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I a a a Charge LXVI. -NO. 193. H4 RUSSIA FORCED TO YIELD. SALISBURY'S FIRM STAND IMPROTES THE SITUATION IN CHINA.

The CEar Not st Ready for a Test of Strength with England Italy Will Not Recede from Her Position--A Practical tum to the 4 Tsung-ll-Yamen-French and Russiau Consuls nt Pekin Protest Against Certain Settlement Extensions. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. LONDON, March prestige in China has delineulekhs British prestige has risen even and decisively than was antiripated when THE SUN correspondent cabled a few days ago that such would be the result if Lord Salisbury maintained his resolute attitude. Now the whole Conservative party, and all England in fact. is demanding in exasperated chorus to know why this bold policy was not adopted two years ago.

Repeated humiliations would have then been avoided br the British Government and 1m- portant material interests would have been saved. Indeed, the question has a serious financial aspect for the British taxpayer at this very moment. It is almost universally belteved that the enormous increase in the naval and military expenditures, imperative to impose heavy additional taxation this year. would have been at least partially unnecessary if Lord Salisbury had boldly resisted all encroachments upon British interests at the outset. So it happens that Lord Salisburr's diplomatic vietory over Russia at Pekin, direct threat of war, has brought him more blame than credit from his own countrymen.

The situation, of course, is only temporarily Improved by Russia's yielding in the matter of the railway loan. This surrender is at least a confession that Russia is not ready for a trial of strength, a fact whereof everybody except Lord Salisbury has beer, fully convinced. It is clear, moreover, Great Britain now has a year, perhaps two. in which to recover without serious fear of forcible resistance the ground lost during the past eighteen months. There is little doubt that Lord Salisbury will make the best use of his time.

and the unFielding. even aggressive policy, pursued since last summer toward France, will now be employed for the curtailment of Russian aggrandizement everywhere. There is 8 strong probability that Russia will give way. as France has done, all along the line. Russia knows, if France does not, that it would be the height of folly.

to allow Great Britain to incite her into premature hostilities. It is perfectiz plain now. and indeed it has been so to the best observers all along. that Russia was never really belligerent when she seemed to be. She was merely playing an International game of bluff, and she knows well how to play it to bluster John Bull into a retreat, and for a time the game succeeded marveilously well.

The tables have now been turned and interest centres in the campaign of retribution which everybody in England expects Lord Salisbury will push the greatest vigor and relentlessness. There is. of course, the continual danger that the game may get beyond the control of those directing It. The strongest element of safety is the undoubted fact that Russia and France are anXlous to avoid present war at almost any cost. It would be unjust and untrue to say that England either desires war.or is willing to engage In war If she can honorably avoid id it, but it would not be unjust.or untrue or discreditable to England to affirm that if war is inevitable sooner or later she would prefer It now rather than at a tima of her enemies' choosing.

Therein lies the key to the present situation. Lord Charles Beresford makes no secret of hie belief that England will soon drift Into a position from which the only issue can be war unless Germany and Japan make a common stand with England against Russia. Practical statesmen in every European capital declare that such a combination for offensive purposes would be impossible. The Russian railway has been completed to a point within sixty miles of Herat, that almost fabled town which from time immemorial has been described as the gate of India, and Russian troops are near enough to grab that gate within three days of receipt of instructions from 8t. PeterAburg.

THE SuN's Rome correspondent, after an examination of all shades of political opinion. arrives at the conclusion that Minister of Foreign Affairs Canevaro enjoys the distinction, unique in Italy, of having the practically unanimous support of the country in his Chinese enterprise. If China had yielded without a fuss there would have been considerable difference of opinion regarding the wisdom of his polley of adventure in the Far East, but the idea that China should refuse to Italy what she accorded to other powers cuts the Italian pride, and the universal cry is that San Mun Bay must be secured at any cost. Minister Canevaro de reticent in his publio utterancee, but he told a private deputation on Wednesday that Italy had gone too far to draw back. If she did so she would lose caste among the nations and cease to be counted as a great power.

"The only danger in the situation at this moment." he said, "lies in possible irresolution on our part. There is nc danger in going forward, for we have received assurances of support from England, Germany, the United States and Japan, all of whom told us that they recognize that a rebuff for Italy at the hands of China, those hands being upheld and guided by Russia, would menace all the powers havlag, event, interests but in thus China. We encouraged should it will go be on im- in possible to hesitate, much less stop in a course which we have marked out for ourselves." It is not generally known that Italy now has in the Far East the cruisers Stromboli. Marco Polo, Elba, Etna and Piemonte, and the Minister of Marine is considering whether these should be reinforced by the small squad0D now in American waters. RUSSIA AND FRANCE PROTEST.

Extension of German Trading Settlements Objected To--Italy's Ultimatum. Special Cable Despatches to THE SUN. LONDON, March despatch to the Central News from Shanghai says that the Ruselan and French Consuls to-day addressed a strong protest to the English. American and German Consuls against the extension of the trading settlements under the latter's jurisdicLion until the claims of the Russian and French merchants for the extension of their settlements are satisfled. The Russian and Frenoh Ministers at Pekin yesterday proceeded to the Teung-li-Yamen and formally protested against the concessions of land in Shanghat which have been given to the English, American and other foreign communities, which did not include the concessions asked in the interests of the Russian and French communities.

