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YELLOW FEVER PLAGUE LITTLE IMPROVEMENT YESTERDAY IN THE INFECTED CITIES. . - Forty-One New Cases of the Disease and Four Deaths at New Orlean l’p to 9 o’clock Last Night. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 16.—Generally there waa much of promise in the yellowfever situation here to-day. The forenoon reports were all of a reassuring nature. No deaths had occurred and by 1 o’clock the new cases had only reached fifteen, as against more than double that number on the day before. By 7 o’clock only twentytwo cases had been reported to the Board of Health, and the first death occurred late this evening. The death was that of Dr. J. Spruell. Ha was a widely known dentist. At 9 p. m., however,* three more deaths and nine additional cases were reported. The new cases to-day are rather widely scattered. Here is the record for the day: New Cases—Joseph Lewis, Lawrence Deeves, , at 2601> Thalia Joseph Ryan, Mary Pass, Prince Ross, Virginia Roes, Mathieu Antonovich, Charles H. Allen, Miss Winnie Parish, T. A. O'Sullivan, Albert Sails, Celia Rainey, Miss Jeannette Rainey, Mrs. Cast, Mary Stevens, Mrs. William Lariguey, Rev. Dr. D. I. Purser, Edith, Isabella and Louise Ann Dugan. Laura Wallis, Miss Florence Zellis, Mrs. Berkenstow, Miss Jennie Rainey, Chriskendery, Sam A. Wright, Ruferto, Ruferto, sr., Billings. Deaths—Dr. J. Spruell, Fred Shuep, A. Guarnio, Sarah Cardona. Official report of the Board of Health: Cases of yellow fever to date, 804; total deaths from yellow fevei to date, 88; total cases absolutely recovered, 387; total cases under treatment, 339. The most important feature of the new situation to-day was a meeting at the Mechanics’, Dealers’ and Lumbermen's Exchange, called for the purpose of criticising the Board of Health and of Insisting on the modification of local quarantine regulations. Those who were instrumental in having the meeting called held that there was no longer any necessity of squandering thousands of dollars a week trying to confine the disease by the use of guards when the infection has widely spread and the people in every quarter of the city were successfully evading the Board of Health's regulations by going over back fences and through side alleys and then mingling with people on the streets. Resolutions ou this line were voted down, however. Mississippi** Report. JACKSON, Miss., Oct. 16.—The State Board of Health to-night issued the following official statement: “Dr. Dunn, who was sent from Edwards to Cayuga yesterday to investigate cases of fever, hat returned to Edwards and reports tweive or fourteen well defined eases of yellow fever in the neighborhood of Cayuga. •’No danger is apprehended of spread of fever at Utica. There is one new case at Nittayuma. Mrs. H. Blum. At Clinton there is only one case under treatment.” The following comes from Edwards: One death. Mrs. Tom Askew. There are five new cases, two of which are white. Five aro reported as serious. Seven New Cases at Mobile. BOBILC, Ala., Oct. 16.—Seven new cases were added to the list to-day, as follows: Walter Blackshear, Virginia Spencer, R. D Woods, David Davis, W. A. Shafer, Nellie McKnight, Eugenia Henry. There were no deaths. Six patients have recovered. Total cases to date, IT>9; deaths, 31; recoveries, 97; under treatment, 41. At Wagar, Ala., to-day, O. Edwards died of fever, the second death there. Six others are sick. IlHiiqiiet to Minister Hitchcock. ST. LOUIS, Oct. 16.—As a parting compliment, just previous to his leaving for St.

