NEW NOTE PRESENTED TO PORTE
ny
WANTS PROMPT PAYMENT.
MR. GRISCOM,
Nimilar Steps by Other Powers Regarded
Imminant Washington OMelals
Claim Note is Not an Ultimatum, Bat »
Continnation of Efforts te Kffact Settle.
ment of Clalans,
Constantinople, ( By Cable.) The negotia-
tions between the United States and the
Porte, regarding the American {ndemnity
claims have again been transferred bere,
United Btates Charge d'Affalres Griscom
banded to Tewfik Pasha, Minister of For-
eign Affairs, a note based on instructions he
bad received from Washington, the tenor of
which has not vet been made public. It is
understood, however, that it demands prem pt
payment of the indemnity.
Similar steps by the other powers are re-
garded as imminent, Charge d'Affaires
Griscom, in the present circumstances, de-
oilnes to express his views,
The only issue at present, however, is the |
sxscution of the Forte's repeated promises
to Minister Straus to pay the indemnity,
After Mr, Straus leit the matter remained
in abeyance until the from Wash
ington, April 17, sharply reminded the Turk
ish Government that the question required
urgent attention, ‘ibe P
telegraphed to the Turkish Minister at Was
ington asking for explanations of the re
ported strained relations Fhe Minister re
plied that he had called at the Btate Depart
ment and was informed that the situati
had not yet assumed a serfous character,
The words *‘not soon
pressed the Porte, and o
this information the Suitan
in regard to the Kharput
hoped would serve as a so p and d
sure in the demands f
it is generanliv recog
ret i
Ha
dis pateh
orte mm eetately
|
vet” to have Im
the strength of |
i an irade
which
fi
fmm
nEiter he
efer pres- |
although |
nized that permission to
will be of little value to the mission
aries without the payment of indemnity,
Another tirade, i Apell 23, orders
Rear-Admiral Ahmed to procesd t
Americas in order to si
the construction !
of battleships, !
orindemuity,
fase
Pasha
iy
Instructed to Preas
( harge at Constant
Rtate Departmen
£53
the aetiy
tations ix prohat
float to
as that pat al
sian (i
Key
FYB
nent
is mddition
strictures at Kbharg
paying the
a crutser to be built in the United
cost of which wil
By adroit
question of principle and to
V
wers a pretext for pressing
MILES OF RAGING FLAMES.
of the Fire al
Hall, Can
4 Bpeci 1
away of
Sintlas
linelude the $90 000 cla
hie hoy
AYO
es shalve t
d gis
their
ths
Yast Fxtent Ditnora a
nd.
Hull i=
3
nave
tf
an farge families
re Ww spo
that i
erable period, and the
or are goit
ubtinl, i the On
Daihon
residents of
the namber wi witho
wn at 5.t
of the pe
isd
two-thirds of
and an est mate
Wa
# ward is
jlacas 0 fre
their o
gray
in this district
this
residences in (
froperty
of the Anest
in
some Miaw
RESILY OF EAPLOSION,
Five Men Terribly Injured
Others Cut,
Pitisturg, Pa Special, By the explo.
sion of a portab e boller belongiog to Drake |
& Hiratton, contractors, at Rankin, I'a
men were terribly Injured and eight
etit, bruised nad s.ightly scalded,
Fhe men were etigaged in buliding a cof.
fordam in the Monongahain Liver for the
per of the Union Rallrond Bridge, when
the boller, which was standiag on the river
bank, axploded with terrifle force, scatter.
ing broken metal, steam and xealding water
in all directions. Thirteen men were more
or lesa seriously injured, but it Is thought all
bat two Joseph Wright and Nilsy Sarb
will recover,
The boiler wre of about thirty horse
power, and was covsldered safe, The cause
of the explosion has not yet been ascertained,
moned Fight
five |
ihers
Train Weeek at Wheeling.
Wheeling, W, Va. (Special, | «A Wheelie
snd Lake Erie train from Cleveland crashed
into an open switch in the local yards, Half
A AOZen PREsSNEOrs Were more or joss ser.
ously injured, RK K. MeLaughlin and wife
and daughter, of Cadiz, O., were badly burt,
Oto Rulfman, a traveling salesman, of New
York. had his right arm fractured, fev W.
BR Wilson, of Wheeling, ssosped with his
sriificial leg smashed, J, E. Kierts, of
Wheeling, was probably fatally injured, and
Girarge Mayer, a brakeman, was slightly ent
and brused. It is feared that MresMe.
