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“LIL” WESTWARD BOUNdT
Hawaii’s Ex-Queen Sees Chicago
Sights While En Route to ’Frisco.
CHICAGO, Sept. 7.—Ex-Queen Lilluoka
leni, of Hawaii, accompanied by her trav
eling companions, J. Ileleluhe and Mrs.
Wakikl, arrived in Chicago to-day from
Washington and spent the day in sightsee
ing. The party left to-night for San Fran
cisco.
Secretary Heleuhe said the Queen and her
party will remain in San Francisco but a
lew weeks, when they will return to Wash
ington. “We shall most likely return to Hon
olulu next winter, ’ he continued. “The
Queen is resolved to return to her native
country and will live permanently at the
capital city of Hawaii.”
When asked what the Queen's motive
was In coming to the United States and vis
iting Washington the secretary remained
silent. He said the Queen had many ioval
followers in Hawaii, but refused ’to say
whether she cherished the ambition to agaiu
become ruler of Hawaii. The Queen ana
her party spent much of the afternoon in
driving through Jackson Bark, the old
world's fair site, :and over the Soutli-side
boulevards.
Veterinary Medical Association.
NASHVILLE. Tenn.. Sept. 7.—The United
States Veterinary Medical Association met
in annual session here to-day, with a large
attendance. An address of welcome was de
livered by Major John J. McCann, and Dr.
Leonard Pearson, of Philadelphia, respond
ed. Reports of committees and officers were
then read. In connection with this
meeting there will be held the fourth
annual meeting of the Association
of Veterinary Faculties of America.
Tins meeting will be held to-morrow. The
first annual meeting of the United States
Experiment Station Veterinary Medical As
sociation will be held Friday.
Gave 675,000 to Charity.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7.—Mrs. Richard
MHiiken, widow of a wealthy sugar planter,
has presented the Charity Hospital with
$75,000 to found a children's building, which
will include a kindergarten and other im
provements.
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL.
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Recent Visitors to This Market
Representative Merchants, many of them
with late experience in both adjacent and
more distant jobbing centers, inclusive
alike of steady trade and the occasional
visitor, comment most favorably on the
Stocks, Prices, facilities and general treat
ment we have accorded them. We offer
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ARBITRATION ACCEPTED
JAPAN’S REPLY TO THE HAWAIIAN
GOVERNMENT PROPOSITION.
Kliik of Belgium SaKKeted ns Arbi
ter—Financial Condition o( Imiiii
grant* Cannot Be Considered.
*
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—The full text
of the formal acceptance by the Japanese
government of the proposal to arbitrate its
differences with Hawaii has been received
in this city, and a copy was to-day delivered
to Secretary Sherman by the secretary of
the Japanese legation, Mr. Matsui. It is
from Count Okuma, minister of foreign af
fairs, to H. Shimamura, Japan's minister
to Hawaii. After acknowledging the re
ceipt of Haw r aii’s offer of arbitration it
says, in part:
“The imperial government Is firmly con
vinced that its complaints in this matter
are well founded and that its demands are
just and reasonable. Nevertheless, in a
spirit of conciliation and in the hope that
Us action may contribute to the good re
lations of the two countries, it has resolved
to accept, subject to certain limitations
and qualifications, the proposal of the gov
ernment of Hawaii,
“The reasons assigned by the minister of
foreign affairs of Hawaii in favor of arbi
tration make it desirable that the award,
when pronounced, shall be of the highest
and most commanding character. Conse
quently, the imperial government proposes
that the two governments shall, when the
proper time arrives, unite in requesting that
his Majesty, the King of the Belgians, may
be pleased to accept the position of sole
arbitrator. ♦ * * we propose that the
two governments shall agree to the essen
tial facts of the case and that the arbitra
tion shall be limited to specific questions at
law, and, in case the award is in favor of
Japan, the measure of damages suffered
by the subjects of his Imperial Majesty.
“It is due to frankness that I should in
this connection state that for reasons
which are fully set forth in another in
struction, the imperial government cannot
consent that the question of the bona tides
of the possession of SSO by each of the
rejected free laborers, or of the applicabili
ty of the treaty of 1S ( 1 to the Japanese sub
jects other than those belonging to the
merchant class, shall be regarded as points
of issue on which the decision of the ar
bitrator is to be invited.”
