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Eugene City Guard. I. I.. CAMPBELL. Proprietor. KUUKNE CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY LATER NEWS. An latarwMag ' 1 riumi . the Two llemlepherei Presented In m Condenaed Purm. Piairioflrea have caused great dam age in Oklahoma and Indian territoiy duiiog the past few days. A riot in a political club at Chicago resulted in thu ilcatli of OBJ and tlio wounding of sevoral others. John Warnook, a deputy lii'rifT, was shot and killed lit Birmingham, Ala., by an escaped negro convict, whom lio was trying to arrest. Tho murderer escaped. An illicit whisky (till an n side issue of plant lor the unlawful manufacture and imitation of well-known biandi of wine baa been unearthed near the heart of Chicago. The session of Cuba, Porto Bico and the Philippines was practically accom plished at Wednesday's session of the K).ice oonulaf ion, Theau are the threo main articlea. Two I urirded livea loat, fill vessels totally Wrecked and 41 otliera hopeleea ly itrandel, and the worst probably nut known, ia thu lateat newi iroui thu fear ful Atlantic stoiro. A freight train on tho Norfolk & Western railroad went through a bridge near Riverside, Va. The llieman was killed, the engineer seriously scalded ami a brakeuian fatally injured. Ai tides incorporating tho O. R. ft N. i ' m t 1 1 1 v have been liled with thu aeo retary of statu of Washington, and ahow that the extensions in Oregon, Washington and Idaho havu long been in contemplation. At thu Ijoyal Legion banquet given in Manila lit) gueats wure preaent. Nearly every ooiuniamlory waa repie tented. (leneral Andeison pieaided rid Kcar-Admiral Dewey was leceived by a gaard of huuor from the Oregon regiment. Cubans are starving to death in Santa Clara, and thu lied Cross has beon ap pealed to to furnish prompt relief. Women ami children are auffering. If uccor doea not sunn reach thorn all will have died. Tha Cuban troopa are also in a pitiful condition for lack of sup plies. Tho Hed Cross will promptly resKind to tho appeal, but is hundi capped by lack of fundi. Claude M. Johnson, director of the bureau of engraving and printing, in his annual report shows that during the fear theie were ic', 1170,41 8 sheets of ttatn m and government aecoritiei printed and delivered at a cost of $1, 570,61)8. This sum, however, in cludes f 13,51)0 increase of stock, $30,- 000 paid for machinery ana fU, 418 paid to outsidu employes. Chas. W. Oontdoek, the well-known actor, died in New York. Natural gas has been discovered on Snmmorlind beach, near Santa Durham, OaL The steamer Wildw I sank at her dock at Port Townaend during a heavy storm. Many of the Manila soldiers want to come lioiue. They have been attacked by a serious easu of homa-siukucss. Three negroes were lynched near Meridian, Miaa. The crime altaged waa thu thumping of a white man. Thu government has been officially advised of tin' successful termination 01 thu Purls negotiations with Spain. The steamer Detroit was lost on Shelter island, near Juneau. She had 37 passengers, all of whom wure aavud. Thu battle ship Wiacouain, recently launchud at San Ftancisoo, ia fast in the mud, ami all efforts to dislodge her have proved futile. Incompetent engineeis are blamed for the breakdown of the cruiser Huf fun. while on her war from New York to join Admiral Dewey's Heet. (leneral Blanco's letiiement ami the roaignation of the autonomist cabinet increases the confusion in Cuba which piecedcd American control. Fear is felt that the Cnited States may not assume immediate juiisdictiuu, and that confusion will result. The steamer Portland, which waa re- Hrted missing after the big Atlantia coast storm, has been lost off lligblund 1 light with every passenger and the entire crew. The nil oilier drowned is about 100. Thirty four bodies have been recovered from thu surf and the rescue work still proceeds. The Port-j land waa valued at f vo, ..., and waa insured. News is at hand from Tien-Tain that ' a huge number of Japanese spies have' been captuted by the ltnssiana at Port' Arthur and shot. Seven Japanese, all I olllcers of the impeiial Japanese army, 1 War! taken, and on their peiaona wera found drawings of the ptlncipal fu.ti tlcat ions. Put a day elapsed after their capture before they were marched out be foi o a firing party of Uussiana and summarily shot. Thirty-seven people wore drowned in (he wreck of the steamer Clan Drum mood in the bay of Biscay. a A gift to Wei lesley college of 160,000 from tho estate of Charles T. Wilder has just been announced. The 60th anniversary of Francis Joseph's accession to the throne was celebrated throughout Austria. Throe coal barges weie lost and tho livea of 10 or 13 men wero sacrificed in the recent Atlantic, storm off Bargate. The Philippine