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PEACE DELEGATES ARRIVE AT THE HAGUE
Meet to Discuss Disarmament, Laws Governing Civilized Warfare,
Arbitration and Methods of Mediation,
ALL THE POWERS ARE REPRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE
Little Dutch Town Is daily. Bedecked With Foreign Flags In Honor
of the Occasion—Al. De Staat Represents Czar.
All the delegates to the international
pence conference arrived at the llogue
(Holland) Wednesday and the first
day , spent , . general , exchange ,
was ina
of visits.
The permanent president of the
conferenco will be M. De Staat, R ns .
sian ambassador to Great Britain, and
the head of the Russian delegation.
The Dutch town was brilliantly dec-
orated with foreign flags, denoting the
various national headquarters. In the
M. .. _ r Knrnebook, former .
evening \ an
Dutch minister of foreign afbiirs, gave
a dinner to introduce tho foreign del-
egates.
On the convening of the conference
three commissions will bo named to
prrange programmes for discussion.
The first, relates to restrictions of
armaments and military expenditure,
I'lio second deals with tho laws gov-
eruiug civilized warfare and tho third
witli mediation nnd arbitration.
A great mass of diplomatic docu-
ments will be submitted on these sub-
jeets -documents including the mem-
oraudura of Prince Mettemich of
Austria in 1810, regarding the sugges-
tion of tho prince regent of England,
supported by Alexander 1 of Russia,
for an international pence conference;
tho opinious of David Dudley Field,of
the United States, as to fixing a per-
nianont limit to military forces; the
argument of M. Merignhuo in favor of
simultaneous disarmament; the pro-
posals of Napoleon 111, to convoke a
European pence conference at Paris in
1868, and similar papers.
1 lie second commission will consul*
or the declarations of the congress of
Paris, 18JO, and tho Geneva conven-
tioig 1804; the unratified clauses of j
tin'Geneva convention of 18(18; the 1
acts of the Hi. Petersburg convention
proliibiting the use of certain projec¬
tiles by civilized nations; the minutes
of the Brussels conference of 1871; the
suggestions of Iho Oxford manual re¬
garding the same laws and observances
of war; the rqjes for the bombardment
of cities adopted for the institute of in¬
ternational law in Venice in 189(5; tho
declarations of France and Great Brit¬
ain regarding the unadopted rules of
the Geneva the views of
ANOTHER REBEL CAPITOL FALLS
Troops Under Colonel Summers Easily
Capture San Isidro.
A Manila special says: General I
Lawton's advance guard, under Col.
Summers, of tho Oregon troops, took
Snn Isidro, the insurgents' capital, at j
S:,'U) o’clock Wednesday morning.
Colonel Summer’s command, pro-
ceded by sc its an i accompanied by
Scott's battery of artillery, advauoed
from Baluurte at daylight. The troops
first encountered the enemy two miles
from San Isidro, the rebels retiring
when our artillery opened fire. Just
outside the town a rebel force, esti-
mated to number 2,000 men, was on-
treuched. It made a slight resistance,
but quitted its position when our
troops turned its right tlank,
Tho enemy's loss was 15 men killed
and 20 wounded. Our troops eaptur-
ed three prisoners and many t itles.
Ou the American side one soldier of *
the Oregon regiment and one of the
Minnesota regiment were slightly
wouuded.
i
After capturing the town, Colonel
Sumners’troops continued their ad-1
vanee, pursuing the retreating rebels |
for several miles.
Lawton's Chief Scout Dead.
The death of William H. Young,
chiuf of seou,ts of General Lawtou’s (
division, reported from Manila, is con-
eidered a serious loss ns ho was very
efiicieut. Young wasoueiof the scouts
with General Howard iu the Nez
Percez campaigu in the west some
years aero.
| the Amsterdam chamber of Netherlands commerce,
appproved by successive
foreign ministers, urging the adoption
of the minutes of the Brussels confer*
ence of i 894 dealing with the laws and
observances or war, which did not
lend to the conclusion of any conven-
, tipn, and the circular of tiio Dutch
minister of foreign affairs in 1871 re¬
| lating to the adoption of the princi¬
ples iv, of inviolability of private proper-
and urging a clearer definition of
the the term “contraband of war.”
