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Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle, Monday, February 22, 1904--8. Arrived New Spring Hats. The Newest SHAPES in stiff and soft HATS Dunlap Youmans and Young Blocks STETSON HATS $3.00 3.50 4.00 .00 OTHER MAKES $1.00 TO 3.00 00 GET YOUR HAT EARLY AND KEEP IN LINE. M. Shwartz.

NODY CARRIED UNDER TRAIN. New Haven' Rond Brakeman Dragged from Mt. Vernon to New Rochelle, N. Feb. -John New a brakeman on the New York, Rochelle, Hartford Railroad, was Atikna, New Haven and the Lenox express, and was dragged from Mount Verkilled to-day by his body non to this elty.

the When the Lenox the express towerman saw Atpassed body under the car. The train Junction here was stopped, and the crew found only the wan trunk held by a part of the clothing. of. the brakeman's body. was caught on a rod just forward the the wheels.

It is belleved that of man stooped over the side of the car at a steam pipe and that his head struck a fence. He was nftyto look five years of age, married, and lived in Bridgeport. CARBOLIC ACID BY MISTAKE. Binghamton, N. Feb.

this Jocity sephine to-night Lloyd after died at taking carbolic acid her home in by mistake this morning. Mrs. Lloyd had been sick for sometime and supposed that she was taking the regular medicine the was accustomed to take, roticing that she had taken the net wrong bottle until too late. Binghamton. N.

Feb. FREIGHT TRAINS COLLIDE. speed of 30 miles an hour, train No. 7 on the Delaware going at a and Hudson Railroad ran into an open passenger switch at Oneonta yesterday afternoon and collided, head on, with a freight train standing on the ading. Henry Opia, fireman, of this -Orr, city, engineer, his was leg cut off, and W.

D. elightly injured. None of the passenwas hurt. certain Western politician is now. described an Down this accurately way come of them might more -Florida Timesbe described as decoy.

Union A Segarful ME EN Saying. I Went any question CUNLEY'S PRINCIPE CIGAR le the best made in our city for the money. Ask your DEALER about them. 0. B.

CURLEY 21 8 in St. Po'keepsie. DOWN TO BUSINESS IN SAN DOMINGO. 1. 8.

WAR VESSELS BOMBARD DUARTE, OCCUPIED BY REBELS -GOVERNMENT VICTORY. Paris, Feb. A despatch from San Domingo says thint the United stater cruiser Columbia and the training ship Hartford have bombarded Duarte, which in occupied by the insurgents. Washington, Feb. belated despatch, dated February 12, from Captain J.

M. Miller, of the cruiser Columbin, which, with the Newark, is in San Dominican water, brings official confirmation of The ARBociated Press' despatch regarding the bombardment of the insurgents by the war vessels, of position near the capital city, the landing of marines and blue jackets to punish the revolutionists and their subsequent re-embarkation. According to Captain Miller the affair occurred on river about two miles from Santo Doningo, presumably at Panjarito. The Insurgents, on the mainland, fired on a Untied States merchant vessel believed to be the New York, lying in the river. The shots fell no dangerously near the war vessels that the nets of the Insurgents were construed by Captain Miller as an attack on the vessels, and a battery Are was opened on the revolutionista.

This was followed up by the barkation of 400 marines blue jackets from the Columbia and the Newark, who made successful landing ashore. They dislodged the insurgents and chased them into country. The marines and blue jackets then returned. to their ships. One man, a bugler named Painter, was wounded by the accidental preciously his firing There Were no other casualtien.

Close attention is being given by administration officials to affairs in San Domingo. A number of warships are being kept in the waters. of that country so that American interests may be zealously protected in cases of trouble between the regular government and the insurgents. Forcible Interference in the affairs of the country have been avoided up to this time 80 far. as any news received by the department la concerned.

VICTORY FOR GOVERNMENT. Late to-night the state department received a cablegram from Minister Powell. dated at San Domingo, February 16th. saying: "A decisive battle has been fought between the government forces and the Insurgents. It extended over two days and resulted in a victory for the gOvernment.

The siege has been raised and the insurgents are in retreat. San Domingo, Tuesday. Feb. 16. -Yes-.

terday a French merchant steamer entered river, convoyed by a launch from the United States cruiser Columon the vessel. bin. the The rebels abstained from Aring This morning the government troops attacked the rebels outside the city and severe fighting ensued, lasting many hours. The. rebels were forced to retire, leaving many killed and wounded on the field.

The action resuited in a complete victory for government, and the siege of the city Is considered to have been raised. GREEN HAVEN. The creamery company have finished filling their ice house. Some of the ice put in was 24: inches thick. They intend to drive a well at once.

