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INSTRUCTIONS TO AMERICAN
PEACE COMMISSIONERS
United State Positively Declines to
Tolerate Any More Jockeying Span
iards 3Iii3t Hurry Out of Cuba and
Pay Cuban Debt Debate to Stop
Spanish sovereignty in Cuba must end
forever with the advent of the new year
and all Spanish soldiers must be out of the
island by Jan 3 according to an ultima
tum that was cabled to Madrid Tuesday
All of the Spanish troops that remain in
Cuba after the date named will be subject
to the regulation of the American army
This question and several others of
equal importance were finally decided at
an informal cabinet meeting which was
attended by President McKinley Secre
taries Jnng Alger and Hay and Attorney
General- Griggs which was followed by
the dispatch of warm messages to Madrid
and Paris
The United States will take possession
of Cuba on Dec 3 and will assume con
trol of the custom houses and direct the
civil government Gen Blanco will cease
to be chief of the island and must busy
himself with the deportation of his troops
Spain asked to he given until Feb 1 to
evacuate but the cabinet decided not to
extend the lime beyond this year
The American peace commissioners at
Paris were directed to inform their Span
ish colleagues in unmistakable terms that
it is uNcless to discuss the Cuban debt
which will not be assumed by either this
country or Cuba They are to take up
questions that are open to discussion of
which the disposal of the Philippines is
the most important It is reported that
Spain has agreed to the cession of the isl
and of Guam in the Ladrones
MERRITT IS MARRIED
Ceremony Is in Private ou Account of
the illness of tbe Bride
Maj Gen Wesley Merritt Unite
States army and Miss Laura Williams off
Chicago were married in London Monday
Elaborate plans had been made for the
wedding which was to have taken place at
St Andrews Church in the presence of
Gen Merritts staff and a large gathering
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of British nobility and army officers both
the bride and groom being well known
in the London exclusive set But the seri
ous illness of Miss Williams disarranged
all the plans and the wedding was a quiet
and most unostentatious ceremony ac
cording to London dispatches performed
in the apartments of the brides mother iu
the Savoy Hotel
TRAFFIC POOL ILLEGAL
Siiprcme Court Gives Railroads Com
bination a Death Blow
The Supreme Court on Monday render
ed an opinion on thcso ealled Joint Traffic
Association cae which has been pending
over a year The court by a vote of five
to three Justices Gray Shiras and White
reversed the findings of the court below
and held against the Joint Traffic Asso
ciation Incidentally the court affirmed
the constitutionality of the anti trust law
The court also decided two other cases
brought under the anti trust law These
were the Kansas City Live Stock Asso
ciation cases which the court below decid
ed were in restraint of trade This judg
ment was Teversed
The Supreme Courts decision holding
that the Joint Traffic Association was a
combination in restraint of trade and com
merce and ihat the association was ille
gal means that organization must stop
transacting the business for which it was
formed or ele must operate on entirely
new lines The case is considered one of
the most important that has ever come
before the Supreme Court The associa
tion was formed Nov 19 1895 by thirty
one railways representing the greattrunk
lines and their network of branches The
purpose of the association as stated in the
articles of agreement was to establish
and maintain reasonable and Just rates
fares and Tegulations on State and inter
state traffic
PULLMAN COMPANY HIT
Coiu t Declares Corporation Ha Ex
ceeded Its Limitations
The Pullman Palace Car Company is
hard hit by a decision of the Illinois Su
preme Court which has declared that the
corporation usurped power not granted in
its charter when it bought real estate and
built thereon the town of Pullman Char
ter violation is also held in the companys
owning stock in the Pullman Iron and
Steel Company and the land it owns near
the JBelt Line
Stripped of all legal technicalities the
important parts of the decision affecting
the company arc as follows The court
holds that the charter of the company did
not clothe it with power to purchase the
real estate upon which the town or city of
Pullman is built or to construct the him
ings in said town or city or to engage in
the business of renting dwellings store
rooms market places etc It holds that
it may not own stock in the Pullman Iron
and Steel Company but that it may sel
liquors to the passengers on its cars
Winston N C claims the distinction ol
selling more pounds of leaf tobacco direct
from the hands of the farmer than any
other loose market in the world The
present tobacco year the market will sell
2000000 more pounds of tobacco than it
has ever sold before the sales reaching tQ
more than 18000000 pounds
Geological specimens lately discovered
at Mount Poole in the far west of New
South Wales are considered to show that
