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EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Intaraatlng CalUotlon of Itamt Fraaa
tha Two llanitapharaa TrataBUd
la a Oosdanaad Form.
Pcortilnrr Long will aoon laaiie !
v.rtiamniiU calling (or ptutKMnla (or
raining tli. Wain, and tl Crlauibal
Colun, in ac.tordunc. with the doitiion
of the hoard of oonatruction to which
the mattur hail txMin tefoimd.
A financial Utomcnt Jiut lumifid by
the Southern I'aaiflo Company alio.
that (or tlie month of October tiie groaa
eurninm of the oompnny rnni.liod
S,650.7S6. Thii It an Increnae of
11,185,701 over the lame month of lait
year.
Corllia, of Michigan, lint intiodnced
a bill in the bouae to (acllltate the on-
atiuotlon and maintoiianoe of tele
graph cab! si in the Paciflo ocean be
tween the United ' HI a tea and Hawaii,
the Philippine itlttndi, Japan and other
ooDiitrloa, -i .
The agricultural appropriation bill
paaaed by conurete oonUina a retalia
tory olauae authorlaing the aeomtary ot
agikolture to inapoct imported articloa
(InnKOiOul to hrnlth, and alao author
ising the aecrotaiy of the tiaaary toe
oludo tuuh erticlee. The restriction ie
dtialgned to apply to a large number of
article, imported from foreign coun
trioa. ; v,; ,' , ; .; ; :-
London advicoa juat received bring
promlae that the Weat Indian coloniue
will enter upon the new year with
brighter industrial proapecta, owing to
the anccwaful launcliing ot the Wett
Indian Co OporatUe Union, orgnniaud
on the 11 ii"a of the California Fruit
Union, and the Iiiah Agricultural or
ganization, which achieved wonderfully
lipid gucoeaa.
Great Britain hit giren another
at rilcing example of friendship for tha
United Plates, and at the aame time
liat taken action which la looked upon
in the light of a recognition ol the
sovereignty of the United Htatei over1
the . Philippine., A , AUbuitering ex
pedition orgauisud to go to the tupport
of Agnlnalilo ha. ben anppreaaed at
I long Kong by ordei of the Dritiab au
thor illet. ,.
Tho first order foi an Engtirh railroad
to be received at the Solienei tiuly, N.
Y., locomotive wot kg oalla for ten.
mogul freight engine., which will he
built for the Midland railroad. Tha
machine, will be of American pattern,
with cylinder. 18 inohe. in diameter,
with 34-inch atrvke, and titled with all
modem appliance..; The thlpment of
87 fucomotivea hut juat been completed
for the MupoB railroad, of Japan, and
the wmki are running night and day
with a force of 8,000 men.
Ambaaaador J tile Cnnibon will tail
from Havre for New York on January
7, to resume bis) dtitie. at Washington
Senator Hanna ha Introduced in tha
annate, and Jtepreaentative Payne In
the houae, a bill to grunt aulMldiea for
American shipping. s '
When tbo president in hi southern
tout reached Macon, Ua'., great euthu
aiasm was show a and the Confederate
veteran ndcred bim a receptlou.
The National Cnsket Coinpanr, ot
Pittsburg, Pa., ha. received from the
United Bute, government an order for
4,000 caakete, the l.rgu.t aiuglo order
of the kind ever gi ven. The coilliis
will be uaed for the purpose of bring
Ing to this country the liodioa of all
the soldier killed in battle in Cuba, or
who died troin disease there.
Hat Portage, Ontario, is in wild excite
ment, over s marvelous strike, made In
tho Mikado gold mine." The core fills
a slope 40 feet high and two and a
third feet wide, and the richest ore is
worth, on a conservative estimate fioru
188.000 to 188,000 a ton in free-milling
gold. The ore 1. being put in barrel
and sacks, and men are guarding It.
The mine is owned in r.ngland. At a
low estimate there Is now t850,0OO in
sight.
A special., from Washington, D. G.,
ears: ; There are seer who predict that
Uncle Bam will become the tmtikei for
the world. Two Old World govern
inentR, Itue.ia and Jnpiin, have turned
their fuces to the United Plate In
enroll of loans. Russia, at least, lias
bad agents sound American flniinoieia,
This is the first time foreign nation.
have sought to float 'great national
loan in America, and the wise men
think It I. the beginning ot the uow
era.
