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Spain’s Reply to Our Terms May
Be Delayed Some Days.
CAMPUS SPEAKS FOR PEACE
Spain’s Answer is Expected to Be a
; Complete Acceptance of Our Terms.
; Fears That the Reports from Santiago
Aflhct
Advices Tell of Continued Conferences.
May the Decision. Madrid
Washington, Aug. 6.—Secre?tary Day
announced after leaving the cabinet
meeting yesterday that there was noth—
ing to be made public in regard to the
{peace negotiations. Nothing had been
received from Spain or from the French
ambassador, and the opinion given the
cabinet at the meeting was that :there
would be no answer from Spain until
at least‘ the first part of next week.
The cabinet spent a good portion of
the session in discussing plans to be
pursued in regard to our new posses-
sions after peace is established and
pending the negotiation of a treaty.
This related especially to the garrisons
neéded in Cuba and.Porto Rico, as
well as the situation at .Manila. While
peace will end hostilities in Cuba and
Porto Rico, pending the report or the
peace commissioners, the situation at
Manila will be unchanged. The Amer-i-
can and Spanish forces will still be
facing each other, unless Manila sur-
renders, and even then the situation on
the other islands will remain the same.
In speaking about Spain’s answer, a
cabinet member said yesterday that the
president was going ahead on the as-
sumption that Spain would accept un-
conditionally our terms. “I think,"
said he, “the answer will be received
early next week. Our assurances are
that it will be a complete acceptance
of the terms, but circumstances may
Change the situation."
When asked if he thought the condi-
tion of our troops at Santiago would
have any. effect upon :the" Spanish gov-
ernment and their answer, the cabinet
member shrugged his shoulders and
replied:
“No one can tell. Certainly, if they
learn of the reported conditions there,
it may affect them, but we hope that
it will not. The reports from Santiago
are exaggerated, but that will not 'af-
fect Spain’s position, but onlymak'e her
change her mind, if it does anything.
This is only conjecture, for I firmly be-
lieve that when the answer comes it
will be an absolute and final acceptance
of all our .terms.” ,
The administration is becoming con-
vinced that Spain is seeking pretexrs
for delay in the peace negotiations, as
they have in all stages of the war. They
have everything to gain and nothing to
lose by such a course, as their surren-
dered soldiers are being fed by the Uni-
ted States, our soldiers in Santiago are
dying of fever and the sending of Wat-
son’s fleet is hel din abeyance. Some
of :the-Ica-binet members favor the plan
of making Spain give a definite and.
final reply to the peace terms at once,
but it is probable that the usual diplo-
matic deliberation will be allowed and
the whole matter permitted to remain
open at least until next week.
Peace Conferences Held.
Madrid, Aug. 6.—-The conferences be-
tween the political leaders on the sub-
ject of the peace terms continue. Senor
Silvela, the Conservative leader, acting
in behalf of Senor Castelar, the Repub-
lican leader, who was prevented by
illness from being present, has con-
ferred with the premier, Senor Sagasta,
on the subject.
He said Senor Castela-r, though an
advocate of peace, was of the opinion
that in negotiating its conclusion the
government “should remember «the Vir-
ginius affair, when the energy display—
ed by Spain in dealing with the United
States saved Spanish interests, and he
thought every effort should be made to
preserve Spanish sovereignty over
Porto Rico.”
Senor Silvela added that he person-
ally did not favor any change of pol-
Icy.
The Liberal, moderate Republican,
yesterday published an interview with
Marshal Martinez Campos, who is quo-
ted as saying: '
“I oppnly favor peace. Everything
that has happened in this war could
have been foreseen, but the most pes-
simistic could never have imagined
that our misfortunes would be so great
-—the destruction of Montojo’s and Cer—
vera’s squadrons, the surrender of
, Santiago and the rapid and unresisted
occupation of Porto Rico. No one could
have imagined it, even taking into con-
sideration the superiority of the United
States.
"Neither the present government nor
any other can change our-situation. It
, would be madness to think of rejecting
President McKinley's conditions. The
Liberal party can bring about peace,
but Sagasta should not be asked to sign
it. Such a course would not be prudent
and another Liberal cabinet should be
constructed.” . .
