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NAVY DEPARTMENT YIELDS
New York Company {calized That It
Controlled the Situation and Forced
Secletmy Long to Accept Its Te1.115---
Big Bow Over the Contract.
Washington, Feb. 23. ———’i‘here was a
big row on yesterday between the rep-
- resentatives of the Merritt—Chapman
Wrecking Company, of New York and
the Judge Advocate-General of the
Navy, over the contract to clear away
the wreck of the Maine and get what
is left of the vessel out of Havana
Bay,‘ and as a result the whole matter
was held up and there were prospects
of further delay in clearing away the
mystery surrounding the terrible dis-
aster of last" week. ~
The Judge Advocate General felt that
the wrecking company was trying to
take advantage of the situation and
get possession of the whole appropria-
tion of $200,000 just made by Congress,
and force the Secretary to accept their
terms, no matter how 8X01 bitant they
may be.
In the office of the Judge Advocate.—
General there was a lengthy conference
between Lemley and the representa—
tives of the wrecking company, and
when it was over the reporter was in-
formed that nothing definite had been
agreed upon between the department
and the company: that the department
felt obliged to make some sort of a def-
inite contract with the company that
would hold water at .the Treasury De—
partment, and that this the company
refused to agree to.
The fact that the Merritt —Cl1apman
people “as the only concein in the
country that is the owner of a derrick
large enough to lift the Maine, served
to complicate matters.
At noon, however, Secretary Long
hurried into the Navy Department and
sent ‘for the chiefs of the bureaus ’or
ordnance and of construction, and
held a brief conference with them.
At the close of the talk he said
to the reporter that he had de-
cided to agree to the demands of the
Merritt-Chapman Wrecking Company
-and the Boston .Towboat Company, and
lift the Maine.
“I know,” he said, “that “they are
making large demands upon us, but I
feel that by accepting their terms we
are doing the best we can under the
circumstances. The chiefs of the bu-
reaus of construction and of ordnance
agree with me that under the circum-
stances we can do no better than to
accept their terms. The companies
will receive about $1,400 a. day for their
work on the .Maine, which will include
the use when necessary of the big
derrick Monarch._ They will also be
given a bonus of $100,000 if they can
successfully take the Maine into the
Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Of course they will not receive a.
ship over to this Government at this
station. We calculate it will take them
thirty or forty" days to do the work,
and if they can give us the Maine after
all this will not be Such a large sum
to pay.”
The Monarch will proceed to Havana.
at once with an equipment of 100 men.
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MOBi'MURDERS A POSTMASTER.
Daughters.
Lake City, S. C., Feb. 23,—About 1
o’clock yesterday morning Postmas-
ter Baker, colored, and his child Were
shot to death and their bodies cre-
mated. It is said that a. mob, num-
bering ‘ several hundred, surrounded
Baker’s «house, where the postoflice is
kept, set’flre to the building and open-
ed fire with guns upon it.
Baker was killed and hs wife, his
two daughters and one son were seri-
ously wounded. The woman .had a
baby in her arms, and she says that
the ball that went through here passed
through the baby, killing it.
The bodies of Baker and the child
were found in the ruins of the build-
ing. All the wounded are maimed for
life. The two girls may lose their
arms. ,
All of themail matter was totally
destroyed. There is no owe to the com-
position of the mob.
A large petition was recently got up
in Lake City asking the I-‘ostoflice De-
partment to remove Baker. They
charged incompetency, incivility and
abusese generally, and earnestly
begged for his removal. The grossest
neglect was charged, and it was said
that the people were sending their mail
overland to Scranton, three miles dis-
tant, rather than trust it to Baker.
Nothing is known here as yet as to
what action the Governor will take in
the matter.
British Ship Wrecked.
Boston, Feb. 23.-—T.here is scarcely a.
doubt that the British ship Asia, com-
manded by Captain G. N. Dakin, bound
from Manila for this port, was wreck.-
ed somewhere in the ‘viCinity of Nan-
tucket in the gales of the last few days
and that her entire crer.of twenty
men have perished. This conclusion is
not only borne out by wreckage con-
sisting of the stern of a. boat with
“Asia" painted on it, yards and other
the sea at Monomy, but Captain Hale,
of this city, telephones from VVood’s
Hell last evening that while the tug-
boat E. V. McCaulley was steaming
out to the barge Excelsior, which lies
sunk on Handkerchief Shoal, he'saw
positive evidence of the wreck of a
large square—rigged vessel. and recov—
ered two bodies fromga part of a. dis-
mantled hull.
Lehigh Defeated Lafayette.
Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 23.—In the com-
petitive indoor sports between Lehigh
and I..afayette yesterday afternoon, Le-
nin-1;; from her old rival,
mints to Lafayette 29.
scoring 67
Edward Rosenfeld, who contracted to
transport the Government supplies
from I'.‘yea to Dawson City, has been
arrested at’Portland‘. Ore.
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the necessities of the department and.
would enter a contract with them to 5
cent of bonus unless they can turn the.
Also Kills :1 Baby and “lounds Wife and '
materials which were cast ashore by-
high had little or no trouble in win:
WIIII GDEFIDENOE.
