Norwalk gazette, Friday, November 4, 1898 · page 11

 

 
 

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Prisoner Reed Takes Quick Leave
of His Guard.

 

He Was Serving a Fourteen Years Sentence
5 in the Massachusetts State Prison. He
Was Taken to Worcester to Consult Law-

yer and Eluded His Keeper. Reed Was

a Noted Confidence Man.

.- Worcester, Mass., Nov. 1.—John Reed,
the notorious bunco king, who was ser~
ving a. sentence of from eleven to four-
teen years in the state prison, escaped
from a keeper at the Sherwood House
in this city early yesterday morning.

Reed was brought to this ‘city by
Keeper J. L. Abbott of the state prison
for consultation with his counsel, Col-
onel W. A. Gile of this city.

The keeper took his man to the Sher-
wood House, where an appointment
,was made to meet Colonel Gile, and re-

. mained with the prisoner all the even:
ing when Reed’s wife, who came up
from Boston, called.

Shortly before 12.30 o’clock Abbott
left the room to go to an adjoining
room, and when he returned about ten
minutes later, found that his precious
prisoner was gone.

A hurried search of the hotel was
made, but no trace of Reed was to be
found, and Abbott notified local police
headquarters.

No trace of the famous prisoner was
found after he left the hotel, and the
local police and Abbott believe it pos--
sible that Reed caught the 12.29 a. m.
train for New York and the West.

The local police are scouring the
town and the police of all surrounding
towns were telephoned a description of
the man.

Abbott telegraphed the police of
Springfield in time to intercept the man
if he was aboard the western bound
train.

Reed is thirty-nine years of age, five
feet eight inches tall, weighs about
165 pounds, has light hair and light blue
eyes, wore a brown derby hat, black
overcoat with satin lining, blue suit.
colored shirt with a red stripe and a
white standing collar.

The overcoat belonged to Proprietor
P. H. Hurley and was taken by Reed
from the hallway as he left the ho-
tel.

 

 

John Reed, alias George Spencer,
alias John Greenhalge, was arrested
at Philadelphia last January for swind-
ling several Massachusetts farmers by
the three-card monte and green goods
games. _

He was commonly known as the
“prince of confidence men,” and Was
reported to be one of an association of
brainy, unscrupulous men who are be-
lieved to have formed a green goods

. trust with a- capital of five hundred
thousand dollars.

It was supposed that there were at

rleast eight men in this trust. Their
field of endeavor extended from Ver-
mont and Massachusetts in the east,
to Kentucky in the South and Indiana
in the West. Traces of their nefarious
progress have been visible in seventeen
states.

In Indiana alone the unsophisticated
gave up about $60,000 to the “Green
Goods Trust.”

 

For the Nicaragu Canal.

New York, Nov. 1.--A dispatch re.
ceived by William R. Grace & Co. yes--
terday confirms the report that the
Nicaragua Congress has granted to
Edward F. Cragin of Chicago, Edward
Frye and Frank Washburne a conces-
sion for the building of the ship ca-
nal.

The concession will take effect in Oc-
tober, 1899, when the Cardinas-Menpcal
grant, which was obtained in 1889 by
the Nicaragua Canal Company, an or-
ganization With which Warner Miller
is prominently identified, expires.

Mr. Grace said yesterday afternoon
that the syndicate had not yet met,
and he did not feel at liberty to tell

" the names of the capitalists forming
it. He said, however, that C. P. Hunt-
ington was not interested. '

 

Porto Rican Gets a Commission.

Washington, Nov. 1.—The first na-
tive Porto Rican to receive a commis-
sion in the United States army is Dr.
Jose Lugo-Vina, who was recently ap-
pointed, after a personal consultation
with the surgeon-general of the army
and other officers of the war depart-
ment.

Dr. Lugo-Vina was appointed to be
an acting assistant surgeon'and has al-
ready been ordered to report to Major
Nathan S. Jarvis, brigade surgeon at
New York, and to sail on the first
steamship for Ponce, Porto Rico.

