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Madrid Government and a direct appeal
will be made to the President.


1t is expected that Minister Taylor
will be Instructed to obtain from the
Madrid Government assurance that the
lives of the two insurgent leaders will
be spared. Unless action of this kind
Is taken early in the day it is likely that
Mr.. Morgan will bring the matter to the
attention of the Senate by resolution,
although there is one on record already
in behalf of Rivera.
RIOT AT MATANZAS
HAVANA, June 1S.-Private advicee
from Matanzas tell of serious riot
there. Over 1000 reconcentrados-th
men, women and children, made desper
ate by hunger-paraded the streets de-
manding bread. Private residences were
broken into and numerous grocery stores
looted before the Spanish with swords
drawn succeeded in quelling the riot
DIR. DANFORTH RETURNS
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, June 1S.-Dr
w. H. Danforth returned last night to
his Milwaukee home after year in Gu
ba as personal physician to President
Cisneros. DR.. Danforth had thrilling
escape from the island in a email boat
avoided capture by the Spaniards ard
execution. He says the Cuban leaders
are all bound by oath not to give in, and
that the insurgents have well-grounded
hopes for final triumph. The Spaniards
cannot withstand the effects of the Gu
ban climate and all the rebels need are
arms to end the war. DR.. Danforth will
not return to the rebel camps.
THE RUIZ CASE.
NEW YORK, June 18.-A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says: Premier
Canovas is willing to pay the widow of
Mr.. Ruiz $4,000 if the United States
Government will not press an official
claim. The announcement of this fact
has aroused vehement public opposition
which the Madrid press is infiaming.
The newspapers blame the Government
for allowing DR.. Ruiz to be killed, but
censure it most for acknowledging It.
They say Spain "is under the iron heels
of the Yankees"
TRADE WITH CUBA
WASHINGTON, June 1S.-A signifi-
cant report on our trade with Cuba from
1887 to 1897, prepared by Chief Hitch
COCh VI tIC AOICl6A maj hCto SCStiOlA VI
the agricultural department, has been
promulgated by Secretary of Agrcul7
ture Wilson. The statistics show very
clearly the effect of the present hostili-
ties in Cuba upon the commercial inter-
course of the United States with that
island.
During the last fiscal year 1896 the to-
tai value of our Cuban trade amounted
to only $47,45s,610, as compared with
$1O2. 1864, ,2O4 in 1893, the year preceding the
breaking out of the war. There was a
falling off of more than so per cent in
three years. Reports already available
for the current fiscal year indicate
still further decline, the records for the
nine months ending March 81, 1897, plac-
ing the total value of the trade for that
period as low as $14, 4,926S17 At this rate
the figures for the fiscal-.year 1898 will
hardly reach s2o00o,00o, or less than one
fifth of the value recorded in 1893.
The report also demonstrated that in
past years our imports from Cuba have
generally been much in excess of our ex-
ports to that island, the balance of trade
being decidedly against the United
States.
1T NEEDS CONFIRMATION
LONDON, June 1S.-The Washington
Of the Daily Chronicle
declares that President Mckinley has
instructed Gen. Woodford, the minister
elect to Spain, to demand reparation and
inde mnity for the death of DIR. Ruiz, and
to intimate to Spain that if she refuses
to grant freedom to Cuba she must be
prepared to yield it by force, which
would mean large sacrifices of men and
The Daily Chronicle, alluding editori-
ally to this dispatch, says: I'VE wait
for confirmation before commenting on
the startling communication"
sf THE RUIZ CASE
HAVANA, June 1S.-A special dis
patch from Madrid says that Senior Ca
novas del Castillo, the premier; the duke
Of Tetan, minister of foreign affairs;
and Gen. Azzacaragara, the minister of
war, met yesterday to consider the ques-
tion of future proceedings as to Gen
Ruiz Rivera and Col Bacallao, who have
not yet been brought to trial by court
martial
DUNHAM SUED