The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 26, 1898, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1898 COMMISSIONERS TO NEGOTIATE THE TREATY OF PEACE Men Chosen by Meet Spaniards in a Diplo- matic Struggle. Representatives of This Uncle Sam Controlling All the Pbilip Senator William P. Fry Justice Edward Dougla Whitelaw Reid of New j=g=ReReg-geF-3-] NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The Washing- ton correspondent of the Herald tele- graphs: These are the commissioners definitely decided upon by the Presi- dent to negotiate the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain. The decision to appoint Justice White was reached yesterday, and his accept- ance was received by wire this after- noon. The formal tender of a commis- sionership to Mr. Reid was made this morning. The American Peace Commission ap- parently is not going to Paris to de- | mand the entire group of the Philip- | pines, but to contend only for the occu- pation of Luzon Island. This was | strongly developed at a conference at | the White House to-day between the | President, Secretafy Day and Senators | Davis and Frye, a majority of the members of the commission. During the conference to-day the whole Spanish | question was fully discussed, and the | policy of the administration was dis- tinctly outlined. While the fact is recognized that a| Yo 106 6 6 10 20 06 02030 6 X X0 ¥ ¥ 030 20 06 06 0 3030 16 0 0K O O O I X X Secretary William R. Day of Ohio. Senator Cushman K. Da 0 306 300 0 06 30 30 306 306 306 308308 30 308 20 30 306 308 08 30K 0% 308 306 308 306 308 308 X0F 306 306 30 06 0 ¥ { tion will be as troublesome to the com- | the President to Country Not in Favor of pines. =4 vis of Minnesota. 3 e of Maine. =3 s White of Louisiana. bl York. > o large majority of the American people are Inclined to favor the taking of the Philippines by the United States, the participants in the conference to-day advanced what they considered sub- stantial reasons why this should not be done. In order to obtain absolute con- tro! over the entire group of islands the United States would be required to pro- vide a standing army of from 30,000 to | 50,000 men. The members of the com- mission do not believe that this would be advisable, It is believed the commis- | siohers will make a straightforward de- | mand for Luzon in accordance with the | suggestions supposed to have been re- | ceived from Admiral Dewey. It is sald the Spaniards are endea\'-‘ oring to make it appear that the great and all;absorbing question is the dis- | position of the Philippines, encouraging | that impression in the hope the United States may be induced in consideration | of certain concessions in the Philip- pines, to assume the responsibility for the Cuban debt. The judgment of the commission thus far is against assum- Ing one dollar of the Cuban debt. It is| believed now that the Cuban debt ques- missioners as that of the Philippinesy, DEWEY'S SQUADRON 70 BE REINFORCED CrackWarships Destined | for Manila. OREGON WILL BE IN THE LEAD | OTHER VESSELS THAT ARE TO | BE SENT TO FAR EAST. In the Event of Complications the Unitea States Is Not to Be Handicapped in Its Fight- ing Force. Special Dispatch to The Call. Aug. 25.—A Herald spe- ington says: Admiral squadron at Manila is to be reinforced. At least three or four of the crack vessels of the North Atlantic squadron will be sent to Manila in the | near future. They will go by way of | the Suez canal and will reach Asiatic | waters in the early fall. The detail for this new eastern squadron has not yet been completed, but it is known that the battle-ship Oregon, the fast cruis- ers New York and Brooklyn and prob- ably the battle-ship Indiana are to be overhauled and put in shape for the trip. 1t is semi-officially admitted to-day that the Oregon is sure to go, and that | it is very probable the other three ves- | :ls mentioned will accompany it. The | ostensible reason for sending four big fighting v to the far east is that Admiral Dewe hips, having been in commission so long cannot be properly docked and cleaned for months. As Manila is to be a theater in which In- ternational questions of grave import to be settled within the coming six . months the administration believes the presence there eof a fleet of American fighting craft is an absolute necessity. The State Department will not admit +the situation in Manila is anything but