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Specials for Monday
20
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Choice Green Rio............
6 pounds
Fancy Green Peaberry......
The Finest Mocha, and Java,
parched, per lb...............
35
get
Butter.
The Finest Fresh Elgin Creamery
at, per lb............................... 25
If we charged you 50c we could not give
tiwOrtn.
Look the prices over and you will be glad
to let us have them.
Holbrook’s Imported Gherkins and
Mixed Pickles, pint bottles, each..
Holbrook’s Imported Worcestershire
Sauce, %-pint bottles, 3 bottles for
These reductions are made simply to
you started using these goods. The
quality is extra fine.
Raisins.
Biggest Bargain this week—
5-lb. bixes very Fancy London
Layer Raisins; this week only, per
box .....................................
22 lbs. Compound Lard
(bulk) ..................................<
50-lb. cans
Compound Lard.......................
Pure Leaf Lard, 5-lb. cans, 40c; 10-
1b, cans, 75c; 20-lb. cans, $1.35;
50-lb. cans.............................
SO pounds
A Sugar ................................
IS lbs. New York H. & El
Granulated Sugar.....................
New Cane Syrup, pure cane juice, as
fine as can be made; regular price
70c per gallon, special for this
week only .............................
Pure Honey; regular price 90c per
gallon; special price, this week, per
gallon ...................;..............
48-lb. sacks Tidal Wave
Four ....................................
Quail Oats,
4 packages ............................
48-lb. sacks Cream Meal or
Pearl Grits ............................
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and you will want to lay in
a stock of the best of teas.
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pkgs—grateful, comforting.. 25c
Httyler’s............
Caracas Cocoa
For Breafast and Supper.
1-2 lb. Packages /gw!
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NUDAVENE FLAKES--2 pound packages...................5 cents
Box Eggs, 10c dozen; Yard Eggs, 2 doz. for 25c.
Hecker’s Hygenic Whole Wheat Flour...................,5c pound
Just arrived-Indian Yellow Corn Meal................—..5c pound
WINES AND LIQUORS.
FINE TABLE CLARET. Remember that we are selling
Kentucky Bourbon Whisky (regular $3.00 goods) for only $2.25
a gallon. We carry the largest and best stock of Wines ?ud
Liquors in the Southwest.
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Fry’s Cocoa......................
Fry’s Homeopathic Cocoa....
Howard’s Breakfast Cocoa,
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Maillard’s Chocolate...........
German Sweet Chocolate......
25c.
Unexcelled for purity and
deliciousness of flavor. ' '^'^<*1,'
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* Purity of Material and
Deliciousness of Flavor Unexcelled;
SOLD BY GROCERS EVERYWHERE.
Van Houten’s Pure Soluble Cocoa--l-4 lb, cans, 20c: 1-2 lb. 35c;
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Importing Grocer, Direct Receiver of California Wines and
Brandies, Pennsylvania and Kentucky Whiskies.
2525-2527 Market St., cor. 26th. 723.
pound, 70c. Highest award at principal exhibitions.
Walter Baker & Co.’s Break-
fast Cocoa, %-lb. pkgs......• 25c
Baker’s Premium Chocolate,
pound ..........................
Epp’s Prepared Cocoa, %-lb.
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whish feeds and sustains the nerves.
Call and examine my Vici Kid
Shoes for spring wear.
The four mortars to complete the bat-
tery at Fort Point have arrived and will
be installed at once. Contractor Brenne-
man is pushing the work on the mortar
emplacement, but much yet remains to be
done before it is finally completed.
The battery of heavy artillery now at
Jackson barracks at New Orleans, which
is under orders for Galveston, is expected
to arrive some time this week, but just
when is not known.
Where the battery will camp is also un-
known. It has been suggested that they
go into camp with battery K at Denver
resurvey, but the location of this camp is
so far from the fort that it will probably
be found better to have the heavy ar-
tillery men close to the forts, where they
may drill with the guns and take proper
care of them.
HENRY KAISER,
310 21 st street.
P. S.—Repairing of all kinds of Shoes
neatly done.
