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VOL. XIX.— NO. 344. BULLETIN OF THrE ST. PfUJ^ GI^OB^. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 9, IB9C. Weather for Today. Fair and Warmer. PAGE 1. Mat-co Killed in Havana Province. Mcdeary Aiming; Too High. Silver Senators Bolt. Sixty Philippine Rebels Shot. Everybody Kicks at Football. PAGE 2. Hearn Given Up His Contest. That Gasoline itid Discussed. r«W»Hihll Club Chooses Officers. Chinamen l)i Xot Like Autopsies. PAGE 3. Jerome B. Drew's sudden Death. Truesdell's Pension Too Late. Quay Konsts Business Men's League. PAGE 4. Editorial. Comptroller Eckels' Annual. PAGE 5. New York's Big" Cycle Race. House Passes Pension Bill. Andrew Berg' Kills Himself. PAGE 6. Bur Si'ver O5 I-80. Cnvh 'Wheat in Chicago 7710 Fractional Losses in Stocks. PAGE 7. Burglars Blow a Depot Safe. John Ad ler Declared Insane. News of the Courts. "\\ ants of the People. PAGE 8. i:.-. rnliiiis of the Charity Ball. Relief lor the Poor. EVENTS TODAY. Bf«-t~Kac:cMC Aram, 2.150, 8.15. Co-ami— Girl I Left Behind, 2.30. 8.15. Conover Hall — Anna Evu Fay, 8.15. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS. NEW YORK— Arrived: Bovlc, Liverpool; ! Kansas City. Bristol. BKOWHEAD — Passed: Teutonic, New j York, for Queenstown and Liverpool. QUEENSTOWN— Arrived: Pavonia, Bos- I ton, for Liverpool. HAMBURG— SaiIed: Patria, for Xew York. ■ -•- ■ Mr. Cleveland is not like Patti. His "farewell" goes. • — ■ Mr. Rockefeller's plans for next sea son are iron-bound. Most people had forgotten it, but Ad lai Stevenson is stili in public life. Take another look at the gold re serve. It has almost reached $133,000,000. Why not permit Mr. Sherman to re main out of the cabinet if he wants to? _ Now, if Spain will only resent it, we |an give her the spanking she has so i fcng deserved. In his fight with the courts of Cali fornia for that $10,000 Sharkey cannot j win on a foul. The luck of the man who had a pen- j Bion granted him the day he was buried Was admittedly bad. .«. It wouldn't be strange if the people should conclude in the next twelve months to mark Hanna. The official returns from lowa show j Uv' all of the Republican candidates for congress are still elected. If there are any brains in the present 1 municipal administration, it is about | time they were put on exhibition. T.he greatest piece of work of the j Fifty-fourth congress will be its ad journment March 4 next. Hasten the day! -*»•■ Then, too. it is just possible that Mayor Doran wouldn't know a nickel- j in-the-slot machine if he met it on the street. Mr. Jefferson speaks of Rip Van Winkle as "our mutual friend," which Is a very nice way of putting it, to be cure. _ . Everybody except Tom Carter sees j thai Tom Carter will be wholly out of politics as soon as his term as senator expires. Mr. Hanna is in Washington ready j to discuss the inaugural ball, but as | mum as an oyster regarding cabinet positions. m Now, it is the steel trust that is go ing to pieces. The people can stand ■ by and see all .he trusts go without j shedding a tear. In the meantime, the Sth of January Is- pproaching. Do we hear a second j to the motion of Mr Watterson to make j It a day of prayer. McKinley wouldn't care if every road to Canton should become drifted with j tnow to the depth of twelve feet. The | president-elect wants time to think. . .^c. Senators Dubois, Pettigrew, Mantle, Cannon, Squire and Teller were not present at yesterday's Republican caa cus. One can at least admire their backbone. There are fewer cases of "drowned I ■while skating" than usual *his ye.-r. | Th<- ice pot a firm hold on the rivers I and lakes this time before tft^ fools! could buckle on their skates. — j Although it is surmised that McKin ley and others, including Clough, car ried this state recently, no official no tic- of the fact will be taken until next Tuesday, when the state board of can vassers meet Fourteen churches are to be sold- at auction for failing to pay taxes at Ish peming. Mich. Ishpeming may as well be awaided the banner as the wicked est city in the country. Deadwood wouldn't permit that. Senator Call may have very decided notions about Cuba, but he is in a compromising state of mind as to Wbetber the United States "are" or •is." His Cuban resolution declares that the United States '♦recognizes" and "accord" independence and bellig erency to Cuba. THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE. GEK. WCEO RILLED fIT WWS GfITES LEADER OF THE CUBAN REBELLION FELL WITH VICTORY IN VIEW. HAD OUTFLANKED WEYLER. FATAL CONTEST WAGED AFTER THE INSURGENTS FORCED THE TROCHA. SON OF GOMEZ WITH HIM. FOI'XD OX THE FIELD OF BATTLE LOCKED TS DEATH'S EM BRACE. FEARFUL BATTLE FOUGHT. OFFICIAL ADMISSION OF A DEADLY STRUGGLE AT THE MILITARY LIXEi. J*ROOF IS APPARENTLY COMPLETE. Death of the Sonl of the Revolt Given Ont in the Most Positive Terms. HAVANA, Dec. B.