l BE IN THE YEAR 1898 . RIGHT BY UBSCRIBING " , FOR THE WEEKLY EAZETTE AND Y. WEEKLY TRIB. NE. 30m P APEli-S Sent to anv Address FOR Ha r l 1. “ ,Ones— , them. WILL 111101 DEWEY Second Spanish Fleet Now at Cadiz to Go to Manila. TROOPS TO BE SENT ALSO Bombardment of Manila Expected if Spaniards Attack Dewey’s Squad- ron—Strict Blockade Is Oil—Berlin Paper Says Insurgents Have Se- cured All the Arms in the Cavite Arsenal. Gibraltar, May 14.——The second Span- ish fleet now at Cadiz consists of the battleship Pelayo, the armored cruiser Emperador Carlos V., the cruiser Al,- fonso XIII., the Rapido and the Patrla, auxiliary cruisers, formerly the Ham- burg-American steamers Columbia and Normannia, and three torpedo boats. It is reported that a strong military expedition. is being organized at Cadiz and that it will shortly proceed to ‘the Philippine Islands, escorted by the Ca- diz fleet. It is claimed that submarine mines have been placed so as to protect the entrance of theharbor of Cadiz. fifil RUMORS FROM MANILA. Spaniards Said to Have Massacred Americans. Hong Kong, May 14.—A private letter received here from Manila says the in- surgents are divided, and that many resent American intervention. It is added that they profess loyalty to Spain, and only hate the priests and demand reforms. But, it appears, they are willing to combine to defend the country and settle their local differen- ces afterward. It is reported that a party of insur- gents attacked some Americans near Cavite, killed a. few of the Americans and drove the rest from the village, tearing down their flag and hoisting the Spanish colors. Another letter from Manila says a party of Spaniards pretended to be in- surgents, fraternized with the Ameri- cans and then treacherously massacred Both these reports are uncon- firmed. Insurgents Get the Arms. Berlin, May 14.—The North German Gazette says it learns that the Philip- pine insurgents have secured all the arms which were stored at the Cavite Arsenal. The paper adds that a bom- bardment of Manila is imminent should the Spaniards attack the American blockading squadron. All the Germans at Manila are safe. Manila Strictly Blocksded. London, May 14.——-Lloyds’ agent at Manila cables from Hong Kong that the blockadeof the capital of the Phil-I lppine Islands is strictly maintained. and that the cable is On board an American vessel. Several local steam- ers, Lloyds’ agent continues, are re- ported to have been captured, but there is no confirmation of the reports. 'l‘o Carry Troops to Dewey. ‘ Seattle, May 14.—-—The War Depart— ment has chartered the steamship Cen- tennial to transport troops to the Phil- ippines. She has a passenger capacity of 1,000 and a. speed of twelve knots. It is understood that the Second Wash- ington Battalion and the two Idaho battalions will be ordered to rendez- vous here, and will be sent directly to Manila. The steamer Pakshan, it is said, has also been chartered as a transport to the Philippines. COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT. Iecret'Service Men Break Up :1 Gang of “Showers of the Queer.” New York, May 14.——What is believed to be the biggest counterfeiting con- Ipiracy that has been successfully car- ried through in this country for years . aas been unearthed by Chief Hazen, of the United States Secret Service Bu- reau, in this city, and his assistants. Adolph Schuermacher, the agent of a daring and clever gang of counterfeit- :rs who have recently flooded the coun- try with thousands of spurious Austro— i-Iungarian ten-gulden pieces, was ar- rested by Chief Hazen and Secret Ser— vice Agents Henry and Flynn Thurs- day night at his home, 84'Avenue B. Schuermacher confessed his part in the-scheme to Chief Hazen and told the whole story of the operations of the gang. The names and descriptions of all of the members of the gang are m possession of the Secret Service agents, and all of them will be arrest- ed if they have not left New York. The members of the gang are all Austro-Hungarians and have not been 1n New York longer than two or three nonths. During that time, however, an enormous quantity of the counterfeit notes were passed on Austro-Hunga-- rians on the east side, probably up- ward of $100,000. Where the gang oper- ated before it came to New York is "101: known. It is probable that its agents have been circulating the spu- rious notes