The French Minister adVised the Tsung-li-Yamen that France maintained her claim that ground now occupied and owned by English and American traders was outride of the limits of the old concessions. P'EKIN, March di Martino, Italian Sinleter, last evening addressed a note to the Taung-li-Yamen, requesting that body to reaccept his note containing Italy's demand for A lease of San Man Bay, intimating that in case nt it.6 acceptance Italy will consent to open friendly negotiations concerning the details. Four days are given in which to reply. Although the note is courteously couched, the Chinese regard it a8 an ultimatum, and it la believed that they will reply affirmatively. 48 pages NEW YORK, SUNDAY, DE BOISDEFFRE SEES ESTERHAZY.

The Accused General Travels to London Under an Assumed Name. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. LONDON, March interesting turn in the complications connected with the Dreyfus case was caused by the arrival in London this evening of Gen. de Boisdeffre, formorly Chief of the French General Staff, and the conference which followed between him and ex- Major Esterhazy. The presence of the General in England is no great surprise, since things have apparently been getting hot for him in France the accumulating evidence furnished by Esterhazy and others, which seems to leave little doubt that Bolsdeffre was guilty of crooked practices relative to the Dreyfus affair.

It is significant of how Boisdeffre is regarded in France that his friends, including the anti-revisionists, have deserted him. It was not unexpected, therefore, that he might flee to these shores, fearing prosecution at home. Whether his visit 1s made to make his escape or solely for the purpose of conferring with Esterhazy, or both, remains to be seep. He came by the way of Folkestone, travelling under the assumed name of Williamson. An hour or two after his arrival he joined Esterhazy at dinner and spent the evening with him.

It, of course, does not appear what the result of this conference was, but there can be little doubt that it must have an important bearing upon developmenta which it has seemed might soon involve a number of prominent Frenchmen. The ultimate solution the whole plot. in the light of the tendency of Esterhazy's revelations, has been to saddle the blame upon Boisdeffre, and it is likely that the aim of his visit la to unite upon some plan of common action. It is an interesting point whether this meeting does not presage the ultimate getting together of Esterhazy, Boisdeffre, Du Paty de Clam and others interested with a view of taking steps for effectually checking further disclosures. PLAN TO TAX DEPARTMENT STORES.

German Government's Scheme to Please Socialists and Small Store Keepers. Special Despaich to THE SUN. BERLIN, March Government has undertaken a remarkable experiment in taxation in a bill compelling the large shops to contribute a larger proportion than the small ones to Germany's revenue. The bill provides that three factors are to determine the taxation, the number of branches, the number of employees and the amount of rent. It divides the branches into five groups, food and drugs, clothing, furniture, glass and jewelry.

Establishments trading in two or more of these groups and employing more than twenty-five persons come under the new law. Those engaged two pay 10 per cent. of their profits in taxation, three, 15. per four, 20 per five, 25 per Shops engaged in three groups and employing twenty-five persons pay an annual of 20 marks for one of the twenty and 10 for each additional employee. Stores with branch establishments will be treated as if all were under the same roof.

Cooperative stores will not be taxed under the new law. The bill is intended to create a rood impression among the small shopkeepers who supported the Conservatives, who are anxious to strengthen the party in the large towns and among the Socialiats, who regard department stores as a dangerous extension of capitalism. But the bill is certain to meet persistent opposition in the Relohstag and in commercial cirwhere it is regarded as arbitrary and CECIL RHODES SEES THE EMPEROR. Dr. Von Buchka Says No Sovereign Rights Will Be Granted to Foreign Companies.

Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN, BERLIN, March Emperor received Cecil Rhodes this evening and conversed with him for half an hour. During the budget debate in the Reichstag to to-day Mr. Rhodes occupied a seat in the diplomatio gallery. In the course of the debate Dr. Von Buchka declared that the Ministerial statement that the Government would grant no sovereign rights to foreign companies held good in present and in future negotiations.

The result of Mr. Rhodes's negotiations is uncertain, but German interests will 'be stringently safeguarded. The Reichstag passed the colonial estimates, including the New Guinea administration proposal, which transfers the administration of of the New Guinea Company's territory to the German Empire. Following Dr. Von Buchka, Dr.

Hassa expressed the opinion that the presence of Mr. Rhodes was likely to awaken painful feelings. He would not, however, allow his personal dislike for Mr. Rhodes to injure his railway scheme. Herr Richter said that the personality of Mr.

Rhodes had nothing to do with the matter. ENGLAND TO COPY THE OREGON. Belief That Her Two New Battleships Will Be Built on the Oregon's Plans. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. LONDON, March Goschen told the House of Commons on Thursday, when Introducing the naval estimates, that the Admiralty had not yet decided upon the plans for two new battleships which are to be built during the coming year.

There 18 good reason to believe that both will be almost exact copies of the Oregon, whose performances in the late war greatly impressed the Chief Naval Constructor of the British Navy. It is stated that the Admiralty has the full plans of the Oregon, presumably supplied by the courtesy of the United States Navy Department. NOT BRIBED BY STANDARD OIL. Ex- Attorney-General Watson Indignant at Recently Printed Stories. WASHINGTON, March K.

Watson, formerly Attorney-General of the State of Ohio. is highly indignant at the alleged interviews and other stories from Cleveland and Columbus to the effect that while he was Attorney -General the Standard Oil Company attempted to bribe him. Mr. Watson is in the city attending to duties as a member of the Commission for the Revision of the Laws. He said to-day there was not one word of truth in all the stories of attempted bribery.

The Standard Oil Company had never offered to bribe him with the sum of $250,000 or for any other amount. He added: story is false in every particular and evidently emanated from the brain of a crank. I have not been in Columbus, from which place alleged interviews have come, for five weeks. I was never approached by any one who offered to send me or suggested that I go to Baden Baden or to any other resort for my health, or offered me any amount for taking myself out of the way in order that the prosecution of the Standard Oil Company might be stopped. While Attorney- -General of Onio I tried to conduct my properly, and had charge of some matters agalust the Standard Oil Company, but now that I am out of office I have no animosity against the comand absolutely nothius to do with its affairs, have no desire to be drawn into any controversy with the company nor intention of permitting myself to be entangled in the present case, Mr.