insurgents demand 7,000,000 pesetas for the release of 40 friars imprisoned slnoe the commence ment of the war. A file fiend attempted to burn John Wanamaker's big department stoie in Philadelphia, but was arrested before seriuus damage was donu. The liabilities of Gillolt. the ab sconding Kansas cattle-plunger, con tinue to grow, the lateat estimate plac ing the total at II, 600,000. The Hunaet limited tranacontinental train of the Southern Pacitic, west bound, waa badly wrecked two miles west of Jennings, La. No lives weru lost. An unsuccessful attempt was made to hold up and rob a Missouri Pacific passenger train near Sedalia, Mo. One bandit was captured and another was severely wounded. Agiiinaldo is said to be preparing to make resistance, and Spanish sympa thized in Madrid declare (10,000 men armed with Mausers will unpoae Amer ican control of thu Philippines. Secretary Ijiing baa ordered tbo cruiser New York to Havana. On hii arrival, Sainion will hoist his flagon the cruiser, and it is exacted she will bring the admiral north next month. A German government official, in an interview with a correspondent of tho press in Herlin conllrmed thereKirt that Germany is negotiating with Spain (or the purchase of the Caroline islands. Advicos from New Ouinoa say tho nativu tiibus living on Musu river late ly flridcd thu Masini villages, in Col -lingwood bay, and niassacrud 16 coast people. Theie uro no police to deal with thu murderers. News from Samoa states that tho na tives held a meeting October 13 to discuss the question of the kingship. A number ol conciliatory speeches eio delivered, but no candidate was named, nor was any decision sirived at. Two men havo been arrested at Lon don on chaiges of having robbed tho Duchess of Sutheiland of valuable jew elry in Kiancu last month. Part of the stolen jeweliy waa in the poasession of thu robbers when they were arrestud. A New Yoik Herald dispatch from (Juuyaquil, Kcaudor, says: Owing to attempt of revolutionists to invadu thu country simultaneously from Colombia and Peruvian frontiera, tho ciinncil of atnto haa granted extrordiuary powors to President Alfaro, who has assumed a dictatorship over the country. Thu Methodist general conferonce will hold its 1000 aesaion in Chicago. Chile is on a specie basis and no more papei money will bu issued. It is announced at Washington that no more presidential postmasters will be named until congieaa incuts. Thu battle-ships Oiegon and Iowa havu been ordered to proceed from Mon tevideo to Valparaiso, where further orders will await them. Troubles has arisen in Africa be tween Gannanj and thu Congo Free Statu, relative to the respective boun dary lines north uf Laku Taugunika. General Thomas Kcgalado, the head of the revolutionary movement in Sal vador, has usurped the presidency and proclaimed himself chief executive of the republic. The attempt to effect a coalition be tween the states of Nicaragua, Hon duras and Salvador, to be conducted as the United States of Central Amorioa, has failed completuly. Arrangements aru being made by the war depaitmunt to disinter the remains of all the soldiers who loat their lives in the campaign before Santiago and bling them to this country. Qritt improvement in the hoaltb of the army has taken place within the last two months, as shown by the laat reports to the surgeon-geneial from the Held and general huspilals. There is a band of American swin dlers in Hamburg, Ocrmanv, who aru passing worthless American paper money, for w hich they not only procure valuable merchandise, but even obtain money in exchange from their victims. It will probably be the end of Decem ber or the beginning of January before any further news ia received from the top who havu chosen to spend the ' wintor on thu rich gold-bearing creeks of the Klondike. About 600 men will winter on the creeks in thu Atlln river oountry. The navy department has made pub lic a reMirt from Admiral Sampson, covering the operations of the United States blockading fleet off Santiago after the destruction of Cervera's squadron. The report scores (leneral AGAINST EXPANSION1 LETTER FROM DEWEY. rails a aad Hi Haiti of Senator Hale's Opinion Public Sentiment. of PHILIPPINES NOT DKSIKABLE Senator Kjla lleelarae Thai lh it. ul Senate Will Not Itallfy tua I'eaee Treaty. Washington, Dec 8. Setnator Hale, nf Maine, today announced ins opposi tion to the peace treaty which is being formulated in Paris. He is opposed to the acquisition of the Philippines, and j his antagonism to the treaty will be based upon that section ol the treaty i which deals with the Philippine ques tion. "The negotiation of the treaty, un I fortunate as it is," said the senator to day, "by no means insures the actual annexation of the Philippine islands. It is uncertain when the