The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 27, 1899, Page 1

B 00049009090040 404064090 +0009000+0000049 s : ¢ * T . ® ® vy ® 3¢ et 17 4 ® + Ao - . + b ¢ ¢ + * T * 3¢ . ® o + 4 5 ! . « ® ® 1 ‘ - @ * + 9 ° * - : * . : 2 + ® - b RS & g + & . . 1 1€ ! . : * © 1 + - ¢ ;’ L 4 ¢ MAJOR GENERAL LAWTON. it * WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—The War Department has received the follow- | ©ing telegram from General Lawton, now on his way aboard the transport ¥ Grant with r cements for General Otis: e 4 “COLOMBO, Feb. 2.—Situation unchanged since last cable. No serious ¢ #illnes < improving. Salil to-night for Singapore.” + ® B e e o e »@.‘ ! ANILA, Feb.26—An ’ :040#?#9#40400###6 @ idea of the extent of #|y TRUOPS WOUNDED * & " the loss by fires in the sub- ifl » ¥ & urbs of Manila since Wed- |+ NEAR CALOOCAN b * 2 X i =+ 88 nesday may be obtained 2 s + g¢ from the figures herewith gg|+ WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Ma- 4 . R el 2 ¢ 4| % Jor General Otis has reported to 4 % given: Sixty buildings of &|4 the War Department the follow- + ¢ stone and 150 substan- ¢ 4 ing additional casualties to 4 8 SR v iR I $* | 4 troops under his command: g + }"‘ wooden structures with ¢ 14" MANILA, Feb. 26.—Additional + 2 iron roofs were destroy- $ : nhuundeu February 24 and 25 in + P 5653 3 gy the trenches near Caloocan: + 3 ed. In A‘m“'”A 8000 nifa |4 SECOND OREGON. + # houses of natives were 3|+ Company G—Corporal William + P e g* | ¢+ Ponath, chest, severe, » + - 4 THIRD ARTILLERY. 4‘ MANILA, Feb. 26.—Last night the : ng"”" H—Privates John W. +4 rebels concentrated in such numbers |3 Corder. thigh, slight; Battery K, + g = Michael J. Crowley, leg, slight. 4 near the Chinese cemetery that General | 4 FIRST IDAHO. + MacArthur anticipated an attack and |4+ Company F—Privates Charles + asked for reinfercements. Two compa- |4 S. Lamb, thigh, severe; John An- + nies of the Twenty-third regulars were | 4+ ‘derson, injured, fractured ankle. 4 sent to Caloocan and a battalion of the |+ TWEN.IETH KANSAS. + Fwentieth regul to the cemetery at + Privates Larry Jones, serious; 4 % 4 Campbell Scott, severe. - about r..dnight. ‘But-the expected at- 7 FIRST MONTANA. 3¢ tack was not made. The rebels, after|y . Company A—Privates Francis + ing a great noise with bugle calls | 4 J. Anspach arm, severe; Albert 4 a s of “Viva indépendencia” and | 4+ S. Hickee, lung, severe. = K TS STE S0 8 OBV OIS LABTUN ST S 82 XA S0 - The Call VOLUME. L XXV=— O. 89, AGHT OF INSURGE? ABOUT | FIRE A MAMILA D BULLETS Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. S WHAT THIS W to Be Acted Upon. ASHINGTON, Feb. 2.— An |our land and naval forces to enforce the eventful period in the coun- | resolutlons. Within anm.herrweek. viz., " ’ COV ; th April 24, the declaration of war was ‘ try’s nistory ia covered by the | 1L, Congrens and spproved. Then > | came the rush of war legislation on'a gress, which is drawing to a | stupendous scale, the work proceeding 1t has been a period of stirring | while actual hostilities were under way | and dramatic action, with questions of | and the Dewey victory was achieved. | vast magnitude constantly engaging at- | _ The act creating the volunteer army | tention, forming an epoch alongside | :‘;]ld dhe"l" atv‘vro":rd 'hi‘eeasgy‘smgsio"fi those other American epochs, the | he declaration of war AL Revoluton and’ the: Givil War. Thisll) e Erestaent wes enabled &5 ol Mot ~, | service the 250,000 men augmenting the Congress has declared war against a | regular forces. The latter, also, had | close. foreign foe, and the treaty-making | bgen expanded and improved by the branch has participated in ratifying|act establishing the three battalion | the treaty by which that war was ter- | formation in time of war. A further It has provided a great vol- | force was provided by authorizing the | = enlistment of 10,000 men. adapted to |unteer army, has enlarged the regular | {7, 10 limate, since known as “im- |army and has expanded the navy 10| ypes” Another act added two addi- | meet war emergencies and new condi- | tjonal artillery regiments to the regu- | tons. | lar army, with a total of 1610 men. | The tariff has been revised, first by | These and many lesser army measures the Dingley law and then by the war | Were speedily enacted. | revenue act; a bond issue known as | With these war measures were the | the war loan has been provided. But,|impertant acts ff;e“:};;'gg“f;;e;‘;‘g;n‘;‘-;_ £ i E = ~ | quate to mee ar reaching as these war measures are, | tyres. The first of these was the war | the Congress has had time also to enact | | minated. revenue act, designed to raise $150.000.