SPAIN AGGEPTS THE CONDITIONS UNDER PROTEST. The Tommissioners However Will Endeavor to Secure the Best Possible Indemnity From the United States Sagasta's Policy. of the cabinet The Madrid correspondent L.ondon Standard says: ‘The has concluded that the wisest policy is to accept the American terms, leaving to the Spanish commissioners full power to secure the best possible in- demnity, and to place on record, if the ‘American commissioners will permit, a protest against the American inter- pretation of the protocol as affecting the Philippines and against the peace conditions generally. : “Phe decision of the cabine? is ap- proved in political and financial cir- cles. I undersiand, however, that the deliberations of the ministers were very protracted. Senor Sagasta, Duke ‘Almodovar de Rio and Senor Puigcer- ver hdd great difficulty in inducing some of their colleagues to accept the small indemnity. Undoubtedly the sit- uation is hard and critical, but minis- ters say Senor Sagasta is determined to confront all opposition until the cortes is convoked, probably at the end of December, when he will de- mand a vote of confidence, virtually implying approval of the treaty and the conservation of his party.” The last and final demand has been made of Spain by the United States peace commissioners. - She must give up the Philippines, In return she is to receive $20,000,000 cash. It is further declared that it is the purpose of the United States to main- tzin the Philippine islands as an ‘‘open door” to the world's commerce. On. the terms named the United States propuses a mutual relinquish- ment of all claims for indemnity, na- tional or personal, subsequent to the outbreak of the last Cuban insurrec- tion. ~ It Is also declared that the United States desires to treat on the religious freedom of the Caroline islands, as agreed upon between the United States and Spain in 1886, and also of the ac- quisition of one of the Caroline islands for an American naval station and of cable landing rights at other places in Spanish jurisdiction and the revival of certain Spanish-American treaties as haretofore in force. The fact was cited that the proposal presented by the American commis- sloners in behalf of the government for the cession of the Philippine is- lands to the United States having been rejected by the Spanish commissioners and the counterproposal of the latter for the withdrawal of the American forces from the islands and the pay- ment of an indemnity by the United States to Spain having been rejected by the American commissioners, the latter, deeming it essential that the present negotiations, already greatly protracted, should be brought to an early and definite conclusion, now begged to present a new proposition embodying the concessions which, for the sake of peace, their government would, under the circumstances, be willing to tender. The government of the United States is unable to modify the proposal here- tofore made for the cession of the en- tire archipelago of the Philippines; but the American commissioners are authorized to offer to Spain in case the cession should be agreed to, the sum of $20,000,000, to be paid in accordance with the terms to be fixed in the treaty of peace. . It being the policy of the United States to maintain in the Philippines an open door to the world’s commerce, the American commissioners are pre- pared to insert in the treaty now in contemplation a stipulation to the ef- fect that, for a term of years, Spanish s and merchandise shall be admit- ted into the Philippine ports on the game termis as American ships and merchandise. The American commissioners are adso authorized and are prepared to in- sert in the treaty in connection with the cession of territory by Spain to the Waited States a proposition for the mutual rellnquishment of all claims for indemnity, national and individual, of every kind, of the United States, ageinst Spain, and of Spain against the United States, that may have arisen since the beginning of the late an insurrection and prior to the acinsipn of the treaty of peace. The United States holds 14,000 Span- ish prisoners at Manila. Many of them wigh to join the American army. reat indignation exists in Spain on account of the demands of the United Philippines. States in regard tb the and it is advised that the $20.000,000 offered for the islands be spurned. London papers concede the generos- ity of the United States Peace Com- missioners and express the opinion that Spain would be foolish to reject them. They express universal gratifi- cation at the announcement of “an open-door”’ policy in the Philippines. NATIONS UNITE. France and Italy Agree Upon a Commercial Treaty Which Removes Former Friction. it was quite unexpectedly announced a. few days ago that