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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-08

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-08

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-06-08
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NEW YoRK-Yood steady.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19
President and Cabinet Await an Official
 Investigation.
Secretary Long Pretends to- Believe the Fearful Loss of Property and Life
 Was Accidental.

It Is recognized by the Secretary as: well as by other officials of the depart ment that Captain Sigsbee is in g. measure on trial, and that he will be held responsible should it be shown. that carelessness was responsible for the Maine's destruction.
 The board of officers appointed by Captain Sigsbee to make an investiga- tion has not been able, according tOa the latest advices from Captain Sigs- bee, to obtain the report of diver as to the appearance of the ships bot. tom. The department will naturally have to await the report of this board before it can reach any conclusion as to the cause of the accident. But even upon the finding of this board, the de- partments decision will not be final. It will await with patience the report of the Sampson court of inquiry.
 Upon the report of the court of in- quiry will depend the future course to be pursued by the administration in this whole matter. The court is ex- pected to commence the work of exam ming the officers and enlisted men of the Maine at Key West either to-mor- row or Monday, and then go to Havana to continue it's investigation on the ground. Secretary Long said the court would go to Havana either on the Olivette or the lighthouse tender Man,
  war.
 In anticipation of reports several days ago indicating that the loss of the ship might have been due to an eXter- nal cause, the department cabled to St. Thomas directing the cruiser Brooklyn, which was expected there, to remain until further orders. There was some talk at that time of bringing the vessel to Key West. Sec retary Long decided to-day, however. to permit her to continue her cruise to La Guayra Venezuela, and a cable gram was accordingly sent to her con- mander, Captain c. F. Cook, late this afternoon, directing him to proceed to the Venezuelan seaport.
 Besides the orders to the Brooklyn, the department has determined tomob- ilize the North Atlantic squadron about February 25. Accordingly, instruc- tions have been given to the commando ing officers of the second-claSs battle ship Texas, the cruisers Detroit and Marblehead and the gunboat Nashville to start for Key West on February 23.
 The Texas and the Nashville are at Galveston, Texas, the Detroit at New Orleans and the Marblehead at Mo- bile, Ala, attending the Mardi GraS festival in progress at these points. A department official, in talking to me to- night, said these vessels Woulds hardly be allowed to continue their stay at these points if the administration anti- cipated any immediate emergency.
 Secretary Long confirmed after the Cabinet meeting to-day, the Herald's exclusive announcement this morning that a vessel would be sent to Havana harbor to replace the Maine. The ship selected will proceed to that port inn mediately after the return of the sup ply ship Fern, which is expected to leave Havana harbor in two or three days for Key West The vessel selected, according to the best information ob- tainable to-day, would either be the cruiser Montgomery or the gunboat Nashville.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19
Secretary Long Pre- mature in Urging
 Accident Theory.
Spaniards Are Charged Too Openly With TreaChery for Public Opinion to Be
 Held in Check.

[ that a mistake is being made by the administration in not maintaining an absolutely neutral attitude. This mis- take is, they say, the more apparent from the fact that the accident theory advanced by the Secretary and by in- ference with semi-official authority, is not the universally held theory in the department, and is disputed by very eminent authority. The fact is that it is not known what caused the disaster.
 Individuals are at liberty to speculate on the matter as much as they please, and to support their theories by such facts, scientific or otherwise, as they can, but it is felt to be unwise for the administration to go further than to express the hope, which is entertained by everybody, that the explosion was not the result of foul play.
 The department IS blamed for issuing a typewriter opinion and argument by Professor Alger, seeking to prove that the explosion could not have been caused by a torpedo and that it was the result primarily of an explosion in the magazines. It criticized dispatches from Havana, after stating that torpe- does might have been planted under the Maine, and stated that "all this, how ever, Is regarded as being unlikely to occur, as being almost impossible to occur without the collision of Spanish officials" The idea of the collusion of Spanish officers, even on their individ- ual responsibility, is summed by every body.
 A fact, however, which has been overlooked in the discussion of this question is, that before the matter came close home to us, there was no hesitancy about charging the Spanish officials and the Spanish Government with atrocities quite as savage, brutal and treacherous as the blowing up of the Maine.
 These charges have been made, not only in the press, but in the most de- Iberately, considered speeches and reso- lutions in Congress, and have been re- ferred to by the President In mes sage to Congress. It is held that, while these charges, publicly made and often repeated, do not warrant the aSSump- tion that any Spanish official, even in his private capacity, would connive at such a horrible deed as the treacher- ous destruction of an American battle ship, yet the fact that such atrocities were charged in good faith does not warrant the assumption that such a thing is possible, and suggests the withholding of judgment until the facts are known. The purpose of the administration to prevent as far as possible the hasty forming of a pub lie opinion adverse to Spain Is ap proved by the best men in official life in Washington, but an official assump tion, in the face of expert testimony to the contrary, that the explosion was accidental is regarded as unwarranted and unwise. It is not regarded as "re- serving" opinion.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19