There will be a number of changes here this spring. Silas L. Davis is busy sawing wood with his gasoline engine for farmers through here. We all dread the roads this spring when the frost is coming out. It.

not been a good winter for blacksmiths much snow. Those that have business to Poughkeepsie find it impossible to get there and back by the way of Hopewell on the cars the same day. Many are going to Matteawan and Newburgh to trade. should wake up and try to have ve'ter service from Hopewell in. CELEBRATING WASHINGTN'S BIRTHDAY.

New York. Feb. 21. -The Society of the Sons of the Revolution of New York held a special service at St. Thomas' Church to-day in honor the birth of Washington.

The body of the church was tilled with delegates from various patriotic societies. The services were conducted by the Rev. Morgan Dix, rector of Trinity Church. Similar services under the auspices of the Sons of the American Revolution were conducted in' the Church of the Divine Paternity. BAD AUSPICES.

Jinks- -What, not going to be married? I thought you said she gave you her hand last night. Binks -She did, but this morning she claims it was her left hand, and she had her fingers crossed, anyway. A New York preacher says euchre is us bad us poker. Why not play poker then? -Memphis Commercial-Appeal. Call and Try a Cup of EL TRIUNFO.

The Finest Coffee on Earth. Now Being Demonstrated at 66 Stoddard's, on the Corner. 9 1 RUSSIAN ARRY'S NEW COMMANDER (Continued from First Page.) confirmed the report of the sinking of a Japanese cruiser Japanese torpedo bont at Chemulpo. JAPANESE SQUADRON NOT CRIPPLED. Report of Disuster at Port Arthur Unfounded--Russian Squadron CableCutting.

Tokio, Feb. The reports from various quarters saying that Admiral TogO'R squadron was partly crippled In the operations at Port Arthur are unfounded. It Is unnecessary to send a single larice ship to. Sasebo for repairs. Two torpedo destroyers have been damaged.

but not in fighting. The Akebono in attempting to coal from a collier during IL storm collided with the Oboro, ahiing her machinery. Both were sent to Sasebo for repairs, which will be completed soon. The armored cruiser Chivoda has been docked at Sasebo and her bottom cleaned. The battleship Shikishima, which was injured on the eve of war, was repaired in time to participate -in Admiral Togo's attack on Arthur.

On February 9th she was returning to Sasebo After the naval maneuvers, and white changing her berth struck bottom. Her accident was at first regarded ns serious, and was thought that Japan would- have to defer war until the' Shikishima has been repaired, owing to the then evenly balanced strength of Japan and Russia. When docked it was found that the damage was slight and repairs were effected in a few days. The accident was kept secret. It was generally thought that the Shikishima was still docked at Sasebo and unable to participate in the attack on Port Arthur, Admiral Togo's men were euger to fight, and the men of the torpedo squadron who were sent to reconnoiter at Dainy on the night of February 8th were bitterly disappointed that they missed the Port Arthur fight, and they have almost demanded of Admiral Togo that he permit them to engage the enemy at the next opportunity.

Captain Takenouchi, a former naval attachee and Paris, has been appointed to command the Nisshin, and Captain Oinouyu, late chief of staff of the Kure navy yard, will command the Kasuga, the two cruisers which recently were purchased from Argentina. The Kasuga has gone to Kure to outfit. She will be ready for sea in two weeks. The Nisshin in outfitting at Yokohama and will be ready in three weeks. The Russian Vladivostok squadron was reported to-day on the west coast of the island of Hokkido, attempting to cut the cables.

The navy department here discredits the report and believes that the squadron is tilla Vladivostok. RUSSIA'S REPYL TO HAY NOTE Acceptable to States- Fe Transmitted, to China and Japan. Paris, Feb. 20. -It is learned that the Russian foreign minister, Count Lamsdorff, to-day received from the Washington government a communication announcing Russia's reply was considered responsive to the American note on China, and would be transmitted to the governments of China and Japan.

This favorable response from the United States to Russia la highly gratifying to the here, as it counteracts the mischievous reports to the effect that the Russian answer was equivalent to a As a matter of fact Itussia's reply is practically the same as those of the other powers, recognizing the neutrality of China with the exception of Manchuria. The terms are substantially as follows: Russia will be glad to join with the other powers in the recognition of Chinese neutrality on three condities: First--That China shali main' ain trality. Second--That Japan shall loyally support this neutrality, Third -That Manchuria, being the field of military operations, shall not be included. The reply is brief, rot containing any statements beyond tr. foregoing three conditions.

and the 1.: troductory sentence. The communication which Count Lamadorff has now received from Secretry Hay is equally and explicit, and is confined to the statement that Russia's answer is considered responsive to the American proposition and will be transmitted to China and Japan. Berlin, Feb. foreign office several days ago instructed the German ambassador at St. Petersburg and the minister of Germany at Tokio to communicate to the governments to which they are accredited Germany's adherence to the principles contained in Secretary Hay's note on the neutrality of China.

