Co mdgsioners at SPAIN STARTLED. © Umeriesns Suid ta Favor the Retention of the Telnses pived in Paris Lenten Peace Opinions. After the session of the peace com- 4 t Paris last Monday the rds immediately placed them- " ip communication with the home Hore at Madrid. The Americans have made some bold demand which has startled the Spanish commission. a Tt fs believed that the question con- cerns the Philippines and it (s known ; the Americans are highly pleased at having #0 soon reached what they er & very important phase of pegotiations and consider the two - rx thus far held as viry satis. fastory to America. The fact that a member of the commission oxpressed ¢lief that the work would be etid within a month indicates a frame of mind. the Spanish camp great hopes are on what they belleve Gen Mer. | pitt wiil advise—namely, that the Phi- ligpines are incapable of self-govern- mint and that the whole situation does warrant America in taking the res. flity for the entire Phrdlippines ‘Spaniards are quite ready to give sh ever America asks in the way of posing stations, but will redist more je verge of a renenal of Tow iioes Gen. Merritt, whe caimmaded priean troops at Mania, army from Marseilles pai Grand Hotel ae pee and declined to Le inter as he was suffering from fa- ot ¢ reported Intention id the United States government to retain the whole of Phliippine islands has created 't a state of Nf fe tion at Ma- and it is semi-officially announced the Bpanish government has re- to vigore combat any such action. which, it is claimed. the terms of the ice protocol preclude. The Paris correspondent of the Lon- #0) 35, [) . i a and seemingly un- ng in their no-surrender atti- respecting the Philippines. They ly fully appreciate the dif of the Republican party in on rding the army misman. ment and the resulting natural de- & to pel the : or nded moat speedily. These ances encourage the Spaniards | pernain obdurate.” i Paris correspondent of the Lon. es the Belief that the American ners will consent th & Coon. mise rather than embark fa a fresh | conflict to inflict 8 cruel wound upon pain’s national pride s conciliatory and cordial spirit conference has produced a favorable re at Madrid. The MEWSPApers. the cbon- ping the procesdings of 1 that the y, affect to believe © Bates, sides respecting h sovervignty in the Philippines, fill alse allow Spain to have a share the settlement of the new # § wba. Inspired articles assert garantee of the Cagban vis gu only until Cuba herself jis able to ¥ the interest and sinking fond A eh to the “‘Imparcial” from Pavis ares that both the Spanish and Atnerican commissions have been in. rocted to act ad referendum, hr rational aeeembly of Philippine pts at Malolos, at a recent sits ‘voted Aguinalda a civil list but i declined to re- til the army should An attempt Was made speaker of the house, Wl a clause granting him hecause of his office, but | | was rejected. is sewn evidences of s&p- . Popular opinion fa- which it is generally | : The ped- distrust purpose of showing the and making friends with a. The crulser's officers en- ge an interihangy of i¢ natives at first community is telegraph- | in an endeavor to secure kmant of the releans of pris- al Investigations made | noes emphasize the deter n of the Insurgents to obtain a | ranter of favorable terms easing the prisoners now in | tr hands, and it in certain that they | r cheaply relingiiish thelr r bought conquests, : TNPORTUNATE GOLD NCNTEAS 4500 Luventonn Wes Drowand. arty of 3% mes that left | o early in the year ta go , vin the Stikeen trail, Her- of Beattie iw the only one | sed through, Two of the num- | were drowned, two are insane and ad 4 gloy river boats were on the rocks and the okt. Too men wen 5. Long says thidt many of | nen went femporarily insane after provisions began to give qut, steam schooner Fulton bas ar- at Seattle, every mining district In : among the ¢rowd there is 00,000 cthers are mis ; are ve lost their lives in at- ascend the small rivers. ent of the public at the c " busi- amounted to §1.