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W A S H IN G T O N WILL MAINTAIN ORDER ARMY AN D ALASKA. Washington,Oct. 25.— General Miles, major-general commanding the army, has maiie his report to the secretary oi war. General Miles says in part: “ The army, although inadequate in point of numbers, was never in a higher T H K ADM INISTRATION SO ORDERS state of efficiency. "T h e progress that has been made on the Pacific coast in the establishment Ht. M i c h a e l » * I n c l u d e d in t h e K e s e r v » * of modern batteries of artillery have made it necessary to occupy new ground t l o n C 'lv il A u t h o r i t i e s CJuable and to adopt a new system of defense.” to E n fo r c e th e Lawn. Attention its invited to the report of Chicago, Oct 22.— A special from General Merriam, commanding the de- Waabington says: President McKinley partment of the Columbia, especially to w ill issue an order placing a large dis the need of a larger garrison at the en trict in Alaska, of which St. Michaels trance to the Columbia river, and to his w ill be the center, under the control ol report on the condition and necessities the military arm of the government. of the great territory of Alaska. Bv this action the authorities be- As all the other territories have been lieve that the lawlessness feared as a occupied by military [lostsand measures result of the rush of gold-seekers to the have been adopted for building military great Northwest territory will be sup .oads, bridging rivers, and, in fact, pressed. The proposed military dis Aiding and blocking out the way for trict w ill be about 100 miles square. occupation of the vast territories by The determination to issue the order citizens, it is deemed but just and ad was arrived at, it is said, at a cabinet visable t*\at the same liberal spirit meeting. While no official reports ol should be manifested toward that great anything but a peaceful condition have and important territory. He says: readied the department, private com “ As far as practicable it would, in munications from responsible parties my opinion, be advisable to have its have convinced the authorities that waters thoroughly examined by such of something more was necessary than the naval force us could be used for that civilian rule. The authorities say that purpose, and as military reconuoiter- offenses committed within the bounda ing and exploring parties in past years ries of the district, to be described by have been sent to the country to fur the president in his order, w ill subject nish knowledge of its character, re those responsible to the military, and sources and necessities, this, in my prosecution by the civilian authorities judgment, should be continued on a before whom they w ill be brought. larger and more liberal scale. While The department is making an exam there is no confliot between the popula ination of the geographical conditions tion, composed of some 20,000 Indians of the country in the vicinity of the and the white explorers and settlers, month of the Yukon, to obtain data yet, as the former are supplied with that will enable it to prescribe exactly modern arms, they may become turbu the boundaries of the proposed new lent and troublesome. Such has been reservation. It is also desirable to the history of nearly all the tribes in lim it the reservation to the smallest the other territories. Hence, it would dimensions that will take in St. be hut reasonable to anticipate the Michaels as a center, arid yet include necessity for a military force in that the estuary of the Yukon, where the territory by the establishment of at least lawless element might gather if ex three military posts to support the civil eluded from the town itself. authorities, to give protection to the There will be little excuse for the white settlers, and to aid in maintain- commission of lawless acts based on ! ing law in that remote section.” ¡starvation within the limits of the new In the last 10 years much attention reservation, for Secretary Alger Pun has been given to coast defenses, and authorized the officer in command ol most beneficial results are apparent. the troo|w at St. Michaels not only to Approximately, $26,000,000 has been ifeed miners who may be in actual need, appropriated by the government, which hut to ship them out of the country il is nearly one-third of what is required they are unable to pay their own wav. to put the country in a safe condition The w h i ' department also promise* of defense. Although the general de to establish an army post on the Yukon lire of our people, he says, is to main- river, but this will not bo done before | tain peace with all nations, and the -next spring. polioy of the government Is one of good- , will and peaceful relations with all NEW D IG G IN G S FO UN D . . others, it would be more judicious to provide defenses titan to remain in a A D i s c o v e r y In t h e N o r t h e r n T a r t o l condition of iuseenrity and permit the llrititth C o l u m b i » . accumulated wealth of many genera Victoria, B. C ., Oot. 22.