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VOL. II.
A STRONG ANTI-AMERICAN FEEL
ING IS BEING SHOWN.
SPANIARDS ROB AND PILLAGE.
They Are Making the Best of Tlioir Short
Stay and Rose No Chance to
Enrich Themselves.
Advices of Sunday from Havana
state that Paz y Libertad, one of the
daily papers of Cieufuegos, published
with the sanction of the government,
prints a manifesto with over three
hundred signatures, a great many of
which are those of Spaniards, openly
proclaiming Cuban independence.
Owing to the fact that Spanish offi
cers are selling commissary stores at
any price obtainable, army supplies
are now a drug on the market in the
interior, making legitimate trade im
possible. It is asserted that as the
Spanish rule draws toward a close,
corruption, plunder and robbery be
come daily more open and wholesale.
The commission of transportation
charged.-wittrituarishing pasj^tge-tick
ets 'to Spanish officers returning to
Spain charges arbitrary rate of $4 each
for a berth.
If the victim refuses to give up, he
is made to wait for several steamers,
the commission claiming that there is
no room. Generally the officer is glad
to pay in order to get away. This
abuse is openly spoken of, but the
present situation is a free-for-all,
grab-as-grab-can game, and every one
appears eager to make money while
the Spanish sun still shines.
The official report of tho burials in
the city of Havana since tho first of
the present year shows that there have
been 16,821 interments. The average
death rate keeps on steadily at forty
seven per day.
Great discontent prevails among the
Spanish troops because of non-pay
ment in some cases for six months; in
others for seven months, and the sol
diers fear that they will be embarked
for Spain without receiving their pay.
The poor quality of the food supplied
to nearly all the soldiers has occasion
ed much ill feeling, and serious insub
ordination is feared in several locali
ties.
In the province of Puerto Principe
of the 400 members of the civil guards
300 have deserted and gone over to the
insurgents.
At Nuevitas anchTarragona battalion
became insubordinate and attempted
to join the insurgents on account of
the short rations and the wretched
quality of the food supplied by the
chief. General March, in command
of that province, on learning of this
occurrence, went to Nuevitas and
succeeded in controlling the soldiers
by furnishing them with good and
plentiful rations.
Many soldiers until recently were
deserting, but General Blanco’s de
cree regarding disbandment has put a
stop to the defections. Over 5,000
soldiers have been mustered out since
the issuance of the decree.
Oppose American Flag.
About fifty Cuban patriotic clubs
have been organized in Havana under
the management, in a large majority
of cases, of patricians, lawyers and
other professional men. Many of tho
members of some of these clubs at
tended the first meetiugs wearing the
Cuban and American flags crossed.
The presiding officers of several of the
clubs, noticing the insignia in the
button holes of the coats of the mem
bers, ordered that in future only the
Cuban flag should be worn. In many
instances this order was complied
with.
The Cuban general, Rego, has ar
rived at Havana from Puerto Principe
and is preaching in the Havana cafes
and the insurgent camps near the city
a holy war against the Americans.
COTTON MILLS CLOSE.
fall Hirer Manufacturers Stop Production
For Four Weeks.
The Chase, Sagamore, Wampanoag,
Weetamoa and Stafford cotton mills at
Fall River, Mass., shut down Saturday
in accordance with the agreement of
print cloth manufacturers to curtail
production for four weeks.
PARALYZED IN COURT.
Marshall J. Clarke, Well Known Georgia
Jurist, Dies Suddenly.
Judge Marshall J. Clarke, one of
the most distinguished and prominent
jurists of Georgia, was stricken with
paralysis at 9 o’clock Thursday morn
ing in the superior court room at At
lanta, and died shortly afterward with
out regaining consciousness.
Judge Clarke occupied for a num
ber of years a leading rank among the
lawyers of the state. He was a native
of Georgia, and was born in the little
village of Lumpkin, in Stewart coun
ty, on June 28, 1839.
ALABAMA LIFTS QUARANTINE.
