ARBITRATION REFUSED.
This Country Refuses to Submit the
fluelton Matter to Outside Parties.
WASHINGTON, July '11.—The ofii-
‘ cials here confirm the advices from Vien-
’ na that a plan of arbitration proposed as
a means of settling claims growing out of
the 'Hazelton (Pa.) riots had been’reject-
ed by the United States. This probably
disposes of the matter, according to the
view held here, as it has run the entire
gamut of diplomatic negotiations, and all
of the plans of settlement, including the
last one of arbitration, have come to
naught. At the outset the state depart-
ment called the matter to the attention
of the governor of Pennsylvania, who, 'in
turn, awaited the action of the jury at
Hazelton which tried the sherifi on the
charge of murder. The jury acquitted
the sheriff, whereupon the Pennsylvania
authorities held that they could not rec-
ognize a responsibility which a jury had
held did not exist.
The state department took a similar
view. whereupon Austria-Hungary pro-
posed arbitration'of the claims. It is this
last proposal which is rejected, which
seems to close the matter, as the claims
are hardly considered of sufficient impor-
tance to justify Austria-Hungary to go
beyond the diplomatic representations
she has already made.
CZAR'S BROTHER DEAD.
Grand Duke George of Russia and
Heir to the Throne.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 11.-The
Grand Duke George, brother of the czar
and heir to the throne of Russia, is dead.
The Grand Duke George of Russia was
born April 27, 1871, and had been in ill
health for a number of years past. He
had been suffering from consumption.
Grand Duke George”, second son of the
late Czar Alexander III became czaro-
witz when his elder brother, Nicholas II
succeeded to the throne.
Grand Duke Michael. the third son.
doubtless will be the czarowitz until an
’thII‘ is born to the czar.
According to gossip, George. who was
28 years old. married some time ago the
daughter of a minor Russian official, and
the marriage was recognized by his fa-
ther. but this story lacks verification.
w E E K LY NUEW AL. E
REVOLUTION i'N GUATEMALA.
Commercial and Financial Difilcul.
tier Likely to Cause a Rupture.
WASHINGTON, July 11.-—The re«
ports that a revolution is imminent in
Guatemala cause a good deal of uneasi-
ness in Central American circles here, as
it has been known for some time that af-
fairs there were in a critical condition.
A well posted diplomat said that the
trouble was not so much of a political
character as it was commercial and finan-
cial.
The government recently has been issu-
ing large quantities of paper money with-
out having any considerable quantity of
coin on hand to redeem it. As a result
exchange has jumped to a rate hitherto
unknown, and the Guatemalan dollar
now passes current at only about 25
cents. ’110 this financial disorder is at-
tributed the arrest of a number of lead-
' ing financiers connected with the banks
. administration,
of the country Some of those said to
'be under arrest are well known among
the Central American officials here, who
say they are men of high character. Thus
far, however, the Guatemalan authorities
appear to have kept down the formation
of any large element against the present
has had support from all political wings.
GENERAL ‘WooD' RETURNS.
Efforts Will Be Made to Stump Out
the Yellow Fever.
SANTIAGO, Cuba, July 11.—General
Leonard Wood, the military governor, re—
turned yesterday from the United States
and immediately began vigorous action to
stamp out the yellow fever. He finds the
situation more serious than he had antici-
pated.
Today headquarters will move to Sen-
go, 20 miles north, on the 1"ailroad, a
point about 1.000 feet above sea level, as
well as all the administrative depart—
ments, except the sanitary and a few im-
mune clerks in the quartermaslcr‘s and
connnissary staffs.
The paymaster has been ordered to sus-
pend all payments to the Cuban troops
until the fever has been stamped out, the
special object of the order being to pre-
vent the soldiers from drinking during
the epidemic.
Many predict that there will be trouble
and President Cebrara,
' ACROSS THE: MISSISSIPPI.
Board Appointed 'to Pass Upon Plan:
For a Third Bridge at St. Louis.
