The News and Obse. . er.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 20.
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KNIGHTS AT THE HUB
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND TEM
PLARS AT THE BOSTON
CONCLAVE.
THE CITY IS IN HOLIDAY DRESS
Preparations Have Been Going f or
ward for a Year and an Immense
Throng of Visitor^Have Been At
tracted to the City—Every Com
munder> is Keeping Open House aud
a Constant Stream of Black and Hold
Regalia Pours Along the Streets.
Boston, Ma-s., Aug. 26.—Boston lias
surrendered to an invading army and to*
night is in the hands of 25,000 Sir
Knights Templar. These, with the ladies
accompanying them, and the immense
throng of visitors attracted to the Hub
by the conclave and low railroad rates,
have swelled the city's population to such
an extent as to cause one to wonder if
all the inhabitants of Greater Boston
have been forced inside the city's limits.
All day long commanderies have been
arriving from North, South, East and
West. By hundreds and fifties they
have come, in coach, parlor cars, sleeper
and special until to night there is assem
bled here an army, the like of which in
splendor and good fellowship, has never
been seen before in Boston.
The entire city has donned a holiday
dress and on every hand flags, banners,
gaily colored streamers and flashing
lights greet the eye. Immense numbers
of incandescent lights have been arranged
to represent every known Masonic em
blem. The Masonic Temple decorations
are, of course, the most elaborate, the
principal feature being a huge outline
cross of colored lights, covering almost
the entire front of the building. The
Albion building is not far behind, and
all along Newspaper Row the occupants
have extended a welcome to the Sir
Knights in a blaze of light.
The weather clerk says there is no
cause for alarm, and everyone is ex
pecting a glorious sight to-morrow morn
ing when the thousands of Knights pa
rade. Many grand stands have been
erected, and to day the building inspec
tors closely examined every structure,
and condemned many ai unsafe. All
these have been placarded with an offi
cial notice, and no one will be allowed to
occupy them. The different hotels,
wheie the large commanderies are
making their headquarters, have been
jammed to the doors. Each eommandery
is keeping open house, and a constant
stream of humanity in black and gold
regalia has been pouring in and out since
early this morning.
The principal reception of the day was
at the headquarters of the Boston Com
mandery in Horticultural Hall. Two
tables’stretched from one end of the long
hall to the other, and were loaded with
eatables, and attendants dispensed
enormous punch bowls. A general invi
tation was extended to visiting Sir
Knights to make themselves at home,
and there was no formality.
To night everyone is well settled and
the preparations for to-morrow's pageant
are being completed.
The arrivals of commanderies to-day
included:
Wheeling, of West Virginia; Mary, of
Tennessee; Memphis, of Tennessee, 50
knight, 75 ladies; South Carolina, of
Sout t Carolina, 25 knights, 10 ladies;
Grice, of Virginia; Old Dominion, of
Virginia, 50 knights, 20 ladies; Rich
mond, of Virginia, 75 knights, 40 ladies;
Columbia, De Mo’ay and Washington, of
Washington, D. C.: Georgia, of Georgia.
SHOT STEALING FLOWERS.
Dr. Atkin* Preaches a Sermon De
nouncing the Secular Press.
Special to the News and Observer.
Ashevillb, N. C., Aug. 26.
Jim Earl, colored, was shot Saturday
night by Arthur W. Neilson, night
watchman at the Battery Park Hotel.
Earl, it is alleged, was stealing flowers
from beds near the hotel and when com
manded to surrender took a rifle from
his carriage and was about to shoot
when Neilson fired. Earl will probably
recover.
The Convention of the Woman’s Par
sonage and Home Mission Society of the
M E. Church South, adjourns to morrow
after a week's session.
The store of J. H. Reed and brother at
Biltmore was burned Saturday night. The
stock was valued at $2,500; insured for
$1,500 and S2OO on the building. The
blaze is honght to have been of incendi
ary origin.
Judge Si monton of the United States
Court gran' A the temporary injunction
asked by the Southern Railway Com
pany against the city of Asheville, re
straining it from the collection of the
special tax levied upon the company by
the aldermen.