Laughlin may div,
THE NEWS.
sunutten Bank, at
county, Ya, was robbed
and some 55.000) secured by
The Mas
Bhenandoah
dynamited,
burglars,
Strasburg,
ths
Hill
lives were
Atornedo did great
Johnson counties, Tex.
in a flood at Waco, Tex,
The Republicans of the Third Virginia
trict have decided to name a eandidate for
congress,
dumage in
I'en
dis
A lone colored bandit held up an express
train near Little Hoek, Ark., and robbed the
John Ackerman, a Fs
er Buffalo,
Lawyer E.
Hook lo a o
Louis Mann dropped dead on the street ip
Newport News, Va.
Fierce fires ranged over Scoulh Meountalh
near Laurel,
The astion-at-ilaw begun by
ol the United Press of New York
morning papers of Baltimore, viz : The
Baltimore American, the Bun, the Baltimore
Hera!d and Baltimore Correspondent, for
damages lor alleged breach of contract, war
terminated in New York, alter the evidences
for the plaintiff had been submitted, the
ourt instructing the Jury to bring in a ver
defendants, and also ord
LO pay KR swe
enduants’ at
Hull, in Canada,
wt fife
lapdsman of the ¢
was drowned at Norfolk, Va
PP. Seott stabbed Justice J, J
urtroom in Paris, Tex,
Pa
the assignees
agalost Lhe
a’
the plainun
1 000 tes
the FiLg
inl nilowance of
the di forneys
was fola
: tho
0 proj
mn
Ih»
destroy
ple
(slime
I'he
uh
fire and ab or usand
«
ety
will attend the
Alm
I® rece | roblems of
onferen
Montgomery, May
russ tl
In a memor!
fay
r of
Yernd Eyer
Al part
Niarte,
Thomes M
d bet
Cxiiiiam
RAYA
perty was
Ihe
fohn M
viiotd $ 3%
Heiae |
Mor, wi
he county
tle insane
hospital
“@
fhe small «
Swift & Co.,
Admiral Dewey appeared belforas the [Hous
Naval Committes (0 give Lis views in regerd
tosubmarine eraft,
Kenator (Chandler, from the Senate Com
mittee on Privileges and FEleotions, sub.
mitted to the Benate the report of that som.
of Mor
atts butchers In be employ
fn New York, went on a strike
isan.
Information has seached Washington io
the affect that the Japanese Government is
about to take steps to restrict the emigestion
of Japanese cookies to the United States,
The President nominated Frank 1. Camp
bell, of the Distrist of Columbia, aa Assist.
ant Secretary of the Jateriir, to succeed
Watater Davie,
Marcus 1, Hesnion, who killed Lis father.
law at Caldwell, N, J, was sentenced to ten
It was announced in Minneapolis that the
of Lineoln Republicans,
sven years old, were arrested In Macken.
sack, N, J, for traiv-wroeking.
President Gates, of the Amertean Steel and
vent, in all prises,
The arrested Cooten Des strikers wees
disorderly conduet,
late Henry Ward Beecher, died at George.
town Muse
CRUSHING TAGALS.
ABOUT A THOUSAND PUT OLTY OO}
ACTION LAST WEEK,
A SANGUINARY CAMPAIGN.
All Points
some of the
Renewal of the Insurrection at
Hesults in
Engagements
in the Islnund
Hioodiest of the War
American During the Waek Nine
Killed and Sistesn Wounded.
fons
By Calile, I'he last has
the bloodiest of the war
the first day's fighting around Mania
thentic reports, mostiy official, show a total
of 278 Filipinos killed, 12 officers 244
men onptured, and many more wounded,
he number wounded hardly guessable,
Considering that the Filipinos entirely nck
hospital facilities, great majority « the
wounded will Probably the week's
work finished 1,000 insurgents,
Ihe Americans’ 1o0ial loss was nine killed
sixteen wounded, Two sergeants and
private were killed in ambushes while
escorting provision trains,
The Insurgents have been aggressive
almost prov Luzon, ¢
del Pllar's pund, numbering 500
out of sight for threes mont!
being reported killed, has éjppe
old fleid ut Nan MIigu«
Pliar is
He gave
Miguel
ih
three
he loss of
Muniln,
heen one of
week
sinee
Aue
and
in
Y
"
die,
g i
ana
ane
avery ince of
w
the
Le are
nb
sti pposed Lo a
the An
Onsistis of three co
fifth
Kain in oomn
an garrison al
mupanies of
rly Gatling
wight ait
th
BOWNIs
bis eng
ent is pot ing tot
thals
it war ¢«
ipinos in they
Wonds
BE Dear san
SL Were wound
gns attacked Lieut,
J ose,
MHARLES BRIFOCRHY
MES KT HN ALMOs
RIiLLED.
