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Filibnster Steamer'and Her Cargo at
the Bottom 'of the Sea.
ALL ON BOARD WERE SAVED.
The‘ Overloaded Vessel Began to Leak,
and Her Pumps Refused to “fork—A
Rumor do the Effect That There
Was Treachery on Board.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla... Jan. 4.—T-he fili-
buster steamer Commodore, which has
landed successfully in Cuba. several large
consignments of arms and munitions of
War for the patriots, has gone to the bot-
tom ofl Mosquito inlet, on' the coast of
A Florida. ' -
The Commodore left Jacksonville on
Thursday night, having been cleared by
the customsauthorities to carry a cargo of
arms and ammunition to the port of Nue-
vitas, Cuba.
Yesterday she was found stuck in the
mud three miles below the city. She was
pulled off the shoal by the United States
revenue cutter vBoutwell, which conveyed
her safely across St. John’s bar.
It Seems that the Commodore was over-
loaded at the start, mainly with coal, and
that she came near capsizing while cross-
ing St. John’sbar.
Yesterday Captain Murphy was astound-
ed to discover the hold full of water. He
immediately set the crew to work bailing
with buckets and started up the steam
pumps, but to no purpose.
Left to Her Doom.
The water rapidly gained and finally ex-
tinguished the fires while the vessel was
yet a, long distance from the shore. It was
then imperative that the men should take
to the boats, which they did, leaving the
ill fated Commodore to heredoom.
The CommodOre’s papers show that Cap-
tain Edward Murphy is master of the ves-
sel. and that Frank P. Grain is first mate,
Felix de los Rios second mate, James Red-
dihg chief engineer, Ed B. Bitter assistant
engineer.
The crowds as follows: Franco Blanco, ,
C. B. Montgomery, Paul E. F. Rojo, Julio
Rodbar, Ramon Hernandez, J. Hernan-
dez, William Higgins,‘ Jose Fernandez,
Murray Nobles, Manuel Gonzales, Miguel
Fernandez, Jose Alvarez, Buenafestusa
Singy, Emelio Masquis, Joseph Dehancy,
Gravier Marbury, Modesto Leon, Santiago
Diaz, Luis Surra, P. D. Pernercousi, W.
A. G. Smith, R. A. Delgado and Stephen
Cran‘e, the novelist.
The first boat to land was one contain-
ing Delgado, Paul Rojo, Franco Blanco
and nine others, who reached New Smyrna
in safety and immediately wired to Jack-
sonville requesting the dispatch of the
Three Friends to assist the Commodore,
' which they hoped might still be afloat.
'The owners of the Three Friends here
wired to the secretary of the treasury ask-
ing permission to send their boat to the
rescue, but received no reply.
All on Board Saved.
Later in the day another telegram was
received stating that Captain Murphy,
with Stephen Crane and 14 other men, who
had taken to the other boat, had landed
safely at Ormond, 20 miles above New
Smyrna, and that the Commodore was a
total loss. _
This information, which is incontro-
vertable, has greatly disheartened the Cu-
bans in this city, who had hoped great
things for their cause from the result of
this expedition.
The point at which the Commodore
went down is said to be about 15 miles of!
the coast of Florida, approximately 100
miles below the St. John’s bar.
There seems to have been no difiiculty
in saving the lives of all on board. It is
said that Captain Murphy had been warn-
ed by rivermen before leaving J ackson-
ville that the Commodore could, not stand
the heavy cargo of coal with which she was
loaded, being old and constructed of wood,
but that he paid no attention to these
warnings.
There are vague rumors afloat of treach-
ery, but these can be traced to no substan-
tial foundation.
More Weyler Edicts.
HAVANA, Jan. 4.—General Weyler has
issued from his camp at Bayete two edicts
hearing date of yesterday. One of them
prohibits the storage or sale of hardware,
saddlery, clothing, provisions or medicines
in unfortified towns;
It 31 o absolutely prohibits the re:
moval 0 such goods from the towns in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana and
Matanzas without a military permit.
ditteof the edict all stores in unprotected
villgges and hdmlets must be closed and
their goods removed to. stronger places.
This applies also to stores on unfertified
sugar estates in the provinces of Santa
Clara, Puerto Principe and Santiago de
Cuba. Those persons who violate the edict
will be considered insurgent sympathizers
and will be tried as such.
