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GEN. LEE ONGE MORE GOt 1S 10 GBH
~ REVIEW OF MEN.
Soldiers Have Embarked in Transports and are
Prepared to Take Possession of the Island.
The Major General's Staff.
The movement of American troops t
the city of Havana began Wednesday.
On that day Major General Fitzhugh
l.ee, commanding the Seventh army
corps, and his staff - left Savannah.
This should put them in Havana not
later than Saturday. General Lee and
his staff departed in the transport Pa-
nama.
Those of his staff who accompany
the major general are: Lieutenant Col-
onel J. H. Dorst, assistant adjutant
general; Lieutenant Colonel George I.
Pond, chief quartermaster; Lieutenant
Colonel O. V. Wood, chief commissary
of subsistence; Lieutenant Colonel. L.
M. Maus, chief surgeon: Lieutenant
Colonel Curtis Guild, Jr., inspector
general; Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Rib-
ble, judge advocate; Lieutenant Colo-
nel J. E. Maxfield, chief signal officer;
Lieutenant W. R. Lawrence, chief en-
gineer officer; Lieutenant Colonel Rog-
ers Birnie, Jr., chief ordnance officer
Lieutenant Sartoris, General I.ee's aide
will go with him, as will Major Michie,
assistant adjutant general. Major
Russell Harrison, provost marshal; will
also accompany him.
The troops of the Second division of
the corps and the hospital force of the
corps, together with the signal corps,
departed from Savannah on the trank-
ports Mobile, Michigan and Roumania.
The Two Hundred and Second New
York regiment, United States volun-
teers, left on the transport Minnewas-
ka for Pinar del Rio.
General Lee ordered a general review
of all the troops in the vicinity of the
city of Savannah last Tuesday after-
rioon. There were nearly 17,000 men
in line.
The Cubans and Spaniards will not
mingle in Havana and until the latter
are removed the Cubans can never
hope to make a record for themselves
favorable to self-government.
There are numerous reports of col-
lisions and minor disturbances between
Spaniards and Cubans all over the is-
land. which, although of no great sig-
nificance, show the ill feeling which
exists and will continue to exist.
Iver since the wrecking of the print-
ing office at Guines last week by the
Spanish garrison, because the proprie-
tor had published an article entitled,
“Adieu,” disorders there¢c have been of
daily occurrence. The Spaniards pa-
trol the streets at night, attacking all
unprotected citizens whom they find
out after 9 o'clock and spreading alarm
and consternation. Senor Jose Bolado,
the Mayor of Guines, who protested,
was badly beaten and cut in the hand.
Thursday night General Castellanos
telegraphed the military commander
of Guines that he would hold him di-
rectly responsible for the disturbances
and insisted upon immediate steps be-
ing taken to prevent their continuance.
Several officers of the Barbastro regi-
ment avere arrested as ringleaders.
On their way to Havana the Cuban
renerals Lacret and Rego occupied the
same car with four Spanish officers
When they reached Jovellanos, Man-
tanzas Province, the Spaniards, on
learning who their fellow-passengers
were, insulted them and divested them
of their insignia and machetes. A tu-
mult ensued and the crowd at the rail-
way station, in which were Spaniards
and Cubans, joined in the fracas. Two
shots were fired, though no one was
hit. Order was finally restored by a
display of force, the Spaniards re-
turning to the train and the Cuban of-
ficers remaining at Jovellanos, where
they had been expected.
The Spanish mail steamer Villaverde
with Marshal Blancd, the former Cap-
tain General of Cuba, and his suite on
board, left Havana last Thursday. The
departure of Marshal Blanco was not
accompanied by the pomp and cere-
mony marking similar events in prev-
ious years.
Would Rule Out the Girls.
A mass meeting of undergraduate
students was held at Wesleyan univer-
sity at Middletown, Conn., a few days
ago, to protest against the system of
¢o-education now in vogue at the col-
lege. It was maintained that the ex-
clusion of women from the college
would be to the best interests of the
university, and that if the policy of
admitting women is continued it will
have the effect of greatly reducing the
number of male students.
CABLE FLASHE Ss
Kaiser William is now talking of
visiting England and possibly Ireland.
There was a large meeting held in
Paris last Saturday favoring a revision
-of the Dreyfus case.
A new magazine devoted to the vic-
tims of gout and rheumatism has just
been published at Paris.
Spain has borrowed 60,000,000 pesetas
to cover the expenses of the evacuation
of Cuba and the Philippines.