Marshal Martinez de Campos, it is
pointed out, evidently referred to Senor
Gamazo as the man who should succeed
Senor ‘Sagasta as premier. Senor Ga-
. mazo is the present minister of public
has been fre-
y in connec-
in the event
cabinet. ‘
instruction. His name
quen-tly mentioned recen-tl
tion withdthe premiership,
of the formation of a new
Sickness Among Spanish Prisoners.
Santiago de Cuba. Aug. 4.-General
Toral, cammander of the Spanish
troops, sent a letter to-day to General
Shatter advising the latter that the
camp of the surrendered Spanish troops
is in an unhealthy condition. The Spa-
nl-sh oflicer also reported that there
were several hundred sick ”in the hos-
pitals, and that there was an average
of twelve deaths daily. General Shaf-
ter will'take action at once to improve
the sanitary condition of the Spanish
soldiers and their camp.-
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Coal lnr Manila.
Norfolk, Va, Aug. 6.——'I‘he British
steamship Indra, Captain Burkell, has
sailed at 9.50 o’clock with 9,150 tons of
Pocahontas coal. She cleared for Sin-
gapore, but is destined for Manila.
Of her load 8,500 tons is cargo; the
remainder is for her bunkers.
, The'Queen Will , '
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sum ACCEPTS THE TERMSI
She Yields m Ultimatum
‘ Presented by America
Approve.
Madrid, Aug. 6.-—4.40 a. m.~—At the
cabinet meeting last night the ministers
agreed upon a reply to the United
States, accepting the principle of the
American terms, without prejudice to
the discussion of certain essential
points regarding the Philippines. They
will cO'mmunicate their decision to the
queen-regent to-day. Iler agreement is
considered assured.
it is now believed that 2'Sagasta will
continue in power. .. '
The council approved a project to
raise the total issue of bank notes to
2,500,000,000 pesetas.
Senor Gabaza, minister of public
works, believes that peace will be made
on easier conditions than those an-
nounced. ‘
London, Aug. 6.—'l.‘he Sun correspon-
dent in Madrid telegraphs that the
ministerial council last night decided
practically to accept the conditions of
' industries.
peace laid down by the United States.
“—
Marines Land at Cape San Juan. ‘
Off San Juan do Porto Rico, Aug. 4.
by way of St. Thomas, Aug. 5.—The
Americans haVe taken peaceful posses-
sion of the eastern portion of the is-
land. Small parties of marines have
been landed, who have lighted the
lamps in the lighthouse at Cape San
Juan, and on other lighthouses along
the coast.
They met with no resistance. Indeed
at Cape San Juan, deput'ations of citi-
zens came out to meet them.
The warships now in this vicinity are
the Montgomery, Annapolis, Puritan
and Amphitrite. The two first named
are looking for the transports with
troops, which left the United States
and have scattered all about the island.
The Annapolis rounded up the VVhi-t-
hey, the Florida and the Raleigh yes-
terday, and they are now at Cape San
Juan. ‘ '
There seems to have been a serious
mistake as to the rendezvous, for no
two ships go to Ithe same place, and
it will take several days to locate them
and get them to Ponce, where General
Miles is waiting.
Off San Juan the New Orleans alone
maintains the blockade. The city is
grim and silent, but back of her yellow
walls there will be plenty of determina-
Eiionandflght when the Americans open
. re.
Captain General Macias has issued
a proclamation, in the course of which
he says:
“Spain has not sued for peace, and I
can drive off the American boats nOW'
as I did Sampson’s attempt when 'he
tried before. ' ' -
The daughter of the captain general
is helping to drill the gunners in the
forts. Altogether there are 9,500 Span-
ish regulars in the city. The troops of
the enemy who are retreating from
Ponce and the other towns on the
south coast occupied by the Americans
have not yet arrived. ‘
The German steamer Polynesia, .with
a cargo of rum, canned meat and to—
bacco, tried to run the blockade this
morning, but was stopped by the New
Orleans.
Madrid, Aug. 5.—-An
from Porto Rico says:
“American cavalry, assisted“ by the
insurgents, have captured Fueneta and
Cabejas, the lighthouse station at San
Juan."
official dispatch
Alger on the Defensive.
Washington, Aug. 6,—There is, less
temper in the War Department to-day
over the publication of the letter form
Colonel Roosevelt and the round rofiin
to General Shafter, but that Secretary
Alger resents the posit-ion in which he
has been placed by the implied criti-
cisms of his Subordinates is evidenced
by the issuance of the following state- '
nient in his o'yvn defense. ‘
“Until quite recently it was supposed
that yellow fever was epidemic in
Santiago, and it was not believed that
it would be safe to send ship loads of
men nor-t , largely infected with yellow
fever. The disease, it was believed,
would spread rapidly on ”p board
and result in the death and burial of:
many at sea.
