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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1898. OUTLINE OF PEACE TREATY | 1S OBTAINED Important Provisions of Articles. CONCESSICNS TO COMMERCE | i SPANTARDS GIVEN FaIR TREAT- | MENT IN THE COLONIES. | It Is Specified That the Treaty Must | Be Ratified Within Six Montas | | in Order t» Be Binding. | Special D h to The Call. 13.—Extraordinary pre- maintained by both the ons t rve secrecy | of the treaty. Each wo copies, but even the commission attaches are not per- mitted peruse the documents. The corres lent of the Associated Press, however, has obtained from a source iable the following outline of 1 provides for the relinquish- i 2 provides for the cession of | Rico $20,0 the cession of 0,000 as com- provides pines for 4 embraces the plans for the of the Philippines, including the prisoners in the 1llos. Is with cession of arms, stores, and all property pertaining to | h administration in the Phil- Artic barracks, buildir 6 is a renunciation by, both | respective claims 1d the citizens of Spanish trade and | pines the same and ship- rs ies for the release of of war held by S rs held by her for politi: the colonie al gal rights remaining in Cuba. establishes religious ilippines and & equal rights 11 provides for the composi- 1 other tribunals in ba. s for the administra-4 1 Porto Rico and Cuba. | ies for the continu- | h ittance free of duty. s for the establish- ulates by Spain in the cle 15 grants to Spanish com- | merce in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Ph es the same treatment as to| for ten years, Spanish | o be treated as coasting ves- pulates that the obliga- | United States to Spanish | nd property in Cuba shall e with the withdrawal of the States authorities from the is- th treaty | months v the re- in order to be | | _morrow the United States | m fjoners will call upon t Faure and M. Delcasse, the | Minister, to thank them for lity of the French nation | and to make ir formal farewells. MADRID, De 3 It is serted e that the Premier, Senor Sagasta, | Will obtain a royal decree dissolving bers before the ratification of > treaty | etary Correa has announced that | sking the Cortes will confer with dent of the ssion, and it is erted that, owing to the ex- opposition to the treaty, the | states Senate will not con- | | the further ass istence o United firm it. HARCOURT GIVES UP THE LEADERSHIP | 1.0 Longer Willing to Guide the Lib- eral Party in the House of Commons. | LONDON, Dec. 13.—Right Hon. Wil- | liam Vernon Harcourt, Member of Par- | lament for West Monmouthshire, and gince the resignation of Gladstone the official leader of the Liberal party in the House of Commons, has addressed a letter to John Morley, Liberal mem- ber for Momntroseburgh, announcing his resignation of the leadership. He says: | “The Liberal party, rent by sectional | disputes and personal interests, is one | which no man can consent to lead, | either with credit to himself or advan- | tage to the country M rley, in h expresses | with William Vernon and s: he is not surprised tter's decision. Mr. Morley’ very long and sympathetic | of Harcourt's action and | financial work, public for the welfare of his e 7 2 o D) = 2 <) & 2 4 mons. ry will be inevi- tably indicated as the leader of the en- tire Libe His brilliant speech | on the incident has settled | that. ! As for the Liberal leadership in the | House of Commons everything points to Herbert Her Asquith, Member for E: Fife and cretary of State for the Home Department in the Glad- stone-Rosebery government, which be- gan with Mr. Glad Premiership in 1892 and Lord Rose- . The affair lends unusual the conference of the Na- ended under tional I Federation at Birming- ham next Friday. A final decision as to future leade vill be taken at a meeting of the Liberal members prior to the reassembling of Parliament: - Rally of Salvationists. NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The eighteenth annual rally of the Salvation Army was held to-night at Carnegie Hall and drew out a very large audience. Commander Booth-Tucker and Mrs. Tucker were pres- and took an active part in the ex- ent nual report on the army's farm colonies. T response to the ap- peal for funds ———————— Onyx tables, lamps, shades and globes. Beautiful Christmas presents at Sanborn & Vall's, 741 Market st. - 000000000 C20C000QC0O00000000000000000 WAR VESSELS ARE ORDERED TO HAVANA WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The Brooklyn, Texas, Castine and Res- olute have been ordered to Havana. ‘While there is not the faintest desire to convey a threat in the dispatch of these warships to Havana, it may be noted that when they lie within the harbor they will hold the town in perfect subjec- tion. It