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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota— Snow flurries and warmer
Monday; Tuesday partly cloudy; fresh
northeasterly winds.
lowa— Snow flurrie.* and warmer Mon
day; Tuesday partly cloudy; fresh north
easterly winds.
North Dakota— Warmer and partly
cloudy Monday; Tuesday fair; variable
winds.
South Dakota— Warmer and partly
cloudy Monday; Tuesday fair; variable
winds.
Montana — Fair Monday, with warmer
in extreme eastern portion; Tuesday fair;
variable winds.
Wisconsin— Warmer, with snow flurries
Monday; Tuesday warmer, with rain or
snow; winds shifting to fresh northeast
erly.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterday's observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau, St. Paul.
P. F. Lyons observer, for the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
Barometer corrected for teroperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature 9
Lowest temperature — 11
Average temperature —1
Daily range 20
Barometer 30.17
Humidity 72
Precipitation 0
7 p. m.. temperature 7.8
7 p. m., wmd, north; weather, partly
cloudy.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
*BpmHigh *BpmHlgh
Battleford ... 6 8 Boston 14 36
Bismarck ... 4 4 Cheyenne 26 44
Calgary 32 44 Cincinnati ....12 15
Duiuth 4 8 Cleveland ....14 14
Edmonton ... 26 32 Denver 40 54
Havre 36 40 Galveston ....68 64
Helena 38 42 Jacksonville .44 48
Huron 6 12 Montgomery .40 44
Med. Hat .... 38 40 New Orleans.6o 64
Minnedosa ..—2 —2 New York ... .14 16
P. Allifit ... 2 4 Omaha 16 16
Qu'Appelle ..—2 4 Philadelphia .16 17
S. Current .. 22 30 PfEtsburg 12 12
WllHston ....12 1* Pueblo 56 62
Winnipeg ....—2 2 St. Louis 20 20
Buffalo 8 8
♦Washington time (" p. m. St. Paul).
—Below zero.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1900.
THE END IN KENTUCKY.
Since the return to his senses of the
present occupant of the office of governor
of Kentucky, as indicated by hia bring
ing to an end the armed despotism which
he so long maintained in that common
wealth, the public interest in the progress
of events In that state has been reduced
to a minimum. The belief prevails that
the matters in dispute will be peacefully
adjusted; and naturally enough there Is
no substantial interest maintained by the
American people outside of the state af
fected in the result on party political for
tunes. ■■
WMfe the Democrats from the outset
have acted the part of peaceful and law
abiding men, and their political opponents
have resorted to every form of public
crime, from bribery and corruption to
assassination and official usurpation, both
sides have been naturally held responsible
for the disgraceful scenes which happily
have at last been brought to an end. The
Globe felt calted on to sustain the
claims of its party associates throughout,
save so far as they were made to rest on
the palpable unfairness of the so-called
Gocbel law; and public sentiment through
out the country sustained the representa
tives of Gov. Beckham in all that was
done or attempted on both sides since the
assassination of Mr. Goebel. But the feel
ing was general, and still so remains,
that something more is needed to the
honor of Kentucky's people than any
mere declaration as to the right or wrong
of the contending claimants.
It is gratifying to observe that the lat- v
. est aspects of this unfortunate contest
show the good sense of all concerned.
Since Ihe decision of Judge Taft an agree
ment has been reached by the attorneys
for the contestants for oißce whereby all
the existing suits for injunction and oth
erwise have been consolidated, and will
have the promptest hearing by the cir
cuit court of Jefferson county, and, on
appeal, by the highest court of the state.
Whatever the decision may be the de
feated party is then at liberty u> have
recourse to the supreme court of the
United States, and all the matter in dis
pute will thus have been passed upon
finally and irrevocably. By the decision
reached in the last instance all the par
lies have further agreed to abide, Taylor
holding the office of governor unless or
dered to vacate by the state courts.
It will require but a few weeks at most
before the courts of Kentucky have de
tided the questions at issue, and as every
thing will be done to hasten their de
:ision, as well as the decision of the Unit
•d States supreme court, should an appeal
De taken, the controversy may now be re
gaided as at an end.
But the duty of the officials of Ken
tucky is not ended by any means. The
Eountry waits to see whether, the possi
bility of such a disgraceful state of af
fairs will continue to exist, or whether
steps will be taken to produce such a
condition of public sentiment in the state
»s will put an end to the dominion of the
assassin and bravo in political and social
life. We may not expect the half-wild
mountaineers, whose presence In Frank
fort was the maJn operating cause to
Goebel's assassination, to change their
natures; but every one can expect to
see public authority assert itself so as
to put an end to the brutal practice now
universal in Kentucky of going armed
'about the most ordinary transactions of
life. This must be done by the people
themselves, acting through their authori
ties. If it is not done, Kentucky will re
tain its present reputation of being the
most lawless state in the Union, and Its
people bear the stigma of being a race of
murderers and assassins.
A Chicago newspaper has cone to the
trou'uie of compiling a schedule of tha
prices that Kansas City will charge for
co-ta during the Democratic convention.
This may be a reminiscence of the
World's Fair, or it may only be a case of
envy.
If any general were ever In need of a
war expert it is Cronje. One of those
London gentlemen would soon figure him
out of his present predicament. A Berlin
telegram would do equally well.
>^to_ —
THE GRIM HUMOR OF IT.
The humors of the position into which
the imperialist brethren have forced
themselves are daily making themselves
additionally plain. Even the grim process
of robbery and spoliation about to be in
augurated on the defenseless people of
Puerto Rico is bringing the absurdities of
American imperialism into the fore
ground.
