Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 December 1900 — Page 2

if ■ tStue filu (Souttta iemomt U. MtO 8TOOP8, Editor ul Proprietor. PETERSBURG. i INDIANA. The Oceanic Steamship Co.'s steamer Alameda, Capt. Von Ottendorp, which sailed from Sydney, on the 3d, for San Francisco, via Auckland, Apia ■f and Honolulu, carries £300,000 in specie. f.-. ■ Mrs. Abby Sage Richardson, dramatist, poet, literary critic and translator, died in the city of Rome on the 6th. She was the widow of the late Albert Dean Richardson, newspaper man and author. The recently-elected Porto Rican house of delegates met in San Juan, on the 3d, 31 delegates being present. No action was taken beyond the work of organizing the chamber and electing a speaker and other officers. The Boers are driving many women and children from their nomes because their kinsmen refuse to fight any longer. Forty women and children, ill-clad and hungry, were taken into Heidelberg; by the British, on the 7th. The American Psychological, Medical and Surgical society will devote an extraordinary session? at their regular meeting to be held in Chicago in May of next year, to “Studies on Cancer; its Management and Modern Treatment."

The annual report of the governor of Oklahoma says that the year has been marked by general prosperity, agriculture, grazing, manufactures and commerce flouriushing in an unprecedented manner. The total assessed -valuation of property this year is $49,338,661, an increase*^ $6,386,247 over 1899. ' Representative Tayler, of Ohio, who was prominently identified in the movement to exclude Brigham Roberts, of Utah, from a seat in congress, introduced a measure, on the 7th, intended to bring about federal prohibition of polygamy as well as a constitutional amendment for uniform laws on marriage and divorce. The secretary of the treasury sent to congress, on the 5th, the annual estimates of the expenses of the government for tne next fiscal year. They aggregate $626,741,762, a slight decrease from the total estimates of ! last year. The appropriations for the ; presefit year are $586,655,362. The estimates’ cover every branch of government service. At Eldorado, Kas,, on the 7th, Jessie Morrison took the stand in her own defense, and in a quiet, determined manner told minutely of her relations, with Olin Castle before his marriage, and as calmly pictured the scene at the Castle home during the bloody tragedy in which* Mrs. Castle lost her life. She proved an unexpectedly •trong witness. ; William Bigelow, of Lima, O., who had his sweetheart, Zella Manahan, arrested on the charge of alleged pocketpicking, because of her refusal to surrender his watch, which she had won on an election wager, withdrew the charge, on the 4th, and the case was dismissed. Bigelow had received letters from all parts of the country criticizing his ungallant action. Commissioner Peck’s report of the expenditures of the Paris commission for the year ended November 15, I960, was sent to the senate on the 4th. The total amount expended was $939,465, the principal items being: Experts’ salaries, $147,604; buildings, $191,427; jury, $53,779; clerks’ salaries, $63,145; general employes’ salaries, $49,965; guards, $34,951; traveling expenses, $52,530. President xtomer of the Baltimore clearinghouse and 30 other prominent business men, representing the cleart inghouse, the savings bankfand the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ association of Baltimore, called, in a body, at the treasury department, on the 7th, and urged Secretary Gage to accept the invitation of the president to remain at the head of the treasury department for another four.years.

Brig.-Gen. Charles R. Eagan, commissary general of subsistence, who has been under suspension since February 9,1899, under sentence of courtmartial, for alleged intemperate and abusive language concerning Lieut.Gen. Miles, ' in connection with the army beef investigation, was restored to duty, on the 6th, and immediately afterwards placed on the retired list of the army. : The house of representatives, on the f*th, passed the army reorganization bill by a vote of 166 to 133. Several amendments were adopted, the most important being a substitute for the canteen section, absolutely prohibiting the sale of intoxicants at military posts, which was adopted by the overwhelming vote of 159 to 51. A large _£■delegation from the W. C. T. U. convention witnessed the fight over the section from the galleries. The ten councilmen of Scrantc^n, Pa., indicted by the last grand jury for accepting bribes resigned, on the Cth, in part fulfillment of the agreement made with the prosecuting committee of the municipal league in con5 sideration of the cases against them being dropped. They also agree to sign a paper promising not to accept public office for a term of five years and, further, to make up a fund of $2,too to be distributed among the city's jehaeritable institutions.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Compiled from Various Sources. FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.

