Show AT HOME AND ABROAD I 1 montreal dec 28 the annual meeting of the geological society of america was waa held hed here toda yand the following officers were elected president john 1 X stevenson new york first vice president B K emerson amherst mass secretary H T fairchild rochester new york treasurer J C white morgantown Morgan town W va editor J T brown washington DC libra librarian xian W H gushing cushing cleveland at the atter afternoon noon session john mason clarke of albany N Y assistant state geologist and Pante geo L collie professor of geology in beloit college beloit wis and J E talma talmage ge professor of geology in the university of utah at salt lake city were elected fellows of the society city of mexico dec 28 A gentleman from cuba who has been in manzanillo in one of the so called pacific provinces says that in reality the war has not begun there for the country has been abandoned to insurgents who have built towns which are supplied with abundant provisions from the neighboring states and established by the insurgents who even manufacture gunpowder and have arms fact factories orien tanneries canneries tann eries and shoe factories so they can supply their troops with the most indispensable articles spanish authority is not recognized and the inhabitants are comfortably settled under the authority of the cuban republic occasionally the spanish convoys pass over the high roads but the insurgents go out and meet them and andt fight orf the roads the patriots alwa always s taking the offensive the poorer spanish soldiers are in such a condition that much sympathy is aroused they being mostly boys thin and pale and complaining of the wretched humiliation of their scanty rations of not receiving any pay for months only very sick soldiers are admitted to the spanish hospitals and others who ho are really ill are compelled to sleep in courtyards exposed to the weather their condition is pitiful in the extreme arousing sympathy among the insurgents who know that these were mere lads have been conscripted and sent to fight them under conditions which no veteran troops would stand without mutiny the cuban republic he says is a fact and over a considerable part of the island its authority is felt south bouth bend ind dge dec 28 the very rev bev william corbin of notre dame head boad of the order of the holy cross in america died this afternoon he was the chaplain of the famous irish brigade his death took place at notre dame university the funeral will be 41 held friday morning in the chapel of the university of which he was formerly president father corbin was one of the seven chaplains who left their I 1 classes in the university for the union army lie he was a commander of the recently organized G A R post composed of the priests and brothers at notre dame new haven conn dec ar 2 capt george li kelsey of thee the schooner wallace ward which has just arrived here 4 re from barcelona spain insists that the american consul at that port fears mob violence and is unable to keep the american flag flying from uncle sams vessels he put into port there september remaining three days 14 1 at first the stars and stripes floated proudly from the masthead but the spanish loiterers loiter ers were attracted by it and gathered by the side of the vessel threatening violence the american consul heard a rumor that the crowd proposed burning the vessels and he sent word to capt kelsey to haul down the flag capt kelsey defied the spaniards but the next day the consul repeated his advice and capt kelley kel sey was reluctantly persuaded to store the stars and stripes below decks during the remainder of his stay minter city miss dec 28 joseph hopkins the negro who murdered two white farmers on Christ meas day at glendora a small inland town near this place was captured by a posse at daylight this morning on the james plantation near swan lake hopkins fought like a demon before being taken into custody and when arrested it was found that the negro had been shot in several places he was not fatally injured however and was at once taken to the scene of his terrible crime hopkins confessed his guilt and did not plead for mercy but begged his captors to make quick work of him and little time was lost in carrying out the request A rope was placed about the negros neck and he was hanged to a limb of a tree the body was then riddled with bullets and left hanging denver colo dec 29 the owners of some of the undeveloped asphaltum beds on the borders of the buncom pathre indian reservation residing in this city are negotiating with the title guaranty trust company of chicago with a view to securing money to develop the deposits according to the seventeenth annual report of the united states geological survey the area in which gilsonite oc in the indian reservation extends for miles over the state line into colorado there are seven distinct veins which vary from one to eighteen feet in thickness and it is estimated that their total contents will amount to tons the same report quotes the price of this material in chicago at from 40 to 50 per ton gross value which would make the estimated contents of the seven veins worth over dawson city N W T nov 25 via seattle dec 29 the miners here have commissioned three men to go imme deatly to ottawa and present EL a petition