While the senate is engaged in estab
lishing the need of free trade In Ha«
waii, the imperialists in the house have
been struggling against heavy seas to
show that free trade with Puerto Rico
would be a most violent blow to domestic
manufacture and to the suffering agri
culturalists of the country. All is game
which comes to the imperialist net. While
we set steel traps in our islands in the At
lantic, we catch our bird in the Pacific
by gently dropping salt on his tall.
What an ennobling spectacle it will be
to hear grave and reverend imperialist
senators like our own Messrs. Nelson
and Davis, for instance, making consti
tutional arguments on the Hawaii meas.
ure establishing the right of the people of
one of our '/possessions" to be admit
ted to the Union, and to enjoy all the
advantages of the constitutional system
of free trade between all portions of thft
United States, including Alaska, and, tho
following week, showing with equally
convincing force that so far as the Puer
to Ricans are concerned we can, under tha
constitution, there inaugurate alliiorts
of political abominations, such as the sup.
piession of free speech, of trial by jury,
and of a free press, and make them con
tribute to the sustalnment of our swad
dl:ng industrial infants by imposing on
their products any "protection" we
please, without iegard even to the "fa
vored nation" clause! And this is a sit
uation, not the product of fancy or of
unfair party political disc»«aJon, but a liv
ing, red-handed reality.
It is all a part of the system of "be
nevolent assimilation." We so have it
on the authority of our Sunday-go-to
meeting president. For did he not pre
face his statement that we might work
our sweet will on the Puerto Ricans by
the declaration that his policy is a dis
tinctively "benevolent" one? It may b*
an extremely benevolent .uea that the
descendants of the slayers of Capt. Cook,
of the cannibals of the Sandwich Islands,
are perfectly qualified to become citizens
of the United States, while the descend
ants of Columbus and Ponce de Leon and
their followers are to be treated as na
tional waifs and stray?, unqualified and
unfitted even for civil liberty, but the
benevolence of such a view is of about
the same moral order as- is the religion
which has our president and the members
of his cabinet photographed as they
emerge from the White house, and then
has the photographs published through
out the press of the country as depicting
these gentlemen on their way to church.
While the Filipino insurgentg hold our
army of occupation at bay, we at one and
the same time declare them to be out.
side the usages of war, mere guerrillas
that may be shot or hanged when caught,
and then busy ourselves in the forma
tion of another peace commission to send
to their land!
What wonder is it under such circum
stances that the entire civilized world
looks upon us as a nation of benevolent
pirates, who preach freedom or firearms,
as may best suit our 'schemes of plunder
and oppression of weaker peoples?
A CHINESE VIEW OF EXPANSION.
The Chinese minister to the United
States is an exceedingly affable gentle
man named Wu Ting Fang. Mr. Fang
was the principal orator at a Washing
ton's birthday celebration held in Phila
delphia, and among other things said by
him was this:
"As the recognition of the 'open door'
in China by the great powers has recently
been brought about by your government
the question now arises whether it 13 not
time for this country to extend the Mon
roe doctrine to Asia. The Philippine
islands are situated on the outskirts of
Asia and may be said to be at the door
of that continent. The Monroe doctrine
being the fixed .policy of your government,
the natural logic is that it should be ap
plied to that part of the world where
this country has possessions. This policy
is by no means a selfish one. but as l
have already remarked. Is founded on jus
tice and self-protection, and if persistent
ly carried out it will tend greatly to the
preservation of peace wherever it is en-
I forced."
It might be supposed by the casual read
ing of the above that this eminent China
man does not fully comprehend the scope
and meaning of the Monroe doctrine, or
that this part of his speech was strongly
tinged with humorous sarcasm. But Mr.
Wu Ting Fang is a great student and a
diplomat of distinguished ability. He
probably has a more thorough under
stand of what is meant by and involved
in the Monroe doctrine than nine out of
ten American citizens, and it is clearly
apparent that this part of his address is,
and probably was intended as a rebuke
to the expansionist ideas and policy of
President Mcinley and his advisers.
His reference to "the open door" in
China recalls the fact that, in the midst
of the bragging and blowing of trumpets
by Secretary Hay over the alleged recog
nition by the great powers of Europe of
the "open door," Mr. Wu Ting Fang in
his affable way drew attention to the fact
that the United States government had
neglected to mention the matter to China,
the party of the first part, the inference
being that without the consent of China
any concessions made by European pow
ers were valueless simply because they
conveyed no title; that they were, In fact,
merely quit-claims, of a contingent In
terest.
Now Mr. Wu Ting Fang, in his inno
cent Chinese way, asks if it is not time
for the United States to extend the
Monroe doctrine to Asia, and he sapiently
draws attention to the fact that the Mon
roe doctrine Is a fixed policy of this gov
ernment, and, as It must extend to all pos
sessions of the United States, it necessar
ily must embrace the Philippine islands.
It is barely possible that Mr. Fang may
not have been sincere when he described
the Monroe doctrine as unselfish and
founded on justice and aelf-protectlon,
and that if persistently carried out it will
tend to the preservation of peace "where
cver it is enforced." It is probable ihat
THE ST. PAUIr GtrOBE, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1900.
when he uttered this last phrase Mr.
Fang metaphorically "winked the other
eye."
But, whatever may be the meaning of
the Chinese minister's speech and his in
tention in saying what he did, he cer
tainly succeeds in presenting the expan
sion policy In a hew light and in sug
gesting its utter incongruity with the tra
ditional and constitutional policies of the
United States.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.
The decision of the supreme court of
Illinois in the action brought by the In
ter Ocean company against the Associat
ed Press is to be regarded, for the pres
ent, at least, as possessing much import
ance to newspaper publishers within that
state.
