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rested and taken to the ramp at Rogolets ami officers are looking for the young lady with similar intent. SITUATION WORSE. Atlvlce* Received by Surgeon (ienernl Wymnn from Subordinates. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. Official dispatches to the surgeon general to-day made the yellow fever situation in the South quite serious. Dr. Guiteras, the government expert, reported a case of yellow fever at the City Hospital at Mobile, Ala.; also, a suspect case, and added that he apprehended a serious outbreak. At the same time Surgeon Carter telegraphed from Ocean Springs that four cases of yellow fever existed at Berkley, that there had been eight cases known to be yeilow fever and that two exposed physicians were at Vancleave and Scranton, practically under guard. The dispatch from Dr. Guiteras at Mobile is as follows: “Have found one case of yellow fever at the City Hospital—a Norwegian—who has not been out of the city. Probably fatal termination. One suspicious ease. I apprehend a serious outbreak. Every facility has been extended me here.” To this the surgeon general telegraphed: “Wire occupation of Norwegian in City Hospital and how he could have contracted 1C Instructions later.” The surgeon general also wired to Dr. Rhettgoode, president of the Board of Health of Mobile, asking him to telegraph an assurance that every measure is being taken to prevent spread from the one case ift the City Hospital and the suspected ease. The dispatch from Surgeon Carter at Ocean Springs was as follows: “Four cases of yellow' fever now at Berkley, one developing yesterday. One deatpi. Robert Glenn, last night. One case of malarial fever there. Have been twelve cases of sickness all told, ten of which. I think, were yellow fever and two.of which I know were. Four deaths. No .dengue. Only four nonimmunes, yet the twelve cases have been directly exposed, three much exposed. I moved those three into absolute isolation In noninfected quarters, with Dr. Gaines. The fourth is in a house in the country and is isolated, but not under guard, a source of but little danger now. The physicians who have been exposed are in Scranton and Vancleave, a community, I am told, rather than a town. The one at Vancleave is nonimmune; the one at Scranton is Dr. Kells. The infected houses are practically under guard for the present. Some burning has been done and some aeration of light fabrics. More will be done by Dr. Gaines, who will stay there some days. The few who are not sick or immune are very anxious to come to camp.” Surgeon. Carter, who has been at Oeaen Springs, was ordered to proceed to New' Orleans to aid in the inspection of outgoing trains and steamboats already begun by Assistant Surgeon Norman. Surgeon Wasdin, who has been at Ocean Springs for some time, was tak’en ill this forenoon. This information came from Surgeon Murray, who did not state the nature of the illness, but Dr. Wyman supposes it to be yellow fever. Surgeon Murray has engaged a nurse and will care for him. Dr. Wasdin has been actively engaged since the outbreak of yellow fever at Ocean Springs, and was present at the first autopsy at which the conclusion wits reached that the disease was yellow jack. In response to an inquiry as to what hospital and camp supplies he had on hand Surgeon Wertenbaker, at the Delaware breakwater quarantine, replied that he could send 280 wall tents. 800 mattresses and blankets. Everything is being made ready for immediate shipment. He said he also could send table furniture for 1,000 persons and all necessary cooking outfits for camp purposes. Dr. Goode, the president of the Alabama State Board of Health, has telegraphed Dr. Wyman that all measures have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease which has manifested itself at Mobile. The inmates of the hospital where the disease appeared were quarantined and the room formerly occupied by the yellow fever patient, has been thoroughly disinfected. There was no report of suspected cases.

People Fleeing? from Jackson. JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 13.—Excitement Is at fever heat in this city to-day over the yellow fever scare caused almost entirely by the precence of thirty cases of dengue fever at Edwards, twenty-five miles west of here. Many people are fleeing to the surrounding country. The wagon and railroads leading into town are being closely guarded. At noon the mayor of Edwards telegraphed as follows: “There are only three new cases of dengue this morning. All doing w-ell. No yellow fever.” This afternoon the mayor and aldermen held a special meeting and issued a proclamation to the people, in which they say their fears are in nowise relieved as to the situation in Edwards, but that the dengue fever existing at that point would be, kept out of Jackson. All public gatherings are prohibited. Soldiers Sent North. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—A telegram was received at the War Department today from the Department of the East stating that six cases of yellow fever were reported in New Orleans and that the commanding officer at Jackson barracks had requited permission to remove the garrison of that post to Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga. The War Department officials deemed it inexpedient to send these troops to Fort McPherson and orders were issued for the two batteries of artillery at Jackson barracks to go into camp at the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Military Park. There has been no case of fever at Jackson barracks, hut it was considered advisable to remove the troops to a point w'here they would be beyond the danger of infection. Situation at Biloxi. BILOXI. Miss., Sept. 13.—Following Is the official report of the Mississippi State Board of Health from Biloxi, based upon reports from the physicians: “Sickness from all causes, this date,. 43; yeilow fever, 15; suspicious cases of fever, <; dengue, 4; other causes. 17. Total, 43. The State Board of Health took charge last night at 12 o’clock and established a cordon around the city and through the city, dividing the infected from the noninfected portion; yellow fever patients and suspects isolated and guarded. Sanitary work is being pushed.” Simple Malarial Fever. JACKSON, Miss., Sept. 13.—Dr. J. H. Purnell, the Vicksburg yellow fever expert, who, after an investigation at Edwards, Miss., last night, found twenty-six cases of dengue fever to exist there, proceeded to Pelahatehie later in the night and this morning reports that all the sickness in Pelahatehie was malarial fever and that there is no danger from that point. Shotgnn Brigade Enrolled. NATCHEZ, Miss., Sept. 13.—The yellow fever scare resulted in the calling of a large mass meeting here to-night, at which five hundred volunteer guards were called for and enrolled to protect the town. There is no sickness in the city and no fear of the fever, except from importation. Case at MoJiile. MOBILE, Ala., Sept, 13.—The Board of Health met to-day on an adjournment. Dr. George A. Ketehum, its president, authorized the statement that one case of yellow fever had developed this morning at the City Hospital. The patient is a Norwegian sailor. _______ < linttnnoogu. Takes Action. CHATTANOOGA. Term., Sept. 13.—This morning the Board of Health declared a quarantine against New Orleans and Mobile and all points affected with yellow fever, and every train from the South is now under surveillance. ••Black Jack” Causes Suicide. BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 13.—William 3tableway, an American, twenty-two years of age, committed suicide in Asuncion, Paraguay. He was suffering with yellow fever and was driven to despondency. Quarantine in Texas. AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 13.-State Health Officer Swearingen this morning declared rigid quarantine against New Orleans and will positively forbid any persons coming in from that section. The Disease In Nicaragua. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Sept. 13.—Yellow fever has appeared at I.eon, in western Nicaragua. Several natives have died of the disease recently and it is spreading. National Council, O. U. A. M. BALTIMORE, Sept. 13.—The annual meeting of the National Council of th© Order of United American Mechanics began here to-day with a parade of the Loyal Legion, the uniformed rank of the order. The business sessions of the convention will begin to-morrow and continue for three days. Mexican* Asphyxiated. CITY OF MEXICO. Sept. 13.—The people killed at the Panuelas quarry explosion, numbering twenty-four, were asphyxiated by the dense gases generated by the * xplo*lon. Among the number were several horsemen who perished with their horses, and the bodies of men and horses lay to- < lher In a horrible manner.

