Norwalk gazette, Friday, March 31, 1899 · page 11

 

 

WANT MORE MONEY.

Delegates of the Cuban; As
sembly In Washington.

AUDIENCE WITH PRESIDENT DESIRET.

The Assembly Represents Only Those
Cubans Who Have Been In Arms
For Independence—Ten Millions
‘ the Least That Will Satisfy.

WASHINGTON, March 29.—-Senors
Jose R. Villalon and A. ,Hevia, who
were appointed by the Cuban assembly
to present to the Washington authori-
ties the resolutions of that body, have
arrived in this city. Their mission, in
addition to the presentation. of the res-
olutions, is to explain in detail the sit-
uation with reference to the insurgent
army. While the assembly did not re—
ject the $3,000,000 which General Gomez
arranged with Mr. Robert P. Porter to
receive and pay off the Cuban troops
they believe it to be entirely inadequate
to meet the situation. They desire at

least $10,000,000 and as much more as?

can be obtained. They argue that if
the Cuban army is disbanded after the
distribution of but $3,000,000, which

would give to each enlisted man about .
$68, that the money so obtained would
be barely sufficient for them to procure ;
clothes and return to their homes, leav- 1

ing them no margin upon which to en-
ter upon the peaceful pursuits of life.
Without means of subsistence-Senor
Villalon says that disorders would al-
most inevitably follow and perhaps
brigandage. The object both of the
United States and of the assembly, says
Senor Villalon, is to, secure tranquillity
in Cuba preparatory to the setting up
by the Cuban people of an independent
government, and he says that it is
therefore as much to the interests of
the United States authorities as to
those who immediately represent the
Cuban patriots to see that the dis—
banded soldiers are given an opportu-
nity to return to civil pursuits.

The assembly represents not the Cu-
ban people, Senor Villaion declares, but
only those who have been in arms
struggling for their independence. Had
Cuba achieved her absolute independ-
ence, he says, the revolutionary as-
sembly would have raised sufficient
funds to pay off the army in full, and
inasmuch as the United States now as-
sumes and exercises the functions of a
trustee for the Cuban people during the
re-establishment of order throughout
_ the island preparatory to the establish-

ment of a stable and independent gov- -

ernment he, as the representative of
the assembly, will urge that it is the
duty of the United States to furnish
ample fun‘ds, payable subsequently out
of the Cuban revenues. They desire
that the Washington authorities shall
fully understand the dangers which
may follow if the insurgents are dis-
banded and sent to their homes without
adequa e means to begin life afresh. If
the United States adheres to the present
understanding with General Gomez and
the army is disbanded under the $3,-
000,000 basis and disorder follows, the
assembly wants its skirts clear of re-
sponsibility.

Senor Villalon says that the assem— .

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with thé'L'n-ted States, that nothing
could exceed the gratitude of the Cu-
bans for the aid of the United States,
but they cannot too strongly emphasize
the belief that the problem of the fu-
ture will be a‘reatly simplified if enough

funds are distributed among the Cu-- .;

ban soldiers now to insure their being
able to return to the peaceful pursuits
of life. The assembly will, Senor Vil-

soon as the army is disbanded, as it
repr esents only. the Cubans in arms. He
believes that. within a. year a conven-
tion representing the whole Cuban peo-
ple will meet and frame a constitutiOn
and be ready for the assumption of' the
duties of selfgoVernment.

Senor Villalon and his colleague will
probably seek an audience with the
president himself, and if this is denied
them they will see the secretary of war.

 

Successful Seal Fishing.

ST. JOHN’S, N. F., March 29.—The
sealing steamers Leopard, with 12,600
seals, Vanguard with 25, 000 seals, and
Neptune, with 32,000 seals, have arrived
here. They report that the remaining
ten vessels of the northern fleet are
almost loaded and that the Walrus _will
probably secure a full cargo. The fish-
ery is likely to prove the most success-
ful on record.

 

No Vermont Maple Sugar.

CHESTER, Vt, March 29.~—The maple
sugar harvest in Vermont is believed to
be a total failure this year, and if the
worst fears of the sugar makers are re—
alized the industry will be crippled for
many years to come.~ The injury to
sugar orchards was done last summer
by an army of caterpillars, and this
spring the trees are, found to be sapless.