treaty will be signed or when it will be submitted to i the senate, and still mure uncertain ' whether it will ever be ratified. Tho responsibility ia so vast and the solici 1 tude of the public is so great, that ample time will be given to its discus 1 sion und to getting the real facts before 1 the Ameiican people. Many things will be found out, which are not known, and the evils of the proposed annexation will so gruw upon the pub lic mind and upon congress ami BpOO the president that it is by no means I unlikely that within six mouths or a year everybody, instead of being for 1 annexation uf the islands, will want tu , be rid of them. "The people of the United States ' will find out that the commerce of the ' Philippines is very limited in extent, t that they are inhabited by a puuple whoso habits ami wants fur bid an in crease nf trade, and that under the scheme of annexation presented to us, this trade is tu bu shared equally with Spain ami all other competing nations. What is called the 'oion-dnor' policy cuts down the interest of the United Slates in the Philippines trade to a point where it makes no figure in our commerce. Thu cut in- trade of thu islands, if we had it all not the profit derived from it, but tha wbulo amount of trade will not, in any year, pay the expenses of the army ami the navy that the United States will Ihi obliged to maintain there." Henator Kyle'a views. Chicago, Dec. 6. "President Me Kinley never can get the membeia of the present senate to ratify the treaty soon to be signed at Paris by the puace commissioner! of the United States and Spain," laid Senator Kyle, of South Dakota, who wu! here today on his way to Washington. "Thu United States, thu victor, ahould not be bound to pay 3(),000,000 to thu vanquished, Spain. Such a payment estahliabes a dimgeroui precedent, to say th leuat. Then, I do not believe that we want the Philippines at all. One island with a good harbor would be of use as a naval station, but whatever can we do with a lot uf islands with such a cosmopolitan population as that ol the Philippines? Say wu make colonies of them. There is no place in our gen eral policy for colonial i n sessions. And bv taking them we must diacard the Monroe doctrine, for how can wo object to Europeans inteiferiug in American affaiia now that we have at tempted to meddle in the politics of another hemisphere?" ANOTHER INVESTIGATION. I'rovliliMl for In Hi llrart or Treaty Artlrlee. Now York Dec. 6. A dispatch to the World from Paris says: The diaft of articles submitted by the Spanish OommiaalOMtl relates to the national ity of inhabitants of ceded teiritory, the juriadictinu of courts, the cases pending in them, the continuing of grants and contracts for public wot Its, aeivices in tho ceded territory and kindred matters. One article provides that tho United States and Spain shall appoint an in ternational committee ol seven ex perts, each country to name one uf its citisuna, one BrltOfl and one Ficnch man, and a German to la the presi dent. This committee is to determine the roaponaibllity for the Maine disas ter. II Spain is resmiisible she ia to send a waiship to salute the American flag at New York. II she is not, the United States is to pay all expenses of the cominsision. Tho Spanish idea is that, having yielded on the main principles, they pill gain important advataioi in the details. r'arragnt stasia l(iiilril Time. San Francisco, Dec. 5. The torpedo Innit Farragtit bad her offloial trial on the bay today, and succeeded in exceed ing the requirement of 80 knots by . 18 of a knot, her offloial time being 80.18, with revolutions. Tho official time will not bu given out for a day or ainrr 'r Maalla. Oreensbnrg. Pa., Dec. 6 The fol lowing is a letter received from Ad miral Dewey by Mrs. Noss, of Moont Pleasant, whoae husband, Jesse Noss, was killed in the battle ol Manila. July 81: "Olympia, Flagship, Manila. Oct. 28, 1808 My Dear Mrs. Noes: I wish to eipreii to you my deepest sympa thy. It must lessen Toor sorrow somewhat to know that your young husband fell fighting bravely for his country, the noblest death a man can know. From the Olympia I walohed the fight that fearful day, aud won dered bow nianv American homes would be saddened by the martyrdom suffered by our brave men, and my sympathy went out to each and every one of them. Your loss has been sad der than the others, and a I am onablo j to express the sorrow I feel for yon. j Tears came to my eyes as I read the story of the father who nevor saw his I child, and then the loss of all that waa left to the brave mother. It is hard I sometimes to believe that our heavenly , father in hii infinite goodness always . does things for the best, but some day father, mother and daughter will he , joined, never to be parted. With my I