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: " : - - I iff : IT DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK COUNTY. VOL. IV.-NO. 11. SOUTHPORT. N. C. THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1893. PRICE FIVE CENTS. THE : WORLD'S NEWS -:o:- A CONDES8KD SUMMARY OF A WEEK'S DOINGS Cotton Damaged by Froat, More Failures (In Aaatralla. Terrible Cyclone la Ok lahoma. Cholera Decreasing. Sdow iturnu ia Wyoming. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 26. Tin: train bearing the Liberty Bell left Philadelphia for Chicago yesterday morn ing. Frost on Monday night did great damage to young cotton in Mississippi. It is esti . mated that half the acreage planted in the State has been killed or that the seed rotted before coming up. . Oeorge A. Prce, Secretary of the Plan ter! and Merchants' Insurance fompany of Mobile, Ala., who decamped in 1888, after embezzling $102,000 from his company, was traced to Abilene, Texas, by the sheriff of Mobile, and brought back yesterday. The First Regiment Armory, at Chicago was destroyed by fire yesterday. ' -The flames reached the magazine in which were stored a bie supply of powder aud a large number of rifle cartridges. These exploded , with terrific force. Two colored janitors were burned to death and two other men badly injured. Loss, about $250,000; par tially insured. fobeign. Rioting of Orangemen at Belfast con tinues. The military -had to be called upon yesterday to clear the streets with fixed bayonets. ! - The Bering Sea Arbitration Tribunal has adjourned for a week on account of the Illness of I-ord James Hannou, one of Great Britain's counsel Another Australian bank, the London Chartered Bank of Australians suspended The bank had a paid up eapital of $5,000, 000 and deposits to the amount of $32, 500.000. . THURSDAY. A PHIL 27. Clark & Keen, manufacturers of woolen goods at Philadelphia, have failed- Liabi lities about $100,000. U Three more big failures are reported at Sioux City, Iowa, yesterday. The aggre gate of liabilities is in the neighborhood of $1,000,000. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia.was yesterday appointed by the President to be one of the Government directors of the Union Pacific Railway Company. j Capt. Gilbert C. Wiltse, U. 8. S who was in command of the Boston during the ; trouble at Hawaii, died at New York jes terday, of congestion of the brain,' after . six days' illness. Dr. Robert W Buchanan has been found guilty of murder in the first degree, by a New York jury, after a trial lasting six weeks. He was accused of murdering his wife. Oklahoma was visited Tuesday night by two distinct cyclones, a terrific hail storm and a waterspout. Great devastation was wrought to property and at least sixty per sons lost their lives. i FOREIGN. Rioting at Belfast, Ireland has been quelled by an appeal from the clergymen. The Yiking, which is to be exhibited at -the World's Fair, will sail from Bergen, Norway, on Sunday next. It has been announced in the French Chamber of Deputies that General Lad vo cal has been honorably acquitted of all taint in relation to the Melinite invention. FRIDAY. APRIL 28. Hawaiian Minister Stevens has resigned and it is thought possible that Commis sioner Blount may succeed him. William C. Goudy, a well known lawyer and oolitician of Chicago, fell dead of heart disease at that city yesterday Word has been received at Washington that a settlement has been made with Turkey in record to the burning of the ladies' college at Marsovan. 1 The three keepers on duty at Sing Sing prison at the time of the escape of the con demned murderers Hulse and Roehl, have been dismissed from service, ' Gen. U. S. Grant's birthday was cele brated by a memorial banquet at New York last evening- Great leaders of both Federals and Confederates were present Banks of Columbus, Ga., have made a tender of their entire gold reserve of fifty four thousand dollars to Secretary Carlisle, to aid the Government in maintaining the public credit. Another serious wind and rain storm visited Chicago on Wednesday. Many places in Wisconsin and Illinois report ex tensive damage. The World's Fair build ings were uninjured, although the wind blew at the rate of fifty-four miles an hour. FOREIGN. ' The latest report from St. Petersburg states that cholera is steadily decreasing. There were 586 cases and 162 deaths iu the whole of Russia in the first week of April. The Belgian Senate, by a vote of 52 to 1, has approved the plan to establish universal suffrage, with plural voting based on the ownership of property and "possession of certain educational qualifications. SATURDAY. APRIL. 