- nerease for the month of " The Increase in the cash tember was 313.070.4158. The nerease of the debt on account of loan, independent of cash, is 20, of which about $6§.000 060 added during September. The debt apitulated as follows: : est ring debt, §990.085 600, interest has ceased yinee 206.790: debt bearing no in- Total, $1,375,038,708 does not ins 582 in certficates and outstanding, which are | ual amount of cash in 1d for their redemption. on movement is on foot at ro for a curfew law. are § work of the commis | sdicts a Keen contest nnd | rr by the delegates to the Paris | will undertake to carry out the of | the Americans. | to realize the fact sent | Raleigh to the northwest. | (LL io of {onawes county surrounded | iad to far in the Interter re- Hlth at trading poants ; 14 days from St , She brought 59 miners from | CONDENSED TELEGRAMS. Yellow fever, in its severest form has appeared at Jackson, Miss. Recretary of State John Hay took the onth of office iast Thursday, October 5 has been fixed as the day for the compulsory ¢vacuation of Urete by the Turkish troops. Speaker Heed will stump the states of Ohio and Indiana in the interest of Republican candidates, Three attempts wore made by fire bugs to burn the city of Dunkirk, N LY. last Sunday night. Pauline Bruder jumped burning building at 8B Wednesday and was killed The postage to Hawali is the same as before annexation, being fixed bY the Universal Postal union, Edward Kutzinger was arrested at Cincinnati charged with trying to sell cattle affected by black tongue. Madame Carnot, widow of President Carpot, Who was assassinated some years ago died in Palys inst week, A lnscomotive boiler exploded at La fayette, Ind, a few days ago, and Or ar Johnson, the engineer was killed The pteamer Havana, to ply between New York and the Cuban capital was launched at Philadelphia last Satur. day. The steamsf Newlyn has left Santi. ago With a cargn of iron ore consigned to the Maryiand Steel Company of Bal timare. At Washington, Ind, union coal miners have forced colored workmen to leave the town at the point of Win- chestars. The Northwestern Miller reports the four sutput last week at Minneapolis, Superior. Duluth and Milwaukee, 485 - 83% barrels. George DD). Fontaine has been arrested at Ei Paso, Tex. charged with flooding the American border with counterfeit American notes, Cotton is selling at 4%; cents a pound in southern cities, Trealers are deprés- sed and say the prosint crop is not worth the poking, Six expert electricians who arrived in Chicago from Berlin to work for a spectacular show will be deported as assisted immigrants, The insane wife af Joseph Clothier, a farmer of St. Severin, Canada, Kijhed ker four children a few days ago by cutting thelr throats Thomas Harrison of Sacramento, Cal, shot and killed his wife, then cat his throat with a razor. Two children he tried to Kitt escaped. Kamel Greenwood, president of the Contesville, Pa, National bank, was robbed of $10.000 in securities while in a I Philadelphia restaurant. Four men were entombed and are supposed to have been killed in a fire in the Lakigh Valley Coal Company's mine 4t Wilkesharre, Pa. The Crocker estate of $85000.600 has passed from the San Francisco courts inte the possession of the three chil- dren of the dead millionaire, The President will visit St Lauis on his western trip, The fact that he was nominated in that city was the argu- ment used by the commities, By the explosion of a wagon load of dynamite pear New Whatcom, Wash, twa men and one boy were Killed and several other persons injured Nearly 1.800006 petple have passed the gates of the {nnaha exposition {ast week the atftenmfance wax 128554 The oheial fgures for Saturday at i 21.2355, I At Btevens Point, Wis, Joseph | Stoertzbach, 72 years old, has been robbed of BILE in gold. bonds and a last {from Louis bee oming Fanuare miles. and tard A MANY PERSONS MISSING, i Ak OE | Misery Coused by the Piames in Wiseensiz and Ost rade Towns Entire Legging Canps Do The loss of lifes and properiy caused by the forest fires in Wisconsin and Colorado last week has been fnormous Relief parties are now oul through ihe Burned districts south and west of | Rice Lake, Wis. The joss of life from the disastrous fires cannot be cstimat- ed but it will be great. Thu work of getting 10 the hurped districts is slow, as all the bridges are down Cwer 100 persans are missing. Many dead bodies rave been found and they are burned peyond recognition. The remains of sme man by the nome of Nélmon were found at the bottom of a well, where he had gone to escape the fire, At anciher place a woman and two chibilren ween found in a8 well The woman was so badly burned that she will die, At another place, where a man had been plowide in a field Bis charred remains and the carcasses of the horses were found. All the cattle, Rorses and other stock in ® Jarge district have been burned to desth. Even the wild ani mals could not escape the flames. The wind Saturday was southeast and Blowing at the rate of