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Show SPAIN' A "DEAD BEAT. WILL NOT SETTLE A AMERICAN CLAIM. JUST ULtorr .f the Mom Cm-- " letrat Krlrrrfd to la lrllent letelaud' I K roril of Hrokea 1roiu-nli- luile in H h 'Smu. tl 18 X Ills - LAM- MES-sag- e to congress President I' c v e land made menwo m 1 u C I n F JL K P h 7 t) b 11 1 B I e I I 0 s h ' i t B 1 I t f X . A t 1 1 I s i i . o I - 1 A JJU t rk.f- I f u,',,Uc pAs nawn anil referred to the ' , " y grievious injustice done to oue jinvate individual in these 1 dj ' w ords: ( "Tile Aim a ease, referred to m my last annual message, remains unsettled From the diplomatic correspondent e on this subject, which has been laid lieforc the senate, it w ill be seen that this government has offered to conclude a convention with Spain for disposal by arbitration of outstanding claims between the two countries, claim, which, having except been long adjusted, now only awaits payment as stipulated, and of course it could not be included in the proposed convention. It was hoped that this offer would remove parliamentary obstacles encountered by the Spanish government in providing payment of the .Mura indemnity. I regret to say that no detinite reply to this offer has Jet been made and all efforts to secure paj raent of this settled claim have been unavailing." This Mora case has become famous in the annals of modern diplomacy Beginning With Grant's last presidency, every succeeding administration. every secretary of state, every fore.gn relations committee, has had a hand in Tt Xor lias it been a bete noire in any sense to the state department, for, ii respective of party, each administration m turn lias taken up the case w ltli vigor and done its best to effect a settlement. The history of the ease in brief is as follows: Antonio Maximo Mota, re' ferred to in the Presidents message, is a native of Cuba, where he owned large and valuable sugar plantations. In 1813 he came to Xew York and established a residence. In May, lsGil, he took out his final papers of naturaliof the zation and became a eiti-eUnited States. Cuba was at that time in a state of constant fidget and unrest bordering on absolute rebellion. It is an open secret that President Grant was in sympathy with the revolution ary propaganda, and his secretary of war. Gen. Rawlings, was an avowed sympathizer with the Cuban patriots. It wss under such encouragement that leading Cubans like Mora, Alda-m- a and Castillo might have been inclined to offer assistance to the lutionary cause. Before anything was done or even thought of, a court martial convened in, llavana, passed sentence of death and confiscation of property against the gentlemen named and many others for alleged complicity in the Cuban rebellion, Antonio Mora and his brother escaped to New York, disguised as sailors. Young Jose Manuel n resident of Mora, now a New York, remained to assist in his fathers escape, was captured and transported to a penal colony in Africa, whence, after suffering of miseries, he finally reaped to Europe. Maximo Mora no sooner arrived in New York than he laid his case before Hamilton Fish, the then secretary of state, asserting that he hsd lnTnd w ise engaged in the rebel' lion or given it id or comfort. On Nov. 23 of the same year 1870 Mr. Fish instructed the United States minister at Madrid to protest against the sentence of the court martial and its enforcement against the lives and property of American citizens, on the ground that it was a gross violation of the provisions of the treaty between the United States and Spain, relating to the manner in which citizens of one country could be tried or deprived of their property in the other. This, then, was the beginning of the famous In Mora case, which is still unsettled. May, 1872, the secretary of state, who had had several interviews with the Spanish minister in Washington on the 4 ' . ' the-Mor- a n well-know- un-nea- v AMTOXIO M. MORA, subject, wrote to him inviting his especial and immediate attention to the case of Antonio Mora, with vie w to its speed and satisfactory adjustment. The Spanish minister then suggested that the claim for the restitution of the Mora property should be submitted to the Spanish- - merican 'claims commission, then in session at Washington. Mr. Fish objected that the claims before the commission were for compensation for past injuries, but that the release of the Mora properly a subIntervention. Eight ject for diplomatic months past in that dipolatnatic correspondence of which the Castilian is a past master, until 4n December, 1873, Mr, Fish cabled to the United States in Madrid "Urge the immediate release and restoration of the embargoed property." Again the fine .art of SpanA ish diplomacy was made manifest. i decree of restoration was issued in Madrid, but secret instructions were forwarded to Cuba to disregard the decree. In September and November, 187V in consequence of further protests froiij our government sent orders to the governor general of Cuba, directing him to release the property of Antonio before Nov. 30.' Be- fore this was done came the dovv nftl of the republic at Madrid, and a further consideration of the case had to be postponed for two years. In November, 1875, our secretary of state reopened the case in a letter sent to our minister at Madrid, in - which., among other 'things, he said.