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Show 4 NEWS SUMMARY. . Vir Fire at Fortlend, Ore., censed e financial loss of over 1400,000. Four boys, aged from 18 to 18, were drowned by the capsizing of a boat near St. Louis. Tracey and Merrill, the convicts who escaped from the Oregon penitentiary, are still at large. The Chinese cruiser Kal Chi was wrecked by an explosion and 150 officers and men killed. A plague of grasshoppers is menacing the crops of Sacramento, Eldorado and Placer counties, Cal. It is announced in Madrid that the government has decided to appoint minister to the Cuban repnblio. Charles L. Dillon, one of the best known sporting characters in ths west, was killed in a runaway accident IN FAIR HARTINIQUE (Special Letter.) 4 A ATHET1CALLY Interesting Is the following letter from a rorrespondent who visited the island of Martinique but a few weeks before the awful event which blotted out one of the fairest spots of the earth: Favored by bright, balmy weather, study in black and white. When walk ing the negresses gather up one side of their skirt, fastening it at the hip, thus adding to their jaunty appearance and gaining an artistic finish for their toilet , love of perWith a sonal adornment Is a passion in the gratification of which she displays a reckless extravagance, as witness the immense string of beads of extraordinary size She coils around her shapely neck, to say nothing of the preposterous rings she attaches to her ears. A favorite form of adornment is composed of six golden bars, as big around and as long as the wearers little finger, together with Franco-African- undisturbed by serious thoughts of material things and possessed of health, strength and a cheerful, carefree disposition, the dwellers of the Island of Martinique pass a thoroughIts warm, ly enjoyable existence. beautiful climate, charming situation at Ileleua. and charming cities impress the travA bad cyclone, accompanied by a eler most favorably, while the unfailtidal wave, has swept over Kurrachee, ing good humor and accommodating heavy bands; ttasJ . earrings look more like the barrels of. a the principal seaport town of the prorevolver than female and vince of Sinde, India. beholder is surprised to find that the An earthquake shock lasting twenty the human ear can bear the weight of seconds was felt at Chilpancingo, so much metal. In keeping with these Mexico. No damage was done, but are brooches as large as soap dishes, lockets as large as snuff boxes, arm-letgreat terror prevailed. bracelets and finger rings of all ColThe report has reached Colon, and degrees of inconvenipatterns the ombia, that government troops ence. have reoccupied Cborrera, which was Little girls, maidens, matrons and held by the insurgents. ancient dames ail of them wear gorThe Peruvian press is urging the geous bandana handkerchiefs, built government to adobt energetic measupon their heads with scrupulous care ures to get the South ..frican Boers to in intricate folds. Many of the quadroons are handsome, and even beautito that country. emigrate ful in their youth, and the women of Oen. Jacob U. Smith, who recently black as welLaj those of mixed pure was in Manila, has blood, walk with a lightness of step Instructed to proceed to San Francisco, and a graceful freedom of motion that there to await further orders. are very pleasant to see. This applies W.W. Atchison, a saloonkeeper, shot only to the women who go shoeless, for when a negress wears even the and killed James O'Meara and woundbest fitting pair of shoes, she minces ed Will Thayir after a quarrel in and totters and her gait becomes most Atchison's saloon at San Pedro, N. M. awkward. The Cuban senate has approved the The language of the people of the A French Creole. bill fixing President Palma'a salary at The negro creoles Type of the beautiful women of pure island is French. 