The age-herald., 1898-05-09
Natives of this Country Elbowed Off the
 Sidewalks.
STREET CARS WON'T STOP FOR THEM
Fact That shopkeepers Do Not En- courage the Patronage of
 American Citizens.


 Woodford, United States minister to Spain. arrived on La Touraine this morning, and left for Washington this afternoon
 La Touraine had also on board a number of the United States attaches at Madrid, including George Stanford sickles, first sec retary of legation; Captain T. P. Bliss, Colonel Kellogg, military attache, and Cap- tain c. l.. Dyer, naval attache.
 General Woodford declined to be inter- viewed by reporters, stating that he was still in the diplomatic service of the gov ernment and could say absolutely nothing for publication.
 MT. Sickles, when informed that cable dispatches had stated that the train on which the members of the legation had come from Madrid to Paris had been att tackled by mob and that stones had been thrown at the party said:
 Well, some things were thrown at the train, but the demonstration was not of a serious character A number of students. not large number, had gathered at VaI- ladolid and cried, Long live Spain," and a few other patriotic cries. They were not directed against us particularly, I assure you, but were the result of patriotic feel ing on their part. A few windows in one of the cars next to the party were broken but none of us were injured, no one at all was hurt While at Madrid we were treated with the utmost courtesy"
 When asked how it happened that Min ister Woodford had received his passports previous to his handing to the Spanish gov ernment the ultimaturn or the United States. MT. SiekIes said:
 We rather expected that at least we were not surprised when the passports ar- rived as we knew that when the Spanish minister at Washington received his papers the Spanish cabinet would probably issue ours to us and thereby sever all diplomatic relations But any further information I cannot give"
 Naval Attache Dyer, when asked about the reception of his passports by Minister Woodford, said that he had not been pres- ent at the time as he had accompaned the wife and daughter of Minister woodford to Paris, and had left on the day preceding that on which the passports had been hand ed in.
 J. s. Highlands, another American on the steamer, said he had gone abroad to visit his son at Madrid. He had intended stay ing for about six months, but the anti American demonstrations had been so great that he was forced to leave that place within three weeks after his arrival, and that his son was forced to flee to Lis- bon. MT. Highlands said that the signs on the office of the American houses had been smashed and torn down.
 w. G. Cannon, of Denver, who had been travelling abroad said he was forced to re- turn to this country and he could not con- tinue in Spain during the present state of affairs. In Paris MT. Cannon said the feeling is most bitterly anti-American Every person who is thought to be an American is elbowed off the sidewalks, jostled by the crowds and everything possi- ble done to show the antipathy of the French. Petty annoyances are practiced. For instance the street cars will not stop to take on American passengers, rates of ex- change in money in most cases are exorbi- tant and small purchases are not encour- aged by many of the shop keepers except at figures three four times the actual value.
 Bishop John L. Spalding. of Peoria, stated that the feeling of the French to- ward the Americans was intensely hostile. He said that he understood that one of the reasons for this was that eight-tenths of the public debt of Spain was held by the French people, and that the latter coun- try also owned nearly all of the railroads in operation in Spain.