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FETE OF TRANSFER] Inanguraied at New Orleans j With Brilliant Pageantry. ! : CENTENNIAL CELEBRATED; . *>.4 Exercises, Commemorative cf the Ac- : cession of Immense Territory One Hundred Years Ago, Bev gun With Naval Review. - v. ! ? - ?* -1 ! -1 1 ~ r r> TT-nion I j^avoreci wiin me^i wcamu, <> , \ made the naval review on the river a j brilliant function, the series of three 1 days' celebrations in commemoration ] of the transfer of the province of j Louisiana from France to the United i : States was inaugurated at New Or- I leans Friday It was in the Crescent City, on Be- j cember 20, a century ago that the dramatic scene was enacted which, in Napoleon's language, gave the Amerijp; can republic an empire, and in the 'pT same room of the Cabildo in which Governor Caiborne and General Wilkinson received the transfer of the mighty territory, which only twenty ? . days before the French had accepted from Spain, the events of that memorr. able day will have a ceremonial dupliI cation. So indissolubly linked are Louisiana : and New Orleans with the historic details of the transfer that two years ago the Louisiana legislature authorized an official celebration of the transfer. It was desired to make the occasion . of national and international signifiv?~ * cance. The Louisiana Historical Society was given control of the ceremonies. ? ".Invitations to participate were exten l;.'r. ed to congress, the federal government ^'^and the president, and through the fQ secretary of state France and Spain 'i fc prime figures in the changes of Louisiana's sovereignty. ? Congress failed to pass the legisla. tion necessary to send an official delegation of senators and representatives, the navy department ordered Ad' miral Wise, with four ships, to be ^.v 'present, and the French and Spanish p governments accepted the invitation :acd arranged to be represented, the 'hor ambassador and the I 1UA UiVl a J uv* ..... -- | line cruiser Julien de la Graviere, and |?: the latter by her consul and one of her iipC war ships, the Rio de la Plata. |*y The management of the Louisiana |?;-Purchase exposition gave the enterTi;; . prise its cordial support and promptly accepted the invitation to its presi* dent and directors to attend. Under - auspicious conditions the carrying out I*" '<of the historical society's program began at noon Friday with the review of j H the fleet. The six war ships were gayly dressed with the flags of the nations, and presented a fine marine spectacle, when the United States ship Stranger put off from Canal street, carrying the t; governor and his staff, in full regalia, C ; and distinguished guests who ad been ?t' invited to accompany him. -v v President David R. Francis, of the j.v 'Louisiana Purchase expositien, and hr members of his board reached the city i. on a belated train, but the governor's party waited for them, and they were p- ' enabled to participate in one of the V.. most interesting features of the cele" v - bration. ~ > After the review, the Stranger anf^ohored near the Minneapolis, and Admiral Wise, entering a cutter from the flag ship, was rowed over to the govcr*nor's yacht to pay his respects to the statp and executive representatives of the two nations, which at different times owned the territory, p.;. The social event of the celebration was the ball given Friday night in the French opera, which the naval officers, the French ambassador, the nV f Spanish consul, President Francis and pafcy, the governor, mayor and stace and city officials and party leaders of f' V New Orleans and a number of other cities attended. Jury Failed to Agree. The jury in the case of J. E. Starke, at Jacksonville, Fla., charged with the murder of John F. Angel, failed to P- agree on a verdict, and was discharg^>R.ed after being out nineteen hours. orroirs in isuuiit; win ue u?u a^uiu >u jlw* His plea was temporary insanity. ? NINE DEAD AND TWO PASSING. I>?Further Fatalities of Burning cf Negro t- . College at Nashville. gV Two mors charred bodies were ta& > ken from the ruins of Rust dormitory wE^'Vof Walden university at Nashville, HI Tenn., Sunday. The list of known ?.) dead now