29. The Second National Bank.'' Columbia. Tenn. .suspended payment yesterday morn ing. No statement, of the bank's affairs has yet been made. 1 " The lease of the Lynchburg & Durham railroad to the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company, for 999 years, has been ratified bv the stockholders of the former company 1 i It is now known that seven distinct cy clones passed through Oklahoma Territory on last Tuesday night. The damage done was immense, lne loss 01 me win prob ably reach 100 and the injured many more in excess of that number. R. G. Dun & Co'g weekly review of trade says: The cold and wet weather and the money uncertainty have caused a distinct depression in trade. Collections are almost everywhere behind and interior money markets are growing closer or more con servative. Wheat seeding has been greatly retarded by rains and much cotton has been killed and signs of industrial depression affect the purchases of millions. Failures for the past week in the United States and Canada 238; against 211 for the correspond ing week last year. FOREIGN. Eight thousand men in the Loire Navy Yard at Nantes, France, struck on Friday. A dispatch from Halifax says that a ter rifle storm swept over Prince Edward Island on Wednesday. A large number of lobstermen were blown out to sea and un doubtedly perished. SUNDAY, APRIL 30. The Associated Banks of New York now hold $12,156,130 in excess of the require ments of the 25 per cent. rule. Seven people were killed and the town of Cisco, Texa?, wiped out by a cyclone Friday night. Ex-Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, is being sued for $50,000 damages by Thomas O'Connor, a life convict, for false imprison ment. The Dowagiac Manufacturing Company of Dowagiac, Mich., has closed down. The stockholders cannot agree. Liabilities about $200,000. All boot and shoe factories in the United States and Canada-will on and after Octo ber 1st. next, reduce their hours of labor to nine hours a day. Dispatches from the Indian agencies say that the Navajoes arc about to go on the warpath. Gen. McCook has started four troops of cavalry from Fort Wynne'for the scene of the trouble. Total visible supply of cotton for the whole world is 3,734,707 bales, of which 3,199,507 bales are Ameriean, against 4,202.685 bales, and 3,549,685 bales respectively last year. Receipts of cotton this week at all interior towns 20.116 bales; Receipts from plantations 18,605 bales; stock in sight 6,199,155 bales. FOREIGN. William Townsend, the man arrested on suspicion of having designs on the life of Gladstone, has been pronounced insane and will probably be placed in an asylum. A large number of Ulster Presbyterians and Unitarians repudiate the resolution in opposition to Home Rule which was sent to Lord Salisbury and said to represent the opinions of the Protestants of Ulster. MONDAY. MAY 1. Lieut. Peary will start on . his second ex pedition to the North Pole about the mid dle of July. Edwin Booth's condition has suddenly ehanged for the worse, and his physician has abandoned all hope of his recovery. Harrison & Gore's silk mill near Newburg N. Y-, was burned vesterday morning Sixty hands are thrown out of work. Loss $105,000; insurance, $50,000. The sheriff of Star county, Texas, and eight guards, have arrived at San Antonio, having iu custody thirty-two prisoners charged with violating the United States neutrality laws. A telegram from Casper, Wyo., says that the severest snowstorm of the entire winter is now raging, having continued for the last six days. Thousands of sheep have been smothered in the snow. Warner Miller, President of the Nicara gua Canal Company spoke Saturday eve ning at a banquet in Chicago. He estimates that it will take $65,000,000 to finish the work on the canal. FOREIGN. Altar ornaments valued at $75,000 have been carried off by robbers from the Cath olic Cathedral at Acapetlalmacan, Mexico. The Canadian Pacific Railway has issued instructions that American currency of all descriptions, including silver, be accepted at par over its entire system. TUESDAY, MAY 2. An old brick tenement lodging house at Burlington, Iowa, was burned Sunday morning at an early hour. Six of the in mates, unable to escape, were burned to death. A errific thunder and rain storm, with heavy wind, visited Wheeling, West Va., on Sunday. Buildings were damaged and the city is in total darkness at night on ac count of wires being down. Railroad traffic managers representing every road in South Carolina are having a conference with the Railroad Commission to-day at Columbia, S. C- The managers want lates raised on certain classes of freight. The New York cotton article says that heavy rains in Texas, Tennessee am; Arkansas.tbe rising of the great Southern rivers, and fear that the Arkansas wil break its banks and flood the low lands has caused a fair advance in prices. FOREIGN. Spain is taking vigorous measures to stamp out the rebellion in Cuba and has authorized the governor of Cuba to draw udod the roval treasury for any amount re quired for military supplies, War ships and frpops are held ready to ue sew to iuua at a moment s notice. WVmm REFORMS; :o:- DEPLORABLE EFFECT OF THE POPULIST CItAZE. The Rest Citizen of Kanaaa Taking Their Capital to Other Localities All Con . Qtlence la the Security, of Property Right Swept Away. Topeka, Kan., April 29. Usually when the State administration changes, the old officers remain in the capital, where they engage in business that makes them permanent residents. This year there has been a noticeable change m this custom. All of. the re tiring Statu officers,, elective and ap pointive, have gone to