985,000 a year, and that of Senor West Indian mood whose handsome speak a Jargon hard to understand, at 88,000. Estevez, the features and graceful forms make while the whites speak French with them the moBt attractive of the an accent that very closely resembles Two hundred employees of the Warthe speech of the creoles of Louisiana. island women. ren City, O., Boiler works went out on The word creole" is applied to everystrike because of the discharge of the ways of the inhabitants make them thing born in the West Indies and the president of their union by the pleasant companions. Indeed, the inhabitants are undoubtedly the most inThe Italian chamber of commerce teresting of the island's many attracof New York City has decided o try tions and they have repeatedly been to to arbitrate the differences between referred to by writers after a visit Indies. West the the striking of Paterson In the busiest part of the town I and their employers. halted 'or a few moments to watch Senator Warren of Wyoming has in- a throng of worshipers coming in from troduced a bill providing for the pur- all directions,' summoned by the tollchase of a site and erection of a pub-li-e ing of a bell to attend vespers. It was gossiping, laughing, building in the city of Sheridan, a for the greatcrowd, composed talking Wyo., to cost 9100,000. er part of colored women, all of them Violent earth shocks and subter- gay and radiant in the gaudiest of caliranean rumbling caused a panic coes ana colored cotton-stuffthere among the inhabitants of Melilla, were but few meanly clad persons and Morocco. No damage was done, and not many beggars. The men were more stalwart, more active and aglie there was no loss of life. in their movements than are our The Dutch cruiser Keonigen Rentes southern blacks. The women were baa been ordered to proceed from more shapely and well favored, their A Black Beauty. Willemstand, island of (Juracoa, to La figures lissome and hy no means Guayra, Venezuela to protect the in- gross, or lacking beauty of contour creoles of the West Indies consider terests of the Netherlands. or comeliness. There were all shades the name most honorable and worthy to be borne by only people of native United States Circuit Judge James of color from those of pure African birth. almost to others who, being Jenkins of Chicago has attracted blood The population of the country at white, readily pass for swarthy might advomarked attention by an addres the last census was about 190,000, French creoles of European descent most of them blacks or members of cating the abolition of an elective women were of costumes the The judiciary in the state courts. neat and clean; their garments, of the remarkable mixed race which distinguishes the island. The population A steamship service between New but the dominant tint Is York and north Brazil has been decidThe women are remarkable is yellow. n ed upon by the Uamburg-Americafor their strength and endurance. Steamship company. At the outset They can walk all day up and down the sailings will be monthly. hill, in the hot sun, carrying loads 100 to 150 pounds on their heads. from silk Union in Bill, factory Every They very seldom make use of the N. J., with one exception, has dosed. hand to steady the load, the head beThe owners decided not to attempt to ing almost motionless. These women, resume operations for the present of the cooly class, carry great owing to riotous disturbances. amounts of produce across mountain Minnie Gay of Tacoma, SO years of from plantation to seaport age, took a fatal dose of corbolic acid Nearly all the Martinique women She soon 'after. beautiful. This being accounted are killed herself dying for by the admixture of Carib blood because Elmer Smith, a Tacoma basewith . that of the Europeans and ball player went walking with another blacks. Both men and women are girL often so perfect physically that one General Molto, captain-gener- al of wishing to create a Mercury or a of Marid, is dead from injuries susVenus need only to take a cast of a tained when he fell from bis horse at body without making a modification a review of Spanish troops held at the from the head to the foot. The appearance of the Island of time King Alfonso attained his masome of the English possessions with jority. is Yfl striking contrast Martinique In Indianapolis Andrew Delss, SO with some of the English possessions years of age, cut the throat of his in the same vicinity, neatness and bride, 10 years old, and then swalloworderly management Invariably marked a dose of carbolic acid, from which ing the former. This is explained by The girl will die. The he died. the fact that the French colonists, motive was jealousy. whether European or creole, consider the West Indies their country and Although the German Foreign office work for it alone. In the English has received no news from the German colonies tilings are different. EveryTypes of Martinique Women, Charge MAffairs at Caracas, Herr von one regards the colony only as a temsince his notification cheapest prints or coarsest colored porary lodging place and calls EngPilgrlm-Baltazs- i, of the bombardment of La Guayara, tuffs, were