- | other legislation which under ordinary | 000, and in this connection Congress au- | circumstances would make its session | thorized a bond issue of $200,000,000, | memorable. This includes the annexa- | known as the “war loan.” After news tion of Hawail; the rejection by the|Of the Dewey victory was recelved, | 3 *® | resolutions of thanks to the victor were Senate of the general treaty of arbi-| .. ;" 31q Congress authorized the tration with Great Britain; the enact-| piocentation of a sword to him and ment 6f a national bankruptcy law; | medals to his officers. fucho malo Americanos,” and firing disappeared in thé woods. believed their leaders are getting te and are attempting to force ed States trcops to make an . in the hope of breaking through | t \erican -lines, but the rebels are | vidently, unwilling to be pacified when ng the Americans. It is just possi- | , however, 1t they may be goaded | , such a move before more reinforce- | ts arrive. i All is quiet this afternoon instde and outside of Manila, except near Caloo- can, where the enemy's sharpshooters + + DR R R R R R R T R SR R A R g character with the German naval com- mander. ' P #N EXPEDITION IS DIS"ATCHEu TO CEBU Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1839, by James Gordon nnett MANTLA, Feb. 26.—A battalion of the Twenty-third Infantry has sailed on the transport Pennsylvania for the island of Cebu, over which the American flag was raised by the commander of the continue to annoy our troops at a com- | petrel. - Major Goodall is in command paratively close range. One man of the of the. expedition, with Lieutenant Twentieth Kansas Volunteers was| Goodall as adjutant and Lieutenant rtermaster. The battal- killed in Arequina village, which was burned last night, and four were wounded in the skirmish, one of the Idaho, one of the Minnesota and two of the Pennsylvania volunteer regiments. No such emergency exists here as is presented by reports circulated in the | According to the advices brought this United States—and cabled back to |Morning by the steamship Nuestra Mantla-to. the lefrect *IhRt! Adriral | SeROrs deliiCarmen, Fwhioge - azriyal Dewey has had a collision of a forcible | ] fon includes C Captain Pendleton; Company K, com- manded by Lieutenant Moore; pany J, commanded by Lieutenant Schley, and Company M, commanded by Lieutenant Stretzinger. TGOS £F 83 1 22 L SROSSOROBR0NILI 88 OBRQSHOION U1 83 0 23 0 LS00 OO0 FOREIGN WARSHIPS TO LAND FORCES Serious Reports of the Situation at Manila Come via Madrid, MADRID, Feb. 26.—An official dispatch from Manila says: The situ- ation here is very serious. The foreign warships are disembarking troops. General Rios will leave Manila and go to Zamboanga, island of Mindanao. The Government has received a long dispatch from General Rios at Manila, but refuses to impart its contents. El Imparcial, which asserts that it is in a position to know the truth of the situation at Manila, says: There is constant fighting between the Americans and the Tagallos. The courage and stubbornness of the latter have caused great anxiety to the Americans, who do not conceal their belfef that the war will be a long and desperate one. There I8 the great- est alarm among foreigners in Manila and the commanders of the for- eign warships have decided to land forces to protect their subjects. Bagonaissins HItCITRCIRONS U8 SEKX S0 S G SO0 O M a8 g pad k4 o 8 % o 8 o 8 g ompanyA, commanded by | Com- | provision for taking the twelfth cen- sus; reorganization of the personnel | of the navy. To this list may yet be added other important subjects still pending, including the Nicaragua canal, the increase of the regular army, the | anti-scalping measure, the Hawaiian bill and the proposed encouragement. of American shipping. Some of the most important general measures are in the | final ‘legislative stages and it will not | be until the last hours arrive that the | success or failure of these measures will be determined definitely. | " The present Congress began its work | almost simultaneously with the open- | ing of President McKinley's adminis- tration. Two days after his inaugura- | tion he issued the call for an extra ses- sion, and in pursuance of this call