"‘On the 28th the Secretary of War'
telegraphed to General Sh'after that as
soon as the fever subsided the men of
his command would be moved North,
to a camp that has been selected for
them on Montauk Point. On the 30th
of July General Shaffer telegraphed.
Made know Secretary of War’s tele-
gram the troops would be moved North
as soon'as fever subsided, and it had
a. very good effect onthe men.”
“When however, .the true condition
was made known, an order was issued
to General Shaffer to move his comand
North as ra idly as possible, and all
ships in t_ ‘quatemnaster’s service
possible to get. to Santiago were sent
there and the St. Paul'and St. Louis
were also ordered there: All this was
done before the communication signed
by General Shafter 'and his generals
was received, and before Colonel Roose-
velt’s letter was published.
“Over 150 surgeons are at Santiago,
and 175 immune nurses have been sent
there besides the usual hospital corps
that always attends such an army.
There have been fewer deaths in San-
ti‘argo by yellow fever than by typhoid
fever in‘ any camp of the same size in
the United States."
Yesterday the secretary of war gave
all attention to the effort of making
Colonel Roosevelt ridiculous in the eyes
of the volunteers and their friends. To—
day/he devoted his time to'proving that
the conditions at Santiago were not
thoroughly understood, and not at any
rate so bad as represented.
There is one announcement in Sec-
retary Alger’s defence of the war de-
partment which attracts much atten-
tion. It is that “there have been less
deaths in Santiago by yellow fever than
by typhoid fever in any camp of the
same size in the United States!"
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‘ CUN’S WEEKLY REVIEW. ‘ ’
The sinuation Continues Very Enco'll‘fié'
ing in Nearly All L; lies of Trade.
New York, Aug. 6.——Failures were in
number fewer in July than in either of
four preceding years, and in amount of
liabilities smaller than in any year ex-
cepting the last, when July failure-s
were the smallest in any month on rec-
ord. Trading failures were both fewer
and in amount smaller than in any pre-
vious year.
Prospects of peace stimulate many
kinds of business.
the impression prevails that delay and
hesitation have legitimately resulted
from war, and largercontracts are in
fact coming forward for iron products
with a better general demand in most
The volume of payments
through all clearing houses was the
largest ever known in July, being eight
per cent. larger than in 1892 for the
month, and for the past week 11.7 per
cent. larger. Most industrial
have resumed after a shorter vacation,
with fewer participating than usual.
A few labor troubles only call attention
to the fact that this season has been
remarkably free from such hindrances.
In spite of a promise of 700 million
bushels of wheat, including 300 spring
this year, the price is 2 1-2 cents higher
for the week. The'disposition of farm-
ers to hold back their Wheat for prices
more like those obtainable recently ac-
counts for receipts 36 per cent. smaller
than last year, but exports, including
flour, were 3,641,647 bushels, against 2,-
530,725 for the same week last year, and
for fiVe weeks of the crop year 12,474,-
839 bushels, against 9,873,192 last year.
Corn exports for the week have been
only 1,734,347 bushels, against 2,725,090
last year, though the price has scarcely
declined. Cotton is unchanged, and
crop advicefie so favorable that with
acreage notl te half of one per cent,
smaller thahlast year, some expect a
crop nearly one million bales larger.
A rather better demand for staple
cotton goods does not. relieve the over—~
production in print cloths, and goods
are practically unchanged in price.
Western stiffness in holding wool, and
the New England wool paper drifting
this way.~and largely refused, indicate
another attempt to tire out the manu-
facturers, who are actually offering for
worsted wool 4 to 5 cents below asking
prices, and buying scarcely any. Sales
at the three chief markets amount to
4,886,600 pounds for the week, against
12,052,300 last year, and 9,291,700 in 1892.
The iron manufacture'has nearly, if
not quite resumed its full production,
except in the valleys, wh'ere Bessemer
producers are closing in turn under
agreement to force prices upward.
