SEC; 111111 11110111 Loss of Life in the War the Small- est on Reéord. ' ASKS ARMY 0F 100,000 MEN 0f1,431 Men Hurt at Santiago He Says Only 13 Died from ‘Vounds. T‘iis Government Urged to Build a $20,000,- OOOBallroad in Cuba as :1 Relief “’ork Washington, D. 0., Dec. 3—Secretary Algei s annual report is p1actically a complete official history of the Span. Ish-Americarz war. The secretary has given to the public all the official dis- patches that passed directly between his own office and commantfing officers in the field and camp, supplemented by short explanatory notes, setting forth the reasons for various movements; and, to complete the record, he has in- cluded in the body of his report the report of General Miles, of all the gen- erals who took part in the campaign in Cuba, Porto Rico or the Philippines. Nowhere is there shown a disposition to criticise, and generally the secretary firds much to praise and cause for sin- cr:e congratulation in the results ob- tuned. the only exception to this lack of 1 .lticism is in reference to the casual- 7Les at Santiago. It having been assert- vd that there was a lack of surgeons, present, the report states that there were 140 surgeons in attendance, and that of 1,431 wounded only thirteen died of their wounds. The total casu- alties at Santiago were 23 officers and 237 men killed and 99 ofiicers and 1,332 enlisted men wounded. The secretary, coming down in his history to the middle of August, when an order was issued and is now in exe- cution to muster out 100,000 volunteers, says: “-Thus an army of about 250,000 vol- unteers and recruits for the regular army was called into existence from civil life, and, including the regular ar- my, the total force was 274,717 men. It was organized, armed and equipped (no supplies being on hand other than those for the regulars, save Spring- field muskets) and 50,000 men .of this force were transported by land and sea to battlefields in the tropics'12,006 miles apart, where they won their vic- tories without a single defeat, and all within the period of 113 days from the declaration of war to the signing of the protocol. “This great achievement can be cred~ 'ited to no individual, it belongs to the nation. It was accomplished through the intelligence and patriotism of all who served. ”The deaths in the army from May 1 to October 1,‘ including killed, died of wounds and of disease, were 2,910. the smallest death rate record of any army in history, a remarkable fact whtn it is considered that over 50,000 of our troops, born and reared in the temperate zone, were campaigning in tropical climates, subject to rain and heat almost unprecedented.” The number of deaths from all caus- es, between May 1 .and September 30. inclusive, as reported to the adjutant general’s office up to October 3, were: Killed. 23 oflicers and 257 enlisted men; died of wounds, 4 officers and 61 enlist- ed men; died of disease, 80 officers and 2,485 enlisted men. Total, 107 officers and 2,803 enlisted men, being an agg1|-- gate of 2,910 out of a total force of 274,717 officers and men, .or a percent- age of LSD-LOGO. Under the head of increase in the‘ permanent establishment, the secreta- ry says: ‘ “In view of the needs of a military force in the islands occupied by the United States it is earnestly recom— mended that the regular army be in- creased permanently to 100,000 men and the requisite officers.” Secretary Alger recommends as a re- lief measure for the Cubans, the build- ing of a $20,000,000 railroad in Cuba by this government. CARLISTS VERY ACTIVE. Spanish Government Taking Strong Elea- sures to Preserve Order. Madrid, via Biarritz, France, Dec. 1!. —There is a great deal of Carlist agi- tation in the north of Spain and in the province of Valencia. , The government is taking the strong- est measures to preserve order and has minutely informed the queen regent of the situation. It is expected that the Paris peace commission wi by Monday. ' ork of the terminate Cologne, Dec. 3.—The Gazette pub- lishes a dispatch from-Madrid which says that the police nave arrested two monks at the railway station as they were about to start for the eastern provinces. When they were searched several letters. written in cipher were found upon them. The arrests were made on the strength of a. hint received from a for- eign source. The police are tracking secret ma— noeuvres on the Dart of other persons in Madrid, especially some persons con- nected with the bishop's palace. Bodies of the Santiago Dead. Washington, D- (3., Dec. 3.