. A plot to assassinate Prince Ferdi-
nand of Bulgaria has been discovered
~at Sofia. Numerous arrests have been
. mage,
Kaiser Wilhelm received a cool re-
ception at Berlin, and was much dis-
pleased thereat, on his return from
Palestine.
The Spanish steamer Chateau has ar-
rived at Madrid from Havana. Five
men died en route and sixty were
‘taken to a hospital. .
The forward march of the United
~$Stetes dni. acquiring new territory re-
gardless of the opinion of other na-
tions, is astonishing the Germans.
Trouble has arisen in Africa between
Germany and the Congo Free State
relative to the respective boundaries
of German and Congo territory north
of Lake Tanganika.
Germans are intensely bitter against
the Austrian premier for threatening
reprisals for the expulsion of Austrians
and have issued a note of warning.
Some papers think the triple alliance’s
existence threatened.
‘The Duchess of Marlborough (Cen-
.. suelo: Vanderbilt) will officiate at the
launching of the new British battleship
Irresistible. As at the launching of
"the Formidable the American flag will
float alongside the Union Jack on the
official stand.
The. marriage of Miss Pauline Astor
to the Duke of Roxburghe, which now
almost seems assured, will probably
be one of the most brilliant social
events in Great Britain. The families
of both the American heiress and the
peer seem to be pleased with it.
It is believed Don Carlos, the pre-
tender to the Spanish throne, will scon
make an attempt to seize it. His
emissaries are now at work attempting
to suborn the Spanish army, which 1s
dissatisfied because its pay is in ar-
rears, and it was given no chance to
prove its worth in the late war.
Trieste and the district in Austria
roundabout was flooded on Sunday by
a tremendous tidal wave, which did
much damage to property and ships
and caused the loss of many lives.
There was a violent earthquake
throughout the Southern provinces of
Austria. From various causes no
fewer than 28 lives were lost.
{ tenced to 30 days’
NEWS ITEMS.
The last session of the Fifty-fifth
Congress opened last Monday.
Senator Foraker of Ohio says thal
an extra session of congress can hard-
ly be avoided.
The Baltimore Schley testimonia
committee has decided on a medal in-
etead of a sword.
The renovated cruiser
chosen for the flagship
European squadron.
The Oliver Mining Company ol
Houghton, Mich., has advanced the
wages of its 2,000 employes 10 per cent.
Pictures of Pope Leo have been ob-
tained for the biograph and they will
soon be placed upon exhibition in this
country.
The United States ambassador tc
England has not yet been selected.
Joseph H. Choate of New York may be
appointed.
A ditch
York, a few days
were buried alive.
out dead.
H. O. Havemeyer denies for the
American Sugar Refining Company
its reported combine with Arbuckles
and others.
It is published in New York that a
combination of the linseed oil inter-
ests, capitalized at $20,000,000, has
been effected.
The whole Sixth Virginia
regiment, at Macon, Ga., was
confinement for
Chicago was
of the new
at Harlem, New
ago and five men
Two were taken
caved in
(negro)
sen-
mu-
tinous conduct.
The Methodist general conference of
1900 will be held in Chicago. That city
has guaranteed $50,000 that all ex-
penses will be met.
.. Seventy-five trolley cars of the Un-
ion Railroad Company ofg New York
were destroyed by fire last Wednes-
day. Loss $150,000. -
Senator Cullom has completed the
bill for the government of the Hawaii-
an Islands and it will be presented to
congress next week.
The new torpedo boat, Mackenzie,
at “her trial test near Philadelphia
failed to make the required
an hour, and will be tested again.
The Merritt-Chapman Wrecking
Company has closed a contract with
the government to raise the Reina
Mercedes, sunk in Santiago harbor.
Thirty-seven people were drowned
by the sinking of the British vessel,
Clan Drummond in the Bay of Biscay
last week. Twenty-three were rescued.
The iron safe of the cruiser Maria
Teresa was opened at the Norfolk,
Va., navy yard a few days ago. It con-
tained $75,000 in' Spanish and American
coin.
The reservoir at Hempstead, N. Y,,
used for storage by Brooklyn burst
last Wednesday. The country round
about was flooded with 15,000,000 gal-
lons of water.
The office of the United States Ex-
press Company at Almeda, Kan. was
robbed and all the valuable contents of
the safe taken. One package stolen
contained $3,000 in greenbacks.