All Restrictions Removed and Travel and
Traffic is Resumed.
Sunday morning the state health
department of Alabama officially (le
clared off the quarantine by the state
of all relfeved yellow’ fever infected districts
and from duty the quarantine
.11 trains '
0ff on railroad traffic and
This will enable
commerce, which has been badly
handicapped, to be fully resumed.
The Abbeville Chronicle
NEW YORK DEMOCRATS
Hold Enthusiastic Meeting and Ratify
Their State Ticket.
A New York special says: Twenty
thousand persons or thereabouts were
in or adjacent to Tammany hall Tues
day night ratifying the democratic
state ticket. About one-quarter were
in the wigwam, the others were in the
neighboring streets and were addrosa
ed from several stands.
James B. Eustice was chairman of
the meeting. Mr. Eustice, who was
formerly ambassador to France, said
that he wished to congratulate the
party on its state convention and its
platform and nominees. The conven
tion had the great responsibility of
uniting the democratic party of the
state.
When ex-Governor James E. Camp
bell, of Ohio, was introduced, some
one in the rear of the hall yelled:
“What about the question. Let’s
hear about it.”
“In New York,” he said, “they have
started a wild west show. (Cheers.)
If that is what you New Yorkers want,
they had better nominate Buffalo Bill
and have a good show.”
Governor Campbell said he meant
no discourtesy to Colonel Roosevelt,
as he liked a good soldier.
“It is a source of wonder,” he said,
“to me why they discharge one good
soldier to go home and run for gover
nor, and another good soldier, and an
other good soldier, a colonel of a regi
ment that they don’t need, is kept
down in Florida (tremendous cheer
ing). I will refer this to the chief
executive of the nation, who is making
a stumping tour.” (Great and con
tinued cheering).
Mr. Campbell said there were other
soldiers besides_Colonel RooseYelt.
He had seen many a regiment go out,
and not—the least of- ' tli'om_ yas_ -1lio
Sixty-ninth New York. This ‘ was
much chegred. ~~ .
“I saw one regiment, the Seventy
first, come back,” he said. “Out of a
total regimental number there came
but 300, and all had to ride. Ask the
republican administration who caused
them to rot like cattle in a foreign
laud.”
RUSSIA GAINS STRONG POINT.
Gets Ahead of England In Occupation of a
Town In Chinese Province.
A dispatch from Shanghai to a Lon
don news agency says:
“A Russian regiment occupied the
town of New Chwan, province of Liao
Tong, and the forts at the month of
the river Liaou on October 15tb, thus
securing complete possession of New
Chwan. The native troops fled with
out making any opposition, under or
ders from the empress dowager and Li
Hung Chang.
“A British gunboat was in the river
at the time. Its non-resistance is re
garded as the virtual British abandon
ment of the whole of Manchuria to the
Russians and gives Russia an invalua
ble strategic position,”
VANDERBILT GETS NEW LINE.
Important New England System Is Pur
chased for S3,000,000.
The New York World says: Papers
have been signed in the city by which
the Rutland railroad, running from
Bellows Falls to Burlington, Vt.,
passed from the control of the Dela
ware and Hudson Canal company into
the hands of Percival W. Clement,
William K. Vanderbilt and Dr. W.
Seward Webb.
The price paid for the block of
controlling stock is asserted to be
83,000,000.______
SPANIARDS LEAVING RAPIDLY.
Six Thousand. Gone and 40,000 More
Soon to Erave l’orto Rico.
General 'Wade, president of the
American Evacuation commission to
Porto, telegraphed the war depart
ment Tuesday night that six thousand
Spanish soldiers had been embarked
for Spain, and that arrangements had
been completed of which the American
commission had been duly notified by
the Spanish commission for the em
barkation of 40,000 more in the near
future.
ORDERED TO AUGUSTA.
Troops From Camp Meade Go South After
Philadelphia Jubilee.