—The war _ department has decided to adopt at once the suggestion of General Woo-.1 1 in command at Santiago, that the re- moval of the bodies of American sol- diers from that section of Cuba, be de- ferred until February at thg earliest. This is a sanitary precaution, which, it is felt, must outweigh other consid- erations. New York to Sail for Sampson. Fort Monroe, Va., Dec. 3,—The cruis- er New York will sail from here to— day for Havana, whence she will bring Admiral Sampson home. Commodore Phillip will hoist his flag I on the Texas, which arrived here yes- terday from Tompkinsville. Negro Colonists Bound for Liberia. Wichita, Kansas, Dec. 3.-—A colony of sixteen negroes has left‘Oklahoma City for Liberia. It is headed by a. farmer named Appleberry, who recent~ 1y sold his farm on Fork Creek for three thousand dollars. All have some money. f?” THE EVENING_GAZ’E.T1‘E DUN’S WEEK! Y REVIE‘..N Number of Failules for the Month Much Smaller Than Usual. , New York, Dec. 3.—The report of tail- ures for the ‘month of November is not only a decrtase in number and a smaller amount of liabilities than in any other month excepting three sum- mer months since the monthly record began. but because careful analysis shows a striking improvement both in the small and in the large failures, and in nearly all classes of industry aux“. trade. Considering that failures are usually smaller in summer months than in November, the monthly return may be shows a condition of financial sound- ness rarely surpassed. Revival of gold imports, one million dollars for the week, is merely 9. rec- ognition of enormous indebtedness of other countries to the United States, but scarcely a beginning of payment. Though the past week’s exports of produce were small, the balance due to this country on the trade of Novem- ber was again over sixty million dol- lars. A striking feature has been the enor- ,mous purchases of bonds amounting to $105,000,000 for the month, far surpass- ing all records. Nobody can estimate the gain for the. iron and steel industry which will result from the past week’s transac- tions in steel rails, which are said to exceed 700, 000 tons. Sales of wool have been very large in November, 39,875,800 pounds in five weeks, against 34,122,400 pounds last year, and 26 831,000 in 1892, but they have been affected by important con— cessions in price. The rise of cotton to 5.62 cents, which had no other basis than an impression November might do much harm, react~ ed a sixteenth, but rose Friday and closed at the top price, with improve- ment in the goods market. The wheat market has been weaker, with heavy western receipts, and has declined one-half cent. Atlantic exports have been 6,123,056 bushels, flour included, for the week, against 4,187,632 last year, and Pacific exports 1,810,225, against 1,857,959 last year. Within the same time corn ex- ports have been 14,490,283 bushels. against 12,881,532 last year, and the price has risen one-quarter of a‘ cent. The volume of payments through clearing houses have been 14.1 per cent. larger for the week than last year, and 13. 3 per cent. larger than in 1892, and for the month the returns have been 21.6 per cent. larger than last year, and 19. 2 per cent. larger than In 1892. Failures for the week have been 281 in the United States, against 306 last year, and 19 in Canada, against 28 last year. THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS. No Real Progress Blade at the Joint See. sion. Paris, Dec. 3.