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RESIST ADVANCES.
Brabant Engages th Enrmy it Bushman's
Kcp Tliroe Hundrod Shslls Find at Wep
cner Heavy Damage All Day.
' General Brabant's advance guard
reached Bushman's kop Saturday even
ing. The Boers held a strong position
there, with two Runs. The engage
ment opened at Sunrise Sunday, with
heavy rillc fire. At C:io a. m. cannon
ading began and continued for several
hours, lien. Brabant's forces are on the
plain and have fairly open country nil
the way to Wepencr. Evidently the
Boers have attacked Col. Dalgety. Col.
Dalgety heliographs: "All well. Boers
fired 300 shells Saturday without doing
much damage." "
Telegrams from Mazcrn, Basutoland,
dated Saturday, say: Four Boer guns
have been hard at work all day on Col.
Dalgcty's position. The British guns
have replied at intervals. The Boers
are divided into three divisions, two be
ing in position to repel the relief col
umns, the distant roar of whose artillery
is audible. Gen. Brabant's relief force
is reported to be in the neighborhood
of Bushman's kop, 20 miles from Wep
encr. The Basutos are posted on the
border for defensive purposes. They are
behaving in orderly fashion, but are
showing the most intense interest in the
outcome of the developments of the
next 24 hours.
Secretary of State Reitz says the
Transvaal government is not taking any
resolution regarding the destruction of
the mines.
WEALTH OF MEXICO.
Statistics Show t Wonderful Gain During the
Last fifteen Years.
Statistics showing great gains in Mex
ican trade and revenues have been pub
lished. In 15 years the gold value of
imports has risen 'from $2,1,250,000 an
nually to $51,000,000. The exports,
which arc reckoned on a silver basis,
have risen from $46725.000 to $148,000,
000. The stamp revenues increased
from $4,774,000 to $23,250,000. The total
Federal revenue has risen from $.57,631.
000 to $60,275,000. The number of
pieces of postal matter has increased
from 10.400.000 to 111,452,000.
The Federal telegraph lines 15 years
ago were 2.1.700 kilometers in extent,
and now extend 70.100 kilometers. The
railway lines have increased from 5.708
kilometers to 12,751. anil the construc
tion of new lines is r;tively progressing.
The number of ships and steamers en
tering Federal ports has increased from
1,680. to 6,900.
The number of railroad passengers
annually has risen from 2,075.000 to 3,
000.000. The treasury department now
meets every bill as soon as due, and the
revenues are steadily increasing.
Populists Take a New Name.
Middle-of-the-Rnad Populists, at their
convention in Kansas City, Mo.,
Wednesday, effected a permanent State
organization and adopted a new name
the Progressive Peoples party. The
name will be presented to the National
convention for ratification. 1 he plat
form demands legislations on lines in
dicated in the Omaha platform, and
condemns William J. Bryan and John
D. Rockefeller lor their alleged con
ncction with trusts. A full State tick
et, headed by Richard Thomas, for gov
ernor, was named. The convention sel
ected 25 delegates to the Cincinnati con
vention and 16 presidential electors.
Carl Browne, of Coxey army fame, cre
ated consternation among the friends
of Wharton Baker by addressing the
convention in favor of the nomination
of Admiral Dewey by the Cincinnati
convention.
Cuban Oensus Completed.
Gen. Sanger has made public the re
sults of the Cuban census. The figures,
in the opinion of the war department,
fully justify the decision of the admin
istration to allow municipal suffrage at
this early stage. 1 lie total population
of Cuba is 1,527,797. The foreign whites
number 115.760 males and 26,458 fc
males. Of the total population, accord
ing to citizenship, 20,478 are Spanish,
1,206,367 are Cuban, 175,811 are in sus
pense, 70,526 are of other citizenship
and 616 are unknown. There will be at
least 140,000 qualified native Cuban vot
ers under the proposed basis of suf
frage. orig. ucn. schwan has been given
permission to return from the Philip
pines, because of impaired health.
