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BOERS BEIT BFiIiiF.ES I Jameson's Invasion of the Transvaal Quickly Arrested. , L COMPELLED TO SURRENDER. Bp Sbc English Invaders Were Surrounded B bj a Large Force of Burgliers and After jft * Fierce Fight Were Defeated?GerH many Sympathizes With the Sturdy South African Kepubiic. ft A great sensation has been causcd throughout the world, but espeoially in Europe, by the difficulties culminating in a pitched battle, that have arisen in the Transvaal. South Africa, between the Boers and the Uitlandets,or Aliens, because of the large interests of Europeans engaged in the gold mines of the Republic. Dr. Jameson, the* administrator of the British South Africa Company, led seven hundred armed men, with Maxim and other guns, into the Transvaal to assist the Uitlanders, or foreign residents of that Republic, to enforce their demands that they be granted eqnal polical rights with the Boers. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, ordered the ! Immediate return of this foray to British j territory. Dr. Jameson's invasion was in response to a long appeal from the Uitland- j <- ers. A dispatoh received at the British Foreign j umce in Jjonaon nnnouuuos mai uu ment took place between Dr. Jameson's force ' and the Boers, and that the former was compelled to surrender. It wa3 sent by Sir : Jacobus A. de Wet, the British Agent at Pre- ! toria, the capital of the .south African Bepublic. The following dispatch wa3 received from Sir Heroules Robinson, Governor of Cape 1 Colony: "A messenger overtook Dr. Jameson ten miles the other side of the Elans River. The messenger brought back a verbal message that the dispatches received by Dr. Jameson would be attended to. The force was saddling up, and at once proceeded eastward. r*_ 4-1*v ci ??nH MJ?. tfauioouu luioiwwivu uuv* both my messages." The messenger referred to by Sir Hercuies Robinson was one who was sent to Dr. Jameson with orders instructing the latter to return to British territory and to abandon his progressive movement against the Boers. The Cape Times has a dispatch from Pretoria saying that the latest news from Krugexsdorf was to the effect that there had been fighting between the Boers and the force ied by Dr. Jameson, and that the latter had suffered heavily. The British agent at Pretoria telegraphed that he had seen General Joubert, Commanding General of the Boer forces, who reported that Dr. Jameson had been driven from several positions. Twenty-two burghers were wounded, and twenty-three , prisoners were taken. At that time no foree had moved out of Johannesburg to ' assist Dr. Jameson. A later dispatch from Pretoria says that Dr. Jameson -was surrounded by a large foree of Boers, near Krugersdorf, and was obliged to surrender. The Bight Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the British Colonies, sent a despatch to Governor Robinson, saying: "1 regret that Dr. Jameson's disobedience has led to a deplorable loss of Hfe. Do your best to secure generous treatment of the prisoners and the wounded." . < Editor Hess, of the 8outh Africa Critic, announced .that he hnd a cable despatoh referring to the recent events at Johannes- i o<nn? T>r. Jameson's defeat, and I of such a gravo nature that he' declines to publish It 'until confirmed from other sources. Mr. Hess has had a long experience in the Transvaal, and his previous news regarding the present crisis in affairs there has all been accurate. Daring the course of an interview he was quoted as saying: "If Johannesberg is the same towr. I know, the .'city has risen and has either succeeded or iaiied in an attempt to liberate Dr. Jameson. I am satisfied that all the foreigners there. Including the Americans, would help the JtogHsh. There are practically no Boers at Johannesberg. except tho armed burghers who are parading the streets." The Evening Standard said it was rumored that Dr. Jameson was shot after a. drumhead court-mtu-Ual. Indignation in Germany. The statement that Germany had officially Inquired of Great Britain what steps the latter Government intended to take iu regard to the invasion of the ^Transvaal by the British South Africa Company is confirmed. A ? ^rt-11" ! *??* fKu TTmnrtrnr drauaiuu UULU UQIUU OU;J kuiu kuv I has'Beat the following cable despatch to Paul j Krager, Presideat of the South Africaa Republic: ''I express my siucere congratulations that, supported by your people, and without appealing for help to friendly Powers, you have succeeded by your energetic action gainst tbe armed bands which invaded your eountry as disturbers of the peace, and have thus been enabled to restore peace and to safeguard the independence of your country against attacks from outside.1' Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett, member of the British Parliament, announces that he has received information that German sailors have landed at Delagoa Bay. Calls were issued in Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin for mass meetings to express public sympathy with the Boers, and similar meetings are being organized in other places. v Ex-Governor Peters ofTnrs Dr. Leyds, the i , Secretary of Staio of the Transvaal, who Is ^ now in Berlin, ten thousand volunteers. Several ambassadors at Berlin Have congratulated Dr. Leyds ou the Boer