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CUBANS ARE VERY SLOW
DELAY IN ACTING ON THE PROPOSED
COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
Fears Expressed that There Is Some
Degree of HOstility Back of the De-
lay-NO Undue Pressure Intended.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-The situation as
to Cuba is such at present as to give
officials here great concern. 1t is feared
that Cuba is drifting away and evidence is
multiplying day by day to mark the
growth of a spirit of indifference toward
the cultivation of friendly commercial re-
lations with the United States that almost
borders on hostility. The best efforts of the
State Department thus far have failed to
secure the adhesion of the Cuban gov
eminent to the treaty which by the terms
of the Platt amendment, must be entered
into between the two governments.
The delay is all on one side. namely, at
Havana, for Secretary Hay and the Cuban
minister, Senior Quesada, have performed
their part in drafting a treaty which 1t is
believed carries out the intent Of Con-
gress. That treaty is now awaiting the
approval of the Cuban government, which
approval is withheld, not with any ex-
pressed intention of rejecting the conven-
ton, but through what is regarded here as
the natural inertia Of the Cubans in
diplomatic matters This treaty includes
reciprocity between the United States and
Cuba and, while II Is true that the Cubans
believe that the United States has been
rather niggardly in the arrangement OF the
reciprocity schedules, those objections are
not regarded as sufficient to account for
the great delay in concluding the treaty:
However, there Is no intention, 1t Is said,
Cubans, so long as there is discrimina-
ton against the United States and in favor
of another country. 1t Is believed that as
Cuba is the principal sufferer from lack
States, internal pressure soon will force ac-
ton on the pending convention.
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Geneva Traction Strike Reinforced by
the WaIkout of All the Other Forms
of Organized Labor.
REPORT ON BRITISH REMoUNTs
INQUIRY BOARD APPLIES A LIBERAL
COATING OF wHITE.WASH.
Actions of the Boer Generals in Ger
-Other News of the Old World.

PARIS, Oct. 9.-Dispatches received here
from the coal mining regions indicate that
the strikers number about $4,000 members.
the departments affected being the Nord,
the Pas des Calais and the Loire and the
Carmaux coal field. The government has
issued rigorous instructions to prevent dis
orders, professions and the carrying Of
flags and other emblems, and prohibiting
also the sale OF possession Of old muskets
transformed into rifled weapons. of which
quantities exist in France number OF
cases of strikers interfering with nom
strikers and compelling them to cease work
have occurred.
The miners central committee has writ
ten to Premier Combes declaring that the
strike is due to the refusal of the COM
panies to grant their employees just re-
quests and asking the government to inter-
vene with the companies and also to place
the mems demands before the Chamber OF
Deputies Immediately after 1t reassembles.
Further information received here from
the coal mining regions indicates that the
strike is spreading rapidly. but, while in
the Pas de Calais, Nord and other districts
the cessation of work is already complete,
In other regions the mines are still working
at full capacity. The strikers in the Pas de
Calais district number 1880 men. The
mines are working full at Mont Lucon. De-
partment of Allier, and Mont Ceau les
Mines, Department of Saone ct Loire,
where large majority of the miners are
opposed to the strike. At Amin, Depart
ment du Nord, only $500 out of $4,000 men
have ceased work.
The yellows, as the anti-strikers are
called, are preparing to offer resistance in
case attempts made to prevent them
from working. They distributing pis-
tolls and cartridges and are organizing
night patrols. 1t Is believed that, at the
most, only 10000 out of 162. O0G, the total
number of coal miners in France, will join
the strike.
| Several minor disturbances have been re-
| ported from various points but no serious
| trouble has as yet occurred. Strong bodies
| of gendarmes and troops are guarding the
, pits and patrolling the districts where at
| tempts at violence feared. Additional
| troops are constantly arriving in the coal
| mining region and the garrisons of neigh
| boring towns are kept in barracks and In
readiness for a move at the shortest no.
| tice.
The lack of coal has already caused a
number of iron works to close and in
creased quantities of coal are being re-
ceived in France from Belgium and Ger
many.
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EVERYBODY wHITEwAsHED.
Report of Inquiry Into the British
Army RemOunt System.

