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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-30
MAHAn oRpERs.
AdmiraI Newell 70 Relieve Admiral ssirridEe
OF Command or the European Station.


WASHINGTON. Dec. GA change in the COM
mand of the European station has boen ordered,
which also Affects tho duties Of o number Of
other high ranking officers. Rear Admiral Sell
fridge, who has been detached and ordered
home, will DO relieved from duty on Feb. 2,
whom Admiral Howell sends up his flag'as COM
mander Of the station. Orders issued this af-
tcrnoon direct the departure of Admiral Howell
per steamer Of Jan. is, and name as his success
sor Capt. Silas Casey, who is ordered to report
on the same day to take charge of tho League
Island Navy Yard. Admiral Howell will take
with him as his official staff Lieut.. j. J. Knapp
and Ensign Lloyd Chandler, son of Senator
Chandler and a graduate OF the class OF SS at
Annapolis. Lieut.. Knapp goes rs Flag Lieu
tenant and Ensign Chandler as secretary: Ad.
miral S~elfridge's staff has been detached from
duty on the san Francisco and ordered home.
The Admiral retircs n few days after no hnuls
down his flag. The navy will then have two
Rear Admirals on tho retired list OF tho Same
name. ono the father and the other the SON., a
younger brother is In the navy with the rank or
Lieutenant-C Commander.
Other Important naval changes ordered to-
day are tho assignment of Capt, A. II. NcCor-
mick, President of tho Armor Board, as Com.
mander Of the battleship. Oregon. to relieve
Capt, A. s. Barker, who Is detached with two
months leave. Lieut.. J. II. Bernadou. Is as.
signed to the command OF the torpedo boat
Winslow and Ensign w. Bagley- to the Same
vessel. Commander r. 8. Richards H. detached
from duty with tho Mare Island Naval Hospital
and three months sick leave granted.
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sENoR oANALEJAs IN CUBA.
he Believes That Spain Has n Very Hard Row
to Moe In the Island.


HAVANA. Dec. 90. via Key west.-Seho or
Canalejas is expected to-day in Havana from
his travels in this province with Gen. Gonzalez
PARADE. 1t is said here that he will leave to-
morrow for Spain on the Spanish steamer. 1t
is known that his impressions are very pcssi-
mistic with regard to the situation of Spain in
Cuba. While the partisans of the Government
are enthusiastically praising the wonderful re-
suits of home rule and assert that they expect
from 1t tho paciication of the island, Schor
Canalejas declares that little. II anything, can
DO hoped from the new system.
He has written from the country to friends In
Havana and has cabled to his newspaper many
facts about the awful condition of the interior
of the island, devastated as it is by war. 1t is
said that on arriving in Madrid Senior Cana.
lejas will start an energetic campaign against
Senior Sagasta through his newspaper, Ell He
RADIO.
The decree of Gen. Blanco announcing the
establishment Of autonomy on Jan. l has a
bombastic introduction about the blessing to be
expected from the new regime. The plain truth
is that outside. the army of oficescekers, who
are the natural result of the general poverty of
the country. and the Spaniards. whose private
interests lead them to support Senior Sagas.
tas's Government, there are no honest believers
here In autonomy. The Cubans arc well aware
that tho decree Is a sham. promulgated merely
to endeavor to deceive the patriots. The un-
compromising Spaniards wink at one another
and laugh in the very faces of the new Minis:
| tiers. An opera bouffe Cabinet" is what E
Concrete calls the new Ministry that is to take
the oath of office on Jan. l.
THE determination not to give offices in the
Government to the pnc~omprom1ising Standards
has, however, greatly cnragcd some of them.
The advantage given to them by Gen. Blanco Of
ten votes out of sixteen in the electoral Junta.
which will practically enable them to gain a
majority in the Assembly, has not Modified
them. The elections are far distant. The
Governor-Gereral will not order them till the
island is pacitied. Meanwhile the Autonomists
and Rcformists are to enjoy the offices.
1t is known that Col. Ruiz before being shot
asked permission from the Cubans to write a
letter to Gen. Blanco. The permission was
granted and he spent two hours in writing the
letter. 1t was carefully scaled and was do
livered to the Captain-G General. What it con-
tains is not known. but its contents cannot have
been very satisfactory to Blanco, for he has
nothing to say about it
The sensation caused by Gen. Pando's disas-
trous defeat on the Cauto River is increasing as
further news comes from ManZanillo. In the
opinion of most of the Spaniards hero tho larger
part Of Santiago dc Cuba province is utterly
lost to Spain.
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TRADES UNIONS AND POLITICS.
Contrary Advice from Two English Delegate
to the nashville Convention.

