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Gunboats Expected

Two Vessels Captured from Spain Nearing Washington

Image of the USS Sandoval from the port side.

The Spanish gunboats Alvarado and Sandoval, captured in the capitulation of Santiago, and now flying the stars and stripes, are expected to arrive at the Washington navy yard some time this afternoon, one of them having passed Indian Head shortly after 2 o’clock. The steamers are coming here direct from, the Norfolk navy yard, where they arrived about ten days ago. They are In command of American naval officers who were prominent in the operations in the West Indies, one being Lieut. Blue of the navy, the first American officer to report upon the position of Cervera’s fleet in the then blockaded harbor of Santiago. The boats were in the harbor when the city surrendered last July, and a controversy arose between the army and naval authorities as to which had the right to the prizes.

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Millinery Marvel

The newspaper paragraphists who have been complaining because women wear high hats at theatres and other places of amusement may now possess their souls in peace. A hat has been…
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Author Thrilled as Her Story is Filmed

Theater advertisement for a showing of "A Son of the Sahara."

Louise Gerard, the English authoress, who wrote “A Son of the Sahara,” Edwin Carewe’s First National screen version of which will be shown at the Palace Sunday, went from England to Tonffourt, Algeria, to observe the filming of some of the most spectacular scenes of the production.

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Gov. McLean Orders Inquiry Into Flogging Case

Grenville. N. C.. Oct. 12 (Preston News Service) —Acting upon instructions from Governor A. W. McLean, Solicitor Jesse Davis was in Greenville Tuesday afternoon en route to Farmville to make a rigid investigation of the recent flogging administered to Dr. S. J. B. Collins, a physician at that place, by a hooded gang.

Dr. Collins, who is a British subject, was said to have been instructed by his assailants to leave the town but instead he appealed to the British consulate in this country and on Wednesday Solicitor Davis received a message from the vice consulate in Wilmington urging a thorough investigation.

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Specimen, 500,000 Years Old, Unearthed Near San Antonio

The historical jawbone that Sampson used to pacify the Philistines, in the Bible story, had nothing on the jawbone of the Elephas Columbi, or Columbian elephant, which now reposes in the museum of Main Avenue High School. The two fragments of the jawbone measure, together, two feet in length. Each is about nine inches in height and six inches in thickness.

Embedded in each of the fragments are two teeth, each six inches long, four inches wide and extend about eight inches into the jawbone proper. The upper surfaces of each tooth are serrated and convoluted into ridges about one-quarter of an inch apart. The crown of the teeth is of a pearl white enamel in an excellent state of preservation. The dentin, or outer surface of the teeth, that part below the crown, has changed into a friable, chalk-like substance.