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1 mist Oct 00 2 VOL1. ATCHISON, KANSAS, SEPTEMBER 19,1898. NO. 10. fusing, Premier Brlddon Arrum will be offered the portfolio, M.

Valle taking his place as minister of the interior. This is a great victory for Dreyfus. VESUVIUS IS ON A BIG SMOKE SPECIAL CUBAN COMMISSIONER. MILES WILL ALSO REPORT. though regulars took the brunt, did the most execution.

The report gives the loss there at 9 killed and 27 wounded. In this battle Gen. Yotfng claimed his troopers counted 48 dead Spaniards after the battle. The report shows Sampson's bombardment did but little execution. IN HONOR OF THE DEAD.

Washington, Sept. 17. Represcnta-tlvees of all official circles assembled at St. Matthews today to participate In memorial services in honor of the dead Empress of Austria. The President had a place near the catalfalque, the place of honor.

Cardinal Gibbons conducted the pontifical requiem mass. Ground Covered by Shafter Will Be Gone Over. The Cubans Have Nothing to Do But to Stand. Rumblings From Infernio, and Eruptions Belch Up Fire. GOV.

BUDD HAS HIS SAY. San Francisco, Sept. 17. The Examiner this morning says Gov. Budd while granting a two weeks' postponement in the hearing of the Botkin extradition case, has decided she cannot be extradited and the only charge on which she can be prosecuted is depositing poisonous matter in the mails here.

The offense is punishable by 10 years in prison. That is the limit. A VOMIT OF GLARE AND FLAME, CUBRN PORTS MUST SURRENER. STORY OF TWO ARMY RIVALS. THE TERESA TO BE RAISED.

Washington, Sept. 17. News from Goodrich reports work on the Teresa shows encouraging progress under Hobson's new methods. Ten 6-inch guns have been removed and are in the Leonidas. Collier has fair prospects of floating the Teresa by Monday or Villages Near Are Enjoying a Shower of Molten Pebbles and Embers.

This Will Be Demanded in Order to Land Provisions to the starving. When Both Sides Are Given, the Country Can Draw the Medium. JOE WHEELER TO RESIGN. Camp Wikoff, Sept. 17.

Gen. says he will resign his commission "Washington, Sept. 17. Gen. Miles is Oct.

3 and run for congress. He has important bills he wants to present. Then he would like to again receive a command and go to Cuba. There is no opposition to his nomination. FROM MANILA.

Manila, Sept. 17. Representatives in Filipinos congress up to the present time have been elected in every province of Luzon and other islands or been appointed. The customs receipts averaged $23,000 Friday. Havana, Sept.

17 R. P. Porter, President McKinley's special commissioner to Cuba, and Gen. Mayaa Dodri-guez, commander of the Cuban army in the province of Havana, have had a conference. Rodriguez said the Cuban army must disband, that there is no work and no prospects but to starve.

Porter says he will ask the immediate surrender of Cuban ports in order that food may be imported free for the starving army. Rome, Sept. 17 The activity of Mt. Vesuvius is increasing. Deep rumblings and explosions are heard in the crater, following by vomiting of great quantities of lava a half mile wide flowing near Ihe crater.

A little way down the mountain, the stream is divided into three branches 20 to 30 yards wide, each moving at a velocity of 36 yards per hour. All the villages in the neighborhood are sprinkled with ashes and many wells are dried up. The pine groves and vineyards are destroyed. The night spectacle is magf niflcent. THE SPANISH COMMISSION.

Madrid, Sept. 17. The Spanish commission has been completed by the addition of Senors Garnica and Cerebas. They start for Paris September 25. Rev.

J. L. Neve will be Installed as professor of the German department in the Western Theological seminary on Friday evening, Sept. 23. The service will be held in St.

Mark's Lutheran chapel at 8 o'clock. Addresses will be made by Rev. R. Neumaerker of St. Joseph, Rev.

M. Rhodes, D. of St. Louis, and Prof. J.

L. Neve. The public will be welcome to this service. The first address will be in German, the other two in English. A PRINCE STRICKEN.

Vienna, Sept. 17. While the prince regent of Bavaria was praying at the bier of the empress yesterday, he was stricken with apoplexy and it is doubtful if he can recover. It is thought he will not be able to longer rule the country for his lunatic nephew, King Otto. VICTORY FOR DREYFUS.

Paris, Sept. 17. The resignation of M. Zurlinden and M. Tilliye of the French cabinet, are officially confirmed It is reported that the ministry of war will be offered to Gen.

Lebrun or M. Freycanet. In the event of both re improving. His friends say that immediately after his recovery he will begin to write his history of the campaign against Santiago and Porto Rico. This will be a work covering more than a review of salient features of the war.