The following extracts from the instruc
tion referred to by Count Okuma in the
foregoing letter explain why the Japanese
government wishes to restrict the scope of
the arbitration. Alluding to Mr. Cooper’s
objection to the use of the words “arbi
trary” and "capricious” in characterizing
the refusal of the Hawaiian government to
allow the Japanese immigrants to land,
Count Okuma says: "Mr. Cooper, I observe,
takes exception to the words employed by
me in criticising the action of the Hawaiian
authorities. He will, 1 am sure, under
stand that I have no intention of making
use of a single expression that could not
be fully sustained. 1 should be sincerely
gratified, in the interest of the neighborly
st r.tiitu nts which have so long united the
tv. o countries, if I could find any reason
to moderate the views which I have felt
bound to formulate. But, unfortunately,
there is nothing, either in the notes under
acknowledgment or in the more recently
developed facts of the case, tending to
place the acts complained of in a more
favorable light. In my instruction of the
12th of June I expressed the firm conviction
that the acts of expulsion were in violation
of treaty stipulation, were without warrant
or due process of law and in disregard of
the remedial rights of the expelled immi
grants, and also that those immigrants had
been restrained of their liberty. That in
struction has not yet been answered, and
unless it can he shown that the conviction
thus advanced was erroneous. I shall not
be able to admit that any word having a
less precise meaning that ‘arbitrary” would
accurately describe the nature of the pro
ceedings complained of.
• The unaccountable delay in the assign
ment of the reasons for denying residential
rights, more especially in respect of the
passengers per lire steamship Shinshin-Ma
ru and Sakura-Muru, and the present at
INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1897.
tempt to substitute other reasons for those
originally advanced; the uncertainty when
or by whom the several injuries or investi
gations leading up to the act of expulsion
were actually conducted; the doubt when or
by whom the qualifications of the immi
grants were finally determined; the fact
that distinctions were made between indi
vidual immigrants, who, in contemplation
of the treaty and the laws of Hawaii, stood
absolutely upon an equal footing, and. final
ly,. the circumstance that the new policy of
the wholesale exclusion was suddenly in
augurated without any notice whatever to
Japan, and in direct and absolute contra
diction of the pre-existing practice, all
unite to give the proceedings a character
which the application of the term ‘capri
cious’ does not, I am persuaded, exceed
the bounds of fair and just comment and
condemnation.”
The Hawaiian government. Count Osku
ma goes on to say, has persisted in shift
ing the issue concerning the reasons as
signed for refusing to allow the immigrants
t* land. On this account it should not now
occasion any surprise, he believes, if the
Japanese government declines to discuss
the question whether the possession by each
ftoo immigrant of SSO was bona fide or not.
“The imperial government,” he observes,
“maintains that in the present case posses
sion was prima facie evidence of ownership.
The Hawaiian government has frankly and
uuequivocally admitted that each of the
rejected free immigrants was actually in
possession of SSO, and has. moreover, de
clared that under the Hawaiian law ’posses
sion’ is synonymous with ‘ownership.’ Con
sequently, the imperial government denies
that it was at any time incumbent on the
Immigrants to prove that the possession in
question was bona fide.”
MORE NORTH POLE CHASERS.
Three Expeditions to Sail for Arctic
Waters Next Year.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—Walter Wellman
was one of the passengers on the New
York, which arrived to-day. Ho has been
to Norway and Russia to consult with Dr.
Nansen and to arrange for a steamer and
a large number of dogs. He said that ef
forts will be made to reach the north pole
until the feat was accomplished. “At least
three expeditions will be in the field next
year,” he said. “One will be that of Captain
Sverdrup, in the Fram; another that of
Lieutenant Peary, in Greenland, and the
third, the one that will be made by my
self in Franz Josef Band. My arrangements
are to sail from Bergen, Norway, in a
stanch ice steamer on June 15. Ten men
will comprise the expedition. They will be
Norwegians, with the exception of three
Americans. We shall establish a supply sta
tion at Cape Flora, leaving two men in
charge. We shall set out on our journey
toward the pole in the early part of 1899 and
shall be equipped for a journey of 110 days.
It will be a journey or about 550 English
miles from Cape Fligely to the pole.”
Aliened Pigeon from Andree.
NASHVILLE, 111., Sept. 7.—When Prof.
Andree left in search of the north pole it
was not made public that arrangements
had been made by William Osborne, a
prominent business man of Coulterville, 111.,
whereby he would he kept informed as to
the whereabouts of the explorer by means
of carrier pigeons. Mr. Osborne is an ex
pert pigeon breeder and has made a spe
cial study of carrier doves. The first bird
to arrive came last Friday evening to the
pigeon roosts of Mr. Osborne. When the
bird was first noticed it was in an ex
hausted condition and hardly able to lly.