, . * (Second Session.] In the senate, on the 3d, the work of tho Fifty-sixth congress was successfully resumed by the reading of the message from the president. No other business was transacted, but the oath of oltteo was administered to William B. -Dillingham. of Vermont, who succeeds tho lute Justin S. Morrill, and the death of Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota, and the late Senator Gear, of Iowa, being announced, tho senate adjourned out of respect to their memory.In the house, aside from the reading of the president’s message, no business of importance was transacted. The death of the late Representative Daly, of New Jersey, and Hoffecker, of Delaware, was announced, and the house adjourned. " Vi • In the senate, on the 4th, the ship subsidy bill was made the unfinished business In place of the Spooner Philippine measure, and Its discussion .vas opened l*y Mr. Frye (Me.). The credentials of Sen-'«tor-elect Dolllver, of Iowa, ware presented, and he was sworn in. After passing a number of bills on the calendar, the senate, at 3:35 p. m., went into executive session, and soon after adjourned-in the house, during a brief session, nree bills were passed, the most important being one to provide a detail of not to exceed 100 retired army officers and 300 noncommissioned officers as military instructors in the public schools of such cities as adopt a system of military instruction. In the senate, on the 5th, Senator Frye concluded his speech upon the ship subsidy bill, consideration of which, after the transaction of some unimportant business In open session and an hour and a half spent behind closed doors, was resumed. At 3:45 p. m. another brief executive session was held, and the senate adjourned.In the house the day was devoted to consideration of the army reorganisation bill, 11 of the 28 pages of the bill being disposed of before adjournment. In the senate, on the 6th, no business of importance was transacted in open session. Almost the entire afternoon session was passed behind closed doors in consideration of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty...In the house, after a long sitting devoted almost exclusively to debate upon the army reorganization bill, that measure was passed by a vote of 166 to 133. Several amendments were adopted, as was a substitute for the canteen section absolutely prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors at military posts, which was carried by an overwhelming majority, the vote being 156 to-51. In the senate, on the 7th. no business of importance was transacted in open session. Practically the entire legislative day was taken up by an executive session. ....In the house the Grout oleomargarine bill was passed by a vote of 196 to 92. The bill, as passed, makes all articles known as oleomargarine, butterine, Imitation butter or imitation cheese, transported into any state or territory lor consumption or sale, subject to police supervision, but prevents interference with such transportation or. sale when such product is free from coloration In imitation of butter. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Charles Ford, while lifting a can of glycerine from a wagon on the Gill farm, Wilson Run, O., on the 6th, accidentally efropped the can and an explosion followed. His remains AVero scattered in all directions. As the result of a refusal on the part of the officials of the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe system to arbitrate differences with its telegraphers, every operator on the system, from Galveston, Tex., to Purcell, I. T:, left his post, on the 6th, and the line is completely tied up. The richest gold discovery since the Klondike development is reported from Yellow river, tributary to Kuskowim, 300 miles from Yukon. The discovery was made by 12 prospectors who went to Kuskowim, in July, from Holy Cross mission. Lord Kitchener reports to the British war office that Gen. ielary, with JW0 Boers, attacked a convoy proceeding from Pretoria to Rustenburg at Buffelspoort, December 3, burned half the convoy and killed 15 men and wounded 23, including Lieut. Baker. The Boers suffered heavily. The Chicago & Alton officials have issued a notice warning persons who carried away about $4,000 worth of merchandise from a wreck, near Delevan, 111., on the 1st, to return the same under penalty of exposure and prosecution. The notice has caused a sensation.

John Gibson, of Catlettsburg, Ky., who murdered his infant stepdaughter by forcing a redhot poker down her throat, was placed in the Maysville jail, on the Cth, for safe-keep-ing, threats of lynching having been rife. At Chicago, on the 6th, Schwarachild & Sulzberger, of New York, bought B. E. Pierce’s Aberdeen Angus steer, Advance, for $1.50 a pound. This was paid for beef on the hoof, and aa the steer tipped the scale at 1,430 pounds, the price was $2,145. Charles W. Fullerton, one of Chicago’s wealthiest citizens, died at his residence, on the 6th, from apoplexy. Mr. Fullerton was probably best known through his gift of Fullerton Memorial hall to the art institute. Gov. Sayers of Texas, on the 6th, received information that some of the managers of the various relief committees in the gulf coast flood sufferers* districts were quietly appropriating money to their own use in the way of salaries for themselves for each day’s work, while distributing the money and supplies. Maj. H. J. Gallagher, chief commissary of the China expedition, has written a report to Brig-Gen. Weston, commissary general, in Which he asserts that the ration of the American soldier is superior to that supplied to mgr of the foreign soldiers.

