. i. . SOME FAKE STORIES Statements Regarding The Hague Conference Denied. , AMERICAN COMMITTEE STATES FACTS Reported Hostility of Germany to Arbitration and Abandonment of the American Plan of Arbitra- tion Are Baseless Falsehoods. THE HAGUE, June 14.—In view of the statement published in the United ' States that Mr. Frederick Hells of the American delegation to the peace confer- ence had cabled to the state, department at Washington that Germany was op- posed to arbitration in principle it may be well to state that Mr. Holls yester— day declared there was absolutely no foundation for such a statement. He said that, as a matter of fact, he had not sent the state department a message of any kind since his arrival here and that the cable message forwarded by the delegation had not contained the least justificationi‘for the-statement published. “There is no doubt,” said Mr. Holls, “that the Germans, in this respect re- sembling the French and some other Eu- ?opean nations, are not as enthusiastic in support of the arbitration principle as are others which should take the lead in the matter, but the German delegates are co-operating loyally in framing the ar- bitration schedulc,'a‘n‘d nothing has oc- curred which would justify the publica- tion of any statement as to German hos- tility to arbitration. , “There is another story which is quite as false and which in\ the United States may be even more mischievous. I mean the absurd story that we have abandon- ed the American plan for a permanent arbitration board. The delegation, there- fore, has prepared the following state- ment: ' . “‘In view of the misleading state- ments published in America regarding 7the course of the drafting committee of the arbitration committee and the exact position of the American proposals you may say that the American plan for a permanent tribunal, which has been cor— rectly set forth in the American papers, has been referred with other similar plans to the drafting committee. This committee will report to the full commis— sion on arbitration the exact text of the American proposals as submitted and al- so the exact text of all other proposals submitted as the drafting committee shall provisionally recommend. The commission on arbitration and afterward the conference will then finally pass on the various projects. The fact that in the drafting committee the English pro- posals have been used as the basis of discussion does not indicate in the least the abandonment of any other plans. It is not expected that the drafting com- mittee will be ready to report to the com- mission on, arbitration for a week or ten days, and all statements regarding its work or attitude are mere surmises.’ ” Sir Julian Pauncefgte, head of ‘the British delegation, last evening em- phatically confirmed the accuracy of the statement of Mr. Halls. The subcommittee of the Red Cross section met yesterday, Professor Ass-er of the Dutch delegation presiding, to hear the report of Professor Louis Re- nault of the French delegation on the extension of the Geneva convention to naval warfare. The report, in the unanimous opinion of the delegates, is a masterly piece of work. All the essential principles of the original scheme as embodied in the re- port were agreed to, although several amendments as to details were submit- ted. .Stewart Property Claims Dismissed. NEW YORK, June 14.-Alexander :Stewart, who claims to be one of the heirs to the property of Alexander T. .Stewart, the dry goods millionaire, and Mary Agnes Carroll, liis niece and an- .other claimant to the estate, had their claims dismissed by Justice Scott in the supreme court yesterday. In his decision .Judge Scott said, “Upon the case as pre- sented I cannot escape the conclusion that this is a baseless action, begun in the hope that the defendants may find it cheaper to buy off theplaintiifs than to test the action.” ,, Harrison’s Nephew Married. WINDSOR, Vt., June 14.—Edward ' Harrison, a nephew of former President Harrison, was married yesterday at St. Paul's church to Miss Susie Wardner, a niece of Hon. and Mrs. \Villiam M. Ev- ,arts. . The ceremony was performed by Rev. E. N. Goddard. A large number of relatives and friends of the bride and groom were present, but the ill health of Mr. Evarts prevented the attendance 0 himself and Mrs. Evarts. ,/ May Not Imprint Checks. WASHINGTON, June 14.