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PARIS ACTED
WITH PRUDENCE
No Serious Rioting Marred Re
ccption of Kruger.
ENGLAND IS GOOD-NATURED
No Irriuiloi laLoasoa at Preach Aall-Bril
ltd Dcwoaifntloat-Ocraaa Prcii
Applauda tb Coaosct al
fka Freath.
PARIS, Nov. 24. Whlla giving full
vent to her pent up feeling of sym
pathy with una admiration (or the
llwra In her reception to Kruger today.
Parla comported herself with wisdom
and prudence, i
While a few Isolated ntance of an-
tl-Brltlh vociferations were unavoid
able, never once throughout the day
wag there tiny semblance of orgaiilzej
drini'iMlrutltm ngnlr.st I'm Bland to mar
the reception. Hut eepnially tvasxurlng
was tlie character of the reception and
It was with a Milne or relief that
the uuthnntli'a went to b-d after the
gloomy forebodings lmqurcd by the un
frtuiiut accident which had marked
the previous welcomes given Mr, Kru-
gir en route to the rrrnch capital.
It I true that M. L(lnu HarrU, pre
feet o( pollfe, dlnflayed ha Iron hand
In a way that rendered even the partial
kUcrt-M of any discordant outbtvak Im
poiulblr. yet It 1 but faJr to empha
sise the fact that no disposition was
even tvlncvd to create trouble. Thu on
ly dillu ully experienced waa In kvplng
the throngs from awerplng over the
line of route In their eaKernnt to aecur
a rflimpse of Uom Puul.
The mo,t troublesome task waa met
with at the outside In Iroi.t of the de
pot, when Mr. Krufer's landau, drawn
by six horsa decked with runes of the
Boer colors and driven by a coachman
wearing; ainillar fuvors in his button
hole, stalled. Despite the double line
of police and municipal guard ald-d
by mount d republican guards, the
crowd which was maMKxl at the ap
proach" s to the station, numbering
thouvanUs, swept' over the cordon and
in a twinkle if the eye two thousand
police and guardn were mlmcled In In
extricable confusion amimg the multi
tude. M. M'llnc, mho was preceding Mr.
Kruscr In a carriage, however, took In
the situutlon and shouted to Mr. Kru-
ger's coachman to break Into a gullop
and, escorted by mounted guards and
a awarm of police on bicycles, he dash
ed ahead Into the boulevard, where
a hedge of municipal guards kept the
crowd In a body.
I'pon reaching the hotel five little
boya struck up the Volksiled, Mr. Kru
Ker atopped, bared his head and lis
tened with tears In hia eyea. He then
panned td his apartment. The crowd
Immediately Insisted up n his coming
upon the balcony and chanted a French
verslm of a song famous at the time
of tho Doulanger craae " "Tis Boulan-
ger that we must have," substituting
"Kruger" for "Doulanger."
Th( Interview between President Lou
bet and Mr. Kruger waa confined to
mutual good wishes and congratula
tions without inllllcnl Allusions.
ENGLISH AHE AMUSED. ,
LONDON. Nov. 14,-Mr. Kruger'a tri
umphant rftpsnge from Marseilles to
Paris is regnnled with curious and un
expected indifference In Great Prltaln.
Every detail of the remarkable ova
tion has been read with Interest, but
tho feeling here Is more one of amus-
ment than Irritation.
What exercises Great Britain more
than the progress of the war In 8outh
Africa and Mr. Krug?r's visit to France
la the illness of the ctor. The shadow
of the bear couchant la ever present
aa a source of dread and suspicion to
the average British statesman. How
much worse would he be feared If ram
pant la evidenced from the grave tone
of the cditorlnl articles of the London
press.
When their writers contemplate what
might happen should the hand of death
remove the present pacific ruler of Rus
sia the possibility of an avowedly an-
tl-Brltlsh regency with aggrtsalvie pro
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KNTIIl'BIAHM IN BKItLIN.
