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ENGLAND IN CHINA.
War Preparations at weI-Hai-Wsi RE
CartIsd with Grave Importance.

War Preparations at wsI-Hni-Wei RE
ERrlsd with Grave Importance.
LONDON, Nov. 2-The dispatch from
wei-Hla-wel announcing the war pre-
paratIons Of the British naval authori-
ties there Is regarded here as being of
grave Importance coupled with the An
glo-French war preparations. It is sur
missed that Russia, profiting by the
present strained relations between Great
Britain and France has decided to push
forward her aims in the far east by
forclbly seizing the valuable treaty part
OF Nlu Chwang, which Great Britain
cannot permit, 1t Is said.
A dispatch from London TO the Asso-
cIated Press an October 20, said a cable
message had been received there from
Shanghai as follows: "a Russian regi-
ment occupied the town OF NIu-Chwang
province OF Leao-Tong), and the forts
at the mouth OF the river Llsou on Octo-
Der IS, thus securing complete possess
sion of Niu Chwang. The native troops
fed without making any opposition, un-
der orders from the Empress Dowager
and Ii Hung Chang.
A British gunboat was in the river at
the time. Its non-resistance is regarded
as the virtual British abandonment Of
the whole OF Manchuria to the Russians
and gives Russia invaluable stragetic
position. Great Britain is certain to lose
the Niu ChWang trade, OF which 1t has
had eighty per cent
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CRITICAL SITUATION
In North Caroiina-FsurS Of a ciAth Oh
Election day.

In North CnrOltnh-FeArh oil ttAhh Oh
Election day.
WILMINGTON, Del, Nov. 2.-The
situation is practically unchanged. The
Star will tomorrow print card from
Elijah Hewlett, now sheriff in New
Hanover county, and who would have
been renominated had the Republican
county ticket been brought out, in which
he declares that under no circumstances
will he be a candidate.
He also says that under existing con-
dltions no Republican county ticket
should be nominated. The present indi-
cation Is that there will be no Republl-
can ticket for the county offices, though
there Is q suspicion that the present ne
gro register OF deeds may be an individ-
ual candidate, but that his ticket will
not be made until the morning OF the
election. Should this suspicion become
n reality It Is believed 1t Will provoke
trouble, as the Democrats will consider
II a violation Of the compromise hereto
fore described in Associated Press dis
patches.
1t does not need much stimulating ma
terlal to increase the prevailing opinion
here, and when the chairman Of the
DemOCf1tlC eNeCuLlNG CuAllllllttS VI
Columbus, n county adjoining New
Hanover, arrived here to-day and re-
ported that the registration book Of
North Williams precinct, in that coun-
ty, could not be found, 1t added fuel to
the flames. The precinct mentioned
gave III Democratic majority in 1896,
and It Is estimated that the majority
next Tuesday should be over 200. AS
these 200 voters would probably elect
twelve state senators, and the board Of
registration Is controlled by the fu-
sionists, tho Importance Of the incident
Is manifest.
This afternoon the Democrats sent a
lawyer to Columbus county to take
prompt action, and II the registration
book Is not forthcoming the question
will be brought before a supreme court
Judge Immediately. and he win be com
PEELED, under the law, TO show that an
election Will he held In North Williams
precinct. The excitement in Columbus
county is so great that Il II feared vio-
Ience mny be done the custodian OF the
registration book II II Is not produced.
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HAVANA, Nov 2, $3.50 p. m.-General
Wade and General Butler, of the united
states evacuation commission, went to
the Colon cemetery to lay flowers on
the grave OF the victims OF the Maine
disaster. In the course of the afternoon
a number OF other officers visited the
cemetery. Just after Generals Wade
and Butler had left the-Hotel Troche
for the cemetery, carrying the floral
crown made by the committee OF young
Cuban girls who had asked the privl-
lege OF paying this tribute to the dead.
a carriage was driven up to the hotel
with representatives OF the Cuban club,
who brought an immense floral cross to
Law upon the grave. On learning that
the generals, Wade and Butler, had ale
ready gone to the cemetery, the Cubans
followed and overlook them In time to
place both offerings together.
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Nc, W. VA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1888