An order was issued by the war de
partment Wednesday directing that
six troops of the Third cavalry after
the peace jubilee ceremonies in Phila
delphia shall proceed to Augusta, Ga.,
for duty with the Second army corps.
This is the first movement of troops
from Camp Meade to the southern
camp.
ASSASSIN’S BULLET
Kilts Mrs. John Atkinson, of lidgeflold,
S. C , On l’ublic Highway.
An Augusta, Ga., dispatch says:
Mrs. John Atkinson, of Edgefield,
was shot by an assassin Tuesday night
and killed. She was returning home
from Augusta in a buggy with her
husband. When near Republican dis
trict church, on tho Martinsburg road,
thirteen miles from the city, fome one
fired upon them from ambush, Two
shots were fired from a shotgun, the
loads taking effect in Mrs. Atkinson's
heart, producing instant death. The
assassin is unknown.
TO RETURN THE MONEY.
Tennessee Methodists Take Action Regard
ing Church Claims Fund.
The Tennessee conference of the
M. E. church south, at Clarksville,
Friday, adopted a resolution accepting
the method of the bishops as to the
return of the money obtained from
congress for the damage done the pnb
h ° llse clurm 8 thfc war > a ” fl de '
claring that the , conference f preferred
to have the money refunded to the
government,
ABBEVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 27. 1898.
FRANCE IS MAKING RAPID PREP
ARATIONS FOR WAR.
FflSHODfl THE BONE OF CONTENTION
Enel end's Temper Is Aroused and She
Defies the French Republic—Situa
s' tion Is Critical.
A cable dispatch of Wednesday from
Paris pays: In spite of the semi-offi
cial denials, the Echo De Paris asserts
that tho embarkation of war materials
and supplies continues at Toulon,
adding that extraordinary activity
reigns at the arsenal there. Besides
the ironclads Admirals Trehousart,
Bovines, Jemmapes and Yalmy, the
cruisers Algor, Levrier and Caiman, it
claims, are getting ready for service,
embarking ammunition and war ma
terials.
In addition, it is further assorted,
the transports Bien Hoa and Gironde
are almost ready for sea.
All the French naval officers on leave
of absence Lave been ordered to re
turn to their vessels.
A dispatch to The Petit Parisien
from Toulon confirms the report of
The Echo Do Paris and says the great
est activity prevails in the navy yard,
where the work is proceeding with
feverish speed day and night.
The Temps, commenting upon the
sensational stories of naval mobiliza
tion, says:
“While the political situation no
cessarily induces unusual vigilance
and activity, it must not be forgotten
that the present naval move.ments are
principally an inauguration of the re
forms planned by M. Lockroy when
he was appointed minister of marine
and which he desires to have com
pleted prior to January 1st next—re
forms whereby the squadrons and
ports will always be ready and clear
for action and fully equipped witbin a
few days.”
Britain’s Temper Shown.
A Loudon special says: Sir Michael
Hicks Beach, chancellor of the ex
chequer, speaking at North Shields,
Tuesday evening announced that the
government had opened negotiations
with the powers with a view of secur
ing to the subjects of the various pow
ers the "rights of developing the re
spective spheres in which each country
iB especially interested.”
Regarding the Fasboda question, he
said he wished cordially to acknowl
edge the desire evidenced in the
speeches of Lord Roseberry and Her
bert Asquith to help the government
in the matter, “a matter which might
develop to the utmost gravity.”
"It is impossible,” he continued,
“for France to maintain that she had
political rights at Fasboda. She has
naturally and properly asked for time
to receive Major Marchand’s reports,
but until the contrary is proved all de
cline to believe that France will re
fuse to withdraw. If she refused, the
matter would assume an aspect as
grave as is possible between two great
nations.