The Inter Ocean is a member of the As
sociated Press. That is to say, it has, or
had, the right to secure the press reports
of that concern for daily publication. But
one of the rules of the association pre
vents its members from receiving press
reports from any other agency antag
onistic to it. This rule the Inter Ocean
did not choose to observe, with the result
that it was excluded from receiving there
after the reports of the defendant con
cern. Suit was brought by the Inter
Ocean to compel the delivery of news »3
usual. The lower courts decided against
the Inter Ocean, on the principle that,
having violated its own contract with thj
association in patronizing a hostile news
agency, it was in the position of seek
ing equity while refusing to do equity.
These decisions have been overturned,
and the supreme court has decided that
any newspaper in the Associated PreH3
can obtain news from any other source
whatever, and, also, that the Associated
Press must furnish its new 3to all ap
plicants on equal torms. This is, in effect,
that it is in the nature of a common car
rier for hire.
This is a far-reaching decision. Its pos
sible effect will be to produce an entire
change in the prevailing methods of news
collection and disposition. Within the
state in which it has been rendered it
remains absolute, no appeal to the fed
eral courts being possible, since each of
the parties to the suit is an Illinois cor
poration. But similar actions are pending
in other states against the Associated
Press, and whatever the earlier decisions
are in such cases, an appeal will be tak
en to the United States supreme court,
and the questions at issue will be settled
finally, and will apply to the business of
news collecting all over the country.
The Associated Press has been able to
maintain its ascendency by reason of its
superior enterprise and the perfection of
its news-gathering system. If the field
of competition is to be thrown wide open,
as the Illinois decision indicates will be
the case, the organization will not neces
sarily be seriously affected. News gath
ering is in no sense a privilege or a mo
nopoly. That organzatlon which can do
the work beat will, in any event, secure
tho business. If the Associated Press
doe.-? not rise to the occasion of being, a3
it has been for many years past, the best
equipped news agency in the country, it
cannot survive. The great dailies must
have the most complete system of news
service possible. It does not matter much
to them where they get the news, so long
as they are able to furnish it to their
readers. Every daily paper of any pre
tensions whatever spends large sums each
month in furnishing its readers with the
news from independent sources. If, in
supplying the general news of current
events, the Associated Press is not able
to maintain its superiority to all other
kindred organizations, its place will ba
speedily taken by some more perfect or
ganization, no matter whether the Illi
nois decision is or is not upheld at Wash
ington.
AT THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN.
Now and again word has floated west
ward that "Arizona," one of the few
new plays of the season, is better than
"Alabama," more true to life than "In
Mlzzoura." The large audience that wit
nessed its opening last night at the Met
ropolitan will heartily indorse the state
ment. And to excel "Alabama" means
a great deal.
"Arizona" is the most consistently sus
tained in its equilibrium and rounding
out of character portrayal of any play
that has visited St. Paul this season.
With the exception of the villain and hi 3
victim, all the women are pure and all
the men with hearts of oak. It is for
tunate, too, in the line of its presenta
tion, for it succeeds "The Sign of the
Cross," drenched as is that piece of dra
matic decadence with Babylonish immor
ality, ghastly superstition and maudlin
sentiment. It is a play into which a j
Western audience, particularly, can enter
heart, soul and sympathy into all Us de
tails. It is a play in which virtue is tha
test: honor the soldier's watchword. It
is a play overflowing with human nature
—the rock foundation of the greatest suc
cessful dramas in any age. And, more
than all th4s, it Is a play of lifelike ac
tion, superbly staged, and presented by
a cast eminently satisfactory in the
smallest detaii.
This crowning effort in the mertto-.ious
dramatic work of Augustus Thomas is
out for its first season. In Chicago for
many weeks it played to splendid busi
ness. It carries a story of woman's fit
ful lapse to the brink of dishonor and her
rescue by one of the Chevalier Bayard
type of heroes. Estella Bonham, wife of i
the colonel of the Eleventh United States j
cavalry, has been raised a rancher's j
daughter, and schooled in the lively city
of San Francisco. The narrow horizon
of her life at an army pbst becomes irk
some. Through the perverseness of
woman's nature— ■'better appreciated, per
haps, by her sister woman— she imagine
herself In love with a Capt. Hodgman,
of her husband's regiment. An elopement
is planned. On the eve of Its success shj
is saved by the daring act of Lieut. Den
ton, who, like the hero of "The Galley
Slave," falls a victim to unjust suspicion
by Col. Bonham. The latter demands hl3
resignation from the army unless Denton
can explain his presence In the room of
the wife. To explain means the incrim
ination of Mrs. Bonham. Instant resigna
tion is the only way out of the difficulty,
and Dentoa rises to the occasion and
makes the sacrifice. This, however, is
but the threshold of trouble. Denton love 3
the sister of the colonel's wife, Bonita
Canby. To her comes the plauslble^Capt.
Hodgman; and vilifies the name of her
lover, even accusing him of the very
crime of which he alone is guilty.
A faint shadow of this complexity Is to
be traced in "We 'Uns of Tennessee." In
"Arizona," the situation is many fold
more graphic. Lena Keller, the victim
of Capt. Hodgman, has a lover in the
person of Tony Mostano, a vaquero. To
him Lena has confided her secret, and,
"Some time I meet him; he go to hell,"
says Tony. Stung by the taunts of Capt.
Hodgman, Lieut. Denton wipes the cheek
of the villainous officer, and two shots
are fired. From the effects of one Hodg
man falls mortally wounded. The vaquero
has kept his word, but Denton is accused,
arrested and court-martialed for the
crime. The confession and flight of Tony
save his life. The confession of Estella
Bonham saves his honor, and leaves him
the accepted lover of Bonita and a half
owner In Aravalpa ranch.