WASHINGTON, July 11.—-Secretary
Alger has ordered the appointment of a
new board of army officers to pass upon
the plans for the proposed third bridge
across the Mississippi river at St. Louis
between the two other bridges now span-
ning that waterway. This action was de-
cided upon after a hearing which the sec-
retary gave to the parties who are inter-'
ested in the construction of the bridge
and who oppose the recommendation of
the existing board that the principal
span of the structure should be 700 feet
in length. The board twice reported in
favor of the 700 foot main span, and the
second hearing at St. Louis was granted
because the bridge promoters were un-
willing to undertake its construction on
the lines proposed by the engineer ofli~
cers. ‘
The persons interested insisted that to
require the main span to be 700 feet was
practically prohibitive, because the great
expanse involved would compel excessive
tolls to be charged and make the enter-
prise commercially unprofitable. Further-
more they claimed there was no necessity
for such an extended span. They believ-
ed authority should be granted to con-
struct the bridge and were willing to
make the main span about the same as
those of the two other bridges across the
river, which are from 15 to 200 feet less
than the span favored by the board.
The whole matter was again gone over
before the secr'etary at the hearing yes-
terday, and in view of the great interests
involved he decided to appoint an entirely
new board thoroughly familiar with the
river and the requirements of the locality
to pass upon the question.
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Miners Return \‘S'ith Gold.
VICTORIA. B. 0., July 11.—The
steamer Rosalie has arrived here from
Alaska with 150 miners and $125,000 in
dust. The White pass road was com-
pleted to Bennett on July 6, and trains
are now runningr through. The Rosalie
had a number of passengers from the
Edmonton trail. One of these, named
Fleming, is dying with dropsy. He
started with a party of 14 and 80 horses
from Edmonton in January, 1898. Five
of the party were lost and all the horses.
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THOSE SAII'IDI‘E STDRIES.
Cuban Press Deprecates Their Con»
stunt Circulation.
HAVANA, July 11. -La Lucha, in an-
editorial regarding the stories of brigand-
age publiShed in the American and C11.
ban press, complains of their frequent re«
currence and says:
“These alarming tales are generally put
in circulation by planters in isolated dis-
tricts who want garrisons of American
soldiers and who fear retaliation from
the Cubans for real or fancied griev-
ances, by planters wishing for protection
against cattle thieves and believing that
rural police are needed with a view of
giving employment to men who would
otherwise menace the community, by the
mayors of towns in sympathy with the
~Cuban soldiers and desiring them incor-
porated in a regular body, by the insur-
gents themselves, who have become ac-
customed to a nomadic existence and de-
l sire to continue as rurales, -by Spaniards
anxious to convince the world that the
Cubans are unreliable or by speculators
who desire to depreciate values.”
The paper asserts that one reason why
these lawless incidents are magnified is a-
“mistaken notion of some of the military
commanders as to the way to make a
province peaceable.” It alludes in this
connection to General Wilson’s recent or-
der forbidding the rural guards to give
any information to the press and says
that if there were no attempts at conceal—
ment and everything were given unre-
servedly to the papers there would prob
ably be less sensationalism.
The same issue that contains this edi—
torial contains also in its telegraphic col-
umns bandit stories from Puerto Prin-
cipe, Manzanillo and Cienfuegos.
Recently the Havana Herald abused
its contemporaries generally for publiSh-
ing bandit stories. On the following day
it devoted an entire column to a wild
yarn from Guanajay. As a matter of
fact every paper in Havana has objected
to such publications 011 the part of its
rivals.
In most of these cases, when the evi-
dence is carefully sifted, it turns out that
the alleged brigandage is petty thiever'y.~i
but there is no doubt that bandits do ex-
ist at several points—bands of from ten
to 50 rneu, who have not the pluck to go
into the cities and hold up banks and
I
oA7nrrE.
THE" SHAMROCK.
the Cup Challenger Takes: a Sail—Sir
Thomas Lipton’Pleased.
SOUTHAMPTON, July 10..—Yachting
circles in the Solent were never more ex-
cited than now over the- prospects in- the
forthcoming race for the America cup
between the Shamrock ' and Columbia.
On Saturday yachtsmen could be seen in
all directions, and in Southampton,
Hythe, Calshot and Cowes the keenest
lookout was kept for the challenger,
sails. ~
In Southampton water the Shamrock
presented a magnificent sight. The slight
breeze was just enough to fill he1 sails.
but she glided speedily and aso
as a swan.
It should be understood that this trip
was. in no sense a test of speed. although
the Iverna and Satinita accompanied
her. It was solely for the purpose of sail
stretching.