At the Moaoro insane asylum, in
Havana, a horrible state of affair was
discovered. One hundred and twenty
Inmates, emaciated and showing every
sign of staivation, are con lined there.
Six month ago there were over 80U in
till asylum, but death and starvation
have reduced their number to about
one-seventh of that figure. Tho Span
ish government withdrew it giant,
and although money wn raised for the
institution, corrupt oflloial embegaled
most of It, leaving the patient desti
tute,
Minor Newt Haiti..
It la repotted in court circle that
Pilnce George ot Grceoe la engaged to
Prince Victoria of Wales. ,
Mr. Abbie L, Marble, sister-in-law
ot the late James (). Blaine, wn killod
In a runway at San Leandro, Cab 1
Gen, John J. Dupny, a proiilnont
ex-Confeilerate soldier, died In ?,lem
phis. Ho whs in all Uio bnitln H tha
army of the Teunesscor am' ' wa
wounded four times. " " . i
LATER NEWS.
Judge Day, president of the Paris
(uaoe commission, has arrived borne.
A loaded lumber eohoomtr is ashore
at Cuunon beach, near Elk creek, Or.
The reoontly appointed register of
tho Nulato itind office in Alaska is
in inning. ' .
In a trninwreck near Lexington, Ky.,
nine trainmen were Injured, two piob
ably fatally.
Importations of manufactures from
Oreut Dritain into the United States
seem likely to show an unusually (mail
total in the year 1808.
The United State troop have begun
a regular patrol of the city of Havana,
in order to guard against possible dis
orders. Oeneral Leo Is arranging for
the evacuation day parade,
Public men in offico, especially those
In oongresH, newspaper correspondent
snd everybody who is supposed to have
influence in shaping legislation or with
the administration are being flooded
with literatiure from foreign countries
n relation to our changed condition of
affairs a result of the Ameriaan
Spnnish war. ,.
Fira destroyed the house occupied by
Senor Don Carlo Morla Vicuna, the
Chilean minister, at the corner of Con
necticut avenue and N street, Wash
ington. The roof and top story were
destroyed and the furniture of the
whole house was ruined by smoke and
water, entailing a loss of 10,000. The
minister and bis family barely es
caped. .
At Brookllne, Mass., by tha sudden
breaking of the ice on Lovetettpond, in
the park system, 80 young girls and
buys were thrown into eight feet of wa
ter, and though numerous siwtftators
and the police woikml hard to rescue
the children, three were drowned before
help could reach them. They were 3.
W. Clattenhurg, jr., 10 years old; Ar
thur Collins, 13 years old,, and Emma
Miller, 14 veers old.
The cotton recoipts at Houston, Tex.,
since the beginning of the present sea
son have been 3,000,000 bales, a record
never equaled by an Interior town or
port of the United States, and which
will be celebrated by a banquet to
which all the the prominent civic offi
cials and cotton men will lie invited.
It is estimated by Secretary Warner, of
tho cotton exchange, that 500,000
bales will yet be received during the
remainder of the season.
Senator McBi hie of Oiegon, has In
troduced a bill making Astoria the ter-'
minus of the trsns-I'aciflc cable.
According to a new time card of the
Great Northern to go into effect Jaun
ery 1,. the transcontinental icbedule
will be reduced 13 hours.
Cougreti has adjourned until Janu
ary 4, 1 After the holiday roce.is the
rights of General heeler and others to
hold their seats will be inquired into.
Among a network of wire. 30 feet
above the ground, Roderick Chiitholm,
Chicsgo electrician, was .lowly
burned to death in sigiit of several
h ) lid red spectator.
Colonel E. S. Barrett, national pre.
blent of the Sons of the American Kev
olutlon, was killed by falling Iroin a
window r.t bis home at Concord, Mai
Ha was 60 years of age.
In Louisville, Ky., it is estimated by
the health department Uiat there are
10,000 cartes of grip. The lavages of
the disease have been io widespread
that in some cases business has been
erionsly impelled.