Some of the characters of Capt. Charles
King's novels seem to have stepped out
from between the covers of the book and
to be walking on the stage.
Of the cast, each one is an artist.
Henry Canby, by Mr. Theodore Roberta,
is presented with- a fidelity to the charac
ter of a wealthy Western rancher that
won hearty applause , from a most ap
preciative audience, Holt, as Col.
Bonham, and Vincent, Serrano, as Lieut.
Denton, are comrades' in choice bits of
dramatic fidelity as they are comrades
at arms in the.. story of the play. The
Capt. Hodgman of Mr. George Nash was
a well and equably sustained piece of
villainy. He is tKe modern lago devoid
of all the "Htst! woman, I have thee In
me power!" rant.
Miss Jane Taylor, t)ie Estella Bonham
of "Arizona," needs no flattery at a crit
ic's hand. She portrayed the hesitating,
weak, yet repentant woman of modern
life. This is what is demanded of her
part, and she disappointed no one. Miss
Eleanor Robson^ as Bonita Canby, im
proved all her opportunities, and in so
elaborate a production as "Arizona" they
are numerous.
Through the incidental pathos of the
play run some threads of comedy that
were picked up and deftly woven Into a
web of fun by George O'Donnnell, as Dr.
Fenlon, and Miss Mattie Earle, as Mrs.
Canby.
The audience was large and enthusias
tic. In one box were seated the princi
pals of "The Sorrows of Satan," includ
ing Charles Kent; from another Otis
Skinner and Walker Whiteslde witnessed
the play. "Arizona" will be seen all the
week, with the usual Wedneseday and
Saturday matinees. — R. F. S.
GRAND.
Patrons of the Grand opera house last
night witnessed a thoroughly good per
formance of Gillette's famous play, "Se
cret Service." With the managers who
have handled the play the question has
not been one of the play itself, but rather
one of securing talent to give the play
an interpretation that would do justice to
its great effective forces. Those who
have seen the best presentations of
"Shenandoah" saw in it more mechanical
effects, but the thread of Interest is no
stronger or more continuous in "Shenan
doah" than in "Secret Service." "Shen
andoah" Is more sombre and has not the
continuous vein of comedy through it that
lightens the tense situations and serves to
prevent the oppression incident to pro
longed high nerve tension.
"Secret Service" is a war story. The
scene Is in Richmond/ Va., the few hours
before the capitulation of the Confederate
capital to the besieging Union forces. The
principal characters are Edith Varney,
jlaughter of a prominent Confederate gen
eral, who meets; and falls in
love with Lewis Duraont, attached
to the federal secret service, who
Is in Richmond disguised as a
Confederate Capt. Thorne. The part of
Capt. Thorne la taken by William B.
Smith as tne leading man. Benton Ar
resford, attached to -the Confederate se
cret service at Richmond, who haa been
rejected by Miss Vanney, is played by
Frank Rolleston; Marlon Chllders takes
the comedy role, of Caroline Mitf ord, a
sweet sixteen-year-old daughter of the
Confederacy, who furnishes all of the
comedy there is , in the play.
The plot of the. play, is the discovery of
the work of the federal secret service
agent, who Is arrested by his brother. Ar
resford conducts the investigation and
discovers enough to warrant the arrest
of the spurious Capt. Thorne, who,
through the efforts of Miss Varney, has
been given a commission in charge of the
war department telegraph lines. Thorne,
acting as a secret service agent for tha
Union forces, corrupts servants in the
employ of the Varney family. His brother
Is a prisoner of war at LJbby and a negro
servant carries secret dispatches between
the brothers.
The servant is arrested, and one of tha
messages found iij hia- possession. Arres
ford Informs Mrs.. A r arn.sy an.l her daugh
ter that Thorne Is a federal spy. and an
dertakoa to prove the charge. With Edith
Varney he secretly watches Thorne while
the latter is on duty in the telegraph of
fice, and as Thorne is._in the act of send
ing out a forged dispatch that will lead
the Confederate forces to defeat Arres
ford shoots him through the hand, and
when the corporal's guard enters, Thorne
turns the tables by ordering the arrest
of Arresford. The arrival of Gen. Ran
dolph, In command at Richmond, causes
an investigation, and the forged telegram
is not sent. Arresford denies Thome's
authority at the telegraph office, and Misa
Varney hands Gen. Randolph the com
mission she has received for Thorne
through the president to command ths
telegraph office. After finding himself In
control under the commission. Thorne re
fuses to act, and stops the forged mes
sage. Mr. Smith's strong lines are those
in which he tells. Miss. Varney of his love
for her, confesses; his connection with the
federal secret service, and goes away
under guard to a drumhead court-mar
tial, after assuring her that a secret serv
ice official is not the master of his own
movements, and that a soldier's death
would be vastly preferable to being shot
as 3 spy. As Edith Varney, Miss Frances
Ring has the natural, beauty and manners
of a cultivated Southern woman, and sb.3
was at all times equal to the trying lines
of tense situations. All of the other
characters are wjell presented, and the ro
sult of witnessing the performance is the
finding of deep Interest from the rise to
the fall of the curtain*,
DEATHS OF A DAY.
DAYTON, 0., Feb. 25— Rev. Edward
Lorenz, editor of the German Periodicals
of the United Brethren church, and for
more than forty years a prominent minis
ter in that denomination, is dead, as the
result of a rupture of a blood vessel in
h!s brain occasioned by a paroxysm of
coughing.