- 'Thar tVesfdehf feFTt fffat ttife titinf Is'at'tfiH&A when it may lie his duty to submit the subject, accompanied by an expression of his views.. to the .consideration of, congress. This conclusion is reached after every other expedient has been tried and proved a failure. "T0 theme strong representations the Spanish government replied that the king of Spain had decided to grant a pardon to Mora and restore his property, saysame-tithat cable to ing af-ththat effect Dad that day been sent to Cuba Nothing was ever heard of this cable, nor w as the least sign of rent! tut ion made by the Cuban government. On the contrary, the I uban government set up the plea that certain creditors of Mora had atepped in and absorbed the profltsnf the estate, none of which had ever been paid over to That thin the Spanish government was utterlj false was proved at the time by the ten custodians of the that they estates, who reported had paid over to the Cuban treasury from the estates the large sum of From 1870 to lsso succeed82,317,000. ing administrations triid persistently to induce the Spanish government to redeem its oft made und often broken Finally, in promises of resitution. July, 1887, Mr. Foster, the AmeTican minister at Madrid, addressed a very plain and unvarnished' statement of the case to the Spanish secretary of state, but received no reply for six month-- . In the meantime the estates had gone to rack and ruin. The Cuban government had taken ever thing they could out of tiie plantations and put nothing in. The machinery was out of repair and useless, the buildings tumble down and the 1,000 negroes employed on the estate had disappeared. Know ing this to be the case, in January, 18st, in response to repeated applications made by Minister Cnrry, who had succeeded Mr. Foster, the the Spanish government proposed payment of a sum of money, which will represent an equitable indemnity for the value of the Mora Jproperty, said sum to be fixed by mutual agreement, after which the minisier of the colonies can include in his budget the sum upon which we have agreed." At last this really looked like business, and Mr. Curry immediately accepted the proposition. Mr. Mora, on a very conservative basis, figured up his actual loss, including that of his brother, at $3,000,000. This included $000,000 worth of sugar in bond, which was seized, and the estates, buildings, -- e etc. me Britain, Austria. lW.a, Russia. rpiJE WIFE OF lAUUEiI France and Turkey, ihi rule of the closure of the straits to war ships was RUSSIA'S NAVY BEING HEAVILY solemnly sanctioned and became a part SHE HAS MADE THE NOVELIST of the wrjtten law of Europe. ; VERY HAPFY', STRENGTHENED. The treaty of Paris, in 1816, went step further neutralized the Black Mi Is the Adaea, closing it to ships of war and Pretty aad Charming, Big Marine Moss term W hick May th mired of Circle of Large Literary Ik Tranquility of Ewop Tk opening H ships On the fall of the French empire in Part Husbaad aad It if fought Life's Mew Cur and the Kmpnror of 1870 the neutralization of the Black Battle Together. Watching Each Othnr. sea was at an end 1 he czar declared himself no longer bound by the proHANKS TO HIS HAVE visions of the treat y of Paris w ife, Alphonse good V Ti been no wars or Russia's contention on this point reDaudet, the famous rumors of wars in ceived sanction of the states of ARBITERS OF PEACH T Pi-ser- Gr-mm- fr--- 43 the j . .. vEnwtpe of lat(, .feypcMiJ $ but o vast aurns for arms ment and defense French novelist, very pleasant home long before : IiCftad VHrtFSttfcCbwf and fame and fortune. The mar- was entirely a love match. They had to fight together the iiattle whieti Miff Vtcturiuus are fond recalling. In these days they live in great elegance, spending the Winter in their fine lodgings in the Rue Bellechsssc, a street in the old Fauborg natw. andJp summer at Cham-prosaa country house belonging to their family, near Paris, where a group of literary friends gather every Thursday round the author of Sappho," finding him at bright and witty in conversation as ever, although lllnesa ha prematurely takrn hold of him. Mine. Daudet is always pretty and charming, with her dark rippling hair and beautiful gray eyes, her fresh, voice and lovely ways. quiet, As she is seen sitting at her fireside kniekknacks among the hunctxud-CtLll- y of Isindon iu warships were stiff pre- treaty JlurojpeSthe But the 71. vented 'from Jyjij jlliSSinjVtTlTodjfrfThfc dandles by the following substitution conti n u e. The for articles U, IS and It of the treaty Press is enabled to of Paris: "The principle of the closure the of the straits of the Dardanelles and publish to-dfirst