victory. The newspapers demand that Dr. Jameson shall be bangeo. Hamburg offers to subscribe 10 ',000 for the wouudtid Boers. Subscriptions are being raised iD Germany on b9half 6f t\e Boere wounded in tue en(easement with Dr. Jameson's, force at Xruarersdor*. The sum of S25.00J has already been collected. ' , Attitude of European Pa:>er*. The London Standard says that Emperor Willian's message is a strikingly unfriendly act. It raises the presumption that hu wishes to either challenge or destroy Britiaa suzerainty in the Transvaal. Great Britain cannot and will not tolerate the slightest interference between the Transvaal and herself. The paper dilates upon German hostility to Great Britain everywhere. The London Chronicle says: "The Emperor's message comes near being an offer of armed assistance." Tne London Times ajs: "The Emperor's message is of very grave Import. Ail the available evidence how3 that he intended to give unqualified recognition to the Transvaal as an independent State." The London Morni ins Post draws the deduction from Emperor William's telegram that His Majesty cousiders a war with Great Britain within the ltmits of possibilitv. and that he has settled the preliminaries with a view [ thereto. The Post advises Great Britain to concentrate a fleet Dy recaiung toe mediterranean squadron now in the Levant to join the Channel squadrou. The Paris press are jubilant over the dei feat of Dr. Jameson and his followers by the Boers near Johannesburg. The Rappofsays that Germany, France and Russia are in accord, anil asks what England will do in the circumstances. "Having the United 8tates already on her hands." the paper asks, "will she dare to defy the military Powers of EuropeV" Tho L&nternt says: "Great Britain's contention ?hat foreign Powers have no right to intervune in i tbe Trmsva.il is neither more nor less than the application of the Monroe doctrine, pur? And simple, to her own advantage." Tho German papers almost without exception favor the Boers and the attitude ol their fiUipei Vi I SOUTH AFRICA'S CRISIS. 4 The Troubles tn the TransvaallJetween the Boers and the Aliens. The South African Republic, also known as the Transvaal, was originally formed by part of the Boers, who left the Cape Colony lor Natal, but quitted that colony on its annexation to the British Crown. In 1852 the independence of the Transvaal was reoognized. The legislative power of the State is now vested in a first and second Tolksraaden, of twenty-four members each. To the first Ohamber only those born in the colony can be eleote<1, while aliens who are naturalized and own property in the State con be ! t elected to the second Chamber, whose func tioas are chiefly for local affairs, however The President of the Republic is Paul P Krucer. kno<vn exclusively among th< Boers as Oom Paul, or Uncle Paul, and he i.< occupyiug his position now for the thirc term. He is nearly eighty years of age, ha carried the rousket'almost continuously, an< through many troublous seasons, agains English aggressions. Of ft rugged exterior untutored as regards education, he ha shown a rapacity tor government that hai been a match for the most finished diplo mac.v and statecraft. On the one hand, hi has had to deal with the Boers, primitive and unpropresaive; on the other hand, i larger population of intelligent and speculat ing English, who represent the mining in terests, and are for ousting old condition; completely and establishing a new state o things to suit their own interests. It wa; for the conservation of the interest of the mining class that President Eruge induced the first Volksraad to establish i second Chamber to which they could sen* their representatives, the Volksraad prope having, however, the power of veto. Bat blood has long existed between the conser vative Boers and the English. The latte have not forgotten the rebellion of the Boer< in 1890, when they drove out their hereditary foes, injBicting at Majuba Hill one of the mos disastrous defeats recorded in England's an NEW DESTROYER FOR UNCLE SAM. A Torpedo Boat That Can Move Undo Water at Will. In the ship yards of the Columbia Iron Works, at Baltimore, Md.,is an engine ofde 3truction which is expected to be more for mldable in navy warfare than England': greatest battleship. It is a submarine tor pedo boat, whloh is being constructed unde contract for the United States Governmen by the John P. Holland Torpedo Boat Com pany. At first it was designed to have this boa ready for launching early in April next, bu owing to the Venezuelan issue orders hav< been given, it is said, to finish the vessol a rapidly as possible. If the vessel performs all that is promisee 3he will accomplish fully seventy-five pe cent, more than any submarine vessel eve built. Her dimensions will be: Length, 8< feet; diameter at maximum width, 11 feet displacement?light, or floating on the sur face?118.5 tons; with superstructure awash or with only her turret showing, 137.84 tons totally submerged, 138.5 tons. The vessel i, expected to have a reserve buoyancy, or ten denoy to rise, of 66-100 tons when awash, an< 875 pounds when lying still under water. Wben the boat is running at full speed oi the surface she must reach n depth of twenty feet within one minute after the order i givon to dive. Automatic arrangement