Hereafter broom, will cost 9 cent
more apiece.. Member, of the Broom
Manufacturers' Association of the
United States met In Chicago and de
cided to advance the price of brooms 85
cent, a doien.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
Plicniisylvania railroad three : mi hie
from Kahwav, N. J., whloh resulted in
the loss of two lives and injury to many
persons.. .The killed are William C
Dewolf, a railway clerk; and F. Knight,
colored poder of the sleeping-oar.
Whilo examining state document of
the 16th century in the Vatican library
recently, Abbe Coz&iluzzi, assistant
librarian, found the original niuiiu
strlptof a treatise by Ualileo on the
tide. Tho manuscript is all in (Jali
leo's handwriting, and end with the
word written at Kome in the Medici
Hardens ou January 8, 1616. '
The president ha nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, to be sec re
taryof the interior, Mr. Hitohcook is
at present ambassador to Hussiu. He
wns appointed mimstet more than a
year ago. and when the rank was raised
to an embassy, he was re-appointed
He is a wealthy lawyet and business
man of St. Ijouis, anil was lot - some
time an extensive plate-glass niHinifuo
tnrer. He is a great gtandsonof Ktbun
Allen, of Revolutionary fume..
The table of proposed stations of
United Statos troops, submitted by
General Wade, show a total of 60,000
troops, distributed as follows: Province
of Pinar del Rio, 8,000; province of
Havana, 34,000; province of Matansas,
10,000; province of Santa Clara, 10,000;
province ot Puerto Principe,' 3,000;
province of Santiago, 1,000. The
recommendations of the commission, it
carried out, would require 48 regiments
of infantry and live of cavalry, with six
battories of light artillery, four for
Havana and two for Matanras.
The British government ha decided
to complete the Soudan railroad to
Khartoum, the distance yet to be cov
ered being 180 miles.
Forest Salee, a bellboy formerly em
ployed at tbo Pluntets' hotel in 'St.
Louis, is heir to (35,000, left biia by
James T. Spanldmg, of Chioago. ,
The movements of rebels fiom Brasll
have been defeated by troops sent to
the frontier, and there seems to be no
further danger to tlio'penQ of the ooun
NEW WORLD ENERGY
The Nation of Shopkeepers
Astonishes Europe.
AFTER THE WORLD'S MARKETS
England Awtkii la th Aggrsttlvt)
Commercial I'ro.piirlty of Ilia
United States.
London, Dec. 37. It is no exaggera
tion to assert that the foremost topic !
compelling attention In Europe is gen-;
era! and in Great Britain in particular,
overshadowing the dreary broils of do-
mestia politics, is the remarkable ag
gressive commercial piosperity wlucli
the United States is manifesting.
Hardly a newspaper review or a public
speaker duiing the past month lias
failed to notice with what giant strides ;
Aroerica i coming into tne first place j
in the alignment of the powei. It is j
certainly the chief (object of conversa-
tion on Lomuani stieet ana on tne
Continental bourses.
The manager of one of the gieatest
London banks recently drew an Ameri- j
can busiues man Into nis private)
office, and said, in an awe-struck tone:
This is the first time in the history ,
of finance that New York has been in .
position to dictate money rates to
London, Berlin and Paris." The .
bank manager added that London's
purchases ot American securities were ;
a feather's Weight compared with the '
balance of trade in New York's iavor. ,
James Brice, in a speech before the
Lleoest! chamber of commerce, sound
ed a warning to British manufacturers.
He emphasized the fact that the ex
port of tiie United States and Ger
many had increased 34,000,000 and
31,000,000 respectively between 1891
and 1897. while Great Britain's de
creased 16,000,000. He "
pointed out that the business
United States was developin
many important lines wluc
Britain, he added, should ha
against all competitors. Mr.
hesitatingly asserted that the
States could produce rails chea
Great Britain, and he said in
possibility of opening new mai
cept in China. .
Great Britain seem to havt
reconciled to the capture of I
market by the United States. !
can firms are uniformly succ
bidding against British firm
Carnegie company and the ISIir;
Company have opened extensi
in London and are' making
upon the, British reserve. '
Hunsnker,' the Carnegie rt
tive, lias contracted for 80,00
plates for the Coolgardie road
lia, and the company was unal
dertake the contract for 80,
more.
