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SAMOAN EMBKOGLIO.
Washington Hopeful of Ear?
ly and ?Peaceful Solution.
Washington, April ll -As a
result of conferences held today at
the state department of the British
embassy efforts will be made to have
the Samoan high commission make a
quick trip across the country, reach
:ng San Francisco in time to catch
the boat leaving for Samoa one week
tomcrrow. This is regarded as a
distinctly favorable taro in the nego
tiations, and as indicating that the
three governments are very near to
complete accord on ali the points of
the commission It does away also
with-, reports that Germany was
withholding the appointment of her
commissioner, and makes practically
certain that Baron Speck Von Stern
berg, first secretary of the German
embassy here, will be the German
high commissioner.
In an authoritative qaarter it was
stated today that reports of a Ger |
man protest against Admiral Kautz's
course in reference to the treatment
of the cruiser Falke were un warrant
ed. Ali the negotiations, it is said
is the highest German quarters, are
of such as character as to bring the
governments more closely together
instead ot separating them.
AMERICAN AND BRITISH
LIEUTENANTS KILLED
AND BEHEADED.
Auckland, N. Z, April 12 -
Dispatches received from &pta, Samoa,
April 1, say that a parly of 105
Americans and British sailors were
forced to retreat to the beach, after
having been c&agbt in ao ambush on a
?srman plantation that day. Tbe
expedition was led by Lient A. H
Freeman of the British third-class
cruiser Tauranga Lieut. Freeman
and Lieut. P Lansdale and Ensign J. R.
Monaghan, bo;h of the Doited States
cruiser Philadelphia, were left dead oe
the field.
Ensign Monaghan remained to assist
Lieut. L&nsaale, and was shot in
retiring.
Two British and two American
sailors were also killed.
The a stives engaged were some of
Mataafa's warriors, estimated at 800.
They severed the heads of the British
and American officers killed. Priests
of the Freien mission afterward
brought the beads to Apia.
The manager of the German planta?
tion bas been wrested and detained on
board the Tauranga, on affidavits
declaring tbat he was seen urging the
rebels to fight.
Ia a previous engagement 27 of
Mataafa's warriors were killed ; there
were no casualties among the European
forces.
ANOTHER PROCLAMATION.
Further advices from Apia say that
on tbs arrival of the British cruiser
Tauranga at Apia the British aod
American consuls issued a proclama?
tion to give Matasfa a last chacee and
that the French priests also used their
influence, but all efforts failed and the
rebels continued their depradatioos.
Property was destroyed and bridges
and roads were barricaded. On March
29 the enemy was sig tied at Magnigi
and machine guns and a seven-pounder
were used. The friendlies also attack?
ed (be enemy during the latter's retreat
and several rebels were killed or
wounded.
THE FATAL ABM US H.
On April 1 a foree of 213 British
and Americans and 160 friendlies were
surprised in ambush at the German
plantation of Yaslelo. The rebels forces
fired on the rear, left flank, and front of
the Anglo-American forces. Tbe
friendlies bolted, bot the marines aod
ibo blue jackets stood their ground
splendidly, Americans and British fir?
ing shoulder to shoulder. The Colt
automatic gun with the landing party
became jammed and the Americans
were practically at the mercy of the
rebels. But "retreat77 was sounded
three times before tbe marines sod blue
jackets retired.
GALLANT OFFICERS SLAIN
Lieus. Angel H Freeman, first iieo
t?^tt^^dw^^taSttU&tt&rilfiSHBH?i
: command of tb" allied force, was shot
j through the heart.
i Lieut Philip Vaoboro Lansdale of
the United States croiser Philadelphia
had hts leg .shattered while endeavor?
ing to fis the jammed goo.
HAD LOST THEIR HEAES.
The same night the friendlies 'ouod
the bodies of all tho officers headless.