Paul Kruger arrived at Tjbe Hague, on the 6th, and was given an effusive welcome by the burgomaster, counsellors and the public 'generally. Ho is quartered at the Hotel des Indes. The statement of the treasury balances in the general fund, exclusive of" ]the $150,000,000 goid reserve in the division of redemption, issued on the 7th, showed: Available cash balance, $137,926,438; gold, $76,802,285. The German census returns show that Berlin has a population of 1,- j 884,345, compared vwith 1,677,304 in 1895. Failures for the week ended on the 7th, as reported by R. G. Dun & Co., were 287 in the United States, against 2C1 lost" year, and 25 in Canada, against 33 last year. The French chamber of deputies, on the 7th, rejected a motion providing for a preliminary inquiry into i slavery and cruelty in the French provinces. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland will receive Mr. Kruger in audience on the 15th.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The Internationa] exposition . of 1901 at Glasgow, Scotland, has engaged John x'hinp Sousa and his band j to play at the exhibition for four weeks next October. * After his Glasgow season, Sousa will take his band to London for a series of concerts, after whicn he will make a tour of the principal cities of Great Britain and Ireland, returning to America about Christmas time. The Berlin National Zeitung devoted its first page, on the 9th, to a care-fully-prepared editorial dealing with the United States as a world power. After pointing out the enormdus progress, economically and politically, of America in the world’s affairs, the editorial declares that in both respects the United States is arrayed against Europe. * During an almost unprecedented gale on Lake Erie, on the 9th, the ore barge S. H. Foster, in‘tow of the Iron Duke, plunged into an awful sea and went head foremost to the bottom, carrying with her every soul of her crew of eight men. She sank in nearly one hundred feet of water. John McAuliffe, a well-known artist, aged 70 years, was accidentally killed, on the 9th, by tailing from a window of his residence in New York. Deceased was especially well known ilf’ connection with his pictures of horses. Mrs. Mary L. McLean, the mother of John R. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enquirer, and of Mrs. Dewey, died in Washington, at 1:30 a. m. of the 9th, of acute heart affection, after two days’ illness. According to a dispatch from Bucharest, the Russian government has broken off negotiations with the Standard Oil Co. for a lease of the petroleum fields. C. Mfred Scharsch, head bookkeeper of the Fourth national bank at Grand Rapids, Mich, has been arrested, charged with defalcations to the extent of $2,600. A German sample room has been formally opened at Constantinople. The exhibits embrace an extensive line of Germany’s manufactured articles. A fire at Borlange, near Falun, Sweden, on the 8th, rendered 150 persons homeless, and caused damage to the amount of half a million kroner. The duke and duchess of York will visit the United States on their return journey from Australia, via Canada. CURRENT NEWS NOTES. Mrs. George M. Paschall, of St. Louis, died at the Grand hotel, in Cincinnati. Joseph Manley of Maine is being urged for appointment as internal revenue commissioner. J. R. Nabanes, a Mississippi stocky man, says that he was drugged and robbed of $200. Joseph Watschinger, a farmer near Mascoutah, 111., died while a Thanksgiving dinner was being placed on his table. The Contractors’ Insurance association of the United States and Canada is holdingjts annual session at St. Louis. The forty-seventh annual banquet of the Caledonian society of St. Louis was held at the Planters’ hotel Friday evening. Storm sufferers along the Texas coast have complained to Gov. Sayers that relief committees are not distributing relief funds judiciously and impartially.

Heilman Ward, a prominent citizen of Williamson, county, 111., and a wellknown coal operator, was killed at his mine, four miles\§outh of Marion, by falling state. The disappearance of H. H. Perkins, on attorney of Doniphan, Mo., has been solved by the identication of the body of an Alabam suicide as that of the missing man. The Cherokee legislature wants a new agreement with the United 6tates,and in a new bill authorizes the principal chief to appoint a commission of five to bring about that end. Oscar Wilde died in Paris, where he had been living in obscurity, Friday, of meningitis. Hon. John A. St. John is dying from an incurable abdominal cancer at Boston. He may live a month, the physicians say, but not longer. Owing to typhoid fever, which is prevailing at Okawville, HI., the public schools at that place have been dosed 1.0 prevent any further spread of the disease. Information has been received from Peruque, Mo., that several cases of smallpox have broken out among the Burlington railroad employes at that place. Gen. MacArthur has confirmed the sentences of hanging passed upon four Filipinos recently convicted of murder at Limgaueyan,

