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VOL. XX.— NO. 361.
BULLETIN OF
THr£ ST. PfHJl^ G^OBE,
MONDAY, DEC. 27, 1807.
Weather for Today-
Fair and Warmer.
PAGE 1.
6i>niiinr<lH Warlike In Their Talk.
Jtritish \\ .irsiiiit.H Off ( on'ii.
London Family Wiped Out.
Fierce Fight With Fire at Sea.
No Favor to Pension Bills.
l.ciii-r llaH Oatn Cornered.
Uncle Sinni After Part of Greenlnnd.
?ACE 2.
Itev. (o«ulll ■ ( lirislnuiM Sermon.
Martinelll at St. FraneiM de Sales.
Itev. ■'Itlil i-ii m'f Sermon.
PAGE 3.
Mlimeuiiolls Matters.
Henry Clews' Weekly Review.
PAGE 4.
Editorial.
Teachers lie-in toi Assemble.
Tliouiii* 11. Scott Resigns.
Tlieatrical Reviews.
PAGE S.
Pope'H Vnnif •limn Encyclical.
Day's Snorting EventN.
PAGE O.
Bright Plaid* Worn.
Species of Plants.
PAGE 7.
Oddities of London.
Light nine's Force Measured.
AVuuts of the People.
PAGE 8.
Chapters in Life of a Crank.
Passing? of a. Ml«»o>ari Village.
EVENTS TODAY.
ll«-t— Lost. Strayed or Stolen, R.IK.
Grand— A Black Sheep, 8.15.
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMSHIPS.
NEW YORK— Arrived: La Champagne,
Havre; Etruria, Liverpool; American, Am-
Bterdam.
LIVERPOOL— Arrived: Tauric, New York.
-QUEENSTOWN— SaiIed: Aurania, fioin
Liverpool, for New York.
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Every dog has his day, and It is very
much over twenty-four hours long in
the Klondike.
It is a toss-up as to which is the big
ger rascal, Senator Wolcott or the Re
publican party.
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Mr. Merriam has been appointed
pension agent at Chicago. His first
name is Jonathan.
It is pretty certain that the woman
■who had her stomach amputated will
have no stomach for solid food.
It is suspected that Mr. Wolfer's
young men have been using the c.ele
brated "guards back" play on the pris
oners.
The price of leather will probably go
up when the shoe men hear that Min
nesota has a boy of eighteen who wears
No. 24 boots.
Sor.ta Claus ran out of drums before
he had served all the little boys, for
which several score of fond fathers are
speechless with thanks.
The Republican gerrymander of Illi
nois is so manifestly unfair that the
Democrats will no doubt carry the
state at the next election in spite of it.
America is in truth the great wheat
market of the world. A mammoth
steamer has just taken 377,509 bushels
of wheat from Tacoma to North Africa.
Capt. Anson says he doesn't care
whether he plays ball or not. It has
been an open question for several years
whether he was playing ball or not.
Jersey City tried acetylene gas.
When those who were blown up the
other day get down, the town will take
a vote as to whether it likes gas or
not.
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A canvass of New York city shows
that every one of the 3,000 musicians of
that town is at work. What a noisy
old burg New York is getting to be, to
be sure.
West Virginia is resuming its old
place right alongside of Kentucky.
They had a husking bee at Hunting
ton the other day at which two men
were killed.
Not all the rascals by any means are
In politics. A man has just testified
that he received a fee of $50 for locating
the headquarters of the Modern Wood
men at Fulton, 111.
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Cecil Rhodes has a great head. He
keeps a diary in intricate cipher, and
before he shuffles off he can throw
away the cipher and thus prevent any
body from being bored with the diary.
A Chicago man went out and earned
the first wages he had had in three
years, and his wife bought an $18 bon
net with the money. There is more
than a December chilliness in that
family.