“The government is animated by
the friendliest spirit toward France
nnd does not wish to inflict humilia
tion. What we desire is fair treat
ment. Our work iu Egypt is not com
pleted. Africa is big enough for us
both—for France in the west and our
selves in the east. Surely we ought
to be able to agree to respect one
another’s rights and claims. I hope,
trust and believe the question is capa
ble of a friendly solution, but this
country has put her foot down. If,
unhappily, another view should be
taken by France, the queen’s minis
ters know what their duty demands.
“It would be a great calamity if,
after peace for upward of eighty years,
our friendly relations should be dis
turbed and we should be launched
into a great war, but there are greater
evils than war, and we shall not shrink
from anything that is coming, know
ing that we are supported by a united
people.”
The speech has deeply impressed
England, and the utmost concern is
felt as to how Frauce will receive it.
The idea has been prevalent that the
French have not realized how seriously
England felt on the Fasboda question,
which has been coupled with a desire
that France would not force England
to an armed support of Lord Salis
bury’s stand.
DEWEY SENDS MESSAGE.
Reticent In Regard To Political Situation
In Philippine*.
A telegram was received by the sec
retary of the navy Friday from Admi
ral Dewey, at Manila, saying that the
collier Nero arrived at Taku on the
16th with her coal on fire, and sug
gesting that as he has no further use
for that vessel she be sent home.
Admiral Dewey said nothing with
regard to the political situation in the
Philippines, or the capture of any
more ships belonging either to the
Spaniards or to the insurgents, or at
least, if he did, the officials of the de
partment will not admit it.
IRISHMEN ARE FOR FRANCE.
Redmond Says Sympathy of His Country
men Are With the Republic.
Mr. William Redmond, Parnellite,
member of parliament for East Clare,
addressing a home rule meeting at
Dublin, Friday evening, called for
three cheers for Major Marchand,
which were given with great hearti
ness. Mr. Redmond said:
“The sympathies of Irishmen are
with France.”
RACE WAR IN MISSISSIPPI.
Nln. Negroni nnd One White Aran He
ported Shot to Death.
A special of Sunday from Meridian.
Miss., says: The most bloody race
war that has occurred in Mississippi
since the exciting days of the recon
struction period is raging in Scott
county, fifty miles west of Meridian.
As the result of an attempt to ar
rest a negro near Ilarpersville, Scott
oounty, in the eastern part of the
state, one white deputy is killed, three
wounded, and, according to tho latest
report, nine negroes have boon kill
ed by the citizens of the Harpers
ville neighborhood and the sheriff’s
posse combined.
Tho pursuit of about fifty nogroes,
who had joined the original offender
with the avowed determination to pro
vent his arrest and capture and who
ambushed the party attempting the
arrest, continues and by morning the
number of fatalities will undoubtedly
have assumed larger proportions. Tho
whole country is terribly aroused and
the sheriff’s posse has been ro-euforced
with meu from all the neighboring
towns.
Goveruor McLaurin has gone to the
scene, which is about ten miles north
of Forest, the nearest railroad point.
The trouble originated last Friday,
when a negro named Bill Burke had
an altercation with his employer,
Charles Freeman, a white man, in
which the negro got the best of the
difficulty.
That night a crowd of white men
went to Burke’s house to arrest him,
but ho was not there. The white men
then decided to go back tho next night
to capture Burke,and the plan was not
ooncealed.
Headed by Wallace Sibley, a white
man deputized to arrest the man, the
crowd went to Burke’s house, which is
about one mile from Harpersville.
When they arrived upon tho scene
and called for Btirke they were grooted
by a fusilade from the negroes, who
were concealed in ehe bushes surround
ing the house nnd in the house itself.
Wallace Sibley, the leader, fell dead
at the first volley and three more white
members of the crowd, James John
son, James Hamilton and James
Wells, were wounded.
The whites returned the fire, but
were unable to do any execution, as
their assailants were all concealed.
There were not more than eight men
in the crowd, and finding it impossi
ble to resist effectively, they retired
toward Harpersville.
The wounded deputies were able to
get back to town with the assistance
of their comrades. This occurrence
took place early in the night.
When the crowd returned to Har
persville the news spread like wildfire.