— News hat tions to be destroyed or endangered oy l>een received from Ominica, in the ttny f0reijgn power with which we are northern part of this province, of the to come in.contact. ” discovery of n new und rich creek, and j j e recommends fortification appro v e remains of Walker, GUI, Hathaway ,>riuti„ns in the West as follows: and Jim Robinaon, who went there -am D iego................................................. « 720,000 some nine years ago and lost their lives. | 9an Francisco.................................1,386,000 olum bia r iv e r ......................................... 605,000 An expedition was sent in headed by • C Pu get sound................... 1,140,000 an Indian, who bad been thero several He recommends strongly an increase years before, but the second day the in the army of at least two additional ¡latter lost his bearings. However, | regiments of artillery, saying that by 'Hugh Grunt, who was really the head December 81 a number of positions will of the party, with what information he be armed in part or fully with modern could gather from the Indian, managed, appliances of war, and that in these im after a very hard trip, to find the creek. portant positions there are no troops 'He found the remains and signs of stationed and none available for assign Hathaway’s and Robinson’s work. ment to the stations without taking They prospected the ground, and found them from stations where they are at ¡prospects sufficiently rich to induce present imperatively required. them to stake off claim:; for all those He Suggests the necessity of adding interested. ¡Samples of the gold brought four infantry regiments, and recom back are the purest seen in British mends that congress tix a standard of Colombia. Ureugth on a basis of the total popula Grant and his partner intend to s|>end tion. This standard, be thinks, should this winter on the new creek (which it be u maximum of one enlisted man to was decided to name in honorai Hatha- , _000 population, and the mini- way and Kohinson). Grant estimates m),m ^ Bol(,'ier ^ every 2 000 p ^ . that he cun make from $8 to $6 per day lution. rocking. R o b h eri T h e ir B en efactor. When the news of the discovery Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 25.— Andrew spread, word was sent to all the pros pectors in the district who could he Norlin was held up last night near ¡reached, and an old-time rush ensued. Puyallup and robbed of $40. Norlin A number of«clsiins have been staked had beeu working in Montana, and, and recorded sinoe A ll who came back while in Spokane, met two men who w ith samples seem well satisfied with were “ dead broke” and beating their the prospects, and are going back in the way to the coast. He had $75, and took pity on thorn, paying their way on spring. freight trains. In repayment for all TREASURY ROBBED. his kindness, as soon as they got off the train at Puyallup, they almost choked O o t . r a m . n l 'i i l.o a . M a r B e a c h In to t h . , their benefactor to death, and took T h o u a n n d .. [ what money he had left. Norlin gave Washington, Oct. 22.— Silver dollars a fairly good description of the robbers, '•re missing from the treasury wliioh and the police have hopes of oapturing may number thousands. Treasurer them. Roberts has employed ex|x>rts to count L i f e on th e T rn ll. piece by piece the $100,000,000 which Chicago, Oct. 25.— A letter by C. J. might to be in the vaults. Gregory, formerly of Chicago, who left Recently the coin was counted hy the here for Alaska in August, is a clear weighing process, hut Roberts will not portrayal of the hardships of the White give a receipt to his predecessor, Mor pass: gan, until he knows the full extent of “ There have be^n six suicides," he the robbery, which he suspects has been writes, “ three hangings and eleven carried on for some time. killings, !