Iu his sermon at the Central church
last night, Rev. Dr. James Atkins
preaching on the subject of “The human
Conscience” said: “The most conscience
less thing to day outside the penitentiary
is the secular press, and one of the great
fights of the twentieth century, will be
that of the church agaiust the press.”
Editor Meacham Gives Bond.
Special to Die Xt ws and Observer.
Wilmington, N. C., Aug. 26.
J. W. Meaeham was up before Judge
Mi ares to-day on habeas corpus writ and
his bond was reduced to SSOO. He gave
the bond with A. J. Marshall, his attor
ney, Ha surety.
DEATH OF MR. B. F. HAYNES.
Sam Jones to Begin a Ten Hays’ Meet
ing in W inston.
Special to tlie News and Observer.
Winston, N. C., Aug. 26.
B. F. Haynes, one of Winston’s largest
tobacco manufacturers and leading citi
zens, who died Saturday night of Addi
son’s disease, was buried with Masonic
honors at tho old family graveyard, in
Davie county, this afternoon. The de
ceased was forty two years old, and has
been in declining health for fifteen
months. He was one of Winston’s most
successful business men.
He leaves quite a large estate but left
no will. During his first illness one
year ago, he wrote one, but after his im
provement destroyed it. He leaves a
wife, aged mother and three brothers,
the latter being large tobacco manufac
turers. A committee from the Tobacco
Board of Trade attended the burial ser
vices.
It is announced to day that Rev. Sam
Jones will begin a ten days' meeting in
Winston, September 12th. He will be
assisted by Rev. Mr. Stuart. The meet
ing will be held in a large tobacco ware
house.
Hotel Phoenix, which was closed two
months ago, was auspiciously re-opened
to-day under the management of Win
ston business men, Efird Bios. A Brown.
EX-SENATOR THOS J. JARVIS.
To Make the I irst ol a Scries of
Speeches lor Free Coinage ol Silver.
Special to the News and Observer.
Mokganton, N. C., Aug. 26.
Ex Senator Jarvis will speak here to
day during court recess in favor of free
coinage, having accepted an invitation
from a number of private citizens. A
large crowd is expected. Burke is strong
for silver and the ex Senator is popular
here.
Convicts Killed.
Special to the News and Observer.
Weldon, N. 0., Aug. 26.
The names of the convicts killed the
other day were Robert Kerns and H. C.
Holly. The latter was a preach r and
ex-government officer. The third man
has not been captured, and it is thought
that he was drowned in Roanoke river.
Governor Carr and a party of gentlemen
are expected to arrive here this evening.
They will visit the State farms.
WAS WITNESSED BY GRANT.
The W ill of the Late Joseph Holt Very
Mysteriously Turns Up.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 26.—The
will of the late Joseph Holt, who was
judge advocate general in the United
States army during the war, was filed
today.
The instrument was witnessed twenty
years ago by General Grant and Sher
man and Mrs. Sherman. The estate,
valued at between $200,000 and $300,-
000, is left to Lizzie Hynes, a niece, and
Josephine Holt Throckmorton, God
child. Judge Holt was a Kentuckian,
but for twenty-five years lived in
this city. He died several months
ago leaving considerable property
but no will so far as the most
diligent search could discover. Arrange
ments were made accordingly for its di
vision among his nearest relatives. This
morning the register of wills received
in the mails a letter containing an old
faded and partially burnt piece of paper,
which on examination purported to be
an old will of Judge Holt. Tnere was
no communication accompanying the pa
per to show the sender or motive for
transmitting it to the register.
The property went into the hands of
two trust companies as administrators
for distribution to the legal heirs. These
were W. D. Holt, J. W. Holt and W. G.
Sterrett, the well known Texas news
paper correspondent. Josephine Holt
Throckmorton is a daughter of Major
Throckmorton, U. 8. A. She is married
and lives in New York. Miss Hynes is
also living.
The executor of the will thus strangely
found is Mr. Devlin, a clerk in the War
Department, wh© was the confidential
secretary of Judge Holt when the will
was written. He has identified the
writing.
About nine thousand dollars of the ee
tate baa been distributed to the heirs at
law.
