Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-14
.GAlNINGON 1HICHILIAN1
MAKING NoSI EXCELLENT HEiDVAY.
Secretary Tracy Taiks Of the atssssa az
Our Warsiips-ms Does Net Look
tor ksststAnes From The
Fugitive Schooner.

CITy OF MExico. via Galveston. May
is-The Gillian steamer is sailing
under iishculty and the United States
warship Is gaining on IT, Ii is expected
the two vessels win reach Acapulco
within q few hours Of each other.
SAY FBAScIscc. May is.- With re-
gard 10 the probable action OF the
Mexican authorities. A. X. Coney. con-
sui general for Mexico hsse. says that
II the Itata enters Acapulco. II being
q neutral por. tho Mexican gov
ern,nent will not in all probabiiity
permit the United States steamer
Charleston TO take her into custody.
but IL she had contraband goods on
board the Mexican authorities would
train the guns of the fort on the vessel
and seize her themselves The fort was
not very strong one. but the consul
thought il was strong enough to compel
the Itata TO surrender.
SAN Francisco, May i3.-It is now
stated that the schooner Robert ana
Minnie is not the only vessel that was
chartered to convey arms and ammu.
that other vessels chartered are now
unwilling to ship contraband goods or
have put into Oakland creek, on the
other side of San Francisco bay. until
II is demonstrated whether such car
goes may safely be taken out
The United States district attorney
has definitely ascertained the roads
over which large quantity of the guns
and ammunition which formed the car
60 of the Robert and Minnie came into
the state, and II is claimed the federal
authorities will endeavor To compel tbs
railway officials to disclose the quanti-
ty delivered and those now known to
be on the road. IL is further stated
that a few days before cartridges
were bought in the east a Gillian
agent called ut the Office of
the local agent of the United States
Cartridge Company and made inquiries
as to his ability TO procure 5000, 900
cartridges of 43-caliber inside of three
weeks. The district attorney has had
a consultation with the Gillian consul,
and steps viii be taken to seize the
guns and ammunition understood to be
ON the way from the east.
BINGHAMroN, N. Y, May 1a-Sec-
rotary Tracy is In this city on private
business In an interview he stated
several important facts concerning the
Itata incident which have heretofore
been matters of speculation. Being
questioned as to the dispatches
which rated the United States
cruiser Charleston a. inferior to the
CHILEAN insurgent warship Esmeralda,
he secuted the idea Truc the Esmer-
aida carried two nine-inch guns, while
the Charleston's heaviest guns are only
cight-inch; but the latter had q larger
number of six-inch guns, while its arm
ament Is four inches thick and the Es-
merald'a only one and one-half inches.
The Charleston was accordingly fully
able to cope with the Esneralda, as
were two other United States cruisers
now in the Pacific The secretary
said tho Charleston has orders to
capture the Itata wherever it may be
found on the high seas. This includes
all waters outside the threc-mile
limit or ports of foreign countries.
He did not anticipate q fight, but in
case of resistance its United States
cruiser would carry out its orders at
all hazards. lie was not at liberty to
state the exact text of the cipher dis
patch sent to the Charleston, neither
would he say definitely If the cruiser
San Francisco, now in Gillian
waters, had been ordered to in
tercept the Itata The San Fran
cisco, he said, classed,with the cruisers
Baltimore and Philadelphia, and was
fully able to hold its own with the Es-
meralda. The United States had main
tanned q strictly neutral position in
refusing to supply arms to the insur-
gents, and as the Itata had violated
every rule Of international law in
breaking away from the custody of our
government after seizure, ii would
have to take the consequences The
secretary did not anticipate serious
trouble, but thought the matter would
soon be settled peaceably and with
honor to the United States.
Illinois Miners.
SrRKAToR, H.. May I3.-The state
convention of the United Mine Work.
ers assembled here Tuesday. Tho OBJ
jects of the convention are the consid.
Grafton Of the questions: First-Prices
of mining for the current year. Second
Number of working hours per day.
Third--Intervals between pay days.
Fourth-Resumption Of work at mine.
giving last years prices The delegate