He has been a practicing physician
in his native country and was appoint-
ed to the military service became of
his expert knowledge of treatment for
yellow fever and other diseases pre-
valent in the island.

 

More Indian Troubles

Washington, Nov. 1.—Word has

1 reached the

' ) trouble threatened by a band of young

Sioux on.the Pine Ridge agency in

“ North Dakota, who are reported to

have started an organized movement

for the forcible removal of Indian

Agent Clapp from the reservation.

There is nothing on file at the depart-

ment that is averse to Agent Clapp.

The agent is an army officer who is ex-

ecuting his duties satisfactorily and

; the question of removal or transfer is
‘1 not to be entertained.

:‘ In Honor of Surgeon Gibbs.

Washington, Nov. 1.—The president
has directed that the general‘ field hos-
pital at Camp Hamilton, Lexington,
Ky., be known as the John Blair Gibbs
United States Army General Hospital,

l in honor of Assistant Surgeon John
Blair Gibbs, United States navy. who
died on June 12, 1898, from wounds re-
ceived in an .engagement with the
Spaniards at Guantanamo.

 

Presented to President Faure.

Paris, Nov. 1.—The United States am.
bassador, General Horace Porter, yes-
terday mOrnlng presented Mr. Ferdi.
nand W. Peck, the United States com-'
missiOner to the Paris exposition of
1900, 'and the latter's colleagueg- to
President Four-e. ....'.

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RULED GREEN GOODS TRUST‘

 

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ENGLAND up FRANCE

Great“ Activity in British Naval
Circles.

MARCHAND TO BE RETIRED

Reported Orders for Volunteer Mobiliza-
tion. Artillery Corps Instructions. Re«
ported Change of French Policy Con-
cerning Africa. To Raise the Whole
Egyption Question.

London, Nov. 1.—-The British naval
preparations are being pushed with
great activity. The British emergency
squadron is assembling at Devonport
with all possible speed.

Seven battleships and one cruiser
have been thus far designated to join
this squadron. '

Officers and sailors have been hur-
riedly recalled from leaves of absence,
several battleships and cruisers at
Portsmouth are taking their full crews
on board, and other warlike prepara—
tions are being made. A number of
signal men on duty with the British
channel squadron, which arrived ,at
Gibraltar this morning, have been or-
dered home for service, it is presumed,
on board the auxiliary cruisers, if the
latter are required for active service.

A supposed Russian spy was arrested
at a fort near Harwlch yesterday mor-
ning. The man was already under sur-
veillance and went to a redoubt, where
he tried to obtain some information
from a. sentry regarding the fortifica-
tions.

He was promptly arrested and inqui-
ries are being made regarding his an—
tecedents.

It was asserted yesterday that the
commanding officers of the London vol-
unteer regiments have received orders
to prepare for immmediate mobiliza-
tion, and that the different artillery
corps‘have been informed of their al-
lotments to the forts on the southern
and eastern coasts.

The Pall Mall Gazette yesterday af—
ternoon said:

“England has been and even now is
so near war that the government has
carried its preparations to the farthest
limit of the preparatory stage. It has
been arranged to call out the reserves
and militia, and to mobilize the volun-
teers simultaneously, and to form large
camps at various important railroad
junctions, where rolling stock and loco-
motives will be concentrated."

There was an unexpected gloomy
feeling yesterday morning on the stock
exchange, and the Paris Bourse, both
these markets being influenced appar-
ently by the aggressive tone of some
of the French papers.

