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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 Gaily Bedecked With Foreign Flags In Honor of the Occasion—M. De Staat Represents Czar. All the delegates to the international peace conference arrived at the Hogue (Holland) ' Wednesday and the first day , . general . exchange , was spent in a of visits. . The permanent president of the conference will be M. De Staat, Rus¬ 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. __ Van _ Karnebook, ... former evening Dutch minister of foreign affairs, gave a dinner to introduce the foreign del egates. On the convening of the conference three commissions will be named to arrange programmes for discussion, The first relates to restrictiohs of armaments and military expenditure. The second deals with the laws gov erning civilized warfare and the third with mediation and arbitration. A great mass of diplomatic docu, ments -will be submitted on these sub jects—documents including tbe mem orandum of Prince Metternich of Austria in 1816, regarding the sugges tion of the prince regent of England, supported by Alexander I of Russia, for an international peace conference; the opinions of David Dudley Field,of the United States, as to fixing a per manent limit to military forces; the argument of M. Merignhac in favor of simultaneous disarmament; the pro posals of Napoleon III, to convoke a European peace conference at Paris in 1863, and similar papers. The second commission will consid er the declarations of the congress of Paris, 18J0, and the Geneva conven tion, 1864; the unratified clauses of the Geneva convention of 1868; thfe acts of the St. Petersburg convention prohibiting the use of certain projec tiles by civilized nations; tbe minutes of the Brussels conference of 1874; the suggestions of the Oxford manual re garding the same laws and observances of war; the rules for the bombardment of cities adopted for the institute of in¬ ternational law in Venice in 1896; the declarations of France and Great Brit¬ ain regarding the unadopted rules of the Geneva convention; the views ANOTHER REBEL CAPITOL FALLS Troops Under Colonel Summers Easily Capture San Isidro. A Manila special says: General Lawton’s advance guard, under Col. Summers, of the Oregon troops, took San Isidro, the insurgents’.capital, at 8:30 o’clock Wednesday morning. Colonel Summer’s command, pre¬ ceded by scouts and accompanied by Scott’s battery of artillery, advanced from Baluarte 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 en trenched. It made a slight resistance, but quitted its position when troops turned its right flank. The enemy’s loss was 15 men killed and 20 wounded. Our troops captur ed three prisoners and many rifles. On the American sride one soldier of the Oregon regiment and one of the Minnesota regiment were slightly wounded. After capturing the town, Colonel Sumners’ troops continued their ad¬ vance, pursuing the retreating rebels for several miles. Lawton’s Chief Scout Dead. The death of William H. Young, chief of scouts of General Lawton’s division, reported from Manila, is con¬ sidered a serious loss as he was very efficient. Young was one of the scouts with General Howard in the Nez Percez campaigu in the west some Tears ago. DEADLYCYLLONE IN IOWA. A Number of People Killed and Much Property Destroyed. A dispatch from Manchester, la., says: The details of the cyclone which passed over the northern part of this county Tuesday night are most har¬ rowing. As a result of the storm four people are dead and three others are fatally injured. The storm started on its path of de¬ struction three miles north of Greely about 8:30 o’clock, taking a direction due east for sis miles, then veered northeast for four miles, demolishing everything in its course. Every farm house in the track of the storm cloud for a width of forty rods was either totally destroyed or wrecked. the Amsterdam chamber of commerce, appproved by successive Netherlands ^dgn of the minutes ministers of the urging Brussels the adoption eonfer ence of 1894 deaiing with thjJ laws and observances or war, which did not lead to the conclusion of any conven¬ tion, and the circular of the Dutch minister of foreign affairs in 1871 re¬ lating to the adoption of the princi¬ ples of inviolability of private proper¬ ty, and urging a clearer definition of the the term “contraband of war.” The "third commission will consider ^e proposals of Lord Clarendon at the Paris congress in 1856, for the in termediation of a friendly state pre vious to a recourse for force, the mo tion of Signor Mancy, in the Italian chamber of deputies in 1875, in favor of arbitration, the acts of the 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 ters to Sir Julian Pauncefote in 1896, relating to the conclusion of an tration treaty between Great Britain and the United States, and the terms of the ratified ADglo-American treaty, and many similar