WHERE THE TWO COUNTRIES CLASH. ***** Kngland claims all that part of Africa through which Nile river runs, while France, beginning at the French Congo, Is *eek- Ing to control a strip of territory reaching from the Atlantic to the India ocean. Naturally their «xpedltions of conquest hav met in the vicinity of Fashoda, as indicated in the man. THE WHITES WERE AT FAULT. Indian (omniiflHlonrr Jones Aborts that iho Chippewa Indian Outbreak wan the Logical IteHult of the White Mei»*H Orced. Washington, Oct. 27.—-Commissioner of Indian Affairs Jones, who has been in .Minnesota making negotiations which were successful with the Chip pewa Indians for the resumption of peaceful relations with the govern ment, has returned to Washington and made a verbal report to Secre tary Hliss upon bis work. Mr. Jones says the trouble is attributed to the methods of the whites in the vicinity, who are taking gross advantage of the Indians. In discussing the out break he said: "The origin of the whole trouble was dissatisfaction with the handling of the Indians' timber, but the im mediate cause was irritation at the frequent arrests of Indians on trivial causes, often for no cause at all, tak ing them down to Duluth and Min neapolis for trial, 200 miles away from their agency, and then turning them adrift without means to return home. I have information that there is a regular arrangement between deputy United States marshals and some boarding houses where the courts are located, by which the deputies are to bring down delegations of Indians as witnesses in whisky and other cases. This secures fees for the deputies and money for the boarding places. "The Indians were prompted to their outbreak by the wrongs com mitted on them and chafed under un fair treatment. When 1 reached there they were ugly and defiant, but soon adopted a conciliatory attitude and finally agreed to negotiate for the sur render of the men wanted. All but two were surrendered. They said they would not allow two men to bring their whole tribe into trouble and insisted on sending themselves for the two men remaining, old Hug and his son, to have them turned over to the marshal. They are still out. The In dians claimed they had whipped the soldiers and not one of their own number had received a scratch. They showed several Krag-Jorgensens, tak en probably from where the soldiers had the fight, but they did not under stand their use. The Indians now will go back to their homes and live peaceably if the whites will treat them fairly, which is very likely, as the whites were thoroughly impressed with the stand taken by the Indians. In this respect the outbreak has taught them a lesson." Commissioner Jones will recom mend a reform in the existing timber methods. St. Haul. Minn., Oct. 27.—United States Marshal O'Connor last night sent the following telegram: "W. \. Jones, commissioner of Indian affairs, Washington: The press dispatches quote you as saying that yon have in formation of an arrangement between the United States marshal and certain boarding houses for board of Indian witnesses. Are you correctly quot ed ?" "If Mr. Jones stands for the inter view," added the marshal. "I shall have something to say on the subject that will perhaps make fully as inter est ing reading as the statement which he is reported to have made." Contracted for Torpedo Hoat F>e*trojer*. Washington, Oct. 27. —The navy de partment has entered into a contract ■with the firm of Harlan S: Ilollings worth, of Wilmington, Del., for the construction of the liO-knot torpedo boat destroyers Hopkins and Hull. Ke»ciinl from tho Kigging- Tlacine, Wis., Oct. 27.- -The tug Bison and life saving crew rescued Capt. Horace Acres and crew of six men from the barge I). L. Filer yes terday afternoon, rite men had beefi clinging to the rigging for 24 hours and were half dead from exposure. The ship was abandoned. <*rrtiid Jury in Aalc«uhlir»fl« Banquet. Boston, Oct. 27. Secretary Bong re ceived a genuine New England wel ! come at Music hall last night on the j occasion of the annual dinner of thu i Republican Club of Massachusetts. ' There were more than 800 representa j tive republicans at the tables. The i other guests of honor were Gov. Wol- I cott. Senator Lodge and Congressman Dingley. Secretary Long was the prin- I cipal speaker. ! !m Prepared In Kvacuato Fanhoda. I'aris, Oct. 27. —The Soir hears in ; diplomatic circles that France is pre pared to evacuate Fashoda, with tin I reservation that she shall receive sonit compensation, to be arranged here after. "This result," says the Soir, "i; the outcome of a new argument ad vanced by Lord Salisbury, to the etTecl j that as the dispatch of the Marchanr j mission was not notified to Greal i Hritain In accordance with custom ; Great Hritain is entitled to disputi Maj. Marchand's right to hold tbi • territory occupied." CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1898. j GREELY VS. SHATTER. rim former Asserts that tli« f.atter rappid the Signal Corp* During the San tiago Campaign Washington, Oct. 26.