 

Paris, Nov. 1.—The Eclair says that
it learns on reliable authority that the
Fashoda question will be settled favor-
ably to. Great Britain by the recall of
Major Marchand. France, the paper
adds, yields all, reserving only the
question of the right» to the Bahrel-
Ghazal district, which she does not
consider as belonging to Egypt. The
paper also says:

“M. Delcasse, however, has now de»
cided to raise the whole Egyptian ques-
tion, which should have been done from
the first, thus avoiding the humiliation
of yielding to the British ultimatum.
When the question is thus enlarged,
France will not be alone in its discus-
sion with the Marquis of Salisbury.
Egypt interests all the powers. Russia
has promised M. Delcasse its most ef-
fective assistance, and, besides Ger-
many has the biggest interest, in View
of her East African possessions and
trade in the far East, that the Suez
canal should not become exclusively
British, and is disposed to support
Franco-Russian arguments for a defi-
nite settlement of the Egyptian ques-
tion."

 

Work at Halifax.

Halifax, N. 8., Nov. 1.—Every availa-
ble shipwright in this city has been
engaged by the naval authorities here,
and orders have been given to pre-
pare the battleships and other vessels
for sea as soon as possible.

Saturday the men worked all day,
something unprecedented in the dock
yard here. The great activity display-
ed is the result of messages from the
home authorities.

The battleship Renown, the cruisers
Pelican and Cordelia, the gunboat Co—
lumbine, and two torpedo boats are
now here and are being fitted out as
soon as possible.

So far they have not been ordered
away, but instructions to that. effect
are hourly expected.

A Yellow Fever Bark Missing,

 

interior department of‘

Norfolk, Va., Nov. 1.—The wherea-
bouts of the bark Maryland, on which,
i when at Havana, there were five cases
of yellow fever and three deaths, is a
mystery.

The Maryland sailed from Havana
on October 18_for Baltimore against the
protest of Dr. Brunner, sanitary inspec-
tor of the marine hospital service at
; Havana, who advised the captain to
proceed to Tortugus quarantine.

The Maryland, had she entered the
capes of Virginia, would have been
held up at quarantine, but the officials
yesterday said that nothing had been
seen of the vessel, on which it is feared
other cases of the disease have devel-
oped.

I Sioux Threaten Trouble

[ Washington, Nov. 1.—Word has been
received here by the interior depart-
ment that a band of young Sioux on

I the Pine Ridge agency in North Dako-

i ta, have organized a movement for the

' forcible removal of Indian Agent Clapp
from the reservation.

i Secretary Bliss said yesterday there
was nothing on file at the department
that is adverse to Agent Clapp, and
that the question of removal or trans-
fer is not to be entertained.

Rev. Dr. Samuel W. Duncan Dead.

i Boston, Nov. 1.—Th_e Rev. Dr. Samuel
White Duncan, foreign secretary of the
American Baptist Missionary Union,
since 1892, who reached his home in
Brooklyn on Saturday from a trip to

, the Orient, died yesterday from heart

‘ failure. -

He was sixty years old, was a captain

, in the Fiftieth Massachusetts in the
civil war, and had held pastorates in

‘Rochester, N. Y., and Cincinnati.

 

BLANCO’S ORDER MYSTIFIES.

 

i May be a Clever Scheme to Delay Evacu-
ation Further.

Washington, Nov. 1.—Two construc-
tions are put upon the recent order of
General Blanco that the Spanish troops
.in Cuba shall not be discharged, but
shall first go to Spain and receive their
pay.

This cancels the previous order of
October 4. saying that such Spaniards
as desired could remain in. Cuba.

Should the troops chose to return
under this later order to Spain it would
give the Spaniards a pretext for ask-
ing a. longer time for evacuation, which
may be their desire.

On the other hand it is urged by a
high war department ofiicial that the
cause bf this order lies in the inability
of Blanco to pay them and in the hope,
therefore, that they would desert and
thereby relieve the Spanish government
of further obligation.

The Spanish regular troops in Cuba
are now much scattered, and number
about 85,775. 11 the Province of Pinar
del Rio there are in all 10,450 men. In
the Province of Havana there are 14.—
100 men. In the Province of Matanzas
there are 8,500 men.

In the Province of Santa Clara there
are 23,206 men, of whom 12,550 men are
in the Spiritu division. In the Trocha
J ucaro Moron there are 6,100 men.

In the Province of Puerto Principe
there are 5,000 men.