tranquil now, vet it does not attempt to. conceal the fact that should trouble arise with Germany or any other na- tion over the disposition of the Phillp- pines Admiral Dewey would be handi- capped and the nation put at a decided disadvantage should his fleet be not materially strengthened. From an au- | thoritative source it 1s asserted at least four more of the vessels of the fighting line will be churning the path- way across the seas to Manila within the next six weeks, And that the power- ful Oregon will be leading the proces- sion. SPREAD OF THE REVOLT IN SOUTHERN CHINA American Missionaries and Native Converts on Hainan Island flee From the Rebels. HONGKONG, Aug. 25.—A serious insur- * rection has broken out at Nadoa, In the interfor of Hainan Island. American missionaries and native converts have sought safety in flight. On August 14 the rebels fought the soldlers, who used the American Presbyterian property as defenses and repelled the attack. Nadoa is situated ninety miles from Haisow, one of the richest valleys on the island. Unless the revolt is speedily suppressed the insurgents probably will be reinforced by refugees from Kwangsi; where the of- ficials are coping with the recent rebel- lion. Should it not be suppressed thero is an opportunity for French Interfer. | ence. “Phe French are using vigorous measures ‘to protect the native Christians near Kruang-Chow-Wan and are anxious to extend their Influence in Southern China. ST CHOKTAWAGA THE PLACE. Battle-Ground Selected for the Cor- bett-McCoy Match. BUFFALO, Aug. 2.—It has been defi- nitely decided that the Corbeti-McCoy battle will take place at Choktawaga on WOULD DISBAND BARCIA'S ARMY Santiago Merchants Say Business Is Menaced. | CUBANS PREVENT TRADE PEACE COMMISSIONERS. Among Rebel BY SOL N. 000C000VO0000000000000 | AT PRESENT PLANTATIONS CAN- NOT BE WORKED. | Commercial Operations of the Prov- ince Paralyzed Because No | Produce Is Coming In | From the Country. ' | | | Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 159, by James Gor- | don Bennett. ! SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. 25.-——1} talked to-day with many merchants of | this city and every one of them was anxious that the Cuban army should be disbanded at once. It is a standing | menace to business, they say. They all | are anxious to resume, but found it | impossible to do so because property is | threatened by the ill-disciplined levies | of Garcia’s command. | Cultivators refuse to return to plan- | tations, where they will be subject to | contributions for the support of the Cuban soldiers, who are still in the field. No produce therefore will come to market here and ships that bring cargoes cannot take anything back. If | the province is to return to a self-sup- | porting basis and trade begin again the | Cuban army, it is generally admitted, | must be disbanded. Robert Mason, British Consul here,‘ who is local manager for Brooks & Co., | told me that his business is absolutely at a standstill. ‘ “No uce i8 coming from the | country,”’he said, “because_the condi- | tion of things there is unsettled and merchants are afraid to engage in op- | erations until the political situation is | better defined. Owing to the lack of | | | labor, lighters and wharfage facilities we are completely blocked and our business Interests are suffering. We cannot order cargoes. There Is no money in the province. If trade is to be resumed some definite step must be taken immediately by the United States.” I have just returned from a visit to San Luis, where I made inquiries as to the truth of reports of outrages com- mitted by men of the Eighth Illinois that had come to us here. The Eighth is stationed in San Lafis. These reports | were brought in by Cubans. I found they had been much exaggerated. CAPTAIN CLARK TAKEN TO THE NAVAL HOSPITAL He Is Suffering From an Attack of H Dysentery—Treated to an Im- promptu Ovation. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.—Captain Clark of the battleship Oregon was car- ried through this city to-day on his way to New York, where he will be placed in | the naval hospital to be treated for dys- entery. Twice when the captain was recogniz- ed on the litter upon which he was borne he was heartily cheered by the crowds which quickly collected. In the Broad- | street station of the Pennsylvania Rall- road an impromptu ovation was tendered the hero of the 15,000 mile voyage “around the Horn,” to which he, un- | fortunately, was too weak to respond. | Shortly after the St. Louls was docked at Cramp's to-day Captain Clark was car- ried on a stretcher from the vessel into a carriage. He was rapidly driven through the city to the Broad street sta- tion. Again he was placed on a litter and carried aboard a sleeper attached to & train for New York. -— Santa Clara Prunes for the East. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 2.—To-day Por- ter Bros. Company flhlpgfid Bast the first carload of dried French prunes of this crop. The fruit came from Santa ., where the crop Is larger than was expected. October 1. McCoy left Buffalo for Sara- toga this morning, where he will reuumev‘ Lipton Made a Member. training at once. The Olympic Athletic Club has decided to transfer the Erne and Lavigne fight to the Hawthorne Ciub, and 1t wfil come off at Choktawaga - tember L | LONDON, Aug. 25.—Sir Thomas Lipton, | challenger for the America cup, has been elected a member of the Royal Clyde Yacht Club. ! at the Greenwood Athletic Club, ruly rabble. eration. killed in the assault. 00000000000 MANILA, Aug. 25.—I have just had an interview with General Aguinaldo in Bacoor. clares he is anxious to support the authority of the United States in these islands and that he has persuaded. other rebel leaders to accept his views. insurgent army be disbanded and return to the provinces. He complains of lack of honesty and military talent in the rebel leaders and says he has not an army but only an un- The general seemed dispirited. He adds that he trusts the United States will form a free and liberal gov- ernment, and says the Americans can count on his co-op- The' rebellion is spreading in the south. Sorsogon has fallen into the hands of the rebels, O0000000000000000000000 'AGUINALDO READY TO CO-OPERATE WITH THE AMERICANS Complains of a Lack of Honesty and Ability Leaders Anxious to Disband. and Is SHERIDAN. The insurgent leader de- It is his desire that the five Spaniards being 000000000000000000C000C0 WRES{I]\‘EG AND BOXING THAT MAY CAUSE DEATH «Terrible Greek” Almost Strangled, and Pugilist Scott Probably Fatally Beaten. ALLEN / CITY, N. J., Aug. 25.—While | wrestling to-day at the Linet Park for the championship belt turned over to Rich- ard K.Fox by Ernest Roeber, the “Terri- ble Greek.” Heraklides, and the “Strong Jap,” Takezawa, became involved in such 2 heated struggle that the former was rendered unconscious by the fearful pressure exerted by the Japanese wrest- ler. The latter weighed but 19 pounds, being twenty pounds lighter than his opponent. When the match was stopped the Greek was black in the face and was In spasms. To-night he lies in a precarious cona..don < death is expected. A0 YORK. Aug, 55—Alexander Scott, a heavy-weight pugilist, was so severely beaten by Tommy Butlet in a boxing bout *n. to-night, that he was taken from the Himg \aconsclous, and at midnight he had hot been revived. Butler has been ar- rested. COURT-MARTIAL FOR ADMIRAL CERVERA His Reporc on the Destruction of His Fleet Not to Be Given to the Public. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—A special ca- ble to the Sun from Madrid says: The Government has decided not to publish the report of Admiral Cervera on the destruction of his squadron. It will be reserved by the Supreme Council of War in Admiral Cervera's court-mar- {?arl.“sgl is learned, however, that the report is limited to what Admiral Cer- vera and his surviving senior officers per- sonally saw. & MATCH PURSUIT RACE. Fred Titus of New York M:kel a New Bicycle Record. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—A match pur- suit race, unlimited distance, nrofessional, at the Park Bicycie Club track to-day was won by Fred Titus of New York, who passed Frank Starbuck of Philadelphia at the three and a half mile post. Titus continued to ride for five miles, finished in 11:222-5, and established an unpaced competition record for that distance. - TO BACK MACDONALD. Powerful British Fleet Said to Have Arrived at Wel Hai Wel. LONDON, Aug. 26.—A dispatch to a news agency from Shanghai reports that the entire available British fleet in Chi- nese waters has arrived at Wel Hal ‘Wel to support the demands of Sir Claude Macdonald, British Minister to China. There is no confirmation of the report obtainable from other sources. — Republicans of Delaware. DOVER, Del.,, Aug. 25.