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THE DAWN OF PEACE
How the Situation Appears from
the Spanish Standpoint.
11110113 TO END LABORS
Points Remaining to Be Settled. Secreta-
ries of the Commissions Formulating
the Articles of the Treaty. Topics for
Discussion at To-days Joint Session.
Paris Nov. 20.—The American de-
mand, accepted by Spain at Monday’s
session Of the peace commission, im-
plied undoubtedly an ultimatum.
The Spanish reply uses the word
harsh (dura) and says that they yield
not in principle, but in fact to save
Spain from the greatest trouble.
. The Gaulois, after an inspired state~
ment of the Spanish side, admits that
the solution as made Is practically the,
best for Spain. Europe, and the former
Spanish colonies.
It says that the decision does not
involve an immediate signing of the
entire treaty, but an agreement 011 the
single clause respecting the Philip-
pines, and that other points to safe-
3;: ard the existing commerce of Spain,
: ; promised by the Americans, and
.‘1me financial questions remain to be
{z-Cttled.
A competent authority considers that
ten more days will be reasonably suf-
ficient to conclude the treaty.
The Americans have not mentioned
the purchase of the entire group of
the Carolines.
30.—The secretaries of
the two peace commissions, Messrs.
Moore and Ojeda, began their joint
task of formulatingthe articles of the
peace treaty late yesterday afternoon,
as directed by their respective commis-
sions.
This work will be easy and rapid as
far as the relinquishment and cessions
referred to in the protocol are concern-
ed. The terms of the protocol will be
transferred bodily to the treaty.
The secretaries, moreover, will em-
body in tentative articles, for. discus—
sion to—day, the subjects of the relig-
ious freedom of the Caroline islands, a
naval station for the United States in
the same group, cable landing rights
at other points within Spain’s jurisdic-
tion, the release of the insurrectionist
prisoners and the revival of the treat-
ies broken by the war.
- On all the points outside of the pro-
tocol and its now settled interpretation
'there will be friendly negotiation Spain
having the right to name the prices
'she wants for her territory and to re-
ject or accept the American Offers. The
Spaniards, no less than the Americans,
.are now anxious to conclude the busi-
‘ness which brought them here.
The commercial and general treaty
of 1785 will be revived, to be recast
later; the treaty of 1834, for the settle—
ment Of certain claims, will be revived.
the Cushing protocol Of 1877, providing
for extradition, will be revived; the
trade mark treaty of 1882 and the sup
plemental extradition treaty of 1882 will
also be revived, inaddition to several
modus-vivendi agreements.
It is expected that the secrertaries
will submit the treaty articles at the
joint session 'tO-day, when all the Oth~
cr points for negotiation will be dis-
cussed.
‘The Soleil reviews the situation at
length, and says: “Probably the grea-
test difiiculty the United States has be—
fore her will be the strong differences
of opinion in the Senate and House
on the question Of territorial expan-
51011.”
Paris, Nov.
Threatened Impeachment of Gov. Russel'.
Raleigh, N. 0., Nov.
Governor Russell will be impeached by"
the overwhelming Democratic major-‘
ity in the incoming legislature
depend, Democratic politicians
on how the governor acts in the mean-
time.
He is asked by the Republican poli-
ticians to refuse to furnish certificates
of election to Bellamy, the Democratic
candidate for Congress in the Sixth
(Wilmington) district, and to other
Democratic representatives—elect, in
order thereby to strengthen the con-
tests which the Republican candidates
contemplate making.
may
Other reasons than fear of impeach- I
ment may influence the governor in
this matter.
The Repub‘ican nominee in the Sixth
district is (liver 1H. Dockery, whom
Russell defeated in the contest for
governor in 'he Republican convention
two years ago, and who is the gover-
nor‘s most bltter political enemy.
The Democrats, therefore, anticipate
that Russell will do nothing to aid
Dockery. '
311's. Cody’s Trial.
Albany. N. Y., Nov. 50,—Mrs. Marga—
ret Cody's trial on the indictment for
blackmail was begun in the Albany
county court before Judge Gregory yes-
terday.