about forty miles an Bour Fires are now raging in the hardwond timbers between Rice Lake and Cumberland, but fortunately the district is lightly populated. August Mason, one of the most ox. tenwive Ioggers in Wisconsin, returned te. Chippewa Falls from a trip to his camps at Cedar Lake Barron county ile bad an exciting experience with crest fires, and reports the ntire jose Bf all bis camps and outfits ar Codar ke. He aiso believes that four of his men have tost their lives in the flames ‘The loss of farm property in Clark, Darron and Chippewa counties is esti mated £t $300 000 Latest reports say that all hopes of checking the flames have been abandoned. Nothing but rain will save the snormons amount of property that is burning and threatens el, Adi Gen Beardman and (Jol Ginty af Wisconsin wha wers sent north to report upon the forsst fires returned to Madison Gen. Boardman ways while the recent rains checked the names, another dry week would probably ses them again at work, He estimates the wumber of people burned out ar 19, wost of whom are farmers A Denver dispatch says that the fires fr Colorado are still raging. and rain in anxiously watched for, as there is no other hops of extinguishing them. Within a day or two fires have ap- peared on the west slope of the Pike's FPeoak range. The fires seem to be burning fSercely along the west side of Mr Baldy, which rises ta an attitude of 15.060 feet. four miles south of Pike's Feak. The people of Pitkin county are terrified over the have wranght near Aspen. The firs on White river bas bursed over an area of lan fs still sweeping sastward in a stretch 18 miles wide The people of Upper White river have fought fire for three weeks day and night. The Hahne Peak are reported to be in Sanger. Glenwood Springs Ix envelop ed in a cloud of smoke. The forext fives In Calorads have Even her ked in many places hy snow | daha Springs reports that | he fires on the west slope of the divide i $lawe | ¥ iF { pidad that the fine had better be re | PRN are pretty noariy ander control evir the Sres will smogider for i months, and ancther dry sped] follow. paper money he had kept buried in x | ftir box in Ris woodshied i The United States transport Massa- | ¢pusetts reached Newt York Thursday. © Fire mvoidersd in her coal bunkers for i three days after jeaving Santiaga, but | ; | Robert Coveney, som of the ate Post | & § | Americas Bald Withust Trial far Russing Over s | | was finally extinguished by steam, With his Bands manacled, John | Pierce, of Pittstmirg, attempted to és Leaps from an officer a few days ago | i He made a dazh for a moving freight train, missed his footing, Was run over fand killed, twintad and his Bertha Beilstein shot and killed her | i mother at Allegheny, Pa, ast Sunday, | and then committed sulin | pot wish her mother to grieve over her, for shooting her parent Hiinsfield. Mich, the other night the | and exptured the three burglars who rabibed the postafice Sunday night, and | shot Bamuel Rothfuss dead | A race for a wager. from Baltimore, ground Cape Horn to San Francisco and Seattle, was begun Wednesday netwren the English bulil fron sailing Bae 403 war the reason given by the sulclde | ef by winds might revive the fames | Sia abl I down in the walks of the Roanigte eff wi Raat i paving the fine or being fired on by the | Foot Ball Player Killed The first fatal aceldont on the fact. bail pridirom hie goason ovourred at flrston Raturday oz Franklin field master {avensy, was thrown In tackle play and ecloven meni phiad on top of him. When Coveney was sxtri- : Lemted fram the mass (f was found that | he was fatally injurad, his neck boing | leg paralyred He Aird at the ofty hospital Monday. MOVEMENTS TOWARD PEACE The war thus Tar bas cost Spain {AGE B00 200. After a terrific fight in the woods at | Twenty parsons a day are said to f@tarve at Mantanzas, Cuba 3 : ! | ¥ i z x ! ship Marion Chileoat and the American | built stow salling ship Fhelps, Mrs 8 LL. Williams of Morrice Mich Erskine M. | {ment compress is quietly the other day poisoned two of her ehil- dren omd cut her swan throat, Mrs Wiikiams Bfe may be saved ehild died. the de, The we 3 war crrried away by yeligious enthusiasn i vid 3 Hi of Weohiostor, first gesiatan! § weeretary of state : yen} + i Papert Moore, vesidne av. Hill ws resident of the RH He iv now in Halley Fates Bt ono ithe position totederad, ru fre IIE arlick attr ae In the grasp Waost Ind ay cyclone During thar t she wind bisw alsaudily from Afty Peeventy miles an hone i For slaghteen Hh {| Bunday