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Mayor Taggart should at least direct his police not to arrest those saloon keepers who aid in preserving order in, the city as did the North New Jersey promoter of peace last Sunday. i’or each .of the yellow journals to claim tit the same time that it is managing the government is confusing and conflicting. They should agree to take turns in directing national affairs. The mayor is very busy just now paying political debts of a personal and party sort. The bills of the corporations—gas, railway, brewery, etc.—that so earnestly supported him will be presented and honored 1 later on. Sliver Democrats in Chicago are denouncing Mayor Harrison for going to New York to try to help Tammany out of the pit. Silver Democrats will learn, one of these days, that the young mayor is not very much of & silverite. 7* <i> William Jennings Bryan would give half the proceeds of one of his variety shows to know beyond a doubt whether Tammany or George will win in Greater New York. If he knew he would be there speaking for the winning faction of the Domocracy. The only outside event of a favorable Character which can gladden the heart of Tammany is that Altgeld has written a letter denouncing it. Altgeld represents the only political element in the country which can. by comparison, give Tammany a tinge of respectability. The opponents of pensions have figured out that when the last dollar shall be paid to a pensioner In the late Union armies the Bum of $2,110,140,298 will have been expended. If the country the veterans saved were not worth thirty times that amount to-day, this expenditure might be lamented. Ex-Governor Boies, of lowa, has written another letter, in which he says he is opposed to an unqualified, declaration in the Democratic platform for the free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, “because I believe it will permanently disrupt the Democratic party and because 1 believe it will always defeat that party." Boies has a man's head on him. Poor Senator Teller, of Colorado, would be entirely forgotten if he did not occasionally write a letter to bemoan the recreancy of the Republican party and the ruin which awaits the country because it will not yield to the demands of the silver bullion trust. Mr. Teller is the most sorrowful man in the world, judging from his letters. Those admirers of Bryan who are loudly claiming that the large crowds which have attended the variety shows in which he has figured In Kansas and elsewhere are evidence of his sustained popularity should take into consideration the fact that $2,000 has been offered Queen Liliuokalani to preside over a Kansas carnival, for which preliminary arrangements are now being made. The Republican prospects in Ohio are said to have brightened greatly during the past ten days. The Republican farmers who a year ago were induced to vote for Bryan are in the Republican line. Now the cities, particularly Cincinnati, are the cause of some apprehension. Senator Hanna has opened an aggressive campaign In Cleveland, which is his home. Some Republicans claim that the Republican plurality will be as large as last year, when it was 51,000. The administration deserves great credit for the masterly manner In which it has conducted and closed the great Union Pacii c Railroad deal. We say cloged, because with the sale of the. property on Nov. 1 the gov■ Interest In the road will end, . ua- Union Pacific debt, which has been

hanging over the treasury to years, will be wiped out. The public debt statement for September contained the foil* r item: "Bonds issued in aid of the cons -tion of the Union Pacific Railroad. s2' t ,2:V> 511; Interest paid by the United States .830.886.” That item has been in every ullc-debt statement for many years pa>.t, only the amount of interest varying from year to year. After the sale of the road on Monday next it will disappear. The first guaranty or upset price bid by the reorganization committee was $45,000,000. This was submitted during the Cleveland administration. Subsequent negotiations raised this to $45,754,059. Under the present administration the attorney general pressed the committee so hard that they raised their bid to $49,000,000 and finally to $58,000,000, which practically covers the whole'of the government’s claim. It was a great transaction well managed. AN INCALCULABLE BENEFIT. Now that the government is quite sure to get back the money which it has invested in the Union Pacific Railroad, it may be well to note the conditions which justified Congress in loaning its credit to the enterprise at the time it did. During the war for the Union the isolation of the Pacific coast States from the rest of the country was made peculiarly apparent. A Pacific republic was advocated. It is probable that an attempt In that direction would have been made if a quicker and cheaper means of communication with the East had not been secured in the railways. At that time the journey from San Francisco to New York was by the isthmus, long, expensive, most disagreeable, and, at seasons, very risky. When the scheme of building a railroad to the Pacific coast was first broached conservatism regarded It as an impossibility which engineering could not overcome. Finally a company was organized upon the basis of the offer of land made by Congress, but it did not proceed far with the construction. After a time, when failure without further aid seemed probable, Congress guaranteed the bonds of the company at a given amount per mile. Subsequently Congress made the government’s claim a second lien. It can be said that the capitalists who constituted the Pacific Company “worked" the government to the utmost. It Is now evident that they might have built the road for the land grant, but at that time it seemed impossible, even if the crossing of the mountains were possible. But while the promoters, as it turned out, made millions out of the enterprise, it is due them to say that they risked all they had at the outset, and would have been bankrupt if the scheme had proved impracticable. That they let the Contract of building the road to themselves and made millions of dollars is a fact, but if those bold projectors had not assumed the first risk, when would a Pacific railroad have been built? It is deemed the proper thing by many people to denounce these men, nearly all of whom are now dead, as plunderers or what not, but to them belongs the credit of undertaking a doubtful enterprise Involving millions of dollars. Taking the risk, they secured all the advantages which success made possible. It should be said as a truth that If the United States had not received a dollar of the amount expended upon the road it would have been the most profitable investment ever made. To bring the Atlantic and the Pacific within a week of each other, to .reduce* the eppt o£ transportation as It has, to/open the far West and the Pacific coast to settlement are achievements the value of which to all the people cannot be measured in dollars. The government, while paying in part for its transportation, has saved in that one item a large part of the millions it would have lost if the road could not have been sold for any price. If there were no Pacific railroad to-day, as there was not until late in 1867, the United States could well afford to give $100,000,000 outright to secure one.