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Petersburg to assume the post of embassador of the United States, the Commercial Club to-night gave a banquet to Hon. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, whom President McKinley recently appointed to that position. About forty-five plates were laid in the banqueting hall or the St. Louis club, where some of the wealthiest and most prominent men of the city assembled. Resolutions were introduced complimentary to Mr. Hitchcock’s selection as embassador to Russia and a number of speeches were made seconding it. Mr. Hitchcock responded in felicitous terms and the resolution was adopted. MORGAN FOR ANNEXATION. The Senator’s View* Strengthened by His Visit to lluivuil. HONOLULU, Oct, 7., via San Francisco, Oct. 16.—Senator Morgan will leave for San Francisco next Tuesday, accompanied by his daughters. They will go direct to Alabama and after a brief rest the senator will leave for Washington, hoping to arrive there about the middle of November. He states that he has been strongly convinced in his own mind that the annexation of the islands is the right thing. He is happy that bis visit to Honolulu has given him such a fund of information that he can debate with intelligence on the question when it comes up in the Senate this fall. He says that his previous information was gleaned from islanders whom he had chanced to meet and from what books he could get hold of. Now he has been on the ground and ascertained for himself the conuition of things, which will have important bearing on tne debate that is to ensue. While he was considered an authority on Hawaiian matters before, by his colleagues, his right to that position will be fully recognized by all during the coining session. In speaking about the important question of citizenship in case of annexation, he stated that all citizens of Hawaii will he made citizens of the United States. “Those people,” continued the senator, “who hold letters of denization will become invested with American citizenship. When annexation takes place, In all prbability, however, Congress will take some measure to give them the full privileges. Yes, the Portuguese, as well as other foreigners, who are citizens of Hawaii at the time the islands are taken In, will become citizens of the United States.” The first state entertainment given by President Dole will take place on next Monday evening at the executive building. Jt will be a public reception tendered to Senator Morgan on the eve of his departure. Francis M. Hatch, Hawaiian minister to Washington, will leave for his post on the 12th. SITUATION IN GUATEMALA. Nonconihatants Robbed by Both Rebels and the Government. SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—A private letter received here to-day from Gautemala says that chaos reigns in the little republic, and that all lines of business are stagnated by the revolution. Exchange is up to $1.85, and the coffee plantations are being deserted with the berries rotting on the trees. The owners are in terror of assessments and all the native proprietors have been mulcted in large sums for the purpose of carrying on the war. According to the letter, they are first assessed by Barrios and then by the revolutionists. Both the government and the rebels are impressing the laborers in the army wherever they find them, and the laborers are taking to the woods. Mariano Lopez Pacheco, Manuel Morales Tabar, Francisco Toledo, Dr. Vancilia and other sympathizers with the revolutionary movement have left the Occidental Hotel and taken up their quarters in a private dwelling on Van Ness avenue. They say this movement was necessary in order to get away from the spies of Barrios. who were hounding and annoying them. Thery is no love lost between these gentlemen and Consul Carillo. Several of them met the consul and a friend at a public resort last night and an encounter was imminent for a moratiit, but the consul discreetly withdrew.

LONDON’S SMART SET 0 KEPT BUSY LAST WEEK ATTENDING FASHIONABLE FUNCTIONS. Swell Wedding: of the Marqats of Waterford and Lady Beatrix Fltzmaurlce at St. George's. * . LITTLE MARLBOROUGH HEIR CHRISTENED, WITH THE PRINCE OF WALES AS CHIEF SPONSOR. Triumph of the “Jersey Lily” at the Newmarket Races Followed by Another Kind of Triumph. HER DIVORCE NOW ABSOLUTE - - FOR HER LONG-SUFFERING HUSBAND DIED LAST FRIDAY NIGHT. Silver Question Discussed by the British Cabinet, bat Nothing Done in Favor of Bimetallism. LONDON, Oct. 16.