— lt is stated in most positive terms by the Spanish au thorities that Antonio Maceo, the great insurgent leader and the heart and soul of the Cuban cause, has been killed in Havana province, after having ef fected the passage of the western tro cha near Mariel, at its northern extrem ity. With the Cuban leader died the youth, Francisco Gomez, son of Max imo Gomez, who accompanied the mu latto general on his passage of the trocha. Most explicit details of the finding of the corpses of the fallen Cubans and of the facts relied upon for their iden tification are at hand, through the re port of the Spanish commander, Maj. Cirujeda, who contested the passage of the trocha unsuccessfully on Dec. 4 (last Friday), with Maceo, and who sustained another conflict yesterday with the forces under the insurgent leader. It was in a reconnaissance af ter the latter engagement that the Spaniards found the two corpses, not separated in death, which they have identified as those of Antonio Maceo and Francisco Gomez. The authorities now permit the publi cation of Maj. Cirujeda' s official report that the engagement with Maceo on Dec. 4, when he forced the troeha, was "a fearful combat," which is the first official admission that Maceo brought ; with him across the trocha a consid- ; erable equipped following and fought a hot engagement to effect his passage, j After the Cubans had passed into the Havana province the Spanish com- J mander effected a fresh concentration ! in that province and awaited the ar- j rival of Maceo. He had received con fidential information of the proposed movements of the Cubans, and ar- ; ranged his forces accordingly. He had, | in addition, received a detailed descrip- j tion of the horse which Maceo was to ride, as well as of its caparisons. The expected battle occurred yesterday, but no details of the engagement are given out for publication here. After the fight the Spanish troops made a reconnaissance of the ground previously held by the Cuban forces. Here were found the two corpses lying together, and, indeed, almost locked in I an EMBRACE OF DEATH. The one body was that of a mulatto, a stout man with gray, crisp, curling hair, and the other that of a slender dark-haired youth. Both men were dressed in white linen duck suits. When the suit was removed from the corpse of the elder of the two, it was found to have under it a fine undershirt with the initials "A. M." upon it. The pair of black silk socks on this body con tained the same initials worked in red ink. There was a gold ring on the finger containing on the inner rim the engraved inscription "Antonio y Maria." A revolver with an ivory handle and marked, together with a small gold-mounted telescope, was also j found on the body. The head of the • younger man's body was resting upon ! the body of the first. There were found on it a silver watch, an ammunition bag and several handkerchiefs bearing . the initials "F. G." Among the papers the following let- j ter was found, written in the somewhat j crabbed handwriting of an aged man: i Cuban Liberator Army, General Headquar- j tere, Cuba— ln the Field— Sept. 15, 1896— Dear Pancho: I wrote you not long ago. I am in- ! formed of your running aground and the cause j cf it. I am Just thinking how long your j stopping will last. No doubt you have been i wrong, but we have to keep up. Nobody is ! to blame for the success that has come to j | them. For three days past there has been | [ an attack at Ca&corro, and the enemy is quite tired, so that if no reinforcements come they j will yield. Yesterday I had a letter from : your mother, dated Aug. 20. Embrace Caesar ! Miguelito and the comrades, and Artega in i particular. This letter bore the signature of M. Gomez. It. is stated in addition to the above paitlculars that there was found on \ the body of the younger man a letter i written in pencil, saying that he die 3 i rather than abandon the corpse of his general, Maceo. Such are the details of the identifi cation upon which the Spanish officials rely for