Both powers give a general ax. surance that those principles were acceptable to them. Washington, Feb. gladly and willingly favored the suggestion of Secretary Hay that as far as possible the belligerents in the Far Eastern war localize hostilities and respect the neutrality of China in the interest of a continuance of the peaceful intercourse of the rest of the world. My governexpressed conviction that Mr.

Hay's suggestion was prompted by motires of the highest humanity and was mutually advantageous to the belligerenst." This statement was made by Count Cassini, the Russian ambassador, in the course of conversation with a representative of The Associated Press on the Far Eastern situation to-night. trality Although the proposition have been carried on negotiations on netalmost entirely by the several foreign governments addressed and the American envoys accredited to them, the weight of the word of the Russian bassador at Washington in the counsels. of his majesty was strongly influentini in the shaping of Russia's reply. U.S. COMMANDER CRITICIZED At St.

Peteraburg on His Conduct at Chemulpo. 8t. Petersburg. Feb. action of the commander of the United States gunboat Vicksburg in declining to join the commanders of other foreign warchips in a protest against the attack of the Japanese fleet at Chemulpo, which resulted in the sinking of the Russian cruisers Variag and Korietz.

promises to cause discussion here. The Novoe Vremya'8 London correspondent cables that the' protest of the British captain agninstt he Japanese attack. on the ground that a breach of neutrality proved ineffectual, because the American commander would not assent. 'Newspapers here are laying great stress on thep ersonal note of Mr. Kurino, the Japanese minister at St.

Petersburg, to Count Lamsdorft, the RussHin foreign minister, on the occasion of the notification of the severance of diplomatic relations in which Mr. Kurino expressed the hope that the rupture would be of brief duration. They point to this incident as a proof Russia had no reason to belteve that Japan intended to follow up the rupture with actual hostilities, Official news received here confirms the report that noe of the crew of the Korietz was lost. HURRY ORDER FOR CRUISER. Turkey Wants Cramps to Rush Work on the Medjidia.

Philadelphia, Feb. cruiser Medjidia, built for Turkey at Cramps, is under hurry orders to get She will leave here March 1st, and will carry her own flag. It had been intended to take the vessel to Constantinople and deliver her there. Captain Ransford D. Buckman, of Cramps, who will take the cruiser across, has been commis.

sioned a captain in the Ottoman navy and will put hef in commission. It will also be necessary to commission the other officers. The Medfidia will leave port fully ready. for a naval engagement. Her guns are all of the latest pattern in use in the United States navy.

The exac cause of the hurry orders has not been explained. JAP PRISONERS AT NEW-CHWANG Fin-Kow. Feb. United States Consul Miller's efforts, to arrange for his representative to meet the Japanese refugees at New Chwang have failed. The obstacles which the viceregal and civil administrations placed in his way seem to indicate that it is the intention authorities to control and remove the 50 as to prevent their lodging complaints and laying evidence of their treatment before foreigners.

KING EDWARD WILLING TO MEDIATE. Paris, Feb. -The Petit Parisien's London correspondent says that during in interview preceding the departure from St. Petersburg yesterday, of Count Benckendorff, the Russian ambassador, Lord Lansdowne, the British foreign minister, intimated to him that King, Edward was willing to offer his mediation in the war in the Far the czar thought he could accept it. KILLED BY A FLY WHEEL.

Hyde Park, Feb. alone in the engine room of the Robert Bleakie Company's woolen mills here to-day Charles F. Allen, treasurer of the corporation, was killed by the flywheel. It is supposed that Mr. Allen in passing the machinery went too near the big wheel.

He was whirled upward and found later by the engineer dead. Mr. Allen was the son of Charles H. Allen, president of the Home Savings Bank of Boston. He was years of age, Statistics gathered by an old Prussian officer show that the present Emperor William has caused thirty changes of uniform in the German army.

These modifications have cost each officer $323.27. Sugar beets thrive in different kinds of soil, in diverse climates, and over a large area, GAVE HIS LIFE FOR ANOTHER. Cornell Student Drowned While Trying Rescue Companian. Ithaca, N. Feb, brave attempt to save the life of Ames Allen, of Chicago, with whom he wan skating on Cayuga Lake, Louis T.