in a distant age the sea divided Australia
into two or more portions They consist
of fossil shells etc
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IN THE HOLY LAND
Historic Spot Which Kinperor Will
iam Ih Visiting
The visit to Jerusalem of Ivaiser Wil
helm II excites intense interest not only
because it is one of the most spectacular
journeys of recent years but on account
of its possibilities of changing the political
future of Palestine The German Em
peror has a desire to be known in history
as William the Colonizer it is believed
that some deal between himself and the
Sultan for the acquisition of Syria and
Palestine is already in progress and his
visit may therefore be an epoch in the
CHUKCH OF ST MARYS
history of the ancienf city which has seen
during its 4000 years changes innumera
ble in politics and government The Em
peror entered Jerusalem Monday and for
several weeks will devote his time to vis
iting spots of historic interest On Sun
day the Emperor assisted in the dedication
of the Church of St Marys which is built
on an historic site Since he has been
visiting the holy places the site of Solo
mons temple the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre the tomb of David the tomb
of Rachel and the Garden of Gethsemane
are among the thousand and one historic
places upon which the Emperors feet will
tread
THE SITUATION AT V1RDEN
Soldiers Are Returning Home and
Conditions Becoming Normal
There have been no important develop
ments lately in the coal mining situation
at Virden 111 and affairs are monotonous
ly dragging along The companys works
are at a standstill and it is thought that
no further attempts will be made to im
port negro miners
The most exciting incident of the situa
tion since the fight of Oct 12 was the de
parture to Chicago of Manager Fred W
Lukins He was conducted to the train
outside the stockade by a large body of
soldiers and hastily put aboard It was
feared that an attack -would be made upon
him but none was attempted and accord
ing to a dispatch the community breathed
a sigh of relief when the train bearing him
to the general offices of the company in
Chicago pulled out of the town Earlier
in the day Lukins had given a bond of
1000 for his future appearance on the
charge of conspiracy to murder The same
charges have been made against T G
Loueks of Chicago president of the com
pany and other officers
Meantime the situation has toned down
to almost normal conditions and many of
the soldiers have been sent home The
services of all of them will perhaps be dis
pensed with soon The future develop
ments in the troubles between the miners
and the coal company will likely be in the
courts of Macoupin County
APPLES WILL BE A LUXURY
Crop in the United States the Small
est on Record
The Orange Judd Farmer says The
apple crop of the United States is smaller
than it has been since reliable statistics
have been collected The total supply
from the 1898 crop of the United States
is 27700000 barrels compared with some
thing over 40000000 last year and 70
000000 in the record breaking crop of
1896 The failure is widespread reaching
from the Pacific coast to Maine and in
none of the States does the output of fruit
approach an average In the great apple
States of the West the crop is almost an
absolute failure although the situation
in Michigan is better than elsewhere that
State having about two thirds of the
bumper crop of 96 New York has only
one fifth of a full crop
The army is short of staff officers and
io more will be mustered out at present
Spains expenses during the late wai
are said to have amounted to 800000
000
The cost of guns alone for United States
coast defense during the war was 4821
000
Quiet rules in Porto Rico and residents
accept American government without pro
test
The gunboat Yorktown will go into com
mission at San Francisco and will be sent
to Manila
Two men were killed and another seri
ously wounded in a fight at Carters
Creek Tenn
Gen Blanco is concentrating the Span
ish troops in Cuba preparatory to em
barkation for Spain
The War Department has issued a com
pilation of notes on the Philippines both
historical and geographical
Secretary Long will ask Congress to
increase the number of sailors allowed for
the navy from 12500 to 20000
All the coast lights of Porto Rico ex
cept the one at San Juan destroyed by the
bombardment have been relighted
Uncle Sam is establishing coaling facil
ities for the navy along the Atlantic const
from Eastport Me to Port Royal S 0
The United States representative on the
Island of Guam in the Pacific adminis
ters all of the offices from Governor down
President McKinley has ordered that
Jefferson Barracks St Louis be made as
laTge a military post as any in the coun
try
Radical autonomist deputies at Havana
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FEANCE IN FERMENT
PARIS DISRUPTED OVER
DREYFUS CASE
Detroit Journal
THE
Minister of War Resigns in a Fit of
Passion Angry Mob Burns Kiosks
Days of the Third Republic Believed
to Be Numbered
The world has been treated to a new
illustration of the fickle volatile charac