must be placed so as to kenp the vessel fron sinking below a required depth. There are, besides, conditions regarding too storage 01 ammunition; ior sioonu^j < fixed course beneath the waves; for supply ing air to the orew; for escape of the ere? in event of serious damage to the hull, am for a hundred other details. The cost must not exceed $150,000, and th inventor exneots to complete her for' lea than $140,000. Her armament, which will consist of auto mobile torpedoes and two expulsion at tubes, with the plant necessary to operat them, will be supplied by the Government The expulsion tubes, eight inches in diame ter, fired by compressed air, will send a 150 pound projectile 500 feet. In the war be tween Japan and China, it is reported, ante mobile torpedoes costing 68000 damagei Chinese war vessels to the amount ot $4, 000,000. HEW NATAL DESTEOTEB. When completed the new destroyer wil outwardly be a cigar-shaped steel shell, wit! a small turret and a smokestaok just* for ward of the centre. Eaoh of the ends will b covered with tips of solid manganese bronz K foot R <nohA9 In lftncth. Triple'expansion engines propel - twii screws, and steam will be used entire!; when the vessel is running on the surface o when awash. In submerged trips electricit; from storage batteries will form the motiv power. The vessel will not depend entirely on th introduction of water to descend. .She i provided with vertical screws for sinkin, perpendicularly when she is at rest. Whei steaming at full speed she can dive oblique ly beneath the waves, by means of her hori zontal rudders, which can be plaoed at an desired angle in a few seconds. Between the smokestack and the turret i a small water-tight tube, which carries a tel escopio camera luolda. through which th captain can note everything on the surfac for miles around his vessel, while the era! herself is three feet under water. KILLED BY FIREWORKS. Many Lives Lost in a Terrific Explosion a St. Loais, Mo. A series of terrific explosions laid wast the vicinity of Second and Vine streets, 31 Louis, Mo., where printing houses and allie trades are numerous. On the day after th tragedy five persons were known to hav been kiiled and over a score of men and wc men injured. s Nineteen persons were als missing. The cause of the fire and tho consequen holocaust was unquestionably the firework in Grubbs's commission house. One of th Grubks's employes gives it as his theory tha some one threw a lighted cigar into the"base ment by accident, igniting the heavy caono * TT?. --- * ..AaU a# iW< ifirt ft n CraCKPre. n? uuvo iuai cnuu ui iucdo oraokers contained a quarter of a pound o dynamite. Two bodies were taken out of th? Ancho Peanut Company Building. No. 809 Nort Seoond street. The bodies of W. S. Williams Charles Erickson and two others were know to be under the debris. This makes elevei killed. Many printers who worked in the bloc! were journeymen and had no families, i may be a long time before they are raissec and until then it cannot be Known if the were killed. The work of removing the de bris is very slow. Maelitnte Kills a Footpad. Justice Jarvis Blume was passing undei neath the Alley "L" structure at Thirteent street. Chicago. 111., at 1.30 o'clock a. m with his daughter May, when two maske men attacked him. One threw his arm about Mr. Blume's neck and tried to Strang! him. The other made an attempt to find hi pocketbook. Justice Blume drew his re volver and fired without an instant's wan ing. One man uttered a cry and tried t run. He went a few steps and fell. Befor the police arrived he was dead. The Labor "World. The scenic painters of New York City hav formed a union. The Glass Workers' National organization intend to form a federation. Grass mowars in cemeteries near Nei York City are paid $1.25 per day. The mill masters of Lowell. Mass., ar trying weekly payments as a novelty am like it better than the old way. Eugene V. Debs has resigned his membei ship in the Brotherhood of Loeomotiv Engineers, which society first made bin prominent. The United Brothorhood of Carpenters an Joiners chartered twenty-nine new locr unions, with 1756 members, during the la; four months. The American Federation of Labor pr< poses to make a special descent on th South, which it declares is its b?st field c operation?, Independent Bakers' Union 6, New Yor City, has notified the factory inspectoi about a baker who compels his men to wor 108 hours a week. Frederick Weber, a boss baker, of Ne York City, has been arrested for allowing journeyman to work more than sixty hours week, contrary to law. By a genera! vote of its members the Inte: national Furniture Workers' Union has bee amalgamated with the Machine Wool Worl ers' International Union. The coke companies of the Connellsvil! district of Pennsylvania have announced a advance of from ten to fifteen per ceot. 1 wages for all grades of labor. i/V V1 /' ' jr*. l. < < CREENHALCE INAUGURATED. Beginning of the Second Term of the Massachusetts Executive. 