but justice"
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the age of forty-hve years. Any person
who not being an epileptic marries an I'M
tecile or feeble-minded person or one al
hlcted with chronic insanity or who know
lngiy violates the provisions OF this sec
ton shall. upon conviction. be punished by
a fine of not more than 81, 900 or by impris-
onment in the state prison for not more
Imprisonment.
y officer shall hereafter issue a mar
rage license TO any person applying there
FOR until, In addition to the conditions now
required by law. he shall be furnished with
a cerufcate from a reputable physician or
physicians of the county in which the par
ties reside, stating that he has examined
such person as to his or her health or men,
tai condition and has made a careful In
person and that neither such person nor
the father. mother or grandfather, grand
mother. or any brother or sister of such
person ever was afflicted with chronic i'm
becility or insanity. Every such certificate
shall be filed in the office of the official
issuing a marriage license.
mo clergyman or any officer authorized
after perform a marriage ceremony within
this State when either of the parties to such
marriage is prohibited by this act from
marrying. Any violation shall be punish
able by a fine of not more than $1,000 or by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for not
more than three years"
Strong pressure for the passage of the
bill has been applied by the officials OF
county and state charitable institutions,
prevent marriage of the persons aimed at
in neighboring States Minnesota officials
will ask the other States TO effect like
legislation.
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since no one of the four greater powers IS
less prepared for war. all things consid-
cred. than is Russia. II has n large army.
TO be sure. but it's chest Of gold. laid aside
for war purposes. would not last very long
in a great foreign war. which must be
largely a naval war. While Russia has
quite a navy. it cannot build frst-class
warships. But quite as embarrassing as
any obstacle is the disturbed condition of
Russia itself. With a foreign war on it's
hands Russia would find it's implacable Nj
hilists a serious hindrance. Russia will get
what IT can by diplomacy. OF which its
diplomats are past masters. but Russia
VIII not go to war for anything in or about
China The latest. is that 1t will not at
tempt to appropriate Mancburia.
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WHAT THE PREACERS SAY.
Carnegie's Action Has Deprived ASl-
tatOrs of Their Stock i'm Trade.


NEW YORK. March 25.-Dr. Madison C.
Peters, of the Sumner-avenue Baptist
Church, Brooklyn, and the Rev. Henry
Frank. of the Metropolitan Independent
Church. both referred yesterday to Andrew
Carnegie's offer of S., 200. 900 to New York
City for sixty-fve library buildings.
"Mr. Carnegie, by his benevolence, has
clipped the wings of riches so that they
DO not fly away" said DR.. Peters, while
at the same time he has sweetened the
breath of society and deprived the agitator
of his stock in trade when he infuriates
the mob to deeds of violence and confisca-
ton. When the rich men of America and
all other lands shall stretch out to the
struggling masses sof humanity the kindli-
ness of Mr.. Carnegie they will do what
shot and shell cannot do, what severe laws
severely executed cannot do-end the age
Of dynamite"
Andrew Carnegie is a revolutionist." de-
clared Mr.. Frank. with one bold stroke
he has uptorn the roots of one of the
vested ideas of the race. 1t has always
been assumed that he who acquired wealth
was the only rightful owner and possessor
despite the claims of all contestants. But
this prince of industry, whose wealth has
almost reached the top notch of human
achievement, seems to have discovered a
new gospel and fearlessly proclaims it's
principles. Whosoever holds his wealth
for selfish use alone is a thief; he who dies
overburdened with wealth is a criminal.
These sentences are the only logical de-
auctions to be made from the recent ut
terances of this philanthropic %iconoclast.
Such language coming from the mouths of
social agitators would be declared riotous
and anarchistic; coming from the lips Of
one of earth's millionaires it is certainly
little less than revolutionary"
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WELCOMED TO MALTA.
Duke and Duchess of Cornwal and
York Given an Ovation.

MALTA. March 25.-The steamer Ophir,
bearing the Duke and Duchess of Corn
wall and York on their tour of the world,
arrived here this morning. The warships
In the harbor were manned and dressed.
The sun shone brightly, and the crowds
were early astir, pouring into Valetta and
filling the terraces and ramparts command
ing a view of the harbor. The approach
OF the Ophir was heralded when she was
still eighteen miles distant by salutes from
a fotilla of ten torpedo-boat destroyers
which went out 10 meet her. She entered
the harbor mid salvos of artillery from
St. Angelo. the citadel, forts and war
ships. After receiving the officials the duke
and duchess landed and drove TO Port
Reale and thence 10 the palace. The bai-
comics of all the houses along the route
were profusely decorated with flags and
bunting and filled with cheering specta-
tors. The entire distance from the land
ing place 10 the palace was brightly deco
rated with Venetian masts and arches. The
streets through which the M and duchess
and their party passed were crowded with
troops and blue Jackets.
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HURRICANE HAVOC.
Many Lives Lost I'm New Caledonia,
Tonga and FiJf Islands.