OUR EUROPEAN LIBELKRS. There has never been a time when this country and its people were more thoroughly misunderstood and persistently misrepresented by the European press than they are at present. This is the more remarkable since the American press has a better understanding of European governments, peoples and policies, now than at any former time. This is probably due partly to the fact that the newspapers of the United States print a great deal more news concerning European affairs than those of Europe do concerning the affairs of this country. It is due in part, also, to the broader and more intelligent interest which the American people take in foreign affairs. If the European claim to higher civilization and culture is well founded, which is not admitted, they are certainly not as broad and cosmopolitan in their views as intelligent Americans of the same class are. The average American can discuss European affairs with a considerable degree of Intelligence, but even educated Europeans are woefully ignorant of the American character and''of American affairs. It has been our lot in past years to be misrepresented and caricatured as to our customs, institutions, manners, morals and society. Just now we are being libeled on account of our alleged jingoism, aggressiveness and greed for territorial aggrandizement. The pretext for these attacks is found in the Spanish-Cuban situation. It is assumed, and by implication charged, that we are a nation of filibusters: that we want to own or control the whole western hemisphere - that the government has been furnishing all the moral aid and comfort it possibly could to the Cuban insurgents, and even secretly encouraging filibustering expeditions w'hile pretending to be trying to suppress them. It is hard for a government and people to endure such charges patiently when they know them to be utterly unjust and untrue. The truth is there is not a more conservative people in the world than the American people, nor another government more scrupulous in the observance of international rights and duties than the government of the United States. Bo far from being an aggressive people we are not enough so. We are not as alert, vigilant and firm in the assertion of our rights as we ought to be. In our dealings with other nations we are on the side of magnanimity. As for greed in the acquisition of territory, no European government is less so. For many years past, and even now, it is a race between European governments which shall acquire the most territory in Africa, Asia and the islands of the sea. No European government would have tolerated the existence of a foreign possession near its shores as this government has tolerated Cuba, nor would any European government have made as great efforts under like conditions to maintain strict neutrality and prevent its people from sending aid to insurgents with whom they sympathized as this government has done. The animus of our European libelers is two fold, due partly to ignorance and partly to malice They do not know what they

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are talking about, and they hate us on general principles. We will have to try and stand it. A SUGGESTION TO THE “PUSH.” The Journal has a suggestion to make to the "silver push” In this city and elsewhere in Indiana. The suspicion is gaining ground that the 16-to-l fad is a trust of the silver mine owners. Besides, the 16-to-l Idea Is illogical. If it is desired to have more money, free coinage will give us less, since the gold will go elsewhere. If cheap money is desired, why is it not better to adopt a system under which dollars will practically cost nothing rather than shout for free coinage, which will insure dollars of a varying intrinsic value? Some of those who shouted themselves hoarse for Bryan last year have come to see the folly of the 16-to-l claim and are now Intent on forming a new' party, to which the plain and honest name Paper Money party has been given. It is claimed that the promoters of this new party already have a large following. Here is what they say about it: We also know that no other reform can be brought about to be of any permanent benefit to the people until we first, by law of Congress, agree to stop making any more gold, silver or bank paper money, and then, by law of Congress, provide only national paper money for the use of the people. This is the movement with which Tom L. Johnson, Henry George and a number of other men who were enthusiastic Bryanites a year ago are reported to be connected. The theory will be very attractive to all those In whose minds there are traces of the heresy of fiatism in money. The reasoning to which they have resorted In the past will lead them to abandon the 50-cent or the 40-cent dollar Chicago platform for a dollar which has no other value than a little paper and ink. The 50-cent dollars will be limited to the capacity of the mints, while the no-cent dollars could be as limitless as the capacity of the paper mills. Possibly the adherents to the 16-to-l fad will declare that the paper dollar will have no purchasing power in time. To them the leaders of the Paper Money party can retort: “If a 50cent dollar is more desirable than a 100-cent dollar of gold, then a paper dollar of no intrinsic value and of limitless issue is more desirable than any other dollar." The Journal believes that a full dollar which will purchase a dollar’s worth of merchandise in any country in the world is none too good for the American people; still, If any partisan of the iivided Democracy still languishes for cheap dollars and enough of them let them rally under the gonfalon of the Paper Money party. In the practical removal of Dr. Ferguson from the superintendency of the City Hospital Mayor Taggart has done exactly what, every one familiar with the character of his ante-election promises knew he would do. Dr. Morrison, the Democratic president of the Health Board, put the case precisely when he said that the authorities had yielded to the demands of a mob which yesterday clamored for the head of Dr. Ferguson and to-day might clamor for those of the members of the board Itself. The protests of leading physicians without reference to “schools" or political belief, the acknowledged efficiency by the entire public —Republican, Democratic and mugwump—with which Dr. Ferguson’s management has been characterized, availed nothing against the clamor of “the push.” The City Hospital, with its patients and attendants, has been made the object of the most contemptible kind of partisan attack. Dr. Ferguson is set aside because he did not subscribe to the wild and incendiary dogmas of the Chicago platform In the face of the universally admitted fact that his management of the most sacred kind of a trust has been of the most commendable character. The Journal is not surprised at the result, but it refers the action of the mayor and his board to the prayerful consideration of those Republicans, gold Democrats and mugwumps, and particularly to the organ of sweetness and light, who by their votes and counsel contributed to the re-election of “the best mayor the city ever had."