numbers nine and two students are yet unaccounted for. |P<'. - In a number of prominent city !?V" churches Sunday the pastors offered pv 1 prayers for the injured and called on their congregations for contributions P of money and wearing apparel. Heir'-'/ sponses were liberal in every instance, f: \ _ In all the colored churches prayers | were offered and collections taken up. p! HOUSE QUITS FOR HOLIDAYS. | Closing Act Was to Call Upon Post master General for Scandal Papers. The house after being in session fo I half an hour Saturday adjourned fo the holidav recess. A resolution wa agreed to by which the postmaste general was requested to forward t the house papers in connection wit; the recent postoffice investigation. iv, : , A COLLEGE HOLOCAUST. | Panic-Strickcn Negro Girl Students i Jump to Death from Burning Cen- j tral Tennessee University. Four persons are known to have . been killed and, perhaps, thirty others | f injured, twelve of them fatally, in a : fire at Nashville, Tenn., Friday night, i which consumed the Central Tennes- j see college for young negro women, a I department of Walden university. It is possible that the ruins may con- : tain the bodies of other victims. The j property loss is estimated at $25,000. j The known dead: Stella Addison, i Port Gibson, Miss.; Mattie L. Moore, j Huntsville, Ala.; Sallie Dade, Hopkins- j ville, Ky.; Nannie Johnson, Hattics- j burg, Miss. Fatally injured: Eleanor Moore, white, preceptress, Chicago; Lady B. Knox, Greenville, Miss.; Minnie Alston, j Covington, Tenn.; Bertha Monford, Chicago; Lulu Terry, McMinnville, I Tenn.; Ernest McCleary, Fernandina, ! Fla.; Leona Millock, St. Louis; Mannie j Harris, Maysville, Ky.; Mannie I Booze, Clarksdale, Miss.; Victoria Miller, Anchorail;, K:f. Fire broke out about 11:05. The j building was four stories high, without fire escapes. It was occupied by about J sixty students, who were asleep when the alarm was given. The wildest panic ensued, the women and girls rushing,, screaming, to j the window's, from which they jumped i in droves The dead and injured lying j in heaps where they fell, to be fallen upon by those following them. When the flames were first discover* 1T J A- AV\Y7A1at\ ihn eci mey seeiiieu iu euuiciji cu?cwj; tuw building, and it is considered almost certain that some of the terrorized occupants were overcome by the smoke before reaching the windows. CRIBB EXPIATES CRIME. Coffee County, Georgia, Murderer, Hanged in Douglas Jail. In the jail at Douglas, Ga., Friday, at 1:40 o'clock Lee Cribb was hanged. His neck was broken and death was instantaneous. The crime for which he suffered was unprovoked and with/out shadow I of excuse. Becoming offended because his wife left him, he declared his purpose of leaving Nicholls, but that he intended leaving a record that would cause him to be remembered. In furtherance of this purpose^ he loaded himself with whisky and his pistol with missiles. The first place ? - J TflftAn 'o ctflPO Wprd he I lCaciiUU new x o uwwa v* ?? v commenced shooting at Teston and I at Courson, his father in law. They managed to escape unhurt. The marshal, attracted by the firing was not so fortunate. After killing the marshal Cribb next opened fire upon a little boy, Emmet White, driving in on a load of wood. The boy fell i'rom the wagon at the first fire, and though he oc?s?d Cribb not to shoot again, his petition fell upon deaf ears. After killing White, Cribb proceeded along the street with eveiV one getting out of his way, until he met a man with a Winchester rifle, with a full magazine. Forcing the man to give him the^' gun, he went to the depot, opened fire upon the engineer and fireman of a train, wounding the latter and compelling the former to pull out. As he + V? ^ aOT* Vl o aotyia tn IU1 iitru JLl \JLL1 C XI ^ UW \^ujlUV> 4.M.V.W vw face with Mr. Hart and attempted *o shoot him. Before he could do so he himself was shot and fell. The wound, however, was slight, the gun. ! being loaded with small shot. As soon as he fell he was seized and hurried to Douglas and placed' in jail to prevent being lynched. He was tried last spring, convicted and sentenced to hang in May, but by the efforts of his