The third commission will consider
‘he ., proposals , of , Lorn T Clarendon . at
j tlxe Paris congress in 1850, for the in-
J termediation of a friendly stato pro-
j vious to a recourse for force, the mo-
tion of Signor Mancy, in tho Italian
chamber of deputies in 1875, in favor
of arbitration, the acts of tho Berlin
; and Zurich conferences on compromise
and mediation; David Dudley Field’s
plan for an arbitration tribunal; the
proposals for an arbitration tribunal
for the north, central and South Amer-
ican states adopted in Washington in
1890; the Marquis of Salisbury’s let-
tors to Sir Julian Pauncefote in 1890,
relating to the conclusion of an nrbi-
tration treaty between Great Britain
und the United States, and tho terms
of the ratified Anglo-American treaty,
and
M. De Staat will open the oonfer-
ence by summarizing the objects of
the gathering nnd expressing the con-
lidencegpf Emperor Nicholas that tho
powers will support the beneficent
work of the conference. After the np-
pointment of the commissions the con*
ferenco will adjourn for a week.
The American delegates, it is uu-
derstood, will carefully abstain from
mixing in purely European questions,
but w»ll take au earnest part in the dis-
mission of tho application of arbitra¬
tion and improvements in the general
rules for tho protection of field hos-
pitals, giving also speoial attention to
the abolition of privateering and the
exemption of all private property from
seizure, except contraband of war,
this policy being the same as that
adopted by Benjamin Franklin in ne¬
gotiating tho treaty with Frederick
tjio Great and successively urged by
President X James Monroe, James
Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison and
William
TRlALrOF CONSPIRATORS.
alleged Revolutionists Bound Over
At Pretoria, Transvaal.
Advices from Pretoria, Transvaal,
state that the alleged revolutionists
" bo presented the appearance of ordi-
nary loafers, were arraigned in court
Wednesday charged with the capital
offense of high treason. They were
remanded for a fortnight.
Sworn ailiduvits allege that ‘2,000
men have been enrolled for military
service and that it was intended to
»»‘m them in Natal, to return them to
the Rand and, at a given signal, to
seize and hold the fort of Johannes-
burg for twenty-four hours, pending
the arrival of British troops,
The Press says the government re¬
gards the matter ns “an unfortunate
bx'al iueident which will not a fleet the
general political situation.”
The government also confirms the
report that the arrangements betweeu
President Kruger and tho governor of
Cape Colouy and the high coinmis-
sioner of South Africa, Sir Alfred
Milner, for a meeting at Bloemfontein,
capitol,of the Orauge Free State, are
nearly completed,
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An Extension Proposed.
Tliero is a well defined report thnt
the Chattanooga, Home and Southern
railroad, extending from Chattanooga,
Venn., to Carrollton, Ga., is to be ex-
tended to West Point, Ga., there con-
necting with the ; Chattaho<Qchoe Valley
railroad, which i3 to be exteuded at
once to Columbus, the contract having
been lot.
associated
Molds Annual Meeting in
Elect Three New Directors
ami Mave Banquet.
The annual meeting of the
ated Press of the United States
held at Chicago Wednesday
in the public hull of the
hotel. Air. Victor F. Lawson, of
Chicago Morning Record and
News, presided, and 1,000 shares
stock were represented, The usual
routine business of the association,
which comprises every leading news¬
paper in the United States, morning
and evening, was transacted, the most
important business being the election
of directors as successors to those
whose terms expire this year.
In the ballot for new directors Mr.
Clark Howell, editor of The Atlanta
Constitution, presented by the unani¬
mous action of the newspapers of the
southern states, from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, led in the number of
votes received. The terms of three
directors expired—Messrs. Stephen
O’Meara, of The Boston Journal; A.
•T. Barr, of The Pittsburg Post, and
Leopold Markbreit, of The Cincinnati
,r \ olksblatt. I, , i ,,
m JLhere was also , a vacancy for . one
, , ,
yeai o( < asnmef >y le n signa ion o
Mr. Clayton *Vr McMichael, of The Phila-
(lelphia i , , • North American, . - , he having , . re-
"rf "7 ? “ 1S ,1 *vi.’ 0 d
J lie N North American to . the Watia-
makers, of Philadelphia, and the
Philadelphia members having united
<m Mr. McLean, of The Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin, as his successor for
the unexpired term, Mr. McLeau was
elected to succeed Air. MeMiebael for
the unexpired term of one year, and
in the choice of the three new three-
year directors, Mr. Clark Howell re¬
ceived an overwhelming majority of
the votes cast, the other two members
elected being Messrs. A. J. Barr and
Leopold Markbreit.
