fond, of White Oak Shade. r. .' .«
5:3
Iday night'at 8 o’clock, in the chapel.
‘BErnest Gregory and Willie Rider
attended the performance of Bufialc .
,Hotel, South Norwalk, Tuesday from
C avenues.
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WILDMAN APPOINTED- BEYOND MY REACH. .. 'lHE PRESEYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. ..
The Royal’ is the highest grade baking powder
.klown. Actual tests show it goes ooc~ ,-
tllird further than any other brand.
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER 60., NEW YORK.
LOGAL'nAND OTHER {NEWS
See adv. household furniture for sale.
Mrs. E. H. Fillow, of Chestnut street,
is visiting in Ridgefleld.
The Current Events club met at the
Central club, this morning.
The diocesian board are examining
St. Mary’s school to-day.
—Sloop Flash with live cod fish 50
per lb. Washington street bridge,
South Norwalk.
Mrs. William C. Jessup, of Main
street, is a guest of her sister, Mrs.
George A. Bromfield, in Glenbrook.
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Zeluif, Mr. and
Mrs. Edmund Zeluif and daughter Nina
are expected home from a several
weeks‘ trip to Virginia.
Miss Nora Kane‘will shortly sail
from Queenstown to reside with Nor-
walk relatives.
The annual' meeting of the Brookside
Chapel association will be held. Thurs-
The children of. the South N orwalk
Baptist Sunday school who are to take
part in the Children’ 3 Day exercises
will have a rehearsal this afternoon at
the chilrch'.
—Mr. Elisha B. Worrell will lecture
to housekeepers on “Dietetics” at
Lockwood’s Hall, Thursday afternoon,
May 26 at2:’300clock. Each lady at-
tending will receive a handsome
souvenir. Tickets to the lecture may
be obtained atE. P. Weed’s drug store,
freegcffcharge ” .. 3;, . M. 23 31.
Mrs. E. H. Hotchklss willIsItart on aIII
driving trip, Thurs ay. "
Mrs. A. Smith and daughter, of
Brooklyn, are visiting Mrs. J. Craw-
Bill at Stamford yesterday.
—Prof. M. S. Rosen, the well-known
oculist Optician, can be consulted at his
office 1n the parlors of the Mahackemo
a. m. to 8 p. m Eyes examined free‘
f5-tf.
Letter carrier A. R. Tyler is taking
a short vacation. J. A. Flagg is sub-
bing for him. ,. -
Crushed stone from the Riverside
quarry will be used by the Tramway
company on Van Zandt and Woodward
George Van Kuren of East N orwalk
is thinking strongly of purchasing a
naptha launch.
The latest arrival at the home of
extra motorman J. J. Havens of the
Tramway line is a handsome boy baby,
and may it prove a joy forever.
Augustus Larsen has returned home
from a trip to Florida and is now en-
gaged on’Captai-n Stevens’ steamer
Kate. _______
A lunch-box sociable, under the
auspices of Concord Division, S. of T.,
Will be held this evening;
The sloop Flash is at the Washing-
ton street bridge with a load. of live
cod.
The drill season of the two lo'cal mili-
tary companies closes to-day. Volun-
teer drillsmf Co. D. will probably be
held until camp time.
The closing exer cises of the N orWalk
’It was done in the night by Spain;
dancing.
University school will take place on
Wednesday evening, June 8.
r Congressman E. J: Hill and daugh- '
te1 arrived here from Washington last
night.
A regular meeting of the Carpenters
Union was held last evening.
Co.iF, C.N.G., is out for the annual
May parade and practice today.
Court Mahackemo, Order of Forest-
ers, did degree work last evening.' A
delegation from Westport was present.
A salt codfish to which was attached
a placard bearing the following inscrip-
“You may think this a cod, but
remember the lain,” hung from a tele- .
phone wire on South Main street, this
morning. It' 18 said to have been an-
‘other one Of “Col; Orient” 'Saunders’
jokes, and attracted much attention: 1
s
Remember the Maine.
