W_‘*H& filo“ ‘ ». ~- GARCIA [SI TERVIEWED Independence Alone Will the Cuban People} UNITED STATES SUPREME; The Cuban General Says His Disagree- ment~ With Gen. Shafter Was Due to , the iLntter’s Broken Promise. That This Government is Now the Only One to Be Recognized in Cuba. ’ Santiago deuba, Sept. 26.——The Her- ald publishes an interesting interview with the Cuban leader, General Gar- cia, in which se says: “I should like it clearly set out that I had no personal quari e1 with General Shatter. He had given me a- distinct promise that the American and Cu- ban troops shOuld enter the town to- gether. “That promise he has denied, but, nevertheless, it was so. I felt keenlx the indignity and neglect of the Cu- ban troops, and still more strongly the fa t that the Spanish officials still re-_ tanned office in Santiago. I cou1d no longer obey instructions to co-operate ‘ 1th the American army, and as this 3"-e1ing was antagonistic to the orders ‘1. had received from my commander-in- chief, I resigned my command, writ- ing a letter to General Shaffer, which has been published." “My resignation was accepted. Prob- ably the cause was that it was feared that on the publication of my letter to General Shafter Some feeling might be stirred up against me in'gthe United States, and therefore it would be im- politic-to continue me in my command, but my letter caused exactly the re- verse result. “I have received from the United States thousands of letters of congrat- ulation. I do. not think it has caused me to be in any way persona non grata to the American people or the Ameri- ‘ can government. “I do not recognize any government on this island save that of the United States. From the-moment the Ameri- can troops landed on this‘soil but one government is represented in' Cuba. There was a Cuban revolutionary ar- my in arms against Spain, acting un- der orders of General Gomez. The so .called provisional government we do not recognize. “My view. is that a. sum should be raised sufiicient to pay these men‘, say, two months' wages. ' With this in their pocket they would'be..able”.to return and. commence peaceful pursuits. .At present daily rations are served out to them. Many live long distances from their homes, some a hundred and fifty miles. They can only draw one day’s rations, with. the result that they can- mot leave camp more than one day. ,“lif. say, two months’ wages were given to them, which was the princi- ple the Spaniards adopted in 1878, they would gladly take advantage of fur- ',loughs,, and then the. Cuban military Jule, allowing no man to carry his arms and munitions on furlough would result in their practical disarmament. “Regarding the future government of the island, I desire publicly and defi- nitely to state that nothing save inde- pendence will satisfy us. We believe we shall receive fair treatment at the “hands of the American people. I hope to see America retain the island until a stable government, based on the free will of the people, has been establish- ed. “General Law ton has done much to conciliate many whom General Shaf- ter’s action embittered. I think the good faith of the United States' actions is now fully recignized, but tthe ques— tion of the payment of the army is a great stumbling block that should be settled on a permanent base to allow the cultivation of estates and the re- habilitation of the country.” . , FurAmerican Pork. Berlin, Sept. 26.-—The . chamber of commerce of Hamburg has taken up the fight in behalf of American pork. Published statistics show that there has not been a single case of trichini— sis in Prussia or Hamburg due to Am- erican pork, for fifteen years. The re— port concludes: “While these facts are not disproved and the statements as to the adultera- tion of American lard are uncorrobo- rated,'evidence has been found show— ing that all the repressive measures against foreign, and especially against American meats, must be held to be unreasonable and as gravely injuring German economic interests.” Gen. Wood’s Jurisdiction. Santiago de Cuba, Sept. his—President McKinley has extended tthe jurisdic- l tion of military governor, and General Wood’s authority now embraces thel Whole province of Santiago de Cuba, :and he has appointed Lieutenant Col- onel A. A. Wiley of the Fifth immunes, lieutenant governor, with the duties of reorganizing the civil courts and the administration of all civil affairs in eastern Cuba. Lieutenant Colonel Wiley’ 5 residence is in Montgomery, Ala. He is one of the counsel of the Plant system and 'has been serving as judge advocate since his arrival in Santiago. A Prize from the Colon. Washingtin Sept. 26.