THEE‘VENINGTGAAET'IE" A FRIENDLY AAAALA AA' Mr. Ohoate’s Remarks.- Justir fled by Statistics. AMERICA NOW OUTSTRII’S . ENGLAND In 1898 Our Exports'EXceeded Those of Great Britain—In Twenty Years the United States Has Gained 63 Per Cent In Export Trade. WASHINGTON, March ' 20. —— Embas- sador Choate’s recent remark that the United States and the United Kindgom would doubtless continue a friendly ri- valry in regard to the world’s com- merce is quite justified by the latest figures on] the commerce of the two countries as supplied by the treasury bureau of statistics. These show that the exports of domestic merchandise from the United ‘States in tlze eight months ending with February amount to $829,335,141, and those from the Unit- ed Kingdom amount to $798 930.427. _In the calendar year 1898 the domestm ex- ports from the United States amounted to $233,564,828, while those from the. United Kingdom amounted to $1,131,— 944,331. Theyear 1898 'was the first in which the domestic exports from the United States exceeded the domestic ex- ports from the United Kingdom. On only two occasions prior to 1898 have the domestic exports of the United States exceeded $1,000,000.000, while those of the United Kingdom have constantly exceeded $1,,000,000,000 during the past .20 years. The latest year in which her exports of domestic merchandise fell below the $1,000,000.000 line was in 1879, when they amounted to $928,929,026. In 187:) our own exports of domestic mer- chandise amounted to $754,656,755. Thus in the 201years.since 1879 the figures show an increase of but 22 per cent in the domestic exports of the United Kingdom and of 63 per cent in those of the United States apparently quite juss tifying Embassador Choates assertion that the United States VI oultl continue tofbe a rival,, though a friendly one, of the United Kingdom in relations With the commercial AA 0.: d . ' That the Iivalry has been stall is a friendly one even to the. extent of cor- diality is shown by the fact that. de- spite our rapid increase in the supplies which we are offering to the markets of the world, Great Britain continue 5 to take a proportionate share of that in— crease. Our exports of domestic mer- chandise to the United Kingdom in 1879 amounted to $346, 485,881 and in 1898 were $534, 398 302, an increase of 54 per cent, while, as already shown, our general exports increased 63 per cent during that period. This is the more striking and worthy of remark in view of the fact that our own imports from the United Kingdom have not increased at the rate her purchases from us have grown Indeed, the imports into the United States from the United Kings dom in 1898 are no greater than they were 20 years ago, the imports from the United Kingdom in 1879 being $108 538, - 812 and in 1898 $108,945,185, ., ‘1 its, The Defender 5 Crew. DEER ISLE, Me. March 20. ——The crew of the new defender ofthe Amer- ica.cup were selected last week by Cap- tain F. P. Weed. The task was a diffi- cult one, as 231 of the best seamen of the island made applications fur a place among the crew. The restriction that those selected should be under 30 years of age assisted Captain_Wee_d to some extent, but at the same time it excluded several of those who were on the old Defender in’1895. Every man is strong and hearty and, like all Deer islanders, has spent his life in battling with the sea and storms along the Maine coast and on the fishing banks. UWV" ft R0 wreck occurred on the Norfolk and Western .at Ada yesterday morning, killing Fireman Van Landingham .of this city and a. brakeman named E. A. Graham. A tramp was also killed. Sev- eral trainmen were more or less injured. Threé freight trains were wrecked All AA ere coming east. stopped. The second broke in two, and Fatal Railroad Wreclr. the sections in- their flight down the' ' mountain cxashed into the first train. They were soon followed by the third which had not been flagged. Mollrenheim Denies the Charge. PARIS, March 20. —The Temps pub- lishes an inte1 view with Baron von Mohrenheim, former Russian embassa- I I “clumsy . dor to France, who now resides at Fan, in which he den-ounces as a invention” the story that he is the real culprit who sold ,, both Russian and French military secrets to the German government and that it has been only to avoid a public scandal greater than the D-reyfus affair that he has gone un- punished. Storms Bring Death and Destruction. MEMPHIS. March 20.