morning ERvannan, Ga Cage the Lise of property among the 8% riding costa fx bel HEB ARSE Amsssd st American Simplicity. a re ol parcial of Madrid has telegraphed to his paper that he ia amazed at the ap- pearance of th He says: "Th delegation of diplomats, but as Cocks tourists. There are some of all sorts LER a nurse. ‘amnibuses.” The correspondent then gives sioner. Of Judge Iday he says: "He unfortunately, is too well known pee fitically. He ia a small man, thin and careless in dress with a sick ly appearance. sallow cheeks frominent cheek bones. There is a to- ene of therm brings a servant ™ A Cotly Titel Wm. During the tropical hurricane Brunswitk Ga. a few days ago. ar five feet, practically every business house and warehouse in the city. Con- servative estimates piace the property Joss at $MM Two fatalities in Brunswick and one a few miles out of the city have been reported. Those in the city were negro children. Their parents are missing ard may have been drowned. A few miles out of town Sraritt Aiken neers was kKitled indies more or less young, children and | a pd Their luggage filis two | HOD at Paria Oye other x alive, but nay | Eighty-four Americans have died at Manila during the past three months The Forty-seventh New York eolun- teer infantry has been ordered fo Porto | Bean President MeKinley has decided de. Gnitely Hat 10 muster volunteer Trodipe The czars proposal for a disarma- but slowly making headway. Spain is willing to transport Ber un. | senplovel calonints in Cubs and Porte Filey mame free of charge. Aguilas will not allow fhe Americ. | ane To examine the Philippine prisons The preshient has appointed Dr. Das While the éity | escaped with comparatively Hite dame ssiande of the Georgia and South Ca- | lieved to be heavy, The Paris correspondent of the Ime contraliod by the insurgents All property seiged in Ha Va ¢ during the war haw been righifal owners the insurgents fete in a spesth in which he independence wile Lhe aim Fhe iak, it says that si fo j wy favor (he tire srchipeiag fas AR 5. ulthaido bak Rey Entisffed with He Sisclatmsx president of i now in Cuba. tiv become i republic Fitghugh loe sald that ithe ih mermy corps of whigh he is ¢. want probably 20 to Cus The fast of this month Cangastn, of the PORES Tir. Jone | mare reconcentrados in Cuba He in- | timated that they were all dead. American commission. | Pdi net ApIERr AS a the | biography of epch American commis- : Admiral Dewey has forwarded his vie dent, were forwarded to the peace commis The voluntesr troops ausigned duty in Cuba will serve for only ninety days on the isiand : ta the tropical fevers, ahare, i i he paid part of their and : | 450 Iw during the recent war. ‘ pgents promised him this sum = tidal Wave was driven in from the sea | and inundated, for an average depth of | } i i } £ 3 i | i 3 given by the Bank tal of the rommission of HM. and not Ren EY ae is $386 oo: i able Havana's municipal employes are (o back salaries, from January to August, out of funds af Spain, The funds avail $50 men Captain S|anfomon Javobs was offered Spanish if he worl ist the spemy’'s fleet to some af the Atlantic evast cities. The captain seorned the offer, An American soldier whe was sont to pruteet the residences of a family at Porte Rico was mistaken for an out- nw and tostaptly killed by a Spaniard. | 1a The Spaniard had also been sent peatect the residence ten. Wood believes that the best plan to be adopted in the present cir. cumpstances will be to disband the Cub. an army. giving each soldier $60, towns of Kokomn and i of the fine he went to Capt. Baton, and the offleer | fant i Wednesday he Planes | REFORMERS EXECUTED. the Reasons for Kis Downfall, Bix Chinese Reformists, Kang Ku- weor's brother, one censor, and four head clerks of the cabinet, incinding a son of the governor of Hu Pol were executed ast week for alleged conspir- acy against the dowager empress. There is no excitement at Peking and everything is proceeding as owual, It in reported that the dowager ome press of China bas strong views re. garding Husslan aggression in Men. churia, and that though she is Hkely te restore $4 Hung (hang to power she ls not Hkely to countenance his Hussinn leaning The developmenta of palace affairs confirm the belinf that the emperor, hy the radical reforms which he had de. evend invited the blow striack by the dvwager smpress. The emperor's chief adviser, Kang-Yasel obtained ans Bounded influence over Bim and inspirs od the reforms posed him and conmited the Sawager empress as to means for