their firmly expressed con viction that Antonio Maceo has met his end. No news has been received since the outbreak of the insurrection which has caused so great a sensation in Havana or has been deemed so en couraging to the Spanish cause. Since tne famous raid of the Cubans across the whole of the island last yt-ar when Maceo invaded Pinar del Rio, while Gomez returned to the East ern provinces, the mulatto general has held his own in the Western province against the utmost efforts of the Span- WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 189 a lards to dislodge him. He transferred the whole seat of war from the East to the West end, and while his enemies claims he had run into a trap, and built a strong trocha across the island to keep him there, he continued his indefatigable campaign and consistent ly claimed always that he could cross the trocha when he wished, and effect a Junction with Gomez in the East. The diary of Maceo's operations found with the body in addition to the details already stated, says that Maoeo himself was wounded before crossing the trocha in a skirmish at Vejeranom, Dec. 3. After crossing the trocha Dec. 4, he joined the local Ha vana bands of the insui-gents. Maj. Cirujeda arrived in Havana at neon with the documents which had been taken from the bodies of Maceo and Francisco Gomez. BRILLIANT FIGURE. Maceo was without question the most brilliant figure of the present revolution in Cuba, He effected a landing at Crete de Barancoa on March 31. With him were Flor Crombet and a number of officers. Ma. ceo had been a member of Gen. Go mez's staff during the ten years' war from 1868 to 1878, and commanded large bodies of troops in the pro*, inee of San tiago de Cuba, in which province his family had lived and where he owned a large plantation. After the ten years' war, Maceo traveled in Central Amer ica, attempting to raise a large force to invade Cuba and contest the sov ereignty of gpain. In i&88 he went to Haytl to try to get assistance for an invasion of Cuba, but he was driven out and lived for a long time in re tirement in Jamaica, and after that he returned to Cuba and lived quietly on his plantation in the Eastern prov ince, where he was very popular: In 1890 he was driven out of Cuba and came to New York. At the time of the present outbreak ho was in Florida and he joined a large expedition which set out from Ftrt Limon in -March, 1895, on the steamer Adirondack. A Spanish man of-war pursued the steamer for eight hours and at last the leaders were com pelled to land on Fortune island, one of , the West Indies. Thence Maceo and the other leaders made their way to Cuba, In the great raid across the island led by Maximo Gomez in 1893, Maceo was his chief coadjutor, and when Captain General Campos had finally receded with his headquarters to the city of Havana, Maceo led a daring S* i n^°T, the fertlle Province of Pinar del Rio, where he devastated the great Vuelta Abajo tobacco district and raised the whole province in revolt against Spain. There he has been ever since, with the Spanish authorities in tho provinoe practically overturned Time and again reports have been sent out from Cuba of his defeat and rout, his death in action *r his suicide ?, } Va - yB J? be refuted by his later activi ties. There is no o.uestion that many people will doubt the authenticity of the report now received of his death though no previous report has given such exact details of the circumstances of his death or the facts of identifi cation. MACEiO'S MOVEMEMS. Story Told Before HI, Death Was Reported. «m^u ANJ t' Dec - 8 --" i 9 «ow semi officially admnted that Antonio Maceo the insurgent leader, passed the mtfi tary line of Pinar del Rio on Friday last near Mariel, the port at its north- I era extremity He was accompanied | by the son of Maximo Gomez Then- i was much excitement here when it be- i came generally known that Maceo had crossed the military line with it is I understood, a strong force of insur- | gents, especially when coupled with the ! fighting between Spanish troops and i insurgents close to this city, it seems evident that the insurgent 'commander ' has not only cleverly turned the flank ! of Capt. Gen. Weyler, but has succeed- ! ed in getting in his rear a nd crossing i the famous miltary line near the port ! which has been used as a base of sup plies for the Spanish troops in Pinar | del Rio. The importance of this move- i ment cannot be exaggerated. The