An alliance between the Pennsyl-
vania and Vanderbilt railroads is now |
assured. This will be the result of the
adverse decision of the United States
Supreme court in regard to Joint Traf-
fic Associations.
Col. William J. Bryan addressed the
two houses of the general assembly at
Montgomery, Ala., last week. He re-
marked that as
speak concerning the
tion of the country.
If congress early in
should make provision for
of the regular army
able that none of the
ments now
to do garrison duty in Cuba.
Joaquin Miller, the poet, has
Harper Bros.,
that he will sue them for libel.
article was published which
that the poet was supported in Alaska
by the benevolence of miners.
President Iglesias, of Costa Rica,
left Washington. It is said an- agree-
ment was effected between the
States, Costa. Rica and Nicaragua
that no foreign power shall ever con-
trol the proposed Nicaragua canal.
W. H. House, three times convicted
of embezzling Pittsburg city
was sentenced to one year . and 10
months in the penitentiary a few days
political condi-
the
ago, but immediately took an. appeal |
to the superior court and was released
under $10,000 bond.
A fire was discovered in John Wana-
maker's large department store at
Philadelphia last Friday.
man seized the incendiary, Michael
Morgan just as he was starting an-
other blaze and he was taken to pris-
on. No damage was done,
William: I.. Brown paid his election
bet to William H. Clark of New
a few days ago, who received $5,000.
banquet was also given in Mr.
stable.
coming hilarious as a result.
There was a terrific explosion aboard i
the Mallory ‘line steamship Alamo at
New York last Saturday which killed
six of her crew and seriously injured
one of her passengers
by the bursting of the ™ain steam pipe
leading trom the boiler to the
chest.
The celebrated Alton school case was |
Wednesday decided by a jury in the |
circuit - court at Edwardsville, IIl.,
which returned a verdict against the
colored people who protested against
separate schools.
supreme court.
It is stated at Bridgeport, Conn.
that the widow of P. T. Barnum. is
about to marry a French nobleman in
Paris. The great showman’'s widow
took for her second husband Demetrius
Callias Bey, a Greek, who died in Sep-
tember, 1896, in Censtantinople, after a
wedded life of a year.
A piece of bamboo picked up in the
surf at Plymouth, Mass., brought a
story of death and the loss of the
schooner White Wing, of Gloucester,
in the recent storm. It contained the
following message
“We will be lost, 13 of us, in fishing
schooner Whit _ Wing, from Glouces-
ter. - Mave no battle to put it in. Ev-
erything is gone. We are about to go
on a raft: Henry Wilder and Frank
Haskins are dead. If I could only see
my wife and darling child again!
“ALBERT SIMMONS.”
Mrs. Sarah Shenkenbarger, charged
with poisoning her daughter-in-law,
was declared guilty = by a jury the
other day, at Frankfort, Ind., and sen-
tenced to life imprisonment. The evi-
dence was convincing against. Mrs.
Srenkenbarger, although the defense
tried to. make ‘it a suicide.
: Determining the Loss.
An attempt to fix the financial loss
of Sunday’s storm in ‘and around
Provincetown, - Mass., and including
the steamer Portland wreck was made
Friday by several men who have large
interests in coastwise shipping. The
tabulations reached were as follows:
Lives lost (probably), 150; loss of
property on land, $10,000; loss of marine
property, not including steamer Port-
land, $200,000; the Portland, $250,000;
loss in money and effects of passen-
gers and sailors, $60,000. Total, $510, -
20 knots
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UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE DEBTS
SPAIN UNDECIDED.
The $20,000,000 Indemnity Received From the
United States for the Philippines
May be Utilized.
not
the
the
an-
the
will
The Spanish government has
reached a full decision regarding
Cuban and Philippine debts, but
Official Gazette publishes an
nouncement that the drawing for
redemption of the Cuban bonds
occur on December 10.
The speculation in the Cuban
Philipptne debts on the Bourse has
seriously displeased the cabinet. The
rise in those securities is attributed
to the report that the Governmen will
devote the indemnity received from
the United States to the Colonial in-
debhtedness, regarding which no de-
cisive resolutions have been takzn by
Ministers.
An official
and
Vis-
an-
re-
The
“The
dispatch from the
ayas Islands, in the Philippines,
nounces that the insurgents are
doubling thei rattacks upon Iloilo.
Government's advices say:
rebels have their
city and fire on the defense nightly.
The troops maintain a spirited fire and
have killed a number of the enemy.”