Good Ice Cream
You can buy pretty fair
ice cream tn lots of places—really good ice
cream in very few. This is one of the
really good places. We choose our mater-
ials with the utmost care—nothing can be
too good for our ice cream. Our methods
are the best we know of; they are scrupu-
louly cleanly, too. The result is pure, de-
licious, wholesome cream. KAHN’S.
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As -to actual work on the .forts Lieut.
Riche has done nothing as yet. Washing-
ton has been asked to authorize the use
of the old north jetty railway in building
tracks to the sites of the forts. In the
meantime arrangements are being made
to secure material quickly so as to have
it on the ground as soon after the railway
is constructed as possible. Lieut. Riche
says he can have the gun platforms ready
before the carriages for the guns can be
manufactured, which he estimates will
require about three months.
Wholesale and Retail Grocers.
THE TRIBUNE WANT COLUMNS '
ARE THE BEST MEDIUM
THREE LINES THREE TIMES 25q
Gunpowder, best.
Gunpowder, choice.
English Breakfast, best.
English Breakfast, choice.
Good Strong Mixed.
Best Mixed.
Oolong.
Japan.
Hyson, choicest.
Hyson, fancy.
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MOVING IN A CIRCLE.
HAVE TORPEDOES
BEEN PLACED?
FAILURE
ON
EVERY
HAND.
Verdict of
The
BIf
Lieut. Riche Refuses to Answer
That Question.
Spanish" Policy in Cuba is Grop-
ing In the Dark.
HOW THESE MACHINES
ARE MANIPULATED.
measure re-
That was the
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Insufiicent Basis for a
Internal Accident as to
. the Maine.
Deadly Against a Foe and Harmless
to a Friend—Evolution of
Years of Study.
Have the torpedoes which were received
here the other day already been planted,
or do they still rest innocently in the tor-
pedo casemate at Fort Point?
These are questions which only Lieut.
Riche can answer and he is as mum as
the proverbial oyster and as cool as the
metaphorical clam in spite of the fact
that he is about the busiest man. on Gal-
veston island today.
In spite of Lieut. Riche’s, silence, the
general impression is that the torpedoes
have been placed and that hostile vessels
had better have a care in entering this
harbor.
In view of the recent catastrophe in the
harbor of Havana, interest has been
aroused in defensive torpedoes, or sub-
marine mines, as they are now officially
designated. But as military policy in the
past has deemed it prudent to withhold
all specific details concerning this arm of
the service from reporters and artists,
the public fail to recognize the fixed tor-
pedo of the coast defence as a well-
equipped military weapon, quite distinct
from the aggressive torpedo which repre-
sents a somewhat similar branch of the
naval service. Some grotesque sketches
and descriptions of material and adjuncts
. that have recently appeared in the pages
of sensational journals have evidently
been drawn from sources where the im-
agination largely dominated facts, while
in no case has attention been invited to
the skilled operators—the battalion of
engineers of the United States army.
While the engineer department has
been secretive in its work, it has pro-
gressed to a point where the torpedo
branch of the service is under scientific
control and preparations have been made
to meet the following essential conditions
in successfully operating them.
First—The mines must be so arranged
as to admit of the safe passage of the
American vessels, while they can instant-
ly be rendered dangerous to the enemy.
Second—Since the mines may remain in
position for long periods, the system must
provide tests by which the condition, of
every part may be often verified in detail,
and automatic telltales are required in-
stantly to signal the nature and location
of any injury to the cases that shield the
operating apparatus and detonating
charge or to the cable conductors.
In mining a harbor, the work is arranged
in three divisions—the duties of the load-
ing room, where the mines are made
ready; the manipulations pertaining tp the
boat service, including, the planting of the
mines and the laying of armored cables
that carry the insulated copper conduct-
ors, and the electrical measurements that
verify the satisfactory working of the
mines and the electrical continuity of the
circuit that links the detonating fuses
to the firing-key in the operating case-
mate.
The enlisted men are divided into sec-
tions, and are thoroughly drilled in all the
duties of the loading-room, and circuit
regulators are adjusted and submitted to
careful electrical tests. For this electro-
mechanical apparatus, which to be im-
bedded in the 300 pounds of high explosive
that is incased in the buoyant shells, is
the brain of the torpedo; it signals to the
operating-room a fatal leak in the mine
case or in the insulation of a joint, re-
ceives a blow from a friendly vessel with
inert acquiescence, but leaps into deadly
action upon contact with a, foe.