THE WORK OF ANARCHISTS.
Author* ol the Attempt Upon the Llle
of Huron Rothschild.
Paris, Aug. 26.—The efforts of the
police to discover the authors of the at
tempt upon the life of Baron Alphonse
de Rothschild, on Saturday afternoon
last, by sending him an infernal ma
chine, disguised as a package, which ex
ploded when opened by the banker’s
confidential clerk, M. Jodkowitz, have
proved unavailing up to the present
time. The authorities, however, are con
fident that it was the work of anarchists
and thirty suspected anarchists have
been arrested, examined and obliged to
give the police specimens of their hand
writing. They were subsequently dis
charged. M. Jodkowitz continues to
improve.
Statement of Waller’* Case.
Washington, D- C., Aug. 26. —Am
bassador Eustis has wired the State de
partment that Newton B. Eustis, Second
Secretary, and Mr. Alexander, Counsel
I of the Embassy, has returned from Clair
! vaux, where they took down a fullstate
i' ment from ex Consul Waller, of his triad
| and conviction by the French military
court martial at Tamatave. The state
ment will be forwarded to Washington
as soon as possible.
RALEIGH, N. C.. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27. 1895.
OUTRAGES IN CHINA
TIIE CAUSES OF THEM AS SET
FORTH BY' A CHINESE
NEWSPAPER.
THE FOUR RINGLEADERS EXECUTED
The Missionaries are Imposed Upon by
Unscrupulous Linguists W ith Whom
No Decent Chinaman Will Have
Anything to Ho—Two Ways of Get
ting Converts—Young Girls Kid
napped by Interpreters, Kept at the
Missions and Sold as Slaves.
Chicago, 111., Aug. 26.—Sam Moy, a
prominent Chinese merchant of Chicago,
says that a Chinese paper he has just re
ceived gives the Chinese version of the
attacks upon the English and American
missionaries.
According to this Chinese paper, the
attack developed a serious condition of
affairs. It was found that the basements
of missionary houses were closely
guarded by the disreputable Chi
nese hangers-on in the missions.
No decent Chinamen will have
anything to do with the mission. The
missionaries cannot talk the language.
The Chinese in the interior who can talk
pige >n or any foreign language are al
most always young men who have run
away to avoid punishment for petty
crimes or to shirk the support of their
families, going to some treaty port in
stead of the mountains, as the fugitives
from justice for more serious crimes do.
In time the petty crime is forgotten or
or compounded or the tellow com 8
back, but is regarded as a social out
cast.
Theadveut of the missionary opens a
new field for unscrupulous linguists.
The missionary has to have an interpre
ter. The outcast is ready to act, and
also to become a convert- anything for
an easy living. He becomes a member
of the missionary staff and the bouse
hold. The missionary wants converts;
the hanger-on wants luxuries. There
are only two ways to get converts in
China. One is to* hire them; then you
have converts just as long as they are
paid; the other is by kidnapping chil
dren and keeping and teaching them.
Good missionaries, the paper says, do
not allow any kidnapping, but most of
the missionaries, while good people them
selves, don’t know how bad their native
staff is. It is the native staff under the
lead of tough interpreters which does the
kidnapping and the missionaries are
fooled.
One of the interpreters steals a child,
say twelve years old, and finds out that
her parents are poor or careless people,
not likely to make much of a fuss at her
disappearance. He coaxes the child to
visit the mission, and often force has to
be used. The missionary is told by
the unscrupulous interpreter, that
the child wishes to become a
Christian, that she wants to live in the
mission and wants to ha instructed, or
some other invention which seems to be
plausible, and something is added to
show the importance of guarding the
new candidate from recapture by the
heathen relatives, who, the missionary is
assured, would do so to prevent the per
version of the child’s faith.
As the missionary cannot talk to the
child he trusts his interpreter, who,
utterly unscrupulous, practically has
possession of the girl. She is a slave for
the time being,aud he usee the mission to
keep her safe and out of sight until he
can sell her and git the money for her.
The burning of the missions freed
some of the girls, who told the stories of
their kidnapping, confinement, and the
indignities to which they were subjected.