Secretary Moore, of the American
Peace Commission, said in regard to
the treaty the other day: There is no
hitch. The delay arises only from the
necessity for our considering separate-
ly matters which the Spanidrds want
to discuss jointly as a part of a sub-
stantial treaty.
“The Americans wish to discuss the
treaty articles as a whole. The Span-
fards want the joint commission to
agree first to the main articles and
matters connectel closely with the
protocol and then the American’s final
prcposals. They hope in that way to
have a freer hand and get better
terms for the subsidiary negotiations.
“The only difference, in fact, is that
the Spaniards want a short treaty,
while we desire a longer, a more com-
prehensive one:
What is now going on in Paris is a
negotiation respecting certain objects
which the United States government
seeks to accomplish in that manner in-.
stead of resorting to the more usual
but more tedious method of correspon-
dence between the two governments.
These objects are the acquisition of
one of the Caroline islands as a cable
station and coaling station; of certain
rights to land cables on Spanish
posessions at other points; the procure-
ment of freedom of religious worship
in the Carolines, and the revival of cer-
tain treaties of trade and commerce,
etc.
These are purely subjects of diplo-
matic negotiation and do not in any
way affect the conclusion of the peace
treaty. They might all fail to be
realized and still the treaty would not
be affected.
The joint peace commission last
Thursday drafted articles of the peace
treaty protocol, dealing with the ces-
sion of Cuba, Porto Rico and the Phi-
lippines, upon which the commission-
ers agreed in principle.
A GOVERNOR INDICITED.
Tanner of Illinois Held by the Grand Jury for
Neglect of Duty.
Gov. Tanner of Illinois has been in-
dicted by a grand jury at Virden, Ill,
for failing to do his duty during the
mine strikes in that city.
Against John R. Tanner, governor of
Iilinois, there are three counts for pal-
pable omission of duty and malfeas-
ance in office. Fred W. Lukins, gener-
al manager of the Chicago-Virden
Coal Company, is charged with man-
slaughter on two counts. With Lukins,
his deputies—Frank Wilder,” J. “EB.
Sickles and J. H: Smith—are indicted
for the Killing of Joseph Gitterele, &
Mt. Olive mirder. Sixteen Thiel guards
are held for riot.
In the indictment against Gov. Tan-
ner the complaining witnesses are John
Graham, William Mitchell, William
Gilson, ' Clarence Ross and Charles
Stewart, employes of . the Chicago-
Virden Coal Company. They ‘testified
that they were intimidated and pre-
vented from following their 1 timate
employment by an armed body of men,
numbering 1,000, who unlawfully and
feloniously were assembled in Virden;
that the governor had been notified by
the sheriff of Macoupin county-that no
protection was to be had from the
county, and was earnestly importuned
for state assistance. Judge Shirley
fixed Tanner's bond at $500.
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Alfonso Receives a Fortune.
The young King of Spain has just
had a pleasant windfall in the shape of
a legacy of 3,060,000 pesetas, bequeath-
ed to him by an old gentleman named
Soler, who had a close though un-
acknowledged relationship to the king,
being the natural son of Ferdinand
VIII. and great-uncle of King Alfonso.
The testator's relatives opposed the
wiil, but the Queen Regent; as herson’s
next friend, supported it and the suit
has now been decided in favor of the
king.
LARGE DAMAGE SUIT.
A Million Dollars Damages Demanded for Secur-
ing Concessions in China.
Thurlow Weed Barnes has brought
suit in the supreme court against the
American-China development company
for $1,000,000 for services in obtaining
railroad concessions frem the imperial
Chinese government through the Chi-
nese minister at Washington. These
concessions are worth in net profits at
least $12,000,000 to the company, and
they may be worth $24,000,000. They
are the most valuable grants ever made
by the Chinese government to foreign
capitalists and the terms are more
favorable than the concessions obtained
in recent years by French, Belgian,
IEnglish and Russian syndicates,
Freren are felons.
Deloncle, the former French De-
puty, has written a letter to the Temps
saying that a body of Frenchmen
jealous of maintaining French prestige,
has decided to start educational estab-
lishments at Khartoum and Fashoda.
He adds that most of the funds neces-
sary have already been secured, and
concludes with pointing out Khartoum
and Fashoda are in Egyptian territory.
and therefore under the regime of the
capitulations, which give France quai
privileges with Great Britain.
M.
Germany Wants the Carotines.
