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/he Red Man Not Greatly Interested in the Grand Sights. A TOUR OF THE GROUNDS Serenely and Solemnly Passing Through the Great Building* Without Looking to the Bight or to the Left—The Tent ed Field of the Yarioii* Tribe*. Noon at the Trans-Mississippi Ex- j position! In the Court of Honor the blue lagoon was motionless, save for the rippling gleam that followed the lazy gondola. Reflected in its depths were the classic fronts of the great buildings surrounding it. The shad ows made black blotches on the white walks. In the shelter of one of the curving colonnades s;«t a group of Turks, placidly smoking and viewing the scene with appreciative eyes. The \aricolored flags that surrounded the roofs of the buildings stretched lan- : guidly with a passing breeze, and then dropped wearily back as though ex- ! liausted with the effort. The echo of a Venetian boat song, charted by a \ stalwart gondolier, floated across the i water. Down the steps of the Government i building came a brilliant procession, i Wrapped in blankets of gaudy hue, their faces daubed with many colored i paints, coarse, unkempt hair hanging J over each shoulder, beaded moccasins ; and leggings—as picturesque as a group of Sioux braves as one can often [ see. Their carriage was dignified and i stately, their impenetrable faces un- ! moved by the splendor of the scene. J The snowy facades of classic architec- ‘ lure, the shimmering sweep of the la goon, the languid gondolas, the distant song—not one incident of the picture before them caused one flicker of in terest to cross those stoic faces. Suddenly they stopped. Intense In terest was manifested {n their every movement. They crowded eagerly around their chief who had evidently found something unusual, and was ges ticulating violently. I crowded up to j see what strange thing they had dis- ! covered. I found them intent on—a “penny-in-the-slot” machine! “Rain in-the-Face” was slowly untying from i a greasy corner of his fringed blanket, a penny! Impressively be put it in j the slot; impressively he pushed the j button! As a narrow bar of chocolate j fell into his greasy palm, a shout of j triumph Went up from the noble [ braves. They danced with excitement. They laughed with glee. Then their faces straightened into gravity, they wrapped themselves in their accustomed dignity, and, serene ly solemn once more, started on down the court. They walked through the buildings with never a sign of inter est, turning their faces neither to the right nor to the left, until in the Man ufactures building they came to a ! great bottle which advertises a well known brand of whisky. Here was something they could understand. With grunts of satisfaction they sur- | veyed it from all sides. "Hold heap lots firewater!” said "Raln-in-the Faee,” thirstily. On out of the building they strode down to the end of the Grand Court j and up the steps of the great viaduct i which connects it with the adjacent Bluff tract. Straight on, not once turning their heads to look back at . the splendid scene spread below them. I What cared they for shimmering la goon, they who knew the dancing wat erfalls and the hidden purling brooks. What cared they for the splendor of the buildings, who slept beneath the maj esty of the sky? What eared they for a demonstration or ttie riches or the West, who had known its woods and mountains and plains before the white man had come? Turning to the left they entered the Midway. The Moorish village with its reproductions of the Aiaham bra’s beauty, the golden domes and gaudy minarets, attracted from them no sign of recognition; but in front of the Myctic Maze they stopped again and once more they went into ecsta- j cies of delight. This time it was the great concave mirrors that excited i mirth. Homing their sides in laugh ter they turned this way and that, hugely amazed and entertained by the , sight of their gaudy bodies extended in girth to the size of a bulky barrel. I “Fat man!" grunted one, "eat heaps! ] ugh!” and his squaw, grinning with j enjoyment, held her brown papoose up IU see. '9 , The “spielers” next attracted their j attention, and they stopped In wide- , eyed admiration to listen to the man who bawls through the megaphone “Have you seen the See-Saw? Don't say that you have saw until you’ve rid den on the See-Saw! Sec?’ One aged warrior, freely daubed with yel low ochre, wrapped in the most bril liant of blankets and wearing, to cap the climax, a pair of green goggles, evidently considered it a r.ew kind of battle cry, and danced gravely around the howling medicant, trying in vain to imitate him. They looked with haughty scorn at a group of almond-eyed celestials, cur iously at a clumsy camel laden with laghing Arabiail dancing girls, and then proceeded unconcernedly on their dignified way toward their own camp ing ground. Here the group of tents belonging ; to the different tribes were scattered about in picturesque profusion. In the center was a great artificial pond , of water where the red man. be he Apache or Navajo, chief or warrior, brave, squaw or papoose, took his morning plunge. The flaps of the tents wrcre looped back, and here and there one caught glimpses of brown faces, of gorgeous beaded trines, war bonnets hung writh feathers, and time worn tomahawks. In the center of the Apache encampment loomed up a sin ister war teepee of painted buffalo skin. These war tepees are greatly prized by the tribes to which they be long. and this particular one is over two hundred years old. The most gorgeous array of beaded trappings belonged to the Flatheads. Wonderful moccasins, fringed leggings and befeathered headgear: the Nava joes gloried in their characteristic na tive blankets: the Zunis women wove their dainty blankets and looked with shy. smiling faces at the groups of visitors: over at the edge of the vil lage stood a great cabin, an^ here the curio hunter will find relics that will gladden his heart. € • ri* t of u 1 .Vcltnow leiliginr nr. The following letter will be of inter est to every Nebraska relative of the boys at Manila, as i* si.ows in a measure what the Red Cross society is doing there. The ten dollars de ducted from the whole amount sent by the Beatrice society is the amount charged for membership fee: California Red Cross, State Associa tion, San Francisco, Aug. 30, 1898.— Mrs. O. N. WheelccK, Treasurer: Your letter of August 25, enclosing your very generous donation of $8,115, lias just been received and we thank you most warmly for this splendid contri bution. We greet the Red Cross of Beatrice. Neb., most cordially into our association, and feel assured that your kind co-operation with us in alleviat ing the sufferings of the “boys in blue’’ will seem to lessen the distance be tween our two states. We We, take the greatest pleasure in forwarding the amount, $31.15, to company C, First Nebraska. I know you will be gratified to learn we have a field hos pital at Manila, with a corps of trained male nurses and equipment for 125 beds, and that by both the Arizona and Seandia. we have sent every con ceivable kind of delicacy for the sick jn this hospital. We have also fitted out a hospital ship for use at Manila (which the government provided!, equipped with all those necessaries and comforts that are so essential to the sick and wounded, besides providing it with trained nurses, both men and women. To day we will direct our fi nancial agent. O. H. C. Schlott, who is now in Manila, to expend the value of the amount, $81.15, (which will prob ably be double in the eoin of the Phil ippines), for the boys of Company C. It is suppe-ed that the Seandia, which left last Saturday, is the last of the transports to go to Manila, so it niav be impossible to forward the box of books to company C. If this is the ease, what disposition do you wish made of them? Verv sincerely and gratefully, LUCIAN K. WALLIS. Corresponding Secretary, Iloblied of »033. Omaha Bee: Harry Stockton, a Bur lington engineer, with his bride came down from Lincoln yesterday on a wedding tour and went to the expo sition. Stockton is still on his wed ding tour, but he is $925 poorer than when he left the grounds yesterday afternoon, for he was robbed of that amount while getting on a street car at Twenty-fourth and Pinkey streets. Stockton had traveled about the grounds and had become pretty tired, so about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon he and his wife concluded that they would go down to their boarding house at 2606 Blondo street. Passing out of the gate at the southwest corner of the grounds, they were caught in a jam and as Stockton was assisting his wife and another woman upon the car he remembers being jostled by a number of men. some pushing him one way and some pushing him another. He thought nothing of this until he had nearlv reached the place where he was to leave the car, when reaching around to his right hip pocket he discovered that his wallet was gone, which contained all of his money. It was then that he called to mind the fact of the men jostling against him as tie was getting on the ear. He also remembered that one of them pushed his coat aside and at the same instant leaned heavily up against him. Slekuesft in the Third. The governor and adjutant general, says the Lincoln Journal, are becom ing very much alarmed over the in crease in sickness in the Third reg iment at Jacksonville. Yesterday the sick report of the regiment showed sixty-seven 3lck in Quarters and 112 in the hospital. General Barry said this condition was appalling anti he and the governor at once set about doing all in their endeavor to bring about a removal of the men to some other location or a transfer in case they are to be mustered out. The fol lowing telegram was sent last even ing: Col. W. S. Stark. Washington, D. C. —Sick list in Third Nebraska has grown so rapidly that a proper regard for the health and lives of the soldiers request that they be moved to a healthier location pending determina tion whether they will he transferred or assigned active duty. Meanwhile it would seem wise to remove them to some northern state. 