The bodies were buried with ali honors
at Molina on Eiste- Sunday. Their
beads were . subsequently brought in
by some Frenoh priests The graves
were opened and the heads buried with
the bodies
Lieats. Freeman and Lansdale were
capable and popular officers The
former was stogie and the latter was
married in Jane
The officers who returned are Lieut.
Geerge F Gave, of the Porpoise, and
Lient. C. H Perkins, of the Pfaiiladel
phia. AU behaved splendidly. Lieut.
Cave took command of the retreat.
Samoan Commissioners.
Washington, April 13.-The8amoan
commission 'will^^il on the United
States narai transport Badger, leaving
San Francisco OB the 25rh inst. Tbe
arrangement was made today, after
Baron Speck von Sternberg, first
secretary of the German embassy, had
called on Secretary Hay and advised
him of his appointment a? the German
member of the high commission. This
completed the body. As the pian to
have the members get away on the
Marinosa sallies co the 19rh was no
longer feasible, the transport Badger
was placed at toe disposal of the
commission. She is now at Callao,
Peru on her way around to Sao
Francisco from New York She is a
i large, serviceable ship, with first class
i accommodations for the commissioners.
On ber trip out she probably wiil take
supplies for the Philadelphia
The formal announcement of Baron
Sternberg's appointment was received
from the German foreign office and
gave general satisfaction, among
officials and diplomats, as be bas
throughout the recent troubles exerted
bis icfiaeoee io each a manner as to
win the heartiest approval of the state
department as well a? the British
ambassador. His choice, therefore,
was accepted as an evidence that ibo
commissioners would be able to co-ope?
rate and to reach :he onantmous
decision called for by the agreement.
The early sailing of the commission is
regarded as evidence that the reecnt
collision at Apia will be settled
diplomatically.
Admiral Kania's action io Samoa as
far- as tbey are net out in the official
dispatcher and the newspaper reports
are fully approved. He was instructed
, by the last mail steamer from Aoch?and
to avoid needless collisions,'' but to
protect property and lifo until the three
powers decided how to deai with the
situation. No further instructions have
yet been sent to bim and if any go
forward by cable within the next 24
boors, which is the limit of time
available if the ootgoiog steamer is to j
be oaoght at Auckland, they will be
simply a repetition of the original
orders Department officials point ont
that from the accounts so far received
the admiral appears to have acted io
conjunction with the British force only
io pursuance of the policy of defense
of foreign interest.
The Samoan Muddle.
With a prospective deadlock io the
Samoan commission the situation io
that oat ot-the-way corner of the earth
is becoming interesting, although it
looks like much ado about nothing
As we see it, the contention does not
hinge so mach on the resulta involved
as oo the question as to the re ce ot
proceedings that led op to the
bombardment of the villages by the
American and English cruisers. The
Germans stoutly maintain that thc
Americans and English were in tie
wrong, while Admiral Kautz as stoutly
oontends that they were right ?nd the
action of the German consul who acted
aa the adviser and supporter of the
belligerent natives was a olear violation
of the Berlin treaty, which practically
wasn't considered io the premises at all.
To simmer it all down neither of the
opposing parties likes to acknowledge
that the other was or is right.
If the matter were simply between
the United States and Germany it
would probably be fixed up io a little
while and io a very satisfactory manner
to both, bat the feeling in Germany
against the English is? very stroog aod
outspoken, for tbs opinion prevails, aod
is freely expressed that the Americans
wore dragged into that racket by the
English, the object being to create a
breach between the United States and
Germany. And there is probably some
foundation for this opinion, bot whether
or not, it will obstruct the settlement
by the commission, for all three parties
mast agree, aod the refusal of either
would make the tbiog a failure. They
will, doubtless, come to ao understand?
ing, after some palaver aod cabling, for
there isn't enough io it to squabble
over long.-Wilmingtonf3tar.
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BOTH WHEELER AND
LEE BRIGADIERS.