Watson has taken every opportunity to deny the story and brand the originator as fakir and a liar. V. S. stick Licorier. Has superseded all others in public catimation.Adv.

The MARCH 12, ANTI- FOUR- -TRACK FIGHT. MASSMEETING OF PROTEST TO BE HELD ON MONDAY. Conferences Yesterday-Gov. Roosevelt Interested-Opponenta of the Railroads Say They Expect to Win at AlbI Plaster the Route with Injunctions Here. Elihu Root, John C.

Coleman, counsol for the Avenue Relief Committee, and Ford met in John ProoAmsterdam, tor Clarks's affice, at 29 Broad way, yesterday afternoon at about 8 o'clock to diecuss legislation pending at Albany affeetIng the Amaterdam avenue four tracks. The conference was private. Mr. Clarke met Gov. Roosevelt yesterday morning by appointment and had an hour's talk with him.

The Amsterdam Avenue bill WAS one of the subjects they discussed, When the dinner of the West Side Republican Club on Friday night, at Sherry's, was over and most of the diners had gone, the Governor had several short talks with west side men of prominence regarding the same matter. Mr. Root Was one of those who saw him yesterday. Assemblyman Maset, who bas been working with Senator Ford and Assemblyman Fallows, told friends yesterday that thought the Aght WAS going to be won. There is the utthe most enthusiasm in the distriets contigueus to Amsterdam avenue for the massmeeting that is to be held at Durland's Riding Academy tomorrow night.

Louis Lehmaier, who has the meeting in charge, is sure that it will be a most effective demonstration of popular feeling. The Rev. Father Galligan of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Name and the Rev. Dr. John P.

Peters of St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church sent out yesterday this circular over their signatures to every clergyman in the city: Satisfied with the knowledge that the basing of evil is as much a part of religion as the encouragement of goodness, and inasmuch as a crime is about to be committed that will endanger the lives of the children in our neighborhood, we call on you as the servant of Him who has said. Suffer little children to come unto to unite with 116 in wronging the citizens of New York to the grave danger which menaces their children, wives and their liberty, their rights and their property, and espouse in your pulpit to- morrow the cause of the people who are fighting to save Amsterdam avenue from such an engine of destruction as four trolley tracks would be. In preventing this outrage on Amsterdam avenue you are also preventing the establishment of preeedent, which, if created, may some day result in your suffering from the dauger against which we would guard our loved ones. Wo therefore ask you to make our cause your cause.

There is to be mAsameeting of citizens held on day night at Durland's Riding Academy, tieth street and the Boulevard, to protest against the abrogation of the rights of citizens to uno their streets as best suits their venienee, and WO entreat you to urge your congregations to attend." Henry E. Howland, counsel for the Institution for the Destitute Blind, said yesterday that be thought the distance between the property of his clients and that of St. Michael's Church 1e less than 1,000 feet. If Justice Scott decides that on the application of these two property owners he can grant injunctions stepping the work of the Third Avenue Railroad Company immediately in front of their property only the distance between them may be of some tance. It was pointed out Forterday that the Street Railway law of 1804 provides that railroad may, after certain legal proceedings, use the tracks of another to connect two of its divisions whose ende are not more than 1.000 feet apart.

It the Third avenue people are enjoined at these tWO points only. lawyers said yesterday, they could claim the right to use, between these two points the traeks of the Metropolitan Street Railway. Mr. Miprath of Hoadly, Lauterbach Johnsen, counsel for the Third Avenue Railroad, said yesterday that no such proecedinge would be nocessary. He said that the company had all the it needed, and could prove it to the satisfaction of the Court.

Mr. Howland said, on the other band, that if the blind asylum and chureh injunctions were not enough, other injunctions would he obtained all along the line, tying up the work of construction completely. At the massmeeting en Monday William L. Strong will proside, and among the speakers will be Col. Franklin Bartlett, Prof.

Felix Adler, the Rev. Drs. John B. Shaw, Thomas R. Slicer and W.

S. Rainstord; Samuel Sterne and James 8. Lohmaier. Richard Croker said last evening that he bad not bear! of the maasmeeting to be held tomorrow evening at Durland's Academy, and therefore was not able to any whether or not he would attend 1t. In reply to a question Mr.

Croker snid, "The bill is all right," but he was in teo great a burry to explain which bill he meant. F. B. THURBER A LAWYER. At 87 the Well-Known Business Man Enters Upon a Now Calling, Francis B.

Thurber has been admitted to the 57. He had to pass the Regents examination, attend lectures at the University Law School. take examinations, funk and try just like any other law student. His diploma hangs over his desk now in his office at 143 Chambers street, where he a tends to affairs of the American Export Association. Mr.

Thurber says that he undertook the study of law partisan mental discipline, partly to set an studious industry to his son, who is preparing for college, and partly to make money out of it. He has had two invitations already to become of wellestablished law firms. He does not contemplate, he eays, entering into the regular and active practice of the law. Mr. Thurber began life on a farm in Delhi, Delaware county.

He had a meagre common school education and came to New went to work for his brother, H. K. Thurber. as errand boy, receiving $2 a week wages. He worked up into the big grocery firm and when it became the Thurber-Whyland Company became its President.

