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PRESIDENT'S REPLY.
SPAIN ACCEPTS TERMS BUT ASKSi
; QUESTIONABLE RESERVATIONS.!
/- mbr.saailor Cambon Delivered tlio l)oc
l utiiont I.atc XiioHday Night—Win With
I the I'reslUeut Two Hour.—Official In
formation After Cabinet Meeting.
; Washington, Aug. 18.—Ambassador
jCambon, hearing Spain's reply to the
'American terms for the basis of peace
negotiations, went to the White House
at 5.35 yesterday afternoon and remain
ed with the president and Secretary
Hay until after 7 o'elocK.
No official information regarding the
character of Spain's reply has yet been
given out nt either the White House or
the French embassy. It Is known, how
ever, that previous to his vis t to the
White Housg and the formal presenta
tion of Spain's reply, Ambassador Cam
bon told Secretary Day that he was cer
tain that the reply would be satisfac
tory to the United States.
While nothing definite is yet known
except by President McKinley and Sec
retary Day as to the text of Spain's re
ply, it is understood by members of the
cabinet that Spain has accepted broad
ly the terms proposed by the United
States as the basis of peace negotia
tions, but has submitted lengthy argu
ments In support of requests for pro
visions in the protocol to be drawn up
and signed by Secretary Day and Am
bassador Cambon which would amount
to substantial changes and limitations
in the terms.
It is understood that the Spanish
government desires to havt this pro
tocol provide for the time and manner
of evacuation of Cuba by the Spanish
forces, with the provision that they
shall carry out their arms, and it is
also understood that a provision in the
protocol is wanted referring the ques
tion of the Cuban debt to the commis
sioners.
After Ambassador Cambon left the
White House Secretary Day, who re
mained to dine with the president, said
mo statement regarding Spain's reply
would be made. From this it is Infer
red that the president desires to con
fer with the cabinet before saying
whether or not the reply is satisfac
tory.
At yesterday's cabinet meeting the
general drift of sentiment was toward
standing strictly on the conditions first
laid down by the United States and re
quiring a direct answer, accepting or
rejecting without any consideration of
"incidental questions whifch Spain's re
ply might raise.
But, on the other hand, there-was be
lieved to be a considerable and influ
ential element of the administration de
sirous of a realization of the prospects
of pea- e, so long as every vital and
essenti. ' condition laid down by this
goiei.l. —: v accepted, even Utough
the Spanish reply sought to dispose of
other incidental points involved in a
transection of this vast magnitude.
So far as the reply itself is concerned,
even the Us. informed government offi
cials had no information, and there
was little but conjecture as to its con
tents. But there were several points
apparently established beyond ques
tion.
First of these was that the reply was
, so framed us to be considered by thoss
who drafted it an acceptance of all the
conditions laid down by the United
States.
Second, it was established that this
acceptance was a general chat acterlza
tton or the document as a whole, and
that in making the acceptance Spain
had presented elaborate views on each
point Involved and on questions which
would naturally arise when the Ameri
can conditions were carried into exe
cution.
This raised a question as to whether
the reply would be accepted as com
\ pletely responsive to the American
terms or as an indirect opening of ne
gotiations on subordinate points.
If the points are purely Incidental and
formal, strong hope is entertained In
official quarters that peace will bt re
alized as a result of the present negoti
ations, but if Spain seeks to impose
important conditions, there Is a pros
pect of delay, and possibly a refusal to
accept the reply as responsive. The
latter condition is hardly expected how
ever, in any quarter,
Strike of Trouters Makers.
New York, Aug. 10.—Knee trousers
makers to the number of 1,600 In 100
shoqp in the boroughs of Manhattan
and Brooklyn, are on strfke. It is not
the abolishment of the piece work sys
tem, but its perpetuation, that the
strikers have revolted against.
Headquarters have been opened in
Walhalla hall, in Orchard street, where
a mass meeting was held yesterday af
ternoon.
It is claimed that prices within the
last month, have fallen from 43 cents
a dozen to is cents, so that now an ex
pert at the business cannot average
more than ?7 a week of fifteen hours'
work per day.
I "It .