Former, It is Said, Wiil b9
Sent to the Philippines.
^MUSTER OUT OF GENERALS.
j Washington, April 12.-An order
? was issued today by the war depart?
ment mastering out the following
general officers : Maj Gens James
? H Wilson, Fitzhugh Lee, Joseph
j Wheeler, John P. Bates, Samuel B.
I M Young, Adna Chaffee, William
j Ludlow, Leonard Wood ; Brig.
Gens. George W. Davis, Theodore
Schwan, Lloyd Wheaton. Charles
; King, Frederick D. Grant, Robert P.
Hughes, Samuel Ovenshine, Irving
Hale
The above named officers are mus?
tered out to enable them to accept
; commissions as general officers of
volunteers under the act of March 2,
1899 lt is expected ?hey will soon
be reappointed as brigadier generals
under that act.
The following officers are mustered
out and will resume their former
commonds : Maj Gens James F.
Wade, Thomas M. Anderson, Guy
V. Henry ; Brig Gens Royal T.
Frank, Edward B Williston, Louis
H. Carpenter, Joseph P. Sanger,
Henry 0 Haebrouck, John C Euli?
more, Isawaid H. Ernst, Harrison G.
Otis, Charles F Humphrey
The officers who are io be reap?
pointed as brigadier generals under
the reorganization act for duty as
volunteers until July, 1901, are to go
out immediately, some of them today,
and ali on or before the 17th of this
month They will not be disturbed
in their present commauds The
others are to be mustered ont June
12. with the exception of Gen Frank,
who goes out May 12, and Gen. Otis
on July 2
The order of those officers who are
to be reappointed directs those who
are general officers to retain their
present commands and tho others of
the line are to return to their regi?
ments. Their positions in the regu?
lar army is as follows :
Gen Wade, brigadier, now presi*
dent of the beef inquiry board ; Gen
Anderson, brigadier, on his way
j home to assume command of the
department of Columbia ; Gen Henry,
brigadier, commanding the depart
ment of Puerto Rico; Gen Frank,
colonel First artillery ; Gen VS illiston,
colonel Sixth artillery ; Gen Carpen
ter, colonel Fifth cavalry ; Gen
Sanger, lieutenant colonei, inspector
general's department ; Gen Has
brouck, lieutenant colonel Fourth
artillery ; Gen Gilmore, lieutenant
colonel, adjutant general's depart?
ment ; Gen Ernst, lieutenant colonel,
engineers corps ; Gen Otis, appoint
ed from civil life, now returniug to
the united States from Manila ; Gen
Humprey, lieutenant colonel, quar
termaster's department, on duty as
chief quartermaster of Coba.
Four volonteer major generals are
retained in the regular service. These
are Gen. Otis, commander of the
United States forcea in the Philip?
pines ; Lawton and MacArthur, his
chief generals, in command of divi?
sions, and Gen Shafter, who remains
io command of the department of
California He will retire in Ocio
ber as a brigadier general and may
leave the service.
The present stations of those mus
tered out by the order today who will
be retained as brigadier generals un
der the law of March 2 are : Gen.
Wilson, commanding the department
of Cienfnegos ; Gen. Lee, command
ing the department of Habana ; Gen.
Wheeler, now in Washington, but
probably going to the Philippines ;
Gen. Bates, commanding the depart
ment of Matanzas; Gen Young, in com
mand of the troops being mustered
out, with head quarters at Augusta,
Ga ; Gen. Chaffee, now in Washing j
ton, but attached to Gen. Brooke's
headquarters ; Gen. Ludlow, com?
manding the city of Habana ; Gen.
Wood, commanding the department
of Santiago ; Gen. Davis, Gen. Fred
D Grant, in Puerto Rico, member
beef inquiry board ; Gen Schwan,
assistant adjutant general ; but under
orders to go to Manila ; Gens. Hall,
Wheaton, King, Hughes, Ovenshine
and Hale, in the Philippines.