counsel his head has been kept out of the noose until now. FOR ALLEGED LAND FRAUDS i Wealthy San Francisco Real Estate Man is Arrested at Washington. John A. Benson, a wealthy San ! Francisco real estate operator, chargi ed by the interior department with being the head of allege^ land frauds extending over a dozen western states and territories, was arrested Friday on a charge of bribery at the Winfield hotel in Washington by SeA r. * T> ^ j cret service umcer juuu a. duiuo. i CHINESE TREATY RATIFIED. j Convention "for* the Extension of Com. mercia! Relations" Finally Approved. The senate in executive session rati! tied the treaty "ror the extension ol the commercial relations" between the United States and China, and then removed the injunction of secrecy. No opposition was manifested by any senator to the treaty, though Mr j Nelson, republican, of Minnesota, crit1 ! icised the convention as making insufj ficienf provision for the trade of the United States. 1 REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE. i ! Of Georgia State Will Hold Meeting in Atlanta December 31. * i A meeting ot the Georgia republican I state committee has been called foi; rj December 31, at the capitol, in AtrJ lanta. The object of the meeting is s ! to appoint a time and place for the rer j publican state convention, whlcu will be held some time in the latter part j of January or the,first of February, j and which will elect delegates to the j national republican convention. FRIGHTFUL WRECK Of Fast Flyer on the 'Frisco System in Kansas, EiGHT LIVES SNUFFED OUT In Addition to Those Killed, Thirtytwo People Were Injured, Some of Whom Will Die?An Open Switch the Cause. The Meteor, the fast train on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad, which left Fore Worth, Texas, Sunday afternoon for Kansas City, was wrecked at Godfrey. 15 miles south of Fort Scott, Kansas, Monday morning. The train ran into a switch and 3ll except the sleeper was derailed and turned over. Eight persons were killed and over thirty injured. When the train reached Godfrey it was behind and running at full speed to make up time. The crow of a freignt train that had preceded the Mdteor left the switch open, and the passenegr train jumped the track and rolled down a slight embankment. All save the sleeper turned over and and so fast was the train running that the engine and forward baggage car went nearly 60 feet off the roadbed before it stopped. The sleeper remained upright and none of the passengers in this car were injured. The baggage car was completely wrecked and the smoker was badly damaged. Five of those *kill=d were in the forward end cf the smoker and four of them were killed instantly. A news agent, who was badly mangled, died on the relief train that carried the dead to Fort Scott. Enginoej B. A. DeWees, of Fort Scott; Conductor Roy, of Topeka, and Fireman Bishard. of Fort Scott, were all instantly killed, and Express Messenger* John Bell, of Kansas City, was seriously injured. Others of the crew and almost every passenger on the entire train, excent those in the sleeper, who escaped with a severs shake-up, were injured, some of them seriously. It was still dark when the wreck occurred, and the utmost confusioh followed. It was somo time before those of the crew who had escaped were able, with Ahe passengers who were unhurt, to aid the injured. A wrecking crew carrying several physicians did not leave Fort Scott for tho scene until several hours after the wreck occurred, and it was eleven o'clock before the dead and injured were removed to Fort Scott The following were killed: George Hoyt, conductor; R. A. DeWees, engineer; Theodore Bishard, fireman; James H. Twyman, Asa Moreland, Lon Carbin, Joe Carbin, John Brubaker, one unidentified man, whose body was thrown sixty feet into a cornfield. Fatally injured: Sheridan Kanable, B F. Garroway. Thirty-one others were more or less seriously hurt. Most of the injured were badly burned, as well as being maimed. The responsibility of the wreck is laid at the door of a braneman of the freight crew who failed to flag the passenger train. He has disappeared. In the crash, the baggage car telescoped the engine and