found Badly Used Lp in ys Hoarding
house Yard
bi
in
FHT COLL MRA REVOIR 12
are Said to Be
the He
i Posne
bela,
hers
With
Phere i siflornt
EODR Ove
fnilen Inte
thint
iT the
Lai v
Mir
repr AL
hand: ins
Wanted to Kil
Ya (Special) ime
od Confederate soldier, to
State Insane Asvium. at Mitindgeoville
the course of an investigation
fitton It wax ascertained that his mind had
won wrong two vears, and that his
mania was to kill somebody of prominence,
At one time be had planned to kK Admiral
Dewey. Ho was prevating to Kit] himeel!
when arvesisd,
Some Mig »
A
was
mn,
“i, i HY hn
wend Lhe
in
into lis cone
for
Civil Service Rule Modified,
Warhingtoa, (Special i, The President line
signed si amendment to the elvil service
rifles extending the privilege of transfer
from excepted to competitive positions to
those persons whose positions were st one
time competitive, bat have sines bean made
axcepted,
Mryan to Take a Short Rest,
Austin, Tex., (Bpeeial. William J. Drvan
loft here for his bome in Lincoln, to rest a
few days before beginning the summer
cist di cin
Duke of 8 gyi! Dead,
London, (By Cable George
Bougies
Campbell, Dake of Argyll, is dead.
Earthynake Bhoek In the West
Portiand Ore, (Special) - A slight earth-
quake shook oceurred lo this eity at five
QUAY DEFEATED.
Pennsyleanin Senutor
ity
Lost hy One Major
Wellington Decided Contest,
QYuny,
the
I Osd
Washington,
of Pepnsylvanis. was
United Btates Senate
Matthew B.
un ront iy
after one of the
determived battles ever waged by & claimant
in the history of the Senate. A
declaring that he was not entitled to a
was adopted by a vote of 82. It was a
aud it was not anti) the
vote was recorded that the one pide won the
victory and the other was compelled 1o ac
cept defeat. It was n day in the Bonate that
will be read of 1p history, Not since’ the
declaration of war with Spain was there so
much suppressed excitement evident,
It was 8 most unusual scene, Every Ken
ator had one of the long slips, and as name
after name was eslied by the clerk the sound
of pencils and colliding could
heard all over It was generally
accepted the that the result
hinged almost upon a hair. This fact in-
creased the interest and beightened the ox-
citement,
Bpecing
denied
fesoiution
went
3310
battle royal, fant
paper ba
the
bnfore
house,
vole
Up tothe inst moment Mr, Quay was the
favorite, Like nchat npdon pugilist who had
heen the hero of many battles, there was &
general clinging to the Lelie! 1hat he would
A man who wanted to het
against the NVepnsylvanian would have asked
odds, and yet when the situation wes care
fully Inspected there seemed no real reason
why he should | been a favorite, ‘The
workers on either side were making no pre
hie bey understood that
fhe would Ie Wet On & Lerrilil
somehow win,
ave
tions, , above all,
fight won or
#light
it
nore
margi
y the during the rolleall was one side
ves abivad of the other, and
Mit ng
than Lwe
A rule It wil
d th
Ar
“RAW
nh
We tying
Mr. Quay
vole Aga hist
both
it was not
rity if
Heaee th
i
i
nnd were
OF
¥ $ ot 4 : } ¥s oh
owed Quay wilh thes
«ible for Qua have & maj
nisi bin re
ending upon Mr,
ier 1 8 bhaiiol
11th § v
fas BDA tn
was the and he
ed the he voted
but
ting of the Pennsyl-
y Mr, Quay
1 bave turn
Miia
lide,
| resOiulsiy ARAL
t the pea
ed
i Ya and ti Ay was lost
PERISHED IN FLOOD.
of
Jackson
Seven Heported Drowned at
-
I'amages,
hyver 1, 000, O00
Gries
wR
Prins New
w hint 8, a
Le ned er
daviight,
1 of the
have not been
the Owl
aka
VNANTED TO FLAY ERD
ten
tra
Burned a Costly House Down Make n
Noble Rescue.
