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VOL. II.
SECRETARY LONG SUBMITS RE
PORT OF OPERATIONS.
INTERESTING FACTS PRESENTED.
Some Inside Information In ltogard To
; the Discovery of Cervera’s Fleet In
Santiago Harbor.
jj A Washington dispatch says: The
annual report of the secretary of the
navy just submitted is much longer
than th$ usual annual report. I ho
first sentence explains this as follow's:
“For the first time since its
Ration, the navy has been put to the
supreme test of war. Years of patient,
persistent training and development
have brought it to a point of high
efficiency, which resulted in the un
paralleled victories at Manila and
Santiago—victories which have given
Ihe names of our naval commanders
wqHd-wide fame and added an addi
tional page to the glorious naval
history of our country.”
The report describes in rapid order
the steps that were taken to consoli
flate the squadrons and put the navy
in readiness for hostilities. Sigsbee’s
famous telegram asking a suspension
of public opinion in connection with
the blowing up of the Maine is quoted
and the secretary says:
“This judicious telegram did much
to secure in the public mind a dis
passionate view of the disaster.”
The story of Dewey’s victory at
Manila is told, and of it the secretary
says:
“ Aside from the mere fact of having
won without the loss of a single life
such a brilliant and electrifying vic
tory at the very outset of the war,
with all the confidence which it in
fused throughout the country and into
the personnel of every branch of the
service, it removed apprehension from
the Pacific coast. The pecuniary ad
vantages to thg United States in the
way of saving an iuorea=o of insur
ance rates and in assuring the country
of freedom of attack on that coast is
incalculable.”
The report shows that the flying
squadron under Schley was ordered to
Cienfuegos upon notice that, Cervera’s
squadron bad been seen off Curacao;
but on May 20th the department hav
iog heard that Cervera was at
go, advised Sampson' to order Schley
to proceed off that port.
By the Marblehead, Schley was in
structed to proceed to Santiago if he
was satisfied that the Spanish squad
ron was not at Cienfuegos On May
22d Sampson had dispatches stating
nrst that Cervera was in Santiago on
the 21st and also that ho was expected
to visit San Juan and that Schley
should follow him. This sent Samp
som into the Nicholas channel to B re "
vent an approach , from , that direction.
On the 26th Sampson received from
Schley a letter dated the 23d stating
that he was not satisfied that the
Spanish squadron was not, at Cienfue
gos and that he would therefore re
main off that, point with his squadron.
The next day Schley was informed
that Cervera had been in Santiago
from the 19th to the 25th, and ho was
directed to proceed with all dispatch
to that port.
Regarding the sinking of the Mer
rimac by Lieut. Hobson, on June 3d,
the secretary says:
“This attempt, although unsuccess
ful in its object, was daringly execu
ted. It is now one of the well-known
historic marvels of naval adventure
and enterprise, in which Naval Con
structor Hobson and his men won un
dying fame.”
The report deals next with the soiz
ure of the harbor of Guantanamo and
the gallant three days fight of the
marines.
Es'imatea For Next Fiscal fear.
Secretary Long gives a complete list
of all the merchant vessels and yachts
that were acquired by lease or pur
chase for the navv with the price of
each. There were 110 of these vessels,
including the warships bought abroad.
The secretary submits estimates for
t,he next fiscal year aggregating $47,
088,251, an increase of $9,869,175 over
last year.
Of t'e new items the most
ant is $4,723,899 for yards and docks,
There is also an item of $1,620,000 on
account of the naval academy.
CERVERA WAS WISE.
Admiral Deprecated War Owing to the
Strength of Our Navy.
The navy department Monday pub
lished through the office of naval in
telligence the “views” of Admiral
Cervera regarding the Spanish navy
in the late war, and is a reprint of a
number of letters published in La
Epoca, of Madrid, on the 5th of No
vember.
The letters are dated from before the
war up to May 5th, and were written
by Cervera in protest against, Spain
rushing into war on the face of certain
defeat, due to the naval strength of
the United States and the uuprepared
ness of the Spanish navy.
NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION.
Organized Under Name of National Asso
ciation of Newspaper Circulation.
The National Association of News
paper Circulation was organized at
Detroit, Mich., Wednesday at a meet
ing of representatives of that depart
ment of newspaper management. The
association’s object is advancement of
the interests of circulation depart
ments and interchange of ideas to that
end. The next meeting is to be held
in Chicago, Jane 21st.
m mi Abbev Chronic le
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OI R .MARINES IN CHINA.
& More t-o Protect tl»e United Staton Legis
lation in Pelting.
A Washington special says: The
United States navy has landed marines
in China. A dispatch was received at
the navy department Saturday stating
that the captain of the Boston had
landed his marine guard at Tien-Tsin.
The dispatch was taken immediately
to the white house by Acting Secretary
Allen. Secretary Hay was called into
.consultation, with the result of reas
suring the officials and allaying their
first feeling of apprehension.
It seems that the marines were land
ed, not because of any information of
rioting or attacks upon American mis
sionaries, but solely to act as guards
j United StateB lp S atiou ft ‘
j mouth The Boston was Pie dispatched He river several to the
of the
weeks ago at the instance of the
United States minister to provide a
j guard for tho legation. The minister
j represented that nearly all of the lega
! tions of European powers were pro
vided with a marine guard and he did
not consider we should bo an excep
Hon in ibis case.
After lying at Tanka for a while, the
Boston worked her way up the river to
Tien-Tsin, about the head of naviga
tion for vessels of her class and dis
tnn t about fifty or sixty miles from
Peking. It is believed at the navy de
partment that the marines will be sent
forward from that point in launches or
small river boats,
Captain Frank Wildes, the com
mander of the Boston, who reported
the landing to the navy department
by cable, did not state how many men
were in the guard, but the force is not
believed to exceed two dozen men.
The presence of these foreign
guards is not welcome to the Chinese
government. When the landings were
first proposed its representatives
sought to dissuade the United States
government fro n inflicting this humil
iation upon it. The effect was to
cause a suspension of ihe order, but
as lias been already stated, most of
the European legations have provided
themselves with guards, and the
Chinese having become reconciled to
their presence, no longer object in our
case.
Advices that, reach the state depart
ment do not indicate an immediate out
break in China. But the reactionary
! policy of the empress dowager has
caused a very uneasy feeling and may
afford one or more of the European
powers who have been active in east
| ern affairs a pretext for making a coup
^vith results affecting tho interests of
the United States, ^
BUTLER fX WASHINGTON.
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kim , Conlmlt8 witu v^iuem.
| Geneval yr. C . Butler, of South Car
oli a member 0 f the Cuban evacua
tion commission, arrived at, Washing
ton Saturday direct from Havana in
response to a telegraphic summons
from President McKinley, and in the
afternoon he had a consultation with
the esi(lent at the white house. He
made an extended report of negotia
tions for the evacuation and of terms
upon which the Spandiards had agreed
to complete the evacuation by Janu
ary 1st.
In addition to his report upon the
actual work of the joint commission,
General Butler gave to the president
much valuable information as to the
general situation in Cuba, the ability
of the Cubans for self-government, the
sanitary conditions of Havana and
generally the results of his observa
tion during his stay there.
General Butler gave it as his opin
ion that all the Spanish troops will
have departed ten days before tlie date
fixed in the agreement, He said the
Spaniards have met the American
commissioners with reasonable fair
ness and that there has been little fric
Some of the claims they have
made f ov compensation for Spanish
p r0 p er ty have been ridiculous and
they will, of course, be abandoned in
the end. General Butler denies all
tbe repor t s of dissensions among the
members of the American commission,
NINE HOUR DAY
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Secured By New Orleans Printers without
W: >s« Reduction.
The union printers employed in
New Orleans have succeeded in inau
gurating a nine-hour work day without
any reduction in wages. The change
was accomplished by mutual agreement
between the employers and the new
typographical union.
“BALDWIN” HOTEL DESTROYED.