l NEW YORK, Feb. 18.-A Washington
 special to the Herald says: Patience
 and prudence continue to characterize
 the conduct of the President and his advisers in dealing with the Maine disaster. The President has no desire
 to unduly force the conclusion upon the | public that the dire calamity in Ha- vana has been or was the result of an
 accident. but until there is evidence to
 the contrary he trusts and believes that judgment will be suspended by all fair minded people.
 l The confidence felt by the admins tration that the disaster suffered by the
 late second-class battle-shi2 Maine was | the result of an accident is shown both | by the conservative opinion expressed
 to-day by Secretary Long and by or l ders which have been issued to naval ships.
 l After carefully considering all the in- formation which has come to hand, and after discussion of the subject which occurred at the Cabinet meeting this morning, the Secretary authorized an interview late this afternoon, in which | he said: Really, no information has been received since Captain Sigsbee's s first dispatch, adding to our knowledge of the disaster. All we know is that the Maine blew up. There is abundant room for speculation of all sorts, but no conclusion can be arrived at until an examination has been made by the divers and more facts obtained.
 Tt Is simple act to say that such thing might happen by design or 1t might happen by accident. AS yet there is no indication of design. Therefore. my impression has been all along, and I rather think the general opinion pre- ponderates in the same direction, that | 1t must have been accidental.
 At the Cabinet meeting to-day the | matter was not discussed, except as | any body of men talk about an event | of that kind, and most of that talk re- lated to the terrible loss of life and to expressions of sympathy for the suffer CTS. It certainly was very kind thought in the President to send flow CTS to the families of Captain Sigsbee, of the Executive Officer Wainwright and of the lost seamen whose resi- dences are in Washington.
 There has been no secret Cabinet meeting, aud nothing has taken place in the Cabinet that the public has not been informed about. The whole policy of the department has been to give the public all the dispatches. The depart ment has no more knowledge on the subject of the cause of the disaster or even of the circumstances attending 1t than has the public and the report to the effect that Captain Sigsbee had warned the department that the Maine was in danger from submarine mines or torpedoes is utterly without foundation, no such report ever hav- iv,o him ar fy-nr anybody else"
 was informed authoritatively to-day that Secretary Long had not asked for the opinion of Captain Sigsbee as to whether the vessels loss was due to accident or design, nor will he do so.
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19
CAPTAIN SIGSBEE'S
 LATEST REPORT.
Promises to Maintain the Official Character of All Work About
 the Wreck

l WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-The Naval Department tonight received the fol- lowing message from Captain Sigsbee
 With General Lee and Cowles to- | day visited Captain-General Blanco and other chiefs of civil and military branches of Government and returned thanks for great demonstration of sym pathy yesterday and for their con- tinued care for the dead and for other good offices now being exercised in our behalf Received additional assur- ances of sympathy and desire to help. Spanish authorities feel situation acutely. I have promised to maintain official character of all work done on wreck of the Maine. No friction any, where. SIGSBEE."
 The reference to the official character of the work is interpreted at the Navy Department that no divers hired by newspapers will be allowed to inveSti gate the wreck. AS to the published statement that Spain intends to claim joint interest in the work of the court of inquiry the department says under the harbor regulations of any civilized port the local authorities are bound to make an official investigation of any wreck occurring in their Jurisdiction, irrespective of the nationality of the vessel or of any investigation by an- other Government, in the case it Is craft owned by foreign power. As the matter is understood here this is the only right Spain claims in the case and 1t is conceded to be entirely fair. This statement of the case was confirmed at the Spanish legation.
 A message was received this after noon that the Coast Survey steamer Bache, with divers and apparatus aboard, had sailed from Tampa for Havana
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19
PREPARING FOR
 THE INQUIRY.

KEY WEST, Feb. 18.-Rear Admiral Sicard is preparing a precept or ad- vance order for assembling the court of inquiry here into the loss of the Maine. The warships Iowa, Indiana and Massachusetts are expected to- night or tomorrow morning. Their of- ficers and those of the cruiser New York will probably compose a major ity of the court.
 The court may proceed later to Ha- vana. A room in the Federal court here will most likely be secured for the sittipgs,
The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19
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The San Francisco call., 1898-02-19

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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-27
RICHMOND TOBACCO MARKET.