extensively in the mining districts of Pennsylvania and the West, where Austro-Hungarians and Slavoniaks are employed. All the miners and laborers convert- >d theii savings into Austro— Hungarian honey, which they hoard or send home. A large number of the ten-gulden ' notes have appeared recently in Aus- tro-Hungary, presumably from Amer- ca. The Government agents have been working on the case, and the Austro- i—Iungarian Minister at Washington and the Consul in this country were advised to do what they could to assist n apprehending the counterfeiter. -What amount of the spurious money has been passed upon the ignorant Slavonians. and ‘ Austro-Hungarians throughout this country will not come to light in some time. The notes are made by the new pho- :ograving process, and are of such workmanship as to deceive bankers. Even at the consulate the officials were unable to perceive LL'ny were counter- feit until some shgnt imperfections were pointed out to them Bonds issued by the old C11ban'Rc-- public, long ago defunct, are being speculated in arrcng brokers, in the nope~xthat5th'c}.' wiiibe redeemed in case of the independence of Cuba. 'SlN JUAN SURRENDEBS Much fiamag'e to the Batters; and Portions of the City. ONE 01? OUR SAILOR’S KILLED «And Seven Wounded—Dispatch to London Paper Says the Iowa. and Detroit Fired 430 Shots with T'er- rible Eilect—Sampson Did Not At. tempt to Take Possession of City or Destroy It. Washington, May 14. —At 5 o ’clock yesterday afternoon Secretary Long announced that President McKinley had received an ofileial dispatch an- nouncing the surrender of San Juan to the United States fleet under Rear Ad- miral Sampson. This Will enable Admiral Sampson to hold or destroy as he thinks best the entire coal supply that was placed at Porto Rico for the use of the Spanish fleet. » ‘ London, May 14.—The Evening News publishes a. dispatch from St. Thomas saying San Juan surrendered at 0 o c'lock Thursday evening. Immense (1 age was done to the city, and a number of important build- ings collapsed. The Iowa and the De- troit fired 430 shots with terrible effect. The Americans did not attempt to take possession of or destroy the town beyond razing the fortifications. . All the American warships, the dis- patch continues, except the Montgom- ery, steamed in elliptical formation be- fore the forts, which tired twenty to thirty guns, seven of which were good guns. The fleet first tired too low, but at the second discharge they got he elevation and soon silenced Morro s- tle, and set fire to the town, driving he Spaniards from their guns repeated y The shore guns fired hundreds of shots. The New York was hit once and a. seamen was killed. and four were wounded. The Iowa was hit once and two men were slightly wounded. The dispatch concludes with an- nouncing that the American fleet un- der Rear Admiral Sampson is now out- side of San Juan do Porto Rico, await- ing the coming of the Spanish fleet, commanded by Admiral Cervera, which was last reported off Fort de France, Island of Martinique, French West In- dies. smesou’s REPORT. 1: Doea m Indicate that He Bom- barded the City. Washington, May 14.-Yesterday the Navy Department received. the follow- ing dispatch from Admiral Sampson. It is dated St. Thomas, May 12, and is as follows: “A portion of the squadron under my command reached San Juan this morn- ing at daybreak. ' No armed vessels were found in the port. “As soon as it was sufficiently light 1 commenced attack upon the batteries defending the city. This- attack lasted about three hours and resulted in much damage to the- batteries, and incident- ally to a portion of the city adjacent to the batteries. “The batteries replied to our fire, but without material efiect. One man was killed on board the New 3‘ York and seven slightly wounded in the squad- ron. “No serious damage to any ships is reported. “(Slgned), SAMPSON." Admiral” Sampson's statement that he attacked with only a portion of his 'fleet is taken to indicate that he did not find it expedient to take the entire .squadron into the harbor, though file not believed he hasseparated his fleet. The fact that the Admiral gave notice of his ir tenti‘o'ns to bombard San J uan, as 'is reported from St. Thomas, is an indication that the movement upon San Juan was not a suddenly conceived project, but part of a well matured plan. Whether or not the