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Washington Authorities still Refuse
to Believe Garcia Wrote the Let
ter Attributed to Him.
APPEAL TO ADMIRAL SAMPSON
CUBANS AT CIENFUEGOS ASK SUCCOR
FROM STARVATION.
Many Working People Dying at Ha-
vana-Affairs in the BIOckaded City
Rapidly Growing Worse.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-Nothing has
come yet from General Shafter to the War
Department, either in the shape of cable
gram or mail communication, containing
any reference to the correspondence sup
posed to have passed between himself and
General Garcia. The officials have no doubt
that General Shafter wrote reply to the
Garcia letter, but they still refuse to believe
that Garcia either wrote or knew of the in
itiaI letter which was said to have been
addressed to him by General Shafter. One
point that seems to afford some basis for
this belief is General Skaters statement
that he invited General Garcia to be pres
ent at the ceremonies attending the raising
of the American flag over Santiago. 1t is
inconceivable that Garcia should therefore,
have made such statement as that attrib
uted to him in the alleged letter, directly at
variance as it is with the fact reported by
Shafter
While regretting the friction that exists
at Santiago between the Cubans and Amer
leans, our government can see no cause at
this moment for modification of the pro-
gramme it has outlined for the government
of that city. AS one of the ablest legal
advisers of the administration has stated it:
civil government in a town like Santiago
can exist only in time of peace. In war
time the military arm must be supreme,
and until peace is attained the only form
of government that can be erected and
maintained over territory occupied by an
army is military government. To attempt
to be guided by any other rule would be to
invite anarchy and would lead to notable
excuses. 1t is not intended by this state
ment to reflect upon the character of the
Cubans or their ability for self-government,
but this rule would and should be applied
in any conquered territory. 1t could not be
conceded for moment that the United
States forces should go on capturing COM
munities in Cuba and then turning them
over to the Cubans while the war existed.
The position of the government in this is
believed to be exactly in accordance with
tho most advanced principles of govern
ment during time of war, and it is therefore
improbable that any change will be made
in the status at Santiago until peace is at
tained."
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SAVED BY HIS SUSPENDERS.
How an Illinois Miner Escaped Death
in Alaskan Wilds.

SEATTLE, Wash, July PA ladder i'm
provised from a pair of suspenders and
few twigs was the means of escape of E.
F. Pope, Of Mclean, ILL.,, from almost GER
tain death IN Alaska. His inventive genius
came to his aid only after he had been i'm
prisoned three days and three nights on
narrow ledge in a canon of Low river, one
of the tributaries of Copper river. Below
him was the swift mountain stream, while
above was granite cliff 1900 feet high. He
is now at Juneau, little the worse for his
experience. The story Of his adventure was
brought to this city by F. S. Hildreth, OF
New York, who had just returned from
Baldes Early in March Pope attempted to
reach the headwaters of Copper river, but
in the Tazalena his boat was upset and he
lost his outfit. Returning to Baldes he was
employed by the army officers as a packer
for the government expedition. The last
week in May Pope and party of six sol
diers were on the headwaters of the Low
river thirty-sx miles from Baldes. The
stream has never oeen surveyed, ana tn ne
float down on a log raft. AT o'clock on
Friday afternoon, May. q. the party reached
a box canyon, through which the stream
shot with the velocity of an arrow. The
water was dashed to foam and on each side
were cliffs rising hundreds of feet. For
at least two miles the adventures darted
onward without accident. Then they were
dashed into rapids ending in a sixteen-foot
fall Over went the raft, and moment
later it turned over, broken in two. When
Pope came to the top the soldiers had dis
appeared, and he succeeded in reaching a
ledge on the right bank. 1t was only wide
enough for foothold and about five feet
long. All that night and the next two days
Pope walked up and down his narrow
prison, flashing his arms and stamping his
feet to keep his blood in circulation. About
noon of the third day he was debating
whether it would not be better to plunge
into the stream to certain death than
starve, when few rays of sunshine filtered
through the rocks above. Just above him
he saw a cump of bushes. By means of a
ladder made of the bush and his suspend
ers he climbed from rock to rock until he
reached a point one hundred feet above the
stream Here the rocks were broken so that
he could get a better foothold. Upon reach
ing the top he was completely exhausted
and laid there many hours before he could
go on. The next day he reached Baldes,
and to his surprise he found the soldiers UNI
injured. They had reached the opposite
bank of the stream two hundred feet below
Pope and thought him drowned. Pope is ex-
pected to reach Seattle on the next steamer.
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BUSINESS TROUBLES.
Assignment of David McCosl<eK, Dry
Goods Merchant.