a commercial treaty has been concluded between France and Italy, granting mutually favored treatment, except for silk goods, which will remain subject to the maximum tax. A bill embodying the agreement will be submitted im- mediately to the Chamber of Deputies. The negotiations that have culmin- ated in these arrangements have been on foot for two years, but nobody be- fieyed that ad definite agreement was pending. It is believed that the Fashoda affair was instrumental in inducing France to grant the necessary concessions, though it is noteworthy that the silk duties, which caused the breaking of the treaty in 1887, remain almost un- changed. The negotiations have been couducted with the utmost secrecy. The exact effect of the concessions in- volved 1s not known yet, but it is ex- pected that they will have an import- ant and political influence for the re- tween the two countries. The treaty, it is noticed, was econ- uded during the absence of Emperor William from Germany.’ and there is much speculation regarding its proba- Ble results upon the ISuropean alli- AnCes. President Will Receive Advice. The Anti-Imperialist league, an or- ganization originating in Massachu- setts and of which ex-Gov. Boutwell is president, last week, through its sec- retary, Mr. Ewing Winslow of Bos- ton, presented to President McKinley a “protest against any extension of the sovereignty of the Uniikd States 6éver the Philippine island: in any event and over any other fore.ga terri- tory without the free consent of the people thereof, believing such action would be dangerous to the republic, wasteful of its resources, in wiolation of constitutional principles and fraught with morg! and physical evils Le our people,” { Chicago capite 1 rt . dent of the London Board rooval of a long-standing friction be- | NEWS ITEMS. Rear Admiral Miller was placed on the retired list last Wednesday. C. W. Couldock, the veteran actor, died at New York last Sunday. The Alabama house of representat- ives has voted a $500 sword to Lieut. Hobson. A headache powder caused the death of Miss Edna West of Pittsburg last Sunday. Dector - Parkhurst preached against "Thanksgiving day. Walter McWhirrel, a life convict in a Montreal prison has just fallen heir to an immense estate in Scotland. Brewers are weary of the war tax of $1.00 a barrel on beer and will ask congress at the next session to repeal the act. A silver bell costing $2,000 will be presented to the Cruiser New Orleans, by the people of the city for which she was named. A canvass of the principal business men of Pittsburg showed an almost unanimous opinion - aga nst annexiag the Philippines. The Baldwin hotel at San Francisco was destroyed by fire last Wednesday. Four persons were killed. Loss will reach $1,500,000. Admiral Schley was tendered a ban- guet by the Brooklyn club last Friday. Chauncey Depew and Gen. Tracy were the principal speakers. Two negresses held up and robbed a well-dressed man in Pittsburg a ew days ago directly in front of the city hall. They were cantured. Robbers cut the throat “Grandma’ Wynn, a wealthy who owned half the town of lyn, Ill. They made a big haul. The British - ship, Cromartyshire which sunk the steamer La Bourgogne last July left Philadelphia last week with 2,350 tons of bituminous coal for Chili. + . Lieut. Hobson is now at Annapolis tc take up the direction of his course in naval architecture. He was com- pelled to give up the raising of the Colon at Santiago. 7 A dose of morphine enabled 16-year- old Lorton Harrison of Newport News, Va., to commit suicide last Tuesday. His girl had flirted with another boy at church Sunday night. Willits of Chicago died in vast week of sunstroke. there in the interest of lists who wanted to in- vest money in the island. Ex-Alderman Geig: Rothr.eckx, of Allegheny, Pa., died in a patrol wazon a few days ago while being taken to the hospital, having been found wan- dering onethe streets ill Lyman Abbott, who for has occupied the pulpit of Piymouth church, Brooklyn, will @ resign. Fiis doctor advised him to do so. He will devote himself to writ ug. The vault of the Wrentham National bank at Wrentham, Mass., was blown open by burglars last Saturday and rifled. About $2,600 in cash and notes valued at $65,000 are missing. «a Miss Lizzie C. Percival, a well- known buyer of dry goods for a Chica- go house was ejected from the Wal- dorf hotel, New York, some weeks ago. She now sues for $50,000 damages. The beginning of the year 1899 may gee the greatest strike in the bitumin- ous coal industry on record. Pittsburg district miners will demand 79 cents per ton as price for digging run of mine, which operators will refuse. On and after December 5, the People’s bank of Philadelphia will pay all claims still due to depositors. When