The death of Alexander BasUewski,
the wealthy Russian general, moves a
writer io the Washington Post to
remark that there exist io Europe,
though they are little heard of io this
country, millionaires beside whose
wealth (hat of the Goulds, the Vander?
bilt, (ha Asters and the Rockefellers
siok into insignificance. Basilewski's
wealth, however, though described as
enormous, is not given, The fortune
of (he Emperor of Russia is estimated
at $50,000 000 per annum oo a very
conservative basis. Tho fortune of tho
late Archduke Albert of Austria is
declared to be inestimable, though it
is known he lef? io ready mossy a sum
amounting to $500,000,000.
PEACE HAS
BEEN PROCLAIMED.
Last Formalities in the Res?
toration l*ake Place.
Washington, April ll-The con?
dition of war which has existed
between the United States and Spain
since April 21, 1898. terminated
today when the last for malities in
the restoration of peace were per?
formed by the exchange of ratifica?
tions of the peace treaty. Coinci?
dent with this President McKinley
issued his proclamation declaring
that the war was at z? end, and the
appointment of Bellamy Storer was
determined upon as United States
minister to Spain.
The principal ceremony of the day
occurred in the reception room at the
White House when the exchange of
ratifications took place at 3 o'clock
In anticipation of the historic char?
acter of the event, many members of
the cabinet and officials prominent in
the administration gathered at the
White House
After the ceremony President Mc?
Kinley issued the following proclama?
tion :
Whereas a treaty of peace between
the United States of America and her
majesty, the queen regent of Spain
in the name of her august son. Don
Alfonso XIII., was concluded and
signed by their respective plenipo?
tentiaries at Paris on the 10th day of
December. 1898. the original of
which convention being in the
English and Spanish languages, is
word for word as follows : (Here full
text of treaty is included)
And whereas the said convention
has been duly ratified on both parts,
and the ratification of the two gov?
ernments were exchanged in the eily
of Washington, on the 11th of April,
one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-nine :
Now, therefore, be it known that I,
William McKinley, president of the
United States of America, have
caused the said conventien to be
made public, to the end that the same
and very article and clause thereof
may be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States and
the citizens thereof
In witness thereof I have here unto
set my hand and caused tne seal of
the United States to be aflaxed.
Done at the city of Washington this
11th day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and
ninety nine, and of the Independence
of the United States the one hundred
and twenty-third
William McKinley.
By the president :
John ney, Secretary of State.
Thanks to Prance.
Washington, April 12.-In acknowl?
edger jnt of tho good e?ees of the
French Government io bringing about
peace the president has written the
following letter :
Department of State, Washington,
April ll, 1899.-His Excellency,
Emil Loubet, President of the French
Republic, Paris : On this auspicious
occosioo of the consummation of peace
between the United States and Spain I
beg, io the name of this government
and people and in my own, to express
my high appreciation of the part filled
by the representative of France in
promotion of this happy result. Ir
this kindly offioe sc performed roy
countrymen will see another link io the
amity that joins the two nations
William McKinley.
Washington, April 14.-The Secre
tary of State has decided to re?
turn to their posts in Spain the con?
suls of the United States who were
obliged to leave on account of the
war. Two of these officers. Consul
Bowen, at Barcelona, and Richard M.
Bartieman, at Malaga, are now in
New York The third J. Howell
Carroll, consul at Cadiz, is now at
Gibraltar. The department bas de
termined that they shall all be retain?
ed in the consular service, there
being no evidence of any personal ill
feeling incurred by them. The sub
consular officers mostly remained in
Spain throughout the war, and were
undisturbed, some even continuing to
discharge a part cf their officia!
duties. They will also be continued
in the service.
