| Show telegraphic NEWS NEW may 28 A london cablegram to the ta a evening post says sir william vernon harcourt Haro ourt ot of the exchequer has formally replied to the memorial forwarded by influential bankers and financiers in the interest of emphasizing hie big previous strong remark io in favor of tile the gold standard his hia reply concludes conc ludee thus you may rely upon it last her majus maje tys government will give no countee ance to any change in the fundamental principles of our monetary ay system item nor in any discussion lo in which they may be called upon to take part will they admit any doubt as aa to their anten uon tion of firmly to adhere to the single standard 02 I 1 W washington A ID D C may 28 the remains of secretary of state gresham have been embalmed embalm ed the body has baa been laid out io in the sleeping room where the death occurred the metallic coffin to la to be covered with black cloth with heavy oxidized silver handles bandies and the usual plate for the name and the circumstance of birth and death the Dromi prominent nent men io in public lle life called at the hotel eary early in the day leaving their cards A flood of telegrams and cablegrams cable grams of condolence come came in during the morning the funeral services over the remains of the late secretary gresham will be conducted in the east room of the white house tomorrow at 10 all the executive departments will be closed that day under executive order the body will lie in mutate all morning sod and leave washington for chicane chicago at 1 pm NEW ALBANY ind may 28 A about bout 8 last night a telegram laRram te was wag received in this thia city from the secretary of cf war danlea lamont lament stating fating that secretary gresham could not survive the night requesting that his mother mrs mr sarah sarab rumley burnley who lives at lanesville Lianes Lanes ville harrison county be notified the mess messengers eners reached the old homestead about 10 before they could speak mrs rumley burnley moaned walt iswalt is dead my poor boy to is dead 22 wringing her bands and weeping bitterly the met mec bongers informed her bar of the critical illness of her son and thus afforded her slight comfort upon receiving the news of the sec re death another messenger was dispatched to Lanes lanesville ville washington D C may 28 the T president today issued the following proclamation walter Q gresham greeham of state of the united states is dead the president in making this distressing announcement to his fellow ellow countrymen speaks from the depths of per bonal tion to remind them that they tou have lost a pure and able public servant a brave and patriotic guardian ian of all their rights anti and inter este a manly and loyal american and a generous and lovable man As a suitable expression of national bereavement rea I 1 d direct i that the diplomatic representatives in all foreign countries display the flag over their embassies and legations at half mast for ten tan days and that for a like period the flag of the united states be displayed at as half mast at all the forts and military posts and at all naval stations and all vessels of the united states I 1 further order that on the day of the funeral the executive departments in the city of washington be closed and that thai on all public buildings throughout the united statts the national flug flag be displayed at hall ball mast GROVER CLEVELAND NEW YORK may 28 A special to the herald irom from busseau usseau says the battle where marti was killed occurred may near bilos the cubans were divided anio jinto two bodies under gomez and maceo it was wag ex that they would leave st luis for bayamo learning this fact col sandoval with men ot of the second filth fifth and ninth pou insular spanish infantry and fifteen horses hones pursued them and encountered oi of the rebel cavalry under gomez at noon in the first charge the cubans rods rode down the spanish advance killing a sergeant and wounding or capturing and entire squad sandoval personally led the bayonet charge and the spanish heroically held bold their charge against the rebel forcer force fighting the cubans face to face it is IB said bald that marti who led the advance fell in the third charge almost within the spanish lines pierced by seven bullets bulle bull etc tp gomez then came to the front and the cubans made eleven successive fruitless attempts to break the spanish lines and recover martels body in the last charge gomez was wa wounded and his noree horse killed under him the spaniards dashed forward to seize him but were repelled by the cubans the spaniards say they lost only live killed and six wounded the cubans bad fifty killed and about a hundred wounded SAN ANTONIO tex tax may 28 nat of this city has just juat returned from the devils river country where he became came near being a victim of the terrible flood that visited that section last thursday he was caught in the rushing waters and lost all of bis big baggage he states that he helped to bury four persons who met their death by drowning near ozona two others belonging to the same family faintly were drowned but their bodies have not nob been recovered LONDON may 28 A dispatch to the limes ames from berlin says the frankfurter reports that there 1 to great anxiety in government circles to in sweden regarding the threatened armed conflict watch may end in the dissolution of the union between sweden and norway CADIZ may 28 the french steam or er dom pedro bound for carrilo Carr llo spain has been wrecked off cur cubedo eighty were drowned the disaster sester Ji was caused by the bursting ot of a boiler when the disaster bocc occurred burred dam pedro was oft cape the wept coast of galicia Gali cla and not oft od as first reported about lives were lost dom pedro was a ton tois steamer and was engaged in running between havre and the argentine republic calling at bordeaux deaux prance france and carried freight and passengers the latter were mostly emigrants bound for the argentine republic Be public or other points of south america OF MEXICO may 29 genera leonardo marquez marques arrived in this capital attar alter a twenty seven years reeldon cog abroad under banishment from mexico for taking part in the french intervention when maximilian and general miramon and were shot at to in 1867 general marquez maiquez narrowly escaped a like fate only saving himself by bribing the in charge of the cemetery t ry of los aggeler An gelep geler in this city thus beluk being allowed to secrets secrete himself in a 91 newly made sepulchre his capture being finally made he be was not shot as the mexicans had intended but was wa given banishment instead he to is now dow allowed to return by the grace of president diaz who has ban long been urged to grant clemency by the friends of general marquez maiquez |