—Brig. (Jen. A. W. Grsely, chief signal officer, has pre sented Secretary Alger his report of the operations of the signal corps dur ing the recent war with Spain. In the first section of his report Gen. (ireely devotes particular attention to the organization of the signal corps for the war. Referring to the Santi ago campaign he says: "Especial interest for the signal corps attaches to this siege, since the chief signal officer of the army was responsible for the inception of this campaign, which proved to be the turning jioiiit of the war." (Sen. (ireely then discusses the ar rangement of eleetrU#! ami other ap paratus whereby the war department to all intent and purposes, was brought near to the army and quic"; communication established between the commanding general and his gen eral officers of the Fifth army corps. He intimates that the corps officers in Cuba were handicapped because they were not allowed to take with them the signal corps telegraph train which had been sent to Tampa for the Santi ago expedition. He then adds the fol lowing: "The lack of thoroughly trained men was not the only serious factor that threatened the efficiency of the signal work. Seeing that visual sig nalling. which the commanding gen eral of the Fifth army corps relied upon, contrary to professional advice, was practically impossible for land operations, and only useful between the coast stations and the fleet, it is impossible to surmise what would have been the result had it not been for the supply of insulated wire, tele graphic and telephonic instruments, etc., which Lieut. Col. Allen furnished to Lieut. Col. Green." Gen. (ireely is confident that during the month of July the lines of com munication maintained by his corps in Cuba were worth more to the na tion than the cost of the signal corps of the army from its inception to the present day. lie refers to the ease with which the major general com manding the army communicated with Washington, giving important information. (Sen. (Ireely strongly commends the use of the war balloon and declares that its utility was thoroughly demon strated. Concerning the criticism made of the balloon operations at Santiago he says:"The forcing of the signal corps balloon to the skirmish line, where its position is reported to have caused serious loss to the troops by disclosing their movements and at tracting the enemy's fire, was the ac tion of Maj. (ien. Shatter, through his chief engineer. Col. George Derby, in the face (if the professional advice given by Lieut. Col. Maxfield, of the United States volunteer signal corps, KILLED ELEVEN NEGROES. Misslssippians Add Another Chapter to the History of Crime iu That State. Forest, Miss.. (><*t. 24. As the result of an attempt to arrest a negro near Harpersvillc, Scott county, one white deputy was killed, three wounded and nine negroes have been killed by citi zens of Harpersville and the sheriff's posse combined. The trouble originated last Friday when a negro named Hill Burke had an altercation with his employer, Charles Freeman, a white man, in which the negro got the best of the difficulty. The next night a crowd of white men headed by Wallace Sibley, who was deputized to arrest the man, went to Burke's house, which is about a mile from Harpersville. When they | arrived upon the scene and called for Burke they were greeted by a fusillade from negroes in the bushes surround ing the house and in the house itself. Wallace Sibley fell dead at the first volley and three more white members of the crowd were wounded. The whites returned the fire, but were un able to do any execution. There were not more than eight men in the white crowd and, finding it. impossible to resist effectively they dispersed towards Harpersville. When the crowd returned to Har persville a large crowd gathered. They went to Iturke's house and got from his mother the names of all par ties in the crowd which had ambushed the men the night before. In all there were about 40 negroes. All of them had fled. Then the search for each of the proscribed darkies began. Six negroes were found and killed before the sheriff arrived. Sunday morning Sheriff Stevenson was wired from Harpersville of the condition of affairs and he was asked to get togeteher a jwisse and come to Harpersville. The sheriff lives art Mor ton, ten miles from the scene. Gath ering 20 or 30 men the sheriff started for the place. When he arrived he was joined by crowds of citizens until the number in the jiosse was over 300 men. After leaving the house where the ' first tragedy was committed the negroes scattered. The sheriff's pur suit has resolved itself into a chase of the negroes implicated. Forest, Miss., Oct. 25.