Con- gress assembled on March 5, 1897. The | special message t.. Congress was direct- | ed to the need of a tariff law that would provide ample revenue for the support ef the Goverrment. No other | subject of legislation was mentioned, and the tariff bill at once became the | all-absorbing feature of the session. | Chairman Dingley of the Ways and | Means Committee and his Republican | assoclates had already done much work on the bill, and three days after the ex- | tra. sessjon began the Dingley tariff bill was reported. It passed the House within two weeks of the opening of the session; passed the Senate May 7; be- came a law July 24. Hardly less im- portant was the consideration in .the Senate of the general treaty of arbitra- tion negotiated by President Cleveland with Great Britain. The progress of the treaty in the executive sessions of the Senate attracted world-wide attention, finally resulting in the defeat of the instrument. The extra session also | brought forth four appropriation bills, | but they were those which failed of were not considered as properly charge- able to this Congress. Some general legislation was enacted. including the suspension of President Clev land’s order setting aside 000,000 acres of forest reserves: providing for a gradual abandonment of sectarian Indian schools; extend- ing relief to Mississippt flood sufferers and to the destitute in Cuba and in India. The Cuban problem began to present an acute phase at this early session and thé Senate passed a reso- lution recognizing the Cubans as bel- ligerents, which, however, did not pass the House. The second session of the, present Congress is remembered as the great war session. It saw the culmination | of the pent-up sympathy for suffering | Cuba; the declaration that the .people of Cuba ought to be and are free and independent; the declaration of war against Spain, and the enactment of those vast emergency measures for prosecuting the war. There were many messages from the President as the | war clouds darkened, ranging from the submission of the report on the Maine disaster to the call for a declaration | of war. . The first real war legislation | was when Congress placed at the disposal of the President, with- out limitation, $50,000,000 as an emergency fund for national de- fense. On April 11 the President committed the entire Cuban question to Congr , and just one week later the Congressional resolution became a law, | declaring Cuba free and independent, demanding that Spain withdraw its land and naval forces from Cuba and “uban waters and directing the use of passage in the preceding Congress, mndI | Although the second session was ab- | sorbed with the war, there was time | for much important general legislation. | The annexation of Hawall was accom- | plished by a resolution, the treaty of annexation not having been ratified in the Senate.- A general bankruptey law was enacted, providing for both volun- tary and involuntary bankruptey. | Other general measures enacted were: Prohibiting the killing of seals in the North' Pacific and importation of seal- | skins_into this countr? appropriating $473,171 to settle the Bering Sea arbi- | tration; relieving suffering miners in | the Yukpn; establishment of an Indus- trial commission. The total appropriation of the sec- ond or war session footed almost $900,- 000,000, of which upward of $350,000,000 was for purely war purposes. The present or third session of the Fifty-fifth Congress dealt with those | far-reaching results growing out of the war. The most important of these was | the consideration of the peace treaty in the Senate. The treaty was transmit- ted to the Senate by the President on the 4th of January. It was then re- ferred to the Committee on Foreign Re- lations, and after being held for just a week by the committee was reported back to the Senate on the 11th of Janu- ary. The Senate had the treaty under consideration for less than a month, the vote on ratification being taken on the 6th of February. There was intense interest in the progress of the question from the beginning of the discussion until the close, and this interest was intensified by the doubt felt as to the result of the vote. When the Senate went into executive session on the 6th of February, half an hour before the | of the treaty were certain of only fifty- five of the fifty-six votes necessary to insure the adoption of the resolution of ratification. Soon afterward they