Amie Nicolas Morot, the French
painter, who has just returned from
France to Abyssinia, mourns the loss
of French prestige there, ne says
that Frenchman are contemptuosly
looked down upon, and are regarded
as less than nothing, while the Brit
isb, on the contrary, are feared and
respected. Ile concludes : "From
what I have seen I am persuaded that
the English will soon become masters
of Abyssinia, just aa they have of
Fgypt. This is inevitable."
Insurgents Adopt
Style of Indians.
THEY MAKE AN EARLY
MORNING ATTACK
Manila, April 13, 4 05 p. m -At
about 4 o'clock this morning a small
body of rebels attacked the camp of
the Third artillery from the swamp
near Paombon, a mile and a half west
of Malolos. Two privates were
killed and a lieutenant and two
others were wounded
With the coming of daylight the
American forces scoured the district,
driving the rebels northward and
killing several of them A private
soldier of the Montana regiment was
wounded.
AGUINALDO GETS BIG GUNS.
Manila, April 13. 9 35 a. m.
Francisco Reyes, the man who
recently purchased the Spanish gun?
boats at Zamboanga, island of Min?
danao, has received advices to the
effect that the fleet sailed for Manila
and returned a few days later with
the vessels stripped cf their guns and
ammunition. The purchaser's agents
and native crewe for the vessels on
board the American steamer Putnam,
were conveyed to Zamboanga by
the United States cruiser, Boston,
and were instructed lo wait for the
arrival there of the United States
gunboat Petrel.
Instead of doing so, after the
Boston sailed from Zamboanga the
Spaniards transferred the gunboats
to the agents of Senor Rey?s and the
fleet left Zamboanga unescorted.
They soon returned and reported
having been boarded by rebels who
removed the gunboats armaments
If the instructions of the American
naval commander had been obeyed
their capture would have been im?
possible.
Zamboanga is fortified and still
garrisoned by Spaniards and . the
affair is regarded as auspicious.
HOW WASHINGTON SEES IT
Washington, April 13.-The war
department officials take a philo?
sophical view of the reported capture
by the insurgents in the vicinity of
Zamboanga of the arms and arma?
ment on the Spanish gunboats which
were to be the property of the
United States They say Gen Otis
has withheld payment for any of
these boats until they were delivered
to him at Manila It is regretted
that the insurgents should possess
the guns, but it is said, they will not
be abie to secure and keep on hand a
supply of ammunition for them.
The United States forces have so far
had no trouble with thc insurgents
on the island of Mindanao and in
view of the suspicious circumstances
attending the capture of these guns,
it is apprehended that some persons,
possibly Spanish sympathizers with
Aguinaldo, have caused the guns to
be sent to him.
Waynesbore, Ga. April ll -Jas
Robinson, a young mhite man, was
today indicted by a special grand
jury for the murder of Gilbert Ellison,
colored As told in these dispatches
Ellison, a preacher, was called to the
door of hie church on Sunday night
last and shot to death The regular
grand jory had been discharged, but
a special one was immediately em?
panelled and took up the case. Ac?
cording to the indictment the murder
was wilful and deliberate, and Robin
son had no accomplices. The case
will go to trial at once.
Paper Dolie, dressed or otherwise at H. G
Osteen & Co's
Havao April 14 -The Cuban
arr\ or roils, which were deliver?
ed last tveniog to Governor General
Brooke through Seoor Domingo
Mendez Capote, are prepared io neat,
clerical style, the 1,200 broad sheets
showing on their face 48,000 names
-six thousand commissioned officers
aud 42,OOO non-commissioned officers
and privates. The wbole statement is
in orderly arrangement of corp?, regi
ment, battalion aod company scores.
Lima, Peri?, via Galveetion, April
ll-The latest news from Bolivia
says that Gen. Pando, the revolution?
ary leader, bas defeated tho army of
President Alonzo aod bas occupied
Orare, the president's base cf
operations. Alonzo and his ministers
have gone tc Antefa Gasta, a seaport
of Chile, on :be bay of Morena, and
the revolution is looked upon as being
ended.