The shafce-up in the detective force, as announced last night, was what might have been expected. It was necessary for the mayor to provide a place for ex-Superin-tendent Colbert, and he had not the moral courage to do what he undoubtedly would have preferred to do—restore him to his former place—so Chief of Detectives Splann was reduced to the ranks in order that Mr. Colbert might have his place. Splann has been a member of the police force since 1573, with the exception of six years, when a Democratic administration replaced a Republican administration under the old system of government. He has served as patrolman, captain, detective and chief of detectives, and under boards of both political complexions, has never been reprimanded or even criticised, and no charge was ever lodged against him in all thaj time. The change is purely political—and Mayor Taggart’s kind of politics at that. The persistent attacks on Senator Hanna as an enemy of labor have led some of his employes to make a voluntary statement denying the charges. No less than 650 employes in the shops of the Cleveland Streetrailroad Company signed and published the following: We, the undersigned, as employes of the Cleveland City Railway Company, at Lo-rain-street shops, wish to go on record as emphatically denying the statements made by Mr Hanna’s enemies that he is a crusher of labor. Many of us have been in the employ of Mr. Hanna many years, and can say from personal knowledge that such stories are absolutely false, having no foundation whatever. We consider him our friend, notwithstanding some of our number may not agree with him politically. Six hundred coal miners employed by him joined in a similar statement, ‘‘knowing as we do that the charges made are false.” The Ohio senator enjoys the distinction of being the best abused and most lied about man in the country. The New York municipal campaign is properly characterized as “a vast bedlam.” The most discouraging feature in it is the vigor with which the supporters of Tracy and Low are fighting each other. These two factions or parties represent much of the intelligence and most of the true culture of New York, and a decided majority of the friends of honest municipal government, and yet they seem to have forgotten the common enemy in their eagerness to beat each other. The Republicans seem to be carrying on the campaign against Low rather than against Tammany, while, on the other hand, the Citizens’ Union is apparently aiming its guns at the Republican organization rather than at the ticket nominated by Croker. Both are playing into the bands of Tammany m 0 ¥•■ ■ -■ Municipal consolidation seems to be the order of the day. The successful accomplishment of the Greater New York consolidation has caused a movement on the other side of the North river for a union under one municipal government of nearly

one hundred cities and towns in New Jersey within a radius of twenty-five miles of New’ York. The population of the territory involved is mope than a million, and it is largely tributary to the business of New York city or dependent upon it. There must be supposed advantages in such consolidations, but they are not apparent. Municipal government in the L T nited States is not so eminently successful as to justify extending it over the continent. When one remembers that but little more than a generation ago St/uth Carolina was not only without a factory of any kind, but made a specialty of opposing the manufacturing Interests of the North, it seems strange to hear that she now leads all the Southern States In cottoa manufacturing. She has fifty-four mills running at present, operating in all nearly 1,000.000 spindles and consuming yearly 148,767.042 pounds of cotton. Her cotton crop this year will be In round numbers 800.000 bales, of which the home mills will consume 327,000, or about 40 per cent, of the entire crop. This is much better than nullifying tariff laws or seceding from the Union on account of slavery. It Is greatly to be regretted that the grand Jury failed to find any indictment as the result of its investigation of the Holt-Ful-mer-Seibert,, scandal. It is rumored that testimony was given to the effect that the $5,000 wh|ch passed between the parties was iegarded as a “commission” for securing a loan from the Union Trust Company for the Fulmer-Seibert Company, but it is highly improbable that any one can be found in Indianapolis sufficiently feeble-minded to believe any such stuff. What has the Union Trust Company to say of it? And, by the way, what business had Mr. Holt before the grand jury, anyway? The statement of Admiral Brown, in conversation, to the effect that it is of the utmost importance that the United States should own Hawaii will be the strongest argument in favor of annexation for many people. “Jt has practically been ours for years,” was his remark, “and now it should become ours by annexation, because the government which holds it has the advantage on the Pacific ocean.” That is a better reason than the Sugar Trust can give against annexation. In noticing the declination of Hon. C. L. Henry to be a candidate tor re-election, the Springfield Republican says: “It is thought to be the first case on record where a Hoosier politician of his- free will has given up a public office.” Probably Hoosier politicians are not very different from Massachusetts politicians in that respect, but has the Republican heard that the consulship at Nagasaki was offered to and declined by three Hoosiers before It was accepted by a fourth? Senator Gorman stirred up a hornets’ nest when he tried to bluff the editor of the Baltimore Sun by resigning the leadership of the Democratic party in .his favor. In addition to the editor’s caustic reply the Sun publishes two pages , ojt newspaper comment on Gorman’s letter, from all parts of the country. It Is hardly necessary to say they are not complimiqntary to the Maryland boss. The alleged discovery of a cure for consumption by Dr. G. O. Hirschfelder, of San Francisco, as related in the news columns of the Journal yesterday, is a matter of transcendent that about 250,000 persons die annually in the United States of consumption. In two years the disease carries off many more persons than were killed or died in the Union army during the four years of civil war. The discovery of a cure for so terrible a scourge would be a blessing to mankind. Tests already made with the new cure indicate that it possesses.,great efficacy, and if the faculty of the -judical college which is investigating the matter shall report favorably the world -will have to add the name of Hirschfelder fto Its list of great discoverers and benefactors.

