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ordered to Evacuate Hoiguin.

KEY WEST. Fla. Aug. 13-Intelligence
reached here to-day that the Spanish forces
under General Luque. in Holguin. have been
ordered by General Saleedo to evacuate the
town. General Garcia. with eight thousand
Cubans. was, at last accounts, strongly IN
trenched around Holguin. and had demand
ed General Luque's surrender. This latter
information came on the Spanish prize
schooner Expreso. which was captured by
the gunboat Nashville at Gibara on July 81
and brought here by prize crew under
command of Ensign Walker. When the Elk
preso left Gibara on Tuesday last the Span
iards were still in Holguin. and had not
replied to General Garcia's demand for their
surrender. On Aug. the gunboat Nashville
captured a small Spanish sloop, the Fon-
grafa. at Gibara. The sloop carried mai!
for Spanish officers and a cargo of tobacco.
The mail was seized and its contents gave
the American officers some important in
formation. Subsequently, the sloop was set
free.
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A court-martial OF which Brig. Gen. Cole,
commanding the Third Brigade of the army
vened here to-day, and will begin the trial
of Capt. Louis c. Duncan. of the Twenty
second Kansas Regiment, VINO is charged
with digging up the remains of the Confed-
crate officer. Major Duke, af Alabama, near
Yates Ford. and permitting the privates Of
his regiment TO desecrate graves in his pres
ence. Col. A. b. Shaife and Maj. A H.
Harvey, of the Twenty-second, are acting
as counsel for Duncan. The witnesses called
to-day included Privates Nym, Company J.;
Harrel Company l. and Prince Albert Wise,
of the Twenty-second Regiment. Their tes-
timony generally was 70 the effect that they
saw Duncan and others digging into graves
and obtaining buttons and other relics.
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OBITUARY..
MuIsi-Ab-EI-Aziz. Sultan Of Morocco
and Prince of True Believers.

GIBRALTAR, Aug 13.--It is reported that
Mulai-Ab-El-Aziz, Sultan of Morocco, is
dead.
The Sultan Mulai-Ab- El-Aziz known TO
his subjects under the title of "Emr-Al-
Mumenin," or Prince of the True Believers,
was born in 1881, and succeeded his father
Mulai-Hassan, on June Z, 1884. He was the
fifteenth of the dynasty of the Alder,
founded by Mulai-Achmet, and the thirty
sixth lineal descendant of Ali, uncle and
son-in-law of the prophet. Each Sultan Of
Morocco is supposed to indicate the member
of the Sheridan family who, according to
his conscientious belief, will replace him.
This succession is. however. elective and
all members of the Sheridan family are
eligible. Generally the deceased Sultans
nominee is elected by public reclamation
at monday prayers, the Friday after the
Sultan's death, as the nominee has prob
ably possession of imperial treasure. and is
supported by the black body guard, from
among whom the large majority of court
officials are selected.
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designations and Retirements.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The following
officers have resigned: w. K. Naylor, Four
tenth Minnesota Infantry; Second Lieut..
A. D. Elston, Second Missouri Infantry
Second Lieut.. W. c. Bailey, First Ohio Cav
airy. Col. Wendell P. Bowman First Regi-
melt, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry;
First Lieut.. S. l.. johnson. Ninth Volunteer
Infantry; First Lieut.. G. M Jeanett, Eighth
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, and
First Lieut.. A. A. Caswel, Fourteenth Min
nesota Volunteer Infantry.
The following officers have retired from
active service: Col. A. H. cambridge,
Fourth United States Infantry, after forty
years service: Col Hugh A. Theaker. SIX
teenth Infantry, after thirty years service.
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LAST FIGHTING IN PORTO RICO.
General Wilson's Plckets and Span
iards Engaged.