The Jcssup expedition sent out by the
American museum of natural history
et out from San Francisco for its two
years exploration of northern Siberia,
THE NATIONAL GAME.
' Tliffv ff Ttnnn ta nrnrtlrlnir lift
handed batting.
Lachance has signed with Cleveland
to play firr.t base.
Chicago has released Pitcher Phyle
to the Providence Club.
Brooklyn has sold Outfielder Brodie
to the Chicago American League Club.
Boston and Philadelphia are the only
teams that will not play Sunday ball.
. In Scott, Newton and Cronin, the
Cincinnatis have three of the largest
men playing baseball.
1 Hugh Jennings speaks in high terms
pf the pitching of Lawson, of the Uni
versity of North Carolina.
; Manager Hanlon has definitely decid
ed to play Uemont at Brooklyn's third
base and Duhlen at short field.
I No young pitcher ever stepped into
the League whose ability was as well
thought of by his team-mates as Scott,
V Cincinnati.
i The Virginia State League has the
following circuit: Norfolk, Portsmouth,
Hampton, Newport News, Richmond
apil Petersburg.
j This will be "Cy" Young's fourteenth
year on the diamond as a professional
pitcher, and his arm is as good to-day
s it ever was.
1 Meekin, who was released by New
lYork to Boston last year and subse
quently let go by the latter club, has
igned to pitch for the Pittsburgs. ,
1 Hickman, of the New Yorks, who
lias been coaching Yale, says Garvan, of
that college, is one of the most promis
ing student j)itchcrs he has ever seen.
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Sweden's kin ir and oneen are In Lon
don.
Australians fear bubonic plague may
be spread by rabbits.
Thcmcrican Sugar Refining Com
pany s TJrooklyn factory has resumed.
At Port Townscnd, Wash., 1,000 Jap
anese immigrants were landed Friday.
Crons have suffered severely by
floods in Louisiana, Mississippi and Ala
bama.
At Rrownsville. Neb., Charles Smith
shot and killed his wife and then com
mitted suicide.
The British steamer Quito has been
chartered to take American famine sup
plies to India.
A congress of German miners at Al-
tenhurg vigorously opposed seclusion
of American meat.
Crazed with liquor William Aylwarl
cut the throat of William Larkins in a
fishing shack at Chicago.
Heavy fighting is said to be going on
at Kumassi, in Ashanti, West Africa,
where tribes arc in revolt.
A new line of steamers between Du-
luth and Montreal, from the lakes to
the ocean, is to be started.
Government receipts in Cuba during
March were $i.6r8,'fx, against $063,033
in the same month in 1K08.
Seth Low. president of Columbia Uni
versity, has been elected president of the
American Geographical Society.
A cotton mill at Alabama City, Ala.,
has forwarded a shipment of 17 carloads
of cotton to the Chinese F.mpire.
A boat containing 20 Catholic stu
dents in crossing the Rhine at Bingen
was capsized and 13 were drowned.
The forest fires in Minnesota are dy
ing out. Reports of loss of lite among
the lumbermen in Manitoba are denied.
The Peruvian government has ac
cepted the proposal of the United
states lor a new l'an-American con
gress.
Announcement of the change in the
title of the Silver Republican party to
that of "Lincoln Republican" has been
made.
Governor Tanner, of Illinois, is so
seriously ill that bis doctors have decid
ed on an operation, and his menus arc
anxious.
Maior A. Vicnos. ex-postmaster of
Canton, O.. has been appointed one of
the international jurors for the Paris
exposition.
In the packing houses of Armour &
Co., at Chicago, electricity has supplant
ed steam as the motive power in all de
partments.
The deaths from nlaeuc throughout
India last week were over 4.000, and the
disease has made its appearance at Red
sea ports.
The attorney general of Ohio held
that the appropriation of $500,000 for the
loledo centennial exhibition was not
legally made.
The Memorial dav committee of Fitts-
burg decided to furnish carriages for
the feeble veterans during the parade on
Memorial day.