teiulereat sympathy, believe me, your sincere (riend, "OEOBGE DEWEY." The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Noss, who died, waa named for Admiral Dewey. TANNER IS INDICTED Charged With Omission ot Duty in Office. OUTCOME OF THE VIItDEN RIOT PICKED UP AT SEA. Itlch I rli I by llrltlih Mar-ton Moor. Strainer Philadelphia, Dec. 6. Tho British steamship Marston Moor Captain An gus which sailed from Baltimore No vember 20 for liottenlain anived at thu Delaware breakwater today having in tow one of the richest piizes picked up at sea for some time. It was the Urit ish bark La Escocesa which was bound from Iqtiique to Now York laden with about 2,000 tun! of nitrate of soda, valued at about 800,000. Tho prize was picket) up 31 honra previously to the eastward of ('ape Henloen. From Captain Angus it was learned that tho bark when sighted was in charge of the chief officer. Captain Evan!, her commander, had dn-d of biain fever, September 32. She waa in a helpless condition, having experienced a heavy gale November 20. Tho deck! were awept, pu mpa smashed and boats car rieil awav, together with tho fore and mizzon maala. According to the bar gain made by Captain Angua, tbo set tleuicnt of the case ol salvage is to be left to arbitration. REPORT OF ALGER. Made l'p Al.noit Wholly or Offlclal IHapatchee. "Washington, Dec. 8. The Annual reKirt of Secretary Alger is a practical ly complete official bistoiy of the Spanish-American war. Tho secre tary has given to the public not only all the official dispatches that pasaed directly between his own office and commanding officers in the field and campa, but haa aupplcmentcd these with sboit explanatory notes setting (orth the reaaoua (or varioua movementa and then to complete the record of events he has included in the body of hia report the report of Genoral Milea, of all the generals who participated in the campaigns in Cuba, Porto Itico or the Philippines, and finally the reports ol all of thu bureau officeis of thu war department. Nowheie ia thero shown a disposition tojoriticiee, the official dis patches being allowed to tell their own story and generally the secretary finds much to praise and catiao for sincere congratulation in the result! obtained. (leneral Milea' Hill for Keorganliatlon. Washington Dec. 5. Oenoral Milea, commanding the nrmv, haa prepared tho draft ol a bill providing for a regu lar standing army of 100,000 men. The bill, It is said, will provide for an organization .of 12 companies to the regiment with an airangement fur a third lieutenant for eaih company in case of need fur that ofilce. It will contain provision for a staff corps, largely in accordance with the recom mendations of tho heads of the various bureaus. Chairman Hull, ol tho house committee on militaty affaiia, intenda to present the measure in congres! at the tu -i opportunity. Huntington')) Nepliew'a Sulfide. Loa Angelea, Cal., Doe. 6. lioscoo Huntington, who claimed to be a nephew of Collis P. Huntington, com mitted suicide in a lodging-house here with morphine. Deceased was an ex pert accountant, and came here expect ing to secure employment in the South ern Pacific offlOM, All ftat l. ,ui.l, WmI Initial. London, Dee. 6. In order to relievo ill., " - ;.. ti... iv...i .u- Shafter for making public iiuiH.rta.it VI.".." t . : . . . . , , UV1HMIVIII .... - UVVHIIII W OiUU IWWBJHWa , ,,- l-ill HOD 1111,1 SI Vllieeiil V-'S cO I . - - - - -U,VVV t' prising In Arabia. Constantinople, Dec. r. It is report ed there has been lighting in Yinan, the principal division of Arabia, and that the Turkish troops suffered serious defeat. Tho lebels in Tais are said to have hoisted tho Uritish flag. Turkish offloials are reticent. telegrams and refusing to tbo admiral in the surrender. and lend to each the sum of .M,000. Sllinir Nowa llama. The steamer Monarch cleared from Nuw Oilcans for Liverpool with the largest general catgo ever carried from longed drought. that port, embracing 80,080 bales of cotton, 138,000 bushels of corn, 10,000 slaves. California mine owners assort the gold output of the slate has been cut tailed at least 60 per cent bv a Dro- Sarah Uonnell, an Abilene, (Kan.) young woman, has received a legacy of half a million dollars fioin a New York friend interested in her musical educa tion. Mie will go to Paris soon to com plcto her musical education. Prisoners when arrosted in Morocco are roqulrod to py the poiroamaa for Ills trouble in taking them to jail. Professor Henry Van Intao, the ar tist who had been art instiuctor of I Vassar college since its opening in 186S, died suddenly of angina pectoris at his home in Poughkeepiie, N. Y., 1 aged 85 years. John II. Uuckman, captain United States navy, retired, enlisted In the navy 18 yeats before the civil war and served with Dewey. At