1 Governor Greenhalge, of Massachusetts, ' was inaugurated for his second term at Bos| ton. Mrs. Greenhalge and the wives and friends of the State offioials assembled in the s Pardon Committee's room, adjoining the 3 Executive Chamber. Colonel Henry A. - Thomas arrived at the State House shortly 3 before 11 o'olock with the Governor. i The House assembled in joint convention i shortly before noon, and a joint committee ; i r t GOVEEJfOB OBEEXHALOZ. was appointed to inform the Governor-elect t and Lieutenant-Governor-elect that they t were in session. After the announcement of a the committee, Chief Justice Field and Asso3 date Justices Allen, Holmes, Ksowlton, Northrop and Barker, of the Supreme Oourt, I entered the chamber, preceded by 8heriff r O'Brien, and followed by Chief Justice r Mason and Associate Justices Blodgett, ) Hammond, Bond, Bichordson and Goskill, of the Superior Court The Sergeant-at Arms then announced Frederick T. Green, halge, Governor-elect, and Boger Wolcott, ; Lieutenant-Governor-elect, who entered, ac3 companied by the members of the Governor's - staff in full uniform. 1 The oath of office was administered to Governor Greenhaige and Lieutenant-Govi 'ernor Wolcott by President Lawrence of the jr Senate, and after the proclamation had been s made by Secretary of 8tate Olln, Governor s Greenhaige delivered his Inaugural address, l 5 i SIX LIVES LOST. % I J. H. Hibbard, His Wife, Two Children and ^ Two Nieces Killed In an Explosion. Six lives were lost in a mysterious Are at a half-past 4 o'clock a. m. in the residence of 3 John E. Hibbard, in Columbus, Ohio. The dead are John EL Hibbard and his r wife, Dorothy and All on Hibbard, their ohll9 dren, three and Ave years old respectively, and Mrs. Charles Lee and Miss Fay Hibbard, h of Barnesville, Ohio. The latter'were nieces I. of Mr. Hibbard, and were spending the holi? days with the Hibbard family. - The house was heated with natural gas by i means of a furnace. The fire probably ro suited from an explosion of gas. It is thought the gas in the furnace, which was - burning low.'flickered out, and then gradually filled the house and ignited from a burn-* ing gas jet. There does not seem to have been much explosive force, however, as the walls are not shattered in the least Several plumbers have examined the house, and say f the fire did not result from a natural gas ex. plosion. " TTJUU J ..ILkn.nn hncinooQ Air. ntuuaru was n nwi-uiunii man, and was the Sooretary and Manager of - the Central Ohio Natural Gas and Fael ComII pany, which controls the natural pros supply, h Mrs. Lee was the wife of Charles Lee, editor - of the Barnesville (Ohio) Enterprise. They e- were married two years ago. She leaves a e baby six months old, which she did not bring to Columbus with her. Mr. Lee ari rived there at noon. The unfortunate family y wan extensively related througSout Ohio. r Y THE TREASURY STATEMENT, e <1 Deficit or S11S,373,700 for the First Six 0 Months of the Fiscal Year. S The United States Treasury official stnte1 ment of receipts and expenditures shows that _ the receipts for December wore 526,288,937, y and the expenditures $25,814,817. showing a surplus for the month of $474,620. For the 5 first six months of the fiscal year the receipts '* were $167,568,058, and the expenditures 0 $182,962,761), making the deflcit $15,373,709. ,e As compared with the last fiscal year at the 1 same period, customs receipts show an increase of $13,000,' 00 and internal revenue receipts a decrease of $6,000,000. Expenditures show a deorease for the samo period of $4,000,000, of which $1,000,000 is in pensions, t and $3,000,000 in navy establishment. Tho war expenditures have" increased $1,000,000 and the interest account nearly $3,000,000, e while the civil expenditures have decreasoa ^ $5,000,000. Other items show slight changes, ^ making up the difference. e Dahoiuej'nus in a Rage. 6 The Dahomeyans in the village on the 0 Midway, at the Atlanta (Ga.) Exposition, became enraged and attacked Major Pene, the Concessionnaire. There were fifty sav5 ages and only six whites in the enclosure. e Mrs. Pene rushed to her husband's assistlt ance, struck the chief of the village in the !* face, and her husband drow a pistol. One of 11 the whites rushed to the gate and gave an c alarm. Police ran in with drawn pistojs and '* drove the Dahomoyaas back and quiet was restored. ir . h National Debt Decreased. ^ The debt statement just issued shows a net 1 decrease in the public debt, Jess cash in the United States Tre;isury. nurintj December, k 1895. of ?1,179,349.80. Tho balances of the it several classes of debt at the close of busiI. ness December 31 were: Interest bearing V debt. $747,361,960; debt on which interest has ceased sinco maturity, $1,674,510.26; debt bearing no interest, $376,288,992.14. Total, $1,125,325,462.40. The total cash in the Treasury was $787,578,447.62. The gold reserve . whs $63,262,268, and net cash balance, $114,h 704,932.92. ,, Campos Declares Martial Law. J ? Startling advices have been received rrom o the city of Havana, Cuba, to th? effect tha Is the whole Province of Havana is up in arms y against the Government. The Government i- troops are falling back everywhere in the 0 disaffected western regions before the e triumphant rebel army. Captain-General Campos has dpolared martial law in the extreme western provinces of Cuba. A conspiracy to destroy the Government buildings q in Havana by dynamite has been disclosed and the plot of the conspirators frustrated. IS Albert W. Woodley Hanged. N Albert W. Woodley was hanged at Pittsburg, Penn. He had had five reprieves e since he