NORTHAMPTON. Mass., Feb. 25.— 8.
E Cook, who was a captain of New
York militia, did escort duty to Gen.
Lafayette on his trip up the Hudson
river in 1821, died today, aged ninety
seven years.
LONDON, Feb. 25. — William Butter
fleld, the celebrated architect, Is dead
in his eighty-sixth year.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.— Edward Ste
phen, president of the Home bank, died
today, aged aeventy-five years.
NEWS OF A DAY IN BRIEF.
I Vienna— A peace demonstration, organ
, Ized by the Peace Association of the
i World, was held here today, and was
! largely attended*
Chicago— Mrs. Potter Palmer today
I said that she had received a cablegram
! reporting the Princess Cantacuzene much
! better.
New York— The British ship County of
Edinburgh, which went ashore near Man
asquan. N. J., a eoupte of weeks ago.
was floated today, and is now anchored
off Bay Head. * **
Gambler. O.— The Students' Missionary
Association of the Protestant Episcopal
Church has selected., for tho place of its
next annual con.vwitipn, the Theological
seminary at PhjJa*el£Shia.
Plttsburg, Pai— lt ts learned from an
official of the Plttstmrg CoaL company,
the local combine, that lake shipments
will commence %nuch j earlier this season
than last.
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STORM IN OHIO.
Severe Temp'fpat^e, With Heavy
Snow in Some Parts.
CLEVELAND-" O.,!*H:b. 26.— The storm
which began on Fridtfy night reached it 3
height today. THe temperature here was
near the zero m&flc and a fierce gale from
the northwest blew all day. During much
of the day snow fell also. Street car
railways were operated with difficulty.
The storm was general throughout North
ern Ohio, and at several places very low
temperature was reported, the minimum
at Youngstown being 16 degrees below
zero
A wealthy farmer, named Matthew Lat-
Imer. aged seventy-two, was frozen to
death last night while walking a half mile
to his home near Elyrla, O.
♦ Capitol Chat
Waahlngtan Qog»Jp, Political and
Otherwise, for the Reader*
•I the Olobe.
WASHINGTON 1 , Feb. 25. — (Special.) —
The talk for the vice presidency on the
ticket with Mr. Bryan has resurrected an
Interesting fact concerning the marvelous
organization of Tammany. Among the
men mentioned for this place has been
Townc, of Minnesota, should it fall on the
Middle West; Janves H. Lewis, of Wash
ington, should it go to the Pacific coast,
and William Sulzer and Amos Cummings,
of New York, should It go to the Atlantic
coast. Towne hag the disadvantage of
being a Silver Republican. Lewis has the
disadvantage, however wel? known he
may be personally, of coming from so
small a state that there will be little to
gain if her electoral votes wero won by
his nomination. Sulzer is being put for
ward upon the theory that he is a Ger
man, and that the Germans should have
representation. But the Germans say
Sulzer is an Irishman, because his mother
is and that his father was only a part
German. Amos Cummings has friends
among the newspaper men. Being a
member of the Typographical union, he
has many friends among labor organiza
tions, but unless Tammany is for Cum
mings lie stands not the ghost of a show.
Tammany is fqr what Croker wants.
Croker is in public life for business. Amos
Cummings has no chance for the
nomination for vice president for
the reason that Croker Is in pol
tics for business. He clings to a friend,
and never forgets an enemy, nor neglects
a revenge. Cummings did him an of
fense, so he thinks. Whether this is true
or r.ot It is sufficient to settle Amos' fate.
* • •
In the congress of 1593-4 the Pacific
funding bill, so-called, for funding the
debt of the Central and Southern Pacific
railroads was before the house. Magulre,
of California, led the fight against it.
Hepburn, of lowa, and Powers, of Ver
mont, were strongly for the bill, while
the Democratic side was generally against
it. Two votes upon that bill settled the
vice presidential possibility of two distin
guished gentlemen in the nation. Sibley,
of Pennsylvania, voted for tho bill, and
lor thJs reason he was beaten for the
vice presidential nomination on the ticket
with Bryan in 1896. The California dele
gation fought him, claiming that the
state would be lost, which, without Sib
ley, was safe. Sibley has never forgot
ten this slight upon him, and from that
time he has taken little interest in the
Democratic party, and his present atti
tude of a complete change against the
Democracy is not so much a conversion
of his views as his feeling that Bryan
prevented his nomination for the vice
presidency when he could have been, and
the Democracy, for which he claimed he
had suffered ostracism for supporting Mr.
Cleveland, deserted him. Amos Cummings
was the only one of the New York delega
tion who voted against the funding bltt.
He did this in spite of Croker's instruc
tions to vote for it. Croker was a friend
of Huntington and of Huntington's New
York interests. But for the fact that
Cummings was a friend of the newspa
per men he would have been beaten for
his nomination for congress. As it was,
he barely slipped through. Since then he
has been given his nomination most
grudgingly. Now that he is seeking tho
vice presidency Croker will see that he is
defeated in revenge for Cummings" de
fiance of Croker. by voting against Hunt
ington. Thus it is plain how two votea
on the bill have to a great extent affected
the aspirations of two gentlemen for nom
ination for the vice presidency.
* ♦ •
The speech of Senator Wolcott in the
senate a few days ago, seeking to Justify
his position as one of the commissioners
sent by President McKinley to procure
bimetallism, and wherein he paid such
glowing compliment to the president, and
indicated that he would vote for the gold
standard bill, is understood here to be in
pursuance of a policy previously outlined,
and in which Wolcott is to be favored
with a cabinet job.