Contrary Advice from Two English Delegates
to the Nashville Convention.
Edward Hartford, ono Of tho fraternal dele
gates from England to the recent convention of
tho American Federation of Labor at Nashville.
sailed for southampton yesterday on the Ameri.
can liner st. Paul. j. Havelock Wilson, NJ. p,
his co-delegate. will remain in this country
about two months longer. Before he left Mr..
Hartford declared. that the American trades
unions were stupid in not going into politics.
by pursuing their present mummy game of
ignoring the control Of political machinery as o
means of lettering their condition" he said,
they are not only fatally injuring their
chances, but are inviting the scorn of the poli-
ticians-the very class from which they expect
to get better laws for the masses. When tho
political bosses see the trades unions inert,
stunning politics. taking no hand in tho game,
trade union demands"
On the other hand. Mr.. Wilson says that
trades unions should try to elect men, irrespec-
tive or party, who are favorable to labor, MEM
beers of labor unions to be preferred. The labor
unions here say this is what they are doing.
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SHOT BY ELEVATOR MAN.
n TAIBoR's ERRAED B0Y WOUNDED
IN LAFA RETTE PLACE.
Connolly Gnvo Himself UP to the Madison
street Police aud said re shot the hey Ac.
ctdentnliy-Thtn ne Denied ON BoinE Locked
Up-The Prisoner IL Thought 20 Ne Insane.

Connolly Gnvo Himself Up to tho Madison
Street Police ana said re Shot the Boy Ac.
cidentnliy-This no Denied ON BoinE Locked
Up-The Prisoner us Thought TO ne Insane.
Morris Bernard. q 15.year-old crrnnd boy for
o Bowery tailor, was sent to 10 Lafayette place
about 9 o'clock last evening to deliver a bundle
OF clothes. No. IS In an eiRht-story building,
and the Bowery tailors customer was on ono OF
the upper floors. Young Bernard went up In
the elevator. On tho trip he noticed that tho
elevator man had a pistol sticking out of his hip
pocket. Having delivered his goods he returned
to the ground floor. While he was walking out
to the street he heard n shot in the hall behind
him Then no felt n sting at his right ankle,
and he fell down on the sidewalk. He dimly rc'
members some one riding his pockets before no
became unconscious.
When he revived two passers-by were bending
over him. They told him that the man who
shot him had run away. As the boy had a
bullet wound in his ankle. the two men helped
him over to his employers. whence he was sent
to his home. so Avenue c. His mother in alarm
notified the police of the Union Market station,
and word was sent to tho Mercer street police
to havo the shooting investigated. When
detectives went to Is Lafayette place, however,
the building had been closed for the night, and
About 8 O'Clock q young man walked into the
Madison street police, station and told Acting
Sergeant Butler that he wanted TO give himself
up He said that ho was jeremiah NJ. Connolly
of SO Gouvcrneur street. and that he was an
elevator man Mt is Lafayette place.
This afternoon about 5:30 o'clock said
Connolly, Il accidentally shot n boy, about Ii
years old, in the hall where 1 tend the elevator.
After l did II l ran away and went home. but l
was sorry for 1t. and thought I'd better give
myself up"
Hes crazy, I guess" said Acting Sergeant
Butler. SO he told the doorman to search the
man, fearing that he might shoot somebody else.
But Connolly said he had thrown the revolver
away. Sergeant Butler then tclephonod to the
Mercer street station. and was directed to hold
tho man. Connolly was taken to the Mercer
street station. where he denied shooting any one.
He said the cartridges in his pistol were blanks.
Further search of him discovered eight loaded
cartridges in his pockets. Connolly was locked
up. Tho police think he is not in his right mind.
Young Bernard was sent to Bellevue Hospital.
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TOBACCO EMBARGO RAISED.
The Port or Havana TO he Opened TO the I'm
restricted Export or Tobncco.

