Armour's New Plant

Omaha, July 19.- Tlie new packing plant of Armour & Co. commenced operations today. Two thousand men are employed on the enterprise. The buildings occupy twenty-two acres, $1,000,000 having been expended in their construction. The cápacity per day ie 10,000 hogs, 2,000 cattle and ï,000 sheep. The operations of this plant will necessitate an increase of about one-fourth in the receipts of the local yards. This gives the local yards the following packers to supply: Swift, Hammond, I Cudahy, Omaha Packing Company and Armour. The daily capacity of the yards is: Hogs, 25,000; cattle, 15,000; sheep, 20,000. Last year the company handled 1,000,000 cattle, 1,500,000 hogB and 700,000 sheep. The Omaha Union Stockyards was organized in 1884 and commenced operations at once. Now the site, then a cornfield, supports a city of 15,000 lahabitairts. Boy Claims the Honor. New York, July 19.- Joseph T. Gaskin, signal boy on the Iowa says üe I was the flrst to discover the Spanisn fleet making its way out of Santiago harbor. Gaskin resides in Newark N J., and in a letter to his sister, Mrs.' M. H. Smitn, he gives a detailed account i of how he went on deck as usual for the signal watch at 8 a. m. He had noticed suspicious indications the prej vious day and resolved to keep a close ; lookout. An hour afterward he reported that the smoke he had observed in the harbor the day prevJous had moved near the entrañes, and a few minutes later again reported that th smoke was movlng still closer. "Then," says Gaskin, "of my'own accord I bent the signal 2-5-0, whicil means 'the enemy's ships escaping and laid it on the bridge ready to holst. At 9:30, just as the navigator was takmg the deck, I reported a large black ship in the entrance. The navigator without looking, said, 'Bend on thé emergency signal.' With that I ran it up to the yardarm and sounded the alarm, and in two minutes the ship was ready for action." Two öf Our Soldier Die Portsmouth, N. H., July 19.One death has occurred in the camp on Seavey's island and another aboard the Harvard, both being from malarial feThe work of removing the rest ot the sick from the cruiser will be completed today and the Harvard will sail for New York. Dr. Hefflnger, the ward physician, has recommended to the authorities in Washington that the cruiser be kept in quarantine in New York until she is cömpletely disinfected and the crew show no indication of disease.