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Show news summary. SIGN THE TliEATY. OUTBREAK AT HAVANA. PEACE RESTORED BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. Three Cuban Killed and lit hers W ounded iy Spaniards. Havana, Dec. 13. Three Cubans were Negotiations at Paris Kuried, and the Treaty of Peace signed by the Commissioners It Now Remains for the Spanish Cortez and the American Senate to Ratify the Treaty. Washington, Dec. 12. Spain and the United States are at peace. A treaty svas signed at Iaris at 8:45 Saturday evening. All that now remains is for the cortez of Spain and the senate of the United States to ratify the treaty which is only a matter of form, as the Spanish have yielded every point demanded by our government. The ten commissioners of the two governments met in the room where the conferences have been held, the Americans in a state of elation, the Spaniards appearing dejected downcast. Although the commission met at o'clock, expecting to finish their work in half an hour, the engrossing of the treaty on parchment was found to be so troublesome that it delayed the signing of the document until 8:30. Clerk Martin, of the American commission, worked all day, without even stopping to eat. When he came into the chamber at 7:20 with the document, he found the commissioners waiting. The Spanish copy had arrived a half hour earlier. Mr. Arthur Ferguson then proceeded to read first the English and after that the Spanish version of the treaty. This finished, the two copies were passed around the table, the commissioners signing them in the order of their rank. , illiam R, Day, Senator Cushman K. Davis, Senator AA'illiam P. Frye, AYhite-laReid and Senator George Gray; Senor Montero Rios, Senor Abarzuza, Senor Garnica, Senor Villaurutia and Ceneral Cerero Y. Soaus, each commission signing its opponents treaty. Both were tied with the Spanish and American colors. AArhen the seals were prepared to be affixed attendants were seut scurrying Tor ribbons of the French with which the documents were sealed, as a compliment to the French hosts of the commissions. The last seal being impressed, the commissioners rose and, without formality, each member shook the hands of all his antagonists and exchanged assurances of sincere personal esteem. The signing was finished at 8:45. At that time the door of the chamber opened and Senor Villaurutia appeared and exclaimed to a group of correspondents who were waiting in the corriAA , tri-colo- r, dor, cestfini. The other members of the Spanish commission followed Senor Afillaurutia and passed silently through the vestibule to their waiting carriages. The American commission strolled out, chatting complacently, and as they descended the steps the lights in the chamber were darkened. The treaty, as signed, consists of aeventeen articles, it having been e found advisable to two or three of the articles in the draft agreed upon at the last meeting. The commissioners of the two nations wrote their signatures on two copies of the treaty, one copy being for the archives. The document was prepared by Secthe United retary Moore in behalf-o- f States commission, and by Senor for Spain, on account of the continued illness of Secretary Ojeda of the Spanish commission. Each copy contains the English and Spanish texts of the treaty in parallel columns. The wording had been approved previously by the commission without a joint meeting, so there was no controversy on this subject. sub-divid- ia RELIEF AT WASHINGTON. lly the President And Cabinet AArashington, Dec. 12. The official news of the signing of the peace treaty wasreceived in AA'ashington in cipher .News Received form, as usual, from Judge Day. It was at once transmitted to the president, who was alone at that time, but within a comparatively short time all the members of the cabinet had either called or sent their congratulations. ;The president's congratulations were promptly cabled to the commission. W, J. liryan lias Resigned. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 12. General Eeifer, who is in command of the remaining troops of the Seventh army corps since General Lee's departure for Cuba, confirms the rumor of Colonel YV. J. Bryan's resignation of his command. Both General Lee and General Keifer endeavored to induce Colonel Bryan to go to Cuba, but were unsuccessful. Lieutenant-Colone- l Vifquain of the Third Nebraska regiment will Succeed Colonel Bryan. Vifquain was brigadier-genera- l in the civil war. farm and garden. Great destitution prevails MATTERS OF INTEREST TO laboring classes in Havana. agriculturists: General John R. Brooke will be billed and one Spanish officer and two made the military governor of Cuba. Some Cubans were wounded in an affray beIllr.ts About Cl The Missonri Pacific paid its floating tween some Spanish officers off of Soil ami the lei, Is duty and a number of citizen and a party of debt of 1,300, Out) to Russell Sage DeThereof Horticulture, Viticulture aid Floriculture- Cubans, who wished to close the Taeon cember 8. A body of soldiers has been ordered theatre on account of the death of to be in readiness to escort Dreyfus to A Notel Method of General Calixto Garcia at AYashington. Ilautlng Paris for trial. The Spanisli troops on duty intervened n and restored order. From Farmers Review: The The pope has decided that the SpanAfter the news of General Garcia's ish policy of the Vatican shall bo of a spring-se- t bed of strawberries is most costly during the first death spread through Havana, the and not neutral. month and a half after setting in the Cubans wished to have all the places Sir