—This has been a busy week for the smart set in English society, events of much importance to aristocratic circles following each other with rapidity. The Newmarket races, at which Mrs. Langtry cut such a splurge, kept the Prince of Wales and his set busy most of the week. To-day saw most of the fashionables, including the prince, back in London, to be present at two great social events fixed for to-day, namely, the wedding of the Marquis of Waterford and Lady Beatrice Fitzmaurice, younger daughter of the Marquis of Landsdowne, secretary of state for war, at St. George’s, Hanover square, and the christening of the Marlborough heir at the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace. * * * At the wedding the bride was attended by eight bridesmaids and a page dressed as a cavalier, in a suit of white satin. The bridesmaids were Ladies Susan and Clodah De la Poor Beresford, sisters of the bridegroom; Lady Kathleen de la Poor Beresford, daughter of Lord Charles de la Poor Beresford; Ladies Alexandria and Gladys Hamilton, daughters of the Duke of Abercorn; Lady Constance Scott, daughter of the Duke of Buccleuch; Lady Nora Spencer Churchill, daughter of the Marchioness of Blandford, and Lady Beatrix Herbert, daughter of the Earl of Pembroke. Among the presents is one from the Prince and Princess of Wales and from the ex-Empress Eugenie. The ceremony was witnessed by the Prince of Wales and many members of the government, and enormous crowds of people gathered outside the building. The porch of the church was lined by officers and the troopers of the “Blues” Royal Horseguards, in which regiment the Marquis Is a lieutenant. The Marquis of Lanscowne gave his daug .vof away, and Viscount Chruchton was best man. The bride wore magnificent lace, diamonds and pearls. The reception at the Marchioness of Lansdowne’s residence, which followed, was thronged with high society people. * * • At the Chapel Royal, St. James Palace, the subdean, the Rev. Edgar Sheppard, baptized the infant son and heir of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. The Prince of Wales, who was sponsor at the Duke of Marlborough’s christening, acted again today in that capacity In the case of the lattcr’s son. The other sponsors were the Marchioness of Blandford, mother of the Duke of Marlborough, and William K. Vanderbilt, father of the Duchess of Marlborough. The altar and font were beautifully decorated with flowers. Among those present, in addition to the parents and sponsors, were the Duke and Duohess of Buccleuch, Lord Churchill, Lady Pembroke and Lord Frederick Hamilton. The Prince of Wales drove to the chapel at 11:30 a. m. attended by Gen. Stanley de la Calvert Clasker, one of his equerries, and was received at the entrance by the Duke of Marlborough and Abercorn, while at the main door the prince was met by the Duchess of Marlborough and the Marchioness of Blandford, Ladles Lena and Nora Spencer Churchill and Mr. Vanderbilt. Proceeding to the font, the subdean began the service, and the Prince of Wales, who stood with the other sponsors, responded to the usual questions with great distinctness, his words being heard all over the building. When the time came for naming the infant the Marchioness of Blandford took the child from its nurse and in reply to the subdean’s request for its name replied: “John Albert Edward William.” The subdean then took the baby in his arms, made the sign of the cross upon It and handed the child back to the marchioness. The baby throughout the ceremony did not whimper. The hymn having been sung and the Prince of Wales having carefully inspected the infant, the party repaired to the vestry and signed the register. There the Prince of Wales presented the parents of the child with a gold cup, on which was engraved the names, the date, the arms of the Prince of Wales and the arms of the Marlboroughs. While the sponsors were in the vestry signing the register the baby held a reception and was afterward carried out, preceded by the Prince of Wales. The Duchess of Marlborough was dressed in pale blue and white, with brown fur trimmings. The Marchioness of Blandford wore ruby satin. • • * The Newmarket race course has been the center of the social world of Great Britain during the past week. There were large house parties at all the swell residences in the vicinity, and the Prince of Wales, who was shooting with the Duke of Cambridge on the !six Mile bottom, attended the races daily, generally wearing a dark brown golfing cape. Lady Beresford, Lady Randolph Churchill and Lady Essex, .three American leaders of society, wearing the smartest of costumes, also were in attendance every day. * * * Racing week has been a triumph for Mrs. Langtry, even before she became the owner of the horse Merman and the winner of the Czarewitch stakes and a fortune in bets. In the exclusive Jockey Club inclosure she was the best dressed woman and was constantly surrounded by admirers. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge were specially devoted to her, and the prince was the first person to congratulate Mrs. Langtry on winning the Czarewitch, while the Duke of Cambridge escorted her to the bird cage in order to meet the victorious Merman. EDWARD LANGTRY DEAD. Ex-Huttlmnl of the “Jersey Lily” Dies in uii Insane Hospital. IJJNDON, Oct. 16.—Edward Langtry died last night in the asylum for the insane at Chester, to which he was recently committed by a Magistrate, having been found wandering in a helpless condition in that vicinity. It is supposed that