Fort Fisher he raoed Lieuteuaut Uob Evaua up scaling ladder. Olivur Clement, aged 18, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., has man led Mrs. Hannah MoOinnis, aged .'o She was hia step mother's stepmother. Though one of the youngest general officers in the confederate army Men eial Wheeler was the oldest in the na tional service against Spain. The death of Colonel Amos Webster, in Washington, leaves Oenoral Horace Potter as the only surviving member of Oeueral U. S. Oram's personal staff. Mine. Adelina Patti-Nioolini an nounces bei betrothal to Haion Corder strom, a Swedish nobleman. The marriage will take place next Febru ary. The workmen of the Lihby Ulais company in Toledo, (., have completed the largest cut glass bowl ever made in the woiUt, lot presentation to Presi dent McKiuley. It weighs T8 pounds. Kanltary anaaeation Adopted. Washington, Deo. 6. The war de partment has decided to adopt the sug gestion of Oeueral Wood, in command at Santiago, that the removal of the remains of American soldiers from that section ol Cuba bo deforiod to Februaiy at the earliest. It has boon definitely learned that not one person on board the ill-fated steamer Portland escaped to tell tho tale of the wreck. Inrrease In fiermany. London, Dec. 5. The projected in crease in the Oertnan army means, ac cording to the Herlin corresnondont of the Daily News, a yenrly addition to the estimates ol 8,000,000 jnaiks. The j peace effective footing will be gradually laised by 40,000 men, to be completed j in UI03. Captain Olass Will lie Kellaved. Washington, Dec. 5. Captain Glass I to Ihi relieved of tbo command of the i Charleston and brought home from Manila on waiting orders, at his own ; request. He will be succeeded in com mand ol the Charleston by" Captain Whiting now at Manila in command of the Monadnock. The commander of the latter has not yet been selected. Fish, as a mie, inciease In weight and length everv year up to their death. Madrid advices from the Philippinea say the insurgents there have decided not to recognize the cession of the islands to the United States, and that they will resist to the last. It is claimed that the United States will require 70,000 tioops to put down tho rebellion, and it is alleged that the insui gents hold 10.000 Spanish piisoners whom they will foroe to serve against tha Americana. The receipts of the Denver mint for November were 1, 1)38,718, as against 11,887,188 during the corresponding month last year. Kntlr ( raw rerlahed. Boston, Mass., Dec. 5. A special to the Herald from Woodsholl says that tho sunken schoonei at Tarpaulin oove ia probably the Lunet, of Bangor, Me. The vessel lies dote in shore, with about one-third of her masts out ol water. Owing to the heavy seas, her crew of seveii men could not havo ped. Philadelphia, Dec. 8. A private dispatch from Boston says the schooner L. V. Beebe, fiom Philadelphia for Boston, with coal, has been wrecked on Blsck rock, near Cohasset, Mass. flfty-Thr Other Teraone Alio Held Accountable by th Orand Jory The Uoveriior' Indifference. fit Louis, Mo., Dec. 8. A special to tbo BopaMiO Iroui Cailinville, II)., says: The Virden riot grand jury rnsde its final report to Judge I!. B. Shirley at 8:30 this evening. Judgu Shirley came down from Springfield, where be was holding court, ond hold u abort hall-hour session to receive this report. . The grand jury dealt pertinently with the affair, as far SB it was ablo toaster- tain, and returned true bills agams tbo principal participants in tho tiag edy of October 12 at Virden, Ten in dictments involving 84 persona wero leturned. Against John K. Tanner, governor of Illinois, there aro three counts for pslpablo omission of duty anl malfeasance in office. Fred W. Lukens, general manager ol tho Chi-cago-Viiden Coal Company, is charged with manslaughter on two counts. With Lukens, his deputies, Frank Wilder. J. E. 6ickels and J. II. Smith, are Indicted for tho killing ol Joseph Oitterele, a Mount Olive miner. Six teen Thiel guards aie held for riot In the indictments againa'. Uovornor Tanner, tho compluining witnesses uro John Uiaham, Will Mitchell, William Wilson, Clarence Hobs and Charles fitowiut, employes of tho Cbicago-Vir-den Coal Company. Thoy testified that they were intimidated and pro vented from performing their legitimato employment by an armed body of men numbering 1.000, who unlawfully and feloniously assombled in Virden; that the governor had been notified by tho sheriff of Macoupin county that no pro tection was to be bad fiom the county, and waa earnestly importuned for stato assistance. Judgo Shirley fixed Governor Tan ner's bond at $800. A. J. Hoberts, the foreman of the grand Jury, who wa! also foreman of the coroner's jury, i! a Virden polico magistrate. Ho was strongly opposed to