fuses to run, and the county clerk re-
fused to put his name on the ofheial ball
lot. Democratic County Chairman Ma
honey then brought an action In the cir-
cult court to compel the county clerk
to place Kirchels' name on the tcket,
and he won his case.
Judge Wyman, In his ruling, held that
the law required that a declin1tion be
filed nine days before the election and
that 1t was not for the court to put
different construction on the statute
and therefore Major Kircheis' name
must go on the ticket.
Major Kirchels made an excellent rec
ord in Porto Rico aa an army officer.
and It IS conceded that he will be elect
ed by a large majority, but he Is still
an army otficer. His regiment may mot
be mustered out until long after he has
been elected, and he will not accept the
office The legal fraternity in this city
are Of the opinion that this is the queer
est case on record, and great variety
OF Views are expressed by them as to
the outcome.
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WASHINGTON Nov. 2.-PresldsnS
Maso, Of the provisional Cuban govern
ment, has cabled from Santa crus del
Sur to Senior Queseda, secretary Of the
Cuban delegation, saying:
Assembly has not yet met, owing q
the Gbsence Of quorum"
This was called out by an inquiry
from senor oueseda Us to reports com
ing by way Of Santiago. representing
the Cuban assembly as in session at
Santa Cruz del Sur and engaged in Inn
portRnt questions relating to the future
OF the lsland-the disarmament Of the
Cuban army ana the extent of co-opera-
tion between the former insurgent forces
and the United States authorities. It
mad been stated that the assembly or
ganized by choosing General Garcia as
presiding officer, thus lndicating that the
military wing under Garcia would doml-
nate the assmbly.
Senior Quesada was considerably SUR
prlsed at these reports, as he WaB likely
to be notified OF the convening OF the
Cuban assembly, particularly AZ ne has
been elected q member Of the assembly,
representing one Of the districts Of the
important province Of Puerto Principe,
He accordingly telegraphed President
Maso for information and the foregoing
answer was received.
There are evidences that President
Mckinley and his cabinet have assur-
ances that the action Of the Cuban pro-
vlsional government will not be antag-
unstlc to the policy at Washington, but
rather In sympathy with the execution
of that policy. Senior QueSedR Is salts
fed that this will be the course Of the
Cuban assembly when It begins work,
and 1t 10 probable that he made this
view known during a recent interview
with Secretary Hay at the state depart
nent. In the event of his leaving
washington to attend the assembly at
Santa Cruz del Sur, it will be with the
special purpose of securing cooperation
between the authorities here and there,
and OF overcoming frictIons which may
arise.
Speaking Of the Cuban assembly, Sc
nor Oueseda said: ut Is only the hr6t
step toward a regular and constitutional
] form OF government; and Il will give
way later to nm assembly truly repre-
sentative Of all the people OF Cuba For
the present President Maso has called
together this provisional body, which is
necessarily crude because OF the unset
tied condition of affairs In Cuba. It is,
however not a military assembly, only
eight or ten out OF membership OF
forty-elght being from the military
ranks The others are from civil life
doctors, lawyers and planters and repre-
sent the best element In the community.
This assembly will not form cnnstitu-
tion, but will provide for constitution
al convention, which will take up the
Important work OF framing a constttu-
tion and establishing permanent gov
ernment for the island"
With this programme in view, It is
hardly expected that the question OF an.
nexlng Cuba to the United States VIII
assume large proportions for the pres
ent, but will remain in allegiance until
the Cuban government is sufficiently
well established to permit It to express
the wishes Of the people OF Cuba on the
question Of annexation.
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war INVESTIGATION.

CSFnuslSsGOn FInlahss Ia Work at LexinG.
ton-ThS Work Accomplished.
LEXINGTON, KY, Nov. 2,-The war
investigation commission finIshed its
work here this afternoon and left over
the Queen & Crescent railway for Gin
cinnau
The members Of the commission ex-
press themselves as highly pleased with
what they accomplished here. They al
so compliment highly the condition o.
things they found at Camp HamIlton:
The members Of the commission who
were in Lexington were General Gren-
willie NJ. Dodge, chairman; Col. Sexton
and DR.. Connor.
Yesterday committee OF prominent
citizens OF Lexington, including Mayor
Simrall and ex-Lieuteuant Governor
Afford went to Washington to confer
with the President and see what chance
there Is for a retention OF the encamp-
ment OF troops here. kilograms receiv-
ed from this committee say that the
troops must leave for the southern
camps, but that Secretary Alger has
promised that they will be brought to
Lexington in the spring to recuperate
after they have seen service In Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines.
The President promised the commit
tee that he will probably visit LeXing-
ton when he goes to Canton to vote.
Generals Sanger, Wiley and Andrews
has returned from Georgia, where they
selected camp sites for the troops now
there. All OF them report favorably on
the southern camps.
General Wilson informs The AssQcla=
ted Press that the movement from
Lexington will not begin for ten days
or more, not until after pay day.
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PAINFUL Ru@0R