—Eleven dead negroes, one dead white man and one r.egro and three white men seriously wounded is the result of the war being w.'iged between the white and , black races in the Harpersvillc neigh borhood of this, Scott county. Sev eral of the rioters have been captured and lodged in jail at Forest, but the others escaped into the swamps. Itat'ln B«lw««n Soldiem Hiid IVllr*. Chattanooga. Term., Oct. 24. Ser geant Allen, of Company 1, Eighth colored infantry irnmunes, fired on 1 three police who were attempting to arrest a colored soldier who was drunk and displaying his revolver in a crowd. One of the bullets from Allen's pistol took effect in the head . of Charles Beagles, a white man stand- , ing in the saloon, killing him instant- j ly. A general fusillade from police men and soldiers followed. One of the , policemen, Moseley, was slightly ] wounded. Allen was finally arrested | and lodged in jail. . REDUCES HER DEMANDS. Spain's Attorney** Now Ask that the (Jolted Stf» ttsm Assume Half of laba'a Debt. Paris, Oct. 25.—The American and Spanish peace commissioners held a joint session Monday. The considera tion by the commissioners of the I'orto Kico and Ladrones question has now been merged with the Cuban question and all the points involved nre being carried forward to a simul taneous conclusion. When this has been arrived at the Philippine ques tion will lie taken up. Of course there is a possibility of a disagree men t and the Spaniards, if the American com missioners decide not to assume any portion of the Cuban indebtedness, may announce their unwillingness to proceed any further with negotiations based upon the protocol. Should the Spaniards decide to do this it will lie because they wish to excite the pity of their creditors and of other nations. The cortes may then lie asked to endorse their action. In fact the Spaniards may even prefer a resumption of hostilities to acquies cence in the American refusal to share their financial burden. The Americans, however, have intimated to the Spaniards the possibility that Spain may at some future period be able to deal with an independent, gov ernment regarding the assumption of the provincial and municipal portions of the Cuban debt, which is estimated to have been $150,0011,000 before the last rebellion in Cuba broke out and $500,000,000 contracted since 1395. Hut should independent Cuba, as she doubtless would, refuse to assume more than her proportion of the debt, based on actual betterments in Cuba, and only even in this case of obliga tions contracted previous to 1895, Spain would be compelled to appeal to her people and confront them with practically seven-eighths of the debt contracted since. Spain would also be compelled to declare her inability to meet her obligations and this at present seems to the Spaniards a more bitter alternative than to accept the United States refusal to share the Cuban debt, with all that tliis means. Finally it. is said there are persons high in the Spanish councils who claim to believe that Spain would rather submit dumbly and helplessly to dismemberment than confront this continued financial burden. Spain, however, will not break off the present negotiations before hav ing proposed that the I nited States share half the insular debt, which in such a proposition may be placed at $700,000,000, the interest rate to be re duced to 2 per cent. Such a proposi tion would not be accepted by the United States, either directly or in be half of Cuba. The session of the joint commission began at 2 o'clock in tlie afternoon and ended at 0:45. The adjournment of the joint com mission was until Wednesday next. Guam, in the Ladrones islands, has been chosen by the Americans for the United States, under the terms of the protocol, and its cession has been con firmed by the Spanish commission. Paris, Oct. 27. —Yesterday's joint meeting 1 of the peace commissioners lasted an hour and five minutes and was adjourned until to-day. Both the Spanish and American commis sioners were more reticent after this session than ever before. The Ameri cans fully appreciate their own ser ious responsibilities and also the deli cate position of their Spanish col leagues, to the burden of whose duties here is now added the critical political situation at Madrid, which may com pel the president of the Spanish com mission (who is also president of the Spanish senate), Senor Montero Kios, to leave Paris. The Madrid correspondent of the Temps in confirming the report that Premier Sag'asta and the queen recent have prevailed upon the minister of war, (Sen. Correa, to indefinitely postpone his resignation, pending - the conclusion of the peace negotiations, says that they represented to the gen eral that his withdrawal might entail not only the fall of the cabinet, but cause the resignation of certain mem bers of the Spanish commission, in cluding' Senor Montero Kios, and thereby gravely compromise the issue of peace negotiations. Washington, Oct. 27.