was sentenced to death. Woodley 1 killed Mrs. Jennie Buchanan at her home. Allogheny City, May 9, 1894. He was ?n._ gaged to be married to the woman. The e <.'ause of the murder was never known, j Woodley always said that be was drunk when ha did the shooting. His parents reside in Brooklyn, N. Y. j Sew Woolen Mill <or Georgia. ! Application for a charier was made at )- Rome, Ga., by the Trainer Manufacturing lt' Company. The company has a capital of )f $2,000,000. It will manufacture woolen goods uua lae uoor (jimmies 01 cuuuu guuua. k :& Her Babies Burned. k At Palmyra, Ohio, while Mrs. Thomas It. Bebb was making a call her house was burned a and ner two baby boy3 cremated in the ruins, a She almost lost her life in an attempt at rescue, and has beoome insane as a result of r_ the shock. >n Big Custom House Defalcation. A report has been received from Caria|e fiena, Colombia, of a defalcation of $600,000 ,n in the Custom House at that port. 8everal n prominent offloials are said to oe implicated ia the fraud. ' .. -y/w BBBELS lEBiCE HATAMi The Insurgent Forces Within Sight of Cuba's Capital. SPANISH TROOPS DEMORALIZED. End is Fast Approaching---The Rebels Fierce Campoa's Line?Terrified Citizens Prepared to Evacuate the City? Cnban Patriots Made a Vigorous Dash ?Three Towns Destroyed by Fire. A dispatch from Havana, Cuoa, says: Unless all indications are deceiving, the end of the Cuban insurrection is approaching, and the result, it would seem, must be in favor of the insurgent armies. Maximo Gomez, Antonio Maceo and Quintin Bandera are nearing this city from three different directions. It is no longer a cry of "On to Havana!" from the Cubans. They are here, slowly but surely surrounding this Capital, after a triumphant march from the eastern end o] Santiago de Cuba, in spite of all the besl | <V' 1 ISLAND (Showing the position or: troops of Spain could do to prevent them, Step by step, Captain-General Martinez d< Campos has been driven baok before the ad' vance of the victorious army, until heri preparations are being completed onbott sides for the deofeive struggles. All three insnrgent columns have beei continuing the work of destruction, burning cane fields and plundering the houses of thi better classes as they push onward. Th< Providence Nombre de Dlas. Julia la Gia Mercedita and other plantations in th< Quines district, through which the insur gents have just passed, have been complete!] wioecl out by the torohes of the enemy. i'he utmost consternation prevails in Gov eminent circles. There Is no denying tha Havana is now to all intents and purposes invested by the insurgents. Their column! are pressing unohecked around the city one tbe military authorities seem to bavo fallei into a complete state of helplessness. At this crisis the Government officials heri are childishly blaming the different 8panlst Generals for the present state of affairs, ut terly regardless of the fact that it wai Campos's plau of campaign, the wild scat tering of his forces all over the Island, whlcl Is mainly to blame for this crisis, althougl other influences have had a great shar in the bitter humiliation of the Span iards. Incapacity has been supplomeutec by sickness and treachery. The S panlsh sol diers, In spite of all denials, have desertei in considerable numbers and have in man; instances shown sympathy with the insui gent cause. Stories are afloat here of i THE PRADO, LEADIM wholesale republican propaganda at worl among the soldiers from Spain, and it is sale that it will yet bear astonishing fruit. A later cablegram dated Havana 6tate that the rebel forces, commanded- by Gen eral Maximo Gomez, have captured aevera of the towns near the city, and the citizen | of Havana are in a state of intense excite mont and terror. Under General Gomez's di rection the insurgents made a vigorous on slaught upon the centre of General Campos' line and, after a fierce fight, thev swept th Spaniards aside, forced their way througl | the line, and are now marching triumphant!; : westward toward the Province of Pinar de [ Bio. In this province are the finest tobacc I plantations in Cuba, and these seem to b I now at the mercy of the rebels. BREWER IS CHOSEN. ' Vei ezuelan Boundary Commission Electa the JuBtlce Its President. The American Venezuelan Boundary Commission began its work at Washington bj electing Justice Brewer President. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Andrew D, I White, one of the commissioners, the transaction of any except the most formal matters was prevented. The work of the commission was confined to organization and to the adoption of two motions, the first to obtain information as tc the beat map setting forth the physical char JUSTICE ZiKEWEU. ter'stic- of the territory in dispute, am 10 second appointing a committeK to select uitablo quarters to be used as the office o .he commission. The most important matters which the commissioners were called upon to considei were those recited to them, first by Secre tary Oiney and later, niter th j adjourninenl of the commission, by the President. Jus what transpired at these conferences neithei of the officials named nor any ol the com misaiouers cared to discuss. Gcorji.i'j Gold Fover. Georgia is gattin^ the gold fev^r again. One or two old gold mines are being worked, aud three boats are drodgiug tiu sands of the Chestatee River i'or ' goJ{ they aro supposed to contain. .V;-' ! . *'', ,1 .