The other edict orders the formation of
zones of cultivation around the towns and.
allots “for the cultivation of vegetables,
etc., a piece of ground free of charge to
each family concentrated in the towns un-
der previous edicts.
These persons will be allowed to" hold
the land free of all charges for six months
after the insurrection shall have been sup-
pressed. An exception is made, however,
in the case of those families which have a
It is ordered that eight days after the '
brother or b usband in the insurgent ranks. '
To these no land will be allotted.
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Our Navy to Aid Spain.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Increased vigi-
lance in the filibuster patrol along the
Florida coast is to be exhibited by the
government, and no effort is to be spared
to prevent the violation of neutrality. Not
only have orders for the return north of
the Cruiser Newark at‘ Key West been
countermanded, but orders have been is-
sued for the dispatch boat Dolphin, here-
tofore utilized wholly as an executive
yacht, to proceed to the Florida coast at
once.-
the dynamite gunboat Vesuvius will be
sent to supplement the naval and revenue
cutter force, and if necessary the torpedo
boats Cashing and Ericsson will speedily
follow them. Allthese vessels are admira-
bly adapted to the work, particularly the .
torpedo vessels, which can enter all the
lagoons and cruise among the keys.
Can't Keep Macao Dead.
HAVANA, Jan. 4,—It is again positively
asserted in many quarters here that Maceo
is still alive. It is said that he is delirious
and that his jaw is broken, but that he is
in no danger of death. It, is said that he
is attended by Dr. Pancho Domenguez and
that as soon as the way is clear MaCeo will
be placed aboard a vessel bound for New
York, where he will have a better chance _
to recuperate.
, gether on their treatment.
As soon as she can be made ready '
M I LLIE’S CATAPU LT LEG.
'I'wo Reckless Policemen Come‘ in Contdct
with a New Kind of Weapon.
“My mother was a lady, sir,” roared
Millie Archibald, as she went swinging
up Minetta Lane about 1 o’clock in the
morning. accompanied by a wooden leg
and a violent jag, which she was ‘mo-
‘ mentarily increasing,
2 .: ‘ ‘just the same as yours.”
. Her remarks were di-
Ii rected at Policeman Ma-
.hafiiy, of the Charles
" Street Station House,
who informed her that
, her maternal ancestor
must-have lost control.
.Of her at a tender age.
Millie paid no atten-
tion to the protestations
of the policeman con-
cerning her hilarity, but insisted that
she had a right to occupy as much of
the street as was in sight. She raised
her strident voice. to the top of the tone—
ment houses. and, after carefullysur-
veying the situation, Mahaffy decided
to call his iriend-in-arms, Policeman
Gallagher, to assist him in taking pos-
session of Millie.
“Stand oif there, you
blue-coated bums, or
2‘ I’ll give both of you
{a he half-hitch. Chase
yourself.” .
Then the two police-
. men, calling all the
skill they posSessed
. . into requisition,closed
‘in on Millie, and
dragged her shriek-
ing toward the sta-
tion house. But, be-
a lady. she flopped down on the side—
walk and informed the policemen that
if Magistrate Wentworth wished to see
her he could come‘ along whenever he
got ready. and that she would be on
hand. Mahaffy very foolishly laughed,
as did also Gallagher.
"Close your jaw, Mahaify, or I’ll shoot
the buttons 01? yer uniform. Shut your '
lace. Gallagher, oryou’ll get it, too.”
« Then the policemen
laughed again. Reck-
less men they, for the
next instant Millie
minted her timber
limb at Mahafi‘y,
. 'lapped her hand on
111 her hip and the
wooden appendage
left- her sciled and
route tor Mahafiy’s stomach, which it
struck with a violence that doubled the
bluecoat up and caused him to emit re-
marks not down in the manners manual
of the Police Department. It then
glanced off, took a fall out of, Gallagher
and bounded against a building, falling
back in the fieig‘hbo’rhbod of Millie, who
reached for it, and was preparing to
load up again when Mahaify, skilled in
his art, rose in the air and pounced up-
on Millie and her weapon in time to
avert another shower of scantlings
from her body.
She was dragged off to the station
house, leg, jag and abuse, but refused
to explain the mechanism of her bat-
tering rear—New York Journal.
One Hot December Day.