Dickinson, of New York City, a senior in the college of. Inw at Cornell, lost his life to-day. The two young men had skated as far as Atwater, eighteen miles north of Ithaca, when Allen broke through the Ice. While attempting to pull him out Dickinson fell in and sank. Allen was dragged ashore after having been in the water more than half an hour.

PROPELLER DAMAGED IN MID-OCEAN. New York. Feb. 21. British stenmer Orthia of the Donaldson Line WAR spoken in mid-omean on Sunday last with her propeller damaged, by the Hamburg- American Line steamer Patricia, from Hamburg.

which reached port to-day. The Orthin left Glasgow on January 30. for Baltimore. She signulled that she did not require ance and was making for Queenstown. TO VOTE ON PANAMA TO-MORROW Washington, Feb.

-The Panama. canal question will hold the attention of the Senate until Tueeday, when voting will begin on the treaty. AIl amendments will be, voted down, and there will be only 16 or 17 votes on pairs against ratification. Another speech is expected from Senator Hoar. THAWING WEATHER.

Binghamton, N. Feb. weather set in this forenoon and it has rained intermitently during the evening. Nel: her the thaw nor rain have yet had any effect on the rivers, and probably will not, unless they continue for twenty-four hours more or longer. CABINET OFFICER ROBBED.

Washington, Feb. $1.600 worth of Jewelry and $160 in cash have been stolen from the hotel apartments of oPstmaster General Pavre and the detectives working on the case are seeking to locate a nurse formerly employed in the family. Her description has been telegraphed to the police of number of cities. It is thought that she has gone to New York City. The jewelry taken consists of rings and pins and were in a trunk which had been opened.

CONVICTED OF BIGAMY. Minneapolis, Feb. C. Hazzard, allas Hargeave, a graduate. of West Point and former army officer who was convicted of bigamy, was, to-day sentenced to two years in the state penitentiary.

PENSION BILLS IN SENATE. Washington, Feb. Several bills were introduced in the Seaate to-day for the increase of soldiers' and sallor' pensions -in- cases of serious disability. Senator Burrows proposed an increase to $75 a month for the loss of both legs or deafness in both ears. Senator Hoar proposed an increase to $100 a month for total blindness and Senator Gallinger proposed an increase to 320 per month for all survivors of the Mexican War.

VASSAR BROTHER'S INSTITUTE. On Tuesday evening. February: 93, Miss Henriette Struck, of the Department of German. Vassar College, will read a paper at Vassar Brothers' Institute, under the auspices of the Literary Section. Subject: Early German Literature.

The public is cordially invited. Meeting begins at 8 o'clock. 2t-122 THE SILK FRAUDS CASE. New York. Feb.

jury in the so-called silk frauds case. after three hours deliberation. returned a verdict this both defendants, Cohn and Browne, guilty. of conspiracy to, defraud- the government. as charged in the indictment.

The verdict asks for mercy for the defendants. "BIFFINS' ARE APPLES. Do we still eat bittina, and, if so, what are they? asks correspondent. He puts the question because he reads that on the memorable occasion when Todgers's chose to do it. and came out strong.

there were for dessert, among other things, "stacks On reference to the fount of wisdom which is now more than double the recent price. it will be found mentioned that 'ag culinary apples, besides Rennets, and other dessert kinds, Codling and Rifling are, cultivated." then. are apples: but there is a further point of interest about quotation, for it shows from the vegetable world Dickens transplanted the name of one of the most celebrated characters in the world of fiction. -London Chronicle. No one 14 considered high-1 in New York who has not taken a handcar trip through the -Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald.

CHANGES IN MINING METHODE Days of the "Grub Stake" are Passing way While to placer lode mining in the rapidly giving metals from within the bowels of the of missing earth, penditure which of both obviously demands the ex-the technical skill and money bulk of the gold from Sibetin, Alanka, the Northwest Territor. les and some other regions La tained from auriferous gravels. But obstill this gold in being extracted not by the btit old by fashioned the method of of placer" mining. employment special chinery example, under in technichi direction, for mining and of "gold the cases for hypraute With the progress of mining methods and the partial exhaustion of the pincer felds -many changes in what called the external and the social may be aspects of gold mining naves resulted. romance In largely The kind of camp of which Bret Harte writes so graphically no longer exists.