He was elected to the Chamber of Commerce and was active there. He organized and was President of the AntiMonopoly League. Since the grocery' frm went to pieces Mr. Thurber has been engaged in enterprises and affaire that have not been of directly commercial nature. Ha organ1zed the Merchants and: Manufaoturers' Board of Trade'and has frequently appeared in the City Hall, at Albany and at Washington in support of measures that he believed worthy and in opposition to those of which he disapproved.

He is President of the American Export elation. of which he was the principal organizer. Mr. Thurber says that the suggestion that he study law was first inade to him by a lawver four years ago. The lawyer said that he thought Mr.

Thurber naturally argued like a lawyer and would find the law an enjoyable study. "When I began to look into the said Mr. Thurber, found that as I was not a college graduate I must pass the Regents' examination. Forty years ago I could have done that easily, But I had forgotten all those things. I had to go at them as if I had never seen them.

The preparation took me almost A year, but I passed. Then, when I entered the University Law School. three years ago. I used to leave my office here in the afternoon at 4 o'clock every listen to lectures until 8. I read law all night.

Sometimes I found that the cases given out for study required so much time for the proper mastering of them that I didn't get enough sleep. I went to sleep my desk often, along after midnight. You see. I must have six houre' sleep a dayI am getting old. I have been registered for year 88 a clerk in the office of Howard Ellis.

Last fall I took the bar examinations and failed to pass. They told me I better try again in January, This time I passed. "I home and told my boy about it. He 18 preparing for his college entrance examination. he said, you can pass your bar examinations at '57.

I can get into "My objects in being admitted to the bar were mental discipline, the putting of an example before the boy, and what seemed to me the opportunity of combining my business experience with my knowledge of law profitably. I will be able to be of very great assistance to much more brilliant lawyers than myself beenuse of my business experience. Then, too, 1 have acted in an advisory a great many public associations. I haven't been able to charge for my services because was not a laywer. Now can Of Interest to Every Man.

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CUBANS DEPOSE GEN. GOMEZ THE ASSEMBLY DECLARES HIM TRAITOR TO HIS COUNTRY. Abolishes His Office of Commander-in-Chief -Indignation in Havana--Cubans Would Be Fighting Were It Not for Our trol-Gomez Says the People, Not the sembly, Will Judge Clubs Rally to HimHim--Gen. Lacret Says Gomez Should Shot, and Offers to Lend the Shooting Party Special Cable Despatch to THE BUN, HAVANA, March tremendous sensation was created in Havana this evening announcement that Gen. Maximo Gomez had been deposed from the office of Commander-inChief of the Cuban Army by the Assembly.

A vote Was taken on the question of his deposition at 7:30 o'clock this evenlog. after a long debate, the Assembly deciding by 8 vote of 26 to 4 that Gomez be degraded and the office of Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Army abolished, all of the powers heretofore pertaining to that office to be exercised by the Assembly. With the exception of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes of the representatives declared that Gomes was a traitor to his country. Manuel Sanguily proposed that the office of Commander-in-Chief of the army be abolished, and Gen. Lacret amended this proposal by deolaring that it was not enough to degrade Gomez.

He should be court-martialled and shot. and he (Lacret) offered to command the troops to carry out the sentence. Gomoz, he declared, had sold to a foreigner the honor of the Cuban Army, and the fact that military law was at an end left him no defence. Aristides Aguero presented the resolution that Gomez be deposed and left without any authority over the Cubans. This resolution was carried, with the amendment that the office he held be abolished.

Cespedes, in attempting to defend Gomez, was hissed and insulted and was Anally prevented from Anishing his speech. The feeling of Indignation against the Assembly among a majority of the people of the city, who are in favor of Gomez, la very great, and if it were not for fact that the Americans are in control and enforce order the Cubans would be fighting one another. Ninety-two political clubs met to-night to pass resolutions in favor of Gomez and attack the Junta Patriotica of Havana, which, in the opinion of the clubs, is responsible for all of the evils which the situation presents. The Junta clubs and will establish sever a all big party connection entitled with the Higa Patriotica, electing Gen. Gomez as its President.

Gen. Gomez was in the town of Guanabacoa. across Havana Bay, to-day, where a great demonstration was given in his honor. Gen. Gomez attended mass early in the day and afterward to the City Hall, where thousands went to see him.

He addressed the people and in the course of his remarks congratulated Guanabacoa upon having such a Chief Magistrate as Mayor Hyatt, an American by nationality, but a Cuban at heart, who had done muoh in saving the lives of 10.000 reconcentrados. Mayor Hyatt replied to Gen. Gomez, saying that the Americans and Cubans ought to unite under the protection of President McKinley's Government for the peace and reconstruction of the country. Mayor Hyatt's remarks wore enthusiastically cheered by the people, who renewed their cheers for Gomez. When Gen.

Gomez reached Havana this evenIng THE SUN correspondent informed him of the action of the Assembly. He said: "I have done my duty to Ouba. The people, not the Assembly, will judge me. My conduct has been honest and clear. My long life has been devoted to the freedom of the laland.

I made war to obtain everlasting peace for Cuba, and now peace has been established." Capt. Peabody of Gen. Ludlow's staff will leave on Monday for Washington carrying with him President McKinley's picture, the gift of the people of Cuba to the President. The quarrel between Gen. Gomez and the Cuban Assembly started when he agreed to accept $3,000,000 from this Government for the Cuban Army.

The Assembly declared that the sum should be $12,000,000, and has discussed the question at several stormy sions. An, attempt to float a loan of 000,000 failed. When Gen. Gomes reached Havana the Assembly demanded to know whether he would obey its orders. He replied that he would when the orders wore for good of Cuba.