—The most beau- tiful of all the souvenirs of the great naval battle of July 3, off Santiago, has reached the navy department from Captain Converse, commanding .the Montgomery, at Guantanamo. It is a bronze bust of Christopher Columbus, taken from the flagship Cristobal Co- lon, which lies below the surface of the ocean tWenty miles from Santiago. Germany Not Causing Trouble. Washington, Sept. 26.—The officials of the War department pronounce to be without foundation the alarmist stories coming from San Francisco, that Ger- many has shown a disposition to arm the Philippine insurgents with a view to inciting them to harrass the Ameri- can army at Manila. Pattlson for Congress. Media, Pa., Sept. 26.—Ex-Governor Robert E. Pattison was Saturday nom- inated for Congress by the Democratic conferees of the Sixth district. tisfy ] 1 taing resigning at the coming session , SENATOR MORRELL TO RESIGN -1 He Will Probably Retire from Public- Life Next Month. Burlington, Vt., Sept. 26.—United States Senator Morrill is said to medi- of the Vermont legislature, which will meet about the second week in October, and the question of his successor is already being discussed. There is an unwritten law in the '1 state, which has never been departed from in the last fifty years, that one United States senator shall come from 1 the east side of the state and the oth- er from the west side. The mountain range which divides . is the dividing line. Senator Morrill is from the east side, and two candi- dates to succeed him—Representative Grout and ex-Governor Dillingham— have already developed in this section. Several candidates on the west, side are also being talked of, but the state is so committed to the precedent of selecting one senator from each side of the state that it is believed it will nev- er depart from it. Justin S. Morrill was born at Strat- ford, Vt., on April 14, 1810. Without seeking anomination, in 1854 he was unanimously named for Congress, and on December 3,1855, began his long ca- reer in Congress. He continued an active member of the House until his election to the Sen- ate in 1867, and has been elected to ...._ each of his terms. He enjoys the dis~ tinction of having served continuously in Congress for a greater length of time than any other man in the hist01y of the country. . Much Illness in Manila. Manila, Sept. 26.——There is no mate. rial change in the situation here. All parties are awaiting the action of the Paris peace conference. The sanitary conditions are of the most menacing character. Six hundred and eighty soldiers are now in the gen~ eral hospital. They are suffering from typhoid and dysentery for the most part, and thel'new cases run from ten to. fifteen daily. Within the walled city the conditions are even worse. Ten Spanish prison- ers died of typhoid fever Friday. Hun- dreds of others are sick despite the ef- forts of the Americans to keep the ,place clean. The American officials realize that matters must continue to grow worse unless orders come to remove the pri- soners, either to Spain or orrigidor is- land, where they cOuld be kept safely away from infection. The hospital ship Rio sailed Thurs- day, having one hundred and fifty in- valids on board. The Raleigh, Boston and Callao have gone to Iloilo to take possession of the place. Seven insurgents were arrested on Thursday charged with impressing men in the city for Aguinaldo’ s army. Three are held for examination. One of the dictator’s aids has been sent down from Malolos to be present at the hear- ing. Gomez Denies He Has Resigned Havana, Sept. 26. —The captain gen- eral' 3 body guard at eight o 'clock this morning will form in the Plaza risto and, headed by a band. will proceed to the Cathedral to render military honors during the removal of the bones of Columbus from the monument where they now rest and their trans- portation to Spain. General Maximo Gomez some time since arrived at the camp of General Rojas, in the Santa lara province. General Gomez gives emphatic denial to the published report that he has pre- sented his resignation as commander- in- -chief of the Cuban army. An American subject, named Von Hoiwenstein, .mho was sentenced by the Spanish government for complic- ity in the insur1ection in Cuba, an! who has been confined seven months, has been 1eleased by order of Captain General Blanco and sailed Saturday on the steamer City of Washington for x New York. The American commissio~ ners paid his passage. *- Great Britains Friendship. Washington, Sept. 26.