—Reports from different points in Arkansas, Mississip- pi and Alabama indicate that in the storms which swept over those states 18 persons were killed outright and 21 injured, as follows: In Alabama, 16 killed, 4 injured; Arkansas, 1 killed, 7 injured; Mississippi, 1 killed, 10 injured. The property loss will run into the hundreds of thousands. A Peacemaker Stabbed. . SENECA FALLS, N. Y., March 20.— During an argument over the labor question in Tom Dean's saloon, on Ca— nal street. Ira Bishop and a man named Lape came to blows. In attempting to, separate them a- man named Ralph was painfully stabbed in the breast. The man who did the stabbing made his es- cape. The Finns Sent Home. Finnish deputation of 400 persons which recently arrived here to petition the diately, the czar refusing to receive its members. Baptist Clergyman Dead. BOSTON March 20. —Rev. A S. Gum- The first train hadi THE PRESIDENT'S SUNDAY. The Distinguished Party Will Go to Jekyl Island Today. THOMASVILLE, Ga., March 20.— President McKinley'went to church yes- terday at the Methodist church of Thomasville. The service was the event of the day to the village and 'country folk, and the large weather stained church was filled to the doors. The people of south Georgia are a pious community and mostly Methodists. The prospect that the president would at- lend their church brought forth the reg- ular attendants and all the backslid'ers of the congregation as well. The pres- ident’s carriage drove up'in front of the church just before service began, and Mr. McKinley and Mr. and Mrs. Hobart, who were the only onesuto attend, were shown to a pew well to the front of the body of the church. They were seated before man-y of the congregation knew of theii pr,esence bu't thereafter were observed as closely as decency at serv- ice would permit. The party enjoyed a drive in the aft- ernoon, and then, owing to the cool northwest wind, spent the time. indoors chatting. Dinner was o’clock. 'Preparations have been made to leave where in a special car over the Plant SYS‘ tern at 10 o’clock today for Jekyl island. Politics, it-is repeated most positively, Ahave nothing to do with the trip, and no political conferences, it is explicitly assertedywill be held there. bility that Speaker Reed and the presi- dent will meet is, of couise, admitted. and the possibility is that a result of it may be better relations between them, though neither will be a party to any attempt to bring them together. The exact personnel of the party is still un- decided. Those certain to go are the president and Mrs. McKinley, Senator Hanna, Assistant Secretary Cortelyou and Dr. Rixey of the navy, the family physician. BAN DITS INCREASING. Santiago Ollicials Complain of Delay. Men Must Steal or Starve. SANTIAGO, Cuba, March 20.——There have been several fresh cases of brig- andage during the last few days in the neighborhood of San Luis, and thus far none of the bandits has been captured, though many of them are known to have been working on the roads last month. As the March estimates have not yet. been approved from Havana there has been a reduction in the num— ‘ber employed in that way, and those discharged steal rather than starve. Only $10,000 is allowed for a neighbor- hood demanding‘$100,000, and until his estimate is approved Major General Wood will be unable to carry out the projected improvements, as there is vir- tually only next month left before. the setting in of the rainy season. The Cuban officials complain bitterly of the delay in the approving of the es- timates for March, pointing out that poor men with no work are compelled to become bandits, thus placing the province in a false light. The custom receipts for Santiago will probably be $150,000 this month. After Careful investigation Major General Leonard Wood, the military governor, is convinced that the skeleton found a few days ago tied in an arm- chair amid the rocks on the-shore about four miles west of El Morro is the re- mains of the Spanish admiral Villamil, who cgmmanded the torpedo boat de- stroyers Furor and