the bank failed President McManes pledged him- self to pay all depositors dollar for dollar, and he has kept his word. General Butler, of the Cuban evacu- ation commission, arrived in Wash- ington last week and reported that all the Spaniards will be out of the island before Christmas, some days before the date set for the evacuation, Janu- ary 1. The anti-imperialist league, organiz- ed at Boston last week expects to get 10,000,000 names to a petition, protest- ing against American sovereignty over thie Philippines. The endless chain method of letter writing will be used in securing signatures. The two men who last Wednesday broke into Wilson's private bank at Utica, O., and stole $14,000, are still at large, but the buggy in which the men were seen in Utica prior to the rdbbery has been found. It contained a paper upon which the men had figured their winnings. Andrew Carnegie in a letter to a New York paper attacks President McKinley's policy, alleging that the “open door’ in the Philippines means that American manufacturers will be entirely shut out because other coun- tries are geographically nearer the archipelago. He furthermore says that under the Constitution free trade be- tween the Philippines and this coun- try must be established with annexa- tion and that this means. the destruc- tion of the homie industries in tobacco, sugar, hemp, etc. Robert B. Roosevelt, secretary of the executive committee of the society for the protection of soldiers, sent a sting- ing letter to the war commission at New York, warning the members that the country ig in no mood for a white- wash, the commission having found all the evidence necessary to prove gross blundering in the conduct of the war. The nation now expects the commis- sion to place the responsibility. William F. H. Schroeder, a wealthy retired real estate dealer of St. Louis, aged 58 years, reported Tuesday that nis wife, aged 30, whom he married 18 months ago, had left home and taken with her money and valuable papers valued at $27,000. Said Mr. Schroeder: “I am confident that my wife has not cloped with a man. I think her mind is temporarily unbalanced because of sickness, and I hope that she will re- turn to me.” York on of New expansion of aged Woman Brook- George S. Porto Rico He had gone ten years BRITISH TRADE DECREASING. Due to the New Tariff Regulations United States. Right Hon. Charles T. Ritchie, presi- of Trade, discussing the subject of British trade before the Croydon chamber of e¢om- merce recently said he regretted to have to confess that the exporss for the year ended with October had de- creased $13,000,C00, chiefly through the alteration in the United States tariff. “Although,” said Mr. Ritchie, ‘we are gradually making up the leeway, it is impossible to conceal a feeling of anxiety. Although we ought not to be surprised that we are being so rapidly overhauled in exports by other nations, especially by the United States and Germany, it is a regrettable fact that, while since 1891 the exports of the United States have increased 18 per cent, Great Britain’s exports have de- creased 5 per cent. Cleveland Postoffice Robbery. The post office at Cleveland was Tuesday robbed of 11 packages con- taining $100 each, or $1,100 in all. The money .was in a pigeon-hole at the stamp window of the SIK PERSONS NEET AWFUL DEATHS BOILER EXPLODES. A California River Steamer Wrecked—Terrible Agony Caused by Escaping Steam—Engi- neer's Wife Blown Through the Roof. Six persons met awful death by the explosion of a boiler on the river steamer: T. C. Walker at Fourteen Mile Slough near Stockton, Cal. last Sunday. Eleven men were dangerous- ly wounded. The dead are: John Tulan, captain of the T. C. Walker; W. A. Blunt, the agent in charge of shipping of sugar beets from the Moss tract to the Crockett factory; Watson Henry, of Stockton, engineer of the T. C. Walk- er; Mrs. Henry Watson, wife of the chief engineer; Jerry Daly, fireman; Ferdinand Law, passenger. The screams of the men who were locked in their rooms near the pilot house were heartrending. Captain John Tulan had been blown from his bed against the door of the stateroom and so seriously injured that he could not move. He was virtually roasted alive. Watson Henry, the chief engineer, and his wife, were in their room near the pilot when the explosion occurred. Mrs. Henry was blown through the roof. The flooring was blown upward and she was hurled with great vio- lence a distance of 20 feet toward the bow of the boat. She was horribly crushed by the fury of the explosion, and also badly scalded with escaping steam. Her injuries proved fatal. She retained her consciousness until a few moments before her death. Her suf- fering was so intense that she begged the physicians in attendance to end her