The Province of Santiago originally
contained 13,525 in the Manzanillo di-
vision, 7,700 in the Holguin division and
21,250 .in the Santiago division. Out of
the total of 42,425 men in Santiago prov-
ince about 24,000 men have been trans-
ported to Spain, leaving about 18,425
now there.

These are regular Spanish troops,
with whose transportation the com-
missioners will have to reckon. _

Besides these there were over 80,000
volunteers and guerillas.

 

Civil Service Reformer-s.
Washington, Nov, 1.—-The Civil Ser-
vice Reform League has sent a letter
to the president expreSsing its hope
that he will not, as reported in the
public press, withdraw a number of
places now filled by civil service meth-
ods from the scope of the civil service
rules. The letter says:

“The League submits for your con-
sideration the certainty that such
changes, whatever their motive and
however plausibly they may be explai-
ned by those by whom they are sug-
gested, will be greeted alike by the
friends and enemies of the merit sys-
tem as a step backward—a step the
more significant because it will be the
first step backward avowedly taken by
the executive branch of the gOVernment
since the civil service law took ef-
fect." ‘

 

Last “'eek of the Campaign.

New York, Nov. 1.-—The last week of
the campaign opened with unusual
snap at Republican campaign head-
quarters. Chairman Odell and Colonel
Roosevelt were on hand early making
arrangements for the fight in New
York county.

Chairman Quigg of the county com-
mittee was in conference with the colo-
nel for some time yesterday regarding
the local campaign.

The colonel will practically devote
the remaining days before election to
his canvass in Greater New York. He
will spend one day, Wednesday, on
Long Island, and will make short runs
to Albany and Troy, but otherwise he
will confine his work to this locality.

The Tammany speakers' bureau has
made arrangements for several meet-
ings in each assembly district every
night this week. In a few days the
executive committee will meet to re-
ceive the usual yearly election predic-
tions of the district leaders. Each
'leader will submit an estimate of the
vote in his district.

Judge Augustus Van Wyck spoke in
Utica with ex-Governor Hill last eve-
ning. He will return to New York to-
day. He has only three more speaking
dates—Poughkeepsie, November 3; Al'-
bany,.November 4, and Troy, Novem-
ber 5.

Foreign Corporations Must Pay.

Washington, Nov. 1.—The United
States supreme court has announced
its decision sustaining the constitution-
ality of that feature of the tax laws
of New York, which lays a tax on for-
eign corporations doing business in the

state, according to the capital em-
ployed. '
The case was instituted against

James A. Roberts, controller of the
state of New York, to test the law and
to vacate an assessment made on the
capital of a large western drug house
which has a branch in the city of New
York.

The lower court sustained the valid-
ity of the law, and the supreme court
now affirms this decision.

 

Indiana Strike Leaders Shot

Washington Depot, Ind., Nov. 1.—
Richard Reibmeister and.Alonzo Rags-
dale, coal strike leaders, were shot by
Austin Kocher, a non-union miner,
yesterday.

Kocher claims that Ragsdale tried to
.hit him with a brick and that Reib-
meister attempted to strike him.

Kocher fired five shots, two of them
taking effect in Ragsdale’s neck and
one in Reibmeister’s side. Ragsdale is
seriously hurt.

 

The Celtic at Bohia.

Washington, Nov. 1.—The Celtic, one
of the colliers accompanying the battle-
ships Oregon and owa on their voyage
to Honolulu, put in at Bahia yesterday
and cabled notice of her arrival to the
department. -

As the Celtic left Tompkinsville at
the same time as the battleships, it is
expected at the department that the
latter will also arrive a Bahia in a
day or two.

 

Comptroller Dawes in Town

New ork, Nov. 1.——Charles G. Dawes,
comptroller of the currency, is in town.

terday that he was here to obtain the
views of local bankers regarding the
banking facilities that should be ex—
tended taithis country's new colonies.

Guarding Against Plague.