loSos
Private sales to-day we're light.
=. United States internal revenue collSc-
TONS for the city OF Richmond, Va, to-
day were as follows: Tobacco, $,1f1.26;
cigars and cigarettes. ss.S1255. Total,
Private sales for the week ending to-
Day Saturday, February o. 1889 were as
follows: Wrappers, IL hogsheads; filters,
H3 hogsheads; cutters 81 hogsheads;
smokers, IS hogsheads; leaf dark, z39
nogsheads; Burley, 46 hogsheads; Tugs, 139
hogsheads Total number of hogsheads
sold, S6l, against 1,169 hogsheads for the
same period Of 1897 and 592 for the same
week of 1896.
United States internal revenue collec-
tons for the city Of Richmond, Va, for
the week ending to-day were: Tobacco,
Sn, 23.77; cigars and cigarettes, S2l. 81 81.
Total, S32S6l.38. against s17, 473.2S for the
last week of February, 1897, and $2S,S32. AZ
for the corresponding period of 1896.
Sales Of new dark loose leaf on the
Richmond breaks for the week ending
yesterday Friday, February Is, 1928
were: Stonewall Warehouse sold 1900
pounds; highest price. $l4.50. Shockoe
Warehouse sold 55425 pounds; highest
price. S2l25. Crenshaws Warehouse sold
$40 pounds; highest price, $3.50 Total
number Of pounds sold by the three ware
houses during the week. 1519OO; highest
price Of the week, SIPS. which Is the
highest so far for the season.
Highest floor average Of the week at
CrenShaW'S Warehouse was 1885, highest
OF the season. Shockoe's highest floor
average for the week was $3.50.
Mr.. ]. Il. NJ Walker, leaf tobacco
broker of St. Louis, Mo-, was "A visitor to-
day as vas also Mr.. w. A. Adams, Of
Oxford
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-27
Hope for Andree.

DR.. Nansen is quoted by a recent inter-
viewer as speaking most hopefully about
the chances that Andree is safe. He
said that it is hardly reasonable to ex-
pect news OF the balloon expedition be-
fore next August, and that for some time
thereafter undue anxiety would be ex-
cessive. Andree, according to this GER
tainly competent authority. may be in
Franz Josef Land, in North or East
Greenland, in Siberia, or even in Spitz-
bergen. Wherever he came down he
would have 70 make preparations for
winter, and the state OF the ice would
almost preclude the possibility of getting
news about him until midsummer at the
earliest. In Spitzbergen or in Franz
Josef Land he would be able TO get Fro
wisconsin the former case from food
cairns, and I'm the latter from Jackson
depot In Siberia, too, Andree would
be able 10 procure> plenty of bears and
seals, either to the east or west Of Cape
Chelyuskin. 1T must be remembered"
concluded DR.. hansen, that Andree has
plenty OF guns and ammunition, so that
his prospects Of surviving the winter are
Just as good as ours were. IL he Is in
Franz Josef Land he will be all right,
and will be able to come home next sum-
mer by one Of the whalers.'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-27

BANK STATEMENT.
The weekly bank statement shows the
following changes:
Surplus reserve, decrease, 81, 729125.
Loans, decrease, 5000, 500
Specie, increase. 1926, 200.
Legal tenders, decrease, 81, AIS, 400.
Deposits, decrease, $9,346,SOO
Circulation, decrease $50, 400
The banks now hold 500, 959 1925 in excess
Of the requirements of the % per cent.
rule.
The Financier says: The statement Of
the Associated Banks Of New York city
for the week ending February 18th is
not as disappointing in its showing as
mad been anticipated. The events of the
week made it plan that heavy decreases
were inevitable, and yet, as q result OF
all the changes. the banks have reduced
their surplus cash only S2729,125, an
amount hardly as large as current en-
gagements Of gold from Europe. The
actual loss in specie and legal tenders
was T4lS,4OO, but this was partially Offset
by an Increase of S2352,70O in specie,
making the net loss for the week $5,O65, 700.
The specie apparently went into half a
dozen OF the larger banks. 1t is in
teresting to note that of the entire cash
reserve of the New York banks, at least
So per cent. is held in the form Of specie.
The loss in cash was brought about by
heavy shipments to the interior and pay
ments into the Treasury, but the full ex-
tent of the former is not shown in the
statement.
While the larger part Of the money
now being withdrawn from New York is
doubtless IN response to increased de-
mands, due TO better trade conditions,
some of It reflects the unsettled state
of mind prevailing with regard to the
future. But the New York banks gene
rally lose a portion of their excess bal
Rnces at this seas n. In 1897, between
the latter part of abruary and the end
of March, the eX reserve fell eff
eleven millions. Tn, Oss during Febru-
airy this year has bee twelve and three
quarter millions. III reserve, howevr,
is now about one half what it was twelve
months ago, so that the loss affects the
market rather more acutey. STILL the
constituencies of the situation, and our
strong position as regards international
balances. are well shown in the fact that
even the slight increases in rates last
week have started gold imports. A con-
tinued firm market will only emphasize
this factor.
For the moment, the Generalization of
the stock market, the heavy liquidation,
and realtzations have contracted the loan
item There is nothing, however, indi-
eating that money is going to be excess
sjyely dear, even should complications
arise. A study of the past weeks opera
tons illustrates perfectly the direction
in which relief can be looked for. In
other words. our money loaned abroad
can be made instantly available.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-27
MONEY TO