1 hope the war department will, if not incompat ible with public interest, have this done, unless they are at once ordered to Nebraska to be mustered out of ser vice. (Signed.) SILAS A. HOLCOMB. Governor. Ah to the Crop*. The last Nebraska crop bulletin says that corn has generally deteriorated in condition and even in the northern counties, where the rainfall has been sufficient for the corn crop previous to the last week, the corn is reported as damaged somewhat during the last week. The amount of damage in this section is variously estimated, some placing it as high as 25 per cent and some claiming little or no dam age. Much of the early planted corn has dried out so rapidly that it is har dened beyond injury by frost. Late planted corn is ripening prematurely and will be a very short crop generally. Corn has ripened so very rapidly the last three weeks that most of it will he beyond Injury by frost in a week or ten days. The last week has been fa vorable for threshing and haymaking. The wild or native grass is being cut for hay quite generally and the crop varies from fair to good, but is above the average in most sections. Heavy Yield of When*. Exeter dispatch: Off jf nineteen and one-half acres P. A. Murphy has threshed 570 bushels of wheat and of a fine quality, too. Other farmers around here who thought their wheat would not amount to much are meeting with similar surprises and are feeling a whole lot better than they did two months ago. Corn is doing well, but rain is needed badly to settle the dust and cool off the atmosphere. Notes. The seventeenth annual Cedar coun ty fair will he held at the grounds of the Hartington Driving Park and Fair association on September 14, 15 and 16. This promises to be the best fair ever held in tne county on account of the good premiums and purses offered by the fair association and the liberal premiums of the merchants. ill I HR An Anarchist Stabs to Death the Unfortunate Elizabeth of Austria. THEASSASSIN UNDER ARREST. Murtferod at Genova, Switzerland, While Walking From Her Hotel to a Steamer Funding — For Many Yearn Slut Had Iteen Fnfeeb led In Mind and Body — Sketch of Her I.ife. Gkxkv.v, Switzerland, Sept. 12. -The Kmpress Ktizabeth of Austria was as sassinated here this afternoon by an Italian anarchist. She was stabbed with a stiletto. Her Majesty was walking from her hotel to the landing place of the steamer at about 1 o'clock when the anarchist suddenly ap proached and stabbed her to the heart. The empress fell, got up again, and was carried to the steamer uncon scious. The boat started, but, seeing the empress had not recovered consci ousness. the captain returned and the emperess was carried to the Hotel Ueaurivage. where she expired. The murderer is a man named Lue choni. lie was born in Paris of Ital ian parents. The empress of Austria was born December It, 1*87. She was a daughter of Duke Maxi milian of Bavaria and was married to Francis Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hun gary April '74. 1851. They had three children, the Archduchess liisolft. who is married lo Prince Luitpold of Bavaria: the Archduke Rudolph, who married the Princess Stephanie of Belgium, and who billed himself in 188k, and the Archduchess Marla Valeria, who mar ried the Arei.duko Franz Salvator of Austria Tuscany. When a princess she was one of the most beautiful women in Europe and tier marriage was a romance. In ISIS Francis Joseph came to the Austrian throne, and in 1*58 went a woo ing to tha court of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, led by matchmakers to geok the hand of Helen", the eldest daughter, now tho widow of Prince Taxis. But the emperor was caught at sight of her youngest sister Elizabeth, then a girl in short dresses and more than beautiful. The marriage, which took place In 1831, was a very unpopular one In Vienna. It spoiled tho plans of the matchmakers, hut the impulsive young emperor claimed the privilege of falling in love like an ordinary mortal and the marriage took place. The Viennese took their revenge in many little ways, and were led in the persecution by the Archduchess .Sophia (who died in 1*721. but the empress's beauty, frankness, liveliness and gaycty soon won over tho sympathies of the people, even If tho dignitaries did not like it. anil the condition of the empire threw into her hands the means of rtvenic. She favored the Hungarians, and lived much among them. Francis Joseph, who at first loved his wife de votedly, was anxious to please ihe Maygar por tion of his dominions which had revolted once, anil he favored his lovely