NEW BERG G R A P H IC NEW BERG NEW BERG N I IIM K I I ’ l l t H K 4 T M : V JÇ* t u l w r ............................ ...... «1 « px Mooch« .................................. H «■ M erit’ l l . a Priée Fmyable ■ avari ably la Advonen. Address, asarme. Nevrberg. Oregon. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES A n In te re s tin g C ollection o f Ite m s F rom t h e T w o H e m i s p h e r e s 1*r e s e n t e d in a C o n d e n s e d F o rm . General Maximo Gomez, from his camp, 200 miles westward, near Nar- ciso, has issued a proclamation to the Caban army advising against disband­ ing until the proceedings at Washing­ ton regarding the pay of the insurgent troops have been completed. By the purchaee of a large block of stockof the Culbarien railway, in Cuba, L. Ruiz & Co., bankers, representing English capitalists, have secured a con­ trolling interest in that lire. The sanle men have also been large pur­ chasers of the stocks of Sagua and Cien- fuegos companies. Tire monthly treasury statement of tire public debt sbow6 that at the close of business, December 31, the debt, less casli in the treasury, amounted to $1,129,176,286, an increase during tire month of $1,702,799. This increase is due to the delivery of 3 per cent bonds of the new issue, previously paid for. A t Evansville, Ind., Minor Garrett, Edgar Gardner, Elijah SooKi, Frank Curl and W illiam Morris, boys ranging in age from 10 to 12 years, were given a public whipping iri tiie police court for stealing some old wash boilers, Their parents were given the option bv Judge Winfrey of whipping the boys or having them sent to the reform school. Governor Roosevelt, Greater New York’s new eXeuctive, lias estalbished a code of rules to govern hie considera­ tion and determination of applications for pardons and commutations of sen­ tence. He will not exercise executive clemency in behalf of a man who ha* been convicted of murdering or abusing his wife, nor will lie pardon any hab­ itual criminal. His mercy will be shown only to those whose sentence seems to have been severe or whose commission of a crime was the result of influence. ' f A most remarkable wedding has taken place at the village of Trail, O., four brothers being married to four sis­ ters. The four knots were tied at the home of the brides, who are the daugh­ ters of a fainter named James Hooh- etetter. Their ages range from 18 to 28, and the ages of their respective husabnds vary only slightly. Tire grooms are fonr sons of John Summers. The ceremony of marying the four couples occupied almost an hour, the same clergyman performing all. The four brothers and their wives will live within a stone’ s throw of each other. A dispatch from Rome says a mob of 4,000 people had assaulted an internal revenue sentry box, and stoned the gendarmes around Niecemi, Sicily, as a p otest against ex xmmiunication. A number of persons were wounded, John Wellmer, of Lafayette, Nicol- lett county, Minn,was shot in the head nnd hip by two tramps, to whom he had given shelter. They hound Mrs. Wellmer to a lounge w ith a clothes line and escaped with Wellmer’s team. The governor’s office at the state- house in Springfield, 111., was entered by parties unknown and $580 stolen from a drawer. The crime is sai round­ ed in mystery, as all floors of the build­ ing are guarded by watchmen. The theft was discovered by Colonel J. M. Tanner and an investigation is pend­ ing. One of the most notable celehra- tionns in the history of American col­ leges was in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Transylvania uni­ versity, at Lexington. Ky. It was no­ table on account of its many famoui alumni, including Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate states, and Justice Harlan, of the supreme court of the United Statos, scores of con­ gressmen and men prominent in public life. King Charles has opened the cortei gerares at Lisbou. In the course of his speech from the throne, King Charlei said that daring the war between the United States and Spain, two friendly nations, Portngal proclaimed, am), aa was her duty, maintained strict and absolnte neutrality. His majesty said be greatly sympathized witli tiie czar’s disarmament proposals, and made a reference to tiie colonies which appar­ ently disposes of tiie rumors of the sale of Delagoa bay. GRAPHIC. VOL. X I. LATER NEW BERG , Y A M H IL L C O U N T Y , OREGON, F R ID A Y , J A N U A R Y HONORS NEWS. At a fire which broke out in tiie Ho tel Richelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa., three guests lost their lives and five people were badly tiurt. A Paris paper says it learns from an indisputable souroe that the court of cassation is convinced that Dreyfus was justly condemned. Colonel Potter, special emissary of General Otis to Ilo llo, reports that the rebels threaten to burn the town if the Americans bombard tiie place. Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has com­ muted tiie sentence of J. R. Colean, who, while cashier of the Sate bank, of Fort Scott, in 1895, stole $52,000 of its funds. Fonr dead, two injured, one of these perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper­ ty of the Southern railway to the amount of about $25,000, is tiie result of a wreck which oconried at Knox­ ville, Tem/. TO Services O v e r Tension Between England and France Increased. THUNDERER'S FIERY LANGUAGE Crom er’« P la in W ord« at Khartoum -* R h o d e s P la n s a C ape T o w n - C a iro R ailroads A DEAD th e R em a in s M ay bry. of London, Jan. 10. — A ll events seem to work together in European politics to increase tiie tension between Great Britain and France. Tiie past week has brought Madagascar and Egypt for­ ward as irritants just when the mutual irritability was subsiding. Even tiie most conservative observers begin to take a pessimistic view of tiie relations A lieaviywind storm swept over the between the two powers. This in- remote jF t io n of Scott county. Ark. jludes those who up to the present have A td B o lA ^ fe. sclioolhonse was blown considered the belligerency tobe due to down and ttiree pupils were killed, an­ 3upersensitivene8s upon the part of other was fatally wounded, and a dozen France and to tiie unnecessary giuff- or more sustained more or less injuries. ness upon the part of Great Britain in A trcmendous^andslWe occurred near insisting on what she considers to be Spence’s ¿ridge, on the Canadian Pa­ her rights. cific railroad. A mountain which lias Tiie past 24 hours brought the pub­ long been an object of curiosity to lication of Madagascar blue book,which travelers crashed into the Fraser river, was followed by a leading editorial in damming it completely, and sending the Times denouncing France in lan­ the water in torrents over the fertile guage so fiery for that conservative Nicola valley. Tiie course of the river newspaper that Frenchmen are reading was changed completely, the two together and are construing Tiie Sehastapool correspondent of tiie them as parts of a deliberate policy in­ London Times, who lias been touring spired by one mind. Tiiat mind, in S A N T I A G O ’S T R A D E . in Eastern Russia for two mouths to the theory of the man in tiie streets, is Joseph Chamberlain, tiie secretary G e n e r a l W o o d ’ « R e p o r t S h o w s I t 1 « on discover, if possible, soino evidence on Other papers th e In crea se. the part of the Russian government to of state for colonies. give effect to the disarmament propo­ may storm and scold and not be no­ Washington, Jan. 10.—Tiie trade of sals of Emperor Nicholas, says all his ticed, but when the Times becomes Santiago is already allowing a surpris­ observations were quite to the contrary, abusive, foreigners interpret it as being ing giowth under American adminis­ and that Russia is increasing Her m il­ the voice of the government. In the tration. General Wood lias submitted present instance, some Englishmen a report to the war department, in itary strength. will place the same construction upon According to late advio's from Daw­ its utterances, recalling how the Timos which lie states tiiat tiie policy of lion- son, tiie United States government will led the “ no surrender’ ’ cry over the discriminative intercourse extended to be called upon to relieve indigent min­ Fashoda incident, under evident in­ the vessels of all nations in Santiago provinco has greatly facilitated tiie re­ ers in tiie Klondike. Tiie Dawson spiration. establishment of commercial relations Nugget says there is a strong move­ One fact is certain, public opinion and lias been one of tiie chief features ment omfoot at Dawson