Mr. Langtry was Buffering from concussion of the brain due to failing down the gangway of the steamer on which he traveled from Dublin to Holyhead. A Sunday paper publishes, over the signature of “One Who Knew Him,” a sketch of Edward Langtry. The writer says: "'‘Langtry in fifteen long years never set eyes on ‘my better half,’ as he was wont to call her, until one day, on King William slree-t, their eyes met. Langtry told me that he raised his hat most respectfully, and nuulame bowed, but it was not the greeting of a husband and wife. Langtry never saw his wife on the stage. The last time I met Langtry was when he came to town to institute certain divorce proceedings, and I then noticed that my 111-starred friend was no longer the Langtry of old. He was nervous to a degree and at times his mind wandered, while he had one insatiable desire—to have a ‘few words’ with ‘my better half.’ During Langtry’s hist illness Mrs. I-angtry’s solicitor requested that they be kept informed of his condition. It is possible tnat she may inherit his estate in Ireland, as he willed it to her by his marriage settlement, and as her divorce is not recognized by the English law. In an interview last May Mr. Langtry said that this settlement still held.” Edward Langtry was born in Ireland, and at one time was considered wealthy. He was of a quiet disposition, and took his greatest pleasure in his books and country surroundings. Twenty-five years ago he married the beautiful Emile Le Breton, daughter of a Church of England clergyman in the island of Jersey. Langtry thought his happiness was complete. But within a few years, when his wife was introduced into society, he found himself undone. Soon she was the acknowledged favorite of the Prince of Wales. That was her hour of triumph and the first blow to her husband. Since then she has jnliicted One after another. From, the Prince of Wales she turned to Frederick Gebhard, who at one time was ready to marry her. After Gebhard came Sir Robert Peel and then ’Squire Abingdon. Mrs. Langtry began three suits for divorce. charging Langtry variously with cruelty and abandonment. She claimed that he was living on money furnished by her. During it all he remained silent, suffering deeply hut saying nothing w'hich could harm his wife. It was not until a few months ago, when Mrs. Langtry secured her California divorce for, it was then reported. the purpose of marrying Prince Esterhazy, that he spoke. Then Mr. Langtry declared that he should never recognize the divorce, and that, in his eyes, as well as in English law, Mrs. Langtry was not a free woman. BRITISH CABINET MEETING. Sliver Question Discussed, bnt No Answer Returned to Americans. LONDON, Oct. 16.—The British Cabinet this morning held its first autumn meeting at the Foreign Office. The premier, Lord Salisbury, presided and all the ministers, with the exception of Lord James, the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; Viscount Cross, lord privy seal, and Mr. Walter Long, the president of the Board of Agriculture, were in attendance. The meeting lasted two hours. It is understood that the question of reopening the Indian mints for coinage of silver was not decided, but it is regarded as certain that the mints will not be reopened at present or until the Indian authorities are fully prepared. Though the decision rests with Downey street, it is certain that the views of Simla will prevail, and it is known that the Indian authorities oppose the step. It is understood that a statement will be issued next week to the effect that the British government does not intend to suggest that the Bank of England should hold its reserves partly in silver. it is reported that Sir Michael HicksBeach, chancellor of the exchequer, will hold further conferences with the American monetary commissioners, the conferences having been arranged before the meeting of the Cabinet to-day. Up to a late hour this evening the American commissioners had not received any communication from the British government regarding the answer expected by Senator Wolcott and his colleagues to the proposal made. No more definite information can