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Some people appear to be misunder-
Btanding Mr. Wolcott. He merely sug
gested resigning as a member of the
Republican party. He has not even
hinted at resigning his salary as a
United States senator.
A telegram all the way from London
announces that "Fussy," the fox ter
rier which has always accompanied Sir
Henry Irving on his travels, recently
fell through a trap door at the Man
chester theater and was killed. This
Item is important and appears to be
true.
The men who took the cake for econ
omy in 1597 were two Northern Kansas
editors, one of whom had lost his right
leg and the other his left. They
bought a pair of shoes the other day
end made each other a Christmas pres
ent, each giving the shoe to the other
that he needed.
m
F. H. Peavey, of Minneapolis, has
been asked to secure photographs of
the two most beautiful women in Min
nesota. Everybody i> »orry for Peavey
in a minute. If he makes the selec
tion, he will be hate* by every woman
in Minnesota except two, and if he
makes none he will It hated by even
these two. .
THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE.
WAP cmpQ 0F JolfN BULI
TTAIV JllllJ OFF CHEMULPO
England Emphasizing Its Disapproval of
Russia's Policy in the East.
DEMONSTRATION M/DE AGAINST COREA.
It Creates Consternation as it Is Known Japan Is
Only Awaiting a Chance to Imitate the Brit
on—Rumor That Landing Has Been
Made at the Mouth of the
Yangtse-Kiang.
LONDON. Dec. 27.— A special dis
patch from Shanghai says: It is re
ported that seventeen British warships
are off Chemulpo, Corea, southwest of
Seoul, supporting the British consul's
protest, really amounting to an ulti
matum against the king's practically
yielding the government of Corea into
the hands of the Russian minister. The
protest is especially directed against
the dismissal of McLeavy Brown, Brit
ish adviser to the Corean cusitoms, in
favor of the Russian nominee. The
news has produced consternation at
Seoul, which is heightened by the
knowledge that Japan has a fleet of
thirty ships awaiting the result of the
The Greatest Story of 1898 Will Be Printed in the
jK& El jipftfli dßSvfp B BB^i V tafi&tk r j oSw I j^frflEfi E'-PSh !£^aV
.Anna Katharine Green's
"LOST /WAN'S LANE"
Will begin in this paper Sunday, Jan. 2, and continue fifteen weeks. If you
miss it you will regret it.
British representation, which Japan
fully supports. Japan is irritated by
the arrival of Russian troops in Corea,
and it Is believed that she will oppose
them. According to advices from To
kio Japan has offered to assist the offi
cers at Pekin in drilling the Chinese
army and to consent to a postponement
of the war indemnity. Many of the
viceroys and Pekin officials favor the
proposal. According to a dispatch to
the Daily Mail from Shanghai, it is re
ported there, from reliable sources, that
a British force landed at Chemulpo on
Saturday and caused tha reinstatement
of McLeavy Brown. The same dis
patch refers to "a native rumor that
the Union Jack has been hoisted on
an island in the mouth of the river
Yangtse-Kiang." The Pekin corre
spondent of the Times says: "The
government refuses to place the Likin
under foreign control as security for
the loan proposed by the Hong Kong
and Shanghai bank, and asserts that
eßisis
IN JAPAN.
TOKOHOMA, Dec. 27.— Count Mat
soukata, the premier, and Admiral the
Marquis Saigo Tsugumichi, minister of
marine, have resigned. It is probable
that Marquis Ito will be the new
premier.
YOKOHAMA, Dec. 26.— The imperial
diet has been dissolved, before the housa
of representatives had started a dis
cussion of the motion of no confidence
In the cabinet. It is expected that there
will be several ministerial changes. The
Japanese diet was reopened on Monday
last with such a union of the three
chief political parties as to make it
cfrtaln that a vote of no confidence in
the government would be carried. On
Friday last the mikado, in the speech
from the throne, declared that the rela
tions of Japan with all the foreign pow
ers were friendly, though he made no
specific allusions to the complications
in China. He announced that the gov-
NO FAVOR TO PENSION BILLS.