KEIlI.IN. Nov, 24. There Is great
Kiuger er.lhusliisni here. The papers
are coimii'-nting approvingly on th
Bor statesman's reception In Franre
and arranKcments have been made by
the German committee to send a million
postal cards, prettily Illustrated, ten
dering Mr. Kruger the sympathy of the
frman nation, for distribution by tlie
TYaiuivaal counnel. General Harris.
YESTEKDAY'8 FOOTBALL.
Ureal Game at Yale Mult nomahs De
feat Chenuwa Indians.
NEW HAVEN. Nov. 14. Victory
long delayed erch''d upon the blue
banner of old Y:t'e lodur when th foot
ball team of Vale I'niveralty smolher.'d
the crimson of Harvard In the annual
contest' played on the Yale field.
For the first time since 1894 Yale
scored a victory over Harvard and to
day she took sweet revenge for Har
vard's merciless performance In New
Haven two years ago, when the crimson
rejoiced over the blue by a sore of
1" to 0.
Today Yule administered to Harvard
a Waterloo to the tune of 28 to 0. It
was Yale from the first klikoff and
the warriors of the blue seemed bent
on punishing Harvard to the limit.
In the first half Yale scored two
touchdowns. In the second half she re
peated this performance and In addi
tion to tearing out two touchdowns
Sharpc, Yale's half-back, lifted a field
goal from the 23-yard line.
PORTLAND, Nov. 24. Multnomah. ;
Chcmawa Indians, 0.
PITTSHl'ltG, Nov. 24. Washington.
3: Carlisle Indians, 0.
ANN ARBOR. Mich., Nov. 21-MichI-gan,
0: Ohio State University, 0.
MADISON, Nov. 24. Wisconsin. 25;
Illinois, 0.
TWENTY-SIX DROWNED.
Steamer Slolaf Wrecked In Ut St.
Lawrence.
QUEBEC, Nov. 24. -The steamer Sto
laf, coasting . between this port and
Esquimaux point In the lower St. Law
rence, has been wrecked off Seven Isl
ands and all on board perished, nine
teen of the crew and seven passengers.
The Stolaf left here Sunday morning
last on her last trip to Esquimaux point
carrying the government mall, passen
gers and a large cargo. The last news
of the Stolaf until this morulng was
that she hnd left Sheldrake Wednes
day. Shortly after this a signal station
ultipatch reported rough weather with
galea of wind and snow and It is sup
posed that during one of these gales
the Stolaf ran ashore on the rocks at
the entrance of Seven Islands, as the
dispatch states she was wrecked on
Itoulc Island.
CANAL COMMISSION REPORT.
Will Not Offer Any Suggestion as to
Which Route Should Be Chosen.
NEW YORK. Nov. 24.-There waa an
apparently well authenticated report
In Washington last night, aays a dis
patch to the Times, that the Isthmian
Canal Commission will make a report
announcing the respective advantages
of the Nlfaraguan and Panama routes,
but uot offering any suggestion about
which should be chosen.
It Is understood that some members
of tlie commission were In favor of
presenting a report In favor of the Nic
aragua route, but that others were as
strongly In favor of Panama, and that
the result Is a compromise. The Isth
mian Commission has never be-n of
one mind regarding routes, even In
Nicaragua. Hardly a route has been
mentioned that has not been open to
some objections and the members of
the commission have never been strong
ly In favor of any of them.
NOTED DIETETIC DEAD.
LONDON. Nov. 24. John Lawson
Johnson, of Kingwood, Kent, a noted
dletetlo expert, died today at Cannes.
France, of syncope. He -was born in
1SS9. .
KAISER'S POLICY
IS REPUDIATED
Every Party Leader Expresses
Disapproval in the Reichstag.
GLOOMY OUTLOOK FOR CHINA
Emperor aid Empress Dowifcr Thrcsleaed
With Death ay Boner Chief -Terrible
Finlac la Shea SI
Provloce.