Reports from the Mississippi valley
show railway traffic is being resumed
in the districts where the floods had crip
pled the roads.
Dr. E. B. Andrews, superintendent
of Chicago schools, has accepted the
office oi chancellor of the University
of Nebraska.
Stationmastcr Crocius. of Brussels,
who arrested the assailant of the Prince
of Wales, has been decorated with the
Victorian order.
At Syracuse, N ,Y., John Hughes
shot and killed his wiie, seriously
wounded Elizabeth Lyons and attempt
ed to commit suicide.
Thieves worked the combination of
a safe in the store of M. T. Snyder at
Hamden, W. Va., early Saturday morn
ing, and secured $Soo.
Saturday evening an attempt was
made to blow up Lock No. 34 of the
Wclland canal at Clifton, Out, Three
suspects were arrested.
At Minden, La., a white man was shot
bv a negro, who afterward committed
suicide, and two of the negro's alleged
accomplices were lynched.
The President has decided to remove
Collector John R. Tolbert at Charleston,
S. C, for permitting the secretion of
liquor in the cufnm house.
Attorney John Gardner, on behalf of
citizens of New. Castle, Pa., presented
Officer "Cy" Homer $100 in gold and
a solid gold medal in recognition of his
brave capture of "Snakes" Wilson, the
notorious burglar.
General Peck, in charge of the Unit
ed States Paris exhibition commission,
denies that the commission's expendi
tures have been extravagant.
Alfred E. Morrison, who killed his al
leged wife at White Plains, N. Y., has
been -acquitted on the ground that he
did the shooting in a dream.
The Emperor of Germany censured
the military preparations of Gen. von
schlcinitz, commander at Altona, and
the general has resigned from the army.
The great ecumenical conference on
foreign missions began in New York,
and President McKinlcy and ex-Presi
dent Harrison were among the speakers.
Thomas G. Woennan, after pleading
guilty to a charge of arson in the dis
trict court at Atchison, Kan., was given
a sentence of 18 years in the peniten
tiary. The Senate passed a joint resolution
to give bronze medals to the officers and
sailors of the North Atlantic squadron,
who participated in the victories of the
Spanish war,
A message from the interior of Afri
ca says that the rebel natives have near
ly wiped out the Bekwais, a loyal tribe.
It is reported that 600 were killed in
the engagement. The surviving Bek
wais joined the rebels.
Secretary Alger says he is sorry for
Dewey and considers that his head has
been turned by praise. He predicts for
him in his presidential asperations a
melancholy disappointment.
Senator Piatt, of Connecticut, aston
ished the Senate by declaring that Con
gress has no authority to legislate for
Cuba,, the island being exclusively un
der control of the military authorities.
Princeton University has received a
legacy of $45,000 from August Van
Wyclcle, of Hazleton, Pa.; $25,000 to be
used in the erection of a gateway on the
campus and $20,000 for a register's office.
iBioieiraoFinEwm
IN THE PHILIPPINES.
During the Last Seven Days One Thousand
Filipinos Were Killed and Wounded Amor,
lean Less, 9 Killed, 16 Waundei,
Last week was one of the bloodiest
of the war since the first day's fighting
around Manila. Authentic reports,
mostly official, show a total of 378 Fili
pinos killed, 12 officers and 844 men
captured, and many wounded. The
number wounded is not guessable.
Considering that Filipinos entirely lack
ed hospital facilities, a great majority
of the wounded will die. Probably the
week s work mushed 1,000 insurgents.
The Americans' total loss was nine kill
ed and 16 wounded. Two sergeants
and one private were killed in ambushes
while escorting provision trains.
The insurgents have been aggressive
m almost every province of Luzon.
Gen. Pio del Pilar's band, numbering
300, which was out of sight for three
months, the leader being reported kill
ed, has reappeared in its old field about
nan Miguel. Pilar is supposed to be
again in command. He gave the Amer
ican garrison at San Miguel, consisting
of three companies of the Thirty-first
infantry, with a Catling, a three hours'
tight, during a night attack. The loss
of the insurgents in this engagement is
not included in the foregoing total, as
they removed their dead and wounded,
but presumably it was considerable.
twenty 1'ilininos in the province of
Batangas attacked Lieut. Wondc, who
with eight men was scouting near San
Jose. The lieutenant and five men were
wounded and one private was killed.