—-The joint session of the peace commission yesterday lasted two hours. No real progress was made. The Spaniards are awaiting instruc- tions. Spain’s proposition for commercial privileges in the West Indies was no: settled and was scarcely considered yesterday. The Americans have also asked for instructions on ctrtain mat— ters. The Caroline islands questions were not considered. The commissions adjourned until to-day. The American commissioners conclu- ded their consultation with Major Gen- eral Merritt yesterday morning. They then took up the question of Spanish commercial rights in the West Indies for a term of years and other subjects of negotiation. Spanish sympathizers having a quasi connection with the Spanish commis- sion are making much over the repor— ted attitude of the Filipinos toward the United States. The sympathizers profess to have in- formation that Aguinaldo means to , fight, and that he now has sixty thou- sand soldiers, with Mauser rflies and eighteen quick firing guns, and it is asserted that he will be satisfied with nothing but independence. Agoncillo, Aguinaldo’s agent, was reticent when questioned on the subject yesterday morning, saying that he had no definite information from “the gov- ernment." BITS OF NEWS. ; A rebellion against Turkey is said to have broken out in the Yemen dis- trict of Arabia. I Havana province will probably be turned over to the Americans by or be- fore December 24. i A report from the treasury bureau )f statistics shows heavy gains in Am— erican exports to Africa. The grand cross of the Legion of Honor has been presented to the quee .1 regent of Spain by the French ambas- sador. Mrs. Abbie L. Marble, the aged sis- : ter-in- law of the late James G. Blaine, ; was killed yesterday in a runaway at San Leandro, Cal. Thirty-seven people were drowned and twenty-three saved on the British steamer Clan Drummond, that was wrecked in the bay of Bismay. The British government has decided to grant Barbados forty thousand pounds and St. Vincent twenty- five thousand pounds and to lend each isl- and fifty thousand pounds additional. Ralph A. Obleness died at Athens, ' Ga., yesterday, from injuries received = in playing football two weeks ago. He was the quarter back on the eleven of Ohio University. The home of Hiram Briggs, a farm- or, living seven miles southeast 1 7 Perry, Oklahoma, caught fire yesterday , and Briggs, his wife and three children I were burned to death. The British schooner Village Belle, 'hailing from Montego Bay, Jamaica, and bound from Cay‘o Antilla f01 Grand Cayman, has been lost at sea. Her skipper, four members of her creu and three passengers were drowned. An action at law has revealed tlll- , fact that there is a. shortage of from f$11,000 to $15,000 in the accounts of the German consulate at Philadelphia, for which the present officials are not‘re- sponsible. I extremely gratifying because it shows , considered about the best made, and- that cold weather and storms late in' WHAT 11101 01" 1115111. . Norwalk Practices- Its Share, but They Are Growing Less Every Day. What a wondeiful lot. of people there are who suffer with backache. F1om the millionaire sitting in his office clipping coupons, dowu to the humble citizen who swluos a pick for a dollar a day; nobody 15 free 110111 it. And it all comes how the same cause. The kidneys zu- e to blame. Backache is really nothing but, kid— ney ache. You can be su1e that. it. means a dismdeied condition of the kidnevs. And if you are wise, you will need the warning immediately. Backache neglecred means severer forms of kid- ney disease, diabetis, urinary troubles, Bright’s disease—death. Doan’s Kidney Pills one the one sim- ple remedv that can be relied upon in all forms of kidney tlouble. Some of your neignbms have tried them and not one has Bfound them want- ing. Here is the experience of a Nor- Mr. Josiah Dodge. No. 2.Be1den place, says: “I had some trouble in the way of kidney complaint, and rheu- matic-like pains 1n the back. Being a frequent Visitor at Mr. Hale’s (now G1endening&Co’s) drug store, 1 no blood a great. many people buyiutr Doan’s Kidney Pills, and as they all spoke ve1y highly about the results obtained, I got a box. began taking them and in a few days" 1.1 no they had cured the attack. I am 1ec01nmeuding them tomy friends. Doan’s Pills for sale by all deal- ers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by FUSES!- Milburn 00., Buffalo, N. Y.,sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name Doan’s and take no substitute. ‘walk citizen: When Mark Twain Felt Embarrassed. When Mark Twain was first intro- duced to Gen. Grant the latter shook hands in a perfunctory manner and immediately relapsed into his custom- ary attitude of reticence. There was an awkward pause; it grew longer and longer as the humorist tried to think of something bright to say. Finally, as if in sheer desperation, Twain looked up with an assumed air of great timidity and said: “Mr. President, I—I feel a little bit embarrased. Do you?" The President could not help smiling. and Mark took . advantage' of the chance the incident presented to give 'place to ‘others. Ten years later, when statesman and humorist met again, Gen. Grant, with a twinkle in his eye, said. before Twain had the chance to utter a word: “Mr. Clemens, I don’t feel at all em- barrased. Do you?”