The buoyant spherical' cases, which are
formed by two steel hemispheres welded
around the equator, are then charged
with sa.wdust with every precaution that
would be used in handling modern high
explosives, agents which allow no margin
for ignorance, carelessness or neglect.
The boat service detail prepares the
planting tug for action. Tool boxes for
jointing, riggers, vises, mushroom anchors
and wire mooring rope to adjust the an-
chorages are provided. Drums of insul-
ated cable are swung aboard, and a multi-
ple armored cable carrying seven sepa-
rately insulated, copper wires, through
each of which is controlled a triple group,
is first laid from the casemate gallery to
a point about a hundred feet in the rear
of the proposed line of mines. Thence,
through an iron junction box, branch sev-
en single conductor cables to metal cases
containing mine switches-; through these
they again radiate into, three cables, each
of which will terminate in a mine. As
the charged cases are received they are
successively planted and jointed to the
copper conductors of the cables, so that
each seven conductor cable covers a front
of 700 yards, with 21 mines, separated
from each other by intervals of about 100
feet, while each separate core at the fort
conducts to a group of three mines, any
one of which will explode on contact with
an enemy’s ship when the automatic
switch is on, and all three of which may
be fired together if desired. The electrical
resistance of the circuit through each of
the submer-ged mines, that of the triple
groups, and finally of the completed
grand group, is taken and recorded, so
that the condition of every link in the
circuit may be daily-verified in detail.
The men who will work the mines at
Galveston have not yet been drilled. But
at the first sign of possible hostilities they
will Tae, and all the preliminary work pos-
sible is being done.
New York, N. Y., March 21.—A dispatch
to the Tribune from Havana says: The
Spanish inquiry into the Maine disaster
has gone to pieces .in seeking to establish
the accident theory. This admission is
privately made in government official
circles. The explosion is charged to un-
known causes, but the -Spanish court will
find a verdict to create public opinion.
The work of the divers has not been
thorough, yet apparently they have found
so little evidence on which a theory of in-
ternal explosion can be based that the
Spanish court is not willing to stand un-
equivocally on the theory of accident
which it set out to maintain. These facts
have been known for three or four days.
They may account for statements from
Madrid that the Maine incident will not
be a cause of war between the two coun-
tries and also for hints at arbitrating the
disputed question of fact. This talk is
semi-official.
The Spanish authorities1 realize the im-
probability of successfully controverting
the case which will .be presented when the
report of Capt. Sampson and his asso-
ciates on the American board of inquiry
is published. They have had an inkling
that the evidence on which an external
explosion, due to foul play, will be
charged is meant to satisfy not simply
the American people, but the judgment
of experts throughout the world. How
strongly this conclusion of the American
board is fortified will soon be known. The
cue received from Madrid is to have a
counter case ready so that suspension of
judgment can be asked until diplomats
can arrange a satisfactory settlement.
The evident hope of Blanco’s government
is to keep the Maine incident entirely dis-
tinct from other Cuban questions. Not-
withstanding the lack of confidence in
their own theory of accident, it can not
be learned that the authorities are doing
anything to uncover the conspirators who
were responsible for blowing up the
Maine.
More importance is given to the final
effort of the radical autonomists to ne-
gotiate with Gomez and the insurgent
leaders for a settlement of the war. A
few officials profess confidence that Go-
mez and the other insurgent leaders will
at least permit the propositions to be
made and will then dictate their own
terms under which Spain’s flag may re-
main. No ground whatever exists for this
delusion. Gomez has already given an in-
dication of his answer. The insurgents
will treat with Blanco’s representatives
only on the basis of independence. With
that understood, they will agree to an
armistice while the good offices of the
United States are employed in arranging
an indemnity and other details under
which Spaffi might be willing to withdraw
her troops and abandon the island.
The government is groping in a circuit,
as the phrase is allied to the final effort
to make terms with the insurgents. It
does go fast enough to travel. Probably
the best thing for all parties is to have
the failure of the attempted negotiations
with Gomez made known promptly and
emphatically. If there was a fair pros-
pect of this there would be some talk of
double dealing.