<* . -' ;; , -^ ? '-v."V 7 t POPOLAR COLD IM : Call for Bids for $100,000,000 of United States Bonds, THEY ARE FOUR PER CENTS. i Thirty Days Allowed for Offer*?Sealed Proposals Stay Be Sent to the Secretary of the Treasury?Payments to Be Made i in Gold Coin or Gold Certificates?To Be Sold to the Highest Bidders. Secretary Carlisle, just after the stroke of midnight on the morning on which it had been predioted that negotiation with the Morgan syndicate of bankers wonld be concluded, issued a call for $100,000,003 of > bonds, as a DODular loan, to be sold to the highest bidder. The Secretary invites proposals, to be opened February 5, for one 1 hundred million dollars of four per cent. : bonis, payable thirty years after date, to bear date of February 1, 1895. Thepurchast era are to pay in gold for the bonds and act crued interest, twenty per cent, of the pur^ i 15 111" 11 ll? OF CUBA. t Havana and the other cities.) . chase price to be paid on acceptance of the 3 bid and twenty per cent at the expiration of - each ten days thereafter, or all cash, at the 3 option of the purchaser. This is the adt verti8ement: "Tbeasttby Department, 1 l "Washington, D. C., January 6, 1898. > 5 "Office of the Seobetabt. j 3 "Notice is hereby given that sealed pro) posals will be received at the office of the , Secretary of the Treasury at Washington un3 til 12 o'clock m. on Wednesday, the fifth day - of February, 1896, for the purchase ot one j hundred million dollars ($100,000,000) of United States four per cent, coupon or reg istered bonds, in denominations of fifty dolt lars ($60) and multiples o" that sum, as may 3 be desired by bidders. The right to reject 3 any'or all bids is reserved. 1 "The bonds will be dated on the 1st dav of l February, 1895, and be payable in coin thirty years after that date, and will bear in3 terest at 4 per eentum pQr annum, payable t quarterly in coin, but all coupons maturing on and before the 1st day of February, 1896. s will be detached, and purchasers will - be required to pay in United States gold coin l or gold certificates for the bonds awarded to i them, and all interest accrued theroon after i the flrat day of February, 1896, up to the - t me of application for delivery. 1 "Payments for the bonds must be made at - the Treasury of the United States at Wash1 ington, D. C., or at the United States Subr Treasuries at New York, Boston, Phiiadel - phia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Chicago, 8t. a Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made IC.?- - fG STREET IN HAVANA. z at San Francisco, with exchange on New 1 York, and all bids must state what denominations of bonds are desired, and whether s coupon or registered, and at what place they - will be paid for. ,1 "Payments may be made by installments, as 3 follows: Twenty (20) per cent, upon receipt b of notice of acceptance of bids, and twenty - (20) per cent, at the end of each ten days - thereafter; but all accepted bidders may s pay the whole amount at the date of the first e installment, and those who have paid all li installments previously maturing may pay y the whole amount of their bids at anytime si not later than the maturity of the last ino stallment. a "The bonds will be ready for delivery on or before the loth day of February. 1896. "Notice is further hereby given that if the issue and sale of an additional or different form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve shall be authorized by law before the 6th day of February, 1896, sealed proposals ciirth hftmla txrili alon hfl IMIUU V* OUt.U wwuvw ..... received lit the same time and place, and up r to the same datn and apon the same terms ' and conditions herein set forth, and such ' bids will be considered, as welt as the bids > for the four per cent, bonds herein mentioned. J. G. Carlisle. "Secretary of the Treasury.'1 I FORTY-FIVE STATES NOW. The President Signs the Proclamation Admitting; Utah. Utah was admitted to the sisterhood of States at 10:03 o'olock a. m., when President Cleveland signed the proclamation to that effect. There was no ceremony. Mr. Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber were [ alone in the Presidents office at the time, I and the signing was done with a steel stub> ' ^ J ' THE NEW FLAO. ! (Showing the exact position Utah's star will , occupy.) [ pen point affixed to a wooden penholaer. I the pen and penholder were presented to l Governor West, of Utah, who came to the r White House about the time the proclamation was signed. Output ?t Locomotives. | There was a considerable increase In the output of railway looomotive9 and freight cars in the United States during 1895 over > 1894. Last year 1109 locomotives were built. 1 :is against 695 in 1894, and 31,803 freight cars I were built, as against 17,029 in 1894. DR. JAMESON'S DEFEAT. " g Many of .Hit Men Were Killed or Wonndsd and the tteit Captarad. Governor Robinson, of Cape Colony, South n Africa, has telegraphed to Mr. Chamberlain, ^ at the Colonial Office in London, that of the force led into the Transvaal by Or. Jame* son seventy were killled. thirty wounded and five hundred taken prisoners. He ? also telegraphs that it is stated in the Cape * ' PATH. KRUOZE. K! (President of the South Africa Republic.) Town papers that Jameson, White and WilIoughby, leaders of the _ expedition, are r lodged in the Pretoria Jail. Gray and Coventry, of the British South African Company, are among the wounded. - m m All Germany Upholds Emperor'William. 