exact whereabouts of Gen Wey- i ler is not known, but he is believed to i be hunting for Maceo in the moun tains in the extreme eastern part of Pinar del Rio, while the insurgent chief has seemingly doubled on his trucks turned the flank of the Spanish gen eral and passed in his rear in the direc tion of this oity, crossing the military line at will and probably being by this time in the vicinity of the capital of Cuba. If Maximo Gomez has carried out the plan attributed to him, that of pushing westward to the support of Maceo, a junction of the two main bodies of the insurgent forces may be expected shortly. Nothing appears to be known of the strength of the insurgent force with Antonio Maceo in this province. In fact, it was not until the news was be ing passed from person to person in the streets that the authorities would give a half-hearted admission of the truth of the report that Maceo had crossed the military line. This, it Is be lieved, will alter the whole situation and important events may occur within a short time. There Is no doubt that the insurgents have recently increased in number about this capital. The stray bands of twenty to thirty ban dits met by the Spanish troops have now swollen to the proportion of in surgent forces of 20,000 to 40,000. It ! seems to be admitted and believed that i Maceo will strike before Weyler can i hurry back from Pinar del Rio. In- i deed, it is currently reported that the captain general has been wounded in an engagement with the insurgents be- i fore the latter crossed the military line I and that he may not be able to return ! here except as a prisoner of the j Cubf^ns. The authorities, naturally, are doing ! all in their power to minimize the crossing of the trocha by Maceo and in- I timate that he is, as usual, according ! to the Spanish, running away from ' them. This does not alter the fact that he has escaped the hunter and that the \ hunter may find difficulty in getting home. The friends of the insurgents here are , overjoyed at the new turn taken in the , campaign and are boasting that Maceo i and Gomez will soon be knocking at i the gates of Havana. To this, the Spanish officials simply say: "Wait and see; the time is not yet." But ! there is no denying that the supporters ! of Spain here today are looking much j crestfallen and discouraged. Even a ! defeat at the hands of the insurgents, It i is admitted, would have been better j than the humiliation which the Spanish j troops have suffered in being so skill fully out maneuvered by the insur gents. AITONOMT TALK IDLE, Day for It Has Gone By, Says Mr. Palma. NEW YORK, Dec. B.— At the office of the Cuban junta in this city, Thom as E9trada Palma, delegate of the Cu ban republic to the United States, gave out a statement today in wfhicJi he expressed his views of the presi dent's message so far as it related to the Cuban question. " ",( r •■• f ;,i f" \< n-■ NOW THAT THE REGULAR SEASON IS OVER EVERYBODY TAKES A KICK AT FOOTBALL. AHiljiG TOO HIGH Miwesota >is;mbk«s xot in clined TO TAKE M'CLEARY'S AMBITION SERIOUSLY. SOMETHING IS BACK OF IT. MANKATO MAN SAID TO STAND WELL WITH THS PRESIDENT ELECT. SURPRISE FOR SENATOR DAVIS. At the Same Time He Would Regard McCleary as a G«od Man for the Treasury. Special to the Globe. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. B.— The candidacy of Congressman McCleary for the position of secretary of the treasury is regarded by Minnesota congressmen as approximating the ridiculous. Nevertheless, there is some reason to believe that there may be something substantial in it. The Min nesota men would unanimously sup port Senator Davis if he should desire to become secretary of state, and some of them say that trfe 3en<ator-tff giving that matter consideration. The geat speech of McCleary in reply to Towne gave him a national reputation, and it is known that McKinley holds him in high esteem. Senator Davis seemed a little sur prised when spoken to regarding the probability of Congressman McCleary becoming a member of Mr. McKinley's cabinet but emphasized his opinion that Mr. McCleary would make an excellent man for the place. The ad ditional fact that Chairman Babcock, of the Republican congressional com mittee, has acknowledged that Mr. McCleary would make a good secretary of the treasury makes Mr. McCleary's candidacy assume a more definite shape. Representative Kiefer said: "You may quote me as saying that McCleary would make a most desir able man