“This is the anniversary of the hot-
test day I ever knew in winter,” said
the old meteorological member, as the
clubmen came in this morning, blow-
ing their cold fingers and stamping
their chilled feet. -
“In what year?” asked a younger
member. ,
“In the year 1859. The morning
opened cloudy, and it looked like rain.
Then about noon it cleared off, and the
thermometer, which had indicated a
temperature of 70 degrees, suddenly
rose to about 80 degrees, at'which it
remained all the rest of the day. Even
the night failed to bring relief, and
during the evening it was curious to
note the citizens of Utica sitting by
their open windows vainly striving for
a breath of fresh air.”
“But how do you remember so ex.
'actly what took place so long ago?”
“By connecting it with an event of
historical interest, which is not likely
ever to pass from my mind.”
“And what is it?”
“The hanging of old John Brown,
which took place at Charleston, Va. (it
is .now West Virginia), on the second
day of December, 1859.——Utica Ob
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. An Aged Goldfish.
The goldfish is not as tender ‘an ani‘
mal as is imagined, for in handling
and moving them from one pond to an-
other they are dipped up in nets and
carried about in baskets, much like
corn or potatoes. Sometimes they are
out of the water thirty minutes, and
seldom is it that they are injured.
How long they will live depends alto:
In the gov-'
ernment aquarium at Washington is a
goldfish that is known to be fifty years
of age, and it is not perceptibly larger
than ,when first placed there. There:
is said to be in the Royal Aquarium at
Rome,‘ ltaly, a fish that is more than a
hundredycars of age, but it has grown
slightly in the last twenty-five years.
Its color is the same except a. slight
change with the Seasons—Indianapo-
lis Journal.
A \Veird Story.
A weird story is floating about to the
efiect Illflt, four American millionaires
have recently had made at Sheffield,
Eng, steel Waistcoats and coats which .
are warranted to secure them immu-
nity from death in ordinary cases of
attempts at assassination. The armor-
ls of chain. mail, s’o light that when
one has worn it a week or two it is
no incun‘lbrance to him, and strong
enough to turn a dagger or sword
thrust, though it wouldth stop a bul-
let. A. number of English statesmen,
the-talc lll‘tlt‘f‘t‘llS,have been using this
army:- :z'wzc-e the days of the Fenian ri-
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'3. ing a Tartar as well as _
bedraggled skirts en-
ron BOYS ANO GIRLS.
THIRTEEN."
‘ A MAJOR AT
Au Ensign Bearer Who Attracted Go-
' 'mez's Attention. ,
Crecendio de Verona, a young Cuban
who, far from the smoke of' battle, is
resting from. the rigors of a campaign
in the Pennsylvania State “Normal
School at West Chester, is probably
the youngest person ever to attain the
rankof major, to have a. war record,
and to bear the honorable scar of a
Wound! received in battle.
and took part in the brilliant raids of
that great tacticizin. As an ensign
bearer the lad participated in the
memorable engagement at El Lavado
and Las Petonas. With Generals Go—
méz and Antonio Macao he crossed the
Sucaro and, Moron trocha, and was
present1 at the battles of Rio Grande
and Iguara, It was during the latter
engagement that while bearing his en«
sign aloft in a desperate charge a.
Spanish bullet pierced his right hand,
While another broke the stalf of the
ensign. , Nothing daunted, he picked
up the broken standard, and waving it
aloft continued on the charge.
Generaeromez, in a special order,
promoted'the young soldier to the rank
of lieutenant for his brav ry on that
occasion. The injury yie ded to the
comp surgeon, and Yarona rejoined
the forces in the field, marching caste
ward with General Mayia Rodriguez.
He took part in the battle of Mesece
under Rodriguez, Malbias and San-
guade Tanamo, under General Jose
Maceo, and Mafe under General Rabi.
He finally reached the forces main-
taining the Cuban provisional govern-
ment, and fought under Generals Rabi
under General Lope Recio. His last
engagement was on October 8 at Cos-
corro under General Gomez, who was
at the time with the government.
The bravery of the lad attracted the
bestowed the rank of majorupon him
after Cascorro. It was. at the joint
suggestion of the President and Gen-
eral Gomez, who recognized the mili-
tary genius of the boy, that he was
sent to his relatives in New York to
be placed in a preparatory school. Af-
ter attaining the necessary English ed-
ucation he' will be sent to a military
school, and educated to the profession
of a soldier at the expense of the Cu-
ban government.