authrnticpic-ture- a of the Bosphorus is maintained, with of Russia's the right 6S ttni 'pgrt'Vlf'hi imperial three new and greatest war ships, majesty the sultan, of opening the That great armies, great guns and straits in time of peace to ships of great ships mean peace as much aswar friendly and allied powers in ease the u shown by the fact that with the de- sublime porte should find it necessary." Russia's BlariLiBL fleet U very strong scription of theke'great"shipacomea newt that Russia la on more friendly and oontalns some of the most formidterms w ith Germany than she h been able of the new ships. At the beginfur many years, observes a writer in ning of 1891 she had forty shifts there, tha New York press. including eight first-clabattleship Resides her offensive and defensive and fifteen torpedo vessels. The, first alliance with France. Russia has re- ships she built on the Flack sea (and cently Inaugurated and solidified very these were launched in defiance of tha Tarot able rotumercia! relations with stipulations of the treaty of Paris) This commercial entente were the Catherine II., the Tchesme Germany. eordiale, particularly when taken in and the Sinope. This was in 1886-87- . connection with tho German affiliaThey are of 10,170 pounds burden, 16 tions of the present czar, would inch armor and curry four 12 inch a certain possible weakening of guns. Later came the Dvenadzat German's hostility to Russia or to a Apostoloff (Twelve Apostles), 8,100 h alliance in case of war. tons 14 inch armor, 16.6 knots, with The interrelations of France, Russia four 13 inch guns; the Georgio and England in the past century have (George the Victorious), 10,280 19 inch armor, 11 6 knots and six been remarkable, to least. the tons, sajunder Nelson, 12 inch guns; the Tri Sviuttelia In 1798 the English, (Three dofen ted the French fleet in the bay of Saints). This was the first of the 12,000 Aboukir. In ls!2 Napoleon bivouacked ton battleships to carry 10 inch armor, in the deserted palaces of Moscow. In four 13 inch guns, a heavy secondary ay y, ss low-tone- d Russo-Frenc- lobie-donose- log te EaL There have bcettweveral instances of men with such marvelous memories that they knew not only by heart the New but also the Old Testament, and in one case at least, the whole Apocrypha aa well. An old beggar at Sterling, Scotland, known over sixty years ago aa "Blind A lick, knew the whole of the Bible by heart, insomuch that if a sentence were read to him be could name tbe book, chapter and verse; or, if the book, chapter and verse 'were named, he could give the exact word e, A mae tested hia-b- y repeating . and purposely making one verbal In Uc curacy.' "Allot hesitated?-ntriTtite ' place where the passage was to be found, and at the same time pointed' out the verbal error. The aaswe mam asked him to repeat tbe ninetieth Verse of tbe seventh chapter of the Book of Number. AUck almosi Jn- atantly replied: "There I no aucbT vers; that chapter has only eighty- nine verse" A monk who resided in Mosoow in the fifteenth century could' re peat the whole of the New Testa-me- n . ,, -- - n L plete concordance, of the New Testament and of moat of tbe Old Teat-mca- L Professor Hoyt (of Hebrew) recited a large number of passages from the scriptures as asked for, and satisfied hia audience that be knew here every passage was. Lord Car- teretknew all the Greek Testament by heart from the first chapter of Matthew to the last chapter of Apocalypse, and could recite it verse by verse as if he had the book actually be (on him, , . MRS. JAMES CREELMAN. The Baaallful Wtf of the Finosi Wsr - " Cerrpoadea Mr James Creclman, wife of the only American war correspondent who baa been with the Japanese or Chinese ' troop during the eastern difflcultles,l4 a very interesting character. She a as the famous beauty, Miss Buell o(t)lild, and when she was about 18 was said to strongly resent tie ip looks the , al n, good-fellowshi- p nt celebrated Lady Hamilton. She was thrown early on her own resources and BUR. DAl'DET. became aa artist In 1886 she went to '' of a modern interior, with her little Europe, where she. lived and worked until her marriage. She married Mr. Edmee on her knee, she seems like young mother, bnt this young mother Creclman in 1891. Since then she has is a still more youthful grand lived wherever hia work demanded.. mother. It seems incredible, but When ha wa called to Japan last sumher eldest . son, the writer, of mer aha insisted that he accept the some very remarkable and original offer at all coats to herself. She had scientific romances, baa been married for two or three years to a grand' daughter of Victor Hugo. Naturally enough their little child constitutes one of the keenest interests of Mm. Daudefallfs, while she also watches with greatest care the progress of her second son, a boy of X5. One can not help noting that bitter Vivalriea have skeeaawSdJlXeAilfilKfl artists, and that genius boa sometimes found the companionship of a simple, even ignorant housewife