Senator Wolcott wanted to be minister
to England when it was understood that
Choate was to resign. Choate has always
insisted that Chauncey Depew should
have been sent to England, and refers to
him as "Old Lady" Depew, and that he
(Choate) should have been sent to the
senate, for which place he feels his abil
ities fitted him. Wolcott realizes that he
is beat, whether the legislature is Dem
ocratic or otherwise. He has no hope of
coming back to the senate, so he has
come out strongly against every position
that he has previously occupied, and tie
makes a strong speech for the adminis
tration in behalf of a bill the provi
sions of which, in 1893, Wolcott condemn
ed aa the most outrageous ever conceived
by the ingenuity of man. This speech
was against President Cleveland s at
tempt to repeal the Sherman law. How
evTr P Attorney General Gr.ggs Is tired l of
his job He has begun to chafe and
souirm a bit under the assaults made
D y e P» bllc a * alnst hlm ° f * ran ' c *
official favors to trusts and monopolies
and he claims that he can make more
morey-and he needs lt-by at once re-
SSg to private practice. He has his
eve on Sewall's seat, and he thinks he
can come to the senate, an amb tlon hs
hu loS had. This administration will
help 2 The Central Railroad of New
Tersey el-cted Bewail, and Is more friend
fv to Griggs- Should the latter resign
«s posTSin the cabinet, Wolcott
be named for the place. olco " ha *
keDt pledges with the president. He la
spoK I to lead off and bring -to the
support of the bill the silver men of the
<Vest. He has kept his part of theagrt.e
•nent. Whether the gold standard be rt*ht
or wrong many men in public life are
whirring on the corners that so wise
I mTn as Wolcott should have profited
oy™S fact that D. W. Voorhees. who la
a strong man in the Democratic party,
and had been a strong silver man all WU
ut* hpoame the spokesman of the aa-
SisS in the^senate f nd went to
his death in .political obscurity ThegoM
men In the Democratic party did not re- ,
favor. m , .
This new move in the cabinet is not
ssijsrr as sfir-^ |f~
afford to have Gage leave at present.
Gage wm ask to retire * the ****«■
i" re-elected, but the poaitlon will be fill
ed by i New Yorker. The portion of *£
retary of the navy wouli be given to the
South if a man can be found satisfac
tory to the President. If the new depart
ment of commerce and industry; for the
mmm
Mm. Sartori*' Condition.
■nt-eot YORK Feb. 25— The following
«.t N teSent relative to the condition of
M^f Nrille Omnt Sartoris was given out
today by the attending pnysicians:
"Mrs Nellie Grant Sartoris is now con
valescing from an operation and will be
about in a few days. On account of puo
flc statements that her malady was can
cer we state that after the operation an
examination haa proved that there is no
evidence that cancer has ever existed.
Soldier*' Bodies Brought Home.
NEW YORK, Feb. 25.— The United
States transport Sedgwlck arrived this
morning from Matanzaa. Cienfuegos and
Havana with twenty-seven cabin passen
gers and forty-six discharged soldiers.
The Sedgwick also brought a quantity of
bsgsage, fifty-four soldiers* bodies and
$230,000 in specie-
LllE A SEA OF FLAME
A SUBURB OF PARIS HAS AN EX
CITING AND DISASTROUS
FIRE
ALCOHOL AND OIL STORES
A Series of Explosions- Occurred,
Spreading? tike Burning Fluid in
All Directions— One Hundred and
Fifty Penoss, It Is Estimated,
Were Hurt and a Somber of Them
Moat Serlowily.
PARIS, Feb. 25.— A s the result of a fire
that broke out this morning at St. Oven,
a suburb of Paris, in a collection of al
cohol and oil stores, a series of explo
sions occurred, spreading the flames until
a block of sixteen immense warehouses
were involved in a huge conflagration. A
great concourse of spectators had as*
sembled and had approached too near,
when suddenly and unexpectedly the ex
plosions occurred. A large number of
people, including some firemen, were
more or less injured. The last explosion
occurred at 6 o'clock this afternoon, when
it was thought that much danger had
been averted. Thirty persons were in
jured by flying^debris.
The official computation shows that 150
were hurt and quite a number seriously.
The fire broke out at 8 o'clock from
some cause as yet unknown, and had
obtained a firm hold before it was dls
covered. It progressed without exciting;
incidents during the morning, and at 1
o'clock had been gotten under control.
At 4 o'clock, however, the falling walls
permitted the flames to reach a number
of alcohol vats, and then the explosions
began to take place. The block of ware
houses was almost surrounded by unoc
cupied ground, over which the
BURNING ALCOHOL SPREAD
when the buildings collapsed, resembling
a sea of flames and causing consterna
tion throughout the district. People in
the dwellings near by began hastily re
moving their furniture. The suffocating
heat and fumea seriously hampered th«»
work of the fire brigade. A number or
engines were sent from Paris to assist.
The firemen worked fearlessly, and more
than once were precipitated to the ground
by falling roofs and walls.
A detachment of soldiers aided the fire
men in emptying the adjacent houses of
furniture, and the ambulances were busy
in carrying victims to neighboring hos>
pitals.
Fortunately the flames did not reach
the immense reservoirs of petroleum. Th»
los 3is estimated at 2,000,000 francs.
NO REGARD FOR ROYALTY.
Influenza, Which la Raging In Ber
lin, Attacks the Emperor.
BERLIN, Feb. 25.— The influenza is still
raging. Princess Frederick Charles has
been attacked. The Italian ambassador
here, Count Lanza de Busca, had Invited
Emperor William and the elite of Berlir»,
among them United States Ambassador
White and Mrs. White, to a dinner today,
but he was seized with influenza this
morning and the dinner was postponed.
stubborT fight
Continued From First Pace.
who has fallen in the course of the cam
paign.