What will interest the public most, however, is a special report he will write. It will be an official document on the campaign which ended in the fall of Santiago, beginning with his order to Gen. Shafter to move at once from Tampa to capture the garrison at that place. It will cover the same ground as was covered by Gen. Shafter in his report submitted a few days ago to the adjutant general.

It is believed that this report of Gen. Miles on the Santiago campaign will not be given to the press by the secretary of war. The secretary has the right to withdraw this report, and the commanding general cannot give it to the public on hi3 own motion. The CorUn faction In the war department is very sure it can keep this report filed away in the archives. They that it will not be within the power of the President's special investigation to have this report or any other report produced before it.

They say the commission will have DICKINSON COUNTY WHEAT. An Abilene dispatch says wheat drills are running on every quarter section of this county and those adjoining. The farmers are putting in. the largest wheat crop in their history. The late rains have put the ground in.

excellent condition and the farmers are hurrying to make the fields complete, The change of seed wheat that was made as an experiment last year proved a sucess ami many more are geuing seed, Aat ai not bten useu 1. i fore in this section of the country. It has been many years since there was so favorable a seeding time. no power to compel the attendance of witnesses and to produce documentary evidence. So they are not afraid of the report or of the proposed investi HIGHLAND NEWS.

Miss Bessie Rankin, Jess Stai ns and John Friend have gone to Emporia to attend the State Normal school. The university opened last Wednesday with an attendance of forty-two and twelve or fifteen new sholars. Stuart Bayless is back from Arizona visiting friends and prospective relatives. B. A.

Searer's driving horse got tangled up in a barb wire fence and was so badly injured that it had to be killed. gation. 1 The friends of Gen. Miles, however, will see not only that this report which Gen. Miles will write is produced, but that the secretary of war himself appears before the committee to give oral testimony and bring with him any required records.

Gen. Shafter will be among the first summoned, and will be forced to answer concerning the many omissions in Tiis late report. This committee will pass on the relative value of the two reports, and though it may be several months before the public sees this document, it will see it. Miss Alice Read left for Bozeman last Wednesday evening where she has accepted a position as governess in the family of Charles Baker. LIEUT.

PEARY HEARD FROM. New York, Sept. 17 An August 13 letter was received from Peary at Etah near the entrance of Smith sound. All was well then. The party was proceeding to the west coast of Greenland for a winter camp.

He had taken aboard his steamer, Windward, 10 Esquimaux, CO dogs and the carcasses of GO walruses for their meat. Doubtless Peary reached Etah in advance of the Will Lyman left for his home in Muskegon, last Wednesday. Married At the residence of the bride's parents at noon on Wednesday last, Miss Lulu Francina Kitzmiller to Mr. Fred Frederick of St. Joe.

Rev. Mr. Whitney performed the ceremony. Those present were Mr. Tobias Uncle Eli Kitzmiller, the bride's grandfather; Mrs.

John Rea anil family, Mr. and Mrs. George Acklan cf St. Joe, Mrs. Vanvalin and Mrs.

Hartzell of Hiawatha. The happy couple left Wednesday evening for St. Joe where they will reside. Congratulations. Wednesday evening, when Will Lyman and Miss Alice Read left, a lot of thier young friends collected a lot of ric beans, old shoes, to throw after them but had caught on andwent dowt to the hotel and the youngsters mlsset their fun.

Mr. Hugh Kelso and Mrs. A. F. Hockett were united In marriage at the residence of the Evangelical minister last Wednesday afternoon.

Mr, Kelso is a well to do farmer near Bellvuc and, Mro. Kelso at one time kept a millinery store here in town. Mr. and Mrs. Geo.

Arhlan are visiting with Frank Kitzmillers family. W. S. Vader returned today from a month's visit with his son E. R.

Vader at Chicago. He brings back with him a handsomely lllnminated card of his-son's firm, Vader Fellman, commercial and theatrical printers. E. R. Vader is well known in Atchison and wns at one time a Champion carrier.

Mr. and Mrs. Vader take turns in visiting their son. Mrs. Vader went last fail -and it was her turn again this fall to-stay at home.

REBELLION IN FORMOSA. Tacoma, Sept. 17. Mail advices from Japan say a formidable rebellion has started in the southern part of th6 island of Formosa and that two battles were fought, in which the Japanese were victorious. The rebellion is the outcome of the Japanese attempt to extend a wagon way over the lands of the semi-savage tribes In the SPANISH LOSSES.

Chicago, Sept. 17. The Record publishes Toral's report of Spanish Josses in the Santiago campaign, as follows: Total killed, 124; missing, 123; wounded, 628. At Sevilla the fight commonly known as the Rough Riders' fight, ON A HOMEWARD BOUND TRANSPORT FROM CUBA. From HARPER'S WEEKLY.

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