Mr. Osborne had been watching eagerly for
the bird, which was already two months
overdue, and he had great fear that it had
been lost on its voyage. The bird carried
a note about its neck which had been writ
ten on extra heavy note paper and rolled
up in parchment and showed evidence of
having been covered with waterproof cloth,
which had become detached and lost some
where in the long voyage. A small strip
of the covering was still hanging to the
parchment. When the parchment was re
moved it was found that the weather had
completely obliterated the writing, so that
it could not be told whether the expedi
tion is a success or a failure. The only word
on the note which was not completely
rubbed out was "latitude,” but what lati
tude could not be deciphered. That the
pigeon is one of Andree’s is an indisput
able fact, as it had a silver plate attached
to its left leg with “Andree, No. 31,”
stamped upon it.
When questioned as to whether the pigeon
might not be sent as a trick, Mr. Osborne
said it was not, and was surprised that so
much importance should be attached to
what he considered an insignificant fact.
The next bird is due in a few days. The
bird that arrived Friday is a fine specimen
and has recovered from its exhaustion.
Slept l(N Hours mid 1)1<><1.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7.—Lawrence
Ledwlett, a Philadelphia teamster who was
picked up intoxicated at Gloucester, and
who went to sleep In the Camden county
Jail last Thursday night, died in the Cooper
Hospital to-day. He had slept 108 hours
continuously when life became extinct.
TO CHECK THE PLAGUE
GOVERNMENT AND STATE OFFICIALS
ACTIVE IN THE SOUTH.
Every Effort Will Be Made to Prevent
Spread of Yellow Fever from
the Infected Towns.
LITTLE DANGER IN THE NORTH
*
DR. Gl'll ERAS, THE EXPERT, SAYS
IT IS TOO NEAR FROST TIME.
4-.
Vigorous Denial from New Orleans
that There Has Been More than One
Case or Death In that City.
OCEAN SPRINGS ISOLATED
4—
NO COMMUNICATION WITH THE
TOWN EXCEPT BY MAIL OR AVIRE.
Quarantine* Established In Mississip
pi, Louisiana and Alabama—Three
Crises at Biloxi, Miss.
.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.—Dr. John Gui
teras, the expert who has been dispatched
by Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine
Hospital Service, to go to Ocean Springs,
Miss., and take charge of the quarantining
of that place, passed through Washington
this morning. Dr. Guiteras fought the yel
low fever epidemic in Key West in 1377; the
Jacksonville epidemic in ISBB and the Bruns
wick (Ga.) epidemic in 1892. He is regarded
as the most efficient man in the service
for this class of work. The doctor says
that it is hardly possible for the plague to
make its way into the interior for any
great distance, on account of the lateness
of the season and the prompt means which
will be taken to keep it within bounds by
the United States government and the
State governments of Mississippi, Louis
iana and Georgia. In times past yellow
fever has extended as far north along the
Mississippi river as St. Louis, while in 1878,
the year of the great epidemic of yellow
fever, there were cases along the Atlantic
coast as far north as Philadelphia. That
year, howe.ver, the fever got an earlier
start, and the authorities were not so well
equipped to combat it.
The following order was telegraphed to
day to Passed Assistant Surgeon Wasdin,
at Mobile: “Until a cordon is established
have railroad agei ts sell tickets only to
northern points north of Washington or
points in mountainous districts, and keep
record of all who leave, with points of
their destination, notifying the authorities.
Arrange for cordon, employ necessary help
and turn matters over to Dr. Murray on
his arrival and report to him for duty.”
Orders have also been given to transfer the
camp outfit from Waynesville, Ga., to
Ocean Springs.
This afternoon the Marine Hospital re
ceived two telegrams from Dr. Wasdin, at
Mobile, that had been delayed in transmis
sion. One reported that President Oli
phant, of the Louisiana State Board of
Health, reported another death from yellow
fever in Nesv Orleans and three new cases.
The other telegram said that two new cases
were reported in New Orleans. Surgeon
Murray, who has been stationed at Mobile,
but who has been on leave, has been or
dered to return at once and will take
charge to-morrow. Surgeon H. R. Carter,
of Chicago, an expert, who had charge of/
the outbreak at Brunswick, Ga., a few
years ago, and Surgeon Oakley, of Savan
nah, have also been ordered to Mobile. As
the State authorities have yet made no ap
peal for assistance, the Marine Hospital
Service must confine its work to preventing
the disease from being carried from one
Slate to the other.
Hr. Waiter Wyman, the head of the Ma
rine Hospital Service, returned to the city
this afternoon and assumed active charge
in directing the work of assisting the State
officials of Mississippi in their efforts to
confine the disease to the locality where it
appears to have started. Mr. Wyman says
that as yet he has no opinion to express
whether the disease is really yellow fever,
although he admits it looks very suspicious.