The Sagasta ministry in Madrid in-
dorsed the proposed overtures. The vol-
unteers are now taking part in the reg-
ular maneuvers of the army, as wrell as
in the artillery practice. They could not
be disarmed without a revolution and the
attempt will never be made. -Neverthe-
less the insurgents have been asked to
accept a scheme of enlarged autonomy,
of which the disarmament of the volun-
teers is a part of the program.
They will not be fooled, nor will the
volunteers be fooled. The deception was
meant to be practicedi in the United
States in seeking to make it a party to
the negotiations and in a
sponsible for their failure,
politics of the palace in Havana,
would hardly have been adopted here had
it not been acceptable in Madrid,
autonomist cabinet, or the radical mem-
bers of it, will not be left entirely alone
to serve as scapegoats. Gen. Salano,
chief of the general staff, while not in-
dorsing all the articles in the prog.-arn of
final concessions to the insurgents, had
approved them in the main. He favored
inviting Gomez to take part in the hew
Cuban government that was to be formed,
with the Spanish flag as the only thing
left to Spain. A few other officers of high
rank who are devoted to the monarchy,
sympathize with Salano and would join
him in making the sacrifices wh:cn these
concessions would demand. The mass of
the army officers, however, would revolt
against the propositions if there was a
chance of their acceprance by the insur-
gents, just as they revolted in the Janu-
ary riots against autonomy. That these
insubordinate army officers are quiet is
the best evidence that the attempt to ne-
gotiate on a new basis never had sincere
support.
Consul General Lee is making reports to
the state department on this matter.
They are based on full and authentic in-
formation. Gen. Lee’s reports show that
the United States yzould be powerless to
persuade the insurgents to accept “am-
plified autonomy.” Government officials
here have been making anxious inquiries
regarding the feeling of the administra-
tion on this point and also whether
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VOL. XVIII.
MARCH 21,
1898.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, MONDAY,
25c
30c
30c
1.00
40c
Coffee obtainable. No substitute used and called Java and Mocha.
25c
25c
15c
Per bottle
ETER GENGLER
1.00
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Half-pint jars..
Pint jars_______
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Fori Worth Hams are Good Hams.
Per pound................................ Uo
St. Charles Evaporated Cream,
2 cans...................................
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Fort Worth Bacon Is Good Bacon.
Per pound—.................... 12c
Assortment of Fraaco-Amarlcan Soup
Just received. Quart cans, 35e; pint cans, 20c.
Grocer and Wine Merchant.
May Pole Soap At one operation^
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Black-Eyed Peas, 10 lbs. for.......
Refugee Stringless Beans—these
are real fine goods, usually sold
«.at 2Sc, no^.................. 12k
Green Rio—no black beans, good
and strong—10 lbs. for.......-..$1.00
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Fresh Shipment Kosher Sausage
and Smoked Meats Just Received.
and strong—10 lbs. for....
Green Rio, fancy, 9 lbs. for.
Green Rio, extra fancy, 8 lbs. for
Green Cordova, choice, 7 lbs. for
Green Cordova, washed, extra
fancy, 5 lbs. for......................
Green Porto Rico, 4 lbs. for......
Green Mocha or Java, genuine
no imitation, 3 lbs. for...........
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SPECIAL BARGAINS.
AS LONG AS
Ivy Matches, per pkge. of 1 doz.
boxes ............... 5C
Gloss Starch, in bulk, 8 lbs. for...., 25c
Schneider’s Tomato Soup, quart
cans.............................. 20c
Babbitt’s Soap,
For this week only...............-$3,75
There never was a pickle packed in
any bottle that conld equal the
PIN MONEY PICKLE.
Pin Money Melon Mangoes.
Pin Money Cucumber Mangoes.
Pin Money Bur Mangoes.
Pin Money Pepper Mangoes.
-25c Quart jars..........J5c
45c Half-gal. jars —.$1,25
In bulk, per quart..............,g0c
Pin Money Gherkins, Pin Money Bur Gherkins,
Pin Money Cauliflower, Pin Money Onions,
Pin Money Martynia, Pin Money Mixed Pickles.
Half-pint jars............20c Half-gallon jars.....$1.00
Pint jars..................35c In bulk, psr quart.....40c
Pin Money Sweet Pickled Peaches, per qt. 40c.