Spanish Prisoners Embark
Santiago de Cuba, Aug. B.—General
Shatter and the Spanish general, Toral.
held a consultation in the palace this
afternoon with regard to the embarka
tion of the Spanish prisoners of war.
As a result, 1,000 of the Spanish sick
and wounded will be taken on board the
Alicante to-morrow morning and sent
to Spain as soon as the vessel is prop
erly loaded.
There is to be no bunching or wait
i ing of transports. Each will sail as
soon as It can be loaded after arrival
here.
To Start a Dig Felt Plant.
Chicago, Aug. 9.—Armour & Co. have
decided to go into the manufacture of
felt on a large scale. They have made
common felt for some time, and having
all the material necessary for it, they
are enabled to do it cheaply. The re
cent failure of the works at Dolgeville,
N. Y., has Induced the packer to en
, large his works and make them the
largest feit manufactory in the world.
All grades of piano and tailoring felt
will, be mp.de. The new factory will
etWJloy 300 men. A number of work
ipm formerly employed at Dolgeville
■Will come here.
EHrttiquAke Shock in Sicily,
Messina, Sicily, Aug. B.—There was
a severe earthquake shock here yea
terday morning. The inhabitants were
panic stricken, bat no damage wag
done,. ,„a..-.vfM.fi'ga.n-fuftaf
CERVERA BLAMES BLANCO.
Fatter Held Utiixinnlbl. for the Lnla ol
lipanMi i'lwtnt Santiago.
Washington, Aug. 10.—Captain Gen
eral Blanco Is held responsible by Ad
miral Cervera for the destruction of the
Spanish fleet. In his official report to
Madrid, which has been transmitted to
Spain through the French ambassador,
Admiral Cervera calls attention to the
orders issued by Captain General Blan
co for his entrance into the harbor of
Santiago de Cuba, and for his depart
ure therefrom.
Admiral Cervera states that upon
his arrival at Curacao he received in
structions to proceed to Santiago de
Cuba. Against his Judgment he car
ried out his instructions, well knowing
in adtance that his Heet would certain
ly be blockaded. He received orders on
July 1 to leave the harbor, and not
withstanding his telegram to Captain
General Blanco showing the result of
a sortie of the kind, he was ordered to
obey instructions.
The navy department declines to
make the report public on the ground
that it is a confidential document and
it is similarly regarded at the French
embassy. Admiral Cervera feels that
his report, having been addressed to
the Madrid government, properly be
longs to it, and should be suppressed
or made public as It sees fit. It is a
lengthy document, covering some sixty
pages, and is a journal of the move
ments of the fleet from the time it left
the Cape Verde Islands until Its de
struction.
Accompanying the admiral's report
are the reports of the commanding offi
cers of all of the vessels of his fleet,
with the exception of one ship, the re
port of which is made by the second
in command, her commanding officer
having been killed. The report of the
commanding officer of the Colon, it is
stated, shows that he really surrender
ed to the battleship Oregon. Had It
not been' for the bursting of a steam
pipe, which caused the revolutions of
the Colon's engines to drop from eighty
six to fifty-four per minute, the Colon
would never have been caught so eas
ily.
ORDERS TO SHAFTER.
Troops for Montauk Must Be Isolated fof
Fire Days anil Oreat Care Used.
Washington. Aug. 10—The following
order has been sent to General Shatter
for his instruction regarding the em
barkation of troops from Santiago to
Montauk Point:
War Department,
Adjutant General's Office, Aug. 9.
Commanding Qeneral Fifth Corps, San
tiago de Cuba:
Recommendations of surgeon gener
als of army and Marine Hospital ser
vice as follows, should be accomplished
as inr as practicable:
1. Hold troops assigned to a trans
port under observation three to five
days in separate camp not infected by
fever.
2. Surgeons to inspect the same
twice daily, isolating promptly suspec- i
ted cases.
3. Bathe and freshly clothe or ster
ilize oii clothing of troops at the begin
ning of period of observation.
4. When not possible to detail troops
in camps under observation, bathe
them and freshly clothe or sterilize o'l
clothing before embarkation, excluding
after searching inspection suspected
cases.
5. Yellow fever convalescents or sus
pects should not accompany healthy
troops.
6. No equipage or personal effects
capable of conveying infection should
accompany troops unless disinfected by
pteam or otherwise.