——-An instance of the notable desire of the British gov— ernment to cultivate friendly relations with the United States is given in the course of some mail reports recently reaching the state department from the United States embassy at London. This refers to the great military' manoeuv- res which were 1ecently conducted on Salisbury Plain, in the first week of the present month. These manoeuvres took place in the presence of the commander~in-chief of the state pretty nearly in the middle succeed himself at the expiration 01'- fi-‘i‘s ameaé‘paér overeat. Conclusive Evidence .‘ that. Dr. Nancy Guilford is the Guilty Party. Bridgeport, Ct., Sept. 26. ——Accord- ing to Police Superintendent Birming- ham, there is hardly a link missing in the chain of evidence that is being gradually forged connecting Dr. Nancy Guilford with the dismemberment of the body of Emma. Gill, who lived at Southington, Conn. Witnesses have been found who have partially identified Harry Guilford, the son of Dr. Nancy Guilford, as being near the Bishop avenue quarry on the Sunday night that the body was thrown into the Yellow Mill pond. The route Mrs. Guilford and her son took the first time they left the Gil- bert street house, presumably with the mutilated body of Emma. Gill, is known but the route taken‘ the second time, when the trunk was throwanto the river, is yet to be learned. The police have practically traced out the second route. They have, they say, found the carriage that was used to carry the body to the Yellow Mill pond. The Gilbert street house will be en- tered to-day and the bath tub exam- ined. A bad odor has been coming from it recently and the police have no doubt that the body was cut up in it. Fragments of a heel from a woman’s. shoe, the metal skeleton of a lady‘s poscketbook and some. corset steels were found in the furnace. The fire had not entirely consumed them. Walter C. Foster was discharged from custody. Howard Guernsey was released on furnishing a bond of $500, and Harry Guilford, Rosa and Clara Bell Drayton, servants in Dr. Guil- ford’s house, woman held in $1,500 bail for an examination on October 1. Harry Oxley was also held in the same amount. Superintendent Birming- ham says that he sent Emma Gill to Dr. Guilford’s for treatment and pro- vided the'money. Spain’s Troubles Not Over. Madrid, Sept. 26.—The Liberal pub- lishes an article which causes much talk. It says that Spain’s troubles are by no means over, and that England is co-operating with the-United States at the expense of Spain. Quoting Mr. Joseph Chamberlain's words. it says that Spain should enter an energetic protest against such an utterance from a minister of the crown of England. .After the‘loan is concluded with the Messrs. Rothschilds on the secruity of the-Almaden mines, there is talk of a largeloan with the Bank of Spain. In ministerial circles it is stated that ' Spain'will hold out to the utmost for l : than on Tuesday. the British army, the sec1etary of state . for war, several members of the royal '; family, the foreign military attaches,‘ and a vast crowd of people, and the national flag of the United States was placed side by side with the British royal standard, the Union Jack and - the white naval ensign upon the prin- cipal marquee at There were no other flags on the tent in question, but the four mentioned. A New German InVention. Berlin, Sept. 26.—A new and highly important invention was tested at the German naval manoeuvres, ending last week. It was in the shape of a Greek Phoenician fire, invented by a Berlin engineer. It ignites‘on contact with the air or water and cannot be quen- ched, by either water or earth. It burns with a brilliant flame, exceeding big searchlights, and it can be sunk under water or under ground and when again brought to the surface instantly bursts into a. flame at any desired point. It was tested during the night evo- lutions off the island of Heligoland and off Kiel and proved most efficient in detecting the presence of the enemy. French Marksmanship. London, Sept. 26.-The French Medi- terranean squadron, consisting of 31% vessels, gave an exhibition pf firing in the presence of the minister of ma- ring at Toulon last week the range be- ing two miles. The ships fired 350 shells at a wooden ship before setting her on fire and sinking her. The/result, nev. ertheless, was considered satisfactory. Chili and Argentine Agree. Buenos Ayres, Sept. 24.