orders to the Ad- miral included a bombardment is not disclosed( at the Navy Department. Indeed there is nothing in Sampson’s report to indicate that he really did bombardthe place. He merely attacked the forts at the entrance of the bar- bor and if any shells struck within the town itself they were stray shots. It is surmised that Admiral Samp- son’s object in making the attack in this fashion without a landing force of troops in’reserve to occupy the town if it were captured was to descroy the fortifications and make .the harbor use- less to the Spanish flying squadron as a place of refuge. MADRID HEARS OF VICTORY. The Americans at San Juan “Vere “Gloriously Beaten Buck.” Madrid, May 14.—An official dispatch from San Juan says: “The American squadron was re- pulsed off Porto Rico. Although eleven warships bombarded the place the at— tackers were gloriously beaten back. The Spanish batteries, armed with 6- inch Krupp guns, were especially effec- tive.” This alleged victory of the Spanish has aroused great enthusiasm here. Another ofilcial‘ dispatch from Porto Rico says: > “The bombardment only caus ed slight damage to the barracks. Four soldiers were killed'and several were wounded. The squadron retired, hav— ing received severe injuries. One big warship had to be towed." SPANISH COMMANDER REPORT. Says the Damage Done by Our Fleet . to the Forts Was Inconsidern-blc. Havana, May 14 (via Kingston, Ja- maiba).-—-Capt. Gen. Blanco has re- ceived a dispatch from Gen. Macias, the Spanish commander at Porto Rico, reading as follows: “Eleven of the enemy’s ships ap- peared during the early hours (Thurs- day) before Porto Rico and. opened file without giving warning. The pmt bat- tery replied, and a. severe cannonade was continued until 9 o'clock in the morning. The damage done was incon- siderable‘ and the loss is insignificant." Bahia Honda Bombardcd. - Madrid, May 14.-——A dispatch from Havana last night says the Americans have bombarded Bahia Honda, Prov- ince of Pinar del Rio, west of Cabanas. ‘ ‘. :u a" ’ _ . . I l I - I - . State, 1 THE POSTAL SERVICE. ' Facts About This Branch of Government Business NotiVGenex-ally Knuwnr Editor E. A. Hemstead, of the Mead- ville, Pa... Journal, who is also post- master, recently delivered a lecture upon the Postal Service before the stu- dents of one of the business colleges of his city. Mr. Hempstead said that the deficit of the post office department last year was eleven million dollars. If. how- ever, the other departments of the Government paid the ordinary rates of postage on what is now carried for them free, there would be no deficit, but a surplus. But ten States showed a surplus last year. They were the» New England States, «except Maine... New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey.; New York: leads wth a. surplus of $4, 000, 000; Maser achusetts is next with 1,400, 000' Penn-i. sylvania and Illinois each $800 ,000.§: Delaware and Illinois. Each of the other 35_,States shows .a deficit, Ohio. next withtl, 400, GOO—a mere, but amus~ ing coincidence. The beginning of the modern post- office is not very far back. Benjamin Franklin was the first postmaster gen- eral of the colonies. He had been posh master general of the colonies be- fore the Declaration of Independence, and postmaster of Philadelphia. His connection with the postoffice and postoffice department of the country began in 1737, and continued until 1777, covering 40 years. It is interesting to note, in connection with Franklin, that when he was postmaster at Phila- delphia. he was also publisher of the principal newspaper. It is interesting to note, also, that his compensation as postmaster general before the Revolu- tion was rather indefinite. It depend- ed upon the profits of the office. If there were no profits he got no pay. It was not until the end of four years that the office began to be selfosup- porting. He was exceedingly enterpris- ing and spent a. great deal of money 7 besides the receipts from the ofllce. While he was postmaster in Philadel-' phla, and also publisher :of a news— paper, he had the power to send his ' own newspapers through the mails and exclude all other newspapers, ,xbutg, he was wise enough not toexerciserhls; privilege. He granted the privileges of the mail to all newspaper publishers. France, which claims to have‘ftaught all nations to live,” was really the