The stories spread and aroused the fe
rocity of the Chinese. This started the
great riot and the mob attacked the mis
sionaries and interpreters indiscrimi
nately.
The governor of Fo-Kien sent 1,000
soldiers up to Min river to quell the riots
and restore order, but the bandits joined
with the rabble and whipped the soldiers.
The soldiers lost half their number and
had to retreat.
At the time the paper was printed, it
was said the whole section was in con
trol of the mob.
Four ol the King Lender* Executed.
London, Aug. 26.-—The correspon
dent of the Pall Mall Gazette at Shang-
Hai telegraphs that according to advices
received there from Oheng-Tu four of
the ring leaders of the recent massacre
of missionaries have been executed.
THREE HUNDRED POISONED.
A Deadly Dm? Placed iu the Food at
a Lutheran Festival.
LaPorte, Ind., Aug. 26.—Three hun
dred out of 1,000 people were poisoned
at a German Lutheran festival or picnic
in a grove at Tracy, this county, yester
day.
A picnic dinner was served, and it is
thought some miscreant poisoned the
potau -es or drinking water. The victims
were attaoded with frightful pains, purg
ing aud vomiting, and rolled and tum
bled on the ground in agony until medi
cal aid was secured. As yet, none have
died, but many are still very ill. Two
hundred and fifty were present from this
city.
Fire in the Treasury Department.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 26—A fire
in the waste paper room in the Treasury
Department building late this afternoon
brought out the fire department of the
city and caused some excitment but no
further damage than the destruction of
a little waste paper.
LYNCHED BY A MOB
FOUR MURDERERSTAKEN FROM
A CALIFORNIA J AIL AND
HANGED.
SWUNG UP ONE AT A TIME
The Mob Consisted of Some 250 Farm
ers aud they Went About their Work
in a Most Business-like Way—The
Lynching Occurred in a Little Mining
Town and Is the Ghastly Climax to a
Reign ol Law lessness The Mob
Feared to Trust she Courts.
Yreka, Cal., Aug. 26.—Four murder
ers were taken from the county jail by a
mob of 250 men at 1 o’clock this morn
ing and lynch' d A band of citizens
fearing that the law would not be carried
out, an 1 angered over the atrocity of re
cent crimes, determined to take matters
into their own hands. The lynching
was the ghastly climax to the reign of
lawlessness which has prevailed in Sisi
kiyou county for months past. One of
the victims was Lawrence Johnson, who,
on the evening of July 28th, stabbed his
wife to death in the town of Etna. An
other was Wm. Null, who shot Henry
Hater in the back with a rifle, near Cal
lahan’s, on April 21st. Louis Moreno and
Garland Seemler, who are supposed to
have killed George Sears and Casper Me
ierhans, at Bailey Hill, on Augusts, were
also hanged*
At 11 o’clock last night, farmers
from all of the surrounding coun
try began to drive into town, and
by midnight the mob was ready to march
to the county jail. Before taking a step,
however, every precaution was taken to
prevent the plans of the lynchers from
being frustrated by the officers of
the law. The sheriff and one of his
deputies were decoyed to another part
of the town where members of the mob
were engaged in a sham fight, and the
fire bell was muffled to prevent an alarm
being given in that way. When the jail
was reached a number of the men, all of
whom were masked, awakened Under-
Sheriff Radford and demanded the keys
from him. He positively refused to
open the door or to give up the keys,
telling them if they broke in the door he
would blow their brains out.
Finding that Radford was determin
ed not to give them the deys, they went
across to the jail and got on top of a
stone wall which surrounded the jail.
Deputy Sheriff Henry Brahtlacht, who
has ben sleeping in the jail since
the commitment of so many mur
derers, thicking some one was es
caping from the jail, fired two
shots out of the window to alarm
City Marshal Parks and Deputy Sheriff
Radford. He then opened the doors and
was immediately held up by the mob
who took the keys from him and entered
the jail. Having no keys to the different
cells, they were compelled to burst the
locks with a sledge hammer which they
proceeded to do at once.