WORLD’S WHEAT SUPPLY REPORT OF THE AGRICULTURAL DErAlt'l MEAT’S STATISTICIAN. America Will Not Be Able to Supply the European Shortage—President Returns to Wash ington. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—The following relating to the wheat situation is an extract from t,he complete monthly report of Mr. John Hyde, the statistician of the Agricultural Department, which will be issued to-morrow. High prices for wheat have for several weeks past been bringing out supplies quite freely and increased supplies have, in turn, reacted upon prices, causing some decline from the highest figures of August. The general tenor of the information gleaned from all available sources is not, however, of a character to warrant the expectation or the fear, according as the matter is regarded from the consumer’s or the producers’ point of view, of any material cheapening of wheat until another crop is in sight with a prospect of ampler stocks. With an annual average European product of over 1,428.000,000 bushels during the six years from 1S!1 to 1896, inclusive, we exported an average of 166,373,872 bushels a year. This year the European crop, according to Broomhall’s Corn Trade News, will, in round numbers, amount to 1,329,003,033 Winchester bushels, or 99,033,003 bushels less than the average of the six years in question. If wo make the comparison with the figures given by Beerbchm for 1897 the deficiency in the European crop is still greater, the figures in millions of busnus being; Average for 1891-1896, 1,428; crop of 1897, 1,315; difference, 113. That is. according to Beerbohm’s estimate of this year's crop, there is a deficiency of 113,C00,003 bushels in European countries as compared with their average product for the six years 1891-1896 an average which includes the exceptionally small crop of 1891. “To make up the deficiency little help is to be expected from India, Argentine or Australia for months to come, and in so fab as Europe will have to import a larger quantity than usual she will have to draw it mainly from North America and especially from the United States, the Canadian contribution being relatively small. Official returns for Ontario and Manitoba give for these two provinces an aggregate of 51.042,253 bushels. If the Argentine crop shall escape the ravages of locusts it seems likely to turn out unusually well, and from January, 1898, when the bulk of the harvest will be got in a Argentine, that country may have more or less wheat to export, as the latest mail advices represent the crop as being in fine condition and the weather highly favorable. There are, however, many chances of serious damage during the next three or four months. The latest accounts from Australia indicate that the drought from which that country has suffered for the last two or three seasons has been broken and that the wheat crop is giving good promise throughout most of the Australian colonies, but the area was narrowed by drought at seeding time and as stocks must be low, it is not likely that even with a full yield the crop will lx? one out of which any great amount can be spared for exportation. The present high prices would ordinarily tend to encourage the sowing of an increased breadth in India should the weather be favorable this fall, but any inclination on the part of the poorer cultivators to take advantage of such favorable conditions will probably be in a great measure thwarted by the impoverished condition in which they have been left by the famine in the greater part of the wheat-growing districts. “But leaving out of view the fact that the burden of supply for Europe will fall more largely than usual upon the United States, it is evident that there would, in any case, be a demand for a larger surplus than is to be expected out of this year’s crop. If to our average annual export for the six years—lß92-1897, we add a European shortage of 99.000,000 bushels, figured out by Broomhall, we get a total of 265.373,872 bushels and in so far as we fall short of supplying that quantity. Europe, as compared with an average year, must suffer a scarcity in her bread supply, except in so far as she can avert it by drawing on the stocks that may remain out of previous crops. The world's reserves have, however, been reduced in consequence of the short wheat crop of last year, and a deficiency in some of the other important food crops will not tend to relieve the tension of the wheat market.

