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Evening star., 1897-01-01
MINOR MILITARY TACTICS.
Gen. Miles, Order Prescribing a Syx-
tenn of Exercises.


tenn Of Exercises.
Major General Miles has issued the follow
ing general order prescribing a system of
practical exercises in minor military tao
tics:
THE attention Of commanding generals
of departments and of regimental and post
commanders is invited to the importance of
the practical instruction of their commands
in minor tactics, covering the functions of
the three arms; security and informa ton
reconnoitering; warfare with Indians; con-
voys; attack and defense for each arm:
and, where there is opportunity, of two
and three arms combined; night operations;
and advance, rear and flank guards. Here
after at least forty days in each calendar
year for every command will be devoted to
practical exercises in minor tactics cover
Ing problems adapted to one or more arms
OF the service and to the station and sur
rounding country. including coast defense
at appropriate stations, prepared by COM
manding generals of departments, and
regimental and post commanders Full re-
lorts Of the actual solution Of these prob
lens In the field on the ground will be made
to commanding generals Of departments,
advice ard criticism, In order that the best
results in all directions in the instruction
OF the troops may be obtained as a prepa-
ration for active service. This is not to take
tlc pace VI any c4istluS requirements Tor
II structiOn. but to be in addition to calls
themes, athletic and gymnastic exercises.
practice in swimming where opportunity is
available. target practice, use OF machine
guns. signal service, construction and hasty
intrenchments. marching and camping and
work connected Herewith, exercises cover
ing the full requirements of the drill regu-
lstions of the arm, instruction for heavy
artillery. practice In supplying ammunition
for battle to firing lines and batteries, study
of Army Regulations, lyceum work and
other matters more specifically mentioned
In existing orders and regulations Com
manding generals Of departments will give
such further instructions as may be neces-
sary to carry out this order"
Evening star., 1897-01-01
The Gar Sends a Graceful Message
to President Faure.
BEST WISHES FOR PROSPERITY GIVEN
Celebrating the Coming of the
New Year in Berlin.
GENERAL FOREIGN MATTERS

PARKS, January 1.-President Faure is ir
receipt OF teiegraphic message from the
car conveying his majesty's New year
congratulations. The czar telegraphed:
L desire to offer you my sincere con.
gratulatfons, and to express, as much or
the empress behalf as on my own, our best
wlsnes Tor the prosperity of France Among
the most agreeable recollections of the year
Is our few days charming sojourn In your
peautlrul country. 1t Is a memory which
will remain ineffaceable. NICHOLAS"
Celebrating In Berlin.
BERLIN. January 1.-The advent of the
new year was celebrated in the customary
manner at the palace. After church. the
emperor and empress held a grand recep-
ton in the white hall, those present in
Guiding the chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe
the ministers, the presidents of the reich
stag and diet, the ambassadors and the
commanding generals.
During the afternoon his majesty made a
tour of the embassies.
Lord BeresfOrd's Condition.
LONDON, January 1.-The condition of
Lord William Beresford, who was severely
injured by his horse rolling on him while
hunting with the stag hounds on Wednes-
day at Dorking, Surrey, continues to cause
anxiety. He passed a restless night, and a
PiSSiSihh W oS III upon MIN all
night long.
Denial at the Foreign Once.
LONDON, January 1.-The officials of the
foreign ONCE, when questioned on the sub
ject today. denied that the Marquis of
Salisbury disapproved of any features of
the proposed general arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great Britain,
as reported from New York.
Omission Of Laurier's Name.
LONDON, January 1.-The Westminster
Gazette says it hopes that the omission
of the name of Mr.. Wilfred Laurier, the
Canadian premier, from the list of New
Year honors is not due to the fact that he
is liberal. adding:
Party politics must not be allowed to
interfere with the recognition CT colonial
statesmen. We hope that an early oppor-
tunity will be taken to honor Mr.. Laurier."
Lost Three Propeller Blades.
QUEENSTOWN, January 1.-The British
steamer Megantic. Captain Foot, which
sailed from London on December IL for
New York, has arrived In the harbor. She
signaled that she had lost three blades Of
her propeller.
The Plague I'm bombay.
BOMBAY, January 1.-The deaths from
the BuboEic plague now average 10 daily.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
DECLINE OF SEAL LIFE
An Important Report Of Expert Steineger'a
Investigations.
PelaEic Sealing Is Blamed for killing
on the SeaIs-Ralfcal Recon-.
mendatiOns Made,