Railroads now Fun' into the most of the larger mining camps. Electric lights and oth. er up to date conveniences aria evidence. and the conservative opinion engender. ed by the presence of capital and its responsible ngents has crented an atmosphere in which the old.

fashioned "bad man" of the camps does not flourish. The quondam prospector, "too, in his slouch hat and top boots, la, alas! becoming merely a picturesque figure of the past: He has done much for ing in this country, as his the plucky. hardy pioneer, penetrating dangerous and almost inaccessible regions in his search for precious metals: The method of pioneering in different now. The pioneers are mostly representatives of capitalists, traveling in pertles, and in all other respects well equipped for journeys into unsettled regions. American experts now go.

to Siberia, Asia, 'South Ameries, Africa and all other parts or the globe where gold and other metals are liloely to be With the prospector with no other capital than hope and the "gruti is passing away, fortunately for the mining investor, the so-called practical miner: who poses as an authority on the value of mineral deposite He is being superseded by young men, thoroughly educated in mining schools and equipped with practical experience in the field. -John Hays Hammond. in Success. PHILIP LYNN GIVES HIMSELF UP AFTER BEING ROBBED IN NEW YORK OF MONEY RAISED ON FORGED CHECK. Philip Lynn a few days ago forged a check for $176 on Joseph Tompkins, of Lagrangeville, and got it cashed in this city.

He also took a letter containing a check for Mr. Tompkins containing $61. with this money he left the city before the police could arrest him. He went to New York, and Invested some of his ill-botten money in sundry purchases, when the light-fingered gentry of Gotham got hold of him and robbed him, taking his suit case containing clothing, also fur cont, gloves, valued at $70, and $65 in cash before he had been In New York a week. Reduced to the condition of Impecuniousness which these operations reduced him.

Mr. Lynn thought! he, would return to Poughkeepsie, which he did, arriving here on the midnight train, and a few minutes later, or about 10 minutes after 12 this morning, ate appeared at police station, gave himself up and told his tale of woe. He will have a hearing this morning. Those New York robbers no doubt acted on the principle that the second thief is the better owner. OBITUARY.

HENRIETTA FAUST SORG. Henrietta Faust, wife of Christian Sorg. died at her home, No. 47 Union Street, on Saturday after a protracted illness. The deceased was the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Otto Faust and besides being survived by her husband, four sisters are left to mourn her loss: Mrs. John Terbush, Mrs. William Bahret and Mrs. Floyd Hewett, of this city, and Mrs.

Edward Fetter, of Newark. N. J. Before being confined to her home by reason of her serious Illness, MrE. Sorg was IL very active worker in the German Methodist.

Church on South Bridge Street. She was A lovable and Christian woman and by her kindly disposition had won for herself a large circle of triends, who deeply sympathize with the surviving members of the family. The funeral will be held from her late residence this afternoon at two o'clock. THE DREYFUS CASE. Paris, Feb.

Boyer, reporter of the Court of Cassation, submitted his report on the Dreyfus case to-day. The court will take it up next week and, it is expected, will complete Its examination early in March. "If you live in Boston," says a New Yorker, "you ca nalways Ko Lo New York; but if you live in New York. where can you go?" Well, you might wait for Dr. Parkburst's lid to come off, and go there.Indianapolis Journal.

JOKES ON THE ENGLISH. Peter McArthur is a Canadian whose views on England and English are interesting and original. In dis new book. "To Be Taken With Salt: An Essay on Teaching One's Grandmother to Suck Eggs," he given number of aphorisms that set orthodox philosophy at defiance. Here are a few samples: Seasickhenn has kept more entemies out of England than her prowsm in war.

London takes more for granted than the rest of the world knows. The great trouble with the English is that they are trying to repel the AmerIcan invaders with business methods that came over with William the (Conqueror. Most of the things talked aboul in London society are fitter subjects for prayer than for gossip. To be original is to be wrong. Culture de the consciousness of trust expressed in conduct.

Good appears to be nocumislated weariness of centuries express in general of boredom. On of the blessings of being a humor. ist in that all your mistakes pass off Jokes Conservatism and laziness are hart! to distinguish. In order to carry an argument you must descend to the other man's level. One should never spoll a good theory, by explaining it.

Let me make the jokes of the empire; 1 care not who makes its blunders. London is full of clever people who expect to get sal in a moment and spread the of being damned over a lifetime. The cuckoo chilosophy has successfully laid her egg in the nest of theology: London is overcrowded with seriousminded people who stand in awe of their own: ignorance. An Englishman's social standing seems to depend on the number of people he can afford to despise, This country is full of people who are starving up to their positions. -London Express.

$15,000 FIRE IN SARATOGA. Saratoga, N. Feb. The Fonda Building in Broadway has been damaged $16,000 by fire. I The loss is covered by insurance.

According to the monks of the Hospice of St. Bernard, their famous dogs save on an average 20 lives every year on the Mountain. Inmates of St. Asaph workhouse, in Wales, possess a pony and phaeton, -piano. and a library of more than 600 volumes.

All are provided by a generous. ly disposed persons in the district..