'thile there has been large buying, one
Pittsburg steel concern, with all its
furnaces at work taking 50,000 tons
more, the price there does not change
as yet, nor does local pig at Chicago
although with much better buying, one
southern concern advancing its price 25
cents. -~
The actual shipments of boots and
shoes for the year thus far are slightly
larger "than in any previous year to
date, 2,586,669 ' cases, exceeding last
year’s by 232.000 and those of 1896‘ by
Iabout 300,000. but only slightly exceed—
I ing those of 1895. .
Stocks seem to have started upward
after a surprisingly long period of
steadiness. The average for sixty mos:
active stocks, $60.43, rises for the first
time in“ this year over $60 per share
against $59.94 a week ago. having nev-
er been lower than $58.45 nor higher
than $59.94 until this week since. the
first of June. -
ADMIRAL CERVERA IN NORFOLK.
His Visit to His W u'idel Officer and
’Sailors. ,
Norfolk, Va., Aug. 6.—Admi-ral Cer-
vera and his son, Lieutenant Cervera,
arrived here yesterday on the Bay Line
steamer Georgia from Baltimore. They
left Annapolis, where they have for
several weeks been prisoners of war, on
parole, having been granted special per-
mission to visit Captain Concha, com-
mander of the admiral’s flagship, Maria
Teresa, and the other Spanish sick and
wounded at the naval hospital here.
This was the first time they had met
since that fatal dash out of Santiago
harbor. The meeting was a pathetic
one, the admiral and captain embrac-
ing one another like children. The ad—
miral then visited Lieutenant Noval of
the Pluton, who lost a leg, Drs. Nicoll
and Augusti of the Vizcaya, and the
scenes were equally as affecting when
their former chief entered the ward
Their
faces lit up and they embraced him
as best they could, their joy being
plainly visible. The admiral took lunch
with Medical Director Cleborne, and is
is said will remain here several days
Being on parole he is not guarded.
For Cheap Dining-Rooms.
London, Aug. 6.—I-t has just been
learned that "ten days ago Sir Thomas
Lipton, who is to challenge for the
America 'cup, visited Marlborough
house and presented the Princess of
Wales with a check for 100,000 pounds
to start dining rooms in London, at.
which working people may secure sub-
stantial meals for from two to eight
cents. ..
There will be a central dining room
capable of accommodating 2,000 people
simultaneously, a it is expected that
from 8,000 to 10,0 0 dinners will be
served there daily.’ The trustees, of
which the Prince" of Wales will be
one, will shoertly be appointed to man
age the project, which will be‘ known as
the “Alexandra Trust.”
The Sixth Massachusetts Affair.
Washington, Aug. 6.—The war de-
partment people know not-hing yet in
regard to the Sixth Massachusetts re-
signations. They are awaiting a. reply
to rthe following telegram:
“General Miles, Ponce, Porto Rico:
Secretary war desires to know if there
is any unusual cause or incident con-
nected with the reported resignation of
the colonel and lieutenant colonel of
the Sixth Massachusetts. This inquiry
is made at the instance of. governor of
Massachusetts. ‘
H. C. CORBIN,
Adjutant General.
For the Parinxposition.
New York, Aug. 6.—Ferdina/ad W.
Peck. who was recently appointed by
President McKinley commissioner gen-
eral for the Paris exposition of 1900,
has opened offices in the Equitable
building, 120 Broadway. Mr. Peck is
'on a trip to Washington and Chicago
in the interests of the exhibitions from
the United States. __ -.. neg-1m
In spite of records, ,
works ,
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,in the all but impenetrable Chaparral.
'VVhat he burial parties cannot find in
that tangled underwood the instinct of
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"* T'HE CARRION BIRDS OF cuss. -'"
Rideon! Turkey Buzzards That Are Allie:
of the-American A my.
'A feature of campaigning in Cuba
which has inspired the soldiers from
the North with .horror and disgust is
the presence of the huge turkey buz-
zards on \the battle fields. The bird is.
perhaps, in appearance and habits, the
most loathsome creature of air knowr.
to this continent. It is, or right, a vul-
ture, stands about two and one-hall
feet. high and is-ofa lustrous brownish
black plumage. The hideous part of the
bird is its head and neck, naked of plu-
mage, and reddish, like raw flesh. Bea
low this is a circular ruff of feathers,
which seem to accentuate the revolting
appearance of the‘neck. The bill is
long and slender, with a powerful curv-
ed tip for tearing flesh.