arranged with taste and land home, although few of them have The garment of ever been there. as not is carefully draped. signifihis silence regarded was a single loose fashion prevailing cant. a of colored calico Burns' Immortal Poems. or flowered wrapper An Eskimo named Konnnck shot muslin, belted at the waist with artBurns committed his poems to and killed a native doctor who was ful and perfectly excusable care. The memory as he composed them, and treating him for consumption on May young women leave one arm and when he sat down to write he had beih, near Nome. Konnuek was grow- shoulder bare, which, being black, fore him no latjoi0' pf composition, but only the task 'of writing down what ing worse end held the doctor respon- and thrown into strong relief by makes a died few a weeks cambric, murderer pleasing he had already finished. sible. The boi, gew-gaw- vice-presid- ent, com-pan- y. silk-worke- rs I the warllght in hia eye. Who tunes lila life to the shrilling and knows the way to die. Ufa the lighting man! Tha man all Innocent of sham. Who pays the due of a loyal heart at tha shrine of Uncle Sam; Who bears our load on the weary road that leads to a distant ieace. And asks no halt till he fliidn the fault, and the rours of cannon eeuse; May the throb and thrum of the rolling drum be promise to lilx eara Of the Joyous day when lie'll mine away to hear a nation's cheer A health to s s, court-martial- ed A Health to Mi Fighting Mon. health to the fighting mail! The man with a red glint in hia rye A glint that glow to a tender gleam far the old (lag in tin sky. To the man who iUreainl the man who cares for the good old l 8. A.. Who bears the brunt in the battle front and hurries to lie fray. A health to him -- our soldier grim with A health to the fighting man! The man with Impulse clean and clear; W hold his right as a gallant knight without reproach or fear. Whan the bugle sings and the hullet rings and the wilier flushes bright. May ha feel the aid of the prayers prayed to guard hint In the light; May good lurk ride on either side and sava him for the grasp Of the friendly hand in hia native land that'a yearning for the clasp. W. I). Ncsblt, In tne llalilmore AmerA ican. So Honored Votoran. James F. Morrison was born in Philadelphia, October, 1840. He was graduated from the Philadelphia High School, and at the outbreak of the civil war enrolled in April, 1801. He was mustered in Company K, Second regiment, Pennsylvania Reserves, May 27, 1861, and participated in all that came to soldier life with the Army of the Potomac until December 13, 1862, at Fredericksburg, Va., when, as a member of the color guard, he was left desperately wounded and made a prisoner after the magnificent charge of the Pennsylvania Reserves at Hamilton's Crossing. Comrade Morrison paid the penalty of incarceration In Libby prison, and was mustered out June 10, 1864, disabled for life, hts wounds and scars being the best evidence of his valor. He has been a member of George G. Meade Post. No. 1, for twenty years; was Its adjutant In 1892; assistant Inspector general In 1893; again adju- - good-nature- s; . many-colore- . well-washe- later. d the clay hole. They siuvmled. hut as elgdu-eother barrels were stolen the same night the business was ovc-don- e and an investigation was order- ed. "Our barrel of flour was hid in th clay hole and brush thrown over It, and dirt from the quarters was swept When carelessly about the brush. Capt. Hturgis found the clay hole filled with brush he Hwore until the air was blue, and we asked Sergt Withrow to explain to him confidentially why the brush was there. Then there was another explosion, but the captain finally agreed to let the brush remain that day and say no more about the matter. That afternoon the whole division was ordered out on drill and the quarters searched for the missing flour, but not a barrel was found, although our captain knew what was In the clay hole. Chicago Inter Ocean. A lira Dru mmol' Boy. Among the visitors In Dallas during the reunion was Lieut.