empress s designs. She was crowned with him queen of Hungary, and delighted to live at Buda-Pesth and Oodal lo, rather than al Vienna. She had been sepa rated in lieurt from her husband, who did not prove a model husband. Franz Deak. with her aid. compelled the recognition of ihe Hungarian slate, and Andrnssy became premier of that portion of tho empire. The empress was an excellent Hungarian scholar, and that endeared her to the people of that growing and progress ive portion of the empire. Nota score of years ago the empress was still one of the most beautiful women in Europe, just a* her husband. Francis Joseph was one i f the handsomest men of his years to be found anywhere. The empress was then one of the lx*st horsewomen of her time. She surprised even the daring cross country riders of Eng land and Ireland w hen she visited those coun tries by her grace, courage and dash. In her own olirt. when Empress Elizabeth held sway, in no court in Europe was etiquette more strict, in none were the nobles more proud or more jealous of their rights and priv ileges Even l’rancl• Joseph, an amiable, easy going man, was bound ns with hooks of steel lo all the old rules and traditions of the llaps burgs the "Austrian Caesars." as they proudly call themselves. Empress Elizabeth showed that she was able to ride roughshod over old fogy traditions and unwritten rules But she did this with such tact, so quietly und yet so thoroughly, that the old court favorites that hud ruled prior to the coming of the clever young empress scarcely knew how it was that they gradually fell to tho rear und left their phi es to be tilled by another coterie, younger, more liberal, more brilliant and more in accord with the tastes of the empress. The young w itnnn went farther. The old court nt Vienna hurt been more corrupt tha a any other In Europe It was a hot l i d of scan dal. Royal names hail liecn smirched, and oven that of the emperor hlniseir was not free from scandal. The young empress set herself to the task of working out reform in this direction. It was a difficult task. Indeed. It was one in which she cculd hope to ntecoed only in part. But she accomplished more than it had been thought she would, and she made the court ut Vienna more healthy as to morals than It had over been in the past. What is more, she en listed rood matured, easy going Francis Joseph in her work. He, perhaps, hud no interest In it. or sympathy for it. lint ho loved his clever wife with a deep and abiding love that has never wavered. Yet it seems a sort of tragic outcome of Em press Elizabeth's efforts to purify the Aus'rluu court that there shou d still li nv * existed a con dition sufficiently unclean to poison the morals of her only son, whom she loved with an idola trous love, and should huvo brought him so deep in dishonorable intrigue that he could Unit his way out of it only in a sensational suicide in a hunting lodge on his mountain estate, hld din away from the out irte world. This broke the empress' heart. The empress bad been ambitious for her son. She believed he had great abilities obscured and undevel oped by a life of pleasure in youth, that would be put in evidence later. Later she saw the weak Archduke Charles, heir to the throne, shrink from the position that awaited him and transler hi* right to the Austrian throne to his son, Francis Ferdina il, who is now destined to he the next emperor of Austria. There wore other things to sartil-n tho life of the empress. First, the favorito brother of the empo or married a (lancer. Stripped of his honors and offices, he bought a merchant vessel—he bad been trained for the navy and. taking his ■ ride w.th him. started in to make his own living by trading. His ship Is supposed to have gone down at s-a At any rate it disappeared, ana the archduke is still among tho missing. Then cum i the humiliation of Austria by Ger many, anil the Maximilian episode, and finally the tragedy in which Prince Rudolph tlgurel. All of thesj things have served to make of Fronds Joseph a melancholy, much broken man, and the effe t npon his wife was much mote severe. Even the influen e of her hus bund. who was devoted to her, and of her one married daughter. Princess Valerie, was lost upon her. After the diath of her son, the unfortunate Frown Prince Rudolph the empress built me morial chaiels and monuments throughout the empire, and these she visited from time to time *h the finey seized her. Of late tho em press bus fallen upon the idea tha' her end is near and that she would soon die. Shi ar ranged for her final resting place at great o x p-nse She built nt Corfu, upon the plans ap proved by be.'ielf. a mugnitlcent villa, and christened It ' L'Aohlllclon.'' To her will she added a codicil In whhh she said, I wish to be interred at Corfu, near the sea. so that the waters cau continually break on my , omb " A NEW USE FOR THE ’PHONE. Mr. K»lt»"i{ Will Conduct » lilcli 11111 Sun.lay Sell (ml Front Kaium I lly. Kansas Fitv. Mo.. Sept. IS.