secured promises from Senators Jones and when the vote was taken the result stood 57 ayes to 27 noes, or one: vote | more than was necessary under the re- quirements of a two-thirds majority. While the treaty was exclusively be- fore the Senate the House had some in- direct participation with subjects cov- ered by the treaty. As the branch originating all revenue measures it pro- vided an appropriation of $20,000,000 to pay Spain, according to the terms of the treaty. This was first proposed as an amendment to the sundry civil bill, but was ruled out on technical grounds. Later it passed as an independent measure. Efforts were made to add to it a declaration of the policy of the Government as to_the Philippines, but this was defeated by the overwhelming vote of 213 to 34. The resolution of toward the Philippines, came to the House and was referred to the Commit. tee on Foreign Affairs, but no final ac- tion is probable. Another important mieasure resulting from the war is ‘that known as the Hull bill, or the Hull-Hawley bill, for the increase and reorganization of the regular army. new conditions arising; two plans of army increase were presented to Con- gress. The House Military Committee first took up tk: subject, and after elab- orate hearings presented throughChair- man Hull a bill having the approval of the War Department. It increased the army. to approximately 100,000 men. ‘When considered in the House the grade of lieutenant general was struck, out, discretion was given the President to reduce the size of com- panies so ‘that the total force would be- abouit 60,000 men, and some other amendments were made, but the bill | time set for the final vote, the friends | of Nevada and McEnery of Louisiana, | Following the | AN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1899. AR CONGRESS HAS SO FAR ACCOMPLISHED O It Has Covered a Most Eventful Period in the _Gou'mry’s' History, but Much Needed Legislation Remains substantially as presented was passed. In the Senate the Committee on Mili- tary Affairs divided equally on the bill, General Hawley, the chairman, and four others reporting a bill similar to that presented in the House, while five other Senators made a minority report, op- posing the proposed increase and sug- gesting a plan of temporary continu- ance of the military establishment at 62,000 men, with an additional force of 356,000 men to be used in outlying in- sular possessions, The latest phase of the subject is presented in a compro- mise presented by the party leaders in the Senate after conferring with the executive authorities. The compromise proposes only a slight permanent in- crease in the regular army, as given by detall, and authorizes the President, un- til July 1, 1899, to maintain the army at 65,000 men, and to raise a force of not more than 35,000 volunteer infantry organized as thirty regiments. This plan is now pending before the Senate. These several propositions have aroused wide differences, and it will not be until the last days of the session, if at all, that the final form of the measure can be determined. The Nicaragua canal question also has taken a prominent place in the work of this session. At the outset Morgan had the subject made the un- finished business of the Senate. and with this right of way it was kept con- stantly before the Senate, when not in executive session, until finally passed. The essential feature of the Morgan bill provides that the United States shall participate in the construction of the canal, subscribing for 925,000 shares at $100 each, out of a total of 1.000.000. and that the work of the Maritime Canal Company of Nicaragua, in exe- cuting the work, shall be practically under the direction of the United States. When this bill reached the House Committee on Commerce all after the enacting clause was struck out and what is known as the Hepburn plan, drafted by Representative Hepburn of Towa, chairman of the House Commit- tee on Interstate and Foreign Com- merce, substituted. The essential feat- ure of the Hepburn substitute is mak- ing the canal exclusively a Govern- ment undertaking. It authorizes the President to acquire by purchase from Nicaragua and Costa Rica, the terri- tory necessary ‘‘to excavate and con- struct, control and defend. a canal.” etc. Such sum as is necessary for pur- chasing the right of way is appropri- ated. When the route is thus secured the President is authorized to have the Secretary of