life, but all that could be done was to deaden the pain by the use of nar- cotics. Mr. Henry was terr®ly scalded. He was thrown some distance away, but not so far as his wife. He died shortly after being brought to the city. Underneath the lower deck, where the deckhands—slept—sroans—and screams were terrible, for the unfor- tunate imprisoned men were receiving the full force of the steam as it came from the boilers. Eight of them were almost roacted alive. Those who were able made their way to the deck as best they could, while the more seri- ously injured were unable to get out. Arms and faces of those near the main entrance were frightfully scalded. What caused the explosion will prob- ably never be known. The steam drum burst with terrible violence. GOLD SEEKERS MASSACRED. Shipwrecked, They Make a Landing and Fall Into the Hands of Indians. Shipwrecked on the bleak shores of Western Alaska, and then massacred by Indians, was the fate of a party of fifteen gold-seekers who left Puget sound last Decoration Day to szek their fortunes on the Kuskokwim riv- er. The expedition left Puget sound cn the steam schooner Lackme, having two barges in tow, in.one of which was the little steamer Jesse, which was to be used on the Kuskokwim river as a tender for the prospectors. At Dutch harbor the party was joined by Rev. ‘Weber, a Moravian missionary, and his wife and child, who were going to es- tablish a mission station on the Kus- kokwim river. Arriving at the mouth of the river, the steamer Jesse was launched from a barge on the .south side, together with her own barge, the Minerva, the Lackme proceeding on to St. Michael. In the middle of last September word reached here that the Jesse, while try- ing to enter the mouth of the river with the barge in tow, was wrecked, and all on board lost except an Indian who happened to be on the barge. From a report brought down by a Russian named R. Malakoff, who has just arrived from Nunivak island, about 100 miles from the mouth of the Kuskokwim river, instead of being drowned, the party succeeded in get- ting ashore. Indians who were camped near the scene of the wreck rendered great assistance in saving both lives and supplies, but afterwards massa- cred the entire party while asleep. BLANCO RESIGNS. No Celebration Attended the Inauguration of a New Governor. Marshal Blanco last Saturday morn- ing formally resigned the office of governor and captain general of the island of Cuba in favor of General Jiminez Castellanos. The ceremony took place in the throne room of the palace without any further solemnity than that the secretary of the govern- ment read the royal decrees on the subject in the presence of the president of the colonial government and Gen- erals Parrado, Solano, Ruiz and Te- jada. The ceremonies and festivities attending the taking of the oath of of- fice in previous years upon the ap- pointment of a new governor general were dispensed with on the present occasion. There was merely a formal turning over of the military command. Turk Ordered Christians Killed. During the trial recently of the mur- derers of the Tzangaki family at Ca- nea, Island of Crete, the deposition of a Mussulman was read. It said that at the time of the massacres Edhem Pasha, the Turkish commander, as- sembled the influential Mussulmans and invited them to massacre all the Christians found in Candia in 24 hours after the meeting. The Pasha's re- marks were uttered in the presence of Major Churchill, the commander- of the gendarmerie, who protested strong- ly, and was ordered by Edhem Pasha to leave the room. He Would Kill the Emperor. An umbrella maker of Oldenburg, Germany, who boasted he had been chosen by lot to assassinate Emperor William on the latter's return from Palestine, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, after having been convicted of lese majeste. OUR NEW POSSESSIONS. Spain has advertised her fine float- ing dry dock at Havana for sale. Four companies of the second regi- ment volunteer engineers have arrived at Havana. Spain has just entered into contract with a navigation company to furnish 10 more steamers to bring Spanish soldiers home from Cuba. The transport Chester left Savannah. Ga., last Monday with the 15th Un.ted States infantry on board for Cuba. The quartermasters department has opened bids for nearly 10,000,000 feet of lumber which is to be used in building barracks for our soldiers in Cuba. Street cleaning has been suspended in Havana on account of the mules and oxen being unable to do the work, not receiving sufficient nourishment. The Manila correspondent of the German ‘‘Vossische Zeitung” a gloomy picture, dwelling upon the alleged prevalence of drunkenness and other excessps among the American troops. : : draws. PHILIPPINE TRADE. Until the