A member of the crew said: “The
Shamrock will do what she is built for
and will beat the Yankee. She sailed
admirably, without a. hitch, and answer-
ed her helm to perfection, which is one of
the greatest considerations. \Ve are g0<
ing to win, but it is impossible yet to
judge of the yacht’s full capabilities.”
Sir Thomas Lipton expressed himself
as. “satisfied with the spin.”
A STATE PRISON SCANDAL.
I New Jersey Officials Allow Food and
Drink Smuggled to Prisoners.
TRENTON, July 10.-Tne board of
managers of the New Jersey state prison
have appointed a special committee to
a,ra-cefully ;
investigate charges that through the nego ,
ligence, if not the assistance, of two of 3
the officials of the institution certain?
prisoners have succeeded in having smug— '
gled into them dainty food and even
drink. One of the prisoners is Thomas S.
Clark, who 1s serving a five year sentence
for complicity in the abstraction of funds
from the First National bank of Dover,
Del. Clark had a position in the main
1 cor"11dor of the prison and was thus able
to carry out the smuggling. He admits
having sent out" a large number of letters
i which did not undergo the usual scruti-
" nizing.
The food was delivered to Clark
in fairly large quantities, and he distrib—
THE TEXAS FLOOD;
Continued Reports of Suflcring Fro-I.
the Great Calamity. ,
AUSTIN, July 11. —GovM or Sayres
and a corps of assistants spen yesterday;
working in behalf- of flood sufferers up
and down the Brazos river bottoms. Re“
ports from the stricken district are to k I
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effect that while the Waters are rapjd
receding the condition of the flood
ers is improving very little.
fler-I
The gac‘i
or received official re arts-from Vel
which it was known would stretch her I ’ p
the southernmost point, that. everything
was in fairly good condition.- there, with
22 feet of water prevailing. He has re--
ceived a telegram from the citizens of.
Hearne stating that they had fought
alone as long as they could and would'
now have to ask public aid; that all the
property in that section had been laid
waste, they were starving and homeless'
and needed money, food and clothing.-
Their wants will be supplied at once.
County Judge Bell, at Bellville, wired
that there were 1, 200 sufferers in the
counties on Mills ci‘eek‘and 1,000 in the
creek bottom in absolute need. From
numerous other portions of the flooded
districts similar reports came pouring in.
Governor Sayres stated yesterday that
the elfort on the part of some to belittle
the damage attendant upon this need
was actuated by motives that he could
not understand, that'dnring his long resi-
deuce in Texas he had never seen a
worse calamity befall its people, and that
from «reports he had at his disposal he
was led to believe that the list of suffer-
ing would be very large.
STEAM ET?" WRECKED.
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The Portia, From New York For Ila-l-
itax, Goes Ashore In a Fog.
HALIFAX, July 11. ——The steamer
Por.tia New York for Halifax, was
wrecked during a dense fog early last
evening on Flinn’ s island, off Sambro,a
point about 15 miles to the eastward of
Halifax. The passengers and crew, 115
all told, landed on the island in the shipis
boats and are all comfortably housed
there. No loss of life is reported-J As
soon as the people had all been safely
landed Captain Farrell started. for the
mainland with a boat's crew and. reached
Sarnbro late last night, whence he sent
the news of the disaster to Halifax by
telephone. Fortunately the weather was
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ungs T V 1 1 a man ' hundreds of destitute C'Iban sol— other was accidentallv s‘rot Flemi o‘ : lated stores, ra1d small vrllages and ‘ oners 1n adjornmg ce s. high else the landing of those b d
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obliged to live for the last two years in
the Caucasus, where the climate iS'less
trying than that of St. Petersburg. He
was so feeble that he could accompany
his father’s body when removed from Li-
vadia only as far as Sebastopol. going
thence back to his residence in Abhastu-
man.
De ‘i’olf Hopper In London.
LONDON. July 11.——At the Lyric
theater last evening before :1 crowded
audience Mr. De i’s'olf Hopper made his
London debut in
“I'll Capitan.” Though it was one of the
hottest nights of the season. the atten<
tion given the performance was unflag—
ging. and the cordiality and sincerity
with which the company and opera were
received were unmistakable. Not only
was the curtain rung 11p repeatedly in re-
sponse to encores. but Mr. Hopper’s
timely and modest speech at the close
Son:~:a's comic opera,’
. of this :_.I.
diers already here. They are expecting
payment and have been, though for the
best reasons. p:.t off for month.