PONCE, Porto Rico, Aug. IL delayed in
transmission. )--General Schwan has occu-
pied the town of Mayaguez. taking formal
possession without resistance The Spanish
forces which had held the place withdrew
to Lares, about sixteen miles northeast of
Mayaguez. and half way between the town
last named and Arecibo on the north coast
of the island.
General Brooke is still at Guyana. The
munitions and supplies for his division are
being unloaded from the transports at Ar
rOyo.
General Wilson is still at Coamo await
ing reinforcements of cavalry and dyna-
mite guns before executing the plans formu-
lated for the advance in the direction Of
Aibonito, in cooperation with General
Brooke. On Thursday, about O'Clock,
there was desultory firing between pickets
on General Wilson's line and those of the
Spanish forces in his front. Two companies
of the Second Wisconsin Volunteers were
sent out to support the pickets. AS this dis
patch is sent Is o'clock p. n1.) there is sharp
firing going on. An occasional volley has
been heard. A battery of artillery has been
moved out to the support of the infantry.
Prisoners captured during the day report
that there are $500 Spaniards at Aibonito.
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UNHAPPY PORfo RIco.
The Spaniards i'm the Islands Have
Had a Varied List of MisfOrtunes.

Z. A. Ober, in the Century.
Those early settlers may well have de-
served their rate; still, one may hardly with
hold sympathy from them in their many ana
varied mlsfortunes. In 1915 they had ylsl-
tation of ants which devoured everything
before Them and then, soon after the insects
had been driven away or destroyed, an cpl
demic of the smallpox decimated their
ranks swiftly followed by another disease
more insidious, but scarcely less fatal in IT'S
effects. In 1923 French pirates burned the
town of San German, on the south coast;
the fierce Caribs ravaged the eastern prov
lnceS, carrying Off some of their prominent
men to be sacrificed at cannibal repaSts,
and seventy years later, in 1885, that great
pirate, Don Francisco Drake" appeared of
San Juan, which city he sacked, the English
Claim but to be gloriously repulsed, the
Spaniards say. The forttncauons or san
Juan then mounted seventy pieces of artil-
lery. with thrty-four in the great Castillo
del MORO alone There is no doubt that
Dutch attack was repulsed in 1915. and an
other English attempt defeated in 1913; but
In the latter instance the Porto Ricans
were aided by a hurricane, which destroyed
many of the ships of war. The islanders
signal instance of divine nterposition, until
fleet of their own was similarly destroyed,
in 1902, when it seemed to them more fd-
tional to ascribe such an event TO natural
causes.
During the greater part of the seventeenth
century the fiilibusters and bucaneros, COM
posed of combined Dutch. French and Eng
lish renegade Adventures, continually hdr-
ried the coast and attacked the supply GAL
Icons coming from spain AT nrSt lntrencned
in the island of st. Kits, they were driven
out by fleet under Don Federico Toledo;
fitted out in Porto Rico, when they fiocked
to the island of Tortuga, north of the coast
Of Haiti. whence they preyed upon Spanish
commerce at their convenience.
The MORO of San Juan, standing well al
at sea. was chip on the Spanish shoulder
at which passing ships could not resist TAX
ing shot or two The last great attack
upon San Juan. previous to the American
bombardment of this year, was in 1897. by
tho English under AbercromDle who were
Compelled to retire after a three days siege.
During the century that has elapsed since
that event the inhabitants of this rock
ribbed IoElress town nave poasted the en IN 10
rudelv disturbed by the guns of modern bat
tie ships.
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Thanks for France.