be obtained with regard to the action,' of the Cabinet, but there is every reason to believe that the government’s position is as before stated—that it will not enter into an international monetary conference. ‘Messages received from the members of the American commission say they have received. no information with regard to the action taken at the Cabinet council to-day, but they hear that a statement will be issued next week to the effect that the government will make no suggesion to the Bank of England as to any alteration of its present reserve. The government cannot in any event do more than make a recommendation to the bank, so the statement that the Cabinet had decided that the bank should maintain a full gold standard is incorrect. The Press Association winds out the following semi-official statement tonight: “The Cabinet considered the subject, in pursuance of the pledges given in their name by Mr. A. J. Balfour, first lord of the treasury, and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor of the exchequer In the House of Commons when the resolution favoring co-operation in securing a stable monetary par exchange between gold and silver was passed. The chancellor of the exchequer and his coileageus still maintain, the position taken then—that the government cannot alter the gold standard in the United Kingdom. But they have in the interval consulted the Indian government with regard to the opening of the Indian mints, and a reply has been received which, it is understood, is strongly adverse to the proposal. Owing to the difficulties raised in India and the opposition in other quarters, the Cabinet feeis that it is unable to give an immediate answer regarding the reopening of the Indian mints, but it apparently is not indisposed to enter into further negotiations, and it is expected that as the outcome of to-day’s Cabinet Council the United States commissioners will shortly have another interview with Sir Michael Hicks-Beach,- and that diplomatic communications on the question will be continued with the foreign powers more immediately concerned in the rehabilitation of silver.” In spite of the above, however, it is generally believed that the government has fully decided to say no to the proposals presented by Mr. Wolcott. Mr. Stevenson left London yesterday for Rome. • BRITISH LAWLESSNESS. Riotous Acts Tlmt Would Not Be Tolerated In tlie United States. (Copyright, 1597, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, Oct. 16.—The English newspapers which are fond of preaching unctuous sermons on the subject of the ‘‘lawlessness of Americans” have food for reflection in two events in London and its suburbs this week. Tha Honor Oak Golf Club possessed One Tree Hill for three years. Finding the property was being wantonly destroyed or stolen, the club caused the ground to be i fenced In, thus shutting out the general public, to the great delight of the neighboring residents, whose life had been made hideous because of the congregating there of drunken, dogfighting roughs from the slums of Deptford. Thereupon it was claimed that the public’s rights were being encroached on, and the agitation against the golfers, assiduously fomented, culminated on Sunday last, when a mob of about one thousand persons, armed with clubs and stones, tore down the fence and demolished everything in sight. They destroyed the golfing links, and, reinforced by over two thousand other rioters, the mob advanced on the clubhouse, driving the golfers within. Bricks and logs flew until the clubhouse w 7 as wrecked. When the rioters were unable to dislodge the determined members of the club, some of the mob leaders brought bundles of straw, with the intention of setting fire to the premises, and they were only prevented from carrying out thoir purpose by the timely arrival of police reinforcements, the few policemen previously on the scene having been as badly maltreated as the golf players. One of ths latter fell into the hands of a dozen roughs, who pounded him with sticks until the unfortunate player was in a serious condition. A renewal of the disturbance is expected to-morrow'. A somewhat similar right-of-way raid was witnessed at Hallingaon on Tuesday, when the inhabitants of that place opened a road through Lord Hillingdon's game preserves. The right of way through these preserves had been barred for over thirty years, and the ground is overgrown with fine timber, which the crowds of villagers felled for a distance of half a mile also removing the gates, iron fences, etc., which were in their way. London ruffianism does not end here. The terrors of the streets are so glaring that the vestries of the different parishes have combined in un appeal to the home secre-