VACATION DAYS OVER. President and Mrs. McKinley Return to the National Capital. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.-President McKinley returned to Washington this afternoon from Somerset, Pa. The special train which carried the presidential party consisted of President Cowen's private car Baltimore, the Pullman chair car Abigail, which served as a rec’eption car at the various stopping places en route, and a combination car in the lead. Attorney General McKenna accompanied the President and Mrs. McKinley, and the only other members of the party were Miss Endsley and Executive Clerk George B. Cortelyou. There was no schedule arranged for the train between here and Somerset, and it was put through at an easy gait on orders from the train dispatcher of each division. The President had expressed a wish to arrive in Washington at 5:4,">, and was landed here on the dot. The officials of the road who accompanied the President were General Superintendent T. Fitzgerald. Superintendent J. E. Spurrier, A. A. Heustend, of the Midland division, D. S. Maroney and Trainmaster J. S. Norris, who rode on the engine and personally handled the train. There was a very small crowd at the Baltimore & Ohio depot at 5:30, the hour when the train was expected. The Cabinet was represented by Secretaries Fvlss and Wilson and Postmaster General Gary. Assistant Secretary Pruden, of the White House staff, was also on hand. As the train slowed up at the station '.he Cabinet officers entered the drawing room of the private car, and aft’er a few ninutes' talk with the President the party descended to the carriages. The President was cheered .'is he appeared on thv* platform, and after lifting his hat in acknowledgment assisted Mrs. McKinley to alight. With the President on one hand and Secretary Bliss on the other Mrs. McKinley walked across the platform to the carriage and the party was driven at once to the White House. The run from Somerset was uneventful except for the crowds which greeted the train at the stopping places en route. The President looked in good health and spirits, and expressed himself pleased with his outing, but glad to return to Washington. A great many peopfe gathered around the Endsley residence at Somerset this morning to bid thv- President good-bye. At 10 President and Mrs. McKinley came down the steps leading from thv porch and entered a carriage. Both turned and kissed their niece, Miss Mabel McKinley. On the front seat of the President’s carriage rode Mr. and Mrs. Abner McKinley. Thv President bowed frequently to people on the way to the train, and Mrs. McKinley waved her handkerchief. Attorney General McKenna rode to thv train with Miss Mabel McKinley behind her team of Kentucky ponies. When the train pulled out a large crowd cheered and the President stood in the rear door bowing until thv train was out of sight. At Cumberland the President was introduced by Governor Lowndes to the crowd at the station and made a brief address. He said: “My Friends and Fellow-citizens—l appreciate this manifestation of your regard and good will. 1 rejoice, its 1 travel through the country, at the good feeling manifest, at the unity and fraternity prevailing, and the warm apreciation which the people have for this country and its institutions. I am glad to meet and greet you here today. and my prayer is that the people shall have prosperity and plenty and the Nation peace and tranquillity. 1 thank you all and bid you good afternoon.” Brophy** Chances Not Good. Special to tße Indianapolis Journal. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Affidavits and other papers were received at the Postoffice Department this afternoon in support of a petition to reopen the case of Clerk Brophy, of the Terre Haute postoffice, whose reinstatement was ordered last week. No formal answer to the petition has been made, but it can be stated by authority that the case will be reopened, pending which Mr. Brophy will remain outside the breastworks and off the payrolls. The new charges against Brophy are that he is incompetent and that his presence on the working force will be demoralizing to the office discipline. With Congressman Paris and Postmaster Benjamin against him Brophy has little show of getting back into permanent and comfortable federal employment under this administration. German Pauper* to lie Sent llnek. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.—Some time ago the State Department referred to the Treasury Department curtain representa-

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tions to the effect that the hoard of supervisors of Kossuth county, lowa, had discovered that Karl Kruger and wife, two Germans, who emigrated to this country within the past year, were public charges of that country. The secretary of the treasury investigated the matter and found the report to be true and directed their return to Germany. This will be done at the expense of the emigration fund, the immigrants having become public charges withing one year after landing from causes existing subsequent thereto. New Indiana, Postmasters. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Fourth-class Indiana postmasters were appointed to-day as follows: Brighton, Lagrange county, Amos Long, vice J. H. Lint, resigned; Como, Jay county. Asbury Robbins, vice G. R. Henry, removed; Edwards, Vigo county, J. T. Lucas, vice J. E. Leitk removed; Fincastle, Putnam county, T. L. Grider, vice H. C. Fosher, removed; Markland, Switzerland county, William Rayborn, vice G. N. Reeves, resigned; Monroe City, Knox county, Elias Lloyd, vice W. A. Baldwin, removed: Ridertown, Jay county, W. R. Lawson, vice Miles Rider, resigned. General Notes. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.— T0-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $216,850,773; gold reserve, $145,308,007. The secretary of the treasury to-day gave authority to the Mee Lee Wah Village Company to bring into this country four hundred Chinese, to take part in the transmississippi and international exhibition at Omaha, Neb., next year. The Chinese exhibit will include a village, theater, joss house, etc. Secretary Alger is reported to be much better this morning, though he is still confined to his home. He expects to attend the Cabinet meeting to-morrow. Hudson Lyons, colored, the Georgia membe" of the Republican national committee, arrived here to-day in connection with his candidacy for the postmastership at Augusta. Ga. He promptly denied published reports that a conference was to be held with a view to his retirement in favor of W. H. Stallings and to Lyons's subsequent appointment as register of the treasury. The controller of the currency announces the following changes to-day: The First National Bank of Richmond, J. F. Elder, vice president, in place of C. W. Ferguson; J. F. Elder cashier in place of J. F. Reeves; C. B. D. Hadway assistant cashier. The Lawrence National Bank of North Manchester. C. Cowgill, president, in place of John M. Curtner. United States Vice Consul Bernard, at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, reports to the State Department that the American schooner Alice Vane has been confiscated and her crew imprisoned for smuggling at the port of Omoa, on the north coast of Honduras. He is giving attention to the case. The State Department has been informed that the six prisoners under arrest at Bahia, Brazil, for complicity in the mutiny on the American ship Olive Pecker, and the murder of the captain and mate, will be brought to the United States for trial on the U. S. S. Lancaster. A medal of honor has been awarded to Captain William R. Parbell, U. S. A., retired. now living at No. 2023 Broadway street, San Francisco, for gallantry at White Bird Canyon, Ida., in action against Indians in 1877.