They Will Have to Take Their Chances With
Other Private Claims in Congress.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— One thing
has been practically settled by the
leaders in the house of representatives;
and that is, that the Friday night ses
sions of the house shall be dispensed
with for the present. It has been one
of the rules of the national house of
representatives for many years that
Friday night sessions shall be regu
lerly held for the purpose of giving
consideration to private pension bills
and to no other business. Both polit
ical parties have agreed on this line of
policy, because the leaders of both po
litical parties have been seeking the
soldier vote in this manner. It is well
known that private pension bills can
have but little opportunity to receive
consideration during the day sessions
of the house, because national affairs
are always given precedence. The only
way to get private pension bills
through the house has been to have a
particular night set apart when no
other business could be taken up. But
all this is past. In the future the vet
erans who cannot get pensions through
the regular channels of the pension of
fice must take their chances of legisla
tion in competition with all others who
have claims against the government.
This conclusion has been reached as
part of a plan of economy. There Is
MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 27, 1897.
unless the loan Is procurable without
this condition arrangements will forth
with be made for a Russian guaranteed
4 per cent loan of 100,000,000 taels, to
be issued at 93 net. The se
curity would be the land tax,
which would remain under Chinese ad
ministration. China, in return, wou'.d
give Russia a monopoly of the rail
roads and mines north of the great
wall, open a port as a terminus of a
railroad (Trans-Siberian), and would
agree that a Russian should succeed
Sir Robert Hart as director of Chinese
Imperial maritime customs. If these
conditions should be permitted, British
trade interests would suffer severely."
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Times says: "The sloop Phoenix sailed
today (Sunday) under orders to Join
the British squadron. The utmost se
crecy is preserved with regard to the
latter's movements, but gossip here
suggests that its destination is Ta-
Lien-Wan."
ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 26.— 1t is
asserted that the newly formed Rusfo-
Corean bank will organize a company
to extend a railway to Port Arthur.
The Russian vice president of the East
ern Chinese railway will start for Man
churia in February to inspect proposed
variations of the route and to make
a final decision as to other matters.
BERLIN, Dec. 26.— An inspired Chi
nese organ published here says that
the Chinese emperor, in order to avoid
the reproach of having lost territory,
will lease Kiao-Chou to Germany in
perpetuity at a low rate with all the
rights of sovereignty that England ex
ercises at Hong Kong.
Attitude of the Diet Forces Pre
mier and Minister of Ma
rine to Resign.
ernment intended to submit fresh taxa
tion measures, the character of which
is now known to have united the three
chief political parties in opposition, and
to introduce a bill amending the codes,
civil and criminal.
POLITICAL CRISIS IN JAPAN.
Diet Dissolved and a New One Will
Be Chosen.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— A telegram
was received at the Japanese legation
this morning announcing that the diet
was formally opened by the emperor on
the 24th inst. A vote of no confidence
was proposed in the house of represent
atives and the diet was dissolved on
the 25th inst. This result is ascribed
entirely to domestic causes and is the
preliminary to new elections, as under
the constitution a new diet must be
convened within five months after the
dissolution of the old one.
no money In the treasury to meet the
expenses of government, unless the ex
penses shall be cut down. All of the
general appropriation bills are being
pared and thinned out; and all of the
claims of individuals are being set
aside. It is useless to make appropria
tions of money when there is no money
available.
This conclusion of the house leaders
will evoke a storm of criticism and con
siderable abuse. The veterans who be
lieve that they ought to get congres
sional pensions will claim that, as old
soldiers, they ought to have preference
over claimants. But that is question
able. There are men here vainly try
ing to secure hundreds of thousands of
dollars which the government has owed
them for supplies ever since the war.
But the government has no money with
which to pay these claims, or private
pension claims; and there is to be a
halt on appropriations.