to the canadian authorities reciting the reasons why the new mining laws are unjustly severe the petition as finally adopted is the result of several conferences feren ces of committees composed of the most intelligent citizens ind and aliens of the klondike and the three delegates named in it are the persons elected by a committee of ten decatur ills dec 29 the accommodation mo dation train on the wabash rall railway way which meets no 16 at palos was five minutes late last evening when all the cars except the rear coach had made the siding no 16 came along and struck the rear coach the engine of no 16 and the rear coach of the accommodation com mo dation fortunately only left the track there were quite a number of passengers in the coach but none were seriously injured several received cuts and bruises and among them was state senator john humphrey who was slightly cut on the head after a delay of nearly an hour the trains were able to proceed on their way senator humphrey is the author of the famous humphrey bill the street car franchise extension bill which was defeated in the legislature last winter atter after an exciting contest chicago dec 29 an engine and caboose on the chicago hammond western railroad left the tracks while dr crossing the bridge over salt creek two miles north of la grange graige last night and plunged into eight feet of water six men were injured they are engineer william draper chicago hip hii crushed and ankle injured Fire fireman maj john walburn hammond internal injuries and scalp wounds conductor M J gibson la grange chest crushed and burned brakeman G chicago back injured Braker bra kernan nai charles chicago bruised and burned b foreman robert iff tn la grange hip crushed and slight burns the engineer and fireman both boax jumped when the engine left the rails and were injured by falling on th the tee ice the accident is supposed to have been caused by spreading of the rails new york dec 29 the postal sav sava ings bank idea is not a popular one in new york banking circles A can canvases vase of presidents of prominent institutions developed that fact clearly A at the same time very few presidents presidente were willing to express opinions for publication all practically agreed with president E S mason of tho bank of new york in the statement that there are already so many banks in existence that rates for money have been cut to a point when there is little profit in banking F D tappen president of the gali latin national bank thought that poe poa sibly in thinly populated districts POO poa tal savings banks might prove beneficial to people but he was confident that the residents resi residents deAts of large towns and i 3 cities had all the banking i tion they desired I 1 oliver S carter of the bank or of them i republic felt that the time had not no come to discuss the proposition my r dumont dark clark president of the amerl can exchange national bank agreed I 1 with mr carter J edward simmons president of th the fourth national was also of the same san opinion and declined to discuss th proposition because he had not given it sufficient thought I 1 henry W cannon president of th the I 1 chase national bank was plainly op posed to postal savings banks and dla not hesitate to say so j postal savings banks he said v have been successful in other coun tries for the reason that the countries have large public debts which are in creasing from year to year under I 1 such conditions the money deposited c by the people in the postal banks car can be advantageously used by the gov emmetts em ern ments in england and france 1 such deposit really constitute a por tion of the public debts of those coun tries in this country the people hold the opinion that the public debt should not be increased but on the contrary should be reduced as rapidly as eleand there foreit does not seem practicable s to my mind for the govern government in e n t to receive the money of the people and S invest the same in securities it its ia i more than likely were postal saving savine W banks established in this country that the government would very soon havea large surplus of funds on hand oz on which it would be compelled to pay interest and the business would be co conducted on the part of the governal govern governmental nl a loss in my opinion should postal sav ings banks be established in the unit ed states their deposits should only be used by the general government inz the same manner as in other coun tries denver colo dec 29 the books of the united states branch mint for the year 1897 are now closed the deposits of gold axe are the largest ever received the total will slightly exceed and a conservative estimate made 1 by the mint officials places the entire output of colorado at aft round figures it is claimed here that colorado will at ahead of california as it is go 80 tar far said said to the doubtful it if Cali fornias output will touch the mark colorados output was last las t year and that of california was atoo while the total production of the country was the great increase in the colorado output this will send the total for the united year to the mark states state s up deriver denver colo dec 29 A special to the times from washington D C says drector director of the mint preston said to correspondent this afternoon