Lawrence H. Johnson, who brutally
stabbed his wife to death at Etna, on
Sunday, July 28, was the first to receive
the attention of the mob. They broke
the lock from the door of his cell, and
placing a rope around his neck, led him
out of the jail and across the streets to
where an iron rail was laid between the
forks of two locusts Johnson pleaded
for mercy but the silent gatheiing gave
no heed to his appeals and he was quick
ly strung up, dying from strangulation
in a few minutes.
The mob returned to the jail and then
broke into the cell of William Null, who
shot Henry Hayter at Callahan’s on
April 21, in a dispute over a mining
property. Null desired to make a state
ment, but time was too valuab e to per
mit any such preliminary, and he was
soon hanging alongside of Johnson.
Louis Moreno, who is charged with
having killed George Sears on the sth of
this month, was taken from his cell and
was soon swinging with Johnson and
Null.
The last aud youngest of the four mur
derers to pay the penalty of his crime
was Garland Seemler, aged about 19,
who, in company with Moreno, was
charged with having killed Casper Meier -
hans at Bailey Hill on the sth of this
month. A rope was placed around
Seemler’s neck and he was led from the
jail iu his bare feet. Seemler begged for
mercy, and his last words were, “Tell
my dear old mother I am innocent of the
crime.”
About this time Sheriff Hobbs, having
been notified, arrived on the scene and
starting for the jail door, was command
ed to halt, the command being empha
sized by the display of revolvers. He
was told that the “job had been done.”
By this time the greater part of the
mob had dispersed, leaving only about
thirty or forty men on gua d who soon
left after the sheriff arrived.
The bodies were taken down by Coro
ner Schofield and Marshal Parks who re
moved them in a wagon to an engine
house where they were laid side by side.
The coroner has summoned a jury to
hold an inquest.
Yreka is a little mining town and years
ago was frequently the scene of mob vio
lence. The summary manner in which
justice was meted out to the four mur
derers this morning reminded the pio
neers of similar scenes during the gold
excitement forty years ago, when it was
not an uncommon spectacle to awaken
in the morning and see the body of a no
torious criminal dangling from a tree.
George Lavigne, of Saginaw, defeated
Handler, of Newark, in the fifth round
here to night.
A KENTUCKY LYNCHING BEE.
A Negro Hanged to a Tree by a Mob of
a Dozen Men.
Springfield, Ky., Aug. 26.—Shortly
after 2 o'clock this morning a mob, com
posed of about a dozen men, took Harri
son Lewis, the negro who murdered Joe
Brooks, also colored, last Friday night,
from the jail here and hanged him to a
tree in the court house yard.
When the mob reached the jail they
called for jailor Smith, but his wife in
formed them that ho was not at home,
and that he had the keys to the jail with
him. This did not daunt the mob, how
ever. Going to a blacksmith shop net.r
by, they procured some sledge hammers,
and, after three hours’ work, succeeded
in battering down the jail door.
Lewis was found crouching in his cell
and begged piteously for his life buL the
leader ordered the men to make quick
work of him. Ho was quickly seized
and after placing a rope around his
neck, was dragged to the nearest tree
and struug up without further ceremony.
The mob did its work in an orderly
way aud seemed to be throughly orga
nized. It is the opinion of many that
it was composed of colored men. After
completing their work, the mob quietly
dispersed.
The murder was a dastardly one and
the negroes have been greatly worked up
since its occurrence. Friday night Lewis
went to Brooks’ house, and, calling him
to the door, shot him down on his own
threshold without any warning.
Harrison Lewis, the man that was
lynched, was a brother of Matthew Lewis,
who narrowly escaped lynching here
about two weeks ago for an assault upon
Mrs. Murray Shields, and who was taken
to Louisville for safe keeping.
MR. SPOFFORD’S STATEMENT.
Denies That He Has Wrongfully With
held Government Money.