—Smith D. Fry.
BARGE HELPLESSLY ADRIFT.
Crew of Fotar In a Perilous Situa
tion.
BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 26.— The tug
Carbonero, which arrived here today
with three barges in tow from Phila
delphia, was in a collision with an
unknown schooner on Nantucket shoals
Saturday night, during which the
schooner had her Jibboom carried
away. The schooner Is reported to be
In no immediate danger.
Tug C. B. Sanford, Capt. Pierce,
while coming around Cape Cod Satui
day night, towing barges Nay Aug and
Canisteo, lost the last named barge,
and up to a late hour tonight nothing
had been heard of the missing vessel.
The accident occurred between Nanset
and Cape Cod, and was caused, so
Capt. Pierce states, by a large foui
masted schooner passing between the
two barges, cutting the hawser and set
ting the Canisteo adrift. The tug was
unable to find the drifting barge, so
Capt. Pierce decided to tow the Nay
Aug across the bay to Boston Light,
where she was anchored, and the San
ford then returned in search of the
Canisteo. All day yesterday the tug
steamed about in the vicinity of where
she parted from the missing craft, but
to no avail, and when the thick snow
Bet in the Sanford returned to Boston.
The Canistoe is commaded by Capt.
Carl Rausch, of Hoboken, has a cargo
of 1,000 tons of coal, and carries a crew
of four men.
STILLWATER NEWS.
Robert Malloy, a well-known Stlllwater
logger and for years a member of the firm of
Malloy Bros. & McClure, died at his home in
this city early yesterday morning. Deceased
was born near New Castle, in the province of
New Brunswick, In 1832. and came to Still
water in 1853, since which time he has been
engaged in logging. He had a serious attack
o-f pneumonia about two years ago, from
which he never fullyrecovered. He was able
to be around town a»d to attend to his busi
ness affairs until a few weeks ago, when he
found It necessary to return to his room. He
was an estimable gentleman, and had a wide
circle of friends and acquaintances in this
city and the logging districts. The funeral
will be held from St. Michael's church, tomor
row morning.
County Attorney Manwaring has gone to
Davenport, 10., on a short visit.
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SHE FOLLOWS MISS HERBERT.
Society Girl of Washington Shoots
Herselt Through the Heart.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— The recent
tragic death of Miss Lelia Herbert, the
daughter of the ex-secretary of the
navy, is given as the reason for the
suicide which occurred today of Miss
Annie Virginia WeMs, an accomplished
young society woman, and daughter of
Lewis S. Wells, a well known attorney.
The young woman shot heiself through
the heart with her brother's revolver
at the residence of her father, 1311
N street northwest.
Miss Wells had met Miss Herbert a
number of times and was very much
CGRFfBR DF DfITS ON THE SIDE.
Leiter Springs Another Surprise on Chicago Speculators.
CHICAGO, Dec. 2C— Friday, which
will witness the close of the great
Leiter deal in wheat on the board of
trade, bids fair to prove a memorable
day in the trade. No great excitement
is expected In the wheat pit, but in
oats a squeeze of shorts may occur.
It is believed that Mr. Leiter has been
turning a trick on the trade in oats,
while everybody wa*> '"atching wheat.
For weeks the oats [ ; s been practi
cally deserted. Last.v, ek there was a
disagreeable surprise to the men who
had sold 6,000,000 bushels of oats for
December delivery when they learned
that no oats were being delivered. Then
they awoke to the fact that in all the
MIV IS WIPED IT.
Woman and Nine Children
Burned on Day of Her Hus
band's Deatb.
LONDON, Dec. 26.— A Mrs. Jarvis
and her nine children, the youngest a
baby, were burned to death at 5 o'clock
this morning In a four-room cottage
occupied by the Jarvis and two other
families in Dixie street, Bethnal Green,
London. The unfortunate family oc
cupied the upper floor. By a strange
coincidence Mr. Jarvis, the woman's
husband, who has been suffering from
consumption, died in the workhouse in
firmary this afternoon without having
heard of the disaster. Mrs. Jarvis
earned a scant livelihood by making
match boxes, and her rooms were filled
with inflammable material.