the times that from his estimates of gold production tion compiled so far he was prodoc perfectly satisfied that colorado would take first place th this is year in production metal ranking considerably yellow vellow i of ahead of california which has hereto bore rore led haiti dec 29 at prince port pora A u 11 last night a fire which assumed con considerable sid erable proportions on account of lack of water to supply the broke out and destroyed t PUMPS cumps number of ware ine including luding a j hotel the church of st a houses its parson parsonage age about 3 josep b an and d homeless rendered M 00 pe people ople orning were at there was an morning thorning y Tn this the bistu disturbances running T earthquake quake tarth south lasting halt half a to 1 71 k som north nort and causing slight cracks in ining nute te there were no ace accidents identa but W rth the es greatly alarmed 1 ahe th lee was N J dec 30 mrs rd town aged 65 years was henle AiT ti fowler in the house of frank death fsr to today the house and SS STarn early graham property were cons consumed umed en bAjo irking oss loss of 25 the members wiling nga grahams graham IS family were aroused of af mr of a cat in time to es mewing by the heape evidence R I 1 dec 31 that the providence ovi dence cotton mills will cut island rhode rhoda L now assured A prominent ages is says there is manufacturer k cotton to left tor for the manufacturers gothing that aati action on will be taken in a do and not nothing hing dafin definite ite can be 1 tw few days regarding the probable action learned island owners 0 of f connecticut tr of rhode but it is to be presumed that jut mills rhode island will be policy of the policy connecticut mills adopt Havana ed by dee Dec the 31 via key west fla vana ha details have been received ded dec 31 sources of a conspiracy spanish birom rule said to have been spanish kot of pinar in the province narrated that 1500 men it is del tuo rio of clay brock employed in I 1 the field employed growers who had been disarmed 00 30 tobacco conspired to join the insburg leaders have been im etota to their in moro castle night there were riots christmas oh which occurred at havana those to similar and other towns matanzas I 1 in ro ions were intended as protest against autonomy ft a protect crowds cheered for the at matanzas at mckinley and unite t D fl states president annexation A letter setter fro from in an important insurgent chief says that about in Ur gents and rados have died in western cuba he also expresses endured by the regret at the suffering insurgents in the field in the dr delfin calls attention ciarlo de laurina to the necessity of fifty physicians into t the he send bending ing about interior of the island provided with medicine chests and vaccine this step he says is to save from certain death innumerable human beings who are dying of hunger and neglect dr delft adds th that at over persons mostly children and women have died of famine in the fields it is not advisable vi the spanish say to entrust the distribution of food and money to toe the rados besides the pangs of famine the con cen contrades centra trades doa are suffering fram small pox dysentery malaria etc which threaten extermination therefore dr delfin says it is necessary to send medicines with the food and physicians it is reported that an important engagement ga gement occurred last monday in the mountains province of pinar del rio and that large numbers were killed on both ide sides one prominent insurgent was captured and brought to havana where he is imprisoned incommunicado philadelphia dec 31 through carelessness in backing a shifting engine in a track in the yard of the boiler works at and allegheny avenue this afternoon walter gregory and philllp phillip were instantly killed patrick and patrick mchugh received injuries which will likely result in their death and aad john A hallihan was severely hurt the men alen were loading an empty car when the shifting engine entered the yard and struck the car all five men were thrown down and the car ran over them tacoma wash dec SO 30 the chehalis valley is a dreary waste of water that is all that confronts the eye in every direction farms and highways alike are under several feet of water and men go from one point to another in boats fish commissioner little when he left the fish hatchery on the chehalis river rowed across farms and up the county road now buried under ten feet of water mr little arrived from the flooded district today on the first train that had succeeded in getting through he says the loss will not be very extensive but the prospect is not at all encouraging cou raging some of the farmers will lose a large part of their grain and hay stored on the farm and others other s may lose some stock the floods doods are the highest ever known the valley the smaller streams many of them tributary to the chehalis are out of their banks and the usually placid creeks have become raging torrents the is four feet higher than it has ever been an and d the Wyno is over the railroad tracks at oakville Oa kville the branch line is under three feet of water it is not probable that much stock will be lost if the water subsides soon the farmers will lose heaviest on their stores of grain and 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