Mr. JIowcll placed .
was in nomina-
tion by Mr. H. H. Cabaniss, of the At-
lantu Evening Journal, and his nomi-
nation was seconded by every newypn-
per ill the south Atlantic nnd gulf
states. His vote far surpassed that of
any other nominee, he receiving the
enthusiastic support not only of the
southern, but also the New England,
western and Pacific states newspapers.
The following resolution was unani¬
mously adopted:
‘‘Resolved, That the Associated
Press notices with pleasure the en¬
couragement by the newspapers
throughout the country of the propo¬
sition by Rear Admiral Upshur to The
Brooklyn Eagle that a home be secured
for Admiral Dewey at the national
capital by public subscription.
“Resolved, That we recognize in
the national committee of tho Dewey
house fund a fitting body to which to
send the funds secured by subscrip¬
tions secured by newspapers from their
readers and from other sources, and
that we commend the object and the
method without reserve to tho news¬
papers and periodicals of tho United
States.”
The annual banquet was held at the
Auditorium hotel Wednesday night.
NEGROES WERE POOLED.
They Met to Hear Dickerson Talk
About Pensions.
T lfteeu hundred j,,- Kansas ( tty tie-
groes congregated at the Second Afri-
mm Baptist church in that city Tues¬
day night to listen to an appeal for
help from I. H. Dickerson, of Nash-
xille, a negro who reached tho town
the day before, posing as the general
manager of the ex-Slave Mutual Re¬
lief. Bounty and Pension Association
of the United States. He was alleged
to be collecting money to secure pen-
sions for ex-slaves.
Major Charles Anderson, special
United States examiner, was ou hand
with a United States deputy marshal
prepared to arrest Dickerson when he
should appear. He had apparently
been informed of the state of affairs
failed to meet his engagement. The
became restless after waiting
au hour and spoke their sentiments
freely. finally addressed
Major Anderson
them, declaring Dickerson to be a
fraud, and the gathering dispersed,
not without mutteriugs of disgust.
Ten Millions In Gold Bars.
The United States assay office at
York shipped bo the Philadelphia
mint $10,000,000 in gold burs Wednes¬
Elephant Great In Crime.
Few more impressive confidences
can !>e imparted tlmii one In which a
Hindoo describes bow ho knows liis
elephant intends to destroy him. It
is all so seemingly trivial, and yet in
reality of such deadly significance. His
story is so full of details that prove
the man’s profound understanding of
what lie is tailing about that one re¬
mains equally amazed at tlie brute’s
power to dissemble and its intended
victim's insight into the would-be mur-
dcrcr's character. And yet, from tlie
psychological standpoint, an elephant
never gives any other such indication
of mental power as is exhibited in its
revenge. That patient, watchful, im¬
placable hatred, often provoked simply
because a man Is In attendance upon
another animal ifor it is the rule with
tuskers to detest their next neighbors),
speaks more conclusively of a high in¬
tellectual guide than all stories, true
or false, that have been told of their
nlillify. Such concentration and fixed¬
ness of purpose, such careful, unre¬
laxed vigilance, such-perfect and con¬
sistent pretense, and, when the time
comes, such desperate, unhesitating
energy as homicidal animals exhibit,
are impossible without a very irregular
development.
No one can deny that if this creature
. is great " at all its * greatness shows lt-
self in . .. its crimes. . 1 hese , have caused ,
.. it , to . be worshipped , . . in . the east, , where .
U10I1 venerate nothing but merciless.
, irresponsible force, and where . an ex-
„ n>lflon Ihosc quamiM Iralt3
fully for the form,,-
la . ’ Mv . . ... „
France’s New President.
President T.ouBet, ihe new president of
France is. If anythin?, calm, sane, a trifle
Bourgeois nnd utterly devoid of sense of self
Importance. But tljere is it strong und irre¬
sistible will Behind his Bland face, and he
looks like a man who would infuse Into
run-down French politics as much vigor nnd
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