for the place. I am for Min r.tsota firsit, last and all the time. 1 am sure that McKinley will appoint no man who is not eminently fitted for the duties he wIH be called upon to perform. I can iraaffine a contin gency in which McCleary would be se lected. There will likely be a contest for this position, ar.d in order to of fend no faction, McCleary may be se lected as a compromise candidate." Representative HealWole said: "I be lieve that the selection of Mr. Mc- Cleary for a cabinet position would be a fortunate one. His eminent services during the last campaign certainly en title him to handsome recognition. Mr. McCleary would make a good secre tary of the treasury." Representative Fletcher did not care to discuss McCleary's prospects for se- HKRE IS THE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT. ! Lev- Match- | Bent- States. ! McKinley,! Bryan. | Palmer. | erlng. ett. | ley. Alabama 7j 54X37 ISl^Ti M^Ti 2,147~ TT7! ~ Arkansas . 1 37.612 110.103! «^839 893 California . > 146,217 142,926 I Colorado 26,271 158.880 724 160 386 Connecticut V. 110,288 66.740 4,833 I 1,804 1,223 Delaware :. 20,372 16,679 969 | 356 Florida 11,389 32,213 1.778 868 Georgia 60,191 94,232 2,708 5,613 Idaho ' 6,321 I 23.192! 181 Illinois ! 607.130 464,523 ; 6,175 749 1,252 Indiana 1 323.719 305,771 ! 2,145 3,058 | 325 2.268 lowa ! 289,293 223.7411 4.519 3.192 1 153 353 Kansas ....! 158,541 173,042 I 1.20 D 2.351 | Kentucky .\.i 218.171 217. 590 ; 5,103 4,770 Louisiana k i 22.037 77,175 ! 1,834 Maine J 80,420 34.600 | 1,864 Maryland j | 136,978 1 104.746] 2,507 5,922 I 588 136 Massachusetts j 278.78S I 105,711! 11.749 2,998 2,114 Michigan I .1 293,327 \ 237,251 | 6.930 4,%8 .... 1,802 Minnesota i 193.">01 ; 139.626 3.230 4,365 895 Mississippi ' : 4,849 63,253 j 1,021 390 Missouri.. 1 304,940 363,652 2,355 2,109 .... 2!>3 Montana 10.490 43.680 ( I .... Nebraska 102,564 115,624 | 2,797 1,196 1 .... 910 Nevada 1,938; 7,802! New Hampshire i 57,444 21,650 1 3.420 778 228 49 New Jersey : 221,367 133.675 j 6.373 5.614 3,985 New York i 795.271 543.835 j 12,829 6.550 i North Carolina i 155,222 174,488 1 578 -24;>| 676 North Dakota i 26,336 20,689 | 340; Ohio 525.989 477.495 | 1.867 | 5,068 | 1,167 Oregon 48.711 46,739 ! 977 919 | Pennsylvania 728,300 433,230 1 11,000 19,274 1 1,683 870 Rhode Island 37,437 14.459 j 1,166 1.160 558 5 South Carolina 9,313 58,801 ! 824 South Dakota .- 41,042 41,224 | 550 Tennessee \ 148.774 I 168,176 1.951 3.098 Texas 162,506 368.259 5.030 1,785 Utah 13.461 67,053 Vermont 61,127 10,640 1,331 781 Virginia 135,294 154.785 2.116 2,343 115 Washington 89,122 T 51.647 1,440 733 West Virginia 106,205 91.104 Wisconsin 268,135 165.528 4,455 7.466 1,270 336 Wyoming 10,072 10,369 ....'. 159 Totals ' 7,080,523 6,496,669 j 125,037 125,469 16,016 9,685 McKinley's plurality; 583,854. HZZZZIZZZZZ_ Numerous readers of the Globe having ex pressed a curiosity to know how many more votes Mr. McKinley received in the recent election than Mr. Brjan, the Globe has added the votes received by Bryan and Watson to those received by Uryan and Sewall. The Bryan and Watson ticket received votes ao follows:-' Alabama. 24,ug&; Arkansas, 2.359; Florida. 2,0T>3; Illinois, 3,087; Kansas, 1.232; Maine. 2.287; Massachusetts, 15.181; Missis sippi, 7,320: New Hampshire. 379; Ohio. 2,615; Pennsylvania, 6,103; Tennessee. 4,526; Texas, 79,966; Utah, 2,202; Vermont, '4tt; Wyoming, 486. Those make a total of 152,373. These are curing a treasury department portfolio at the present time. Representative Otjen, of Milwaukee, believes that McCleary can be of more service to his state and to the coun try upon the floor of the house than as a memfoer of the cabinet. Senator Nelson, when asked for an expression of opinion on the subject, said that he had not before been ap prised of the rumor, but remarked that if there was anything in it, Mr. McCleary would make a very good man for the place. He doubted, though, if the rumor was well founded. "If McKinley selects Representative McCleary as secretary of the treasury it will be entirely satisfactory to me," said Congressman Tawney this after noon. _ VALENTINE SENTENCED. Head of the Gang of Gotham Swind lers- Gets Ten Years. NEW YORK, Dec. B.