is surmised that the suggestion came from Admiral Samp- son, who is now in one of the suburbs of Havana, as a result of the unfortunate eruption Sunday night at the Aotel Ingleterra. At any event the affray brought the authorities to a sudden realization of the exact state of affairs in Havana and the imminent danger of another. such outbreak, which perhaps might run into the proportions of a riot many innocent lives. With only a small force of American in Havana provin and those removed at such a distance from the city as to make it difficult of access in time to be of ser- vice to the American element in the city, now swollen to large pro- portions by the advent of many hundred commercial men and others seeking opportunities for employment, the necessity for some protec- tion s apparent. To increase the number of soldiers materially is not v, in view of the difficulty of transporting them, as wéll as providing for them when they reach Cuba, but the navy's motto now is “Always ready,” and it was decided to hasten the ships named to Havana to form a formidable bulwark against any anarchistic out- breaks that might occur before the completion of the American occu- pation of the city. 0000000000 CCO00TO00000000000000 000000000000 00000000000000 0D0O000 C00000000000000C000000C0C00000000 AMERICAN UNIVEP;SITY TRUSTEES MEET. ASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—At the semi-annual meeting of the trustees of the American University, held here to-day, Hon. William Connell of Scranton, Pa., presided at the forenodon session and ex-Governor Among those present were Bishop John F. Hurst, McCabe, ¥ W. H. Milburn, chaplain of the United States Senate; Rev. Dr. Payne, corresponding secretary of the Board of Education of the M. Church, and M. G. Emery, treasurer. The board adopted plans proposed by Bishop McCabe for the organiza- tion of a ministerial alliance, to consist of 1000 preachers, each to secure $1000 (81,000,000 in all) for an endowment fund, and also for a woman's guild, to raise the same amount, making $2,000,000 for the endowment. The initial steps toward the organization of the alliance were taken by the election of Bishop Charles H. Fowler of Buffalo, N. Y., as president, and Bishop McCabe as secretary. Mr. C. C. Grover pledged $1000 for the al- liance, payable January 1. Subscriptions to the alliance already have been W Pattison at the afternoon. chancellor; Bishop C. C. For the erection of the Pennsylvania Hall of Administration $50,000 also has been pledged. Dr. W. L. Davidson was elected field secretary, to have in charge the raising of funds for the erection of the Ohio College of ‘Govern- ment building. An explanation was made by Henry Ives Cobb of a water-colored sketch of the grounds and proposed buildings, and also of his elevations of the Ohio College of Government and the Pennsylvania Hall of Administra- tion buildin; Thomas W ; Rev. Dr. and Rev. shington; Mrs. E. 8. Tome of Fort Deposit, an of New York; John E. Duboise of Duboise, y Hill, were elected trustees. DEADLY AFFRAY BETWEEN MEMBERS OF A FUNERAL PARTY. HJ\-‘ s Sotolongo, who was Kkilled Sunday night, reached the corner of Infanta and San Jo: eets, a violent affray took place between the members of the funeral party and some employes of the military hospital. The following were wounded: Dr. Betancourt, Cuban Deputy for Santiago; Rafael Portuondo, Cuban Deput the Cuban General Vidal; the Cuban Colonel Rivas, Francisco Lucas Blanco, a Spaniard; Ramon Garcfa, a Span- iard; three women and two children. C cia, who was stabbed, may die, and Portuondo was badly hurt. One version of the affair is that the military hospital employes and a number of Spanish privates, who were standing in the hospital portico, re- fused to remove their ha when requested to do so by persons in the pro- cession. Thereupon the Cubans, it is alleged, tried to knock off the hats, and a fight ensued The privates fired upon the proc broken and bullets striking the coffin AVANA, Dec. 13.—About 9 o'clock this morning when a funera] pro- n, which was corting the hearse containing the remains of sion, the windows of the hearse being Knives and pistols were freely used. The procession, which consisted of 180 carriages, continued to the Cuban camp near Marianao, where military honors were rendered. There were more than fifty wreaths of flowers from the friends of the dead man and the procession and ceremonial were virtually a demonstration against the Hotel Inglaterra outrage. 2 NINE MEN KILLED BY A FAST EXPRESS TRAIN. UFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 13.