Islands are Annexed the United States Will Have No Special Privileges—State- ment by Chairman Dingley. Chairman Dingley of the ways and means committee, in an interview the other day, explained the term ‘‘open- door policy” as applied te the future commerce of the Philippines in case they should be acquired by the United States. “The phrase ‘open-door policy’ which is now being talked about so much in the newspapers,” said Mr. Dingley, ‘means simply equality of treatment and not free trade. As applied to the dependency of a country it simply means that imports from all other countries are to be admitted on the same terms as imports from the mother country. As applied to the Philippines it would mean that im- ports from Great Britain and all other foreign countries are to be admitted at the same rates of duty as imports from the United States. “Of course, this policy could not be applied to the Philippines if they should be admitted into the union with territorial form of government, be- cause the Constitution provides that duties shall be uniform within the United States, unless there should be an amendment to the Constitution permitting this. “Whether it would be possible to ap- ply this policy to the Philippines after they should become a part of the terri- tcry of the United States, under that provision of the Constitution which authorizes the congress to ‘make need- ful rules and regulations respecting the terPitory or other property of the United States,” I am not prepared to say. It is noticeable, however, that in the resolution providing for the an- nexaticn of Hawaii, passed at the last session of congress, it was provided that the Hawaiian tariff should con- tinue in force until congress should otherwise determine. “It is to be borne in mind, however, that the present talk about an open- door policy for the Philippines is in- tended to apply entirely to those is- | lands while under a military adminis- tration, which would be permissible, and not to apply to those islands after they have been formally recognized as a part of the United States. A JUDGE'S POWER. Issues an Injunction Restraining the Police From Interfering With a Ball. Judge Gibbons of Chicago a few days ago granted a temporary injunction restraining the city of Chicago, the mayor and the general superintendent of police from interfering with a mas- que ball. The opinion made Chief Kip- ley angry, and shaking his hand at the court, he said: ‘“A part of my duties is to prevent the gathering to- gether of disorderly persons or crimi- nals. If I have anything to say they skall not do so. I will prevent them.” “Please come back, Mr. Kipley, if you don’t mind,” said Judge Gibbons, as the chief strode away. Mr. Kipley returned to the bar, and the judge said: “I want it understood, Mr. Kip- ley, that until some higher court re- verses them. my decisions and the in- junctions granted by me are law, and if any one tries to interfere with them, even though he be a high police of- ficer, Mr. Kipley, he will find himself in jail in a very short time. The people who want to go to this ball will go, Mr. Kipley, and when they are there, if they do anything which is against the law,-you have the right to go in to arrest them.” : THOROUGHLY CHRISTENED. Battleship Wisconsin Launched at San Fran- cisco—Two Bottles of Wine Used. At the Union iron works, San Fran- cisco, last Saturday another great marine fighting machine was added to the already large fleet of Pacific war vessels. The vessel which slid from the ways was the battleship Wiscousin, the largest of the vessels built for the United States government by the Union iron works. The launch- ing of the big vessel was effected with- out a hitch, and she now rests calmly on the waters of the bay. When the big vessel slid down the ways the war- shipsy in the harbor fired salutes and there was a terrible din from thesteam whistles. The controversy over the kind of wine to be used in the chris- tening was settled by the use of two bottles of champagne, one of French make, provided by the Wisconsin christening committee and another of California champagne, provided by the Union iron works. POWERFUL ICE BREAKER. Russia Determines to Keep the Baltic Open all Winter. There has just been launched 'in England, at the yards of Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., what is, without a doubt, the largest ice-breaking steamer in the world, for its displacement is ro“ less than 8,000 tons. This was built for the Russian government, which is going to make an effort on a large scale to keep the Baltic open all winter, Beside this vast ice crusher, the ice- breakers of the Canadian lakes, which are able to crush through four feet of ice, are merely infants. The new Rus- sian boat is provided with a