— William E. Valentine pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery in the second degree, and abduction, in the Kings county court today. He was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment by Judge Hurd. Valen tine was at the head of a gang of for gers and swindlers whose operations extended all over the United States and Canada, and involved, it has been estimated, as much as $2,000,000. MAYOR KILLED. With Five Others, by a Boiler Ex plosion In Georgia. COPELX, Ga., Dec. B.— A boiler In the mill of the Wilcox Lumber compa ny, at Seville, exploded this morning at 5:15 with fatal results. The killed are S. Pillard, mayor of Seville; an Irish employe, name unknown, and four negroes. The explosion was felt for miles around. The cause is sup - posed to be the small supply of water in the boiler. Mayor Pillard was a watchman at the mill. He leaves a wife and three children. The part of the mill where the boiler was situated was completely destroyed. o : . TRADE IN PAPER. Plans to Help Business Are Under Consideration. NEW YORK, Dec. B.— Meetings of manufacturers of newspaper paper are being held in secret in this city. F. B. Fullerton, of the Manufacturers Paper company, said to a reporter of the Associated Press: "About a dozen manufacturers, realizing that their business was in a bad condition, ha.ye come together for the purpose of con sultation and adopting some arranere ments whereby the trade can be im proved. Several suggestions have been offered, but as yet no plan has been adopted. It is probable that the out come of these consultations will be the appointment of a committee which will consider all suggestions and advisa seme definite plan of action. When a definite plan is formulated. I shall have no hesitation in telling all about it." ♦ — School Burned. SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. B.— Tonasket In dian school, on the Colville reservation, was burned to the ground yesterday. The flre originated in the bathhouse, and some of the pupils were rescued with difficulty. The Tonasket school was built to acommedate 260 pupils, and was named after a famous Indian chief. added to the Bryan and Sewall votes in the states mentioned. Half a dozen states, includ ing New York and Minnesota, have not yet made their official canvass, but these wiil only make slight, changes In the totals. Seven or eight hundred votes may be thrown out in South Dakota because of Irregularities. This would give South Dakota to McKinley, and make the electoral college stand: McKinley, 275; Bryan. 172. If no South Dakota votes are thrown out, the electoral college will stand: McKinley, 271; Bryan, 176. McKin ley's popular plurality ii (83,854. price; two CENTs-] F^g»y g SIXTY REBELS SHOT MASSACRE OP INSURGENT PRISON ERS OX THE ISLAND OF LIZOJf. SPANISH TROOPS GUILTY. VICTIMS HAD SUCCEEDED I.\ ESCAPING FROM THE CAVITE FORTRESS. FOLLOWED BY BRUTAL SOLDIERS. Fnerlttve*, Overtaken in the Streets, Put to Death by the Punning Guards. MADRID, Dec. -• B.— Unofficial dis patches received here from Manilla announce a terrible massacre of in surgent prisoners on • the island of Luzon. It appears that a number of prisoners succeeded in escaping from the fortress of Cavite, the fortified seaport of Luzon. The fugitives were pursued by the troops, who overtook, shot and killed sixty of them in the streets. Others were recaptured. Gen. Blanco has resigned the gover nor generalship of the Philippines. HIS CREDENTIALS PRESENTED By the New British Ambassador to France. PARIS, Dec. B.— Sir Edmund J. Mon~ son, the newly appointed British am bassador to Prance, formally present ed his credentials, with military honors to President Paure today. President and Mme. Paure, with M. Hanotaux the minister for foreign affairs, and the military and civil household of the president, received the British embassy in the salon of the Elysee palace. Re plying to Sir Edmund Monson's -^x pression of Queen Victoria's friendly j feelings. President Paure said: i "I am greatly touched by your friend ly message, and beg you to convey to Queen Victoria my best wishes for herself and congratulations upon her long reign t the brilliancy and dura tion of which is a legitimate source of ! pride to England." After a eulogy of Sir Edmund Mon ; son's career, which the president said j was a guaranty of the fulfillment of I the expectations of the two govern ments, he added: "Sir Edmund Monson's words furnish new broof of the value the two coun tries have attached to the maintenance I in their relations of that frankness and L loyalty so necessary to the work of ! civilization and prosperity, which it is j the destiny of each to pursue. You may rely on my personal co-operation to assure the accomplishment of the mission confided to you." BARON DHANIS KILLED. He Did Not Escape Safely as Re- J ported. BRUSSELS, Dec. B.