War excavate and con- struct -the canal from a point near Greytown, via Lake Nicaragua, to a point near Brifo, on the Pacific. The sum of $115,000,000 is appropriated for the completion of the work authorized. As it was feared the lateness of the session might prevent consideration of either. the Morgan bill or the Hepburn plan in the House various plans were adopted to secure action by way of one of the general appropriation bills. The first movement of this kind was when Hepburn offered his plan as an amend- ment to the sundry civil bill. After was ruled out of order, and on an ap- peal from this decision the chairman, Hopkins, was sustained. The next move was made in the Senate, when, at the instance of Morgan, the Commit- tee on Commerce presented an amended form of the Hepburn plan as an amend- ment to the river and harbor bill. The canal amendment reported from the Senate Commerce Committee as an amendment to the river and harbor bill | was agreed to by the Senate and the bill passed. It is now before the House Committee on . Rivers with the outcome in doubt on the canal item and the bill as a whole. . The bill providing for taking the twelfth census was first passed by the Senate and provided a comprehensive plan for executing this important work. ‘When the measure reached the House a substitute was presented. The House measure differs from that of the Sen- ate mainly in making the census bu- reau an irdependent organization not under the Interior Department and in Senator McEnery, declaring the policy | the method of appointments. An important measure which has passed both houses and doubtless will become a law is known as the “naval personnel” bill; and is entitled a bill to reorganize and increase the effi- ciency of the personnel of the navy.and the marine corps. Its main features were drawn up by a board of emi- nent naval officers and were desizied to overcome the stagnation in some cf ! the grades, to expand the personnel to keep pace with the up-building of the new navy and to reorganize the marice corps. It passed the House and the Senate in amended form and is pas. ing through the final stages of confer- ence. The Hawaifan bill was presented to both branches of Congress, having been framed by the Hawaiian commission appointed by the President, with a view to carrying out the Congressional resolution annexing Hawaii. It pro- Continued on Third Page. T W | men in Manila. This order is now in dividuals of ‘whatsoever race were 0000600000 nila. the hands of the authorities here. to be killed wfthout pity. MANILA, Feb. 26.—Great encouragement to persist in war is given to the Philippine insurgents because 6f the known existence in America of an anti-annexationist party, and. a letter from . an Manila to his chief at Malolos found on a dead man emphasized the great influence of these antl-annexation- ists. It was represented that they meditated the assassination of McKinley. urged the prosecution of a guerrilla war by the Filipinos. The terrible crisis through which the city has passed and the admirable work of the provost marshal, Gen- eral Hughes, is shown by the order of the insurrectionist Government at Malolos to the officers of militia of bola- The document says substantially that on February 15 the territorial militia were to be on the streets of Manila armed for action with bolas, revolvers and rifles; that Filipino families only were to be respected and these were not to be molested, but all other in- After the extermination of the American forces, the order further says, an attack from outsiders was to’be the signal for an uprising in various quarters of Ma- The order ends by saying that the war on Americans should be without quarter because Americans have betrayed them. It Is signed by Sandego, Ministér of the Interior. It orders the murder of the whole foreign population of Manila. Such is Aguinaldo’s government. 1 0001000000 0009000 -0-00000000 00000600 HOLESALE MURDER _ PLANNED AT MANILA Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. | insurgent official in In view of these facts the letler and Harbors, | |in the rumor it is hard to say, but animated discussion the amendment| OF imperialist camps in disguise. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FRANCE HOT N THE TRAIL OF ROYALISTS Dupuy’s Cabi solve the net May Dis- League of Patriots. Deroulede Anxious for a Heavy Sentence That Will Crown Him With a Martyr’s Halo. Spectal Cable to The Call and the New York ‘Herald. Copyrighted, 1599, by James Gordon Bennett. ARIS, Feb. 26.