St. Petersburg, Nov. 1.-The Zeitung
says that the commission charged with
the ' duty of taking precautionary
measures against the bubonic plague
has engaged a staff of forty physicians
who will proceed immediately to Sa-
marcand. "

 

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LOOKS ”ll A FIGHT

Nicaragua Canal.

CONGRESS MAY INTER FERE

Former Mayor Grace Alone Stands Sponsor
for New Syndicate. Waterway Must be
Comp etedjin Three Years. Old Com-
pany Claims Latest Grant Infringel on
Its Rights. 1

New York. Nov. 2.——The capitalists
behind the new Nicaragua canal syndi-
cate, who, through Edward F. Cragin
of Chicago and Edward Eyre of' New
York, have obtained a sweeping con-
cession from the Republic of Nicara-
gua, will not disclose their names.

Former Mayor Wm. B. Grace. how-
ever, stands sponsor for them in the
statement that behind the syndicate
there is an ample supply of money.

Mr. Collis P. Huntington, whose
name was yesterday mentioned as one
of the capitalists in the syndicate, de-
nies that he is in any way interested,
and expresses the opinion that if the
syndicate stops to count the cost its
members will not build. ,

The concession of the new syndicate
is to go into force when that of the
Maritime Canal Company shall expire,
in October of next year.

The concession provides that the ca.-
nal shall be built in three years, and
the work of construction must begin
before April 10, 1900.

The profits of the canal are to go to
the new company for one hundred and
ninety-nine years, at the end of which
period half the net receipts will go to
the Republic of Nicaragua.

Should the waterway not be complet-
ed in three years the new canal com-
pany must connect the uncompleted
water route by. railroad, so that there
will be a. continuous system of trans-
portation between the two oceans.

Mr. Hiram Hitchcock, proprietor of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, is president cf
the Maritime Canal Company, whose
concession expires on October 10 of next
year. This company is composed of
American business men who have a
charter from the United States and
concessions from Costa Rica and Nic-
aragua.

They have already spent millions in
surveys, soundings, engineering plans,
telegraphlines, the building of wharves
and the clearing of land, the construc-
tion of buildings, the laying out of
a railroad and the opening of more
than a mile of the canal. ‘

There is a bill now in Congress to
give government aid to this enter-
prise. A commission of experts ap-
pointed by the United States has re-
ported on the practicability of the
route, and places the cost at $110,000,-
000.

The concession, while it expires on
October 10 of next year, contains a re-
newal clause providing for indefinite
extension should the work at that pe—
riod be well under way.

Should the bill now before Congress

pass at the December session, which
is likely, the canal would be well _on
the way to completion in October of.
next year, and the Cragin-Eyre conces-
sion would fail.

The select committee of the Senate

has reported favorably the bill to aid.

the Maritime Canal and also distinctly
recognizes in its report that the men
who now hold the concession have cer-
tain property rights which should be
protected by the United States in the
event of any attempt on the part of
Nicaragua to deprive them of the priv-
ileges they have under the concession
granted.

Mohegan Survivors,

New York, Nov. 2.—The Atlantic
transport liner Marquette, which ar-
rived here yesterday from London.
brought two of the survivors of the ill
fated Mohegan, Thomas Mitchell of
Boston and James Ward of Jersey
City, both cattlemen.

Ward says that Mitchell saved elev-
en lives, swimming to the wreck with
a line.

Mitchell would say nothing about his
heroic work, but hurried home.

Those navigating the Mohegan paid
no attention to the rockets fired from
shore warning the vessel to keep ofi‘
the coast, according to Ward’s state-
ment.

The life boat, in which he and ‘27
others escaped, was sinking, be de-
clares, when the coast guard boat came
up.

There was no plug in the Mohegan’s
life boat and it would have sunk had
the occupants not bailed out the water
with their shoes.

Twa Hallowe’en Tragedies.

Muskegon, Nov. 2.——Leslie Parker, a
sixteen year old boy, was shot dead on

1 Monday evening.

With other boys he indulged in Hal-
lowe'en sports about the premises of
Michael Burns, an aged man. The lat-
ter fired a charge of buckshot at the
boy.