A German government official, in an
interview confirms the report that Ger-
many is negotiating with Spain for the
purchase of the Caroline islands. It is
understood that Spain expects to get
10,000,000 francs for them, which Ger-
many considers excessive.
Prince von Arenberg, president of
the Colonial society, said the ‘‘Acquisi-
tion of the Caroline islands is import-
ant less from the standpoint of com-
merce, which is insignificant there,
than from a naval view point.”
Germany also makes the proviso that
the negotiations shall be contingent
upon no international complications
arising, especially with the - United
States. :
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» ENDLESS CHAIN LETTER.
Money Still Coming in for the Red Cross Ice
Fund.
The endless chain started in an idle
moment by Miss Adelaide Schenk of
Babylon, L. I1., is nearing its end. More
than 200,000 letters and more than $22,-
00° have been received, although only
$1,000 was asked for by the originator,
This sum, it was hoped, would start an
ice fund for the poor soldiers in Cuba.
Winter is here, ice" has become a drug
on the market, but the fund still
Zrows. :
Miss Schenck meant well when she
sent out the first ten letters asking for
[0 cents each from the recipients and a
continuance cf the circle, put she lit-
tle Knew what the result would be.
In addition to the envelopes contain-
ing money there were envelopes con-
taining no money, which had been
robbed en route, and envelopes di-
reeted to the postmaster of Babylon
asking about the commercial stand-
s Schenck, who is the grand-
daughter of Matthew Morgan, -a re-
tired New York banker, whose winter
home is at No. 284 Lexington avenue.
The receipt and answer of those let-
ters of inquiry by Postmaster
of Babylon netted: the government
censiderable revenue.
Day by day the mail for Miss Schenck
In vain she appealed to the
press to stop the flow of silver. The
pool of charity was first rippled in
July, but the ripples have augmented
and are still widening. The letters are
still coming in at the rate of 100 a day.
Miss Schenck has fled to New York
and her grandfather yesterday de
clared that neither he nor his charm-
ing granddaughter would have any-
thing more to do with it.
The money has been turned over to
the Red Cross society. Some of it was
used for the ice fund for the soldiers,
the rest has been used in other ways
for the relief of the veterans of the
Spanish-American war.
Miss Annie Smith, during Miss
Schenck’s absence, opens the mail that
still comes, and the money is being
turned over to the Red 1 Cross society.
SOLDIER WILL BE SHOT.
Court Martial Declares a Private Guilty of Mur-
der and Condemns Him.
The death sentence has been im-
posed upon Private Lindsey T. Holt.
Troop F, Tenth cavalry, after trial by
the First cavalry brigade court-mar-
tial for the murder of Private Twisby,
of the same regiment, at Montauk.
At Santiago Holt borrowed a quarter
from Twisby. Their tirst meeting after
that occurred at Montauk, when Twis-
by claimed he loaned a five-dollar gold-
viece by mistake. Holt disputed this.
The men fought and Twisby was shot
tc death. Holt has been ordered shot
by a firing squad from the provost
guard at a time and place to be desig-
nated by the commanding general.
The findings of the court were re-
ferred to President McKinley and the
sentence is awaiting action This is
the first death sentence since the
Spanish war opened.
MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
Block of Immense Buildings Destroyed in New |
York.
In a blinding rain storm
night, at New York, the massive
of buildings on Broadway, Nos.
£59, and included between Murray
Warren streets, was almost destroyed
by fire. Within three hours more than
$1,000,000 worth of property was
stroyed. The fire began in the
story brick building occupied by the
men's furnishing firm of Rogers, Peet
& Co., on the sq@uthwest corner of
Broadway and Warren street. Ad-
joining the Rcdgers-Peet building and
south of it was the magnificent white
of the Home Life
and next to this was the
building of the
erected at the
years ago.
253 to
Telegraph Company, cost
of millions only a few
TONS OF SUPPLIES.
Admiral gampson Tells of the Needs of Desti-
tute Cubans.
Admiral Sampson has cabled
Cuban General Relief Committee at
New York advising that relief supplies
be sent for distribution among the des-
titute aged men, women and children
in the vicinity of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba,
and accordingly the following list
stores has been prepared for shipment:
Forty thousand pounds rice, 5,000
pounds beans, 10,000 pounds bacon, §,-
000 pounds codfish, 150 barrels hard
bread, 1,000 pounds coffee,
condensed milk, 3,000 suits women’s
and children’s clothing, 3,000 yards cot-
ton goods for making clothing and a
quantity of salt, spices and medicines.