first country to take up the postal work, as we know it. There was a. well defined postofilce department in France as early as 1465, in thereign ofLouis XL, and about 1627 they had a registered letter system and a system of transfering money somewhat like what we have to-day in our postal money order system. W'hen We stop to think that we did not establish. the. system until 1864, we must certainly credit France with "the great enterprise in this direction. The postoffice in allcountrieaexcept this, from the begnning, has been a royal prerogative. tem which the rulers have first taken into their own hands for their own profit. and if they did not want to con- duct it themselves, it was farmed out. Postmasterships were sold to the high- est bldder, and postmasterships and other» offices were even made heredi— tary. In this country alone the post- oiiice has always been conducted for the benefit of the people and for their convenience, and not for profit. The first money order in this country was issued in 1851!. The expres com- panies have tried to compete with the postofiice, in a way, in the money or-, der business, but not with much suc-‘ cess. There are about eight billion letters handled by the postofiice departments of the world in a year. The United States monopolizes four billion, or one half the letters of the world, although it has but one-twentieth the popula- tion of the World. This shows the standing of our country in intelligence as nothing else can. The right of withdrawal of letters after they had been deposited in the postoflice was referred to. In this country it is the property of the sender until delivered, and may be withdrawn even at a distant point by telegraph, upon application to the postmaster at the office of mailing, and deposit of suf- flcent money to pay the expenses. The postofilce does agreat deal for its patrons that they know very little about. It forwards letters from office to office indefinitely, until delivered. It employs experts to decipher badly addressed letters; to supply defléien-f cies in addresses, to sea; ch directories, _ and in many ways to do for careless people and ignorant people what they will not or. can not do for themselves. By aid of a street directory of all the cities, with which all the larger offices are supplied, it delivers thousands of letters every month on which the sender has put only a name and sir-eel and number, omitting the city. ‘ It sends to the dead letter office, and there opens millions of letters annually which cannot be delivered, ascertains the name and address of the writer of each and returns the letter to him, if possible. All this is done for the or- iginal 2 cents postage, without any ex— tra charge whatever. It hunts down those who are using the mails to de- fraud the people, returns mail to the senders, and refuses to pay money or- ders to such concerns or deliver regis- tered letters to them-saving the DEB-'33. pie large sums of money annually This the express companies do not do. The contrast is vastly in fa .‘or‘of the- Government in this re. 3.pect These arc only a few of the many things il'u Government does for the 1.1:.“ l ' through the postoifice, for the 141:1... sum of 2 cents, which may cafe-5;: ‘1'" reduced to 1 cent as soon as (“stew stops the leak caused by the 2111...:- the second-class (newspaper) is. nrivilege. President Mc-Kinley‘is}; leading with over $3,000,000;: Nebraska, Mr. Bryant’s State, coming' 4 4 AN AcenAVATmo DISCOVERY. the Last Link Found Two Years Aiter all Estate Had Gone’to the Crown. It was one of those big English es». tates which was to make a great many- people rich if all the links in the long chain of ancestry could be. found. The legatees in 'this country had twenty. one years in which ‘to prove then claim before the property would re- vert to the Crown. Everything possi- ble had been done, and one link was still missing. This was an old family Biblewcontaining certain necessary records. It was supposed to have been burned at the time of the Deerfield amagsacre, but, notwithstanding, every sedan. had been made to find it if by .=a:mt possibility it was in existence; but “without success and the time expired. Two- years later one of the legatees. a- New York yoman, chanced to see in ameliorate advertisement of a woman "he Wanted work. The advertiser had' [stalled her name, and it was a family name of the woman who was one 0! galley-claimants for the English estate. 