to send a rep­ in Great Britain w ill not sanction the resentative to Washington for the pur- • government to swerve an inch to avoid in tiie restoration of comparative pros­ pose of enlisting the United States war with France, thinking that if it perity in commerce, industry and agri­ government in tiie cause of aiding in must come this is tiie best time to have culture. Outward cargoes of sugar and other remedying the great distress which it out. products are being graudallv found fur prevails among the miners of tiie Yu­ Many people give importance to the shipping, but exportations from the kon. issuing of the Madagascar blue book mines of the province have contributed A t the annual convention of the almost simultaneously witli tiie quiet the hulk of tiie exports. Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and but unmistakable announcement at “ The fact,” says General Wood, Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of Khartonm by the British agent there, “ tiiat the mines were put into opera­ America, held in Chicago, resolutions Viscount Cromer, in his leruarks to tiie tion at an early date after tiie capitula­ were adopted, urging congress to pass shiekhs, that Great Britain has set her tion of Santiago was important in tiie Nicaragua canal bill and also that seal upon Egypt. If there was a doubt that tiie employment of large numbers a law should be passed making eight in tiie minds of her European rivals i uf natives during a critical period was hours a day’« work on said canal. Res­ that Great Britain intended to fore­ [ stimulated by the facilities for ship­ olutions were also passed urging con­ close the mortgage upon which she lias ping ores.” gress to pass the river and harbor Hill expended so much labor and blood to Tiie division of customs and insular at the present session of congress. Con­ secure, it must have been Bet at rest by affairs of the war department lias re­ gress was also urged to create a labor tiie utterances of Lord Cromer, in ceived from tiie collector of customs at ‘ commission of three union men to see which tire word “ protectorate” was Havana, Colonel Lasker H. Bliss, un­ that tiie laws in tiie interest of work­ written in large letters, though the der date of December 29, 1898, his re­ ingmen were enforced on all govern­ government’s mouthpiece carefully ab­ port. stained from using that incendiary ment work. Colonel Bliss says that the first seri­ word. A more definite notice that ous embarrassment lie met with on tak­ Senator Hale lias been renominated Great Britain’s tenure of Egypt is per­ ing charge of tiie custom-house at Ha­ tiy tiie Maine Republicans. manent could not bo asked. vana was caused by tiie fact that the Hon. Joseph H. Choate w ill be onr In the meantime an enterprise of tiie Spaniards had removed nearly every­ next ambassador to Great Britain. utmost moment in tiie furtherance of thing except tiie liaro walls and floors. Dr. H. Seward Webb, president ol Great Britain’s domination in Africa is ¡ h first official step was to obtain a full Cecil list of employes in the custom-house, tiie Wagner Palace Car Company, is about to be consummated. mentioned as successor to Senator Mor­ Rhodes, the ex-premier nnd alleged in­ their salaries and nationality, and next stigator of tiie Jameson raid, and tiie information as to their general charac­ rill as senator from Vermont. so-called "Napoleon of South A frica,” ter and reputation for integrity. Tiie fiist formal state dinner of tiie is going to England to arrango for Colonel BlisH says tiiat, as was to bo season took place at the White House pushing forward the Cape Town-Cairo expected, the soveral places in tiie cus­ Thursday, when President and Mrs. railroad, so long tiie dearest dream of tom house when he assumed charge McKinley entertained tbs members of imperialists. A definite proposition were chiefly held by Spaniards, the to­ the cabinet. will be presented by Mr. Rhodes to tal numbor employed being 239. Tiie A sensation has been created in Ger­ London capitalists for an extension of problem tiiat confronts him, he says, many by the publication in a Cologne the railroad from Buluwayo to Lake is how to repair a house from founda­ paper of an alleged conversation bad Tanganika. He does not pretend it tion to roof without a