—A very few years ago it would have been prac tically impossible to conduct a Sab bath school eighty-five miles away, ami even now it is most unusual, but that is just what I-'. \Y. Kellogg, inter nal revenue collector, will do to-mor row. lie will do it by telephone. Mr. Kellogg has for six years been superintendent of the First Presbyter ian Sabbath school at Rich Hill, where he has lived for nineteen years. When he came to Kansas City as revenue col lector last spring lie announced that he would not give up his Sunday school at Rich Hill, but would be there every Sunday to conduct it. lie has failed fev. Sundays to be there. Two large megaphones will be sus pended from the ceiling over the heads of the pupils. At this end Mr. Kel loggwill sit in a room at the telephone exchange and tall; into a long distance telephone. The responsive reading will bo carried on in that way. and the responses by the whole school then will be easily beard, the telephone people say, by Mr. Kellogg here. Mr. Kellogg's assistant there will also have a desk phone by which he will talk with Mr. Kellogg. Further than this the musical num bers for the occasion will be furnished by an orchestra and a choir at Topeka. A part of the Topeka program will lie a phonographic reproduction of the chimes from Trinity church. New York city. ENGLAND HAS ITS SANTIAGO. At the Home Army Maneuvers Soldiers \V«oit Wit hout Food HerAUte of Neglect. London. Sept. 12.—While the trans port and commissariat departments of the British army, as exemplified by the admirable conduct of tlie Soudan campaign, appear to be beyond re proach on active service, there is no lack of allegations that there was a serious break down during tlie recent army maneuvers on Salisbury plain. In the first place, owing to the In adequacy of resources of tlie war office, the contract for the catering was given to Sir Thomas Liptou, and if tlie re ports are to he believed, the soldiers suffered considerable privations. In deed, it seems,s nno of them suffered so much that they committed offenses, preferring prison to tlie treatment they were receiving on the Salisbury plain. This is corroborate l by tlie fact that tiie military prisons in the neigh borhood were so overcrowded that the officials declared they would not re ceive any further prisoners. besides this, tlie sufferers from sick ness and accidents complain of great nogleet. They say they were without food and drink for hours.or until civil ians succored them. THE SINGER’S SONG ENDED. “Hlrtiiolip RooAeveltt** NomjUreai ami N 1)rkI lu London. Xkw York, Sept. 12.—A private cablegram received here to-day from London announces the death of the Comtes? Maechetta, singer and author, best known by her pro fessional name, blanche Roosevelt. Her death was the result of a runa way accident which happened a year ago at Monte Carlo. Her sister, Mrs. Edwin Hollis Low of this city, was notified some days ago that the end was near and she sailed Wednesday for England. Mis? Roosevelt was the daughter of W. II. Tucker of Virginia and Lizzie L. Roosevelt of this city, the latter closely related to Theodore Roosevelt. OUR BACK SEAT IN VIENNA. Austria lias lE.-ruse.l to Advance Its Hn voy la Washington to Ambassador. St. Lons. Mo.. Sept. 12.—A dispatch to the St. Louis Republic from Wash ington says: Relations between the l’nited States government and Austria are reported to be strained over the refusal of Austria to comply with President McKinley’s suggestion to ad vance the rank of the imperial envoy at Washington and the American min ister at Vienna to the grace of am bassador. YELLOW FEVER IN PORTO RICO. Tlie Firit Choi Reported Among tlie American Troops. Washington, Sept. 12.—Surgeon General Sternberg received a dispatch to-day from the chief surgeon at Ponce. Porto Rico, saying that there were four eases of yellow fever and one death among the troops there. This is the lirst report of yellow fever among tlie troop? in Porto Rico. SHAFTER WANTS AN INQUIRY. Conduct of Snntlugo Campaign, the Gen eral Says, Should llo Investigated. Washington, Sept. 12.—General Shatter had nearly an hour's confer ence with the President to-day. He expressed himself a? strongly in favor of a rigid investigation of t he Santiago campaign. The New Maine a Sea King. Philadelphia, Sept. 12.—It is un officially announced that Philadelphia will build for the American navy the battle ship that is to replace the Maine—a ship that will be a rival of the tremendous Royal Sovereign of the English navy, and the t'arnot of the French navy. Topeka, Kan.. Sept. 12.