auliifying these reforms, ar's downfall was finally rough about by hix appearance one day in European clothes, This offense, it ap- pedre, was aggravated by the arrival in China of the Maranis io, the Jap arese statesman, which alarmed the palace oMciale an foreshadowing Jape i anese domination in the empires coun. cil, Thereupon the dowager Smproes acted with wonderful promptoes;. and deposed her nephew before the Pekin people were aware that she had leit the summer palice. Kang Yowel fore. seeing trouble fled two days before the crisis, PROHIBITION WINS IN CANADA. The Majority Bowvrer May Prove te Small to Fafeees Favornkie Legislation. The majority for throughout the entire dominion of Canada will not likely exceed 18.000 All the provipees except Quebec voted prohibition. Outarie giving it a major- ity of about 10 (WG Quebes's majority against of 0.000 is prohibition the maritime provinoes while the re turns from Manitoba, the territories and British Columbia show that the west in in favor of prohibition by a ma- jority of 7.0008 or 000 5 the majority too small to influence the goverment to stismpt to ancl pro- hibition legislation 3 the 2000 men on board of Admir- al Dewey's ships there were more than 40 sie at one time, sold thelr sugar intersats for 55.000 900 Four years age the stock was not worth a cent a share. re BLANCO TIELDED tise of & Fine Capt Bad ordered on the Alfreda naphtha yacht belonging to the Cuban junta, whivh flaw the American © Capt Cartava had appealed in vain to the anthorities for the remittances Flraily, ax a last resort the question, potifing Gen qidekiy settled { the Fy of Mexion, i for 17 months anithout being perm ray cosnmiunioate with the sutside world | He secursd his relesss by managing to Calin 8 pte into the hands o { lan wha Lpregeed condition of PY a i Cglew to a ve fon the steamabip ’ ier was the chisel! snginesr of the party Cuban | Colonial government says thers ars no tis | | estimate at less than $198.000.000. It ts believed that | rrr re Brom | by this plan they will not be subjected | Iewing dav, towing the Alfredo en Immediately called up Finance AMinterer Montors and Customs Arriete dee They soon mitted The Alfredo. habbing up and hav the follawing fay Cabanas Loriress, I A MEXICAN PRISON Mas Wik Nis Lecometive in canines} fnianapolia frote where AR pYinen he was 1 1:8 f an sgusing his oll Amer. waa Than sate was addressed to tay the Athey was neither he says and this whores whe are in prison. Athey's sngine cut off A mans ter and that caused his arrest frjed nor arralgred Wes! Lehange Closet The doors of the wool New York were not opened Thursday the directors deridling to suspend opsr- | the fae ations temporarily owing the mares. cSrparaiion tha mare profit is aliaged " L4 i am SOnailion panied IR the % i exchange in Tani change was then 3 the mmrket gril exchange wii A Repart Os Niswrages government engineers Engngrd upon pwd nary survey of the proposed route of fhe Nicaragua anal arrived last night frail. Eben 8 Wheel. Eight Been th 53x wigs stated by some of the the proposed canal engl in ene it peers thal ! tirely feasible. that no serious obstac- | les are in the way, V will be considernbly less than estimation | s in regard to Manila to the Presi. | made by the Ludiow commission or the | They were not made public but Pmum named by Admiral Walker a year | {agy. The Ladiow commission estimates | the cost of the canal at $133 000 000. Ad myiral Walker named S125.000. 00 The i report of the engineers will place the | 1 ten. chiefly through diminution of pos i oulation. Of 400 famiiles in Santa (Dara city, | and that the Isonrgents Desiare Independence The declaration of the Manila Insurgents was ities. apesches Were fins. wax the address gf Aguinaldo foreigners attended the state whieh was given in the svening, no Americans offichuls were present. The transport Arizena. having heard pDayy recruits and an tot of mail, ssrived al Manila ERS several months, deliverad, an Destrustive Storm la Japsa. The steamer Gaelic brings news Ran Franciseo of a terrific storm which swept over Japan on September & The wind did great damage to shipping | flooding many sections ia Emperor of Okins Appearing is « Boiled Shirt Ose of | The oMecial claswes op | The current story is that the emper. just about offset by the returns from Fiven the proliibition papers consider never | The Spreckies of San Francisco have | siek, canned fond would hold him responsible should any wenr, and suceseded in obthin- I ing suitable food : As amersean Orviver