Gen. Gomes insisted that the $3,000.000 be accepted for the army as reward, not in full payment, leaving that question to be decided by the future government of Cuba. The Assembly continued to hold to disouss this question, and on Thursday, Governor-General Brooke ordered that the dispute be ended, as it was needless and was causing uneasiness in Havana. This brought matters to a crisis. GREAT STORM IN THE WEST.

One Hundred Houses Said to Have Been Wrecked in Oklahoma City. OKLAHOMA CITY, March terrifie windstorm visited this place to-day, coming from the southwest. For half an hour it blew a gale. The rain fell in sheets. Nearly one hundred houses were blown down.

The oll mill and compress were damaged and nearly every smokestack in town is down. The damage is estimated at $50,000. No lives were lost. TOPEKA, Maroh blinding snowstorm of the blizzard kind is sweeping Kansas and Oklahoma, and railroad traffio is crippled. The storm is the most severe of the winter.

and thousands of head of cattle are wandering over the prairie without shelter. The snowfall is heavy, and is accompanied by a gale of wind which makes travel almost impossible. In southern Kansas early this morning great damage was done by the wind. Barns, stock sheds and outbuildings were levelled to the ground, and many houses were shaken from their foundations. Despatches, received at 100 houses were wrecked and strewn over the railroad headquarters here to say that town site of Oklahoma City, and that 400 people are homeless.

OMAHA, March worst blizzard of the season is raging throughout Nebraska tonight, and has prevailed since early morning, A heavy snow has fallen, which has been piled into enormous drifts by the tornado accompanying the snowfall. For several hours this afternoon street trafflo in Omaha was practically suspended, the wind being so strong as to prevent pedestrians from making headway. Street cars could not operate except when aocompanied by snowploughs pushed by three motors. Out in the State the conditions were similar, and in some places worse. It is not cold enough to be a menace to stock, but railroad traffic is very seriously interfered with.

No trains were on time this evening. FRIENDS SEE KIPLING. His Daughter Elsie Also in the SickroomPleuritic Pains Still Vex Him. Rudyard Kipling was well enough yesterday to receive several of his friends who called to see him. Yesterday afternoon his daughter Elsie, who has recovered from an attack of pneumonia, at visited the sickroom.

This bulletin was issued 1:45 P. Mr. Kipling bas continued to improve. His temperature in practically normal. The pleuritic pains are his only reminder of his pulmonary trouble.

G. JANEWAY. THEODORE DUNHAM." At a dinner of the British School and University Club the a Brevoort House last night Jerome Flannery, the Secretary, was instructed 10 send the fellowing congratulatory lester to Rudyard Kipling: Old Boys of other schools, members of the British School and University Club, dining at the Breevort House, Lions upon recovery to Westward Ho's greatest old boy." When your vitality is exhausted Somatose Biscuit ll give you strength and vigor. Bread and meat combined in most delicious form. At all druggiste.

Threatening weather; probably rain; increasing southerly to casterly winds. COPYRIGHT, 1899, BY THE SUN OTIS GETTING READY TO ADVANCE. Rearranging the Lines Around ManilaIrregular Firing Yesterday, Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN. MANILA. March P.

King will to-morrow resume his former command, of which he was recently relieved by Gen. Wheaton because of his illness. A now brigade is being formed for Gen. Wheaton. One battalion of the Fourth Infantry, which arrived here yesterday, will be assigned to duty at the waterworks and another will be encamped at Luneta.

One battalion the Seventeenth Infantry will relieve the Second Oregon Battalion to the walled city. Gen. Lawton's headquarters will remain at Grax. To-day there has been irregular fring along the line of both divisions. The transport Isla do Luzon has sailed for Spain with 1,885 Spanish soldiors on board.

Only 120 Spaniards still remain here. AGUINAL.DO'S ROAST. Writer His London Agent That Our Troops Have Fallen Into a Hornet's Nest. LONDON, March following is horoscope of the American forces in the Philippines cast by Aguinaldo and forwarded to his London representative: The Americans have fallen into a hornet's nest. They will have to undergo great tribulabefore they leave the islands.

I know thine the Americans want. They want to await reinforcements and then fight, but 1 hope to annihilate them before reinforcements arrive. Their volunteers simply won't obey orders. Their poor officers don't know what 1 to do. Two hundred volunteers have joined the Filipinos.

The Americans are sending 7,000 negroes to fight the Filipinos. These negroes will make splendid manure for the Filipino ricedlelds." GEN. RIOS HAS NOT RESIGNED. New Commission to Treat with Aguinaldo for Release of Spanish Prisoners. Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN, MADRID, March Polavieja, Minister of War, absolutely contradiets the story that Gen.

Rios, the Spanish commander in the Philippines, has resigned. The Government has instructed Gen. Rios to appoint a new commission to negotiate with Aguinaldo for the liberation of the Spanish prisoners in the hands of the insurgents. CAN'T TAKE THEIR WIVES TO MANILA. Gen.

Otis Says It Is Not a Safe Place for the Families of Officers. WASHINGTON, March the regimente of regulars were sont Manila in the fall and winter the War Department decided to permit officers and non-commissiened officers to take their families, and A number of women and children went out on the Grant, Sherman and Sheridan from New York and on other transports from San Francisoo. Owing to the recent native outbreaks in the eity, however, the War Department telegraphed Gen. ing him it it would be wise to send women and ebildren to Manila at this time, The answer of Gen. Otis was received to-day as follows: Manila not sAfe place for officera' families.

Great diffoulty experienced in caring for those now here, and their safety is one of the chief enuses of anxiety. families should remain in the United Actins on this advice Secretary Alger sent copy of the telegram to-day to the commanding General of each military department, with this addition: Under such condisions the Seeretary of War regrets that no more families of oflicers or listed men will be permitted to accompany treops. Families of officers and all officers for which quarters are legally provided will be permitted to retain their quarSers at the posts from which troops depart, According to the provisions of memorandum eircular, dated Adjutant-General's Office, Jan, 19, FOOLED MINNIE SELIGMAN. Chappie Moran, Under Arrest in St. Louis, Had a Col.

