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New Bethlehem Vindicator (Newspaper) - January 20, 1899, New Bethlehem, PennsylvaniaMinister on the r Goi Fiir o o suggestions for a interchange of ideas by the asked suggested agreement no increase Ariles or to find Means of bed acing them to interdict the via of terrible hot shia by count Zuravlef Lyminster of foreign of another circular to the expressing the opinion that de spite the clouding of the political horizon Sinea his first circular and the fact tha some governments Are preparing to in crease their the convocation o a peace Congress is still the Bussian government thinks it possible and advisable to have a preliminary interchange of ideas by the various cabinets for the purpose of preparing the Way for Diplo Matic count Mara vice suggests it is desirable to arrive at an understanding on thu following namely to ii Gree not to increase naval or military forces and the corresponding budgets Lor a fixed period to Endeavor to find Means of reducing the forces Ana budgets in the future to interdict the use of any new weapon or explosive of a Power Fuller than now made to restrict Tua use of the most terrible of existing to forbid the throwing of any explosives from balloons or similarly to forbid the employment of submarine torpedoes and similar contrivances to under take not to construct vessels with rams to apply Tae Geneva convention to naval warfare to neutralize vessels saving those wrecked in naval Bat Les to revise the declaration concerning the Laws and customs of War elaborated a Brussels in 1s74 to accept the principle of mediation and arbitration in such cases As lend themselves the circular reaffirms that nothing touching existing political relations Small be it suggests that the ultimate conference be held at the capital of a secondary Prois ably Brussels or Din Cleys imposing funeral in president attends tie services held the Hubb of impressive state funeral was Given the late representative Kelson Dingley at noon on monday in the House of where he has so Long been such a commanding the pres his distinguished Mem Bers of diplomatic Mem Bers of the supreme Senate and House and distinguished Mea in military and civil life were ranged about his in Iron floor of the while the galleries were occupied by the families of those who sat upon the and other prominent peso images invited to be thee Asket was placed on a Bier in the area in front of the Marble Rostrum of the and for an hour the which would have to Opportunity to witness the official ceremonies allowed to View Thi remains As they Lay in at the head of the casket was a magnificent Wreath of orchids and tied with deep purple which had Beon sent by the at noon speaker need called the House to immediately thereafter the vice president and the Senate were they were followed by the diplomatic in mourning then followed the chief Justice and associate justices of the supreme court in their Black and in turn were followed by the president with his across thu from the presidential party sat the family of the deceased representing three All were from out of the loft in the rear of the press gallery the Noces an Organ echoed through the it was the first time in the history of the House of representatives that music had Tseu heard in a Quartetti Sang impressively crossing the it was a very simple the Newman read the fourteenth chapter of John and spoke of the deep solemnity of the of the the Blind chaplain of the made a touching prayer and the exercises were concluded with the singing by the to the or Gan of Lover of my the body Lay in state in the Hall of the House until shortly before the time for the departure of the special train which conveyed the remains and the party to Lewis where the funeral services were held and the body Laid in its last resting Public and grounds made it por Bill appropriating for the of a building in Washington for the department of Justice and the court of msry who was formerly a died a few Days ago at the age 100 years and 17 in the Senate senator Hoar introduced a Resolution recognize is the Independence of the people of the and their Ripot to form a government of their and intention of the United states to refrain from interference with such the Senate passed a Resolution tender ing the thanks of Contress to miss Clara Burton and others of the red Cross society for their services in a Man who registered at the Jamots hotel As of shot and killed himself in his room at the no cause is known for the the Senate confirmed the nominations of add son of As minis Ter to and Cuba Clemanse of As ambassador to Andrew Carnegie offered to Jive to erect a build nor for a Public Library far provided Congress would fur Nish a site and provide suitable main ten not less than per efforts will be made at once to secure the needed Secretary