World-Famous Building In San Francisco
In Knin and Two Lives Lost.
At an early hour AVednesdav morn
ing the well known Baldwin hot 1 at
San Francisco caught fire and was en
tirely destroyed. There were 800 peo
pie, guests and employes, in the hotel
when the fire broke out, and at least
two of these people lost their lives.
For years the hotel, owned by
“Lucky” Baldwin and costing $3,
000,000, has been regarded by the fire
department as the most dangerous fire
trap in San Francisco. Built of wood,
six stories high, with a narrow, tortu
ous hallway, it is a wonder that half
of the people in the hotel escaped.
MANY TROOPS AT MACON.
Seven Thousand oflln-ri! and Men, and the
City Is Given Vv to Them.
A , special . , from ,, Macon, Ga., _
says:
All the soldiers are hero now, and six
regiments are encamped within three
miles of the courthouse.
With the officers of the staffs of the
generals commanding the corps, tho
division and the brigade, there are
some 7,000 officers and men hc-re, and
the city is given up to the military.
ABBEVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1898.
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REIGN OF TERROR PREVAILED IN
ANNISTON, ALABAMA.
NEGROES FIRE ON PROVOST GOURD
Tolley lVfa n Deadly One—Great Caution
Necessary to Prevent further Clashes
Between Hocus.
A special from Anniston, Ala., save:
Shortly after dark Thursday night Pn
vate Giidhart, of company B, Second
Arkansas, while going toward his reg
imental camp from town, was shot in
tlie head by a negro soldier, who also
stabbed him in the back.
Giidhart was taken to the regiment
al hospital. A little later a member
of the Fourth Kentucky was reported
to have been shot on Walnut street by
negro soldiers wlio lay in a gulley
shooting at the white men who passed.
Firing was heard in Liberia, the
negro quarter of the city, which is
not far from Walnut street, and a
squad of provost guards went to in
vestigate. As it turned the corner of
Fifteenth and Pine streets a large
crowd of negro soldiers, without
warning, opened fire upon the guard
with Springtields, the gun in use in
the regiment.
The guard returned the fire, but
had few cartridges, and soon had to
retreat. Reinforcements and more
ammunition were sent for, but when
they arrived the negroes bad disap
peared. The number of negroes in
the mob were variously estimated at
from 50 to 200.
In the engagement, Sergeant Dod
son, Third Tennessee, was shot in the
arm and Privnto Grayam, Thud Ten
nessee, received a painful but not
necessarily dangerous wound in tlie
stomlcb.
One negro soldier was found dead
and another picked up fatally
wounded.
Two members of tho provost guard
are missing, and cannot be found.
ed for Guns.
When news of the trouble became
known white soldiers who were in the
city gathered around the provost guard
headquarters and begged for guns and
ammunition, crying like children be
cause their requests could not be
granted.
Citizens armed themselves and re
paired to tho scene of the battle. Mayor
Higlit had the saloons dosed. Several
negro soldiers, one with a Springfield
which had just been fired, were ar
rested in various parts of the city and
locked tip, though it was difficulty
that the infuriated whito soldiers and
citizens were prevented from wreaking
summary vengeance upon them.
Armories of tho local military com
panies were broken into and every
gun and cartridge appropriated by un
known parties.
General Frank, who is in command
of the troops here, came out and was
on the streets until a late hour. Gen
eral Colby, commanding the Second
brigade, ordered two companies each
of the Third Tennessee and Second
Arkansas and brought them to the city
for whatever service might bo requir
ed. They scoured the city and carried
all soldiers on duty back to camps.
IMPORTANT CARGO ORDERED.
Shipload of 20,000 Tons of Cast Iron Pipes
from Philadelphia to London.
A charter effected at Philadelphia
Wednesday, the carrying out of which
marks the beginning of a trade that
promises to figure prominently in that
city’s export trade in future, was that,
of the British bark Highland to load
20,000 tons of cast iron pipes for Lon
don direct.
This will be the first full cargo of
the kind ever shipped to England from
Philadelphia or any other American
port.