— lt is reported j that Baron Dhanis, who led the Anglo- Belgian movement against the Mah- I dists at the time of the Dongola ex- j pedition and who was said to have arrived safely at Lado, north of the I territory of the Congo Free State, in August last, has been killed in the I Congo after having been defeated by the dervishes. It is understood that he was preparing to move further north ward when the Anglo-Egyptian expedi tion pushed on from Dongola in the direction of Khartoum. Plague Spreading* NEW YORK. Dec. B.— A dispatch to tfie Herald from Bombay says: Eight hundred ! deaths are reported up to date from the plague, but the number is believed to be : much larger. Clyde Strike Spreading?. GLASGOW, Dec. B.— The strike of the Clyde seamen and firemen Is extending, and a determined attempt is promised for Thurs day to block the sailings of- the Anchor and Allan steamships. CONATY NOW RECTOR. Official Nctts of the Appointment Di rect From Rome. BALTIMORE. Md., Dec. B.— Cardinal j Gibbons has received from the pope ' an official registered letter, informing I his eminence that his holiness has ap- ! pointed the Rev. Thomas J. Conaty, of Worcester, Mass., reotor of the Catho lic university in Washington, to sue- I ceed the Right Rev. Bishop Keane. j Rev. Dr. Conaty has been advised of his appointment and is now the guest ' of the cardinal. The time at which the '> newly appointed rector will assume j his duties at the Catholic university will be announced later. Train W recking Attempted. WEBSTER CITY, 10., Dec. B.— An attempt to wreck a passenger train on the lowa Central railroad, near Latimer, was made last night. Iron rails were laid across the tiack. on the upper end of a curve, where they could not be seen from the engine until too near to stop. Engineer Swearlngen, with an extra freight, was just ahead of the pas senger, and his engine struck the obstruc tion, and the passenger train wag uninjured. Three suspicious looking characters have been loitering around the vicinity for some timo, and a posse is trying to find them. Robbery is supposed to have bam the motive. MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOOIETY. ■ — ... ,. SILVER |«!E|l BOLT OBDURATE! WESTERN SENATOR^ DECLINE TO ATTEND THE PARTY CAUCUS. THE DINGLEY BILL IS DROPPED seniors opposition to it die* VELOPBD AMONG THE REPUB LICAN LEADERS. BLUFF MADE AT BIMETALLISM, Special Committee to Consider a Plan for an International Mone tary Conference. WASHINGTON, Dec. B— The most no ticeable feature of the republican sen ate caucus which assembled today, as seen from the outside, was the absence of the men -vho had bolted the nomina tion of McKinley because of the gold standard platform. Those who were absent on this account were Senators Dubois, Pettigrew, Mantle, Cannon, Squire and Teller. All of these except Senator Teller were in the city, and could have attended if they had been so disposed. Indeed, seme of them were in their committee rooms in the capi tol while the caucus was in progress. That their absence was intentional, was clearly shown by the following let ter which Senator Dubois sent to the caucus and which was read Boon after the meeting was called to order by Senator Sherman: "United States Senate, Washington, D. C, December 8. To Hon. John Sharman, chair man caucus of republican senators, Washing ton. Sir: I hereby respectfully resign my position as secretary or the caucus of re publican senators. I also resign my position as a member and secretary of the republican advisory or "steering" committee of the sen ate. Very truly ycurs. "FRED T. DUBOIS." The bolters had all received invita tions which were sent them as if they had never left the party, but they had decided not to attend. They had found it impossible to "Communicate with Sen ator Teller, who has not yet reached the city, but all expressed confidence that if he had he would not have gone into the conference. If the bolting sil \erites were conspicuous by their ab sence, the silver men -who had re mained within the party were as a rul» exceptionally prompt in their attend ance. Senator Carter, who, while he refused to accept the Dingley tariff bill, yet refused to walk out of the St. Louis convention, was the second man to enter the caucus chamber, and he was followed closely by Messrs. Wol