That the United states Transport Psna.
mn. with 5SO PASSopEOrs, Mostly Sol
diors, Has Basn Lost.
NEW YORK. Nov. s.-Advices from
Santiago say rumor 10 current there
that the United States transport Pana-
ma, which left Santiago for New York
last Tuesday with 800 passengers, has
been lost of Cape MaysI, Cuba The
news is said to have been brought to
Santiago by a fishing schooner which,
cruising along the coast sighted wreck
age, among which was life preserVer
marked Panama" Most Of the Pana-
mae passengers were soldiers. Among
the civllIans were Congressman John
Dalzell. of Pennsylvania, and ex-con-
gresham George F. Hun. Of Green's
burg,
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Hay, W..t YIrrInIa oredItOr..

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. "A petit
ton in involuntary bankruptcy was fil-
ed In the United States district court
to-day against A. Groetzinger & Sons,
the tanners, by creditors from Philadel-
phIa, Chicago and West Virginia, whose
claims aggregate $lOS.OOO. All the claims
were on notes OF the firm. The petition
alleges that the firm OF A. Groetzlnger
& Sons is lnsolvent, and within four
months has committed acts OF bank
ruptcy; that within said period they or
some OF them have, while insolvent,
transferred certain portions OF their
property to one Of their creditors, with
intent to prefer such creditor, and while
Insolvent have suffered and permitted
one creditor to obtain a preference.
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PARIS. Nov. 2.-The soliel to-day
commenting edltorlalIy upon the position
assumed by the American peace COM
mlssioners, says:
NO manarchIcal government would
have dared to conduct itself after the
fashion Of the Americans, who are for
ever talking so much Of right and lib
erty. The plan Of the Americans is
now evident. It is 20 take all Of Spain's
colonies and leave Spain the debts OF all
those colonies. This rs the result OF the
holy war undertaken to insure the indie
psndence OF the Cubans. What base
hypocrisy do these liberals. these Demo-
Gratis. these Republicans show?"
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N. E. women. DII,.lon.ry soeI..y.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Nov. 2.-Gen-
eral executive committee of the Wo-
mems Foreign Missionary Society OF
the NJ. l.. church, meeting In Robert
Park church, In this city, to-day decid-
ed 70 hold It's next conference within
the bounds of the Cincinnati district,
probably in Cleveland or Cincinnati.
The Philadelphia delegates made n
fight, but were turned down. The ses-
sion continues to hear reports OF foreign
work and Of standing committees, and
will end to.morrOW
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NEW YORK, Nov. 2.-ColllS P. Hunt
ington, president OF the Southern Pacific
railroad, says that so far az his line is
concerned railway traffic appears to be
Improving. He IS OF the opinion that
the United States supreme court decl-
sion against the Joint Trafito AHBocia-
ness of the country. Matters will be
no worse because OF the dissolution Of
the Joint Traffic Association" said Mr..
Huntington. "The railroads are bound
to get along, and managers must adapt
themselves to new conditions There
never was a time when a way could not
be found to do what had to be done"
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SENATOR KYLE IS 4 PATR1oT
Above all Things = He RepudiatsS til
PopuIlsIs OF SoHth DnkOta.

Above all Things He RepudiateS tile
PopuIiHs OF SOHth Dakota.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, Nov. Am Aber-
deem, S. D., special to the Dispatch
says:
United States Senator ]. II. Kyle. In
an Interview in the News to-day, says;
II repudIate the Populist party man
ageuent In this state Z,
although still an Independent he Will
oppose the fusion until the state has
been redeemed from the hands o. the
element that now controls that party.
He charges his Popullst colleagues IN
Congress with being unpatrlotic In NOT
supporting President Mckinley in the
war against common foe.
He saws; al am an American citizen,
proud Of our country, proud Of our
Prasldent, proud Of our armE and
navy, proud OF our flag. and so long as
/ have breath to cast a vote, 1t shall be
recorded for my country, come what
mill -
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CONDITIONS AT MANILA.