NEW JAPANESE MINISTER
Presented to President McKinley By Sec
retary of State Day.
A . Washington dispatch , , says: Wed- ... ,
nesday morning Secretary Hay pre*
sented formally to President McKin
ley the newly appointed Japanese
minister, Mr. Komurn, who succeeds
Mr* Hoshi, who has retired to enter
the Japanese parliament,
Ihe ceremony took place in the
blue room and was attended by the
usuai felicitous exchange of speeches.
POWDER MILL BLOWS UP.
Six Workmen Killed Outright and Several
Others Wounded.
The powder mill at Lamotto, Mo.,
blew up Wednesday morning, killing
six men and wounding several others.
The explosion took place in the pack
ing house, and was so terrible ns to
be heard and felt a distance of twenty
jive miles. Tho exact cause of the ex
plosion will never be known, as all
tho men in the packing house at the
time were blown to atoms. Something
like 10,000 pounds of powder w as
usually kept in the packinghouse,
HOBSON BRINGS REPORT.
Naval Constructor Beaches Washington
and Visit.* Navy Department.
Constructor Hobson arrived in Wash
ington Saturday from Norfolk and went
directly to tlie navy department. Ur*
has just returned from bis trip on the
y u ] can f 0 Cat Island, the scene of the
casting away of the Maria Teresa.
Ho had with him the report of Cap
tain McCalla.who was in charge of the
expedition sent on the Vulcan to en
deavor to save tho vessel.
stammering is practically unltnon.
-v uncivilized people.
FIRST CAMP IN HAVANA.
Seeontl Itafflmont Volunteer Engineer*
Land at Mariauao wUU Color* Flying.
A special from Havana says: The
United States transport Florida ar
rived in front of More castle at (5
o’clock Friday morning, took a pilot
on board and proceeded to Morianao
j beach. General Greene uud his staff
left the Hotel Inglaterra at 0 o’clock
for Mnrianao in order to superintend
the landing of the American troops
there.
All four companies of the Second
regiment volunteer engineers, which
arrived on the Florida, landed by lialf
! P» 8 ‘ 9 o’clock at tho Marianne wharf
, ho lan(ling ^ K ftnd ma ' heil to their
camp, two miles away, filing past Gen*
era! Greene and his stnff, wno, on
horseback, reviewed the men as they
passed.
| All of the men, with the exception
! of five who were suffering from sea
I sickness and were taken to the camp
by train, were in lino and were all in
| good spirits and fit for duty.
One hundred and fifty Cubans of
General Menocnl’s division were em
ployed in cleaning the camp site and
j by 11 o’clock tlie tents were being
pitched for the first American camp at
I Havana.
Marshal Blanco, whose resignation
! as captain general of Cuba has just
been accepted, w 11 be succeeded by
General Jiminez Castellanos, a divis
, ion commander.
WOOD FEEDING CUBANS.
Commander r.t Santiago Makes a Full
, Report to War Department.
j j General Leonard Wood, command
ing the department of Santiago, has
sent an official report to tlie war de
i partment, of which the following is an
extract:
1 “I have sent rations all along the
seaconst and by pack trains into the
interior, using every effort to scatter
the rations about in such manner as
: 1 to enable the people desiring to re
turn to their farms in the interior to
, I do with reasonable that
R0 a assurance
they can obtain food while waiting
the development of their first crop.
Santiago today is as clean and healthy
as any town of its size along the
American seacoast south of Fortress
Monrne. Excellent, order prevails.
There has not been a murder in the
city since our occupancy.”
DETAINS THIRD GEORGIA.
War Department Semis Important Tele
ermn to lien Fitznu&'h Leo,
A special from Savannah, Ga., says:
The chances are that tho Third Geor
gia regiment will ho attached to tho
Seventh army corps.