Sergt. Lcdoius, of the Thirty-fifth in
fantry, was badly wounded in ambush
near Baliuad. Lieut. Galch, of the
Thirty-seventh infantry, with 70 men,
bad a five hours fight with 400 insur
gents in the Nucva Caccras district.
Twenty of the insurgents were killed.
1 welve hundred Tannines attacked
Case's battalion headquarters of the
Fortieth regiment, at Cagavan. island of
Mindanao, on the 7th. The Americans
nad 15 casualties, while of the attack
ing force 50 were killed and 20 wound
ed or taken prisoners. .The enemy,
numbering 150 riflemen, the remainder
being eolonien, archers and mounted
spearmen, swooped down in a howling
mass at daylight, surprising and killing
three of the sentries. They swarmed
the streets in small parties, some bear
ing scaling ladders by means of which
they attempted to enter the houses.
The Americans tumbled out of the
barracks and formed in the plaza, and
companies began sweeping the town.
The subsequent street fighting lasted 20
minutes. Twelve of the wounded Amer
icans are now on board the hospital
ship Relief. The encmv withdrew to
the mountains in great confusion.
lien. Montenegro, one of the insur
gents best fighters, has surrendered to
Col. Smith in the mountains near Ca
maling, in the province of Pangasinan,
where, with Gen. Macabulos, he had
been trying to reorganize the Filipino
army. Col. smith, with five companies
of the Seventeenth regiment, nearly sur-
rounucd tnc force ot Montenegro, who.
discouraged by the impossibility of mak
ing 111s men stand against the Ameri
cans, surrendered. Macabulos escaped.
MERELY LIP ROYALTY.
Redmond Says Ireland Has no Real Reason to
Rrjoice With Victoria.
William Redmond, M. P., of Dublin,
asks: "Why are cheap flags flying ani
why arc little children taught to sing
praises to royalty? A visitor from an
other planet might think that these
things were caused by a victory or by
the prevalence of peace and plenty.
"For a half year past," he says, "a
bloody, hideous war has raged in South
Africa, but so far it has yielded no great
victories at which England can rejoice,
while the list of killed, wounded and
missing number 25.000.
"Is this why," he asked, "draggled
flags are flying in Dublin and children
are taught to sing the anthem? It is in
mourning that all lovers of justice and
Christianity should be, instead of re
joicing."
The oueen must know." he adds,
"that there can be no reality in the na
tion's greeting until Ireland enjoys her
long delayed rights. Those who en
deavor to prove that Ireland is content
ed will only injure Ireland's dearest as
pirations."
Colson Clear ot Murder.
Ex-Congressman David G. Colson,
who has been on trial at Frankfort, Ky.,
for four days for the murder of Lieu
tenant Ethelbert F. Scott and Luther
W. Dcmaree, was acquitted Saturday
evening, ine jury was out only 1
minutes.
Although it was long after the usual
time for adjournment a large part of
the crowd remained in the court room,
waiting for a report from the jury room.
After being out 15 minutes a knock on
the door summoned Sheriff Baker to
the jury room. He responded and re
ported to Judge Herndon that the jury
was ready to come into court. When
Circuit Clerk Ford finished reading the
verdict, "We, the jury, find the defend
ant not guilty," the crowd arose and
sent up a wild cheer. Colonel Colson,
the defendant, was standing near the
witness chair.
Two thousand bituminous coal miners
quit work Tuesday in Vigo, Sullivan
and Greene counties. Ind., as a result of
a controversy growing out of the scale
of wages for machine mining. The
trouble lies between the machine miners
and helpers on one side and the leaders
and helpers on the other.
Portugal Refuses Aid.