 

California Floods Increase.

STOCKTON, Cal., March 29.—Reports
from many sections of the San Joaquin
show that the flood caused by the heavy
rains is increasing. Water is still pour-
ing in on the lowlands. In some places
the water is so deep that the owners do
not expect to have their land drained
before July, too late for the planting of
a second crop.

Maine Lumber Harvest.

BANGOR; Ma, .March 29.—Maine's
two great lumber rivers, the Penobscot
and the Kennebec, will have about 250,-
000,000 feet" of logs this year, of which
about 50,000,000 feet will be for the sup-
ply of pulp mills. This cut does not in-
clude certain small brook drives or the
logs held up last season.

A Shiploud of Dead Heroes.

NEW YORK, March 29,—The United
States transport Crook, from ‘Santiago,
with the bodies of the 500 men who gave
up their lives on Cuban soil, reached
quarantine last evening. As she passed
Sandy Hook guns boomed out and col-
ors were dipped.

A Presidential Possibility.
MILWAUKEE, March 29.—The Jour-
nal says: “A movement is under way
tO‘make ex-Secretary of State Richard
Olney the Democratic candidate for
president next year. It is revealed in
a letter from Boston to The Journal."

Weather Probabilities.
-Rain, followed by clearing; colder;
increasing easterly winds, becoming
high northwesterly.

 

 

NAVAL BOARD REPORT.

All the omeers Appointed ‘Are Fu-
vorubly Passed.
WASHINGTON“, March 29. —The na-
.val board of promotion, consisting of
Rear Admirals McNair, Howell and
Howison, completed its work yesterday
and submitted its report. The board was

, iconvened to determine the qualifica-
lalon says, probably be dissolved as :

tions of those officers recently advanced

‘ to the rank of rear admiral under the
- terms of the naval personnel bill.
; report passes favorably on all the cm-
~_ cers appointed, so that all question of
I their advancement is removed. The list

The

is as follows:

Rear Admirals George C. Remey, Nor-
man H. Farquhar, John C. Watson,
Henry B. Robeson, Winfield S. Schley,
Silas Casey, William T. Sampson, Bart-
lett J. Cromwell, John W. Philip, Fran-
cis J. Higginson, Henry F. Picking,
Frederick Rodgers, Louis Kempff and
George W. Sumner.

In addition to this favorable action
was taken on Captain Benjamin F. Day,

‘ whose formal promotion to the rank of

rear admiral by appointment of the
president has not yet been made. The
retirement yesterday of Rear Admiral
Robeson caused a vacancywhich makes
Captain Day a. rear admiral.

The report of the board is now to be
approved by the judge advocate gener-
al and by the secretary of the navy,
which, however, is merely a formality.
It was stated authoritatively that it did
not contain a word regarding the re-
spective merits of Rear Admiral Schley
or Rear Admiral Sampson.

Editor Medill’s Will.
CHICAGO, March 29.—-The will of Jo-
seph Medill, late editor of The Tribune,
has been filed in the probate court. The

. estate, which is estimated at about $2,-

000,000 net, is bequeathed in equal
shares to his two daughters, Mrs. Rob-
ert W. Patterson and Mrs. Robert S.
McCormick. The Tribune stock is left
in trust to Robert W. Patterson, Robert
S. McCormick and William G. Beale,
Who are given full power to vote and
manage or sell as the majority may de-
cide. The heirs at law are authorized
to dispose by will of their interest in
The Tribune if not sold at the time of
their decease.‘ In addition to a number
of bequests to relatives Mr. Medill left
$1,000 each to a number of old Tribune
employees.

Bids For New '51-]: CustOm House.

WASHINGTON, March 29.—At a con-
ference between Assistant Secretary
Taylor and Mr. Bidwell, collector of
customs at New York, it has been de-
cided to invite sealed proposals for the
purchase of the old custom house prop-
erty in New York, the government re-
serving the right to reject any or all
bids. The terms of the sale will be ad-
vertised in the newspapers, under which
prospective purchasers will be given 30
days in which to submit their bids.