 

Columbus, 0., Nov.'2.-—Artie Smoke,
aged eighteen, of Kirkersville, near this
city, while on a Hallowe’en lark went
into the corn field of Thomas Randall
Monday night to procure corn. was
mistaken for a thief by Randall who
shot him in the head, killing him in-
, stantly.

 

Oregon Indian Trouble Over.

Baker City, Ore., Nov. 2.——The Indi-
ans are leaving Grant county as fast
as possible, and no further trouble is
expected.

The coroner’s jury exhumed the body
of one of the Indians killed near Izee,

 

It was understood in Wall street yes- .

. and found that his death was at the

i hands of a deputy sheriff and posse,

who .figked for a peaceable surrender
; and were answered by the Indians 0p-
: ening fire, killing one“ of their number,
George Cutting. ' ‘
The posse then returned the fire, kil-
fi ling five Indians.

Porte Asks a Concession.

 

Constantinople, Nov. 2.-The Porte ;

has addressed a note to the foreign em-

. bassies reverting to the question of the -

.,.maintenance of a. sufficient force of
troops in Crete to insure the protection
of the Turkish flag.

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EMPEROR WILLIAM AT JERUSALEM.

 

Ho Promise: for Peace and Renews Hie
Vow to Serve the Lord.

Jerusalem Nov. 1, delayed in trans-
; mission—Emperor William Went to
1' Mount Zion this morning, where oc-
curred the ceremony of hoisting the
'German and Turkish flags on a. piece
of ground upon which, according to
tradition, formerly stood the abode of
. the Virgin Mary, and which the sultan
l presented to the German emperor.
The
I presented the ground to the German
, Catholics.

 

Jerusalem, Nov. 2.—-Emperor William
'has telegraphed to the pope, saying:
’ “I am happy to be able to inform your
‘ holiness that, thanks to the benevo-
lent intervention of his majesty, the
sultan, who has not hesitated to give
me this proof of his personal friend-
ship, I have been able to acquire at
Jerusalem the abode of the Holy Vir—
gin. I decided to place this ground,
consecrated by so many pious memo-
ries, at the disposal of my Catholic
subjects. It rejoices my heart to be
able thus to prove how dear to me are
the religious interests of the Catholics
whom Divine Providence has placed in
my care. I beg your holiness to accept
the assurance of my sincere attach-
ment.” '

The pope replied, thanking him and
expressing satisfaction at the gift, for
which he was sure the German Cath-
olics would be deeply grateful.

The emperor, at the close of the
ceremony of consecration of the Church
of the Redeemer here, read an address,
during which he said:

“From Jerusalem came the light in
splendor from which the German na-
tion became great and glorious, and
what the Germanic peoples have be-
come they became under the banner of
the cross, the emblem of self—sacrific-
ing charity. As nearly two thousand
years ago, so to-day shall I ring out
the cry, voicing‘my ardent hope, to all
~‘Peace on 'earth!’ '"

He then renewed the vow of his an-
cestors, saying: “I and my house will
serve the Lord." He then called upon
all present to make the same vow,
concluding with a prayer—“God grant
that confidence in the Almighty, broth—
erly love, resignation in suffering, and
efficient work may remain the German
nation’s noblest ornament, and that
the spirit of peace may more and more
permeate and hallow the evangelical
church."

 

The War Inquiry.

Washington, Nov. 2.—The members
of the war inquiry commission who did
not go to Lexington. Cincinnati and
other western cities, reached Wash-
ington yesterday and will hold a meet-
ing to-day to arrange for the trip to
Camp Meade, near Middletown, Pa,
where they expect to procure testi-
mony bearing upon the conduct of
Camps Alger and Wikoff.