ter of the French nation in the sudden dis
solution of the Bris
son ministry after
an existence of only
a few months The
result was precipi
tated by the spectac
ular performance of
Gen Chanoine in
resigning the port
folio of minister of
war which was
placed in his hands
as the successor of
Gen Zurlinden only
premier snissox a few weeks ago
The situation is all the more surprising
tn view of the pressing nature of the con
troversy with England over the Fashoda
iffair This seems to have been complete
ly lost sight of in the excitement over the
Dreyfus case for which the army is chief
ly if not wholly responsible The sudden
act of Chanoine is attributed to the hound
ing to which he has been subjected by
army officials who are apparently more
Bager to carry on an anti Semitic war in
he streets of Paris than to meet a for
eign enemy in central Africa
As the downfall of the Brisson ministry
is apparently traceable directly to the hos
tility of the army to the steps which have
been taken looking ro a revision of the
Dreyfus case the natural effect will bo
to undo what has been done in that direc
Mon as it is not in the nature of a French
court to do anything distasteful to both
ihe Government and the army For the
present army influence is superior to jus
tice and the people and if the forms of re-
etsion should be gone through -with the
result is likely to be merely a repetition of
the perversions of justice which have been
witnessed in the nasi It is safe to say
that this will be the inevitable outcome
should the new cabinet be of the charac
ter foreshadowed by the tumultuous pro
ceedings in the Chamber of Deputies on
Tuesday when the rallying cry was Vive
Iarmee and Down with the Jews
Gen Chanoine in announcing his res
ignation repeated the declaration of his
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predecessor Gen Zurlinden that Drey
fus was guilty Premier Brisson then
took the tribune and in a forcible speech
I appealed to the chamber for support in
maintaining the supremacy of the civil
power M Brisson protested against the
I manner of Gen Chanoines resignation
declaring it to be contrary to all precedent
He then demanded an adjournment of the
chamber in order to enable him to consult
j with his colleagues and the sitting was
suspended amid great excitement
j Later in the day vast crowds gathered
I hi the Place de la Concorde and began a
violent demonstration The mob burned
several kiosks on the Place do la Con-
corde A fight occurred on the Boule
vard Montmartre between the police and
the anti Jewish rioters and several of the
mob had their heads broken Another
serious conflict resulted from a demonstra
tion made by a number of royalists who
assembled in front of the military club
The royalist flag was snatched from the
hands of the man carrying it and a violent
tussle followed The excitement in the
streets continued throughout the evening
the mob deliriously downing traitors
Jews and M Brisson
The disgraceful scenes and excitement
temporarily put aside the Fashoda inci
dent and the fear of war arising there
from Throughout the disturbing events
Tuesday not a word or thought was devot
ed to the war crisis This distracted coun
try is completely absorbed in her appalling
domestic troubles and the people at large
scarcely recognize the existence of the
Fashoda dispute In some quarters it is
believed the days of the third French re
public are numbered
have signed a document declaring their I
n niA ha coin
Gen- Blanco has ordered the sale
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allegiance to the new political status in
Cuba
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STORM ON THE LAKES
Wild Wind and Waves Work Terrible
Havoc
From all over the great lakes Wednes
day came tales of wrecks dangers and
narrow escapes in the terrific gale of Tues
day night The storm was defined by the
weather authorities as a cyclone with its
center between Chicago and Grand Ha
ven Mich Tales of numerous wrecks
and dangers came from all points in the
southern portion of Lake Michigan It
j will be several days before all the story
of tne storm can be learned
So far as Chicago is concerned the
storm was the most disastrous of recent
years not excepting the great gale of
May 1894 Old tugmen say that the
waves were higher than at any time since
1889 when the lake shore road and a part
of Lincoln Park were washed away Lin
coln Park Commissioners estimate the
damage done by the storm at 30000
Fisk Hall the large new building of the
Northwestern University was for a time
in great danger of serious injury from the
high waves The wall that was built out
into the lake to protect the building from
just such storms was washed away at a
loss of 5000 The steamer H A Tuttle
laden with grain from Chicago went down
off Michigan City the crew being taken
off by life savers
COMING ELECTIONS
Officers Who Are to Be Chosen in the
Various States
The elections will be held Tuesday Xov
8 The elections for Representatives in
Congress will be held in all States but
three namely Maine Vermont and Ore