7. Arrange to embark by daylight
under a careful supervision of surgeons
who will control sanitary conditions of
troopships en route.
By order of the secretary of war.
H. C. CORBJN.
Adjutant General.
From Camp Merritt.
San Francisco, Aug. 9.--The big tran
sports Scandia and Arizona may sail
for the Philippines by the end of the
week, but not before. There is a grow
ing belief that they will not carry as
many men as was at first intended and
that the beginning of peace negotia
tions will mean the mustering out of
mcst of the troop-; remaining at Camp
Merritt and the Presidio.
General Merritt has now with him or
op the way to Manila 15,000 men.
Nearly five thousand tons of commis
sary stores wjll go on the Soandia and
Arizona.
The only movements of troops during
the early part of the week will be the
beginning of their march to the Yosem
ite of the Utah cavalry, and perhaps
the sailing of 150 members of the First
New York regiment on the transport
Mariposa.
No arrangements have been perfect
ed yet for the rest of the regulars, and
they arc likely to remain here for sev
eral weeks, unless some vessel not now
In sight takes them.
Major General Merrlam himself is
anxious to get to Honolulu to look over
the new territory added to his de
partment, but he states positively that
he will not leave here until the way is
clear to send all the troops ordered to
sail for Manila.
The Key Monument Unveiled.
Frederick City, Md., Aug. 10.—The
monument erected to the memory of
Francis Scott Key, author of the "Star
Spangled Banner," was unveiled yes
terday at Mount Olivet cemetery here
by his great granddaughter, Julia Mc-
Henry Howard of Baltimore.
Henry Watterson of Kentucky, mada
the dedicatory address.
For ll New Army Camp.
Washington, Aug. 10.—Major Mills of
the inspector general's department has
been ordered to inspect a tract of land
In the vicinity of Tryon, N. C., for the
purpose of ascertaining its suitableness
for the establishment of an army en
campment. If the site Is favorably re
ported upon some of the troops now In
Florida will go Into camp there.
Ueil Cross Abroad.
Washington, Aug. 10—The consul
general at Berlin reports that an appeal
for contributions to assist the Red
Cross society In caring for the sick and
wounded In the war between the Uni
ted States and Spain baa been issued by
the Red Cross Society of Germany. i
THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG. PA
MANY IDLERS IN THE KLONDIKE-
Mora Than the Country Cnn Support and
Mining Suspended.
Port Townsenfl, Wash., Aur. 10,—The
steamer Rosalie has arrived here from
Skajruay, Alaska, with one hundred
passengers from Dawson City, who
came up the Yukon river via the lakes.
They have advices from Dawson up
to July 27 and bring considerable gold
dust, esUmated at 2100,000. Joseph Bar
rett of Seattle, brought out about $25,-
000. Others brought out sums ranging
from $2,000 to $15,000.
The steamer Monarch arrived at
Dawson July 23 and steamer Sovereign
July 26 from St. Michaels. The Monarch
was last reported high and dry up the
river, but the warm w oat her caused a
sudden rise In the river and she was
easily floated. The steamer Joseph
Glosset, owned by Portland parties, and
plying between Dawson and the lakes,
while trying to run White Horse can
yon struck a rock and sunk In six feet
of water. No lives were lost and all
the outfits were saved, though In a
damaged condition. It Is thought the
steamer can be floated again and re
sume her runs.
The Dawson market Is well supplied
with fresh beef at $1.15 per pound, dres
sed.
Mining operations in the Klondike are
at a standstill and will continue so un
til chid weather sets In. It is estimated
that there are about 25,000 Idle men In
Dawson eagerly waiting for something
to turn up. This number 6s being
swelled every day by new arrivals from
both up and down the river. There are
now more people titan the country can
support.
SICKNESS IN THE ARMY.
75 Per Cent, of tlie Men Said to Have Had
Malaria.