—Ladies’ Home Journal. How to Make 8 Savage Your Friend. Mr. Rougemont, the modern Robin- son Crusoe, who has lived so long among the aborigines that he learned to understand them thoroughly, pleads against the ignorant habit w-hicli white men have of shooting at black men as soon as they see them. All that is necessary to do, if you Wish to make a black man your friend is to clap the hands smartly on the back of one’s trousers, at the same time putting out one’s tongue. This is a. universal sign, in the sign lan- guage which all the blacks understand that the stranger wishes to sit with them and to hob nob with the-m gener- ally. If to these signs the stranger will only add a few steps of a livelv jig, accompanying himself, if possible, upon a whistle, the severest savage will be instantly placated and will abandon his hostile attitude. n.- ‘nm New Speaking Clocks. In Switzerland they have begun making phonographic clocks and watches, which, it appears. leave any- thing heretofore accomplished far in the shade. By merely pressing the button on the new timepiece it an- nounces the hour distinctly. T‘ie alarms call to the sleeper: “It’s 6 o’clock; get up.” There are some which even add the words: “Now. don’t go to sleep again." The form can be changed to suit the buyer and make the warning more or less emphatic. This application of the phonographic principle is due to a French watchma— ker settled at Geneva. He introduces into clocks and watches little slabs of vulcanized rubber, on which the de- sired words are trncei. , The Spider Lou-Ge. ' This parasite is one of the most de- structive known. It affects all kinds of domestic fowls and sometimes when present in large numbers passes to other animals, cattle, dogs, cats. horses,_and sometimes to people. It does most of its work at night, hiding in cracks and crevices during the day. The natural color is yellowish or brownish, but when the Insect is full of blood, it becomes brown or red. The chick that feathers slowly is, as a rule, hardy and can stand more hardships than others, for thereason that its slow feathering does not tax its vitality. When fully matured, such chicks become better feathered than the others and endure the winter bet- ter.’ Asiatics are slow in getting their feathers, but the Langshans take on their plumage a little earlier than the Cochins 01' Brahmas. Slow feathering is an advantage rather than otherwise. TIRED MEN Men wear out their lives quickly nowadays. ’l‘heil brains and bodies are overworked, and then come sleeplessness. nervousness, dyspep- sia and general debility. The sys- tem gives out. These troubles. if neglected. hasten the end Strength and health will come back with the lTalldEflf’S TlIE HOSTETTEBIS STOMACH r000 DIGEST, MAKES». utsvi-zs BITTERS OF IRON,- AND INDUCES SOUND SLEEP. PREMIERDUPUYBEATEN Fifteen Majority Against Him or. a. Division Of the House. GAUTHIER LED OPPOSITION Dupuy Asked for Delay on an Urgency Vote. on a liIeasure Providing for Uni- versal Suffrage. Said Such 11 Radical Move Should Not be Made in Haste. Paris, Dec. 3.—-In the Chamber ‘of Deputies yesterday M. Gauthier, Re- publican, introduced a measure pro- viding for the election of senators by universal suffrage, and demanded ur- gcncy. The premier, M. Dupuy, opposed the gran-ting of urgency, and said that the chamber should think twice before de- donment of the prosecution of Colonel Whole electoral system. - Urgency, however, was adopted by a vote of 243 to 228. Paris, Dec. 3.———A meeting of nearly one thousand advocates of revision was held last evening, at which was adop- ted a resolution demanding the aban— donment of the Droescution of Colonel Picquart, the revision of the Dreyfus case and the punishment of the latter’s accusers. M. de Pressense, editor of the Temps, made a speech, in which he accused the public authorities of lack of energy in the execution of justice.' Other speakers made remarks in a similar strain. It is reported that the court of cas— sation has demanded access to the se- cret dossier in the Dreyfus case, and that M. de Freycinet has consented to its production upon the condition that certain of the documents shall not be given to the public. Dinner to Joint Commission. Paris, Dec. 3.