Sellers Scheme. ST. LoUIs, March Moran, under arrest here charged with theft of diamonds from a guest of the Hotel Beers, sought to implicate Minnie Seligman, the actress, and wife of Robert Cutting of New York. Miss Seligman drove to the office of Chief of Police Campbell this evening and related the story of her acquaintance with Moran. She said: Dr.

Bryan, house physician of the Lindell and an old acquaintance, requested permission to introduce to me a friend, Col. Vallandigham, a guest at the Southern. Subsequently the latter also desired to present a friend, Oliver Ames of Boston, son of the millionmire railroad man. After a time these two broached a plan to organize a theatrical company to go to London with me as the star, and Vallandigham, who professed to be areturned Klondiker, and young Oliver Ames, or "Chapple" Moran, to finance the enterprise. They flashed what purported to be a $25,000 cheok, with which intended to secure the right to play "The Christian." Flattered by their promises and believing them to be what they represented themselves, wealthy gentlemen.

I agreed to organize company in Now York and signed a contract to cross the Atlantie." Among their plans was the erection of an opera house in Paris. Col. Sellers was not in it with Vallandigham and Ames. Finally something aroused Miss Seligman'4 suspicion and she quietly withdrew from further dealings with them. According to the police, Vallandigham's name is Powell.

Chapple' Moran is locked up in the station and Vallandigham has disappeared. SETTLED HER SUIT OUT OF COURT. Mrs. Englehardt Disappoints Her Lawyer in a Damage Case. Ernest M.

Welch, a lawyer, who has tried a number of accident suita against the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, sent out report yesterday that a client of his. Mrs. Mary Englehardt of 1862 Lexington avenue, bad been "spirited away by agents of the railway company." Mrs. Englehardt was injured by jumping off 8 runaway Lexington avenue car a year ago, and she sued the railroad company for $25,000 damages. The company's lawyers made number of attempts to settle the suit out of court, but the woman refused to accept any of the lawyers' The case was on the Supreme Court calendar for Thursday last, but Mrs.

Englehardt did not appear in court. Her lawyer and the company's lawyer both there, as Were also witnesses. "Upon inquiry at Mre. home. where her son Joseph was found, it appeared that early in the morning two agents of the company came to the house in a carriage.

They offered Mra. Englehandt $1,850 in settlement of her claim against the company. This money she accepted. Then she went away in the carriage, and went to Newark to visit relatives. She was afraid her lawyer would persuade her to to court instead of accepting the $1,850.

Her sOn Joseph will not tell his sister just where the mother is, and the sister is ill from worry. Poor Opinion of Agencillo. March Filipino brothers. M. and A.

D. Cortez, who are endeavoring to have the United States restore to them their property, confscated by the Spanish, are at the Hotel Rennert in this city. As to Aguinaido they say very little, but they do not hesitate to give their opinion of Agonellio, which is: You rive Aconcillo $5,000 and he will advocate the annexation of the Chinese, I give him $10.000 and he will advocate the annexation of the Tagalos. Senator Jones of Arkansas Critically 111. WARRINGTON, Maron -The condition of Senator J.

K. Jones of Arkansas, Chairman of the National Democratic Committee, who is suffering from heart trouble, continues extremely critical, and his family are fearful of the worst results. Two physicians and trained nurses are in constaut attendance. Nitroglycerine la being administered to stimulate heart action. Allene Ale.

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J. A. WALKER. Bloodshed at a Congress Election Inquiry in Virginia-Gen. Walker Also Wounded.

RICHMOND, March taking deposttions at Bristol to-night in the Rhea-Walker Congress contest case Gen. James A. Walker. Republican, former Congressman, became involved in a controversy with W. S.

Hamilton. attorney for Democratic Congressman William F. Rhea. Hamilton, advancing on Gen. Walker, was shot in the abdomen, the wound probably mortal.

Walker was shot twice in the shoulder. The wounds chains Walker are serious but not mortal. His wounds are supposed to have been made by a pistol in the hands of G. E. Davis, private secretary of Congressman Rhea.

Great excitement prevails at Bristol and further trouble is feared. Warrants have been issued for Gen. Walker and some of the other parties. The contest between Walker and Rhea in the canvass last fall was one of the bitterest that ever took place in Virginia, pistols having been drawn several times between the candidates while speaking to the votera. The contests during the taking of testimony for the last sixty days have been frequent and each side has accused the other of fraudulent practices.

Rhea's friends say that Walker's shooting of Hamilton WAS uncalled for and cowardly. Walker's friends say that he was being bulldozed as part of a deep-laid scheme to get rid of him because he had made out a strong case of fraud in the election last fall. GARDINER OUT WITH THE JUDGES. It Is Said He Will Resist Their Now Rule About His Calendars. District Attorney Gardiner called all his assistants Into his private office yesterday and talked with them for half an hour.

It was learned that the District Attorney had decided resist the rule adopted by the Judges the Court of General Sessions, off that in the future the District Attorney must prepare court calendars 80 that cases will be arranged in numerical order, and the calendar read each day at the opening of the court by the presiding Judge. The District Attorney is said to deny the right of the Judges to make such a rule, I have nothing to say in reference to this conference." said the District Attorney. "It la a matter that concerns the office only. Just what I propose to do when court opens on Monday morning in reference to the Judges' rule I decline to say." BELIGMAN WEDDING. Henry, Son of the Late Jesse, Marries David J.