restricted Export OF TobnccO.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-Informa.ion was re.
ccived at the Treasury Department to.day.
through a telegram from the Collector of Gus.
toms at Tampa, Fla, that within forty eight
hours the port of Havana will be opened to the
unrestricted export of Cuban tobacco. This
means the raising of the embargo imposed by
decree Of Gen. Weyler a year and a hnlf ago.
and is IN extension OF Gen. Blanco's order of
Dec. IL last. by which the embargo was held no
longer to affect tobacco purchased by Ameri-
cans who produced proof of their citizenship.
The forthcoming order will raise all special re.
strictions on the export of tobacco from the
island, without regard to the nationality of tho
importer. Discrimination will no longer be
made against Cuban sympathizcrs in Florida
and elsewhere, at whom the Wcyler cdict was
aimed. The change is expected to affect thou.
sands Of cigar manufacturers, especially In
Tampa, Key West and other Florida towns.
The decree of Captain-Genera Wcyler, prohib-
iting the export of Cuban tobacco to the United
States. wac promulgated on May l6, 1896. Its
object was the injury of the Cuban cigarmakcrs
in the United States. who were contributing
money In weekly installments out of their wages
toward the furtneranco Of the insurgent cause,
Immediately after the PRONUNCIATION OF the
decree tho merchants in Havana engaged in
their respective Consuls, declaring that the de-
cree was prejudicial to legitimate business. The
embargo order then became n subject OF diplo-
lul itBoIitllon5 Ntcu lHc Inlttu states
and Spain. The ground taken by this Govern
mcnt was that the Spanish authorities had no
right to prevent the delivery of tho tobacco,
which had been ordered by citizens of this
country. The efforts of the State Department
to secure relief for Americans were at last sue
~ccssful. On Dec. IL ConSul-Gcneral Lee in
formed the department that tho Spanish Gov.
ernment had ordered that !, 6i5 bales of leaf to-
bacco, owned by GuStave salmon IL Bro. of
New York, be surrendered TO its owners. Ono
American firm only. Bauridel d Co. OF New
Orleans. did not secure the release of their to-
barCO. hut tho general decree, which ia pNDnpinH
within the next few hours, will remove the cm-
barge against their holdings.
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GARorA's CONTROL OF EAST CUBA.
His Position on tho Cauto ImpreEnnbie-Com-
merce in Santiago do Cuba.

merce In santiago DO Cubn.
DR.. G. Garcia victa of tho staff Of Gen. Calixto
Garcia arrived hero yesterday on the steamer
Ardanroso from Jamaica. He left Cuba Libre
carly in December in an open boat and landed
near Montego bay with very important docu-
ments from Gen. Garcia for the Cuban delesa-
ton in Kingston and Schor Estrada Palma In
New York.
He reports the situation in the east of Cuba as
very favorable to the patriots. and describes tho
positions held by Gen. Garcia between Cauto
del Embarcadero and the mouth Of the Cauto
River as really impregnable.
The last words" said DR.. Victa, that Gen.
Garcia uttered TO me were that / should assure
tho friends of Cuba of the success of his present
campaign against Gen. Pando. in spite Of tho
fact that Pando had already started from Man
Zanillo to attack the Cubans on tho Cauto with
10000 regulars and n squadron Of ten gunboats,
besides many other ships"
The control of the territory of Santiago dc
Cuba by Gen. Garcia Is so complete. according
to DR.. Vieta, that commerce between the patriots
and foreign merchants 10 rapidly increasing.
Clothes, provisions. medicines and arms are sold
regularly and safely to the Cubans, and foreign
firm has established n large store for Its mer-
chandise In the Cuban territory.
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Tho Sealing Bill sirned.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.-The bill providing for
the suspension Of pelaRio sealing became a law
this morning. President Mckinley attached
his signature to the measure shortly before
noon. A delegation of New York fur importers
visited tho President last week and requested
him to withhold his signature as long as posi-.
BILE in order to allow tho landing of large in
voices Of furs which had been ordered before
the law was anticipated. The President assured
them that he would defer signing the bill until
Dec. 90. This 10 tho last day allowed by law for
the signing OF the measure, the constitutional
limit of ten days expiring tomorrow.
Preparations were begun at the Treasury
Department to-day for the administration Of the
Sealing law. Assistant Secretary Howell, with
ment, prepared q series of regulations, which
will be signed by the President and Secretary
Gage Tomorrow.
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where ye.,erdn,,a Fires Were.

A. M.-5:i5. 272 First avenue, Donohue Bros. dam.
age $40; Sil5. las EldrIdge street. Lyman Graenspau.
damage trlhinS, 1850, 2l5 West Forty.sIxth street.
Louis Ritter. damage $50; 1913. II Division street.
IachaeI Smell. damage a.; lO:2O. 42a GOuverneur
street, Mrs. Mary Chilver. no damage; 1910. 2OO3
MIC,s on avenue. James +, Moore. damage $40;
1880. 6Ol Tenth avenue. Joseph u. strkier, damage
$1,000.
i. Moo. 2lO7 Fifth avenue. damage SIOi 5:lb,
o Trad hurst avenue, A. Brenner and others. damage
and otuers. damage s4OO; 700. 81 w, st street.
Joseph Schroeder. damage S21i $3.50. 262 stanton
street, William Greenbaum. damage tTl1ing; 1880,
2l7 sixth avenue. King Brothers, daDSRo S7b.
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nAYEN,r cur rAqEs EEr
Hhode leland Gotten RIn aren Av5aitipe thc
Outcome nj Fall River.