LORD ROBERTS' REPORT.
Lord Roberts has sent the following
additional advices to the war office:
"Paardeberg, Saturday afternoon, Feb.
24.— Methuen reports that Barkly West
was occupied by our troops on Feb.
22. The loyal inhabitants displayed great
enthusiasm.
"The country west of the railway from
Cape Town to Kimberley is gradually set
tling down. A detachment has started
from De Aar for Britstown, and Douglass
and Piieska will shortly be visited by our
troops.
"Methuen's account of the admlrabte
manner In which the Kimberley hospital
is managed made one desire to send some
of our sick and wounded there."
SHORT OF AMMUNITION.
A dispatch to the Morning Post from
Kimberley, dated Friday, says:
"Gen. Cronje is reported to have plenty
of provisions, but to be running short of
ammunition. Mr. Rhodes is extremely
hopeful that the war has reached its con
cluding stage."
SEVERE FIGHTING TO COME.
The Times publishes the following dis
patch from Colenso, da.ted Saturday-.
'"The British are no wwithin two milps
of being in touch with Ladysmith; but
the ground still to be covered is th»
hardest part and very severe fighting
must be expected."
PRETORIA PERTURBED.
The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of
the Times says:
"The feeling among officials at Pretoria
borders on consternation. Gen. Louis
Botha and Pretrin are both urging Pres
ident Kruger to sue for peace. At Bloem
fontein Gen. Cronje's position is regarded
as hopeless."
RISING IN PRIESKA.
The Standard has the following from
Cape Town, dated Saturday:
"The Boer force occupying Prteska con
sists of 120 rebels, led by Free Staters.
A proclamation has been read annexing
the Prieska district to the Free State,
and all loyal British have been given five
days to quit the place. I am assured by
residents of Prieska that uniess troops
are soon sent there the whole northeast
district will rise."
BOERS AT THE VAAL.
KIMBERLEY, Friday, Feb. 23.— 1t is re.
ported that the Boers were In strength
at Fourteen Streams to the north, oti
Wednesday, having two guns and many
wagons. They had just reached th*
bridge over the Yaal river.
KIMBERLEY'S BELATED MAIL.
KIMBERLEY, Friday, Feb. 23.-Octo
ber's mail arrived today by the first pas
senger train from the south.
•
CROKJE'it KIKES HEFK^SE.
KeryiiiK the British at Bay With All
Odd* \>;nl"*tt Him.
PAARDEBERO, Orange Free State,
Wednesday, Feb. 21.— The fourth day of
Gen. Cronje's fine defense opened lit
startling fashion. Soon after dawn a most
terrific rattle of rifle Hre broke out, wak
ing the sleeping camp. It was the heav.
iest fire during the war, and all awaited
with foreboding the news of its effect. It
soon developed that the Gloucester^ and
Essexes had lost their way and had
blvoucked, in error, close to the Doer
laager on the north side of the river. As
soon as they were perceived by the enemy
the latted fusilladed. Wonderful to tell,
the British casualties were practically
none.
There waa desultory firing all day on
both the north and south banks. Gen..
Knox's brigade holding and pushing for>
ward the line south of the river, while
Gen. Smith-Dorrlen, on the north sld«,
worked toward the laager. Meanwhile
Gen. French advanced, in a northerly
direction near a strong kopje held by
some of Cronje's men, reinforced by a
Ladysmith contingent. At the same time
Gen. Broadwood's brigade, with a battery
of horse artillery, took up positions to
the left and rear of the same kopje.
The front of the hill was thoroughly
searched by a raking fire. Suddenly tho
Boers bolted from every side towards
Gen. French, who headed toward th«
drift, shelling vigorously. A great num.
ber escaped, but many -were killed by
shrapnel, and about forty were captured.
As oon as the kopje was evacuated this
correspondent visited It. The position
was found to be wonderfully strong nat-.
urally, and to form the real key to the
position in the case of defense against
Boer reinforcements advancing from th«
east. Our first contact with the Lady,
smith Boers was singularly unfortunato
for them. A great deal of forage, pro
visions and equipment was captured, and
the kopje was frequently dotted with
blood, showing that many wounded had
been removed.
The Boer method of removing the!*
dead is to tie a couple of reins to the
body, which Is thus dragged off by two
horsemen at full gallop. There were sev
eral pour parlers today on the subject
of a short armistice. It seems that Oen.
Cronje is willing to surrender, but that
the young Transvaalers refuse. Th«
other beleaguered Boers are anxious to
give up. A British doctor, who visited
the Boer lines to see to the woundetJ.
found the trenches along the river full of
wounded and saw many dead.
A deserter who came into camp last
night says that yesterday's bombardment
was appalling in its effects, especially In
the case of the howitzer batteries enfilad
ing the river
The position today is practically the
same. The Boers are strengthening theic
entrenchments around the laager, al
though their case Is hopeless.
The capture of the kopje today ha»
given the British a splendid position, and
will prevent a Boer relieving force reach
ing Cronje. Everybody admires the
splendid stand of the burghers, but from
a humanitarian point of view it is con
sidered that further resistance on tj»»
part of Gen. Cronje will be criminal.
Every shrapnel shell finds a victim, ana,
unless a miracle occurs, his force must
be wiped out or captured. The former
result is terrible to contemplate, but, al
though it would require a few days, it
would be easy to accomplish.
Today Lord Roberts sent Gen. Cronje
an offer of a safe conduct for the women
and children, together with a free pass*
to any point for them, and also an offer
of doctors and medicine. Cronje's reply
was a curt refusal, and desultory shell-
Ing was resumed.