Makes the food more dei
A MAN H?iNT
IN GEORGIA.
Enraged Georgians Dater*
mined to Have Sam Hose.
Palmetto, Ga , April 14-Armed
men patrol the streets of this little
town tonight. No uprising of the
negro element is anticipated, bat the
men of Palmetto, who early in tbe
day closed their places of business
and joined the posse pursaing the
negro, Sam Hose, who brutally mur?
dered Farmer Alfred Cranford and
assaulted his wife, took this precau?
tionary measure for the protection o?
their families
The negro has not been captured,
but is surrounded in a swamp be?
tween this city and Newnan. Hose's
hiding place is a dense thicket 15>
miles long and equally as wide, and
as he entered it late yesterday he
fired a parting shot at one of his
pursuers who sought to disable him
and bring him back to Palmetto
alive. It is believed tonight that
Hose will die fighting and thus avoid
the worse fate in store for bim. He
has had nothing to eat and no rest since
Wednesday and is undoubtedly des?
perate. He is armed, and knowing
that he will be lynched will doubtless
make a fight with the deputies which
will result in death His pursuers,
hope that, exhausted by his long
flight, he will be compelled to seek
rest and that they ?viil be albe to come
upon him while asleep. His pur?
suers number about 300-all business
men and farmers and every one of
them armed The swamp is com?
pletely surrounded and the negro's
escape is impossible.
The funeral of Alfred Cranford was
held today. His wife stood beside
his grave but showed no sign of
emotion. It is feared that her mind
has become unbalanced as a result
of the terrible ordeal she has just
passed through and that she will col?
lapse completely when ehe bears that
her negro assailant had been caught
and lynched Late tonight a tele?
phone message received from a man
at Barne8ville Bays he had followed
the negro that far and had learned
that he had taken a train at that point
for some point presumably in Soatb
Georgia or Florida- This report does
not receive much credence here
The First Southern Paper
Mill.
The Beaufort correspondent of Tbs
News aod Courier gives the icliewiog
inform?tico ia reference to the first
paper m\\\ established in tbs South :
It w? ?ted sometime ago in some
Dewspaper that the Sr?t paper mill
established South was at Athens, Ga ,
owoed by Messrs. Gnase & Linton,
and was started on the 17th of March,
j 1849, when the first sheet of paper was
ran through the mill. Chase, at that
time, was editor and proprietor of the
Southern Banner, of Athens. Ga.
The mill was called thc- ''Pioneer
Paper Mill "
Your correspondent knows that a
paper mill, ran probably by water
power, on the banks of the Congaree,
in Columbia, was owned and ran bj
Gen. Jacob Faust, with the late John
Blake White, the father of your
correspondent. ?8t part proprietor,
somewhere abo ai 1820 or 1825. and
was consumed with large stock of
material cn han? and at great less.
Geo. Faust, who was an officer io the
Continental army, was also at thc time
editor sod proprietor of the Columbia
Gazette, the first newspaper published
n Col umbia.
Cut off Their Queues.
Washington, April ll -The in?
coming mails from Manila bring many
queer stories of events connected with
the war now in progress between the
United States troops and the insur?
gents. When MacArthur led the first
onslaught to the north upon the insur?
gent stronghold the United States mili?
tary commanders were am? sod at the
estent of the looting practised by the
non comb?tante. Ths Ch?cese tcok a
leading part in this looting, begining
it before tba retreating insurge?t forces
were fairly out of a town. Xney ap?
parently had ne conception oi the enor?
mity of their offeoce, and ii had been?
reluctantly concluded to fhoot soma otV
these Ctiocss looiets /or thc sake of'
example when a young officer cat off
the queues of a half dozen Chinamen
who had been taken red banded. The
looting stopped and the Chinese disap?
peared as if by ?ugic from tbs whole,
province.
tt?ous and wholesome
ra co., NEW YORK. AwM
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