documents, M. De Staat will open the ence by summarizing the objects the gathering and expressing the fidence of Emperor Nicholas that powers will support thp work of the conference. After the pointment of the commissions the ference will adjourn for a week. The American delegates, it is derstood, will carefully abstain mixing in purely European questions, but will take an earnest part in the cussion of the application of tion and improvements in the rules for the protection of field pitals, giving also special attention the abolition of privateering and exemption of all private property seizure, except contraband of this policy being the same as adopted by Benjamin Franklin in gotiating the treaty with the Great, and successively urged Presidents James Monroe, Buchanan, Benjamin Harrison William McKinley. TRIAL OF CONSPIRATORS. Alleged Revolutionists Bound At Pretoria, Transvaal. Advices fi-om Pretoria, state that the alleged who presented the appearance of nary loafers, -were arraigned in Wednesday charged with the offense of high treason. They remanded for a fortnight. Sworn affidavits allege that men have been enrolled for service and that it was intended ftrm them in Natal, to return them Hie Rand and, at a given signal, seize aud'hold the fort of hurg for twenty-four hours, the arrival of British troops, Thq Press says the government gards the matter as “an local incident which will not affect general political situation.’’ The government also confirms report that the arrangements President Kruger and the governor Cape Colony and the high sioner of South Africa, Sir Milner, for a meeting at Bloemfontein, capitol of the Orange Free State, nearly completed. An Extension Proposed. There is a well defined report the Chattanooga, Rome and railroad, extending from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Carrollton, Ga., is to be tended to West Point, Ga., there necting with the Chattahoochee railroad, which is to be extended once to Columbus, the contract been let. DEWEY’S COSTLY SWORD Will Be Presented Personally By Pres¬ ident McKinley. A notable feature of Dewey’s arrival in Washington be the presentation by the of the superb jeweled sword made authority of congress as a testimonial from the government. completed The sword was since, but owing to its delicacy great value, it was deemed best not send it to the admiral. It is now in safe deposit vault awaiting his coming. The presentation to the officers men of the admiral’s flagship of handsome medals authorized by gress will occur probably at tbe time. DELEGATES WELCOMED. The International Peace Conference Formally Opened At the Hague. The sessions of the peace conference at The Hague called by czar of Russia begai. Thursday afternoon in the hall of Huis Ten Bosch, or the “house in the wood,” two milos from The Hague. M. DeBeaufort, president of the coun cil and minister of foreign affairs of the government of the Netherlands, delivered the iuaugural address and welcomed the delegates. The delegates decided to send the following telegram to the czar: "The peace conference lays at the feet of your majesty its respectful congratulations upon the occasion of your birthday, and ex¬ presses its sincere desire to co-operate in the great and noble work in which your majesty has taken a generous initiative and for which it begs you to accept its humble and profound gratitude.” M. De Staal, the Russian ambassa¬ dor to Great Britain and head of the Russian delegation, informally assum¬ ing the presidency of the conference, said his first duty was to express to M. DeBeanfort his siucere gratitude for the noble terms in which he re¬ ferred to his august master, adding his majesty would be deeply touched as well as by the spontaneity by which the high assemblage has associated itself therewith. After making his address, M. De Staal, in behalf of the conference, tel¬ egraphed to the queen of the Nether¬ lands as follows: “The members of this conference bled for the first time in the beautiful Ten Bosch, hasten to lay at the feet of majesty their best wishes, praying you accept their homage and gratitude for hospitality you have so graciously to offer them.” The reading of the message warmly applauded. Mr. was appointed temporary president, and the leading Dutch delegate, A. C. Yanekarnobeck, former‘minister foreign affairs and deputy, was pointed vice president. After the appointment of nin« taries, M. De Staal’s proposal that sessions be secret was adopted. MORE OVERTURES MADE. Rebel Filipinos Will Again Seek Terms From Otis. General Otis cables the war ment that the representatives of aldo are seeking terms ox peace that the forces of insurgents are tering in the mountains. is Genei-al Otis’s cablegram: “Maniza, May 18.