A dispatch from Berlin sn.
fact that the Russian government has
oidered 80,000 tons of Aineiioan rails,
and tha prospect of Amerioau competi
tion for the oontraots in connection
with Russia's extensive railroad
alarm manufacturer heie and else
where. Consuls assert that all Europe
is swarming, a. never before, with
agents of American manufacturers of
steel, street railroads, electrical appa
ratus and all kinds of machinery, who
are leading the commercial invasion.
The attempt, to float a Russian loan
In New York have been received skep
tically here.- Several financiei. have
told representative, of the press that
Russia tried to raise money in London,
Paris, Berlin and Amsterdam, and that
.he seems to have turned to the United
States as a forlorn hope, possibly with
the view of reaping incidental political
advantage. ! But, it is admitted that
it is a question of a shoit time when
capitalist, will have to reckon with
New York as a competitor in high
finance. The Daily Chronicle com
ments upon the fact that American
capitalst. "have the courage ot their
financial opinions If they think they
know the European 'situation better
than the capitalist of the Old World."
There is much interest here regard
ing the choice ot a successor of Ethan
Allen Hitchoock a ambassador at St.
Petersburg. It is considered that the
post demands the presence of the
strongest diplomat, in view of tiie en
trance of the United State into the
East, Russia has sent one ot Iter
ablest men to W ashington, though a
transler fiom Washington to Coustan -
tinople or Madrid has hitherto been
considered in the service as being a
promotion. Russia expect President
McKinley to reciprocate. Mr. Hitch
cock carries home with him the convic
tion that Russia is still a stanch friend
of America, which he has endeavored
to impress upon the state department
at Washington and on all influential
American he has met abroad.
Boy Kills Two Brother.
'Poooba. Miss., Doc, , 87. Thomas
and William Brantley, brothers, were
shot and instantly killed last night, at
Enondale, hy Eugene Dennis, an 18-
year-old boy." The brothers, accoin i
panied by their father," attempt d to
enter the stote of Dennis, it is said, in-;
tending violence, whereupon young
Duuui. opened fire on the Brantley,
with the above result. The trouble
wa caused by liquor.
. Araenlo lu tho Milk.
Now York, Deo. 37. Adolph Neat,
a bartender employed by Mrs. Marie
Zisoher, who keep a small hotel at
Paterson, N. 3., died today a (tor ent
ering great agony. It l thought his
death was caused by arsenical poison
ing, and that the poison was placed in
the milk used in the household of Mil.
Zischer. Mr.. Zisoher, Mary Duly, a
servant, Friti Hagerinan, an employe,
and Frit. Zeffen, were also poisoned,
iI V.
.it .i.t.i.- - bil. !
NEGOTIATIONS AS TO TERMS.
England Agr.fl to Abrogation or thai
Clnylon-Hularer Treaty.
New York, Dec. 26. A special to
the Hera'd from Washington says:
All danger of further friction between
the United States and Gieat Britain
over the construction of the Nicaragua
canal will shortly be removed by the
abrogation of the Clayton-Bnlwer
treaty. Sir Julian Fauncefote, the
British ambassador, has received or
will receive within the next few days
positive instructions to enter upon
negotiations with Secretary Hay for the
abrogation of the convention referred
to, and the preparation of a new treaty
guaranteeng tiie neutrality of the canal.
The change in the attitude of tiie
British government from its old posi
tion of insisting upon having a voice in
the construction of the proponed canal
is the result of representations made to
Lord Salisbury by Mr. Henry White,
charge d'affaires of this government in
London. It is the understanding of
those who are aware of the change in
the attitude of toe British government
that Lord Salisbury will suggest
through Sir Julian the advisability of
the United State granting some conces
sions to his government in return for
the relinquishment of the important
lights possessed by Great Britain in the
matter of a canal across the isthmus,
which for nearly 50 year have been
recognized by this government in the
treaty negotiated by John M. Clayton,
on the part of the United States, and
Lord Henry Lytton-Bulwer, on tbe part
of the British government. J-ost what
concessions will be asked aie not
known, nor will they be until fuller
and final instructions have oeen re
ceived by Sir Julian andtommuuicated
to Secretary Hay.