An Interesting and important Official con.
tribution to the seal question Ia a. repor,
compiled by Expert Leonhard Stejneger OF
the National Museum on Russian Fur-Seal
Islands, just issued by the United States
hsh commission. The report Is based upon
two Investigations, one made during the
palmiest days of the fur-s sealing industry
ana the other when Stejneger was sent as
special attache of the commission to in
quire into the recent decline of the seals
and compare the conditions for the past
thirteen years. The report says the thirty
mile zone stipulated in the Russian-British
arrangement of 1893 has only put a stop to
the raid1ng OF the rookeries, but has been
round utterly valueless as a protective
measure against pelagic sealing. Since
1872 1t is stated, the whole body Of the
pelagic sealing fleet has preyed, during the
most precarious season of seal life largely
upon the female seals, visiting the feeding
grounds off Copper island
Cause of Decline OF Seal Life.
Three causes have been assigned for the
decline of seal life on the seal islands of
the Bering sea and North Pacific ocean
excessive driving Of the male seals, raids
on the rookeries and pelagic sealing. The
places the whole blame upon pelaeic seal
ing, at least as respects the Commander
Islands The Commander Islands seal herd
Is being killed off so rapidly that in a sea-
son or two 1t must become utterly unprof-
table to hunt the animals in the open sea
win much further continuance of the
destruction it Is feared that it will take a
very long time before the rookeries can be
10 any degree restored, even under the
most effective protection. Immediate real
~ protective measures are urged as q
means for repairing the damage possibly
within reasonable time, making it yet
feasible to render the business profitable
10 the natives. the government and the
fur trade. Any projections to be effective
the report says must be established by
international agreement betweAn Russia,
Japan, Great Britain and the United States
the powers Interested
Separate action has not only thus far
resulted in unprotecting protective regu-
lations but the English-American modus
vivendi of 1892 is characterized as the be-
ginning of the ruin Of the Commander Is
lands rookeries.
Radical Recommendations,
These radical recommended ;ionss are made;
Total and absolute prohihitlon lof pelagic
sealing in the North Paeific ocean ana
BerinG sea at all seasons for at least six
years; after that time total prohibition at
all seasons in1Bering sea end. Parifie ocean
west of 175 degrees eass lonsatude and
north of 90 degrees north iatitude. or. ii
PREFERABLE, within a zone II I'D nautical
miles from the islands; total prohibition of
Killing on land for one year; after that
time bachelor seals to be taken on land not
later than August l. This scheme would
and the determination Of the sledge dogs on
Bering Island.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
FOUND DEAD IN BED.
Man. Wife and Child Were Asphyx-
lated During the Night.

COLUMBUS. Ohio. January IA spe-
al to the Dispatch from Youngstown,
'hio, says Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Betz and
child were found dead in bed at Struthers.
Ohio. this morning, and four boarders IN
the family were in a comatose condition
when rescued. having been asphyxiated
Betz was a laborer at Struthers' furnace.
and seven of the furnace employees boarded
with him. Three of them were at work
last night and when they came in at &
this morning found the family dead
They carried the boarders out and after
walking around for time they recovered
The house Is owned by the furnace COM
pany, but the latter believes the family
was asphyxiated by gas from a cook stove
and not frCm the furnace.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
TO SUCCEED DEPEw.
President Ingalls, Knows of No Such
Arrangement.

CINCINNATI, Ohio. January 1.-When
the attention of Mr.. VI. E. Ingalls, of the
Big Four railroad was called to a publish
ed rumor that he was to be promoted TO
succeed Chauncey NJ. Depew of the New
York Central road, and that Depew was to
receive hrst-class diplomatic appointment
from President Mckinley. ne frankly and
quickly replied: There is not anything in
II go far as i am concerned. Cincinnati
cannot get rid OF me so easily as that"
And the business president closed the in
c:dent with a merry goodbye"
NEW YORK, January 1--Touching state
uents contained IN a New York dispatch n
TO western paper that VI. Z. Ingalls, of
the Big Four will succeed New York Cen
tral President Chauncey NJ. Depew II NAV
be said that no action toward such a
change has been taken on the railr rad side
Evening star., 1897-01-01
ALLISON AND THE CABINET.
What the Iowa Senator'S Friends Sa,
About Ii.