—A regula- tion of the internal revenue bureau is- sued today will have the effect of pro- hibiting makers of blank checks and drafts from imprinting the same with revenue stamps under government au- thority. Hereafter the making of the checks and drafts and the imprinting must be done by different parties, . The Yankee Won. MONTREAL, J nnc 14.——The second race of the series for the special cup be- tween the Yankee of the White Bear club, St. Paul, and the Dominion of the Royal St. Lawrence club Was a walk- over for the Yankee, the Dominion breaking her mast in making the second buoyof the race. Newfoundland Village Destroyed. ST. JOHN’S, N. F., Juno Eli—The vil- lage of Bay of Islands, a settlement on the western coast of Newtoundland, forming part of what is called the French shore, has been destroyed by forest fires. Sixty-nine houses Were burned to the ground and 57 families rendered home- less. - -’ Coin Dealer’s Shop Raided. BOSTON, June 14.—Secret Service Agent Bedfern raided a Devonshire street coin dealer’s shop yesterday and seized some $3,000 worth of books and catalogues containing printed representa— ’ tions of the coins of the United States. Charles Emory Smith at Roanoke. SALEM, Vi, June 14.—The annual address before the literary societies of ' Roanoke college was delivered last even- ing by Postmaster General Charles Em- ory Smith. He took for his theme “American Patriotism and Progress.” > Weather Probabilities. Showers this afternoon and tomorrow; light to fresh southerly. winds. WEEKLY f-‘NORW-ALK - GAZETTE. , 'AN Align nan. General Lawton’s Troops En- counter Sharp Resistance. uumcu LOSS REPORTED AS 51m Our Forces Attacked by Hidden Fills pinos and Forced to Retire Until Re-enforcements Arrive—The Death of General Luna. MANILA, June 14.-General Lawton unexpectedly stirred up one of the live- liest engagements of the war south of Las Pinas yesterday morning, upon which occasion American field guns were engaged in the first artillery duel against a Filipino battery concealed in the jun— gle. - Companies F and I of the Twenty-first infantry. were nearly surrounded by a large body of insurgents, but the Ameri- cans cut their way out with heavy loss. The United States turret ship Mound- nock and the gunboats Helena" and Zafiro trained their batteries on Bacoor and the rebel trenches near Las Pinas all the morning. Bacoor was once on fire, but the na- tives stopped the spread of the flames. During the night an insurgent cannon was fired three times at the Americans on the outskirts at Las Pinas. General Lawton in the morning took a battalion of the Fcurteenth regiment and two companies of the Twenty—first itegi- ment to locate the rebel battery and then two guns of the Sixth artillery and four mountain guns were planted against it at 600 yards distance. ‘ The rebels had a large gun, from which they were firing homemade canister load- ed with nails. They also had two smaller guns. Their shooting was most accurate. The first lot of canister burst directly in front of Scott’s guns, and another shattered the legs of a private in the Fourteenth infantry. Several shots struck the edge of the town. The country traversed was as bad as it is possible to imagine, being mainly la— goons, mud and water fringed with} ham- boos. As soon as the fighting opened the Americans were attacked by hidden rifle— men on all sides, even the amigos, or “friendly natives,”.in the houses of the town, shooting at them. Two companies of-“the Twenty—first reg- iment, skirmishing along the beach. with amigo guides, found apparently a hand- ful of rebels, who retreated. The men of the Twenty-first followed, and suddenly the rebels opened a terrific fire on the troops from the sides and rear. The soldiers withdrew to the water’s edge, finding what shelter they could, and were picked off rapidly. After their ammunition \vas nearly exhausted the two companies retreated, but General Lawton dashed down and rallied the men. _ A little group made a desperate stand. General. Lawton, Major Starr and Lieu- tenants Donovan and Connelly taking rifles from the wounded men and firing at the enemy, the general officers bring- ing down some of the rebel sharpshoot- ers from a