When a man has a one-cent piece in his pocket he is far more likely to buy a penny paper than when he has to change a nickel or more. If a slot machine is In reach, the man is apt to drop his penny in the slot before the newsboy gets round. These interdependent propositions have nothing to do with the gallant fight a ore-cent local paper is making to protect our innocent children from the wiles of the penny slot machine. A Kentucky woman is about to bring suit against the clerk of Clark county, Indiana, who issued a marriage Mcense to her eloping daughter, and against the justice of the peace who performed the marriage ceremony, on the ground that they had both been notified that neither the bride nor the groom was of legal age/ The business of marrying runaway Kentucky couples has reached a stage in Jeffersonville that might as well be checked. Pessimistic Maeterlinck is again making literary threats. This time he will call his dose of quinine “Treasures of the Humble,” or words to that effect. It might be suggested that one of the greatest treasures of the aforesaid humble Is that degree of obscurity which insures him against running afoul of Maeterlinck’s murmurings. Yesterday was celebrated in the public schools of Philadelphia as Penn’s day. It was on Oct. 27, 1682, that he sailed up the Delaware on the good ship Welcome and took possession of the State. He was its first boss, and, all things considered, probably better than any it- has had since. “Laborer, But a Hero” Is the somewhat offensive headline of a news item in a Chicago newspaper. This suggests that the two terms were never normally synonymous, and is a just cause for resentment on the part of respectable laboring men. Judge Cox seems not to regard the New Jersey-street saloon keeper In whose place there was a riot last Sunday os a conservator of law and order, as does Mayor Taggart. A pessimist Is a man who is sore on the world and who hasn’t found out yet that the joke—isn’t on the world, to say the least. The latest trouble between Boss Croker and the Prince of Wales was the Atlantic storm. . BUBBLES IN THE AIR. As They All Do. “Os course, the bride’s father gave her away, but didn’t any one give away the groom?” “Oh. the groom gave himself away. Asked her at their very first dinner at the hotel if she took cream and sugar in her coffee.” lluil the Facts. Wickwire—Really now, you don’t believe the poor are growing poorer? Mudge—l know they are. Look at me. I haven’t half the money I had on pay day. Family Matters. First Oyster—How are the children getting along? Second Oyster—Well, Willie is doing as well as a fond mother could hope, as he was the leading attraction at a church festival Thursday; but James’s career of dlsst-

pation came to an end by him being’ served fried, vS'ith a glass of beer. Matrimonial Dlscnssion. She—l presume you have forgotten, you outrageous brute, that you once promised me I should be the queen of the household. He—Mebbe I did. but I didn’t intend that you should be the boss, too. SPAIN’S REPLY CABLED SLOWLY DECIPHERED AND THEN SENT TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Nothin*? Offensive In the Answer—The Cuban Autonomy Plun Explained by De Lome. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.-The event of the day at the State Department was the receipt of the long-expected cablegram from Minister Woodford transmitting the answer of the Spanish government to his representations in the interest of peace in Cuba. This message began to come in installments at 2 o’clock this morning, and it w r as nearly noon to-day before it was all in hand at the State Department. It was not the length of the message that occupied the wires all of that time, but the fact that it was all in groups of figures and was probably being filed in small batches as it was turned into the complicated Suite Department cipher in Madrid. All of this work had to be undone at the State Department, and the message translated from the cipher back again into good English. This occupied nearly all of the day, so that it was 3:30 o’clock before the first fair copy of the message was turned out. It was not so long; in fact there were a little less than one thousand words in the message, for Mr. Woodford, instead of cabling the whole of the Spanish apswer to his note had contented himself with reducing the matter to a brief outline. The first copy was taken at once to the President, not being entrusted to a messenger, but being delivered by Chief Clerk Michaels in person at the White House. After due opportunity had been allowed the President to read the message an application was made for a statement of its contents or nature. This was declined by Secretary Porter, and it was said that under no circumstances would the correspondence be made public its consideration by the Cabinet. From unofficial information that has reached certain administration officials in advance of this message of Mr Woodford’s as to the nature of the Spanish reply, it is evident that in neither language nor subject matter is the communication likely to be taken as offensive by our government. It may be, it is true, regarded as insufficient to meet the issue presented by Mr. Woodford in his note, but officials of the State Department say that in view of what has already been accomplished by the new Spanish Cabinet in reforming abuses in Cuba, in removing Wqyler and in projecting what appears to be a liberal measure of autonomy our government will certainly rest, at least until Congress assembles, and afford the new Spanish government a reasonable time to carry out its plans.