other States, where they will make their homes. Ex Gov. L. U. Humphrey has gone to Southwestern Missouri, and has also engaged in business in Arkansas. Ex-Attorney General J. N. Ives has become a resident of Colorado, making us home in Denver. Ex-Secretary of. State Win. Higgins has engaged in business in Colorado, and is also the owner of a banana plantation in Hon duras. He has not yet ehanged his residence, but before the summer is over he will bo uumbered among the permanent residents of Chicago. Ex- State Treasurer S. G. Stover has been extending his interests in Southwest ern Missouri, and will soon make his home in Kansas City; Mo. Ex-State Auditor C. M. ilovey has gone to Nebraska, where im will in future re side. Ex Superintendent of Public instruction George W. Wmaus has become a resident of Oklahoma, where he is at the head of one of the large educational institutions of that Te-ri tory.' Ex Bank Commissioner C. F. Johnson has joined the Southwestern Missouri colony, as has also George S. Case, ex-Watdenof the State Peniten tiary. Ex Senator il. B. Kelley has disposed of all his Kansas property. and has inwsieJ the proceeds in Mis souri i ropei ty. while James It. Hollo- well, '-Prince Hal," who was defeated for Congress by Jerry Simpson, is in the same deal, and will go down there to begin life anew, whether as a Re publican or a Democrat no one knows W. M. Mitchell, stalwart Democrat, and who will soon be ex -Rail road Com missioner, has already engaged in business that will take him to Colorado The list might be extended until it has taken in double the number given, touching most of the State boards, and the result would be the same they have gone to seek new pastures. This might be attributed to political disappointment had any of these men been candidates before the people. As none of them had asked either nomi nation or election, that solution cannot be given. They have sought fo.- new homes and for fields of investment for purely business reasons, and . at the same time have endeavored to choose localities where they believe the "re former" will not in any manner te encouraged. The departures are not confined to the office-holding ciass. Some of the leading loan and investment companies that have been doing business in this State for years have closed up all loans and Iiave withdrawn their money, taking it to other States. One of the leading companies, that has done a business of $7,000,000 annually, has taken all its money to Colorado, hav ing opened headquarters in Denver. Another company has settled up all its business and retired from the field, and the officers have gone East to live, where they will lay plans for opera tions "in the more Southern States. Some of the home companies are still hanging on, because they are unable to let go. The Atchison Company, of which exSenator lngalls was Presi dent, did manage to stop business when ordered by the court, much to the loss of: the stockholders, credits being represented by unremunerative Western lands. The time has come when there is a true awakening to the real situation. A political party, composed of men with real or fancied grievances, has attempted to change the laws of nature and the commercial world bv legisla tion. In the efforts to do this the ser vices of men of tongue and not of brains have bem secured, or, rather, they have claimed and been accorded the positions of leaders. The wildest yawper" has been accounted the wisest man, the mof t ignorant has been placed among the s lect, and the most corrupt have been defiled,, even when it was known that they were selling their services to the enemy i : In addition to the knowledge of the average methois of the Kansas re former, there is-the knowledge of the character of many of those who have leen given State' positions. One was a Prohibition editor and advocate in another State, who now treats with the saloon element. One is a fugitive from justice in; Colorado, where he forfeited his bond. Another is a local preacher who eschewed his religion for politics, and who now openly de clares it to be his purpose to falsify the election returns two years hence and issue certificates to such men only as are reccom mended by the Populist State Central Committee. Still another was dismissed from the United States service in this State for receiving bribes, the investigation having tteen conducted from Washington and the removal made by a chief of depart ment. There is one of these officials of whom the worst that can be said is that he pcimitled his wife to take in sewidg and support him for four years, while he appeared in the role of re former. There is one who shone a few years ago as an Anarchist leader, and was an officer in the treasonable organization known at that time as the Videttes. A common drunkard oc cupies a resposihle position, one who fell from a street car oh the principle avenue of this city and was sent home for repairs. Nor 'should lie forgotten the man who puhHiclv held that the i 'rights of the user weie paramount j to the rights of the owner,"' although he religiously collects the tent due hi tn upon his ownproperty. and never fails to