tree. Finally their cartridges were all gone, and they .were forced to break through the enemy’s flank, carrying the wounded ' to the main body of the troops. Lieutenant Donovan, whose leg was broken, flounder-ed for a mile through a bog, leading his men in the face of a greatly superior force. , General Lawton ceased fighting until re-enforcen'ients could be brought up. Two battalions of the Fourteenth regi- ment and one battalion of the Ninth reg- iment Were hurried to the front, and in the afternoon the battle was resumed. General Lawton called out the whole force of 3,000 men. and at 5 o’clock he was only able to push the insurgents back 500 yards to the Zapote river, where they are intrenchcd. The insurgents resisted desperately and aggressively. They attempted to turn the left flank of the American troops. The American loss is conservatively es- timated at (‘30. Information. believed to be reliable. has reached here of the assassination of General Luna and his aid de camp, Lieu— tenant Pasco Ramon, June 8 by.Agui— naldo’s guard at the headquarters of Aguinaldo. The India Riots. BOMBAY, June lab—The riots which broke out last week in the Tinnevelly district of the Madras presidency be- tween the Maravars and Kullars on the one hand and the Shamuri on the other are assuming alarming proportions. They have already spread over an area of 100 square miles. Several more large villages have been burned" almost under the eyes of the troops who were sum- moned from Trichinopoly. The soldiers scarcely succeeded in saving the lives of the villagws. The risings and burnings continue. . Naval Movements. W'ASHINGTON, June li.——The Peo— ria has gone out of commission at Bos- ton. The Marblehcad has sailed from Montevideo for Sandy 'Point and'Valpa— raiso. The Detroit sailed from Key VVe.t for Fort Monroe yesterday. The torpedo boat Talbot sailed from Annapolis for Norfolk under convoy of the Standish The Piscataqua and the Potomac sailed from Brooklyn, towing the floating dry- dock intended to be installed at Key \Vest. Collision on‘Long Branch. NEW YORK. June l4.-The Old Do- minion steamship Hamilton, which sail- ed from New York yesterday, bound to Norfolk and Newport News, ran into the German steamship Macedonia 0E Long Branch. and it is supposed that the Macedonia subsequently sunk. Three passengers and 19 of the crew were sav- ed and brought to this port. A dense fog prevailed over the lower bay and along the coast. Reciprocity For Bermuda. WASHINGTON. June l4.—-Mr. rTow er, the British charge d’affaires, has been authorized to begin negotiations for a rec- iprocity treaty for Bermuda. This makes four negotiations in progress and covers all the British West Indies except the Windward and Leeward islands. Com- missioner Kasson has begun work - on schedules in earnest with the British and colonial representatives and with the French officials. Hannzer Clnpp Dead. CHICAGO. June 14.—Geor8€ Chill). ber company since 1869, died here yes- ‘ iClappgwas born in Providence in terday from a stroke'of opoplexy. Mr. 1&5. ' vronvaph-v ”0*”; .'f'- western manager of the Goodyear Rub— - ’__. , ”A. ]» _ remolding, .. . -. CUBANS‘ VISIT M'KINLEY. .‘hey Urge Modifications In the Debt Paying Decrees. WASHINGTON, June 14.—The presi- lcnt was called on yesterday by a dele- gation of prominent Cubans representing the business and property interests of Havana, Matanzas, Cardenas, Cienfue- res and other leading places of Cuba, who are here to urge modifications in the decrees extending the time for paying debts in Cuba. They were accompanied by Acting Secretary Meiklejohn, who has special charge of these matters and with whom the proposed modifications hal been discussed in detail. The party in- cluded Messrs. Fiedelo G. G. Pierra, chairman; Ignacio Remicrz, Emilio del Junco and Pedro Galbis. Chairman Pi- erra is an authority on economic affairs in the island. Mr. Galbis is a son of the president of the Spanish bank-and is the attorney for the bishopric of Havana. Messrs. Remix-e2 and Junco are promi- nent Havana lawyers with large real es— tate and sugar properties. The president assured the delegation of his desire not to have the business of the. island complicated or embarrassed by the machinery of administration. The com- mittee were well pleased with the result of their visit, and, having submitted their case. they left here for New York to await the decision of the authorities. A member of the delegation stated that it represented some $30,000,000 of invest- ed capital, real estate, sugar planta- tions, etc., in and about Havana, includ- ing the very extensive holdings of the bishopric of Havana,‘amounting to about - $6,000,000. ' ANGLO-TRANSVAAL QUESTION. Arms and Ammunition Being Dis- tributed Among the Boers. LONDON, June 14.