THURSDAY.
PAARDKBERG, Orange Free State,
Feb. 22.— Artillery shelling continued dur
ing the early part of last night. Aa soon
as the last gun was fired the Shropshire*,
who had been occupying the river bed
since Sunday, rushed forward, seized an
additional 200 yards of near ground and
intrenched a fresh position before day
break. At dawn Gen. Cronje found him
self docked that amount of space. The
Shropshires had done excellent work un
der galling fire since Sunday, and they
were relieved by the Gordons today.
The exchange of positions had its amus
ing features, in spite of the danger. The
Gordons crawred on their stomachs to the
trenches, and the Shropshires crept out
of these by actually climbing over the
Gordons.
The scene of the laat five days' fight
ing is one of the prettiest sights in South
Africa. The river at the point where Gen.
Cronje is ensconced and fighting for life
resembles some parts of the Hudson river,
the ground all around sloping toward the
stream. All the highlands are covered by
British artillery. Cronje is faced in the
front and rear from both banks by the
British, while Gen. French's horse, far
away on the flanks, prevent a sudden
inrush of Boers.
During the artillery firing Ja3t evening
the mules of the Eighty-second battery,
which had remained hitched to the car
riages, suddenly stampeded and galloped
off en masse, but today the wagons, with
one exception, were recovered.
Gen. French has sent in seventy-five
prisoners. A British patrol, eight miles
to the west, discovered thirty Boers wan
dering away and corralled them. Already
this force has captured 460 of the enemy,
while many dead Boers have been seen.
The Boer prisoners are all depressed at
the present course of the war, and they
comment bitterly upon Gen. Cronje's per
sistence, which they call- "murder."
Today a German ambulance attached to
the Boer forces was allowed to traverse
the British lines in front of Jacobsdal.
Quantities of cattle, sheep and oxen have
been captured while wandering from the
Boer laager.
FRIDAY.
PAARDEBERG. Orange Free State,
Feb. 23.— The British are gradually closing
in upon Gen. Cronje from all sides, mak
ing his position more impossible thau
ever.
During the course of last night the
British artlKery poured in several rounds.
There was a terrible rain and thunder
storm early in the evening.
The Canadians were heavily engaged in
Sunday's lighting, behaving most gal
lantly.
SATURDAY.
PAARDEEERG, Orange Free State,
Feb. 24.— The British took eighty prison
ers as the result of yesterday's engage
ment. A balloon ascended and discov
ered several new works, which the Brit
ish guns 3helled today.
EXPERT OPINIOX.
Spencer Wllkln«on Sees Method in
Crcnfr'ai Seeming Maidnes*.
LONDON, Feb. 26.— Spencer Wilkinson,
reviewing the military situation iv the
Morning Post, says:
"The probabilities are that the Boers
have not been able to collect a large force
to attack Lord Roberts. &m. Cronje's
surrender may occur at any moment.
But the tloer comma mi^r knows what he
is doing. He is not saci-Mclng lives for
nothing. Every day he can hold out
means the delay of a day in Lord Rob
erts' advance, and the gain of a day for
the besiegers of Ijadysmith. Therefore
Lord Roberts is acting rightly in tighten
ing his grip in order to hasten the re
moval of Gen. Cronje's force, and Gen.
Muller's steady advance is the best help
that can be given Lord Roberts."
BRA VIS OFFICER KILLED.
Capt. MontmoreiK-j' Slain In Fight
ing Near Stcrkirtroni.
STERKSTROM, Sunday. Feb. 25.— A
reconnoissance in force yesterday by Gen.
Gatacre, with ten guns, found the Boers
occupying a ridge three miles beyond
Molteno, in the Stormbery district. Moiit
moroney's scouts charged the Boers, who
ciept around the scouts' flank, pouring In
a deadly fire. The scouts were finally
compelled to retire, having lost heavily.
Fourteen are missing. Capt. Montmor
ency was killed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-Oapt. Mont
moremty, who was killed near Sterkstrom
while commanding Montmorency'a scouts,
was a noted man in the British army and
a wearer of the Victoria cross. He was
the son of Maj. Gen. Viscount Frankfort,
and belonged to the Twenty-third lan
cers. Ho gained the Victoria cross at
Otndurman, where he served under Gen.
Kitchener. Lieut. .Grenfell had been
killed, and the British earnestly desired
to recover his body. At great personal
risk Capt. Montmorency undertook the
task. notwithstanding It compelled him
to face the dervishen alone.
Wounded < anadtim*.
OTTAWA, Ont., Feb. 25.-A dispatch re
ceived at the militia dej?artment today
from Paardeberg, dated Klmberiey. Feb.
21 mating that the following men of Ms
company were wounded on the 20th Inst. :
Company C— Private R- Kldner, Tenth
Rovrl Grenadier: J. Holland, Toronto.
Company F-Private W. Downing, St.
John Fuslleers. Company H— Private A.
Parker, Sixty-fifth Kings County bat
ta prlvate Adams, Twenty-flfth fuslleers,
mlsaing after the engagement of Paaxde
berg on the 18th, has since reported.
Sympathy for Ioer».
NASHVILLE). Term., Feb. K--The Hi
bernian Benevolent society of this city to
day adopted resolutions of sympathy with
the Boers in their war with Great Britain.
Mr. Bryan Ooes to Memphis.
NASHVILLE, Tcnn., Feb. 25.-Tonlght
W. J. Bryan, accompanied by Secretary
of State W. S. Morgan, left here for Mem
phis. During the Jay Mr. Bryan was en
tertained by several prominent residents
of Nashville and received many caller*
at his hotel.