>cs id os a number of deaths During this oonnt a trusted employe from exposure. It costs $1 to get a let was caught opening hags which contain ter through to Skaguay, and 10 oenta $1,000 in silver, taking out as many as to get it mailed. Prices here are very he wished and making up the weight of high. Flour at Lake Bennett brings the extraoted silver with load. A t the $60 a sack; bacon, $1 per pound: beans, oonolusion of the count all of the bags $1 per pound; horseshoe nails bring 50 allowed the required weight. cents apiece; a pair of shoes w ill bring Upon the treasurer’ s suggestion some iny price rou like or want to ask; over- « f the hags were opened, and so much illa, $6.” ________________ lead was discovered that a consultation T r o o p « fo r In d ia . was held and it was decided to employ London, Oct. 25.— A Urge draft of a foroe of 60 olerks to go over the counting in detail. This task will con soldiers has been ordered to get ready sume six months and w ill cost the gov to reinforoe eight British cavalry regi- meuts now in India. ernment $25,000. A " Q u i r t ” Mhop D y n i m l t i d . FIGHT G en eral N elson A . M ile s M a k e s H is A n nual Report. Part of Alaska to Be Placed Under Military Rule. _______ Indianapolis, Oct. 22.— A “ quart” shop at Greenwood, operated hy Patrick Murphy, of th;s city, gave the villagers much offense, and a charge of dynamite was placed under the building aud the structure and oontenta were scattered broadcast. Charles Stevens, a bar tender, John Devoe'a partner, sleeping in a rear room, was thrown into the street and severely hnrL The force of the explosion broke every pane in ad- ' lining residences and aroused every COUNTY B rave W ill Leave on the Bark Col orado for Dawson City. TO REACH THERE IN THE SPR ING From P y ra m id H a rb o r the Jou rn ey W i l l B e g in O v e r la n d —E x p e c t to S e ll F o o d to th e S tarviu g M in er«. T o llo w F i v i r «1 N o w O rlo n n «. New Orleans, Oct. J5.— A 7 o’clock SO new oases and five death« had been reported. IN THE C harge o f B ritish S a m a r a Kang«». Troops H a n d r a d M ile K c c n rd . London, Oct. 21.— A t the Palace, James, of Cardiff, and of London, broke the world's reconi for 100 miles, covering tance in 8:26:00. Crystal Nelson, tandem the dis O n e S ta te o f l i r e M o v e d to T a ro a a a . Olympia, Wash., Oot >1.— The office o f the commiseoner of publio intsitu- tions waa todav moved to Taooma. The board of audit and control w ill con tinue to hold sees ions in this city. RELEASED 0 HILLS. BY PREHISTORIC NEW MEXl WEYLER. K x . n g . l l n » ’ . A c c o m p l i . . . F ru e d the I i U o f F in ««. on F rom Havana, Oct 21 .— General VVeyler Simla, Oot. 22.— According to ad vices from Fort Lockliardt, the tribes has ordered the release from the Is e men having occupied Dargari ridge, of Pines, the Spanish penal settlement, which commanded Chagru, on the Sa off the coast of Cuba, of 11 prisoners* mara range. General Biggs sent the sec who were, it is allege.!, concerned in ond division this morning to dislodge the uprising which resulted in the im- them. The position was a very strong prisonment of Evangelina Cossio y Cis one, on the summit of a precipitous neros, who recently escaped from the hill, reached by a single path along Casa Recogidas, in this city, aud who which the attacking force, consisting of is now in New York. The release of Abram Sohas, Juan the Guerka regulars and the Dorsetshire regiment, was obliged to climb in In Esperto Torres, Jose Bestard Godoy dian file, three batteries meanwhile and other political prisoners has been also ordered by General Weyler. shelling the ranges. The Spanish general, Jiminiz Oastel- The British suffered a temporary check when they reached the open ' ianos, accompanied by his son, Lieu Captain Pedro space, and were excised to an accurate tenant Castellanos, fire. After a prolonged artillery fire, ! Aquilas, his aid de camp; 29 other the Guerkas were reinforced by the officers and 70 sick soldiers, have ar Gordon Highlanders. Then followed a rived here from Puerto Principe. Three additional survivors of the magnificent rush across the open space, in the face of a murderous fusillade. wreck of the coasting steamer Triton, The enemy stood their ground until the which went ashore between Dominica British reached the rocks below, down and Muriel, on the coast of the prov which the tribesmen could not see to ince of Pinar del Rio, on Saturday last, tire, and they fled pell-mell. Ttie have arrived here. The scene among losses of the Guerkas and the High j the men, women and children, the sur- I vivors state, was terrible. When the landers were severe. According to later advices, General | Triton foundered there were 230 per- Biggs advanced at daybreak, by way of [ sons aboard, passengers and crew, and Chagru Kotal, with Brigadier-General so far only 49 of this number have been Kemster’ s brigade leading. It was ^ heard f r o m . _________ nearly 10 o’clock when the enemy be S t a r v e i l in H a v a n a . gan a long-range fight. The three New York, Oct. 21.