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THIS IS S AFAGTERY f
WARS AWFUL HORRORS ON THE
ISLAND OF CUBA
ConditiouH Under Weylers Iiiliuuian
Policy Find No Parallel in Any Stac
of Civilization Hundreds of Thous
ands of Helpless Starved to Death
Sacrifice of Human Iife
An investigation conducted by the New
York World into Hie horrible conditions
affecting Cuba under the bloody and in
huniun policy of Weyler discloses the fact
that 75 per cent of the 400000 helpless
women and children whom Weyler forced
to live in starvation misery nd disease
in the fortified towns in other words the
reconcentrados have perished The spec
tacle is the worst presented in any age
or in any stage of civilization and unless
heroic efforts are made under the more
humane Gen Blanco the epidemic condi
tions of the small towns -will annihilate
the remainder of the reconcentrados
The World shows that one of the best
places where the country people were con
fined was the estate of Central Suia
owned by the American citizen Perfecto
Sacoste The actual figures of the death
rate there show an almost unbelievable
state of affairs When the estate was for
tified Sacoste allowed only the vigorous
men whom he could use during the sugar
season to remain With their families
there were U000 persons To day there
are not 500 left The 1500 perished of
hunger
There was no epidemic Sacoste planted
vegetable gardens for their support but
exactly as in most of the zones of culti
vation the insurgents got the produce
The creek banks are absolutely filled with
the buried There is not a square yard
of ground about the forts that is not
taken for a grave Between two slabs
Total 81000
Of this enormous number it is improb
able that more than 5000 met death or
disability from Cuban bullets even during
the real fighting- of the invasion and the
six months thereafter Gen Ma ceo esti
mated for the World that not more than
3000 Spanish soldiers fiad fallen in battle
That was in August 1S9G Since then
very little lighting has been done
Sparks from the Wires
The Burlington road has declared
quarterly dividend of 1 per cent
a
Heavy rains and lloodsin the south of
France have closed all railway communi
cation with Spain
Garrett A Hobart has resigned from
the Joint Traffic Association His suc
cessor twill be appointed at thenext meet-
ing t c
swEfct by freV
London Scourged by Visitation of
Flames
One of the most disastrous fires in Lon
don history since the- great fire of 1GGQ
broke out in a large block of buildings
lying eastward of Aldersgate street aud
between that thoroughfare and lied Cross
street just aftenl oclock Friday after
noon Over 100 warehouses were de
stroyed and the loss will probably exceed
3000000 The flames were fanned by
a strong wind and were fed by highly in
flammable stocks of Christmas fancy
goods and flimsy dress materials of all
descriptions that filled every floor of the
six story buildings rn the old street Con
sequently the conflagration gained head
way with surprising rapidity and was
soon far beyond the possibility of being
checked by the few engines which were
early on the spot
For four hours and a half the flames
had their own way and it was only alter
more than a hundred engines had worked
for an hour that the chief of the fire
brigade sent out the signal that the fire
was under control At 11 oclock at night
the fire was still the scene of great excite
ment Fifty engines were playing upon
the ruins and tons of water were pour
ing into the fiery debris
Thousands of people tried to penetrate
the cordon maintained by a thousand po
licemen re enforcements for whom were
hurried up when soon after 6 oclock an
increase in the outbreak led Commander
Wells to make a requisition for more en
gines upon the outlying stations The
scene will occupy the fire brigade for
several days especially in view of the
grave danger of the collapse of shells of
buildings which fall now and again Avith
a loud report
Ilamsell street was the scene of the out
break of the fire which was due to an ex
plosion in connection with a gas engine
on the premises of Walter Brown Co
mantel manufacturers at No 30 on that
thoroughfare Their third factory was
XAP OF LONBOX IX THE VIC1XITY OF THE FIRE
Shade1 portion represents tlie burned district
of palm bark for a coffin each miserable
skeleton has been buried a few inches
under ground
In the small towns the misery seems
to be growing The register of he priest
of Artemisa parish shows a total of o000
deaths for a period of 73 years before the
war Since Weylers infamous Brando
the deaths have been 5123
Seventy three years of peace cost not
much more than half the lives lost in one
year of Spanish war And the dead vic
tims of Weylers hate were not rebels
At Artemisa deaths continue eight to
ten per day No food is being issued by
the authorities as there is none there In
Madruga during October 422 people died
The town had 3500 inhabitants At
Guines there is shelter neither for the
troops nor for the uon eombatants and
both are dying fast The reconcentra
dos have absolutely nothing to eat In
one day Nov 10 my informant states
that GOO persons died all presumably
from hunger
In one small house the correspondent