General Fitzlmgh Lee received a
telegram Friday from the war depart
ment telling him that the Third Geor
gia would be detained at Savannah,
asking that a camp ground be pro
vided, and stating that the regiment
would probably be at'ached to his
corps. In that event, the Third Geor
gia will go to Havana instead of Nue
vitas. A camp site for the Georgians
has beon selected near the camp of
the First division, to which water
pipes will be laid at once. The regi
ment will then move from its present
rather unhealtbtul position.
NEW MAYOR FOR SANTIAGO.
Gen. Wood Appoints an Old llesldent to
Direct Municipal Affairs.
A special from Santiago de Cuba
states that some time ago Mayor Mc
Leary, whom General Leonard Wood
bad appointed mayor of Santiago, re
quested to be relieved of bis mayor
alty duties and to return to his mil
itary post. This request, was granted
Friday. General Wood appointed
Senor Bacardi, an old resident, to suc
ceed him. He is anxious to give tho
mayor as much authority as is com
patible with military jurisdiction. The
new mayor will conform to General
Wood’s ideas, which are to give the
Cubans every opportunity to show
themselves capable of self-govern
ment,.
REPAIR SHIP RETURNS.
Vulcan and Potomac Hack From Visit
to th«> Maria Teresa.
A dispatch from Newport News, Va ,
states that, the United States repair
ship Vulcan and the tug Potomac,
which left that port some ton day's or
more ago, for the purpose of pulling
off the rooks the ill-fated cruiser Ma
ria Teresa, arrived in Hampton Roads
Friday, where they await orders.
WISCONSIN LAUNCHED.
A Vast Throng Witnesses the Event—The
Wine Controversy Settled.
The battleship Wisconsin was suc
cessfully launched at San Francisco
Saturday morning. vessel
When the slid down the
ways the warships in tho harbor fired
salutes, and there was a terrible din
from the steam whistles. The con
troversy over the kind of wine to be
used in christening was settled by two
bottles of champagne, one of French
make, provided by the AVisconsin
Christening company, and another of
California champagne, provided bythr
Union Iron Works, being used.
DIRECTORS AY ILL INVESTIGATE.
The Corbetfc-Slmrkcy “Fiasco” Will Be
Carefully Looked Into.
A New York dispatch says: The
board of directors of tho Lenox Ath
letic. club, under whoso auspices the
Corbett-Sharkev fight was held, has
decided to investigate the various
charges growing out of the affair.
A meeting of the directors for that
purpose has been called. Corbett and
Sharkey, their managers and seconds,
have been invited to attend.
BOILER OF A RIVER STEAMER
BLOWN TO ATOMS.
BOILING WATER IN8LL DIRECTIONS
Qeshles Those Klllod, Ten People are
Danaerously Hurt, anil Many Others
Jiecelvo I.esser Injuries.
The most disastrous river accident
in the history of Stockton, Cal., oc
oured Sunday morning at 4:40 o’clock
near Fourteen Miles slough, when a
part of one of tho boilers of tho river
steamer T. C. AValker, which left San
Francisco about 6 o’clock Saturday
night, was blown out, killing six and
dangerously wounding ten persons,
while probably fifteen or twenty others
were more or less badly hurt.. The
AA'alker is owned by the California
Navigation and Improvement Company
and ran between San Francisco and
Stockton.
All Were Asleep.
The majority of the passengers were
in bed when the explosion occurred
and were awakened by the report,
which was as loud as a cannon’s roar.
People rushed from their rroms in
Iheir night clothes and found the
whole forward portion of tho steam
er’s npper works blown away, The
electric lights bad been put out and
the escaping steam enveloped the
front portion of the boat until it was
impossible to see how much of the
boat bad been carried away.
The screams of tho men who were
locked in their rooms near the pilot
house were heartrending, for the un
fortunate imprisoned of men were receiv
ing the full force the steam as it
caihe from the boilers.
Almost Boasted Alive*
Eight of them were almost roasted
alive. Those who were able made
tlieir way to the deck ns best they
could, while the 'more seriously in
jured were unable to get out. Arms
and faces of those near tho main en
trance were frightfully scalded.
About an hour after the explosion
the steamer Dauntless hove in sight.