STRIKERS OFFER TERMS.
Believed That They Will Accept the
Present Scale for a Time.
FALL RIVER, Mass., Dec. 26.— The
strike feeling among the operatives to
night is not as strong as it was last
week. It is believed that careful con
sideration of existing conditions has
done mudh to change the sentiment.
The conference committee of the op
eratives, in which are representatives
of all the textile unions, held another
meeting tonight, when the wage ques
tion discussion was resumed. The
meeting adjourned subject to the call
of the committee's secretary.
The only information given out was
that a new proposition to the manu
facturers was unanimously adopted.
Its details were not divulged, and the
document is now In the mail for Secre
tary Rounzville.
A manufacturer tonight volunteered
the opinion that the new proposition
might offer an acceptance of the cut
down provided the present schedule
was restored when a margin of profit
to be mutually agreed upon shall war
rant such action. By this he meant
that the operatives will continue work
in hope of better times soon.
Died After an Operation.
ALBANY, N. V., Dec. 26.— John Cosgrave,
a well-known athlete, died in the city hospi
tal today after an operation for appendicitis.
He was a member of the New Jersey Athletic
club, the Ridgefleld Athletic c'.ub and the
Tenth battalion, A. A., r>f the national guard.
Cosgrave won the all-round athletic cham
pionship of America In 1595, and finishn* sec
-ODd to Clark, of Boston, In this year's com
petition. Cosgrave's work has always been
considered of the highest order, and in all-
attached to her. She herself had been
confined to the house for four months
by Illness, and this, combined with the
shock caused by the death of her
friend, brought on melancholia, which
resulted in suicide. The deed was ap
parently entirely unpremeditated, and,
coming immediately after Christmas
festivities in the house, completely
prostrated her aged mother. Miss
Wells was thirty-three years of age
and very beautiful.
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Fighting Fire at Sea.
Crew Have a Long Battle for
Their Lives.
ST. JOHNS.N. F., Dec. 26.— The Brit
ish steamer Lambert's Point, Capt.
Humphreys, seven days from Norfolk,
Va., for Liverpool, with cattle, cotton,
grain and a general cargo, has ar
rived here with her cotton on fire and
the ship in a bad state.
On Friday afternoon the fire was dis
covered in the compartment amidships.
It gained headway rapidly. Holes were
cut In the cabin flooring, pipes in
serted and the compartment flooded
with steam and water. The captain
headed the vessel for this port, and
for forty hours nobody rested, all
hands battling the fire, which, stead
ily gaining, spread to the fore com
partment.
It then became necessary to flood
this, which gave the ship a list of 17
deg. to the starboard. She met ter
rible weather in trying to reach here.
Her sides and deck were almost un
bearable with heat, and the provis
ions were spoiled by steam and smoke.
The paint is now pealing off the Bides,
while gangs of men are landing the
cattle, almost maddened with heat.
Capt. Humphreys admits that he
could not have controlled the flro
twenty-four hours longer. Holes are
being cut in her sides to admit more
steam pipes, in the hope of having the
fire subdued by Tuesday, when the
cotton will be discharged until the
seat of the fire is reached.
VERY GOOD WIRE PULLERS.
Fixing Ip a Neat Scheme far a Wire
Trust.
CLEVELAND, 0., Dec. 26.— There Is
talk among steel men of a further ex
tension of the scope of the new wire
trust. It is now said that efforts will
be made to induce all the steel billet
mills in the country to ally themselves
with the trust, not as members, but
as contributors. The trust will seek to
induce the manufacturers of billets to
promise not to sell to wire manufac
turers that may possibly start outside
of the trust, and in return the trust
will promise to take billets from all
these manufacturers as it may need
them. The object of this is to keep the
billet makers in good humor and pre
vent their going into the wire business
themselves. These who are closest to
the sources of information express the
utmost confidence in the carrying
through of the plans for the forma
tion of the trust, and it may be said
that all the negotiations are progres
sing favorably.