found seventy persons Two dead hodie
lay upon the earthen floor uncovered The
packed living ones most of them seated
upon the mud paid no attention to the
dead Despair and weakness made them
indifferent
At Trinidad the greater majority of the
inhabitants have nothing left to eat In
Ysabel and Cuevitas it is the same Al
most all of Guataros reconcentrados
are dead And in Pinar del lio the cor
respondent of a Havana official paper
states that little children scratch with
bloody lingers in the ground for the small
roots of sweet potatoes their mothers
holding their miserable offspring to sterile
bosoms
Nor are the reconcentrados the only
ones who have perished and are perish
ing in the horrle war The Spanish sol
diers have died rapidly or have become
disabled As nearly as can be conserva
tively computed from official figures little
more than half are left alive and well of
the 1SO000 vigorous peasant lads Spain
sent to Cuba The figures are
Died in hospitals 32000
Killed and died on the field 12000
Sent back to Spain as inutile 25000
Now in hospitals 12000
crowded with girls when the fire broke
out and it was instantly the scene of a
semi panic the frightened operatives
riibhiug to the roof of the building and
thence crossing to other buildings and so
effecting their escape while the flames
were pouring out of the basement In
less than a quarter of an hour the flames
had enveloped the adjoining warehouse
and thence they leaped across the street
to an enormous paper warehouse which
was fully alight in less than ten minutes
It is officially reported that 150 ware
houses have been gutted and an estimate
of the damage done places the amount at
nearly 5000000
Curiously enough the territory covered
by this fire is in part the same as that
burned over in KiGU The place of be
ginning is within 100 yards in both in
stance The direction is the sinii1 and
the same public buildings now vastly
more magnificent than then were imper
iled while the fire burned what were de
stroyed then Since 3005 no fire of so
great destructiveuess has visited the Eng
lish capital
OR HOUGHTONS DEATH
Noted Pastor of the Tattle Church
Around the Corner Is No More
Itev George II Houghton of New York
pastor of the Church of the Transfigura
tion better known as the Little Church
Around the Corner is dead
In 1S48 Dr Houghton then an ambi
tious young clergyman organized the
Church of the Transfiguration which was
destined to become in after years world
famed as The Little Church Around the
Corner It has borne that name for
more than a quarter of a century The
circumstances through which the title
was bestowed were as follows
George Holland the actor aud father
of E M and Joseph Holland died on
Dec 20 1ST0 In arranging for the fun
eral Joseph Jefferson and others called
upon Itev Mr Sabine pastor of a fash
ionable church in Madison avenue and
asked him if he would conduct the fun-
teral services Ascertaining that Holland
was an actor Rev Mr Sabine declined
to conduct the funeral service aud when
asked by Mr Jefferson aud his compan
ions if he could tell them where they could
get a clergyman he remarked that there
was a little church arouud the corner
where they do such things The dead ac
tors friends went to that little church and
were received with kindly consideration
by Rev Dr Houghton This incident
formed a live theme for talk all over the
country and it established The Little 3
Church Around the Corner firmly in the
affections of the public as well as of the
theatrical profession
Ex President Cleveland
said to a repre
sentative of the press The number and
heartiness of the congratulations we have
received on the birth of our son are so
gratefully appreciated that I wish you
would convey tlujaughthe Associated
Press our thanks 1o all the kind people
who have thus given proof of their friend
liness
Suddendeath iVhlked -the ntmi
A catboat manned by Andrew Foley trie Mary Clark tlie xeptuagenarian who
u jiiiujii iinu uuver veus was upset in a hvea m squalid rooms m New York Her
squall inShinnecpck I and nil 5veaJth will go to the relatives whom she
were drowned hated and whom sh wanted 660 faff
SECrteTARY BLISS REFOKT
Head of the Interior Department
flakes Recommendations -
Secretary of the Interior Bliss in his
annual report submits -estimates aggre
gating 9151532410 for appropriations hy
Congress for the fiscal year ending June
30 1890
-Discussing pensions he says 200000
pension claims ae awaiting adjudication
and it is estimated that 40 or 50 per cent
of these will be finally admitted If they
are rapidly abjudicated they will swell tlie
pension roll from 5000000 to 7000
000 When however these claims are
adjudicated and the first payments made
thereon tlie amount of tlie pension roll
will increase very rapidly possibly to
8125000000 or 130000000 the first
year
Secretary Bliss says while the opening
of the Wichita reservation in Oklahoma
to white settlement would greatly promote
the development of that country yet in
view of the unsettled condition of the
questions affecting the rights of the In
dians until there is further legislation he
does not see how it can be done without
causing great injury and distress To