Carrion is the food of the turkey buz-
zard, though it will eat fresh meat, and
when in force will even kill small ani-
mals or birds. But American soldiers
in Cuba, with their dead lying in the
thick underbrush, know too well whaI
the approach of these vultures means,
and for them the nauseous birds form
the chief horror of the war. In a. let-.
ter to a friend in this city, written af-
ter the fighting at Baiquiri, one of the
Rough Riders tells of watching the
buzzards come and shooting at them as
they settled down to their feast. One
of his company, he adds, who fought as
bravely as the best during the battle,
went into a sort of hysterical fit at the
approach of one of thebirds, and cow-
ered away from it, crying like a child.
Other instances of the soldiers shoot-
ing at the buzzards and killing or driv-
ing them away have been related.
Yet there is much to be said on the
side of the carrion birds. .They are our
best allies. and as soon as the battle is
over their work of sanitation begins.
In that hot climate death lurks in the
dead and reaches forth for the living.
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Close behind death in battle waits
death by pestilence, ready to claim
more victims than shot and shell. It
is here that the vultures perform their
part, terrible to think of, but very nec-
essary to the army’s weal. After the
battle friend or foe lie dead together
the vulture discovers. Far away in the
sky—distance a black spot appears,
grows larger and sails along on mo-
tionless wings until presently it settles
down to earth. Others follow, gather-
ing from all parts of the compass. They
settle in little bands of five or six or
eight or even a dozen, and when they
have risen, instead of the intolerable
and horrible residue of humanity which
lay in the brush, a menace of pestl-
lence, there remains only a skeleton to
whiten in the sun and rain.
All through the 'South the worth of
the turkey buzzard as a scavenger is
well understood. Laws. are in force
protecting these birds, and anyone.
shooting them or wantonly disturbing
them is fined. In the smaller towns
they are the street cleaning department,
and even in cities like Charleston they
stalk about the streets unmolested,
and uttering their harsh, hissing note.
_New,Jersey is as far north as they
get on the Atlantic coast, but the
southern states teem with them, and in
Cuba they have multiplied rapidly in
the last two years. Hideous and foul‘
as they and their ways are, the north-
ern soldier who shoots them unwitting-
ly commits an offense against the whole
army of invasion, for if there were no
turkey buzzards in Cuba many a good
American who will return home to tell
of his part in the War would leave his
bones for testimonial to a. more deadly
foe than the Spanish.--Chicago Inter-
Ocean.
LIVING LEAVES OF FLORIDA.
flow These Peculiar Insects Scared Away.
3 Party of Spaniards.
A party of Spanish soldiers, landing
on the coast of Florida, to procure fresh
water, were alarmed by seeing a sup-
posed shower of leaves suddenly be-
come animated, jumping, walking, fiu-t-
tering over the ground. They left, de-
claring that the place was bewitched.
One of th , averred that on their re-
treating tfi' trees started inpursuit.
How these brave men would have
stared had they kn’dwn that it was only
a harmless insect,that was at the bot-
tom of it all.
The Phillium scythe, or leaf insect,
leads a sluggish life, making its home
on the branches of a tree. Its body is
very thin and flat, its large wings shap—
ed, v-eined and colored exactly like a
leaf. When disturbed it tucks its legs
under its body, thus perfecting the re-
semblance to a leaf, wit-h petiole and
stem complete. In the summer'im
' ings are bright green, but in the fall
"they change with the deciduous leaVes
to'a broWn, withered hue. Its hold
upon the branch is slight, a puff of win-3'
being enough to throw it upon the
ground, when it at once sets out to re-
gain its home in such manner as terri-
fied the Spanish soldiers. .
There is another race of leaf insects,
butterflies. While the upper surface of
their wings is bright, like a. flower, the
lower resembles a withered leaf, with
fungus like blotches. Their flight is
very’svs'lft, and they settle on twigs
only, never on leaf or flower.
When pursued and hard pressed the
leaf butterfly has a way of vanishing
as suddenly as a. full fledged ghost.
In the twinkling of an eye the insect
has become a leaf, so far as its pursue:
is concerned. Settling on a twig, it
folds its 'wings closely; back to back,
with the head and antenae hidden be-
tween them. The tiny tails of the wings
touch the twig, forming a perfect s ‘ '<
to the leaf, which is held in place by
the middle pair of feet. .While Lin. J
rest the most' observant eye would not
suspect it to be other than a. withered
leaf.--Philadelphia Inquirer. '
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