forward propeller, which is calculated to vast- ly assist in the crushing process by disturbing the water under the ice and depriving it of support. The stern of the ice breaker is cut into a rec into which the stern of another vesse can be securely lashed and thus be given the utmost protection from her powerful consort. AGAINST EXPANSION. Andrew Carnegie Presents $1.000 to Further the Movement. The organization of the Anti-Imper- ialist League was completed at Boston a few days ago. Ex-Governor Bout- well has been choosen President and Andrew Carnegie, First Vice President of the league. It has been decided to print the ad- dress of the league to the people of the country and to give it the widest dis- tribution. The protest to the Pres- ident and to Congress will be printed as an advertisement in many news- who are interested will sons clip it to the Secretary of the league at Washington. Several checks were ceived by the league, in addition to Mr. Carnegie’s for $1,000. Why Taxes are Heavy. It is learned that the municipality of Beyrout spent the whole of the coming year's taxes in entertaining the Ger- man emperor, making it necessary to collect the taxes for 1900 immediately. When the Turkish fleet was ordered to escort the Hohenzollern, the German imperial yacht, it was found that the vessels were without coal. A local merchant was asked to furnish the ne- cessary fuel, but he refused unless he was paid in advance. The admiral then cabled to Constantinople. He got no money, but the sultan sent a deco- ration to the merchant and conferred “upon him the title of pasha. “New England last papers, with the request that all per- | out, get signatures and forward them | re- | \ESSELS WRECKED IN A BLIZZARD MANY LIVES LOST. The Storm Tears Ships From Thasir Moorings and Dashes Them Against the Iron Piers. Railroad Traffic Suffers, A dozen or more coasting vessels were driven ashore in Boston harbor during the blizzard last Sunday, and the gYeat ocean steamer Ohio, of the Wilson line, was torn from her moor- ings and driven high and dry on Spec- tacle island. Schooners and coal barges with two anchors out and every reason to expect safe weathering of the gale were dragged from their moorings and hurled against pier heads, dashed on islands and rocks or sunk outtright. The Ohio lies about a mile from the piace of the Venetian wreck. Ashore not far from the Ohio is the schooner C. A. White, from Baltimore, but she will probably float. Just above Spec- tacle island is Thompsons island, and on the beach are three down-east lumbermen, the Watchman, Fred A. Emerson, S. E. Rappine and a vessel believed to be the Virginia. The schooners John S. Ames and Lizzie Dyes are also ashore at Ft. Warren. It is said two men were washed over- ‘board from the Virginia. Further out in the bay the casualties began with the sinking of at least one ccal barge, if not two, and the loss of the crew of four of each. The schooner Abel E. Babcock, from Philadelphia, which came around Cape Cod and anchored late in the day outside of Beeston: light, is reported to have foundered with her crew of seven men. Two other coal barges are ashore at Galloupe's island. All the captains of the fleet who were lucky enough to round the Cape and make the harbor in safety say that the storm was the most terrible that they ever experienced in Massa- chusett’s bay. The record-breaking November bliz- zard swept over the greater portion of Sunday, completely traffic of every descrip- tion and well nigh paralyzing tele- graphic and telephonic communica- tion, while the northwest gale, coming on a high course of tides, drove the sea far beyond its usual limits and made a mark along shore exceeded only by the memorable hurricane of 1851. Fortunatetiy the storm was heralded sufficiently in advance by the weather bureau to detain most of the coastwise shipping in safe harbors, but the warning was entirely unheeded and ignored by those on shore; with the re- sult that nearly everyone, especially the railroads and electric companies. was caught napping, and suffered ac- cordingly. There was not a railroad in: New England that wa$ not more or less tied up by the heavy fall of snow, and the great drifts, and the roads ‘run- ning along the coast, like. the New York, New Haven & Hartford, and the Joston & Maine, had the added dif- fieul °° of frequent washouts at places exposed to the heavy seas. demoralizing HE CRITICISED THE EMPEROR. A New Yorker Gives His Views and Lands ina German Prison. Frank Knaak, of New York, has been arrested on the charge of lese majeste, said to have been committed while sit- ting with his wife in a fashionable restaurant at Berlin, Germany. It is alleged that he referred in an offensive manner to the emperor, and a person who heard him