As soon as the Berne award In the
Delagoa Bay Railway arbitration was
published the Transvaal government of
fered to lend Portugal the amount she
was condemned to pay ($5,000,000)
which, however, was courteously de
clined, the statement being made that
the money was already provided.
the government is receiving many
memorials from burghers on the sub
ject of sending the Boer prisoners to
St. Helena and will formally protest to
ureal amain on me suujeci.
CAUSTIC DENUNCIATIONS.
Flood ot Indignation Over the Wire Trust Chair
man's Manipulation ol Steel Properties
lor Speculative Purposos.
A movement Is tinder way to oust
John VV. Gates from the management of
the American Steel and Wire Company.
The principal step in this direction is
none other than a petition to the gov
erning committee of the New York
Stock Exchange, asking that the Wire
securities be taken off the stock list
unless John W. Gates be deposed ai
manager ot the trust.
Traders are especially bitter toward
Mr. Gates, as they remember distinctly
his last year's manipulation of a deal,
which, though neither as bold nor as
big as the present alleged coup,
brought n large measure of distress in
its wake.
President Lambert is quoted as say
ing that the company made $ 1 3,000.000
in net profits last year, and stood a
good show of making $20,000,000 this
year. Yet Mr. Gates is minted as say
ing that the demand for the products
of the wire campany is not within 30
per cent, of what it should be.
President John Lambert announces
that probably all mills which the
American Steel and Wire Company
have shut down will be reopened soon
possibly within a fortnight. From
other sources it is hinted that the plants
will resume operations as early as next
Monday. This but goes to confirm the
suspicion that there is nothing serious
ly the matter with the steel business,
that the closing down was a part of
the stock-jobbing deal.
GREAT FLOOD DAMAGE.
Many Lives Lost and Much Property Rulred In
the Southern Slates.
The damage from the floods in the
South will be enormous, far exceeding
early fears. The railroads are the worst
sufferers, but great injury has been clone
to crojis. When the waters have gone
town it is believed the loss of many
ives will be discovered. The loss to the
inois Central alone will amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Four people were drowned near Mcri-
dan and two near Hatticsburg, Miss.
There has doubtless been loss of life at
Enterprise, Miss. The Enterprise
Academy was swept away.
rriday night the Wanita cotton mill
dam, stx miles above Enterprise, gave
way. A body of water I? feet deep
and covering 10 acres, rushed down
through the Chunky river swamp. Many
plantation hands are reported to have
ost their lives in a wild rush for high
er ground. Many buildings in the path
of the flood were thrown from their
foundations and destroyed.
Authentic reports regarding damage
to crops in country districts adjacent to
icksburg show that the ruin is wide
spread, crops, especially corn, being
nearly a total loss.
From Manila In Irons.
James Redmond, alias Michael Se
ville, who served with the Rough Riders
in Cuba and later enlisted in the regular
army and served with the Sixth artil-
ery in the Philippines, reached Kansas
City, Mo., Saturday in irons, charged
with compljcity in the murder of Em
ma Schumacher.
Detectives have trailed Redmond con
tinuously since the murder, which oc
curred in 1.107. lie was arrested in
Manila a month ago. Miss Schumach
er was killed in an attempt to defend
her grocery store against two robbers.
who escaped. Kennedy, the engineer-
train robber, and Kedmond. were in
dicted for the murder. Kennedy is now
serving a term in the Missouri peniten
tiary, but Redmond stoutly asserts his
innocence.
A Woman Bridge Jumper.
Marie Dinsc, of New York, jumped
from the Brooklyn bridge Friday after
noon, without serious inturv. Manv
men have made this leap into the waters
ot the r.ast river since the bridge has
been completed. Most of them have
perished, but Miss Dinse is the second
woman who has ever made the attempt
September o, IK05, Mrs. McArthur
jumped from the bridge and was but
slightly injured. 1 lie woman who
jumped Friday is now in the Hudson
street hospital. The physicians found
that no bones were broken, but they
say that it is possible that she lias sue
tamed internal injuries.