The precautionary measures he has taken
are based entirely on the declaration of the
State Board of Health of Louisiana in the
Uelpi case, which was that the disease
from which the person had died was yellow
fever. Dr. Wyman says the situation at
Ocean Springs is entirely m the hands of
the State Board of Health, which the Ma
rine Hospital Bureau is doing everything
possible to assist. Dr. Wyman has wired
the physician in charge at Ocean Springs a
copy of the treasury regulations relating
to the prevention of ihe spread of epidemic
diseases from one State to another. These
regulations prescribe the manner of sur
veillance to be established over railroad
trains coining from the infected district,
and give rules for the isolation of infected
passengers and the disinfection of their
baggage.
The Marine Hospital Service has ample
camp material and equipage on hand. The
splendid outfit which has been at Gains
ville, Ga., will be started to-night on a
train for the vicinity of Ocean Springs. It
will be taken to within thirty or forty miles
of the place, and if a camp of detention is
found necessary the outfit will be used as
occasion may require. The bureau also
keeps portable apparatus at Savannah,
Ga., intended for use in epidemics. It con
-*~ts of machines for disinfecting and fu
migating purposes. They have been started
lor the vicinity of Ocean Springs.
NO NEW CASES.
Indignant Denial from New Orleans-
One Death at Ocean Springs.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 7.—Night fell
upon New Orleans without a single case of
yellow fever having been reported. But
one imported case thus far has developed
hire, and death has wiped that out. The
Board of Health to-night, through its pres
ident, Dr. Oliphant, and its president pro
Urn., Dr. Walmsley, declared that in spite
of all reports to the contrary, not one of
the many who had come hither from Ocean
Springs had been stricken with the fell
disease. A statement from Washington,
made on authority of the Marine
officials in Washington, that Dr. Oliphant
had telegraphed Dr. Wasdin, at Mobile,
that two deaths had occurred here and that
there were three new' cases, is untrue. Dr.
Oliphant affirms with emphasis that he
signed no such dispatch, nor did any repre
sentative of his in the Board of Health,
and that it was unjust thus to create alarm
in the public mind when there was no foun
dation for the story.
Last night during the meeting of the
Board of Health it was decided in keeping
faith with the health organizations of the
country to wire the exact situation here
to Dr. Wasdin, of the Marine Hospital Serv
ice at Mobile. The appended dispatch was
sent and dispatches of similar import were
sent to some twenty-five boards of health
in this country: “One case of lever, from
Ocean Springs, Miss.., died here this morn
ing. Extreme precautions taken. Know of
no other case in the city." Dr. Oliphant
says he sent no other dispatch to Dr. Was
din, and that either the Marine Hospital
Service has been imposed upon or incorrect
information has been given out.
This morning at the Gelpi residence,
where the first and fatal case was reported
yesterday, the premises were thoroughly
impregnated with sulphur, and it is be
lieved every lingering germ therein has
been killed. The four inmates, two serv
ants and the mother and brother of the
boy, are absolutely quarantined. No one is
permitted either to enter or to leave the
house, which will be in charge of the board
for five days. Physicians are promptly re
porting cases of fever that come under
their observance.
Dr. Walmsley said to-night that four or
five doubtful cases had been reported, and
that members of the board of experts had
investigated them all. in none of them was
there a trace or symptom of yellow fever.
The Board of Health office was thronged
with people throughout the day and far
into the night. Many came to inquire as
to the probability of a modification of last
night’s sweeping quarantine proclamation,
so that their friends and relatives sojourn
ing at Mississippi sound resorts might be
allowed to come home, and others came to
secure health certificates in order that they
might leave the city, the latter mostly
commercial travelers, who were generally
furnished the proper bills of health.
During the day it was reported a trainload
of people from the eoast had been side
tracked beyond the city limits awaiting such
action by the board as would permit them
to come into town. Major Day, local chief
of the railway mail service, called on Su
perintendent Marshall, of the L. & N. Rail
road, with reference to the dispatching of
mail to and from the infected points. Com
plaint had been made that Ocean Springs
and Biloxi were being deprived of mail facil
ities. Arrangements will be made to take
the mail from the stations at Ocean Springs
and Biloxi by means of pouch catchers.
Uninfected points are not affected.
A complete inspection camp has been or
ganized at the Rigolets, through which an
entrance is made to the city. No doubtful
case will be allowed to come in. Inspec
tors have been sent to all the gulf-coast
points to make a full and thorough exam
ination of their health and sanitary condi
tions. Dr. Gill, who made his first stop at
Bay St. Louis, reported that town thor
oughly healthy, with no semblance of yel
low jack.