During the night a large crowd gath
ered from the neighborhood. The
men immediately went to Burke’s
house and got from his mother the
names of all parties in the crowd which
had ambushed the men the night be
fore. In all there were about forty
negroes who had gathered to prevent
the arrest of Burke, and a list was
made up at her dictation. All of them
had fled before the crowd made its ap
pearance the next morning. Then the
pursuit and search began.
According to the statement of relia
ble citizens, six of the negroes w-ere
found and killed by the crowd before
the sheriff arrived.
MUCH LUMBER WANTED.
Government Opens Bid!* For Gigantic
Order to Be Sent to Cuba.
The war department has opened
bids throughout the country for a
gigantic order of lumber to be sent to
different points in Cuba. It is the be
ginning of the work of reconstruction
in the principal towns of Cuba and
preparation for the reception of tho
United States that will soon occupy
the island.
It is understood that tlio mills in
every part of the country will ho given
an opportunity to secure the contract,
but especially in the states over which
the department of the gulf lias super
vision the bids will be sent out in every
direction.
Hard pine wood is wanted by the
government, and the firms that can
deliver the material at the southern
sea coast towns cheapest will be
awarded the contract. Under the cir
cumstances, it is probable that some
southern mill near the south Atlantic
or gulf coast will be given the work,
although the government reserves the
right to reject any bid, whatever the
agreement.
RAILROAD SOLD AT AUCTION.
The St. Pouts, Kansas and Southwestern
Goes to Creditors For 8150,000.
The St. Louis, Kansas and South
western railroad was sold at auction
at Kansas City Saturday under a de
cree of the United States circuit court
to satisfy a claim of the Farmers’ Loan
and Trust Company of New York. The
line is sixty miles long, running from
Arkansas City to Anthony, nnd was at
one time part of the ’Frisco system.
The road arid equipment was pur
chased for $150,000 by Samuel Baker,
of Hamilton, Ontario, as representa
tive of the creditors.
N. & D. STOCKHOLDERS MEET.
Hold Annual Session In Nashville and
Elect Directors.
The stockholders of the Nashville
and Decatur railway met in Nashville
Wednesday iu annual session and
elected directors.
The directors re-elected I)r. D. B.
Cliffe, president.; Samuel Seay, secre
tary. of the officers of
The reports were a
very satisfactory and encouraging na
ture.
PEACE COMMISSIONERS ANXIOUS
FOR MORE DYLAN.
ARE NOT YIELDING TO AMERICANS.
111.position of the Culian I>eht Seem, to
Be the Principal Barrier
to Progress.
A coble dispatch of Thursday from
Paris says: The Spanish peace com
missioners have not yet received from
Madrid either instruction or permis
sion to bid adieu to Cuban sovereignty
without further seeking to attach to
this sovereignty some condition pro
viding for the assumption of the Cuban
debt by the United States,
If they are as at present disposed
and instructed, tlio Spaniards will not
at Friday’s meeting Tocogni/.e afllrm
atively the United States’ position,
Should they tlatly reject American in
sistence, the Spaniards, while recog
nizing the physical power of the Unit
ed States against unaided Spain, will
dumbly extend their palms upward
and shrug their shoulders. They re
gard the situation as pitiable and are
not averse to any sympathy it may ex
cite,
They aflitm that the American
answer to the debt proposition is
very long, and that they have not yet
had time to meditate fully on it.
They, thus far, apparently intend not
to yield and will make another written
presentment and expect an extended
discussion thereon,
Whether they be met with, or at the
close of the session receive, as to
Cuba, the American ultimatum of
terms and time, must be then (level
oped. While this is now not quite
probable, it is possible,
Spaniards Deprcuod.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says:
“I had a visit today (Thursday)
from a great Spanish personage who
seems to have been commissioned to
ascertain the trend of public opinion
on the negotiations hero. He appeared
much depressed. He has found great
and general sympathy with Spain, but
has been unable to discover any possi
bility of obtaining moral support
against tho American delegates who
are inflexible in their demands and
with much politeness of form have
hitherto categorically refused to make
the slightest concessions on any of
the instructions roceived by them,
never having asked their government
for the slightest modifications.