Health Of Troops said to bs far From
Good-canIs efEIskmsSs
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2-The As
ISOLATED Press has received the follow
Ing correspondence dated Manila, oc-
tober s:
The health Of the troops here at
present is far from being good, not
wlthstandlng the statements OF the
medical department to the contrary. AT
Cav!te the conditions are very oad.
There have been forty deaths there
since September /, mostly from typhoid
fever One-thIrd Of the officers OF the
Montana volunteer regiment are on the
sick list. including the colonel ana the
lieutenant colonel, who are unit for
dutF. In one battery alone over 70 per
cent Of the men stationed there nave
been on the sick list within a MONTH
tho oficers being affected as well as
prlyates. The hospital accommodations
there nre inadequate. The supply OF
medicines was exhausted at one time
and for days there was nothing medi-
cinally to administer to the patients.
The place is unhealthy at best. The
men are quartered on ground floors
where II is damp, and this IN this coun-
try Is especially conducive to illness.
Many OF the men worked themselves Ill
during the process OF cleaning Cavite,
but now that sanitary conditions are
heng looked after, an improved health
record Will doubtIess follow.
In Manila the conditions are better.
The men are fairly well quartered, and
are boing given better accommodations
rs fast as possible, and 1t will not now
be long before all reason for complaint
wifi have passed. Much OF the sickness
OF the past can be trnced TO over
crowding OF tire men while proper quar-
ters were being prepared.
Malaria is the most common OF the
diseases among the troops. A nalarlal
condition IL the natural result Of the
climatic and sanitary conditions which
prevail.
Typhoid fever has also developed to a
f7rlous degree. The average number OF
sIlk In the hospitals, IN addition to the
number OF men relieved from duty by
order OF the hospitals is 800. The new
cases reported to the hospitals daily av-
cragc about forty cases. There have
been twelve cases Of smallpox among
tho soldiers so far, six Of which have
proven fatal. The regImentAl physl-
clans have advised the withdrawing Of
tho aollIers' quarters and the liberal
use NJ corrosive sublimatc, but there Is
Hoi sufficient line or corrosive subli-
mate. or even 4 good substitute 10 be
rad. Smallpox is always prevalent
among the natives. many having Il rs
children The doctors are doing every
thing possible 10 conlnG 81 among the
natives No cases have been repoFted a
IN the past five dagF. The hospitals
which In the past have been nothing
more than death traps. are being put
Into sanitary condition. They are
HbunlaHtly supplied with food and med
icIncs are now obtaInable at mo-
monyg notice, The Red Cross has been
greatly mismanaRsd and gives little as
sgtnncr
Colonel Llppincott has steadllV cfused
10 give ont any information ~ tho
pr0Vs from his once up to to-day. and
only then through General pus Col.
LipplncOtt said: with cool weather a
radical Improvement "a looked for."
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Not q General ResumpfIon.