HAVANA'S DEATH RATE.
Between Flfty-flre aad Seventy-Are Die
Dally From Mtarvatlon aad UI.ea.e
New York, Deo. 26. A disnatcb io
the World from Havana enys: Ha-
-dea.th .ra.t8 in iwtuUlLiig, There
-reach.
lever,
tit nam-
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a total
f last 24
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of SOS
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lay that
in tbe
lace to
ribahle
iTtinesifof some sections oiler a her
culean task to the engineer officer pre
paring to clean the city, making the
American heie despair of any imme
diate lowering ot the frightful death
rate. . ;
A PERFECT SUCCESS.
Mora About tha Rallooa Trip Aerott
tha Channel.
New York, Dec 24. A dispatch to
the Times from London says: The
Chronicle publishes an account from its
correspondent sent from a balloon tiip
across the channel, showing that the
Andree steering-gear was tested with
perfect success. Tbe sail used was 18
: feet square instead of 13 feet, the one
! used in the land experiment,
j The aeronauts took their course when
. the 300-foot trail rope was in water
' and found they had deflected three
points, or about double that obtained
1 on land in Essex several weeks ago.
i This is not surprising, for the frao
J tional resistance of the trail rope in
' water was immense. Another test gave
the same results, but this time tbe bal
loon descended within two feet of the
waves.
To keep the balloon at an even alti
tude was a task of the greatest diffi
culty, and owing to cold air on the
water the sun-heated gas cooled with
lightning rapidity, demanding oonstant
expelling of ballast to prevent falling
into the sea.
The balloon again rose 8.800 feet,
but dropped behind a thick cloud. The
udden eclipse caused a rapid descent.
! , in, 'ew minute, the balloon
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touched tbe ocean. A wave struck the
car. It was an exciting moment foi
the aeronauts, their gum boots being
filled with water. Percival Spencer,
the famous aeronaut, in charge, prompt
ly threw out ballast and saved himself
from sinking.
The balloon then rose 700 feet after
clearing the French cliffs, and landed
lately amid Not man peasants four miles
east of Havre, having in five hours cov
ered 150 wiles, of which 75 mile, were
over ,
Wreck! In the North.
Victoria, B. 0., Deo. 84. The
Rosalie, whloh ha arrived here from
Skagway, leports the wreck of a sloop
whioh left Wrangel two week ago for
j Skngway with a party of 13, bound for
j Atlin. Tho sloop wn found bottom
I side up by Indians, and it ia feared
that all bauds were lost.
I News is also brought of the wreck of
the schooner Ohio, of Victoria. No
live were lost.
Texant Go to Cuba.
. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26. The head
quarter and first battalion of the Texas
regiment, together with Colonel
Wheaton'i headqnaiters, sailed for
Cuba thl afternoon, iu the transport
Mloiiiaan. The other two battalions
ot the First Teax. and the Second
gUUUJIIHflH Vaiuivaa mil v.uv -
i'vwo tha MoLIW,
ANOTHER ISLE OURS
tpeck in Mid-Pacific Will Be
Used for Cable Station.
OLD GLORY OVER WAKE ISLAND
Commander of the Slennlngton
Ueeclve Ordert to Iloltt lb
ring Tb.rt,
nil
Washington, Dec. 26. This govern
ment has determined to hoist the flag
over an island far out in the Pacific
ocean, and orders were sent out late
this afternoon to the commander of tha
Bennington, Captain Taussig, to pro
ceed at once to take possession, in the
name of the United State government, i
of Wake island, lying in latitutde 19
north, longitude 166 east. It is distant
about 2,000 miles from Nihan, tha
westernmost of the Hawaiian islands,
and 1,800 miles east of Guam. It is
almost in a direct line between those
possessions of the United States, and
is admirably adapted for use as a sta
tion for a Pacific cable to connect the
Philippines with Hawaii and the Unit
ed States. It is about three miles in
length, and incloses a lagoon of salt
water. The average height ot the
island is eight feet above high tide. It
is scarcely capable, in itself, of sustain
ing life, but it is expeoted that a cable
can be maintained without difficulty
by the erection of a condenser to sup- I
ly f lesh water. . Rome station in that
locality ia de -med to be absolutely nec
essary to the maintenance of a cable,
and lor that reason the American peace
commissioner, at Paii. endeavored to
secure one of tbe Caroline islands, bat
without success.