She rendered immediate assistance,
and all tho wounded and uninjured
were taken aboard. A telephone mes
sage was sent to Stockton and the
steamer Clara Crow with several phy
sicians were sent to nid the Dauntless.
Tho relief boat met. the Dauntless a
sliort distance down tho river, and tho
physicians were quickly taken on
board. A terrible sight greeted them,
AA’but caused tho explosion will
probably never be known. The steam
drum burst with terrible violence. It
had split completely across the upper
portion, and the whole sheet turned
outward.
Tho four walls of the engine room
were demolished by .the force of the
explosion. The ljwer deck, hurricane v
deck and Texas deck were wrecked in
a, ri , r , T
the bow. If it bat been SStfO* the other
way
tlio loss of life would have been much
^renter. The forward door and stair
way were destroyed. An immense
concourse of people met the Walker,
which was towed in at 12:30 o’clock
p. m. ’The properly loss will not ex
ceed $2,000.
OBJECT TO COLORED TROOPS.
Citizens of Utile Kot-K Will File Protest
Wiili W»ir D.’imrtimtiit.
Lieutenant J. W. Phillips, present
commander at Fort Lognn H. Hoots,
received a telegram Saturday night
from the war department notifying
him that a detachment from the
Twenty-fifth infantry—a negro regi
ment—would be sent to the Little
Rock station to do garrison duty.
This information created a sensation
among citizens generally, anil lias
caused a stir which threatens to de
velop into a storm. Beyond a doubt
a strong protest will be entered with
the war department by the state au
thorities and citizens against the occu
pation of the post by colored troops.
The protest will be based on the
feeling prevalent, in view of recent
troubles at southern camps, against
placing negroes in a position where
clashes with the whites aro likely to
occur.
CONFERENCE EXPELS MINISTER
Rev. Joel T. GlI»*on Convicted of Charge
of Immorality by Trial Committee.
A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., says:
Rev. Joel T. Gibson, formerly pastor
of the Walker street Methodist church,
of Atlanta, who was suspended from
that charge last February has been ex
pelled from the Methodist church.
Friday he was convicted on the charge
of immorality and expelled from tho
North Georgia conference and the
Methodist church and ministry.
The trial committee, of which Rev.
T. H. Washburn is chairman, submit
ted its report to the North Georgia
conference and it .was adopted.
TWO GENERALS MEET.
Shrtftcr anti Garcia Shake Ifantls In Fifth
Avenue Hotel, Xew York City.
While passing out of the Fifth ave
nue hotel, at New York Friday Diglit,
General Shafter and General Calixto
Garcia met for the first time since
capitulation of Santiago.
The generals saluted
then shook hands and conversed
antly for several minutes,
seemed pleased at the meeting.
FIRST ORDERS ISSUED
For th© Occupation of Central and Wei
torn Cuban Province*.
The war department issued the first
of the general orders AVednesday look
ing to the occupation of the centra!
and western provin- os of Cuba l>y the
United States troops, The order con
templates the early beginning of tho
movement, ns the Spanish troops aro
expected to have progressed with the
evacuation movement early in Decem
ber. The order is as follows:
“Commanding General Second Army
Corps, Augusta, Ga.:
“With the approval brigade, of the secretary divis
of war the First Third
ion, of your corps will proceed fully
equipped for field service and take
station in Cubans follows:
“Headquarters and one regiment of
infantry at Final- de! Rio; one regi
ment of infantry at Marie!, and one
regiment of infantry nt Guauajay.
The troops will embark at Savannah
and the movements will be so regu
lated that- no regiment will reach
Savannah more than twenty-four hours
prior to sniling. Mariel should
“The regiment for
land at. that point, tho others should
land at Havana and proceed to desti
nation by rail. It is not necessary
that, the entire brigade leave at tho
same time, but regiments may move in
succession ns transports can be pro
vided. The evacuation of Rinar del
Rio by tho Spanish will be completed
by December 3 and the troops above
designated should reach their destina
tions by December 1 or earlier.