About Ii.
Senator Allison's personal friends about
the Capitol have never credited the rumor
that the senator would become. member
of Mr.. McKinley's cabinet, though they ac-
-cept as true the report that Mckinley was
desirous that the Iowa senator should take
charge of the conduct Of the country's for
eign affairs for the next four years. They
profess to know that this was well founded
and account for Senator Allison's own
statement that the tender of the Office was
not made on the hypothesis that Mr.. ALI
sen desired that it should not be and so
notified Major Mckinley. Speaking with
II the eesa. attention to details WHICH becomes
ccnndants, they assert that Mr.. Allison
reason for thus forestalling the tender of
the highest honor within the power of a
president to bestow was the knowledge Of
the confusion 1t would create and the false
hopes 1t would raise in MIR. Allison's own
state. There are ambitious men, left in
Iowa, some of whom would like to occupy a
seat In the Senate, while others would no.
be averse to accepting plaees:in the foreign
service.
Knowing that the tender .of the office
would raise the hopes of both these classes
only to have them rudely shattered by his
certain refusal, the senator concluded that
IL was wiser to foregO the honor Of receiv-
Ing the o6er than to take the chances of
arousing the displeasure of his friends ut
home. So at least the Capitol gossips
put 1t. - -
Be all this as it may, 1T appears quite
definitely determined that the Iowa senator
VII! not ornament the Mckinley cabinet,
and that his remaining out of it viii be
the result Of his own choosing. In declin-
ing an offer, either directly or Indirectly
made, Mr. Allison merely pursues the
course which he followed in 1889 when
Gen Harrison asked him to accept the
treasury portfolio. Whatever. his Interior
motive, II he has any, he prefers the Senate
10. 10 the cabinet. Independent OF other con-
s,derations he regards a .seatyin the north
end of the Capitol as a position Of more
inaependence nnaneli and as one affordins greater
opportunities to serve his state and the
country than a subordinate ONCE however
exalted. exc In the Administering branch of
si.e she government. He has before him full
SIX years of service in the Senate after fhe
a.n au OF March. with the almost absolute
S.a. 1.sulanee. nee OF reelection. while to retire
from this office and go into the cabinet
vso would cut him out of the line Of success
slon ssn, as senator and havef an adverse
bearing upon his chances for prunotion In
the next republican national Convention.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
PRITCHARD's REELECTION.
Said to Have Enough POpullsts
Pledged to Him to Insure It.

A prominent North Carolina democrat in
the city gives it as his opinion that Ssna-
tor Pritchard Is sure Of reelection. He
says he Is certain Senator Prttchard has
enough ropulists Pledged to him to insure
his election. He also gives It as his opinion
that there is not the unanimity in the pop
ulist camp that Is made to appear on the
surface. He expresses the belief that Hal.
Aver. one Of the populist leaders and editor
Of Senator Buffers paper, the Caucasian.
win announce himself for Prftehard In a
short time He believes that Aver pledged
himself to Pritchard when he (Ayerl was
put on the republican ticket and elected
state auditor. A number Of other leading
populists who are now lying low are said
to be pledged to Pritchafd.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
BOTH FOUND DEAD.

Intoxicated Hotel Guests Took an
OverdOse of y Drug.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, January 1.-C d. Car
penter, q bookkeeper for the Home Sewing
Machine Company's agency In tIfis city,
and c. A. Weyrick, a local draughtsman,
have been found dead In room at the
Pianters' Hotel. Investigation showed that
ecotic. They came to the hotel while In an
intoxicated condition. Soon after being
given q room q boy was called by them and
sent for some medicine. 1t develops thai
enc of the men was In tho habit OF taking
a narcotic during his sprees. and fixed a
dose for his friend which resulted fatally.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
California Jewei~r. Fan

SAN FRANCISCO. January 1.-Barret,
& Sherwood. the Oldest and at one time
the leading jewelry firm in California. have
failed A long period of poor business is
the cause of the failure. The liabilities
Will NOT exceed 1900. most of which Is
owned 10 the Tosole Manufacturing Com
any, Wetmore S Co. and Hirsch q Hsv
mar, all eastern firms.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
Gov. Pfnxree's Inauguration.
GREETING MAJOR MCKINLEY.
Many Good Wishes for the President
EnAnf

Elect.
CANTON. Ohio. January IA Happy
New Year. was the greeting received by
President-elect and Mrs. Mckinley this
morning from many neighbors and friends
who called to extend their good wishes
Mr.. and Mrs. Mckinley passed the morn
ing receiving the many visitors. During the
forenoon Bellamy Storer and wife and
Marquis and Mrs. De Chambrun arrived
here, and will be guests Of Maj. and Mrs
Mckinley until after noon, when they win
leave for Cleveland. Perry g. Heath was
also a guest of Mai. Mckinley. The Presi-
dent-elact and Mrs. Mckinley will take din
ner this evening with Judge and Mrs. w.
r. Day. and tomorrow morning, at 9:55,
they will leave for Cleveland
Evening star., 1897-01-01
GOV. BLACK INAUGuRATED.
The New Chief Executive of New YorI
Sworn In.