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To Suit All Tastes and All Pocketbooks.
Parched Rio, choice, per lb......... 15c
Parched Rio, extra choice, per lb. 20c
Parched Cordova, choice, per lb.
Parched Porto Rico—this is excel-
lent—per lb............................
Parched Java and Mocha Blend,
per lb ......................................
Parched Java and Mocha — the
real thing—per lb.....................
We parch the Genuine Java and Mocha, and guarantee it to be the very finest
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FOR BROWNSVILLE—Steamship Mor-
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L. MEGGETT, Agent.
C. W. BEIN, Traffic Mgr., Houston, Tex.
L. J. PARKS, Asst. Genl. Pass, and Ticket
J, H. FILLER, Pass, and Ticket Agent,
403 Tremont St. Phone 87.
Night and Morning Connections at New
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Philadelphia, Washington, Atlanta,
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis and
Chicago.
New Orleans and Galveston,
San Antonio and Galveston.
Only Standard Gauge Line Running
Through Sleepers to
CITY OF MEXICO
DOUBLE DAILY
TRAIN SERVICE
WITH BUFFET SLEEPERS.
White Sugar, per lb. 5c.
Comp’d Lard, per lb. 5c.
H. MOSLE & CO.
Corner 22d and Mechanic.
Large Store.
Smail Prices.
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GALVESTON TRIBUNE.
25c
ffRY TRIBUNE WANT COLUMNS.
THREE LINES THREE TIMES
N. SALZMANN,
Manufacturing Jeweler,
A fulllineof Diamonds, Watches, Clocks, etc,
Repairing done at moderate prices.
2117 Postoffice Street.
$100,000
$310,000
DIRECTORS:
M. Lasker, Julius Runge, M. Ullmann,
J. F. Campbell, A. Ferrier, J. Reymershof-
fer, R. B. Hawley, Charles Fowler, Rob-
ert Bornefeld.
4 per cent interest per annum allowed on
SAVING DEPOSITS.
M. LASKER........................President
M. ULLMANN...............Vice President
JOS. F. CAMPBELL.................Cashier
F. WOOLVERTON.......Assistant Cashier
ISLANO CITY SAVINGS BANK
General Banking Business Transacted.
capital
SURPLUS
A BIG BAG OF MONEY.
THE HOUSTON STRIKE.
TEE POLICE ARE SKEPTICAL.
VETERAN JOURNALIST DEAD.
ADA MONKS DEAD.
UNCLE EBH will loan you money.
Corner Grocery Keeper Declares
He Was Robbed.
i The Royal is ths highest grade baking powder
I known. Actual tests show it goes one-
third further than any other brand.
Money Was Taken f rom Under a Bed
Where a Child Wag
Sleeping.
A NEW WRINKLE.
Just opened, the finest Bowling Alley
in the state of Texas. Come and try it,
2116 Market street.
Karl’s Clover Root Tea, for constipation
it’s the best and if after using it you don’t
say so, return the package and get your
money. Sold by J. J. Schott.
UNCLE EPH for Diamond Bargains.
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ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
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M. Ciucci says he was robbed yesterday
of a large sum of money. The police say
they have serious doubts as to the cor-
rectness of Ciucci’s story. There the mat-
ter stands and so far no arrests have been
made.
Ciucci keeps -a regulation corner grocery
in 'the big two-story brick building at the
northeast corner of 28th and L. He lives
with his family in rooms in the rear of the
store. His wife helps about the store, the
Ciuccis being out for business and well
known for frugality. He has a large stock
of goods in his store such as is usually
kept in establishments of that kind and
apparently does a good neighborhood bus-
iness.
When I called at his place this morning
to ask him about the robbery he at once
came back at me with, a question as to
why I was interested. Ciucci is nothing if
not shrewd.
A friend of his who was In his place at
the time saved me the trouble of explain-
inb by telling Ciucci that I was.a reporter
for The Tribune. Then he talked to the
grocery keeper in Italian, presumably, ad-
vising him to tell me the story, as when
Ciucci’s friend got through he loosened up
a little.
