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Show CUBAN PRESIDENT ASKS H $2,000,000 FOR AQUEDUCT HAVANA. Jan. IS. In a message to IH congress today. President .Gomez recom- jH mends the immediate appropriation of $2,000,000 for a Santingo aqueduct. The conditions at Santiago are most serious because of the water famine The clcc- trlcal plants have beon shut down, tho city is in darkness, the street cars have stopped, no newspapers are being print- cd and business Is paralyzed. The people are suffering Intensely. TWo steamers carrying 350.000 gallons of wa- IH ter from Guantanamo are hastening to the |