Washington, D. C., Aug. 26.—Libra
rian Spofford, in view of various con
flicting statements regarding the sum of
$22,400 paid by him into the Treasury
last week, was asked to day what the
amount really represented. He replied
that it was approximately the amount
due the Treasury on balance of copy
right and salary accounts, as he found
it. An unfavorable and wholly wrong
construction, he said, had been placed
upon it as representing a iarge deficit,
whereas it was actually a balance be
tween two accounts, a salary account due
the Librariar * for several months' dis
bursements, and an account due the gov
ernment for several months copyright
fees. These accounts had remained unset
tled although constant payments had been
made by him to the number of 10 or 12
during 1894 and 1895 of copyright re
ceipts, amounting to over $55,000, be
sides the $22,400 now deposited. He
emphatically denied any allegation that
the recent payment was made to make
good any wrongful withholding of
moneys due to the government. On the
contrary, the whole matter involved a
balancing of delayed accounts, which
his accumulated labors, constantly
growing, had too long postponed. All
copyright receipts had been entered
daily, with dates, sources, and amounts,
whether small or large, duly noted, and
he (Spofford) held himself responsible
for the same.
THE PORT ROYAL DOCK.
Home Doubt a* to it* Ever Being Avail
able Tor Large Ship*.
Washington, Aug. 26 —Some doubt
is expressed at the Navy Department as
to whether the Port Royal dock will ever
be available for what it wa3 intended
for, the docking of large ships. The fault
upon which the report against the dock
is based is due mainly to the delay which
has ensued. While work upon the dock
has been in progress the Teredo, a very
destructive water bug has been eating
away the sheet piling, at the entrance
of the dock an I this has allowed the
sand backing to give away. The sheet
piling consists of eight inch squared
timber. The Teredo completely honey
combs this wood as long as it is in salt
water. When the wood can be washed
with fresh water or come into the air
the Teredo can no longer work.
CAMPBELL’S PLATFORM.
He Say* That He i* an In'ernational
Bi-Metallist.
Massilon, 0., Aug. 26.—Ex-Governor
Campbell was asked to-night to harmo
nize his expressed willingness to “chance
it” on a free silver platform four years
ago, and his candidacy this year on a
gold standard platform. He met the in
quiry by wire as follows:
“Hamilton, 0., Aug. 26.
“I did not favor free coinage by the
United States alone four years ago, nor
do I now, although I am au international
bi metallist. What 1 said four years ago,
was that I would take the chances of
election upon the platform as I found it.
“(Signed) James E. Campbell.”
THE SOUTHERN DENTISTS.
Next Annual Meeting to be Held in At
lanta During the Exposition.
Danville, Va., Ang. 26.—Dr. E. P.
Peadles, of this city, corresponding sec
retary of the Southern Dental Associa
tion, has issued a notice of the next an
nual meeting of this association to be
held in Atlanta, Ga., during the great
Cotton States and International Exposi
tion. This is the largest dental associa
tion iu the world and representatives
will be present from a number of for
eign countries as well as from each State
in the Union. This meeting will begiu
its session on the sth of November next.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
THE CUBAN STRUGGLE
OFFICIAL DISPATCHES TELL OF
UNVARYING SPANISH
VICTORIES.
BUT STILL THE WAR GOES ON
And Spain Borrow* a Hall Million
Dollar* More Iron* a Private Banker
and Send* More Re-enforcement* to
Quell the Insurrection--Au Insur
gent Leader Reported Killed in Near
ly Every Battle— Fifty Rebel* Killed
ami Wounded Near Mauzauillo.
Havana, Aug. 26.- A column of 300
Spanish troops, commanded by I.t. Col.
Teruel, it is announced, recently at
tacked the insurgent chiefs, Stello aud
Angela, who have a following of about
150 men, near Doloritas, in the Remedies
district, in tho Province of Santa Clara.
Tho so called “American Company” of
the column charged with the bayonet
and captured three insurgent positions.
The insurgents lost three killed, and the
troops captured twelve saddled horses
and one prisoner, the father of Angela.
Six railroad bridges in the Tunas dis
trict of Santi Espiritu, Province of Santa
Clara, have been restored. During the
attack on the fort at Miguera, the in
surgent lieutenant Magin Perez was
killed. The tr ops lost two men killed
and three wounded. According to the
derails received from official sources re
garding the fight at Niguera Reiter, the
insurgent leader was wounded in both
arms. It is also stated that the insur
gent leader Alonz Rivere with 700 men
has arrived in the neighborhood of
Niguera.