—In the house of commons .last evening Mr. Joseph Cham- berlain, secretary of state for the colo- nies, admitted, in reply to questions, that the Transvaal government was dis- tributing arms and ammunition among the Boers in the Bi-itish colony of Natal and arming its own subjects against Great Britain. In reply to a question by Mr. Henry Labouchere, Liberal, member for North- ampton, as to whether President Kru- ger’s request for arbitration by other than foreign powers on all points of fu- ture difference had been refused by Sir Alfred Milner at the Bloemfontein con- ference, Mr. Chamberlain said the Brit- ish high commissioner for South Africa had been somewhat misreported. Sir Al- fred Milncr had distinctly refused to ur- bitrate all questions, but had said there might be some susceptible of settlement in that way, though not by a foreign power. Mr. Chamberlain then asserted that since the Bloemfontein conference Mr. Kruger had submitted a proposal con- templating that the president of the ar- bitration board should be a foreigner. A Destructive Drought. BOSTON, June 14.——Reports received from various sections of New England indicate that the present drought is gen- eral and destructive. The financial loss to farmers will be excessive, for prac- tically the hay crap in southern New England is a failure in quality and amount, and market gardening in dis- tricts adjacent to the larger cities has not yielded paying returns. In northern New England the conditions are vastly better than in Massachusetts, Rhode Is- land and Connecticut; but, strange to say, the entire coast line is suffering from dryness, while the interior states get a little moisture. - On Cape Cod no rain has fallen for 84 days, and except- ing a couple of showers not sufficient rain has fallen at any point between Norwich, Conn, and Bangor, Ma, dur- ing the past month to be meacured. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. The racing season was opened at Ascot .in the presence of many royalties. ‘Dr. Lawson Tait, the pioneer of ab- dominal surgery, died in London in his titty—fifth year. The Italian general Gillette de St. Jo- seph was arrested at Nice, France, ac- cused of being a spy. Baron Christiani, the assailant of Pres- ident Loub‘et, was sentenced at Paris to four years’ imprisonment. The chamber of indictments at Paris decided that there was no case against Lieutenant Colonel Picquart. It was reported that Japan had decided to give back to China all the warships captured during the late war. Stolen Diamond Found In Liverpool. NEW YORK, June 14.—Nearly all the jewels, valued at over $8,000, which were stolen a few weeks ago from the safe at the house of Lawyer Thomas E. Stillman at 95 Joralemon street, Brooklyn, have been recovered. A cable message from the chief of police at Liverpool was re- ceived yesterday announcing that the pear shaped diamond, valued at $4,200, had been found in a pawnshop in that city, where it was pledged for £15. Killed by n Derrick. NE‘V LONDON, Conn, June 14.—-C. J. Poland, aged 35 years, of the firm of Poland & Drew, stone cutters, Green- port, N. Y., was killed by the falling of a derrick on Stoll’s wharf yesterday. Poland was overseeing the loading of a schooner when a wire guy broke. He was struck on the head and instantly killed. I May Have Two Pensions. WASHINGTON, June 14.-—T e com- missioner of pensions has rendere a de- cision that the receipt of a. municipal pension by widows of firemen, policemen and other municipal employees does not vitiate their right to a federal pension. The ground taken is that the municipal pension is a gratuity and not a. vested right. ‘ Plates For Russian Battleships. BETHLEHEM, Pa., June 14.