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"THREE NEW JANSHIPS
The House Oomni' 1ttee Increases
the Sum Originally Intended.
TO cosr $6,000,000 1.11.011
And to Be Peers of- Any Vessels Afloat
—0nc of Them Will Be Built _on
the Pacific Coast—New Dry Docks
Favored. '
Washington, March 14..—The Naval
Committee of the House has concluded
that one of the three battleships it de-
cidedto authorize shall be built on the
Pacific coast. These great war vessels
which are to be the peers of any afloat,
are to cost $6,000,000 each instead of
55,000,000 as reported.
The Naval Committee of the House
has not reached any conclusion rela-
tive'to the number and location of the
dry clocks to be authorized in the naval
appropriation bill, which is the main
question left open. The general opin-
ion in the committee seems to favor
three or four new (looks. '
The Bunce Board recommended new
docks at Portsmouth, N. H.; Boston,
Algiers, La.; and Mare Island, Cal, and
an enlargement of the dock at League
Island, Pa., so that it will accommodate
the largest battleships. The Pennsyl—
vania. delegation is straining every
nerve to secure an entirely new dock at
League Island.
The history of the Week just closed
will form a splendid record of what can
be accomplished by the nation in a
short space of time under the spur of
necessity to provide for the national
defense. Beginning with the appro-
priation of $50,000,000 to be expended by
the President without limitation, there
followed rapidly the placing of orders
for enormous quantities of war sup-
plies, theinstitution of negotiations for
the purchase of ships abroad, the en-
listment of men for the navy, the crea-
tion of two additional regiments of ar-
tillery, the commissioning Of monitors,
cruisers and rams, the manning of new
posts along the sea coasts and finally
the rearrangement of the great military
departments to meet modern conditions
in military practice.
The Board of Naval Bureau Chiefs
find it impossible to pass judgment in
Washington upon the fitness for naval
service Of vessels that may be offered
for the auxiliary branch of the Navy,
at the various seaports, so they have
been aided in their work by the crea-
tion of a special board which will un-
:lertake to visit each of the ports where
ships may be offered and make a care—
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-pr0voke war, because,
. event of war, Spain will not need to
' tack American territory.
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ful personal inspection of the various
craft. The board will consist of Cap-
zain lodgers, Lieutenant-Commander
Kelly, Past Assistant Engineer Dixon,
Assistant Naval Constructor Tawresy
and Lieutenant Sargent.
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2with the inspection of merchant ves-
naval senice, will be
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Intervention Would .Meau “Ye-.11.
Washington, March 14,—YValter I).
Davidge, one of the best known intei-
national lawyers in the United States,
said last night that intervention in be—
half of Cuba would be considered an
act of war.
“Intervention itself is war,” he dc—
clared. “If the United States were to
recognize the independence of Cuba,
Spain wouldcertainly take it as an act
of hostility.
“The United States is ripe for war.
Those of us who have gone through
one war don’t want another, but the
rising generation, filled with patriotic
pride, and ever eager to see the United
States foremost in the list of nations,
jealous of her honor and preservation,
is aching for a conflict. Fifty thousand
young men would go to Cuba if the
United States were to recognize the in—
dependence of that country.”
Planning a \Var of Privateer-lug.
Madrid, March 14.——The view held in
official circles is that Spain will not
if She did, she
would find herself isolated; but if
merica gives the provocation Spain
will not be alone in the struggle.
The general opinion is that, in the
at-
It Will suilice
her to pursue a war of privatccring.
As America’s commerce is seven fold
greater than Spain’s, American inter- =
ests would suffer most. War would be
madness, benefiting neither nation, and
‘ good senSe, therefore, counsels peace.
Until May 1 to Conquer Cuba.
London, March 14.—The Madrid cor—
respondent of the Morning Post says:
“I am able to assert O11 the best au-
thority that United States Minister
Woodford originally intimated that the
United States hoped and expected that
Spain would re-establish peace in Cuba
before March 1 of this year. Recently.
in response to Spanish representations,
the United States extended the time to
May 1. Both Governments refuse to
describe this ultimatum as an .ulti111a—
turn to Spain.”
Proctor Returns to Washington.
Washington, March 14.—Senator Proc—
tor, ’of Vermont, and his companion,
Colonel Myron M. Parker, who havo
been spending some time in Cuba, re-
turned to Washington last night at
10.35. Senator Proctor was met at the
station by friends and was driven at
once to his residence. Senator Proctor
said he did not desire to discuss his
trip at present and that further than
to commend the good Miss Clara Bar-
ton was doing in Cuba, he had said
nothing.
Will Uphold Its Own Board.
Madrid, March 14.—El Imparcial says:
“The Government is momentarily ex-
pecting to receive the report of the
Spanish commission, which, it is under-
stood, will maintain that the Maine ex-
plosion was internal.