immediately ed a policeman. Although Mr. Knaak had several witnesses who denied that he had made the alleged remark, he was thrown into jail. The oftlicials of the United States embassy have done everything possible to bring about his release, and a large amount of bail has been offered. J. B. Jackson, the United States charge d'affaires, has had two interviews with Herr Richt- nofen, the under secretary of state for foreign affairs, on the subject. Mr. Knaak is a civil engineer, and is in- terested in the Niagara water power. Returned the Stolen Money. Seventeen years ago John Carvarick oi Jersey City, N. J., stole 31 from a butcher. Last Tuesday he gave the police an equal amount with the re- quest that it be returned to the butch- er. He also expressed a willingness to go to jail if the butcher so desired but the latter was satisfied with the money. i ar CABLE FLASHES. venezuela is to have an exposition in 1900. In a statement Mme. of the famous captive on Devil's isl- and, gave 15 reasons tending to show his innocence. The anti-anarchist cenference was opened at Rome last week in the Cor- sini palace by Vice-Admiral Canevaro, minister of foreign affairs. All the IKuropean nations. were represented. The ministers of Great Britain, France, Russia and Italy called at the Athens palace and formally appointed Prince George of Greece as high com- missioner in Crete, this in spite of the protests of the sultan. President Faure of France a few days ago went to Lens, donned a suit of miners clothes and descended into the pit. He was well received and dis- suaded the miners from engaging 1m i strike which had been planned. IZmperor William has returned to Germany to find the peobole politically acitated because he has insisted on dominating the government with his personality. Trouble 1s looked for when the preichstag convenes Decem- ber 5. The current issue of the Petit Jour- nal Pour Rire of France has, at the re- guest of Count Von Munster, the CGier- man ambassador at Paris, been confis- cated for publishing caricatures of Emparor William's visit to the Holy Land. Because of Dreyfus, wife the little ntly the Hing a-Rus- the friendship of United States kngland shows concern over the tariff treaty re made between ltaly and France former's powerful navy thus thrown to the side of the Fran sian comouct. The. Thanksziving American _sceicty © in wis held at the Hotel glorification of . Anglo - American friendship. Three hundred Americans and their Dnglish guests sat at a table under entwined flags of the 1wo nations. The German has been exhort- ing the government to claim the Sulu islands in the Philippine group, pro- viding Spain relinquishes the avchipel- ago. The treaty—of 1877, under which this claim is made, shows that Spain did not abandon her sovereignty over those islands. At the cpening of a new. college at Peresa-Argentina, near Turin, Sunday, the great hall ~ollapsed, carrying down the assembly in the ruins. Three bishops were injured, one of whom has since died. It is feared that many per- sons have (been killed or seriously hurt. banquet of - the London, which Ceell, was [a the press summon-- “tiles ror warships. ROOSEVELT TESTIFIES. There Was an Inefficient Supply of Food for the Rough Riders—Beef Was Bad-—The Colonel's Efforts in Securing Food for His Men. Col. Theodore Roosevelt was before the wa department investigators last Wednesday. He took the stand and, In reply to a request from Gen. Wilson told of the equipment and mustering in of the First volunteer cavalry, known as the Rough Riders. **When. we reached Tampa,” Col. Roosevelt said, ‘there was a condition of uttef confusion. We were dumped outside, a mile away from our camp. No one knew where the camp was. There was no one to tell us where to 80 or what to do. After waiting twen- ty-four hours I took the law into my own hands and bought food for the men and horses. Later, when we found our camp, we were all right.” “Were you reimbursed for jour out- lay 2” - “I never asked it. It was a,personal matter entirely.” “Do you attribute all the confusion,” asked Gen. Wilson, ‘to lack of intelli- gence on the part of the men in charge or to the natural overcrowding of work?” “I was only a lieutenant-colonel and I could not know whose the fault was,” _ Replying to other questions Colonel Roosevelt said the food was ample and with the exception of the canned roast beef, good. The beef was very bad. Col. Roosevelt told of the voyage to Cuba and of the disembarkment of the regiment at Baiquiri. The regiment was one of the first to land. Capt. Shaw, who was associated with Col. luosevelt in the navy department, sent a (‘uban pilot on board the Yuca- tan and he took the transport a mile and a half nearer the shore than any ot the other transports. There was a great scareity of material for landing men, horses and supplies. Col. Roosevelt told in march of his regiment camping place. "After supper,” he c¢ontinued, "Col Wood told us that we were to start next morning to take the Spaniards. “The next morning's march was a hard one, especially for the. men. There were no opportunities for flank- ers. It was so hot that about 100 men dropped out for a rest, and when the first Spanish outpost was discovered Col. .