“Like a thief in the dark,
With an electric spark,
But in God’s bright light
In an open fight,
' Dewey made them
Maine.”’.
‘remember the
Something About Mr. Worrell.
The gentleman who lectures before
housekeepers in Lockwood’s hall to-
morrow afternoon is thirty-nine years
old, is married, and resides with hi.I
family in Dorchester, a delightful su-
burban district of Boston. On the
temperance and other vitally important
questions, he takes a strong, Influential
position on the right side. Mr. Wor-
rell has made food discussion a large
success, especially during the last three
years, in the west and south. His
methods are entirely original, and he
has made a distinct place for himself in
the field of dietetlcs. Hdusekeepers
mpst remember that Mr. Worrell’s
book cannot be obtained without charge
except at the lecture. Tickets for the
lecture in this city may now be pro—
cured at the Box Office, free, by house-
keepers cnl y '
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Strawberry Festival.
A strawberry festival will be given
Friday evening under the auspices, of
the Catholic club. Music will be fur-
nished by the Mandolin club, and there
will'be other attractions. including
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IV—Advertlse in THE GAZETTE.
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Company .D_._ .- I .
A regular meetingof‘Co. D, C.N.G.,
will be held Friday evening at the
armory. A captain-will-be neminated
to succeed F.IA. Hill, resigned. It Is
understoOd that‘ first lieutenant R. A.
O’G'ormah 'is the, leading candidate,
and further that 2nd lieutenant Oakes
is to be advanced» to the first lieutens.
"alloy and Sergeant Hyland to be 2ndz
lleutenant
A GREAT IMPROVEMENT IN; .1
~ DIN ING -CARS
Has just been made on the new Pennsylé'
vania Railroad "Congressional Limit-
ed,” between New York and Washing-
ton. Train' leaves New York at 3.‘ 20
p.m. daily.
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ABILIITY OF THE WEAK MIND. }
Instances \Vhero Idiots Achieved "0.5-:
derful Success. ’
Insane people and maniacs frequently
present neofllia. and great air-tistlcfam
tivity, and idiots frequently display
special aptitudes in which they become
,superior'to normal men, some of them
becoming true prodigies, as is shown
by Dr. Peterson in The Popular Science
Monthly, October, 1896, especially in
arithmetical and musical ability, with
aparticul-ar inclination to imitate in.
models, drawings, and pictures the ob-
jects which they have befOre them.
One of the most curious examples of
this is “Blind Tom," a. pure-blooded
negro, born in Georgia in 1840. Born
blind he showed no intelligence except
for sounds. He could not speak a.
word, but he could repeat any sound
which he heard. Merely by the aid of
sound he could repeat Greek, Latin,
German and English texts, however
long after he had heard them recited,
could play on the piano from memory
any piece, however difficult to follow,
and had learned by memory five hun-
dred pieces of music.
cuss it with them He}; Warned them
“not to read the newspapers, and in gnoI.
'ed that it Would not be necessary to re—
peat this cautiou at each intermissiOn. '
If anyone offended and persisted in
‘ Among cases. of extraordinary mem-
ory" in idiots Morel cites a. cretin who
remembered the date of the funerals.
of all the persons who had died in his
parish within thirty-five years, Wilth
the names of those who had taken part
in these funerals. Morel also cites the
case of an idiot who could not count
up to twenty, but who knew the names ,
of all the Saints in the calendar with
dates of their respective feasts.
As to the imitative faculty the most
curious cases are cited. At the asylum
of E-arlwood there was an idiot who
Constructed a. perfect model of a ship
with all its more minute details. Geof-
fry Mind, a. cretin who died in 1814,
drew cats with so much skill that his
drawings are preserved in all the lead- .
ing museums of Europe. Gideon’BuxL I
ton, the famous lightning calculator,
who died in 1702, was stupid; and Zerah .
Colburn, exhibited at the age of l
as a lightning calculator, could ll'fi
learn anything. He had six tolesane
many characteristics of degeneracy.