SPAIN’S CUBAN POLICY. Minister De Lome Explains the Programme of Autonomy. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.-The Spanish minister, Senor Dupuy De Lome, consented for the first time to-day to speak concerning the policy of autonomy which the Spanish government proposes to apply to Cuba. This has been referred to in'general terms since the advance of the Sagasta ministry, but there has been lack of authentic details. Before leaving for New York to-day, where the minister and his family will spend several weeks, Senor Depuy De Lome gave the evolutions through which autonomy has passed leading up to the general present policy: “Under the provisions of the treaty of Zanjon, concluded in 1878, at the close of the last Cuban disturbance, it was provided tliat Cuba was to enjoy the same liberties as those accorded to the Island of Puerto Rico. This latter island had the same liberties as those of any province In Spain. This brought the autonomist party, so called, into existence, its essential principle being that of self-government for Cuba, and not treating Cuba as a province of Spain, as w r as the system in Puerto Rico. That party adopted a platform, and in 1886 offered a, complete programme of autonomy for the consideration of the country. A peaceful agitation of this autonomy programme was then inaugurated. “In 1893, for "the first time, a minister in a Liberal Cabinet, Senor Maura, saw the mistake of that system of rule known as ‘assimilation,’ which treated Cuba as a Spanish province, and he presented a plan of reforms. This was strongly opposed, and after two years of discussion it was found impossible to put the plan through the Cortes. Then a compromise reform measure, was framed, which acknowledged the personality of Cuba as a separate body, but under the Spanish flag. These reforms having been considered insufficient on account of the state of the island, Premier Canovas proceeded to greatly enlarge them, his plan being, however, short of absolute autonomy. “Now Mr. Moret, minister of the colonies in the new Cabinet, fulfills the promises of the Liberal party when it was in the minority and proclaims that autonomy, as it had always been demanded by the home-rule pari t of Cuba. Under this policy,'as applie l to Cuba, the island will have a system on tho lines of those of Canada or of the American States, maintaining its individuality on all internal affairs and yet retaining its place as a part of the federal system. It will have a viceroy or governor general, as Is always the case In the maintenance of a colonial system, such as that of Australia, New' Zealand or Canada. The island will have its own Legislature, chosen directly by the people, who will enjoy universal suffrage. From the majority in the Legislature the Governor General will chose his Ministry, consisting of a president of the Ministry and four ministers, namely, minister of the interior, minister of public works, minister of public instruction and minister of finance. At the same time. Cuba will have representation in the Spanish Cortes, as well as her local Legislature. The representative to the Cortes will be also elected by the people of Cuba through universal suffrage, and will not be selected by the Ministry, as has been erroneously stated. The Ministry will be responsible to the Legislature, and not to the Governor General. The subjects before the Legislature will include those of taxation, tariff, public instruction and all matters of the internal administration of the island in the broadest sense of this term.” The departure of Minister Dupuy and family for New York is said to have no significance and to be entirely personal. He has given up his present residence arid taken new quarters on Massachusetts avenue. The new house will not be ready for occupancy until Dec. 1, and in the meantime it is agreeable to the minister to spend a few weeks in New York. The legation has already been removed to the Massachusettsavenue house, and it will transact routine affairs during the minister’s absence, all of the larger questions of politics and policy going direct to him. The Spanish authorities have received no information as to the an. wer of Minister Woodford beyond the fact that the answer was placed in Mr. Woodford’s hands on Monday No Note Presented by De Lome. MADRID. Oct. 27.—A formal denial was Issued by the government of Spain to-day of the statement that the Spanish minister at Washington, Senor De Lome, had presented to the government of the United States a note on the subject of the filibustering expeditions which are alleged to have left the American ports for Cuba. The Spanish minister, it is claimed, only made a verbal complaint to the government at Washington regarding filibusters. To View the Eclipse OAKLAND. Cal., Oct. 27.—An expedition to view and photograph the eclipse of the sun in India on Jan. 22 next will leave on Saturday for Hong Kong on the steamer Belgio. It will be headed by Prof. Charles Burckhalter, of the C'habot Observatory of this city. Prof. Burckhalter has an invention of his own which bo expects to give the best results ever obtained in photographing the eclipsed sun. Mr. Burckhalter took It to Japan witl. him, but the fact that there was a heavy storm on the dpy of the eclipse there prtvented its being tested.