REPORT Oh inquiry IntO the br1t1Sn
Army Remount System.
LONDON, Oct. 9-The report of the
Court of Inquiry. which investigated the
charges brought against the remount es-
adjustment of the British army, was pub
lished in a blue book to-day. With the ex-
ception of a couple Of minor cases, the re-
port only whitewashes all concerned, so
far as the alleged irregularities are con-
cerned, but finds that the unprecedented
demands on the remount establishment
were met with extraordinary success. The
commissioners point out that the waste
age of horses in South Africa reached
the enormous rate of 10 per cent. They
express satisfaction at the arrangements
made for the conveyance of horses to and
their accommodations at the various ports
of shipment, with the exception of New
Orleans, in the earlier stages OF the war
and Gibraltar Attention is drawn to the
excellent laws governing the transport of
animals by rail in the United States and
Argentina.
The commissioners find that the system
of purchase abroad met the requirements
of the public service. but il would have
been less open to criticism IL the remount
establishment had cut loose from the fault
pervading many of the departments of the
British service, namely, the suspicious of
its officers of the assistance Of those out
side their own departments. and had uti-
lized the assistance rendered by the Brit
ish military attaches at Washington and
Vienna
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Andrew Carnegie's gifts of $4,000 to Bel
fast and $4,000 to Limerick for the estab-
lishment of Libraries have been accepted.
The Danish minister OF marine, Rear Ad-
miral Joenhke, fell on the steps of the
Rigsdag yesterday and fractured his thigh.
King Christian of Denmark has gazetted
Anton Hegner, the American 'cellist, a
knight of the Dansbrog order.
The subscriptions for the Japanese loan
of 100000 which were opened in London
on Tuesday were closed yesterday. The
loan is said to have been subscribed for
thrice over.
The physicians of DR.. Joseph Parker,
pastor of the London City Temple. who
has been seriously i'll, have ordered his
entire abstention from work for six months
and his departure to a warm climate.
Robert Harding Milward. leading law
yer of the Midland counties and formerly
solicitor Of the Duke of Marlborough, who
was arrested at Birmingham on Sept. %
on the charge of Incorporating $4,000
from firm which became bankrupt in
June, has been committed for trial.
Another peasant uprising has broken out
in the government of Poltava, Russia. Ac-
cording to news sent to the Berlin Socialist
organ. the Vorwaerts. fierce conflicts are
taking place between the peasants and the
local forces, which are now being REIN
forced Many persons are reported to have
been killed or wounded.
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BERLIN, Oct. 9.-It developed to-day
that the Boer generals declined in tele-
graphic message to seek presentation TO
Emperor William through the British Am
bassador and the fact has produced an
extraordinary commotion among politicians
and courtiers. No later than last Mon
day the Foreign Office received message
from the generals announcing that they
had not the slightest objection to applying
for an interview through British govern
ment channels and Ii was even understood
here that the government OF Great Britain
was willing TO countenance the interview
Whether that is true or not. the Pan-Ger-
ception was confident the generals would
como with proper credentials and hence
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the seriousness Of the revolutionary out
break. 1t Is asserted there that the two
opposing Macedonian committees are neu-
tralizing each other and that the move
ment will soon die of inanition, provided
Turkey effectually guards all mountain
passes. 1t is alleged that the Sarafon
committee has ordered the cessation of the
insurrectionary movement on the ground
that the moment is not favorable for a sue
cessful rebellion.
special edition Of the Reformer, the
organ of NJ. Zontichiff, president of the
Macedonia committee, published In Sonia,
describes desperate fighting in that neigh
borhood. The insurgents of Melnik. Tur-
key in Europe. have occupied the Krisna
defile on the Bulgaria Macedonian frontier.
whence the Turks are unable TO dislodge
them. Many men on both sides were killed
during the fighting there. The Turks have
burned the village of Geleznitsa, and there
has been serious fighting between Turkish
troops and 400 insurgents near Monastir-
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GETS HIS PROMOTION.
Naval Paymaster Brown, Of Indiana
other Washington News.

Naval Paymaster Brown, Of Indiana
Other Washington News.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9--In the orders is
sued by the Navy Department to-day Pay
master George Brown, jr., of Indiana, was
commissioned from June IL, 1902, with the
rank of lieutenant.
The largest increase in postal receipts In
the history of the service is shown in the
reports of the gross receipts OF the fifty
largest postoffices in the United States for
last month, as compared with September,
1901. These fifty offices furnish approx
mately half the entire postal revenue of
the country. The net increase over the
same month last year was 20 per cent. The
total gross receipts were $5,06S, 694, an in
crease of $S33. 667. The largest Increase
was so per cent. at Dayton, o., closely fol-
lowed by almost 40 per cent. increase at
Jersey City, N. j. New York city and Chi
cago each showed an increase of % per
cent. Receipts at Albany. N. Y, fell off
$685..
The secretary Of the treasury has ac-
cepted an offer for site for public build
ing at Gainesville, Tex. The site Is at the
corner of Denton. California and Elm
streets, and the price is $4,000.
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Troops Guard Geneva Streets.