“HEALER” SCHRADER IN TOWN llriiiKs His Wife and Brother with. Him—The Anderson Tests. “Healer” Schrader arrived in the city yesterday afternoon, and is now on North New Jersey street. He moved in there yesterday with his wife and his brother. The latter is his manager and the former is his counselor. He married her but recently in New Castle. She is a young woman, who came from Sioux City to marry him. The manager of the combination was seen last night, but he would not consent to allow his brother, who had retired, to be disturbed. Asked what their plans were for the week, the manager said: “We intend to heal the afflicted and cure the sick.” “What diseases can you cure?” he was asked. “My brother can cure anything, provided the patient has faith in him.” In response to other questions, th® manager of the combination said: “My brother gets his power from God. He first discovered that he possessed the power when he was thirteen years old. He is now thirtyone years old, and has been engaged in divine healing ever sifice he first discovered his power. He may not be any better than other men. He can, as 1 said, cure anything if the patient has faith in my brother’s power. If a man is blind, and still has the ey-i and the optic nerve and shall also have faith, he can and will be cured. Let them come here and they will be convinced and made happy.” The man was asked about certain newspaper reports of tests which were offered the divine healer at Kokomo and which in effect declared that the “divine healer” was a fake. One dispatch told of a number cf patients on whom Schrader had failed, and of his statement that he could drink poison and not be affected. A minister took a bottle out of his pocket and offered it to Schrader, and the latter refused to drink. The bottld contained epsom salts, but the “divine healer” was afraid to meet the test. This story was telegraphed to the Indianapolis papers only a few days ago. “That is all a mistake,” said Schrader’s brother. “That is a pure newspaper fake, and it is without foundation. There are always persons who are disappointed in my brother, because they expect too much. My brother cannot create new organs in people. He cannot give a man anew leg or a new ear drum, but he can cure ailments by the laying on of hands. There never was any test, such as the papers spoke of as the poison test. My brother would not enter into any such controversy. It is beneath his dignity.” “What income have you?” “We get no money except voluntary contributions from those who are benefited.” Poor Journalism. Philadelphia Record. “One of the metropolitan journals—much esteemed and ever ready to do the right thing—in its issue of yesterday contained on one page no less than four denials, as follows: A denial from Lieutenant Commander Sobral, of the Spanish legation, that he had been playing spy upon our forts in Charleston harbor; a denial from the John Hopkins Hospital of the story of death from toxine tests on patients; a denial from Nice that Mascagni, the composer, had attempted suicide, and a. denial from Mary Anderson that she was about to appear upon a concert stage. Cynics may say that it would be better for the progressive journals of the gay metropolis not to know so much than to know so many things that are not true; but the denial feature of the metropolitan newspaper press is not to be put down by derision, and its is rapidly coming to pass that every well-regulated newspaper will have to have a denial department if not a gifted nenialist on its staff. Strainer Circassia Sighted. GLASGOW, Sept. 13.—Captain Park, of the Allen line steamer State of Nebraska, who passed Tory island to-day after leaving New York for this port on Sept. 3, reported having sighted th’e Anchor line steamer Circassia. Captain Boothby, which on Sept. 10 was reported by the Thingvalla line steamer Island to be in a disabled condition. The Circassia was not in tow. No apprehension is felt regarding her safety. The disabled vessel is considered thoroughly seaworthy. In n Bed of Quicksand. PORT EADS. La., Sept. 13.—The Austrian steamship Gottenreid Schenk’er. Captain Nicoliet, from New Orleans for Triest, via Genoa and Newport News, is ashore west of tho jetties. She has a cargo of phosphate rock and pig iron, and lies in a bed of quicksand. Her draft is twenty-five feet six Inches, and she has only twenty feet of water around her. Her condition is considered critical, and doubts are eut’ertained of floating her. Overcome ly Well Gns. STEPHENS. Ark., Sept. 13.-John Hudman, a prominent farmer living here, and his two sons, aged sixtesen and eighteen, were overcome by gas in a well to-day and all taken out dead. Two men who undertook to rescue them were overcome by tho gas and will die. She Preferred a Clean Paper. Cleveland Plain Dealer. “1 see you take the ‘Gusher,’ Mrs. Twillem?” "Yes. it's the best I can get for the pantry shelves. But I do wish they wouldn’t print on it.” John L Sullivan's Platform. BOSTON. Sept. 13—John L. Sullivan announced to-night that he would run for mayor and that he expected to poll 8.000 or 12.000 votes. Sullivan said his political platform would be to license gambling places and disorderly houses

THE CUBAN SITUATION AFFAIRS ON THE ISLAND REVIEWED BY CONSUL GENERAL LEE. Verbal Statement to Secretary Sherman—President McKinley’s Note to the Spanish Government. ® WASHINGTON, Sept. 13,-Consul General Lee had an extended conference at the State Department to-day with Secretary Sherman and Judge Day, assistant secretary of state, during • which the entire range of Cuban affairs was gone over. The consul general submitted no written report, but gave a verbal statement on the numerous questions which have arisen in connection with the insurrection. Secretary Sherman desired that General Lee should see the President when he arrived to-night. It was felt, however, that the President would be fatigued with his journey and would not care to take up Cuban affairs immediately after his arrival. For this reason it was arranged that General Lao should proceed to Virginia and visit his family, holding himself in readiness to return on a telegraphic order when it was convenient for the President to see him. He left later in the day for the Intermount Hotel, at Covington, Va„ where Mrs. Lee is spending the summer. All parties declined positively to say anything as to to-day’s conference, but it is learned that it developed no new or startling phases ' the Cuban situation, but was rather in the nature of a general review of tho entire situation up to the time General Lee left the island. He was able to present this much better through a personal talk than through the medium of official communications which he has sent from time to time. The subjects covered included the condition of tho Competitor prisoners and other Americans held in Spanish prisons, the disposition of the fund of $50,000 appropriated by Congress for the relief of Americans destitute on the island; the present status of tho rebellion, recent hostilities, etc. One of General Leo's staff visited, tho Competitor prisoners the Saturday before the consul general left for Washington, and reported that Ona Melton and others were in fairly good condition. The prevailing sickness on the island was touched on. Both