15.12113 perhaps the persistent fascina- tloll whloh1tbouearnest searcher into genealogical records never loses, and the force of habit formed in many ‘years' search for precious documents, It has been a sys-’ ‘l .lhaving read. Miss Willard's which interested her at once. She answered the advertisement in per-. son, found that the Woman had been the wife of a mom-bor of her family who had died, leaving her in financial straits which had forced her to ad- vertise for something to do to sup- port herself. ~ * But the strange and romantic part of the story was that among old books and papers which had been cherished as having belonged to her husband, the woman had the old Bible, with its register of births and deaths, the :only link that had been needed to ob- tain the big estate, and now that it was too late it was found where it had been treasured simply as a sou- iIVenir.—-.—-l\lew York-Times. ' FRANCES E. WILLARD'S ROMANCE. Storyof an Early Love Adair with Bishop . Charles W. Fowler. There was once an engagement be- tween Bishop Chas. W. Fowler, and the late Miss Frances E. Willard. Those moire will remember an intimation that at one time in her life her heat had its hero and that at an early day; she wore a ring and “acknowledged an allegiance based on a supposition."- Again she speaks of the romance, of her life being ungueSsed, a. .,“secret lying within the temperate wheel a great heart's geography.” To those who thought her cold she said, “Cold be- cause no brave Stanley had ever ex- plored her heart's tropical clinic; cold because no Balboa had ever sailed on the bosom of its wide, pacific sea. " In their youth Bishop Fowler and Miss Willard were students in the same Methodist college, both being members of :the, Methodist Church. Between ,them:wa‘s a strong affinity, a friendship that eventually ripened into a deep, abiding love. The ring she speaks of wearing as “an allegiance based on a supposition,” was the gift of Bishop Fowler. Both had great strength of character and were» born leaders; of men: and Women. The similarity (if their "temperaments was frequently; considered by the young people as a barrier to matrimony, and it was finally agreed that it would be best for . both to choose separate paths in life. The engagement was accordingly broken. 1 The" Conversion of Senator George. "The late Senator George of Missis- sippi was an :agnostic, while his .wife wassdeeply‘rellgious, says a cer'res- pondent afromrthat State. She placed a neighboring Baptist minister on his trail, and he got no peace. Once, rid; ing slowly home from Canolltcn and reading his mail the preacher burst out of the woods on his right hand and began. They came to a creek and crossed it. It was, in the Senator's language, “saddle pocket deep.” On the further bank he dismounted. “Git down,” he said, fiercely. The minis- ter looked at 'him doubtfully. He feared a personal encounter. “Git down!” He got down. “Now," said George, “I'm tiredo’ being harried around th’ kentry like I was a cotton- tail rabbit an’ you-was a pack of nig- ger, dogs. Baptize me right here.”.It was winter time, but the venerable statesman would not be denied. The two men waded into the icy water up to their armpits, and the ceremony was performed. Senator George climb- ed into his saddle and looked down on. the shivering evangelist. “Now,” he said,_"you go home and stay home. I’m through With this —_— foolishness." ~Memphis Commercial Appeal. 'Dleting on the Side. A certain stout lady resolved to con. suit a physician about her corpulence. She had no previous experience with “banting” of any sort. The doctor drew up a careful dietary for her. She must eat dry toast, plain boiled beef, and a few other things of the same lean sort, and in a month return and report the result. At the end of the time the lady came and was so stout she could hardly get through the door. The doctor was aghast. "Did you eat what I told you?” he asked. “Religiously,” she answered. His brow wrinkled in perplexity. Suddenly he had a flash of inspiration. “Did you eat anything else?" he ask- ed. "Why, my ordinary meals!” said the lady.-]—Pearson’s Weekly. No Doubt of It; ‘2‘ I L— Strapt—A friend in need— "£51 * 'Cashly—Is a fiend indeed. “Les: 1119-. i .
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