landed in a cornfield, while the smoker and two chair cars were piled in a mass on ton of the engine. Seven Hurt in this Wreck. The southwestern limited express No. 1, on the Alabama Great Southern division of the Queen and Crescent route, running three hours late on account of the heavy holiday travel, collided head on with a freight near Cottondale, Ala., forty miles southwest of Birmingham at 3:30 o'clock Monday morning. Seven people were badly injured. Bank Teller Given Seven Years. James M. Edge, the bank teller, whc embezzled about $110,000 of the funds I of the First National bank ot Paterson { N. J., has been sentenced to imprison ! ment for seven years. GAYNOR PAYS BONDSMEN. Alleged "Pal" of Carter Makes Gooc the Sum of $40,000. vjoionei jonn r. uaynor, woo net | to Quebec to escape trial in connoo i tion with the Savannah harbor con i J tract scandal and left his bondsmcr : in the lurch for $40,000, is reported 1c | have made good the loss to Willian B. Kirk. The latter visited Gaynor at Quebec recently and on returning to Syracuse N. Y.. called a conference of the Gay nor family. Members of the latiei then journeyed to Canada and report; j of reimbursement followed. TWO DEAD; ONE IN JAIL. 1 Result of Shooting Affray at Dance ir ' Paulding County, Georgia. As a result of a shooting affray be | tween the Sliipps and the Cantrells a a dance given at the home of Johi Brooks, in the eastern part of Pauld ing county, Ga., Will Shipp and Clar ence Cantrell, who started the gui | play, are dead, and Will Cantrell. wh< , is charged with shooting Will Shipji is under arrest. ? REYES IS DISCONSOLATE.! Colombia's Special Envoy to Washingj ten and President-Elect Eelieves Conflict with U. S. Inevitable. I I | I A Washington dispatch says: Gen- j eral Reyes, the special envoy from Colombia, who seems to be the presi; dent-elect cf his country,-has confided ! lo friends in the diplomatic corps i : that he believes war between this i country and Coicmbia is practically ;ui evitablc. General Reyes says that the 1 war feeling in his country, as revealed j by his advices from Bogota, is so : strong that he fears- he will oe una Die to stem the tide. He is bending all his energies in that direction. In the hope that present heated condition of Colombian blood will cool if given time, General Reyes is delaying the main purppse of his- mission, which is to present this government with a note defining Colombia's protest against what he considers the perversion by the United States of the pro; visions of the treaty of 184G under | which we undertook a guardianship I over the isthmus. On the pretext that : he desires to present that note to Secretary Hay in person and cannot do so now because of Secretary Hay's illness, he has sent the Colombian auj thorities word that nothing can be | done until after the holidays. There ! is every reason to believe that the ! note which he and Wayne MacVeagh i have drafted was completed several j days ago, but General Reyes, who, | more than any other Colombian, real| izes the disasters which must befall ; his country in case 01 war with the : United States, is holding the matter I in abeyance in the hope that the inevj itable failure of his mission may not I be realized until after something ' else has turned up to divert the attenj tion of the Colombian public. His greatest hope, the only hope lie j has had since reaching Washington, j was tnat he might save something to Colombians out of the wreck of her I hopes. A good many republican senators seem to take the same view as GenI eral Reyes as to the inevitability of j war, but, of course, they see no danj ger, actual or political, in such a con! flict. While Secretary Moody has sent warnings to the naval commanders on both sides of the isthmus to be exceedingly careful and permit nothing j done that can precipitate a conflict, j there can be no question that most of | the naval officers are eager for a | scrap. The same is true of the general | staff of the army. Europe Wants no War. Diplomatic pressure will be brought to bear upon Colombia by several European powers to prevent war be| tween that country and the United | States. The first step in tnis