—At the regular Republican State convention to-day the following candidates on the State ticket were nominated: State Treasurer, Dr. L. Heisler Ball of Faulkland; State Auditor, | sailed to-da) for LJobn A. Lingo of Longneck, 3 v TIMOTHY HEALY TALKS ABOUT HOME RULE One Stand the United States Might Take That Would Cause Bless- ings in Ireland. DUBLIN, Aug. 2%.—Timothy Healy, member of Parliament for North Louth, addressing a meeting at Dublin this evening, said he regarded the new local government act as the vestibule of home rule. There were two ways, he sald, of winning the latter—either by turning the fleets and armies agalnst the British Government, or by enlisting the sympa- thies of British statesmen. He favored the latter policy, and therefore consid- ered the refusal of the Dublin corpora- tion to join in a national memorial to Mr. Gladstone as one of the gravest blunders ever committed by any public body. . In conclusion, he said: *If America should insist that Ireland were equally entitled to self-government with Cuba and should refuse any friendship or alli- ance - with England untl that was gnlx!nted. incalculable blessings would re- sult.” RIO AND PENNSYLVANIA HAVE ARRIVED AT MANILA The Fifth and Sixth Philippine Ex- peditions Join the Forcss of of Merritt. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.—The War Department has received the following: “MANILA, Aug. 25, 8:35 a. m.—Ad- Jutant General, Washington: The Rio de Janeiro and Pennsylvania arrived on the 24th. All well and no casualties, excepting Private Wenks, First South Dakota, who dled between San Fran- cisco and Honolulu. MERRITT.” e JIMMY RYAN WINS. Puts Bobby Douglas to Sleep in the Fourteenth Round. LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 25.—The colars of an aspirant for the welter-weight champlonship were trailed in the dust to- nirht, when *“Australlan” Jimmy Ryan disposed of ‘Bobby Douglas, the crack St. Louis fighter, in fourteen rounds of a sclentific bout. Ryan did the leading clear through, but not until the fourteenth round did his blows make an impression. In that round Ryan landed a terrific right-hand swing on the jaw, which put his adversary out. Ryan will now fight "Tommx" Ryan for the welter-weight championship. e e aiid Fears for Two Riverside Prospectors. RIVERSIDE, Aug. 2%.—George Engelke and Peter Edmiston, two Riversiders who left here over a year ago to prospect on the Colorado desert, have never returned, neither have they been heard from by any of their friends. The men went from here to San Diego and from there they sturted on their perilous trip. The bellet is general that both men have perished. A AT Frozen Meat for Manila. BRISBANE, Queensiand, Aug. 25.--The Bfltl-l:dslea_ix‘m- Kr?‘mnAon gtrtnge. last rted at Tow: e, August 6. and th m.h steamer ke of Euther!-nd? which arrived here A st § from London, ni Philippine Islands, with 3000 tons of froZen meat. | EDWARD DOUGLAS WHITE. JOHN WANAMAKER ~ FIGHTING QUAY Lines Up Business Men Against the Senator. WOULD DOWN THE MACHINE USED BY LEADERS FOR SELF- ISH AND IMPROPER ENDS. The Ex-Postmaster General Enters a Vigorous Campaign, to Be Car- ried Out in Every Coun- ty in Pennsylvania. Special Dispatch to The Call. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 25.—The Re- publican Business Men's League of Pennsylvania held a meeting in this city to-day and adopted (initiative | measures in the league's efforts to pre- | vent the re-election of United States | Senator M. S. Quay, whose term will | expire March 3, 1899. Resolutions were adopted reciting that the machinery of the Republican party of the State is controlled and used by the leaders for selfish and improper ends, and that “only the personal defeat of Senator Quay can destroy his machine.’ Ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker addressed the meeting at considerable length and severely -arraigned Senator Quay and what he termed the machine politics of the State. A vigorous campaign will at once be started and meetings will be held in every county in the State. OIL CITY WELL ON FIRE. Clyde Williams Caught in the Flames and Fatally Burned. HANFORD, Aug. 25.