indicting Governor Tanner. In each of tho indictments against Governor Tannor the omission oi duty was identical failure and refusal to respond to tho call of Si oriff Davon portaaalthis county, for military aid in suppressing the riotous domonsrations of the Virden coal-miners. Tho indict ments were in brief as (Allows: "First Failure and refusal to send troops to aid the sheriff in checking tbo actions of 1,000 or moro men, who were peventing certain persons fiom entering on their duties in the service of the Cbicago-Virden Coal Mining Company. "Second Failure and refusal to send troopB on the call ol the sheriff to pre vent the same men from doing bodily violence to the aaine would-be employes. "Third Failure and refusal to sond troops to aid the sheriff in preventing the same rioters from conspiring and Combining to do injury to tho would-bo employe!." Tanner Refuned to Talk. Springfield, III., Dec. 8. When Gov ernor Tanner was informed this even ing ol the action of tho grand jury at Carlinville, he received the news with indifference, and manifeatod no interest in the particulars. He was asked for an expression in regard to the matter, but declined to talk about it. Mii.p'y saying that he did not consider ft worth while to discuss the subject. Attorney-General Atkin was naked to give hia opinion regarding the legal effect of the action, in viuw of tho aup poaed fact that the chief executive of a atate cannot be proceeded against in that way and cannot be prosecuted trpon the indictment returned, but he dc 1 1 to say anything about tho matter further than that he had not previously heard of the action taken by the grand jury, and waa not aware such action was contemplated. Search Ripeditlon Wrerked. London, Dec. 8. A swcial dispatch from Yeniaiesk, Eastern Siberia, le ports tho airival of an exnedition thut hail gone in search of Herr Androe, the aeronaut, who ascended in July, last year, from Spitzbergen, with the inten tion of crossing tho polar regions in search for tho north polo. Tho expedi tion was wrecked while crosaiing fiom tho delta of the river Lena to tbo river OlonO) which flows into tho Arctic ocean southwest of Bennett and Dc Long islands, but managed to reach un uninhabited island about 120 miles from the mouth of the Olenek. There the paity was icelround for 17 days bc foio it was succored. Wreckage of Flaking Hrhnnnera. Barnstable, Mass., Dec. 8. Great masses of wreckage have been coming ashore on tho inside of Cape Cod since Sunday. A piece of a vessel marked "Bmma , Philadelphia," came ashore at Sandy neck, near Barnstable light, and last night three bodies were found near thete on the beaob. Much of the wreekago appears to be that of fishing schooners. Cklrago Again In Coimnlatlun. New York, Deo. S.-The cruiser Chicago, reconstructed and capable of much greater speed than when sbo was taken out of commission over two years ago, waa placed in commission at tho navy-yaid today. Farragufa Trial roatpnned. San Franoisco, Dec. 3. Owing to tho thick fog today, the torpedo-boat Jarragut did not have her official trial. Weather parmittilLg, the trial will take place tomorrow. -J Iiaar II. Kinead Itankrupt. Toledo. () 11. 9 I r. o . known from ocean to ocean as a uianu! factorer of ventilating and heating ap paratus, tiled a petition in bankruptcy in the United States court here today Smead placed his liabilities at fyoo '. 00, 80 fr s he knows.with no assets. Loaaea by Ike Storm. New York, Dec. 3. -Marine under-; writers ol this city estimate that tha I loatsa sustained by insurance com-1 Pfnies ..the result of the stotm begin ning last Saturday will probably reach ometh.n, like 11,000.000. CHINESE IN PHILIPPINES. Sllnlater Wm P tStS Agaluat K rlmllng Them. Washington, Doc. 8. The Washing ton Star piints Ibis afternoon an inter view with Wu Ting-fang, tho Chinese minister, c tei ning the probability of thu enfoicement of tbo Chineso exclu sion law in tho Philippines when tho islands shall come under tho control of the United States. Wu expresses satisfaction at tho ap proaching conclusion of the peace ne gotiation!, as peace between the United States and Spain Is thereby Insured. Ho deprecates war in all its phases, nnd believes that all international diffeioncos should bo submitted to an arbitiugo tribunal for settlement. (Ho gurdini tho application of the Chinese exclusion law to tho Philippines, Mr. Wu said: "I wish to appeal to tho Amorican people not to enforce tho Chinese ex clusion law in those islands. By do ing so a .'ir.it injustico will be douo my countrymen, and many opportun ities of a prosperous and happy lifu will be denied them. Thero are a great many Cliine!o in tho Philippines, and all of them aro a credit to tho niohi pelago. Tho Chinese population thero is ontirely differont from that