“Although the American commission
may give-another explanation, the Gov«
ernment will energetically uphold the
Spanish report.”
Brnzllinn Ships Not Purchased.
Washington, March 14.—Secretary
Long last night made the statement
that the matter of the purchase of the
two Brazilian ships had not been set-
tied. _
Lieutenant ,
DELIBERATELY e'x'PLODED.
Startling Statement Made in the am,
I and Navy Register.
New York, March 1'4.—The Army and
Navy Register makes the following
positive statement:
“The Register is in possession of in-
formation, the correctness of which it
has no reason to question in the least,
that certain evidence gathered by the
Court of Inquiry at Havana has come
in a semi-annual ofiicial form to the
President from two prominent mem-
bers of the board. The information has
been in the hands of the President since
last Sunday, and has served the occa-
sion of unusual activity during the past
week
The information is to the effect tha
the Maine was destroyed by a. govein-
ment sub-marine mine, planted in Ha-
vana harbor and deliberately exploded
More than this, it appears the Maine
was purposely moored in the vicinity
of the mine and that the explosion oc-
curred at the moment wnen the ship
had been opoprtunely carried by wind
and tide directly over the mine.
"These facts have been hinted at and
written about in dispatches from Ha-
vana, Madrid and Washington, and
among the varied statements made
the actual conditions have been touch-
ed upon, but nothing authoritative has
been permitted to escape from the
court. That body is understood to have
completed its work, but nothing is like-
ly to be officially promulgated in regard
to its findings for a week or more.
There is obvious reason for such an ac-
tion, the objects of which can not be
defeated by independent newspaper
statements. '
“There can be but one outcome of
such a report, and preparations for the
inevitable result are being industrious-
ly and indefatigably prosecuted. The
work of the past week shows that the
Government at Washington appreciates
the situation and will be ready to meet
what has now ceased to be a mere
emergency.”
FROM MAINE TO KLONDlKE.
New England Gold Seekers to Light One
of the Creeks by Electricity.
Portland, Me, March 14.—The first
large party of gold seekers to start
from this State to the Yukon gold re-
gion left over the Grand Trunk Rail-
road last evening. The expedition was
organized by William H. Jeffrey, one if
the few free silver orators that Maine
contributed to the Bryan cause in the
last national campaign. A syndicate
is backing the expedition and every
member of the party is enlisted for
eighteen months.
Arriving at Seattle, “’ash., March 18,
the party will take passage on the
steamer Navarro for Dyea, Alaska.
They will take along thirty-five tons
of clothing, provisions, hardware and
equipments. Every member of the party
will be provided with a full outfit of
clothing for all kinds of Weather condi-
tions. Included in the baggage of the
expedition is a canoe shaped boat cap-
able of carrying six men. It is canvas
covered, and takes apart amidships, so
as to admit of easier transportation
across country. It can be operated by
sail, cars or baddles, and is intended
for service on the Yukon River.
The Maine syndicate nas obtained a
franchise for lighting by electricity one
of the creeks in the Klondike region.
It is expected that the plan will be
completed in season, for turning on
the light in September.
Another expedition is to be fitted out
yin this State in about six weeks, its
prospecting to begin at Cook Inlet, on
the Coppei Rive1.
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PEN NSYLVANIA T ROOPS.
Ready to Go to the Front on Very Short
Notice at the First Call.
Harisburg, Pa., March 14.—Private
Secretary Beitler says no telegram has
been received at the Executive Depart-
ment regarding the mobilization of the
National Guard to take the places of
the regular troops now being hurried to
the seaboard.
A National Guard officer said that
1Pennsylvarzia troops 'would not be sent
lcut of the State, unless by being regu-
larly enlisted in the service of the Gov-
ernment. He did not doubt, however,
that the whole division of the Guard
would be moved quickly at the first call
of the President.
The Pennsylvania organized troops
are in excellent shape for immediate
service, and the large number of vet-
eran soldiers, who have volunteered to
raise companies and regiments in the
event of war indicate that Pennsyl-
1vania will royally support the Govern-
?ment, as in 1861.
Maine Report 31a}! Be Delayed.
Havana, March 14.—The Court of In—
,uiry did a good deal of work yes ter-
day, examining Ensign Powelson, and
such divers of the wrecking company
as have been investigating the wreck.
It is said that these divers have been
released from further work Of this kind
and instructed to pursue their labors
under the wrecking contract.
The court wil have the services of the
naval divers as heretofore, and, if nec—
essary, can call upon the civilian div-
ers. It is thought that the court will
close its labors here this week, and
probably will re-examine some of the
survivors Of the Maine at Key West.
This rumor, however, IS not officially
verified ,the members of the court in-
sisting that they can fix no date for
conclusion of its session or their
departure from Havana.
Present Strength of Spanish Navy.