yellow fever and smallpox are carrying off many victims at Havana and through the interior, and the week before General Lee left there were thirty deaths from yellow fever at Havana, of which the far greater number was among troops. As to whether General Lee will return to Cuba, no definite information could be secured. It is said to depend much on circumstances which have not developed, and it is probable that neither the consul general nor the officials are as yet certain concerning his future movements. As the Cabinet meeting will be held to-morrow, it is thought probable that General Lee will not be called to Washington until Wednesday or later. The Now York Herald’s correspondent, speaking of the note which Minister Woodford will soon present to Spain, says the Cabinet meeting here on Tuesday will decide whether or not the contents of the note “hall be given to the public immediately after its presentation to the Madrid government, or whether it shall be held to await the reply of Spain. Should the communication appear in a fragmentary way several of the President's advisers favor immediate publication in case no good reasons appear for taking a contrary course. The note which Mr. Woodford is to present to the Spanish government was prepared by President McKinley and Assistant Secretary of State Day, and read to the full Cabinet. Its chief significance is that the United States asks to be considered a party to the settlement of the Cuban question. The long continuance of the war in Cuba, the destruction of property, of commerce, the manner in which the interests of the United States have suffered, the large number of American citizens involved, the constant anxiety and expense caused the United States government in maintaining its attitude as a friendly power, and. above all, the distress inflicted upon hundreds of thousands of peaceful people, are given as reasons why the United States takes this step. Mention is mad© of the large number of claims of American citizens against Spain and President Cleveland’s warning in his last annual message that unless better conditions were soon to come in Cuba it would be necessary for the United States to interfere in behalf of commerce and humanity, is cited, the note expressing the President’s great desire to continue the friendly relations between the two nations and his hope that Spain will accept the aid of the United States in bringing the war to an end. The President expresses hU. "villing-ness to co-operate with the Spanish government in every proper way in restoring peace.

Spitntsh Guerrillas Butchered. HAVANA, Sept. 13.—Further details of the capture of the Victoria de las Tunas, province of Santiago de Cuba, say that the insurgents, after capturing the town, killed with the machete forty guerillas for having made a stubborn resistance. It is explained that the Spanish hoisted the Red Cross flag- over the hospital of Victoria de las Tunas, and that the insurgents, mistaking it for a parliamentary flag, sent an oflieer in that direction. The Spaniards claim that the insurgent commander, General Garcia, did not respect the flag or the hospital, end bombarded the building, killing or wounding fifty sick men. The latest advices from Spanish sources say the insurgents lost over two hundred killed during the fighting about Victoria de las Tunas, and that among them was Gen. Memocal. Four Spanish officers and eight soldiers who were among those who surrendered to the insurgents have arrived at Ceuto. Woodford Ready for Work. SAN SEBASTIAN, Sept. 13.—The retiring United States minister to Spain, Hannis O. Taylor, was received in audience by the Qu’een Regent to-day and presented his letters of recall. Soon afterwards the new United States minister to Spain, General Stewart L. Woodford, was received by her Majesty and presented his credentials. General Woodford transmitted to her Majesty the following letter from President McKinley: “Great and Good Friend—l have chosen Stewart Woodford, one of our most distinguished citizens, to reside near the government of your Majesty in the quality of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States. He is well informed on the subjects of the interests of the two countries and of our sincere desire to cultivate and maintain the friendship so long existing between the two governments. My knowledge of his high qualities and talent fills me with entire confidence that he will strive constantly to develop the interests and prosperity of the two governments, thus making himself agreeable to your Majesty’s government. Therefore, 1 beg your Majesty to be good enough to receive him favorably and to place confidence In all he may say on behalf of the United States and in the assurance he is commissioned to convey to your Majesty of the best wishes of our government for the prosperity of Spain.” Taylor** Retirement Regretted. LONDON, Sept. 14.—A dispatch to the Standard from San Sebastian says that the entirv official world of Spain regrets the departure of the retiring United States minister, Mr. Hannis Taylor, who leaves no ill feeling behind him despite the difficult and somewhat unpalatable nature of his task. The Queen Regent has shown him marked attention. The dispatch continues: "During the farewell audience granted to Mr. Taylor to-day (Monday) hVr Majesty spoke kindly about the United States and Mr. Cleveland, even saying that she hoped some day to visit America. As Mr Taylor was taking his leave she said touchingly: ‘Do, pray, be a friend to Spain when you return to America.’ Bowing low, Mr. Taylor replied. ‘Madame, I will be so, as far as my conscience permits.’ The Queen conversed fur a few minutes with General Woodford, whose presentation took place soon aft. r .Mr. Taylor had taken his leave. But the conversation was quite formal. Tlie l*redou Ruby. Washington Star. “To the question ‘Which is the most valuable precious stone?’ nine people out of every ten. at least, will, without the slightest hesitation, reply: ‘The diamond,’ ” said a dealer in gems, “But the value of a good-sized diamond cannot approach that of a ruby of the correct color and similar dimensions. "The worth of small rubies—stones that are of less than a carat—is, if anything, rather less than that of a diamond of a like description, but the rare occurrence