Washington, Aug. B.—The following
telegram from General Shafter was
made pubiic to-day by the president:
"I can very readily see what intense
excitement the publication must have
occasioned; a great deal more than the
situation warranted. Situation Is grea
tly aggravated from the fact that be
fore any of the men were taken ill they
were thoroughlv exhausted. At least
75 per cent, of the command had been
down with malarial fever, from which
they recover very slowly and are in no
condition to stand an attack of yellow
fever or dysentery. Placed here now
in the same condition In which they
were when thev came here, I do not
believe they would be in any particu
lar danger. The regiment of lmmunes
that recently arrived is not suffering at
all, and I don't believe they will. They
can keep out of the sun, are well fed
and wo'.l clothed. What put my com
mand in its present condition was the
twenty days of the campaign when
they had nothing but meat, bread and
coffee, without change of clothes, with
out any shelter whatever, and during
the period twice as stormy as it has
been 3lnce the surrender. Fresh troops
reaching here in the middle of August
with good camps, good water, abund
ance of tentage, which they will And
here, need not apprehend serious dan
ger. I thank you for the high regard
in which you hold my command and
the value of the services they have
rendered. It pays for all the sufferings
we have endured. I have read this
to Generals Wheeler, Lawton, Bates
and Kent, who concur with me In the
view expressed above."
What General fcJhafter refers to in
the first sentence of the dispatch Is the
publication of the general's round robin
demanding the removal of the troops
from Santiago, and also Colonel Roose
velt's letter to General Shafter In which
he asked that the troops be sent north.
ENGLAND'S FIRM 6TAND.
Froui)ite Support to Clilna If Threatened
by Any Foreign Power.
Pekin, Aug. 10.—The firm attitude
adopted by Great Britain in the matter
of railroad concessions in China, which
is giving general satisfaction in the
British settlements, is maintained.
Sir Claude M. Macdonald, British
minister to China, was present at the
meeting of the Chinese foreign office of
ficials (Tsungll-Yan>**n), yesterday and
reiterated Great Britain's formal prom
ise to support China if threatened by
any foreign power on account of a con
cession granted to a British subject.
The French minister, M. Gerard, has
complained to the Tsung-li-Yamen that
owing to Germany's representations,
China has compelled Yung Wing's Tsin-
Tsin Chln-Klang Railroad, to build
which he has the support of an English
syndicate willing to advance $25,000,000
to pass west of Shang Tung, thus, It Is
claimed, endangering the prospects of
the Han-Kou-Peking Railroad conces
sion, given to a Franco-Belgian syndi
cate.
To Colonise Cnbs.
Topeka, Kan., Aug. 10.—A number of
capitalists of Kansas and Missouri have
organized and chartered the Cuban
Land and Colonization Company, the
business of which will be to run excur
sions to Cuba and Porto Rico, buy and
sell lands on those islands and operate
colonization schemes there.
The company has a colony of about
400 persons from Kansas and Missouri
already formed, which It proposes to
establish hear Santiago. The company
will have offices at Kansas City, Ha
vana, Santiago and San Juan, Porto
Rico. The company proposes to run
excursions to Cuba and Porto Rico ev
ery month.
Shamrock Will Cost 8.300,000.
London, Aug. 9. —Will Fife, Jr., the
boat designer, to whose designs the
new racing cutter Shamrock, ordered
by Sir Thomas Llpton, Is to be con
structed, confirmed in an interview to
day all of the details concerning the
yacht which have already been cabled
to this country.
He added that the cutter would cost
60,000 pounds and that he was confident
she would win the America cup.
A Foat-Oftlc Clerk Arrested,
Danbury, Conn., Aug. 10.—Glfford A.
Smith, aged thirty, married, money or
der clerk In the Danbury postofliee,
was arrested yesterday by United
States Marshal Bishop on a charge al
leging embezzlement of money orders.
He was taken to the county Jail at
New Haven pending a hearing by Uill
ted State* Commissioner Wright
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS.
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS fOUR EIGHT TO
THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA," AND
"PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADEMARK.
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Eyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of "CASTORIA," the same thai
has borne and does now bear /-rff on every
the fac-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original "CASTOR IA" which has been used in
the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years.
LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought - on the
and has the signature of wrap
per. No one has authority from me to use my name except
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Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
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Dined With Oervera
E. S. McNaul, of Lock Haven, was
in Annapolis the other day, and had
the satisfaction of taking dinner in
the sante hotel with Admiral Cervera
and his captured associates. Mr. Mc-
Naul slates that Admiral Cervera, who
is reported to be fifty-eight years old,
looks as though he was much older.