Aiohison, Ras
i Th
harge
istrict
mas jeaded guilty t
cowtly residence
Alda Was
eighteer
Ami
i to him 5
Hien
fer to plas by re
family his «
beet
the thereby
and
HE
thar WOR EAR had beer
BRITISH SUBJECT TRIED
|
Authorities Suspect iis Spiteel
of Filibustering.
Cable 1.06 pits
ngtons and Maxim and
promoters in {he
thie
Orient
Barge
na Bue
Mau
astering
53
shadowed
In, suspecting
aod the au
is to get rid
! him,
fearning that an empl
bought $2,000 worth of jewels
ing duty, they arrested Splize I.
able (0 prove the charge, Spite! ic
ish subjest,
ye of had
without pay.
but were uo.
a Brits
his
SOTED FENIAN DEAD,
One of Phoenix Park
suspects, Is No Move,
Washington, (Special. )-Jobn J. Coughiin,
a clerk in the Patent OfMoee, an ardent Fenian
and one of the Phoenix Park saspeets, died
here.
In the uprising near Cork, Ireland, in 1867,
Mr. Coughlin was one of the first to thke np
arms, He was severely wounded in front of
Kiimaliock Barracks, was captured and tried
for treason, for which offense he served five
years in prison. On being liberated in 1871
he came LO this country,
Gold Watch for Admiral Pawey.
Washington, (Special) Admiral Dewey
received a delegation at Beauvolr, his eonn-
try home, which represented 50,000 children
in the Northwest, and presented to him as a
token of the regard and esteem of the donors
a beautiful gold watch nnd fob, .
Cotton Cloth Shipped in China.
yl rmingbam, ia... (Special). ~The largest
le fo shipment of cotton cloth ver
o from the Routh was forwarded by th
Dwight Cotton M1 A
The shipment
and is destined
empire,
Jopn J. Coughlin,
r points in the Chinese
KILLED IN A TENEMENT,
Lose
They
(Hpecin
kilied nnd three
slory tenement,
Hannah
Amelia
Vevsons
York
New York
Three Their Lives
Were Children,
Throe
ing red in
4 Vorsy
fel
Liebowitz
Liebowitz, 6 years oid
Liebowitz, 3% years old
children: Dora $iebowits, 3
hbaum, 62
a fire in the six
if
mre nwity years old
1i Lr
fhe injured
father of the
VERS O
cars old,
were buted
while mak ing
Michael Hause
The injured
the and
CSCRpe
None of them sre
house in which the
East side tenement,
floor, The smoke bad already
the tenants by the time the policemen wh
had discoverad the fire entered the hallway,
and the fire es: ape on the
oA crowded wi
women and
tried 10 get
PErRo ns
face hands
seriously injured,
ing KOOH
th
men ehfidren,
Hpsinirs
but the smoke was so dense that
driven back Btanding on
iron rall in
aided the
way.
On fourth
foseph Port,
16 years old,
the top of
fren ple 6 gelling down
the fir a family o
raral
r iivesd Lh
I'wo of the
and
down the rear
and then
where
children,
eritha, 12 n
fire-escapeto th
dropped 12
they
were fir
were impr
wn 1%
broken dq
wera berated
Liehowit
ont
ehiidren
i
Gaughter
SiR rway
He managed
a window over
pang
Bg b
th Lizzie
was
her sor
iy ul
w
Pon} fil
nd her
17 vears ole add
WHO was carrying his n
inr-venr
aid
the
sister Vanni wires
i ies el wh
ir lives wey th
Iore they «
When the firemen
into the top fi
the Ail }
their bodies were bis
uid res
a
Or the
hildren ad
Jamage
BOERS SURKROLAMDED.
fs Has
ed
Fa pected.
Reereily Them
Trap Capture
By Cat
Federals are
and have capt
vd horses
British
were capltug
i 4
a wor
fides the Killed at
Bre reps ried as
kopie by for
if General Ore fi]
tiie 14
| nal
FROM WASHINGTON.
a
Naval A
the charting of
fT jee defeated
r il to
tH
1
the provision in the
ture © the navy
waters about the new
be appropriation for the Na
ements was
aden vert
possessions 3
val Academy
The
viding
impr modified
Senate passed a
r the administration
joint
affairs until the new ofMe
Secretary Ba
y Nensie
fratie
y med su deiee
the inland
W., Hackett, of new Han
inated to be assistant
Air. Frank pahire
secretary
a teen
rof Pp
introdas
y Ble
A ball
ler bas
enactment of
tights of colored
ie Sundry Civil bill makes an appropri
ation of $150.000 with which to begin the
work of constructing the new castombouse
e
wed
ae iu
into the Rennte by
Mr
object the prevention of
States 10 restrict
Chand
iame bv
voters
In Paitin
much
indemnity
Foreign diplomals are interested in
our attempt to
Sultan of Turkey
During the consideration of the Naval Ap
propriation Wl in the House the charge was
made and d- nied that a lobby was at work
to oppose proposition for the government to
build its own ships and armor plate,
ABOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
aailect irom the
WAS THE LAW VIOLATED?