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How Europe Views ths American Policy.
William T. Stead, after a thorough
tour of Europe, sums up the sentiment
of the old world toward the new to be
that America has been guilty of bald
|. hypocrisy and land grabbing in wrest-
valauble colonies
entered into
ing from Spain her
under the guise of a war
from humanitarian motives. He further
offers first-hand evidence that early
in the war the powers threatened to
forcibly intervene, and that the Amer-
ican representative whom their minis-
ters approached told them frankly that
such action would mean war and that
England was with the United States.
Severe Storm in Baltimore.
The most severe wind and rain storm
that has visited Baltimore for many
years prevailed Sunday and did thous-
ands of dollars damage. Sixty miles
an hour is the wind velocity given out
by the weather bureau, the highest for
19 years. Fully 800 houses in the city
and vicinity were unroofed, chimneys
innumerable were blown.down trees
uprooted and poles leveled.
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS.
Seven regiments of regulars have
been ordered to San Francisco by the
first week of January. They are ex-
pected to be sent to Manila.
Twelve of Roosevelt's Rough Riders
have gone to Cuba. They will pros-
pect for gold on Ban Juan Hill, which
they believe can be found there in
large quantities.
It is probable that Spain will be
given no special commercial privileges
in the new colonies, as this Govern-
ment does not wish to arouse the en-
mity of other nations.
Ex-Chief of Police John McCullagh,
of New York, will organize the police
force at Havana.
The steamer Coptic, which sailed
from San Francisco a few days ago,
took 500 Chinese away, many of whom
were ordered deported by the courts.
Many of the Chinese wére wealthy
residents who visited their own coun-
try to celebrate the New Year.
An attempt to break up the annual
many of the Eighteenth Ward Re-
ublican club at Bricklayer’s hall at
ne Tuesday evening resulted in
the death of one of the attacking par-
ty and the wounding of several of
those who participated in the fight.
The dead man is Charles Lattimer, a
bricklayer.
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WAR WAS A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
ALGER'S REPORT.
The Secretary Criticises Nene of His Subordi
nates— Earnestly Recommends an In-
crease of the Regular Army.
The annual report of Secretary Alger
is a practically official
tory of the Spanish-American
The secretary has given to the public,
not only all the oflicial dispatches that
passed directly between his own office
and commanding officers in the
and camp,
of his report the report of Gen.
of ail the
the campaign in
the Philippines. Nowhere is there
shown a disposition to criticise, the
official dispatches being allowed to tell
tneir own story, and generally, the
secretary finds much to praise and
cause for
results obtained.
The only exception to this rule is in
the reference to the casualties at San-
tiago. Some criticism having
made that there
present, the
were 140 surgons in attendance, and
that of 1,431 wounded only 13 died of
their wounds.
Touching the surrender at Santiago,
report shows that Shafter de-
manded the surrender on the 3d, and
renewed this demand on the 4th. Op
the morning of the 11th another de-
mand was made; On the evening of
that day Gen. Miles arrived, and on
the 13th and 14th of July he, with Gen.
Shafter, met the Spanish commander
under a flag of truce to discuss the
surrender. On the afternoon
14th Gen. Miles left: Gen. Shafter’s
headquarters and soon thereafter went
aboard ship preparatory to sailing for
Porto Rico. uly 17 Toral surrendered
23,000 men upon our terms and the
American flag was hoisted by order
of Gen. Shafter.
The secretary, coming down in his
history to the middle of August, when
an order was issued and .is now in
execution to muster out 100,000 volun-
teers; -says:
“Thus an
unteers and
complete his-
Miles
Cuba, Porto Rico or
army of: about 250,000 vol-
recruits for the regulars
was called into existence from civil
life, and, including the regular army,
the total force was 274,717 men. It was
organized, armed, and equipped (no
supplies being on hand other than
those for the regulars, save Springfield
muskets), and 50,000 men of this force
were transportd by land and sea to
battlefields in the tropics 10,0600 miles
apart, where théy won their victories
without a single defeat, and all with-
in the period of 113 days from the
declaration of war to the signing of
the protocol.
“The deaths in the army, from May
1 to October 1, including killed, died of
wounds, and of disease, were 2,010, the
smallest death rate recorded of any
army in history, a remarkable fact
when it is considered that over 50,000
of our. troops, born and reared in the
temperate zone, were campaigning in
the tropical climates. subject to rain
and heat most unprecedented.”