Disssnrages Fim in the Celle { a number of sick soldiers were to be lion. of the cru besistote, | Baton, of the cruiser R oe | A protest, and says he was informed by protest | amid thal an oMesr had been appointed to see how | recently forced the Npaniards at Ha- | vana to remit a fine of 580 which they | wm smail tEat the Resslute would sail on the fol. i Ban. | ance of the voluntesr rope and sia { Mery appointed from civilian Nfs Administyvator surgeons and Bed O Henry Athey, a railroad engineer In Si fost returning to hiv wife and ohitdren | this Le - New Ruler Said te bo Progressive - Dewiger Bupross Frgnad C Culberteon, | (af Texas whem he knew, and his ve | Clease soon followed. Rince hin riéleass | he has received a letter from the gov. | Dermor in which the jafter says he has Cpsmmunicaled with authorities about Xe other Americans | [in the prissn with the view to secur. | Ling their relessw GUL any more | i fx alan trie of the Tee 3 fsarmuid : mhap Washington : differ Chey petsen and another that death was Sho Com Inet independence of | ratifted at: AMaloies last Friday amid great festive | A review gf the troops was held, | and recita- The feature of the cupsmanies | Many | Bail | but i ¥ fmmense © > tasny : This is the first home mall for: ¢ nant AWAITING REPORTS. The Ggsniarts Zuxivus for s Nesting te Consider (he Fins! Disposal of Code Committee Iantigating Charges. Nop date has yot been fixed for the meeting of the Spanish and American somnmineion at Havana, 8 request for whirh wis recently made by Bpain's representatives, the American commis. gioners holding off until they shall have received reports from the officers sent to different points in the stand tn make investigations The Spanish oc mmission has repeated ity request for B meeting. The Arnerican commission at Hava- ni held a session a few dave ago to camidder the Snhanish reply on svacin- tiom and a request for a joint session The Spanish reply does not insist on the original dates proposed to begin evacuation, November 1 and snd on Apvii 1 The eonmmission also dlecusmed the report made by Capt, Page and Capt Hrooks in ehich they made the follow. ing rosommenintions: Pirst The revoostion of the arbitra. ry iaws of reconcenteation, wilch wer: still extant wherever we went and are probably existing sleewhors in the js faned, Second The {(mmadiate evacuation by the Spanish troaps of the dietricd of Bemsediveg, in the provinee of Saate Ciara, and the removal of Spanish rules there irom Reports fram Maolguin are tn the of foot that en Calixte Cavcias fotoes are ignoring the Terme of the armistice grad refuse to permit provisions of any Kind 10 enter Holgoin Rumeors were current that the Span- juh government had given orders (hal the custonis revenues of the island sheild be delivered to the Amerfcins hat it ix understood on good authority that the ransfer is no to be made until November 1 It is sald Captain Gener ai Hisnes had applicd to the Madrid government for lead In return 19 Spain om Ocober 10 and has faery refused the authorities wishing hie to remain in Coba anti] the svara- | tion of the island has been campisied. Surgeon Major Seaman, of the trans. | port Obdam at Santiago. for New York, Soclares that there will be a repetition of the awful harrems if maresieilt sddliers ave sent on board He save that when the Oibdlam left Porte Rico many were ver the first guariermamter rv firmed to furnish wine for thelr ase, but supniied them with bard teek and Surgenn Reamin aid be denihe He asserts that msn thal she dan carry sent aboard the surgenn major made faenprat Lawton that him showed fgek of discipline | many additional men the Obdiam could CRYIY. Surgeon Seaman says he Will euhie | to Burgeon General Sternberg a Hos | for i oat dlscisiming rosponsibiiny whntever may happen, Major General Coppinger In a8 report tes the war department pled ail the Flame for army soandals on the igor Hs Nplson Hersh of Now York, aid { fore the war department investigating | pompriasion a paper in which he sea | | spun fie charges that Camp Wikoff was not properly prepared for the reception | water Supply | was contaminated that the enbuliose- | | on were used for taking oMeors” frivnds i about the camp when they ‘were defi | ausly needed, and that certain offioers | i stole supplies intended Yor the sok He of the rposps that the cited an wittesssu prominent generals wn woriiare THE CHINESE EMPEROR. Was Permerly » Baranid The fate of the emperor of Ching is | sUIL umewrtain, though it is the general | spinion that be has