Serious Question the Cuban
is Very
Regarding
Siwtule
Explicit.
Y, ¢
the
wenndal
Washingtor
garding
from the Cuban re
Ariny station
the « BETO sRing t«
and official elre
very general desire
secounts of expen
which Secretary RB
submitted 10 the Renate, The disburse
of the Cuban funds in the year ending on the
ist « : iast December reached the enormous
{ $14.000000, Up to the present time
no acegunt of these disbursements, ex
the most general aud ind
been put Hels
{Bpecigl
WRN
United
PORIIres re fii
vhliies 16
officers
pie
Ee
to
iL]
ERIN
in
tines shigli #
irek the
YOR Jiro sa bee
nenis
Bum ©
¥
P
eh is
¥ fi
iehipite terre liam
made
Fhe positive aunouncsment that
Jeonard Wood was drawing about #17000 »
“Hr as governor general of Cuba sftracied
especial attention oF
is well known, snd where, only
Ko, he was a captain ae
in the Medical Corp
about $1,800 a
that before a
he
traction company
at the time, of >
fips sonsiderabie ad
digerimination, admitted by the
War, by which Gen, Ludiow was presest
with 25.000 a year additions! as governor of
the city of Gen, §
Iroc, hin pus
fywiimrai
in whape
iw
| sssb lant surgeon
Of the army ul a salary
WARS Bi80 reon
usw post it
president
iowa ot
Chere was
Washingt fiw
VERh
he
it
of VERY
wepting b
ied
ba
of a
ated
derlined sn o r to
al
sis
in
A SRisry
000 8 year,
verse mment over (he
Reerstary of
Havana, wh
in zhugn
rn fen granted any
IWHnce whiateys os sentiment whe ox
pressed
wliow
by more than one Se
anos
War Departme
shou
romptis
ator that if Lhe
Whe Le alleged Lie
iM have
ae ic
foublted
IV De B
Senate makes further inse
te
it was stated, In the
IR
t
the War Department
were not granted
ac beep peeyred
is opinion, 1
i RNussln
i AD
lin I«iands to 11
United Sat
HELD LP AMD KILLED,
FToontpads Murder a Man on a Los Angeles
Sireoet.
Angeles, Cal, |Special
shot and killed Joseph Hildner,
While he and his mother were their
way home they were halted by two men who
ordered them to throw up their bande, The
| mother started to run across the street, her
son following, but when he reached the
| middie of the street two shots were fired
{ and he fell with a bullet through his heart,
Los Footpads
on
a half sailor's knot,
Henry M. Rose, the pew clerk of the Sen.
Rurrows, i+ nn journalist by profession,
owned the Benton County Mich.) Peladium,
and afterward did
Detroit,
author to announce that he is considering a
jecture and reading tour in the United
States,
George Pred Willams is of Gorman pare
entage. His father's name was George
Weinigman, but had it changed by act of the
Logislature to Williams,
General Cronje has a nephew studyinggfor
a professional career io London who has be.
come a British subject and whose sympathies
ars all with his new country.
An autograph unpublished posm by the
late Riehard Hovey sold for $75 in New
York. x
FIELD OF LABOR.
Mexico has 1.000 gold mines,
Duinth has sixty cigarmakers,
Germany has 26 689 phyadrians
Cleveland iron monlders demand $3 a.day,
Our farm animals are worth $2,213 011.000,
The Boer war i2 costing England $760 a
minute,
Grand Bapide painters’ minkmum is pow
$2.25 por day.
There are nearly 2,000 stitehes in a pair of
hand-wewsd boots,
Bay City street railway men have been “
conceded the nine-hour day.
In Holle bullocks take, toa | extent,
the places of horses and ponies. ge
No man in Omsbia need be without work,
according to local sm ployment agents, ;
In New York it hes been found that
Chinese are sticking like grim death to
rate,
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