—Thirty di voce cases are set for hearing in three days of next week. Eleven will come up Tuesday, eight Wednesday and eleven Thursday. These are only a part of those to eomo up during tho September term. The Visit Was Formal and Lasted Only a Few Minutes. THE GENERAL TO CALL AGAIN. General Shifter Says All Talk of Friction ! He tween Himself anil Miles Is "Pop pyeoek"—lias » l.ong Secret Interview With .Secretary Alger In the I.attcr's Far Washington, Sept. in. — General Miles paid his respects to the i‘resi dent at 10:45 o'clock. The call was brief owing to the cabinet meeting at 11 o'clock and was confined to n formal exchange of courtesies. The general wore fatigue uniform showing the two-starred epaulettes of a major general. At the time of his arrival the President was conferring with .1 ustice llarlan. Senator Allison | and other callers. General Miles and Colonel Miehler were shown into the cabinet ante-room and there the Presi dent joined them, excusing himself from the other callers. It was not in the nature of a con ference, during which questions relat ing to the war were discussed, hut was that formal call of respect usual upon tile return of a high official. The con ference for more extended discussion of war affairs doubtless will come later, although it was said after the call that no exact time had been fixed for a further meeting. General Miles had nothing to say before or after the call. He was greeted with a round of applause as lie left tlie White house, pushing his way through the dense crowd await ing the review of returning District ol' Columbia troops. CALLS IT_“POPPYCOCK,” No Friction lletiveen Nlmfter mill Mile*— A I.oiik Interview With Alger. Camp Mkaiik, Middletown Pa., Sept, lo. —Secretary Alger and General Shatter were at camp Meade to-day. They witnessed a review of the troops and made a hurried tour of the camp. General Alger resumed his journey at uoon to Detroit and General Shatter went to Washington. They were closeted together an hour this morning in the Secretary's pri vate ear, which was run on a siding at Camp Meade station. While General Graham was arranging forthe review. Secretary Alger and General Shafter had another conference, lasting thirty minutes. What passed between them neither would say, except that it was a private affair. General Shafter said the secretary was a very dear friend and that they had been in the civil war together as colonels, lie is at work on his report of the Santiago campaign and expects to complete it to-morrow. Speaking of the controversy with General Miles, Shafter said: “It is all poppycock. There is no friction between General Miles and myself. At least there was not when he left Santiago. Our relations have al ways been pleasant, and 1 do not un derstand the meaning of all this talk. The general may have been talking, but I believe that much of it is due to antagonistic newspapers, whose mo tives are certainly not patriotic.” FUNERAL 0F_CADET WHEELER. Tlie <«eiier:tl Will Acrompiny lilt Hon'd Moily to the Alalmiua Home. Camp Wikoff, N. Y., SjiI, . —Im pressive funeral services were held at 7 o'clock this morning for Naval Cadet Thomas 11. Wheeler, son of Major Gen erol Joseph Whooler. and Second Lieu tenant Newton D. Kirkpatrick, First United States cavalry, who were drowned while bathing Wednesday afternoon. General Wheeler, his daughters and his son. Lieutenant Joseph Wheeler, jr., were the chief mourners. The Ilev. Archibald Bradshaw, chaplain of the One-Hundred and Seventy-tirst provisional New York regiment, of fered prayer and read the burial ser vice. General Wheeler and his family will accompany the body of Cadet Wheeler to Wheeler, Ala. The body of Lieu tenant Kirkpatrick goes to Lexington, Va. The war department detailed an officer to accompany Lieutenant Kirk patrick's body. GRAY TO TAKE WHITE'S PLACE. I’eacn CommUnlon Completed by tlie Del aware Henator'* Appointment. Washington, Sept. 10.—The P: ~,i dent to-day named Senator George Gray of Delaware as the lifth member of the peace commission. This com pletes the personnel of the commission, which stands: Secretary Day, Sen ators Davis, Frye and Gray and White law Reid. In selecting Senator Gray, the President has given Democratic representation upon the commission. The appointment probably will ne cessitate the retirement of Mr. Gray from the Anglo-American commission which is conducting its sessions in Canada, as this commission will re sume its work about the time the peace commissioners sail fur Paris. E«t.rh»«jr Not a Suicide. Paris, Sept. 10.—There is no founda tion for the report circulated in the United States that Major Comte Ferd inand Walsin Estcrhazy. the alleged author of the bordereau in the Drey fus case, has committed suicide. Our Port* Open to Spain. Washington. Sept. 10.—The restric tions imposed by the government as a result of the war which interfere with the free passage of vessels be tween Spain arul her possessions and the Uuited States are to bo removed. TURKEY MUST ABANDON CRETE The Foreign Ailmlrtli Insist on the IJe movnl of the Snitiin's Forces. Caxka, (Sept. 10.