The Bear Was Awake.
A tall, well—dressed Italian was
among .the many guests who attended
a reception recently given to the new
baby hippopotamus in the .Central
Park menagerie. After he had paid
his compliments to the baby hippo the
Italian wandered over to the cage in
which the polar bear is kept. The
bears appeared to be sleeping near
the bars of the cage. The Italian, who
wore a high silk hat, tried in many
ways to attract the bear’s attention.
At last'he took 011’ his hat and held it
temptingly before the bear. With a
sudden lunge the bear struck the hat
out of the hand of the Italian and
dragged it between the bars of his
cage.
The Italian was so greatly surprised
at this manoeuvre that he watched
the bear rubbing the hat the wrong
way for some minutes before he called
to his assistance Park Policeman Bray,
on whose beat the b'ear's cage is situ-
ated. Bray responded promptly, but
before he could get a stick with which
to draw out the hat the bear had with
one bite taken off the entire crown. He
then turned the but around until he had
got it in a position to suit his fancy,
when he lifted one of his huge paws
and brought it down on the crownless
hat, crushing. it into a shapeless mass,
The Italian when last seen was walk
I lug down Sixty-fifth street with a
I handkerchief tied over his headr—Nen'
York Sun.
Children Who Never Picked aFlower.
Thirty-five boys and girls in Chicago
who recently applied for admission‘to
the 'Joseph Medill Summer School
were asked to answer the following
six questions: “Were you ever in the
woods? Did you ever see the lake?
Did you ever pick a. flower? lVere you
ever in the park? Did you ever ride in
a wagon behind horses? Did you ever
ride in a car on the railroad?” On ex-
amining the answers it was found that
thirty out of thirty-five had never been
in the W‘oods,,nineteen had never seen
Lake Michigan, eight had never
picked a flower. During the writing
of the answers one little girl was
found to be crying bitterly. ‘ On in-
nuiry it was discovered that she had
been obliged to‘ answer no to nearly
all the questions, and- “\‘vas afraid she
wouldn’t pass." The S‘o/cretary ofthe
Bureau of Charitles,.-in‘ relating the in-
cident, said: “She had never seen Lake
Michigan, never picked a flower; never
been in the' woods; but she under-
stood perfectly well an examination."
. ' An Arabian'Tradition.
'lhe Arabians had a tradition than
when the devil started forth from his
own place to~~~the Garden of Eden he
was too lazy to wank. and begged al'
the animals, one after another, to earl-3.
- him. says theSt. Louis Globe-Demo
crnt. A‘Il refused exceptzthe serpent
which-was then a quadruped and the
most beautiful of all beasts.
to the entreaties of Satan,‘ the ser.
pent took upthe devil on his back and
carried him the rest of the way. nc
one knows how far, and, after the cone
sequences of the“ devil’s entry into thé
garden became apparent, the angel:
.. were commanded to look up the sor
bent and punish it, so Michael cut of
its legs, and 'itwas doomed hencefortl
('0 travel about as best it could flat or
the ground.’ ,. A ‘ , '
A year ago he joined General Gemez
and Rodriguez and later at Guaimoro.
attention of President Cisneros, who-~
Yielding -
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Window Glass.
Odd Sizes Cut to ‘
Order. Putty. in ‘
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Prepared Paint,
Oils ahd Turpen-
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‘ 7 Main St.
Telephone Service.
The. Southern
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TELEPHONE SERVICE ._
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Circuit, and Long Dis- . .
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according to the amount and character
of the service. For details, address the
Local Oflice c: the Company,
Sentinel B’ld’g., Washlnglon St,
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A fine building lot on Wilton ave-
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this before purchasin'a'.
Water, gas and sewer on the avenue. '
‘ Will be sold at a Bargain.‘
W. H. BYINGTON,
Real Estate and In surancc
Room I. Gazette B’l’d.
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years. ‘ Our plant at Providence is equipped with ”every
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The best workmen only are employed, and thorough
attention is giVen to every detail of manufacture. We
can always furnish the best stoves,.ranges and fur-
naces to be had. Were you ever sorry that you paid a
good price for the best goods of a first—class business
house? They always prove the, cheapest: in the end.
There is a great difierence in Furnaces, and we
simply want you to carefully consider the “ Bay
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dealer can tell you all“ about ,'~ "f"? _.
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