PARIS, Aug. 13.-After signing of the pro-
tocol of peace between the United States
and Spain at Washington yesterday, Presi-
dent Mckinley asked Nj. Jules Cambon the
ambassador of France, to thank his govern
ment for its good offices in bringing about
the rapprochement between the two nations
and leading to a cessation of hostities.
President Mckinley added that he was
pleased that the final peace negotiations
are to be conducted in Paris.
MADRID, Aug. 13.-Duke Almodovar de
Rio. minister of foreign affairs has asked
NJ Patenotre. the French ambassador at
Madrid, to transmit to his government the
thanks of Spain for the good offices which
have resulted in the earliest possible s.gna-
States
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PHILADELPHIA, Aug 13.-The Record
tomorrow will publish the following from
Dover. Del: Il believe that candy was sent
for the purpose of taking the lives of my
daughter and her little girls.
That was the emphatic statement made
to-day by ex-Congressman John B. Pen
ningtcn. in the parlor of whose house lay
the bodies of his two daughters. Mrs. John
D. Deane and Mrs. John Prescott Dunning,
who died in agony after they had partaken
of chocolates that had been sent to Mrs
Dunning through the mail. When it was
urged that the poisoning of the candy might
not have been Intentional, Mr. Pennington
declared that he would tell later why he
held to such notion. The paper in which
the box of candy was wrapped was closely
examined to-day. and the postmark San
FRANCISCO was made out There is divi-
sion among the people here whether a
crime was committed or the deaths were
caused by poisoning that developed in the
candy on its trip from San Francisco. Mr..
Pennington believes the Mrs. c." sigma
ture was assumed, and that the candy was
prepared with poison, and sent East for the
purpose of causing the death of Mrs. Dun
ming and heT little girl Mr.. Pennington
said the signature was of the forged order,
and. furthermore he declared that Mrs;
with &C. is now in Maine.
There were five doctors called in at the
Pennington home to attend Mrs. Deane and
Mrs. Dunning. DR. Bishop. one of the ply
sicians, stated to-day that there was no
question but that the candy was poisoned
but he leaned towards the accident theory.
He said there were no indications that ar
senic had been introduced into the systems
Of the victims. DR.. Bishop declared that if
the candy had been Subjected to excessive
heat ptomaines may have been developed.
He could not say what particular poison
caused the deaths. DIR. Downs, another
physician who was called in, asserted that
the poison thar caused fhp dea tbs DaralVZed
the nerve centers, and that then the heart
action ceased. he rather inclined to the
poisoned. though he said the Chances for
accidental poisoning were numerous. There
will be no post-mortem examination on Ell
Their of the dead women, as both bodies have
hanIa emil hal cd
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United States will be complete pending the
establishment Of stable government in
Cuba, this will be done in way not to Of
fond the sensibilities of the Cubans or to
enable their enemies to say they are to be
deprived Of the fruits of their long struggle.
All the Cuban commanders will be officially
notified that. peace has been agreed on and
that military operations are to cease. Gen.
cral Gomez has been recognized as COM
Iaander-in-chief of the Cubans, and he will
be communicated with in that capacity
now
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Not the MiIIionaire,s Daugbter.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis Aug. 13-Judge Hub
bard has filed decree in the matter of the
protest of Henrietta Proctor of St Paul.
against the admission of the will of William
Carson. millionaire, deceased. Judge Hub
bard decides that Henrietta is not the
daughter of William Carson, but of Samuel
and Susan Lamb although Susan Lamb for
a time left her husband and in 1877 lived
with William Carson that the sole heirs
at-law are the five daughters and the son
of William Carson. deceased and his wife,
nee Mary Z. Smith, that William Carson
never acknowledged Henrietta as his daugh-
ter; that the will is valid and properly exc
cuted. The protest is dismissed and the
will admitted to probate
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CLEVELAND, o., Aug. I'm. Maurice
Gallia the representative in this country of
the leading journals of France. to-day sent
President Mckinley the following telegram
in behalf of his papers:
From the depth of my heart offer you
congratulations on the successful terminal
ton of the war and for your mastery ac-
ton. And / wish to express my profound
admiration for the army and navy of which
you are commander-in-chief."
Mr.. Gallia sent the message in behalf of
the Journal des Debats LIE Gaulois LIE
Journal L'Echo de Paris, l. Eclair, LIE Gil
Bias. Revue Hustre Revue Diplomatique
Moniteur des Arts and Moniteur de TEX
position all of which he represents for the
Paris exposition of 1900
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lcIiH from 6SIeTdi 0ildIleI, giving the SAIL
itary report for condition of his army to-
day:
Total number sick. 2, AIS
Total number fever cases. ,951
Total number new cases. 213
Cases fever returned to duty............ 1858
Death on Aug 11-Musician T. NJ. Nc
Donald. Company d, Seventeenth Infantry,
exhaustion and dysentery
Deaths Aug 12-Private Abram Benson
Company Z, Twenty-fourth Infantry, yell
low fever; Sergeant Fred E. Stewart Maine
Volunteer Signal Corps, yellow fever; Pri-
yate Charles Hicks, Company F. Twenty
fourth Infantry, yellow fever; Private Ellis