oust the unfortunate person i who falls to meet him with themjiiev ou rent day. . It would be a sejrious thing to enter upon a list of the heretofore unknown incompetents who j have been placed in responsible positions. Before the year shall have closed there will bo several large scatvials. not because money may have been stolen, but be cause field hands, jiaving no previous .experience of . education, haye been put in charge of; finances. Errors have already been 'made that will re quire the services of experts to cor. rect. There are several of these gen tlemen who have-their eyes fixed upon this State, knowing that the time will come when they will have lucrative work. . j Added to these discouragements there are the prospects of a blighted wheat crop, the chief source of wealth of this State. Those who have a true knowledge of the situation are, there fore, Jiopeless regarding the future of a State that should be one of the best in the Union. Kansas will make a good showing at (the World's Fair, and by that means induce many to invest their all here. This is the one i source from which can come those to replace the ones who have already gone away, as well as those who expect to go to other States. There will be no more suffering, so far as food is concerned, in Kansas, for crops sufficient, for home consump tion will be raised each Vear. The present feeling of insecurity is not oc casioned by any dismal foreboding in this direction. The fancied insecurity regarding property is the principal thing now causmjg nueasiness. No one can tell what will be done, nor what restrictions may be thrown around those who may wish to invest their money. The Legislature will sorely be called together this Summer. What it will do is the serious question in the minds of all. Every one dreads its meeting, knowing that, rendered desperate by political defeat, the Populist will en deavor to appeal to the baser part of man's nature, which means danger to all property interests. Unless owned by themselves they have no regard for the rights of property. They have real grievances, which they have mag. nified until they believe the entire world is against them, and they seek revenge. It is this revenge that the conservative citizen fean. WESTERN FLOODS. St. Locis, Mo., May 1. -The high water hereabouts is beginning to cause considerable alarm, and grave appre hensions are felt that the disasters of last May will be repeated. The Ohio River is rising throughout its whole course; since yesterday it has risen at Cairo three feet. The Missouri is rising at Kansas City. The Missis sippi throughout its whole course is rising fast. The Arkansas has risen three feet at Fort Smith, Aik. There is an immense landslide on the Iron Mountain road letween St, Louis and Poplar, covering the tracks 40 feet deep for a mile , Iiuttructiu aud entertaiking. See Gtpe Fear Jfintor. WORLD'S FAIR Ol'KN. I .? 1 MACHINERY STARTED BY PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Am Imaiene Concourse at People Wit nets the Openluc Ceremonie. A tinwd Sight. J Fine Weather for the First Day of the Great Fair. j Chicago, 111.1, May l.-U-Sianding at i i high noon to-day before a vast audi- ence of the citizens of this Republic and of all the 'nations of the earth, i .i gathered within the shadow of the lofty dome of the Administration Building, President -GrOver Cleveland pressed the golden -tmttbn that awak. ened the sleeping, flood of electricity and threw open the gates of the great Fair to the world. . j j At the transforming touch life sud denly trembled ami throbbed along the miles of shafting, the labyrinth of belting and gearing.; The tall turrets ot Machinery Hal! beyond nodded as the thousand wheels of the huge en gines and machinery l?gan to whirl. Electric fountains in the lagoon threw their torrents toward the skv. A flood of water gushed from the Iteautiful McMonnies fountain and rolled back again into thej marble basin. A thiin der of artillery burst from the guns of the vessels in the lake booming a national salute. Seven hundred starry flag and gonfalons unfurled and sjm ultarfeously from all the places of the White City, streamed gayly in scarlet, yellow ami blue, with the Stars and Stripes floating proudly alove them all. The chimes in Manufactures' Hall and on the German Building rang out a mef-ry peal; the grand Thomas or chestra,' Hallelujah Chorus; calliopes shrilled; a storm of cheers burst from the many throajted multitude, . and, amid the constant cannonading fr6m i i i the lake, the veiling flas fell away from the front of the Presidential platform, revealing two gilded models ot the caravels in which Columbus tempted the unknown deop. ! The rainyf dawn had brought a stormiess day, and through the rifted clouds the golden sunshine was gleam mg. dts first beams to struggle through at 9 o'clock had glittered from th(f rich uniforms of the troops drawn up on Michigan avenue, north of Twenty-second street, for the grand parade. Major T. A Baldwin, of the Seventh United States Cavalry, in command of the escorting division, raised his staff and gave signal for the precession to move. i At the head, mounted