guard against this recommendation is
made that the Dawes commission be au
thorized to investigate questions and re
port recommendations for speedy and just
settlement
Referring to the work of the Dawes
commission it is announced that the in
vestigation of the rights of applicants fon
citizenship in the five nations has been
practically completed the commission has
prepared the roll of citizenship of
the several tribes and has negotiated
three agreements That with both the
Choctaws and Chickasaws of April 23
1S97 is before Congress and has been rat
ified by those tribes That made with the
Creeks Sept 27 last was rejected almost
unanimously by tlie Creek council and
there is little prospect of any further
agreement with them The Cherokees
have refused to make an agreement and
negotiations with them have been aban
doned for the time being
The Secretary says the five tribes have
undoubtedly violated in many ways tlie
spirit of their agreements with the United
States under which the territory is now
held and governed and while he does not
recommend any harsh government action
the Secretary calls the attention of the
President and Congress to the chaotic
condition of affairs of the territory No
government for the Indian territory will
be satisfactory until Congress shall pro
vide for the establishment of a single uni
form system for the entire Indian terri
tory
Recommendation is made that the pe
riod for the allotment of lands to the Urn
paghre Indians be extended such time
beyond April 1 1898 as Congress shall
deem best
The sum of 1216886 is now in the
treasury to the credit of the Utes fund
resulting from the sale of the Colorado
lunds and in addition there must yet be
realized from the sales over 500000 to
reimburse the Government the expenses
etc of the removal and the 1250000
set aside from tlie public moneys as a
trust fund
Secretary Bliss recommends that the
public land laws be extended to Alaska
that the granting of rights of way for
railroads telegraph and telephone lines
aud tlie constrluction of roads and trails
be specifically authorized that provision
be made for the incorporation of munici
palities providing for the holding of elec
tions etc that the legal and political
status of the native population which is
in doubt be defined that complete terri
torial government be authorized and es
tablished and that representation in Con
gress be granted
Work on the Nicaragua canal is still
suspended and the company reports liabil
ities consisting of the amounts still due
under the concessions to the company of
6705000 of bonds and not exceeding
100 cash liabilities outstanding unpaid
Assets Unused capital stock 518500
first mortgage bonds and tlie 2420 shares
of capital stock received in liquidation
tlie concessions rights privileges fran
chises etc which it now owns plant
equipments lands railway supplies and
other property in Central America in
cluding the lands between the lake and
tlie Pacific
PREACHERSSTRONG LANGUAGE
The Cuban Question Must Be Settled
by Thia Administration
Rev Thomas Dixon of New York made
a stirring appeal on behalf of interference
by this country in tlie Cuban revolution
in the Academy of Music that city the
other morning
How much longer he said will the
common people of the United States en
dure the horrible story of tlie butchery
of innocents on the isle of Cuba How
long will we stand tamely by aud see our
navy policing spying and hounding the
suffering patriots from our shore Two
million of dollars have been spent in this
cowardly policing
The gamblers peddlers and hucksters
had a war scare last week It was well
that they should have The question
must be settled by this administration or
it will hear from the people in no unde
cided terms at the polls next election If
Thomas B Reed continues to throttle the
will of the people hell hear from them
and it will be a long time before he will
have another chance to preside over the
House of Congress
The frightful stories of the butcheries
that are daily committed in Cuba are
enough to make a people rise in mighty
wrath Yet we have stood by and seen
all this not only seen all this but spent
2000000 to assist Spain in doing it
The blood of the Cuban martyrs and the
skeleton corpses of the inoffensive non
combatants are a stain of dishonor on the
record of America
Told in a Few Xtinea
Rev George H Houghton pastor of
the Church of tlie Transfiguration better
known as the Little Church Around the
Corner is dead
President Belaya of Nicaragua is send
ing a commission to the United States
and to Europe to sell the Nicaragua Na
tional Railroad and steamboats
A mob destroyed eight tollgates near
Nicholasville Ky and warned the keep
ers to quit t
The monthly statement of imports and
exports issued from Washington shows
the exports of domestic merchandise in
October last to have amounted to 109
5S4000 a loss nearly of- 2300000 as
compared with October of 1S96 -
At Tiffin O George F Michael filed
suit for divorce from his wife Theywere
married itt 1859 and- ten children were
born the youngest being 16 yearsjof ja ge
He charges her with gross neglect of duty
during the last five yfeurs V
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