material disturb­ with tiie late Prince Rismaiok, in will be a paying investment from tiie ance of it occupants and without in­ which lie predicted the fall of the Aus­ start. Its importance for some years terfering with their daily business. trian empire. w ill be political instead ot commercial, Under tiiis condition, lie remarks, lie An American named Boynton, who and he hopes to persuade the British cannot of course begin by tearing the is trying to travel around the earth government to smooth tiie way bv house down. per cent interest on without money, met witli a terrible fall guaranteeing P i l g r i m a g e E n d e d in I l i o t . into a chaBm while entering France by the bonds to cover the cost of construc­ Paris, Jan. 10.— The socialist annual tion. But one barrier stands in the night through tiie Pyrenees. He was way, in the form of the Congo conven­ pilgrimage today to tiie tomb of Blan- seriously injured. tion, guaranteeing neutrality of tiie qui, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise, Another disagreeable consequence of part of tiie continent abMit Lake Tang­ led to riots between rival partisans of the late war has been presented to the anyika, whicli even the autocrat of Henri Rochefort, editor of the Intrans- government of claims from the cable Rhodesia will find hard to force. Here igeant, and M. Juares, editor of tiie companies for damages sustained Many Germany lias the veto on Great Brit­ Socialist Petite Repiililique. through tiie suspension of their busi­ ain’s advance, which she cannot he were injured, and tiie police made a ness by the United States military ami expected to waive without an indem­ number of arrests. The wreath intend­ naval forces. The aggregate amount ed for the tomb was trampled upon. nity. __________________ of these claims cannot be foretold. i i hi i rgent« R eap ect E u ropean «. Madrid, Jan. 10.— Advices were re ceived here today from a landing mer­ chant at Ilo llo, to the effect tiiat agri­ cultural operations in tiie vicinity of Ho Ilo have not been interrupted, am) that all the insurgents respect tiie Eu- lopeans, both at llo Ho and on tiie island of Negros. P r e s e n t K e l * a « e o f P riaon era. Madrid, Jan. 10. — Rios, the Spanish commander, telegraphs from Manila tiiat strained relations between the Americans and insurgents prevent steps being taken in favor of the release ot the Spanish prisoners in the Philippine lslanda. He adds that he will act in that dilection aa soon aa it ia poaaible. Sebastian Bach Mills, the well- known composer and pianist, died in Wiesbaden, Germany, aged 60 years. r vVTiie preliminary report of tbe Nice -Tj*r na canal commission show* that it II require about $135,000,000 to Duild tbe canal. Encouraging reports of the condition cf affairs in Manila and Porto Rioo reached the war department from tba officers commanding the troops in those department«. Mrs. John Quark, aged 100 years, •lied at her home near Galena, III. APPROPRIATIO N. A n ti-C iv il S ervic e R e fo r m e r « V ictoriou s Iu iht« H o u s e . Washington, Jan. 9. — Tiie anti-civil service reformers scored a victory in the house today. The executive legis­ lative and judicial appropriation bill was taken up for consideration, and then, when tiie appropriation for the TO ACT ON THE DEFENSIVE civil service commission was reached, Evans nude a motion to strike it out. This motion lias lieen made annually for a dozen years or more, but invari­ G en eral M ille r H a « Been O rd ered to ably failed. But today the opponents L a n d H I « T r o o p « a t I l o 11oii ernment. From tiie facts submitted, by the senate. says Senor Agoncillo, “ it will appear tiiat tiie Philippine government is now, MISSIONARY O U TR A G E . and it lias been practically ever since June 18, 1898, substantially in full C a t h o l i c F r l e n t B r u t a l l y T r e a t e d In a C h ln ene V illa g e . possession of tiie territory of the people Berlin,Jan. 9.