judged It prudent to stay his hand. Soult
had been roughly driven back; the trans
ports were crowding into the harDor. III
was enough to have ended a long retreat
with the halo of victory, and TO have Sc
cured an undisturbed embarkation.
Meanwhile. Moore had been carried into
his quarters at Corfu a. A much-attached
servant stood with tears running down his
face as the dying man was carried into
the house. 'My friend" said Moore, 1t
is nothingr' Then, turning to a member
of his staff. Colonel Anderson. he said:
Anderson, you know / have always
wished to die in this way. hope my
country will do me justice" Only once
his lips quivered, and his voice shook,
and he said Say to my mother" and
then stopped, while he struggled TO re-
gain composure. "Stanhope," he said, as
his eye fell on his aide-de-camp's face.
remember me to your sister"-the IA
nous Hester Stanhope, Pitts niece, 10
whom Moore was engaged. Life was fast
and visibly sinking, but he. said: Il feel
myself so strong, 1 fear l shall be long
dying"
But he was not: death came swiftly and
almost painlessly. Wrapped In a soldier $
cloak, he was carried by the light OF
torches to a grave hastily dug I'm the
citadel at COrunna; and far on TO the
South, as the sorrowing ohcerS stood
round the grave of their dead chief,
could be heard from time TO time the
sound OF Soult's guns yet In sullen re-
treat That scene is made immortal in
Wolfe's noble lines:
Few and short were the prayers we said.
And we spoke not q word Of sorrow,
But we steadfastly gazed on tho face
that was dead.
And we bitterly thought Of the morrow.
We thought as we followed his narrow
bed.
And smothered down his lonely pillow.
That the foe and the stranger would
tread Ger his head,
And we far away on the billow.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-02-27
NO SIGNS OF HER.
SHIPS COMING TO NORFOLK HAVE
NOT SIGHTED THE vrzcAYA
A North Carolina ofRccr Genes ON
for observation-disclosures Prisoner Ar
rested-AIreged Pon-0mce Robber
Discharged.

NORFOLK, VA. February 6-(Spe-
cial.)--No sign of the vizcaya has been
received here The schooner Fred. Jack
son and the Old Dominion steamer
/ jamestown arrived to-day from New
York. but reported that they did not rec
the spanIard. The warship in going to
Habana probably passed too far out at
| sea.
The forty cases OF 555-pound projectiles
taken from Fort Monroe arsenal yester-
day were forwarded to Fort Washington
to-day, and twenty more cases Of the
Same projectiles will be sent to New
| York tonight.
! A draft OF fifteen men, under Mate Il.
M. Isaac, or the United States receiving
ship Franklin, left the Norfolk navy-yard
tonight for Port Royal, S. c., for the
monitor Amplitude, which is anchored
there. Forty-fve men were called into
the construction department Of the navy
yard to-day.
THE MONITOR TERROR STARTS.
The monitor Terror, which has been
| lying at Old Point awaiting orders since
noon Thursday, weighed anchor a liftle
| after O'Clock this afternoon, and at $50
steamed out of the bay through the capes.
and to sea. She will go direct TO New
York, and should reach there early to-
morrow 1t is the belief that the gov
eminent was simply waiting for the VIZ
caya to leave New York and get past the
capes TO order the Terror to the metropO-
lis. Her orders to sail came early this
tivity which contrasted strangely with
the quiet that had been reigning on her
decks. The engines Immediately began
TO get up steam, and some additional
stores were taken aboard. The depar-
ture Of the vessel was witnessed by prac-
tically the entire population of the Point,
hotel guests, residents. and as many of
the soldiers at the fort as could get off
duty These crowded the ramparts,
piazzas, and beach, and watched the YES
sci in silence until she disappeared.
THE LAW-BREAKERs.
officer Haynes. from Raleigh, N. c.,
came here to-day for J. G. L.angdon. tile
young Philadelphia. who is wanted there
for forging a certified check for 500.
Langdon declines to go In the absence OF
requisition, and Governor Tyler's sig
nature will be affixed to the papers to-
day. Langdon may. however, be de-
tanned here. He is also wanted in Au-
gusta. Ga.
Andrew Banks, one OF the prisoners
who escaped from the county jail some
time ago was arrested In Norfolk to-day
for stealing an overcoat. and was later
identified by Mr.. Codd, the county jailer.
Banks is wanted after serving his time
here by the authorities of Newport News
for house-breaking.
H. A Paine. who was arrested by
the Deputy United States Marshal on
the charge Of robbing the post-office at
COurtland, Va, was released from custody
to-day by order OF ost-Office-Inspector
Gregory, who states that Paine was in
no manner connected with the robbery