— A speoeial from mountain batteries massed on Chagru Havana via Jacksonville says: W. H. Kotal replied, while the Gordon High Hughes, correspondent of Black and landers pushed through to support the White, of London, was found dead on first line, firing volleys at long range. the Prado in this city Thursday night. The tribesmen reserved their fire until He recently visited Pinar del Rio with the Guerkas reached the zigzag path a pass from the military governor. A under the perpendicular cliff, where party of Spanish guerrillas, however, Major Jennings Bromley was killed on maltreated and robbed him. Ragged Monday in the fighting between the and starving he eventually managed to Biggs brigade and the insurgent tribes reach Havana. Having lost his pass men from Chagru. port he could neither establish his iden Three British companies crossed the tity nor cable his friends. The British zone of fire at a rush, sustaining heavy oonsul was unable to assist him, and, losses, while the remainder deployed to being practically a stranger, he existed the left to intercept a flank attack on the streets until he was found by threatened hy some 7,000 of the enemy from that direction. The Dorsetshire the police, starved to death. Hughes earned considerable reputa regiment attempted to support three companies of Guerkas, but was kept tion as war correspondent both in West back by the enemy, who remained cool, ern Afriua and Egypt. He was a son of and reserved their fire until the British Surgeon Hughes, a retired officer of the British navy. were well exposed. J Seattle, Oct. 21.— An expedition le;1 here today for Alaska which far sur passes in magnitude and daring any of the numerous Klondike expeditions that have gone out of this city and Sound ports since the rush North be gan. The expedition is composed of 50 men and 600 pack animals. They ex pect to reach Dawson City on or about January 1, with 200 tons of provisions, which w ill be sold to the reported half- starved miners at prices that w ill make it worth the while of the promoters to send in such an expensive expedition. Colonel Nathan Smith, of British Columbia, is bucking the enterprise, having interested Eastern capital in his daring scheme of bringing in food to the miners, who w ill, if accounts are true, be very much in need of some thing to eat. John E. Cameron, also of British Columbia, w ill go with the party and superintend the work. The main expedition will leave on the old bark Colorado, the recent ad dition to the fleet of the Washington & Alaska Steamship Company. The vessel has been chartered for the trip to Pyramid harbor, where the overland journey begins. The Colorado will be towed north by the tug Pioneer. The steamer City of Seattle took about 80 men, who are to go into Daw son with the expedition. They w ill be landed at Pyramid harbor with their personal baggage und w ill there await the arrival of the Colorado. The Colorado’s cargo w ill consist of 500 cattle nnd horses and about 200 tons of provisions. It is on the latter that the profits of the expedition, if there are any, w ill be made. An es pecially large quantity of smoked meats A t 1 P. M. matters looked serious, is being taken in, as well as other as the gun fire, though maintained hy things of which there is a known a mountain battery from Fort Gulistan, shortage at Dawson. had failed to dislodge the enemy. Gen From Pyramid harbor the expedition eral Kemster thereupon went forward will follow the old Jack Dalton trail to in person, moving up the Gordon High the Yukon river, which w ill be reached landers and the Third Sikh regiment several hundred miles above Dawson. into the fighting line. A systematic They exjiect to complete the journey on assault was then organized, and 2,000 the ice, and if all goes well to arrive at men, with fixed bayonets, stood wait Dawson about January 1. They go ing for the order to advance. prepared to spend the winter on the Three minutes before the word of snow fields if they find they cannot get command was given, General Keinster to the river, and in case they have to telegraphed back instructions to the do so will pusli on as early us possible artillery company to concentrate their in the spring. Several hundred sleds forces. Eighteen pieces of artillery re are now lieing made for the horses and sponded, and, under cover of this fire, oxen. Special dog sleds have been or the leading company of the Highland- dered from St. Paul. The expedition 1 era, amid