Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-04-04

around with little wooden buildings tina. look
like SO many toy houses all precisely alike,
with their gable ends turned toward the court.
Each gable is penetrated by door, and over
eacn door 10 square window, hung on pivot,
a La transom. which may be opened and shut
| by pulling cord inside, and is the only means
| OF anording light and air to the interior. Each
| tiny play house is a complete sleeping apart
ment. with floor Of bare boards we'll washed
and sanded. and is furnished with single
Dedstead of white painted iron, canopied and
much bsruffied; email wooden table and
| smaller washstand; one chair; tall candle
| stick, minus the candle, which You must pay
extra for, and a conspicuous peg about half a
yard long on which you may hang your habili-
| ments.
LATEST WAR NEWS.
But we must leave the rest Of Tacns and
| spare space enough to tell you the war news,
as nearly as can be ascertained up to date.
It is extremely difficult to obtain any reliable
information in the different parts of Chill, even
| SO near as this to ito the seat Of war" because
the policy OF the government is to maintain
the utmost secrecy. The presidents sympa-
| thizers are instructed to make light of existing
troubles and to declare that the few meager
accounts which have gone forth to the world
were grossly exaggerated. But that is by no
means true. So far from having been ex-
aggerated, the half has not been told, and
probably never will be. Soon al it be-
came known that the navy had declared
nary last), the president shut up all the tele-
graph and telephone Offices and all the news
paper establishments in Santiago except one,
which ID under his own immediate control; so
that even the citizens of the capital know little
of what is going on in other parts Of the repub-
iic. During the last fortnight neither side
seems to have gained much advantage, and the
muddle still remains in statu quo. All the
CHILEAN ports are in possession Of the rebels,
and in the most important Of them blockades
have been established, thus completely paralyz-
ing business of every kind. OF course all for
eign shipping had to leave at once, or take the
consequences; and the same would be true of
foreign residents and business houses in case Of
bombardment.
SALOONS AND CAFES SHUT UP AT 10 O'clock.
By order of the president. all the clubs
OF Santiago are closed and the saloons and
cafes must shut their doors at 10 pm. No
coaches or street cars are allowed to run after
midnight and more than half the railway trains
nave been stopped because, owing to the block
age, Goals are becoming scarce and scarcer.
Unless some arrangement can shortly be made,
no trains at all can run and Santiago will soon
De without gas and in total darkness at night
nice state Of affairs amid the dangers of war,
with kerosene at $l.25 per gallon in cheapest
time and not much Of it to be had at any price.
PRISONS CROWDED WITH SUSPECTS.
A letter, received today from an English
friend who is engaged in business in Chili's
capital, tells me that half Santiago is in hiding,
and the prisons are crowded to overlooking,
more than 600 reputable citizens being incarc-
Grated as suspected abettors Of rebellion. Day
and night the streets are patrolled by soldiers
and armed policemen on horseback, and the
trembling and desolate city, under strictest
military law, is virtually in q state of siege
There is no telling how long the present trying
condition OF affairs may continue. as neither
the president nor the opposition know which
way the remainder Of the regular army may
turn. The outcome Of all this trouble practi-
csily hinges on the will OF few commissioned
ofhcers, and that the president is somewhat
doubtful about their remaining with him is
shown in the extraordinary efforts he is max
ing to raise new troops by force. Mails can no
longer go northward from Chill by the usual
route-up the Pacific to Panama. thence across
the Isthmus and to New York via the At
lantic; but on account Of the blockade, they
must be sent overland to Buenos Ayres from
Los Andes over the mountains and across the
Argentine Republic, requiring at least ten days
more time in transit from Santiago or yelpa-
raiso to New York.
MARROW ESCAPE FROM IMPB1soNMENr.
My correspondent who is the most quiet and
fastidious Of gentlemen, tells me how he barely
escaped spending night in Jail himself. 1t
happened In this way: The clubs being closed,
one evening after dinner, accompanied by two
other young Englishmen, he strolled into the
Cafe Santiago to learn the latest war news
They remained perhaps half an hour, chatting
with acquaintance and watching the crowd in
the patio, where two or three hundred citizens
were congregated, discussing (probably
minus the first syllable Of the world the
deplorable situation. When the English trio
started for home they were amazed to
hnd the gates guarded by squad of mounted
policemen with drawn swords, who had
orders to allow no one to depart. Though it
went much against the grain Of loyal Britons
they were compelled to submit, and were kept
there until midnight, uncertain as to what
their fate might be, when, it having been
proven that they were English subjects who
had taken no part in Chili's political affairs
they were at last permitted to depart in peace
but with dire threats to what would happen
to them if they were again caught in a crowd
As for the discussing citizens in the patio
they were all marched off en- masse to San
Pablo the common prison for the lowest class
OF criminals, and kept there until morning as a
solemn warning not to do SO any more.
FANNIE b. WARD,