CHICAGO, July 25.---David 'MeGesker, one
of the leading dry goods merchants Of this
city, to-day made an assignment Of his Chi
cago branch establishment to E. w. Cog
Ian. who for years has managed the Chi
cago business of the firm. The assignments
was precipitated by a sudden demand for
a settlement made last week on the New
York house by A. Mallory, a former part
ner in the business 1t is said the entire
indebtedness of the firm including the
claim of Mr.. Mallory, will not exceed $780,
OOO, which, 1t is estimated, will be easily
covered by the assets.
NEW YORK, July 25.-David McCosker,
doing business under the name of David
McCosker d Co, dealers in linens and wool-
ems assigned to-day to Daniel c.. Watt
without preferences. The liabilities, ac-
cording TO Mr. Watt, are about $50. 900.
When stock was taken in June the goods
Watt claims the assets of David McCosker
& Co. will reach to fully SOL, 900.
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come from every corner of the Union
While the treasury officials realize that
many of the bonds will fall into the hands
of the banks, many of these institutions
having hired persons to send in subscrip-
tons and furnished them with certified
checks with which to pay for awards, still
1t is believed that the amount of private
savings which will be invested in the bonds
will outweigh the corporate wealth with
which purchases were made in this under
hand way.
Assistant Secretary Vanderlip expressed
the opinion to-day that the bond issue had
swept away all that was left of the doc
trine of flee silver. The total of individual
subscribers for the bonds will he so large
that there will be few communities in
which some of the bonds will not be held
among the people, and every man holding
bond will not only be a sound money
advocate himself, but will be a missionary
for the sound money cause.
The new bonds are now listed on the
New York Stock Exchange and selling at
l04A, and the belief of the financiers is
that they will go TO 10. If they should, ev-
cry subscriber who gets an allotment of
$1,000 will make profit of 500 on his in
vestment. All this vast profit will, in the
main, go among the people, and the good
Will towards the administration which gave
the bonds to the common people of the
country instead of to bond syndicates or
ganized in Wall street is sure to be felt in
the fall elections
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AS VIEWED BY REV. DIXON.
The New York Divine Discredits Some
of the Stories REGARDING Cubnns.

NEW YORK, July 25.-The Rev. Thomas
Dixon. jr.. in his sermon in the Grand
Opera House last night said he believed the
stories of discreditable actions, cowardice
and preference for eating rations to fighting
regarding the Cuban troops to be misrepre-
sensations. The subject of his sermon was
General Skaters Great Victory" He con-
trasted SPANS condition in the fifteenth
century with the Spain of to-day, and said
nation which cannot keep the truth has no
future. IN three months of war" the min
lister said, I'VE have raised an army of 300-
900 men, sunk twenty-five Spanish men-of-
war; captured or. destroyed forty merchant
men, killed 1900 Spanish sailors and cap
tured two admirals, %, 900 men and an inn
portant city This is a prophecy of future
success. Shafter is not only a general, but
a magnificent diplomat said Mr.. Dixon.
with an actual force of 5000 men in three
weeks he forced an intrenched army of SUI
peror numbers to surrender. not only the
force IN front of him but other forces. l
am sorry Garcia misunderstood us. Some
courtesy has been neglected towards these
poor proud, ragged men. 1t matters little,
however The United States has gone to
give Cuba freedom, and reports from unre-
liable sources cannot change that purpose.
That was the pledge of the United States.
and the Nation that keeps the truth will
enter into the city The men of little Amer
lea cannot stop the Nations march, which
brings liberty to lands ingulfed in the tyran-
nv of centuries"
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STARVATION AT HAVANA.
Deaths Among Working Classes Said
to Average so Per Cent.