in your Western countries. In tho Philippines my oountiymcn uro engaged in every walk of life. There are innomerablo artisans, farmers, storekeepers, mer chants, traders, and, in fact, business men of overy legitimate character. Might 8111 the lllghblndars. Washington, Dec. 8, The Chinese government through its minister, Wu Ting-fang, has broached to tho au thorities hero the willingness of China to negotiate an extradition treaty ap plicable to all criminals; bllt intended in particular to reach the highbinders. Tho Chineso government believes tho highbinder troubles in this country operate quito as much against law abidimr Chineso and ugainst the Chi nese government as against parties to tho secret crituos. Therefore, China wishes to have such criimnala loturncd to her domain for trial. KEPT BY THE 8EA. No Light on the Mystery or the Tort land Wreek. Provincotown, Mass., Dec. 8. An other day has passed nnd the mysteiy of tho steamer Portland has not been given up by the soo. It was a day of constant watching on more than 80 miles of coast line, and tho sea grudg ingly held its viotims, yielding only five. Twenty-fivo bodies have been recovered out of the entire passenger and crew lt!t, tho exact number of which is still unknown. The numbor of people who went to their death in the Portland will never bo known, but almost iiourly persons are roported missing from different places in New England, until now it seem! po!8ible that the number was over 150. Of the bodies recovored hereabouts, 12 have been identified, and eight re main to be named. The idontifiod are: E. Dudley Frcoman, Yaromuth, Me.; George W. Dulaney, Shawmut avenuo, Boston; Miss Jennio C. Edmunds, East Boston; Mrs. Cornelia Mitchell, North Easton; Miss Madge Ingraham, col ored, Woodford, Me.; George Graham, colored, porter steamer Portland; deck band steamer Portland, name un known; Jones, !ocond cook, identi fied by Agent Williams; Solomon Cohon, junk dealer, Poitland, Me.; Miss Elizabeth M. Collins, Portland, Me.; Susan E. Kelley, Boston, and Walter F. Bemis, Auburn, Me. One of the five bodies recovered today wa! found at Najusett, some 26 miles from tho pluco near which it is believed tho wreck occurred; another oanie aahore at Orlean!, soma four or five miles further south, and three at Chatham. Old seamen say that the majority of tho bodies which will be found here havo already oome a!hore. The rest, it is bel ievoil by the experi enced, have beon carried far south and loat in Nantucket sound or scatterod so widely that there is little hope that they will ever be recovered. Moreover, the belief that ninny bodies are still within the bull of the steamer seems to be growing. This theory is held by so many porsons that it ia likely that tug! will be sent out to patrol the section of sea whioh has been fixed upon as the probable scene of tho wreok, in an en deavor to locate the hull, as well as to sectiie everything that can be found afloat from her, including bodius, bag gage, cargo, etc. Tho train from Boston today brought down over 60 relatives of the loat ones. Itereipta anil Kxpendlturea. Washington, Deo. 3 The monthly comparative statement of government receipts and expenditures shows that during the month of No rem ber receipts aggregated 33,900,015. as OOmparod with 843, 3(13,1105 for November last year. In that month, however, is in cluded about 818,000,000 received oh account of the Pacific railroad sottlS ment. Independent of those payments, tho receipts exceeded those for Novem ber, 1897, by about 1 13,600.000. Re ceipts from customs last month were 15,335,200, an increase of about 5,800,000; from 4fernal revenue sources. 21,386,743, an increase ol nearly 8,000,000. Disbursements dur ing last month amounted to 49,090, 980. an inciease on acoount of the war of nearly 81 1,000,000. Since July, re ceipts have aggregated 204,557,083, as compared with 148,113,875 for 1897. Crew or Twelve Men Lost. Baltimore. Md., Dec. 3. The Black-Sheridan-Wilson Company, of this city, received a telegram today from E. R. Norton, the Boston agent of the firm, saving the copinany's schooner, King Philip, which left this port No vember 16, with 1787 tons of ooal for Portland, Me., had foundered in the gale Sunday night off Highland light. -'lass., ami that all wero lost. Her raw consisted oi about twelve men, all told. Linooln, Neb., Deo. 8. Colonel W. Br-Van left this evening for Savan nah, Ga., to rejoin his regiment. His furlough does not expire until the 4th, but his health being fully recovered, b felt it his duty to return. A num ber of prominent political leaders, among them ex-Congressman Towne snd Thomas C. Patterson, of Denver, have been in oonferenoe with Colonel Bryan during the week. A car shed containing 76 trolley cars was butned at New Yoik, entailing