— Letters received here it represents.” from Kiao Chou, the German fortified WILL F O R C E T H E ISSUE. sctlement in the province of Bhang Tung, China, give details of an outrage f l f li ii t r a l M i l l e r H a n O r d e r « t o 1’ r o c e e d upon Father Stenz, tlio German Cath­ A g a in s t llo Ilo . olic missionary, November 9 last. Tlio Chicago, Jan. 9. — A special to the missionary was about to leave Tie-Tun, Times-Herald from Washington says: province of Sluing Tung, owing to tiie President McKinley has decided to anti-Christian feeling. Finding him­ force the issue with the Filipinos. His self confronted by crowds of Chines« Incision may resnlt in a battle at llo wlio were clamoring for the destruction Ilo. It may lead to a lianassing war of tiie Christians, lie took refuge in a with tiie natives of the Philippines. It Hut, but lie was dragged out, His cloth­ is Imped and believed that such calam­ ing torn from liis hack, and lie was ities will bo averted, but it leinaius for struck with sticks and pricked with tiie insurgents to determine what tiie knives and lances and his heard torn results w ill be. out. Tiie Chinese threatened to flay Tiie president has ordered General him alive. Tiie following day, his Miller to land His tioops at llo Ilu. persecutors prepared to hang him by Tiie order leaves tiie American com­ tiie wrists. Finally, a mandarin in­ mander no alternative. He is directed terfered in liis behalf, lint compelled to be conciliatory toward the natives, him to leuve the district with a prom­ but at tiie same time lie is instructed ise uever to return, to use force, if necessary, to effect It ia l l a v l a In Hnn F r a n c i s c o . landing and establish himself in tire San Francisco, Jan. 9.— Tiie United desired camp. In oilier words, Gencr. ill Miller is to act on tlio defensive. He States torpedo-boat Davis arrived today will not tiie a gun unless attacked by from Astoria, via Tillamook, and after taking on coal pioceeded to Mare isl­ tiie Filipinos. and. She proved to he a good sea bout, S T E A M E R S M A Y BE C R U S H E D . hut owing to the heavy weather along tiie coast she did not attempt a greater Y u k o n C r a f t W i l l B e In D a n g e r W h e n speed than six or eight knots. th e Ic e B reak«. The Davis crossed out of the Colnra- Seattle, Jan. 9.— News from Dawson bin about two woeks ago, but put into states tiiat a number of Yukon river Tillamook to escape a storm.remaining steamers will be lost when the ice there until Wednesday morning, when breaks up in spring. Some were caught she again headed south. She was in in very unprotected places, and can command of Captain Thomas F. Neill, scarcely escape being wrecked. The and Arthur Zwicker and J. E. Wolff, Robert Kerr, of tiie Moran fleet, is of the firm which built the vessel, were stuck fast on a bar 60 miles below in charge of the engine and boiler- Circle City. Tiie lino steamer Arnold, rooms. of tiie Alaska Exploration Company’* A m b i t . . e i l o r t o Hu aat a. fleet, was caught by tiie ice while fast New York, Jan. 9.— A dispatch tc on a bar some 30 miles below Foity- the Herald, from Washington, says: Mile. A crack boat of tiie Empire line, the Tiie president has practically selected Seattle, is stuck 12 miles below Circle William Butter, of Bhiladelphia, foi City. Site is on a liar and ice is jam­ amhasaudor to Russia. Mr. Potter wai med up all aronnd her. The Tacoma formerly minister to Italy, having been and John C. Burr are ulso fast in dan­ stationed at Rome during tiie Harrison administration. His record daring gerous positions. that period Hus been caiefully exam­ G om es* A m b itio n . ined by tiie president ami Secretary New Yoik, Jan. 9.— A dispatch to Hay, and lioth feel confident that he tiie Herald from Havana says: A colo­ will satisfactorily fill tiie St. Peters­ nel in tiie insurgent army says tiiat burg post. Gomez recently sounded the armv on E x p l o s i o n In S h i p y a r d . his old ambition of uniting Cuba and Loudon, Jan. 9.— A big boiler boing Santo Domingo under one government. tested in H ew itt’s shipboilding-yaidi The wily old chief thinks tiiat tiie at Barking burst today, nnd tiie super­ United States can offer no objection to intendent, engineer and eight otliei this plan, which, if accomplished, men were killed. Aliout 40 persons would create a state strong enough to were injured, some fatally. Tiie whole absorb Hayti soon. ship-building worka were wrecked. A With this done, Gomez believes the woman was found dead 800 yards from foundation wculd be laid foi a republic the scene i f the disaster. A number which would soon take rank in tiie of men aud hove are missing. Windows Western world second only to tiie half a mile away were shattered. United States. Hopes to Be Received Offi­ cially at Washington. D l « m l « « e d C adets. I m m i g r a t i o n a t Han F r a n n l a r o . Richmond, V a., Jan. 9.