Mrs. Cody has been in the county
jail since May, having been indicted
on the charge of blackmail. *"
' It is alleged in the indictment that
she wrote letters to Miss Helen Gould
and George Gould on'Eebruary 11 and
March 9, 1890,- respectively. asking
them to call on her and promising that
she would give valuable information
to enable them to effect a compromise
or discontinuance or the action then
pending against the 'heirs of the late»
Jay Gould, to establish the dower
rights of Mrs. Angell to that estate 011
the g1ounds that she wwas the fi1 st wife
Of Jay Gould
Miss Helen Gould, with her aunt,
Mrs. Elizabeth Palm, was present at
the trial yesterday.
30. —VVhethe 1 E
say, .
The entire morning session was de—
voted to the selection Of the jury to
try the case.
Tidal “’ave at Trieste.
London, Nov. 30.—The Vienna corre-
spondent of the Daily Mail sends the
following:
“On Sunday Trieste and vicinity were
flooded by a tremendous tidal wave,
which did considerable damage to pro-
perty and ships and caused the loss of
many lives.
“There was a violent earthquake
throughout the southern provinces" of
Austria/ From various causes no
fewer than tWenty-eight lives, it is-re-
ported, Were lost.”
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POST CFFICE ECONOMICS.
A Determined Movement for Consolida-
tion.
Washington, ' D. 0., Nov. 30.—Post-
master General Smith has buckled on
his armor for a fight for the repeal of
the Gorman amendment to the post-
office appropriation bill for 1897, pro-
hibiting the consolidation of smaller
postofi‘lces with the large ones about
which they areigrouped, if the con-
solidation would affect the independ—
ence of a. county seat.
The- present administration set out
with a determination to consolidate, if
possible, the suburban Offices surroun-
ding every large clty with the main
office‘in that city.
In Greater New York, for instance,
a saving of nearly $63,000 a ,year has
been figured out as the result of com-
bining all the offices under one head;
and this would be the saving in sala-
ries and commissions alone, and leaVes
out of account a score of minor econo-
mies which would go to swell the.
sum. ,
The present law makes it impossible
to do anything, because the county
seats Of Kings and Richmond counties
would be affected.
,Boston presents a case of another
large city, several of whose most im-
portant suburbs are beyond her county
line.
And all the proposed changes are
held up because Senator Gornfln wish-
ed tO spite Postmaster Warfield of Bal-
timore, who belonged to another fac-
tion of the Democratic party from him—
self, and was a prominent member of
the Maryland Civil Service Reform As-
sociation.
Gorman was backed by every old-
fashioned man in the Senate who Ob_~
jected to changing the village postof-
flee from a club and meeting place for
the neighboring farmers into a mere
business machine, as well as by most
of the enemies of the merit system Of
appointment to government Office.
A large part of the money now spent
in an attempt to build up a system of
rural free delivery could be turned to
better account, in ‘the estimation of
some of the experts of the department
here, by improving free delivery where
it is already established and where a
more pressing need for it seems to ex-
ist.
The extension of the system would,
they think, work itself out normally by
a process of consolidation applied in
the districts surrounding the great cit-
ies. these districts being widened from
time to time to takein more outlying
postoffices. The successive widenings
of the districts would, in the ordinary
course of events, and as the popula-
tion of the country increased, bring the
boundaries of the several districts near
to or against each other, so that event-
ually free delivery would exist every—
where at a much lower cost and with
much less friction than if established
sporadically here and there under the
present hap-hazard practice.
Another thing which the postmaster
general will uSe his utmost efforts to
promote will be the increase rather
than the decrease of free delivery fa—
cilities in the more densely populated
parts of the great cities.
He is looking forward with much
hope to the effect of the tour of the
commission appointed just before the!
close of the last session of Congress to
investigate the workings of the postal
system.
Personal examination is so much
more convincing than any argument,
that he believes the members of the
commission miist have satisfied them—
selves, when inspecting the business
districts of three or four of the great
cities, that it would be quite out of the ’
question to cut down the present num-
ber of deliveries and collections.
The estimates sent in 011 the first
day of the coming Session will contain
an item for a considerable increase in ~
the appropriation for the free delivery
Service, at which there is fair leason
for hoping that neither house will
balk.