siready been dons the Dower | Tay his it death hy Empress, who, aunt, HOW Appears, was in & Chinese The smpersr of China is Known to have lately shown leaninim tovard Christianity. and it wan recently ported that he had burned the (lon. fucian clussies in the palace. A special | dispatch from Shanghai says the an | pusincement nf the death of the Kee | pero is confirmed. | The reports aw oo the means smploved in his raking off catimesd by strangulation, while a third | states thnt he was subjected to fright. sxchange al “at fartre. a red. hot fron being thiroast Lhysagh his Bowels i grismdnaun of i given Lins ina, Ei i w fis The raan who su passer. of hing ix Yin a hung He toltipent and af de Sitediy Eanghivhuian «ho have mel wit? aot Be a pappet HRs He haw wEPOLIReY in nt ted ta the ® Prin wind 4 willl and mre iw ager fmpress, A REYORT ON CUBA Hondrads of Recovventradin Have detuslly Vomished Still Muek Suffering. Hrook #iafl of {agen Husana the ip anid Page raturnml {to le afr Buorese. thesis nd and after t Cuba wy Their trip tain the oondithea Git the iatand Plioetar, Camaiuanl, Santa (Dark and Matanzas. They ment from Cubans overywhers studied courtesy {rom Spaniacds rat wan taken Wo dscer of affalrs theough- hack found conditions of extreme want in at them. The starvation, The death rate thers peen & thousand a month, but md fal- taken from thelr farms ander Sen The in 00 have absolutely vanished. American officers found death, ease and desolation sveryvwaers, Sufeented in 5 Tmeke Stasic John Hetiman, aged 19 yeurs, and ra | affner aged 03 vears, twa well-known | ; MieKesupors the They in mill workers of horribie deaths hy suffocation in a new stack WHR “H.. Met sy En TR Wir Teer ome oat, portion of the stack and fhand both vvan dend, A CITY IN TERROR lmparet ogres Chek With Tsien Workmes of Peas. Iii, ant Exchange Shots— 4 Coal Opers- ter Held Responsible for the Rist Mobs of Negroes and uphion miners engaged in a battle at Pana, Ii, ast Wednesday night Shotguns and Win. chesters were used by the opposing factions but the shooting was wild and ouly ore death ts reported, The trouble was precipitated at £38 o'clock, As psual the nigroes from the stockades at the Spripgwide Periweil mines were parading the prin- cipil wireets of the city bejvily sn The Union miners were in session at thelr hall, where a Chicago labor lead- or was speaking One of the negroes jim ape quarrel with a union white man, and officer Hapmuel : immadintely arrested the black He wan closed in on by the posse of neg- oes, who pointed thelr revolvers at hint and threatened to kill him if he dl not release the prisoner. Union miners and others, meanwhile, went to Senith'n aesistanee, were driven back its prisoter to operator George V. Pe well's store, and upon Penwell's stund~ ing for the pnegro's fine. he was re- leamed, Before Bmith had relensedl his prison- vr, however, ihe negro posse had been reinforced. David MeGavie, leader of the Trion miners, clubbed one of the blacks over the head with a revolver, it i» mild. For half a block Mofixvie forced the negroes to retréit; and then A few shote were fired. The negroes re- treated double quirk to the stockades, secured rifles, returned and challenged the mwilpers to a fight The opposing forces lined up on the street, the negs rows with Winchesters, and the miners with shotguns, rifles and revelvers Neighboring business houses were immediately closed, Hghts extinguished and citizens generally sought thelr homes. At the word of command fir. ing commenced. The first volley, it i= ald, came from the negroas ye TTn= ion mon responded with a volley and bevy firing continued fer five minutes, Much of the shooting wap wild, and sntir«ly harmiess to the white men, who finally drove thelr endmies in full refveal to the stockades A second encounter occurred 30 min- ules inter near the Penwell stockade The miners had full charge of the bus- inoss streets at midnight. Desultory rifle reports could be heard from the Penwell and Springeide stockades, bat no person would venture into the #trwets. The Union miners say the bat. tle of to-night is only a forecast of what may be expected to fntlow, the ship has every | Hearing that Hoppa | roe One story has it that he dled | the patie foram They visited 2Jaibhaien, | i term. met excaliont treats | and . . | to the vessel Weyier s heartless concentrado order, | ther § ware the gas | house of the butt weld department of | he National Tube Works when Heft. i + went down the stack to removes the { pinte that allows the gas