BERLIN. Nov. 24.-The nrlchstag de
bates this week on the China Indem
nity bill evolved a mass of interesting
facta ahowlng conclusively that Em
peror William's personal China policy
for the last six months is either whol
ly or partly disapproved by n-arly the
entire nation, aa evidenced by the fact
that every party leader has thus ex
pressed himself, even the extreme con
servatives. DufNiow the relchstag, un
less It is willing to precipitate the
gravest kind of a conflict, which It Is
not, must needs appropriate a sum al
ready expended.
Another even more noteworthy fact Is
that the reic!?"tag for the first time
since the empire's creation imlulgea in
free and unrestricted criticism of the
emperor's words and acts, every party
sharing therein without once being in
terfered with by the president of the
bouse. This Is regarded by leading
parliamentarians as an important gain
for Germany.
DOWAGER EMPRESS WORS&
LONDON, Nov. 24. A special dis
patch from Shanghai aays that an of
ficial telegram from Sinan Fu confirms
the report of the illness of the dowager
empress and says ber condition has
become corslrably worse.
EMPEROR IN DANGER.
LONDON, Nov. 21. According to the
Shanghai correspondent of the Morn
ing Post, there Is a grain of truth in
the rumor of au expedition up the
Yangtse. ' Such a movement." he say?,
"would cause a conflagration among
the Chinese, who would submit to Brit
ish occupation but dread German inter
ference." Special dispatch? from Shanghai de
cent e the situation at Slnin Fu. Gen
eral Tung Fu Hsiang's troops hold the
city. The personal body guard of th?
emperor and empress dowager consists
of only 150 men. General Tung enters
the sacred precincts at will, salutes the
Imperials with scant courtesy and .al
most with Insolence and declares his
Intention of emulating the notorious
Wang Man?, who luring the Hang dy
nasty prevented the court from coming
to terms with the enemy and finally
murdered the emperor and usurped the
throne According to the same dis
patches, the only hope for the court Is
in General Ma, who has 5000 troops out
side of Sinan Fu and has a blood feud
with General Tung Fu H9lang, who
murdered Ma's cousin.
A terrible famine exists In the prov
ince of Shew SI and the government
granaries are empty.
FISCAL REORGANIZATION.
NEW YORK. Nov. 24.-Accordlng to
the Washington correspondent of the
Journal of Commerce, the attitude of
the state department in favor of a
moderate Indemnity to be paid by China
for recent outrages is governed by the
belief that a prompt settlement upon
such a basis will prevent quarrels
among the powders, leading up perhaps
to the partition of China or armed con
flicts between those having the strong
est military forces.
The Chinese revenues are not well
organised, except the customs under Sir
Hobert Hart, and the meeting of an
exoesalve Indemnity -would require re
organization. If this cannot be es
caped the United States will not be the
sufferer In the long run, for their cltl
sens are likely to play an Important
part in reora-JiUatlon. if the other
powers continue to Insist upon an in
demnity which Is obviously beyond the
power of China to pay !n principal, the
United States may And It advisable to
support a plan of fiscal reorganization
In China at once.
It is felt that it might be better In
some contingencies to provide In ad
vance for an international board of fis
cal control than leave the matter to
future conflicts among the powers, If
provision Is made at the present time,
It may be possible to provide for a
proper balance of power and for a poli
cy which will be acceptable to the Chi
nese Imperial government. Several pro
jects for International control of Chi
nese finances have been laid before the
state department but have not fallen
within tha scope of the policy which has
thus far been supported by the adminis
tration. If It proves Impracticable to bring
the other powers to a basis of modera
tion which will limit the Indemnity to
an amount which can be' paid In full
within a fi-w years, It may then be ne
cessary to tak up the subject of fis
cal control of the Internal taxes of
China as well as the customs.
ENGLAND ALSO PESSIMISTIC.