Wtke island is said to he by right
already American terntoiy,""foi TnTSol j
Admiral Wilkes surveyed the place and
asserted title. Jt is not inhabited, so
lar ae known, at the , present time,
thoogh in the past some guano gather
ers have temporality lived on the
island. . . :
The Bennington is now at Honolulu,
and the orders to her will go out by
steamer. After hoisting the flag on
Wake island, she will proceed to Guam
and make a survey of the island, which
was ordered some time ago. She has
already completed a survey of Pearl
harbor, seven mile from Honolulu,
which will form the foundation of the
government's plans for the enlarge
ment of the harbor there and the
straightening ot .the channel connect
ing the inner harbor with the ocean.
' DISORDERLY IN3J13Nr5.
Filipino la Saburba of M anlla-Cana
Amerlcaae Anxiety.
Manila, Dec. 26. The United State,
cruiser Boston and the gonboat Petrel
have arrived from Chinese ports. Tbe
steamer Uinon, which ha returned
here trom Hollo with native and Span
ish soldiers, has been refused a land
ing. The steamei St. Paul has arrived
here with Christmas mail.
Tbe first American Sag was raised
ovet Malate school yesterday. It was
sent by the university of Pennsylvania.
Tbe honor of raising the flag was ac
corded to Father McKinnon, ot Califor
nia, in recognition of his service, in
reopening the schools.
Native troops encamped in the sub
urbs are again causing anxiety. Tbe
attitude of the insurgent detachment at
Panduchan bridge on Wednesday was
such that tbe California, Idaho and
Washington regiments were concentrat
ed in light marching order at Paco,
but trouble was averted. . ..
Largeat Volume of Bualneia on Record.
New York, Deo. 26. R. G. Dun A '
Co.' weekly review say:
It l a year beyond parallel, and goes
to its close with the biggest volume of ting a woeful mistake if she fail to re
business ever seen. Enormous tians- ' tain tne friendship of this great world
actions at the stock exchange, make, cower of the luture."
some difference, but when all the trans
porting and speculative interests are
eliminated, there ia still much larger
business than -in any other month of
any year, hast year the exports, were
in volume greater than in any previous
month in the history ot the country,
but this year the three weeks reported
show an increase of 25 per cent, against
9 per cent in imports, which would in
dicate much more than 970,000,000
excess of exports this month. .
Cancellation of Kevenue Stamps.
Washington, Dec. 26. In view ot
the fact that fraud has been discovered
in connection with the cancellation of
documentary and adhesive internal rev
enue stamps, by which old stamps
were re-used, the internal levonue bu
reau today issued a regulation which
requires all such stamps to be canceled
with the initials of the user, together
with the month, day and year written
or stamped thereon. Hitherto the
month end day of cancellation has not
been required. '
Motorloua Turk Killed.
Constantinople, Deo. 36. Ghant
Bev, the sultan's aide-de camp, was
murdered yesterday by Ilafaz Pacha in
a quarrel. Ghani Bey became notori
ous owing to his lawless proceedings
in Epiritus. He also inspired terror
here by extorting money under threats
of death. Officials of tiie foreign em
bassies have frequently demanded tb
punishment of Ghani Bey, but alwayt
unsuccessfully. . .. -
.Will Buy American Kail.
London, Deo. S. The government
ot Victoria, according to a special dis
patch from Melbourne, ha. aocepted
the tender of the Pennsylvania A
Maryland Steel Company for 85,000
tons of eteel rails at 175,000 below the
English tender.
Fruc. to Tax Foreign Securities.