There seems to be no threatened exodus
from the city. All but one road reports
business outgoing as normal. The North
eastern officials said they were carrying a
somewhat heavier consignment of passen
gers than ordinarily, and attributed the in
crease to the natural fear of unacclimated
strangers.
Only one additional death has been report
ed at Ocean Springs with symptoms of
yellow fever, a mulatto. No new cases had
been reported during the afternoon. Ocean
Springs has now been absolutely cut off
from the outside world and the only means
of reaching the town are by wire or mail.
The telegraph operator there is well-nigh
worked to death. Serious suffering is cer
tain to follow. It was said this afternoon
there was only one ton of ice in the town
and there was no way to get more. Ice is
necessary where fever rages. Physicians at
the springs get but little rest, and it. is not.
so certain the medical supplies will not
soon be exhausted, but in the course of a
day or two means will be found whereby
relief will be supplied. If required, city
physicians will volunteer to aid the local
doctors.
In the dispatches last night it was strong
ly intimated that the yellow fever at Ocean
Springs had been communicated from Snip
island, where the federal government main
tains a quarantine station. The island is
within sight of Ocean Springs. To-day Dr.
Haralson, of the Mississippi Board of
Health, said: “The gulf quarantine at Ship
island is a menace to the health of the
people of Mississippi and the people of the
entire South. Ship island harbor should
either be devoted to quarantine or to ship
ping, and should not be used for both pur
poses. I challenge Dr. Wyman, supervising
surgeon general of the United States, or
l>r. Murray, surgeon of the United States
marine, or Dr. Smith, assistant surgeon in
the quarantine office at Ship island, to show
me anywhere in the world a harbor as small
as Ship island harbor that is used for both
quarantine and shipping without a lazaretto
for vs How -fever patients. Mississippi is the
onlv State in the Union that would submit
to the indignity and danger of such a sta
tion at her very door.”
The Board of Health has withdrawn
quarantine restrictions against all points
on the gulf eoast upon certificate from its
own health officers of nonexistence of sus
picious fever, excepting Ocean Springs and
Biloxi.
Precautions at Mobile.
MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 7.—Every pr-eeau
tion has been taken to-day to guard
gainst the introduction of fever into Mo
bile. Rigid quarantine has been estab
lished by land and water, and half a dozen
persons who got in before quarantine ar
range ments were completed have been sent
out of the city to the detention camp, lo
cated fifteen miles west on the Louisville
& Nashville road. At this camp also art;
detained all travelers who came from coast
points or from New Orleans. They must
remain ten days in quarantine. There are
several there in detention now. No train
crews are allowed to come into town.
A dost- examination by the physicians
here enables th'e Board of Health to say
positively that there is no case of a sus
picious nature in Mobile. There is no fever
at Scranton, nor as far as can be learned
at no coast point except at Ocean Springs.
First Victim of the Disease.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 7.—The first vic
tim of the yellow-fever plague that has
made its re-appearance at Ocean Springs,
on the Mississippi .coast, was a St. Louis
girl, Miss Penelope Emma F. Schutze,
daughter of F. C. G. Schutze, a well-to-do
retired merchant of this city. The family
formerly lived in Birmingham, Ala. On Sat
urday came a dispatch saying she was very
ill with fever. The family was greatly
alarmed, as from her letters they knew tha;
dengue, or breakbone fever, had attacked
hundreds at the resort. Monday they were
horrified by a brief telegram from the hotel
people saying: “Your daughter died suu
deniy of yellow fever.”
Precautions at Montgomery.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Sept. 7.—The Gov
ernor has called a meeting of the State
Board of Health in this city for to-morrow
to consider the yellow-fever and the small
pox situation. Ten prominent citizens were
stopped on the Louisville & Nashville train
this morning outside of the city and forced
to pass through without stopping here.
Three of the late arrivals from Ocean
Springs are sick and orders from the city
health officer require all persons from the
infected district to be moved out of the
city at once.
• Marred from Florida.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 7.—The
State Board of Health has issued a procla
mation excluding from the State all per
sons and baggage from the yellow fever
infected points in Louisiana and Mississippi
unless accompanied by a certificate that he
has not been exposed to the disease within
fifteen days from the time of departure.
Three fuses ut Biloxi.
BILOXI. Miss., Sept. 7.—At 10::50 p. m.
three well-defined cases of yellow fever
were found. They are under guard, and no
fear is felt.
AN AMERICAN’S CLOSE SHAVE
Narrowly Escaped Transportation
from Havana to Afrieu.
NEW YORK. Sept. 7.—The Ward line
steamer Y'umuri, which arrived here to-day
from Tampico and Havana, brought Lo
renzo Vives, who was arrested last De
cember at the Hotel Angleterre, in Havana,
and imprisoned at Cabanas for five months.