——On 8 Pennsylvania freight car last night the Bethlehem Steel company loaded one sin- gle piece of armor plate that weighed 112,056 pounds. It is to be used on a Russian battleship which the Cramps are building and is one of 11 group or six. The same company also shipped-last night plates for the superstructure of the A18- bama to Newport News. They. are not so heavy. The Wardncr Prisoners. WASHINGTON, June 14.—Some days ago charges were made that the prison- ers of the Idaho mining strikes ad been ill treated by the military aultlhorities. This being brought to the attention of the president, he directed that an inves- tigation be made. General Merriam has telegraphed the department the result of‘ his inquiry. He says that when he left Wardner on May 25 he reported the san- itary condition of the‘prison as beyond ‘ CONNECTICUT FAIRS. Date; for Those Already Scheduled This Fall. Secretary T. S. Gold announces the following Connecticut fairs schedule:— New London County—Norwich, Sep- tamber 4-6. ‘ Windham County—Brooklyn, tember 19-2I, 'BeaCOu Valley--—Naugatuck. Septem- ber 19-20. ' Branford Branford, September 20. Chester—Chester," September 27. Clinton—Clinton, October 4. Danbury—Danbury, October 2-7. , Farmington Valley—Collinsvrlle, September 6-7. Granby—Granby, September 27-28. ‘ Madison—Madison, October 4. New Milford—New Milford, Septem- ber 12 14. . Newtown -Newtown, September 26 28. Rockville Fair Association—Reck- ville, September 19-21. Southington—Southington. Septem— ber 19—20. Union (Monroe, September 19-20. Union(Somers,etc.)—Enfield,Septem- ber 27. Willimaotic Fair Association-—Willi- mantle, September 26-28. Woodstock—South Woodstock, Sep- tember 4-6. WolcottJ—VVolcott, October ll. ———_‘0-0>——-———— No More Lounging at Beachside. For a. number of years cyclists have enjoyed lounging in the grove in from. of the Beacbside Inn at Greens Farms. The spot is probably one of the most charming along tthound shore. The Inn is on the shore road between Fair- field and Westport, on high ground. almost a bluff, which is covered with trees. The new manager of the inn, Ray Chapman, has consulted with the selectmen regarding the, stopping of the wheelmen in front of the inn, with the result that no more loitering is al- lowed. A constable was on the grounds Sunday,and refused to allow the cyclists to alight from their wheels. Manager Chapman says that the Sep- etc. )—-Hunti‘n gton, wheelmen are objected to by his guests, , to whose comfort he must be attentive . before that of the general public. He says the grove is private property, be- longing to the hotel, and used by his guests as part- of the hotel grounds. He adds that the order to wheelmen is nota matter of choice with him,. and . that besides, many of the wheelmen’ abused their privileges. #40-0>———————. Launch of the Lalonia. The schooner Latonia, built by Law- ley of Boston for Dr. H. C. E00, a. mem- ber; of the Norwalk Yacht club, was launched on Monday. She was design- ed by C. H. Crane. The dimensions of the boat are: 97 feet over all, 69 feet 6 inches on the water line,. 19 feet 6 in- ches beam and 8 feet 6 inches draught. She is of composite build and her top- sides are of mahogany. Below decks she will be finished in white and ma- hogany. J ust aft of the main compan- ionway is a large stateroom with double berths. Forward of this on the star- bon-d side is a small room, and on the port side is a chart room. Forward of these is the main saloon,.extendin,¢,,r the full width of the boat. Forward of the saloon are large and small staterooms and two berths on the starboard side, and- on the port side one stateroom, pantry, ice-chest and kitchen. Captain Charles Day left for Boston on Saturday, and will select a crew and sail the Latonia to Dr. Eno’s home in Saugatuck. The marriage Dance of Joseph Garri- giu and Miss Whalen, both of South Non-walk were called in St. Joseph’s church, for the first time Sunday. ETNA INSURANCE (10., of Hartford, Incorporated 1812. Charter perpetual. Capital and Assets,‘8,902,272.64. Insures againsilossund damageby nan terms adapted to the hazard andconsistte waththeluws ofcom‘gensation CO LES it. MERRILL SolearentsforNorwalk andvioinitv ADAM . EXPRESS COMPANS Low Rates. Prompt noun Eracnh Office. Norwa‘lk.’at Mon 1: I . l v t . Main Oliice.depot South Nor-walk. L. 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