Pluton in the battle which resulted in the destruction of Cervera's squadron. Death Recalls Daring Feat. BOSTON, March 20,—Thomas Carroll Boone, the telegraph operator in the famous war balloon, in the battles be- fore Santiago, died yesterday at the Massachusetts General hospital as the result of an operation on a wound re- ceived in the fall of the balloon after it had been shot to pieces. Boone, with ANOKE Va March 20 _ A fatal I two government ofl‘icers, performed he- roic work in the great airship, which was a target for the Spanish gunners, until it fell into the trees and threw all three men out. Boone was caught in the drag anchor and was fearfully wounded, from the effects of which he never fully recovered, although since last fall up to within two days of his death he continued his work as a tele- graph operator. Mr. Boone was a. direct descendant not only of Daniel Boone of Kentucky, but of Charles Carroll of Cariollton Md., a. signer of the Declar- ation of Independence. A Boy’s Horrible Deed. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 20. ——Mary A. Clarke, aged 52, was beaten to death and her sister, Annie Clarke, aged 45, was fatally hurt on Saturday night at Bowie, Md., a village near this place, by John Berry, a 15-year-old ne- gro, boy, who is in jail for the crime. The deed was an atrocious one, the aged and defenseless women being surprised by the boy and literally beaten- to a A jelly with a club. Miss Annie Clarke ' saved herself from instant death by promising to give the boy $100 and pledging herself not to betray him if he spared her life. Intense indignation prevails here, and a lynching is not im- probable. , Missionaries to Alaska. PRINCETON, N. J., March 20.—The meeting held in Stuart Hall seminary last evening was addressed by S. R. Spriggs, ’98, and J. Gantz, Johns Hop- kins university, members of the sem- inary senior class. They will leave soon to take up mission work in Alaska. Mr. Sprlggs has been appointed to Point Barrow station, the northernmost point of the continent, and Mr. Gantz to the Yukon valley. Trolley Cur Jumps Into River. , WATERTOWN, N. Y., March 20.—A Black River Traction company trolley car jumped the traok'at the approach , brld e t d d ST. PETERSBURG, March 20. «A : to the court Street 8 yes er 8” an dashed over a 30 foot embankment into Black river. The conductor and motor« . , . man jumped and saved themselves. czar against the Russoficat‘Ion decrees ' has been ordered to return home imme- ' Two passengers were injured seriously. Oklahoma’s Veto Governor. PERRY, 0. T., March 20.—Ot the 89 bills passed by the late Oklahoma legis— lature Governor Barnes has vetoed 65, part, pastor of the Dudley Street Bap- I only 24 becoming laws The legislature tist church and one of. the best known , and the governor have been at logger- Baptist clergymen in died at his home here yesterday frIom' heart failure. . No Choice In California. A fornia legislature adjourned sine die at 1:1 45 o'clock Sunday morning without electing a United States senator to suc- ceed Stephen M. White, term expired. SACRAMENTO, March 20.—The Cali— , ’ Loss, $10,000; Insured for $7,000. I New England ! heads from the start. . Fire at Sulamnnca. . SALAMANCA, N. Y., March 20— Wickham’s planing mill was entiiely destroyed by fire yesterday morning. Weather Probabilities. Fair; high northwesterly windsg served at 4. The proba- . WAR ON THE POLICE. Residents of Havana. Attack . Their Guardians. ALOWAAAASAOASAAAALAAACHAAGEA American Troops Quell the Dis'turbu ance—General Ludlow Desires Ac- tive Service luthe Philippines. Parade In Honor of Gonlez. HAVANA, March 20.