— News is San Francisco, Jan. 10.— The report received from Lexington tonight that of the immigration commiaaion for today the superintendent of the V ir­ December shows that the total immi­ ginia military institute issued an order gration into tiie port of San Francisco dismissing the entire first class of tiiat was 420 persons, of whom 93 were fe ­ institution, consisting of 35 cadets. males. There were 149 Japanese. The young men dismissed represent 12 Twelve assisted Japanese were deport­ states, and their offense was a breach ed, amt 27 otirers were not admitted of discipline committed on New Year’s who coold neither read nor write. eve in tiie face of special warning. ■Eng l a nd W i l l W a l r o m a Choate. Loti don, Jan. 9.— The Daily News Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 9.— W ith her Boston, Jan. 10.— The owners of the rigging and decks covered with ice, the tiiis morning in an editorial welcoming Lieutenant Commander Sumner C. Boston brig Mary Gibbs, Captain Hor­ steamer New England arrived in port the ex|wcted apfiointinent of Joseph f|. Payne. United Statea navy, retired, ace Coombs, now 120 days out on a early this morning with a record catch Choate, of New York, as United Htatea voyage from Newport News to Para, at tiie halibut banka riff t^ueen Char­ arnhassaitor to tii* court of Ht. James, died in Ashville, N. C. Brasil, have abandoned all hope of the says: James McDonald, aged 102, a resi­ vessel, although they still believe lotte ialanda. Tiie steamer had 180,- "Englishmen will thank President dent of Chippewa Fails, W it., died at there is a chance that the crew may 000 pounds of fish. Daring the three month* the New England lias been en­ McKinley for his choice. Mr. Choate St. Joseph’s hospital, Milwankee. have been resened by some ship bound gaged this season she has brought to will have an easv and pleasant task. A Pittsburg company haa received a either to the Pacific or to some remote port 600,000 pounds of halibut. He comes neither to take part in a contract,from the United States govern­ quarter of the globe. The Mary Gibbs quarrel nor to heal one, but to foster a ment to re-equip Morro castle in Hav­ carried eight men and a cargo of (60 | M eHicioe w a d the fir*t profession to cordial friendship into atilt mors which women were admitted in Koeaia. friendly cordialitv " ana too* of coaL O I t m i I ’ p fo r L o tt. NO. 8. NO Colonel New York, Jan. 10.— A Herald dis­ patch from Havana says: The body of Colonel Maybry, of tiie First Texas, rested in state in a tent near Lee’s headquaiters at Uuena Vista on Thurs­ day. Short services were held at 5 a’clock by Chaplain Watson, Generals Lee, Keifer and Hasbrouck being pres­ ent. The body was brought to Havana, being escorted to tiie Almnndares river by his entire regiment. It will go to Miami on Friday to be forwarded to Texas. Adjutant-General Durst, of tiie Fifth cavalry, is critically ill with malarial fever. Lee’s former forces are being lessened day by day. Fonr companies now doing provost duty in tiie suburbs have lieen detached from His command and ordered to report to General Ludlow. When the American occupation took place tiie membersof a lottery company that was famous a few years ago in a Southen city made an attempt to secure a concession here. Local papers have apparently lieen subsidized, hut Gen­ eral Brooke declares tiiat so long as tiie American occupation lasts lotteries will be barred. Smallpox lias become epidemic at Mariana, and General Lee lias ordered a number of infected houses burned. Franklin Soott, a private of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana, has the smallpox. Two hundred and fifty nanigoes arrived on Thursday on the transport Covedonga, and were turned loose in a body. I 13, 1899. SOLDIER. R e c o rd C m ch o f H a lib u t. It.n l«. tlH IR T IN IT « R A T t ’A i Oae Osiamo . . . _ ............ Twenty Dolían Half Column ........................ Ten Dolía» rre/eeeton.l Carda.......