—There are in dications that the peace commission ers in l'aris are approaching the end of the consideration of the subject of Cuba and Porto Uieo, and officials here would not be surprised if Wed nesday's session of the commission concluded those subjects, leaving the commission free to take up the most important matter in the protocol, namely, the disposition of the Philip pines. The Spanish case has been pre sented with an ability that commands the admiration of diplomats without regard to nationality, and even our own officials have been compelled to yield a tribute of respect to the argu ments produced, but they have been of no avail in effecting any substantial change in the first attitude of the American commissioners. ('ollinlon KCHUMH in Three* DeutliM. Omaha, Neb., Oct. 27. A rear-end collision on the I'nion Pacific yester day resulted in the death of three men and the serious injury of one other. An extra freig-ht train was standing on the sidetrack and, the switch being left open, freight No. 27 going at a g'ood rate of speed, crashed into the rear end of the extra. The engine was badly wrecked and four freight cars reduced almost to kindling wood. Fxcf'rilt'tl Its Charter Kiq;lit<«. Ohieag-o, Oct. 25. —The supreme court of Illinois yesterday decided that the action instituted by ex- Attorney General Moloney during his term of office to compel the Pullman Palace Car Co. to restrict its opera tions to its charter limitations should stand and remanded the case to the circuit court of Cook county, where it will now be tried. Moloney's ob ject was to compel the company to retire from the real estate, gas. water, heating, brick-making and other en terprises conducted by it at the town of Pullman and in Chicago. MULE DRIVERS FOR NURSES. An Arkansas Colonel Asserts that They Did Not Fill th«* 1111l Mar Invent 1 gators Flulmli Tlielr Work at Anulntou, Ala., and go to IluntsvilU*. Anniston, Ala., October 25.—The war investigating commission yester day examined about a dozen wit nesses, including a number of officers arid men of the regular troops as well as a number of volunteer officers. The complaints brought out were chiefly of trivial nature, the most serious one being tliatof Major David Vickerswho attributed the troubles in the camp of the Second division of the Third corps, at Chicamauga, to the shallowness of the sinks. Anniston, Ala., Oct. 20.—Dr. 11. 1). Boss, assistant surgeon in the First infantry, was the first witness before the war investigating commission yes terday. He was with his regiment and with the Fourth infantry in Cuba. He arrived at Santiago on July 10. lie found the medical supplies short and was unable to secure any of them for a few days until he learned how to get them from the division hospital. Lieut. Col. Cabell, of the Second Arkansas, said in reply to questions put by Dr. Connor that he had ob served a condition of affairs at the hospital of the Second division of the Third army corps, hi June, which he considered horrible. He had seen one sick man lying in the rain without the protection of even a tent fly. and j be had been informed liy other officers that several others had been left in the same way. lie thought the doctors were honest enough, but they did not know how to get supplies. Mule drivers had been used for nurses and he had been reliably in formed that many of them were in the habit of getting drunk and on this account neglecting their patients. Ma j. Charles F. King, surgeon of the Fourth Wisconsin regiment, said the medical supplies of his regiment were insufficient and that there was much delay in getting requisitions filled. He thought there was a sufficient quantity of food, but said some of the men would not cat it, preferring to buy food for themselves. Dr. Henry It. I.ee. major and sur geon of the Third brigade, First divis ion, Third corps, said he had urged the removal of the camp from Chicka maugn because lie considered the water bad and because of the impossi bility of getting vlepp sinks. After the examination of several other witnesses the commission went to Huntsville. Huntsville, Ala., Oct. 27. -The war commission began the examination of witnesses yesterday with Gen. Louis 11. Carpenter, who is in command in (Sen. Wheeler's absence. He had been at Chickamauga, T'simpn and at Fer nandina before coming here. He said the camp at Chickamauga was too crowded. That at Tampa was unsatis factory, but it.was not intended to be permanent. 