LETS CUBAN FLAG STAY BUT SENDS FOR TROOPS Secretary Taft Shows Great Tact in Proclaiming Himself Governor. REBELS THREATEN TO MAKE TROUBLE Warlike Bustle at War and Navy Departments. PLAN FCR A SECOND EXPEDITION. Talk of Discontent Among Insurgents Causes Order to Land a Hundred Marines at Tunas de Zaya— A Thousand Men to Go Ashore at Havana — Battleship Kentucky Reaches Cuba—Talk of Annexation Growing — Special Trains Speeding Eastward With Troops — Working Night and Day on Ships. | UNITED STATES IN CUBA. | i Secretary Taft declared him- self provisional governor of Cuba. He retained the present of- ficeholders and judiciary of the island and the Cuban flag. The occupation will last only until a new government is in- stalled. Fearing a collision between the insurgents and rural i the Taft guards, Secretary sent from | 450 marines by rail Ha- | yana to £08. A hundred marines will be put ashore near Sancji Spiri- rted Cienfue tus, owing to troubles rep« there. The Army and Navy Depart- ments at Washington are war basis, and were open day unday The Army plans for a pedition to on a all ans the are ation of cation Ameri were and commi awaits American Havana (Specis and fuegos Sun precaution, fiftv marines ceived 1 ing was insurgen militi those al the A thousand Havana Columbia coming nearest able num! Sunday came asl the hari for Clenfuegos jal train It wa xplafr movement was not made of but calming ation, hi ty of a conflic feeling exis The The I: expects Brook The Funston mission for the are althoug the de some Ame to 10 against Moder: $ which be unwise in The Castillo stacles Guerra accoun on any trout 1 de in Clenfuego for the Irpose of influence on circumstance no tf General danger that will in the way and "Asbert are best facilitate matters Guzman, from Santa pected here Monday No feared in that province, Clenfuegzos The Clara, General rabid partisan ma, *=ndered Governor Taft do anything to put ob way of peace Pino doing t 1¥ LIED to Gener: Clara, is ex-| trouble except at governor of Santas Alaman, of ex-President his resignation has asked him withdraw it The provisional gov. | ernment considers his services nee- | essary in re-establishing order. | Wish To Retain Arms. Governor Taft has also requested Benor Quesada, the Cuban minister i who is a | Pal- | but | to | The President's Son, Boston, (8pecial). Teddy velt, Jr., 1s to be brought up on the carpet to explain to the faculty of Harvard his connection with the ox capade in whieh Polleeman Freyver was tonpled aver and bumped for in- terfering with the frolic of Harvard students. Yoling Roosevelt was ar- rested with three others In connec tion with the affair, but was re. leased at the station house when he declared that he had nothing to do Roose with the fracas, on, to withdraw his He has also instructed the Cuban department of state to cable to all the Cuban representa- tives abroad to retain thelr offices until further notice. A strong annexationists feeling is growing. There is talk of organiz- ing an annexationist party, which has never been done before. Some Moderates” are taking a prominent part fu this movement. The day at the palace passed quiet- ly and rather gloomily. There are as yet no signs of Sec- retary Taft's actual occupancy of that edifice, which Sunday was the scene of a number of farewells to ex-President Palma and his family, The members of the diplomatic corps and the foreign consuls called in a body to say good-by. The Funston commission and the revolutionary commission have agreed that the horses captured or seized by the rebels might be kept, but the Cubans raised a point about the arms, which General Funston re- fused to concede. 1hey wish to keep the arms, which are the private prop- erty of some of their men, arguing that they bought these arms with their own money and have alwavs kept them in their houses. The arms at Washingt resignation, purposes, A largely ely attended meeting f rebels was held Sunday at Ashbert’'s camp, San co de Paula. Senor Zayas made appeal to the men to lay down arms, Juan ( 1 General Ashbert that in a few to their hom near iualberto also hot was no further necessity behalf of ih red that by gervices in er ised United State n Rebel Generals Happy. Gen. Pino Guerra, } vf +} troops EXPLOSION OF 0OlL. a Two Dollar Hundred Thous- and Fire. AT THE NATION'S CAPITAL Told. ry. at Costs tate Deg anged for yn Guaten iigned y Guatamala, uras and Costa Rica y golicit Department has ymul 1 order prohibiting ti and tervations 16 pension other claims on re _ I Department of Commerce and to he attempt improve the finding it 4iMm mules, Army officers are cult to secure horses and Attorney General Moody has given that the meat inspection law applies only to the domestic pro ducts, and not to imported meat, Secretary Shaw announced his pur- to deposit $26,000,000 In de pository banks to relieve the string. ency in the money market, W. Morgan Shuster, of Washing- ton, has been appointed a member of the Philippine Commission Since January 1 the sum of $283. 