 

Lexington, Ky., Nov. 2.—Before the
war inquiry commission yesterday,
General J. C. Bates testified est 0 the
camps at Mobile and Chickamauga. He
went to see General Brooke regarding
the lack of equipments, clothing and
other supplies. He said:

“The day before we left Mobile we
got pretty well supplied. These were
supplies for recruits. At Santiago We
had bread and meat always. Montauk
Point was not the proper place for a
camp of sick soldiers at this time of
year. At Montauk Point I learned that
the Long Island Railroad had an ex-
tensive contract to haul the soldiers
to the city. I issued orders to allow
other railroads to come in and help
take off the sick.

“In Cuba medical supplies were wo-
fully short. The medical officers said
they could not get them.”

 

 

Death of a Centenarian,

Bellefonte, Pa., Nov. 2.——Nancy J.
Barger died yesterday morning at the
age of one hundred and six years and
one month.

Two months ago she fell and receiv-
ed injuries which resulted in her
death.

She was born in Cumberland county
in 792, and with her husband came to
this county in 1814, and had lived in
the same house for more than sixty
years.

Five children survive, the oldest be-
ing Samuel Barger, aged eighty-four
years. Mrs. Barger was in possession
of all her faculties until her death.

 

Joseph Lelter’s Plan.

Chicago, Nov. 2.-—Joseph Leiter, who
returned home yesterday, speaking of
the purchase of the Providence Loco-
motive Works, said:

“The deal is going through, but I am
not prepared to give out any of the de-
tails further than to say that a cor-
poration will take over the plant and
continue the manufacture of locomo-
tives and other specialties.”

It is said that John W. Gates of the
Illinois Steel Company, and several
New York people are interested in the
Providence deal with Leiter.

 

Coming on the St. Louis.

Southampton, Nov. 2.——The American
line steamer St. Louis, which is sched-
uled to sail from this port on Novem-
ber 5 for New ork. will have on board
as passengers Thomas W. Cridler,-thc
third assistant secretary of state, and
special commissioner of the United
States to the Paris exposition of 900,
and Mrs. Cridler, Justin McCarthy,
Mme. Nordica, Ferdinand W. Peck,
the commissioner general for the Uni-
ted States to the Paris exposition, and
Mrs. Peck and Olga Nethersole.

 

H lghbin ders liIake Threats.

San Francisco, Nov. 2.—Friendly Chi-
nese have warned Rev. Dr. Garner, in-
terpreter of the Chinese bureau, who is
making an aggressive campaign
,against the trade in slave girls, that
gI-Iighbinders had decided to take his
; life if he persists in supplying the
lgovernment with information detri-
Emental to Highbinders and their chat-

 

 

l
i Rebellion in the Philippines.
3 Madrid, Nov. 2.—A dispatch tram the
, Visayas group of the Philippine islands
Q says that several companies of native
3. troops there have rebelled.
They were pursued and several of
them were killed.
, The governor of the Visayas expres-
’ sed the hope that the rebellion woutd
not spread.

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They Persist Also in the Story that the
Cuban Debt Question Was Only Settled
for the Time Spain Will Rather Wlth- ’
draw Than Submit to flui’nillatlng
Tervns. '

Paris, Nov. 2.-—The French papers de-
rive their news of the work of the
peace negotiations from Spanish sour-
ces, and, therefore, the morning papers
here are interesting, as indicating the
atmosphere in Spanish'quarters.

It must be remembered that the
Spaniards have unconditionallyac cep-
ted the refusalo ft he United States to
assume the Cuban debt, and the Cuban
article is ready for the final treaty,
providing differences on the question
of the Philippines shall not prevent the
making of any treaty.

As the whole is composed of all its
parts, so must the Philippine question
be mutually agreed upon or none of
those questions previously agreed on
will find a. place in the treaty.

This is all the provision or provision-
al understanding existent. _

In view of the facts, then, the Paris
press shows ate ndency to confuse the
situation.

The Matin says: “It is well under-
stood that the cession of Porto Rico
was tantamount to the payment of a
war indemnity in cash, and entirely
freed Spain from any subsequent rep-
etition on the subject.”