Lone approved the of the court of inquiry concerning the ground ing of the battleship and has reprimanded Captain Ludlow and lieutenant the Senate committee on naval affairs agreed to report favourably the promotion of Java officers who participated in the War with Over others Wop Are their the list includes admirals Samp son and the Savy department has decided to allow the naval station at Guam a full brass the equipment Bureau has been authorized to procure Trio instruments and ship them on the Yosemite when she starts for the the Navy department a decided to Send three gunboats to Ilea Admiral in addition to the Castine and recently ordered to philippine the vessels assigned to tuis duty Are the gunboats Yorktown and in the Senate tuesday Mason made an address in support of his re solution that tint United states will not seek to govern any people without their Secretary in a communication to suggested that Steps be taken to recognize the meritorious Hospital work performed by Margaret Livingston Chan Ler and Anna Coligny n the Porto Etc the finding of interstate com merge commission a philippine president Mickinley appoints 8 Board to investigate the commis Sion has been appointed by the president to inquire into the economic and Industrial conditions of the philippine islands and to report to the commission is As follows reared Miral major general professor president of Cornell University colonel Charles tender minister to and Dean of Ann Arbor will not be asked to recommend a form of As was the hawaiian its labors will be co mined Toan investigation into the character methods of customs and capacity for self gov it will be expected also to secure such information on the general condition of the islands As they May deem it is expected that the com Mission will make a Complete tour of the important visit if the Interior and the chief the commission is not subject to the confirmation of the United states but has been named under reserved authority of the and expenses be paid out of the War appropriate three commissioners leave for Manila about february Spanish Flag Raisen a Flag in a riot on Sun Sciford being dispersed by a charge on the reas railroads charge illegal rates chief of police John of me was found Iii the Neenah canal by a Mill an examination shows that he had been murdered and then thrown into the the Back of his head was a Staten pred Foreman in the publish ing House of the Conkey shot and killed an unidentified Man during a labor dispute on the Barstow was major Francis a West Point graduate and at present chief enc inner of the Wilminston Ami Northern was notified at of his appointment As Engineer in charge of the government works at Porto Samuel a from prof pleasant Val Ley surrendered himself to the authorities at West he said that his brother John and with a neighbor named to Gether a few Days ago that they drank of homemade becoming intoxicated that a quarrel arose Between in which he shot his killing him in the northbound limited train on the Illinois Central bad a headed collision with a switch engine at a few lays Engineer Henry Thorpe of the with engine and fireman Logan of the limited were Thorpe had been an Engineer on the Road for thirty the store of the Menkin dry goods one of the largest houses in was destroyed by the loss was Over in a Street at afew Days two Harris and a were killed and a Dougherty was fatally injured by John each and Allen was a the trouble was the result of an old William aged about thirty live employed on the Barge owned by the thames Tow boat was burned to death in new in a fire which caused damage to the Barnfi to the extent of about prank a wealthy was killed by a train on the West Jersey Railroad at he was driving across the track when his Wagon was struck by a his horses were also general Clous arrived in new York City from Havana with records of the evacuation commission and a Small Cap tured from the British in a bos from was received at by lieutenant com Mander it Oomes from Admiral and contains several presents for including Elcore and Admiral miss Sophia daughter of George who was Pic president of the United states with president died at her in aged seventy Sis the wife was hanged at a few Days in the presence of 2000 on the scaffold he cursed the country and the pie until the drop the gunboat Yorktown sailed from Saa Francisco tuesday for Manila via Hono she will go All the Way under a full head of steam and should make the run in three weeks if she is not delayed at Hono Henry thirty years of and James were killed at a Railroad crossing in a few Days they were Riding in a Cov ered Wagon and drove non the rails directly in front of Tho the horse escaped but the Wagon was Demol Henry Warden of the Minnesota state at still has been chosen Warden of the Connecticut to succeed Warden Jabez whose son is