LONDON, Nov, 24. The pessimism
reflected by the Washington sieclaly
dealing with China finds a k'-en echo In
Great Britain's cabinet.- The gloomy
foreboding that the United States will
be compelled to withdraw from the con
cert of the powers Is only one of the
causes of this feeling, for the British
ministers are now Inclined to believe
the present lln- of negotiation cannot
result satinfactorlly.
"The United States." said an official
of the foreign office to a representa
tive of The Associated Press, "cannot
be any more anxious than England to
get ou: of the China muddle. The cabi
net ministers are reluctantly coming to
believe that thj endeavors to compel
China to punish Individual offenders arj
mere'y waste of time. Death by edict
Is a farce and fairy tale. The powers'
forces now in China are utterly Inade
quate to overrun the country and en
force their demands. England has no
inten:lon cf augmenting her troops to
such an extent ii 111 be necessary If
the Europeans themselves undertake to
inflict punishment. It looks very much
ai if we shall ai have to climb down.
The only question Is how can it be done
with the best dignity and under cir
cumstances giving the most satisfactory
results.
"The policy of indefinite decimation
which the American Journals seem to
attribute to Germany Is not shared In
the slightest by Great Britain. This
view Is not of a majority of the Brit
ish press who. without taking pains to
find out the Inner opinion of the cabi
net generally, condemn what they are
pleased to call the weakkneed policy
of America."
SPEECH BY M'KINLEY.
Tells Union League Club of Philadel
phia What Election Meant.
PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 24.-President
McKlnley today paid his first visit to
this city since his election and met with
an enthusiastic reception. He came aa
the guest of the Union League Club,
having been Invited to attend the
"Founders' Day" banquet of that or
ganization. .
The president was accompanied by
all the members of his cabinet with the
exception of Secretary Root, who is
in Cuba. In the banquet room covers
were laid for 344 persons.
President McKlnley In his speech
laid:
'We cannot over estimate the great
importance and far-reaching conse
quences of the electoral contest which
ended on the 6th of November. It
' records an unquestioned endorsement
I of the gold standard, industrial Inde
pendence, broader markets, commercial
expansion, reciprocity in trade, the cp-m
door in China, inviolability of the pub
lic faith, independence and authority
of the Judiciary and peace and benefi
cent government under American sov
ereignty in the Philippines.
"American creeds are unimpaired,
the honor of the American flag inul
lied and the obligations of a righteous
war and treaty of peace unrepudlated.
"The Republican party has had plac
ed upon it tremendous reeponsibllltl.-'S.
The party could ask for no higher ex
pression of confidence.
"Liberty has not lost but gained in
strength. Be not disturbed; there is
no danger from emrire; there is no fear
for the Republic."
The president returned to Washing
ton tonight.
Vice-Presldent-Elect Roosevelt fol
lowed McKlnley. He said:
"Gentlemen, I am sure hat I state
your views when I say that every
rational effort for the betterment of
the condition of either the wage-earner
or tiller of the soil will have the heart
iest support of the Republican party;
that we realize that the welfare of the
Nation depends ultimately more than
all else upon the welfare of the wage
earner ar.d of the man who tills the
soil."
ELECTRIC MILL DESTROYED.
Dam Broke at Hobsonvllle, Nar Tilla
mook. Yesterday.
TILLAMOOK. Ore.. Nov. 24. The
dam of the electric saw mill near
Tillamook broke at 4 o'clock this
morning. The mill was situated in a
gulch and when the dam broke above
the mill an immense body of water
went down, a number of trees with it,
and struck the saw mill and carried It
a quarter of a mile below, completely
demolishing It and covering It with deb
ris, near the bunk house. The dynamo
and power house Just escaped as the
gulch widens there. Had this occurred
during the daytime the mill hands
would have been swept down as well.
M'KINLEY A GUEST.
Attended Wedding of Daughter of Ex-Postmaster-General
Gary.
BALTIMORE. Nov. 24. President
McKlnley was a guest at the wedding
of Miss Lillian Gary, daughter of th?
former postrnater-gneral, to Robert
Coleman Taylor, of New York, which
took place here today.