KEY WEST, Fla, July 25.-Advices re-
ceived here from Havana say the mortality
among the working classes there because
of starvation is so per cent. 1t is commented
upon in editorial in the La Diario de la
Marina, and a price list of articles, as fixed
by the government, is given by the same
paper. Flour is 10c pound; rice, 15c; corn
meal, 22c; potatoes, 15c; lard, 30c; oil, 35c;
Goldfish, 23c; peas. 10c; condensed milk, 81
per can; salt, &c; onions, 35c; corned beef,
zoe a half can; fish, Goo; sweet potatoes, 15c.
Before the blockade sweet potatoes could be
purchased at zoe for twenty-five pounds. The
insurgents are active in Havana prov
ince that the plight of the city is daily
growing worse, and now few fresh vegeta-
bles reach the city. In one of the newspa-
pers of Havana is an account of a woman
arrested for cooking the flesh of her own
horse which she had killed.
FL Comercio in its issue of July g. gravely
declares that the only way left to Spain to
lift the Cuban blockade and end the war
is to grant letters of marque to Spanish,
French and Norwegian owners, whose YES
sells are lying idle because of the war, and
concentrate them in Cuban waters to harass
American commerce. Ell Concrete says this
should be done because ''the Yankees have
neglected no measure however dishonora-
BILE, in their conduct of the war. They use
new high explosives, unsanctioned by the
laws of war. Spain should put aside all con-
siderations of her convention with the pow
ers of the world and organize a powerful
fleet of privateerS."
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ARRIVAL OF WOUNDED
OFFICERS WHO SUFFERED SEVERE
LY IN THE FIGHTING AT SANTIAGO.
The Transport Hudson I'm Hampton
Roads with a Yellow Flag Flying
"A New Hospital Ship.

NEWPORT NEWS, July 25.-The trans
port Hudson, from Santiago, arrived at
Hampton Roads at noon to-day. From the
foremost f1oated yellow flag, indicating
sickness aboard. DR.. Pettus, the national
quarantine officer, boarded the vessel as
soon as she cast anchor. He remained on
board some time and when lie came ashore
it was learned that he did not feel justified
in permitting those on board to land. The
bodies of Captain Capron and Sergeant
Hamilton Fish are on the ship en- route
north for interment. 1t is said that Sylves-
ter Scovel, the newspaper correspondent
who was ordered from Cuba, because of in
sulting conduct to General Shafter is also
on board. Several wounded, principally Of
ficers, arrived on the Hudson, in charge of
Assistant Surgeon Shannon. Among them
were:
Private Stanley HOLSTER, of the Rough
Riders" He was famous football player
at Harvard. He suffered a shell wound in
the left breast and gunshot wound in the
left hip joint.
Cadet Z. E. Haskenn, of the Military
Academy, an acting lieutenant of the
Rough Riders" shot through the intes-
tines
Lieutenant Oscar Hopgood, Second Mas
SacnuSeJtS, SnOt through the rlgnL lung.
Lieutenant Maynihou, shot through both
lungs.
Lieutenant Colonel J. T. Haskell Seven
teenth Infantry, knee cap fractured by bull
let and paralysis of left arm.
Lieutenant Jacob H. Smith, Second In
fantry, flesh wound near spine.
Major Sumner H. Lincoln, Tenth Infan-
try. shot through right arm. simple frac-
ture.
Major r. J. Eskridge, Tenth Infantry.
shot near the spine, causing partial paraly
sis Of leg.
Second Lieutenant b. H. Wells, Second
Infantry, flesh wound in left hip.
Captain w. Warmer, Second Massachu-
hip.
Private Kenneth Robinson, of the Rough
Riders" flesh wound in abdomen.
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Starving Cubans of CienfueEOs Appeal
to Admiral Sampson.

Copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press)
GUANTANAMO BAY. July 25 II a. m.-
The following pitiful appeal has been adj
dressed by the starving people of Cienfuegos
to Rear Admiral Sampson:
Honorable Sir-The Cubans, old men,
women and children, residents in the town
of Cienfuegos and this neighborhood, are
all dying of hunger. The young men are
all in the field with the Cuban troops and
have not shoes; neither food. All the pro-
visions in this town are in the hands of the
Spaniards. Cubans cannot obtain a piece
of bread as ii is necessary to send every
thing to the field. The Weyler system is
in their way. The situation is terrible If
you, honorable sir, do not come quick with
your squadron to our help and take pos
session of this town. We shall be lost. We
beg you TO precipitate your operations.
About 5000 old men, women and children
will die of hunger in thiA town.. Some of
these old men have four or five sons fighting
for his freedom. This is our situation; hor-
rible situation, If the great people of the
United States do not come quick in our help
we are lost. For Gods sake come quick.
SOME CUBANS.''
Nothing can be done for the people of
Cienfuegos until that place is captured. This
will not be for some time.
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New 7 Ork Journal. N e.ll,f,l,.
Leader in revolution of 1868.
Captured Santa Rita, Barre and Holguin.
Surrounded and vanQulsned a Spanish
army at Santa Maria.
Wounded desperately at San Antonio del
Bahar.
Imprisoned as rebel at Manzanillo
Deported to Spain and imprisoned at Va
lencia.
Freed in 1877.
Rushed into the little revolution" by the
side of the heroic Maceo
Re-exiled to Spain.
Escaped to Cuba again in February, 1896
Has been lighting for Cuban freedom ever
since.
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NEW YORK. July 25.-Sailed: South
wark. for Antwerp; Werkendam, for ANS
terdam
BREMEN, July 25.-Arrived: Bremen,
from New York, via southampton.
ANTWERP, July 23.-Arrived: Kensing-
ton, from New York.
COPENHAGEN, July 25.--Arrived: Norge,
from New York.
sTETTIN. July 22.-sailed Thingvalla,
for New York.
LIVERPOOL. July 25.-Arrived: Pavonia.
from Boston.
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SAN FRANCISCO. Cal. July Sc. H.
Hines, who represents a New York syndi-
cate, has returned from the Klondike, which
he regards the richest mining region in the
world He said in an interview, What
greatly impressed me is the wealth and
the extent of the bench claims. AS an in
stance, I saw a claim on the ninth tier in
French Gulch. which appeared to be one
thousand feet above the creek bed, which
tent of territory this class of ground covers
no man knows and the development of the
diggings will probably occupy years AS to
quartz lodges. after careful investigation,
am strongly inclined to the belief that they
no longer exist in that region. AS to the
future possibilities l would say that they
are practically immense.
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War Ships Gathering Near Manila.

LONDON, July PA special dispatch
from Shanghai says four Russian men-of-
war have left Port Arthur and it is supposed
their destination is the Philippine islands.
Another special dispatch from Shanghai
says the Japanese war ships Woshino. Chin
Yen, Itsukushma and Sai-Yen have been
hastily dispatched to Saeseho 90 to rein
force the Japanese squadron there. making
it the strongest on those waters. 1t has
and American admirals in the event of In
ternational complications. While the dis
patch does not explain the matter it is In
ferred the squadron is desired to be in readi-
ness for Philippine operations.
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Lieut.. Col. Egbert at Home.

CINCINNATI, July 25.-Lieut. Col II. c..
Egbert. of the Sixth Infantry, arrived at
Fort Thomas, KY, to-day from Bellevue
Hospital, New York, where he has been
treated for wounds received at Santiago
Colonel Egbert was stationed at Fort
Thomas when his regiment was ordered to
Tampa, thence to Cuba. He was given a
reception on arriving in this city and later
at Fort Thomas. where his family and other
friends awaited him. Although exhausted
by travel, he stood the trip as well as ex-
pected.
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General Notes.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-To-day's state
ment of the condition of the treasury shows:
Available balance, $266, 1868, 1O9; gold reserve,
190O43.673.
Fred E. Holloway, of Evansville, presi-
dent of the Indiana Republican League,
passed through Washington to-day on his
way to Atlantic City. Mr.. Holloway reports
the Republicans of the State to be in most
excellent spirits and individually and coll
lectively as confident of an overwhelming
victory at the polls next November.
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TAMPA, Fla, July 3.-TEe transport
Arkansas arrived at quarantine to-day and
will be held. The Arkansas has on board six
ty-four persons and on her trip from San
tiago several cases of yellow fever devel-
oped. She was held at the quarantine sta
ton at Mullet key and DR.. Glennan, of the
Marine Hospital Service who is in charge
here went down at once and ordered that
the boat be held indefinitely. Colonel Astor
is on board the Arkansas and has dispatches
for the secretary of war, which he has
orders to deliver in person, but he will be
held until all danger is over.
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They are still disgruntled because the town
will not be delivered over to them. The
Spaniards are accepting the change of gov
eminent in Santiago with good grace. The
insurgent forces have left the American
camp and gone some miles in the interior.
They have been warned under the threat Of
extreme penalty not to modest Spanish
residents or return to the old system Of
brigandage"
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ing from terrace to terrace are so steep that
it is impossible FOR horses or mules to as
cend with heavily laden truck and to as
sist them wire cables operated by steam
power run above the pavements TO which
any vehicle can be attached by means of
grip provided for that purpose and be pulled
up as easily as our underground cables
draw a street car over hill. Arriving at
the desired terrace the driver cuts loose
end goes about his business.
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NEW AMBULANCE SHIP.
steamer Missouri to Have Complete
HOsDitaI Outfit.