075 In fines has been collected from railroads found guilty of granting re bates The Director of the Mint purchase ed 20,000 ounces of silver, to be de- Hvered at Denver, at 68.76 an ounee Postmasters throughout the coyn- try are asking that the abandonment of the system of back-mailing of mail matter, which now prevails in large cities, be extended. HUNDREDS OF LIVES AND MANY SHIPS LOST Pensacola and Mobile Devastated By Tropical Hurricane. THE PROPERTY LOSSES $8,000,000. Great Iron Vessels Driven Through Buildings a Block From the Water Front at Pensacola—Fire Adds to Night of Terror in the Florida City 5,000 Houses Damaged. ————————— THE TWO WRECKED CITIES. PENSACOLA. Loss of life heavy, especially among mariners Property estimated at 5,000,000 and the city practi- cally wrecked. Over LO big salling vessels fron steamers buildings a mile front, loss steamers and wrecked: big driven through rom the water The Navy yard is badly dam- aged and ral gunboats un- th dergoing repah here are said BOVE to be beached estimated at over $3.000,- Alert sunk. 10 miles an en ock from the water fre nt s¢ along the water 16H has glans damage mixed uj 1 trie.di ¥ i ig to thie runks unoccupied in made. but protect property werything in under have be en to iditions Medal Of Honor Legion, Winsted, Ct The Medal of Honor Legion put on record the movement to take War and Navy Departments {8pecial) if itself a8 opposed to from the the sole right to pass upon the cases of applicants who have been recom- mended for a medal of honor. The legion resolved that the present meth. od of award of the medal is proper and that to change it by giving the power to Congress would subject awards to political influence, casino To Vote On Dispensary Law. Raleigh, N. C. (8pecial) The Ra- leigh dispensary, which produces an annual net profit of $60,000, is to run the gauntlet of a popular alee- tion In the near future. In a decis- ion today In the Buperior Court Judge Webb granted a petition for a manda- mus to order an election. The decis- ion Is important, construing the Watts and Ward acts, under which North Carolina rural districts are nn- der prohibition and a number of the cities have dispensaries, THE NEWS OF THE WEEK. Domestic, Justice Bischoff denied the appli cation of counsel for Harry K. Thaw for the removal of his indictment from the Court of Special Bession to the criminal branch of the Su- breme Court of New York A Rochester (N. Y.) motorman who nurs his sweetheart, suffer. ing with carlet fever, contracted the malady and fell a vietim to it. Hannah Lukens, mald of Mrs. A G. Vanderbilt, and her companion were attacked in the Bronx and robbed, In Chicago, Mayor Edward Dunne, of that city, wa president of the League of American Municipalities. An Italian who had eluded Black Hand Soclety for many was mysteriously murdered in York. Adolph has been yers who The opened for the fall term. men numbers Cleveland, O., was 3 fire, which had explosion of oil, G F. elected the Years New Marks, a Chicago lawyer, added to the staff of law- will defend Harry Thaw University of The fresh- class nearly 1,000, $200,000 an Charles {ts origin nounted Mexics captured the minin Juminez, placing the € attemn in an 11 olitieal prisoners and Plequart, a de- has of general General Dreyfus, the rank Brigadier fender of moted to division John Oliver Hobbes, aunthor- left an estate of $122,500 the ORY, vinces are resisting the tax eolleec- tora, killing the soldiers sent against them : The new annex of Aberdeen versity was opened in the of the King and Queen Otto Hilgard Tittman, of the American Coast and Geodetic Survey, addressed the International Geodetic Congreas at Budapest on the widely extended activities of the American bureau. The police raided a secret meeting or revolutionists in Baku and arrest- ed 68 of the perons in attendance, after a struggle in which one was killed and several were wounded. Russian peasants in 70 villages of the Province of Viatka are in revolt They have disarmed the police and are pillaging and destroying the resi. dences of the landowners. : The resolutions adopted at the closing session of the Institute of In- ternational Law In Ghent include one forbidding the sowing of mines on the high seas. Uni- A GREAT FEAT IN ENGINEERING The Pennsylvania Railroad's Tunnel in Washington, STATIONS AT THE OFFICE BUILDINGS. Completion of an ture Connected struction of Separate in Each Direction. Fea- Con- Important With the Terminals There Washington, D. © (Special) of runs the Capitol Library was great tunnel Railroad that Hill, Congress the Pennsylva under ( between and ional Thursday It President Cassatt, vania Rallroad, of the through Mr. Cass; intended the Pennsy of the of shouid be But, ow- four-fifths of about 80 feet the street on many engineerd the construction 03 MURDERED IN INSANE ASYLUM. Miss Nellie Wicks, Was The Aged Victim. =1 Yo wr, TEE . i ay WICKES ana one of the m To Contest Oelrichs’ Will New iil The died = denly at sea on September 1. will be his 1 Oelriche, will be ad lite: {Special} York {eo iriche, who Seyear-old Jr Sur asked to appoint m to the hoy to bring the contest. In hig will Oel- richg cut off the widow and young Hermann on the ground that Mre Oelrichs had an independent fortune and that she would provide for her son. The bulk of the Oelrichs estate by gon, OEate Fitzgerald richs, Mob Captures A Town, Eagle Pass, Tex., (Special) A telephone message received Jiminez, 30 miles up the Rio Grande River, states that 40 armed raided the town, placed the mayor, chief of police, treasurer and other city officials in jail and are now in control, The telephone wires were cut before the message was finished Government troops have arrived on a special train and are hastening to Jiminez, men — HE WOULD KILL JEWS Kaulbars Thinks It “Undesirable To Btop {By Cabl of Mussacres, Odessa 4 deputation who complained of th Ommitted by member of the ful citizen ‘ 113 2 vUBEIAnN Peopl , Jew al ailke, Governor-Gene that the matter ‘ y onal dedi] Die or ey BUDDY BUDpTe ioyal elements FREDERIC GEBHARD Miss Louis Marris® FINANCIAL WORLD. Pennsyivania, a long while, crossed tral Atchison’s net profits { increased $772,594, or more than { per cent efi in August 33 Jergey Central's net surning in Aue amounted to $652,648, an in- : crease of $150,102 The Hudson River Water { Company has roceived «a decision | its favor from ex-Judge Alton 3. | Parker sitting as in New | York. The case was that of the Na- j tonal Contracting Compan for { $815.000 The referee dismissed f the suit, and awarded damnzoes to ithe Hudson River Water Company amounting to $3AS5.858. “Bell stocks on every rally,” sald I. Hudson. | East Power in referee C.
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