0i Emperor William's act in sending a mes- w sage to President Kragar, of the South Afrl- y can Bepublio, congratulating him upon the victory of the Boers over the armed force fr led into the Transvaal ..by Dr. Jame- tl son, Administrator of the British South fc Africa Company, is hailed with enthuslam ti througuout Germany, and will add greatly ft to His Majesty's popularity as being a true <3 interpretation of the intensity of German n publio hostility toward Great Britain. The t< message of the Emperor could not have been a a very great surprise to the English tl Government, as some days prior to the publication of the message the Emperor 0 instructed Count von Hatzfeldt. the Ger- b man Ambassador . to Great Britain, 4 to inform Lord Salisbury with the t, utmost frankness that it was the firm de er- , mination of Germany not to allow the Gov- {, ernment o f the South African Republic to bo c overthrown. President Krueger, o* the South Afrieao. Republic, has replied to the Emperor's message with a ions: cipher despatch, in whioh he thanks the Kaiser warmly for his support. s English Wrath Agalnat Germ toy. A London special says that the congratu- ? latory message sent by Emparor William to b President Kruger, of the South African Re- t public has aroused popular wrath in Eng- fi land to an immeasurably greater ex- I tent than did President Cleve- c land's me&sagw on the Venezuelan E dispute. The latter dealt with a question tl that was of remote public interest and little a understood hera, but tho German Emperor a has touched roughly the wounds rankling in v British memories ever since the ignominy of Majnba Hill, where tho Boers Inflicted a i< crushing defeat on troop9 belonging to the M regular army of Great Britain. Further- 1< more, the message to the President of the p Tranavtml outrages the British belief that e the South Arrican Republic still pertains to ti the Queen's overlordshiD. 1< SATOLLI A CARDINAL \ Formally . Vested With the Scarlet at the j'.altimore (Md.) Cathedral. In the Baltimore (Md.) Cathedral Francis j, 8fitolli, titular Archbishop of Lepanto and I Papal Ablegate to the United States, was ele- e - v CARDINAL 6AT0LLI. vated to the Cardinalate and formally vc3ted with the scarlet, which marks the rank of Cardinal. T t AN ARMENIAN HECATOMB. f a Nino Hundred Perwns ivnieu ai rnriuji?, Near Aintab. The correspondent at Constantinople telegraphs, under date of January 3, that a terrible massacre has taken place at Blridjik, near Aintab, in Asia Minor. The official report cf the occurrence states that 930 persons were killed. It is believed that the massacre at Blridjik was committed by the Kurds of the i Hamndieh Cavalry. The recent massacre at Orfah was a terrible affair. The Porte admits that 900 per- , sons were killed there, but other accounts say that 2000 were slaughtered. An imperial irade has been issued ordering the reorganization of the Turkish Army and increasing the Turkish forces iu Mace- t donia, Crete and El Hejaz, Arabia. The increase will be completed jy spring. i f Train Wrecked "For Fun." There was a railroad wreck near Goshen, j v v ?"<! Inmilrv flnnllv lad to the I j " ' ) 1? hotre of four little colored boys, sons of a l. washerwoman who lives near the scene of i the wreck. The boys were placed under arrest and have made a full confession. j Their names are Jerome, David. Harris and j Edgar.Darby, the oldest only fourteen years old. t New Race of African White Men. A strange story comes from the Gold Coast of a race of white men, with light hair and t blue eyes, dwelling in caves to the northeast < of the Koranza country, through which the t Ashantee expedition is to march. 7 1 Commander Klogsley Falls Dead. I Commander Kinggley, United States Navy, * of the United States training ship Easer, f lying off Yorktown, Va., fell dead from heart t failure on board his ship. t 1 c OSTHE BSIT1SB MOTR I Ionia! Police Advancing Into the Disputed Venezuelan Territory. II 9 MENACE, SAYS CRESPO. I jm itlgli Armed Force Appears at KxtNnuk rimit of Britiah Claim?It In Fwrad ' j Tliat the Venexu?!^ Governiaeat WUf. ;j,M Send Troopg to the Froatter to Kxpef H the Intruders. fl^H| rt is stated that British Colonial potto .va advanced to the disputed territory, oft e frontier of British Guiana, and that Veri nola regards such action as a direct mon- ^Kfl The Caracas Government haa recetvt&f^^^H )ws from the Venezuela boundary statfcnS^ |^B sar the frontier of British Guiana, to ttafvS rect that one hundred men of the British^' flH| DlonJal poUee have been sent to guard the^jfa DRllah station in the disputed territory. > The Crespo administration regards this "" Jtion as a direct menace on the part ol . V^HH n<?land, following as it does so closely the lessage of the President of the Gttltedl tctes relating to the boundary qaertlon. he Goveniirent offloials say, however, tat notwithstanding this report that reat Britain is fortifying her posttioa i apparent defiance of the Beablio, great prudence will he observed by /, enezuelan officers in the territory, and an ttenipt will be made to avoid all perilous sen despatched is that first ordered to be I irtlfled with Maxim guns by Mc. Chamber- M I_ T>..u.k rinlrtnTaW LiUf WUU CUJ^IIOU MUlUliO* <y? wv*VM??i? The Government Is notified that trtppe. fl ith rifle and cannon, from Deniarara have rrived at Cuyunl. a station at the extreme.: mit of the English el aims In the (Usputed irrttory, and the scene of the Yuruan inoi Jut, where English officials wen arrested - M f Venezuelans. THE TIMES ON THE FACTS. I ed Tape Should Not Be Upheld at the Rlgk of Precipitating a War. fl The London Times, dwelling upon the 1 any dangerous elementB which tend to 5 ake the Anglo-American situation still fieri ib, refers to its New York dorreepondent's mewed plea for the fullest and earliest dJft- BB osure of the English esse in regard' to the enezuelan frontier disnute. ' S The Times asks whether or not the blue Dot; tradition, which prevents its public*- U on until Parliament meets, is worth, up- - I olding at the risk of precipitating a war, > M om which two great peoples shrink with srror, and suggests that the Londoa.\ ;SH azette be utilized to give the -information V eeded. The paper urged the Ministers- ' ) accelerate the preparation of the neces- I H iry documents, and concluded its article, "We should, regardless of precedent*raet I ur case fairly before the world. Wo firmly elieve it is a good case. and that, if pro- I uced before passion gets the upper hand of , lUKWOlllfai WiU uo icunigu im>? , j? , mlflable spirit. Butthodaqgerto a <?row- . 1# danger, and if tt is to be itemmed su<* essfully must be stemmed atoaee." COURT OF ARBITRATION. H n^cMUoc Made by Justice Harlan Approred in the Veaeaaelan Qawtlon. fl The Westminster Gazette sayv a move- fl ient is on foot In London to pat Into BH ffect the suggestion alleged to hare AH ean made by Justice Harlan, of the, 'nlted States Supreme Court, that dif* irencea between Great Britain and the <? rnlted States be settled by a commission omposed of an equal number of judges of .. M Cer Majesty's High Court of Jostteet ?q4 of I tie United States Supreme Court Already private meeting composed of Enghsttmon H nd Americans has been held to consider S rhat further action shall be taken. The disclosures made in the Daily Chron jle's Washington despatches concerning the - enezuelan dispute have encouraged the saders of this movement to publish their reposals, which amount to advocacy of the. stabHahment ot a permanent oourt of trtri- /IBB The Westminster Gazette, Jdoerai, in iw , jading editorial, argues that now is the [me for Salisbury to withdraw fromi his I Venezuelan position. ] MS ' I Veneiuela's Revolution. ' M President Crespo issued a decree reoocaizag the exigence of revolution in Venezuela. ' t is believed that Creepo's decree is aimed' -vjH specially at Guzman Blanco or Bojas Paul, ' rho are supposed to be treating with Eng< ind In the interest of the rebellion. The tovernment prisons are fall of those sus*'.^^H ected, and the Polyteohnic'8ohool has been, on verted into a prison, the students being ransferred to the Academy of Fine Aria. f COMEZ MEETS SERIOUS DEFEAT; :H| nsurgenta Rooted Near 6a?wJ?7ivN?l Far From Havana. H OiBcial reports indicate that in a sharp a?- I Ion General Navarro defeated grossly am >erior insurgent forces under Gomes on the >H|H oad to Guanajay, near Rerba de Zagus. ? ? ? FLAG OF Till CrEAS lMSUBGEN'TS. ?he engagement lasted three hoots. Tweny-three Insurgents were left dead on the ,IHH| leld; four of Navarro's. offloefls aid twenty-lire of tbe Spanish troops were rounded. Navarro captured one prisoner. Hfl "he Spanish forces oontinned on their narch. Tbe course the rebels took was notearned. It is believed they belonged to klaceo's command, BKH It is said unofficially that the rebel leader \ unez was Killed and that the rebels lost two mndred men. Another report has it that tbe Insurgents I 7ere surrounded by Spanish troops, under VfllfW Hforfan itnd Vn. arro, and completely annihilated. t'romlneot People. |H The estate ot the late Eben D. Jordan, of HHB Boston, is estimated at $7,000,000. Test, of Missouri, is the most unconven- fl H ional man in the United States Senate. The King of Ashanti sits on a golden stool NM|| nstead of a throne, and always wears an old H >lug ha;. King Leopold c f Belgium despises instru- I H cental music, which is said to cause him cfti pnyaicai pwu. Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemiaghas >een appointed Governor and Commandern-Chief of British Ouiaua. H The iat?st reports from China say that lung Chang, who is living in retirement in ?ekin, is rapidly failing in health. When Emperor William shoots he has a^^^H ath fixed upon which tho gun rests, as he taj inable to hold it up on account of his inThev sav that it is quite a settled thing bat W. w". Astor will muTy Lady Randolgbi'^B^H yhurohlll as soon as the lady i# ou'fot nourning. , j^^H Cardinal Mnlchers's death, following closer y on those of Cardinals Persico and Bona.'arte, wifl keep alive the superstition that Cardinals always die in threes. William M. Evarts, who is now seventylight years old, says: "I attribute my good lealth to the fact that I alwaya get oat oi^^HB >ed late, and never take any physical eier-B H iae." ... -