direcI tion already has been taken by several I f V..V-. f I, rtiw Jiux ci511 11111/11511 LUCU sentatives in Washington, wno have informed General ReRyes of the futility of any attempt by Colombians to retake Panama, declaring that it will result only in precipitating the Bogota government into war with the United j States, and have said to him that tiie I result of such a catastrophe Colombia j herself must realize. If this is not sufficient the representatives of thece j countries at Bogota will be instructed j to inform President Marroquin that | Colombia can expect no sympathy [ from the European powers in any ' j move she may make on Panama, j which would inevitably involve her in war with the United States. FIVE YEARS FOR TAYLOR. , ! I ; Assailant of Congressman Lamar Con! victed in Florida Court. At Tallahassee, Fla., Walter L. Taylor, after being acquitted on four in j dictments charging him with assault r j on Congressman Lamar, was finally i convicted on the charge of assault | with intent to murder. Judge Malone i sentenced him . to five years in the , state prison. Soon after Mr. Lamar, then attorney ; general, was nominated fcr congress. Taylor accused him of having said j that he stuffed the ballot box in the i primary in Leon county and presented j a pistol, demanding a written retracI tion. >! Lamar took the pistol from him and ; ! gave it to Taylor's uncle, who return,! ed it to him, whereupon Taylor again drew it on Lamar and compelled him ; to sign the retraction. HAY COMING SOUTH. i I I ! Secretary Slated for a Visit to Thornasvill?, Ga., to Recuperate. | A Washington special says: Secre! tary of State Hay will probably run ' | down to Georgia for a rest immediate - ly after the 1st of January. He has i ! been confined o home by a very stub> | born cold for some days, and is coni i sidering the advisability of a short ! rr?t aw-av from the scene cf his la ; j bcrs. If hs leaves Washington he , j will go to Thomasville, where he will . i be tho guest of Colonel Oliver Payne, r j at the beautifui Payne heme on the 5 outskirts of Georgia's famous winter resort. BRYAN CALLS ON NICHOLAS. t Nebraskan Hob-Nobs Briefly Wilf Ruler of All the Russias. A St Petersburg dispatch says: Wil 1 i liam Jennings Bryan was received ir ! j audience by Czar Nicholas at nocr .! Monday The audience, whio-u Ins tec .! for fifteen minutes was arranged al 2 | most on the spur of the moment hy I Ambassador McCormick, who unti , j Sunday, was uncertain as to the time j of Mr. Bryan's arrival. I I | THE NEWS OF A WEEK | | IN SOUTH rA10LINA.| 5*4.++++4"!"**^ Greenville Man Dies. i Fred \V. Symmes, secretary and j treasurer of tlie F. W. Poe Manufac- i I turing Co., died at Greenville a few days ago of acute pneumonia. * * * South Carolna College Indignant. Indignation has be<m caused in Co- I lumbia by the report from Baton! Rouge that the South Carolina college | was blacklisted by tne southern In- j ter-Collegiate Athletic Association. This collego voluntarily withdrev/ j from tho association and claims as ; ' /-vf V* Ai* tonm ! vjicau Litic.3 a.a auj uiu^i itaw. *uv contention was over the playing of a student who matriculated one year ago, but failed to attend college until this fail on account of typhoid fever. * * a Narrowly Escaped Flames. A six-room cottage at Camden was j j destroyed by fire one morning recent- | ly, and C. P. Rossignal and family who ' j were occupying the house, barely had j time to escape from the burning build-; ing, and lest practically all of their household furnituro and personal ef-1 feet, on which no inurance was carried. There are suspicions that the fire was incendiary in its origin, but as yet nothing positive has developed. * * Negro Shoots Contractor. I Contractor W. A. Harrison, while superintending the construction of a building near the Charleston navy j yard, was shot by a negro named Fran- ' cis Middieton. alias "M^tskin." and I perhaps mortally wounded. The negro | made his escape. Middieton, it is said, was interfering with Harrison's workmen, and when an attempt was made to eject him from I the premises he drew a pistol and ! shot the contractor in the right side. * * Dispensary a Veritable Mint. The figures from the report of Chairman L. J. Williams, of the board of directors of the state dispensary, for the fiscal year a90^, show that the business done amounted to the enormous sum of $2,817,998.77. Following arc comparative figures. 