The secretary says of the volunteers,
that to furlough them in winter would
be a hardship, so he recommends, that
in lieu of the furlough the officers and
be given two months’ pay the
time or their discharge, thus admitting
in their pres-
at
ent camp in the South.
Under the head of increase
permanent estabiishment, the
tary says:
“In view of the
force in the islands occupied by the
United States, it is earnestly recom,
mended that the regular army be per-
manently increased to 100,000 men and
the requisite officers; that a portion of
be recruited from the in-
habitants of those islands, to be mus-
tered into the service of the United
and commanded by officers of
army, discretion, however, to be
given to the president to make ap-
pointments of officers from the force so
recruited.
in the
secre-
needs of a military
Law Sustains a Son.
About a month ago Michael Voelkner
of Rockport, O., went home drunk and
began abusing his wife. Their son
Henry, 19 years old, tried to
his mother and the father turned
him. He pursued the young man
an ax and raised to strike, when Hen-
drew a revolver and shot
was badly wounded, but is
A few days ago the grand
but re-
for
on
recovering.
a bill
assault with
against his father
intent to kill.
Faith Healer Fails.
Iva Stevens, daughter of A. E. Stev-
ens, of New Britain, died at the home
of J. Clayton Cowles, of Plantsville,
Conn., the other night. It is said the
girl did not have proper medical at-
tendance, but was attended by a divine
healer. No burial permit has been
granted, though an application for one
has been ordéred. The girl's life was
insured, and the insurance compaly
will contest payment.
An Appeal for the Chinese.
Un Ting Fang, the Chinese minister
at Washington, makes the following
appeal:
“1 wish to appeal to the American
people not to enforce the Chinese ex-
clusion law in those islands. By doing
so a great injustice will be done my
countrymen. There are a great many
Chinese in the Philippines, and all of
them are a credit tp the archipelago.
The Chinese population there is entire-
ly different from that in your western
countries. In the Philippines my
countrymen are engaged in every
walk of life. There are innumerable
artisans, farmers, storekeepers, mer-
chants, traders, and, in fact, business
men of every legitimate 1 character.
Valuable Jewels Recovered.
The two men arrested at London a
few days ago who had in their posses-
sion a considerable quantity of the
jewelry stolen early last month en
board a train running between Paris
and Calais from the Dowager Duchess
of Sutherland, give their names as
Johnson and Lippman. They were ar-
raigned and remanded. The police say
that $25,000 worth of the stolen jewels,
most of which had been reset, have
been recovered. The duchess identi-
fied the articles found in the posses--
sion of the prisoners. The total value
of the jewelry stolen on the train was
$150,000, and among the articles was a
necklace valued at $22,000.
To Try a United States Senator.
United States Senator Quay, his son,
Richard R. Quay and ex-State Treas-
urer Benjamin J. Hayweod will have
to stand trial in the criminal court of
Philadelphia on the charges of con-
spiracy and illegal use of state funds
on deposit in the wrecked Peoples
bank. The demurrers recently filed by
the defense ‘to the five indictments con-
taining these charges were overruled
Thursday by Judge Finletter, who
thus sustained the indictments. The
defendants were not in court, but their
counsel entered formal pleas of not
guilty, and Monday, December 12, was
fixed for the beginning of the trial
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THE MARXETS3.
PITTSBURG.
Grain, Flour and Feed.
WHEAT-—-No. 1red............ 8
No. 2 re
CORN-—No. 2 yellow, ear..
No. 2 yellow, sheiled. ..,.
Mixed ear
OATS—-
No. 3 white
RYE—No. 1
FLOUR--Winter patents. ......
Fancy straigh’. winter. .......
Rye flour
HAY —No. 1 timothy
Clover, No.
No. 1 white mid.
Brown middlings
Bean,
One.
SEEDS ( ‘lover, 60 hs, .
Timothy, prime
Dairy Products.
BUTTER —EIgin creamery.
Ohio creamery ...
Fancy country roll
CHEESE—Ohio, new
New York, pew..........B..
Fruits and Vegetables,
Ne Lmay at iia 8
POTATOES—Faney White, © bu
CABBAGE 100 heads . . ..
ONIONS—Choice yellow, #
Poultry, Etc,
CHICKENS—Per pair, small.
TURKEYS=
EGGS—DPa. and Ohio, fresh....
CINCINNATI
th .
