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Show a, lElTAUrSERVrOEi Jlajur-Ccut ral UHcj,Jlakej III dt;- iorl a tlir.rjcltlc31llit.irv . llirMon. DCPLORABLE . CONDITION OT cvrsiN nusaiA. Tlw Course rtirsueil by jlizntr ; Is , (.'eucrallr Aiiproved la buattraala. QUITE A NEW SYSTEM OF HIGHWAY HIGH-WAY ROBBERY r .11 I ThcU. J, llojott. Taxlnj Tittcs In Traoce. TlirilHng ":cciip" AtSiagara; . " 4 itr TlfiripH lathe JcwM '- I nepnrli on I ho Ttllllsrr lllrliiuu orihe PHellie. ' AVamiimjto, QcL i3. Major General Miles, In Tils anuiial reiurt ofUiainiliuuy dii;loo ofthclV-fie, ofthclV-fie, while reporting the tone and cbaracttr of hc serviet: mo:Lex-cclent, mo:Lex-cclent, says any system Is defecjjvu which leaves with littlu ad at.ee-nicnt at.ee-nicnt and chgbt hope of reco jnlUou the class V' ciUceus nbu dt-mte Uienuelva enllrtly to Hie mllltiri-rerviee. mllltiri-rerviee. Tlie artillery branch should be increased by at least two regi-ueqtsaiiAtlmSjame regi-ueqtsaiiAtlmSjame prganlciUon be giqi( )h(irfantry Uuibexf At fa tbe liest armies of Ibe world, namely a three battalion organization. General Gene-ral Miles says, the various methods horted latoicducbde-erUons, lave not to any consldcraole extent done so. lie believe-, however, thatwcamappnnchlug n solution of Uie problem and that the mess tires reccnUy adopteil are stei'sin. the t)ht direction., The holding o'f UUridt-ntuI'ltf-d!auUibsron tlreeahCilrlosreserval UUU, upeclally along the Gila rirtr, which is Unsulted to them and often' of-ten' uiihealtliy,i will alir.-ijS lea source of ilangerandlil)stutL'3iict-i. As scvtral military potsand res-ervaUous res-ervaUous Jn Uie" deiartmcnt ale abauloned, he recommends that Uiey be at once occupied by I ndians orcomerted Into industrial echini, and that the Mohave aud Vulirs Indians In-dians bo removed nt onev from thi fclUslyGllaNalloy. ThvSJaa Carlos lndlnus jnf iTong the San Caikn tlVer and Uie White mountains should bu located on a suflicleut part of the resenaUon and the i:rmaidkk tiikows oi-iat tuh'tcliumsjtaalxjwiilK.of iL x'f Ilieci0n. The tribes would l-e more easily controlled when tea-rated tea-rated and removed from such reloim an they are now coruiiellrd to occupy. The General dwells at tons'.iSer-able tons'.iSer-able length on the iast defetire micsUon, reltcratlbghls wdl-known views ott IliM subject. ',!tecentptac-UcvUiafacHversorth.wKngllsh ',!tecentptac-UcvUiafacHversorth.wKngllsh vf7 haVvdfraT)AratVl","liu aoyt '-the Sc thalhelr powerful navv could not defend even Uie llmlted'KHMs uf UiathUnd. and it is ute'ess to suppose Uiatauy navy we can cm struct eau dcleud our exten-he eeaeoast. iaud ltterir ofe far niore ttlectlvt- Uia.i nrttiorrd ships . means of tlefeum. I teeoanieud that sites lor ceast jlefeu'eB be -ued wHhot!' llelay lilat a gun fiilndry be established on the l"a-clfie l"a-clfie Coast.and that one-fourth of thu appropriation mmired for coast defence de-fence lie made every year for the next our years.-" llie Mlrier Crn-I. Pa in, Oct S -a-Hejttily Motra.l's bill, looking to the entire abolition of titles In Krauce by taxing Uiem heavily, wa-offered jeslerdn. It prqpo - ?n iuini9l impost) Ihds gnttitdt for the frill de," W( franot for the Utle of t'artJu. TnW ?raiTfcj t.vimtc, .JAl .pn,i' M franc; duke, 5",0t; and for that of prince, 195,0W franc: for duku or count with the fittfix cf 'ailghne-," 2-Tii.O-K) francSr aud jirince with the same prefix, a5t,0" franc. Tlio sUitme Is Ingeniously devln-J, but scarctli' pmcticable. a? If a reiMlilican itsalorlty "-hould deem it JiolillU tOlieprlU' Uib de-ecund'.cts de-ecund'.cts cf tile u!d liability af the r)hU(c lloir left Uiem they would probabri' Vote to do so directly. VarelFcrc'eu. liFtAiuso. Pa., Oct. 2). huItly after midnight a stranger ruabed into tbe dispatcher's office of the Reading Kallroad, and demanded a free 'pass to Lebanon. When it was refused lie thrcateued to fight thu otllcial and rushed but hito the train gallery, where t"o engines aud an empty1 inssengcr train of four cars wcrc-tandlug. At the pistol's point tbo man drove offthuenglnicrof one of the eugiues and mounted the cab hfmelf. peeping oirtboollicer with his draw n pistol, the man.nlth his other hand, pulled thetlirotUe aud the englue -tarted with a rush. The locomotive crashed into the pasiengercartrainnnd pushed Hand the engine ahead, aud oil they staffed for lctnuonatSiliIgii rate or speed. ARergolug half d mile au ofliccr who had jumped on the train shut dovn the brakes and stopped IL Jnstas a isse of ofllcers caught up to the rear engine, the desperate mau Iead ironi the cab aud escaped in tlie darkness, and the train was brought back to the city. The offender has not yet been a-prehended. a-prehended. The hind platfonn of the rear car w as smashed. ' ninerfiiar Jew-. St. Pr.rwam'RO, Oct. J The Moscow HanSle, describing the sttte of the Jews In lSerdltechen", says: "The streets of the Jewish ijuarter of town are not more than lour feet wide. On either side of them the tumble-down old house seem ready to fall to pieces. Children are Ijiug before the houes on the street in a slate of almost complete nudity, wallowing In the slough, aud among themauy numliersof slovenly sloven-ly women, mothers of the children, stretched out" sideways and lengthways length-ways on Uie street sleeping under cover of Uie burning run. Tlio statistician, M. Bobfovski, writing on the condition of the Jews in the government of. Grodno, says: ' By fat the greater part of Uie Jewish populaUort are poor and are always engrossed by one care how to get their dally bread.. Burdened with, numcrdus families; Uie crowded state IU which they live urpass anything one can conctlve as possible. possi-ble. FretjUenUy oue liut, cou-lst-In-of Uiree or at most four rooms, lodges as many as twelve Ciiullic-, who- lives are all an unbn ken srries of privations, and tains. Whole families sometimes, live on thniuarters ot a pound of bn-nJ, onu salt herring anda, fqty onions a day." |