cott, Mitchell, Shoup, Hansbrougn, Cameron, Pritchard, Perkins and Clark, who heretofore have always voted for silver when the question was brought before the senate. There was no long speeches in the caucus, and very few speeches of any character. Senator Dubois' tender of his resignation was received without a word of comment. "We just closed up the ranks and marched on." said on« of the partici pants in referring to the Incident after the closing of the meeting. There was no formal motion to ac cept the resignation, but, taking its ac ceptance as a matter of fact. Senator Lodge moved the election of Senator Wilson in his stead, as secretary, while Senator Shoup was placed on the steer ing committee in the place vacated by his colleague. This committee was also enlarged by the addition of the name of Senator Hansbrough, of North Dakota, The Dingley tariff bill was referred | to the steering committee, with lnstruc- I tions to investigate as to the likeli hood of getting the bill through, and to devise means to amend if possible. It was the prevailing opinion that the best policy demanded the passage of the bill if possible to encompass it. but the opinion seemed quite general that this result was not within tha range of possibilities. The entire question was referred to tl c committee with very liberal powers. Seator Gear brought up the Pacific railroad question, as did Senator Lodge the immigration bill. The Pacific rail road bill was referred to the steering, committee, but after Mr. Lodge had ex plained the status of the immigration bill, the caucus desired to stand by that as a party measure, and to press for its early consideration. The cau cus also decided for an international agreement on silver, by agreeing to the following resolution introduced by- Senator Wolcott: Resolved that a special committee of flva members of this caucus be appointed to recom mend some plan whereby legislation may be had at this session of congress looking to an international conference with leading com mercial nations on the subject of bimetal lism. The action of the silver Republican senators in refraining from attendance upon the Republican caucus today ha 3 led to diiscussion as to whether the course pursued today is a forerunner of the future, or whether they will not in time return to the party. Some Republicans think it possible that the recalcitrant senators regard the day's meeting as merely preliminary and will come back into the fold after a time. The supposition is apparently without foundation or justification. The silver senators are very chary aibout discussing their motives or in tentions for the future. They decline to talk on the subject for publication, but from remarks dropped there can be no doubt they consider that they have attended their last Republican caucus. They say without exception, however, that in taking the position they have they do not mean to place themselves in the attitude of opponents of a pro tective tariff poHcy, but rather th*t they desire to be in an independent posl tion where they can accept or reject any tariff proposition presented by their former party associates. ANTI-TRUST CASE. Pooling: Right Argued Before the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON, Dec. B.— Tha su preme court today began the hearing of argument in the case of the United States against the Trans-Missouri Freight association, involving the anti trust law. The case originated in thr> district of Kansas, and was instituted by the government for the purpose of enjoining- the future execution of the, pooling agreement between eighteen railroads constituting the Trans-Mis souri association on the ground that tha pool was in violation of the anti trust law of 1890. The circuit court dismissed the bill and this decision was sustained by the circuit court of ap peals for the eighth circuit. The gov ernment then appealed to the supreme, court. Attorney . General Harmon opened the argument for his depart ment today. He made a strong ap-., peal for a construction of the law which would prohibit pooling by all competing lines, which he claimed waa the Intention of the statute with re spect to railroads. Lee Goes Back. WASHINGTON, Dec. B.— Consul General Lee called at the White house last evening, and said farewell to the president as he was about to start for his post, taking the first steamer from New York to Havana. It it understood that Mrs. Le« doe* not accompany the general to Cuba. •>• 1