———A serious con— flict between the police’and people of Havana. Saturday night resulted in cone siderable shooting and clubbing, From 30 to 50 people were wounded, Some se— riously. Among the injured is Police Captain Estampes, formerly a colonel in the Cuban army. Ever since the police interference about a week ago with the demonstra- tion in honor of General Maximo Gomez ' they have been unpopular .with the pop-~ ulace, who jeer at them and declare them inefficient. Certain~newspapers let no opportunity escape to criticise the force, denouncing the arrests as unfair and charging the police with “tram— pling upon the rights of a free people.” The police are virtually in the position of men who have to make‘the people fear them in ordei to secure obedience, as they have no 1eco1d to fall back up— . on f01 example. Saturday night’s trouble occurred at a public mulatto ball in San Jose street, an unsavory quarter of Havana. Many Cuban officers, colonels and captains among them, attended the affair. A po- liceman on duty in that street, follow - ing orde1s to 1event a eiowd collecting in fiont of the building where the ball was in p10g1ess. asked a/group of men to go in or disperse. His request was unheeded, and, after repeating it, he was attacked by the group, whereupon many issued from the building, set upon him, took away his club and revolver and handled him roughly. The policeman immediately notified headquarters, which ordered 20 reserves to the scene of trouble. The crowd had prepared for their arrival. It is said they opened with a revolver fire upon the police, which the latter returned, the shooting being kept up until the ammunition was exhausted. T‘he' oppo- nent's’of the police acted with/determi— nation in the affray. Manyw-ho were 'in the building mounted to .the roof, which is comparatively low; and fired upon the police from that point. They “eie apparently well armed, and this fact, together with the reSolution with which they fought, seems to confirm the belief that the attacking party was mostly made up of Cuban officers, as ordinary civilians would have. fled from the revolvers of the police. American troops were called to" the scene when the. trouble was over, and numerous arrests followed. Police Cap-" tain Estampes, who‘is well known in Cuban n1ilita1y circles, 'is so ‘badly‘ in- jured that fears are entertained that he will not recover. Major General Ludlow, 4 military- gov-- ernor of the department of’Havan‘a, de- sires to be relieved of his duties and to go to the Philippines. ,It is understood that he has applied to the war depart- ment for a transfer'tand has strenuously urged that it be made. He is weary of the details of city administration. Captain Johnston of General Ludlow’ 5 staff has sailed for Tampa, en 1oute for the Philippines. Postmaster General Smith intends to get a thorough insight into the Cilban postal system and NIH remain here a week. The workmen’s demonstration in fa- vor of General Gomez yesterday was a successful affair, some 500 men ’and women forming on the Prado and marching, with music and banners, to the Quinta de los Molinos, the residence of General Gomez, where they were joined by a. similar procession from Guanabacoa. Spain Will Protest. MADRID, March 20. —Senor Silvela, premier and minister of foreign affairs, has had a conference with the French embassador ‘regarding the liberation of. Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Filipinos. Spain, it is reported, has de— termined to protest to the civilized world against the attitude of the Amer- icans in hindering the efforts of General Rios, Spanish commander in the Philip- pines, to liberate the prisoners. The government will demand a credit for the payment of the interest on the Cu- ban debt. Beef Court Sits on Sunday. LEAVENWORTH, Kan., March 20.— The army beef court of inquiry con- cluded the taking of testimony at Fort Leavenworth at noon yesterday and at. 4:15 departed for Chicago, where the sessions will be resumed. The sole wit- ness examined yesterday was Sergeant Edward Mason, Troop A, First United States cavalry, located at Fort Robin- son, Neb., who served as regimental commissary sergeant at Lakeland, Fla... and during the Cuban campaign. D., L. and W. -Run Sunday Trains. NEW YORK, March 20.—For the first time in' the history of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad Sunday passenger trains were run yes- terday, When a regular Sunday train service was established. It was thought at first that many people living along the line would rebel against any such movement. As far as could be learned nothing of this nature occurred; but, on the contrary. the trains arriving at Hoboken were crowded. Murder and Suicide. CHICAGO, March 20.