Vives is an American citizen. He de
nounces in bitter terms the hotel proprietor,
F. Villamili, who is a captain in the Span
ish volunteers. Villamili reported to the
Spanish authorities that Vives was a Cuban
sympathizer and caused his arerst. With
out friends at hand or means of communi
cating with them, Vives was held at the
Cabanas for five months, when he was
taken out with a large number of other
prisoners to be transported to Africa, but
Consul General Lee interfered and de
manded his release as an American citizen.
Vives was sent to Jail, and later, through
the efforts of General Lee, obtained his re
lease. Vives admitted that he had been
sent out on a secret mission by the Cuban
Junto, but the Spanish authorities are un
able to prove this. He said tho only thing
that saved him from death was the fact
that he was an American citizen.
Filibuster Probably Sunk.
PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 7.—From in
formation Brought to this port to-night by
the British steamship Straits of Dover from
Santiago de Cuba there is reason to fear
that the schooner Donna T. Briggs, which
sailed from New York three weeks ago with
arms and ammunition for the insurgent
lil> I/'iT? Q riPVTC jAT RAILWAY NEWS STANDS, ON
KlCJhi o Vr,> I>. i TRAINS AM) BENDAYS 5 CENTS.
army, has foundered. The steamer brought
word thet the Briggs had not arrived and
that nothing has been heard of her. Her
cargo was intended for General Garcia,
who is encamped in the mountains near
Barocoa, on the north eoast of the province
awaiting the arrival of the vessel. She was
deeply laden with a dead wight cargo of
shot and shell when she left New York.
Soon after a tropical cyclone swept the
Bahama Islands and it is not unlikely that
the Briggs went down in this. The tug
Dauntless, which was to have met her and
taken on board the cargo, still remains at
Savannah, not having been able even to lo
cate the Briggs.
Spanish Soldiers Not Needed.
HAVANA, S.pt. 7.—A wealthy planter
and land proprietor, Spaniard by birth and
a resident for over thirty years at Conso
laeion del Sur, Senor Rodriguez San Pedro,
civil governor of the province of Pinar del
Rio, informed Captain General Weyier to
day that, in his opinion, the government
rray withdraw the regular troops from that
province, as the gendarmes and volunteers
are sufficient to suppress the small groups
of insurgents scattered over that territory.
WELL SHOOTERS KILLED
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION OF NITRO
GLYCERIN AT CYGNET, O.
Several People Hurled to Dentil—Bod
ies of Six Identified—Many
Persons Injured.
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CYGNET, 0., Sept. 7.—A terrible explo
sion of nitroglycerin occurred here at 3
o'clock this afternoon, which resulted in
the death of six people whose names are
known and others at present unknown.
The killed are:
SAMUEL BARBER,
ALLEN FALL IS.
JOHN THOMPSON,
CHARLES BARTEL,
HENRY LANS DALE.
HAVENS, a boy.
The explosion occurred at Grant Well, lo
cated at the rear of the National Supply
Company’s office building, in the village
limits. This well had just been shot by
Samuel Barber, the shooter for the Ohio
and Indiana Torpedo Company. The well
was a gasser, and when, the 120 quarts of
glycerin let down into the well exploded the
gas ignited, and with a terrific roar the
flames shot high above the derrick. As
soon as the drillers saw the flames several
climbed into the derrick to shut off the gas,
but they had hardly gotten there when
there was a terrific explosion. The burning
gas had started the remaining glycerin in
the empty cans standing in a wagon near
the derrick. In another wagon near by
werro some cans containing another 120
quarts of the stuff, and this was started
by the force of the first explosion.
The second was blended with the first in
a mighty roar, and the town and surround
ing country for miles trembled with the
shock. The National Supply Company’s
building was demolished, and nothing re
mains but a big hole w'here the wagons
stood. There is not a whole pane of glass
in any window in the town, and every
house and store was shaken to its foun
dations. There was great excitement over
the affair, and all the population of the
town rushed to the spot. YVho the men are
who were in the derrick and all who were
killed cannot bo learned now, owing to the
excitement.
The damage to the Ohio Oil Company
will amount to $3,000. Eight buildings are
a total wreck and many others damaged.
The town has a population of about 1,200.
Many bystanders were wounded.
Tliree Killed, at a. Crossing.