He is a fierce looking gentleman. Mr.
McNaul also took particular notice of
the handsome ring which the admiral
wore, which piece of jewelry was the
only personal possession the officer
had when he surrendered. After din
ner a young man requested Captain
Eulate, the Spaniard who refuses to
be reconciled to his capture, to stand
for a minute until he could take a
snap shot of him. The captain, who
is a determined looking man, quietly
complied with all the boy's requests
until his "picture was took."
What Tommy Said.
Uncle John —Well, what do you
mean to be when you get to be a
man ?
Little Tommy (promptlyj-A doctor,
like pa.
Uncle John (quizzically)-Indeed ;
and which do you inteud to be, an
allopath or a homoeopath ?
Little Tommy-I don't know what
them awful big words mean, Uncle
John ; but that don't make no differ
ence, 'cause I ain't goin' to be either
of 'em. I'm just goin' to be a family
dcctor an' give all my patients Hood's
Sarsaparilla, 'cause my pa says that if
he is a doctor, he's 'bliged to own up
that Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best
family medicine he ever saw in his
life.
"If a newspaper man knew how
many 'knocks' he received behind his
back, he would adopt another calling,"
remarked a citizen. The citizen is
mistaken. The newspaper man who
succeeds expects to be maligned by
every law-breaker, swindler and hypo
crite, every lover of notoriety who is
ignored, and in fact by all who do not
agree with him on public or private
questions. The newspaper man who
expects to go through life without
being misrepresented should make ar
rangements to die young.
OA IS TOHIA. ~
Bean the /J Kind You Ham Always Bought
Two Moons in August'
There will be two full moons in
August. One occurred on the first
day and one will occur on the last.
Full moons occur twice in the same
month only once in about three years,
and there will not be two full moons
in one month again till the year of
nineteen hundred and one. The time
which elapses between the two con
secutive full moons or new moons is
termed a synodical month, and con
sists of 22 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes
and 3 seconds. Consequently all the
phases proper to the moon must
occur during that interval. If, there
fore, a new moon occurs on the first
of a month, and the month has more
than 29 days ana 12 hours, the same
phase of the moon may occur again.
The same rule holds good for the full
moon. The harvest moon is the
moon which is nearest the autumnal
equinox, and will be this year the full
moon occurring on September 29.
An exchange announces that for
some time past flour has been adulter
ated to a large extent by western man
ufacturers. It has been detected by
the state authorities of Ohio and by
chemical analysis. The adulterant
is made of white clay pulverized and
is called mineraline. It is insoluble
even in the strongest sulphuric acid,
cannot be digested and accordingly is
very unwholesome. A physician of
note, whose attention was recently
called to this, said it was possible that
it might be one of the main causes of
appendicitis, a disease now so preva
lent. Flour dealers have been tempt
ed to buy the stuff from the fact that
it costs only one cent a pound. As
the presence of mineraline in flour
would be difficult to detect by the
housewife and baker, radical measures
should be taken in dealing with the
matter. The passing of a bill fixing
a penalty for using it in flour scarcely
meets the issue. Congress should
enact a law making the manufacture
of mineraline a crime punishable by
hanging or some other severe penalty.
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Butter per lb $ ,i 8
Eggs per dozen ,12
Lard per lb .08
Ham per pound ,xo
Pork, whole, per pound ,06
Beef, quarter, per pound.... .07
Wheat per bushel 1 00
Oats " " . 40
Rye " " ,50
Wheat flour per bbl 5,20
Hay per ton o to $lO
Potatoes per bushel .90
Turnips " "
Onions " " 100
Sweet potatoes per peck .60
Tallow per lb .05
Shoulder " " .09
Side meat" " ,08
Vinegar, per qt ,05
Dried apples per lb .05
Dried cherries, pitted .jg
Raspberries „ia
Cow Hides per lb . >1
Steer " " •• ©J
Calf Skin ,80
Sheep pelts. .75
Shelled corn per bus .60
Corn meal, cwt r.ae
Bran, " ~'O O
Chop " Icto
Middlings " ' 1,00
Chickens per lb new .ta
" "old 10
Turkeys " " It l
Geese " " .14
Ducks " " .08
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