to enter the b | stack, He did pot return and Hellman | srplered the stack to learn why he did | : After waiting several | Cmimites fEllow workmen tare away al livers soon became raging torrents, | Gen. Shafter Nk Averse 10 Appearing Defers the in- restigntisg Committee den, W. RR. Shafter, when asked the Lather day (f he had been sizmmoned to { tetify before the commission appoint- {ed to investigate army matters sald: 1 hBpve not been notified tn appear before the commission When 1 am natitted to appear I will do so. I do . mot know what 1 could say of lmport- apce, but If 1 am wanted I shall cers ginty respond to any notification ™ Gen. Shafter was asked if he thought the present army wan beld in readiness | withott mustering out any mare sold [brew for the purpose of awaiting the de. cision of the Paris conucil He said: nares ars not enough soldiers now Din garviven all the posts There iw i peed of 108 0GA soldiers for that pur P pase. 1 de not know what (he intention of he war department is it may bs that the soldiers are being held In the sent af trouble acotring iN the Philips pire, Cuba or Porta Rim, Every. thing is i abeyance now. 1 have no dadinile knowilsdge of what the war department intends bot i ls certainly safe fv Bald a large number of soldiers in rewiiness Coapeerning the controversy bitween Dien Miles and the war department he 1 maid: “1 have no statement whatever [to make 1 have nothing whatever to | complain about I dit my uty as | thought best and tried to do it faith. | fully for the best interests of ail It will Bee time enough to fwmke states superiates complain There is no | ments when my and omil me to account ure stirring up matters” Gen, Whafter has been placed in command of the department of the Har and saves he expects (lo remain in that position antil Gen. Merritt's roe rare after which Be will return to the Pacitbe. acing foe TROMAS BAYARD DEAD | Progifont Cleveland's Seeretary of Blots Pasens Awny st Defbom. Nass Phianas FF Bava? died Wednesday afternoon at Dedham, Maps, the sum- mer residence of his daughter, MMe Cmamue! 3 Warren, after an iiness of wiy weskx His death was without pain, His wife his two Asughlerse Mra. Warren and Miss Florence Ray. srdfnd hiv san, Thomas Fo Jr. saw His draw his last breath, snd his third Saughter the Countves Lauren. (haupt, was on her way to Dedbaw. Thorpas avant wax rs in Wie mipgton, Del, Ootober 28, (325 [nn INS he was ted gucerdel his father int Pigited Staten senate, and was sgbseguentiy twice peesladted, In the Peomoiratic convention of 18584 at whitch Mr Cleve nil was Raminated, Mr Bazan mee A The next largest vate, He fe fret PDemoematte pateminian invited dpnsinit with Proatdent sleet Cleveland, and oH was general pre rstoodd Ball Ne Was the first man offersd a piace in the new cabinet and the wading place at that Pie Be finadly aceepted. AL the dase of Mr Cleveland's administration. Mr | Bayard returned to private fife in aidan fie the Was fr March, 1888 he wan SpEainted gman Jams. and sador to the court of S¢ served during Mr. Cleveland's second Cr RAAT Ee A Vaivable Navel Asqui Chief Constructor Hidhbarn ests $ ; * i! They vinfted many Cuban cam | mates that it will require 500.060 to put ey Fish aan an camps and | the Spanish Magshtp Infanta Maria conditions weps | Test In serviceable condition worst in Santa Clara, where the death | ruta in still #9 a month, mainly Irom | had | amount is proportionately small com- pared to the benefit gained. as the Te. res ould not be duplicated for less than 2.000000 The Tweesa was bulit { at Hilbon, Spain, but her plans were | purchased from English designers. Af- {tar a comparison of the plans with the afftetal reports, detailing the injuries whe chief constructor gnve orders for the constuction of the (uarts that must be repliced. and ail | these will be ready for instailation at { Norfolk when the cruiser arrives there Brutal Murdes in Temas. Ward has just been received at Fort Warth, Tex. of an atrogions murder | pear El Campo. Otto Hurmes, an old German farmer. was muisdersd by his wife and Julius Harmen, his nephew. th a seid that Julius hit him on the head with an ax one night while he was sleeping, and, assisted by Mes Flarmes. dragred the bly to a cone floyd. piled brush ever it, and started a fre. he story further says that they sotnrned the next morning to find the fire had gone out and Barmes alive, wat uneonscious, amd that they then | piled cornstalka over him and burned { him 0 a crish.
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