VICTIMS OF THE FEVER * ELEVEN DEATHS AND FIFTY-TWO NEW CASES AT NEW ORLEANS. Fatalities Increased by Warm Weath-er-Three New Canes and Two Death* at Memphis. NEW ORLEANS. Oct. 27.—The warm weather which prevailed here to-day had an appreciable effect on the yellow fever situation, there being a high death rate, but despite this fact the situation as compared to that of yesterday, which was not reassuring, is about the same. The Board of Health officials are not at all alarmed and are untiring in their efforts to confine the disease, although it is admitted the number of cases will fall jff when colder weather sets in. Dr George L. Lawrason, who w T as coroner under the last administration, is among the new cases. Edwin Haag, son of ex-Counciiman Haag, is also down with the fever. Among the deaths is Catherine L. Butterworth, the ten-year-old daughter of Dr W W Butterworth, who w r as taken ill on s he 18th Inst. The increas?d daily death rate is convincing the unbelievers that the prevailing fever is genuine yellow jack. The fumigating corps is being worked as hard as it can go, being sent from one end of the city to the other. Following is the record of deaths and new cases to-day: New Cases—Charles Matthews, Mrs. Matthews, Miss Beulah Krans, Miss Sybil Blanchini, George H. Benton, Joseph Lercy, Mary Roach, J. W. Wharton, M. Fritcha, Eugene Petrold, A. Baraufi, Mrs. C. Lauraiff, Michael Gondiloff. Mrs. Schultz, Jos Nautazia, Mrs. P. Launmann, Beulah Launmann Miss Rosa Diekman, Joseph Krumm, Marie Moliere, Herman Vanos, William Hubert, Gertrude Blake, Agnes Blake, Mike Chipella, John Wild, Charles Wild. Miss Mary Ayres, Jacob Born. Dr, George B. Lawrason, Rosie West, Raymond S. Bradway, Sylvanin Balise. Augustus Brown, Master W. E. Schuppert, Johanna Dotel, George Fleming, W. L. Bratson, Bratson. William McCarthy Nellie Henerson, P. A. Magee, jr., Mrs. Rebecca Burgess, John £}. Mallet, Mae Bolin, James Henderson. Albert Henderson. Deaths—Jennie Murdeau. Mary E. Connell, Gabriel Jais, Louis A. Pettit, Jacob Manguno, Felippe Vivinni, Catherine L. Butterworth, William Hart. The Board of Health’s report is as follows: Cases of yellow fever to-day. 52; deaths to-day, 11; total cases of yellow fever to date. 1.321; total deaths from yellow fever to date., 156: total cases absolutely recovered, 654; total cases under treatment, 511.

Turpentine Market Booming. MONTGOMERY Ala., Oct. 27.—Dr. J. J. Knott, of Atlanta, who came here to make an experiment with his turpentine treatment of yellow fever, regarding it as a phosphoric poison, returned home this morning. Dr. Knott came very highly recommended and was well treated, but the Board of Health did not encourage him to make a general experiment at this late date. Dr. Knott, however, saw numbers of patients, with attending physicians, and hundreds of people in the city have adopted the use of turpentine, applied to the spine, as a preventive. Last night Dr. Knott expressed himself as being satisfied with the results so far. What these results are will be published by him later. In the meantime he was instrumental in causing a tremendous sale of turpentine in the city. Several druggists declare they sold completely out. Five Cases and Three Deaths. MOBILE, Ala., Oct. 27.—Following is the record of deaths and new cases of yellow fever to-day: New Cases—Joseph M. Cerdl, Esther Buckley. John C. Smith, Alice Otis, Frederick Toney. Deaths—Carlo Ogillo Lang Langley, Sylvan Cieutat. Langley is a negro, and is the first of that race to die of the fever this season. Total cases to date, 224; deaths, 29' recoveries, 161; under treatment, 34. Refugees are returning in considerable numbers. ttye visitation of the scourge not having proved so serious as was feared at the outset. Two More Deaths at Memphis. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 27.—Five new cases and two deaths is the yellow fever record in Memphis for twenty-four hours ending to-night. The weather continues warm. Another thousand people left the city during the day and evening. The new cases are: A. A. Cook. C. A. Stovall, Mrs. Duke Cox, Miss Belle Holden, James Canada. The latter’s case was not discovered until this morning, when he was quickly moved to the hospital. He died there late this aftrenoon. The other death is Albert Lagorlo. No Fever at Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 27.—Reports having been circulated that yellow fever had made its appearance in Nashville, Dr. N. G. Tucker, the city health officer, authorizes the statement that there is absolutely no truth in such a report. There has not been a single case imported here, or in this vicinity, and there is not the slightest apprehension. The city is in good sanitary condition, and the climatic conditions are such as to preclude any fear of infection. Visitors can come to Nashville with perfect safety. Ml Swiss ip pi’s Report. BILOXI. Miss., Oct 27.—Ye1.0w fever cases under treatment, 78; new cases for to-day, &; suspicious yellow fever, 1; total yellow fever cases to date, 553; total yellow fever deaths to date, 21. Scranton, Miss.—Nine new cases and one death, that of Willie McKinyon, colored. Pascagoula, Miss.—New cases, two. Bay St. Louis, Miss.—Five new cases. McHenry, Misa—One new case. Baton Rouge, La.—One new case. Seven New Cases. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 27.