ALL OVEB THE STATE, Events in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. Favor* Arbitration by Fore*. Indianapolis, Ind., Dec. 7.—The biennial report of the’Indiana state labor commission filed with Got. Mount shows gratifying improvement. It says: Although there has been an Increased number of strikes, those that have occurred have continued fewer days, have involved fewer persons, have been based on more reasonable demands and have been more easily adjusted than those of the two years previous to the last two. The report speaks of conditions In the 3,000 factories, workshops, mines, quarries and other centers of Industry of Indiana, which employ, approximately, 175.000 laborers. The commission favors enforced arbitration in strikes and says the welfare of the people demands an amendment to Indiana’s statutes providing for such arbitration. Such a law “would do away with the influence of professional agitators.” _>__

Shot la HU Cab. Evansville, Ind., Dee. 7.—Mathew Eintenzelman, an engineer on the Air Line railroad, received a probably fatal wound in a peculiar manner. He was standing his cab at G entry ville, when he felt^y sharp pain in his side. An examination showed he had been shot in the left side under the-.heart. He was brought here on a special train. He says steam was escaping from the locomotive at the time and he was unable to hear the shot. He is one of the oldest engineers on the road and says if he has an enemy in the world he does not know it. Romantic Wedding, Terre Haute, Ind., Dec. 7^—When Mrs. Kittle Gamache, of St. Louis, arrived to be married to Sanford Pierce, of the police force, whom she had never seen, she was startled by finding a crowd of 500 persons in the train sheds to cheer her when Pierce kissed her as she alighted from the car. It was a matrimonial advertisement marriage, and the bride had no thought that advance publicity had been given to the romance. Patrolman Pierce and Mrs. Gamache drove to the parsonage of Rev. L. E, Sellers and were married. Tired of Leniency. Anderson, Ind., Dec. 7.—John Reddington has been convicted of forging certificates of deposit belonging to his father, Patrick Reddington, and sentenced to the penitentiary for two years. The father filed the affidavit against him. Young Reddington has been a school-teacher at El wood and borq_a good reputation. His father is a well-to-do farmer. It developed that the young man had forged his father’s namejbefore and the latter had always paid to save the son. For the last offense he was very vigorous in the prosecution. Trlitafe Polo League. Laporte, Ind.. Dee. 7.—Plans are rapidly being formed for a tristate polo league, to include the states of Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin, with the placing of teams iu the principal citifes of the thpee states and the playing of a long schedule. The chief promoters are W. A. and L. A. Petty. The cities of Anderson, Elwood, Logansport. Fort Wayne and Richmond, in .this state, will back the professional teams. Will Sue the Mob. Alexandria, Ind., Dec. 7.—Frank Osborne, who was given a coat of tar and feathers by, a mob at Summitville last Saturday night for alleged insult to women, was acquitted by Judge Truesdale, of this city, on change of venue from Summitville. Osborne announces that he will immediately bring civil action against the members of the mob who perpetrated the outrage on him. Died In China. Marion, Ind., ’Dec. 7.—Word has reached here of the d<eath of Nathan Hoffmaster, an American soldier in China, who formerly lived here. He was 21 years old and enlisted in company D. Fourteenth infantry. He left Marion less than a year ago, enlisted at Elkhart and went with the company to the Philippines. From there the company went to Peking, China. Still Active. Muncie, Ind,, Dec. 7.—Alexander Ferguson, 108 years old and sound of mind, said to be the oldest man in the state, was in the circuit court with a suit to quiet title to ten acres of land owned by him. He thinks a relative is endeavoring to cheat him out of the

Shock Wati Fatal. Union City,.Ind., Dec. 7.—Mrs. John Dillon, aged 70, living near this city, was called to Richmond by a telegram saying that her son-in-law had been injured by a fall from a Stafford. On arrival at his bedside she became prostrated and died a few hours afterward. Maartee Thompson Better. Crawfordsville.Ind., Dee. 7.—Maurice Thompson, the noted author, dramatist and litterateur, who is seriously ill at his home here with pneumonia, is slightly better, but his physician does notljjit consider him out of danger. Factory Gutted. Mishawaka. Ind.,.Dec. 7.—Fire in the big plant of the Roper Furniture company gutted a portion of the factory and inflicted a loss of about $12,000. While the Are was raging the Wilson home was entered and robbed. Killed Herself. Evansville, Ind., Dec. 7.—Miss Maggie Mienert, aged 22, committed suicide by taking an overdose of carbolic acid. She was jilted by her lover. Her last words were: “Send for mother, I am dying.** Crippled. Goshen, Ind., Dec. 7.—John O. Pollock, 28 years old, had a hand torn off in a corn shredder. The young man was married on Thanksgiving day.