Bland, Company A, Eighth Ohio yellow
fever; Private Adolph Missal, Company F,
Third Infantry, typhoid fever; Private S.
d. Loundy, Company F, Twentieth In
fantry, organic heart disease, measles and
bronchitis Corporal George e. Whipple,
Company M, Second Massachusetts, per-
nicious malarial fever; Private Perry H.
Howard, Company B, First Infantry, chron-
ic dysentery; Second Lieut.. William NJ
Wood, Twelfth Infantry, aesthenia conse-
Quent to remittent malarial fever; Private
Joseph Ashmore, Company D, Twelfth In
fantry, malarial fever, remittent; Private
E. 3. Moore, Company II, Eighth Infantry,
Iemittent malarial fever; Musician William
II. Leonard. Company H, Third Infantry
pernicious malarial fever; Quartermaster
Sergeant Frank Z. Alden, Company L.
Seventy first New York, pernicious malarial
fever.
General Shafter reports that c. F. Per-
cival, Thirty-third Michigan, who was re-
ported dead. is convalescing at Siboney.
In another dispatch General Shafter says:
Second Massachusetts has already sailed
ALSO Seventy-frst New York. Troops are
being sent by brigades and divisions
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santiaeo,s sanitary Condition.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Aug. 13.-Gen.
Leonard Wood. military Governor of this
CITY, and board of inspecting physicians
have just completed a house-to-house inspec-
ton Of Santiago. Considerable sickness,
mostly malaria and dysentery, was found,
but no authentic case of yellow fever was
disclosed. The sanitary precautions taken
since the occupation of Santiago by the
United States forces has had the effect of
reducing the average daily death rate from
103 to 81
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The merchant
vessels OF the world are now free 10 enter
and leave all Cuban and Porto Rican ports.
The State Department holds that no further
proclamation is needed raising the blockade
military and naval commanders and the
Presidents proclamation of peace are said
10 be sufficient IN themselves TO end the
blockade and open ali ports to the shipping
Of the world. This means much not only 10
Spain and the beleaguered islands. but to
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The Postoffice
Department is hearing from the people who
desire to obtain appointments as Dostmas-
tiers In Cuba, Porto Rico and other newly
acquired possessions. No such appointments
can be made, however, in the absence of
congressional authorization. Meanwhile
employees of the department will be detailed
for this service The Interior Depar tment
is also receiving numerous inquiries in re-
gard to the public lands in the new terri
tory but has no official information to give
on this matter
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stopped by shafter.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA, Aug. IS 5 p. M
Advices were received by General Shafter
to day to the effect that Manzanillo was
bombarded yesterday, day and night. and
again this morning. General Shafter at
once cabled to the Spanish commander at
ManZanillo that peace has been declared,
and requesting him to advise the American
commander of the fact under a flag of truce,
which he did, and the Smelling of the town
ceased
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SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 13.-The transport
Minnewaska sailed at 4 o'clock this after
noon for Santiago with the Third Regiment
United States Volunteers, Colonel Rays i'm
munes-numbering LOO officers and men.
The transport also carried 80 horses and
a wagon train. and had on board 1000 cords
of wood for the soldiers at Santiago. Thou
sands of people lined the wharves and river
along the city front and cheered the SOL
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Miner. Refuse to Strike.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 13. - The coal
miners of the Pittsburg district held con-
vention at Monongahela, Pa, to-day to ar
range for general strike for the Chicago
agreement, but as only fourteen delegates
were present nothing was done. The men
were ordered to strike Wednesday, but so
far they have refused to come out. The
miners officials threaten to establish camps
where the men are working below the dis
trict price and force them to quit work until
the union rate is granted.
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Alleged to Have Been Bombarded.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Acting
Secretary Allen, of the Navy Department,
has received a dispatch notifying him that
a naval force, sent by Admiral Sampson,
had appeared in the harbor of Manzanilo
and demanded its surrender. The command
ant of the city declined to comply with the
demand and an engagement took place.
which is said to have resulted VIGOROUSLY
for the Americans. The fighting at Manza-
milo was begun at o'clock, twenty-three
minutes before the protocol was signed, by
a bombardment from the fleet 1t was re-
ported tonight CFriday) that marines had
been landed. but the dispatch received by
General Greedy from the signal officer at
Playa del Este made no such statement. At
the Navy Department it is said that the
only vessels at Manzanillo are some small
blockading ships which could not have con-
Quoted the operations described in the mes
sage received. 1t is said that Admiral Samp-
son is at Guantanamo and that Captain
Goodrich, with the Newark Scorpion and
Suwanee, is in the vicinity of the Isle of
Pines, and that therefore neither of those
officers could have had anything to do with
the enga cement.
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PARTING SHOTS.
Concluded from First Page.)