Thomas Upington, premier of field. Attention must be given them of amusement closed. They succeeded Cape Colony from 1884 to 18m;, died at at a time when the grower is most in closing two places frequented by Cape Town, in his 54th year. busy with other farm work. The best Cubans, but the management of the way of reducing this work that has The t Ninth, Thirteenth and Twenty-firs- come Taeon theatre, where there were many under the notice and of regiments regular infantry has been found writers Spanish officers among the audience, him by satisfactory is have been ordered to Manila. refused to close the house. Thereupon practiced in some of the fields of AYest-er- n New York. The young plants are Secretary Long has cabled to orders Allegretto, a former captain of Cuban Dewey to send the dug in early spring, the roots shortentroops, got into an excited argument to ed to about four inches, and the dead with the manager of the theatre, and cruiser Raleigh to the United Mates. was escorted to the sidewalk by the Sir AAilliam Anderson, director gen- leaves trimmed off. In shortening, the eral of the royal ordinance factories plant is held in the left hand, the police on duty. There Allegretto enthumb and forefinger embracing it at tered into a heated discussion with a and part in ventor of cordite, died at the collar. All roots that hang beSpanisli officer who struck him across London. low the little finger are cut off with a the face with the flat of his sword.; Captain Samuel McKee, pair of shears. The trimmed plants Firing followed from all sides and it of congress and one of Kentucky's mosi are then set in rows a foot apart. They was several minutes before the riot promising Republicans, died at Louis- are shaded, if they need it, until they was stopped. It is said that fourteen take hold and are mulched with ville of paralysis.. more wounded persons, besides those short stable manure. During The thermometer at Denver on the the month or six weeks that the plants already mentioned, are being takeD 9th registered 19 degrees below zero; remain in the bed care of in private bouses. they are sprayed freat Aalentine, Neb., on the same day, quently for diseases and insects and te Straw-lcrrU- culti-vatio- auti-Carli- st Rear-Admir- well-decaye- RELIEVING 20 VOLUNTEERS. Being Ordered to Manila That Purpose. AYashington, Dec. 13. The war Regular de- partment has began in earnest the relief of the volunteer troops now sta-- , tioned at Manila by regulars. Secre-- . tary Alger yesterday signed an order designating for this purpose six regiments of United States infantry out of the eight held in reserve for service countries. The regiments are-th- Twentieth, at Fort Leavenworth,' Kan.; the Third, at Fort Sneliing, Minn., the Twelfth, at Jefferson Bar-- ' racks, Mo., and Fort Riley, Kan.; the. Seventh, at Columbus, O.; the Fourth, at Fort Sheridan, and the Twenty-seconat Fort Crook, Neb. They will go forward to Manila as soon as the transportation can be provided. It may be that the two regiments still held in reserve, the Twenty-fourtand the Twenty-fiftinfantry, will join the others before they sail. These regiments were selected in the reverse ratio to the loss sustained by them in the Cuban campaign. The volunteers in Manila will be retired in the order in which they reached that city. d, h h DEATH DEALING SMELTERS. fnmei From the Butte Smelter Cause Four Death In One Day. Butte, Mont., Dec. 13. For four days the sulphur and arsenic fumes from the smelters around Butte have hung over the city in dense clouds, making breathing almost impossible. Four deaths were caused by this today, and the people have become terribly alarmed. Those who can do so are leaving the city, and a has been called for tonight. Unless there is a change in conditions, it is probable that a mob will be organized-tdestroy some of the most obnoxious smelters. The Smelter-owner- s are ignoringthe law of the operation of their plants and Mayor Harrington and Chief of Police Mulholland called on them yesterday and asked them to shut down the smelters for a few days, to give the people an opportunity to breathe-Thsmelter men want time to think about it. mass-meetin- g e CASHIER JONES ARRESTED. With Attempting to Murder Hanker Stontt at Salt Lake. Charged Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 13. Cash ier A. B. Jones of the Utah National bank was arraigned before Justice McMaster yesterday on a complaint charging him with assault with intent to kill Joseph M. Stoutt, who was shot on the evening of the 9th inst., and is at present in a precarious condition. The accused plead not guilty, and the date of the preliminary examination was filed for Monday, December 19, at 2 p. m., Mr. Jones being placed under a bond of 52,500, which was promptly furnished. Fearful Mine Fxploion. Potcau, I. T., Dec. 13. An explosion In the Indianola & Ilathway mine, three miles from here, caused the death of at least five men. Twenty-fivothers are imprisoned in the mine, which is on fire, and it is feared few of them can be rescued. The disaster was caused by an explosion of dust following a blast. One hundred men were at work in the mine at the time. The greatest excitement prevails in the vicinity of the mine, and the names of the dead and imprisoned miners cannot be obtained. e ; degrees below. The widow of David Blakely has obtained a decision involving 5100,000 from John Phillip Sousa, leader of the famous Marine hand. Reports regarding the health of the troops at Santiago are encouraging, and in the Philippines the conditions have materially improved. The senate in executive session