—A fatal accident | occurred yesterday at one of the oil wells of Chanslor & Canfield on the West Side, near Ol City. About § a. m. the well caught fire and blew up and Clyde Wi- { llams, aged 21, who was at work at the | top of a derrick above the well was pre- | cipitated into the shooting flames. He was very badly burned, besides receiving fatal injuries from the fall, and died at | 2 o'clock this morning. Williams formerly in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad at Fullerton and is_quite well | known in this part of the State. The | cause of the ignition of the well is un-| known. ————— | WANTS THE LADRONES. | Japan Would Buy the Islands for| Their Fish Resources. SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 2.—Japanese newspapers recelved here to-day say that Japan wants to buy the Ladrone | Islands for their fish resources. About | eight years ago, it is stated, the Spanish | Government offered to sell the islands to Japan, but thelr purchase was opposed by Count Inouye. . — POACHING SEALER RETURNS. Chased Out of Japanese Waters by a Russian Cruiser. VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 24.—The sealing schooner Director arrived this evening from the Japan coast. She hunted in Bering Sea, where guns were used, as no Amerfcan cutters were seen. She was chased out of the proscribed limits in Japan Sea by a Russian cruiser. RAILWA( RIAGES. ‘Who that has traveled by railway has not experienced a difficulty in finding cis | seat again once he has got out at an in- | termediate station? You get out to get a glass of beer or a hurried snack at the refreshment buffet, and when you get | back to the platform you wander along | the train, looking into every compartment to identify the luggage you have left in order to keep your seat. The Western of | | France Railway has come to the rescue of its passengers in this respect. On its express train in the morning from Paris to St. Malo and Parame it has put car- riages with pictures upon them. One has an elephant, another a lyre, another a snake, etc. There are anchors, hunts- man's horns, balloons, tricolored flags, bunches of grapes, swallows, a pair o scales, a star, an angler with his fishing- rod. It is thought that one of these de- signs will be more readily remembered than a number, and, according to all ac- counts, passengers are very pleased with the innovation. Before long the Western | of France directors hope to have picture | trains on all their lines.—London News. —_————————— AN EXPERT ACADEMY, The various educational preparations that must be made by a young man | nowadays reach a very practical stage | in Austria-Hungary, where full recog- nition is accorded to the demands a | commercial career must make upon one who is starting out in it. On O¢’ ber 1 an institution, to be called ». | “expert academy,” is to be opened in | Vienna for the purpose of giving a | thorough commercial tralning to Aus- trian youths, so they may be fitted to | go abroad and extend their country's | business relations in a capable manner. From this institution men will set forth in a couple of years fully qualified to go into every foreign market and to deal with the foreigner in the proper | way, speaking the language fluently of the country he proposes to visit. was | IDEN.IFYING CAR- ————— NEW YORK ELECTRIC LIGHT. ‘The cost for the electric lighting of the city of New York amounts to the consld- erable sum of §14,000 ger night. This | means an annual expenditure of $,110,- 000 for the electric lighting of the met- ropolis. According to the latest statis- tics available there are 1,030,500 electric a lighting lamps in New York, producin 50,000, candles. capacity of more than 50 ———————————— THE HONEST BACHELOR. The Dearest Girl—What makes you old bachelors say such norrid things? Mar- ried men do not talk that way. The Bavage Bachelor—No, we only say what the married men think.—Cincinnati Enquirer. Oatmeal contains a large supply of nitrogenous matter, and the phosphates t contains are said to account for the | valla line steamer Norge, which arrived | Coquett i hi; cerebral development of chmen ‘who have been fed on porridge. GERMANY WOULD PARTITION THE “ SAMOAN ISLANDS Inspires a Feeler for the Purpose of Sounding America and Engl This Country Will Not and. Listen to the Proposal. Correspondence That May Lead to Serious Friction. Bpecfal Dispatch to The Call NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The He sends the following: the worst. may lead to serious friction. on the side of the United States. [coXoYOXOXOXOJOJOROJOROROROJOROKO) [OI0JOIOIOIOYOXOIOXOJOXCJOJOJOLOJOIOYOXOIOXO]) Trouble is brewing over the Samoan Islands, which