-CoJohn L. Clem, deputy quartermaster general, l.T. S. A., now stationed at San Antonio. Tex. Col. Clem is the youngest and perhaps the bravest soldier who served on the Union Bide during the civil war. He feared nothing and earned marked distinction in all the battles in which he served, but principally so at Shiloh and Chickamauga. In 18G1, when only. 9 years old, he strove for admission to the Third Ohio regiment, but was rejected on account of his youth. While the regiment was on its way to the front he installed himself on the train and when it arrived in Cincinnati tendered hia services to the Twenty-thir- d Michigan, in which he was enrolled as a drummer boy. Many were his experiences in the battlefield. His drum was smashed by a shell at Pittsburgh Landing, and at Shiloh, when the Union forces were wavering, he beat the long roll in front of the enemy, rallying the Union army. At Chickamauga when the Union troops had fallen back, leaving a brigade behind to guard the position, his regiment was among those composing that brigade. They were surrounded by Confederates and a colonel in gray uniform and on horseback dashed forward and commanded the little fellow to surrender. For answer Johnny seized a musket from a fallen comrade and shot the colonel from his horse. For this act he was promoted to the rank of sergeant ly Gen. Thomas. The drummer boy thought he deserved better, and, turning to the general, inquired: Is that all you are going to do for me?" At Chickamauga three bullets pierced his cap. In 1871 President Grant honored him with a commission as second lieutenant. He was graduated from the artillery school at Fortress Monroe in 1874 and subsequently by appointment by the Secretary of War became military instructor at the Galesburg University. In 1895 he was made a major and quartermaster and more recently was and deputy made a lieutenant-colone- l quartermaster general. l. Wow Soldiers resigning that position when he was appointed assistant adjutant general of the department In the same year. He was reappointed adjutant general in 1895, and again In 1896, resigning In November of the latter year- - In 1898 Comrade Morrison was a member of the executive committee of the National Council of Administration. At the department encampment held at Gettysburg, June 7, 1899, he was by a rising vote of the delegates present unanimously elected department commander of Pennsylvania, Grand Army of the Republic. amt of the post In 1894, Monomsot. The soldiers' monument presented by Cyrus H. Lothrop has been accepted by the city council and will be located on the east aide of Taunton green, Masa. The monument, which is practically completed, ia of Westerly granite, and from the base to the top of the statue surmounting It will be about twenty-si- x feet in night Tne monument consists of threi bases, die cap and plinth, and is surmounted by the figure of an infantryman standing at parade rest.. The figure is seven feet high. The bottom base Is seven feet square, and with the second base Is plain. On three sides of the third base are the words Kept Their Floun In raisArmy," Navy, After our return from the Knoxville march in December, 1863, we ed letters, while on the fourth is a went into winter quarters at McAfee's polished panel containing the donors church, not far from Chickamauga. name and the date of the erection of We built small log houses, 12 by 14 the monument. fireplace feet, each with a three-foo- t A Kirk In fbo Role. and a chimney of sticks and clay mud. Gov. Taft, before the Senate Philip our company Most of the clay used ny told of a fight pines committee to daub the shanties was taken from in in which some AmeriMindanao, a large hole In the rear of the little can troops engaged a lot of natives cabin occupied by Humphrey vlll, with bolos. One of the Ameriarmed HayneB, Tweedy, Roe, and can sergeants had a enmyself, and we all have good reason counter with a native. The boloman to remember it. The hole had been struck the sergeant a blow in the neck left open by order of Capt. Sturgis, as almost him. The soldiers a dumping place for company refuse, life waadecapitating because the bolo had a saved but the boys put it to better use. nick In the blade. The At that time we were still on short carotid Just fitted this nick and artery rations, and the boys were continually was not severed, although the neck on In this mood they were each side was cut. hungry. tempted by 500 barrels of flour piled The sergeant. Gov. Taft said, supbakery, np near the government bis head in his hand and rode ported where the commissary proposed to to a surgeon. The wounds miles bake bread every day for the division. thirty in his neck were sewed up and the Hia Intentions were good, but he could man Is now alive and well. not supply the demand, and Haynes, McMastere and Wilson planned to The farm and the garden are the steal a barrel of flour and hide It 'n best gold diggings 1S61-18C5- ," to-da- y, hand-to-han- good-size- d d |