—Adjutant Washington: Representatives of cabinet and Aguinaldo in mountains, miles north of ban Isidro, which was doned on the 15th, will send in tomorrow to seek terms of peace. of force confronting MacArthur at San nando has retired to Tariae, tearing up miles railway; this force has decreased about twenty-five hundred. Scouting ties and detachments moving today in rious directions. Kobbe with column Candava, on Rio Grande. Great of inhabitants of provinces over troops have moved anxious for peace, ported by members of insurgent cabinet Aspect of affairs at present favorable. * • "Otis.” The dispatch of General Otis immediately sent to the president Hot Springs. Secretary Alger that the situation was most aging and that it was apparent the Filipinos realized the strength the United States and saw that ance would mean extermination them if they persisted in authority. War department officials are convinced that the end of the tion in the Philippines is at hand, that the representatives of the gent cabinet and of Aguinaldo who to meet General Otis will succumb the inevitable and surrender. forces, it is said at the department, evidently so utterly demoralized the persistent advances of the Ameri¬ cans that they are ready to peace on the best terms they can tain. Invited Two Presidents. The officers of the commercial congress, which is to meet in Wichita, Kas., May 31, have invited President McKinley and Diaz, of Mexico, to be present. WORKING ON COMBINE. Carnegie Consolidation Hold a Conference. H. C. Frick arrived in New York city Thursday from Pittsburg and in conference at the Holland with W. H. Moore, of Chicago, other men interested in effecting consolidation of the Carnegie Company, limited and the H. C. Coke Company, in the new $625,000, 000 Carnegie Steel Company,. It is understood that the plans for financing the gigantic combination were carefully gone over and effected, and the public announcement of them will soon be made. MANIFESTO OF GOMEZ Old General Tells of His Love For Cuba. REVIEWS HIS WORK IN FULL Explains Why the Payment of the Cuban Army Has Been So Long Delayed. A special from Havana says: The expected manifesto of General Maximo Gomez was issued Thursday evening. It reviews his part in the negotiations with Governor General. Brooke and speaks of his love for Cuba and his sufferings on her behalf in the past. General Gomez says in part: “The hour has now arrived for me to raise my voice in justification of my position and to describe the arduous work I have done since my first visit to General Brooke. I protested to him against the sum offered by the United States as insufficient to accom¬ plish the good intended. Awaiting an answer to my protest I sought a solu¬ tion of the question. General Brooke, representing the chief magistrate of the United States, announced his in¬ ability to add to the sum already set¬ tled upon. “Speculators then attempted to in¬ tervene, offering suggestions which were refused -by me. They presented a proposition to the military assem¬ bly, but the scheme was frustrated by President McKinley’s refusal to rec¬ ognize that body. I deemed the for¬ mation of militia a practical solution, and General Brooke, who approved the ilea, asked me for a summary of my views on the subject. To this replied that 10,000 men were all would be possible to get from the ban army without distinction as to race. My answer was sent to dent McKinley, together with a sonal letter giving explicit why such a course was necessary. “I had many conferences with eral Brooke in my endeavors lo cover such a plan of payment as not exclude the meu who had carried arms. “General Brooke insisted upon surrender of same before the of money, and I also desired that arms as had already been and such as should be hereafter, might be delivered to houses in the care of Cuban to be paid out of the Cuban treasury. I do not think it a diegrace that Cuban soldiers should receive from government which is able to pay, that will relieve their immediate needs. I am convinced that it is with obtaining peace to have an with arms reserved to defend against her enemies, and in the time to be guarded as the relics of glorious struggle. “In my judgment, whether the arms were disposed of to the municipal au¬ thorities or to armorers, it would be all the same under the Intervening government. The Cuban commission¬ ers, however, refused to agree with General Brooke and the Americans, and declined to fix dates and places where the Cuban soldiery could de¬ liver up arms and receive payment from the American paymasters after identification by their respective chiefs.” After further praise of “General Brooke’s consideration” and a decla¬ ration of his own desire to correct an error existing in Cuba, with respect to the United States, he goes on to say: “I did not act alone, as seems to be popularly believed, but always con¬ sulted with our officers. “My advice to you now is to return to your homes with the amounts offered by the intervening government and to practice patience, which will be an ad¬ ditional proof of your heroism. “In this way we shall reconstruct