perfect silence, rushed into will start out with 60 large dogs, 800 ; ttie fire zone. Half of the men dropjied, horses and 150 work oxen. Several j but the remainder pushed gallantly on members of the expedition, including until they reached the cover where the Seattle horsemen, have been engaged Guerkas lay. The rest of the force for the past few weeks rounding up the streamed after them and the tribesmen, large number of range horses necessary | seeing that most of the troops had on Eastern Washington ranges. Small passed the fire zone, fled up the hill, and hardened cuyuses, which are well and collected under cover of the cliffs. adapted to the extreme cold of th e 1 The Highlanders and mixed regi North, are lieing purchased. ‘ A mini ments, after pausing a moment to take her have already been corraled and the breath, again advanced to the assault remainder w ill arrive in time to go lip and 20 minutes later the position waB on the Colorado. The work oxen are won. The ridge was stormed at 3 being purchased in the logging camps ; o’ clock. From noon until that hour, on the Sound. Fully $150,000 w ill be the tribesmen, sheltered in the sugars, the cost of the expedition complete and stood the bombardment, beating their laid down at Dawson City. drums, waving their standards, shout There lias been a great deal of diffi ing defiance, and maintaining a hot fire culty in finding men with nerve enough on the advancing soldiers. to undertake the trip, which will pos General Biggs will continue the ad sibly cost them their lives. Smith will vance so as to hold the frontal hills and only permit men of experience to go on push on to Kharappa, where lie will be the ex|iedition, and has at last secured joined by Sir W illiam Lockhardt. 50 miners, cowboys, horse herders and Throughout yesterday the tribesmen mountaineers who are willing to tuke continued their work of building breast the greatest possible risks. works on the summit. The men are not being offered for tunes to cast their lot with the rest. HUGE GAME PRESERVE. They are guaranteed $50 a month for their time between here and Dawson City, and their provisions while on the A M i s s o u r i S p o r t i n g C l u b W i l l E s t a b l i s h $ I t S h o rtly. road. Their outfit is furnished by SL Lonis, Oct. 22.— Deeds will be Smith. The risks taken by this party are signed today completing the purchase certainly very great, and there are of the last 780 acres of a tract of land many old Yukoners who say there is in Iron county, Mo., that is designed no possibility of their getting near to form one of the greatest game pre Dawson. It is considered dangerous to serves in the United States. Pur drive rattle across the Dalton trail in chases of land in 'he vicinity of Ironton, midsummer, when there is plenty of Mo., have been preparing for several grass and an open river at the end of months until there has at last been the jonrney, instead of an impassable quietly bought enough land to serve sheet of ice. The animals will have to the purpose indicated. The purchaser is the Mountain and carry their own feed as well as the stock of provisions that are to pay for Lake Hunting ani Fishing Club, in all this if they can be transported to cluding in its membership many well Charles Dawson. It is something that has known men in St. Louis. never been attempted before, and the Lewis, ex-member of the city council, fate of the expedition will be watched is vice-president, Charles Huff, secre tary and John W. Peckington, treas with great interest. The Colorado was built in Boston in urer. The* tract selected for the pur 1864. She has since been rebuilt, and poses of the club is in the richest game is 983 tons burden. The vessel will be portion of Missouri, in a valley sur in charge of Captain E. S. Morine on rounded by the Ozark mountains. The intention of the club is to pre the northern trip. sent the preserve to the state at the ex r . n h u . n Must F my th« T a x . piration of 60 years, provided the plans Laramie. Wyo., Oot. 21.— C. T. of the club succse8fuUy carry out. Wantlaud, land agent of the Union Pa W ithin 50 years it is believed by the cific, says that purchaser« of land from club, the preserve w ill be the moat ex the Union Pacific would not be com tensive and richest in game in the pelled to stand good for all taxes after United States. purchase was made, but a clause would As soon as the papers are drawn np be put in the deeds making purchaser« work will be commenced in anticipa liable for any taxes that might be due tion of favorable action by the legisla at the time of the transfer. ture. S u rv e y o f S *a l Is la n d .. Washington, Oct. 25.