OutcomO NJ fnN HANNefs
Providence, r. l., Dec. 29.-No step has yet
boon taken by Rhode Island cotton manufacture
ors, looking toward n cut-down in wages. Al
though there arc moro splndles In operation in
some other parts Of Now England than In
Rhode Island. tho amount of Rhode Island
capital invested In cotton mills ranks near the
top Of the list. The QuinncbauR Valley In
Connecticut, from Taftvillo up, is lined with
cotton mills, most of which arc owned by Rhode
Islanders. while the Knights. who reside In this
city. own many mills In Massachusetts. All
told Rhode Island plays u good second to Fall
River in the matter Of cotton goods. yet there
has been no move TO follow Fall Rivers lead In
cutting prices.
IL Fall River alone had cut IL Is quite likely
That Rhode Island wages would remain ne they
arc. but other places Initiated Fall River, and
now even conservative Now Bedford ia talking
OF reduction. A resulting cut down Is there.
fore believed by many to BIO inevitable. All de-
ponds. however, on tho action OF the Knights and
tho Goddards. The other mill owners are waiting
Tor these men 10 show the way, but as yet
they make no sign. 1t IL of course likely that
they are awaiting the Fall River outcome. II
there Is no strike in Fall River, down will go
wages. III there is n strike matters are likely to
remain as they are. While Fall River makes
print. cloths almost exclusively. the main prou-
uct Of Rhode Island mills are u higher class of
goods, which are not much affected by Southern
competition.
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TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE.
oil. Morrison Says ne viii 60 mack 70 his
Homo In lIiinois ana Practice Law.

Homo in nllinois ana Practice Law.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-Col. William r. Nor
rison. Chairman Of the Interstate
Commission. says he will go back to his Illinois
h me to practice law after the expiration Of his
term Of office on Jan. /. He is az years old
and has been in public life almost constantly
since he first came to Congress- at the opening Of
tho Thirty-eighth Congress, thirty.four years
ago. Before coming to Congress Mr.. Morrison
had been four times q member Of the Illinois
legislature. and he was Clerk Of the Circuit
Court before that time. He Is a veteran OF
two wars, having been as gallant a soldier, In
the war with Mexico as in the civil war. In his
biography in the Congressional Directory he
made no mention whatever Of his services as
q soldier.
Col. Morrison has been a member Of the In
~terstate Commission for ten years,
and having passed the allotted three score years
and ten, he talks as checrfully of going back to
the little town of Waterloo to practice law as a
young college graduate would when hanging
out his shingle for the first time. Col. Morri-
son adds that he hopes to get back TO Washing:
ton occasionally, but not as q politician. II
men, who. like this old warrior; have held
example and leave Washington when their
work here is finished. they would be much hap
pier in the end.
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j. j. AsToR's GROOM ARRESTED
Charged with Deserving HIS Common.Law
WIfe-Has q ..ReEuIar, Wife.

Wife-Hns . Regular, Wife.
John Benstead was arralgned in the York.
vile Court yesterday for deserting his common
law wife. Margaret Benstead, and their two
year-old child. and failing to provide for them.
Tho complainant said she lived at 159 West
Sixtieth street and added that the man had left
her three months ago.
'She is not my wife" the prisoner explained.
81 told her l had another wife living, though I
had not seen her for two years"
You had better be careful of what you are
saying" admonished Magistrate Pool. you
have practically admitted committing bigamy
by having two wives. q common-law one and a
regular one"
The prisoner said he had lived with tho COM
plainant for three years and was willing to
contribute to her support. but that he earned
only $35 a month.
Where do you workf' inquired the Magis.
trate.
II am groom for John Jacob Astor." the
HIN, he's n very good man to work for.
Don't you think you could get him to raise your
wages 80 that you could support ono of your
familiesi" went on the Magistrate.
B~eIstead said he didn't know, but hoped so.
The Magistrate held him in bonds to give 81 a
week to the complainant for the support Of the
child.
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The German Charity HALL.