“I have already explained the mode
of negotiations. Memoirs are handed
in, which are translated and replied
to in the same fashion. The Span
iards from time to time endeavor to
enter into conversation and turn the
discussion into a verbal exchange of
views in order to obtain some devia
tion from the inflexible line marked
out by the American government for
its representatives.
“Senor Barsque, who is a master of
the English language, is the Spanish
commissioner who makes the attempts
to lead to a conversation, nnd as he is
described as very pressing nnd elo
quent, he always makes a profound
impression. The Americans, how
ever, listen attentively, but maintain
the procedure of written replies.
“The friend who called told ho had
found his countrymen much discour
aged, being convinced that the United
States is bent on a rigorous exercise
of the of the victor. Said he:
“ ‘The Americans seem bent on
pushing the results of the war to their
extreme consequences. They refuse
to entertain any concessions on the
financial question, and while declining
to undertake sovereignty in Cuba, they
maintain that the Cuban debt is a
Spanish debt and that Spain abused
her sovereignty by saddling the island
with the interest of a debt by which
she alone profited.
“ ‘Vainly havo we urged that they
themselves accepted financial obliga
tions toward England after tho war of
independence; that they accepted the
burdens of Texas after conquest; that
there is no more general law than the
law of the obligations of a country
chan*, ng with its rules, nnd that it
would be an arbitrary course and a
vexatious precedent to throw the Cu
ban debt upon us. It is useless and
they stand peremptorily on their de
mands.’ ”
TO RAISE THE VIZCAYA.
lieutenant Hobson Will Ask for an Ay
print ion From tlio Government.
A Santiago dispatch says: Nava
Constructor Hobson, who left Guan
tanamo early last week for Jamaica
witli the intention of taking the Atlas
lino steamer for New York, is going
to Washington to obtain an appropri
ation if possible of 81,000,000 for the
purpose of raising the sunken Spanish
cruiser Vizcaya. Cristobal
The plans for raising the
Colon have been perfected and the
work is progressing in accordance
with the instructions left by Mr. Hob
soil who expects to return within a
month.
SPANIARDS COOPED UP.
State of Anarchy Said toKxl.tln Southern
Philippines.
Well authenticated reports have
reached Manila of u terrible state of
anarchy in the southern Philippines,
The Spaniards there are cooped up in
the principal towns. continne capturing
Tho Americans
the rebel vessels as they arrive at
Cavite. Two have been captured the
past week.
FRUITLESS SESSIONS.
Pmmcp CominlHHloncru Havo Not As Yet
Complctnl First Article.
A Paris special says: Tho United
States and Spanish pence commissions
held separate sessions Friday morning
ana a joint session opened in tlio af
ternoon which lasted from 2 o’clock to
^^DuriSrihia lime the commissioners
discussed the second series of written
arguments put forward by the Span
iards for tho purpose of prevailing up
on tho American commissioners to as
sume the debt. No definite conclu
sion was reached nnd tho commission
ers adjourned uutil Monday.
It is probable that this feature of
the negotiations will he disposed of
uext week.
Thus far thero havo been seven joint
sessions, four of which have beeu de
voted to the discussion of the first
article of tho protocol. In this man
ner two weeks have passed and no re
sult has been reached. The American
commissioners have listened to all the
arguments of the Spaniards, but they
have pot changed the position which
they first assumed in refusing to take
over the Cuban debt.
An effort is being made in Paris to
create the impression that there is
some understanding between the
United States and Spain regarding the
Philippine islands, outside of the
statements contained in the third arti
cle of the protocol. That article em
bodies the only agreement between
the United States and Spain in regard
to the Philippines, nnd it clearly sets
forth that the United States will
oooupy and hold the city, bay and har
bor of Manila pending the conclusion
of a treaty of peace, which shall de
termine the disposition and govern
ment and control of the Philippine
islands.