of large specimens of that dark carmine tint which is looked upon as the sine qua. non of a perfect ruby causes the value of these gems to increase in a far greater proportion than In the case of diamonds. Rubies weighing more than four carats are so exceptional that when a perfect one of flve carats is brought to the market it will command ten times as high a sum as a diamond of the same weight, while rubies of six carats, without crack or flaw, and of the proper color, would, in all probability, bring as high a price as $5,000 a carat, or fifteen times as much as a diamond of like size and faultlessness. , “ -Vll over the East rubles are regarded with the greatest possible favor, and so it has been from the earliest times of which we have any record. The finest specimens are found in Burmah, and from time immemorial it hits been a law of that country that all rubies of above a certain size are the property of the King, whoever may have been fortunate enough to find them. It is thought to this day there are concealed in Burmah, among the treasures which the British invasion caused to be hidden away, rubies of far greater size and value than any which have up to now been seen either in Europe or this country-” AN ARMY OF FANATICS ATTACKING TW O BRITISH FORTS IN NORTH W ESTERN 1N DIA. Nearly 50,000 A f rid is and Orak/.uts In Battle Array—A Post Captured— General Foreign News. * LONDON, Sept. 13.—Advices from Simla say the insurgents this morning captured the Sarhargharti police post. Information from the fiont received this aft rr.oon snows the Afridis are attacking the Samma forts in force. General Yeatman-Biggs will relieve Fort Gulistan to-night, and the simultaneous advance of Generals Blood and Elies against the Mohmands will commence on Wednesday next. Fort Lockhardt and Fort Gulistan are still heavily attacked. The relieving force which has been sent forward consists of four guns and five squadrons. The startling news comes from Fort Lockhardt that the combined bodies of the Afridis and Orakzaia number 47,000 men. They are now all collected near Khan-Ki valley and will advance on the fortifications at Samuua for an attack to-night. The Sarhargharti post was attacked by a thousand Orakzais. A gallant defense was made by the garrison of twenty-one Sikhs, who for six and a half hours sustained three furious assaults. in the third assault the Orakzais forced the door. The garrison left the wails to expelled the invaders and the enVmy was thus able to escalade the fort with the ladder. One Sikh defend'ed the guard room, killing twenty of the foe. He was finally burnt alive at his post. The signaller kept up communication until the tort fell at half past 4. It is reported that he was he only Sikh that was spared. A I'econnoissance in force from Jamrum to Ali Musjid has shown the Kfiyber pass entirely deserted. The Afridis have evidently withdrawn into the hills. The British War Office has notified the Ameer of Afghanistan’s London commercial agent that no war material or machinery for the manufacture thereof will be allowed to cross the frontier of Afghanistan during the present crisis.

Sallfthury'N Proposals Accepted. LONDON, Sept. 14.—The morning papers contain dispatches from Constantinople asserting that all the embassadors are now in receipt of instructions enabling them to come to a full agreement on the basis of Lord Salisbury’s proposals for the constitution of an international commission representing the six powers to assume control of the revenues with which Greece will guarantee the payment of interest to the holders of old bonds, as well as payment of the indemnity loan. Twelik Pasha, the Turkish foreign minister, has renewed his protest on behalf of Turkey at the needless delay in arriving at a settlement.” According to authoritative reports the treaty of peace may now be signed at any moment, it is understood that £1,000,(MX) Turkish will be paid to the Turkish government through the Imperial Ottoman Bank as soon as the evacuation of Thessaly commences. One of the factors calculated to hasten the evacuation is contributed by the great sufferings of the Turkish army in Thessaly. The troops are almost decimated by disease, a circumstance which the Turkish authorities sedulously endeavor to conceal. The Famine in Ireland. LONDON, Sept. 13.—John E. Redmond, the Parnellite leader and member of Parliament for Waterford City, in an interview on the prospects of famine in Ireland, is quoted as saying: “The failure of crops, especially the potato crop, means that a large section ot the people of Ireland win soon be on the verge ot starvation. It is already reported that the inhabitants of many places in Connaught are eating bread, which, in ordinary times, is regarded as a luxury and is not used except when potatoes are unobtainable. Agricultural experts have information to the effect that cUe present harvest is the worst since 1879,which was the most distressing recorded dunn ß the present generation and the sufferings of the poor during tne next eignt rnomns threaten to almost equal the horror of tne famine of 1846. All the boards of guardians are providing for a large increase of poverty, necessitating doubling the rates in some districts. But immediate steps must be taken by the government if the people are to be saved.” The Dervishes Fled. CAIRO, Sept. 13.—Major General Hunter, with four gunboats and the Egyptian troops, has reached Berber, which was occupied about ten days ago by the Soudanese, who are friendly to the British, on the evacuation by the Dervishes, who retired in the direction of Metemneh. General Hunter sent two gunboats in pursuit of the Dervishes and overtook them at Ed Dameh (Ed Darner), at the junction of the river Atbara with the Nile, between the districts of Kamlad and Hassanien. After a few shots the Dervishes tied, abandoning fourteen barges laden with grain, it is reported that Osman Digna, the principal general of the Knalifa, has concentrated a strong force on the banks of the Adbara below Hamdal. Thrown from an Omnibus. LONDON, fevpt. 14.—A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Pans says that Mrs. Marshall, an American, was riding on the top of an omnibus to-day along the Rue de Lafayette wnen a wheel of the vehicle was caugnt in the tramway rails. The omnibus gave a sudden lurch and Mrs. Marshall was thrown into the street with great violence. She was removed to the hospital, where she is now lying, apparently at the point of death. MaNnacre In the French Congo. MARSEILLES, Sept. 13. The mails which arrived to-day from the French Congo bring news of the massacre of a trading convoy in Canoes, upper Congo. The Pahouin tribe on July 30 tell upon tne convoy near the town of Njole, on the Congo river, killing about fifty natives. The two white men who were in command are believed to have escaped. Forty .Miners Killed. MADRAS, Sept. 13.—A most serious accident has occurred at the Champion Reefs mine. Forty persons are known to have been killed. Cable Note*. The officials of the Vatican have strictly enjoined the Spanish priesthood to abstain from all participation in the Carlist agitation. Tho London Times's correspondent at Buenos Ayres says it is feared there that the harvest will be almost entirely destroyed by locusts. The Nicaraguan Congress has appointed a committee to investigate the charter and affairs of the London Bank of Central America, limited, of Managua, with tin- object of annulling its charter if possible. The Cologne Gazette says the Grand Duke of Hesse has presented the Czar of Russia, his brother-in-law, with an extensive site at Matilehohe, upon which ids Russian Majesty will erect, at his own expense, next spring, an Orthodox chapel. Several officials of the Greater Republic of Central America who were- prominent in objecting to tin* Hon. W. L. Merry as United States minister to the Greater Republic of Central America art now loud in his praises and are anxiously awaiting his arrival at Managua. It is reported that the Duchess of York will shortly issue an appeal in behalf of the Irish who are threatened with famine, simifcir to the appeal which the Princess of made in behalf of the London poor at the time of the preparations for the Queen’s jubilee celebrations.