That is the—"#— Way Norwalk
Speaks, and that is the
Way Norwalk People
Act.
At iiist there was doubt. That was
but natural, for people had been disap-
pointed manv times. But first a man
South Norwrlk; and soon from all over
both places arose the chorus of praises
for C‘. C. (J. , California. Catarrh Cure,
and now people buy and use it. in per-
fect confidence that it will do what it
claims: that it will cure every form,
every 5 trace of catarrh. Read what
Mrs. I. F. Williamson, 24 Spring street,
South Norwalk, says: ‘I got a
bottle of California Catarrh Cure
at Plaisted’s Drug store, for my
daughter Kitty, who has been
troubled quite badly with catarrh, and
she finds that it has helped her very
much. My sister has also used the
medicme with most satisfactory results
and joins me in saying that it is a fine
medicine.”
Catarrh' 111 its fullv developed forms
is a hideous disease, involv me decav,
filth and actual iottepness, with most
offensive odors in the very seat of the
organs of taste and smell; firmly fixed
there, it begins to attack the membl anc
lining of the passages leading to the
lungs or the stomach. ruesulting either
in consumption, or what is often called
dyspepsia. It is really c atarrh of the
stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys and
various internal passages. California
Catarrh Cure will cure all forms of’ca-
tarrh, and will chock even incipient
consumption. All dealers, 50 cents,
three times as much, one dollar.
’Why is it. a person always gets into
a rage at being called to the ’phone to
talk to some one who, after all, doesn’t
wish to speak to them, but to another
person altogether. V
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FOR A NEW \NARSHIP.
(‘0 Ba Called the George \‘l'iisliinutnnu-
Resolution in the Senate.
Washington, Feb. 23.—The anniver—
1ary of \Vashington’s bir thd..\' was the
subject of the Chaplain' s pr'ayei at th
apening of the Senate yes teicay. ’I‘he
prayer was so striking that it received
:he unusual honor of being ordered to
ac printed in the official record.
Washington’s farewell address
read from the Vice-President’s desk
Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts. 11111.1
was listened to with reverent demran-
or by Senators and by a large audience.
in the galleries.
The reading was in compliance with
a. resolution agreed to last week, on
motion of Senator Hoar, who originat—
ed the custom several years ago when
Senator Ingalls, of Kansas, was pre—
siding officer. The first reading by
Mr. lngalls has never since been
equaled for splendid, elocution.
At the conclusion of the reading the
E;- Honing resolution was offeied by Ml.
Moi-gun, of Alabama, and was ag1eed
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“Resolved, That the Committee on
-l'-.‘aval Affairs is instructed to inquire
and report whether a man-of—war,
equal at least to any warship in the
world, being named the George VVash-
ington, can bebuilt, armed and com-
missioned within the period of twelve
months by the use of the facilities of
the shipyards, machine shops, ,mines
and forests of the United States wher-
ever the same are found "
The bill to authorize two additional
regiments of artillery was then taken
up on motion of Mr. Hawley, of Con—
necticut, Chairman or the Committee
on Military Affairs.
The bill was opposed by Mr. Bate,
of Tennessee, 3. member of the Mili—
tary Committee, because it proposed
an unnecesary increase of the army.
There were now, he said, a dozen regi-
ments idle all over the country, and
he thought that they should be utilized
for manning the forts ‘on the seacoast.
Mr. Hawiey explained briefly why the
bill should be passed. The army, he
said, was steadily decreasing in pro-
portion to the population. Congress
had appropriated within the last doz-
en years $31,000,000 for coastwise de-
fenses.
Under existing legislaton
would be put up, and within two years
there would be in position 159 guns
and 232 new rifle steel mortars. The
War Department estimated that the
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be sufficient for the present.
Mr. Cocktail, ,of Missouri, a mem-
ber of the Military Committee, said
that while he had consistently and per-
sistently opposed any increase of the
infantry or cavalry arms of the service,
he had voted in committee for this bill
because he regarded it as .a. matter of
absolute necessity.
Mr. Sewell, of New Jersey, another
member of the Military Committee, ar-
gued in favor of the bill as a. matter of
absolute necessity for the care of the
guns and fortifications.
Mr. Bate advocated his plan of de-
tailing regiments that are now idle to
.man the forts, and suggested that the
proper plan would be to have an inde-
pendent corps that would be known as
the seacoast defense corps.
\Vithout any more discussion the bill
was passed. Yeas, 52; nays, 4 (Senators
Bate. Chilton, Clay and Vest).
The bill provides that the artillery
of the army shall consist of seven reg-
iments, and that the total number of
enlisted men shall be increased by 1, 610
men—the increase to be exclusively for
~the artillery.
Mrs. Smith—Are you getting better
wages in your. new place?
‘Brldget—No. mum, I’m workin’ fer
noggin’ now; I'm married —Chicago
Intbrflcosh. ', ' » ' ‘
in Norwalk spoke, then a woman 111‘
527 guns '
1, 610 men provided for in the bill would ‘_
-or my own.’ I purchased ‘Old Curiosity
' The Artistic Effect Not. Appreciated b)
RiMlNlSCENCES OF DICKENS.