—-The Figaro says that M. Delcasse, minister of foreign af- fairs, will entertain all of the members of the joint peace commission at din- ner previous to their departure from Paris. . NEWS FROM ANDREE.‘ Message Stating His Balloon Has Crossed Ural Mountains. Stockholm, Dec. 3.—An engine driver named Detke has written to the Swed- Ish-Norwegian minister at St. Peters- burg a letter in which he says that he found in the vicinity of the Ural moun- tains a bottle containing two papers, one of which bore the following mes‘ sage written in French: “Andree’s balloon has crossed the Ural mountains. (Signed) “ANDREE.” The other paper, inscribed in Rus- sian, was as follows: “Give this letter to the consul or to the police.” Andree, with two companions, Strin- deberg and Frenkel, left the port 01' Virgo, Spitzbergen, on the afteinoon of Sunday, the 11th of July, 1897, in the balloon Ornen. The intention of the explorers was to cross the polar regions to some point in America, going as near to the pole itself as possible. Since that time no reliable news has been 1eceived f1om them, with the ex- ception of the following message found on a carrie1 pigeon killed on the 22d of July by one of the seamen of the Whaler Aiken, between the Spitzbe1- gen North Cape and the Seven Isles, in about 80 degrees north latitude. “13th July, 12. 30 p. m., 82.2 N. Lat, 15.5 E. Long. Good progress toward the north. All goes well on board. This message is the third by pigeon. “ ANDREE. ” If, as alleged above, the balloon had crossed the Ural mountains it would appear that the prime object of the ex- pedition had not been attained. To Conciliate the Filipinos. Washington, D. 0., Dec. 3.—-The re- cent dispatches from Madrid predicting trouble for the Americans with the in- surgents in Manila, are similar to those sent out from Spanish sources before the peace negotiations began. The Spaniards desire to make trouble in the islands and to give the world the impression that the Americans will not be able to quiet the natives. The administration, however, has not neglected to prepare for the occupation of the Philippines. Foro some time plans have been discussed looking to- wards the conciliation of Aguinaldo and his followers. It is stated in Washington on good authority that so soon as the peace treaty is signed these plans will be put in operation, and that Gen. Otis, who has been com- missioned for this delicate work, has received his instructions. Gen. Otis has had experience in such matters, as his record in the Indian country will show. 'Con'lltlnns at Manila. Washington, D. 0., Dec. 3.--That there is a decided improvement in the health of the troops in the Philippines is shown by the following cable mes- sage from theral Otis, commandng at Manila. received by Adjutant Gene- ral Corbin. f‘Percentum of sick of command N.- vémber 30,10 1- 6, against 12 1- 5 October 3]. November deaths 26, as against 45 for October. Sick rate in command about same as 'nong troops of other governments s 'lng in tropical coun- tries. One-third of present sick suffer- ing from typhoid and malarial fever. one-sixth from intestinal troubles, and the remaining: half of ailments" slight in character." Rochester Play House Burned. Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 3.——The Acad- emy of Music, Rochester’s oldest and » most famous playhouse, was destroy- ed by fire yesterday morning. Estima- ted loss, $5,000; insurance $23,000. The tenants on the'ground floor will lose from ten thousand to fifteen thou- sand dollars. It is thought that the fire was caus- ed by an explosion in the boiler room. “The \Vheel of Fortune" Company has been occupying the boards at the academy this week. Manager J. H. Phillips says that all his properties are lost. entailing a. loss‘ of $7,000 to $10,000. I I '1 l 1 THE "YEAR BY BSCRIBIN FOR THE WEEKLY EAZETTE . WEEKLY TRIBUNE. BOTH PAPERS Sent to any Address Q- .n O. \ FOR One -"- Dollar! 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