—It is repor- ted that an amicable agreement be— tWeen the Argentine and Chillan gov~ ernments has been signed. - the saluting point. 1 ftle ttventy- five feet high, her rights of sovereignty over the whole of the Philippines. General Macias telegraphs that ten thousand Spaniards, .not of the army, ask for repatriation at the expense of the government, but the latter will not hear of it. ’ senors Montero Rios and Garnica will leave to- -day by the Sud express for Paris. The other commissioners will follow'when they choose. , 11.1.1.1 Bed 0111 of.Sight. Matteawan, N. Y., Sept. 26.-wA tres- spanning part of a swamp traversed by the Phil- adelphia. Reading and New England 1ailroad,a mile west of Pine Plains. near here, has sunk completely out of sight in the bog. In another part of the swamp :1 tele- graph pole alongside the track has dis- appeared completely. Sixty men are at work with construc- tion and gravel trains, piling 120 car loads of gravel and stone a day upon the road bed, whichsinks faster than ‘ filled in. On Wednesday night the road bed was fourteen inches lower Saturday it gradu- ally sunk out of sight. A piece of pipe used for sounding was driven one hundred and twenty- five feet into this bog and no bottom was found. The road bed looks as if it had been twisted by an earth‘ quake. British Fleet Sails suddenly. ,Wei-Hai-VVei, Sept. 26.——-The British battleship Centurion, flagship of Vice Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour, the commander of the British fleet in Chi- nese waters. sailed suddenly Friday under Sealed orders, accompanied, from Chee- -Foo, by the battleship Vic- tmious, the first class cruiser Naicis- sus, the second class cruiser Hermione, the torpedo boat destroyer Fame, the torpedo boat destroyer Hart, and the dispatch boat Alacrity. It is supposed that the destination of the fleet is Ta-Ku, at the entrance . of the river leading to Tien-Tsin, the port of Pekin, for the purpose of mak- ing a. naval demonstration there. Mr. Adee Secreta'y of State. Washington, Sept. 26.-—-Mr. Adee is now actually secretary of state, the president having issued'a’ special com-- mission to him as secretary of state ad interim, the first time since the incum- bency of Mr. Hunter. The law provides that in the absence of the secretary the assistant secretary shall act as secretary of state, but ; makes no provision for such a case as ; existed when Secretary Day and As- sistant- Secretary Moore retired simul- taneously, therefore it was necessary to issue a special commission to Mr. Adee. Barracks in Large Cities. Boston, Mass, Sept. 26.—Col. Hyde of the United States quartermaster's department, for Boston, has received orders from the quartermaster general to secure suitable winter quarters for nearly five thousand soldiers. The bar- racks will be built by the government instead of buying a. building outright. Two Inn 0111 i’ut‘lfl; Krcnrd. Wichita, Kan., Sept. 26.—At the races here Saturday Martha B. broke the record for two-year-olds pacing, mak- ing a half mile in 1.04; previous rec- .nord,,1.04 1-2. Governor Taylor Very 1n. Knoxville, Tenn, Sept. 26.-—Advices from Johnson City are to the effect that the condition of Governor R. L. Taylor, who has been ill for some time, is alarming. John M. ’l‘oucey Dead. Fishkill Landing. N. Y., Sept. 26.4 John M. Toucey, formerly general man. ager of the New York Central railroad. died here late Friday night. ”"" . BIRDS OF PEACE IN WAR. .. W. lot the Homing Pigeon 11‘ Used to Ben Messages from Our Warships. A. series of most interesting experi- ments has been made during the past five or- six years with the pigeons at the Naval Academy. There has been no appropriation for this work, and the loft has been conducted by private contributions from officers at the Na- val Academy, and has been managed entirely by several officers andprofes- sors at Annapolis, who have given over their time and their labor in the hope of convincing the people at Wash- _ ington of the desirability of the ser- vice. Prof. Marion, an instructor in Frenchat the Naval Academy, who has studied the habits of homing pigeons .. most carefully, has had most to do with this work, and to 111m perhaps the greatestcredit is due for the ulti- mate success of the scheme. Lieut. Austin M.:Knight, United States Navy, and Edward W. Eberle. have also de- voted sometime and attention to the question, and have published papers in the proceedings of the‘ Naval In- stitute which have called the matter to the