Chicago elevators oats measured but
950,000 bushels of the contract grades.
It was Wednesday when they made I
ma
the discovery. The price of December
oats was then 20% c. On Friday the
market closed at 22% c. A cent ad- !
vance in oats is as good as 4 cents I
or 5 cents in wheat. It is too late to |
rush in a supply to meet the calls j
which will be made for the grain at •
the close of business on Friday. Those j
who have not delivered the grain ac- \
cording to contract will be called upon j
to settle at the closing price. The sit- j
uation has all the elements of a
squeeze.
round work in the athletic field and the sack
he had few superiors.
LOG ON THE TRACK
Caused an Accident Near II i M>l im —
Three Pa»HengeFS Hnrt.
Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Minn. .Dec. 26.— The mixed
freight and passenger train, known as
No. 7, on the Duluth, Messabe &
Northern road, met with a serious ac
cident Friday afternoon near Hibbing.
A log fell off of a flat car, owing to a
loose stake, and in falling it struck a
switch standard, tearing it out and de
railing five cars, including two refrig
erator and the passenger car. In the
latter were ten passengers, and three
were more or less injured. The train
was running twenty miles an hou«-,
and it is considered fortunate that the
cars did not take fire, as stoves were
operated in the passenger and refrig
erator cars.
PEARY IS PLEASED.
Says He Will Start for the Arctic*
Early In the Sprint?.
NEW YORK, Dec. 26.— A dispatch to
the World from Washington says:
Lieut. R. E. Peary, the Arctic ex
plorer, who returned from England on
the St. Paul, immediately upon his ar
rival in New York took a train for
Washington. Lieut. Peary, when seen
by a reporter tonight, was enthusiastic
over his reception in England, and the
gift to him by Alfred C. Harmsworth,
the wealthy Englishman, of the Wind
ward, a fine ship, which the explorer
will use in his trip to the Arctic regions
next year. Mr. Harmsworth also fur
nished funds for the expedition. Lieut.
Peary said that the Windward would
be sent to New York early in the
spring, and that he would start North
the latter part of July. Lieut. Peary
started for New York tonight to finish
work on his narrative, which is in
the publisher's hands.
HAD A CAR TO HI3ISELF.
Bear Rides Into Milwaukee in Great
State.
MILWAUKEE, Wls., Dec. 26.— A
huge cinnamon bear which was shipped
by express from Leavenworth, Kan.,
to Baraboo, Wis., escaped from its
crate in the express car at Western
Union Junction on the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railroad, yesterday,
while en route to its destination. The
express messenger was driven from the
car, the bear taking complete posses
sion, devouring packages of apples and
candy and destroying way-bills. When
the train arrived In Milwaukee it t»ok
ten men to secure the vicious animal.
PRICE TWO CENTS— I ffrggiVS.
IT AGITfITES THE DDH.
General Woodford's Latest Note Causes a
Sensation in Diplomatic Circles
in fladrid.
Spanish Press Talks
War.
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American Pretensions as Set Forth in the Note Re
sented—Report That Claim Has Been Hade
By the United States for Indemnity of Over
$8,000,000 for Losses Suffered by Americans
in Cuba.
MADRID, Dec. 26.— Today's Impar
cial urges that, in view of the char
acter of the reply of United States
Minister Woodford to the note of the
Spanish government, in answer to the
first communication of the American
government through him, it is neces
sary to increase the Spanish fleet as
against the eventuality of a conflict
with the United States.