Paris, Dec 36. Tbe chamber ot
deputies today adopted a bill imposing
I a stamp duty of one oeut ou foreign e-
IcuriiiDo. ,
OPEN DOOR TO ASIA.
oho W. Bookwalter Say. it ft Throagk
Kuatla Obaervatlunt In Siberia.
f London, Deo. 24. John W. Book
Walter, of Ohio, who has just returned
from a three months' journey through
Russia, told the correspondent of tha
Associated Press, in an interview to
day, that he enjoyed unusual facilities
for observing what is going on in that
country. He traveled 17,000 mile to
the terminus of tbe trans-Siberian rail
way, to the end of the line, reaching
the frontier of Afghanistan, and to the
end of the one penetrating China''
through Manchuria. All these are ndw
practically completed. y .
Mr. Bookwalter was allowed to go
everywhere, to see everything and to
take hundreds ot photogilphs, thanks
to special permits issued to him by the
minister of the interior on the applica
tion ot the United State smbassajor
at St. Petersburg. During hie journey
ha conversed with the governor ot
provinces and witn military and civil
officials of all ranks.
"Everywhere I found," Mr. Book
waiter said, "the kindest and most
friendly feeling toward America and
Americans; and beard many expression,
of satisfaction over America', success
in our wai with Spain. To this there
was not a single exception.
"America's best open door to Central
Asia and China is through Russia.
Already all tbe locomotives and rolling
stock on the railways are of American
manufacture. Central Asia will, in
tl e near future, be the greatest market
in the world for manufactures of all
kinds, and our obtaining the virtual
monopoly of this market only depends
on our retaining the friendship Russia
now has for us.
"America has very little to gain by
an open door in China. "That country
is an industrial one, and whatever we
may now be able to sell to them, the
Chinese will soon be able to make for
themselves. One day, and that day is
newr - ati)3.
djWbatever China boys from"'
thfljest of the-WOThl wtUtacjuj''"
through Russia and Central Asia,
Rnssia in the last three years has done
more to open the doors of China than
England and all the rest of tbe world
baa done in 60 years.
"I traveled ovtr 1,200 miles of rail
way which she bas built from the Cas
pian sea to Tashkend, in Turkestan,
over a branch of this line which runs
to tbe northern frontier of India, over
another branch which goes trom Marv
to the border of Afghanistan. Then
there are also Russian lines all along
tho Persian frontier, and projecting
into that country, either completed or
rapidly approaching completion. All
the work on these lines has been done j
by eoliliers, who, in this way, arevmtf
in Russia, as elsewhere, non-producers.
"All this tremendous Asiatio railway
system is owned and operated by the
government. Ail the lines are admira
bly built, and splendidly equipped. j
Wbv, I saw a bridge across the Amud- j
i aria, in Central Asia, at a point where
, the river ia three miles wide, that cost
' 20,000,000 roubles, and ia the greatest
' piece of engineering work ever aooom- v
; plished. There is nothing like it any- -.
j where else in the world. ,
j "Wherever I Went I saw cities and
i towns springing up, such a. Askobad. .
j in Turkomania, for example, which al- .
ready bas 25,030 inhabitants. New
j Bokhara, 13 miles from Old Bokhara,
I has 13,000 inhabitants. Where do the
j people come from to inhabit these '
j towns? , Why, from European Russia. . -j
I The government is turning her surplus
j European population into Central Asia -'
just as the United States turned her
surplus population of her Atlantio " ;1
I states into her great Western territories.
j No human power cajjuthy'tha-rfm"''"
march of tbe Slav through Ruhia
vhich will be the feature of the 2H-
century, just as the march of tbe
Anclo - Saxon throuab America- ha been
the feature of the 19th. i
"The ITiited State will be commit.
MASSACHUSETTS MISHAP.
Rot Enough Water for m Battle-Ship
of Her Site.
Washington, Deo. 34. The naval
anthnrttma IiUva U'nrnurt In 'thair .lis.
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may, that it is not possible for one of J
ourhig battle-ships, like.theOregon or - "
Massachusetts, to get out of New Yw,k J
harbor during extra low "WV,r, ,n;h " s ' S
prevailed when the latter bariU' "
truck on Diamond reef a short tn
ago. To aid the court of inqkiry nc
in session at New York, trying toasce;
tain tbe responsibility for the grout;
ing, the navy department called or
the coast survey for special meas
meuts of the water in the harbor ''
Diamond reef, and upon the rock "
The report of the superintend
the survey has just been receivi -shows,
in the opinion ot naval o
that it is not poss'V
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