GENEVA, Oct. "a general strike has
been proclaimed by the workmen's national
committee by a vote of 200 to 4. All the
men connected with the building trades
struck. and the newspapers will have to
stop publication, but work continues at
the gas works and in the bakeries, and the
cafes and shops are open. The workmen's
national committee placarded the streets
with appeal to all workmen to leave
their work, and announced that before de-
claring the strike the committee made a
last appeal TO the street-car company,
which refused to receive its delegates.
Two additional battalions of infantry and
a detachment of artillery have been or
dered to be held in readiness for eventual
tiles Towards noon, because of the threat
ening attitude Of the strikers. the author
tiles ordered suspension OF the street.
car service.
Several of the newspapers are being set
up and printed over the French frontier.
The printers of the Journal de Geneve
of strikers who made a demonstration in
front of the office were dispersed by the
gendarmes. The police are making numer-
Gus arrests. Sixty foreigners have already
to close.
There are now 5000 troops under arms
here. Their presence prevents the strikers
interfering with the larger establishments,
although several small factories have been
compelled to close. The authorities have
issued orders for the resumption of the
whole street-car service tomorrow, and
have promised troops to protect traffic
from interference.
1t is estimated that 10000 men are on
strike and it Is believed they have no in
tention of returning to work until the de-
mands of the street car line employees are
satisfied. The ordinary life of the city of
Geneva is practically suspended. The
troops are quartered in schoolhouses.
Late this evening several thousand strik-
ers and their sympathizers assembled in
the street car depot and clamored for the
resignation of a prominent official of the
company. A battalion of infantry failed to
clear the streets; cavalry was then sum-
moned and charged the crowd with drawn
sabers. Several persons were wounded and
others were arrested.
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Oxford University HonOrs White,
Minot, West and CanfeId.

OXFORD, England. Oct 9-The honorary
degree of doctor of civil law was conferred
to-day on Ambassador White. The degree
of doctor of science was bestowed upon
Prof. Charles S. Minot, of Harvard, and
that of doctor of literature on Prof. A. F..
West, of Princeton, and Prof. ]. II. Can
field, of Columbia.
The American recipients of degrees which
were bestowed In connection with the ter
centenary of the Bodleian library were
given special prominence. Mr.. White came
first of all the recipients. Prof. Henry
Goudy, regus professor Of civil law. in pre-
senting the amba ssador said he deserved
to be honored one who employed his
learning not for the benefit merely of him.
self or his own country, but for the whole
world Professor Cloudy characterized Mr..
White as "a singular lover of peace among
nations, who has ever done his best to en-
courage peace ard who has taken a promi-
nent part in fu-thering the cause of arbi-
tration."
The other Americans were introduced in
laudatOry terms and each was received
with hearty applause. The honorary de-
gree of doctor of civil law was also con-
ferred on Lord Strathcona and Mount
Royal, Canadian high commissioner i'm Lon
DON
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MARINETTE, Wis, Oct. 9.-The forest
fires which threatened the village of Fisher,
last night, were checked at the edge of the
village, after destroying portion of the
Worcester Lumber Company's yards. So
threatening were the flames that women
and children were removed on special trains
to Pembina and other towns, leaving the
men to fight the flames, which they got
under control, only after vigorous work of
chopping trees. Fires are smoldering In
choppings all through this vicinity and
thick clouds of smoke hang over a large
part of the country.
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and was cut by the Stone Cutters Union
Of the District of Columbia. The inscrip-
don reads: Designed and presented by the
Stone Cutters Union of Washington, ID.
c., as the cornerstone of the memorial
bridge which, in connecting the national
capital with Arlington, shall ever stand as
a monument TO American patriotism. Ded-
icated Oct. 8, 1902 during the thirty-sixth
National Encampment of the G.. A. r.
Secretary OF War Root presided and made
an eloquent speech in support of the pro-
posed bridge. He also read a letter from
President Roosevelt. expressing regret be-
cause of his inability to be present, and
warmly indorsing the proposed memorial.
w. f. McHugh, secretary of the Stone
Cutters Union. presented the stone.
B. ri. Warner. of this city, Col. Joseph p.
Elwell. of Buffalo, and General Warnock,
of Ohio, made speeches. An artillery band
furnished the music.
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Union Veterans Union.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.-The Union Vet
eran Union to-day held a lively session,
the question of who shall succeed Com
mander-in-chief r. G.. Dyrenforth being
the principal cause Of the trouble. Re-
Gently Commander Meacham, of the De-
partment of the Potomac, secured a re-
straining order protecting him from re-
moval from office, and much of the ILL
feeling which came up during the last year
was displayed at to-day's meeting. The
session was held behind closed doors. The
debate at times was acrimonious. An ad-
journment was taken TO give the commit
tee on credentials time to submit it's re-
port but when the session was resumed IL
was announced that the report would not
be made public at this time.
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DIED AFTER OPERATION.
Cleveland Man who Thought He Had
Swallowed His Teeth.