West Virginia Lynching.
John Peters (colored), who assaulted
Kate Richie, a 16-ycar-old white girl,
near Tazewel, W. Va., on Wednesday,
was lynched Friday night. Peters had
been captured with the aid of blood
hounds and placed in jail nt Tazewell.
At midnight masked men broke open
the door with axes. A rope was placed
around Peters' neck and he was dragged
200 yards down the railroad track to
ward the woods. Hundreds of shots
were fired into his body while he was
being dragged, and before the woods
was reached he was dead. The rope
was then thrown over a limb of a tree
and he was drawn up.
Attempted Suicide.
Believing he had no chance to make
his way on account of the trusts, Isaac
Harris attempted to commit suicide ear
Iv Tuesday morning by inhaling illumi
nating gas at his home in Brooklyn.
Harris is 60 years old and formerly held
a responsible position, but was forced
out. He was continually declaring that
the United States was rapidly becoming
a country of capitalists and that it was
no longer a question of the survival jf
the fittest. Harris may recover.
Strength ol the Boers.
' Information received from responsible
sources shows that a.t one time the two
republics had 105,000 men in the field,
including the colonial rebels. Accord
ing to the same information they can
still muster 80,000, of whom 50,000 ar-5
in the Frae State, 10,000 in the Biggars
berk district, and 15,000 in the districts
of Fourteen Streams and Klerk's Dorp.
It is now believed that before the
war the burgher lists were deliberately
falsified in order to deceive the British
intelligence department.
MIR IH CREEK IH llffl.
NEW COLO STRIKE.
Flvt Prospco'ors From Csps Nome Tell ol I
Great Discovery 100 Miles East
ot the Divide.
The steamer Cottage City has arriv
ed ot Seattle, Wash., from Skagway.
She brings five men who left Cape
Nome on January 24, 10 days after the
latest previous information. They arc
C. P. Dam, Captain E. E. Ileckman,
J. D. Morgan, J. f I. Fredericks and C.
Erickson. They went overland to Laa
tami, thence by steamer to Sitka, where
they transferred to the Cottage City.
They bring a story of a new strike
across the divide 100 miles cast of
Nome. The strike was made on It
small creek. The first several pans ran
about $25 to $35. As bed rock was
scraped the amount reached $40. Great
excitement followed. A stampede has
taken place from Nome, but only those
who were foot loose took part in it,
the rest believing that they had as good
property as they wanted. Mr. Morgan
said: "Cape Nome and the contiguous
country is richer than people have esti
mated. It will be this summer the
greatest mining camp the world has
ever seen.
C. F. Dam. welt known in Seattle,
says that ether new discoveries of gold
have been made at Bonanza, 21 miles
this side ot Nome, which promises to
outrival the great gold camp. He says
there is not enough gold to warrant a
big stampede from the States. Nome
is quiet and orderly and no one seems
to anticipate any trouble with claims this
season.
The marshal at Juneau has arrested
two counterfeiters with an outfit and
seized 600 coins, which were Canadian
and United States half dollars.
BIGAMY IS CHARGED.
Marriage ot Earl Russet, ol England, In Nevada
Causes a Sensation In London
The announcement and confirmation
of the marriage of Earl John Francis
Stanley Russell and Mollie Cooke at
Reno, Nev., April 15, has created a
great sensation 111 London. It seems
that according to the English law Rus
sell is still legally married to the tirst
Countess Russell, who is now a per
former in the Tivoli Music Hall. In
1N01 the Countess, who is a daughter
of Lady Scott, applied for separation on
the ground of cruelty. 1 Ins was re
fused, and later litigation was ended by
the court of appeals refusing relief to
the couple.
Countess Rnsscll claims she is the
earl's legal wife. She was prostrated
by the news from America. Lady Scott
says her daughter has placed the matter
with her legal counsel.
A friend of Russell confirms the mar
riage, as docs likewise a dispatch from
Reno, Nev.. where the ceremony was
performed at the Riverside hotel on
Sunday, April 15, by Judge Benjamin
Curler. Russell, according to his
friend, with his bride arc returning to
England next month.