■ mmm Queen Victoria’s Health Is Said ts Be Visibly Failing, Creating | Much Anxiety. IS WORRIED OYER EMPRESS FREDERICK. Why Americans Got Contracts for Bridges Along the Uganda Rail* road—An Extraordinary Reversal of Conditions In the English Meat Market. . New York, Dec. 9.—A dispatch to the World from Windsor, England, : says: Much anxiety again prevails In | court circles respecting the queen’s ! health. She has broken up noticeably since she was informed that the Em* I press Frederick was suffering from cancer of the throat, and can not lire ! many months. Queen Victoria, who , invariably eats and sleeps well, has . now lost her appetite, and passes sleepless nights. For years she never missed her morning ride in a donkey chaise around the private gardens until the last couple of weeks, when this was forbidden by her doctor, who ordered her, instead, to drive through I the park in a closed carriage.

A Thins Almost Unknown. „ Sunday last the queen kept her room the entire day, a thing she has not been known to do for years, and | the report goes at the castle that sht said she would not be surprised It hear of the death of Empress Erederiek and day,as the doctors were alrnii I to perform an operation. Facta That arc Whispered. It is also whispered that her rnajes ty falls in ' a doze meal times, auc the other day, when putting or a brave front and pretending to re- | view the colonial volunteers, she fel ; fast asleep in her carriage. The windows were shut, and she was rapidly driven home. A Belief that Prevails. A belief undoubtedly prevails amonj • those around her that the queen is i failing. I The papers in London assert tha ! the queen is in her usual health, bu; the above are the true facts on the subject. WHY THE Aus-.1CANS WON. Got Bridge Contracts Because tho , British Were TocTSIoir. London, Dec. 9.—With reference to the American contracts for bridges along the line of the Uganda raHroac , Sir Harry Johnston, the commissioner for Uganda, in a dispatch to the foieign office, declares the railroad oftcials were compelled to send orders t i America, owing to the British firm a being unable to supply their wants within reasonable time. The orders comprise not only bridges, but locomotives and other rolling stock. “This and other troubles of the railway committee,” adds Sir Harry Johi.ston, “in placing orders in Great Bri> ain, are the outcome of the disastrous engineers’ strike, which has done so much to cripple this class of manufacturers. EXTRORDINARY REVERSAL. American Beef Is Supplanting tk« t the British Article. London, Dec. 9.—An extraordinaiy reversal of the usual conditions appears in the English meat market, and it is likely tnat English beef will soon be palmed off as American. Hitherto the opposite has always been the case. But, by clever manipulation,the American salesmen have obtained control of the market, until American beef costs as much as English beef. Hence the likelihood of substitutions. Commenting on this situation an English paper says: “The American salesmen now muke almost what they like. In the Eqgiish trade there Vas no organizations oppose them. The farmers have been in the hands of the butchers, whose cupidity led them into the arms of the Americans. The only active opposition the Americans had to meet lay in the prejudice of the consumer It has taken twenty years to beat, 1 hat prejudice.”

ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL. Exchange of Civilities Between Admiral Rawaon and Royalty. Lisbon, Dec. 9.—King Charles I., Queen Marie Amelie and Prince 1? _>yal Louis Philippe, accompanied by the members of the cabinet and other dignitaries, were entertained at luncheon oi. board the British battleship Majestic by Vice-Admiral Sir Harry fct >ld».«worth Rawson. The Portuguese hyra was sung, and Admiral Rawson propped a toast to the royal family The king replied in English, thanldm • Admiral Rawson for the sentimeu s lie lmd expressed. The royal visitors remained aboard the battleship hi>2 hours, and InH-r assisted at an s ntertuinment at the British legation. Found FliMtiay in » Lake. Bloomington, 111., Dec. 9.—Th«. body of Robert K. Thompson was i ound. Friday, floating in the lake at Miller park, this city. \. Thonipson was 32 years olu, and lived here until two years ag>. He had been insane and confined n the ftsylum at Jacksonville, 111., b> t was recently discharged, and cam here last week. c When found the arms and fee j were bound with wire, He leaves a wife and three c. ildren at Three Rivers. Mich.