on handsome steeds,, rode a platoon of ( gray coated South Park police, with 50 blue urii formed city police Riding five abreast at their heels. After J them came marching in splendid array Companies B and K, of the Seventh United States Cavalry. Then appeared the escort of honor, the superb Chicago Hussars, clattering along, six score giants of them, on magnificent black chargers. Strikingly fine did they appear in their new uniforms of blue broadclotn, with white trimmings, their Prussian Black Hussar riding boots, and their blue black broadcloth helmets, with i i - i white jack plumes falling below the shoulders and the Scotch gray plumes adorning the bridle of double reins. Twenty trumpeters heralded their ap proach. I Sitting in the first of the long col umn of carriages, a place of high honor, was National" Commissioner P. A. B. Widener, of Pennsylvan a, chat ting with three other commissioners. Director General Davis and Director s of Works Burnham rode vis-a-vis in i - i the sixth carriage. In the next, the centre of all eyes and hailed by the acclamations of the populace, sat President Cleveland. On the oppo site seat, slightly eclipsedj were Presi dent Thomas W. Palmer, of the World's Columbian Commission, and 1 : President H. N. Higinbotham, of the Exposition. In consecutive carriages rode Vice President Stevenson and Secretaries Gresham, Carlisle, Her bert, Hoke Smith and Morton. j In the yan of the foreign division came the Duke of Veragna, who is first vice president of the commission. The Duchess rode in the next carriage with Mrs. Potter Palmer and the wife of Commander Dickins. Among those who followed the Ducal party and the foreign notables were Am bassador Thomas F. Bayard, Major General Miles and Admiral Gherardi. Mounted A, of the National Guard, brought up the rear. j The Duchess was given f a delighti- l ful reception by the Michigan avenue belles all along the Iine; of march. The big lKuquet that reposed in her 'ap when she left the Iexington Hous was fairly buried under the hlossojns that were tossed into the carriage. Mingled with the flowers were a tin in ber of miniature stars and stripes As the procession entered the Mid- way Plaisance through the western gateway.making a short detour around the huge Ferris wheel. Arabs pros trated themselves on the ground, "and cried aloud to Allah; Cingalese in long white flowing robes,described salaams with their arms and shoulders; eunuchs stood in line with beauties of the harem, and the donkey-boy of Cairo, knelt beside his sleek coated companion. The street in Cairo was emptied of its residents, and the Esv quimaux colony did not even leave the six weeks' baby indoois. " j So the procession slowly wound its way past groups of Algerians, and Mongolians, and Africans, and Japs, and Laplanders, and Moors, and Per sians, through a Dahomey village and a Japanese camp, past the blue grotto of Capri and the Moorish Palace, the Japanese settlement, and the Zoopra- xiscope under the caDtive balloon and through a lam; formed of two score female beauties of half as many na tions. Even the lions and tigersj aud panthers roared and howled as if giv ing a welcome as the troops and car riages passed by. Never before prob. ably had such a cosmopolitan greeting in the same stretch of territory Ix'en accorded to mortal man. As the head of the colutiineirerged from Midway Plaisance it was met by a detachment of Columbian Guards accompanied by Colonel Rice amij his j staff, who from this point took the right of line Slowly the procession moved around the Women's Building, and the lagoon enconiDassing I the wooded island; on past the Choral Hall ami the leautiful structure de voted to mines and mining. Here it veered to the south, ciossed the instal lation track and described' a zigzag course to the west door of the Admin istration Building, where two pla toons of cavalry were drawn up in waiting. The immense platform soon pre sented a lewildering spectacle of gold lace and ribbons, of uniforms familiar and unfamiliar, of costumes, of all climes, all blended in a picturesque climax. Elbow to elbow were jostled a genuine East Indian Rajah in the royal robes of Jahore. Korean Royal Commissioners in long black robes and fantastic black hats.Persian Com I missioned in gold-embroidered tunics, a motley but splendid assemblage of nationalities. Minister Gondia, of Paraguay, conversed with the little Prince de Gloukhovskoy, Chamber lain to the Czar; Baron Fava, the Ital ian Minister, talked with the Marquis di Rudini. Courts, duchesses and nobles galore added lustre to the gay scene. Surrounded by his Cabinet, hobnob bing with the ducal descendant of the great Christopher, and elbowed in by the World's Fair chief dignitaries, President Cleveland sat on a special stand radiating from the platform pro per. He faced an ocean of faces a swarming multitude that had pre empted every foot of space between the platform and the edge of the basin beyond, covering walks and lawns to the east and west as far as the eye could sweep. Looking oyer the heads of thse before him, he could see the whole length of the Grand Basin, its surface almost hidden from the view b'gondolas and steam launches,loaded down to the water's edge with specta tors. Four hundred and fifty thousand people witnessed this inauguration of the grand achievement of the cen tury. That enormous number had passed through the turnstiles since day-light, according to Director Burnham. Eager to approach as near the stand as possible, those in the rear began to push those in front, until the crowd began to sway back and forth alarmingly. Orders were given to the police to clear away the jam that began to threaten the platform- Officers sprang into the crowd, but it was some minutes before their efforts were successful, and when the dense mass of people had been in some de gree separated. 