Das-ah was absolutely a fool, and yet: 1’
he could multiply mentally numbers of
eight and ten figures. “ii
i Mrs. Green (who thinks Of luring—.3
But is the girl honest? Can she MI!
trusted? .
' Mrs. Brown (the girl’s former ml .2
tracer—You need not be in the least
Halal-med She is perfectly honest.
All the time she was with me I never
knew her to take a thlng—not- even
my advice as to how things should be i
done. ~Boston Transcript. '
WILLIS’ TRIAL
A Jury Secured #to.Try.-.the
Wilton Murderer. '
it Took Four Hours to Select the Twelve
Men.
It took four hours of the hardest
kind of work to select a jury in the
case of Benjamin Willis, charged with
the murder of David S. R. Lambert,
at Wilton, December 17 last. Of the
58 men summoned on the regular and
special panels, 54 responded to Clerk
Haviland’s call. When the court ad-
journed at 4 o’clock all but two of
them had been called to the Witness
stand and ‘ questioned. Twelve men
were secured satisfactory to both pros-
ecution and defense, unless it might
be that the twelfth juryman, Simeon
Pease, of Fairfield, was not entirely
satisfactory to the defense. He went
on the panel, however, for Attorney
Lynch, counsel for Willis, had exhaust-
ed his 20 peremptory challenges some
time before. The state challenged
about 12 men, and the other ten were
excused by Judge Thayer for various
reasons, deafness, sickne s and objec-
tion to capital punishment.
The jury as drawn is as follows:
Rufus B. Jennings, farmer, Fairfieid.
John G. Gay, farmer, N ewtown.
Norval Green, farmer, Greenwich.
Charles F. Adams, merchant, Green-
wich. .
William 1. Davis, distiller, Trumbull.
Joseph L. Curtis, farmer, Stratford.
Moses Sherwood, farmer, Westport.
. Frank J. Elwood, farmer, Westport.
Merlin J. Waterbury, Darien.
. Henry L. Foote, Brookfield.
Warren W. Bliss, Ifarmer, Monroe. ‘
Simeon Pease. farmer, Fairfield.
.- Farmers predominate on the jury by
a large: number. Several did not 1933’.
tion their occupation, nor was it asked
of them.
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‘ {The jury was sworn 1n, and standlngIIJ
\ listened to the indictment brought
against the accused. Then Judge
Thayer cautlonedlthem in reference to
allowing outsiders to "“discuss the case?
in their hearing, or to attempt to dis--
way. express an opinion of the case.
other than 1n the jury room. He, _hop-
talking with any juryman about the-
case he wished the name of the person“.
to be reported to him that a proper-
OliVe Gray, 1158
Vivian Soderstro n,‘ 1179
John Murphy, 1125
Fred- Smith, ’ ' 742
Lester Comstock, 1112
Mary Duffy, 151
Fred E. Conley, I236 ,
Bessie M. Stanley 360, - '
Joseph Methias, _ .100,
Lucy Wicks, . 22 '
Ge‘Orge Bertlne, . , ;; . I59 ;
RrM. Rose, .21 ;
:-:Amni.e Dauchygj . . Iv 320 '
Willie English..=;.; :j t. .. v. ._ 1.811%
1 ”Edith. Fests-r, :15“ ., 3 .129 3 ; ._;
Arthur Evans . f '61 .9
May Smith; 2'3 ': -
, :Apnie Clune, ;12 ,
MayW1lllams, . _' ,- 8 s '
S.vLouise Sutton, , ‘ :, ' ' 22
Charles Mott, . 3i 1:
Thomas Hunt. 10 -
George H. Hewitt, 64 '
. Hilgh Marron,- 52
Mena Ambler, , - '3 -
ugene Davis, ' ' ' . ~ 3 .
1 . .- :LH._Carpenter, 2
.11.: McNel-ne'y; 9 ‘
10.. F. Osborn, 59
Tillie Spicer, ., ,, ,65 ‘ ,
F: McNaughton, 59 ,
Lillie Hyatt, 2
Florence Carl, 6
punishment might be inflicted. Court
was then adjourned until to-day, when
the trial will commenced in earnest.