gon which have elected their Representa
tives In some of the States the elections
will have more significance because of
their bearing upon the selection of United
States Senators Reference to some of
the most important elections follows
New York will elect Governor and Leg
islature A successor to Senator Murphy
is to be elected by the Legislature
Pennsylvania will elect Governor Leg
islature and the latter a successor to Sen
ator Quay
West Virginia will elect a Legislature
to find a successor to Senator Faulkner
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SIR HERBERT KITCHENER
Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener the sir
dar of the Egyptian army and the new
hero of the Soudan is a young man being
but 47 for the high place he has won by
merit in the military service of his coun
try He was born in Ireland and at 20
was a lieutenant By 18SS he had been
advanced to the rank of colonel Ho spent
eight years surveying in the Holy Land
during which he picked up a very fair
knowledge of colloquial Arabic This to
gether with his knowledge of the native
character went far toward his success in
the Soudan
An adequate story of the sirdars life
would read like one of Scotts romances
of the East nis wanderings in Pales
tine the Soudan Erzeroum Africa and
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New Jersey will elect a Governor and
Legislature to find a successor to Sen
ator Smith Nebraska will elect a Gov
ernor and Legislature with the seat of
Senator Allen at stake Missouri will
elect a Legislature and Supreme judge
the Legislature to name Senator Coek
rells successor California will elect a
Governor and Legislature and the latter
will choose a successor to Senator White
Indiana will elect a Legislature to
choose a successor to Senator Turpie and
will also select a Secretary of State
Illinois will choose one half the State
Senate and a State Treasurer The State
Senators will vote upon the successor of
Senator Cullom whose term expires in
1901
Massachusetts will elect a Governor and
Legislature the latter to name a successor
to Senator Lodge
Michigan will elect a Governor and Leg
islature and the Legislature will select a
successor to Senator Burrows
Minnesota will elect a Governor and
Legislature in which will be involved the
naming of Senator Davis successor
Wisconsin will elect a Governor Legis
lature and the seat of Senator Mitchell
is in the issue In Washington Tennes
see Utah Wyoming Delaware Connecti
cut Texas North Dakota and Nevada a
United States Senalorship is concerned in
the legislative elections
STORMS HAVOC ON THE LAKE
SICKNESS ON THE WANE
Physical Condition
Reported
of Cuban
Better
Troops
The sickness among the troops at Sagua
de Tanamo and Baracoa Cuba has de
creased Soldiers of the Cuban army are
still in their camps living off the country
Gen Wood has decided to send Captain
Shelly into the interior of the province to
learn the real condition of the poor peo
ple Lieut Brooks says the need for dis
tributing free rations will not be great
after the first of the year
elsewhere have been filled with thrilling
episodes He has been shot at by Bedou
ins almost murdered in Palestine nearly
hanged for being a spy but his delight has
been to penetrate dens of villainy to find
out at all hazards the mysteries of the
Orient for himself He has disguised him
self a score of times and has thrown dice
with death to further some military plan
of his own Such is the sirdar
BEGS FOR MERCY
Spain Abandons Claims to Concessions
on Cuban Debt
The cable announces that Spain has at
last abandoned her attitude of claiming
any concessions in Cuba and Porto Rico
as a matter of right and has now simply
thrown herself on the mercy of her con
queror The Spanish representatives did
this at Wednesdays session of the joint
peace commission in Paris acting under
instructions from Madrid
They pointed out that only by some re
lief from the Cuban
debt could the com
plete ruin of Spain be averted and sub
mitted facts and figures in proof of their
declaration The cable containing this
information was received in Washington
while the President was in Philadelphia
attending th peace jubilee and Secretary
Hay immediately sent the cablegram by
his executive clerk on a special train
SHORE AT CHICAGO
Great Capital of Trusts
The New York World prints a list of
all the trusts in existence which includ
ing the five now forming make a total of
156 It estimates their united capital at
2238G9S000 The trusts now forming
will alone be capitalized at 240000000
All of these may be affected by the decis
ion4of the Supreme Court against the
Joint Traffic Association
J T Johnston lost his life in a cottage
fire at Sherman Texas while trying to
save his personal effects
USE AND ABUSE OF CHLORAUy
Clersymen Seem to Be Particularly
Addicted to Thia Habit
Chloral is the most popular hypnotic
and Is the one which most frequently
gives rise to habit Clergymen seem
to be particularly addicted to the form
ation of this habit When I opened
the discussion on hypnotics at the Brit
ish Medical Association last month I
