The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-01
THEY co OVERLAND
AMERICAN COMMISSION TO oHENG
tn WILL SHOW F0HOE

department has its Way and the Com.
mission will March Through the Land
where the Natives Can See-vlceroy
Who Instfgated the 4Iasszcres Is De-
sraded-De LONE Thinks He has
Gained q Point-Foreisn Neva
Washington, Sept 30.-The reason for
the delay for organizing and sending
forward the American commission TO
Cheng Tu has just transpired. It
arose from the instance Of our state
department upon sending the commits
sion overland instead Of up the Yang
Use river. The Chinese government
was extremely unwilling for the jour
ney to be made in this fashion while
they had no objection to sending the
commissioners UP the river in steam
boat. AS the department fell that the
passage of the commission overland
through the breadth If China. accom-
panied by a formid able escort would
have most salutary moral effect upon
the Chinese, resembling as il is felt
that a substantial advantage mas been
gained in the concession
VICEROY DEGRADED.
London. Sept. 3o.-It is announced
thai China has accepted the ultima tum
and that Viceroy L4ju of Inc province
of Sachuen, who was responsible for
the massacre OF the missionaries, has
been degraded The British threatened
to lombard the city il their wishes
were not granted.
London, Sept. Ca dispatch from
Pekin to Reuters agency. confirms the
news given out by the British foreign
Office today, and exclusively cabled to
the Associated Press, that the decree
has already been published In the Pek-
in Official Gazette, ordering that Liu.
viceroy of SEE Chuen, be stripped Of
his raFS for failing to protect the mis-
sionari,, in his district, and that he
be not permitted to again hold office.
The Pekin dispatch adds that the
French minister to China yesterday de-
manded PREPARATION for mission out
RACES on French subjects.
The Times tomorrow Will publish a
dispatch from Berlin which says that
the Chinese government has Informed
Germany that the leaders of the attack
upon the German mission at Swatau
have been arrested and measures will
be taken to arrest others concerned.
TO CHECK FILLIBUSTERERS.
London. Sept 3O.-A dispatch from
Madrid to the Times which viii be
published tomorrow, says that Senior
Dupuy de LONE, Spanish minister TO
the United States, telegraphs that the
United States at the request CT the
secretary of sta re, has in accordance with
the demands of justice, decreed that
all arms and munitions intended for
the Cuban rebels shall be seized by the
American authorities and not returned
to their owners.
San Diego, Cal, Sept. 30-As a result
of the report that a fillibustering expe-
dition has been fitted out at San Fran
cisco to capture Guadeloupe island, in
structions have been received by Mex
lean officials at Ensenada to be on the
watch for any suspicious vessels.
OPERATIONS IN CUBA.
Havana, Sept. 30.-The surrender OF
thirteen insurgents is announced from
Sagua.
General Sanchez today banished the
African prisoners Eduardo Tamayo,
Bravo. Alfredo Betaniourt, RI
cardo Landa and Antonio MansferTo,
prominent persons, and Rafael Saltarin
and Jose Olivia were sentenced to twen-
ty years imprisonment.
The insurgents, ii is stated, have
burned the railroad station at Cagas-
guas, in Sagua district, and two farm
houses at Posea Honda, in the province
Of Santa Clara.
OLNEY NEVER SAID IT.
London, Oct. 1.-The Spanish embas-
sy here this morning publishes denial
Of a statement cabled from the United
States 10 the effect that Secretary of
State Olney has given warning to the
Spanish government that unless they
had succeeded in suppressing the in
surrection in Cuba in the next three
the United States government
would intervene for the protection OF
the insurgents. The Spanish embassy
declare that this story Is entirely fic-
and that the Spanish relations
with the United States regarding Cuba |
are working smoothly and with no APP |
parent friction.
ANTI-WHITEWAY ATTACKS
st. Johns, y. F., Sept. 30.-The at |
tacks upon the Whiteway party con- |
tinue. and il is believed that he whole !
government IS on the eve OF disruption. |
Today counsel who are defending the |
directors of the defunct Union bank, |
began proceedings against the organ of |
the government before the supreme |
court complaining that its articles upon |
the bank inquiry which is now in pro- |
yress are calculated 10 prevent their |
clients from securing a fair trial. The !
matter comes for a hearing on Friday !
Dr. Saturday.