mote to its taste than that of a gifted woman, but Mme, Daudet is everything at once One and can be anything she please of tha most may hear serious subjects to eminent men, or responding most gracefully to the small talk of women of fashion. Before everything else she la womanly, and this is the secret of Mm Daudet's charm and power. She dresses with KB JAMES CKEEI.MAX. jntlnite taste, apd carries to tle highest lost her first child and nearly her own point that household craft ana art life two years before. She was exwhich appear in the smallest details of another baby, and they knew equipment and furniture. In tbe com- pecting never see each other again. they might In of a dinner, position everything And yet she would not stand in tbe e that surrounds an accomplished way of his caraer and sent him away! de maison. She U at present with her tnqthcr is Ohio awaiting the return of her bus- JOHN M'BRIDE. band. I have heard that tha baby is a the Mew Frsldat of th Federation of beanty, says a writer in the Illustrated ' Labor. American, and that hia, picture is John McBride, president of the Na taken once a month and sent to the tional Iron and Metal Worker union, battlefield where all is disorder, want who was recently chosen president of and disease. the American Federation of Labor at Dlspenloa of FimbUIm. Denver, is 43 years old and a native of The extraordinary dispersion of New England families is illustrated in a letter written by William Chapin Webster of Hudson, Ohio, to tha Hartford Courant Mr, Webster says hia great grandfather, Thomas Webster, of Hebron, Conn., who lived to be 99 years and nine month old. Bad a family of thirteen children, all but ene or two of whom married and some of whom settled near by among them hi grandfather, William C. Webster is now in his 89 year. When he was a boy there were four Webster families on four adjoining farms,, in that part of Hebron known aa Gilead, and be can count up fifty Wei ter born and Now there is raised on those farm not a Webster on those farm and the name has run out. in that g -- 'mal-tress- tht JOHX mBRIDK. Ohio He learned hia trade when quite young and passed hia spare time in the company of book and now is a tolerably well, read man, with fixed opinions on the subject of economic li is salary aa president of federated labor bodies is something like $5,000 a year. K - tnen-of-w- ) Kmv tz Poor Mora, who was ruined and growing old in the prosecution of his claim, gladly received even this compromise, and our secretary of1 state notified Mr. that Curry would the government accept as a the sum warned, $1,500,000, full discharge of all demands against the government of Spain grow ing out of the claim of this citizen of the United States," But, alas! The Spanish government dissolved the fortes before any action was taken on the Cuban budget. Nor was the Mora elaim included in the Cuban budget of the following Cortes. In the meantime,. President CleveADMIRAL GUSHAKOFFJVITII THE NICHOLAS I. IN BACKGROUND. land had come into office, and it was TIIE now Secretary Bayard's duty to take up the cudgels in behalf of justice but 1827 the eombined English, French and battery, steaming 16 knot The Tri no settlement has ytjt been reached. Russian fleets annihilated the Turkish Sviaietelia ie to be followed by the squadron at Xaqarwo. In 1833 Tnrkey Fetropadlosk, the Sebastopol and the ORIGIN OF THE WORD CANADA made the treaty of Unkiar-Skeletas Sissol Veliky, the last named being well under way. These will be in time Two Derivation Are Given from Which a protection against French ascendancy succeeded by the Paris of 12,000 tons, in her vassalage of Egypt. Ton May Chose. 1854 France and England nnlted to steam 17.S knots and to carry 12 In There are many derivations given to armies against Russia In the inch guns, and a sister ship. The rams the word Canada, but the one given by their Since 1829, when Nicholas L Admiral Oushakoff and Admiral tSevi-diCrimea. is Sir John Brown the most curious and built as coast defense vessels, are, When the Portuguese, and his 150,000 Rnaslana were stopped in fact, armored cruisers having a plausible. within of almost sight Constantinople, speed of 16 knots. under Gaspar Cortereal, in 1500, first policy has been ascended the great river St. Laurence, England's hereditary Jobs Boy l O' K lily's Kindness. of the Stories the maintenance of the of John Boyle O'Reillys they believed it was the strait of which Ottoman empire. The integrity avowed object and generosity are still enr-rethey were in search, and through in Boston, A stranger, mistaking which a passage might be discovered him for a friend, approached him from into the Indian sea. But on arriving at the point w hence they could clearly behind, slapped him on the shoulder and greeted him as Jack with all tha ascertain it was not a strait, but a river, warmth of a lifelong friendship, they, with all emphasis of disappointed OBeilly turned to face a very embarrhopes, exclaimed repeatedly, Canado!' assed man and