— General Duf- field, of the geodetio survey, has word from the Pribyloff islands, under date of September 6, which indicates that the party engaged in the survey of the seal islands, under the direction of hia son, will complete their labors this season HATCHET GEORGE M. PULLM AN DEAD. The P elec e-C a r M a g n a te K xplrea H e a r t D isease a t C h ica g o . of Chicago, Oct. 21.— George M. Pull man, the palace-car magnate, died at his residence. Eighteenth street and Prairie avenue, this city, at 5 o’clock this morning. Mr. Pullman, who was in his 66th year, had not been enjoying his usual good health during the sum mer. The extreme heat of last week j greatly aggravated his disease, known to medical science as angina pectoris, but no serious trouble was anticipated. Mr. Pullamn was at his office in the Pullman building yesterday, and dined with his friends at his club. Later in the evening he remarked having a slight pain in the back. He retired at his usual early hour. A t 4 o’clock this morning his house hold was awakened by a disturbance in Mr. Pullman’s chamber, and, upon en tering, found him standing in the cor ner of the room, dazed and apparently suffering excruciating pains in the re gion of the heart. Rev. H. M. Eaton, who was visiting Mr. Pullman, called Dr. Frank B ill ings, the family physician. Restora tives were applied, but to no purpose, and at 5 o’ clock the millionaire passed away without speaking, and with scarcely a struggle. DYNAMITE T errib le IN HIS POCKET. E f fe c t s o f an E x p l o s i o n Y o u n g s te r 's C lothes. in a Springfield, Mo.,Oct. 21.— Raymond, the 12-year-old son of A D. Allen, j stenographer in the oircuit court, went to school this morning, carrying a por tion of a stick of dynamite. The ex plosive, which the boy had found in a stone quarry, was in his pocket with a knife, top, marbles and a quantity of other things common to a boy’s pockets. In getting into his seat, the boy hanged his dangerous collection of old junk against the desk, causing an explosion Which w ill probably cost him his life, and which was heard for several blocks. The child’s right hand was blown off and in his right groin a terrible wound was inflicted, from which the snrgeoni say he cannot recover. The teacher, Miss Mack, was close by, and had her dres, torn into shreds, hut she was not hurt. I he explosion caused a panic among the other children, and several were hurt in trying to get out of the building. K i l l e d b y an U n k n o w n M an. Bakersfield. Cal., Oct. 21.__.1. C. Mavis, a well-known baiherof thiscity, was assassinate.! last night by some un known man. The weapon used was a pistol, tired at close range, the hall en tering the left cheekbone. The pockets were pulled out a little, as if rifled. His watch was not taken and the pistol he carried was still in his pocket. M od ern D is c o v e ry P r o v e s a Cele’ Mesa W us F o r m e r ly luhubi Some measure of the romantic est which originally clung to it „ restored to the famous Mesa Ene»n If, as Prof. F. W. Hodge, of the 8 sonlan Institution, now reports of human habitation have been f on thut hlMiorlc rock. A few weeks Prof. William Llbbey, who manag scale the tableland, carni- back wltk reiiort that there were no evld- that human foot had ever trod u His successor was more suc- however, aud claims to have disco ed fragments o f i>ottery, arrows, bracelets, stone axes aud other i taknble proofs o f the truth of the dltiou that the metili was once stronghold o f a people descended prehistoric time. This discovery, if correctly repor liears out the truth o f some very traditions respecting the Acoma other Indians formerly living in Mexico. In 1540 Frnnclsco Vasq Coronado, who went Into this terrlt u | k > ii wlmt Is known as the “ Coron expedition,” sent back some very in estlng rejiortB as to the manners customs of the natives whom he tz In Acoma. Pedro de Castenada. was a member o f the expedition, ally describes just such an inacce tableland known ns the Mesa Euc tada, a tableland known then as co. This mesa held a village of at 200, whose Inhabitants “ were robt feared by the whole country ro ubout. The village was very strong cause It wus out o f reach, having st sides In every direction, and so h that It was a very good musket t' could throw a ball so high.” A sin entrance hy a stairway led to n po where the explorers “ had to go up menus of boles In the rock, In w' they put the points o f their feet Ing on at the some time by their ban At the top was space enough for i fields aud for large cisterns for the lection of