has ratified the treaty for the extension of the time for the completion of the Mexican boundary one year. James Shaw, the only surviving member of the Michigan legislature of 1847, when Detroit was the capital of .Michigan, died at Niles, aged 8G. The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, which sailed from New York with 900 troops for Manila, broke down soon after starting for sea and put in at Newport News. Henry Mortimer Platt is dead at his home in New York aged 76 years. Fifty years ago he established the first gold and silver refinery in the United States. Three hundred men of the New York regiment and a number of sailors and officers of Admiral Deweys fleet arrived in San Francisco December 9, en route home. Among Bedford's population of 2,800 there are about 2,000 cases of what is called genuine smallpox. Other Pennsylvania towns are excited over the affair. The fire in the works of the Standard Oil company at Los Angeles has burned itself out, the entire property The total loss is being consumed. estimated at 225,000. The Ohio commandery of the military order of the Loyal Legion, has decided to elect President McKinley commander of the order at the next election which takes place in May. Sam Smith, the train robber, has been found guilty of murder in the first degree at Eldorado, Kan. He will receive a death sentence, which in Kansas means life imprisonment. A report submitted to congress by the commission of fish and fisheries shows an expenditure of 187,800 fof the propagation of food fisheries dur-thfiscal year ended June 30th last. John Barrett, formerly United States minister to Siam, after visiting Pekin, says the situation in China is one of the most critical nature, and that Manchuria is no longer Chinese, but Russian territory. The session of the Canadian Joint High Commission yesterday was again devoted to the reciprocity clause, but there is no official intimation of how far or how amicably this discussion e watered if they become dry. d, Before they are removed the ground is thoroughly drenched, so that they may be packed close together upon trays and taken to the field. The splendid root pot-gro- Soil for Apple Oroharda. The soil for an apple orchard should be selected with a great deal of care. It used to be the idea that any soil was good enough for the apple orchard, and we find in many cases apple orchards set out on soils entirely unsuited for them. Some people have the Idea that the poorer the soil the better it will be for the apple orchard. This opinion evidently arose from the experience of people In setting out orchards on very rich land and finding them unsulted for them. They quite naturally inferred that if the rich land was not good the poor land must be good. But rich land Is not suitable, for the reason that it occasions a too great growth of wood and not enough of fruit buds. As we say, It all grows to foliage! Land should be rich enough to insure a good growth of wood, but not too rich to permit fruit buds to develop in large numbers. Generally a meadow will be found unsuitable, for the reason that the stands so near the surface that the roots are soaked during a large part of the year. The water does not have to lie near the surface to do this, for, as Is well known, the roots of apple trees penetrate very deeply into the ground, sometimes seven or more feet. The hill location Is generally best for the apple orchard, for the reason that there is no underlying sheet of water. The drainage Is natural and rapid, and the roots are always able to do their work without Interference. A medium clay soil is generally good, for the reason that in it the fertility is held till taken up by the roots. A sandy soil gets rapidly poor, and when fertilized leaches so badly that much of the manure is lost. soil-wat- er ers pasture the meadow in the fall to consume the growth of grass after recovery from the cutting. Economy is a good thing, and, other things being equal, he will prosper best who permits the least waste. But there is such a thing as making a saving at too great expeuse, and much of the pasturing ol meadows is of this class, for H is done at the expense of th future hay crop. A newly cut meadow for instance, is not a stubble field from "hith a penny saved is necessarily earned. It is the place where the next years haycrop is to be grown and should be managed with that idea in view. To pasture the meadow in the fall may sae some feed that is worth saving, hut it may also leave the ground so bare that when winter comes great injury is done to the grass roots and it may not recover. When one aces himself short of pasture, either in midsummer or later in the fall, and the meadow shows up well with considerable feed on it, there is a great temptation to turn the stock on, and there may be times when it is really the best thing to do under the circumstances as they actually exist. It is better, for instance, than to let the stock suffer when it is that or nothing. But such circumstances should not be permitted to occur. To provide a fodder crop In a corn country is so easy that there is no necessity for it to occur, and the management of the meadow should be carried on for the meadows own good and with an eye single to the largest possible hay crop. Basle Slag on system they develop in the bed prevents the danger of a check when set. During this time the field is being thoroughly prepared. After harrowing it the weeder is run over it once each week or ten days, to kill the weeds, expose grubs to the crows and keep the surface loose and open. The plants have thus a mellow Dea, well warmed, In