UL RIGHTS WAVE BEEK SECURED . TREATY SIGNED. Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Colombia Clear the Way for Is hmizan Canal Measure. Details Await the Senate. Secretary Hay for the government « the United States and Senor Correa, the Nicaraguan minister, for his own government, have signed a treaty where- by the latter government concedes 0 the government of the United States the necessary rights and privileges with- in her bestowal for the construction of the Nicaraguan canal. Pending the submission of the treaty to the Senate which body must ranty the agreement, its terms will not be made public. It is understood, how- ever, that generally Nicaraguan grants to the United States government the exclusive rights to construct and ope: ate the canal between the Atlantic anl Pacific across Nicaragua, including the free use of the San Juan river and of Lake Managua as part of the water course. Nicaragua is also to free hei- self of any outstanding treaties that would tend in any way to abridge th privileges to be acquired by the Unit 2] States. It is understood that Nica- ragua concedes to the United States full authority to police the canal. N ragua is to receive in compensati certain amount of the sccurities of canal construction company and though it is not possible now to learn the figure set down in the treaty, it believed to approximate $5.000,000. GERMAN TRADE NOT FALLING. American Exports and Imports Show an Increase for the Year. A good deal of anxiety seems to have been wasted with reference to the trade relations between the United States and Fear was expressed some de restrictions pro Germany. months ago that tr posed to Germany might seriously terrupt the commercial relations be- tween that country and the United States. and especially decrease our ex ports in agricultural products. Figures just issued by the Treasury show that our exports to. Germany in the 10 months ending with October, 1000, were $27,000,000 greater than those in the correspondi months of last year, an increase of about 20 per cent., and that our imports from Germany show an increase of $8.000.000, a gain of over 10 per cent. Of the 40 great artic which compose the bulk of our exports to Germany more than two-thirds show an increase in 1900 as compared with 1800. Copper shows than $3,000,000, tobacco and a increase of more eral oils $2,000,000, ultural implements cotton over $28,000,000, while in the de crease there are but two cases in whic the falling off is as much as $1,000,000 corn showing a reduction of a little more than $1,000,000, and wheat a lit tle more than $2,000,000. CAPE DUTCH VERY ACTIVE. Farmars Throughout the Colony Buying Arms and Ammunition in Large Quantities. Reports from all the Dutch districts throughout Cape Colony - fect that the farmers are securing arms re to the ef and ammunition, the latter in unusual quantities. .In Cape Town the dealers have almost exhausted their supplies and are ordering more. No reason is given- for these purchases except that game is plenty and that the farmers afraid of a rising of the blacks. who have ire solent, especially toward the Dutch. The authorities have not succeeded in tracing any connection between th Boers of the Transvaal, now in arms, and the Dutch agitators in Cape Colony, but no doubt is entertained that such connection exists, and that the forme are encouraged to resistance by hope that the latter will rise against English rule. Advices from Pretoria show that the Boers are more active than for a long time past. The British forces exercise no authority beyond their own lines, and any small force apart {rom ‘he main armies is at once attacked. The destruction of farms goes on, but only seems to excite the enemy to greater activity. There is no sign of relief jor the British trcops and a rebellion in Cape Colony would call for double the present number, or about half a million men, AGAINST THE EMPEROR. Prince Tuan, With a Large Force. Reported to be in Rebellion. Telegrams from Shanghai say: A mis- sionary in the Province of Kansu rec- ports that 10,000 of the troops of Gen- eral Tung-Fu-Hsiang entered that prov- ince and joined Prince Tuan’s rebellion against the emperor$t General Tung has been obtai viceroy of FF «ten, The go¥.zcr oi Shansi has wired a requesr to the Wu-Chang viceroy to setid him, without delay, eight quick-fir- “ing guns, and the viceroy has ordered the guns to be sent. It is reported that Hsu-Tung, guardian of the heir appar- ent, is still alive and in hiding Peking. Newest Proposed State. The first step toward organizing Ok- lahoma and Indian Territory into one delegates from each