Cuba. Dispatches were received at the
White House last night stating that a naval
bombardment was in progress. Efforts were
made at once by the War and Navy depart
ments to get information to Manzanllo that
the protocol had been signed. Assistant
Secretary Allen sent dispatch through
Havana to the naval commander at Man
zanilo to cease hostilities. There is inn
preston at the War Department that no
engagement took place at Manzanillo and
that the report was the result of misin-
formation somewhere. Advices have been
received that Captain General Blanco sue
ceeded in informing Manzanillo of the ces-
sation Of hostiities. A dispatch has also
been received stating that the orders of
Acting Secretary Allen reached the naval
commanders at Manzanillo this morning
and that hostilities then ceased.
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stlvetts SOLID to 81. Louis

BOSTON, Aug. 13.-The management of
the Boston Baseball Club has released Jack
Stivetts to st. Louis for a money considera-
ton. as the Boston management had no
place for one of the ST. Louis players. Stiv-
etts came here from St. Louis in 1892 as a
pitcher and did some excellent work for the
Boston team until the last two seasons,
when he stopped pitching and filled in as
substitute fielder and first baseman.
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COLONEL Pope was III.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 13-Surgeon Cen
eral Sternburg has received a letter from
Lieut.. Col. Pope, who was the surgeon in
charge at Santiago until July %, when he
was relieved because of illness He writes
that when the Seneca and Concho sailed
he was ill, having suffered from sunstroke
and was unable to take active charge of
matters and unequal to the responsibility
devolving upon him. The Seneca and Concho
are vessels which carried sick and wounded
to the United States, and of whose condi-
ton great complaint was made
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LEO NEARING HIS END.
The Pope Described as Decrepit Old
Man, who Rarely Speaks.

BERLIN. Aug. 13.-The Rome corre-
spondent of the Cologne Gazette says: THE
condition of the Pope no longer admits of
disguise. His health has gradually gone
from bad to worse, and his Holiness is now
a decrepit old man who rarely speaks. His
voice is of the weakest; thinking tires him,
and prayers confuse him. He has been oh
served to commence the same prayer ten
times without noticing the repetitions.
Cardinal Rampolla, papal secretary of
state, conducts all Italian business"
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JeweIer Murdered in G;uatemnla.

SAN FRANCISCO Aug. 13-Recent arrf-
vais from Guatemala state that Emanuel
Meyer, a German jeweler, we'll known in
San Francisco, was murdered in a CHASTITY
manner in Room 10 of the Grand Hotel
Guatemala City. on July Is, for $3l 600 and
other valubles. Three natives, one of whom
was recently in prison for murder, did the
deed. He was showing them his valubles
when he was attacked and killed 1t was
said at first that the murderers got nothing
but the diamonds, etc, which were after
wards missed. Goods worth $15,OO0 have since
been recovered
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Lee Leaves for INFLAMMATION.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 13.-Gen.
Fitzhugh Lee. commanding the Seventh
Corps, left this evening for Washington in
response TO a telegram received from the
adjutant general, stating that the secretary
of war desired to confer with him.
The death of Macy Mollestead cornet
soloist of the First Wisconsin Regiment
typhoid fever this evening. His home was
at Beloit. Wis, TO which place the body
will be shipped.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.-The signal
corps has been peculiarly fortunate in the
preservation of the health of it's men during
the war. It's operations have been wher-
ever the army was amid the sickness CT
Santiago as well as elsewhere, and yet the
death by disease of none of them has been
reported. One officer died of fever. Two
men have been killed
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WILL BE EASY.


ficials will also have an opportunity to get
a needed rest.
Little is known here of the personnel of
the Spanish peace commissioners The gen.
eral belief however is that Seniors Leon
Moret minister of the colonies: Duke Alma
dovar de Rio minister of foreign affairs,
and Polo Bernabe, the late minister at
Washington will be considered when the
names of commissioners arc chosen.
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California City Burning.

FRESNO, Cal, Aug. Is (midnight) -One
of the most disastrous fires Fresno has ever
known is raging now. Packing houses de-
Pacific depot is OH fire. Loss will probably
reach 5000 600