 

The 'reie’gi-wp’ii 'izi’i‘i-uand.
Ireland’s telegraph department re-
cently proved that it could manage
Gaelic by taking the speechesdelivered
at an Irish festival at Letterkenny.
county Donegal, in the native tongue

and receiving them at. Dublin so that

t-hey could be printed in Gaelic char»
enters- in the T’rmman‘e Journal.

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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

Successful Experiments in England
Over Long Distances.

LONDON, March 29.—Signor Gugliel-
mo Marconi, the inventor who recently,
after long delay, obtained permission
from the French government to estab-
lish a station on the French coast for.
the purpose of experimenting with
wireless telegraphy between England
and France, announces that he has con-
ducted successful experiments between
South Foreland, county of 'Kent, and
Boulogne, at the mouth of the Lianne.

 

 

South Foreland is the most easterly
land in England, consisting of a chalky
cliff about 200 feet in height projecting
into. the North sea and having two
lighthouses with an elevation of 372
feet.‘ Signor Marconi, whose system 01
wireless telegraphy- has been in prac-

tical operation off the English coast for .

several months between the South
Foreland lighthouse and the East
Goodwin lightship, a distance of 12

miles, had considerable difficulty in ob-
taining the consent of the French gov-
ernment to his proposal to establish
communication of this nature between
the English and French coasts. About
a month ago, however, M. Lockroy,
French minister of marine, consented
to a test to be made between Dover and
Calais or Folkestone and Cape Gris Nez,
the distance 'in each case being about
20 miles.

I
The distance from the South Foreland '

lighthouse to Boulogne- -Sur- Mer is 32
miles, the greatest previous distance
covered having been the 18 miles be-
tween Poole and Bo'urnemouth, in Eng-
land. An experience of 14 months had
shown him that no kind of weather in
England would stop the working of his
apparatus. The vertical conductor he
uses is the main feature of his system,
and he has found that the distance to
which signals may be sent varies ac-
cording'to the square of the length of
this conductor.
he used a conductor 80 feet high, and in
his application to M. Lockroy he con-

tended that with a conductor 114 feet ,

high he could establish communication
between points on opposite sides of the

tance ten miles better.

His experiments have already proved
that when such a vertical wire, or con-
ductor, is employed no hindrance to
signaling is caused by bills or other ob-
stacles or by the curvature of the earth.

Communication between lightships
and-shore is a matter of great impor-
tance, and the wireless system between
the South Forelandlighthouse and the
East Goodwin lightship worked all
through the fierce storms of the latter
part of February without interruption.
the messages being flashed continually
from ship to shore and vice versa.

 

For Towing the Puvonin.
LONDON, March 29.—The owners of
the British steamer Wolviston have
been awarded $25,000 salvage for towing
the Cunard line steamer Pavonia into
St. Michael's. '

General Flagler Better.
NEWPORT NEWS, March 29.-—The
condition of General Flagler, who has
been critically ill at Old Point, "is re-‘
ported by his physicians as much im-

proved. ’

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AM ERICA’S are TASK.

 

A British Olncer Looks on the Dark .

Side of the Philippine Quegtion.

LONDON,- March' .29. —— The Daily
Chronicle this morning prints extracts
from a letter. written. by a distinguish-
ed British naval Oificer, recently in
Philippine waters, who dilates upon the

difficulties facing the Americans there. 1
whose name is not given, 1
says that the climate is very trying for 5 total acreage Of 623.218.619-
nine months of the year and that it is Q

" the sum of $13,279.252,649.

The Writer,

quite impossible for whites to live there.
The Americans, he declares, lack mule
batteries or horses -to move their ar-
tillery. He is confident that the Amer-
icans “would prefer to clear out,” but
explains that “they cannot do this be-
cause of the foreign merchants." ‘

The officer also remarks; “The Amer—
icans do not appear to understand the
game of using one lot of natives against
another. If they wish to conquer the
islands, they must adopt that plan and
also make roads and railways.”

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Negroes Cause Trouble.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 29.—The
trouble at Dolomite, where negroes re-
sented the arrest of one of their num-
ber Sunday night, besides shooting one
of their number because he declined to
resist arrest, was resumed early yes-
terday. Mack Chambers and another
white man were shot at long range and
wounded. Sheriff O’Brien has made 35
arrests. The ringleaders are discharged

' members of the Third Alabama colored

regiment, who have advised the- negro
mineIS not to submit to ariest. Work
has been re umed at the mines, with a.