El Heraldo says: "The encroach
ments of the United States upon the
Internal politics of Spain have become
intolerable and must be resisted ener
getically. The situation is difficult,
but, at whatever cost, the government
ought to put an end to a shameful
state of affairs for the sake of the dig
nity of Spain."
LONDON, Dec. 27.— The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says: Gen.
Woodford's note dwells at length upon
the Spanish complaint against filibus
tering and other moral and material
assistance given in the United States
to the insurgents, which the Washing
ton government reasserts it has done
all in its power to check, with the view
also of satisfying the representations
made by Spanish diplomacy. The Ma
drid papers say the note is so very
friendly and so laudatory of the pres
ent home rule policy in Cuba and Porto
Rico that there is a general impression
in official circles that the relations be
tween the two governments have a
decidedly reassuring aspect. At the
same time the papers of every shade
of opinion, including the ministerial or
gans, censure very sharply the conduct
of the United States government, and
are unanimous in saying that all the
compliments the United States pays
the new Spanish colonial policy can
not make a proud nation tolerate the
pretension of a foreign government to
have- the right to criticise and con
demn the conduct of Spanish generals
and of the late Spanish government in
dealing with the rebellion.
They equally resent the American
pretension to interfere in the Spanish
West Indies, which is so repeatedly
claimed in the notes and the presi
dential message, and, mure recently, in
Secretary Sherman's advocacy of iviii-f
for distressed Cubans. The press is
most dissatisfied with the Woodford
note on account of the arguments used
to refute the Spanish complaint*
against filibustering. America la
charged with Interfering in all the
rules and usages of International law
in order to suit the aims of its en.
croaching policy in th»" West [ndies.
It is an open secret that the note
has caused surprise and displeasure In
official circles, because the government
had hoped that President McKinley
and Secretary Sherman would refrain
from increasing the embarrassments of
the situation in Spain in consideration
of all the concessions already made to
Cuba.
The government will dflay replying
to the note for several weeks, as th^
United States took nearly two months
to reply to the Spanish note. When it
does reply Senor Sagasta will rebut
the arguments of the note in a friendly
but firm tone. The government cannot
longer risk the accusation of not beiny
in touch with national feeling, which
Is getting very weary of American in
terference. The Spaniards think the
note gives them an excellent opportu
nity to reply to criticism which natu
rally could not be challenged or no
ticed diplomatically when set forth
only in the presidential message.
The Madrid correspondent of the
TWEE.DL.E-D&E fIND TWEEDLEDUM.
Special Cable Service to the Pioneer
Press.
(Copyright, 1897, by James Gordon
Bennett.)
HAVANA, Dec. 2o.— The Christ
mast saturnalia were brought to a
close by a serious riot, which was
quelled by the police, who used
their swords. In afrordance with
their custom, the Spanish popula
tion gathered last night in the
Parque Central to celebrate Christ
mas by dancing and singing songs
peculiar to the various provinces of
Spain. A.most all were armed with
knives and clubs, fights being fre
quent between groups from different
provinces. A large force of po'.lce
was present, but there was no in
terference with the festivities until
about i o'clock, when most of the
crowd became frenzied from drink
ing, and hostile cries were rais d.
"Death to Americans!" "Down with
autonomy!" "Down with Blanco!"
"Viva YVcyler!" "Viva Los Volun
tarios!" were some of the cries.
Then the police closed in and a
squadron of mounted gendarmes,
drawn up In front of the Gr-rman
club, charged with drawn sabers.
A panic ensued, the mob. in which
were many women, fleeing in every
direction, but the crowd was hemmed
In on all sides by the police, mount
ed and afoot, who struck out siv
agely with their swords. This con
tinued until the mob was thorough
ly cowed, many being wounded, and
then the police formed a cordon
around the square and proceeded to
make prisoners of the ring'eaders of
the demonstration. Two hundred
prisoners were marched to the pre
fectura. Among them were many
officers of the volunteers. On four
of the officers were found bundles
of circulars declaring Spain's honor
had been compromised by granting
autonomy, and calling on all loyal
Spaniards to resist to the utmost.