PITTSBURGH, Nov. 9.-At a. m.
there has not been the general resump-
ton of window glass factories that was
expected. All OF the pot plants have
their fires lighted in anticipation OF go
ing to work, but enough blowers and
gatherers are loyal to President Simon
Burns to make the question OF resump-
ton a doubtful one.
several Of the factories on the South
Side started at midnight but with lin
tied number of men. The Chambers
factory at New Kensington is in partial
operatlon, but at the r. G. Schmertz
plant at Belle Vernon, not a man re-
sponded to the whistle at midnight. An
other attempt will be made there Thurs
day night,
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LONDON, Nov. S.-The situation re-
gardIug Fashoda Is practically un-
changed. Baron de Courcel, the
French ambassador who on Tuesday
saw Sir Thomas sanderson, permanent
under secretary of state for foreign az
fairs, was absent from Lord sallsburV's
reception yesterday.
The special dispatches from Paris this
morning repeat the seml-offlclal state
ment that the evacuation of Fashoda is
accepted in principle, but that other
stations In the Bahr-EI- -Ghazal region
will be maintained.
Various rumors are ahoat as to AbV-
ssInlan expeditions nearing the Nile to
assist the French, but nothing authen-
tic is known on this point.
n. Delcasse, French minister of for
elgn affairs Is expected to announce his
policy in the chamber of deputies to-
morrow (Frlday).
It Is admitted on all sides that Fash
oda itself offers no difficulty provided
a way can be found TO save French
amour propre.
LONDON, Nov. IA semi-offIcIal
note, issued this evening. relative to the
reports of settlement of the Fashoda
question says:
1.-THE matter is substantially in the
same position as when the blue book and
yellow book were published. It is not
anticipated that France will take fur
ther action until Major Marchand's ar
rival at Cairo on Thursday. when ex-
plantations will be Forthcoming as to his
reason for leaving Fashoda."
A Frenchman has been arrested at
Dover for attempting to enter the big
gun turret on the admiralty pier there.
Right Hon. James Bryce. former un-
der secretary of state for foreign affairs,
subsequently president of the board Of
trade and now member of parliament in
the Liberal interest for Aberdeen, speak
Ing there this evening endorsed Lord
sallsbury's stand in the Fashoda contro-
VerSy declaring that the military con-
troll df all the naYlgable w9te1s-l In the
Ba6F=E1- -Ghaza1 basin. aG welI as the
Nile, must be secured to Egypt"
Referring 10 the increasing cordlallty
between the United States and Great
Britain, Mr.. Bryce said: when last in
the United States l was much struck
with the change In public sentiment.
The spontaneous Outburst OF feeling in
Great Britain when the European pow
ers wished 10 intervene against the
United States during the recent war
with Spain. made the Americans UNDER
stand how close we felt the tie between
them and ourselves. They have shown
that they appreciate and reclprocate our
sentiment.
'I would never advocate formal alll-
ance. At all events. the obstacles at
present are serious: but all the condi-
lions exist for q solid and durable
friendship between America and Great
Britain. They have no adverse interests
anywhere in the world and they have
common aims In sundry regions. Every
where each can render great service
to the other; and they can understand
one another better than either can un-
derstand any foreign country.
Mature and history meant them to be
friends and the closer and deeper that
friendship is the better Il will be for the
greatness and the welfare Of both"
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United States with a number Of sick
officers and men. Fortunately. Just be-
fore the hour hxed for her Departure,
General Leonard Wood, military cover
nor OF the Department Of Santiago went
on board. To his amusement he found
no provisions specially suited TO sick
persons. an entire lack Of deiieacies,
and an insuhiclency OF medical supplies.
General Wood declares that hereafter
he win pay a personal visit to every
transport before It leaves the harbor.
He thinks It very strange that, after all
the experience had here in this line, this
medical department Is not able 10 man
age affairs better, and that the person'
al supervision OF the commanding gem
eral should be necessary.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov 2. = The
British steamer Beverly, Captain Me-
Grath, which left Boston, Mass, on oc-
tober %, for Port Antonio, has arrived
here, and reports that the armored crui-
ser Maria Teresa, which left Guanta-
namo Bay, Cuba, on october "a. for the
Norfolk, Va, navy yard, was sighted 10
Crooked Island passage Sunday night,
al which time all were well on board
the cruiser, and the vessel was In good
shape.
Crooked Island Passage lies between
Crooked Island and Low Island, OF the
Bahama group, lying north by cast on
the province OF Santiago de Cuba.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2.-The tor
pedo destroyer Farragut went out on
her official trial to-day and when she
had all but accomplished the require
ments Of the government, an air pump
broke dOwn and 6poiled lt ALL The re-
uiirements OF the contract are that the
vessel shall run an hour at q speed OF
thirty knots For rorty-two minutes the
Farragut cut through the water Mt the
speed OF SL3O knots or more than thirty
six miles an hour, then the breakdown,
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attacked a caravan near Jlbutil, on the
west coast OF the Gulf Of Alden. belong
ing 10 the AbyssInlan envoys who were
returning from Paris TO the court Of the
Emperor Menellk Of AbYasinia, with
VI. Lagarde. the representative OF the
French government and the late COVER
nor OF Obok.
"The DanaiIiis, who occupy the terri
tory between Obok and the mountains
OF Abyssinia, killed four French SOL
dlers and seized two hundred camels,
1000 rides, large quantity Of ammuni-
tion and valuable gifts intended for the
Negus.
at is feared that the result Will be
complications with France, Russia and
AbyssinIa."