—There is only one man in France who takes Paul Deroulede’s escape tragically, and that is Deroulede himself. He is anxious for a sensational trial with a heavy sentence that will crown him with a martyr’s halo for his followers. He accordinglyis doing all he can to exaggerate his offense by de-| claring verbally to officials his de- sign to overturn the republic and writing letters to the same effect. Nobody else, however, looks upon him as anything but a lu- natic. As a journalist here said to-day the worst punishment that| could be given Deroulede would be to sentence him to be confined as non compos mentis, and one| is compelled to admit that this| would be making the punishment fit the crime. There seems some probability that the Ligue des Patriotes may be dissolved. Yesterday in parlia- mentary circles it was held that action in this direction was.about to be taken by the Dupuy Cabi- net. How much truth there is| it would not be astonishing if all leagues were dissolved by order, | as after all they are only royalist FRENCH DETECTIVES SHADOW ROYALISTS | Special Cable to The Call and the New York | Herald. Copyrighted, 1399, by James Gordon Bennett. | BRUSSELS, Feb. 26.—The Duc d@'Or- | leans, who came to Brussels six day: ; ago to watch events in Paris, last even- | ing took the train to Turin, confessing | that he had no chance against the re- | public. He allowed -an interview, in | which he asserted that M. Deroulede | had not acted on the Royalist account, | but on the contrary had blundered ter- | ribly and destroyed Royalist chances. | During the whole of the Duke’s stay | in Brussels. where he led a quiet, un- eventful life, he has been watched and | followed, step by step, by French de- tectives, some in disguise, some riding | bicycles and some on foot. One suc- | ceeded in passing himself off as a Paris- | ian monarchical journalist and inter- | viewed the Duke, who confided his | hopes to him. Prinee Victor Napoleon is considered here ‘a much more serious pretender, because less impatient, more dignified and absolutely silent. -He also is watched by French detectives. They learned that he often drives an au- tomobile -and sometimes even ven- tures a few miles into French terri- tory. So they got an automobile from Parls to follow him in case of need. One notable feature of the stay of the Duc d'Orleans is that although he | went to the royal palace of the Count of Flanders he was neither received by the King nor the King's brother. He only received a visit from the Duke of Vendome. It is believed that the King discreetly advised him through the lat- ter to prolong his stay in Belgium as little as possible. TURIN, Feb. 26.—The Duc d'Orleans arrived here this evening from Brussels. RAIDS ON ROYALISTS BY THE SECRET POLICE PARIS, Feb. 26.—In consequence of the placarding throughout the city of speeches of the Duc d'Orleans, the Or- leanist pretender, recently delivered at San Remo, and the seizure of scarfpins and medals bearing the pretender’s portrait, the Prefect of Police was or- dered by the Government to make strict investigation into the recent pro- ceedings of the Monarchist party. Last evening the Prefect communi- cated the result of his inquiries to M. Dupuy, with the result that the Min- ister decided upon vigorous action. At midnight M. Cochefort, chief of the secret police, was summoned to the Prefecture and directed to prepare sev- enteen confidentigl letters and seven- teen warrants, which were handed to seventeen police commissaries author- izing a search of the residences of sus- pects, particularly M. Guerin, manager of the newspaper Anti-Juif, MM. Depaux Buffet, Robert de Chavilly Thiebaud de Moncourt, secretary to the Duc d’Orleans; Dubuc, president of the Young Anti-Semites, and Comte Sab- ran Ponteves. The confidential letters Indicated that 1 | Rappe W '| steamships. the warrants aimed to discover the ex= istence of any political action on the part of anti-Semite leaders In their re- lations with the Royalists and Bona- partisists’ committees with the other leagues. No other incident occurred in the course of the domiciliary visits. This morning M. Buffet, who represents the Duc d'Orleans, vigorously protested against the violation of his domicile. and declared that the Royalist party would always conspire, even if threat- ened with imprisonment. Many docu- ments