Choate at the \Vhite House.
Washington, D. 0., Nov. 30.—-Mr. JO-
seph H. Choate of New York called
upon the president yesterday, and his
visit naturally gave rise “to much spec-
ulation as to the vacant ambassador-
ship.
He was accompanied by Attorney
General Griggs and remained with the
president about fifteen minutes.
White House Officials represent this
as merely an act of courtesy, since Mr.
Choate was in Washington conducting
a case at the supreme court. They say
that had he not called upon the presi-
dent it would have been more worthy
of remark. »
The opinion prevails, however, that
Mr. Choate stands a good chance of
being sent toIEngland.
Un'on Pacific Land Case.
St. Paul, Minn.,~N10v. 30.—The Union
Trust Company of New York has made
application in the United States court
for a decree of mortgage foreclosure
in its land case against the Union
Pacific Raihoad Company and the re-
ceivers.
The case involves $1,500,000 and title
'to the lands granted to the Union Pa-
cific in Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and
other western states.
The interest for two years is now
due and unpaid.
The \Varlng Memoral Fund.
New York, Nov. 30.——The memorial
‘fund that is being raised for the sup-
port of the widow and daughter of
the late Colonel George E. Waring, Jr.,
has reached $52,328.
The largest contribution in the latest
list announced by ex-Mayor Strong,
the treasurer of the fund, is from
John D. Rockefeller, who gave five
thousand dollars.
Big Natural Gas Strike.
Santa Barbara, Cal., Nov. 30.——While
boring for oil on Summerland Beach.
a marvelous flow of naturalt gas has.
been struck throwing sand and rocks
a number of feet into the air.
It is pronounced the biggeststrikc
of natural gas that has ever been made
in the “fest.
.Coum Esterhazy to Visit U11.
Paris, Nov. 30.-—A dispatch from
Brussels to the Journal reaffirms the.
report that Major Count Esterhazy has
sailed for the United States.
This dispatrh asse1ts that he
bark ed at R0 .terdam,
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WHATi-A LOT or; THEM.‘
Norwalk Produces Its Share, but They
Are Growing Less Every Day.
What a wonderful lot of people there
are who suffer with backache. From
the millionaire sitting in his oliice
clipping coupons, down to the humble
. citizen who swings a pick for a dollar a
l
' grasping.
lthe bill, I admit, but I haven't been
.able to g1asp anything yet.”
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' pictures
emu
day: nobody is flee f1om it.
And it all comes from the same cause.
The kidneys are to blame.
Backachc is really nothing but kid-
ney acne. You can be sure that it.
means a disordered condition of the
. kidneys.
And if you are wise, you will heed
the warning immediately. Backache
neglected means severer forms of kid—
ney disease, diabetis,urina1y troubles,
Bright’s disease—death.
Doan’ s Kidney Pills are the one sim-
ple remedy that can be relied upon in
all forms of kidney trouble.
Some 01 your neighbors have tried
' them and not one has afound them want-
ing. Here is the experience of a Nor-
walk citizen: ’
Mr. Josiah Dodge, N0. 2 Belden
place, says. “I had some trouble in
the way of kidney complaint. and rheu—
matic-like pains in the back. Being a
frequent visitor at Mr. Hale’s (110w
Glendeuing& Co’s) drug store, 1 no-
ticed a. great many people buying
Dean’s Kiduev Pills, and as they all
spoke very‘ highly about the results
obtained, I got a box, began taking
them and in a few days’ time they had
cured the attack. I am recommending
them to my friends.”
Doau’s Pills for sale. by all deal--
ers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster-
Milburn (70., Buffalo, N. Y.,sole agents
for the U. S. Remember the name
Doan’s and take no substitute.
Wl I' AND HUMOR.
Mrs. Bridely (in tears)—Oh, John!
How could you scold me so? You
know you often said before our mar—
riage that you delighted in cleanli-
uess.
Mr. Bridely (grimly)——-So I do; but
I draw the line at paying for :1
woman to scrub the bottom of a coal
box just before the coal is put in.——
Pearson’s Weekly.