AOSp1uaA
NEW YORK, July 25.-The new ambu-
lance ship Missouri arrived here to-day
from Philadelphia and the work of fitting
her out will be carried on day and night.
The Missouri will carry a complete hospital
outfit and will be able to accommodate six
hundred patients, though folding hunks will
be stored on board so that in an emergency
eight hundred wounded can be cared for.
The auxiliary branches of the Red Cross
Society have donated to the ship an ice
plant. carbonating plant, steam laundry.
steam steriizer and steam launch, and
she will also carry distilling plant and ar
X-ray apparatus. A large dynamo will be
placed on board to run the fans and to
furnish light The government has decided
that the ship must be ready by the 10th
of August at the latest.
Private Michael O'Mealy, Company A,
Twenty first Infantry. who was one of the
wounded landed at the Marine Hospital at
Stapleton, S. l.. died there to-day OMealy's
home was at Plattsburg, N Y. He leaves
a wife and child, who live at Quebec.
All hope of recovery of Lieutenant Will
liam M. Fiscus, of the Second Cavalry, who
is at Fort Wordsworth suffering from
typhoid fever, has been abandoned. He was
one of the six officers who came north from
Santiago a week ago Saturday The lieu
tenant is sinking gradually. His father.
William W. Fiscus, formerly sheriff of
Armstrong county Pennsylvania, and his
sister. Blanche Fiscus, NJ d., of Phiadel-
phia, are with him. The other five officers
continue to improve.
The United States hospital steamer Relief
is still anchored off Stapleton, S. l. The
sick and wounded on board are all improv-
ing.
The sick and wounded soldiers who ar
rived here on the Seneca and who were
taken to Bellevue Hospital are recovering
rapidly two of them having recovered sufh-
GENTLY to leave. All the men say they in
tend to leave the hospital as soon as pos
sible, though they speak highly of the treat
ment they have received.
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Protest Against Tariff Rates.

WASHINGTON, July 25.-The Treasury
Department has received from several large
exporting houses protests against the Gus
toms tariff rates which were recently fixed
on cigars, cigarettes and tobacco imported
into Santiago. The rates established were
$3.50 per pound on cigars and cigarettes and
clared to be practically prohbitory, and in
consequence the department has decided to
hold the matter in allegiance until the ex-
porterS can be heard.
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Gibson House Company Assigns.

CINCINNATI, o.. July 25.-Tke Gibson
House Company has filed a deed of assign
ment to j. Hartwell Cabell, attorney. The
assets are estimated at 100000 and the LA
bilities at $4,000. This assignment was fol-
lowed by the individual assignment of Hor-
ace Dunbar, president of the company and
manager of the hotel. His assets and liabil-
tiles arc placed at $780, No cause is mem
toned for the failure, and no preferences
are given. The Gibson is among the Oldest
and largest of the leading hotels of the city.
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CHICAGO. July 25-The German Opera
House Company. owner of the Schiller The
alter, confessed judgment to-day to the Gar
den City Trust Company on a note for $2S,-
600. Judgment was entered and the sherin
levied on the theater building. Later at
torneys representing the Garden City Com
pany filed 8 bill asking for a receiver for
the German Opera House Company.
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PROVIDENCE. r. l., July 25.-Walter ].
Lcro. reporter on the Providence jour
nal, was drowned this afternoon i'm the
IawtuclSet river. He was rowing with Miss
FLORENCE Wiscman. of Philadelphia. and the
boat was overturned when they attempted
10 change seats. The young woman's life
city from Worcester, Mass. where his