Territory. It is be- lieved that all the delegates will fav single Statehood. The promoters of the convention h no well-defined plans, but hope that means will be found by which repre sentative citizens can convince Con- gress at its next session that the Te tories should have Statehood. Riot Leader Sentenced. Judge J. A Fernando Kempff, better “The Kentucki ed to have been mob during the August 22 last, itentiary at | Kohler has sentenced known as who is suppos ringleader of the Akron (O.) riot of to 18 months in the pen- d labor. Kempff had pleaded guilty to shooting with intent to kill. He is a typical Southerner and professes to be a cousin to Jesse and Frank James. the outlaws Eolomen Surrender. Twelve hundred bolomen entered Wigan, island of Luzon, Saturday af- terncon and surrendered to Captain Green, of the Thirty-third infantry. This is the largest number of men who have yet surrendered in Luzon at one time. General Tinio has been keepi: a swarm of belomen along the mow tains, and they have impoverished the food supply. Filipinos {0 be Hanged. Gen. MacArthur, at Mani has con- cember 31 d upon four cently convic of murder yenr The condenined were membe the “Guardia 4° Honor, band of sassins whose victims were kidnaped and boloed. Fifteen Hundred Lives Lost A dispatch from Hongkong reporis a typhoon at 1 destroying the + ne lasting 48 hours, ges, rice fields ¢ and buildings and laying the harbor dare. It is imated that 1,500 to 1,600 peg- sons perished, and the remaining popu {ation of 4,630 are without provisions, trite eto nearly $1,00.000 each. and manufactured | lately been much bolder and even in- | FilozsaPPies from the near | government will be taken on December | LATEST NEWS NOTES. Uruguay threatens to sever friendly relations with Brazil Twenty buiness houses were destroyed by fire Saturday at Fulton, Ky. One man dead and two wounded is the result of a family feud in Georgia. Caleb Baldwin, of Newark, N. J, celebrated his 1o1st birthday Thursday. Thanksgiving day was celebrated by American colonies in London and Ber- ressman James Mosgrove, Kittanning (Pa.) millionaire, 1s Fifty students of Waynesburg (Pa.} college have formed a mihitary cadet COPS. Samuel Merrill, third secretary of the United States emba at Berlin, 1s very ili. Aguinaldo's agent is in this country endeavoring to enlist sympathy for the INOS. ili The French chamber of deputies pass- ed a resolution of sympathy for Presi- T dent Kruger. A vigorous effort will be made to or- ganize all the coal miners employed in West Virginia. J. M. Henaker was crushed to death | at Hinton, W. Va., by a pile of lumber | falling on him. Herr Spinola, Director of the erlin, 1s dead. Prof. Tycho Mommsen, brother of the | Councilor ani Hospital at Privy Charity Jle¢ was born in 1810. Accounts of a Cincinnati board of education oificial, who died recently, are short at least $100,000. Eichels' hosiery mills and Ramsey's shoe factory at Miiflin, Pa., burned, causing a loss of $15,000. Oscar I. Booz, of Bristol, Pa, is dying as a result of a hazing received while a West Point cadet. The American transport Kilpatrick, carrying 800 recruits to the Philippines, ived Friday with all well. As a result of a boiler explosion at Davenport, la. two men were killed an 1 five others seriously injured. Cholera has broken out among the hogs on the Beaver county (Pa) Poor farm and a number have died. Emperor William's traveling arrange- ments will prevent his receiving Mr. Kruger at Berlin or elsewhere. French and German vandals are loot- {ing the famous Peking observatory and sending the instruments to Europe. Telegrams say the schooner Czar has { been wrecked off the Mexican coast and her entire crew oi nine men drowned. | The tannery at Parsons. W. Va, is be improved by the addition of new | ma jinery, which will double the out- | 1 t I'he deaths resulting from the collapse of a roof filled with spectators of a 100t- ball game at San Francisco now num- bers 18. 