His story, as near as I could get at it
from’his account given in broken English,
is that he had a large amount of money,
which his friend placed at about $400, but
which Ciucci refused to either confirm or
deny, in a sack. The money was in bills,
gold, silver, nickels and dimes, and had
been taken in by him in the course of bus-
iness. He put the sack containing the
money under the mattress in his bedroom,
fastened all the windows and proceeded to
attend to his business about the store. One
of his children was asleep in the room and
a light was burning. About 8 o’clock Mrs.
Ciucci went into the room where the child
was asleep. She had left a light burning
there a short time before. The light was
out. This aroused Mrs. Ciucci’s supicions.
The windows, which (had been close’d,
Were open. This fact confirmed her sus-
picions and she .went to her husband full
of visions of robbers. The two returned
together to the room. Search was at once
made for the money bag. It was gone.
Ciucci lost no time in getting into com-
munication with, the police. He told his
New York, N. Y., Mr 'ch 21.—Ada Monks
Hewitt, well known on the stage as Ada
Monks, is dead at her home in, this city.
She supported Fannie Davenport and was
leading lady in the Robson & Crane “Two
Drominos” company.
was
Absolutely Pure
NO SWELLED JAW
After Dr. Perkins fills your teeth. Try
him. 2209 Postoffice street.
story to them. But the police were skep-
tical. No arrests have been. made.
I asked Ciucci if he had any suspicions
•as to who had robbed him; He at first did
not understand. Finally I macle myself
clear and he rewarded me with a pitying
glance which was the very embodiment of
scorn.
“Suspicions?” Of course he had suspic-
ions, and as he told me of them without
mentioning' against whom they were di-
rected he wound up with a significant
“damn.”
Ciucci went further. He told me he had
a couple of barrels of whisky to. pay for
today and he needed the money for that
purpose. He said he usually kept his
money in the bank, but he had the amount
which was stolen at home so as to< have
it handy.
'The ‘Seventh Day and the Situation Prac-
tically Unchanged.
Special to The Tribune.
Houston, Tex., March 21.—This is the
seventh clay of the street car strike and
the situation is practically Unchanged.
It had been announced that the com-
pany would attempt to run cars today,
and a crowd of 1500 to 2000 people assem-
bled to witness the experiment. The
strikers were not among the crowd. They,
were at their hall. There was no demon-
stration whatever.
Chief of Police Heim was there with-24
officers and kept the tracks clear. But
no attempt was made to run the cars. The
company insisted on having policemen on
each car,. but this Chief Heim declined.
Yesterday the Central labor council, the
Brotherhood of trainmen and the Brew-
ery workers passed resolutions indorsing
the strike and offering financial aid.
There will be a big labor parade tonight.
It is the general opinion that the strik-
ers are not responsible for the violence
of Saturday.
The company has made no offer to ar-
bitrate.
Made His First Hit Publishing Daniel
Webster’s Speech Verbatim.
Boston, Mass., March 21.—Roland
Worthington, the veteran journalist, is
dead at his heme in this city, aged 81.
He entered the newspaper business as an
employe of the counting room of the Bos-
ton Daily Advertiser. In 1845 he took
charge of the Boston Traveller. When
Daniel Webster made his famous speech
at Marshfield in August, 1845, Mr. Worth-
ington. published a verbatim report and
had it sold by the newsboys in the streets,
an innovation which called down the se-
vere criticism of the other Boston papers.
He sold a very large number of copies.
Mr. Worthington was one of the earli-
est of the “free soilers” of Massachu-
setts and was one of those who foresaw
and welcomed the conflict. When the Re-
publican party was organized he at once
joined it and carried his paper with him.
In 1860 his paper was the first to suggest
the nomination of John D. Long as suc-
cessor to Gov. Banks. He was opposed
by the other Republican papers of Bos-
ton, but his candidate was nominated and
elected. In 1883 he insisted that George D.
Robinson was the wisest nomination that
could be made against Gov. Butler and
here he won again. President Arthur ten-
dered the bffice of collector of the port of
Boston to Mr. Worthington in 1882.
Mr. Worthington retired from the active
management of the Traveller in 1890.
N. Weekes. Ed. McCarthy.
A. H. Pierce.
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solicited.
weekes, McCarthy & co.,
Galveston, Texas.
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