The eighth German charity ball will be given
under the management of the Bachelor Circle
(Deutscher Liederkranz), Jung Arion. and
Beethoven Bachelors beethoven Maennerchor)
at tho Metropolitan Opera House on Feb. 3.
This ball has become one Of the great features
OF the winter for the Germans OF this city, and in
the last seven years has distributed nearly So.
year. to Commemorate the advent of Greater
Now York. its scope has been extended to the
neighboring boroughs. and II promises to be the
most brilliant yet given. Oswald Ottendorfer
Is Honorary Chairman and Rudolph J. Schaoier
has been elected President OF tho committee in
chRrPe.
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Park Policies supper.

Over two hundred guests and members Of the
park police sat down to a supper at the Column
bio restaurant in Union square at 1l:3O
o'clock last night. Among the guests were
Congressman Bradley. Park Commissioner
McMillan and Ely, Reconnaissance Lane.
and state Senator Cantor. After the meal
nm engraved. set of resolutions. which
had stood at the head OF the long table. drapcd
in an American flag. was unveiled and pre-
sented TO Capt. C.. C.. Collins by Sergeant James
L. Dillon, who was the toastmaster. Other
Leary, Roundsman Hosey. Superintendent Par
sons of the Park Department and Surgeon i. Il.
MarRh.
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ANOTHER STRIKE AT HAMILTON.
Twenty rzcn Discharged for . Spree ana 500
Men Go Out.

HAzLEToN. Pa, Dec. GA protractcd oelc-
bration of the Christmas holidays got twenty
miners employed in the Hone wood stripping
OF tho Lehigh and Wilkesbarrc Coal Company
into trouble and was tho cause Of a strike on tho
part of 500 others. The twenty men failed to
repo't for duty on Monday morning. and Su.
perintendent Conner Jones was { Id that they
were still celebrating Christmas. When they
reported at the colliery this morning Mr.. Jones
discharged them all.
When. the 500 men working in the stripping
heard OF this they at once stopped. work and in.
formed Mr.. Jones that they would not return
until the discharged men had been reinstated.
This MIR. Jones declined to do, and the 500 men
went home. Galleries Nos. 4 and B had to DO
shut down. as the few men remaining in tho
workings, could not turn out enough coal to
Keep the breaker going. The men say that Mr..
must furnish the carrying companies with The
allotted quota Of coal daily or suffer serious
financial losses.
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Tourth.Class Pss,nasters Appointed.

WASHINGTON. Dec. 29.-The following fourth.
class Postmasters were appointed to-day:
New Jersey-Kingsland. Bergen county. John No
Garry.
New ~York-Aecord.. Ulster county. william o.
Haines: Appleton. Niagara county. Fred L. wymani
Clear Creek, Chautauqua county. Nina N. Saunders
Coomer. Niagara county. William N. Lewis; Highland.
Ulster county. Frank F. Simpson; Hurley. Ulster
county. Charles Dumond; Kyserite. Ulster county,
Philetus Kortright; Mineville. Essex county. Edgar A.
williger: Moriah Centre. Essex county, A.: Leroy
Woodruff; New Baltimore Greene county. Stephen
T. whitbeck; Richmondvile. schoharie county,
Charles B. Brown; Ridge Road, Niagara county. vii
liam c. Reed; stormville. Duchess county. Thomas
BrevooDt.
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working Girls want n Woman Dslera,..

Workers. composed of 1000 girls who mako
overalls and trousers for Sweet. Orr & Co.. are
considering the question Of sending a woman as
delegate to the coming joint convention of the
State branch Of the American Federation of
Labor and the Workingmcn's State Trade AS
sembly. The firm has its salesrooms here, and
the factory and the girls union uro at Sewburg.
tee of the union went to tho headquarters Of
the United Garment Workers here yesterday to
arrange for the renewal OF an agreement for q
yenr with the employers. Tho general officers
will consider the question of giving credentials
to the proposed woman delegate.
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oHICAGo's SALARY oRABBERs.
over HALF or the Aldermen appoint Their FRI
waite Secretaries.

CHICAGO. Dec. 29.-More than one.half of the
safeguarding Aldermen have chosen their
private secretaries. They submitted a list of
the names to the Council tonight and the APP
pointments were confirmed. Alderman Port.
man. leader of the Aldermanic Protective Asso-
citation. presented the list, with an order to con-
Arm. All the members who voted for the salary
ordinance voted to concur.
Those Aldermen who favor the course being
pursued by their more active colleagues. but
await the outcome of the court proceedings
that must be instituted before the Comptroller
will pay any money under the salary ordinance.
The list included the names of wives, sons,
daughters. friends. and political associates OF
the Aldermen as secretaries. all of whom
tain uses.