Willis was brought into court be- '«"
tween Sheriff Hawley and Deputy'
Sheriff Plumb, and was at once com;
manded to stand up. The prisoner
wore a dark brown suit and black tie.
He stood erect and glanced nervously
about the room during the reading of
the indictment, apparently hearing
little of the mass of legal verbiage con~
tainedin the instrument charging him
with murder in the first degree. The
indictment also charged assault: upon
Mrs: Lambert and burglary. The
reading consumed about fifteen min-
utes, and at the conclusion" Willis an-
swered in a firm voice “Not guilty.”
To Clerk Haviland’s Willis
said that he was 21 years old Jan. -1,
1898. .
Mis Lambe1 t arrived at the mint
house abou-..t 2 :30. She was accompanied
She was attired." 1n
inquiry.
by sevelal friends.
black and wore a long veil.
VVillis’s mother, who is known to the
'authorities simply as Madame Louise,
I
. “as in town and viSlted the court house
but did not have a chance to interview
her son. Brockhaus’s relatives were
not present but it is expected that his
brother will be at the trial to-day to
watch the proceedings. His father
and mother reside in New York.
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Cannon.
Mrs. John B. Sturges has been visit-
ing relatives in New York.
Mr. Field and family, of New York,
who passed last summer in this place,
were in town on Saturday making ar-
rangements for the coming season.
The continued wet weather has ser-
iously interfered with the spring farm
work' in this section, and it is feared
that a majority of the early crops will
be a complete failure.
William B. Hurlbutt, J r., has re«-
covered from his recent accident. ‘ ‘
Nominated by President as Lieutenant in
the Signal Corps.
President McKinley sent to the Sen-
ate Tuesday for confirmation the name
of Leonard B. Wildman as a first lieu- '
tenant in the signal corps.
Mr. Wildman lives in Danbury and
has been, employed at the Norwalk
Iron Works as a draughtsman for a
number of years. He is well‘known
here and has a large circle of friends
in town.
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Matinee Lecture On Food.
Let no housekeeper overlook Mr.
Worrell’s lecture in Lockwood’s Hall
to-morrow afternoon. The entire range
of food will be discussed. The lecture
will be valuable, not only for the know-
ledge it will impart in dietetics, but for
its many practical points, which in no
other way could be so concretely pre-
sented. There will be a fine platform
exhibit of food plants and food products,
many of them-obtained, through cour-
tesy, from the Agassiz 'Museum, Cam-
bridge, and the Commercial Museum,
Philadelphia. Mr Worrell’s book is
free to lecture patrons only, otherwise
sells for fifty cents. Every seat reserv-
ed .for housekeepers. Admission by
ticket, only. None but housekeepers
can secure them at the box office.
Amusing.
_ The memorandum dropped by an
out-of-town shopper began: “Hairpins
and potato masher.” The finder did
not read any more, the contrasts of
feminine necessity being too much for
him.
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‘ WHEN NATU RE
Needs assistance it may be best to ren-
der Iit promptly, but one should remem-
her to use eventhe most perfect reme
dies only when needed. The best and
most simple and gentle remedy is the
Syrup of Figs, manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co.
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BICYCLE VOTE.
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The coupon can be found in A.
Saunders adv.
‘ ———¥——<o.sb——.—~
‘WE WILL POSITIVELY PAY YOU 81.00
. If one bottle of Smith’s Green Moun-
tain Renovator does not benefit you in
case you are troubled with any blood
disorder, chronic rheumatism, or
neuralgic affection. It is endorsed by
the best physicians in the country and
is warranted to do what is claimed for
it. JOHN A. RIGGS, Norwalk, Conn.
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flurlbutt Street.
Miss Tucker and Miss Redmond are
again occupying their pleasant cottages
in this place. -
Miss Fannie Jackson, of New Haven,
is the guest of Selectman Jackson.
A number from this place are attend-
ing the Lambel t murder trial at
Bridgeport this week.
The many implovements on the
Ambler place are about cempleted, and
’ greatly enhance the appearance of that
handsome residence.