now an inmate of Tho from which he embezzled funds while a Wolfer is forty six years he will assume his new duties March the commission declares that the Taw in its present condition cannot been and that a tart of Tho business of the country is illegally an Nual report of the interstate Commerce commission was received by it reports what has been said in previous re that Tae interstate Commerce in its present cannot been and that until further and import ant legislation is enacted the Best efforts at regulation must be feeble and Digap the report the situation has become intolerable both from the standpoint of the Public and the car tariffs Are discrimination constantly the Price at which transportation can be of tailed is fluctuating and Railroad managers Are distrustful of each and shippers All the while in doubt As to the rates secured by their the vol ume of traffic is so unusual As to frequently exceed the capacity of yet the contest for tonnage seems enormous sums Are spent in purchasing business and secret rates accorded far below the Standard of published the general Public Little Benefit from these for concessions Are mainly confined to the heavier All this augments the advantages of Large capital and tends to the injury and often to the ruin of smaller these Ara not Only matters of gravest consequence to the business Wel fare of the but they concern in no less degree the higher interests of Public a Large part of the railway business is now transacted upon illegal and in certain quarters charging the published rate is the the results Are Gross discrimination Between individuals and Gross preferences which i most always favor the Strong and oppress Tho probably no one thing today does so much to Fores out the Small operator and build up those trusts and against which Law and Public opinion alike beat in As discrimination in freight a further result is that Railroad business is carried on largely in conceded violation of this condition the present Law is powerless to the criminal remedies have been applied and some convictions have been but no substantial effect has been pro outed and no satisfying results can be obtained from that the fact Triy be morally but the the the cannot be shown with the particularity and certainty required by Crim Inal the statistics of railroads for the year ending june 30 last shows a total railway mileage in Tho United states at that Date of a increase for the of 1651 including the total was an increase of 3315 for the twelve months tue amount of rail Way capital outstanding Juno 30 was the number of passengers carried during the year was a decrease of compared with tha previous Ami the tons freight car ried were or tons less than in the casualties from Railroad accidents resulted in g437 deaths and injuries of varying character 1093 of the deaths and of the injured being Railroad the report says there is no foundation for the impression that Ameri can railways Are operated with greater disregard to life and limb than Tho rail ways of foreign this it from a different system of report ing railway the Continental roads making no returns of casualties which do not disable Tho employee for cer Tain specified Cruiser Albany was successfully launched Onset Zarday from the Yards of the Arm Stronks Liv sue was named by of lieutenant naval attache to the United states pm the weather was the Albany took the water like a site Painter Trray and displayed the Ameri can Eagle at her figurehead Coltrell was punctual in ascending the platform sir Andrew who is associated with sir Armstrong the builder of the Al presented to Colwell n bouquet of lilies and carnations tied with the Ameri can lieutenant Colwell and United states Consul Metcalf then approached to the Side of Colwell to assist in the launching of the it Wasa unique inasmuch As an american warship had never before been launched Colwell turned a miniature an Ingeni Ous releasing a Guillotine which Cut the Cord restraining the dog whereupon the National ensigns at nil of her the Jan Lon Jack Bow and Bunting every amid a dead silence Slid gracefully into the an unusually High tide As sisting then followed a deafening burst of a wild waving of flags and an incessant screeching and roaring of steamers Colwell with unerring aim smashed a bottle of pagne upon the Bow of the naming her Many americans were As Well is the local magnates and the officers of the portuguese und chinese to us to Krissay election new envoy a Brilliant Dwyer tiie Albany is a sister ship to the new which gave an excellent account of herself in the operations of the coast of Cuba in the War with both vessels were purchased from the brazilian government by the United states shortly be fore the outbreak the War while being constructed at the shipyards of the Arm the new Orleans was then the Amazonas and the Albany the