—Tho admirals of the foreign powers, replying to tho protests of the Cretan executive com mittee against the recent massacres, have declared that they will recom mend that their respective govern ments solve tlie question definitely by the removal of the Turkish troops from the island of Crete and the ap pointment of a governor to be selected by the powers. Atuknh, Sept. 10.—The following dispatch, dated at s o'eloek last night, has been received from Candia: “Tlie llashi Itazouks are committing ex cesses ami the Christians in the sur rounding districts aro arming to march to the assistance of the Can dians. “There are eight war ships in tho harbor and a fresh bombardment is ex pected. The llritish, German and Spanish consulates have been looted, and thus far 300 native Christians and sixty-seven Uritish subjects have been killed." I.ondox, Sept. 10.—The London Times ami the other morning papers call upon tho government for ener getic action in Crete, more especially if tlie stories of tho complicity of Turkish troops are confirmed. The German and Austrian papers declare that their governments will have nothing to do with Crete. The Cologne Gazette says: “Germany may congratulate herself on having with drawn her tleet from Crete, thereby leaving tlie responsibility to others," MANILA STRIKE AT AN END. Street Car 1,1ms Again Itunnlng—The First Prntentunt Services. Manila, Sept. JO. •— The United States consul hero, G. F. Williams, iu behalf of Captain N. Mayo Dyer of the I'nitod States cruiser Baltimore, has returned to General Miranda tho sword which the latter surrendered to tho American otlieor at the capture of Corregidor island, at tlie entrance of the hay of Manila. The general replied that he was overwhelmed l>y the generosity of Captain Dyer. The men who wentout on strike on account of an attempt to return to an equal basis for payment of labor, after the American authorities, iu the early exigencies of tlie situation here, had agreed to tlie extravagant demands of t he laborers, are disappearing, and it lias become necessary to employ sol diers to take their places in some eases, while in other cases the matter has been compromised. One of tlieso strikes, as cabled September 5, caused tlie suspension of traffic on the horse car lines of Manila, hut they resumed operations to-day. Tlie American army chaplains have instiluted Protestant services in pri vate buildings. Such services have never previously been held in tho his tory of the Philippine islands. SILVCLA WANTS SAGASTA OUT. A Desire for Power I* Prompting the Conservative Leader'* Course. Madkid, Sept. 10.—Tlie following statement lias been made by an im* portant Spanish official: “Scnor Sil vela, the leader of a section of the Conservative party, refuses tho gov ernment the support of his party, al though he is fully aware of the diffi culties of the situation. Ho is doubt less prompted by the desire to obtain power. We will do all in our power to realize bis desire with short delay. Tho country will then see how soon the man who is posing «s a Liberal will be transformed into a despotic dictator." General Poliavoja has handed a copy of liis manifesto to the newspaper men; but the censor forbids its publi cation. The censor also forbids its transmission by telegraph. It is prob able t hat the general intends to read it to-day in the Cortes, but it is cer ! tain the government will prevent him from so doing, and will insist upon a secret session. The Madrid Liberal to-day again makes tho assertion that Premier Na gnsta will resign as soon as tho cham ber adopts the peace bill. CUBANS DISARM FOR FOOD. Tho Administration IIs. Found » \V»f to Mettle the Insurgent Question. Washington, Sept. 1 0.—The admin istration has decided that tho Cuban insurgents will not bo furnished food supplies so long as they remain under arms. Since this decision was inado tho war department officials have been greatly gratified to learn that the advieo of the President is being followed. tIt has been learned that at least 400 of the Cuban soldiers huve surrendered their arms and have asked for food and work, and it is believed ttiat there will bo little trouble with the forces remaining in tlie vicinity of Santiago. If this should prove to lie tho ease, the Cuban problem may set t tie itself with much less difficulty than has been expected. It may even result in a marked decrease in the number of soldiers to be sent to the island, but this is a matter not yet definitely settled. Commander of lllcdsou’s llitttery Dead. Denison, Tex., S.spt. 10.—Judge L. L. Maughs is dead of Bright’s disease. Judge Maughs, during the civil war, for a time commanded Bledsoe's fam ous Missouri battery in General Price’s command. He was major in General Forest's cavalry and led the charge which resulted in the capture of Fort Pillow. At the battle of Chickamauga he served the gun which killed General Lytle, the poet-soldier. Judge Maughs was postmaster under Cleveland. Cv liz to New York—2, *00 miles.