water.” This account Is ■ stuntlully corroliorated by other tiers of the expedition and by Alv ado, a captain under Coronado. AD i reiiorts of the expedition, which place during the years 1540, 1541 i 1542, agree In describing the Inbat ants of the rock as a people dwelll in a state of semi-civilization and joying their alisolute immunity attack on any side. The documents In which these i tlves are authenticated were carefu Investigutated by Prof. George Par' Wlnshlp, of Harvard University, first published in complete form by t Smithsonian bureau of ethnology 1803. I f Prof. Hodge has found tra: of life on the celebrated mesa, his i covery will tend to prove not only I authenticity of the Spanish reports, ! of the Indian traditions as to the p historic life which existed In the sou" west of this country long before t Slumlords first began the conquest American soil.—Chicago Record. T h e B r it is h P a r lia m e n t. The Parliament of Great Britain, tf supreme legislative body of the Britt empire. Is summoned by a writ of ! sovereign, issued out of chancery least thirty-five days previous to f time of meeting. I f a vacancy occo In the Commons while In session a ■ of election is issued upon motion in t" House; If during a recess, at the 1 stance of the Speaker. During rece years It has become customary f Parliament to meet In an annual sc sion, extending from about the ml<L of February to about the end of A gust. Every annual session Is ended ' a prorogation; a Parliament is ck with a dissolution, the average life Victoria’s Parliaments being abo three aud a half years. The dissoluti- of Parliament may occur at any by the will of the sovereign, and a ne election must then be held. Seren yea constitute the statutory limit of a Pa liamcnit'8 life, but no Parliament In the present century lasted so Ion The members of the Commons’ are a elected for one Parliament and reccl no salary. The members o f the Hon of I/ords are divided Into five cla the peers holding their seats (l) hereditary right; (2) by creation of t- sovereign; (3) by virtue of office, as 1 the case of the English bishops; <41 e.ection for life, as In the case of t Irish peers; (5) by election for the dur tion of one Parliament, as In the oi the Scottish peers. In 1896 the u_ per house had 575 names on its roils: the same year the House of Cornino numbered 670. New In stillm en t o f Wer. An Austrian newspaper annonn thnt Mauser, the well-known mamifa turer of fire-arms and the Inventor the mitrailleuse which bears hie nas has Just Invented a new mitraillée which loads and discharges Itself aut. math-ally. There are three models this, and experiments with them «■ sad to have been highly success!" The ,6-callber permits a fire of slxt or seventy shots to the minute; t- •lO-caliber, a fire of eighty shots to tb minute. aud the . 20 -caliber, s fi<"e ninety shots. The . 10 -caliber mitra. '.ensp can easily be carried and or rated by a single artilleryman. I'oisimpd by Yardigris. Genoa, Oct. 21.— Four hundred emi- gants on board the Italian steamer Agordat, have l>een poisoned hy verdi- gi is, which ha I becom? attached to ves sels in which their tool was cooked. Di tn’t Mean It. It is expected many sufferers w ill lose The reconstructed Grand Central d ther.- lives as a result of this acciden. pot in New York will -ontain the 1*> est railroad waiting-room In the wor. In .p o rte d M are I.la a d Y ard. T r a m p s B u r n e d ¿o M e a t h Resides, there will be s m o k in g -r o c - ( larkfield, Minn., Oct 21 __On Mare Island, Cal., Oot. 22.— The for men and parlors for women, ! commander of the Frenob ship Dngue Tues rav morning, a large barn bi-long- highly decorated and ahead of L Trien and some of his officers today ing io Kobert Berg, near Ganiev Falls times. The floor space will be doub.. pawl a visit to Mare Island navy-yanl this county, was destroyed by fire, Vo- to accommodate the 1 1 . 476.000 on the tug Umatilla. The party was day. the temains of four human beings who annually use the station. 0 “ entertained at luncheon by Admiral we.e found in the .lehris, but so badly upon s time a Vanderbilt said, “J piecw wh^ Kirkland, oommandant of the navy- buri ed ,h „ they fe„ publlg be ----but he really did* yard, and a number of officers of the distnrlied. T e victims are supposed mean It.—Pittsburg Dispatch. ship« stationed here were invited to meet them. After luncheon, the party It U. the struggle to keep np A inspected the navy-yard, and returned Thirty millions of wooden spoons uncea »*--1 keeps a great many to the city on the Umatilla. are manutacti.red in Ku-sia every yea,. dowa. zzvuo u-