Madrid, March 14.-—The semi-official
Correspondencia, referring to state—
ments that the United States, although
acquitting the Spanish authorities of
guilt in connection with the loss of the
Maine intends to declare Spain re-
sponsible by imposing upon her two
punishments, indemnity and indepen-
dence, says: '
“And all this for, an event with
we had nothing to do. What would
happen to us if by negligence we had
really incurred this responsibility." ‘
The Liberal gives the following as the
present strength of the Spanish Navy:
Protected ships, 17; unprotected, 20;
gunboats, 80; torpedo~boat destroyers.
14; torpedo boats, 17; transports, 25.
’Spnin Has Not Raised $60,000,000.
London, Marsh 14.—The officials of
the United States Embassy here say it
is absolutely untrue thgt they have
been informed that Spain has raised
$60, 000, 000 for the purchase of warships,
etc, and has deposited that amount in
I London bank.
ELEVEN Buafiip To DEATH.
Fire in a New fork hotel Results in a .
Shocking Mn of Life.
New York, March 1 .-——Eleven black-
ened bodies lying at e Morgue bear
mute testimony 'to the combustibility
of a. Bowery lodging house. Most of
them are mutilated beyond recognition;
These men lost their lives in a fire,
which started after 2 o’clock yesterday
morning in the BoWery .Mission and
Young Men’s Home, conducted by the
Christian Herald. The Mission is a
five-story brick building at No. 105
Bowery. Its four upper floors were
filed with “rooms,” box-like cOmpart—
ments, thirty to asfloor. These boxes,
three feet by six and running up to a
height of six feet, contained each two
mattresses ranged one above the other,
fire the berths'in a sleeping car.
More than two hundred men were
asleep in these beds when the cry of
fire rang through the building. There
was a wild, brutal stampede. Men who
:ould not distinguish the path to safe-
ty fought aimlessly forw and. Men
were trampled down an d lay still. Oth-
31s, sh1ieking, attained the fire escapes
at the front.
Thus the firemen found it. Within
ten minutes after their arrival the
house was cleared of everything living
and the brave rescuers were carrying
out those who had died. Many of the
rescued ones were helpless from smoke.
Others were blinded. Many were stu-
oefied' by Bowery whisky and fought
their savers. All were without cloth—
-ng except that in which they slept.
l‘he Bowery lodger does not indulge in
:he luxury of special night-gear.
Only five of the bodies have been
identified. They are:
Sodam, William, farmer, thirty-eight
years old, of Spottswood, N. J. , .
Ellias, Buddah, cook, twenty-nine
years old, of Ft. Brenton, Mont. Doubt—
‘ ful.
O’Rourke, James, plumber, forty-
three years old, of Philadelphia, Pa.
Doubtful.
McDermott, W'illiam, painter, twen-
ty—six years old, New York. Doubtful.
Foran, John, machinist, twenty-eight
years old, Staplcton, Richmond Bor-
ough.
It is probable that all the dead will
never be identified, for they belong to
a. class whose friends are few, and
many of the bodies are now only char-
red and blackened masses:
LATTIMER WITNESS BEATEN.
Sufi‘ers Violence Because He Gave Tes-
timony for the Defense.
Hazleton, Pa., March 14.-—The ill—feel-
ing which a. certain element in this dis-
trict harbors over the acquittal of Sher-
iff Martin and his deputies, who were
:harged with murdering strikers at
Lattimer, was illustrated again at Mc-
Adoo Saturday night, when Paul Din-
dorfer was expelled from the foreign
branch of the Miners’ Union and after-
ward beaten by unknown men.
Dindorfer testified for the defense in
the trial at W'ilkesbarre regarding his
experiences in the numerous marching
raids. At the meeting of the miners
Saturday night lie was expelled from
the union and a committee was ap-
pointed to bring him to the hall to ap-
prise him of the action. The man ac-
companied the committee ignorant of
the purpose for which he had been
summoned. When announcement had
been made of his expulsion he retired
at once from the meeting.
He no sooner was outside the door
than two men sprang upon him, felled
him to the earth, and beat him. Some
persons passing answered his cry for
help, and his assailants fled. Dindorfer
is still Suffering from the effects of the
heavy blows rained upon his head.
Two Plttsburg Murders.
Pittsburg, Pa., March 14.~—Two mur-
ders were committed here yesterday.
Zenas' Anderson, colored, recently re-
leased from the penitentiary, where he
served eighteen months for shooting his
wife, called at the house where his wife
was staying, threw her to the floor, and
held her down while he shot her five
times. He was arrested three hours
later.
William Bricks entertained a party of
male friends at his house Saturday
night and gave them beer to drink.
When the party broke up Albert
Thompson wanted more beer, and
Bricks refused to give it to him. Bricks
walked to the gate with Thompson and
staggered back to the house. As the
men walked out Thompson stabbed
Bricks in the stomach.-
Girl Held for BIui-dcr.