Seligman's Widow. Henry Seligman of the Broad street banking firm, and Mrs. Addie Walter Seligman, widow of David J. Beligman, were married at noon yesterday. The ceremony was performed by Supreme Court Justice George Barrett at Mrs.

Seligman's home, 74 East Fifty-fifth street. All of the members of the Sellgman and Walter families were present. At the conclusion of the ceremony there was a breakfast and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon the bride and groom started on their wedding tour. After a visit to Washington they will go to Palm Beach, Fla. Religman is a son of the late Jesse Beligman and a cousin of his bride.

She 18 46 years old and her husband la 41. The witnesses to the marriage ceremony were Theodore Seligman and William I. Walter, a brother of the bride. WAR ON DEPARTMENT STORES. The Chicago Ordinance Intended to Break Them Up Declared to Be Invalid.

CHICAGO, March Chetlain of the Superior Court to-day rendered an opinion in the agreed upon case of the city of Chicago against Charles. Netcher, proprietor of the Boston Store," finding that the defendant was not guilty of violating any law in selling meats, fruits, vegetables and other provisions under the same roof with dry goods, jewelry and other merchandise. The prosecution was based upon an ordinance passed by the City Counoil on July 12, 1897. fining any person or corporation transacting a provision and general merchandise business under one roof, and it practically contemplated an end to department The Court held that the ordinance was invalid. SALVATION ARMY MAYOR.

Democrats of Wichita, Nominate Religious Leader-His Plan of Reform. WICHITA, March W. Tapp, a rich merchant and leader of the local Salvation Army, has been nominated by the Democrats as their candidate for Mayor, Mr. Tapp prom1ses this reform elected. Ten dollars Ane for any girl wearing bloomers on the street.

Any policeman heard swearing will be discharged and all will be required to carry Bibles. Religious services will be held twice dally in the oity building. Free street car service will be given on Sunday morning to all churchgoers. Sunday forbidden. theatres Spitting and the baseball on sidewalks will be a finable Great Steel Works to Be Enlarged, HARRISBURG, March 11-Annoucement was made to-day of enlargement at the Pennsylvania Steel Works at Steelton by the addition of six new fifty-ton furnaces to the open hearth department and additional underground furnaces at the blooming mill.

Extensive cranes for the handling of alla will be placed in the yards at the rail mill. The demand for billets and structural steel was never so heavy. A number of departments are to be enlarged shortly. There were 8,000 names on the payroll, a gain of 2.000 over February, 1897. Mr.

Howell Gives $50,000 to Charities. Benjamin E. Howell of 98 South Ninth street. the senior member of' the Arm Williamsbure, Son sugar brokers, contributed $50,000 to three Williamsburg institutions yesterday. To the Eastern District Hospital he gave to the Eastern District Industrial School Association.

$20.000. and to the Young Men's Christian Association, $20.000. Mr. Howell is nearly 80 years old. and for many years has been interested in charitable work in Williamsburg.

where he has lived for many years. His wife is the President of the Board of Managers of the Industrial School Association. Senator Coggeshall's 19-Year-Old Son Weds UTICA, March reached here tonight that Charles T. Coggeshall, aged 19, 600 of Senator Coggeshall, and Miss Roberts, 20 years of age, both of Waterville, were married in New York two weeks ago. After the marriage the girl returned to her home, but has since gone to New York to be with her husband, who has been studying medicine in New York, but who is now with an insurance company.

The parents on both sides have blessed the children. Just a Few More Trade Combines. Wall street heard yesterday Incorporation under New Jersey laws the American of Ice Company, with a capital stock of 000.000: of a combination of shipbuliding plants on the great lakes under the title of the American Shipbuilding Company, with a capital of $15,000,000: of a consolidation of the brickmakers of Chicago with a capital stock of $7.000,000, and of a combination of the sheet-iron and rooting interests of the country. Webb MeNall Removed from onice. TOPEKA, March Stanley today removed Insurance Commissioner Webb McNall from office.

W. V. Church was pointed his successor. Gov. Stanley was opposed to MoNall's policy of inflicting costly examinations on insurance companies and pounced that under the present administration the practice would not be continued.

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E. W. All cuffs bearing our trado mark are made with whipped scam." is a late shape. LOTOS DINNER TO DEPEW. EX- -SENATOR HILL ENLIVENS IT WITH DIGS AT CROKER.

Incidentally He Pays Some Warm Compliments to the Distinguished Guest of the Evening--Gov. Roosevelt and Gen. Mere ritt Also Present-Mr. Depew's Speech. Senator-elect Chauncey M.

Depew was the guest of honor at the Lotos Club last night. The dinner was one of the most brilliant in the history of the club, old and young members alike turning out to do honor to Dr. Depew. whose name has been on the rolls of the club for twenty-five years. Dr.

Depow's polltical opponents in the past were as conspiouous in the banquet hall as those who have walked by his side in the same political faith for years, Ex-Senator David B. Hill, as smiling and happy as the guest of the evening, sat almost directly across the table from Dr. Depew, and others around now Senator from New York were the Rev. John Watson (Ian MacLaren), Gen. Randolph, John A.

Taylor, Henry E. Howland, James J. Coozan. Gen. Wesley lEa.

Merritt, Bourke Cockran and Gov. Roosevelt. In introducing Mr. Depew. President Frank R.

Lawrence said: It was as natural that Dr. Depew should gravitate toward the Senate of the United States as for water to seek Ita own level. In speaking of Dr. Depew. superlative became commonplace.