- ...........Oae Dallar Itragl-g Natices w ill be Inserted al tha rnteef Ten eeata «nr Use. Representative Tongue, of Oregon, PASSED T H E S E N A T E . lias prepared an amendment to the bill N o D e b a t e on D i s t r i c t o f C o l u m b i a B i l l for codification of the laws of Alaska, — F i r « » A p p r o p r ia tio n M easure. now pending in the house, providing for tiie licensing of main business con­ Washington, Jan. 10.— A t a brief cerns in the territory, and especially session of the senate today, the first of tiie liquor business. Mr. Tongue eays the regular appropriation bills to be that the Treadwell mines does not pay reported to the body, the District ol anything iu the way of taxes to the sup­ Columbia bill, was passed. It carried port of the territorial institutions, and a trifle over $7,000,000, and was passed that from the region surrounding Jn- practically without debate. Tiie pres­ neau about $6,000,000 in gold ia pro­ entation of a memorial from a camp of duced annually, and does not contribute Confederate veterans in opposition to In China the Yellow river floods a cent to tiie government. the proposition of Butler of North Car­ have destroyed the crops, and famine The Havana afternoon papers sent a olina to pension ex-Confederate soldiers has resulted. Thousands of natives was made the text by Allen of Nebras­ are starving. Thousands of hungry thrill through the city with a report ka for some remarks, during tiie course that a torture and excention chamber and ragged refugees are moving down of which he said tiiat Butler, in making had been found at the residence of the the river in boats, only to find tbs Spanish miltiary governor, adjoining his proposition, and the president, in walls of the cities lower down closed suggesting tiiat tiie nation care for the against the starving hordes. The gov­ tiie palace. The papers declareed that there the Spanish officials questioned graves of the Confederate dead, had ernment appropriated 300,000 taels for and murdered political prisoners. A c­ lieen carried away by their enthusiasm. their relief, but less than one fifth iia* cording to their accounts, the floor of been distributed. It is claimed dis­ The house was engaged all day on tiie chamber was covered with dried honest officials have pocketed the bal­ blood, and its walla were indented witli tHe legislative, executive and jndiciacl ance. A relief fnnd has been started machete strokes. An excited crowd hill and completed it substantially as at Shanghai. Rev. B. Craig Patter- soon gathered outside the house which reported, except ibe items for tbecivil- aon, of the Chian Kian mission,appeals was last occupied by General Parrado. service commission, which went over. to American friends for aid. M in or . I t « . G R A PH IC . Advertidme Bills OaUeolad Monthly* BATTLE ON TIIE NILE Last Dervish Chief Routed by the British. FIVE HUNDRED REBELS KILLED F ifte en Hundred W ere Captured— L o g « on t h e B r i t i s h S i d e W a s S m all. London, Jan. 7.— Particulars regard­ ing the recent battle on the Blue Nile have been received in a dispatch from Cairo to tiie Exchange Telegraph Com­ pany. Colonol Lowia, it appears, when h* routed Emir Fedil, tiie last remaining Dervish chief, killed 500 of his fol­ lowers. and made many prisoners. The emir, however, succeeded in escaping. An official dispatch from Colonel Lewis says that with a Soudanese regiment he uttucked Fedil while lie was crossing the N ile at tiie cataract south of Ro8eirex (Reseres). Tire colonel’s force stormed the island on which Fedil took his position, and some severe fighting followed. Event­ ually, Fedil tied with 300 followers across tne river, where his force was dispersed by tiie Maxim guns. On tiie Britisii side Major Ferftuson, six Egyptian officers nnd 18 men were wounded, and 27 men were killed. Cairo. Jan. 7.— Coioenl Lewis defeat­ ed tiie Emir Ahmed Fedil on tiie Blue N ile December 26. His position was taken by storm and 1,500 derviBlies wore captured. P H IL IP P IN E IN S U R G E N T S . W i l l R esist the L a n d in g o f the lca n « b y F o rc e o f A rm «. Am er- Paris, Jan. 7.