The Davis family, of New York,
have taken possession of the Charles
Green homestead, . which they will
occupy for the summer.
William ‘Abbott is entertaining rela-
tives from IBbthel.
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Wilton.
Harry C. Olmstead, was receiving
congratulations, 'and passing around
cigars on Tuesday evening on the birth
of a fine boy baby.
"Mrs; Edward Olmstead is visiting
friends in Colchester. .
. Miss Gertrude Dodd, of New York,
isthe’ guest of Miss Alice B. Olmstead.
Mrs. John L. Cummins, of Goshen,
N. Y., isvisiting relatives in town.
LOwering clouds, and muddy streets
greeted a number of I disappointed _
‘ cyclists who had planned a ride to
Stamford on Tuesday to see the Wild
West show. .
Tim Merwin is riding a new bicycle.
Albert Device, our hustling GAZETTE
boy has purchased a. bicycle and now‘
hustles the papers around in great
'shape.: '
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animals devoutly worshipped by the
' pulous- and. fanatical: care;
special to the ::memory ~ of ...the dead -
’ . dead.
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It 11 as peeping through the bramble—
'l‘hat little wild white rose—
\Vllele the haw thorn hedge was planted
My garden to enclose;
All box and was fern and heather;
‘ All within was sun and shelter,
And the wealth of benuty’s store; ,
But I did not heed the fragrance
Of floweret or of tree.
For m y eyes were on that rosebud.
And it grew too high for me
. In vain I strove to reach it
- Through the tangled mass of green—
It only smiled and nodded
Behind its thorny screegn
Yet through that summer morning
I lingered near that spot.
0h! why do things seem sweeter
If we possess them not?
My garden buds were blooming,
But all that I could see
Was that little mocking white rose
That grow too high for me.
So in life’s wider garden
There are buds of promise, too.
Beyond our reach to gather—
But not beyond our View;
And like the little charmer
That tempted me astray.
They steal out half the brightness
. 0f many a summer day.
Oh. hearts that fail with longings
For some forbidden tree,
Look up and learn a. lesson
From my white rose and mo!
’I‘is wiser far to number
The blessings at my feet
Than ever to be sighing "-
For Just one bud more sweet.
Mysunbeams and and my shadows
Fall from a pierced hand—
I can surely trust His wisdom. .
Since His heart I understand.
And maybe, in the morning
When His blessed face I see.
He will tell me why my white rose
Grew just too high for me.
EM BALMING PERFU MES.
Not Only People, but Crocodiles and
Other Animals Were Preserved.
Myrrh, which was fabulously sup~
posed to be the tears of Myrrha, who
was-turned into a shrub, was a. plant cl
hand-some appearance, with spreading
fern-like foliage and large umbels ol
white flowers. It was found principal‘
ly in Arabia and Abyssinia. In early
times the perfume distilled from it was
greatly in requisition for embalming.
Herodotus gives a detailed account
.of the ancient mode of embalming,
which is perhaps more instructive than'
pleasing. After the body had under‘
gone much preparation, it was filled
with powdered myrrh, cassia and othel
perfumes. It was then steeped in na-
tron, a strong solution of soda, for
seventy days. ‘ After this it was wrap-
ped‘in bands of fine perfumed linen,
.smeared 'with aromatic gums. -
Not only people were thus embalm‘
ed, but the crocodiles of Lake Moeris
which after their mummlflcation, were
decorated with ornaments and jewels
and laid _'in one of the subterranean
passages of- the great labyrinth with
«much pomp and display. The sacred
‘c'at, ichneumon and other cherished
'-'-~Egyptians‘were 'embalmed with Sam
On days
mummies were newly-sprinkled With
perfume, incense was offered before
them and their heads anointed .vvith'
fresh oil—in the same spirit as we lay
,lnew blooms upon the graves of out
WANTED THE'BIRDS CARED FOR
Oom Paul’s Statue Has the Crown of tho
Eat Mode Concave to Hold Water.