1 and the | be (Pa) miners decided to strike | | Westmoreland sheriff is trying | | with slim success to raise a small army | of deputies. | CH { been granted a franchise to erect water | works, gas and electric light plants at | Struthers, O. | Five men were burned by an explo- | i the \ Company, at | sion of gasoline at the works of Vestinghouse Airbrake Allegheny, Pa. N Ellen Lease, the Kansas female politician, is about to apply for a di- [vorce. She pleads incompatibility and [3elivze to provide. { At Grand Rapids, Mich., by the blow- [ing up of a steam tank in a pulp mill, ne man was killed and several others | were badly injured. The Penn Shovel Company has been | organized by former Sharon and | Youngstown men and will manufacture | shovels at Corry, Pa. | The Wheeling Steel and Iron Com- Lp: ny, of Wheeling, will build a plant at Benwood, W. Va. to cost $500,000 | and employ 1,000 men. Wesley Beatty, slayer of his brother- { in-law, David Nine, at Kingwood, W. | Va. was compelled by flood and storm to surrender to officers. By the upsetting of a rait on the Spo- kane river, Wash., twenty men were thrown into the water, three, and possi- bly more, being drowned. A granite monument, to cost $10.000, is to be erected in Woodlawn cemetery, Titusville, Pa., to the memory of Col, Drake. the pioneer oil operator. Recent rains caused heavy slips on the new C. & I. R. R. at Elkins, W. Va. The tunnel has fallen in and will take all winter to remove the debris. Count von Goetzen, former military attache of the German embassy in Washington, will be appointed govern- or-general of German East Africa. Advices from Australia state that the volcano on Beach island in the New Jritain group has again become active. A score of natives have been killed. Beer drinkers in England are in a panic over the death of 60 persons and Aillness of 1,000 in Manchester, traced to the presence of arsenic in cheap beers. National Good Government league opened its fourth annual convention in Allegheny, Pa., Thursday but ends it the first day, on account of small at- tendance. Winston Spencer Churchill, who has just sailed for America, said before leaving that England would at once send 20,000 additional troops into South Africa. November was a record-breaking month upon the Pittsburg, Pa., stock exchange. Over 200.000 i shares cof and $674,000 worth of bonds | | stock, 10 at a convention composed of 300! changed hands. A dispatch from Naples says that the i | i f steamer St. Mare, running between Na- | ples and Marseilles, has been wreckad > | with the loss of 45 passengers and sev- eral of the crew. The Canadian railway employes have the importation of United States labor | while they are debarred irom entering the United S Armor, Swift and other Chicago packers and dealers have cornered the {egg mar They have already made about half a million dollars and their profits have only begun. A start has been made at Natrona, "a. for $400,000 bar and sheet mills, and Chicago capitalists plan to erect big tin plate plant, nearly all to operate in- dependent of the combines. In the Pan-American beauty contest the awards were made to Maud Cole- man Wood, of Charlottesville, Va., a blonde, and Maxine Elliott-Goodwin, the actress, who is a brunette. The Stark county, O., commissioners have granted a franchise to Thomas L. Childs to build an electric line from Canton to Akron. The road is to be in operation by October 1, 1901. Charles Swann, while carrying a steel rod umbrella at East Liverpool, ne in contact with a live wire. Swann was thrown ten feet by the shock and was severely burned. { _ | complained to the government against | 4 3 ates. Six young men and three young wo- men were tried on the charge of gig- oling in church at Bethesda, near New Kensington, Pa. They ware discharged and the costs placed upon the county. United States Senator Cushman Kel- logg Davis, chairman of the committee on joreign relations of the Senate, died at his home in St. Paul, Minn, at 8:48 Tuesday evening. after an illness of two months. Rear Admiral Remey reported that the typhoon which devasted Guam was the worst in 40 years, that it laid the palace and Government buildings in ruins, and that dopations of food are needed, as all crops were dsstioyed. \ 28% od a FORCED BRITISH 10 SURRENDER] Faaveisco caLawry. Germon Historian Mommsen, 1s dead. ! mention of the surrender of 400 British of the United States, but 1s held against . = ART outstanding Struble, of Warren, O., has | aniount of less. Ie ee —————. op DEWETSDORP TAKEN. Four Hundred of Europe's Pride Gave Up After a Long and Bitter Battle. Great Britain Alarmed. Lord Roberts cables from Johannes- burg, under date of Wednesday: “The Dewetsdorp garrison, of two guns of the Sixty-eighth field battery, with de- tachments of the Gloucestershire regi- ment, the Highland Light infantry and Irish Rifles. 