VICTORIA. b. c, March 25.-The mail
from Suva brings details OF a great hurri-
cane which recently wrought much havoc
in the south Pacific. The storm which
swept over New Caledonia. especially on
the east coast. was the worst for years.
Two large sailing vessels and a steamer
were lost. The steamer Hero was driven
on the rocks at Kouoau. and. together with
several barges loaded with nickel. she
foundered The bark Emil Galline was
swept 10 disaster on the coast at Tchio.
and the new four-masted ship Vile Du
Havre. partly loaded with nickel ore. was
stranded at Naumea. where she soon broke
up. The loss of life. it was heard, would
be large.
Tongo and Fiji also suffered. the former
Islands the most. At Nukulofa. among the
craft wrecked, was the Kings yacht. The
master lost his life in the attempt 10 save
the yacht. A good many coast vessels
were wrecked a. the Fits and other dam
age was done. The island OF Matuku was
swept by a tidal wave and over 100 houses
were blown down or swept away by the in
coming waters. Many lives are reported
lest.
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PROGRESSING TO PEACE
SITUATION IN THE PHILIPPINES IS
IMPROVING RAPIDLY.
Comprehensive Letter from Gen. Cat
lin Remarkable Religious
Freedom Sentiment.

WASHINGTON, March 25.-Adjutant
General Corbin has received a letter OF
unusual interest from General 1. S. Cat
lin, a retired army officer at Manila. which
gives a comprehensive account of the sit
uation at that place. while as q mat
ter of course" says General Catlin, 1.-The
collisions between our forces and the re-
treating and disappearing bands Of guer-
rilla-insurrectos continue to be quite fire.
quent, it also is true hat they were never
so relentlessly and ceaselessly pursued as
during the past two months.
Every volunteer regiment has seemed
desirious of placing TO its credit addi-
tional honor and fame before returning
to the States, and IL has lost no oppor-
tunity to give a glorious account of it,
self whenever possible. and hence the en-
envy has literally had no rest. And now
with the positive knowledge that the Amer
lean people have at last provided an army
sufficiently large to confront any exigency
at home or abroad, and that il means un-
conditional surrender or death 10 every
armed foe in the Philippine islands, / don't
think it possible that even any organ
lied guerrilla warfare viii be carried on
after the expiration of another twelve
months. At any rate, it will be so insignih-
cant that the work of establishing a stable
government and introducing American
schools and American courts Of justice. and
giving self-government TO the extent that
may be found practicable will not be Sc
riously impeded.
1.-THE organization and growth of the Fed
eral party will be a potent factor in the
effort to establish local and general gov
eminent for the island. Local committees
report from Martinique that the people OF
the whole island are considering the propo-
sitions of the Federal party. and IN a day
or two this report is followed by Colonel
Corliss. of the Second Infantry. who cor
roborates the report in every respect. And
so IL goes from island TO island and from
province TO province. The most remark
able feature of this Federal movement is
the judgment and discretion of the average
native in being willing TO eliminate the
question of religion"
General Catlin i'm closing his communica-
ton says he has talked with at least a hum
dred army officers. and i'm scarcely an in
stance has he heard any sentiment of dis
satisfaction expressed with the service or
treatment of the army. In reference to n
reported visit TO the islands from Secretary
Root thee general says: "A visit from the
distinguished secretary would be of great
service and benefit 10 the solution of the
problem here"
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REBELS STILL ACTIVE.
situation I'm RepubIfc of Colombia IL
Not Improving.

KINGSTON. Jamaica. March 25.-Ths
British mail steamer Para. from Colon.
brings reports OF renewed activity on the
part of rebels in the vicinity Of Panama.
The hands of the government are full 4,
their efforts TO keep the rebels out Of the
city. Excessive war taxes are being levied.
and last week a party OF business men pro-
tested against these high rates. They were
thereupon arrested and charged with befn<
rebel sympathizers. Two OF the prisoners
managed 20 leave the country by steamer.
but the others were kept In prison until
they had paid the heavy fines imposed up
on them.
Passengers by the steamer Para say that
the revolution shows no signs OF ending in
the near future. Business Is carried on Ia
Colon and Panama with the greatest dir
fCulty. and the enormous prices OF f0Od
stufs Is causing general suffering. Tha
Liberals are expecting large endorsements
from Costa klcan sympathlzers.
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spent s47.sS5. and Minneapolis s97. $50. 1t Is
for the purchase of White river lands for
a park and the expenditure to improve
them that is 10 be the future burden upon
the city. 1t is the increase of the city debt
S350,OO0 for the purchase of these lands and
the increasing of the floating debt $4,000
during the year 19O0-the floating debt called
a temporary loan. but really as much an
increase as if bonds had been issued for
a large part of it. since. with the pres
ent levy. those temporary loans cannot
be absolutely Inundated.
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MILITARY COMMISSION.
1t Is Now Engaged at Manila i'm Try
ing the HaIterman Case.

MANILA, March 25.-Lieutenant Colonel
Higgins. Of the Third Cavalry. Major
Gr~eenough. of the Seventh Cavalry. Major
Robinson, of the Twenty-seventh Infantry.
and Lieutenant Winship. of the Twenty
ninth Infantry, as Judge advocate. COM
pose the military commission which is try
ing the Halterman case. 1t Is attracting
great attention. The evidence against the
accused is strong. There have been no fur
Their developments in the case OF ID. NJ.
Carman, the American contractor charged
with aiding the insurgents and who was
recently released on $4,000 bail. He has
sufficiently recovered from the illness from
which he was stricken after his arrest
business.
Colonel Murray, Of the Forty-third In
fantry, has received the surrender Of seven
officers and thirty-two rifles. and also OF
fifty-two bolomen at Takloban, Island OF
Leyte-