\Wood ordered rilence, and 1 was sent to the right to deploy with the right wing “When the Spaniards began firing I did not know what was up. It was my first experience. They were using smokeless powder, and I could not see where they were, “When 1 located the Spaniards with my <lasses IT did not know what to do, but. I Knew it was a good rule if in doubt to: go ahead, and so: went ahead.” Col. Roosevelt glossed over the fur- ther details of the fighting. He paid a warm tribute to the gallantry of As- sistant Surgeon James W. Church, a former Princeton football player, who, he said, more than once ran to the firing line and carriec wounded men on his back to the division hospital. Arked about the rations, he said: “We had the regulation rations of salt pork, hard tack, coffee and sugar, but the men wanted vegetables, and I wanted to get some for them. I took 4) men with the officers’ horses to Siboney and tried to buy them. The department refused to sell me beans and tomatoes unless I could certify that they were for officers’ consump- tion. [I stretched my conscience as far as [ vould, and then boarded a trans- port and purchased about 500 pounds of beans.” The change did the men good. It was too hot to eat nothing but the regular rations.” “Was vour command fully supplied with food and ammunition?’ asked Gen. Wilson. “The ammunition supply was excel- leni. The food was insufficient. There was plenty of food back at Siboney. I suppose it was lack of tramsportation facilities that kept us without good fecod until July 24. I organized a trans- portation corps with the officers’ horses and went to Siboney and got tcod for the men. Then, later, I got into Santiago and bought rice and milk. If we had had the mule trains that we were forced to leave behind at Tampa there would have been no lack of supplies.” of the first detail to its y THE GOLD COINAGE. India Prevents an Effort to Establish -Bi- metallism. In his annual report Mr. George E.- Roberts, the director of the mint, says: “The mest important events of the fiscal year in the world of government finance have been the consummation of the long-planned resumption of spe- cle payments by Russia in gold, the re- organization of the monetary system of Japan with gold as the standard, and. the refusal of the government of India to co-operate with the govern- ments of the United States and France in an effort to establish bimetallism by international agreement. “The gold coinage of the world in 1897 was the largest recorded, amount- in value to $437,719,342, against 3 517 in 1896. Of the former sum $146,622, 194 was recoinage, and approx- imately $291,097,148 a net addition to the stock of geld coins. The President's Influence. Mary Jane McCabe, of London, Eng- land, will soon receive $2,000 for which she may thank President McKinley. Miss McCabe wrote to the president a few weeks ago, begging him to see that her share of an estate left by her uncle, Patrick McCabe, who died near Madison a quarter of a century ago, be sent to her. “It’s God who told me to. write to you,” said Miss McCabe. The abiding faith of the writer im- pressed President McKinley, and saved her letter from the waste bask- ot. The president sent the letter to Mayor Whelan, of Madison, and in- closed a note of his own, asking that the case be looked into. The result was that the sum mentioned was for- wardod-ao Miss McCabe yesterday. Keeping the Navy Supplied. I'he Carpenter steel mill of Reading, P:u., has just shipped 400 six-inch shells, 200 eight-inch and 200 six-inch projectiles to the United States govern- ment officials at New York and Wash- ington. The plant is just as busy now as it during the mest pressing periods of the recent war. The hurry orders indicate that the government is getting on nand a supply of projec- Was In Casc Spain Should Not Sign. Secretary Long is. at least prepared for an emergency should Spain not meet the demands of the United States the cruisers New York, Brooklyn and New Orleans are prepared for immedi- ate service. The battleships Massa- chussetts and Texas could be prepared in a week's time and the Oregon and lowa are now ‘at Rio being about the same distance from Spain as are the ships now at New York. Admiral Schley ig ready to command the squad- ron.
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