under the treaty of 1890 are governed under a joint protect- orate by the United States, Great Britain and Germany. proposition advanced by the Marine Politische Correspondenzthat the islands should be divided, England t:king Suvai, Germany Upolu and America Tutuila, it is belleved here, was inspired by the German Government as a feeler for the purpose of finding out how the United States and Great Britain would receive the proposition. sition would give Germany the best of the islands and Great Britain As far as the United States is concerned the proposition to par- tition the group will not be considered for an instant. ence is now in progress between the United States and Germany that It is thought probable that there will have to be eventually a new commission to frame a new treaty, and if so it is likely Germany will then propose to partition the islands. The United States will not consent to this. taken a rather passive interest in Samoan affairs, but there is no doubt that her influence will in the future, as in the past, be thrown rald’'s Washington correspondent The recent This propo- Correspond- Great Britain has always CREPPPOOPRPEPROPERPOOOE® PO PPPPPRPPVYWENO® SIXTEEN LOST IN COLLISION AT SEA French Fishing Vessel Sunk by the Norge. CUT IN TWO BY THE LINER AND EIGHT SEAMEN PICKED UP. CAPTAIN Rescue of the Others Was Impossi- ble—Disaster Happens in a Fog Off the Grand Banks. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The Thing- to-day, reports that she sank the French fishing schooner La Coquette of Bayonne, France, on Saturday last on the Grand Banks. The captain and eight seamen were saved, but sixteen men went down with the vessel. The Norge sailed from Stettin August 3. The weather was generally fine to the banks of Newfoundland, when it became foggy with patches of clear weather. Saturday, August 20, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the weather was foggy, but not so thick that the vessel's speed was reduced. Captain Knudson said he could see about three cable lengths ahead. The wind was fairly brisk from the west- southwest, when a vessel suddenly loomed from the north with sails fuil and stood directly across the bow of the steamer. The bells were rung to stop and back at full speed, but too late to check the steamer’'s headway. The stranger, a fishing schooner, fell across the bow and with a crash was forced over and sunk. Three men Bprang aboard the Norge. The passengers of the Norge, most of whom were about the decks, rushed about in alarm at the shock, but were soon quleted when they learned that the steamer was uninjured. A boat was lowered and six men and a dog were picked up. The vessel sank al- most immediately, and in sinking car- ried with her sixteen of her crew. Captain Knudson said that, as a steam vessel, the Norge was obliged to keep out of the way of all sailing craft, but this was a time when the sailing vessel could do more to help herself than a steamer. The latter was going ahead at full speed, but there was not time, in the Jjudgment of the captain, to reduce the speed. The fisherman was an active | vessel, had a good breeze and was un- | DISMISSAL HIS DEATH WARRANT Dr. Schweninger Talks of Bismarck. SCENES AT HIS LAST ILLNESS THERE WAS NO BLOOD POISON- ING AS ALLEGED. The Physician Also Tells How the Iron Chancellor Was Robbed of the Whole Object of His Life. Special Dispatch to The Call. BERLIN, Aug. 25.—Through the me- dium of his friend, Count von Hohens- bruch, editor of the Taglische Bund- schau, Dr. Schweninger gives a history of -his personal relations with Prince Bismarck and his illness. Says Dr. Schweninger: “My whole thoughts were centered upon the Prince. Now my life seems aimless. My telegram of July 27 was in no sense a lie. It was directed against the sensational papers’ announcement that the Prince was afflicted with pois- oning of the blood. When I telegraphed you the Prince was particularly well. After a long series of sleepless nights he had slept seven hours and he felt fresh and invigorated. He smoked five pipes, one after theother. I felt no un- easiness in leaving him. He was, in- deed, so well that I invited him to take champagne after having forbidden him to take any alcoholic drink since March. “ “What, my dear Schweninger, may I really drink some sec again?’ cried the Prince, incredulously. “We drank a bottle and a half. He was once again the Bismarck of old. His pains had left him.” Dr. Schweninger described his histor- ical return to the dying Chancellor. He says: “Death was due to want of air in the lungs, though he had imagined that it would result from sudder paralysis of the brain or heart. There had always been trouble in the leg since the St. Petersburg incident; but this was by No means as bad at the time of his death as at many times previously. The rapid closing of the coffin was dictated by no desire to prevent anybody what- ever from seeing the body. Passing from his professional to his private relations with Prince Bismarck, Dr. Schweninger relates that Bismarck had repeated to him again and again that his dismissal was his death sen- tence. It robbed him of the whole ob- der good steerage way, but made no at- tempt to avoid the collision, keeping on with sails full until squarely under the bow. The large hull of the Norge, Captain Knudson said, should have | been visible for a long distance. At the office of the French Consul the following names of the lost were given: Lemant, Gannen, Allain, Lepron, Mon- sinet, Graffet, Curnitem, Halmgont, | Lescot, Morquet, Gerard, Guernara, De- | croix, Minguri, Baurel and Bonper. All | were fishermen. | The rgport of Captain Berre of La & to the French Consul states | that when the collision occurred there { Was a heavy fog prevailing. The men ere all on deck fishing. Suddenly the orge appeared coming toward them, head on, for their side. It was impos- | | sible to do anything to get out of the | way. The Norge, which was going at | a speed of from eight to ten knots an | hour, struck La Coquette in the side. Her ‘aftermast fell toward the wheel, | There were sixteen men In that part of | the vessel and the rigging, sails and | mast pinned/them down, so that it was | Inevitable death for them as the vessel began to sink. The wheel was smashgd by the fallen mast and control of La | Coquette was lost. | The Norge cut La Coquette clean in | half. The steamer backed as quickly | as possible and her crew lowered boats | and went to the rescue of the men in the water. It was impossible to save the sixteen men who perished. La Co- quette sank at once. PLAYS HAVOC WITH THE SICK Heat at Ounp'Wik‘ofl! Causes a | Spread of Typhoid Fever. NEW YORK, Aug. 25.—The heat is %“lnyin‘{ havoe with the sick men in Camp ko There are 1120 sick in the general hos- itai and 336 in the detention hospital. here are 210 cases of typhoid fever. ———————— Next Sunday’s Call has the story |of Irishmen in‘hvh positions. & { he say to me: Ject of his life. The hermit of Fried- richsruhe had no fleld in which to ex- ercise his energy. ‘‘His superb energy of soul,” says Dr. Schweninger, “was intense. Often did “The old Romans volun- tarily took leave of life when they were forced to quit the scene of their activ- ity, but this fate is not for me." " Eulogizing Prince Bismarck's conver- sational powers Dr. Schweninger says: “I remember not long since listening to him discussing a particular subject which he had better left unmentioned. In his passion he suddenly clasped his head with both hands and stormed: ‘I I could but interfere in this disgusting business and tell them what result it will have; but, as you know, Schwen- inger, my trumpet will sound no longer. It no longer holds wind.” “‘Mournfully the Iron Chancellor look- ed into the political future. ‘We are advancing toward difficult and danger- ous times,” he would say. “‘Despite his temperament Bismarck’s ulse was scarcely sixty to the minute. is lungs were magnificent. One breath a minute would have sufficed him if necessary. His character which I got to know as no one eise, was simplicity itself. The phrase ‘No one is great in the eyes of his valet’ did not apply to | Bismarck.” RELIEF FOR RECONCENTRADOS. One Million Ratfons Shipped to the Starving People of Cuba. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The Comal sailed from Tampa to Havana to-day with 1,000,000 Government rations for distribu- tion to the starving people of Cuba. Sup- plies will be furnished to other provinces In the island under the direction of offi- 'c::muf the army as emergency may de- 1t has been learned that there will be no difficulties regarding the entry of thesup- ply vessels to Cuban ports or their dis- tribution under the direction of United States army officers. It is stated that the panish authorities in Cuba zre glad to ve the provisions sent in,