which to start. They are not checked, as is often the case with April-splants for which the ground has been plowed, perhaps necessarily, before it was In fit condition. After the plants are set the treatment is the same as for ordinary plantations. Besides the advantages mentioned this system is admirable in that the plants may be sprayed much more thoroughly in much less time and with much less fungicide than when set in the open field. Further, unless the field be disease infected, plants grown and treated In this way will, after being set, seldom need a epraylng during the first year. The setting of these plants in the field comes at a time when the greatest rush of spring work Is over and may be taken more easily. When plants come from the nursery In poor conditiuiT'ttfey can be treated to best advantage by this method and losses in the field thus prevented. Lastly, plants so grown are fully as good as plants, and for this reason should be valued by persons that never think of setting out a bed until the fruit begins to appear in the markets. Surely enough to commend the method to the grower! M. G. Kains. et and thus make a continued use of tfca field on the theory that nothing should be allowed to go to waste. Many oth- (lay Land. Experiments conducted in the west of England by the Bath and Yest society have brought some useful results in manuring with basic slag on clay land to light, after three years experience, says Farmer and Stockbreeder (Eng.). These are briefly (1) On certain soils, the full effects of basic slag are not apparent until a considerable period has elapsed; but (2) the development of these effects may be, and probably Is, hastened or retarded by the condition of the season following the application of the manure; and (3) that it may perhaps be assumed that the beneficial effects of the slag are not only maintained over a very considerable period, but that there is also a marked tendency to Increase observable In these efforts from year to year, such as would seem to point to a gradual Improvement In the general condition of growth, and probably also to the production of a condition of In the soil, which Is specially favorable to the growth of leguminous plants. The stimulus given to clovers so far as has been observed, has not been carried out at the expense of the ordinary grasses. Where Are the Wild In response to an Inquiry as to the cause of the disappearance of the once abundant wild pigeon, the information is here given that the wholesale butchery of these birds resulted in almost exterminating the species, says Wisconsin Agriculturalist. The market hunters followed the birds to their nesting grounds, where countless thousands of wild pigeons congregated to breed, and a merciless slaughter was indulged in, year after year, until few of the species remain. The larger portion of the pigeons (old birds and young squabs, indiscriminately) were killed on the roosting grounds, and shipped to the larger cities. A smaller percentage was netted or trapped and sent alive in crates to spoilsmens clubs and associations for purposes. The sportsmen of America are therefore accessories in the nefarious work of destroying the wild pigeons of the country, though the greed of the market hunter is mainly responsible for "the deep damnation of their taking off. Fig-eon- trap-shooti- trap-shooti- Grape Growing on Little Land. It is surprising how little extent of earths surface Is needed to root a grape vine. If it can grow upward and have open space enough on one or two sides to get plenty of Bunshine, the area In which its roots can run Is matter of We comparatively little Importance. have seen thrifty and productive grape vines where there was only three feet space between a house with Its cellar wall on one side and the street sidewalk on the other. As the sidewalk was made of plank, the grape roots undoubtedly extended under It. But even with this there was scarcely a space seven by 25 feet on the earths surface, and this supported for years two grape vines, each of which ran up a trellis as high as the house, and bore every year fine clusters of luscious fruit it the top. Ex. had proceeded. Secretary Long, at the instigation of Senator Hale, has submitted a bill appropriating 10,000 for the erection of a monument and a fence at Colon cemetery, Havana, where the dead of the Maine are buried. Three men were killed and eight Bad Stacking. Bad stacking is turnwere injured, three of them probably ing out a pretty expensive business this fall. Owing to the miserable weather fatally, by the explosion of a press mill and four grinding mills in the we have been having lately, a great many farmers find their grain in a rotHaggley yard of the Dupont Powder or works at AAilmington, Del. ting, rotten damp state, and are put PaHtaring Meadows. to no end of trouble trying to dry it. The New England Shoe and Leather In the management of meadows there A couple of hours or a couple of days association yesterday announced the are too many who seem to think that sp.ent In stacking and a little longer assignment of the Mudge Shoe com. they can eat their cake and still have more care would have saved all this. pany, with headquarters at Boston It and a great deal of pasturing Is done It rains In Manitoba sometimes in the and factories at Newbury port and East that should never he permitted, says fall. Farmers Advocate. Rochester, N. IJ. Liabilities will reach owa Homestead. Many Isthink that as removed it loon as the hay crop Early maturity for market means 8125,000. a good economy to turn on the cattle great deal in making up th profits. a |