Irate Customer— That bug extermi-
nator you sold me the other day is no
good. The cockroaches fatten on it.
Alfa'ble Salesmaanes, sir. That’s
the first stage. They get fat on it and
then they die of appoplexy. Come
around next week and report again.
Anything I can do for you ma’am?
Chicago Tribune.
“What a grasping fellow you are.
Hawkins! You’ve bothered me about
this bill fifty times in ten days!”
“You wrong me Jarley, I’m not
I’ve bothered you about
“Papa, are. generals brave men?"
asked Johnny of his father.
“Yes, my son' as a rule,”
answer.
“Then why do artists always make
of ’em standing on a hill
three miles away, looking at the bat-
was the
V tle through an opera glass?”
“Your husband has been ill,” said
the caller.
“Yes,” replied the little worried-
looking woman; “he has been feeling
very badly. I do my best to please
him, but nothing seems to satisfy
him.”
“Is his condition critical?”
“It’s worse than critical,” she an-
swered, with a sigh; “it’s abusive."
“Great Scott, Clara, what do you
mean keeping me waiting on the cor-
uer looking like a fool?”
“Well, Harry, I know I kept you
waiting, but you did the rest your-
self.”—Chicago Record.
“Begorra,” said Bridget, as she
opened a 'bottle of champagne for the
first time, “the fool that filled this
quart bottle must ’a’ put two quarts
in instld of wan!”-—Philadelphia In-
quirer.
Smithz—I hear that your mother-in-
law is dangerously ill.”
Captain Spurrsz—“She is
seedy; but she is not as dangerous as
when she was well."
“On-3 0’ de hahdes’ pahts ob a man‘s
education," said Uncle Eben, “is foli-
gettin a lot 0’ no ’count things dat
he tuck vallyble time to learn."-
Washington Star
Visitor (to sexton digging grave ln
churchyard)-—"Wl10’s dead?” Sexton
—-“Old Squire Thornback.” Visitor——
“What complaint?” Sexton (without
looking up)—“No complaint; every-
body satisfied.”
“This is the bill from your oculist,"
said‘rtlie collectOr to Mr. Grimley.
“Just take it back and tell him that
I can't read it with those glasses he
sold me.”—Detroit Free Press.
The Common Person—So you are
wedded to your art?
The Artist—Dear, no! I am in love
with lt!——Cincinnatl Enquirer.
TIRED MEN
Men wear out their lives quickly
nowadays. Their blaius and bodies
are over-worked, and then come
~leeplc>smss. nervousness. dyspep—
sin and genc1al dcbilit-y. The sys-
tem «r11 es out. These troubles. ,if
neglvcmd hasten the end. Strength
and health will come back with the
aid of .....
lit.i‘aii.li.‘ HOSTETTEPV.
STOMACH
BITTERS
MAKES NERVES
OF' IRON.
AND lNllUCES
’SOUND SLEEP.
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MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS.
About 16,000 Enlisted Men Now in mm
_ Vicinity of Savannah.
Savannah, Ga... Nov. 30,—The entire
Second United States artillery regiment ‘
with rthe exception of the two light
batteries, A and F, is now in camp near
Savannah.
Six batteries, under command of
Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Haskin, are
here attached to the Seventh Army
Corps, and the Third Georgia make
about ten thousand enlisted men now
stationed in and around about this
city.
This is the first time that the entire
Second artillery has been in camp ito~
gether since the civil war.
Ever since 1866, or soon thereafter,
it has been scattered all along the
.coast from Portland, Maine, to AVir-
g'inia.
Troops Leaving the Knoxville Camp.‘
Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 30.—-The head.
quaiters of the Old Second division,
First Corps, which has been here since
August 27, will be broken to- day and-
go to Macon.
Only two regiments remain here at
present.
The Thirty-first Michigan and the
Sixth Ohio are under orders to be
ready for departure to Cuba, but or-
ders to mare hhave not yet been re-
ceived.
Owing to a conflict of orders the
Fourth Tennessee did not get away
until late Monday night. It will have
to wait several days in Savannah for
transportation.