—Nine men were killed and three Injured at B“‘mspure bridge, near Corfu, on the New York Central Railroad, to- day. They were Poles, with the exception of John Warner, their fore- man, who is among the killed. The men were engaged in shoveling snow. All were frightfully mutilated. The men stepped from the track to avoid an approaching train right in front of a fast express train running in the same direction as the first, and were literally ground to pieces. Engineer Smith of the express, in an interview, said: “T could see nothing ahead of me, but I thought the place looked bad and blew my whistle. I had let up on the whistle when I heard my fireman give a yell. He did not call for brakes, but I slapped on the air the minute I heard him. He had seen a man beside the track, though he had not seen any one struck. A moment after I applied the brakes I saw a man shoot up into the air on my side of the cab. He was as high as the smokestack when 1 saw him. He came down on the freight train, which was Tunsing along on that side, and was carried a mile before he fell off. My train stopped in about two train lengths, and the sight that I saw when I got out was the most horrible I have ever witnessed. The dead and mangled were lying on both sides -of the track just as they hatl been thrown. I did not'see them until after we had struck them. I did not see them come on the track, and until my fireman yelled I did not know they were there.” " I o BAILEY OPPOST”S WHEELER'S RIGHT IN THE HOUSE. to raise the question of the right of Major General Wheeler to par- ticipate in the proceedings of the House should he attempt to ex- against either of three other members of the House who entered the ser- vice in the United States army during the war with Spain—Robbins (R.) of of these members of the House who entered the military service has partici- pated in the proceedings since the sessjon convened, either to introduce the Democratic cauc As none but Democratic members of Congress are members of the Democratic caucus, Bailey says this raises the presumption WASHINGTO.\', Dec. 13.—Representative Bailey of Texas has decided ercise the privilege of 2 member. He will also raise the question as Pennsylvania, Colson (R.) of Kentucky and Campbell (D.) of Illinois. None biils or vote upon roll call, put last Saturday General Wheeler attended that General Wheeler onnmppluw«; resuming his seat in the House. FRENCH DEPUTIES FIGHT A HARMLESS “DUEL” PARIS. Dec. 13.—M. Antide Boyer, the Radical Soclalist Deputy, and M. Deroulede, the Revision Deputy, fought a harmless duel with pis- tols to-day at Tour de Villebon, near Meudon, as an outcome of yes- terday’s debate, during which M. Deroulede and M. Gauthie, another Re. visionist Deputy, challenged by M. Boyer, referred to M. Boyer as a “white. washed Panamaist.” here from Africa with Congo advi reports that four Belgian trad- TRADERS KILLED AND EATEN BY CANNIBALS. Aers have been killed and eaten by ll:n‘? natives of Upper Ubanghi. A NTWERP, Dec. 13.—The steamrer Leopoldville, which has just arrfved punitive expedition, it is also said, has been dispatched to that district. Have You Been Deceived? When you wanted a bottle of ; | ?g unyadi Jinos NATURAL APERIENT WATER, Did your Druggist give you a cheap subitute, because he made a few cents d more profit? < Will you believe those ““just 2s good” stories when you know that “HUNYADI JANOS* is the only genuine Hunyadi Water? ASK YOUR PHYSICIAN. He will recommend it as other eminent physicians have for many years. é({ | ARGUMENT OF NCARAGUAN CANAL PLANS Senators Are Nof in Accord. VARIED VIEWS PRESENTED TURPIE STYLES MARITIMI COM- PANY A FRAUD. Morgan Opposes a Motion to Delay Consideration of the Bill and Scores the Grace Syn- dicate. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1§—To-dav‘s session of the Senate was largely con- sumed in discussing the Nicaragua canal bill. Turpie made the principal speech in opposition to the bill. at- tacking it on the ground that it is in the interest of the Maritime Canal Company, which he characterized as a fraud and bankrupt. He moved a post- ponement of the matter until after the holiday recess. Morgan defended the bill and the Maritime Company and opposed the motion to postpone. Berry and Rawlins both offered amendments | materially affecting the bill | Previous to the proceedings upon the | canal bill, Morrill made an address in | support of the bill authorizing the pur- chase of a site for a Supreme Court building, and this and several other bills were passed. Berry gave notice of an amendment that he will offer to the Nicaragua canal bill | providing for the direct appropriation of money for the construction of the canal | and limiting the cost to $115,000,00. The amendment provides for the construction of the canal by the Maritime Company | and gives the Government a licn upon the property to be foreclosed under circum- fully