OUR GOVERNMENT
WILL RETALIATE
Turkey's Refusal to Grant Exe
quatur Calls for Reprisals.
OUR CONSUL NOT WANTED
Stalioa to Which He Wat to Be Seat It
Where Atnerlcaa Missloiary Prep
erty Wai Dettroyed Darinf
Armealaa Troubles.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24.-The Turk
ish authorities having refused to grant
the exequatur to Dr. Thomas S. Norton
to act aa United States consul at Har-
poot. indications point to some retalia
tory measures on the part of our gov
ernment in the near future.
EXEQUATUR AGAIN REFUSED.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Friday, Nov. 23.
-United States Charge d'Altalrs Gils-
com called upon Tewflk Pasha, minis
ter of foreign affairs, yesterday to urge
a settlement of the difficulty in relation
to the granting of an exequatur to Dr.
Thomas H. Norton, who some time ago
was appointed by the president to es
tablish a consulate at Harpoot. The
Porte, however. Is firm In Ita refusal
to grant the request for an exequatur.
REASON FOR REFUSAL.
NEW YORK, Nov. 24. Oscar 8.
Strauss, minister to Turkey, declines to
say anything about the porte's action
In refusing an exequatur for the Unit
ed States consul at Harpoot, declar
ing that all comment should come from
the mate department. Another Ameri
can who has spent years in the diplo
matic service said:
"The Turkish authorities look with
jealousy upon the appointment of con
suls to interior points in the empire
and especially when, as in the present
instance, the United States wishes to
send a consul to a point where It haa
not had a consul bef ore.
"The reason perhaps why the Turk
ish authorities more specifically object
to the appointment of a consul at Har
poot is that It was at Harpoot the
American missionary property was de
stroyed during the Armenian troubles.
oa the loss of which our claims for in
demnity are based.
"America has no commerce at Har
yoot. Its Interests there are only mis
sionary, as in that city Is located the
; college besides several mission schools
'and it Is a center for the American
missionaries, but it can be reasonably
claimed by our government, even If
we have little or no commerce there
now, that we may want to cultivate It
'and especially as a number of our cltl-
such consular business as the United
States had at Harpoot has be3n con
ducted by the British vice-consul
there."
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NO NAVAL DEMONSTRATION. "
NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-Tmstworthy
information has been received from
Constantinople, gays the London corre
spondent of the Tribune, that the re
ports that the American battleship
(Kentucky will call at Smyrna on her
way back to the far 3a?t and that
there will be something like a naval
demonstration for th.3 purpose of In
fluencing the. Turk are unfounded and
'no menace of this kind is intended.
It is expected in official ctrcWs at
Constantinople that the American claim
for indemnities for damages to mission
stations in Armenia will be settled by
the Turkish government as soon as a
I pi act leal method la found of discharg
ing those liabilities without establishing
a precedent for other countries. The
Turkish government Is anxious to get
rid of the American claims, but It is
bent upon doing It wltiicut committing
itself to the general principle of respon
sibility for the outrages which occurred
in Armenia and elsewhere. An adjust
ment of the American claims will be
brought about In the course of next
year, it seems, and no naval demon
stration will be required for enforcing
it.
News comes also from Constantinople
that an agent of the Cramps has been
attempting to negotiate a contract for
the construction of a Turkish warship
In an American shipyard and that Mr.
Carnegie's Arm! haa not failed in obtain
ing a large contract for the projected
road from Syria to Medina and Mecca.
DAVISt BARELY ALIVE.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 24.-The fight of his
tremendous will against physical dis
ease has alone kept Senator Davis
alive for the past twenty-four hours.
CZAR REPORTED DEAD.
LONDON, Nov. 24. A news agency
here says It is reported that the Prince
of Wales Informed the Marlboroush
Club that the czar la dead. Ihere ts
no confirmation of the rumor.