— An official telegram received by tiie Philippine junta her« dated Manila, January 4, says Agui­ naldo has gone to Ilo llo at the request of the insurgents, there to place himself at their head with a view to fighting the Americans. Tiie dispatch also gives facts as to the antecedents of members of the new Filipino cabinet. Tiie following have accepted: President of tiie cabinet and ministerof foreign affairs, Mabini; interior, Teodoro Handico, a oivil en­ gineer, who was educated abroad; war. General Balomero Aguinaldo, consin of Aguinaldo, president of the so-called Filipino government; finance, Generul Trias, a close ally of Agui- naldo;*public works, Gregorio Gonaaga, a lawyer, foimerly Spanish attomey- generul of lire V'isayus. Tiie cabinet is described as homo­ genous, every member being pledged, according to these advices to resist lb* military occupation of tiie Philippines. Members of tiie Filipino junta her« explain tiiat Aguinaldo did not run away, Hut “ left Manila for the moun­ tain region behind Cavite in order to make secret arrangements fui bis voy- avge to llo Ilo.” Tire Filipino who furnishes this in­ formation also categorically and spe­ cifically asserts tiiat tiie latest tele­ graphic advices declare if the Am eri­ cans insist upon tiie occupation of tiie principal cities by the American troops, the whole Filipino tribe will resist by force of arms. SAN TIAGO IS SATISFIED . T h e Custom « R ec eip t« W ill N ot B e Seat to H avana. Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 7.— A dis­ patch was received from Havana today saying that the customs reoeipts may remain in Santiago. The effects ot tiiis information are good, and paiticn- larly so far as tho laborers are con­ cerned. Senor Bacardi, the mayor, ha« assured the laborers that all work now in progress will go on, and, therefore, there is not likely to be any imme­ diate trouble. Prominent Cubans emphatically as­ sert tiiat if a Cuban government shonld assume to issue such an order— concen­ trating tiie customs receipts at Havana —civil wur would break out iinmudi- ately. It is lioped that a civil govern­ ment may bo established in every prov­ ince, distinct from the mle of the gov­ ernor-general, who should be merely tiie military chief of the island. F o r .M frltorloiiN S e r v i c e , L ife Im p ris on m en t. New York, Jan. 7.— A dispatch to the Herald from Washington says: Governor Roosevelt, of New York, ia to receive tiie brevet rank of brigadier- general lor gallant and meritorious service during the battle of Han Joan. A board of officers, consisting of Gen­ erals Hwan and Boyuton and Colonel Carter, adjutaut-gerieial, which had lieen considering the question of tb« officer* entitled to bievets for heroism, have recommended tiiat Colonel Roose­ velt be breveted. Secretary Alger haa brought the recommendation to Ilia at­ tention of tiie president, who directed tne nomination of Governor Roosevelt (or tbe brevet grade. Madrid, Jan. 9.— Colonel Julison Han Martin, who was in command of the .Spanish garrison at Ponce when the United Htatea troops under General Miles landed on the island, and who abandoned the place without resistance, has been sentenced to imprisonment for life. He will he incarcerated at Ceuta, the Spanish penal colony In Morocco, opposite Gibraltar. Madrid, Jan. 7.— General Poliaveja, ex-gowraor-general <*f Cuba and of tha Philippine islands, ami Senor Silvela, tha onnaeivative lead«*, have agreed upon tha formation of a new cabinet, and have been summoned hy the queen recent. Tha early advent of the oon- servativan la power ia regarded aa car« lain. M o r r ill* « Successor. Montpelier, Vt., Jan. 9.— Governor Hmith has tendered the place in ths United States senate, left vacant by thr deatli of Senator Morrill, to B. F. Fifield. of thia city. Mr. Fifield has not vet accepted. Washington, Jan. 9.— The bouse committee on Indian affair* today or­ dered a favorable report on the bill granting to the Kettle River Valley road a right of way through the Col- villa Indian reservation, Washington N*w bpan lsh C a b in e t. Killed re a Frlreflxh». New York, Jan. 7.— George Tyler, 24 years of age, waa killed in au im­ promptu prize fight tonight In Jersey City by Thomas Foley, aged abnnt 28 years. The two men had an nnnsatis- factory boat a few days ago and decid­ ed to settle it tonight. In tha first round Foley landed a right awing on tbe point of Tyler’a j.iw. Tyler Jropped, and aftei being oounted oat wna taken to a hospital, where he waa pronounced dead, lit« neck waa brokea.