said, holding out his (Here nothing'), words which were hand: "Im not Jack, but I'm glad to remembered - and repeated by the know and be the friend of any man natives on seeing the Europeans strive that is as glad to see his friend aa you in 1543, who- - naturally Conjectured seem to be." While O'Reilly was read' heard CvNk word the so that ''I they employed ing one of hia poems after a eemi-p- u blic must denote the name of the often dinner, and, as nsual, was deeply abcountry. The now generally accepted sorbed in tha task, a negro waiter derivation, however, which is supwalked across the floor with creaking shoes, O'Reilly much annoyed, stopped ported by the analogy of other names, and addressed half a dozen bitter is either that gjven by Charlevoix, from words to tho chairman. The waiter tha Iroquois Kaunata, a collection of was thoroughly unhappy at the incihuts, or from two Indian words, Kan TUK APOSTOLOFF. a guest who left the table or Can, a mouth, and Ada, a country, of this has been that ogre the balance dent, and after the poem was finished found of the the mouth signifying country, of power in Europe. Sir Henry Elliott, O'Reilly in the hall humbly apologizing and presumably originally applied to in a letter from StambouP to Lord to the negro and thrusting a $5 bill the River SL Lawrence, Derby, in 1876, fays: "We have been Into his band. d upholding what we know to be a A Mw Ctlllty. S Pleasing a Host, nation, liable under certain the Esquimaux a novel use First Tramp IIow did yer manage circumstances to be carried into fearful hasAmong been found for woman's jaw. to get such a lot o' Tittles from that excesses; but the fact of this having Mr Peary in her new book, Says My sour old maid? The native method now been strikingly brought home Arctic Journey: just Second Tramp I tole her I used ter to all of us by the Bulgarian horrors, of treating the skins of 11 animals inwork in a lookin glass factory, and I'd cannot be a sufficient reason for aban- tended for clothing is first to rid them clean her lookin glasses if she'd give doning a policy which lathe only one of as much of the fat aa can be got off scraping with a knife; then they me a bite afterward. that can be followed witb. dne regard by are stretched tight as possible and You v workad!" nuh! p to our own interests." allowed to become perfectly dry. After "No. I didn't, Wen she showed ma Tha opening of the Dardanelles will this they are taken by tbe women and the glasses, t" told er they was so bring the Russian fleets of the Black chewed and sucked all over in order to crooked they wasn't worth cleaning. sea and of the Mediterranean as much of the grease out as possi-le- ; into then they are again dried Und She was mighty tickled to find that close communion. her lookin' glasses lied." The rule closing these straits to hos- scraped with a dull implement so as to break the fibers, making the skins plihad its origin in tile able. Chawing the skin Is,very hard Small Bamming Bird. manifesto of the sultan when the on the women, and all of it is done by A humming bird a little larger than Black sea was a Turkish lake. them. They can not chew more than a house fly is common in the East of in the 1841, deer London, two By skint per day, and are obliged treaty Indies. signed by representative of Great to rest their jaws Nery other day." aemi-civilize- MARVELOUS MEMORIES. Mm WIm Medical Trtt CosaposlUoa of th Fnt tenet When the formalities Incident to the admission of Utah as a state are complete the United State senate will conFrom present sist of ninety member appearances there will he, exclusive of the representative from Utah forty-fou- r republicans in the next senate, democrats and five poputhirty-nin- e Should the last vote lists or allverlte solidly with the democrat this would Stevenson the degive ciding vote. Should they vote with as they are more tbe republican likely to do, except In questions relating to currency and tbe coinage, the republicans will have a majority, and will be able to organize the doctor, whose home is near Frankfort, presents s new medical treatment, which eonsists in exchanging liquid for aerial draughts. Live in a perpetual draught, so he preache and you will never catch cold. And his practice la in keeping with hia precept. At hia establishment all of bis patients, many of whom are suffering from serious disease are constantly subloBoiiuk aad Saadwteh at Baa jected by day and night to strong curand Sandwich, rival IlliSomonauk ont when rents of air, and they go towns, are at war. For a number generally dispense with hats and bon- nois of days citizens of Somonauk have net been distributing On the trains passing)1 Croand far Dtvare. through tha town circulars on which Qor Raymond A. Knight, a .farmer of were the words: "Smallpox at SandColumbiana county, Ohio, sued for a wich. Beware." Now Sandwith prodivorce on the ground that his wife re- pose to retaliate by bringing suit fused to cook hia meal against Somonauk for libeL A Vice-Preside- nt ! V" " . s |