WILL ACT IMMEDIATELY, Kegottatloaa to be Opened Immedt* •tely »t Pekin—The Cowt Clew* in*—A Social Club. \ t • - I yi' Pekin, Dec. 9.—All the foreign en* *oys except Sir Edward Mason Satow* the British minister, have received in* struction from their government* agreeing to the joint note proposed at the last meeting. Another meeting’ Will probably be called for Tuesday next. Should' the British minister have received instructions to sign the joint note by that time, eommunication will be immediately ^opened with Prince Ching and Li Hung Chang, who are in daily touch with the court bj| the Chinese telegraph. Prince Ching says Emperor Kwang Su is ready to return as soon as assured that the negotiations will allow} him to come under conditions consonant with his dignity and safety. The removal of Gen. Tung Pa Hasiang from the command of the Chinese forces surrounding the court is considered by the foreign envoys to be a very important step, as showing the real desire of the government to come to terms. His banishment indicates that the court recognizes the expediency of obeying the demands ot the powers.

The envoys are considering' thn question of legation buildings in the future. At present none of the gov- f ernments owns its buildings, all the houses being rented. The only ones, not damaged considerably are the American, British and Russian. It is proposed that all the legation buildings should be concentrated within s square mile west of the Tartar City; that each building should be owned by the government using it, find that the whole should be surrounded by s moat and drawbridges having an international guard sufficient to protects the legations against any repetition of the recent attack. The only other buildings which it is proposed to allow within the enclosure with the legation houses and the necessary offices, would be the foreign clubs. The International club was opened, yesterday, its object being to bring together in a spirit of social harmony; the officers and diplomats of the various nations. There was a large company present, and music was discoursed by military.\ands. It is expected that the club will continue 4. great success. The building’Was formerly an imperial temple. COLD COMFORT FOR KRUGER* ^3 The Caar Is Sorry, Bat, Then, Ills Illness Stake* Intervention Quite Impossible. London, Dec. 10.—“Mr. Kruger received a message from the czar, Friday night,” says the correspondent of the Times at The Hague. “It was couched in very friendly terms, but the fact that its existence has been kept a close secret is sufficient to indicate its Author’s intention to abstain from any active steps friendly; to intervention. The czar naturally; pleads his illness as a sufficient excuse for not interfering. “Mr. Kruger, when cheered by th«. crowd on his return from the cathedral, yesterday, turned and roundly; reouked those near him for such ai desecration of the Sabbath.” THE QUEEN AND KING CARLOSThe Mother of Sovereigns and He* Nephew Exchange Cordial Friendly Greetings. Lisbon, Dec. 10.—King Carlos has received from Queen Victoria the following telegram in response to throne sent by his majesty Saturday: “I am greatly touched by your kind telegram. I sincerely thank you, my; dear uephew, for the good wishes you entertain toward me and my people. It is again with the greatest pleasure that I recognize the cordial and friendly understanding between Portugal and hngland.” After cordial farewells to the Portuguese officials and. an exchange of salutes, the British squadron sailed at noon yesterday.

Wllhelmina’a Prudent Disclaimer. The Hague, Dec. 10.—The govern* ment of The Netherlands has instructed the Dutch minister in Lon* don, Baron Van« Golstein van Olden* aller, to disavow, in the name of tho/ government, all responsibility for tho letter addressed to Mr. Kruger by the president of the first chamber of tha Btates-general, Dr. A. Van Naamen van Fomnes,approving his “noble pur* pose” and expressing a hope that the independence of the two Dutch ro publics would be secured. Alarm Felt at The Hague. London, Deci 10.—Special dispatches from The Hague represent the feeling there as one of alarm at the prospect, of an Anglo-German-Portuguese combination, which might snatch the Dutch seaboard or seize Javana. It is. $ reported at the Dutch capital that the> possibility of a war with England has even been uiscussed by $fe cabinet council. COLORADO MINERS* STRIKE. One Hundred and Sixty Miners Strik#to Help the Top Men Get an Increase. ,| Denver, Col., Dec. 9.—One hundred and sixty miners at the Simpson coal mines, in Lafayette, Col., have gona on strike because the Northern Coal Co. which operates the mine, refused to increase the wages of top mem from $2.50 to $3 a day. Should a settlement not be reached within a fev* days the company’s other mines, majf become involved.