tary for additional police protection, pointing out that many of the districts are living practically in a state of terrorism, gangs of ruffains insulting, attacking and robbing the inhabitants seemingly without any restraint. BRITISH ARMV TOO WEAK. Home Batteries and Battalions Little Better than Nurseries. (Copyright, 1867, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, Oct. 16.—The Army and Navy Gazette voices the opinion of British military men in congratulating the country on the fact that the government has at last determined to increase the effectiveness of the army, as already pretold in dispatches from Sept. 23 on. The Gazette says it is useless to deny that there is reason for alarm at Ihe present moment, adding that the army is unequal even to ordinary demands, the home batteries and batallions being little better than so many ‘‘military nurseries.” Continuing the Gazette says: ‘‘The men are mostly immature boys, and the reserves, which would be mobilized under certain conditions, are unrestrained. The militia, which was once valuable, has been allowed to run to seed completely, and the volunteers are a doubtful source of strength. No patriotic Englishman can regard the situation with complacency. It is deplorable that a nation so prosperous should be powerless for a military effort beyond the reach of her ship's guns.” In other quarters the old proposals for a conscription are again heard. The newspapers are poking a great deal of fun at the latest War Office order prescribing the weight and height of candidates for commission in the army, who must not be less than live feet five inches high and 130 pounds in w r eight at the age of eighteen, or nve feet five inches high and 138 pounds in weight when twenty-one years old. It is pointed out that under this rule neither Lord Wolseley nor Lord Roberts could have entered the army, while Napoleon, Nelson, Wellington, Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and William of Orange would have been barred. The newspapers are bristling with letters from friends of the candidates for commission, many of whom are understood to be undergoing fattening processes in order to reach the required weight. AGGRESSIONS IN AFRICA, Blnliop Hnrtsell S>, May Lead to Wars Between Europeans. (Copyright, 1897, by the Associated Press.) LONDON, Oct. 16. Dr. Hartsell, the American M. E. bishop of West Africa, in an interview, emphasizes the increasing dangers of the situation in West Africa owing to the activity of the French authorities, as already outlined In cable dispatches. The bishop says that unless the best statesmanship Is brought to bear upon the African problems the European wars of the next century will be fought on that continent. He suggests as the best solution of the problem that Great Britain should give Germany Walfisch bay and give France Ashantee, Bathurst and p.ll rights in Morocco and Algiers, France, on her part, withdrawing all her claims in Egypt ‘‘which England not surrender.” The bishop adds that there is no doubt King Leopold of Belgium is resolved to take over the Congo Free State as a Belgian colony in 1900. Already the state is being divided into districts to be occupied by various Roman Catholic orders. The Saturday Review, commenting upon the report that Germany has signified to the government of the Transvaal republic that she would regard an alteration of the dynamite concession as an unfriendly act, says: ‘‘The rumor seems probable; but in the present instance Emperor William has made a mistake. We bound ourselves not to interfere in the internal affairs of the Transvaal, but we will not brook any interference on the part of Germany. If the Emperor thinks he can interfere for the benefit of the English and other gold-min-ing companies he will find himself mistakem. The peremptory ‘hands off’ which was England’s answer to the imperial busybody's interference after the Jameson raid can hardly so soon have been forgotten by him.” Bull Fight for glam’s King:. MADRID, Oct. 16.—The Queen Regent today received the King of Siam. The members of ills Majesty’s suite expressed a desire to witness a bull fight, but were informed that bull fighting had been excluded from the festivities In their honor, in order to avoid wounding the King’s religious susceptibilities. Thereupon King Chulalongkorn said he would like to see a bull fight, adding that his religion only forbade the killing of cows, and orders were immediately given that a fight be arranged. Victoria, and the Kaiser. LONDON, Oct. 16.