BUTTER. Ohio ere: \mery.
PHILADELP HIA,
OATS--No. 2 white
BUTTER Creamery, extra
EGGS— Pennsylvania’ firsts
NEW YORK.
FLOUR-—Patents...
W HEAT No. 2 red...
CORN--No.
OATS--White Western
BUTTER. Creamery. .
EGGS—State of Penn.
SW o~ae
LIVE STOCK.
Central Stock Yards, East Liberty, Pa.
CATTLE.
Prime, 1300 to 1400 Ibs
Good, 1200 to 1300 Ibs....
Tidy, "1000 to 11560 hs
Fair light steers, 900 to 1000 ibs 3 7
Common, 700 to 900 Ibs.... ... 340
80@ 5
4
Medium
Roughs and stags.....
SHE
Prime, 95 to 105 Ibs
Good, 85 to 90 hs. |
Fair, 70 to &0 ibs.
Common.....: <:
Yeal Calves... ....
~2CC Wa He
teh c
Springer, extra.
Springer, good t
Common to fai
Extra yvearlingg,
3 Ha He a Ut C1 Ot
<b
Ww
Surprisingly Few Baiores in November— Grea
Demand! for Steel Rails.
Dun & (%.’s weekly
reports as follows for
review of
trade last week:
The report of fail s for the month
off November is extremely gratifying,
nows npt oniy a
R. GQ.
because it decrease
in number and a smaller amount of
liabilities than in is month, except-
ing three summer manths, since the
monthly record beg: but because
careful analysis shows\ a striking im-
provement both in the gmall and in the
large failures, and in ndarly all classes
of industry. and trade. Considering
that failures are usually smaller in
summer months than lin November,
the monthly return may’ be considered
about the best ever made and shows a
condition of financial soundness rare-
ly surpassed.
Nobody can estimate the
the iron and steel! industry
the past. week's
tions in ste€l rails, which are
exce®d 700,600 tons. The makers hav-
ing failed to agree, and to complete
the consolidation under which a single
selling agency was expected to sell. all
the rails for domestic use or for exA
port, the western works entered
an agreement by themselves and fixed
their scale of prices at $17 for Pitts-
burg, $18 tor. Chicago and $19 for Colo=-
rado, and the Illinois steel works are
said to have taken orders in a single
week covering much the greater part
of next year’s capacity.
But eastern concerns have not been
idle and have taken such large orders
that the output of the year is now ex-
pected to exceed 2,000,000 tons.
Bessemer pig iron is stronger at
Pittsburg, where purchases of 30,000
tons have cleared out “stocks held out-
side the association, but is selling at
$10 40 there, while the association de-
mands $10 at Valley mills. Gray forge
is steady, and other pig is in better de-
mand at Chicago and Philadelphia.
Finished products of iron and steel
are unchanged in price, although
plates and bars are in remarkably
heavy demand, especially for car
building.
Sales of wool have been large in No-
vember, 39,875,800 pounds in five weeks,
against 34,122,400 pounds last year and
26,831,000 pounds in 1892, but they have
been effected by important concessions
in price. Manufacturers have some-
what larger orders and are more
hopeful, but a considerable share of the
machinery must inevitably remain idle
until material is cheaper in comparison
with the cost of wool and goods in
other countries.
The rise of cotton to 5.62c, which had
no other basis than an impression that
cold weather and storms late in No-
vember might do much harm, reacted
a sixseenth, but rose Friday and closed
at the top price, with improvement in
the goods market. While prices of
print cloths are unchanged the prices
of some heavy goods and bleached
shirtings are a trifle higher.
The wheat market has been weaker,
with heavy western receipts, and has
declined l%c. Atlantic exports have
been 6,123,056 bushels, flour included,
for the week, against 5,187,632 bushels
last year, and Pacific exports 1,810,225
bushels, against 1,857,959 bushels last
vear, and for five weeks the total ex-
rerts have been 28,304,863 bushels,
against 26,122,709 bushels last year.
Within the same time corn exports
have been 14,490,283 bushels, against
12,881,532 bushels last year, and the
price has risen 3c. It is a most sig-
nificant fact, which all interested may
keep well in mind, that exports of
wheat about equal the greatest ever
known in any crop year thus far, but
are accompanied by corn exports also
but slightly exceeded in the year of
greatest movement heretofore. The
possibility that foreign dependence on
American food supplies is permanently
increasing may be worth considering.
gain for
which will
transac-
said to.
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