“The brigade will take as much of
its wagon transportation ns it is equip- pos
sible, and camp ami garrison
age, including tent floors.
“Tho quartermaster’s department
will provide the necessary transporta
tion and thirty days’ forage for ani
mals; the subsistence department
make provisions for thirty days’ suit
able rutions and tho medical attend
ance and stores.
“Acknowledge receipt and direct
that, commanding general of brigade
report to the adjutant general of the
army hours of departure of each regi
ment and upon arrival at destination
report direct to the adjutant general
of the army f< r duty. General
“By command of Major
Miles. H. C. Corbin,
‘Adjutant General.”
This brigade is commanded by
Brigadier General William C. OnteH
and consists of tho Fifteenth Penn
sylvania, Third New Jersey and One
Hundred and Second New Y r ork regi
ments. They aro now all at Athens,
Ga., having recently arrived at that
place from Camp Meade, Pa. Mariel
j s the seaport of Pinar del Rio pro
yince, on tho north side. It lies
about thirty miles west of Havana and
lying inland fifle.ni miles is Guanajay,
the nearest point to the railroad line
running from Havana to the city of
Pinar del Bio, the capital of tho
province of the same name, which is
about 120 miles west of Havana, and
j 8 to be the headquarters of the Am»:
j can arra y 0 f occupation in the pro
vince.
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Hold* Fir*t Meeting at Washington since
I | Retaining From Honolulu.
The commission appointed by tho
president to recommend a form of
government for the Hawaiian islands
as a part of tho United States mot in
Senator Cullom’s committee room at
Washington Wednesday for the first
time since leaving Honolulu, Senators
Cullom and Morgan, Representative
Hitt and Judgo Froar being present.
The meeting was devoted to discus
sing derails of the bill and report
which the committee will present to
congress, which had not been fully de
cided upon at tho last meeting.
TELEGRAPH PEOPLE WANT PAY
For Cutting of falilrs OfT Hip Province of
Santiago tie Cuba.
At the meeting of tho Cuban Sub
marino Telegraph company at Lon
doc, Wednesday, tho chairman, C.
W. Parish, referring to the cutting of
the cables off the province of Santiago said
de Cuba by the Americans, no
bad requested the assistance of the
foreign office to obtain compensation
from tho United States. Tho foreign
office, be added, had promised to do
its utmost to assist tho company, but
it was pointed out it. was doubtful if
the claim would bo admitted.
DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED.
Attempted to Arrest an Kscnpetl Negro
Murderer In Birmingham.
At Birmingham, Ala., Sunday after
noon, Chief Deputy Sheriff
j Warnock was shot to death by
Goldston, a negro whom be was
to arrest, Goldston being an
murderer from Autauga county.
The negro was in the house with
wife. He heard tho officers and
their business. He stepped up to
door and commenced firing
it. Deputy Warnock fell with
bullets in his body. The negro
dashed out of his house and ran off
an alley, making good his escape.
j DISASTROUS PRAIRIE FIRES.
Fives anil Froperty Host In Oklahoma anil
Indiana Territory.
Prairie fires have played havoc in
Oklahoma and the Indian
for the last few days. One farmer
1,000 acres of fine hay in the field,
several hundred bales of cotton
500 bead of cattle and hogs.
Millions of tons of hay have
burned in other sections and no
than 100 residences have been
Btroved. Several lives have been
in these prairie fires.
NO. 45,
ON WRECKED VESSELS ALONG
NEW ENGLAND COAST.
“STORMS FEARFULLY DESTRUCTIVE
irumli'cUn of Boat. Driven Aahoi-o ol?
Torn to Atoms on tlie Rocks.
Death Lift Appalling.