Beyond this protocol agreement it
oau be assorted with confidence, there is
no other understanding on the subject
between theUnited States and Spain.
The purpose of the United States and
the agreement arrived at with Spain
was that the control and government
of the Philippine islands should be
decided by the commissions now sit
ting here, and Spain understood that
the protocol djd not determine any
thing as to Spain’s ultimate sovereign
ty in the Phillipine islands. It was
understood by both powers that the
protocol was a compact by which it
was agreed that the pence commissions
should determine tho future disposi
tion of the Philippine islands. This
will be done when the Cuban question
is settled and after the points relating
to Porto Rico and tho Ladrones have
been passed upon.
COURT SUSTAINED GAGE.
Secretary Has Discretion In Selling; United
Mutes Ponds.
A Washington dispatch says: Judge
Cox, in the district supreme court, has
decided the cases of Georg? J1. Wight
mau and of William H. Wbartofi Against
Secretary Gage, in favor of the secre
tary of tho treasury.
One suit sought an injunction, and
the other a mandamus, the basis of
complaint in each being the rejection
by the secretary of the treasury of
bids submitted for the recent war loan
bond issue by the complainants. Sec
retary Gage rejected the bids, believ
ing the bidders really represented cer
tain institutions.
Judge Cox Friday held that under
tho act of congress the secretary of
the treasury had discretion in the
award of the bonds, nnd that the in
tent of congress was that they should
go to individuals to the exclusion of
banks and corporations.
MADRID SHEET SUPPRESSED.
Conservative Newspaper Fails to Comply
With tho Rules.
A Madrid dispatch says: El Nacional,
the conservative organ which is sup
porting General Weyler, was ordered
suppressed for publishing an article
not previously submitted to the censor
though its editor, Senor Figuera, a
member of the chamber of deputies,
has been imprisoned. The affair
caused a great sensation and the sus
pension ordered was eventually an
nulled.
Benor Garnazo, minister of public
instruction and public works, has ten
dered his resignation as a protest
against the arrest of the editor of El
Nacional. The resignation has been
accepted, Benor Sagasta taking Senor
Gamazo’s portfolio ad interim.
MAY RESIST DEMANDS.
France Is Anxious to Keep Fushodu In
Deference to Public Opinion.
Advices from Paris state that a re
markable change has come over the
French opinion on tho Fasboda ques
tion. The attitude of the public is
now more inflamed and more defiant.
This is partly due to the tone of the
British press, but more to the threat
ening speech of the British chancellor
of the exchequer, Sir Michael Hicks
Beaoli, which The Autorite calls “a
provocation that is almost a threat of
war.”
The municipal council of Paris is
abused on all sides for exhorting the
government to avert war. In govern
ment circles the disposition seems to
be to resist the British demands.
COAL MINERS (JUIT.
Fire Hundred Men Klnployed In Arkansas
Minn Strike.
A dispatch from Van Buren, Ark.,
says: Five hundred miners employed
by the Western Coal and Mining corn
I<any, at Jenny Lind, are out on a
strike. Several days ago two drivers
were discharged for permitting a mule
to be accidentally killed and the min
ers demanded the reins atement of the
men. The strike is like y to be spread
to other mines. Already local towns
are feeling the effect of a coal famine.
NO. 40.
Til IRTY THOUSAND MEN WERE IN
LlSE AT CH u;aGO.
CEREMONIES END WITH BANQUET
Fre.blent Responds In Happy Vein to til®
Toillt of "Our Country’’—Great En
thusiasm Prevailed.
A Chicago special says: Wednesday
ushered in the spectacular and crown
ing glory of the week of jubilee—the
great straot parade. It started prompt
ly at tho time scheduled and for four
hours it moved swiftly and with scarce
a singlo halt through the principal
streets in the business portion of the
city.