Major David Hemphill, chief quarter.
master of the division, has been re-
lieved from duty.
First Tennessee at lilanila.
Washington, D. 0., Nov. 30.—The war
department has received the following
dispatch from General Otis, dated at
Manila yesterday:
“The transport Zealandia, with head
quarters and seven companies of the
First Tennessee, arrived 'this morning.
No casualties.”
AN OPEN DOOR FOR CUBA.
New Tarifl‘ Rate to be Issued Soon.
Washington, D. (3., Nov. 30.——The Cu.
ban tariff will be issued in a day or
two. It will be based upon the 01d
Spanish tariffs, and modified with some
reference to our own Dingley law.
, This tariff will apply equally against
ourselves and the rest ofthe world
It is an open door.
. If the Teller resolution is maintained
this tariff is likely to be of more im-
portance than any other of our colo-
nial tariffs. It will apply to the island
presumably until complete civil gov-
ernment is again established, and when
that time comes, unless we annex the
island, somebody else will make the
tariff If we keep faith this will be.ou1
last Cuban tariff.
Most of the revenues of the island
have been derived from customs du-
ties on food products. Under the Spa-
nish regime $35,000,000 out of a total
of $61,000,000 came from food.
Our duties will be considerably lower
than the Old Spanish maximum rates,
and in general will resemble our own ,
Dingley tariff duties on foods, about 211
per cent.
There is an element of illusion, how-
ever, in comparing such a schedule
with our own, since we import almost
no grains 0r meats, and so the home
prices a1e in no way influenced by our
tariff
The Governnlent of Crete.
Constantinople, Nov. 30.—The cz~a1 oi
Russia, replying to the sultan’s tele-
gram of November 26, urging the czar
to abandon his intention of sending
Prince George of Greece to Crete as
high commissioner of the powers, de-
clares that the friendly sentiments 01
Russia towards Turkey are unchang-
ed, and while Prince George is going
to Crete as commissioner of four pow-
ers, the sultan’s rights of sovereignty
will be safeguarded.
Bits of N ews.
File destroyed one hundred thousan.
dollars’ wo1th of business property 111
Camden N. J., yesterday.
The trustees of Wellesley College an-
nounce a gift of fifty thousand dollars
from the late Charles T. Wilder.
The president has appointed Edgar
Allen to be United States attorney f01
the eastern district of Virginia.
Naval Constructor Hobsoh recently
refused an offer of fifty-thousand dol-
lars from a lecture bureau for a. stat-
ed number of lectures during this sea«
son.
The-sealing schooner Otto, which wa'l
seized for hunting within the proscrib-
ed area, has been fined two hundred
pounds in the admiralty court of Van
couver, B. C.
The Carlton Club of London has of«
fered to return to the Hooley estate
the ten thousand pounds which Ernest
Terah Hooley, the bankrupt, contribu-
ted some time ago to the funds of th.l
Conservative party.
General Hernandez Velasco. with
two thousand ‘troops,.has evacuated the
city and province of Pinar del Rio.
They left the city for Havana with
bands playing and banners flying. Hall
an hour afterward a Cuban lieutenan_1
colonel; with two hundred and fifty
men, entered the city.
The receipts from internal revenue
for the month of October were 21,735.-
807, an increase of 87,699,276 over the
same month of last year. For the foux
months ended October 31, the receipt:
aggregated $93,725,285, an increase (1!
$35,896,117 over the similar period in
1897.
The battleship Wisconsin, when sh:
was launched at the Union Iron Work:
at San Francisco on Saturday, she-1
from the ways with such speed thal
she went in‘to“the mud flats beyond
It has been impossible to pull her off
and the company has decided to use
dredges and,construct 'a channel ali
around the hull of the ship and out a
deep water. '
A man who gives the name of Henry
Williams has been arrested at Fulham,
England, for the robbery of the Down
ger Duchess ’Of Suthe1land’s jewels
valued at between twenty thousand
and thirty thousand pounds, in Paris
about the middle of October. A quan
tity of the stolen property was found
in his posses ion. Another man 11:1.-
been arreste n suspicion of complic-
lty.‘
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