To introduce him properly one needs a new vocabulary. We see in his election to the Senate of the United States sign of bright promise for the future and An event which increases the prestige of that ancient and honorable body. In him wo shall have no mute, inglorious. Senator, but sitting to represent the Empire State in that chamber, where in their day the greatest and best of her sons have sat, we know that his voice will ring loud and clear upon all questiona where publio welfare or national honor is concerned, and we esteem it fortunate that for the next six years the weight which always attaches to his utterances will be enhanced by the position of authority from which they will be delivered. We wish him all happiness and success in his new career, and may the Senate, through the accession of such men as Senator Dopew, grow more and moro representative the best intellect and a the highest purposes of the nation, becoming the seat of most intelligent discussion of publio questions and the source of the wisest legislation." When Mr.

Depew rose to speak he was greeted with applause that kept him silent for several minutes. When the greeting had subsided somewhat Dr. Depew said: "Many years prior to 1800 were the dull days of American politics. We wore arguing cantury-old questions, measures and policies. The acute currency and financial conditions of the campaign of '96 were distinctly educational and gave an Impetus not felt before in a generation to national study and thougnt.

The past year has done more. It has marvellously elevated the plane of national thought and enlarged the area of national questions. There are two lines of Tennyson which are American beyond the dream of the Poet Laureate. The frat is 'Better dity years af Europe than cycle of The poet referred to the Europe of letters, but the, sentiment superbly describes and differentiates this era 1 action. all remember the general training days in the fifties.

the and; ridioule which greeted the appearance for training and of the citizen soldiers: the Indifference to the position and future of the United States, to the liberties of other peoples and the commerce of the world which starved our navy. Even the Fourth of July lost its significance and became a revel and not a ment. Upon the leland of Malta the cross and the crescent fought fiercely for the control of and immortality. Upon its issue hung the Europe for a century, It was a battle for faith fate of modern civilization. The cross won.

and with it Christianity, liberty, humanity, art and industry. oftizen soldier whom we laughed at in the fifties, with the flag representing the best which the victory of the cross made possible, marohed in serried lines over the causeways at Malta, built by the Oruwaders. and beneath the battlements heroleally and gloriously defended by the Knights of St. John. "The martial appearance and soldierly perfection and equipment of our little army received the unstinted applause of the military experts of Europe.

But as the cable flashed the incident and piotured the scene the Old World and the New alike felt the elevating and inspiring thought that the heirs of the largest measure of the blessings which had some to humanity from the triumphs of the cross had taken up the burden which God had upon them and were bearing those blessings to the lands and peoples which Providence had put in their hands. The other sentiment of Tennyson, often quoted and now derided. is 'We are the heirs of all the ages in the fore. most flies of The poet had in his mind the thinkers of antiquity, the literature of the Middle Ages, Dante, Milton, Bacon and Shakespeare. We have in our minds all these and also the fruits of the active working of the principles of freedom which we have inhor.

Ited. We have in our minds and in our polities the throttling grasp of the skeleton hand and mailed Angers of Cortez and Pizarro struck from the throat of the peoples of this Western Hemisphere. We share the deep exultation of Tennyson in all the glorious works of ancient. medieval and modern genius But we leave our libraries and the compamonship of the ancients when the night 18 spent to take step by day under the Stars and Stripes with Dewer, Sampson and Schley. with Shafter.

Merritt and our own Roosevelt. The problems of our politics are soluble by American pluck and the heritage which makes us Americans. They will be solved in the American way. We will prove that we can both preserve every principle of the Declaration of Independence, of the Constitution of the United States and governed colonies. We will keep intact and free from entanglements the republio and its States upon the American continent.

We will educate our wards the: lesSOnA which have made us free and great to an understanding of law. jnstice and liberty. We will share with them the prosperity which is sure to come to them and to us in the ex pansion of Industry and of markets inspired by order and freedom, and as they become worthy of self -g vernment under the protection of the flag which has made them free they will have conferred upon them and exercise its duties end Its functions." looking Toward the the close of his at speech, Dr. Depew. across table Hill, said: me It is a source of happiness and gratification to to be welcomed here to-night by one of the ablest statesmen that the Democratio party has ever produced, that formidable, and most chivalrous of foes, David applause.J After the secretary had read a letter of regret from Whitelaw Reid.

President Lawrence introduced David B. Hill, who was greeted enthusiastically, Mr. Hill said: It becomes my drat duty to express my thanks to the club for the invitation which gives me the opportunity to be present on this memorable occasion. I am here to testify, more by In presence than by my words. my profound respect for the distinguished guest of the evening: Incidentally may remark to express my respect for his Democratic father.

On the way to the city to attend this dinner I met an enthusiastio Democratio friend. who asked me where I was going. I told him to a club dinner. What club ho inquired. 'The Lotos Club.

replied. Lotos The said: 'seems to me I've heard of that club. But, if you want to go to aclub dinner, why don't you wait until April 13, and attend the great dinner to be given by the swellest club in New York He didn't explain what he meant by 'swellest. and I was too much of a gentleman to inquire. I told my friend that was not exactly cortain that I would get an invitation to that dinner on April 13, and that I bad already got one for this dinner: also, that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Hence I am here. ain rejoiced to ba here to express my gratification, not as a partisan, but as a citizen of this State, with you over the election of our distinguished friend, and I feel honored by his election. AA do all good citizens of this State His election WAS unique In character. He was the choice. if a Republican was to be chosen of all parties.

and I want to call, attention right here to one fact, while the Senatorial elections in other States have brought to light most disgraceful scandals, his election cost our friend here not 80 much as a single postage stamp. in my judgment. The only one of his utterances since his selection that I regret is that one in which he bald didn't favor the election of Senators by the people. I thinks tau is wrong tore. mY.