20 persons had been taken out in a fainting condition. For tunately, however, no one was seri ously hurt and a great calamity was avoided. Having performed his high duty. President Cleveland, arm in arm wih President Palmer, was escorted to the third floor of the Administration Build inir. where cover had teen laid for 70 guests. CUBAN INSriNJKXTS -:o: HAVE CAPTURED THE FOR TRKSS OF GIB Alt A. The Schooner Llllie,ilrliica the Report to Key WmL Cabana Kzaltlag-. Spanish MlnUter Think the Insurrection AVI11 Soon be pat Down. . . Kky West, Fla., May 1. The schr. Lillie arrived here to-day fromOibara, Cuba, and "reports the Cuban flag float ing over the fortress. The revolution, ists number 1,100 and are in posses sion of the city. A schooner arrived there from San Domingo on April 29, with men and ammunition for the revolutionist army Expeditions are being; fitted out in Ja maica and San Domingo, under direc- -rection of Gen. Quesadt, for the south . ern provinces. Gen. Rnlof -is here, and it is believed he will direct expe ditions from Florida ports for the northern provinces. Cubans here are enthusiastic over the news, and it is telieved many of them are anxiously waiting an oppor tunity to get to the island. Spanish papers endeavor to suppress the magni tude of the revolution. One Havana paper admits that 1,500 men are in the revolutionary army in the Prov ince or Nuelta Abajo, and 2.000 in the Santiago Province. A council of war was called by the Captain General yesterday. Manifes toes were issued promising a pardon to all who will lay down their arms , within ten days. The Spanish troops' are moving actively enough to indicate that the Spanish Government believes that strong measures will be necessary to suppress the upnsiug. The troops which left Havaua for Puerto Principe received three mouths pay in advance. Cubans here. Ielieve t hat every prov ince will join in the revolt in a few weeks. The Federal officials here are using every precaution to prevent any expedition leaving here. The cutter McLane is the only Government vessel here at present. Havana, May 1. The leaders in the rebellion in Eastern Cuba are the brothers Manuel and Ricardo Sertorfo A considerable military force has been embarkeJ hero for Holguinr and more troops will be sent before Thursday. The rebels are oelieved to be neither so numerous nor fo belligerent as was at first reported. The Government is confident that they will be dispersed speedily and their agitationr will be suppressed. The Executive Committee of .the Autonomist Party has passed resolu tions condemning the rebels and offer ing the authorities the party's moral support." It is reported to-night that two of the most active rebels have already surrendered. Washington, May 1. Senor Mur- uaga, the Spanish Minister is in New York to-day. Senor Segrano, the First Secretary of the Spanish Legation, said tonight that a telegram had been. received at the legation from the Cap tain General ot Cuba two days ago which contained the assurance that the revolution in Cuba was of little importance. Senor Segrario expressed the opin ion that it would be put down without difficulty by the regular Spanish troops in a very short time. He said that the revolutionists were few in number and did not possess tho sympathy of the people in the province in which they were operating. So their down fall was a question of enly a few days or a week at the most. Regarding the likelihood of filibus ters from the United States landing on Cuban soil to aid the insurgents, Senor Segrario said that Editor Marti of the Spanish paper La I'atria, printed in New York, was responsible for the story that a large number of men were preparing to leave the United States for Cuba Senor .Marti,- he added, was a would-be leader who, in fact, was without following. There was no truth in the report about a movement from Key West. Senor Segrario said itseetned to him very likely that the present outbreak ' was due to the approach of the time when the infanta of Spain would land on Cuban soil. There were 19,000 regular troops on the island, and, if these were insufficient to stop the re volution, militia could be called out. In the event that the movement should get enough headway to threaten tho geneiar security of the Government, 200,000 troops could be brought from Spain in a fortnight. Oipe Fun ' Wttary noir being pulAinhtd in
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