—The official report of the Board of Health at noon to-day makes seven cases for the day, as follows: Dr R. N. Pitts. Harry Knighten. Betty Thomas v coiored). Miss Alice Boseman, W. S. Wilson, Miss Carrie Boseman, Miss Hattie Strock. There were no deaths to-day. All the new cases are in the same section of the town where the first case was located. + •‘FORMALDEHYDE.” A New Gaseous Disinfectant Discussed by Health Officers. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.—A number of pertinent papers were read at to-day’s session of the American Public Health Association convention. Before taking up the programme of the day a resolution was adopted directing the appointment, in accordance with the recommendations of President Hombeck, in his annual address, of a committee of five to investigate the origin, of yellow fever. Formaldehyde, the gaseous disinfectant, was discussed at length, and the conclusion generally reached was that formaldehyde had not yet accomplished what had been claimed for it. Among the papers read and discussed w'ere: “The City of Mexico after the Drainage of the Valley and Sanitation Work,” by Dr. Roque Macouzet, delegate of the federal district of Mexico; “Fumigation Experiments with Formaldehyde,” Prof. Severance Burrage, of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.; "The Determination of the Amount of Formaldehyde Yielded by the Formaldenyde I Amp,” by E. A. De Schweinitz, chief of the biochemic division. Agricultural Department, Washington; “The Barber Shop as a Menace to the Public „ Health,” by Dr. A. Walter Suiter, of Herkimer, N. Y.; “The Relation of Women’s Health Protective Associations to the Public Health,” by Mrs. John Scribers, president of the Woman's Health Protective Association of Philadelphia, At. the afternoon session a number of papers and committee reports were read, each of which was followed by an interesting discussion. Meeting of Methodist 111 shop*. BALTIMORE. Mil., Oct 27,-The bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church began 'their semi-annual session to-day at the Mount Vemon-place Methodist Church. The sessions are secret, not even ministers of the denomination in the city being admitted. The object of the meeting is to artange the plan of Episcopal visitation for the spring conference of 1898. assigning the various conferences to the members of the Episcopal body, to consider special cases of administration which hove occurred since the last bishops* meeting, to give attention to the courses of study for the local and traveling ministers of the church, to

transact such miscellaneous busisss a* shall be brought up by the membts. A STRANGE NUPTIAL M/TCH. The Bride a Wealthy White Vldow and the Groom a Negro. EROOKLYN, Oot. 27.—Fashionable society in the eastern district Is intensely kterested in the recently announced marlage of Mrs. John S. Provost, nee Miss Mhnie C. Demond, a wealthy widow, to Jame. A. Cutlar, a negro, who, until recently, vas an instructor in a bicycle academy. Although the wedding took place sevcal months ago, the marriage was kept a pfound secret, and it was not until last wedc that Mrs. Cutlar's friends began to discuss the affair. Mrs.. Provost has always move! with the best set. Cutlar is a North Carolina negro, who came to this city four or five years ago, and who is known to his friends as “the Speckled Beauty " Mr. and Mrs. Cutlar's whereabouts is at present net known, but It is thought that they are living quietly in one of the Long Island villages. It is understood that detectives are trying to locate the couple, as the relatives of Mrs. Cutlar's first husband are anxious to get possession of a little boy who was born to Mr. and Mrs. Provost about nine years ago. It was in April, 1896. that Mrs. Provost, then a widow of only a few months, decided to ride a wheel. She first met Cutlar when she took lessons in one of the Brooklyn cycle academies and he was her instructor. The couple Were often seen together during tne summer of 1596. but no one suspected at that time that Mrs. Provost had learned to love the colored man. two Indian* outbrea ks REDSKINS AND GAME WARDENS KILLED IN TWO STATES. ♦ Report of General Otis on the Coloriulo ”1 prising”—A Tragedy In Northern Minnesota. WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—General Otis, commanding the department of Colorado, has telegraphed Adjutant General Beck, from Denver, the following touching the Indian outbreak in Colorado: "Telegram of last night to Governor of Colorado reports an engagement between the state game wardens and the Ute Indians at Thompson’s. near Lilly Park, on Snake river, sixty miles east from Duchesne, in which five Indians were killed but no whites. Telegram of this afternoon from Lieutenant Kirkman, commanding Camp Pilot Butte, Wyo., reports that a scout has just arrvied and says there was an engagement at Thompson’s last evening at 5 o’clock between Utes and game wardens, in which two bucks, one squaw, one papoose and* two wardens were killed. Duchesne was notified this morning and information asked. This afternoon I directed Wright's troop of cavalry to the scene of the reported disturbance. The cavalry squadron at Logan is directed to be held in readiness to proceed to Duchesne. A heavy snowstorm is prevailing and the telegraph lines are working badly. “From information thus far received I am unable to have the dispatches above mentioned confirmed, but a. number of Utes are hunting in the vicinity of the reported trouble. Should Logan’s squadron be directed to move it will proceed by rail with expedition to Price, Utah, where wagon transportation and forage will be in readiness. If affairs look serious will draw on Fort Douglass.”