a oss of 160.000 and demoralising traffic in tba borough of Bronx. tiibh Rapid Progress Mrje . Pce CcmmiSsi0 AORRRHKNT ON Dally a,.o. Will , J an Kan. M -wf g Paris, Deo. 2. Td0 n ponce commission held . OH? for tbo on r .,,. ... ""(SJk ' the treaty arTicKS1! by Secretaries M, ,, final preparation ,.i .. . concluded and tho revised diw over to tbo typewriter. nlu"H The joint session of thscon,. ..on mot ami began di,,, formulated protocol agree,,,. , , ? Jects for negotiation, all or. 11'1 presented to the join, oo form acceptable to the There war. 18 article. ..Vj wo commissions, covering oitla lug subjects: " Wlr First Tho relinimishn.., ere.gnty over and claim of UtUknS Second-The cession ,,f and other Spanish pw,.km,, VVestInd.es, together win, 0u the Lad rones. Third-The cession of th, sJ pines. of the Philippines. Fifth-The pledge of ,h, rw States to preserve order In the pu? pines pending the ratification oil treaty. 1 1 Sixth Tho releaso of miliar, -a, oners mutually. Seventh Tho cession by gnu, . the Island of Kusai.or Strong'ilrk,? in the Carolines. Eighth-Tho mutual relinqoiihg of indemnity claims. Ninth Tho religious freedom of 8s Carolines, assuring tho rights of As ican missionaries thore. Tenth The cable landing a igrbtat t points within the Spanish tarlsfsH Eleventh Tho release by Spsis i political prisonore for offeniw in Crij and tho Philippines. Twelfth Tbo pledge of the taital States to inaugurate in the P!iilippiM an "open door" policy, and toguiu teo the same to Spain for at kit 11 years. Thirteenth A levival of the trestisi broken by the war. The first threo articlea were tnotulif agreed upon today, as were tin tb articles embodying the termi ol lb evacuation of tho Philippine!, ibid will bo principally the name an in tu evacuation of Cuba nnd PoVto Rica The mutual release of milium pi onors was agreed upon, Spain liberatiag tho rebel priBonera nnd the Doits) States liberating the Manila gimn and the Spanish held by agmoilai, Tho political prisoners to be relessai by Spain are such as are now in exilt in Ceuta, in Morocco, or other Spsnas penal settlements. Daily sessions will be held here, ui it is now believed the work will bepa sibly concluded this week, althonghs early a termination ia not prohibit. The foregoing list of Bubjects nndsr consideration does not ahow the precas order in which tho hi tides wen Its' before the Spanish commlMionen day. and, in faot, only eight of th thirteen articlea were disciined. 1m points arose about which the Spsntarfi desired to consult Madrid, and tn upon which the Americana will cot Wuabington. After the sension and the depirtw of the Spaniards, the Americani mainod in tho conference cluubeilr nn hour in exooutivo sosaion. Theas jotirnment waa taken until H o'eloi tomorrow. A Father'e Terrllila Crlaw. Dubuque, Ia., Deo. 2. -John Oral today shot and killed hia diughts, Tillie, and shot himself dead it hi home near Decora b. The daughter about to leave home against a father's wishes This morning. ilkj request, she wrote his will and JM over her share to her mother, mm diatoly ufterwards he attacked M 'a club. Her brother ainwrw cries for help, but was driven oft 1 father then shot hor through the b and stomach und b.oke the stocketW gun ovor hor head. Securing anoW gun, Gross blew the top of MM1 head off. His wife saved her UM running nway. Before fl suicide, ho burned the will ha had W polled bis daughtei to wiite. Wyan.li.tte Will 1" Sold' -Washington, Dec. 8.- 1 decided by the board of c"'" and repairs to dispose of the . dotte, which has been in the 1862, as it has outlived its ""j and is now in an uneeawortnj e tion at tho League island 'g3 The ship has been appraised fw . i. - .tiiin i t mimic a" 7a-.nl.l- II.. s.,,,,1, Wale.' Wheal , and will be sold the near future a dails Sydney. N. S. W., Dec J.-i ing to the official forecast, tn harroat for 1898 will w , i bushels in excoea of that ol ' j there will be a sniprlus aTSW export of 2,350,000 bushels Sentenced to Death- Private Lindsay P. Holt, t JJ Tenth Drilled States cavalry, J-j camped at Huntsvilh , Ala-. ' i tjndOf a death sentence, the rs. - j recent court-martial, si : W proven that he was guilty " His best friend was the v j whisky the cause. This gl . : death sentence passed upon .! tl,u lleCIIltling 01 .. IUUII ami.o " ll and for many years preW trading widesprert'1 a,t,'n The German press tba part ( 1 busied itself a great de Philippine question anjl ' 8 gotiations at Paris. 'ifr" comment has been nncom" the United States, which " showing "excessive indecency in trmn KBt, nt It 1 1 " President . m also accused ol incon ' "lack of backbone' m act , .... i . . .. , e:iisn'i ' ing "ine mere!" - ni up-t perial party." A m,"" papers have now adopt 0 dieting, deair. to obU tba Spanish Afiattc p"-