READING, Pa., Sept. 7.—A Philadelphia
& Reading wrecking engine crashed into a
wagon at a grade crossing at Flush Valley,
a few miles above Reading, to-night, and
three lives were lost: The dead are: Evan
Hiester, aged forty-five years; Warren
Faust, aged ten, arid Leon Faust, ageu
seven. All were instantly killed. The boys
were the sons of Allen Faust, a rmlier or
Berkley, this county, and Hiester, who was
in his employ, was hauling them in a cov
ered wagon, with a load of flour. The pre
sumption is that he did not hear the ap
proach of the engine.
FATE OF VON HAHNKE
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RENEWAL OF THE STORY CONCERN
ING A GERMAN OFFICER'S SUICIDE.
He Is Alleged to Have Taken His Own
Life After Blacking tlie Kaiser's
Eye—Labouchere’s Comments.
LONDON, Sept. 7.—Mr. Henry Dab
ouchere, in Truth, to-day, renewed the mys
terious hints which have been in circulation
since the death of Lieutenant Von Hahnke,
of the German navy, son of General Von
Hahnke, chief of Emperor William’s mil
itary Cabinet, who met his death by drown
ing in July last while accompanying his
Majesty on his trip to the northland aboard
the imperial yacht Hohenzollern. In so
doing, Mr. Labouchere once more publishes
the intimation that the lieutenant’s death
was a sequel to the black eye which Em
peror William received at about that time.
According to one story the black eye was
caused by a blow from a rope which was
being whirled about by the wind. Another
story has it that the Emperor so coarsely
abused Lieutenant Von Hahnke that the
latter committed suicide. Finally, still an
other version of the affair is that the
Lieutenant, stung by the Emperor’s sharp
words, resented them to the extent of
blacking his Majesty’s eye and then took
his own life. Truth, in to-day’s comments
on the affair, says: "It is worthy of re
mark that the authorized version was most
obliquely impressed by the officers and
men of the Hohenzollern upon every tourist
they met.”
Tne official version of the affair, in brief,
seems to be that Lieutenant Hahnke, who
was accompanied by a brother officer, ac
cidentally ran into the river Grondaisely on
his bike while trying to avoid a collision
with a shying pony. The river, it is further
explained, is a raging torrent from which
.escape is impossible and when the lieuten
ant came upon the scene all trace of Von
Hahnke except his cap had disappeared.
Mr. Labouchere adds: "We received a
letter saying that on the day following Von
Hahnke s death a dummy figure ot the
same size and weight was tossed into the
torrent in order to test its effect. When
the dummy was thrown in it, it was found
to be torn to pieces and everybody agrees
that Von Hahnke’s body must have met a
similar fate. Yet, since the appearance of
Truth's remarks, it is announced from Ber
lin thut the body has been recovered after
being six weeks in the raging torrent and
that it will be brought here for burial.”
In conclusion Mr. Labouchere remarks:
“Perhaps, in time, the full facts in this
very remarkable affair may be made
known.”
ANDREWS IS FIRM.
He Will Insist on Acceptance of H!:.
Resignation.
PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Sept 7.—lt is un
officially announced that Dr. Andrews will
insist on the acceptance of his resignation
from the presidency of Brown University.
This decision was arrived at after a con
ference this afternoon between Dr. An
drews and the advisory board and the * x
ecutive committees of the corporation. His
collection with the Cosmopolitan Univer
sity, it is thought, will take up too much
time to permit of his devoting his attv-n
---tlon to both universities. His decision is in
spite of a letter received by him from the
faculty begging him to remain.
MINERS MEET TO-DAY
delegate convention of diggers
TO UE HEI.D AT COLUMBUS.
'
Question f Accepting or Rejectins
tlie Compromise Proposition of 03
Cents a Toil to He Deeltled.
♦
VICTORY FOR PATRICK DOLAN
DELEGATES FROM PITTSBURG NOT
BOUND BY INSTRUCTIONS.
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Will Be Permitted to lie Their Dis
cretion In Settling or Prolong
ing the Great Strike.
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VIEWS OF MR. RATCHFORtJ
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THINKS IT WOULD BE WISDOM TO
DISCONTINUE THE FIGHT
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And Ad vine* Delegates to Accept th©
Recommendation of the National
Officers—Exciting Riot.
PITTSBURG, Sept. 7.—The convention of
mine workers to-day to select delegates to
the Columbus convention to-morrow was
one of the largest ever held and probably
has not been before equaled in excitement
and importance. The future of thousands
of miners, their wives and children, de
pended on the action of the gathering*. Al
though the rank and tile of the delegates
seemed imbued with the idea that the op
erators were ready to throw up their hands
and pay the 69-cent rate demanded by the
strikers. President Patrick Dolan, by ex
cellent diplomacy, tact and perseverance,
kept them so well within bounds that the
delegates from this district will go to Co
lumbus with instructions to use their dis
cretion in the settlement of the difficulty.