400 in all, have surrend ed to the Boers. Our losses were 15 men killed and 42 wounded, including Maj. Johnson and Capt. Digby. The enemy is said to be 2,500 strong. Four- teen hundred were dispatched from Ed- enburg to relieve Dewetsdorp, but did not succeed in reaching there in time=. Knox joined his force and found De- wetsdorp evacuated. Seventy-five sick and wounded had been leit there. Knox pursued and is reported to have suc- cessfully engaged Steyn and Dewet near Vaalbank. They retired west and south- west. Knox's messenoer failed to get through, so I have no details.” The disaster at Dewetsdorp has sent a thrill of alarm through Great Britain. Independent accounts of the subsequent recapture of Dewetsdorp give ample de- tails, not omitting to announce the cap- ture of two Boer wagons and a quantity of loot; but there is not the slightest troops and two guns, which were not even disabled, as the Boers were able to use them against the British relief forces. The ubiquitous Dewet seems again to have gotten away, and there 1s no news that the captured British have been liberated. Taking into consideration the enig- matical military situation north of the Orange river, the smoldering rebellion in Cape Colony, the rumors that France has promised Kruger to press arbitra- tion on England if he is able to obtain the support of Germany, and that Gen. Kitchener is not to be given the chief command in South Africa, the British government will meet the new parlia- ment next week at an exceedingly op- portune moment. No attempt is made to conceal the extreme irritation caused by the adoption of a resolution of sym- pathy with Kruger by the French cham- ber of deputies. The London morning papers are unanimous in declaring that ro intervention of any kind will be al- lowed to change the British policy. LARGE SUM OF GOLD. U.S. Treasury Ho!ds Nearly Five Hundred Millions in Yellow Metal. The largest stock of gold coin and bullion ever held in the United States is now accumulated in the treasury and its branches. The total has been ris- ing steadily during the whole of the present year, and is now $474.108,330, or about $76,000,000 greater than at the close of 189g. This gold is not all the direct property gold certificates. The | :5 the amount in the treasury and its branches, was $230,- 755.800 Wednesday. All the remaining | gold, amounting to about $243,000,000, belongs to the treasury as a part of the reserve fund of $150,000,000. The gold supply of the country on the last day of 1806 was estimated at $692,- 047,212. The estimated amount Ncvem ber 1. 1000, was $1,080,027.407, and it is probable that the report for December 7 will show at least $1,100,000,000. The treasury officials are confident that the round sum oi $475,000,000 in treasury gold holdings will soon be attained, and that even $500,000,000 is not beyond rea- sonable expectation. THRASHED BY WOMEN. Mormon Elders Roughly Treated in South Hungary by Irate Citizens. Advices received from Temesvar, South Hungary, record the rough treat- ment received there by two Mormon elders, emissaries from Salt Lake City, Utah. The two elders had hardly com- menced to enunciate their views on po- lygamy when the audience stormed the platform and ejected the men from the hall. One of them was compelled 10 run a gauntlet, being prodded with sticks and beaten with straps or knot: ted cords. He was afterward stripped to the waist and thrashed by half a dozen matrons of Temesvar. The sec- ond Mormon was ducked in a horse pond. The minister of the interior has pro- hibited further Mormon attempts to proselyte as being a danger to the well- being of the state. BAD RAILROAD WRECK. A Score of People Killed In Mexican Disaster. Americans Flee. A terrible wreck in which a score of persons were killed and about 60 hurt, occurred on the Mexican Central rail- way between Tamanacha and Symon, 30 miles south of Jumilico, in the valley at the foot of two immense hills. At the time both trains were running 30 miles an hour. One of the trains had on board a construction crew number- ing 130 men. The other was a freight train of 35 empty cars. Three engines and about 40 cars were piled up 30 feet high. Two American train employees were forced to flee to avoid being lynched. Mexicans and Jndlans Eattle. News oi a fierce battle between Mexi- can regulars and Yaqui Indians is told by two American miners, who were prospecting about 40 miles from Coy- apa, Mexico, when the Indians made them prisoners and ransacked their camp. Troops were dispatched in pur- suit of the Indians as soon as it became known that the Americans had been car- ried off. The Indians entrapped the Mexicans in a narrow defile of the mountains, and when the Mexicans fin- ally withdrew they leit 20 dead. The battle then continued at long range. While it was in progress the Americans escaped to El Paso, Tex. Six Indians were killed or wound Postal Depariment Statistics. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow shows in his report that the total number of apnointments of post- masters for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, was 15,142, and 3,600 new of- fices were established. A vigorous {ort has been made to suppress private postoffices. In June 30, 1900, there were 26,688 postoifices, divided as follows: First-class, 104; second-class, 852; third- class, 3,187; fourth-class, 72,455. The gross revenues of the department ior the year amounted to $102,354.579 Ambushed by Ladrones. A detachment of the Third United States infantry was ambushed on Sat- urday near Malolos. Two privates were killed and three were wounded. The in- surgents escaped into a swamp. Gen- eral Bates reports the capture of 33 in- surgents, six of whom murdered seven persons last spring. While returning by steamer a detachment of Americans landed at San Vincente and attacked a body of rebels. killing seven. A branch party attacked a band beyond Palestina, killing five and capturing I9. Tired of the Postal Service. After serving as postmaster and as- sistant postmaster continually for 38 years, John Pynn, of St. George, Utah, has resigned. e is 85 years old, and only a few postmasters have outranked him in point of service. Spectators at a Foot Ball Game Dumped Into Fiery Furnaces—Twenty-One Dead, One Hundrek Injured. Twenty-one people are known to have been killed by the collapse of the roof of the Pacific glass works Thursday afternoon while the roof was crowded with men and boys watching the game between the foot ball teams of the Uni- versity of California and Leland Stan- ford university at San Francisco. Two hundred men and boys had gath- ered on the sheet iron roof of the glass works to obtain a free view of the foot ball game. About 20 minutes after the game had commenced there was a crash, and a portion of the crowd on the roof went down. The fires in the furn had been started for the first time Thursday, and the vats were full of liquid glass. It was upon these that the victims il Some were killed instantly and otl were slowly roasted to death. T i who missed the furnaces rolled off, and together with the workmen in the glass works, saved the lives oi many by pull- ing them away from their horrible rest ing place. Eighty-two persons. more or less in- jured, were taken to the various hospi- tals or removed to their homes. Most of those killed or injured were boys between 9 and 16 years old. Nearly all of the victims had their skulls fractured or limbs broken, and sustained serious internal injuries. Only a few were actually burned to death. the majority being killed by the fall. Several of those injured are in a precarious condition, and the list of dead may be increased to a score within a day or two. aces TUNNEL UNDER THE SEA. French Engineer Proposes to Connect Spain and Africa—A Costly Scheme. The State Department at Washington has received a report conveying further information as to the proposed tunnel from Europe to Africa under the Strait of Gibralter from George H. Murphy, consular clerk at Magdeburg, German M. Berlier, the French engineer, who has submitted the proposal of this pro- ject to the Governments—of Spain and Morccco, is said to have perfect con- fidence in the feasibility of the plan. The proposed length of the tunnel is 25 miles, 20 miles of this under the sea. Railway connection in Europe is planned by means of a line following the Spanish coast and passing through Tarifa and Algeciras into nce. In Morocco a line would be constructed from Tangier, connecting with the rail- way system at Tiemcen. The cost of | the tunnel is approximated at over $23. | coo,0c0, and of the entire connecting | line between Spain and Algiers at about $43.500.000. LIQUOR LAWS IN MANILA. SECRETARY ROOTS ARAY SCENE FOR REORGANIZATION. Would Have No Officer Above the Grade of Lieutenant General—To Abolish Staff Corps—Enlist 12,000 Filipinos. The bill prepared by Secretary Root for the reorganization of the army pro- vides for a lieutenant general, six major generals and 15 brigadier generals. The number of captains, first lieutenants and second lieutenants of the cavalry and infantry are increased from 12 to 15 for each regiment. Provision for the discontinuance of the present artillery arm is made by organizing an artillery cofps as coast artillery and Reld artil- lery. The corps will have a chief of ar- tillery detailed irom the colonels, and while serving in this capacity he will have the rank and pay of a brigadier gener There will be 13 colonels, 13 lieutenant colonels, 30 majors, 182 can- tains, 108 first lieutenants and 192 sec- ond lieutenants. The increases in the artillery shall be 20 per cent. each year for five years, until the maximum