NEW DANGER FOR BRITAIN.
Tho Ruler ot Afghanistan Annoureos That He
Must Havo Aid Against Russia.
That Great Britain's attitude towards
Afghanistan in connection with Rus
sian designs on Herat docs not meet
with approval at Cabul, the capital of
Afghanistan, is proved by an autograph
letter published with the Ameer's con
sent, in which, after referring to the
rumors, he adds:
"Now, when Afghanistan is over
whelmed on all sides, the British gov
ernment docs not seem to take any in
terest, but enjoys the pride of aloofness
and reserve. Whenever I have sug
gested a check to Russian aggression
I have had no response from the gov
ernment of India, except the suggestion
that Afghanistan might consent to the
construction of railways and telegraphs.
This is impossible, as the Afghans con
sider that such a step would mean their
ruin. Notwithstanding all these trou
bles 1 have proved for the past 21 years
the firm ally of Great Britain. But
now, at the last moment, I must inform
my powerful ally, the government of
India, that the present is the time for
deeds and not for talk."
Sont the Liquor Along.
Representative Wheeler, of Kentucky,
presented to Admiral and Mrs. Dewey
a unique invitation to visit Paducah on
their western trip next month. The in
vitation was enclosed in an oak casket
trimmed with gold and silver. It is on a
thin sheet of birch, which bears the seal
of the city of Paducah and reads as fol
lows: "To Mr. and Mrs. Dewey: This
town is yours. Pull the latch string
we will do the rest. Don't surprise us,
hut inform us when you pull."
The invitation is signed by the mayor
and prominent citizens 01 raducah.
Inside the casket arc 12 quart bottles
of 20-year-old Kentucky whisky and a
cut glass decanter incased in silver.
Admiral Dewey did not give Mr. Wheel
er a definite answer, but said he would
communicate his reply.
Anarchists Arrested.
A nest ot anarchists lias been un
earthed at Ancona on the Adriatic. A
number of arrests have been made and
manv papers seized, rrom the latter
were learned particulars of a conspiracy
to assassinate the principal officials of
Ancona and a coup had also been plan
ned for killing the police and civil a
thorities of Rome.
CABLE FLASHES.
All Europe is watching America's
attempt to collect claims from the sul
tan and wilt rejoice if she succeeds. The
American charge d'affaires was grant
ed a long interview with the sultan.
It is reported that Lord 'Roberts and
General Kitchener have been quarre
ing and that the latter was sat upon by
the commander-in-chief in South Af
rica.
Maude uonne sued an Irish paper
for libel for saying she was a govern
ment spy.
DIPLOMACY EXHAUSTED.
Crisis Ha Been Reached In His Relations
With the United States Government Mln.
Isler May be Given hit Passports.
There is no longer any question thai
the diplomatic relations between the
United States and Turkey are In a criti
cal state, growing out of the sultan's
bad faith. He promised to pay the in
demnity claims ol the American mis
sionaries for the destruction of eight
buildings of the Euphrates college at
Harpoot and several buildings belong
ing to the American missionaries at
Marash during the Armenian massacres,
of 1805. Mr. Straus, the United States
minister to Turkey, is at present in
the United States on leave of absence,
lie presented his resignation, but the
President refused to accept it.
Diplomacy appears to have exhaust
ed itself at Constantinople, the sultan
having prumised to pay the indemnity
claims, amounting to some $90,000,
whirh promise was again renewed prior
to Mr. Straus' departure 16 months ago.
hat action the government will now
take to enforce the sultan's promise is
not definitely known, but as the situa
tion is critical it may result in Secretary
Hay sending the Turkish minister at
Washington his passports.
The question involved between the
two countries is no longer one resting
upon disputed points of international
law, but upon the sulian's broken faith.
This is not his only promise, he having
stated to our minister that he. would'
give his permit for the reconstruction
of the American college and school
buildings, but up to the present time
the official permit, upon one excuse
and another, has been withheld.