; stiong fo1ce of deputies on gua: d.

The President’s*B.etur-n. _
WASHINGTON, March 29.—President
McKinley has returned to Washington
after an-outing of two weeks and a day.
The special train bearing the president
and the members of the party who have

: been with him through the trip pulled

into the Pennsylvania depot here at ex-

- s' 1. 18 ‘les 3 actly 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The
For 13ml mg m1 ' trip was without special incident. There

was no speechmaking, thOugh at sever-
al points along the route large crowds
had gathered, anxious to get a glimpse
of the chief executive. Both Mr. and

strait of Boyer and even go that dis- : Mrs. McKinley are greatly refreshed by

the outing.

Researcnes In Mexico. ~ ~"
PUEBLA, Mexico, March 29 -—Pro-
fessor Frederick Starr of the United
Society of Chicago has arrived here
from the wilds of southern Mexico. He
spent some time among the Indians of
the state of oaxaca, and he said that
his researches " revealed that canni-
balism actually existed among them
not longer ago than 40 years.

 

 

Articles Must Be Signed.

SPRINGFIELD,Ills., March 29.+Rep-
resentative Rankin has introduced in
the legislature a bill providing that ev-
ery article in a newspaper or other
printed publication tending to impeach
the reputation of any person shall be
signed by the writer thereof. The bill
is modeled after the California law on
this subject.

'ictims of Windsor Fire.
NEW YORK, March 29.—Up to 10
o’clock last night 26 bodies had been re-
covered from the ruins of the Windsor
hotel. These, added to "the number of
identified, make 37 in all.

 

PROTECT THE sinus
important Facts Compiled 1.. wu-

m Dutehew of the Ameri-
con OrnitholocisW-Unlou.

 

According to the census of 1890 there
were in the United States the encr-
mous number of 4.504.641 farms, with a
The vale '
uation of these farm lands is placed at
The labor
of the farmer and fruit grower is re-
paid‘by products to the value of$2.460,«

E 107,454 per year, but it. is said that;

insects and rodents destroy products
annually to the astonishing money
value of $200,000,000, eVen with the
birds as protectors. Just imagine what.
the additional loss would he were all

the birds destroyed. They are fast.

being exterminated, and unless that.
large class of the population, the agri-
cult-urists,awaken to‘the gravity of.
the situation and. absolutely demand I
that no more birds be killed for any
purpose whatever. they will soon feel
the shorisigbtedness in actual dollars!
and cents. A difi‘ersmce of one per.
cent. in the value of the farm products
amounts to the enormous sum of 324,-
601,074. The birds are now killed: for.
two purposes only: for food and mils
linery ornaments. For food, only a.
very few are shot. i. e.. the game birds,
and these only during restricted porn
tions of the year, so they do not ma-
terially affect the result. There isno
excuse for shooting the second class
of birds, as' their value as millinery
ornaments is far less than their value
as insect destroyers. Besides this,
contrast the difi‘erencein the money.
value of the two interests that are
opposed to each other. By the census
of 1890 we find that: the total capital
invested in the millinery and lace trade"
is $22,939,430, and the cost of the mar
terial used that. year was $27,345,118.'
Place the two interests side by side,
$13,000,000,000 against $23,000,000.Again,
_an Annual product of $2.212,000,000‘
as'ag'ainst $27,000,000. _ I ask, and 1‘
wish I could shout my question in a,
voice so loud and clear that every man;
woman and child. in this broad land of
ours could bear it: Have the milliners,
with their paltry interests, any right.
to jeopardize the safety of the agri-
culturalinterests? Ponder! A differ-
ence of only one percentum in the 8.11-
nual product of our farms and gar?
dens amounts to more than the entire
millinery and lace interests of the
United States. Will the farmers and-
fruit growers remain silent much longs
er and permit the birds, their best.
Eriends, to be killed thatatriflinginter~_
est like the millinery trade may make
a few more dollars at the sacrifice of.
so much that is beautiful. as well as
cf economic value?

 

Strength of 1: Mushroom. '

In London a paving stone which
weighed 500 pounds. and which wa-
wedged in on all sides by other stones.
was- lifted 11p_ 53‘: a mushroom.

 

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