Fayetteville, Ark., March 14.—Myrt1e
Storrer, 116 years old, is in jail here
charged with the murder of her father,
M. V. Storrer. Oscar Messer, her affl-
anced lover, and her mother have also
been arrested. Her father was much
opposed to the match. thile returning
from town in a wagon Saturday the
father was shot and instantly killed.
The shooting occurred at an isolated
point in the mountains,\ and while the
girl says it was done by some one in
ambush,the evidence is strongly against
her.
To Search for Andree.
Washington, March 14.~The State
Department has received from the Gov-
ernment of Sweden and Norway King
Oscar‘s conditional acceptance of the
offer made through the United States
Government by Walter Wellman to
carry free of charge upon his North
Polar expedition steamer Laura, to sail
from Tromso, Norway, June 20, a party
of Swedes to search for their country-
man, Prof. Andree, in Franz Josef
Land.
Germany Will Not Aid. Spain.
Berlin, March 14.——The Berlin For-
eign Office has instructed the inspired
press to deny emphatically that Ger-
1.
many will aid Spain in case of war with -
the United States, and has instructed
these newspapers to point out that the
United States are an excellent customer
of Germany, and that Spain, since the
Carolinas squabble, has repeatedly
shown unfriendliness to Germany.
A Divorce in Five Minutes.
Chicago, March 14.—Mrs. Lizzie K.
spamding, wife of former Bank Presi-
lent Charles W. Spaulding, now under
:zentence for embezzlement, was grant-
-d a. divorce Saturday in less than five
ninutes after she had filed a. cross bill
.0 her husband's application for di-
.c: cc. The divorce was granted on the
.--.~:_rc that Spaulding had been con-
.icted of a felony .
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NORWALK, CONN, , ‘ .-
TENTH ANN VENSANY
On the twelfth of March 1888, the clay of the never-to-be
forgotten blizzard, the Boston Store Opened its doors for bus—
iness.
It was a day of “Cold and Eager Frost” With snow
piled mountains high in the streets of Norwalk and commu-
nication with the people of the surrounding towns cut off by
the immense fall of snow.
it was a bad beginning,
ever fell in Norwalk to daunt our pushing qualities. ‘
The first week was a gloomy one,
but it would take more snow/"than
In no
wise superstitious, don’t believe in omens, take no stock in
adages, don’t believe what the oldest inhabitant says, we are
thoroughly up—to—date and don’t carewhat the grandfathers
did, we live in the present, always going ahead, never back-
wards.
That is the reason Why we now have the best Store
in Fairfield County, at the'end of the first decade of our es
tablishment. ‘
We were to give a souvenir away, but as souv.
enirs are but trifles, we decided to have a_———--
lillANll PllflFlT e
‘11 SllllllNll - SALE
——ON OUR—#—
10111 ANNIVERSARY,
Saturday, Mar. 12, ’98
New Spring Goods
10 Pieces New Style Mixtures, and
Fancy Checks, Anniversary Sale Price,
150.
8 Pieces 49c§Wool Checks, 38 inches
wide, for this Anniversay Sale, 29c.
10 Pieces Satin Soliel Dress Goods,
in Castor, Yale, Brown, Green, Heleo-
trope and Black, one of the Popular
Cloths for Spring, Anniversary Price,
750'.
10 Dresses of Irish Poplins,in the very.
latest productions, of the Irish Mills no
two patterns alike, per pattern $8.75.
4 pieces Bayadere Satin de Soudan,
per yard, 50c.
5 styles of Crepon,Mohair and Wool,
per yard, $1.25.
1 piece Black Striped Crepon, for
skirts, 750.
1 piece Electric Cashmere,
980, for this sale, 750.
worth
Ladies’ Jackets
$10. 00 ones, $12. 00 ones, $15. 00 ones
and $18. 00 ones.
You can have your choice of any jacket
in the store.
Anniversary Present, $5.00 Each.
Remember only One Price just think
of it only $5.00.
Domestics
1 case of 60 Unbleached Muslin.
niversary sale price, 3ic.
1 case of Nameless full bleached
Sheeting, 80 quality, for this great an-
niversary sale, 50. Quantity limited.
1 case of the best Mottled Outin , the
12:}0 kind, for this Anniversary sa e, 6e.
1 case of 100 Gingh ams,fine quality, 6c.
25 dozen ready-made Pillow Slips.
Anniversary sale, 1 pair for 190. Lim-
ited to 3 pairs to a customer.
1 case of 10c full bleached Muslin.
Anniversary sale, 60. Quantity limit-
An-
ed.
1 case bleached Twillcd Toweling,
per yard, 30.
1 case of So Domet. Anniversary
sale, 50.
m1 In every department there will be bargains
that Will surprise you.
lax-containing prices.
more extended account.
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Our space will not permit a
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