REED ON THE HARD TIMES ♦ THE SPEAKER OF THE HOI SE EXPRESSES SOME SENSIBLE X IENYS. Hard Times Had Their Uses In Teaching: Economy and Lowering Prices —Saving- Should Continue. Illustrated American. Tho ways of tho Ruler of the Universe are not our ways, and this we could easily know even if it were not Scripture. With all our knowledge and growth in civilization we are so unconscious of our own impulses and so ignorant of our own movements that the reappearances of wellknown phenomena awaken the same surprise and provoke the same misunderstanding as the first appearance. It is true that the life of man is so short, and the cycles of the Almighty so long, that in the lifetime of one man there are but few repetitions of certain never-to-be-for-gotten series of events. Not only is the life of man short, but it is divided into youth, manhood and old age. The sensations of each are different, and it is hard for either manhood or old age to recognize, as the same the very things which happened in youth and which are repeated but once again in a long life, and not at all in the thirty years which, on the average are allotted to mankind. Nothing has been more thoroughly well understood by thos’e who have studied the past even in the superficial way in which we all study it than that there is a regular succession of prosperity and adversity, of adversity and prosperity, which varies in causes and appearances, but which is substantially the same century after century. We will not press too strongly the seven fat and seven lean kine, which came up out of lie sea in the dream of Pharaoh, but you may depend upon it that that dream had its origin in actual events, and that the alternation of good times and hard times antedates the pyramids. But whether that be so or not, the complex nature of modern society, the welding together in matters of trade of the whole world from Chica to Peru and from far Cathay to the polar zones, has made the periodicity of this alternation more marked, more clearly defined, wider spread and more nearly universal. Has it ever occurred to you to think that the wisdom of the laws which govern the universe can even in this case be justified to human reason and sense, and that hard times themselves help work out the salvation of the human race? The time perhaps has come for us to look at this aspect of our situation and derive as much comfort as possible from our past disasters. While the disaster was upon us it was not the time to point out the blessing. I suppose that even the saints who are made perfect through suffering do not quite appreciate the process until it is over. When grief has changed into peace and the enduring result has made the sorrows undergone merely a fading memory, instead of a grinding present torture, only then do even the saints realize that sainthood can come in no other way. Every time we enter upon a period of prosperity we think, notwithstanding the fact that all history is against us. that this time we shall escape the oncoming of adversity, that civilization has at last reached a point where health will be permanent and disease banished forever.

NEED OF ADVERSITY. But this will never be. Underneath all the seeming causes of the alternation, underneath questions of currency, tariff, balance of trade, war, crops, prices and all other causes, their lies the great moving cause ever present and never to be banished, the human nature of the human race. We creatures cannot endure monotony. We must have change, and we do have it. Nor is it a waste of time, the human race being what it is. to lie fallow for a few years. Were the continuance of the feeling of confidence prolonged, Unbroken, over even a single century. I am persuaded that all the wealth of the world would be dissipated and wo should be as naked as Adam and Eve came into the world. Just notice how severe is the punishment of a nation which merely overstays its time of prosperity. We have in tne United States and its wonderful upliftings in the direction of wealth special temptations, and we stay prosperous, in our minds, at least, longer than othex nations, and the result is that we suffer more severely than they. We are also the last to recuperate. After all, why should it not be so? We make hay abundantly when our sun is shining and the barns are full. Why should we be careful about hav? Let the cattle trample on it and be bedded in it. We have plenty. Why should we economize? That takes orains, and, above all, worry. That means sleepless nights and toilsome days. Why should we who revel in abundance glean also the fields like the poor? In such times we all become lavish and expect pennies to take care of themselves. We go on from one folly to another. We spend capital and persuade ourselves that we arV- only spending income. It is easy not only to mortgage our future but to deceive ourselves and to say that this is only temporary, oniy meeting a passing emergency. By our extravagant ways we honeycomb what we have. Pv and by confidence gets broken un arid the clock strikes for settlement. The property is all there, but who owns it? Nowadays such a settlement Is a world settlement and a thousand million peopl’e make it a very complicated business. How we do it we can never quite tell. But it gets done, and when it gets done the world gradually resumes business and the cycle again commences. This period of settlement is a standstill except for the necessaries of life and of the period in which it occurs. INDUSTRIAL PROBLEMS. By necessaries of life is meant not merely those things without which life could not exist, but those things also which have by the advance of civilization become such a part of our lives that we will not relinquish them without a struggle. Os course, many of these necessaries of life depend for their continued production upon the amount of sacrifice we have to make to obtain them and the maintenance of their production depends upon bringing them within the restricted purchasing power of the. consumer. A necessary of life as thus defined may a T necessary at $1 and an impossibility at Hence all the energies of the producers at such a period are bent upon the problem: How can I bring the price of this thing within the means, the diminished means, of those who want it at $1 and do not want it at $2? When you spread this idea and make it active all over the trade of the world or even over the trade of the United States alone, you can see what a power it is. It sets inventive genius at work in all directions. It makes economies possible which were never dreamed of. and never could be dreamed of. in the days of prosperity. 