Copies or these circulars were found
scattered in the streets this morn
ing.
Says Uncle Sam Is
Meddlesome.
Dally Mail says: Gen. Woodford'g *
note differs greatly from the first ho
presented, and contains several state
ments that should be refuted. It Is in
spired, on the whole, by the sentiments
pervading President McKlnley's mes
sage. Senor Gullon, the minister of
foreign affairs, will reply traversing
the points raised.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.— Secretary
of State Sherman was seen tonight re
garding a story cabled from Madrid to
the effect that the United States had
demanded of Spain $5,000,000 Indemnity
to American traders for damages sus
tained through the rebellion in Cuba,
The secretary stated that If any such
demand had been made he had not
heard of it. Judge Day, assistant secre
tary of state, sahij "So far as I know
there is absolutely nothing In the story.
Seme one may have attempted to foot
up all the individual claims that have
luen filed, but even on that supposition
I should not attempt to say their esti
mate was correct,"
COQIKTTIXG WITH (iEU.MAXS.
IliniMi. lliiim,.i<-is the Oflloei-H of One
of the Kaiser*! Ship*.
HAVANA, Dec. 26.— Tonight Capt.
Gen. Blanco gave a baJiquet to the of
ficers of the German corvette Stein.
Forty guests were present, including
th." Spanish admiral, the mayor of Ha
vana and other naval and civic au
thorities.
Congressman William Henry King, of
Utah, has arrived here.
Cooling Sion oi im Pols.
United States Is Said to Be
After Ons.
LONDON, Dec. 27.— A dispatch from
Copenhagen to the Daily Mail
the Washington executive has made
overtures to Denmark for the salt- of ;t
narrow but carefully defined Btretch
of land in Northwestern Greenland,
where the Americans intend to estab
lish naval and coaling stations.
LONDON.Dec. 27.— The Dally Chron
icle this morning ridicules the notion
that England is negotiating for the
purchase of the Danish West Indies,
It says: Quite apart from the breai h
It would make In our relations with
the United States, the purchase of
more West Indian islands Is the very
last thing England would think of."
LUCKI M'MTT.
Will dot a Bride With n f^0.000.000
Fortune.
CHICAGO, Dec. 26.— A special to tin;
Times-Herald from Richmond, Indl.,
Bays: The engagement is annoi.
of Miss Margaret Van Courtland < >«
den. of New York, and Prank McNutt,
of this city. Miss Ogden is said to l»;
worth $20,000,000. Tin- wedding is an
nounced for Jan. 4. Mr. McNuti was
a member of the American legation at
Rome under Minister Albert G. Por
ter.
Froaea Mrut for Bn««lan«.
MELBOURNE Der. 26.— The Kovornmcnt
of Nfw South Wales is arranging to lupply
frozen meat to the Russian aut:
Vladivcstock.
Associated Press Dispatch to the
Globe:
HAVANA, Dec. 25.— As is «-usto
mary here on Christmas eve, large
crowds of Spaniards assr ml>l< d in
Central park and indulged in dan<
lng, singing and other forms of
amusement. A large number of
those present, becoming Intoxicated,
began to make demonstrations and
shout "Viva Weyler," "Viva Es
rana," "Viva union constiutional,"
"Down with autonomy," and other
cries. The po'ice were Bumm<>n<d,
and, upon their arrival, ordered the
crowd to disperse. No attention was
paid to their orders, and, the offi
cers being reinforced, guards were
stationed in ali the avenues In the
vicinity of the park. In th
while the groups in the park con
tinued their shouting and demonstra
tion, compelling the cavalry, a de
tachment of which had been sum
moned to the scene, to charge upon
them, saber in hand, and disperse
them. Several of the poli'
slightly injured by stones thrown by
the populace. Eight arrests were
made, but no shots were fired.