The one drawback was the weather.
Tho ill fortune which attended tho
jubilee in this respect since the com
mencement of the ceremonies still con
tinued.
All along the line of march numer
ous stands had been erected for spe»
tators and fully an hour prior to the
moving of the pageant every seat was
occupied. It is estimated that fully
25,000 poople witnessed (he parade'
from these stands alone. The side
walks were packed from the walls of
the bnildidgs to the curb with rows of
people.
President McKinley reviewed tho
parade from the grand stand erected in
front of the Union League club, on
Jackson street. On the stand with
him were General Miles, General
Shafter, General Chaffee, Secretary
Wilson, Judge Emory Speer, the
Chinese and Corean ministers and a
host of lesser dignitaries. The great
est enthusiasm was manifested by the
crowds when the men of the military
division were marching by the review
ing stand where the president and the
three stood.
Many of tho men of the First in
fantry showed in their faces and in
their walk the traces of the disease
that has boen with them since leav
ing Santiago, but for all that
the regiment never did itself more
credit than on this occasion, and it has
done itself credit many times. The
Seventh Illinois infantry and the mem
bers of the naval reserve, many of
whom were with Clark on the Oregon,
evoked cheer after cheer as their broad
collars and flapping trousers came
down the center of Jackson boulevard.
The soldiers and sailors were the last
divisions in the parade, and despite
the cold rain and the cold wind, the
crowd remained until the last man of
them had gone before attempting to
leave.
Thirty Thousand In Tine.
About 30,000 men were in line. The
parade was made up of police, bands,
bugle corps, huzzars; G. A. R. posts,
ex-Co,:federate association, President
McKinley, Mayor Harrison, members
of the cabinet, diplomatic representa
tives, senators and members of con
gress, army and navy officers, the ju
bilee oommiUee, Governor Tanner and
bis staff, Knights of Pythias, Cook
county Democracy, 1,000 strong,
Cook County Republican club, postal
tions. employes, military and civic organiza
Closed IVltli Grand Banquet.
Wednesday night the program of
tlio week culminated in the banquet,
at which 1,500 guests were seated and
at which 3,000 guests were assembled
as spectators.
Tho banquet which was tendered to
the president of tho United States and
distinguished guests by the citizens of
Chicago was held in the Auditorium
building and the third and last scene
to be enacted within the great hall
was the most brilliant, beautiful and
successful of them all.
Mr. Clark Howell, of Georgia, was
assigned tho difficult position of fol
lowing President McKinley, who re
sponded to the first toast—“Our Coun
try. ” The sentiment to which Mr.
Howell’s remarks were addressed was
“Our Reunited Country,” and his elo
quent response stirred guests and au
dience to tho highest degree of enthu
siasm.
The manner in which his address
was received left no doubt in the
minds of those present that his declar
ation of the practical elimination of
sectional division as a resnlt of tho
war with Spain was echoed heartily
by the people of the north and west.
PECK ASKS A FAVOR.
Request* that EaFayette Monument Has
l’laee In Exposition Grounds.
At the meeting of the municipal
council of Paris Thursday, the presi
dent of the council read a letter from
F. W. Peck, United States commis
sioner, to the Paris exposition of 1900,
asking on behalf of the LaFayetto
monument committee, a site in the
exposition grounds for the proposed
statue of LaFayette.
The president of the council thanked
the United States for “this evidence
of sympathy and republican brother
hood,” and said he had forwarded tho
request to the exposition commission
ers irith a request that it be granted.
NEW COMET FOUND.
Hr. William llrookr, of Smith Obicrva
tory, Makes the Discovery.
I)r. William R. Brooke, director of
Smith observatory at Geneva, N. Y.,
discovered a new comet Thursday
night.
Its position is right ascension 14
hours 31 minutes, declination north
60 degrees, 26 minutes, motion south
easterly. The comet is large, round
and bright.
This vs the twenty-first comet dis
covered by Dr. Brooke.