CLEVELAND, Oct. 9-Frank Buettner, a
well-known contractor Of this city, died
early to-day as the result OF an operation
performed to remove a set Of false teeth
which it was supposed he had swallowed
while asleep Monday night.
An X-ray machine was used on Buettner.
which. the surgeons declared, showed the
teeth to be in the esophagus. Just as the
latter had been opened its entire length a
relative OF Buettner's rushed into the oper-
ating room with the missing set of teeth.
which had been found in Buettners bed. Ii
was then learned that Buettner suffer-
ing from severe case of acute laryngitis.
The pain In his throat led him to believe he
had swallowed the teeth
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TROOPS GUARD THE LINE.
Mexican Railroad IL Patrolled By
Mexican Army Details.

Mexican Railroad IL Patrolled by
Mexican Army Details.
LAREDO, Tex, Oct. 9.-The Mexican
government has ordered out a military
force to guard trains and depots on that
portion OF the National road at present
affected by a strike of employees. A guard
came in this morning from Monterey and
Is now stationed in the yards on the Mexi-
can side. Traffic the Texas-Mexican az
National, a branch of the National, is tied
up and no effort has been made to handle
the freight which has accumulated since
the Inauguration of the strike. No pas
senger train has gone out for two days.
The officials of the railroad companies
have called on Governor Savers for further
protection and have asked that a company
of State Rangers be sent here. In addition
to calling on the Governor for State Rang
ers an Official stated this morning that
federal aid had been invoked.
For several days past committee rep
resenting the conductors and engineers of
this division of the National road have
been in conference with the management
in the City of Mexico over the grievances,
and ii can be stated on the authority of
F. s. Grimes, secretary of the Order of
Railway Conductors, that everything has
been amicably settled SO far as their order
is concerned.
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CHICAGO. Oct "a truce was declared
tonight in the fight between the garment
workers and the special order clothing
workers as to which union has jurisdiction
over certain classes of work and the boy
colt affecting $500 garment workers was
lifted. Both organizations agreed to send
their members back to work and work in
harmony until the convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in New Orleans
next month can decide all the points of
the controversy.
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have an opportunity for an audience. Then
on Wednesday came dispatch saying the
generals were determined not to apply to
the British government, but would leave
the Emperor to summon them himself.
This. of course. would have put his
Majesty in direct opposition to Great
Britain and the announcement Immediately
followed that the proposed interview would
not take place
The press to-day attacks the Boer gen.
erals in the style which ii has heretofore
reserved for Colonial Secretary Chamber
lain
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HAVANA. Oct. "a conference commit
tee of the Senate and House decided to-day
on $4,000 as the amount TO be distributed
tomorrow on the occasion of the anniver-
sary of the war of 1868 among poor Cuban
soldiers and the widows of soldiers. The
question of erecting a monument in men,
DRY of certain Americans who. in 1871, un-
der Narcisso Lopez. landed in Cuba and
began a revolution. and who were after
wards captured and shot, has been indefi-
nitely postponed.
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Rock Scorpions I'm a Riot.

GIBRALTAR, Oct. 9.-The compulsory
closing this afternoon of a Socialist Club
in which five of the rioters were killed and
several wounded. The mob fired upon the
civil guard. who were temporarily driven
back, but who returned the fire of the riot
ers and scattered their assailants. The
mayor and other dwellings before 1t was
finally dispersed.