President Dolan was well aware of the fact
that if the delegates went to the Columbus
convention instructed to hold out for the
69-cent rate, another struggle more bitter
than ever, with hunger and starvation for
many, was imminent. To him, almost alpne,
belongs the credit of having the delegates
go unhampered by resolutions and free to
act as they think best for the good of the
miners of the Pittsburg district. Dolan’s
idea was to have the delegates go to Co
lumbus untrammeled, where they could
consult with delegates from other States
and with the national officials. He inti
mated that there would be many questions
and facts to be considered that have as
yet not appeared on, the surface.
From another source it has been learned
that Dolan will make u big fight to-mor
row on behalf of the mining industry of
western Pennsylvania. It is stated that at
the conference with the operators at Co
lumbus last week he was apprised of cer
tain facts which led him to believe that not
only the operators, but the miners, of this
district have been discriminated against
and a fight will be made for justice and fair
ness. Whether or not the entire battle will
be fought out is an open question, but it
is known that the basis for a permanent
settlement in the Pittsburg district next
December will be well defined and thor
oughly understood to-morrow. If the issues
are too finely drawn, it is intimated that
there will be secession from the national
organization by the Pittsburg district. By
many this move seems probable. Dolan has
the sympathy and support of the majority
of the operators here and if he succeeds in
rallying the miners of other. States to his
cause as well as he has succeeded at home
he will have won a great battle.
Dolan will use every endeavor to bring
the convention into line for the acceptance
of the compromise rate and he knows he has
a task confronting him. Many delegates
from other States, notably Illinois and
Ohio, will go into the convention to-mor
row with a determination to hang out for
the 69-cent rate in spite of the wish of the
national officers. Dolan know\s this, and
in order to have his own district with him
he succeeded in choking off a resolution
embodying the rate question by one of the
most eloquent speeches ever heard in the
city hall and gained the victory he fought
for. The following delegates at large were
elected: Thomas Kenny, Thomas Chatw'ay,
Paul Trimmer, Jacob Afohler, Frank Mc-
Kenna. District delegates were elected as
follows: Patrick Dolan, Henry Walker,
William Doods, J. W. Hindmarsh, Win.
Miller, Charles Laird, Joseph Rae, William
George, Wm. Warner, John O’Neal, Came
ron Miller, John Driscoll, Peter Sample and
D. C. Blue. The delegates left to-night over
the Panhandle for Columbus in the best
frame of mind.
President Hu tell ford's Views.
MASSILLON, 0., * Sept. 7.—President
Ratchford, of the miners’ organization,
started for Columbus to-night to attend
the mass convention to-morrow. He said
he believed th’o miners would accept the
65-cent rate and return to work. “The
miners will meet the proposition like men,”
he said, "and will be guided by their judg
ment rather than their desires. Our execu
tive council was unanimous in its recom
mendations, each member, like myself,
feeling that it was his duty to make known
the actual condition and recommend ac
cording to his judgment. With this done,
the case rests in the hands, of the miners,
and if they see tit to continue the strike
the resjionslbility of thvir failure will be
their and not their officials'. I do not,
however, anticipate any such continuance.
The miners will accept and resume wor'g
in a few days. It was plainly apparent to
us,” Mr. Ratchford* continued, "that the
operators would never pay 69 cents, the
price demanded. It would be cheaper for
them to cancel ail contracts arid keep their
mines closed until the tlrst of next year.
Now r , my advice to my fellow-miners is to
accept the recommendation of their offi
cers. If they reject it, they will have to
fight it out to the end, and 1 fear the re
sult. The advance demanded by the miners’
organization Is 15 cents a ton. The pro
posed compromise gives us 11 cents a ton,
or 4 cents less than our demand. The gain
to the Ohio miners alone, by multiplying
the inerease by the numbvr of tons pro
duced annually, would amount to $1,410,000.
Add to this a proportionate, advance to all
branches of labor around the rubies, and
,t will increase the amount to nearly
$2,000,000 to be divided between 25,000 miner©
and niln’e laborers in this State alone.
Carry the line of reasoning to the other
States and it will be found that the total
gains to the miners of those States will
exceed $9,000,000, or in the neighborhood of
$75 or SSO per man. On Jan. 1 another in
crease. in my Judgment, will tak • place,
though I am unable to say what th©
amount may be."
West Virginians Modest.
WHEELING, Sept. 7.- District meeting*
were held in all the West Virginia region©
where the strike exists hist night and to
day. The miners, for the most part, hav©
been modest in their demands. At Fair
mont the delegates were instructed to se
cure. if possible, a continuance of the strlk©
till West Virginia is in position to demand