Enjoyed His Own Novels—Geneious t:
Impoveiished Friends.
George Dolby, manager for Charles
Dickens during one .of his reading
toursithrough this country says: “Dick
ens was the kindest hearted man i
have ever known. Many and many 2.
time while on tour we came across old
associates of his who were down on
their luck. Dickens would say to me
after the reading, _‘Joey, let me have
twenty pounds in crisp, new bank
notes, and I want to be alone to—mor-
row from twelve to two.’ Iknew what
this meant. Hehad invited his old
friends to call upon him at this hour
and such friends didn’t go away poor-
er. -
“Dickens was fond of reading his
own books. Once at Liverpool, where
we had an‘ off night, I was obliged to
leave him to himself for an evening
He asked me to call at a bookseller’s
and send him something to read: ]
asked him what he would like, and he
reviled, “Anything of Sir Walter Scott’:
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Shop’ and took it- to him myself
Whereat he was delighted, saying the
had not read the book for years. 1
was curious to see the effect of his own
work on him and upon my return wa:
amused to find him laughing immoder
ately at certain incidents in the book
He explained, however, that he was 1101
laughing at his own creations as much
as at the recollections of the circum-
stances under which certain passages:
and incidents had been written.”-—Co~r
Chicago Record. _
A BRIU'AL episooe.
the Prespiring Bearers.
At a recent fashionable wedding no
a thousand miles from Chicago some
veiy pict iresque features prevailed
Bowers and flowery terraces decked the
grounds of the handsome residence 0:
the bride’s father, yachts with gay pen
nants flying were anchored at the too
of the garden, flower girls and choru:
girls led the way to the little neighbor»
hood church, singing and strewing
roses in the path of the lovely bride
and all was as delightfully decorative
as high Chicago society art could maki
it. Along the flower—strewn way the
bride slowly advanced, carried on a se-
dan chair by four stately bearers—hm
brothers and cousins. These wore'tal.
silk hats, by the way, but that is mere-
ly the usual touch of Chicago improve
ment on old French styles. At inter-
vals—it was a warm September mom
ing—'—the fou1 bearers set down thei1
lovely bulden—so the story goes-am:
mapped the moist brows under the tal-
silk hats. On they moved until again
warm and weary; Finally—it. is tolc
the brother of the bride leaned to
the window of the sedan chair and ex.
postulated:
“Bertha,” he said, “for heaven’s sake
kick the bottom out and walk; it’lllooli
inst the same.”——Detroit Free Press.
WONDERFUL WORK.
If This Had Happened in San
Francisco lnStead of Not,-
walk MOre Than One
Reader Would Dis-
'puto It'. I
The average man is a. doubter.
due to this fact, coupled with necessity
that such rapid strides have been made
in mechanics and 'science. Curiosity
and investigation are- necessary in'
every business. Without it failure is
the inevitable result. Nerwalk people
are asked to investigate the following;
it is a simple thing to do. The party
interested is a South Norwalk citizen.
He doesn’t live in Detroit or New York.
Ask Chas. E. Warren, son of the well
known oyster plant-er, George N. War-
ren, of 2 Chestnut street, South Nor-
walk, if the following is not literally
true.
“I had backache and weak kidneys
from early childhood. I tried all kinds
of remedies but never received any
permanent benefit until I commenced
using Doan's Kidney Pills. My father
had 6been using them, and was so
pleased with the re suit. that I was in-
duced to try them. I am satisfied that
they are all that IS claimed for them.
They cured my backache. I am glad
to recommend them to anyone who suf-
fered at times as I did.
Glendening & Co., the druggists have
scores of customers who testify just as
emphatically about the results received
from Doan’s Kidney Pills as Mr. VVar-
ren ’5 son. Drop in and see them.
_ Animal‘i’ainter Dead.
Atlantic City, Feb. 23.—Newbold
Hough Trotter, of Media, 'Pa., an ani—
mal painter, died here yesterday, aged
seventy—one years. _ Among his chief
works are “After the Combat,” “Gris-
ly Bears,” “Wounded Buffaloes,” “The
Last Stand,” “Irfii'an Encampment.”
Mr. Trotter’s moo-t notable historic
paintings are hi 3 th ee pieces repre-
senting the progress of tiavel in Penn-
sylvania in firty yeam. I11T10tte1'
was a. member of the Bennsyivania
Academy of Fine Arts, the Bhiladelphia
Society of Artists, the Art Club of
Philadelphia and the‘, vice-president of
the Arti-sts’ Fund Society. He leaves
a. widow and one son.
' Overlooked. , .
A story is told of a certain committee
meeting in which the proceedings com
menced with noise, and gradually be-
came uproarious. At last one of the
disputant-s, losing all control over his
emotions, exclaimed to his opponent:
“Sir, you are the biggest ass that i
ever ‘had the misfortune to set' eyes
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upon.
“Order, order!” said the chairman
gravely. “You seem \to forget that i
am in the room. "
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love, even me devil’s not as blur-keg
he’s painted.
Mis. S.——I don’t know about
but I know he's a good deal
than he paints himself—Deficit 1111::
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