'I hat at Fernandina was ideal. The food supply had been ample throughout, but quartermas ters' supplies were generally slow and there had been trouble in securing tents. There was more difficulty in getting supplies at Tampa than else where. because of railway congestion. Maj. (Sandy, the surgeon who was in charge of the medw-al supply depot at Tampa, said he li.vl been able to fill all reasonable requisitions for medical supplies with promptness, but many bulky articles f*>r which substitutes could be had were not supplied, Keg ular troops were easily satisfied, but he volunteers were exacting. A number of officers who had served in the Santiago campaign and in Flor ida were examined. Gen. (S. S. Car penter said the sick at Santiago had suffered somewhat on account of the deficiency of medicines and medical supplies, but this was the only depri vation of which he spoke. The troops did not receive the entire ration while in the field, but he was sure that no man in the command had gone hungry. THEY MUST DISARM. (>«n. Wood Refuses to Allow Cuban Troops to Act Policemen—Muttering* of ills content Among the Islanders. Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 27. —Maj. Pe.ttit, in command of the United States troops at Manzanillo and mili tary governor of that city, telegraph ed yesterday that the Cuban general liios offers 200 armed men to assist the Americans in preserving order, merely asking rations in return. Gen. Wood sent the following reply: "Cer tainly not. The only conditions on which rations are to be issued are the complete disarmament and disband ment of the troops." Some of the Cubans here consider that the United States is treating its allies badly in not allowing the Cuban forces to remain armed. They con tend that the Cuban soldiers who have been fighting three years and who speak the language of the country, nre better fitted for garrison duty than "untrained volunteers." The Cuban general Rodriguez vir tually voices the sentiment of the Cuban army when he says: "Wet-hank the United States for the ass'stance it has given us, but the time has now arrived when Cubans should be placed in the highest offices and should pre pare to take over the island on the departure of the Spanish." Cuban extremists here are jubilant at the reported attitude of the Cuban assembly at Santa Cruz del Stir, where the delegates, while expressing their gratitude to the Americans, practical ly demand a distinctive Cuban gov ernment. Got. Ilnsliriell Visit* Camp Meade. Middletown, Ha., Oct. 26.—Gov. Bushncll, of Ohio, arrived in Camp Meade yesterday. A review of the First brigade, First division, was held in the governor's honor. He after wards inspected the camp and made personal inquiries as to whether the men desired to remain in the service, finding a ma jority in favor of remain ing. The Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey regiments are getting ready to vote on November 8. Gov. Hushnell told some of the Ohio troops that he did not think they would be sent to Cuba. GUMS CLOSE. Peace Jubilee Ends witli a Grand Civic Parade. THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY Independence Hall lie-dedicated After Being Repaired. GORGEOUS STREET DISPLAY. Progress of the Nation in Science. Com merce, Art and War In Illustrated by a Series of Float#—Twenty Thousand Bleu In the Procession. Philadelphia, Oct. 29. —The great peace jubilee was brought to u glor ious conclusion Friday. Beginning with last Sunday's church services and including the naval and military demonstrations of Tuesday and I hursday, and yesterday's monster civic celebration, the demonstration has been an unparalleled success throughout. The magnificent illumi nation of the city continued last night and the streets were jammed with people. The exercises of the day opened with the re-dedication <»f old Inde pendence hall, the historic building from which the Declaration of Inde pendence was read to the people of the new republic on July 4, 1776. The buildings which had from time to time since that date been added for use as offices of the municipal au thorities have all been recently re moved and the famous hall is now in its original form as 123 years ago, when occupied by the I'nited States congress and the national government officials. The re-dedication exercises were presided over by Gov. Hastings and were opened by prayer by Rev. lirownson. The anthem "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." was sn n to 1861. Three hundred employes of the cus tom house and 100 of the post office marched near the head of the line and after them came the secret and beneficial orders, A from Druey. Washington, Oct. 29.—Admiral Dewey has cabled the navy depart ment that everything is quiet at Pekin. that no further troubles are anticipated and that American inter ests there are not in danger. The Pet rel is at Taku, the seaport of Tien Tsin, and as navigation of the l'ei 110 river, upon which Tien Tsin is situat ed, closes in November, no attempt will be made to send the vessel up that stream. The Hostou has sailed from Taku for CUefoo. 3