was taken to task for saying that chlor
al was a dangerous drug yet it was ad
mitted that it was the custom to give
digitalis with the chloral says the Post
Graduate Digitalis is not an antidote
to the paralyzing effect of chloral when
administered with it for the action of
disritalis is altogether toe slow jases
were quoted in which patients had tak
en large doses of chloral and had sur
vived but these exceptions prove noth
ing and are no more an argument for
the safety of chloral than the fact that
persons have fallen from great heights
and have escaped injury is an argument
for jumping off high buildings Chloral
is not a safe drug Sooner or later it
will be used in a case of fatty degen
eration of the heart and the patient
may be killed with perhaps a dose of
only ten grains It is not a safe drug
certainly in the hands of such practi
tioners as would administer digitalis
at the same time Of the substitutes
for chloral butyl chloral has been aban
doned
Prof Richet claims that chloralose is
a sedative so far as the brain is con
cerned and a stimulant so far as the
spinal cord is concerned This is true
of dogs but in a fatal case seen in prac
tice the paralysis came from the heart
and there were no symptoms that could
be attributed to overexcitability of the
spinal cord There is a safe derivative
of chloral however chloralamide The
introduction of the amide radical neu
tralizes to a considerable extent the de
pressing action on the heart It is fair
ly insoluble and is therefore more pro
longed in its action It is far safer than
chloral It is difficult to form a habit
with chloralamide yet I know of one
instance in which the patient developed
the habit after taking it without my
knowledge for a year The habit was
cured without great difficulty
Heaviest Metal ol All
An English scientist writes interest
ingly of osmium the bluish white metal
with a violet luster which Smithson
Hennant discovered in the residue of
platinum ores This metal has a sue-
cific gravity of 22447 that of gold W A
ing 192Go lead 11309 iron 770 nnu
lithium the lightest only 0594 The
French chemist Toly determined that
osmium is likewise the most infnsible
of metals It could never be made to
yield to the oxyhydrogen flames
which makes platinum and iridium rnii
like water But loly has been subject
ing osmium to the excessively high tem
perature of the electric arc which Hois
san has of late employed successively
in the manufacture of diamonds Un
der this tierce heat the rare meiaL ru
thenium which used to be deemed all
but infusible readily melts But os
mium remains refractory there heiii
apparent only the faintest traces of fi
sion On this account osmium cannot
be prepared in sufficient quantify tc
make it very useful in the arts But
its alloy with iridium which defies the
acids is of some value nothing better
having been found wherewith to tip
gold pens Being nonmagnetic Its em
ployment for the bearings of tbs
mariners compass has been advocated
Lou
AVillin x to Oblige
getting too stout for com
fort but am unable to find a remedy
Short It is said that nothing
duces surplus flesh like worrv k
Long But I have nc thinj
me
to wtny y
Short Well just to help you out Im
willing to let you lend me l0
The women In a certain neighborhood
are fiercely abusing a father because he
refuses to kiss his new baby as long
as the pink is on it Is there a t
anywuere who blames him JEs
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Sighting a Trunk
Old Governor H has many laughable
stories told of him I remember see
ing him once in a state of mind usually
called wrath The circumstances were
as follows
The governor returning home from
a tour to the northern part of the State
put up for the night at a hotel in the
flourishing and beautiful village of
Princeton situated on the Fox River
The next morning after arriving at
home he discovered that he had left
his trunk at the hotel twenty miles
away He just then saw one of the
neighbors going to Princeton and in
his most pompous style requested himv
to call at the hotel and see if then
was not a little trunk there belonging
to him
Yes with pleasure replied the kind
and obliging neighbor
When ready to return he found his
wagon heavily loaded the trunk pro -ed
to be a large and well filled traveling
trunk quite heavy and it was quite
certain on the principle of antecedent
probabilities that he would never get
a cent for his trouble so seeing that
it was safe at the hotel he drove home
As he approached the residence of the
governor the latter went out and open
ed the gate expecting the trunk would
be taken in and left at the door The
farmer told him he was not coming in -
But says the governor did- you
not get my trunk
No you didnt ask me to get it -
Did not What would yon call it 1
asked you thundered the exasperated
governor
Why you asked me to look and see
if it was there I did so and yon will
find it safe there any day by just driv
ing over to Princeton Good day gov
ernor good day
Suffice it to the governor didnt
ask that neighbor to do any more er
rands for him
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