-——Charles L. Backman, an engraver, yesterday shot and mortally wounded his wife. He then sent a bullet into his own breast, dying almost instantly. Backman and his wife had been separated for some time. A quarrel resulting from Mrs. Backman’s refusal to live with her husband culmi- nated in the shooting. Pal-ls Accepts Dr. Eg'leston’s Gift. PARIS, March 20.—An official decree just issued authorizes .the School of Mines in this city to accept the gift of $5,000 offered in February of last year by Dr. Thomas Egleston, emeritus pro- fessor of mineralogy and metallurgy of the School of Mines, New York. 1 General Brecklnridge's Inspection. PONCE,» Porto Rico, March: 20.—I:1— spector General Breckinridge of the United States army, who will inspect 'all the military posts in Porto Rico, has .reviewed the troops at Ponce and pro- ceeded yesterday to the Yauco district. ON BABY’S FACE Mother Ashamed to Take Him Out. Everything Failed to Cure. OUTI- OURA Cured in Three Days. I have had my baby sick. with his face full of ringworm, and tried everything and failed. I was ashamed to take him out,’ for every one would look at. him. I was told to get Cancun. I got it on Wednesday, and by Saturday his face was all dried up. Now I can take him everywhere. If people only knew about how his face looked a. week ago, and see itto-day. they would neverbe without it. , Mrs. J. POTTER, 394 80.111111“ St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Warm baths with Common SOAP and gentle anointing: with Curmmn (ointment), constitute the purest, sweetest, and most efl’ective humor treatment over compounded, and appeals with Irresistible force to mothers, nurses, and all hav- Ing the care of children aflllcted with skin, scalp, . and blood huinors, with loss of hair. Bold lhrou houllhe wot . . . Bole Props. oston. “Ho 1: R'gfigy‘ifigfii’rgd FACE IIIIMIIIIS ““ FTtficHni‘i‘E‘SXSPM ”’ ”NORW-ALK "HOT EL. 1. 6. Hamilton, Prop. Everythlng Modern! Newly Furnished I New Management! AGENT FOR Highland Brewing Company. EVERYTHING FIRST—CLASS. F-m Family 01 Medicinal use we have a lull supplA of the BeSt Grade , of Beer and VVhiskies, including: BEER Pillsner, Export, and Bavarian Lager (steamed or plain.) ALES-l Golden Pale, Golden Dark. Stock, Malt Extract, and Malt and Iron Bock. Beer PORTER—"- Whiskies Finest brands for medicinal use. “Hunter.” "King William Scotch,” "Costair’s Rye." “Pepper,” “Hermit- age,” "Taylor Kentucky,” etc. I. G. 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Price—Waist, with sleeve, 25 cents: Skirt, :5 cents; Complete Costume, 5o cents. 10 Centsm Copy HARPER 8: BROTHERS, Eublis- 'Ci . saw vonx.~n. v. -m— Annea. “. .- 00a I’cm'. A W01" Chief Prowitt 1 Al Al T0 #76 Members of the Walwalk, South Nor-walk . cma East WOl’th/k Fire Departments .- The year ’98 was a great year lor bicycles, I sold more Wheels during that year than ever before, but I desire to make the year ’99 a record breaker, and in order to do," it I want your assistance in booming the Rambler Whee] ; to spread its name and fame into every nook and corner of our town. To obtain your help I propose to give away Absolutely Free, to the most popular member of either the Norwa-Ik, South N orwalk or East Norwalk Fire Departments a celebra- ted High Grade " ’99 RambIer Whee], the fleetest, the handsomest, the most graceful, the most durable and most reliable wheel b11ilt,up to date. The popularity will be decided by ballot and in order to vote for candidates the name of the member to be voted for together with the name of the fire company of which he Isa member must be written on the coupon below and deposited in‘the ballot box at my store No. 45 Main street, Norwalk. Ballots for members of the South N orwalk department can be deposited in the ballot box at the store of Whelpley & Clark in the Lauder building. Ballots for members of the East Norwalk department can be deposited in the ballot box in Haffoer’s Cigar and News store at the east end of the Washington street bridge The contest is open to every member of the several fire de partments, including members of the Fire Police. All ballots must be deposited by 7 o‘clock sharp, on the evening: of May 29th, and the name of the winner will be an nounced on May Slst. J, T. Prowitt, Agent RAMBLER WHEELS No. 45 MAIN Smear, N ORWALK, CONN A_cldress K? 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