1903, gross sales, $2,817,998.77; 1902, gross figures, $2,406,213.27; increase, $411,785.27. The net profits to towns and counties for 1903, was $512,216.35 and the net profits for the school fund for 1903 was $126,266. increase of net profits "in 1903 over 1902, is $71,584. * Honors His Ancient Foe. A special from Rochester, N. Y., says: Among the gifts received oy Colonel and Mrs. James P. Fester, of Geneva, who celebrated their golden wedding a few days ago. was a gold saber sent by Colonel James Armstrong, erf Charleston, S. C., an ex-conteaerate officer, now editor of The j News and Courier. The two men j nn Annnoit,. oi/loc Hurincr lUgUL UU upi^v/oilv giuvu VUV ( civil war and their regiments were pit-1 ted against each other, but after the war a friendship sprung up between them which has continued for many years. In the letter accompanyiing tip gift Colonel Armstrong said: "I send you a gold saber, suggestive of your gallant services as a federal officer, of the golden opinions you have won from commanders and comrades and form former foes?now your | devout and admiring friends." ? * Tourist Hotel for Charleston. A Charleston news item states that a tourist hotel will be erected on East Battery by a party of New Tork capitalists at a cost of $400,000. The plans have already been drav/n and the site inspected by the party interested in the enterprise, who propose to i make It one or tne most eiegant winter j hotels in the entire south. The New Yorkers who are at the i head of the hotel are Colonel John C. j Calhoun and Captain E. R. Mitchell, of ; the Construction Company ot America, j and F. P. Warren, president of the | American Realty Co. They arrived ! in the city a few days ago from New i York, accompanied by Architect BradI ford L. Gilbert, who designed the build! ings for the Charleston exposition, j Colonel Calhoun met with a number j of business men of Charleston at the ! People's National bank, and it was ari ranged that if the business men of I Charleston would subscribe $150,000 I of the capital stock the remaining '1 $250,000 would be subscnoed in New j York. Every encouragement was givi en the proposed hotel by the citizens j of Charleston. ! * Atlanta Paper Roasts Charleston. A recent issue ct ine Aiiania joui|; nal contained the following: J Last week a dead negro was shin| ; ped into Atlanta to be buried at the ;; expense of the city. Today a negro by the name of Clarence LeRoy Knowoll. stone hVnd, arrived from Charleston, S. C., from which point he had been furnished a pass to Atlanta by the city authorities there. The no1 gro was told in Charleston that Atlan; ta had a blind asylum and would be glad to take care of him the rest of 1 his days. 1 j Mayor Howell has instructed City ' Warden Evans to purchase the negro ' j a return ticket to Charleston. He ap*; predated the kindness of the hospLa' 1 ble city of Charleston in sending At; lanta a blind negro for a Christmas present, but feels that it is entirely too expensive a gilt for the city to accept. He therefore sends the unfor tunate negro, whom Charleston is trying to get rid of, back to the town from which he came. Atlanta has enough tc do to take *, I care of her own halt and maimed and blind, says Mayor Howell. Sho has no asylum for the blind, and if she did have, it would not be open to Charleston negroes. Mayor Howell wishes to K also announce that enough negroes die in Atlanta to Till up her cemeteries without neighboring towns shipping in their dead to he buried here at the expenso of the municipality. POLICE DRIVE "DEAD" WAGON. Strilr* a+ Chiranft Manv DOSO- . late Features of Funerals. No sign 01 i ace had entered into the livery drivers' strike at Chicago Monday when the fourth day of the i tie-up of hearses and carriages came with a renewal of the desolate funer- * als and the prospect that police may be put on the "plain wagons' now used for carrying the dead. Ambulances have come under the