Admiral the Albany will carry a Crew of sos president Mckinley names the Well known pleader of new York City to represent the United states govern ment at the court of sketch of Choates pres ident sent to the Senate on wednesday the nomination of Joseph of new to be ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United states to great Joseph Hodges Choate was born on Janu Ary at and is the son of George he was graduated in 1852 from Harvard and two years later from Harvard Law after a years study in a Boston he was admitted in 1855 to Tho bar of Massa in the same year he entered the office of Scudder pc Cir Ter in new York but soon left and entered the office of Evarts he after wards formed a partnership with William but in 1859 became a member of the form of Southmayd the form being later changed to Choate 3or the last ten years Choate has been generally acknowledged to be one of the leaders of the bar in this Choates political career Praff Cicalla began in when he took the stump he was president of bark turned seventeen men drowned in the a Lelana in Tacoma British bark 2315 of Nova Captain Sank in Twenty two fathoms of water in front of the Paul Mill and the the mute and fifteen of tue Crew were the Accident occurred during the the Vassel came in ballast from Shang the ballast had been disc and the ship was lying at Anchor waiting of be to be towed into the a few nights n terrific Gaie raged on the the wind blowing Miles an two great Boom legs were placed beside ande one on each during the Gale one of the logs went causing thy ship to Careen and to capsize with very Little warning to the the vessel was entirely without i ballast and the hatches were All or Board caught like rats in a trap and i had no Chance to the ship simply i careened the water flowed inthe Opet and she a Large number of the Crew Hail been Lis or Tui loss of life would have Beer far mors the ship was to have taken on a of wheat for Captain stalling lived in and loaves a widow und three he is Weli Koivu in this arsenic in Oyster a skeletons found in believed the persons were thrown in Wells while Cuba by describes the finding of fifty human Skele tons near the writer of the Story asserts that tuese people were undoubtedly thrown in Wells he says that in some cases the Finger Bones Are and tha supposition is that this was due to the efforts of the victims to raise themselves out of the the body of Senor Pedro a prominent who disappeared mysteriously during the has la discussion accuses the guerilla Antonia sergeant Juan and Vicente a of being the authors of a terrible All Ore said to be in la discussion prints also a Story from Matanzas o the finding there of the re Mains of from 200 to 300 persons in Wells near the Headquarters of the civil woman accused or murder in i bail i thirty three years is locked up charged with the murder by Poison of George also at Kiah died a few Days under suspicious and War rants were issued for the Bailey woman on Friday the remaining members of a Alvs consisting eight per were and the next Day his Mary Jaue died in terrible i the Poison has been traced to a barrel i of out of which Oyster fritters Weru made for the Noonday an analysis shows the presence of arsenic in Large j Tho authorities of Dorchester county assert that they have evidences that will convict the accused of the m to the final Battle when to House of represent Senate met in a joins Senta Tives to Hawley of snot sea hours had bean col of that time was too seventh and whole number of Joseph Hodges president Mckinley has nominated him ambassador to great Brij the state constitutional convention which assembled in 189i to revise the Constitution of the state of new prom 1867 to 1s71 Choate was president of the new England from 1874 to 1878 presi Dent of the Harvard from 1873 to 1377 president of the Union league and j in 1s831889 president of the bar Tion new sary to 100 31 09 8 Russell Vek Mosi senators cd chief Justice Koss succeed senator favors the peace 6000 killed and Battle with Anns and ammunition in a Cuba by a Well in the Spanish artillery quarters at puerto Principe the americans found 2000 charges for rapid fire 4000 several million Mauser cartridges and Many sabres and Remington turks Are victorious in the Yemen Turkey by advices received Here from Ara say that a great Battle was fought on november 30 at Shanel Between the turks i and the Terneu although the turns were Cap Turing the position held by the lost 2000 men in killed and the losses of the insurgents in killed and wounded were the advices add that the insurrection is far from being and Abdullah the turkish commander in has ordered the capture of the town of As this town is held in Strong Force its Cap Ture will be a difficult la Bour Cone was at a belgian father has bean murdered by Tho chinese at he province of the same