most rapidly the homes consecrated by the blood of martyrs, blood poured out in behalf of a purpose now attained and thus begin this cycle of liberty, with the grandest prospects, preceded by the heralds of future prosperity and peace. This work is your portion.” GIFTS OF CAPTURED CANNON Can Be Made To Organizations By Secretary Alger. The secretary of war has secured from Judge Advocate General Lieber an opinion confirming his right to loan or give to municipalities, Grand Army of the Republic posts and other otic organizations such of the cannon captured from the Spaniards in Cuba aud Porto Rico as are Unserviceable. Thursday the first of the guns bestowed upon the military post Fort Thomas, Ky. They are beautiful bronze pieces of pattern, made in Barcelona in aud 1769. PROPOSITION REFUSED. General Otis Again Turns Down the Representatives of * Aguinaldo. Advices from Manila state that two military and two civil Filipino com¬ missioners appointed to co-operate with three citizens in negotiating terms of peace arrived in that city Friday morning. Thdy submitted no new proposition, but want an armistice pending the session of the Filipino congress. Major General Otis has refused to entertain the proposal. TO CONFEDERATE DEAD. A Monument Will Probably Be Erected At Camp Chase. A dispatch from Columbus, O., says: By invitation from Colonel W. H. Knauss, a local union veteran, the del¬ egates from the south to the national waterworks convention, visited the confederate cemetary at Camp Chase Thursday morning, and while there, under inspiration of the place, organ¬ ized the Camp Chase Memorial Asso¬ ciation, which is destined to become co-extensive with the south, and whose object will be to care for the cemetery and preserve the memory of the 2,200 soldiers buried there. It is also proposed to erect a shaft there in honor of the dead. The organization was effected by electing Rev. John Hewitt, of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, president; General Walter S. Payne, of Fostoria, O., vice president; Hon. Samuel L. Swartz, mayor of Columbus, secretary, and Colonel W. H. Knauss, of Colum¬ bus, treasurer. A committee, of which Rev. Mr. Hewitt is chairman, was appointed to draft a constitution and set of by-laws to be adopted at the confederate deco¬ ration day in Columbus next month, when the association will organize permanently and when also many prominent southerners are expected to be in the city in response to an invi¬ tation to take part in the memorial day exercises. WILSON TO LEGISLATORS. Secretary of Agriculture Visits the Capital of Texas. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson was in Austin, Texas, Friday, and upon invitation addressed the house of rep¬ resentatives. He stated that he was visiting Texas by command of Presi¬ dent McKinley to make an investiga¬ tion of the agricultural condition and resources of the state. He said that he had visited the Texas cane fields, the rice fields and tobacco fields and had found on every hand evidences of the greatest prospeiity. He urged that more attention be given to diversification of crops and that the legislature contribute liberally to the maintenance of the agricultural college of the state. He said that Texas’ dairy products amounted to $2,000,000 annually aud that there was no reason why this amount should not be increased a hundred million. • ADVISES BEAT flEETINGS. Chairman of Alabama Populist Com¬ mittee Issues Address. G. B. Crowe, chairman of the Ala¬ bama populist state executive commit¬ tee, is out in an address to his party in the state advising it to be at meet¬ ings to be held all over the state on July 4th for the purpose of electing delegates and to select campaign com¬ mittees to take np the work for 1900. He states that there never was a time since the organization of the party that the future looked so bright. The democratic party in Alabama is becoming more and more divided, he says, and the populist ranks are being filled with recruits from the old par¬ ties. He predicts carrying the state in 1900 for Wharton Barker and Igna tus Donnelly, the presidential ticket selected in Cincinnati last year by the populists. Tax On Incomes In Texas. The house of the Texas legislature has passed finally its bill placing 1 per cent tax on all personal incomes in ex¬ cess of 02,000 a year. The bill will now go to the senate for consideration, and it is believed that it will pass that body. OFFICERS OF ASSOCIATED PRESS Are Elected By Directors At Annual rieetlng In Chicago. A Chicago dispatch says: At the meeting of the Associated Press Thurs¬ day the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Victor F. Lawson. First vice president, Mr. Stephen O’Meara, of the Boston Journal. Second vice president, General Har¬ rison Gray Otis, of the Los Angeles Times. Secretary and general manager, Melville E. Stone. Assistant secretary and general man¬ ager, Charles S. Diehl.