enumerated. Berry stated | the object of the amendment to be to eli- minate the bond feature of the bill. An- mendment was intended to deprive itime Canal Company of any stock, leaving the United sta Rica the M | shares of the | Stat. Nicaragua and Ci only stockholders. | Rawlins also gave notice of an amend- | ment to the Nicaragua bill, providing that | the act should not go into effect until the Government should secure by treaty the right to fortify and garrison the canal, to send armed vessels and munitions of war through it in time of war, and to close it against any the United States may be at war. Turpie (D.) | the Senate on the Nicaragua canal bill, saying that no one could excel him in zeal {in advocating the Isthmian canal, but while he saw the vast advantage of the proposed waterway, he also fully | aware of the difficulties in the way of putting the plan for a canal into execu- | tion. While not opposed to the canal as such, he was oppos to the scheme of the Maritime Canal Company and he de- nounced that company as the most ven- omous and effective opponent of a real canal enterprise. He did not believe it possible for shat company, with its bad odor, to construct the canal, and he held | that the Maritime Company should get out of the way of the genuine canal en- terprise. He developed this line of attack at length, denouncing it as a scheme of confiscation, the object of the Maritime Company being, he declared, not to cut a { canal, but to “‘cut a channel of communi- cation at the least possible cost between the Treasury of the United States and the empty coffers of that beggarly corpo- | ration.” Turpie could not erted that the Government awfully guarantee the Mari- time Company’s bonds as proposed. The case was not parallel to the Pacific rail- cases the | road panies, as in those e made directly va companie! eign ji nal by this Govern- ment, Turpie declared that there was no civinzed nation that would not be pl to see the canal constructed. The Mari- | time Company had been guilty of innum- | erable frauds, but even if it had not, he | would not support the pending bill, be- cause of the fallure to provide for the ownership of the canal by the United Stat Al obstacles would disappear befo a movement on the part of the United States to construct the canal. The opposition of Nicaragua and other Goun- tries was made to the itime Com- pan_and to it only, of whose “vapid, mpty and thoroughly groundless preten- sions the Government of Nicaragua had evidently become tired."” Turpie renewed his plea for a_postpone- ment of the question until the Nicaragua Canal Commi on should report. He sald he had favored the appointment of this commission because he knew that no commission could report in favor of the Maritime Companv. as he did not believe the present commission had. Information was wanted on the three points of feasi- bility, time and expense, and the Senai: had a right to this information before acting upon the bill. Turpie closed for the day with a motion for postponement of further consideration of the bill until January 10, by which time the report of the commission would be received. Morgan _antagonized the motion, plead- ing for the continuation of the debate. saying there were many points connected with the enterprise upon which light could not possibly be thrown by the Walker re- port. He denied that the Maritime Com- I pany had ever applied to the United States for a i hand, the aplication had been made to them because they owned the only con- cesslon. He declared in answer to a sug- gestion from Turpie that it would never be possible to get an agreement binding the United States, Nicaragua and Costa Rica because of Costa Rica's suspicion of Nicaragua. Costa Rica knew perfectly well that Nicaragua was desirous of nothing so much as the downfall of Costa Rica. He spoke of Costa Rica's “bar- gain counter’” in the maftter of grantin, Goncessions, and when Turple Interrupted him with the statement that this was not an expression of m'nl(?' toward Nicaragua he retorted that Turple was growing sen- timental on the subject. He declared wuat Grace's purpose in getting a new con- tract ‘was not to build a canal, but to own it— to hold up the Government. He denounced this concession as a ‘“rascally contract.” Grace had called on him twice in one day without being invited and had urged the abandonment of Gov- ernment ald. In reply to a question from him Grace had saild he expected to eet his money to build the canal from Lon- don. This fact showed where we were drifting, and was there a Senator who would be willing to_see the canal placed under the control of foreigners? ecutive session, : = and at 5:15 p. m. ad- ourned. — o PITHY. CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE CANAL WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—At the opening of the debate on the Nicaragua canal bill in the Senate to-day Senator Morgan had read a letter from the Sec- retary of State, transmitting Minister Merry's statement of his representa- tions to President Zelaya of Nicaragua concerning the canal concessions and also a communication made by Hon. W. R. Grace in behalf of the syndicate which has recently obtained a conces- sion from Nicaragua in antagonism to the Maritime Company. The letter of Minister Merry to Secretary Hay says: It is my duty to further inform y®u that my telegram to Consul Donaldson re- questing him to personally present our ‘| remonstrance to the President (of Nicar- agua) reached him after the ‘‘ontion’ to other nation with \A‘hh'hl of Indiana then addressed | ance, but, on the other | The Senate at 5 o'clock went into ex- | | | L ADVERTISEMENTS. L THE NATION'S WEEKLY @ The announcements contained upon this page will give you but a brief idea of the valuable and interesting features to appear in HARPER’S WEEKLY. The Best Pictorial History of the Year POLITICS & & ART HARPER’S WEEKLY in 1899 will stand, as it always has, for purity and disinterested work in the state and national poiitics of our country. In art the pages of the WEEKLY will continue the standard of artistic excelience, with such artists as W. T. Smedley, T. de Thulstrup, Frederic Remington, qiflord Carleton, and others of equal talent as contributors. Our New Possessions CUBA o THE PHILIPPINES & HAWAII & PORTO RICO will be fully described by Phil. Robinson and Frank D. Millet, Caspar Whitney and Wiiliam Dinwiddie, in a series of articles which deal with the resources, life, and strategic value of these rich and fertile islands. SERIAL STORIES Three remarkably strong and extraordinarily interesting serial stories will appear during 1899, each from the pen of a distinguished man of letters. WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES WITH SWORD AND CRUCIFIX By H. G. Wells . ByE.S VanZile THE CONSPIRATORS. By R. W. Ckambers These stories will be illustrated. In addition to the serials there will appear, whenever space permits, short fiction of unsurpassable interest. REPRESENTATIVE SHORT STORIES AMONGST THIEVES A SMALL WORLD 3 By W. E. Norris By Henry Seton Merriman A CURIOUS COINCIDENCE THIS MORTAL COIL By E. F. Benson By Margaret Sutton Briscoe STORIES OF WESTERN FARM LIFE THE DEMON OF N’GARAHOE By H. S. 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The examination ‘'will be open but hope soon to send you more information In reference thereto. In a letter dated San Jose, Costa Rica, October 28, 1898, to General Ze- | laya, President of Nicaragua, Minister v Merry said: I have the honor to advise that I have this day received the following cable from the Government of the United States: “You will recognize the great ex- pediency of continuing the present status | of the Nicaraguan canal question until Congre: s shall have had opportunity to act and remonst te against any. arrange- ; substitute new condi- tions for those now existing.” Under these instructions I have to-day tele- { graphed the United States Consul at | Managua, requesting him to present the remonstrance of the United States Gov- ernment against any change of the con- ditions connected with the Nicaragua canal concession. I trust that your ex- cellency will decide in the interests of the country which entrusts its destinies to your able and patriotic guidance to accede to the policy herein suggested, so tant to the future development and rity of Nicaragua and as due to riendly relations between your excel- lency’s government and that of the Uni- ted States, which it has been my special endeavor to promote. 1 may be permitted to add my personal assurances of a sin- cere desire to use every honorable in- fluence to assure your exceilency of the proud record of important and patriotic aid in opening the ocean highway for the world's commerce through beautiful Nic- aragua. The letter of Willlam R. Grace is dated December 2, 1898, and after as- serting that the Cardenas-Menocal con- cession had been forfeited and that the concession granted Eyre and Cragin would be effective in October, says: The syndicate is satisfied that it will be able to secure money to complete the canal. It holds that the canal is an en- terprise from which private capital should not be eliminated, but respecting the opinion of those who fear having such a highway in private hands, the syndicate is willing to arrange a basis on which the United States Government would con- trol the tariffs and participate in the management of the canal. Grace submits the following terms: The Inter-Oceanic Canal Company to be organized under