ALBANY, n. V, January Frank S.
Black of Rensselaer, county was today in
augurated as governor of New York The
ceremony took place in the assembly cham
Ter Of the capitol and was witnessed by a
large assemblage An invocation by Bish-
op W. c. Doane of The Episcopal diocese of
Albany was made. Gov. Levi P. Morton de-
Hvered an address Of considerable length in
the course of which he reviewed his admin
istration, the first under the new constitu-
ton, and the Legislation during the same
period.
In conclusion, addressing his successor.
Governor Morton said
i may be permitted to congratulate YOU
upon your accession to the office Of COVER
nor, particularly by reason Of the fact that
the financial and administrative affairs of
the state are in prosperous and easy con-
dition; that you will have the supper.
OF legislature both houses of which will
be In full accord with the will Of the people;
that there are In prospect no bitter conten-
1ons or controversies, no serious differences
on public questions to be fought out
through your administrat tion."
Governor Black responded briefly, speak
ing OF the feeling of deep responsibility
with which he assumed the duties Of the
of5lce to which he had been chosen and
pledgipg his best efforts to execute them
faithfully and impartially. He concluded
as followS:
Il hope there is before us a distinct lion
greater than which no people eve: strove
to reach; 1t is that when the next circle
of wars Is traced upon the earth the Amer
lean nation shall stand outside the 5aneful
ring. There Is upon us all duty to curb
the unbridled speech and act whose ten
dency Is to weaken and dissever, and to cul-
tlvate that reason and careful modera ton
which shall draw and hold US near togeth-
err
Gov. PinGree's Inauguration.
DETROIT, Mich, January Mayor Ha-
zen S. Pingree left for Lansing this morn
ing to take the oath Of office and assume his
duties as governor of Michigan. He was
accompanied by his family and dozen
friends. In his characteristic manner his
excellency demanded to be sold thousand
mile book which should be good for himself
and family. The book was sold him. The
trip was unostentatious, as was the brief
inaugural ceremony at Lansing.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
Ex-Repre.entative C.tier Dead,

MoRRIsTOWN, N. J.. January Rep
sesentative Augustus w. Cutler died at his
residence in this place today from the ef-
fects of surgical operation for appendi-
eitis-
Mr.. Cutler was born in 1885 Last No
NemDer ne was defeated by Mahlon Pitney
for Congress. He was a lifelong democrat
Evening star., 1897-01-01
EXECUTION AT w1LMINGroS.
Murderer Wright Hanged for
Brutal Crime

WILMINGTON. Del. January 1.-Mur-
derer Edward Wright was hanged at 1890
o'clock this morning.
On the night Of July 80. 1885, Wright shot
and killed Ida Crummel, colored, on Water
street near Market, this city. Wright was
jealous of the girl, and meeting her walk
ing on the street tried to engage her in
conversation. Refusing to listen to him.
she started to walk away, when lie fred
several shots into her body. He was ar
rested and convicted.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
.Fer the New Year.

The beginning Of the year IL 4
good time to start q years SUBJ
scription to the Saturday Star for
some out-of-town friend. The
Saturday Star for 1897 VIII be
sent to any out-of-town address
in the United States for dollar.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
LARGE REWARD orHHnED.
Southern Railway TrxAaG 10 Catch
the Alabama Train sW5esaxer..

the Alabama Train fWseskers.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala. Janaasy lat the
undertakers' in this city there renains two
charred bodies, taken from the wreck Of
last Sunday which have bot bssn identi-
ned. 1t is the general ampreasion that
these bodies are remains of -. w. Ttbbs
and wife. who were on the train and who
are still missing. The body Of Tom Giea-
dail u still missing, nor has thu body Of
samuel ga n y. Weaver OF Aldrich, Aa,-v no &rs
1t now appears there werexat least five
more killed than originally reported Pre-
Stunning that last Sundays disaster was the
result OF train wreckers' diabolical work
the Southern Railway Company and the
Louisville and Nashville railroad have, by
advertisement In the papers, posted notices
Offering reward OF 10000 for the arrest
ana the evidence, =. .aoh4ict the guilty par
Evening star., 1897-01-01
Sank a Fishing Smack

BOSTON. Mass. January 1.-The two
masied schooner Sarah E. Ward, which
arrived here today from Philadelphia. ran
INTO and sank the fishing schooner Alice
Nor"ood, nFe miles southeast of Minots $
light, last night No one was lost I,,,
'everal fishermen were Injured
Evening star., 1897-01-01

Candidate for the ControlIership.
Special Dispatch to The Eyening Star.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, January i.-Geo
H. Ford, national bank examiner for north
ern Ohio IL q candidate for the controller
ship Of the currency under the Mckinley
administration.
Evening star., 1897-01-01
Noncure Robin.on.. R.un,...