DECIDED BY CHANCE.
Politics ot First Political Organization Deter
mined by Tossing a Coin.
Honolulu advices say that upon the)
toss of a coin depended the political
complexion of the first attempt to or
ganize a party tliere along recognized
lines in the United States. Timothy
Murray, O. C. Lewis and J. Turk,
with about a dozen others, met and toss
ed up a coin to see whether they should
organize as Democrats or Republicans.
The coin fell as Republicans. They
proceeded to organize as the Rbpubli
can party of Hawaii, and drew up a
constitution for a party organization,
giving the complete control to them
selves. At the meeting at whirh the organ
ization was to be accepted, however, a
large number of Republicans came in
and changed the name to the Republi
can club of Hawaii, and remodeled the
constitution to that of a Republican
club, leaving the organization of the
party to the future. The president of (
the club is Clarence Crabbc, a well
known and thoroughly reputable busi
ness man. Turk and Lewis threaten
to pack the next club and reorganize
along the lines originally proposed.
The Democrats of the island have
made no move yet to organize in any
wav.
MANY MILLS CLOSED.
Tha Steel and Wire Company's Plants Shut
Dcwn Many Men Idle.
The American Steel and Wire Com
pany have shut down ia of their mills
located in Pittsburg, ra.i Cleveland,
O.: Joliet. 111.: Waukegan, III.; Do
Kalb, Ind.: New Castle, Pa., and An
derson, Ind.
Mr. Gates said the cause of the clos
ing down of the mills was overproduc
tion. He also said he was unable to
state when the mills would resume op
erations as they first would have to as
certain the extent of the overproduc
tion. Mr. Gates made another statement
later, in which he said that the 12 mills
which had been closed had a daily ca
pacity of from 3.000 to 4.000 tons. He
said that slack business was an addi
tional reason for the suspension of op
erations. 1 he best information is that
the mills will be closed indefinitely.- It
is said that as many as 4.000 men, boys
and girls wilt be afTected by the shut
down. Labor troubles in the building trades
are stated by President John W. Lam
bert, of the American Steel & Wire
Company, as the reason for orders is
sued Monday, closing down all the
plants of the concern in the vicinity of
Chicago; all those at Joliet, III., ex
cepting the Rockdale mill, and the ex
tensive plant at Anderson Ind.
Twelve plants were ordered closed.
Thousands of skilled workmen were
temporarily susjiendcd by the action
of the wire magnates. -
President Lambert said : 'Labor trou
bles are at the bottom of it. Our mar
ket has been destroyed by the stopping
of building labor, and we have had to
shut down until the accumulated stocks
arc sold." '
COLCNEL PETTIT TRIED.
Offlor Cour'-Msrlialed In the Ph lipplnas for
Vio'ating Articles ol War.
A dispatch from Manila announce
that Colonel James S. Pcttit, of the
Thirty-first volunteers, in command at '
Zamboanga, has been court-martialed
for handing a prisoner of war over to
Prcsidentc Medell, of Zamboanga, who
killed the prisoner at once without
trial.
Pettit is the officer with whom Lieu
tenant Colonel Webb C. Hayes, who
recently resigned, is said to have quar
reled, owing to Pettit's dickering with
a Morro Dato for the right to land
troops and compelling his men to sub
mit to indignities from the natives.
Colonel Pettit was bom and raised
near Salem, O., in which vicinitv many
of his relatives reside. He went to the
Philippines last fall when the new vol
unteer regiments were recruited.
A Hunter's Mistaks.
Win. II. Greene was shot Monday la
the woods south of Feu, Ind., by a
companion, who mistook him for the
panther that was being hunted. During
the past two weeks a full grown panther,
accompanied by two well grown cubs,
has been frequently seen. Greene, with
a posse, attempted to effect its capture.
Greene was lying behind a loot and hear.
ing a noise, raised himself, when he
was snot.
The Philippine commissioners sailed'
Tuesday from San Francisco.
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