a State charter, capital td be $100,000,000, with the right to issue mortgage bonds to the amount of $150,000,000 at 4 per cent, and a sink- ing fund of one-half of 1 per cent after twenty years; the United States Gov- ernment to guarantee interest at 3 per cent on $50,000,000 of the mortgage in- debtedness, taking a secord, mortgage as security, the guarantee not to be given until the company has invested $1,000,000 in the enterprise; the Govern- ment can appoint five directors of a board of fifteen; the syndicate will con- sent to the disbursement of the money rafsed upon the Government guarantee, to be subject to audit by the Govern- ment. In conclusion Grace says the syndi- cate is desirous of meeting the wishes of the President in every possible way and to allay the fears of people who think the great work should not be left to uncontrolled private management. HOUSE PASSES TWO . IMPORTANT MEASURES ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—The House to- day passed the District of Columbia ap- propriation bill without a single amend- ment. The bill carries $6,359,950, which is $176,600 less than was carried by the last bill and $2,871.807 less than the estimates. The House also passed the Senate bill whici was under consideration yesterday to amendment of the laws relating to ;ea'mézm All the amendments were re- ected. They Relate to Army Clothing, Anti- Expansion and Empioyment of Women and Children. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 13.—At the session of the American Federation of | Labor to-day a resolution was introduced by Samuel Autler of New York, president of the National Garment Workers of America, declaring that army clothing should be made in union shops and not elsewhere. An effort to attain this result was provided for. C. J. Kent of Lincoln, Populist Labor Commissioner for Nebraska, and a per- sonal friend of William J. Bryan, intro- duced an anti-expansion resolution. The most revolutionary measure was It asks Congress to impose an annual tax of 50 per cent of the total products of any firm or factory which employs women and children over eight hours per dfa, or employs children under the age of 14. . ATTORNEYS ACCUSED. Charged With Questionable Acts in the Clark Murder Case. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13.—A sensation was caused in the courtroom of Judge Smith of the Superior Court here to-day when Prosecuting Attorney McComas charged the attorneys for Harry Clark, convicted of the murder of a Chinese, with having attempted to influence the jurors to sign a recommendation to Judge Smith. Clark's attorneys asked for and | were granted a continuance of a week before sentence be passed. This is the fourth continuance. The attorneys say they have evidence to prove that Con- stable Joseph Hunter murdered the Chi- nese. Mare Island Examination. VALLEJO, Dec. 13.—In response to the order jssued by Secretary of the Navy Long, the examination of applicants for introduced by J. F. O’Sullivan of Boston. | to all comers who can give evidence of experience in conducting the kind of work for which they seek employment and who are citizens of the United States. The applications must be delivered to Commandant Watson at Mare Island on or before December 28. YOUTHFUL CATTLE THIEF. Potrero Lad Lodged in the County Jail at San Raraecl. SAN RAFAEL, Dec, 13.—The youth al- leged to have assisted the young nephew of Mrs. Edward Butterworth in stealing several of her valuable cows has been lodged behind the bars. His name is A. Aiken and his father is a Potrero saloon keeper. Aiken was brought here and placed in jail to-day by Constable Louls Hughes. He is only 19 years old and has just returned from Sacramento. It is as- serted in spite of Aiken’s denial of guilt that plenty of evidence is in possession of the officers warranting his conviction. Basdoet et & IROQUOIS IN COMMI1SSION. Lieutenant Charles F. Pond to Com- mand the Tug. VALLEJO, Dec. 13.—The tug Iroquois was placed in commisson at Mare Isiand this morning, in command of Lieutenant Charles P. Pond. She carries a crew of thirty-five men, and will be used as a tender to the naval vessels at Honolulu. Lieutenant Pond was navigating officer on the au_‘(illa,}i}v cruiser Panther during the late war. 'he Iroquois was formerly the Spreckels tug Fearless, and is the largest tug on the bay. S g e Killed by a Fall. G, Dec. 13—Eugene S. Par- ‘known farmer, living south of Redding, was found on the roadside to-night with his neck broken. He had been drinking hard during the day in town, and to-night in the dark ran over a rock while returning home in his cart the position of quarterman rigger ‘in and was thrown out. ADVE#HSEMEN!}S. DR. 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