There is a story just now current in
Rome' to the effect "that a sculptor in
that city, in anevil hour for his repu-
tation as an artist, undertook some
time ago“ to produce ,“to order" a
bronze statue of President Kruger
One of the conditions imposed was that
, no liberties were to be taken with 00m
Paul. He was to be represented in all
his native heaviness of features with
the fidelity which Oliver Cl‘omwell ex
acted; and for personal decoration ho
was to be depici'ted in. his ordinary
, frock coat and- tall hat. The most try:
ing stipulation of all was, however,
that Madame Kruger, 00m Paul’s
amiable lady insisted that the crown
of the hat should be made conclave so
that it might catch and hold rain water
for the refreshment of little birds!
This concern for the welfare of tha
harmless little birds is creditable to
Madame Kru’ger's maternal heart, but
humanitarians of this kind is certainly
not conducive to the production of a
keen aesthetic sense—St. James Ga-
zette.
Holmes On the Outbreak of the War.
This is how Oliver Wendell Holmes
recorded the outbreak of the Civi‘
War: “On Friday, the twelfth day oi
the month of April, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hu'ndred and sixty-
one, at half-past four of the clock
in the morning, a cannon wad
aimed and fired by the author-
ity of South Caroline at the
wall of aI fortress belonging to the
United States. Its ball carried with it
the hatreds, the rages of thirty years,
shaped and cooled in the mould of mal- |
ignant deliberation. Its wad was tho
charter of our National existence. Iti
muzzle was pointed at the stone which
bore the symbol of our National sov-‘
ereignty. As the echoes of its thun‘
der died away, the telegraph clicked
one word through every oflice of the
land. That word was ‘War!’ ”
Glove Cutters 6! Brussels.
The cutters of the great glove housed
at Brussels and in France earn‘ even
higher wages than the cutters of the
most fashionable tailors in London. and
New York. So difficult is the art ol
cutting gloves that most of the princi~
pal cutters are known to the trad-e by
name and by fame, and the peculiar
knives which they use in the busines;
are so highly prized that they. art.
handed down from generation to gen-
eration as heirlooms. L—Chicago Inter-
ocean.
De Smyth—Lend me a. fiver, and l
,wlll be eternally your debtor.
Brown—that's just the reason you
“can ’t have 11,1117 boy!
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!
’eport of the Home Mlbsfo‘n Bo
Charnly Embezzlement. “
Winona Lake, 11:11., May 25,—The
'port of the Board of Home Mission.
submitted to the Presbyterian Generfl
Assembly, began with an extended red:
view of the work in the. whole fielQ.
saying in conclusion that “in spite E»
circumstances the financial year lh
been a. good one.” The year opens' '
with a. debt of $147,276, and closed wit
a debt of $167,839,111: increaSe of $20,562;
This is accounted for by the change
from quarterly to monthly payments
of salaries to the missionaries in the -
field.
Contributions amounted to $698.94 , a.
decrease of $93,464 from last y hit,
when special efforts were made. Oper-
ating expenses were cut down by $7, 5
and administration cost $30, 578. For
mission work 8421, 748 was given, and
for Sunday school work $277,192.1e
total expenditures amounted to 8722. 96,
of which 8440, 280 was for mission work
and $225, 866 for Sunday schools.
Under the board are 1, 398 missiona-
ries, 84, 682 church members, 2, 018 Sun-
day schools, with 123 6.22 pupils. Of the
11632 churches under- the care of the
board ten became self supporting dur—
ing the year.
The year, on the whole. had been the
most prosperous in the board's his-
tory. The expenses had been reduced
20 per cent. The number of students
was 2,733, a. gain of 16. The receipts
were $145,246, and the expenses $102,461.
The cash on hand amounts to $43,785.
RED 'CROSS‘READY TO START.
State of Texas to Follow the Fleet of
Troops Into Cuban Waters.