ban of the striking pickets, according to reports from undertakers and livery men, who declare tnat police wfll be necessary to man the conveyances of the sick as well as those of the dead. i | A funeral. party of over a dozen Vs people from the northwest arrived in Chicago M&nday morning, and after tho body of the decedent had been taf \ v' '+ ken from the union depot in a "dead" wagon, pickets stopped a bus in which the mourners were being transferred * to the Dearborn station. It was explained to the pickets that the body ' % was being taken south an" The tram 7 connections had to be made, but they j refused to allow the bus to proceed . ; until a union business agent arrived. % He heard the details and then declared that the mourners should proceed in the bus without interference. Plans had been made by John Car- t ran to have a coffin containing the body of his v/ife carried on the shoulders of six pallbearers trom his home to St. Patrick's church, and from the latter place to a railroad station, but owing to the slippery condition of the - sidewalks, he abandoned tne idea. The body was removed in a "dead" wagon. Over 100 mourners, including children and babies carried in arms, formed in a procession and followed t?e undertaker's wagon in tne street. J. R. .Wadsworth, secretary, and Charles Stevens, business agent of the 0 Liverymen's Union, w?re summoned %. before Chief O'Neill Monday night and told in decidedly plain language that any differences the union might hare would have to bo settled away from the houses of mourning. "This picketing of the homos from which funerals are being held is be- . yond the toleration of a civilize! community," said Chief OTseil. "Your zeal has carried you beyond the pale of endurance and sucn an unheard-of thing a.s carrying labor troubles to the . houses of the dead will not be allowed. Under no circumstances will I permit . ! picketing of any kind around a house | where a funeral is to proceed. | "Law or no law, picketing of every I kind around these houses will have to I S'LOU. x Will n?:'.c lAljr k- IJL cuiv _o rt 11*4 the courts on the question, if my conduct is questioned by any court.' COLOMBIANS ON PANAMA SOIL. Camp of "Enemy'' is Discovered on Island of Los Pinos. Infomaticn was received at Colon .Monday that about one hundred Colombian troops have landed at the Island of Pines, northwest of Cape Tibnron, which is situated at the western entrance of the gulf of Darien. The j island of Pine3 is In Panama territory and practically the only island along that coast which is wooded, peaked ; with mountains and also well watered, thus offering every facility for camp: ing and being used as a base of observation. , ,' ' < It is significant in this connection that the United Stalles auxiliary cruiser Mayflower left Colon immediately, bound in the direction of the Island of Pines to obtain confirmation j cf the report. The United States gun; boat Bancroft is stiiT on that coast, in . I Ills? VlUlIiJljr \JL nurnuic uv; o. Rear Admiral Coghlan has transfer! red his flag to the U. S. auxiliary i cruiser Prairie. Thirty-five of the I Prairie's marines were landed at Colon Monday and took a train for BasObispo station, near Emperador. ^They will occupy the canal company's I houses at Bas-Obispo. , I Official # confirmation has reached ! Washington of the landing of Colombian troops on the Island of Los Pinos, which lies close to the coast of Panama. They have taken up a psition ; on this island with the intention of' | making paths through the jungles. King Alfonso to Wed/Cousin. According to a Spanish newspaper, a project is on foot for the marriage of King Alfonso to his cousin, the Princess Maria del Pilar, of Bavaria. i r _ 10 /vP , aiiii is 10 jcraia ui age. DANIEL SIDES WITH HOAR. j ; Virginia Senator Attacks Policy of President Anent Panama Affair. The relationship of the United , States to the new republic of Panama j continued to be the? leading theme ; in the senate Friday, but the discussion was confined to one senator, Mr. Daniel, of Virginia. He advocated the j acceptance of Mr. Hoar's resolution i calling upon the president for more I information as to the revolution in ' Panama.