Central and the Mission House has Teller of the savings department of the merchants at Tiera cubans in Havana mayor appointed superintendent of the department of Cuba Perfecto who was president of the Havana Junto patriotic has been appointed i or mayor of Havana by general Senor Lacoste is a wealthy planter and popular among All classes of general be ing invited to accept the Post of chief of inquired of the executive committee representing the cuban Asse whether be ought to do the commission re plied that it was his duty to undertake the major John Gary of South Carolina former Gover Iier of South Caro Lina has been appointed superintendent of the department of embracing the the minor the Cor rest Iona an elderly husband Al William sixty years it was in the head and killed a fell Days ago at Bis in Senoj by John a Man Twentyfive be Ait Soho had formerly boarded with his Young hear j was verdict rendered in favor of the owners of the los Dos by trial of the sail of Law the owners of the steamship against the Compagnie Generale for damages sustained by the Cromarty Shire in collision with the French liner la in which the Bourgogne was was ended in the admiralty court a Taw Days judgment being rendered in favor of the the court held that la Bourgogne was solely to blame for the her Speed being excessive under the and that the commander of the Cromarty Shire did everything possible to Avert a to less Schley ends her miss Anna Mary Hoke Twenty live years daughter of the late colonel William Louis lawyer and Veteran of two and second Cousin of real committed suicide a Days ago Hur Home at since the death of her to whom she was much a month miss Schley had been she shot herself Thront Ca one of her fathers Xue Senate committee on foreign Kela tons approves of sen ate committee on foreign relations on wednesday authorized senator Davis to report the peace treaty favourably without the committee was in session Only an hour and a greater part of this time was consumed in waiting for a the senators meantime discussing informally the treaty senators Cullom and who were among the sent senators Morgan and Gray were the Only democrats in but the other democratic Sena tors Mills and had full no Tice of the purpose of the and they indicated no opposition to immediate there was no suggestion of any Amend senator Davis was instructed to press the treaty to As Early action As pos the committee also authorized sen Ator Davis to report favourably upon the proposition to remove the injunction of four persons run Down by express train is near per sons were run Down and instantly killed by express train near Larimer station on the Pennsylvania Twentyfive Miles East of on the list of dead is Mary Thomas Albert Wilson and Walter on account of a freight wreck near Lari it was necessary to switch the West bound passenger trains to the eastbound the Engineer blew the but the alarm was gang of murderers it to whom governor Sidiq the appointment of to succeed the late Justin 8 fled the governor on ing to family he was 60 decline the the senates thereupon tendered to Jonathan Justice Oftie Sopr court at and he has resigning his office of senator of Senoi Ninafa Bej lican members of the Wyoming leg numbering held wednesday at which Senatti Clarence Clark was unanimously 38 de for no other Nasinec presented to the s m senator Bate reelected and House met in joint convention wednesday and compared the United states present was declared term of Sii died on his wedding of found s allocated by Foj Darnsteadt was to have Breazna miss Bange on wednesday morning dead in his room at his Tome and Hickory Gas escaping1 i Gas stove caused his purely v Darnsteadt was Twenty four years1 his Louis was official interpreter of the esses county the Young Man was proprietor Joff and he lived Over the Range is the daughter of j of old Gehret Road West the night before there was the marriage ceremony at the Man presbyterian Churchi of it was intended to have formed the Cherokee treated the treaty Between toe United states and the Cherokee Nat Loit was signed by the at a few Day Sazae Wand two refused fourteen of the if Eully baud Are convicted and France by Assize court imposed sentences on wednesday upon fourteen members of a gang of thirty Young criminals known As the Neuilly convicted of numberless robberies holdups and attacks upon and suspected of several bodies the of Othar Seine of late of supposed victims of the Tho sentences ranged from two years to Lite imprisonment at hard the other members of the band were two killed Levi daughter nine teen years killed a ago s jail broken open by a the prisoners la Jaii planned to but it was left for Jane a convicted of Soelte Shonto get a she secured an Iron bar on her cell and set the inmates Ai Bat the woman who for

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