.Turing to Cuba, the Matin contin-
ues: “The Spaniards declined to con-
cur in separating the debt from the
pledge, the mortgage frOm the loan,
and as it was impossible to reach an
understanding, they asked, that at
least the order of the protocol be in-
verted, and that the question of the
Philippines be previously discussed,
that question possibly offering the
Americans an opportunity for tender-
ing some compensation for the enor-
mous sacrifices they have forced upon
the conquered.

“The. Americans finally acceded to
the change, and only asked the Span-
iards to accept provisionally the clau-
ses relating to the Cuban debt, with
the reservation that the acceptance
could be withdrawn if no agreement
was reached as to the Philippines." ,

Referring to Monday’s meeting, the
Matin says: “The Spaniards said that
they would make their answer known
on Friday. But it is easy to foresee
what it will be—a refusal, precise and
formal. The Spanish plenipotentiaries
have made up their minds, in the event
of the United States adverting to the
Philippine proposition, to decline sign-
ing the act of peace, to break off the
negotiations and to call upon the civil-
ized nations to witness the abuse of
and theviol ation of the provisions set
forth in the Washington protocol."

The Gaulois remarks: “The Span:-
iards will never agree to abandon the
archipelago without compensation and
we believe the Americans intend to
suggest that they will assume the Phi—
lippine debt. We hope the negotiations
will not be broken, but Spain, it is
given out as certain, would take such
a course rather than submit to humili-
ating terms."

 

To Stamp Out Yellow Fever.

Mexico City, Nov. 2.—The govern—
ment is taking measures for carrying
out the sanitation of Mexican gulf
ports. It is believed here that when
the American government completes
the reconstruction of the sewerage sys-
tem of Havana and cleans out the bay,
with moderate care in Mexican gulf
ports yellow fever can be stamped out.
Heavy northerly gales on the coast are
reported, and the health of the coast
cities has improved.

The deathzof Colonel Waring is much
lamented here by sanitarians, he be
ing considered the best man to accom-
plish 'the work of sanitation. .

Laredo, Tex., Nov. 2.-—Mexican offi-
cials report four deaths from yellow
fever in Monterey on Sunday. Entire
families are known to be stricken. Re-
liable information is to the effect that
the business in that city is paralyzed.

 

Honors lor War Heroes.

Washington, Nov. 2.—Brigadier Gen—
eral Theodore Schwan, United States
volunteers(c olonel, assistant adjutant
general United States army); Briga-
dier General H. V. Boynton, United
States volunteers, and Lieutenant Colo-
nel W. H. Carter, assistant adjutant
general, have been constituted a board
for the purpose of making recommen«
dations for brevet promotions, the

.award of medals of honor and cedtifi-

cates of ,merit for the officers and en-
listed men who participated 'in the
campaigns of Santiago, the Philippines
and Porto Rico.
The board is instructed to meet
this city on November 9.
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The Whaling Season.

San Francisco, Nov. 2.——The whaling
bark Horatio has reached port from
the Arctic ocean with eight hundred
and forty barrels of sperm oil, three -
hundred and fifty barrels of whale oil,
and 4,300 pounds of bone, the whole be-
ing valued at over 35,000.

It is estimated that the whaling fleet
will put more than a million and a half
dollars in circulation in San Francisco
this winter.

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Naval Officers Discharged.

Washington, Nov. 2.—The following
officers of the navy have been honora—
bly discharged:

Lieutenant W. H. Eliot, Ensign J. F,
Tatem, Naval Cadet G. D. Montgom-
ery, Passed Assistant Engineer W. H.
Badlam, Assistant Engineers F. W.
Roller, W. Goodman, McC. Pate, J. F.
Morris, T. Dimon and C. H. Treat.

 

No Sale of C-~erukee Lands. .

washington, Nov. 2.—The interior
department has no information regard-
ing a reported project for buying up
the lands of the Cherokee Indians in
Indian Territory, and the authorities
say that the Cherokee nation could not
sell its’ lands save to the United State-41
government. ’

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