A column commanded by Lieutenant-
Colonel Yalle, numbering about 180 men,
has had a skirmish with the insurgent
band commanded by Nunez, and num
bering, according to official advices, 370
men. The insurgents are said to have
been compelled to abandon their posi
tions, which were occupied on Mount
Cassito, leaving seven wounded on the
field. The official reports say that only
two soldiers were wounded during the
engagement.
Information received here by the gov
ernment is to the effect that Koloff has
been re-inforced by 2,000 insurgents in
the Province of Puerto Principe, and
with these and the forces of Sanchez, he
is said to be moving upon Santa Clara.
The father of Serafin Sanchez died re
cently at Santa Espiritu. Col. Oopello
has arrived from Santiago De Cuba, and
has appointed chiefs for the battalion of
public order and police of Havana.
Upmann, the banker, to-day, advanced
the government the sum of $500,000.
According to official advices, an
engagement between the Spanish
troop 3 and the insurgents, lasting an
hour and a half, has been fought at
Niquero, near MaDzanillo, Province of
Santiago De Cuba. The insurgents are
said to have lost fifty, killed and wound
ed, and their leader Reiter, is said to be
seriously wounded. No details of the
affair, it is said, have reached here.
More Reinlorcement*.
Madrid, Aug. 20. —Reinforcements of
troops for the island of Cuba embarked
to-day at Barcelona.
Autonomy Spain’* Only Hope.
Paris, Aug. 26.- -The Figaro, referring
to the situation in Cuba, expresses the
opinion that it would be better for Spain
to grant adequate autonomy to the is
land in order to put an end to the Sepa
rist movement, than to continue an on
erous conflict, after which, even if victo
rious, she would be obliged to redress
the grievances of the inhabitants.
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.
At Washington: B. H. E.
Washington, 0 2 2 0 05 0 0 *— 9 13 2
Chicago: 3 0 0 0 2 0 3 l *— 9 14 0
Batteries: Mercer and McGuire; Griffith
and Kittridge. Attendance, 1,200 Game
called on account of darkness.
At Philadelphia: R. h. b.
Philadelphia, 4 00 0 0 0 0 1 1— 0 12 2
Cleveland, 000000010—1 S 7
Batteries: Taylor and Clements; Young
and O’Connor. Attendance, 0,342.
At New York: R. H. B.
New York, 0 0 1 0 3 0 5 0 *— 9 10 2
St. Louis, 100 11 0020— 5 14 4
Batteries: ClarkeandFarrell; Broitenstein
and Pietz. Attendance, about 000.
At Baltimore: n. n. b.
Baltimore, 00103010 4 913 1
Cincinnati, 1 0 5 1 2 0 0 0 3-12 16 2
Batteries: Hemming, Clarkson and Clark;
Rtitnes and Vaughn. Attendance, 3,000.
At Brooklyn: R. h. k*
Brooklyn, 20000 230 *— 711 3
Louisville, 000010100—2 7 0
Batteries: Kennedy and Dailey; Weyliing
and Warner. Attendance, 1,700.
At Boston: R. n. e.
Boston, 00110000 1— 3 4 1
Pittsburg, 001001000— 2 3 4
Batteries: Nichols and Ganzel; Hawley
and Merritt. Attendance, 0,000.
How the ('lnti* Stand.
clubs. Won. Lost. PrCt.
Baltimore, 62 36 .633
Cleveland, 67 39 .632
Pittsburg, 59 44 .573
Boston. 55 43 .561
Philadelphia, 56 44 .560
Brooklyn, 56 45 .554
Cincinnati, 54 45 .545
Chicago, 56 47 .544
New York, 52 49 .515
Washington, 31 02 .333
St. Louis, 31 72 .301
Louisville, 23 76 .232
Where they Flay To-Day.
Pittsburg at Boston.
St. Louis at Brooklyn.
Louisville at New York.
Cleveland at Philadephia.
Cincinnati at Baltimore.
Chicago at Washington.
Maspeth, L. 1., Aug. 26.—Frank
Erne, of Buffalo, knocked out Jack
Skolly, of Brooklyn, in the tenth round
at tho Empire Club to night.