Explosion In :1 Mine. ‘
ALTOONA, Pan. July 11.-—-Five men
were injured, two fatally, by an explo-
sion of gas in the Loughman mines at
Ehrenfeld yesterday. Their names are
Henry Hoyer. James Ioncr', David \Val—
lace. Joseph. Callahan and Charles Mc-
Clenau. The two first named will die.
The explosion was due to a defective
lamp carried by Henry Hoyer.
Dynamite Plot \‘ietiin Dead.
BELMONT. N. Y., July 11.—Everett
Austin. the victim of the dynamite plot
at Cuba lake. is dead. The coroner will
investigate the case. It is now said that
Austin had' trouble with two young men
lt'x' namcdtMorgan and Bishop.
Bishop w as arrested, but later w as re-
case is a representative one of all those
from that trail.
Supposed “’r'ecli of Schooner.
MACIIIAS. 310.. July .ll.—Schooner
Ida L. 11111]. belonging in Barnstable.
Mass, is believed to have been totally
wrecked on an island in Machias bay
duringa a thick to: and rough water yes—
terday mor.ning A coustwise stermer re-
ported the 11'1'111-11'age. and it was later
identified as belonging to the Hull. It is
supposed that the Hull had passengers
on board and that the tot-11 number of
persons on th.n craft was 15.
Deaf Mute Convention.
ST. PAUL. July 10.-—Tl1e sixth na
tional convonlie'n of deaf mutes meets in
this city tomorrow for a four days’ ses-
sion. Delegates are expected from all
over the United States. Papers of spe-
cial interest to deaf mutes will be read
, swoop down upon distant plantations.
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
The French liner Normandie arrived
from Havre with four Spanish friars en
route to Mexico.
Five artillerymen were killed by the
explosion of a powder magazine in Ma-
gato Land, South Africa.
Mr. Nathan Straus has authorized the
jree distribution of filtered ice water in
the New York city parks.
Oscar F. Lackey. the yellow fever pa-
tient at Swinburne island, was reported
to be continually improving.
Customs Collector Bidwell of the port
of New York decided that $41,000 worth
of jewels seized from Mrs. Phyllis E.
Dodge upon her return from abroad two
weeks ago are dutiable and formally ap-
Trcnton on Tuesday to examine the pris-
oners and ascertain what they can about
. f the matter. State Prisonkeeper Moore is
Lord Aspinwa‘ll, son of General Lloyd "
’ Aspinwall, died in New York.
at his home in Elizabeth and could not
be seen last night.
Fatal Railyvay \Vreck.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11.——A colli-
sion between a freight and a passenger
train bearing delegates to the National
Educational association convention at
Los Angeles occurred at Newman, Cal.
Two passengers—Mrs. Thomas of Series
ca Falls, N. Y.. and Mrs. Harris of St.
Louis——w ere killed and five others slight.
1y injured.
Killed ‘by a Horse
ITHACA, N. Y., July 11.—Gecrge hi.
Pierson, son of ex- -Assen1blyman A. H.
Pierson, was kicked by a horse in a
runaway and instantly killed at his home
in Searsburg
the steamer could not have been accom-
plished without g1eat danger and per-
haps loss of life. The steamer is already
full of water and a total wreck.
The. disaster occurred shortly before 7
p..-1n. The passengers, of whom there are
75, are nearly all tourists. The steamer
had a large cargo for this port and St.
John’s. N. F. The place where she struck
is known as Big Fish shoal and is one
and a half miles west of the light on
Sambro island.
Deadly Lightning Stroke.
\ ERGENNESJ t. ,July10.—During an
electric storm 11111111 passed over the Lake
Champlain region rosterday W'illiaru Sei—
ple, 1 years old of this city was struck
by lightning and killed at the farmhouse
of George Porter, in IV est Ferrisburg.
Joe La Flamme 11110 was hitching a
horse when ti. 0 bolt came, was injured,
but will recover. The horse was killed.
was received in a fashion that testified to ' leased on his own recognizance pending a d discussed . —- ——.—1——.
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