Tampa, Fla., May 25.—The Red Cross
ship State of Texas, with Miss Clara
Ban-ten, representative of the National
'Red Gloss Society,of America and a
corps of surgeons 'and trained nurses,
arrived at Port Tampa. from Key West
yesterday and cast anchor near the
gunboat Helena. The vessel, which is
fully fitted up for special. purposes and
carries supplies enough for 'the equip-
ment of several Red Cross stations,
will, it is said, follow the fleet of troops
into ,Cuban waters.‘
In speaking of the Red Cross work
in Cuba, Miss Bar-ton said that she had
received assurances from thehighest
Spanish official sources that the hos-
pital at Sorro and her headquarters
were being carefully guarded, and that
the Red CroSs supplies left there were
being put to their intended uses. In the
hospital at Serro, where sixty children
were being cared for when Miss Barton
left the island, there were now-160 chil-
dren receiving medical attention.
“General Blanoo himself belongs to
the Red Cross Society of Spain," said
Miss Barton, “and I am confident that
the Red Cross work in Cuba Will I’not be
interfered mm "' -
Miss Barton left .for Washington last
night.
GLADSTONE’S BODY IN STATE;
At Havel-den To-dny and To-morron; at
Westminster Abby Il‘intil Saturday.
.London, May 25.-—The body of the
late William Ewart Gladstone laid in
state at Hawarden yesterday; and will
lie in: state in'the‘ church to-day‘ and in
Westminster. Abbey Thursday 6.1.3. Fri—
day.
The funeral will be held Saturday.
The state procession will consist
merely of members of both 'Houses of»
Parliament, who, in ordinary morning
dress, not court costumes, will precede
the body, which will be followed by
membersof the family and mourners.
The pail bearers will include Lord
Sallsbury.,Lord Rosebery, Lord Kim-
berley, Lord Spencer Sir William Har-
court, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Morley and the
Duke of Norfolk.
As the funeral is to be. a. national tri-
bute, no po tical organization will be
recognized in connection with it. Some
idea. of the size 0f the throng expected
to gather at WestminSter 'to ”see the
body lying in state may be gleaned
from the fact that the police, authori-
ties are "providing 1,500 extra police to
regulate the crowd...
QUEEN Vic'frofiiA‘SsiRTi-ioAv.
Celebrated in a Manner Quite‘Unusual in
Army Circles.
Tampa, Fla., May 25.—The proposed
Anglo-American alliance- Was the up-
permost topic in Tampa yesterday.
Queen Victoria’s birthday was celebrat—
ed in a. manner quite unusual in Ameri-
can armv circles. To'be sure, there
was nothing official abdut it, but offi-
cers were present at the dinner at the
Tampa Bay Hotel, forwhich an an-
nouncement under crossed American
and British flags and the motto “Blood
is thicker-than water," had been out
for .two or three days. Two British
officers, Captain Lee of,the Royal Ar-
tillery, and Sir Bryan Leighton, Bart,
of the Berkshire Yeomanry, are with'
the troops, and their popularity is very
great. Sir Bryan was present last night
at an informal dinner given to Ithe na-
val officers in port by the officers of the
Ninth United States Cavalry. '
Sir Louis Davies Coming.
Ottawa, May 25.—Sir,‘L'ouis’ Davies,
minister of marine and fislheries, left
for Washington yesterday afternoon to
take part in the conference looking to
a. settlement of the disputed questions
between Canada and the United States.
War Echoes. I
There are now 19 warships blockading '
Havana. ,
There is a famine at Manila. Beef is
$2 a pound.
The Mangrove, reported captured by
' the Spaniards, is safe.
It is said 75, 000 additional volunteers
will be cal‘led for within ten days.
Secretary of War Alger says that the
invasion of Cuba by the United States
forces had not been begun.
The whereabouts of the _American
ships is known to' the Wdepartment
which is being kept informed of all .
their movements.
- 1,000 Spaniards were wounded by our
shells at the bombardment of Cardenas
'and Cienfuegos. ”Three hundred were
killed at Cardenas.
The German consul at Manila threat-
ened to land provisions for the Sparr-
iards under the protection of tho Ger-
man cruisers. Dewey said he would
fire on them if they tried it. The pro-
visions have not yet been landed.
Norwalk Chronicler