attention of the oflicers in the service, most of whom have through this means been shown the value of the plan. During last Summer 18 pig- eons made a. total of 110 flights. Lieutenant Knight writes concerning them: ' ‘ "Let us consider the case of a. fleet entrusted with the defense of that part of'our coast from Block Island to the capes of the Delaware. Whatever po- sition might be taken up by such a fleet, there would be thrown out many miles beyond it a. line of light, swift vessels as scouts, and upon the rapid- ity with which these vessels could communicate with the-inner line and with the shore would depend, in a large measure, the succeSS of the de- fense. - Suppose a vessel of: this outer line to discover an enemy's fleet stand- ing to the westward; she would: hasten toward the squadron of defense or to.- ward the nearest point of the coast from which it might be possible to communicate with the squadron with Washington and with the cities threata cued, and if not overtaken’by the enemy’s .cruisei’ or by a'shell from; battleship, and if she dianot break. down, she: would ultimately communi- cate the fact that. at a certain time-— already long past—the enemy's meet, of unknown strength;- was>~-sta.ndiug in from some unknown point on the coast. , Letrus' suppose "now, that in- steadof hastening off herself she could. dispatch a number of pigeons. with the Certainty that they would carry the neWs quite as sur‘élfi as she could carry it and far more quickly; and that then, holding the enemy in. view, she could follow his movements,,and frolntime .to time sendoif new mes- sengers- with particulars of; his strength, v his course, and his appar- ent intentions. It is not difficult to see the immense value of a system which promises the possibility of such service as this.” In view of these facts it will be in- teresting to note some of the ever-wa- ter possibilities of the homing‘pigeons. They hava been taught to regard a. ship as their home, and thus their ser-. vices can be utilized both ways; but their greatest usefulneés for naval pur- poses will be the carrying of messages from ships to the shore. The dis- tance one of these birds will fly over, the water to the land is still uncer- tain;. but it is thought to be about one‘ hundred and fifty miles. During 3-Series of experiments one bird was kept over three weeks in confinement on board a. ship, and when liberated was",some.two hundred miles from its cote; 'yet. it returned in good time and condition. This last was an import- ant experiment, inasmuch as it showed that homing-pigeons can be kept on board a ship» for several weeks at a time; and yet retain thelr'strength of wingland ability to find their ‘ way home; During the experiment very few birds were lost, which establishes the practical certainty of their mes- senger service. , , In speed they are excelled only by the. telegraph and the telephone. One hundred. and fifty-one statute miles have been made in three hours and fifty minutes. In Belgium one bird covered a distance of two hundred and fifteen miles at the rate of over seven- ty miles an hour. The average speed, however, is much lower than this; for. ty-five miles an hour, for short dis- tances, being usually considered good time. The messages are fastened to the leg of the bird or tied lengthways un- derneath the tail feathers. During the siege of Paris, 1870-71, as manyas forty thousand messages were safely borne into the city by a‘single pigeon at one journey. When the messages reached. their destination they 'were enlarged by photography and read. The ability of the pigeon to find its way home is commonly supposed to be due to instinct. This is only partly true, for the greater part of this hom- ing faculty is developed by careful training. »Whm the bird is about three or four months old and has be- come thoroughly familiar with its home, it is taken a. mile from the cote and “tossed.” The next time it will be taken about three miles. The dif- ferent training stages are usually one, three, six, twelve, twenty-one, thirty— flve, fifty, seventy-five and, one hun- dred miles from the bird’s home. At the end of three years careful training a bird can be “tossed" flvehundred miles from its native cote with some prospect of its finding its way' back. However, only about'one, bird out of titty can be trained ”to return home from a. distance of‘ five hundred nil“. ,. ’ws . ‘-‘aw» BY UBSCRIBING FOR THE BOTE PAPERS sent to any Ad dress.
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