Birmingham age-herald., 1894-11-28
NO CABINET MEETING. s: esident Cleveland Still at Homa : at Woodley.
THE AMERICAN MASSACRE
UnConfirmed at the State De- partment Looks Like
 Trouble in Nicaragua.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-The cabinet meeting was today postponed for the third time owing to the absence of the president. His physicians say that while the president Is much better his rheumatic foot worries him considerably, and he thought it more prudent to have the president remain at Woodley than to come to the White House today
 Although the president does not venture out he attends regularly to all matters of business brought to his attention from cabinet officers by Secretary Thurber. Most of his time, however, is devoted to the prep aration of his message to congress, which he expects to have ready to lay before the two houses when they assent blc on Monday next.
 ADMIRAL CARPENTER HEARD FROM.
 Admiral Carpenter cabled 10 the navy de- partment this morning from Chee Foo that the Baltimore would leave at once for Nagasaki. It is presumed that the ad- miral found nothing requiring tele- graphic report at Port Arthur, where he went last Saturday, and that the ship is sent 10 Nagasaki for coal. She has been in Corean and Chinese waters, away from coal sur ply, for nearly two mon ths and her bunk 8 are probably empty.
 THE ARMENIAN MASSACRE DIscREDITED.
 The department Of state is still without official in formation of the alleged Arme- man massacre in Turkey and in The absence of dispatches on the subject from Minister Terrell is disposed to consider the accounts received by Armenians in this country as highly exaggerated Minister Terrell has always proved exceptionally active diplomatic officer, and 1t is regarded as im- probable that he should neglect to inform the department of such wholesale slaughter oi Christians as has been reported. Be- sides two American consular officers of long experience and demonstrated reiabil- ity are near the scenes of the alleged out rages.
 Officials of the department, while con- ceding that there may have been atroei. ties on a much smaller scale than reported, are confident that DO American interests have been jeopardized, and that being the case this government, they consider, is not called upon as yet to take any active inter- est in the matter.
 CHOLERA IN BRAZIL.
 Surgeon General Wyman of the marine hospital service has received information that cholera prevails in the states of Rio Janeiro and Sac Paulo, Brazil. Eight deaths have occurred. The infected dis trlcts are quarantined. ---~-----=>>
 LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE AHEAD.
 As a result oi a con ference at Woodley to- day between the president and Secretary Gresham, the cruiser Columbia, which has been for several weeks at Kingston, Ja- maica, was cabled peremptory orders to proceed at once to Bluehelds for the pro- tection of American interests. MT. Gres- ham 8 visit to the presidents home followed immediately upon an interview he had with the Ncaraguan minister. All the officials acquainted with the affair refuse to divulge the reasons for the hurried orders to the Columbia or 10 confirm statements from Panama in regard to refusal of Great Britain to recognize the Nicaraguan gov ernment.
 Acting Secretary McAdoo said that if it were true that the Columbia had gone to Bluefields it was probably on cruise con- forming with the established policy of the government to keep ship in Central American waters, as the navy department had no recent reports from Bluehelds indi- eating trouble there.
 It is learned, however, on excellent au- thority that not only the Columbia, but the Marblehead, which arrived at Kingston to- day, will remain at Buefields continuously this winter and that the Montgomery may be sent there from Mobile, and that pre- liminary orders have been sent to New York to have all the ships in commission for the North Atlantic squadron prepared for a West Indian cruise at the earliest possible moment. In addition, the sailing orders for the San Francisco, which was to leave December 15 to become the flagship in European waters, have been withheld, and she may be sent immediately to the gulf of Mexico. The Castine's cruise to the South Atlantic, which was to commence early next month, will In all probability be interrupted when she reaches the West Indies. Instructions to prepare the Minne- apolis for sea at once have also been sent to the navy departmental chiefs.
 There seems to be in fact almost war scare pervading the navy, brought about by diplomatic rumors to the tff-ct that Great Britain, which several m onths ago expressed a willingness to recognize the full jurisdictional rights of Nicaragua over the Mosquito coast, had shown disposi- tion to resent what appeared to be the practical an nexation of that territory, and was complete incorporation as a purtion of Nicaragua.
 As long as the interoceanic canal bill seemed under favorable consideration at the last session Of congress Great Britain remained quiescent in the Mosquito con- troversy, and result of conferences which were held at Washington Lord Rose- berry's cabinet consented to receive Q special envoy from Nicaragua, whose mis- sion related solely to the abrogatioa of the treaty which gave Great Britain A guard ianship over the now almost extinct tribe of Mosquito Indians. This envoy, 1t is un- derstood, had been in London for some time, but when congress adjourned With out acting on the canal bill the reorganlza- tion committee of the canal com paDy went to England in September last to seek money, and the suggested aorogallon of the British treaty has been put iu the back ground.
 Not until Today was lt dennltely learned that Great Britain had declined 10 recog- nize the legality of the new order of things on the Mosquito coast and that it had SD notified Nicaragua, although su:a action has been anticipated for several weeks, which accounts for the fact that the Columbia and Mar blehead were not long ago brought home. It may also explain to some extent why the Montgomery was sent south to Mobile, ostensiby to test new coal. The near approach of congress, it is said, gives the present assurances that he will be sup ported to the fullest extent in preventing foreign interferences near the route of the proposed interoceanic canal.
 ASSEMBLED FOR BUSINESS.
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