NE" YORK. January 1.-The steamer
+ FINANCE which arrived last night from
Colon. brings the body of Moncure Robin
soh s OF Philadelphia. a passenger. who died
DeceinpeT 10 on the outward passage from
psW Ss.S @ iSrki The body Will be forwarded to
Evening star., 1897-01-01
VIII Take the .Asvo8aatS& Press. Re-

CHICAGO. January The colorado
Springs, Col, Gazette has4 kbandsned the
United Press and viii herekfterr take the
leased wire report Of the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N II January 1.-The. Lon-
dcn (Ont9 Eveu1nG News today abandoned
taking the report of the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 1.-The V0lk Zeatung
the only paper the United Press had in St.
Faul. Mimi. VIII hereafter take the leased
wire report of the Associated Presg. q. - {
Evening star., 1897-01-01

Ii you want today's
news TODAY you can find
1t only IN The Star.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22
Patents ISSnp2-

List Of patents ISSUED last week to
Northwestern inventors:
Frederick :. Blackmarr. Minneapolis,
Mimi, pneumatic washer; Rudolph
Bratka. MINES ta Lake. Mimi. wind
mill; Edward Denegre and james l..
Elmer. ~. Paul, Mimi. refrigerator
car; George A. Hanna and Il. A. Swan
son., Whitt@mOrc. Iowa, automatic
liquor wcigher: Frank +. Johnson,
Minneapolis. Mimi, c%ultivator; Jennie
l.. McNay. Winona. Mimi, waist or
corset: l.. Il. Nichols and III. T.. Skeels,
West Concord, Mimi. hay loader; Del
bert j Reynolds. Winupbago, Mimi,
acetylenc gas generator: Bert Il. War
ing Albion, Iowa, automatic check:
john Wilson, Cr"Sco. Iowa. guiding at
tachlnent for ~cuitiyatorS; Dubuque
Mailing company. Dubuque, Iowa
ttradc mark. lager beer: John j. Rear
don and II. Kenyon. Minneapolis,
MINI. GRADE mark. remedies for ca
tlrrh. hay fever. colds and all dis
eases of the nose, throat and lungs.
I. ID. Merwin, Patent Lawyer, $40
Pioneer Press building, st. Paul, Mimi.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22

Winnipog. April 1G.-TlIe jams in the
Red river above The city have broken,
letting the ice down with Il rush. The
river rose very rapidly, but is now sta
tiOnary. Emerson IL badly Hooded;
boats are in the streets and the town
appears like an island in the middle OF
a big lake. Sidewalks are floating.
Morris is threatened, the lower parts
being flooded. At ST. Agathe there are
W feet OF water in the lowest houses.
Since the breaking OF the jam the river
at these points are rising slower. The
river is now solid twenty miles below
winnipeg and 1t IL feared this viii
II jam and flood the city. Some
cellars on the low streets are Hooded.
The authorities have men ready with
dynamite to blow up the jam that
forms.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22
VIII Celebrate Vic.'s birthday.

Washington. April 1G.-Thc governor
of Florida has notified the secretary of
the navy that the citizens Of Tampa
are preparing Tor an extensive celcbra-
ton of Queen NictOria'S birthday on
May "A. The British government as n
mark of appreciation Of the spirit OF
the occasion will send a warship. II
of the North Atlantic squadron. to
Tampa, and the governor asks that the
navy department detail II United
States ma1-of-war to assist in the Gel
ebratiOn.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-22
CAUSES
The situation Between Nicksburg
nna New Orieann Is GrmXe.

summon between NtcksDuES
nnd New Orleans * Grave.
Memphis. April 1G.-While the con-
ditiOn OF affairs in the overlooked Mis-
sissippi delta is reported brighter. the
SITUATION between NicksburG and New
Orleans is causing the greatest appre-
hcnSiOn. The river continues to Use
in the Louisiana levce district. the
weak spots in the icvccs are being
strengthened and watched day and
Light. o. &. Stublcticid. the county
correspondent for the agricultural de-
partment of the United States At In
dola, Miss, says the suffering in Sun
flower county. which forms part Of the
delta, has been greatly ~alleviatcd. and
that much of the county no wis dry.
Farmers are busy blowing and plant
ing cotton. and if matters grow no
worse, that county will not require
any assistance from the government.
Statistics of the number of flood suf-
ferS in Bolivar county have been COM
piled by Il committee appointed to
look after the distribution of the GOV
eminent provisions. They show -
900 people who are now or 500 will
have to be fed by the hand OF charity,
in addition to 5000 head OF live stock.