—The rapprochement between Queen Victoria and her grandson, Emperor William of Germany, Is growing apace, and it is now highly probable that his Majesty will pay a brief visit to Balmoral in November, traveling on his yacht from Kiel to Aberdeen. In connection with the Emperor’s yacht, it is said Queen Victoria is so enamored of the internal arrangements of the Hohenzollern that she has ordered the plans of the latter to be adopted in building the new royal yacht, which has just been commenced. $1 a Word for Ktpllngr Poetry. LONDON, Oct. 16.—1 tis understood that for the poem which is to be written for the first number of Literature, which is to be Issued under the auspices of the London Times, Rudyard Kipling will be paid $1 a word. It is entitled ‘‘White Horses,” is in ten stanzas of eight lines, and is appropriate for Trafalgar day, but without a word of politics in it. Probably n French Canard. PARIS, Oct. 16. —According to a dispatch to the Rappel from Berlin, it is rumored in German court circles that the ex-Em-press Frederick, mother of Emperor William, intends to marry Count Von Sickendorf, the court marshal. The Rappel is a boulevard paper and no credence is given to the report. I)r. Nansen Coining:. LIVERPOOL, Oct. 16.—The Cunard line steamer Lucania, Captain McKay, which sailed from thi3 port to-day for New York, has on board among her pase.ngers, Dr. Nansen, the arctic explorer; William K. Vanderbilt and Bishop Perry, of lowa. The Khedive Too Extravagant. LONDON, Oct. 26, Dlsjiatches received from Cairo, Egypt, say the Khedive is in a serious finaneal condition as a result of a long course of private extravagance. Cable Notes. Henry M. Stanley is going to Buluwayo as a guest of the Chartered Company. It is stated also that Mr. Stanley will resume journalism. Prof. Hubert Herkomer, R. A. R. W r . S., will probably succeed the late Sir John Gilbert as president of the British Royal Society of Painters in Water Colors. A recent census of sixteen churches within five hundred yards' radius of the Mansion House, London, showed their total congregations to be 19,990 and that both services cost the churches amounts of £25,000 ($125,0u0) annually. The London Sunday Times says that the reports that an English syndicate was to buy the Union Pacific Railway were based upon the efforts of meddling promoters to blackmail the reorganization committee into giving them a share of the profit. The baronets are about to hold a meeting in London to protect their rights and seek redress for their grievances, in view of a recent decision according children during the legal life of peers, the title of honeyable, and giving them precedence of the younger children of barons and ahead of baronets. An American named John Harkins, alias “Yankee Jack,” who is said to be well known on the American turf, was charged in a police court at London, yesterday, with being concerned with others in a violent attack on some detectives and with rescuing a member of the gang which committed the Sunderland bank robbery in June last. Harkins was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment. The corporation of London is going to have an art gallery, the nucleus of which was presented to the corporation on Thursday last by Mr. David Sellar who informed the lord mayor, Sir George Faudel Phillips, that he proposed to hand over to the cor|oration two hundred old Dutch, Italian and English pictures. Mr. Sellar is chairman of the London Tramway Company and is well known in New York, havir„ formerly been uu extensive Liverpool grain operator.

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OVER 570,000 VOTES ■- —* REGISTERED IN GREATER NEW YORK AT THE CLOSE LAST NIGHT. Total In the Bl*c Cities and In Lonff and Staten Islands Only a Few Thousand Less than Last Year. SATURDAY NIGHT MEETINGS SENATOR THURSTON’S REPLY TO MAYOR STRONG’S CRITICISMS* Abram S. Hewitt Returns from Abroad and at Ohee Advocates tlx* Election of Seth Low. SENATOR GORMAN SCORED STINGING REPLY TO THE BOSS’S PAID ADVERTISEMENT IN THE SUN. Maryland’s Democratic Leader Ao> cased by Editor Abell of Trlak.ery and Attempting a Bluff. ♦ NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—T0-day was tha fourth and last day of registration. The total registration of Greater New York is 570,749. The total registration in New York city is 324,806, as compared with 330,619 last ypar. The registration in Brooklyn is 204,503. The total in 1896 was 207,272. Tho registration of Long Island City is 8,572. The total last year was 8,431. The registration on Staten island is 12,676; 1,500 more than last year. The registration is only a few thousand less than last year’s. Senator John of Nebraska, to-night addressed a large Republican mass meeting in Sulzer’s Harlem River Park. H took occasion to answer Mayor Strong’s remarks of a few nights ago, when the mayor criticized Senator Foraker, of Ohio, and Senator Thurston. The