were seized at M. Buffet’s resi- dence. Quantities of propagandist pamphlets and portraits of the Duc d'Orleans, & list of members of the Royalist com- mittee and voluminous correspondence were seized at the headquarters of the Royalist committee in the Fauborg St. Honore and at the residence of Comte Sabran de Ponteves. The commissary who visited M. de Moncourt surprised him just as he had returned from Brus- sels with letters from the Duc d'Or- leans addressed to Royalist personages and instructions from the pretender to his supporters. All these were seized. M. Thiebaud expressed surprise at the proceedings against him, on the ground that he belonged neither to the | Royalist committee nor the Anti-Semit- ic league. Altogether a large quantity of docu- ments were secured and placed under seal. All whose residences were searched denied the possession of com- promising documents, but ‘it is be- lieved the raids will be continued. In consequence of an announcement that demonstrations were intended to be made at the Vendome column, thirty agents of the police were posted in the vicinity to-day. About 3 o'clock this afiernoon people began to arrive with bouquets- of violets. Five who threw flowers within the railing surrounding the column were promptly placed under arrest, though released soon after on giving their names and addresses " to the police. Henceforth demonstrators will be allowed to promenade with em- blems, but not to approach the column. |WORE HIS HAT IN THE KING'S PRESENCE Swedish Minister of War Arrested for a Curious Of- fense. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Gordon Bennett. COPPENHAGEN, Feb. 26.—General Rappe, Swedish Minister of War, was re cently placed under arrest by the King for a very curious offense. A few days ago people passing the Royal Palace in Stockholm at the hour when the Ministry assembled for counsel were astonished to behold the Minister of War in uniform surmounted by a shin- ing topper_instead of a cocked hat with feathers. Unsuspecting his grotesque ap- pearance, the general walked into the Pal- ace council room, his top hat still on his head. A roar of laughter in which the King joined greeted his entrance. Not- withstanding the royal smiles General as ordered under arrest for thres days. |NEW STEAMSHIP LINE TO ORIENTAL POINTS Great Northern Company Will Put in a System of Modern Vessels. TACOMA, Feb. 26.—President Hill of the Great Northern Railway is reported to have hired A.. B. Wolvin of Duluth at $40,000 a year to organize a new line of steamships to ply between Puget Sound and the Orient in connection with the Great Northern. Hill is not satisfied with his road's present connection with Nip- pon Yusen Kaisha, and. is ambitious to establish a line of modern -American ‘Wolvin is expected to bulld or lease boats as rapidly as possible. He is one of the most expert lake traffic men, being president of the Zenith Transit Company, operating seven steamships on the Great Lakes, and connected with other lake transportation companies. THREATENS TO KILL MILLIONAIRE MOFFAT ‘William Wayne Belvin Occupies a Cell in a New York Prison. NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—\viuiam Wayne Belvin was arrested in the Waldorf-As- toria late last night, charged with having threatened the life of the Denver million- aire, David H. Moffat, and also with ha: ing tried to defraud the hatel out of $4 He was held in $500 bail in a poli court to-day. He was returned to prison in default of bail. Belvin is a well-known figure about the Broadway hotels. He is always well dressed and describes himself as a _promoter. He asserts that Million- aire Moffat owes him , and it was because of Moffat’'s refusal to pay him this sum that Belvin threatened to kill him on sight. ADAMS INQUEST IS NEARING A CLOSE NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—If the inquest into the death of Mrs. Kate Adams is not completed by Tuesday night, Coroner Bausch will demand that further hearing be adjourned until he can dispose of some outstanding cases. Coroner Hart said to- day Assistant District Attorney Osborne told him he expected to finish the Adams case before the end of the ensuing week. Cornish is to have another session on the stand, several members and employes of the Knickerbocker Athletic Club are to be called and then the police of the detective bureau and the handwriting experts will tell what they know and what they sus. pect.