1 his reduction of the cost of production is carried ali over the country and throughout all of the industries It is. indeed, entirely within hounds to fay that the direct result of the hard times is that we have lowered the cost of prpduc♦ijn of all things on an average more than 1 > per cent. See what’our mills and manufactories have done. Our railroads, in their way. have done the same thing. It is a waste of money to use small engines and light rails and the old-fashioned cars. If a railroad wants to do business to-day it must have heavy steel rails, heavy and powerful engines; it must have the small barns which we now use for freight cars, doubling and trebling the old capacity. Railroads must do their work cheaper or stop trying to do it. .All our harbors are to be dredged to receive the greater ships which we have !>een forced to build; the greater ships to do the work at less price. This improvement and economy has been very searching and powerful. It meant life, and neglect of it meant death. NEED OF SAYING. But it has already been said that such economy was impossible in prosperity. This is for the very sufficient reason that economy in prosperity is only adding to profits. In adversity it is the very profit itself. It' you say to a man who Is making $50,000 a year you could make SIO,OOO more if you would delve and labor and struggle, the chances are that he would not find that SIO,OOO worth the struggle. But if you showed him that the SIO,OOO saved meant the life of his business, and the loss of it bankruptcy, you would set all his powers to work, and that SIO,OOO would In- well worth his while. Permit to repeat that this saving of cost has gone all over tho country and the world, and over all industries. so very

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AMUSEMENTS. GRAND |i| To-Night Popular Matinees To-morrow, Tliura. and Hat. HANI.ON BROS.’ Gorgeous Fair Week Spectacle SUPER BA. Filled with New Scenery, Illusions, Tricks, Transformations, Charming Ballets and a variety of High-Class Specialties. PRICKS—Night. 25c, 50c, 75c, sl. Mats., 25c, So. Seats at the Pembroke. N A iir P#i r lr Prices, 10c, 20c, 30c eW rdlK, Matinee Daily.... This Afternoon and To-night, MONROE AND HART And Twenty Others In THE GAY MATINEE GIRL. A High-Class Attraction filled with the Best Specialties. Brightest Music and Prettiest Girls. 83^.EVERYBODY GOES TO THE A good reserved seat—mezzanine tloor—lo cents. Sept. 20, 21, 22—TONY PASTOR. emwreTlsC Matinee at 2. To-Night at H. 10c, 15c, 25c. 15c, 25e, 5Uc. Clifford's Gaiety Company Presenting Ills FRENCH DOLL. Thursday, Friday and Saturday Vaudeville Club Burlesquers. Coming—Ml ACO’S CITY CLUB. TOMLINSON HALL | To-Night Daily 11 a. m., 2:30 p. m„ 8:30 p. m., All Week Dan A Stuart's Marvelous Veriscope Corbett-Fitzsimmons Contest. Every detail of the Great Battle shown to the life, and all the exciting scenes and incidents before and after. PRICES—Night, 25c, 50c, 75c, ft. Day, 25c, 50c. Seats at the Pembroke. Base Ball FIRST GAME CALLED AT 1 >3O P. M. Tickets on sale at Warner’s, Adam’s, Huder’sand Alcazar. Box seats at Alcazar only “The Big Double Decker” STEAMER Regular trips morning, afterSUNSHINE noon and evening. At BROAD Full orchestra on board. RIPPLE Boat can be chartered for private parties. Apply on board. Delicious Ootifections! AUEGRETTFS CHOCOLATES, GUNTHER’S CHOCOLATES and BON BONS Htuler’s Druu Store, Washington and Pennsylvania Sts. NATIONAL ffjJPL Tube Works %'crSl Wrought-iron Pipe for Gas, ‘ 3 Steam and Water. Boiler Tube*. Cast and Malle"''Mu. able Iron Fittings (black and [• Abtnk. _ galvanized). \alv<*n. Stop fc'Uafm' f 7*5 Cock*. Engine Trimming, r-jSg ■,] Mr s,eaui Gauges, Pipe Tongs, IfivS Will ” Pipe Cutters. Vise*. Screw HUb HM Plates and Dies, Wi-em he*, B 9 Kjfifl Steam Traps. Pumps. KinhjßyMj Hsl en Sinks, llose. Belting. BabHI jh'mJ bit Metal. Solder. White and IB HP! Colored Wiping Waste, and HSI |g all other Supplies used lo •-> connection with Gas, Steam |B ftri anil Water. Natural Gas Hr U Swindle* a specialty. steami beath-g Apparatus for Public Buildings, Store-room a ■fed Mills, Shops. Factories, haute | f ‘ "5 dries, Lumber Dry-Houses, : I etc. Cut and Thread to ors der any size Wrought-tron DI Pipe, from H Inch to 11 | Inches diameter. I n KIIGHT JILLSOH, 9 W 5. PENNSYLVANIA STIcing ago a great iron master said that when iron would not bring sls a ton bo would pile it up like gold. To-day he would have to take $lO, or keep on piling. Now thi-s saving of cost of production we carry into the next period of prosperity with all that that Implies. With the next run of good prices, lower though they will be than for former years, we snail have a similar margin of profit and wealth will resume Its accumulation. We have also been saving money. We have been accumulating capital, capital which is free from incumbrance, which Is disposable to the beet bidder. We have, as a single Hem. added 5,000 miles to our railroad. and $360,000,000 to their capital and value. Our savings banks show similar increase, indicative of much we do not see. One hundred and eleven million dollars measure the increase in New York State alone. In the banks of the same State $118,01:0,000 have bevn piled up in excess of the best previous prosperous year. We have reorganized our great trunk lines beyond the Mississippi on so sound a basis that the hope is not unreasonable that thev will iVfcvcr again need it any more than will the Pennsylvania Railroad or the New York Central. Whether tne time has come for another period like that between the years 1870 and 1892 we cannot Lv utterly sure, for while we can discover the looming of the great headlands of the shore we can never bo sure of the distance. L Nevertheless, of this wv can be sure; some of the foundations of prosperity have been laid broad and deep, and It cannot bo long before the superstructure will begin to rise, a supVrstrui tore worthy of the past and worthy of u word which, however it may seem to falter, is always steadily advancing toward a richer prosperity and a greater civilization.