, 1898-02-23

SITUATION Is regarded there as grave, out not
hopeless.
In the House Of Lords the Secretary Of
State for War, during he debate upon the
Militia, stated that he fore~aw HE probability
Of the adop.lon Of compulsory military SER
vice.
Paris news announces that ut the lola
trial &c leraIS b is .effre, G0nse, and Pellieux
testified regarding evidence be lieyrd to be
signed by the Kaiser, and which if disclosed
will produce war with Germany. and should
nulIIfy Captain DteyfuS's conviction. Gene.
raj Boisdefro addressing the jury said that
NJ. ZoIa's acquitttl will imply such a lack
of confidence hat the entire army staff will
resign. Intense excitement exists through
out the country:
Dispatches from Havana state that The
authorities Of that city have assumed the
burial Of the dead from the Maine Cap
tain Sigsbee has cabled the Government that
the 0bsequies could not possibly be more
sincere and impressing. aud that it is impos-
sible to give them American burial. Some Of
the bodies are unrecognIsahIe and many
fragments cannot be INA lie into human form,
sharks and v%ultureS have appeared in great
numbers at the sceue Of he disaster.
Americans in general aleiutensely apprecia.
tive of the countless telrgrams Of sympathy
which have been received from Monarcls
and distinguished persons he world over, es.
peciaIIy English. The Ambassadors Of neal
~ all counties have called ut The State De.
partment to express their countries condo
lences.
The Navy Department has received a deS-
patch from ItcAr Admiral Siclrd giving de-
tails Of the Court Of Inquiry to investigate
the disaster. 1t consist, OF Captain Sampso4
Of The Iowa., President; Captain Chadwick
Of the New York" aud lieutenant Com.
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OWN" to rough weather nothing important
Ind vet been done 10 determine the cause of
the explosion.
Washington news reports that IN the Semitic
on Saturday Senator Mason, dlsr regarding the
understanding at pI esent in action, made an
iuhammatOry speech, which the party leaders
unanimously rebuked. Both Houses have
voted the two hundred thousand dollars for
the salvage of the Maine inquiry etc.
The Spanish warship "Vizcaya' arrived at
this port on Saturday, all warlike reports IN
circulation are false.
Other London news states that a fire o~
CURED under the London Chatham and Dover
Railway a~rchway spreading to the free IL
brary aud the railway warehouse. Traffic Is
suspended in consequence.
The London DAILY Mail publishes a
statement to the eject that the British lonn
to China is practically arranged on the tcIns
previously announced.
A telegram from Barcelona announces the
arrival Of General WeyIer in thar city and
that be expresses the opinion that the Maine
disaster was due to the Incidence Of her crew.
He announces his intention to ask the Govern.
ment's permission to go to Havana to stand os
a candidate for the Chamber of Deputies for
the Havana district.
An explosion of fredamp is reported IN p
c%olliery at IIamme, Prussia. 50 far 10
bodies have been recovered" Thirty miuers
are still entombed.
New York, Fsbry. 22ud.-Adyicos received
in London report that Mr.. William Wallace.
the Agent General Of the Royal Niger Com
pany, is holding all his resources ready to
reinforce the Sultan of Sokoto in expeIIing
the two French expeditions which he had
commanded to halt forty miles from Sokoto
City.
Six Frenchmen and two hundred natives
are now at Argunga and Tagga.
The number of British forces in the Gold
Coast Hinterland and Lagos exceeds 5 thou
sand, including two hundred whites.
The STANDARD, " in an editorial, expresses
the opinion that the marching and counter
marching by the French forces on territory
indisputably British must cease, as it's con-
tinuance will mean blOedshed and probably