ANOTHER TRAGEDY. Two Indians, a Squaw and a Game Warden Killed. ST. PAUL, Oot. 27.—A dispatch from the Leech Lake reservation, in northern Minnesota, says. “Information by special messenger has just reached the reservation that a fight occurred yesterday between two Indians and a game warden, in which all three were killed, also an Indian woman. A deputy game warden, whose name cannot be ascertained, arrived at an Indian camp on an island between Midji and the Cass 7 ike reservation and seized two guns and a trapping outfit which belonged to Kah Kah Quash and Mahchoannequah, two Indians. He also made an attempt to seize some furs which they had, but they resisted, whereupon the warden clubbed the older Indian with a gun until he became unconscious and then shot him. He next shot the other Indian and his wife, mortality wounding both. In the meantime the older Indian, having recovered consciousness, shot and killed the warden. Dr. E. 8. Hart, overseer in charge of this subagency, sent Martin Branchaud and a detail of Indian police to the scene to investigate the matter thoroughly. No detailed account of the fight can be had. as the only information received was brought by an Indian boy twolve or fourteen jfears of age, who witnessed the shooting. Considerable excitement exists here among the Indians and Dr. Hart is unwilling to express any opin- 1 ion regarding the effect it may have iipon them. The Indians naturally consider the interference with their hunting privileges by game wardens as a violation of their treaty rights.” DEFIANT “STORMY” JORDAN. Will Agrnln Sell “Nowe Faint” In an lona “Wonal to Hell.” OTTUMWA, la., Oct. 27.—After Nov. 1 the traveler to Ottumwa will find the notorious "Stormy” Jordan again in the saloon business. Jordan became famous fighting the prohibitory law. He ran a place that was known the world over as ‘‘The Road to Hell.” Above the place, in flaming red letters, was printed this sign, “Road to Hell.” Inside were numerous other signs, such as "Nose Paint for Sale Here,” and the eccentric proprietor dealt out from behind the bar such sentiments as those embodied in the signs. When a customer asked for the best in the house be always siit a glass of water before him. When the prohibitory law was passed Jordan refused tQ abide by it, and spent a fortune fighting it in the courts. At last, when the court ol last resort decided against him he had twenty-five years in the penitentiary and SIO,OOO fine hanging over him. The execution of these were suspended by Governor Le.rrabee on condition that he leave the State. He went to Missouri, but wjien the orig inal package decision was made he returned and reopened his saloon, declaring there was no prohbitory low in lowa. The aentenco which Governor .Laxrabee remitted was brought to bear upon him and he was forced to close his saloon again. A few days ago ha bought the fixtures and stock back again, leased the building and will open it Nov. L _______ Not Surrendering Their Autonomy. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 27.—Right Rev. William Crosswell Doane, bishop of Albany, who was a prominent member of the Lambeth Conference, was shown to-day the interview with Bishop McLaren, of Chicago, in which the latter is quoted as saying that tho American bishops thought of surrendering their autonomy to the English Church. He said: ”1 am sure that Bishop McLaren (who. by the way. attended only one session of the Lambeth Conference) has been misrepresented in this matter. There is not, and never was, an idea of putting the Episcopal Church of America under the hierarchy of the Church of England’ or of surrendering our autonomy as a national church.” National Connell of Women. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Oct. 27.-At today’s session of the National Council of \V omen at the Tennessee centennial exposition, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery spoke of the Woman s Relief Society anil the Woman s Relief Corps of Utah. Mrs. May Wright Sewall pnsented reports from the Woman's Relief Corps and the Mutual Improvement Society. Mrs. Avery spoke on the subject of homes. Mrs. Sallie F. Cotton, of North Carolina, made an address relative, to the work of the National Council of Mothers. Mrs. Sewall. secretary of the foreign correspondence, reported as to the work being done abroad- Countess D1 Brazza, of Italy, was introduced and spoke of peace. Misa Susan B. Anthony also addressed the council. Receiver for a Chicago Hotel. CHICAGO, Oct. 27 —John W. Garry has been appointed receiver for the Lexington Hotel. By order of the court, he will take custody of the realty only, and the hotel wili continue undisturbed in the management of F. A. Bachelor, who hus conducted it since It was erected.