Special dispatches from Boston stats
that it is now known definitely that
more than seventy lives have beon lost
in tho wrecks of tugs, schooners and
coal barges during the storm of Satur
day night and Sunday morning, and if
the steamer Portland has also gono
down, as now seems possible, the list
of causalities will rise to 140, with
over one hundred vessels of all descrip
tions ashore, two score of them total
wrecks and an unknown number prob
ably beneath the waves of Massachu
setts bay. hay, harbor
There is scarcely a New London or
inlet from Penobscot to
that has not on its shores the bones of
some stanch craft, while along Massa
chusetts bay, and especially Boston high
harbor, the beaches are piled
with the wreckage of schooners and
coal barges. The record, although
hourly lengthening, is still incomplete,
for that ocean graveyard of Cape Cod
is still to ho heard from.
The annoyance and inconvenience
of the railroad and street car embargo,,
covering tlio whole of southern New
England, sunk into insignificance be
fore tho story of destruction wrought
by wind and wave, yet it will he many
a day before the full import of the
disaster is known or even realized.
Wreckage On All Sides.
The islands of Boston harbor are
without exception strewn with wrecks
and wreckage. No. less than twenty
nine vessels are ashore at Gloucester.
Over twenty in the supposed safo
harbor of Vineyard Haven parted their
anchor chains .Sunday and aro high
and dry on tlie beech; Nautasket
beach saw two schooners and a coal
barge dashed to pieces on its sands;
tlie rocks of Cohassett claimed a staid
fisherman, Scituate, a well known
pilot boat; Manchester, a down east
lumberman; while one tug and three
barges, known to havo been blown
by Cape Cod arid Boston, are probably
lost.
The upper harbors of Boston, Rly
mouth, Salem, Portsmouth, Portland
and other places where vessels were
supposed to he comparatively safe,
i were the scenes of numerous collisions
1 between the ships and the wharves,
Every life saving crew performed
deeds of heroism in rescuing crews
from stranded vessels and tug boat
captains risked life and property in
their endeavor to save life,
- Many Deull lloilles la Slglit.
.'-I '-lull beach, where two bargee
£■-£. » ** Stag S’tSS .touts, oerrreen
Boston 1 £ l nn< 10 ^ 1(10
tlie schooner Ca un • a er was
ashore, two sailors were a - en lorn
rl 8K>ng by the life sa\eis, neat y
exhausted, anil the .lead ><w v <> an
other was recovered. Three others
from this vessel drowned, , but
were
| tbeir bodies could not be found,
'^e old citizens of Hull'say that m
Jfierceness the storm equaled that ot
1852, except that while ib sea tit
| no* run so high the wind was stronger,
CATASTROPHE IN HAVANA.
j I'l.vtil.r Kxplotlc*, Killing or Injuring;
Forty Pontons, Mostly Hoys anti Girls.
A special from Havana says: An ex
plosion occurred on the avenue In
fanta, between the Santa Clara and
Reina batteries, Monday, injuring
thirty-ciglit persons, three of whom
died, while fifteen others cannot sur
vive. Many boxes of powder were
stored in a private house, which also
contained live rooms full of Manser
and other cartridges.
The careless handling of one of the
boxes of powder, or one of the boxes
of cartridges, caused the explosion.
Most of those employed in emptying
the cartridges were young boys and
girls, anil they formed the greatest
proportion of the victims.
TO GDI RTMARTIAL PICQUART.
Colonel M ill Ho Trfetl Oil Charge of For
tfery and Divulging Secrets.
A Paris dispatch says: It is re
ported that General Zurlinden, milita
ry governor of Paris and former min
ister of war, has signed a decree or
dering the trial of Colon t Picquart by
com tmartial for forgery and the divul
gation of secret documents concerning
the safety of the state.
The trial has been fixed for Decem
ber 12th. Colonel Picquart’s exami
nation before the court of cassation in
tho Dreyfus affair will be continued.
RAILROAD STOCKHOLDERS MEET.
The Old Boards of Several South Carolina
Id nos Iti*-Elected.
Annual meetings were hold at Char
leston, S. C., Saturday by the stock
holders of the Charleston and Savan
nah, the Ashley River and the Green
Pond, Walterboro, and Brauchviile
railroad. The old boards of directors
were re-elected at each meeting. The
reports read showed the net earnings
of the Charleston and^ Savannah road
to have beon for the last year $120,-
664.01.