Nebraskan declared that Mayor Strong was wrong in his criticism, and that he is fully justified in coming here to help in the election of General Tracy, since his election will be a victory for good government and sound money, both of importance beyond confines of New York. He said General Tracy’s defeat would mean that the Republicans would probably never again elect another mayor of New York. Colonel Charles R. Pope, of Missouri, and ex-Governor P. B. S. Pinchback, of Louisiana, addressed a Republican mass meeting in Lyric Hall to-night. Mr. Pinchback said ho came to New York to take a lively interest in the election of General Tracy. He addressed himself particularly to the colored Republicans who were conspicuous by their absence, not over thirty being present. Henry George opened his campaign in Harlem to-night, speaking twice in the open air. Seth Low finished his first week of actual campaigning by speaking in two halls to big crowds to-night. He received much applause. He said: “The people of this great, city do not need the advice of the senator* from Ohio and Nebraska as to whom they shall elect as their mayor. We want home rule and no foreign interference.” Edward S. McHugh, the English labor agitator, who organized the 'Longshoremen’s Union in this city during the past year, and Frank Stephen, who came over from Philadelphia on Friday night with the party of “jail birds,” as they call themselves, for nearly every member of the party has been imprisoned for his efforts in advocating the George theory, to-day began a series of meetings along the river front*. The meetings will be continued during the campaign. The World has completed its poll of the mayoralty preference of Greater New York voters, having obtained 170,458 ballots. Os these Van Wyck, Tammany, has 59,580; Seth Low, Citizens’ Union, 40,017; Henry George, Jeffersonian Democracy, 34,037; General Tracy, Republican, 27,780; Patrick Gleason, Independent, 9,044. HEWITT IS FOR LOW. Gotham’s Ex-Mayor and Ex-Tam* xuanylte Gives His Views. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—Abram S. Hewitt, ex-mayor ard ex-congressman, who returned to-day from a stay abroad, was not permitted to set foot ashore until he had expressed himself regarding the political situation in this city. When told that C. N. Bliss, secretary of tha interior, is to be prominent at a Tracy meeting Monday evening, Mr. Hewitt said: “Mr. Bllbs is a most admirable man and a most admirable citizen, but when it comes to politics he is always a partisan. In 1886 he specially urged me to run for the mayoralty, and then two days later he helped to nominate Joel B. Erhardt. When the final test come* he always stands by his party associates. “Tho situation is simply that machin* politicians are standing by each other. They always look with displeasure on any movement for the good of the people, unless it comes from tha throat of a boss. What good citizens want is simply to get good government from the new municipality. National politics have absoltely nothing to do with that issue. National politicians seem to think otherwise, simply because, when it is suown that an independent movement like that of the Citizens’ Union can win, the power of the machine to gain wealth and honor for the men who control it will be in serious danger. “I observed while I was in London that Mr. George says that in 1886 I defrauded him out of the mayoralty. All that I can say about that Is that if 1 was able to count out 20,000 votes I must have been a pretty good politician. It seems to have taken Mr. George eleven years to discover it. Os course the thing is absurd.” Mr. Hewitt smiled when he learned that Mr. Dayton had accepted the Georgeite nomination for controller with the avowed intention of assailing Croker rule over Tammany. “Perhaps it would hardly become me to say anything against Tammany.” Mr. Hewitt said. "They elected me to every office they nominated me for. But everybody knows what Tammany wants—they simply want to get the office* back. There is but one issue in tills campaign. It is. Shall the government of the greater city be run for the people or for the politicians? Democratic institutions are now on trial in the territory of Greater New York.” Referring to Mr. Ixiw’s candidacy, Mr. Hewitt said: "Why should ho retire? Nobody disputes his eminent fitness for th place. Shall he retire simply on the demand of a boss, so that someone shall b put up who will be satisfactory to that boss? By no mentis, it is now his clear duty to lead the fight of decent men against the bosses and against George and his party, who are worse than the bosses. If i were in his place I would run if 1 were to get only ten votes. 1 did something of